{"id": "CNN-275527", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-02-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/03/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Plane Explodes on Takeoff; Zika Virus Fears; New Fighting in Syria Could End Peace Talks", "utt": ["-- landscape. And nightmare in the sky. An explosion rips through a passenger plane just minutes after takeoff. What happened afterwards, coming up. A big welcome to those of you watching from all around the world. I'm Errol Barnett.", "And I'm Rosemary Church. Thanks for joining us. This is CNN Newsroom.", "We begin this hour with new Zika virus fears, after someone in Texas contracted it through sexual activity. This is the first sexually transmitted case of this outbreak. And only the third case ever known.", "Health official say the Texas patient had sex with someone who recently returned from Venezuela, infected by a mosquito. Now this is troubling news for health officials.", "Zika can be spread primarily by mosquitoes, associated with travel to tropical regions, where the virus is endemic in those mosquitos, such as, Latin America, the Caribbean. However, in Dallas County we have received confirmation that it's spread otherwise through sexual activity.", "Take a look at this, cases of the Zika virus has been identified in nearly 30 countries and territories worldwide. According to U.S. Centers the Disease Control and Prevention, a health alert was issued after the first Brazilian Zika case was confirmed in May of last year. And since then, outbreaks have spread through much of the Americas with Puerto Rico reporting its first confirmed case in December.", "Now it worth pointing out that Zika virus is not new. It was first identified nearly 70 years ago in an African forest.", "David McKenzie goes to the place where the virus got its name to find out why no one thought it was a threat.", "Armed with traps, scientists push into the Zika forest in Uganda. They've discovered around 70 types of mosquito here, some carrying deadly viruses. So, this is a very precarious climb up this tower. They need to get higher to try to get the different species of mosquitos. We're in an ecological hot zone, where zoonotic diseases thrive. So, it's got a light to attract the mosquitos. And carbon dioxide coming off the dry ice. And we should get some overnight.", "Yes.", "And they do. Mosquitos that could be carrying yellow fever, dengue, and yes, the Zika virus. The forest gave the virus its name. Back in 1947, scientists discovered Zika by accident while studying yellow fever. The rested research station is still here. But Zika infected mostly monkeys and human symptoms were mild. It fell off the map.", "So, instead of getting yellow fever...", "Yes.", "... actually they came across another virus.", "A potential key mutation and an increasingly connected world, sparked an outbreak, half a world away.", "With modern transport, which is very efficient, very fast, one person can be here today, gets bitten by a mosquito and starts getting sick after he has traveled thousands of miles.", "Now, scientists are playing catch-up, looking closely at the Zika-carrying aedes aegypti mosquito.", "So, we do have we keep them under lock and key.", "But in these labs they've been mostly using the high-tech equipment to diagnose patients. They lock the funding to track emerging virus threats in the forest where Zika was identified.", "For sure, we don't know completely what is in this forest. We have not done enough. We can't say we know anything. Every other year, we come across new viruses.", "They say not nearly enough is being done to research viruses before they spark a global health emergency. David McKenzie, CNN, Zika Forest, Uganda.", "And you can log on to cnn.com for more on the Zika outbreak, including the five things you need to know. And if you still have questions, you can tweet them to us, with the hash tag Zika questions.", "Now, to the other big story we're following. The peace talks in Geneva could collapse under the weight of a new offensive in Northwestern Syria.", "The opposition delegation canceled a meeting Tuesday with the U.N. Envoy. Delegates condemned what they called a massive acceleration of Russian and regime military aggression on Aleppo and Homs.", "Now according to recent satellite photographs an airstrip in remote parts of northern Syria is being refurbishes and extended. Kurdish officials in the area say it's for the use of the U.S. military. However, the defense department won't comment on the record. But officials do acknowledge the U.S. is looking for ways to make its military options in Syria more efficient. Clarissa Ward went in search of that airfield and joins us now from Irbil, Iraq with more. Clarissa, air strikes supporting Iraqi Kurdish and Syrian armed forces are really the biggest asset the U.S. provides to the fight on the ground. So, what is the strategy then with this new airfield?", "Well, Errol, as the U.S. ratchets up its presence on the ground in Syria, with at least 50 U.S. Special Forces personnel in country, they're obviously looking for ways to improve logistical support to have bases nearer to the front lines, from which they can launch operations, potentially. And we got to see a little bit of that for ourselves. This place doesn't exist, according to the U.S. Defense Department. But behind that berm of freshly dug earth, a small agricultural airstrip is being turned into something very different. A military airfield just 100 miles from ISIS positions. Satellite photos show the work that has been done here in recent months. So, you can see behind me, they're working to extend the runways so that larger planes could land here. And the advantage of this site is that it's well secured, inside Kurdish territory. So, it could be used to supply U.S. Special Forces deployed here in Syria. He's coming now. We were escorted away from the airfield as soon as we were spotted. We're told it was a military zone. It's another example of the U.S.'s growing military footprint in this remote corner of Northern Syria. And its deepening relationship with Syrian Kurdish fighters known as the YPG. In an abandoned apartment building closer to the front line, we were given access to the YPG's joint operations room. It is a modest setup. This 21-year-old Daham Hazzaki (ph) and his colleagues talk to their men on the battlefield. Using newly provided tablets, they pass on enemy locations to a coalition command center from where air strikes can be launched.", "Right now, this is the front line of Hazakah, he says. Our comrades there have seen the movements of two enemy fighters until we sent this message along with their coordinates to the general command room. When there are heavy clashes, the operations room moves to the front lines. Immediately after the strikes, Hazzaki (ph) and his men rush in to make sure that the right targets have been hit. Who taught you how to use this?", "He tells us a group of foreigners and Americans trained his commanders, who, in turn, trained him and his comrades. In the skies and on the ground in Syria, the U.S. is deepening its commitment to the battle against ISIS. And it's not just the U.S., Errol. Less than 50 miles from that airstrip, we are hearing reports that the Russians are also beefing up their military presence. Certainly, this part of Northern Syria is getting very crowded. Errol?", "A very important place, indeed. Clarissa Ward, live for us in Erbil, Iraq. Eight minutes past 11 a.m. there. Clarissa, thanks.", "To Europe now, and thousands of migrants are stuck at Greece's border waiting to cross into Macedonia.", "But several factors are keeping them there. CNN's Arwa Damon has details.", "A few of the buses have just started moving out here. But you can see, the crowd around them. These refugees and migrants incredibly frustrated and angry because they have had to wait here for a few days. Due to a number of factors that are really out of anyone's control. There was a ferry streak in Greece that is one of the main reasons why this backlog did end up being created. But there's also a taxi strike that is happening across the border in Macedonia that has caused the Macedonian authorities to clamp down on the numbers that they are allowing through. When the buses arrive to the transit area, that is located between the Greece and Macedonia borders, they first have to verify that they are Iraqi, Afghan or Syrian. The sifting of nationalities as they measure that was put into place a few months ago, in an attempt to control actually who is going to be transiting through these various different European countries. Now, those that are allowed to cross receive a stamp like this one, that basically says, according to his/her statement, his/her destination is Germany."], "speaker": ["ERROL BARNETT, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST", "ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST", "BARNETT", "CHURCH", "CHRISTOPHER PERKINS, DALLAS COUNTY HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES DIRECTOR", "BARNETT", "CHURCH", "BARNETT", "DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "JULIUS LUTWAMA, UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE", "MCKENZIE", "LUTWAMA", "MCKENZIE", "LUTWAMA", "MCKENZIE", "LUTWAMA", "MCKENZIE", "LUTWAMA", "MCKENZIE", "LUTWAMA", "MCKENZIE", "CHURCH", "BARNETT", "CHURCH", "BARNETT", "CLARISSA WARD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WARD", "WARD", "BARNETT", "CHURCH", "BARNETT", "ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-275433", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2016-02-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/02/acd.02.html", "summary": "Christie Slams Rubio As The \"Boy In The Bubble\"; Rubio On Iowa: \"Always Very Confident About Our Plan\"; Rubio: \"I Really Thank The People Of Iowa\"; Rubio: \"America's Greatest Days Are Within Our Reach\"; Rubio On His Rivals; Rubio: \"I'm Running To Unite This Party\"; Rubio \"Really Interested\" In Electronic Dance Music", "utt": ["And thanks for joining us. 9:00 p.m. Eastern time. A week before the New Hampshire primary, a day after the Iowa caucuses and what a 24 hours it is been. We seen Donald Trump finished second and be declare a looser. Marco Rubio being called a winner for coming in third. We've seen a Democrat and a Republican drop out O'Malley and Huckabee. We saw nearly everywhere remaining candidate Iowa contenders and non contenders alike blanket New Hampshire today. And if they all start jacking for position, we've seen the gloves come off. Take a look at this, Iowa and non contender Chris Christie taking on sensation, Marco Rubio.", "You know me, unlike some of these other campaigns, I'm not the boy in the bubble, OK? We know who the boy in the bubble is up here who never answers your questions, who's constantly scripted and controlled because he can't answer your questions. So when Senator Rubio gets here, when the boy in the bubble gets here, I hope you guys ask him some questions. Because it's time for him to start answering questions. He wants to say this race is over, and it's all him, it seems to me that he should have to sit across from you and answer your questions the way I do.", "Senator Rubio did sit down and answer questions with \"New Day's \"Alisyn Camerota. Watch.", "Senator thanks so much ...", "Thank you.", "... for sitting town with us. Have you had any sleep?", "A little bit. Just enough. Maybe three, four hours.", "Well.", "I'm fine.", "At what point last night did you realize that something that Iowa was going to go very differently than what the polls predicted?", "Well, when you -- we felt that way moving in. I mean obviously is over the last 10 days we were there working. We felt really good about people that were deciding late, deciding our way. We were always very confident about our plan and obviously we had a historic turnout. I mean, the large number of people that voted. When you went to the caucus centers, they were telling us, they were putting out double the number of chairs they'd ever put out before. So I was impressive. And I think it tells you how engaged and interested people are in this election and I'm glad they are. This is the most important election in a generation.", "But just peel back the curtain, were you in a ballroom, what was happening as you were watching the returns come in?", "Well, I didn't work that way, I actually I went to four separate caucus sites and spoke. And so by the time I got to the hotel, the results had already pretty much started coming in and we could see, we knew that we were going to do well in certain parts of the state. We could see those numbers trending up and he look back now, we got more votes than the winners of the last three Iowa caucuses did. So it was a huge and massive turnout. I really thank the people of Iowa. Our ground team there was fantastic and phenomenal and gave us great momentum coming here to New Hampshire.", "So now here you are in New Hampshire. You wake up in a different state. There are different voters. When you look around here, there are different ...", "I went to sleep in a different state. We arrived at 1:30 in the morning.", "Oh my gosh.", "We got in here absolutely, but we spent a lot of time here already as well. We have a great team here, too. And we just feel really great about it. And I think that what's coming -- what people are going to start realizing is, I give us the best chance. My candidacy gives us the best chance to nominate a real conservative who can unite the party, grow the party, take our message to people that haven't voted for us in the past and ultimately defeat Hillary Clinton our Bernie Sanders. The Democrats know this. They admit, but I am the one they want to run against and that's why I think ultimately I'll be your nominee.", "But given that there are different values here in New Hampshire than there are in Iowa, what do you do differently?", "I don't believe that that's true, I mean the electorate has a different background, because every state is diverse. But ultimately what people are worried about in our party in particular, is we have to nominate someone that can win. Someone that will take our principles, grow this party and win. And that's what I give us a chance to do. Someone who as president will reverse the damage Barack Obama has done, put in place policies that allow the private sector to succeed, and keep America safe. And that's what I'll do when I'm president.", "And as you know, New Hampshire doesn't have the evangelical vote that Iowa does. There are different values here. Do you change anything about what you ...", "I've always said the campaign we launched the April of last year and the message we launched that will be the message that I have in November of this year. I don't -- I'm not running two separate campaigns or eight separate campaigns. I believe that America's greatest days are within our reach but not if we stay on the road we're on right now. I have clear policies, the most detailed policy of anybody running for president on either side and that's going to be my message no matter where I am, no matter what stage in this process we're in.", "Your rivals have been talking about you. Jeb Bush just called you a back bencher. Trump has called you the kid, as you know. Chris Christie just called you the boy in the bubble. You and Cruz have exchanged some words. What's your response?", "Oh I think when people attack you, you usually they don't attack someone who isn't doing well. You usually only get attacked in politics if you present a threat to someone. Jeb's comment is interesting. He endorsed me. He wanted me to be the vice president. He openly told people I should be the vice president in 2012 when Romney was going through that process. The only thing that's changed between then and now is we happen to both be running for president. I think Chris is had a both Jeb and Chris to have had a tough couple days and obviously sometimes people don't react well to adversity. And so they're saying some things they'll probably later on regret. But that's not going to change my campaign. I'm not running to beat up on other Republicans. If there are policy differences, we'll discuss those. But ultimately I'm running to unify this party and ensure that our next president is nothing like the one we have now.", "As you know, immigration has become a big issue in this election. You and all of your rivals want to secure the border. If you'd become president, what do you do next?", "After securing the border? Well first, not just secure the border, people have to have confidence that you've done it. In essence, I do not believe having worked on this issue now for a long time including just personally having come from the background I come but the American people are going to support anything on immigration until first they believe that illegal immigration is truly under control. That means finishing the wall and fencing the new border patrol agents and entry/exit tracking system and e-verify. Only after that's in place and that's working can we go to the American people and see what they are willing to support. I think they'll be willing to support something very reasonable. I don't think the American people expect us to round up and deport 12 million people. If you're a criminal, you won't be able to stay no matter what. They should be deported now, criminals. If you're not, we outlined an idea. You know, maybe -- I don't know if the American people will support it, but the idea of allowing people that have been here for a long time to pass a background check, pay a fine, start paying taxes, they get a work permit and that's all they'll have for at least a decade. But we'll see what the American people are willing to support. I'm not going to ramming anyone down anyone -- I'm not going to ram it down anyone's throat. And I can tell you how we're not going to do it, through unconstitutional executive orders the way this president has done it now.", "Last, we know you're a big music fan. What are you listening to today?", "Today I haven't been listening to anything. But ...", "On the trail, what are you looking for?", "Well, you know, I have people know this now over the last couple years I've got really interested into the electronic dance music, Avicii or Calvin Harris. I just like it because the lyrics are clean so I can listen to it in front of my kids and not worry about it. I used to be a much bigger hip hop fan but the lyrics have gotten harder and harder to listen to when you have 10-year-olds in the car.", "Yes and of course and I know the \"Straight Outta Compton\" you said it one time ...", "I want to see the movie. I haven't seen the movie.", "So did it robbed of an Oscar nomination?", "I haven't seen the movie so I can't tell you. But I think what was really amazing is Ice Cube some was just like him. And they're reuniting now. So they're going to do like there -- and I guess the easy because he passed away, I heard Eminem is going to fill his role in the reunification. I guess or reunion. So I'm interested to see how that plays out.", "Are the Oscars too white?", "Oh I don't know. What does that mean?", "I mean that's the rap on it, pardon the pun, is that, you know, there aren't enough people of color who have been nominated in movies.", "Well Hollywood has bigger problems than that. But I don't -- in terms of the Oscars, I guess you're talking about the controversial with the number of nominees. Yeah, you know, haven't followed that very closely or it's interesting, though. I think the bigger problem I have with Hollywood is the values they're trying to ram down our throat in this country and how hard its made it on parents like me and my wife to raise our children with the values that we want to instill in them as opposed to the values that Hollywood wants to ram down people's throats. And I think that's one of the things that I just talked about with the lyrics as an example. That's something I'm really concerned about, but I haven't followed the whole Oscars thing.", "Senator, thanks so much for taking the time.", "Thank you.", "Great to talk to you.", "Thanks.", "Marco Rubio talking to \"New Day's\" Alisyn Camerota. Even though I'm not sure they came with any Oscar opinions or Oscar predictions. Let's bring the panel Chief National Correspondent John King, host of \"Inside Politics\", senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson, and Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger. Also CNN Political Commentator Paul Begala and Amanda Carpenter, he advisers our pro-Clinton Super PAC, she's a former Ted Cruz communications director, conservative writer and Rubio supporter Mona Charen joins us. There's also CNN Political Commentators Jeffrey Lord and Bill Press. Jeffrey's a Trump supporter former Reagan White House political director, Bill Press is Sander's supporter and author of \"Buyer's Remorse: How Obama Let Progressives Down\". Isn't interesting seeing Rubio in that interview. I mean he gives the Republican Party the best chance of winning the general election according to him against Secretary Clinton. Is she the candidate -- is he the candidate they are most concerned about do you think, or you're most concerned about Clinton right now?", "I don't know. I change every day. I really do. He's clearly talented. That's a terrific interview. Guy's got a ton of talent. I've seen him speak. That he is really, really gifted. But, you know, he's had some problems, too. I mean he's had, I mean he could give a response to the President State of the Union that like diving for covering and drinking water. He's got his drawbacks. They're all talented. I did not say this in 2012 as you know. This is a broadly talented field. I know this. They do fear Hillary the most because Wall Street backed Karl Rove supported Super PACS are attacking, we're attacking Hillary and helping Bernie in Iowa. So that we know for sure. But I do, I change everyday. Actually my best advice, they should all get out of the race and let Hillary become president unopposed. How about that?", "But it is interesting, it is all about sort of exceeding expectations.", "Yes. Look, he over performed his poll numbers in Iowa, he is leading \"Establishment candidates\", among his point, the label doesn't mean as much but that's what people are going to try to put on him, but he is a center right candidate who can reach out to Romney voters who can compete now with Christie, Bush, and Kasich and try to take their voters away. I think we're at a moment of psychological reflection in New Hampshire, a lot of voters who have been with other candidates and look at the Iowa results. And a lot of them will look at Rubio and say, \"Should I give him a chance?\" And they didn't listen for a few days. He is - I said this consistent. He's the best athlete on the field. The question is, is he ready to be president? And he's growing as the campaign goes on. Is this his year or is this his, you know, triple A and we'll see him on the future. So, I wouldn't say this, he should go back and look at the Clinton campaign in 2008, leading with electability. It's a good message for Republicans. It's a good message for Republicans that I can unite the party and I can win. But leading with it and I'm raise about ideology ...", "Yeah.", "... talk to the Republican base about what they want to talk about, whether it's security, whether it's cutting taxes or shrinking government and then get to the electability. Leading with it, is risky.", "But it helps him in Iowa last night if you look at those entrance polls, you know.", "Helped him to third place.", "It did. But he put on this issue of electability was kind of to 2-1, you know. So ...", "Mona, you're a near Rubio supporter. He hasn't spent as much time on the ground as Christie or certainly, Kasich. What's his ground game like?", "His strategy it seems to me is to focus on the issue that is most important to primary voters who are Republicans. And what is that? Security. Security and terrorism are the highest priority now, higher than the economy and you notice in that last pre-Iowa debate, he hit that very hard. It's a strength for him. He's been on the Foreign Relations Committee. He is very conversant with issues about terrorism, defense, foreign affairs. And though he looks young, he and Cruz are actually the same age. But, though he looks young, he's actually quite expert in those areas and I think that's what he has been stressing and I think it's working for him.", "Amanda, how do you see it playing out?", "Well, here's the thing. Certainly Marco Rubio sought to burnish his foreign policy credentials but he just in terms of this race, the only reason that Donald Trump is -- well, we talked about Donald Trump as a candidate is because of illegal immigration. Marco Rubio, who just made a fatal mistake in joining that gang of eight. Bill, opening the legislation's, why you see Cruz talking about Senator Schumer on a campaign trail all the time. It's just such a hurtle for him to overcome. I mean, even now on that interview, he still have to keep explaining his position on immigration, trying to make it better. And I don't know how you overcome that and try to be a national security candidate. Because if people are fearing that, you know, terrorists can come across the border, you have no credibility as a national security candidate.", "That is a weakness for him, because I just mention though that among the voters in Iowa, when they were asked, what is their most furnishing (ph), only 12 percent listed immigration. So it may not be the deciding issue for ...", "Just hold that thought. We're going to have more from our panel. We got to take a quick break. Coming up next, Donald Trump talking about something he rarely even mentions, lessons learned in this case, from his second-place finish in Iowa. Also, more on what could turn into a marathon about Clinton-Sanders race and the factors that may shape that."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, AC360 HOST", "CHRIS CHRISTIE, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "COOPER", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN HOST", "MARCO RUBIO, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "CAMEROTA", "RUBIO", "COOPER", "PAUL BEGALA, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "COOPER", "JOHN KING, CNN HOST", "NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER", "KING", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST", "KING", "BORGER", "COOPER", "MONA CHAREN, SENIOR FELLOW, ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER", "COOPER", "AMANDA CARPENTER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "CHAREN", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-42081", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-10-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/19/lt.09.html", "summary": "Ask CNN: Are There Any Restrictions for Americans Traveling Abroad?", "utt": ["Jon Deason from Orlando, Florida asks, \"In light of recent events, have there been any travel advisories or restrictions regarding Americans traveling abroad?\"", "There have been lots of travel advisories put out for Americans both before September 11 and since. And so your best bet is to log on to the State Department's Web site. And the address is www.travel.state.gov. And there you'll find everything from public announcements to travel warnings to consular information sheet. And so because these are updated on a -- practically a daily basis, you would do well before you're planning to book your flight or your train -- or however you're planning on traveling -- to log on to the site and see if the country or countries that you're planning on traveling to are listed. But keep in mind that ever since the attacks, there has been a worldwide caution in effect, which just offers common advice to Americans to be alert and just exercise common sense."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-302122", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2017-01-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/02/acd.01.html", "summary": "Manhunt for Istanbul Nightclub Attacker Intensifies", "utt": ["Well, the other breaking news tonight, we're following the escalating manhunt for the terrorist who gun downed dozens of people on New Years Eve in Istanbul. Authorities have released photos of the suspect to Turkish media including one, apparently, taken from this video making the rounds on social media. As we've said on the top to program, ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, which claimed victims from across the globe, men and women celebrating the start of a New Year at a popular club when they came under fire. Here again is our Sara Sidner.", "Video from a party inside the upscale reign on night club the moment Istanbul entered 2017. Just 75 minutes later, mayhem. Flashes from a gun held by a man as he begins his killing spree. First outside, shooting a police officer and security guard, then he opened fire inside. 39 people are killed, 69 injured, the victims from all over the world, including the United States.", "I got shot in the fucking leg, man. He's crazy. People came and shooting everything.", "William Jacob Raak survived the night of terror. Seven of the nine people he entered the club with left with bullet ones. Raak, now heading home.", "For me, I wake up in the United States, I eat breakfast. You guys wake up and have to think of this, it's so sad. And I really wish everybody here the best.", "But the worse was yet to come for the victims' families. 24 hours after the massacre, the funerals began this one for Fatih Cakmak, another security guard. His mother's moans pierce the silence. His father in shocked. His son had survived this car bomb attack three weeks ago at an Istanbul stadium, but not the nightclub massacre.", "(Speaking foreign language).", "\"He was one in a million. If he wasn't special, hundreds of people would not have bothered to show up here,\" he says. This sorrow will be multiplied 39 times. This is just one of the families forced to say good bye to their young loved ones after the reign in night club attack. 27 of the 39 victims were foreign nationals, including a film producer and a fashion designer from India, a beautiful 19-year old Israeli citizen with a full life awaiting her. A massive manhunt is now underway for the man believed to be the lone attacker. Turkish authorities say they have his fingerprints and image but still have not caught him. The aim of the attack, though, has come into focus as ISIS claimed responsibility, using social media, saying in part, a soldier of the brave caliphate attacked one of the most popular nightclubs while Christians were celebrating their holiday. But the majority killed were Muslim, many from Saudi, Arabia. The killer's ideology against the western ideals failing to change minds but succeeding in sowing sorrow.", "And Sara joins us tonight from Istanbul. So, this manhunt in the video that just out, the alleged attacker, I mean, do Turkish authorities think they're closer to catching him?", "They do. They think they're getting closer and closer with every new clue that they've been able to find. But, Anderson, it is now been more than 48 hours since this attacked happened there at the course border with theory here. And they do not know the attacker's name, and they do not know his whereabouts at this hour.", "And Turkey is experienced, I mean, a big uptick in attacks, have they all been claimed by ISIS?", "No. Interestingly, there have been times when the government thought that ISIS perpetrated the attack. But, this is the first time, Anderson, which makes it significant, that ISIS has officially said that it was behind this terrible massacre.", "And you mentioned some of the security? I mean how much security was there at this club? Do we know?", "We know that there were at least two security guards because two security guards were killed. We also know there was a policeman who was killed. And in this particular neighborhood, Anderson, it's quite a place where a lot of people end up going, because there are cafes that are affordable. There are shops that people go to. And at night, there are a lot of nightclubs. The Reina nightclub is the most famous. But certainly, there are others in the area. So it's usually filled with people, and Istanbul was on high alert. There was a bigger police presence in the neighborhood than there has been in a while because of all the premise attacks, including the attack in December, where the security guard that we just showed who died in this particular attack, avoided being killed when there was a bombing at stadium, Anderson.", "Sara Sidner. Sara, thanks for the reporting. More breaking news ahead tonight, including the new evidence that appears to weaken President-elect Trump's claim that we don't know who hacked the e- mails of the Democratic Party officials and Hillary Clinton's campaign chief. More on that ahead."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "SIDNER", "WILLIAM RAAK, AMERICAN VICTIM OF TURKISH NIGHTCLUB ATTACK", "SIDNER", "RAAK", "SIDNER", "HASAN CAKMAK, FAITH CAKMAK'S FATHER", "SIDNER", "COOPER", "SIDNER", "COOPER", "SIDNER", "COOPER", "SIDNER", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-353548", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-10-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/31/cnr.06.html", "summary": "O'Connor Rejected Rehnquist's Marriage Proposal in 1950s.", "utt": ["OK. Now to my favorite story of the day. Long before they were on the nation's highest court, former Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and William Rehnquist were a young couple. Now, newly discovered letters are revealing that not only did O'Connor and Rehnquist date while classmates at Stanford Law School but Rehnquist proposed to O'Connor in the early 1950s. O'Connor rejected his marriage proposal as they had broken up and she was already seeing someone else. That new man, John, would later become her husband. With me now, CNN Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic. I heard that this even stumped you and you wrote the book on O'Connor. You didn't even know about the proposal.", "I didn't, Brooke. You're right. It's everyone's favorite story today.", "Yes.", "It's such a sweet note that Evan Thomas found. Evan is doing a new biography of her and he had access to the justice's papers herself. Someone like me had access to lots of correspondence but not this particular letter. These two people, William Rehnquist and Sandra Day, met at Stanford Law School, they had a deep friendship, they dated, they went to movies. They both graduated in '52. Shortly before graduation, she meets John O'Connor. She talked about how they met proof reading and cite checking law reviews over beers. And she warned that could be quite dangerous.", "And they wound up having a great love affair. But here's what happened, Brooke, which is what I love about the Rehnquist/O'Connor story. They remained friends even after they both married other people. They both settled in Phoenix, Arizona, and with their families played charades, picnicked. And when he was nominated to the Supreme Court in the fall of 1971, she helped rally local support. And in 1981, when O'Connor was nominated as the first woman by William Rehnquist -- I'm sorry, by Ronald Reagan, Rehnquist writes of her, \"She's a 10 strike.\" He was from Milwaukee, the bowling capitol. So they remained really good friends even though they never married.", "I love that. Stanford, dating, says no, ends up on the Supreme Court. It's an extraordinary story."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "JOAN BISKUPIC, CNN SUPREME COURT ANALYST", "BALDWIN", "BISKUPIC", "BISKUPIC", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-192320", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2012-9-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/07/qmb.01.html", "summary": "New Setback for Berlin Airport; Lufthansa Strike; Signs of Recovery; European Markets Up; Peugeot's Problems; Euro Makes Gains", "utt": ["Another setback for Berlin's troubled new airport. Authorities confirmed that Berlin Brandenburg International won't greet passengers until October of next year. It had been expected to hope its doors back in 2011, and then again this past June, but fire safety and construction issues have caused repeated delays. As a 24-hour walkout by Lufthansa cabin crew continues, the airline has met some of the union's demands. It says it will stop deploying outsourced cabin crews in Berlin for now. It'll also offer permanent contracts to flight attendants recruited through a company called Aviation Power. Pay is still a sticking point, though. The UFO union is asking for a 5 percent pay rise for cabin crew. Lufthansa has offered 3.5 percent if staff work longer hours. Now, the strike has led to the cancellation of around half of Lufthansa's flights this Friday, and from Berlin, here's a report from CNN's Diana Magnay.", "A third day of strike action by cabin staff, Lufthansa forced to cancel two thirds of Friday's 1800 flights, with walkouts at all its German hubs.", "But Berlin's Tegel Airport is, if anything, quieter than normal. Lufthansa says it's managed to reach 55,000 passengers -- that's around half of all those affected -- by e-mail or text to warn them about changes or cancellations, and it looks like the rest checked online before risking the airport.", "And despite the strike, between a third and half of all European connections are up and running, thanks to Lufthansa's network of partner airlines.", "We are lucky devils. We have our flight. We are going to Nice. To France.", "OK. And Lufthansa's still flying you there?", "Yes -- I believe not. It's a Swiss company.", "Ah.", "They arranged something with Swiss Air.", "Lufthansa and the UFO union, which represents its 18,000 cabin staff, have been arguing over wages and pay structures for 13 months.", "Today's strike by the UFO union affects more than 100,000 German Lufthansa clients, and we regret this very much. In our view, this strike is unnecessary, and we call on the union to return to the negotiating table at once.", "Lufthansa hopes to cut costs by almost $2 billion by the end of 2014 and faces stiff competition from low-cost carriers in Europe, alongside escalating fuel prices. The union says this puts unfair pressure on its members.", "There is a huge solidarity for cabin crew within Lufthansa. Clearly trying to push through cost-cutting measures, like this, means that Lufthansa is breaking apart internally.", "But Lufthansa cabin crew still earn almost twice as much as their peers at carriers like Air Berlin. Some passengers said they weren't wholly sympathetic to the unions' demands.", "I think what they offered is not that bad, to tell you the truth, and there's so many people who cannot go on strike.", "The union says it doesn't plan on further strike action, but with staff cuts, a large part of Lufthansa's cost-saving program, this dispute may drag on Diana Magnay, CNN, Berlin.", "Well, there are signs that Europe is on the road to recovery, though. In the UK, government figures show industrial output rose at its fastest pace in 25 years. It was up by 2.9 percent in July, following a drop of around 2.5 percent back in June. In Germany, back to Germany, a similar story. Its industrial output rose by 1.3 percent in July. It fell by around half of one percent back in June. And Europe's stock markets ended the session with modest gains today, but at least they were gains, up between 0 and 1 percent. Mining and banking shares were some of the top performers today. Anglo-American gained more than 7 percent in London, and Societe Generale and Barclays gained almost 7 percent. Looking at the numbers over the course of the week, well, this is the picture. You can see it's been a very, very positive picture for Europe. German and French shares, the main indices, at least, up more than 3 percent. Big numbers. Peugeot Citroen was one of the biggest gainers, actually, on the CAC today despite a rather major fall from grace. Now, last night, the CAC 40's technical board decided to kick the company out of the index and it'll be replaced by a plastic and chemical company, Solvay, later this month. It has been a very rocky road, you could say, for Peugeot. European car sales have actually fallen by 25 percent since 2007, and it's expected that European sales will shrink by 8 percent in 2012. There's been an exposure, really, for this company to those crisis-hit countries we keep talking about in the eurozone, those euro countries at the heart of the slowdown here in Europe. Mounting losses for the company, cash, they're burning through that at a rate of $250 million each month. $4.8 billion has been given to them in state aid. Is this the end of the road, then, for the company? Well, we're going to have to go to the figures, really, for that. First half losses for the company amount to $857.5 million, and it's facing stiff competition. That's the problem here. Peugeot's half-year sales fell 13 percent. Renault only fell 3 percent, but Volkswagen, well, up 10 percent. That's the picture. Now, an auto-related Currency Conundrum for you, because we want to stay topical. Which old US dollar bill featured the image of a car parked outside the Treasury? Was it the A, the $10 bill? The $20 bill for B? And C, the $50 bill? We'll have the answer for you a bit later in the program for you. The euro is making gains against the dollar, thanks to those encouraging numbers on industrial production. The yen is gaining strength against the dollar."], "speaker": ["FOSTER", "DIANA MAGNAY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MAGNAY (on camera)", "MAGNAY (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MAGNAY (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MAGNAY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MAGNAY (voice-over)", "KLAUS WALTHER, SPOKESMAN, LUFTHANSA (through translator)", "MAGNAY", "NICOLEY BAUBLIES, UFO UNION (through translator)", "MAGNAY", "KAREN GATZKE, PASSENGER", "MAGNAY", "FOSTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-182601", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2012-3-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1203/13/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Leading Women:  Fashionista Carolina Herrera", "utt": ["They are among the world's most powerful and innovative people, the Leading Women who are at the top of their game, and the focus of what is our new series. This week, Felicia Taylor meets one entrepreneur who has cemented her place in the world of high fashion, Carolina Herrera.", "Carolina Herrera has been defining elegance for more than 30 years, with a sense of style she was born with in her native Venezuela.", "We only have six left.", "As founder and designer, Herrera is the embodiment of her brand, exuding an easy grace even when wearing her signature classic white shirt.", "You know, the white shirt is so easy. For me, it's like a security blanket.", "Herrera's start in fashion was an unlikely one, at the age of 42, with no official training. Her friend, Diana Vreeland urged her to design a collection of dresses. Armed with natural talent, Herrera launched her fashion company in New York in 1981. That expanded to include bridal in 1987, and by 2008, CH was born, Herrera's lifestyle collection that also includes menswear. And today, the Herrera Collection can be found in more than 280 stores in over 100 countries, earning profits that top hundreds of millions of dollars.", "Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity. So many things going on.", "This is Caroline Herrera.", "It's almost ready. How wonderful!", "As a style icon herself, Carolina Herrera ensures each one of her designs lives up to the Herrera name.", "What are you -- what is the prefect definition of the Carolina Herrera brand? I mean, in terms of what you want women to have as the impression.", "I think women in Carolina Herrera, I like them to be sophisticated and I like them to be classic with a modern twist.", "Named CFDA Women's Wear Designer of the Year in 2004 and recipient of the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008, Herrera is firmly part of fashion's foundation. Celebrities have favored her chic and elegant designs for decades, with Tina Fey most recently wearing one of her dresses at the Academy Awards. On this day, she's doing her final model fittings before the debut of her Fall 2012 line at New York's Fashion Week.", "I mean, the ribbon can be tighter.", "For a designer, Fashion Week is a make or break it moment, so Herrera is hands-on every step of the way.", "So, you're taking off a little bit of the train? Just a tiny bit? Oh, all right, all right. Gracias. Hola, hola, hola.", "Backstage on the day of her show, Herrera is a little hard to keep up with.", "They are looking wonderful. And then we tone this. How are you?", "I'm good, how are you?", "It looks great.", "Always demonstrating a poised sense of power among the chaos.", "This is the moment.", "Before a fashion show begins, what goes through your mind?", "What -- before it begins?", "Seriously.", "My darling, I cannot explain it to you. I have my -- my stomach is full of butterflies.", "Good. Me, too.", "You know, what it is is an excitement. If you don't have the energy, then you're flat.", "And you're never flat.", "No, you need the energy because you need the excitement.", "Adding to the excitement, well-known fashion heavy hitters come back stage to wish Herrera well.", "Oh, no.", "Hi, I was just -- I was just shopping.", "How are you feeling? You look beautiful.", "And you? I love the way you -- I love the way you look.", "I like it, too.", "It's like a little kick.", "And with a few last-minute adjustments, it's time for the show.", "Remember, elegant, happy, pretty. This is not a funeral.", "Sometimes, when you have shows, and you have I don't know how many editors and press in the shows, you cannot be only showing the classic look that is the one that sells. But you have to show a fantasy. One of the ways we show in this very tall and thin girl, we're showing them because when you have all these people sitting there, they're dreaming that if they buy that dress, they're going to look like that. Fashion is a dream. It's difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it's not easy, but nothing is easy in life.", "For someone who entered fashion late in the game, Herrera has created a brand that symbolizes timeless glamor. We're learn more about Herrera in the coming weeks, her life in Venezuela, as a mother of four daughters, and how she stays current in a business that's forever changing.", "Lovely hair. Lovely.", "This is a whole series of reports, some of which are done by Felicia, some by me, some by our colleague Kristie in Asia. You'll see much more of this series on the website and discover how men and women measure up in the battle of the boardroom as well as tips on how to get the best tech jobs, for example, not an industry that women show well in, so let's do better. That's at cnn.com/leadingwomen. You're watching CONNECT THE WORLD live from London with me, Becky Anderson, 47 minutes past 9:00 here. When we come back, looking to make an Olympic comeback. 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{"id": "CNN-199214", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-1-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/12/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Main Suspect in the Benghazi Attack Released", "utt": ["It is 3:30 on the east coast, that's 12:30 on the west coast. For those of you just joining us, welcome to the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Martin Savidge in for Fredricka Whitfield. And here are the top stories we're following right now. The CDC is releasing new information about the flu epidemic. And there are indications that the spread of the flu, at least in some areas, has slowed down in some areas. Still 24 states and New York City are reporting high levels of flu activity. New York's governor, by the way, has even declared a public health emergency. The CDC says since this outbreak began, there have been 20 flu related deaths among young people 18 years and younger. Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong had reportedly will come clean tomorrow according to \"USA Today\" at least. Armstrong will tell Oprah Winfrey the truth about doping during his years as the world's top cyclist. The paper says the interview will be taped at Armstrong's home in Texas for broadcast on Thursday. Then there's this. In Seattle, a quick thinking bus driver saved his passengers from harm when a fire broke under the vehicle. Everyone got off safely before a fireball engulfed the bus. Traffic was tied up for hours. The fire may have started due to a frozen brake line. First time I've heard that. And here's what's trending around the web. The White House says no, it will not be building a death star no matter how many jobs it potentially could create. The idea to build one like the one in \"Star Wars,\" the movie, was posted on the web as a petition at a White House Web site. And for the record, the White House officially said quote, \"the administration does not support blowing up planets,\" unquote. I think that's popular with many world leaders. The $850 quadrillion price tag was also an issue, always cost overruns. A New Mexico artist is getting attention for a new series of photographs he created. Those are faces distorted by scotch tape. The artist says the whole thing was meant to be a fun project with some friends. He got the pictures by asking them to try to get the tape off by using only their facial muscles. And this is what happens when you send a camera up into space and let it fall back down again. The thousand dollar camera was sent into low orbit more than 65,000 feet up. The balloon malfunctioned and the thing came hurtling back to earth. The camera wasn't found until six months later. And here's a testimony who whoever made it, it was still working. All right. Now back to the flu. If you had questions about how deadly it can be, watch max's story. The 17-year-old celebrated the holidays with his family and all of a sudden became very ill. Senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen spoke to Max's parents about their son's final days.", "The Schwolert family was getting ready for a joyful Christmas when on December 21st, 17-year-old son Max started feeling sick, tired, fever.", "He never really got like super sick.", "Two days later he was feeling better. Played in the snow on vacation in Wisconsin. Celebrated Christmas with his family. But Christmas night, Max felt sick again.", "He had excessive like 104.9 fever and we could not break it.", "The next morning, his parents took Max to the hospital where he was diagnosed with the flu.", "Within 30 minutes, I mean the doctor was like something really wrong here. His kidneys are starting to fail.", "Max was rushed by helicopter to a larger hospital.", "One of the last coherent things he said he looked at me and there were tears rolling down his face.", "He was scared.", "He said, mom, I'm scared. I said I know, buddy. I am, too. Then he saw me crying. He said mom, it's going to be OK. You're going to be OK. I love you. And that's really the last really coherent things that he said to me.", "Within 24 hours, Max went from feeling OK to intensive care.", "His organs were shutting down. And they were completely baffled what was happening. What would attack him so quickly?", "His parents prayed for a miracle.", "I remember putting my hands on his heart and I would feel his heart beat. And I -- I just knew how big it was, you know.", "Four days later, Max died, a young man whose nickname was Panda, 6'4\", big and gentle. Played golf, goofed on his sisters, taught Sunday school. After Max died, the Schwolert drove home to Louisville, Texas. Waiting in their mailbox, an acceptance letter to Max's first college choice. Tom and Melanie want Max to be remembered for how he loved God, life and the people around him. They've sold more than 1,000 love to the Max t-shirts. The money will go to a charity in Max's memory and the memory of his huge loving heart.", "Martin, as we can see, young people can get very sick very fast with the flu. So, here are some red flags that parents can look out for. First, if your child gets better and then gets sick again, that's a bad sign. It means they might have a secondary bacterial infection that's set in. Also if your child is extremely lethargic, that's a red flag, also if your child is confused. Be vigilant about these signs and get your child medical help as soon as you can -- Martin.", "Absolutely. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen, thank you very much. Well, a man held by Tunisian authorities in connected with the deadly September attack in a U.S. consulate in, the one in Libya, has been released by a judge. And many people are now asking why. According to the Tunisian state media, Ali Harzi was freed Monday by an investigating judge overseeing the case. CNN international anchor Jonathan Mann is here now with more on the story. And really, what more do we know?", "Well, the extraordinary thing was this was a deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya four months ago and we really know very little. And this was the best suspect anyone had. He was the only man behind bars in connection with the attack. But apparently there was according to his lawyer, no evidence against him and that's why the lawyer says he was let go. There is video of the attack some of us have it. He's not in the video. And so, despite the fact that various press accounts, these are published accounts seem to link him to the attack or to groups suspected of involvement in the attack, despite the fact that published accounts suggest this is a man authorities should want to talk to and U.S. authorities do want to talk to, the Tunisians said there wasn't enough evidence to hold him and so, they let him go. Keep in mind, this was a Tunisian man arrested in Turkey changing planes on suspicion of being involved in attack in Libya. The whole thing remains incredibly murky and according to the Tunisians not enough to hold him.", "Well, OK. So, you know, how is this twist going to impact the investigation into it all?", "From the very get-go, this attack was not only deadly, it has proved to be really, I think a mess for everyone looking into it, both because Libya itself is dangerous. Benghazi is dangerous. Investigators can't spend as much time there as they would like. And of course, there's the famous question what did Hillary Clinton know and when did she know it. She was famously ill, unable to testify. So, there are investigations into two different levels. There's, you know, basically that the detectives pounding the beat, they are trying to find out what literally happened on the ground four months ago now and they can't visit the site because it's dangerous. And then there are the political investigations under way. Those have been held up though of course, Congress hasn't forgotten about this. This may turn into a problem not only for Hillary Clinton but John Brennan set to be confirmed as head of the CIA. And already, Lindsey Graham is saying he's not going to vote for John Brennan to be confirmed unless Benghazi gets cleared up. It is four months ago, four Americans died. We don't know what happened. This may be a mystery for a good while longer.", "Yes. I think it's going to have long and deep shadows, especially politically in this country. Jonathan Mann. Thank you very much for that update. Well, he claims that he stole ashes from concentration camp ovens. Then mixed them with water and painted a grim picture. And he says its art. For the families of those killed in the holocaust, it's an outrage and we will have that story. Then Casey Anthony, she is back in court. And she says she wants the charges against her dropped. \"Headline News\" Jane Velez-Mitchell weighs in on this case and hands down her verdict direct from the CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["SAVIDGE", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "TOM SCHWOLERT, MAX'S FATHER", "COHEN", "MELANIE SCHWOLERT, MAX'S MOTHER", "COHEN", "TOM SCHWOLERT", "COHEN", "MELANIE SCHWOLERT", "TOM SCHWOLERT", "MELANIE SCHWOLERT", "COHEN", "MELANIE SCHWOLERT", "COHEN", "MELANIE SCHWOLERT", "TOM SCHWOLERT", "COHEN", "SAVIDGE", "JONATHAN MANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "SAVIDGE", "MANN", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "CNN-143875", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-10-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/12/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Clinton's Warning to Afghanistan; Short on Swine Flu Masks", "utt": ["And good morning, once again, to you. We're coming up right here, two minutes past 8:00 in New York on this Monday. It's October 12th. Welcome to AMERICAN MORNING. I'm Kiran Chetry.", "Good morning to you. I'm John Roberts. Here are the big stories we'll tell you in about next 15 minutes. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is doing her part to put the pressure on Afghanistan's struggling government. Speaking in Europe, Secretary Clinton is saying Afghan leaders need to step up to ensure stability. Our Jill Dougherty is traveling with the secretary of state. We'll also speak to Mark Thompson, \"Time\" magazine's deputy bureau chief.", "A top health official trying to squash fears about the swine flu vaccine, saying it is safe and the risk of not getting it is worse, especially for kids. The assistant surgeon general answers your questions about your children and H1N1 -- just ahead.", "And what are the five best paying, most stable, least stressful jobs in America today? Many of you maybe spending Columbus Day sending out resumes. Are you looking in the right places? We'll help you narrow down the field with the help of \"Money\" magazine's new can't miss list. But, first, with President Obama under pressure for a new strategy in Afghanistan and U.S. forces under attack, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is promising the U.S. is committed to the fight. That headline and many more are being made as Secretary Clinton continues her five-day tour of Europe. Our Jill Dougherty is live in Belfast, Northern Ireland, this morning, where the secretary of state is. And, Jill, Hillary Clinton also commenting on the recent elections in Afghanistan and the way forward for that particular issue.", "Right, John. One of the dilemmas for the Obama administration now is the election that recently took place and it's looking as if Hamid Karzai will be re-elected, but at what price? A lot of election fraud. And that certainly undermines him not only in the eyes of the international community, but in the eyes of the Afghan people. So, Secretary Clinton is making the case that the U.S. really does expect him to patch that up, to do more and to improve his cooperation with the U.S. and also his relations with the Afghan people themselves. Throughout this trip, she's been talking with almost every leader about Afghanistan and with Foreign Minister Miliband in London, for example, Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London. She's telling them about these discussions that are taking place with the president and members of his administration, defining what are the next moves on U.S. strategy on Afghanistan. Interestingly, John, one point that she made -- it was a subtle one, because she's not giving a lot of detail about those discussions -- but she did say that they are analyzing who is actually allied with al Qaeda. And that is one of the questions, whether the Taliban, for instance, could be peeled away, some members of the Taliban, and perhaps even worked with in new Afghan government. And also, from the secretary's perspective, it's very important that the people who work with her, with the State Department, the aide workers, development workers, have protection to carry out their work in Afghanistan. Right now, they can donate that very easily, because they are being attacked by the Taliban. So, even on that debate on troops, whether there should be more, and if so, how many, she would -- you'd have to say, although she won't define it, she would certainly want adequate troops to make sure that the very important other role for the U.S. government, and that's development, can be carried out.", "She also, Jill, has a message for leader there is in Northern Ireland. They're very close to completing the peace process there with the -- you know, the takeover of police and security forces, but they've hit a bit of a snag. How difficult is it going to be to get that process completed?", "Well, there is some worry, because after all, the story on the Northern Ireland peace process, which has been going on now for more than 15 years, has been a good one. In fact, Secretary Clinton would make the case that Northern Ireland is a great example for other conflict zones around the world, that they've been able to bring people together, that there has been an uptick in some violence. They found, not too long ago, a 600-pound bomb that was not exploded. So, the fighting, some of it, or at least terrorist acts, aren't over. So Secretary Clinton is making a very passionate speech to the Northern Ireland legislature, the Stormont Assembly. And it was interesting, just to look around that room, John, I was in the room when it happened, and you had Ian Paisley, the unionist leader Gerry Adams from the Catholic side, all of them in one room. These are people who used to, literally, try or their supporters tried to kill each other, but they're in the room together. So, Secretary Clinton making the case that the Obama administration is committed to this peace process, that a big part of it will be economic development, and also that there are still those out there, as she put it, who want to undermine the process and derail it with thuggish tactics. But she argues they're on the wrong side of history.", "All right. Jill Dougherty for us in Belfast, Northern Ireland, this morning -- Jill, thanks so much. If the president does decide to send in more troops to Afghanistan, what would it cost? Could we even afford it? In 10 minutes time, the dollars and cents of war with Mark Thompson. He's the deputy Washington bureau chief for \"Time\" magazine and the numbers, by the way, just might surprise you.", "There are some alarming new statistics about swine flu. While everyone is at risk, children seem to be the most affected. But many parents say they're not planning to get the swine flu vaccine for their kids. On \"STATE OF THE UNION,\" the assistant surgeon general joined John King to try to clear up some of the confusion out there.", "There's a mistrust across the political spectrum of government institutions. Why is it, do you think, many persons, many parents aren't quite sure? Number one, it's new.", "Well, you know, a lot of people are saying it's new, but it's important to know that the seasonal flu vaccine is made exactly the same way as this H1N1 vaccine. A hundred million people, including a lot of children, get the seasonal flu vaccine every year and it has a really good safety record. So, I think parents are wondering: Is this something new? Has it been fully tested? What I can say is that everything we know right now suggested a very good safety profile for the vaccines.", "And, of course, the threat of swine flu is rising. Surgical masks are rolling off production lines here in the U.S., but it may be impossible to meet the demand. As our Jeanne Meserve shows us, it may be a painful reminder of how dependent this country has become on products made somewhere else.", "John and Kiran, one of the supplies used to control the spread of flu, simple surgical masks. But does the U.S. have enough of them on hand and can it get a lot mores if it needs them? (voice-over): During the cataclysmic 1918 flu pandemic, Red Cross nurses hand-made surgical masks to help control the spread of disease. Now, machines crank them out at the Prestige Ameritech plant in Richland Hills, Texas -- one of the few manufacturers in the U.S. Ninety percent of production has moved to other countries, where labor is cheaper and, some say, that has created a vulnerability right here.", "If there's a pandemic, America won't be able to supply its own need.", "Bowen and others fear that in a 1918-sized pandemic, the nations that make masks, like China and Mexico, would keep them for themselves.", "When push comes to shove, you take care of your own before you take care of others. That's just -- that's just human nature. And for that reason alone, I think we should buy more of these masks in the United States and we should encourage the capability to manufacture more of these masks in the United States.", "The government estimates the U.S. could need 3 billion surgical masks during the H1N1 outbreak. Right now, the strategic national stockpile continues only a small fraction of that amount, 37 million. It's a yawning gap government officials acknowledge, one that was laid out in stark detail in this Health and Human Services PowerPoint presentation two years ago. Government officials say before they build up supplies, they want more evidence the masks provide effective protection, but current guidance from the CDC recommends the use of surgical masks. And last year, OSHA estimated that a single health professional could go through close to 2,000 during a pandemic. Bowen has been crusading for more domestic production of surgical masks. He could benefit financially, but says this isn't just about business, it's about the nation's health and security.", "Important things like face masks should be made in America, and I think they'll finally realize what we've been trying to tell them for almost three years.", "Hospitals, clinics, and physicians are creating their own stockpiles of surgical masks, a good thing, except manufacturers are already having trouble keeping up with demand. And if H1N1 becomes more deadly, that demand will likely grow much larger. John and Kiran, back to you.", "And as we were talking about kids being more vulnerable, so far this season, they say that -- or this year, they say that 77 kids have died from the swine flu, some of them had pre-existing conditions, others did not. So it's really, you know, it's still -- there's a lot of confusion and just a lot of what we don't know about just how this flu will hit various...", "Definitely something to be very cautious about, no question, I think. \"This Is It,\" Michael Jackson's final single was released overnight. The song features background vocals by the Jackson Brothers.", "It's going to be playing over the credits of the upcoming Jackson film. All of it is going to be available as well in a two-disk album that's set to be released two weeks. Here's a sample of the song.", "This song, by the way, is also available on Jackson's official Web site and all of it is expected to sort of be part of this big marketing blitz to capitalize on the emotion following Jackson's death. So far, that has worked. A lot of his old albums have been, you know, selling like hot cakes.", "And the movie's coming out at the end of the month, too -- so, trying to build some momentum for that as well. So, these plans to increase troops in Afghanistan, some folks are saying 10,000, others are saying 40,000. Some might even want more than that. But what's the ultimate cost in dollars and cents to taxpayers? We'll find out -- coming up next. It's coming up on 13 minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (via telephone)", "ROBERTS", "DOUGHERTY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "JOHN KING, HOST, \"STATE OF THE UNION\"", "DR. ANNE SCHUCHAT, ASSISTANT SURGEON GENERAL", "CHETRY", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MIKE BOWEN, PRESTIGE AMERITECH", "MESERVE", "REP. JOE BARTON (R), TEXAS", "MESERVE", "BOWEN", "MESERVE (on camera)", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-170452", "program": "JOY BEHAR SHOW", "date": "2011-8-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/11/joy.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Medium James Van Praagh", "utt": ["Casey Anthony`s failure to protect Caylee resulted in her untimely death, and that is according to a three-year investigation done by the Department of Children and Families. It was released today. Meanwhile a new poll out shows that Casey Anthony is the most hated person in America. Here now, with the latest on the Casey case is Michael Christian, field producer for \"In Session\" on Trutv. Michael, thanks for being with us. What`s in this report?", "It`s a 12-page report, E.D. It was released as you say this morning. And it basically finds three, what they call, maltreatments that they say Casey Anthony was responsible for and that contributed to the death of little Caylee. The first one is that, indeed, Caylee died, that that`s verified. Also, they say there was a failure to protect. That basically, Casey Anthony lied when she talked about how she had left this child with a nanny and they said that that was a failure to protect because had the child actually been with a nanny -- Casey didn`t know enough about that nanny, couldn`t get ahold of her, that the child was missing because she was with this fictitious nanny. They also said that there was a verified, threatened harm, and that says that Casey basically was responsible because during this 31 days that she claimed Caylee was missing and she feared that Caylee was kidnapping or at least she said so at the time, she didn`t report that to law enforcement. So those three maltreatments as they say contributed to the death of Caylee Marie Anthony, according to this report.", "You know, maybe I`m just not that smart, but why does it matter now? They spent three years investigating this. It comes out after the trial? What was the purpose?", "That`s right. It really doesn`t matter. It`s more or less a professional courtesy. Apparently the law in Florida requires this department to issue reports like this whenever there`s been a death of a child. It`s simply for the record.", "Even if it had come out before the trial, could it have been used? Would it have made any difference?", "You know, it really wouldn`t have, E.D., because she wasn`t charged with any of these particular charges. She was charged with murder, but she was not charged with neglecting her child.", "Perhaps if someone had noticed that there was something going on beforehand, the little girl wouldn`t be dead right now. Let`s talk about this poll. It found that Casey is the most hated person in America. So what do you think? When you look at her right there, you see her, she`s crying on TV. She got out free, though. She got out free. So does she win? Does she lose?", "Well, I guess you could look at it either way. I think you have to say she lost if she`s the most hated person in America. Apparently she got 94 percent, which was way more than anybody else got. She beat people like Spencer Pratt, who is on MTV. He is the second most hated person. She beat the Octomom. She beat O.J. Simpson. She beat John Gosselin. She beat Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin`s ex-fiance. She beat Jesse James, Sandra Bullock`s ex-husband. She beat Paris Hilton. She beat Heidi Fleiss. She beat Howard Stern. She also won -- or lost, if you want to put it that way -- she`s the second creepiest person in America, according to this poll. The winner of that, the creepiest person is Marilyn Manson.", "Well, you can look at her and you never know when she`s telling the truth or when she`s not or what she thinks is the truth. That is kind of creepy. What about this probation fight? Why is it taking so long to decide whether Casey should have to come back to Orlando?", "You know, the problem here is there is really no precedent for this. There`s no case law that either side or Judge Belvin Perry who is going to have to make the decision, could find that was really on point with this. When they had their hearing last Friday, they talked about this, and Judge Perry said this was a mess. He called it a maze. He called it a morass. He said everything that could have gone wrong with this issue did go wrong. So basically, he was going to have to look at case law outside the state of Florida, and that takes some time. I can guarantee you his law clerk has been busy since that Friday morning hearing. No decision yet. They had told us it would not come down before Wednesday, which was yesterday. It could be today. It could be later today. It could be tomorrow morning. It could be tomorrow afternoon. We just don`t know. We`re just sitting here waiting.", "One of the sad things in a case like this is that we spend so much time looking at her and trying to figure her out, her motives, her reasoning, her rationale. You know, whatever. And sometimes you forget that there`s this little girl -- or was this little girl -- and she`s dead. And it would have been her sixth birthday Tuesday. How is that remembered?", "There was a memorial walk last night. People went to the site where Caylee`s remains were found, and it was a surprise in a way, E.D., because her grandparents went, George and Cindy Anthony. Now, that was maybe a bit of a risk for them. There are some people who are not happy with Casey`s parents, who think they were involved in this somehow. And if you remember back three years ago, when this all first happened, there were people who were showing up at the Anthony house who were protesting, who were screaming at George and Cindy. George and Cindy turned the hose on some of them. So I think for them to go out in public was a bit of a gamble. I think it paid off. I think they were very well received by the people at this memorial. And you got to remember, they are victims, too. They lost a granddaughter that they loved very much, and the focus last night, as you say, her sixth birthday, was to once again, remember Caylee Anthony.", "Michael, thank you very much.", "Sure.", "Most of us have suffered the loss of a loved one and a lot of us would just love the chance to talk with them just one more time. My next guest says that he can actually help folks do it. He says he can talk to the dead. His name is James Van Praagh and he`s the author of \"Growing Up in Heaven: The Eternal Connection Between Parent and Child.\" And it`s probably fortuitous to talk to you right now because we were just mentioning Casey Anthony and Caylee. Do you think there is a connection between a parent and a child? If there is, I worry about what theirs is?", "Yes, I do believe there`s definitely a connection between them. And on a soul level, it`s very, very different. I mean, on a physical level we can see it, but on a soul level, and I do believe in past lives, I do believe in reincarnation. I do believe that in another lifetime, maybe something happened, maybe this soul chose this situation because -- to teach the mother something. So we really don`t know really until we get to the spiritual dimension.", "I`m sure that there are a lot of folks watching thinking you`re nuts.", "My whole life they thought that.", "Well, that`s my question. How did you know? At what point in your life did you know, I`m not crazy because I think I can talk to dead people, I actually can?", "Yes. I think -- first of all, what anyone thinks of you is none of your business. That`s why -- I live by that, and everybody should, they will be a lot happier people. As a little boy, I used to see spirits around people, I used to see auras. The movie \"The Sixth Sense,\" that was my childhood.", "Did you question yourself, though?", "No, because as a child, you look around the world around you, you really measure things by what you`re observing, what you`re seeing, what you`re experiencing as a child, you don`t know any better.", "Were you scared?", "Not at all. My visions were very, very loving, actually I would say loving, compassionate ones. Nothing scary, nothing like horror shows. Nothing like that at all.", "So what happens? When you`re talking to somebody or they are coming in and saying, I want to connect with somebody, can you make that just happen?", "It if it`s there, it`s there. If it`s not, it`s not. I can try to -- it`s like a radio. You turn on the radio and you tune to the signal, the station, if you will. And if they are a good communicator, I will be able to hear them, feel them and see them, and a combination of that. And I never know who`s going to communicate, what they`re going to say. I`m a survival evidence medium, which means my job is to bring through evidential details only onto the family member and the spirit.", "Do people feel better after they do that or worse?", "Yes, I do shows all over the country, the world, and people have said to me, you know, a half an hour with you is like years of therapy. And it really gets right to the core of matter, that they realize there`s no such thing as death, death is an illusion. It`s an illusion. It`s energy. We can`t kill energy. It just changes form.", "Well, we wanted to let some of our viewers connect with you and so we`ve got some callers. Heather joins us from Kansas. Heather, what do you want to ask?", "I would like to know if you have anything from my sister?", "Your sister. OK. OK. What`s her name, please?", "Nicole.", "Nicole? OK. I do feel -- let me just -- there`s a man here with her also, by the way. So the man that came to get her when she passed over. I have to tell you that. So I don`t know if there is a grandfather of hers? But he definitely comes to get her. I want to say something about hearts with you. Did you do something with regarding Nicole with hearts? Like is there a frame with a heart, a picture of hers, something with a heart?", "You know, we`ve had a lot of them at her funeral so there might be.", "OK, because I`m getting something with hearts, and I feel like -- she said she`s with you a lot, and I got to just tell you, you must smell flowers or roses around the house every once in a while?", "Yes.", "Because she`s giving me a thought here that she`s with you with the flowers and you smell them, and they can do that. They can do that. They can come through and project a scent to us, an image to us. I also want to say a bracelet you might have of hers? Is there a bracelet or a necklace you have?", "Oh my gosh, this might be somebody different.", "Who is that, with a bracelet? You were just looking at it recently.", "Great grandma Rose?", "Great grandma Rose?", "Yes.", "Oh, that`s the -- Rose. Were you just looking at that bracelet, going to fix it or something?", "I just -- actually I got a lot of her stuff, there`s a rosary that is hanging by my bed that`s hers.", "OK. So you must have just done that or put that up there or something.", "Yes.", "OK. So she`s with you, and if I look at that rosary and the bed, there`s something to do with flowers. I know you said Rose, but there`s also something to do with flowers. I`m not sure, the bed spread with flowers, but there`s something with flowers there. Would that be right?", "Uh-huh.", "OK, because that`s what I`m being told. So there`s a man there with her, it must be her husband, and he has a problem with his walking before he passes over, and it looks like one leg is shorter than the other.", "Oh, my gosh. Yes, I know who you`re talking about.", "You understand? So she`s with them and they`re communicating stronger. Maybe because she just passed recently or a couple of years probably she`s only been there. That`s what I feel. And that`s one, there you go.", "Heather, I hope that helped you.", "Hope it validates you.", "Thank you.", "James, do you ever get goosebumps because you just gave them to me.", "I do. All the time. All the time I do. Because it`s new (ph) for me.", "We`re going to take a break. And we`re going to let more people talk to you, more viewers. 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{"id": "CNN-235321", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2014-07-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/25/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Passenger Threat Causes Canadian Flight To Divert, Return To Toronto", "utt": ["Returning to our breaking news that we have just brought you, about two U.S. fighter jets escorting a Canada to Panama flight after a passenger allegedly threatened the plane with 181 passengers and six crew members. We now have video from inside this jet. It was a Sun Wings Airline plane. You can see the chaos and the yelling, the commotion. Just wanted to play so you can hear the screaming that is going on there.", "Head's down. Head's down.", "Hands up.", "A report that a man who was an agitated customer who was shouting for the passengers and the crew to put their, quote, heads down and hands up. So that's that voice you hear there, \"heads down. Heads down.\" You can hear that. Susan Candiotti is Outfront. And Susan, what are you learning?", "Yeah, what a frightening flight this had to have been for the people on board, as you said. Everything started off normally when the plane took off at 7:00 in the morning from Toronto heading to Panama. About 45 minutes into the flight, this passenger allegedly makes a threat to endanger the aircraft in some way, makes that threat directly to a member of the crew. The crew then notifies the pilot, the pilot notifies the FAA and Canadian authorities and the plane turns around, but not before NORAD gets involved, scrambles a jet and escorts the this plane back to Toronto where it lands safety. And that video, very dramatic as you heard and see. As you mention, the commotion aboard that plane when you hear the words \"heads down, hands up, heads down, hands up in the air.\" And you see that happening. You see some apparently flight attendants there. As there is a second video that we also I believe are trying to show to you where you see members of a SWAT team boarding the plane armed to the hilt with weapons and trying to take the situation under control. Of course the suspect is taken into custody and authorities identify him as Ali Shahi. He is a Canadian citizen, 25 years old. He is being charged with a number of things, including mischief to property, interference with a flight crew and endangering that aircraft. He will appear in court tomorrow. More to come.", "All right. Susan, thank you very much with the latest that we know. David, this is just adding to the frightening, you know, over the past week, series of crashes and frightening situations in the air.", "And passengers are losing control like that. This happened several times recently. And I think part of it is that there is all this going on with the aviation. And people get on board and they're nervous and they don't know what is going on. You know, it's time to...", "The planes are oversold, seats are small, quick turnarounds.", "Exactly. Take the time to breathe, get on board, because this stuff does happen and to the most unsuspecting people. The last guy who did this had no previous history of anything like this, it just it got to him and he broke out. But the last thing you want to do is get accused of endangering the safety of an aircraft. You people joking about it, some movies even joke about having a bomb on board the aircraft, that is something that is now a federal offense. He will be going to jail for a long time.", "He'll go to jail. And I think a lot of people would support that and completely understand that. Miles, we don't yet know whether this was just an empty threat, whether -- we don't know the full situation in this case. But to David's point, this has happened several times recently. You had a co-pilot of one plane saying that the plane was going down and rushing back and luckily there was a security conference, the plane was on its way to Las Vegas and people were able to tackle him.", "You know, I think this points out kind of the unsung last line of defense that we all have right now in the sky from Shanksville, Pennsylvania to the shoe bomber, the underwear bomber, to the incident you just mentioned -- passengers are ready to take matters in their own hands. And we shouldn't underestimate the value of that in the whole safety chain that is important. One thing I want to point out, though, I find it very interesting given what was going on in the aircraft now. Maybe they had him subdued, but why didn't that captain make a decision to land sooner and quicker? Cincinnati was nearby, Dulles was nearby, any number of airports. Instead he turned around for 45 minutes and flew back to Toronto where they are based. Maybe he had too much fuel to land. He was too heavy. Maybe he wanted Canadian jurisdiction, I don't know. But that is interesting to look at.", "It is. And David, I want to just play, we do have the new cell phone video. You heard Susan just reporting that we had this. This is the video. This is when a SWAT team boarded the plane. You can see heavily armed as that plane landed. This is footage of that SWAT team. As I said heavily armed, David, boarding the plane. Yeah, and we're not actually playing the audio on it.", "OK, but that's what happens when they get on board, because you don't want to say anything or do anything and people stop.", "People stop. And there is that moment of fear. Now they were obviously taking this threat very seriously. There was a fighter jet escort. Does that show how seriously they took the threat or is the response from the government also linked to these other horrific incidents that have happened in the past week?", "No, this is a matter of protocol. And that aircraft is an international flight. It has to go back to that country if at all feasible. So that's why those fighter jets were dispatched to get it back out of this country. It can't be in the country at that point. Even if it puts a little bit more risk to the passengers, they're international passengers.", "Wait, so you're saying even if there is a more risk to passengers that they could blow up and die, they are going to tell them to try to go to their own country?", "No, no. The risk is assessed. If they don't think that it is a credible threat then they can make that decision. If it is deemed a credible threat at that point, then they would have taken action against it. But the fact that the protocol is that this aircraft has to be escorted back out of the country to ask it to land in the country would have been a violation of international protocol.", "All right, thanks to both of ou. We appreciate it. We're going to continue as we get more information on this. Of course, we're going to bring it to you. But Outfront next, accusations that Vladimir Putin is sending more rocket launchers to rebels in Ukraine. So the world says don't do it, we're going to punish you and he does it even more. A couple whose child died on flight 17 is trying to make sense of it. Tonight, CNN follows their journey. They are going to the crash site."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BURNETT", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BURNETT", "DAVID SOUCIE, FORMER FAA SECURITY INSPECTOR", "BURNETT", "SOUCIE", "BURNETT", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BURNETT", "SOUCIE", "BURNETT", "SOUCIE", "BURNETT", "SOUCIE", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-33642", "program": "CNN AHEAD OF THE CURVE", "date": "2001-6-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/29/aotc.05.html", "summary": "Pre-Market: Honeywell Down; Microsoft Rising", "utt": ["A final check of what stocks are already moving. We're going to go back to Jen Rogers, at the Instinet, and Sasha Salama, at the Nasdaq marketsite. Jen, first.", "OK, Debbie. Honeywell is heading lower right now, down $2.45. This is at the lows that we have been this morning, but off the lows that we saw last night. It was down $3.20 in the afterhours. No trades yet on GE, but it is bid right now to open a little bit higher. Microsoft is still up right now, up 41 cents, at $73.15. That is on light volume, but if it continues, that will be extending its gains from yesterday. And it is also giving a boost to a number of other big cap techs. We have Cisco up about 27 cents right now, at $18.79. Sasha, what's going on with the Nasdaq?", "Well, Jen, we have got a number of stocks to watch here as well, including Commerce One, CMR, that business-to-business software company saying that revenues in the second quarter will come in lower than estimates. We'll be watching that one. We'll, of course, also be watching Microsoft, since that's one of the biggest companies that trades here at the Nasdaq. And PMC-Sierra is warning of a bigger second quarter loss than had been expected. PMCS makes communications chips.", "Thank you, Sasha. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "JEN ROGERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SASHA SALAMA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "CNN-274370", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-01-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/20/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Some Nasty Winter Weather Threatening Millions Of People From Eastern Tennessee Up Toward Boston.", "utt": ["Look outside your window for me. And if it's clear and sunny, that may be about to change. Some nasty winter weather threatening millions of people from eastern Tennessee up toward Boston. And experts say it could bring historic amounts of snow to some places. Let's go to meteorologist Tom Sater. Tom Sater, hit me.", "This one will. I mean, you and I both spent our time in Washington, D.C. And you know, Brooke, just whispering the word \"snow,\" chaos ensues. I can already hear snowmageddon II. But a blizzard watch is already in effect. This could be historic. And it's possible by the end of the weekend we could see over a million people without power. I'm not kidding here. All of these are winter storm watches in blue and the blizzard watches. They are going to change to warnings a little bit later on today because the storm is approaching. Now, a little bit of snow may leave a dusting to an inch. That's a preview of things to come. Most of the moisture made its way into the western U.S., a storm center now leaving Colorado is going to dive down the south. It really begins tomorrow with the setup of icing into parts of Arkansas into northern Mississippi and areas of western Tennessee. Severe weather south of that in areas of Alabama and Mississippi, maybe tornadoes. But then it kicks in, significant icing in parts of Tennessee across the commonwealth of Kentucky. Icing will start to take the form of maybe a third inch to a half inch in parts of south and North Carolina. That is going to down trees. And then it's the snowfall. Back in all of the areas to the south across the Tennessee and Ohio valleys, but then really picking up as the storm center will change and transfer its energy to an area of low pressure off the coast. Look at the wind gusts. This becomes a nor'easter. Classic nor'easter, 45, 50-mile-per-hour winds in Washington, D.C. You only need 35 for blizzard conditions. It continues, 60-mile-per-hour gusts New York City, 35 to 40. We're looking at high tide with a full moon on Saturday, significant coastal erosion and coastal flooding. But with the icing, with the heavy amounts of snow and wind, power outages. Now, this proof. New York City, we are not really sure right now because computer models which have been in agreement for several days could still vary. There is going to be a significant drop off in New York City. But when it comes to Washington, D.C., records go back to 1884. And hose 132 years there's only been three snow events at 18 inches or higher. And we're looking at the next one. Computer models vary. Some would give us 28 to 30 inches of snow. Another model kicks it up to 20, Brooke. This is going to be significant. So again, it is going to unfold, but each model run will help us get closer to that forecast.", "Walked into my office the other day and somebody hung my CNN storm of the century jacket sort in the middle of it. I'm like, guys, are you telling me something? This is my future looks like covering all of stuff? Tom Sater, thank you very much. I know those D.C. days quite well. Still ahead here, Sarah Palin joining Donald Trump on the campaign trail moments ago after her big endorsement of the Republican front- runner. But can she help deliver a victory for him in Iowa? That's the question."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "TOM SATER, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "NPR-48143", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2006-08-16", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5657416", "title": "Fishermen Survive Months Lost at Sea", "summary": "A Taiwanese fishing crew has just rescued three fisherman who had spent nine months lost at sea. Host Madeleine Brand will talk to Hector Tobar of The Los Angeles Times about the story, which he reported from Mexico City.", "utt": ["Here is your dinner-table anecdote for tonight. Three Mexican fishermen who were lost at sea for the last nine months have been found alive and healthy, albeit skinny and sunburned. They survived by eating birds and raw fish and by collecting rainwater. The story is in today's Los Angeles Times. Reporter Hector Tobar joins me now from Mexico City. And, Hector, this is a remarkable story. How were these men found?", "They were found by a Taiwanese crew on a tuna fishing boat that is based in the Marshall Islands. They were found more than halfway between the coast of Mexico and Australia, so they were out there 5,000 miles from the place they had set out from.", "I guess the Taiwanese crew didn't necessarily speak Spanish, and these men didn't necessarily speak Chinese, so how did they communicate?", "The three fishermen wrote their names on a piece of paper, and that paper was faxed from the ship - from the tuna ship to the home base of the ship on the Marshall Islands in the port of Majuro. And that was the way in which the world sort of learned the identify of these men, and the word eventually got back to Mexico that they were alive.", "And tell us more about how they survived these long nine months.", "Well, initially, they told their Chinese rescuers that they survived by capturing sea birds and drinking rain water. They were on a boat that was 27-feet long, so it wasn't exactly a raft, and they did set out apparently for a journey of a couple of weeks initially to do some deep-sea fishing. So they had some initial supplies. One of their grandparents said that they had taken a supply of lemons with them on board, which I guess helped them fight off scurvy, among other things.", "I guess it's a good thing that they were fishermen.", "Yes, and they apparently had all the equipment that, you know -their boat almost sank a couple of times, but otherwise the ship was fine.", "Well speaking of equipment, why didn't they have any equipment that would signal where they were back home or anything, any modern equipment that could help them out?", "Well, many of the fishermen now have cell phones - and cell phones are so cheap to get - and they can call, you know, within 20 or 30 miles of the coastline if they have a problem. But these guys apparently are all in their early 20s, without much money, trying to make a little bit extra. They just really didn't have any equipment whatsoever other than their two outboard motors and their sort of guile, which allowed them to survive.", "And what's been the reaction since they've returned home?", "Well, many of the relatives had given them up for dead, so I think the initial reaction was one of shock. One of the men I interviewed via telephone in San Blas told me he was trembling as he was talking to me, because we had actually been the ones to inform his family that this relative of his had been found. And it was just something so outside the realm of experience for people there.", "Very often men are lost in this area because of the poverty there of the fishermen, and so, you know, people go off into the ocean and they never come back and you don't expect to see them again. And to have someone come back after almost a year was just really seen a real-life miracle.", "Los Angeles Times reporter Hector Tobar in Mexico City. Thank you.", "Hey, thank you."], "speaker": ["MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Mr. HECTOR TOBAR (Reporter, The Los Angeles Times)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Mr. HECTOR TOBAR (Reporter, The Los Angeles Times)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Mr. HECTOR TOBAR (Reporter, The Los Angeles Times)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Mr. HECTOR TOBAR (Reporter, The Los Angeles Times)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Mr. HECTOR TOBAR (Reporter, The Los Angeles Times)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Mr. HECTOR TOBAR (Reporter, The Los Angeles Times)", "Mr. HECTOR TOBAR (Reporter, The Los Angeles Times)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Mr. HECTOR TOBAR (Reporter, The Los Angeles Times)"]}
{"id": "CNN-190645", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-8-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1208/07/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Madonna Comes out in Support of Imprisoned Russian Punk Band", "utt": ["Well, they wanted to make their voices heard when they protested against the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.", "Extraordinary and unexpected scene, a demonstration in a Russian cathedral that landed members of the punk rock band Pussy Riot in jail and on trial. The prosecutor demanding they get a three year prison term for that performance. But the group is receiving some outspoken support for their cause. For more, let's go to Nischelle Turner in Los Angeles. Madonna speaking out in Russia. What did she have to say?", "Well, they were hoping that she'd speak out in support of them, and she has. She has been pretty outspoken about this. She was in Moscow on tour, and she was also there to launch her own fitness club. And here's what she had to say. Listen to this.", "I'm against censorship, and, I am, you know, my whole career, I've always promoted freedom of expression, freedom of speech, so obviously I think what's happening to them is unfair, and I hope that -- I hope that they do not have to serve seven years in jail. That would be a tragedy. Through history, historically speaking, art always reflects what's going on socially, so for me it's hard to separate the idea of being an artist and being political.", "And we have definitely seen her, you know, speak out in support of a lot of these things and do a lot of things in her concert that have been a bit controversial. What she says are in the name of art.", "Yes, and she's not the first musician to speak out about the band, either. They are getting some support in various areas. Who else has come out?", "Yes, there's actually been a lot of big names that have been backing this group. Sting, Peter Gabriel, members of Franz Ferdinand, the Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers. All of them have been speaking out in support. Anthony Kiedis from the Peppers actually wore a Pussy Riot t-shirt during a recent Moscow concert. And on a statement on his website, Sting makes the point that he believes dissent is an important part of a democracy. Here's what he had to say in part. He said, \"A sense of proportion and a sense of humor is a sign of strength, not a sign of weakness. Surely the Russian authorities will completely drop these spurious charges and allow these women, these artists, to get back to their lives and to their children.\" So, yes, there are a lot of people that are stepping up and saying, you know what, art is expression, expression is art. You may not always agree with it, but there is a bit of a method to the madness. That's their view.", "President Putin known for having a little bit of a thin skin. So it will be interesting to see what happens. Good to see you. Thanks so much, Nischelle Turner there, with the latest on that--", "Absolutely, sure.", "-- ongoing thing. We'll let you know how the trial turns out. It cost more than $2 billion and traveled more than 350 million miles. That's a heck of a commute. Now NASA's Curiosity spacecraft sending video from Mars. Cool stuff."], "speaker": ["HOLMES", "HOLMES", "NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MADONNA, MUSICIAN", "TURNER", "HOLMES", "TURNER", "HOLMES", "TURNER", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-368468", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-05-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/01/es.03.html", "summary": "Rockets and Warriors Face Injury Woes.", "utt": ["After all the talk of referees in game one of the Rockets/Warriors series, that was the last thing on anyone's mind after a wave of injuries last night. Former Rockets ball boy Andy Scholes has more in the \"Bleacher Report\". Good morning, my friend.", "Yes, a sad morning to be a former Rocket ball boy down 0-2, Dave. But, hey, still a long way to go in this series. Now, like I said, all eyes, they were on the officials after the missed calls in game one in the series. Now, on top of those missed calls, the rockets least favorite official, Scott Foster, who they've had run-ins in the past was on the court with this one. But, you know, in the end, the officials not the story. It was the injuries. First quarter, Steph Curry looking at his finger. And when you zoom in, it's not supposed to bend that way. Curry would go to the locker room. X-ray is negative. He returned a little later in the game with a dislocated finger, looked okay. Knocking down a three there. James harden also getting hurt. Wrapped across the eyes by Draymond Green there. He has to go to the locker room, but he would return as well. He did a three in the fourth to pull the Rockets within three. That's as close as they would get. The warriors win, 115-109, to take a lead in the series. After the game, Curry and Harden talked about trying to fight through these injuries.", "It hurts, but it will be all right. I didn't break anything. Just fortunate. Just got to deal with pain and, hopefully before Saturday, that goes away. Be fine.", "Now, I can barely see, but just trying to go out there and do what I can to help my teammates.", "All right. The Bucks meanwhile dominating the Celtics in game two to even the series at a game apiece. Milwaukee outscoring Boston by 21 points in the third quarter. They led by as many as 31. Giannis Antetokounmpo just dominant in this one, he scored 29. Final 123-102. Game three would be Friday in Boston. Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia joining an elite club last night, becoming the 17th pitcher and only the third lefty to reach the 3,000 strikeout mark. Sabathia celebrated the feat with his teammates and also his family, who traveled to Arizona to see it. The other two lefties to get to 3,000, Randy Johnson and Steve Carlson. Sabathia got his first strikeout back in April of 2001. Eighteen years later, he gets the three. All right. Finally, NASCAR series champion Joey Logano was honored at the White House yesterday. Logano and team owner Roger Penske and others had a short ceremony on the South Lawn. Logano joked about wanting to do a burnout in his car, but said the Secret Service shut that down. Logano was able to give President Trump a helmet from his championship winning season.", "He did not try the helmet on. He might later on, who knows? Now, we don't want to screw up the hair, so, he had to make sure -- you don't want helmet hair, I know the feeling.", "Dave, I would love to see President Trump put that helmet on. He's actually going to have a special place in the Oval Office for that.", "We've seen what the wind does to the president's hair. He saw that moment coming. Congratulations to Joey and Team Penske. All right, Andy. Thank you, my friend. Romans, what's coming up?", "All right, Dave, in just a few hours, critical testimony from the attorney general. The stakes raised significantly now that we know Robert Mueller disagreed with the way Bill Barr characterized Mueller's findings."], "speaker": ["BRIGGS", "ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "STEPH CURRY, WARRIORS GUARD", "JAMES HARDEN, ROCKETS GUARD", "SCHOLES", "JOEY LOGANO, NASCAR SERIES CHAMPION", "SCHOLES", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-76441", "program": "NEWS FROM CNN", "date": "2003-9-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/03/nfcnn.06.html", "summary": "Interview With Ken Wilhelm, Trish Deangelis", "utt": ["In upstate New York, meanwhile, a mother diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic gets the maximum sentence for drowning her four-year old son in a bathtub and trying to kill her other son. Christine Wilhelm was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. The judge also ordered that she not be in contact with her son, Peter, or her husband, Kenneth before 2056. For more, we're joined now by our national correspondent, Gary Tuchman, who is live inside the courtroom in Troy, New York. Gary, this is pretty shocking stuff.", "Wolf, it really is. And you just mentioned 2056. Christine Wilhelm will be 91 years old in that year. This is the courthouse where it all just happened. It lasted for about 45 minutes. Christine Wilhelm was convicted in the month of July of drowning her son, Luke, in a bathtub, and then trying to drown her son, Peter, but Peter escaped from the bathtub and ended up testifying against her in the trial that was held in this very courtroom. Well the judge said he would have no mercy on her, sentenced her to 50 years to life. And she will not be able to get out without parole until she is in her 80s. And with us right now is Christine Wilhelm's husband, Ken Wilhelm, also the district attorney here, Trish Deangelis. Ken Wilhelm gave a victim impact statement today. He testified against his wife during the trial. First of all, my condolences on the loss of your son.", "Thank you.", "And I want to ask you first, how is your son, Peter doing? Five years old when he testified here, starting first grade tomorrow? How is he doing right now?", "He's six years old and he's doing real well. And he's starting school now. He's very excited about it and nervous, but we tried to -- we pretty much sheltered him from the goings-on here, except for what he needed to be here for.", "You said today when you talked before the judge, that your wife was basically a diabolical woman. I'm wondering if there was ever a time -- she was a diagnosed schizophrenic -- was there ever a time where you thought she was not guilty because of reason of insanity?", "I can't say I felt that there was ever a time where I definitely felt that way. Initially, I wasn't sure what was going -- what happened. Eventually, it was probably when she made a phone call to the house.", "Saying what?", "Basically which --- where she knew a lot of stuff that was going on, present things, information.", "Why do you think she did this?", "I don't know exactly why. The only thing I've ever been able to come up with is from the information I have is something happened. She got very upset with the children. I think at that point maybe she -- like a lot of parents, lost control. It's not uncommon. That's the way most abuse cases happen. The parent loses control, does something where that, you know, without judgment. And then after that thing, after you know, you have to reap the consequences.", "(Unintelligible) racking your brain to wonder how she could have done that?", "Yes, well, the only thing I can come up with is possibly Luke was a little bit closer to myself, that there seemed to be bond there after a mere drowning incident with him down in Florida, where we used to live, and which I resuscitated him.", "Trish, really quick, do you feel sorry for her at all because of her diagnosis?", "The jury found her guilty and the judge said I'm going to show you the same mercy that you showed Luke. The sentence in this case certainly fits the crime. It suggests (unintelligible).", "Trish and Ken, thank you very much. We do want to tell you when Christine Wilhelm left the courtroom, she screamed at everyone in the courtroom, \"Liars, all liars.\" Wolf, back to you.", "Gary Tuchman, our heart goes out to Ken Wilhelm. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KEN WILHELM, BOY'S FATHER", "TUCHMAN", "WILHELM", "TUCHMAN", "WILHELM", "TUCHMAN", "WILHELM", "TUCHMAN", "WILHELM", "TUCHMAN", "WILHELM", "TUCHMAN", "TRISH DEANGELIS, K. WILHELM'S ATTY.", "TUCHMAN", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-60463", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2002-9-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/13/bn.03.html", "summary": "Authorities in Florida Respond to Possible Terror Threat", "utt": ["Quickly, an update on Florida right now. We continue to watch this scenario down here that is unfolding. Two cars stopped in the early morning hours. Authorities have responded and earlier, we were talking about the possibility of detonating at least some material that was taken out of the one of the cars, possibly two of the cars after bomb-sniffing dogs were called and apparently did take a positive hit on both vehicles, we are told. Apparently, authorities have essentially shot a bullet into some sort of backpack or some piece of luggage. What happened as a result of that is not clear just yet. Before we get to John Zarrella, this all came about after a woman up in Calhoun, Georgia, which is a considerable distance from this location here in Southern Florida. Apparently, she overheard a conversation about three men talking about some sort of terrorist activity being planned and pulled off somewhere in Miami, Florida on the 13th, which would be today, Friday the 13th. Well, Calhoun, Georgia, by the map, Paula, is about the halfway mark between Chattanooga, Tennessee and Atlanta, Georgia, and this won't show it clearly, but I can tell you after living down there for about seven years, by car, from Calhoun, Georgia to this part of Naples, Florida, you're talking at least 12 hours. So how all the time sequence fits into this is quite unclear right now, and whether this is even connected to the woman's phone call in Georgia, we do not know. But John Zarrella can probably sort it out for us better than we can.", "I will tell you, before we get to John, though, the one point of this story that makes no sense to me at all is if these alleged plotters were serious about their September 13 project, why would they have run a toll booth?", "Very good question, and Zarrella is working it for us. John, you back on the phone?", "I'm here, Bill.", "All right. They shot a bullet into one of these bags, apparently. What happened as a result, do you know?", "Well, apparently, from what we are hearing, that there was no indication of any explosion but again -- nothing happened, I guess, is probably the good thing, that nothing dramatic happened when they shot the bullet. We had heard that they had detonated it. I guess what it has come down to now, apparently, is that it was a bullet. Now, your point about the drive from Calhoun, Georgia, well-taken. It is a long haul. It's 12 hours, and our understanding is that other than to stop at that restaurant in Calhoun where these men were apparently overheard making these remarks, the intent was to drive straight through and come on through. Now, before they got to Calhoun, I guess the question is where were they before Calhoun, Georgia, and what we are hearing, though, totally unconfirmed is that they had been further north on I-75 and were continuing down I-75 and that this stop on -- in Calhoun was just off of Interstate 75. So that does not appear, and I don't know if you guys have been reporting this yet this morning, it does not appear to have been where they started their trip to Florida from.", "John, let me stop you. Two questions here. Do you know when the woman apparently overheard this conversation?", "Don't have a definitive. We understand it was very early in the morning, although not this morning. It may have been yesterday morning and, thus, the 12 hours.", "OK. OK. Second, apparently, three men have been apprehended. Do we know anything about their identities?", "Nothing at all about their identities, and we just can't jump to any conclusions about that because we are not hearing definitively who they may be or where they may be from.", "OK. Twenty mile stretch shut down, it's pretty much, I don't want to say no man's land, but it is not a heavily trafficked area in the Sunshine State. We do know that for a fact, don't we John?", "No question about it, Bill. You're getting over to the Naples area. It's very rural out in that part of western Collier County. It's a lot of swamp out there, a lot of alligators out there, so no, it is a modestly inhabited area of western -- well, it would be of Collier County on the western side.", "You know, Paula, the other thing we talked about is the level of paranoia that has gripped a large part of the country, especially with the one-year mark this past Wednesday for the 9/11 events from last year. And don't want to throw too much water on this right now, because authorities are clearly taking it seriously.", "Sure. But there are people in our audience that are wondering, because I've seen some of the e-mails, whether this is just pure overreaction on authorities' part, but as you said, the fact that the FBI is there and Susan Candiotti said ATF will get involved in this thing, you got the local sheriff's deputies on the ground, this is exactly, I guess, what they've got to do, to make sure it isn't what is alleged.", "John, maybe you could shed some greater clarification. Within the state of Florida, what have you picked up on over the past several months in terms of authorities' response when you get threats, be it at airports, be it at truck stops, be it wherever in the state of Florida? John, you still with us? I think we lost him.", "No, I'm still here. Hello?", "John, did you hear the question?", "Yes, I did.", "I just want to get a better sense of how Florida authorities have reacted in the past several months, given phoned in threats, given the possibility of suspicious items here or there, or suspicious people here or there.", "Well, we have had two recent incidents. One was at Miami International Airport where someone had thrown something into, as it turns out, a trash container and they had some pepper spray, as it turned out to be. And the authorities moved in quickly. They sealed off the concourse. They sealed the whole area off. We had federal authorities, had the airport authorities. You also had an incident at Port of Miami where they thought there were some suspicious containers that had shown up and again, immediately, federal, state, and local authorities moved in. Those are two recent incidents, and in both of those incidents, the response was very, very swift and effective, and in both of those incidents, it turned out to be nothing. Again, we may be, hopefully, dealing with the same sort of thing ultimately here, that it turns out to be nothing, but they're not taking this, really, with any more or any less seriousness than they did in those other two recent incidents that have happened.", "Back up just a little bit. Let's go over some facts here. The way we understand it, one car apparently ran a toll booth just south of Naples getting on to this stretch of I-75, correct?", "That is correct.", "And then after that car was pulled over, a second car pulled up behind them, correct?", "That is correct.", "One would think there is a relationship between the people in these two cars, is there any confirmation on that?", "That -- no confirmation of that, just an assumption.", "OK. We're watching this right now, and to bring you up to speed, apparently authorities are responding to some sort of conversation that was heard up in Calhoun, Georgia, well north of this location, where a woman in a restaurant overheard three men talking about the possibility for a terrorist activity to be carried out on this day in Miami, Florida. What we are seeing right now is a result, possibly, of that. We don't know, but we know there are two cars pulled over and authorities are looking into it.", "And in just moments, we will be linked up with somebody from the Florida highway patrol that was involved in this action on the ground. I wanted to quickly, John, ask you a question. John is not here. Someone in the studio raised the point of the Turkey Point nuclear power plant being about 50 miles away from here. I just wanted to ask him what the level of security is in the place at the power plant. Let's turn to Lieutenant John Bagnardi of the Florida Highway patrol. Sir, thank you very much for joining us. Can you tell what's going on at the scene right now?", "We're till in that stage of searching. Bomb squad folks are still searching, and gathering evidence. The road is from state road 29, which is roughly mile marker 80, on Alligator Alley, I-75, to the West Coast, around mile maker 100, so there is a about 20-mile stretch of road that is still closed for this investigation for both of course the safety of the officers that are there working the scene itself. I'm not on the scene. I'm actually on the west side -- or the east side, I'm sorry, the Ft. Lauderdale side of the road closure.", "Can you tell us how many investigators are on the scene, or just give us a sense of how many different agencies are involved at this hour?", "I do not know the actual number of personnel on the scene, as I have only seen news reports and, of course, we have a restricted fly zone. So I'm seeing a lot of the same things that you're seeing. The different agencies on the scene. Of course, the Collier County Sheriff's Department deserves enormous credit for their deputies spotting these vehicles and actually making the stop to initiate this, but the Collier County Sheriff's Office, the Florida Highway Patrol, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and I don't know what other additional agencies. Those are just the main agencies there that are actually working the scene.", "Lieutenant, I recognize you're not at the exact point where they are collecting this evidence, but you made the point they are still searching and gathering evidence. Have you been given any indication as to what they found?", "I'm not actually at liberty to discuss that, because it has not been confirmed. There are -- the bomb technicians are very concerned with things that they found, and that's why it's taking a long time to properly search for safety and documentation reason, for evidence, if it turns out to be any type of explosive device. Obviously, early on, the bomb detection dog did alert to the vehicles, which doesn't necessarily mean that they are actually explosives in the vehicle. They could have been transported. The dogs are that keen where they are going to pick up on that scent, and that's why you take your time, and the professional bomb technician folks know the speed that they can work at, and that's why it's so time consuming.", "Can you confirm for us whether there has been any detonation on-site?", "I cannot -- well, actually, there was some type of detonation that I watched on a local TV station. What they are actually detonating, I have no idea. I don't have confirmation on that, and I don't know what it was. I just saw the same thing that public saw.", "And, John Zarrella, our Miami bureau chief, was reporting that someone was saying that some kind of bullet had been either shot into the vehicle or into something inside the van. Can you confirm that?", "I do not know the bomb technician procedures. I, obviously, am nowhere close to a bomb technician. That may be instruments or things they may shoot into the vehicle for their purposes. I don't know what they were. I can't confirm or comment on that.", "Of course, lieutenant, I think we have to recognize people looking at what we are watching unfolding on the screen might, right now, might be saying what the heck is going on? Could they be overreacting here? Help us better understand the context under which officers are taking this so seriously. Obviously, you've explained to us that these bomb detection bombs picked up some sort of scent. It doesn't necessarily mean the stuff was still inside the vans, but it could be the point that the vans were used to transporter stuff. Give us some perspective on this.", "The easiest to think of it as you as a private citizen, if I were to send you out to find a piece of explosive and what to do with it. We are not -- the everyday officer is not the expert. That is why we have bomb technician. And based upon what's happened in our country over the year, you don't ever, ever, ever, ever want to take something lightly. It's just like everybody working together. You had a private citizen that overheard a conversation that started this bulletin which led to these vehicles being stopped, which led to the dogs detecting that there were explosives at sometime in this vehicle or in the vehicle. And, of course, we are dealing with human lives here. Even those these are expert bomb technicians, there is an explosive device and they are working on one and it happens to trigger another one, you are going to have loss of life. You never want to treat it lightly. It's very time consuming. You need to gather your evidence as you go along also. It's a tedious process. You want to do things right and do things safely. Whether it's an overreaction or not, honestly, I can't be more frank in saying we don't care if it's an overreaction or not, because we want to be safe. Those officers and those folks out there working that scene need to go home tonight, and that's why we take things the way we do things meticulously and methodically and get them done right, because we won't get a second chance if we detonate a device. We need to document that also.", "I know in my conversation earlier on the morning from someone on the Collier's sheriff's department, she pointed out the suspects were being held at the scene. Do you know if they are still there?", "I do not know that aspect of that. I've heard both from her, the public information officer from Collier County, that they were at the scene, and then I've also heard reports that the people were taken from the scene. I do not know that.", "We also don't know what the suspects are actually -- why they are actual suspects at this hour. I'm just curious whether the Florida Highway Patrol has been given any additional information as to who these men might be.", "We have not. It's really -- our personnel don't really need to know that aspect of it. We have investigators working on it. We are the largest state law enforcement uniform decision. Of course, we control the highways, and that's why, you know, our biggest involvement -- and the Collier County Sheriff's department and the Florida Highway Patrol of Naples worked hand in hand. We are out here on Alligator Alley, which is essentially in the middle of the Everglades, and we work a hand in hand with them, and we are probably the first response agency to assist them. As far as knowing identities and knowing that, that is not pertinent to us at this time. It's working this scene and keeping everything secure.", "Lieutenant, are you seeing the same pictures I am from WFOR at this hour?", "I am not seeing anything. I'm in my car on my way out to the road closure.", "You so accurately described what you saw was going on at the scene, with ATF, the FBI involed, the Florida -- the highway department, and the Collier County Sheriff's Department. It just appears as though the process you explained of gathering evidence is taking place. You can see probably close to a dozen folks here sifting through stuff. I know you've given the Collier County Sheriff's Department a great deal of credit for actually being able to get to these vans. From the point at which one of these vans didn't pay a toll and ran the toll, how long did it take, do you know, officers to get to them?", "The information that I have is the toll plaza there is roughly the 100-mile marker, 99, 100 mile marker. The stop, to my knowledge, the information I was given was made at the 92-mile marker. So that's roughly eight miles, and to reiterate, Sheriff Hunter from Collier County apparently apparently was giving his report. He was eight miles west of the scene, so that would indicate that rougly eight miles away from the toll plaza.", "Is there any indication a chase took place?", "Not to my knowledge. It may have been the deputy simply hedging up to the vehicle. This is a 70-mile-an-hour zone, and you can travel quite a distance in a matter of seconds. I don't know that aspect of it, and I have not been briefed on that.", "I hate to have you speculate here, but one of the more striking things about this story, if these guys are serious about what they are being accused of doing by a woman who overheard this conversation in a restaraunt, who heard these three guys talking about a Friday the 13th potential attack on the city of Miami. The fact that they would run a toll plaza without paying defies any sort of logic here. What did you think when you heard that?", "I really don't know. It could have been the situation where they saw the deputy, and you know, may have become scarce. The -- last night the information was out on all the news entities that, you know, vehicles that were being looked for, although it was the middle of the night. And that is why I continuously give enormous credit to the deputy. I do not have his name. I wish I did. Because, I don't think you understand it. It's no different than the rest of country all looking for these vehicles. And here's this one is one guy in Collier County in the middle of the Everglades that spots them and does a stop. It's that needle in the haystack. And that's why I keep giving them enormous credit there. But, why they did that. You know, I hate to speculate. Maybe they saw the deputy and got spooked and said, you know, let's go. But then again in the same breath, I don't know why they stopped, if that was the case. Sometimes, you know, folks want to get caught. I don't really know that. I really -- it doesn't really help for me to speculate because it's only my personal opinion.", "Lieutenant Bagnardi is of the Florida Highway Department. If you could stand by just for about 15 seconds or so, I wanted to let people who are joining us for the first time this morning at the top of the hour here on American Morning what they're looking at. You're looking at a 20 mile section of Interstate 75 that has been closed off as well as a no-fly zone imposed over it after a Collier County sheriff's department was tipped off by Georgia authorities that a woman in Calhoun, Georgia, had overheard a conversation that three men were talking about a potential attack on the city of Miami. And Lieutenant Bagnardi is still with us. Lieutenant, once again explain to us who you believe is on the scene right now investigating this?", "Yes, again, the initial agency was a Collier County sheriff's department. There's officials from my agency, the Florida Highway Patrol, on scene at this thing. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which is our investigative state branch. The FBI and Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and I would imagine other various agencies", "And I hate to have you go through this again, but there a lot of folks just joining us for the first time this morning. Tell us what you've learned about the bomb sniffing dogs that are on the scene.", "What I know was after the Collier County deputy stopped the vehicle he requested -- the subjects were uncooperative -- requested the bomb detection dogs. The dogs responded, alerted to the vehicle. And that alert simply means that: one, there could be explosives in the vehicle or they could have been transported at some time in that vehicle, meaning they could -- the dogs are very keen. Their senses are obviously much, much greater than humans. They detect even if the vehicle had carried explosives at a time and once they alerted to that, that's when the bomb technicians from Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire were called in. And that's where this process of searching the vehicles, and searching for evidence has begun. It started this morning. And of course, it's after 9:00 a.m. this morning and continues.", "Lieutenant Bagnardi has been such a help here. We should explain that he is not on the scene. He's on one of the perimeter areas where the highway is closed off. But you have some excellent information here. You just said that the suspects were not cooperative when they were eventually stopped. Can you explain to us what your understanding is and what happened.", "All I can really elaborate on is that they refused any consent of a search, of a physical search the vehicle, as would any motor vehicle that is stopped, the driver of the vehicle, if an officer asks for consent to search the vehicle, whether it's for explosives, contraband of any sort, whatever suspicions, you can volunteer as an owner of a vehicle you operate you can consent to a search of your vehicle. These folks were adamant right away you are not searching my vehicle. That's why the dogs are brought in, where they walk around and they -- basically the same place the public, in plain view and of course their senses are so much keener than humans. That that's where the dogs are so vital in law enforcement work that they alerted to this, indicating that there was possibly explosives in these vehicles or had been transferred -- transported. And of course gathered with the other evidence or the information that was received, it becomes, you know, a puzzle that is being put together. There is no one specific incident that ties this together. Of course, it started in Georgia, the bulletin goes out, comments that were made, and that's why as a country we take comments very, very seriously. We don't joke about bomb scares or things to that nature. Because, the country is at a heightened alert and it's everyone's responsibility to help do their part. And that is, I think, what this lady did in Georgia. And you see what it has led to.", "Lieutenant, I know you are hold up in your patrol car. But I know earlier you were watching right along with us as you saw what appeared to be a detonation. Describe to us what you saw. That happened, I guess about 20 minutes or so ago.", "Yeah, actually I've been watching the news since the 5:00 newscast. The areas are, of course, sterilized by the bomb technicians. The bomb technicians are clad in bomb protective gear that is very, very heavy and my understanding that it is very stressful or very exhausting to be in those suits for more than 15 or 20 minutes. And that's another reason that it's very time consuming. They are meticulously searching this. As they go through each piece of the vehicle. As you can imagine, you just think of our own -- you can hide explosive anywhere in a car. So, it's not just the common areas of a vehicle that need to be searched, it's the entire vehicles. There are two of them. I don't know if anything has been found that raises more concerns. But you need to do this slow and methodical because if a mistake is made and someone is injured, there's no coming back from that. And that's why it's so -- it's scary.", "Lieutenant Bagnardi, we haven't been able to confirm whether these two vehicles and the men in the two vehicles are related, can you?", "The only information I have to that is that these are both of the two vehicles that were put on bulletins to be on the lookout for, associated with the information out of Georgia.", "And then the other point that has been raised here, is when you look at the map, which we're going to do now, the geography of the state, someone pointed out that the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant may be more than a couple dozen miles away. What is the level of concern there about the vulnerability of power plants in your state? I'm not saying the two of these are connected at all, but certainly when you look at the geography, you can't ignore the fact that power plant exists. Lieutenant, are still with us? Well, I wouldn't be surprised if there's no battery left in that cell phone. Lieutenant Bagnardi has been with us for most of the last 25 minutes. He's of the Florida Highway Patrol. He had a lot of information for us, basically describing to us the very methodical, meticulous process that's taking place, describing some of the suits that the bomb squad is using right now, how heavy they are, how uncomfortable they are and also, Bill, talking about the kind of gathering of evidence that's taking place. You can't really make this out from the pictures here. But the fact that you have offices or agents from ATF on the ground, FBI, the Florida Highway Patrol, the Florida Department of -- let me get this right -- Law Enforcement, tells you that whatever is going down here is sufficiently serious enough that they're going to figure out what is lurking.", "One thing he said, Paula, he said -- quote -- we don't care if it's an overreaction. I think that's quite evident from this picture right here. They've laid a red carpet essentially over the shoulder on the highway running east-west in this direction here. There is a substantial amount of equipment on that carpet. That large van there you see just off the carpet, it appears to me on the trailer behind it, I don't know it because we're not on the ground there, that there's some sort of explosive device on the back of that trailer. A lot of times used for bomb squads that essentially come in, will drop suspicious packages down into that canister you see, right underneath the word live in the upper left hand screen there. Two more things just picking up on here quickly, Paula. Mike Brooks is an investigative analyst that we use, a former detective in Washington D.C. We talked about shooting a bullet into one of these packages. He calls it a render safe procedure. They don't necessarily detonate it. But they'll shoot a bullet in the package to see if there is any reaction there. And apparently, based on everything we've heard right now, there was no reaction other than some sort of puff of smoke, which may have represented the ballistics, simply the bullet going into the package.", "Although what the Lieutenant described, I guess which should make everyone think twice about the story, and whether there is a legitimate threat here or not, is the fact that the bomb squad dogs that were brought to the scene were -- quote -- alerted to the vehicle. Those are the exact words the lieutenant used. And he said that doesn't necessarily mean that there are explosives inside those vehicles, but that at some point in time, explosives may have been transferred in those vehicles.", "Yes, and I think we talked about the geography. Getting from Calhoun, Georgia all the way down to southwestern Florida takes a considerable amount of time. Simple geography tells me it takes 12 hours minimum, and that's if you're moving at a really good clip on a highway. But the fact that he said both vehicles that had been stopped fit the description that went out in the bulletin that originally came from Calhoun, Georgia, I found that quite interesting.", "That's the first time that we've been able to establish that link.", "Very true, very true. The other thing I saw there, as we watch the picture, there were television crews moving in the opposite direction toward the scene, so it is quite likely we could have a reporter on the scene within minutes down there.", "We have another reporter on the scene in Washington, Jeanne Meserve, who is going to give us some better context now on what this means, as we see this unfold on live television -- Jeanne, I don't know whether you heard any of what Lt. Bagnardi had to say, but he says at this point, they don't even care if this ends up being an overreaction, that the country is now living in the -- second highest state of alert, and they have got to take this seriously.", "That is right, Paula, and you are seeing this sort of thing happening all over the country as a result of this threat level orange that we're on. Security has stepped up all over the place, in local jurisdictions, at the state level, also by federal agencies. Individuals are being asked to keep their eyes and ears open, as this woman in Georgia who overheard this conversation apparently was. So they are going to be seeing more things than they have been in recent days. We've seen instances where buildings have been evacuated, where planes have been put on the ground, where hospitals have been put on alert all because people have received information that was of concern. Everything is being investigated and investigated thoroughly as this incident is. They may turn up some bad people along the way, but it does not necessarily mean that any of these incidents are going to have anything to do with terrorism. That is the cautionary word.", "Jeanne, I know you have been working on another story today, and we pulled you into this, and I am just curious if you have heard any reaction from any of your sources in Washington, from any federal agency and what this means?", "About this specific incident, I can tell you that the Office of Homeland Security says they are monitoring it in this situation. At this stage, in most of these situations, it is local officials who are going to know more about the specifics of what is happening. People here, obviously, trying to keep an eye, not just on this, but on other possible things happening around the country. This morning, we still -- we have this ship off the coast of New Jersey, doesn't appear to be anything of significant concern, as Susan Candiotti reported earlier, but they are keeping their eyes on a number of different things, as well as on the intelligence as it comes in to see if they see anything new and different that should set off alarm bells. That is being assessed on a constant basis, that is what is going to determine how long we stay on this orange threat alert level. The word from the Office of Homeland Security is that we are going to stay on orange threat level for the immediate future, probably through next week, although a spokesman for the office says he is hopeful that it will be lowered sometime in the not too distant future -- Paula.", "The process of communicating between all of these federal agencies is very complicated, and you just mentioned the Homeland Security Department is also monitoring this. Give us a better idea, when a tip like this is passed from Georgia authorities to Florida authorities, how long it takes for the FBI to get involved, the ATF and some of these other federal agencies we are talking about this morning.", "I think that is probably a very individualized situation. It is going to depend on the magnitude of the threat, how serious it seems to be. I think there is probably fairly instantaneous communication up the food chain, so the folks in Washington are aware of what is happening. I suspect also it has something to do with federal assets, and where they are located. You know, if you are near a major city, if there is a FBI agent -- FBI office there, for instance, there are joint terrorism task forces that have been set up all around the country. These are spearheaded by the local FBI offices, but they also involve local and state officials. These are the organizations that would first jump to action and be involved in a situation like this. And local law enforcement critical. They are called first responders for a very obvious reason. They are the ones who are first on the scene, they are the ones who give the first and most accurate assessment, really.", "Jeanne, just stand by for a moment, because I just wanted to update folks who are just joining us now as to what they are seeing unfold on the screen here. Authorities in Florida have closed down about a 20-mile section of a major East-West highway. They have taken three people into custody after a reported terror alert. This all got started -- and we're not exactly sure when this conversation took place, we believe it to be sometime yesterday, but a woman in a Calhoun, Georgia restaurant overheard a conversation that was taking place between three men, and she overheard what she thought was the plotting of a plan against a terrorist attack against Miami. We are told by authorities these men then got into two separate vans, and at some point, Georgia authorities tipped off Florida authorities these were heading south. And it was about 8 miles after these guys went through this toll booth you are looking at now, where they actually ran the toll that authorities finally stopped them, according to Lt. Bagnardi from the Florida Highway Patrol. These guys were not cooperative when stopped, they did not want their car searched. Nevertheless, the search did happen. The bomb sniffing dogs were alerted to the -- the kind of language they use in law enforcement -- \"alerted to\" the vehicle, means they obviously picked up some sort of scent of something that might be involved in the manufacture of a bomb. That doesn't mean that there necessarily was a bomb being transported at that point, but clearly, some of those materials might have been in the vehicle at one time. Let's go back to Jeanne Meserve again to help us better understand why everybody is so concerned about this story. In the end, it may be nothing more than a bad tip, an overreaction, but Lt. Bagnardi says we don't care. We just to make sure the officers who are on the scene right now go home tonight.", "That's right. And it is because we are on the threat level orange they got this -- specific and credible intelligence information that there was the possibility of terrorist action. Of course, the reports, when the threat was elevated indicated that the threats were against U.S. facilities in Southeast Asia, that there was a risk of suicide bombing in the Middle East. The real concern seemed to be centered around the anniversary date of September 11, but I had one official say to me on the 11th, don't think just because the date has changed that the threat level is going to change. It is not going to work that way. There is sort of a zone of concern around that date. And so they are continuing to assess this on a continual basis. Apparently, they haven't seen enough to make them want to relax that orange level right now. One government official telling me yesterday, Given what we're seeing right now, there is no rationale for either taking the threat level up or taking it down. So orange is where we are going to stay. What it means is that in many places, local authorities are very much on their toes, keeping an eye on critical infrastructure, doing more patrols, encouraging the public to come forward with anything they might have overheard. But let me tell you, Paula, it isn't uniform. It isn't across the country. This is a threat alert system that is completely voluntary. We have been told by the president of the International Association of Police Chiefs that there are some localities that really didn't respond significantly at all when the threat level went up because they felt their communities really weren't the issue here, and the National League of Cities says one factor is money, quite simply, that the cities just don't have the funding to keep up high staffing levels, even for as long as a week, particularly when the fiscal situation for cities is so grim. But many places' eyes are being kept open. Things like this are being detected, things like this will be checked out very, very thoroughly as this one is, but very few of them, if any, may turn out to be anything of true significance -- Paula.", "Jeanne, we'd love for you to stand by as Bill and I sort of confirm the point you made earlier, which I think is a great point that you raised, one of the concerns that the government has every time they change the level of alert is that they might cause unnecessary fear and panic, and what I think the attorney general has said all along, the fact is, we need extra eyes and ears out there. If it is true that this woman accurately heard this conversation in this restaurant, this is exactly, I guess, what the government wants us to do.", "Great point, and the alert essentially came out the other day. Not necessarily, we've been led -- because there was a threat that was happening in this country, but actually there were threats they were picking up in a lot of chatter, they call it, in Southeast Asia, a couple of embassies shut down on the island of Java in Indonesia. Nonetheless, two things, Paula. The AP is now reporting that both cars had Illinois license tags, and Mark Potter is near the scene, I believe -- Mark, are you with us now?", "Yes, I am.", "Yes, hi, where are you first, and tell us what you have.", "Well, I am on I-75 heading south to the scene. We are south of Tampa, heading towards Naples. I just had a conversation with Mike Oller (ph) who is with the Southwest Florida Regional Bomb Squad, that is the umbrella organization that oversees -- the State Fire Marshal's Office is working with them, the Lee and Collier County Sheriff's Department. He is on the scene, and he says right now, that the search of the car is about 25 percent completed. It is a very, very laborious process, it is very slow. He said that a preliminary inspection of both cars, a visual inspection, has found so far nothing untoward. They have searched some items quite thoroughly, and one item they actually had to blow apart because they don't know exactly what it was. They have some X- ray devices there, and they looked inside this package, and they saw some wires, and they couldn't satisfy themselves that they knew what that was, so they used a water canon device to blow apart the package, and after doing that, they realized it was some sort of medical equipment. It was benign, nothing to worry about. And so now they have gone on with the rest of their search. They are in a little bit of a pause mode right now because they are waiting for a backup, which, actually, as we just finished our conversation a moment ago, was arriving, a backup from the Miami-Dade Police Department bomb squad. They were coming over with extra equipment and personnel, including a robot device they were going to use to go through the car. And they slowed everything down until those officers could get on scene and get set up. And that is the process they are in right now. But the basic information that he has given us is that they have gone through the cars preliminarily, they do not see anything that gives them concern. But of course, they now have to go through all of its material. It is a very slow process. I asked him if he could tell pus the status of detainees. He could not. Said they are in clutches of Collier County Sheriff's Department and the FBI. But at least from the bomb squad perspective, we have that information. He also talked -- if I might, just for a second -- about the dogs who alerted on these two cars. He said these gods are quite accurate, but it doesn't mean that they have found a bomb. It could be that there has been some", "Mark, it appears to be quite extensive and thorough, and even though we've seen threats many times in the past, Paula, what we're seeing right now with all this equipment simply being laid out on the highway there at 9:00 in the morning Eastern time in Florida gives us a indication of how serious they are taking this. And Mark, I don't know how long it is going to take to get on the scene, but one question we would love to get answered right now is the extent to which this investigation is now being carried out. They have brought in a tent, Mark -- I don't know if you can see this from any monitor you've watched prior to getting in the car -- they have brought in a tent, they have a carpet that's the is laid out on the shoulder of the highway, a substantial amount of equipment being laid out as well. Did you get indication from the people you talked to as to where so extensive this soon?", "The tent is for protection from the Florida sun. If we were set up out there, we would do the same. That is not unusual, and the carpet is to protect the evidence. But you are right, your basic point is correct. They are throwing all resources they need into this one just in a abundance of caution, if nothing else. The FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and state police, local authorities from Lee and Collier and Miami-Dade counties are there, the state Fire Marshall's Office -- this is getting major treatment, red carpet treatment, if you would, give what you've seen out there on the scene. So this is unusual in that regard, the number of agencies that are responding. However, what they are doing on the scene probably is typical for what you would do. A bomb squad situation is a precarious situation by definition. And so they set these things up in a particular way to make sure that everybody is safe. I don't think that part is unusual. But the resources being thrown into it certainly is not something you normally see.", "This next point may be a bit broad, but The Associated Press is reporting that both cars have Illinois license plates. Anything on that front, Mark?", "I'm sorry, I can't address that. No, I do not know the significant of that and whether that's true. Again, I was interested in what the bomb squad member said, what Mike had to say, that in their preliminary go-over of the two cars, they have not seen anything at this stage that they gives them concern. There was that one package that they blew up, and it turned out to be medical equipment.", "All right. To quote the official that Paula talked to about 30 minutes ago, we do not care if it is an overreaction. These men want to at home tonight. Thank you, Mark.", "Mark, one thing that I am fascinated by is timeline here. You were describing to Bill just how meticulous tick house this process is and how long it is going to take. And I'm thinking that about an hour ago, when we came to the shot, someone from the Collier Sheriff's Department just confirmed they were starting the search. So you have got 25 percent of this stuff searched. You said they haven't seen anything that gives them concern. This visual inspection, and then once you bring in the robot, this could go on for hours, right?", "I think that is right. They do not really feel they have much reason to rush. They have got this scene under control. They have the preliminary assessment that they are not seeing anything that needs to be gotten to immediately. There was that one item, and they got to that quickly. Now that they have laid out the scene, they think they can be meticulous and take their time and they are going to do it. Safety is a huge concern with bomb squad personnel. And also the thoroughness of the investigation is the cornerstone of what they are doing. So it would explain why they are taking this approach, and I think your guess, your assessment is correct: This could take some time before they can finally clear that scene.", "Mark, can you clarify something for us. I know you were explaining that they used this water cannon device to blow one item apart that looked suspicion and ended up this benign medical equipment. Lieutenant Bernardi (ph) of the Florida Highway Patrol had thought at one point an hour ago he had seen a detonation; could it be that was actually what he was seeing unfold on local television? Did it look like that?", "Well, I about believe they are one and the same. I had Mike go over that with me. I've seen them actually detonate packages before. Outside an office where I used to work they blew up a suitcase one time, scared the daylights out of all of us. They actually blew it up. I guess they have gotten more sophisticated now and find that a water cannon does less damage to the material inside and you have a better chance of assessing later what it is than if you use an explosive device. But it does -- it's quite powerful, and it might have created the sound that frightened the people on the scene or led them to believe it was an explosion. I think wore talking about the same thing. There has only been one incident, where they went into one package, as described by Mike from the bomb squad. So I think that's what that is.", "Then you told Bill you were waiting, as are all the officials on the scene, for this robot device. What is robot device going to be able to do that their screening devices haven't been able to do?", "It can go into -- if you have ever seen these things work, they are controlled by remote control, and they can go into dicey areas that you might not want to send a human. So they can crawl in. They are amazing devices. I remember after the Oklahoma City bombing at Terry Nichols' house, in Kansas, they sent that thing in. They can watch what the robot sees. The robot goes in first. It protects the people outside from having to go into an area that they are concerned about. So I think they are going to -- my guess, based on fact of what I've seen in the past -- they are going to use that to maybe go into the trunk of the car or see if there is anything else or underneath that they want to look at before they send a human being in there to deal with it.", "So Mark, once again, I think, if I am remembering this, you are saying that suspects may have been taken from the scene? Or do we know that yet?", "I do not know that. The gentleman that I spoke to could not confirm that. He said that they are in the control of the FBI and the Collier County Sheriff's Department. So, he -- but he on scene, he could not see them. He didn't know where they were.", "Mark, are you looking at same picture we are?", "I am in a car. I am looking at bad weather as we head south. Paula, I'm sorry, I have no monitor.", "There is a ramp that has just been set up against the back of a van. This could be the robot that is arriving. Is this about the time it was expected to get there?", "The -- Mike, again the gentleman from the bomb squad, said that they were just arriving. Mike Oler (ph) said that the Miami-Dade County people were just arriving as we were hanging up the phone and I was", "We got some new information in from the FBI. Let's go to Jeanne Meserve, that's standing by in our Washington bureau -- Jeanne.", "Paula, Kelli Arena has been talking to her sources over at the Justice Department and she adds this: that FBI officials say there has been no new intelligence that has come in reporting possible terrorist target in U.S. and no information about possible targets in Florida. She adds that FBI officials have warned in the past about the possibility of sympathizers or copycatters trying to do something around the September 11 anniversary. Today, the 13th, we're still in the zone around that date, and that Orange threat level is persisting for that very reason -- Paula.", "Everybody has been making reference to the fact that today is Friday the 13th, so there is always the potential not only of copy cat thing, just an absolute kook trying to something like this to breed a lot of paranoia. But the fact is, Jeanne, you got the Homeland Security monitoring this, you got ATF on the ground, FBI on the ground, and about five different Florida state agencies on the ground here. Jeanne, give us some perspective on this reaction. I think you heard Lieutenant Bagnardi tell us earlier today, you know, who cares if we're overreacting. We want to make sure everyone on the scene goes home tonight.", "Yes, the watchword for the past week has been out of an abundance of caution, they're checking it out, and that is what you are seeing here. A lot more things are being detected because security has been ratcheted up all across the board, and because citizens like this woman in Georgia have been hearing thing and reporting them into authorities, they are investigating more stuff, and investigating them very, very thoroughly, taking things seriously because of this threat level. As I said before, it doesn't mean any of this will turn out to be of great significance or any of it will have anything to do with terrorism, but out of an abundance of caution, they are looking at this sort of event extraordinarily carefully.", "Thanks, Jeanne.", "We talk talked earlier about Mike Brooks, the man we used oftentimes for investigations and police work, used to work in D.C. Now living in Atlanta, Georgia. Mike, are you with us now on the phone?", "Yes I am, Bill.", "Listen, you described earlier to us, by way of e-mail, what's called a render-safe procedure. Give us a better idea of how that's carried out by officials on the scene here?", "What you've been seeing so far this morning, Bill, was the bomb squad...", "All right, Mike, we are missing you a little bit on the telephone line there. Let me know if we get Mike back up there, so we can hear his audio.", "Did he say in his e-mail what he thought it was.", "What he said was, we have been talking about detonating explosives, which sometimes happens. The bomb squad is on the scene. We have seen that clearly in the vehicles that are on the side of the highway. But a render-safe procedure in essence would be when an officer would take a gun and fire into a backpack, fire at a suitcase and see if there is a reaction. Mark Potter is describing this water cannon, which is news to me, actually.", "And he said it is now often used in situations like this, as opposed to taking a handgun or whatever you would use to fire a firearm into it.", "Very true. The word we heard, Paula, we're not on the scene there, but the word is that we did this render-safe procedure and nothing happened, which is a good thing and a good sign. Mike, are you back with us, Mike Brooks? Go ahead -- I was just doing in a very amateur way of describing the procedure and the technique. Give it to us from a professional level. Describe it to us.", "We have seen earlier this morning, the vehicle in question, sending packages inside that vehicle in question, whether it is a backpack or other possible devices that they think might be a bomb. They will come up...", "we received information that counterterrorism support center up at FDLA and our office of statewide intelligence that was passed on, involved domestic security concern, information was specific to vehicles and tag numbers that was seen in a location at Georgia. That information was subsequently given to Florida law enforcement. About midnight this morning, the vehicles passed through the toll booth at the west end of Alligator Alley. One of the vehicles blew through the toll booth without paying a toll. We had investigators looking for the vehicles anyway. They were subsequently stopped. We have been out here ever since in an attempt to clear those vehicles and fully identify the occupants, determine what if any threat exists from the vehicles at this point in time, and we have brought a lot of resources in from our domestic security task force to make that happen. With that, I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have.", "Are they in custody? Have they been charged?", "We are detaining the suspects. They have not been charged, subsequent to investigation.", "Are they cooperating.", "Somewhat, they are cooperating.", "have they identified themselves as a nationality.", "We have identified the three suspects.", "Are they legal immigrants?", "As far as we know, they are all three legal, yes.", "Can you tell us anything about where they are from? We heard they might have ties in Chicago.", "No, ma'am. We're not going to release any specific information at this point. It's an ongoing investigation. We need to be very careful about what we release.", "Are they in the county?", "They're still in Collier County, yes.", "Are they in this location here?", "I'm not going to confirm that at this point.", "Can you tell us what you found inside the vehicle? It looks like there's a lot of activity.", "Those vehicles have not been completely searched at this point of time, so the bottom line is we don't know the answer to that. We are still determining that.", "Has any explosive material been found at this point?", "At this point, no.", "Did they alert the...", "When the vehicles were initially stopped, bomb-sniffing dogs were called to the scene. Dogs did alert on both vehicles, and from that, we called the bomb team in from our task force. We have asked for reinforcement from Miami-Dade to have special equipment that will help us complete the searches. Those resources just got here. They are part of the Miami region security task force, and they will help us there.", "Do you know if the dogs were wrong yet?", "We don't, no.", "Are these suspects American?", "I'm not going to answer any questions related to their identity at this point in time.", "Are they attached to any FBI watch lists?", "I'm not going to answering anything specific to the suspects at this point.", "At the very least, what would that indicate?", "Well, there is a possibility, that some accelerant or some explosive-type material could be in the vehicles. That's all it dictates. That's why do you a search afterwards, to verify that.", "On what grounds are you holding those people, and how long can you hold them before they are charged?", "We are holding them subsequent to the investigation. Once we clear the vehicles, we will make a determination as to what if any charges will be filed and proceed from there.", "Can you confirm the genesis of this?", "I will only pass on the information that came from Georgia, and it was very specific, yes.", "What was the conversation?", "I won't be specific about that. But I'll tell you, the information we had was specific, the vehicles were identified by color, by tag number. We had very specific information.", "Both vehicles?", "Yes, both vehicles.", "And these vehicles are consistent with that information.", "Correct.", "Have they made reference to their faith?", "No.", "Any literature in their cars that talk about their faith?", "I'm not at liberty to discuss anything in the vehicles at this point in time.", "The conversations were very ominous. They were making reference to Americans mourning on 9/13. At this point, how serious are you taking the suspects? How serious do you think the threat is, or was?", "We are taking it very serious until we can eliminate a threat or verify that there is a legitimate threat.", "Do you know where they were they were going?", "We have investigative leads. We are following up on that now.", "Miami?", "I'm not going to verifying that at this point.", "Can you describe the status of alerts both for this region and for Southern Florida in general?", "The state of alert what was advertised two days ago, three days ago by the office of homeland security nationally, which is high state of alert.", "How credible do you feel the information coming out was, and how credible do you feel the threat is considering you have the vehicle to the men?", "It was credible to that extent. That's why we are doing a complete investigation, to determine the entire validity of the information.", "Does it seem too easy in some ways, the fact that the threats were so obvious and the cars showed up in the timeframe that was expected?", "I wouldn't say it would seem easy. We are in a period of time where we can't afford to ignore valid leads. When we get solid information, we need to follow up on it. That's what we do here in Florida. We are going to keep doing that.", "You said they weren't exactly cooperating with law enforcement. Are they being harsh toward deputies here?", "No.", "Did you ask they why they were in Florida?", "A number of questions were asked of them, but I'm not going to be specific as to what those were.", "Can you describe the ages of these men? Do you know the ages? I mean, middle-aged, young?", "I'm not going to be specific as to their identity, their age, anything at this point in time. Again, it's all investigative at this point. As far as I know at this time, they are all three legally in the country.", "Did they resist at all with getting pulled over? Did any deputy describe their demeanor when they were pulled over.", "I'm not in possession of that information. I don't believe so.", "Were the cars rental, or private?", "Don't know. One of the vehicles went through the toll plaza, one stopped, and again, we had reason to stop the vehicles anyway. We would have stopped them. That added to our concern.", "Do you have the extent of how long I-75 will be closed?", "I would say several more hours at this point. That's investigative at this point. We are following up on that, as we speak. And I'm not going to be specific on our investigation at this point.", "Have you been in contact with the White House or anyone in Washington regarding this case?", "Personally, no. We have notification protocol and domestic security task forces. I briefed the commissioner. The governor has been briefed by the commissioner, and I'm sure that information is made based on inquiries we have received since we have been oh out here this morning.", "Are we taking this more seriously because of the date, so close to September 11th?", "I would say had this happened two months ago, under the same circumstances, we'd be in this same position. OK, that's it. We will be back. My name is E.J. Picolo.", "The Florida Department of law enforcement, in many ways, raising more questions than he answered, and I don't mean that in a pejorative way, because clearly, he is entitled not to share all of the information he has about the suspects. He basically confirmed for the first time that suspects are known to police authorities, in his words, police knew suspects identity. He described that the suspects were somewhat cooperating, and when he was asking to elaborate on what that meant, as though they had in any way attempted to harm officers, he said that wasn't the case, but he did not elaborate to help us better understand what that meant. The most important point he made was that no explosive material has been found at this point, but he did go on to say that dogs did alert, and in police vernacular, that means the dog picked up something. And whether he said that means that accelerant might have been in the van at some point, or something transported, you don't know. It doesn't necessarily mean something is in there now. He seemed to indicate, Bill, that they had a lot of information on these guys. They are being detained. He won't tell us exactly where, and he won't even tell us exactly what they are being suspected of doing at this point. But as you look at the scene, in the lower left corner of the scene, you saw this robot taken off a van and I guess taken in, I guess Mark Potter describes this adds even additional outlets when we get more information about what will be in the evidence they are gathering.", "We believe this story all began after a woman overheard a conversation in Calhoun, Georgia, which on the map, you can see is right up near the Tennessee border, a substantial distance from where this location is.", "What is it, 12-hour ride?", "Minimal. It's about seven hours from Atlanta to Tampa, if you are taking your time, and it's another three or four hours down the coast of Florida along the west side, and Calhoun is probably 90 minutes north of Atlanta. Put it all together, at least a dozen hours. Listen to what Associated Press is reporting about that conversation, though. The GBI, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, issuing the advisory after the same two cars fitting the description of that the cars were just pulled over here in Florida, after a waitress in Calhoun, Georgia overheard three men apparently of Middle Eastern descent talking about terrorist plans on Wednesday night. Wednesday night, that's critical. A lot of our discussion went back to Thursday earlier. A Georgia woman says the men were talking about amounts of explosives and warn that Americans would -- quote -- \"cry on 9/13.\" That's according to a police officer out of Miami, Lieutenant Bill Schwartz, who apparently got his information from officials up in Georgia. The other thing we picked up there, just a few moments ago, is that the men were uncooperative and refused to allow search of the vehicle. That's a not a statement of guilt in any way. A lot of people refuse searches all the time pending a warrant from a judge. But that helps raise suspicion we are looking at now. The information is very specific about the automobiles, right down tag number. And that's why I think authorities feel so confident that they need to continue this search that we are watching.", "This was one heck of an eavesdropper, isn't she? A lot of people are wondering if there is overreaction unfolding on our screens here. Lieutenant Bagnardi of Florida Highway Patrol says even if there is, so what?", "See that right there, Paula?", "Yes, the robot is doing its job, isn't it? Mark Potter is standing by, as I have, who has witnessed a lot of these actions, particularly news situations, Mark. I know you monitored the news conference as we did. Tell us once again what this robot will be able to do that X-ray equipment that is already in place in this water gun couldn't do that was used a little bit earlier on.", "The theory behind the robot is it serves as the eyes of the bomb squad members, the agents, the officers, without them having to risk their lives up close. It gives them a chance to get in and look at things, perhaps under the car, in wheel wells, in trunks, in seats, things like that first, before the officers get in close. And so it's a safety device, and they're used rather routinely around the country in bomb squad situations, and that's my presumption as to what they're going to do here. You don't want and individual climbing underneath that car if have you a chance to have something else go in there with eyes that can transmit a picture back to a monitor. If have you that technology, you probably would want do that first.", "Bill, I want to come back to a point you just made that you saw in an Associated Press report, that this women described these three men as men of Middle Eastern descent. I thought it was interesting that Mr. Picolo, the Florida department of law enforcement, would not answer that question when a reporter said, do you know what religion they are? Clearly reflective this environment we are living in, people fearful of doing racial profiling. Nevertheless, the Associated Press, raised this issue, did they not, of these gentlemen's descent.", "And E.J. Picolo said, just to quote him, he said he believed that they are legal, did not offer a whole lot of information beyond that, but the story remains the same out of -- according to the Associated Press. This woman overheard these three men, apparently of Middle Eastern descent Again, this is her story, that she related to officials, that Americans would -- quote -- \"cry on 9/13.\" Then the bulletin went out after the woman or other people at this restaurant apparently picked up license tags numbers and description, a very detailed description for these automobiles, and put the bulletin out. That was on Wednesday. Now it is Friday morning, and all this transpired, by the way, we should remind our viewers about 1:00 a.m. Eastern Time, when one of our cars apparently ran a toll booth. Last hour, you talked with a detective, don't want to get to speculation here, but you asked him why in the world would someone run a $1 toll booth. He said he couldn't give you an answer, but it's possible, maybe one of the drivers spotted the police officer behind them and that's what got things rolling -- possible.", "But in the meantime, bill, and I are going to stay focused on this Florida story. I think, Bill, it is interesting to note what Mark Potter reported a little bit earlier on, just how long this process might take. Fifteen minutes ago, he said his officials on the ground were telling him that the search was just about 25 percent complete, that these guys are wearing very heavy bomb suits. It is very hot today. But they are going to painstakingly go through the meticulous process of going through this car inch by inch.", "I would love to know, Paula, what is on the ground on the shoulder of that highway, because that robot is moving in, the arm on the top is moving toward it. What is on the ground, we don't know. Earlier, we had an image after lot of equipment on the side of the road, but that's at a different location than this here. And one would assume these are articles and items taken out of either the trunk of the car or inside the car. And the process continues. Nothing untoward is what Mark Potter reported. And apparently, at this point, no explosive material has been found, according to E.J. Picolo.", "And, Mark, you were reporting a little bit earlier on that what Lieutenant Bagnardi had thought he seen, as well as the rest of us on TV was a detonation, when in fact it was a water gun blowing through an unidentified piece of personal equipment, and it ended up being, what, medical equipment?", "Yes, that's the only description that we got, that is some sort of medical equipment. And what prompted the procedure is they had used some sort of X-ray equipment to go over what they could get near, and they couldn't reconcile what they saw on the screen with other items in the vehicle, which seemed on the face benign. This stuff had wires in it and all of that, and so given the fact that the dogs had alerted, and there was a terrorism alert, and that there was a concern of the possibility of explosives, they detonated that device using a water cannon, and they found it to be some sort of medical device. You know, Paula, one other thing I would like it say, I was looking through my notes that I scrambled together as quick as I could, and I was talking with Mike Orr (ph) of the bomb squad, and I notice one of the things I had neglected to say before, and that is he did describe a few items that they had found in the car, including suitcases, books, and a laptop computer, and this one I want to be careful about, but I will say it the way he said it, and then give also the caution that he gave. He said there are also manuals found, and he described them, and I will just use his word, Islamic writing, and I presume he meant Arabic. But again, he was so cautious about it. He says, I have no idea what that is. I just have -- and he is not an expert in language, neither am I. That's his description, and again, I want to bring that forth, because of the discussion that was held earlier about the questions that have been raised about the background of these men. He does not suggest in any way that this implicates anybody. He also doesn't say that this is anything definitive. He could not say what the manuals were. I asked him. And again, don't forget the first item that they had concerns about turned out to be benign. That's just the facts that I throw out there with the caveat that he gave, as well as ones that I would give also, based just on what has happened so far. There was a concern that went away.", "We all have to be very careful as we tread through this, because E.J. Pola (ph) of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement refusing to make any characterization of who these suspects were and what countries they came from. Nevertheless, Bill, you were saying The Associated Press has made quite clear through the woman who apparently overheard this conversation in Calhoun, Georgia, that she -- was it she that described these men?", "She was a waitress in a restaurant in Calhoun, Georgia. Which restaurant I don't know. Whether or not her story holds up, we don't know. But that's what she reported to authorities. Hey, Mark, do you know, are there cameras on those robots?", "Typically, yes. It's basically a camera on wheels. I have seen them used in of the past, and they are sent into an area by remote control, and then there is a monitor back in the area where the controlling agents are. And they are watching that monitor. They can see what the robot sees. As I said before, this robot is basically the eyes of the agent. So yes, there is a camera. They have -- it transmits either by cable or by a remote method back to a monitor, and they can see what the robot sees. That enables them not only to see what is there, but to know which way they need to turn the robot, up or down, left or right. Yes, they very definitely do have cameras.", "Mark, you were talking about this officer sharing with you the fact that suitcases had been looked at, and you also mention the issue of these manuals, these Islamic manuals. Was there any more information he could give you about those?", "No, Paula. Trust me, I tried real hard. He just didn't know what they were. That's all he could say. He just said \"manuals.\"", "He didn't say \"maps\"; he said \"manuals.\"", "No, the word he used was \"manuals,\" and other two words were \"Islamic writing.\" Then he went to explain that he just had no idea for sure what that was. Then the other items he said that they saw were books and laptop computers. I don't know that they have gone through those as part of the 25 percent that's been searched. They have seen those. So more to come maybe on that.", "Once again, let's review for folks just joining us, Mark.", "Absolutely right. The dogs are seen as a first alert to a possibility. The dogs are very good. They are very good. But they are a little bit nonselective in that they alert to everything. And I have seen this in the past: Anybody who has been on the scenes, including yourself, you have seen this where the dogs alert to something, and it turns out later to be a firecracker. It could be that an explosive device was in that car at some point. It could be that powder was in the car. It could be a weapon had been in the car. I know that in plane crash situations, where the dogs alert, later it turns out to be something completely benign. But there have been so many instances where the dog was absolutely right and on point. So when they got that alert, they had to do exactly what they are doing and be very careful. But it is not a definitive conclusion by any stretch.", "Mark, Bill and I have been talking here all morning long about how anybody looking at these pictures might think, whoa, what have they got. They haven't found any explosives so far. Are they overreacting here? I think everybody on the scene that we have talked with has made it very clear they don't know what is at issue here. Lieutenant Bagnardi (ph) of the Florida Highway Department saying, Frankly, we don't even care. We just want to make sure that everybody here that's involved in the investigation goes home healthy tonight.", "Where are we now? Let's update our viewers. We are looking at a stretch of highway in southern Florida. Interstate 75, essentially Alligator Alley -- or right near it, just east of Naples on your map here. Here is the story as we understand it. About midnight last night, sometime between midnight and 1:00 a.m. Eastern time, a car approached a toll booth to get onto Alligator Alley essentially and ran the toll. We don't know why. We understand it's a buck. What instigated this we are not clear of. But a short time later, essentially eight miles down the road, that car was pulled over. And then shortly after that, another car pulled up behind. And now we have the situation that we have. Authorities have responded. At least five agencies right now, Paula, involved on the scene as we look at it now.", "What is so interesting about this is that they are now saying they had very specific information on these suspects. They are not sharing much of that information with us now. In fact, the news conference that was just held, basically all Mr. Pacola (ph) of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement would confirm is that these guys were detained, they were not charged, that they were somewhat cooperating at the point they were pulled over and that no explosive material had been found. And Mark Potter reporting at this point that maybe 25 percent of what is inside the vehicles has been actually looked at.", "Apparently, at this restaurant in Calhoun, Georgia, the folks working there or eating there, whether they are employees or customers, they got a pretty good look at the situation. Both cars, to get the license, tag number and pass along that and the description for the vehicles right down to the button when it comes to putting out that bulletin. That has given everyone pause on this story.", "Which I guess should remind us all when the government changes the level of alert that this is what they are talking about. When we say to them, what do you want us to do about it, and they said we don't want to change the way you live your life, we just want you to be more alert. If it is true that this is a legitimate tip, whoever this woman is, we certainly want to talk to her one of these days -- provided some very valuable information to law enforcement officials.", "Our folks are working on her. It is quite possible we will have her on the phone in a moment here. She was described as a restaurant worker. It is possible, though, now, just getting some information through my ear, Paula, that she could have been a customer at the time. A Shone's restaurant in Calhoun, Georgia, is where all this began sometime on Wednesday.", "In the meantime, folks trying to get to work today, and that part of Florida having a very tough time. Traffic has been diverted around that 20-mile stretch of highway that is currently closed off. A no-fly zone continues to be imposed. The reason for that, I guess, if there are any further detonations, they just wanted to make sure there were no planes were any flying lower than 3,500 feet over that area. At this point, we are not able to tell you just how serious the situation looks. It certainly does look serious, visually, when you've got five agencies on the ground investigating. Once again, as Bill just told you, about all we can leave you with until we hand this over to next team, is that these agencies are taking this sufficiently seriously enough that hopefully within the next three, four hours of the search of these vehicles, we'll have some more concrete information to provide for you. But they say even if they are overreacting, it doesn't matter. They really don't know what is at stake here. 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{"id": "CNN-165429", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2011-4-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1104/28/acd.01.html", "summary": "Hundreds Killed in Southern Storms", "utt": ["We're here to cover the royal wedding, which is now just a few hours away. We will have a lot of coverage on that later tonight. But our hearts go out to everyone back home in the southern United States tonight who lost loved ones, lost homes or simply witnessed the devastation from some of the worst tornadoes ever experienced in this country. This one hit Philadelphia, Mississippi, and there were many, many more hitting half a dozen states. Alabama, of course, was the hardest hit. The terrifying video last night, we saw it, of a tornado bearing down on Tuscaloosa, Alabama, shot by a very brave cameraman for the University of Alabama. Expensive destruction in some places, total devastation. And now rescue and recovery. For that, I want to turn things over to John King in Atlanta.", "Thanks, Anderson. Breaking news tonight. People badly hurting here, one of the deadliest and most destructive storms on record. New numbers now, at least 294 lives lost, countless more injured. Half a dozen states across the South getting hammered. The destruction plain to see. Look here. This is Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This video taken there, and destruction all across the region. It boggles the mind and it breaks your heart.", "It's devastating. Our city's infrastructure has been absolutely decimated. We're facing an overwhelming situation in which we're short on men, materials and equipment.", "In and around Birmingham, similar devastation. These tornadoes were stronger than usual, cut a wider path than normal and stayed on the ground longer and as we said they seemed to be everywhere. But Alabama took the worst of it, with at least 207 fatalities there. And as in every disaster, that number sadly likely to rise. As for the damage, there's concern beyond just homes. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission tonight is monitoring Browns Ferry nuclear plant in northern Alabama. Reactors were shut down last night when they lost off-site power. Backup generators are now filling the gap. Alabama power officials say more than a third of a million customers still in the dark tonight. President Obama has declared an emergency for Alabama and dispatched his FEMA administrator there.", "We can't control when or where a terrible storm may strike. But we can control how we respond to it. And I want every American who has been affected by this disaster to know that the federal government will do everything we can to help you recover.", "Recovering in of course some very, very trying days ahead. Reynolds Wolf is on the ground in Tuscaloosa, right in the heart of it. Reynolds, given the fury of these tornadoes, the fury, are you surprised by the amount of destruction?", "I got to tell you, I have never seen anything like this before. As you know, John, I'm from Alabama, I grew up here, I have also been a broadcast meteorologist for nearly two decades. This boggles my mind. I have never seen anything quite like this, by far, the worst thing I have ever witnessed.", "And so, Reynolds, these are super tornadoes, make the distinction for us. You're the expert. What separates a super from a regular tornado?", "What really separates a super tornado from just your average tornado is a super tornado is what they refer to on the enhanced Fujita scale an EF-4 or 5, an incredibly powerful tornado. And what makes it super is that they're so incredibly rare. Most tornadoes are on the EF-0 to EF-3. Many of them don't last very long, they are they weak, they form very quickly, then they dissipate within seconds, most of them. This one was truly one of the exceptions. This is a very, very large tornado that came through here, obviously very destructive, winds in excess of 200 miles per hour. I would not be surprised that by the time the reconnaissance is done by the National Weather Service that ends up being indeed an EF-4 or 5, a super tornado, John.", "And when you talk about the uniqueness of this, a lot of components, sadly, coming together. Is that right?", "Oh, absolutely. I mean, it was really the perfect recipe for these storms. You had plenty of moisture coming in from the Gulf of Mexico, relatively warm day, too, which really caused the atmosphere to destabilize. You needed a catalyst and we had a couple. One was a strong frontal boundary that came through the region. The second thing was the jet stream that also piled in. And if you happen to be a scientist, if you happen to be meteorologist, all those elements were easy to pretty see set up in the atmosphere. So the Storm Prediction Center out of Norman, Oklahoma, the local National Weather Service offices were all sending out the watches, the warnings, the advisories. This was something that many people in the community knew about. Local forecasters were certainly sending out the word. So, again, it was one of those situations where the components did come together. It was the perfect recipe, and it was a very detrimental one.", "And, Reynolds, you mentioned your experience, you're from Alabama and almost everybody I have talked to, sheriffs and the like, mayors and the like from the region who have been through so many tornadoes, they are all saying never anything like this. Why?", "It's just something of the sheer power. We have had tornadoes. One of the first tornado stories I ever covered was the Palm Sunday tornadoes back in 1993 that struck Piedmont, Alabama, killed 11 people in a church. It was a horrible experience. But as bad as that storm was, certainly the tornado was not that big. It was not on the ground for that length of time. This is something that just defies really logic. It's hard to believe that there was something this destructive causing this much damage. You have to remember, John, this was nearly a mile wide, possibly it may end up being a mile wide for a good part of its duration on the ground on a path that went over 15 miles. That doesn't happen, John, but it did in this situation.", "Reynolds Wolf on the ground in Tuscaloosa, in the heart of it. Reynolds, thanks. Stay safe, my friend. President Obama scheduled to visit the area tomorrow. FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, already on the scene. States of emergency in effect across the region tonight, and again at least 207 lives lost in Alabama, where medical personnel have treated upwards of 1,700 people. A doctor in Tuscaloosa says his city looked like an atom bomb hit. You heard from the Tuscaloosa mayor, Walter Maddox, a moment ago. He joins us. Mayor Maddox, are you with us? The mayor will be with us momentarily. When we get out connection to the mayor, we will get to him. We have across the region now. We said the death toll is mounting here in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, deaths reported in all those regions. As you look at the pictures and as you talk to officials across the region, everywhere you turn, in all of these states, people are saying they have never seen anything like it. Why? They say the tornadoes stayed on the ground longer, they say they were wider, as Reynolds Wolf just told you, and they came through and through these towns. The devastation just crazy here. I want to move now to Douglas Woodward. He's an emergency room physician at the Druid City Hospital, Tuscaloosa's main trauma center. Dr. Woodward, when this tornado hit Tuscaloosa, you're at home with your family and you took shelter. The tornado missed your house but you had the urge obviously to do your job and spring into action. Tell us about that.", "Yes, sir. I was at home with my wife and two children. We were watching the tornado coming on the news channels, so we knew that it was heading for our home. So we got my son and my daughter Hanna (ph), my son Nate (ph) in out storm room. We watched as the storm approached. You could hear it and seeing debris in the sky and the sky spinning and clouds low to the ground. We wondered if we were going to take a direct hit. It sure looked like that for a moment . But it passed and then my wife, Angela, who is an emergency department physician along with me, we knew we needed to be at the E.R. based on the local news coverage. We saw that heavily populated areas had been struck by the tornado so we knew they were going to need all the help they could get, so we made our way to the emergency department.", "You say you made your way. You're a doctor of medicine, but a chain saw, you had to use a chain saw to get there?", "That's correct. We live out in the country, so there's plenty of trees you need to cut. So I threw the fuel and the saw in the back of my Volkswagen and took off out of the neighborhood. And on the road that takes us through our neighborhood, that's where the downed trees were. I initially cut through a few until I was able to cut to an area and I saw the extent of the path. I had no idea the path was so wide. There were large power lines, power cables down. So I put the chain saw up, knowing there was no way I was going to be cutting my way out of there, so I started off on foot.", "And tell me what you found along the way, not only in terms of the devastation you got to see, but the injuries, the hurt.", "Yes, there were a lot of homes that I didn't even know existed as they were concealed by the trees previously. But with the trees down, you could see flattened homes, lots of building materials, the insulation, siding, particle board, everything scattered. And as we got into higher populated areas, there were a large -- moderate number of people standing, looking somewhat in shock. But we were able to ask if there were any injuries, me and a couple of gentlemen that I met walked down the streets looking for injured patients. We saw several with deep lacerations, extremity injuries. Some of them had some pretty significant", "Dr. Woodward, we applaud your work, especially amid personal devastation right there in the neighborhood. We will keep in touch with you. Good luck in the days ahead. Let's try again. We have reestablished our connection we believe with the Tuscaloosa mayor, Walter Maddox. Mayor Maddox, thank you for your time on this tough night for you community tonight. We heard you at the top of the program say you had neighborhoods that had been removed from the map. Help us now as you have a better sense of the damage. How extensive is it?", "It's going to be very extensive. We're talking hundreds of millions of dollars within the city itself. We now have 38 confirmed fatalities, 900 reported injuries as a direct result of yesterday's tornado and we still have over 40,000 homes within the city that do not power.", "Well, 40,000 homes without power. How are the efforts going? With the destruction all across the region like this, one of the issues, normally, Georgia might send Alabama help, Mississippi might send Alabama help, but everybody is hurting. Is that causing delays?", "Absolutely. We lost our entire environmental services division, including our entire fleet, which has really hampered our relief efforts. The governor and his staff have been excellent. We have had 14 requests to the state EMA. They have honored all 14 requests, including moving up to 1,000 National Guardsmen that will be on the streets of Tuscaloosa in the next 12 hours.", "And help us understand your challenge obviously as you look at the devastation around you and we show the pictures to our viewers. So many people have lost their homes, so what is your shelter situation, how many people homeless right now?", "Well, we're going to have hundreds, if not thousands of people homeless. And as we extend out this the next 72 to 96 hours, that's going to be a huge humanitarian issue for us. Right now the city is critically short of men, materials and equipment. Fortunately, the state EMA is coming to the plate, but we lost a lot of our internal infrastructure during the course of the tornado. We lost a lot of fire units, police units, and our critical environment services unit, which has really crippled our efforts.", "You say crippled your efforts. You say the state is giving you help. One of the questions that always comes up after tragedies like this is not only town to the state and then state to the federal. What is your sense of the response and the reaction so far, especially given the scope of the challenge?", "I have been very pleased. The governor has been there every time I called him. I know that he's had conversations with the president and the president has been really supportive. The main thing we will need from the federal government is reimbursement. This is going to cost the city tens of millions of dollars in a very tough economic time. And so the biggest thing we will need is the reimbursements coming from FEMA. State EMA is doing an outstanding job and the governor of giving us the equipment and resources to help our citizens.", "Mayor, you're laying out your challenges, the public official. Reflect for me a moment if you can just personally as you have gone around your community today at what you have seen and what it's done to you.", "My heart's broken. There's no way you -- there's no way you can walk on these streets where I have grown up, and the 93,000 citizens that I represent, and see the pain in their eyes, the look of what has happened to us. This has clearly been a dark hour for me personally, and for our city. But I am confident. I believe that we will come out of this stronger and a new day will dawn for the city of Tuscaloosa. We have a resilient spirit here and it's going to be on display for the world to see.", "Mr. Mayor, we thank you for your time and we wish you the best and you're in our thoughts and prayers in the challenging days ahead. Thank you, sir.", "Thank you, John.", "Thank you. In a moment, I will check in with CNN's Martin Savidge, he's in Birmingham, Alabama. And will talk with a woman -- you won't believe this -- she saw her family's home reduced to nearly total wreckage, all except for one lifesaving room -- Anderson.", "Thanks a lot. We will have more on the deadly storms next. Remember to check in with us on Facebook. You can follow me on Twitter @AndersonCooper. Still ahead, the latest on the building anticipation for the royal wedding here in London, the last-minute preparations at Westminster Abbey tonight and Buckingham Palace. Also, a look at the comparisons between Kate Middleton and Diana, princess of Wales. The royal watching experts weigh in."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR", "WALTER MADDOX, MAYOR OF TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA", "KING", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KING", "REYNOLDS WOLF, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KING", "WOLF", "KING", "WOLF", "KING", "WOLF", "KING", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-302037", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-12-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/31/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Parents of American Journalist Missing in Syria Speaking Out", "utt": ["In Syria as the ceasefire there holds parents of a journalist who went missing during the war in that country they are now speaking out. They haven't heard from their son but the U.S. government has said there is reason to believe that he's still alive. Our CNN's Brian Stelter, he sat down with Austin Tice's mother and father.", "Reporters in Syria have been killed in some cases. They have been kidnapped in other cases and they have just vanished. That's what happened to Austin Tice, an American journalist who was in Syria reporting on the conflict in 2012. One day he disappeared and his parents have never heard from any captors, any group holding him, any group demanding ransom. But Debra and Marc Tice remain optimistic that they will be reunited with their son. And earlier in December the U.S. government says it has high confidence that Austin Tice still alive in Syria. I spoke with his parents about what this means to see the end of another year without their son and why they are hopeful that the incoming Trump administration will continue to work as the Obama administration has, trying to find Tice and be able to bring him home to the", "We have had credible reports ever since Austin was taken that he is alive and so we have hung on to those messages without doubt, without any doubt.", "His captors have not reached out to us, you know. We don't have any way of, you know, completing this solution to bring him home because only -- only half of the equation is working here and that half is, you know, the efforts that we've done, the efforts of the United States government and all those people and organizations that have been supporting us. But, yes, it was extremely comforting and --", "Uplifting.", "-- uplifting to hear and for the office of the special presidential envoy and the United States government to say that their assessment is he is alive. We have every reason to believe he's reasonably well. And so, you know, we continue to, you know, press that there's every reason to do everything possible. Keep doing everything possible to bring him home.", "So hard to imagine what these past four-plus years have been like for those parents. They know the statistics all too well. According to the committee to protect journalists in 2016 Syria was the deadliest place in the world for reporters. That's been true for five years in a row. Now, these parents hoping for a much happier outcome for their son, hoping 2017 can be the year they will be reunited.", "And did Russians plant malware found in a Burlington Electric laptop and could it be an attempt to disrupt the nation's power grid? Well, up ahead we are going to talk with the company's general manager live about what they found. You're live in the CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT", "U.S. DEBRA TICE, MOTHER OF MISSING JOURNALIST, AUSTIN TICE", "MARC TICE, FATHER OF MISSING JOURNALIST, AUSTIN TICE", "D. TICE", "M. TICE", "STELTER", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-58217", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2002-7-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/27/smn.13.html", "summary": "Summer Shape-Up: Interview With Leslie Sansone, Michelle Stanten", "utt": ["That graphic means it's time to talk CNN's Summer Shape Up. And we're going to talk walking today. It really is one of the most popular ways to lose weight if you're looking to shed a few extra pounds. We want to turn to a couple of experts on walking for fitness. Leslie Sansone is the creator of \"In-Home Walking,\" a program for walking inside your own home. Yes. And Michelle Stanten, fitness editor for \"Prevention\" magazine and a certified group fitness instructor. They join us right now. Leslie is in Pittsburgh. Michelle joins us live from our New York bureau. Ladies, thanks so much for joining us this morning.", "Good morning.", "Good morning.", "Hey, let's get right into this and talk about it. It is one of the most popular ways for people to lose weight, walking. It's not so much running on the treadmill or going to the gym, it's pretty much walking around your neighborhood or even in your own home?", "That's right. If I could, I'd like to start and tell you, you know, walking is the most popular exercise all over the world and it does get you in your best shape. Because it's an exercise you can do for a lifetime. And I've created a program that you can do right in your home. You don't need a treadmill. You don't need any special equipment other than your VCR. You can pop a video in, choose one mile, two mile or three mile. And so you've got convenience and comfort and safety with your walks.", "And, Michelle, if people want to get out, though, and enjoy a little summertime breeze or walk around the neighborhood, that's a good way to do it, too, isn't it?", "It's an excellent way to do it. And walking is a very popular activity because it's easy, it's convenient. You don't need a lot of equipment. A good pair of walking shoes is all you need to get started. And one of the mistakes I think people make is that they think they need to do a lot when they first get started. But just getting out there for five or 10 minutes each day will help you build that as a habit.", "Leslie, what about people who get these videos and they put them in, but they're in the house anyway, so the couch isn't too far away, the refrigerator isn't too far way, even the bedroom is just down the hall? I mean how do we keep people motivated to stay in front of the TV set and keep walking for three or four miles?", "That is a great question and I love the information that a little bit goes a long way. You can pop our videos in, do five or 10 minutes of this walking in place. We use our arms. We call on more muscle during our walk. So, you know, I think it's a really more motivational way. Sometimes a walk on a treadmill can be a little boring. Sometimes you can't get outdoors because of the weather conditions, especially right now. The heat really is not very safe for people to be outdoors. A lot of people feel funny exercising outdoors. They don't want their neighbors watching them get in shape. So what we love about our walks is they're private. When you're ready to take a walk you pop a video in and you can, again, do a nice short walk. A one mile workout is one of the most powerful things for good health. So...", "Michelle, you -- I'm sorry, Leslie. I didn't mean to cut you off.", "That's OK, go ahead.", "Michelle, real quickly, you had mentioned before you want to make sure that you have the right shoes before you get started in a program in this. What else do you need? I mean should some people consult with a doctor before they start with some programs or can they get right out there?", "You always want to check with your doctor before starting any type of exercise program. But walking is something that we do naturally. Our bodies were built to walk. So just by increasing the amount of walking you're doing each day can provide huge health benefits. A great motivator and a great way to track your progress is using a pedometer. We've had lots of success with readers who started wearing a pedometer and setting a daily goal of how many steps to take. That way you can take your steps while you're at work, by taking some walks during the day, taking a walk in the evening, in the morning, and checking your step count to make sure that you're hitting your daily goal. And it's a great motivator. We've had people on eight week programs who have lost 12 pounds, five inches. They've lowered their cholesterol. So that simple little device is a great way to stay motivated.", "And ladies, give us your best advice on when you need to change out those walking shoes. I mean when do we know? When the shoelaces start to fall out? Or can we get a little extra tread out of them?", "Please do it before then.", "Yes.", "Roughly, you want to change those shoes out about every 500 miles. Once you start to see that your shoes are breaking down, they're way past that. They should have been replaced. Or if you start to notice any kind of aches or pains.", "And Leslie, you agree with that?", "I do. Also, you know, if you are exercising three, four, five times a week, I can tell you, you've got to change those shoes maybe quarterly, four times a year.", "And Leslie, real quickly, if people want to find those walking videos, where can they find them?", "Oh, thanks so much. Lesliesansone.com. You can get all the information about in-home walking.", "All right, ladies, thanks so much for joining us.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "We really appreciate your insight into this. Take care.", "Thank you. 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{"id": "CNN-267585", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2015-10-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/26/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Massive Earthquake Strikes Afghanistan/Pakistan Border", "utt": ["Pakistan and Afghanistan hit by an earthquake. At this hour the 7.5-magnitude tremor has left at least 118 people dead, hundreds injured and rubble of collapsed buildings in its wake. I'm going to give you a report from the region, up next. Also ahead...", "We could at any time turn on the TV or the radio and hear the decision announced there.", "Waiting on death row. I sit down with a man whose son and brother face beheading and crucifixion in Saudi Arabia. Their story later in the show. Plus, traditionally a symbol of peace, olive branches are now also embroiled in the tensions of Israelis and Palestinians, but one group of volunteers is working to promote a peaceful harvest. More from the olive groves later this hour.", "Live from CNN Abu Dhabi, this is Connect the World with Becky Anderson.", "A very good evening from the UAE at just after 7:00 in the evening. Dozens of people are dead hours after South Asia was hit by a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake. It was centered in northeastern Afghanistan, but it shook the ground in several countries across the region. In Pakistan, at least 146 people are reported dead, nearly 600 are injured, but these numbers have been going up all day as remote areas reached. And in northern Afghanistan, 12 girls were killed in a stampede as they rushed out of their school. Now, the epicenter of the quake was in northeastern Afghanistan. As you can see on this map, tremors were felt hundreds of kilometers away. As far north as Kyrgyzstan as far south as India's capital New Delhi. And that's where CNN Ravi Agriwal joins us now live. Ravi, what's the latest, as you understand it?", "Becky, well the latest is that the death toll that CNN has been able to independently confirm is now about 180 across Pakistan and Afghanistan. And the sad reality of a crisis like this is that we can well expect that number to rise as we hear more from the far-flung parts of those two countries. Getting in touch with people there has been quite difficult over the last few hours. Phone lines are down in many areas, and so we actually at this stage, we still don't know how bad the damage could be in the remote parts of those two countries. We've been hearing from people in Kabul, however, and there our producer has told us that this was the most severe quake that he had felt in many years. And when he was driving around the city afterwards, he said that he actually didn't see that much devastation around the city. So perhaps that's a ray of light that we can hold onto for now. But further south where I am here in New Delhi, it's about 750 miles south of the epicenter, we felt the tremors pretty strongly. We could see the walls around us shake, lampshades were shaking, And we knew this was quite a serious and severe earthquake -- Becky.", "All right. All right, Ravi on the story from New Delhi for you. Now comes a scramble is rescue survivors and assess the damage, as Ravi pointed out. Joining me now is Unni Krishnan. He's the head of disaster preparedness and response at Plan International. And Unni, this is one of a number of earthquakes, sadly, that this region has experienced in, say, the last 10 years. You're very familiar with the sort of aftermath of these incidents. What happens at this point? Just how prepared is this region?", "OK, there are two different things. First of all, what is needed right now, search and rescue, medical assistance and actually rescuing people from collapsed buildings should be the priority and for the survivors time is running out and quick action is need. That's the first thing and that's the foremost thing that should be happening right now. Second, you mentioned about several earthquakes. Yes, in Iran in 2003, in Berm (ph), thousands of people died. And moving further 2005 in Pakistan, up to 75,000 people died. And also the Indian side of Kashmir was also impacted during that earthquake. And recently, six months ago in Nepal -- in fact yesterday we were observing a Plan Nepal -- our Plan International team in Nepal were observing the six months of the earthquake. And there has been in between either earthquakes or shocks in other countries in the region as well. So, we should be taking building safety and local level preparedness very, very seriously, because -- especially if you look at other remote places that has been impacted because of this earthquake, it will be the local people who will always be the first responders, and sometimes our only responders during the initial hours. And supporting them and helping them to prepare better to deal with earthquakes is absolutely key. Plan International works in these countries and our work often focuses on children, that's our priority. And we work with children in schools so that they can start learning about the preparedness and readiness from very early days itself. We were watching about what has happened to 12 girls in Afghanistan who died when they were running away from the school. This -- and our thoughts are with them and their families, and there these are sadly some of the things which we can avoid if we put better preparedness and readiness missions in place. And that's where investments are needed, especially focusing on children.", "How significant was it that this was an earthquake that happened during the day as opposed to in the hours of darkness and that it was relatively deep underground, wasn't it?", "Absolutely. This earthquake was much deeper if you look at the scale -- on the Richter scale, this was more or less like what happened in 2005, but the number of people who may die from this earthquake is likely to be less because it was very, very deep. And the second thing that happened during that time, so the fact that many people were not sleeping inside their houses, that's what happens during nighttime and if the building collapsed, they have no way of getting out of some of these buildings. So, these two helped actually, will definitely contribute to reducing the number of deaths. At the same time, this also happened during school hours. And we know that unsafe schools and school buildings kill a lot of children, and unsafe buildings kill people. So we need to watch out in the next few hours the information that is coming from Afghanistan, especially locations close to the epicenter and other places as well.", "Unni Krishnan is the head of disaster preparedness and response at Plan International joining you out of London this evening. Unni, thank you.", "Still to come this hour on CNN, Russia's airstrikes in Syria raising tensions with the U.S. Now is Russia considering expanding that campaign? Well, we'll get some answers on that. First up, though, from war hero to soldier at peace, Israel remembers Prime Minister who paid the ultimate price for pursuing a final peace agreement with the Palestinians."], "speaker": ["BECKY ANDERSON, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "ANDERSON", "ANNOUNCER", "ANDERSON", "RAVI AGRIWAL, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON", "UNNI KRISHNAN, PLAN INTERNATINOAL", "ANDERSON", "KRISHNAN", "ANDERSON", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-28648", "program": "CNN NEWS SITE", "date": "2001-4-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/17/ns.05.html", "summary": "New Health Campaigns Promote Organ Donations", "utt": ["Thompson says initial steps include a campaign to encourage employers, unions, and other employee organizations to promote donation through their ranks. Joining us to talk about all this from our medical unit is CNN's Christy Feig. Christy, I have to tell you that as we talked to the Web chatters throughout the day, they are very concerned about organ donation and how it happens. We saw a lot of questions from them. One of them from our online editorial chat this morning asked this question: \"What types of people can't be organ donors?\"", "Well, the vast majority of people can be organ donors. The organizations that monitors people who can sign up and be organ donors says that everybody should sign up. It's the doctors that take the organs who will decide who can and cannot give. Because if you have Hepatitis, for example, maybe your liver wouldn't be able to be donated, but maybe, you know, your bone marrow or your", "And Christy, that question was from Michelle Mickelson; we didn't see all of her name there on the screen. Just wanted to give her credit for that. We have another question from our live chat under way now from Faith: \"What organs are most needed?\"", "Oh, hands down, that will be kidneys. There's about 76,000 people currently waiting for an organ in the United States right now. The vast majority of those are waiting for kidneys. The interesting thing about that is, we talked to somebody who, when she was 21 years old, about a year and a half ago, she went into kidney failure from the auto immune disease that she had. And they told her, you do need a kidney; you'll have to wait three to five years for a kidney. That's when she was 21 years old. She is still waiting at this point. The thing about kidneys, though, they can be taken from living donors. Everybody has two kidneys; you can live with just one. So that is one of the things that you can donate as a living donor, but kidneys are definitely one of the most needed organs out there.", "We have another question from our live chat under way: \"Organ transplantation issues should include a debate about cost effectiveness.\" This is an awfully hard issue to talk about, when you're talking about life and death, Christy.", "It certainly is. One of the things are, you have got people who are sick, they certainly are going to rise up to the top of the list. One of the things that the experts must balance is, when is the time that people are too sick to survive the surgery? That's a fine line people have to walk there. And medical experts have to weigh is, when is somebody too sick to survive a surgery? And as far as the cost of donating an organ, the person that donates isn't responsible; it's the recipient and their health insurance that usually pay for that, but cost effectiveness is a thing; there comes a time when people may not survive the surgery.", "From our CNN medical unit with us today, Christy Feig. Thanks for being with us today, Christy."], "speaker": ["JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTY FEIG, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHEN", "FEIG", "CHEN", "FEIG", "CHEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-197813", "program": "EARLY START WITH JOHN BERMAN AND ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN", "date": "2012-12-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1212/19/es.04.html", "summary": "Panel Releases Benghazi Report; Interview with Georgia Congressman Paul Broun, 13 Days Until Fiscal Cliff", "utt": ["The failures of Benghazi -- a scathing new report on the attack that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.", "Bridging the fiscal cliff. A Republican congressman joins us live to talk about the latest proposals from both sides.", "And childhood innocence stolen by unspeakable violence. We're going to hear from some of the few who know what the young survivors of the Newtown tragedy are going through. It's got to be difficult. Welcome back to EARLY START, everyone. I'm John Berman.", "And I'm Zoraida Sambolin. Thirty minutes past the hour here. The State Department getting the bulk of the blame for the September 11th terrorist attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. An independent panel releasing a blistering report that includes systemic failures at the State Department led to the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The panel also finding security in Benghazi was grossly inadequate and that repeated requests to beef up personnel at the consulate were ignored by leaders in Washington as well, and that there was a lack of transparency, responsiveness and leadership at the senior levels -- this in the aftermath of the tragedy. Foreign affairs reporter Elise Labott is live from Washington this morning. And what did we learn from the report that we did not already know, Elise? Because a lot of these things we were talking about as they were investigating.", "That's right, Zoraida. I think the main thing I took from the report is that the State Department, the panel found, really missed the warning signs of what was right in front of them, the deteriorating security situation, what was going on in Benghazi. You have five attacks leading up to the 9/11 attack, including one on the U.S. consulate itself. An IED attack on some other western targets and I think what they are saying is you really need to look hard and long what's going on right in front of you, especially in these high-threat posts and increase security accordingly.", "And at the end of the day, the objective is, of course, that this never happens again. The panel is making some recommendations, what are they?", "Well, they made some key recommendations, Zoraida. The first thing is to strengthen security personnel for high-threat posts. I mean, one of the problems is that the consulate relied on temporary, inexperienced staff and also local militias that weren't up to the task. The panel also called for tighter security standards, for facilities and upgrades if necessary. Also, a review of fire procedures and equipment. If you remember, it was smoke inhalation that killed Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith when they were in the safe house and it was set on fire. So, the State Department needs to plan for fire as a weapon in these types of instances. Also, in-depth checks of the threat environment, as I said, a big criticism is that they failed to recognize the deteriorating security situation in the face of these other attacks. And I'd say, lastly, congressional support for resources. You know, shrinking budgets for security was cited here as a major problem. Secretary Clinton said in her letter to the Senate committees when she presented the report that the State Department will do its part, but Congress has to support them, Zoraida.", "All right. Elise Labott, thank you for sharing more details. We appreciate it.", "All right. Thirty-two minutes past the hour and 13 days until we go off the fiscal cliff. But it looks like House Speaker John Boehner and the president might be willing to compromise as the hours tick away. However, the speaker is making a bit of an end run around the White House, proposing in the House legislation that would raise taxes on people making over $1 million a year. It would do nothing to stop the mammoth spending cuts that come with the fiscal cliff, however. I want to bring in a guest right now. Let's get right to Congressman Paul Broun, a representative from Georgia, a Republican. Good morning, Congressman.", "Good morning, John. You hit the nail on the head. We've got to stop the outrageous spending that's going on here in Washington.", "Well, I'm glad I hit in the head for you. Let me start with the question, though, if I can, you opposed Speaker Boehner's proposal before when he was calling for $800 billion in new revenue. That was before he even proposed raising tax rates. Let me ask you this. Are you going to vote against his measure in the House to raise tax rates above -- for those making more than $1 million?", "John, this is not about tax rates. We've got -- we already passed a bill in the House that would keep tax rates as they are right now today for everybody. We've got to stop the outrageous spending that both parties have been doing here in Washington, because the real fiscal cliff is the economic failure of our nation. That's what we're headed towards because of the outrageous spending that is going on. It just has to stop.", "Sorry. But yes or no -- do you plan on voting against the speaker's proposal?", "Well, I haven't seen it in its entirety, but yesterday when I was asked about where we were, I said lean no on that proposal.", "Do you think he has the votes to get it through the House?", "I really don't know, John. But the president has been missing in action on this. The economy is poor because the president's failed policies and we've got to change. The president has been playing political games and he's failed policy is what causes the situation where our economy is not growing. It's the spending and we just got to stop the spending here. And this bill doesn't deal with the real problem.", "Well, you know, the president's proposal has changed over the last several days. He is offering tax cuts -- tax rate hikes or the ones before. And he's offering new cuts in spending including the cost in cost of living index. He has a lot of liberals really upset, because it effectively in some way, some people say cuts Social Security. So, the president has moved here.", "Well, he's moved very well. In fact, I think the president's playing political games. I think the president actually wants us to go off this so-called fiscal cliff and then come back and look like a hero next year when he offers actual tax rate cuts for those making under whatever, whether it's $400,000. But the thing is, the real problem, John, is spending. We've got to deal with the problem and the president is unwilling to do so. He wants to spend more money.", "Well, he's got -- depending on how you measure it, over $800 billion, $900 billion in cuts in his proposal. But let me move on, because while I have you here, you've been very vocal on the Benghazi issue. I just want your reaction to the new report out today that is very critical to the States Department.", "Well, I think the report is absolutely accurate. The State Department, as well as the administration across the board is at fault in this. They knew very well that there were security risks there. And they did not give our ambassador and those that were in the consulate the support they needed. And the blood is on the hands of this administration of those four Americans.", "And, finally, while I have you, Congressman. And thank for coming in this morning. It's great talking to you.", "Yes.", "You raised some eyebrows in September on a comment you made, I believe it was in a church, on the subject of evolution. I want to listen to this.", "All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior.", "I just want you to help me understand that. That the science teachers I had all through high school and college, that they were telling lies straight from the pit of hell?", "Well, John, we've got to deal with the spending and that's I'm focusing on. I came here to talk to you about that issue. And in fact, I'm a Bible-believing Christian, that's what I was saying in that instance. But we've got to do is we've got to focus upon the problems at hand, and that's out of control, outrageous spending that's been going on here in Washington, and what I'm focusing on now.", "All right. Congressman Broun, I do thank you for coming in this morning.", "Thanks, John.", "We should have an interesting vote in the days ahead in the House with the speaker's proposal. As you said, leaning against it right now. Very interesting. Thanks, Congressman.", "Thank you.", "Thirty-seven minutes past the hour. Newtown continues to bury its dead from last week's shooting that claimed 26 lives at Sandy Hook Elementary School. There are four more funerals today, including one for teacher Victoria Soto who helped shield her students during the rampage. She, of course, is a hero, being remembered that way. Jessica Rekos and James Mattioli, two of the slain first graders, were laid to rest yesterday. I want to tell you about Jessica Rekos here. She's the one that we've been calling cowgirl. She loved everything about horses, horse movies, horse books, drawing horses and writing about it -- writing about them. Her parents say, \"She had an answer for everything. She didn't miss a trick and she outsmarted us every time. We called her our little CEO.\" And then I want to talk about James Mattioli. He was quick to remind everyone that he was 6 3/4 years old. He loved to wear shorts and t- shirts in any weather and grab the gel to spike his hair. His parent says that he was born four weeks early because he was hungry, that's what they joked about him. James had a voracious appetite. His favorite, his dad's egg omelets with bacon and his mom's French toast. Those two little ones being buried today, along with that teacher, Soto, who, you know, tried to shield the children with her body, and it cost her her life.", "The spiked hair and the smiles on those kids are unbelievable. In many ways, they will last forever.", "Oh, yes, yes.", "Meantime, schools in Newtown, Connecticut, reopened yesterday with the exception, of course, of the Sandy Hook Elementary School, which is still a crime scene. The Sandy Hook kids will return to class in January after the winter break. It will be in a different building in a neighboring town and, of course, tragically, 20 bright young faces will be missing.", "And there have been reports that the gunman had Asperger's syndrome. CNN has not been able to confirm that Adam Lanza did, in fact, have that. Asperger's is a form of autism and is a developmental disorder, not a mental illness. That's a very high- functioning form of autism. Already, experts are concerned that Asperger's will now be linked to violence due to what Lanza did. So last night on \"ANDERSON COOPER 360,\" Anderson asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta if there is any evidence of a link to violence.", "There is not. And I don't want to dance around the edges here at all or beat around the bush, because this has come up quite a bit. And, you know, I knew that there wasn't since we started reporting on this. I talked to several experts in this -- about this specific issue. There just isn't.", "Connecticut's medical examiner said officials are working to confirm if Lanza's Asperger's diagnosis was correct. I will add this. I've done a lot of work of children with autism and they do tend to be violent sometimes and angry, but it has nothing to do with that type of violence and anger that we think about. It's frustration that they cannot communicate. So, nobody wants this connection made that children with autism are violent, because they are not.", "It really important to understand in this case.", "Yes.", "All right. Forty minutes after the hour. In other news, the International Space Station's three newest crew members expected to blast off in about 35 minutes. An American astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut and a Canadian space agency astronaut are on Soyuz aircraft which is set to launch at 7:12 Eastern from Kazakhstan. We'll join the three men already on board. Canada's Chris Hatfield becomes his country's first space station commander. Good for Canada, when he takes over control of the station next March.", "And if you are flying home for Christmas, beware of the blizzard about to slam parts of our nation's midsection. We're going to have all the details coming up, so that you can plan accordingly."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN, CNN ANCHOR", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN", "ELISE LABOTT, CNN FOREIGN AFFAIRS REPORTER", "SAMBOLIN", "LABOTT", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-187776", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-6-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1206/14/cnr.03.html", "summary": "237th Birthday of the U.S. Army", "utt": ["Want to update you on our breaking news. Chaos and confusion in Egypt after the country's highest court today ruled that the parliament must be dissolved. Parliament had only been in session for just over four months, and THE military now saying it has full legislative power. Riot police, military personnel taking up positions outside the court. The supreme constitutional court also ruled that a former member of Hosni Mubarak's regime, seen here, may run as planned in the presidential runoff this weekend. We are following that vote closely for you. It is a very busy day for the president in Ohio for his presidential election. President Barack Obama will be getting an up- close look at the World Trade Center construction site and briefed on the progress crews have made there. Pictures right there. Right now, crews are gearing up for the president's visit this afternoon, and it's been a long, complicated process. A controversial road for thousands involved in the rebuilding of this. You're looking at the time-lapse video of the construction site. After all this, President Obama will be getting a glimpse at just how much has been accomplished. To help us answer that question, before he gets there, Poppy Harlow at ground zero at the site of the World Trade Center for us. Poppy, crews are up to the 144th floor. What kind of progress will the president be looking at?", "Don, he's been invited by the governors of New York and New Jersey. He'll be touring with them, will shake hands with some construction workers. He's going to look at a lot of progress, especially in the last year. Amazingly, they've been building One World Trade center behind me -- let's pan up to the top so you can see it -- at a very rapid clip. One floor a week is what they've been building. I am told that the president will go in the tower. I did is ask if he would go to the top and they said, we don't know and Secret Service probably wouldn't want us to tell you that, but interestingly, Don, this will be the president's first time inside One World Trade Center. He's going to sign a beam that will go at the top of the center when it's complete. This is a very big deal for the workers down here, Don, and we're just a few weeks away from the topping of this building, when it reaches that final height of 1,776 feet, a very symbolic number -- Don?", "I think it's interesting you can keep up with the progress of the Trade Center on social media. I get tweets all the time. I hear people saying, crossing from New Jersey, I can see the tower. It's amazing. But back now to the president. The timing of his visit is telling. It follows his visit to swing state of Ohio where he's going to talk the economy. The World Trade enter construction site is right in line with the president's push for jobs as well.", "Absolutely. I mean, I'd be remiss not to mention this is a very political stop. This is the site with 3,500 construction workers, most of them, almost all of them, union workers, and those workers are key for the president. Right after he faced off today in Ohio with Mitt Romney, talking about the economy, talking about jobs, he'll head here, and he'll have that photo-op with these construction workers. And we just heard, Don, last Friday, when the president made that speech, pushing Congress to act on the Jobs Act, he talked specifically about construction workers that are out of work, wanting to put them back to work. So absolutely, this is political.", "Poppy Harlow, thank you. We will be watching. And after visiting the World Trade Center site, President Obama and the first lady will then head to two campaign fundraisers, one at Sarah Jessica Parker's house and another at the Plaza Hotel with Corey Booker and Mariah Carey. Two George Bushs, father and son, have had the distinction of serving as president of the United States. The 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush is at the center of a new HBO documentary called \"41.\" It takes an intimate look at Bush and his presidency. The former president and his family screened the documentary on Tuesday, which just happened to be Bush's 80th birthday. Among other political and personal details, Bush talks about the historic moment his son, George Walker Bush, became the 43rd president of the United States.", "What was it like to see your son elected president?", "Very emotional for me. Very proud father. First time it's happened I guess in the history of our country, except for the Adams. It was enormous and a source of great pride for the family.", "The documentary premieres on HBO. HBO, our sister network, on at 9:00 eastern, 8:00 central. Tune in. Happy 237th birthday. We're talking about none other than the U.S. Army. What began on June 14th, 1775, with the Continental Army, is now more than one million servicemen and women strong. Celebrations are under way all over the country as we speak, including the Pentagon. We find our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr. So, Barbara --", "I have a very special guest.", "You have a very special guest standing next to that tank of cupcakes.", "This is U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey, also, of course, also chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He's such a sport. He came out of the turret of this cupcake tank. Being an Army general, we want to ask how it felt. What was it like being in a cupcake?", "It was sticky, actually.", "The chief of staff.", "I'm the 37th chief. He was the 38th.", "A nice moment to remember the troops. But you have spoken extensively about your concerns here in Washington about budget cuts and the threat to the U.S. military if these massive budget cuts go into effect, if Congress and the White House can't reach an agreement. As the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, what are your concerns?", "My concerns are the uncertainty. We don't yet have a '13 budget from which to plan. And therefore we don't have a lot of the marks and the conference results from this Congress. So I don't know where I'm starting from. Secondly, it's the mechanism, which is -- which is draconian in the first year, and then it levels off in the following years. And therefore we have not been able to do any detailed planning. So I know what we did -- I know what the budget did to us in -- with a reduction of $487 billion as a result of the budget control act. But I don't know what it would do to us with another a $500 billion. But I know how hard it was to get $487 billion.", "If there's another $500 billion in budget cuts at the pentagon, can the U.S. military fight and win? Do you think it raises the risk of instability of war around the world somewhere, whether it's Iran or Syria or wherever?", "Well, it raises the risk, I mean, clearly. It's defining the degree of that risk that I'm struggling with right now. We'll get to that. But I'm not there yet. But to your point, we would certainly be less visible and active globally because we'd have a much smaller force. And nature abhors a vacuum. If we're not there, others will be, and that doesn't mean we have to be the world's policemen and all the rhetoric, but it does mean we have to engage and build partnerships, have to live up to our treaty obligations and so forth.", "Last question. Your concerns about Syria right now.", "Well, Syria, it's a transition. You probably saw overnight that the -- someone blew up a very famous Shiite mosque in Damascus, which, of course, gives us all pause that have been in Iraq and seen how these issues become sectarian and then they become civil wars and then they become very difficult to resolve.", "We thank you so much for your time. So, Don, there you are. We sort of started with cupcakes, but we've shifted and got a little news from the chairman of the Joint chiefs.", "You have reached -- probably set a record here. This is unprecedented. You've reached a milestone in your career. Who can say they've interviewed the Joint Chiefs chair in front of a cupcake tank.", "I want to tell you, before we came on camera, he turned to me and said, I'm not wearing any of these cupcakes on my shirt, am I? Always the general. Wanting to be clean.", "It's edible. You can take a bite if you want.", "Absolutely.", "Thank you, Barbara Starr. We appreciate it. Barbara usually reporting from the Pentagon. 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{"id": "CNN-5622", "program": "WorldView", "date": "2000-4-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/01/wv.05.html", "summary": "Microsoft Antitrust Case Heading Back to Court", "utt": ["The Microsoft antitrust case is heading back to court. The judge mediating the settlement of the antitrust case has called it quits, saying the gap between the government and the software giant is just too great. For more on this story, we go to New York and CNN Financial News reporter, Steve Young. Hi, Steve.", "Hi, Brian. At trial, Microsoft's internal e-mail proved to be the company's undoing. And ironically, by e mail, at 5:09 p.m. Eastern today, federal Judge Richard Posner, in Chicago -- the mediator -- sent word to all the parties that the settlement talks, after four months, had broken down. Why? The judge said in a statement that was a part of the e-mail that the talks had become fruitless because the division was too deep- seated to be bridged. There were a number of reports about what was going on in those negotiations, including two reports that Bill Gates had met personally with the judge and that he had phoned the judge. Judge Posner seemed to express a happiness with possibly Microsoft, as only the judge could have been the source of those reports. Judge Posner, said \"Despite my strenuous efforts, there's been a good deal of leaking and spinning, and this leaking and spinning has given rise to news reports that have created a misleading impression.\" The chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates, was obviously very involved in the settlement talks, and within the hour issued a statement from Redmond, Washington, the company's campus.", "I personally invested hundreds of hours in a very direct way. I'm personally quite disappointed that a fair and reasonable settlement wasn't the result of our effort.", "Mr. Gates also indicated that of course now Microsoft is going to have to head a different route.", "We would have preferred to reach a fair and reasonable settle with the government. I'm personally quite disappointed that this wasn't possible. Now we'll have to win the case through the legal system.", "Judge Posner in the e-mail praised both sides, but he pointedly did not mention the 19 states. The attorney general of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, said that the parties had tried to work together to find common ground, but added -- quote -- \"We are now ready to return to the court with the same determination as ever.\" Sources close to Microsoft suggested late today that the Justice Department and Microsoft were negotiating in good faith, but the states just couldn't agree, but a source close to the Justice Department has told me that that was not the case. As for where we go from here, it is possibly that as soon as Monday, Thomas Penfield Jackson, the other federal judge in Washington, will issue his conclusions of law, or certainly sometime next week. It is widely expected to be very adverse to Microsoft. This news is going to be filtering out over the weekend. It's likely to have a strong impact on Microsoft's stock and perhaps the rest of the technology market, which has been very hard hit this last week. Brian, back to you:.", "All right, thank you, CNN's Steve Young in New York. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web"], "speaker": ["BRIAN NELSON, CNN ANCHOR", "STEVE YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BILL GATES, MICROSOFT CHAIRMAN", "YOUNG", "GATES", "YOUNG", "NELSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-320614", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2017-09-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/05/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview With Arizona Congressman Ruben Gallego; Will Hurricane Irma Hit U.S.?; President Trump Ends Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program; Clinton Blames Sanders for \"Lasting Damage\" in 2016 Race.", "utt": ["Happening now: Prepare for the worst. Hurricane Irma strengthens to a Category 5 storm. Forecasters warn it could be a potentially catastrophic. Florida's governor is warning residents to prepare for the worst, but when and where will it hit? Uncertain future. President Trump decides to end an Obama era program that protected nearly 800,000 young immigrants, claiming it's unconstitutional and will save jobs. Tonight, amid nationwide protests and increasing pressure on Congress, former President Obama is now speaking out. Moving missiles. Kim Jong-un is believed to be moving a mobile launcher into place for another missile test. As South Korean warships conduct live-fire drills, will the U.S. be able to stop an outbreak of war? And lasting damage. Hillary Clinton blames Senator Bernie Sanders for causing her -- quote -- \"lasting damage\" in the 2016 primaries. In an excerpt from her new book, Clinton also writes that Sanders -- quote -- \"had to resort to innuendo and impugning my character\" because the two agreed on so much. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We are following breaking news. Hurricane Irma strengthening to a Category 5 storm with 185-mile-an- hour sustained winds. It is tied for the second strongest hurricane ever in the Atlantic. Tropical-storm-force winds will be hitting the islands of the Caribbean later tonight. Florida residents are stripping stores of emergency supplies. Mandatory evacuations have been ordered and the National Guard is activated already. Stand by for the latest forecast. There is also breaking news over at the White House. President Trump just said he has a great heart for the thousands of young people whose undocumented parents brought them into the United States as children, even though he's ending protections President Obama put in place to keep them from being deported. As protests spread across the country, the former president issued a rare public rebuke, calling the decision -- quote -- \"self-defeating and cruel.\" We are also following ominous new threats from North Korea, which now claims it can -- quote -- \"blow up the U.S. main land and annihilate Americans.\" Can Kim Jong-un be swayed by shows of military force or threats of more crippling sanctions? We are covering all of that, much more this hour with our guests, including Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego of Arizona. He's a member of the Armed Services Committee. And our correspondents and specialists are also standing by. Let's begin with the threat, and it is a very serious threat, posed by Hurricane Irma.", "Yes, not good news at all. And don't forget the millions and millions of people in South Florida who are wondering what they should be doing. Certainly, they are getting ready, and the governor of Florida, Rick Scott,already ordering some mandatory evacuations, but presumably a lot more on the way. You say there's time, but there isn't a whole lot of time before the weekend. Tom Sater, we are staying in very close touch with you. There is other breaking news we are following, breaking news over at the White House. President Trump just met with the Republican leaders of the House and the Senate after tossing Congress another huge political problem. The president says lawmakers need to come up with a fix because he's ending protections for 800,000 young people who were brought into the United States as children. Let's go to our senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. Jim, the president is taking a lot of heat already for this decision, including from former President Obama.", "That's right, Wolf. We finally heard from the president on this decision this afternoon. He told reporters he has a -- quote -- \"great love\" for the dreamers, but those dreamers are not feeling the love tonight.", "For the young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, known as the dreamers, it could be a nightmare. The Trump administration is terminating the Obama era policy that shielded the dreamers from being deported. The White House sent out Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a fierce immigration hard-liner in the Senate, to make an announcement that sounded tailor-made for the president's political base.", "To have a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest, we cannot admit everyone who would like to come here. It's just that simple. That would be an open borders policy, and the American people have rightly rejected that.", "Instead, the same president who claimed he loved the dreamers...", "We love the dreamers. We love everybody. We are going to deal with DACA with heart.", "... released a statement: \"My highest duty is to defend the American people and the Constitution of the United States of America. At the same time, I do not favor punishing children, most of whom are now adults, for the actions of their parents. But we must also recognize that we are a nation of opportunity because we are a nation of laws.\" (on camera): Why did the president not come out and make this announcement himself today? Why did he leave it to his attorney general? It's his decision. These kids and their lives are on the line because of what he's doing. Why not...", "It's in large part a big part of the legal process. This was deemed illegal by, I think, just about every legal expert that you can find in the country.", "Late in the day, the president finally weighed in.", "I have a great heart for the folks we're talking about, a great love for them. And people think in terms of children, but they're really young adults. I have a love for these people, and hopefully now Congress will be able to help them and do it properly. And I can tell you, in speaking to members of Congress, they want to be able to do something and do it right. And really we have no choice. We have to be able to do something. And I think it's going to work out very well. And long- term, it's going to be the right solution.", "The White House is stressing Congress still has six months to pass a fix to protect the nearly 800,000 dreamers and that no immigrant of the program will be impacted before March. But for the president to sign a dreamer fix, he wants something in return, such as the wall. (on camera): You're saying that if we're going to allow the dreamers to stay in this country, we want a wall. Is that accurate?", "I don't think that the president's been shy about the fact that he wants a wall. And certainly it's something that he feels is an important part of a responsible immigration reform package.", "Democrats are already balking at that, questioning the president's motives, noting he pardoned Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted in federal court for defying a judge's order to stop profiling Latinos, not to mention Mr. Trump's past statements about Mexican immigrants.", "They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.", "Fierce opposition to the president's plan is coming in from all sides, from a member of the president's own diversity council.", "I am resigning right now from that council. I don't see the point in continuing to try to work with people that clearly don't see this issue the way I do.", "To former President Obama, who said in a statement: \"To target these young people is wrong because they have done nothing wrong. It is self-defeating, because they want to start new businesses, staff our labs, serve in our military, and otherwise contribute to the country we love. And it is cruel.\" Now that it's in the hands of Congress, the question is, do they have time to fix this?", "Let me say a word about the six months. The calculation of six months is to March 5, so we have plenty of time, right? Not by Senate standards, we don't.", "Now, the Trump administration is not offering much comfort to those dreamers who handed over their personal contact information to the Department of Homeland Security when they received protection from deportation. Officials now say that information potentially could be used by immigration authorities and that, as soon as those dreamers lose their DACA status, they are eligible for deportation, just like anybody else who is in the country illegally -- Wolf.", "All right, Jim Acosta at the White House, thanks very much. Joining us here in THE SITUATION ROOM, Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego of Arizona. He's a member of the Armed Services Committee. Congressman, thanks so much for joining us.", "Thank you.", "I think there's about, what, 28,000 DACA recipients in your home state of Arizona. How is this going to affect them?", "Well, it's going to be terrible. And these aren't just recipients. A lot of them are my friends, and I consider them family. You're basically destabilizing their lives. These young men and women have started families, bought homes, started businesses. Some of them are police officers, firefighters. Some of them have joined the military and are now veterans. And we're just going to go and cruelly just take them away from this life?", "Do you think that's realistic, that the 800,000 nationwide might eventually be deported or at least some of them will be deported?", "If we don't -- if we as Congress do not act to stop the president -- and we have to stop the president -- this is not something that we're doing for the president -- they will be deported. The way ICE is operating right now, they don't care who they are nabbing and grabbing right now. They would rather go for the easiest targets. And they're going to go for people that they know are good citizens. They know that they have steady routines. They're going to go and they're going to start taking these young men and women and their families, anyone they encounter, because at the end of the day, all they want to hit their quotas and that's what's going to happen.", "How far are you willing to go to pass legislation that will prevent that, that will allow these 800,000 young people to remain here in the United States, to have a pathway for legal status and maybe even citizenship?", "We believe that there is a compromise among Democrats and Republicans.", "What is that compromise?", "The compromise at a minimum is going to make sure that there is there protection for these dreamers, that they have some level of permanent residency here. At the same time, we are also not going to be put into a situation where we are going to be using human beings as a bargaining chip, especially when we know the president did not have to do this. This idea that the president was kind of put into a corner and this is the best decision he can make is absolutely false.", "The attorney general, Jeff Sessions, says there was this deadline because these attorneys general from various states were filing motions against President Obama's unilateral executive order claiming it was unconstitutional, and they had to do something.", "Well, he could have also just challenged the attorney generals and actually defended DACA in court. Instead, they chose to go by this arbitrary deadline and use that as like the go/no-go situation that made them make this decision. Look, at the end of the day, this may go down as the most cowardly and cruel move ever by a president in the modern United States.", "But he says he loves the dreamers and he has a great heart, wants to help them, that if in fact legislation is passed over the next six months in the House and Senate, they will be even better off. You heard him say that.", "I don't think the word love means the same thing to him that it does to other people. So, whatever the president is saying, we just -- you just have to take with a grain of salt. And that's why Congress needs to act and pass a -- you know, some form of DREAM Act that will actually protect them from deportation. At the same time, we are also not going to be used and we're not going to allow human lives to be used as a bargaining chip for a really stupid border wall that at the end of the day does not bring us any...", "What if that is the only thing that will prevent these 800,000 young people from being deported? Will you vote for funding for the border wall with Mexico if it includes legal status for these 800,000 dreamers?", "At this point, I just have to say no. Again, this is not a situation where we want to set up a precedent where we're going to be able to use human lives for egotistical- driven, dumb ideas of what border security brings you, especially when your campaign promise was that Mexico was going to pay for it. That's not how you govern. That's not how you become -- that's not how you govern a nation like this.", "How do you see this decision today by the attorney general and the president -- the president ordered the attorney general to make this announcement -- coming, what, a week after the Sheriff Arpaio decision, the decision to forget about his conviction, to pardon him?", "Well, I think this plays further and further to the idea that the president is just trying to play to his base, which is a base of voters that's really xenophobic. At the same time, I find it quite funny they want to talk about the rule of law. But Sheriff Arpaio was found guilty by a court of law by the Department of Justice, and the president interceded in the process of justice to overturn his conviction. Meanwhile, you know, they on the flip side try to say that this is something that they had to do in terms of -- to fulfill the rule of law. This is all going back and forth. The president at the same time wants to say he has authority to enforce his Muslim ban, but doesn't have the authority to also stop people from being deported. You can't have it both ways. And really the only reason you're doing this, again, is to excite your base, who at this point has pretty much lost everything that they have been trying to do.", "Congressman Ruben Gallego of Arizona, thanks very much for joining us.", "Thank you, Wolf.", "Coming up: Just days after testing its most powerful nuclear weapon, North Korea is now directing ominous new threats towards the United States. Is Kim Jong-un's regime on the verge of testing yet another intercontinental ballistic missile?"], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "THE SITUATION ROOM. ANNOUNCER", "BLITZER", "BLITZER", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "ACOSTA (voice-over)", "JEFF SESSIONS, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL", "ACOSTA", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ACOSTA", "SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "ACOSTA (voice-over)", "TRUMP", "ACOSTA", "HUCKABEE SANDERS", "ACOSTA (voice-over)", "TRUMP", "ACOSTA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ACOSTA", "SEN. RICHARD DURBIN (D-IL), MINORITY WHIP", "ACOSTA", "BLITZER", "REP. RUBEN GALLEGO (D), ARIZONA", "BLITZER", "GALLEGO", "BLITZER", "GALLEGO", "BLITZER", "GALLEGO", "BLITZER", "GALLEGO", "BLITZER", "GALLEGO", "BLITZER", "GALLEGO", "BLITZER", "GALLEGO", "BLITZER", "GALLEGO", "BLITZER", "GALLEGO", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-301968", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-12-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/30/es.03.html", "summary": "U.S. Sanctions Russia Over Elections; Russia Expected to Retaliate", "utt": ["Happening now, the Russians finalizing response to unprecedented sanctions leveled by the White House over the election hack. How will Moscow fight back? We're live in Russia.", "A new cease-fire finally taking effect in Syria after more than five years of bloodshed. Is the pause enough to get the sides talking about a lasting peace? We're live in the Middle East.", "And they are getting ready to party in Times Square. Less than 48 hours to the big ball drop, security is being stepped up ahead of the New Year's Eve celebration. We will tell you what steps are taken. Good morning and welcome to EARLY START. I'm Joe Johns.", "Good morning. I'm Alison Kosik. It's Friday, December the 30th. It's 5:00 a.m. in the East. John and Christine are off. And this morning, we are waiting to see what steps the Russians plan to take. They are vowing to retaliate likely today for the sanctions President Obama has just laid down, punishing Russia for election hacking. The White House announcing punitive measures against four individuals and five entities, all connected to a Russian intelligence, and also expelling dozens of diplomats. The U.S. sanctions drawing condemnation both from the Russian government and the president-elect. Donald Trump again downplaying the election hack, but he has a new twist. Here is the latest statement. \"It's time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. Nevertheless, in the interest of our country and its great people, I will meet with leaders of the intelligence community next week in order to be updated on the facts of the situation.\" A top Trump aide is dismissing the sanctions as toothless and aimed at limiting the president-elect's options as much as punishing Russia. Here is Kellyanne Conway on CNN.", "These retaliations, these sanctions put forward by President Obama and his administration, some of them seem largely symbolic. Even on those who are sympathetic to President Obama on those issues are saying that part of the reason he did this today was to, quote, \"box in\" President-elect Trump. That would be very unfortunate if that were the motivating -- if politics were the motivating factor here. But we can't help but think that that's often true.", "CNN's Athena Jones is with President Obama in Hawaii. She has more on the sanctions.", "Good morning, Joe and Alison. The president is calling these steps necessary and appropriate and said they are coming after repeated private and public warnings to the Russian government. He said all Americans should be alarmed by Russia's actions and he repeated his previous assertion that these activities could only have been directed by the highest levels of the Russian government. Now, what are the steps the U.S. has taken? The Treasury Department has named nine entities and individuals who are now going to be subject to expanded sanctions. Those include Russia's military intelligence unit and its chief, as well as the domestic security service. The State Department is declaring 35 Russian intelligence operatives persona non grata and giving these spies 72 hours to leave the country. The government is also shutting down two Russian government-owned compounds. One in New York and another on the eastern shore of Maryland not far from Washington, D.C. The White House says that Russia should not be surprised by these actions and they're stressing that the announced moves are not, quote, \"the sum total of our response.\" The U.S. is also taking covert measures, all of this aimed at delivering one message to Russia, that there are costs and consequences for their actions. Back to you, guys.", "Athena Jones in Hawaii. The U.S. sanctions include two Russian hackers who have been on the FBI's most wanted list for years. Evgeniy Bogachev and Aleksey Belan are both wanted for large scale theft of money and personal identifying information. Both men are fugitives. Their whereabouts unknown. The administration backing up the sanctions with the release of a report from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. It lays out unclassified technical details explains how federal investigators linked Russian intelligence agencies to the hack of the DNC and Clinton campaign manager John Podesta. The report says the Russian cyber attacks have been code named Grizzly Steppe. Meantime, as we wait for word of Moscow's retaliation for the U.S. sanctions, Russia has already launched a few early actions, including this insult via Twitter from the Russian embassy in London. \"President Obama expels 35 Russian diplomats in Cold War deja vu as everybody, including the American people, will be glad to see the last of this hapless administration.\" You can see there, the cute picture of a lame duck or a duckling, actually. For the latest from Moscow, let's now bring in Matthew Chance. Good morning.", "Good morning, Joe. There's been this scathing response. I was looking at a tweet, a verbal response from Dmitry Medvedev, who is the Russian prime minister, saying it's regrettable that the Obama administration, which started out by restoring our ties is ending its term in the anti- Russian agony. The letters RIP. And that fits with the venomous rhetoric and condemnation that we have seen from Russian officials over the course of the past 24 hours and even longer than that when it comes to the outgoing Obama administration. The Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posted this on her Facebook page shortly after the sanctions were announced, \"The Obama administration is a group of vindictive, unimaginative foreign policy failures\", she said. And so, a very angry response their verbally at least from the Russian authorities in response to these sanctions and the expulsion of 35 diplomats. In terms of concrete measures, though, about what the Kremlin is going to do, we have not got any yet. But the Kremlin says there will be reciprocal measures. That, of course, indicates that Russian, that U.S. diplomats based in Russia could also face expulsion as well. One caveat I put on that, Joe, is that Russia knows very well that in three weeks from now or less, Donald Trump is going to be taking over in the White House. He's got a very different attitude it seems towards Russia, much more sympathetic to the Russian point of view. He is a president or a man that the Russians believe they can do a deal with. So, that may restrain them somewhat from taking the strong action they might otherwise have taken if there weren't a change of presidents in the United States, Joe.", "OK. Thanks for that, Matthew Chance in Moscow.", "And helping us break all this down, we got political analyst and best selling author Ellis Henican with us. His recent work, appropriately enough, includes \"How to Catch a Russian Spy.\" Good morning to you.", "Relevant again.", "It is.", "Thank you.", "Always relevant.", "Yes, we definitely need your expertise on this. But what's interesting, almost as soon as President Obama lay down this punishment, these sanctions on Russia came the talk of whether they'll stick once President-elect Obama is out of office? So, we had the Obama administration officials speaking out about this. Lisa Monaco for one. Listen to what she said.", "The reversal of sanctions such as what you've described would be highly unusual. Indeed, the sanctions usually remain in place until the activity and the reasons for them being imposed in the first place has been removed.", "So, since all the talk about President Obama looking to sanction Russia, you know, Donald Trump has been dismissive of the intelligence community, although am I wrong to interpret, I'm saying a thawing of this. Reince Priebus was on FOX yesterday saying, we can talk to all of these intelligence agencies and find out once and for all what the evidence is there. How bad is it? So, I interpret that is show me the evidence and we'll act. So, why doesn't the intelligence agency show them the evidence?", "The intelligence agency standing by eager to show them. I did note that president-elect Donald Trump said he would be available next week to get briefed. It is fascinating. You are right. It would be unusual to reverse sanctions like this. But don't you think this year is a little unusual?", "What does Putin do? This is a chess game.", "High fives is what he's doing.", "Absolutely.", "He's happy.", "The United States has taken its action, sent all these people out. Does he just sit and wait or does he wait for Trump?", "Well, I think you are watching the moves. Some is rhetorical. Who knew by the way the Kremlin tweeted and used Facebook so energetically?", "And used a duckling so effectively.", "They are burning up social media. But you are right, Joe. If we had not had a new president on the way and so favorable as Donald Trump is likely to be, the Russian action would have been very different. But here, essentially, they're going to bide their time. And it puts the onus back on Trump. Does he invite the 35 spies back into the United States? Great question.", "But that's a problem for him if he does that.", "It's a little dicey, and not just for the Democrats, by the way, right? The real problem is Republicans who spent the last generations being tough on Russia, right? Do they say okay, fine, now we're all ready to be kissy face? I don't know. I'm not sure they know.", "House Speaker Paul Ryan, John McCain and Lindsey Graham all talking about how the Obama administration is long overdue. Why did the Obama administration wait on this? They learned about this in the fall. Why sit on it and do it now?", "It's a good question. I don't know the answer. Frankly, I think in hindsight, it really may have been better to act sternly a little earlier. Here are the actions come and they are still in such contrast to the kind of hints we're getting from the incoming Trump administration. We will see a collision come January 20th.", "The other thing and it's really important to say, is Donald Trump has already said he's' going to will meet next week with the intelligence community. This is the same intelligence community he is questioning the in intelligence. So, to be a fly on the wall in that room, what does that like?", "Well, it's going to be strange, because notice the term he used yesterday. It's time to move on. You know, you usually move on from things after we acknowledge them, after we face the facts, after we face pain. In this case, we may be moving on before we ever got there in the first place.", "Are we close to Cold War II?", "You know, the rhetoric is sounding like. But that don't forget, there are so many other things. There was a genuine arms race, not a verbal one. There were troops in each other's faces. People oppressed, millions and millions of people. Thankfully we're not quite there yet.", "All right. Ellis Henican, thanks so much for your perspective today. We're going to bring you back in about 35 minutes.", "Good to see you.", "Can the latest cease-fire in Syria hold long enough to allow real talks toward permanent stop to the civil war? More live from the Middle East, next."], "speaker": ["JOE JOHNS, CNN ANCHOR", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHNS", "KOSIK", "KELLYANNE CONWAY, SENIOR TRUMP ADVISER", "KOSIK", "ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JOHNS", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "JOHNS", "KOSIK", "ELLIS HENICAN, POLITICAL ANALYST AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR", "KOSIK", "HENICAN", "JOHNS", "KOSIK", "LISA MONACO, OBAMA HOMELAND SECURITY & COUNTERTERRORISM ADVISER", "KOSIK", "HENICAN", "JOHNS", "HENICAN", "JOHNS", "HENICAN", "JOHNS", "HENICAN", "KOSIK", "HENICAN", "JOHNS", "HENICAN", "KOSIK", "HENICAN", "JOHNS", "HENICAN", "JOHNS", "HENICAN", "KOSIK", "HENICAN", "JOHNS"]}
{"id": "CNN-35361", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2001-7-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/22/tonight.05.html", "summary": "Indonesian President Wahid Disbands Parliament in Hopes to Stop Impeachment Proceedings", "utt": ["There is political turmoil in Indonesia at this hour. This afternoon, embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid declared a state of emergency and disbanded parliament in order to keep lawmakers from going forward with impeachment proceedings against him. Joining us on the telephone now to explain all this, CNN Jakarta bureau chief Maria Ressa. Maria, thanks for joining us.", "Thank you, Stephen. It's 5:00 in the morning here in Jakarta. About four hours ago, Mr. Wahid gave a decree -- in effect, it seems he tried to circumvent the Monday meeting of the People's Consultative Assembly, that's Indonesia's highest lawmaking body. That body began impeachment proceedings against Mr. Wahid on Saturday. These proceedings Mr. Wahid claims are unconstitutional. By attempting to freeze the legislature, Mr. Wahid was trying to stop that process. Legislators say what Mr. Wahid has done by declaring this state of emergency, that's what is unconstitutional. Lawmakers claim they will move ahead with immediate impeachment of Mr. Wahid, and that they expect this to swear in Megawati Sukarnoputri as president on Monday. We are seeing some support for Mr. Wahid start to crumble. Two of his cabinet ministers resigned, chief security minister and his cabinet secretary. Unfortunately, the standoff between the legislative and executive branches has reached a critical point, and now it's left to security forces here to determine which group -- which branch of government and who will be in charge of the country -- Stephen.", "Let's back up a little bit, Maria, and explain why lawmakers would like to impeach their president, and point out how democratically he was elected. As people here know, there's a long tradition of military-backed governments there?", "Absolutely. There was 32 years of almost autocratic, one man rule under former President Suharto. Mr. Wahid is the first democratically elected leader of this country in more than four decades. Initially, the accusation against Mr. Wahid were linked to financial scandals. However, he was cleared of any wrongdoing in those things. The police and the attorney general's office said that he did not have -- there wasn't sufficient evidence. But lawmakers continued to go ahead with a move to censure him -- censure is a process here in Indonesia that basically says legislature is unhappy with his action. The problem here really is that Indonesia is a parliamentary form of government, according to the 1945 constitution, with the veneer of the presidential government, that's the legacy of the former President Suharto here. And what we're seeing is different interpretation of the constitution. In some effect, depending on how you look at it, both of those interpretations are correct. Now, though, it's going to be up to the military and the police to tell the Indonesian people who, which branch of government, has the correct interpretation -- Stephen.", "Well, Maria, give us a sense of this -- is this just a philosophical battle between two political ideals, or are people on the streets nervous about how all of this is going to play out?", "It's very unclear exactly what the people think right now. Certainly, this battle between Wahid and legislators has been going on for more than a year, but what we're seeing now is a very much a wait-and-see attitude. Over the last few months, it's been wearying for many Indonesians, many of them say that they don't care much what goes on in the top levels of the political situation, what they care about is that they continue to make money. These are the people that we've spoken with on the streets: taxi cab drivers, office workers. Certainly one of the big problems Mr. Wahid had to face was the meltdown of the economy, and there is a lot of dissatisfaction about the way that's been handled, but he's also inherited a lot of sectarian problems: violence, religious violence, separatist violence. None of these problems have been solved, and that's really is the core problem that the legislators have pointed out. How do the Indonesian people feel -- it really remains to be seen. Mr. Wahid claims that if he is pushed out by lawmakers, that it will begin the disintegration, that some provinces of Indonesia would want to secede, lawmakers claim that that's just Mr. Wahid saying that, and that there's no evidence that will happen -- Stephen.", "Very, very briefly, Maria, as we let you go here. We've been looking at pictures of the armed forces out on the streets as you and I have been talking here. Are they in fact rolling around on the streets? Why were they called out?", "Since this afternoon, since Sunday afternoon, there's been the largest show of military force here in Indonesia. The military commander says that this is partly in response to the two bomb explosions that happened on Sunday, but also partly to show that the military will make sure that a repeat of the 1988 violence, when then-President Suharto was forced to step down, that that will not happen. However, what's interesting is that it's not quite sure exactly whether the military was out near the palace in support of Mr. Wahid, or to warn Mr. Wahid, and that's exactly what we need to see in the hours ahead -- Stephen.", "Sounds like unsettled times for you there. Maria, good luck in the coming hours, and thanks for bringing us up to date on all of that."], "speaker": ["STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR", "MARIA RESSA, CNN JAKARTA BUREAU CHIEF", "FRAZIER", "RESSA", "FRAZIER", "RESSA", "FRAZIER", "RESSA", "FRAZIER"]}
{"id": "CNN-208115", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2013-6-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/04/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Jose Mourinho Returns to Chelsea", "utt": ["Now the Special One is back at Chelsea. Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho has returned to the club he left suddenly in 2007. And he returns to Chelsea after a troubled spell at Real Madrid. And Mourinho spoke to ChelseaTV after his move.", "I am sorry that you don't start training tomorrow. I'm happy, though. I think -- I said the same to the players during the season when sometimes they are tired and they look tired and so on and so on, victories makes miracles. And when you win, win, win you are never tired. And in my case, it's not about winning, winning, it's about moving and moving to a place I love and happiness is much more stronger than tiredness. And so I'm so happy to be back. I'm ready to do it. I don't need only this (ph).", "Now Mourinho, he made his name at the English club by taking them to two Premier League titles and for his entertaining press conferences. He called himself the Speical One during one of his first press conferences in England. And then there was this.", "You want to know my team tomorrow. So why don't you ask me?", "What's your team tomorrow?", "(inaudible) I'm sorry.", "A classic walkoff. Now, meanwhile, Spanish giants Barcelona unveiled their latest star Neymar. Now thousands of fans greeted the Brazilian star in his first appearance after signing for the club. And the move teams the Brazilian with Argentine star Leo Messi, giving Barcelona two of the most talented attacking players in world football. Now members of the British royal family are celebrating 60 years since Queen Elizabeth's coronation. The queen, her husband, son and grandchildren gathered for a service in Westminster Abbey around three hours ago. Now British government officials and other dignitaries also attended with Prime Minister David Cameron giving a reading. Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1952, but her formal coronation did not take place until June 2, 1953. Now earlier, royal correspondent Max Foster filed this.", "Sixty years ago this week, the 27-year-old Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in a grand ceremony in Westminster Abbey. It was an occasion steeped in tradition and religious symbolism, the first coronation held in the exact same spot was for William the Conqueror in 1066. The queen returns to the Abbey to mark her coronation with special guests and close family.", "It's a moment of celebration and it's a moment of great pride and admiration. I mean, you - - you could go on and on and on. I mean, it's just -- what she has achieved and what she has seen over the last 60 years, I mean, for anybody to try and get their heads around would just be -- I mean, any normal person would just be like, wow, you know, that's incredible. You know, it's a -- there's a -- as well as being -- having a huge sense of pride about her being, you know, the sovereign of this country for the last 60 years and also the Commonwealth, you know, is also the pride of being able to show our support as grandchildren and as children to show that she's grown a very supportive family around her. Which, you know, I think anyone in that position certainly needs.", "Another grandchild, Prince William, also attending Tuesday's service, will be crowned there himself one day. He'll be accompanied by his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, who is bearing the unborn third in line to the British throne. Max Foster, CNN, London.", "And it's time to go Over and Out There with a bit of a tongue twister. The longest word in the German language has been retired. And here it is, all 63 letters of it. I'm not going to even try to pronounce it. Now the German language, it is famous for making new long words by sticking several existing ones together. And this one, it was introduced in 1999 to organize testing for mad cow disease, or BSE. And loosely translated, it means this, quote, \"law on the transfer of monitoring duties for labeling beef.\" So, the search is on for Germany's next longest word, but it might not make it into the dictionary. Now according to media reports, a spokesperson for the respected Duden dictionary says words this long are simply uncomfortable to say. And that is News Stream, but the news continues at CNN. World Business Today is next. END"], "speaker": ["LU STOUT", "JOSE MOURINHO, MANAGER CHELSEA FC", "LU STOUT", "MOURINHO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOURINHO", "LU STOUT", "MAX FOSTER, CNN INTERANATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "PETER PHILLIPS, QUEEN ELIZABETH'S GRANDSON", "FOSTER", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-408365", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2020-08-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/15/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Israel And UAE Strike Deal For \"Full Normalization Of Relations\".", "utt": ["The White House touting a major win in the Middle East this week after Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced a truly historic peace deal. The two nations agreed to normalize their relationship and unprecedented development in the history of Israel and the Gulf Arab states. And as part of the agreement, Israel will temporarily suspend plans to annex parts of the West Bank. CNN Global Affairs Analyst, Aaron David Miller, is joining us right now. He was a senior Middle East negotiator in the State Department during both Republican and Democratic administrations. And as you and I well know, we've covered this for a long time, certainly isn't the first peace deal in the Middle East between Israel and an Arab state. I remember I was a young reporter back in 1979, when Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty, establishing full diplomatic relations that's still in business. I went with President Bill Clinton to talk Aqaba, Jordan in 1994, when Israel and Jordan signed a peace deal that still remains in effect. How important, how significant is this one, Aaron, between Israel and the United Arab Emirates?", "You know, I think it's really interesting, Wolf, to follow the diverse reaction. On one hand, you've got a lot of people touting this as the greatest historical breakthrough since the invention of saran wrap. And on the other hand, you have people trying to trivialize it, and denigrate it by claiming it's a betrayal of the Palestinians and it's a step backward. And I think as usual, Wolf, the answer lies somewhere in between. I mean, unprecedented to be sure. The first of this process of normalization between the State of Israel and a Gulf Arab State, which is absolutely critical. And I think what it reflects, Wolf, is the kind of harsh reality that the region is changing, the rise of Iran, the resurgence of transnational jihadi terror, Arab state frustration, and exhaustion with the Palestinian problem and a strong desire, particularly in the part of the Emiratis, not just to improve their relationship with the Trump administration, they read the polls in Washington, they also want to position themselves in the event that Joe Biden becomes president. All of these factors have created a situation where more Arab States than ever before are willing to untether themselves, not completely, but to a large extent, from the Palestinian issue in order to follow their own interests.", "You know, it's interesting, the New York Times columnist, Tom Friedman, says this is a huge deal. David Ignatius, the columnist for The Washington Post says it's a huge deal. I think it's a huge deal as well, especially because it does open the door now, and tell me if you agree for Israel to normalize relations with other countries, whether Oman or Bahrain or Morocco in the Arab world. Do you think it will?", "I think it will, over time, assuming that a couple things kick in. This deal needs traction. First of all, the arrangements need to be worked out between the Emirates and the Israelis. And Israeli delegation is en route to Abu Dhabi probably next week to begin to work on these details. It'll be interesting also to see, Wolf, where the Emiratis decide to put their embassy, will it be in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv? But I think there's a really good chance that the Omanis, the Bahrainis, maybe even the Moroccans follow suit. And, of course, I'm not sure we're on the cusp of this, but the big prize, the one that would represent a sort of strategic reorientation is if the Israelis and the Saudis follow the same course that the Israelis and the Emiratis are on. All of this assumes, by the way, Wolf, that Mr. Netanyahu maintains his quote unquote, suspension of annexation. And there's one other missing piece, and that is as important as this is, there is still the reality of the unresolved Israeli-Palestinian issue. The Arabs have opened the door. The real question, and I think that's a stunning development. The real question is, whether or not, you can get traction on the Israeli Palestinian track and move that forward in the same direction, and I'm more dubious on that one.", "Well, that raises the important issue for those of us, I know you agree, and I agree that there should be, in the end, a two-state solution, Israel living alongside a new state of Palestine peaceful coexistence working together. Where does this impact the prospect of that? Because we've been getting a lot of negative reaction from the Palestinian Authority leadership.", "You know, I think it demonstrates to the Palestinians that the Arab states are prepared to significantly untether themselves. But at the same time, it leaves the Palestinians with very, very bad options. There is no serious option of armed struggle. And again, to be fair, neither the current government of Israel nor the Trump administration has in any way shape or form, in my judgment, offered, what you could call a fair and equitable basis for negotiation with Palestinians. Should the Arabs push both in that direction? And should an American administration respond positively? You might end up getting the beginnings of a serious negotiation. But I'm afraid, Wolf, that for the moment, we're going to be stuck in the space between the two-state solution that's too important still to abandon, in my judgment, on one hand, and a two-state solution that simply too difficult to implement on the other. And in that space, we're going to see how well, Israeli Arab state relations will be able to thrive.", "How much credit do you give the President of the United States, Jared Kushner, his senior advisor and son-in-law, for putting this deal together between the Israelis and the Emiratis?", "I knew you were going to ask me that question, Wolf. You know, this is a region where American ideas go to die. There's no question about it. And, frankly, looking at three years of the Trump administration in the Middle East, there are bumbles, stumbles, and fumbles, to some degree, actually, to a large degree. This represents a very smart play. Now, they built on an already emerging foundation, driven by arising Iran, which generated Israeli Arab state coincidence of interests, transnational Sunni jihadi terror, which did the same thing. But from the beginning of this administration, they made a bet that they could somehow persuade. And I'm not sure the Arab states needed much persuading, if in fact, they were to be well received in Washington. They made the Arab states a priority, the Saudis in particular. So, I think, in that respect, they built on a foundation. And there's no doubt that this required an enormous amount of personal interaction. It was likely between the president's son-in-law and the Emiratis. Let's just hope that they can be as skillful and willful on the rest of this broken, angry and dysfunctional region.", "Yes, the Israelis have had the secret contacts with a lot of these countries in recent years, but now going public, that's a major development. Aaron David Miller, as usual, thank you so much for joining us.", "Thank you, Wolf. Take care.", "All right. So, there's also breaking news coming out of Chicago right now where protesters have been demonstrating against police brutality. They're facing off with police this hour. We're going to Chicago when we come back."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "AARON DAVID MILLER, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST", "BLITZER", "MILLER", "BLITZER", "MILLER", "BLITZER", "MILLER", "BLITZER", "MILLER", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-276544", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2016-02-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/15/acd.01.html", "summary": "George W. Bush On The Campaign Trail For Brother Jeb", "utt": ["Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Welcome to the battle lines. Just five days left until they go before the voters in South Carolina. The leading Republican presidential candidates are for all intense and purposes at war with one another. Trump against Cruz. Cruz against Trump. Cruz against Rubio. Trump against Bush. Candidates calling other candidates unstable, liars, threatening lawsuits. Hasn't been this tough since Andrew Jackson supporters called John Quincy Adams a pimp and Adams' supporter called Jackson's wife, well, you'll have to look that one up because I'm not going to say it. Now, Jeb Bush who has been used by Trump at times as a political punching bag is punching back bringing his brother, the former president, into the fight. George W. Bush may have left office as one of the least popular presidents in history but he remains one of the most popular Republicans in South Carolina where he campaigned with his brother today and where Donald Trump was the unspoken subject. We'll have more on the impact he made from our Gary Tuchman.", "Former president George W. Bush with his wife Laura on the 2016 campaign trail to try to make his brother Jeb the next president.", "I came here for two reasons. One, because I care deeply about Jeb and, two, because I care deeply about our country.", "The two sons of another former president George H. W. Bush have not campaigned together during this election until now in South Carolina.", "There seems to be a lot of name calling going on. But I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans.", "George W. Bush did not mention Donald Trump by name, but there were clear inferences to the real estate mogul.", "I understand Americans are angry and frustrated. But we do not need someone in the oval office who mirrors and inflames our anger and frustration.", "And those inferences were sprinkled throughout the speech.", "Strength is not empty rhetoric. It's not bluster. And in my experience, the strongest person usually isn't the loudest one in the room.", "Jeb Bush is significantly behind in South Carolina primary polls but hopes this event provides a spark. If Jeb Bush doesn't stun the political world and win the South Carolina primary it will break the Bush family palmetto state winning streak. His brother won here in 2000 with uncontested and 2004. His father won in 1988 and 1992.", "It is a Bush country, man. South Carolina is Bush country.", "Many supporters here believe George W. Bush's brotherly campaign appearance can help change the dynamics in the state's primary.", "I think he was a wonderful president. I know he gets a lot of criticism. But I think given the cards he was dealt, he did a wonderful job.", "So you think this will help his brother's campaign?", "Yes.", "You think he can win South Carolina?", "I think he can. I think if he doesn't win, he's going to do very well.", "While many people here have supported Jeb Bush from the beginning, some others have gravitated towards him because of their dislike for one of the other Republican candidates. How does it make you feel when Donald Trump makes fun of Jeb by saying he's campaigning with his mommy and now brother.", "Juvenile is really the only word to say it. I think that is the only way to describe the way that he really is in general is very juvenile. Very child-like. And it's not really, I think, getting him anywhere with people who are really paying attention to things.", "But Donald Trump has a commanding lead in the polls. Much to the dismay of many people here who have supported Bushes in the past and plan to support this Bush in the immediate future this Saturday.", "I ask for your support next Saturday. I ask for your prayers for our family. God bless you all. Thank you very much for coming.", "Gary joins us from North Charleston, South Carolina. Sounds like President George W. Bush has a very positive reception there from what we saw. What do supporters think about him spending more time on the trail with his brother?", "Well, the second this event ended, Anderson, I heard a group of Jeb Bush supporters say why hasn't this guy been out on the trail more? And I talk to several people afterwards and they said they want to see him on the trail in the days to come. What was noble about the speech that George W. Bush spoke behind for about 22 minutes. His brother, wanting for president of the United States only 15 minutes. So the former president spoke longer than the man who hopes to be president. Also, an interesting side note here. At one point, George W. Bush said he doesn't really missed Washington and the White House after eight years and then a chant began. We miss you. We miss you, Mr. President. But the most noteworthy time of this evening, Anderson, was him slamming Donald Trump without once mentioning his name.", "All right, Gary. Thanks very much for the reporting. This, of course, is only the latest skirmish in a long running effort to put Jeb Bush in a corner using his brother's stance on Iraq and 9/11. Governor Bush himself has stumbled early on dealing with it. Fair to though, that no one has become better at twisting this particular night than Donald J. Trump who is finishing up a rally right now in Greenville, South Carolina. Take a look at this moment from Saturday night's debate.", "I could care less about the insults that's Donald Trump gives to me. It's blood sport for him. He enjoys it. And I'm glad he's happy about it. But I have -- I am sick and tired of him going after my family. My dad is the greatest man alive in my mind. And while -- while Donald Trump was building a reality TV show, my brother was building a security apparatus to keep us safe. And I'm proud of what he did. He's had the gall to go after --", "The world trade center came down in your brother's reign. Remember that.", "Let me finish -- he's had the gall to go after my mother.", "That's not keeping us safe.", "Joining us now CNN political commentator and former Reagan White House political director Jeffrey Lord who supports Trump. National Republican consultant and former South Carolina Republican party chairman Katon Dawson and CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash. Dana, what do you make, first of all, the former president George W. Bush's comments tonight? I mean, certainly, the gloves are off when it comes to Trump but avoiding his name is interesting.", "It was. Look. I mean, he didn't have to say his name. Everybody knew who he was talking about. Everybody knew what he was talking about. He has kind of made it his life's work post-White House to not delve into politics. Even going where he went tonight was way further than he has for years n years and years. But I actually think in some ways it was more powerful and, you know, dare we say presidential for him to do it the way he did by talking about his traits without saying his name and comparing and contrasting the Donald Trump that we have all come to know with the Jeb Bush that we hear Jeb Bush explain. You know, the fact that he is a quiet leader and so on and so forth. The way that he compared and contrasted that I think was pretty powerful.", "Katon, it is interesting. You know South Carolina better than anyone, certainly. I heard some people saying, you know, it was interesting to see Jeb Bush and his brother side by side one after the other. Their styles are obviously very different. I'm wondering how you think this played in South Carolina.", "I think it will play real well. George Bush when he was president of the United States came to South Carolina eight different times raising money for Mark Sanford, raising money for Lindsey Graham, electing Jim DeMint to U.S. Senate. Certainly, eight times is a lot for a president compared to Barack Obama, one time in eight years. So that builds a base. His dad has been here. And what I saw was some confidence out of Jeb Bush that I haven't seen in the past. And that was with his brother showing up. I'm not sure, unless President Bush stays on the trail with him, that he can keep that momentum. He's pretty far down in the polls. Trump made some tactical errors on Saturday night. The exchange that you showed with Jeb going after Donald Trump on the issue of 9/11, I think one thing to make note is CNN and 2012, your exit polls showed 55 percent of South Carolinians made their mind up the last week of the election. And I contend that's getting ready to happen now.", "Jeffrey, I mean, what about that? These attacks by Donald Trump and the Bush family calling George W. Bush fair game, attacking again on 9/11 occurring during his presidency. Do you see that resonating in a state like South Carolina especially with the amount of military voters?", "Well, I think it's possible. Anderson, I spent the day going back through the 2000 South Carolina primary. And it was pretty rugged. It was between George W. Bush and John McCain. And one of the things I think we're not thinking of here is the return of George W. Bush, President Bush, to the campaign trail. It's going to bring forth all the - sort of dig up the South Carolina primary of 2000 in the way the Bush family treated John McCain. Today they are saying he's a hero but it's obvious the Bush campaign and their allies in 2000 were slamming him as being, and I'm quoting from an article in \"vanity fair,\" crazy, having fathered a black child out of wedlock. I mean, Mrs. McCain was supposed to be a drug addict. It was really pretty savage and left a pretty bad taste in senator McCain's mouth that I think took him quite a while to get over. So I think that's something that Donald Trump is going to, you know, be looking at here as the Bushes return to try and do this again.", "Katon, what about that? I mean, South Carolina politics are legendarily tough.", "There are tough. And I was a member of the '99-00 Bush squad. I was chairman in 2004 and I was chairman in 2008. So we also nominated John McCain for the presidency in South Carolina. I think all that is eye wash talking about those former races won't matter. I think in the next couple of days, what's going to matter is the posturing. We're getting ready to have 700,000 people vote. About 100,000, none of the campaigns know exactly who they are, Anderson. That's going to be a big difference. I think that Donald makes a big mistake if he wants to make an issue of George W. Bush in South Carolina, a big tactical mistake. A guy with a pretty good lead, a pretty solid base and maybe some numbers are telling him he needs to do that. But he was in good shape. Right now the field is open. Rubio had a good night. Cruz had a bad night on Saturday. But the voters are open and I listened to them today, Anderson. They are moving. They are talking about it and there's a lot of energy and excitement here. And it's going to get a little rougher. So if anybody wants to start whining in South Carolina, the voters will usually punish you for that.", "Just no whining zone. We are going to pick up the conversation after a short break, focus on the Trump/Cruz battle as well. There is a lot of fascinating stuff there. Later the showdown over naming a Supreme Court justice. Republicans vowing to block any nominee that President Obama puts forward."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "TUCHMAN", "G. BUSH", "TUCHMAN", "G. BUSH", "TUCHMAN", "G. BUSH", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TUCHMAN", "JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "COOPER", "TUCHMAN", "COOPER", "J. BUSH", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "J. BUSH", "TRUMP", "COOPER", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "KATON DAWSON, FORMER CHAIRMAN, SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN PARTY", "COOPER", "JEFFREY LORD, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "COOPER", "DAWSON", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-232419", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-6-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/11/cnr.01.html", "summary": "14-Year-Old Boy Killed in Oregon School Shooting; Gun Debate Reignited", "utt": ["A soccer player, a great friend, is how those that knew Emilio Hoffman describe him. Hoffman, a 14-year-old freshman, was shot and killed yesterday at Reynolds High School outside of Portland, Oregon. He's the latest victim of school violence. All started yesterday when a lone killer armed with an assault rifle opened fire in a gym locker room, killing Hoffman. Todd Rispler, a PE teacher, was also injured. He was grazed by a bullet but he is expected to be OK. Close to 3,000 students took cover in their classrooms, the doors locked and the lights turned off, as SWAT teams moved in.", "Reynolds High School, heard shots fired in the locker room. At least one person down.", "We need the robot inside. We've got a suspect down on the toilet where we cannot see him.", "We heard Mr. Dixon come over the intercom and say this is no the a drill. We need to go into lockdown right now.", "He was carrying a gun running after one of our teachers.", "The gunman was found dead inside the school. Sources telling CNN he likely shot himself. And while police are not identifying him, they do say he was a student at the school. This latest incident of gun violence in our schools have lit a huge fire under the gun debate again. By one count, there have been 74 school shootings since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012. President Obama vented his frustrations, calling gun violence off the charts and that we should all be ashamed.", "The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It's not the only country that has psychosis. Yet, we kill each other these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than any place else. Well, what's the difference? The difference is that these guys can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses and that's sort of par for the course. So the country has to do some soul searching about this. This is becoming the norm.", "Cliff Schecter, who wrote an op-ed for \"The Daily Beast\" takes it a step farther, blaming the NRA. He writes in \"The Daily Beast\" column, quote: \"We are reaping what they have sowed. Their rhetoric, their firearms policies, their followers. If we want to change things, it starts with not sugar-coating or ignoring the treasonous and murderous role played by the leaders of the NRA, but by acknowledging it and taking them on every day.\" Well, let's talk about that because those are strong words. Joining me now is Cliff Schecter. Welcome. Those are tough words. Some might say too tough. Can you hear me, Cliff? Well, we don't have audio, do we? Shall we take a break and come back? All right. We're going to go to break and come back with more right after this. I apologize."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COSTELLO", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-342382", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2018-06-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/11/acd.01.html", "summary": "President Trump Arrives at Summit Site, Kim Jong-un En Route", "utt": ["It is just before 8:00 a.m. here in Singapore. Any minute now, President Trump will leave his hotel here on the mainland and travel south by motorcade to another hotel, the Capella on Sentosa Island, where he'll become the first American president, sitting American president, to sit down with a North Korean dictator, first, with only Kim and each side's interpreters in the room. Kim's motorcade, it looks like it is gearing up to go very shortly outside his hotel, so are the vehicles for President Trump. That's a view right outside the hotel of Kim Jong-un at St. Regis. President Trump is expected to leave a short time after Kim Jong-un. This will be at least to start a one-on-one meeting with a nuclear-armed dictator, who runs perhaps the most repressive regime on the planet. The summit's goal right now unclear. The president last week described it as a getting to know you meeting plus. But lately, his advisors have been aiming higher, using the phrase denuclearization. Just a short time ago, the president tweeted a number of tweets early in the morning. Quoting now: The fact that I'm having a meeting is a major loss for the U.S. say the haters and losers. We have our hostages, testing research and all missile launches have stopped", "It is indeed, Anderson, and it is the one-on-one meeting that really I think speaks volumes about this entire summit it is the force of their personalities on both sides that really has led them to this point. President Trump obviously eager to have this meeting, even as some of his advisors only a couple weeks ago we're saying there's not time to set this up, the president disregarded all of that, so he is here in Singapore. Kim Jong-un is here as well. And we are going to see a lot of differences, first and foremost. President Trump turned 72 years old this week, the oldest elected U.S. president. Of course, Kim Jong-un, some 34 years old, differences in many ways but the age difference here will certainly be front and center. But we do know for all that president has been saying he's not been preparing, he's been reading up on Kim Jong-un and his grandfather as well, I'm told. So, look for us some conversations about family history perhaps. But, Anderson, at the center of all of this, the president wants to persuade Kim Jong-un that it is in his interest in his country's interests to relinquish his nuclear program.", "And, Jeff, I mean, it would certainly be an understatement to say that there there's a lot riding on this meeting both for President Trump and for Kim Jong-un, although for Kim Jong-un, he has achieved already what his father and grandfather did not and certainly longed for which was a sort of a legitimization of meeting the president of United States of being on the world stage with other world leaders.", "He has indeed, Anderson. I mean, he has won in many respects. I was out on the streets of Singapore last evening as Kim Jong-un was, you know, essentially going around and seeing the sights. He rarely if ever leaves his regime, he rarely leaves North Korea. There he was getting somewhat of a positive welcome here. So, he has won in many respects because he is now on the world stage. Everyone is watching this meeting. President Trump though is trying to ease concern of allies. I'm told that he has had conversations with the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. He's had conversations with the leader of South Korea as well, President Moon Jae-in. So, this is something that the President Trump is trying to reassure others that everything will go fine in this meeting. But, Anderson, for minutes, a one-on-one conversation with translators only certainly is going to set the table for how the rest of this day is going to unfold. Then their advisers are coming in. I'm told they'll meet for about an hour and a half or so and then they're scheduled to have a working lunch. But those early critical minutes and the photo opportunity we see I think will set the stage for what is to come certainly even beyond Singapore.", "Yes. Jeff, we'll continue check in with you. The pictures obviously you're seeing right now outside Kim Jong-un's hotel which is the St. Regis Hotel, not too far from where President Trump is staying as well. The Kim motorcade will be leaving first we are told. It's obviously all lined up. The security here is extraordinarily tight. It has been for the last several days, but particularly today. Actually, we were just now been told the President Trump has actually left his hotel. It was initially we've been told that Kim would leave his hotel first, but President Trump we're told has left his hotel. Alexandra Field is at the St. Regis where Kim Jong-un and his entourage could departing any minute as well. How long is it going to take, Alexandra, do we know, for Kim Jong-un's entourage to get to Sentosa Island to the -- to the location?", "Well, the meeting starts at 9:00. So, they're going to have to leave here shortly. It's only about ten kilometers away. That's just a few miles really. We estimate between minutes and half an hour, though certainly he will be with a large motorcade. You assume they'll be able to move through these streets quickly. Evidence of that, the fact that this street that we're standing on is shut down. Really, the spotlight on Kim Jong-un right now as he officially gets ready to step on to the world stage, achieving something his father couldn't achieve, achieving something his grandfather could not achieve -- this sit down with the acting president of the United States. There is, of course, a lot of security out here, Anderson. Singaporean police officers are keeping the crowds back right now, not enormous crowds, mostly press frankly, but a lot of people stopping, hoping to get a glimpse of Kim Jong-un making his way through the city streets of Singapore, something that seems inconceivable just months ago and unlikely weeks ago. Look at this, Anderson. You can start to see the motorcade moving forward now there will be dozens of vehicles at the lead here you've got Singaporean police on a motorbike followed by police vehicles. We should soon see Kim Jong-un emerging in a limousine this convoy has included two different limousines. It's never clear which one Kim Jong-un is in. We also typically see them traveling with large white buses. Those are buses filled, Anderson, with the men in suits, the runners, who you have seen, of course, jogging alongside Kim Jong-un's limousine at times. It's sort of that iconic image you saw during the North Korea/South Korea summit. You have seen it while Kim Jong-un has been here in Singapore. So, it could be any minute now that Kim Jong-un actually gets into that vehicle, makes his way to this meeting that did certainly seem unlikely. This is a new era for Kim Jong-un. He has called it that we're seeing news in North Korea has called this the possibility of a new era, but what we have seen is really the emergence of a dictator who was an incredibly reclusive figure just months ago, now in Singapore ready to meet the U.S. president. He has already met the Chinese president twice, traveling out of the country two times to do that. He has traveled, of course, to meet the South Korean president. And he's been spotted throughout Singapore. He was greeted by the foreign minister when he arrived here. He then went to visit with the prime minister and then in a surprising move, the motorcade picked him up at the St. Regis last night after dark and he was given essentially a sightseeing tour of Singapore, Anderson. There was even a selfie with Singapore's foreign minister, just a dramatic shift in the image that we have come to expect from Kim Jong-un. But this is the moment that he waited for, the opportunity to come face to face with the president. We've said it so often, Anderson, what comes of this meeting will really have to do with the chemistry between these two men. Certainly, the goals have been established. The United States, the administration saying that they are seeking the complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantlement of nuclear weapons, but not being able to at this point have any concrete agreement from North Korea about what action they could take. North Korea has agreed that the premise of this meeting is about denuclearization. They said as much in a state news report that was released just a day ago, saying this is about U.S. and North Korean relations, that it's about the issue of denuclearization, that it is also about a mechanism for security on the peninsula. So, we're just minutes away now it seems, Anderson, from seeing how this all plays out and, of course, we know President Trump believes that he'll know how it's going to play out within just the first minute -- Anderson.", "Yes, Alexandra Field. I want to go next to CNN's Manisha Tank. On the right side of your screen, we might start to see the president's motorcade. We believe that the president's motorcade may emerge from under that bridge there. That's on the right-hand side of your screen. On the left is outside Kim Jong-un's hotel where the motorcade looks like it's preparing some of the motorcycle out riders and such. But it's not actually gotten underway yet. Manisha Tank who lives here also joins us not far from Sentosa Island there. The beginning of the president's motorcade we believe, some advanced Singaporean police vehicles. Manisha, as we continue to watch these images, to get our first look at President Trump's motorcade, get us -- give us a sense of Sentosa Island, how far it is from where of them is staying and why they picked that location?", "Yes, well, let's agree for a second, Anderson, that behind every big action, whether it's on an international stage or domestic begins with a thought, and there's a wonderful thought behind this. Sentosa is a word just derived from Sanskrit for peace. It's derived from the word santos (ph), which means peace. So, what a great positive place to begin. This is a resort island behind me and it is set off from the mainland of Singapore by just a bridge. So, to the left of me, I can see a number of police patrols which have picked up over the course of the morning, but to the right of me is that one bridge that connects the two -- that connects the land and that is where we will see the motorcade could pass, and in fact, we've just seen a number of motorbikes swoop up that road. They're going to lock down that road. It's been quite remarkable actually how the Singaporean security forces, how the police are able to shut down these roads so quickly to allow these motorcade through and then shut them down again. In terms of how far this is from the hotel, yes, we're talking about a 15 to 30-minute drive. But I would say, let's cut that down to or so because with all those roads clear, it's very easy to get down here on Singapore's very clean and very convenient road system. Now, once they're on there, they're going to travel to a luxury resort called the Capella. We've been hearing about it with it --", "I'm sorry, Manisha, I just want people to know, obviously, that is -- that is President Trump's motorcade there. It's our first glimpse we're getting of it, Manisha. We saw some of those motorcycle advanced riders but there is the president's limousine as it heads to Sentosa Island as Manisha was saying. There is just one road from a Singapore to the island itself. It's obviously a place that can be secured in much more easily than the rest of the city here, given that there is just one road. There's also cable cars that go. The president's motorcade moving very slowly. We haven't seen President Trump out and about really at very much at all, certainly on the streets in Singapore. He met with the prime minister of Singapore yesterday, and also some diplomatic personnel. He's obviously been meeting with his team at the hotel, but we did see those remarkable images of Kim Jong-un going for a bit of a walk about yesterday down by the gardens, by the bay, and also to a hotel were surrounded by bodyguards. But there you see the president's very long motorcade as it slowly heads towards Sentosa Island. The president first to leave his hotel. Kim Jong-un, he has yet to depart from the -- from the hotel. But there are certainly a lot of people who are very anxious to see what goes on, that the timing of all this -- that's the view outside Kim Jong-un's hotel -- the timing of this is in about 9:00 is when the meeting is supposed to begin, the handshake is supposed to begin. And that, of course, will be a historic moment. I also want to -- as we continue to look at these images, Manisha, thank you. I want to be joined by CNN's chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto. Jim, hard to overstate just how unusual, historic, unprecedented and unclear how this moment is going to go.", "Yes. Let's start with the unprecedented. As we watch this mobilization, right, all --", "Kim Jong-un, sorry, Jim, Kim Jong-un is --", "Sure.", "As you see, Kim Jong-un's motorcade now has just started to begin. We're told he is leaving the hotel. So, Jim, I'm sorry, continue as we continue to watch this.", "Well, it's perfect timing there. So, now you have the North Korean leader mobilizing -- moving towards this meeting with the U.S. president. We saw the president mobilizing towards this meeting these discussions. Remember, just a few months ago, we were talking about an entirely different kind of mobilization, a mobilization for war, the prospect of military action raised very publicly by this president, but also we know, we've reported private discussions, very serious discussions about taking military action against North Korea. That's just a few months ago. And now, these two leaders who have described each other in the most unfriendly, most belligerent terms are going to be sitting across from each other, talking about the possibility at least of making an agreement of a lasting peace. So, that's the unprecedented part. The uncertain part, Anderson, is what exactly they're going to agree to today if anything in hard terms. And we're going to have to watch a statement, assuming they do agree on a written statement, for the language that is used. Is the word denuclearization in there? That would be quite a concession for the North Koreans to commit to that publicly. But then what is the definition of denuclearization? Have they reached that definition in public or in private? Does it include the whole peninsula? This is -- this is a phrasing that the Secretary of State Pompeo used yesterday, denuclearization of the peninsula. Does that mean that the U.S. makes a commitment to lift in effect the nuclear umbrella from South Korea, which is essential and quite important to its own security? Does it make that concession?", "And, Jim -- Jim, I just want to tell our viewers, this is actually the same motorcade from two different angles. This is Kim Jong-un's motorcade leaving the hotel. It's two different camera locations, so it can be a bit confusing to see. But there you see on the left-hand side, you really see the start of the motorcade. From the right-hand side, you see a different angle for their back. Christiane Amanpour is joining us as well, watching all of this. I mean, this is an extraordinary moment whatever comes of it and that's one of the things that makes it so extraordinary is we really have no idea what is going to go on in that meeting between these two world leaders.", "Well, we don't, and we've heard sort of parameters of both sides talking about what they want to achieve and what would be in both sides' interests. But you're right, once the two leaders get into that room together with just their translators, it's going to be pretty much up to them. I have to say, I'm absolutely captivated by the choreography of it all. And as you describe the different motorcades in which one went first, I have read somewhere that protocol is incredibly important and who is in the room first is quite significant because apparently, the who's in the room first goes to the senior head of state, the senior member of the meeting. And potentially, if it's Donald Trump, he'll be in the actual meeting room first and then the present the leader of North Korea will come in, and you can see at least in their departures, President Trump has left first and maybe they're ready to meet and welcome Kim Jong-un when he gets there. But I think that's really interesting. Look, I was just -- David Sanger of \"The New York Times\" just sitting here as well.", "David Sanger is here, also Ambassador Joseph Yun.", "Yes, I'm -- I just remember as if it was yesterday when President Reagan got in a room on his own with the leader of the Soviet Union, Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986 in Reykjavik, Iceland, and I believe the first part of the meeting was just with their translators and that meeting didn't go well. I mean, President Reagan was criticized very heavily afterwards by his own side for practically giving away the shop. I am not saying that that is what's going to happen today, but there is historical precedents for why we're all curious as to what might happen in a room when they're just there. And, of course, apparently, it's only 45 minutes long, maybe their ministers can come in and elaborate on what they may have spoken to. But I do think it's really interesting. You won't have a written record necessarily or actually what was said in that crucial first meeting.", "It's one of the things. I mean, David Sanger, you've been looking at negotiating styles of President Trump. President Trump has said he felt like he's prepared his whole life for this, whether that is actually true or not. I mean, do we know how much Kim Jong-un knows of details of nuclear policy, of -- I mean how capable he is of getting into the weeds in a one-on-one meeting like this?", "Well, we do know from Secretary Pompeo that Kim Jong-un seems to know his brief and understand the structure of the North Korean nuclear program in quite some detail. And remember, for Kim Jong-un, this nuclear program is the legacy, the patrimony of his father and his grandfather. Particularly important to him is the grandfather. He cuts his hair and wears his suits to look like the grandfather. He has really gone out of his way to sort of remind his people of Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea.", "He's even said that he may have intentionally gained weight in order to resemble his grandfather more.", "Right. Now, how could that play in today? In 1992, and his grandfather was still alive, it's the last two years of his life, North Korea and South Korea signed a denuclearization agreement and an agreement to basically move toward much more normal relations. I'm old enough that I actually covered that as a young reporter in Asia. And at the -- at the time, it looked like sort of peace was at hand. At the time, North Korea didn't actually have any nuclear weapons. Today, they have 20 to 60 and a vastly larger nuclear setup than they did. So, one possibility is that President Trump goes back and sort of reminds Kim Jong-un of what his grandfather agreed to and goes back to wording very similar to the 1992 accord which would be easier for him to handle because it was his grandfather's.", "We're told President Trump has arrived at the meeting location on Sentosa Island. The views you're seeing or two views which we believe will get a view of Kim Jong-un's motorcade, as it heads toward Sentosa Island. So, as you as you continue watch it, that's why we're seeing this empty road. It's obviously been cleared by police, by authorities. As we said, security is extraordinary and tight. Ambassador Yun, I mean, your expectation is, is what for this initial meeting? There had been talk 12 hours ago that this meeting could go on for two hours, which seemed an extraordinary long amount of time. Christiane is talking about perhaps 45 minutes. It's hard to know how each is going to play this.", "Anderson, I mean, it is a momentous day. And quite honestly, having worked on Korean issues for many, many decades, I didn't think I would see this.", "Really?", "So, it is moving at, you know, to be here with you all, watching it unfold right in front of us. What do I expect? I mean, I do think personal chemistry is important, and that's really being the strength of President Trump.", "Why? Why is that it's so important with Kim Jung-on?", "You know, whenever I talk to North Koreans, they say nothing can be resolved on our level. You and I, we can meet 200 times and nothing can be resolved. These issues can only be resolved at leaders level, and I don't know how many times I've heard that and so, North Koreans way more than us are getting their wish and you got to believe that they're getting their wish to get their point of view heard by United States.", "That's one thing that Governor Bill Richardson, who's also been to North Korean a number of times and had a number of negotiations had said, is that the deals aren't done at the negotiating table. It's often done on the side afterwards, sort of negotiating table is for bellicose statements or discussion.", "And you would know better than better than me but it seems to me that usually negotiations are done and then the leaders come and sign off and do the handshake and the -- remember after the Palestinian-Israeli in the Oslo Accords on the White House norm. But I think also, it's massively important, this idea of trust. We heard from President Moon Jae-in of South Korea that one of the huge things that separates North Korea from the United States is trust. This more than half-century of distrust and war between them that has never actually been addressed. And with the best will in the world, these kinds of meetings have to establish a baseline of some kind of trust. So, perhaps the meeting at this time between the two leaders can help towards that vital issue.", "I think that's a crucial point Christiane is making. There is no trust. So what is it that we should look for to see, yes, they're building trust? Certainly, one of them is opening I would call liaison offices. These diplomatic outposts --", "Right, there's currently no diplomatic representation in the United States in -- Sweden -- the Swedish embassy handles affairs for the", "And that's a good confidence-building measure, but it cannot be taken away easily. Once, you set up, moved people there, so that's the beginning of a trust building. And so, I want to see some of that coming up. Humanitarian assistance, do we promise the humanitarian assistance? Even cultural exchanges, dance troops coming. Remember ping-pong diplomacy? So, all those are part of trust that that needs to be built out.", "There just the beginning of Kim Jong-un's motorcade.", "We were actually in North Korea for some philharmonic diplomacy in 2008. The U.S. -- New York Philharmonic went to Pyongyang and it was an amazing moment, and it did lead to a little bit more political and nuclear negotiations between then the Bush administration and Kim Jong-il, his father's administration. But then after a period of time, that sort of collapsed.", "David Sanger, though, you know, it's not just a lack of trust. It's a different definition of terms, of terminology. I mean, when we're talking about denuclearization, as has been often said, the North Korean vision for what the denuclearization, they are talking about denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, not just -- you know, the U.S. talks about it as North Korea giving up its nuclear weapons.", "Well, this gets right to the point that Joe was making about why only leaders could go do this, because when we talk about it, we talk only about what we need the North Koreans to give up. In their view, we have bombers, ships, submarines all off the North Korean coasts that could hit North Korea with nuclear weapons at any moment and so, they're looking for us to pull back not only on troops but on exercises and so forth. And this is going to hit a very critical and hard issue for President Trump. It was I think a remarkable instinct that he had here and I think an important one that he had to do this meeting ahead of the negotiation, build that trust. But when you actually get into the negotiation, President Trump himself if anything wants to see our nuclear forces built back up. He said so himself. We can reach North Korea from -- with missiles in Nebraska and the Dakotas, so we don't actually need to have those ships around. But the president's going to have to make a very hard decision about how broadly to include America's role in denuclearization. And if you removed the nuclear umbrella, something the president discussed with me and Maggie Haberman when we did foreign policy interviews with him during the campaign. That could then trigger a nuclear arms race as South Korea and Japan seek their own weapons. That's a very fine line he's got to walk through.", "I mean, that's an important point, which is the desires and the concerns of South Korea, but also of Japan. Because even if North Korea was to get rid of, you know, intercontinental ballistic missiles, long range, they're still short range, medium range, which could hit Japan. There's also issues Japan is very interested in with return of people who were kidnapped from Japan by North Korea.", "This is Japan's big fear, that they'll get sold out along the way here, that the president's more interested in the intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach us, they didn't get deeply involved in this, that the North Koreans have been able to hit South Korea and Japan with nuclear weapons for some time. And then, of course, as you say, the abductees, a huge political issue in Japan. It's one of the reasons you saw Prime Minister Abe come to see President Trump last week to sort of remind him that his issues have to be represented as well.", "In fact, you know, there are only abductees that we know about.", "That's right.", "That's a rather small number for the obsession that Japan has with this and I recall very, very clearly how Japan's obsession with this particular issue was part of what didn't go right in the 2008 negotiations. We continue to see these motorcades. Kim Jong-un.", "Yes, Kim Jong-un's vehicle.", "But to David's point about nuclearization of this area, that's what the prime minister of Singapore voiced to meet his concern, is that South Korea, Japan may be forced to go nuclear if the United States decides to, you know, pull its forces and its umbrella back, and that would be a whole different shift in the balance of power, the balance of forces, and you've got -- you know, what may or may not happen in the Middle East with the rupture of the Iran nuclear deal. So, it's -- the idea of trying -- deciding whether to remove us forces and nuclear umbrellas has so many sort of --", "Look, it's also got to be a concern for allies, South Korea and Japan, given -- there you see Kim Jong-un's motorcade. We're getting a really good image. You can see some -- I believe that's North Korean state television sticking out of the vehicle, the entourage for Kim has extensive state media coverage, almost -- Will Ripley earlier were saying, they have almost as many videographers and photographers as they do a bodyguard security personnel in their entourage, and they have been very -- very quick to turn video around of Kim Jong-un. There you see, though, \"welcome to Sentosa Island\", the island where this is taken and it's rare in North Korea. You can hear some birds early in the morning here. The sun is rising. It's very rare North Korea, for North Korean media to be reporting on an event like this while it is still taking place.", "Absolutely very rare, and even yesterday, they talked about denuclearization. Our leader is going to this huge meeting in Singapore to meet the leader of the United States to talk about peace and denuclearization. So, that was very unusual. I think that, you know, going back to what Christiane said earlier when we look at the interests of neighbors, Japanese interests as Christiane said, Chinese interests, South Korean interests, don't forget Russian interests, you know? The real problem throughout decades had been they've not been all the same, you know?", "Right.", "They have all wanted denuclearization, but priority very different.", "China's interests as well.", "Exactly, China, they want denuclearization, but more than that, they want to have the same regime in place in North Korea.", "Right. For China, a unified North and South Korea oriented toward the West is a concern.", "It's not a good news for them. And same with Russia -- for Russia, a nuclear North Korea has been a good annoyance for the United States. And so, they want to keep on at it. Sure, they want non- proliferation, but they'd rather have U.S. preoccupied, you know, than absolutely denuclearized.", "You also got a sense of just of the power of China in all this, just the plane that Kim Jong-un took down here, he flew on a Chinese plane, a plane provided by China and not a North Korean aircraft.", "Well, having been on North Korean aircraft when I've gone in and out of North Korea a few times, I don't really blame him. It's not what you really want your frequent flyer points on. But that said, Joe is exactly right. The Chinese are interested mostly in the status quo right now. And to some degree, this is why Kim Jong-un is a double winner before they even turn out a communique. First, he is being shown to his own people at par with the President of the United States. The President of the United States picked up, flew halfway around the world to meet the leader of the small broken repressive country that as you point out is one of the great human rights violators of all time. Showing the degree of respect that Kim thinks he's due. But secondly, just because he's engaged in this process, Anderson, the Chinese have begun to lift some of those sanctions, so of the righteous. So to some degree, the pressure is coming off, even though he hasn't agreed to a thing.", "And the U.S. had been talking about maximum pressure and maintaining maximum pressure, a difficult thing to do though?", "Putting that back together now would be very hard. So the Chinese are thinking out this, if we just get North Korea and the United States into a head lock here, where they're in a discussion, even if it takes forever. President Trump can't go and do a unilateral attack while he's talking to a country.", "Yes.", "And that was their big fear last summer.", "I want to go to our Jeff Zeleny who's been getting some more information about the meeting ahead and some planning by the U.S. Jeff?", "Anderson, every detail of this has indeed been gone over with the President. What is going to happen from this point forward here. And one key detail I'm told if talk repeatedly about how big should he smile. Should the President smile at all? How should be great Kim Jong-un? Now there's one school of thought he has been advised against, you know, to welcoming of a greeting, because it could be used as propaganda against the U.S. The President is likely to take his own advice on this and most advisers believe that he will be polite, respectful, but Anderson, I'm told by one senior U.S. official, the President is keeping in mind today the family of Otto Warmbier, of course, the college students killed by the regime in North Korea last year. So that is one of the things I'm told going through the President's mind right now. He's very aware of all these images as well. But that will be a fascinating moment when we see the two at that photo opportunity coming here. But for all the talk of not a lot of planning and preparation, Anderson, I'm told there's actually been a lot of conversations about the detail and significance of every single moment. Anderson.", "Yes, Jeff, we're told Kim Jong-un has also now arrived at the venue. Both leaders on Sentosa Island where the meeting is going to take place, the handshake took around 9:00 a.m. here local time, 9:00 p.m. on the east coast of the United States. We're going to pick up the conversation shortly, hear from someone who knows firsthand what it's like to face the North Koreans negotiating table. Talk about an earlier former U.N. ambassador, Bill Richardson joins us as our coverage continues."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "ZELENY", "COOPER", "ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "MANISHA TANK, CNN REPORTER", "COOPER", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "SCIUTTO", "COOPER", "SCIUTTO", "COOPER", "CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "AMANPOUR", "COOPER", "DAVID SANGER, CNN POLITICAL & NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "COOPER", "SANGER", "COOPER", "JOSEPH YUN, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST", "COOPER", "YUN", "COOPER", "YUN", "COOPER", "AMANPOUR", "YUN", "COOPER", "U.S. YUN", "COOPER", "AMANPOUR", "COOPER", "SANGER", "COOPER", "SANGER", "AMANPOUR", "SANGER", "AMANPOUR", "COOPER", "AMANPOUR", "COOPER", "YUN", "COOPER", "YUN", "COOPER", "YUN", "COOPER", "YUN", "COOPER", "SANGER", "COOPER", "SANGER", "COOPER", "SANGER", "COOPER", "ZELENY", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-199934", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-1-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/25/cnr.04.html", "summary": "After the Hoax, Marketing Manti Te'o", "utt": ["Manti Te'o has already begun a very public campaign to repair his image and his future in the NFL, like a huge amount of money is ride on whether he can contain the damage from that hoax over his imaginary girlfriend. Te'o maintains he's a victim of a cruel prank, not a willing participant, but he does admit he continued with the story of his dying girlfriend even after learning she was merely a creation of the Internet. Listen to what he told Katie Couric.", "You stuck to the script and you knew that something was amiss, Manti.", "Correct.", "Why?", "Well, anybody who put himself in my situation -- Katie, put yourself in my situation. This girl I committed myself to died on September 12th. Now I get a phone call on December 6 saying that she's alive and then I'm going to be put on national TV two days later and ask me about the same question. You know, what would you do?", "What would you do? Bob Dorfman is a sports marketing analyst and executive vice president with Baker Street Advertising. Good morning, Bob.", "Good morning.", "You know, there's no doubt that the media in large part packaged Manti Te'o into this likeable emotional figure so that people would watch football games, is that fair?", "That's fair. I mean I think it really is part of his personality, but, yes, you know, every successful athlete is a brand so in a sense they're packaged a little bit.", "Exactly. And it seems you don't get attention unless you have this touching story or you came up from hard knocks to become this huge success, otherwise forget it. Nobody's going to pay attention to you.", "That's true. Again, you know, the backstory becomes very important. You know, there's hundreds of guys in the NFL. If you have a strong backstory, that certainly helps your marketability.", "So who like promotes the backstory. Does the athlete go to the media? Does the media go to the athlete? I mean how does that happen?", "It's a combination of both. If you're a successful athlete, you're getting interviewed after the games. The more you get interviewed, the more you get into your personal life. You have an agent who's also working with you and trying to tell your story. So it's a little bit of both sides.", "So here's this kid. He's what, 21 years old at the most maybe and he has this great backstory and the media's latched onto it. They believe every word he said. And then he finds out it's a lie and he's going to go on national television and you heard him. He says what would you do? So as a marketing expert, what should he have done and do you understand why he chose to do what he did? Well, the big question right now is what's the truth? I mean this story hasn't played out yet. I watched him last night on Katie Couric and he certainly seemed sincere. It's hard to imagine that he's clever enough, you know, to come up with, you know, a story that he manufactured that was involved -- that he was involved in from the beginning. He seems to be, you know, a bit pathetic, a bit of a dupe here. I think, you know, it's important that the whole truth come out. He's got to own up to whatever he did. He seems to be doing that. He admitted to a few little lies. But I don't think those are, you know, terribly damaging. He was embarrassed. You know, if I think that that's the story that he was duped, he was embarrassed by this whole thing. He was afraid to tell his parents the truth. He was afraid to tell the public the truth. He ran with the lie a little bit, I think he's OK. If things get worse than this and there's very much the possibility that they will, then we have serious problems with his marketability and his whole image.", "OK. So does the NFL -- he's going to try out for the NFL, have interviews with all these teams. What will he say and so what will he say and do you think he has some type of person like you helping him to figure out --", "Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I mean he has a high-powered agent. He has some of the best people, you know, in the world working damage control for him. So, you know, I assume they're doing the best they can in this situation. The NFL, frankly, only cares how well he plays on the field. And as long as he's, you know, tackling and making big hits and helps the team win, all that other stuff kind of falls away.", "I think you're absolutely right about that, Bob Dorfman. Thank you for joining us this morning. Thank you. We'll be back."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO", "KATIE COURIC, ABC HOST", "MANTI TE'O, NOTRE DAME LINEBACKER", "COURIC", "TE'O", "COSTELLO", "BOB DORFMAN, BAKER STREET ADVERTISING", "COSTELLO", "DORFMAN", "COSTELLO", "DORFMAN", "COSTELLO", "DORFMAN", "COSTELLO", "COSTELLO", "DORFMAN", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-370667", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-05-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/26/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Two Dead And Utter Devastation Left Behind In El Reno, Oklahoma", "utt": ["Two dead and utter devastation left behind in El Reno, Oklahoma, after a powerful tornado tore through this small town northwest of Oklahoma city. A mobile home and a hotel are reduced to rubble. The national weather service says the tornado was on the ground for about four minutes and cut a path just over two miles long. CNN national correspondent Omar Jimenez joins us from El Reno. And Omar, it's been a long day there. Have rescue operations wrapped up yet?", "Yes, Ana, at this point the mayor tells me that search-and-rescue operations as far as going door to door and looking for anyone left in the rubble, that process is complete, at least as far as we know at this point. What they are doing now is trying to rebuild a lot of the infrastructure that was damaged heavily hen this tornado came through. You mentioned some of how it was characterized. We know this was an EF-3 tornado, five being the most severe, 75 yards at its widest. It traveled two miles and caused all of this destruction in just a matter of four minutes. Two of the biggest points of emphasis we have been keeping an eye on. One in a mobile home park. The tornado was powerful enough to pick up entire mobile homes and slam them back down based on accounts that we have heard. And then the other point of emphasis that we have been keeping an eye on is the hotel. There is really only one word to describe it at this point, absolute decimation when you take a look at those images there. Believe it or not, there are people who survived while being inside there as the tornado ripped its way through. We heard harrowing details of people literally crawling out from underneath rubble so that they could wait for emergency responders to arrive. We actually spoke to someone just a few moments ago who lives not too far from here. And believe it or not, as crazy as this destruction is, her house completely fine, but describes some horrifying and scary moments that they had even as this tornado was ripping through them.", "We didn't hear anything until I opened the front door and we heard sirens. And at that point in time, we just jerked the kids up out of bed and threw them in the closet and put pillows over them. We didn't know where it was. Our phones didn't go off. And the next phone call I received was from my mother who said they were running to the shelter because she lives in El Reno village, in the trailer park side of it -- sorry, in the RV park side. So everybody was running to shelters. We didn't even have time to load up and go to a shelter.", "So how long did you stay, you and the kids stay in that closet?", "The kids stayed in the shelter for probably 20 minutes inside the closet. We were all actually outside just seeing if we could see or hear anything.", "And you can imagine that scene as she was describing earlier. People literally running for safety because they believed it would save their lives. And when you see this destruction behind us and around parts of this town you can see why they were doing just that. At least two people killed in, this more than 20 people injured and the hope was that the number wouldn't rise. But let's remember, this didn't just happen in a vacuum. It comes on the tail end of what we have seen to be a week full of deadly tornadoes, high floods, even high flood rescues as well. In fact, the mayor telling us in this El Reno Area alone, they had 46 high water rescues earlier this week. And then here we are just days later on the scene of a deadly tornado -- Ana.", "Wow. My heart really goes out to that community. Omar Jimenez, thank you for that reporting. The President approves sending 1500 troops to the Middle East to deal what the White House calls a rising threat from Iran. I will ask one congressman if he thinks the threat is serious enough to warrant more troops. Stay with us. Plus Christine Romans joins us with this week's \"Before the Bell\" - Christine.", "Hi, Ana. U.S. stock markets are closed tomorrow for Memorial Day. But Wall Street is bracing for another volatile week after that. Last week's stocks posted several big days of declines. Investors growing increasingly worried that the trade war is here to stay. In fact, Morgan Stanley says the window for resolution is narrowing. The investment bank predict there's is only about a month to go before significant financial damage creeps into the global economy. At bank of America, analysts report the trade war has already hurt confidence on Main Street. Kohl's, Home Depot, Walmart have all said tariffs will lead to higher prices on some items. Now handful of retailers report earnings this week. So expect to hear more about tariff danger. GAP, Abercrombie & Fitch, Costco and Lululemon are among the companies delivering their quarterly report cards. In New York, I'm Christine Romans."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHELSIE MAYO, EL RENO RESIDENT", "JIMENEZ", "MAYO", "JIMENEZ", "CABRERA", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "NPR-21449", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2015-07-27", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/07/27/426674316/spacex-rocket-explosion-disrupts-astronauts-lessons-for-schoolchildren", "title": "SpaceX Rocket Explosion Disrupts Astronauts' Lessons For Schoolchildren", "summary": "A NASA-sponsored education program called \"Story Time From Space\" films astronauts reading aloud children's books from space. The rocket carrying equipment for the project exploded last month.", "utt": ["We have a countdown to our next story.", "Five, four, three, two, one, liftoff. We have liftoff of Max the dog, the first dog to visit the International Space Station.", "That's NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins reading a children's book on the International Space Station last year. Hopkins was taking part in an educational program called Story Time From Space.", "I absolutely love to read. And I can't think of a better location to read this next story with the cupola behind us. That's our big observation window that looks down onto the Earth. And today's story is \"Max Goes To The International Space Station.\"", "Just as Mr. Hopkins had gone. The founder of this educational project is Patricia Tribe, the former director of education at Space Center Houston.", "The kids are not only hearing the stories, but they're seeing the astronaut floating. They actually could imagine themselves being that astronaut up on space.", "Tribe shares the videos with schools to help educators teach scientific concepts, like gravity and freefall. Now she wants to expand the program and have the astronauts record videos of themselves conducting experiments in space. This program was going to send custom equipment to help the astronauts do those experiments and demonstrate concepts, like how light travels, but then a problem came up. The plan was to send the equipment up in the SpaceX rocket back in June, but the rocket exploded shortly after liftoff. No lives were lost, but $70,000 worth of equipment was.", "Just like, darn it, so now what are we going to do with the program?", "Tribe says with donations and with help from NASA, they hope to get the project off the ground."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "MIKE HOPKINS", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "MIKE HOPKINS", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "PATRICIA TRIBE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "PATRICIA TRIBE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-182749", "program": "JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL", "date": "2012-3-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1203/15/ijvm.01.html", "summary": "Day-Care Murderer Found Guilty but Mentally Ill", "utt": ["I`m Jane Velez Mitchell, coming to you live from New York City. The Georgia daycare killer said Olivia Newton John and Barry White drove him to kill. Did the jury buy it? The verdict is in. Next. Plus, are there more secrets to reveal in this case, and could the victim`s widow return to the spotlight?", "Tonight, a killer cries in court, weeping as he begs for mercy, just minutes after a jury gives him the benefit of the doubt. They agreed he was mentally ill when he gunned down an innocent father outside his kid`s daycare. Is our criminal justice system crazy for not calling him just what he is, a cold-blooded killer? We`ll debate it tonight. Then today, the soccer mom cops call the Manhattan Madam hauled back to court. The hot topic? Her $1 million bail. Is this woman being persecuted or just prosecuted? We`ve got the latest report and an exclusive interview with someone who worked with the so-called Manhattan Madam.", "There was no affair. Who kills someone else`s husband?", "In September of 2010 the defendant, Hemy Neuman, began planning this crime. He stalked the victim, and on November the 10th of 2010, he laid in wait in the bushes outside of the defendant`s house. When that attempt to take the victim`s life -- excuse me, the victim`s life, Mr. Rusty Sneiderman, did not pan out, he then went back and, as you stated, went to plan b. We ask you to show him the same mercy that he showed Rusty and punish him in the only appropriate manner.", "I was always proud of him, not proud of what he did now. It was a big mistake, and -- and I beg of you, just to have mercy on him.", "He was a good man with so much ahead of him, and I`m so, so, so sorry for their loss.", "His obituary is already written. It reads Hemy Neuman, convicted murderer. Period.", "Tonight, the secret`s out. Just convicted hours ago, day care killer Hemy Neuman will spend the rest of his life in prison for gunning down husband and father Rusty Sneiderman outside a Georgia preschool. But the jurors go too soft on him. They found him guilty but -- guilty but mentally ill, leaving open the possibility that he could get out one day, until the judge had his say. Why did jurors have that soft spot for this man who admitted he`d gunned down his romantic rival? The jury foreperson`s voice actually cracks as she reads the verdict. Listen.", "Count one, we the jury find the defendant as to count one, guilty beyond a reasonable doubt but mentally ill.", "But mentally ill. Yes, Hemy Neuman was found guilty, but the jury actually bought what I humbly call the B.S. about him being called mentally ill when he shot Rusty Sneiderman. The majority of experts testified Neuman was not mentally ill, had no history of it. I maintain he knew exactly what he was doing the day he murdered Rusty Sneiderman. Both prosecutors and the defense agree he was having an affair with the dead man`s wife, Andrea, whom he supervised at G.E. So today, in an astounding courtroom scene, after refusing to take the stand in his own defense, the just-convicted Neuman begs for mercy and has the nerve to call this killing a tragedy. Yes, and you`re the killer!", "I do not think that anyone feels anyone won here. Everybody lost. He was a good man with so much ahead of him and I`m so, so, so sorry for their loss. This is a terrible tragedy, first of all, for Sophia in the end, the Sneidermans, his dad, his mom, brother. Andrea should not have had to bury him. They should not have had to undergo the pain, anguish, the sorrow, the loss. I am so, so, so sorry. I can`t say it enough. I can`t say it enough to all of you, the precious children, all five of them. To the Sneidermans, to the Greenbergs, to their parents, the family, friends, the community at large. I`m sorry from the deepest part of me, your honor.", "No, you can`t say it, because you`re the one who pulled the trigger. Three times. Bravo, what a performance. Hemy Neuman is a methodical, cold-blooded killer who came up with a ridiculous story about an angel sounding like pop singer Olivia Newton John.", "And a devil sounding like legendary crooner Barry White.", "You`re the answer all my dreams.", "Telling him to kill Rusty Sneiderman. It`s a bad \"Saturday Night Live\" skit. Incredibly, the jury bought some of it. Thank God for the judge, the voice of reason, who didn`t buy it and sentenced Neuman to life in prison without parole. Why did this jury decide Neuman was mentally ill? Call me: 1-877-JVM- SAYS, 1-877-586-7297. Straight out to my guest with me here on set, investigative reporter Jon Lieberman. Jon, are you as shocked as I am that they decided this guy was mentally ill?", "The only crazy thing about Hemy Neuman is the fact that it took him nine months to come up with this crazy defense about demons and Barry White and everything like that. When I heard this verdict I sent out a tweet. I said, \"Are you kidding me?\" Anybody who convict -- anybody who commits such a cold- blooded, calculated murder, obviously, they`re mentally ill. But in my mind, this was a way for the jury to punish him and say, \"Yes, we do think you`re guilty\" but weasel out of it a little bit by saying there`s so much going on in this case you must be mentally ill. We have this choice, so fine, we`re going to say you`re guilty but mentally ill and leave open that door, the door that as you pointed out, the judge closed by giving him life with no patrol. But he could have gotten life with the possibility of parole. All this really means, though, in effect, is he`s going to get mental health counseling in prison where he`s going to be the rest of his life.", "Yes. But still, what gets me is that the jury seemed to buy the idea that this guy was cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Not insane to the point that he didn`t know right from wrong. But his ability. Mental illness is defined by your mental ability and mood are substantially impaired such that it affects your actions and judgment. Well, guess what? Anybody who kills somebody, unless it`s self- defense or some other incredible extenuating circumstance is mentally ill by that definition. Nobody who is well-balanced is going to go and gun down somebody, because they`re allegedly having an affair with their wife and want them out of the way so they can have the wife to themselves. Nobody. Nobody is saying who would do something like that. Every killer behind bars -- more than two million people are behind bars -- and a lot of them are killers. Everybody is mentally ill by that definition. Now, I want to go back to his cuckoo defense, which was that these voices of Olivia Newton John, the famous pop singer, and Barry White -- and you know, I grew up in the `70s. I listened to them. This guy is -- what is he, 48. So he -- that`s his era. HHe comes up with these two singers. And I -- just blows my mind that somehow the jury bought this, because it was almost -- I think not even almost. It was comical, except that this is a tragedy and somebody died. I`ve got to bring in Jay Thomas, Emmy Award winner and a radio host on Sirius XM. Jay, you study cultural trends. Is there something wrong with jurors in America today?", "Well, I don`t know what`s worse, the 72 virgins or Barry White and Olivia Newton John waiting for me in the afterlife. You know what was surreal? Why was the jury foreman crying? Why was the jury foreman -- why did she feel sorry for this guy? That`s what I didn`t quite understand. What made her -- what made that jury reach out to him with everything I`ve read and all the testimony I`ve heard. So I have no idea. They almost -- they treated it like it was \"American Idol\" rather than a murder trial, you know?", "Yes, I mean, I`ve got to say this, Jay. Hemy Neuman`s ex-wife said nonsense -- or soon to be ex-wife. I don`t know if the -- the divorce has been sealed yet. Nonsense, he`s not crazy. He has no history of mental illness. He has a very, very responsible job at G.E. He had a -- he was a graduate of college. He had, I think, a master`s degree. I mean, this guy is the definition of sanity. He is a killer, though. And again, I want to go out to Holly Hughes, former prosecutor. I think there is some kind of societal bias, because he wears a sweater and he`s got gray hair and glasses, and he`s got a job, and he`s a middle class guy that somehow, he couldn`t have just been a nasty old killer. He had to be mentally ill.", "Well, I think there is a couple of different things at play here, Jane. First of all, the jury didn`t let him off as easy as you might think, because they could have said not guilty by reason of insanity, but they wanted to say he definitely did it. He`s guilty. Secondarily, even if the judge had given him life, that`s still 30 years before you`re eligible for parole in Georgia, and this man is 48. So he would have been almost 80. So it`s not -- I know it sounds to you as a lay person like, \"Oh, my gosh, they let him off.\" They didn`t let him off.", "I didn`t say they let him off. I said they showed poor judgment...", "Right, but...", "... in buying his nonsensical story of being mentally ill.", "And here`s the thing, Jane.", "I have to remind you of the facts with all due respect, Holly. And I know you`re trying to just be balanced and present the other side. But this is a man who gunned down somebody in the chest three times in cold blood, who plotted it, who got a gun, who went to a shooting range, who practiced shooting, who rented a car, who wore a beard as a disguise.", "Right.", "Stacy Kaiser, you`re a psychotherapist. Does somebody who is hearing voices behave in such a methodical fashion and then returns the rental car but fills it up with gas first and then tells the cops he had nothing to do with it and comes up with the story months later?", "Absolutely not. People who have these kinds of extreme mental illnesses, they`re not so high functioning. This guy has managed to have a very responsible life, and people who have delusions don`t tend to do that.", "We`re taking your calls. Shirley, Utah we`re going to get to you right on the other side: 1-877-JVM-SAYS. And I just have to discuss this a little more. You know, because this is our justice system. It is not a game show. Coming up, the alleged madam from Manhattan, hauled back into court and her very handsome husband. We`re going to show you him and find out what happened to her. But first, more on the guilty but mentally ill verdict in the day-care murder trial.", "This -- this is a terrible tragedy, first of all, for Sophia, the Sneidermans, Rusty`s dad, his mom and brother. Andrea should not have had to bury him. They should not have had to undergo the pain, anguish, the sorrow, the loss. And as Mr. Sneiderman just stated, it goes on and it will go on forever.", "How many times did you call Rusty?", "Call Rusty?", "Rusty.", "Zero times.", "Why didn`t you call Rusty?", "Because they just told me something had happened to Rusty. What are the chances that he`d be answering his cell phone?", "Hemy Neuman was as good a man as has ever walked on the face of the earth, until he met and became involved with Andrea Sneiderman. We are very hopeful that all the evidence regarding her responsibility for the death of Rusty Sneiderman will also be presented in court.", "That was the attorney for the convicted killer, and that attorney went on to say that Andrea Sneiderman, the woman you just heard from, the widow, should be charged in this case. So tonight`s burning question of the night, could Andrea Sneiderman actually be charged with something? Could there be another trial? Out to criminal defense attorney Jayne Weintraub.", "Could the wife have been charged? Probably she could have been charged as a co-conspirator. The prosecutors even called her a co-conspirator, but they probably did that also just to let extra evidence in. The bottom line, Jane, is I think that the jury looked at her as a culprit, as guilty as he was. Because they knew that he was under the influence of her. They said she was all but pulling the trigger herself, and that`s what`s so sad here. She walks out of court today free, with a $2 million life insurance policy, laughing all the way to the bank. That`s my take on it. She is mentally ill.", "Well, I know very quickly, Jon, you think she is going to be charged with something.", "She`s lawyered up. She has two lawyers. She could face everything from perjury for lying on the stand, all the way up to accessory still. And I know that investigators are looking at her. It`s not often that prosecutors and the defense agree on something like this.", "Let`s go out to the phone lines. Shirley, Utah, your question or thoughts, Shirley?", "My thought, Jane, but I want to let you know I think you`re absolutely wonderful.", "Thank you.", "And I thank you for all the work you do as an advocate for our human race.", "Thank you. Thank you so much.", "My statement is the gall and defiance of the wife of the murdered husband and father speaks volumes. To watch her on that stand is disgusting, and I hope enough evidence is found to convict her. She is involved.", "Well, I think you reflect the opinion of a lot of people who believe -- one of the reasons why this \"not guilty but mentally ill\" verdict came down is that Andrea Sneiderman`s performance on the witness stand was so dramatic. I think it kind of played into the defense claim that she was the puppet master, manipulating Hemy Neuman into something very bad. Listen.", "It was unfathomable and unbelievable that it could be him, someone that proposed to care about me, care about Rusty, care about my family, be a normal guy, be my boss. Then he murdered my husband.", "All right. She is emoting like crazy. Another one who should be on Broadway. I want to go out to George Howell, CNN correspondent. I understand that she has lawyered up?", "She has, hired new lawyers, along with the attorney she already has. So it`s interesting to see her really protecting herself in case prosecutors come after her. But Jane, you mentioned this a few minutes ago. Both prosecutors and defense attorneys, they both allege that she was having an affair with Hemy Neuman. She`s the only one saying that she never had an affair, and again, right now taking steps to protect herself in case charges are forthcoming.", "Yes. And by the way, she is invited on our show any time and/or her attorneys, because we want to be fair here. Just because she acted a little -- she acted kind of crazy, during this trial, on the stand. That doesn`t mean that she`s anything more than a person with some questionable judgment about how to behave in court. She claims she didn`t have an affair. The prosecution and the defense say yes, she was sleeping with the guy who killed her husband. More on the other side.", "More Hemy Neuman in a second. But first, here is your \"Viral Video of the Day.\"", "I prepared this statement several weeks ago, to express my sense of loss for the -- for Rusty`s family. This is a terrible tragedy. It is also a tragedy for three other children, for Lee, Tom and Addie and countless family and friends who saw a person they loved and admired and respected, who saw him arrested in shame, charged and now convicted.", "The jury decided that guy, the defendant, was guilty but mentally ill of gunning down his rival. The prosecutor totally debunked the mentally ill theory in closing arguments. Listen to this quotable moment.", "He`s insane. He sees angels; he sees demons. He`s crazy. \"Something`s wrong with me. They`re telling me to kill people. I got five children. I tried to commit suicide seven times.\" If you cannot trust the ingredients on this insanity sandwich, then I`m going to ask you don`t eat it.", "Jay Thomas, my favorite phrase, insanity sandwich. I plan on using it often. You heard the now-convicted defendant speak. Did he sound insane to you?", "No, you know, and I love the way -- I`d love to do this, that you believe that, if people look crazy, I like that. They ought to add that to the law. If you look nuts. The wife looks nuttier than the guy that she was having an affair with, and I like that. And so you know what? You look nuts so we should have charges against you. I mean it. I really like it. This guy should have been put to death. He`s not crazy. I don`t know what that jury was thinking in Georgia. I`m from the south. I expected more violence from the jury. Instead, I don`t know who these people are in Georgia any more. They`re certainly not Newt Gingrich Georgians. I can tell you that right now.", "All right. We`re going to go to the phone lines. We`re going all the way up north, Toronto. Lisa, Toronto, your question or thought, Lisa?", "Hello there.", "Hi.", "Jane, just to let you know I`ve been watching you for eight or nine years. And I`m a definite fan of you and Nancy Grace.", "Thank you so much.", "And I`d like to thank you for everything you do for the crazy mess out there and helping out the unfortunate also.", "Well, I have compassion for people who are really insane, just not for people who are pretending to be mentally ill and who are actually cold-blooded killers, but your question or thought, ma`am?", "What I`d like to say is if he`s so mentally ill, how did he know, No. 1, to put his finger on the trigger? And No. 2, how did he know how to pull the trigger if he was mentally ill? That`s my question.", "This is a great question. Holly Hughes, former prosecutor, take it away.", "Mentally ill doesn`t mean that you are a slobbering idiot savant. I mean, mentally ill means that you may not be able to either appreciate the difference between right and wrong or you may be driven by a compulsion that just says to you you must do this. You know, these psychiatrists that testified on behalf of Hemy Neuman in this particular trial, they were the same psychiatrists the state tried to use. So there was actually a battle where -- you know, and they said, \"Well, we`re sorry. We were hired by Mr. Neuman`s defense team first.\"", "Here`s the thing. Here is the problem I have with this.", "Highly respected psychiatrists.", "There was an interview that was on camera of this defendant shortly after the crime. And he was the most rational sounding human being, denied having anything to do with this. We have to see: is this the end or will there be another chapter? Manhattan Madam, next.", "Anna Gristina, operated a $2,000-a-romp call girl ring.", "There`s a whole new level of attention.", "A second alleged madam has turned herself in to cops in Manhattan. Why is her bail set at $2 million?", "She is upset. I mean she is in jail.", "I believe this young lady is being railroaded by the system.", "A so-called soccer mom who cops say led a double life as a madam boasted of making millions. Who may be exposed through her little black book?", "Very well-dressed gentlemen.", "I don`t know. I guess sex sells.", "Tonight the alleged soccer mom madam has a brand new lawyer; unfortunately for her she has the same old digs -- solitary cell at Riker`s Island. As we speak, a request to reduce Anna Gristina`s $1 million bail denied. The judge says the alleged mommy madam, some call her the soccer mom, some say hockey mom but either way, this mom is locked up at Riker`s at least until her next hearing, April 26th. This brings me to my burning question of the night, why would a mother of four accused of a non-violent crime have a harsher bond than killers and pedophiles in some cases? Anna Gristina`s attorney is wondering the very same thing.", "You have a person facing maximum two and a third to seven. Government is asking for $1 million, $2 million bail that they don`t ask for murder cases or rape victims. And the likelihood is -- the probability is she is probably facing maybe six months plus five years probation on this charge, and they`re asking for this outrageous bail.", "Now that lawyer -- and he is a heavyweight lawyer in more ways than one -- hired just last night by Gristina`s husband, Kelvin Gore, you see him here, topless and you also see him outside court looking rather handsome and striking a pose.", "What are you saying to the kids? Are they asking any questions?", "Who is going to play him in the made-for-TV movie, that is what I want to know? Gristina`s tall, dark, handsome hubby has not said hardly anything since the scandal broke other than \"I didn`t know a thing\". He insists as far as he knew, Anna was just his loving wife and mother raising their four kids in this modest house a couple of hours outside New York City. Was he really in the dark about her alleged double life? Call me 1- 877-JVM SAYS, 1-877-586-7297. Straight out to my very special guest, Jody \"Babydol\" Gibson, author of \"Secrets of a Hollywood Madam\"; and she is former madam. So former madam, why do you think they have Anna Gristina locked up in solitary on $1 million bail, $2 million bond? Is she being prosecuted or persecuted?", "Well, they need the girls` testimony to corroborate the evidence and having her incarcerated prevents her from impeding their case by from contacting the girls. So perhaps that is the theory.", "Let me bring in Jon Leiberman, investigative reporter, you`ve been snooping around and you say your sources are telling you what?", "Yes well, a couple of things, my sources are saying that Gristina may have not been the target of this investigation. Cops were hoping and investigators were hoping they could press her and get the high-profile names that they really wanted but when she resisted, that forced their hand to charge her with this one count. And real quick on the bail, the purpose of the bail --", "Well, let me get to the bail in a second because you`re raising an important point about -- is this about something bigger? You`re saying she was not the target according to your sources. That is exactly what the private investigator who worked with Anna Gristina told us. He said hey, she is not a madam and that they`re after her to get at somebody else. She -- he claims, was trying to set up a legitimate online dating service. Let`s listen to Vinnie Parco.", "What I was trying to help her do is set up a security system for a Web site she was doing for a dating service.", "Well, ok. Prosecutors say that was her cover. Now you`re saying that that was legit?", "No, she was forming one, she had investors come in at these networking meetings -- these are legitimate business people.", "All right, now, Vinnie Parco, that private eye, says Anna Gristina was hoping to compete with sugardaddyforme.com; also known as sugardaddy.com. My special guest tonight: Alan \"Action\" Schneider, spokesman for sugardaddyforme.com. Now, supposedly Anna Gristina, this alleged madam, was trying to set up a dating sight, according to her, to compete with your site. Now, we want to play and show a couple of snippets from your site -- what it says on your Web site. These are quotes. \"Feeling a little cash poor and lovelorn? We promise you the man and the bank account of your dreams. We match young attractive women who want to be taken care of and treated like a princess with busy successful men who want to pamper a special someone. Our two million members feel no shame in cutting to the chase, or the check.\" Alan, what do you say when people look at that and go huh if you`re matching up rich guys with girls who want a check, that is just another word for prostitution.", "At these events, what goes on it`s totally not prostitution, and the Web site is not promoting prostitution. In fact anything on the Web site, if you read it carefully, is that any kind of prostitution, any kind of unlawful habits of any of the members is strictly prohibited. So to answer your question, what goes on is mutual enrichment, reciprocity. Women are entitled to be empowered and if a man wants to pamper them I think there is nothing wrong with that. And that`s what the Web site sugardaddyforme.com promotes.", "Well, let me say this, I have nothing against two adults doing whatever they want to do as long as they don`t hurt anyone else, as long as it doesn`t involve underage people, underage girls or underage boys. That is where I draw the line. I say lock them up, throw away the key. I find it very strange that our law enforcement must have spent millions of dollars, who knows how much they spent investigating Anna Gristina for five years? And accumulating hundreds of hours of surveillance? Do you, Alan \"Action\" Schneider, think that they are going after her for another reason?", "Well, I have been following the case in the papers, and I really think that number one, I think the bail is outrageous and not commensurate with what she is charged with. Two, I really think that, you now, the way everything is going on with her, I think that they were actually looking for something else and she was involved with that investigation. Somehow, they got wind that maybe she could have been involved. But as we all know in a court of law you`re innocent until proven guilty, and I think based on what you just said, yes, I think they were looking for some other maybe perpetrator and they happened to come across her. Because for a five-year investigation, to give this kind of evidence at this point, we haven`t seen much.", "Yes.", "She is accused of a crime -- she`s accused of a crime that basically no one has given a salient evidence to show that she has guilt here.", "All right. We have video of Anna Gristina and this private investigator we mentioned before, Vinnie Parco, one of the sugar daddy type parties. Here they are mingling among older, wealthy men and younger, sexy women who are just at a party. And we`re going to show you that in a second. Now we`re going to give you in a second -- there they are, mingling. All right. There is the alleged madam; she`s at a party. Let`s give you a little flavor of one of these events. Listen to this.", "I have been having second thoughts; you just come and you just meet people.", "I`m just an old man looking for a friend.", "As long both of the couple are both in agreement then everything is ok.", "Now, I have to say those look like people just having a good time and that is what she claims she was trying to do, set up a legitimate dating service. I want to go ought to Jay Thomas you are based here in New York, you know the city well. You`re an Emmy Award winner and a Sirius XM Radio host. There is a feeling that this is not about Anna Gristina. This is not about her little operation; that there are powerful men in industry, in finance, that prosecutors are going after for some reason. She said they wanted dirt on ten men. Could they be trying to gather dirt to use it as leverage in some kind of let`s say a Bernie Madoff type situation?", "Unless it`s income tax evasion or it was a heroin ring, it`s the most ridiculous front page story I`ve ever seen. And it`s consenting adults and by the way I would like to be called Jay \"No Action\" Thomas, just so my wife doesn`t think I`m doing anything. Here is the other thing, I heard and I can`t say who I heard it from but right before I came on, I called an investigator I know in California. He thinks that the lawyer who, by the way, is putting up his home and has had a defining moment after meeting her, and he`s going to risk $2.5 million of his equity in his home. I heard from my source that yes, there are guys now that are paying huge money for her to be silenced in a good way. And the first way is they are -- and this is all alleged -- they are putting money through her attorney to pay her bail, and to get her out. And so her black book is going to be a big deal, and somebody in that black book will be as famous as Mr. Spitzer and he may get his own TV show.", "Well, I think you`re right. Everybody is wondering why is this attorney, who by the way stepped down, that Peter Gleason, you just saw him --", "Right, right.", "-- he stepped down and then the other heavyset attorney came in and took over. That is the old attorney. He`s the one who says, \"Now, I`m free,\" because it`s no longer a conflict of interest. I can actually put up my fancy Tribeca condo worth $2.5 million because this guy is now the real attorney and so it`s no longer a conflict of interest. And people are wondering why this is guy so eager, the other one, to put up his own house to bail out a woman who is a Scottish national, who could possibly take off, according to some people. Is there something else behind it? And so as you heard Jay Thomas saying, the wagging tongues are suggesting some important man is saying hey, let`s get this woman out before she cracks and spills the beans and lists me in her black book. And by the way, do they still have black books? I want to ask Jody \"Babydol\" Gibson on the other if they have actual black books or is it all on the iPhone when we come right back.", "Next week we should get all of the tapes, which is what you people would love to see, the secret tapes, and the photographs. We`re serving a letter tomorrow on demand to get all that stuff.", "Ok. That`s Anna Gristina`s current lawyer, Gary Greenwald who is saying I want all the evidence. Prosecution says they have hundreds of hours of surveillance; we have video of people having sex. I want it all to analyze. Now this guy was hired by this man, the husband of Anna Gristina, just last night in a switcheroo of attorneys. Gristina`s third and current husband, Kelvin Gore, has said he is heartbroken -- there he is, quite handsome, outside court. I mean again, the cast of characters is fascinating. He claims he`s clueless about his wife`s alleged Manhattan brothel. I want to go to Kaylin Rocco, our producer, who was down there at court. You were watching this guy, what did you notice, Kaylin?", "Well, when I walked into court today, the media was buzzing because Kelvin Gore was there. In the courtroom I sat right behind him and you know what I saw was a very concerned husband. When his wife walked in, he perked up, and there was a point where she was sitting down and she turns slightly and he shifted to get in her eye line and he gave her an encouraging wave. And she kind of smiled, but at the same time she shrugged her shoulders, a little -- to me -- a sense like she was feeling defeated. Then after court he walked outside, the media thought that was going to talk to us, but he kind of just posed a little, said \"no comment\", turned around and walked back into court. But overall, what I saw was someone who wanted to show their wife that he was supporting her.", "All right, sounds good. We`re going to go to the phone lines now. John, New Jersey -- your question or thought, John?", "Yes. Hi, Jane. I love you, Nancy and your whole network.", "Thank you.", "I agree with you. Escort services are legal. They`re in the phone book. Now what the girls do in the room, because we have them sign papers, I was involved in an escort service. I`m not into it no more. We have them sign papers, nothing illegal and I agree no children.", "Wait, wait, John, who signed papers?", "The girls that they wouldn`t do nothing illegal in the rooms.", "But if you work for an escort service and they are in the room with a guy, and they`re having sex with a guy, that called prosecution. That is illegal. Caller: No, it`s a dating service, but escort services they`re in the phone books. You could find them in the phone books.", "All right. Well, hold on a second. let`s bring in the expert Jody \"Babydol\" Gibson, former Hollywood madam. You`re trying to -- want to get in.", "Yes. You know, I wanted to remind you, Jane, Debra Jean Palfrey (ph), had -- the D.C. madam -- had all the girls sign model releases and she still got prosecute and convicted. So the disclaimers mean nothing to law enforcement.", "What do you make, Jody of this comment, Jay Thomas and Jon Leiberman both talking about the scuttlebutt here in Manhattan is that this is not about her; that they are after some very powerful guy and that one of the reasons why this lawyer who we`ll show, Peter Gleason is so intent on bailing her out and getting her into his Tribeca condo and even putting that condo up as collateral as if somebody very important wants her out so she can keep her lips zipped. And again, I just want to say that Peter Gleason, we invite him on. This is the guy who resigned as the attorney and says you can come live with me. He`s invited on any time. We`ve called him and reached out to him several times to get his side. But what do you make of that, Jody?", "Of what? I`m sorry.", "What do you make of this idea that there is some powerful person who wants to get her out because they want her to keep her lips zipped? And that is why the prosecutors don`t want her out.", "What?", "I don`t think that`s it.", "What is it then?", "I don`t think that`s the reason. I think it`s because she will impede the investigation by contacting the girls and without the girls corroborating the case, they don`t have a strong case. They only have one girl and one count -- they have one girl and one count.", "Jon, wouldn`t the other woman who was just released on bail, wouldn`t she also have been able to spill the beans?", "Right. Exactly. But everybody is missing one thing. This investigation is nowhere near over. This is not the end of this investigation. This is just the middle.", "Everybody come back soon. Jody, thank you so much.", "\"Desperate Housewives\" in a moment, but first, I think we all deserve a little laugh break.", "A jury is deciding if a \"Desperate Housewives\" actress was fired out of revenge. Nicollette Sheridan who played \"Edie\" is suing for nearly $6 million.", "It has had more twists and turns than an actual \"Desperate Housewives\" episode.", "Hollywood has hardly ever seen anything like it.", "Nicollette --", "Tonight, a new plot twist from the \"Desperate Housewives\" trial. This time it`s happening right in the jury room. Breaking news, just minutes ago, the jurors told the judge, we can`t make a decision yet. The judge said go home, sleep on it, but is this a sign there could be a hung jury in this case? The former sexpot of the hit show, Nicollette Sheridan, seen here in a clip from YouTube says she was wrongly fired after the show`s bigwig producer, Marc Cherry hit her and she complained to the bosses about it. She insists he killed her character off as revenge. The charges against Cherry, you see him right there, dismissed but Nicollette still looking for a big payout from ABC for wrongful termination. Straight out to Jim Moret, chief correspondent for \"Inside Edition\". Jim, you were in court, what the heck`s going on?", "You know what; Jane, we covered a lot of trials and you think you`ve seen it all until today. Nobody saw this coming. The jury`s only had this case for a day. And the foreperson sits down and tells the judge, \"Your honor, we cannot reach a verdict.\" The judge says, \"Is there anything that the court can do? Do you want more arguments? Do you want more instructions?\" The jury foreperson says no. The judge then says, \"Look, it`s late in the day. We want you to go home, sleep on it, chill. Don`t think about anything about this case. Come back tomorrow, and then let`s see if we can move forward.\" Remember there`s a lot on the line here. $5.7 million is being asked for by Nicollette Sheridan. But more importantly, they`ve gone through the whole trial and the judge does not want a hung jury. Because if there is a hung jury, both sides have made it clear, we`re going through this whole thing again.", "This is certainly a season cliffhanger of sorts. Nicollette says her death on \"Desperate Housewives\" was a form of revenge. And I have to say scenes were -- her killing is over the top. Watch this from YouTube.", "And it goes on and on and on. They kill her so many times. Troy Slaten, you were in the courtroom, you`re an attorney. If they do have to try this all over again, given that they dismissed the whole part about Marc Cherry hitting her and he was cleared, then she doesn`t even get to come in with that again, right?", "Absolutely not. That`s done, the judge has found that there`s -- that no reasonable juror could possibly find in her favor. So that is out. That`s gone. But what`s really interesting is that the judge took the rare step in doing what`s called an Allen (ph) charge, telling the jurors that you`re going to have to come back, even though the jury foreperson said, I don`t think this is going to work, I don`t think we`re going to come up with a decision. The judge said, no, you`re going to come back tomorrow; you`re going to try a little bit harder. And it`s interesting that one of the jurors in the back row was nodding his head in agreement -- so basically disagreeing with the jury foreperson.", "Unbelievable. And on the other side of the break, we`re going to talk about how Nicollette Sheridan reacted to this plot twist. I mean, some people say she`s never going to work in Hollywood again after all the things she said. She argues she really needs this money. Will she get it? On the other side.", "The jury in the \"Desperate Housewives\" case implying they may be deadlocked. They`re coming back tomorrow. We shall see. Jim Moret, how did Nicollette Sheridan, the plaintiff, respond to that?", "She said something along the lines of, \"this is crazy\" to her attorney. And her attorney agreed. He`s frustrated. Everybody`s frustrated. Jane, there`s so much on the line here. It`s only been one day. We`ve covered enough trials to know that jurors should go 3, 4, 5 days before they come to this point where they say to the judge, \"We can`t reach a verdict.\" It`s just natural. This is a lower standard than a criminal case; it`s just a preponderance of the evidence. You just need nine jurors. The judge I think did the right thing in saying, \"Go home, sleep on it, and come back tomorrow.\"", "Ok. 10 seconds, Troy, do you think if there`s a new trial, that ABC will just say, let`s make a deal? I have five seconds, yes or no?", "Probably not. I mean if they had --", "That`s the answer we have. Thank you both, gentlemen. Nancy next. 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{"id": "NPR-25907", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2013-05-28", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2013/05/28/186861862/business-news", "title": "Bausch + Lomb Sold; Investors Seek To Buy Club Med", "summary": "Valeant Pharmaceuticals says it will pay $8.7 billion to buy Bausch + Lomb, one of the world's best-known makers of contact lenses. And Club Med has received a $700 million buyout offer from Chinese investors.", "utt": ["NPR's business news starts with corporate sell-offs.", "Bausch + Lomb has been sold. The drug maker Valeant Pharmaceuticals is buying the 160-year-old eye care company for $8.7 billion.", "Valeant - which is a Canadian company - has been on a buying spree recently, as it moves to become a bigger player in the global pharmaceutical market.", "Bausch + Lomb employs 12,000 people worldwide, including 1,600 at its headquarters in Rochester, New York. It's not clear yet how or if the sale will affect the company's staffing.", "And another famous brand is up for sale. Club Med, the French holiday resort company famous for blending escapist fun with some French style, has received a $700 million buyout offer. The bid is led by a major Chinese conglomerate, Fosun International.", "Analysts say the buyout will help Club Med expand into emerging markets - especially China, where the tourism industry is growing rapidly. On a recent visit to China, France's president encouraged Chinese businesses to invest in his country, which has been suffering from economic stagnation for several years."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-377424", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-08-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/13/nday.04.html", "summary": "Fire At A Pennsylvania Day Care Kills Five Children.", "utt": ["I lost all four of my babies -- like, all of them. Like, it's hard for me to eat, sleep, cope. It's just so hard.", "You can't even begin to imagine. Shevona Overton says she will never recover from the agony of losing all four of her children in a fire at a Pennsylvania day care center. The mother who runs that in-home day care in Erie also lost her child in the fire. And we've learned there was just one working smoke detector in the house, up in the attic. Joining us now is Guy Santone. He's the fire chief in Erie, Pennsylvania and responded to the fire early that morning. And we can see the remnants of it behind you, Chief. I mean, as you arrived there, at what point did you realize that there were children trapped in the home?", "We were notified on the route to the fire that there were possible people trapped upstairs. And when we got here the neighbors told us they heard screaming up there a little bit before we got there. So, our crews initially started to attack the fire and then, at the same time, we had crews ladder the building --", "Yes.", "-- to gain entry to the second floor. They were able to find the five children within a couple of minutes and have them down -- outside of the house within 10 minutes. Unfortunately, the results weren't what we were hoping.", "And we just heard from the mother of those four siblings. Three of them -- their dad, Luther Jones, is a nearby firefighter. Have you been in touch with him at all with his department?", "I have talked to his fire chief up in Lawrence Park and I expressed our sympathy. And I told him to tell him that if there's anything they need we're here.", "This is -- I mean, I know you train for this and you deal with horrific events often, but I -- from what I understand, this was especially tough for your department -- for the folks who responded. How are they working through it at this point?", "Well, you know, our job is challenging enough. I mean, this was a tough one. But we have a peer review group that we established a couple of years ago. And what that is is a group of firefighters that are -- that are trained to handling critical incident stress. And they're in the process of now talking to everybody that was on the scene. In case anybody has an issue, we're dealing with it right away.", "When it comes to the home, as we've learned, there was one smoke detector in the attic. There were regular inspections and we've seen the latest one in December, which mentioned some corrections. But the inspection didn't mention any concerns with fire safety. Based on what you saw and based on what we see behind you, do you think maybe something was missed? I mean, what should we be looking out for here?", "What we have -- would happen -- we found this out yesterday. The city was not aware that this day care was here. Any day cares that were permitted prior to 2004 were permitted through the state. Anything after that, they have to be permitted through the city. Now, there's two loopholes. One is that when the state permits it before 2004, they don't have to notify the local authorities. So their inspection company is DHS, the Department of Human Services. The other loophole is when they inspect, they basically inspect just for cleanliness. They don't inspect for smoke detectors or fire extinguishers or anything of that nature. So I had a conversation with the representative from DHS yesterday. I expressed my displeasure and I instructed her that the city wants the addresses of every day care within the city limits that they inspect, and they delivered through on that yesterday afternoon.", "Well, that is good to know. And just -- I mean, a reminder for all us right now who are watching at home, just on a practical level, what do we need for smoke detectors? What should be in someone's house just to make sure that if there is a fire they can handle it safely until help arrives?", "Well, in the city of Erie, we started a rental inspection program where we require that every residence has a smoke detector in every bedroom, outside in the hallway of the bedrooms, and a smoke detector on every floor, including the basement and the attic. And that's for everybody, whether a rental, a day care or a private residence. We've shown and proven that the smoke detectors work. And this is my personal opinion, but I think if this day care would have been equipped with the proper amount of smoke detectors there's a very good chance that all five of these children would still be alive today.", "A sobering thought. Chief Guy Santone, appreciate you taking the time to join us this morning, sir. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Thanks to our international viewers for watching. For you, \"CNN NEWSROOM WITH MAX FOSTER\" is next. For our U.S. viewers, CNN's NEW DAY continues right now.", "Epstein was supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes. He was left alone for hours.", "This case will continue on. Any co-conspirators should not rest easy.", "We ought to be all very concerned the victims of his crimes will not see full justice and won't have their day in court.", "The virtues of self-sufficiency laid the foundation of our nation.", "U.S. Immigration Services will factor in whether. 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{"id": "CNN-131452", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2008-10-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0810/13/acd.02.html", "summary": "Record Rise as Stocks Soar; Politics of the Economy", "utt": ["We begin tonight with \"Breaking News.\"New details on the economic crisis and how Britain, Europe and the U.S. plan to fix the mess; a new dollar figure; the announcement set for tomorrow, we've got early details tonight. New signs as well that investors like what they are seeing; Asian markets rallying as we speak. That's the \"Breaking News\" after a record day on Wall Street. The Dow industrials up 936 points, the sharpest point jump in market history. Investors are gaining $1.2 trillion on paper in a single trading day. Now, on the campaign trail, both candidates speaking out on the economy and how they'd fix it.", "The catalyst of this crisis was the collapse of the housing in America. And I want homeowners to be able to negotiate a new mortgage at the new value of their home so they can stay in their homes.", "I've already proposed a middle class tax cut for 95 percent of workers and their families. But today, I'm calling on Congress to pass a plan so that the IRS will mail out the first round of those tax cuts as soon as possible.", "Senator Obama also proposing a new tax credit for small businesses that create jobs, a three month halt in home foreclosures and chance for people to take up to $10,000 from their 401(k) or IRA accounts without taxes or penalties. Today, there were no new specifics yet from the McCain camp. But they are expected to unveil a new economic plan tomorrow. We'll have more on the politics shortly. But first, the money and the \"Breaking News\" and Ali Velshi. Ali a lot of Americans no doubt, lawmakers must be relieved with this major come back on Wall Street.", "Yes and look, it's a not a trend it's just a day. But let me tell you a little bit about how this day started out. On Friday night, we had a loss of 198 points but a lot of people thought that was really almost a game. Part of the loss there was because of price of oil have gone down and EXXON and Chevron brought the market down. So take a look at how today in went, it was up more than 500 points, for most of the day, then 600 points, and then in that last hour, something technical happened. It's called a short squeeze; it's people who are betting against the market realizing that those stocks weren't going to go down, you have to buy stocks to make up for it. So that's what that happened. We've never numbers like this, 936 points higher by the end of the day. Until today, the biggest number that we'd ever seen wasn't even a 500 point gain. Now there are a lot that happened. In Europe, the banks decided -- that the governments decided they were going to back up the banks. The U.S. has sort of gave out hints that it was going to start spending the $700 billion soon and maybe emulate the British model of guaranteeing bank loans. So that was another big deal. A lot of these things led to this kind of market charge that we had today. But we're not even half way made up for what we lost over the last couple of weeks -- Anderson.", "Ali, we're learning more details about what the government is going to announce tomorrow. What are you hearing?", "There are four basic things that we're hearing about. Let me show you what they are. The first one is that the government seems to be targeting nine specific banks that they're going to make direct investments in. They're going to invest in those banks and they're going to get stocks back in return. The second thing is the Treasury has been authorized to spend the first $250 billion of the $700 billion bailout. Well, the President is going to give them authority to spend another $100 billion so that they can accelerate the pace at which they're buying up these troubled assets and investing in the banks. The third thing is we're going to get the rules on CEO compensation. As you know that bailout package had some provisions that if your company gets help from the government, from taxpayers, well, your CEOs aren't going to be able to walk away with golden parachutes or get too much money. We're going to get details on that tomorrow morning. And finally, the FDIC, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation which insures your bank accounts now up to $250,000 apiece is apparently going to start insuring non-interest bearing accounts, the kind out of which people's payrolls are paid. So that's a pretty important thing for all those people who are worried that this credit crisis could affect their payroll, Anderson, we're hearing news that could change too.", "All Ali Velshi thanks. Again, the Dow up a record 936 points, that's up 11 percent just today. The question is what comes next? What happens tomorrow? Some perspective now on where things may be headed and what it means to your bottom line; from \"Fortune\" magazine managing editor, Andy Serwer. Tomorrow, you said it's going to be an interesting day. What do you mean?", "When the flight attendants say, keep your seatbelts securely fastened, I mean there's no question Anderson that tomorrow is going to be another one of those days. There's a couple of things that happens. And first of all today was a bank holiday. So the credit markets were not open. So we'll get the full response of more developments from Washington. And we're also are going to be having the President and the Treasury Secretary as Ali suggests that they're going to be announcing more details about the plan, investing directly in banks also insuring more.", "You pointed out to me just before we went on the air, that the amount of money that the U.S. government is now going to be putting into banks which was basically what the Europeans have been doing or announced that they're going to be doing is minuscule compared to what the Europeans are putting into their own banks.", "Well, that's right.", "So in a way the plan is cheap?", "Right, well, the way the plan looks to me, is that's $250 billion, and perhaps plus an additional $100 billion. The details are still fuzzy. But remember, the Europeans are throwing the long ball here; they're throwing $2.3 trillion at their problem. The economy of Europe is say roughly the same size of the U.S. economy. And we're only going to be doing $250 billion. So they're spending ten times as much as we are. Some people are suggesting that our plan could be overwhelming in that sense. Underwhelming, I should say, excuse me.", "Well, isn't that something -- that this whole idea of injecting money directly into banks, isn't that something that Paulson wrote off a couple weeks ago?", "Yes in late September and I think it was September 23rd, in fact, there were suggestions that that was not necessary to do it all. And now, we've seen the Europeans do it and here we are doing the European model. For those who suggests that early in the year we should have headed this thing off the pass, that maybe a bit of a red herring because no one foresaw exactly how bad this is going to be. This is un-chartered territory right now. So maybe it is prudent to keep shifting in terms of what you see as the focus.", "There are those who have said, and I think its CNN's Fareed Zakaria was among them who said look, you know that as painful as this is, and gosh knows, it's going to be incredibly painful for some folks, more than others, but there are going to be a lot of people hurting, out of the work, seeing their savings disappear, but it's a dose of reality in an economy that very badly needed reality. Our economy has been bloated and drunk for a long time on greed and other things, and this is a wakeup call.", "Yes, I think we have too much debt as a nation. Individuals, our government, we're overleveraged. We borrowed too much and we're paying the piper right now. I mean, you don't want to say that we need pain, that people all around America need to be thrown out of work, I mean that's ridiculous that's crazy, that's horrible, particularly people who did nothing wrong. I mean you look at a guy who works in a factory, who never borrowed more than his mortgages and perfectly safe and perfectly on target and he loses a job because of this thing. It is true that we should not be borrowing as much as we have. People shouldn't be floating things in their cars. We're sending so much money overseas to pay for oil and our trade deficit. So it is a wakeup call. But the pain really hurts people. Job losses, that's the worst.", "Even people looking at the stock market now they're wondering should I get in on the stock market now it's gone up a thousand points.", "Well, the reasons for being on the stock market are the same today as they were on Friday is they were last year, which is when the market was 14,000 and now it's 9,000. You buy great companies with great profit prospects, hold them. Microsoft, Proctor and Gamble, Exxon and these companies are going to be around for a long time. It's true, they are cheaper now than they were a year ago and it's true, that they were cheaper on Friday and today. But this is a great lesson in market timing, right Anderson. I mean if you had sold on Friday, you would have looked like a sucker, right?", "And trying to time the market, as we got so many people Suze Orman and others telling us, is virtually impossible to do.", "A tough game.", "Andy Serwer we appreciate it. \"On the Campaign Trail,\" it is a heated issue to drill or not to drill? Tonight, a look at the battle over Arctic oil, our \"Planet in Peril\" investigation when \"360\" continues."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-399117", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-05-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/03/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Japan's Health Care System Overwhelmed; Everyday Heroes Stepping Up to Fill Equipment Void", "utt": ["Japan's health care system is overwhelmed. There is concern over a lack of protective equipment for frontline workers. Hospitals are rejecting patients in record numbers. Many Japanese are ignoring social distancing guidelines. CNN spoke with a doctor who says that 90 percent of these requests for COVID-19 tests have been declined. Will Ripley has more.", "Loudspeakers are blaring amongst Tokyo warning people to stay home. Some are listening. Many are not, packing supermarkets, parks, playgrounds, even a gambling park. Japanese health experts warn that without social distancing, hundreds of thousands could die of coronavirus. Getting tested remains incredibly difficult. This man's daughter had a 104-degree fever, 40 degrees Celsius for 4 days. \"My wife and I were very nervous. Desperately asking for a test but they kept saying no. They even hung up on me.\" Within days, his entire family was sick. They tried to get tested for two agonizing weeks. \"It was scary. Our first daughter also had a fever, then a seizure. We took her to the hospital but it was too late.\" She was just 16 months old when she died of flu-related meningitis five years ago. His wife and children were never tested for the coronavirus. A doctor says the same thing is happening to a lot of his patients. \"Only 10 percent of my requests are accepted.\"", "90 percent denied?", "On average this month, Tokyo is testing less than 300 people a day. Japan's health ministry has repeatedly told CNN widespread testing would be a waste of resources. Just this week, some areas did begin offering drive-through and walk- through testing. But it is not widely available. Undertesting is not the only problem. Hospitals are turning away ambulances at a rate four times higher than last April.", "Your patient is laying there for up to nine hours, getting no treatment whatsoever and hospitals kept turning him away? \"I have never experienced being turned away by so many hospitals before the coronavirus outbreak.\" Japan's medical association warns the public health system is on the brink of collapsing. Running low on ICU beds, ventilators and personal protective equipment. \"We only get one mask per week.\" CNN agreed not to use her full name, identify her hospital.", "How is one mask a week possible to keep you safe from the virus? \"It is scary,\" she says, showing me the cloth mask that she uses. Experts warn that cloth masks don't protect nurses from coronavirus. Several Japanese hospitals have already become clusters of an infection. \"I am worried about how long this will continue. I am afraid that there is no end in sight.\" With case numbers skyrocketing in Japan, this may be just the beginning -- Will Ripley, CNN, Tokyo.", "The U.S. is facing a dire shortage of PPE, as the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow. In this new shelter in place reality, everyday heroes are making the best of their situation by lending a helping hand. CNN's Fredricka Whitfield explains.", "Normally on a Tuesday, 12 year old Vince would be in gym class. Now these are far from normal Tuesdays. Vince is working his makeshift assembly line in the family kitchen, using a 3D printer that he got when he was 9 and another one donated by the library where his mom works. Vince is making PPE face masks for those fighting the pandemic.", "So this is the thing that you take off the 3D printer.", "The 6th grader got motivated after a neighbor, who is a nurse, put out a plea for", "I put a post on Facebook saying that if you have a 3D printer, if you can sew, we could use masks and eye shields.", "I watch her dog when she goes on vacations. I thought that it would be another way to help, the least I could do during the pandemic.", "For nearly three weeks now, the printers have buzzed along. At first, it was taking nearly three hours to print each frame.", "Me and my dad were like, no, that takes way too long.", "A few tweaks to the program and production time was cut to about an hour apiece.", "All over the country, people are stepping up to help fill the critical need for PPE. Philip Schammer (ph) and Eric Race (ph) are high school engineering teachers in Illinois District 214. Along with several colleagues, they took home the school's 3D printers and got to work making headbands for face masks.", "I have four printers. They are running constantly, 24-7.", "It was an opportunity and a moral imperative to help save lives in the community.", "The district partnered with the local community college that has idle laser cutters, good for making masks.", "The fact that we have these tools here available to support producing 5,000 PPEs and beyond is a calling that we must answer.", "John Kermen (ph) would normally be teaching welding class but now he is manning the face mask cutting assembly line.", "It's getting to the point where we're just trying to produce as many as we can as quickly as we can.", "Hi, Jeff, how are you?", "Last week they delivered their first shipment to the Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Fire Department. Some have gone to the ICU unit at Elk Grove Hospital. Some have gone as far as Nashville, Tennessee; Dearborn, Michigan and San Marcos, California.", "And one place very close to home?", "My grandma's nursing home. They recently had their first COVID-19 case.", "And let's not forget those first ones Vince sent to his neighbor's hospital.", "You never know who has your back. This little 11 year old neighbor has got my back.", "Such essential amazing work. That was CNN's Fredricka Whitfield. A trip to the beach looks very different in the new coronavirus reality. When we return, we will find out how they are faring in California."], "speaker": ["COREN", "RIPLEY (voice-over)", "RIPLEY", "RIPLEY (voice-over)", "RIPLEY", "RIPLEY", "COREN", "FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "VINCE, 6TH GRADER", "WHITFIELD (voice-over)", "PPE. KATIE MARR, MT. 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{"id": "CNN-64358", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-12-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/17/ltm.14.html", "summary": "99 Years Ago, Wright Brothers Took to the Air", "utt": ["On this day 99 years ago, the Wright brothers took to the air in the world's first airplane. That flight, December 17, 1903, only 12 seconds long, but it threw out the welcome mat for the age of aviation. Six decades later, history made again when astronaut Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the moon. Parts of the actual Wright flyer were carried on that mission and today Neil Armstrong and other great aviation pioneers are being honored at Washington's National Air & Space Museum. One heck of an honor. Our space correspondent Miles O'Brien is there today for a rare interview with Mr. Armstrong, as well -- hey, Miles, good morning.", "Good morning, Bill. This is one of my favorite places. You've been here, haven't you?", "Um-hmm. I sure have, yes.", "All right, well, I'm standing or sitting, actually, on the mezzanine above the Milestones In Flight gallery. Take a look at the scene below me right now, as preparations in their final stages for the beginning of the year long celebration which will mark the centennial of flight in December of '04. There's the banner on the dais. This will answer the question that's been on many people's mind, what do John Travolta and John Glenn have in common? Well, it's airplanes. And there you see the 1903 Wright flyer and a manikin up there, which would be Orville Wright. That first flight occurred about 10:35 a.m. Eastern time, Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, December 17, 1903. It lasted about 12 seconds. There were three other flights that morning, one lasting, another one lasting 12 seconds, another one 15 seconds, and the final flight, Wilbur's flight, lasting 59 seconds, ended sort of ignominiously with a crash into the sand dunes. But the fact is they had proven that powered flight with a human being could happen. Neil Armstrong is here, also the great niece of the Wrights, Amanda Wright Lane. I spoke with Neil Armstrong and her just a few moments ago and I asked Dr. Armstrong when he first started thinking and dreaming about the Wrights as he grew up in Ohio.", "I was a devotee of the brothers Wright and had read much of their early recorded statements and letters and memos and so on. So I think that many aviators have come to appreciate what a great step forward those two brothers made in remarkable circumstances.", "When you look at 99 years of accomplishment, on the one hand, tremendous leaps, and yet in some respects, and I'm talking more about space travel here, when you compare where things were 40 or 50 years after the Wrights in the world of aviation, comparing that to the space age, do you get the sense that the space age hasn't progressed as it should?", "It's easy to say that we should be doing more and perhaps we should. We'd certainly like to be doing more. But the fact is that we have come out in a remarkable way in this first century of flight. The Wrights correctly identified that the problem above all others that was preventing successful flight was the ability to what they call balance and steer, what today we call it stability and control. That remains one of the principle problems of flying aircraft of very high performance, including air frigates like the X15 and space craft and helicopters and all kinds of things. They identified the problem and they solved it, at least to the extent that their machine required.", "What about this year? This is the beginning of an important year of commemoration. Why is it so important to commemorate this event?", "Oh, this is a wonderful opportunity because so many people have sharp recollections of a very large percentage of the increases in flight that occurred during this past century. So it's meaningful to all the devotees of aviation, all the people who fly, all the people who have an interest in the achievements in aviation in this past century. It's, we're just delighted.", "It's also important to get the young folks. There are folks that have lived this history that are very excited about it. But to get the young folks thinking about it again, thinking about aviation, its past, its present and what is going to be the future, it's important to get them excited, as well.", "Amanda Wright Lane, the great niece of the Wrights, along with Neil Armstrong, talking to me just a few moments ago. And take a look at some pictures there. There it is, Friendship 7, the capsule that carried John Glenn into orbit and into our living rooms as a household name. He'll be joining me a little later. He, along with John Travolta, and we'll ask them what the two Johns have in common -- Bill Hemmer.", "Sounds great. Good deal, Miles. Thanks. And hope Dr. Armstrong is well today. He looks good, anyway.", "He does.", "Thank you, Miles."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER", "O'BRIEN", "NEIL ARMSTRONG, FORMER ASTRONAUT", "O'BRIEN", "ARMSTRONG", "O'BRIEN", "ARMSTRONG", "AMANDA WRIGHT LANE", "O'BRIEN", "HEMMER", "O'BRIEN", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-14334", "program": "Sunday Morning News", "date": "2000-8-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/20/sm.08.html", "summary": "Audobon County, Iowa is Home to Many Quirky Attractions", "utt": ["Holy cow! Paul Fredericks (ph) of affiliate station KETV shows us where the beef is in Iowa.", "Audubon County may appear ordinary at first, with a cornfield here and a little town there. But these quiet, quaint communities have an abundance of quirky attractions. Meet the biggest stud in Audubon.", "He's 30 feet high and weighs 45 tons.", "Albert the bull is the biggest bull in the world. Albert was built back in 1960 to honor Audubon County's cattlemen. People from across the country stop for photo ops with Albert.", "He's big. He's a big cow.", "How many people can go meet new people and say, We have the world's largest bull in our back yard?", "Down this lonely country road sits another Audubon County landmark. It's the tree in the middle of the road. A hundred and fifty years ago, a surveyor simply stuck a walking stick in the ground to mark the county line.", "Right. They walked away from it, there was nothing out here at the time, and so leaving it in the ground was just purely their marker.", "Now this cottonwood is 100 feet tall. It was easiest to build the roads around it.", "This is the first famous tree that we had.", "This is Audubon County's other famous tree, the one with the plow in the oak.", "The legend of the plow in the oak tree is that a young farmer went off to the Civil War and left his plow leaning against the tree. And the plow stayed, and the tree grew up around the plow.", "Not to be overshadowed is Nathaniel Hamlin (ph) Park and its self-proclaimed largest site of working windmills.", "Man, I'm proud of 'em.", "Eighteen windmills in all, and all were donated by Audubon County farmers.", "They work good. Windmills work good. But their day is over.", "The Little Mermaid is the biggest conversation piece in the town of Kimbleton (ph).", "She's just a part of our Danish heritage.", "She comes from a Danish fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.", "She dreamed of finding her prince and be -- having a mortal soul.", "Never did.", "Never did. I just think it's great to live here and have all these neat things to go and tell people about."], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL FREDERICKS, KETV-TV REPORTER (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FREDERICKS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FREDERICKS", "DAN FORD, AUDUBON COUNTRY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT", "FREDERICKS", "FORD", "FREDERICKS", "FORD", "FREDERICKS", "FRED SIEVERS, WINDMILL EXPERT", "FREDERICKS", "SIEVERS", "FREDERICKS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FREDERICKS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FREDERICKS (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE"]}
{"id": "CNN-392428", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-02-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/11/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Fact-Checking Trump On Concord; Trump Administration May Announce Deal With Taliban To End Afghanistan War; Trump Cites \"A National Emergency Or Serious Economic Conditions\" To Limit Government Employee Raises Next Year; Buttigieg Criticizes Trump's Budget; Dr. Celine Gounder Discusses Trump's Assertion That Warm Weather Will Take Care Of The Coronavirus; DOJ Backtracks On Sentence Guidelines For Roger Stone After Trump Tweet.", "utt": ["Breaking news, the Trump administration says it is looking to announce a deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan as early as this week. Let's go straight to the Pentagon and our correspondent there, Barbara Starr. Barbara, what's the story?", "Well, Brook, they hope to. They have a lot of optimism about it. But there's still plenty of skepticism as well that this may all work out. Still, it is a hint that there could be a breakthrough in the end trying to end America's longest wear, the 18-year war in Afghanistan. We know that the negotiations with the Taliban seem to be headed in the right direction. And earlier today, Afghan President Ghani tweeted saying -- commenting on Twitter he said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had brought him a, quote, \"significant and enduring reduction-in-violence Taliban proposal, a reduction in violence now being proposed by the Taliban.\" It could be announced formally this week by the United States. And if this reduction in violence works over the coming days, this could then lead to a peace agreement. So why not huge optimism about this? Look, the Taliban leadership they're negotiating with may not be able to control the thousands of Taliban fighters and loyalists across Afghanistan. This is a group that is very diverse, that has loose command and control. Those who sign onto a peace agreement may not be able to deliver in the end. And of course, there's still ISIS in Afghanistan. So a lot of concern about enduring violence there. But a hint, at least, that maybe the U.S. is making a breakthrough. And if they do, and if they can get an enduring peace agreement with the Taliban, then it could lead to American troops coming home. Right now, there's 12,000 to 13,000 forces, Americans on the ground in Afghanistan. They think they can break it down to 8,600 pretty quick. And the hope is an eventual peace agreement will bring all the Americans home after 18 years -- Brooke?", "Barbara, thank you. It is the Trump campaign talking point that is in every rally, in hundreds of tweets. And even critics admit it may be his best case for re-election, the U.S. economy.", "Since my, election America has gained seven million new jobs. After years of building up other countries, we are finally building our country. Our economy is now the envy of the entire world. I am thrilled to report to you tonight that our economy is the best it has ever been.", "So then it may be surprising that the president is citing, quote, \"a national emergency or serious economic conditions\" for why he wants to limit government employee pay raises to just 1 percent next year. He adds in a message to Congress, a pay increase above 1 percent is, quote, \"inappropriate.\" Let's talk this over with CNN Global Economic Analyst, Rana Foroohar, a columnist and associate editor for the \"Financial Times.\" You saw the clip. Today he was tweeting the U.S. economy is the best in history. Why only 1 percent?", "Yes. I think there's a couple of things, possibly a negotiating position, which is something we were talking about earlier. I think the president may be managing expectations a little bit. The truth is, yes, the headline numbers look great right now. We still have near record low unemployment, the markets are up, but we know that there's some headwinds. Coronavirus in China is already hitting a number of American companies, Apple, Qualcomm. Some of the big ones are issuing profit warnings. There are wages that are still not ticking up. There are really kind of two economies here. One is the headline numbers, which look great. But when you scratch below the surface, you see a lot of vulnerable groups, young people, minorities, women. The quality jobs for those groups are just not there. And I think that that's something you're going to start to see Democrats hit home on the campaign trail, particularly as they go into the heated-up primary season.", "You're reading my mind.", "I was going to say, you're good, Rana Foroohar. Here's a quote from the National Treasury Employees Union. They represent 150,000 workers. They're condemning this pay increase limit. Quote, \"For an administration that has added $3 trillion to the federal debt, gouging federal employee pay and benefits in the name of deficit reduction is ridiculous.\" I mean, at the end of the day, Congress does have the final say. And like you said, the 1 percent maybe it's a bit of \"Art of the Deal, like let's start here and maybe move up.", "But it's really interesting because I think that you're going to see Democrats say, look, we need to focus on income. I mean, we know at some point as high as markets are that they're going to correct. Our 401Ks are going to feel that. There's some statistics out recently from Goldman Sachs showing that 1 percent of the country owns 50 percent of those stock price increases that we've seen in the last few years. Really it's about income. And I think that with income still flat, you're going to see Democrats saying, look, we're in a go-it-alone economy. You know, all the things that make you middle class, housing, health care, education, these things are getting more and more expensive. And, OK, yes, we can still buy cheap phones and cheap TVs, but the stuff that we really need, we need more money in our pockets for that.", "Pete Buttigieg, right? Out on the trail. He talked about the president's new budget, just speaking of what's been going on in terms of dollars and cents. He talked about this with John Berman. Here he was.", "He's rolled out a budget that will make savage cuts to education and environmental protection. He said Social Security is on the table and Medicaid is up for cuts. We know what would happen if this presidency continues?", "Between President Trump's January comments and proposed budget cuts, like why don't we see more of that? Why do you think, you know, of these candidates criticizing Trump?", "I feel, up until about right this point, it's been a dog fight amongst the Democrats, right? There's this existential crisis within the party. Do we think the current system is work something do we want to make tweaks at the margins or are we a Medicare For All party? Are with a debt jubilee party? I think that fight has been occupying a lot of airtime. I think now, after New Hampshire, and definitely after Super Tuesday, you're going to see Democrats consolidate around. are we going to go with a middle of the road message or something more progressive, more radical as a solution. I think once they decide on that, then they'll be able to really hammer home the message against Trump in the November election.", "Makes sense. Rana, thank you.", "Thank you.", "Rana Foroohar. China is reporting their deadliest day since the start of the coronavirus outbreak. On Monday, 108 people died and nearly 2,500 new cases were confirmed. And that brings the number of cases in China to nearly 43,000. And the death toll has now surpassed 1,000. Here in the United States, a 13th case of coronavirus has been confirmed. Health officials say the American, who evacuated from Wuhan, China, last week, was in quarantine after mistakenly being released from the hospital. As the deadly virus continues to spread, now infecting more than 25 countries around the world, President Trump is pushing a theory that the deadly disease will go away in the next couple of months when it gets warmer outside.", "The virus, they're working hard. Looks like, by April. You know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. I hope that's true. But we're doing great in our country. China, I spoke with President Xi, and they're working very, very hard. And I think it's going to all work out fine. Rough stuff, I tell you. Rough, rough stuff, but I think it's going to work out good.", "We only have 11 cases, and they're all getting better.", "Dr. Celine Gounder is an infectious disease specialist at NYU School of Medicine, and the host of the podcast, \"American Diagnosis.\" Nice to see you. I know the president doesn't have an M.D., but he's one degree of separation from a lot of top medical minds. And so is there something to what he's saying about like coronavirus, you know, miraculously disappearing when it gets warm, or is that just bunk?", "Well, there's a reason for the winter cough and cold season. That's for a couple of reasons. One, we're indoors more, around each other more. We're swapping viruses more. And secondly, the winter is drier, it's less humid and viruses can stay in the air better. That doesn't mean viruses go away completely in the summer. Then you have more tropical countries where viruses transmission continues through the year and they function as a reservoir for the rest of us.", "Here's what the director of the World Health Organization says. He believes they can eventually stop the virus but warn it could, quote, \"create havoc if it reaches a country with a weaker health system.\" What will it take? I know this has now surpassed SARS. What will it take to make this finally go away?", "Well, I don't know if we're, frankly, ever going to get there.", "Wow.", "It's what we saw with H1N -- and there's a lot of similarities here in terms of death rates and so on. That is part of our regular mix of flu viruses that circulates now. And what we have against that is a vaccination. So if that happens -- and we don't know yet, you know, if we're going to be able to contain this or not. But if this becomes the regular mix of flu bugs that we see, that's going to be our best protection, is really to vaccinate the most vulnerable.", "OK. Just incredible. You wake up every day and it like it's like more people affected by this. But at least once the weather gets warmer it will, it sounds like, you're saying lessen.", "Lessen and buy us some time. Yes.", "Dr. Gounder, thank you very much.", "My pleasure.", "Let's get you back to our breaking news. The Department of Justice today backtracking on the sentencing guidance for Roger Stone after President Trump complained on Twitter about the time his long- time confidant is facing, time behind bars. 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{"id": "CNN-229496", "program": "@THISHOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2014-4-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/30/ath.02.html", "summary": "Donald Sterling Banned from NBA for Life", "utt": ["Doc Rivers has navigated his team through an emotional game and an emotional four days and they end up with a 10-point win.", "The Los Angeles Clippers, they won last night. What a game it was. Breathing a sigh of relief all around and the team has a one- game lead in the NBA playoff series against the Golden State Warriors happening just hours after the owner, Donald Sterling, was banned for life from the league. Joining us for her debut appearance by the way AT THIS HOUR, Rachel Nichols, host of CNN's \"Unguarded.\" Back with us, Atlanta sports attorney, David Cornwell. Great to have you with us. David, you are a sophomore on the show.", "6'10\" sophomore -- sorry.", "I got invited to the table, finally. I'm so excited.", "What a conversation to have.", "I may never leave.", "That's OK. Let's talk about the owners. I think that's what everyone is waiting on right now. The big expectation of how these owners are going to vote. We don't know when it will happen. You get a sense that silver would have polled owners before making an announcement at the press conference yesterday.", "This is what's interesting. There's a procedure laid out in the constitution for this. The constitution itself is secret. We don't have the exact language. We know generally they have three days to notify him. Then he has five days to respond. There's a couple week period before they hold the vote. It's an interesting series of steps. The question is can they ride the public outrage of yesterday and today and sort of the next couple of days all of the way to that vote. Adam Silver purposely didn't poll all of the owners. He didn't try to gain consensus before making that announcement. He banned him but the power move was laying it out in public to the owners saying you guys, I challenge you to ban him. Three-quarters of the owners, 75 percent, have to make this vote to make it work. If he polled everyone ahead of time and tried to build consensus ahead of time, we saw Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said it's a slippery slope. I'm concerned about banning someone or taking away their team for a private conversation.", "David, I want to talk about what Rachel described as a power move. To me, this reads like crisis management 101. The master class. Every scandal is its own thing. You have steroids. You have concussions in football. You have a lot of issues going on here. Everything is different. Adam Silver in his first months on the job, I mean, he laid down the law right there.", "He sure did. And, remember, a commissioner is really the steward of the entire sport. He's responsible for everything. Adam had to recognize this is a crisis he must manage. This is a brand he must protect. And by pushing the owners and saying I will urge them and I expect using terms like that, what he was saying, I agree with Rachel, what he was saying, I'm the commissioner now. I expect you to do these things because I think it's necessary that they be done. And I think that we're going to end up seeing a unanimous vote to takeover the Clippers.", "So, David, be Olivia Pope, if you would, for a second.", "Well, if I were advising Donald Sterling, we wouldn't be in this position.", "But now?", "If he hired me now, I would tell him the best option for him is to go gracefully. There's an arbitration provision in the constitution and bylaws. These particular provisions regarding terminating a franchise provide that once the three-quarters vote, that's essentially an unappealable decision. After that, two-thirds of the owners could decide to fine him instead but I doubt that that will happen. The NBA has a very well buttoned up administrative process as well as an arbitration process that any court in America is going to honor and keep their hands off. He doesn't have any real recourse in the courts.", "Rachel Nichols, David Cornwell, thank you so much for being with us. Really appreciate your insight on this. Welcome to the show, Rachel.", "You're always welcome back.", "Now to this, when it comes to running for president, a famous face, a famous name really helps so in a match-up between two of the most famous names in politics, who do you think gets more votes? Tweet us \"@thishour.\" We have the answer with the most recent poll coming up later.", "Bringing hold and new together. \"Star Wars\" back to the future with original stars. Check it out. A look at the cast next. But first, here's this week's \"CNN Hero.\"", "Chicken nuggets, French fries, mustard and a milkshake. My daddy ordered the same thing as me. That is my daddy.", "My son's father, he was murdered. Their bond was just a bond that a lot of kids don't have with their father.", "I love my city. I have lived here all of my life. But people here are having crisis after crisis. I believe that the violence in this city and grief are directly connected.", "I feel sad that somebody hurt my dad.", "A child's grief can be very different from adults. They can easily lose their identity and their security. And that shift can be very dangerous.", "There you go. Write your feelings. How are you feeling today?", "Our program provides that safe place for a child to recover.", "Hello. How are you doing?", "Our volunteers help the children explore their feelings.", "Why did you choose red?", "I was angry when my dad passed away.", "And talk about healthy ways of coping.", "Get that anger out!", "We teach our children that it's OK to cry. His brother died so he's feeling very, very sad. Grief is truly a public health problem. We've got to address it. Coping is how we deal with our feelings. 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{"id": "CNN-313737", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2017-06-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1706/05/ath.01.html", "summary": "\"Multiple Fatality\" Shooting At Orlando Business; Sheriff: Fired Employee Kills Five In Orlando; Trump Undermines His Own Defense Over Travel Ban; Trump Team Argues That President's Tweets Aren't Policy", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. I'm Kate Bolduan. We are following breaking news from London and Washington right now. New raids this morning following the terror attacks in the heart of London that left seven dead and 48 injured. The three attackers killed by police have now been identified and authorities are racing to figure out whether they're part of a larger network. But as London grieves, the president of the United States issues not one but two attacks on the city's mayor. President Trump already under fire for his controversial response to the weekend tragedy just moments ago doubled down on his attack on the city's leader with this on Twitter. His statement, \"Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who had to think fast.\" I'm going to stop myself and take you over quickly to Orlando, Florida, where a workplace shooting occurred this morning. Police there are giving us an update. Let's go there.", "-- Danny Banks and Fire Chief Otto (inaudible). Sheriff Demings?", "It's a sad day for us in once again in Orange County. I'm going to share some details about a tragedy that occurred this morning at the Fioma Incorporated Business that you see just behind me. Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of the victims this morning. I will share more detail about what has occurred. You will be hearing from myself as well as Mayor Jacobs in just a moment, then followed by a representative from the FBI and FDLE, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and the fire chief who responded to this emergency this morning. But let me just share some details with you. At about 8:03 a.m. this morning, we received a 911 emergency call into our communications center about an active shooter situation here at the Fioma Incorporated Business. This is a worldwide business that primarily provides accessories for RVs. At about 8:03.45 a.m. this morning, we were dispatched here to this call. Deputies arrived on scene just two minutes later to active shooter call to service. Once they arrived here, they found multiple individuals that had been shot. Three male victims were deceased at that time. One female victim was deceased. A fifth person, a male, was transported to the Orlando Regional Medical Center where he subsequently died as a result of his injuries. There were seven survivors, individuals who were inside this business who are being interviewed presently by detectives from the orange county sheriff's office. We have a 45-year-old subject who is deceased inside as a result of his own means. The individual was armed with a handgun and a knife this morning. There is no indication that he used a knife on any of the victims, but shot five innocent people this morning and then turned the gun on himself and killed himself. The individual in question is a former employee of this business. He was fired sometime in April of this year, so he was a disgruntled employee that came back to this business this morning. In terms of a history of this business, we have very few records of any significance here. However, about three years ago, in June of 2014, we did respond to this business in which the subject who is responsible for the deaths this morning was the subject of a workplace violence incident in which he allegedly battered another employee here in the business. There were no charges actually at that time. In terms of this subject, this 45-year-old subject, when we look into his criminal history, what we have found is that he has a criminal history minor in nature of charges such as possession of marijuana, dui, and misdemeanor battery. At this time, we have no indication that this subject is a member of any subversive type organization. We have no indication that this subject is a participant in any type of terror organization. What this is at this point is likely a workplace violence incident. We will get more into the details of the investigation as it unfolds. At this time, we have designated a reunification location for the family members. What we are asking individuals who may be related to persons who work at this business, we have set up at Full Sail University, which is located at 3535 North Forsythe Road, a family reunification site. Families are able to respond there to a building called the Live One Building, the Live One Building. We have deputy sheriffs who are there who will direct family members to that particular location. We also have a phone number that has been set up for individuals to call, should they wish to receive information. The phone number is area code 407-679-0100, extension 3087. And I'll repeat that, area code 407-679-0100 --", "All right, you're listening in to this press conference from Sheriff Demings in Orlando, Florida, laying out the details, a lot more. We really have very little detail of what happened. Pretty terrifying scene in Orlando, Florida, this morning, at a business there. Let me bring in James Gagliano, who was watching this with me, former FBI special agent. James, it's one of the scariest things you can think of in a business. No nexus to terrorism is what the sheriff says, but a disgruntled employee, takes it out on his former colleagues and then turns the gun on himself.", "Absolutely, Kate. And what we're seeing in this new normal right now is law enforcement has to presume terrorism until proven otherwise, and I felt like the police chief did a good job of allaying citizens' fears and saying this was an isolated incident. They're changing their tactics as well. Since Columbine, we can no longer sit back and wait. In these instances, these folks are turning the guns on themselves after they kill as many people as possible or they're looking to conduct a suicide by cop, as we saw in London. So, I think the police officers here responded appropriately. They go to the sound of the guns now. They accept a higher level of risk to try to save more lives.", "Yes. Five people dead, seven survivors. That happening this morning in Orlando. James, thanks so much for jumping on. I really appreciate it We will turn from that terrible situation in Orlando to the president's tweet storm this morning on his controversial travel ban. And yes, the president himself is calling it a ban today, making a point to call it a ban. In a series of tweets pointing to the London attack as a reason the U.S. needs the travel ban, also arguing his Justice Department should have stuck with the original version that's been held up in the courts. CNN justice correspondent, Jessica Schneider, is live with us now with more on the details. Jessica, what is the president's argument here?", "Kate, whatever the president's argument is, it is seriously undermining his own Justice Department's argument. Put it this way, DOJ lawyers are in the midst of a long and protracted legal fight here, and all this time they've been trying to convince the courts to essentially ignore the president's own words. And so far, of course, no court has ignored President Trump's statement. And now this morning the president is once again making life very difficult at the DOJ, attacking their argument on two fronts. So, here goes. First, the president has called it a travel ban this morning three separate times in his tweets. Now, that term alone flies in the face of what his lawyers have labeled it. They've insisted repeatedly that this is merely an executive order or a temporary ban. On the second front, the president has admitted both today on Twitter and even back at a march rally that his second executive order on this travel ban was just, quote, \"watered down\" and \"politically correct.\" So again, that's the exact opposite argument that the DOJ is trying to put forward. They have said repeatedly that this is religiously neutral. It's based on the national security concerns of the United States. So, really, Kate, in a series of tweets this morning, the president continues to contradict his own administration's lawyers, and that could really things even more difficult as they heads to the Supreme Court. It was just last week the Trump administration petitioned the Supreme Court to let that executive order stand. It's a petition that will be referred to the full Supreme Court and then the justices at some point will ask for a response to the challengers. So, the president this morning, Kate, really undermining a lot of what his lawyers have been working very hard to argue on multiple fronts -- Kate.", "Quite an amazing turn of events when you look at these statements coming out from the president, much more than just tweets. These are statements coming directly from the president. Jessica, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. With me right now, former CIA operative, Mike Baker, a co-founder of the global intel and security firm, Diligence. Errol Louis is also here, CNN political commentator, and A.B. Stoddard is the associate editor and columnist for \"Real Clear Politics. And Joan Biskupic is joining us. She is a CNN Supreme Court analyst. Joan, let's start with you, where Jessica Schneider rightly left off. This is coming before the Supreme Court, this travel ban. Did the president hurt his case before the court? Will the justices look at these statements on Twitter this morning?", "Well, lower court judges have looked at what he said extracurricularly like this, and it is up there right now, and the justices have asked the challengers to respond to the government's petition by next week. And the key question has been, what did he say during the campaign and what did he say afterward? The administration lawyers have said don't go back to the campaign statements, look only at what he's done since. But each week, each month, each day almost, Donald Trump is giving the courts and the challengers more ammunition to say that this is something that's targeted toward certain people based on religion. He used the phrase politically correct, politically incorrect. It's not about that, it's about being religiously free. And what lower court judges have been looking at, and what the U.S. Supreme Court justices will be looking at is, is he actually targeting certain people based on their religion? And I think this could backfire not just in a substantive way on the arguments, but also, think of what he's saying to judges. He criticized judges during the campaign. He's criticized judges since the rulings.", "Absolutely has.", "And in some of these tweets, he's added comments about judges being slow and political. I think that gets their attention.", "Well, it's definitely getting a lot of our attention, at the very, very least, Joan, that's for sure. Errol, also at the very least, he's very clearly putting his aides and his own Justice Department in a tough spot. I mean, he's suggesting in one of the series of tweets that the Justice Department was wrong in putting out this revised travel ban. But to be clear, it's his executive order. He signed the executive order. His name is on it. What is the president doing here, Errol?", "It's his order, it's his employees. It's essentially his case that's going to the Supreme Court. And is often the case, he ends up undercutting and undermining the people who are trying to speak with one coherent voice. Look, this is one of the things that when folks say we want a businessman in the White House. We want somebody to run the country like a business -- think about the kind of business that he ran. It wasn't a Fortune 500 company where you're responding to multiple different major institutions. It was kind of a solo operation in which he went almost impetuously --", "Family business, too.", "Yes, family business, and he would sort of always call the shots, and you know, if people had to catch up with him, so be it. Doesn't work so well when you're the executive of the United States.", "And A.B., as Errol was saying, he's putting a lot of his employees in a tough spot. I mean, he is, though, calling it a ban. He seems to be wanting to clear up one element of this, which is a term, terminology that the White House has taken pains and many an hour in the White House briefing room to push back on, saying that this is not what the administration has put out is not a ban at all. Even his own secretary of Homeland Security has made that case. Just listen to this.", "The administration's travel ban puts a temporary hold on people from six countries. No European country is on that list. But in light of this attack being carried out by a French national, should France be added to the list?", "Well, again, it wasn't a travel ban, it was a travel pause in certain countries that had been identified by the Obama administration and then confirmed by the United States Congress.", "So, should they be added to the travel pause?", "A travel pause. Stay with me here. A travel pause so that we could get our arms around increased vetting.", "That was back in April, A.B. I mean, if you're Secretary Kelly this morning, what do you do?", "Well, I don't think he's going to go on television like Sebastian Gorka and Kellyanne Conway and say everyone's so obsessed in the media with the president's tweets, which actually say what he's feeling and what he's thinking. And it's designed to bypass his own staff in the media and get straight to the voters for the real deal. I don't think General Kelly's going to go on and say, this is just social media and people should just discard it and only pay attention to what we put on paper on the official letterhead of any cabinet within the administration. So, if I were him, I'd lay low for a few more days. This is not the first time the president's done this. He does this all the time. He asked Jeff Sessions, who was recused at the time from the Russia investigation, to join him at a meeting with his Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, to come up with a memo describing why James Comey, the then FBI director, could no longer function in that position. He sent out his staff to talk about why. It was the strong recommendation of Rod Rosenstein that led to the firing of Comey. Vice President Mike Pence went to Capitol Hill and repeated it seven times to the cameras, and the assorted reporters there who asked him the questions about where did this come from and why is this happening. And then the very next day, President Trump went on TV, interviewed with Lester Holt of NBC and said that Russia was on his mind, and that basically led to him deciding to fire Comey, and he was never going to take anyone's recommendation anyway, he had already made the decision. So, he undermines the message out of the White House all the time. I wrote this last week. They're trying to make all these staff changes with a new communications room to cover the gush of leaks over the Russia investigation. No massive strategy is going to work as long as he is shooting off on Twitter and undermining the message of the day. Doesn't matter what they tell Secretary Tillerson or Mattis to say to our allies overseas. He's picked a fight with the mayor of London. It's reckless and ineffective relationship and imperiled our relationship with a key ally. It really doesn't matter what everyone else does on staff. It matters what he does.", "Mike, as I'm reading through the president's tweets on the travel ban this morning, it kind of strikes me, is the president undermining even his own argument from this morning when he kind of wrapped up the tweets on the travel ban saying, \"In any event, we are extreme vetting people coming into the United States in order to help keep our country safe.\" Then he followed up with \"The courts are slow and political.\" Is it clear what extreme vetting means? Is it any different than regular vetting?", "Well, here's the thing, I can't explain the lack of messaging discipline from the White House. That's way above my pay grade. But I have spent a lot of years working counterterrorism operations overseas in some very unusual and hostile environments. And I have a company now that a great part of it does due diligence, does investigations of people globally and companies globally. So I feel like I've got some experience in this. And what they're talking about, if they had messaged it properly and explained it properly and not conflated it as if it was some panacea for stopping terrorism, if they had simply said these particular countries on this suspension -- and they lost their battle when they lost the ability to call it a visa suspension --", "Yes.", "They're failed states, essentially. There's no infrastructure. If you don't have the ability to go and use databases, for example, or some type of infrastructure --", "And ask for that check.", "-- for those individuals, you're basically going out in places -- and my folks have done this in places like Iraq. You have to travel to villages and talk and find family members to talk to people to get an understanding of their associations or past activities. So, when you say extreme vetting, it's confusing. It's vetting, but you're trying to do it in places where there exists no infrastructure. Now, that makes sense to me, just like it made sense to the previous administration, to label these countries and to say we probably need to consider this.", "Can you unspin this spin?", "No. No, you can't walk this dog back now because now what they've done is they've allowed this discussion to kind of morph into the travel ban, it's going to keep us safe. Well, you know, yes. I mean, it would be nice, if we're vetting people, but it's not a panacea for the problem of counterterrorism, but it is an element of it, and it would be worthwhile pursuing, but I think they've lost the argument here.", "Errol, kind of undermining all of it today, if you will, is the president's advisers coming out, two presidential advisers coming out today and saying don't listen to the tweets. Tweets are not policy. The media's obsessed with the tweets. And again, tweets are not policy. That is exactly what they said. This is also the same White House that says the tweets speak for themselves. When is -- when are tweets policy? When are tweets not policy?", "Some clever person has created a bot that automatically takes the tweets and puts them on official White House stationary so that you can look at it as a statement. We've had this conversation in my newsroom, should we call them presidential statements because that's really what they are.", "They are statements.", "Absolutely. Somebody, if that's a Supreme Court argument, is going to say there's not that much difference between sending this out electronically to 31 million people and standing up in front of a camera in national prime time. The only difference is, if anything, Twitter might reach more people. So, if the president gets up and gives an address from the oval office in primetime, I think we all understand and agree that he's giving instructions to his government, he is talking to the public, he is announcing a policy. I personally, you know, again, in our newsroom, we've had a discussion about whether or not we should call them presidential statements as opposed to tweets, because it could be radio, it could be television, it could be Twitter. He's talking to the public.", "A.B., give me your final take. As I look at these tweets today, I do wonder, is there a political benefit for the president to seeing the ban struck down in the court, to having a huge loss here, then he has someone new to blame, and thus, has someone to point the finger at when he goes back to try to galvanize the base?", "No, I really don't. I think this is important to the base and he needs a victory desperately right now. His agenda is really, truly stalled in the Congress. They have tons of budget deadlines and a debt ceiling increase and all these really difficult things to do before they can even get to a reform of the health care, fix of health care and some kind of tax reform or infrastructure. And so, you know, he needs to come home with a win for the base. I think another loss, even though he'll blame the judges and the media and everybody else, it's not something he can stand. He'll make the Democrats, as you saw in the tweets today, you know, the fall guy on ambassadorships and everything else, but when it comes to this travel ban, if he gets in his own way and he loses, he's really going to regret it because this is something he really wanted to deliver. There is no wall. Mexico's not paying for it. There's a long list of things he can't deliver on, and I think he really wants a win on this.", "And on that question of when are tweets policy, I guess as I'm seeing you there in the corner, Joan, but I've got to go, I guess maybe the Supreme Court will be the final word on that, when they decide if what he said on Twitter is part of the policy coming out of the White House. We might find out very soon. Guys, thank you very much. I really appreciate you joining me today. We're following the breaking news, though, on the attack in London. Authorities working to determine whether the attackers are part of a wider network, this as the British prime minister declares enough is enough. Plus, President Trump under fire for his response, his follow-up, and then some shortly after the attack. And once again this morning, he is going after the mayor of London. And moments from now, amid all of this, we will hear from the president himself. We will hear from the president live. 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{"id": "NPR-49128", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2018-02-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/02/13/585540529/mayor-of-findlay-ohio-says-trumps-infrastructure-plan-could-help-city-address-fl", "title": "Mayor Of Findlay, Ohio Says Trump's Infrastructure Plan Could Help City Address Flooding", "summary": "NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Republican Mayor Lydia Mihalik of Findlay, Ohio, about President Trump's infrastructure budget. Mihalik talked with Trump in person about her town's need for funding to mitigate flooding on the Blanchard River. She says she has private investors interested in the project.", "utt": ["The Trump administration is calling for 1.5 trillion in new spending on infrastructure. The bulk of that money would come from private investors and states and cities. So let's hear reaction now from one city with a big infrastructure problem. Findlay, Ohio sits along the flood-prone Blanchard River. When I spoke with the town's Republican mayor, Lydia Mihalik, I asked her how flood-prone?", "So really, you know, this is something we've been dealing with for the last hundred years. I think, you know, our first major flood happened in 1913. We're very topographically challenged. We like to tell people that we're very flat. And some would think that perhaps the Blanchard River is this, you know, large, deep-flowing river that causes us a lot of trouble.", "But really, it's a very shallow stream. And when we get anywhere between 2 to 3 inches or more of rain in any given storm event, it causes us to flood quite a bit. And we had just begun a study with the Army Corps of Engineers, which basically was a feasibility study that helped develop some solutions for our community. And, you know, we're still working through that process.", "We have taken our project from the Army Corps of Engineers and are now doing it on our own. So it's been a long, long road to hoe, that's for sure.", "Now, you met with President Trump last June. You told him about Findlay and the river and the infrastructure needs. What did he say to you?", "You know, I think the one thing that has been consistent is that President Trump would like to see communities put more into these projects. And a community like Findlay is well-positioned to take advantage of that. But the one thing that we have reminded the White House consistently over the last year about is that not every community is in that position.", "One aspect of the Trump proposal is that the private sector needs to play a role in this infrastructure plan. And that's something you have been pursuing already there in Findlay. Tell me what that looks like. What does the private sector get out of helping you solve the river flooding problem?", "Well, you know, our private sector, when they take a look at what a flooding event actually does in terms of its impact on their ability to just get people into work and deliver goods to market, they want to be involved because there's a business case for it. And we've been very fortunate to have some rather large and small companies, large companies like Marathon Petroleum Corporation, Cooper Tire & Rubber, Whirlpool, you know, they have all been engaged in our flood mitigation strategy.", "The progress, although, you know, we're not as far along as we wanted to be to this point, the progress that we've made so far has a lot to do with the engagement of the private sector.", "I want to let you respond to one of the main criticisms that's being made of the Trump proposal, which is this that it does put the onus for coming up with most of the money on state and local governments. Are there limits to what a city like yours can do? I mean, are you sympathetic to the need for federal vision, for federal money and investment backing up that vision when you think about the country's infrastructure needs?", "You know, I am. Not every space is going to be successful in this endeavor. And, you know, I think there are communities that are giving a lot to Washington in terms of tax dollars. And I think what they're expecting back is not only resources to help us with some of these infrastructure problems but, you know, we have people we have to take care of too.", "There's been a large push not only from the federal government but from states as well for cities to take on a majority of that responsibility. And we have some resources and we do a good job with the resources we've been given. But there is a role to play both at the state and federal level that I think needs to be acknowledged.", "Mayor Mihalik, thank you.", "Yeah, you're welcome.", "That's Lydia Mihalik, the Republican mayor of Findlay, Ohio. She's one of a range of voices we are hearing from this week talking about President Trump's infrastructure plan. Thanks again.", "You're welcome. Thank you."], "speaker": ["MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "LYDIA MIHALIK", "LYDIA MIHALIK", "LYDIA MIHALIK", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "LYDIA MIHALIK", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "LYDIA MIHALIK", "LYDIA MIHALIK", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "LYDIA MIHALIK", "LYDIA MIHALIK", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "LYDIA MIHALIK", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "LYDIA MIHALIK"]}
{"id": "CNN-272028", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2015-12-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/23/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Cruz Gains Ground in New CNN Poll.", "utt": ["Tonight, Ted Cruz is gaining ground. A new CNN poll showing the Republican candidate, he is making a move. Listen.", "You know, a few days ago Donald Trump said publicly that he could see this race coming down to a two-person race and I think that's entirely possible.", "So is this now a two-man race on the Republican side? Sunlen Serfaty is OUTFRONT. So, Sunlen, you've been on the road with the Cruz campaign this week. It almost seems like Ted Cruz is wishing that it has become a two-man race but is that now where they are also focusing their campaign strategy?", "Well, Kate, I think for the Cruz campaign, framing this race as this two-man showdown really plays into the certain narrative that they really want right now, especially as they try to consolidate Conservatives and Evangelical Republicans. What it does is it presents Cruz as alternatives to Trump and it outplays Rubio's positioning the race and that really is the key here. Rubio is a candidate the Cruz campaign has always been really focused on and they still very much are but this declaration that it's a two- person race really allows them to project all of that without really having a say at all.", "That's exactly right. That's exactly what those campaigns are about. Cruz is clearly happy about the polls, CNN polls out but also he is furious about a very different issue on the campaign right now. A campaign trail. A Washington Post cartoon mocking Cruz for using his daughters as political props. There is the cartoon right there. How has Cruz responded?", "That's right. Well, he's been out on the campaign trail all day today in Oklahoma really blasting \"The Washington Post\" bringing it up multiple times, this cartoon depicting his children as monkeys and you hear him saying that, he keeps saying that kids are usually off limits on campaigns and election cycles and many candidates coming to his defense today. And he just point blank said, keep my kids out of it. Now, \"The Washington Post\" they have pulled down that cartoon in an editorial posting acknowledging really that they should have never posted it in the first place. But, interestingly enough, Ted Cruz is now fundraising off of this controversy, including having an image. You see it right there on the screen. That's his fundraising e-mail. Using the cartoon and saying in that pitch, the liberal media has hit a new low with the tasteless attack on his kids and their goal, Kate, is to raise $1 million in the next 24 hours.", "We'll see how that turns out. Sunlen, great to see you. Thanks so much.", "Thanks.", "Let's talk much more about that. OUTFRONT tonight, Eric Fehrnstrom, he was a senior adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, and Amanda Carpenter, she's a former communications director for Senator Ted Cruz. Eric, it's great to see you. I want to get to that cartoon in just a bit. But first, we have to talk about the polls out today. Yes, Cruz is on the rise but you cannot deny that Mr. Trump has a huge lead here. Just look at these numbers. More than double Cruz. But do you think the poll -- you actually think the polls are under-representing Trump's support right now? Explain, please.", "Well, it's true, Kate. As amazing as it sounds, Trump's commanding lead. It's possible that we're still undercounting his support. And the reason for that is, there are two factors. One is something that the statisticians call it social desirability bias. And that's simply a recognition that people lie. And the more uncomfortable they are with the question being asked, the more likely they are to lie in response and we have evidence out of Europe that shows anti-immigration candidates doing much better in the more anonymous online and automated polling than they do in the live interviewing and polling. And I think the second factor that may be under-representing Trump's support is that he's bringing a lot of new voters into the Republican Party -- voters who haven't previously participated in the primary or caucus system.", "Uh-huh.", "And because of that, they are being excluded from these likely voter screens that pollsters use. Now, it's possible these voters won't show up on a cold, snowy day.", "Exactly. In Iowa for a long caucus. That's right.", "But I think it's also true that they are being undercounted.", "Very interesting. Amanda, you and I have talked about this concept of not believing in the polls right now. If this is true, does that spell trouble for Ted Cruz?", "Well, listen, I agree and disagree with Eric. In a sense, I think that Trump's support is definitely being overcounted. I think he has complete control, you know, of the Twitter and the TV media in a way that gives him a lot more standing nationally. I also agree with Eric that he is speaking to a different type of voter. When he goes to Michigan, I don't think he's speaking to traditional Republican audiences. I think he's addressing blue collar workers who have been abandoned by the Democratic Party. All that said, I don't think his support translates into winning Iowa, to winning New Hampshire, to winning South Carolina. So, I think he's going to have trouble in that three-state stampede but that doesn't mean he doesn't have national attention from a new type of voter like Eric mentioned.", "Yes. And is this really the two-man race that Ted Cruz really wants it to be right now? That's to be debated but there's still lots of time to go for that to change. I do want to ask you, though, Eric -- we got late news this evening that the Carson campaign -- Ben Carson's campaign is actually considering a staff shakeup in light of his falling poll numbers. He's now tied in our latest poll, a distant third at 10 percent. The campaign says they are not letting anyone go, but you have been around this before. What does this tell you?", "Well, Ben Carson has been doing the slow fade in the polling ever since Paris and San Bernardino and the resulting doubts about his ability to handle our nation's foreign policy. That's not only a problem for him, by the way. It's a problem for the establishment candidates because they needed two things to happen in this race for them to make a credible challenge to Donald Trump. One is the field needed to thin out and the second was Carson needed to remain strong so he could divide that outsider vote. Neither has happened. And so I can only imagine the panic that they must be feeling in the Ben Carson campaign as they try to right this ship. They thought maybe sending him on a world tour to Israel and Africa would fix it, but that's been canceled. They seem a little bit adrift right now. They only have 40 days to get their act together before Iowa caucus.", "Yes.", "So, every moment counts.", "Jeb Bush, though, would be happy to take over that 10 percent right now in these national polls. That's for sure. Amanda, I have to get your take, though, on what is going on with -- as Sunlen was explaining with this cartoon, back to this cartoon, mocking Ted Cruz for using his daughters as political props. That's the cartoon. We all know that kids are off limits and that cuts across party lines, young children in campaigns. But Ted Cruz, he's now fundraising off of it. He's even putting that cartoon that he called sickening in the fundraising e-mail. Does he, on some level, I don't know, lose the moral high ground for trying to raise money off of it?", "I don't think so. I think when something like this happens and it's so outrageous, you have every right to tell your supporters, this is what my campaign is dealing with, this is why I need more resources. And, listen, fundraising e-mails are one of the best forms of communication that a candidate has. Frankly, I think it would be a little bit weird if he didn't talk to his supporters about it because it was such a firestorm overnight last night I was sitting on Twitter, and the feed was completely in favor of Cruz. So, I think he needed to talk about it. He needs to say, this is what I'm up against, and, hey, he won this. He had a tweet that I think was very civil, very restrained and he was in the right. He won, took it down. So, yes, I would think it's OK to talk to your supporters about that.", "Yes, no other candidates going to be on the other side of that argument, putting kids on the campaign and taking them on. Great to see you, guys. Thanks so much.", "Thanks.", "Thank you.", "Tomorrow, big programming note: Bernie Sanders, he's going to be on NEW DAY to weigh in on Hillary Clinton. That starts, of course, at 6:00 a.m. Eastern, right here on CNN. OUTFRONT still, breaking news. Authorities stop the Muslim family from boarding a plane to the United States. Tonight, we have no information about why officials stopped them and new details about one of the deadliest attacks against U.S. troops in years."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-88455", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2004-9-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/29/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Detroit Police Search for Day Care Shooter; Discussing the Upcoming Debates; SpaceShipOne Will Take Flight Again Today", "utt": ["30 here in New York City. Good morning. Welcome back to AMERICAN MORNING. If the craft known as SpaceShipOne can climb about 60 miles today, it will be halfway home to 10 million bucks. That's the prize out in the Mojave desert.", "Not too shabby.", "Yeah. Miles O'Brien is out there in the desert. He'll tell us about the rules of this space race and how ordinary people could be the big winners. We'll get to Miles this hour.", "Nice. Also, it's almost that time of year to get a flu shot, or is it? Sanjay Gupta joins us a little bit later to tell us about this year's vaccine and whether it covers all of the worst strains of the illness. And after you get a shot, I would hope it does. I'm kind of wimpy.", "I agree. I want to get to Rick Sanchez. There could be good news out of Iraq. To Rick on that now. Good morning.", "There's some breaking news involved in this story, Bill. We're trying to clear it up as we go along here. Here we go. The life of British hostage Ken Bigley may be spared -- may, key word. Bigley's brother has told us here at CNN that he has received an e-mail message suggesting Islamic militants will release his brother. He is confident it's going to happen. However, the British Foreign Office is not as confident, suggesting the message he's referring to may have been posted on a Middle Eastern Web site. British government officials are right now trying to establish the credibility of that site. And we will continue to report on this throughout the morning. John Walker Lindh is asking President Bush to reduce his prison sentence. Lindh was sentenced to 20 years for fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan. But his lawyer now says Lindh never fought against U.S. troops. In the next half hour, we're going to talk about the appeal with Johnny Spann, the father of a CIA agent killed by Taliban forces. In Texas, authorities are investigating claims that border patrol agents caused three illegal immigrants to drown in the Rio Grande. Mexican officials recovered the bodies of two women and a teenage girl Saturday. According to the officials and some others also trying to cross the border, U.S. agents threw rocks at the group, forcing them to try to swim back to the Mexican side. A bill that would mean criminal charges for file swappers will now go to the Senate for a vote. The House of Representatives passed the measure yesterday, which could mean jail time for those found guilty of knowingly sharing files over the Web. Critics of the bill say it still wouldn't mean more profits for artists. Bill, Heidi, back over to you. We'll continue to follow that story on Bigley, of course.", "Yeah, fingers crossed for him and his fate there. Thank you, Rick.", "Sure.", "Want to get to Detroit right now. Police there are still searching for a man who opened fire at an in-home day care center yesterday. A three-year-old girl is dead this morning, two women remain in critical condition, and police do not think this is a random act. Jonathan Freed live in Detroit there with more. Good morning.", "Good morning, Bill. The people who live around here say they know that it sounds like a cliche, but they insist that this really was a quiet neighborhood -- until yesterday.", "We don't believe it was a random act. We believe there was a specific intent to attack this particular home. But why it was selected, we're not sure at this point.", "The child died later at a hospital. A 41-year-old woman who runs the day care center was critically wounded, along with a 22- year-old woman there to help with the children. A four-month-old boy was dropped when one of the women was shot. He was in critical condition because of the fall.", "My wife, she don't deserve nothing like this. And I never thought this would happen. I don't like to take life for granted, but I just put it in God's hands right now.", "Nancy Kelly lives across the street. She called 911, then went to see if she could help.", "I just seen that blood all over that lady with her face all bloody.", "In all, four children were in the house. The other two were not injured, but taken to the hospital as a precaution.", "Jonathan Freed in Detroit this morning -- Heidi?", "Politics now. The presidential ad campaign is getting down and dirty. And Osama bin Laden is getting face time, as we say, from both sides. Our resident debaters, as usual, are of two minds. In Washington, Democratic consultant Victor Kamber with The Kamber Group. Hi, Vic.", "Morning, Heidi.", "And Cliff May, former RNC communications director, now with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Cliff, good morning to you, as well.", "Good morning, Heidi. Good morning, Vic.", "Let's begin with you, Cliff. Over the last week, we have seen both the Democrats and the Republicans with these new ads, that we just mentioned, using Osama bin Laden in them. But both ads are painting the other guy to be weak on terror. What do you make of it?", "Look, I think it's too bad that anything to do with the war against and the war against the ideologies that drive terrorism is politicized. But it's happened. I think it's bad for Kerry as much as it is for Bush and may be worse. If Kerry and Bush agreed on what to do about terrorism, there would be no debate. And if there were no debate on terrorism, they would be talking about social security, education, healthcare -- areas where Kerry has a stronger position. So, I think it's bad for both, but that's the dynamics of a campaign. It's happened, and we just have to put up with it.", "Vic, is it just politics, or are they looking at the history now of America?", "Well, I think it's -- they are looking at the history of how negative advertising works. They are not looking at history in the way you're asking the question. I think -- hopefully, I think the American public is smarter than both campaigns. I think there has become too much ad clutter. I think a lot of decisions are going to start being made basically on the debate. Those ads that you are running, for example, here in the District of Columbia, we don't get to see it except on news shows like your own. They are primarily being run in those battleground states. And then, as I say, there are so many ads being run in those battleground states on so many subjects that I think most of the American public is smart and has tuned out to some of that stuff right now. And the debates will be a big thing tomorrow...", "All right...", "... and terror will be a part of those debates.", "Yeah, you can count on that. But Vic, you know, talking about the debates, when you look at the polls, many of the national polls are showing Bush to be ahead from anywhere from six percentage points all the way up to 11 percentage points. Do you think the president is peaking too early here?", "I hope so. There's no doubt that I -- I mean, I have to be candid, he is ahead. I don't think he's ahead by the numbers you are saying in terms of the battleground states. I think when you look at states like Texas and Utah, he's way ahead. And when you look at states like New York and California, the gap between Kerry and Bush has shortened, although Kerry is still ahead. And so, when you put those kinds of numbers together, the national polls look much bigger. But when you look at the individual state polls in terms of battleground, it's much closer. But clearly the advantage today is to Bush.", "Well, Cliff, that's why they call them battleground states, right?", "Correct. That's right. And they are obviously important. This is a system where you don't win just by having the majority of votes, you've got to win a majority of states. That's the electoral system we're in. Look, Vic obviously hopes that this is, as you say, a peak for Bush, rather than what it could be, we don't know, which is a structural lead. Remember when Clinton ran against Dole? Basically Clinton had his peak early on, stayed there. There was at no point that I recall when Dole was ahead of Clinton, when anybody though Dole was going to beat Clinton. In the end, the race was closer than people expected, but Clinton maintained his lead all the way to the end. Could it be the same in this case from now on in? Of course it could be. That's not a guarantee, obviously.", "Heidi, one thing, the old Lloyd Bentsen: I know Bob Dole, and John Kerry is no Bob Dole. This will be a much closer race. This will be a much more tightened up race, and I would not rule John Kerry out by any means.", "And I'm not ruling John Kerry out by any means. Of course, Lloyd Bentsen won that debate and then lost the election.", "It happens. All right, to the two of you guys, thanks so much, as always. Victor Kamber and Cliff May this morning. And as we mentioned, the debate between President Bush and Senator John Kerry is set tomorrow night in Miami, starting at 9:00 Eastern. But CNN's live coverage will begin at 7:00 Eastern. And of course, watch AMERICAN MORNING as we prepare for the first presidential debate. We'll be live in Miami tomorrow morning. We'll bring you voter reaction from Columbus, Ohio, on Friday.", "In the meantime, 22 minutes before the hour, and SpaceShipOne getting ready for take off in about an hour from now. It is leading a space race that is supposed to open the way for commercial space travel. Miles O'Brien up early in a very dark Mojave, California, in the desert there. Miles, good morning.", "Good morning, Bill. Back in June, you'll recall SpaceShipOne first flew to space, and space is defined as an altitude of 100 kilometers, or 62 miles. At the controls at the time, 63-year-old Mike Melvill becoming the first person ever to be considered a civilian astronaut. Well, he will be flying once again today in about an hour's time when SpaceShipOne begins its journey back to space. The hope here is just the first step toward winning a $10 million prize.", "We're confident.", "The vehicle he designed and built, SpaceShipOne, will try to repeat a feat it first accomplished on June 21st: a trip beyond 62 miles in altitude -- the gateway to space, where the sky is dark, the horizon curved, and the M&M;'s float.", "People have to realize that this is a risk we're taking. We're opening up a frontier for humanity.", "The flight is just the first step on the high road to the high-stakes prize. The winner must reach space in a vehicle capable of carrying three twice in as many weeks. If all goes well, Rutan's team plans to fly again next Monday. Sooner the better, in case he needs a mulligan.", "I want to be able to fly three shots at it in two weeks.", "At least on paper, there are two dozen X Prize teams, but SpaceShipOne is clearly the one to beat. X Prize founder Peter Diamandis is hoping for someone to win the prize this year.", "One of the large multibillion-dollar insurance companies took a bet. We paid a multimillion-dollar premium to them and said if someone wins by the end of 2004, you pay the 10 million. If no one does, you keep the premiums.", "Rutan's team has spent $25 million of Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen's money to get this far.", "We expect to return his -- 40 percent of his investment in the next couple of weeks.", "Now the rules on this contest say that a spacecraft has to be capable of carrying three people. In this case, there won't be three people aboard, Bill. Mike Melvill will be alone, and he will carry the equivalent weight of two additional passengers. And instead of putting some lead-shotted bags or whatever, the team in Burt Rutan's hangar has put together a whole host of trinkets and tools and photographs, all kinds of personal effects that are special to them which they will get at the return of the flight and know that they were somehow a part of this piece of history -- assuming all goes well -- in about an hour's time -- Bill?", "In about an hour's time, we'll be watching. Thank you, Miles. Get back to us, all right? Miles O'Brien in the Mojave Desert this morning -- Heidi?", "Want to check on the weather now. Chad Myers at the CNN Center with the very latest forecast. Good morning to you, Chad.", "OK, thanks so much, Chad. Check with you a little later.", "Looking for the perfect gift for the person who has everything? Every year we check this out.", "Who are those people who have everything?", "This year's Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog is now out. Andy loves this story. We'll get to him \"Minding Your Business\" in a moment.", "Crazy things in there. Plus, flu season is almost upon us. I was just waiting for that shot shot. \"Paging Dr. Gupta\" on this. Stay with us here on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: 8", "HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "HEMMER", "COLLINS", "HEMMER", "RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR", "HEMMER", "SANCHEZ", "HEMMER", "JONATHAN FREED, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CMDR. 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{"id": "CNN-344670", "program": "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS", "date": "2018-07-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/08/fzgps.01.html", "summary": "Latest on Thailand Rescue Efforts", "utt": ["-- a rest, a reset and begin again tomorrow.", "David McKenzie, thank you so much. We are staying on this story. I want to go now to Fareed Zakaria. Thanks for watching.", "This is GPS, the GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I'm Fareed Zakaria, coming to you live from New York. There's a lot of news to tackle on today's show. President Trump is about to embark on a trip that will take him to a NATO summit, to a visit with the Queen, and a sit-down with Vladimir Putin. There's also a trade war escalating with China. Now, because of the breaking news I won't have a take this week, instead we will go right to the dramatic rescue of some of those Thai soccer players stuck in a cave. Twelve boys and their coach entered a cave in Thailand on June 22nd and when this day started none of them had seen daylight since. A Thai official called today D-day for the rescue operation. CNN's David McKenzie is near the cave where the rescue operation has ended for the day with four of the boys rescued. David, what is the update?", "Well, the update, Fareed, is that this incredibly hazardous and complicated rescue operation has finally had results. We believe positive results, though we won't know just yet what the health status of those four boys from that soccer team that have been held up in the cave system in the mountain in darkness behind me for so many days. They had a 90-strong team working on getting these boys out through the day today in Thailand, Fareed, 40 of them Thai, 50 of them foreigners, working tirelessly. The specialist divers going in in teams, two boys came out, a few hours later two boys came out again in relatively quick succession. We've had ambulances passing by. The road behind me a helicopter took at least one boy to a hospital in Chiang Rai and the agonizing wait will continue for the others, into the coming days we expect as they get the remaining boys and their coach out of that cave after this extraordinary rescue attempt was started here in Thailand -- Fareed.", "David, does it -- does this become more challenging with the monsoons? Because I know what that rain is like and you sort of imagine the heaviest rain you ever had and imagine it never ending. Is that going to complicate matters or do they now have this situation well under control?", "I would say it's very far from well under control, Fareed. There is a few factors, including the monsoon rains which you described. Earlier today we were dumped on. As you know, Fareed, the rain kind of sweeps in and dumps an extraordinary amount in a short amount of time. That cave system is in a catchment area. The big risk now is as they pump water out of the cave system, which they've been doing 24 hours a day for many days, if water flows in it will complicate and even scupper the entire plan. As one official said to me, they have to act now otherwise they will have to start the whole process again where they get another gap in the rain. On some level they've been relatively lucky with the gap in the weather for a few days to allow them to prep both in terms of operationally how they're going to buddy dive with these young boys out of these very tightly squeezed spaces with a full facemask, hand them over into a relay team and then get them to the hospital, but also this kind of window closing because of the rain -- Fareed.", "Usually in these kind of situations there is an extraordinary bravery of these rescue officials, but there is a mastermind. Is it your sense there is somebody directing this? Is that somebody you've been able to talk to, you know? Who is the genius behind the rescue?", "That's a good question and I will give an answer in two ways. One, the command behind the rescue is their public face of this rescue, which is the governor of this area of Thailand. He's given regular press updates and also we've been in touch with them on a constant basis, getting information. Who is the mastermind is a more interesting question perhaps, Fareed, because the British divers, the two divers who originally found those boys against all odds, all that time ago hunkered down on a beach when they rose up, and to their surprise found that soccer team that everyone thought had disappeared for good. Several military officials and Thai divers have said to me that they really have been a key to this operation because of their very specific level of experience of penetration diving in cave scenarios. You've got rescue divers and police divers all around the world diving in very unpleasant conditions. These cave divers have the kind of special skills, the calm and zero visibility conditions with a roof over their head to pull this off. So they're taking the world's expertise and the best -- and the best of the best out here to try and get these boys out -- Fareed.", "Fascinating, David. That sounds like there was some good luck and God knows everybody needs it. Thank you, David. Real fascinating reporting. Next on GPS, North Korea decried what they called America's gangster- like demands on its nuclear program. What is going on? This was meant to be a friendly negotiation. We'll examine it all when we come back."], "speaker": ["DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "DANA BASH, CNN ANCHOR", "FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST, FAREED ZAKARIA GPS", "DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ZAKARIA", "MCKENZIE", "ZAKARIA", "MCKENZIE", "ZAKARIA"]}
{"id": "CNN-32076", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-6-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/07/lt.02.html", "summary": "Bush Faces Opposition to Views on Global Warming", "utt": ["President Bush today fulfilled a key campaign promise with the stroke of a pen but, as he signed into law the compromise tax-cut bill, White House officials were reviewing the fine print in another batch of papers dealing with the controversial topic of global warming. CNN senior White House correspondent John King joins us now. Hi John.", "Good afternoon to you, Leon. A celebration here for the president today. Somewhat bittersweet because of the changing political dynamic in the U.S. Senate. But the president choosing to focus on the positive. As you noted, the central promise of his campaign for the presidency was a major sweeping across-the-board tax cut. And with the stroke of those pens there -- they're souvenirs for the member of the Congress on hand -- the president signed into law that 11-year, $1.35 trillion tax cut. Now, as he did so, the president looking ahead a little bit, talking about -- he hopes for more bipartisanship in the future. But also looking back, remembering that during the campaign even many Republicans told him he was crazy if he thought he would get sweeping tax cuts through the U.S. Congress.", "A year ago, tax relief was said to be a political impossibility. Six months ago, it was supposed to be a political liability. Today it becomes reality. It becomes reality because of the bipartisan leadership of the members of the United States Congress.", "Now, this is a very complicate the measure. Some of the complications forced by the compromises the president had to stroke -- strike with members of Congress to get this bill through the Congress. Let's take a look. It is, of course, the first major Congress -- first major tax cut -- excuse me -- to clear the Congress in 20 years. It reduces the lowest rate from 15 percent to 10 percent, and reduces the highest rate from 39.6 percent to 35 percent. It will, over time -- much of these tax cut are phased in -- it will, over time, double the child tax credit from $500 to $1,000. It reduces the tax penalty on married couples. And also, over time, repeals the estate tax. Now, what about immediate relief? Ninety-five million refund checks will start going out in the mail, hopefully on July 20, the Treasury says. If you are a single taxpayer with no children, you'll get a check for $300. A single parent will receive $500 in a rebate check. And married couples receive $600. Now, where from here is the president's concerned now. He will have dinner with the new Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle tonight. Many wondering whether this, his first major legislative victory, will be his last, given the change of power in the U.S. Senate. But the president having many Democrats on hand today -- not the leadership, but those who supported the tax cut, voicing the opinion that he hopes to work with Democrats in the future as he seeks more victories in the Congress -- Leon.", "John, on to another topic of concern at the White House. Are we seeing a retrenching here in the White House policy on global warming?", "Well, A reassessment, maybe, not necessarily a retrenching. Remember, during the campaign then-governor Bush said he would not support the Kyoto Treaty on global warming. Even though he said that as a candidate, Japan is angry. Many European allies are angry. And the president, of course, traveling his first trip to Europe next week. So the administration now reviewing a new report by the National Academy of Sciences. That report says that there is, indeed, global warming; a raising of temperatures around the world. And the report makes a strong link -- it doesn't say it's conclusive -- but makes a strong link that so-called greenhouse gases are responsible. The administration says the president is still not prepared to sign on to the Kyoto Treaty, but he is looking for new ways, and will talk to the allies about some early ideas -- perhaps a voluntary system in which industries are given incentives -- tax incentives and others incentives and other incentives if they reduce the emissions of those greenhouse gasses. This, an issue on which the president has been criticized by the environmental community here at home, by many key allies abroad. The administration saying the president wants to discuss it with the European allies, but that he has no detailed plan just yet.", "All right, thanks much, John King at the White House -- Donna.", "And now for details on that global warming report, we turn to CNN environmental correspondent Natalie Pawelski. Natalie, what does the report say? Do they say that global warming is real, or not?", "Yes, they do. And the thing is, this was a report that was requested by the White House. And in that report, the National Academy of Sciences panel says, yes, there are some questions remaining, but the bottom line is this: temperatures are rising, and people are at least partly to blame. That's nothing new. Most scientists have been saying that for years. But this latest report represents one more piece in a mounting pile of scientific evidence -- scientific literature that says global warming is real. The report says, quote: \"Greenhouse gases are accumulating in earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise.\" The report stops short of endorsing the United Nations intergovernmental panels on climate changes most alarming recent estimate: a rise of 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century. But even taking a middle-of-the road scenario -- warming of about 5 1/2 degrees over the next century -- the scientists said rising temperatures could mean changing weather patterns, shifting crop ranges and ecosystem, and rising oceans. Now, the report stops short of making any specific policy recommendations. But the researchers do say, quote, \"National policy decisions made now, and in the longer-term future, will influence the extent of any damage suffered by vulnerable human populations and ecosystems later in this century.\" The National Academy of Sciences panel included one of the most prominent skeptics of global warming's potential harm, Richard Lindzen of MIT. And the researchers said, while there's scientific consensus that global warming is real and is serious, there are a lot of uncertainties because of factors like natural climate variability, and the difficulty of using computer models to mimic what happens in the real world. But the report went on to say that, quote, \"Despite the uncertainties, there is general agreement that the observed warming is real, and particularly strong within the past 20 years.\" And the researchers called for more study, and for a global climate observing system -- a way to sort of coordinate the international observations on climate change.", "So if the report's been requested by the Bush administration, what are they going to do with that? What's the proposal, then? I know he's going to Europe, and he has a lot of meeting about global warming in Europe.", "Well, the smart money is on voluntary solutions. Nobody believes that the president is going to look at this and then jump onto a drastic proposal, from his point of view, like the Kyoto accords. It's expected that the White House will take a look at this, say yes, we believe that global warming is serious, but we still aren't quite sure of exactly how we should tackle it.", "You know, I was seeing, too, in some of the research, the bread basket in the United States could be hit very hard by this.", "That was one of the things that this panel pointed out. One of the things that global warming could mean is shifting bands of temperature. And there's some thought that you could get almost a drought area, a permanent drought, a sort of dust bowl in the bread basket in the American plains. And that, of course, would be a real concern.", "What are the skeptics still saying? You said one of the skeptics is on this panel; what are they still saying? Do they agree completely, or are they still skeptical in some areas?", "Most of the respected skeptics will say, yes, global warming is happening, and we think that there's a human component to it. What they might disagree with is the degree to which the temperature might change, the degree to which the oceans might rise; the degree to which we've got to change how we live in order to do anything about it.", "OK, Natalie Pawelski, our environment correspondent, thanks very much."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KING", "HARRIS", "KING", "HARRIS", "DONNA KELLEY, CNN ANCHOR", "NATALIE PAWELSKI, CNN ENVIRONMENTAL CORRESPONDENT", "KELLEY", "PAWELSKI", "KELLEY", "PAWELSKI", "KELLEY", "PAWELSKI", "KELLEY"]}
{"id": "NPR-13796", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2010-07-24", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128738138", "title": "Listeners Miss Daniel Schorr", "summary": "Host Scott Simon reads reactions from NPR listeners to the passing of NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr.", "utt": ["As we remember Dan Schorr on our program today, we want to share some of our listeners' thoughts.", "Katherine Price of Centennial, Colorado, writes: When I was growing up, I used to crawl into my parents' bed very early in the morning. They always had their table radio tuned to the news, and I would often hear the voice of Daniel Schorr as it crackled across continents, telling of world events in a calm and authoritative voice. I will miss hearing his wisdom and the perspective he had from a long life lived in the service of informing, not entertaining, the American people.", "From Pineville, North Carolina, Larry Miller writes: I so looked forward to hearing not just his extremely valuable thoughts about events in this world, but even just his voice - his clarity, his integrity, his balance. His continued high intelligence and acuity were and are a beacon of hope for all of us who want to continue and be functional into old age. Dan Schorr was himself a lesson.", "John Shambley(ph) in Athens, Georgia, says: When Walter Cronkite passed away last year, Mr. Schorr said his legacy is the legacy of the one who used to be called Uncle Walter by many people. His legacy is that there was a time when people told us things that we believed in and trusted in inherently. I was only a boy when Uncle Walter stepped down from the CBS anchor post, but later in life, as I entered college and ever since, I always counted on my Uncle Daniel to carry on the same tradition.", "David Henry of Bryan, Texas, who works Sunday through Friday, wrote this yesterday: One would think that a late wakeup on Saturday mornings would be just the thing. Since I've been in my 20s, however, that has not been the case for me. It was during those years I became aware of this man. I always found myself forsaking my opportunity to sleep in by waking up early to listen to Dan. More than anyone else, he was the person who challenged my thinking and helped me focus on the nut of the issue. I'll be up tomorrow morning and turn on the radio, but it'll be just a little quieter without Dan's voice.", "I hope to follow the Schorr plan - live to 93, respected and admired for doing what you love, outlived by beloved family.", "And Robin Wright, the noted foreign affairs analyst who was a frequent guest on our show, writes: All I can think to say is, but I just heard him. And then I thought, what will we all do without his insightful, no-holds-barred, crusty commentaries? He was a guy who had it all right to the very end. And I know his wife would understand fully when I could say he was also a guy you could flirt with, right up to the age of 93. Oh my, how we'll all miss Dan Schorr. Indeed.", "You can see photos of Dan throughout his career on our website, NPR.org."], "speaker": ["SCOTT SIMON, host", "SCOTT SIMON, host", "SCOTT SIMON, host", "SCOTT SIMON, host", "SCOTT SIMON, host", "And we have this tweet coming in from Christina, who says", "And we have this tweet coming in from Christina, who says", "And we have this tweet coming in from Christina, who says"]}
{"id": "CNN-288124", "program": "IDESK", "date": "2016-07-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/04/id.01.html", "summary": "Death Toll Climbs in Baghdad's Massive Bombing; Authorities Pursue Suspects in Bangladesh Attack; U.S. Police on High Alert for July 4th", "utt": ["Ahead of the international death, the death toll climbs in Baghdad's massive bombing. Another Brexit leader steps aside and Rio's mayor has some harsh words about the security ahead of the Olympics. Hi there, everyone, welcome. I'm Robyn Curnow for CNN Center. From Baghdad to Saudi Arabia, to Bangladesh, ISIS is streaming also battlefields and taking its war to civilians turning a shopping district into an inferno and devastating part of a bustling airport. In the final weeks of Ramadan, ISIS has been -- has claimed or being suspected of attacks that have killed hundreds of people in soft targets. Well, we begin with this attack in Baghdad, Saturday and turned a busy neighborhood street into a smoking pile of rubble. The death toll is now 215. Ben Wedeman has been at the scene and he tells us the number of victims is steadily rising as more remains are found.", "A day and a half after that bomb blast went off at midnight Saturday night, workers are still looking for bodies, body parts still in the wreckage. People still don't know where their loved ones are. According to the Iraqi police, of the bodies recovered, 81 of them are so badly charred, they're beyond recognition. They're going to have to conduct DNA tests. At this point, the death toll is at least 200 with more than that wounded and it is expected to rise. Now, exactly what happened is not only together clear at this point but what we've been able to pin together or piece together is that out here in the street, a small refrigerator truck packed with explosives went off around midnight. The blast caused fires to start in all these buildings around it. Many of the department stores in this area with clothing, computers, perfume and cellphones, all of it created a raging inferno in which people were stuck on the upper floors. So it wasn't just a blast, it was the resulting fire, all of which amounts to the worst such attack in Baghdad in years. Back to you.", "Thanks. Horrifying. Ben Wedeman there in Baghdad. Now, to another suicide bombing just outside the U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, authorities there destroyed three other devices after the bomber wounded two police officers but only succeeded in killing himself. It happened in the early morning hours when the officers approach the bomber just 10 meters from the consulate wall. There's been no claim of responsibility. In Bangladesh, those two of the people wounded in the day of the siege in Dhaka are now suspects. That's on top of one taken into custody just after the attack. Now Bangladesh is in its final hours of official mourning for the 22 people killed in the city's diplomatic quarter. ISIS has claimed responsibility. But who is really to blame remains a matter of debate as our Ravi Agrawal has more.", "It was the most deadly terror attack in Bangladesh's history. And it was designed for the maximum impact and exposure. There is a backdrop to these attacks, however. For three years Bangladesh has suffered a spate of individual murders claimed by terror groups. The victims were mostly local writers and religious minorities. Friday was different. Terror analysts say the audacious drawn-out attack in a cafe filled with foreigners is a clear escalation.", "Foreign targets are now for the Islamist, the most desirable targets. For one simple reason, they attract far greater attention than any amount of domestic terrorism will.", "As Bangladesh mourns, people are asking who is responsible. South Asia terrorism expert, Ajai Sahni, says Bangladesh has a long history of low grade local Jihadi violence. While the Dhaka killers were clearly trying to invoke ISIS, he says it's too soon to say the group has a real operational foothold in the country.", "What is crucial to understand here is that this is a one directional communication. We have no evidence as yet of any two-way communication in which both the perpetrators and someone from the ISIS was -- were exchanging information, one with the other.", "Friday's attack is a game changer in more ways than one unlike with previous attacks across Bangladesh. Reports suggest that the Dhaka cafe killers were from upper middle class Bangladeshi families. Some of them spoke English fluently and they were adept at using social media. That's why experts are now saying that they could have been radicalized online. The Islamic State's in house magazine \"Dabiq\" recently ran an essay titled \"The Revival of Jihad in Bengal\" specifically called for attacks on Americans or Europeans. Bangladesh could also be seeing a battle between terror groups. Just on Sunday, Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent called for attacks on Hindus in India. They'd earlier made similar calls in Bangladesh. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government brushes away these claims and she then said blames the violence on homegrown Islamist groups. In June, authorities arrested 14,000 alleged suspects, including members of the opposition BNP and its ally, Jamaat-e-Islami. Human rights groups send the opposition voices (ph) criticized the arrests as heavy-handed and opportunistic. But amid the finger pointing, people are dying. And while the terror groups seek a foothold in the world's fourth biggest home for Muslims, there's an even greater prize next door. India, Ravi Agrawal, CNN New Delhi.", "Now let remember some of those who lost their lives in that attack. Twenty of the civilian victims in Dhaka were foreign nationals, seven were Japanese relief workers. Our Matt Rivers, has part of that story from Tokyo.", "Well, the families of the victims involved in this attack from Japan are in Bangladesh at this point and we know now that all of these families have visited the hospital in Dhaka to see for the first time the remains of their loved ones that were killed in this attack. We also know the vice foreign minister from Japan and a team of terrorism experts who were already on the ground in Bangladesh as a part of this investigation were also with the families at some point today. As for a timeframe on when those family members can bring the bodies of these victims home, that is still uncertain at this point. But we are learning more about these victims. They were all there as a part of a traffic relief project sponsored by a Japanese governmental agency here. They were trying to alleviate traffic issues in the City of Dhaka. They were there just doing good work, making people's lives hopefully a little bit easier. There was one 32-year-old man part of that group. He was killed in this attack. His father and his grandmother spoke about him here in Japan yesterday.", "He was very proud of his work as he could work hard for the country and development. Everybody loved him. He is a good man.", "He was a very, very good boy. I really hope the news was wrong. But now, I cannot do anything.", "And so the human toll of this event just absolutely tragic, but there are other implications here as well. The economic realities, for example, companies perhaps are afraid to do business in the near term in Bangladesh. So take Uniqlo for example, the major Japanese clothing maker told CNN earlier today that they will be no longer engaging in anything but the absolute most necessary business trips to Bangladesh. They are scaling back their business trips to the country out of an abundance of caution, safety concern. Other companies are doing the exact same thing here in Japan, Toshiba, Mitsubishi Motors, Obayashi Corporation, a very large construction firm, and Maruha Nichiro, a very big fishing firm. And so the human toll of this event cannot be overstated. Incredibly tragic, but there is also an economic toll if these companies do not feel it's safe to do business in Bangladesh as they seem to feel right now. The reverberations from this attack could be even wider than perhaps we had previously imagined. Matt Rivers, CNN, Tokyo.", "Thanks to Matt for that report. Well, ISIS has been launching increasingly brazen attacks just as its losing ground along with tax and oil revenues in Iraq and in Syria. Well, CNN Global Affairs, Ms. Kimberly Dozier joins me now with more on that from Washington. Hi there, Kimberly. I mean this has been a very bloody Ramadan. Is what we're seeing a lashing out of a weakened organization?", "I think it has been long planned. They saw even a year ago that the forces of raid against them were going to start to bite. They've lost about 47 percent of their territory inside Iraq, 20 percent inside Syria. And as part of the fight back, they already have sent clandestine networks to Europe and some of their best people to Libya to setup training camps there. Now, they're under pressure in Libya right now as well. But they're using the momentum of having had a caliphate, having had a state with borders, the first militant group to do that, to continue to get followers and as they transform themselves to more of a terrorist group, a solely terrorist group that will then become their signature and they're managing to export that ideology successfully despite the loss of land.", "So do you feel then this is an evolution, this is an evolving face of ISIS? Even if they had a postage stamp of territory, it's in a new phase.", "Exactly. I mean, this is why Al-Qaeda's leaders always said, don't try to take and hold territory because that will be enough of a stick in the eye to the international powers that they will gather forces against you to take it away. Well, ISIS ignored that and did hold territory, but they held it for long enough to make enough of an impression around the world to spread their tendrils to something like 60 different countries where they've already targeted people. And so, we're going to be in the global community fighting a threat that what it does is-- what ISIS does is rather than set up their own organization in a new country, they look at the existing Islamic militant organizations and invite them to join. They don't demand too many changes. If you wanted to join Al-Qaeda, you used to have to do a lot of -- you had to fill out forms, you had to follow certain rules. ISIS instead, has a different model. It says to the Islamic groups, say, in Bangladesh that this five attackers from the restaurant attack apparently from, says to them, you can fly our banner as long as you swear allegiance to us. You choose the target, you choose how you do the attack.", "But even with that in mind, the fact that they are losing territory, that they're under pressure, the lack territory means less people to govern, less people to govern means less taxation, which of course means less money to run this organization, and it is run as some sort of corporate entity in many ways. Surely, there is some sort of pressure on how they go forward.", "Well, absolutely. In the war zones of Iraq and Syria, their traditional state is under threat. They've had to have fighter salaries. They don't have the money to run their war machine as they once did. But they've already started this evolution of establishing themselves in other parts of Africa, Yemen, places where they can continue to spread the ideology to local groups so that they don't need to hold that territory.", "OK. And then the question is, I supposed, are intelligence agencies and militaries adaptive enough to deal with this changing threat? Thanks so much, Kimberly. I really appreciate your perspective.", "Thank you.", "Well, in the United States, police are treating Independence Day celebrations as potential terror targets. Cities throughout the nation are on high alert for the Fourth of July holiday which is today. Our Deborah Feyerick reports.", "After a series of deadly attacks overseas, U.S. counter terror officials heightening security measures at so-called soft targets across the country, including the July 4th fireworks displays tonight. Cathy Lanier,", "We have a pretty tight security plan for the Fourth of July.", "In the nation's capitol, much of the dramatic increase in security will be hidden.", "We do have technology that folks will not see.", "The biggest fireworks show in America along New York City's East River, with an estimated 3 million spectators, has the police in the Big Apple on high alert.", "You will see a very significantly enhanced police presence in the city.", "Out on the water, officials patrolling the harbors around Manhattan and conducting security dives along the Macy's fireworks barges.", "We are very, very vigilant. We'll have exceptional NYPD presence to keep everyone safe.", "The New York City mayor deploying 500 plus highly trained, highly armed officers ready to prevent terror. The first Fourth of July the critical response team will be out in full force.", "It sends a powerful message to anyone who might try and disrupt that we are ready to prevent that.", "Tensions already high.", "It sounded like a cannon.", "After a small explosion in Central Park Sunday left a tourist's foot mangled.", "His foot is all but detached. His friends claim he was walking down the rocks and stepped on something.", "That something believed to be an experiment with fireworks or a homemade explosive, set off after a young tourist accidentally stepped on it, according to the", "We believe this could have been put here as some sort of experiments.", "Well, our Deborah Feyerick reporting there. At this point, there's no evidence that that Central Park explosion is related to terrorism, also they are on a specific or credible threats directed at any New York, at New York, or any other city right now for the Fourth of July. Coming up here on CNN, more leadership changes in the wake of the Brexit vote. A key voice behind the movement is stepping down as head of his party. Five candidates battle to lead a post-Brexit Britain. Details ahead. Plus Rio's mayor has some harsh words for state officials ahead of the Olympics. Our interview with him, that's also next."], "speaker": ["ROBYN CURNOW, CNN ANCHOR", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CURNOW", "RAVI AGRAWAL, CNN NEW DELHI BUREAU CHIEF", "AJAI SAHNI, INSTITUTE FOR CONFLICT MANAGEMENT", "AGRAWAL", "SAHNI", "AGRAWAL", "CURNOW", "MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "RIVERS", "CURNOW", "KIMBERLY DOZIER, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST", "CURNOW", "DOZIER", "CURNOW", "DOZIER", "CURNOW", "DOZIER", "CURNOW", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHIEF OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA", "FEYERICK", "CHIEF ROBERT MACLEAN, U.S. PARK POLICE", "FEYERICK", "BILL BRATTON, NEW YORK CITY POLICE COMMISSIONER", "FEYERICK", "BILL DE BLASIO, MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY", "FEYERICK", "DE BLASIO", "FEYERICK", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FEYERICK", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FEYERICK", "NYPD. UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CURNOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-233266", "program": "@THISHOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2014-06-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/25/ath.02.html", "summary": "Syria War Planes Cooperating with Iraqi Army", "utt": ["A blatant affront to U.S. efforts in Iraq, the country's prime minister, Nouri al Maliki is flat out rejecting Washington's call to form a unity government. The Iraqi leader said in a televised address that such a move would go against the constitution and the results of recent elections. In the meantime, U.S. military advisers are beginning their work, helping Iraqi forces. The Pentagon says some 90 advisers have arrived and are on the ground with more set to arrive in the next few days. The U.S. is also conducting air surveillance in Iraq, with 35 flights daily to gain better insight into the situation there.", "It appears Syria is now getting involved. Syrian war planes launching a series of air strikes in cooperation with the Iraqi army. The head of Iraq's Anbar Provincial Council says 57 civilians were killed and 120 others union. I want to bring in our military analyst, retired Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona, a former military liaison officer with the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Colonel, this is fascinating here. You have the situation where the enemy of enemy is a dictator. Syrian forces bombing people that the U.S. is against in western Iraq. What does that do?", "This really complicates the situation. Because Iraqi airspace is not that big. Now you've got Syrian armed fighters and bombers dropping bombs in that same area. Pretty soon, you're going to have an airspace issue, you are going to have armed Syrian aircraft and U.S. aircraft very close to each other. Syria air force, U.S. Air Force, we have no cooperation protocol whatsoever.", "The U.S. advisors sent there have been very well briefed in the situation, all the players. This probably was on their radar to some extent but it's really on their radar now.", "This is a new development and we're seeing other things happen out there in the west. We're seeing a -- the merging of the al Nursa Front with ISIS. When they were in Syria fighting, they were fighting each other, because they are rival groups. ISIS split from al Qaeda. They were fighting each other, in addition to fighting the Syrian government. They did that for a while too, so everybody is fighting each other. Now they have joined forces together. That makes them a very formidable force, even worse than ISIS by itself. Now we've got these radical jihadis moving down to the Syrian border as well. This is going to be much more complicated and involved before anything is resolved.", "What we're seeing happening with Maliki is nothing, despite the U.S. government is saying reach across the aisle to your Sunnis and Shiites. Not going to do it.", "This is troubling. Instead of the political reconciliation we're hopping to see, we're seeing Maliki gets his back up. This plays right into the hands of the Sunnis in Anbar and the Kurds up north who say, why are they dealing with these people? I think this has complicated things and today the situation just got a little more muddy.", "It certainly makes for another human rights issue. We're talking about the people on the ground who are caught in the middle of all of this.", "And the Syrian air force is not going to be concerned with the collateral damage as the U.S. Air Force.", "Not as concerned, at all.", "Great to have you with us. Really appreciate it.", "As we mentioned, more than a million Iraqis have been forced from their homes by escalating violence. The United Nations is saying the number is expected to rise with the threat of ISIS terror groups and the other groups operating there. To find out how you can help Iraqi refugees, go to CNN.com/impact. Another topic, more than 11 million undocumented people live in the United States, many of them coming as children, just like Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas. We're taking a look at his journey in what he calls a broken immigration system. He joins us live ahead."], "speaker": ["MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "LT. COL. RICK FRANCONA, CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "PEREIRA", "FRANCONA", "BERMAN", "FRANCONA", "PEREIRA", "FRANCONA", "BERMAN", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA"]}
{"id": "CNN-108071", "program": "HOUSE CALL WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA", "date": "2006-7-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0607/08/hcsg.01.html", "summary": "Keeping Home Schooled Kids Active", "utt": ["Welcome back to HOUSE CALL. It's time to look at how we're doing in our quest for a fit nation. This week, Dr. Sanjay Gupta looks at an often overlooked segment of students. They don't have PE class or any regularly scheduled class for that matter. We're talking about home schoolers.", "What do you all want for lunch? Tuna?", "Peanut butter and jelly.", "You'd never know it by looking at them, but 14-year-old twins Courtney and Chelsea have never gone to a gym class.", "How long have you been on that page?", "That's because they're home schooled. But just because they do their school work on the living room couch doesn't mean they get to be couch potatoes.", "OK, you got everything you need?", "Their mom makes sure of that.", "When they were younger, you could say go outside and play. But when they get to be preteens and teens, that doesn't work anymore. You almost have to have a program to have them involved in, especially with peers.", "While most states have academic standards for home schooled children, most do not have fitness requirements. But there is a growing interest in helping kids to stay fit. There are many fitness options for home schoolers. Kids exercise class at the local gym. Home school PE curriculums online. And in Sandra's case, there's Crown Athletics. She and fellow home school parents started Crown Athletics in Cobb County, Georgia to give home schooled students a chance to play organized sports. Cheerleading is Courtney's passion.", "I never thought I would cheer lead because I'm home schooled, you know. But I really like it a lot. And it's just fun to get out there and cheer for your team.", "And if practice isn't enough exercise, she also has to sign this honesty policy, showing her coaches she's working out at home.", "If you don't do it, there's consequences like you have to run the track.", "Chelsea plays volleyball.", "It's a lot of fun just getting out there and hitting it as hard as you can.", "Joy Page, who teaches a supplemental personal fitness program for home school students, says fitness programs are essentially for home school kids.", "I try to keep them understanding that it's all linked together, that it's a big picture of taking care of yourself so that you enjoy life more.", "Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting.", "Thanks, Sanjay. And some of those teams are running year round. We're taking a quick break, then talking more about travel necessities. Stay tuned.", "From vaccination to sleeping pills, what you really need if you're heading overseas this summer, coming up on HOUSE CALL."], "speaker": ["COHEN", "SANDRA BREADEN, MOTHER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GUPTA", "S. BREADEN", "GUPTA", "S. BREADEN", "GUPTA", "COURTNEY BREADEN", "COHEN", "COURTNEY BREADEN", "GUPTA", "CHELSEA BREADEN", "GUPTA", "JOY PAIGE, HOMESCHOOL TEACHER", "GUPTA", "COHEN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE"]}
{"id": "CNN-193836", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2012-10-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1210/06/smn.03.html", "summary": "Jack Welch Amends Controversial Tweet; Unemployment Down", "utt": ["Good morning, everyone. I'm Randi Kaye. Victor Blackwell is off today. It's 9:00 on the East Coast, 6:00 a.m. out West. Thanks so much for starting your day with us. In a bitter political season even the Labor Department has become a target. The new jobs report had triggered a backlash among critics of President Obama. The unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent in September -- a drop of three-tenths of a percent from August. The numbers appear good on the surface, but just too good for Jack Welch. The former CEO of General Electric tweeted this. \"Unbelievable jobs numbers. These Chicago guys will do anything -- can't debate so change numbers.\" Well, Welch later came on CNN's \"ANDERSON COOPER 360\" and said if he had that tweet to do all over again, he would have added one thing.", "So many politicians these days are saying like, \"You know, Michele Bachmann will say something that factually is not correct or is not provable and then we'll say look, I'm just asking the question.\" Is it responsible to say I'm just asking the question but to say these Chicago guys will do anything, oh, I'm just asking the question.", "Should have put the question mark at the end like I did last night.", "OK.", "A question mark would have been better at the back of that.", "OK. So you are kind of backing away from the Chicago guys.", "I'm not backing away. I'm not backing away from anything,", "You wish you would amend your tweet.", "Wish I had a question mark at the back of it. The same implication.", "But to say something like this is like Donald Trump saying that President Obama is not an American citizen without any proof. You are Jack Welch. Jack, you've got to take this opportunity while everybody is listening to you to actually say, \"Yes, Anderson, I'm taking that tweet back. I'm going to send a new tweet to say I was exaggerating. There are problems BLS maybe should look into it\" but to actually throw out an accusation that's like asking the government how often do you beat your wife?", "I should have had a question mark, Ali, at the back of it, let's face it, OK. But the facts, are, Ali, no matter how you want to look at this, we had 25 economists polled before this number came out. The average number they expected was about 115,000. Not one of them --", "Yes.", "Had a number below 8.1.", "Labor secretary Hilda Solis shot back at the critics. She told CNN it was insulting for people to suggest her department was manipulating numbers for the president's benefit. The Obama and Romney campaigns are ratcheting up the rhetoric in the wake of the jobs report. Our political editor Paul Steinhauser has the candidate's comments. One set of numbers, Paul, two sets of eyes.", "Yes, very, very different responses, of course, to that Friday jobs report, no doubt about it, Randi. And of course, you know why the economy remains by far the top issue on the minds of Americans. Jobs is the most important economic issue for them and that's why the candidates have so much at stake with these numbers. Take a listen to how both men talked about these numbers on the campaign trail.", "Today's news should give us some encouragement. It shouldn't be an excuse for the other side to try to talk down the economy just to try to score a few political points. It's a reminder that this country's come too far to turn back now.", "The unemployment rate, as you noted this year has come down very, very slowly but it has come down nonetheless. But the reason it's come down this year is primarily due to the fact that more and more people have just stopped looking for work.", "For a year and a half that Romney has been running for president he's been criticizing President Obama for doing a bad job on jobs and employment due to the fact that the unemployment level had been above eight percent. Now that it's below eight percent, Randi, you can hear Mitt Romney now talking about a different tactic there, and he says that, \"You know, if you add in all the people who have stopped looking for jobs, he says the real unemployment level he says would be around 11 percent.\" Randi?", "So Paul, one presidential debate down, one to go after the VP debate this coming Thursday, but what do you think the candidates will focus on as they head up into that debate?", "Well, they are already beginning to prepare for the next debate. Mitt Romney this weekend doing some campaign debate preparation and the president will as well before they -- before they also head out on the campaign trail. Both candidates are looking back at what happened on Wednesday in Denver, and they are looking ahead. Take a listen to both men.", "My opponent, he is doing a lot of tap dance at the debate the other night, trying to wiggle out of stuff he's been saying for a year, doing like -- it was like \"Dancing With The Stars\" or maybe it was \"Extreme Makeover: Debate edition.\"", "I thought it was a good chance for us to ask each other questions. I asked the president some of the questions I know people across America have wanted to ask him. I asked him, for instance, why with 23 million Americans that were looking for work and wanted a president that would focus on getting the economy going he instead spent his first two years fighting for Obamacare.", "I think you're going to hear more of Mitt Romney question the president's priorities and I think you're going to hear more of the president saying, \"Hey, who was that Mitt Romney I debated the other night? He's not the real guy that I know.\" Randi, as you mentioned though, the real highlight this upcoming week will be the vice presidential debate, the only showdown between Vice president Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan and, of course, that will be moderated -- the next presidential debate, of course, will be moderated by our own Candy Crowley.", "Yes and the vice presidential debate should be pretty interesting. I mean, Biden is usually pretty good going on the attack.", "Well Biden will definitely probably try to be the aggressor here to pick up where the president left off last week in Denver, and I think Paul Ryan is known as a pretty good numbers man, and I think it should be a pretty interesting debate, Randi.", "It sure will. We'll be watching. Paul Steinhauser, thank you.", "Thank you.", "Overnight three suspected terrorists arrived in New York after being extradited from London, including the notorious Abu Hamza al Masri. He has a hook for a hand and has called Osama Bin Laden hero. The radical cleric and four others are wanted for several crimes committed against the U.S. in the 1990s. They are accused of kidnapping tourists and conspiring to build a jihadist training camp in Oregon. Some of them are expected to appear in court tomorrow. Defense secretary Leon Panetta is firing back at Afghan President Hamid Karzai. It all follows Karzai's criticism that allied troops haven't done enough to battle insurgents in Pakistan. Here's what Panetta said in his rare public dressing down of Karzai. \"I think it would be helpful if the president every once in a while expressed his thanks for the sacrifices that have been made by those who have fought and died for Afghanistan rather than criticizing them.\" Gas prices rising again. The national average now at 3.81, that is up from 3.79 yesterday. So what is driving up the cost? A new U.N. report points to massive bets placed on the commodities market for the volatility in oil and gas prices, and it's not likely to change any time soon. Bad news for drivers in places like California for sure where the average gallon of gas is 4.61, topping $5 actually in some parts of that state. When you talk about swing states, Ohio rises to the top of the discussion, but what are Ohio voters focusing on? Is it Romney's debate demeanor or is the falling unemployment rate? We'll check with both sides to see who has the advantage there."], "speaker": ["RANDI KAYE, CNN ANCHOR", "ANDERSON COOPER, HOST, CNN'S \"ANDERSON COOPER 360\"", "JACK WELCH, FORMER CEO, GENERAL ELECTRIC", "COOPER", "WELCH", "COOPER", "WELCH", "COOPER", "WELCH", "ALI VELSHI, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "WELCH", "VELSHI", "WELCH", "KAYE", "PAUL STEINHAUSER, CNN POLITICAL EDITOR", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "STEINHAUSER", "KAYE", "STEINHAUSER", "OBAMA", "ROMNEY", "STEINHAUSER", "KAYE", "STEINHAUSER", "KAYE", "STEINHAUSER", "KAYE"]}
{"id": "CNN-75046", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-8-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/11/ltm.15.html", "summary": "President Taylor Due to Relinquish Control Any Minute", "utt": ["We're watching the story in Liberia right now. The president, Charles Taylor, supposed to have relinquished control of that country a few moments ago. There has been a delay at this time. It's not happening just yet, anyway. A video phone picture, a little grainy, just to let you know right now, but this is the, well, this is the map of West Africa and Liberia. And this is the room where the resignation is expected to take place. We have heard singing by a local choir there. And Jeff Koinange is live by way of video phone to tell us about the delay and why the hold up is happening now -- Jeff, what do you have? Good afternoon there.", "Hi, there, Bill. I can tell you that there have been many", "All right, Jeff, thanks. Jeff Koinange. A bit difficult to hear over the music and also the video phone there. But Jeff was talking about this address to the people of Liberia from yesterday, Charles Taylor's words and his warning before leaving his country.", "I am stepping down from this office of my own volition. No one can take credit for asking me to step down. I did not want to leave this country. I can say I am being forced into exile by the world's superpower. I have decided to leave because for the first time in the history of most of the world, the United States is using food and other things as a weapon against the Liberian people. Because if the administration of President Bush says that they will not step on this soil and will do nothing as long as I am here, this further threatens your survival as a people.", "And, again, that was from yesterday, an address to the Liberian people. Charles Taylor, as Jeff Koinange was pointing out, is at the airport right now meeting with a number of African leaders, expected to accept this offer from Nigeria to take exile there. We'll let you know what happens in Liberia and also with the 2,300 Marines posted offshore there, as well, floating in the waters."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFF KOINANGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER", "CHARLES TAYLOR, LIBERIAN PRESIDENT", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-111629", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2006-10-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/31/lkl.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Impersonator Steve Bridges", "utt": ["Tonight, President George W. Bush.", "I am a uniter not a divider.", "President Bill Clinton.", "I'm more nervous than Dick Cheney's best hunting dog.", "Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.", "You know they call it the gubernatorial race. Well now I'm the goober.", "Next on LARRY KING LIVE.", "Good evening. What a special treat tonight, joining us here in this studio the 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush, Mr. President.", "Hey, Larry, good to see you, great to see you.", "Welcome aboard.", "Thank you. Thank you, a pleasure to be here. It's -- thanks for having me. It's always good to face the media, set the record straight.", "You've had some differences with the media.", "It's true, your darned right I have. You know, the media makes -- makes -- it makes me look like I'm not smart by emphasizing when I mis-announce a word and that's just not fair, you know. And it's a good thing, Larry, that I can turn a phrase because I can. I can turn it upside down, inside out, downside in. I can turn it. But usually when it's all said and done it comes out the way I wanted.", "You're really getting into it. Do you feel that the media misrepresents you?", "Absolutely. Listen, listen, I never pretended to be the smartest -- the brightest bulb in the knife drawer but I did attend an Ivory (sic) League school. Just I never let it go to my head.", "You have faced though a lot of criticism, Mr. President. Let's be frank about it. Your Medicare plan has come under major criticism being too complicated.", "Listen, I know a lot of folks are confused about -- they're confused with the D-section but I can assure them that it's not a whole lot more painful than the old C-section. That's true.", "Do you still believe it's working?", "Absolutely. The Medicare plan is working. Listen, this is a substantial increase in Medicare coverage and this increase will cover all of our seniors and senoritas. Let me just tell you something.", "Forgive me for laughing.", "Yes, that's all right.", "You have a way with words.", "Yes, yes. Let me tell you something, Larry, older citizens face the highest risk of death in this country.", "No kidding.", "Seniors die every day. I declare a war on natural causes. We're going after them.", "What are the weapons in the war on natural causes?", "Listen, Larry, technology that's our first weapon. I have a -- I have a vision. I have a dream. I have a hope and I see a future of technological advances. What I see are hydrogen-powered vehicles and hydrogen-powered robots, legal domestic robots, domestic worker robots. We're making a lot of progress in the technological advances. As you know, there are a lot of cars now that run on vegetable oil. And so, I propose we open up Alaska to drill for vegetables. If they're there, we need to get them. And also to ensure our expertise, our technological expertise, we need to maintain that edge. My administration has increased Pell grants. We need a lot of students out there getting a degree in Pell.", "It's a broad agenda, Mr. President. Can we, seriously can we maintain economic growth, promote technology, and still protect the environment?", "I believe we can. I really do. Look, on the environment, Larry, I instituted my healthy forest initiative. This will help stop catastrophic forest fires from decimating our wild lands. This year I will appoint a new bear.", "A what?", "A new bear, an un-smoky bear, a smoke-free bear to help maintain smoke-free forests.", "All right, Mr. President, let's get down to it. What are the accomplishments in the office in your administration that you are most proud of?", "Well, I'll tell you what, I've pushed this Congress to make -- to make a lot of changes. I urged them to abolish the marriage penalty. The marriage penalty is wrong. Being married is penalty enough.", "I know you're joking about the first lady. And, speaking of Laura, does our first lady play a big part in your decisions?", "Hang on let me give her a call and ask her.", "Speaking of marriage, you recently tried to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage. Was this a political ploy frankly to rally the base?", "No, no not at all. It was not political. My feelings are well known on the issue of gay marriage. And, let me just say this about gay marriage, Larry. You can't make folks have a gay marriage. Sure, at first there's the wedding cake and the dancing but after that it gets tough, real tough.", "But you're against gays marrying aren't you?", "No, I'm all for it. I think a gay man ought to be able to marry any woman he wants. Let me just get back to something serious, to my proudest moment. You asked about my proudest moment. I think it would be maintaining a strong economy while spreading freedom all around the world.", "Well the feds raising interest rates once again is that a sign that the administration frankly is worried about the economy?", "No, no. No, listen, listen, Larry, as you know, I inherited a recession from my last administration but I assure you that I am all over this economy, both at home, globally, and abroad. We are. We're on it.", "Are you worried about the national debt?", "No. No, don't worry about the debt.", "Don't worry about it?", "No, it's my problem and I'm not worried about it.", "But we're facing an enormous national debt. Do you have some sort of plan to deal with it?", "I do. I do. I'm asked every day, \"Mr. President, what about the debt?\" And, I understand these concerns. I'm not worried but I understand the concerns. And my plan is a proposal that I have just put before Congress to sell Canada.", "Sell Canada.", "They ain't using half of it.", "What about your border crisis with Mexico?", "Larry, I don't think it's a crisis. We have a -- we have a lot of folks sneaking across the border in order to find a better way of life. And upon seeing our gas prices they're sneaking back. It's a win-win.", "Good point.", "Yes.", "But you welcome immigrants right? You want them to come?", "Absolutely. It is my hope that foreigners just like American citizens can come to America. They find good jobs, good high-paying jobs that will eventually be lost overseas to China.", "Why did you decide to use armed National Guardsmen to watch the border with Mexico?", "Because Dick Cheney wasn't available.", "Seriously though does the National Guard have the resources to handle the demand?", "Yes, there are plenty of guards people. I'm even putting National Guard troops along the border with Puerto Rico. I'm still not sure if they're a part of our country or not. I know they're -- they're sort of a state. They're not a state. It's weird. They ought to make up their mind. What's their deal?", "Of course on the border with Puerto Rico would be in the ocean. But, can we afford securing our borders with troops?", "Oh, yes. Look, you know, look, my first -- my first priority is the American people. And my second first priority is our national security and we are slashing the cost of national security by adopting a new plan. Under my new plan, the entire budget for NSA is now free after 9:00 p.m. and also on the weekends. That's a good deal, pretty darned good. You're shocked I can tell.", "Shocked totally.", "Yes. Look, I want to assure the American people, Larry, I want to assure the American people I have n ever eavesdropped on anyone's phone conversations. And, as you know, I've had two teenage daughters. That's saying a lot.", "But it's been said that you're analyzing phone records. You may not listen in but you're analyzing phone records to find any unusual patterns. Do you do that?", "We did analyze and we did find an unusual pattern. Most Americans voted for Taylor Hicks. He's a good boy, good Alabama boy.", "We'll be right back with the President of the United States.", "Members of the White House Correspondents Association, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, here I am.", "Here I am at another one of these dang press dinners. Could be home asleep, little Barney curled up at my feet but no. I got to pretend I like being here.", "I'm absolutely delighted to be here as is Laura.", "She's hot", "We're back with the 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush. You have made some changes in personnel recently. Are you planning any more changes?", "Who, me, what? No, I'm not going. I'm staying.", "Is Dick Cheney staying?", "Oh, yes, yes Dick is staying, yes, yes I think he is, yes.", "I don't think you two are allowed in the same place anymore, is that right?", "Really?", "Well that's what I hear.", "Well, yes it's true. I never know where Dick Cheney is, you know. If I'm the decider he's the hider. Seriously, I never know where he is these days. There's days I'm sitting in the Oval Office I just walk out into the hallway and yell", "Now in your cabinet you're standing by Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense.", "Yes, absolutely, absolutely. I have absolute faith in our secretary of defense. Look, Rumpy (ph), people don't know he's doing a good job. People don't talk about the progress that we're making in Iraq. I think it's important to remember that Iraq has now had free elections, not expensive ones like here in America. There's a big difference. And we're rebuilding Iraq, Larry, and we will continue to rebuild Iraq. Otherwise, there will be a space between Iran and Jordan.", "Never thought of that. Is Osama bin Laden still a big concern?", "Oh, we're going to get him. We're going to get Osama. We know a lot about him. He's a terrible man who thinks that this is just a game and this isn't a game. So, come out, come out wherever you are. That sucker can hide.", "You must be very pleased with the job that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is doing.", "I am. Condy is a fabulous secretary of state. She's a wonderful woman, very smart, keeps me informed, reads the newspapers.", "Some folks around the world see America as frankly a bit of a bully.", "Well, I dare them to come say it to my face. Look, Larry, I am a uniter not a divider seriously. I can't divide not worth a lick. But with Condy's help, a wonderful secretary of state, I have learned to adapt to different cultures. Now when I'm in Russia, I walk like a Russian. When I'm in Egypt I'll walk like an Egyptian. I'm sensitive now to different customs. You know what they say when in Rome do as the Romanians do.", "So you believe that we're making progress in the area of foreign policy?", "Absolutely. Look, 25 years ago there were 45 democracies. Today there are 122 democracies. Some of them I ain't even heard of. There's a Bulgarian and Sambuca (ph) and Utah and Costa Monica. We got all the icky stands behind us, Larry, the icky stands are here.", "You're still though, let's be frank, facing serious threats from North Korea.", "Yes, we are and we're going to deal with it. You know one of the questions I face is why can't we unite North and South Korea? And I say to people, \"Be patient.\" We haven't united North and South Dakota yet but we will. It takes time but we're going to. We're going to. And, tell you something else we will bring Kim Jong Il to justice but the how and why is for the Iraqi people to decide. I feel strongly about that.", "Have you seen Al Gore's movie on global warming?", "No, I haven't but I will. I'll take a look at it. Look, global warming is a tough sell in Washington, D.C. Nobody in political office wants to reduce the amount of hot air. In our nation's capital that is our greatest resource.", "During the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina you enlisted the help of your father and Bill Clinton.", "Yes, yes. Dad and President Clinton they've done some great work for disaster relief. They spent a lot of time consoling people who have lost their homes. They both know what it's like to lose a home, the very same home.", "Does it surprise you they get along so well?", "No, no, no it doesn't. It doesn't surprise me at all. It helps keep Mr. Clinton out of trouble. It's like sending your college kid on spring break with Mr. Rogers. I just think it's a kick in the pants. Mom calls it dad's inappropriate relationship.", "So, you've become friends?", "Absolutely. I respect President Clinton. I do. He was the first Democrat to win a campaign since Jimmy Carter. That's not an easy task. Democrats have lost more than the Jamaican bobsled team. But I do, I admire President Clinton. He was the first president not to improve healthcare, the first president not to put an end to lobbyists, first president not to catch Osama bin Laden.", "Have you been to his library?", "Yes, I have. I have, yes. I understand they call it the William Jefferson Clinton Library.", "Right.", "It sounded better than Bubba's Books.", "Are you worried about Bill Clinton helping Hillary Clinton in her campaign?", "No, not. I mean I think we all know that Hillary sort of wears the pants in the family. Bill's got pants. He just doesn't like to wear them. I'll get in trouble for that, just kidding.", "You bet.", "Shame on me.", "That will be in the papers. Do you talk to President Clinton regularly?", "We do. We do.", "Oh, good.", "Yes, yes, we swap e-mails. He's -- what's that? He's wildwilly1@aol.com. He'd love to hear from you.", "Arnold Schwarzenegger has been on this show and it's always baffled me what kind of Republican is he? He's married to a Kennedy. Does that sound possible to you?", "I think it's great. I think it's great. It gives him perspective. I like Arnold. We both married up. You know why Maria fell in love with him, don't you?", "No.", "Arnold was the only boyfriend strong enough to carry Uncle Teddy home.", "But having different politics in one household could be dangerous.", "Sure, yes, yes sure it's dangerous. If they ever get divorced, Maria gets half of California, whichever half she wants. Let me tell you something, Larry. Let me say something here. Arnold has done a wonderful job in California. When he took over that state they were $22 billion in debt. And he did a great job in putting that into words that Californians could understand. He told them, \"Dudes, no tango, no dinero dudes.\" He said it better than I do.", "You know Arnold. Did he ever take -- the truth -- did he ever take steroids?", "I don't think so. I don't think so, not enough to play Major League Baseball. Who wants to watch Major League Baseball without steroids? That's not baseball. That's cricket. It's a sissy sport.", "Mr. President, are you frankly concerned about your recent poll numbers?", "Look, my aides tell me I'm not very popular in the polls. I told them I'm not very popular with Americans either. Listen, I want to -- if I want to be loved with the polls, I would have run for president in Poland, ridiculous.", "Is it true that your brother Jeb might run in 2008?", "I hope so. He could lose a couple pounds. He ought to start running right now. I'm in all sorts of hot water today.", "Do you believe that history, that great book of history, will be kind to you?", "Absolutely. I always did well in history. It's math and spelling that kick my butt. Listen, Larry, I will trust the judgment of the American people. I know I've done a wonderful job and when it's all said and done I will leave the White House with my head held high. I'll do it and do it proudly. I'll tell you one thing, though, I ain't leaving the toilet seat down.", "George Bush, the 43rd President of the United States. We'll be right back.", "As you know, I always look forward to these dinners.", "It's just a bunch of media types, Hollywood liberals, Democrats like Joe Biden. How come I can't have dinner with the 36 percent of the people who like me?", "As our special presidential edition of LARRY KING LIVE continues, it's now our great pleasure to welcome the 42nd President of the United States William Jefferson Clinton. Welcome back.", "Thank you.", "Mr. President, thank you for being on the show with us.", "Well, thank you, Larry for having me. I'll tell you I haven't been on TV in quite a while so I'm more nervous than Dick Cheney's best hunting dog.", "You seem to though have done a lot of interviews lately, any reason for this?", "Well, I'll tell you what, I've got a lot of projects in the works and I want to be very clear on this one point. I am hiding from Hillary. I'm kidding you, man. I'm kidding you. She'd have loved to be here, Larry, if nothing else just to say hi and roll her eyes.", "I understand you're also busy on the speaking circuit right?", "I am. I am. I've been touring my one man show. Hillary calls it the Wizard of Is (ph).", "And she approves of you traveling on the circuit?", "Well, early on I thought about being a motivational speaker but Hillary frowned on my motivations. So now I just speak about my foundation. And then I hang around and I take photos. They're only 200 bucks apiece and they're 300 if you want them provocative.", "You seem to have mended your marital relationship. Have you found peace at home?", "Well, that's a good question. I'll say this. Hillary did spend a few months watching the movie \"Kill Bill.\" But we've reestablished trust with a lot of love and a lot of patience.", "What's the toughest part about being an ex-president?", "You know the toughest part is losing the job title. That's the toughest part of all. I mean without the title I'm just another Rhodes scholar named Bubba.", "How would you compare your president -- your administration with the present one?", "Well, that's a good -- that's another good question. We had a lot of firsts. As many of you know, I was the first president to appoint a woman, Janet Reno, as attorney general. To be honest with you, I was surprised as anyone to find out that she was a woman but I was still the first. But you know what, Larry, see here's the thing. I am not here to compare. Maybe if I were a vain person I would go on and on about how we balanced the books and we created more jobs while lowering the debt and protecting the environment but that's just not me.", "Have you see Al Gore's movie?", "You know what I have and I think it's an important -- it's an important film to see. I think everybody ought to see that. I will say this. Al was a good vice president. And, if you will look closely at his record during his eight years in office, you'll see that he never shot a single American. He just invented the Internet and e-mail so we could all be spammed to death.", "Do you feel Dick Cheney should have been censored in some way?", "Not at all no. I was a little miffed that he shot the only lawyer in America that I don't owe money to. But you know what I understand Dick's dilemma. I hunted Dan Quayle. Boy I'll tell you back in the '90s I wish I'd have shot a few of them lawyers. I really do.", "So you don't resent the Republicans for their attacks on you while you were in office?", "No, no I sure don't. I mean maybe just a little bit, OK. Let's be honest here. The truth is my impeachment hearings were a dark, dark time in American history. But let's look at the good that came from it. C-Span had its very first PG-13 rating. They did good. You know what, I'll tell you, Larry, I have to respect the Republicans because what they want to do is they want to reduce the size of government. Now, I just don't think that indictments are the right way to do it.", "So, you have some compassion for George Bush.", "Oh, I do. I really do. You know the job of president it is a ton of pressure and there are no days off. There's days you just want to sit down, relax and Google your own name, Google your own name. That sounds dirty.", "It sure does. We'll be back with the 42nd President of the United States William Jefferson Clinton right after this. Don't go away.", "Welcome back to our special presidential edition of LARRY KING LIVE. We're talking with the never dull President Bill Clinton. Mr. President, do you miss the attention that came with the job of president?", "Oh, I miss it. I do. I -- you know, everything, though -- I have to say this. Everything that I ever said during my eight years in office was always amplified in the media. And a lot of times it would just come back to haunt me. For instance, I was the one who coined the term new Democrat. I was also the one who coined the term nude Democrat. And remember how I always used to tell people -- I always used to look in that camera and I used to say I feel your pain? It turns out that was heart disease.", "Speaking of which, it was surprising how fast you recovered from the surgery.", "Yes. Yes. I'm taking much better care of myself. You know what happened was it gave me a good perspective on life. I was shocked to hear the doctor say to me I had acute angina. I mean, I told him I was flattered, but I was already spoken for, so just back off.", "How did the surgery change your perspective?", "You know what it did, Larry, it taught me to appreciate the little things, like aspirin and bacon bits. I totally agree with President Bush's remarks about America's addiction to oil. I too was addicted to oil, also butter and grease and salt and mayonnaise and things like that. I don't know what I miss more, the White House or White Castle.", "But the heart surgery, I've got to say, hasn't slowed you down any, has it?", "No, it hasn't. In fact, tonight I want to let folks know that I am introducing my new ex-world leader diet plan. I call for Americans to eat less junk food. I'm calling it Just Say Whoa!", "The president's father seems to have become quite a good friend of yours?", "Yes, yes, George Sr., yes. He and I, we're having a great time. We're doing a lot of traveling together. We're helping people out. I tell you what, I feel like a college kid who's on spring break with Mr. Rogers. Oh, we have gotten to know each other really well and do some really good work.", "You seem -- it's an unlikely but effective team, isn't it?", "Oh, it is. It is. Yes, he actually calls me his other son which is what he always used to call me, he just shortened it a little. I asked him if his real son, the president, was jealous of our friendship, and he said that George doesn't know the meaning of the word jealous. He was serious.", "So there's a respect there?", "Absolutely. There's a respect and there's fun. I mean, we have a pretty good time. George Sr. once told me that Barbara, his wife, was like a Stradivarius violin, exquisite and rarely played. I told him Hillary is like a fine Stradivarius violin that's had a headache since 1992. We laughed hard at that. That was good.", "Speaking of Mrs. Clinton, does it look like another presidential campaign in the family?", "Well, I'll say this. I've learned not to speak for Hillary. I guess you could say she's flirting with the idea. And I stay out of that game. I don't even flirt with new ideas. I don't make eye contact. I don't say hello. If you're a good looking idea, I say you just keep moving, go on. But no matter what, I support Hillary. I really do.", "So you feel she has a good chance of winning?", "I believe that she has an excellent opportunity to do wonderful things for this country. Hillary has wonderful presidential qualities. Heck, she pardoned me before she even became senator.", "In the meantime, what do you have coming up?", "Well, you know what, I'm just living a day at a time. I'm working to preserve my legacy. I don't want to be remembered as the man who built Rush Limbaugh's house.", "So you're traveling as a speaker, running a foundation. What do you do to relax?", "You know what I do? I spend a lot of time at my presidential library down there in Arkansas. You ought to come by. You should. You ought to stop by.", "I was there when it opened.", "That's right. That's right. Fantastic. As you know, we have the only book in a nine-county area. I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Just keep an eye out for me next year on \"Dancing With The Stars.\" It's going to be fun.", "We'll be looking forward to that.", "Yes.", "Thank you so much for being with us, Mr. President.", "Thank you. A real pleasure. Thank you.", "My pleasure. And when we come back, the governor himself. It's presidential night but what the heck. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Republican governor of California, will be our guest -- I made him president, he can't even run for it. Don't go away.", "Welcome back to LARRY KING LIVE. What a night of political guests for us. And now, joining us here in our L.A. studios, is the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Governor, thank you. Thank you for being here.", "Thank you for having me. It's fantastic. Aren't they fantastic?", "You've been on the show before as a movie star, and now you're here as a politician. How did that happen?", "Well, I'll tell you, you know, there it was perfect. You know, California, they needed somebody to take action and I am an action hero. So it worked out great. You know, they call it the gubernatorial race, well, now I'm the goober.", "Well, that's an impressive career change. Was it a tough, big transition?", "You know what, Larry? This is what I found. Politics is just a lot like bodybuilding. It's a bunch of oily people posing. The bottom line, Larry, the Democrats were predators who gave California a raw deal by telling true lies and causing so much collateral damage that I had to become the running man, and then do a total recall. And I won.", "The question is a little off topic, but I have to ask it. Did you take steroids when you were a bodybuilder?", "I will never tell a lie. I did take steroids. I did take steroids, but I couldn't -- if I didn't take steroids, you know, I couldn't have been Conan the Barbarian. I would have been the Conan O'Brien. I took steroids, but I didn't take enough to play Major League Baseball. You know, they're wrong. They shouldn't have called them performing enhancing drugs. You know why? Because if you see my movie, you would know that they didn't enhance my performance at all.", "You're not kidding. That's good enough for me. It must feel good to be improving things in California, though.", "You know, I've achieved all of my goals except for two. And that is, one, to appear on the show the \"Actor Studio\" and to become leader of this country. I want to become leader of America.", "You have aspirations to national politics?", "Absolutely. I'm an immigrant and there are laws preventing me from running for president. But I would be honored to accept a nomination for governor of the United States of America.", "And you have your sights set on leading the nation?", "Listen, I'll be honest with you, Larry. I just need the Secret Service protection. My daughters, they're going to start dating soon.", "Well, I wish you and Maria and the girls all the luck in the world. I don't know anyone who doesn't admire your drive and your persistence.", "Thank you, Larry. This is the greatest nation in the world. And I'm grateful that in America if you have the will, if you have the ambition, anyone can pull themselves up by the jock strap and be a hero in their own movie.", "What was it that made you want to go into politics?", "I tell you what made me want to go into politics, Larry, it was the people of California. Just regular people, like Tammy St. Claire, she was single mother suing to get day care in the strip club where she dances. Just regular people like small businessman Mark Wilson and his wife Scott. They were shocked to find out that their wedding tattoos will not covered by Medicare. Or think of Juan Garcia, he has no story, but he just wanted me to give a shoutout to his homies, Big Tico and Little Puppet. It was these salt of the earth people, Larry, they were the ones that made me want to be governor of California.", "But to come here from another country and rise to your present position, it's almost unbelievable. How does it make you feel?", "It makes me feel fantastic. It really does. You know, when I came to this country, I was a poor immigrant who could barely speak the language. And now I am a rich immigrant who can barely speak the language. I tell you something, Larry, anything can happen in America as long as you work hard and marry a Kennedy.", "Speaking of Maria, how is she handling the political career?", "You know her, Larry, she's absolutely fabulous. She's a wonderful first lady for California. You know, like President Bush recently said about his wife, I say the same thing about Maria, she's mui caliente. She's hot.", "I know that you and Maria have differing political stances. Does that affect the marriage?", "Not at all. It's no big deal. I had to make it very clear to her from the very start that I am the center of the left- sided right-handed type of Republican. We're not that much different.", "We'll be back with the governor. Don't go away.", "We're back on LARRY KING LIVE. Well, the challenges in governing a state like California seem formidable. Has the pressure gotten to you?", "No, no, no. You know, in my movies as a hero, I faced insurmountable odds all the time. I'm used to it. You know, the bottom line is that the last governor betrayed the people of California and now it is my turn.", "And you've turned a lot of things around. What was the biggest challenge?", "You know, the biggest challenge, I'd have to say was the economy. You know, California's debt was the equivalent of M.C. Hammer. We were in terrible shape.", "What did you do?", "Well, I tell you what I did first. I convened an economic recovery council with a lot of experts. Do you remember I had Warren Buffet on there?", "Right.", "Well, he left when I kept asking him to sing Margaritaville. So you know what I did? I opened the books on the budget myself and I made history. It was the first time I ever I opened a book. I got to work. I slashed spending everywhere.", "That didn't make you popular, did it?", "No, it didn't. The Democrats, you know, they attacked and they harassed me every day. But that's what in-laws do.", "You used the veto quite a lot.", "Of course. People knew I would use de Vito. Look, I used him in the movie \"Twins\" and I continue to use him all the time.", "But you use the veto to stop spending and turn the state's economy around.", "Absolutely. I did all that. And I got busy. I got busy promoting the state of California. Sure, Georgia's famous for its peaches. But come to California, we're famous for our peaches, too. We have Pebble Peach, Venice Peach, Zuma (ph) Peach, fantastic peaches. See there. And I invited the rest of world to come to California. I said, tour the wine country. And made it easy for them because we call it touring the wine country and not drinking and driving. I told the whole world, come to our state. It's easy. You just go to Mexico and crawl through a hole in a fence. Enjoy our fantastic hiking trails from Tijuana to San Diego.", "So you dealt with the immigration issue without federal help.", "Well, you now I would have loved to have more help from the president, you know, but we couldn't wait. I took action right away. I slowed down illegal immigration and I fixed our wine industry. I did it by letting everybody in, but enforcing a two-drink minimum. Pretty smart.", "Very creative.", "I like that, yes. You know, the situation, it called for creative thinking, Larry. You know, we have resources. We just need to use them better. California is home to over 20 major movie studios. We're famous around the world for making fantastic movies up in Canada. And now we're bringing the movies home. We're going to get it done. You know what else I did? I worked with the Native American tribes so that California would receive its fair share of casino revenues. I met with those in charge of Indian casino gaming. People like Chief Vinny -- the Chief Soprano. And Tribal Elder No-Neck Vincenzo (ph). I made him a deal. I told them, hey, look, it's deal or no deal. They bought it.", "The casinos give a lot of revenues to the state. Are there other industries that responded?", "You know what, Larry, we live in a great state. We are the most productive workers in the world. You know all these little tags that say \"Made in China\"? We made those here in California. Pretty good.", "But you've had to deal with more than economic recovery, haven't you?", "Absolutely. There were a lot of issues that I had to deal with. You know, the state is being destroyed by high workers' compensation costs, so I introduced my new walk it off policy. When you get hurt at work, walk it off. Don't be big baby. Our school kids, there was a problem there, too. They were out of shape. To put it another way, our pupils were totally dilated. So our kids, they were getting too fat in their rear ends. That's why I introduced my new policy, No Child's Behind Left Alone. Fantastic.", "You must have run into opposition with all of these proposals?", "You know what, Larry, at first I did. And I didn't handle it well. I called the Democrats girly-men and that was wrong. In California we have lots of girly-men and manly men. I had to learn to negotiate.", "And how do the people of California accept the changes?", "You know what, I wasn't popular. I wasn't very popular at all. So they called me some bad names. But you know, name-calling doesn't bother me. I've got three daughters. I've been a poopy head before.", "I know Warren Beatty spoke out pretty harshly against you. Are you still friends with him?", "Absolutely. Of course, you know, we just have different policies and different ideas. You know, I respect Warren Beatty, I respect his movies, like \"Reds\". But I will say this, that if he wants to run for California governor, heaven can wait. The last thing we need is some Hollywood guy in the governor's mansion.", "There you go it, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. This has been quite an hour. I want to thank our earlier guests, President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton. Don't go away.", "Ladies and gentlemen, that ruggedly good looking guy right there is Steve Bridges. He's a fine talent. In fact, Steve did all my debates with Senator Kerry.", "Well, you've seen George Bush and you've seen Bill Clinton and you've seen Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now meet the man who has played them all. Steve Bridges, comedian and impressionist, he's known as Mr. President. How did all this start for you?", "You know, I started doing impersonation when I was a little kid. Three Stooges, I mean every kid impersonated the Three Stooges. Anything I saw on TV, I imitated. I was a pretty quiet kid. I wasn't rambunctious, but that really is where it all began.", "How did the president's thing get in?", "We did a videotape, a customized introduction for Barbara Bush and we taped it, sent it to them. And before she spoke, they brought down the screen and, bam, there's me.", "Her son or her husband?", "No, it was for her. She was speaking. Barbara Bush was speaking. And she saw that and got a copy of it and apparently showed it to the president, sat him down and said, hey, look who's impersonating you. But we got invited to the White House basically as a result of that -- of that, you know, that little videotape that we made. And I'll never forget we were waiting, you know, to go into the Oval Office and the door pops open. There's the president. And he looks out of the Oval Office -- no makeup. Just as myself. He looks at me and goes, is this me? And we walked in and we started talking. I was there with my manager Randy and Kevin Haney (ph), the makeup artist, and a friend of our, Jim Howard. We're all sitting around talking to the president. He was kind of sitting back like that. You know, just sitting back, all relaxed. He goes, I saw that tape you made for mom. So I got to tell you something, you seem a tape of someone who looks like you, acts like you, talks like you, that's weird. We all just busted out.", "You have him, of course, down pat. How long does it take to do the whole schtick, the makeup, the whole bit?", "It's really a two and a half hour thing. You sit tight. And Kevin Haney puts it together. And it's prosthetic pieces. My entire face is covered, with all three characters, except for Bill Clinton, the upper lip isn't covered, that's mine. Everything else, with Schwarzenegger and with Bush, everything's totally covered. Yes.", "It takes two and half hours?", "About two and a half hours. A little bit more, give or take.", "Who does it?", "Kevin Haney. And he's also trained another makeup artist to do the job. They travel with me, depending on who's available. But Kevin is the one who kind of creates...", "Is he in the movie business?", "Yes, absolutely. He won an Oscar for \"Driving Miss Daisy\". He's the one that aged Dan Aykroyd.", "The biggest score for you is doing the Correspondents' Dinner?", "It really was. That was huge. That was a worldwide -- I had relative in England calling, Steven...", "To get him to go with it, right?", "You know what, I think it was -- I think it was his idea to do that at the Correspondents' Dinner. It was the president's, because when we met him at the White House, he had said, you know, we're going to do something. We're going to do something. So, you know, I was like, that's cool. I didn't want to get my hopes up. You know, but it was really cool. It worked out and it was his idea and...", "And you've done a lot on the \"Tonight Show\", right?", "Right, with Jay Leno.", "You were his guy as Bush.", "We were doing that for years. It's a lot of fun.", "What happens when he leaves office?", "Do the next person, you know. That's we're -- I'm always think, who's the next? Who's the next big thing? You know I'm watching the news, and kind of looking and...", "Are you looking at other candidates?", "Oh, sure. I'm like, can I impersonate that person? Can Kevin make me look like him?", "Of course, there is an impossibility, and that's Hillary.", "That's why we're going to be Bill.", "You're always going to be Bill if Hillary's president?", "That's it. I will be the first man or husband or something. I don't know. I'll be something.", "And if you want more information, or you want to book him for your event, hey, if he can squeeze you into his schedule, it's www.stevebridges -- one word -- .com for more information regarding Steve and his upcoming appearances. www.stevebridges.com. You are great.", "Thank you so much. Great being on. Appreciate it, Larry.", "My pleasure. Steve Bridges and Friends. That's tonight's show. \"AC 360\" is next. Good night. 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{"id": "CNN-213514", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2013-8-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/27/cg.01.html", "summary": "Outbreak at Church; Measles Outbreak Linked to Megachurch", "utt": ["Welcome back to our national lead, everyone. You hear about an outbreak of measles so rarely, you might think it's one of those diseases we have eradicated, like scurvy. But it's still very much out there and it is highly contagious, especially to the unvaccinated. At least 16 people linked to a mega-church northwest of Dallas have now contracted measles. Health officials say it began when a visitor brought the virus back from overseas. The ministry for the Eagle Mountain International Church is led by televangelist Kenneth Copeland, whose sermons, like this one you're about to see in June, have sounded pretty anti-vaccine in the past.", "Immunity, vaccination, spiritual- induced immunity from sickness and disease.", "That's right.", "Now the church may have had an awakening of sorts since then. Copeland's daughter, a senior pastor at Eagle Mountain, had this to say to the congregation a few Sundays ago, quoting a medical adviser to the ministry.", "\"I believe it's wrong to be against vaccinations. The concerns we have had are primarily with very young children who have family history of autism and with bundling too many of at one time. There is no indication of the autism connection with vaccinations in older children.", "As we said, the church has appeared to change its message over time. The church in fact began hosting its very own vaccination clinics. I want to bring now in our senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, here. Elizabeth, you know, one of the things we hear out of this story is that a number of the victims, the people who have been stricken with measles, were not vaccinated. This seems to be a story we're hearing again and again.", "Right, it is. Because there was this message put out there years ago that somehow there was a link between vaccines and autism, but study after study after study has been done, John, and there is no such thing as a link between vaccines and autism. So, one of the big issues here is that if you want to believe this, this untruth, and not vaccinate your own child, you're taking that risk for your own child and some people might say all right -- well, you're allowed to do that and your child might die. But you're also taking a risk that other children might die, because your unvaccinated child is going to play with other children and those children could die. So, many people would say, the decision not to vaccinate is just downright unselfish -- selfish, rather.", "It does -- the decision that does go beyond your own family. So, we're talking about measles here, Elizabeth. And, frankly, you don't hear about people getting measles that often. How dangerous is it if you really do come down with it?", "You know, it's very dangerous. If you look at a thousand people who had measles, one or two of those 1,000 are going to die from measles. So, that's a pretty high mortality rate. And so, back when there wasn't routine vaccination, more than 2 million people a year would die from the measles. So this is a very deadly disease.", "All right. Elizabeth Cohen, thanks so much for being with us. I really appreciate it.", "Thanks.", "Ahead on", "he saw a bright red dress, a weathered face and a gun bigger than the hand holding it pointing right at him. For the first time ever, we're hearing a sitting president testify about his own assassination attempt. And in the sports lead, the NFL players union stands up for Aaron Hernandez as he sits behind bars. Will the Patriots have to cut a check to the accused player? Stay with us."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "KENNETH COPELAND, TELEVANGELIST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BERMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BERMAN", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "COHEN", "BERMAN", "COHEN", "BERMAN", "THE LEAD"]}
{"id": "CNN-286834", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-06-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/17/nday.06.html", "summary": "Emotional Reunion after Terror Attack.", "utt": ["In these days after the Orlando terror attack, one of the survivors has been reunited with the police officer who helped save his life. Our Anderson Cooper tells us how one of Orlando's finest went beyond the call of duty.", "I need a big hug from you, man.", "It was an emotional reunion for survivor Angel Colon and Officer Omar Delgado.", "I'm so glad you're alive, man.", "The first time the two have seen each other since their encounter last weekend at Pulse Nightclub, what we now know was the worst mass shooting on U.S. soil.", "When I arrived, just all the chaos, the people running, screaming, crying, yelling.", "Officer Delgado entered the club, along with the other officers, shortly after he arrived on scene. Inside, the gunman was hold up elsewhere in the club.", "Oh, my God.", "Gunshots were ringing out and Officer Delgado's instinct to protect kicked in.", "Seconds later that we hear more gunshots.", "You could actually hear them from outside?", "From outside, yes. And we didn't know what happened, but we - I followed them. It was three of us. We just jetted right inside.", "Officer Delgado was able to help remove some of the wounded amidst the darkness and disco lights.", "There were a lot of bodies all over on the floor. Somebody yelled out, this person is moving. Another person I saw was moving, so I went and another officer grabbed him. And I just don't recall if that was Angel or not, because we pulled like, you know, three or four people out.", "When he was dragging me out, I could just look up and tell him, please hurry, please hurry.", "The gunman had shot a woman next to Angel, then he shot Angel in the hand and hip. Angel pretended to be dead as the gunman kept firing.", "When I first saw him I was, you know, I was face down, laying down on the floor. I could only move my arms and my head up. So I just saw him, his size, his glasses. So I'm like, just help me, please.", "A nine year veteran of the Eatonville Police Department, nothing could have prepared him for what he saw that night, 49 innocent people dead, dozens of others injured. But knowing he saved some lives brings some comfort in the midst of tragedy.", "What was it like to actually see him today?", "It was a feeling that you just can't describe, you can't put into words, knowing that you helped save someone.", "Anderson Cooper, CNN, Orlando.", "Oh, my gosh, the bravery that went there that night, the police and of the survivors. It - it's been an intense week.", "Yes. Being down there had to be so powerful seeing this first-hand.", "It was. And, you know, the message that we kept hearing and we heard it again today on the show is that they just believe that love is the answer. Reach out to people, anyone in pain, you know? We - don't react in anger. Reach out and love people. They think that that - that's the answer. And the idea that so soon after a tragedy that that's what the people of Orlando feel, I think it means that the rest of us should feel way as well.", "I think as much hate as there is in events like this, and as much despair as there is, there is the sense of perseverance and resiliency. That's what I think is so sustaining. And so when we - we think about the victims and we think of how much has been lost, we think about that, about kindness, about love and about what they stood for.", "We try. It's been great to have you here today.", "Thank you.", "I know it's been an intense day, but you've done a great job.", "Thank you.", "It's been great to be with you.", "Nice to be with you, as always. Thank you.", "You too, David. All right, that does it for NEW DAY. NEWSROOM begins right now."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "OFFICER OMAR DELGADO, EATONVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "DELGADO", "COOPER", "DELGADO", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "DELGADO", "COOPER (on camera)", "DELGADO", "COOPER (voice-over)", "DELGADO", "ANGEL COLON, SURVIVOR", "COOPER", "COLON", "COOPER", "COOPER (on camera)", "DELGADO", "COOPER (voice-over)", "CAMEROTA", "GREGORY", "CAMEROTA", "GREGORY", "CAMEROTA", "GREGORY", "CAMEROTA", "GREGORY", "CAMEROTA", "GREGORY", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-278755", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-03-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/11/nday.04.html", "summary": "GOP Rivals Tone Down Insults & Spar on Policy", "utt": ["Whether fiery or civil, debates are about one thing, securing the vote. How do Florida Republican voters feel about last night's faceoff? Lucky for you, we have some great ones to ask. We have Jarrett Cathcart, he is a Donald Trump supporter. We have James Kardys, he is a Ted Cruz supporter. And we have Rodolfo Milani, he is a Marco Rubio supporter. And, Rodolfo, I'll start with you. Your man came in here with the most desperation to his cause. How do you think he performed last night and what do you think it will mean here in Florida?", "I think he was absolutely outstanding last night, particularly on the foreign policy questions, particularly on the Cuba question, which not only did it play to a hometown crowd, but he was absolutely correct on it; on the Arab- Israeli conflict and in Palestine. I think also on some domestic issues like the V.A., I think he was -- he really hit home on that. And he was honest with the voters on Social Security. This is a state with a lot of senior voters. But I think it is unfair and dishonest to tell people that this system can continue as is. And I think it takes courage to say that changes have to be made and to bring that issue up.", "So, Senator Rubio was lighter last night on going after Donald Trump personally, so was Senator Cruz -- but not as much, James. You had Senator Cruz last night drawing consistent points of contrast with the solutions Trump was offering versus his own. How did that give you confidence in your man?", "Well, basically it comes down to this. The basic issue that I have with Donald Trump is that -- let's face it, he has had a path where he has supported very liberal candidates. And that is often pointed out. And he off brushes it aside and said, oh, I did it because I am a businessman. I have changed. For example, when he did his victory speech after Super Saturday, March 5th, he openly said it. And it's almost", "OK. So that's an interesting point we are hearing from him. Why are you OK as a Trump supporter to say, listen, I used to use money to influence politicians, now I know it's a problem, I used to abuse visas as a businessman, that's why I am the guy to change it? How do you play it like the one next to you plays to hypocrisy?", "Well, you know, people change. And as James was saying, you can change your ideas as long as you have good reason for it. Like a lot of voter base and just like me, people are fed up. And that's what the last eight years of Obama has done with Mr. Trump. He's just feed up with a lot of failed policies and rhetoric that President Obama has pushed out. And he's just finished. In regards to the visas and all that sort of thing, he -- you know, like you say, he's a businessman. If the law is there, he's going to use it. So these things need to be changed. And just like he said last night in the debate, and I thought was a great point, it needs to be changed so that companies like Disney don't use them to their own advantage like they shouldn't be used.", "All right. And a big point last night, other than policy was a big morality play that you're going to hear a lot about going forward certainly in the general. Rodolfo, the idea of what is the threat within Islam? Is it all Muslims? Is it Islam hates the West? Or is it about radical Islam? Donald Trump was very slow to talk about some. He wanted to talk about all. do you agree with that?", "No, I think it's very important to state, as Marco did and as the other two traditional candidates did, that we need to work with the Islamic world, moderate Islamic world to solve the ISIS problem. This cannot be done on our own. We need allies in the Muslim world. And I think the fact that he did not walk back those remarks is telling to me. I think Marco made a fabulous point last night saying that a president can't just say whatever pops into his head. It may make us feel good for the candidate to really stick it to the people and say whatever he thinks. But the truth of the matter is, what presidents have consequences. It affects world markets, it affects our relationships with other countries. And I think last night shows we have three candidates with the temperament and experience to be president and one that I think is an amateur.", "James, do you think all Islam is the problem? You're a Trump supporter. What do you think about that?", "I'm a Cruz supporter, first of all.", "You're a Cruz supporter. What do you think about it?", "OK. It's a very complex issue. I have close Muslim friends who are some of the nicest people I have ever met. So I am ruling out the idea that all Islam is a problem. However, I do -- I have come to the conclusion that Islam, along religions, including my own religion, Christianity, have had pieces of Scripture that can be interpreted very easily as promoting violence. For example, half the stuff that is mentioned in the Old Testament could be seen as warfare similar to what is seen -- to what is called for jihadists.", "So you don't want to cast out the entire faith, which would seem right now as a moderate position, not simply a reasonable one, and that's because of people who are following Donald Trump who resonate with the idea that this entire group of 1.6 billion represents an enemy. Does that work for you?", "I think right now Donald is just appealing to his voter base.", "That's you. That's why I'm asking you.", "That's true. I think he's misrepresenting himself when he says that. I think what he really means is there is a general dislike for America in most parts of the world. A lot of people don't like us because of the freedoms we represent and the values we love for. And, you know, if he -- a lot of other things, people get mad that he reverses the position on. This is one time where he stood up and said, and now people are getting really mad at him about it. I think it was right for him to stick with his guns there.", "Jarrett, James, and Rodolfo, thank you very much for making your points. Good luck in your election ahead. 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{"id": "CNN-191687", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-8-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1208/26/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Christian Conservatives Meet In Tampa; Tea Party Impact On The GOP", "utt": ["Christian conservatives are gathering today in Tampa, Florida, ahead of the Republican National Convention. The event is put on by the Faith in Freedom Coalition led by Ralph Reed. Live pictures right now. This is being described as a mostly Christian right gathering. Several well known Republican leaders are scheduled to speak including Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Mitt Romney has had an uneasy relationship with conservative Republicans. When he chose Paul Ryan as his running mate, many on the right and in the Tea Party Movement cheered. As Republicans begin their national convention, Tea Party leaders aren't just watching closely, they are working to influence the decisions made in Tampa and beyond. Matt Kibbe is the president of Freedom Works. His organization works closely with Tea Party groups across the country and is committed to advancing the principles of lower taxes and less government. He's joining me right now from Tampa. All right, good to see you, Matt. If there's a way in which to kind of encapsulate how have you and the Tea Party leaders been working to influence the Republican Party, particularly on the eve of this convention?", "Yes, you have a lot of activists that have become part of the process running for precinct chairman, actually getting on to the platform committee that happened last week. We brought up a delegation of Tea Partiers from all the battleground states and asked them to represent a crowd source document that we were calling 12 and 12. The top 12 issues Tea Partiers care about in this election. We want to make sure that the values of the Republican Party as best possible could reflect the values of the grassroots from the bottom up.", "And are you satisfied that looking at the platform and what's been unrolled as the platform for this convention for the party that that work has been influential?", "Yes, we really think that we had an impact and got the Republicans back to where they have historically been, what they've always said that they believed in. It's basic things like we have to balance the budget. We have to roll back the Obama spending spree. We have to repeal Obama care and replace it with a system that actually respects patients and gives patients control of their own health care. And we -- one of the things we accomplished was a peeling back the iron curtain of the Federal Reserve so that taxpayers, voters, citizens can understand the deals that go on behind closed doors with an audit of the fed language that we think is pretty important.", "Were you feeling confident that the presumptive nominee, Mitt Romney, would be able to deliver on those things, or did it make a difference that his vice presidential pick became Paul Ryan and did that kind of seal the deal for your support?", "Well, I think that the choice of Paul Ryan was an acknowledgement not just by the Romney campaign, but the entire Republican Party that they will win when they run on a set of ideas that have always been the core values that were the winning ideas for the Republican Party. Paul Ryan represents those ideas so now all candidates, not just president -- or, not just our Senate candidates, our House candidates. They all have to be comfortable defending the idea that we should balance the budget.", "Matt Kibbe, the president of Freedom Works, thanks so much. Real quickly, what's your contingency plan with this storm approaching?", "Thank you.", "All right, Harry, can you give me an idea just quickly what your contingency plan is for this storm, if anything? All right, looks like we may have lost audio. All right, thanks so much, Matt. Be sure to stay with CNN for complete coverage of the Republican National Convention. Later on today, we'll have a special look at Mitt romney. \"Romney Revealed\" airing at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time that's followed by a preview of the convention itself. And our political team is in place for complete coverage all week long."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "MATT KIBBE, PRESIDENT, FREEDOMWORKS", "WHITFIELD", "KIBBE", "WHITFIELD", "KIBBE", "WHITFIELD", "KIBBE", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-78875", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-11-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0311/06/ltm.11.html", "summary": "Gary Leon Ridgway Escapes Execution", "utt": ["In return for pleading guilty to 48 murders, Gary Leon Ridgway escapes execution. He will spend the rest of his life behind bars when he is sentenced, perhaps six months from now. The Green River killer made gruesome history yesterday in a courtroom in Seattle, becoming the nation's most prolific serial killer.", "Mr. Ridgway, is it your desire to plead guilty to the 48 charges of aggravated murder in the first degree because you believe that you are guilty of each of those offenses?", "Yes.", "The 48 women were killed over a span of two decades. Robert Keppel, a former King County homicide detective from Washington State, is the author of a book titled \"The River Man.\" He's with us live this morning in Huntsville, Texas. Good to have you with us and good morning, Robert. Thanks for your time.", "Good morning to you.", "For the sake of history, back in 1984, this man fell under suspicion for a short time. How was he able to escape any sort of identity or any tie-in to these murders until the years 2001?", "Well, basically when his information first came up in 1983, actually, he was picking up a prostitute by the name of Maureen Malvar (ph) and the Des Moines Police Department actually went to his house and knocked on his door regarding that disappearance. They were not part of any task force effort at that time, so that lead became part of maybe 12,000 other leads that the task force had to investigate. And then as the task force was doing its follow-up routine work, they discovered this particular lead and jumped on it heavily in 1987 and did a huge investigation of Gary Ridgway at that time but were unable to get enough evidence against him to actually charge him with murder. They had enough evidence to serve a search warrant, but not to charge him with murder.", "So for almost 20 years, then, they're drafting support from so many different individuals, trying to track down this killer. One person who emerges is Ted Bundy. What did he contribute to this investigation?", "Well, it's kind of eerie what he contributed, basically. He wanted to be a consultant to this investigation back in November of 1984. And with that, Dave Reichert, the sheriff of King County, and I went down to talk to him about the Green River killer. And at that time he mentioned some things that were rather interesting, which turned out to be positive. And that was the fact that maybe we should think about staking out crime scenes in an effort to hopefully the killer would come back to that crime scene. The problem was by the time we got that information in 1984, everything was counter-productive because all we were finding were skeletal remains. We did not have a fresh body. So that hampered any effort on our part to be able to stake out those crime scenes.", "Robert, I want to -- I know you were listening in the courtroom yesterday. So chilling. We've used that word a number of times throughout the morning here, but nothing really fits what we heard yesterday other than that. Listen again to court from yesterday.", "I killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight. Is that true?", "Yes, it is.", "So lacking in emotion yesterday. A number of people have commented on that. But more to the point of his punishment now. Is it true that he now escapes the death penalty completely or is it your understanding that if other murders are tied to him that he may face death for the crimes he committed?", "He has a chance for that, but more than likely, in all the murders I've studied, all the way up through when I retired in 1999, there's not a whole lot of physical evidence that they could tie to him. But I think what he has is a chance either in another jurisdiction someplace -- because all he pled guilty to yesterday were the murders within the limits of King County alone. And so the rest of the State of Washington is at risk for him.", "Robert Keppel is an author and investigator. He's live in Huntsville with us today. Thank you, sir, for your time today. Appreciate it."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "JUDGE RICHARD JONES, KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON", "GARY LEON RIDGWAY", "HEMMER", "ROBERT KEPPEL, FORMER DETECTIVE, KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON", "HEMMER", "KEPPEL", "HEMMER", "KEPPEL", "HEMMER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "RIDGWAY", "HEMMER", "KEPPEL", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-220845", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-12-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1312/14/cnr.02.html", "summary": "One Shot, Gunman Dead in School Shooting; Police Search School Shooter's Home; Huge Snowstorm Aims for Northeast; Newtown Shootings Inspire Group To Build; One Shot, Gunman Dead In School Shooting", "utt": ["Let's take a look now at the top stories this hour. A Colorado community in shock after a teenager known as a good student, an athlete, and a friend, opens fire at his school. Police hope to find out why he did that during key searches that are expected today. As you saw, a brutal blast from Kansas to Maine, heavy snow and sleet that's hitting tens of millions of people today. We'll tell you how bad it is going to get and who is going to get hit the hardest. And if you didn't know this already, there is now more mega in the mega millions jackpot. No winner last night, that means that the prize will now soar to new heights. Find out that mind-blowing number and your chances of being a big winner. Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining us, I'm Martin Savidge.", "And I'm Ana Cabrera. We start today here in Centennial, Colorado. This town is trying to recover after a terrifying school shooting at Arapahoe High School, just behind me. You can see it is still a crime scene this morning -- a lot of the yellow tape still surrounding the school, cars still in the parking lot left here overnight as investigators search for clues. Now this morning right now, a 15-year-old girl is still in critical condition, shot here at Arapahoe High School by a classmate. The 18- year-old gunman is dead after apparently shooting himself. We've learned more about him. He's been identified as Karl Pierson. Police say he walked into the school with a shotgun yesterday afternoon. Now, today, investigators are still searching this school. They're also expected to search his home, his car and another home he apparently had access to, to try to figure out what have motivated his attack. We have learned Pierson was on the debate team here at the school. Now witnesses tell me he was looking for the debate coach yesterday afternoon. The sheriff says they believe there was a disagreement between Pierson and the debate coach, and that that might have been the motive for this shooting, that it was an act of revenge. But again, they're still working to confirm those details. The debate coach was notified, we're told, quickly rushed out of the school, hoping to draw the shooter out with him. But instead, the gunman opened fire, hitting a 15-year-old girl. Witnesses tell our affiliates that she screamed for help. She said there was a shooter. We just checked in with the hospital this morning, they can only say she is still in critical condition. We do know she underwent surgery yesterday -- a lot of thoughts and prayers with her and her family. Initially, officials thought there might have been another student shot, as well. Well, it turns out that second student just happened to be right next to the first victim. And that student was covered in blood from the 15-year-old girl but was not shot. So, just a glimpse of good news in all of this; obviously, though, a very terrifying situation for all of the students here. Here's how one student described moments right after the shooting.", "We heard, you know, just a really big bang. Our class really thought nothing of it, you know? It was just one. And 10 seconds later, three more, just consecutively in a row. There was screaming. We heard someone yelling \"Help me, help me, we need help.\" And after that, the entire building just went silent. Our class ran into the corner, we hid in the corner of the room. It was all we could do. We're all scared now.", "These scenes bringing back chilling memories of Columbine students walking out with their hands up. Arapahoe High School is less than 10 miles away from Columbine and when police rushed in to Arapahoe High School yesterday, they tell us they also saw smoke, which now we know came from a Molotov cocktail of sorts. It was one of two that was found inside the school. One of those detonated; the other one they were able to recover before it had been detonated. They tell us no damage from those. Now, as investigators, again, continue to dig for clues here in Colorado, of course, hearts are also heavy, not just for the community here. This terrible shooting came just one day before the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, which is today. Poppy Harlow is following that story from New York this morning, or I guess afternoon there. Poppy, the President honoring those victims today, right?", "Absolutely. Good morning to you, Ana. Just shocking that there was another school shooting where you are, a day before the community and Newtown and the entire world grieves for the people of Newtown on this very, very difficult day. I want to show you some pictures of the President and the First Lady this morning lighting 26 candles for the 26 victims that were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary there in Newtown one year ago today. They did it just about the time that that shooting happened a year ago. They also took a moment of silence, as we did, to remember the victims. The community has asked for privacy from the media, not to be there today, so they can heal on their own in their own way, and that is exactly what we are doing. Something stood out to me this week, Ana. A pastor from Newtown, Matt Krebin spoke and he said, \"Of course, our community is broken\", but he also said \"There is light that is shining through the cracks of this broken community from the acts of kindness from friends, from neighbors and from families.\" And that speaks to just how incredibly strong this community is. I was there after the tragic shooting and have been there throughout the year and this -- this community never ceases to amaze me. The President also talked about Newtown in his weekly address this morning, calling the families of Newtown, quote, \"impossibly brave\". And I think that sums it up very well. They are impossibly brave people. He also took it as an opportunity, though, to speak towards what he has been fighting for, along with some of these families, which is tougher federal gun legislation. I want you to take a listen to hear some of what the President said.", "We haven't yet done enough to make our communities and our country safer. We have to do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily. We have to do more to heal troubled minds. We have to do everything we can to protect our children from harm and make them feel loved and valued and cared for.", "And this morning, outside of Washington, it is not about the politics of all of this. It is about the people and the families of Newtown, and our hearts are with them today.", "You mentioned their bravery, but I also think the word that comes to my mind is strength.", "Yes.", "Having to go forward and move on after losing loved ones. I know you've been in touch with victims' families from not only Newtown, Connecticut, but also from Aurora, Colorado and the movie theater shooting that we were reporting on just a little over a year ago. What memories, what feelings are they expressing today?", "Yes, that's exactly right, Ana. Sandy Phillips, she is the mother of Jessica Ghawi I think everyone remembers Jessica; she's the 24-year-old fiery red head who were shot and killed in that movie theater. Well her mom, Sandy Phillips, called me yesterday and said you know this is a very, very difficult time for us, obviously. But I said to her and she called me right after the shooting where you are, and I said, are you surprised another school shooting? And she said, \"I wish I could say yes, but, no, I am not surprised.\" Her life changed so significantly after her daughter died, of course. She gave up her career. She joined the Brady campaign and has been -- been fighting for tougher federal gun laws. That has been how she is coping, and she just told me, she's actually going to a vigil where she lives in San Antonio today, that they're having down there for the Newtown victims and for all victims of gun violence. So this is resonating across the country today, certainly.", "Some people don't know how to prevent necessarily something like this, or can't make sense of why these things happen.", "Right.", "But sometimes it does give comfort of course to try to turn it into a positive in some way if it means helping another family or preventing another attack like this. Poppy Harlow, thank you so much for that. I do want to let you know, we have been in touch with Sheriff Grayson Robinson here in Colorado to get the latest information on this shooting this morning. And he tells us right now their investigation is focusing on where the student's gun came from, what hands it may have passed through, where specifically the student shot himself and, of course, the motive. Again, as we try to make sense of this horrible tragedy and this is just undeniably awful situation -- why? And so, those are details we hope to be able to provide for you as we continue to move through the morning -- Martin.", "Thanks Ana very much, we'll continue to check back with you. Let's talk about the weather, because a huge snowstorm is pushing its way from the Midwest to the east right now. It's bringing heavy snow and freezing rain, and that would also mean misery to millions of people across the region that's going to be affected. Folks in Chicago, well, they already know this all too well today. It is hovering around freezing there, and it's exactly the place where we sent out our Jennifer Gray to share the misery, and she's going to give us a better idea of just how bad the snowstorm is. Hello, Jennifer.", "Hi, Martin, yes, the snow has been coming down since the wee hours of the morning. We got here about 5:00 this morning. And it was snowing then, and still snowing now. You can see we're in Grant Park, and about three inches have fallen so far, and another inch or two possible before the snow moves out of Chicago -- expected to move out about 3:00 this afternoon. You know, for the month of December, Chicago is supposed to have about three inches and before the snowstorm, they've already seen four. So we're already ahead of schedule, and temperatures are expected to stay below freezing here in Chicago until at least Thursday. Now, this storm system is pushing across the country. I do want to show you the radar here in Chicago. It is going to be pushing out in the next couple of hours, and then the wider view, we are seeing this stretching anywhere from Chicago all the way to the northeast. So this stretches about 1,000 miles east-west, and it's affecting tens of millions of people. So as we go through the afternoon today into tonight, it will continue snowing in New York and Boston and then by tomorrow, around midday or so, it should be pushing out of Boston and then pushing up into New England. So we're going to see anywhere from five to seven inches of snow around the New York City area, and then around the Boston area they could see at least eight inches. And so, it is going to continue to be a mess as we go through the next 24 to 38 hours. Here in Chicago, though, the crews have been out, they have been plowing the streets, the sidewalks, they've been putting salt out so people are getting around pretty well, but I'm sure those overpasses and bridges can be quite dangerous at the moment with all of the snow we've gotten this morning -- Martin.", "Yes, but it still looks very, very pretty. Jennifer Gray thanks very much for standing out in the cold for us. We'll be back in touch. Well, if you are feeling a bit chilled, how about this? Because the mega millions fever may be growing in you and just about everybody else across the country. Nobody -- and that is true, nobody had the winning numbers in last night's drawing, which means the jackpot is up to $550 million. Not a record -- yet. The next drawing is Tuesday. How close did you come? Well, take a look. The winning numbers if you haven't checked already -- 19, 24, 26, 27, 70. Mega ball 12. Your chances of winning, by the way, 1 in 259 million -- but eventually, somebody's got to win, right? And you don't have to necessarily win the lottery to afford a gallon of milk, but you could end up paying a lot more for it. It could soon cost about $7 a gallon. That's right -- $7. I'll tell you why. Also, yesterday's shooting in Colorado is giving a lot of people an awful sense of deja vu. If you saw the images, you felt it. Our next guest will weigh in on why these mass shootings keep happening."], "speaker": ["MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR", "ANA CABRERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JOHN SPIGEL, ARAPAHOE HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR", "CABRERA", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HARLOW", "CABRERA", "HARLOW", "CABRERA", "HARLOW", "CABRERA", "HARLOW", "CABRERA", "SAVIDGE", "JENNIFER GRAY, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "NPR-21487", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2015-07-23", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/07/23/425511953/first-listen-ashley-monroe-the-blade", "title": "From Ballads To Romps, Ashley Monroe's 'The Blade' Is Timeless", "summary": "Stephen Thompson and Ann Powers of NPR Music talk about the new album from Ashley Monroe called The Blade.", "utt": ["And let's be the first to listen to some country music. We call our feature First Listen because artists are debuting new work right here on our air. NPR Music's Ann Powers and Stephen Thompson have more on a new album from Ashley Monroe.", "For the last few weeks, I have had a country song stuck in my head. And this particular song is a ballad called \"The Blade.\" And I often say about ballads if you can get a ballad stuck in your head, then it's probably a hit.", "(Singing) Now I know how you can sound so brave 'cause you caught it by the handle, baby, and I caught it by the blade.", "That song absolutely gives me chills, too. It's Ashley Monroe, one of the treasures of Nashville right now. She's actually been writing songs since she was a teenager here in Nashville after moving here from Knoxville, Tenn. Though she's only in her late 20s, Ashley Monroe has many amazing collaborators. That's one of the reasons why her albums are so great. They have such seasoned players. And working with someone like Vince Gill, who co-produced this record, gives her that beautiful elegant sound that I love in a singer-songwriter.", "Yeah, it's also very versatile. I think, you know, you have this somber, beautiful ballad that's really rich in imagery. But you also have a song like \"Winning Streak,\" which is this romp. And to me, like, that could've been a hit for Dolly Parton in the '80s.", "(Singing) I've got a good foundation on a bad reputation, got a floor I've been pacing and a broken heart breaking. In the game of fools, I'd be hard to beat. Yeah, losing's a game. I'm on a winning streak.", "I love that roadhouse piano. It's so Jerry Lee Lewis (laughter). That's a sound you often hear in Nashville. You know, some people may think of Ashley as a traditionalist. But really, the themes she touches upon are timeless. I mean, what's more timeless than trying to find love or having to end a love affair, which is what she sings about so exquisitely in this extended metaphor of a song called \"Bombshell.\"", "(Singing) Morning or midnight, it'll never be a good time to drop a bombshell.", "NPR Music's Ann Powers and Stephen Thompson talking about \"The Blade\" by Ashley Monroe as part of our series First Listen. You can hear that whole album right now at npr.org/music.", "(Singing) I can't love you anymore."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, HOST", "STEPHEN THOMPSON, BYLINE", "ASHLEY MONROE", "ANN POWERS, BYLINE", "STEPHEN THOMPSON, BYLINE", "ASHLEY MONROE", "ANN POWERS, BYLINE", "ASHLEY MONROE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "ASHLEY MONROE"]}
{"id": "CNN-273806", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2016-01-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/14/acd.01.html", "summary": "Top Republicans are going at it tonight on stage in North Charleston; Fake Carrots Stuffed With Marijuana. 8-9p ET", "utt": ["Good evening and get ready. The top Republicans are going at it tonight on stage in North Charleston South Carolina. And almost without a doubt, there will be blood, campaign blood, at the very least. How could there not be with Jeb Bush calling Donald Trump a jerk. Donald Trump questioning Ted Cruz's citizenship and claim born in the U.S.A. in his campaign rally, similarly just to spite him and Cruz slamming Trump's New York values and Bush since polling single digits running campaign ads designed to spoil the chances of his old friend and protege Marco Rubio. With Rubio, Chris Christie, January Kasich and Carson all struggling to break through in time for Iowa, New Hampshire and, of course, South Carolina. It's hard to imagine there won't be blood on stage tonight. Joining us from the hall in North Charleston chief political correspondent Dana Bash. Dana, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, I mean, the gloves, do you expect them to come off? Because in previous debates they have been going after each other, once they are face-to-face, not so much.", "That's exactly right. In our debate last month in Las Vegas, they had started to do it. I actually asked each of them a question about those particular topics and they both pulled back. Remember at the time Donald Trump was calling Ted Cruz a maniac and he said, never mind. So they didn't. This is very different. This is -- the feel here is very different according to the sources I'm talking to particularly in the Cruz camp. They have shifted their mind set. They have a lot to lose now. We are just two-and-a -half weeks away from the caucuses in Iowa. They are neck and neck the two men in that state, even though Donald Trump is really very much the front runner nationally, that is the first place they are going to vote and Ted Cruz realizes if he doesn't -- and the words of one aid stand up for himself, it could be game over.", "And in terms of South Carolina, which is not only where the debate is held, it is obviously, as you said, the third state to hold its primary, how much do you think the candidates are going to be trying to play to South Carolina voters tonight?", "I think a bit, no question about it. You know, all of the candidates pretty much have used the fact that they are in this person in the south primary state to kind of build campaign events around the debate. But this is an incredibly important place because you do have Iowa, let's say Cruz or Trump if things are then the way they are now and then there is the big battle in New Hampshire to see if any of the more main stream candidates do well or if Donald Trump takes it, this is going to be the next in line. This is going to be the place that will determine for example, if Marco Rubio goes on. This one I think we should really watch tonight. These will be your questions, South Carolina. Rubio campaign aides believe this is the place where he probably should win, needs to win. He spent more time here than any candidate. He has got a big operation here. So he is probably going to play to the crowd more than the others.", "All right, Dana. Thanks very much. A lot to look forward to tonight. Keeping me company throughout the evening, the A-team. We have a lot of political correspondents and analysts. Our chief political analyst Gloria Borger is here, chief national correspondent John King, senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson, also political commentators Ana Navarro, Jeffrey Lord, Amanda Carpenter and Kevin Madden. Ana is Bush supporter, Rubio's friend. Jeffrey is a Trump supporter and former Reagan advisor. Amanda is former communications director for Senator Ted Cruz. Kevin is a former senior 2012 Mitt Romney advisor -- John.", "All right. Now, say that all again.", "Yes, I got a teleprompter. John, in terms of what you expect to see on the broadcast tonight and I should point out we are going to be broadcasting afterward for post analysis so I hope everybody joins us after the debate. Do you expect - I mean, can you imagine a scenario where Cruz and Trump do not go head-to-head?", "No, I can imagine a scenario where they go head-to-head and they don't go thermo nuclear. But I cannot imagine a scenario where they don't go head-to-head. The question is once they get started, each will come in knowing. Trump wants to make the point he is going to raise the citizenship question or he knows he is going to be asked about it. Why would he do it tonight? Because it's working. Because Cruz in a sense has stopped in Iowa so why not keep doing it, right? Try to stop --. Cruz knows as Dana's point number one, you have to answer the attack. Number two, you have to show fight. Your supporters want to see you have fight come up. This man is questioning your very eligibility to be in the race. You have to manned up and go after him. Now, they could have an exchange and decide I have done what want to do. I have done what I've wanted to do and stop or it could escalate. That's the big question. Fight night is usually you have the under card and then a main event. They are all on the same stage tonight. And this Cruz-Trump is the main event without a doubt because they are the leaders right now and they are far away from everybody else if you look at Iowa and then Trump in New Hampshire right ahead. But the under card, who is the establishment fight? That's going to be fascinating as well because there are questions of the survival of the just about everybody. Rubio is third. Everyone says he's doing great right now. Third is not great. You know, he is got to do better than that, but you can be sure Jeb Bush who is fighting for his life is going to go after Rubio again. So Trump-Cruz, Bush,-Rubio, strapped in.", "You know, Rubio really has a lot at stake here tonight as John was saying. This is an opportunity for him to move his numbers. He is the candidate who has got one foot in the establishment and one foot in the tea party conservative lane and he has been plateaued kind of because of Cruz's rise. And he's a great debater and we've seen that in Republicans.", "But nationally given a bump to the poll.", "Exactly. So tonight he has to find a way to distinguish himself so he can take advantage of the organization Dana was talking about in South Carolina.", "Amanda, you worked for Cruz as spokesperson. Do you think these attacks by Trump on the eligibility question have damaged him?", "I think some people -- listen, Republicans want to win the White House more than anything. The fact that Donald Trump is questioning his eligibility to be president does need to be answered. I think it very likely that Donald Trump makes the decision what I'm doing is working, I don't need to bring it up, but the challenge for Cruz.", "He still going to be asked about it.", "Yes. But the challenge for Cruz is a way to build Donald into having that conversation on stage, I think. They need to settle it. I would like to see Cruz have a man to man moment. We are going to talk about this. We are going to resolve it because we as a party need to win. But we shall see what happens.", "The main damage is it got Cruz off the message.", "In critical days.", "I mean, we got 17 days until voters start to make their decision in Iowa. And here he is talking about birth - he is talking about his whether or not he is eligible for the presidency. He wants to be talking about health care -- I'm sorry, he wants to talk about immigration. He want to be talking about national security. And getting off that message has been at a crucial time has been a problem.", "And I think one of his problems is that, you know, Ted Cruz has been approaching this question and answering it from a legal perspective. He is a lawyer. He is a very good lawyer, but he hasn't answered it and addressed it from a political perspective. He has got to shut it down. That he has not been able to do.", "And now we have this Goldman Sachs story, the loan, et cetera, and \"The New York Times.\"", "Which Cruz is fighting back hard on.", "Right. But again, to Kevin's point, it takes him off message. And he doesn't want to be answering this kind of stuff, either. We got to get into the weeds on this and there will be people saying well he should have done this and you should have done that, all of this as his time begins to ooze away from.", "All he has to take on \"The New York Times\", honestly.", "I think he did that all right.", "Yes.", "He's already - I mean, that's what his thing -- in fact, he's trying to raise money on it saying this is a last-ditch attempt by \"The New York Times\" to derail this campaign.", "But every breath of this counts. Because Cruz was pulling away in Iowa. And now Trump in here, a dead heat. Trump's big challenge is to turn out new voters from the polls. If Trump can get non-past participants to show up, then he is going to have a descent caucus night and have a chance to win. But right now you're in a dead heat. And Cruz was starting to pull away. It looked much more like a traditional like the Santorum coming behind against Romney. Mike Huckabee pulling away in 2008. It looked like Cruz was going to get that and get the space to almost guarantee.", "I'm very interested in seeing what happens between Christie, Kasich and Jeb Bush.", "Because you got those three big dogs eating out of the same bowl, the mainstream Republican bowl in New Hampshire. And who comes out first out of the three of them is very important and Cruz -- I think Marco needs to define himself tonight because this is a party that wants definition. And he is being very subtle and he wants, and somehow wants to be the candidate that bridges the gap. But I'm not sure that the Republican party of 2016 is ready.", "Yes. And I think Christie has been wanting to really take Marco Rubio on a debate stage. He I think is probably the second best, maybe the first best debater on the stage. He always looks like he is having fun on stage. And he has been essentially saying Marco Rubio isn't ready. Marco Rubio is weak. And I think that's going to be a really interesting --", "There is Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio here. So he needs to find a way to get into those conversations but also save off all these other attacks. I think Marco Rubio in many ways is the big man in the middle because he has much more --", "And you know what? There will be attack against Chris Christie too because he is moving up in New Hampshire. And all those governors who would like to move up in New Hampshire and the governor lane are going to be looking out and attacking Cruz.", "We need not to get too carried away,", "Yes, but you know, Trump has been leading for so long in Iowa and by so much now that if Ted Cruz somehow manages to knock him off that mantle, it's all of a sudden David versus Goliath.", "But I mean, to Kevin's point about Cruz is now talking about the eligibility issue at a time when he wants to talk about others and now this Goldman Sachs issue, he may be fundraising on it. He may be able to use it as an attack on \"The New York Times\", which he will no doubt try to do in front of crowd which will be, obviously, very popular. But is it, Dana, I mean, he's been going after Donald Trump as having New York values. Goldman Sachs is the heart --", "Well, and he is the populace - well, he's an anti- elite. Let me put it that way. The graduate of Princeton. The graduate of Harvard law. The Supreme Court law clerk. Somebody who worked for George W. Bush. He has been portraying himself as anti- elite. That's a pretty elite resume. And so, I think more than anything else, the loan from Goldman Sachs, wife works at Goldman Sachs, not that he was shown favorability in this loan or anything else, but I do think that that plays against the type that he is trying to portray on the campaign trail and that could damage him.", "-- and I have seen this in people really adores Ted Cruz. They know all this about him, but they like him because he still has conservative principles even going through all those circles. He has a very fine pedigree. But he has remained true to conservative --.", "I would disagree that. I think for a lot of voters in Iowa this is new information and that's the big risk is that for those voters looking that are looking for a tea party purest, the idea of an association with Goldman Sachs --", "The bailout. Right.", "It is one thing to talk about New York values which is kind of big. It is another think to put an exact name on it and a big Wall Street firm. Then you have a problem.", "And I think the challenge here is not to get into the weeds, not to get into legally when he answers this question about Goldman Sachs. But to somehow be able to portray himself as consistent with the persona he has created. If he comes across as a hypocrite, he has a problem.", "Anything that costs you a point or half a point matters. This is -- I don't think this is a huge deal for Ted Cruz. It does points to the biography a little bit, what makes it harder and again, any time he is not talking about, you know, I will investigate Planned Parenthood on day one. I'm the consecutive you want. As president, I will stand up. And any second he's not doing that is a second --", "Amanda?", "To put a bow on story about the loan, this is actually I think could be a positive for him. He had no wealthy campaign donors. He and his wife bet on his candidacy by taking a loan against their assets. He got himself when no one else would. And he paid it back in full. And you look at the loan problems that Hillary Clinton had, bankruptcy problem that Donald Trump has had and Marco Rubio has, nobody else --.", "But talking about getting money from Goldman Sachs. I mean, Hillary Clinton, it gets a little more directly.", "And Amanda is right. He needs to simplify. I mean, having work from the 2012 campaign was trying to explain private equity in vain. It can get very difficult. When you get into the weeds you have a difficult problem. So he needs to - he absolutely needs to simplify.", "This is --", "Flip it right back.", "Seventeen days away, this is closing argument time. You do not want your closing argument to be about whether or not you're a natural born citizen and you are eligible for the presidency or loans that you took two to three years ago.", "So to John's point about, you know, where I at the stage where this could be the make or break point obviously after Iowa, soon in New Hampshire where people start dropping off, if those lower tier candidates do drop off, do we know yet where those voters go, who that benefits? Because the gamble by Rubio, the hope certainly of the Bush is that, you know, as the field dwindles down, the more middle of the road candidates get those people.", "Well, if you look at some of these polls, some of them will show that Cruz like 25 percent, he is their second choice. Some of them will show Rubio is their second choice at this point. So I think that those two candidates would have the most benefit if the field kind of starts to shift a little bit because they seem to be the least objectionable to the most people who are either undecided or committed to somebody who might not win.", "As complicated as we try to make this sometimes so we can cash our paychecks, politics is pretty simple. It's about arithmetic, pluses and minus. So I think number one, some we haven't talked to Dr. Ben Carson whose campaign is still in a free fall from his staff perspective. He is holding nine or ten percent of the vote in Iowa. If that starts to go away, you assume Cruz is the first choice for some of those people. Maybe Trump, because of the outsider. But that is a basket of eggs or the basket of votes that's important to watch because again, with 12 candidates on the ballot, that piece matters. When it comes to the establishment guys, I think Rubio and Bush because of the animosity, even though they are friends, the animosity pairing off from the past debate and new Jeb Bush super pact ads including there is whether ad that said Marco Rubio flip-flops, there were a number of calls last night into the Bush campaign saying stop, you're going too far. That's too much. That shows you how desperate you are into his campaign. The Bush campaign says go away, this is right, we'll continue to do it. But there is a sense in the establishment that, you know, that the Bush campaign in the view of many, even Bush friends have crossed the line with that. And so there is blow back. And one more quick point, Bush right now is in very sensitive negotiations trying to get the endorsement of Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who dropped out. And the fact that the negotiations continue tell you something. Lindsey Graham hasn't said yes. And so there is an interesting moment here and I would say that, you know, Bush is going to stay in at least through New Hampshire.", "You think Bush is on the curve?", "His name is Bush. He raised $100 million. He is running, I think, fifth in Iowa and right now he is running fourth or fifth in New Hampshire.", "Out of everybody, you know, in those three names that we have talked about, Bush, Kasich, Christie, the only one who has a team on the ground in South Carolina whose got resources whose been working it hard out of those three, the only one that can survive to go on there is Jeb. If Chris Christie does not come on top in New Hampshire, he doesn't have the momentum to go to South Carolina.", "Jeffrey, and then we got to go.", "There has to be some passion here. The Trump supporters have fashion. I think The Cruz supporters have passion. The question is these other folks, how much passion is there if they get out of the race, are these other folks --", "I can tell you when these other folks, i.e., Kevin and me, when you know, what we see Trump or Cruz win Iowa, we're going to be passionately running with our head on fire.", "I'll be sitting on the curb clapping.", "All right. We are going to return to our campaign coverage shortly. There is some breaking news tonight including conflicting reports about a possible Powerball lottery winner. Also, stunning revelations about texts between El Chapo and the Mexican actress and the secret surgery he had. Plus, another ISIS attack, the third this week. What we are learning about their global reach and new details about the suspected planner. 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{"id": "CNN-393421", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-02-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/21/nday.02.html", "summary": "The Washington Post: Mick Mulvaney Says GOP Inconsistent On Deficit Concerns; White House Touts U.S. Economy But Silent On Soaring Deficit", "utt": ["President Trump is campaigning for reelection on a robust economy, but the White House has remained mostly silent on the ballooning deficit which has nearly doubled since President Trump has taken office. \"The Washington Post\" reports that at a speech yesterday, the President's Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said, \"My party is very interested in deficits when there's a Democrat in the White House. The worst thing in the whole world is deficits when Barack Obama was the President. Then Donald Trump became President, and we're a lot less interested as a party\". Joining me now is Peter Navarro President Trump's Direct Review Officer Trade and Manufacturing Policy. You're laughing. Why?", "You put Mick on the hot seat here. Deficit is a legitimate issue to talk about. But elections do have consequences and this last budget we had to do, we had a Democratic House. We - bill was a little higher than it did otherwise would have been. My focus John is creating good jobs for people who work with their hands. That's kind of what I focus on.", "I get it. But the first two years, the President was off he had a Republican Congress.", "He did.", "Right. And the deficits were way up then as well $779 billion in 2008 $984 billion in 2019 and then of course the estimate for this year $1.2 trillion. So you can't put this all on the Democrats. So the Republicans at the Senate at the whole time you have Republican in the White House. Why have they doubled?", "The question is, is it a bad thing? Will it get better? What our focus is on, John is basically growing the economy as fast as possible. The difference between the 2 percent and 3 percent growth rate, 3 percent, 3.5 percent is all the difference in the world. What we've been trying to do is consistently outperform CBO predictions which we've actually done.", "Which you've been at 2 percent in the last three quarters. So you're not at 3 percent.", "Well, we're outperforming projections. I think if you look at everything we're doing, we've got household income up. The real GDP is actually performing better than expectations. Manufacturing jobs we've created over half a million although they've been down recently.", "Although down the last two months.", "Yes. And you know there are certain head winds we've had to deal with that. I think the GM was a challenge. The Boeing was a challenge, but here's the thing. The beauty of the Trump Administration culture is that we have a President who every day gets up thinking about how to create jobs. And that's a different kind of culture than we had. And we do it not just with macro policies like deregulation, tax cuts, and fair trade, but my job is to do it kind of one job at a time in places like Lime, Ohio where we combat vehicle plans. So Marionette, Wisconsin make it sure littoral combat shift. With Philly we're rebuilding that Philly shipyard. This is kind of what we do.", "Look, these are - but manufacturing jobs in some of these states are down even worse than nationally.", "Well, but the unemployment rate is at historic lows.", "Absolutely. But you yourself said your job is to add manufacturing jobs.", "I think we're doing quite well at that. If you look at the Obama Administration, they were down 200,000 manufacturing jobs. And they said they would never coming back you know the famous Obama Magic Launch Speech. We did half a million so far. Like I said, the culture of this administration is basically focusing on people who work with their hands. I think we're doing quite well with that.", "Okay, the President wakes up every morning thinking about jobs. Has he woken up any morning you said thinking about deficits?", "I'm sure he does. But until the bond market starts reacting negatively to that and still we start seeing inflation, that's not going to be a concern. What we're going to focus on is growing wages for workers. We're not afraid of that cause and inflation like some people on Wall Street. We're going to increase productivity through investment. And that's the plan and it's working beautifully. I think if you look at the stock market, that's outperforming the Obama Administration. If you look at just every single metric, we're doing better.", "Just one more question on deficits. You spend most of your life as an economist, not necessarily a political figure. But if deficits are bad in a Democratic Administration aren't they also bad in a Republican one? You can't have it both ways.", "We had the same issue in the Reagan years. There was a deficits don't matter. Deficits do matter. I think my focus is basically on manufacturing jobs. That's where I'm at. And today by the way--", "You're here just to go to the airport, yes?", "Yes. This is a great day. We've been working on these operation Mega Flex Blitzes. So I'm going out with a whole team today from customs and border protection and for the eighth month in a row we're going to be opening thousands of packages from China to check for things like counterfeits, controlled substances, and agricultural violations. And John, it's absolutely frightening what we've seen across the ports of entry coming in. We get a double digit hit rate. We get a million packages coming in by air from China every day. If we're getting more than 10 percent hit rate for things like counterfeits, certainly there is a 100,000 Americans a day are being potentially harmed by this. Defrauded or actually in some cases like child car seats which are counterfeits. Those things kill.", "So that's a big part of your job. And that's why you're in New York today. How much of your job or what's your role been in recent weeks and months trying to figure out who anonymous is? Who wrote the anonymous book and the anonymous op-ed?", "Sure and I think ever since that op-ed came out, there's been a poll cast over everybody in the administration. Everybody's a suspect. So within the administration, everybody's hunting, as it were, for anonymous.", "Including you?", "Yes of course. It's a vocation with everybody.", "How much time? What does that mean? What have you been doing?", "You read the book, you read the op-ed, you think about it. That's about it. But here's the point. We've had over 20 people in this administration accused in print of being anonymous. That's a terrible poll cast over the White House. It makes you distrust everybody. So I would think that at this point the honorable thing would be whoever anonymous is come on out and do this. Let me ask you a question. Do you think that that it's right for somebody to lie within an administration; Democratic or Republican basically spy on the President?", "I wouldn't call it spying. But we've said from the beginning we're dying to know who the identity of an anonymous is. I'm not willing to call it spying but let me ask you this--", "What would you call it?", "Victoria Coats who was the Deputy National Security Adviser moved over to the Department of Energy. Did you think she was anonymous?", "I have - suspects are everywhere.", "But she moved and there are now people inside the administration saying it wasn't her who are saying that you were saying it was.", "Here's what's interesting about that, John. Find me a story about that that actually quotes somebody with a name. Again, it's all leaks from so-called senior administration officials. I'll give you one tip, John.", "I'll bet you a million dollars right here that whoever anonymous is not actually a senior administration official like \"The New York Times\" claims. We'll see. This is going to be one of the greatest mysteries of all time.", "You know who spoke off the record for 15 minutes on the plane yesterday? President Trump. I mean, we know that there are unnamed senior administration officials all the time who do talk. Will you acknowledge that?", "But you take my point that a lot of these stories have came out of China, on the China stories. It is always like a person close to I just - transparency would be a nice thing.", "We love the fact that you have come on. It's great to have you on CNN. Thanks for coming on.", "I appreciate the hospitality. And hopefully we find some counterfeits and put an end to that because that's a big thing for Americans.", "All right, good luck. Appreciate it.", "Yes, thanks John.", "Okay, John up next, a rare look inside a makeshift hospital in the epicenter of the Coronavirus outbreak. What life is like for people in quarantined?"], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "PETER NAVARRO, WHITE HOUSE TOP TRADE ADVISER", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-224523", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-2-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/07/nday.02.html", "summary": "Joe Biden: I Can't Give Reasons Not to Run", "utt": ["The last time Curiosity was on earth was back in November of 2011. It's taking on Bingo Gap (ph), a dune, which can be a big issue for a rover. It's like a yard long and 10 -- 10 yards long and a yard high. So that's, like, poised to, like, see if it can make it over.", "What a name, Bingo Gap (ph), for a place with no life.", "I'm watching it. A lot of personality in that name.", "Yeah, that rover has a lot of personality.", "It's like earth with an arrow.", "Can we show it again? It's actually kind of -- here we are. It's like one of those \"you are here\" maps.", "Right, exactly. You are here.", "Did we do that? Is that from NASA?", "No, that's", "That's the best NASA can do?", "Oh, come on.", "Put more money in that space program.", "That's us right there.", "All I see is the arrow. Anyway, speculation in high gear about whether or not Vice President -- the vice president will run for president in 2016. Now, especially thanks to Kate's interview with the vice president, we have national political reporter for CNN digital Peter Hamby's gonna join us to give analysis on what this could mean for Hillary and the Dems. It's a new day in the race, Peter, given what you're about to hear when Kate asked Biden about running. Here's the Q&A.;", "Other than corvettes, give me another good reason why you shouldn't run.", "I can't.", "Yeah?", "There may be reasons I don't run, but there's no obvious reason for me why I think I should not run.", "Can I have a timetable?", "Probably the -- realistically, a year this summer.", "Listen to that. Look, Kate's family to me, Peter, but I got to say he was talking about how he's popular in places the president isn't. I never heard him say that before. He's making a case, you know? He's saying why wouldn't I run? Never mentions Hillary?", "I gotta tell, and you also, Peter, you kind of, from my perspective, you really do -- it's not like you see a man who's in the sunset of his career. Like, he's very fired up. You could see it in his face that he, at least today, knows he has a lot more to contribute. And look, he may not run, but he was making a pretty strong pitch at least to me. What do you think?", "Yeah, no, and first of all, really nice work on this interview, Kate. This is absolutely Biden leaning in harder to 2016 than he has at any point so far. Look, I think Joe Biden thinks that there's no reason for him not to run as he mentioned. He has a long career in the Senate, in the White House. He can get out in Iowa, go to parades, talk about his career and not necessarily inflict a lot of intraparty damage. What was interesting to me also is that he said he would wait until next summer, which to me strikes me as way too late. Look, if these guys are going to get in and run for president, whoever it is, challenging Hillary Clinton, they really have to start laying groundwork. They have to raise money and hire staff and recruit volunteers in these early states. By the time next summer rolls around, we're talking five or six months till the Iowa caucuses, that was the only part that struck me as a little odd. But look, this is absolutely Biden making clear, as Chris mentioned, he's kind of and the same playing field as the president. And secondly, trying to articulate a little bit of a rationale for why he should run. So this is really fascinating to me, guys.", "Absolutely. And when he was laying out kind of there -- there are two things that he cares about most. when he mentioned the foreign policy issue, that is him really making a case for why he has the chops to run. And because it's going counter to what all the speculation has been to this point. It's always been Hillary Clinton and them. And Joe Biden is now saying it's Joe Biden and other people I think. That's what I heard from that interview.", "Yeah, no, I think that's right. Look, I spent some time recently in Iowa and New Hampshire. Clinton's name comes up more than anybody else's. But Biden's comes up second. Frankly, he's the second most famous person in the Democratic field. The interesting thing that you don't hear out there on the trail these days, you know, the early trail at least, you hear a lot of people talking about the economy, the economy, the economy, the economy. You don't hear a lot about foreign policy these days.", "That's a very important point.", "It's just not really a resonate thing. Right, but that's still Biden's strike zone. That's what he likes talking about. He did also mention in the interview he likes sticking up for the little guy. That, frankly, populous message that he's so good at is really what's going to be an asset for him. And look, I think you're going to see that a little bit coming up in 2014. Recall in 2010, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton, frankly, could go into parts of the country like Youngstown, Ohio, for example, where the president wasn't so popular, but Joe Biden could talk to those white working class voters. He really does have a rapport with that segment of the Democratic base, with, you know, labor, with independent voters. So if he starts to stick to that message, I think that's probably going to be a more potent one for him looking out to 2016.", "And if there's a guy who's going to say no to the party when they come and say, you know, \"The reason you can't run, Joe, is because you can't win. We're putting all our money and all our assets on Hillary,\" would be Joe. And this was my only little conspiracy theory I had watching your interview. I know he loves cars. He's loved cars for a long time. Hillary Clinton says she hasn't driven since 1997.", "I was thinking that, too. CUOMO; He says, \"I know all about cars and zero to 60 foot times. I'm the real guy. I'm like you.\" We want the best of us when we elect somebody, but we want them to be us. It was interesting contrast there. So I'm saying -- I'm not saying it was intentional. But it came up in this really revealing interview. Peter, thank you very much. Appreciate the insight.", "Thanks, Peter.", "Thanks, guys.", "Let's take another break. Coming up next on NEW DAY, the stunning arrest of a firefighter caught on tape. Why was he handcuffed by police while he was trying to rescue people? Details straight ahead.", "Plus, oh boy, what a night for Jay Leno. If you're going to go out, this is the way to do it, 22-year run as the \"Tonight Show\" came to an end with the emotion and how he made some humor out of it. He had some good last laughs at the network that you're going to want to hear.", "I don't like good-byes. NBC does. 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{"id": "CNN-277449", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-02-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/24/nday.02.html", "summary": "Is Donald Trump Unstoppable?; Trump Wins Latino Vote In Nevada; GOP Slams Obama Gitmo Plan", "utt": ["We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.", "Donald Trump proclaiming victory with virtually all demographic groups in the Nevada caucuses. More educated people, less educated, white and Hispanics, very conservative, and people who describe themselves as moderate, giving Trump a sizable delegate lead. Look at this. Eighty to his closest competitor, Ted Cruz, at 16. What do his rivals and the Republican establishment plan to do now? Here with us is CNN political commentator and Republican consultant Margaret Hoover. And conservative columnist and Trump supporter Kayleigh McEnany. Ladies, thanks so much for being here. Margaret --", "Good morning, Alisyn.", "On a scale of one to 10, Margaret, how much are you freaking out this morning?", "Look, this is not a comfortable moment for people who aren't Trump supporters and who believe that Republicans ought to win the Republican nomination. I think when you look at people who traditionally have a specific view of the Republican Party, I think half are in denial and half are panicking. You look at the Cruz camp -- you talk to the Cruz camp, you talk to the Rubio camp -- they're all focused on each other right now. We've got this debate coming up and, frankly, all they can think about is how to take out the other guy and win his votes. The best chance they have is uniting together and that will never happen.", "But the reason that they're focused on each other -- and I just want to stick with you for a second more, Margaret -- is because they think that if everybody can coalesce around one of them, then they'll have a fighting chance with the numbers against Donald Trump. Why isn't that logical?", "It's logical, it's not realistic. I mean, have you talked to Ted Cruz? Have you talked to Marco Rubio? I mean, there's enmity between these guys, almost worse than with Donald Trump who's trouncing both of them. So it just isn't realistic. I mean, the best chance they have is to join forces to beat Donald Trump --", "But what does that look like?", "-- but there's no -- it doesn't, frankly. It's just not realistic. I mean, you talk to people in either camp. They despise each other so much it's like they don't even realize the iceberg is right there.", "Kayleigh, let's look at some of the demographic groups and the numbers of who Donald Trump won with last night. OK, no surprise -- angry voters. He got 94 percent of those. Then also, no surprise, people who don't like the establishment. He got 61 percent of people who describe themselves as looking for someone outside of the establishment. But, here is the -- I don't know if those numbers are right. But, in any event, here is this part that surprises the establishment. He won with Hispanics and Latino voters, OK? He got 45 percent of Latino voters. Marco Rubio, who is Latino, got 28 percent. Ted Cruz, who is Latino, got 18 percent. What is it, Kayleigh, that has allowed Latino voters to trend towards Trump?", "Yes, Alisyn, that's huge. You know, conventional wisdom was Trump could never win Latinos and then last he did commandingly, beating the two candidates under him who were Latino candidates. I think what it is, though, is people have perpetuated this myth that Latinos will never vote for Trump because Trump wants to secure the border, Trump wants to build a wall. But, contrary to what those people say, many Latinos like that idea. They like the idea of legal immigration, and obeying the laws, and coming here the right way. Moreover, I would argue Latinos just don't vote on immigration, you know. It's easy to try to paint them as this swath of voters that just votes based on the border, but it's not true. Many Latinos are hurting. They don't have a job. They've seen their job go overseas. They're worried about terrorism. They're just like every other constituency in America that's frustrated with the federal government.", "The one thing -- let's not overemphasize that. There were -- historic turnout last night. Sixty-six thousand plus voters ended up voting in the caucuses. Fifteen-hundred of them were Hispanic, OK? So less than like 3 percent, 4 percent. This is not a bellwether for Latinos are going to vote nationally. His numbers --", "Why not, Margaret?", "His favorability numbers in Hispanics nationally, you guys -- look, when you're looking at the GOP caucus population and you're looking at the Hispanics across the board -- across the country -- that are going to vote in a general election, his favorability numbers are above 60 percent, sometimes close to 70 percent, unfavorable with Hispanics. There is no way you can extrapolate 1,500 voters in Nevada for the Hispanic population in the United States in a general election.", "You're right that's it a small sample size, but we were told not only could Trump never win Hispanics, which last night proved, in fact, he can win Hispanics. We were told Hispanics would show up in large droves to vote against him. I believe they dubbed this the Trump effect. That's not panning out. And also, this --", "Not in a GOP primary, Kayleigh. We're talking general election, hon. This is just not something you can count on coming into a general election.", "That's not true. The general election -- it shows him doing exceedingly well among all minorities. In fact, in the head-to-head matchup with Hillary Clinton, it shows him winning the black vote to the tune of 25 percent. That was a September poll. It shows him doing very well in a general election among Hispanics and among African-Americans.", "OK. Kayleigh, Margaret, I can see this is a conversation we'll be having for many weeks to come. Thank you, ladies. Thanks so much for being here.", "Thank you, Alisyn.", "Michaela?", "Other story we're watching. The Uber driver suspected in the Kalamazoo shooting spree. He was captured on surveillance video in a gun store before that deadly rampage. What was he doing there? We have live report next."], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CAMEROTA", "MARGARET HOOVER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "CAMEROTA", "HOOVER", "CAMEROTA", "HOOVER", "CAMEROTA", "HOOVER", "CAMEROTA", "KAYLEIGH MCENANY, CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST", "HOOVER", "CAMEROTA", "HOOVER", "MCENANY", "HOOVER", "MCENANY", "CAMEROTA", "HOOVER", "CAMEROTA", "PEREIRA"]}
{"id": "CNN-305314", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-02-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/13/nday.06.html", "summary": "Husband of Deported Woman Speaks Out.", "utt": ["A mother of two -- two children, who were born in the U.S., in Arizona, has been deported to Mexico. Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos has lived in America as an undocumented immigrant since the mid '90s when she was brought here as a child. In 2008, authorities convicted her of using a fake Social Security Number. Each year, since then, she would check in with immigration officials. And when she checked in last week, they deported her. Joining us now is Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos' husband, who does not want to be identified by name, and their attorney Ray Maldonado. Thank you, gentlemen, for being here. Guadalupe's husband, I want to start with you. What happened last week? Explain what happened when your wife went to check in, as she regularly did, with immigration officials.", "Well, she went Wednesday, as every year, just to do a normal check-in with I.C.E. For the past eight years she's been doing the same thing, checking in with them and with no problem. What changed last Wednesday is they decided to arrest her and then deport her.", "Mr. Maldonado --", "Yes.", "Explain what happened. Why this happened. Because, again, here is a woman who was brought here at 14 years old through no choice of her own by her parents. She has two U.S.-born children. The Trump administration has always said that they would prioritize the murders, the rapist, not the people who were law-abiding, hardworking people. What was Guadalupe's crime?", "Yes, her crime was trying to provide a better life for her children than she had growing up. If you're undocumented in this community, you essentially have to use a fake Social Security Number. She was arrested in one of the unconstitutional raids by our notorious former sheriff here, Joe Arpaio. As a result of that, she was given a criminal conviction. Now under the Trump administration, under these new executive orders, she's a priority for deportation. Essentially anybody who has even been arrested for a crime before now falls within the net of a priority for deportation. And we have to be very careful about these new executive orders from President Trump.", "To Guadalupe's husband, how old are your children?", "My son is 16, my daughter is 14.", "What are they -- how are they experiencing this family tumultuous situation that happened last week?", "Well, they're heartbroken. You know they're -- you can see in them -- they're strong, but inside we're heartbroken. You know, it is -- I can't even explain how it is to be -- to be without my wife, go in the house and see the house empty without her. It's really hard.", "And your children have been able to see her?", "Yes, they were with her when she got deported to Novales (ph). They spent a couple of days with her before she went back to her hometown, or where she was born. I shouldn't say hometown because it is not really her hometown.", "Yes. And so what does this mean? I mean what does -- will the children have to cross the border and go to Mexico to be with their mother? What does this mean as you understand it for your future?", "I mean if nothing gets fixed, basically, yes, that's what it is. They have to like cross the border to a different country to see their mom.", "And what have they told you about that?", "Well, we haven't really talked much because they left as soon as their mom got deported. So we haven't really talked about that. But I mean it's really hard. They're really strong. I admire their -- how strong they are, but inside -- inside we're really heartbroken. It is really unfair. Like this is -- this is really -- this is really sad, you know.", "Mr. Maldonado, I know that you've said that you believe that women like Guadalupe are now the priority for the Trump administration, but that's just very different than what we've heard. She's not a hardened criminal. She's not a violent criminal. Why is she the first?", "Well, I think that's what's so dangerous about these new executive orders. They put into the priority essentially anybody who is here undocumented. Our community could possibly be facing one of the biggest mass deportations in the history of the United States if President Trump follows through in what he's written in his executive orders. This is the first deportation under President Trump's executive orders, but there could be hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people just like this family we're looking at right now that could be suffering in the very near future if we don't stop him and do something about it right now.", "And, Mr. Maldonado, what is the plan? I mean this is what he campaigned on. You know that he has legions of supporters who say that just the initial crime of crossing the border, that that does, therefore, make them guilty of a criminal act. And, you know, his supporters think that this does help secure the border. So what is the plan?", "No doubt, this is a declaration of war. These executive orders are a declaration of war on the immigrant community. The plan now is for our community to come together, be organized, educate ourselves about our rights and be prepared to fight to stop deportations. In the case of Guadalupe, when she was arrested, she didn't go down without a fight and neither did the community. Those of us here in Arizona have been fighting quite a long time against the anti-immigrant sentiment. When they tried to take her away, seven people were arrested, stopping the van in which she was in. We need to see more of those actions across the country. We've got to do everything we can legally, we've got to do everything we can politically. But when the time comes, we also got to be ready to get down in the street and fight.", "Guadalupe's husband, when will you see her again?", "We'll see. I don't know yet for sure. We're going to keep on fighting until we bring her back.", "Gentlemen, thank you very much. Please keep us updated on this story. We'll follow it.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Chris.", "All right, some tough stories out there. How about a little \"Good Stuff\" to start our week off?"], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND", "CAMEROTA", "RAY MALDONADO, ATTORNEY FOR GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS", "CAMEROTA", "MALDONADO", "CAMEROTA", "GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND", "CAMEROTA", "GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND", "CAMEROTA", "GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND", "CAMEROTA", "GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND", "CAMEROTA", "GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND", "CAMEROTA", "MALDONADO", "CAMEROTA", "MALDONADO", "CAMEROTA", "GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND", "CAMEROTA", "GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND", "MALDONADO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-76707", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-9-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/10/ltm.05.html", "summary": "Paging Dr. Gupta: Exercise & Breast Cancer", "utt": ["A little exercise could do a lot to prevent breast cancer in older women. Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins us with details of a new study. Hey, good morning.", "Good morning, yes. This is one of those good studies. Actually looking at something that everyone can quantify pretty easily, how much you exercise, and looking at a major health problem, breast cancer. Twenty minutes a day, that was the number that the researchers from \"The Journal of the American Medical Association\" came up with. They said 20 minutes a day of exercise can reduce your cancer risk, breast cancer risk in this case, by about 18 percent. Pretty significant. First time we're really attaching some hard numbers to exercise and breast cancer. This is not the first study of its kind, but this is the first study looking at a huge, diverse group of women, 74,000 women, following them for a very long time at the age of 18, 35, then again at 50. These are women that they studied were age 50 to 79, so all postmenopausal women. All sorts of different types of exercise they were looking at, as well. They talked about walking a lot. But it can be practical things like walking up stairs, but it can also be biking, using exercise machines, calisthenics, swimming, dancing. The researchers took great pains, Soledad, to say sort of recreational activities, stuff you can build into your life, not necessarily having to go to the gym.", "So the question would be why does this work? And I have to imagine that some people would say the women who are exercising at least 20 minutes a day are generally speaking women who are just going to be better about their health. They're the women who are going to make healthy meals, they're the women who are going to overall take care of themselves, and that's the link, is that right?", "That's in part the link, but this large study, again, looking at 74,000 women does take pains to actually control the various groups of the women in the study. So you have women who are healthier women by nature. They eat more healthfully and all that sort of stuff. But what they really found here is if you are a person who exercises, you actually decrease certain hormones in your body. This is important. Estrogen is a hormone they've known for a long time is associated with breast cancer. Testosterone, as well, insulin and certain growth factors. If you measure the hormone levels in these women who are regular exercisers, again, not gym rats, not women who are out there being very strenuous, but just regular exercisers, they tend to have some lower levels of these hormones, and that's not just in thin women, but also in moderately weighted women as well.", "Is it consistency over the week, or is it consistency -- when you say 20 minutes a day. Does it have to be 20 minutes a day? Or are you saying just on average, a couple of times a week, which adds up to 20 minutes a day?", "Right, it's sort of what you said at the end there. This study was actually done as a survey, so they went back and asked women how much they exercised. What the numbers were, were actually between 1.5 and 2.5 hours a week. So I guess weekend warriors would count as well in that equation. But the -- for other reasons, for just being a healthy person, they say about 20 minutes a day.", "Quickly, Sanjay, they did not include women with a history of breast cancer in this study, right?", "They did not include women who actually had breast cancer themselves previously. They did include women who have a family history of breast cancer, which, as you know, Soledad, also a very strong marker.", "Dr. Sanjay Gupta, thanks.", "Good to see you.", "Good information."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "O'BRIEN", "GUPTA", "O'BRIEN", "GUPTA", "O'BRIEN", "GUPTA", "O'BRIEN", "GUPTA", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-335406", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2018-03-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/19/ath.01.html", "summary": "Austin Police Update After Fourth Explosion Rocks City", "utt": ["I didn't think it was possible for somebody to be behind me.", "I'll take that.", "Andy Scholes, thank you very much. I appreciate you being here and for that. All right. I'm John Berman. Thanks so much for watching. \"AT THIS HOUR\" starts now.", "Hello. I'm Dana Bash in for Kate Bolduan. And we're starting with breaking news, at any minute now, we're expecting an update from police in Austin, Texas. A city rocked by yet another explosion, the fourth in less than a month. Authorities are telling people this morning not to leave their homes while they sleep the neighborhood where the explosion happened. Two men were injured in the latest blast but are expected to recover. This time police are saying the bomb might have been set off by a trip wire. Want to go straight to CNN's Ed Lavandera who is in Austin. Ed, what are you hearing from your sources down there about the latest on the investigation? Whether or not authorities have any more clues as to who is behind this latest bombing and whether they're connected.", "Well, that is what investigators are trying to figure out right now. They have just sent a team of about 100 ATF and FBI agents combing through this neighborhood after the sun came up here this morning. We're expecting here in a short while to hear from the lead FBI agent and the lead ATF agent as well as the police chief here in Austin. We are awaiting that press conference. They're still trying to determine the, the last we heard from them is we had no indication of a suspect or any kind of motive in this attack. This particular attack that happened on Sunday night, very different from the three previous ones. The first three happened in the eastern edge of the city, and the victims were black and Hispanic. That led authorities to say that they weren't willing to rule out the possibility that this could be some sort of hate crime. But that we have learned that the two victims that were injured and wounded in the attack last night are two young white males in their early 20s. So, how all of this now plays into this scenario is still very much up in the air. And also complicating here, matters, making this even far more disturbing and intriguing is that there was a trip wire believed to have been used in this latest explosion. All of this, even more bizarre considering that Austin police just a few hours before this Sunday night attack were issuing a plea, speaking directly to the person or persons responsible for these attacks, saying they believe there is some sort of message that these perpetrators were trying to execute. And they were trying to get some information for them, trying to open up a line of communication with these authorities -- with these people, trying to determine if they could strike up a conversation with them to kind of understand their motive. Obviously, that did not happen. And just a few hours later, this fourth explosion was triggered here in the southwest part of Austin. You can see over here on my shoulder, you have the FBI agent and the ATF agent as well as the police chief here in Austin starting to make their way here toward the podium where a wall of cameras and reporters are waiting to hear from them. As I mentioned, Dana, many of the officers weren't able to get into this crime scene throughout the night, give than it was dark, and they had the use of a trip wire. They were hesitant to speak about the situation or to get into the situation. We're going to turn it over to them now, so we can listen to what they have to say and for the latest updates here.", "Thank you, all, for coming out. Want to give you an update of where we're at on the investigation of the explosion that took place in this neighborhood last night. Again, I'm Brian Manley, chief of police of the Austin Police Department, Fred Milanowski, the special agent in charge for the ATF, and Christopher Combs, special agent in charge of the FBI, and Troy Gay, assistant chief of the Austin Police Department. Again, we're here for an incident that began last night at approximately 8:32 when we had an explosion take place in the neighborhood behind us. That explosion injured two people that were walking along the side of the road. Those individuals are currently in a local hospital. They are a 22 and 23-year-old males, both Anglo males. They are both in the hospital right now. They are in stable condition, but they did receive significant injuries from the explosion that took place. Where we are right now, we have made the scene safe this morning, as you all know we held the scene last night given that it was dark and given that we believe that a trip wire may have been in effect on this device. Given the safety concerns that gave us for not only this neighborhood but for all of the public safety professionals that are here working this, we held the scene overnight so that we could process it in daylight in a much safer way. What we have been able to do this morning is do another sweep of the entire area so that we know that the area is now safe, and we now have the specialist from ATF and FBI conducting the post- blast investigation behind us. We have additional resources being brought to bear in Austin to continue assisting us in this ongoing investigation. We have bomb technicians from both the San Antonio Police Department as well as the Houston Police Department en route, and the Texas Department of Public Safety is assisting us as well, bringing in additional resources. There has already been a significant presence from our federal partners since these events began and as we reported yesterday, we have over 500 agents and their teams working on Austin cases alone and we have additional resources being brought in by both of those agencies. And as has already been broadcast, there is a $100,000 reward out there for someone who can give us a tip leading to the identification of the suspect or suspects in this incident along with another $15,000 reward that has been put out by the governor's office for the same. We would like to reach out to those that live in the Travis Country neighborhood behind us. If you have video surveillance on your house, whether it be surveillance cameras, nest cameras, anything like that, we want to get your video footage so that we can have that analyzed and identify any potential suspicious persons, vehicles, or anything that may be of interest to this investigation. So, again, if you live in Travis Country, and you have video surveillance on your home, please contact us at 512-974-5210 so we can get in there quickly and get that video. This neighborhood is still being locked down right now for safety. And we expect it to be so until approximately 2:00 p.m. today, but we will update that as necessary throughout the day. Again, we're doing this in an overabundance of caution so that we can keep this neighborhood safe while we process the scene. There is still a significant amount of evidence as you can imagine with the blast scene like this. The evidence is strewn across quite a significant distance and will take us a while to methodically go through and collect this evidence so that we make sure we get it right. What I can tell you is based on the preliminary review we have done at this time, we have seen similarities in the device that exploded here last night and the other three devices that have exploded in Austin starting on March 2nd. Again, this is preliminary information, but we have seen similarities. The big difference in this device, again, is we believe a trip wire was used in this device. Agent Milanowski will talk a little while and go over trip wires and what all that entails. So, that will be covered in depth here in a few minutes. What we want to reinforce is the safety message that we have been putting out to this community for quite some time. And we obviously updated that a little bit. In the past, we have been talking about the importance of not touching suspicious packages, not moving packages, not handling packages. The belief that we are now dealing with someone who is using trip wires shows a higher level of sophistication, higher level of skill. And so, now what we are imploring the community to do, if you see any suspicious object or item that looks out of place, do not even approach it, but instead call 911 and report that to the police department so we can send folks out to check that and ensure that it is safe. So, again, do not approach these suspicious items, anything you may see, whether it be a bag, a backpack, a box, and, again, this is why we have avoided giving specific descriptions of the prior three devices because it was never confirmed that that would be the design that this suspect or suspects would stick with. So, that's the important message today to this community is make sure that you are safe and make sure you contact us if you see something that looks suspicious or that looks out of place. Again, we want to ensure the safety of this neighborhood and we want to make sure that we're doing everything we can as we work through this investigation to do so. With that, I'm going to ask agent -- Special Agent Milanowski to talk a little bit about trip wires.", "All right, we want to talk a little bit about this because this device is a little more sophisticated than what we have seen to date. All of the evidence from the previous devices is that the ATF national laboratory as will this evidence. But trip wire is a victim actuated switch. It literally uses some kind of wire and when there is pressure put on that wire, it activates or detonates the device. So, it could be either from tripping over it or picking up a package. Any tension that's put on that wire, sometimes it's thin filament, sometimes it's fishing line, but like the chief said, we are more concerned now that people see something suspicious, they just stay away from it altogether and contact law enforcement. Because if they move that package, or if they step on that trip wire, it is likely that it will detonate. We want to put that information out to the public and make sure that if you see a bag, a suitcase, a box, anything that is unusual, and not normally in that area call law enforcement, we'll bring in extra explosive detection canines in order to be able to check out all of those packages, and make sure the public stays as safe as possible. Thank you.", "Want to highlight obviously this is very concerning to us. The FBI brought in over 350 special agents to work here. Unprecedented response to Austin. We're here to support the Austin Police Department. I want to highlight again with these packages, with this trip wire, this changes things. It is more sophisticated. It is not targeted to individuals. We're very concerned that with trip wires a child could be walking down a sidewalk and hit something. So, it is very important that here in Austin, if anyone sees anything suspicious, you do not go near that package, and you immediately call law enforcement, so we get bomb techs out there to deal with the suspect package. Additional teams have been brought to bear here in Austin. With the area police departments, the state bomb squad, the federal bomb squads are here, we're bringing in extra bomb techs as we speak, to make sure that we can handle every suspicious call that happens here, not just in Austin, but in the surrounding communities as well. So, it is very important that we stay away from anything we consider to be suspicious. I would also like to highlight there is $100,000 reward out right now for anyone that can give us information that can lead us to stop the bombings. We need this to stop. We're very concerned that people can get hurt by this, just by walking now. We have trip wires, $100,000 is a lot of money and we're hoping somebody knows something and that they can call us and help us stop what's going on here. Thank you.", "The only thing I'll add before we open it up for questions is we have utilized the reverse 911 system, however many of you probably already aware there was a glitch in the system and went out across the majority of the city. So, we're putting out through social media, Travis Country is the only neighborhood that is affected, and Travis Country is the neighborhood that we want to have people stay sheltered in place in their residences until 2:00 p.m. this afternoon or until we advise further. So, with that, we'll go ahead and open up for questions.", "At what time are you going to call this domestic terrorism?", "Well, you know, that's been the question all along is, is this terrorism? Is this hate-related? We're early on in the investigation today. We only gotten into the preliminary phases. And as the day moves on, that is something that we're going to analyze. We're clearly dealing with what we expect to be a serial bomber at this point based on the similarities between now what is the fourth device and, again, as we look at this individual, and the pattern, and what we're looking at here, we will have to determine if we see a specific ideology behind this or something that will lead us along with our federal partners to make that decision.", "What are you all doing down there?", "Right now, the ATVs are here just in case we need to go into this green belt. Again, we're not certain from which direction the suspect or suspects may have entered this area. And so, they're here in case we need to get through the wooded area here as part of the evidence-collection process.", "Any other neighborhoods are you searching in different places? Is it spread across the city?", "So, what we're doing right now again as we talked about before, this has to be a community response. This is something we're going to solve as a community. The officers that are working the neighborhoods are paying attention, not only for the suspicious packages, but also items that may look out of place. The Department of Public Safety is going to send additional troopers into the Austin area to help us patrol and be visible in the neighborhoods and to help us look for those suspicious items or just to inform the community of where we're at with the investigation. So, there is additional work being done on this.", "Did you work up a suspect profile or any kind of information about who he was targeting?", "So, as we mentioned yesterday, we have had a large number of tips that have come in through the past week and each and every one of those tips gets worked by the teams we describe. They come into the command center and get assigned out to either a team of ATF investigators or FBI investigators or Austin Police Department investigators. So, throughout the course of this past week, there were points in time where we had persons of interest because of information that had been provided, and then as we furthered the investigation into those individuals, either backgrounds, social media life, things like that, we have run those leads to ground and at this point we're following up on a few more. We have had persons of interest and we continue to look at a few, but we have not identified a suspect or suspects as of this time.", "Chief have you been able to speak with the two latest victims and -- at all and in this latest bombing, was the package visible? Is the trip wire visible? I think people might want to know, you know, what they should be looking for.", "Yes, so as far as speaking to the victims, they're in the hospital receiving care and that's what we're concerned with. We have had initial conversations with them to get an idea of where the device was, and the device was sitting next to a fence is where we expect it to be. And, again, as the Special Agent Milanowski talked about, the trip wire can be a filament wire, fishing line, it can be a metal wire, so that's why people just need to pay attention to see if there is a device that is seated somewhere near because the trip wire would be attached to that device and it would pull on it to activate. So, again, that's what we need is people paying attention for suspicious objects, bags, boxes, backpacks, anything that looks out of place, and then especially if they see any type of a wire extruding from that.", "-- about similarities and materials, anything?", "So, we have said to this community from day one, we are going to give you information that keeps you safe. That's why we got on camera at 1:30 in the morning, when we felt like there might be a trip wire in play, because we didn't want to wait until this morning to put that information out because that's information that helps keep this community safe. The specific components of the bomb, the firing mechanism that these suspects are -- the suspect or suspects are using that doesn't help keep the community safe and that's something being kept confidential by us and our federal partners to protect the integrity of the investigation.", "(Inaudible) now like the special agent said, it is more broad, could be triggered by anyone. What does that tell you about the person behind it?", "Well, again, as we said from the very beginning, we were not willing to classify this as terrorism, as hate, because we just don't know enough and what we have seen now is a significant change from what appeared to be three very targeted attacks to what was last night an attack that would have passed -- would have hit a random victim that happened to walk by. So, we have definitely seen a change in the method that this suspect or suspect is using.", "Why this suspect is doing what they're doing --", "Were they walking along the sidewalk along the fence and came across the trip wire or were they walking between houses? Can you help paint the picture of how they actually came into contact with the wire?", "What we believe and again, this is all preliminary, but what we believe is they were walking either on the sidewalk or the grassy area between the street and the fence. And so, they were not walking between houses but alongside a roadway.", "You tried to --", "Do you think this suspect or suspect still has a message for police?", "Well, again, we've opened ourselves up for a message. That's why we asked him to contact us and gave him phone numbers to contact us at. We won't understand what the motive might be behind this or the reason behind this until we have an opportunity to talk to the suspect or suspects that are involved.", "(Inaudible) look out for objects that are suspicious, should people adjust their lifestyle in any way until there is a solution to this?", "Well, I think people need to be vigilant. People need to pay attention as we have been saying, you know, back since last week and a half is pay attention to your surroundings, pay attention to your neighborhoods. If things look out of place, if there are suspicious persons, call us, let us know what is going on, and that way we can come out and we can look into that to see if it is at all related to what we're having happen in Austin right now, or if it is not, and therefore, we can put that to rest.", "This is a sophisticated device, does the trip wire suggest a military background?", "You know, a trip wire doesn't necessarily suggest that there is a military background, what it does suggest, though, is that the suspect or suspects that we are dealing with have a higher level of sophistications than maybe we initially thought based on them changing their methods to a more difficult device.", "Yesterday afternoon you asked the suspect to contact you with their message. Do you think last night was their response?", "You know, we won't know that until we have an opportunity to talk to the suspect or the suspects whether or not that was a motive behind this. That's just something we're not going to know and to that end, again, we will -- I will reach out to the suspect or suspects and ask that you contact us, reach out to us, communicate with us so we can put this to an end. There are innocent people getting hurt in this community and it needs to come to a stop. The last thing we want to have is another injury or another death in our community related to this incident. Thank you.", "Does anything seem to indicate that he wants to talk to you?", "So just one thing, we would like to talk to the shooter, would like him to contact us as the chief said. We don't understand why they are doing this. We have people here that he can talk to. And we would like that to occur. So, we would like him to reach out and talk to us. Thank you.", "Your name, sir?", "Sorry, I got to go.", "You've been watching an extraordinary press conference in Austin, Texas, from the chief of police, ATF and FBI representative explaining what the chief of police in Austin said that they now can call a serial bomber, a serial bomber in their neighborhoods. And one of the bits of news that they delivered this morning is that the bomb that went off via trip wire at about 8:30 last night, they do believe is -- they see a connection between that and the bombs that have gone off since March 2nd, which were just packages placed -- placed at houses. So, a lot of information that we want to unpack there. We also want to reinforce that the people in that neighborhood are still told to remain in their houses, not to leave until 2:00 p.m., local 3:00 p.m. Eastern, so they can make sure it is safe. We have a lot to talk about. We have some experts on the other side of the break. 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{"id": "CNN-79323", "program": "CNN NEWSNIGHT AARON BROWN", "date": "2003-11-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0311/18/asb.00.html", "summary": "Massachusetts Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage; Judge Orders Peterson to Stand Trial; Police Raid Neverland Ranch", "utt": ["Good evening again, everyone. There is a be careful what you wish for quality to our lead story tonight, the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that all but legalized gay marriage in that state. Could it turn out that that decision creates a political rallying cry for those who oppose such things, and there are many, that it becomes the wedge issue of the campaign ahead that this day becomes the perfect example of the law of unintended consequences? It is part of a complicated and emotional story that leads the program and begins the whip. CNN's Dan Lothian starts us off from Boston, Dan a headline from you tonight.", "Well, Aaron, it was a landmark decision here in the state of Massachusetts, the state becoming the first in the nation to essentially legalize same-sex marriages but, of course, that won't take place for about 180 days. We'll explain why in just a few minutes. As you can imagine this is controversial. Those who were pushing for it are elated. Those who are against it are angry -- Aaron.", "Dan, thank you, good to see you tonight. Next to a pair of stories that are relatively new to the program, first the murder of Laci Peterson and now the murder trial of her husband Scott. CNN's David Mattingly has been covering the hearing in Modesto, David a headline.", "Aaron, a preliminary hearing fails to produce a smoking gun but more than enough for a judge to decide its time for Scott Peterson to stand trial for the murders of his wife Laci and their unborn child -- Aaron.", "David, thank you. And finally, strange and strangely familiar developments regarding the singer Michael Jackson, a lot of secrecy as usual but enough there to raise an eyebrow, CNN's Frank Buckley is near Santa Barbara, California, Frank a headline.", "Well, Aaron, on the same day that Michael Jackson's newest CD came out investigators descended on his Neverland Ranch here. A source with knowledge of the investigation telling CNN they are looking into allegations of child molestation.", "Frank, thank you. We'll get back to you and the rest shortly. Also tonight, President Bush's trip to Britain what he hopes to accomplish there, how he will be received. Later the missing brother of Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean a 30-year-old mystery that may finally have been solved. As we continue our series on the assassination of President Kennedy, the 40th anniversary this week, we'll talk with former President Gerald Ford. Mr. Ford is the last surviving member of the Warren Commission which investigated JFK's death. And we'll end, as always, with a check of tomorrow morning's papers, all that and more in the hour ahead. We begin tonight with a passage from the decision handed down today by the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Margaret Marshall, the Chief Justice, writing for a narrow majority on the subject of marriage. \"Marriage\" she writes \"is a vital social institution. The exclusive commitment of two individuals to each other nurtures love and support. It brings stability to our society,\" a plainspoken defense of marriage as you could ever hope to see. Unless, or you happen to see it precisely the opposite way as an assault, the latest of several on marriage and society. We have two reports tonight, a serious discussion as well. We begin with CNN's Dan Lothian.", "Linda Davies and Gloria Bailey have been partners for 32 years but it took a Massachusetts high court ruling for one of them to finally pop the question.", "I finally asked her to marry me because she told me she couldn't answer until we could legally do it and I'm happy to tell the world she said yes.", "Their opponents are not celebrating, instead calling the ruling demoralizing.", "I think it flies in the face of what we know in Massachusetts as marriage and have demonstrated since our founding.", "This case began winding its way through the courts in 2001 when seven Massachusetts same-sex couples were denied marriage licenses from their city or town halls. GLAD, the gay and lesbian organization, filed a lawsuit which ended up in the state Supreme Court and resulted in a 4-3 landmark decision.", "Finally all families in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will have the opportunity to be equal families under the law.", "The court concluded that: \"Barring an individual from the protections, benefits and obligations of civil marriage solely because that person would marry a person of the same sex, violates the Massachusetts constitution.\" No wedding bells yet. The court has given the legislature 180 days to \"take whatever actions it may deem necessary.\" What that means, say legal experts, is unclear.", "The court has clearly put the ball in the court of the legislature. It's up to them to decide what to do while the court hasn't clearly said what the legislature can do.", "In Vermont, the legislature was given a choice by the court, marriage or civil unions. Lawmakers chose civil unions. In Hawaii and Alaska, high courts also ruled in favor of same-sex marriages but in both cases the legislatures amended their constitutions to ban them. In Massachusetts, same-sex couples are confident there are no options to derail their dreams and equally confident opponents promising a fight.", "The court I believe has overstepped its bounds.", "What lawmakers here are looking at is that constitutional amendment which would essentially lay out marriage as in between a man and a woman but that couldn't get before the voters before 2006, so barring anything that legal experts don't see at this point gay couples could get married in 180 days -- Aaron.", "Is there any talk of a middle road here, a compromise that says no to marriage but yes to civil unions in the way that Vermont did?", "Well that is something that state lawmakers have been discussing for quite some time but at this point it seems like it is too late for that to happen. The court has ruled and lawmakers are saying they have few options at this point. All they have is that constitutional amendment. As I mentioned, they don't see anything happening with that until 2006. By then many couples could be married for several years.", "Dan, thank you, Dan Lothian our Boston Bureau Chief tonight. Years ago the woman's movement had a slogan \"the personal is political\" is how it went. Over the years any number of causes have picked up on the notion from all sides of the political spectrum. It's gotten to the point that when it comes to everything from the bedroom to the death bed it would be hard to say that anything isn't political anymore and that's doubly so in an election year. That side of the story from CNN's Jeff Greenfield.", "You'd expect that gay rights groups would be celebrating the ruling of the Massachusetts Supreme Court but there's another place where they might well have been swapping high-fives, the West Wing of the White House, why? Because the ruling puts the whole gay marriage question squarely into the political arena and that's just about the last thing Democratic presidential contenders want. (on camera): Now, to understand the Democrats' dilemma you have to go back to last June to a U.S. Supreme Court decision on sodomy and to the political fallout that case triggered. (voice-over): Back in June, the high court in a 6-3 decision said there were no valid grounds on which a state could punish private sex acts among consenting adults, gay or straight. In a blistering dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia said this decision called into question just about every law protecting what he called order and morality, including laws banning adult incest, prostitution, and same-sex marriages. Apparently, concerns about gay marriage triggered a sharp change in public opinion on gay rights in general. In a CNN-USA Today Gallup poll back in May, 60 percent had said that homosexual relations between consenting adults should be legal. By July, that number dropped to 48 percent and last month voters said by a 26 point margin that they oppose gay marriage. As for the major Democratic presidential contenders, all of them favor some sort of civil union and all oppose gay marriage and now the Massachusetts Supreme Court has raised that specter again. Yes, this latest decision involves an interpretation of the state constitution but the United States Constitution has a full faith and credit clause. It requires one state to honor the holdings of another. That's why your California marriage, for instance, is valid everywhere else. Now it was just this fear that some state might legalize gay marriage that led the Congress to pass and President Clinton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It says, among other things, that marriage means one man, one woman. But here's the catch. What if the U.S. court's sodomy decision means there are no valid grounds for a state to refuse to recognize a same-sex marriage? In that case, the Defense of Marriage Act is out and a gay marriage in one state would have to be recognized in every state. President Bush has already said where he stands on this matter.", "I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman and I think we ought to codify that one way or the other.", "That view by the way is somewhat different than the one Vice President Cheney, one of whose children is openly gay, offered during the 2000 vice presidential debate.", "I think different states are likely to come to different conclusions and that's appropriate. I don't think there should necessarily be a federal policy in this area.", "It's possible, of course, that Massachusetts will act to remove this issue from the political arena by amending its own state constitution and defining marriage as one man, one woman. That's what Hawaii did. But that will take time and meanwhile this whole gay marriage question will be squarely inside the political arena exactly the kind of hot button issue that has vexed the Democrats for so long. Jeff Greenfield, CNN, New York.", "We'll have more on this in our next segment, a debate, a discussion really. Joining us conservative writer Bill Bennett and gay rights activist Joan Garry that's in the next section tonight. To other things now, to no one's surprise a California Court has ordered Scott Peterson to stand trial for the murder of his wife Laci and their unborn child. The threshold for a decision like this is not very high. The state doesn't have to prove very much but the hearing went on for days and days and gave us a glimpse of how each side will play what is truly a life or death game when the trial actually begins the report tonight from CNN's David Mattingly.", "After weeks of arguments and evidence, a judge wasted no time at the end of this preliminary hearing immediately ordering Scott Peterson to stay in jail awaiting trial for the murders of his wife Laci and their unborn child.", "We're not surprised but the trial is going to be something again.", "Peterson's parents exited the courthouse after listening to detectives describe how Scott was arrested in April in a car loaded with clothes, camping equipment and nearly $15,000 cash, how Scott and his girlfriend Amber Frey exchanged 241 phone calls in 93 days, more than 50 of them in the week after Laci was reported missing and how Scott came to Amber crying two weeks before Laci's disappearance and told her he had lost his wife. In one call taped by police two weeks after Laci disappeared court transcripts shown to reporters show an angry Frey demanding answers. \"How did you lose her then before she was lost? Explain that\" she said. Peterson replied \"there's different kinds of loss, Amber.\" Frey had already come forward to police at the time of this call. It was apparently the first time Peterson attempted to explain his marriage and Laci's disappearance another piece in the prosecution's puzzle but in a case that has yet to produce a smoking gun.", "We're gratified at least that we're this much closer to trial and hopefully at trial vindication for Scott.", "Defense attorney Mark Geragos will attempt to overturn the judge's decision, arguing there was not enough evidence presented to send Peterson to trial. There's also the issue of where to have the trial. The defense may argue that notoriety of the case may make it impossible for Scott Peterson to get a fair trial anywhere near Modesto, a concern shared by prosecutors.", "If we can have this trial held here we want the trial held here. We do not want the trial held though if it's not going to be properly done, if the jury pool is so biased that the defendant can't get a fair trial because that doesn't work for anybody.", "Wherever an impartial is eventually found for this case the question remains what do prosecutors have to show the jury that cinches the case against Scott Peterson? After 11 days of testimony we have before us what is essentially a circumstantial case, a lot of strange behavior by Scott Peterson, one hair found in his boat that may or may not belong to Laci Peterson and one girlfriend -- Aaron.", "Well, let me just turn that around on you for a second, not so much what the prosecution has to show because there's a lot of strong feelings out there. What does the -- where does the defense case seem to lie? Where is the strength of the defense case?", "Leading up to this preliminary hearing there was a lot of discussion from sources inside the defense at times about theories, about that Laci was abducted by a satanic cult and murdered in some kind of ritual. They hinted around at possibly looking at the fact that the baby was born before -- the baby was born alive and other elements that might play into that theory but, again, that theory did not come up in this preliminary hearing. That is something that the defense might try to use to get some sort of reasonable doubt on the part of the jury when this does go to trial.", "David, thank you very much, David Mattingly in Modesto. Tonight seems to be the night for such things. From Modesto, we move south in California to Neverland, from Scott Peterson to Michael Jackson. Police today descended on his mansion. People started asking the same old uncomfortable questions about the singer's relationship with young children, reporting for us tonight CNN's Frank Buckley.", "More than 60 investigators from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department and District Attorney's Office descended on Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch to execute a search warrant, a source with knowledge of the investigation telling CNN they are looking into allegations of child molestation. Entertainer Michael Jackson was not home and he hasn't been at the Neverland Ranch for two and a half weeks according to his spokesman who said in a statement: \"We cannot comment on law enforcement's investigation because we do not yet know what it is about.\" A Jackson employee who was at the home when the search warrant was executed says he has never witnessed any improper behavior.", "I've been working here for too long, 14 years and I never see anything wrong, anything strange, so he loves the kids, all the kids.", "In 1994, Jackson reached an undisclosed financial settlement with a 14-year-old boy who said he had stayed at Neverland Ranch and alleged sexual molestation. Jackson maintained his innocence and was never charged with a crime. Earlier this year, though, he raised eyebrows when he told British journalist Martin Bashir that he sometimes shares his bed with children at the Neverland Ranch but Jackson told Bashir: \"It's not sexual -- we're going to sleep. I tuck them in.\"", "If he says that they shared a bed then he meant that he shared a bed like a father and a son would share a bed. I think if there was anything that was sexual he wouldn't have even brought that up.", "And, Aaron, tonight there are still investigators here at the Neverland Ranch, some 11 hours after they arrived to begin executing this search warrant. It isn't clear what, if anything, they've removed. We're hoping to get some answers tomorrow during a news conference with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff and the district attorney -- Aaron.", "Just quickly all the documents here sealed?", "That's right. With the search warrant it's going to be at least ten days before we know exactly what the contents of the search warrant are and they could remain sealed even beyond that.", "Frank, thank you, Frank Buckley out west tonight. Ahead on NEWSNIGHT, we'll hear from both sides on the gay marriage issue. Later, with President Bush now in Britain we'll look at what he hopes to accomplish during a state visit there. And as the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination approaches we talk with former President Gerald Ford, the last surviving member of the Warren Commission. From New York, this is NEWSNIGHT."], "speaker": ["AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR", "DAN LOTHIAN, CNN BOSTON BUREAU CHIEF", "BROWN", "DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BROWN", "FRANK BUCKLEY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BROWN", "LOTHIAN (voice-over)", "LINDA DAVIES, PLAINTIFF", "LOTHIAN", "PHIL TRAVIS (D), MASSACHUSETTS STATE REP.", "LOTHIAN", "MARY BONAUTO, PLAINTIFF'S LAWYER", "LOTHIAN", "PAUL MARTINEK, EDITOR, \"LAWYERS WEEKLY\"", "LOTHIAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LOTHIAN", "BROWN", "LOTHIAN", "BROWN", "JEFF GREENFIELD, CNN SR. POLITICAL ANALYST (voice-over)", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-249028", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2015-02-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/10/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Indian PM's Party Defeated in Delhi State Election", "utt": ["You're watching CNN, and this is CONNECT THE WORLD with me, Lynda Kinkade. Welcome back. It's not often that the tax man wins a popularity contest, but in India, that's exactly what happened. Former tax official and anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal has delivered a huge blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His Common Man Party is projected to win up to 90 percent of the seats in the election for the Delhi state legislature. It's a shock for the previously popular Modi, who won the general election with a landslide victory less than a year ago. CNN's Sumnima Udas is in New Delhi and explains what this means for Mr. Modi and the winning Common Man Party.", "The celebrations began even before the official results were announced. The two-year-old Aam Aadmi Party, or Common Man Party, has just won the New Delhi assembly elections by a landslide. And its support that means for the first time Narendra Modi and his BJP Party has lost a major election.", "(Inaudible). This is call for (inaudible), a sign for Modi, and I think it should away from its last sweep. Honeymoon period is over.", "Aam Aadmi, the party of bureaucrats, lawyers, teachers, many of them are very young. And the face of the party, Arvind Kejriwal, is young himself at 46, and a party symbol, the broom, a sign of how they want to clean up the system from corruption. Delhi only accounts for 2 percent of India's population, but what happens here reverberates across the nation. It gets incredible amounts of media coverage and, well, it's the seat of Indian power. And having an adversarial chief minister whose known for his socialist policies right under the nose of business-friendly Prime Minister Narendra Modi is undoubtedly going to change the India narrative. Sumnima Udas, CNN, New Delhi.", "Narendra Modi appeared at New York's Madison Square Garden last year, and this is the reception he got.", "More fitting for a rock star than a politician. Tens of thousands of people turned out to greet him and listen to his speech. But less than a year later, his popularity appears to be waning, while that of Arvind Kejriwal from the relatively new Common Man Party is rising steadily. To explain how this shift in popularity has happened and what it means going -- what it means for India, I'm joined by Gardiner Harris, the South Asia correspondent for \"The New York Times.\" Thanks so much for joining us. Firstly, how has this huge defeat come about? Was it out of the blue, or was this expected?", "Completely out of the blue. Nobody expected this. I certainly didn't either. But what's going on here, Lynda, is that India's political reality and its demographic reality are on two very separate tracks. Politically, India has always had very slow reforms, has been very hesitant on changing the system that radically. Demographically, though, 12 million people will come of age this year in India. In 6 or 7 more years, it's going to be 17 million. In 15 more years, it's going to be 26 million people coming of age. That's more than live in Australia at this point. And India has never produced more than 2 million jobs in any one year. This year, with 12 million people coming of age, fewer than a million jobs will be available for them. So there is this groundswell of desperation and anger coming up into India that Modi is going to have to deal with and deal with quickly.", "As you said, this is Modi's first blow since he won the election last year. Can we see this as a personal vote against him? Or was it partly the fact that the opposition ran a good campaign?", "I think obviously there's a little bit of both. But Modi made a huge personal appeal in this election. He led the campaign. It was his face on all the posters. He put himself front and center in this election, so he cannot say that he was not important to it. And over my shoulder is this enormous city called New Delhi, 25 million people. And in that city are 8 million people, roughly the size of New York City, who don't have access to water, who don't have access to power, who don't have toilets. And those people are deeply unhappy about this, and they're the ones who came out in such great numbers to support Arvind Kejriwal, who promised to deliver those basic services. Bisli and pani (ph). In Hindi, that is electricity and water. They were promises he repeated over and over and over again, and they resonated really strongly here.", "Now, I want to take a look at a quick image that made headlines recently. It was of the prime minister wearing a suit he wore when he met President Barack Obama last year.", "Right.", "You can see in the pinstripes, if you look closely, it's actually Minister Modi's name. It reportedly cost about $18,000, ten times the average Indian wage. Can you tell us what you make of that? Does that suggest that he is out of touch with voters, even in Delhi, which is obviously one of the wealthiest cities in the country?", "So, one of Modi's great strengths in his campaign last year was that he was the son of a chaiwala, a tea seller. That he came from the backward castes in India. It was a huge talking point for him, because in both the National Congress Party and in the BJP, those parties have long been dominated by high-caste Indians. So, here came a man of great modest upbringing. But in the months since his election, he has come out with sort of sartorial splendor, incredibly expensive suits. He's flying around in private jets. He is clearly projecting himself as a very well-to-do, highly-placed person. And Arvind Kejriwal, by contrast, wraps his head in cheap scarves. He wears the same tattered dark, Western clothing that the lower classes here wear. So, one got the sense that Modi had sort of forgotten one of the great messages that he had brought to the campaign, which was that he was just like most of the electoral people here. And that was a message that Arvind Kejriwal brought very strongly.", "Well, this may be a bit of a wake-up call for Mr. Modi. Thank you so much for joining us, Gardiner Harris. We appreciate it.", "Glad to -- sure.", "Now, live from CNN Center, this is CONNECT THE WORLD. Coming up, Samsung says there may be some confusion about its new smart TV. How the electronics maker is responding to complaints the TV sets could listen in on your private conversations. That's coming up next."], "speaker": ["KINKADE", "SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UDAS", "KINKADE", "KINKADE", "GARDINER HARRIS, SOUTH ASIA CORRESPONDENT, \"THE NEW YORK TIMES\"", "KINKADE", "HARRIS", "KINKADE", "HARRIS", "KINKADE", "HARRIS", "KINKADE", "HARRIS", "KINKADE"]}
{"id": "CNN-384361", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2019-10-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/30/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "John Bolton Invited To Testify In Impeachment Inquiry; ISIS Raid Images; Interview With Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL); White House Denies Witness Claim Of Omissions In Call Transcript; Lawyer: Bolton Won't Appear at Impeachment Probe Without Subpoena; Thousands Evacuate As Hurricane-Force Winds Stoke Wildfires.", "utt": ["This as we're learning more about John Bolton's concerns that politics was influencing Mr. Trump's Ukraine policy. Transcript omission. New questions tonight about the White House record of the president's very controversial phone call with Ukraine. A major witness revealing that key words were left out of the transcript, including a reference to Joe Biden. ISIS raid images. The Pentagon just released the first video from the U.S. raid that led to the death of the terrorist leader Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi. What do the images reveal? And hurricane-force. Ferocious winds stoke California's rapidly growing wildfire disaster, the flames threatening thousands of homes and coming dangerously close to the Reagan Presidential Library. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We're following breaking news on what could be one of the most important witnesses yet in the impeachment investigation. Sources tell CNN that House Democrats have invited former National Security Adviser John Bolton to testify behind closed doors next week. The impeachment probe is moving at a rapid pace tonight, with growing evidence against the president just hours before the full House votes on formalizing the investigation. Also breaking, a new fire in Southern California forces about 26,000 people to evacuate the blaze, fanned by hurricane-force wind gusts. At one point, the Reagan Presidential Library was completely surrounded by flames. I will talk with House Intelligence Committee member Mike Quigley and \"New York Times\" columnist Tom Friedman. And our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, let's go to our Congressional Correspondent, Sunlen Serfaty. Sunlen, the impeachment witness list keeps growing and growing, Democrats now want to hear directly from John Bolton.", "That's right, Wolf. This will certainly be a potentially huge moment on Capitol Hill in the House Democrats' impeachment probe. Now, it's not clear at this point if John Bolton will appear without a subpoena, but the House committees have officially made the request to him to appear, potentially next week. Now, this comes as another key witness, Tim Morrison, who's a top White House official on Trump's National Security Council, he is set to testify up here on Capitol Hill tomorrow, but sources now confirming to CNN that he is going to be stepping down and leaving his job soon. Certainly, a flurry of fast-moving developments in the impeachment probe.", "Tonight, House investigators have extended an invitation to former National Security Adviser John Bolton to testify next week, according to a source familiar with the matter. Bolton would be the most senior official to testify in the impeachment inquiry, though it's not clear Bolton will agree to appear without a subpoena. Sources also tell CNN Bill Taylor, the president's top diplomat in Ukraine, is willing to return to Capitol Hill to testify in public, a particularly monumental moment in the House Democrats' intensifying impeachment inquiry. Taylor's testimony last week behind closed doors sent shockwaves through the Capitol, where he completely undercut the administration's defense that there was no quid pro quo with Ukraine. Meantime, two new witnesses testifying on Capitol Hill today. Christopher Anderson, aid to former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, speaking to lawmakers behind closed doors, about the concerns voiced by Bolton over Rudy Giuliani's shadow Ukraine operation. Anderson, according to his opening statement obtained by CNN, saying Bolton \"cautioned Mr. Giuliani was a key voice with the president on Ukraine, which could be an obstacle to increased White House engagement.\" Catherine Croft, a State Department special adviser for Ukraine, also appearing today, corroborating the testimony the committees have heard from other witnesses about the push to oust the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and testifying today she was informed that acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, put an informal hold on security assistance to Ukraine. \"The only reason given was that the order came at the direction of the president,\" Croft said today. All of this as the fallout continues from the explosive testimony on Capitol Hill Tuesday of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council's top Ukraine expert. Vindman, who was on that now-famous July 25 phone call between President Trump and the Ukrainian president, directly contradicting Trump's public description of the transcript released by the White House.", "I had a transcript done by very, very talented people, word for word, comma for comma, done by people that do it for a living. We had an exact transcript.", "President Trump touting over and over again that it was an exact transcript of the phone call. The White House in September saying the ellipses that showed up did not represent missing words or phrases But not so, says Vindman, who told lawmakers what the White House released was not exact and had at least two parts omitted, a reference to a Joe Biden tape and a specific mention of Burisma, the company where Biden's son Hunter was on the board, Burisma, according to Vindman, appearing in the transcript as just the company. Sources tell CNN Vindman testified that he tried to make changes to the rough transcript, but his efforts were blocked.", "And back on Bill Taylor and the potential for a public testimony, sources tell CNN that a public testimony request has not officially been made by the committees yet, but certainly many Democrats see him as a very ideal first witness, as they move to the next phase of this investigation, Wolf, the public phase -- Wolf.", "All right, Sunlen, thank you, Sunlen Serfaty on Capitol Hill. As Democrats are urging John Bolton to testify, President Trump is on the attack once again against another key witness in the impeachment probe. Let's go to our chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. Jim, there's a new White House response to Lieutenant Colonel Vindman's testimony about omissions in the rough transcript of the president's Ukraine phone call.", "That's right, Wolf. The president shifted his attacks today from the whistle-blower to Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the White House official who says he was alarmed by some of those admissions in the administration's transcript, as he described them, of Mr. Trump's phone call with the leader of Ukraine. Those admissions, of course, raise serious questions about the president's claim that the White House provided an exact transcript of that call, as it appears now that is not the case, but the White House is insisting tonight it is the case. The White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, just released a statement. We can put this up on screen and show it to you. It says on all of this and some of the testimony from Alexander Vindman: \"President Trump released a full and accurate transcript of his call with President Zelensky, so the American people could see he acted completely appropriately and did nothing wrong. The media is reporting that Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman claims he proposed filling in words that were missing in areas were shown in the transcript. That is false.\" But, Wolf, there are other aspects of Vindman's testimony that may cause trouble for the White House.", "With more administration witnesses stepping forward in the impeachment inquiry, the president is taking swipes at Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council official who raised questions about Mr. Trump's phone call with the leader of Ukraine. The president tweeted that the Army officer and Purple Heart recipient was a never-Trumper witness who could find no quid pro quo in the transcript of the phone call. But sources tell CNN Vindman testified that aid to Ukraine was contingent on an investigation of the Bidens. Mr. Trump is urging Republicans, as he tweeted, to go with substance and close it out. But top GOP lawmakers are still quarreling with the process, complaining that the upcoming vote on the House impeachment inquiry is too little, too late.", "No due process now, maybe some later, but only if we feel like it, is not a standard that should ever be applied to any American, and it should not applied here to the president of the United States.", "Democrats say they want to talk substance.", "The president was pressuring a foreign government to target an American citizen. That's an abuse of power. The president said, focus on substance. We're going to focus on substance.", "One key piece of testimony from Vindman, that he was concerned about glaring omissions in the White House transcript of Mr. Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president. That flies in the face of what President Trump has repeatedly told the public.", "An exact transcript of my call, done by very talented people that do this, exact, word for word. It was an exact transcription of the conversation. I released a transcript of my conversation, an exact transcript.", "Democrats are firing back at some of the president's defenders.", "I find that astounding, and, you know, some people might call that espionage.", "Who question Vindman's patriotism. Presidential contender Pete Buttigieg, a veteran himself, says that crosses a line.", "Ours is the patriotism that would never question the integrity of someone who blows the whistle on official misconduct, least of all a war hero, acting out his loyalty to the republic for which we all stand.", "More questions are being raised about the operation to take out ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. At a briefing behind closed doors, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted administration officials for leaving top Democrats in the dark on the mission. Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney was also briefed on the operation after it was over. But a White House official pushed back on the notion that Mulvaney was out of the loop, saying: \"He was home for the weekend family. The operation began very quickly and, while he was not able to get a secure location in time to participate, he was briefed on its success upon conclusion.\" Mulvaney has been on shaky ground since he acknowledged a quid pro quo with Ukraine earlier this month.", "I have news for everybody. Get over it. There's going to be political influence in foreign policy.", "But the president has found somebody under his command to praise, the dog from the Baghdadi image, tweeting this Photoshopped image of the canine commando receiving a medal.", "Now, with the whistle-blower and Vindman offering damaging testimony in the impeachment inquiry, there are growing concerns about the safety of both men. The whistle-blower has been on the receiving end of some threatening messages. And Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said earlier in the day that he has sent a letter to the Pentagon requesting that efforts be made to guarantee Vindman's safety -- Wolf.", "Let's hope that happens, that he is secure. Thank you so much, Jim Acosta, over at the White House. Let's get to another breaking story right now, the Pentagon just releasing the first video from the raid that led to the death of the ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the images just declassified. Quickly want to go to our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr. Barbara, what are we seeing, what are we learning from these images?", "Extraordinary to see this, Wolf. This is a highly classified mission. Clearly, President Trump wanted the world to see these images. Three videos were released a short time ago here at the Pentagon. The first one shows as U.S. helicopters are beginning to approach the compound to land U.S. commandos to begin the mission. They come under fire from the ground. There are other militants there not to be believed to be ISIS, and those on board the helicopter quickly fire back and eliminate this opposing force on the ground. Then they rapidly move towards the compound, an extraordinary image here. Hopefully, you can take a second and see there are dark figures moving towards the compound. These are U.S. Special Forces. They are moving in, and they find Baghdadi in a tunnel area. That tunnel collapses, fills with water. There are wires there. It collapses because, in part, he has detonated, obviously, his suicide vest. That is -- the tunnel is where two U.S. service members and the military working dog are injured with electrocution injuries. All three have returned to duty. A very interesting detail coming to light here. General McKenzie, who briefed the Pentagon press corps a short time ago, says they are looking at this. They think it is possible that Baghdadi fired his weapon back. General McKenzie, along with the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, publicly unable to confirm the president's account that Baghdadi died whimpering or crying. They say they simply don't know anything about it. And the last video we see is, of course, U.S. aircraft rolling in, destroying the compound from the air. General McKenzie saying they wanted to do that to make sure that it did not become a shrine and that this is simply just another piece of ground. So, one of the most interesting things is, they were certain Baghdadi was there. And it was not an area of Syria where they expected to find him. So, when these missions are planned, it is with certainty that they know, not just when they're taking off, but when they land, that their target will still be there. And he was -- Wolf.", "Very dramatic video, indeed. Thanks very much, Barbara Starr, at the Pentagon. Joining us now, Congressman Mike Quigley. He's a Democrat, serves on the House Intelligence Committee. Congressman, thanks so much for joining us. I want to get back to the breaking news on the impeachment inquiry. You have now invited the former National Security Adviser to President Trump John Bolton to testify next week. Many different witnesses have testified about Bolton's role in all of this. How important is it, Congressman, for all of us, for you specifically behind closed doors next week, to hear from him directly?", "Well, we have learned from other testimony how important he would be as a witness. I'm hoping that he really wants to testify to show the courage that the others have so far, Colonel Vindman and the ambassadors who have testified so far. They have shown real -- and the whistle-blower. They have talked truth to power, that the president of the United States abused their power and muscled an ally who is very vulnerable at this time. And if indeed what we have learned is true, that he thought this was a drug deal, he thought that Mr. Giuliani was a hand grenade, that he was repulsed by this and canceled a meeting and said, go talk to the lawyers, then tell the American people, because they have a right to know. And I think he's also very concerned about Ukraine and its importance. All the more reason for him to let the public know what happened, and try to make sure it never happens again.", "How confident are you, Congressman, that Bolton will appear? His longtime aide Charles Kupperman has decided not to testify until a federal court weighs in.", "Look, there are people close to the White House -- and every time I show up to hear testimony, I think it's probably 50/50 whether or not they will show up. I would like to think that he could show the same courage that was seen with the witnesses so far, those who have put their careers on the line and, unfortunately, with the whistle-blower, those who had to put his life on the line to tell the truth.", "The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, is willing to testify publicly. He's already been deposed behind closed doors. How influential will he be in an open hearing?", "Look, just taking -- working from his opening statement, it's clear he was witness to this scheme. And he details this scheme of a shadow foreign policy led by someone who has no security clearance, no foreign policy experience, operating under directions by who knows who, Mr. Giuliani. So, he was an extraordinary witness. I think his presence, again, just working off his opening statement, will be commanding.", "We just heard from our correspondent Kylie Atwood that Tim Morrison, the top White House official on the president's National Security Council for Europe, he's leaving his job. We expect that he will be leaving his job very soon. He's supposed to testify behind closed doors before the impeachment inquiry tomorrow. What do you anticipate from that?", "I -- here's what I expect from all such witnesses, first, that they will tell the truth, that they will show courage to do so. None of them have contradicted the transcript, the complaining witness, and the text that we have learned so far. I think the majority of the case have been put before the American public. They know that the president abused his power. All the witnesses have done so far is to corroborate that, to build upon that case, and to continue to fill in the gaps of knowledge.", "You were in the room today, the closed-door room following -- during the depositions of two more witnesses. What sort of context did they provide on the timeline of this pressure on Ukraine and Rudy Giuliani's specific role?", "Yes, and I can't talk about specific testimony, but I will say the witnesses continue to be uniform, not contradictory, corroborating what we learned at the very beginning, building the case, filling in gaps. Often, what one witness does is lead us to questions, other questions, and other people we would like to bring before the committee to ask questions about.", "Are you any closer to fully understanding, Congressman, why the nearly $400 million in U.S. military aid that had been appropriated, authorized by Congress, signed into law by the president, was actually frozen by the president at the last minute?", "I personally have no doubt as to why it was frozen. The president of the United States was using whatever leverage he had, military assistance and a meeting in the Oval Office, to get the Ukrainians to do research for him, to do his political dirty work against his opponent. I don't have any doubt about that. But we continue to build the case, because the American people has -- a right to learn about other crimes and misdemeanors and how to fill in the gaps of the existing case.", "Have witnesses confirmed what you're telling us?", "Oh, I -- all they have done is -- even if all you did was read the opening statements, I think all they do is corroborate the original whistle-blower complaint and the transcript that the White House released. All you can do is build upon that. The fundamental case is there. There's a lot more to learn, but I do think the body of the case is there. The American public is well aware that the president abused his power.", "The Austin Army Lieutenant Colonel Vindman serves on the president's National Security Council, testified yesterday that the White House omitted additional mentions of the Bidens and Burisma -- that's that Ukrainian natural gas company that Hunter Biden was on the board of -- in the rough transcript of that July phone call between President Trump and President Zelensky. How do you interpret that? As you just heard the White House is formally denying to assertion by the lieutenant colonel.", "Yes, I guess I would ask the American public. We don't leave our common sense at the door. If the White House was so forthcoming about this, why did they hide this phone call in a secret server right out of the back? Why did they try to hide this? And why have they tried to obstruct every witness who would come forth in front of the American public, through its elected body of Congress to tell us exactly what took place? They don't want the American public to know all the details.", "Tomorrow, the House will vote on the impeachment inquiry moving into this new official formal phase, a full vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. You speak to a lot of members, including your Republican colleagues. Do you expect to get any Republican votes?", "You know, I don't. It's unfortunate. We know one member has left the Republican Party and has talked about why the president of the United States should be impeached. But other than that, I don't. First, the Republicans talked about wanting this resolution, this vote, and then, when it's being offered, they're saying, oh, it's not enough. It's just proof that they want to talk about process because they don't want to talk about what the president did. And the fact is, I have been part of this investigation since day one. And can I tell you firsthand that the Republicans have worked hand in glove this administration to obstruct all of his crimes and misdemeanors. It continues today.", "Congressman Mike Quigley, thanks so much for joining us.", "Thank you.", "Just ahead, will John Bolton agree to testify in the impeachment investigation? We're going to talk about the breaking news story that's unfolding right now with \"New York Times\" columnist and author Thomas Friedman. He's standing by. There you see him. He's here with me in THE SITUATION ROOM. And we will also go live to Southern California, where wildfires and hurricane-force winds are raging."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "THE SITUATION ROOM. ANNOUNCER", "BLITZER", "SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SERFATY (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SERFATY", "SERFATY", "BLITZER", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "ACOSTA (voice-over)", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-410472", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-09-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/09/cnr.01.html", "summary": "AstraZeneca Pauses Vaccine Trial After Unexplained Illness in Volunteer; Bradley University to Quarantine All Students for Two Weeks; Florida Nears 12,000 COVID-19 Deaths as State Tops 650,000 Cases", "utt": ["Very good Wednesday morning to you. I'm Jim Sciutto.", "And I'm Poppy Harlow. This morning a roadblock in the race for the vaccine as the United States sadly inches closer and closer to 190,000 COVID deaths. Drug giant AstraZeneca this morning is halting its global trials after an unexplained illness in one of its volunteer participants. This is a standard precaution they say as the company reviews all the information. But as we wait for a vaccine, top health experts are demanding more testing as a way to try to get a handle of this.", "Directors for the National Institutes of Health say test as many people as possible. A new report from the Rockefeller Foundation at Duke University suggesting the bar should be set at 200 million tests per month. Now to be clear that's not an unusual message. Health experts have been saying for months the key to stopping the outbreak is widespread testing and contact tracing. That's the secret. It works but the U.S. remains without a national plan to do so. Let's begin with the latest on this halt to AstraZeneca's vaccine trials. CNN's senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen joins us now. Elizabeth, this is why you do broad phase three trials as they're called, tested across thousands of people to confirm that it's safe. How significant is this effect on one patient in the trial?", "This could be very significant, Jim, when they have an unexplained illness among their study subjects. Now when you're testing tens of thousands of people in your trials, there is a chance that one of them is going to get an unexplained illness. What you have to do is stop down, don't vaccinate any more people, and see if that illness is vaccine related. This is one of the reasons why vaccine trials are so unpredictable. This is why we should not believe President Trump when he says, yes, I think we're going to have a vaccine by election day. You can't predict vaccine trials. We also shouldn't be listening to pharmaceutical executives when they give rosy forecasts. Just yesterday, a pharmaceutical executive connected to the Pfizer vaccine said our vaccine is nearly perfect. How can you say that when it hasn't been tested? You don't know if something like this is going to happen. And in fact, one of the executives from the University of Oxford, which is associated with this AstraZeneca one, the one that now has the delay, he was saying all last spring we are going to finish first. You just don't know. Vaccine trials require a great deal of humility -- Jim.", "And Elizabeth, until we have very broad -- not just a vaccine, but very broad vaccination, a key issue here in being able to really get control of the pandemic is testing and you have the NIH coming out this morning speaking loudly in support of very broad testing. Basically, as I read it, saying test everyone you can, but that stands in contrast to that updated guidance from the CDC. So who should people believe?", "Yes, it certainly does stand in contrast. I was really -- this is quite an amazing statement from the heads of various institutes within the National Institutes of Health saying we do need to test people who have had -- you know, who have been exposed to someone with COVID. They've been, you know, close to someone with COVID for more than 15 minutes. They might be fine, but they still need to be tested even if they're asymptomatic. That stands in contrast to what the CDC said a couple of weeks ago where they said, you don't really need to test people who are asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic. That is not the case. What the NIH is saying I think is what most experts are saying. You do need to test people even if they're not showing symptoms if they've had an exposure.", "Well, I asked Dr. Fauci about that last week. I mean, it seemed he was trying to walk down that CDC confusion there.", "Yes.", "It seems that there's disagreement within the task force in some way. Elizabeth Cohen, thanks very much. Joining us now Dr. Richard Besser, former acting CDC director under President Obama, during which time he led the CDC's response to the h1n1 influenza pandemic. Dr. Besser, always good to have you on. First, let's begin with we're learning about the AstraZeneca trial. As Elizabeth Cohen is noting, listen, this is why you do broad-based phase three testing. What does this tell you? Because clearly there's a lot of political pressure to fast track vaccine approval here. Does this kind of thing give pause to the folks in charge of giving that approval? Can it help stand in the way of that political pressure we're seeing?", "Well, I hope it reinforces what you're just saying, the value of doing these large trials and not prejudging the outcome. You know, I continue to talk about, you know, if we have a vaccine rather than when we have a vaccine because there's no guarantee that we will have a safe and effective vaccine. I'm optimistic, but let's wait and see what these trials show. I also think, though, Jim, it's important not to overinterpret the pause in the AstraZeneca trial. This is why you do these big trials. If you see something, you stop, you investigate, you see was this related to the vaccine or not. You know, in these large trials you have hundreds of thousands of people in vaccine trials. You will see life events. You'll see people who die from other things totally unrelated. Someone may have a heart attack or have cancer. But if someone dies in the vaccine trial you have to take a pause and look to see what happened. If it is related to the vaccine, then that will raise some questions and say, OK, is this type of vaccine a safe vaccine and can we proceed? But this is what you expect to see. It's a good sign that they're taking this pause, and hopefully it will increase the pressure to let CDC and FDA do their jobs and make sure that we don't get a vaccine approved before we know it's safe and effective.", "And, Dr. Besser, both Dr. Fauci yesterday saying that it's just very unlikely that there will be an effective vaccine before election day, adding to what the chief adviser to Operation Warp Speed, Moncef Slaoui, said to NPR last week that it's extremely unlikely, but not impossible. Explain to our viewers why you are at the point of an if, meaning there may not in your opinion be a vaccine that is broadly taken and proves effective so that we can all get back to life as normal before. Like this may change everything for us going forward.", "Yes, that's right. You know, Poppy, there are billions of dollars -- hundreds of billions of dollars that are being invested to try and get us a safe and effective vaccine, and I think that's terrific. And I'm optimistic. But if you look at the history of vaccine development, HIV, malaria, dengue fever, diseases that have killed hundreds of millions of people around the globe, we don't have vaccines for those yet. And so there's no guarantee that we will have one. And we have to make sure that every effort is done to make sure that if we have one, it's scaled up and it's produced and it's great the efforts that are going in that way. But we can't prejudge the notion that there will be one. That's what these trials are for. All of the data we've seen so far that's been optimistic has been done in dozens of people. And that's not enough to give you anything but a signal that it's OK to move forward with these larger trials.", "Yes. And Russia is moving forward, right, with just testing on something like 78 people.", "Yes.", "Let's talk about broad-based testing. So to hear that from the NIH, in no uncertain terms, you and I have talked about this, it's not new. You know, every expert involved in outbreaks has been saying for months, you've got to do broad-based testing and contact tracing. I mean, does it make a difference at this point? I mean, clearly the president, the federal government has decided not to go down this path. Where does that lead us as a country?", "Yes, I think the NIH is even saying more than that. That if we get to the point where we had, you know, a cheap point of care test, something where you could do a quick swab and get a result, it might change how we approach kids going back to school and teachers and staff where you could test people every day. You wake up in the morning you do a test. If you're negative, you go to work, or if you're not, you stay at home. But clearly, clearly everyone in public health is saying the same thing that if you've been exposed to someone who has a COVID infection you need to be tested. And it's really important that we're breaking data down by race and ethnicity in neighborhood to make sure that adequate testing is available everywhere because the data are still coming in to show that this pandemic is having dispirit impacts on lower income communities and communities of color. And as school reopen, I really worry that that impact is going to be amplified.", "Thank you so much, Dr. Besser. Always really good to have you. We appreciate it.", "Thank you so much.", "So let's talk now about some of the newer hot spots in the Midwest. Omar Jimenez joins us in Chicago. Good morning, Omar. You have just learned that the university not too far from where you are in downtown Chicago is enacting a two-week quarantine. Which one?", "That's right, Poppy. Bradley University here in Illinois just put in place a two-week quarantine for all of their students, and are temporarily moving to all online classes as they are now seeing dozens of students test positive on their campus. And they specifically point to social activity outside the classrooms saying they were observing large and small gatherings where people were not wearing masks and were not physical distancing and that they can trace a lot of their cases to those gatherings. This quarantine is meant for them -- to give them time to get a handle and assess on the virus' extent on campus. And it's a story we've seen it play out at universities across this region. At the University of Iowa, for example. Their athletics program is just now resuming voluntary and mandatory workouts after having to stop everything altogether with 93 athletes testing positive. Now the recent wave of testing got that number down to 21 which is good news. But when you look at the university as a whole, since they began tracking cases back on August 18th, they have had more than 1300 people on campus test positive for coronavirus, and according to their own dashboard those are just self-reported cases. And then when you expand to look at the region as a whole, there are a lot of states in the red when it comes to confirmed cases per 100,000, for example. Numbers that have increased we've seen in some cases over recent weeks. And when you look specifically within that at the -- or things look a little bit better, I should say, when you compare the numbers from the previous week to what they look like last week as well, and then specifically when you look at states in general on confirmed cases in total, Illinois does lead the pack but they have set record levels of testing here in the state as their positivity rate has been right around 4 percent -- Poppy.", "Omar Jimenez in Chicago, thanks very much. Now to Florida, a state that could reach 12,000 COVID-related deaths as soon as today, but, Rosa, Florida has gotten some of these figures under control. What's happening there? Give us your best assessment as to where Florida stands.", "You know, Jim, if you look at the big picture, Florida is definitely heading in the right direction. The Florida Department of Health reporting yesterday 1,823 cases, the day before that 1,834. Look, we hadn't seen such low numbers since mid-June, but there are two concerns looming right now. First of all, the potential effects of the Labor Day weekend, and also the return to face-to-face instruction. According to the Florida Department of Education, at least 1.6 million students in this state are now learning face-to- face. Now I wish I could give you an exact number of how many students, how many teachers have contracted the coronavirus, but the state of Florida still has not released this information. I continue to push. The last e-mail that I received from the state said that the state was working on how to structure the report to release the data. But they haven't released the data. Here's what we do know. At least two counties have been very good about releasing this information. I just heard back from Martin County. That county reports that 433 students have been transitioned to remote learning because of the coronavirus. And Hillsborough County which launched their own dashboard shows that 60 students so far have contracted the coronavirus and 148 employees as well. Look, in the two biggest counties in the state, most impacted by the coronavirus, Jim and Poppy, they are still in virtual learning. I'm talking about Broward and Miami-Dade where I am. But they are planning to take a look at the metrics within their county at the end of this month to determine if they can then transition to face-to-face learning -- Jim and Poppy.", "Yes.", "Rosa, always pushing for the answers, thank you. Let us know what you do hear back. Still to come, the president calls on his supporters to act as poll watchers to prevent what he says will be voter fraud without any evidence. On the same night that a top Republican election attorney says the party tried for decades to find double voting, but never did.", "And now the president is encouraging people to do it. Plus, taxpayer dollars for Trump's defense. The DOJ has asked to take over the defense of President Trump in a defamation lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, a woman who says Trump raped her in the 1990s. And at least 25 wildfires burning right now in California. One of those fires burning in the area about the size of Central Park every 30 minutes. Just the scale of this is off the charts. We're going to speak to someone in charge of battling those blazes."], "speaker": ["JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "SCIUTTO", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "COHEN", "SCIUTTO", "COHEN", "SCIUTTO", "DR. RICHARD BESSER, FORMER ACTING DIRECTOR, CDC", "HARLOW", "BESSER", "SCIUTTO", "BESSER", "SCIUTTO", "BESSER", "HARLOW", "BESSER", "HARLOW", "OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SCIUTTO", "ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "CNN-104881", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-4-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/12/sitroom.03.html", "summary": "First Public Playing Of Flight 93 Cockpit Voice Recording; Bush, Iraq & WMD; Should Rumsfeld Resign?", "utt": ["To our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM, where new pictures and information are arriving all the time. Standing by, CNN reporters across the United States and around the world to bring you tonight's top stories. Happening now, the fight for Flight 93, the disturbing play-by- play of passengers battling the terrorists on the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11. It was played for the first time in the trial against an admitted al Qaeda conspirator. Also, reckless reports or a reflection of realty? The White House is blasting a report suggesting President Bush knowingly cited bad intelligence on weapons of mass destruction to help justify the war in Iraq. Depending on the outcome, it could weaken or strengthen the president's credibility. And Tom Cruise is back promoting a new movie and touting the benefits of Scientology. He has more arguments against psychiatry. Do some findings from the government help support Cruise's arguments? I'm Heidi Collins, in for Wolf Blitzer, and you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. It is the first public playing of the Flight 93 cockpit voice recording. And it captures the horror of 9/11 as it happened. That recording was played for the jury in the trial of al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. CNN Justice reporter Kelli Arena is live at the courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, now with details -- Kelli.", "Heidi, this was a very difficult recording to listen to, especially with victim family members sitting right there in the courtroom. I did my best to dramatize what we heard, because the audio was not released by the court.", "The courtroom was riveted as the recording was played. The turmoil, suffering, and heroism of Flight 93 brought to life. After hearing the hijackers yell at passengers to sit down, shut up and not move, you can hear a man pleading, \"Please, please, don't hurt me... Oh, God.\" This is followed by more yelling, hijackers telling passengers to \"Get down!\" Then more agonizing pleading from another person, this time a woman who prosecutors identified as a flight attendant. \"I don't want to die,\" she said. Another voice answers, \"No! No! Down! Down!\" Again, she pleads, \"I don't want to die. I don't want to die.\" Then all you hear are cries. A hijacker icily reports back, \"Everything is fine. I finished.\" As passengers approach the cockpit, you hear a hijacker saying, \"Is there something? A fight? Yeah?\" The plane at this time is rocking wildly. \"They want to get in there. Hold, hold from the inside!\" You hear screaming. It sounds like one of the hijackers has been injured or killed. This is followed by an American voice saying, \"In the cockpit! If we don't, we'll die!\" Then, Roll it!\" You hear the crashing of what sounds like the drink cart. Unbelievable chaos followed by a struggle. \"Give it to me! Give it to me! Give it to me!\" Then, \"Allah is the greatest!\" And silence. Hamilton Peterson lost his father and stepmother aboard that flight.", "I think it captures the American spirit. It is truly remarkable that when one appreciates the brutality and the complexity of the conspiracy, that in a matter of moments, these brave Americans overcame a horrific challenge.", "The jury has had to relive the horror of 9/11 each day as prosecutors try to convince them to sentence Moussaoui to death. They rested their case today. The defense will start theirs tomorrow -- Heidi.", "All right. Kelli Arena, thank you. And tonight, a one-two punch, said the Bush White House on Iraq. A published report is raising new questions about the president's credibility and his past claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. And for the first time, a general who actually commended troops in Iraq is calling for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign. Our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, is standing by. But first, to our White House correspondent, Suzanne Malveaux -- Suzanne.", "Well, Heidi, the White House is really taking issue with this report, calling it irresponsible and reckless from \"The Washington Post,\" as well as ABC News, any suggestion that the president knew that the bad intelligence that he was putting forward was leading our country to war.", "On May 29, 2003, several months after the U.S. invaded Iraq, President Bush declared the U.S. was justified in going to war.", "We found the weapons of mass destruction.", "The evidence, two trailers seized in northern Iraq that U.S. intelligence claimed were mobile weapons factories previously cited by top officials in making the case for war. At it turns out, the trailers were not being used to make biological weapons, but rather, to fill weather balloons, a conclusion reached by the U.S. government's Iraq Survey Group 15 months later. But today, \"The Washington Post\" reported that experts on a Pentagon-sponsored mission concluded the trailers were not biological weapons labs two days before President Bush made his declaration and that they sent their findings to Washington in a classified report. But the White House says the president did not get that assessment until much later, and took strong exception to any suggestion that Mr. Bush knowingly was giving out inaccurate information.", "That is absolutely false and it is irresponsible. The president was saying what the intelligence community assessed to be right, that they had discovered a \"mobile biological production plant.\"", "The debate comes at a time when polls show Mr. Bush has lost ground in one of his strongest areas, trustworthiness. More than half of Americans say they believe the president is not honest. Since the beginning of Mr. Bush's second term, the administration has been faced with a series of setbacks, from the failed Dubai port deal to the CIA leak investigation.", "There's a drip, drip, drip that's occurred, that's worn away his credibility for much of the public. And that's -- I think it's terribly unfortunate from his standpoint, because it's very hard to govern.", "And three years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the president continues to make the case that it was justifiable going to war with Iraq. And Scot McClellan saying he doesn't believe it's a credibility gap that is with the president, but rather, those who continue to insist that he deliberately misled the public into going to war -- Heidi.", "Suzanne Malveaux outside the White House tonight. Suzanne, thank you. A quick fact check now on this story. We asked our nation security correspondent, David Ensor, about the time frame for intelligence information to make it from the field to the White House. He says in almost every case, raw data would not arrive on the president's desk in a matter of a day or two. As President Bush deals with that report, his defense secretary is dealing with calls for his resignation. Another military general wants Donald Rumsfeld out. More from CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr -- Barbara.", "Hello to you, Heidi. Well, this time it is just a bit different, because for the first time, a general who commanded thousands of combat troops in Iraq, indeed, is calling for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign. Major General John Batiste commanded the 1st Infantry Division until he retired from the military about five and a half months ago, did a long combat tour in Iraq. And this morning, when he interviewed on CNN's \"AMERICAN MORNING,\" he was remarkably blunt about his views.", "When decisions are made without taking into account sound military recommendations, sound military decision-making, sound planning, then we're bound to make mistakes. When we violate the principles of war with mass and unity at command, and unity of effort, we do that at our own peril.", "So the secretary should step down?", "In my opinion, yes.", "A pretty startling admission, Heidi. Of course, three other generals in the last month, retired generals -- but they did not command combat troops in Iraq -- also called for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign. All of this yesterday leading the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace, to make a very public statement about all of this, saying that generals have ample opportunity to complain in private when they're on active duty. And he says he never heard any such complaints. But I have to tell you, all of this causing a good deal of dismay in the Pentagon. A lot of speculation about who might be next to complain -- Heidi.", "We'll continue to follow it. Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr. Thank you, Barbara. And time now for what we call \"The Cafferty File.\" Our Jack Cafferty is in New York. Jack, hi there.", "Heidi, I want to go back to that story Suzanne Malveaux was talking about a couple of minutes ago. As if the administration isn't in enough trouble, along comes this report in \"The Washington Post\" this morning that President Bush was declaring to world, \"We have found the weapons of mass destruction,\" 50 days after the fall of Baghdad in 2003. But that statement was false. And some U.S. intelligence officials knew it was false. A secret fact-finding mission to Iraq had discovered that those much-publicized trailers touted as biological weapons labs were nothing of the sort. ABC News has even reported that President Bush knew what he was saying about those trailers was false. Well, needless to say, the White House is not very happy about any of this. They pooh-poohed \"The Post\" story and they want ABC News to apologize. What the White House did not do is answer this question: Did President Bush know what he was saying about the weapons of mass destruction was false? No answer. Here's our question, though? Who's to blame for the president's credibility problem? Is it the White House or the media? E-mail us at CaffertyFile@CNN.com or go to CNN.com/CaffertyFile -- Heidi.", "All right, Jack. We'll check back a little later. Thanks. Coming up, how big of a credibility problem does the White House have on its hands? We're taking a closer look at the political implications. Plus, former FEMA director Michael Brown, he's been blamed for the slow response to Hurricane Katrina. So why would a Louisiana parish consult him on the cleanup? I'll ask him. Michael Brown is in THE SITUATION ROOM. And Tom Cruise is a \"Top Gun\" in the Church of Scientology, and he's claiming new progress in the church's campaign against what it calls an industry of death. We'll have the story."], "speaker": ["HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "KELLI ARENA, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "ARENA (voice-over)", "HAMILTON PETERSON, RELATIVE OF FLIGHT 93 PASSENGERS", "ARENA", "COLLINS", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX (voice-over)", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MALVEAUX", "SCOTT MCCLELLAN, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "MALVEAUX", "DAVID GERGEN, FMR. PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER", "MALVEAUX", "COLLINS", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "MAJ. GEN. JOHN BATISTE, U.S. ARMY (RET.)", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "BATISTE", "STARR", "COLLINS", "JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR", "COLLINS"]}
{"id": "CNN-105900", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2006-5-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/12/lkl.01.html", "summary": "Panel Discusses Week's Top Stories", "utt": ["Tonight, the stories you can't stop talking about, the government tracking your phone calls; what the president should say Monday night on immigration; those painful gas prices; breaking news in the Duke rape investigation, new DNA tests have just come back; plus, the Da Vinci Code debate and more, some of America's most outspoken talk radio hosts take on all the latest news and take your calls next on LARRY KING LIVE. And, good evening, John Roberts in for Larry King on this Friday night, Larry is off. We're going to get to our A list of conservative and liberal talk show hosts in just a couple of minutes. But, first of all, we've got some new developments in the Duke rape investigation. Within the past our defense attorneys for the lacrosse players who are accused in this case held a press conference to talk about new DNA reports that have come out from prosecutor Mike Nifong's office. Among the revelations is that an acrylic nail that apparently came from the exotic dancer, who was accusing the lacrosse players of rape, was found in a waste basket that had other trash in it, including Kleenexes, used Kleenexes as well as Q-tips and may have possibly been contaminated and then also the presence apparently from this exotic dancer of another sole source sample of DNA. We want to get right to Kevin Miller. He's with 680-WPTF Radio in Raleigh and, Kevin, give us the upshot of what the attorneys were saying here.", "Well, the attorneys, John, were very upset. Joe Cheshire has come on WPTF and really led the defense team basically stating that he accused the prosecutors of leaking today, Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong of leaking this case saying it's been in the press for three or four days. They just got the written DNA test results back. This is the second DNA test results. The first DNA test results that came back really did not prove any link to the lacrosse players. Mike Nifong had originally told us it was a DNA dragnet. He put a lot of his credibility into it. When that didn't come back the defense basically stated \"Mr. Nifong, drop the case.\" The second DNA results came back. That's what the press conference was about tonight. And then you had Joe Cheshire saying, \"Look, there was semen and we know who it is. He's listed in the report,\" and again urged the Durham District Attorney to drop the case stating that there was no DNA inconclusive evidence linking any of the two suspects that have been indicted or anyone else. He said, \"Look, if it was brutal, if it was this, it was that, why did they pick it up out of the wastebasket and hand it to the Durham Police Department?\"", "Right, that was the big point that he was making, no conclusive evidence linking the DNA found underneath this acrylic nail that was detached and found in the garbage to any of the lacrosse players, even though there was a mixed sample of DNA. But let's zero in though on this semen sample. This is brand new is it not, Kevin?", "You know, about a couple hours, John, before we heard the rumors in Raleigh about this it happened -- the crime happened in Durham a month ago tomorrow if you will and the rumors have been swirling around here. And the person is very well known who this semen sample came from but because he's a private individual the defense officials did not want to release his name.", "All right. Kevin, hang with us. We're going to come back to you in just a second. But right now we want to reach out to DNA expert Barry Scheck, who of course you'll all remember from the O.J. Simpson trial. We have contacted him at Yankee Stadium in New York, Barry, thanks for joining us. I know that you've got other things on your mind. What do you make of this latest report on DNA evidence under the acrylic nail and this apparently single source semen swab?", "Well, it sounds like as far as the single source semen swab is concerned this was probably part of the first round of DNA testing because it was always puzzling that they were saying that there was no DNA when they must have", "Right, but if you have only one semen sample and it's a single source and you know who it is does that exonerate the Duke lacrosse players or could they still be suspects in the case?", "Well, I mean obviously it's evidence in their favor and there has to be some explanation as to why there wasn't any semen", "Right and, Barry...", "As far as the nail is concerned...", "Right.", "...it sounds like and, you know, again they're saying there's no conclusive", "All right, Barry, we're having a little bit of -- we're having a little bit of trouble hearing you, Barry, so I think we're going to have to let you go. Let's go back to Kevin Miller who is Durham for us and, Kevin, what's the defense saying about the prosecution's case now that they have this second round of DNA evidence?", "Well, they again urge Mike Nifong to drop the case. They've said that repeatedly. John, they've done an expert job of really derailing the theories that this happened. First, Mike Nifong said the DNA tests, he told me they would be more -- it would be more reliable than an eyewitness identification. When that didn't come back he floated the theory of condoms, then the foreign object, when that didn't come back the second DNA testing. Then they attacked the credibility of not on the victim accuser as Joe Cheshire called her tonight, the false accuser. They attacked the credibility of the second stripper. They've attacked the -- everything that we know of of this case with the time stamped photos, with the ATM receipts along with the ATM photos from Reade Seligmann has really derailed Mike Nifong's case. Now the word on the street here is he has a silver bullet. It's pretty much late in the game if he has one based on the second DNA test results coming back tonight and the tone of the defense attorneys, John, he needs to use it.", "All right, well we're going to keep watching this case, of course. Kevin Miller of WPTF Radio in Raleigh, thanks very much for being with us. This is a topic that we're going to get to as the hour progresses, as we now bring in our panel of talk radio hosts. Let's welcome first of all Dennis Prager in Los Angeles. He's the host of the Dennis Prager Show, nationally syndicated talk radio program, best-selling author and lecturer. In Dallas, Texas tonight Big Ed Schultz, host of the Ed Schultz Show, nationally syndicated in the Jones Radio Network billed as America's number one progressive talker, also the author of \"Straight Talk From the Heartland.\" And we got to give a big tip of the Stetson to Big Ed tonight because he's actually skipping his son's graduation dinner to be with us. His son David is a student at Texas Christian University, an all American golfer and aspiring pro. We wish him all the best in his graduation and we thank you, Ed, for being with us.", "Thank you, John.", "All right. Joining us from D.C. tonight, Ben Ferguson, the host of the nationally syndicated Ben Ferguson Show on Radio America, billed himself when he was the tender age of 21 as the youngest talk show host in the country and the only one who could connect with young listeners. And, in New York Randi Rhodes, who is the host of the Randi Rhodes show on Air America, veteran of the U.S. Air Force, and Air Force Reserves. Thank you all very much for being with us, appreciate it tonight.", "Hey, thank you John.", "Where we're going to start tonight is actually by going ahead to Monday. President Bush has asked the networks for some primetime coverage of a speech that he wants to give on immigration. The White House, Tony Snow, today said it's crunch time for the immigration bill but, Dennis Prager, I'm also wondering if it's crunch time for the White House as well and they got to get some traction here with conservatives.", "That's correct. There's no denying that. Oops, getting an echo guys here. I'm going to pull this out.", "All right, we'll fix it but go ahead.", "There's no denying that this is a big issue for the Republicans and a real tense one for the administration. There's no question about it. But the interesting thing is why would voters who are worried about immigration Republican voters vote Democrat because everything they're worried about would be done less under the Democrats? This is not even a partisan statement. There is no plan from the Democrats. At least there is a plan from the White House and it's not going to satisfy most people. I think the president has been non- demagogic, has been responsible on this issue but I believe and I think most Americans even liberals believe it's time to build a fence.", "Randi Rhodes, do you agree with that?", "No, not at all. Republicans were the ones that gave amnesty way back in the '80s and caused this influx. The Democrats have, you know, plans but it includes tying people to the minimum wage. It includes -- if you're going to do immigration reform then you've got to actually recognize that, a) they're not felons that Mexico needs to be engaged. There's no leadership from the Republicans with engaging Mexico. Their economy has been like this for 70 years and we're going to start looking just like Mexico if we don't stop this", "Let me bring Ben Ferguson in on this. Ben, does the president run the risk on Monday of alienating members of his own party? I was talking with the White House today. They said \"We know that he may upset some Republicans but he feels that he really needs to lay down some markers now with this whole deal that's being worked in the Senate.\"", "Yes. He's got to lay down markers and I think that he's seen the outcry from the American people that they're saying, \"Look, we want something and we want something now. We're tired of you guys playing politics with this issue.\" I think the Democrats they have a plan. They want to get reelected to office and they know out of the millions of immigrants that are here they probably made friends with people that vote. The Republicans know that as well. The problem is, is how far can you go and not alienate that new voting base? They all want the Hispanic vote. They saw how important it was in Florida especially, Texas, other places like that but you've got governors screaming right now saying \"We're going to declare a national state of emergency.\" You look at Arizona for that matter and they're going, \"You got to help us. We need the National Guard\" and that voice I think is finally making its way to Washington. And most Americans are going, \"Look, you fly the Mexican flag. You change our national anthem. You sing it in Spanish, not English, and now you want us to give you citizenship?\" I don't think it's going to fly.", "And, in terms, Randi, we got to take a break here for a second. I was just going to say that in terms of the National Guard, the White House now considering the idea of putting the military on the border. That's an issue we'll get to right after this break. You're watching LARRY KING LIVE. We'll be right back. Stay with us.", "We're back on LARRY KING LIVE with an A list of talk radio hosts talking about all of the issues making news this week, all of the issues that you've been talking about. And, Ben Ferguson, this plan to put the National Guard on the border, I'm sorry I want to go to Big Ed Schultz. Big Ed, this plan to put the National Guard on the border maybe somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 troops to help secure the border, is that playing politics with the military?", "Well that's an innovative thought having the military protect the United States of America isn't it? It's a little too little too late I think. It's a desperate move on the part of the president because he is definitely losing support in his own party. The Democrats do have a plan. They came together. It was Ted Kennedy and John McCain. They've got a bill there and it was the Republicans who fell off the table on this deal, the hardcore righties out there that didn't want to do a deal on this. Keep in mind the Democrats do not run the agenda. This is the White House, the House and the Senate controlled by the Republicans but here we are in the middle of an election year and the midterm and all of a sudden Bill Frist decides to make this the issue. This has really backfired on the conservatives. There's no question about it. All along the Democrats have been compassionate on this issue.", "Ed, Ed, Ed this is not the Republican issue. This is the American people's issue. Over 70 percent of Americans are worried about this issue. And to say that the Democrats are the ones who are trying to lead this cause, is ridiculous. Harry Reid -- hold on -- Harry Reid, hold on, hold on...", "Excuse you said that the Democrats didn't have a plan.", "Big Ed.", "That's not the truth. That is not the truth. That's being disingenuous.", "Hey, who pulled this -- who pulled this off the table? Harry Reid said...", "You have got a president who is from a border state, a president from a border state, a president who said he had all this experience on dealing with immigration. Now we're into year number six and where is it?", "And I thought I talked loud.", "All right, let's hit the timer on the chess board. Ben, go ahead.", "Here's the thing. Harry Reid said that he did not want his members on the record before these elections on immigration. That's why they pulled it off at the last hour. So, I don't understand how they can claim they're trying to fix it. When he said in a newspaper \"I don't want my guys, I do not want my people on the record.\"", "Ben, Ben.", "Randi, check in on this here.", "Ben, you might be a little naive here. First of all, 75 percent of the American...", "That's your guy talking.", "Hey, the Democrats do not control a thing. They don't control what's introduced on the floor.", "They can block stuff.", "Exactly.", "They can't do anything. They can't do one thing. They can't -- they don't have subpoena power. They can't have a hearing.", "You can block stuff.", "They can't introduce a piece of legislation.", "You can block stuff.", "Ben, why can't your party get on the same page? Why can't the Republicans get on the same page with this?", "We are on the same page.", "Really, I mean the Ted Kennedy plan is the plan to go with. The Ted Kennedy plan makes sense for everybody.", "That's a new one in America, Ted Kennedy.", "Ted Kennedy understood this issue from a very compassionate point of view and the reason why there are so many protests on the street are simply because of the House plan. The House plan would make being a good Samaritan a felony. It would take the priests in the church who gives communion to a young girl who happens to be part of a family that's not naturalized or not here legally a felon. You want to make priests into felons your party's got that plan.", "OK, Dennis has got his earpiece back in and he's hearing all this -- go ahead, Dennis.", "Well there is a place, in fact, where Democrats are in control. It's the state I live in, in California, so it's pretty educational to find out what the Democrats do when they do have complete power.", "Arnold's a Democrat huh?", "I'm well aware of that so I'm talking about what the California legislators did. You can laugh and chuckle but this is a serious issue, Ed, and you should keep it that way.", "It is a serious issue and your party is in charge.", "OK, then don't sit there chuckling. Well, right but they're in charge in California and they came out the day of the protest boycott march by Mexicans and other illegal and legal immigrants in support of those kids leaving school, in support of people boycotting their places of work.", "Absolutely.", "That's what the Democrats do when they have control.", "Because, Dennis, they were going to turn them into felons, OK.", "OK, you're not answering what I'm raising.", "And these people are not felons. They're just poor.", "All right, folks.", "They're just poor.", "Let's call time and move on to a related topic. The House yesterday voted to permit the Pentagon to assign active duty military forces to the Department of Homeland Security. Randi Rhodes, does that fly in the face of the Posse Comitatus Act which prohibits the U.S. military from acting in a law enforcement capacity?", "No, and you know something. I was in the Air Force for six years and let me tell you something. There are no National Guardsmen left. There are no reservists left to do this work. Why not just fund the border patrol? Why not just give them what they need so that they can give us safe and secure borders?", "I couldn't agree with you more.", "But I will say this to you, OK. There is no way to secure a 2,000 mile border without cooperation from Mexico and this president has not led on this issue. He hasn't engaged Vicente Fox. Vicente Fox comes to America and where does he go? He goes to Microsoft.", "Randi, Randi.", "He goes to Boeing. This president is absent.", "Randi, why -- hold on. Just give me a second. Hear me out here. Why would the president of Mexico want to help us secure the borders? The number two stimulant of the Mexican economy...", "It's not a question of wanting to. It's a question of requiring him to.", "Hold on. The number two stimulant of the Mexican economy is illegal immigrants sending money home. Their own government in Mexico puts a booklet out that says how to get across the border and not get detected.", "Exactly, Ben, so where is your president? Your president -- I'm not going to yell over you. This is ridiculous.", "So how can the president lead when you have a president, Vicente Fox? What do you want to do put Vicente Fox in jail? No it's reality.", "It's called diplomacy. You just give this president a pass.", "Ben, you got the typical conservative answer. You think the president has absolutely no responsibility whatsoever.", "Right.", "You can't control another country.", "You exonerate the president at every corner.", "He's not responsible. He's not accountable. He doesn't have to lead.", "You guys are telling me we can't go around the world and police the world and now you're telling me to go to Mexico and like practically lock up their president.", "Absolutely, yes.", "That's a new one.", "Well, the White House certainly seems to be able to influence the Mexican president when it comes to making drugs partially legal. We're going to take a short break. We'll be back after this. We'll talk about the president's falling poll numbers and what he can possibly do about it before the November election. Stay with us.", "The privacy of ordinary Americans is fiercely protected in all our activities. We're not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans.", "So, it turns out that those Verizon ads were correct. Every time you pull out your phone there are hundreds of people behind the telephone. It just turns out they work for the NSA and not the phone company. Dennis Prager, what about this NSA data mining operation that the president was talking about where the NSA is collecting as we have learned today trillions and trillions of records of phone calls?", "Well, let me say and I believe that I speak on behalf of most Americans, God bless them for doing it. The idea that computers...", "Settle down, Randi.", "OK, allow me three sentences, how's that folks?", "OK.", "Go for it.", "It's not Air America. Let me speak.", "Oh, nice shot.", "You can come on.", "Randi, Randi.", "We'll swap. You know you're invited on my show anytime. I'd love to swap shows.", "Randi, chill, chill out for a second. Go ahead, Dennis.", "OK. If our government were not doing this it would be exceedingly irresponsible. There are communications between possible terrorists and bases elsewhere and they may be within the United States, the United States abroad, abroad, abroad. I want telephones monitored in that way. They're not monitoring my conversation or yours. Computers are monitoring a trillion conversations but not even conversations. They're monitoring phone numbers to look for patterns. What is wrong with that? It is such a minuscule price to pay for security.", "Now, the way that I -- hang on, Big Ed. Big Ed, let me just frame this for -- let me just frame this for everybody. The way I understand how it works is they get some phone numbers that they know about that they capture from people overseas and then they run those phone numbers against records here in the United States to see if they can pick up any calling patterns.", "No.", "So, Randi, what's wrong with that?", "What's your phone number, Dennis?", "You want it?", "Yes, go ahead what's your phone number?", "Well, the difference is...", "It's not private. You're thanking God. Give us your phone number.", "Listen, Randi though sometimes...", "It's not private. Dennis, Dennis...", "You are not a computer. I would give my...", "Give me your phone number.", "No. See, Randi, that's not an -- that's not an intellectually honest argument. I am happy to have computers...", "What's your phone number?", "But, Dennis it is a question of oversight.", "...monitor.", "That's really where this issue is right now.", "See all of a sudden when it gets real personal it's not going to happen to you.", "There's a lack of oversight. Dennis, I agree with you on the issue of having to do security...", "It's illegal. It's wrong.", "...electronically. I agree with you, Dennis, on doing security electronically but you have to admit there has been a lack of oversight. There has been a lack of involvement. There has been, you know, there's been -- the balance of powers have been violated in the government. Even people in the Republican Party such as the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter, he doesn't even know if it's legal. Now you got to be fair about this.", "It isn't. It's not legal.", "Protecting the country is one thing.", "Wait, please.", "But not having oversight is something else. Where's Jay Rockefeller on this?", "Let me throw a quote out here folks from today's \"New York Times\" editorial. It says, \"What we have here is a clandestine surveillance program of enormous size which is being operated by members of the administration who are subject to no limits or scrutiny beyond what they deem to impose on one another.\" Ben Ferguson, is this presidential power unchecked?", "No, I think here's one of the interesting things that no one has brought up tonight is the fact that this started right after 9/11 and...", "No, it started before 9/11.", "And shockingly -- all right, hold on.", "They've been doing it since they've taken office.", "All right, hang on Randi.", "It's illegal.", "Randi, Randi, Randi...", "It's illegal. Listen you can opine about what you want in the government. It's illegal. The NSA is...", "Randi, can I have your phone number? We'll talk about this later.", "Hey, hey, the NSA this is important, people were polled so quickly so that they couldn't get their brains wrapped around the facts.", "Listen, all right listen to me. After -- Randi, after 9/11 this started.", "Before 9/11, Ben.", "Randi, let me finish what I was going to say.", "Ben, do your homework young man, before 9/11 and let me tell you something right now.", "Randi -- Randi -- Randi...", "The NSA -- Ben, I'm not going to stop until I get this out.", "OK, let her get it out.", "The NSA is a foreign spy agency. It is not to spy on Americans. I talked today to Jonathan Turley, who is a constitutional scholar. He's a civil libertarian. We have a lot of disagreements on, you know, various issues but all the constitutional scholars in this country agree that this is illegal. The NSA has spoken up. Mr. Tice is going to testify in front of Congress next week.", "Randi, here's -- all right, look. I've been sweet. Now let me have my time.", "He's going to tell you that they broke the law. The NSA is not to spy on Americans ever.", "Randi -- Randi...", "The CIA is not to spy on Americans ever.", "Randi -- Randi -- Randi.", "It's illegal, illegal.", "Randi, he's going to hit me if you don't let him get in here, so let's let Ben get in.", "Here's the interesting thing. Democrats have been briefed on this program consistently.", "That's a lie.", "We know that's a fact. Randi -- Randi, this...", "Oh, I can't stand the lies.", "This came out.", "That is a false statement. That is wrong. They have not been briefed on this.", "You're wrong.", "They have not been briefed. They have not been briefed.", "That is not the truth. They have not been briefed on this.", "Ed, have you read the Harman papers?", "Jane Harman had a press conference yesterday.", "Have you read the newspapers? Have you read the newspapers?", "Let me tell you something. You're saying things that aren't true.", "Can I finish? No, let me finish what I was saying. They've been briefed on this program.", "Who?", "They know what's...", "Who's been briefed?", "The Democrats.", "I think we can stipulate Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi were briefed.", "Thank you. They were briefed on this.", "No, they were not briefed on this.", "They were given -- they were given information about it.", "Carl Levin on the Armed Services Committee they read it in the newspaper.", "If this was breaking the law why would they have leaked -- why wouldn't they have leaked this in 2001? Why wouldn't they have leaked it in 2002? Why wouldn't they have leaked it in 2003?", "Because they didn't know.", "Because why? This comes back to politics and the president's nomination of Hayden", "No.", "All right, we seem to have definite -- we seem to have definitely touched a nerve here. We're going to take a little break. We're going to get everybody calmed back down and we'll be right back after this. And, don't forget coming up on the show we're going to take your phone calls. And I know that Randi is looking forward to fielding a few of those. We'll be right back. Stay with us.", "We're going to get right to the president's poll numbers in just a moment or so. But first of all, we've got our first call of the evening. Denver, Colorado, hello.", "Hi. Mr. Roberts, how you doing today?", "Very good. Very good. I feel like I'm the referee in a four-way boxing match here, but it's great.", "I'm watching on television. I know exactly what you're saying. Hey, listen, I just have a quick question for Ben Ferguson and Dennis Prager, and it's just two questions.", "Go ahead.", "The first question is why did they not make this an issue in 2004 about illegal immigration? How come they didn't say Mr. President, before you go forward with the foreign policy, why don't you tell us what your policy is going to be about the illegal immigration problem? They knew all the things that they are saying right now about illegal immigration. Secondly, I want to know why their colleagues, Dennis Prager, in July -- why Dennis Prager's colleague Hugh Hewitt, in fact, in July 2002 had said on his radio show that Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo had hired illegal immigrants to do repair work on his vacation home. So when he goes out last summer over saying he is going to jilt people who hire illegal immigrants, is he talking about himself?", "Why wasn't it an issue in 2004?", "OK. Let me just say, I can't speak for Hugh, my wonderful colleague, and I don't know that specific situation. Why wasn't it an issue? I think this president is exactly what he calls himself, a compassionate conservative. And I think that he has a very strong sense of identification coming from Texas and knowing Spanish and working with a lot of Hispanics. I think he has a lot of compassion for these people. I don't think that he saw it quite as much as a threat to the society as it has developed since then. The president is a human being too. He is not merely a political machine. And he has been pushed by events to take this into consideration. That is a normal thing.", "Well, let me ask you this, Ben. Dennis just said it wasn't as critical an issue as it is now, but, I mean, this has been a critical issue...", "To him. To him.", "...since 1986. Oh to him?", "I think to him it wasn't. And also, I think he knew that it was an issue that he was going to have to make sure he heard from a lot of people before he made a rushed decision to come down on these people. You notice that this president has actually been criticized by some conservatives of not being strong enough on the issue. And I think part of that is because he has come from Texas. He wanted to make sure everybody talked about it. They figured out all what was going on. And also, I think the president is doing what the president is supposed to, listen to the American people. And right now the American people are crying out for us to do something on immigration, and that's why it's become his No. 1. Whereas it wasn't American people's No. 1 issue in 2004. And so, you know, the president is elected by the American people, and he's supposed to listen to them, and that's what he's doing.", "Big Ed, you want to ring in on that?", "Oh, I just think that this is grandstanding by the president in a big way. He's been in there for five years, has not done anything about it. They are worried about losing the Senate and the House, and they thought that this was going to be one of their trump card issues that they were going to be able to get political gain on in this midterm. Look, the bottom line is the president has been on the sideline on this issue for five years. They've had the power to do everything they want to do, and now they're coming up with the idea of national guard troops and a fence. That's lame.", "Sounds like a good idea.", "It's absolutely lame. You're not going to move 12 million people out of this country.", "Sounds like a good idea.", "You have got to bring them into the fold, go along with the Kennedy and the McCain bill because that's where most of the country is right now. It's just a few conservatives that are screwing this up.", "Ed, I don't think everybody's there. I think what you're missing is the fact that look, you have 12 million -- and let's be honest, when have we ever trusted the government as a whole to give us a real and actual number about anything? I mean, they're terrible with numbers.", "You're right. They're not good with their math.", "Well, if they are telling us -- I mean, we can all agree on that. If they are telling us there's 12 million, there's probably more than that. And I think what we realize is look, they're not spending their money here, they're sending it back to Mexico. The other thing is that they know they have to secure the border.", "Yes, because they have so much disposable income. They have got so much disposable income working for $2 an hour to just send everywhere.", "They're not making $2 an hour. If you go out and you talk to them they are actually making decent cash.", "Oh, right. Yes right.", "They are not getting paid under the table, you're right. Come on.", "No, they are getting paid good cash.", "Let me tell you something. In New Orleans where a lot of immigrants went to do the really tough work of cleaning up, they told stories about being treated like animals. They worked all week long for these contractors...", "Randi, do you not think they're doing that so that they will hopefully get this new legislation?", "Can I please finish, please? And when they were done working 40, 60, 80-hour work weeks for so much less than the minimum wage, they didn't get paid anything. And they were told go tell somebody that you're an illegal alien and that you didn't get paid, and see who's going to cry for you. That's how people are treated in America.", "Randi, they're breaking the law by being here illegally. And if they are breaking the law and if they don't like it, go home.", "Then fine the corporations that hire them.", "Actually, if I could just interject here.", "Fine the corporations who want them here.", "If I could interject here because I want to move back to a different topic. Apparently, as I understand it, the law is crossing the border illegally. Once you're here, you're actually not breaking the law.", "Exactly.", "But let me come back to this data mining idea. And Randi Rhodes, do you think the Democrats could make a big mistake by making General Michael Hayden's confirmation hearings be all about this because the Republicans will be able to take this NSA, this national security stick and beat them over the head with it?", "Look, this is creating more problems than it's solving on any number of issues. First of all, get a damn warrant. If you want to know if I call Papa John's five times a week or where I go or what I do or who I speak to, get a damn warrant, make a showing of probable cause, get a warrant and wiretap me. Have at it. But truthfully, right, there's a FISA court. It's set up for this exact purpose. The NSA is never to spy on Americans. The CIA is never to spy on Americans. Hayden has been doing this since before 9/11. And he needs to be accountable for what he's done.", "Dennis Prager...", "Why not -- why would the NSA and the total information awareness office that we were told was scrapped, now it's shown up again. Why, if Congress didn't want the total information awareness program, are they doing it under a new name, the terrorist information awareness? Tell me one person they've caught. Tell me one person that they've found that was, you know, here to hurt us through this program.", "Dennis Prager, do you...", "March that out and show me the result that is No. 1. No. 2, get a damn warrant, and No. 3, do not use foreign spy agencies to spy on Americans. Those who surrender liberty for security end up with neither. These are wise words.", "OK. Dennis, look, we've got to go to a break here in a second, but let me ask you this question. Do you think that this latest NSA controversy is going to help or hurt the president's poll numbers?", "If the president makes the case well, it will help him. Because common sense dictates that the best thing the government can do in terms of intelligence is something like this. They're not spying on me.", "Get a warrant.", "They can't get a warrant because they don't know who to get a warrant on.", "Dennis, do you think the American people believe George Bush?", "They are monitoring phone numbers.", "Don't you think it's a trust and credibility issue at this point? Anything the president says...", "It's a national security issue to make sure that we don't have another 9/11. That's a no-brainer in my opinion.", "Oh please. I am sitting here in New York City. And I am sitting here a half a mile away from where this happened, and you know something? Michael Hayden received a warning on September 10 that said tomorrow is the match game, tomorrow is zero hour.", "So let's talk about the next one the way you just did.", "And guess what he did?", "Let's talk about the future 9/11 the way you just did.", "He didn't translate it. He didn't translate it until the day after 9/11.", "What we are going to need to do is we are going to need to take another break, and we promise you we are going to be talking about those poll numbers some more just as soon as we come back. We are trying to get Randi excited, but it is not working. I don't know what is going on here.", "All right. We're back, and the blood is flowing on the floor here. Let me keep it in the studio here. Ben Ferguson, the president's poll numbers, average of a lot of polls that have been out for the last couple of weeks, he's about 33 percent. Are you worried he's going to go lower?", "No. I think -- I said this on my show. I said if gas prices hit $3 a gallon nationally, he'd go to 30 percent. If they went back up, he would go back up. So I think a lot of people, you know, instantly they say no matter who's in office, if gas prices are high, they claim, you know, out of lack of information, whoever's at the top -- and I understand that. I think that's part of the reason why his approval ratings have been so low is because you have seen the prices go up. But I think part of it now, as you've seen, there's been some switches at the White House. You have seen Tony Snow come in. I think they are going to do a much better job of -- I think you are going to see a much better job of them communicating to the American people about what their agenda is to get them back where these approval ratings can go back up again.", "Dennis Prager, have Republicans pretty much given up on the idea that President Bush can get to 40 percent before the election?", "I can't speak for Republicans on it. I can only tell you that I think that when people enter the polls in November, they will have -- the Republicans certainly will have the following choice. They will have to choose a Republican Party that they're not all that happy with versus a Democratic Party that they believe is hurting the country. I think that most Republicans will not act like children and say because I didn't get everything I wanted from my party, I will stay home. Some will. I don't consider that particularly sophisticated or mature, but so be it. People are very emotional creatures and they may not show up that day. By and large, the thought of John Conyers and Nancy Pelosi running the Congress will push Republicans to vote.", "Now, big Ed Schultz...", "Can I respond to that?", "Well, let me ask you the question. Let me get you to respond in this context. Nancy Pelosi came out today and said I will not seek to impeach the president should the Democrats take over the control of Congress. But that idea is out there. And is that not potentially going to play as a negative for the Democratic Party this year?", "Well, you know who's saying that? The right wing talkers of America can't say the word impeachment enough. They are trying to pin that on the Democrats.", "I have never talked about.", "You know, excuse -- I'm done with the shouting tonight. I'm going to talk for about 30 seconds.", "OK. Go ahead. Let's give Ed his forum here.", "OK. I'm going to talk for about 30 seconds here. Here's the reality of it. You've got a president that's in the low 30s, maybe even at 29 percent. He is scrambling. Every president that's been down that low has not been able to recover in a short period of time this close to the midterms. Every Republican senator is in trouble in the polls, and at least a push in the House. The country doesn't like the agenda. These guys did more tax cuts over this week. This is ridiculous. It's like a drunk at the end of the bar, and regardless of the outcome, just give me another one. That's what their mentality is when it comes to tax cuts. What about the foreign debt? What about the record deficits?", "What about unemployment at a really good level right now?", "Unemployment is not a measure of the future.", "What about the economy doing really well right now? I hate it when that happens. It ticks me off.", "It's not the measurement of the future of the country, the stability of the economy.", "I know, the economy, it's something that people obviously don't care about. I mean, we're in a good economy. The unemployment rate is low. I hate it. I can't wait to vote for a Democrat.", "The unemployment rate is only low because they stopped counting people after their benefits run out. And that is how they keep that number artificially low.", "Yes, good idea.", "The truth of the matter is that the president was warned about 9/11. He did nothing. He stayed on vacation. Katrina happened. He stayed on vacation. He didn't listen to his generals about Iraq. All these warnings that the president got, he ignored. And the American people are saying that's not leadership. That's why he's below 30 percent. The poll numbers are going to go lower and lower. Look, his father was at 29. He's at 29 in some polls. And he's going to beat his daddy.", "Randi, I want to -- Randi, I want to ask you a question, seriously. You just said a minute ago that the president ignored and that's why 9/11 happened, do you genuinely believe that 9/11 happened because of this president?", "I know it did. Yes, because on August 6 he was briefed at the ranch that Osama bin Laden determined to strike within the United States. That's not exactly...", "Can you explain the entire Clinton administration when they could have gotten him then?", "Yes, well, we were attacked in 93.", "I am just curious because if you are going to point at one, let's point at the entire thing.", "When the World Trade Center was bombed in 93 when Clinton was president for only a few months, you didn't see him turn around and blame George Bush Sr.", "No and he didn't do anything to fight terrorism either.", "He got Ramsey. They are sitting in federal prison.", "He didn't do anything to fight terrorism.", "I mean, what is wrong with you?", "He didn't fight terrorism. And this president has.", "Do your homework before you lie to people.", "Folks, I have got a little bit of business I have to do. Anderson Cooper is standing by in New York. He's got \"360\" coming up in just a few minutes. Get me out of this one, buddy.", "Yes, thanks, John. Coming up at the top of the hour on \"360,\" the battle on the border over illegal immigration is heating up again. We'll bring you the latest on a possible plan to send National Guard troops to protect our borders. Also tonight, the latest on the hunt for fugitive polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. The FBI says tips are pouring in. Also, another polygamist tonight -- another polygamist leader who is opposed to Warren Jeffs says he is concerned that authorities are on the verge of moving against him as well. I have an exclusive interview with him. All that and more and no shouting, John, at the top of the hour.", "Yes, we're looking guard to that. Anderson, thanks very much. We are going to try to cool down the reactor here, pull out the rods and see if we can avoid critical mass. We will be back right after this. Stay with us.", "We're going to take another call now. Get me off the hook here a little built. Atlanta, Georgia, go ahead.", "Hi. I was calling just to ask the few gentlemen who support Bush and the Iraq policy.", "Yes.", "I was curious as to, you know, obviously what's trying to be accomplished is admirable, but at what point would those two gentlemen concede that it's probably not going to work out? I mean, how many more years do we need to go down this road for people to finally -- for people to support it right now, to come to the conclusion that it's probably not going to work out?", "I don't think you can have that mentality. I think you have to win this thing because I think the rest of the world is looking at us right now. And who else would ever trust us to come to their aid if we just back out? We have to win this thing. We're over there. We've got to make sure we help them see this through and then we walk away. If we even have the talk of pulling out early, the insurgents over there are going to think they're genuinely winning this war. When you hear all the talk from many people saying it's a quagmire or we're losing, the insurgents over there they take that as reality. They genuinely believe that they're winning, and they go -- and they go after soldiers.", "Because they are sitting around watching CNN, right? With no electricity.", "When you have...", "Yes, you're really influencing the war.", "When you have congressmen and senators claiming that the war is a quagmire, you don't mean to tell me that you don't think that their leaders are going to give them that information to make themselves blow themselves up?", "Hey, Ben, who's the prime minister of Iraq?", "What does that have to do with anything?", "Because there's no government.", "Well, Dennis Prager, how long can the president continue to wait when all the polls are showing that the majority of the American people don't think Iraq is a good idea?", "Look, the issue for a president is to use it as a bully pulpit. If I were president, I would have made the case virtually every day of my administration that we are fighting the greatest evil since World War", "Absolutely.", "That this is this generation's form of Nazism. The president, however, felt that it was so obvious that we're fighting extremely evil people that he didn't have to make it, and he can go on to things like responsible Social Security reform.", "Oh, my God.", "He made a mistake. He made a political mistake. He should have been making the case for this war. It can still be made. It is an evil. It's interesting. I'd like to ask my two liberal colleagues there one question. And I'm not asking you to support the war or anything. I just want to know if you're prepared to say -- I swear it's not a trick question. It's just to understand your view. Would you say that by and large the people that we are fighting in Iraq are evil?", "No. They're Iraqis, and we occupy their country.", "OK. OK. There you go, folks.", "There's a civil war going on.", "That is what the left believes. We are not fighting evil.", "Of course, the left believes it because there were no weapons of mass destruction.", "And that is what they will not win. That is it. You heard it now.", "And the generals warned you, if you went there, you'd open up the gates of hell, and that is what you've done. You've encouraged terrorism. You've encouraged hatred for the United States.", "Who said war was easy?", "Our troops don't get the support they need. They're there without the proper troop numbers.", "Because you guys are say that it's a quagmire.", "They are there without the proper body armor. They're there without the proper exit strategy.", "You're right. There's no support from the left because you say it is a quagmire, it's a waste of time, we shouldn't be there. We need to come home.", "There is no leadership. Eight generals have come out, and maybe they know a little more than you do...", "They don't need your support, you're absolutely right.", "...Ben and Dennis Prager.", "Randi, I have friends in Iraq, OK?", "Listen, you should be in Iraq. You're 22. When I was 22, I was in the military. Why aren't you there?", "I'm 24 years old.", "Why aren't you there? Then go.", "And just because I support something doesn't mean I have to always go fight.", "You go. You go. Go ahead. You go and then you come back because you know what happens when we come back?", "I support the Yankees doesn't mean I wear their uniform.", "Once you've served, you come back, and you're suddenly a liberal. Do you know why, Ben? Because you're only as good as the weakest. And that's why you aren't in the military.", "Then why did so many people vote for the president that wore a uniform, Randi?", "We are going to for a couple of minutes and we are going to be back in just a couple of seconds with one final segment, one more go at it, one more kick at the can. Stay with us. We'll be right back.", "We're back with one final segment, if the furniture can stand it. We've got a call on the line here. This one is for Randi. Herndon, Virginia, go ahead. What's your question?", "Oh, yes. I was just wondering how Randi can say that Senator Kennedy has any credibility on immigration because, I mean, what he's proposing now is pretty much what he proposed in 1986. And all of those proposals that he made on reforms for immigration have yet to come to fruition. So I would just like to ask her how she can say we can trust him when nothing was done in 86.", "Do you want to go ahead?", "Nothing was -- 87 they gave everybody amnesty. Three million were here. They gave them amnesty, and now we have, you know, somewhere in the neighborhood of anywhere from eight million to 12 million. Amnesty is, you know -- it has to be earned, and that's what Senator Kennedy has proposed repeatedly. And Republicans have said no. We don't want amnesty to be earned. We don't want citizenship to be earned. And yet there's 7,000 what you call illegals in our military right now fighting this war, and they're doing it to earn their citizenship. How can you win with people who really don't want to give them a path to citizenship?", "Dennis Prager, will conservatives ever accept this idea of a guest worker program, which really is for all intents -- not the guest worker program, I am sorry -- but the route to citizenship which, for all intents and purposes, is amnesty?", "No, not amnesty as such. I know it's not a big distinction. I think conservatives are prepared to, if they believe that the hemorrhaging at the border will stop. That is what I believe from my callers to my own show and from speaking to people. And that's what I believe, frankly. I believe that if you stop the hemorrhaging at the border, that's why I believe in a fence. Fences make good neighbors. And this would be a good example. I think it would help Mexico. Mexico does not have to address a single one of its massive corruption problems because it exports its poor to the United States of America.", "Ben?", "When Mexico can no longer do that, it will actually have to grapple with its own problems.", "And, Dennis, I think one of the things that he said is look, we'll let them stay or we'll figure out a way to allow them to have citizenship, as long as they want to become citizens and not set up their countries inside of America, but we also have to stop the bleeding at the border. What good does it do if we give amnesty again like we did in the 80s, if we're going to have to do it again 10 years from now with three times as many people? You just can't do that.", "All right. Well, folks, it's been grand talking to you all. I know one thing, we're all going to sleep well tonight. That's for sure. This was like running a marathon. I am going to say thanks to you in just a second. But before we go here, one piece of good news. For the past year, Larry King's Cardiac Foundation has worked to bring an 8-year- old boy named Omar from Afghanistan to the United States for life- saving heart surgery. We now have word that Omar and his father will be coming to this country early next week. Omar will undergo treatment at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and the Larry King Cardiac Foundation is going to be picking up the medical tab. Here's hoping for a happy, healthy ending. Dennis Prager in Los Angeles, big Ed Schultz in Dallas, Texas, Ben Ferguson here in Washington, D.C., and Randi Rhodes in New York, thanks for being with us. We really appreciate it. Don't forget on Monday, LARRY KING LIVE coming to you from the border. More talk on immigration. But right now, let's go up to New York City. Anderson, how are you? TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["JOHN ROBERTS, CNN HOST", "KEVIN MILLER, WPTF RADIO, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA", "ROBERTS", "MILLER", "ROBERTS", "BARRY SCHECK, NY STATE COMM. 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{"id": "CNN-392490", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-02-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/12/cnr.20.html", "summary": "The Unveiling Of Samsung's Galaxy Z-Flip", "utt": ["Welcome back everyone. Well, the world's biggest smartphone maker is taking a second crack at a foldable phone.", "We are changing the shape of the future with the Galaxy Z-flip. When it is closed it is a thing of beauty, it is smooth, and sleek and symmetrical. At half its full size, it fits right in my palm and snugly in my pocket. And the cover display shows me all the information I might need, at a glance. When I am ready to use it, all I have to do is flick it open, and then I get a full sized, 6.7 inch screen with hardly any metal.", "And that is Samsung's big unveiling Tuesday in San Francisco, the Galaxy Z-flip is Samsung's second folding smartphone, it's first attempt, the Galaxy Fold had problems with cracking screens. Tech analysts Bob O'Donnell, says that the new clam shell design is an improvement.", "The critical thing with the Galaxy Z-flip is it has got to work reliably. It's got to avoid any potential problems like we have the first edition of the Fold. I think Fold is our exciting new category. They are totally different. They drive you to use your phone in very different ways. And I think people are actually going to really like it. They are not going to like the price point, and that is a challenge.", "Yes, speaking of price, the new Z-flip ranges from about $1000 dollars to nearly 1400. And that is not cheaper than Samsung's first try with the Galaxy Fold. Well, U.S. President Donald Trump is widely known for wearing and giving out hats bearing the slogan Make America Great Again, now they are being used for the opposite of what they're intended to do. Here's our Jeanne Moos with more on that.", "Who knew that Make America Great Again hat could be a protective device. Larry David new. In a scene tweeted out, by President Trump, Larry cuts off a biker.", "What the", "Oh, God.", "(Inaudible), of profanity, Larry reaches for a MAGA hat.", "You little", "I'm sorry. I didn't see you.", "Just be more careful next time, OK.", "Will do.", "Turning the biker into a pussycat, the fact that President Trump tweeted this prompted fans to say, so refreshing to have a leader with a grand sense of humor, while critics lashed out it's a joke on you, idiot. It's not in favor of you. About five minutes after that scene, came one President Trump didn't tweet, one that wasn't a feather in his cap, the hat has come in handy.", "It's a great people repellent.", "Larry uses it.", "Hey, Bill. Good to see you.", "The cut short lunch he did not want to have in the first place. This is L.A., where the rarely cited MAGA hat might be a magnet for dirty looks.", "Phil.", "No, no, no -- will -- something.", "At a sushi bar, it keeps the empty seat beside him unoccupied.", "You know what actually, I think we prefer to sit at the table, please.", "In a real interview, Larry David was asked if he's worried about alienating MAGA hat wearing fans.", "Go and alienate, you have my blessing. No, I don't give a", "After all, this is a guy who has been playing Bernie Sanders on SNL for years.", "Oh Hillary, I will miss that lack of charm.", "No one would expect him to be charming to President Trump when it comes to controversy. It seems like this never gets old hat.", "It is the hottest thing out there.", "Oh, it's hot all right. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.", "Larry David having a bit of fun there, thanks so much for your company, I'm Rosemary Church. Early Start is up next, have yourself a great day. END"], "speaker": ["CHURCH", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CHURCH", "BOB O'DONNELL, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF ANALYST, TECHANALYSIS RESEARCH", "CHURCH", "JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "TRUMP", "MOOS", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-17750", "program": "", "date": "2000-10-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/12/aotc.02.html", "summary": "'Financial Times': Techs Gain on AMD's Strong Earnings", "utt": ["Now to our top business story: if the Nasdaq needed some incentive for a turnaround, it might find it by rallying around Advanced Micro Devices. The chip-maker has toppled expectations, reporting third quarter profits of $0.64 a share, 2 cents better than estimates. The after-the-bell news showed sales almost doubling to $1.2 billion, up from $662 million a year ago. And Intel's recent losses may be AMD's gain. Unlike it's huge rival, AMD is not predicting a slowdown in demand for PC processors. In fact, in the fourth quarter, AMD expects to sell eight to nine million of both its Athlon chips and Duron chips. It now sells nine of the top 10 PC-makers, all but Dell. For the entire year, AMD has boosted its estimates of PC processor sales by three million. Shares of AMD have dropped by more than half since late June on worries about the sector, and Wednesday's news caused an almost 10 percent jump in the company's stock price after hours. Those better-than-expected earnings from AMD are giving chip stocks a boost in Europe this morning. Philip Coggan, markets editor of the \"Financial Times\" joins us from the \"FT\"'s now with a closer look at what's going on. And Philip, I see the major markets are in positive territory today.", "Yes, absolutely, about time, we've been falling for ages. The Paris market yesterday closed at its lowest level since February, below 6000. The FTSE in London closed at it's lowest level since May, so, European investors very grateful for the news from AMD. We've got strong gains in the technology, the media and the telecom sector, also the banks, which had been looking very weak yesterday. The one exception in the good news front is a flow to the Greek mobile telecoms company Cosmote. That's come to the market today and it's already down below its offer price, so I think there's still a little bit of concern about mobile telephone groups after the Motorola news the other day.", "The markets do seem to be more in sympathy today. We've got Nasdaq and S&P; futures higher as well. What's going on with the euro? It's back down to 86 cents?", "Yes, I'm -- it's right back down to the levels at which the central banks intervened recently. And I think it's one of those cases -- you know the Sherlock Holmes story of the dog that didn't bark. Well, with the problems we've had in the U.S., you would have expected the euro to start rebounding, and it sort of edged up above 87 cents, but, basically, it just hasn't have the lift from that bad news in the U.S. that the investors might have hoped for. So, now we're back down to the levels and waiting for central banks to come in and intervene again. So, of course, we -- they may do that and try and surprise the markets, but, of course, when you get to these kind of levels, and everybody's expecting them, that may not be that -- intervention may not be that effective an option.", "I know there's a strike going on in Venezuela in the oil sector there, the prospect of a strike elsewhere. Nonetheless, it looks pretty quiet on the oil front this morning.", "Yes, we've seen a little bit of slippage in the oil price and I think the main reason is the agreement of the Israelis and the Palestinians to go in for talks, which has eased some of the tensions in the Middle East. But, once again, you're seeing the oil prices holding above $30 a barrel. And OPEC was supposed to be trying to get it between $22 and $28 a barrel, but all their extra production, all the petroleum reserve releases from the U.S., they haven't really got it down below $30 a barrel for anything but a brief span of time yet.", "All right, Philip Coggan, we'll see you again later in the program in the \"FT\"'s London newsroom."], "speaker": ["DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "PHILIP COGGAN, MARKETS EDITOR, \"FINANCIAL TIMES\"", "MARCHINI", "COGGAN", "MARCHINI", "COGGAN", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "CNN-330986", "program": "STATE OF THE UNION", "date": "2018-01-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/21/sotu.01.html", "summary": "Presidential Diet In This Week's \"State of the Cartoonion\".", "utt": ["Welcome back. Cheeseburgers were reportedly on the menu as President Trump and Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer huddled at the White House Friday. A not so promising start to the president's new healthy eating plan. Perhaps the diet will begin when the government will reopen? That's the subject of this week's \"State of the Cartoonion.\"", "President Trump needs to change his diet and exercise. Doctor's orders.", "He's more enthusiastic about the diet part than the exercise part.", "Where to begin for a president whose palate is not to discerning?", "I love steak and hamburger and pasta and French fries. The Big Macs are great, the quarter pounder with cheese.", "And whose exercise routine he says includes sweating at rallies.", "A lot of times these rooms are very hot. Like saunas. And I guess that's a form of exercise.", "Perhaps his presidential predecessors could provide some inspiration. Such as President Obama, a smoker, whose fear of his wife scared him straight. That's a tactic the White House physician thinks might work on President Trump as well.", "Ivanka and Mrs. Trump are both proponents of, you know, eating healthier and exercising. So they'll be partners of mine in working this out.", "Perhaps President Trump could be like former President Bill Clinton who would literally jog to McDonald's. Though since leaving the White House and having major heart surgery has become a vegan.", "I live on beans, legumes, vegetables, fruits. No dairy, no meat of any kind. No chicken, turkey. I eat very little fish.", "Trump actually unseated Bill Clinton this week to become the third heaviest president in American history. Behind Grover Cleveland and William Howard Taft who some claim once got stuck in a bathtub. A fate the president needs to avoid.", "I told the president that if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years, he might live to be 200 years old.", "I'm never going to eat another Oreo again. Nobody's -- I'm serious.", "The fate of dreamers is at the center of the fight that has now shut down the federal government. It's an issue that nearly 90 percent of Americans agree upon. So why is Congress not getting something done? That's next."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "TAPPER (voice-over)", "RONNY JACKSON, WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIAN", "TAPPER", "TRUMP", "TAPPER", "TRUMP", "TAPPER", "JACKSON", "TAPPER", "BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "TAPPER", "JACKSON", "TRUMP", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-172366", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2011-9-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/14/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Patterns and Profits; Europe's Biggest Shopping Mall", "utt": ["Michael Kors is amongst the designers in the spotlight this afternoon at New York Fashion Week. The event finishes tomorrow and as the designers head home and the catwalks are packed away, out comes the calculators. A new study has revealed just how much it's worth to the city. As CNN's Felicia Taylor found out, the business of fashion isn't just about frills and frops (ph).", "We're under the tent at Fashion Week. And, as you can see by the crowds beside me, there's plenty of attention and excitement. Magazine editors are clamoring to get in to see the collection. Socialites and celebrities are in the front row, hoping to have their picture taken. And industry insiders say that translates into profits. (voice-over): And, of course that doesn't include all the potential profits for the designers. I'm back stage at the Badgley Mischka show, where all the models are getting made up. The designers are putting the last minute touches on their designs. Everything has to be perfect before their collection is launched, because these shows can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce. Hi. Nice to see you. How are you?", "Good to see you.", "Good to see you. I want to bring you over to your -- your collection...", "OK.", "-- so we can talk a little bit more about it. Does it actually translate into sales? I mean can you -- do you notice that you have added customers and also does it make a difference with a department stores?", "It makes a huge difference.", "Right.", "Yes. You do. If you're a player, you've got -- you need to do a runway show. And you know right after the show, you know all your key pieces. You know where the response is.", "For the designers, it's a major marketing exercise that gets their name out there in the public domain and builds their brand awareness.", "At least I can speak for myself. When my ladies show up, they get so excited from the -- they get so caught up in the moment of the beautiful runway show, they start imagining themselves in all those beautiful clothes. It really helps the sales. It really does.", "When it comes to dollars and cents, Mercedes Benz is just one of the many sponsors that have spent money to be here at Fashion Week. A new study commissioned by the city of New York has also shown that there's a total economic impact for the city of New York annually of about $500 million. And that's because people are out shopping, going to restaurants and possibly staying in hotels, amongst other things. And that's why they say fashion makes sense.", "IMG is involved in businesses where, like in fashion, we don't actually make the clothes, walk the runway or take the pictures. But we provide opportunities. And as an organizer, really look to create value for companies because our whole, really, goal is the art needs to be supported by commerce.", "And we can't forget about the Internet's effect on Fashion Week. The shows provide instant content for the Web, bloggers and streaming video just right after the models have walked the catwalk. There are almost 100 shows at Fashion Week and rarely does a seat ever go empty. There are just a couple of days left during this Fashion Week, but clearly, the business of fashion will continue. Felicia Taylor, CNN, New York.", "Another fashionable entrance to bring to your attention. The grand goods and services gateway is next year's London Olympics. Westfield has opened on the site of the games at Stratford. And when completed, it will be Europe's biggest urban shopping center. Given the flagging European economy, one does wonder whether opening such a mega mall is very wise at this time. Jim Boulden went and took a walk through the brand new building at Westfield.", "Well, I think it's clearly a unique proposition. It's not every day you get the opportunity to build on such a wonderful site...", "Yes.", "-- which will have such a global impact. Clearly, what the Olympics does for us is that it fast tracks all of the infrastructure to be built around what you see. You see the stadium. You've got housing behind. You've got this massive transport infrastructure that's been built. And that fast tracks it. And it -- and it gets buildings like this up much, much quicker than they ordinarily will occur.", "There's nothing like a moveable deadline. Because the one unmovable deadline is the Olympics, unlike any other project.", "No, that's true. And, in fact, that challenged all of us because that deadline was set when the Olympics was announced here.", "Yes.", "And then in the middle, you had a global financial crisis, which was making everybody question their whole investment strategy. But we kept on going here and clearly the outcome is fantastic. London itself, London is a very special city that has proved to be very resilient. During -- through the whole global financial crisis, one we do have expected London to be in real trouble, particularly because it's got a major service and banking industry behind it.", "Yes.", "But it hasn't. It's proved to be this very special city. We see it as a confluence of -- of many different countries, Russian influenced, European influenced, Asian influenced, U.S. influenced. It's a very special place. And it's -- and it's given us -- I know that we've performed very well in London, through the GFC, London itself has. And I think that gave the retailers the confidence, also to come here.", "Do these retailers get a special break to open up in the middle of, what in all intents and purposes, is a recession and also to come to such a prestigious new mall, but in a part of London?", "Yes, I think you -- we need to consider the part of London as his -- as yesterday's game, not tomorrow's game.", "Right.", "The East Side of London has had a gross lack of infrastructure built over a long period of time. And it's -- it's an event like the Olympics that can bring enormous infrastructure. We didn't build this for the Olympics.", "No.", "There are four million people that live here in the Triad area. And they're here every day. But they've just had such a poor product right now or they have to travel a long way to the west side of London, to get a -- to get decent retailing. And now they won't have to do that. We've now built Westfield London further on the west side. And we now see this building as on the east side of London. So these two buildings, Westfield London in Shepherd's Bush and Westfield Stratford City here, we're expecting to do around two billion pounds of sales and have 50 million customers here. So these numbers are really at the top of the tree in our business. And I'm not that worried about cycles or volatility. Now, much of what I've been asked today is about how can you open a shopping center in today's", "Yes. Sure.", "Well, you can never pick the day you start or the day you finish. You can pick the day you start a building. You can't pick the day you open it, because what the environment is, it is.", "Yes.", "You build it for the long-term.", "So do you keep an eye on what's happening with the economic crisis...", "Oh, absolutely.", "-- with the euro on Europe?", "Absolutely.", "I mean do you have to -- I mean there's not much you can do about it. Whatever happens, happens.", "No, it can -- it can influence your long-term investment decisions.", "OK.", "Once you make the investment, you deal with it. We're really excited about this.", "The chief executive of Westfield in his big shopping mall. After a sunny and mild start to the week, parts of Europe are bracing for a shot of -- well, not exactly winter, but certainly the fall. Pedram is at the World Weather Center for us this evening.", "Yes, hi, Richard. Follow the air for some across the western portions of Europe, especially when you head toward the north. You take a look at your calendar. We're counting toward eight days remaining now toward the fall season. And the satellite imagery, we just want to show you how clear it is across, really, a vast expanse of Europe there, with the exception of a few thunderstorms that have popped up around Slovakia, working their way toward Austria, getting a few reports of heavy rainfall. But besides that, high pressure sits in place. And we always talk about this big bloom. It causes the air to sink. It compresses that air. Anytime you compress air, you're going to warm it up. You're going to keep it nice and clear. That's what a high pressure has done here for the last couple of days. And it's actually going to shift a little to the northern and also to the east and kind of set up shop around portions of -- areas of Eastern Europe there over the next couple of days. So the weather pattern generally pretty nice. Travel delays, a little bit expected there, associated with some gusts tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. Breezy conditions around Copenhagen. So give yourself some 45 to 60 minutes extra time there. But you take a look at the temperature pattern. Temperatures at about 16 degrees in London. That is what it is outside right now. Glasgow at 10 degrees across that part of the world. But you factor in the wind chill, the breeze in the air there, cooling off to about nine degrees in Glasgow. London not much of a wind so we keep your temperature right around 16. But the pattern right now, we're looking at a storm system coming in off the west there. And as it comes in, say Friday afternoon to Friday evening, portions of Ireland and also the U.K. there are going to get some moderate rainfall in their forecasts as the temperature is going to gradually cool off. Speaking of rainfall, take a look at this. The monsoon floods across portions of Pakistan that have continued. We've talked about this and how 5.3 million have been displaced and affected, I should say, by this. And now you take a look, one million or so homes have been damaged. About 220,000 of those folks are now within shelters, so certainly a need for food, shelter and water concerns out there. And you take a look at the satellite imagery, this was area of concern. This is Sichuan Province. This is where we had really the majority of the issues with heavy rainfall the past couple of days. The energy right now is actually depleted in this area, but we are getting around the Punjab Province some very heavy rainfall in the past couple of hours. And, again, you've got to keep in mind, with this area, the Indus River being the lifeblood of this country, as water falls here to the north, within a couple of days, that's going to cause problems to the south. So although it is quieting down in the areas that have been hardest hit, this is going to be a story that's going to linger at least, now, Richard, for -- for the next couple of weeks, at least, in that part of the world.", "Pedram, many thanks, indeed.. Pedram at the World Weather Center. Thank you for that. And now an apology for a silly mistake that I made earlier in reporting that BNP Paribas had been downgraded. It was on the graphic in the wall behind me. We'll, just to be clear, it was Societe Generale and Credit Agricole that were downgraded by Moody's. BNP Paribas is on review. 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{"id": "CNN-153222", "program": "RICK'S LIST", "date": "2010-7-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1007/15/rlst.01.html", "summary": "NAACP vs. Tea Party; Capping the Oil Disaster", "utt": ["It's not only what it does. It's what it doesn't do as well. And that's what we're going to be talking about. There are some folks out there saying, look, this reform, it still is leaving too much control in the hands of CEOs. We're going to be all over that. But, first, here's what else is coming your way. Scroll it, Danno.", "Here's what is making your LIST today. The NAACP has been careful not to say that all Tea Partiers are racist, so what's this Tea Party movement spokesperson say about the NAACP?", "Racists have their own movement. It's called the", "So, the entire NAACP is racist? Wait. It gets worse.", "A bunch of old fossils looking to make a buck off skin color.", "Talk about throwing gasoline on a fiery debate. What you're hearing is a woman being Tasered by police. But wait a minute. She called police. What gives?", "Would you tell Rick Sanchez I say hello?", "Hello back, Arsenio.", "He gives me the material on Mel Gibson and Tiger Woods, so I can take it where CNN wouldn't let it go.", "We will see about that. The lists you need to know about. Who's today's most intriguing? Who's landed on the list you don't want to be on? Who's making news on Twitter? It's why I keep a list. Pioneering tomorrow's cutting-edge news right now.", "Hello again, everybody. I'm Rick Sanchez. At the very top of our LIST, you're not going to believe how much movement we have had on this BP story over the last 24 hours. First, BP is now saying -- this is important -- BP is now saying it has started the well integrity test. Remember, for the last 48 hours, we' been talking about this, this after being forced to suspend operations after a leaking piece of equipment was discovered last night. So, after we left you, they said, no, we have got to check and see if there's enough pressure and if it's going to withstand the pressure. They did that. And they found a little bit of a problem, a potential leak. According to BP, during preparations for yesterday's well integrity test, the leak was detected in something called the choke line, the choke line. We're going to tell you exactly what that is and where it is and what the impact was in a minute, because we're going to be joining a professor from Houston who's going to take us through it. So, the testing once it began it had to be delayed while the choke hub was eventually replaced. The choke hub was successfully replaced overnight and roughly 45 minutes ago, literally 45 minutes ago, BP told us that the oil well integrity test is under way. The test will take anywhere from six to 48 hours, beginning now, we hope. Before I do anything else, and before I bring in my guest, pardon me for turning my back on you, but I want to come over here and I want to show you this graphic, because this is what we're going to be using as best we can to try and illustrate what's going on now and so the professor who's joining me can take you through the explanation of what's going to happen now, where this choke hold was, et cetera. All right, let's roll this animation, Dan. And we're going to bring in the professor from University of Houston in just a minute. This it the process that we have been following all throughout. And you can see all the apparatus that was taken off on the very top of the wellhead. And now you are going to see that they're going to be bringing it back down into another -- there it is right there. So, now we have that. Remember, Chad was calling it yesterday the perfect fit, brings in the new, for a lack of a better term, a new blowout preventer that has these three areas where they can stop the oil from flowing. And, look, behold, the oil has stopped flowing. If they have to, they can bring in another pipe that will literally extract the oil or produce the oil and take it out of there. So where are we on the process right now? Joining me from Houston is Don Van Nieuwenhuise. He is a petroleum expert from the University of Houston, served us very well, been very straight with us on what's going on in this thing. First of all, as we're looking at this, Professor, we heard this night about something, the choke hold having a problem and that they sprung some kind of leak. Where on this diagram would the choke hold be?", "It's over there on -- you see a line on it right now.", "You mean this area right in here?", "Yes. There's a line coming out of that. And what you have is a line coming out of the choke -- one of the choke rams that allows them -- you have moved it away, but it allows them to actually take the pressure away from the wellhead while they're moving pipes and that sort of thing in and out of the wellhead. And it's sort of like a pressure chamber and they have to have a way to bleed off the pressure and that's what the choke line is. And there's also a kill line that allows them to bleed off pressure from the chamber that's formed when the kill rams close.", "So that's all this area here. I have been calling this, for lack of a better description, the new and improved blowout preventer, which is kind of what this is right here, right?", "Absolutely. It's like a -- almost like a production stack or a blowout preventer itself. And what's different about this from before is that not only do you have a better seal, but you also have the stack of chokes and rams that they can close down on that wellhead to top the flow to the surface.", "And let me explain that to our viewers, what you just said. The seal you're talking about is right there. It's where this apparatus was able to get a good seal on this apparatus without having stuff that is blowing out on the sides. And by stuff obviously, I mean the oil and the hydrates, et cetera. And then what he said is, the area where they can literally choke it off is these three areas right in here where they can stop it. Now, OK, I think we get that, Professor. Now here's what we need to know. What's going to happen over the next six to 48 hours that wasn't happening before?", "OK. Well, what we're going to want to see here is that we're going to want to see that the flow completely stops and as that flow is cut off, they're doing it very slowly which is a very wise thing to do. They're being extremely careful. They will be closing it slowly and we will stop seeing all the flow. And as that flow is stopped, the pressure in the well will start to build up. And that tremendous pressure, they're hoping will build up to around 8,000 to 8,700 PSI. And if it does, that means there's probably no existing leak. And in that case, they will hold that pressure as long as they can, about 48 hours, to make sure that the integrity is real and it's not just instantaneous.", "It makes sense. It makes perfect sense. In other words, they're now going to start to test where they start to close off these chambers and hope, and we will all cross our fingers and say a prayer, that, in fact, it will not cause other problems elsewhere. That's what you mean by integrity, right? It does you no good to seal it off here if it's going to blow down there.", "Absolutely. And what they're trying to do, Rick, is they're trying to see if there are any preexisting leaks because they need to know that when they do the kill operation. And, of course, they're also trying to make sure that they do not create any new leaks. So, if, for example, they had it up to a high pressure -- and this is kind of simplifying it, but if they had a dramatic and sudden drop in pressure, that would suggest that a new leak had started. But they're going to be raising the pressure very slowly, so that they see if any small leak starts to leak a little bit. They will get that pressure kick, so to speak, a small pressure kick, and they will back off on the pressure. They could suspend the whole operation instantaneously if they see a serious problem.", "Well, it's just a matter of watching them then and reporting to the American people what's going on. We're so glad that you were able to join us to take us through this. And we will be joining you again in an hour because this thing, this process seems to move in hourly increments. If we have anything new, we will get back to you. Thank you again, Professor. We appreciate your time.", "Thank you for your time.", "All right. I want to do this. Let's go back over to the main desk over here, because I want to take you now through what is really an extremely significant story. It's another piece of legislation that we have been talking about. This time it's the financial reform vote. Let me just check to see what new information has been coming in on this, because I know there's going to be a lot of reaction coming in and I want to be able to share that with you as it comes in. Here's the nuts and bolts. You ready? It has passed now both houses. It passed the Senate 60-39 just moments ago. And we're assured the president of the United States will indeed sign this, probably in some kind of signing ceremony some time next week. There is some -- there is some blowback on this. There are some who are arguing that it doesn't go far enough, some who are arguing that too many CEOs still have too much control and are able to control their credit without releasing enough information to you and me, to the government, to the people responsible, who end up paying, like we did just several years ago during the meltdown. And there are those who are saying, well, actually, it's going too far. You know, in an effort to try to deregulate, we have now over-regulated. Both sides of that argument are being heard. You're going to be hearing here -- we have just talked to the White House. I'm going to be talking to Austan Goolsbee, one of the president's top economists, to ask him for his reaction to this. That's coming up in just a little bit. In the meantime, I want you to take a look at this video.", "Get in the car. Get in the car. Get in the car. Get in the car. Get in the car.", "I'm getting in. I'm getting in.", "Get in the car. Get in the car.", "What this officer does is all but reprehensible. The woman that you heard screaming, the woman screaming and crying right there, she's the one who called police to report a crime. But somehow the officer arrives and thinks that she's the criminal and starts attacking her with the Taser. There is a lot to tell on this story and I can't wait to take you through it. Also, President Obama actually gets that Wall Street reform victory I told you a little while ago. But how is that going to affect the unemployment numbers? Remember, we're about 9.5 right now. The president did warn we might go over into double digits at some point. And how is that going to affect the upcoming elections? That's next right here on the LIST. Stay with us. Boy, there's a lot going on all of a sudden. 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{"id": "CNN-276176", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-02-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/10/es.01.html", "summary": "Hillary's Struggles with Young Voters", "utt": ["Bernie Sanders is on top of the world this morning, beating Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire by more than 20 points. How did he do so well? How did she do so poorly?", "That is the big question, the question being debated on both those planes. I guarantee it right about now. Jeremy Diamond, Chris Frates, Carl Bernstein, Josh Rogin back with us. Josh Rogin, to you. When we look at Sanders, sources telling CNN tonight that his camp takes this win, big win tonight, maps out the next six weeks, looks at all of these other states. Looking Michigan very closely right now. Minnesota, places where they don't go to the polls for, you know, three, four weeks' time. And some look at this and say, are we at a Bernie peak? Where do you, where do you fall on that?", "Well, I think that there's a realization inside the Sanders' campaign that they can't ramp up and take advantage of all of the new money, the new support they have right away. It takes time to build infrastructure. So by projecting that they're working on the states that are a little further out, they can lower expectations for the states coming up, namely South Carolina and Nevada, states that Hillary Clinton is, by the way, favored to win heavily because of structural and political realities that go beyond what's happened in the last couple of weeks. So they can...", "Depending on how the voter may feel. The electorate look so much different than in Iowa and New Hampshire.", "Exactly. Plus... And, and Hillary Clinton has done well in South Carolina before. The Clintons have a big infrastructure there, they have a lot of support there. So Bernie Sanders is trying to capitalize, take all of the new political and financial capital, and spend it down wisely. If he spends it fast and then comes up short, it'll be over. But if he spends it slowly, and then projects wins out in the March and April timeframe, he can keep the narrative alive, keep the money coming in, and sort of stave off the down turn that's coming next week.", "Keep your eye on Nevada though. It comes first for the Democrats, it's a caucus state, which means organization matters. Bernie Sanders has been up on TV there, he sent people in, paid staffers. He could do better than expected in Nevada. I want to play some sound from Hillary Clinton here because you know her well. You've studied her for a long time. She was talking tonight in her speech, and she focused on the young voters, the young voters who are running away from her in almost unimaginable numbers. I mean she lost -- Bernie Sanders won like, what? Ninety-one percent of younger voters. And Hillary Clinton knows that and she talked about it in her concession speech tonight.", "I know I have some work to do, particularly with young people. But I will repeat again what I have said this week.", "So got the number wrong, Carl, I got the number wrong. It's 83 percent of the younger vote that Bernie Sanders won. It's still a lot. You heard Hillary Clinton say she knows what it's like to stumble and fall down and get back up again. What does this mean", "She does. It's a line, it's a line, it's a line from her mother, from her childhood, and indeed Hillary Clinton has done this throughout her life, both on the public stage and in private. But there's -- we keep hearing from Hillary Clinton a kind of evolved, why I should be President. And when meanwhile, we're seeing Bernie Sanders saying this is a movement I'm building. And she's now up against a movement. And what all those exit polls show, and the anecdotal evidence shows, is that this movement has left her behind, certainly in the states she's competed in so far. And I was fascinated by Randi Kaye's interviews earlier tonight on CNN with some undecided voters in South Carolina, a number of whom were African-Americans who said, oh, I think I want to go with Bernie Sanders. I think we're looking at something that is a real repudiation of Hillary Clinton, of the Clintons, of Clinton fatigue. She might be able to right herself, the demographics still favor her in many ways, but this is a new campaign and Bernie Sanders has tapped into something. We don't know where it's going to go, but it's a different kind of fight, it's for the soul of the party, and part of Hillary's problem is she has come late to the issues that have been defined by Bernie Sanders. That's not to say her whole career in politics, her whole life has been devoted to many of the same causes being espoused by Sanders. But in this campaign, particularly on economic matters and disparity and Wall Street, she is late to the party and that's a big problem.", "Well, and that's... And that, Carl, that's what she, she pointed out tonight in her speech. She sort of ticked through, and when I worked for the Children's Defense Fund, et cetera, et cetera. Saying here is how I executed on what you're hearing from Bernie Sanders. Chris Frates, to you, looking at Hillary Clinton and the fact that women 30 years old and younger voted or Sanders over Clinton tonight in New Hampshire by a nearly 4 to 1 margin. Couple that with what Carl just said in terms of some of the African-American voters, this so-called firewall for Clinton in South Carolina, may be tipping towards Sanders. What do you do if you're her campaign manager right now?", "Well, I think, you know, she really has to take a hard look. And you saw those stories start to come out in the press that she was thinking about reorganizing that campaign. Keep in mind that those stories are almost job security articles for the Clinton campaign because, now that it's out there, she can't do a whole lot of reshuffling without looking like she's panicked a little bit. But if you're Hillary Clinton, you have to look at that gap, and you saw her bring some heavy hitters. She brought some women Senators to the stage. Amy Kkobuchar. She brought Madeleine Albright, who famously said, you know, there's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women. But younger voters are going towards Bernie Sanders because he represents the left here, and Hillary Clinton, whether it's on the TPP trade deal, whether it's on the Keystone Pipeline, Bernie Sanders has outflanked her, and always says she's coming late to the party, because she's making political calculations and not calculations based on principles. That's hugely problematic for her. And when you look at of course South Carolina, (will) is Clinton country, that's good territory for her. And so is Nevada. But the Sanders' people are making an argument that they have the money. Now, remember, they are raising money almost at the same clip that Hillary Clinton is, and they have an almost bigger advantage, because they're getting smaller donors. As he loves to say, his average donation is $27. That means that donor can give again and again and again. Whereas the Clinton donors are often maxed out. But he can do things in Colorado, Minneapolis, and Minnesota, in Massachusetts. So look for this map to get a lot bigger a lot faster, guys.", "Well, and also...", "Poppy, let me interject with one idea here, if I may.", "Quick, quickly, Carl.", "And that is the distrust factor. That's what is really undermining Hillary Clinton. It shows in all the exit polls. The server. The, the line that she keeps going to about the vast right wing conspiracy is not working. And that is a big problem for her.", "And when you look at the money, I was just going to say, the Sanders camp raising $20 million in January, Clinton raising $15 million. And, as Chris points out they're tapping a broader base that is not giving anywhere near the max. Ostensibly you have more to tap. All right, guys, stay with us. A lot more ahead. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, face to face, the two of them debating in the PBS Democratic National Debate in Wisconsin tomorrow night. You will be able to see it live right here on", "00 pm Eastern. Again, tomorrow night, 9:00 pm Eastern. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton debate.", "So you want clarity coming out of New Hampshire? Forget about it. The Republican race, it is a mess right now heading to South Carolina. Who has the best shot down there? Who really won and who really lost coming out of New Hampshire? 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{"id": "CNN-354219", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-11-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/09/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Three Fires Destroy Thousands of Structures, Force Evacuations", "utt": ["Well, this may seem like a familiar headline, too. Three out of control wildfires raging in California this morning. The campfire burning in Butte County up north that has forced nearly 40,000 residents to evacuate. Some captured their narrow and harrowing escape on social media as they fled.", "All right. Then in the south, right down the road from the thousand oaks shooting, you have this going on right now. You're looking at images of the Woolsey fire. The blaze has already scorched some 10,000 acres, forced thousands of people to evacuate. First, let's go to our correspondent Nick Valencia who joins us in Paradise, California. We see some of the flames right behind you. Any sense of containment right now?", "So far, Poppy, zero percent containment at last check. This fire just exploded over the course of last 24 hours. And just a day ago, here in Paradise, California, this entire town was just engulfed in flames. And many of the scenes around town is what you see behind me here. This used to be a retail store, a pawnshop just right next to a used car dealership. And it just spread just so fast. And part of that reason was because it was fueled by strong winds. There's also dry air, low humidity. You couple that, if you know anything about what the weather has been like in California over the course of the last couple months, it's just been extremely dry. Usually by the end of October is when the rain comes to California. That signals the end of fire season. But here we are talking about not just one but multiple fires throughout the state of California. The good news in all of this though is that the wind has slowed down. We talked to Cal fire earlier this morning. They feel as though that they're going to be able to contain this at the edges and try to work their way back from there. We did check in as well with law enforcement to see if there's any fatalities so far. No reports of anyone dying as a result of this fire. Several people have been injured, and they had to evacuate a hospital as well. But just look behind me, guys. It's just so eerie. There's so much smoke in the air. It feels like we're in a different world now, just looking all around us. And that fire behind me still smoldering. Jim?", "That's someone's home. Imagine it happening to your own. Nick Valencia, thanks very much. We have CNN Scott McLean. He is in Oak Park where the Woolsey fire has forced thousands to abandon their homes. We were noting, Scott, that this is very close to the location of the shooting in Thousand Oaks as well. You just feel tragedy circling that area in these last few hours and days.", "Yes, someone described it to me, Jim, as a one-two punch for this area. First, you have the shooting and now you have many of those people who are affected by that shooting now having to worry about their homes. And this fire moved quickly. Keep in mind, this only started yesterday afternoon, and it's already at last count 8,000 acres. In fact, overnight, in a 90-minute period, it doubled. That means that it was expanding at the size of a football field every two seconds, perhaps why is because in California, much of it has gotten less than 5 percent of its normal rainfall over the past month. And it's not necessarily the flames that some of these neighborhoods have to worry about. It's the embers that are in the air. And this house seems to be a victim of that. Because well, this is burned out. It started late last night, we're told by the neighbors, and then this house is completely untouched next door. Now, we spoke to this gentleman not long ago. And he said that the fire department was here last night trying to put water on his house. Obviously trying to put this out as well. He was also out with his own hose trying to hose down his property to try to keep it safe. When I spoke to him, you know, his house is OK, but he seemed like he was near tears. He said he was just exhausted, overwhelmed, grateful, all of the emotions all wrapped up into one. And Poppy, I got to tell you, these wind gusts, you can still feel them. They are every once in a while they're really whip up. They're not expected to die down until tomorrow morning.", "Right.", "Not great news.", "That makes it even tougher, right, for the firefighters because it's pushing the flames even further. Scott, thank you very much for being there and the reporting. Jim.", "Still to come in our broadcast, a look at a disturbing Facebook post from the California gunman, made just before he went on his rampage that left 12 people, many of them young people, dead."], "speaker": ["JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SCIUTTO", "SCOTT MCLEAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "MCLEAN", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "CNN-378268", "program": "CNN RIGHT NOW", "date": "2019-08-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/22/crn.01.html", "summary": "Dozens of Arrests over Mass Shooting Threats", "utt": ["The city of Lancaster, California, is on edge as police search for a sniper. A barrage of bullets rained down on a Los Angeles County Sheriff's station yesterday hitting a deputy. And authorities say that his injuries are minor, thankfully. They believe the gunfire came from a nearby four-story apartment building that serves as a mental health living facility. The incident in California follows two mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso. And authorities have also arrested at least 29 people across the country for threats to commit mass attacks. The suspects who have been arrested seem to fit into a pattern. Most of them are between 13 to 38 years old, according to the ages that police have released. The majority are white males. Eighteen out of 29 threats were made on social media. And some of the biggest targets are schools, Walmart's and places of worship. Here with me now is Katherine Schweit. She is a former senior FBI official with expertise on mass shooters. She's one of the nation's pre-eminent experts on active shooters. Thank you for coming in to lend us your particular expertise here. Why do you think we've seen this recent spate of mass shootings? And I also don't want to forget the one in Gilroy, California, because there were a number of victims there and that was -- that precipitated El Paso, indeed.", "Yes. Why -- why is this occurring? Is that your question?", "Yes, why.", "I mean it's kind of a -- it's a -- it's a very multifaceted why. But I think if we look to solve it -- if we want to solve it, and we have to look to how our -- how can we catch the people who might be doing it, because they may be doing it for a whole bunch of different reasons, right? So it's really what we're looking for is kind of not a profile of a person, not a -- not a white male who's 20 years old. We're looking for anybody, although most of these shootings occur absolutely are males, but they hit all demographics, they hit all age ranges. And as you said, the -- a lot of these people were identified through social media. That is the key. We're looking for the behavior that social media interaction by them, that's a -- that's them reaching out, for whatever reason, to find like kind people, or to brag about what they want to do because they have a grievance and they're all frustrated and they're feeling hopeless, and they want to lash out, so they're doing that. So what we want people to do is look for behaviors, like posting in social media, or other actions that aren't online.", "Posting threats on social media?", "Posting threats on social media, but also actions they see right in their own home, right in their own neighborhood, right in their schools.", "Like, give us -- give us some examples, because these are the things that teachers, family members, neighbors could be looking for?", "Absolutely. So I would say this. FBI research shows that if the -- if the subject is 17 or under, chances are teachers are going to be the first ones or peers are going to be the first ones who see -- see these actions by -- by these potential shooters. If they're over 17, they're likely to be peers, co-workers and, most importantly, partners, spouses, domestic partners.", "So they're looking for social media postings. They're looking for people reaching out to find like-minded folks on opinions --", "Right.", "And other behaviors?", "Absolutely. We know from research that we're looking for what really categorizes itself as atypical behaviors. So, if you have never shot a gun before, and you buy a gun, that's an atypical behavior for you. If you have a gun, you use guns, you grow up in an area that they hunt and fish, that's fine, but is the behavior of that person with regard to firearms suddenly changed? Are they buying more firearms? The FBI research just released last summer said 40 percent of the weapons that were used between 2000 and 2014 -- 2013 for the active shooters, 40 percent of those weapons were purchased for the shootings. So, are there more shootings that are being -- that weapons are being purchased for? Is your Amazon account at home suddenly click, click, click and there's packages arriving at your house that include bulletproof vests and other types of ways that a shooter can harden their -- harden themselves, more ammunition, more clips. So we're looking for not just firearms. We're looking for other things like, have you started to -- have you stopped -- like are you giving your things away? Are you -- have you stopped participating in life? Have you moved to isolate yourself? These are all things that peers, families members are the first ones. We know that -- from research that 80 percent to 90 percent of the time there are signs that people see and they look the other way. That's the hard part. They look the other way. They deny it.", "Because they're in denial. So if we're talking about the younger shooters, like you said, teachers, peers are going to see things.", "Right.", "Parents also need to have a dose of reality, right?", "Yes.", "What do they need to do?", "Yes, that's a big concern, too, because although as many of these shooters are in their 20s and 30s and 40s, it's super important to remember that, as a parent, you know, your job in -- in -- is to make sure that, you know, you don't have a lock on your kid's door, that you know what your kid is doing.", "That they don't -- that they don't have a degree of privacy that completely shuts you out of what might be going on?", "Right. Exactly. And don't deny it. You know, we just had this arrest in Florida of a 15-year-old and the body cam video from the -- from the police officer. The mom is standing there saying, he's not like one of those crazy people. He just made silly comments. He's a good boy. That's denial. And I understand, as a parent, I'm a mom, I understand as a parent that you don't ever think your kid could do that. But isn't it better that you find out that your kid might be headed in that direction and you save them from being killed at the scene of a crime?", "Katherine Schweit, thank you so much. Amazing expertise.", "Thank you.", "To give us a look into what we should lo for and what we shouldn't be districted by it. It's so important.", "My pleasure. Than you.", "President Trump again says he is looking seriously at birthright citizens, putting him at odds with the U.S. Constitution. Could Congress step in? 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{"id": "CNN-383395", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-10-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/20/cnr.01.html", "summary": "President's Acting Chief Of Staff, Mick Mulvaney, Tried Once Again To Walk Back His Quid Pro Quo Admission Last Thursday Of The Ukraine Scandal; Democrats Are Setting The Stage For Another Week Of Major Testimony In The Impeachment Inquiry", "utt": ["All right, new developments that we continue to follow. This expanding impeachment inquiry. Today the President's acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, tried once again to walk back his quid pro quo admission last Thursday of the Ukraine scandal.", "That is what people are saying that I said that I didn't say that. Can I say how people took that the wrong way? Absolutely. But I said there was quid pro quo because there isn't.", "This coming as multiple sources tell CNN that Mulvaney faced internal efforts to oust him from the White House before Democrats move ahead on this impeachment inquiry?", "Did you ever offer or think to offer the president your resignation?", "Absolutely not.", "Was that ever discussed?", "Absolutely, positively not.", "OK.", "Listen, I'm very happy working there. Did I have the perfect press conference? No. But, again, the facts are on our side.", "CNN's Jeremy Diamond is at the White House for us. So Jeremy, you know, how is Mulvaney now explaining this, you know, quid pro quo admission? And is it as a result of that meeting at camp David yesterday with Republicans?", "Well, Fredricka, the White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, was repeatedly confronted with his own words after he made that stunning admission that Ukraine was in part, at least, frozen because of the President's interest in Ukraine investigating matters related to the 2016 election. And when he was confronted indeed with several of his clips, his won words, in which he made that admission, Mulvaney stuck by his denial of the words that he said.", "One of the things that you, again, said just a few seconds ago that I said there was a quid pro quo. I never used that language because there wasn't a quid pro quo.", "You were asked by Jonathan Carl. You describe a quid pro quo when you said that happens all the time.", "And again, reporters will use their language all the time, so my language never said quid pro quo but let's get to the heart of the matter. Go back and look at that list of three things what was I talking about. Things that it was legitimate for the president to do.", "And the chief of staff's defense now appears to be that he didn't use the words quid pro quo even if that is indeed what he was describing. And when he went on to say what those three things were, one of those things was, indeed, once again he said the President's interests in that investigation into that debunked conspiracy theory involving the Democratic National Committee server back in the 2016 election.", "And then what about these reported, you know, plots about his ouster?", "Well, Fredricka, multiple sources are now telling CNN that there were efforts to oust Mick Mulvaney before even all of this impeachment saga came to be. Sources telling us that top aides to the President began reaching out to at least two potential replacements for the White House chief of staff because of some internal dissatisfaction with Mulvaney's position. And, again, Fredricka, this came before this latest matter, this briefing in particular in which the chief of staff has really prompted some concerns among even his own colleagues at the White House. But, of course, much of those efforts were put on ice, it appears, as this impeachment saga has really consumed this White House. That being said, Fred, it's been ten months since Mick Mulvaney has been chief of staff and he still has that acting word before his title.", "All right. That he also holds a different cabinet position., office of management and budget. All right, thanks so much Jeremy Diamond. Appreciate it. All right. Here to talk about all of this. Margaret Talev, \"Axios\" White House editor and Sabrina Siddiqui, national politics reporter for the \"Wall Street Journal.\" Good to see both of you. Margaret, you first. You know, it's quite terrible to talk about whether someone's days are numbers but the acting chief of staff White did respond, you know, to that inquiry. So is this moment the prelude to his possible firing or dismissal given the pattern of events that usually unfolds at this White House?", "Well, Fred, I think because of previous chief of staff's experience at the White House, everyone knows that they serve at the pleasure of the President and that if their days are numbered, they might find out when everyone else does. So I think with that as the caveat, there were, in fact, some folks inside the White House who felt like Mulvaney had overcorrected for John Kelly. John Kelly ran a very tight ship, one that ultimately President Trump struggled to get out of the kind of chains of. And Mulvaney's attitude was very different which was like, I'm here to support the President, I'm here to do whatever he wants to do. There's some people outside the White House who feel a little more restraint is required on the President. There is also a factualization between the White House counsel right now. And many other parts of the White House including the chief of staff, so there's friction there. Jared Kushner in many ways has taken over more charge of responding to the impeachment process. But on the flip side, there is a real question for President Trump. Does he want the optics of pushing out yet another chief of staff, and who would come in to replace him, and is that where they really want to be in the middle of an impeachment probe? So I think Mulvaney, like any other chief of staff, probably understands that things change very quickly there. But on the flip side, there really are all these other considerations that kind of make this a hazard one to predict what happens next.", "Yes. Sabrina, would it do more harm than good if he were removed or, you know, steps down, however way it were to happen?", "Well, look, I think that, as Margaret pointed out, to lose your chief of staff in the midst of an impeachment inquiry just adds another burden at a time when the president is already struggling. It also would certainly give off the impression that Mick Mulvaney was pushed out for what many people believe is acknowledging what the White House has been trying to deny, that there was some kind of quid pro quo, that the reason the administration withheld aid to Ukraine was because the President wanted the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden and his son hunter Biden and to also try to discredit the Mueller probe. I think the challenge that Mick Mulvaney has ran into is frankly the same as his predecessors, which is in previous administration, a chief of staff has played a critical role in decision making and messaging at the White House. But in this particular administration, it's the president who calls all of the shots and routinely has a tendency to undercut his aides, including his own chief of staff. And so, you know, ultimately, it's a job that not many people in Washington, frankly, want. I do think, though, that everyone saw the tape for itself. So as you look at Mick Mulvaney repeatedly trying to say, you know, I never said there was a quid pro quo, that's the media's characterization, most people will look at that setup that he was describing and very much describe it as a quid pro quo.", "Yes, so Margaret, let's talk about, you know, some cracks in the Republican support. Republican congressman Francis Rooney recently announced he won't be running for reelection. Perhaps that's why he has felt more catty about his points of view on things. Listen to what he said today about Mulvaney's quid pro quo.", "I don't see how you walk back something that's clear. I would say game, set, match on that.", "Is that impeachable?", "I don't know. That's the question. The question is, is it of a great enough magnitude to justify impeachment? And I want to learn a little more about that. I want to get more counsel. And I want to talk quite frankly some leadership, Democratic leadership about what they have in mind. I think that this is a very egregious situation in the Ukraine and Syria is even worse.", "Margaret, he said a lot there. I mean, a lot was said there about meeting of the minds among Republicans and even, you know, crossing the aisle with Democrats.", "He said a lot, but it's that last part that I think in the final analysis, it seems to be the most important. It is actually the president's moves to pull the U.S. out of northern Syria, to kind of almost invite Turkey to come in and then to try and undo it -- you know, everything that's happened in the last few days on that policy is really what's created this major riff with the president and the Republicans. And it is ultimately Republicans in the Senate who are going to be much more important than the Republicans in the House for the President's fate if the house were to vote on impeachment. But even though if what happened in Syria is not centrally tied to happened in Ukraine. It is the Syria policy that is really undercutting his support. It is affecting his standing inside the ranks in the military. It is affecting his standing with former pentagon chiefs, joint chief of staff, important military voices. And it is shaking the confidence of even folks like Mitch McConnell. Most of those Republicans in the Senate not saying that they support the impeachment investigation, but the major, major erosion of goodwill and support and any level of trust or consultative process is a real thing and it is important to watch in the days to come.", "Yes. And Sabrina, you know, it is interesting. It's Syria and it is the G- 7, you know, being hosted, at least for a hot second, you know, at a Trump Doral property in Miami that really kind of touched a nerve with a lot of Republicans. And now there is this stunning reversal by the President that says next year's G-7 summit will not be at Trump Doral. And in a tweet he said this based on both media and Democrat-crazed and irrational hostility, we will no longer consider Trump national Doral, Miami, as the host site for the G-7 in 2020. We will begin the search for another site, including the possibility of camp David, immediately. So, which is it? I mean, first, there were about dozen location, you know, that were in the running but it was Doral that kind of, you know, went above and beyond. So now, now camp David is a possibility?", "It's a possibility. It's a place where president Obama hosted a summit. And we know this president has a tendency to want to do the opposite of his predecessor. But I think what's more striking in the tweet is that he pinned the blame, as he always does, on the media and on outrage from Democrats, but he heard pushback from a lot of members of his own party --", "About the emoluments clause.", "He said that his is a clear violation of emoluments clause. And notably also from FOX News that president preferred television network which is also a big booster of his administration because it would be really difficult for any members of his party to defend what would clearly be an example of the president in some way profiting from the office he holds, although he denies he would profit from holding the summit there. It would certainly be a good deal of publicity for one of his properties. And there are certain fees and costs that these foreign governments would obviously have to incur that would go toward his business. And this has been a prevailing theme of his presidency, one that clearly members of his own party are now raising concerns about.", "Yes, Margaret.", "It would open up new layers of investigation, an inquiry for him, also new hearings, new requests for information, perhaps audits --", "But then why wouldn't he have thought of that beforehand?", "I think they probably did, but in their strategy at that point was to show they were going to double down on their strategy. And the feedback from republicans and probably some lawyers inside has been, you know what, that's maybe not a greatest idea.", "Yes. Because, you know, he launched that balloon publicly, you know,", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "All right. We could learn a lot this week as several key witnesses ahead to Capitol Hill as part of impeachment probe into President Trump. 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{"id": "CNN-102723", "program": "CNN IN THE MONEY", "date": "2006-2-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/11/cnnitm.01.html", "summary": "Music World Has Dark Secrets", "utt": ["The recording industry pulled out all of the stops this week for the annual Grammy Awards. But behind the fairytale success stories and the platinum albums and platinum hair, the music world had some dark secrets. Our next guest is a music industry consultant and former record producer and author of a new book, \"Million Dollar Mistakes.\" Moses Avalon joins us now. Moses first of all, I have got to ask you. You are wearing a hat and glasses; Moses Avalon is a pseudonym, what's up with the disguise, man?", "I'm just hung over from my Grammy party, that's all.", "Come on.", "Plus you got the lights are so bright in here. What's up with that?", "You got to get shades.", "Way too early for the music business.", "Listen to you dude. Now let me ask you, are you hiding from someone?", "No. I wouldn't say that. I'm on television.", "Fair enough. We'll leave it at that. You are somewhat in disguise though. Let me ask you, so how bad is the record industry? It used to be life with everything is it still that way?", "Well there's been a lot of change in the music industry. There's a lot of business structures because of the Internet and because iTunes, because of iPods and all kinds of new media. Record companies are definitely afraid of some of these things and are trying to find ways to fit into it.", "Let's get right to the dirt. I want names, recognizable names and embarrassing information about them. So give.", "Sure. Well, you know, in the book I outline a whole bunch of big ones and ones you never heard of like a guy who sold all of the rights to a hit song called \"Girls on Film\" by Duran Duran he sold all the rights for about $1,000.", "Was that the industry's fault or is that just an indication that he's a moron?", "It would be great if it were that simple if everyone was dumb and it was black and white but many times people are misled by trusting the wrong person. You know, a big problem in the music industry is that we overpay for talent. In the 80s and 90s, maximizing earnings and stock manipulation was the game and Wall Street played this game by taking the company's best year and going public with it and using the press to manipulate that stock. In the music industry the pop star version of this is to take your best year, hit your record company up for enormous advance and then make yourself so unpopular the record company decides they want to drop you and with someone like Michael Jackson for example it kind of backfired because he still owes so many records close to three quarters of a billion dollars that they have advanced him and his reputation is in the sewer. He may have to give that money back. A million dollar mistake on both sides.", "I know you have a good Billie Joel story. I want to get to that in a minute. But first of all I want to ask you about rock 'n' roll music itself. You suggest that it is a just going to be something like swing music or something like that. I guess maybe the Grammys pointed that out U2 not exactly cutting edge green day, it is a retro group basically. Is rock dead?", "I don't know -- I didn't say rock was dead. Pop music as a format that we understand it, the 3 1/2 minute song, I'm not sure it's dead but it may be moving into the same place as jazz, classical and other things. It may take another 20 or 30 years but I do believe it's going in that direction because of how music is being sold and listened too. In the industry we use the term liquid music or wallpaper, which means that music, will exist everywhere but not be noticed. Kind of like when you shop in the supermarket. The good news is this means we'll sell more music into more venues and making more money. The bad news is it means music becomes insignificant. Buying a new album of your favorite artist was a personal event. You would listen to the record. Turn off the phone. That was it. Now you can come introduced to a new song by a ring tone and it exists in your hard drive. There's no real pride in your hard drive the way there was in your massive record collection 15, 20 years ago.", "I take pride in my hard drive. Besides the trouble he periodically has keeping his car on the road out in the Hamptons, what's the Billie Joel story?", "Billy Joel signed a deal with his manager back in the early 70s and traditionally manager deals run by year. He may be your manager for five years and the contract might read that I make 20 percent of everything you do for five years and then I might make 10 percent after the contract is over for a couple years. In Billy Joel's case the contract was structured based on number of albums and not number of years. And an album can sometimes take two to three years to do. So a ten-album contract can become a 20- year contract. Billy Joel ended up giving up probably close to $15 or $20 million that he didn't have to give up because of that bad deal.", "All right Moses. Thank you so much. In this week's \"Life after Work\" segment, staying on track. Harry Eck and Harry Wilgar spent their careers working on Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Now they're retired but their reliving their past by volunteering at the B&O; Railroad Museum in Baltimore.", "If you have good eyes, I'm in there, 7594 is the last steam locomotive that we built. Brand new one.", "Harry Eck and Harry Wilgar spent their working lives building and running trains.", "I was in front as a machinist when I came here in 1947. I was an 18-year-old brat that knew it all.", "Both Harry's still work together but now they're back at the tracks as volunteers at Baltimore B&O; Railroad Museum.", "Well after I had been retired about five years the management asked me to come down and help prepare a locomotive that was going to be recognized as a national engineer -- civil engineering landmark. I just stayed. They started a program and I joined that and here I am 15 years later.", "Put your pajamas on because we're going to talk all night long.", "With more than 80 years of experience, the two Harry's share their stories about life on the railroad with visitors.", "Well for me I enjoy meeting and talking to people in here and I have knowledge that I can also tell to people that do come in here and we can help them understand what railroading is all about", "That's the high point of the week for me.", "Still to come on IN THE MONEY, get real about real estate. A new Web site puts a price on your humble abode without the help or the cost of a real estate agent. 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{"id": "CNN-35515", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-7-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/24/lt.04.html", "summary": "Infectious Disease Specialist on How to Avoid Catching West Nile Virus", "utt": ["For more on what's happening in Georgia, we are joined by Susan Lance-Parker. She's an infectious disease epidemiologist with the Georgia Division of Public Health. Thanks for being with us.", "Sure.", "People hear West Nile virus, and I think they get a little concerned, but really, so far, it does seem like it's been more dangerous for birds than it has been for people.", "That's right. We've seen two birds with West Nile virus, and Georgia and Florida had several birds, a horse, and a possible human case.", "You mention a horse. I hadn't heard about horses getting this before.", "Horses do get West Nile virus and develop encephalitis.", "Is it deadly in horses, as it is in birds?", "It can be.", "Do horse owners need to be concerned about this?", "Yes.", "What can they do? We've talked about people and birds so far today, but not about horses.", "They can reduce the risk of mosquito bites for their horses by bringing them in during the times that mosquitoes are more active and using insect repellent on the horses.", "They have that for horses, too? We've learned, from taking about it with people, that those times you want to avoid are dusk and dawn.", "That's correct. In Georgia, we do have some mosquitoes that bite during the day. Most mosquitoes bite at dusk and dawn.", "I think in Georgia we have 24-hour mosquitoes. They are full service. What can people do to protect themselves. Talk about bug repellent.", "People can wear long-sleeved shirts, long pants.", "Which is hard. You know it's hard when it's so hot outside.", "It's hard. Then they can use mosquito repellent on their skin during times when they don't want to cover their skin or when mosquitoes are especially biting. People can reduce the risk of mosquito bites around their home by reducing standing water by emptying containers, dumping dog bowls, bird baths, making sure their gutters aren't clogged -- checking their screens,to make sure that they are intact, so mosquitoes don't enter their homes.", "So those are all places that mosquitoes love to make themselves at home.", "Right.", "Let's talk about why people really don't need to be that concerned, because if a mosquito is biting you, it's not usually an infected mosquito, and you could get bitten but still not get West Nile virus, and you might even have been bitten by a mosquito that is infected and develop some symptoms, but not become that sick. It's really the elderly that need to worry about this.", "Most people that develop serious illness with West Nile virus are age 50 or older or have a compromised immune system.", "So those are the ones that need to be especially careful.", "That's correct.", "Great tips you gave us. Susan Lance-Parker, thanks for joining us today. We appreciate it -- and good example: long sleeves and long pants. Now let's go over to Brian.", "We're going to talk a little more about this for a closer look at the virus and its symptoms with our medical correspondent Rhonda Rowland. Rhonda, first of all, it is a virus?", "It is a virus. This is a viral infection that humans can get only from mosquito bites. The host for this virus appears to be birds. Still, researchers don't know exactly how it got to the United States. They speculate or hypothesize it came over in a migratory bird or an exotic bird. The mosquitoes bite the birds, and then the mosquitoes bite humans. That's the only way you can get it. It causes a viral illness.", "What kind of symptoms are there? I understand there's one gentleman in the hospital in Florida. He's pretty ill?", "He's pretty ill. He has very severe symptoms. But out of all the people who are bitten by mosquitoes, of those who are actually infected, only 1 out of 100 will have any kind of symptoms, and they tend to be very mild: flu-like, fever, muscle aches. Of those people, only about 10 percent will have really severe symptoms like this gentleman in Florida. It's like encephalitis. This is where you get into serious illness. It's brain inflammation, and it can be deadly.", "It can be deadly. That's the thing to keep in mind. Is it easy for somebody to catch it, or is it easy to transmit it from human to human?", "You cannot transmit it from human to human. You only can get it from mosquitoes. We have a map of the United States, and I thinks this helps put into perspective just how unlikely it is for people to get this. So far, since 1999, this has been detected in 14 states, from New York all the way down to Florida, including the District of Columbia. And of all those states affected, only 74 people have become ill and nine have died, and of the people affected, they've only been in New York, New Jersey, and now in Florida. So as you can see from this, it's very difficult to get. When we talk about West Nile virus activity in a particular state, that means mosquitoes have been detected or birds have been affected or horses. So you can see it's very difficult actually to get and become ill. So don't panic.", "So if you're along that flight path down the northeast coast or anywhere in the South, what do you do to try to prevent a mosquito bite -- the normal things you'd do -- go out and get some mosquito repellent?", "That's right. We just heard a little bit about that. Certainly, if you are outdoors at dawn, at dusk, make sure you are wearing long sleeves and pants -- it may be a little hot -- and use that mosquito repellent and get rid of standing water around your home. Again, don't panic. This is also why it is so important to have mosquito control efforts, and all states across the country are on alert. They're watching to see if there is any West Nile activity because health officials do expect eventually -- they can't say how long it will take -- all states will be affected.", "Should you bring your pets in? Are they affected in any way?", "Pets can be, but mostly, it's the birds and the horses. If you have animals, maybe you want to bring them in at night. That has not been a really big threat, and people, certainly, are concerned about that.", "A final question to you. Is there a potential for this to become anything resembling an epidemic?", "No, there's usually just a cluster of a few cases. Again, we're only talking about 74 people affected in the entire United States. And most of them may be clustered in particular areas. So certainly, where this man is affected in Florida, people in that area really want to be on heightened alert for mosquito control. So use common sense, don't panic -- you don't have to stay indoors. If you become severely ill, if there is dizziness and confusion, then you may want to go see a doctor.", "Thank you, CNN's medical correspondent Rhonda Rowland. 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{"id": "CNN-323823", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2017-10-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/16/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Rising Tensions Between Iraq, Kurds After Battling ISIS Together", "utt": ["We have just been told President Trump will make a statement in the Rose Garden momentarily following his lunch with Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, and Mike Pence, the vice president of the United States. Once the president is in the Rose Garden, we will have live coverage. We will see if he takes questions from reporters as well. He suggested earlier in the day, during his meeting with his cabinet, he would, indeed, answer questions following his meeting with Mitch McConnell. This could be very significant. A very important week coming up for the president and the Republican leader in Congress on several issues, including their desire for significant tax cuts, tax reforms. Stand by for that. Other breaking news we are following. CNN has just learned Iraqi federal forces are now in control of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in Kirkuk following the conclusion of an operation that pitted two U.S. allies against one another. Until recently, government forces and Kurdish fighters battled ISIS together. But tensions have been escalating in recent weeks and months. Let's discuss the situation with my next guest. Lukman Faily is the former Iraqi ambassador to the United States. Ambassador, thank you so much for joining us. This is a difficult situation. You have the Peshmerga, the Kurdish military forces, closely aligned with the United States, and the Iraqi military closely aligned with the United States. They were fighting each other and coming on the heels of this referendum in Kurdistan for independence, non-binding referendum. You are an Iraqi Kurd. How do you see it unfold?", "Thank you for having me. I see it as the next chapter after the liberation of ISIS, only to count the remaining Iraq without ISIS in control. That's one side. Now that the central government is trying to project his power across the country, without a referendum taking place that meant the acceleration had to take place. On the other side, you have these fighters together. They have common objectives --", "With the Iraqi military and the Peshmerga?", "They are in the town together. Now that we have issues within the Kurdish communities and the issues of how does the government try to have control. Yet, bloodless operation.", "Who is more responsible for the defeat of ISIS in northern Iraq, Mosul and elsewhere, the Kurdish forces or the Iraqi military?", "No the military itself, I mean, it's no one military. But the central government with the corporation of the Peshmerga and others work together. The majority of the fighting was done in the central government and not just in northern Iraq. You have Anbar and other provinces as well. Certainly, it's not one as well as others as well, and the Peshmerga. It's not only one --", "In 2014, when ISIS took over Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq, the Iraqi military, the regular forces in Iraq, they ran away and left behind the American supplied armored personnel carriers, their tanks. They ran away. The Kurds stayed behind and fought", "It's not even that clear. The Kurds fighted. The army came back again and they incorporate. Now, we need to look at the next chapter. The next chapter is they have to go politically and make sure there is no blood on the street and make sure civilians are not affected by it.", "Here's what concerns the U.S. A lot of these forces fighting the Kurds are supported by Iran, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard, that they have forces there. That is of deep concern to the U.S., as you well know.", "I understand the U.S. has concern about that, but this is more domestic, this is more internal with Iraq.", "Because you want to play a role --", "-- in Iraq right now?", "It does. Everyone else as well. Iraq is asking people, the Turkish, the U.S. to cooperate. They are not giving them what they are asking for. This is not because of the referendum. I think there was a misunderstanding from the government.", "The Kurdish government.", "The Kurdish government in deciding on the referendum. And, unfortunately, we have to come to this stage. The prime minister has to project power. At the end of the day, he is governing the country and has to project within the constitution. And this is what he's trying to do.", "Do you think the Kurds will support Haider al Abadi, the prime minister?", "Yesterday, there is a split within the Kurds and that's why there was no blood on the street and the clean-cut operation of the government. Because factions of the Kurds sided with the government.", "This is a really dangerous situation. I think you will agree --", "Yes, but the --", "The U.S. is watching this very, very closely", "The", "-- because between the Kurds and the Iraqi Shia and Sunni and Iranians involved, this could explode.", "Yes, but the U.S. has to have a proper reading of the situation. Better on the ground. They are not on the ground. They are looking at this from far off and saying, you have to be with this issue. But, unfortunately, we are escalating the situation. The U.S. has to have a better reading and a better addressing of the issues. They need to emphasize more on negotiations, certainly, the it needs to understand what the right reading is.", "This could really explode into a major civil war.", "I hope it doesn't.", "Everybody is watching very, very carefully. Lukman Faily is the former Iraqi ambassador to the United States. Welcome back to Washington.", "Thank you.", "Thank you very much for joining us.", "Thank you for having me.", "Moments from now, President Trump will speak from the White House Rose Garden. We see live pictures coming in. We will go there after this."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "LUKMAN FAILY, FORMER IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S.", "BLITZER", "FAILY", "BLITZER", "FAILY", "BLITZER", "ISIS. FAILY", "BLITZER", "FAILY", "BLITZER", "BLITZER", "FAILY", "BLITZER", "FAILY", "BLITZER", "FAILY", "BLITZER", "FAILY", "BLITZER", "FAILY", "U.S. - BLITZER", "BLITZER", "BLITZER", "BLITZER", "BLITZER", "FAILY", "BLITZER", "FAILY", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-186193", "program": "JOHN KING, USA", "date": "2012-5-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/16/jkusa.01.html", "summary": "Bernie Fine's Wife Sues ESPN; Korean Car Crash Blamed on Mechanical Failure", "utt": ["This half hour, the wife of a former basketball coach says ESPN ruined her life. Her husband is accused of molesting boys. She's accused of knowing about it. But now she's suing. Imagine being behind the wheel when your car goes berserk, suddenly speeding to 80 miles an hour. Why the driver says there was no stopping this out-of-control vehicle. Plus, sick of negative campaign ads? Well, I hate to break it to you. But this is just the beginning. The truth about who's spending millions to sway your vote. Here in Washington today, President Obama visited a local deli that supplies sandwiches, chips and cookies for his lunchtime get-togethers with congressional leaders. You see the president there. The White House, though, not releasing any pictures of the actual meeting, which just like this entire session of Congress, didn't seem to accomplish much. CNN senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash joins us from Capitol Hill. Dana, let's start with that meeting at the White House. No pictures. What's the word?", "We know people out there may hope -- they're optimists out there -- that when the cameras aren't there, that the microphones aren't there, the presidents and leaders are behind closed doors, they can roll up their sleeves and really discuss the issues and problems, not just big speeches. Well, guess what? According to accounts from sources in both parties, that's not what happened. Apparently, what they discussed in private is pretty much what they say in public. The president talked about his five-point to-do list that he wants Congress to accomplish when it comes to the economy. And the Republicans with the House speaker, John Boehner leading the charge, talked about what he said in public, that he really believes that spending cuts have to be a big part of any debt ceiling vote in the coming months. And of course, they talked about tax cuts. So you know, it's certainly -- is a little bit disheartening to hear that they didn't get a lot done. It might be what's going in the second time in almost half a year that they had this kind of meeting. But one thing they did agree on, John: they liked the sandwiches.", "We can't name it here; it would be wrong. We know that deli. They make good sandwiches. So I guess we can say that. All right. Let's turn then. There's a lot of posturing, as you just noted. I want you to listen here to a man you know well, to Democratic -- Democratic Congressman Jim Cooper of Tennessee. I think a lot of Americans would think this is a great idea.", "I'm proud that the Fix Congress Now Caucus is supporting no budget, no pay. That's a bipartisan reform to get Congress to do its most basic work on time. They would have to pass a budget and the appropriations bills before October 1 of each year. Now, the way the Constitution works, we can't change it this year, but we can change it for the next Congress.", "So Dana, you've got to love this idea. You do your work, you do it on time, or you don't get paid. That's what Congressman Cooper says and his friends say should happen in Congress. But I'm going to be there, take us to the Senate floor today. No?", "Not so much. They spent all day, John, six hours of debate and almost two hours of voting on five budgets that everybody knew from the get-go had no chance of passing. And that's, of course, what happened. Now, it was Republicans who pushed this issue. They wanted to make the political point that Democrats who run the Senate haven't passed their own budget in three years. And so they did it by proposing several conservative budgets to show that at least they have ideas. And also, the president's budget, to try to embarrass the president, to show that he is getting no votes. In fact, it was 99-0. Not even one Democrat voted for his budget for various reasons. But you know, Democrats took their opportunity of this political theater to stage their protests against conservative ideas. I've got to tell you: watching this all day today, people out there who are worried about the fact that members of Congress are speaking past each other and they're not getting things done. This is a perfect example of politicking instead of problem solving.", "Posturing, politicking, speeches, your government not at work.", "Not so much.", "Our senior congressional correspondent, Dana Bash. Dana, thanks. ESPN dropped a bombshell on the college basketball world when it aired a report suggesting that a Syracuse assistant coach, Bernie Fine, molested boys and that his wife knew about it. Fine lost his job, and now his wife is going after ESPN, suing the network, a reporter and a producer for libel, saying they falsely painted her as a monster who witnessed the molestation and didn't stop it.", "I am here today as a wife and mother who has had to endure the trauma of being smeared in the public as a monster. My family and close friends have stood by me. They know that I am a kind and loving person. But my life has been destroyed through the defamation that I have suffered, and this will last a lifetime.", "ESPN released a statement, that statement saying, quote, \"The suit is without merit and we stand by our reporting.\" Let's bring in legal analyst Sunny Hostin live in New York for us. Sunny, libel is a tough one to prove. Does she have a case?", "You know, you're right. Libel is a very difficult -- difficult case to prove, especially because truth is an absolute defense to a libel claim. And so the bottom line is she has to prove, John, that these allegations were false. She has to prove that all of the information published by ESPN that she discusses in her 44-page federal complaint is false. And that is very difficult to prove. The other thing I think that she's going to come up against is the fact that there are tape-recorded conversations between Mrs. Fine and one of the alleged victims. I've read the transcripts to one of the tapes. And she has actually confirmed that she did have that conversation with Bobby Davis, one of the alleged victims. Although, she now claims that the tape-recording itself was doctored. And so I would suspect that this is going to be a very difficult case for her to prove.", "Well, let's listen to part of one of those conversations. Again, it's a secretly recorded call. It's Mrs. Fine talking here to Bobby Davis. He's one of the men, then a younger man, who accused Bernie Fine of sexual molestation. Let's listen.", "I know everything that went on with him. Maybe they're just not aware of but you trusted somebody you shouldn't have trusted.", "What she is saying right there, Sunny, her husband has issues. You trusted someone you shouldn't have trusted. If you're saying, wow, she's talking to a kid who was molested, it sounds pretty damning. She is now saying she was talking about her husband having financial issues. Can she make that case?", "You know, I think it's going to be difficult. Because again, I have read the entire transcript. I have it in front of me. And while certainly they do discuss financial issues, they also discuss sex acts, John. They also discuss molestation in particular. And so for her to really prove this libel claim, she's going to have to prove that this conversation either didn't happen or that the tapes, in fact, were doctored or that it's not her voice. And again, she's already confirmed that she did have this conversation with Davis. And so if it goes to court and goes to trial, it will be up to a jury to determine what the truth is, and in the face of this type of tape- recorded evidence, I think that's an uphill battle for her.", "Sunny Hostin, breaking down the legal issues for us. Sunny, thanks so much. It's a fascinating case. We'll keep an eye on it. Imagine this. A car speeds through two red lights, then crashes at 80 miles an hour. The driver says it is not his fault, claiming the car sped up on its own. And the family hopes a dashboard camera video will prove it. Here's CNN's Paula Hancocks.", "The 30-year-old son of the couple in the car, who only wants to be identified by his surname Kwon, says that he posted the footage of the May 6 crash online because he wanted to prove that it wasn't his father's fault. (voice-over) The footage is from a camera attached to the rear-view mirror, which is fairly common practice in Korea. Kwon tells CNN his parents, both in their 60s, heard a weird noise before the Hyundai Sonata accelerated. The footage shows the car swerving to avoid other vehicles and also driving through two red lights. It eventually crashed into a stationary car at a speed believed to be around 80 miles an hour or 128 kilometers. Kwon says his mother underwent an operation for internal bleeding and is waiting for a second operation on her back and that his father has fractured ribs and finger. Official investigation is underway. The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs says they're currently investigating four other cases of sudden, unintended acceleration. They declined our request for an interview but did send a statement saying, \"The vehicle is being investigated by the Korean national forensic service. There is no time estimate for the conclusion of the investigation.\" Japanese carmaker Toyota recalled millions of cars back in 2009 due to cases of sudden, unintended acceleration. (on camera) Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.", "Watching that video, woo. We'll see how that investigation goes, as well. Paula, thank you. Whether you're watching TV, listening to the radio or maybe just surfing the Web or social media, some people will be spending record amounts of money this fall to influence your vote. Next, the \"Truth\" about political ads you can't dodge."], "speaker": ["KING", "DANA BASH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KING", "REP. JIM COOPER (D), TENNESSEE", "KING", "BASH", "KING", "BASH", "KING", "LAURIE FINE, WIFE OF BERNIE FINE", "KING", "SUNNY HOSTIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "KING", "FINE", "KING", "HOSTIN", "KING", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-393660", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-02-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/25/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Trump Downplays Virus Threat, Infected People Getting Better.", "utt": ["As the number of coronavirus cases grows around the world, President Trump is downplaying its effect on the U.S.", "You may ask about the coronavirus, which is, you know, very well under control in our country. We have very few people with it and the people that have it are -- in all cases, I have not heard anything other. The people are getting better. They're all getting better.", "Members of the Senate, all 100, were briefed just an hour ago on the virus. And one of the people present for that, Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, also happens to be doctor and has a thing or two about this. Senator, thanks so much for taking the time this morning.", "Thank you, Jim. Thanks for having me.", "So you heard the president there downplaying it, says it's very much under control. We heard Senator Johnson, one of your colleagues, come out of the briefing, saying to expect -- Americans should expect more cases here in the U.S., his words, we will have more here in America. Who is right about the direction of this virus and as it affects the U.S.?", "Well, I think they are both right. The president is right and the travel restrictions have been put in place have actually lowered the amount of cases that we have here. But with it all around the world, there is concern that there will be inevitably more cases in the United States in the near future. We are the most prepared nation in the world to deal with it. But when there is a new virus like this, coming up with any kind of a vaccine that will work, after it is tested, proven and then made so there is enough for everyone takes at minimum of a year, and more likely a year-and-a-half to two years.", "Right. The White House has asked Congress for 1.5 -- $1.25 billion in emergency funding. We were doing some math here. And just in the last two requests, the president has asked nearly seven times that, he's actually diverted money from defense for building the wall, seven times the money for building the wall as for fighting this, what may become a pandemic. Is that a sufficient amount of money to do what's necessary to keep Americans safe from this?", "Well, at the briefing, the specific dollars came up, and it's not enough. It's enough for the first tranche right now to deal with it. We asked the last briefing about ten days ago, did these folks, the Centers for Disease Control, the NIH have what they needed at the time? They said they did. Now, with this supplemental, this is a starting point. We realize we're going to have a number of additional, as you said, bites of the apple to go to do additional funding. And I expect there's going to be more funding needed. The initial amount was to bring people back from overseas. We need more for testing, for treatment, for vaccine development. All of these things are important and readiness at the local level.", "Just a short time ago, the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, commented on Russian interference in this election and said at the State Department podium that he delivered a warning to his Russian counterpart. I want to have you listen to that and I want to get your reaction.", "Meddling in our elections is unacceptable. The Trump administration will always work to protect the integrity of our elections, period, full stop. Should Russia or any foreign actor take steps to undermine our Democratic processes, we will take action in response.", "You're well aware of the president's reluctance to call out Russia for this interference and, of course, he famously, in Helsinki, accepted Vladimir Putin's denial that Russia interfered. Why can't the president say definitively those words we heard from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to say, Russia, don't do it and I'm going to stand in your way?", "Well, the president speaks for himself. I would agree with Mike Pompeo. The election security is always a top priority and enduring challenge. The bipartisan Intel Committee said that, basically, we were caught flat footed in 2016. We did a lot of hardening in 2018 with lots of money to all of the states, and we did not see this level in 2018 and we are prepared in 2020. We've had secure briefings on that. I am confident that this election will be done in a secure way.", "Okay. So the president speaks for himself. But Americans count on their president to be commander in chief, to defend the country. What confidence should they have that the president is doing what's necessary, providing the leadership that is necessary and resources to keep this coming election safe?", "Well, the resources have been provided. We heard that from the Department of Homeland Security, we heard it from the FBI, we heard it from --", "What about from the president?", "He has provided the resources, Jim, as needed. And this has been signed into law as part of the appropriations process, hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars have been sent around the country for election security.", "Let's talk about then his appointments. The director of National Intelligence is the most senior intelligence official in the country. It was established by law in 2004, which demands that any individual nominated for appointment as director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise. And, of course, one thing that DNI will have to do, as they did in 2016, is monitor foreign interference in elections, among other things, terrorism, Russia, China, you name it. Does Rick Grenell, the president's choice for that position, who is still to be serving as ambassador to Germany, does he have the necessary experience for that post?", "The president gets to choose who he wants, but this position is one that actually requires Senate confirmation. And my understanding is Ambassador Grenell is a temporary appointment and not necessarily one the president is going to nominate. I'd like to see the permanent nominee made quickly and brought to the Senate for confirmation. I was with Ambassador Grenell in Munich a week-and-a-half ago at the International Security Conference, and I think he's representing our country well there.", "On this issue for this particular role, and keep in mind the long experience that all previous DNIs have had in intelligence. Look at these folks here. They served as senators on Intel Committees, served for 25 years in the CIA, Jim Clapper was the head of two intelligence agencies before becoming the DNI. Would you, if the president chose Grenell as his permanent choice, would you vote for or against it?", "Well, I'd want to see how he responded during the hearings. I thought that Dan Coats was a superior choice for that position. I worked closely with him in the Senate. I think I voted in support of the ambassador to be ambassador to Germany. This is a different position and I'd want to participate fully in the hearings.", "Senator Barroso, a pleasure to have you on the program.", "Thanks for having me.", "All right. So the Intelligence Community has made it very clear Russia is trying to meddle once again in the 2020 elections. So what should we make of the president's refusal to answer direct question about that this morning?"], "speaker": ["SCIUTTO", "DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT", "SCIUTTO", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-133717", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-1-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/01/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Ex-KGB Man Predicts Demise of United States", "utt": ["Much more of the NEWSROOM straight ahead with Rick Sanchez. There he is. What is going on, Rick?", "I was just thinking, what was the one thing without which Barack Obama would not have been able to become the president of the United States? It was one of event at one time, at one moment, it was make or break, and most would argue that it probably was more of a make than a break. We are going to show it to you. We are going to analyze it, and we're going to let you see it in full, something sometime we in our business don't do enough of. That is just get out of your way and let you see it and try to understand how that moment worked. That is kind of -- I believe that is a special moment during this presidency, and there's two new polls out. One of them asks, can Barack Obama unite the country? You know, the findings are surprising on this. The other one is, is he tough enough? I mean does this guy what it takes, you know, the intestinal fortitude as I like to say.", "Wasn't he just elected? Didn't people ask that question as they went to the ballot box?", "Well, but yes, but no. In a country where we are divided like 45-45 and everything's decided by that little 8 to 10 percent in the middle, you expect that sometimes when you do a poll, you going to find that it is split like that? Not in this case. Tease, not in case.", "Tease. OK. We will be watching. Happy hour at 3:00 just 11 minutes away. Thanks, Rick. We appreciate it.", "All right, well, today is January 1st, 2009. Just may be all downhill from here for 10 well known companies. That's according to the financial news publisher 24-7 Wall Street. It put ten firms on death watch. Here they go: Chrysler, Sirius/XM, AIG, Fannie Mae, Rite Aid, \"The New York Times,\" Nortal, Pier One, Charter Communications and the home building firm Hovnanian, and they are all predicted to be gone by this time next year. The Wall Street Web site says the brand names might still be around, but the companies behind them will actually be gone or radically different. 2008; a rough year for the U.S., and one Russian professor said it's going to get a lot worse. The former KGB analyst says the U.S. will break up next year. And it's a prediction that has made him the toast of the Russian media. Details from CNN's senior international correspondent Matthew Chance.", "An economy in free fall. Unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And growing hardships at home as recession bites. As if things weren't bad enough, now one Russian professor is predicting the eminent breakup of the United States.", "I got the idea that the United States could disintegrate in the summer of 1998. I should admit that I was surprised to have come to this conclusion. Up until I started to analyzing, I had no idea that the United States had this disintegration tendency.", "In brief, Panarin predicts that by 2010, the U.S. will break into pieces. Including new republics centered on states like California and Texas. The eastern states will join the European Union, he say. Canada will grab a handful in the north, while Alaska will return to Russian rule. It's all of the end result of a fractious civil war triggered, says Panarin, by moral and economic degradation, and immigrants. (on camera): It may be a crackpot theory, with no real scientific research to back it up. But what's fascinating is how it's being received here in Russia. The Kremlin has long blamed the United States for everything, from instability in the Middle East, to the global financial crisis. And this apocalyptic version of America's future is suddenly being embraced. (voice-over): Professor Panarin, a former KGB analyst who heads Russia's Diplomatic Academy, regularly appears as a U.S. commentator on Russian television and in national newspapers. Analysts say his high profile reflects anti-American sentiment here.", "Of course, a lot of people in the world, including in this country would like the United States to fall apart, because it has been too mighty and because it is -- it looks now that it is losing.", "But Panarin says he's being proved right by events.", "We're seeing indicators like the collapse of the Wall Street banks, a mortgage crisis in the USA, as well as a number of various domestic problems. Even five years ago many of those problems didn't exist and most people didn't believe my ideas. But today, when America has shown its vulnerability, people have started to take them more seriously.", "And in a country like Russia, which has huge problems of its own, the demise of the United States, its old enemy, is proving a powerful distraction. Matthew Chance, CNN, Moscow.", "All right. You're looking at the Vatican's New Year's day mass. Pope Benedict the XVI prayed for peace in Gaza, and called the violence, hate and mistrust, terrible forms of poverty. The plane arrived in the U.S. with one more passenger than it had when it left. How does that happen?"], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR", "WHITFIELD", "SANCHEZ", "WHITFIELD", "WHITFIELD", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "PROF. IGOR PANARIN, POLITICAL THEORIST (through translator)", "CHANCE", "SERGEI KARAGANOV, POLITICAL ANALYST", "CHANCE", "PANARIN", "CHANCE", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-279946", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2016-03-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/28/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "Hulk Hogan Won the $140 million Sex Tape Lawsuit", "utt": ["Gawker media is hoping an appeals court will overturn the $140 million judgment against the Web site, its founder and a former editor. They were sued by the wrestler Hulk Hogan for invasion of privacy after Gawker posted a snippet of a video showing Hogan having sex. Some jurors say they were sending a message with their verdict. In a few moment, I'm going to talk to Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media. But First, two of the Florida jury that decided that the case, Kevin Kennedy and Shane O'Neil. Hello, gentlemen. Thank you so much for joining us. Kevin, to you first.", "How are you doing?", "I'm doing great. Thank you. Kevin, you first. You and your fellow jurors awarded Hulk Hogan more than $140 million in damages in this lawsuit against Gawker Media. That's an amazing amount of money. What was behind your verdict?", "Well, mainly the evidence. The evidence showed that basically, you know, the loss of revenue that Hulk Hogan could have made off of the video and also pain and suffering that he went through this entire ordeal and basically the evidence that was presented in front of us. That's what we had to work with. That's what the judge's orders were to have us look and examine that evidence without bias towards either side and that's exactly what we did.", "What was the most convincing piece of evidence, Kevin?", "Well, the fact that there was no evidence showing that they gave Gawker the rights to show the video. And that's really what the crux of the decision was about. That's really what -- in large part, what this case was about.", "So Shane, Gawker --", "They didn't have the permission to show it.", "Gawker argued that this video, Shane, was news worthy in part because Hulk Hogan is a big celebrity with a larger than life public personality. That he had talk about it in other places. Was that argument at all convincing? Did you debate that?", "We absolutely debated that. We had a great jury. There were six of us. We all came from different perspectives of life and we all came in with really different thoughts and balanced each other really well through that. But you know, quite frankly, here, we didn't think that was, you know, the case at all as far as Mr. Bollea. We knew -- it was very clear this was invasion of privacy and it was very clear he did not want that tape to be put out to the public. And so that was the evidence that -- that was absolutely 100 percent clear to all of us.", "OK. So Kevin, Listen. After the verdict, Nick Denton, right, who is the founder if Gawker. He posted this on Gawker.com. And here is what he says. He said, it turns out this case was never about the sex on the tape Gawker received but about racist language on another, unpublished tape that threatened Hogan's reputation and career. As our lawyers argued in legal briefs that were kept secret by the trial judge from the public, Hogan filed a claim because he was terrified that one of the other tapes which memorialized his rant about his daughter dating f'ing n words might emerge. It is now clear that Hogan's lawsuit was a calculated attempt to prevent Gawker or anyone else who might obtain evidence of his racism from publishing a truth more interesting or damaging than a revelation about his sex life.\" If they had introduced that into evidence, Kevin, would that have changed anything for you?", "I'd have to see the video. But since I haven't seen the video, I can only go on what I have seen. And what I have seen, you know, the fact that he did not want that video shown, is really all I can go on. I guess that would have to be a question for the jury.", "Shane, same question for you.", "Don, yes. Sure, Don. Thank you. You know, obviously it's the opposite for me. I mean, it makes it even more clear that he did not want that video to be out there. If you think about the kind of things, the comments that he made on the actual sex tape as well as what you just mentioned, obviously that's not somebody that knew he was being taped and that this is something that would go out to the public. So I think that solidifies it in my mind even more so that Mr. Hogan was not involved in this as far as knowing that it was happening and obviously he didn't want it out.", "Some jurors have said the Gawker people thought that they were above the law. Explain what you mean by that, Shane.", "Sure. Absolutely. I think it was very clear the way Mr. Denton kind of -- his philosophy with his company and the way he's brought his people in is that they are all about going across the line. They are not about normal journalism, ethical journalism. This is about taking it to a completely different limit and they are testing it and this is why we're here, is basically they crossed the first amendment. They crossed a right of privacy. And this is the whole crux of the whole thing and why we're here.", "Jurors have also said that there was a sense of arrogance. Is there a disconnect, you think, between Nick Denton's values and what Gawker deems acceptable and what the rest of the country thinks?", "You know, actually, I think on the arrogance, there was a lot of that evidence or presentation that we had from people getting on the stand from deposition. Everybody from", "You know, many news organizations, probably all news organizations are looking at this and thinking about the first amendment. To Kevin, were you hoping to send a message to other media outlets with this multimillion dollar verdict?", "Absolutely. I mean, you can't hide behind the first amendment, you know, to further your career, your company, to make more money, whatever the case may be. So that's the way I feel about it. As a group, definitely, we felt that in this case, privacy overweighed the right of the first amendment as it applied to gawker.", "Shane?", "To that point, don, yes, on the punitive damage side, the last part of it, it was very, very clear that it was for two things. It was punishing Gawker, the folks involved, Gawker, Mr. Denton, A.J. Delorio. But it was also clear that it should be to deter others from doing the same thing. And we have to make that decision. So obviously, a small amount of money in a multibillion dollar industry, it would not make that kind of an impact to deter. So a lot of things came into our evaluation, you know, on all three phases of the damages but quite frankly it was very clear we had to make an example to others to deter.", "Kevin, I'm going to be interviewing Nick Denton right after you. If you had the opportunity to speak with him personally, what would you tell him?", "After what we have seen and as I have seen is a group, basically what I said before, you know, put yourself in his shoes and don't try to further yourself and hide behind the first amendment just to further your goals. But, again, I still think, as I have said before in one of the other interviews, that didn't seem to me like he had a heart or a soul. That certainly didn't come across the way the people that he hired, the way he trained them, the environment that he fostered at Gawker. And --", "I think quite frankly, bring back ethics and morals in journalism when making decisions about something like this out that is controversial. That's what it really what it comes down to.", "Shane O'Neil, Kevin Kennedy, thank you.", "You're welcome. Thanks for having us.", "Up next, Nick Denton speaks out about what these two jurors just said and what's next for Gawker."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LEMON", "KEVIN KENNEDY, JUROR IN HULK HOGAN V. GAWKER", "LEMON", "KENNEDY", "LEMON", "KENNEDY", "LEMON", "SHANE O'NEIL, JUROR IN HULK HOGAN V, GAWKER", "LEMON", "KENNEDY", "LEMON", "O'NEIL", "LEMON", "O'NEIL", "LEMON", "O'NEIL", "LEMON", "KENNEDY", "LEMON", "O'NEIL", "LEMON", "KENNEDY", "O'NEIL", "LEMON", "O'NEIL", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-2691", "program": "WorldView", "date": "2000-2-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/15/wv.02.html", "summary": "Georgia Picks up Pieces After Deadly Tornadoes", "utt": ["Some say it looks like a war zone, it is the area of south Georgia devastated by a series of tornadoes. President Clinton has declared four counties federal disaster areas. CNN's Brian Cabell is there.", "Tree by tree, house by house, the residents of southwest Georgia are clearing the mess created by six tornadoes that swept through here early Monday morning, and residents are getting help. Georgia Baptist church members have arrived with chainsaws and muscle.", "The folks are in trouble and we are here to try to help.", "The Salvation Army trucks are here, set up to help victims in the middle of the worst devastation.", "So we come in and we feed them, give them drinks, if they -- we don't have what they want, we try to direct them where they can get it.", "Ordinary citizens have shown up ready to dispense food, water, whatever is needed. Ron Jackson upon hearing news of the tornado started soliciting donations in nearby Albany on Monday, went out and bought food and water and made his delivery to Camilla.", "This is not my home, but this is just like my neighbors to me, you know. I take care of my neighbors like I would myself.", "And the people who need a little care, the victims, they're coping as they return to their battered homes, their devastated neighborhoods. Many had friends who died in the tornado, and now the survivors such as John Mickens (ph), here clearing out his house, are looking toward an uncertain future.", "I'm going to try to rebuild right here in the same spot, but I just hope it don't never come this way no more, or I'll go stay somewhere else.", "Two streets away, Charlene Jackson faces the same dilemma just two days after the tornado swept most of her house away while she was lying in her bed. Right now, she and her family are thinking they will stay.", "Yes, I think, you know, when everything gets settled and maybe cleaned up I think we will. It won't be the same, but we are going to have to try to start over again.", "Some of the victims have little choice: they can't afford to leave. Others simply say this is home and even a tornado with winds in excess of 150 miles per hour isn't going to drive them away. Brian Cabell, CNN, Camilla, Georgia."], "speaker": ["BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CABELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CABELL", "RON JACKSON, GEORGIA RESIDENT", "CABELL", "JOHN MICKENS, TORNADO SURVIVOR", "CABELL", "CHARLENE JACKSON, TORNADO SURVIVOR", "CABELL"]}
{"id": "NPR-46691", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2018-05-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/05/05/608802889/gun-control-protests-staged-outside-nra-convention", "title": "Gun Control Protests Staged Outside NRA Convention", "summary": "While the National Rifle Association continued its convention in Dallas, Texas, protestors gathered nearby at city hall to call for stricter gun regulations.", "utt": ["And now to Dallas, which has been hosting the National Rifle Association's annual convention. The NRA has been a polarizing force for many years now for its uncompromising stance against stricter gun regulations, but that divide seems even more pronounced now after the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., in February, with its supporters even more vocal than ever. President Trump addressed the convention yesterday and offered his praises.", "And now, thanks to your activism and dedication, you have an administration fighting to protect your Second Amendment. And we will protect your Second Amendment.", "Meanwhile, survivors of gun violence and other concerned citizens gathered outside of Dallas's City Hall. They said they were, quote, \"a counterbalance to the NRA. And they had what they called a Rally 4 Reform. Courtney Collins from member station KERA was at the rally and, she's with us now. Courtney, thanks so much for joining us.", "Oh, happy to be here.", "So tell us, how did the rally unfold?", "It was really an interesting format. So there was a lot of speakers ranging from Newtown high schoolers to a woman whose unarmed son was killed by an off-duty security guard. And in between each speaker, Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin was killed in that recent school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, he would work on a blank canvas posted behind the podium. He is an artist and has created artwork before to honor the victims of the Parkland shooting. He built today's creation piece by piece.", "So did the rally have a central message that you could hear, something that everybody seemed to support or rally around?", "There were a lot of different talking points, but the one thing everyone kept going back to was the desire to have universal background checks for gun owners. A lot of people were actually wearing T-shirts that said, we are the 97, alluding to the fact that 97 percent of the American people supposedly support universal background checks for gun owners. One of the people wearing one of those T-shirts was Lizzie Simpson, and she's a high school sophomore in Texas.", "As a high schooler, I'm scared everyday of going to school and if that's the last time I'm going to see my parents, if that's the last time I'm going to see my best friend. That needs to stop. There needs to be at least a beginning point where we as students, as parents, as church leaders, as people of the United States come out and say enough is enough. Something needs to be done, and I think that starts with universal background checks.", "Was there any particular call to action at this rally? You remember when there were these massive student rallies a couple of months ago, a very large one in Washington, D.C.. They had a specific kind of list of things that they wanted people to do. Was there something like that here?", "Yeah, it was pretty similar. Kind of a diverse list of what you could do. People were absolutely encouraged to speak to their elected officials, really get to know them. People were encouraged to come out to vote, also to donate. Amanda Johnson was actually one of the speakers at the rally. She lost her younger sister to a gun suicide seven years ago.", "So for me, unfortunately, at this point, every gun death is personal. And whether that is a drive-by shooting, or it's a mass suicide, or a school shooting, I feel them all. Because I've experienced that grief, I'm not able to ignore these ever again. They're not white noise. And I will fight every bit as hard to stop suicides as I do school shootings and any other kind of shootings.", "And, Courtney, before we let you go, I understand that there were counterprotesters or people who were wanting to make a point about gun rights starting to gather just as this protest was ending.", "That's right. There were gun-rights activists from groups like Open Carry Texas. Many of them actually had their rifle strapped to their chests or their guns holstered at their hips. Their kind of big refrain as I spoke to people in that crowd was that they believe in the Second Amendment and are really worried that restricting that freedom will lead to other freedoms being restricted or taken away altogether.", "That's Courtney Collins from member station KERA in Dallas. Courtney, thank you.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "COURTNEY COLLINS, BYLINE", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "COURTNEY COLLINS, BYLINE", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "COURTNEY COLLINS, BYLINE", "LIZZIE SIMPSON", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "COURTNEY COLLINS, BYLINE", "AMANDA JOHNSON", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "COURTNEY COLLINS, BYLINE", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "COURTNEY COLLINS, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-73718", "program": "CNN NEWSNIGHT AARON BROWN", "date": "2003-7-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/15/asb.00.html", "summary": "Troubling Developments in North Korea", "utt": ["The question of what to do about North Korea is getting tricky again and the North Koreans have once again made a big show of crossing a red line. They now say they are one step closer to making a nuclear weapon or perhaps more nuclear weapons. There is some suspicion they already have two but nobody really knows for sure and that's part of the problem the uncertainty. The other is what to do regardless. The Bush administration seems content to wait things out, something that has prompted a former defense secretary in the Clinton administration to call a recipe for stumbling into war. Here's our Senior Pentagon Correspondent Jamie McIntyre.", "North Korea has told the U.S. it has completed reprocessing some 8,000 spent fuel rods from its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon and now has enough plutonium to make a half dozen nuclear bombs. If that's a threat, the U.S. is dismissing it.", "We will not submit to blackmail. We will not offer any incentives or inducements for North Korea to stop something they never should have started.", "But in an interview with \"The Washington Post,\" former Defense Secretary William Perry, a recognized Korea expert delivers an ominous warning. \"Time is running out\" he tells the paper. \"I have thought for some months that if the North Koreans move toward processing, then we are on a path toward war.\"", "When former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, a guy who doesn't hold press interviews easily says that he thinks we're drifting toward war I pay attention.", "The White House insists there is still plenty of time for diplomacy and economic pressure to force North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions.", "Obviously, you never take any options off the table but we seek a diplomatic solution.", "One big uncertainty is whether North Korea's Kim Jong- Il is simply bluffing hoping to intimidate the U.S. into appeasement by simply claiming to be a nuclear power. U.S. intelligence concludes North Korea has reprocessed plutonium but is uncertain how far its nuclear program has progressed and the fact that the pre-war intelligence on Iraq is now under question has some members of Congress wary.", "Our intelligence that tells us whether the North Koreans are bluffing has to be accurate, timely, and unbiased.", "Former Defense Secretary Perry criticized the Bush administration for refusing bilateral negotiations with the North. \"I think we're losing control\" he told \"The Post.\" \"I'm damned if I can figure out what the policy is.\"", "The Bush administration is hoping to squeeze Pyongyang by going after its only source of hard cash. Sources say the U.S. is poised now, along with ten other countries, to stop North Korean shipments at sea of arms, drugs, and other contraband, claiming that it is a direct threat to U.S. national security -- Aaron.", "Jamie, on to the policy here. The United States, the Bush administration says it wants to avoid bilateral talks; that is, talks with the North Koreans directly that it wants a broader negotiation or conference or whatever the right word is. Are we anywhere in that? Is there anything being proposed? Is anybody making any noise that there ought to be such a meeting?", "Well, the North Koreans are still asking for it. According to our producer at the State Department who checked with her sources again today, the latest message delivered to North Korea through China is absolutely no one-on-one just North Korea-U.S. meeting that they'll only meet on a regional basis, either with China or with other partners in the region. And, the U.S. is sticking to that. They claim that any concessions they make would amount to giving in to North Korean blackmail and they're sticking by that position. They believe they can pressure North Korea, unlike Iraq, with economic means because North Korea is not sitting on a sea of oil that it can use to generate revenues and thumb its nose at the United States.", "It's not sitting on a sea of much of anything. It's very hard pressed. Are the Chinese -- have the Chinese been considered by the administration helpful to this point?", "Well, they've been considered about as helpful as one might expect, not as helpful as the U.S. might hope but China doesn't really seem to want to see a North Korean nuclear power on the North Korean peninsula but its answer to the United States is always the same that it's the U.S. believes -- it says to the U.S. you believe our influence with North Korea is much greater than it really is. We don't have as much influence either.", "Jamie, thank you very much, Senior Pentagon Correspondent Jamie McIntyre tonight. A few stories in our national roundup tonight beginning with a number, it's a bit hard to get your head around or your arms around, $455 billion, with a B, dollars. That's the new projected budget deficit for this year, larger than expected, and nearly triple the deficit from last year, a continuing weak economy, the tax cuts, the cost of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war on terror all playing a part. The White House budget director said the new figures are \"a legitimate subject of concern\" but called the situation manageable. On to the Clintons' legal bills, it's been a while since you heard that phrase. The U.S. Court of Appeals decided today the government should pay some of those fees but not much, about $85,000 that the Clintons racked up during Whitewater and all the rest. The Clintons had asked for $3.5 million. The court said they were owed fees surrounding their response to the final report issued by Ken Starr because special prosecutors don't normally issue that kind of report. And, Pat Robertson had quite a request yesterday on the \"700 Club,\" his TV show. He urged his audience to pray for God to remove three justices from the U.S. Supreme Court so they could be replaced by conservatives.", "Before it's too late, Lord, please hear our prayers. Answer, Lord, we pray. We cry out to you and we ask for miracles in regard to the Supreme Court. Lord, let there be a dramatic change, we pray, in the name of Jesus show you mighty arm.", "This is part of a 21-day prayer offensive that Robertson has launched after the Supreme Court decided that sodomy was not a crime. Coming up on NEWSNIGHT, the war of words over the war, as Democrats come out swinging over the intelligence flap but are they going too far? Both stories after the break, around the world this is NEWSNIGHT."], "speaker": ["BROWN", "MCINTYRE (voice-over)", "RICHARD BOUCHER, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN", "MCINTYRE", "REP. JANE HARMAN (D-CA), INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE", "MCINTYRE", "SCOTT MCCLELLAN, WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN", "MCINTYRE", "HARMAN", "MCINTYRE", "MCINTYRE", "BROWN", "MCINTYRE", "BROWN", "MCINTYRE", "BROWN", "PAT ROBERTSON, EVANGELIST", "BROWN"]}
{"id": "CNN-249020", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-02-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/10/cnr.09.html", "summary": "Murder Charge in Hannah Graham Case", "utt": ["You're watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin. The man suspected in the death of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham has officially been charged. He is Jesse Matthew. And he's been indicted on first-degree murder and abduction charges. Hannah Graham disappeared in Charlottesville in the Downtown Mall area last September 13. Then her remains were found in October a couple miles outside of town. Police identified Jesse Matthew as the prime suspect based upon surveillance video and multiple witness accounts. He was taken into custody in Texas 11 days after Graham disappeared. Brian Todd is in Charlottesville today. And, Brian, we know the prosecutor is not pursuing the death penalty there in Virginia. Is that a surprise?", "It was certainly a surprise to all of us in the room, Brooke, when the prosecutor announced that she would not be pursuing the death penalty, at least not for now. This was a horrible crime, as you know. Hannah Graham went missing on September 13. Her body was found more than a month later along a creek bed in an abandoned property. All that was left of her body was her skull and some bones. Jesse Matthew also -- these extenuating circumstances in this case -- he is linked to the 2009 disappearance and later the death of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington. She went missing in the fall of 2009. Her body was found a few months later. And Jesse Matthew has been charged with attempted capital murder and rape in a 2005 case in Fairfax, Virginia. He's pleaded not guilty to that. But there are these other cases that he is linked to. And many people did expect this to be a capital murder case in Albemarle County, but the prosecutor said that they are not seeking it for now. She did kind of give a hint as to why. We pressed her on why. She said that they had discussions with the Graham family as well as some others involved here, and one local analyst told me that they believe that he believes that maybe the Graham family might have implored the prosecutor not to seek the death penalty in this case. I asked the prosecutor if some deal was made with Jesse Matthew to avoid the death penalty, and she said they have had no discussions with him -- Brooke.", "So no death penalty on the table here. What about -- I think you alluded to this a second ago. He's connected to that sex assault case that's going to trial next month. That was from 2005. And then, you know, this same part of Virginia has seen multiple unsolved cases of young women being assaulted and abducted. Has he been tied to any of those?", "Well, he has been tied to them only very loosely, in that they are investigating possible links, Brooke. The only one he's been tied to forensically, according to authorities, is that Morgan Harrington case. Again, she's a Virginia Tech student who went missing in the fall of 2009. Her body was found just after New Year's in 2010. He has been rumored and possibly linked to some other disappearances. And, as you have mentioned, there have been a lot of other disappearances and possible deaths of other young people in this kind of I-29 corridor between Charlottesville and the Washington, D.C., area over the past several years. He's been investigated in connection with those, but no definitive link has been made with those cases, Brooke.", "All right. Brian Todd, we will look for more of your reporting on THE SITUATION ROOM. Thank you, sir, in Charlottesville. Coming up next, in the fight to destroy, dismantle ISIS, is Syria getting information on what the U.S. is doing, even though the two don't actually work together? The Syrian president now saying yes. We have those details ahead. Also, the violence escalates in the standoff between Ukraine and Russia. In fact, we're just getting word President Obama and Vladimir Putin have just spoken. Hear what President Obama told him as he weighs sending lethal arms to Ukrainian soldiers. Stay here."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "TODD", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-76251", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-9-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/01/ltm.19.html", "summary": "Law Firm Relocates to Ground Zero", "utt": ["Two years after the September 11 attack, a New York firm is having a special homecoming. It was forced to relocate after the attack on the World Trade Center towers. But as CNN's Michael Okwu reports, the firm is moving back to Ground Zero.", "Donald Simone is considering the view from his new office, high above 16 acres in lower Manhattan. The world still calls this Ground Zero. And Simone says it's the only view he wants.", "Personally, I'm excited to be here. We just -- you know, all stay away from downtown and avoid the area, make it a 16-acre cemetery, the terrorists have won. This emergency staircase is -- the main elevator's here.", "Simone worked for Thacher, Proffitt & wood, an office that used to occupy three floors of the south tower. After 9/11, the firm relocated. But this Labor Day weekend, just shy of the two-year anniversary of the attack, Thacher Proffitt is moving back, just across the street, the first major tenant of the towers to return to the site.", "We really felt rooted here. We feel like this is a homecoming. It's a -- it sounds silly. I mean, we're business people, we're lawyers. We're supposed to be practical and pragmatic, but we're emotional, too.", "The 300-lawyer firm was lucky not to lose anyone on 9/11, although many employees still replay the images of that day. Still, given the option not to sit by windows overlooking Ground Zero, most staffers said they'd rather witness the rebuilding and the construction of the memorial. There are actually fewer commercial vacancies in downtown Manhattan than elsewhere on the island, partly because people want to return to the area. But maybe, also, because rates are lower. Still, many World Trade Center businesses have relocated uptown, upstate and across the river to New Jersey. Supporting the area's rebirth every day will not always be easy.", "It's a rebirth. It's a rebuilding. For me, I'm not there yet. I don't want to see that right now. To me, it's a reminder of what's not there.", "Michael Okwu, CNN, New York."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "MICHAEL OKWU, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DONALD SIMONE, THACHER PROFFITT AND WOOD", "OKWU", "PAUL TVETENSTRAND, THACHER PROFFITT AND WOOD", "OKWU", "MARIA LIVANOS, THACHER PROFFITT AND WOOD", "OKWU"]}
{"id": "CNN-241193", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2014-10-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/17/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Catholic Church Changing Its Tone?; Imagine a World", "utt": ["In focus this weekend, the worldwide Roman Catholic Church works out how to be more inclusive. So will gays be welcomed instead of ostracized? A senior cardinal on a mission for Pope Francis speaks out.", "A homosexual person, a person who has this orientation has the dignity of being who they are. And so the church is simply recognizing that.", "And later in the program, they are the men and women on the front lines not in uniform, but armed with cameras and notebooks, documenting war crimes. We introduce you to the E-Team.", "Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the special weekend edition of our program. I'm Christiane Amanpour. Who am I to judge? The pope's simple but revolutionary words a year ago causing a pastoral earthquake now, says a long-time veteran Vatican watcher. Church dogma on homosexuality, divorce, communion and relationships are being thoroughly aired out at the Vatican in a special synod on the family, which has been called by Pope Francis. This week Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., told us what all this could mean for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. And his voice carries, as he is one of a handful of prelates who've been entrusted by the pope with sending him the final report. When Francis began his papacy 19 months ago, he made clear from the very start that he favored mercy, compassion, greater acceptance and a warmer welcome for everyone. Embattled conservative bishops are now warning against sliding down the slippery slope of more tolerance and straying away from traditional teachings. So we asked Cardinal Wuerl to tell us what's happening in those hallowed halls and what all this Vatican mulling will really mean for the faithful.", "Cardinal Wuerl, thank you so much for joining me from Rome.", "It's a great pleasure. Thank you for having me.", "This is an amazing time. We seem to be hearing a lot of monumental change possibly coming from where you are standing right now. Is that the case? How do you describe what you're all discussing now?", "The way the synod began was the invitation from Pope Francis to open our hearts, open our minds and speak very, very freely. And then he said, and then to listen, to listen humbly, listen to one another and listen to the Holy Spirit. But he also -- and I think this is very important for us to remember - - he also said, \"This is the beginning of a process.\" So whatever we're saying and struggling with together and searching to find creative ways to be pastorally present, none of this is definitive. We're all trying to find the best path to follow. That's why I find this so exciting. There's an openness. There's a creativity but all of this is within the framework of: what has the church always held?", "So then let me ask you because there are obviously hot button issues that many, many people around the world, particularly practicing Catholics, want to understand where you all now stand. So the interim report -- or at least the reports about the interim report -- states that gay people have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community. Is that a new stance? Because obviously, in the past, homosexuality was considered a disordered state, a mentally, you know, disordered state.", "If you take what you're reading in this interim-interim report, it's saying what the catechism of the Catholic Church also says, that every person has a dignity all of their own, a worth, a value, a God- given dignity. And a person, a homosexual person, a person who has this orientation has the dignity of being who they are. And so the church is simply recognizing that and saying it today in a way that perhaps is being better heard. One of the -- one of the efforts of this synod is to help us formulate the teaching of the church and most particularly the openness, the welcome of the church, the outreach of the church in a way that is actually being heard by the people we're trying to reach. And I think that's what you're seeing in the language, not so much a change in the teaching of the church, but a way of saying it that is far more inviting, far more welcoming.", "I can hear you voicing a huge amount of caution. There does seem to be some quite sharp divisions between members of the synod. Some of the Catholic bishops there are saying that what's going on is not what we're saying at all. It's not a true message. Others are saying it advances positions which synod fathers do not accept; a great number of synod fathers found it objectionable regarding some of what came out about homosexuality or about cohabitation.", "I think what we need to do is we need to separate what actually is being said from what's being said about what's being said. And where I think we are right now in the synod is we're at a point where we have yet to reach a formulation that has been presented to everybody to even take the first pass at. What we have is simply an echoing of everything that was heard. And when you open up the discussion and you try to be creative and you try to be as inviting as possible, some of the language may sound a bit jarring to some people. That may not be the language that we all settle upon in the end. My caution would be -- and I think it's a legitimate caution of the synod -- give the process a chance. Give it a possibility to work its way through so that we don't settle on any given word at any given time and say this is the final word. The process has just begun. Remember we still have another synod to conclude this in 2015. So we're going to be at this for a while.", "Exactly. And you bring me to the next point, which is that you are going to be one of those cardinals writing the final report that you will present to the pope. Do you believe the final report will and should be made public?", "I think that when we -- what we conclude with is something that really will probably be made public because it's going to be the report on the next step. It's going to be the paper that we'll use for the next step in the process. I suspect that whatever is finally produced is going to be made public. There doesn't seem to be any effort so far to keep any of these things from being public.", "May I ask you about the very hot button issue of divorce? Communion and so-called living in sin, let me ask you first of all, divorced couples now cannot remarry inside the church and they're not allowed to have communion if they remarry outside the church, in civil services. Will that at all change in the final document, by the time the final document is made?", "I wish I could give you an answer to that. But I don't know what the final document is going to say. The final document of this whole process isn't going to exist until the process is done. And our Holy Father said that process won't conclude until the end of the 2015 synod. But what we're looking at is it's true. As part of the received teaching of the church, as part of what the gospel says, we are not permitted to divorce and remarry. But what does that mean in the life of individuals? And what does that mean in the -- in relation to their sacramental life? That's what we're just beginning to talk about. I don't know what the answer, the final answer will be because we haven't gotten anywhere near that part, that point in this ongoing discussion. But the fact remains, the teaching remains that marriage is indissoluble and that goes all the way back to Jesus telling us marriage is not able to be dissolved by human beings.", "What about what is colloquially known in the church as living in sin, cohabitation? Apparently the interim report suggested that pastors should recognize that there are, quote, \"positive aspects of civil unions and cohabitation.\" Where do you come down on that?", "Well, I think we have to begin with the recognition this is going on all around us, that this is a fact of life. And so if you're going to reach out to people, if you're going to go and meet people where they are in the condition in which they are living, you have to recognize what is that condition. We now need to talk about where would Christ want you to be, where would the Lord ask you to be in light of His gospel, in light of His teachings? And that's, I think, what was meant when we said there are some positive aspects. At least try to meet the person where they are and then walk with them.", "Cardinal Donald Wuerl, thank you so much for joining us from just near the Vatican there, on a windy day.", "You're very welcome. Thank you for having the opportunity to be with you.", "And now from doctrinal front lines to battlefield trenches, meet the real-life action heroes who go to watch out for human rights. A Netflix latest, a true reality show -- when we come back."], "speaker": ["CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST (voice-over)", "CARDINAL DONALD WUERL, ARCHBISHOP OF WASHINGTON", "AMANPOUR (voice-over)", "AMANPOUR", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR"]}
{"id": "CNN-234685", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2014-07-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/15/lvab.01.html", "summary": "Theme Parks Investigation; Hamas Rejects Cease-Fire With Israel; Train Derails in Moscow; CDC Review Finds Problems", "utt": ["Welcome back. Accused sexual predators manage to get jobs at some of the country's most popular theme parks. A stunning CNN investigation reveals the risk that predators pose. So what is being done to keep our kids safe? Earlier today, our own Chris Cuomo asked the Florida sheriff who's spearheading efforts to catch child predators before they strike what he thinks needs to be done.", "We can use polygraphs and we do before we hire a law enforcement officer. The law enforcement officer that's going to guard your business, come into your home at night if there's a problem, has to pass a polygraph. But the teacher, that teaches your elementary school and middle schoolchildren doesn't have to take a polygraph. The person that's going to be dealing with your children at a theme park can't take a polygraph. It is against federal law.", "Investigative correspondent Kyra Phillips is behind the CNN investigation that brought the situation to light. Also joining us from Atlanta, HLN legal analyst Joey Jackson. First to you, Kyra. It's fascinating. The man said it's hard to imagine a company that tries harder than Disney to keep out these predators.", "Right.", "But the bottom line, are these parks safe?", "Well, you know, Disney, Universal, SeaWorld, all insist, yes, they're doing everything possible and our theme parks are safe. They want to make that very clear. And also, these parks take immediate action with these men that are arrested. None of them work there any more. We pointed out that none of these cases involve children or teenagers that were visited the park. But clearly there is a problem, and more can be done according to Congressman Dennis Ross, who, after seeing our piece. is now proposing this legislation so that they have the ability to polygraph these employees, which I know you're going to talk about with Joey in just a second. But the sheriff made it very clear, the predators go where the children are, and he thinks more should be done.", "What's interesting also is that in one particular egregious case, the man used an image, a very child-friendly image, to lure in his alleged victim.", "Right, he had a picture of himself with Mickey Mouse.", "That's what we saw in the piece.", "Sure. And what are kids drawn to?", "That's exactly right. This is not, however, just a problem at theme parks.", "Point well made. Even Congressman Dennis ross Raid, you know what? If law enforcement across this country got more aggressive and did these types of stings, that we'd find sexual predators being arrested all across the country, theme parks, schools, mega churches, you know, places where we feel our kids should be safe. You don't think about sexual predators in these environments. This was eye-opening for me as a mom, as I told you.", "I can imagine. But I'll tell you one thing. You need to talk to your kids, and you cannot talk to them soon enough about protecting themselves and making sure they're aware that there are people out there --", "Yes.", "-- who are not kind and want to hurt them.", "Mine are 3. I'm already talking to them.", "I talked to mine when they were very young. That's what a parent can do. Now to you, Joey, you heard throughout the story, the sheriff calling for polygraphs for everyone who works around children. Civil liberty issues with this, clearly, first of all, let's talk about the polygraph. Polygraph isn't even admissible in court because it's not always consistent. So what are the issues?", "There's a couple of things. First of all, Kyra, great work with this report, and you've been speaking to your kids since they were 1, not 3. Who are you kidding?", "You're right. Joey knows. Joey knows I'm very proactive.", "No doubt about it, but here's the reality. There's a couple things with polygraph. We know that they're not foolproof, Deb, but very few things are foolproof. But they are telling. Yes, you could deceive polygraphs and that type thing, but there's a couple issues going on here. The first is federal law, and what does it say? There's the Employee Polygraph Protection Act that was passed 25 years ago, and pursuant to that act, private employers cannot go and take their employees and polygraph them. There are certain exemptions to that, and state and local governments are exempted by that. But that's the first issue. So they can't do it. I do think, as a result of Kyra's reporting as a result of this issue, we may see a shift, because now it's out there. Kids need to be safe. They need to be protected. A theme park and you can't, the employees there, polygraph them and they're looking at children all day? Doesn't make sense, Deb. So I think as a result of that you'll see legislative changes. Polygraphs are not foolproof, but it's a start in the right direction to ensure that people are being truthful and honest in their applications when they apply for certain jobs.", "Yeah, there's no question. Also, they could probably just tell the person, you know what? If you're a child predator, we will find you, we will fire you, and make that very clear right at the beginning of the interview. All right, Joey Jackson, Kyra Phillips, great work. Thanks so much.", "Thank you.", "A pleasure, Deb.", "Really great job. And of course there is a lot more on this. If you have a tip for Kyra or the investigative unit, please go to CNN.com/investigate. And tonight, the congressman who wants to make a change after seeing Kyra's report lays out his plan. Dennis Ross is on live tonight on \"AC360\" at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. And a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas has failed. The Egyptian- backed plan collapsed after only six hours, Israel briefly halting air strikes but Hamas refusing to stop firing rockets. The plan called for all sides to cease hostilities until high-level talks could take place. The latest fighting has killed more than 190 Palestinians in Gaza. Twenty people were killed after a metro train derailed in Moscow today. Another 150 injured, 42 in critical condition. Three cars derailed in a tunnel during morning rush hour. It's not clear what caused it, but the head of Moscow's transportation department said it was not a terrorist attack. An investigation into the recent anthrax exposure at the CDC has turned up all sorts of other problems, including an instance of H5N1 bird flu mixed with the regular flu strain. Anthrax stored in unlocked refrigerators and hallways was another problem and other dangerous materials being transferred in Ziploc bags. A congressional committee will hear more from witnesses coming on Wednesday. And dozens of mothers and their children who cross the U.S. border are sent back to Honduras. CNN crews were there as they processed back into that country, what leaders in Honduras say about the growing problem at the U.S. border."], "speaker": ["FEYERICK", "JUDD", "FEYERICK", "PHILLIPS", "FEYERICK", "PHILLIPS", "FEYERICK", "PHILLIPS", "FEYERICK", "PHILLIPS", "FEYERICK", "PHILLIPS", "FEYERICK", "PHILLIPS", "FEYERICK", "PHILLIPS", "FEYERICK", "JOEY JACKSON, HLN LEGAL ANALYST", "PHILLIPS", "JACKSON", "FEYERICK", "PHILLIPS", "JACKSON", "FEYERICK"]}
{"id": "CNN-370270", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2019-05-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/21/cg.01.html", "summary": "Federal Judge Examines Mississippi Abortion Ban; Interview With Rep. Val Demings (D-FL); Impeachment Calls Grow Louder.", "utt": ["Miguel Marquez, CNN, Cape Porpoise, Maine.", "Miguel, thank you. And thank you for being with me. I'm Brooke Baldwin. \"THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER\" starts right now.", "Another empty chair, as congressional oversight falls not on deaf ears, but on no ears at all. THE LEAD starts right now. Making a show over the no-show. Democrats torn after the former White House counsel defies a subpoena and snubs Congress today, as the impeachment debate causes more division than the \"Game of Thrones\" finale. Rebooting Beto. The complain trying to put lightning back in the bottle, as he prepares for a CNN town hall tonight in a potential make-or-break event. Plus, happening right now, thousands of Americans protesting historically restrictive abortion bans passed across the country, as a judge claims one state's new law -- quote -- \"smacks of defiance.\" Welcome to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. We begin this Tuesday with the politics lead. The drumbeat for impeachment growing lower inside the Democratic Party, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who does not favor such a move right now, attempts to downplay and dismiss the deep divisions within the Democratic Caucus. This all comes as former White House counsel Don McGahn defied a congressional subpoena to testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee today, setting the stage for a potential contempt of Congress vote and a court fight. Democrats on the committee wanted McGahn to testify about the many instances detailed in the Mueller report when President Trump was potentially obstructing justice by, for example, telling McGahn to fire Mueller. McGahn says the president told him -- quote -- \"Mueller has to go. Call me back when you do it.\" For the second time in less than three weeks, the committee's top Democrat, Chairman Jerry Nadler of New York, lectured an empty chair today and slammed the Trump administration for stonewalling Congress and ignoring its role in conducting oversight. CNN's Manu Raju is on Capitol Hill today with breaking news now. And, Manu, you're learning now that Nadler has issued some new subpoenas?", "That's right. The House Judiciary Committee has just served a subpoena to Hope Hicks, who's the former White House communications director, someone who's been President Trump's closest confidant, one of his closest confidants, for years. Now, this subpoena demanding her testimony by June 19, demanding documents to be turned over by June 4. At the same time, the committee has also issued a subpoena for Annie Donaldson, who was the chief of staff for Don McGahn, the former White House counsel, served in the White House counsel's office. Those two individuals have said been witnesses to some of the episodes detailed in the Mueller report. Democrats demanding more information. But the White House has been moving to defy subpoenas, as we saw today, instructing Don McGahn not to show up to the House Judiciary Committee, despite facing a subpoena, and now Democrats are threatening to punish McGahn.", "Former White House counsel Don McGahn will soon be held in contempt of Congress, after President Trump directed him not to comply with a subpoena, demanding he testify about potential obstruction of justice at the White House.", "We will not allow the president to prevent the American people from hearing from this witness. We will not allow the president to stop this investigation.", "The Justice Department said Congress cannot compel former senior White House officials to testify about their interactions with the president. And Republicans argued it's time to put the Mueller report behind them.", "There was no collusion. There was no obstruction charges. There's nothing here.", "The White House is resisting virtually all Democratic probes into the president, prompting more Democrats to say their only choice is to launch an impeachment inquiry.", "Of course, nobody runs for Congress with the idea that I want to go there and start impeachment.", "The pressure building across the Democratic Caucus, from veteran members.", "The impeachment process is going to be inevitable, just a question of when, not if.", "To freshmen. (on camera): Do you think it's time to move forward with an impeachment inquiry?", "I do. I personally do. We can't be scared of elections. We need to uphold the rule of law.", "And even some skeptics are softening their opposition.", "I think that the administration is certainly pushing the Congress in that direction by obstructing everything.", "Are you changing your tune on that?", "I think the case gets stronger the more they stonewall the Congress.", "Are you there yet?", "I'm getting there.", "But the most important person still not convinced.", "Madam. Speaker, are you under increased pressure to impeach the president from your caucus?", "No.", "That's House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who believes her caucus should methodically pursue their investigations, while focusing on an economic agenda. And in private meetings Monday night, Pelosi argued the strategy is getting results, pointing to a court ruling that could force a Trump accounting firm to turn over financial records to the House Oversight Committee. Many of her allies agree. (on camera): You don't think it makes sense to open an impeachment inquiry right now?", "The question is, why would we open an impeachment inquiry if we're winning?", "Now, if the White House moves to defy these two new subpoenas, expect those calls to grow. One Democrat who supports an impeachment inquiry, David Cicilline, said that doing so would convey the seriousness of an investigation moving forward. And I'm told this is one area that Jerry Nadler brought up with Nancy Pelosi in a closed-door meeting on Monday. She said no to that, moving forward in that respect, but this will be a topic of discussion, Jake, at a closed-door meeting tomorrow with the full Democratic Caucus on the agenda, investigations and talk of impeachment -- Jake.", "Deep divisions. Manu Raju on Capitol Hill, thanks so much. Joining me now is Democratic Congresswoman and former chief of police for Orlando, Florida, Val Demings. She serves on the House Judiciary Committee. Congresswoman, thanks so much for joining us. We appreciate it. Your committee just issued subpoenas for Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director, and for Annie Donaldson, the former chief of staff for White House counsel Don McGahn. What specifically does the committee, do you want to ask them about?", "Hi, Jake. Well, it's great to be here. And, right, it's been quite a day. History has dealt us a very unusual, but a critical hand during this period. And in terms of Judiciary and the oversight responsibility that we have, we are proceeding forward. These are people who we, from the very beginning, wanted to get in front of the committee, ask them questions about what they know about the 10 incidences of instruction (sic) that are mentioned in the Mueller report involving the president. And so we're moving forward. As you have seen, the attorney general did not honor the subpoena, nor did Mr. McGahn today. But we are moving forward. And I think you know and a lot of other people do that, over a month ago, after reading portions of the Mueller report, and now having read the entire report, and what we witnessed with total disregard for the law, I just believe that we are at the point of opening impeachment proceedings.", "And, specifically, you want to ask Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson about what they know about the potential obstruction of justice that's detailed in the Mueller report?", "That's absolutely correct. They both, as you know, worked very closely with President Trump. They both testified and have given testimony. So we just want to dig a little deeper into things that might have been said or actions taken that they are aware of involving the president's intentions to obstruct justice.", "Don't people who work directly for President Trump in the White House have a presumption of executive privilege, that their conversations will be covered, so that they can give free advice and speak freely to the president? Hasn't that historically been how presidents wield executive privilege in keeping people from testifying?", "Yes, Jake, there's no doubt about that. But, normally, there's no historical precedence where presidents have inserted it after the fact. As you well know, the president appeared to have no issue at all with his administration sitting down with Mueller, although he refused to do so. But once the report came out and even though the president has yelled from the top of his lungs no collusion, no obstruction, we know that the Mueller report tells a very different story. And so, to come in after the fact, and then say, oh, no, I don't like what I have read, really, or what is now being said or what the public now knows, I want to insert executive privilege, is totally unprecedented.", "So, as you know, Speaker Pelosi is expected to discuss these ongoing probes into the president during a meeting with your caucus tomorrow. Pelosi and Judiciary Committee Chairman Nadler have thus far rejected calls for impeaching President Trump. You obviously disagree with that. Why do you think that Pelosi and Nadler are wrong, and why do you think they are holding the position that they do?", "Well, let me say this. There's a reason why Nancy Pelosi is the speaker and Jerry Nadler is the chairman. And they have to provide oversight in those various roles. There's a lot that they have to consider. But, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, when I look at the responsibility given to us by the Constitution of the United States and Article 1, the oversight responsibility, and if you read the Mueller report, especially volume two, I believe it's pretty clear that the president made numerous attempts to obstruct justice or obstructed justice. And so I believe, based on that information, as I did a month ago, that we have enough to begin those proceedings. And, remember, it's a process, right? And so we're opening an investigation, so we can get the whole story, which it seems like the House Judiciary Committee, at least on the Democratic side, appears to be the only ones on Judiciary who are really interested in getting the whole story and providing the oversight that has been granted to us by the Constitution.", "I just want to ask you, before you have to go, the polls indicate that voters want members of Congress like yourself to be talking about immigration, talking about the economy, talking about health care reform. And the feelings, I believe, that people like Speaker Pelosi and others in Democratic leadership, including Hakeem Jeffries, are saying is they want the American people to see Democratic members of the House working on these issues. And the -- at least according to polling, the American public does not support impeachment. Do you not hear those concerns of Democratic leaders, that it would be better for Democrats to be doing more on those issues, talking more about those issues, the economy, health care, immigration, et cetera? And I guess the concern is from Pelosi and others that Democrats, instead, are going to be seen as just trying to get the president.", "You know, Jake, certainly, I represent Florida. The people in Congressional District 10 sent me here represent their interests. Since I have been here in the 115th Congress, as you know, we came through the door and opened up the session fighting to protect health care, so that 20 million people would not be thrown off the rolls. Being a representative from Florida, I clearly understand immigration and that we need to establish a comprehensive immigration plan that includes TPS. I also understand that people who are working hard every day, worried about keeping a roof over their head and food on the table, how they're going to send their children to college, if that's what they want to do, those are primary issues. And, as you know, we have not stopped talking about those things or working on those things. You're aware of legislation that we have passed. But I also believe that the American people expect us to make the tough decisions and provide the oversight, too, that they sent us here to do. And we're going to continue to do that. When we protect our democracy, we protect health care, we protect immigration, we protect persons covered by TPS. And we protect those things that are important to the American people.", "Former Orlando police chief and Congresswoman from Florida, Val Demings, thank you so much for being with us. We appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Brand-new CNN reporting about a possible deal that could disclose more of the Mueller probe than we ever thought we would see. What is it? We will have that story for you next. And the president nudges the attorney general to investigate the FBI for treason. There is no reason there that we know of, but the president is saying it, of course, your daily reminder that we are not in normal times. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "RAJU (voice-over)", "REP. JERROLD NADLER (D-NY)", "RAJU", "REP. DOUG COLLINS (R-GA)", "RAJU", "REP. JOAQUIN CASTRO (D-TX)", "RAJU", "REP. JOHN YARMUTH (D-KY)", "RAJU", "REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY)", "RAJU (voice-over)", "REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA)", "RAJU (on camera)", "SCHIFF", "RAJU", "REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS (D-MD)", "RAJU (voice-over)", "QUESTION", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-213181", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2013-8-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/22/cg.01.html", "summary": "Georgia Aborted School Shooting Examined", "utt": ["She's a bookkeeper who apparently puts on her superhero outfit in the teachers lounge phone booth. I'm Jake Tapper and this is THE LEAD. The national lead. Her name is Tuff, but her tenderness may have prevented a mass shooting. I will ask the superintendent for his reaction to the 911 calls from inside the school between a suicidal gunman with an AK-47 and the hero who stopped him. More national news, name, rank, serial number, two of those are different today. Private Bradley Manning plans to live the rest of his life as Chelsea from prison. I will talk to someone who helped him as he was struggling with his identity. And how many women does it take to force a mayor out of office? Well, now we know, as San Diego's Bob Filner finally takes a deal. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Jake Tapper. Welcome to THE LEAD. We will begin with the national lead and some breaking news out of California, where a dizzying rescue scene is unfolding. A tour bus carrying dozens of people flipped over on a busy stretch of highway about 20 miles outside Los Angeles. We're still trying to sort out the exact number of passengers who were hurt. But local media is reporting that at least five people had to be flown by helicopter to trauma centers. The crash shut down three lanes of traffic on Interstate 210, turning parts of the highway into a virtual parking lot. Let's get the very latest now from officer Saul Gomez from the California Highway Patrol. He joins now by phone. Officer Gomez, thanks for being with us. Are there any updates on the number injured and the severity of those injuries?", "Thank you, Jake, and good afternoon. We have a preliminary number of 46 people injured as a result of this traffic collision, most of which are moderate to minor injuries. We did have some trauma that were airlifted. We used a total of three airships, three air helicopters to transport these victims to local hospitals. Luckily, none are life-threatening. And the situation has stabilized for now.", "Is there any idea yet about the cause of this crash?", "There's numerous witnesses that we have to interview as a result of this crash, so we're unable to determine what actually happened and what caused this bus to actually traverse four lanes and travel onto the shoulder, where it overturned.", "This stretch is highway is popular for tour buses, right?", "That is correct. This stretch is highway is popular for tour buses that are going to local casinos, out of state and within the state of California. And it appears the folks traveling in this bus were headed just to a casino here in California before this incident took place.", "Officer Saul Gomez with the California Highway Patrol, thank you for joining us. We appreciate it. Thank you. Her Antoinette Tuff and you can only hope every school in America employs someone as fearless and heroic as she is. Tuff is, of course, as you know by now, the school bookkeeper from Georgia who disarmed a man with an AK-47 and 500 rounds of ammunition who had slipped through the doors of the Ronald E. McNair elementary school ready to die. Tuff's only weapon was her compassion and her sympathy for a very sick young man. We now have the 911 call that Tuff made when the first shots rank out. Let's take a listen.", "Police. What is the address of your emergency?", "Ooh, he just went outside and started shooting. Ooh, can I run? 911", "Can you get somewhere safe?", "Yes, I got to go. He is going to see me running. And he's coming back. He said to tell them to back off. He doesn't want the kids. He wants the police. So back off. And what else, sir? He said he don't care if he die. He don't have nothing to live for. And he said he's not mentally stable. Well, don't feel bad, baby. My husband just left me after 33 years. But -- yes, you do. I mean, I'm sitting here with you. We all go through something in life. No, you don't want that. You are going to be OK. I thought the same thing. You know, I tried to commit suicide last year after my husband left me, but look at me now. I'm still working and everything is OK.", "The call lasted for almost 25 minutes and true to Tuff's words, the suspect, 20-year-old Michael Brandon Hill, was taken into custody unharmed. Miraculously, every student and everyone at the school, including Tuff, came out similarly unscathed. The reaction of the school's interim superintendent was simple and spot on.", "It's a blessed day. All of our children are safe.", "Michael Thurmond, interim superintendent of DeKalb County Schools, joins me now. Michael, thank you for being with us. Tell me about the moments you spent with Antoinette Tuff after she made this call. What we didn't play just then was after the young man was apprehended, her relief, her terror comes through on the call. She was putting on a very brave face, but she was terrified.", "Absolutely. I first engaged Ms. Tuff sitting there on the sidewalk on a curb after the alleged shooter had been apprehended. Tears were streaming down her face. But, at that point, you knew that you were in the presence of a hero. She's such a compassionate and loving person. And she had literally placed her life on the line to save the lives of hundreds of children and employees.", "She's a bookkeeper. Did you know her before this happened? Does she have a reputation for just being a very compassionate person? If she's a bookkeeper, she probably doesn't deal with the children all that much.", "Principal Bolden and all of her colleagues stated one thing, that this is who this lady is. She's loving and she's caring and she believes. She has a tremendously strong faith in her God. And I think that is what carried her through during this very difficult time. This could have turned out in a much, much more horrific situation. She talked the gunman down, bought time for law enforcement to arrive and saved countless lives.", "That must have been a huge relief for you as the interim superintendent. What was your reaction when you got on the scene with memories of Columbine and Newtown in your head? What was going through your mind?", "We were listening to events as they unfolded. It was actually on the video. And we were listening to the radio. We were blue-lighting to the scene. And all of these thoughts, as you said, Columbine, Sandy Hook, were all going through my mind. But my one goal and mission was to get there, get to the scene, work with law enforcement and save our kids. But I'm so proud of principal Bolden. I'm so proud of the staff and I'm especially proud of Ms. Tuff. They leaned on their training. They did exactly what they were supposed to do. The kids responded well. And thank God no one was injured and there was no loss of life.", "No, God bless. It's a great thing that nothing happened. Let me just ask you one thing. There's obviously a big debate going on right now about whether or not there should be police officers in schools, security officers in schools, whether or not teachers should be armed. We can't rely on there being an Antoinette Tuff at every school. What's your take on that?", "Well, first of all, we need to look at really what's going on in this country. When our children can't be safe in school, we need to look at the entire spectrum, whether it's gun control, whether it's -- particularly as it relates to people who might be mentally disturbed or have psychological issues getting access to high-powered weapons. We're going to look at everything we do within the DeKalb School District, lesson learned, look at our strengths, our weaknesses, learn from it, and do everything we can to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again.", "But my understanding, sir, is that there is a buzzer system and there is some security at that school, and this young man just followed a parent who had been buzzed in into the school. Is there any additional security that you think you should be considering in the DeKalb County schools?", "Well, Jake, it's not generally understood, but the front office is a part of the security system. If an unauthorized person enters the school building, particularly like McNair, the people in the front office now is a redundancy. And that's why one of the reasons Ms. Tuff was in the position she was to engage anyone in the building that should not be there. Obviously, we're going to look at how he got into the building. But we're proud that the redundancy worked. A human being engaged the intruder, and she was just smart enough, brave enough, compassionate enough to bring him and to stop him and to redirect what could have been a murderous intent.", "And lastly, sir, and without question most importantly, how are the kids?", "The kids are fine. The little kids, some, they just wanted to get home to mom and dad. And they are so resilient. And I just want to thank the parents as well. We have not said a lot about them, but in this crisis situation, they were there, they were anxious. Some were frustrated, but at the same time they supported the plan that was in place. They worked with law enforcement. And when we delivered those little babies over to the reunification location, it was just a sight to see to see them putting their arms around their kids. We had 1,000-plus parents, 600 kids, and every kid went home. And we're just so blessed and proud that that occurred.", "I feel -- we were looking -- we were showing some pictures of the kids being put back in their parents' arms, and it's just moving watching that, thinking about what might have happened and thank God and thank Antoinette Tuff that it did not. Michael Thurmond, interim superintendent of DeKalb County Schools, thank you so much for your time.", "Thank you, Jake.", "Coming up on", "His secret life was exposed as he fought to save himself from prison. Now Bradley Manning says he wants to be known as Chelsea Manning and he wants hormone therapy. Will you pay for it? Plus, he's the highest paid actor on television who also happens to support Democrats. 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{"id": "CNN-284092", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2016-05-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/14/ndaysat.01.html", "summary": "Clinton Slams Trump Over Taxes In New Ad; Should Clinton Hit Back at Donald Trump in Trump Style?; Sanders Hoping for a Contested Convention", "utt": ["His fans continue to mourn the death of musical icon, Prince. His family is now planning to pay tribute to him this summer.", "Prince's sister Tyka Nelson announced on Facebook a plan for a public memorial and tribute. This will happen in August, she says. The news comes as his church prepares a memorial for him tomorrow. Remember, the singer was found dead in an elevator at his Paisley Park estate last month. He was just 57 years old.", "America's so-called toughest sheriff could face jail time if a federal court ruling later this month goes against him. A federal judge yesterday found Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona in civil contempt for not doing enough to halt racial profiling by his deputies. A judge could refer the case for criminal contempt charges at a hearing that's on May 31st. Arpaio's department has been under fire ever since a federal investigation found a widespread pattern of discrimination against Latinos.", "The gun used to fatally shoot Trayvon Martin will stay on the auction block, at least for the next few days. This is according to the Web site where George Zimmerman has put his .9 millimeter handgun for sale. Prank bidders have been dogging the site ever since. In fact, at one point, a fake bid of $65 million was offered.", "New this morning, in fact out in just the last few minutes, Hillary Clinton slamming Donald Trump in a new ad for refusing to release his tax returns. This comes, of course, after Trump denied posing as his own publicist back in the '90s.", "Yes, a lot going on this week. Meanwhile, Donald Trump did meet with Paul Ryan in Washington hoping to win his support, and they released this joint statement, quote, \"While we were honest about our few differences, we recognize that there are also many important areas of common ground.\"", "Should Hillary Clinton hit back at Donald Trump in Donald Trump style, or stay as she has said she would, above the fray? Well, the 20-year-old Clinton scandals keep coming up at rallies for the presumptive Republican nominee, but former Secretary Clinton has not yet answered Trump's attacks directly. And as we hear from our Randi Kaye, her supporters seemed divided over how to fight moving forward.", "They came to hear Bill Clinton speak in Patterson, New Jersey. But long before the former president arrived, these voters were already fired up.", "Why do you stoop down into the gutter with someone that wants to bring you there?", "The gutter is where many of these Hillary Clinton supporters believe Donald Trump is trying to drag her, using personal attacks about her husband's extramarital affairs dating back 20 years.", "She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler. And what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful.", "Instead of hitting Trump back on his own personal transgressions, Mrs. Clinton is sticking to the issues.", "I have said repeatedly, I am not going to respond to the insults and the attacks coming from Donald Trump in this campaign.", "Is Hillary Clinton playing tough enough?", "Well, I think she's playing tough enough because I don't think that slander is the name of this game. I think that she should stay focused on the agenda at hand.", "I don't believe in mud slinging. I don't think that helps anyone.", "But not responding to Trump's personal attacks is risky. (on-camera) Are you at all concerned that this could backfire on her? Because look at what happened to the other 16 Republican candidates who didn't take on Donald Trump.", "Right. I believe, you know, as time approaches closely, that she should, you know, maybe take a couple of shots but nothing too extreme. Because she doesn't want to be anything like Donald Trump.", "Are you at all concerned that those kinds of things could sink in to the American public's view of her if she doesn't say something?", "I think the American people are intelligent enough to know what to look for, to do their research, to do their homework and to not fall into the games of name saying.", "There's also the question of how Hillary Clinton should handle Donald Trump's harsh words for her husband. Trump has called Bill Clinton the worst abuser of women in the history of politics. Hillary Clinton hasn't responded to those remarks either. A few here feel strongly that Mrs. Clinton needs to defend her husband and her family, that she's making a big mistake letting Trump, quote, \"bully her.\"", "If you don't stand up to a bully, they keep going. For her to sit there and let him get away with it, it's like a cancer. If you don't treat it, it metastasizes. And then what's going to happen? You're going to die.", "How exactly should she strike back? Use Trump's favorite weapon against him, says this supporter. (on-camera) So you think she should go after him on social media?", "Yes. He's using twitter. Let her use Twitter.", "I would hate to be in her shoes to have to take all that.", "And staying above the fray may be harder and harder the closer we get to Election Day. Randi Kaye, CNN, Patterson, New Jersey.", "As the Clinton campaign prepares to take on Donald Trump in the general election, she still has an opponent in the primary race and Bernie Sanders is not backing down. He's hoping for a contested convention. Now there is a group of Sanders supporters out there looking beyond the convention and they're circulating a draft proposal. It calls for Sanders to concede the race, possibly endorse Clinton, then take on Trump himself. OK. Nomiki Konst, a Democratic strategist and Bernie Sanders supporter is with us. Nomiki, good morning to you. I want to ask you about this draft that says Sanders would be a powerful surrogate for Clinton. In what arena do you see that happening?", "So this draft is, I don't know where this mysterious draft came from. There are no authors. They barely published where it came from. And a lot of the language sounds very similar to some of the Clinton language. So I think that everybody on Team Sanders right now is very passionate about moving forward. You know, he's won 17 of the last 18 races. He has 45 percent of the pledged delegates. And most likely will win the majority of the next couple of states, including California where they are in a statistical tie.", "I was going to say California has an awful lot of -- it's got very sizable delegates at stake. But just to be clear, are you asserting that this draft is coming from the Clinton camp and not in Sanders camp.", "Yes, or some sort of independent expenditure. They have a lot of operations, including correct the record which is a David Brock operation. And it pretty much -- and this now coming from the campaign, the Sanders campaign but for myself after reading the language and some of the Sanders supporters re-read it very similar to the language of a lot of the correct the record language, using language like \"Breaking Barriers,\" \"Attacking Fascism and Donald Trump.\" And it is not necessarily something that the Sanders campaign endorses. And, you know, reporters report on a lot of things if they're tipped off, obviously.", "OK. Well, I want to get to some of Sanders' language here, something that was at a fund-raising e-mail that's using some -- some incendiary language to some degree. It says, the Sanders campaign revealed their thinking, obviously saying hitting Clinton hard, saying that she's very close to Trump in the polls. Here it is. \"We're going to have a contested convention where the Democratic Party has to decide if they want the candidate with the momentum, who is best positioned to beat Trump, or if they're willing to roll the dice and court disaster simply to protect the status quo for the political and financial establishment of this country.\" I read that and I think a lot of people wonder, who is courting disaster aimed at? Is the disaster Donald Trump? Or is it Hillary Clinton?", "Well, the disaster is shown in the polls. I mean, Bernie Sanders is the only person right now who beats Donald Trump in swing states. Nationally. He's the only candidate who has the most likely chances of beating Donald Trump electorally. He is the only candidate who can win that very important working class white -- unfortunately, just the white male vote which is what it's going to come down to this year. He is the only candidate that not only can get the base of Democratic voters, but woe independents and young people and has the momentum. And so what he's basically saying is, if we want to win in November, which is essentially what the Democratic Party's mission statement is, is to win and to find the candidate that is most electable, then Bernie Sanders is that choice.", "OK.", "But, unfortunately --", "When you talk about winning that requires some money. And also notable in this fund-raising e-mail that was sent out, he is asking people to make $3 contributions to continue his run for wins in Oregon and Kentucky on Tuesday. How financially sound is Sanders' fight at this point?", "Campaigns are expensive. We've all noticed over the past five or six months he's been hitting record numbers. Last month wasn't as strong as previous months, but it was still very strong. One of the strongest out of all the presidential contenders. So, you know, he continues to raise money and he is doing it in a non- traditional way. He's crowd sourcing it. He's getting it from individuals. And so he's basically breaking, he is hacking the system of political -- of presidential campaigns right now. Presidential campaigns usually, either you have to be somewhat of a self-funder, or you have to raise money from very unlikely and unfriendly to the Democratic process type types. Whether it's having Super Pacs that raise money from dark shadow -- dark money groups and corporations or accept money from lobbyists, as Hillary Clinton is, and even the Democratic Party is right now. Or, you know, he decided to go the honest path. And he's doing it well. And he's the most electable candidate. He did go in opposite way. I suppose, in terms -- if we talk about conventional elections. And it does seem to be working for him to some degree. No doubt about it. Nomiki Konst, we appreciate you being here. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Sure.", "I want you to see the video here of this young man. He was featured in a recent CNN documentary series. He gave hope to a lot of people. But he was found shot to death before he could escape the violence of Chicago. We'll examine what tragically cut this young man's life short and hear from his mentor and former principal. Also, an Olympic doping scandal getting a lot of attention this morning involving Russian athletes and reports of widespread cover- ups."], "speaker": ["VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KAYE", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "KAYE", "HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "KAYE (on-camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KAYE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KAYE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KAYE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KAYE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KAYE (voice-over)", "PAUL", "NOMIKI KONST, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "PAUL", "KONST", "PAUL", "KONST", "PAUL", "KONST", "PAUL", "KONST", "KONST", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL"]}
{"id": "NPR-23647", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2015-11-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/11/13/455936670/book-review-wild-hundreds-nate-marshall", "title": "Book Review: 'Wild Hundreds,' Nate Marshall", "summary": "Tess Taylor reviews Nate Marshall's poetry collection, Wild Hundreds.", "utt": ["Nate Marshall is a rapper and breakbeat artist from the South Side of Chicago. He also publishes poetry. His first book - his first book of poems is called \"Wild Hundreds.\" Tess Taylor has a review.", "In a nifty, memorable trick of wordplay, the last poem in Nate Marshall's rich first book is the same as the first, except in reverse. This form is a chiasmus, a highfalutin poetic name for the X, or sight of the cross. This is fitting because Marshall's book is about handshakes and code words, about crossing and re-crossing his home landscape, the Wild Hundreds, a neighborhood in far South Side Chicago between 100th and 130th streets. It's a landscape punctuated by fame, food and liquor and what Marshall calls the down-home migration taste of Harold's Chicken Shack. In Marshall's hands, it's also a place of ambition, ambition cut short, of love letters and hood words and pallbearers. Poems condense around what Marshall calls their percussive imperative, around bittersweet vignettes - trying to buy shoes, trying to graduate, trying to fit in at smart camp. There's also the ambivalence of making it to college, of being able to look back and hold up a mirror to a place you've survived. Marshall casts his streets in a variety of inventive forms - poems as palindromes, as Facebook posts and also as sonnets or villanelles. Reading Marshall, it's impossible not to remember Gwendolyn Brooks circling another South Side Chicago neighborhood in her 1945 classic, \"A Street In Bronzeville.\" In that book, a collage of voices captures a neighborhood hemmed in by poverty and racism. In Marshall's work, the problems and the music are updated. (Reading) When there's a fire in a neighborhood park, we heard our mothers' best white voices rattle alarm into the telephone.", "Marshall knows full well he's got Brooks at his back. That opening poem is called \"Repetition & Repetition &.\" It sings, (reading) ours is a long love song, a push out into open air.", "The book is \"Wild Hundreds\" by Nate Marshall. The review was by Tess Taylor. Her collection of poetry, \"Work And Days,\" will be published next year."], "speaker": ["KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "TESS TAYLOR, BYLINE", "TESS TAYLOR, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-213212", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-8-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/23/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Wildfires Scorch Yosemite; Filner Expected to Step Down Today", "utt": ["In California there's been a troubling new development now. This is in the fight against that raging wildfire, the so-called Rim fire has crossed now into Yosemite National Park just a week before Labor Day weekend kicks off. Chad Myers is keeping a close eye on the situation there. And tell us what kind of danger are people facing inside the park now?", "Suzanne, you have got 63 new acres, square miles burned last night alone, 63 square miles. Now we're up to 130 square miles of burnt. It's not creeping into the valley. This is kind of blowing to the north, on up toward Kitty Ridge (ph) and up in where it's a little bit more rocky. So i don't think we're going to get a lot more burn today and tomorrow. But you really have to watch out. The Strawberry Music Festival has already been cancelled. That's a big bluegrass festival that they were going to do there in Yosemite National Park for the Labor Day weekend. And so if you have plans, you may want to keep abreast. You may want to watch these websites, because they are very good at keeping you up to date on what's going on. There's the Rim fire. There's San Francisco. There's Yosemite National Park, right there, Lake Mono (ph). I try to take lake pictures of Mono (ph) like Ansel Adams did. I never got really good pictures there, just didn't work out. Here is the Rim fire right through here. The valley down through here, here is 120. There's some fire along 120. So this road is closed into the park at this point in time. Here is what I'm calling this ridge. This is all granite up here. So although we're burning a lot of trees through here, as soon as this gets by Lake Cherry (ph) and Lake Eleanor (ph), we're going to get into a lot less vegetation here. And I believe the fire will slow down. Let me show you how much this has exploded in just five days. Back you up to the boundary of the fire Monday, right here. Now we go to Tuesday here, Wednesday here and, last night, 63 square miles of forest burned right there on the west of Yosemite, this green line right there, that's Yosemite National Park, this part right through, that's now the part of the park that is burning. All visitors, everybody you talk about, everybody that goes somewhere goes down to Half Dome. Half Dome is down here. Let me show you how the smoke is going because this will tell you how the wind is blowing and which way the fire is going to. The fire is going that way. smoke going that way. When you have the wind blowing across the fire this way, this is the advancing fire line here, not down toward the park treatment, at least the park that we know of. You know, 94 percent of Yosemite is wild land. Only 6 percent do people actually visit. Now I know people go hiking and all that wild man stuff, but what we think of as Yosemite is a very small part of the park.", "It's a beautiful place. I've been there a couple of times. Chad, do we think that there is any chance that by Labor Day weekend that they could close sections of this because of the fire?", "Well, let me tell you what could happen -- in a really bad way. We're only 2 percent contained and the fire line miles around, maybe 100 miles around. If only 2 percent of that is contained, if we begin to get a wind out of the west or from the northwest blowing into that area here where people to visit, then, yes, there could be a lot more going on here with cancellations into Yosemite. That would be a shame for Labor Day weekend.", "All right. We're going to be watching, keep a close eye on that fire to make sure that if people have got plans there, obviously got to take a look at that. Thank you, Chad. Appreciate it.", "You're welcome.", "Well, the San Diego mayor caught up in a sexual harassment scandal, he's expected to step down today. Our affiliate, KFMB, got these pictures of Bob Filner leaving his office by a rear gate -- you see there. Filner's resignation -- it depends really on whether or not the city council approves a mediation agreement. The council is going to meet in just a couple of hours. Casey Wian is watching the developments from San Diego. Casey, tell us first of all what's been going on today? Is he meeting behind closed doors with folks? And when do we expect that he's actually going to step down?", "Well, Suzanne, the meeting is going to take place behind closed doors sometimes after 1 o'clock local time, 4 o'clock Eastern time. Before they go behind closed doors there is going to be some period of public comment. Then the city council will go and consider this mediated negotiated settlement that was reached on Wednesday night that would provide for the mayor to step down, resign from his office. The big question that the city council is going to have to concern itself with what is the impact going to be on San Diego taxpayers. There's been some concern that the city council will be asked to approve some sort of a financing of any legal settlement against Bob Filner. There's been a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him by his former spokeswoman. She's represented by attorney Gloria Allred, Gloria Allred saying yesterday that she wants no taxpayer money going toward that settlement. But one of the city council who was involved in those negotiations, Kevin Faulkner (ph), saying just yesterday that throughout this mediation process he's been trying to reach the best deal for San Diego taxpayers while at the same time trying to end this horrible period of dysfunction, Suzanne.", "Casey, do we have any idea what's inside the settlement, this agreement here on both sides? What are they offering the mayor to step down?", "We can't say at this point because the federal judge who mediated those discussions asked all parties to keep details of the settlement private until the city council has a chance to consider it behind closed doors. So far they are adhering to that request. We do have some more details we can provide you as to what's been going on the last couple of days behind closed doors here at city hall. A high ranking city hall employee saying that Mayor Filner had what he termed an awkward staff meeting on Wednesday, where he did not apologize for letting the city hall employees down but said he would see them today. So we're now anticipating that Mayor Filner will, in fact, be here today and may even speak, Suzanne.", "Do we have any idea -- it might be a little too soon to know -- whether or not the settlement would cover women who perhaps would come forward with allegations of sexual harassment outside the group of 18, if there were any others who would present the same complaint?", "Again, we don't know that. We know that 18 women have come forward publicly. Only one has actually filed a lawsuit. There could be other lawsuits going forward. We just don't flow. We do know the sheriff's department has a hot line for alleged victims to report what has happened to them and their experiences. That continues to be open. Also we should point out that the recall effort against Mayor Filner, the effort to try to get him out of office, they're continuing to gather signatures. They say they will continue to do so until Mayor Filner actually steps down and a new election is called, Suzanne. All right. Casey, thanks. We'll be watching closely this afternoon. There are reports that a Department of Homeland Security employee is doing a little side work. One group claims that he's actually running a hate website which offers preparations for a coming race war. That's up next."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "MALVEAUX", "MYERS", "MALVEAUX", "MYERS", "MALVEAUX", "CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX", "WIAN", "MALVEAUX", "WIAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-1871", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-2-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/01/ee.01.html", "summary": "Alaska Airlines Flight 261: Search Continues for Survivors, Wreckage as San Francisco Family, Friends Mourn Loss", "utt": ["At the search site, now, northwest of Los Angeles, the stench of airline fuel has been hanging in the air there as boats use nets to haul in the debris. They have found many items thus far, shoes and clothing and small souvenirs from Mexico. CNN's Jim Hill was on board one of those boats.", "More than a half-dozen U.S. Coast Guard cutters, three helicopters, U.S. Navy ships, and fixed-wing aircraft joined the search about 10 miles off Point Mugu, California. Several dozen private fishing boats also joined the effort, using grappling hooks and nets to pull debris out of the water. The debris field spread for about six miles across the water surface. Water temperature was in the low 50s, meaning anyone in this condition could not survive and water for more than a few hours. Searchers were hampered by swells ranging 10 to 12 feet but knew that time was of the essence in trying to find anyone still alive. Off the coast of southern California, Jim Hill, CNN.", "All right, thank you, Jim. And that search does go on. And for more on that search effort let's now go to CNN's Jennifer Auther. Jennifer joins us now from Point Mugu, California. Jennifer, what have you learned?", "Leon, I just talked with someone from the U.S. Coast Guard who said that two more cutters are on their way to the crash site; that would be joining other cutters that are out there, including a 41-foot rescue boat that is out there for the U.S. Coast Guard. We are being told that this is still a search and rescue operation. This is not a recovery operation. Hope has not been abandoned by the crews that are out here using infrared devices on military helicopters to try to pick up some sign of life. Let's listen now to what George Wright from the U.S. Coast Guard said hours ago.", "So we have every resource we can muster either on scene or en route. We are searching for survivors. The water temperature is about 58 degrees. We're going to search for survivors until there is zero chance of finding anybody from this tragedy alive, and every resource is out there to find people. We are actively searching for survivors.", "Now, the water temperatures have since dropped from that point of 58 degrees. We had been hearing that it was in the low 50s. It -- the search has been going on now for more than 11 hours. We have a little bit more information about the 88 people who were aboard Flight 261. We know that 83 were passengers. Of those 83, three were infants. Five were crew members. We know that the pilot and the copilot were based in Los Angeles and the flight attendants were based out of Seattle. Thirty-seven of the passengers were headed onto San Francisco International, 47 of the passengers were going to Seattle-Tacoma in Washington state and then three passengers were going to take connecting flights to Eugene, Oregon. One was going to go on to Fairbanks, Alaska. But right now the search continues. They are holding out hope, here. We have no word of survivors. We do know that some bodies have been recovered. But the word from here is, until you hear it from us, this is still a search and rescue effort -- Leon.", "All right, thanks, Jennifer Auther, reporting live, this morning, from Point Mugu -- Bill.", "As we have stated, the plane was headed to San Francisco International Airport, this morning. That is where we find CNN's Rusty Dornin with us live now. Rusty, what are they telling you there?", "Well, Bill, Alaska Airlines has several direct flights to Mexico that are, of course, popular with folks here during the winter rainy months. Now, 32 people were scheduled to get off here. When word of the crash came, family and friends who came to the airport to meet their loved ones were greeted instead by airport employees and, of course, Alaska Airlines employees, were taken to a special room where there were counselors, members of the clergy and apparently some Red Cross people who were on hand, who were involved in another mission, also came in to help out and to help the grieving people. Now, three of the people, the airline employees on that flight that were not crew members, they were employees of Alaska. There were also four Horizon employees, which is the sister airline, the commuter airline. With them were 27 family and friends of those folks. Now, they were all on their way to Seattle. A while -- a short while ago, the CEO of Alaska Airlines came out to say that, you know, Alaska has not had a fatal crash in 25 years, and this has hit the company very hard.", "I've been with Alaska Airlines, Alaska Air Group, for over 23 years. I've never, ever had any loss in all those times in anything I've ever done, we ever had anything like this. These are -- these are our family. I mean, these are our employees, these are our coworkers, these are our friends, these are our loved ones, just as others have loved ones that are passengers. And so at this point in time, we just -- you know, hope, hope, hope and pray that we will be able to get survivors and -- you know, and like the friends and family of the other passengers we sit anxiously on the sideline.", "Now, Alaska, like many other airlines, has passenger assistance teams that actually go out and search out the family and friends of the passengers and help them with the grieving or any arrangements to travel anywhere, and that, of course, is happening right now. As you heard, the Coast Guard says they are not giving up. This is still a search and rescue effort. Rusty Dornin, reporting live at San Francisco International.", "Alaska Airlines also using its Web site to keep people informed about the crash. The address is www.alaskaairlines -- all one word -- alaskaairlines.com. The home page also has a letter from the CEO, John Kelly. Kelly says his primary goal will be to help the families and loved ones of the victims. To that end, the Web site will have postings for the relatives there."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "JIM HILL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "JENNIFER AUTHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CAPT. GEORGE WRIGHT, USGC", "AUTHER", "HARRIS", "HEMMER", "RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JOHN KELLY, CEO, ALASKA AIRLINES", "DORNIN", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-23486", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2001-1-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/12/mn.08.html", "summary": "Gale Norton Draws Criticism From Environmental Groups", "utt": ["Interior Secretary-nominee Gale Norton joining the list of Bush Cabinet nominees drawing fire today. A coalition of environmental groups has scheduled a news conference later this hour to discuss their complaints. Norton is expected to survive that confirmation battle. Our Jonathan Karl looks at the fight ahead and the tactics that some of the groups are using.", "Facing an uphill battle to defeat George W. Bush's choice for interior secretary, environmental groups felt they struck political gold when they discovered, on the Internet, a speech she gave back in 1996.", "We tried to figure out how to get this out in the best way possible. And we agreed that the best way would be to have one media organization get it so they could do a full treatment of the issue.", "The now-famous speech by Gale Norton includes a passage where she invokes the Civil War in a discussion of states' rights -- potentially explosive stuff. The Environmental Working Group gave the speech exclusively to \"The Washington Post,\" earning front-page coverage for a story that otherwise might have fallen through the cracks. The group says it also gave it to National Public Radio on the condition NPR wouldn't air the story until it first appeared in \"The Post.\"", "These are tactical matters. I'm sure the Bush administration is -- incoming administration is actively working on exclusives and with newspapers and TV stations all around town right now. So this is just one of the tools in the tool kit of trying to get the word out.", "The front-page article got plenty of attention, even catching Bush's eye.", "The president-elect saw the story this morning. He thought this was, just as I indicated, the usual Washington distortions.", "The article zeroed in on Norton's comments about the Civil War; but her defenders say she wasn't defending the Confederacy, just making the case for limited federal government.", "She in no way, shape, or form was talking about the value -- any value to slavery. And, you know, what happens in this town is the voices of the special interests like to tear people down, that's just part of the process, I understand that. But this is a good, strong woman who's going to do a very good job as the interior secretary.", "On Friday, a coalition of the largest environmental groups in the nation will announce a campaign against Norton. But even the opposition acknowledges, she's unlikely to be defeated.", "I don't think people are counting on defeating her nomination, but I do think they're counting on raising these important questions and having them fully debated.", "The groups opposing Norton are hoping that civil rights organizations will join their opposition. But as of Thursday afternoon, the NAACP, which already has its hands full opposing the John Ashcroft nomination, said it is undecided about whether or not it will join the campaign against Gale Norton. Jonathan Karl, CNN, Capitol Hill.", "And that news conference by groups opposing Gale Norton is expected to begin at the bottom of the hour. We plan to bring portions of that to you live here on CNN MORNING NEWS. Speaking of President-elect Bush, he is urging Senate Democrats who are criticizing his Cabinet choices to tone down their rhetoric. CNN national correspondent Bob Franken joining us from Capitol Hill with the latest on that. Bob, a fair call or is this just politics in D.C.?", "Politics in D.C. Rhetoric is not something that is toned down in Washington, D.C. However, it is really kind of muted when it comes to two of the other nominations that were presented by President Bush yesterday in the wake of the Linda Chavez debacle. He came forward with Elaine Chao. Now Elaine Chau is a former deputy secretary of transportation. She is well known and really quite a member of the Washington establishment, among other things is the wife of Senator Mitch McConnell, a longtime senator from Kentucky, a Republican, which should work in her favor when her nomination goes through. Not only that, but the labor unions are saying that this is somebody they believe they could work with. So look for that to be a very easy nomination for Elaine Chao as the labor secretary. Similarly, Trade Representative Robert Zoellick -- well, he'll be called trade representative. Most people believe he should go through quite easily. He is also a longtime member of the establishment here, was a sub-Cabinet-level officer of the State Department dealing with trade issues, is somebody who is well-known and well liked on Capitol Hill. And in addition, the Bush administration decided that it would not demote the trade representative position to sub-Cabinet. It will continue to be a Cabinet-level position. That was one of the first matters of infighting going on in the coming administration. Zoellick will in fact have a Cabinet-level position. Now there's also Donald Rumsfeld, who is the prospective secretary of defense. Put that one down as a certain approval. He had his hearing yesterday, ran into no opposition. Of course, he's been a defense secretary before. Now we get John Ashcroft, prospective attorney general, hearings next week led by the Democrats -- extremely contentious. The fact of the matter is that the liberal groups, those who oppose the Bush administration, frankly are putting most of their eggs in the basket to oppose John Ashcroft -- Daryn.", "Bob Franken, thank you very much."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "JONATHAN KARL, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DOUG KENDALL, COMMUNITY RIGHTS COUNSEL", "KARL", "KENNETH COOK, ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP", "KARL", "ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY-DESIGNATE", "KARL", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT-ELECT", "KARL", "COOK", "KARL (on camera)", "KAGAN", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "NPR-30389", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2012-11-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/11/26/165945317/tech-week-ahead-cyber-monday", "title": "Tech Week Ahead: Cyber Monday", "summary": "Melissa Block talks to Steve Henn about Cyber Monday.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.", "I'm Melissa Block. And it's time now for All Tech Considered.", "And in case you haven't heard, today is Cyber Monday, the Internet's answer to Black Friday. NPR's Steve Henn covers tech and business. He joins us now from Silicon Valley. And, Steve, have you been taking full advantage of Cyber Monday?", "Well, I actually was doing some work getting ready for this interview.", "No, not shopping, not shopping.", "No. No. I haven't been shopping. But I also had a theory that Cyber Monday might not matter that much anymore. You know, so many people I know take their smartphones with them when they go shopping, and they're comparison shopping at stores over Thanksgiving weekend. And I kind of wondered if that meant that Cyber Monday would just disappear.", "Well, it turns out my theory is totally wrong. Even though more people are using smartphones in sort of brick-and-mortar shops, Cyber Monday is still a big deal for many of the same reasons that Black Friday is a big deal. It's a chance for shoppers to find bargains, but this time online.", "So special deals today are driving a lot of people online. ComScore, which tracks Internet traffic, expects today to be the biggest online shopping day ever, with something close to one and a half billion dollars in sales, 20 percent more than last year. So we'll see if they are right. But in the meantime, it's pretty clear that smartphones have already changed the way millions of people shop. They were using them to buy online over the holiday weekend and comparison shops. So that probably took a bite out of sales at brick-and-mortar stores.", "And how are those brick-and-mortar stores responding to that?", "Well, the biggest ones, the most technologically savvy ones are trying to embrace the smartphone. They've been building apps for a while for their own stores, and they're encouraging customer to use them. And really what they're after is all the kinds of information they can get from your cell phone.", "For example, Wal-Mart's has an app that uses your location information to know which store you're in. And then it doesn't what merchandise is in store around you. If something you want is out of stock, then it can guide you to its online store. Other stores actually keep track of how long you have been in their stores, and they'll send you coupons for every few minutes you're there.", "So all of these apps are really designed to keep customers from wondering, both digitally and physically. And the thing about smartphones that make them so frightening to retailers, though, is that it makes it so easy for you to wander, at least digitally, and comparison shop almost endlessly just with your thumbs.", "And, Steve, do you have favorite sites that you go to for comparison shopping?", "Yeah, I do. I have a couple. One is called Milo and it allows businesses to get their inventories online. So you can see what stores around you have in stock. And they've done a really good job of reaching out to small businesses, so I like it for that reason. The other site I like a lot is Decide.com. And this site was built by a computer scientist who studies dynamic pricing. And it tries to predict whether or not the price of certain gadgets and other goods will drop. And then it recommends whether or not it's a good time to buy. So I like this because it uses the same kinds of technologies that big companies have used to get the most money possible from us, and uses it for consumers.", "To get better deals.", "To get better deals, right.", "NPR tech correspondent Steve Henn. Steve, thanks so much.", "My pleasure."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "STEVE HENN, BYLINE", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "STEVE HENN, BYLINE", "STEVE HENN, BYLINE", "STEVE HENN, BYLINE", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "STEVE HENN, BYLINE", "STEVE HENN, BYLINE", "STEVE HENN, BYLINE", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "STEVE HENN, BYLINE", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "STEVE HENN, BYLINE", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "STEVE HENN, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-135659", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2009-3-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0903/05/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Too Many Cooks In The Kitchen?", "utt": ["People showing up for a free meal at a homeless help center here in the nation's capitol. Got quite a surprise today. Some had their lunch served by the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. And she urged Americans everywhere to consider volunteering at soup kitchens in their communities. Here's the first lady in her own words.", "My purpose here is to listen, learn and to scoop some risotto. And hopefully everybody was satisfied with my scoops. Can I hear something for my scoops? I just want to --", "Thank you.", "I just want to reiterate what Scott said. We are facing some tough times in this country. And there is a moment in time when each and every one of us needs a helping hand. Miriam's kitchen has become a place where so many people have been able to find that helping hand. And we have to - I want to, on behalf of the White House, and the administration, thank the staff and the volunteers of the Miriam kitchen for their focused work over the past 26 years, providing a home for their guests, folks who represent all of the best that this country has to offer. Their work here has meant the world to so many. And it is an example of what we can do as a country and as a community to help folks when they're down. That's why I want to urge people who are listening that if you have an opportunity to come by, not just this soup kitchen, but any soup kitchen in your community, and helping is an easy thing to do. Collect some fruits and vegetables. Bring by some good, healthy food. You know, we want to make sure that our guests here and across this country are eating nutritious items. Today we had fresh risotto with mushrooms. We had broccoli. We had fresh baked muffins with carrots in it. And my understanding is that this facility is able to provide that kind of meal for about $1.50. And that's an incredible thing to remember. That we can provide this kind of healthy food for communities across this country, and we can do it by each of us lending a hand.", "First lady speaking earlier at a homeless shelter earlier. White house staffers, by the way, donated eight crates of fresh fruit, some of which was served today. The first lady's visit to that Washington homeless center today comes at a time when the nation's capitol, Washington, D.C., is in need of some extra help. According to the census bureau, Washington ranks right now eighth in the nation with more than one in six people living below the poverty line. D.C.'s rate is higher than the national average at 16.4 percent. The government defines a person living in poverty is someone earning less than $10,600 a year. And to our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now, President Obama suggests it's now or never for health care reform. Just wrapped up an emergency summit on this life- and-death issue and he said he's open to every idea on the table. He said he's flexible. Plus, Senator Ted Kennedy at the summit and on a mission."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "MICHELLE OBAMA, FIRST LADY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "M. OBAMA", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-78137", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2003-10-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0310/16/lt.04.html", "summary": "Daily Dose: Silicone May Soon be Coming to Doctors' Offices", "utt": ["They were taken off the market in the U.S. 11 years ago because of health concerns. Now, silicone gel breast implants may soon be available again. Our medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has been tracking this. She is here with our \"Daily Dose.\" Good morning to you.", "It probably seems amazing to many people, because 11 years ago all you heard was...", "How bad they were.", "Right. Exactly. So I'm going to explain what happened. The food and drug administration had two days of hearings about silicone breast implants and whether or not they should be allowed back on the market. On the one side, were some women who said they had caused great harm. But on the other side were scientists who said that studies showed that actually these silicone breast implants did not cause problems. Let's take a look at what the FDA advisory committee actually recommended. They said that they should be let back on the market, but with several caveats. Such as, women should have annual checkups to make sure they hadn't ruptured. And also there should be a patient registry of who gets them, so that long-term effects could be tracked. Also, educational material on the risks should be given out to the women. And biopsies should be required when an implant is removed, and possibly even an MRI to see if indeed there are any problems. Now, again, this is a recommendation by a committee within the FDA. It will go to the FDA, which has a couple of months to act. And then the company that makes these says that immediately they'll be able to put them on the market. The person who's the head of this panel says that he thinks that it will be safe if women choose -- or he said that he thinks it will be -- that women, if they choose to get these, they'll continue to study them to see if they're safe.", "It's a higher quality data that we're hoping to be able to gather going forward, to be able to finally demonstrate whether it's safe or not.", "In the meantime, a million women could be getting silicone gel breast implants, and they're going just be part of a massive experiment.", "Neither side managed to convince each other. So this debate about whether they're safe or not is sure to continue.", "It does, but what about the debate about which is better, silicone or saline? Clearly there's some people who really want silicone. Why do they think they're better?", "Right. Both are available, and many people will tell you that the saline is safer. The reason why women want silicone is, well, they want them for cosmetic reasons. They want them for breasts that look and feel natural. And many people will tell you, many customers will tell you that the silicone simply looks and feels better. And that's why they want them. They say the saline just doesn't do the trick.", "And then in listening to what you had to say, if this all kind of goes like appears, a few months down the line some people would get them?", "Possibly. Possibly as soon as a few months.", "All right, Elizabeth Cohen, thank you for that.", "Thanks. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Offices>"], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "COHEN", "DR. THOMAS WHALEN ACTING PANEL CHAIRMAN", "DIANA ZUCKERMAN, SILICONE IMPLANT OPPONENT", "COHEN", "KAGAN", "COHEN", "KAGAN", "COHEN", "KAGAN", "COHEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-412150", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-09-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/29/cnr.12.html", "summary": "Police Break Up 1000+ Person Party Near FSU Campus", "utt": ["This just in. Florida is reporting a big spike in coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, more than 3,000 new cases. And despite those numbers, many college kids are still having parties. There was one near Florida State University in Tallahassee that got so extreme police had to break up this party that included more than 1,000 people. I want to bring in Alicia Turner. She is the public information officer for the Tallahassee Police Department. Thank you for being with us. Can you tell us what happened here?", "What we know right now is that our officers first received a call for service just before midnight. Once they arrived, you're talking about 700-plus vehicles and over 1,000 people. And ultimately, it took hours to clear the scene. We also needed help from the Leon County Sheriff's Office with their helicopter to get in and help safely disperse the crowd.", "I mean, how do you deter something like this when, obviously, people are just flaunting regulations and the law?", "I mean, right now, we're just asking for voluntary compliance. We know that people have been cooped up. We know people enjoy socializing and kind of want to get back to normal. But right now, that's just not something we can do. We're asking for people in the public to try to do what they can to remain safe.", "OK. Alicia, I want to thank you so much. This is kind of astounding that folks are doing this. But we appreciate the work that you're doing. Thank you for being on. The Biden campaign launching a big attack against Facebook for its role in spreading disinformation and conspiracy theories. We'll have that next."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "ALICIA TURNER, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER, TALLAHASSEE POLICE DEPARTMENT", "KEILAR", "TURNER", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-244174", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-11-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/28/nday.04.html", "summary": "Obama Searches For New Secretary of Defense", "utt": ["Welcome back to NEW DAY. The White House searching for a nominee to take over the Department of Defense after surprise resignation or perhaps not so surprise, pushing out of Chuck Hagel. Already two top contenders have taken themselves out of contention. Whoever gets the nod will have to deal with a widening conflict against ISIS that is assuming they can get confirmed by the Senate. Want to bring in CNN military analyst, Retired Major-General James \"Spider\" Marks. Spider, thanks so much for being with us. You know, we've seen two potential nominees, Michelle Flornoy, and Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, already saying they don't want the job. Secretary of defense, it's a big, big job. It's something the public figures, you would think, would want to you know take a stab at. Why do you think the reluctance? MAJOR GENERAL JAMES \"SPIDER\" MARKS", "Well, I think in both cases, those individuals have full-time engagements right now. Jack Reed certainly a senator from Rhode Island, a veteran, a West Point graduate. So he knows the inside of what the issues are. But I think going forward, the commitment to be the sec-def would have a very short horizon of two years. He is electable in Rhode Island for the long term. And Michelle Flornoy has been very upfront. You have to really admire her tremendously. She says look, I've got a family and I have to focus in on them at that critical stage in my life and their development and this needs to be first. I think what happened in both cases is they went forward and they said, please, Mr. President, don't ask me. Because if you ask me, the answer is going to be yes, I would prefer that you not ask me. I think in those particular incidents, that's what you're looking at.", "You seem to be giving the White House the benefit of the doubt here because particularly after what happened to Chuck Hagel, we've had four secretaries of defense now already in this administration. The secretary CNN has been reporting, you know, they officially say he resigned, but in effect he was pushed out. Is this a job right now that many in the security community are a little reluctant to take?", "Well, John, I don't know that I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt. I think what you're seeing is there is no more important position than to be a part of the national security team at such a significant level, the secretary of defense, that there would be a clamoring of incredibly qualified individuals to take the job. In this particular instance you have two that said, look, I've got full-time engagements so I'm committed in a whole bunch of ways to national defense and what's best for America. I would prefer not to engage in that particular position. Clearly, this is a very tough administration to be a secretary of defense. I think you nailed it. I think this administration is not looking for any contrarian views. They're not looking for outside input. I would imagine the person coming in to be the sec-def and there will be one. First and foremost has to be confirmable. That may not be the criteria you would like to see. It might be the best confirmable person we could get through the door and it's a two-year horizon unless the president says we want to extend that individual. But that's so hypothetical. I think what you're looking at is this is a very tough administration if you're trying to have an open discussion about national security in a very tough administration like this.", "Some of the criticism or at least some of the whispers about Secretary Hagel are that he's not a war-time secretary. As someone who has served in the military, what does that mean and what kind of a difference does a secretary of defense mean to people like you, people in uniform?", "You know, Secretary Hagel had all the credentials and incredible credibility with the force. He was an enlisted man in Vietnam, wounded in Vietnam, recognized for bravery. I mean, this individual gets it. The issue of his being able to fit and that's what we're talking about in this administration clearly was not as polished and decided upon more fulsomely as you prefer. He's doing his job and he says look I have a few questions about what's going on vis-a-vis our fight against ISIS. I would agree with you he was pushed off to the side. So a war-time secretary of defense could be described in the terms of Secretary Hagel. But more importantly, that's not what's important. What's important is how can the secretary of defense do the bidding of the soldiers and the service members out there in the edges of this incredibly large organization, who are putting themselves at risk? Can that individual make the key decisions inside the beltway, inside this administration, so that their necessary requirements are being met? That's what it's all about. It doesn't have to be somebody who is out there and has been out there. It's somebody who can do the fighting where he or she needs to do the fighting and that's here in this town.", "You talk about the men and women out there on the edges right now of the military effort. One of those places continues to be Afghanistan where just yesterday there was an attack on British convoy. Spider, do you think this shows that the Taliban is gaining strength once again?", "Well, it certainly does. When you are in a position where the Taliban can exert itself with authority and with precision, clearly they have good intelligence. They know what the movements look like. They know what routine looks like and then they can attack. These are not serendipitous. These are not movements to contact. These are established and directed attacks that are taking place, which means that the network still exists and it's important that the Afghan government and the Afghan security forces clearly are taking the lead. But the United States and the coalition partners need to remain a part of that until such time as Afghanistan can step up and say look, we are more confident moving forward. And that clearly is going to take time as we've seen. And this government in Afghanistan has said we're looking for your help. The previous one did not.", "General James \"Spider\" Marks, always great to have you. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. Appreciate it.", "John, thanks very much. You as well.", "All right, millions of people headed out for the biggest shopping day of the year. So what are some of the best bargains to find on this Black Friday? You don't have to wait any longer, we're about to tell you."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "BERMAN", "MARKS", "BERMAN", "MARKS", "BERMAN", "MARKS", "BERMAN", "MARKS", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-190328", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2012-7-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/31/sp.02.html", "summary": "How Paul Ryan Captured The GOP", "utt": ["All right. I like that. This is Ryan's playlist, Animal Collective, \"My Girls.\" We were talking this morning about Ryan's new article. It's all Ryan this morning. It's all about Ryan. \"The New Yorker\" article is called \"Fuss Budget.\" It's about Paul Ryan's rise in the GOP. Fascinating to learn about his childhood, which I think really was the core development of his ideology.", "I think so. You always have to be careful when you're writing about a public figure being too much of a psychiatrist, putting someone on the couch. I mean, you can't, you know, you can't truly know everything about someone. But, his father died when he was relatively young, when he was in high school. And Paul Ryan was the person who actually found his body at his home in Janesville, Wisconsin. And as he explained it to me, he sort of went through -- he didn't use this word, but not quite existential crisis but a real search for, you know, what his life was all about.", "Started reading Ayn Rand, started looking to his teachers to get literature that would talk about sort of the framing of the government and individualism versus collectivism.", "And it's very rare when you write about politician where you can really see that kind of early intellectual development, the authors they're getting into, the political philosophy they're getting into, and see a sort of straight line from that to their public policies. And with this guy, the straight line is right there.", "Social Security for him, which was back in 2005, 2006, was a disaster.", "Yes. And I wrote extensively about that first big bite at public policy he took on. Social Security privatization, Social Security reform in the Bush era, because it was not successful for the Republican Party. And even George W. Bush in his memoir writes that he regrets pursuing it in 2005, and Paul Ryan, the person we're talking about, was the leading member in the House pushing it. He told some of your colleagues at the time, don't worry. This isn't the third realm of American politics anymore.", "It was.", "And it was. And so, the reason I went through that whole history is because, well, he's back now with much bolder, much more ambitious plans, and he's convinced congresswoman, you and all of your Republican colleagues to walk off the plank and vote for what Democrats think is a very controversial agenda.", "Well, it's a very compassionate budget actually.", "I want to hear your response to this. But so, at the time when Ryan put his budget out first in 2008 and then he's modified it a little bit in recent years, a lot of Republican pollsters are saying don't vote from this, stay away from this. And Boehner, the Republican minority leader at the time, made sure that Republicans in the House of Representatives did not embrace it in 2010.", "I did.", "You did?", "Yes.", "And you ran on it?", "I did.", "Yes. And you won?", "Yes.", "And so, then Paul Ryan gets --", "In a challenger race.", "In a challenger race. And so, this is a success story.", "So new crop comes in.", "New crop comes in after 2002, including yourself.", "Yes.", "He just brought some through your interview differently. I mean, he talks about these are the kinds of politicians who are not --", "And I think we have an example of one sitting right here.", "Citizen legislator.", "One of my favorite quotes in the piece is -- this is a paraphrase, you know, these aren't career politicians, these are D.A.s and doctors and they're not here for careers, they're here for causes. And they helped him pass in 2011 what, just a few years before, was a budget that no Republican wanted to touch.", "In your article, you also, though, talked about some of the contradictions. You go to --", "Janesville. Janesville.", "-- Janesville --", "Yes.", "-- which is in his district, and as much as he is -- again, I mean, his budget to some degree would remove a lot of things that have made Janesville come back, right?", "Well, I was surprised by this.", "And there's government that has resources that has gone into making Janesville great.", "Yes. I was surprised. You go to Janesville. It's a former auto town. The big GM plant closed a few years ago. And, I get a tour by a very pro-Paul Ryan Republican. He shows me -- he tells me about three big success stories. One is medical company that is there only because they got a federal research grant. Two is a medium-sized businesses whose only interest in Janesville is as a distribution hub. And so, their big issue is federal transportation dollars.", "Good highways.", "They want good highways. And then third, he shows me this new incubator where entrepreneurs can come and help start their businesses. And I said, how did you get the money for that? He goes, well, it was from a federal grant.", "Stimulus.", "-- stimulus. So, I couldn't help as a journalist see some irony in that. But, you know, I asked Ryan --", "Maybe I can help you with that.", "I asked Ryan about that, and he said, look, you know, -- I don't know if you have it there. We're not against all government. And, these are very reasonable federal policies.", "This is an article in \"The New Yorker.\" It's called how Paul Ryan captured the GOP. It's a fascinating article. It was a great insight into him, I thought.", "Thanks. Thanks very much.", "All right. We got to take a break. 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{"id": "CNN-397124", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2020-04-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/08/qmb.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Stocks Climb After Sanders Drops Of Presidential Race; W.H.O. On Trump Threat, \"Don't Politicize This Virus.\"", "utt": ["Welcome back. The markets and stocks have rallied and there's many reasons, but the main ones seem to be firstly, Bernie Sanders has pulled out of the U.S. presidential race for the Democrats. That means Medicare- for-All, which was an expensive policy, not liked by the markets that is highly, highly, highly unlikely. Also, the numbers are horrible in the U.S. for coronavirus, but latest modeling suggests that the country might escape the worst in terms of projections of deaths, and that the peak might come sooner. Now, that's not to say it won't still be grim. But it may not be as grim as first thought. Julia Chatterley is with me. I have to say Julia, having had the initial bounce back from the markets off the lows of mid to late March, after having seen that, it does seem bizarre that it's continuing to rise.", "And actually, I'm seeing more and more people suggesting that it makes sense to your exact point, as horrifying as these numbers are, they are less bad than perhaps initially feared. We're starting to see countries like Norway, like Denmark start to reopen their economies and I think that's giving people hope. And I hope I'm wrong to about my nervousness. I just see multiple crises here, particularly in the United States, and we've talked about the many times the economic black hole that we're in, the lack of ability to time when this ends and for all the stimulus that we've had. You know, I had Alicia Levine of BNY Mellon tell me today that's going to last us six weeks. So if this shutdown of some form extends longer, who knows? We're in a black hole as far as earnings season is concerned, I just remain cautious that it's so difficult to tell what the economic cost, even if we're seeing a lessening of the lives and those on the health crisis perhaps look more optimistic than they were. They remain devastating and the challenges remain.", "Right. I guess we need to understand what is an EPS share price, what it looks like, once -- I mean obviously, what we saw two or three weeks ago was the sort of trough of your life or the exogenous event trough. But we don't know what the market price looks like because we don't know the trading positions of the companies.", "And that's exactly the point and you often point to this, the extreme fear. We went to the depths of despair and the unknown and we're coming back from that to some degree. But my point and I will keep arguing is that we still don't know. We've thrown so much cash at the system. We've tried to address it with liquidity, as we call it. We don't know what the solvency issues are going to be. The viability of huge chunks of the economy in the United States and that beyond anything else is also a challenge going forward, and I'm not sure earnings season gives us more clarity.", "Julia, quickly, the Small Business Administration, the loans program, the Payroll Protection Plan, I can't decide whether it was I mean, a complete fiasco, or it was an inevitability because of the sheer size and scale rolling it out so quickly, but it is getting going now.", "An inevitability, I think, overwhelmed and underprepared. It's trying. There are still huge issues. The three largest banks in the United States -- Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo -- have together lent just under a third, around $100 billion in the space of five days. They're being criticized. There are a backlog of applications there. Come back in two to three weeks when we've tried to process some of these loans and got the cash out and I think it will be a different story. But for now, Richard, I'll be honest, it is still deeply challenged.", "All right. Julia Chatterley, \"First Move.\" Thank you, Julia, as always. Now, the W.H.O. is defending herself after an attack by Donald Trump who sees the organization as being an arm and a tool of the Chinese government in the way it's handled the coronavirus. Donald Trump says he will delay or withdraw funding for the W.H.O. Now, organization has retaliated.", "The focus of all political parties should be to save their people. Please don't politicize this virus. It exploits the differences you have at the national level. If you want to be exploited, and if you want to have many more body bags, then you do it.", "I beg your pardon, I took a moment for a quick glass of water. Stephen Collinson is with me, from Washington. Stephen, all right, let's split this into two things. Donald Trump is not alone in criticizing the W.H.O. There are many people who have said that the W.H.O. was far too favorable to China in its early assessment of this crisis. Why is Donald Trump's criticism different if it is?", "Well, I think Richard, what's going on here is Donald Trump is looking for a scapegoat. He's coming under increasing political pressure in the United States. There are mounting indications that his statement that nobody thought this virus could ever come to the United States, which he maintained right up to February and early March was completely wrong. He was informed by an economic adviser, Peter Navarro in his administration that this could be a threat. We are learning now that U.S. Intelligence warned as far back as December about the potential threat of the coronavirus in the United States. This is what Donald Trump does when he's in a pinch. He seeks an enemy and he is trying to deflect. Of course, the W.H.O. can be criticized, but it was far more prescient in fact, on the threat to the rest of the world from the coronavirus pandemic than Donald Trump ever was. He is projecting here. He said yesterday that the W.H.O. blew the call on the coronavirus. If you look at the W.H.O. statements and you look at Donald Trump's statements against each other, I don't think it's very difficult to see who blew the call in actual fact.", "But all right, Stephen, is there anybody listening to the -- when people like you and others point out the discrepancies in what the President has said, and the way he has handled this, is anybody listening?", "I think people who are not disposed well to Donald Trump or not really listening to a lot of what the President says in his campaign style briefings every evening. What the President is trying to do is what he did during the Russia investigation, during impeachment. He's trying to fog the details, throw enough misinformation out there so nobody really knows who to blame to try and absolve himself of some of the criticism.", "The attack on the W.H.O. has been taken up with gusto by the President's friends in conservative media. You know, it's one of the reasons why, even though there is rising public concern about his handling of the pandemic, a CNN poll today said that 45 percent of Americans still believe that Donald Trump is doing a good job here and doing a good job in his presidency. This is the story of the Trump administration. He throws enough chum out there in the water that allows his supporters to choose their own reality. Now, the question is when we're going into an election year, is that going to be enough? Can he win with just that 45 percent and that political base, or is he alienating more moderate voters that are possibly a lot more concerned about his handling of this?", "Bernie Sanders decision to get out of the race. It was inevitable that he couldn't get -- I mean, besides slim pathways and all of that nonsense, but it allows the Democrats to coalesce around Joe Biden, and answering the second half of this question, is there any chance, do you think that Biden would ever step aside for the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo?", "All right, to start with Bernie Sanders, even in the best possible worlds in a normal election year, he wouldn't have anywhere to go. So you're right, this isn't a surprise. I think the two questions as far as Sanders is concerned right now, what happens to his movement? And how many of them can he get to unite around Joe Biden so there's a strong united Democratic Party going into the fall? Donald Trump has already tried to play the trade card, the populist card on Twitter today to try and win over some of the anti-free traders in the Bernie Sanders coalition. As far as Biden stepping down in favor of Andrew Cuomo, Joe Biden has been running for President effectively, since the middle of the 1980s. I don't think anything is going to get him to step aside, especially when he finally has that big prize within reach.", "Stephen, thank you. This is QUEST MEANS BUSINESS from New York. Glorious day. Not as hot as it was yesterday, but still a beautiful spring day. We'll have more. We'll talk to the CEO of AstraZeneca to understand the differences between vaccines and antibody tests, and all the work that's being done to help ensure -- well, maybe an the immediate future, but in the not too distant future. There's some hope and things are getting better, in a moment."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "JULIA CHATTERLEY, CNN BUSINESS ANCHOR, FIRST MOVE", "QUEST", "CHATTERLEY", "QUEST", "CHATTERLEY", "QUEST", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-320319", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2017-09-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/01/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Massive Fire At Texas Chemical Plant; Category 3 Hurricane Irma Intensifying, May Hit U.S.; Houston Now Soaking In A Chemical Stew Filled With E.Coli", "utt": ["A dangerous new Category 3 hurricane in the meantime gaining strength at this hour. Is it headed for the U.S. and the Gulf Coast? Plus an OutFront exclusive report this hour, the first test results just in of Harvey's toxic floodwaters. These results are shocking. You'll see them only here. Plus, another long-time confidant to the President, one of the people closest to Trump for decades and in the White House out tonight. Is it because of John Kelly? Let's go OutFront. Good evening. I'm Erin Burnett. OutFront tonight, the breaking news you see on your screen, a raging inferno. Moments ago, fire and thick black smoke breaking out at this chemical plant. It is in Crosby, Texas. Crosby is in hard hit Harris County. It is, of course, the same county as Houston. It's about 25 miles east of downtown. That same plant was hit by a fire and explosion on Thursday after floods knocked out power supplies that are needed to run the refrigerators that actually can cool some of these volatile chemicals. Plant official stress the smoke was not a serious danger to people yesterday, but locals were evacuated for one-and-a-half miles around the plant. The fire that you're looking at right now, as you see that black smoke, it is much bigger, it is much more intense. And we're going to have much more on that in a moment. We are also following the breaking news on a new major hurricane tonight, hurricane Irma, a major Category 3 storm right now and it's going to get a lot bigger. It's intensifying as it moves across the Atlantic. The satellite picture that you see below me captures both Irma and what remains of Harvey over Tennessee earlier today. So you can see them on either side of your screen. Forecaster say Irma has the potential to hit the mainland as a major storm, possibly bigger and stronger than Harvey. Right now, computer model show Irma could make land fall in Florida or further up the East Coast or even crossing the gulf and plowing into the disaster left behind by Harvey. Many storm paths, all of them, terrifying. We'll begin OutFront tonight with Miguel Marquez in Belmont, Texas. He joins me on the phone, obviously, still issues with communications with the catastrophe there. Miguel, the fire growing in intensity over the past hour in Crosby. What do we know about this plant and the explosion? I mean, this smoke is -- this isn't just regular chimney smoke, this is black, thick noxious looking stuff.", "Yeah. There is 500,000 pounds of organic peroxide in this Arkema plant, Northeast of Houston, in Crosby, Texas. As you noted yesterday, there was an issue where it did (ph) first into part of the plant first burst into flames. 15 deputies of Harris County were in the plant at the time. They had to be treated at the hospital. It causes an irritant. They were not badly injured, but the plant, Arkema, out of an abundance of caution has instituted a one-and-a-half mile exclusion zone around the plant. This is a plant that suffered six feet of water was in that plant. It's not the water that has set off these chemicals. It's the lack of refrigeration as you noted that the power went out in the plant and this is something that authorities at the plant and officials at the plant thought would happen in the days ahead. They knew that this was a very likely event that would happen, and it is happening. The Chemical Safety Board has started an investigation into the first explosion, and this one is being watched very carefully as well. It is not clear how long this will burn or if it will spread to other areas of the plant. But this is why they have this explosion zone now, this one-and-a-half mile zone around the plant, in the event that it is a catastrophic situation. This is the petrochemical oil gas, petrochemical area of the country. There are many, many of these plants in this storm and the issues raised not only with the flooding, but with the power and everything that comes with these storms is being looked at by many, many agencies right now that the Environmental Protection Agency watching very carefully what's happening here. But this, unfortunately, is oftentimes what happens in this sort of major disasters where you have water rising over many, many days and it can be a slow, sort of unfolding disaster. This may be just one of many days that we see of this. Erin?", "All right. Miguel, thank you very much. As we get more, we'll go back to Miguel here on the scene. I want to go now to one of the top officials in Harris County, of course, that includes Houston, it includes the fire at the plant you're looking at right now in Crosby. Sheriff Ed Gonzales is back with me. And, Sheriff, let me just get to the breaking news here. Obviously, we see that black, thick smoke coming from that chemical plant in Crosby. There was a fire yesterday. This one, of course, as we're reporting is much bigger than that one. You have crews there. What is causing this? Do you know? What exploded?", "Well, we have nine containers there, boxed containers there that contain this organic peroxide and we knew that as the temperature continued to change and drop that eventually we would have these ruptures. We experienced the first one yesterday. I believe this is now the second one and we frankly anticipate a few more, at least seven, because there are still seven box containers left. And as you mentioned, that's why we have that exclusion zone for a mile and a half now.", "So seven more. I mean, look, the smoke does look -- look, it's foul. It's black. It's noxious. I know 15 of your deputies, sheriff deputies were taken to the hospital for inhaling the irritants after that first explosion that you mentioned. How are they tonight? How are these officers doing?", "They were fine. Fortunately, thank God, they were released later that morning. And, so, we're happy that they're doing well. And, you know, we're still continuing to monitor the situation. We're working very closely with our fire professionals that are near the scene and assessing everything and we have all the top experts trying to determine, you know, what our next steps if any that we need to do. We were taking a defensive posture and just allowing these containers to burn. We thought that that would be the best option contain at there on scene and that's what we're proceeding to do at the moment. Again, ours is more of a public safety police function that we have --", "Right.", "-- and just regarding the general area and the fire professionals were handling the fire and the chemical issue.", "So when you talk about public safety, though, obviously these are chemicals. These are massive chemical plant that the fire is black and thick and it looks noxious. And Arkema executive from that plant was actually asked about that smoke and whether the smoke is toxic. The answer was certainly not one to be proud of from a public relations perspective. I just want to play it, though, to get your response to the facts, the allegations here. Let me play it.", "Nontoxic or can you not say that?", "It's noxious. I mean, toxicity is --", "OK. So you're not able to say that it's none to any of this is nontoxic?", "I mean, toxicity is a --", "OK. So you can't say it? Are you going say they're nontoxic or not? Yes or no? I think it's a pretty important --", "I mean the smoke is noxious. Its toxicity is, you know, it's a relative thing.", "Using a scientific distinction here, but a distinction without a difference to the public, certainly Sheriff, that you are trying to protect. Are you concerned about what's going into the air right now?", "Well, I mean, there's always a concern. And the images obviously are very troubling. So, you know, that is a concern. But I feel confident in talking to the fire marshal, our Harris County Fire Marshal Office, since Chief Bolton is there. Trust him a great deal. He's very experienced. And they've been in communications and deliberations with the Arkema from the beginning on this when they alerted us about the situation. And so I have to go with what our fire professionals are saying and we're working closely with them. So I believe if anything changes we will definitely adjust our plans. But not sure, you know, about what Arkema is mentioning up. I can't really speak to their statement.", "No, I understand. Sheriff, though, as our reporter pointed out, you're standing at the epicenter of the petrochemical capital of the United States, right? You've got refineries. You've got chemical plants. You've got more", "You're correct. We have a lot of critical infrastructure here. We cover over 1,700 square miles. We're the third largest county in the country, so our geography is massive. But beyond this, we have not heard of any other facility that's compromised in any way or any other issues at this point. We have our industrial team with the Harris County Sheriff's Office and other administrative partners and regulators that we communicate with, so we do not have other concerns at this time.", "All right. Sheriff Gonzalez, I appreciate your taking the time talking to me again. Thank you, sir.", "Thank you, Erin.", "All right. And joining me on the phone now is Sam Mannan. He's a professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M. He did a study on all the hazardous materials in the Houston area as we are talking about the petrochemical capital of the U.S. now so much of it underwater, under flooded water. Sam, can you answer, I guess, the crucial question here of how hazardous is this explosion? When you see this black smoke, how concerned are you?", "So I am concerned, but I don't think it is something of the order of magnitude of the west explosion of the scenario, but it is a matter of concern. And the thick black smoke that you see coming out, it primarily contains the product of combustion, which is carbon dioxide and water. But depending on how incomplete the combustion is and the darkness or the blackness of the smoke indicates that there is some incomplete combustion. So because of that, some of the chemicals are getting in the air as it is. And my hope is -- and I have to assume that they're getting dispersed properly. But if people get exposed to it over longer periods of time, there can be health effects. Whether or not they're going to be reversible or irreversible health effects, we'd have to dig deeper into it.", "Well, let me stand up what I think is really terrifying for people to hear. When you look at this, you think more broadly about other chemicals, perhaps, leaking into the water around Houston. But in this case, right, they've evacuated people within a mile and a half of the chemical plant. That's even as they said don't worry about it. They did evacuate. You are saying this is going into the air, and it sounds like we just don't know how dangerous it is. Should they have evacuated a broader area or are you confident one-and-a-half miles is enough?", "So only time will tell if that's the right decision. But, again, I have to assume that one-and-a-half mile radius was picked on the basis of some calculations that took into account explosion over pressures or shockwaves, as well as the concentrations they might see at that distance after dispersion has taken place. Clearly, there is always an uncertainty with those calculations, but usually people make those determinations on a conservative basis, so you're always on the safe side. And I'm hoping that is the case in this case.", "All right.", "But it is not something that we should just treat as something we should not be concerned about. Clearly, we should be concerned about it and there are seven other tanks that are there with significant quantities of the material. They will also burn sooner or later. And right now, the plant or anyone else doesn't have any other options but to let it burn and hopefully the consequences will be limited to this type of explosion.", "OK, all right. Thank you very much, Sam. I appreciate your time and seven more of those explosions to come at least just there. And this comes as another hurricane is intensifying over the Atlantic. And right now it's a Category 3, but it's still very far away. It coalesced into a storm incredibly early, it's incredibly strong and it could pose a major threat to the United States. Allison Chinchar is OutFront live in our weather center. And, Allison, we're talking about Irma here. What do you know about it?", "We know right now it's a very strong hurricane as it stands. But it's also in the middle of nowhere. So the question really is where does it go from here? Right now you're taking a look at Irma. Again, it's not really around land of any kind. Still well away from the Leeward Island and even the Caribbean, but that is going to be direction it ends up going. Here's to look at the current statistics. Right now a Category 3 storm, winds around 120 miles per hour, moving west at about 13 miles per hour. But as we take a look at the track, you'll notice that it's going to start to take a more southerly turn pretty soon. Now, the reason it does that is it's going to have a height. It's going to block it pushing it south. But in doing so, it's actually going to end up getting into slightly warmer water. This may actually allow the storm to strengthen even more, perhaps into a Category 4 storm, if not potentially stronger. So that's really the short term. The ultimate question is what does it do in the long term. So let's take a look at what some of the models are kind of spitting out for this, per se. We take the top two models that we have. As it treks across the Atlantic, coming in towards the Caribbean, both models really have pretty consistent tracks. It's once we get towards the Bahamas, that's when they split. This red color here, this is the American model. It keeps it further away from the U.S., hugging a little bit closer towards Bermuda. But the European model actually treks further west, pushing perhaps some showers and thunderstorms from the storm towards Florida and, Erin, even maybe skirting along the North Carolina and South Carolina coast. The problem is now you're talking 7 to 10, even 12 days out. So it's little far to know which one of these scenarios will pan out, but that's why we will keep a close eye on it in the coming days.", "All right, Allison. Of course everyone's eyes are on this after the catastrophe in Houston on the Gulf Coast. Thank you so much. And next, on top of that massive fire at the chemical plant in Texas we're covering that and our exclusive test is in. We went out, tested the toxic floodwaters. So what is in them? Well, the OutFront test results literally came in about 15 minutes ago. You are going to see them just after this in their entirety. Brace yourself. Plus, a man returns to his home for the first time. Will he ever be able to live there again? And a letter about Jim Comey may prove to be big trouble for the President. What's in it?"], "speaker": ["ERIN BURNETT, CNN HOST", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (via telephone)", "BURNETT", "SHERIFF ED GONZALEZ, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS", "BURNETT", "GONZALEZ", "BURNETT", "GONZALEZ", "BURNETT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "RICHARD RENARD, ARKEMA EXECUTIVE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "RENARD", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "RENARD", "BURNETT", "GONZALEZ", "BURNETT", "GONZALEZ", "BURNETT", "GONZALEZ", "BURNETT", "SAM MANNAN, PROFESSOR OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY (via telephone)", "BURNETT", "MANNAN", "BURNETT", "MANNAN", "BURNETT", "ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-4948", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-3-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/22/mn.07.html", "summary": "Secret Safe Haven Looks to Save Unwanted Newborns in Michigan", "utt": ["Very difficult to hear when parents abandon a newborn baby. In Michigan, though, it is a felony that could lead to a 10-year prison term. Now prosecutors in three different counties have come up with an alternative they hope will save the lives of unwanted newborns. Reporter Dina Senatafante (ph) of CNN affiliate WJBK now with more.", "This child, left on a church doorstep in a garbage bag, was almost thrown away by a church worker. He whimpered, it saved his life. Last month, this baby girl was thrown in the dumpster in Detroit left to die. She survived, but only because her screams were heard. So many abandoned babies don't survive, and protecting these newborns is the goal of Secret Safe Haven.", "Maybe their pregnancy is a secret, they are embarrassed to let others know, and they are thinking of abandoning the child to circumstances where the child will die. We don't want that.", "So if a women takes a baby to a hospital emergency room and there are no signs of abuse, there will be no questions asked. Police wonder about accountability.", "What message does it send, you know, have a baby, you don't want it, drop it off.", "Even proponents say it's far from perfect, but better than the alternative.", "It's a no-win situation, but this is a better outcome that we have seen in some of the other recent cases, where the baby has been abandoned to death.", "In Detroit, Dina Sentafante."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "DINA SENTAFANTE, WJBK REPORTER (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SENTAFANTE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SENTAFANTE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SENTAFANTE"]}
{"id": "CNN-173256", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-9-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/30/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Boston's Francona May Be Gone", "utt": ["All right. Let's face it, it's what every baseball nut is talking about, the playoffs, but there may be even more talk about the two teams that didn't get in. TBS sportscaster and former pitcher John Smoltz working the playoffs. John, good to see you.", "Good morning.", "All right. Let's start with the Red Sox manager, shall we? Terry Francona may lose his job. You know, you pitched for this guy, players loved him. That's what I'm told. What the heck happened?", "Well, it's a -- you know there's going to be a lot of words that surround this scenario and I don't think they're accurate mainly because they lost their pitching staff, they had some injuries, they weren't able to pitch consecutive games to where this team was built to win the championship, there's no doubt. And when you have an historic month like September and you cannot find any pitchers to go out there and give you quality starts and because they were dealing with some injuries, it made it awfully tough on the offense, and when you're dealing with the mental toughness of a breakdown like this at an historic point, it's tough to deal with. And this has got to be one of the hardest thing that the Boston Red Sox have ever had to deal with, mainly because there's so much attention around them with the Yankees, the division, and so much expected of them that nobody saw this coming. And it really is an historic thing that you have to find a way to put away and not think about, but that's almost impossible.", "Yes, I don't know how you manage, you know, or -- either team, Red Sox or Yankees when you've got this constant, you know, rivalry going on. All right. Let's talk about the collapse of the Braves now, shall we? A historic flop, to say the least. You pitched 20 seasons, right, with that team?", "Yes.", "So what do you think? I mean could this haunt them and play mind games for seasons to come?", "Well, you know, they say it doesn't kill you to make you stronger and I think for these young guys who had to be the emergency starters who had again to fill in for some injuries it is very difficult to manage a team when you lose two big cogs in your starting rotation as Atlanta did. And the pressure of these young guys, I thought they did a remarkable job, to be honest with you, and then the inability then to win some games down the stretch becomes the focus, but you're limited as a manager in what you can do and I think for Atlanta's case, and again, in both cases, these teams were being chased by teams that got hot and got hot at the right time, and you never want to be in the sentence of a historic collapse and you never want to deal with the way that your season ends. But I think for Atlanta, I think they are going to be OK because the young pitching that they have can learn some incredible lessons down the stretch. They just didn't have many options, when you think about losing Hanson and Jurrjens, and that incredible bullpen did everything they could do.", "Well, as a pitcher, I know tonight you're going to be watching Sabathia and Ver Lander and maybe we can recap Monday. What do you say?", "Absolutely. This is one of those must-see TV games. The playoffs is great and when you have the two horses on the mound for these two teams, this is why they are where they are at and they need to ride those guys as hard as they can and a big, big game for CC. A lot of pressure on CC at home because he is going arguably against the guy who's had the greatest year in the last 20 or so years as the Triple Crown winner in Ver Lander. So I'm -- I just can't wait, I'm excited. Only other thing I wish I could do is --", "You wish you were there.", "Yes.", "Yes, I was just going to say -- I knew it. You wish you were on the mound. John, thanks so much to. Great talking to you today.", "My pleasure.", "All right. Well, a new poll puts Herman Cain a strong third in the Republican White House race, that and more stories from our \"Political Ticker,\" right after the break."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "JOHN SMOLTZ, TBS BASEBALL ANALYST", "PHILLIPS", "SMOLTZ", "PHILLIPS", "SMOLTZ", "PHILLIPS", "SMOLTZ", "PHILLIPS", "SMOLTZ", "PHILLIPS", "SMOLTZ", "PHILLIPS", "SMOLTZ", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-278941", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-03-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/14/nday.02.html", "summary": "Death Toll Rises To 37 In Ankara Attack", "utt": ["The death toll rising this morning following a car bombing in the heart of Turkey's capital. At least 37 people killed and more than 120 others wounded. Authorities working now to determine who is behind that attack. Let's go live to CNN's senior international correspondent, Arwa Damon in Ankara -- Arwa.", "Alyson, the view of the actual blast site blocked by that white sheet you see behind us, the area still cordoned off. We've been seeing forensic teams moving in and out. According to Turkish authorities, the attacker or attackers drove a vehicle laden with explosives, detonating it right next to a bus stop. This is one of the main boulevards going through the central part of the city, very crowded, especially at the time of the attacks at 6:45 on a Sunday. There are shops here, open-air bars, and restaurants, concerned about the death toll is going to rise. Now Turkish media is at this stage reporting that this was an attack carried out by the Kurdish separatist group, the PKK, saying that one of the attackers was a female born in 1992. But the Turkish president and prime minister at this stage saying that they are not disclosing, which terrorist organization was behind this devastating violence until their investigation is complete -- John.", "All right, Arwa Damon for us in Ankara. Thanks so much, Arwa. And coming up from the region, a CNN exclusive inside rebel-held Syria. CNN Crews witness an airstrike against civilians first hand. This is a story you won't see anywhere else. That's next on NEW DAY."], "speaker": ["ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN GUEST ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-365798", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-03-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/30/cnr.01.html", "summary": "President Trump Vows to Close U.S. Border with Mexico if Mexican Government Does Not Stop Illegal Immigration into U.S.; Rep. Ted Yoho (R) Florida is Interviewed on President Trump's Proposal to Close U.S.-Mexico Border; Rep. Susan Wild, (D) Pennsylvania is Interviewed on President Trump's Claims of Republican Health Care Reform Ideas and Co-Sponsorship of Equal Pay Act", "utt": ["Good morning to you. It's Saturday, March 30th, 2019. So good to have you here. I am Christi Paul.", "I am Victor Blackwell. You are in the CNN Newsroom.", "So President Trump has a very strong message for Mexico. Stop migrants entering the U.S. or he is closing the border next week.", "Listen, this is not the first time that the president has threatened to shut down the border. He has never actually followed through on the threat, but that does not mean that he won't do it this time.", "In the meantime, today is Beto O'Rourke big campaign kickoff. He has got three rallies in Texas, El Paso, Houston, Austin. All of course near the U.S.-Mexico border.", "The Democratic presidential candidate has been meeting with asylum seekers, and he tweeted he will continue to push for answers on immigration. CNN's Natasha Chen is live from the border town of Hidalgo, Texas. Natasha, tell us more about what, first, President Trump said.", "Yes, Victor, President Trump was claiming that a shutdown of the border would be a huge profit-making move for the U.S., but in fact there would be a huge economic loss for both countries here. We are at the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge where you can see a lot of cars now going toward the Mexico side. This is because a lot of people living in these border towns really cross daily for their business. We even met a young student just now who goes to school here, a lot of U.S. born children attend American schools but then cross the border into Mexico to be with their families. So a lot of that daily activity would be disrupted as well as commerce. Those trucks bringing cargo actually going through a port about two miles away from us. Now, President Trump did say in his Twitter feed yesterday that if Mexico doesn't stop all illegal immigration from their side, he would close the border.", "So how would this effect imports across the border, Natasha?", "Right. First, you and I would probably see a difference at grocery stores if that were to happen because just less than half of the U.S. fruit and vegetables that are imported from all countries actually come from Mexico. So a lot of that, think of your avocados, tomatoes perhaps, a lot of these fruits and vegetables you see in the stores come from the southern side. And so we are going to see that effected probably, like I said, at the port two miles away from us where most of those trucks come in, Christi.", "All right, good to know. Natasha Chen, thank you so much for that update.", "As we said, immigration will be a key focus today when Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke holds a campaign rally in his hometown of El Paso.", "The Texas city has been really the center of the immigration debate with O'Rourke and President Trump holding dueling rallies there just last month. CNN's Leyla Santiago is in El Paso. So what is planned today, Leyla? What do we expect?", "Well, in the next two hours we expect Beto O'Rourke to come right here to start his rally, to officially launch his campaign for the White House. One of the things we do expect him to talk about is immigration. And I'll tell you what, I actually just went to the border within a half mile of where we are right now. And I want to show you what we saw there, just a short video I was able to film of migrants, still a number of them, under that bridge being held. And when I talked to the mayor of Juarez, he told me that right now they have 487 people in a shelter waiting to seek asylum in the U.S. So when we talk about shutting the border, as President Trump has said, that could mean a significant increase in waiting time for those asylum seekers if that happens. Now, the very day that we heard President Trump say that, Beto O'Rourke also tweeted that he, too, which was yesterday, went to visit the border. So yes, I expect he will talk about that today as he officially launches his campaign. He will likely also talk health care, criminal justice reform, and climate change. Those are things he has been talking about over the last two weeks as he has visited those early voting states, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina. He is now back in his hometown to talk about that on his turf where he is most comfortable, and really where he became a rising Democratic star, where he went up against Senator Ted Cruz in the midterm election and really raised some eyebrows with his fundraising abilities. For the midterm elections, he raised $80 million. His campaign saying on day one in the first 24 hours after his announcement, we have video, he was able to raise $6.1 million. That's the most we've seen of any candidate in the field. So we'll have to see if the excitement that he creates here in El Paso will be something that he can do nationwide.", "Leyla Santiago for us here in El Paso. Thanks so much.", "So Attorney General Bill Barr says the redacted Mueller report could be released in a few weeks. The Justice Department in fact is already working on those redactions.", "The president first tweeted that he had nothing to hide, said it on camera as well. But then he followed up with what seemed like a warning about the release. The president is at his beach resort there at Mar-a-Lago. CNN's Boris Sanchez is not too far away in West Palm Beach. Boris, good morning to you.", "Good morning, Victor and Christi. That's right. The Attorney General William Barr confirming that he is working now on redacting portions of the Mueller report. And President Trump was asked about his confidence in the attorney general, what he would like to see him do with the report. The president said he has full confidence. Listen to this. Looks like we don't have the soundbite, but the president yesterday said that he had full confidence in the attorney general, that he trusted him to do what was right, and that he wanted transparency. He wanted the report out there. Despite that, he did tweet this. Take a look, the president writing, quote, \"Robert Mueller was a hero to the radical left Democrats until he ruled that there was no collusion with Russia, so ridiculous to even say. After more than two years since the insurance policy statement was made by a dirty cop, I got the answers I wanted, the truth.\" The president goes on to say that he does not believe whatever he gives Democrats will be enough. He says \"So maybe we should just take our victory and say no, we've got a country to run.\" So the president appears to be suggesting that he may use executive privilege to try to block some portions of the Mueller report from going to Congress, from being made public. The attorney general has said that the White House has the right to exert executive privilege but that he doesn't intend to share the report with them at this time. The president, meantime, just arrived a short time agate his golf resort here in south Florida. No public events on the schedule, except later today he is meeting with a group of supporters, Victor and Christi.", "Boris Sanchez, good to know. Thank you so much.", "Joining me, Republican Congressman Ted Yoho. Congressman, good morning to you.", "Good morning, Victor, how are you?", "I'm doing well, thank you. First, let's start here. The president says that if Mexico doesn't crackdown on migrants coming through Mexico and to the U.S. border that he is going to shut down the border. How will closing the southern border reduce the number of people who are trying to cross in or seeking asylum?", "I think what you'll see is it's an attitude of the United States that enough is enough, and that it will impede that because that message will go back to Guatemala, Honduras, these countries where these people are coming from, and that message will go out that America has changed how they're going to deal with illegal immigration, and I fully support the president on this.", "You don't think that that message, that attitude, was effectively relayed when the president was elected and all that he said thus far about people coming through the southern border, and this month the CBP says they're on track for 100,000 encounters and apprehensions at the southern border. What's different about the attitude now that didn't lead to what you're hoping it will lead to now?", "It goes directly to the Mexican government. The president has said this before, but Mexico has failed to act. They have deported more people as they come into Mexico, but they have control of the border as much as we do. And this is just as much for them as it is for us. And I talked to President Trump early on in his campaign that Mexico gets -- they've received over $2 billion in foreign aid on the war on drugs, and they've received about $300 million in foreign aid for other things, and that they really could help pay for this or we could suspend that, that would go to the border. This is something that's breaking down America. And this is the tip of the iceberg. When you see what's going on in Venezuela --", "Congressman, let's stay on point here, let's stay on focus here, because I understand the leverage that the president, that the U.S. government has potentially economically over Mexico. My question is, how does closing the border stop the increase of people coming to seek asylum, because what we learned from a September, 2018, Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report, is that when the CBP regulated, slowed asylum seekers through ports of entry, that they may have seen an increase of illegal border crossings. So if you close down the border, won't all the people who were coming to ports of entry to seek asylum simply do it between ports of entry?", "Well, what we're doing has not worked, as you just brought out. More people are coming in. And we're doing everything we can to stem that right now. And if it hasn't worked, I think you need to go to the next step. And we'll see what happens, and hopefully Mexico will come and help us.", "But what evidence, I'm asking for evidence. To see what happens, you know that there will be a disastrous economic effect for closing down the border. You know how much commerce goes through the southern border between the U.S. and Mexico. To simply say we'll see what happens, don't you need some evidence that closing the border would reduce the number of people, as the president hopes it will, who are coming into the country illegally or coming to seek asylum? Is there any evidence that that's going to be an effective --", "I don't have a crystal ball. Nobody has a crystal ball to see how this is going to affect that. But I can tell you what we're doing is not working. Yes, it's going to be painful for some people, and trade will probably be affected somewhat. But things will get adjusted. And the goal is we want legal immigration in an orderly manner. And if we have done everything we have up to this point, and as Secretary Nielsen has said, it's a crisis, it's overrun. So we have got to change the strategy. I think this is the right way to go.", "Evidence is not equal to a crystal ball, but I hear the point that there is no evidence. So let me move on to this. You're a Ranking Member on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation. So let's talk now about North Korea, if we can. There's been the announcement that the South Korean president Moon Jae-in will be coming to the White House April 11th to talk with the president, potentially to change the strategy, because there's been, you've admitted this in the committee, there's been no progress on denuclearization with North Korea. Moon needs these sanctions to be lifted to continue to grow his economic relationship with the North. So are you concerned that Moon will convince the president to reduce sanctions? We've already seen the tweet where the president called off sanctions that were potentially headed to either China or North Korea. That wasn't even clear. What's your concern about this meeting?", "That president Moon will come here, they'll try to work that out. They have waivers where they can do humanitarian and some economic development in the Kaesong Industrial Park. President Trump did pull back on those sanctions. We on the committee are going to keep pressuring the treasury and the administration to put the sanctions on these companies that are evading the sanctions, i.e. China and Russia, Russian, Chinese banks, Chinese businesses that are funneling money for North Korea. If everybody agreed to the sanctions that were voted on --", "Was the president wrong to pull back on sanctions? I apologize for interrupting, but there's a bit of a delay.", "You know what, I can't say he was wrong on that because I don't know what his strategy was. I don't have that insider information.", "Sarah Sanders says the president likes Kim Jong-un and thought the sanctions weren't necessary. Let me read for you your own words here, because you said right before the Hanoi summit, \"Kim Jong- un appears to be using the same play book as his two predecessors used before, which is to promise peace and denuclearization in exchange for sanctions relief. Once this is granted, the DPRK continues their deceit, lying, and continuation of a dangerous nuclear program.\" There is the reporting from South Korean lawmakers that they're rebuilding the launch side for long range missiles and there's no progress on denuclearization. The president likes Kim. Isn't the president being played by your own description here of what's happened before?", "No, I don't, because he has met with Kim. You've got to have a dialogue going. He's backing off sanctions that were going to go in there. Like I said, we're going to keep pushing to put those back on there. The sanctions need to go on China so that China, who does about 94 percent of trade with North Korea, will put enough pressure on North Korea for them to finally come to the table earnestly and sincerely, to let's bring this to an end. And President Trump has to have the freedom to be able to keep a dialogue open. And if you close that all together, we're going to go back to where we were when President Obama was in office. And so I'm going to give him the flexibility of negotiating with what he thinks is right. My job is to make sure that they're held accountable, the Treasury Department, that we're going to keep putting pressure on them. And if they don't, we're going to call those committees in or those departments in.", "Congressman, we will see if the president closes the border next weekend and what will be the fruit of this meeting with Moon Jae-in.", "We will see.", "Congressman Ted Yoho, thanks so much for being with us this morning.", "Thank you.", "President Trump says he has a group of Republicans coming up with an alternative for Obamacare. Why apparently it's been hard to find out more about that group.", "Plus, an expensive demand from the city of Chicago. It's demanding that actor Jussie Smollett repay a little more than $130,000 for investigating a crime that police say never happened."], "speaker": ["CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "NATASHA CHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PAUL", "CHEN", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "LEYLA SANTIAGO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "REP. TED YOHO, (R) FLORIDA", "BLACKWELL", "YOHO", "BLACKWELL", "YOHO", "BLACKWELL", "YOHO", "BLACKWELL", "YOHO", "BLACKWELL", "YOHO", "BLACKWELL", "YOHO", "BLACKWELL", "YOHO", "BLACKWELL", "YOHO", "BLACKWELL", "YOHO", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-407006", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2020-07-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/31/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Are Face Shields or Goggles Needed in Addition to Masks?", "utt": ["For months, public health officials have stressed the importance of wearing face masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but many experts are now urging the use of face shields and eye goggles as well. CNN's Brian Todd has details. Brian, tell us more.", "Wolf, four months, Doctors Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx have imploring us to wear masks. Tonight, there are new questions about the importance of face coverings and potentially whether we need to be going one step further.", "Dr. Deborah Birx is now recommending adding a face shield in addition to wearing a mask.", "The thing about the face shields, we think that that could protect the individuals and that it would decrease the ability for them to touch their eyes and spread viruses as well as those droplets coming towards them. So, there are two different technologies for two different reasons.", "Her colleague, Dr. Anthony Fauci, spoke about teachers getting back to classrooms this year, saying, while they don't need to wear medical grade protective equipment --", "The minimal things you might want to do is you could use just a mask and eye goggles and possibly gloves.", "Fauci later clarified that in CNN's town hall, saying he wasn't recommending that all Americans should wear face shields. Still, all this is raising questions about whether masks have been enough to protect us from coronavirus all these months.", "Masks will provide a very significant measure of protection and what it really is doing is it's protecting everybody else from you. The point here is now that wearing a face shield could provide extra protection.", "Experts say, face shields or goggles or especially important for teachers who could be more vulnerable if they deal with younger children in classrooms.", "We are likely to be in environment where children pull down their masks or not be very complying with them and you might get coughs close to the face. There is concern that you could get respiratory droplets in the eyes.", "But what about the rest of us? For that trip to the grocery store, should we be wearing masks and face shields?", "The bottom line here is, at minimum, you should be wearing a mask. If you want to add a face shield, goggles, large glasses, that is all going to help reduce spread.", "Public health experts acknowledge getting large segments of the U.S. population to wear masks has been a struggle. People have thought the discomfort, the inconvenience, the very principle of it.", "It's a violation of my constitutional rights and my civil rights!", "And there could be even more resistance to the appeal to wear a face shield. Many may complain that they are hard to find, bulk at paying the extra money but experts have some reassurance.", "Really, eye protection and face shields are much more available and they are much cheaper than people realize. A lot of companies are able to print them and make them for a couple of dollars.", "But experts say, those of us who think our standard eyeglasses or sunglasses may be able to take the place of face shields or goggles, think again. These standardize eyeglasses, they say, have too many gaps around the sides and above and below. You simply need the tighter fit of face shields -- Wolf.", "All right. Very interesting. Brian Todd reporting. Thank you. And we have more news just ahead."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TODD (voice-over)", "DR. DEBORAH BIRX, WHITE HOUSE CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE COORDINATOR", "TODD", "FAUCI", "TODD", "DR. ANNE RIMOIN, EPIDEMIOLOGIST, UCLA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH", "TODD", "PROF. SASKIA POPESCU, INFECTION PREVENTION EXPERT, GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY", "TODD", "RIMOIN", "TODD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TODD", "POPESCU", "TODD", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-70122", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-4-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0304/30/ltm.04.html", "summary": "Clashes in Town of Fallujah", "utt": ["Again today, clashes in the town of Fallujah, west of Baghdad. The second time already this week. Now U.S. troops firing back at Iraqi demonstrators. On Monday, at least 15 Iraqis, including three boys under the age of 11, were killed in a confrontation there. CENTCOM saying that they fired first, the Iraqis, and the U.S. soldiers were simply there to protect themselves. Now, with what's happening today, we want to get to Karl Penhaul by way of telephone, again, near the scene there west of Baghdad -- Karl, good afternoon.", "Good afternoon, Bill. We spent part of the morning down at Fallujah General Hospital. We seem now to have got an independent confirmation of the casualties from this morning's demonstration. The duty doctor down there tells us two Iraqi civilians were killed, 15 others were wounded. He says all of the injuries were caused by gunshot wounds. This demonstration this morning was a group of several hundred people. They marched to a base here about 300 meters from the scene of Monday's shortage. They precisely went to protest against the 15 deaths, again in a shooting incident earlier this week. We've spoken to the captain in charge of the company, of the U.S. soldiers, and he says that firing came from the crowd first. He said that a member of the crowd pulled an AK-47s assault rifle and fired at a U.S. convoy as it drove past the site of the demonstration. He says at that point, his men inside the U.S. compound fired a couple of warning shots and he believes, what he says he believes is that members of the U.S. convoy that were driving by then opened fire and then, in the process of that, is when the casualties occurred -- Bill.", "Karl Penhaul again by telephone in Fallujah. All this and the atmosphere today brings Donald Rumsfeld to Baghdad. In fact, we will hear his speech live in a couple hours here on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-208046", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2013-6-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/03/sp.01.html", "summary": "Box Office Disappointment for Will Smith", "utt": ["Welcome back to STARTING POINT. Minding your business. Another big drop in Tokyo, the Nikkei tumbled more than 3.5 percent, and in China concerns about manufacturing growth slowing down. We're watching that. Wall Street taking it well so far. Dow futures still up about 45 points. This follows a stellar May. The S&P; 500 jumped two percent in May and, of course you're up six months in a row for the Dow. You've had a good run in your 401(k). Just in time for summer, Disney raises prices. One day at the Magic Kingdom in Orlando now goes for $95 for an adult. An adult? Anyone over the age of 10 --", "What?", "-- and it's up $6 from last year. Kids cost $89. For a family of four, a day at the happiest place on Earth will set you back $368. Multi-day admission tickets also went up. Things went from bad to worse for Will Smith this weekend. First came really bad reviews for his new film \"After Earth,\" then disappointment at the box office. The $27 million in ticket sales was Smith's worst summer opening ever. \"Fast And Furious 6,\" number one for a second week in a row, followed by \"Now You See Me.\" \"After Earth\" was third.", "One of the things that makes me a really bad person. Just one of the things is I kind of love really bad movie reviews and this one, all the ones, they were particularly vicious.", "Sometimes you get a bad movie review and you still pull in money, because it doesn't matter. They want to see the big draw. This was bad movie reviews and disappointment in the box office.", "This was bad in a bad way, not bad in a good way.", "Right, exactly.", "All right, 26 minutes after the hour. Ahead on STARTING POINT a swim in are river in Yosemite National Park turns into disaster when a teen is swept over a 600-foot waterfall. The search for the young man continues this morning. We will go live to the national park. And then, the mother of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who may only have weeks to live, says the government is letting her daughter die. Now she's making a public plea for help. She'll join us with her story."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-403540", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2020-06-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/23/es.03.html", "summary": "Trump Ramps Up Campaign Stops Despite Coronavirus Pandemic", "utt": ["Reported more than 21,000 newly-confirmed cases of the coronavirus. That brings the overall total there to more than 1.1 million cases. Of course, Brazil has joined the United States as the only two countries in the world who have reported more than one million overall cases. Meanwhile, here in Mexico, there have been more reported deaths from Covid-19 over the past two days than have been reported in Brazil. Now, granted, Brazil's figures are usually lower on Sundays and Mondays due to lower testing in the preceding days, but it is just further proof that the outbreak here in Mexico is very serious.", "Thanks to our reporters around the world for that. EARLY START continues right now.", "A dangerous spike in coronavirus won't keep the president out of Arizona. He'll speak to thousands of people today. Masks, however, not expected to be enforced.", "And it looks like there will be a baseball season after all. How, when, and where teams will finally hit the field. Good morning, everyone, this is EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans.", "I'm Laura Jarrett, 30 minutes past the hour here in New York. And presidential politics on a collision course with coronavirus today. President Trump heads to Arizona for several stops, including remarks at a Students for Trump event in Phoenix. Masks will be handed out but enforcement very much in doubt there. The state is one of the country's hotspots reporting more than 2,000 cases per day for six of the last seven days. Eighty-four percent of Arizona's intensive care hospital beds now in use. The state's Republican governor says this was expected.", "We knew that when we lifted the stay- at-home order we would have an increase in cases. The objective has always been so that we could slow the virus.", "President Trump adding more confusion on the issue of testing for the virus. At his rally Saturday, Trump told supporters he ordered the administration to slow down Covid testing because it results in finding more cases. The White House tried to say he was only kidding -- kidding about something that's killed 120,000 people in this country. Then yesterday, he confirmed he did tell his people -- presumably, his staff or cabinet members -- high case counts look bad.", "Just to clear up, there wasn't a direct if you will to staff to stop the testing?", "No, but I think it's -- I think we put ourselves at a disadvantage. So you hear about all these cases -- so instead of doing 25 million tests, let's say we did 10 million tests.", "Yes.", "We'd look like we're doing much better because we'd have far fewer cases. You understand that?", "The president's return to the campaign trail was intended to project strength and enthusiasm but the Tulsa rally over the weekend showed a limited strategy leaning on old grievances about race, the virus, monuments, and more. The president had said he's planning visits to Florida and Texas, two other states hit really hard by the virus. But now, aides are debating what his signature rallies will look like going forward.", "Half the country -- 25 states -- heading in the wrong direction today. Former Health and Human Services Sec. Kathleen Sebelius says the U.S. is stuck playing catch-up.", "We are still reacting, we're not ahead of it. The only way to get ahead of the virus is to way tamp down the cases in any area, any -- and then test like crazy when a case appears, contact trace, and make sure you quarantine. We can't do that yet because we're still finding all kinds of people who have the virus.", "With more people now out in public, new types of outbreaks are emerging at bars, churches, and other venues. Florida and Texas and their 50 million residents, a big concern this morning. In Texas, cases and hospitalizations have nearly doubled over the past month.", "Covid-19 is now spreading at an unacceptable rate in Texas. If we were to experience another doubling of those numbers over the next month that would mean that we are in an urgent situation where tougher actions will be required to make sure that we do contain the spread of Covid-19.", "In Florida, the Department of Health has now issued an advisory that masks should be worn by everyone across the state, but the governor has not made it mandatory. Some workers at Disney World have launched a petition pleading with executives to reconsider plans for a July opening. Days of record case numbers have now pushed the statewide total past 100,000. And in Louisiana, where cases have been falling, the governor says the state will not enter phase three of reopening for at least a month after a spike in just the last week.", "All right. Comments from White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on China sent markets on a rollercoaster Tuesday. During an interview with Fox News Monday night, Navarro said China's complacency in reporting the coronavirus early on led to a breakdown of political and economic channels with the U.S. Then, this happened.", "But given everything that's happened and all the things you just listed, is that over?", "It's over, yes.", "Is that over, meaning the trade deal with China. Dow futures briefly fell 400 points after Navarro's comments. Now, President Trump tried to ease concerns, tweeting \"The China deal is fully intact. Hopefully, they will live up to the terms of the agreement.\" Navarro later told CNN in a statement, \"My comments have been taken wildly out of context. They had nothing at all to do with the Phase I trade deal, which continues in place.\" Taking a look at futures right now in the U.S., you can see futures markets are up a little bit here -- a 200-point rally for the Dow if this holds. The short breakdown shows investors still care about trade tension between the U.S. and China and the U.S. -- as the U.S. deals with the economic impact of the coronavirus.", "Well, everybody you know ran out and bought hand sanitizer when coronavirus first hit, but a new warning says some of them contain a potentially fatal ingredient."], "speaker": ["MATT RIVERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "LAURA JARRETT, CNN ANCHOR", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-375348", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2019-07-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/19/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview With Rep. Steve Cohen (R-TN); President Trump Now Praising Crowd Who Chanted 'Send Her Back'; Iran Seizes Two Tankers in Strait of Hormuz; House Democrats Holding Mock Hearings, Honing Questions Ahead Of Mueller Testimony", "utt": ["And defending his supporters who echoed them, even as world leaders condemn his words. Under oath. House Democrats are digging into the Mueller report and holding mock hearings as they gear up for the former special counsel's highly anticipated testimony next week. We are learning new details of the questions they will ask and the answers they're seeking. And under the sun. Warning for almost 200 million Americans tonight, as a brutal wave of extreme heat blazes over much of the U.S., and now more dangerous weather is possible, including tornadoes, thunderstorms, and hail. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Wolf Blitzer is off today. I'm Brianna Keilar. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "The breaking news tonight, Iran seizing at least one oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, sharply escalating tension with the U.S. and Western allies. CNN has learned that members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard boarded a British ship and a Liberian ship 30 minutes apart and that armed American military planes are now protecting U.S. ships in the region. We're also learning new details tonight of House Democrats' intense preparation for next week's testimony by former special counsel Robert Mueller. Sources tell CNN they have been holding mock hearings and honing their questions, in the hopes of shifting public perception of the Russia investigation. We will be talking about the breaking news and more with Congressman Steve Cohen of the Judiciary Committee. And our correspondents and our analysts are also standing by. First, let's get to the latest on the breaking news with CNN chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto. And, Jim, you're learning some new details about Iran's hostilities in one of the world's most important shipping lanes.", "That's right, Brianna. Here at the Aspen Security Forum, where some of the most senior military commanders, U.S. military commanders, other administration officials, gathered, this news from the Persian Gulf hit with a thud. This is what we know at this hour. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, essentially a paramilitary force of the Iranian regime, boarding two international tankers in international waters around that key choke point of the Strait of Hormuz under arms. They boarded both of these, one a British-flagged vessel, the second a Liberian-flagged vessel. At this hour, that second vessel apparently has been released after a short time, but the British-flagged vessel still in Iranian custody with the sailors on board. They are not British citizens, but a collection of nationalities. At the time that these ships were boarded, a British warship was some 20 miles away, but an escalation of the tensions in the Gulf there after a series of hostile acts -- Brianna.", "And, Jim, how is the U.S. responding to this?", "Well, right now, armed U.S. aircraft are escorting U.S.- flagged tankers through the Persian Gulf, particularly through the Strait of Hormuz, again, that choke point there. Remember, this is part of a pattern of behavior and attacks in recent days and weeks. Of course, you had Iran, they shot down a $110 million U.S. drone a couple of weeks ago. Prior to that, they were also attacking other tankers with explosive devices, according to U.S. intelligence. And now you have this. Earlier today, I had the opportunity to speak to the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. This is the intelligence agency that monitors intelligence around the world, supplies that intelligence to the U.S. military. I spoke to the director, General Ashley, and he told me that, in his view, Iran's activity now is at an inflection point. Have a listen to what he said.", "They're going into recession, and the glide path that they're on is more of the same. So what is it they have to do to kind of change the status quo, which was to ramp up the level of activity? And we saw this coming a couple weeks out before it happened.", "The strategy here perhaps from Iran to raise oil prices, to create tensions there, nervousness about those tankers, the many tankers, dozens of them going through the Persian Gulf, raise oil prices, put pressure and attempt to create a split between America's European allies and the U.S. But I also asked General Ashley if he believes Iran wants war. His answer to that question was no. But the danger, of course, here, Brianna, is the war that no one wants or the military action that no one wants. Is there an escalation? Is there a misreading of signals? Is a shot fired where someone is injured or killed? That is the danger now. That is the concern -- Brianna.", "Jim Sciutto in Aspen, thank you so much. Let's go now to CNN senior White House correspondent Pamela Brown. And, Pamela, the president talked about this new aggression by Iran as he was leaving town for his New Jersey golf resort.", "Yes, that's right, Brianna. President Trump says this latest behavior by Iran proves what he's been saying, that the regime is nothing but trouble. And we have learned from sources that the president has adopted a more hawkish view of Iran in recent days amid the recent tensions. Now, this as the president tries to go back and renew his attack on the so-called Squad, while pivoting away from the criticism of the racist rally chant.", "Tonight, President Trump has gone full circle, again defending his racist attack against four congresswomen.", "When they call our country garbage, I don't care about politics. I don't care if it's good or bad about politics. You can't talk that way about our country, not when I'm the president.", "And defending his supporters.", "Send her back! Send her back!", "Who chanted \"Send her back\" at a North Carolina rally.", "Those people in North Carolina, that stadium was packed. It was a record crowd. And I could have filled it 10 times, as you know. Those are incredible people. Those are incredible patriots.", "This despite concerns raised from aides, including his daughter Ivanka Trump. But, today, the president downplayed their advisement.", "I talk about it, but they didn't advise me.", "Vice President Pence also taking heat from Republican lawmakers over the inflammatory chant. And there was the president's attempt to clean up on his own yesterday.", "I was not happy with it. I disagree with it. But, again, I didn't say -- I didn't say that. They did.", "But now Trump is back where he began, retweeting his previous tweets, asking for the congresswomen to apologize to our country and threatening Democrats he will carry this fight to the ballot box in 2020. And after Congresswoman Ilhan Omar returned to Minnesota yesterday for a town hall...", "... it sure feels good to be home. We are going to continue to be a nightmare to this president, because his policies are a nightmare to us.", "... Trump tweeting today that the welcome was a -- quote -- \"staged crowd.\"", "I'm unhappy when a congresswoman goes and says I'm going to be the president's nightmare. She's going to be the president's nightmare. She's lucky to be where she is, let me tell you. And the things that she has said are a disgrace to our country.", "The chant fallout spreading to the international stage too, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel telling reporters:", "I distance myself from this decidedly and stand in solidarity with the women who were attacked.", "Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denouncing the comments.", "I want everyone in Canada to know that those comments are completely unacceptable.", "And British Prime Minister Theresa May also calling Trump's language completely unacceptable.", "Hopefully, we're in good shape on the debt ceiling.", "The president tonight also taking a firm stance on the debt ceiling, telling reporters Democratic leadership shouldn't use it to negotiate.", "I can't imagine anybody ever even thinking of using the debt ceiling as a negotiating wedge. That's a sacred element of our country. They can't use the debt ceiling to negotiate.", "Changing his tune from 2013, when President Obama was the one facing a debt ceiling crisis.", "The debt ceiling is a very powerful weapon. Oh, I think they should play the debt ceiling card. It's a very powerful card.", "Now, Brianna, looking ahead to next week, with the highly anticipated congressional testimony of Robert Mueller, the former special counsel, President Trump says he won't be watching it. But even if he doesn't, Brianna, I'm told White House staffers will be watching it so that they can brief the president on any highlights -- back to you.", "All right, CNN's Pamela Brown, thank you. And House Democrats are engaged in intense preparations for that highly anticipated public testimony by former special counsel Robert Mueller. CNN justice correspondent Jessica Schneider is here with the details. And, Jessica, the Democrats really see this as their chance to maybe finally or the only time get Americans fired up about this.", "That's exactly right. These are two back-to-back high-stakes hearings. And even though special counsel Robert Mueller is a reluctant witness, members of these committees note that Congress isn't necessarily bound by the limits that Mueller might try to impose. Now, as such, Democrats really want to seize the moment to highlight key portions of Mueller's report, including five areas where they think the president clearly obstructed justice.", "Tonight, Democrats are undergoing intense prep, plotting pointed lines of questioning for former special counsel Robert Mueller for the few hours they will be able to grill him. Democrats want to seize on Mueller's in-person appearance, hoping to shift public perception and hammer home the stark conclusions of the special counsel's 448-page report that most Americans haven't read.", "I would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before Congress.", "Mueller has indicated he will let the report speak for itself. But Democrats aren't deterred. Sources tell CNN congressional Democrats have been holding mock hearings with senior aides playing Mueller to sharpen their questions ahead of the back-to-back grillings. Lawmakers are also rereading the report.", "The attorney general's the boss. Absolutely, I would discuss it with the attorney general.", "And staffers are studying Mueller's past congressional appearances. The Judiciary Committee plans to focus on obstruction of justice, while House intelligence will follow with questions on Russian election interference. Judiciary Democrats will connect the dots of what Mueller laid out on obstruction, focusing on five key episodes, Trump's direction to White House counsel Don McGahn to fire the special counsel, Trump's then telling McGahn to publicly deny that account, Trump's direction to former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to tell former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to limit the investigation to exclude Trump and focus only on future campaigns. Trump's follow-up to Lewandowski to tell Sessions Trump would fire him if he didn't meet with Lewandowski, and Trump's alleged witness tampering of Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen and others, encouraging them not to cooperate, dangling pardons, and congratulating Manafort for not flipping.", "If you just list those off, one, two, three, four, five, you can essentially make it clear to the public and to Congress that Mueller found substantial evidence to charge obstruction.", "Republicans plan to press the special counsel about whether his team was biased.", "We have got a lot of questions about how Robert Mueller's team was assembled.", "And probe why the investigation even started in the first place.", "Some basic questions of understanding a conclusion, you have got to understand where it started.", "Little has been released about how the special counsel, Robert Mueller, is preparing, though, if past is prologue, he's more than ready.", "Director Mueller will be impeccably prepared. That is part of his strength as a witness. I remember those sessions. They were kind of legendary. The hallway that led to his office on the seventh floor would be lined on both sides with briefing teams. He is very studious. He's not a verbose and dramatic witness. But he knows his stuff.", "And we also know that Democratic staffers are preparing a carefully tailored script to split up those questions among members, all in an effort to present a cohesive narrative that will illuminate the key details and then catch the average American's ear. But, Brianna, some Democrats are worrying that maybe some will go off- script, not stick to that strict narrative, and possibly muddle the message. But we will see when this high-stakes hearing, the set of hearings, happens next Wednesday.", "All right, Jessica Schneider, thank you so much. Let's get more on all this with Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen of Tennessee. He is a member of the Judiciary Committee. And I do want to ask you about this upcoming Mueller testimony. First, though, Iran has now seized a British tanker. This is an important American ally. What does the U.S. need to do?", "Well, what we need to do is get back in the Iran nuclear agreement. We never should have left it, and now we're talking about getting back in it in the same basis that we were in it, which is Trump saying, I want to get out of what Obama did, but now I want to get in to do what Obama did. Trump has been very inconsistent in his policies. I'm sure the Iranians aren't quite sure what he's doing either. The British and the Iranians are at it. It's a difficult situation that could result in some unfortunate activities, including war. But we don't have a president we can trust. We don't have a president that we know, when he tells us something, that it's the truth. So, it's difficult for me to make a statement without having some confidential hearings from some people in intelligence that I respect and trust.", "I want to talk about this preparation for the Mueller testimony. Your committee is focused on the obstruction portion of the Mueller report. Intel is focused on the Russian meddling. There are five incidents of alleged obstruction, potential obstruction you that want to highlight. Why zero in on this? What is the strategy?", "There are about 10 instances of obstruction that are cited in the Mueller report. I think five are the ones that counsel think are the most likely to be locked down, where Mueller will say, yes, all the elements were met and, yes, they are there. There might be others. And when you read the report, the other five are also good cases. There was just a smorgasbord of obstruction by Trump, whether asking staff to lie for him, whether asking staff to do deeds that were obstructive, and asking Mueller to resign, or asking Sessions to unrecuse himself, dangling pardons before Manafort, dangling a pardon before Michael Cohen at one time. He tried to obstruct justice. Why was he obstructing justice is a good question for the American people to ponder. If he didn't do anything wrong with the Russians, if he didn't do anything wrong in the election, if the meeting in Trump Tower was all innocent and about adoptions, why would he and all of his people lie about activities with Russia? Flynn lied about activities with Russia. So you have got obstruction. And you have got issues that Intelligence is going to get into, the Intel Committee, concerning Russia. And I think maybe one of our members will too, because she has a particular expertise there. But the Mueller report is a strong condemnation of the actions of the president of the United States and strong report on what Russia did to interfere with the election in 2016 and turn it towards Donald Trump. And Donald Trump went on television and said, \"Russia, if you're listening,\" and said, \"I love WikiLeaks.\" Donald Trump encouraged and accepted and did not report Russian activity.", "You each only have a few minutes really to ask questions. And because of that, the committee is trying to build between each of the Democratic members of Congress, so that this isn't just the same questions asked over and over. I understand you're planning to ask a few of your own questions, though. What do you say to Democrats who are concerned about members going off-script and not using that time effectively to build on the previous member?", "I'm going to use my time to effectively build on the previous member and to effectively set up the next member.", "So you don't have any questions? You're sort of playing just on the team, or do you have some specific questions personally you that think are important for you to ask?", "We're all on the team. I have been on the team for 13 years. I have asked and will ask pertinent, important and appropriate questions that will help the team.", "It is odd actually to see this kind of strategy. We don't see this every day. We don't see this with every hearing. Why has the committee decided this is so important?", "Is that kind of a Passover riff? Why is this hearing different from all other hearings? Well, we did prepare...", "Well, there have been a number -- I mean, not to say that this hearing isn't more important than others, but there are many important hearings, and yet we don't see this strategy.", "That's just a Jewish joke. It's just -- it's a Jewish joke. It went over. I'm sorry.", "It did.", "But, yes, there's -- but, anyway, neither here nor there. We did prepare for a previous hearing in a similar manner, and we stayed on our method and our course, and we were successful. And it wasn't covered as well by the networks. But we did that.", "Does Robert Mueller, does he need to go beyond the scope of his report?", "He says he won't. He probably won't. There might be a few places where he will. I don't know. There's a few places where I think he should. But we will find out. That's why we're going to have...", "Is it necessary, do you think, for him to go beyond the scope of the report to make more Americans take notice of what's in the report?", "Not to make people more notice of what's in the report. The people don't know what is in the report. They heard a month of stonewalling and lying by Barr and Trump and trying to say no obstruction, no collusion, when, in fact, he specifically said he couldn't clear him of obstruction and if he could say didn't commit a crime, they would have said it. And there are elements of obstruction in those -- at least those five cases, if not more. And Mueller will talk about that. And that's important, because the American public only heard Barr's four -- three-and-a-half-page summary that he came up with and used his own perverted and contorted legal theory on obstruction, a very, very minority theory. And he applied it. And he jumped into the breach and decided at the last minute a man who hadn't been involved in the special counsel's investigation and probably hadn't completely read it and understood it to jump in and give the summary and the analysis. And then Trump did it. And every time he had a chance to go before the reporters, the reporters got him every chance he can, and he went no collusion, no obstruction, that's what it says. And then, even when he released the report, Barr gave a press conference two or three hours before the report was released and said the same hocum. So this was set up, staged to deceive and mislead the American public. And Robert Mueller needs to set the course straight. And, hopefully, it will be an important day that people will listen to, get the news, and understand that the Mueller report is an indictment, truly an indictment of our president, even though, legally, he cannot be indicted.", "Congressman Steve Cohen, thank you for joining us.", "You're welcome. Sorry about Passover, but it's just the way I think.", "That's OK. All right, thank you so much, sir.", "And we have some more breaking news ahead, a new forecast for deadly high temperatures gripping much of the country tonight. Plus, more on Iran's seizure of a British oil tanker and what the U.S. is doing to protect American ships tonight."], "speaker": ["BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN HOST", "THE SITUATION ROOM. ANNOUNCER", "KEILAR", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR", "SCIUTTO", "LT. GEN. 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{"id": "CNN-371696", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2019-06-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/07/ath.01.html", "summary": "Trump Again Insults Pelosi as Nadler Tries to Convince Speaker to Impeach; Rep. Cummings Indicates He'll Move Forward on Contempt Vote Against Barr and Ross over Census Information", "utt": ["President Trump is lashing out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Here's what he said about the speaker while still in Normandy for the D-Day anniversary.", "I think she's a disgrace. I actually don't think she's a talented person. I have tried to be nice to her because I would have liked to have gotten some deals done. She's incapable of doing deals. She's a nasty, vindictive, horrible person. She's a terrible person. And I'll tell you, her name, it's Nervous Nancy because she's a nervous wreck.", "Trump was responding to political reporting that Nancy Pelosi told colleagues behind closed doors the following, quote, \"I don't want to see him impeached. I want to see him in prison.\" CNN's Manu Raju is joining me on Capitol Hill. Man, you have a lot of new reporting about that meeting where Pelosi made these remarks, according to \"Politico,\" and a break between Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler and Speaker Pelosi.", "We have learned Jerry Nadler made the case to open up an impeachment inquiry in the very meeting. That's one reason Nancy Pelosi made those remarks pretty dramatically that she would rather see the president be in prison than impeached. Because Jerry Nadler, who his committee would be in charge of launching impeachment proceedings, has quietly been making the case to her that it's time to do that. One reason why I am told is because he believes that it could help their case in court as they're fighting on a range of matters with the administration to get information. The real fear from the Democrats is, if they lose, it could dramatically set back their efforts to oversee the administration. They believe an impeachment inquiry strengthens their case in court. But also, Nadler told Pelosi and others who were present that the impeachment inquiry could essentially centralize all of the probes that are occurring in the House right now to his committee, freeing up those other panels to actually do their own legislative agenda and leave that part of the investigation to the Judiciary Committee. But he met pushback not just from Pelosi, but also Adam Schiff, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, who, as you know, Kate, has his own investigation that he's launching.", "That's true. Right now, it doesn't seem like it's changed the state of play, at least the most important opinion in this, which would be Speaker Pelosi. But at the same time, another committee is making new moves. The House Oversight is saying it's going to be moving ahead with plans to hold the attorney general and the commerce secretary in contempt. Why now, Manu?", "Yes, that's right. Over a separate probe altogether. This having to do with the citizenship question that was added to the 2020 census. Democrats believe this is part of an effort to suppress the minority turnout, the way minorities are counted. That would affect how House seats are drawn. Republicans say this is part of an effort to enforce the Voting Rights Act. They say the administration has not been truthful, which is why they issued subpoenas, the Democrats did. Those have not been complied with. The Justice Department saying this is premature. They want to negotiate further. But Elijah Cummings, this morning, Kate, said he's willing to move forward and hold Wilbur Ross and Bill Barr in contempt for not complying with those subpoenas -- Kate?", "All right, Manu, thank you so much. Coming up for us, a pretty stark 180. Democratic front-runner, Joe Biden, reversing his position on what is becoming a major issue in the Democratic primary race, federal funding for abortion services. So what triggered his reversal? And what does it say about his campaign strategy right now? We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BOLDUAN", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BOLDUAN", "RAJU", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-128635", "program": "ISSUE NUMBER ONE", "date": "2008-7-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/14/ino.01.html", "summary": "New Lending Rules Effective Immediately", "utt": ["Well, say it ain't so, joe. An American icon, the king of beer, is being sold to a foreign company. Anheuser-Busch has agreed to a $52 billion takeover bid from the Belgian brewer InBev. Now the deal heads off what was shaping up to be a bitter fight for the maker of Budweiser and Bud Light beers. Instead, the agreement creates the worlds' largest brewer and the fourth largest consumer product company Anheuser-Busch InBev. It's not immediately clear just how long approval of the deal will take.", "Well, what a day for the Federal Reserve to unveil now lending rules. Nice timing. But that's exactly what happened. New rules overhauling mortgage lending. Jennifer Westhoven is here to explain them and how they can have an impact on you. And these aren't just some kind of rules. These are the ones that would have prevented the mess that we're in had they been in place five years ago or 10 years ago.", "I mean, in a way, this story is getting overshadowed by these big problems that we're having. But this goes right to the source of most of these problems that we've been talking about all day. It's a preventative medicine. How do we prevent another housing crisis? So the Fed wants to put the brakes on the loose lending that got us into this mess, right. Got people in over their head. Many people losing their homes. The new rules cover nearly all subprime loans. Now brokers would have to take assets and income into account. They can't ignore them and just base the loan on the value of the home. Right, that was betting that the home value . . .", "Which is part of what IndyMac was doing and part of what these ninja (ph) loans you told us about, no income, no jobs, no assets. You get a loan without even verifying any of that.", "Yes, and they were just betting that the house value would keep going up. So everything was kind of pyramiding up. That doesn't work. They also have to stop misleading advertising and there is going to be a banning of some prepayment penalties. You know people who want to pay off their loans early while the rates are low. Then they got socked with these huge fees so they really couldn't do it. They were locked into the huge interest payments. There's a lot of debate about this. You know, is it the buyers who were irresponsible? Is it that brokers were unscrupulous? Bernanke is very clear that unscrupulous brokers did do some damage here. He said, \"although the high rate of delinquency has a number of causes, it seems clear that unfair or deceptive acts and practices by lenders resulted in the extension of many loans, particularly high- cost loans, that were inappropriate for or misled the borrower.\" And I think it's very clear from some of the people, the letters we get, that they were mislead. There were seven misleading practices that are banned. We'll do a few of them here. One is, chorusing a real estate appraiser to fudge a home's value. People were really doing this. Also, you know, a lender has to make a credit when they receive a payment. You imagine you send in your payment and then they kind of say, well, we haven't processed it. You still get hit with a huge late fee. They pile up. That's not fair. And one that's really I think the most obvious if you go out and apply was in three days you'll get a schedule of what all the costs would be for the loan and what your payments would look like in the future.", "So you're not finding that out right before you sign your documents.", "Exactly. Or even some people said, you know, my broker said it would only go up to 22. It went up to 3,000 and, you know, they couldn't handle that.", "All right. And these rules are going to apply to all lenders.", "Yes. And that's a big deal because before it was just those that were basically supervised through the FDIC. So a lot of people didn't have to play by the rules.", "All right. Good information. Get to know those rules if you're planning to buy a house or, frankly, if you're going to sell one -- Gerri.", "Well, we haven't forgotten about gas prices today. The latest on record prices at the pump. Plus, chances are you have lots of questions about Freddie, Fannie, IndyMac, your money. The Help Desk is going to tackle them all. We're all over issue #1 right here on CNN."], "speaker": ["WILLIS", "VELSHI", "JENNIFER WESTHOVEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "VELSHI", "WESTHOVEN", "VELSHI", "WESTHOVEN", "VELSHI", "WESTHOVEN", "VELSHI", "WILLIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-304892", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-02-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/08/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Trump Speaks at National Association of Sheriffs; Trump speaks about Ninth Circuit Judges; Travel Ban Legal Case.", "utt": ["In the federal government can take to help improve safety in your communities. But I believe that community safety begins with moral leadership. Our police officers, sheriffs and deputies risk their lives every day, and they're entitled to an administration that has their back.", "You have asked for the resources, tools and support you need to get the job done. We will do whatever we can to help you meet those demands. That includes a zero-tolerance policy for acts of violence against law enforcement.", "We're gonna stop the drugs from pouring in. We're gonna stop those drugs from poisoning our youth, from poisoning our people. We're going to be ruthless in that fight. We have no choice.", "President Trump addressing the National Association of Sheriffs there at the J.W. Marriott, not far from the White House. A lot to parse through. Let's bring in our political director, David Chalian, and our senior White House correspondent Jeff Zeleny, and then we'll get into the legal debate over all of this. Good to have you both with us.", "Hi, Poppy.", "What really stood out to me, David Chalian, to you first, is the fact that he directly attacked the three justices of the Ninth Circuit. He basically said the Boston judge had it right and you have it wrong. Seemed to insinuate that they were leaning one way versus another. And he said this. Let's play it.", "If these judges wanted to, in my opinion, help the court in terms of respect for the court, they'd do what they should be doing. I mean it's - it's so sad.", "They'd do what they should be doing. Obviously defending his administration's travel ban. David Chalian, how did you read that? Was that a - what that a threat to the justices?", "Well, I think Donald Trump is trying to walk a line here of vociferously defending what he believes is his administration's position, that he believes it's correct on the merits, that he has this wide berth of authority to put this policy in place for national security reasons, and to not ignore the sort of separate, equal, coequal branches of the government. At times in his remarks he sort of fell on the wrong side of that line. I mean he caught himself. He said, I don't like to call courts biased. I don't like to do that. But what we've seen so much is just a lot of political courts out there. So he's trying to have it both ways. He's trying to pressure them, weigh in on this - on this court case as it's ongoing, which is not the common route you normally see necessarily from a president, and yet he wants to put out his vigorous defense. Like I said, at times I think he sort of fell on - on the wrong side of the line. On other times he was making a very strong argument.", "And, Jeff Zeleny, as David points out, it's not typical for presidents to necessarily criticize a court in the middle of their, you know, decision-making process on this. But this is not a typical president. And President Obama was very vocal about decisions he didn't agree with, calling them frustrating and other words. How do you believe the White House feels because they did say earlier this week they were incredibly confident that they will - they will prevail in this court fight in the Ninth Circuit? How does the White House feel today after that call with the justices yesterday?", "Poppy, I think it's clear the White House is less confident now. And, interestingly, if you wind the clock back 12 hours or so, administration officials at the time said that they intended to hold off until there was a ruling before they commented. Well, then this morning we see the president giving these very strong, really unprecedented remarks here. So I think it is clear that he read the morning newspapers and saw the morning news coverage and there was a lot of skepticism in that hearing last night of his law. So he's clearly trying to litigate this in the court of public opinion. You know, even if he does not win the ruling last night, he clearly wants to take this case to the public. And I think as David said, he does make an argument here that really resonates with, a, a lot of his supporters, but perhaps even others here about the threat. But, Poppy, I was struck by the language near the very end of this speech. Something that we don't hear presidents say usually. We are seeing a new president here who has been receiving security briefings and, of course, mostly every day, these classified briefings, and he said, \"I've learned a lot in the last few weeks. Terrorism is far worse. We will take care of it.\" Now, he may just be trying to make the argument for his travel ban here, but that is something we do not hear presidents talk about a lot. Usually they reassure the public. That's a stark comment that he made there that we do not know if he's talking about a new and emerging threat. We don't know if he's talking about, you know, threats that have been sort of the same throughout the Obama administration. But I was struck by that remark.", "And that's a really important point, David Chalian, back to you, because in the initial response from the Department of Justice to the temporary restraining order, what they said is that the courts are not privy to information that is classified. Only the president is privy to that information.", "That's right. Clearly the president is privy to information that the courts don't have. And Jeff is right to note that difference in tone of sort of leaning into the fear instead of assuaging concerns. I thought he did that a little earlier in his remarks as well when he - remember when he was talking about how Secretary Kelly at Homeland Security was putting this into place, and that Donald Trump was considering whether or not he could wait a little while longer, but that a week into his term was about all he felt he could wait or otherwise bad people were going to get in. That doesn't quite match up with all the vetting procedures that were already in place. Very difficult within a week's time or two weeks' time to have a terrorist without proper vetting get into this country. But Donald Trump, again, leaning into the fear factor said this had to happen on a very accelerated timeline.", "David Chalian, thank you so much. Jeff Zeleny, thank you so much. We appreciate it. Let's bring in our panel. Tony Blinken is with us, former deputy secretary of state. Senator Rick Santorum joins us again, CNN political commentator. Laura Coates is with us, our legal analyst. And Maria Cardona, a Democratic strategist and a political commentator as well. Let me begin with you, Mr. Blinken, because I think what's very interesting, Ken Cuccinelli, the former A.G. of Virginia, said last night on this network that, you know, it is a brilliant move on the part of the Trump administration to bring up the fact and to argue the fact that it was the Obama administration under your time in the State Department that made this list of these seven countries, these seven Muslim majority countries that they have used in this travel ban. He called that a brilliant move. How do you see it?", "Well, look, first, Poppy, I think it's important to say that what we just heard was deeply troubling. The president put himself above the law. He suggested that there is no judicial review of what the executive does. When President Nixon did that, it was wrong and dangerous. When President Trump does it, it's wrong and dangerous. He questioned the impartiality of the judges. He called yesterday's hearing disgraceful when in fact it was a tribute to our democracy. And he called it a sad day. Well, I have to say, today was a sad day listening to the president attack its judiciary once again. It's doing its job. As to the seven countries, look, there's been a lot of misinformation about this. This goes back to San Bernardino. After the San Bernardino attack, Congress - some in Congress tried to shut down the admission of refugees, shut down immigration. The Obama administration had to negotiate with them. And we focused on trying to close a loophole that allowed people who had passports from four of those seven countries initially, but also passports from countries that were allowed to send their citizens to us without a visa, countries like the United Kingdom. We cut - we shut down that loophole to make sure that they had to get a visa if they were also citizens of those seven countries, initially four. That's what was going on. There was no ban. There was no shutdown on refugees, no shutdown on immigration. And there's a good reason for that. Right now the president and the administration have to show two things in this case. They have to show that there was no ill intent in this order, that is that it was not designed to discriminate against Muslims. Second, they need to show that there was an actual threat. And everything we know about the refugee program and the immigration program is that that's not the threat that we're facing. There has not been a single American killed by a terrorists coming from one of those seven countries or from the refugee program going back beyond 9/11.", "Senator Santorum, your response? I know that you said to us at the start of the program that you're not supportive of some of the word choices the president has used. This just is not the first time or the second time that he has, you know, taken on the judiciary branch, that he has criticized justices. He did it during the campaign. He did it again last week, calling the judge in Washington state, the federal judge, a \"so-called judge.\" And now he is saying - he's praising the judge that sided with his administration in Boston and then lambasting the other justices and calling it a disgrace. Do you agree with the president on that?", "Well, let me make one point first, which is, there have been 60 convictions, from what I've read, from - from - of people coming from those countries through those - through the programs. So the comment that there hasn't been anybody that's been, you know, that's been problematic coming from these countries is not true. Number two, these are all countries where proper vetting is near impossible. We - either there is no government that we can cooperate with or the government is incredibly hostile to us. So the idea that this is some - some ridiculous program, finding these particular seven states, seven nations, is somehow, you know, not - not based on any kind of reality of how difficult it is to vet those things is simply not true. On your broader question on Trump's behavior, look, I - am I concerned when the president says some of the things he says? Yes, I am concerned. I am -", "But I asked you specifically about this, senator.", "No,", "I mean does it concern you that he seems to be attacking repeatedly -", "Yes.", "The judiciary branch, an equal branch of government?", "Yes. Yes, it does concern me.", "OK.", "But at the same time, what also concerns me, and it - and simply hasn't been made, and one of the reasons that I'm giving him a little bit broader leeway than I - than at times I'm comfortable with, is the fact that the judiciary has been overreaching, has been using its power to overrule and override both Congress and the president on a routine basis and putting themselves above the law. And what President Trump was saying today is the law is pretty clear about broad authority of the president when it comes to these things and -", "Yes, although - except, Senator Santorum, there's a part of the law that he left out, intentionally or unintentionally, I don't know, you'd have to ask the president that. But, Laura Coates, what he didn't talk about is the 1965 change that was made. And what is really in contrast to 1182, which he read. What - you know, the part of the law that came in 1965 reads that no person shall receive any preference or priority to be discriminated against in the issuance of an immigrant visa because of the person's race, sex, nationality, place of birth or place of - or place of residence.", "But that's not mentioned in the order. It's not mentioned in the order.", "Let me just have Laura Coates respond to that. These two things, what the president read, and then what changed in 1965 in the U.S. law are in conflict with one another.", "No, they're not.", "They are. They are. Well, in fact, Congress did give authority to the president of the United States to try to limit entry to people he found detrimental. But they limited that power. What President Trump seems to be conveying to the world is that he has no idea what the Ninth Circuit's role is in this case. The Ninth Circuit's role is this, the district court already said that the ban has been suspended and it's nationwide. The limited role of the Ninth Circuit now is simply to say, please tell us the reason why the federal government would be harmed if we return to the status quo of the vetting that was in place prior to the travel ban. And the government has no response to that. And why? Because they have not been able to articulate why, although the Obama administration named those seven countries previously, why there is an existing, not hypothetical threat, that would force the Justice Department - the judiciary to reverse the ban once again. That is the key here. The judges are doing their job. They are not deciding the constitutionality at this point. They're simply saying, listen, there's confusion. I'm not going to keep flipping and flopping for the nation and international benefit here if I don't have a reason to know that there is not a hypothetical but a real live threat. We're not there at the constitutionality. But if you get there, I think you will find that there is in fact the establishment clause violations, and what you've just talked about, Poppy, in terms of not being able to discriminate on national origin.", "Just one - one final thing to button this up, Laura Coates, because the - at the same time the justices did ask the administration and the lawyer representing the administration, Judge Michelle Friedland asked right out of the gate, can the government point to any evidence, quote, \"connecting these countries with terrorism.\" You know, what was your overall read because that's at the crux of the government's argument. What was your overall read on where the three justices fell on that point?", "Well, we know that, Poppy, one is leaning in favorite of Washington state, one is leaning in favor of the federal government, and one is kind of maybe the swing vote, that's Canby. But how you actually read that - you think about what the Ninth Circuit's role is, they're not second-guessing the risk assessment by the president of the United States. They're simply saying, we know the president has the prerogative to deny entry. But you also have to be limited to the fact that we are trying to know if we should reverse and reinstate the ban. In order to do that, you have to articulate whether or not there is an actual, present risk, and the government could not make that case as of yet. Now, there is the confidentiality and the classified nature of documents and that may be the case. But the DOJ lawyer did not raise that point, leaving us all to wonder, is this a pretext for religious discrimination or was it in fact an issue of national security.", "All right, guys, stay with me. Maria Cardona, I know I didn't get to you. I've got to get a break in. You'll be with me on the other side. Tony Blinken, Senator Santorum, Laura Coates, Maria Cardona, thank you very much. We're going to take a quick break. The next hour of NEWSROOM is right after that."], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "TRUMP", "TRUMP", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HARLOW", "DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR", "HARLOW", "ZELENY", "HARLOW", "CHALIAN", "HARLOW", "TONY BLINKEN, FORMER DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE", "HARLOW", "RICK SANTORUM, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "HARLOW", "SANTORUM", "I - HARLOW", "SANTORUM", "HARLOW", "SANTORUM", "HARLOW", "SANTORUM", "HARLOW", "SANTORUM", "HARLOW", "SANTORUM", "LAURA COATES, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "HARLOW", "COATES", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-182124", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-3-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1203/05/cnr.01.html", "summary": "4.0 Earthquake in California; Ohio Not Seeking Federal Help; 21 Killed in Kentucky Alone; Obama, Super Tuesday Involves 10 states; Candidates Vie for 419 Delegates", "utt": ["Good morning, Soledad. Thanks so much. We are following that breaking news out of San Francisco. San Francisco, California, the U.S. Geological Society confirms a 4.0 magnitude earthquake near Richmond. That's about 15 miles north of Oakland. CNN's Dan Simon is near there. He joins us live by phone. What can you tell us?", "Hi, Carol. It was a pretty sharp jolt this morning. Nice wake-up call for us here in the East Bay of California. You know -- excuse me, about a 4.0 magnitude. Again this is a very sharp jolt. It was really short. Only lasted for a few seconds. From what we understand, no damage. But, yes, very unsettling this morning, about 5:30 this morning -- Carol.", "Unsettling but I dare say Californians are pretty used to this, right?", "We've very used to it. But anytime it happens, you know, this early in the morning, people are a little bit more unsettled, you know, as people are going to work, getting ready, you know, for their -- for their day. We know that it's standard operating procedure for them to check, you know, bridges and things like that and the subway system. And from what -- again, from what we understand no damage at all.", "All right, Dan Simon. Thanks so much. Like a war zone or an end of the world movie. That's how people are describing devastating tornadoes that tore through the Midwest and the south. Here's the latest for you. The violent storms are now blamed for 39 deaths in five states. More than 650 National Guard troops are now on the ground in two of the hardest hit states, Kentucky and Indiana. FEMA has also dispatched teams to those states to begin damage assessment. But even with all of the damage we've seen, one state is holding off on asking for federal help. The Ohio governor, John Kasich, he says first the state wants to assess the damage for themselves before asking the Obama administration for assistance. CNN's Athena Jones is in tornado-ravaged Henryville, Indiana. Athena, I want to start with the Ohio governor's decision not to ask federal authorities to come into the states to survey the damage and why he did that.", "Well, from what we understand, Carol, the idea -- there's not as much damage in Ohio as there is here in Indiana. As you can see behind me, just this bus through this home. And so Ohio authorities right now are assessing the damage themselves. They believe at the moment that they are going to be able to handle it. But of course, that could change at any moment. So they are holding off. And what we understand, they are holding off on asking for federal help until they know that they need it, until they know they can't handle it themselves. As you know, the president, President Obama, has spoken with the governors of each of the affected states, and said that FEMA stands at the ready. The federal government and his administration is monitoring the situation. And they stand ready to help with anything that they are asked. They want to make sure that any unmet needs are met. They can help meet them. But right now, the Ohio governor hasn't asked for help but that could change at any moment -- Carol.", "I know. The reason I ask you that is because there are liberal blogs out there attacking the Republican governor of Ohio, who say that, you know, he's not allowing federal authorities to come in because of some political reason.", "Well, certainly you can see politics can come into play here when you think about the idea of smaller government, the idea in many states they want to see a smaller federal government. They want to be able to handle things themselves on the state level, whether it's disaster relief or schools or health care or other issues. And so in some way, if that -- we don't know yet if ultimately the Ohio governor isn't going to ask for aid, but that may be something that's coming into play, the whole idea that a governor of a state will say, we want to handle it ourselves. We don't want the federal government to help because we believe in small government. That's certainly one of the political themes we've seen a lot in recent years -- Carol.", "Indiana is a different story, though. The damage is more widespread there. FEMA is already on the ground, right?", "That's right. And we also have about 250 National Guard troops who have been deployed here to help out. We just actually saw a Red Cross van go by offering disaster relief and assistance. And we've seen a lot of people coming together, whether it's churches or disaster relief organizations coming together to gather goods and water, food, anything that people need to try to help people out. But you can see around me here this school bus ran into this building here. This was a restaurant. The owners there, they've leased it just for the last month. We spoke -- yesterday with the woman whose parents actually started the restaurant some 20 years ago. It changed location a few times and it moved here. This restaurant had only been open for about a month. Next to me there's also a lot of damage at an auto body shop. You can still see some of the cars underneath the damage. And of course the snow that's fallen overnight doesn't make things any easier when you've got this much debris to go and collect. And so that's what they are going to be dealing with here today. We spoke with the state police a little bit earlier today. They say that about half this town of Henryville now has electricity and gas. But of course you can see that there are a lot of these buildings that no one is going to be in them anyway. And so there's not a lot of activity right now. But we expect more or less more electrical workers and more cleanup to go on today -- Carol.", "All right. Athena Jones reporting live from Henryville, Indiana. A Kentucky town nearly wiped out -- by some powerful storm -- by a powerful storm system, I should say, is facing a new problem this morning. Meteorologist Rob Marciano is following that part of the story. He's in West Liberty, Kentucky. Good morning, Rob.", "Good morning, Carol. The only vehicles that have been in this area still emergency vehicles and a lot of power vehicles, power company vehicles. Residents still not allowed to come here. There goes another power company truck. They are trying to string some lights. At least get some juice going on here because power and communication, that's -- those have been the two biggest obstacles here in West Liberty. There haven't been many buildings that have gone untouched. At one point, this storm was a mile in width. Only the most sturdy standing buildings like that one down there, that's the courthouse, cement and brick, they have actually just spent a ton of money renovating that. So that's heartbreaking to see the damage there. But the problem with the snow, and it's still snowing now. We got about three inches of snow on the ground. It eased up, but now it's snowing again. When snow covers debris like this, nails, glass, shards, sharp pieces of metal, that's dangerous to begin with. Now it's hidden, it's slick, and it's cold. So dangerous again, residents won't be allowed to back in here today. They've got heavy equipment to come in here. We caught up yesterday with a CNN Hero who leads a response team cleaning up debris with specially designed equipment just for storm debris.", "Time is of the essence. You know, there's a lot of people that live in this small country town. They want to get back in here. They want to get to their home sites. They are looking for photos, important documents, anything they can salvage. But they can't actually get through the roads and so we're going to have to clear those roads. And we want them to be safe. This truck is specifically designed just to handle storm debris.", "No kidding.", "It's got a crane mounted on the back of it. And in the front of the crane, it's got a huge claw that can come out of this large box and actually grab storm debris because storm debris is very tricky to deal with. After a tornado takes a home or a commercial building or like what we have here, a bank, it just twists everything together. And it's very hard to handle. So you need claws to specifically grab the debris.", "Yes. It's tricky. Trickier now that we've got snow piled up on top of that. One of the other reasons they're not letting people in, Carol, today is because not only the snow, but they're going to start demolishing some of these buildings. I mean there's just no sense in keeping them around. And on the main street, that's really closely packed and tight, you just have -- it's tough to get around. So West Liberty, Kentucky, one of the hardest hit with this. The state of Kentucky, the hardest hit, 21 of the 39 fatalities in this state, and they are reeling. The worst outbreak here since at least 1974 -- Carol.", "And snow on top of it. Thank you, Rob. To find out more on how you can help those affected by the tornadoes, go to CNN.com/impact. There you'll find all the organizations and ways you can help those in need. That's CNN.com/impact. Did you know tomorrow was Super Tuesday? I bet you did. There's a lot at stake in tomorrow's Super Tuesday primaries. A total of 419 delegates up for grabs. The GOP candidates are making a final push in the 10 states holding contests. The results could clarify the picture for a nominee. Our political editor Paul Steinhauser joins me now. I know you have some new polls, but do you really think this will be the definitive answer as to who the nominee will be?", "Not the definitive answer, but if Mitt Romney has a very good night, Carol, if he does have a very good night, I think it gives him some more daylight, some room between him and the other, other rivals for the GOP nomination. And, yes, I do have new polls and we're going to start with Ohio because of course you know that state very well.", "I do.", "Listen, not all Super Tuesday states are created equal. Ohio seems to be the most crucial. Take a look at this, brand new from Quinnipiac University, it came out this morning. Look at the numbers on the left. For the first time, a brand-new poll has Mitt Romney on top, three points over Santorum. That's within the sampling error basically all knotted up. But look what it was a week ago, Rick Santorum had a seven-point lead. So we're really seeing momentum shift to Mitt Romney. Let's go to Tennessee, a southern state, one without Newt Gingrich, so it's kind of more evenly up for grabs. And Rick Santorum, you know, he used to have a double-digit lead in Tennessee. Now down to just four points, which again basically all knotted up. So I guess the theme here in a a bunch of these states is momentum moving to Mitt Romney.", "Why do you think that is?", "A couple of reasons. A lot of ads. Him and the super PAC that's supporting him has been blanketing these states with ads. Santorum, Gingrich, Paul not really keeping up. But also those wins last week in Michigan and Arizona are helping. Momentum really an important factor in this race for the nomination.", "What about endorsements? Because Mitt Romney got a big endorsement from Eric Cantor. And Eric Cantor was on \"STARTING POINT\" this morning and here's what he had to say.", "Well, Mitt Romney is really the only man in the race who has a plan, a bold pro growth plan, to create jobs and get this economy back on track. And this is a central issue for this election. It is about how we're going to make the economy better, how we're going to get small businesses back in gear to begin in gear to begin to grow jobs.", "OK. You know how I feel about endorsements. I don't think they much matter. But he is a big Tea Party guy, Eric Cantor, and the Tea Party hasn't been exactly supportive of Mitt Romney. So could this help him as well?", "You just nailed it. I don't need to talk. You just nailed that one. Seriously. Endorsements really don't matter that much this cycle, but, yes, you add the endorsement by Cantor, you add the endorsement by Senator Coburn of Oklahoma, another very conservative, and it could help Romney with a part of the base he has not really done very well with.", "Well, is part of the reason that Rick Santorum's surge has sort of ended because of the things he said about a college education, about Barack Obama being a snob for wanting to send your kids to college, or have, you know, extra education at the end of high school? I mean do those things matter in a state of -- in a state like Ohio?", "Yes. And in a state like Ohio where it's more about the economy, it may, may hurt Rick Santorum. In a state like Tennessee or Oklahoma where social conservatives are so important, even here in Georgia, as well, it may help Rick Santorum. I'll tell you one thing, though, if Santorum does end up winning Ohio, we'll be talking very differently on Wednesday morning, won't we?", "Yes, we will. Paul Steinhauser, I know you're going to stick around. Thanks so much. Tomorrow, Super Tuesday, noon Eastern. Join us online. Wolf Blitzer and CNN's political team will host the \"CNN Election Roundtable.\" It's an insider chat on the implications of Tuesday's results on the presidential race. That's at CNN.com/roundtable. Then join us here on CNN tomorrow night when the votes start coming in. We'll start with the special edition of \"JOHN KING, USA\" at 6:00 Eastern followed at 7:00 with complete live coverage of results. Coming up this morning, the debate over Iran's nuclear program. President Obama urges diplomacy. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning a possible military strikes. In the next hour the men search for common ground."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on the phone)", "COSTELLO", "SIMON", "COSTELLO", "ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "JONES", "COSTELLO", "JONES", "COSTELLO", "ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "TAG AGOGLIA, FIRST RESPONSE TEAM OF AMERICA", "MARCIANO", "AGOGLIA", "MARCIANO", "COSTELLO", "PAUL STEINHAUSER, CNN POLITICAL EDITOR", "COSTELLO", "STEINHAUSER", "COSTELLO", "STEINHAUSER", "COSTELLO", "REP. ERIC CANTOR (R-VA), HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER", "COSTELLO", "STEINHAUSER", "COSTELLO", "STEINHAUSER", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "NPR-42176", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-07-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5543548", "title": "Pope's Visit Highlights Spanish Gap with Church", "summary": "Pope Benedict XVI visits Valencia for a conference on the family. Spain, once a bastion of conservative Catholicism, has undergone a series of political and social reforms led by the new socialist government.", "utt": ["Pope Benedict XVI traveled to Valencia, Spain today for an international gathering on family values. The Pope fears those values are most at risk precisely in the conference's host country. The Vatican has sharply criticized the socialist government's introduction of liberal laws that defy Catholic church doctrine.", "NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Valencia.", "Spain's state/church relations have been severely strained since the government of this traditionally Catholic country legalized same sex marriage, endorsed embryonic stem cell research, and restricted religious education in schools.", "Benedict addressed the gay marriage issue with reporters during the flight here.", "(Through Translator) It is true that Christian life says no to. We want to make people understand that according to human nature, it is a man and a woman who are made for each other and made to give humanity a future.", "A large crowd of cheering children wearing the Vatican colors, white and yellow, welcomed the Pope.", "At the arrival ceremony, Spanish King Juan Carlos stressed the inclusive and democratic nature of Spanish society.", "(Through Translator) The Spain that welcomes you is a modern, dynamic country, pluralist and diverse, which in the last decades has experienced its longest period of modernization and prosperity in an atmosphere of harmony, mutual respect, and democratic co-existence.", "Although church attendance has dropped sharply and polls show that two-thirds of Spaniards approve same sex marriage, Catholic officials have been using the family conference as a platform to challenge the government's liberal agenda.", "Yesterday, the secretary of the Spanish bishop's conference, Juan Antonio Martinez Camino(ph), asserted that in Spain marriage has been legally broken.", "Cardinal William Leveda(ph), head of the Vatican theological watchdog, went further, saying every citizen is obliged not to follow immoral laws.", "Church officials are also angry that the government sponsored a rival event here last week on family diversity.", "But this afternoon, Benedict met with Prime Minister Jose Rodriguez Zapatero(ph). The encounter was not broadcast live. Conference organizers cited security matters as the official reason.", "Later, TV footage showed a relaxed and smiling Benedict chatting with Zapatero. The Pope could be heard saying, Let's hope we find the right solutions.", "In all his speeches today, Benedict returned to the fundamental importance of the family.", "(Through Translator) I wish to set forth a central role for the church and for society, proper to the family based on marriage. The family is a unique institution in God's plan and the church cannot fail to proclaim and promote its fundamental importance.", "Church officials have been hoping for a turn-out of one and a half million people to see the Pope. Tens of thousands lined Valencia's streets today, and many more are expected to arrive for tomorrow's closing mass. However, not everyone in Valencia has been happy with the nine day conference, whose cost has been estimated at more than $30 million, a large portion paid by the local conservative government. And a shadow has hung over the conference since a subway accident here on Monday that killed 42 people. Benedict went to the crash site this morning to lay a wreath and pray for the victims.", "Sylvia Poggioli, NPR News, Valencia."], "speaker": ["DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI reporting", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI reporting", "POPE BENEDICT XVI", "POGGIOLI", "POGGIOLI", "King JUAN CARLOS (Spain)", "POGGIOLI", "POGGIOLI", "POGGIOLI", "POGGIOLI", "POGGIOLI", "POGGIOLI", "POGGIOLI", "POPE BENEDICT XVI", "POGGIOLI", "POGGIOLI"]}
{"id": "CNN-56641", "program": "CNN TALKBACK LIVE", "date": "2002-6-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/27/tl.00.html", "summary": "Is the Pledge of Allegiance Unconstitutional?; Is Cyberspace Open Space for Terrorists?", "utt": ["Hi everybody. We're going to talk some more about the Pledge of Allegiance and whether Michael Newdow had the point when he filed suit over the words \"under God.\" I know you're going to weigh in on that. And also the Supreme Court OK'd school vouchers. Now teachers unions and public school officials are reeling. So should taxpayer dollars be used for private education? We're going to talk about what investigators also found inside al Qaeda computers. Is cyberspace a weak spot in America's defense against terror? I know you can't wait to talk about that, either. And we're going to be talking a lot about that on TALKBACK LIVE.", "I pledge allegiance to the flag...", "... of the United States of America...", "... and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God...", "Emotions erupt like the Fourth of July after the Pledge of Allegiance is ruled unconstitutional.", "It seems like we've lost our freedom as a country to express our feelings about God.", "I hope my grandma doesn't see this, but I don't think you should make kids talk about God in school.", "It says \"under God.\" It's religion that I don't agree with, and there's not suppose to be religion at all", "You're a dead man walking, man. Somebody's going to kill you.", "Also: school vouchers get a nod from the Supreme Court.", "This was the Super Bowl for school choice, and the kids won.", "And is al Qaeda poised to use the Internet as a tool of terror?", "Well, the whole country is riled up over those powerful little words \"under God.\" The entire Senate showed up for morning prayer today and nearly a full House recited the Pledge of Allegiance.", "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.", "Well consider this, even soldiers fighting in Afghanistan have weighed in on the decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to expel the Pledge of Allegiance from schools. And Michael Newdow, the man whose lawsuit fueled this firestorm, is getting death threats. Newdow makes this point.", "The issue was whether or not government should be putting this stuff in the middle of the school. If it were \"one nation under Mohammed,\" would everyone say, oh, that's fine, just don't say it, to all their children? I doubt it.", "Everyone is so ready to talk about this. Let's talk about our guests. We're going to be joined shortly by California Republican Congressman Chris Cox. He's getting wired up right now; and Reverend Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He's an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Good afternoon Reverend Lynn. Thanks for joining us.", "Nice to be here.", "Lay out your opinion on this. What was your reaction to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals?", "Well, frankly I think it's a good decision. I think it's one that understands very clearly that the right that's perhaps most important in our Bill of Rights is the right of conscience. Whether one person is offended or 500,000, this country does not have an orthodoxy and official position on religion, and we shouldn't. Back in 1954 when the Congress added the words \"under God\" to the pledge, they turned what was a powerful political and patriotic message into an affirmation of religion. It was a great Pledge of Allegiance. I wish we'd go back to it the way it was written in 1892 before these words were added. They turned it from something that unified to something that divided us along religious grounds. Now the gentleman who brought this case happens to be an atheist, but there are other people who are deeply religious who simply don't believe we should mix government policy and religion, and that Congress shouldn't be writing proposals that suggest we should believe in one particular God. I think that, frankly, some people have overestimated what this does. It does not stop any school child or any American from saying those words. It simply stops the schoolteachers in eight states in the West from adding it, reciting it, expecting children to recite it as well.", "Reverend, we've got Lisa (ph) from New York on the telephone. Lisa (ph), what do you think about what the Reverend is saying here?", "I agree completely with the Reverend. I think that adding in the name of God into government things is divisive. I'm a religious person. I have no problem with my own beliefs and doing it on my own time, but when it comes to our school systems and our government, I don't think there's a place. I know this is a very sensitive subject, but I think it's very divisive to have that in there. I think we should go back, as the Reverend said, to the prior Pledge of Allegiance. I'm extremely patriotic, but even after 9/11 when everything was \"God Bless America,\" \"God Bless America,\" it sounded that it wasn't about that. That's a whole war. The whole thing, everything that's happening is about God and religion and how much violence can come from that.", "Let's take a poll here in the room. How many people here agree with Lisa (ph) and with the Reverend right now, by your applause.", "Yes, half-hearted, a little tepid. Let me bring in Representative Chris Cox, who's wired up now. Congressman Cox, what is your reaction to this? I would take it that you disagree.", "Well, I was just very much surprised. For 10 years before I joined the United States Congress, I practiced law, and I thought I knew something about the law. And this decision came as a surprise. The Supreme Court has been asked before to consider questions such as this, and they specifically have mentioned both the Pledge of Allegiance and our motto, our nation's motto, \"In God We Trust,\" and the Supreme Court has said that they don't think that this is an establishment clause problem. And so for this case to show up as it did rather surprisingly, I think it just caught everyone off guard. In the House of Representatives, of course, the Speaker of the House stands beneath that motto and, in fact, we start each day with a prayer. Legislative prayer has gone all the way to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court has ruled that it does not violate the establishment cause. So the question's really not so much whether it's a good idea. I think a lot of your participants in this discussion are reacting to whether they think it's a good idea or not to have this motto or to have God in the pledge, but rather the question is what's the law in this country, and can it be changed really", "Well, can they? Because the Justice Department is reviewing this decision, and pressure is going to be on to make sure that if this does go to the Supreme Court, that the government's position is loud and clear on this, or at least the Bush administration.", "Well, that's right. And of course the first-named defendant in this case was the United States Congress, and so I'm a defendant in the case. And I expect that the United States Congress will join with the United States Department of Justice in petitioning for a rehearing of this case. I think it's extremely likely that the case will be reheard by a bigger panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.", "No...", "Go ahead Reverend Lynn.", "One of the things the Pledge of Allegiance was said by members of Congress, some members of Congress yesterday, but not everybody showed up and in fact it's very rare for members of Congress to show up for the pledge or for the prayer that's given by the chaplain of the House that we pay, I think, $150,000. So it strikes me just a little bit without commenting personally -- I don't know the congressman terribly well about what's in his heart, but I did find it odd that yesterday virtually nobody showed up for the prayer or the pledge and now today when they know it's going to be on television all day, they all show up. It just suggests to me and I hope I'm not being too cynical here, that a lot of members of Congress I regret to say are playing politics once again with religion, just as they did two years ago when they were passing all these proclamations to post the 10 Commandments in every government building. I think their constituents probably would prefer that they obey the 10 Commandments, that they believe in their own conscience and not just show up and pray when they know they're going to be on television or when it suits some political purpose. That's how we got those words \"under God\" into the pledge. It was in the height of the McCarthy Era. Some people wanting to be politically correct in the time said you know, it's not enough to affirm that we're patriots. We have to say that in order to be a patriotic American, you really have to believe in God, and I resist that idea, and I think the tens of thousands of Americans who have served in peace and war in this country who didn't have a religious viewpoint are just as patriotic, should be able to say a pledge to their country...", "But Reverend Lynn...", "... without taking a position on religion.", "... what is so threatening about these two words, which frankly over time now, have been taken for granted as a matter of tradition. God is not necessarily a figure of religion, but really more a symbol of a greater -- a greater good that you may believe in. You know it could be your...", "Sure.", "... sports car in California for all I know.", "Well if I believed that, I would agree with you, but I think that every time we invoke the name of God we are saying something of importance that God never loses his true meaning. God never becomes just some kind of a word we use, a symbol. It is an important word. That's precisely why when we say \"God is the leader of this country, overarches this country,\" that is something that is a religious comment. That's why Congress should never have got involved in this. It's not up to Congress to figure out what God we should worship, how many, whether there should be any. That is not the province...", "All right...", "... of the United States Congress.", "... Reverend Lynn, hold that thought. Congressman Cox, we're going to get you into the dialogue here. We're also going to be taking questions from our audience, but it's a quick time for a break. There are so many people waiting to be heard on this. We're going to take the polls of the people in Miami right after this."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED GROUP", "UNIDENTIFIED GROUP", "UNIDENTIFIED GROUP", "LIN (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LIN", "LIN", "CONGRESSPERSONS", "LIN", "MICHAEL NEWDOW", "LIN", "REV. BARRY LYNN, AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE", "LIN", "LYNN", "LIN", "CALLER", "LIN", "LIN", "REP. CHRIS COX (R), CALIFORNIA", "LIN", "COX", "LYNN", "LIN", "LYNN", "LIN", "LYNN", "LIN", "LYNN", "LIN", "LYNN", "LIN", "LYNN", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-115107", "program": "YOUR WORLD TODAY", "date": "2007-3-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/07/ywt.01.html", "summary": "Iran, U.S. Vie for Control of Iraq Intelligence", "utt": ["Welcome back. You're with CNN International and", "A special welcome to our viewers in the United States. We're giving you some perspective that goes a little bit deeper into the stories of the day. Certainly the relations between Iran and the U.S. are cause for concern both in Washington and Tehran. And now...", "With Iraq in the middle, Iran has confirmed it will send a representative to Saturday's international conference on Iraq. It will be the first public encounter of U.S. and Iranian envoys since 2004.", "Now, we've got to be realistic. Representatives of the U.S. and Iran are going to be sitting face to face in Baghdad, yes, but it certainly won't be seeing eye to eye when it comes to the future of Iraq, and the strategies.", "Now, their latest conflict deals with control over Iraq's intelligence. As Michael Ware tells us, it's a battle the U.S. is in danger of losing.", "This is the face of the intelligence wars here, an Iraqi officer unable to show his identity amid the shambles of his agency's southern headquarters. It was stormed not by insurgents or Shia militia, but by coalition troops and Iraqi special forces who suspect he's working for another side. It's a scene far from the other Iraq war on TV screens of roadside bombs, suicide attacks and firefights. This is a conflict waged in the hidden world of espionage, between intelligence agencies sponsored by the CIA and Iran. It's about who controls Iraqi intelligence. And it's a battle the U.S. risks losing. It's all here in this document from Iraq's National Security Council. In these pages, the blueprint for the nation's new intelligence community. A blueprint that would merge all intelligence gathering under Iraqi government control, a government heavily influenced by Iran. It would be a damaging blow to the CIA, which since the fall of Saddam's regime has built its largest station in the world here. U.S. intelligence sources tell CNN the agency has around 500 offices. More than the CIA presence in Saigon during the Vietnam War. At stake is control of an organization ensconced inside this heavily-defended building, the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, or INIS. It's headed by this man, Mohammed Abdullah Shehwani, a man so secretive, this is one of the few known photographs of him. Appointed three years ago by the U.S., military and intelligence sources say Shehwani's INIS is funded completely by the CIA. Though an Iraqi agency, not one cent comes from the government in Baghdad. Top Iraqi government officials complain the agency is beyond Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's control. But now the Shia-led government is trying to assert that control. Shehwani, currently under Iraqi government investigation over unspecified corruption allegations, has not been seen in the country for at least three months. U.S. ally and former prime minister Ayad Allawi says Shehwani is being unfairly targeted.", "I don't know whether it's an attack on the U.S. intelligence, but definitely it's an attack, a political attack against Shehwani.", "One of Shehwani's rivals is this man, Shirwan al-Wa'eli, Iraq's minister for national security, here on a recent tour of Baghdad neighborhoods. He leads the agencies that over the past two years, according to U.S. intelligence, has grown to almost 3,000 operatives. The goal, to compete with the CIA. And under the new intelligence plan, this agency is set to grow even more, with the minister applauding his relationship with Iran and distancing himself from the", "Multinational forces are in Iraq. And they're supportive on the security issue. And we have a good relationship with them. But we do not bargain Iraq to any side. The Americans give us only moral support, not logistical support.", "While the CIA-backed agency suffers, this ministry has become an intelligence organization the American government and its allies never meant it to be. CNN's repeated requests for on-the-record comments from the U.S. military, embassy and intelligence agencies in Iraq went unanswered. Meanwhile, the intelligence plan is due to go to the Iraqi parliament. And what happens there may be every bit as important as the battles on the streets of Baghdad.", "All right. Well, Michael Ware joins us now live from Baghdad to follow up on his report. I suppose the question is, Michael, what are the long-term effects if Americans end up completely losing control of this intelligence apparatus in Iraq? What are the long-term effects for the U.S.?", "Well, this is strictly through the prism, Hala, of American interests. And in terms of everything that America has invested in this country, in terms of treasure and the blood of its service personnel, a lot is at stake. And in this story, what we're seeing is the lid being peeled off a secret world we rarely get to see. We see organizations the CIA created during the administration of U.S. pro-counsel Paul Bremer and forced upon the Iraqis. We then see them with the help of Iran develop a rival intelligence agency. This is for the future of Iraq's intelligence community.", "All right. Michael Ware, live in Baghdad. Thank you, Michael -- Jim.", "All right, coming up, we're going to head to New York to get the latest on business news.", "Now, can the Dow Jones build on its best one-day rally in months in the wake of higher oil prices? And then, we will take you to northern Ireland, where voters have a say in once and for all ending decades of political strife. You're with CNN. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["GORANI", "YOUR WORLD TODAY. CLANCY", "GORANI", "CLANCY", "GORANI", "MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "AYAD ALLAWI, FMR. IRAQ PRIME MINISTER", "WARE", "U.S. SHIRWAN KAMIL AL-WA'ELI, MINISTER OF STATE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY (through translator)", "WARE", "GORANI", "WARE", "GORANI", "CLANCY", "GORANI"]}
{"id": "CNN-133003", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2008-12-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0812/05/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Kate Winslet on Reuniting With Leonardo DiCaprio; TomKat Confessions", "utt": ["Look at us. We`re just like everyone else. We bought into the same ridiculous delusion, this idea that you have to settle down, resign from life.", "Leo and Kate are back together on the big screen. Tonight, Kate Winslet tells me what it was like working with Leonardo DiCaprio again in their new film, \"Revolutionary Road.\" Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York. Tonight, Kate Winslet`s \"Titanic\" reunion. It`s hard to believe, but it`s been more than a decade now since Kate and Leo co-starred in the blockbuster, \"Titanic.\" And now, they`re in the new film, \"Revolutionary Road.\" You`ve got to hear what Kate told me about the emotional reunion, her onscreen chemistry with Leo and what it was like with her husband directing the film right down to those steamy love scenes.", "It really means a lot to me to have been a part of this film and to have worked with my husband, Sam, who I`d never worked with before and to be teamed up again with Leo. You know, it`s been an emotional and moving experience for me to, you know, see new sides of both of these men. You know, my husband, Sam - I could guess at what kind of a director he was going to be like. And I imagined he was going to be wonderful but I hadn`t actually experienced being under his guidance. And it was so revealing to me in a really great way. Don`t come any closer. I`ll let go.", "No, you won`t.", "With Leo, you know, we`re the same people but we are also very different now. You know, it`s 12 years on. We`re both older, a lot older. And we`ve both changed and changed as people and changed as actors. And to have the chemistry that we have and the history that we share was really beneficial to us in portraying Frank and April and the onscreen chemistry we had to have in these new roles. Would you still be wasting away your life in a job you find ridiculous?", "Maybe you let that be my business, all right?", "Your business?", "Among the things that we see take place in \"Revolutionary Road,\" your characters seem sort of trapped by the American dream. Your husband`s got the job. You`ve got the great house in the suburbs. You`ve got the kids. But it`s not exactly the way both of you saw life planning it out. Are you like me? Do you feel like some people are going to walk out of this film, maybe do a little soul-searching about their own lives?", "I would hope so I think is the answer. Because, as you know, being a part of making movies is such an honor and a privilege. But one of the most exciting things is when it does make an audience go home and think. Even if it`s five minutes, you know, that really means a lot because at least you know that you managed to connect with an audience in some emotional way. I mean, I think it`s a portrait of a marriage. It`s a study of a marriage and it`s very honest and it`s very brutal in its honesty sometimes. And you don`t always see that on film.", "Just great performances from both Kate and Leo. \"Revolutionary Road\" lands in theaters the day after Christmas. Well, calls just keep on coming in to the \"Showbiz On Call\" phone lines about everything from Britney Spears` comeback to Tom Cruise`s new image makeover. We`ve got one call I`ve got to play for you. It`s from Michael in Michigan. He says Britney`s new tour is exactly what the doctor ordered.", "I believe in Britney. I`m a really big fan of hers. And I think that all that she needs to do is focus on her kids and her career, and I think she`ll be fine. I think she`s doing what she loves to do and that`s to perform and sing, you know. So I think it`s not too much too soon.", "Well, thank you for your call, Michael. Another story that people have been calling in to \"Showbiz On Call\" about, Tom Cruise`s interview with Barbara Walters where he said he has changed a lot since he jumped on Oprah`s couch so famously. We heard from Sam. Now, Sam says all that bad press Tom got for the couch-jumping, much ado about nothing.", "I think it`s really awful that people want to criticize him for jumping up and down on the sofa. He was happy. He was excited. It`s not as though that was the first time anyone ever was excited about being in love. And I don`t think that that was crazy.", "Sam, we thank you for calling in to \"Showbiz On Call.\" You, too, can give us a buzz to let us know what`s on your mind. Of course, the \"Showbiz On Call\" phone lines always open and available to you - 1-888-SBT- BUZZ. Put it on your speed dial, number one please - 1-888-728-2899. Leave the voicemail. We`ll play your call right here on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. And your calls to \"Showbiz On Call\" also now online on our homepage - that is, www.CNN.com/ShowbizTonight Well, now we`d like to hear from you for our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day. This is what we`re asking - \"Tom Cruise Back on Screen: Has he improved his image since the couch-jumping?\" You can vote at CNN.com/ShowbizTonight. Our E-mail dress address is showbiztonight@cnn.com. Well, speaking of Tom Cruise, wait until you hear the TomKat confessions coming up. Katie Holmes speaking out about whether she`s a wallflower who`s lost control of her life while Tom speaks out about everything about the couch-jumping to whether he and Katie are going to have more kids. TomKat confessions on the way. And Oprah speaking out on Michelle Obama -", "She is really herself. There`s no pretense there. She is the real, real, real deal.", "Oprah with big plans for Obama`s inauguration, even planning to move her show to D.C. for the whole week and plenty to say about the new first lady. What Oprah told SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, coming up. And look out, the YouTube divorce lady is back with another video but this time a music video. The song \"I`m Going Bonkers.\" And you`ve just got to see it for yourself coming up next."], "speaker": ["KATE WINSLET, ACTRESS", "HAMMER", "WINSLET", "LEONARDO DICAPRIO, ACTOR", "WINSLET", "DICAPRIO", "WINSLET", "HAMMER (on camera)", "WINSLET", "HAMMER", "MICHAEL, CALLER FROM MICHIGAN", "HAMMER", "SAM, CALLER", "HAMMER", "WINFREY", "HAMMER"]}
{"id": "NPR-15137", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2005-10-27", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4977583", "title": "Slate's Jurisprudence: Miers Drops Out", "summary": "Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers withdrew from the confirmation process Thursday morning after heavy criticism from both Democrats and Republicans, including far-right conservatives looking for a candidate that shares their views. Noah Adams speaks with Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick about Miers' decision and its political implications.", "utt": ["From NPR West, this is DAY TO DAY.  I'm Noah Adams.", "Our lead story is that Harriet Miers has withdrawn her candidacy for the      United States Supreme Court.  On the floor of the Senate earlier today,      Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist read from a written statement by Miers      outlining her reasons for withdrawing.", "`Repeatedly in the course of      the process of confirmation for nominees for other positions, I have      steadfastly maintained that the independence of the executive branch be      preserved and its confidential documents and information not be released      to further a confirmation process.  I feel compelled to adhere to this      position, especially related to my own nomination.  Protection of the      prerogatives of the executive branch and continued pursuit of my      confirmation are intentioned.  I have decided that seeking my      confirmation should yield.'", "This decision comes after heavy criticism of her nomination and      questions about her suitability for the job.  And with us now to talk      about all of this is Dahlia Lithwick, a legal analyst for the online      magazine Slate and for DAY TO DAY.  This issue, Dahlia, of executive      privilege, could it be a pretext here do you think?", "Oh, absolutely, Noah.  I think this was always lurking under the surface.      The only reason it came out now I think is because the nomination was is      in such trouble.  This was an idea floated by Charles Krauthammer, the      columnist, suggesting this was the, quote, \"exit strategy\" that could get      the Bush administration and Harriet Miers out and still save face rather      than have a fight about her character and qualifications.  We could have      a fight about constitutional prerogatives, whether the executive branch      or, in fact, the Senate Judiciary Committee could see those papers.  It's      a much more attractive fight than the fight about whether Harriet Miers      is a flaming liberal.", "Well, hardly a flaming liberal, but, nonetheless, this nomination      seemed to be in trouble almost from the time it was announced.  Remind us      of the early criticisms of Miers and where they came from.", "The first two strains of criticism actually came from the far      right, and they were, one, that she was a crony, that she had no      experience other than having essentially been in George Bush's employee      for the last 10 years and was fiercely loyal.  And as you'll remember,      there was a lot of talk--this is what the Federalist Papers warned      against--the president can't just, you know, pick his best friends and      put them into office.  The other thing that was immediately a problem      with this nomination was that she had no record.  The president tried to      talk in code about her.  He talked a lot about her heart.  He talked      about her religion, but he had no concrete evidence to point to the fact      that she was going to be the sort of reliable conservative that the far      right wanted.  So essentially they were expecting a far-right sort of      activist who was going to get on the court and overturn Roe v. Wade, and      instead of giving them that, the president gave them someone who he      promised, based on his own knowledge, would do that and that just was      never enough.", "Now a deep breath at the White House.  There are other      difficulties there at the end of this week, but when do you expect a new      name to come forward and who do you think that might be?", "The White House is saying it's going to be shortly.  Certainly      their short list now with Miers' name off it is still in place.  I think      that there's a good possibility, given that the base, the far political      right, really sort of smelled blood in the water and now they know how      much power they have over this nomination.  They're going to clamor for      the person they wanted in the first place.  So there's a very good chance      that we're going to see a Priscilla Owen from the 5th Circuit, a Janice      Rogers Brown from the DC Circuit, a Michael Luttig from the 4th Circuit.      All of those are names of people who are extremely reliable, predictable      conservatives who have said in one way or another and have long judicial      records to show that they're going to sort of start that right-wing      counter revolution on the Supreme Court that Bush's base has been waiting      for.", "In the meantime, Sandra Day O'Connor has to work a few more      months there.", "That's right, Noah.  She's certainly on the court, but it's      important to understand that once her replacement is seated, she can't      vote on cases.  Her replacement is going to have a tough time voting      because they didn't hear oral arguments.  So there's a real possibility      that O'Connor will be on the court and not voting, that the replacement      will have to rehear a lot of key cases later on this year.", "Dahlia Lithwick, legal analyst for the online magazine Slate and      for DAY TO DAY.", "Thank you, Dahlia.", "My pleasure, Noah."], "speaker": ["NOAH ADAMS, host", "NOAH ADAMS, host", "Senator BILL FRIST (Republican, Tennessee)", "NOAH ADAMS, host", "DAHLIA LITHWICK reporting", "NOAH ADAMS, host", "LITHWICK", "NOAH ADAMS, host", "LITHWICK", "NOAH ADAMS, host", "LITHWICK", "NOAH ADAMS, host", "NOAH ADAMS, host", "LITHWICK"]}
{"id": "CNN-223127", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-1-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1401/17/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Mutts get Respect at Iconic Dog Show", "utt": ["We just said happy birthday to Michelle Obama and we can't leave out Betty White. So happy birthday Betty White -- she turns 92 years old today. The Guinness Book of World Records says White has the longest TV career in history for a woman -- 74 years. In a recent interview with Parade.com White calls herself quote, \"The luckiest old broad on two feet\" for still being at work at showbiz. Happy birthday Betty. The mutts are finally getting some respect. The famous Westminster dog show is going to allow mixed breeds to compete but there are limits. Here is CNN's Jeanne Moos.", "You know the song --", "Who let the dogs out, who, who --", "Well, now, it is who let the mutts in. And the answer is that upper crust bastion of purebreds the dog show where pooches gets better treatment than people. (on camera): Did you hear that mutts are allowed in the Westminster dog show?", "I did not know that.", "Is that anything you care about?", "No, not really.", "Says the guy walking Dakota the purebred English setter. But if mutts got no respect at Westminster now they are going to get a little. They'll be allowed into an agility competition that takes place two days before the main event.", "It involves dogs that might not normally be seen at Westminster including mixed-breed dogs. We are excited to have them be a part of the family.", "Agility competitions are booming in popularity. I mean which would you rather watch, a dog getting picked up by his privates for judging or dogs madly dashing around an agility course over teeter- totters and through tunnels. It is even more fun when they just stop or when a lot of dog has to fit through a little space. Competition like this is what will be open to mixed breeds at Westminster next month. While they won't yet be allowed into the main events, at least mutts now have a paw in the door. Henry, give me your paw -- paw. You think mutts should be in Westminster?", "Of course. A dog is a dog right. So what if they're mutts?", "Why not have mutts?", "I'd watch that.", "As for purebreds like this spinone, you sound like an entre. How will purebreds react to mutts running amok? And it is not like these guys will care. They're not going to say -- hey that's a mutt. I don't want him in the show.", "Yes.", "Can't we all just get along.", "The idea that you can be a mutt and still have a life.", "Doggy diversity.", "Yes, exactly.", "Inclusivity.", "Right. For all.", "And though inclusivity won't extend to mutts competing for best in show, maybe having your hair done. What's the hair style called?", "The Snooki.", "-- isn't all it is cracked up to be. I mean mutts, do you really want your tail tickled to make it stand up. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.", "Awesome. The next hour of CNN NEWSROOM starts now. Good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. It has been a painful and jarring wakeup call for millions of Americans. There is no such thing as privacy when a skilled hacker wants your secret. Target customers learned that lesson over the holidays in a massive security breach for as many as 110 million people. Today there are new warnings and reports of possible ties to the Russian mob. Our Phil Black is in Moscow. He is reporting this morning the code is similar to what's being peddled on Russian-speaking Web sites. The other hackers work for our government. Next hour, President Obama announces reforms to the NSA and its massive spying programs that could have collected information on any of us. We will have more on the NSA in just a minute. But first, the latest on the Target investigation."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-200763", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-2-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/07/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Political Attack Ad Targets Ashley Judd; An American Hero", "utt": ["Forty-five minutes past the hour. Time to check our \"Top Stories\". Governor Chris Christie is telling a former White House physician she needs to shut up about his weight. It's because Dr. Connie Mariano said she was worried that Christie could die in office due to his weight. Christie pointed out she has not even examined him. Mariano says her comments were constructive. Karl Rove's conservative Super PAC has unleashed an attack ad against the actress Ashley Judd in Kentucky and she hasn't even said if she's going to run for Senate yet.", "Someone from out of state who understands us hillbillies.", "I don't know a lot of hillbillies who golf. Hillbillies, hillbillies, hillbillies --", "Her own grandmother says she's a Hollywood liberal, but isn't that what we need? Ashley Judd an Obama-following radical Hollywood liberal who is right at home here in Tennessee -- well, I mean Kentucky.", "Wow. Judd's family is from Kentucky but she later moved to Tennessee. The actress is considering a run for senate in Kentucky next year and would go up against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Parts of the northeast could get up to two feet of snow between Friday and Saturday in what's being called an historic storm. Blizzard warnings have been issued in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. You know some of the possible snow totals -- in some places snow could fall at a rate of two to three inches per hour. From the moment that U.S. troops arrived at Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan they knew they were at a disadvantage, those troops would become targets in one of the deadliest attacks in the war. The bravery of those troops is told in \"", "AN UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN VALOR\" by CNN anchor and Chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper. Jake is in New York to talk about his documentary on a hero from that battle. Good morning, Jake.", "Good morning, Carol. That's right one of the heroes of that battle, former Staff Sergeant Clint Romesha will be awarded the Medal of Honor on Monday at the White House by President Obama. We went to Minot, North Dakota, to talk to Romesha about the award and talk about serving at Combat Outpost Keating. What you need to understand and our listeners and viewers need to understand, is this camp was put at the bottom of three steep mountains which ultimately were teeming with Taliban fighters, so we talked about that in a special that will air at 10:00 tonight.", "Combat Outpost Keating was built in 2006. With so many troops and assets deployed to Iraq, those in Afghanistan had to make do. One part of the strategy was to build small outposts as the U.S. pushed into eastern Afghanistan. The location was a trap evident from the moment the Romesha's unit arrived in May 2009. (on camera): What was your first reaction?", "First reaction was I think the same as everybody that stepped foot on that COP is this is a pretty indefensible spot.", "I thought we were supposed to be on top of a mountain. This is crazy. I mean, that's how I felt, you know. Shooting up? But you just, I was there, you know, I can't be like this is stupid.", "This is a part of the world, the Hindu Kush mountain range where you're either on a mountain or in a valley. And in order to be near the local population and near the road so it could be re-supplied Combat Outpost Keating was put at the bottom of three steep mountains. (voice-over): Soldiers had been fatally attacked there before. In 2007, Private Chris Pfeiffer; in 2008, Camp Commander Captain Rob Yeskas; and near there, a different camp commander, Captain Tom Bostick. As lethal as its position was the outpost's terrain. The camp was named for Lieutenant Ben Keating killed when his truck rolled over the treacherous side of the road leading to the camp.", "I knew it was a bad spot and I knew that previous commanders had expired there but to set there and dig up every, you know, every little detail on it, you know, it just it wasn't healthy for -- for the guys to be -- to exposed to that kind of information.", "So your very first day at Combat Outpost Keating, there was an attack and a soldier with the platoon leaving, Shane Scherrer, got a massive head wound. Other guys got sprinkled with shrapnel.", "It also gave you that instant sense of you know we're not over here selling girl scout cookies, guys. You know we're -- we're in a real fight. Tapper: (voice-over): Romesha and his men knew it was not a question of if there would be a major attack but when.", "And Carol that attack finally came on October 3rd, 2009. 53 U.S. troops faced with up to 400 Taliban attacking on that day. And of course former Staff Sergeant Clint Romesha's actions on that day, his valor, his conduct is now -- are now going to result in him getting the Congressional Medal of Honor on Monday. The special airs tonight at 10:00. And Romesha is an inspiring man. And the story of that camp, a dramatic and inspiring story.", "Oh I can't wait to see it. Jake Tapper, thanks so much for joining us in the NEWSROOM, we appreciate it.", "Thank you, Carol.", "We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COSTELLO", "THE OUTPOST", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER (voice-over)", "SGT. CLINTON ROMESHA, U.S. ARMY (Ret.)", "PFC CHRIS JONES, U.S. ARMY (Ret.)", "TAPPER", "ROMESHA", "TAPPER", "ROMESHA", "TAPPER", "COSTELLO", "TAPPER", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-265328", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2015-09-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/24/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Pope Makes History With Speech Before Congress; Pope Says To Defend Human Life At Every Stage; King Reacts To Pope's Speech; Pope Gets Political In Congressional Speech; Pope Francis Gets Political; The Pope Visits Catholic Charities.", "utt": ["Pope Frances travels from the halls of power in Washington to the streets of the nation's capital to fellowship with the poor. The third day of the pope's visit to the United States was highlighted by a historic address to Congress and a visit to Catholic Charities in Washington. His speech to Congress began with the feel, really, of more like a presidential state of the union. Here's just a moment.", "Mr. Speaker, the pope of the holy sea.", "Now, Pope Francis is the first pontiff to speak before a joint meeting of Congress. He spoke before a packed House chamber, probably no surprise to anyone. He was flanked by, you saw it just there, vice president Joe Biden and the House speaker, John Boehner, both Catholics themselves. The pope touched on issues ranging from climate change and the death penalty to abortion and immigration. Listen.", "We, the people, of this continent, are not fearful of foreigners because most of us -- because most of us were once foreigners. I say this to you as the son of immigrants knowing that so many of you are also descendants from immigrants.", "Now, from Capitol Hill, the Pope visited St. Patrick's church and the Washington offices of Catholic Charities. Now, instead of having lunch with lawmakers, he actually met with the homeless and low income families who gathered for a meal provided by the charity. And later today, the Pope will be leaving Washington and heading here to New York to continue his U.S. tour. Let's take a much closer look at that historic speech by the pope before that joint session of Congress. Joining me now to discuss from Washington is Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash, Senior Washington Correspondent Jeff Zeleny and Our Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger. It's great to see all of you, especially on this amazing day. Dana, you were there. You were in there listening to all of this play out in person. You've been there many times before. This was so different. Give us a sense of what you saw, what you heard, what you sensed.", "It's funny that you put it to me that way, Kate, because I was thinking the same thing. It's easy for somebody like me. I have had the privilege of witnessing a lot of states of the union speeches, a lot of, you know, addresses to the -- to the joint meetings, heads of state, all kinds of things. This was something like I have never seen before. Obviously, it was historic. But it wasn't just that. More importantly, I was looking at this sea of lawmakers who also have good reason to be jaded because they have seen it all, many of them, and heard it all. But the way that the entire room was focused on what the pope was saying, hanging on every word, whether they agreed with what he was saying or not was something like I have never seen before. And it really -- you felt the gravity of the moment. You felt -- I mean, forgive me for saying this, but the spirituality of the moment. No matter what your faith is, no matter even if you have one or if you're atheist, you just -- you could feel it in the room.", "I think -- I don't think there's any forgiveness needed to feel that when the Pope, Dana, no matter what faith you are. And, Gloria, you were listening to it so closely. He also -- the Pope, in his speech, in a very often subtle and nuanced way, he touched on some very sensitive and politically contentious issues facing America right now. And one of them tied -- he tied the refugee crisis in Europe, also tying it to the immigration problem facing the country here at home. And this is part of what he said. I want to get your take on it. In part of the speech, he said this. On this continent, too, thousands of persons are led to travel north in search of a better life for themselves and for their loved ones, in search of greater opportunities. Is this not what we want for our child -- our own children? We must not be taken aback by their numbers but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation. What's your take on the way he addressed this issue that everyone was expecting him to hit on and wondering how he was going to do it?", "You know, we talk about a view from 30,000 feet. This is a cosmic view of the political issues that we're discussing today. You know, our political campaign is mired in what can be a very dark and nasty discussion about immigration and the presidential campaign. And what the Pope managed to do was take an issue that's become so polarizing and so political, and he said, just look at people's faces. Just understand that these are children. Just understand that the golden rule, do unto others as you -- as you would have done to you, et cetera, et cetera. So, he took kind of the cynicism, the polarization out of it, and he brought it to politicians in a way that we haven't been discussing in this country and who could disagree with what the Pope said?", "And that's an excellent point. And when you think of -- the question, of course, is, then, what is the impact of his words, Jeff? I mean, when you look at how immigration has become such a focal point, especially in the Republican primary. When you look at candidates like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio, their take on immigration. And in some way, it made me wonder, in a -- in a -- in a purely political sense, could the Pope's words offer them some amount of cover for their positions for pushing for immigration reform?", "Well, Kate, you certainly might think that today, because there certainly is a sense of bipartisanship, something that transcends that, actually. I'm with Dana. We've seen so many speeches here, but this was a different moment. I was standing here, just right in front of the House of Representatives, watching members of Congress from both parties, both chambers, standing side by side, waving to the Pope, trying to get a picture of the Pope. And I thought, wow, I wonder if this will transcend this divide. I think we're being too optimistic if we think that that's going to be the situation here. Talking to several Republicans, as I have afterward, and several Democrats, they said, look, it might help on the margins. It might help, you know, members talk about things with one another. How we frame things. But I just hope I'm not being too pessimistic by saying I really think we're going to be back at the same sort of level of rhetoric that we have been, you know, leading up to this. But that doesn't mean that the speech and this day is not important.", "Right.", "I think it is and it could have a longer-term effect. But I think we shouldn't kid ourselves that this capitol is suddenly going to become undivided.", "No, absolutely right. There's no question about that, Jeff. We know -- no one can be too kumbayah about it, unfortunately. I guess we can say unfortunately we can't be too kumbayah about it. Dana, the Pope also touched on the issue of abortion. And when he -- let me read part of how he addressed it in his speech. He said this, he says, a responsibility to protect and defend life at every stage of its development. This is something many Republicans, of course, they were happy to hear, even though it wasn't, necessarily, maybe as a direct statement maybe they wanted to hear from the Pope. This is also very appropriate and timely because this is a debate on -- about abortion rights and is also public funding for Planned Parenthood that's happening right now on Capitol Hill. Do you think his words could have an impact there?", "You know, certainly those who -- for example, just on the political, the legislative issue, of Planned Parenthood, those who want to cut off funding, I can't imagine they're not going to use that to try to use it for their benefit. But, yes, you said that it was subtle but everybody got what he was saying. He didn't need to lay it out. It was very, very clear where he was going with that. And it's an example of how, sort of historically, things have kind of fallen on party lines with regards to pope and the Catholic Church. Historically, it has mostly been Democrats who maybe are Catholic who have had a little bit of discomfort with their own church or the pope. Nancy Pelosi is a perfect example. She is Catholic. She was, you know, raised that way in a very, you know, kind of traditional manner. But she is also somebody who is very much for abortion rights. And so, she's had some differences with past popes and with the church in and of itself. She's sort of used to being in that position because of that issue. But I think what was really new here that you really felt were Republicans who were used to agreeing with the church on social issues, abortion is one example, they were, for the first time, really in a position where they were hearing from the Pope, saying things that, you know, not in a scolding way but in a way that --", "Right.", "-- they didn't agree with, on immigration and on saying, point blank, that climate change is manmade which many Republicans, I think most Republicans in that chamber, don't agree with.", "Absolutely. And climate change, the death penalty and many other issues that we haven't even hit on here --", "Yes.", "-- that he did touch on in that speech. Very powerful, his words. Jeff, Dana, Gloria, thank you so much. Sill ahead for us, we're talking about all of those that were in the chamber listening to that speech. One man who was there, Peter King. He was one of the many Catholic members of Congress that was in the House chamber for the Pope's -- for the Pope's speech. He's going to join me live to talk about his impressions and thoughts on the Pope and the politics that were brought up. And later on, we're also going to hear about Hillary Clinton's latest interview. Not with a member of the press but with the creator and star of the HBO series \"Girls.\" I'm going to speak with Lena Dunham, that star, about her discussion with Hillary Clinton. Coming up."], "speaker": ["KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BOLDUAN", "POPE FRANCIS, POPE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH", "BOLDUAN", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BOLDUAN", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST", "BOLDUAN", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "BASH", "ZELENY", "BOLDUAN", "BASH", "BOLDUAN", "BASH", "BOLDUAN", "BASH", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-401726", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-06-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/02/nday.04.html", "summary": "Car Strikes NYPD Officer Amid Unrest.", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is NEW DAY. A seventh night of protests following the death of George Floyd. And it was a violent night against protesters and against police.", "That was St. Louis just a few hours ago. Four police officers were shot in a gun battle downtown. Their injuries are not considered life threatening at this hour. Just an incredible scene. Also, an officer has been shot outside of a Las Vegas casino in Nevada. That's what you're seeing on your screen there. And in New York City, graphic new video of a police officer apparently run over intentionally at an intersection. We're waiting for developments on his condition. Curfews are in effect in at least 40 cities, and National Guard troops are activated in nearly half of the United States, but that did not stop the looting in many cities.", "President Trump is threatening to send active duty military into these cities, although it isn't really clear whether that's just an empty threat. Authorities did break up what appeared to be a totally peaceful demonstration in front of the White House. Tear gas, rubber bullets just yards away from the White House, all so the president could stage that photo op with a Bible in front of a church. Again, people were hurt so he could take this picture. We'll have the latest from Washington in just a moment. First, though, CNN's Brynn Gingras live in New York with the latest on that officer. We saw the video. Disturbing video. Apparently targeted in the Bronx.", "Yes, police believe so, John. What we're hearing from the NYPD is at about 12:45 in the morning in the Bronx, officers, including that police sergeant who you see in that video -- and, again, we'll show it to you again, it is disturbing, though, to watch -- were responding to a burglary in progress. END"], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "CAMEROTA", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "BRYNN GINGRAS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-384713", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-11-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1911/04/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Acid Attack Being Investigated as Possible Hate Crime.", "utt": ["Just in, the Trump administration just made one of the most -- President's most controversial decisions official. The State Department formally notifying the United Nations that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. Keep in mind that agreement includes dozens of countries setting their own targets for reducing or controlling pollution. The deal was negotiated back in 2015. And now to this horrifying attack caught on security video in Milwaukee. You'll see the black and white video shows two men talking when suddenly one of them throws this liquid -- there you go, in the other's face, it turns out the liquid was acid. The victim, a U.S. citizen who was originally from Peru suffered second-degree burns, he tells police his attacker told him to go back to his country. CNN's Ryan Young is live on this one for us. Absolutely horrendous. I know police have arrested a suspect. He could face hate crimes. What more do you know?", "He could. Right now we've been told the man has been arrested but hasn't been officially charged. That is why we don't have his mug shot just yet, Brooke. And I've been asking questions all day not only to the police department but the DA's office there just to figure out exactly what the next steps are. We're told maybe Tuesday they'll figure out whether or not they charge him with a hate crime or other assault charges. But when you watch this video, it's so horrifying. This may have all started over a parking spot. And of course the two men decided to kind of go machismo with each other and have that argument right there. But then it takes that turn when the man starts pointing in his face. It looks like there might be a reaction but then you see whatever spilled toward his face. And when you see some of the video and see how the burned jacket this man is left with, you could see how much of his face probably hurt during this attack. In fact, listen to the victim talking about this attack and how he felt right after.", "I don't know that guy. I never saw him in my life. And he did that to me. Who carries a bottle of acid? My son called me today, daddy, what happened to you? What can I tell him? That some crazy guy did this to me.", "Brooke, you could feel his pain. One of the things the victim also said, Mr. Mahud, he said, he said the man started screaming at him, you come to my country and try to evade it, you try to change my laws. Obviously, that was what was said apparently before that splash happened. Be interesting to see what happens tomorrow when the DA makes the decision in terms of charges, also to figure out has this man has had any run-ins before?", "Let us know what happens tomorrow, Ryan. Thank you very much. President Trump welcomed the World Series champs the Washington Nationals to the White House today. A handful of players from the team were absent from the celebration for unknown reasons. The catcher donned a MAGA hat and got an awkward hug from the President. The players also presented President Trump with a National's jersey and while the President praised the team for capturing the hearts of fans across the country, he couldn't pass up a chance to take a jab at the impeachment inquiry.", "Throughout this season, the Nationals captured the hearts of baseball fans across the region and across the country. America fell in love with the Nats baseball. They just fell in love with Nats baseball. That is all they wanted to talk about. That and impeachment. I like Nats baseball much more.", "This is the President's third public sporting event in the past ten days and got mixed reaction when he showed up for game five of the World Series. The President is now planning to attend the Alabama/LSU football game this weekend in Tuscaloosa. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Thank so much for being with me. Let's go to Washington. \"THE LEAD\" with Jake Tapper starts right now.", "The former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine said she --"], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "RYAN YOUNG, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MAHUD VILLALAZ, ACID ATTACK VICTIM", "YOUNG", "BALDWIN", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BALDWIN", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-280568", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-04-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/04/es.02.html", "summary": "Greece Begins Deporting Refugees To Turkey", "utt": ["All right. Happening now, Greek officials have begun deporting hundreds of refugees and migrants back to Turkey. It's part of a controversial new agreement with the European Union. More than 52,000 men, women and children are stranded in Greece since many Balkan nations decided to shut their borders. Let's get the latest from CNN's Phil Black. He joins us live from Turkey this morning. Give us a sense of what's happening, Phil.", "Yes, John, you can see one of the vessels behind me. This is the second of three vessels to pull in here to this Turkish town, and unload passengers who have effectively really failed in their dream of traveling to Europe and establishing a new life there. What we understand is that there are around 200 people on board. Most of them Pakistani, some Afghans, two Syrians who decided to voluntarily return as well. And as you say, this became necessary, this deal, this arrangement, because countries in Europe beyond Greece began shutting their borders. That created this backlog in Greece. Tens of thousands of people stranded in camps there. So the hope is that this deal would then enable some of them to begin coming back. But more than that, deter others from making the journey in the first place. We're now moving into the warmer spring and summer months here. The expectation was that you would see once again a huge surge of refugees making the perilous journey across the sea behind us. So now we've seen this first shipment come back. It's going to become a regular sight here for the foreseeable future. What we're talking about will be huge loads like this and the future from this point is really uncertain. Syrians, it is said, will be allowed to stay here in Turkey because Turkey has opened its gates to around 2.7 million Syrians who fled the conflict just across the border in their country. But as we're talking about here, this is also Pakistanis, Afghanis and people from North Africa as well. The expectation is their future is a little less certain because what they will have do once they get here is apply for some sort of temporary asylum or protection. There is no guarantee they'll get it. And so it's certainly possible that they will be deported from that point. But a controversial deal to be sure. Critics say that it is Europe abdicating its moral responsibility to help these people. And more than that, they say that shipping them back to a country that may not be in the best position to deal with them, to help them, and give them the protection they need -- John.", "It's hard to imagine, Phil, people who have gotten that far, people from Pakistan and Afghanistan, as you say, who got as far as Turkey, would all of a sudden give up once they were shipped back from Greece. Did they say, did any of them say what their intentions are?", "Well, I think for many of them they wanted to get beyond Greece. They wanted to get to Germany and other countries in northern Europe. But once that has been closed to them, it has become I guess increasingly clear that there were fewer options if they were to continue to proceed that way and settling in Greece was not necessarily their intention. Also in the case of many of those people from those countries, they don't strictly fit the definition of refugees. They are not necessarily fleeing war and persecution in the same way that the Syrians are. So in the event that they were to apply here, the so- called economic migrants, if you like, they would have a tougher time of getting the sort of official protections in Europe. Now they have to see if they can get them in Turkey. But as I say, no guarantee there. The answer is it's entirely possible they could end up being sent back to their country of origin. Whatever country that is from which they left so long ago, beginning that journey to try and establishment a better life in Europe.", "Phil Black for us in Turkey this morning. Thanks a lot, Phil.", "All right. 58 minutes past the hour. Let's get an EARLY START on your money this morning. Stock futures are ticking higher. Seemingly unfazed by Donald Trump's claim that it's a terrible time to invest in stocks. That was in a \"Washington Post\" interview this weekend in which he also trashed the American economy. Oil is down below $37 a barrel. Stock futures in Europe are up. Shares in Tokyo falling overnight. Stock markets in China closed for a holiday. After those gains on Friday, the Dow is up more 2 percent this year. Nasdaq is just 1.85 percent lower. It was down almost 5 percent a week ago. The S&P 500 up about 1.4 percent this year. Of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 21 are higher now for the year. The biggest losers are mostly in financial stocks -- financial industry. American Express down 12 percent. Goldman Sachs down 11 percent. JPMorgan Chase off more than 9 percent. Concerns about their exposure to the oil industry shaking the financial sector earlier this year. Investors are also concerned about how the banks will fair with interest rates expected to remain low for the foreseeable future. They will rise, though, eventually. Alaska Airlines nearing a deal to buy Virgin America for $2 billion. That's according to reports overnight. JetBlue is also said to be bidding for the airline. All three companies declined to comment on the merger. It would mark another step in consolidation of the U.S. airline industry. Alaska Airlines is the eighth largest carrier in the U.S. by traffic. It's based in Seattle, flies to 90 destinations in the U.S.-Canada-Mexico. Virgin America is outside the top 10. It flies to 22 destinations. Virgin America stocks has been on a tear over the past two weeks amid rumors of that sale. The company was started by billionaire Richard Branson in 2007 and went public in 2014.", "That chart, though, tells you something is happening.", "Yes.", "Or about to happen.", "It tells you that someone is interested in that airline.", "EARLY START continues right now."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "BLACK", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-370540", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2019-05-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/24/ip.02.html", "summary": "$19 Billion Disaster and Bill Stalls in House Over Border Wall; Trump Speaks to Reporters As He Leaves for Japan; Chairman Nadler Appears to Faint During News Conference.", "utt": ["-- for a long period of time, not just Puerto Rico, Florida, in southern states with flooding in the Midwest, fires in California. Now it's going to take a little bit longer to actually get there. But the idea that the president who had been told by members of the House Freedom Caucus do not agree to this bill particularly without your immigration money was willing to sign off. I think was an interesting element of this --", "Now the president of the United States is about to leave for Japan talking to reporters outside of the White House, you see him walking up. Let's listen.", "So we want to be very transparent. So as you know I declassified everything, everything they want. I put it under the auspices of the attorney general. He's going to be in charge of it. He's a great gentleman and a highly respected man so everything that they need is declassified. And they'll be able to see how this hoax, how the hoax or witch hunt started and why it started. It was a -- an attempted coup or an attempted takedown of the president of the United States. It should never ever happen to anybody else so it's very important. Now people have been asking me to declassify for a long period of time. I've decided to do it, and you're going to learn a lot. I hope it's going to be nice, but perhaps it won't be.", "We want to have protection in the Middle East. We're going to be sending a large number of troops, mostly protective. And some very talented people are going to the Middle East right now, and we'll see how -- and we'll see what happens.", "It will be about 1,500 people.", "Sure, that's possible. But I do believe you can't go down two tracks because if you look at judiciary if you look at what's going on, all they talk about in the House is this. I'd like to talk about lowering drug prices which I've done better than any president ever. We had a year -- this year is, you know, drug prices went down, the first time in 51 years. I'd like to talk about it because with Congress I can get prices down 40 percent and 50 percent, but I can't do that when all they do is want to try and do a redo of the Mueller report. They were very unhappy with the Mueller report. They want to do a redo of the Mueller report. It's over. There is no redo. They lost. It's very clear. There was no collusion, there was no obstruction so there's no redo. Yes?", "Should doctors be forced to perform transgender reassignment surgeries?", "We're going to see. We'll see.", "I feel bad for Theresa. I like her very much. She's a good woman. She worked very hard. She's very strong. She decided to do something that some people were surprised at and some people weren't. It's for the good of her country but I like her very much. In fact, I'll be seeing her in two weeks. David?", "President, why are you considering pardoning war criminals, and does that endanger our troops?", "We're looking at a lot of different pardons for a lot of different people. Some of these soldiers are people that have fought hard, long, you know. We teach them how to be great fighters and when they fight sometimes they get really treated unfairly. So we're going to take a look at it. I haven't done anything yet. I haven't made any decisions. There's two or three of them right now. It's a little bit controversial. It's very possible that I'll let the trials go on and I'll make my decision after the trial.", "Anything to say to Michael Avenatti?", "I wish him a lot of luck.", "Mr. President, are you going to talk to Theresa May about", "I may very well talk to her about that. Yes, the -- there's word and rumor that the FBI and others were involved, CIA was involved with the U.K. having to do with the Russian hoax, and I may very well talk to her about that. Yes.", "Mr. President, has your relationship with Nancy Pelosi soured to the point that it's too personal and some of the altered videos being disseminated. Is that going too far?", "Well, I don't know about the videos. I can tell you that what I'm here to help the country. That's why I did this. Our country is doing unbelievably well. We have the best economy we probably ever had. We have the best job numbers we've ever had, we have the best unemployment numbers we've ever had. With all of the things happening that's what I'm all about. I don't think they can go down two tracks. I want to get drug prices down. I want to get things like if you look at infrastructure and others. I want to get a lot of things done. I don't think it's -- I don't think they're capable of going down two tracks. So I think they can only do one thing or the other. So let them finish the one. What I don't think is right is you do a redo. They were very unhappy with the Mueller report. No collusion, no obstruction no, nothing. They're very unhappy, they're angry about it. They have to get over their anger. They have to get over -- wait a minute. They have to get over their anger, and they have to get into infrastructure, drug prices and things like that because they want to do a redo. Like even the fact that they're asking Bob Mueller to come and testify. He just gave them a $434-page report which says no collusion which leads to absolutely no obstruction. He just gave that report. Why does he have to testify? It's ridiculous. They ought to get on to drug prices, lowering them. We can cut them by 50 or 60 percent. The one thing I'm very proud of also on drug price is, I brought it down first time in 51 years that drug prices went down. But if I could work with Congress we could cut 50 percent and more off drug prices. I can work with the speaker. Sure. I can work with the speaker. I can absolutely work.", "What do you want to accomplish with your personal attacks on the speaker You're saying --", "Excuse me. This just shows how fake you and the news are. When you say a personal attack -- did you hear what she said about me long before I went after her? Did you hear? She made horrible statements. She knows they're not true. She made -- she said terrible things, so I just responded in kind. Look, you think Nancy is the same as she was? She's not. Maybe we can all say that, but I think -- frankly, I think right now we are -- I'm only speaking for myself is. I want to do what's good for the country. I think Nancy Pelosi is not helping this country. I think the Democrats are obstructionists. They are hurting our country very, very badly. We can pass so many different bills right now but all they want to do is investigate because they failed with Robert Mueller and the Mueller report. They want to try to get at a do-over of the Mueller report. It doesn't work that way. And just so you know, I was the most transparent and am transparent president in history. We gave 500 witnesses. I allowed attorneys to testify in front of Bob Mueller, 2,500 subpoenas, 1.4 million pages of documents. We gave it. I didn't have to give any of it. We gave it, and then we get a great result and they say oh, this is terrible. Let's do it over again. You can't do it. Our country doesn't have that kind of time.", "What if the Barr investigation doesn't turn out the way you think it will?", "Well, we're going to see. I gave -- as you know I declassified, I guess, potentially millions of pages of documents. I don't know what it is. I have no idea, but I want to be transparent. Everybody wanted me to declassify. I've done it. And you could almost say he's the trustee, he's a highly respected man. Our attorney general is in charge. Let's see what he finds, but we have documents now that I have declassified for the purpose of the attorney general. He can then show them to the public, do whatever we want to do with them. But you have to get down to what happened because what happened is a tremendous blight on our country. What happened, the investigation, they tried to do a takedown, and you can't do that. And let me just tell you. This should never ever happen to another president again.", "Mr. President, what message do you want to send to military families who are concerned about you sending troops to the Middle East?", "Well, I think it's going to be very good in the Middle East. Iran has been a -- as you know, they stage terror all over the world. They're a much different country now than when I first got here. When I first got here, they were at 14 different locations fighting. Right now I don't think Iran wants to fight, and I certainly don't think they want to fight with us, but they cannot have nuclear weapons and under the Obama horrible agreement they would have had nuclear weapons within five or six years. They can't have nuclear weapons, and they understand that.", "Mr. President, why should we trust the attorney general to select what's declassified? Even Robert Mueller expressed concerns about the way Barr handled his findings?", "The question is so false and so phony. The attorney general -- let me just explain -- let me explain to you something. The attorney general is one of the most respected people in this country, and he has been for a long period of time. He is going to look at a lot of documents. Some he might find interesting, maybe he'll find none interesting, but for over a year people have asked me to declassify, so what I've done is I've declassified everything. He can look, and I hope he looks at the U.K., and I hope he looks at Australia, and I hope he looks at Ukraine. I hope he looks at everything because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country. It's the greatest hoax -- excuse me. Excuse me. It's the greatest hoax probably in the history of our country and somebody has to get to the bottom of it. We'll see, but for a long period of time they have wanted me to declassify, and I did.", "Is it about getting payback for these two years?", "This is about finding out what happened. I won an election. I won it easily, 306-223. I want it pretty easily, and I'll tell you what. This is all about what happened and when did it happen because this was an attempted takedown of the president of the United States, and we have to find out. Why did somebody write a text message, the two lovers, that if she loses we have an insurance policy, an insurance policy to take down the president? We're going to find out what happened and why it happened.", "It sounds like you want payback.", "Let me just tell you -- it's not payback. I don't care about payback. I think it's very important for our country to find out what happened.", "Are you worried that these investigations are hurting your re-election chances?", "I don't know, my poll numbers are very good. You don't like to report them but my poll -- I guess we have a 48 today, we have a 51. We have very good poll numbers considering. Now, I have to tell you. If you people would give straight news I'd be at 70. I'd be maybe at 75, but you don't give straight news. You give fake news. With fake news, I'm still winning the election, but you if you gave serious good news the way you're supposed to I'd probably be at 70 or 75 based on the economy alone.", "Mr. President, on Iran --", "Go ahead. Go ahead.", "I just spoke to Prime Minister Modi and I gave him my warmest regards and congratulations.", "I just spoke to Prime Minister Modi minutes ago and I just conveyed congratulations on behalf of our country, myself, and everybody. He had a great election win. He's a friend of mine. We have a very good relationship with India.", "On Iran, sir, on Iran.", "-- by William Barr? You always said you admire --", "No, I just want somebody that's going to be fair, and I think William Barr is the most respected men -- one of the most respected me doing what he does in our whole country. I just want him to be fair. I don't want him to be for me or for anybody else. I just want him to be fair, and that's what he is, and we're going to find out what this yields. But I will tell you, declassifying, people have wanted me to do it for a long time. I think it was very important to do, and basically, what are we doing? We're exposing everything. We're being a word that you like, transparent. We're being ultimately transparent and that's what it's about. Again, again, this should never ever happen in our country again. Thank you very much.", "President Trump there talking to reporters before he boards Marine One. He's headed to Japan for a four-day trip. A lot to break down on what the president talked about there. He spent a lot of time talking about his decision last night to authorize the Attorney General Bill Barr to have sweeping power to review and sweeping power for him to declassify intelligence documents that were at the core of how the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign began. The president several times saying he wanted to be transparent and many times saying he had already declassified. He has not declassified anything. He's given Bill Barr the opportunity and the right to declassify things and whether or not it would be transparent we don't know. We have no idea what we're going to see from this, but the president there, couple other quick points. He said there was an attempted coup, an attempted takedown. There's no public evidence of an attempted coup or an attempted takedown. There's some evidence of improper texts between FBI employees that the president says is part of a takedown. But again, the public evidence does not support the president's words on attempted coup, attempted takedown. There's two other quick points, we'll go on the table. He said he likes Theresa May very much, he's going to see her, the prime minister who just resigned. He has spent months undermining Theresa May and in fact publicly promoting one of her rivals now to become prime minister. He also said I don't know about the videos, the doctored videos of Nancy Pelosi. He pinned one atop his Twitter page last night, one made by Fox Business Channel, but he says I don't know about the videos.", "Yes, he says he doesn't know about the video but now for two days he's been making the point of those videos calling her a mess and saying she has problems which is the intended message from these videos. So, you know, he's given a chance to distance himself from that, too, you know, to cast doubts on that and refuse. The other thing that I thought was interesting there, too, in context was when he was asked about Iran and the decision to move. What I actually think is a couple of thousand troops, not 1,500 like he said into the Middle East. We'll see what happens here. I mean, it certainly looks like a slow buildup, but now this is the second day in a row. I mean, he's indicated a reluctance to do that. He was asked about it yesterday in the Roosevelt room about whether he would and said he didn't want to. Then the decision came afterward that he would and he got the sense just this morning here at that gaggle outside the White House that he's not really -- you know, all that supportive of this decision talking about they are there mostly protective and a relatively small number, you know. That will be obviously something to watch here.", "Definitely something to watch and whether or not there's a follow-up to go beyond whether it's 1,500, 1,800, to tell whether there's a follow-up to go beyond that. The president reluctant -- I want to come back to his constant -- his -- the president there saying, and this is technically correct. He said Bill Barr is the most respected man doing what he's doing. We only have one attorney general, so he would be the most respected and the least respected attorney general of the United States at the moment. But, look, Barr -- you know, I don't mean to make a joke about it because Barr has called his own credibility into doubt by publishing a four-page letter that if you read the Mueller report is completely out of context to what's in the Mueller report. Bill Barr is now in charge of something that may be healthy and good for the country. Go back and look at the beginnings of this counterintelligence investigation, take the name Trump of it, of a candidate for president and a campaign for president. We should have full transparency. We should look at that. If anyone did anything wrong they should be held accountable but is there any trust in this town that that's what we're going to get?", "Democrats are really worried right now. They're looking at how he handled his four- page memo describing the Mueller report and they don't trust that he's going to not cherry pick information, declassify documents here and there, have conservatives in his ear about what he should make public. And look, I will also just point out what the president making this declassification push. This is a reversal for him. He just said last fall that he wasn't doing do this. And now all of a sudden this week we see him come out with this. I think he's really trying to change the narrative. You saw him lose two court cases this week in the Democratic oversight battle, growing calls for impeachment. So you're really trying to see him shift that narrative to investigate the investigators.", "The Democrats can't see any of the documents, they want to see about the president but Bill Barr can see anything he wants about FBI behavior in the review mirror. And again, I think that could be very well and healthy for the country if it were done in a fair bipartisan transparent or non-partisan transparent way. I just don't think there's a sense in town that that's what's happening.", "Yes. And when you talk about changing the narrative, it's continually striking to me how much of the narrative is structured around 2016 which, you know, happened three years ago. You have a president who's now running for re- election, who has a booming economy. I mean, I feel like we're always making this point particularly at this table but he does, he has a booming economy that any president would love to run on. He could be working towards an infrastructure bill, towards other accomplishments, even passing a sort of basic function of government, a disaster relief bill. And instead, you have him re-litigating something that happened three years ago, and I think it speaks to their strategy as, you know, we've said before of motivating their base but it also feels very cynical to me on both sides. They -- I think there's a sense in the Trump orbit that if they keep focused on talking about the investigation that allows Democrats not to talk about the things they are passing or trying to pass in terms of their agenda in the House, and I think the Democrats kind of see it a little bit the same way. If the president is fighting with Speaker Pelosi about the investigation, a possible cover-up, and all these things then he's saying that he's not going to be moving forward with any accomplishments that he could actually run on. It's a disservice to the American people.", "He says you can't do both. And again, I covered the White House during the -- when the president was actually impeached, the Clinton administration. They did do that was not pretty by any means, it was not pretty but they did do things. To your point about re- litigating, the president also said, again, that he won easily. That all of this was the result of people -- his critics, people who didn't want him to have power after an election he won easily. He lost the popular vote by about three million votes, he did win an Electoral College victory without a doubt but it wasn't easy. So there are a number of things in there to fact check but again, the president's focus on this. Let's go back and investigate the investigators at a time when he stonewalls, impedes, picks your word, any other oversight or investigation of him is an interesting contrast.", "Yes. And we've seen Attorney General Bill Barr do the bidding of the president on a number of fronts since the Mueller report came out, really came out in favor of the president's position. And I think that's the fear from a number of Democrats that Bill Barr will use this opportunity and all this great power that he has now to declassify documents that he will do the bidding of the president once again because the president has already come out with his conclusion. He said there was spying against my campaign. These people wanted to do a coup against me, they wanted to do a takedown of the president and now Bill Barr can search through all of the intelligence documents to see if he can cherry pick information to back up the president's conclusion. We've already seen Bill Barr sort of backed up the president's claim that they were spying and that, you know, there were something improper about the origins of these investigations. Now he had the ability to go through and see if there any documents that back that up even if the full slate of documents paints a much more nuanced picture.", "And important to note, before we hear from Bill Barr, we expect to hear from the Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz who's doing his own investigation looking at some -- not all but some of the issues that the origin of things. We will see how that one plays out as well. Mr. Horowitz is known as more of a fair broker in town, we'll see how that one plays out. You mentioned the people involved in the investigations, there's some breaking news about one of the leading Democrats involved in the oversight investigation of the president. The Democratic House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler appearing to faint at a press conference. This just a short time ago.", "And I think that the congressman is right about that fact. Do you want some? Yes, I got some. Jerry? Take a drink. You look a little dehydrated, brother. You seem a little dehydrated. You OK? You want to take a drink? How do you feel, man? You feel OK?", "What happened?", "You all right? Here. Do you want to drink some of this? I'll give you some.", "That's the New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio trying to help Chairman Nadler there apparently fainting or at least being unable to speak. They got him some water. The mayor saying he believed he was dehydrated. CNN's Sunlen Serfaty joins us now live up on Capitol Hill. She's been reporting trying to find out what happened here. Sunlen, what do we know?", "Well, John, his office tells me that he is OK, but certainly this is a concerning moment, a very scary moment for the 71-year-old congressman, and you can tell the speed at which people responded in the middle of that event with Bill de Blasio today. Now his office tells me that he never fainted, that he is responsive and he is right now receiving a check-up. And they don't know exactly what happened, exactly what the problem was, but an aide tells me in Nadler's office that they believe he was just dehydrated and the commenting that it was very warm in that room with many people in the audience. And you saw certainly Bill de Blasio there really prompt in noticing in the middle of the event he looked a little faint potentially, needed some water prompting him to get his electrolytes. Of course, we have seen a lot of Jerry Nadler in recent days, a very familiar face up here on Capitol Hill and on the TV screens. He is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee really leading the charge on so many of the investigations into the Trump administration. Certainly going at a breakneck pace. John?", "Sunlen Serfaty, appreciate the live reporting. We certainly wish the chairman well and we'll keep an eye on that story in the hours ahead here. Let's come back into the room. And again, we're heading into a holiday weekend capping what has been a remarkable week here in Washington. This public back and forth between the president and the speaker. She questions his well-being, she says he needs an intervention. He says he's a very stable genius, thank you very much, and re-tweets a doctored video of her saying he didn't know anything about that as he leaves for this trip to Japan. Again, I've been here for a long time. I don't really -- I've covered presidents actually being impeached and I don't remember a week quite like this.", "Right. It feels like we're at a new low in the relationship between Pelosi and the president. She's always gotten under his skin but we have seen the sort of turning point this week. He even debuted a nickname for her calling her crazy Nancy Pelosi, although he seems to walk it back a little bit saying maybe I shouldn't use that one. But I just think it reflects the fact that he is intimidated and threatened by the speaker. She's a strong female figure, and unlike some of the other females in his orbit, whether it's Kellyanne Conway or Sarah Huckabee Sanders or Hope Hicks. She is someone that is not working for him, she is working against him and I don't think he knows how to handle her.", "And so there's that personal drama and then there's the result of that personal drama which is that it's a town that' is just dysfunctional at the movement. They couldn't get a disaster aid bill through the House today. There's a question about whether they can get the next spending bill done. The president's U.S./Mexico/Canada trade agreement, he needs Nancy Pelosi's help, she wanted to be with him on it. I think that's in high doubt this week and I could add to the less.", "Yes, definitely. I mean, Lisa brought the point here by still re-litigating 2016, and that's at a time when he has a 2016 campaign promise, you mentioned the trade deal, sitting there ready to go, and he spent the last two days, you know, carpet bombing his relationship with Nancy Pelosi. I mean, even with these farmers who this sort of thing is intended for. He had good news yesterday. He had $16 billion in relief granted -- that was for farmers who are struggling from his trade conflict with China, but this was a good moment for him. He had a very happy room of farmers, you know, AG secretary in there and it turned into, you know, a -- almost a police lineup of his staff giving him affirmation of his discipline and calmness.", "It's a remarkable strange one, to say the least. Thanks for -- you guys, thanks for dealing with the rock and roll of the hour just passed. And thanks for joining us in the INSIDE POLITICS. Hope to see you here Sunday morning. Dana Bash is in for Brianna Keilar, she starts after a quick break. 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{"id": "CNN-273183", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-01-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/07/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Stocks Drop Sharply; Town Hall on Guns", "utt": ["All right, let's take a look at what's happening on Wall Street. Don't you know it, the Dow is down 260 points. Of course, these losses started because of what China did early this morning. It kind of like stopped all of its action on its own stock market and that sent everything into a tailspin. Alison Kosik is following the story live from the New York Stock Exchange. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. And as you said, this is because of China, because for the second time in four days, China suspended trading because stocks there fell so much so fast. And there are new indications that China's economy is slowing even faster than we thought. And then you've got the Chinese government devaluing the yuan to try to make its exports cheaper. But the way investors read it is that the move is sending this message that China could be in worse shape than we realize. And because our economies are so interconnected, that's making investors around the world very nervous. And as you can see, they're hitting the sell button with the Dow down 307 points. OK, so what does this mean for a correction? Well, we are less than 100 points from correction territory, meaning 10 percent down from the recent high. But, Carol, it's really going to depend on where the markets close today. But before you freak out, I just want to say, a correction is really a normal part of the markets. You don't want the indexes to go just straight up because that could create a bubble. Think of it this way, the markets actually had a correction in August. I don't know if you remember that. But now we see it falling back into a correction again. But something to consider as you're having your morning coffee and watching all these numbers fall this morning, corrections, once again, are a natural part of market movement. It's kind of like tapping the brakes on a bike or a car. Sometimes you've got to take a breather. One more thing to keep in mind. We are a long way off from a bear market. That would be when the market drops 20 percent from a recent high. Carol.", "OK. I'm soaking it in of what you said and I'm feeling more calm. Thank you, Alison Kosik.", "OK, that -- that was the intention.", "I appreciate it. Thanks, Alison.", "Sure.", "Hours from now, President Obama sits down with CNN's Anderson Cooper for a live town hall even on gun control. It's all part of the president's push to make gun safety a top priority during his final year in office. But as you know, not everyone is on board. The National Rifle Association, the NRA, the nation's largest gun rights organization, is snubbing the event, declining an invitation, calling it a \"public relations spectacle\" by the White House. With me now is Jillian Soto. She will be at tonight's town hall with the president. Her sister Vicki was a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary the day a gunman entered the building. Her sister was killed trying to protect her students. Twenty-six people, as you know, died that day, including 20 children. Welcome, Jillian, and thank you so much for being here.", "Thank you for having me.", "Thank you. So, as I mentioned, CNN is hosting this town hall, not the White House. Still, the NRA declined the invitation to take part in this town hall. Why do you think it did?", "I think that they're honestly scared that, you know, the president has stepped up and is doing something. And I think they're finally realizing that, you know, there's actions that are being taken that, you know, there are plenty of people who are willing to fight the NRA and go up against them and demand change because nobody wants to join this group. Nobody wants to be a gun violence survivor, whether you lost somebody to gun violence or you are a survivor yourself. No one wants to join that group. So everyone wants to stand up and the NRA is scared of that I honestly think.", "If the NRA had accepted the invitation, you're in the audience of that town hall, what would you want to ask the NRA?", "Would they still be on the same side that they are, would they still feel that nothing needs to be done if their loved one was in a classroom and brutally murdered in front of their students? Would they still feel the same way? Would they still feel that nothing needs to happen, that our nation is safe and that we should just put more guns in people's hands and that's going to make it a better place to live?", "Well, they probably would say, had your sister been armed, she might have survived.", "Even if my sister was armed, I know her better than anyone. She would never have thought to grab a gun to protect her students. Her -- she would have done exactly what she did that day. She would have tried to hide as many of her kids as she could. She would have been going to that door to lock the door and keep her kids safe. A gun is a distraction. Having a gun on her while she would be teaching would be a distraction. I don't even think she would have taken a teaching job if it was a requirement to carry gun because it's a first grade classroom. You -- there is no place in a first grade classroom, let alone any classroom, even in a college campus, a gun should be.", "The issue over guns, it's become so partisan. Some might say hopelessly partisan. So I'll ask you a tough question in light of what happened to your sister. Why bother with this town hall?", "To me it's not hopeless. To me I look at how much has changed in the past three years. You know, we've come so far. We've had so many states pass such amazing gun laws. And we're still fighting. And with -- thanks to the president for taking executive action and keeping -- narrowing the loopholes that keep guns out of dangerous hands we have some hope that we will get this fight done and we are going to continue to fight. We're going to vote for Congress members that are going to help us make it a safer country. And the ones who aren't going to help us, we're not going to vote for them and we're just going to continue to ask people to join us in this fight until we have a safer nation and we know our loved ones are safe whether they're going to the mall, going to school or they're just on the streets and hanging out with their friends. We're going to make this nation safer one way or another. So it's not a hopeless dream for me.", "And I'm glad -- I'm glad you brought up that last part because a lot of people say that the president's executive order would not have saved people who died as a result of a mass shooting. But we're talking about many other kinds of deaths caused by guns. Thirty thousand plus died in this country last year alone because of gun violence. You're talking about all kinds of gun violence, not just the kind of gun violence that happens in mass shootings.", "Yes, it's -- gun violence isn't just mass shootings. Gun violence is an everyday occurrence. Eighty-eight Americans are killed every single day to gun violence. And what the president did will narrow down that number. We hopefully will have less Americans killed every day to gun violence because of what the president did. Because with what he did, he's keeping guns out of dangerous hands. There will be background checks that will have to be done and lives will be saved. It may not save everyone's life, but it will save some. And that's what matters. And we're going to continue to fight until we save everyone's life from guns.", "Jillian Soto, thank you for being with me this morning.", "Thank you.", "Still to come in the NEWSROOM, 17 miners trapped 900 feet underground and rescued. We'll have all the details for you, next."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "KOSIK", "COSTELLO", "KOSIK", "COSTELLO", "JILLIAN SOTO, SISTER VICTORIA SOTO WAS KILLED AT SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY", "COSTELLO", "SOTO", "COSTELLO", "SOTO", "COSTELLO", "SOTO", "COSTELLO", "SOTO", "COSTELLO", "SOTO", "COSTELLO", "SOTO", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-344754", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-07-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/09/nday.06.html", "summary": "More Time to Reunite Families; Jordan Knew About Alleged Abuse.", "utt": ["The Justice Department will appeal today for more time to reunite families. The U.S. government is facing a court ordered deadline to reunite children younger than five years old with their parents by tomorrow. Undocumented parents have been making their way out of detention facilities and searching for their children. CNN's Miguel Marquez live am Brownsville, Texas, with the latest. Miguel.", "Yes, John, it seems very clear that the government never had a plan in place to reunite these parents from the get-go. It looks like, from what the ACLU is saying, that more than half of those parents with children under five won't be reunited by the deadline. And for all parents looking for their kids, it is not likely to happen by the end of this month either.", "A mother's anguish, separated from their son. Only God knows what we've been through, she says. Brenda Alvarado (ph) separated from her six-year-old son Gody (ph) for over a month. Brenda and four other parents who spoke to CNN now facing what the Trump administration promised was a process for reuniting with their kids. More parents like them getting out of detention every day, all of them now desperate to hold their children again. It's not right for them to detention my son, she says. He hasn't committed any crime. I don't know what to tell him. Lesvia (ph) visited her 10-year-old son Yudum (ph), being detained here in Brownsville. They've been separated more than a month. Despite having documents proving their relationship, officials here won't turn him over to his mother. I already gave them information and documents, she says, but they said they need fingerprint from all the people where I'm going to stay. And that alone will take 15 days. After forcefully separating these parents from their kids, the Trump administration is now telling them they must fill out a 32 page application and background check to prove they are who they say they are.", "In any normal case we usually expect about a month before there can be reunification.", "The Trump administration, under a judge's order, has until July 26th to reunite all families separated by the president's zero tolerance policy.", "What the government seems to be saying is that for those parents who are locked up and the kids that are locked up, they can put those people together and they, at least in some cases, intend to move them, it seems, to another facility where they will try to house them together. For parents that were deported, for kids that were deported, for parents who are now getting out on bond on their asylum hearings, the government's saying it's up to you to prove to us that you're actually these kids parents. Just no thought given to it whatsoever. Back to you.", "No unified process, not even close at this point it seems.", "No. Not at all. It's a -- it's mind boggling, even though in some ways it is not surprising because we've been talking about this for so long and we have known that there was not a system in place and we have known that there were a number of questions about even the identities of both the children and the adults. Just to see this all play out, it leaves you speechless.", "It's the human cost, which is what we knew. But right now they're admitting that that first deadline they're confronting, you know, the judge ordered them to reunite all children under five by tomorrow. And they're basically saying, that's not going to happen for at least half of them.", "We do know there's another hearing this afternoon. But among those children --", "Yes.", "Nineteen parents of those young children already deported we know.", "That's right.", "We also want to bring you up to date on this. More former Ohio State University wrestlers now say Congressman Jim Jordan had to know about sexual abuse claims against a team doctor. Jordan was an assistant coach at OSU at one point but maintains he knew nothing. CNN's Jean Casarez joining us now with more on that. Jean.", "Well, there's definitely a difference of opinion here. One former Ohio State athlete, who wrestled under Assistant Coach Jim Jordan in the late 1980s says he was sexually abused by Dr. Richard Strauss and never told Jordan. He describes Larkins Hall, the athletic facility where the wrestlers showed, as a pedophile's dreamland. And that if Jordan didn't know, he was living under a rock. He described Jordan, though, as a class act. Another alleged victim, former OSU wrestler Mike Olf (ph), tells CNN he didn't consider it abuse at the time. They wrestlers joked about it. But the physicals were weird with inappropriate behavior. Jim Jordan, he believes, did not know. He would have done anything to protect us. Another former OSU wrestler told CNN Dr. Strauss was always first man in, last man out of the shower and that former head coach Russ Hellickson and Jordan knew because they too were in the shower area at the same time. They knew he was in the showers, he said, adding that they may not have known the extent of the allegations that are now surfacing in the media. I don't think that we look at this kind of thing with the same lens as sex abuse today, he tells CNN. At least not to that degree. Now, as Jordan continues to say he never knew or heard that athletes were being sexually abused and would have done something if he knew, Jordan has mentioned a conviction. One former wrestler that has probably the most serious accusations, that wrestler, Danyasi Yets (ph), confirmed to CNN what he told NBC, that he and his teammates told Jordan multiple times about the alleged sexual abuse and nothing was done. Yets was convicted and served 18 months in federal prison for fraud related to an investment scheme. He tells CNN though over this weekend, if my mistake happened over 18 years ago, people just need to move on. I'm now a successful businessman. And, Erica and John, the investigation at OSU continues to see if sexual misconduct did take place with this physician, Dr. Richard Strauss. He died in 2005.", "If I'm clear, Jordan hasn't been asked directly what he did see or hear about Dr. Strauss, not about the abuse, but what did he hear? That's one question he hasn't answered directly, at least not yet.", "Good question.", "Jean Casarez, great. Thanks for having -- thanks for being here with us. That's it for us this morning. 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{"id": "CNN-262213", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-08-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/16/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Thousands of Teens and 20-somethings in Chicago Sitting Face to Face with Some Top CEOs.", "utt": ["In today's American opportunity segment, a glimmer of hope from Chicago. We went to the windy city this week to see what is being done to put Chicago's unemployed youth back to work. In a city plagued by violence, are jobs the solution.", "Welcome to Starbucks. My name is", "They are here to offer you all jobs so that we can change our future.", "The trick is, we want to pour this milk into the cup.", "You got hired today.", "Yes.", "Thank you.", "You're welcome.", "I actually got hired today", "Today is really big for me because I've been looking for a job since I have been back, since moved back in May.", "These are the faces of Chicago's future, America's future.", "I want to be in film or anything behind a camera.", "I want to get my PhD in physical therapy and become a physical therapist.", "That chance came this week. For some of these young men and women it came for the first time. From Starbucks, to Nordsrtrom, to Taco Bell, companies hiring hundreds at Chicago's opportunity fair. And they got a shot at a face-to-face with top CEOs. What does it feel like to be here, to feel like you're getting a shot?", "It's great. I actually walked in and I talked to Nordstrom's. And one of the guys, he just, he liked me. So that was a good experience for me and that gave me confidence.", "You want to feel like a person. And when you're unemployed, especially when you are young and unemployed, you don't always feel like a person because everyone looks down on you for some reason or another.", "If Chicago can have more jobs, I think the violence will actually stop in Chicago.", "How big a part of solving the violence problem in this city are jobs for young folks?", "There's no doubt, I mean, like few across the country where you have poverty, you have violence. Where you have poverty, you have lower educational obtainment. So my whole thing is, these kids they have so much higher expectations for themselves than sometimes we as a city have for them. And that part of this is making sure they have something to contribute. And need to see that I think we should define them for their future where they seek opportunity is they have something to offer and they just can't shut off.", "And if we don't, what happens?", "You lose a generation that had something to contribute. More than a quarter of 16 to 24-year-olds in Chicago are unemployed.", "More than a quarter of 16 to 24 years old in Chicago are unemployed.", "It's unacceptable. And they're losing out because they have some to offer and we're losing out of their potential.", "Grammy and Academy winner common and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz are driving forces in this effort. This is all about the future of this country really. This is not just about putting young people to work. This is about the future and the trajectory of this nation, right?", "Yes. A job and an opportunity gives a person hope. It gives them something concrete to be able to make a living. It helps them to succeed in like being able to provide for their families. And I mean, we all -- when we get a job, feel good about ourselves, you know. So there's something powerful in being able to create these opportunities. So this is the future of America.", "I think there is a cultural divide and there are racial injustices today. We should see opportunities for people irregardless of their station in life or color of their skin. And I think the fact that there are 5.6 million kids in this country who do not have an opportunity, it's a tragic situation. And to me, it's un-American.", "The American dream, it hasn't been extended to a lot of the young people here. And a lot of it has been color barriers. In some shape, form, or fashion, America throughout some of the history has looked at black and brown people as not worthy of receiving equal treatment, equal opportunities.", "Lot of people don't know you're born in Brooklyn. Not a lot of money at all. Born poor in Brooklyn.", "I've said many years that growing up in the projects imprinted me with both the motivation and desire to exceed the expectations that perhaps my parents had in their own life. But at the same time, I've also said publicly that I had the scars and the vulnerability and the insecurity of being that poor kid.", "That still --", "I still have that today. But I think here's the difference. When I grew up, the promise of America and the American dream wasn't just a slogan and words. It was aspirational and you really felt as a young kid on the other side of the tracks that that was available to you and you had hope. When I look at the situation now and I hear 5.6 million disconnected youth in the country, not in school, not working, mainly African- American and Latino, I ask myself, does the American dream and the promise of America, is it as relevant and accessible to those kids right now as it was when I was coming up. And I think the sad answer is no.", "Have you heard enough about youth unemployment and lack of opportunity from the candidates running for the White House?", "We can't depend on politicians. Obviously, that's not on a lot of politicians' agenda. So, you know, we can't wait for them. We have to create that change ourselves right now and hopefully they'll follow suit.", "What about you, Howard? Have you heard enough from the candidates on this issue?", "I don't think we've heard anything about this issue. I don't think we've heard any candidate speak about the almost six million disconnected youth in the country, many of whom are African- American and Latino.", "What do you want to hear from the candidates about youth unemployment in this country?", "I would love to hear someone who says, hey, I'm going to help you because that's -- anyone wants that out of their president. They want someone who is going to help them work for them.", "Are you hopeful?", "I'm hopeful that I get a chance to succeed.", "We haven't invested in our kids. We just haven't. And I think we're paying a price as a country across race, class, geography and incomes for not investing in the greatest potential we have, which is our kids.", "More than 4,000 of Chicago's youth were there and 600 got job offers on the spot. It is not a panacea but with each job comes so much more than just a paycheck.", "We bringing these worlds together. We bringing the corporations to Chicago. Do you understand what I'm saying? They coming to see you all. They here to see you all and make that change. So I want you all to continue to stand up and make some noise for yourselves right now.", "It was a privilege to sit down with those young folks in Chicago this week. I want to know your ideas for putting America's youth back to work. Tweet me @PoppyHarlowCNN. Let me know what you would do. Coming up next, before there was Jerry Springer, there was Morton Downey Jr. Ahead, I will talk to brilliant filmmakers reviving the memory of the king of shock television."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HARLOW", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARLOW", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HARLOW", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HARLOW", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HARLOW", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HARLOW", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HARLOW", "COMMON, RAPPER/ACTOR", "SCHULTZ", "COMMON", "HARLOW", "SCHULTZ", "HARLOW", "SCHULTZ", "HARLOW", "COMMON", "HARLOW", "SCHULTZ", "HARLOW", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARLOW", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HARLOW", "COMMON", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-387482", "program": "CNN 10", "date": "2019-12-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/09/sn.01.html", "summary": "Prisoner Exchange Between The United States and Iran; Anniversary Of A \"Date That Will Live In Infamy\"; Use Of A.I. To Detect Wildfires.", "utt": ["We are kicking off our last week on air for 2019. After this Friday the next time we`ll see you is on January 6th, 2020. And I want to thank all of you who`ve tweeted me that you would have watched on Christmas though I`m not sure you`re being completely truthful and remember Santa Claus is watching you. I`m Carl Azuz for CNN 10. In August of 2016, an American graduate student named Xiyue Wang was arrested in Tehran the capital of Iran. He was doing research there at the time and studying the Farsi language but Iran sentenced him to 10 years in prison saying his school, Princeton University, had sent Wang to Iran to get secret information about the country. Princeton said that was completely false. Two years later the United Nations said there was no legal reason why Wang was arrested and imprisoned and on Saturday the Trump Administration announced that Wang was in good spirits after arriving at a U.S. Army Medical Center in Germany. This was part of a prisoner exchange. On the same day that Wang arrived in Germany an Iranian stem cell scientist was pictured flying back to his home country alongside Iran`s foreign minister. The scientist`s name is Massoud Soleimani. He was arrested in Chicago, Illinois in the fall of last year and found guilty of breaking trade laws concerning Iran. That country says Soleimani had not committed any crime. An interesting part of all this is how it happened. The U.S. and Iran are rivals. They don`t have diplomatic relations. Officials from the two countries don`t regularly talk to each other. Both the White House and the Iranian government thank Switzerland for its assistance in the negotiations. And a U.S. government official says the Trump Administration hopes this will lead to more success with Iran. There are other Americans being held in the Middle Eastern country. The U.S. government says it won`t rest until every American who`s been detained there and around the world is brought back home. 10 Second Trivia. The two U.S. national memorials at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii include the USS Arizona and what other ship? USS Utah, Oklahoma, California, West Virginia. Though it`s only open to the American military the USS Utah Memorial also rests at Pearl Harbor.", "A date which will live in infamy.", "The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.", "That made Saturday the 78th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor and one of the American sailors who survived the bombings and explosion of the USS Arizona was laid to rest there on this Pearl Harbor Day. Lauren Bruner died on September 10th of this year. He was almost 99 years old and his loved ones gathered Saturday at the USS Arizona Memorial to remember him and pass his remains to U.S. Navy divers who placed them near one of the Arizona`s gun turrets. Bruner was the second to last man to escape from the sinking ship and a memorial spokeswoman says he`ll be the last survivor to have this done. As only three people who were aboard the Arizona in 1941 are still alive and the others plan to be laid to rest with their families. When it was carried out, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was the deadliest attack on American soil and in the days that followed the United States joined China, Great Britain and the Soviet Union in their fight against Germany, Italy and Japan, the struggle of the second World War. Up next a way artificial intelligence could be used to save land and lives. Simply put, AI is using computers to accomplish tasks that people normally do. It`s already sprung up all around us when you look up how to translate a sentence from English to Spanish, when an application picks out new songs or movies or clothes for you based on something you like. When Alexa, or Google or Siri answers questions about everything from the weather to the best way to get somewhere, these are examples of AI in action. And while there are privacy concerns about having your every move or statement monitored, the technology is rapidly changing the ways many people live. Can it help protect them from danger? Smokey the Bear is a U.S. Forest Service character that has told people for decades \"Only you can prevent forest fires or wildfires\". Could artificial intelligence also play a role?", "In 2018, California saw the largest and deadliest wildfires in its history. The notorious \"Camp Fire\" spread at a rate of 80 football fields per minute. That means detecting wildfires as early as possible and responding quickly have become essential to thwarting a potentially deadly disaster and one start up says it`s found a way to spot fires just minutes after they spark.", "From the image being captured in space, to us producing an alert it`s about nine minutes start to finish.", "Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico Descartes Labs uses cloud based artificial intelligence to analyze huge swaths of real time satellite imagery and identify fires.", "And we decided to focus on satellite imagery just because there`s so much of it and this means there`s lots and lots of data about the planet.", "Today, fire authorities most often rely on human spotters to report a blaze but Descartes AI platform scans thermal imagery from NOAA satellites to look for what the company calls heat anomalies.", "And this turns out to be a - - a pretty challenging problem because the temperature of the Earth is always changing. And we basically seek out these hotspots by modeling what the Earth would look like if there wasn`t a fire there and then comparing that to the image that we get from the GOES-16 and 17 satellites. And if we notice a - - a big discrepancy than that`s a pretty good indicator that there`s a fire there.", "The company says it`s already pinpointed exact locations for 4,700 fires and is currently testing a wildfire alert system with the local forestry division in New Mexico, but Descartes sees a future where it could help fire authorities in other states too.", "I think the \"Kincade Fire\" is a good example of, you know, how this technology could change how we respond to fires.", "In October 2019, the \"Kincade Fire\" started in Sonoma County, California and went on to scorch more than 77,000 acres of land. The company says it generated an alert before most people even knew the fire existed.", "We detected it about 10 minutes after it started but it was a lot more challenging for - - for people because this fire started at - - around 9:30 at night. And it wouldn`t be until half an hour after we had already broadcast our alert that CAL FIRE would have a - - a plane over the fire and another few hours until they actually reported it publicly.", "To the team it`s evidence of the systems advantage over human spotters. Of course to really make an impact, the technology will need to integrate with fire fighting authorities that can respond to the fires on the ground.", "It`s all about making sure that less fires slip through the cracks that then go on to become these massive mega fires.", "The company`s ambitions don`t stop there. It`s currently using this same technology to find methane leaks in oil fields and scan crops in Africa to identify potential food shortages. Other companies are working on similar technology as well.", "There`s lots of different ways you can apply this AI technology at scale and try to monitor the Earth and try to stop problems before they become much, much bigger.", "This is a perfect 10 out of 10 idea. Let`s put this electric eel to work. The animal at the Tennessee Aquarium is named Miguel Wattson. He`s the electric eel and somehow engineers harnessed his shocks to power the lights of a nearby Christmas tree. When he`s just swimming around looking for food, the lights blink a little. When he gets excited or he eats, the tree really lights up. We bet it glows like nobody`s business when he hears his favorite Christmas song. \"Eel be Home for Christmas\", \"A Holly Jellied Christmas\", \"We Need a Little Fishmish\", \"Eelize Navidad\", \"It`s Beginning to Look A lot Like Crustations\", \"Let it Glow, Let it Glow, Let it Glow\", \"I`m Dreaming of a Wet Christmas\", \"Silver Eels\" and of course every eels undisputed favorite \"Shocking Around the Christmas Tree\". Woo. I`m Carl Azuz and \"eel\" be back tomorrow on CNN. END"], "speaker": ["CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR", "PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT", "ROOSEVELT", "AZUZ", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "AZUZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-289345", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-07-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/20/nday.06.html", "summary": "Christie \"Prosecutes\" Clinton In Mock Trial; Clinton To Announce VP Pick Late This Week; RNC Speakers Barely Address Economy Theme.", "utt": ["We cannot make the chief law enforcement officer of the United States someone who has risked America's secrets and lied to the American people about it day, after day, after day. We didn't disqualify Hillary Clinton to be president of the United States, the facts of her life and career disqualify her.", "That was New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, blasting Hillary Clinton. We heard that a lot last night. That was his speech at the Republican Convention. Attacks on Clinton emerging as the common theme, though. She's mentioned more by speakers than even the nominee, Donald Trump, was. So, joining me now is Democratic senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown. He's endorsed Hillary Clinton and is on her short list for vice president. Senator, thanks so much for being here.", "Welcome to my city.", "Your city's fabulous.", "I live six miles from here. The suit I'm wearing was made by union workers five miles from here, so --", "Is that right?", "I'm thrilled you're in Cleveland, thank you.", "I'm enjoying some good Cleveland food every night.", "This is a great city. It's coming back, it's doing well. Still lots of problems, of course, but having the convention here is a big, big deal for us. Thank you.", "That's great. So what is it like to have the convention here and to hear all of Donald Trump's supporters? Basically, last night there were chants, in the convention hall, from his delegates and supporters of \"lock her up, lock her up\", referring to the candidate that you support, Hillary Clinton.", "Oh, it's -- I mean, I just watch -- watching the show, a couple of guests ago, talk about Lucifer and the -- I made a promise, as I said to you. I made a promise a week ago that I will not criticize the Republicans -- the Republican Party or Donald Trump while they're in Cleveland at this convention because I -- I mean, I'm not a host for this, per se, but it's in my city and I'm proud of that.", "That's awfully gracious of you. I mean --", "But, I -- well, I -- gracious or not, I just think that I want to celebrate that they're here. There's plenty of time -- and I expect colleagues, of course, other Democrats to be critical but --", "But as a supporter don't you need to speak out when you hear people saying things that you think are below the belt. I mean, I know that you want to extend the welcome mat to people in Cleveland, but isn't it incumbent upon you to say -- to correct them if you think that there's a --", "Sure, and I will defend -- I think that Hillary Clinton is -- when -- during the Ohio primary when I was with Bill Clinton in Akron, Ohio and Hillary was somewhere else in the state, and I introduced Bill but I said no offense, Mr. President, but Hillary Clinton's the most qualified person to run for president in my lifetime. And he agreed and applauded and the audience did, too. So, there's no question how qualified she is, I'm just not going to make the contrast with Trump this week. But, how qualified she is -- this is convention rhetoric, red meat rhetoric. The people you hear this year have the same angry look on their face as they did four years ago talking about Barack Obama, just different words. Many of the same people, much of the same tone, the same anger -- a lot of anger on the stage and that's too bad but there will be time to answer all that.", "Well, there are some things that Gov. Chris Christie raised that maybe now is the time to answer. One of the things that he talked about was that as Secretary of State he doesn't believe that Hillary Clinton prepared adequately for life after Gaddafi in Libya and that some of the chaos that we've seen there and the violence should have been thought out.", "So, let's debate those issue without name calling. I mean, look at -- look at the debates -- the tone of the Democratic debates versus the Republican debates leading up to this. And I think you can have these debates about Benghazi, although the committee that analyzed this, spending millions of taxpayer dollars, you know -- you saw -- you saw Hillary stand up to those committees.", "Sure, not just the Benghazi but, I mean, Libya.", "No, not just Benghazi, but Libya, and yes --", "You know, I mean --", "We can debate those but let's look at her record as Secretary of State. She built the foundation for the Iran agreement, which any fair-minded people say will keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of the Iranians. Will keep that -- will stop that nuclear program for a much longer period of time. It was a terrific victory for Israel, for the Middle East, for our safety.Let's debate her as Secretary of State, but let's not call her names and have people shout out things that just aren't appropriate.", "Is no one going to call Donald Trump any names next week in Philadelphia?", "Of course they are, of course they are. But, I, again, will make the contrast between her qualifications and his. But, you know, he went through a whole primary where they called each other names and attacked each other's families, and that seems to be -- Again, I'm drawing a line here because I don't want to be particularly critical this week when they're in my city, but that led to this kind of speech at the convention. I mean, when somebody that was a presidential candidate talking about Lucifer, and just being on this show. And I hear that rhetoric far too much and I know we'll hear it into November and it will be an angry campaign. But I wish we could talk about her record as Secretary of State compared to his business record. And talk to her employees and talk to some of his employees. I think those contrasts will be made and I think that Hillary Clinton lives on those.", "We have learned that, as early as Friday, Hillary Clinton may be announcing her vice presidential pick. What have you heard?", "I've read those reports, the same ones you have, and I heard she's going to Florida and make the announcement with the vice president. I have no idea and I don't -- I don't -- I don't talk about this. I've not talked about this from the beginning.", "I know you haven't, but are you interested in the job?", "I'm not talking about vice president no matter how you ask it, but Iappreciate your style and appreciate your persistence.", "I hope you appreciate this next question on the same topic because we've heard that it has come down to two candidates. That's it's between Virginia senator, Tim Kaine and agriculture secretary, Tom Vilsack. Who would you like to see her pick?", "I knew they -- nice try. First of all, we have heard, you have heard it from --", "Our reporting. Our CNN reporting has it.", "I've watched --", "This is more than idle gossip.", "OK.", "This is CNN reporting.", "There is a chance that might be right, there is a chance it isn't. I don't know. I really don't know and I don't think that -- I know you don't know, I know I don't know. And I'm assuming that Tim Kaine and Sec. Vilsack don't know that either, but I don't know. I'm not avoiding, I just think it's proper -- it's improper for me to talk about it. And I know I'm saying I'm not going to criticize Republicans this week. I'm also not going to talk about the vice president. But have me back on Friday or Saturday and I will answer all your questions directly.", "You've limited me to just talking Cleveland restaurants --", "OK, we can do that.", "-- which is fantastic.", "We can talk -- here's what we can talk about. The last time a Republican convention was in my state was in this city in 1936 and the Republicans nominated Alf Landon, and he carried Maine and Vermont. I'm not predicting that their nominee this year will do that badly, but the outcome's going to be similar.", "Senator Sherrod Brown, thanks so much --", "Thanks.", "-- for being on NEW DAY. Great to have you here. Well, Donald Trump's children were, of course, in the national spotlight last night. Did they do a good job of humanizing their father in their speeches? We'll look at their role in his campaign, coming up."], "speaker": ["GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), NEW JERSEY", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. SHERROD BROWN (D), OHIO", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA", "BROWN", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-229218", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2014-4-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/25/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Nevada Rancher Denies He's Racist", "utt": ["We return to that controversy over the rancher, Cliven Bundy, who is in a fight with the federal government over federal grazing fees. His racist remarks have clearly blunted that message, caused so many of his supporters to simply bail out.", "You know I -- maybe I sinned, and maybe I need to ask forgiveness, and maybe I don't know what was - what I actually said, but, you know, when you talk about prejudice, we're talking about not being able to exercise what we think and our feelings, we don't have - we're not freedom to say - we don't have freedom to say what we want. If I call -- if I say Negro or black boy or slave, I'm not - I'm not -- if those people cannot take those kind of words and not be offensive, then Martin Luther King hasn't got his job done yet.", "Let's bring in our chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash and our CNN political commentator Paul Begala, who's just written a very, very tough piece on cnn.com. Some of it very funny.", "But you're on fire when it comes to the fallout from this whole incident. And give it - give us a little nugget.", "Well, I think the more interesting thing is not that this rancher has said this racist stuff, which is newsworthy and it's reprehensible, it's how before he said that right-wing pundits and politicians jumped to his side and his defense. And my argument is, they should have known better. I mean there's a pattern here. They keep finding these folk heroes. Ted Nugent or Joe the Plumber, the \"Duck Dynasty\" guy or, more notoriously, George Zimmerman, and they rush to their side and then they're shocked, shocked when they say outrageous things. They just ought to know better, candidly. And if they'd applied their real principles, conservative principles, to this situation and just changed the facts a little, what, for - and I argued this in the piece, what if, instead of a rancher out in Nevada, it had been the New Black Panther Party and they'd holed up in a city in a federal facility and for 20 years have been taking federal property and not paying for it. Do you really think Sean Hannity would be out there in sympathy with them or any of these right-wing politicians? Of course not. So my interest is more in the right-wing politicians and pundits who seem duped every time by these eccentric characters.", "What's been the political fallout from all of this, Dana?", "Well, you're certainly right, that many of those, not surprisingly those who maybe need viewers (ph) and those who want Republican-based voters, amid those who are thinking about running in 2016, many of them ran to his defense. Those are the people who are quickly saying that -- distancing themselves from him. The Rand Pauls, the Rick Perrys, people like that. But it should be noted for the record that the major Republican organization, the RNC, the NRSC, which is a group that tries to help Senate get elected, which is the big money prize this fall, they didn't say a word about him. In fact, one of my sources at one of those groups said to me, I was asked by reporters many times and I don't want to talk about that yahoo because he just had a feeling about it. So, you know, there is sort of a difference within the Republican party about who runs to these folk hero's defense. The other thing that I will say is that I've got a lot of frustrated phone calls from Republican sources saying, you know what, there's a double standard. We heard Sean Hannity say this on his - on his program yesterday, but some of my Republican sources were giving me specifics. For example, a sitting governor in Illinois, Pat Quinn, tweeted out something, it's an article which talked about Jewish people collaborating with the Nazis during World War II, likening that to black voters who support his Republican opponent. Now, they had to apologize for it. It's not the same kind of thing because he wasn't saying explicitly racist remark, but it's not just a yahoo from Nevada, as some would say, it's a sitting governor. And the point there is that they don't get the kind of -- Democrats don't get the kind of scrutiny necessarily that Republicans do.", "Here's the difference. First off, it's reprehensible. That's the first I've heard of it, but of course that's reprehensible and Governor Quinn ought to be ashamed of himself. As I say, as a Democrat, he's in my party as well. The difference is, I don't think we ought to be running to every politician every time somebody says something crazy or offensive.", "Right.", "They -- conservative pundits and some politicians, they rushed to Mr. Bundy.", "Absolutely.", "They embraced him. And then once you do that, and they did it with Ted Nugent, Greg Abbott, the attorney general in Texas, had him -- Nugent at one of his rallies introduce him.", "No question (ph).", "So once you embrace these nuts, you're going to have to take what comes with it. And I -- just as a strategist they - you -- people you talk to, the national party, did the right thing.", "They got it (ph).", "They -- you could smell this guy's craziness a mile away. I mean it's, you know, there's a lot of things that you can see coming, and this one you saw coming. It's going to happen again, though, you watch. It will happen again. We'll have another right wing folk hero and the Hannitys of the world, so blinded by hatred for the president or hatred of the federal government or whatever it is they hate, are going to step in it again, you watch.", "Because, you know, it's hard to understand all the sympathy. Even before the racist remarks came out, the fact is, he was violating federal law, didn't pay", "Our colleague last night did an interview with him, Bill Weir, and called him a welfare queen in a cowboy hat. So that's to your point. But I think the answer to that, and you're from Texas, you're from the area with big lands, unlike here on the East Coast, you know better than I, but there is -- there's a definite kind of feeling out there, and this is a real issue. It has been since the time of Waco back when you were covering the Clinton White House, that land issues are just kind of a different kind of beast when it comes to how people out there in the real world, in big sky country and so on feel about the government.", "You want to weigh in?", "And when there are those disputes, if you love your country, you obey the laws. And the laws are determined by the courts. And then when the courts say, as apparently they did in this case, you have to vacate that land or you can no longer graze, you obey that. And, to me, that's where the line was crossed. And I think, for all these pundits and politicians to have been embracing him, even before he said the racist stuff, was an enormous mistake. And if you had changed the facts ever so slightly, what if he was a Muslim and wanted to set up a caliphate there, they would have never embraced him. So I just think that this is an enormous mistake for Republicans but it is one you hide and watch, as Bill Clinton used to say, hide and watch. They're going to make the mistake again.", "Very quickly, Dana, the speaker, John Boehner, he's causing a little bit of a stir out there. Immigration reform has sort of died lately, but I think he'd like to see it revived. And he had some strong words.", "That's right. He was speaking at his -- in his home district in Ohio to a local group there and talked about the fact that his members don't want to take tough votes on immigration. Listen to what he said.", "But here's - here's the attitude. Oh, don't make me do this. Oh, this is too hard.", "Now, he's getting some backlash from conservative groups saying, you know, that this is inappropriate for him to be saying this. And it is the first time we have seen him do this publically. But I can now tell you, because I got approval to do so from somebody in Boehner's world, that he does this a lot, off the record, and in private. That this is something that he regularly says, I've witnessed him doing this, talking about the fact that his members don't want to take these tough votes, especially on immigration. He does it all the time, to their faces.", "All right.", "So, for then, they're not going to be surprised, but it certainly is an issue in public (ph).", "Let's see if immigration -", "I'm sure you're - you're not that happy about it.", "Let's see if immigration reform can be revived right now.", "Yes.", "We'll see if it happens. Guys, thanks very much. Up next, we'll have more on the search for Flight 370. There's been a major -- one major thing missing, the beacons that were supposed to send signals in a crash, did not go off, any of them, none of them. There are four that were supposed to go off. 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{"id": "CNN-347250", "program": "HALA GORANI TONIGHT", "date": "2018-08-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/09/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Lebanese Parliament May Legalize Growing Pot.", "utt": ["To Lebanon now where a change in climate has devastated traditional agriculture. Some farmers have moved on to a drought resistant crop, marijuana. As our Ben Wedeman reports, the government may soon make pot cultivation legal.", "The carpet of cannabis sprawls across Lebanon's Beqaa Valley. A forbidden crop, but perhaps not much longer. The government is considering legalizing marijuana cultivation for medicinal purposes. Music to the ears of this farmer, who asked that we not reveal his identity. If only the government knew its value, he says. It's like another petroleum. He shows us around the fields singing the praises of a plant farmers have grown in this red soil for generations. This is not a drug, I tell you, 1,000, 1,500 times, he says, cocaine, heroin, those are drugs. This is the herb of happiness. My friend says when he smokes a joint, his wife becomes a princess. The world shines. Life is beautiful. Other crops like tobacco and potatoes are increasingly difficult to grow as the climate here becomes drier. Under these difficult conditions, weed works. Lebanon has been struggling through a prolonged financial crisis. And export of the country's famed cannabis, better known here as hashish, could lift the struggling economy. Fact is, hashish is the most logical crop to grow in this area. It requires very little in the way of inputs like water and fertilizer. And they don't use any pesticides. And as the farmers will tell you, the profits are fairly high. While some conservative elements oppose any form of legalization, Lebanese officials are suddenly proud of their pot.", "Many, many specialists, they have studied the quality of this cannabis and they say that it's one of the best in the world.", "Economy and trade minister, Raed Khoury is blunt about the benefits for a country deeply in debt.", "It can provide around $400 million to $800 million of revenues to the country.", "As a solution to financial woes, Lebanese grass may be greener, yet activists, Gino Raidy, is concerned that the country's many recreational users won't benefit from the buzz.", "So the word is now is that if they legalize it for export, for medicinal purposes, it will remain the same status in the criminal justice in Lebanon. Which means the things the government might be making a lot of money off of is still illegal for locals and they still get in trouble for it.", "But for many others, these buds smell like money. Ben Wedeman, CNN, in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon.", "And from getting high to hitting the high notes, sports lovers in Ireland had plenty of reasons to sing over the past few days after the women's hockey team made it to the World Cup finals. They didn't win, but for many, just getting that far felt like Christmas had come early.", "More than you could ever know, make my wish come true, baby all --", "That's right. All I want for Christmas is you. And yes, we are fully aware that it is August and that parts of Europe have been in the grips of a major heat wave, but when it comes to World Cups and Mariah Carey, ordinary rules simply don't apply, especially when the legendary diva gives her seal of approval tweeting that is amazing. Along with several appropriate emojis. Fun fact, it took Mariah Carey just 15 minutes to write \"All I Want For Christmas Is You.\" It was clearly time well spent. The song charts every holiday season is one of the best-selling singles of all-time. As one Twitter user put it, \"Mariah Carey can sip champagne, do her nails and lie down in her chaise lounge all day every day and still get millions every December from a song she recorded 22 -- 23 years ago. A legend.\" Well that's it for us tonight. Thank you so much for watching. Stay with CNN. \"QUEST MEANS BUSINESS\" is up next. END"], "speaker": ["WARD", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "RAED KHOURY, LEBANESE ECONOMY AND TRADE MINISTER", "WEDEMAN", "KHOURY", "WEDEMAN", "GINO RAIDY, ACTIVIST", "WEDEMAN", "WARD", "CROWD", "WARD"]}
{"id": "CNN-161103", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-1-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/21/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Chinese Teens in the Economic Boom", "utt": ["OK. This week we have talked a lot about China's business success, but my next guest, a Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang, is joining me now to talk about teenagers growing up in China's fast-moving economy. When I read about this, this made me think about what you think of as the American dream, that sort of ethos. He is currently in production on a documentary looking at young Chinese teens in search of fame in amateur boxing, but his last film got a lot of news. Called \"Up the Yangtze,\" it documented the social changes for families that was brought on by the Three Gorges Dam Project, a construction project that displaced over a million people. Yung, thank you for joining us.", "Thanks for having me.", "For my viewers who don't remember, the Three Gorges Project, that was such a big part of China's emerging economy. It was something that China did to generate energy, but tell us some of the bad side of it.", "Well, I mean looking at it from the human perspective, the displacement of millions of people and surrounding that issue including corruption in terms of compensation, I mean, it was rife with many, many issues. And certainly when I was there working on this film \"Up the Yangtze,\" the focus on the human voice on some of these individuals being directly affected by the dam, it was very stark from a basic level of survival. It -- I think using this prism, this microcosm of the Three Gorges Dam and the Yangtze River to zoom in and focus on the human story was very emotional for me (ph)", "All right, so let me ask you one that really brought to mind maybe a hardscrabble kid in the '20s in the U.S. trying to make a buck where opportunity was growing. You have a story, for instance, of a girl whose parents either didn't want to send her to school, couldn't afford to even if they wanted to. So she takes a job dealing with American tourists. Tell me what happened there.", "Well, essentially, her home is going to be flooded by the Three Gorges Dam, and in order to support the family in that sort of Confusion Valley, she has to go and leave the cruise ship, as the eldest daughter -- I'm sorry, to leave her family home, and to go to support the family by working on this ironically, a luxury cruise ship that serves international tourists traveling up and down the Yangtze Sea known as the Farewell Cruise documenting the disappearance of the river.", "And in fact, she makes good money doing it?", "She does. And I mean, as a young girl pursuing dreams of success and, you know, being surrounded by materialism and changes in the Chinese society in that respect, certainly, she, I mean, the money she makes on average, she was making triple the income of her father in one month that he would make in one year.", "OK. Tell me this then --", "Approximately $200", "Tell me this then, is there some sense that in a communist totalitarian regime where generally speaking, historically, the average Chinese person would die largely in the same economic rung that they were born, has all of the success in China caused people to be more ambitious and to do something more like what we think of as the American dream? Go out there and try to hustle for more money and success.", "I think that the notion of the American dream can be transported directly into the country of China right now. I think, you know, peasants can become millionaires, as they say. And I think many of the youth in China and including young adults are driven by a certain ambition to survive, to better their livelihoods. It's not uncommon and I would say that it is -- it is sort of driving society right now in China. A colleague of mine, the filmmaker Lixin Fan, made a film \"Last Train Home.\" This film documenting migrant workers in southern China. And certainly, what comes out of the film as well as that \"Up the Yangtze,\" is that China is currently the, you know, the world's factory and migrant workers are the backbone of society right now. They are making the clothing that we are wearing today, you know. And certainly from that perspective, it's very difficult to argue against the idea that how can someone like a 16-year-old girl, Ushway (ph), how could she not want to pursue her dreams, how could she not want to better her life by pursuing a job on a cruise ship for example.", "yang, thanks for joining us. Great to talk to you, get a little more perspective on what goes in China that we talk so much about.", "Thanks, Ali.", "President Obama is in upstate New York today talking about jobs and by the way, China, it comes up in every conversations he has these days. He toured the GE plant in Schenectady with GE's CEO Jeff Immelt, the same Immelt that will chair the White House Economic Group. Ed Henry, our senior White House correspondent, joins me form the White House. Ed, you have some behind the scenes scoop about what this is all about.", "Well, you know, look, this is part of a narrative they are trying to build here at the White House. You know, you put Jeff Immelt in charge of this panel, talk about creating jobs, you think about the visit this week with the Chinese president and this president was all about salesman in chief, we want to sell you planes, we want to sell you cars, you know, all about the trade, something that he did not talk about so much in the first two years. And that's because building up to the State of the Union Tuesday night, when he's going to address millions of Americans, aides say the message is really going to have twin themes. It's going to be all about creating jobs and promoting America competitiveness around the world. And so look, especially with Bill Daley as the new chief of staff, a former business guy, they clearly have gotten the message that they are going to fine tune this. The first two years, there were a lot of issues flying around, some of their own making, some that got thrown in their lap, but the next two years are going to be all about jobs and competitiveness. That's the bottom line.", "OK, so here is a guy from the world of business, Bill Daley, the new chief of staff, a man from the world of business and politics. You have a big piece on CNN.com shedding some light on Bill Daley.", "Yes, well, we did a kind of power profile of him, we call it \"The Sweep.\" And it's interesting because -- it's up there right now -- and I went back and talked to people from his past, including from that 2000 campaign. You'll remember, he was the Gore campaign chairman, had to come out in the middle of the night and say, look this is not done yet, the campaign continues. I talked to one of his former colleagues, Don Bear (ph), who was telling me he was in the car with Bill Daley the morning of that election and they were going through all these scenarios at 06:30 in the morning about what might happen on election night. And Daley basically turned to Don Bear and he says -- he told him, I'm getting too old for this. And fast forward now, he was 51 at that time, he's 62 now. And one of his friends just told me they were having dinner and Bill Daley just said basically the same thing, I am getting too old for this, but he keeps on taking on these tasks. Now at the age of 62, he's got to deal with trying to fix the economy, trying to fend off Republicans who want to tear down health care reform, you know, bill and other things and he's got to deal with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And oh, by the way, he's got to get the president ready for reelection in 2012. This is someone whose got an enormous task ahead of him. When you look at his past, he's pretty well prepared and brings a lot to the table for this president.", "Yes, it probably doesn't hurt that he's got a few more pro-business friends in the White House right now. But off to something else, some bigger business than what he's got to deal with. The president going to be watching football?", "Yes, you know, Robert Gibbs says that the president is going to invite some friends over, maybe even some lawmakers this weekend to watch the Bears against the Packers. I know your executive producer may have a thought on that, maybe a Green Bay fan. The president, of course, is a Chicago Bears' fan and is going to be rooting for them. And in fact, he told us a couple days ago that if the Bears make it to the Super Bowl, he is going to Dallas for the game. First time in a long time that a president will be at a Super Bowl. So we'll see if the Bears can follow it up. And you may have heard that little quip he had at the beginning of that event there in upstate New York where he said that Governor Cuomo wanted to give him a Jets' cap and the Secret Service confiscated it. So -- I think that he was joking. I'm pretty sure he was joking.", "Yes, he likes to wage those sports conflicts.", "It gets a little dangerous sometimes, yes.", "Ed, good to see you. Thanks very much.", "Have a good weekend, Ali.", "Ed Henry, White House correspondent, with \"The Stakeout.\" Read his note on -- his article on CNN.com on Bill Daley. OK, from Tucson to Texas, we are watching the flight carrying Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords to Houston for the next phase of her recovery. That's the flight taking off from Tucson. 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{"id": "CNN-156263", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-9-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/30/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Teen Suicide Linked to Sex Spying; Fisher-Price Recalling Millions of Toys. 30,000 McDonald's Workers Could Lose Health Benefits; Rocking Out with Rush", "utt": ["So nice to have you here.", "Good to see you in the NEWSROOM. Good morning. Yes.", "And we all know why. You had a chance to catch up with some old buddies that you haven't seen in, what? Three decades?", "It's been a long time. It hasn't been three decades but it's been a long time.", "Well, what was so special for me, not only to see how excited you were to team up with them, but how excited Rush was, Getty and Alex and Neil, to see you and when they said come up on stage and jam, we had to top off the show with this.", "I guess you could qualify that as geezer rock.", "Now you -- in all honesty, you said that was, like, the highlight -- a highlight of your life.", "My musical life. I mean there are lots of other highlights in my life, of course.", "I hope so.", "Yes. But in terms of this -- you know, a frustrated guitarist who's always sort of had that dream of being a rock n' roll star -- I know you always wanted to be a country singer. You know, to be able to exercise that Jones even for four minutes playing limelight with them on stage --", "It is great.", "An awful lot of fun.", "Well, we're going to catch up, talk more about that. And I loved when I look over at Getty and I said, how did he do? And he goes, he did great.", "So we'll talk more about your interview.", "I think they were just being nice.", "No. Well, they are incredible guys.", "They are. Yes.", "All right. We'll talk a little bit. Thanks so much, John.", "All right. You bet.", "All right. We've got that, of course. And also this hour, we're talking with Tom", "Authorities tonight may have recovered the body of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi. Witnesses spotted the freshman on the walkway of the George Washington Bridge last Wednesday. His car was discovered nearby with his wallet, I.D., cell phone and laptop inside. Just days earlier authorities say his roommate, Dharun Ravi, also a freshman, secretly taped Clementi's sexual encounter with another man.", "He", "He was Dharun's roommate --", "Roommate. So there was really nothing about it. So this is all surprising to all of us what was happening.", "Danielle Birbaum (ph) lives in the room next door in their Rutgers room. Amongst those astonished that the two fellow students have been arrested and charged with invading Clementi's privacy to play out over the Internet. Sources tell PIX 11 Ravi lined up his webcam and placed a Skype account on auto answer. On his twitter account he says, quote, \"Roommate asked for the room until midnight. I went into Molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.\" Molly Wei, Ravi's high school classmate's computer was allegedly used to access Ravi's webcam through Skype and his twitter account suggested a second attempt to peek into Clementi's life. Two days later this message, quote, \"Anyone with iChat I dare you to video chat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes, it's happening again,\" end quote. This followed days later by a Facebook status this time updated by Clementi saying plainly, quote, \"Jumping off the GW Bridge. Sorry,\" end quote. The medical examiner's office now will conduct an autopsy. Sources say the parents of the accomplished violinist may have been unaware their son was gay.", "You knew that Tyler was gay?", "Yes. Because I live next door to him. It was just like obvious. He had the guy in his room. I saw that. Like --", "Did the guy come in more than once? Or was it just that one time?", "I only saw him once.", "Was he a student or --", "No. He was a little bit older.", "If authorities are able to prove a connection between Clementi's death and the alleged invasion of his privacy, the 18-year- old will join a disturbing growing trend of young students across the country who are cyber bullied to the point of collapse. Some perhaps intentionally cruel, some perhaps carelessly.", "Now the prosecutor's office says that the investigation is ongoing but it says it won't speculate on extra charges against Ravi and Molly Wei. Dharun Ravi, rather -- Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei. Parry Aftab is an Internet privacy lawyer and the executive director of Wiredsafety.org. She's joining me live from New York. Now you know what I've been hearing for the first time so many Internet attorneys and I don't know if you feel this way, Parry, at this point but they're coming forward and saying, what's it going to take to show people how dangerous the Internet has become?", "Well, I don't know that the Internet is so dangerous, but these kinds of actions are. So abuse of the technologies is what we're looking at. And I am very concerned about it. We have laws in place and then in this case I expect that either the federal prosecutor or the state prosecutors are going to start looking at civil rights violations as well.", "Civil rights violations, because the gay rights group Garden State Equality actually released a statement, saying, quote, \"We are sickened that anyone in our society such as the students allegedly responsible for making this surreptitious video might consider destroying others' lives as a sport.\" So do you think this could be considered a hate crime?", "I think so. I mean hate crimes are a little tricky. They don't work the way people think they do. But it could be a civil rights case. And that was used in the Phoebe Prince case by the prosecutor. And I think that treating this as only a privacy violation is a sin. Tyler's life was worth far more than that and there are lot more laws that were broken here.", "OK. Well, let's talk about the laws that were broken. And what could this man be held accountable for, Dharun, specifically, and then also, the young lady who allowed him to come into her room and actually call up Skype so this could be broadcast?", "Well, I think we need to have the full facts but civil rights violations, wiretap laws, federal and state apply. And there are going to be a number of other things as far as harassment that may apply, as well. So once we start digging into this enough, I expect there are going to be a lot more crimes that are going to be charged with.", "And so -- could this case, because of how brutal it is and what has happened, somehow trigger any type of legislation or changes when it comes to -- and I know it's a kind of broad question but it could it lead to anything to somehow put restrictions or changes on the Internet?", "Well, I don't know that the Internet needs more restrictions and I think we have the laws. We just need to make sure the prosecutors understand them. What we need to do here is change behavior. And so I have teens who went to school, were in high school with Tyler and loved him in Ridgewood who happened to be my teen angels, my teen Internet safety experts, who across the country at their own universities are creating a program called \"Step Up, Speak Out\" to get college students to say, this is not going to happen again. Not on our campus or any campus. And if we can change behavior, we can make sure that this won't happen again.", "It's just atrocious that this man and young lady would even think of doing what they did. It's heart-wrenching.", "It is such a loss.", "Yes.", "Such a loss.", "It is. Parry Aftab, thanks so much.", "Thank you.", "Well, Clementi's classmates say that he wasn't quiet and many people weren't exactly sure what his sexual orientation was, but nearly 9 out of 10 gay/lesbian/transgender and bisexual kids are harassed at school according to a recent school climate survey. And just this month we've learned of three gay school-aged children who committed suicide. In Indiana, 15-year-old Billy Lucas was made fun of for being different for being gay. His classmates reportedly told him he should kill himself and he did. Police say his body was found hanging in a barn. In Texas, 13-year-old Asher Brown shot himself with a pistol after he was bullied by classmates. A school district spokeswoman says that she never heard complaints but Asher's mom and stepdad told Anderson Cooper a very different story.", "Why do you think, Amy, that the school district is now saying, well, look, we didn't know about it?", "Because my son killed himself. And he's gone. And we can't bring him back and they realized what they did was wrong. They didn't take this seriously. And nothing's going to bring him back. And we have no reason to lie about the fact that we went to them for help. To make it stop.", "And in California, a touching Internet tribute to a 13-year-old who died in the hospital days after he tried to hang himself from a tree. Seth Walsh had been in a coma since he was found unconscious in his backyard over a week ago. Officers talked to some teens who allegedly made fun of Seth for being gay but they say no charges will be filed. Bullying in our schools and now online. Why do kids even do it? And what can be done to put an end to it? An \"AC 360\" special report that you can't miss, it's beginning Monday night 10:00 Eastern. Well, Congress has completed its last piece of business before lawmakers return home to hit the campaign trail. The House voted early this morning to fund the federal government for the next two months. President Obama's expected to sign the bill before Friday when the new fiscal year begins. Now if the stop gap measure had failed, the government would have shut down. And before adjourning, the House also passed a bill providing free medical care for first responders to the 9/11 attacks. Many first responders blame illnesses on toxins that they say they were exposed to at Ground Zero. Most Republicans have complained the $7.4 billion plan is too costly. The Senate must still vote on that bill. Prosecutors are revealing details of their case against the failed Times Square bomber. The FBI recreated and detonated the bomb that Faisal Shahzad tried to use, and like the field testing blast in Pennsylvania, the Times Square bomb did not explode back on May 1st. Prosecutors say that if Shahzad had not been arrested he planned to detonate a second bomb in New York City two weeks later. The Army's largest base reeling from four apparent suicides in just one weekend. Soldiers taking their own lives. It's a disturbing trend. 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{"id": "CNN-295872", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-10-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/10/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Ex \"Access Hollywood\" Producer on Tape Leak.", "utt": ["Billy Bush, hot mics and a videotape, this is a moment that could be a turning point in the race for president. From what we know, a producer at \"Access Hollywood\" remembered they interviewed Trump back in 2005, they pulled the tape, they discovered this hot-mic conversation between the nominee and star host. Vulgar, disgusting and newsworthy. \"Access Hollywood\" says it alerted NBC News of what they found, but the executives sat on it for days, so someone leaked this tape to \"The Washington Post.\" Within hours, bam, an apology tour, parade of Republican deflections, and first 30 minutes of the nastiest debate we have ever seen. The question is, are there more tapes to come? Joining me, Antony Beilinsohn, you were a senior broadcast producer at \"Access Hollywood,\" and he worked with both Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell. Also with me, CNN senior media correspondent, host of \"Reliable Sources, Mr. Brian Stelter. Antony, you first. We know \"Access Hollywood\" said, we remember we interviewed Trump, let's go to the archives, they pull the tape from 2005, they alerted NBC News, and they sat on it. You have been in those news rooms. What's the process? Take me back to when they would have found the tape. Who would have found it? Who would have seen it?", "Well, here's what happened. Once a story becomes newsworthy, obviously, Trump is running for the presidency of the United States, and what a news organization will do is go back through all the footage they have and find out if -- they've done hundreds of shoots with Trump over the years. Find out if there is something potentially newsworthy. Once they found that newsworthy item, then it goes to the producers of the show and the lawyers. Listen, \"Access Hollywood\" is not technically a news organization. So it is sort of overseen a little differently than NBC News. They have to assess whether they can air a piece of tape that was recorded privately between Trump and the host. And so that takes discussions. That takes some legal conversations. And sort of in-between them finding the tape, the legal discussion, somebody has decided that they, then, want to leak that tape, obviously, to embarrass Trump. So, that's --", "So you're getting ahead of me. Before someone decides to leak the tape, why do you think they decided to sit on it?", "I think they decided to sit on it for a couple of reasons. First of all, it's a private conversation. It's kind of like being on the record and off the record. Trump and Billy were having a conversation. They technically weren't rolling, so they were technically off the record. Once the tapes were rolling, rolling with the segment, then it becomes on the record. So, he had have to make an assessment as to whether they I believe, legally because it's a private conversation. There are rules that dictate private conversations. Because \"Access Hollywood\" is not technically a news organization, they're under different guidelines than news organizations. So, they decided to sit on it --", "I would point out that Donald Trump and Billy Bush, they're television stars. They know when they're wearing a microphone on --", "I don't care where are you, you've got a microphone on, you should shh.", "Exactly. There were concerns that delayed this a couple days. I believe NBC would have aired this some time, maybe this week, but clearly someone inside NBC didn't think so, because this leaked out, apparently, from inside NBC, to \"The Washington Post.\"", "Antony, do you think it would have been a lower level tape producer sort of person or an upper level, you know, executive or producer?", "Well, here's the truth. The tapes go into a centralized system and everybody at that organization has access to it.", "Would have had access.", "Everybody has access to that tape. And obviously this is being discussed, it's discussed in the news room, everybody knows it's potentially in the system. So, once it goes to the legal department, there could be anybody in that organization, and that's potentially hundreds of people, that could have had access to that tape.", "OK.", "You know, this is incredible. Donald Trump was built up by NBC. He was a star of \"The Apprentice\" for many years. I believe Trump and some at the RNC now think it was top NBC executives, liberal Hollywood types, trying to get back at Trump, trying hurt Trump and leak that tape.", "Look --", "I'm not saying that happened. I don't think it did. But Trump in his own mind is wonder who did this to me.", "Hang on, hang on. Trump is a piece of it. And Billy Bush is as well. He has been suspended by the \"Today\" show.", "Absolutely.", "I want to talk to you, Antony, about your thoughts on Billy Bush. You worked with him. Also about Nancy O'Dell, who they were talking so nastily about. Stay with me. Nobody move. Quick break."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "ANTONY BEILINSOHN, FORMER SENIOR BROADCAST PRODUCER, ACCESS HOLLYWOOD", "BALDWIN", "BEILINSOHN", "BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT & CNN HOST, RELIABLE SOURCES", "BALDWIN", "STELTER", "BALDWIN", "BEILINSOHN", "BALDWIN", "BEILINSOHN", "BALDWIN", "STELTER", "BALDWIN", "STELTER", "BALDWIN", "BEILINSOHN", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-83319", "program": "CNN LIVE SUNDAY", "date": "2004-3-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/28/sun.04.html", "summary": "Residents Of Anniston, Alabama Angry Over Settlement Terms With Chemical Plant", "utt": ["Today is the 25th anniversary of a dark chapter in America's nuclear history, the partial melt down at Three Mile Island. It was the worst nuclear plant accident ever seen in the United States. Americans were riveted by the events at the Pennsylvania facility and worried that radiation would contaminate the environment. For many, the accident lead to greater skepticism when it comes to nuclear power. After the Three Mile Island incident, the U.S. backed off licensing any new nuclear power plants, but now President Bush wants to change that. With utilities squeezing more megawatts out of existing facilities, he wants to jump start the industry. The president is backing an energy plan which calls for the construction of at least one nuclear plant by 2010. And coming up at 6:00 p.m. Eastern, we'll explore a grim reality of nuclear power safety in a post September 11 world. There are always concerns about terrorism. We'll hear from an expert about the protection of nuclear plants in the United States. For years, the people of Addison, Alabama have complained of health problems that they say were caused by chemicals spewed by a nearby plant. They settled with the plant for hundreds of millions of dollars, but much of the money ended up in the pockets of lawyers instead of their own. CNN's David Mattingly reports.", "Every day of her life, Sylvia Curry of Anniston, Alabama has lived in the shadow of a chemical plant. Her strongest memories are of the smell.`", "You can't describe the smell it was so bad.", "But Curry and her neighbors now know there was something much worse in the air, in the soil and in the water: dangerous amount of PCBs, a chemical Curry believes killed her husband with cancer, caused her son's skin disorder and gave her cancer, as well.", "I'm very tired. Like I'm just drained a lot.", "But last September, Curry and thousands of others in two class action lawsuits were awarded a staggering $700 million, paid by the plant owner Solutia and previous owner Monsanto. (on camera): Anniston residents, wanting long term healthcare and the means to move out of this neighborhood were elated. Some believed that the problems were over. They were wrong.", "We didn't get nothing but spills. That's exactly what we got.", "What started as $700 million soon diminished. $100 million was earmarked for environmental cleanup and a free health clinic. Then it was split between two sets of plaintiffs. The judge awarded attorneys on one side, $120 million. Leaving some plaintiffs an average of only about $700,000. Compare, the $29 million alone to Johnnie Cochran who handled the litigation and $34 million to the lead Alabama attorney Jere Beasely.", "The judge found that the fee was necessary, reasonable, and because of the complexity and difficulty of - set the fee at this figure.", "They didn't come in here for the community. They come in here for themselves. They got it and they're gone.", "Angry plaintiffs are complaining to the judge and the attornes. In a letter, Johnny Cochran said he would consult with other attorneys and the judge for provide clarification. Meanwhile, had her husband lived, Sylvia Curry would be now celebrating her 33rd wedding anniversary. Instead, she wonders if she'll see enough of the settlement to move away in hopes of prolonging her own life. David Mattingly, CNN, Anniston, Alabama."], "speaker": ["WALLACE", "DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SYLVIA CURRY, ANNISTON RESIDENT", "MATTINGLY", "CURRY", "MATTINGLY", "CURRY", "MATTINGLY (voice-over)", "JERE BEASLEY, PLAINTIFFS' ATTORNEY", "CURRY", "MATTINGLY"]}
{"id": "CNN-299347", "program": "PRIMETIME JUSTICE WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2016-11-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/29/ptab.01.html", "summary": "Tennessee Wildfires; Burglars Caught on Video; Mom Charged with Overdosing While Shopping with Toddler", "utt": ["Raging inferno in Tennessee, wildfires come roaring into this town, scorching entire buildings, forcing thousands of people to literally to run for their lives and leaving behind a landscape that honestly looks more like a war zone. `And now this breaking news. Three people are dead because of it. `", "Hi, everybody. I`m Ashleigh Banfield. We have breaking news. Tennessee is burning and hurting, and now Tennessee`s wildfires are killing. Three people are now reported dead from the fires are raging across that state. The pictures tell this story, folks. The inferno is destroying homes and hotels and entire buildings and is forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes and run for safety. `", "There was trees on fire in front of our -- where we were at. So we tried to get to our car, and the smoke was so bad, we couldn`t. We covered our faces with wet towels. And then we finally got in the car, and we drove down the mountain a little ways and we ran into a tree that was over the road, and we just watched a building go down in flames to the right of us. Then we pulled in front of another building that wasn`t on fire yet. `", "Gatlinburg, hardest hit by the rolling inferno, is almost unrecognizable today. The ferocious winds and the severe drought have just added fuel to these fires. `Our CNN correspondent Brian Todd was able to make his way there. He is live on the scene tonight. I think it`s a lot of first responders I`m seeing behind you there. But I just need you to tell me what the scene is like, Brian. `BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT Ashleigh, it`s still a very dangerous situation here. We just got an update a short time ago from the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, which says that there are still several fires burning in this area. `As of now, about 14,000 people have been evacuated, and the firefighters can`t get to every area yet to assess the damage and to try to help some others out if they need it. It`s still a very dangerous situation. `They`re going to get a little bit of help from the weather overnight, Ashleigh, but they also may be hurt by the weather because there is a storm system coming through that may dump an inch, maybe an inch-and-a-half of rainfall. That will really help firefighters. `But there could also be some winds. There`s going to be a wind event here overnight and into tomorrow, maybe winds gusting up to 60 miles an hour. So those winds will fan the flames even further. Those winds got up to hurricane force winds at the height of this storm. They`ve also got tornadoes to watch out for. There`s a tornado watch in effect for this area, so still very, very dangerous around here, Ashleigh. `A tourist who was in this area, Barrett McLaughlin, spoke about what he and his family went through a short time ago. Take a listen. `", "As we were coming back from the grocery store, the smoke was just oppressive. And as we got closer to where we knew sort of the area of our cabin was, we realized that the mountain was on fire. Not even just that orange glow, but watching it burn and trees coming down across the road and volunteer firemen out there that couldn`t do anything because the winds were gusting so fast and so strong that it was too dangerous for them to be up there and just having them tell us that we -- you know, here`s where the shelter is. Go there. They`ll have more information. We`re sorry. `", "Brian, you know, other people have described what is going on in your area as apocalyptic. Seeing the fire pictures, we understand that. Seeing the aftermath, we really understand that. All of the people who were in these structures that are now just rubble, it`s somewhere upwards of about 14,000, 15,000. `How much time did they have to get out of there? How fast did this fire come in? `", "Well, Ashleigh, this fire came on very quickly to so many people. You know, we talked about the winds. They got up to hurricane force strength, 88 miles an hour in some cases. Those winds took fire embers and carried them for miles at a time and then dumped them on trees that were set afire because the trees were like match sticks. This drought here has been going on since April, so the trees here very, very dry. `All of it combined to create a wildfire situation where the flames were moving incredibly fast. It came upon people almost before they knew it. We spoke to someone earlier, a man who was getting his family out of town, out of Gatlinburg earlier today, I believe, and the man said that the smoke -- it was yesterday I believe he was getting his family out. He said the smoke and the flames were so intense that they -- he was caravanning with his wife, and he was right behind her car in his car, and he couldn`t even see her car. `", "Oh, my! `", "And the smoke was that bad. And he said his 1-year-old daughter was choking in the back seat. It was a harrowing situation for people, Ashleigh, as they tried to get out of here. `", "As you`re talking -- Brian, as you`re talking, there are pictures to the right-hand side of our screen, honestly, what I can only say looks like Aleppo. It looks like something in the middle of Syria. It is just decimated. It looks like a bomb went off. You can`t recognize what some of these structures were. They`re still smoldering. And it also does look somewhat tornadic. It looks like what happens after a tornado goes through with a fire. `Shannon Patter is one of the people who was in this and is the owner of Old Dad`s General Store in Gatlinburg. Shannon decided not to leave. Shannon stayed because Shannon wanted to be able to feed the first responders. `Shannon, are you with me? `", "I am. `", "How are you? Are you OK? `", "Exhausted, but everyone up here is exhausted. It`s -- it`s been a tragic day up here. `", "It just -- it`s hard to believe you could survive this, staying where you were. And I have seen the pictures. But I don`t live where you live. I`m not looking at it first hand. Is it as bad as the pictures I`m seeing? It truly looks like a war zone. `", "I think it`s worse than the pictures that I`ve seen. Now, let me say this. The first responders, the emergency responders, did a great job for saving downtown Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The infrastructure looks great. But once you get on a back street outside the strip here, it looks like a war zone on every angle. `", "Were you OK? Like, were you -- was it a smart decision for to you stay? I understand you wanted to help those people who were helping you, but was your life in danger at any time? `", "No, and it wasn`t. I did not stay the whole night here. I was at my house. I was hearing all the rumors. You know how social media just blows up. About 2:30 or 3:00, I decided to come up here because I heard the whole block where one of my businesses was on fire. And I`ve got a -- my father-in-law`s restaurant`s across the street on both sides of me. We had heard those was burning. Came up here, and this block was safe, but everything around it was burned. And the least I could do... `", "Well, I can`t imagine that you are still where you are, given what we`re seeing on our screen. Shannon, stand by for a minute, if you will. `Robert Rowe is a fire investigator. He`s the president of Pyrocop, Incorporated. Robert, they`re saying now -- the authorities are saying that they believe that this fire was, quote, \"human caused.\" And I don`t know that they`re saying intentional, unintentional. I don`t know that they even know at this point. How do they even know that it would be human caused? `", "Well, they have to rule out -- an investigation, you`re required to rule out all potential accidental causes. And once do that, then you can start focusing on the human factor. You`re absolutely correct by saying that -- you know, by calling it human factor, it`s not necessarily arson. It`s just that there is a human factor involved. It could be accidental, could be a camp fire, could be carelessly discarded cigarettes, that type of thing. `", "And then other question I have for you is they talked about this being a perfect storm, that literally, all of these things had to come into confluence, the hurricane-force winds, this remarkable drought that has gone on and on for years, low humidity and downed power lines, which by the way, the winds and the falling trees were taking power lines down, and those sparking lines were causing yet even more fires. Is this sort of the 100-year scenario, or is this the kind of thing that actually can happen a lot? `", "Well, you know, in California, we always have problems with brushfires. This is unique in the fact that the trees are much -- the leaves and the branches are much higher. The fire travels much quicker across the treetops, and the risk below is much greater than in the lowlands of California, but nonetheless, equally as dangerous. `", "I just want to go back to Shannon Patterson, if I can. He`s in the middle of all of this, so he`s joining us by telephone, understandably. Shannon are you -- you know, I hate to use the expression, are you out of the woods yet, because I believe that there is truly not much left around you. But are you safe, and is the worst behind you? Are you going to have to evacuate? `", "I hope so, the worst is behind us. But there is an eerie feeling up here. There`s fire trucks everywhere. They are waiting on the embers to be blown down the hill, I have been told, just whenever the winds start. `We have fed about 400 service workers up here today. There`s many more up here, and I`ve just been hearing stories, from there`s a thousand houses burned down to 1,500 to -- and they`re saying that there`s embers all filling those house, and if the winds shift, they could just come right over the mountain top and land right on Gatlinburg. And that`s what they`re worried about. `", "Shannon, please -- you know, be careful, please. And you are magnanimous beyond words to have helped your fellow rescuers and first responders. But please be careful for yourself and your family. And God bless you and your neighbors as you try put the pieces back together. I mean, Tennessee really is hurting. `To all my guests, thank you. We`ll continue to watch the story there in Tennessee. `And then I also have this story for you. The defense has decided now to rest in the case of that former South Carolina police officer who was charged with killing an unarmed black man, but not before the defendant himself took stand, Michael Slager speaking on his own behalf. `He is the man who`s accused of gunning down Walter Scott after pulling him over for a broken taillight. And then he`s accused of lying about why he shot Walter Scott. Last April`s shooting, you`ll remember -- oh! This harrowing, harrowing scene caught on cell phone video. `Slager`s dashcam also was rolling at a different area. The bystander, though, saw this. Prosecutors say what Slager told investigators, that Scott had grabbed his taser, does not match, however, the video evidence. `", "Would you agree that even if Mr. Scott the had that taser, it could not have been used against you at the distance depicted on that video? `", "At that time, I didn`t have that information. So I can`t answer that question. `", "You`ve seen the video. `", "I have. `", "And you`ve heard that he was 18 feet away. Would you agree that he was not a threat to you with that taser, without a cartridge, from that distance? `", "No. `", "OK. So you`re going to stick to that. `", "Yes. And the reason is, from 18 feet, he could have turned around and attacked me again. `", "Michael Slager is also facing separate federal civil rights charges over Walter Scott`s death. The city of North Charleston has already approved a $6.5 million civil settlement with Walter Scott`s family. `Also breaking tonight, six people have been pulled alive from this, imagine it, alive, the wreckage of a crash of a charter flight carrying a soccer team from Brazil. There were 71 passengers on board this plane that did not make it. Crash happened late last night. That team was flying to Colombia to prepare for a match on Wednesday in that country. `Authorities say at least three players, two members of the crew and a reporter covering the team are among those who somehow were able to survive this wreckage. Investigators have now recovered the jet`s black boxes, and they hope that that will help them to figure out what on earth brought that plane down. `Sherri Papini and the story of the brutal violence that was exacted against her while she was missing for three weeks. Now her husband is talking and he is telling us about what she endured, giving us excruciating details about what happened to her in those three weeks. `"], "speaker": ["ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, HLN HOST", "BANFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BANFIELD", "BARRETT MCLAUGHLIN, TOURIST", "BANFIELD", "TODD", "BANFIELD", "TODD", "BANFIELD", "SHANNON PATTERSON, STORE OWNER (via telephone)", "BANFIELD", "PATTERSON", "BANFIELD", "PATTERSON", "BANFIELD", "PATTERSON", "BANFIELD", "ROBERT ROWE, FIRE INVESTIGATOR", "BANFIELD", "ROWE", "BANFIELD", "PATTERSON", "BANFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MICHAEL SLAGER, CHARGED WITH MURDER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SLAGER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SLAGER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SLAGER", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-325523", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2017-11-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/07/cg.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Republican Senator James Risch of Idaho", "utt": ["And we're back with our world lead. North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un will be closely monitoring President Trump's speech to South Korea's parliament in just a matter of hours, no doubt. Today, the Kim regime defiantly promised to continue to build up its nuclear weapons program. CNN's Will Ripley is in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. It's his 17th trip to the country. Will, what is North Korea listening for in the president's speech this evening do you think?", "Well, they want to hear, first of all, if he's going to put North Korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, something a decision that the Trump administration has been hinting at for days. They were taken off that list about 1 0 years ago when they were negotiating back then about North Korea's nuclear program. We know how that has turned out. They now have a growing arsenal and increasingly sophisticated weapons program, including missiles they say could be capable of reaching the mainland", "And, Will, I know it would be considered provocative if the Kim regime conducted a launch while President Trump is in the region. Are there any plans that you know of?", "If it were going to happen, it would likely happen, history shows us, within the next couple of hours, because they tend to do these launches in the early morning hours. So, we'll have to watch very carefully as this evening here in the East Coast progresses, morning here in Pyongyang. There have been indications according to South Korean intelligence of heightened active at missile launch research facilities and perhaps even more troubling, significant uptick in activity at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in northern North Korea, near the border with China. That was observed by analysts with the North Korea watchdog group 38 North.", "And, Will, we heard President Trump earlier today say the progress is being made with North Korea, with diplomacy. Have you seen any evidence of progress?", "On the ground here, absolutely not. In fact, we met with officials last night who reiterated that they feel this is a bad situation that has only gotten worse with the United States. Yes, President Trump took a more measured tone when he was speaking in South Korea. We'll have to see what he says in his speech in the coming hours. But from the North Korean perspective, they look at all the rhetoric leading up to this, the insults, the bellicose statements and, then, of course, the actions of the United States. There were joint military exercises due to kick off in the coming few days involving three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups off the Pacific. This could be as many as 30 ships, just on the U.S. side. It's another massive show of force, the exact kind of show of force that North Korea uses as justification to develop weapons of mass destruction and test them, perhaps at a highly sensitive time such as a presidential visit here in Asia. North Koreans have been saying for awhile now they want to send the Trump administration a clear message. They don't think they can talk, at least not right now, until they prove to the U.S. that they have in their view an effective nuclear deterrent. But they're not ruling out diplomacy altogether. It seems they want to develop a nuclear program, round it off, in their words, and then when they feel they're in a position of strength, then they might be willing to have discussions. But all indications from North Koreans at least right now, more tests to come.", "All right. Will Ripley live for us inside of North Korea, thank you so much. Joining me now is Republican Senator James Risch of Idaho, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations and Senate Intelligence Committees. Senator, good to see you. Thanks so much for joining us.", "Thank you. Thank you for having me.", "So, Kim Jong-un's regime has test fired 22 missiles during 15 tests since February and conducted a nuclear test as well. It's further protected its technology with early launch -- with each launch, rather, and they've shown no willingness so far to negotiate. Has there been any progress that you can point to?", "Well, I don't know exactly what you mean. But if the question mean -- if you're asking whether there's bee progress, as far as negotiations are concerned --", "Right.", "-- obviously, I can't speak to that. I can't confirm or deny that. I heard what the president said just as you said. It's not my place to either confirm or deny what he's saying. He would -- you'd need somebody to ask him the question for him to refine that.", "All right. Fair enough. Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth, your colleague from Illinois, said today she believes President Trump is leaning towards a preemptive strike against North Korea. If North Korea does test fire a missile while President Trump is in the region, how would you want the U.S. to respond?", "Well, obviously, there's -- there's always contingent plans for what to do, given a certain situation. I don't know where Senator Duckworth gets that information from, where she thinks he's leaning towards a preemptive strike. I would disagree with that and disagree with it vehemently. Certainly, there is always conditions under which a first strike could take place, but, look, there has been no discussion of that. I know of no information that indicates that he is leaning in that direction. So, that's really not helpful I think at this point.", "The president does seem to be striking a different tone in Asia compared to some of the things he said in the United States, fire and fury. Calling Kim Jong-un rocket man. Is this strategic in your view? Is this being done on purpose?", "Well, look, the Korean people themselves are divided on this issue because they're a free country just like we are and they have varying opinions. In addition to that, President Moon obviously is much more measured in his tone than President Trump has been. And I think what President Trump has shown in the last 72 hours is accommodation towards what South Korea's position is. Having said that, he has not walked back at all his determination that he's going to defend the country and defend the allies, and I'm sure that that is what he wants to convey to our allies over there. They remain under our nuclear umbrella and he intends to stay that way. Having said that, yes, there is no doubt in the last 72 hours that he is more measured. You know, he gets a lot of criticism because his rhetoric, his diction is stronger than what a lot of people would like. But I'm one that believes that when you're dealing with Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-un needs to have an absolute clear understanding of what President Trump is thinking and what the red lines are that are out there and needs to understand he's not dealing with Barack Obama anymore. He's dealing with somebody who is completely inalterably committed to defend the United States of America, our allies and our personnel around the world. And he's going to do what is necessary to do that. I don't think he's backed -- walked that back at all and I certainly don't want him to.", "Senator, what do you make of criticism -- speaking of President Obama, what do you make of the criticism that President Trump's continued threats to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal might deter North Korea from thinking that the United States can be trusted to uphold a nuclear deal and maybe even keep them from coming to the table?", "Yes, well, that's real simple. The deal that was made with Iran was not a deal made by the people of the United States of America through their elected representatives. It was an executive agreement signed by the president of the United States. We all said it at that time that it was merely an executive agreement. If indeed a treaty is negotiated, which is all an agreement is between nations, it needs to be submitted to Congress as treaties are. Once we sign, we're all-in, Republicans, Democrats, everyone will get behind it. When you have something that was as politically steeped as the Iran deal was, it's going to be a problem. Simply saying there that's done and putting a signature to it doesn't get it done.", "All right. Republican Senator James Risch of Idaho -- thank you so much, sir. Always good to see you.", "Thank you, Jake.", "Were learning new details now about the disturbing background of a man who killed 25 people and an unborn child in a Texas church. His escape from a mental health facility, accusations of rape -- many, many red flags coming to light. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "U.S. TAPPER", "RIPLEY", "TAPPER", "RIPLEY", "TAPPER", "SEN. JAMES RISCH (R), IDAHO", "TAPPER", "RISCH", "TAPPER", "RISCH", "TAPPER", "RISCH", "TAPPER", "RISCH", "TAPPER", "RISCH", "TAPPER", "RISCH", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-285322", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-05-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/29/cnr.22.html", "summary": "Real Madrid Celebrates Champions League Win; 6-year-old Refugee Boy Dying of Muscular Dystrophy; Violent Scuffles at Australia Immigration Rally", "utt": ["Celebrating a record-setting victory. Real Madrid after winning the most important prize in European football. Zika sparks a medical disagreement. The World Health Organization pushes back against dozens of doctors who are pleading to hold off on the Olympic Games. And clashing over immigration. Violence erupts between two rival protest groups in Australia. Live from CNN world headquarters in Atlanta, welcome to our viewers around the world. I'm George Howell. CNN NEWSROOM starts right now. They did it again. Real Madrid and their fans basking in the glory of the club's 11th Champions League title. \"We are the champions of the world.\" Crowds waited all night to see the heroes lift that coveted trophy. The stars paraded the prize through the heart of the city. But all of Madrid is not celebrating. Real beat cross-town rival Atletico Madrid on penalty kicks in the final. \"WORLD SPORT's\" Alex Thomas is live in Madrid and joins us now to talk more about the celebrations there. What's it like?", "George, hi, good morning from Madrid, in Spain, where the authorities are getting pretty used to clearing up after a party. They had to do it twice now in the last three years and as I speak around the Cibeles Fountain behind me, you can see that the scaffolding is being packed away and they're clearing up the sort of ticker tape style streamers that were released and seemed to have gone everywhere this morning. As I walk through my hotel about 15 minutes away to come here to broadcast to you, you could feel the pavement sticky with overnight alcohol and other less pleasant liquid through the night before. We've all been through the streets where there's been a massive party. We know what it's like. It smelt. It reeked. But hey, the Real Madrid fans clearly had a good time. Around 30,000 or so gathering here in the early hours of the morning. The match finishing before midnight local time but they stayed all through the night to wait for the team to fly back from Milan, here to their home city. The team coming on a coach here, parading the Champions League trophy. Everyone was having a good time, even our cameraman, Alfonso, got up on the stage. The DJ stopped and said, hey, you're on CNN, and they all went wild. I think they cheered just about anybody. The bar Atletico were doing the course. Their bitter rivals who they beat in the final. So how did they do it? Well, it was a bit of a mirror image of the final two years ago where Real had led most of the game. Sorry, Atletico led most of the game, and Real got a late goal. This time, it was Atletico leading for most of the final. Real equalized near the end. Half an hour of extra time, you need no further goals, so Real Madrid won in the penalty shootout. Misery for Atletico boss Diego Simeone. That club still has never won European club football's biggest competition. Real had won it a record extending 11 times. And their coach Zinedine Zidane is the seventh now to win it as both a player and a coach. The first French coach ever to lift the title, we're told. And this is what both managers had to say afterwards.", "Since I am a positive man, I have a such a fantastic team that has worked very hard, the message is this, we have worked. We have fought for it. And when you have players of such great talent, then you can manage something great like what we have achieved tonight.", "What is clear for me is that no one ever remembers who came second. To lose two finals is a failure and I need to accept this moment, licking my wounds at home.", "Despite the defeat, Diego Simeone is still revered by Atletico Madrid fans, yet he wouldn't pledge his future to the club next season. He's clearly going to have to reflect on his future as the sun comes in and out here in Madrid. It was pretty miserable last night. It could be a sunny day here. Certainly sunny for Real Madrid. Zinedine Zidane surely will continue as coach now. He only came in halfway through the season after the previous coach, Rafael Benitez, was deemed a failure and left the club. So the future is bright for Zidane. Already he was a legendary player. Now achieving much as a coach it seems as well. There will be more official celebrations here in Madrid on Sunday with another trophy parade ending up at their Bernabeu Stadium that had 80,000 fans in it last night, George. And that isn't even where the game was being played. They were just there to watch the match on big screens and celebrate with one another.", "Alex, hopefully you get sun and hey, watch your step out there on the streets of Madrid. Alex Thomas, thank you so much. Talking the Olympics now. The World Health Organization says the games should go on. The WHO was responding to an open letter from a group of doctors who said the upcoming Rio Olympics should be moved or delayed because of the Zika virus. Brazil has been the epicenter of that outbreak. The WHO says it has a good understanding of the virus at this point and the health risks associated.", "WHO's response to the concern about the timing of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro is that based on a very careful risk assessment and all the information we've gathered so far about this disease, these games should go ahead as planned and we should continue to work to make sure they're safe as possible. If there should be something spectacularly new in terms of the kind of disease it caused in the adult population, the consequences, then you have to do a reassessment of the overall risks.", "Olympic officials in Brazil say they will continue to follow the WHO's guidance and that there are no plans to postpone or relocate the games. The Russian Olympic Committee says that some of its athletes may have tested positive for doping. On Friday, the International Committee announced 23 samples from the 2012 London Games tested positive. Russian Olympic officials say eight of those belonged to Russian athletes from three different sports. No names have been released at this point. 14 Russians also failed doping tests retroactively that were conducted on samples from the 2008 Beijing Games. On to Iraq now. Pro-government fighters say they have found underground tunnels built by ISIS on the outskirts of Fallujah. Those fighters are from the popular mobilization units. Mostly Shiite paramilitary groups formed to fight ISIS. They say the tunnels were used by ISIS to approach and escape from the front lines. Iraq has been engaged in this operation to retake Fallujah for the past week now. Migrants by the thousands are still being pulled from unsafe boats in the Mediterranean. The Italian Navy is bringing hundreds of those migrants back to port along with several of the bodies of those who did not survive. The Italian Coast Guard said Saturday it rescued almost 2,000 people within 24 hours. It says, in all, this past week, some 14,000 people were saved from flimsy overloaded boats at sea. Still there are fears that possibly hundreds more migrants may have drowned. Across the Mediterranean a family living in a refugee camp waits for a little boy to die. He has an incurable disease that would be treatable if only he were living in a different situation. CNN's Atika Shubert has this exclusive report for us.", "Alyaman Daar is 6 years old. He cannot swallow food. He breathes with difficulty. He has advanced muscular dystrophy. Zaher Sahloul is a Syrian doctor treating Alyaman, but this is no hospital room. This is a tent at a makeshift camp inside a highway petrol station in Greece.", "He's clearly dehydrated. If he is in a place where -- with good access to health care, he would -- should receive IV fluid, should receive oxygen. He may need to be on a ventilator.", "He sleeps all day. His mother, Johaina, must wake him to feed him like a baby bird. (", "His father just showed me this photo taken 10 months ago before they came here, and in that time, as you can see, he's deteriorated very quickly. He's not eating any food and the only way to feed him is with a syringe feeding him milk. (", "Johaina and Wasel Daar have three children. At home in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, they could bring Alyaman to a hospital for therapy. But then the war came. Fighting closed off access to the hospitals and the family fled on foot, by car, by boat, but after three months of waiting at refugee camps in Greece, doctors say it's too late. (", "So how are you preparing yourself for the possibility that he may not survive? (", "She answers, \"It comes from God so we must accept it. But now I worry about my daughter. I don't want her to suffer like her brother.\" One-year-old Bisan is now showing similar symptoms. She can no longer crawl and her tiny hands can barely grasp his father's finger. Her older sister, 3-and-a-half-year-old Lyan, has no symptoms so far. There is no cure for muscular dystrophy. It's a genetic disorder that causes weakness and eventually loss of muscle mass. But regular therapy and medication can ease symptoms and prolong life. But that is medical care that Alyaman's parents can only dream of. Johaina is clearly overwhelmed and she begins to cry. \"I wish I could have found access to proper medical care for my son, but being here in this tent, his health has only gotten worse.\" She clings to the hope that the family will be allowed to find a home in Europe before it's too late. Atika Shubert, CNN, at the Eko refugee camp, near Idomeni, Greece.", "Since Atika filed that report for us, the family has been granted emergency medical admission to Switzerland. His doctor says his condition may improve but he remains terminally ill. Tempers rose over a hot-button issue. The issue of immigration in Melbourne, Australia as rival groups of demonstrators clash in the streets, dozens of police tried to keep anti-racism and anti- immigration protesters apart but they kept finding ways to get back at each other and scuffle. Sky News reporter Jackson Williams has this story from Australia.", "Police knew rival protest groups would be gathering here, two groups with very differing views on multiculturalism. Police say the violence here today wasn't isolated to one group. They have condemned all involved.", "I am really disappointed. I think that Coburg is a fantastic place to be. We worked really closely with the council. And I think that some of those arrangements made this not as bad as it could have been. Unfortunately, we are starting to see more and more of these protests in the street.", "Seven people were arrested here, five for their behavior while two others were arrested for possessing weapons. Police say only three people received minor injuries. And they say that is a reflection of their preparation.", "We did have a large number of resources today and that was as a result of the planning. So as predicted, we were able to deal with the violence as it occurred. And more importantly, we were flexible enough in our deployment.", "The local Greens candidate was due to speak at the No Racism in Moreland rally. She pulled out, citing safety fears. Her party's leader, Richard Di Natale, says the violence is unacceptable. Police will set up a task force to investigate today's event. They say the violence is simply unacceptable. And all those responsible will be brought to justice.", "That was Jackson William of Sky News Australia reporting for us. And in Germany, a politician known for speaking out against immigration is facing some backlash from anti-fascists and angry activists threw chocolate cake at the chairwoman of an opposition group -- look at that. Ouch, it's not a good look. That happened at a meeting on Saturday. The politician has been criticized for her anti-migrant comments in the past saying Germany should limit the number of refugees that it lets into its country. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. Still ahead, lightning strikes in France and German, injured more than a dozen people including children. Plus, a U.S. zookeeper fatally shot one of their gorillas at a zoo on Saturday. Why they had to when we come back."], "speaker": ["GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "ALEX THOMAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ZINEDINE ZIDANE, REAL MADRID COACH (Through Translator)", "DIEGO SIMEONE, ATLETICO MADRID COACH (Through Translator)", "THOMAS", "HOWELL", "DR. BRUCE AYLWARD, EXEC. 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{"id": "NPR-35166", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2008-05-02", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90127353", "title": "Pakistan Holds Peace Talks with Tribal Leaders", "summary": "Pakistani officials are trying to arrange a peace deal with tribal elders in northwest Pakistan. Previous attempts have failed, but there is optimism this time because a Pashtun nationalist party, the ANP, is involved in the negotiations.", "utt": ["Iraq is not the only place where the future may rest on armed groups with murky allegiances and murky goals. In Pakistan, the government is trying to find a new way to deal with tribal leaders. Those leaders hold great power in the areas near Afghanistan where extremist groups are based.", "Pakistan's new government is now holding peace talks with tribal elders, and today a Pakistani newspaper reports that talks are moving closer to success. Here's NPR's Philip Reeves.", "Unidentified Man: (Foreign language spoken)", "A line of white-clad men stand side by side in a field. They're praying before a coffin. There have been many funerals around here in recent months on the plains that lead to the Kyber Pass and the mountains that separate Pakistan's untamed western frontier from Afghanistan.", "The area's been the focus of a suicide bombing campaign by Islamist extremists. Hundreds have died. But this funeral is for a prominent local dignitary who died peacefully. The men look unusually relaxed, despite the scorching sun.", "The bombings have mostly stopped, at least for now. The Pakistani Taliban's called a ceasefire while peace negotiations go on between the government and tribal elders from Waziristan. Peace agreements have been tried before and failed. This time there's some new players on the scene.", "Two months ago the Islamist parties who ran the provincial government were kicked out by the electorate and replaced by a Pashtun nationalist party, the ANP.", "Some of the ANP's senior members are among the mourners today, including Kwaja Mohamed Kahn Harti(ph). Harti says his party knows how to reach out to the tribal militants, not least because the party seeks to champion their ethnicity.", "He's a Pashtun and I'm a Pashtun. I shall sit down and talk with him. You have to make them believe that we and you are brothers and we are alike and we are a part of each other.", "Political analyst Khalid Aziz(ph) is from the tribal areas and for years worked as a government political agent there. He thinks the election of Pashtun nationalists helps in peacemaking.", "They have linkages, they understand each other. It makes getting an agreement easier.", "The talks are with elders from the Mesud(ph) tribe in south Waziristan, one of the most hard-line areas. One member of that tribe is Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the Taliban in Pakistan and head of an umbrella group of militants.", "The CIA and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf say Baitullah Mehsud was behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, although many Pakistanis are unconvinced. The U.S. is worried that if the Taliban and al-Qaida are no longer fighting the Pakistani army, more militants will be able to set off to fight in Afghanistan. They say that's what happened before.", "The proposed peace deal requires Pakistan's army to pull back from south Waziristan, in return for promises that the tribes will stop attacking the government, throw out foreign militants and end infiltration to Afghanistan.", "U.S. officials want Pakistan to ensure any agreement it strikes with the tribes produces concrete results. Khalid Aziz, the veteran of the tribal areas, agrees a peace agreement brings some risk. In fact, he thinks it could mean more militants infiltrate into Afghanistan and that they may rearm. But he doesn't believe Pakistan has much choice but to try to find a solution. He says the war with the militants exacted too high a price, severely damaging the Pakistani army's morale and threatening the stability of the entire country.", "So the equation that is coming up is whether you give more credence to protection of the larger interests of war on terror or to look after survival within Pakistan. Because if you lose the structures within Pakistan, there won't be anything left to protect.", "Aziz believes the problem in the tribal areas is profound poverty. He says it's time for fundamental reforms, though it's hard to understand the enormity of that task. But that's a way off. In the meantime, the U.S.'s position has become more complicated.", "Before, when Musharraf was in direct charge of Pakistan's government and the military, Washington knew whom to pressure. Now it must deal with a fragile coalition government and a separate army chief.", "Hamid Dullah Jan Alfreedi(ph) is a government minister and from the tribal areas. He thinks it's time for the U.S. to back off.", "Philip Reeves, NPR News, Islamabad."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "Mr. KWAJA MOHAMED KAHN HARTI", "PHILIP REEVES", "Mr. KHALID AZIZ (Political Analyst)", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "Mr. KHALID AZIZ (Political Analyst)", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES"]}
{"id": "CNN-116009", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2007-4-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/11/lkl.01.html", "summary": "MSNBC Takes Imus Off the Air", "utt": ["We now welcome in New York, Bruce Gordon, CBS board member. CBS Radio -- formally Westwood One Radio, by the way -- owns WFAN, the Imus flagship station. He's a former president of the NAACP. And also in New York is Bo Dietl, chairman of Bo Dietl and Associates, a major security firm, a frequent guest on the Imus show. CBS Radio released this statement today, Bruce -- \"Don Imus has been suspended without pay for two weeks beginning on Monday, April 16th. During that time, CBS Radio will continue to speak with all concerned parties and monitor the situation closely.\" Do you think they will follow suit with MSNBC, Bruce?", "Larry, I don't know whether they will follow suit. I hope that that will be the decision of management, because I think that it would be the right decision. I must admit that I think that management has a responsibility to think through all the issues, to cover all the facts, and to make an informed, well-rationalized decision. But as you listen to the three people who came in to your program at the beginning of the segment, you had a diverse group there who, across the board, reached the conclusion that Don Imus did the wrong thing and his behavior deserved the consequence that MSNBC has chosen to establish.", "Bruce...", "And I think that CBS will probably go in the same direction, but I don't know that. That's up to Les.", "You're a -- Les Moonves, you mean. You're a board member. Do you have input?", "I certainly have input. The decisions that are made about content, about programming, about talent are decisions that are made by management. But as a director of CBS, I have an obligation to make very clear to management my perspective on any issue, not just this issue, but any issue. And on this particular one, the Imus behavior was so across the line, that I had to raise my voice both with management and publicly.", "Yes. Bo Dietl, you've been a friend of his for years, on the program a lot. I know you spent some time with Don yesterday a couple of hours at his apartment. What do you make of all of this?", "Well, first of all, I don't sit here tonight and condone anything that was said with those two horrible words. I have a 17-year-old daughter, and believe me, I don't think Imus knew what he was saying when those words came out of his mouth. But saying that, he said it. But all I bring out is that I thought that NBC could give him the opportunity to meet with the victims, these young ladies who reached the epitome of the national championship. Why can't we have these ladies talk with him and their parents, and talk. And when they finish talking to him, if they decide they want them out, let them make that decision. Or why can't we make them inspiration for other youths, other children that go to children and do sports and become really great at these sports and activities? Why can't Imus talking to them? Maybe it's possible something that Imus wants to do, like possibly setting up a scholarship and let this terrible thing that was said become something good. I'm about building, I'm not about ripping apart. He had a lot of influence building that hospital in San Antonio. Autism -- bringing up from $15,000 a year to $500,000 for our soldiers coming back who were killed, for their families. He's done a lot of good things.", "Yes.", "I don't sit here, Mr. Gordon, and condone. All I ask you to do is give him an opportunity on CBS. And Mr. Moonves, give him an opportunity to talk to the victims. The victims are these beautiful young ladies that reached their epitome. And you know what? Them words didn't come out of Don Imus's mouth. They're heard all over, in every school yard in America, in elementary schools, in high schools. These kids talk like this regular, and they think it's acceptable. All this nonsense music that my daughter listens to, I have to listen to these words.", "All right. Bruce...", "We should ban together, Mr. Gordon. And what we should do is build on this...", "Let him respond, Bo. All right. Bruce, does he have a good point?", "I understand his point, but don't accept it. I don't know Don Imus, but from I understand, he's done some good things in his life and I appreciate that.", "He sure has.", "But, having said that, I think that cooperations have to have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to racial discrimination. When an employee, particularly one of Don Imus's stature, who has the power of the media behind him, abuses that power -- and he abused his power and directed it at young women who didn't deserve it. And when that kind of abuse takes place, I believe there has to be a consequence. It may be painful to him, I'm sorry about that. But CBS and MSNBC have an obligation to carry out their policies and to have a zero tolerance approach to such.", "Well, in our society, Mr. Gordon, people say -- he said two words. Should two words be the ruination of this man's whole life of doing good things? I do agree they were horrible words. But why can't we try to build on this and make relationships between everybody become better, instead of pulling apart? And I think that's exactly what we do. Let's see what Don Imus has to stay to the families. Let's get -- make these young ladies the inspiration for other children going into college, that they now are recognized as fighting for the national champion, Rutgers College. Let's make a scholarship fund for inner city ladies to go to that school. Let's build it up. And I'll be part of that.", "Bo...", "And I know Imus would be there for that.", "Bo, how badly is he taking all of this, Bo?", "Well, I want to say it right to Mr. Gordon. You know, everybody can think that he's a callous person. Mr. Imus I have been around. When he came from his ranch a week and a half ago, when he was there for the children with cancer, he was supposed to go directly back to New York. But you know what he did? He made the plane go to Atlanta and pick up a 6-year-old child, a 6-year-old child with cancer in his eye, which they call him the fallen angels when they fly them. And this 6-year-old child with cancer in his eye, you know what he was? He was African-American. That's Don Imus. And before you start condemning my friend and a friend of a lot of people, we should let him have an opportunity. This is America. Give him an opportunity. If you want to slice him up after that, you do what you want to do, but give him the opportunity, Mr. Gordon.", "Bruce, maybe should they have waited until he spoke with the team, Bruce?", "I don't think so. I think that NBC had to do what NBC did. CBS has chosen to take a slower course, a more methodical course to gather all the facts, to consider all of the issues. And I applaud management for doing that. But I need to say two things. One, this particular outburst by Don Imus is not his first. His radio personality has been established over the years, and his insulting approach to many segments of our society is not new, one. Secondly, we need to keep in mind that the media has been disrespectful of the African-American community for years. And we've tolerated that. We have allowed those kinds of disrespects to occur over and over again. And finally, this really dramatic incident has put a spotlight on bad behavior on the part of the media, and it's unfortunate that it ends up on the lap of one guy. But he brought it on himself and he has got to accept that accountability.", "We'll be doing a lot more on this. Thanks, Bruce Gordon and Bo Dietl. By the way, tomorrow night, Elizabeth Edwards, the vice president's -- the former vice presidential candidate's wife, and the subject of breast cancer. Up next, outspoken liberal comedian and now Senate candidate Al Franken. What does this former talk radio host make of the Imus story? 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{"id": "CNN-8734", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-5-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/24/tod.02.html", "summary": "United and US Airways Propose Merger", "utt": ["The proposed acquisition of US Airways by United Airlines isn't even off the ground and already running into a lot of turbulence. The heads of both carriers formerly announced the $12 billion megadeal at a news conference a short while ago. If it goes through, it would make United, the world's largest airline, an even more dominant presence at airports from coast to coast. For more on what this deal could mean and the obstacles that may lie ahead, CNN's Jeff Flock joins us from Chicago where United is headquartered -- Jeff.", "It's difficult, Natalie, to think of United being any more of a presence here in Chicago than it already is. Obviously this is the hometown airline here in Chicago. So it was -- the people here were watching very closely that press conference in New York about an hour ago, when the executives of both US Airways and United announced this megadeal. It will create the biggest airline in the world from what is already the biggest airline in the world, and yet another one. The executives of both companies, talking directly I think, to both federal regulators, as well as the air-flying public this morning in trying to make a case that U.S. airline passengers will get a good deal from this deal.", "This merger creates a combined company offering customers unparalleled convenience and service. By bringing together United and US Airways, we believe we have created a global airline that will provide significant benefits to the communities and customers served by our two companies.", "The key is, as they say, one airline, one baggage check, one frequent flyer program. That's what they are trying to sell. The question is: Is this a good deal for airline passengers? We've been talking to them all morning here. And will it pass regulatory muster as well as approval from the labor unions, which have scuttled a similar deal at United between United and US Airways in the past? Those questions, of course, remain to be answered. Here in Chicago, near the United headquarters, it's interesting and important to point out that this company is 55 percent employee- owned. So, that means that the people who work for this airline will have a big voice in deciding whether or not it gobbles up another carrier. People of course continue to watch it. I'm Jeff Flock, CNN, reporting live from O'Hare in Chicago.", "Neither United nor US Airways foresees any downside to their combined companies, but will -- will it fly with the public? CNN travel correspondent Stephanie Oswald takes a closer look at that question.", "Will the creation of a giant airline make the skies friendlier or more frustrating?", "The real need is for more competition, not less. This is an industry that needs mavericks and not more monoliths.", "In an industry where passenger rights are already a hot issue, this merger could spark more controversy. A passenger rights bill introduced by the American Society of Travel Agents in June 1998 never made it off the ground. A passenger fairness act introduced just over a year ago also stalled on Capitol Hill. Congress asked the airlines to address the issue of customer rights themselves.", "You've heard promises over the years, especially in recent years, that the consolidation of the industry the massive number of agreements and understandings and working relationships that the carriers have are going to produce better service and lower prices. And from our point of view, the exact opposite has occurred.", "The guidelines for the United-US Airways merger say no increases to domestic fares for two years following the close of the deal, but industry analysts say that doesn't really mean a guarantee airfares won't rise.", "They can say whatever they want to right now in order to get this thing passed through, but I doubt seriously that United -- the new United Airlines would sit by and let all the other airlines raise their prices and they would be the holdout not raising their prices.", "The combination would create the first carrier with a strong presence all across the United States, something United says will bring air service to a new level for the flying public.", "I think geographically, if you really look at US Airways shuttle routes between Washington and New York, Washington and Boston, New York-Boston, and you really look at the need that United had for a Southeastern hub, picking up Charlotte, Pittsburgh, some of the East Coast with United's Midwest and West Coast hubs really forms a great national airline.", "Options could also expand for frequent flyers. With alliances already in place between United and Delta, and US Airways and American Airlines, passengers could find themselves with more flight choices than ever before. What's more, this could trigger a new trend in the aviation industry. The concept is only hours old for the consumer, but passengers will have time to get used to the idea. The merger isn't scheduled to happen until sometime in 2001. Stephanie Oswald, CNN."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FLOCK", "KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "STEPHANIE OSWALD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "PAUL RUDEN, PASSENGER RIGHTS ADVOCATE", "OSWALD", "RUDEN", "OSWALD", "CHRIS MCGINNIS, TRAVELSKILLS.COM", "OSWALD", "DANNY HOOD, WORLDTRAVEL PARTNERS", "OSWALD"]}
{"id": "CNN-390284", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2020-01-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/13/cg.03.html", "summary": "GOP Senator Calls For Trump To Not Infect Trial With House GOP; Pelosi: Senate Must Call Witnesses Or \"Pay A Price\"", "utt": ["In our politics lead, one Republican senator is asking President Trump to not, \"infect the Senate trial\" by picking Republican congressmen to be part of his legal team. So, it's worth noting we did see Congressman Jim Jordan walking into the White House just hours ago. Presumably he would be one of the infectors. CNN's Manu Raju joins me live on the Hill. Manu, you talked to two GOP senators about the pending impeachment trial. What did they have to say?", "Yes, John Cornyn, he's a member of the Senate Republican leadership team, made that comment to me just moments ago. He said let's not infect the Senate trial with a circus-like atmosphere of the House. I think there is an increased risk of doing that if you were to add the House members to the Senate team. Now, this comes as there is that debate going on within the president's legal team and beyond about bringing in those additional Republicans, people like Jim Jordan or others who were part of the Republican defense in the House. Some Senate Republicans say let's in fact just go proceed as normal. Let's not bring in these individuals who could distract from the president's defense in any way. And also over the weekend, President Trump called for an outright dismissal of his case. John Cornyn instead said to me, look, instead we should move to acquit the president, not to acquit dismissal like the president wants. And other Republican senator Lamar Alexander, a close confidant of Mitch McConnell said the majority leader, said to me that he is open to the idea of bringing forward witnesses. But he said that is a new way, that needs to wait until later, wait until actually the opening arguments happen in this case, and then they can vote to decide. So, a lot of steps need to take place, a lot of uncertainty, but certainly clear that there is going to be some big votes on the floor in the coming weeks, Jake.", "So witnesses still a possibility. Manu, we are expecting to see how Speaker Nancy Pelosi officially hand to the Senate the impeachment articles this week after nearly a month of limb. How soon might there be a Senate trial?", "Well, we can expect some procedural moves to occur this week. Tomorrow, Nancy Pelosi is going to meet with her caucus behind closed doors, detail her plans in moving ahead including discussion about naming House impeachment managers, people who would actually formally prosecute the case on behalf of House Democrats. And the House floor, they'll actually vote to name those House managers and then after that, the actual articles will be delivered by those House managers over to the Senate. They will read aloud those articles of impeachment on the floor of the Senate. And then afterwards, the senators will be sworn. The Chief Justice will be sworn in and then we could expect arguments to happen next week, likely probably at the beginning of next week. There is opening arguments that each side will make and then the question will be how quickly they move to dismiss or whether or not they actually do go forward and subpoena these witnesses.", "All right. Manu Raju, thanks so much. Let's chat about all this. Gloria, if the Senate ultimately allows witnesses, and that is a big if. We know now -- I mean does whether or not Pelosi has gained this out all ride on that decision?", "Well, she wants witnesses. She believes she made the case to the American public, that without witnesses, it is a, \"cover-up.\" So, and she believes that the news that has transpired since the House impeached Donald Trump, John Bolton saying, you know, he wants to be subpoenaed, the e-mails about Ukraine and the Office of Management and Budget and the question of the president's culpability and involvement. She believes all of that has helped her make the case that there ought to be witnesses. And so, I think, you know, in the end, Nancy Pelosi, if it works out, she can say, well, maybe it wouldn't have happened if we hadn't had this delay.", "We'll see.", "I think it would have happened one way or another honestly, but we'll see.", "And you don't hear it publicly, but a lot of members, the Democrats in the House are frustrated not just because some of them feel that the urgency has been undermined by this delay, but also they don't know who the House impeachment managers are going to be and they want to know.", "Right -- right. And certainly from the White House perspective, the White House, I mean, will argue, you know, spokespeople will argue that this had no effect at all, that it didn't help to move the ball forward at all. There was of course public conversation about all of this. I think the more interesting thing is the way that it fits into the thinking among people close to the president because there is kind of two camps that way I see it. There are the individuals who do not want witnesses who want this to be a legal case that's made by Pat Cipollone, quick and dirty, done. No witnesses at all, right. And then there is the other camp of folks who frankly align with the president's instincts, which is a theatrical defense, you know, you bring in witnesses. Sure, you can give them Mulvaney, but we get the whistle-blower, we get Hunter Biden, we get those folks. So, I think it's more interesting to see, you know, if there is indeed witnesses that do come up. If there are four votes among Republicans, does that then open a can of worms of all of the witnesses that the president would like who are of course much more politically motivated candidates.", "Sara, take a listen as Pelosi this weekend defending the delay when sending the impeachment articles to the Senate.", "What we did want though, and we think we accomplished, in the past few weeks is that we wanted the public to see the need for witnesses. Now, the ball is in their court to either do that or pay a price.", "And Republican Senator Susan Collins says she's working with a small group of Republican colleagues to work on an agreement to call witnesses.", "Right. And, you know, there have been revelations in this time that the impeachment articles have just been sitting there, cooling their heels. You know, John Bolton came out and said that he would be willing to testify in front of the Senate. We had learned more about what's in the kinds of documents that the White House has refused to hand over. So, in that sense, you know, you can understand what the Speaker is saying. But it does kind of undermine their argument that they couldn't possibly wait for any of this stuff to play out in the courts because, like you said, it all needs to be done very urgently because this election is coming up and because the President's behavior was so egregious. And so, it is a double-edged sword.", "And then, of course, there's the question, if Bolton doesn't testify before the Senate, would the House subpoena him? Take a listen to the House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Adam Schiff, this weekend.", "The Speaker was on another network today and seemed to leave open the idea of subpoenaing John Bolton, the former national security adviser to the President. Is that something you would be looking at? Are you looking at?", "You know, it's certainly something that we are considering.", "Yes, they are considering it. And I think, as Speaker Pelosi said, the ball is in the court of the Senate. If the Senate decides to call these witnesses and have John Bolton come and speak what he has said that he's willing to do, then that leaves the House not having to do that. But I think that they want to have that in their back pocket. And if the Senate decides that they're going to push through this very quick trial -- no witnesses, no John Bolton, none of these firsthand witnesses who have an understanding of what the President was doing -- then we could have another repeat of what happened in the House with, you know, these momentous hearings where people come before the televised committee hearings and expose what the President was doing. I wouldn't be surprised if the Democrats say that if the Senate does not hold hearings with witnesses, then we're going to do it ourselves.", "Perhaps the best argument that Pelosi was up to something that was actually effective are the tweets and the reaction of President Trump, who really seems to have become unmoored even more so than normal. Here is one tweet. Many believe that by the Senate giving credence to a trial based on the no evidence, no crime, read the transcripts, no pressure impeachment hoax, rather than outright dismissal, it gives the partisan Democrat witch-hunt credibility that it otherwise does not have. I agree! That's like mad libs.", "For whom?", "Right out in your face (ph).", "I will say, though, that it was really in the first few days after Pelosi did this that you saw the President really -- you saw why Pelosi was doing this. Because the President was extremely bothered by it --", "Of course, yes.", "-- I want my trial, I want my vindication. Then that kind of dissipated a little bit. And so, I think that that is where Pelosi maybe didn't get quite as -- exactly what she wanted. But, again, we've seen the President say all kinds of things, and we've seen him say we're going to dismiss it, I want the theatrical trial, I want witnesses. So, you know, I think he kind of throws a lot of things at the wall and see which sticks.", "She is so brilliant at getting under his skin.", "Yes.", "And when she said on ABC yesterday that he'll be impeached for life, it drove him crazy because he started tweeting about that, why do I have to have that? And he is clearly thinking about his legacy. And she knows that. And she knew how much that would bother him. So she can play --", "Yes.", "-- play him so well, it's remarkable.", "That's a skill, I suppose.", "Maybe, I guess.", "Three weeks until the Iowa caucuses and another Democratic candidate dropping out. Could his voters put someone else over the top? Stay with us."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "RAJU", "TAPPER", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST", "TAPPER", "BORGER", "TAPPER", "JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-201660", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2013-2-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/20/ng.01.html", "summary": "Jodi Arias`s Defense, \"I Don`t Remember\"", "utt": ["When the camera, it slipped out of my hand, Travis flipped out again. He was screaming that I was a stupid idiot. He body-slammed me again on the tile. I ran into the closet. So he`s freaking out. I`m freaking out. He had already almost killed me. I wasn`t (ph) thinking when he almost killed me before that I was going to possibly die. I grabbed the gun, and I turned around and pointed it at him so that he would stop chasing me. As he was lunging at me, the gun went off. I didn`t mean to shoot him or anything. I didn`t even think I was pulling the trigger. He said", "Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight. After Jodi Arias drags murder victim Travis Alexander through the mud, claiming he was a pedophile, we learn Arias in the weeks surrounding the murder, buys a gun, dyes her hair, tape-records herself luring Travis into phone sex, then continuing the attack on the murder victim, Travis Alexander, with hand-picked text messages painting him as the bad guy, building up to his brutal murder. After days and days of innocuous babble on the stand, finally, Arias addresses why we`re here, the murder. Her defense -- and I quote -- \"It`s all a huge gap.\" Yes, stabbing Travis Alexander 29 times, slashing his throat from ear to ear, shooting him and leaving the man she claims she loved dead and decomposing in a damp shower stall -- she now says she can`t remember killing him. This is what we`ve been waiting on, the defense that explains it all. She says it`s all a big blur. She remembers all up to the point where he`s chasing her and he`s going to beat her, and then boom! The next thing she knows, she kind of comes to, she`s out in the desert, driving her car, literally with blood caked, dried on her hands. But she can`t remember a darn thing about that pesky murder! Let`s go in the courtroom, Liz.", "I was showing him the photos and regulating (ph) some. And at one point, when I was", "Once you broke away from him, what do you remember?", "Almost nothing for a long time. There are some things that have come back over years. But nothing -- I don`t know if those are things that I`m thinking of from before or if it`s that day. It`s confusing. There`s, like, a huge gap. Like, I don`t know if I blacked out or what. There`s a huge gap. And the most clear memory that I have after that point is driving in the desert.", "Do you remember stabbing Travis Alexander?", "I have no memory of stabbing him.", "Do you remember dragging him across the floor?", "No. I just remember trying to get away from him.", "Do you remember placing him in the shower?", "I`m sorry, that`s no. I have a vague memory of putting the knife in the dishwasher, but I`d put the knife in the dishwasher before so I don`t -- I`m pretty sure it was that day.", "Know where you got the knife from?", "It was in -- it was upstairs.", "OK. Are you assuming that, or do you remember that?", "I`m assuming that. I hadn`t", "What`s that?", "I don`t think it had been touched by either of us since he used it to cut the rope. I remember I was in the bathroom. I remember dropping the knife and it clanged to the tile. It made a big noise. And I just remember screaming. I don`t remember anything after that, not immediately.", "Do you remember where he was when you were screaming?", "I think he was next to me on the floor. I don`t know.", "Straight out to Jean Casarez and Beth Karas joining us at the courthouse. Jean Casarez, I can`t believe it. We`ve been waiting all this time to hear her tie it all together, connect the dots, explain what happened. You know, just give me something to hang my hat on. This was nothing. Did you ever imagine that she was going to get on the stand and say, I don`t remember, it`s a big gap, it`s all just a big blur?", "I did simply because yesterday, she had said, You know, I just don`t remember too much about that day. But she went on today, Nancy, almost all day, saying that when she realized what had happened she felt her life was done. She felt, This is it for me. I have no future. She was accepting responsibility, Nancy. She wasn`t (ph) saying, I survived. I almost died, and I survived. And as she was thinking those thoughts to protect herself so nobody would ever find out she did this, Travis Alexander is rotting. He`s decaying in the shower of his home for days!", "Beth Karas, what was the jury doing? What did they do when she first tuned (ph) up about not remembering the moment that she murdered Travis Alexander -- not one of those 29 stab wounds, not the slashing ear to ear, not the gunshot -- nothing? She remembers nothing.", "She remembers nothing. And jurors just stared at her. They were all turned slightly to their left, which is, you know, toward the witness box, and they`re just looking at her. Now, a few of them would occasionally take notes, but all day today, because all day was spent on June 4th and the aftermath of the killing, they just looked at her. Now, I didn`t see them emoting. I couldn`t see expressions or anything like that. But one has to wonder if they were thinking, Really? That`s all you`ve got for us? And Nancy, toward the end of the day, she was talking about how she attempted or thought about killing herself when she was arrested in Yreka. She was in the county jail before being brought back to Arizona. And she got ready. She got extra clothing to put under her so she wouldn`t drip to the bunk below her on whoever her cellmate was, and she got this razor. And she did one little nick on her wrist, and it hurt so much, so she didn`t go through with it. And of course, you know, I`m getting comments from people and I`m thinking, What do you think Travis felt like when she was slitting his throat and driving the knife into him? She had one little nick on herself, it hurt too much.", "You know, Beth and Jean, I`m stunned. I didn`t think that anything Jodi Arias could do at this point would surprise me. But to put her up on the stand and say, I don`t remember what happened -- 29 stab wounds, slashing ear to ear, gunshot wound to the head. And we all know that what she says is physically impossible, based on what the medical examiner said. The medical examiner said point blank -- and correct me, ladies, if I`m wrong -- that the gunshot wound was the last wound. It didn`t really bleed because blood was no longer pumping through his body. Am I right about that, Jean?", "Nancy, here`s the problem. They believe it was the last wound, but he was so decomposed when he was finally found and taken for autopsy that they couldn`t really tell. They believe it was the last wound, but there was so much decomposition in his brain, they couldn`t see if there was hemorrhaging or not. They didn`t find hemorrhaging, so thought believed he was already dead when he was shot.", "Gee, so what -- who should I believe, Jean, the medical examiner or Jodi Arias? Medical examiner, Jodi Arias. You know what? Let`s take a listen to Jodi Arias on the stand.", "Once you broke away from him, what do you remember?", "Almost nothing for a long time. There are some things that have come back over years. But nothing -- I don`t know if those are things that I`m thinking of from before or if it`s that day. It`s confusing. There`s, like, a huge gap. Like, I don`t know if I blacked out or what. There`s a huge gap. And the most clear memory that I have after that point is driving in the desert.", "Now he`s pissed again. So he`s freaking out. I`m freaking out. I rolled -- like I said, I rolled off to my left and began to run down the hallway, and I could hear him follow. I mean I could hear his footsteps chasing me. At that point, he had already almost killed me. I wasn`t thinking when he almost killed me before that I was going to possibly die. I was just thinking I couldn`t breathe, no air. That`s all I could think of before I passed out. But it was later on that I realized that I could have died if he`d just held onto my neck a little longer, so I didn`t want that to happen, obviously.", "An incredible turn of events today. After days and days and days of waiting for Jodi Arias to finally work up to the moment that she murders Travis Alexander, when we finally get there, her defense is, I don`t remember. It`s all a big gap. That`s what she says. Out to Christina Estes, reporter, anchor, KTAR. Christina, thank you for being with us. What does she say she did following Travis Alexander`s stabbing death?", "Well, the details, again, as you`ve pointed out, are pretty sparse when it comes to this. She says she doesn`t know if she blacked out, all of these gaps that she talks about not being able to remember. The thing that is most clear for her after leaving the home is that she`s driving around in the desert and she realizes that she`s got blood on her hands. She also says that she recalls throwing the gun, the gun that she says she took out of Travis`s closet, throwing that in the desert somewhere, and also that she eventually put a piece of rope that she took with her in a dumpster in Utah.", "OK. So let me get this straight, Beth Karas. She throws the murder weapon, the gun, into the desert, where it can never be found. She destroys the Spidey underwear that she claims he asked her to wear because he`s a pedophile, to protect his reputation. So that`s destroyed. The gun`s gone. The rope, that`s destroyed. And the kitchen knife she thinks she put in the dishwasher, not really sure. So she gets rid of the murder weapons, bottom line, and all the evidence surrounding the murder weapons. Am I to understand that, correctly?", "Yes. These critical items that would corroborate her story, she has gotten rid of. And the gun, Nancy -- she says Travis is chasing her into the -- down the hallway. She takes a right into the closet instead of left out his bedroom, which would have taken her downstairs and out the front door. She goes right into his big walk-in closet that has its own entrance to the bathroom. She`s able to get on the stool, reach up to a top shelf, get the gun down, run into the bathroom and shoot him but doesn`t disable him. It defies logic that she had time to get up on the stool, get the gun while he`s chasing her. It`s not that big an area. She could not reach the shelf she pointed to herself. So that just didn`t make a lot of sense.", "And Jean Casarez, let me get this straight. She says she drops the camera. He`s furious. She thinks he`s going to kill her. Even though she`s wrecked his BMW, hacked into his e-mail, his bank account, slashed his tires twice, slashed his new girlfriend`s tires, stalked him, spied on him, and so forth and so on, but now because she drops his camera, he`s going to kill her. So to run away from him in mortal fear of her own life, she runs into his closet? Is that correct?", "Right. Runs into his closet. That`s exactly right. And that`s after he has lifted her up and thrown her down and body-slammed her once that camera hit the ground.", "What? What were you going to say?", "I was going to say, let`s be real. Let`s be real here. Here`s the thing, Nancy. She can`t remember anything. You know why? In Arizona, you`ve got a jury instruction that says that you can only use enough force as is necessary if you believe that you are about to get killed. So if she would diagram it all and remember it all, there is so much excessive force here.", "Jean and Beth, let me go straight back out to you where we left off. Jean Casarez, you were saying the law in Arizona, and pretty much across the country, only allows you to use enough force to stop the attack. Other than that, it`s no longer self-defense. That`s like if I come up and slap you in the face, you can`t pull an Uzi out of your pocketbook and gun me down on the street. That`s what that means. And where did this gun come from? Who knew Travis Alexander had a .25 up on the back of the top shelf of his closet?", "She did. She did because she cleaned his house, so she knows that. But Nancy, the testimony leaves (ph) off that the gun goes off in some mysterious form or fashion. He lunges for her and he falls to the ground. So how do you keep stabbing him? How do you start stabbing him after that?", "And Jean, another thing, where does she say -- where in the home does she say she fired the gun?", "In the bathroom. So you run into the closet, and then you come back out right where he is, in the bathroom.", "When you were driving, was there blood on you?", "Yes. When I finally came to, I thought (ph) that there was blood on my hands. And I didn`t have my shoes. I didn`t know where my shoes were. I was in the middle of nowhere, so I pulled over. And I just -- I got out of my car. I was really thirsty, so I went -- I had a case of water from Costco in the trunk, so I got some water, a water bottle. I rinsed my hands off with it as well. I got my other shoes -- I had business shoes for the prepaid thing, and I got those out.", "Matt Zarrell, did I just hear her say she is out in the middle of the desert and she got Costco water? She can`t remember murdering the love of her life, the man she wants to marry, but she remembers four years ago it was Costco water, and she remembers somebody made her, what, a four cheese omelet five years ago. These are things she actually says she remembers, but she can`t remember 20 -- I think I would remember slashing somebody from ear to ear. I don`t think I would ever forget that.", "Yes, Nancy, over the course of the last week, I have seen Arias be as detailed as I`ve ever seen a defendant on the stand in testimony. But then the jury has got to be wondering, when it comes down to the actual hour in question, she can`t recall what happened. She can`t recall the stab wounds. She can`t recall cleaning up the scene. She can`t recall a lot of details of that information. But, as you mentioned, she remembers she got the water from Costco. She remembers she had an omelet a day before.", "Out to you, Beth Karas. When the jury heard her say, \"I don`t remember,\" when it became apparent that that`s the defense, was there any sign of frustration, did anybody in the courtroom go, oh, dear Lord in heaven? What happened?", "There were no sounds in the audience. I did not hear that nor from the jury, although some jurors did take some notes. But, you know, that`s typical. They really didn`t look much different than most days. They just were really, really focused on her today. But this period of not remembering, Nancy, is at least 30 minutes, probably closer to 60, during which time not only does she do all the slashing and stabbing, slash his throat, drags him into the shower, wash off his body, clean up whatever she can at the scene, delete the photos from the camera, throw his clothes and towels and the camera in the washing machine without leaving a speck of blood in the house outside of the bathroom. Not a speck in the house, yet she says she had blood on her in the car. There`s none in the house outside of the bathroom.", "We are taking your calls. Out to Terry, hi, Terry. What`s your question?", "Hi, hi. Thank you very much. How can she claim self-defense if she cannot remember? Because if you`re engaged in a fight with someone, it can turn. Maybe she stabbed him a few times and he was begging for his life. And then she killed him.", "That`s a good one, Terry. Unleash the lawyers. Joining me tonight, Eleanor Odom, death penalty qualified prosecutor. Also with us out of the Atlanta jurisdiction, Peter Odom. What about it, Peter?", "Nancy, the defense here isn`t I don`t remember. The defense is, I had to do this to save my life. This is exactly what we all knew Jodi Arias was going to do, and you know she`s not going to address the forensics blow by blow. I don`t know why you`re surprised by this.", "Because they`re trying to save her from the death penalty.", "Exactly.", "And she has given such detailed statements on other occasions. And, you`re wrong. How can it be self-defense, just like Terry just said, Eleanor. If you don`t really remember what even happened?", "That`s right. I think the prosecutor could just argue that now, and Terry would make a fine prosecutor for pointing that out, too. But, Nancy --", "What are you laughing about, Peter Odom?", "He doesn`t know what he`s talking about, Nancy, because I mean, self-defense, no way.", "I`m being objective.", "Hold on, hold on. First of all, Liz, cut Peter Odom`s mike for about 30 seconds so Eleanor can finish. All right, Eleanor, and, Peter, you can gesticulate all you want to. We can see you. We just can`t hear you, praise the Lord. Go ahead, El.", "You know what, Nancy, I`ve seen this so many times in court where a defendant says, oh, I did this before the incident, I did that after the incident -- oh, I can`t remember that little murder. Oh, darn. I`m just racking my brain.", "Where the defendant was talking, and goes and this happened and that happened, and then I looked the other way and I heard the gun go off. I`m like, so at that exact moment you looked the other way and you have no idea what happened? That`s right. That`s right. OK, you can turn Peter Odom`s mike back on. All right, Peter, how can -- everything she says defies logic. It doesn`t make any sense. Nothing she says makes any sense. Why did she even take the stand?", "Well, here is the interesting thing, Nancy, the state can`t disprove a single thing she says.", "Can you put him back up, please? Peter, I believe that the medical examiner`s testimony was very strong.", "Wrong.", "Let`s go to doctor --", "Wrong.", "I think it was. Go to Bill Manion, Dr. Manion, joining me tonight out of Philly. Dr. Manion, you have reviewed the autopsy report, and my interpretation is that the gunshot wound was the last wound. Now why is that?", "That`s because there was not significant hemorrhage around the wound itself. And the medical examiner believes that he probably bled out at that point and didn`t have sufficient blood to make any significant hemorrhage in that area. In addition, I hope the prosecution asks her to demonstrate how she shot him in the head, because there were no stippling (ph), there were no powder marks or anything, so this was not a close contact wound. So if she`s trying to claim that he was grabbing her and she shot him in the head, I would think there would be gunpowder or stippling burning from the hot flash gunpowder on his head, and there was none there. The medical examiner said he didn`t see it. This is not a close contact wound.", "And I want to clear something up, Dr. Manion, you`re using terms of art, terms of science when you say stippling. That actually is a burn mark on the skin. It`s not just gunshot residue, is it?", "That`s correct. It`s a burn mark made by the hot gunpowder touching the skin, that`s correct.", "So it`s not something that could be washed off in the shower, is it, Dr. Manion?", "No. It will not be washed off. It will still be there.", "And also, Dr. Manion, when you referred to no hemorrhaging to the brain, what do you mean by that precisely, in layman`s terms?", "Well, the bullet passed through the front of the skull and was close to the brain. And normally you would see a lot of blood pool there. You would get subarachnoid hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage, and you would see at least a blood clot. And even if he`s decomposed, I would expect to find a blood clot if he was still pumping blood. But in this case, the medical examiner just didn`t find any significant hemorrhage, and he felt on the basis of that this was the last shot. This was the coup de gras, in a sense. This was to make sure he was dead.", "And Jean Casarez, let me clarify something or solidify it in my own mind. When she says that the gun went off, where was she and where was he?", "So important. She said that he had his hands around her waist right then. That`s close contact.", "Very, very critical. Now let`s go back to Peter Odom. The defense attorney joining us tonight. So, Peter Odom, given her version of what happened, there would absolutely have been stippling, burning around the gunshot wound entrance. There was none.", "You say that. Those weren`t his words absolutely, and those are Manion`s words. Those weren`t the words of the medical examiner that testified. He said that there likely would be. He said there might be. He didn`t say absolutely. And the hemorrhaging doesn`t disprove her story either, because there was too much decomposition for them to say that categorically that wound didn`t bleed out. I mean, and this is the brilliance of what the defense is doing.", "The brilliance?", "They`re keeping it ambiguous enough -- yes. It`s brilliant, because she`s keeping it ambiguous enough that they can`t categorically disprove what she is saying, even though some of it might be implausible.", "Everyone, as the Jodi Arias murder trial goes on, as a matter of fact now more than ever, we want you, the legal eagles across this country, to send investigative tips about the case to our e-mail at hlntv.com/nancygrace. Go to the get to know us box. We want your observations of this trial. What are the inconsistencies? What do they prove? What have you caught that the lawyers have overlooked?", "After weeks of seemingly irrelevant, innocuous testimony of Jodi Arias on the stand, finally this week we get to the day that Travis Alexander was slaughtered, slaughtered in his own shower. Her story begins to veer almost out of control. And what I mean by that is that she is starting to catch herself in one inconsistency after the next. That`s what happens when you talk too much. Let me tell you this. Arias` lawyers better be worried about cross- exam. They`ve taken a very big gamble putting her on the stand. I don`t believe it`s going to pay off for them.", "Why not just dial 911 and tell them what happened?", "I was scared and I couldn`t imagine calling 911 and telling them what I had just done. I was scared of what would happen to me. I was scared of a lot of things. I was thinking of all kinds of things, my family, myself.", "Welcome back. We are camped out in front of the courthouse. I want to clear something up that defense attorney Peter Odom just argued. Brilliantly, actually. It was almost believable if I didn`t have the actual autopsy report in my hand. Dr. Bill Manion joining me tonight out of Philly, Dr. Manion, isn`t it true that a gunshot wound at close range, for instance, he has his hands on her waist struggling with her, she shoots him in the head, is it your opinion as an expert that that would, in fact, absolutely leave stippling or a burn mark around the gunshot wound entrance?", "It would certainly leave stippling. The burn mark would be - - the gun barrel may have to be pressed against the skin to leave a good flash burn powder mark. But there certainly would be stippling, because if she`s holding the gun and he has her at her waist, she`s not lifting the gun up above her head and then shooting down into him. She must have the gun at her chest, shooting down into his head if he`s got her around her waist.", "And I have here in my hand, and I am reading verbatim from the official autopsy report, \"no soot, gunpowder stippling or ante (ph) gun powder particles surround the wound.\" So her story is a lie. Straight out to body language expert Patti Wood. Now, your opinion may not be admissible in court under the rules of evidence, but it`s admissible here, and I want to hear your opinion as to what you are seeing in court.", "Well, let`s examine the distinction between truth and fiction in her testimony today. When she talks about the camera and him saying that he said, a 5-year-old could have taken a better picture. Notice her whole demeanor. She is absolutely devastated by that statement. It`s truth. Absolute truth. Compare that to when she talks about being body slammed, chased, and him on top of her, lack of affect on her face, no emotion in her voice, and she speeds through that part of her testimony. Fact and fiction.", "What do you make of her mannerisms? I noticed she won`t look at the jury when she describes certain moments, then other times she turns towards them. I noticed when she held her broken finger up in front of the jury, she couldn`t even look at it. She looked away from it. Later on, of course, she`s gesticulating with it straightened out, and we uncovered photos she posted after the alleged finger breaking in which it`s perfectly normal. What does her vision, the way she is looking and acting, what does it mean?", "Well, her body orientation overall is fascinating today, because normally you would be looking at your defense attorney. You would be comforted by him. You would be listening, you want to make sure you are accurate in your answers. Instead, she turns her whole body away. All of what I call the body windows, the face, the neck, the heart, the torso and most importantly the most honest portion of the body, the feet, away from her defense attorney. That`s very unusual. Typically only when somebody wants to hide everything do they turn their whole body away.", "Out to Dr. Ramani Durvasula, clinical psychologist joining me out of L.A., Dr. Ramani, thank you for being with us. Doctor, what do you make of her being able to recall it was Costco water it was in her trunk, but she can`t remember her slashing his neck from ear to ear?", "I think what`s tricky with Jodi Arias` case is I really think she`s trying to play the dissociative amnesia card, like I forgot this in the midst of the drama of killing him. But the problem is, she got it together too quickly after the crime. She cleaned everything up, she got out of there. It just doesn`t ring true. And when we look for amnesia, we`re looking for that kind of consistency, and she is sort of really conveniently pulling this memory loss as a defense. It doesn`t work.", "Well, one thing I remember, Dr. Ramani, that she said today -- hey, Jean, do you remember -- and Beth, remember this, she said something like the defense asked her why did you tell the detective all those wild, zany stories about two ninjas dressed in black killing him? She said, well, I was trying to basically tell what I knew of the forensic evidence to make a story that would exonerate me. Well, that`s just what she`s doing now, Jean.", "Right. And she also said, I didn`t want anyone to think I was capable of doing that.", "Welcome back. We are taking your calls. Out to Becky, California. Hi, Becky. What`s your question?", "Hi, Nancy. Actually, I have two questions. Do you think this was the first time Jodi Arias`s attorneys were hearing the story about Travis grabbing her by the arm after catching her with another woman? Because it seemed to me like they were blindsided. And will the prosecution -- excuse me, prosecution be seeking this woman? Because if it was true, wouldn`t Travis have told one of his buddies about it?", "OK. In the first question, no, I think the defense has orchestrated this whole story, and they`ve gone over it and over it and over it with her. So I don`t think they were surprised. No matter how they acted in court. And your second question is what? I didn`t understand that.", "That if -- would the prosecution be seeking this woman? Because if it was true, wouldn`t Travis have told one of his buddies about it. So they could clearly see that she was lying.", "Would the prosecution be seeking her? What do you mean? Seeking --", "The other woman that Jodi said that she caught Travis with.", "OK. I think I understand. Beth Karas, what about it?", "Yes, I don`t think that they would go that far. There are certain issues you just kind of leave alone because they become collateral and a trial within a trial, and I`m not sure that they would do that. But issues like that that are important enough, they might. There are just a lot of those. It would take forever to try this case if they tried to put on all that other evidence to disprove her.", "We remember American hero Army Sergeant Benjamin Sherman. 21, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Bronze Star, Purple Heart. Three Army Commendation Medals. Parents Denise and Bill. Sisters Meredith and Jessica. Widow Patricia. Daughter Skyla (ph). Benjamin Sherman, American hero.", "Well, you can`t convict a dead person. And I want to -- I planned to be dead long before this ever even got close to trial.", "You know, it`s amazing how so many killers really want to kill themselves. They say they all want to commit suicide. But they end up killing everybody around them. Out to you, Bonnie Drucker. Also joining us from the courthouse. She said she went to the memorial because, quote, she thought it would look bad if she didn`t go.", "Yes. That`s exactly what happened, Nancy. She said it would look bad if she didn`t go. And the reason why she went is because sometimes when she was dating Travis Alexander, they had a whole conversation that if she ever died first and she had a funeral, he would go to her funeral and give the eulogy. So that is why she felt like she had to go to his memorial. I know it sounds crazy, but --", "Yes, it does. Unleash the lawyers. Eleanor, Peter. All right, Peter. How many times while you`re courting a young lady and you really want to impress her, you go, hey, baby, I`m going to go to your funeral, I`ll even give the eulogy. That works.", "Well, Nancy, I mean, there`s no accounting for human behavior. I know that -- you`re not going to believe, no matter what she says, you`re not going to believe her. And I appreciate that. But I`m not sure you`re really objective about this.", "Everything that comes out of her life is a lie. That`s not a question of whether you would believe her or not, Nancy. She can`t tell the truth. None of it is the truth.", "Hey, baby, I`ll go to your funeral. OK. You know what? Let me clear my mind for a moment. I want to show you guys a real milestone today for John David. You know, he just got out of the hospital recently, and he crossed the monkey bars himself. The very first time. And happy birthday to Florida friends Theodosia (ph) and Lavonda (ph). Aren`t they beautiful? They never miss our show. Dr. Drew up next, everyone. I`ll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp Eastern, and until then, good night, friend. 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{"id": "CNN-265587", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2015-09-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/29/es.04.html", "summary": "Taliban Captures Key Northern Afghan City; Stocks Down Around The World.", "utt": ["I'm Christine Romans. Let's get an EARLY START on your money this Tuesday morning. Asian shares close lower. European shares are down 2. Volkswagen falling further right now. But U.S. futures are trying to get a bit of a bounce. Commodity stocks are falling on global demand concerns. Looking for a bounce potentially this morning, a bounce from this, the Dow dropping 313 points, the Nasdaq had the worst one-day decline since late August when the Dow took that unprecedented 1,000 point nose dive. Declines across the board, around the world. Bio-tech stocks hit hard in the session yesterday. We are watching for a bit of a bounce back today. A billionaire investor, Carl Icahn, is going all in for Donald Trump, Icahn releasing the video this morning. He says the country needs a leader like Trump.", "We need a president that can move Congress. I think Donald Trump could do it. I disagree with him on certain issues, but this is what this country needs, somebody to wake it up.", "Icahn agrees with Trump's plan to eliminate the carried interest loophole, which lets hedge funds managers be taxed at a lower rate. Trump has said he would Icahn his treasury secretary if elected -- Alison.", "I cannot deny that I'm enjoying all the twists and turns in the early season of politics. The U.S. launching a new attack on an Afghan city taken by the Taliban. \"NEW DAY\" starts now.", "After attack to retake the city of Kunduz from the Taliban has begun.", "The 500 Taliban prisoners were freed from the city's prison.", "The biggest town they have been able to take since 2001.", "Their first face-to- face meeting in two years.", "I'm amazed they came out to do that handshake at all.", "Putin blamed the U.S. for the rise of", "United States is prepared to work with any nation, including Russia and Iran, to resolve the conflict.", "Let Syria and ISIS fight. Why do we care? Let Russia take care of ISIS. Assad to me looks better than the other side.", "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your NEW DAY. It is Tuesday, September 29th, 6:00 in the east. Chris is on assignment today. John Berman joins us. Great to have you with us. We begin with breaking news. United States launching an air strike overnight against Taliban targets in Northern Afghanistan, one day after Taliban fighters captured a major Afghan city. This marks the first time the Taliban has gained ground there since the U.S.-led invasion of 2001.", "At this hour, Afghan fighters are trying to retake the northern city of Kunduz. Taliban has already done considerable damage, freeing hundreds of jailed prisoners during their surprise pre-dawn attack. We have the story covered the way CNN can. Let's begin with CNN Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr. I know they are concerned there are Taliban among those prisoners that were freed.", "That's right. Good morning, Michaela. Some urgency to get the situation in Northern Afghanistan back under control, the U.S. launching airstrikes overnight in Kunduz. The largest city that the Taliban has been able to control since 2001 in Northern Afghanistan, a very messy situation. Afghan security forces have arrived on the scene. We are told by Afghan authorities they are moving through the city and trying to retake the prison. The Taliban got there and they freed hundreds of prisoners. The Taliban said they have taken control of a local hospital, posting pictures on social media to prove their case. The Afghan is trying to get the city back under their control."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "CARL ICAHN, BILLIONAIRE INVESTOR", "ROMANS", "KOSIK", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST, \"THE SITUATION ROOM\"", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ISIS. BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "TRUMP", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "PEREIRA", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-157664", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-11-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1011/01/ltm.04.html", "summary": "Election Day Expectations; U.S. Steps Up Cargo Security", "utt": ["Good morning to you. Starting a brand new month this morning. It's the first of November. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Roberts.", "I'm Kiran Chetry. We have a lot to talk about this morning so let's get right to it. It's the final countdown to Election Day. The numbers don't look good for Democrats although party leaders are still holding out hope. President Obama pleading with people to get out and vote tomorrow. There's a influence CNN Opinion Research poll revealing a majority of Americans will cast ballots for any candidate who opposes the president.", "New information this morning on the man who allegedly built the bombs found on planes headed for the United States. He could be the same person who made the so-called Underwear Bomb that was found last Christmas on a flight to the United States. And Yemen is promising to make changes. Jeanne Meserve has the latest information for us this morning.", "And the Supreme Court justices are taking up an unusual First Amendment case. At issue: whether states can prevent minors from purchasing violent video games. A videogame expert, as well as senior legal analyst Jeff Toobin will be joining us to talk about it.", "First, though, no matter how you break it down, it's not looking good for the Democrats tomorrow, just one day to go before the midterm elections now. And to get an idea of the mood of voters, the latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll reveals a majority of Americans will choose any candidate who opposes the president.", "And get this. The number of people who say that things are going badly in this country now stands at 75 percent. Earlier on AMERICAN MORNING, I asked -- well, John asked Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele if he would be OK with Sarah Palin becoming the GOP nominee for president in 2012.", "If she goes to the process and the Republican primary voters vote for her -- absolutely, I would -- why wouldn't I be? And again, another point here -- you know, these Republican leaders who don't put their names in print but make comments in shadows need to shut up.", "Yes, you heard it.", "Well, joining us now to get a handle on how things stand one day before the midterm elections, John King, CNN's chief national correspondent and anchor of \"JOHN KING USA.\" Some tough talk from Michael Steele this morning, \"Shut up.\"", "It is remarkable. Republicans are on the verge of recapturing the House of Representatives, of getting close and if they have a wave of capturing the United States Senate, they're going to pick up many governorships across the country, dozens of state legislative seats across the country. And yet, even on the verge of such significant progress for them, they are in the middle of this remarkable family feud. And Michael Steele is dead center in it.", "I've never seen anything like it.", "You're talking about the family feud between those who believe that Sarah Palin is taking up the mantle as the new leader of the party and who?", "Well, there are a lot of -- there are a lot of Republicans out there who don't see Sarah Palin as a good presidential nominee and they will start working Wednesday morning on, you know, Governor Romney, Governor Pawlenty, Governor Barber, what are we going to do here. Because if she's the nominee, based on polling today, they don't think she can win. Forget the polling today. Sarah Palin has had a very interesting year. She's established herself as a favorite of the Tea Party people and the conservative base. And she's a threat to some of the more establishment Republicans, number one. But the reason he gets so riled up and says \"shut up\" is because he also knows many of those same people are organizing to block him from getting a second term.", "Yes.", "And I'll tell you, I've been doing this for 25 years, and I don't know a Republican involved in a big race this year who listens to Michael Steele for one second. He is viewed in his own party as the irrelevant chairman and that frustrates him. That makes him mad. And he knows those people are trying to block him from a second term. That's why he is telling them to shut up.", "OK. So, we've gone through the 2012 election and Michael Steele.", "What about tomorrow?", "That's what makes it fascinating. There's a huge election tomorrow and it's consequential. It's not just about who wins in Washington. And most Democrats will concede to you privately they think the House is gone. They think Nancy Pelosi will lose the speaker's gavel. So, what does that mean? You will have a House that wants -- that's run by Republicans, that wants to repeal the Obama health care plan; that wants to rein in federal spending. The Tea Party people in that caucus will demand votes on eliminating the Department of Education, on completely repealing Obamacare. And the establishment Republicans are going to have an internal feud there because, John, you know this very well, they don't have the votes in the Senate to repeal Obamacare. And even if they did, the president will have a veto pen. And so, Washington is going to be fascinating after this election. The energy of the Tea Party movement is what gave the Republicans so much energy, but they are going to have big gains because they have taken the middle of the electorate back from President Obama, independent voters. Independent voters actually want cooperation in Washington. One of the things they don't like is that it looks like a daycare center. So, how do the Republicans deal with the energy on the right, the legitimate enthusiasm of the Tea Party people but then also address the moderate independent voters who have said the president reached too far, the Democrats reached too far, so we're going to vote Republican Tuesday, but that doesn't mean we want you to just fight the president every day?", "Right. And I mean -- but it is interesting when you take a look at our polling, 75 percent of people are unhappy with the direction of the country right now. I mean, I understand that there's perhaps not going to be a ton getting done because you are likely going to have a split chamber.", "And so, the American people will send most likely divided government to Washington, that number is off the charts, and that's the biggest in a midterm election year, how do people feel about right wrong, wrong track in the country.", "Right.", "When 75 percent of the people think the country is on the wrong track, the other party -- meaning the Republicans -- are going to have big gains in the election. History tells you that overwhelming. The question is: what next? But they are in the grumpy mood in part because of 10 percent unemployment. This is not all the president's doing, if you will. Now, people think the stimulus wasn't effective. He spent too much money maybe. But you -- and there's -- have you met an economist who thinks it's going to get any better in the next year? So, these political debates are going to play out at a time when we will have continued high unemployment, a continued 2 percent or 2.5 percent or 3 percent growth in the economy. The question is: if the Republicans take one chamber of congress, how much are they accountable for what happens in Washington, and who is to blame? And I think, sadly, what most people in both parties expect two years of finger-pointing and gridlock.", "Yes, that one that Michael Steele was telling you all to shut up about.", "So, what do you make of what's happening in Alaska where Joe Miller seems to have run into some trouble. His polls were way up here and Lisa Murkowski's were down here. And they were doing this. But now, he's stabilized a little bit. But do you think that Republicans will, if not overtly, at least tacitly, try to throw their support behind her?", "But what is interesting that any ads funded by Republican committees have dropped any critical reference to Lisa Murkowski. They showed Joe Miller, they might promote Joe Miller, but they dropped any critical reference to her. And truth be told, in a private conversation in Washington, most Republicans will tell you, \"We hope Lisa Murkowski wins that seat,\" because she's one of them. She's an incumbent senator now.", "They threw her overboard two months ago, right?", "The primary voters did throw her out. But if she wins, she gets six more years to figure that one out and to make peace with the people of Alaska. And they would rather have her than what they do as a Tea Party agitator in their caucus. Either way, the expectation is, a Republican will win that seat. So, while it's great drama if you're Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, you stay quiet for 48 hours and you assume that at least whoever wins will be a Republican.", "You think we're going to know tomorrow?", "No. In Alaska, I think it's possible we'll be up late. I think Alaska race could keep us up late, and perhaps the next day and the next day and the next day.", "I think the Nevada Senate race could keep us up. That one there -- there are a lot of lawyers out in Nevada getting ready to do things. So, strap in.", "Fascinating races.", "We'll be watching. Thanks.", "Thanks, John. Good to see you this morning.", "Well, stay with us, because in less than 30 minutes, we're going to speak to Amy Kremer. She is the chairwoman of the Tea Party Express. We're going to ask her what the grass roots organization is doing to get the supporters to the polls and once some of these candidates get elected, how do they work with in the", "Now to an A.M. Security Watch. A new information on those mail bombs that slid past airline security in Yemen late last week. First, the fingerprints of al Qaeda we're finding out the terror suspect who created the Christmas Day underwear bomb could be connected to this plot as well.", "Also, security officials in Yemen announce that every piece of cargo and luggage will go through extensive searching from now. The U.S. is also stepping up screening, saying procedures will, quote, \"evolve\" based on the latest intelligence. Our Jeanne Meserve spoke to the TSA administrator just minutes ago and she joins us live from Washington this morning. Hi there, Jeanne.", "Hi, Kiran. Authorities are currently taking a look, as you know, at all packages shipped from Yemen. John Pistole, the administrator of the TSA, says, at this point, they have not found any additional bombs. He says forensics on the devices found in the U.K. and Yemen are continuing. He didn't offer definitive information on how they were supposed to detonate and whether the intended targets were airplanes or the destinations in Chicago. There seems to be some ambiguity about that. Still, even when tipped to the packages, authorities in Britain and in Dubai had trouble finding them. I asked the administrator if current screening technology was up to finding something like these well-disguised PETN bombs.", "We know that the enemy we face is creative in terms of design, in concealment as we saw both on 12/25 and, of course, in this recent incident. And then also, in the effectiveness of the device, that if they operated effectively, could have catastrophic consequences.", "Pistole says the biggest challenge in screening aviation cargo is the international aspect of the system. The U.S. needs buy-in from other nations around the world. He's on his way today to an aviation security conference at Frankfurt, Germany, where the issue is sure to be discussed. Kiran and John, back to you.", "So, Jeanne, in terms of the number of bombs, they got two of them. And they were quite cleverly hidden, it's copy machines and cartridges for copy machines. Do they think that there might be more of them out there?", "Well, that's why they are taking a look at all of these packages from Yemen. There were specific ones they wanted to track down last Friday. I was told that they had indeed found all of them. We suspect that perhaps they were shipped from the same cities at the same time. But in addition, they're backtracking. They're looking at other packages sent from Yemen over the last several weeks, we understand, to try and figure out if there's any threat in there -- and as Pistole said, they haven't found anything yet.", "Yes, I should have said printers, is what I meant to say. Jeanne, thanks so much. Good to see you this morning.", "Check in with Rob Marciano right now. Nine minutes past the hour. He's keeping track of everything for us, weather-wise. Hey, Rob.", "Good morning, guys. A bit of a chilly start to this first day of November. Halloween in a lot of spots was definitely on the nippy side. But dry. And it's dry across the Northeast and chilly. Temperatures in the 30s in some spots below the freezing mark to start your day. Today's temps, what it feels like right now on the way out the door. It's pretty much what it's going to feel like tomorrow from D.C. up to Boston, that will remain dry. But it will be certainly cool at least in the morning. Temps will bounce to about 50 in New York, 54 D.C., some thunderstorms rumbling later on today in Houston. You'll see them tomorrow for the vote, the big vote. The rains will be across the Northwest and the Deep South for Election Day. The other item of concern is Tropical Storm Tomas, which has winds of 50 miles an hour. This was a strong hurricane over the weekend, beating up places like St. Lucia and Barbados. It is heading west and maybe drifting a little bit down to the southwest. It will continue that direction and then make a sharp turn to the right or towards the north. Jamaica, eastern Cuba, Hispaniola, including Haiti, of course, will be in the danger zone as we get towards this weekend. We'll talk more about the different options for Tomas later on in the program.", "Let's hope it's no mas Tomas.", "I like that.", "All right. Thanks, Rob.", "OK.", "Well, Tea Party chairwoman -- Tea Party Express chairwoman, Amy Kremer, is going to be joining us live coming up with last-minute develops about what's going on in Alaska and the Senate race, as well as Delaware. We're also going to ask her about Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity. Did she think it was a success firing up young voters?", "Plus, some scary moments on the football field. Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre already playing with a bad ankle gets his bell rung and knocked out of the game. 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{"id": "CNN-231510", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2014-5-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/28/es.03.html", "summary": "President Obama to Delivery Major Speech; Ukraine Pledges to Oust Separatists", "utt": ["My computer never crashes, right?", "Well, the good thing is my computer always goes so slowly, it can't hurt anybody.", "That's a great point. That's a great point.", "Sorry tech support.", "All right. EARLY START continues right now.", "Should the United States police the world? President Obama just hours away from unveiling how much and how little the U.S. will intervene in the problems of other countries. The new strategy, ahead.", "A community in mourning after six college students were murdered. Now the father of one victim makes a new emotional plea in front of thousands. That's ahead.", "New this morning, Donald Sterling outlining his legal fight against the NBA and why he says they can't force him, they can't force him to sell the L.A. Clippers. Good morning. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans.", "I'm John Berman. Great to see you today. It's Wednesday, May 28th, it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. And we begin with breaking news from Afghanistan. Two Americans from the U.S. consulate have been injured in an attack on their vehicle in the city of Herat. This is in the far western part of the country, near the Iranian border. Not exactly clear as of yet what happened but there are reports that the vehicle was shot at with a rocket propelled grenade. The two Americans are said to have suffered light injuries and they are currently being treated. We will stay on this for you throughout the morning.", "All right. A U.S. warship carrying some 1,000 Marines is on its way to the coast of Libya this morning as the State Department has issued an urgent warning advising Americans to leave the country immediately due to an unpredictable and unstable security situation. Officials say the warship is a precautionary move as bloody battles for power pushed Libya to the brink here nearly three years after its revolution.", "All this as President Obama is set to deliver an important address about U.S. foreign policy coming a day after outlining the future for U.S. troops in Afghanistan and how nearly 10,000 troops will remain there into next year. Today the president will go to West Point where he'll explain the U.S. role in the world going forward. This is a highly anticipated speech. And as Jim Acosta tells us, it's coming at a critical time when the administration's foreign policy plans have been under close, close scrutiny.", "John and Christine, President Obama will answer his foreign policy critics in a speech to graduates at West Point later today after more than a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Aides to the president say now is the time for the U.S. to redefine its leadership in the world. The president's vision, officials say, is for the U.S. to intervene in foreign crisis but not act unilaterally. In recent weeks, the president has come under heavy criticism over his handling of the civil war in Syria and the crisis in Ukraine. But White House officials say the U.S. now has greater flexibility to tackle global challenges with the war in Afghanistan winding down. The president laid out his plan to dramatically reduce troop levels in Afghanistan in a speech at the White House yesterday.", "The bottom line is, it's time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.", "The president's plan for Afghanistan will call for less than 10,000 troops in that country next year and only a fraction of that as he leaves office in 2017. A group of Republican senators led by John McCain attacked the president's proposal as a monumental mistake -- John and Christine.", "All right. Jim Acosta -- thank you, Jim. Dealing with Russia and Ukraine has become a major focus for this president. And there's a new pledge this morning in Ukraine. The government promising it will oust separatists from the east. This a day after intense fighting ended a militant takeover of the Donetsk airport leaving dozens -- dozens dead. Let's get the latest from Nick Paton Walsh who's live for us in Donetsk. Nick, things are quieter there today than they were the last few days.", "Well, certainly the violence has been ebbing. Sporadic shooting occasionally reported around the airport where the Ukrainian army made that fierce move on Monday to push separatists out. But I should tell you, Christine, where I'm standing here, for the past half an hour, we've been hearing a military jet that's been circling around the city of millions of people, flying low, clearly wanting to have its jet engines heard by those civilians here. And I have to say, too, separatists, you know, who've been putting out suggestions that they thought a bombing campaign would start, there's been a ratification of that from Ukraine officials, we're told. But all this, the buzzing of the jets and the claim for the separatists, feeds in to the border climate of fear amongst people here. And upsets an odd tactic for the Ukrainian military. Presumably they want to win over the people living in this city to send a military jet quite so low down, a lot of people are looking up anxiously at the skies. As I said, it comes after Monday's move to retake the airport. That was a clear red line in the eyes of the government. They didn't want the separatists to have part of that key infrastructure into their control. The issue now is where do we go forward. There have been a lot of losses on the sides of separatist militants through that attack on Monday. People now, I think, beginning to bury the dead, begins to take stock of where the violence goes next. And scenes like where, you know, people going about their daily business, but anxiously looking up to the skies to see quite what's happening, where that roar is coming from, just adding to the sense of tension here -- Christine.", "All right. Nick Paton Walsh, thanks for that, out in Donetsk this morning. Edward Snowden is on the defensive firing back at critics in a new interview with NBC News. The former NSA contractor charged with espionage for leaking more than one million pages of secret documents. He says -- he's trying to set the record straight. He was much more than just a low-level hacker. Listen.", "I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word in that I lived and worked undercover overseas, pretending to work in a job that I'm not and even being assigned a name that was not mine. But I am a technical specialist. I am a technical expert. I don't work with people. I don't recruit agents. What I do is I put systems to work for the United States.", "\"What I do is I put systems to work for the United States.\" John, it's so interesting because he doesn't do that anymore.", "Very defensive about his stature inside the U.S. intelligence establishment.", "Pretty measured when he talks about himself, too. You know, just -- I don't know.", "Six minutes after the hour. The White House is asking its top lawyer to investigate how the identity of a CIA station chief in Afghanistan was leaked to the public. This happened over the weekend when President Obama was preparing for a briefing during his unannounced visit to Afghanistan. The names of everyone meeting the president including the CIA station chief were released to the media and distributed to thousands of people on the White House e-mail list. The CIA station chief's identity is supposed to be classified. And this was a bad, bad mistake.", "Now on hold, a major Obama administration review of deportation procedure. The White House had asked Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to look into any way to shield some 11 million undocumented immigrants from being deported. But now the administration says it is moving the review to the back burner as it pushes Congress to act on immigration reform instead.", "The House Veterans Affairs Committee holds a rare evening hearing tonight to review dozens of suspicious deaths at the VA hospital in Phoenix. The facility allegedly kept secret lists and kept some veterans waiting months for treatment allegedly leading dozens to die. Three top VA officials have been asked to appear at this hearing but it's not clear whether they will. Now Republicans are threatening to subpoena them if they don't show up tonight. So a surprising political role for the first lady. Michelle Obama taking on critics of the administration's policies on healthier school meals. She sat down with school nutrition officials and told them it was simply unacceptable that some in Congress now say districts should be able to opt out of the rules.", "Parents have a right to expect that their kids will get decent food in our schools. And we all have a right to expect that our hard-earned taxpayer dollars won't be spent on junk food for our kids.", "Some districts say the rules are too restrictive and serving meals with more fruits, vegetables and whole grains is too expensive. The first lady suggested perhaps there was more the federal government could do to help schools that are having a difficult time meeting these standards. All right. Time for an EARLY START on your money this morning. Here's what stocks are doing around the world right now. But the big story here in the U.S. Record high for the S&P; 500. We told you to watch 1900. The S&P; closed about at 1911.", "You told us.", "It's 12 times it's been at record high close for the S&P.; The Dow very close to breaking its record as well. Futures pointing higher right now so we'll see if that happens today. Meantime, another state taking the fight for a higher minimum wage into its own hands. Michigan. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. President Obama is hoping to raise that to $10.10 an hour. That plan has been stalled in Congress. But the states are doing it themselves. Twenty-six states have or have adopted minimum wages above $7.25 including now Michigan. The state's current minimum wage is $7.40 but that will go up to $9.25 over the next few years.", "That's a long way from what the president is calling for.", "Yes. And, you know, the fast food industry, they want $15.", "Right.", "The fast food workers. So this is the -- the states are doing the action, Washington is really doing nothing, but the conversation is one of the biggest topics in terms of money this year. All right. Donald Sterling apparently won't give up ownership of the L.A. Clippers. He's not going to go without a fight. He is now formally responding to the NBA's attempt to force him out, accusing the league of violating his constitutional rights, blasting others who received lesser punishments for similar -- infractions, rather. Sterling says he has been prejudged and won't get a fair hearing when the Board of Governors meets June 3rd. The NBA says it is moving ahead with the vote to give the league the right to sell that team. Now in a statement, his wife Shelly says she's working to negotiate a sale of the team. But despite all the suitors, there have been no formal offers yet.", "I still submit that this will be resolved before the owners get a chance to vote on June 3rd, although this letter from Sterling's lawyer maybe makes that a little less likely. Nine minutes after the hour, an emotional plea from a father of a college student murdered in the Santa Barbara killing spree. His search for answers and actions ahead.", "Plus storms leaving communities under water. The threat is not over yet. 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{"id": "CNN-142298", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-8-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/28/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Life After Cash for Clunkers for Auto Industry", "utt": ["Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. Cash for Clunkers gave automakers a much-needed boost, generating nearly 700,000 vehicle sales and claims for just under $3 billion in rebates. With those cash incentives now gone though, there is concern the market could crash just as carmakers are boosting production. Ford which topped GM and Chrysler in clunkers sales is stepping up its production. So what does the future hold? Mark Fields is the Ford's executive vice president and he joins us now. Thanks for coming in so early.", "Well, thanks for having me.", "So let's get this out of the way quickly, because we know that Toyotas and Hondas were the big winners really in Cash for Clunkers over domestic cars. And, you know, it's sort of the same old same old and how can you ever beat them?", "Well, you know, the good news for Ford is we did very well for Cash for Clunkers. Our actual share of the clunkers was -- it ran about 1.5 points higher than our year-to-date retail market share. And we've been growing our market share for nine out of the last ten months. So, you know, the good news is we had a couple of vehicles in the top ten of the clunkers.", "You did?", "And -- but I think what was really important, what you may not know is when we closed the books on August, we'll probably set some sales records -- all-time sales records for vehicles like our Ford Fusion, our Flex, and probably will record our highest F-series sales since probably October of 2006.", "Excellent. I want to read your quote now. An auto research Web site said, Cash for Clunkers distorted the market in the way that benefited the industry for four weeks. Now the payback begins.\" Meaning that sales will probably fall back in the basement and you'll be left in the same spot that you were before.", "Well, I do think when you look at the industry, clearly there in the Cash for Clunkers period, the industry, you know, did spike. But very importantly, we always knew that the stimulus was going to be temporary and that's why when we look between now and the end of the year, clearly we'll see a selling rate that's below the selling rate that they had during \"cash for clunkers.\" And we've adjusted our production. We've raised production in the third and fourth quarter. But very importantly, we're just replenishing our dealer inventories. We're not going to get, you know, overly ambitious. We've had a strategy to match our capacity demand, and we'll continue to do that.", "Is there a similar program that automakers can come up with, like Cash for Clunkers that might attract buyers. I mean, it was a great marketing ploy, right? I mean, I know that they were getting money too from the government. But it was a great marketing campaign. Is there anything on tap from automakers that would be similar to that?", "Well, I think the most important thing that we can do at Ford to give customers, you know, great value but also instill consumer confidence and also, you know, just make them interested in being attracted to a car and a truck these days is put out the best products we can. And we have a strategy clearly focused on bringing out a full line of products, small, medium, large. Always improving the fuel economy. We have almost the industry best quality right now, technology, and very importantly, safety. So the best thing from our standpoint is to continue to bring customers great products. And, you know, it's reflected in our market share. So hopefully we'll see that going forward.", "Did it surprise you that people were so in to fuel- efficient cars?", "We've been focusing on fuel efficiency for the past couple of years because it's really interesting. You know, last year when gas spiked to $4 a gallon, you know, people were very much interested in fuel efficiency. You fast forward to today, even though gas prices are down, fuel economy is still at the top of their list. So, we have a strategy that says for every vehicle that we come out with, every segment, we will be either best in class or among the leaders in fuel economy. And we're doing that with vehicles like our new Fusion.", "So do you think that reflects a real change? Because, you know, I don't know some people thought that once gas prices went down, people will return to their big pickup trucks and their SUVs. But will that eventually happen again? Or have people really changed their mindset about buying fuel efficient cars?", "Well, we feel that people have really changed their minds. We think that, you know, customers are really smart. And they saw the experience last spring. They know that oil is not a renewable resource. Clearly, as we look at our business going forward, we expect gas to rise. So we -- we continue to focus on fuel economy because we think that customers are going to continue to focus on that. And it's going to be at the top of their list.", "OK. So will the Detroit Lions win a football game this season?", "Let's see. I think they have a brand new coach and a couple of great, you know, draft picks and I'm very hopeful.", "Me too, because I'm a Detroit Lions fan. Thank you so much. Mark Fields from the Ford Motor Company.", "Thanks, Carol.", "Appreciate it - John.", "So, again, an incredible story to tell you about this morning. Jaycee Lee Dugard, she was 11 years old when she was kidnapped. Her parents lost hope that she would ever be found alive. Well, on Wednesday, the parents got the news that she had been found. Now 29 years old, she had been held captive for 18 years in the back yard of a man in California. We'll have that story and talk with her stepfather coming up in just a couple of minutes. Twenty-seven minutes now after the hour."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "MARK FIELDS, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, FORD MOTOR COMPANY", "COSTELLO", "FIELDS", "COSTELLO", "FIELDS", "COSTELLO", "FIELDS", "COSTELLO", "FIELDS", "COSTELLO", "FIELDS", "COSTELLO", "FIELDS", "COSTELLO", "FIELDS", "COSTELLO", "FIELDS", "COSTELLO", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-69473", "program": "CNN LIVE ON LOCATION", "date": "2003-4-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0304/16/lol.12.html", "summary": "Will George W. Bush's Approval Ratings Parallel His Father's?", "utt": ["Well with the war in Iraq in its final stages, President Bush's approval rating is above 70 percent. Twelve years ago his father enjoyed a 90 percent approval rating at the end of the first Gulf War. But just nine months later had fallen more than 40 points, mostly due to the economy. Our Jeff Greenfield looks into whether the parallels will be too much to overcome.", "Yes, the symbolism was pretty clear on Tuesday. On income tax deadline day, the president called for a tax cut.", "... totaling at least $550 billion.", "But the message wasn't just about taxes, but about the economy. As it was today.", "In order for all Americans who are looking for work to find work, the Congress must pass this jobs package.", "The turn to economic matters from a month's long focus on Iraq comes with an irresistible historical link: the fate of the last President Bush defeated for re-election a year and a half after victory in the first Gulf War.", "He has to pay attention to the economy, which his father didn't.", "'91 is not 2003.", "Democrats have been saying, \"Like father, like son.\"", "All of which raises two questions. How is the economy doing, and what does it mean politically? (voice-over): The numbers are not that good. Two million jobs lost in the last two years. Some 465,000 just in the last two months. Economic growth that's been close to no growth at all. But not all the news is bad. Unemployment is 5.8 percent. That's higher than two years ago, but not historically high. Consumer confidence in the last month bumped up, but that may be a reaction to the war news. The Dow Jones average is up 10 percent in the last month, but down some 28 percent from its 2000 high. But the lurking fear is that some fundamental dilemmas, overcapacity in some industries, the lingering post-9/11 risk aversion, may make the long-term economic news bad. And that generally means bad news for any incumbent, despite the president's 70-plus percent job approval rating. In fact, the only president re- elected in bad economic times was FDR in 1936, because the country believed he was trying hard to end the depression. Moreover, voters tend to be unforgiving in the face of bad news. In 1980, an oil embargo helped plague Jimmy Carter with inflation and an industrial recession and long gas lines. He lost big. And the first President Bush lost, even though the recession had ended almost a year before the 1992 election. Right now, the president gets mixed marks on the economy and on his tax cut proposals. So we are again left with more questions than answers. Two, in fact. First, will the economy next year produce the kinds of impacts voters feel directly? Job losses, for instance. And if it does, will voters reward the president for trying to make things better or blame him for failing? Jeff Greenfield, CNN, New York."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFF GREENFIELD, CNN SR. ANALYST (voice-over)", "BUSH", "GREENFIELD", "BUSH", "GREENFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GREENFIELD (on camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-265110", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2015-09-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/22/ath.01.html", "summary": "Pope Francis Arriving in U.S.; Secret Service on High Alert for Pope Visit", "utt": ["Petraeus resigned nearly three years ago when it was revealed he had an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. Petraeus offered that apology earlier today in front of lawmakers at the Senate Armed Services hearing. That does it for me today. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm Carol Costello. AT THIS HOUR with Berman and Bolduan starts now.", "Coming to America, the pope just hours away from his historic visit and the Secret Service on high alert ahead of one of the largest security events in U.S. history.", "So who can and cannot be U.S. president, according to Ben Carson? Moments ago, he tried to clarify his stance on Muslims. So did he?", "A game-changer. On one of the most dangerous battlefields on earth. Drones, fighter jets and troops, Russia rapidly building up forces in Syria as ISIS advances.", "Hello, I'm John Berman.", "I'm Kate Bolduan. Hours from now, Pope Francis will begin his historic visit to the United States. Arriving first in Washington, D.C., before coming to New York and then off to Philadelphia. Five days of history expected to draw crowds by the hundreds of thousands. Taking a look right now at the pope --", "Somewhere in there. Behind that camera.", "Right behind that camera. We promise you, he is there, wrapping up his visit to Cuba, blessing the city, Santiago de Cuba, delivering a speech, and meeting the people there.", "This is a sign of what's to come. Everyone wants to get a picture of him in Cuba and United States. He'll land at Joint Base Andrews about 4:00 p.m. He'll be greeted in person by the president, vice president and their families. This is a sign of respect almost never granted to world leaders when they arrive in Washington. Our Michelle Kosinski joins us live from Washington right now. This is a reminder, Michelle, this pope from the Americas has never actually been to the United States of America.", "Right. Some of these preparations, just the arrival, from the moment he steps foot in Washington, you can see how momentous an occasion it is. The president himself is going to travel to Andrews Air Force Base to greet him personally as he gets off the plane. It will not only be the president, but the first lady. We now know Sasha and Malia Obama will be there, the vice president and Dr. Jill Biden. We'll have a lot more detail on what each of these stops are actually going to look like. For example, at the air force base, we described they are -- you know, who's going to be on the tarmac along with dozens of church officials, but there's also going to be a fence line where more than 1,000 people will be lined up. Most of them invited by the archdiocese here, but also some invited by the air force base itself. Next step then, the next day -- so this is Wednesday now, tomorrow -- here at the White House, between 14,000 and 15,000 people are expected to gather to await the pope's arrival on the south lawn. That includes many members of the Congress, also members of the president's cabinet. The pope himself will arrive on that South Lawn. Usually we see dignitaries arrive here in the front. But he'll arrive there. There will be a Marine Corps band that will play both national anthems. Yes, there is a Vatican national anthem. After that, then there is the bilateral meeting in the Oval Office between the president and the pope. For days, we've been trying to get more detail, more of a sense of how this meeting will play out. What is it like in that room? Now we're finding out from senior administration officials, this is going to be a one-on-one between the two leaders. There will be two translators in the room, if need. But we're told that the pope will want to speak English. It's not his strongest language, but that he's been practicing for months. So, much of the conversation is expected to be in English. Again, just the two leaders with two translators. No other members of administration. That's expected to last 45 minutes to an hour. It's described as being personable, very relaxed. Not like a formal meeting. But very warm and friendly between these two, who, remember, met once before at the Vatican last year. Concurrently to that, there will be a meeting between other White House officials, the vice president, Secretary Kerry, meeting with other Vatican officials. That's going to go on at the same time. And from there, the pope leaves the White House. Back to you guys.", "A very big few days, to be sure. Some complicated, you know, protocol at the White House.", "And choreography.", "All right, Michelle Kosinski, thank you so much. With stops in Washington, New York, Philadelphia, and we're talking big places, Capitol Hill, Madison Square Garden. This is one of the largest and most complicated security operations the U.S. has ever seen.", "Let's discuss this and all of the history around this visit with Jonathan Wackirow, a former Secret Service agent, who served on President Obama's detail; as well as CNN political commentator, Carl Bernstein, the author of \"His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of our Time.\" I mean, Michelle laid it out there, everything at stake, if you will. Just the few additional details she laid out, Jonathan. More than 1,000 people will be gathered at Andrews to see the arrival. And then 14,000 to 15,000 people expected at the White House. That's just two of the stops for the pope. You say that protecting the pope is like no other protectee. Why?", "Absolutely. Because he doesn't follow the same mold that traditional Secret Service protectees have. He's not a politician. Really the pope is the nexus between the public and the church. His responsibility is to go out into the crowd and embrace the public and really touch the people.", "Literally.", "Literally, touch the people. We've seen that during his time in Cuba and all of his travels, he's constantly going into the crowds, unsecure. And really throwing his own security teams off- balance. The Secret Service has to be prepared for that and has to have a plan in place for when the pope does make those, you know, unscheduled movements.", "Carl, I grew up in Boston and Pope John Paul II visited there on his first trip to the United States in 1979. It was huge. To this day there are still photos of his visit there. I wonder if you can compare this visit from Pope Francis to Pope John Paul", "They have the same message about the poor, the marginalized, the responsibility of rich nations to their people and those who are forgotten. That's the gospel. That's the gospel of Christ. Both John Paul II and Francis are masters of preaching this gospel and both preeminent leaders of their time in many ways because they transcend national leadership. They have the biggest following, certainly, of any particular leader in the world today. And so this is going to be really fascinating to see if this pope can keep his visit from becoming politicized. He doesn't want it politicized. There are those who wants it politicized, particularly those who oppose his message and think somehow it's, quote, too liberal or progressive.", "To that point, with these historic meetings, sitting down with the president, speaking before Congress, just to name a couple, what then is the goal, do you think, for the pope in these meetings?", "The pope wants the agenda of the world to focus on what the world preaches, on Catholic social teaching, which is one of the great contributions to mankind. And the Catholic Church is responsible for this idea we must look out for our brother and sister, to those who are not as fortunate as we are, that we must show respect for all points of view. He's going to, indeed, continue to preach about the unborn and about more tolerance for those views within the church that have been considered heretical before. As we've heard him preach so many times, he wants a church of openness. A little bit like John who called that Ecumenical Council to bring the church into a modern world, in that papacy, he's going to do it without an Ecumenical Council, but through his own preaching, just like John Paul ii did as well. Remember, the huge crowds. He appealed to youth is the other aspect of this that we should be looking at.", "Jonathan, this is a national special security event.", "Absolutely.", "Which means the Secret Service is in charge right now.", "Correct. The Secret Service is the overarching coordinating agency for this visit. Whenever there's a designation of an NNSE, National Special Security Event, Secret Service is placed in charge of the coordination, FBI is in charge of counterterrorism and intelligence. And then it opens up the door for a lot of other federal resources to be put towards a visit.", "How do they balance it? You kind of touched on it. He touches the people. He gets out in the crowds. The head of the Secret Service kind of talked about how difficult that balance is, getting it right. Not overreacting when people want to come to the pope or throw things at the pope, not in a bad way, but they throw things at the pope. But also not missing anything.", "Absolutely. So, I mean, it's always the balance between, you know, access to a protectee and security, and finding that leveling point. Here what we have to do with Pope Francis is we have to understand that he is going to do this. So, there is different areas along parade routes and at different sites that he's going to where we know he's going to go into the crowd so that having that advance knowledge, then we make those areas secure.", "Planned spontaneity, in other words.", "Exactly.", "No selfie sticks, one thing I saw, oddly enough, was pointed out.", "I'm big on the selfie stick.", "There's a terrible precedent of the attempted assassination of John Paul II. Obviously, those in the security business, the police in New York as well as the Secret Service, are terribly aware of the enmity of certain people towards this figure.", "You can see the barriers and precautions taking place in Central Park.", "Carl Bernstein, Jonathan Wackirow, thanks so much. Appreciate it.", "Reminder to all of you, tonight, CNN is taking an inside look at Pope Francis. The CNN special report, \"The People's Pope,\" airs tonight at 9:00 eastern.", "Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, Mitt Romney, all rejecting what Ben Carson had to say about Muslims and if they should or should not be in the White House. Moments ago, Ben Carson just clarified his remarks, blaming the media, largely. See what else happened.", "It's a place spiraling out of control, where terrorists, a dictator and other nations are fighting for power. Now Russia is making moves that could change everything."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "JONATHAN WACKIROW, FORMER SECRET SERVICE AGENT", "BERMAN", "WACKIROW", "BERMAN", "II. 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{"id": "CNN-340475", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-05-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/18/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Passenger Jet Crashes in Cuba", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "We are covering this shooting out of Santa Fe, Texas, at Santa Fe High School, a school of 1,400 students in a town of 13,000. Ten people are dead, nine of them are students, one is a teacher. Multiple people are injured. I want to get straight to our Rosa Flores, who is there on the ground in Santa Fe at the scene. She has the very latest for us -- Rosa?", "Well, Erica, this school turned into a crime scene.", "So sorry about that. Erica, this school has turned into a crime scene. You take a look behind me, it is a very active scene right now. Authorities telling us they have found explosive devices both on and off campus. And they are working to make sure that this community is safe here. Now, a lot of information is coming into our CNN NEWSROOM at the moment. We know that the suspect has been arrested and that there's a second individual that has been questioned and is being questioned. He has been -- said that he is an accomplice. We're still waiting to learn more information about that. You can see there's a lot of activity right now here on this scene from the Department of public safety, a big trailer. We've seen a lot of these vehicles, both from local, state and federal agencies. About the injuries, we know that 10 individuals are dead, including nine students and a teacher. And we've also learned about injuries. At least 12 people are injured. Two of those are law enforcement personnel. Right now we're seeing a lot of activity right now, state troopers and other unmarked vehicles leaving the scene. It's unclear where they're going. But, Erica, we do know there are multiple crime scenes as we learn from authorities that they have found explosives not just on campus but also off campus. So it's unclear exactly how many crime scenes are here. As we've discussed before, this is the end of the school year. Usually, a time of celebration and, instead, at this moment, these families are having to plan funerals -- Erica?", "Rosa Flores with the latest for us there. I want to bring you information coming into us, into CNN, from law enforcement sources. We can now put a name with the suspect, 17-year- old Dimitrios Pagourtzis. We're told that's the name of the suspect who is in custody. We're told by law enforcement that he was injured but is speaking with law enforcement. We should also point out, there's a second person in custody, 18 years old, believed to be a possible accomplice according to law enforcement sources. Not the shooter, though, but a possible accomplice. I want to bring back Josh, Charles and Jonathan as we look at all of this. Jonathan, you and I were just talking in the break about this. It is really important not only that the alleged shooter is still alive because of the information, but the fact that there's this other suspect in custody, who has been described as a possible accomplice. This could be two times the number of red flags --", "Absolutely.", "-- that can really give us a lot of information.", "As we were just discussing, these two individuals can't wake up this morning, build a bunch of bombs, grab some guns and go to the school. They've been working on this and thinking about this for some time. During that entire time period, there are some red flags. Who did they talk to? What did they look at online? Who did they talk to online? Did they expand their circle of influence? Were they talking about this type of attack with friends, with co-workers? This is the challenge for law enforcement right now. As just reported, there's multiple crime scenes. Each crime scene has multiple work streams. We're looking at physical searches, interview process and digital forensics. Combining all of that will lead to ascertaining what exactly the motive was. Yes, we have the suspect and accomplice in police custody. Whatever they're saying, it has to be verified. We can't take it at face value. It can't be taken as truth. If they say there are bombs over here, that could be leading into some kind of booby-trap for police and bomb technicians. Again, very systematic. Law enforcement has to take this -- they're moving quickly but they have to be very methodical on how they approach every bit of information that they receive.", "It interesting, too, and I know, Charles, I want to preface this by saying, it doesn't change the way law enforcement does its job. That being said, there's such a thirst, in this day and age, and we all have this expectation of instantaneous information. Does that complicate a situation like this when you know that not just the community who is living there wants the information to know when they can feel safe again, but just the community at large who wants answers. Does that add pressure to you if you're there in the field?", "Well, it does add some pressure. But the reality is there's always going to be some information in an investigation that is not going to be made public. But you want to as quickly as possible reassure the public that, one, you don't have another shooter out there someplace, that you don't believe there's other bombs planted somewhere else. As soon as you're able to confidently say that, and right now might not be the time to do that, you want to do as much as you can to try to set the public at ease. But there's always going to be some information you're simply not going to be able to make public. This is a criminal investigation taking place.", "Absolutely. Josh, as we're waiting to hear from the governor obviously, we may get more information in terms of where the investigation stands, even what we know at this hour. It is, for all intents and purposed, this is actually moving very quickly in terms of what we're learning. When it comes to the local level though, Josh, you say hearing from those local officials is also incredibly important right now.", "Yes. It's going to be key. If you think about what is in the public interest here, there are two aspects, the first being is there a continuing threat to the public. And that's something that folks locally there will want to know. But even more broader than that, not just in Texas but throughout the country people are going to want answers to how do we stop this from happening again. The way that you develop those ideas and plans is determine what happened here? What took place and was there some aspect of this that the public could have assisted in preventing? That's something that is in the public interest for the entire community. As we watch this press conference, as it spins up here, it's important the public not just hear from law enforcement officers. Obviously, they want that tactical, investigative view of what's going on. But it's going to be very important to hear from elected officials. These are the people who will provide that sense of calm and input. These are our leaders, in charge of running our government. Here, in this situation, we're going to hear from Governor Abbott. I remember from my time in the Texas legislature, and he was the attorney general, the Supreme Court justice, now the governor, and he's very much someone who knows law enforcement and was known as a sober, calming presence. I think we'll see that here. And having an understanding of law enforcement that he has, he knows what the public wants to hear, so I hope we get answers to a lot of these questions.", "We will bring that to you live as it happens. Before we do that, we are also following this breaking news. A fireball scene over a rural area in Cuba after a plane crashed while taking off from the capital, Havana. The 737 had 104 people on board and a foreign crew. CNN's Patrick Oppmann joining us now from Havana for the latest. People have been seen on stretchers. Any more indication in terms of casualties and injuries?", "Absolutely. Those numbers are coming in right now, Erica. Miraculously, three people have survived this crash, according to the Cuban government, and are in critical condition at hospital right now. We say miraculously because, according to witnesses, as the plane was taking off, about 500, 600 miles east of where I am, it went into a wooded area just past Havana's terminal one. That's where this huge fireball was seen erupting from this wooded area and a thick plume of smoke. Our cameraman at the airport says, two hours later, you can still see smoke rising from the area. We have seen Cuban TV images of people being taken out in the stretches. We don't know the fate of all 104 passengers. We're told as well there were nine crew aboard. Cuba's president is at the scene of the crash. And he says there's a high number of victims but still no exact number for the death toll of a very, very serious and shocking plane crash that took place here in the Cuban capital just a few hours ago.", "Patrick Oppmann, with the latest for us there from Havana. Patrick, thank you. We'll continue to follow that story, as well as developments out of Santa Fe, Texas. We are waiting on that press conference with Governor Abbott. We are also learning more about the suspect here, a 17-year-old, and his social media. That's next."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "HILL", "ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FLORES", "HILL", "WACKROW", "HILL", "WACKROW", "HILL", "RAMSEY", "HILL", "JOSH CAMPBELL, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "HILL", "PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HILL"]}
{"id": "NPR-14158", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2017-12-23", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/12/23/573216944/short-term-spending-resolution-are-the-days-of-annual-budget-proposals-behind-us", "title": "Short-Term Spending Resolution: Are The Days Of Annual Budget Proposals Behind Us?", "summary": "Days after a monumental tax bill victory, Republican lawmakers scored another partisan win: a spending bill that will temporarily extend federal funding until January 19, 2018. It's the second short term budget resolution by Republicans this year, keeping a government shut-down at bay — for now.", "utt": ["This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Ray Suarez. Michel Martin is away. We're going to start the program today with politics because this was a week of significant wins for Republicans. They've got a new tax bill signed into law and passed a temporary spending bill that keeps the government open through the first three weeks of the new year. The cherry on top for them - it adds $4 billion to the missile defense budget. But that fix is only in place until January 19, after which, Congress is supposed to come up with a durable long-term budget to get the country through the rest of the fiscal year. With me now to talk about the likelihood of that actually happening is NPR's congressional reporter Kelsey Snell. Welcome.", "Hi. Thanks for having me.", "So let's jump right in. First off, what did Congress agree to in order to get to enough of that agreement to keep the government open until the 19?", "Mainly, the bill includes government funding to keep everything at about the exact same spending level as it is right now until January 19. It also includes funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program to keep that program running until March. There's also the reauthorization of a controversial section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, it allows wiretapping without an open warrant. And there's also a reauthorization of the Veterans Choice insurance program. So it keeps a lot of things going, and it gives them more time to negotiate.", "Now since there's a big congressional vacation in the middle of this, really, January 19 is not that far away. Are they going to be able to get an actual long-term spending bill together in that time?", "Well, it's entirely possible that we will see them have to pass another short-term spending bill before they can get to a long-term spending agreement. I've talked to the appropriators who write the spending bills and they say that they're making progress on a spending agreement but they're not quite there yet. And that's made a little bit more difficult because the House announced that they're going to be coming back on January 8 instead of right after New Year's. So they are taking even more time for vacation, and that could extend the negotiations even further.", "And immigration has been a contentious issue for years in Washington, how is it involved in getting the two big parties to agree to a long-term spending plan?", "Democrats want a pathway to citizenship for the roughly 700,000 people who are here in the country illegally but were brought here as children. Now, part of this is that Democrats say they won't sign on to a long-term spending agreement until there is an immigration agreement in place. They've been saying that they wouldn't leave town without a deal but they did. And there are a lot of activists who are really frustrated that they didn't follow through. Leaders I've talked to including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer say the conversations are going well and they believe these are good-faith talks.", "There are members on both sides of the aisle who say that this is a priority. This is something that has to get done - how come it still hasn't?", "Well, there are some disagreements about what both sides want. But in order to get to a long term path to citizenship for these DREAMers, Republicans want to see increased border security, and that's something Democrats have agreed to in the past. But typically, that means electronic surveillance and monitoring systems and upkeep of existing infrastructure along the border, not increasing detention centers or the number of agents who carry out deportations. And that's a big point of conflict between Democrats and Republicans, trying to figure all of that out.", "Now, Republicans want to avoid a big fight over money for a physical wall along the border. And we just don't really know where the president is on that right now. It was a major campaign request of his but it's not something he's been talking about lately.", "And Mitch McConnell, I mean, he's one of the central figures in all of this. There are signals from Chuck Schumer that they're ready to provide more money for security. Where's McConnell on all of this?", "Well, McConnell told us in that interview this week that he does think that an agreement on immigration will happen.", "The president has actually incentivized us by putting a time limit on the DACA program to see what we can agree to. And there are constructive bipartisan discussions going on. Already, I put together a group to address that issue, and we have until March to do that and I'm confident we will.", "As Senator McConnell notes, some of the urgency was built in by President Trump himself by rescinding the executive action that created the program in the first place to be replaced by legislation. So, really, Congress must act.", "Right. When President Trump did rescind that, he said that he didn't believe the executive order was legal. And so he's put the onus on Congress to make a new law. And he angered many people in his base when he talked about working with Democrats to get that done. So Democrats are working on it. They believe they're getting towards a solution, but we don't really know where the president will come down or how long this will take to get an agreement.", "NPR congressional reporter Kelsey Snell. Thanks a lot.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "MITCH MCCONNELL", "RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-161365", "program": "JOHN KING, USA", "date": "2011-1-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/26/jkusa.01.html", "summary": "Speaker Boehner Talks with CNN; Someone's Watching Me", "utt": ["Check that out -- a live picture of the White House. We get snow sometimes in Washington, but this is pretty good snow by Washington's standards. It's pretty hard to see the White House obscured there by the snow now. The president is home safe and sound but check this out -- the one guy who normally does not get stuck in traffic is the president of the United States. But he could not helicopter in from Andrews Air Force Base tonight. He was in Wisconsin, as we just told you, so when he came back, the president is in one of those SUVs. That's the media trailing behind him shooting the pictures coming in from Andrews Air Force Base in slushy rush hour in Washington, D.C. in from the suburbs to the White House, a much longer ride than normal for the president of the United States, but he is safe and sound tonight in the White House and they got nice fireplaces there. I'm sure he's warming up. With me now is CNN's Kathleen Parker, she of course the co-host of \"Parker Spitzer,\" which comes up at the top of the hour, but Kathleen is with us. You just had a little experience getting through the snow and you weren't that far away, up at the Capitol to see the new speaker.", "I did and my feet are still thawing as we speak because it is some kind of cold out there. But I did meet with Speaker John Boehner. We sat down together just the two of us in the small room where dignitaries meet with him, and in fact, where the president sat and was held until he gave his speech last night, so we had a nice chat and --", "Let's listen to some of it because one of the things you wanted to press him on is of course the big debate here in Washington and the president talked about it. Both Republican responders talked about it. The question is what will they do about it and you raised debt and deficit with the new speaker.", "We know that we're talking about debts and deficits in the trillions. We've got to do some serious, serious cuts. Are you talking about doing -- you know cutting Medicare, Medicaid, defense, those are the big areas where we spend the most.", "Well I do think there will be some reductions in the defense budget. I don't think there is any agency of the federal government that -- where there's not room for improvement so I would expect defense, we'll find savings there, as well. When it comes to the big entitlement programs, as I've said it's time for us as Americans to have an adult conversation with each other about the serious challenges that face us. I was a little surprised last night in the president's speech that he didn't say more about working with us on real entitlement reform. There was somewhat of a mention, but I think that the American people want us to have this conversation. We have to remember that I as speaker of the House, Republicans only control one of the three levers of government. The Democrats still control the Senate and the White House.", "He says there he's a little surprised the president essentially wasn't more forthcoming, didn't show more cards, didn't get deeper into what he wants to do. I guess he has to say that publicly. But can he really be surprised in the sense that we all know at the beginning of this chess game, the Republicans haven't laid out a lot of details yet either?", "Well, exactly. I mean we can't get anybody to lay any cards on the table. And that's what I said to the speaker. You know we all talk about cuts, cuts, cuts, but nobody wants to say what. And you know, I -- you'll have to watch tonight to see what he says but he was, you know, fairly reluctant. He said everything is on the table, but when I pressed him for specifics, you know, he was like most people on the Hill, he wouldn't say what exactly.", "Like most politicians.", "Everything is on the table.", "Everything is on the table. And you know, you have a nice fancy studio in New York where you do the show. But you've never been around the magic wall here. So if you want to walk over here, I will show you.", "Oh my gosh. It's the magic wall.", "Because if you want to talk about -- you know they have the -- he says everything is on the table and we know now why. CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, put out some new estimates today. We go back in here through history. This is the federal deficit as a proportion of GDP, as a proportion of the economy. And here's where we are now, 62 percent, which is pretty high. Post -- right in the middle of World War II we got way up here -- right up here. Some projections say now it will go up here back into the '90s, if -- 90 percent of the economy will be deficit if we don't get this under control. This is the new numbers out from the Congressional Budget Office today. So obviously they've got a lot of work to do in terms of dealing with the deficit. Some other interesting things in here. I find this striking not just for President Obama, Kathleen, because John Boehner, if he's going to stay speaker, Republicans need to do pretty good in this next environment, too. This is the unemployment rate. The Congressional Budget Office projects 9.4 percent today. They think it will stay at 9 percent for the rest of the year and maybe get to 8.2 percent or so in 2012 when not only is the president of the United States up for re-election but all those House members that could keep John Boehner speaker. Do you get the sense from him -- he's a legislator by trade. John Boehner's worked out deals with Democrats in the past but now he has the tensions of these Tea Party guys who don't want to give him too much of a leash to do business with the president. What was your sense of talking to him about that?", "Well, I asked him about the Tea Party, particularly in light of Michele Bachmann's, you know, standalone response last night, and Speaker Boehner held fast to what he has said to me before. And that is, there's not that much light between the Tea Party and Republican establishment. We all want the same thing and he seems to feel that they'll -- you know, they'll be able to work it out. He wasn't -- I don't think he said anything that would surprise you in that regard. You know, he is convinced that they can come together, find some cuts, what they're going to be, I don't know. He says Michele Bachmann has a right to speak just like anybody else and as he has done in previous years so we'll see.", "I want your take on this part of the interview, as well. Because we were watching it feed in while you were up on Capitol Hill doing it. And later in program, we're going to break this down. The president of the United States thinks this is a calculated Republican code to discredit him. Let's listen to John Boehner talking about American exceptionalism.", "They've refused to talk about American exceptionalism. We are different than the rest of the world. Why? Because Americans have -- the country was built on an idea that ordinary people could decide what their government looked like. And ordinary people could elect their own leaders. And 235 years ago that's a pretty novel idea. And so we are different. Why is our economy still 20 times the size of China's? Because Americans have had their freedom to succeed, the freedom to fail. We've got more innovators, more entrepreneurs, and that is exceptional, but you can't get the left to talk about it. They don't -- they reject that notion. I don't.", "Why do you think that is?", "I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if they're afraid of it, whether they don't believe it. I don't know.", "Now does he really believe the left doesn't believe this and specifically the president doesn't believe? We're going to break this down more a little bit later in the program but the president and his team think this is a fabrication, that it's part of a deliberate Republican strategy to convince people whether they're the birthers, whether they don't -- you know, whether they just don't think Obama is like them. It's a deliberate effort to essentially disqualify Obama. He's not like you.", "Well, I see why they would feel that way. I brought this question up because as I told you last night when we were on the balcony waiting for the speech, I was sort of listening for that word because I heard the president say it in another speech and I thought, wow, I've never heard him talk about exceptionalism or talk about America's being exceptional. And I was sort of curious to see if he was going to put that in somewhere. This is a speech about common purpose and you know defining America. And that's -- you know this is a word that is -- that has a lot of meaning for a lot of people in this country because I think most Americans really do think we're exceptional. There are shades of meaning within different groups, the shining hill, you know, sitting on the hill, is it God's country, is it one thing or another? But conservatives feel very strongly that the president needs to declare himself and so I think, you know, the White House can feel defensive but the White House could also just say, look, of course, I think we're exceptional.", "That's an interesting way to put it. We're going to break this down more in the program, and all of Kathleen's interview with Speaker Boehner at the top of the hour on \"PARKER SPITZER.\" Appreciate your coming in. Braving -- the weather is not so bad, right?", "It's wonderful. Thanks, John.", "You can come anytime. You're welcome here. You don't even need to go back to that New York place.", "And when we come back we'll break down what the president believes is the code. What conservatives believe is an essential issue. American exceptionalism."], "speaker": ["KING", "KATHLEEN PARKER, CNN'S PARKER SPITZER", "KING", "PARKER", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-368090", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-04-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/26/es.02.html", "summary": "Joe Biden's Launch Greeted by Attacks from Trump and Rivals; Measles Quarantined Ordered at Los Angeles Universities", "utt": ["Renewed challenges from past and present for Joe Biden. His 2020 launch a stark reminder why he poses a threat to Donald Trump and himself.", "Hundreds of faculty and staff quarantined at two California universities. They have to stay away unless they can prove they've been vaccinated from the measles.", "Police ruling nothing out after a Pennsylvania church catches fire for the second time this week. The first time was ruled arson.", "And it's the next generation of the NFL. Who went where and which player almost toppled the commish at the NFL draft. Quite a night in Nashville. The first time they've had it in Tennessee. Welcome back to EARLY START. I'm Dave Briggs.", "I'm Michelle Kosinski. It's 31 minutes past the hour.", "Happy Friday, my friend.", "Thank you. You too.", "Just breathe it in.", "Is it Friday?", "Yes.", "This hour --", "Let's talk some politics, though.", "All right. Let's do. Joe Biden is in and already he's under attack from all sides. The former vice president running for the White House now again and no one took faster notice than the current occupant. Biden is the Democrat President Trump has long worried he might face in the general election. So the president went right after him.", "I think that, you know, when you look at Joe, I have known Joe over the years, he's not the brightest light bulb in the group. But he is a pretty sleepy guy. He's not going to be able to deal with President Xi, I will tell you. That's a different level of energy and frankly intelligence.", "Biden's announcement was largely free of biography and certainly was free of policy. Instead he went straight at one of the president's most shocking moments.", "Very fine people on both sides? Those words, the president of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime.", "In Delaware before hitting the campaign trail, Biden was asked why President Obama had not thrown his support behind his former VP.", "I asked President Obama not to endorse, and he doesn't want to -- we should -- whoever wins this nomination should win it on their own merits.", "Why are you the best choice for Democrats?", "That will be for the Democrats to decide.", "Biden already faces challenges from his present and his past. Anita Hill says she is not satisfied after a conversation with Biden. The former VP shared his regret for what she endured during the 1991 Supreme Court hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas. That's a point he's also recently made in public.", "When Anita Hill came to testify, she faced a committee that didn't fully understand what the hell was all about.", "Biden oversaw the Thomas hearings, but Hill declined to call the conversation an apology, telling \"The New York Times,\" quote, \"I cannot be satisfied by simply saying I'm sorry for what happened to you. I will be satisfied when I know there is real change and real accountability and real purpose.\"", "Biden is also taking fire from Democrats to his left. Senator Elizabeth Warren questioning Biden's ties to Wall Street.", "At a time when the biggest financial institutions in this country tried to put the squeeze on millions of hard-working families, they just didn't have anyone, and Joe Biden is on the side of the credit card companies.", "Bernie Sanders' campaign sent fundraising e-mails with Biden's name on the subject line, attacking Biden for launching his run with a fundraiser in the home of a corporate lobbyist.", "Biden was in Philadelphia last night for that first big donor event. He lamented the idea that the way to gain power is to divide the nation, calling it, quote, \"same old tactic that snake oil salesman have done.\" Today Biden will be on \"The View.\" Over the next few weeks he'll campaign in California, Nevada, Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. His big 2020 kickoff rally set for Philadelphia May 18th. A quarantine ordered at two public universities in Los Angeles trying to stop the spread of a measles outbreak. Students and staff at UCLA and Cal State L.A. exposed to a confirmed case of the highly contagious disease have been ordered to stay home and avoid contact with others. The order affects hundreds of students and employees who cannot prove they've been vaccinated. Now a fourth case may have been confirmed at Los Angeles International Airport and back East Rockland County, New York, has renewed a measles state of emergency.", "Measles cases in the U.S. this week set a new record for the highest number since the diseases was declared eliminated nationwide in 2000. That's 695 cases in 22 states. Health officials say anti-vaccine myths have played a key role in this current outbreak.", "A federal judge temporarily blocking new anti-abortion restrictions from the Trump administration. The so-called gag rule would have banned abortion referrals at federally funded family planning clinics. The judge scolded the Department of Health and Human Services for offering no reasoned analysis for changing the long standing rule. Groups funded by the Title 10 program were already prohibited from performing abortions with those funds. Title 10 serves about four million people a year.", "A second fire breaking out at a Pennsylvania church already damaged by arson. Firefighters were called to the Pentecostal Church of Bethlehem Thursday to put out a fire in the chapel area. An arsonist torched the same church two days earlier.", "It was heartbreaking and really sad that this would happen for the second time. And I said, who would do such a thing? I mean, what else can they burn in the building?", "At this point authorities are not saying whether the latest fire is also arson but say they're not ruling anything out.", "A deadly chain reaction crash near Denver shut down I-70 in both directions overnight. According to the Lakewood Police Department, multiple people were killed in the pileup and fire which started with a semitrailer traveling at high speed, colliding with several other vehicles, setting off a series of crashes involving 12 passenger cars and three semis. Police are warning the interstate may remain closed through this morning's rush hour.", "USC is making big changes to its admissions process because of the recent scandal. The university plans to emphasize more oversight and review of student athlete applications. The school president says every student athlete candidate will now be reviewed on three levels by the head coach, the senior sports administration overseeing the team and the USC Office of Athletic Compliance. Then it will be sent to the Admissions Department.", "Current students caught up in the admissions scandal have been notified their cases are being reviewed. That includes Olivia Giannulli, some of you know as Olivia Jade. Her parents, actress Lori Loughlin and designer Mossimo Giannulli, have pleaded not guilty to criminal charges. Their daughter could have had her admission revoked.", "How does free, one-day shipping sound? Amazon now spending $800 million to make it standard for its Prime customers. The company changed the game when it introduced free two-day shipping for Prime customers over a decade ago. Amazon is not saying when the one-day option will become standard or whether Prime members will see any rate hike. Analysts say the move could expand the types of products consumers are willing to order online.", "Now a check of CNN Business at 4:38. Corporate earnings dominate Wall Street's attention Wednesday with major tech and consumer companies reporting their first quarter results. Amazon's profit machine shows little sign of slowing down, posting a record profit of $3.6 billion. That marks the sixth straight quarter where Amazon's profits have topped $1 billion. Microsoft's earnings sent the company over the trillion-dollar mark for a bit. Its revenue climbed 14 percent to $30.6 billion. Ford shares also jumped on solid earnings reporting a revenue of $40 billion during the quarter. The Detroit automaker said it expects sales and profits for 2019 will top last year. Starbucks stock rose after hours after its positive results. Sales at U.S. stores jumped 4 percent and 3 percent in China. The increases are a sign its efforts to expand its biggest markets are working. On the other hand, 3M struggled in the first quarter and it's now cutting 2,000 jobs. The industrial manufacturer announced the cuts after reporting weak sales and cutting its guidance for the year.", "Otto Warmbier was returned to the U.S. in a coma and died days later. So why did North Korea demand $2 million for his medical bills?"], "speaker": ["MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVE BRIGGS, CNN ANCHOR", "KOSINSKI", "BRIGGS", "KOSINSKI", "BRIGGS", "KOSINSKI", "BRIGGS", "KOSINSKI", "BRIGGS", "KOSINSKI", "BRIGGS", "KOSINSKI", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BRIGGS", "JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BRIGGS", "BIDEN", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "BIDEN", "KOSINSKI", "BIDEN", "BRIGGS", "KOSINSKI", "SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "KOSINSKI", "BRIGGS", "KOSINSKI", "BRIGGS", "KOSINSKI", "NITZA COLON, PASTOR'S DAUGHTER", "KOSINSKI", "BRIGGS", "KOSINSKI", "BRIGGS", "KOSINSKI", "BRIGGS", "KOSINSKI"]}
{"id": "CNN-298906", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2016-11-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/23/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Dow Closes at New Record; Gray out of Running for Treasury Secretary; Trump Sidesteps Conflict of Interest Questions", "utt": ["The Dow Jones is at another record as indeed is the S&P 500. Over 19,000 for the Dow. No record for the Nasdaq. And a good strong gavel to bring trading on Wall Street to a close. It is Wednesday, it's November the 23rd.", "Tonight, a billionaire's row on Pennsylvania Avenue. Donald Trump adds a mega donor to his cabinet. The leaves are changing color and so are Britain's growth forecasts. The chancellor's autumn statement in the red. And police raid Samsung headquarters as a corruption scandal spirals ever deeper. I'm Richard Quest, live in the world's financial capital, New York City. And I mean business.", "Good evening. Before we get to Donald Trump and his transition and the latest movements, I do need to update you on the markets. As I said at the beginning, there are records in some, not so in others. But it was still a bullish day as you will see if you will join me at the big board over here. The markets started the day down and it tootles through the morning. Not quite sure why it remains low in those early hours but then it picks up steam in the afternoon. And we get the Fed minutes and those minutes show that interest rates are going up but the market takes it in its stride. The Dow was up some 58 points at 19,082. Only question whether 91 is on the horizon. The S&P is also at a record. That eked out just barely a small record for the broader market. But the Nasdaq slipped back just a tad. And I think what you're looking at here is just a certain profit-taking and a bit of book balancing with the Nasdaq. Now as I mentioned about the Fed minutes, from the last Fed meeting, most committee members now think that rates could rise relatively soon. That is the word that the chair of the Fed, Janet Yellen, said. And if you look at what the Fed minutes say, that is borne out by most voting members, which seems to be, of course, suggesting that a rate rise in December. I think it's something like 80 percent of Fed economists or those economists who follow the Fed now believe that rates will go up a quarter of a point at the December Fed meeting. Not a done deal but certainly as you heard from Stan Fischer on this program earlier in the week, the numbers certainly make it justifiable. The other news we're following tonight, as Donald Trump begins his Thanksgiving holiday, his administration is taking shape. The transition team has confirmed two new additions to the Trump cabinetry. We already know Reince Priebus is the chief of staff, Steve Bannon is the chief strategist. Neither of those need to be confirmed by the Senate. They are in the gift of Donald Trump himself. However, he did announce Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina for the ambassador of the United Nations, the first woman to join the cabinet and the first member of a minority. She's Indian by descent, has joined. Interestingly the appointment of Nikki Haley, she has no foreign policy background really to speak of and she traded insults with Donald Trump in the past. And she didn't support him in the nomination process. But she did get the -- she will be before the Senate to be ambassador to the United Nations. A few hours later, Betsy DeVos has been announced, she's a billionaire and a school choice activist. She has accepted the post of Education Secretary and that has been somewhat controversial because she is a large donor to the Trump campaign. She is a billionaire in her own right and the question becomes whether or not this is truly revolutionary change and draining the swamp, if you appoint large donors. Other announcements expected: an announcement is supposed to be forthcoming that Ben Carson, who was a strong contender during the primary process, is to be announced as the housing secretary. He wrote that he can contribute to making inner cities great for everyone. And as for the U.S. Treasury Secretary, that's one of the big five, there it is likely to be Steve Mnuchin is the Treasury Secretary. Apparently he's the only person that's on the short list after Jonathan Gray of Blackstone ruled himself out and served --", "-- but Steve Mnuchin served as the Treasury -- served as the campaign finance chairman and therefore is in pole position. CNN's Jim Acosta is at the White House, our senior -- beg your pardon, Jim, you're with me here in New York. My apologies.", "Yes, sir.", "But you are still the White House correspondent but you are in New York -- you should be in Florida. You missed the ticket.", "I tell you. Well, you know, this was one flight I did not want to catch. I'm trying to get home for Thanksgiving for at least one day off.", "Right and well deserved, if I may say. All right. So we have got these two. Nikki Haley, no experience of foreign policy. Betsy DeVos, a billionaire, a major contributor to Donald Trump. What will political Washington make of those appointments?", "Keep in mind, Richard, Republicans will say Bill Clinton was the governor of Arkansas, he didn't have a wealth of foreign policy experience, he was elected president. George W. Bush was governor of Texas, did not have a wealth of foreign policy experience, was elected President of the United States. So sending Nikki Haley to the U.N. is obviously less than being President of the United States and keep in mind the Trump transition team was looking for somebody who could send a message, not only to the United States but the rest of the world that Donald Trump can get outside of his comfort zone and even bring into his inner circle somebody who is a harsh critic. And Nikki Haley, as you said, she's the daughter of Indian immigrants, also sends some diversity not only into this cabinet level position but to represent the United States around the world. And so they're very excited inside the Trump transition team about this pick; they say that's sort of a pressure reliever for a lot of Americans, who were very concerned about Donald Trump being president.", "Now as for Betsy DeVos, the Education Secretary, the criticism I've seen today -- it was quite quick out of the gate, he's appointed a major donor.", "That's right. There is that. And so whatever happened to drain the swamp, as Donald Trump and his crowds like to say over and over again. And also keep in mind -- and this gets a bit wonky -- Betsy DeVos used to be linked to Jeb Bush. Jeb Bush was a champion of what they call Common Core standardized testing here in the United States. If you have children in public schools in the United States, this is something that makes you want to pull your hair out. They do so much standardized testing in the public schools now, that is linked to this Common Core push. Betsy DeVos had to put out a tweet today, Richard, saying that she is not in favor of Common Core testing. That is going to be a relief to people inside the Trump transition because Donald Trump, time and again out on the campaign trail, railed against Common Core, saying that he was going to get rid of it. And so she presents a couple of different complications for Donald Trump. But those complications are not expected to get in the way of her confirmation.", "So both of them likely to be confirmed?", "Absolutely, yes. And I think this also sets the stage for a potential Mitt Romney selection as secretary of state. If Donald Trump is willing to go to a harsh critic for his U.N. ambassador and bring somebody to the Education Department who may not line up with him on all of his views, that might portend something coming with Mitt Romney.", "Jim Acosta, Jim, have a lovely Thanksgiving and allow me to take -- thank you, sir, on this Thanksgiving, for all the hard work you do here on QUEST MEANS BUSINESS for us. We appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Thank you, Jim Acosta. Now, CNN's learned that the short list for Treasury Secretary, the name is down to one. As I showed you, Steve Mnuchin is believed to be the only remaining candidate for America's top economic post. He worked for Goldman Sachs for 17 years, he became a film producer. The only name on the list was Jonathan Gray, the head of global real estate at the private equity firm, Blackstone. He said it was an honor to be considered but he still has much work to do at Blackstone. CNN's Joe Johns is in Washington. Joe, as much as these things ever are, where we're reading tea leaves, is it Mnuchin?", "Yes, I got to tell you, that name is a difficult one to pronounce. And the way I've gotten it is Mnuchin.", "As in minutia.", "Right. OK. So a lot of people have had problems with that. But he starts to sound like the last man standing in the competition though we don't have anything official. Treasury Secretary, big job, as you said, one of the top four, top five. He's a colorful character as well, the principal investor in One West Bank, which was formed after he purchased the failed subprime lender, IndyMac, back in 2009. He's since sold that bank. And Mnuchin most importantly, I think you already mentioned, was Trump's national finance chairman during the campaign. But importantly before that, he spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs, then started his own --", "-- hedge fund. And most interestingly, I think, he's a real player in Hollywood, bankrolled movies including \"American Sniper,\" \"Suicide Squad,\" \"The Lego Movie\" and as you said, the reason why we have him prominently mentioned is because other top candidates, like Jonathan Gray, the head of real estate for Blackstone, has said they're not leaving their jobs.", "But if Mnuchin gets the nod and gets the job, is Trump going to be accused, well, here is another insider, here's another one; even worse, he comes from the evil squid, he comes from Goldman Sachs? But, Joe, you've got to balance experience and knowing your way around and there are only so many people who can do these jobs.", "That's absolutely right. And if some of the people on the very top of your top list don't want to do it, then you have got a real problem. The name Jamie Dimon was kicked around for a while and, like Gray, both apparently big Hillary Clinton fans nonetheless, Gray, it sounded like, gave it some serious consideration before he decided he was going to stick around at Blackstone. But right, there are only so many people who have managed billions and billions of dollars and have a general idea of who the inside players are and how it all works. So Donald Trump has a limited list of people to choose from.", "Joe Johns, we wish and you happy Thanksgiving with your family, if you're lucky enough to be able to spend time with them in this transition time.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Thank you, Richard.", "Now as we continue, Russia says it's hoping to put relations with the U.S. on a constructive course. A Kremlin spokesman says relations are at the bottom, so it's hard to make them worse. Andrey Kostin is the chairman of VTB, Russia's second largest bank at the APEC summit in Peru. He tells CNN's Shasta Darlington that Russia and the U.S. can reset their relationship.", "Well, Mr. Putin I think always stated that that's up to the American people whom they would elect. And like Mr. Putin, Mr. Trump was very reserved in his statement. I think he was very pragmatic. He was saying as we believe in Russia that restore relationship between Russia and the United States would benefit the whole world, the people of the whole world and people with Russia and America and that he thought that he could do business with Putin on a different very important issues like Syria and Ukraine and others. And I think that it's very much in line with Russia literature (ph) Mr. Putin thinks. But whether -- we think that we have a chance that our countries can really reset our relationship. But whether this chance will be used or not, that's a completely different question.", "But there is also a hope that it could be an end of U.S. sanctions and broader sanctions on Russia.", "Well, sanctions, of course, are important but they are not", "But on economic terms, there is the issue of sanctions. But there is also the issue of isolationism, protectionism, expectations that the United States will be more protectionist and even expand oil and gas production under President Donald Trump. Analysts say that that is a negative for Russia.", "The repercussions, the of oil price is still very difficult to assess from now. We don't understand whether necessarily the -- there's a Trump policy will lead to a cheap oil price. At the moment, we come from the original forecast of the World Bank, for example. The price will be around, let's say, $52 per barrel next year or something like this.", "We are here at the APEC summit and there seems to be a lot of talk about China trying to position itself to fill a void that might be left by a more protectionist, isolationist United States. What are your feelings on that?", "Well, there is definitely competition in the APEC region between China and the United States. And the transpacific agreement for example is one example when the agreement was signed without China or Russia actually. So we see during the last decade a substantial growth -- even less", "-- in the region, though America is still probably very strong here. So we expect that it will continue to be competition between these two leading economic powers and so that is why I think the American side would be very cautious and very wise in dealing with this issue not to give advantage to the Chinese in this competition.", "Andrey Kostin talking there. The U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer submitted his first autumn statement today.", "And the first comprehensive report on Britain's economy since the vote to leave the European Union. You'll hear the chief secretary -- the economic secretary to the Treasury after the break. QUEST MEANS BUSINESS. Good evening to you."], "speaker": ["RICHARD QUEST, CNN HOST", "QUEST (voice-over)", "QUEST", "QUEST", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "QUEST", "ACOSTA", "QUEST", "ACOSTA", "QUEST", "ACOSTA", "QUEST", "ACOSTA", "QUEST", "ACOSTA", "QUEST", "JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "QUEST", "JOHNS", "JOHNS", "QUEST", "JOHNS", "QUEST", "JOHNS", "QUEST", "JOHNS", "QUEST", "ANDREY KOSTIN, CHAIRMAN, VTB", "SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "KOSTIN", "DARLINGTON", "KOSTIN", "DARLINGTON", "KOSTIN", "KOSTIN", "QUEST", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-15617", "program": "Moneyline News Hour", "date": "2000-9-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/11/mlld.00.html", "summary": "Bluetooth Looks to Launch Truly Wireless World", "utt": ["A new technology arriving in the marketplace with a promise of greater convenience and fewer wires to tie you down. It's called BlueTooth, and it's getting support from some of the biggest names in tech: Ericsson, IBM, Toshiba, and some 2,000 others. In this \"MONEYLINE\" special report, Fred Katayama takes a close look at BlueTooth and the changes it could bring.", "We live in a wired world, a tangled sea of electrical octopuses in the office and at home. A new technology could liberate us, connecting us without wires. It's called BlueTooth, named after a Viking king who unified Denmark: 2,000 companies have already joined the kingdom. BlueTooth lets electronic devices talk to each other wirelessly: a radio on a chip that can be added or built into everything from computers to cell phones to VCRs.", "BlueTooth is absolutely one of the most revolutionary things that's hitting the telecom market. It will enable so many new businesses, so many new uses of devices in a much more simple, easy-to-connect fashion than we've ever envisioned before.", "Unlike the infrared beams used in remote controls, BlueTooth transmits voice and data, it penetrates walls, and it covers distances 10 to 100 times farther. BlueTooth technology, for instance, will enable a mother to snap a picture of her child at the park, then connect to a BlueTooth-boosted cell phone, and immediately transmit the image via the Internet to grandma.", "About five years ago, we really started looking at this, and we considered building cell phones into computers, building other radio technologies, and we didn't find a single technology that would really fit the bill. And that was when we came to the conclusion that we really needed a different technology.", "Ericsson began studying the idea in 1994. Four years later, it teamed with Intel, Nokia, IBM, Toshiba to jointly develop the technology, which it shares for free. The first BlueTooth products will soon hit retail shelves. IBM's PC card that links computers with cell phones will debut in October at $189. Ericsson's wireless headset will come out in the fourth quarter at around $500.", "The biggest, or killer application per se, is ear pieces for cell phones where, you know, in several states, for example, we have seen laws passed where drivers of cars are not allowed or permitted to use their cell phones while driving.", "With BlueTooth, computer mice will be tailless . Ericsson researchers are developing this BlueTooth Dick Tracy- like watch, with all the functions of a hand-held computer wirelessly sharing data with a desktop PC. They also have a Palm-like device embedded with global positioning and a BlueTooth phone so you can surf the Web...", "... online. Connection is now established. Please select new category.", "... find yourself in Paris on a map, look up a bistro and call in the reservation. In the future, BlueTooth could play Cupid. Two shoppers, each with cell phones programmed with their personal profiles. BlueTooth senses a connection, the phones ring, and a hook-up is made. (on camera): BlueTooth may get around walls, but it faces some hurdles of its own. The first is cost. Adding BlueTooth adds about $25 to $30 to the cost for manufacturers, but those companies hope to get it down to $5 in roughly two years. (voice-over): Another toothache, security.", "The biggest problem with BlueTooth is that security as a requirement really isn't there. For ease of use, security was never designed to be within the specification as a requirement.", "Even so, the research firm DataQuest predicts BlueTooth will be put into 30 million cell phones and other consumer devices by the end of next year, but that doesn't include the many new applications that may sprout from a technology that has its roots in radio. Fred Katayama, CNN Financial News, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.", "Up next, \"Ahead of the Curve.\""], "speaker": ["VARNEY", "FRED KATAYAMA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SKIP BRYAN, ERICSSON", "KATAYAMA", "SIMON ELLIS, INTEL", "KATAYAMA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KATAYAMA", "COMPUTER VOICE", "KATAYAMA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KATAYAMA", "VARNEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-96099", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2005-7-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/15/lad.03.html", "summary": "Rove & CIA Leak; Terror Probe", "utt": ["It's Friday, July 15. The plot thickens and the heat rises around Karl Rove. New details this morning about the White House official's alleged connection to the leak of a CIA agent's name. Also, launch break. Will Discovery be shooting for the stars this weekend or staying grounded? And the search for clues in London's deadly terror attacks lead investigators here to the United States.", "From the CNN Center in Atlanta, this is DAYBREAK with Fredricka Whitfield.", "Good morning, everyone. I'm Fredricka Whitfield, in today for Carol Costello. We'll have more on those stories in a moment. But first, ahead, a secret thousand of married couples -- married couples' surprises that might surprise you. And a look inside Iraq like you've probably never seen before. See how violence isn't crushing hope. But first, \"Now in the News.\" New information on Karl Rove's alleged role in the CIA leak controversy. The Associated Press says Rove learned the agent's identity from a journalist. CNN has learned that the bombings may have been a continuation of a plot that British police foiled last year. In that case, eight British Muslims were arrested and a half ton of explosive material confiscated. Hurricane Emily is now churning through the Caribbean as a Category 4 storm. Emily was upgraded from a Category 3 when sustained winds reached 131 miles per hour. The storm is being blamed for one death in Grenada. And Chad, good morning to you.", "Good morning, Fred.", "All right. Thanks so much, Chad.", "You're welcome.", "We begin this hour with the controversy swirling around Karl Rove. The White House still isn't budging on top adviser Rove's involvement, if any, in the leak of a CIA agent's identity. Rove reportedly told a grand jury that he learned the identity of a CIA operative from columnist Robert Novak, not the other way around. A federal criminal investigation into who leaked Valerie Plame's CIA identity has ensnared Bush aides and reporters in a two-year legal battle. Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, discussed the White House motivation with CNN's Aaron Brown.", "It's not enough just to apologize and move on. They then decided that they had to discredit me and my wife. And the reason that they did so is because they had to preserve the cover-up of the web of lies that underpinned the decision to go to war. And now that cover-up is coming unraveled, and they're back at it again.", "The White House still is not answering questions about Rove's possible role. Correspondent Dana Bash reports.", "The president usually takes his walk alone. Not today. A message here in pictures he has not yet sent with words. He's standing by Karl Rove. But what Democrats see is a chance to chip away at a political asset Rove spent years building: the president as someone you can trust.", "Who do you value more, Mr. President, the security of the American people or your political cronies? Will you keep your word, Mr. President?", "Over and over, Democrats hearken back to a Bush promise to fire anyone involved in outing the covert identity of Valerie Plame, even though the jury is still out on whether that's what Rove really did. Bush opponents want to make the Rove debate about credibility because they already see it eroding. In a poll taken just before the latest developments, only 41 percent of Americans give Mr. Bush a good rating for being honest and straightforward. His lowest on this question since becoming president. Privately, even some Bush loyalists fear the White House is now engulfed in a familiar dilemma.", "I don't want to get into commenting on things in the context of an ongoing investigation. An ongoing investigation. An ongoing investigation. I don't want to jeopardize anything in that investigation.", "Letting a legal, not a political strategy, guide the White House message. Another Bush problem, GOP strategists admit, the Democrats' attack is simple, keep your word, fire Karl Rove. Easy to fit on protests signs organized by MoveOn.org outside the White House. On the other hand, the Rove lines of defense, like he was talking off the record and he actually didn't use the covert agent's name, are much harder to explain.", "It's not likes a sex scandal, which is, you know, instantly understandable. This one is complex.", "Trying to keep the story alive, Senate Democrats offer legislation aimed direct at Rove to take away security clearance for anyone who has disclosed classified information. (on camera): Republicans dismiss all that as nothing more than a partisan stunt, but Democrats insist it's a legitimate policy issue. And beyond that, they say any time Bush allies have to defend somebody so indispensable to the president, it proves its power as a political issue. Dana Bash, CNN, the White House.", "Chief Justice William Rehnquist wants to put an end to retirement rumors. Rehnquist released a statement saying he has no plans to step down from the court. He made his plans public just hours after being released from a Virginia hospital. The chief justice had been there for two days with a fever. In his statement, the chief justice said, \"I want to put to rest the speculation and unfounded rumors of my imminent retirement. I am not about to announce my retirement. I will continue to perform my duties as chief justice as long as my health permits.\" We'll have much more on Rehnquist's decision later in DAYBREAK. National Correspondent Bob Franken will join us live to examine what it means for the Bush administration and the future of the court. Outgoing justice Sandra Day O'Connor is being urged to reconsider her departure. Four female senators sent O'Connor a letter asking her to return to the court as chief justice. That came before Chief Justice Rehnquist announced plans to stay. The senators say they're trying to avoid a messy confirmation fight over O'Connor's replacement. The FBI has joined the London bombing investigation. They're helping British anti-terror police search for an Egyptian-born chemist who also studied in the United States. For more on the investigation, we're joined by CNN's Richard Quest in London. Good morning to you, Richard.", "Good morning to you, Fredricka. The investigation continues at a fair, old pace. And there have been some interesting developments, not least of which, of course, the search for this biochemist, el Nashar, who is believed to have perhaps been in some shape or form by the authorities, or at least they certainly want to talk to him about what involvement he may have had. The chemist is a biochemist from northern England. But also, we've had pictures released from the police of one of what they say were one of the bombers, the one who exploded the bomb on the number 30 bus, about a quarter of a mile from where I am. Here's Hasib Hussain. And the chilling part about this picture is the ordinariness of it. It was released from the CCTV, the closed-circuit television pictures that the police have now been looking at. Some 5,000 tapes have been sequestered by the police, and this is one of the shots that they've taken. It is Hussain coming through Luton railway station. And the backpack on his back, exactly the sort of backpack you see here in London being warn by any one of 10,000 tourists, only this time, of course, it carried a 10-pound bomb. One other piece of information. The police are now saying that they believe they know who three of the bombers were that took place Thursday, but they're also seeking a fourth man, a Jamaican-born man. And they say that he could be integral to their investigation. So lots of -- lots of tentacles of this investigation now moving out. Now, one thing that is becoming clear, Fredricka -- and this has been very interesting on both sides of the Atlantic -- it is the role being played by closed-circuit television and those films and those tapes that are now being closely watched and monitored. I want to show you something. Let's go this way, first of all. Just over to my shoulder over here there are at least three closed-circuit television cameras monitoring what's happening on what is basically a very small, insignificant road here in London. If you come back the other way, and we move across towards King's Cross Station itself, you've got, Fredricka, at least another one, two, three, four, five, right across the McDonald's, six, seven. So in this one corner of London alone, I am being monitored by at least 11 closed-circuit television cameras. Now, put that into the context of a city the size of London. Well, you're talking about thousands of cameras, thousands of tapes, but, the police say, they are integral to their investigation.", "Thank you so much, Richard. But at the same time, it's so confusing as to why the many cameras wouldn't be a deterrent for at least an incident like this.", "Now that's the interesting question. You see, everybody says that closed-circuit television is not a deterrent. Witness the fact the bombings took place. If they were a deterrent -- if they were a deterrent, it wouldn't have happened. What the police say is, no, not necessarily. They may be a deterrent. But more importantly, if the event happens, then, of course, they have the ability to speed up the investigation. Of course there are huge civil liberties questions raised by these -- by these cameras.", "Yes. All right. Richard Quest in London. Thanks so much. Still to come on DAYBREAK, you know those walk-up fares at the airline counter? Well, at Delta it might be easier just to keep on walking to wherever you need to go. At 17 after the hour, a major fare increase. Also, a view of Iraq like you've probably never seen before. A vision of hope of happiness at 19 after. And later, out to launch. The countdown continues, but is blastoff way off? That's at 35 after. But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Friday morning."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "ANNOUNCER", "WHITFIELD", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "WHITFIELD", "MYERS", "WHITFIELD", "JOSEPH WILSON, FMR. U.S. AMBASSADOR", "WHITFIELD", "DANA BASH, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "HOWARD DEAN, CHAIRMAN, DNC", "BASH", "SCOTT MCCLELLAN, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "BASH", "DAVID GERGEN, FMR. WHITE HOUSE ADVISER", "BASH", "WHITFIELD", "RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "QUEST", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-219228", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-11-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/21/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Senate Passes Filibuster Nuclear Option", "utt": ["Right now, breaking news, Senate Democrats vote to approve the so-called nuclear option. It's a move that would make the partisan divide up on Capitol Hill even worse. Is it the only way, though, to get the Senate working again as Democrats allege? Also right now, a massive cargo plane is getting ready to take off from an extremely short runway at a Kansas airport where it was never supposed to be in the first place. We're going to show you the challenging feat live this hour. Also right now, the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, riding high. He's the brand-new leader of the Republican Governor's Association. That's a job that could set him up perfectly for 2016. Hello, I'm Wolf Blitzer reporting today from Washington. If you think Congress is bitterly divided now, just hold on. Only a few moments ago, the Senate approved what's called the nuclear option, making it easier to end filibusters. It landed like a bomb up on Capitol Hill. And just ahead of the vote, the majority leader, Harry Reid, expressed frustration over Republicans using filibusters to block President Obama's nominees.", "These nominees deserve at least an up or down vote, yes or no. But Republican filibusters deny them a fair vote, any vote, and deny the president his team. Gridlock has consequences and they're terrible. It's not only bad for President Obama, bad for this body, the United States Senate, it's bad for our country.", "The minority leader, Mitch McConnell, says Democrats are creating a crisis to distract attention from Obamacare.", "Millions of Americans are hurting because of a law Washington Democrats forced upon them. And what do they do about it? They cook up some fake fight over judges. A fake fight over judges that aren't even needed.", "Our Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash is up on Capitol Hill. She's following these dramatic, dare I say historic, developments. Dana, these have huge, huge ramifications. Explain what is going on right now in Congress.", "Well, what's going on right now, Wolf, as we speak actually, on the Senate floor is the fruits, if you will, of what the Democrats tried to do. And obviously, Republicans see it a whole different way what Democrats successfully did which is we're seeing a vote to stop a Republican filibuster on an Obama judicial nominee that will only require 51 votes to pass, whereas an hour ago, it required 60 votes to pass. So, we're seeing the first procedural --", "Republican leader speaking to reporters right now. I want to listen in.", "-- for some time now, at the beginning of each of the last two Congresses, we've had a discussion about rules changes. Senator Alexander was right in the middle of those and will give you an update on what happened back in January, just to refresh your memory. But after that, the majority leader said we had set the rules for this Congress. Well, obviously, that was a commitment not kept. We thought he said, if you'd like the Senate rule you can keep them, but, in fact, we ended up having another discussion in July with another threat of the so-called nuclear option, and then you've seen what they've done today. Talk about a manufactured crisis. We've confirmed 215 judges and defeated two. And the problem with regard to the D.C. circuit entirely related to the size of the court and the size of the docket, we took exactly the same views Senate Democrats took during the Bush administration that there was no rationale for extending, for increasing the membership of the D.C. circuit. Exactly the same rational. A letter signed by Schumer, Kennedy, and others saying there's no need for additional judge. We have judicial emergencies in other parts of country. So, this was nothing more than a power grab in order to try to advance the Obama administration's regulatory agenda and, you know, they just broke the Senate rules in order to exercise the power grab. So, I would sum it up by saying it's a sad day in the history of the Senate. After today, advise and consent probably means to them 100 percent consent. Senator Alexander will give you now the statistics on how common a rejection of nominees has been in the past because I think it'll be an eye opener for you -- Lamar.", "Thanks, Mitch. In my view, this is the most important and most dangerous restructuring of Senate rules since Jefferson wrote them at the beginning of our country. It's really not about the filibuster. It's another raw exercise of political power to permit the majority to do anything it wants whenever it wants to do it. It is Obamacare two in that sense. As Senator Levin said, repeating Senator Vandenberg's words after World War II, a Senate -- a United States Senate without any -- in which the majority can do anything it wants, any time it wants, is a Senate without rules. It would be like the Red Sox falling behind in Boston and saying to the Cardinals, well, we're the home team, so we'll just add a few innings until we can score some runs. This is a Senate without rules. And it's done --", "So, that's Lamar Alexander and Mitch McConnell, the Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate blasting Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader and the Democrats for dramatically changing the rules of the game. Rules that have been in place for a long time. Dana, they just decided to do this. They passed this change. You no longer need 60 votes to block a presidential nominee. You only need a majority, 51. It's been going -- ever since I've been reporting here in Washington, that filibuster has been in place. The 60-vote requirement has been in place. But now for the first time, it has changed and Democrats are making what point in arguing for this dramatic change, Dana?", "It is that they believe it is the president's prerogative to have the nominees that he wants, both in the executive branch and also lifetime appointments for the -- for the bench, judicial appointments. And they argued that that is sort of the way it works, that if a president is nominated by the country -- excuse me, elected by the majority of the country and is in the White House, that is the -- one of the big benefits, the big perks of being in the White House. And certainly, this happened in both Democratic and Republican administrations that they have -- particularly when you're talking about the judicial bench that they've been able to stack the bench with people who fit and form their own ideology. And so, in fact, if you look on the floor of the Senate right now, already Senate Democrats are pushing through the first procedural vote on a judicial nominee, Patricia Millet, for the D.C. circuit under the new rules. So, it will only need 51 votes to overcome a filibuster hurdle, and then go on to be -- to be approved which even Republicans are telling us, based on the new rules, will likely happen before the end of the day.", "In 19 -- in 2008, Harry Reid swore -- he said -- he said that as a leader of the United States Senate, he said he would never turn to what's called the nuclear option, insisting, and I'm quoting him now, \"it would be a black chapter in the history of the Senate.\" So, how does he defend that dramatic change from what he said in 2008 to what he's saying now and doing now?", "Well, we're going to hear from him any minute, actually. He's going to have a press conference and hopefully we'll be able to ask him that question. But until now, asked similar questions, his answer has been that since between 2008 and now, things are different. And he argues that Republicans are a lot more aggressive about holding up the president's nominations, more aggressive about grinding the Senate to a halt. Now, there are certainly a lot of statistics and numbers that Republicans can and are putting forward, arguing that it's not true, that they are not holding up as many or maybe not any -- not as much of a difference between what they're doing and what Democrats did when George Bush was in the White House, for example. So, that is what he's arguing. But, of course, you have Republicans as you just heard from Mitch McConnell arguing that this is political, that Democrats are trying to make a point that they are trying to change the subject and that this is a fake fight. But you can be sure that if it's a fake fight or not, Republicans are going to try to use it to their advantage, too, politically and go back home and argue to the Republican base and those independent voters that Democrats are not being fair. They're changing the rules of the game in a way that benefits them and hurts the rules and the options of the minority in the Senate.", "Yes. I -- Dana, hold on for a moment. Gloria is here, Gloria Borger, our Chief Political Analyst. Gloria, a lot of Democrats over the years -- they're in the majority now, 55 Democrats, 45 Republicans, but you know that can change. The Democrats can be in the minority. They will then want to use that minority power with a filibuster to stop certain decisions by the majority who could be the Republicans. Historically, Democrats and Republicans, they've always feared", "Right.", "-- sooner rather than later.", "You know, where you stand depends where you sit. And that's the argument that a few Democrats had been making. A few Democrats didn't vote for this because they worry about this. And I think what we're seeing here is the extreme partisanship spill over onto everything. And Harry Reid is effectively saying, look, this was minority rule. This wasn't majority rule. It was minority rule in the Senate so we could not get any of these nominations through. Is it a long-term decision, you know? I would argue that in the long term, if you look at the Democratic Party, it's going to be in the minority in the Senate someday. They may regret this. But, but they're at such a point of bottleneck and frustration and a point at which they're not able to get what they believe is a fair number of nominations through, that -- you know, that this occurred. They've come to this brink before and they've avoided it. John McCain kind of worked out a deal. But for some reason now, this nuclear option seemed the only thing for Harry Reid to do. And, you know, again, privately, Democrats are saying, this could be short sighted. I mean, but it just gives you a sense of the partisanship.", "The poisonous atmosphere here.", "And the worry here is that this only poisons the well even more.", "All right. We're going to continue the breaking news coverage. Dana is going to be with us. Gloria's with us. Jeffrey Toobin is standing by. Much more. Historic moment here in Washington today. The Democratic Majority in the United States Senate has dramatically changed the rules of the game when it comes to how to get confirmations through. Lots at stake. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. HARRY REID (D), MAJORITY LEADER", "BLITZER", "SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R), MINORITY LEADER", "BLITZER", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "MCCONNELL (live)", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-123993", "program": "CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER", "date": "2008-2-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0802/24/le.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Mike Huckabee; Interview With Mike McConnell", "utt": ["It's 11:00 a.m. here in Washington, 8:00 a.m. in Los Angeles, and 7:00 p.m. in Baghdad. Wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks for joining us for \"Late Edition.\" I'm John King. Wolf is away today. Mike Huckabee says he didn't major in math, but in miracles. Well, the math says he needs a miracle to win his party's nomination from Republican presidential front-runner John McCain. And this morning, consumer advocate Ralph Nader announced a third-party, run further complicating an already dramatic presidential race. That was the first topic when I spoke with Governor Huckabee just a short time ago.", "Joining us now, the former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee. He joins us from New York. Good morning, Governor.", "Good morning, John.", "In the news today, Governor, the prospect of another Ralph Nader candidacy, the Green Party candidacy in the past, Democrats have said that hurt them in presidential elections. What's your take on Ralph Nader?", "Well, I think it always would probably pull votes away from the Democrats, not the Republicans. So naturally Republicans would welcome his entry into the race and hope that maybe a few more will join in.", "As you know, there has been chatter, from time to time, about the prospect of a third party candidacy from the right. Have you picked that up at all in your travels, that if John McCain is the Republican nominee, perhaps there would be a significant third party challenge from the right?", "I don't think so. I mean, a couple of times it will get mentioned. But people will say, would you ever consider it? And my answer is emphatically no. I think it's a suicide mission. Third party candidates are not going to win the election. At best, they are going to take away from one of the major parties. And I just don't see that happening within the conservative wing at all.", "One of the trademarks of your campaign, and I spent some time out on the road with you, is you have a great sense of humor. Last night you tried your hand at \"Saturday Night Live,\" during the \"Weekend Update\" segment. I want to play a little segment of the show. And then we'll talk about it on the other side. Let's listen.", "All right.", "Even if you won every remaining unpledged delegate, you would still fall 200 delegates short.", "Wow. Seth, that was an excellent explanation.", "Well, I won't forget about them. But the superdelegates are only in the Democratic primaries.", "They can't vote in the Republican primaries?", "They cannot.", "Uh-oh.", "Uh-oh. Governor, first tell me -- take us behind the scenes. Is it a fun experience?", "It's an awesome experience. The \"Saturday Night Live\" crew and cast have to be some of the most amazingly talented people in all of America. And they are also some of the hardest working people. You just can't imagine how long the hours are these guys put in. And to put that show together, to do it live, it is truly one of the most remarkable things I have ever witnessed in my life.", "Good humor from you, sir. But you also said in that segment on \"Weekend Update\" that, don't worry, when the time came, you would make a graceful exit. Were you trying to send a signal there?", "Well, no. I'm just simply saying what is, you know, the obvious. I'm going to stay in this race until somebody gets 1,191 delegates, or until we go to the convention. And that still is a possibility. But I have also said very clearly that, if John McCain gets the magic number before I do, then I'll accept the verdict of the voters. But I just think voters in these states that haven't voted yet, particularly places like Texas and Ohio -- these are big states, lots of Republicans -- they haven't even voted yet. So why should they let the voters in New York and New Jersey make their choice for them, without even having a choice? I just feel like that that's not exactly the way politics ought to happen, is that you have millions of people whose votes, frankly, are told won't matter.", "You mentioned Texas. It is the biggest state still out there on the primary calendar. And if you pick up your New York Times this morning -- and you are in New York City, maybe you have one nearby -- you will see the Texas governor, Rick Perry, quoted in The New York Times Magazine. And he says this, and he is speaking of you, sir: \"It is time for him to drop out. We have a mercy rule in six-man football. After halftime, if you are behind by more than 45 points, you can stop so it doesn't get to be really ugly.\" It's not the first time Governor Perry has suggested you find the exit. What do you make of this?", "Well, Governor Perry supported Rudy Giuliani. And Giuliani ended up dropping out. Now he is supporting John McCain. Maybe he will do for John McCain what he did for Rudy Giuliani. That's my hope.", "I want to ask you a question about your calculations. As I do so, I want to show our viewers the delegate math, because the math is pretty daunting for you.", "Sure.", "Here is our delegate map as it is right now. You need 1,191, as you mentioned, to win the nomination. Senator McCain has 918; Governor Romney, who has suspended his campaign, 286; you, sir, Governor Huckabee, 217; and Ron Paul pulling up the rear with 16 delegates. Obviously Senator McCain at 918, Governor Huckabee at 217, that is pretty daunting math to make up. And as I travel, a lot of people pull me aside and now they say, what does Huckabee want? What is he looking for? What are you looking for, sir, if the math doesn't work out? Any preliminary conversations with the McCain people about a convention role? Any effort on your part to shape the platform? Any one specific thing you would be looking for?", "No. We are not talking to the McCain people about that at all, because right now I still want to make sure that we are talking seriously about getting rid of our tax code and the IRS, replacing it with a fair tax. I want to make sure we are unapologetic and unflinching in our support for a human life amendment. It has been on our platform since 1980. I know Senator McCain has not supported that. But I do, and I think a lot of Republicans do. We need to keep that out there. And you know, I understand the math, but also you look at some of these delegates in that list -- many of them are not pledged delegates. They still could make decisions otherwise. This could go to the convention. Now, I know a lot of you are saying, well, it's not likely. But it could. And until we know the outcome, I think it is just a little bit silly on my part to have worked this hard for 14 months and to let, whether it's the news media or John McCain supporters, tell me that the game is over when the clock is still ticking out there on the field.", "Some of your own advisers are beginning to think ahead about this. I want to read you something from your campaign chairman, Ed Rollins. He told this to The Politico, the Web site -- the political Web site: \"At the end of the day, we'll do whatever we can to help John McCain in the fall. If he wins, great. If not, the game starts all over again. It may be open again in four years, and Mike is 51. He's got a long way to go before his political career is over.\" Are you thinking ahead, sir, to 2012 or beyond? And just, as you campaign now, how often do you sit down and say, OK, I'm in this until somebody gets to 1,191, but am I making sure that I'm protecting myself, that I'm not hurting my own political future?", "No, I'm really not thinking about what's going to happen in four, eight or years beyond. I'm thinking about what's going to happen to this country. And I'm very concerned about it. I'm concerned that we are going to see our taxes go up. That will kill small business. It will kill free enterprise. It will further create the -- even more of a trade imbalance. Look, we need some big ideas when it comes to the economy. There are a lot of Americans struggling, and they are not going to get better, and their lives are not going to be any better until we do something dramatic and bold, with the kind of tax system that punishes people for working and punishes them for their productivity. That's got to stop, or we are going to just send this nation's economy into a spiral.", "As you know, sir, one of the big conversation items in Republican politics, especially, but across the country, this week, was this front page New York Times story, earlier in the week, suggesting that Senator McCain had some form of an inappropriate relationship with a Washington lobbyist. He fired back quite forcefully. Let's listen to Senator McCain.", "At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust nor make a decision which in any way would not be in the public interest and would favor any one or any organization.", "The McCain campaign and the Senator himself says, case closed, they are moving on, there is no story here. What do you think, sir?", "Well, I think he has been very, very forceful in just saying, hey, it is not true. I'm going to take him at his word, because I have no reason to doubt him. And apparently a lot of people in America are taking him at his word. In fact, it seems like that this New York Times thing is the best thing that's happened to the John McCain campaign. I'm, kind of, beginning to think I'm going to ask him if maybe they would attack very viciously on the front page. It might do me some good too.", "Governor, you sat down with Dr. James Dobson this past week.", "And he is the head of Focus on the Family, a very influential Christian conservative, social conservative leader in this country. He has backed your candidacy, as an individual, not as the head of Focus on the Family.", "Right.", "He has also been quite critical of Senator John McCain, saying that he can't envision how he could support Senator McCain. You know the influence of Dr. Dobson, whether it is on the radio, the magazines that go to millions, obviously you want his support, obviously you haven't give up hope yet, but in that private meeting, did you at all say, hey, Dr. Dobson, if it is John McCain, you need to rethink this?", "Well, our meeting was in fact a private one. And we didn't talk as much about the specifics of political strategy as we did really the broader and bigger issues. And it was more a discussion about the big picture of this country. And we didn't get into the nitty-gritty of what is going to happen in the election. That would be a decision that Dr. Dobson would make. Obviously, I'm delighted to have his personal support. It means a lot to me, not just politically, but personally, because he does recognize that I'm the one candidate left in this race who supports a human life amendment and a marriage amendment, things that I think are fundamental to really establishing a proper understanding that this country cannot have a strong government if it doesn't have strong families. And it can't have strong families if it doesn't have respect for each human life as having intrinsic worth and value. Those are things that are fundamental. These aren't peripheral political issues. They are really foundational issues upon which we build the rest of our culture.", "We are going to have the director of national intelligence, Admiral Mike McConnell on the program today. As you know, there has been a controversy. Congress would not pass a reauthorization of the controversial surveillance policy the administration says are necessary to protect the American people in the war on terrorism. Congress says it offered a temporary extension. The administration said no. The administration says, because of this impasse, the American people are less safe today and that some intelligence has fallen by the wayside, if you will. What do you think about that dispute?", "I think it is important to have very thorough surveillance capabilities, but they also need to be monitored by Congress. This is a delicate area. And it is an area that is new to us, because, with technology being what it is today, we have new tools that have never been available before, things that our founding fathers never envisioned when the Bill of Rights was crafted. And so it is uncharted territory. Two things we need to remember -- one, the first job of the president is to keep this country safe. He should us every -- everything at his disposal to do so. But it is also the job of Congress to make sure that the executive branch does not overstep its boundaries in terms of power. That is why we have the balance of power. It is why we have equal branches of government. And I think there is a healthy tension that was designed into our system. Now, when that tension gets so tight that it starts breaking rather than just stretching, then we have got a problem. And that is what is wrong in Washington. There is not a willingness to sit down and say, let's really try to make this decision best for the American people. I'm afraid we have a lot of people trying to make the decision best for each political party, and that is why people are so angry and frustrated with the dysfunction of Washington.", "The former Arkansas governor, Mike Huckabee. The week ahead brings you to Rhode Island, Ohio, and Texas. Governor, thanks for joining us on \"Late Edition.\" We will see you out on the trail.", "Thank you, John.", "And coming up, Senator McCain's lobbyist controversy: Could it derail his effort to shore up support among conservatives? We'll talk with the McCain campaign national co-chairman, Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty. You're watching \"Late Edition,\" the last word in Sunday talk."], "speaker": ["JOHN KING, GUEST HOST", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "SETH MEYERS, \"SNL WEEKEND UPDATE ANCHOR\"", "HUCKABEE", "MEYERS", "HUCKABEE", "MEYERS", "HUCKABEE", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "KING", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, R-ARIZ.", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "KING", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "KING", "HUCKABEE", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-272168", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-12-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/25/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Top Ten International Stories of 2015.", "utt": ["From the deliberate downing of a passenger plane to a refugee crisis that would divide the world, it's been a year for the history books for sure. Here's a look back at the top ten international stories of 2015.", "Our top ten starts with a shocking prison escape inside the Mexican jail cell of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, a drug king pin washes to a shower and vanishes fleeing through this.", "It's very difficult to breathe down here. A lot of dirt, dust, this is the bike El Chapo used to run out of the prison.", "El Chapo remains at large and the question still lingers, who helped him escape. Number nine, a moment for the history books, Cuba and America back on speaking terms. Americans boarding planes bound for Havana, thanks to a momentous thawing of icy diplomatic relations between the two countries.", "A year ago it might seem impossible that the United States would once again be raising our flag, the stars and stripes, over an embassy in Havana.", "A powerful earthquake has hit Nepal.", "Number eight, a massive quake ship in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, ten feet in 30 seconds triggering an avalanche on Mt. Everest. Days of aftershocks followed. More than 8,000 people died. Very few stories are more divisive than number seven on our list.", "Relations between United States and Iran are poised entering a new era after decades of hostility.", "An historic agreement to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Some hailing it as a major victory for diplomacy.", "There's a reason why 99 percent of the world thinks this is a good deal. It's because it's a good deal.", "Others calling it a deal with the devil.", "This deal doesn't make peace more likely. It makes war more likely.", "Powerful words from the leader of Israel, even more powerful, this moment on the floor of the United Nations. Forty four seconds of uncomfortable silence signifying what he says is the deafening violence toward Iran from the west. And number six, the bloody war rages in Syria and Iraq, sprawling mess in a dangerous proxy war. U.S.-led coalition air strikes pound ISIS targets in Syria. Russia says it's bombing ISIS targets as well.", "The Russians are not attacking is. They are conducting strikes in areas where there are anti-regime militias. Those strikes will bolster Bashar al-Assad.", "On the sidelines, Turkey fiercely protecting its borders.", "Turkey, shooting down a Russian warplane.", "An SU-24 Russian war plane crashed in the mountains of Syria near the Turkish border.", "The Russians are understandably absolutely furious.", "President Putin speaking out calling the incident a quote \"stab in the back.\"", "This year the world launched the biggest escalation the American military campaign against ISIS to date.", "I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria.", "The U.S. stepping up its presence on the ground.", "President Obama putting combat boots on the ground in Iraq and Syria.", "For the first time officially sending special forces into Syria to fight", "Rounding out the top five, a rock star welcome for Pope Francis as he toured the United States and Cuba. The masses before millions.", "This man is extraordinarily well on the New York stage.", "Reverend, I want to listen in a little bit. The crowds are so excited.", "Off the cuff moments and tiny glimpses into the life of the catholic leader so many have come to love. He then went to a war zone in Central African Republic, part of the pontiff's historic visit to Africa. Number four, a city under siege.", "A manhunt is underway for the gunman that perpetrated this heinous attack on the offices of \"Charlie Hebdo.\"", "The editor of the newspaper is among the dead as well as one of the cartoonists who was responsible for the very famous Muhammad cartoon that got the newspaper in trouble in 2011.", "Two Islamist terrorists brother forced their way into the office of the secure of a magazine \"Charlie Hebdo,\" opening fire and killing 12.", "We walked in and it was obviously a very disturbing scene to see couple of bodies on the floor, some people crying out for help.", "Chaos spilling into the streets. Muslim police officer executed on camera. The manhunt for the killers intensifies. Al- Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility. Meantime, shoppers in a Jewish grocery store held hostage not by the brothers but a man working apparently in concert with them. After three intense days, 17 innocent people are dead, two terrorists killed. Number three, a German wings commercial airline crashes killing everyone on board. The co-pilot of German wings flight 9525 now considered a culprit. Andrea Lubitz, slashed the captain out of the cockpit, steers the airbus A-320 into the ground. Chilling revelation as prosecutors hear the horror unfold on the black box voice recorder.", "The screams are in the last instance. And I remind you the death is instantaneous.", "Lubitz flying his plane into the side of the mountain obliterating it and everyone on board.", "CNN learning Lubitz reprogrammed the plane's autopilot in flight changing the setting from cruising altitude 38,000 feet to just 100 feet. It premeditated plan condemning everyone on board.", "Senseless killing sparking a question that struck fear around the world, do you trust the person piloting your plane. And number two, two million Syrians run for their lives. Refugee crisis on a scale not seen since World War", "Running for their lives, Syrian refugees crossing the border by the thousands trying to escape the war and violence at home.", "Syria's president Bashar al-Assad dropped barrel bombs on his own people and ISIS terrorists carve a bloody path through the country. Terrified Syrians flee.", "They've fired more tear gas, so people are sort of panicking.", "At borders across Europe men, women and children are pushed back. Tens of thousands more with nothing but the clothes on their back desperately crammed into boats destined for unknown shores. Some would never make it.", "This is very disturbing. 2-year-old Ilan found face down on the Turkish beach, drowned at sea while crossing the Mediterranean with his family.", "This picture of a toddler's lifeless body seen across the globe become a symbolic image of the human suffering. But still in many countries fear of the unknown prevails.", "We have some breaking news for you out of Paris, France.", "And number one, ISIS terrorizes the world spreading their brutality beyond the borders of Iraq and Syria. An explosion rings out outside a soccer stadium in Paris, first of three suicide bombers to detonate outside the stadium marking the start of the series of terror attacks the likes of which Paris had never seen.", "The whole time he said don't run, just stay. And those words saved my life because the people who ran were shot.", "People flee for their lives. A pregnant woman so terrified she hangs from the side of a building to escape the gunfire. Several restaurants innocent diners are slayed as terrorists unload round after round.", "We are at war.", "The unimaginable slaughter of 130 people in Paris happening just 24 hours after this, Beirut, Lebanon, a pair of suicide bombs would blast powerful as the smoke clears 43 people are left dead. ISIS' ability to incite terror and fear across the world made clear when they do the unimaginable.", "Do U.S. intelligence suggest the plane was most likely brought down by a bomb?", "ISIS is holding this photo up as proof that it downed Metro jet 9268.", "ISIS says they detonated it in Midair. And as you know 224 people were killed.", "Then an attack on U.S. soil.", "Disturbing husband and wife drop off their little baby, drive to a holiday party and kill 14 people.", "A pair radicalized at least partly inspired by ISIS, carry out the deadliest terror attack in the United States since 9/11, leaving many to wonder and worry where ISIS could strike next.", "That does it for me. 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{"id": "CNN-184413", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-4-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/15/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Five People Dead, Dozens Hurt in Midwest Twisters", "utt": ["The plane was set and trapped for weeks at the site of the legendary sinking ship but instead scrambled the help of a French sailboat that was in trouble. And all is well. It is 5:00 p.m. on the East Coast, 2:00 p.m. on the west. I'm Gary Tuchman in for Fredricka Whitfield. Millions of Americans from Texas to Wisconsin are being warned to be on guard as we speak, as severe weather threatens the region today and tonight. And this is what they're worried about. Another tornado outbreak. One hundred twenty two suspected twisters tore through four Midwestern states this weekend, killing five people. Dozens of people were hurt. Hundreds of homes were damaged, and destroyed. A live report in a hard-hit town in Oklahoma is just ahead. But here is how one survivor in Iowa described the storm.", "You know, it was no straight wind, it was a regular twister. The wind was just blasting out and out and out. The bathroom, like they always say, and while we got here, the roof went here. The good Lord was blesses us. He sure was. It's about more than you can bear.", "We're glad Larry Hill is OK. The U.S. coast guard searching for four people right now, missing from a yacht that ran aground during a race in San Francisco. The coast guard said a massive wave hit the eight-person crew aboard the yacht called low-speed chase. Then hit the rocks near the Fairyland islands, that is about 25 miles due west of San Francisco. We're told one person died, three others were rescued. Deadly attacks in the capital of Afghanistan. Insurgents targeted several key areas of Kabul, including the embassy area, presidential palace and the parliament. The Taliban claimed responsibility saying that it's the start of what they called their spring offensive. Afghan officials say 19 insurgents though were killed. Ryan Crocker, who is the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, told our Candy Crowley the attacks may have been orchestrated by the Haqqani network.", "The Taliban are really good at issuing statements, less good at actually fighting. My guess, based on previous experience here, is that this is a Haqqani network operation in the Pakistani tribal areas. Frankly, I don't think the Taliban's good enough.", "Now, take a look at these pictures. That was the Grandview palace condos in fall view, New York, in the Catskills Mountains. This is the second weekend in a row a Catskills landmark has been destroyed by fire. Last week, it was the Tamarack Lodge in Pollster County, New York. The building is probably best known as the inspiration for the resort featured in the movie \"dirty dancing.\" Halifax, Nova Scotia, held a memorial service to remember the moment the \"titanic\" went down 100 years ago this very day. People gathered at a cemetery where more than 100 people who were aboard the ill-fated ship are buried. The service was part of a weekend of events remembering the \"titanic.\" Back now to the devastating aftermath of this weekend's massive tornado outbreak in the Midwest. Twisters touched down in four states. Oklahoma was one, Iowa two, Nebraska three, and Kansas four. All the fatalities were in one town, the town of Woodward, Oklahoma. My colleague CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano is in Woodward right now. He joins us live now live. Rob, how is it going there? When we talked to you before, there were a lot of work going on to make repairs. People are just so sad and forlorn.", "Yes. Feverish activity up until about ten minutes ago then we have a little shower comes here, actually with a little bit of hail as well. We're starting getting intermittent showers. So, that's a - I gave the worker at one point a couple of dozen of friends and family and neighbors helping out. This home that was really just crushed by the tornado that came through here. A well-built home, 2,800 feet, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a family that's lived here for 19 years. We talked with the man of the house, who actually had an injury to his head. His grandson's head injured as well. His wife and son were in that rubble. But they managed to survive. How amazing is that. The storm itself came from this direction. Talking to some of the weather folks here, the national weather service folks who are surveying the damage, they say at least an ef-2, but in some cases probably like this, they are saying ef-3 damage. So, it was a narrow tornado but it was a strong tornado for sure, and as you mention, five fatalities here in Woodward. There's a 12 counties in the state of Oklahoma that are under a state of emergency. So, this state, especially the western part of it, certainly very, very hard hit by this storm. This is one of three storms that came through this town during the day yesterday. Two of which we actually chased during the afternoon, up near the Kansas/Oklahoma border. And they dropped tornadoes up there as well. So, well organized structures. But the last one, Gary, came at night, after midnight. After when some cases some of these -- the people here didn't have power and didn't necessarily get the warning. So that's a bit of an issue as well and one of the reasons that we see 29 injuries on top of those fatalities. But as of now, or as of earlier today, most everybody was accounted for.", "Incredible, Rob. Ef-2, when you see the immense damage there. And it just shows you how catastrophically powerful ef-4s and ef-5s are. But I want to ask you. You were talking about the five people who died in town, two of them children, how are the people in that small town dealing with the tragedy?", "You know. You've been in this situation, Gary. Every time I'm struck by the resilience of the folks here. Certainly you come across people who are incredibly emotional, the ones that have personal attachments to those who are injured or killed. But those that survived, and even with injuries, and complete loss of their property, it's amazing to see the spirit and see the community come forward and help those people that got hit more than others. I'll say this about this particular strike. It was one of those cases where, you know, the house on one side of the street, completely blown away, the house on the other street virtually untouched. So there are people here who have the where withal to help those who didn't fare as well -- Gary.", "Rob, very nice job today telling the victims' stories. Rob Marciano, coming to us from the small town in Oklahoma, who suffered so much. In Iowa now, take a look at these pictures. We are going to show you from a tiny town also. This is Thurman, Iowa. A tornado leveled much of a town about 300 people. Listen as one homeowner describes the terror of this storm.", "We heard the sirens, probably five minutes before it really picked up. So we were trying, OK, get the kids downstairs. It was more like, my God, we've got to get downstairs. You know, the windows were blowing out. And it was just panicky. There's just glass everywhere. There was stuff off our wall. There's grass just plastered. We had a house fire and lost our first house. It's like, really? I don't think I can do this again.", "Well, for those folks it is, but the threat is just beginning for places like Minneapolis, St. Paul. A tornado watch has been issued across much of southern Minnesota, extreme northern Iowa and then west central parts of Wisconsin. We want to show like tower cam we have here from the affiliate KR-11 TV in the twin cities, and there you can see downtown Minneapolis. There you can see the Mississippi river, 72 degrees in April for you, Minnesota. Tomorrow, we're going to be seeing that big temperature drop after the storms move through tonight. You'll only be seeing temperatures in the mid-40s for a high. So, a big change there. In fact, even northern Minnesota up towards international falls into the arrowhead will likely see some snow before tonight is over and done with. Now, we're also keeping our eye on a line of thunderstorms here across parts of Arkansas and into central parts of Missouri. We've had isolated severe storms within this line, producing winds around 60 miles per hour. So that can cause a lot of damage, and the whole threat area that we're going to be talking about through this evening and into tonight stretches from the upper Midwest all the way down to the gulf coast. So, even Houston can see some strong storms, as well as St. Louis, and maybe even Chicago and Milwaukee late tonight. So we'll continue to monitor that situation. And the storm continues into tomorrow, too, by the way, across parts of the Ohio valley and eastern great lakes. Just circling back for the big outbreak from yesterday, we had tornadoes on Friday, too, by the way, this map shows you all of the rotation that we saw and thunderstorms the last two days, and really gives you a picture of how many large long track tornadoes that were out there -- Gary.", "It is the middle of tornado season, and Jacqui, we're only a month and a half away from hurricane season, June 1st.", "I know.", "So more on that. A lot more on that a little bit later. Jacqui, thank you very much. Today has been a very bad day in Afghanistan. Insurgents attacked Kabul's embassy areas, and there was a fire at the parliament. There was explosion at the parliament and central palace. More are coming up. And two women killed in Brazil. And police say this is a horrifying story, that they may have been the victims of cannibals. Those stories are coming up."], "speaker": ["GARY TUCHMAN, CNN HOST", "LARRY HILL, LOST HOME TO TORNADO", "TUCHMAN", "RYAN CROCKER, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO AFGHANISTAN", "TUCHMAN", "ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "TUCHMAN", "MARCIANO", "TUCHMAN", "KELLI PERRIN, LOST HOME TO TORNADO", "JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "TUCHMAN", "JERAS", "TUCHMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-134424", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-1-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/26/cnr.04.html", "summary": "City of Fires; Major Winter Storm", "utt": ["CNN has just confirmed Pennsylvania State Police and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms have been called to help investigate a series of fires. Have you been following this story? Coatesville, Pennsylvania, a community of about 11,000 people west of Philadelphia, living in fear amid a wave of suspected arson attacks. Fourteen this month alone. Fire victim Ron Townsend joins me live from Coatesville. And, Ron, thanks for your time. First of all, look, I just landed on the planet and I just heard the details of this story. Tell me, in your own words, what is going on particularly this month in Coatesville.", "Well, I think that there's just been a rash of arson fires within the city. Probably actually, to be real honest with you, it probably started more like a month, month and a half ago. So far have been unable to catch who's setting the fires.", "Ron, if you had to guess, who is behind these fires?", "You know, there are so many rumors running around. And I'm not real good at guessing, to be honest with you, Mr. Harris. One speculation is, it's some kind of gang initiation, which I really find that hard to believe because all the houses that are burning up, it seems to be, in my opinion, some kind of method to the madness.", "Right. Well, is it comforting at all to know that Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the state police, that these agencies have been called in to help in the investigation? Does that bring you any comfort at all?", "Yes, sure, because the more help that the officials out here can get, the better off that they will be equipped to catch who ever is starting these fires. That's just my belief. Something has to be done because it's really out of hand. People are really afraid to go to sleep at night. It's a bad situation for a small town. It really is.", "Ron, when did you lose your home?", "January 6th I was burnt out.", "Well, what are the details of -- yes, what are the details around your particular fire? What it at night? Were you away from home, maybe at work? And talk to us about what happened to you.", "It was early morning around -- a little after 12:00. And, yes, someone took a trash can and put some kind of -- according to the fire marshal, someone took a trash can, put some kind of accelerant in it and ignited it underneath the porch. And the whole house -- and the adjoining house next door also was burnt completely down.", "So at this point you're displaced, you're without a home. And how many members of your family?", "There's four members. Me and my wife and we have custody of my two grandchildren. Two of my grandchildren.", "So what are you -- where are you living? What are you doing? And how are you getting along?", "It's very difficult right now. And I was fortunate enough to have the guys that I work with put us up in a hotel for a week. I really wanted to get that out because I have received help from different people. Actually last night was our first night in the shelter. There's not a lot of shelters around in this area that will accommodate families, but we were fortunate enough to find one. And last night was our first night in a shelter. And I'm unemployed right now. and I go back to work in March. And just trying to maintain and hold the family together until then. It's very difficult. There seems to be no kind of -- everybody that's willing to help as far as getting another home needs me to be able to show some kind of employment right now and I can't do that. So it's kind of tough. It's really tough, Mr. Harris.", "All right. It sounds like a couple of things need to happen here. We need to find out -- make sure that your family is stable in a place to live. And then investigators have got to get about the job of finding who is responsible for this and stopping this in your town. Ron, we appreciate your time. Best of luck. And we'll check in with you from time to time to see how things are going.", "Thank you. You have a good day.", "Yes, you too. Ron Townsend, Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Let's turn to weather now. Drivers in Reno, Nevada, are rolling the dice by getting on the highways. Take a look. Reno yesterday morning getting about a half of an inch of snow. Meteorologists there are warning drivers of some patchy areas. And, Chad, patchy areas and, of course, always a concern, black ice.", "Yes, and we're going to have a lot of it, Tony. This is a dangerous situation setting up from Oklahoma City through Ft. Smith and Springfield right all the way across to Cape Girardeau. I'm going to show you my maps, but you can look at the maps while I give you some forecast because they are so important. Oklahoma City, you're beginning to ice up now. Tulsa, you will begin to ice up, along with Springfield. Everywhere that's red, from Louisville and Cincinnati all the way down through Springfield, Oklahoma City, these are all winter storm warnings. And let me tell you why. Cape Girardeau, you'll get 2 inches of ice. That's going to bring down trees and power lines. Same story, Ft. Smith, nearly paralyzed. Memphis, you're going to start out as rain and then turn to ice by tomorrow, Wednesday morning. Oklahoma City, only a quarter inch of ice. You're kind of on the backside there. Louisville, 1.5 inch of ice everywhere across the city. We're talking -- Tony, this is like that -- this is a bread and milk storm. You better go get it because you may not be able to get it for a while. We have Gulf moisture that's pouring up into a very cold air mass. It doesn't like it when the air is aloft. Two thousand feet aloft. If that air up there is 35 and the air where you live is 28, that's a bad number because it rains right into your 28 and the freezing goes everywhere. This is a big-time ice storm. I'm betting hundreds of thousands of people will be without power by Wednesday. And it's starting tonight.", "And it's starting tonight.", "Yes.", "All right. We'll be watching it, Chad. Thank you.", "You've got it.", "President Obama's face has popped up on everything from collectible plates, to nail clippers, to bottles of water. 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{"id": "NPR-47281", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2018-01-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/01/08/576413436/wild-turkeys-in-cleveland-suburb-peck-at-mail-carriers", "title": "Wild Turkeys In Cleveland Suburb Peck At Mail Carriers", "summary": "A neighborhood outside Cleveland is overrun with wild turkeys, and now about two dozen residents have to pick up their mail at the post office.", "utt": ["Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. Yes, the slogan says postal carriers will not be stopped by rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night. It says nothing about wild turkeys. A neighborhood outside Cleveland is overrun with wild turkeys pecking at postal carriers. About two dozen residents now have to pick up their mail at the post office. The mayor of Rocky River is on it but says the law does not allow for a wild turkey hunt, so she's asking people to stop putting out bird feed. It's MORNING EDITION."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-412883", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2020-10-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/08/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Hurricane Delta Strengthens To Major Category 3 Storm.", "utt": ["We have more breaking news coming into \"The Situation Room\". The National Hurricane Center have just said that Hurricane Delta is now a major category 3 storm. Our meteorologist Tom Sater has the newly updated forecast. What does it say, Tom?", "Well, currently, we have the storm center about 345 miles just south of Cameron, Louisiana. We expected this to not only intensify to a category 3 strength but now we're going to watch the storm grow in size. The wind field is going to broaden. It was a category 4 before it moved into the Yucatan. And even though it dropped in intensity to a strong category 2, south of Cancun, we can report no fatalities but power's out and there was damage. We were expecting this category 3 hurricane to maybe drop in size as well or strength. Get down to a category 2, all the models and incredible agreement taking this again to the state of Louisiana. The warnings are in effect almost the same place they were six weeks ago today when Hurricane Laura moved in into category 4. We could see this make landfall, that is a strong category 2 but a 3. We have 30,000 homes that were destroyed when Laura moved in. And you can see just how close they are right now. We could have this come in within 15 miles of where Laura hit around 7:00 tomorrow night, Wolf. This is could be devastating as 20,000 are still in hotel rooms around that part of Lake Charles.", "Yes, I hope everybody takes precautions immediately. Tom Sater, thank you very much. There's more breaking news. Chaos as President Trump refuses to take part in a virtual debate despite his COVID infection."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "TOM SATER, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-228745", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2014-4-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/18/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Audio Released of Sunken Ferry; Diplomatic Deal Not Followed in Donetsk; Still No Wreckage Found from Flight 370", "utt": ["Right now, divers are facing huge challenges trying to get inside the hull of that sunken South Korean ferry as they desperately search for survivors. Meantime, new audiotapes are giving us new insight into the crew's early response. Also right now, demonstrators in Eastern Ukraine say they're not part of the international deal to calm tensions. They say they'll stop occupying key government buildings only when Kiev's interim government resigns. This hour, we're marking six weeks since Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappeared and still no wreckage has been found. Not at all. Now, officials are talking about widening the search area again and bringing in more underwater vehicles to help. Hello, I'm Wolf Blitzer reporting from Washington. New details emerging today of the moment when a ferry began to capsize off the coast of South Korea with hundreds of teenagers aboard. The country's \"Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries\" today released this desperate exchange between the ferry crew and dispatch.", "Please notify the Coast Guard. Our ship is in danger. The ship is rolling right now.", "Where is your ship?", "Please hurry. Absolutely hurry.", "Yes, OK. We will contact you. This is group 12.", "Ship rolled over a lot right now. Can't move. Please come quickly. We're next to Byeongpung Island, Byeongpung Island.", "Yes, understood.", "The death toll has now risen to 29, 273 people are still missing. Rescue divers were able, today, to get into a part of the sunken ship and pump air into the hull. Let's go to CNN's Paula Hancocks. She's in the port city of Jindu, South Korea.", "Wolf, let's start with the search and rescue operation. Now, we know that this Friday divers did manage to get inside the submerged ship. We know that they managed to access the second floor, or at least parts of it, but they were unable to go any further because conditions are still not good, bad visibility, strong underwater currents. And, at this point, divers did not find any survivors and they did not find any bodies. We also know that they have managed to pump some oxygen into the ship. Now, the thinking behind this is that if there are air pockets under the water, then they want to make sure that if there are any survivors within those air pockets that the air is replenished. Now, of course, it is a desperately hard wait for dozens of relatives here at the harbor still. This is the third night that they have been sitting, waiting for any news. Now, there have been very emotional scenes, very heartbreaking scenes. One woman screaming, just tell us, are they alive or are they dead? And this is the most basic of questions that, at this point, officials simply cannot answer. Close to 300 people still missing. Now, as for the investigation, we know that the arrest warrants have been issued for the captain and also for two crew members. We have footage showing that the captain was one of the first to get off the boat. You have footage of him actually getting onto one of the ports here in Jindu. And, certainly, he will be looked at very closely. Officials saying he wasn't at the helm at the time of this accident, it was the third officer -- Wolf.", "Paula Hancocks reporting for us from South Korea. More on the story coming up later. Will words translate into action? That's the big question in Ukraine today. Diplomats made a deal in Geneva on Thursday that calls for pro-Russian protesters to disarm and give up the buildings they've seized. In exchange, they'll get amnesty unless they have been convicted of capital crimes. Russia would be the key to making this happen. But already, there are signs on the ground that are raising serious doubts. The self-declared leader of the pro-Russian separatists in one city said he has not agreed to the deal at all. And the U.S. president also appears skeptical. President Obama saying the U.S. and its allies have to be prepared to respond if Russia continues to meddle in this neighbor's affairs. Our Senior International Correspondent Arwa Damon is joining us now from Donetsk where so much unrest has been going on. Arwa, what are you seeing? What's the latest there on the ground?", "Well, Wolf, despite that diplomatic dance that we saw taking place in Geneva, there's been absolutely no sign here or, in fact, across the 200 and some miles of Eastern Ukraine where various government, security, police buildings are under pro-Russian protester control, that they have any intention whatsoever of leaving. We were speaking to some of them that are here and they were quite adamant that unless, as you were mentioning there, the government in Kiev steps down, they are not going to do so. Because, they say they, first of all, do not view themselves as being illegal -- illegally occupying these various buildings. And they say that if we're going to talk about an illegal occupation of buildings, it's the government in Kiev that is illegitimate, that is the one that needs to step down. So, when it comes to the outcome of Geneva, it has not changed the situation on the ground here at all. And a lot of people we've been speaking to as well still remain extremely concerned about the future of their country -- Wolf.", "Yes, what about the fears? There are some serious fears, I take it, among the relatively small Jewish community where you are there in Donetsk after those anti-Semitic flyers were handed out ordering Jews to register, if you will. What are we learning about this?", "Well, CNN has spoken to the leader of the Jewish community here as well as a number of its members. They very much say that initially when those flyers were distributed, yes, understandably, there was a fair amount of fear. But now, they're viewing it much more as a provocative act. They say it was an isolated incident. And they're quite angry, Wolf, because they feel as if they, as if their history is being manipulated and used to try to stir up tensions here. And, of course, it's especially sensitive in the Ukraine that saw massive massacres under Nazi occupation -- Wolf.", "We're going to have more on this story coming up later this hour as well. Arwa, we'll stay in close touch with you, thank you. Six weeks after Malaysia airlines Flight 370 disappeared, today, there are still no signs whatsoever of the missing plane. Here are the latest developments. The Bluefin 21 underwater drone is now in its fifth, fifth, mission, scouring the ocean floor. Crews say it covered about 42 square miles in its first four trips. The operators of the Bluefin 21 say no debris or wreckage has been discovered so far. Malaysian's transportation minister says authorities are looking at deploying more underwater drones. Relatives of those onboard Flight 370 held another prayer vigil at a Beijing hotel today. Family members have drawn up a list of 26 questions. They want answers when they meet with Malaysian officials in Beijing next week. It takes a full day for the Bluefin 21 to complete a single dive and for crews to download the data. The drone is going much deeper than expected in the search for Malaysia Airlines parts. Our Correspondent Erin McLaughlin has been following all the latest developments for us. She has an update now from Perth, Australia.", "Wolf, as of 9:00 a.m. this morning, the Bluefin 21 was in the water searching for any signs of missing Malaysian Flight 370. These searches can last up to 20 hours. It's now about 16 hours later, still unclear if it has concluded that fifth mission. Meanwhile, we're learning more details about its fourth dive happening last night. It reached 4.7 kilometers beneath the ocean's surface which is significant given it was originally thought the upper reaches of its death capacity was 4.5. It had to cut its first mission short due to depth concerns. But engineers analyzed the Bluefin 21's hardware, and they believe it can now go as deep as five kilometers which is important given that this area that it's currently searching is the most probable area in which they believe they can find the black box, based on detailed analysis of the pings. And it's important that the Bluefin 21 is able to search all portions of that particular area. But there have been four dives so far. Not a single sign, as far as we know, of this missing plane as the search continues -- Wolf.", "Erin McLaughlin, thanks very much. That fifth dive underway right now. More on this story coming up later this hour. Just ahead, living with guilt after surviving a disaster. We're taking a closer look at the psychological trauma that can linger for years. And anti-Semitic threats emerging in Eastern Ukraine. Leaflets handed out by masked men ordering Jews to register with the government. More on the story, that's just ahead as well."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "SHIP (translated)", "DISPATCH (translated)", "SHIP", "DISPATCH", "SHIP", "DISPATCH", "BLITZER", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "DAMON", "BLITZER", "ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-17721", "program": "Breaking News", "date": "2000-10-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/12/bn.19.html", "summary": "Boat Hits USS Cole in Yemen Port; 4 Sailors Killed", "utt": ["In the meantime, though, Daryn mentioned the USS Cole destroyer, located in the port of Aden earlier today. That's in a Yemeni port on the Arabian peninsula. It had been hit earlier today, apparently by a floatable boat that rammed the side of the boat, this aegis destroyer. The word we have is that four U.S. soldiers have been killed. More than 31 others have been injured, many of them suffering severe burns. In addition to that, getting word through folks at the Pentagon that up to 12 U.S. Navy sailors could be missing at this time. David Ensor live to Washington. Let's pick things up with him and see what's he's gathering thus far today. David, what are officials saying, and what are you gathering?", "Well, let me start with Middle East, if I may, Bill, concerning George Tenet, the CIA director's role there. He was there to try to get the security chiefs of the Palestinians and Israelis together again, and try to get them cooperating to try and lower the level of tension, to prevent more killing. Unfortunately, as one official I spoke to today put it, with one security force having failed to present the killing of two members of another, that is very, very difficult indeed at this point. And we heard Rula Amin on the air just a short time ago reporting that she now understands that Mr. Tenet didn't meet with Chairman Arafat. That's what I heard from a CIA spokesman who said he not able to confirm such a meeting was taking place. In fact, officials are not even saying where Mr. Tenet is, where he's headed, obviously for reasons having to do with own personal safety in this very, very volatile situation at this point. Now turning to Yemen, the operating -- officials are stressing that they're not yet saying this was a terrorist incident. As Jamie McIntyre reported from the Pentagon, they are not yet able to say with any great confidence what caused the explosion, although they are Looking at the idea that that may have been, probably was, a terrorist incident. And in that regard, officials I spoke to see two possibilities just on the political side. One is to point out that Osama Bin Laden, the alleged terrorist mastermind, has family ties and business ties in Yemen. He knows a lot of people there, and it would not be impossible that his organization could have been involved in a terrorist incident against the ship. Another possibility that some analysts say can't be ruled out would be the Iraqis, in the sense the ship was set to patrol the area in the gulf where the U.S. Navy is involved in sanctions enforcement against Iraq, so there might have been motive there for Iraqis to be involved. Again, nobody saying yet whether this was a terrorist incident, but already trying to figure out who could have been involved, if it was -- Bill.", "What seems to be quite curious, David, is the report we're getting from Jamie McIntyre at the Pentagon there, Is that the refueling stop that was planned anywhere from 4-6 hours was not scheduled or not announced anyway. Given that, one may assume that if indeed there was a terrorist attack, there was some surveillance underway of U.S. ships moving throughout the area. Safe conclusion or not?", "Well, you know, if you have the resources in place in Aden to commit a terrorist act, in case an opportunity arises, I suppose you don't need to know very much with very much advanced notice. But this is not a small ship. It is easy to watch from the coastline, as it moves through narrow waterways around there. So it's quite possible that there was some advance notice obtained by those who did this, assuming it was a terrorist act, Bill.", "David, said to be listing at about four degrees. That was the last word we heard. Is this ship in danger of completely sinking in the waters?", "I'm not an expert on the technology of those ships, but I would say, no, it is not. They say that they have stopped the flooding. Thing under control. The crew is still on it, working actively. It sounds as if the ship can be repaired.", "All right, we're going to talk with a retired U.S. Navy captain momentarily here at the CNN Center, David. David Ensor live in Washington. Thank you, David. And we will try and address those issues shortly. In the meantime, though, for U.S. families who have an interest in what's happening on board the USS Cole, 800-369-3202. That's the casualty information line set up for families only, and again, the U.S. military stresses that allow only families to call this number in order for them to access complete information as to what's happening there, said to be about 350 sailors aboard that ship."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID ENSOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER", "ENSOR", "HEMMER", "ENSOR", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-399164", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2020-05-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/03/ip.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D) Massachusetts; Biden's Strong Denial.", "utt": ["Former vice president Joe Biden says Tara Reade deserves to be heard but he also says her claim is false. Reade is a former senate staffer. Last year she accused then-senator Biden of touching her shoulders and her neck and making her feel uncomfortable. In recent weeks she has said it was more than that, accusing Biden 27 years ago back in 1993 of using his knee to spread her legs and then assaulting her with his fingers.", "Did you sexually assault Tara Reade?", "No. It is not true. I'm saying it unequivocally. It never, never happened. Women have a right to be heard and the press should rigorously investigate claims they make. I'll always uphold that principle. But in the end, in every case, the truth is what matters. And in this case the truth is the claims are false.", "Reade says she filed a complaint about uncomfortable interactions back at the time. Numerous former Biden aides contacted by CNN and other news organizations say they have no recollection of any complaint and say they were never told of or never heard of such an incident. Biden is now asking the Senate and the national archives to review available records, and if anything relevant is found, to release it. He's also facing calls to allow an independent search of his personal papers held by the University of Delaware to verify there are no relevant documents there. Those documents are meant to be kept private until two years after Biden retires from public life. Lisa Lerer of the \"New York Times\" is still with us. CNN's M.J. Lee joins the conversation. Lisa -- there was an anticipation that we would hear in a televised interview from Tara Reade this weekend but she decided to wait. You spoke to her about that.", "I did. And what she told me was that she was getting numerous death threats. Not only she but her child was also getting death threats. They were getting all kind of things coming in on the Internet. They had to alert the police and that spooked her and made her, she said, want to not do this interview and kind of keep a lower profile, as much as that's possible, really, at this stage in this whole situation.", "Right. And anybody watching, whatever you think of the allegations, whatever you think of Tara Reade, whatever you think of Joe Biden, that is reprehensible. It is just reprehensible that it would come to that in this environment. M.J. -- one of the things -- one of the political dynamics to this story is that you have some of the veterans of the Obama search process, the attorney who led the vetting back in 2008 that led Barack Obama to pick Joe Biden, other members of the staff including the top strategist David Axelrod writing on CNN.com. \"The comprehensive vet certainly would have turned up any formal complaints filed against Biden during his 36-year career in the senate. It did not. The team would have investigated any salacious rumors of this sort that travel far and wide in Washington. There were none. Had any credible issue been raised, you can be sure Biden would not have been the nominee. Obama would not have tolerated it.\" You see here, and I'm not criticizing it, but this is a concerted effort by Team Obama to say, we looked under every rock, there was nothing there.", "Well, and this is just one of the really tricky things about reporting out this story, you know, people who say they know Joe Biden really well and have known him for decades, those folks have said, and we've spoken to some half dozen former Biden aides. I know Lisa has done really extensive reporting on this as well. They say that the Joe Biden that they knew at the time simply did not have this kind of reputation. They also just heard nothing at the time about any complaints about sexual harassment let alone a complaint about sexual assault. So on the one hand you have folks who knew Biden, which includes more recently the people who would have been involved in doing his vetting in the run-up to the Obama presidency. And then you of course have the people who are close to Tara Reade who have come forward to say she told us about this alleged sexual assault either at the time or within a few years of it happening. So at some point, not only is this becoming sort of a he said/she said, but it's also becoming a her people said and his people said. And I think that's why this has become obviously so divisive and I think so personally hurtful to people who feel like they know these two people who are saying very different things.", "Right. And so it's a difficult moment for all involved. And Lisa -- you did some reporting in the newspaper today on what this does to liberal activists, to members of the Democratic Party who have been advocates for the MeToo Movement who are just some of the people under consideration for Joe Biden's running mate list in here back when Brett Kavanaugh was the nominee before the Supreme Court. They were pretty clear about the deference that should be given to any woman who has something to say.", "-- believe her. She has the courage to come forward. She has nothing to gain.", "When you look at the rules of evidence, when you look at credibility, the fact that she had mentioned this years before means a lot.", "I was proud of Dr. Blasey Ford's response and her demeanor but more importantly, her courage in stepping forward.", "Discuss sort of the anxiety among Democrats, many of whom, including those women right there, who say I believe Joe Biden but their own public record says Tara Reade deserves to be heard.", "Right. Democrats are put in a really challenging position as a result of all this. Democrats have really staked their reputational brand during the Trump Era in part to draw contrast with the President, who of course, has more than a dozen women accusing him of sexual abuse in various forms as being the party that takes a no- tolerance stance when it comes to sexual harassment, you know, gender bias, sexual violence -- all these kinds of issues.", "And so now they're faced with what is by all accounts a very challenging case. Some Democrats are drawing a distinction from Kavanaugh, saying unlike in Kavanaugh, where there was a body, the Senate, to investigate those claims, there's no real clear body here to investigate these claims. Joe Biden is not in office. This is a presidential campaign. There is no employer or ethics committee or anything like that. So that leaves everybody kind of in this murky territory -- voters and, you know, partisans on both sides, of how to figure out what is actually going on here. I also think some of this is due to the campaign's response because Biden and his campaign were silent for so many weeks, that really put his top female surrogates, including some who are being considered for the vice presidency in this position where they had to answer challenging questions that he was unwilling to go out there and talk about. And that's a position that no politician particularly wants to be in -- particularly, you know, when you think you're auditioning for the vice president presidential slot. This was just a number challenging political dynamics both from the campaign and really from the sort of larger political environment and moment that we're in.", "Lisa Lerer, M.J. lee -- I appreciate your insights on this. I just want to echo the point and people at home should make up their own decision as this story plays out but the idea that the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee are trying to traffic in this story is laughable given the President's own history and his lack of transparency on this issue. That's it for us this Sunday. Hope you can catch us weekdays as well. We're here at noon Eastern. Up next, a very busy \"STATE OF THE UNION\" with Jake Tapper. Don't go anywhere. Jake's guests include the White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, the Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, plus Independent Congressman Justin Amash who hopes to be the Libertarian Party's presidential nominee. Thanks again for sharing your Sunday. Have a good day. Stay safe."], "speaker": ["KING", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "KING", "LERER", "KING", "M.J. 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{"id": "CNN-329346", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-12-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1712/28/cnr.05.html", "summary": "President Trump Touting His Legislative Record.", "utt": ["President Trump is touting his legislative record. He boasted that in his first year of office, he broke President Truman's record for signing new bills into law.", "It was one of the things that people don't understand, we have signed more legislation than anybody. We broke the record of Harry Truman.", "So, this little pat on the back came during a surprise visit to a Florida fire house. He was supposed to be there to thank the first responders for their help with security as he visits this area. Well, the president repeated over and over again that he is among the most productive presidents ever. Here to fact check, Sara Murray, CNN's White House correspondent. So, Sara, the president's claim there is just not true. Break it down for us.", "Well, I don't think we are surprised at this point to see President Trump touting his record. He certainly feels he doesn't get the credit he deserves. But in this case, the pat on the back may have been a little richer than deserved. If you look back at previous administrations, actually President Trump has signed fewer bills in his first year than any administration dating back to Eisenhower. So that claim doesn't hold water. But obviously the president is still riding high on this victory from tax reform, and certainly wants to make it look like he had a more productive first year in office than the numbers reflect.", "All right. Thanks for the quick update. Sara Murray reporting in Florida, traveling with the president -- thank you. Up next, dramatic drops in crime in major U.S. cities, like New York, Philly and Las Vegas. But there are some key exceptions. A look at what's behind the numbers when we come back."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CABRERA", "SARA MURRAY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-166526", "program": "YOUR MONEY", "date": "2011-5-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/21/cnnitm.01.html", "summary": "Will GOP Vote to Raise Debt Ceiling Before U.S. Default?", "utt": ["America has hit the debt ceiling. So now what happens? I'm Ali Velshi. Welcome to YOUR MONEY. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has begun a series of what he's calling \"extraordinary measures\" to prevent default. He wants to make sure lawmakers know that the clock is ticking. Yet some Republicans argue that there are other means to fund the government after Geithner's drop-dead August 2nd deadline. They say they're willing to withhold a vote to raise the debt ceiling if they don't get some serious concessions from Democrats.", "We have over $50 trillion in unfunded liabilities, very popular programs, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid. All of them are unsustainable. I think we need to do something in connection with the decision to raise the debt ceiling that deals with the debt, both medium -- both short term, medium term, and long term. That's what it would take to get my vote.", "Will Cain is a CNN contributor. Will, Secretary Geithner has said that not raising the debt ceiling would be catastrophic for the economy. Now he concedes that no one knows for certain what could happen in the event that it's not raised. Are Republicans willing to risk sending this fragile recovery that we're in into chaos to find out if they're right?", "No. But neither are Democrats. Let me tell you why I'm so certain about this. A, the debt ceiling has been raised 74 times since 1962. So I've got that in my pocket. Second, the consequences for not raising the debt ceiling are dire and everyone knows it. I have got my Tim Russert my prop here. Let me show you. The issue is, if we don't raise the debt ceiling, the government cannot issue new debt. Well, the problem is we take in 60 cents for every dollar we spend. We spend 40 percent more than we take in. At that point, the government has a choice to make. You can choose to not pay the interest on your current debt, which amounts to effectively a default. How would the markets react to that?", "And that's bad.", "That's bad -- well, we think so. Currently the U.S. is used as the dollar as the safe haven. Would markets continue to think of us that way? We don't know. But we don't want to find out. The second choice is even more scary to me, even as a conservative. And that is, if we choose not, we have to cut spending by 40 percent. And that comes from Social Security, Medicare, defense.", "That's a big, big cut.", "Ali, it's a huge number.", "And where does your arrow go after that, if you do that?", "It goes to depression, Ali. Now listen, I want to cut government spending but I don't want to do it overnight. If you have to cut spending by 40 percent, you're looking at a 10 percent contraction in the economy. You're looking at depression. That's a pretty clear choice. Raise the debt ceiling.", "All right. Well, that's not exactly what we're hearing from a whole lot of other conservatives. But you lay that argument out very well. Gloria Borger is a CNN senior political analyst. Gloria, 60 percent of Americans say they oppose raising the debt ceiling, just 37 percent would be in favor of raising it. Now that would seem to bolster the Republican argument that they want severe cuts in exchange for their vote to raise that credit limit. So let's say the debt ceiling is not raised and the U.S. does, as Will postulates, possibly default on some of its payments. Are the consequences as dire as Secretary Geithner warns? Is the public going to blame Republicans who voted no or Democrats who wouldn't give them the cuts? What's going to happen?", "Well, you know, the public will blame everyone. I think, first of all, the Congress, and that means Democrats, Republicans, and also the president of the United States needs to go out there, as the secretary of the treasury has, and explain just what the consequences are. Because it's very clear from looking at that poll that people may be saying, debt ceiling, we don't want to pay more money. They're not quite sure. Part...", "Right. You're absolutely right about that.", "Part of the burden of leadership is explaining these things. But I would also say that this is really a test of leadership because when you look back at votes on the debt ceiling, they're always political votes. Go back to 2006. None other than Barack Obama and his fellow Senate Democrats...", "Voted not to do it.", "2004, unanimously, all House Democrats voted against it. Why? George Bush was in power. So this, again, is another test. And if it doesn't get done and there are real problems in the economy, then the American public will turn very quickly and blame all of the members of Congress and the president.", "Chrystia Freeland is the editor of Thomson Reuters Digital. Chrystia, what Gloria says is exactly right. No one has been able to actually explain, beyond Tim Geithner saying it's going to be catastrophic, what happens if we don't make those payments. But let's go back to September 14th, 2008. A whole lot of smart people sat around a table and said, it's not going to be all that bad if we let Lehman Brothers collapse. We didn't know what the consequences are either. You are a global financial journalist. What happens?", "Well, I think actually this isn't something we need to debate that much. It is absolutely clear that if the U.S. defaults on its debt, that is a catastrophic event for America and for the global economy. That is a moment when people stop having faith in the U.S. government and they should stop having faith in fact U.S. government. The U.S. government would not be paying its creditors. And so new creditors are not going to be knocking on America's door. And if they do come in, they will require much, much higher rates of interest.", "Right. And that's -- by the way, for viewers out there, that's how it affects you. Because if the U.S. pays more to borrow money, you pay more for your mortgages, your companies and employers pay more to borrow money. And what that tends to do is give them less available cash to hire people.", "And you would have to pay higher taxes, right? I mean, right now, the trick -- America actually is in a fabulous position in the global economy because even though America has very high debt, it is being charged very, very low rates of interest by the rest of the world.", "Right, right. Because our credit is thought to be very good.", "Because America's credit is good.", "Gloria?", "But, you know, Republicans want to get something out of this. And in a way, I don't blame them. They're saying, OK, you want our votes to raise the debt ceiling, Mr. President, fine, how about dollar for dollar we talk about spending cuts? Mitch McConnell was talking about some grand bargain on entitlements. I don't think they're going to get that. But I do think you are going to get substantial deficit reduction or promises of deficit reduction.", "But, Will Cain, Will Cain, this is not the last word or the last debate on how to cut spending. So if you are a conservative, if you are a fiscal conservative, if you are a Republican and you really believe strongly that there need to be cuts, like many Americans do, we have the 2012 budget to discuss. We've got until October to sort that out. Why are some Republicans picking this as the fight and not that, which is really the place to have this discussion?", "Because I've said this to you before, Ali, Democrats have shown no willingness to cut at any point in time. So it's almost like you have to put them, and the country for that matter, in these positions of emergency to make decisions. But let me agree with something that Chrystia said, in the end, this is barely worth a debate because it is going to be raised. It is that clear to everyone what the problems are. Here's the perfect metaphor. In \"Braveheart,\" remember before William Wallace comes along, the two armies get up on the battlefield and look at each other like they're about to shed all kinds of blood. And the young soldier turns to the older one and says, what's going to happen? He said, the nobles will negotiate and then we'll go home. That's what's going to happen here.", "I don't want to paint nightmare scenarios here, but Ali made a reference to Lehman Brothers, and that was absolutely correct. So we've been talking about if America defaults, then you would see higher interest rates charged to the U.S. government. That's absolutely true. What we don't know but what I think we can really predict with high probability is you could plunge the world into a new financial crisis.", "Right. It may not happen, but there's some chance that it could happen.", "Gloria?", "I have to tell you, there are, you know, 80 freshmen Republicans, 60 of whom have never held elected office before. And, you know, a lot of those folks are saying, you know what, I'm not sure it's going to be so terrible, there are a lot of Chicken Littles running around. And these are the people that John Boehner...", "Dangerous thinking. That's a negotiating...", "These are the people that John Boehner has to talk to.", "That's negotiating talk.", "For some of these people, it's not negotiating talk. But it is the burden of leadership right now because John Boehner runs the House of Representatives.", "And John Boehner and Eric Cantor are not freshmen, so hopefully they'll be able to convince...", "Exactly.", "... their team otherwise. Gloria, great to talk to you, as always, thank you. Chrystia will stick around. Coming up next, the other most important economic issue facing Americans today. And is it being ignored as a result of all of this focus on the deficit?"], "speaker": ["ALI VELSHI, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. 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{"id": "NPR-15083", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2017-04-27", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/04/27/525833191/morning-news-brief-trumps-nafta-reversal-the-north-korean-border-textalyzer", "title": "Morning News Brief: Trump's NAFTA Reversal, The North Korean Border, 'Textalyzer'", "summary": "President Trump has reversed course and says he won't withdraw from NAFTA. Also, a view into North Korea from the Chinese border and a proposed software to curb texting while driving.", "utt": ["And I'm Rachel Martin, and we're going to start with NAFTA because, Steve, it looks like there's been a bit of an about-face here.", "President Trump has signaled the way that he intends to approach one of his signature issues - the North American Free Trade Agreement. As a candidate, you may recall, he attacked the deal with Mexico and Canada constantly.", "And if we don't get the deal we want, we will withdraw from NAFTA and start all over again, making better deals for our workers. It's going to be America first. It's America first.", "That was in October. Now, yesterday, White House officials told numerous news organizations that the U.S. was about to withdraw from NAFTA, which turned out to be a head fake. Last night, the president told his Mexican and Canadian counterparts he is not pulling out of the agreement at this time, but he would like to renegotiate.", "All right. So what does renegotiate mean? We're going to talk about that with Domenico Montanaro here in our studios. Hi, Domenico.", "Hey there, Rachel.", "So some mixed messages coming out of the White House yesterday. What's going on?", "No question about it. I mean, as Steve mentioned, earlier in the day, the White House was threatening to scrap NAFTA by executive order. Now, it's not clear you can actually do all of that by executive order, but the threat was enough to make the Mexican and Canadian leaders stand up and take notice and say, what is going on here? You had the Canadian president, Justin Trudeau, call the White House twice. You had the Mexican peso plummet on the news that there could even be the possibility that something would happen. Later that night, Donald Trump spoke with Canada's Trudeau and with Enrique Pena Nieto from Mexico and said, nope, not going to scrap NAFTA right now, but I do want to bring NAFTA up to date through renegotiation. And if I could just say, this isn't completely brand new. You know, while we play the clip of Donald Trump saying he wants to scrap NAFTA, he's also been saying that he wants to renegotiate NAFTA.", "So is that just a tactic? Is that just something the president likes to do, like give this opening salvo that's really extreme knowing full well that he can negotiate in the middle somewhere?", "Well, I don't know if he knows full well he can negotiate in the middle. I think he hopes that he can negotiate in the middle. But it's not clear that he is able to do that. And I think you're starting to see - or not starting to see. I think this hundred days has shown us what happens when you put a transactional person in charge of the presidency. This is somebody who's used to real estate deals in New York where you can just say to your other partner, OK, you know, I don't like how much you offered here. I want X amount, and then you have something in the middle maybe. This is far more complicated than that, affecting investors, infecting - affecting trade, you know, and Trump has talked about this deficit of trade between the U.S. and Mexico in particular. But, you know, trade with Mexico has actually increased sixfold from the United States since NAFTA was put in place.", "So do we know what renegotiation would look like, what would change?", "It's not totally clear. We have heard that Wilbur Ross, who's the commerce secretary, would likely be somebody who would be in charge of some start of those negotiations. You saw him be somebody who was out front this week, too, when he was talking about Canadian softwood lumber. And you had the Canadian very polite smackdown of we strongly disagree.", "Can we just remember that it takes more than one person to negotiate? It takes two or, in this case, three nations to negotiate. And Mexicans have been saying for months, if it came to this, they don't want to renegotiate NAFTA, that they've been urging a number of Mexican current and former officials, have been urging the country, to just say no because negotiation would create uncertainty and stop business investment in Mexico. Now, this little threat that the president effectively made yesterday might cause Mexicans and Canadians to reconsider that. But there's going to be a lot of resistance to changing the terms of this deal.", "Yeah. OK. Domenico Montanaro of NPR's Politics team. Domenico, thanks as always.", "A pleasure as always, Rachel.", "We've been talking a lot about the rising tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, but we're going to look at that conflict from a different angle this morning.", "The angle of China. Look at a map, and China is right beside North Korea, of course. It is North Korea's only friend and only sponsor, and President Trump insisted in January that China could force North Korea to behave.", "China has total control. Believe me. They say they don't. They have total control over North Korea, and China should solve that problem. And if they don't solve the problem, we should make trade very difficult for China.", "That problem being North Korea's nuclear program, its threats against its neighbors, even the United States. Since then, though, the president has shifted tone. After meeting with China's president, he agreed that North Korea is hard to manage. He spoke of China getting better trade terms from the United States if it helps with North Korea. Though, it's still going to be difficult because of that border.", "So guess what. Our own Rob Schmitz has actually seen that border. In fact, he can see North Korea right now, maybe, from his hotel room. He is in the Chinese border city of Dandong. Hey, Rob.", "Hey, Rachel. How are you doing?", "Can you see it right now?", "Can you - I want to know if you can see Russia from there actually.", "I can't.", "Go on, go on.", "(Laughter) It's not that clear outside.", "OK.", "But I can see North Korea. Yeah, it's...", "What does it look like from where you're at?", "Well, you know, it's sunny and clear here. The Yalu River is just below me, and beyond that is Sinuiju, one of North Korea's largest cities with a few hundred thousand people. And there is a very big difference between this side of the river and that one. The Chinese side is full of luxury high-rises, and the North Korean side is what you might expect - factories, smokestacks, drab-colored residential buildings and lots of farmland. At night, when you look at the North Korean side, you wouldn't even know that there's a city there - it's just dark - while on this side of the river, it sort of looks like Vegas. It's lit up with flashing neon lights. There was even a fireworks display last night, and the river walkway is sort of filled with tourists.", "So what do they say? When you talk to people who live there or tourists, how do they perceive what's going on in North Korea right now?", "Well, you know, I spoke to a lot of them and, you know, they love it here. I mean, because of that, the city has a very festive atmosphere. Most of the tourists here would qualify as China's new middle class. So they may not be able to afford trips to the U.S. or Europe yet, but they're traveling within China, and a border town like this is sort of a taste for the exotic for them. It's sort of like American tourists in the 1960s heading to Tijuana for their first look at a foreign country. Many people told me yesterday that North Korea reminds them of what China used to look like in the 1980s, and it gives them a sense of how far China has come since then. So they seem pretty happy about that. But when you talk to folks here in the tourism industry, I got a sense that some of them were a little worried about rising tensions between the U.S. and their neighbor. I spoke with restaurant owner Li Juin (ph) about this, and here's what she said.", "(Foreign language spoken).", "So Li's saying here that she's worried. If war breaks out, she says, nobody's going to come here anymore and that if she heard about war in a place that she wanted to visit, she wouldn't go either.", "What does all this tell you about the degree to which China has any leverage, could pressure North Korea?", "Well, you know, outside my window here is this very large bridge called the China-Korea Friendship Bridge, and this is a lifeline for North Korea. Seventy percent of all the North's foreign trade passes over this single bridge. And during the morning, the trucks are filled with goods that drive from China to North Korea. In the afternoon, they come back from North Korea into China. I think that to the extent that what the U.S. could do is, you know, the Trump administration obviously is putting a lot of pressure on China to do something. China did clamp down on coal. But if it wanted to really do something, I think it would probably put some pressure on this single bridge below me...", "Interesting.", "...Preventing goods from going across.", "NPR's Rob Schmitz.", "And a good reminder there that while China does have leverage in this situation, the leverage is no different really than it has been for years and years.", "Rob, thanks so much for joining us this morning.", "Thanks a lot, Rachel.", "Fess up, Steve Inskeep, you ever text when you're behind the wheel?", "Long pause.", "(Laughter).", "If, hypothetically, I did text behind the wheel, I would not be alone...", "Yeah.", "...Because the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that every day some three-quarters of a million or two-thirds of a million - 660,000 - people use their electronic devices while driving - not so safe. To get people to stop, lawmakers in New York want to give police a device called a Textalyzer. Let's let Debbie Hersman of the National Safety Council explain it.", "The Textalyzer is going to be a game changer when it comes to handheld devices and potentially even in-vehicle systems. It will be the breathalyzer of our electronics.", "NPR's David Schaper is covering this story. He's on the line from Chicago. Hi David.", "Good morning.", "Is it that complicated? I mean, why do you need a Textalyzer? Can't a police officer just look at my phone to see if I've been texting before an accident?", "Actually, they can't, and there's Supreme Court precedent that protects you from from allowing police to access your phone. So under the legislation that's being considered in New York that would be the first state to allow the use of this textnology (ph), police would only be allowed to ask for your phone...", "Did you just say textnology? I think you did say that.", "I kind of, yeah, flubbed there.", "Go on, go on. No, no, no, that's actually a creative word. Go on.", "Yeah, maybe it's a new buzzword. They'd only be able to get to your phone after a crash, and then officers would attach a cord, like a USB, to connect to their laptop or their iPad. And this software would then scan the phone to see how you were using it, if you were on it at all and if it was an incoming call or an outcoming call or if you were tapping out a text or even swiping left or right on some dating app. And then it would have a timestamp so you can compare that to the timing of the crash. And it's still being developed. It's not fully operational yet, but when it is, it will be tailored to the laws of the state or the jurisdiction that it's approved in. So that means that, you know, it would be able to differentiate through use - from uses that are legal, such as maybe GPS or something like using the phone hands free, which is allowed in most states.", "Interesting. And also I imagine part of the problem, or part of what they want it to do, is to become some kind of deterrent, right?", "Can't wait for that moment when the policeman asks my phone to breathe into the device.", "Ha ha ha. Hey, David.", "It seems to be what it is.", "David, thanks so much for explaining that story to us. We appreciate it.", "Oh, my pleasure."], "speaker": ["RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "LI JUIN", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "DEBBIE HERSMAN", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "NPR-6999", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2016-06-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/06/05/480861394/muslims-are-just-the-latest-in-history-of-scapegoats-author-says", "title": "Muslims Are Just The Latest In History Of Scapegoats, Author Says", "summary": "In his book Scapegoats, human rights lawyer Arsalan Iftikhar says Muslims are the newest group in the U.S. to be ostracized. But there is a long history of groups before them facing discrimination.", "utt": ["The holy month of Ramadan is about to begin. That's the period of fasting, introspection and prayer observed by Muslims around the world, including here in the U.S. We wanted to spend a few minutes reflecting on what it's like to be a Muslim in America. And for this, we turn to a familiar voice on this program. Arsalan Iftikhar is a human rights lawyer, a writer and an activist.", "Over the years, he's become a go-to voice in American media, playing a variety of roles - explaining Islam, decrying Islamic extremism and also what he sees as rising islamophobia. It is that last which concerns him in a new book, and the title sums up its mission. It's called \"Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies And Threatens Our Freedoms.\" And I began our conversation by asking him to talk about the word islamophobia.", "Generally speaking, islamophobia has come to mean a hatred of anything related to Islam and Muslims. And it's important to keep in mind that if you look at the civil rights history of the United States, every minority group in America has been scapegoats. And tomorrow, it'll be somebody else. And so that's the key thing here, is that, you know, when you look at the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, it's not only the Muslim ban that he's called for. He's called for building a wall against Latinos and said disparaging remarks against African-Americans.", "The point here is that we as Americans need to focus on the things that bring us together as Americans and not things that separate us. And I feel like - as though we have always had scapegoats in the past. We have scapegoats currently. And I believe that Islam and Muslims are the current scapegoats in America today.", "Well, in fact, in the book you write about Germans during World War I who were targets of harassment. You said at the time that they were actually the largest minority group in the United States - that German-language newspapers were shut down, German-American religious services were disrupted. You write that a German immigrant in Illinois was actually lynched after having been accused of stealing dynamite. And then of course, during World War II, the internment of the Japanese, which is something that a lot of people are familiar with. Why do you think that is?", "Well, I think that as an American society, we've always needed a proverbial bogeyman. I think politicians have used bogeymen to further their own political agendas, whether it's Catholics that were coming across the pond at the turn of the 20th century to German-Americans to Japanese-Americans to anti-Semitism to Jim Crow and African-American - the African-American civil rights movement. And I think that now, in the post-9/11 civil rights era that we live in, I believe that Islam and Muslims are being used as a scapegoat. And I think that many politicians are trying to score cheap political points, and I think that Donald Trump is a perfect example of that.", "Now I want to talk about the second part of the title of the book, though, which is that it helps our enemies and threatens our freedoms. That's what you say islamophobia does. I mean, the premise of your book is that there is a broader, corrosive effect on the society if that mentality is maintained. Tell me why you think that.", "Well, because as I look at American history, right? Because even though the fill-in-the-blanks is Muslims today, tomorrow it could be anyone else. I mean, when the USA Patriot Act came out in 2001, you know, this was a 348-page document that trumped 50 federal laws. And it wasn't just targeted at brown Muslims who were suspected of terrorism. This allows the federal government to come in and, without a warrant, get all of your information without even notifying you, going to college registrars, getting all their information. I mean, it affects everybody.", "You know, political rhetoric leads to laws. And that's important to keep in mind, is that again, you know, the internment camps of World War II didn't come out of a vacuum. You had people - President Roosevelt's general, who was the head of Pacific Command, James DeWitt, was quoted in Congress as saying once a Jap, always a Jap. I mean, this sort of anti-Japanese rhetoric was actually what led to the internment camps.", "And that's the thing, is that, you know, we can't just see this as, you know, ha ha, this is just kind of silly political rhetoric that's coming out. This could - you know, if somebody - if Donald Trump comes out tomorrow and says, you know, we should put Muslims in internment camps - well, you know, we've had them in the past. Who's to say that we can't have them again in the future?", "Do things like the recent election of Sadiq Khan as London's mayor, the first Muslim to lead a major Western capital - does that give you any sense of hope?", "Yes, it absolutely does. I mean, the election of Sadiq Khan by the people of London is a great sign not only for multiculturalism in the United Kingdom and in London in particular, but again, it's a gut-punch to people who might pander in these homophobic memes and to the extremists themselves. I mean, you know, here you have a man who was the son of a bus driver who had emigrated from Pakistan over 50 years ago. He worked his way up, became a human rights lawyer and now is the mayor of one of the largest cities in the world.", "And he's a practicing Muslim who's said that he's going to be a feminist mayor, that he's going to speak out against anti-Semitism, that he's going to, you know, be a mayor for all Londoners. And that's the thing, is that, you know, we Muslims are just trying to contribute to our respective societies in whatever ways that we can.", "And I think that as long as people understand that we are as diverse and we're not a monolith, just like no other group wants to be seen as a monolith, I think that we can begin to have that humanizing conversation in order to move our societies forward.", "That's Arsalan Iftikhar. He's an international human rights lawyer. He's a regular commentator in the media. And his new book is called \"Scapegoats: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies And Threatens Our Freedoms,\" and it's out now. And he was with us in our Washington, D.C. studios. Arsalan Iftikhar, thank you so much for speaking with us.", "It was my pleasure. 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{"id": "CNN-212388", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2013-8-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/12/cg.02.html", "summary": "Another Piece In The Vast Puzzle Of Autism", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. Now, time for more of our National Lead. It's potentially one more small piece in the vast puzzle that is autism. A new study just released this hour suggests that there's an association between inducing or speeding up labor and a heightened risk of developing the disorder. The findings were particularly pronounced among boys with a 35 percent increased risk of autism, if their mother's contractions were both induced or sped up, or what doctors call augmented. Joining me now is associate professor Simon Gregory from Duke University School of Medicine who did this study. Simon, these findings are going to terrify a lot of concerned parents and parents to be. How big a risk are we talking about here?", "Hi, Jake. So the type of risk that we're looking at is in the realms of say a mother who decides to have children at an older age, a mother who's got potentially birth complications or complications that the unborn child experiences in the uterus. So, we're talking about, say, an elevated risk of 30-odd percent, as you said.", "But that's not an elevated risk from all pregnant women who would induce or augment labor, it's just for ones who are in high-risk groups?", "No, what we found from our birth cohort, so", "OK. Just to be clear for our viewers, the takeaway is not that doctors should stop inducing labor necessarily but is there a takeaway that you see? Would, for instance, you recommend against a mother, a pregnant woman having her pregnancy -- her pregnancy induced or augmented if she were in these high-risks groups?", "No, absolutely not. The point of the study is really to find if there is an association. The potential negative effects from not inducing or augmenting a labor far outweigh the risks we've identified. The health care professionals will recommend or indicate induction or augmentation for specific medical reasons. And those reasons are really important. What we've found is sort of an elevated risk in the induced and augmented mothers, and, as you said, in boys, which is interesting for us because autism affects more males than females. But what we really need to do is work out where the association is coming from, what is the cause of this association. And we're absolutely not recommending that where it's medically indicated that a woman decides against induction or augmentation.", "So we've done a number of stories about studies about possible links to what causes this disorder. A few months ago, we talked to somebody who talked about possible environmental factors. Where does your paper rank with other risk factors that doctors have concluded, whether it's environment or older mothers or certain types of drugs? Where do you think this ranks?", "I think we have to put it in the context that autism is a spectrum of disorders. It's no one particular disorder. Kids with autism can have a broad range of display of the disorder itself. And as you cited, the development of autism is really based on genetic predisposition, the genes that we inherit from our parents but also the environment we're exposed to. In this instance, we're talking about an in-utero exposure potentially with the induction or augmentation. But potentially as well, it's really the maternal health and the health of the child in the uterus, which is important. So, it's really a marrying of the genetics and environment or the effects of the environment on that genetic background. It's a very complex disorder. And it takes studies like this to start pulling apart these environmental effects.", "All right, Simon Gregory, thank you so much.", "You're welcome.", "Coming up on THE LEAD, come for the fried butter sticks, stay for the political momentum. That's always been the logic behind White House hopefuls visiting Iowa. And a deluge of potential 2016 candidates have already touched down there, years before the election. We'll talk about that. And later, what's worse than the boss calling you into the office and canning you? Try getting fired on a conference call with a thousand people listening in. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "SIMON GREGORY, DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE", "TAPPER", "GREGORY", "TAPPER", "SIMON GREGORY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DUKE UNIV. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE", "TAPPER", "GREGORY", "TAPPER", "GREGORY", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-24337", "program": "Newsroom/World View", "date": "2001-1-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/24/nr.00.html", "summary": "NEWSROOM for January 24, 2001", "utt": ["Seen in classrooms the world over, this is", "It's Wednesday, Jan. 24 and this is CNN NEWSROOM. Welcome. I'm Rudi Bakhtiar. Glad to have you with us here today. Here's what's ahead. In today's news, U.S. President Bush brings his vision for education into focus. We'll tell you how he plans to deal with failing schools. Next, in our \"Business Desk,\" tips on tipping. More on the raging debate for people who dine out. And from questions about customs to convictions about heritage, \"Worldview\" checks out a little known area of China. Then, in \"Chronicle,\" your brain. We'll tell you why the substances you use today could have lasting effects on your mind. United States President Bush zeros in on an issue he stressed during his campaign: education reform. He sent his plan to Congress Tuesday hoping for bipartisan support. Also Tuesday, several more members of President Bush's Cabinet got Senate confirmation. By a vote of 100 to zero, the United States Senate unanimously approved three of President Bush's Cabinet nominees. Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez, and Office of Management and Budget head Mitch Daniels got approval without controversy. Seven other Cabinet members were approved Saturday shortly after Mr. Bush was inaugurated. One of President Bush's top priorities, his education plan, now is in the hands of Congress. His proposal is drawing much bipartisan attention and interest, but it's not quite making the grade with some Democrats who are opposed to school vouchers. The Bush plan would require schools to bring student performance up to par within three years or start losing federal funds. Parents with children in schools that don't improve would be given federal aid to help pay for private tuition. In the past, conservatives have argued education is a state and local issue here in the United States. Now President Bush wants to expand the federal government's role in education. He's not the first president to have such an agenda. Bill Schneider has more on that, and on the economy's role in the current push for education reform.", "When the federal government has gotten involved in education, it's been for one of two reasons. One is social change. During the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, which included a massive expansion of federal aid to education, aimed to eliminate poverty and promote equality.", "Every child must have the best education that this nation can provide.", "But the first great intervention of the federal government in education came in the 1950s, and for a different reason: competitiveness. Americans were in a panic after the Soviets launched Sputnik, the first space satellite. The U.S. invested heavily in education in order to become more competitive in science and technology. Ever hear of the National Defense Education Act? Sometimes when he talks about education, President Bush sounds like", "Together, we will reclaim America's schools before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.", "At other times, the language of compassion gives way to the language of competitiveness.", "If we can get the education right, then we can free up capital and do other things for you.", "The current movement for education reform is closer to the 1950s than the 1960s. It's about competitiveness, not social change. Only now, the concern is over economic not military competitiveness.", "The gateway to success in this country, as I hope some of your are learning, is to become educated.", "Education reform has often been driven by business in this country. During the campaign, Bush touted the educational progress in Texas.", "With reforms in Texas, reading scores have gone up. Under this administration, national reading scores have gone down.", "But the real force behind the Texas reforms was a business leader named Ross Perot. Business is very much behind the movement for education reform today. The U.S. has a labor shortage. Unemployment is at record lows. Business needs technically literate workers to compete in the new information economy. The global economy has become the new Cold War, which is why the core of Bush's education program is standards and accountability.", "Accountability is the foundation of true education reform.", "The Great Society divided America, but competitiveness is a unifying force. The rich want to compete in the new economy and the poor want their children to get into it. (", "Mr. President-elect, you made education a cornerstone of your campaign. Those of us in education know you meant it when you said, no child is to be left behind.", "President Bush says the federal government will set national education standards and leave it to the states to implement them. The irony is, when President Clinton talked about national standards, conservatives went nuts. They thought Democrats were trying to impose a curriculum of political correctness on the country. Presumably, President Bush's standards will be different. Bill Schneider, CNN, Washington.", "Now to California, a state gripped by a power crisis. Tuesday, President Bush agreed to extend a federal directive forcing out-of-state power suppliers to continue supplying California's cash- strapped utilities. The power crunch has pushed utility companies to the brink of bankruptcy and cost some companies millions of dollars as a result of power interruptions. But there are companies looking for solutions.", "California's Department of Water Resources launched an Internet auction Tuesday, seeking offers from electricity producers to sell the state power at fixed rates for up to 10 years. Gov. Gray Davis hopes for bids of around $55 per megawatt hour, or less than a tenth of what the state and its beleaguered utilities have had to pay on the spot market. At first, power producers were skeptical, but now believe the auction, which closes Wednesday, may be the beginning of a solution.", "This just isn't a bottom-fishing exercise looking for what prices may be, I think the state is very serious about buying power and the offerers are very serious about selling.", "Other proposed remedies involve state control of power plants and transmission lines and selling bonds to pay off utility debts. Whatever plan emerges, time is running out. A group of CEOs, including Walt Disney's Michael Eisner and Boeing's Phil Condit, placed an ad in \"The Los Angeles Times\" warning California's economy faces a serious reversal and urging the state to help save its investor-owned utilities from bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the U.S. Energy Department extended an order requiring out-of-state producers to continue supplying California with electricity and natural gas. But a former energy secretary says California shouldn't expect much more help from Washington.", "They have no obligation to bail out the state of California. California has 34 million or 35 million people. It's a very wealthy state with huge, and I emphasize huge, tax surpluses. There's plenty of electricity out there. It's just too expensive. Nobody wants to pay the bill.", "For Pacific Gas & Electric, supplies are growing tighter. It's been saving electricity under a program that allows it to interrupt service to big customers who pay lower rates in exchange for being the first to be cut off when supplies are tight. But PG&E; says it's already used up its legal limit of voluntary interruptions for the year, three weeks into January. Casey Wian, CNN Financial News, Los Angeles.", "Ten years ago in the United States, the minimum wage was $3.80 an hour. Today, it's $5.15 an hour for most employees. Many who are paid minimum wage will tell you it's tough to get by on such little income. A lot of people who are waiters at restaurants don't even make minimum wage. They rely on tips that their customers leave, which may make you wonder, how much should I tip? Lauren Thierry helps us out.", "You've just finished a good meal at a restaurant and here comes the bill. How much of a tip should you give? The latest Zagat restaurant survey shows Americans are tipping an average of 18 percent. But in New York City, half of those surveyed say they're tipping 20 percent or more.", "Frankly, I was surprised at that because I had been tipping 16 percent, or doubling the tax, which in New York is 8 1/4 percent. And I thought I was being pretty generous. And it appears that people are just feeling more generous. You have more money in your pocket, you're more willing to give a little bit more.", "But that's not always the case. Waiters and waitresses often get stiffed on the tip. One etiquette consultant says part of the reason is the patrons don't realize how important that tip is.", "When people tip, they forget that the waitperson usually gives a percentage of the tip to the bus staff and to the bar staff and the fact that that's usually their sole source of income. They get very small base hourly pay that's usually way below the minimum wage.", "Klinkenberg also says patrons need to consider that the longer you stay at a table, the more you deprive the wait staff of other income from that table. But if you get bad service, Zagat's Diner Bill of Rights says you can withhold the tip. So there's a lot to factor in before you sign that check.", "If you want good service, you have to pay for it.", "One more tip: You don't have to tip on the entire bill, just the cost of the meal. But generosity has its rewards. That's \"Your Money,\" Lauren Thierry, CNN Financial News, New York.", "In \"Worldview,\" we head to the most populous country in the world: China. The Asian nation is ruled by a communist government, and sometimes that causes political and religious tensions in various regions. We'll also visit Russia, the world's largest country. It's also facing very large problems. Once a communist nation, Russia is now dealing with a struggling economy. Steve Harrigan gives us the cold, hard facts.", "Forty degrees below zero, ice inside apartment walls, the dog's water dish frozen solid. Power blackouts combined with one of the coldest winters on record have left some residents of Russia's Far East near the breaking point.", "I've got a young child to feed and I can't prepare any of his food.", "Protesters have tried to block highways to draw attention to their plight.", "I can't have a cup of tea, no hot water, nothing.", "No heat, no light for hundreds of thousands of Russians for 15 hours a day or more. Pipes that are supposed to provide hot water for central heating have frozen and burst. The repair process is decidedly low tech: thaw the pipes by setting truck tires on fire. The cold is only partly to blame, according to energy officials, who say Russia's power grid has been neglected for decades. Inside this power generating station, workers need a blow torch to read the water pressure.", "The cold is normal. We're supposed to work when its freezing, but 70 to 80 percent of our equipment is broken.", "That means school rooms, where the temperature hovers near freezing, are closed. And, as they did in the time of the czar, Far Easterners burn coal in metal stoves to cook food and keep warm. Even in the shadow of giant power stations, the people here have been left to fend for themselves. Steve Harrigan, CNN, Moscow.", "There are parts of China that tourists rarely visit. While many Westerners are familiar with the sights of Beijing and the Great Wall of China, there vast areas, especially in the West, that are well off the beaten track. Among them is the region of Xinjiang, a desolate, thinly populated land of deserts and mountains. While it covers about 17 percent of China, its 15 million people make up only about 1 percent of the country's population. Most are non-Chinese in origin. In fact, about half are of Turkish ancestry. While the Chinese government considers Xinjiang a self-governing region, it still has plenty of say and influence over religious life there. Rebecca MacKinnon has the story.", "Take a guess. What country do you think this is? The majority of people in the Central Asian city of Kashgar belong to a Turkic-speaking, traditionally Muslim ethnic group called Uighurs. Coexisting with other Muslim groups like Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, and a growing number of ethnic Chinese. Yes, this is the People's Republic of China. And in case anyone forgets, there are plenty of reminders all over the cities of China's far-western Xinjiang Province. These prodigies at the Kashgar Number One Minority Kindergarten perform regularly for visitors, a showcase to prove their Central Asian culture thrives under Chinese rule.", "We hope to keep all our heritage and customs alive, like ethnic cuisine and style of dress.", "But one part of their heritage is actively discouraged in school: Islam. In Xinjiang, the devout are free to worship in government-sanctioned mosques. Friday prayers are always packed, but Religion here is kept tightly contained behind the walls of mosques and homes.", "Many of the locals say the real substructure of the culture has disappeared. There's no, for example, Islamic system of society such as the courts and things like that that they had before. And the feeling is that they're not really in control.", "To Xinjiang's educated elites, the message is clear: Drop your religion to advance your career.", "School is a place for knowledge and science, not for reading religion and superstition. We don't allow it.", "At the Kashgar Teachers College, future schoolteachers learn Marxist economics, taught in their native Uighur language. After they start working, they'll need to join the Communist Party to get promoted. But when they join, they must pledge loyalty to Mao and Marx, not Allah.", "If they get involved in separatism or illegal religious gatherings, we will deal with them according to the law.", "Outside Xinjiang's government-sanctioned mosques, more fundamentalist religious gatherings are believed to be on the rise, despite the fact that they're illegal. Locals say some underground groups even have contacts with the Taliban in Afghanistan. The trend puts religious leaders like Sadik Kari Aji in a delicate position.", "I tell my followers not to oppose the government's policies and to do things which are good for social stability. We discourage fighting or opposing the government.", "Activists linked to what the government called a reactionary Muslim organization were executed this summer. But the question is, what do ordinary people here in Xinjiang really want? (voice-over): As a Western journalist, that's hard to find out because we're required by law to travel with a government escort. People caught supporting independence face arrest. But when I broke away from our government escort and asked one man off camera about his hopes for the future, he said, \"I hope we can have an Islamic country.\" In the city of Hotian two years ago, an underground organization called the Party of Allah was broken up, its members arrested. In 1997, anti-Chinese riots in another city called Yning (ph) left dozens of people dead. According to Amnesty International, this organizer of the 1997 protests, Abduhelil Rabdulmejit (ph), recently died from torture in prison. Xinjiang's governor, himself an ethnic Uighur, insists such claims are untrue, but admits Islamic separatism is a problem.", "There are terrorists who are trying to use religion to split Xinjiang and confuse people. If we allow separatism to exist, we will have instability, which means no economic development. So we have to fight against separatism.", "\"Separatist\" is a Chinese government coverall term, really, to cover anybody who has committed what they think is an act of dissent. So this can range from people who want more political or religious freedom, but also people who are looking for more access to trade to start businesses, and also access to fairer education and to use their own language.", "Human rights groups point to the fate of Rebiya Kadeer, a popular and charismatic local businesswoman known for using her influence to speak out against government policies which hurt the interests of her people. With profits from a bustling Central Asian trading center, she set up a school for poor Uighur children. Some officials suspected her school was also teaching religion. Kadeer is now serving an eight-year jail sentence. The government says she sent state secrets abroad along with newspaper clippings to her husband, a Uighur dissident now living in the United States. He and their daughter say that when she was arrested last year, she was planning to meet some visiting U.S. congressional staffers.", "Last year, Uighurs thought the American government would help them like they helped the Muslims in Kosovo. So to silence the Uighur people, the Chinese government arrested her, because she is somebody the Uighurs look up to.", "The governor puts it somewhat differently.", "We used to support her. But when she violated the law and endangered national security, we had to punish her.", "The real case to consider is what does this tell us about China's control of the region? If these kinds of international business persons from the region can no longer function, is China making progress in the region, or has it been moving backwards in terms of winning the sentiments of the local population?", "Authorities insist they are doing what's best for the local population by spending money to raise their living standards.", "After Uighur people visit some of the former Soviet republics, they realize we're much better off here. Our country is united and has a strong economy. They can't even fix their roads. People in Kyrgyzstan have to buy food from us.", "In the countryside of southern Xinjiang, where many people hover just above the poverty line, Miriban Ousimamait is a local government official focusing on poverty alleviation. She is proud of her culture, but believes Islamic separatism won't do much for Xinjiang's poor women.", "The key issue for most of our people is to shake off poverty, make a living, and send their kids to a good school. Only a small number of people are making trouble.", "Locals say a real test of the government's intentions will be whether the latest economic development drive enriches and empowers Xinjiang's original inhabitants or just the government elites, and the ethnic Chinese who have settled here over the past 50 years.", "The question is, how can they convince the locals that they really do want to benefit them? They don't want to turn that Uighur culture into a museum, but a lot of people fear that's exactly what's happening. Singing and dancing's OK, but real participation and governance is not OK.", "Meanwhile, locals say growing numbers of young people in Xinjiang, especially men, are growing increasingly religious, which, under the current rules, disqualifies them from participating in government. But as one man said off camera, \"we don't fear the Communist Party, we only fear Allah.\" Rebecca MacKinnon, CNN, Xinjiang, China.", "Today in \"Chronicle,\" part two of our special series on your brain. According to some neuroscientists, teen behavior is often a symptom of the human brain under construction, which begs the question, how is a grown-up brain supposed to work? And what are the things that pose a potential danger to its development? Here's Shelley Walcott with a primer.", "Your brain. It's what helps you out for a walk on a sunny morning; the thing that alerts you when you're feeling too hot or too cold. It's what makes the scent of flowers pleasant and the memory of receiving them pure joy. The brain has been called the \"master control center\" of the body. Executive decisions from a very delicate organ.", "Nature's gone through a great deal of trouble to protect the brain. It's wrapped in a tough leathery membrane surrounded by a protective moat of fluid and completely encased in bone.", "The brain is a grayish, pink, jelly-like ball with lots of ridges and grooves on its surface. But no one brain looks exactly alike. In fact, it's as individual as your face or your fingerprints.", "What keeps the moon is orbit with the Earth?", "A healthy brain stores information from past experiences, making learning and remembering possible. The brain is mostly made up of gray and white matter. Gray matter are the actual nerve cells that process information. White matter are the long nerve fibers that move information long distances. For example, it's your brain's gray matter that recognizes a tennis ball on its way over the net, while the white matter orders the swing sending the ball back to the other side of the court. In a fully developed adult brain, white matter is fully wrapped in myelin, a fatty substance that lets nerves transmit signals faster and more efficiently. Some nerves, including those that regulate emotion, judgment and impulse control, are not fully covered in myelin until a person is in their early 20s. As a result, circuits that make sense of incoming information to the brain are still under construction until about the age of 16. All the more reason, scientists say, to protect the growing brain from harmful substances.", "It's a real unfortunate irony that at this time when the brain is most vulnerable during this adolescent pruning period is also the time when teens are most likely to experiment with drugs or alcohol.", "Scientists are still trying to pinpoint exactly how different types of drugs affect the brain. But Dr. Giedd says one form of inhalant abuse, called huffing, is definitely harmful.", "What that does is, as the inhalants go up through the nose, they go directly to the front part of the brain and damage it. That's what gives you this sort of altered feeling. But it's hard to imagine as a brain scientist a worse way, you know, to alter your feelings, by directly damaging the brain cells in this critical front part of the brain. This is the part of the brain that sort of separates man from beast.", "Aside from addiction, scientists are looking into how brain development during the teen years could be linked to eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, as well as learning and developmental problems such as autism and attention deficit disorder. The research goes on, but neuroscientists say they know one thing for sure: This three-pound mass made up of billions of cells plays one of the most crucial roles in human life. Shelley Walcott, CNN.", "Stay tuned for the third and final part of our brain series tomorrow. We'll take a closer look at a piece of equipment that's thrown open the window to the adolescent mind. But for now we're done. We'll see you tomorrow, same place, same time. Bye."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "CNN NEWSROOM. RUDI BAKHTIAR, CO-HOST", "WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST (voice-over)", "LYNDON JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SCHNEIDER", "LBJ. GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-231194", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-5-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/23/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Hero & Rescued Baby Reunited 18 Years Later", "utt": ["Taking a look at some other top stories this morning at 29 minutes past. He's overseeing the military for two presidents but starting in October, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates will take over as President of the Boy Scouts of America; this, during a time of declining membership in that organization and a debate over policies toward gay people. About his new role, Gates says quote \"I believe every boy deserves an opportunity to experience what scouting offers.\" Shocking new developments in the case of a California woman who says she was kidnapped at 15 and then forced to marry her alleged abductor and have his baby. The suspect's lawyer claims the victim is making it all up saying she went along willingly and only turned to police now because she wants a divorce. Now, a story about a hero who made his mark and a reunion 18 years in the making. In 1995, a baby was abandoned after birth. A woman anonymously calling 911 to report she left a baby in a cemetery in freezing temperatures. Well Charlie Heflin was a volunteer firefighter at the time who actually went to that cemetery and found the infant and saved her life. Well that little girl Skyler James is now all grown up. She just graduated from high school. At her graduation last weekend, Heflin reunited for the first time with the little baby he rescued.", "Oh it was so exhilarating -- just a whirlwind of emotions. I handed her off to the paramedics 18 years ago and I haven't been able to see her since. And just to know that she was so close to me and so local and has done so much with her life is just incredible.", "It is incredible. What a great graduation gift for her actually a great gift for both of them. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, a rabbi, a sheikh and a Pope travels to the Holy Land. It's not the start of a joke but it is the start of a big controversy. We'll talk about it next."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "CHARLIE HEFLIN, RESCUED SKYLER JAMES IN 1995", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-155043", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2010-8-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1008/31/se.01.html", "summary": "President Obama Delivers Oval Office Address on Iraq", "utt": ["I'm Wolf Blitzer in Washington. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Just a little while ago, combat missions in Iraq ended for the United States. We're only a minute or so away from President Obama's addressing the country from the Oval Office. We have reporters standing by around the globe. Joining us now from New York, CNN's Anderson Cooper -- Anderson.", "Wolf, here with me to watch President Obama's address and discuss it is CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Peter Bergen, and David Gergen, and our reporters overseas, Arwa Damon in Baghdad, Chris Lawrence at Camp Liberty in Iraq, and our own Dr. Sanjay Gupta. He's in Pakistan tonight, but has been to Iraq numerous times, even operated on the battlefield there -- a critical moment for the president. What happens next in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran and the Middle East? We will talk about all of that in the hour ahead -- now back to Wolf.", "This is a dramatic moment, Anderson, for the president of the United States. He won't only speak about Iraq. He will make the transition, address the war in Afghanistan as well. And then he will wind up with issue number one for most Americans right now, not the war in Iraq, not the war in Afghanistan, but the war here at home on the economy, the loss of jobs. The president will make the connection between jobs, the economy, what's going on in the wars. He has a lot to address. He's in the Oval Office now getting ready to address the American people from that venue, only the second time since he took office about a year-and-a- half or so ago. Here is the president.", "Good evening. Tonight, I would like to talk to you about the end of our combat mission in Iraq, the ongoing security challenges we face, and the need to rebuild our nation here at home. I know this historic moment comes at a time of great uncertainty for many Americans. We've now been through nearly a decade of war. We've endured a long and painful recession. And sometimes in the midst of these storms the future that we're trying to build for our nation -- a future of lasting peace and long-term prosperity -- may seem beyond our reach. But this milestone should serve as a reminder to all Americans that the future is ours to shape if we move forward with confidence and commitment. It should also serve as a message to the world that the United States of America intends to sustain and strengthen our leadership in this young century. From this desk, seven-and-a-half years ago, President Bush announced the beginning of military operations in Iraq. Much has changed since that night. A war to disarm a state became a fight against an insurgency. Terrorism and sectarian warfare threatened to tear Iraq apart. Thousands of Americans gave their lives; tens of thousands have been wounded. Our relations abroad were strained. Our unity at home was tested. These are the rough waters encountered during the course of one of America's longest wars. Yet there has been one constant amidst these shifting tides: At every turn, America's men and women in uniform have served with courage and resolve. As commander-in-chief, I am incredibly proud of their service. And like all Americans, I am awed by their sacrifice and by the sacrifices of their families. The Americans who have served in Iraq completed every mission they were given. They defeated a regime that had terrorized its people. Together with Iraqis and coalition partners who made huge sacrifices of their own, our troops fought block by block to help Iraq seize the chance for a better future. They shifted tactics to protect the Iraqi people, trained Iraqi security forces, and took out terrorist leaders. Because of our troops and civilians --and because of the resilience of the Iraqi people -- Iraq has the opportunity to embrace a new destiny, even though many challenges remain. So tonight I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended. Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country. This was my pledge to the American people as a candidate for this office. Last February, I announced a plan that would bring our combat brigades out of Iraq, while redoubling our efforts to strengthen Iraq's security forces and support its government and people. That's what we've done. We've removed nearly 100,000 U.S. troops from Iraq. We've closed or transferred to the Iraqis hundreds of bases. And we have moved millions of pieces of equipment out of Iraq. This completes a transition to Iraqi responsibility for their own security. U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq's cities last summer, and Iraqi forces have moved into the lead with considerable skill and commitment to their fellow citizens. Even as Iraq continues to suffer terrorist attacks, security incidents have been near the lowest on record since the war began. And Iraqi forces have taken the fight to al Qaeda, removing much of its leadership in Iraqi-led operations. This year also saw Iraq hold credible elections that drew a strong turnout. A caretaker administration is in place as Iraqis form a government based on the results of that election. Tonight, I encourage Iraq's leaders to move forward with a sense of urgency to form an inclusive government that is just, representative, and accountable to the Iraqi people. And when that government is in place, there should be no doubt: The Iraqi people will have a strong partner in the United States. Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not. Going forward, a transitional force of U.S. troops will remain in Iraq with a different mission: advising and assisting Iraq's security forces; supporting Iraqi troops in targeted counterterrorism missions; and protecting our civilians. Consistent with our agreement with the Iraqi government, all U.S. troops will leave by the end of next year. As our military draws down, our dedicated civilians -- diplomats, aid workers, and advisers -- are moving into the lead to support Iraq as it strengthens its government, resolves political disputes, resettles those displaced by war, and builds ties with the region and the world. That's a message that Vice President Biden is delivering to the Iraqi people through his visit there today. This new approach reflects our long-term partnership with Iraq, one based upon mutual interests and mutual respect. Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians, and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals. Iraqis are a proud people. They have rejected sectarian war, and they have no interest in endless destruction. They understand that, in the end, only Iraqis can resolve their differences and police their streets. Only Iraqis can build a democracy within their borders. What America can do -- and will do -- is provide support for the Iraqi people as both a friend and a partner. Ending this war is not only in Iraq's interest; it's in our own. The United States has paid a huge price to put the future of Iraq in the hands of its people. We have sent our young men and women to make enormous sacrifices in Iraq and spent vast resources abroad at a time of tight budgets at home. We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people, a belief that, out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibilities. Now it's time to turn the page. As we do, I'm mindful that the Iraq war has been a contentious issue at home. Here, too, it's time to turn the page. This afternoon, I spoke to former President George W. Bush. It's well known that he and I disagreed about the war from its outset. Yet no one can doubt President Bush's support for our troops or his love of country and commitment to our security. As I have said, there were patriots who supported this war and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women and our hopes for Iraqis' future. The greatness of our democracy is grounded in our ability to move beyond our differences and to learn from our experience as we confront the many challenges ahead. And no challenge is more essential to our security than our fight against al Qaeda. Americans across the political spectrum supported the use of force against those who attacked us on 9/11. Now, as we approach our 10th year of combat in Afghanistan, there are those who are understandably asking tough questions about our mission there. But we must never lose sight of what's at stake. As we speak, al Qaeda continues to plot against us, and its leadership remains anchored in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan. We will disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda, while preventing Afghanistan from again serving as a base for terrorists. And because of our drawdown in Iraq, we are now able to apply the resources necessary to go on offense. In fact, over the last 19 months, nearly a dozen al Qaeda leaders -- and hundreds of Al Qaeda's extremist allies -- have been killed or captured around the world. Within Afghanistan, I have ordered the deployment of additional troops who -- under the command of General David Petraeus -- are fighting to break the Taliban's momentum. As with the surge in Iraq, these forces will be in place for a limited time to provide space for the Afghans to build their capacity and secure their own future. But, as was the case in Iraq, we cannot do for Afghans what they must ultimately do for themselves. That's why we are training Afghan Security Forces and supporting a political resolution to Afghanistan's problems. And, next July, we will begin a transition to Afghan responsibility. The pace of our troop reductions will be determined by conditions on the ground, and our support for Afghanistan will endure. But make no mistake: this transition will begin -- because open-ended war serves neither our interests nor the Afghan people's. Indeed, one of the lessons of our effort in Iraq is that American influence around the world is not a function of military force alone. We must use all elements of our power -- including our diplomacy, our economic strength, and the power of America's example -- to secure our interests and stand by our allies. And we must project a vision of the future that is based not just on our fears, but also on our hopes, a vision that recognizes the real dangers that exist around the world, but also the limitless possibility of our time. Today, old adversaries are at peace, and emerging democracies are potential partners. New markets for our goods stretch from Asia to the Americas. A new push for peace in the Middle East will begin here tomorrow. Billions of young people want to move beyond the shackles of poverty and conflict. As the leader of the free world, America will do more than just defeat on the battlefield those who offer hatred and destruction -- we will also lead among those who are willing to work together to expand freedom and opportunity for all people. That effort must begin within our own borders. Throughout our history, America has been willing to bear the burden of promoting liberty and human dignity overseas, understanding its link to our own liberty and security. But we have also understood that our nation's strength and influence abroad must be firmly anchored in our prosperity at home. And the bedrock of that prosperity must be a growing middle class. Unfortunately, over the last decade, we have not done what is necessary to shore up the foundation of our own prosperity. We have spent a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas. This, in turn, has short-changed investments in our own people, and contributed to record deficits. For too long, we have put off tough decisions on everything from our manufacturing base to our energy policy to education reform. As a result, too many middle class families find themselves working harder for less, while our nation's long-term competitiveness is put at risk. And so at this moment, as we wind down the war in Iraq, we must tackle those challenges at home with as much energy, and grit, and sense of common purpose as our men and women in uniform who have served abroad. They have met every test that they faced. Now, it is our turn. Now, it is our responsibility to honor them by coming together, all of us, and working to secure the dream that so many generations have fought for -- the dream that a better life awaits anyone who is willing to work for it and reach for it. Our most urgent task is to restore our economy, and put the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs back to work. To strengthen our middle class, we must give all our children the education they deserve, and all our workers the skills that they need to compete in a global economy. We must jump-start industries that create jobs, and end our dependence on foreign oil. We must unleash the innovation that allows new products to roll off our assembly lines, and nurture the ideas that spring from our entrepreneurs. This will be difficult. But in the days to come, it must be our central mission as a people, and my central responsibility as President. Part of that responsibility is making sure that we honor our commitments to those who have served our country with such valor. As long as I am President, we will maintain the finest fighting force that the world has ever known, and do whatever it takes to serve our veterans as well as they have served us. This is a sacred trust. That is why we have already made one of the largest increases in funding for veterans in decades. We are treating the signature wounds of today's wars, post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury, while providing the health care and benefits that all of our veterans have earned. And we are funding a post-9/11 G. I, Bill that helps our veterans and their families pursue the dream of a college education. Just as the G. I. Bill helped those who fought World War II -- including my grandfather-- become the backbone of our middle class, so today's servicemen and women must have the chance to apply their gifts to expand the American economy. Because part of ending a war responsibly is standing by those who have fought it. Two weeks ago, America's final combat brigade in Iraq -- the Army's Fourth Stryker Brigade -- journeyed home in the pre-dawn darkness. Thousands of soldiers and hundreds of vehicles made the trip from Baghdad, the last of them passing into Kuwait in the early morning hours. Over seven years before, American troops and coalition partners had fought their way across similar highways, but this time no shots were fired. It was just a convoy of brave Americans, making their way home. Of course, the soldiers left much behind. Some were teenagers when the war began. Many have served multiple tours of duty, far from their families who bore a heroic burden of their own, enduring the absence of a husband's embrace or a mother's kiss. Most painfully, since the war began 55 members of the Fourth Stryker Brigade made the ultimate sacrifice, part of over 4,400 Americans who have given their lives in Iraq. As one staff sergeant said, \"I know that to my brothers in arms who fought and died, this day would probably mean a lot.\" Those Americans gave their lives for the values that have lived in the hearts of our people for over two centuries. Along with nearly 1. 5 million Americans who have served in Iraq, they fought in a faraway place for people they never knew. They stared into the darkest of human creations --war -- and helped the Iraqi people seek the light of peace. In an age without surrender ceremonies, we must earn victory through the success of our partners and the strength of our own nation. Every American who serves joins an unbroken line of heroes that stretches from Lexington to Gettysburg; from Iwo Jima to Inchon; from Khe Sanh to Kandahar -- Americans who have fought to see that the lives of our children are better than our own. Our troops are the steel in our ship of state. And though our nation may be travelling through rough waters, they give us confidence that our course is true, and that beyond the pre-dawn darkness, better days lie ahead. Thank you. May God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America, and all who serve her.", "The president of the United States speaking for just about 18 minutes or so from the Oval Office, making the case for the end of this war in Iraq, although the fighting, no doubt, will continue -- 50,000 U.S. troops still remain on the ground. They will be there until the end of next year at least. Operation Iraqi Freedom, the president says, is over. The Iraqi people now have the lead responsibility for the security of their country. We're here with complete analysis. All of our reporters and analysts here in Washington, in New York and around the world are standing by, as is CNN's Anderson Cooper -- Anderson.", "Yes, Wolf, the president speaking for about 18 minutes or so, roughly 30 paragraphs in his speech, only two of them really devoted to the war in Afghanistan, when he made that turn, pointing out that by next July they will begin what he called the transition to Afghan responsibility, begin some sort of a drawdown. David Gergen, what did you make of it?", "Well, Anderson, I have frequently praised Barack Obama and his speeches. And I think they have been clear, understandable, and very, very well-written. I found this one perplexing. I didn't quite understand what the point was. I found that not only did he omit talking the surge and giving credit to President Bush.", "He made one passing reference to the surge...", "... Afghanistan.", "But it wasn't clear what the mission is, either in Iraq or in Afghanistan going over -- it seems to -- going forward -- it seems to be much more we're getting this monkey off our back. We gave it our best shot. Over to you, Iraqis. Over to you next year, Afghans.", "Yes, and the two paragraphs that he talked about Afghanistan, the second one was largely about getting out of Afghanistan and handing things over to the Afghans -- Fareed.", "I think, Anderson, what he was trying to do -- I didn't -- I reacted, as David did, to the style of the speech, the substance. It was -- for an eloquent president, this was remarkably workmanlike. But I think it was an intelligent speech, in that he was balancing various problems. He was trying to mark the end of military combat in Iraq, signal a commitment politically to Iraq, signal a determination to keep a capacity in Afghanistan, and then pivot to the economy, which is, of course, the central issue on the minds of the American voter, particularly as he heads into an election.", "And that, of course, is the contradiction of the policy in Afghanistan, to signal a commitment to Afghanistan and at the same time say, by the way, in July, we're starting to draw down.", "Yes. And that's been interpreted as we're getting out in the region. So, everybody is making their accommodations, whether it's the Pakistanis or the Afghans, you know, taking money out of the country, thinking that we're heading for the exits.", "What did you make of the speech?", "I thought it was good. On the Afghan side, he's talked about conditions-based, which is exactly what he said at West Point when he announced the new policy. It's an enormous caveat that can be interpreted lots of different ways. The military, I think, is interpreting it, we're not going to be heading very quickly for the exits. The political side of the White House is more like, well, that's actually a real drawdown.", "You know, what was striking about this was this was President Obama speaking, not candidate Obama and not Senator Obama. He praised the idea of nation-building in Iraq. He praised the idea of spreading democracy in Iraq. He talked about conditions-based withdrawal. These are all terms that were more associated with the more hawkish elements of the Democratic Party and indeed with President George W. Bush.", "And we have correspondents standing by around the globe and also back down in Washington -- Wolf.", "Anderson, the president did mention his conversation with the former President George W. Bush briefly, noting that, yes, he disagreed with the former president about going into Iraq to begin with, but he says now it's time to turn the page. Gloria Borger is here. John King is here. There was no praise of the former president for initiating the so-called surge back in 2007 that helped turn the tide.", "No, but I do think what the president was trying to do was heal the divisions in this country about the war in Iraq. It's been the most divisive political issue that we have had. And I think he said, definitively, now it is time to turn the page. And in doing so, I think he was talking to Democrats as much as anybody, because he was saying, look, you know, even I disagreed with George W. Bush, but don't -- no one can challenge his commitment to the troops or his commitment to the nation.", "And his patriotism.", "And his patriotism. And that is to Democrats who may well say the same about Barack Obama one day, those who oppose the war in Afghanistan.", "I was struck, John, by the different audiences the president was trying to reach, 18 minutes from the Oval Office, but people all over the world were watching. Yes, he was addressing first and foremost the American people, but he also sent a powerful message to the Iraqis, to the Afghans, to the entire Middle East, and, indeed, to the entire world.", "And I think one of the fascinating questions after is how is it interpreted, because you can read it where he says, we will be partners with Iraq even when we are gone. You will have our support. We will be partners with Afghanistan, but we can't have open-ended are war, so we have to start to draw down. You can take that as conditions-based withdrawal, we will be your friend, or as Peter Bergen just said, it is often interpreted in the region, in part because this president when he talks about these things doesn't speak with the emphasis and the energy about it and in different settings -- and President Bush did this often in other settings -- that President Bush had. And to his own party, this is a welcome message. We're not having open-ended war. We're going to get out. But how it is interpreted around the world I think is open to a question, because when this president says these things in a paragraph or two, many say, well, is it a political statement or does he really mean it?", "Our correspondent Arwa Damon is in Baghdad. She listened together with a lot of other Iraqis, U.S. military personnel, some 50,000 still in Iraq, as well as a lot of Iraqis. How is this likely, Arwa, to play in Iraq?", "Well, Wolf, we hear the president talking about turning a page, but for Iraqis, come morning, their lives are really going to be the same. They still don't have a new government. They are very aware of the fact that this political impasse could potentially lead to more violence. They are still coping with the after-effects of the sectarian violence here that did, in fact, rip this country apart. So many Iraqis have lost loved ones. They still live in a state of anxiety, of uncertainty about the future. They don't want the Americans to stay forever. Of course, they don't. But there are those who are questioning the timing of this drawdown, especially given how fragile this nation is at this point in time, Wolf.", "Arwa, stand by. We will be getting back to you. We're also going to go to Camp Liberty in Iraq. Our own Pentagon correspondent, Chris Lawrence, has spent the day with troops, U.S. troops in Iraq. Also, John King, he will be over at the magic mall, Sanjay Gupta on operating on the battlefield. We will speak with Sanjay. Much more of our special coverage of President Obama's Oval Office address coming up.", "So, tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended. Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country.", "That was President Barack Obama's second Oval Office address to the nation, just about 18 minutes long, ended just a few minutes ago. Chris Lawrence has been in Iraq for the last several days, embedded with U.S. military forces. He joins us now from Camp Liberty. Chris, what -- in -- in the final days, as you spent it, with U.S. service members, what has the mood been?", "Well, Anderson, some of the hardest parts of this war were really fought by the lieutenants and the captains, the specialists and the sergeants. And, really, it's -- to think of grand themes like a stable Iraqi government, Iraq's place in the world, those are probably too big for any one soldier or Marine to grapple with. A lot of what the soldiers I was talking with were talking about were, they feel that, over the past few years, they have seen the Iraqi forces grow. You know, they see a change from the days when they couldn't even get the Iraqi troops to stand watch or conduct even very simple missions. They said now they have more respect for the Iraqi forces. I know when I was talking to them back in 2003 and 2004, there was a lot of distrust. Now you're seeing them living together and more respect for what the Iraqi troops have done. It's been an emotional ride for some of these soldiers. Some of them are now on their fourth deployment here. That means over the last seven years, there are soldiers here who have spent the majority of their lives over the last seven years right here in Iraq. The days when the streets were literally run red with blood. And for them, they can look back just a few years and say it's not like that. I don't know what it's going to be, but it's not like that and they do see some improvement here.", "Chris, stay safe. Let's go back to John King at the magic wall. John, give us a sense of where U.S. troops are in Iraq, have been, and are going to be now that the combat mission is officially over.", "It's a great question. We'll do. First, let's look at the history of the Iraq war. U.S. troop levels in Iraq back early on February 2004, about 114,000. The surge begins in 2007, 137,000. Remember this point, this is the peak, just shy of 170,000 in 2007, and you see the drop since then to just under 50,000 Chris Lawrence has talked about right there. That is, today, in Iraq. So back at the height of the surge, this is what it looked like. You see all these badges with the American flag. These are all the American military bases and installations all around Iraq at the height of the surge, 2007, again, just shy of 270,000 troops. Now, though, the country will be divided in three parts just like this and you have six \"advise and assist\" brigades they call them. The president says they're not combat troops but they can get involved in combat operations and counterinsurgency operations. Two \"advise and assist\" brigades in the south. Two in the middle which has Baghdad and the al Anbar province where there have been problems in the past and two in the north. So essentially divide the country and free, Anderson, two \"advise and assist\" brigades in each. Also, some special forces operations, special forces available to the commanders if they need it.", "Is it, John, just coincidental that the northern part of the country, the Kurds, the sort of central part, the Sunnis, a lot of the Shia in the south, it looks like they're sort of dividing up the country according to ethnic groups.", "That is not an accident in part because you have these different troops that the rules, we could debate whether we should have gone to Iraq and history will debate that forever, it did change the rules of counterinsurgency where these units get in and mingle with the locals. They try to build trustful relations with the locals. So you have these units now assigned essentially as you put it by ethnic regions. So these units have developed relationships with the Kurds. And the Sunnis and the Shia and so on throughout the country, that is part of the Petraeus strategy. Now there'll be a new commander tomorrow after General Odierno leaves. General Austin will take over and that is part of the strategy. Build ties in your community.", "You know, it's amazing to think about it because, you know, we were there in Kuwait back in 2003, March, when the U.S. moved in. When you think about the seven years, more than a million U.S. troops came in and out of Iraq, but some never did really come out alive.", "Some didn't. And we have a special feature, \"home and away\" we call it at CNN.com. And anybody, regardless of your position on going to war in Iraq, these are heroes and many of them, as Wolf just noted, were left behind. At CNN.com/homeandaway, you can go and you can pick. This is in Anbar province we just mentioned here. And you see if you tap on Anbar province -- I'm going to close this again and come on in -- if you tap on Anbar province, it will tell you 330 casualties over the seven-plus years of war in Iraq and you can run through them along the side and you can find out about this captain, Ross Stahlman, 46 years old, hometown right here near Washington. Colonel, I'm sorry, in Chevy Chase, Maryland, died on October 2008. Back here in Bethesda of injuries suffered. So you can tap on the thing there. You can also come over to the United States and tap on a community and find out how many casualties were in a community. Salisbury, Maryland, the smaller community out of the eastern shore, two out there. If you move out to the Midwest, you can find more. And as this happens you can also go, you can find out maybe somebody from your hometown. Maybe you want to look at a particular place in Iraq. Another remarkable thing you can do using this \"home and away\" is if you find someone from your community. Maybe you knew them. Maybe they were just a neighbor. You can write your own tribute and post it on CNN.com/homeandaway and sort of our way of building this remarkable library. And this Iraq I'm showing you now. You can go over to Afghanistan as well.", "We're showing 4,734 U.S. and coalition casualties dead, 4,400 or so them being Americans.", "Absolutely. And you can track the others around the world. If you're watching anywhere else in the world or you have friends and relatives or ties with some other country around the world that had troops in Iraq or Afghanistan at some point, you can find those as well.", "Let's not forget the pain and the suffering that this war has caused. Let's go back to you, Anderson.", "Yes, Wolf, Peter, let's talk a little about the uptick in violence that we've seen or these very public acts of violence we have seen recently in Iraq.", "Al Qaeda and Iraq, a lot of people were deterring the obituary of Al Qaeda in Iraq but, you know, it's proven to be pretty -- it's got some life left in it. I mean, just last week we saw 13 attacks in one day killing more than 50 people across the country and, unfortunately, as the American presence draws down, that doesn't hurt the insurgency.", "And they're targeting in some cases or in many cases those who had been on these awakening councils, Sunnis who had turned against Iraq.", "Right.", "Turned against Al Qaeda.", "Right. And they're also, you know, hitting government ministries right in central Baghdad. So when the president says correctly that the violence is at the lowest levels it's ever been, unfortunately the violence was at such stratospheric levels back two or three years ago that that's a pretty low bar to get over it.", "And this violence that you're seeing now is fundamentally related to the most difficult problem in Iraq that we are leaving behind which is that you have a Shiite majority government that has largely excluded the Sunnis. That is producing Sunni resentment which is at some level being translated into this kind of extremist violence. We do not have a diverse government in Iraq that represents all interests. We have been trying. As Vice President Biden has made six trips to Iraq including this one, most of them devoted precisely to this point. But somehow our waning military strength is correlated with waning political influence because we have not been able to get Prime Minister Maliki to cut a decent deal with the Sunnis to bring them in.", "So if part of the idea of the surge or really the big idea behind the surge was to create an environment in which a political framework, a political system could be developed, was the surge not successful in that sense?", "There's no question that if that was the metric you would have used, the surge was not successful. The surge was successful in reducing violence. It also coincided with the Sunni awakening which we're talking about, which is basically that the bad guys or a bunch of the bad guys flipped sides.", "Would the awakening have happened without the surge in troops?", "We don't know but we are now going to watch something very interesting in Afghanistan to digress for a second, which is Afghanistan is going to have a surge without an awakening. And my guess is it's going to be very hard to make that work because what fundamentally drove the levels of violence down in Iraq was that Sunnis who had been fighting against us started fighting with us.", "But there has been a lot of talk, Peter, about basically trying to create an awakening in Afghanistan, whether that just means paying off some warlords and arming them, or whether it's a real awakening or not, arming local groups.", "Yes, and certainly one of General Petraeus' first sort of victories when he got there was to persuade Hamid Karzai to put 10,000 local guys into militias. But that's not 100,000 as it was in the awakening in Iraq. And the Afghans have a very good reason to resist some of these ideas because they used to have a lot of warlords and militias and private armies and they got rid of those", "So much of the speech was about the economic situation here at home, how the wars affected and what needs to be done now. Was this a speech that will somehow unify people, David?", "Gloria Borger said the president was trying to unify people. I think -- I don't think it worked in that sense. I think he probably did appeal very successfully to the Democratic base. I think he helped himself with the base. But for Republicans, I think much of the speech that would clang. And the Republicans and John McCain, for example, has been arguing all the time, we ought to leave based on success not on deadlines. And there was no talk here of leaving behind a stable self-reliant Iraq. The talk was all about getting out and turning it over.", "And that's McCain's big criticism of his policy in Afghanistan.", "That's right. And of course, there was no mention of the surge as we said, giving credit to President Bush. On the economic front, when he turned to jobs, you have to do all these things to rebuild America and Fareed I think would agree. The biggest problem we face is the deficits and getting rid of the debt. And so coming out of that section about what we're going to have to do in the economy, he immediately pivoted into all the things we're going to spend doing for veterans. It was all about spending. There was nothing about how we have to show some self restraints. So I think Republicans will look at this and sort of think this is a great speech for your base but don't come around saying this helped -- this united us with you. You may disagree with that.", "I think your point about the economy is well taken. I did think he was -- I had always thought Obama was remarkably unsentimental about Iraq. He thought it was a mistake.", "Right.", "He thought there was no reason to praise anything going on in Iraq and in this speech he did talk about the ideals of democracy, freedom, you know, changing Iraq. He talked about stuff that was more of the vision thing.", "May be. I came out of this thinking he loves the troops, thank goodness, he loves the troops but hates this war in Iraq. He really hates it.", "Well, in that sense politically, maybe he's sending the right message. That's where the country is and God knows that's where his party is.", "Well, that's where his party is.", "We've got to take a quick break. We're going to have a lot more. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta is going to join us from Pakistan. His experiences as a surgeon on the battlefield in Iraq and what the troops face when they come home. We'll have much more on the president's Oval Office address ahead. We'll be right back.", "Ending this war is not only in Iraq's interests, it's in our own. The United States has paid a huge price to put the future of Iraq in the hands of its people. We have sent our young men and women to make enormous sacrifices in Iraq and spent vast resources abroad at a time of tight budgets at home. We persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people, a belief that out of the ashes of war a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibilities. Now it's time to turn the page.", "The president went on to speak about Afghanistan and then the U.S. economy and our U.S. service members who have served overseas and are coming home. Sanjay Gupta has spent a lot of time with U.S. military personnel in Iraq on the ground, actually operating on some military personnel in the initial push into Baghdad. He joins us tonight from Pakistan where he's there to cover the floods. Sanjay, I think back to your reporting on the initial push toward Baghdad operating, you know, really on the front lines with the devil docs and others. In terms of what you saw on the battlefield, you know, the casualties would have been even higher had it not been for the amazing advances in getting the injured off the battlefield in that golden hour much quicker. Are we seeing different kinds of injuries and a lot more injuries than people normally would not have survived from?", "Absolutely, Anderson. This was a different sort of war from a medical standpoint because some of the reasons you just mentioned. A lot had been learned in wars past. One of the things was that it was simply taking too long to get the injured from the point of injury to some sort of medical care. So in this particular way in Iraq, what they did in 2003 was took doctors, nurses, corpsmen and moved them far forward so they could help take care of the injured as soon as they were injured. Now as you mentioned, I saw that firsthand, you know, both as a journalist and as a doctor out there. But what you said is right. As a result, a lot of the injuries that would have otherwise been fatal in wars past, people did survive and it changed the whole sort of medical, sort of triage after that. The types of injuries, it became clear that the signature injury of this war was going to be head injuries, traumatic brain injuries. Those were the things that people were coming back with and sometimes took some time to diagnose, concussions that were more severe than people thought. And also PTSD, which President Obama talked about near the end of the speech. Numbers vary, Anderson, but some say up to 20 percent, up to a fifth of returning veterans have posttraumatic stress disorder, mild to moderate to severe, and it hasn't gone away as been surveyed in the years since then. So if they get it, it stays with them, it impacts their lives, their ability to get a job, they're likely to drink, their ability to interact with their families. So it's -- this may be an end in some ways but from a medical standpoint a lot of these medical problems will persist.", "And from a medical standpoint, how is the military dealing with something like PTSD? I mean, there's been kind of a big learning curve over the last couple of years. You now have military personnel who, you know, Chris Lawrence just a short time ago was talking about serving three or four tours. That kind -- you know, that takes an enormous toll not only on the family lives of people back home but on the frontline vets. Is the military up to the challenge over the next -- I mean, you say it's not just, you know, a six-month thing, it's many, many years. Are they ready for that?", "I think they are much more serious about it than they were even a few years ago. I've been doing stories on this now for seven years, Anderson. I think in the beginning no one realized just the large numbers of people with PTSD that they would be treating. But now, for example, at Fort Hood, up to 4,000 mental health visits a month. That's simply more than they can probably handle but also this idea that can you screen for people ahead of time to make sure they don't return to combat. I've talked to lots of doctors, mental health councilors and facilities all over the country and that's simply still not being done. There are people who are going back into combat who have PTSD and, you know, everyone agrees that that is not the right thing to do but it is so hard to screen ahead of time after someone returns and sometimes as a result you get these sorts of decisions. So, I think they take it much more seriously. I think that's increasing. The president talked about that but the numbers are so mind-boggling. You know, you have a million troops.", "Yes.", "If you talk about the 20 percent number, you're talking 200,000 people potentially with all the things that we just discussed.", "Yes. Sanjay, appreciate it. Stay safe in Pakistan. David, you want to --", "I just wanted to add, Linda Bilmes, who's an economist at Harvard, has written something recently. She says that two million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq over the last ten years. Four hundred fifty-thousand have already filed for some sort of compensation for disability -- 450,000.", "It's incredible.", "And those -- the costs are going to continue going up.", "It raises this issue of how much did this war cost?", "Exactly.", "Nobel Prize winning economist says when you take those kinds of issues into account, the full cost of Iraq is actually $3 trillion.", "Right.", "The president called it $1 trillion but there is this question of what the add-on costs for the next 30 or 40 years.", "For World War I veterans, the peak year paying for their costs for health, for World War I veterans, came 50 years after the war ended. Fifty years after the war ended.", "And we live longer now.", "Amazing. Let's go back to Wolf in Washington -- Wolf.", "Anderson, thanks very much. Speaking about how much this war costs, the president made the transition from the war in Iraq to the war in Afghanistan and then to the economy here at home. And this is how he made the transition. He said, \"We have also understood that our nation's strength and influence abroad must be firmly anchored in our prosperity at home.\" Gloria, some might say was a little awkward that transition because, you know, a lengthy section of the speech on the economy where it was supposed to be about Iraq and Afghanistan.", "I know. I think we should first say that it's very difficult this close to an election that's going to be about the economy to give a speech on foreign policy. Some would even say lots of Democrats said that it wasn't even advisable to do it. But the president decided that he needed to mark this moment. So what he did was clearly compromise with those who said, look, you have to take a turn to the economy because of the election coming up. And it was awkward because he said, look, we spent over a trillion dollars on this war financed by borrowing. We've created deficits and now it's time to start working for ourselves a little bit more and to meet this challenge. I believe that if you're going to give an Oval Office address about a moment in history you ought to probably just mark the moment.", "And he did have, John, a laundry list of things he wants to do to strengthen the U.S. economy and help the middle class.", "And he will add some of that to the list he has already outlined in the season in which the Republicans have flatly just said no. And so there may be a few modest things done when the Congress returns next week but much of this is a conversation, is a debate or decision the American people will make in nine weeks when they vote in the midterm elections and the debate that will carry over to the new Congress, whatever it looks like, likely to be more Republican next year. But there is not a consensus on these issues, the big issues, the deficit spending, where should the investments be and to the point the gentleman in New York were making a critical point that this campaign has seemed pretty small. It's about blocking the Obama agenda which is a big thing. But if you look at the negative advertising, the sniping back and forth, it has been small and there are huge issues facing the country about the deficit, about the entitlements and about the legacy challenge of taking care of these veterans that I don't think the Congress, as much as they've tried to have hearings about it, I think they've wrapped their minds around the 25, 30-year challenge of it and I don't think the American people have been engaged in a serious conversation about it.", "Larry King is going to have a lot more analysis and reaction coming up. Larry, tell our viewers what you're working on.", "You're right, Wolf, we're going to have reaction to the address from Iraq from war veterans, from political observers and former POWS. And the president's senior adviser, David Axelrod, is going to join us, too. It's all coming up on \"LARRY KING LIVE\" in about eight minutes, Wolf.", "All right, Larry, we'll see you then. Good show. We'll have much more analysis coming up here. Our special coverage will continue right after this.", "This afternoon I spoke to former President George W. Bush. It's well known that he and I disagreed about the war from its outset. Yet no one can doubt President Bush's support for our troops or his love of country and commitment to our security. As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women and our hopes for Iraqis' future.", "Right now according to our most recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, most Americans do not believe that U.S. goals in Iraq have been achieved. Only 29 percent say they have been achieved. Sixty-nine say the U.S. goals in Iraq have not been achieved. When asked the more specific question about plans to remove most U.S. troops from Iraq by now, by September, 65 percent favor what the president has done, remove all by 50,000 U.S. troops from Iraq. Nineteen percent want them all out of Iraq now. Nineteen percent want all the remaining 50,000 troops out. Sixteen percent say they oppose. They want to keep troops in Iraq indefinitely. Sixteen percent say keep the troops there indefinitely. A lot to digest. Anderson, you've got some excellent people there to help us better appreciate the history of tonight.", "That's right. I mean, it was really a historic announcement. It's not necessarily a speech anyone is going to really remember though.", "No. He had to touch too many bases, Anderson. You know, and in that, the whole thing fell apart. Winston Churchill once pushed away a dessert by saying I do not want this pudding. It lacks a theme. The speech lacked a central theme.", "I think, you know, the ghost hovering over the speech was the Iraq surge, which he -- he mentioned George Bush but he didn't mention the surge. I thought it really informed --", "He mentioned the surge just once in passing, though, saying like, as in Iraq we'll have a surge in Afghanistan.", "Right. And that helped to thinking, and of course, as a junior senator from Illinois, he opposed the surge. Ironically, he's now got a surge in exactly the same general that Bush put in place, which, of course, is General Petraeus.", "David?", "As troubling as I found the speech, there are two things I think we'll be grateful for tonight. One is as we leave Iraq, we're in much, much better shape than we were a couple of years ago and that should give us a little more comfort about Afghanistan and maybe the economy. The other thing is this is so different from Vietnam when he hated the veterans who were coming home. It is wonderful to see everyone as united in support of these veterans.", "Veterans felt that hatred assuming a lot of Americans didn't actually feel hatred toward them.", "Yes.", "But certainly they didn't get the sense of support that the veterans are getting now.", "This is terrific.", "They hated the war and that translated. This time even those who disagree with the war honored the people who still didn't.", "Yes. Wolf?", "Anderson, thank you. I'm still struck, Gloria and John, by the uncertainty of the outcome in Iraq. This is by no means victory at hand. A lot can still go wrong.", "Yes, I was just thinking about that, Wolf because we can't talk about victory anymore and more. What we do is we're talking about transition and that's what the president was talking about, transition to noncombat forces. There's a lack of clarity there, an ambiguousness in Iraq. Still a milestone that the president needed to take note of. And he did.", "And yet, nine weeks from today, the American people will vote in a consequential midterm election. And what strikes me, the president talked of a page turning tonight. The 2004 presidential election was about Iraq. Anti-war sentiment was growing fiercely in the country. George W. Bush barely won re-election. The 2006 election, Nancy Pelosi is speaker. The Democrats controlled the Congress. This anti-war, anti-Bush sentiment all fueled by Iraq took over the politics of the country. You could argue Barack Obama would not be president if Hillary Clinton had not voted to authorize the war in Iraq. It was big in 2008. In 2010, it has fallen as a political issue. The economy and the rut this country, the anxiety the American people feel has replaced Iraq. It is gone from our political discourse almost completely.", "And as uncertain as the situation in Iraq remains, there is even greater uncertainty in Afghanistan right now. U.S. officials are deeply worried about the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai. That's it for our special coverage this hour. But we're going to have a lot more. 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{"id": "NPR-12306", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2013-06-29", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2013/06/29/196911698/athiests-erect-a-public-monument", "title": "Atheists Erect A Public Monument", "summary": "The atheist monument being unveiled Saturday on county courthouse property in Starke, Fla., is close to another controversial display: the Ten Commandments.", "utt": ["The first atheist monument to be displayed on U.S. government property will be dedicated today in Starke, Florida. The monument is near a black granite display of the Ten Commandments, which was installed in the courtyard of the Bradford County Courthouse last year.", "From member station WJCT, Cyd Hoskinson reports.", "The Ten Commandments are engraved in white on a six-ton slab of shiny black granite that's been cut to resemble the open pages of a Bible. Bradford County attorney Terry Brown says county commissioners figured there would be a fight if they let the Community Men's Fellowship put the Ten Commandments on public property. So they just decided to create a free speech zone.", "Our position was, we were not establishing a religion but rather we had created a venue for freedom of speech, where everybody could express their selves and express their beliefs.", "The group American Atheists decided to put up their own display after losing a lawsuit to get the Ten Commandments removed. Daniel Cooney was a plaintiff in the case. [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: The American Atheists did not lose its case; its monument was the result of court-ordered mediation.]", "I just don't see how anybody could walk past that thing on the way to court, you know, if you were Muslim or atheist, and not feel like things were likely not going to go in your favor.", "Daniel Cooney is an unlikely protagonist. He's a lifelong resident of Starke and also the grandson of Harry Cooney, a member of the Community Men's Fellowship, the group responsible for the Ten Commandments display. The elder Cooney says it bothers him that his grandson protested at the dedication of the Ten Commandments. He says he'll probably go to the dedication of the atheist monument, but just to watch.", "They'll not hear no complaints or conversation out of me, no matter what they say. I've been up there. I've looked at their slab and where they're going to set whatever it is; and in comparison to the Ten Commandments, no comparison whatsoever.", "The atheist monument does, however, have a bench for people to sit on. That concept of functionality is not lost on Bradford County attorney Terry Brown who sees the true value of the monument in terms of redemption.", "We hope it sort of becomes a tourist attraction, a lot of atheists come in, and maybe we can save a few.", "The bench of the 1500-pound atheist monument is attached to a four-foot tall obelisk engraved with quotes from the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and American Atheists' founder Madalyn Murray O'Hair.", "For NPR News, I'm Cyd Hoskinson.", "You're listening to NPR News."], "speaker": ["LYNN NEARY, HOST", "LYNN NEARY, HOST", "CYD HOSKINSON, BYLINE", "TERRY BROWN", "CYD HOSKINSON, BYLINE", "DANIEL COONEY", "CYD HOSKINSON, BYLINE", "DANIEL COONEY", "CYD HOSKINSON, BYLINE", "TERRY BROWN", "CYD HOSKINSON, BYLINE", "CYD HOSKINSON, BYLINE", "LYNN NEARY, HOST"]}
{"id": "NPR-35463", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2008-03-12", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88132191", "title": "Obama's Mississippi Win Comes Amid Racial Divide", "summary": "Sen. Barack Obama topped Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in Tuesday's Mississippi primary. Despite overwhelming support in the African-American community for Obama, exit polls showed that he lost ground with white voters in what turned out to be the most racially polarized vote so far.", "utt": ["This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.", "And I'm Steve Inskeep. Good morning.", "Here's the result of the final primary before the Democrats spend six weeks battling over Pennsylvania. Mississippi voted yesterday, and Barack Obama won. That's the good news for the Obama campaign. Any disappointment came in the exit polls, which showed a racial divide among Mississippi voters, as NPR's Audie Cornish reports.", "Obama won at least 17 pledged delegates in Mississippi, perhaps about half a dozen more than Hillary Clinton - a net gain that means a lot after the setbacks he suffered a week earlier.", "I'm grateful to the people of Mississippi for the wonderful support, and, you know, what we've tried to do is steadily make sure that in each state we are making the case about the need for change in this country.", "Obama's victory was bolstered by 90 percent domination among African-American voters such as Leonora Cameron.", "First of all, this is a history-making election. And I think he has gotten more young people involved in the voting process, and that's what we need. It gives them a lot of hope, and that's what they need. And that's what we want for them.", "Some of Obama's backers, such as Delores Jones, say they were turned off by the Clinton campaign.", "I did not like those negative ads. I did not like the 3:00 a.m. piece. I did not like Bill Clinton's fairytale comment, and I did not like her statement saying that maybe you can have the two of us together and inferring that he can be number two on the ticket. I didn't like that at all.", "In Mississippi's open primary, black voters made up a little more than half of the vote. Among the other half, exit polls found more than 70 percent of whites supported Hillary Clinton. At a Clinton campaign party, voter Vicki McDonald says she's happy Clinton has been picking up steam lately, but fears seeing the party polarized.", "I'm a little concerned about that. I mean, I definitely I want there to be a universal sort of feel in the Democratic Party. I mean, this is our race to win.", "But now Clinton supporter and former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro has caused another controversy by saying Obama was only getting attention because of his race. Clinton said she regretted the remarks, but did not denounce Ferraro, who stood by her statement and said her critics were racially motivated.", "Obama called the comments patently absurd, and in a CNN interview, called into question the tone of his rival's campaign.", "I've been careful to say that I think Senator Clinton is a capable person and that should she win the nomination, obviously, I would support her. You know, I'm not sure that we've been getting that same approach from the Clinton campaign. But I'm confident that once we decide on a nominee, we go through the convention, that, in fact, the party's going to be unified.", "Clinton herself had already moved on. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Clinton made no mention of Mississippi and no mention of the announcement from the Texas Democratic Party that caucuses in that state awarded more of its delegates to Obama than to her. Instead, she kept her focus on the next state that votes in six weeks.", "We're going to go work across Philadelphia, across Pennsylvania. We're going to put together a winning team, and we're going to go with your help all the way to the White House. Thank you all very much, and God bless you.", "Pennsylvania is indeed a lot to look forward to. The state has a whopping 158 delegates at stake and a chance to set one candidate or the other on the path to the nomination.", "Audie Cornish, NPR News, Jackson, Mississippi."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "AUDIE CORNISH", "Senator BARACK OBAMA (Democrat, Illinois; Democratic Presidential Candidate)", "AUDIE CORNISH", "Ms. LEONORA CAMERON", "AUDIE CORNISH", "Ms. DELORES JONES", "AUDIE CORNISH", "Ms. VICKI MCDONALD", "AUDIE CORNISH", "AUDIE CORNISH", "Senator BARACK OBAMA (Democrat, Illinois; Democratic Presidential Candidate)", "AUDIE CORNISH", "Senator HILLARY CLINTON (Democrat, New York, Presidential Candidate)", "AUDIE CORNISH", "AUDIE CORNISH"]}
{"id": "CNN-55277", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-6-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/03/lad.10.html", "summary": "Memorials Held at Ground Zero", "utt": ["Last week we saw some moving images from ground zero, as they wrapped up their recovery efforts there. But not everyone could make it to that ceremony. So over the weekend another memorial service was held for the victims of September 11, and CNN's Brian Palmer was there.", "Relatives of those killed on September 11 were once again drawn to the valley of grief in lower Manhattan.", "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.", "On Thursday, an official city run ceremony signified the end of the search for remains at ground zero and the beginning of rebuilding. On Sunday, the families of those who died in the World Trade Center attack held their own small memorial. Some of their rituals have grown familiar over the past months. Relatives and friends still hold aloft photos, snapshots and portraits of their loved ones for the cameras, for themselves, for everyone and no one in particular.", "We light this candle to thank the rescue workers, construction workers, and all of the volunteers at ground zero.", "They mourn and honor those killed with music, prayer and poetry.", "Normal as we knew it, we will never know again.", "Some were still not ready to say goodbye.", "This a last in a series of last events that includes Thursday's public memorial that marked the end of the recovery operation and this morning's final ground zero prayer service. Families linger, not quite wanting it all to end. Brian Palmer, CNN, New York."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIAN PALMER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PALMER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PALMER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PALMER", "PALMER (on camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-3204", "program": "", "date": "2000-2-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/23/aotc.13.html", "summary": "Todd Eberhard's Picks: G.E., Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Metromedia Fiber Networks", "utt": ["We are back now with stock strategist Todd Eberhard of the Eberhard investment associates. He's back with us now and joins us to talk about some of the stock picks. What do you like in this rising interest rate environment, we'll call it?", "OK, that's probably the right environment to talk about. There's a few stocks out there that we're looking at that we think are interesting right now for different reasons, first one being General Electric. A lot of positive things on this stock. Obviously, it's one of those companies out there that actually make money, which is unusual. That's why people don't like it recently. But actually, it's fallen down dramatically following the Dow down, and we think with the Dow being where it is and probably a good time to turn around...", "Is that because of its financial component?", "We -- that's what the rumor is and that's what the discussions are, but we think also just in general people thought it got bid up pretty high, brought it down, oversold it. At this point it's probably not a bad time to buy.", "OK. You also like Nokia.", "Yes. Nokia's excellent. Phone technology, obviously, everybody knows. With the concept of wireless Internet connections, we think they're going to be one of the two, after Ericsson and possibly Motorola, one of the leaders in that area, and that's a place to be, we think, for the long term. Even a high-priced stock like that is still excellent.", "And Sun Microsystems.", "Can't say too many bad things about that. I saw the story this morning where they also, along with Microsoft, invested $25 million each into a company. We like the fact that they're expanding their base. Great company, good operating system, good alternative to Windows 2000.", "And finally, one that is perhaps not a household name, Metromedia Fiber Networks.", "Right. They do connections for the Internet systems, basically high-speed connections, which is the backbone of the whole Internet. Whether it's business-to-business, business-to-government or consumer sales, it's the area that people have to go to to connect with more and more speed, and that's a company we think will be at the forefront of that.", "Does it concern you that people are holding stocks for such a short period of time now than they ever had in the past?", "Well, that's certainly what's causing a lot of this volatility on a day-to-day basis: the day traders, the people who were not day traders before but now are seeing rapid rises in one day of five, 10, 15 points and take their profit and run away. So that is definitely causing concern and changing the market environment. But we think that's going to continue for some time, at least as long as volatility over all continues.", "All right, Todd, good to see you.", "Good seeing you.", "We should not here that Todd will be joining us in the next hour on CNNfn."], "speaker": ["DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "TODD EBERHARD, EBERHARD INVESTMENT ASSOCIATES", "HAFFENREFFER", "EBERHARD", "HAFFENREFFER", "EBERHARD", "HAFFENREFFER", "EBERHARD", "HAFFENREFFER", "EBERHARD", "HAFFENREFFER", "EBERHARD", "HAFFENREFFER", "EBERHARD", "HAFFENREFFER"]}
{"id": "CNN-97383", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2005-9-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/02/lt.03.html", "summary": "Catastrophic Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; President Bush Tours Gulf Coast", "utt": ["It is 12:00 noon in the East, 11:00 a.m. along the Gulf Coast. You're looking at downtown New Orleans. That's where at least two major fires have been burning this morning. Welcome back to CNN's continuing live coverage of the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the state of emergency that grows worse by the hour. I'm Daryn Kagan, at CNN Center in Atlanta. At the top of each hour we are going to update you with specific information about the critical issues that are changing literally hour by hour, minute by minute. We call it \"Mission Critical.\" We are focusing on security, food and water, medical help, evacuation, relocation, and the levees. First to New Orleans. Security rapidly continues to go downhill there. Several thousand National Guard troops are in the city. The mayor, though, says many more needed to be added in order to restore order to that city. Meanwhile, doctors at Charity Hospital are begging for food, water and medical supplies. There is, however, one bit of encouraging news. The Army Corps of Engineers believes it's close to plugging up the breach in the 17th Street Canal. And that's one of at least three levee breaks that must be repaired before the city can be drained. One of the few relatively safe and stable locations in New Orleans today is actually outside the city in Kenner, Louisiana. It's the Louis Armstrong International Airport. It has become a major staging area for medical evacuations. And that's where we find our Ed Lavandera, covering today's comings and goings. Ed, hello.", "Hi, Daryn. You know, to be honest, I've struggled over the last couple of days just to try and put in perspective how many people have been coming through here. We've tried over and over the last couple of days to get an idea of the numbers of people that have come through here. And just a short while ago, I spoke with one FEMA official who said all of these people who are being airlifted into this airport area here and are in the process of being taken out of New Orleans, they have in the last day -- 40,000 people have come through this -- this little area right here, and have been taken either in to get medical attention here in the terminal of the airport, or on to flights out of New Orleans. A massive operation. The medical teams here are treating about 800 patients an hour. When I first arrived with the commanders of this -- of this particular field hospital, they felt they were equipped and they thought they were going to be able to deal with about 250 patients an hour. They're at 800. And to make matters even worse, I asked, \"How long are you expecting to see this kind of traffic?\" There are helicopters constantly landing and taking off from the ground here. They say at the very earliest, this will last until Sunday. I've heard others estimate that this, what we see here at the airport, could last another six days. Basically, all these helicopters touching down, dropping off the passengers that they were able to pick up in the city somewhere, and bringing them back here. And as we've reported over the last couple of days, a very -- many of these folks in critical condition. They are plucked from hospitals or from nursing homes around the area. I also want to share with you another story. My colleague, Nic Robertson, and his crew that were making their way into New Orleans yesterday were driving in when they came across police officers that had pulled over three cars. And there were 14 men in the cars. The cars turned out to be stolen. They were full of merchandise, clothing, CDs, DVDs, and that sort of thing. They found out that the cars belonged to a car dealership in New Orleans. The car dealership owner said that he just wanted the cars back and was not going to press charges against any of the 14 men caught with those cars. Nic spoke with the officer that was there at the scene.", "We arrived to assist the New Orleans police officers and saw that three Dodge Stratuses were stolen out of the New Orleans area.", "Now, back here at the airport, as I mentioned, this process here expected to last possibly until Sunday. Some others estimating another six days of this. Daryn, it is a constant flow of people flowing through here. And it's gut-wrenching to see many of these people being dropped off on luggage racks, holding their belongings in trash bags. Many of them walking barefoot along the tarmac here, just hoping to catch a flight out of the city -- Daryn.", "Ed, let me ask you about some of those people that we're seeing moving around the airport. Clearly, all of them not in need of medical attention. Are people just showing up at the airport, knowing that this is one of the few facilities that is functioning and did relatively well during the storm?", "I haven't -- we haven't seen a lot of that. We're kind of inside the airport terminal grounds. I haven't seen a lot of people walking in. Basically, what we're seeing are people landing here. And what happens is, literally, when they come right below many where I am right here, it's determined whether or not they need medical attention. For example, these folks that were just dropped off, they will walk underneath here, and if they need medical attention, they will be taken into the -- into the terminal, where they will be checked out and get whatever they need. Granted, this is a field hospital. There's only certain things they can do here. This isn't a full-fledged hospital. And then if you don't need medical attention, you are basically shuttled to the other side of the airport, where there are flights taking people out of the city.", "Ed, I want to show our viewers, if you'll stay with me just a second, a picture that I believe you cannot see, but a picture -- and I believe it's from within New Orleans. It's a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter, even all these days later, attempting -- do we still have that picture to go to? Oh, this is it. OK. Still attempting to make rooftop rescues. And if you look at that roof, a number of people who are still waiting all these days later to get some kind of relief and be taken from a building where they have ridden out Hurricane Katrina, and trying to get out of an area that you can see is still completely flooded surrounding that building. Ed, from where you have been, watching the story unfold, helicopters and the pilots and the crews that have been staffing them playing a key role in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.", "Absolutely. In fact, I was told a little while ago by the director of the airport here that he estimates that there are about 75 helicopters now circling the New Orleans skies on these missions. I've been told that the Coast Guard helicopters are the ones that are actually going to what they call the hot rescues. That is, people who are probably from the picture that you were showing there, people still trapped in their homes and in the more intense situations. There are people, a military unit that was flown in here that is experts in these types of evacuations that have been flown in as well. And then many of the other military choppers are actually hitting the areas where people are sitting on the side of the roads, hospitals, nursing homes, or wherever they might be in neighborhoods just waiting for someone to come pick them up.", "We're also -- I don't know if you're able to see from where you are, but another aerial picture we're looking at shows a lot of smoke along the river. Yet another fire breaking out. And something, I would say, to deal with in New Orleans, but clearly there is no one available to deal with these fires. Earlier -- well, first, let me ask you, Ed, are you able to see any of the smoke or flames from where you are?", "We did see some flames -- or some smoke, actually, that was coming just off the horizon over here to our side a little while ago. That has gone away. So I'm not sure if the fire has just put itself out, or if there are actually crews here in the Kenner area that were able to go fight that. I'm unable to see the ones closer to the river from my vantage point here.", "Well, there is one closer to the river. Then there's this one, which I'm sure you can't see. It's in downtown New Orleans that we have been watching. This is actually the central business district where this fire is taking place. I believe we've been seeing this for over a couple of hours now. This follows an explosion that took place earlier this morning. Our Chris Lawrence says he was awakened by this blast about 4:30 a.m., 5:30 local time. Initially thought to have originated in the city's southwest district. But it later determined to be across the Mississippi river. A chemical fire. Officials saying that they don't believe that there were any chemicals there that were going to be dangerous or toxic at this point. Even if there were, there's nothing that -- and there's no one that can really do anything about it.", "Absolutely. I think if what's happening here -- and this is a rather controlled situation at this point, since the crews have been here on the ground for so long -- if this is as chaotic in a controlled situation, I can only imagine what's going on when you start venturing away farther from the airport, start getting several miles away. I imagine it starts -- it becomes an even more difficult situation. And situations where, as I mentioned, you know, a lot of these officials and first responders on the ground have to make decisions at this point. They are faced with two disasters, and they have to decide which disaster to go to first. And the humanitarian disaster, at this point, is probably taking precedent over any kind of building that might be on fire.", "Ed Lavandera joining us from Kenner, Louisiana, at the New Orleans International Airport. Ed, thank you. We'll be back to you later in this hour. Meanwhile, all these people who are trying to get out of New Orleans, their first destination was to be Houston. The folks there opening up the Astrodome, saying they can take 25,000 evacuees. Well, at about half capacity, they said, enough, we can't take anymore. Our Sean Callebs is in Houston to tell us more on why they shut the lid and where now the people who are leaving New Orleans and coming to Houston, where they are being sent -- Sean.", "Indeed, Daryn. Both very good and relevant questions. We just came out of a news briefing from Houston Mayor Bill White, and he was asked repeatedly, \"What happened?\" We were told for days that the Astrodome was prepared to hold as many as 24,000 people. Basically, they said, you know what? This is an untried position, what we are doing. We thought we could get that many cots in, we realized that we couldn't early yesterday afternoon. At one point yesterday afternoon, the fire marshal apparently tried to close it down to any further people in the Astrodome, and the mayor overrode that decision. However, around midnight Easter Time, they simply decided there were too many people in the Astrodome. Now, they are not turning away and have not turned away any buses. Those people that are still coming in are being taken to the Reliant Arena, which is only several hundred yards to the left of the Astrodome. There's a queue of buses right now waiting outside, and it takes, once these buses get here, about an hour for people to go through that process, go in, and go through all the procedures they have to, to be registered. They get medical attention at that point. Certainly some frustration last night. Some very upset, angry individuals who had made a bus ride of close to 12 hours, only to be told they couldn't go into the Astrodome. However, the mayor right now is pleading for people here in the Houston area to open up their homes, to open up any kind of apartments, whether it be garage apartments, anywhere, to try and house some of these at least 100,000 evacuees they expect they're going to have in this area. Now, what are they finding once people get here? A number of people simply traumatized. They say some people simply were so frightened once they saw the Astrodome, they didn't want to go in the building. To them, it symbolized the Superdome in New Orleans and exactly what they had gone through in the past several days. And they were terrified and didn't want to go inside. We can also tell you two people have passed away since they have been brought here. One, an elderly woman who had cancer. She died last night as she was being attended to by a physician. Another individual was taken to a hospital suffering from what doctors called a preexisting condition, chest pains. That individual died at the hospital yesterday as well. Inside, we have had some pictures that were shot earlier, very early in the morning of the Astrodome. You can see just how crowded it is. People crammed right next to each other. Now, while they are preparing for this to be a long-term transition, they are trying to get these people out of the Astrodome, out of the Reliant Arena, as quickly as they can. We know they are trying to open up facilities as well in San Antonio, Dallas, and Huntsville, but just how quickly they are going to get those individuals loaded up and how many more buses they can expect to make that 350-mile trip to the west, Daryn, they simply can't answer at this time.", "Sean, meanwhile, we heard something incredible earlier that the Astrodome has now been given its own zip code because so many people are staying there?", "That's a pretty fair assessment. We had representatives from the post office here. And anybody trying to reach the 12,000 people that are going to be in the Astrodome for the foreseeable future, they can write their loved ones, their family members here, and then give a zip code. And I think I wrote the zip code down. I certainly hope I did. If I didn't, I know we called it in. It is 77230. Once again, the Astrodome zip code, 77230. There are just so many tales that we are hearing from the people, Daryn, coming out of this. We have had people stop by, and it's simply heart-breaking. They've been separated from their families, separated from their loved ones. They have no idea where they are. At least two couples have come to us, saying that they got separated from their newborn infants.", "Yes.", "Children born much earlier, and then the mother discharged from the hospital. But when the hurricane came in, mother and father had to evacuate. And we know that one couple fount their infant in Ft. Worth, and we hope to bring you that story later today. The other one, they are simply trying to find their child at this hour. And it is heartbreaking to see the tears come to their eyes and hear the emotion in their voice.", "Continues to completely blow your mind. On the zip code issue, what makes me wonder, though, is, I thought with the Astrodome, the idea, they really didn't want people to stay there that long. The idea that they're putting out word that you can receive mail here, that would seem counter to what their intent is.", "Perhaps. But they have cleared the Astrodome schedule until December. They know this is going to be a long-term situation. They may want to move these people out as quickly as possible, but reality is something entirely different. And the Houston mayor is also appealing to the rest of the country to reach out to these evacuees, these refugees as he referred to them at one point, to try and find other areas of the country where a significant number of people -- think about the more than million people that have been displaced. And also the stories we heard from the buses that it left. There were tens and thousands of people on bridges, on overpasses as these buses began making their way through. People pleading, beating on the sides of the buses, throwing objects, trying to get the bus to stop so they could get in. This situation certainly sounds as though it is going to get more dire, because the people that are coming here after only a few days are already dehydrated. They haven't had medication that they have been on. And if you think about it, the city -- 23,000 people. How many they expect to have on the grounds here within the next 24 hours, it's a small city. The doctors say, two, three, to five deaths every night is not going to be out of the ordinary.", "Sean Callebs in Houston, Texas. Thank you for that. Meanwhile, all this is taking place as President Bush is touring the hurricane-ravaged areas along the Gulf Coast today. He's going to be in the air. We saw him take off just a little while ago. Also on the ground. He arrived in Mobile, Alabama, within the last hour. Our Elaine Quijano is at the White House with more on the president's trip. Elaine, hello, once again.", "Hi there, Daryn. It was in Mobile, Alabama, that the president met with emergency officials. In fact, we saw the president, along with those emergency officials, as well as the governors of Mississippi and Alabama. They went before the cameras, and with an aircraft in the background there, a Coast Guard aircraft, the president listened as they each commented on the latest efforts. But the White House clearly trying to send the message not just with the president's words, but also with images that the government is in charge. But, of course, even before he left Washington, the president himself took a strikingly critical tone when talking about the government's response, saying the results were unacceptable. And in Mobile, Alabama, the president pledged the government would do better.", "We have got courageous people risking their lives to save life. And I want to thank the commanders and I want to thank the troops over there for representing the best of America. I want to congratulate the governors for being leaders. You didn't ask for this to happen, but you are doing a heck of a job. And the federal government's job is big, and it's massive, and we're going to do it. Where it's not working right, we are going to make it right. Where it is working right, we are going to duplicate it elsewhere.", "So President Bush there, vowing that the government will, in fact, get on top of the situation. But, the president today will be getting his first up-close look at some of the damage left behind by Hurricane Katrina. This, of course, though, also a chance for the president to thank those who have already been involved for days now in the relief efforts. The president doing that in Mobile, Alabama. But the president will also be taking an aerial tour, as well as a walking tour, in Biloxi, Mississippi. And we learned late this morning that a change to the president's schedule has been announced. The president will in fact be taking a walking tour of some parts of New Orleans. Now, this was something that was not originally planned. The president was going to just depart from the New Orleans airport, perhaps make a statement. But now we understand in some parts of New Orleans, the president will actually be on the ground doing a tour. We'll look for more details on that -- Daryn.", "All right. Elaine Quijano at the White House. Thank you. Want to go back to live pictures. These coming in from New Orleans. These incredible pictures. It would appear some firefighters and at least one civilian trying, or perhaps the firefighter who couldn't get to his gear, trying with a single hose to go and attack this fire. We have been watching this fire develop and ravage this building in the central business district in New Orleans for about the last couple of hours now. When we first went to it, it was on the first or second floor. Clearly, it has made its way all the way up to the fourth or fifth floor of this structure as it begins to crumble. And the firefighters trying to go at it with just a single hose. At this point it might be an effort to keep the fire from spreading to other buildings that are packed so closely in this business district. We'll get more information as it becomes available from that part of New Orleans. And more ahead. Right now, a break. We're back after this."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LAVANDERA", "KAGAN", "LAVANDERA", "KAGAN", "LAVANDERA", "KAGAN", "LAVANDERA", "KAGAN", "LAVANDERA", "KAGAN", "SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "CALLEBS", "KAGAN", "CALLEBS", "KAGAN", "CALLEBS", "KAGAN", "ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "QUIJANO", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-213382", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-8-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/26/cnr.10.html", "summary": "U.S. Mulls Military in Syria; NC City Fights Meals for Homeless", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "Bottom of the hour now. I'm Brianna Keilar, in for Brooke Baldwin. And let's talk about Syria. You may have heard him right here just a short time ago, Secretary of State John Kerry blasting Syria. He said that there's no credible doubt that the Assad regime used chemical weapons against its own people. He said the Syrian government will not walk away unpunished.", "President Obama has also been in close touch with leaders of our key allies, and the president will be making an informed decision about how to respond to this indiscriminate use of chemical weapons. But make no mistake. President Obama believes there must be accountability for those who would use the world's most heinous weapons against the world's most vulnerable people.", "A very strong statement from John Kerry, but no clear actions outlined, no timetable attached. The U.S. Navy -- or, I should say, the U.S. now has four Naval destroyers in the Mediterranean within firing range of Syria. And Hala Gorani is joining us from Atlanta. It looks as though we're talking about a military response. The expectation obviously will be, as we've seen in other places like Libya, would be that the U.S. would not do this alone.", "No. And we're hearing from France and the United Kingdom. They're saying quite clearly, in fact, Brianna, that they agree with the U.S. that chemical weapons were used. They agree that there should be a response. There are many phone calls that have taken place over the last 48 to 72 hours as we've heard. We know as well as far as the international response is concerned, Moscow once again, is very clearly and adamantly stating it does not side with the United States, the U.K and France with regards to Syria. Vladimir Putin spoke with David Cameron, the prime minister of the United Kingdom. We understand from that phone call that Vladimir Putin said there's no proof that the regime was behind this chemical attack and that there, in fact, is no proof that a chemical attack at this stage until we get results from an investigation took place. There is a division. Now the big question, Brianna, is what will the response be? We've heard from Chris Lawrence in his reporting at the Pentagon that most likely this would be, perhaps, take the form, if it does happen, of a cruise missile attack on some very strategically important locations in Syria. It could be runways. It could be depots where chemical arms are stored or that kind of thing. One thing I think people need to remember is this. There is no appetite from Western countries for intervention in Syria. They had hoped against hope until now that some sort of transition of power could take place. More and more as this war progressed, it became obvious, Brianna, that was not going to happen. Now I think rather reluctantly some sort of action will take place. What it is, though, still unclear.", "You certainly get that sense, Hala, as he's talking about what's happened there being a moral obscenity.", "If I could add one thing, one of the latest poll numbers we've seen is that here in the United States, Americans do not want their country involved in Syria at all by a lot more than half of respondents. Only a tiny fraction of Americans when asked say they believe the U.S. should be involved militarily. As you know, there's no political pressure on President Obama to do anything with Syria right now.", "Moral pressure seemed to be what John Kerry was saying today. Hala Gorani, thank you so much. A North Carolina city ordinance is pitting charitable work against the law. A group of Christian volunteers passes out free breakfast each week to more than 70 homeless people in downtown Raleigh. Sounds great, doesn't it? But Love Wins Ministry says it was banned by local police from giving out food in a park, and it was told that if it attempted to distribute food volunteers would be arrested. CNN is waiting to hear back from the police department, but Mayor Nancy McFarland weighed in on her Facebook page saying, \"We will be taking this issue into the Law and Public Safety Committee immediately to bring all the partners together for a transparent discussion to work out a plan to address the questions surrounding this issue.\" And to address those questions, let me bring in criminal defense attorney Darren Kavinoky and former prosecutor, Faith Jenkins. Thanks for being with me, guys. Faith, I want to start with you. This group says it's been doing this for six years. It's not like it just started and got in trouble for doing it. Why would the police just now decide to enforce this ordinance?", "And the group is obviously addressing a need in the community in Raleigh. On the weekends, according to this group, there's no public place that the homeless can go and actually get meals. There are no meals provided by the government. So the group is going to the park where the homeless gather and they give out meals on the sidewalk. Now there's an ordinance in place that says you have to have a permit, and the permit requires certain types of inspections in terms of the food that you're providing to give to the homeless. This group believes it's because of some reorganization, revitalization of the park that the city wants to do. They want to sort of move the homeless away from this area. And that's the real reason why this ordinance is now all of a sudden being implemented.", "OK. Darren, to you now, because let's talk about this ordinance. It says no individuals or group shall serve or distribute meals or food of any kind in or on any city park or greenway unless such distribution is pursuant to a permit issued by the parks recreation and greenway director. OK, so, those permits according to the nonprofit cost 800 bucks. Do you think this group has a legitimate case against this ordinance?", "Well, I think they do. This story, Brianna, is just one of many reasons why people learn to hate lawyers. Because the government has a legitimate interest in regulating activities that happen on city property. From a liability standpoint, there are concerns. They certainly have the right to have people have permits to undertake activity there. The city needs to know what's going on on city property at all times. And it's that permit system that allows them to do it. The problem is, when people feel like -- like we're dealing with a disenfranchised population already or that this is done for some kind of an ulterior motive to just engage in beatification and moving the homeless people who are so desperately in need out of sight and out of mind, obviously skepticism can brew. So hopefully there really will be a transparent conversation where the legitimate need of this very hurting population can be addressed.", "Certainly. 800 bucks for doing a good deed just kind of seems like a steep price there. Stand by. I want to ask you about another controversial case, a 10- year-old girl battling cancer has chosen to stop her chemotherapy. Her parents want her on holistic medications, instead. Her doctors are fighting to keep the treatments going. We'll chat about that, next."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR", "KERRY", "KEILAR", "HALA GORANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR", "GORANI", "KEILAR", "FAITH JENKINS, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "KEILAR", "DARREN KAVINOKY, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-219353", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2013-11-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/22/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Console Wars; Apple Versus Samsung; Smart Objects", "utt": ["The console wars are officially on as Microsoft's Xbox One went on sale worldwide today. It's the tech giant's first new gaming console in eight years, and early demand has been strong. It goes head-to-head, though, with Sony's PlayStation 4. That console was released in the US last Friday while Sony gamers in the UK will have to wait another week. Let's bring in Dan Costa, editor-in-chief of PCMag.com. He has an Xbox One on his hands. Precious inventory here, Dan. So tell me very frankly, there's been a lot of hype, the Microsoft marketing machine has been out in force. Is it going to live up to it?", "Yes, that was the big thing. We'd seen it in action, we'd seen demos. The question is, was it going to work as advertised?", "Yes. Through the rigors you guys put it through.", "Right. And actually, it made a great demo for about six months. Once we got it in the lab, would it perform? And to be truthful - - we've had it for a while, now. We've put it through some tests, and it's kind of a great device. It's kind of amazing. It works as advertised, and I think it's going to make a lot of people really happy.", "OK, is it a great device for gamers or for everyone?", "That's an interesting thing. It's a little bit different strategy than Sony's taking with the PlayStation 4. The Xbox One has a lot of features that are not just dedicated to gaming. It'll connect to your TV and works with your cable box so that you can actually change your cable channels just by using the voice commands built into the Kinect center.", "Right. Which is this on top.", "Yes, that's a --", "Right? The Kinect part on top? Which used to look different. Because I have the older one now.", "Yes. This is a much -- and that's the other thing. The Kinect itself, much improved. It's now 1080p, it's a very sensitive camera, and it's a great feature. And being able to change channels using your voice is a great feature for anyone, not just gamers.", "So the coach potato nation.", "Yes.", "Not that we need that. For -- you mentioned the difference with Sony. It's more expensive.", "Yes.", "And this is a big-ticket item. People are going to have pay up for it. I have heard that with any of these new technologies, voice commands -- listen, I have two kids, it's screaming, it's so loud in my house -- does it all work seamlessly, or can we expect a little bit of a learning curve here, and will that put consumers off?", "There will be a learning curve, particularly with the voice commands. You have to sort of learn a little bit about how to talk to it. But let me tell you, we were pretty impressed at how smooth these things were. The voice commands were smooth. It recognized different players in your actual physiology in your body. And if you walk in front of the Kinect, it will automatically call up your player profile and recognize you as an individual.", "Yes, so definitely improvements from my experience trying to --", "All seamless. Much, much better.", "-- turn that on. Here's the question, though. First of all, very quickly, is it enough to beat Sony at its game?", "I think that both these consoles are going to do really well. I think that most people are going to stick with the console platform that they already have. I think that Xbox --", "Because their friends play.", "-- has a little more upside.", "What about the real threat? And that's from something as simple as this. There are a lot of gamers, unless you're a hardcore gamer, that are saying, oh, Candy Crush! QuizUp, which I just found out about this week --", "Yes.", "-- which is totally addictive and the top-selling app. It's mobility, it's apps, people have their tablets. Is that going to cut into the business that was traditional for Microsoft and Sony?", "Absolutely. Absolutely. It already is. It already is. You're seeing ship -- the console gaming market's in decline. These other new platforms are taking off. The thing that Microsoft can do here, though, is if you look at the interface of the Xbox One, it's very similar to the Windows Phone interface, very similar to their tablet platform and Windows 8. So, you're starting to see some collaboration here and some uniformity. I think that's their longterm game, and I actually think it's a pretty good strategy.", "Building for the future, not just for this one product, as much as it's wanted. We see the people lining up, and I had to try it. I tell you, something's got to -- it's got to play for me, Dan, for me to get better at this, I'll tell you. But maybe that's in the works one of these days. Dan Costa from PCMag.com. Thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "We're going to stick with the idea of this, these devices. Apple has struck a blow against Samsung in the war over who holds the rights to the technology in these types of devices, in the tablets that we're all using. A jury in California has ordered Samsung to pay Apple $290 million for infringing its patent. That's on top of $640 million in fines that Samsung was slapped with in 2012. It is the latest judgment in a marathon case involving suit and counter suit by the two rival phone makers. The epic patent struggle goes on. Both companies have appealed the original 2012 decision and are embroiled in dozens of disputes in courts around the world. Tony Fadell knows Apple products inside and out. He was senior vice president of Apple's iPod division, leaving to set up his own company. Nest is redesigning household goods, like thermostats and smoke alarms, to make them smarter and, they promise, more desirable. Richard Quest spoke to him earlier, and he told Richard about why he decided to go it alone.", "Our goal is to take these unloved products in the home, reinvent them with new technologies, make them connected so they're safer, more energy-efficient, so you actually know that you're being protected, that you know you're saving energy.", "I love this phrase, \"unloved objects in the home.\"", "And there are many.", "What are they? What have we -- so we've got the thermostat, we've got the smoke alarm or smoke detectors, CO2 detector. What about -- what else is unloved?", "Trade secrets. You'll see in just a few years as we create those products.", "Clock radios?", "Clock radios, a lot of people, they still don't --", "Kettles?", "-- set themselves.", "Kettles?", "Kettles, toasters, they still burn the toast. You need a Nest Protect because the toaster will still burn your toast. Why should that be?", "So, are you going to make a toaster?", "Maybe.", "Are you going to tell me any product that you're working on?", "Yes, a Nest Protect and a Nest thermostat.", "Right.", "But this -- but you obviously --", "You see where I came from. Apple, right?", "You came from Apple.", "We don't talk about things until they're ready to be purchased.", "Heads up. There's smoke in the dining room.", "Why are you risking a life of financial security with products, be they unloved or otherwise?", "Because these frustrate me. They frustrate my family, they frustrate other families. We wanted to go and finally fix them. Who else is going to go and fix them? For 40 years, they've been the same. No one's tried to fix them, so we think --", "But why do you want to fix them?", "Because they're frustrating! I waste energy with my thermostat. I get woken up at night with my smoke detector. Why do they have to do this? We have much better technology. We have SmartPhones that can control the world. Why can't your smoke detector not wake you up in the middle of the night?", "Smoke alarm hushed.", "Do you think that the age and the day of the inventor is still relevant? Now, Steve Jobs with the iPhone and the iPod, but they were one on their own. We all look for what's next. We all look for the next big thing. Where do these ideas come from?", "They really come from frustration, right? We were frustrated with our phones, we wanted to take all of our music everywhere. Frustration is a great -- source of inspiration.", "I've got to ask you, even though we're here to talk about Nest, not iTunes, iPhones, and Apple. Has Apple under Tim Cook lost its mojo?", "I think -- look. The team knows what they're doing, they've been there for decades, I've worked with these guys. They know what they're doing. Innovation takes a lot of time, right? Think about it. It took five, seven years to get from an iPod to an iPhone. And then it took more years to get to an iPad.", "But there's no guarantees with innovation it will be successful.", "There are no guarantees. There are a lot of things that we tried at Apple that weren't successful, you just don't remember them. You have to try, though.", "After the break, not selling a car, but a dream. 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{"id": "CNN-188467", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-6-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1206/27/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Stowaways Possibly in Shipping Containers at Port Newark; Drug War on Minds of Mexicans As Presidential Election Nears.", "utt": ["Illegal immigration is a hot topic across the country. And a drama is unfolding right now in a New Jersey port. Immigration agents got a call from Port Newark this morning. It appears that someone heard sounds coming from inside one cargo container that arrived there and suspected stowaways were inside. Mary Snow is in Newark. Mary, have they actually opened the container yet?", "Kyra, this is what we have confirmed, that some of the containers have been opened. They said, so far, they haven't found anything yet. What we've been told by the Coast Guard", "All right. Thanks to our affiliate WABC there. You can see you've got kind of a bird's-eye view of what's taking place there at the port on the ground. You see exactly what Mary Snow was talking about. We are going to follow what WABC is able to get a connection to there. And check in with Mary on developments on the possible stowaways there coming possibly from Pakistan, India. We will let you know. Well, imagine the outcry here in this country if some 50,000 people have been killed in just five years. Well, that's the reality of Mexico's drug war. And there's no end in sight, as the country is preparing to vote in next month's presidential election. We've got the latest now from our Rafael Romo.", "It wasn't just the fact that there was another shooting. What made headlines was that it happened at Mexico's largest airport, during the busiest time of the morning.", "We were really very confused. We didn't know whether the attackers were people dressed as police officers or if it was a fight among real police officers.", "Officials say the attackers were federal police who opened fire on fellow officers, investigating them for drug trafficking. President Felipe Calderon says a corrupt police force is one of his greatest challenges.", "Are the fragility and vulnerability of police and prosecutors in a good portion of the country made Mexico incapable of defending itself and it also allowed corruption and the power of criminals to grow exponentially.", "Calderon's administration, ending in December, has been defined for his crackdown in organized crime, a crusade that has had mixed results. (on camera): On the one hand, the president says his government has captured 22 of the 37 most-wanted criminals in Mexico. On the other hand, his critics say, drug violence has left more than 50,000 people dead since he took office.", "Some people think President Calderon was right in being atypical and declaring a war that no one had declared before. And some people, like myself, feel that he made an enormous mistake, a costly mistake in human lives, in jobs, in security for people.", "In the last five years, Mexicans have seen catapults tossing drugs across the border, hitmen shooting from armed trucks with tourists --", "-- plenty of gun fights between security forces and criminals, and gruesome murders, including hanging bodies and beheadings. President Calderon suggests criminals are lashing out like a beast. The future, he says, is at stake.", "We're leaving behind a fundamental legacy for Mexicans. A Mexico where criminals can no long act without impunity. A Mexico where they are prosecuted, face prosecution and justice and pay for their crimes.", "Mexicans go to the polls on July 1st to choose a new president. The four candidates battling for the job have not specified how and if they will pursue the war on drugs that Calderon started.", "Interesting that you mentioned that the elections are July 1st, but why won't they talk about specifics with security?", "Well, the answers have been long, but the specifics very, very short. One thing they have said is that it is time to change the strategy. It is time to take the army out of the streets and put it back in barracks and use the federal police to do law enforcement work against the drug cartels. Whether they will actually apply that or not once the new government takes over on December 1st, is an entirely different matter.", "For decades we have talked about the corruption within politics, within the police force, within the military, but it is interesting, because this is where you grew up and although still there is a long way to go, you have witnessed over the years a difference.", "There is a difference. The ruling party, the PRI, the government of Mexico over 71 years and during that regime, I would like the call it that, it was difficult to do anything, because it was not truly a democracy. The fight against organized crime was not really there. Many analysts say that the government was just looking the other way. President Calderon decided to change course and face this battle head-on. That is what he did, but the critics say it is not working the way he intended.", "Well, it is a tremendous problem, and it will be interesting to see what happens come July. You will be following it for us? Yes?", "Yes, I will be there in Mexico City.", "Will you actually be there? That's what I thought. All right. Good. We will talk about it then, Rafael.", "Thanks.", "Thank you so much. It is not a distinction that a city would ever brag about, but Sunday, Stockton will become the largest U.S. city to go broke. That is when the California city is expected to file for bankruptcy protection. The city manager says a special budget was approved yesterday amid a $26 million budget deficit. Under the plan, the city will be able to continue paying employees, vendors and service providers. Last year, Jefferson County, Alabama, filed the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, with a debt of $4.2 billion."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "LISBETTE VELAZQUEZ, WITNESS (through translation)", "ROMO", "FELIPE CALDERON, PRESIDENT OF MEXICO (through translation)", "ROMO", "JORGE CASTANEDA, FORMER MEXICAN FOREIGN MINISTER", "ROMO", "ROMO", "CALDERON (through translation)", "ROMO", "PHILLIPS", "ROMO", "PHILLIPS", "ROMO", "PHILLIPS", "ROMO", "PHILLIPS", "ROMO", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-83589", "program": "CNN WOLF BLITZER REPORTS", "date": "2004-4-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0404/06/wbr.00.html", "summary": "Surprise Attack Against U.S. Forces in Iraq", "utt": ["Happening now. A surprise attack against United States forces in Iraq. It's in the Iraqi city of Ramadi. This is a breaking story still unfolding. Details sketchy. They're only coming in right now. Stand by for hard news on WOLF BLITZER REPORTS. Defiance and disorder. U.S. marines move in on Fallujah against fears violence could spin out of control.", "There has to be somebody in charge.", "There is no question we have control of the country.", "America's new enemy. His new influence. Would a Muslim cleric's capture breed more chaos? Hunt for bin Laden, an inside look with U.S. special forces. A CNN exclusive. Opposing a giant. Wal-mart attempts a massive project. A city says no.", "We'd love to have this job, like to have the restaurant. Might even like to have Wal-mart but not at this cost.", "Today the voters decide.", "This is WOLF BLITZER REPORTS for Tuesday, April 6, 2004.", "There is breaking news we're following right now. A major offensive against U.S. forces underway in Iraq by followers of a radical young anti-American Shiite cleric. Sources here in Washington tell CNN Muqtada al-Sadr is stirring up what what's being described as a military uprising against U.S. forces. The source says an attack has been underway now for the past several hours in and around the Ramadi area where U.S. marines have a compound. Here's a quote from a U.S. official. \"He's whooping up his followers,\" this official says, referring to al-Sadr, \"it's ugly and it's messy.\" Let's go straight to our CNN senior international correspondent Walter Rodgers, he's joining us live from Baghdad. Walter, what are you hearing there?", "Wolf, a military source has told CNN that a number of insurgents, fewer than a hundred in Ramadi, which is about 60 miles west of Baghdad in the Sunni Triangle, a number of insurgents seized a number of government buildings in Ramadi. The marines were called in. There was a fire fight. A number of marines were killed. The same military source told CNN that fewer than a dozen marines have been killed in the battle with the insurgents. This is the Sunni Triangle, Ramadi is almost certain to have Sunnis there. These are the same fighters that have been battling with the coalition forces in the same area, Fallujah, as well. It's almost certain these are Sunnis because the Shiites wouldn't be operating there. As for the matter whether this is a major offensive a military source has again told CNN, \"I would not call this a military offense -- a major military offensive.\" In his words that would be a bit of a stretch. It appears to be not so much an offensive operation on the part of the marines as a defensive operation -- Wolf.", "Well, that's the point then. Officials here in Washington are telling us, Walter, that this was an operation, an offensive operation launched by Iraqi insurgents against U.S. marines in and around Ramadi. We're also being told here by U.S. sources that this is an operation that was inspired by the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. You seem to be getting a little bit of conflicting information in Baghdad.", "Well, I'm not sure it's conflicting. Indeed it was the insurgents which launched the assault on Ramadi. Their target was to take over government buildings there. The marines are in charge of defensive positions at that particular area. As for this being in sympathy with Muqtada al-Sadr. Recall, he's a Shiite cleric. There obviously is going to be some sympathy for Sadr even in Sunni neighborhoods and Sunni cities these days like Ramadi. Indeed we were told that in Fallujah where the marines also have that area surrounded that very ironically and surprisingly, pictures of a Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been seen going up in the town. Still the forces who would have attacked the government buildings in Ramadi would almost certainly have been Sunnis, and it may have been a classic operation from their point of view, from the point of view of the marines charged with responsibility in that area it would have been a defensive operation and the marines would have been battling to throw back this rebellion and I would think it more a rebellion, as I say, the military source we talked to here, who was pretty high up suggested that this is something less than the classic military operation, in his words, that would be a bit of a stretch. So a rebellion, perhaps, Wolf, but I'm not sure of much more than that. A rebellion by the Sunnis -- Wolf.", "One additional question, Walter. I'm also told by a U.S. official that this is approaching the end of a 40-day period of mourning, some sort of religious holiday for Shiites for Muslims in Iraq that ends April 11 and this is part of the effort by Muqtada al- Sadr to stir up hatred against the U.S. military. What do you know about this?", "Well, indeed there is the 40-day commemoration of the death of Ali -- Hussein, I believe it is, in the Shiite culture, the Shiite faith. That would be a big holiday here. I heard the dates of both the 11 and the 12th. This may be one of those lunar calendar commemorations that moves each year. So the Americans were braced for trouble at that point but what they were mostly expecting on April 11 or 12, again, on the anniversary of 40 days after Hussein died. What they were expecting was car bombs. Whether Muqtada al-Sadr is timing his revolt to coincide with that, I would be a little skeptical because the revolt actually began on Friday or Saturday of this past week. That would be premature -- Wolf.", "All right. Walter Rodgers will be on top of this story for us on CNN. Walter, thanks very much. Let's get some analysis now. Joining us on the phone is retired U.S. Army Brigadier General David Grange, our CNN military analyst. Walter is suggesting, General Grange, that under a dozen marines have been killed. Still that's a pretty significant number, as far as a fire fight is concerned. What's your impression?", "I think what is significant is the offensive actions that are being taken by whether they be Shiite or Sunni insurgents and at different targets around Iraq. That's a bit surprising that there seems to be some kind of a loosely, if nothing else, coordinated effort to hit targets in different areas. And so one part that is good, they are removed from the population and you can identify your targets to take down. The bad news is they are still in the spirit of an offensive action which will require some very aggressive momentum on the coalition part to put it to rest.", "This is an area in the Sunni Triangle, if Muqtada al- Sadr is stirring up not only his own Shiite radicals against the U.S. but also Sunni insurgents, loyalists to Saddam Hussein, that kind of double throng, double whammy, if you will, could be significant against the U.S. military there, General?", "It could be. Even though there is, you know, obviously some fighting between Sunnis and Shiites, from the militant standpoint, American and other coalition forces are the common enemy. And so, you know, you're friends momentarily for convenience in order to fight the coalition. At the future date they will worry about fighting each other. That is something to be concerned about, the fact they are in coordination with each other.", "Most of the attacks against the U.S. and coalition forces have been these irregular terrorists attacks. These improvised roadside explosives, General Grange. If this is more of the traditional offensive using mortar and weapons and some sort of armor, that would be significant in and of itself, wouldn't it? I think we may have lost General Grange. Are you still on the phone, General? Unfortunately we've lost General Grange. We'll try to get him back on the phone. This latest battle comes on top of days of fighting in cities across Iraq. Cities involving Saddam Hussein supporters as well as those Shiites loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr. 18 American soldiers have been killed since the weekend along with more than 116 Iraqis. CNN's Jim Clancy filed this report from Baghdad.", "A radical young Shiite cleric tried to derail U.S. efforts to contain his self-styled uprising while U.S. marines advanced on Fallujah. Clashes were reported in several cities across Iraq Tuesday as Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's private army seized control of police stations and government offices ordering coalition forces to withdraw. U.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer stressed the chaos was isolated.", "There is no question we have control of the country. I know if you just report on those few places it does look chaotic. Actually if you travel around the country and I was up north on two different trips last week, what you find is a bustling economy.", "But not all cities and towns are equal in Iraq. In a bold move Muqtada al-Sadr shifted his base of operations to the holy city of Najaf, to an office in the shadow of the Imam Ali mosque, a shrine holy to Shia Muslims around the world. He also brought busloads of supporters from Baghdad. Al-Sadr's militia was badly mauled in overnight fighting with the U.S. 1st armored division in Sadr City, an impoverished Shia suburb of the Iraqi capital. His forces lost 36 dead and more than 100 wounded according to hospital sources. The U.S. military was busy elsewhere. U.S. M1A1 Abrams tanks rolled into the troubled city of Fallujah under heavy fire from Sunni insurgents. The city itself remains surrounded and under curfew tonight. Most Iraqis living in Fallujah are staying indoors for their own safety. The U.S. push into Fallujah is being driven by the killings a week ago of four American security contractors whose charred bodies were dragged through the streets. High level military sources telling CNN Tuesday they are getting some names to match the photographs and video of the mob that day. They added, though, arrests may not come overnight. For many Iraqis, the security situation here is as bad as it ever has been since U.S. forces arrived. This weekend Shia Muslims will mark a major religious commemoration. At similar ceremonies two months ago more than 150 pilgrims were killed and another 400 wounded as a result of car bombs and suicide attacks. That's what Iraqis are afraid of. Things could and might get worse. Jim Clancy, CNN, Baghdad.", "Despite being a wanted man, Shiite cleric Muqtada al- Sadr has issued demands. He's asking coalition forces pull out of all population centers and release all Iraqi prisoners. If those terms were met, al-Sadr says he'd negotiate with the coalition. In just a matter of day, this young radical cleric has seemingly taken center stage in Iraq. As CNN's Brian Todd reports the fate of the occupation to be closely tied to the fate of al-Sadr.", "He proclaims he'll die before being captured. Now as he and his followers are barricaded in the holy city of Najaf there are ominous warnings about going after Muqtada al-Sadr.", "The implications of al-Sadr's arrest could be explosive. We have seen what happened when his newspaper was closed and one of his aides were arrested. Those instances led to the clashes that we witnessed over the weekend. In the specter of Sadr's arrest you can only imagine that it would be a much more severe response by his followers.", "The coalition is determined to keep that from happening.", "It represents a fundamental challenge to the concept of the rule of law in Iraq and it will not stand.", "Sadr's loyalists have laid down a clear mark showing no inhibition for bloodshed. First the killing last year of a moderate Shiite cleric leading to an arrest warrant for Sadr. In recent days as Sadr may have felt coalition forces were finally coming after him, a deadly revolt in the Baghdad slum named after his father. Now, with the standoff in Najaf coalition forces are taking a measured approach but the pressure to act is strong.", "Having gone as far as they have they need to take this fellow into custody and remove him from the scene.", "Sadr has a relatively small following against Iraq's Shia population. And despite some public statements his rivalry with Iraq's top Shiite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is longstanding bitter but a captured or killed and therefore martyred Muqtada al-Sadr may draw more disenfranchised Iraqis into his camp and against a battle-weary coalition. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "Here's your chance to weigh in on this important story. Our web question of the day is this, should the U.S. raid a holy site to arrest Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr? You can vote right now. Go to CNN.com/wolf. We'll have the results for you later on this broadcast. Debating the war, a major offensive on U.S. forces underway in Ramadi. Our live breaking news coverage will continue. Plus -- radio talk show host Al Franken and Michael Graham, they will square off on Iraq and more. Also, inside the hunt for al Qaeda, CNN's's Ryan Chilcote traveling with U.S. army special forces in Afghanistan. He'll join us live from Kabul with new exclusive video on the hunt for bin Laden. D.C. flyover, an unusual and frightening site over the nation's capital today. What were these jet fighters doing? And voting on Wal-mart. An ambitious plan by the nation's top retailer is met with heavy opposition. Today residents in one city settled the issue in the voting booth.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We're following a developing story of a battle underway in and around Ramadi in the so-called Sunni Triangle. Our senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre is getting fresh information from his sources. Jamie, what are you hearing?", "The first information we have gotten from Pentagon officials indicates that this fierce firefight which started several hours ago has taken at least about a dozen casualties, a dozen lives of U.S. Marines. Pentagon sources say that about a dozen Marines have been killed as a result of this action in which hostile forces believed to be former regime elements, that is the Sunnis in that Sunni Triangle area, who are opposed to the U.S. took over an Iraqi government building, controlled by the Iraq government/coalition and there is a firefight underway apparently to regain control of that building. It's not clear exactly what is going on. You know, these are the reports coming back from the battlefield to the Pentagon. So officials are very cautious warning that initial reports are often wrong but the initial reports do indicate about a dozen Marines killed. The action is continuing. It appears to be an action by former regime elements like those that the Marines are going after in nearby Fallujah, the next town over, closer to Baghdad -- Wolf.", "Are we getting any indication Jamie, that Muqtada al- Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric is perhaps inspiring those in Ramadi to launch this kind of military offensive against U.S. and coalition forces? Is there any indication along those lines because that's what I had been hearing.", "I'm told from the officials that I'm talking to there is no indication of that. However they caution these are just the initial reports. They are still sorting out the tactical situation as opposed to the strategic situation. But they believe because of where they are dealing with this and what they are dealing with they don't think that this was inspired by al-Sadr. They think it has more to do with the crackdown in nearby Fallujah against anti-U.S. elements there. But, again, the big caveat is they are going to need to wait until the dust of the battle has cleared and they are able to sort out exactly who was there and what happened. Again, this is still going on, a pretty fierce firefight, you can imagine if it's claimed the lives of about 12 U.S. Marines.", "Just to be precise on that. You are hearing about 12 United States Marines have been killed in Ramadi in this most recent firefight, is that right?", "That's correct. I know we said earlier we heard from a source that it might be under 12. I'm told the number is not really under 12 but about 12 which indicates it could be even over 12.", "As we all know additional reports always sketchy, subject to revision. Jamie will continue to check with his sources on all the latest information. Thanks, Jamie, very much. Whatever concerns the Bush administration may have about the situation in Iraq, it remains deeply committed to its deadline for handing over power, now less than three months away.", "Amid escalating violence in Iraq President Bush is vowing to stay the course and pass sovereignty to the Iraqi people on June 30.", "We're not going to be intimidated by thugs or assassins. We're not going to cut and run from the people who long from freedom.", "It was the second day in a row that the president has expressed his commitment to seeing a new Democratic Iraq emerge.", "A free Iraq is an historic opportunity to help change the world to be more peaceful. That's what we understand in this country.", "On Monday, Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy charged that Iraq was becoming President Bush's Vietnam. A charge rejected by the White House. Democratic Senator Joe Biden, the ranking minority member of the foreign relations committee, disagrees with Kennedy.", "I happen not to think it's Vietnam. I happen to think this is still redeemable.", "But Biden says it's unclear who will take charge of Iraq after June 30. He says the Bush administration has no plan in place.", "I think you can still do this but I do think the president needs to put forward a plan. We need to get the world in on our side in order to keep the American people resolved with this long fight.", "Chief administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer insists there is a plan. Though many details must still be worked out.", "The plan is to follow a pattern of broad consultations which have been begun. The secretary general of the U.N.'s special representative has been here now for five days. He's conducting those consultations as we are. And we are determining the size and shape of the interim government. It will be in place well before June 30 and we will pass sovereignty to that interim government on June 30 as scheduled.", "And in the meantime we're following a major offensive on U.S. forces in and around Ramadi, in the so-called Sunni Triangle. Our live breaking news coverage will continue on that. Plus -- a CNN exclusive. We've been on the move with U.S. special forces in Afghanistan. We'll show you what they have come across in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. A bold move for Wal-mart. Why voters will decide whether the retail chain can build a store near L.A.", "More on our top story, that's coming up. The latest fighting in Ramadi. The attack against U.S. marines there. We'll have details. That is coming up. Even though the conflict in Iraq is getting most of the attention. The United States military forces remain active in Afghanistan looking for Taliban and al Qaeda hold- outs including Osama bin Laden. CNN's Ryan Chilcote has been one of the only journalists allowed to travel with U.S. army special forces in Afghanistan. He's back now in Kabul and he's standing by with this exclusive report -- Ryan.", "It's a really rare opportunity I should say. One of the conditions of this opportunity, one of the rules we agreed to as part of the embed is that we wouldn't show you the faces of any of the special forces, any of the Green Berets involved in this operation. So you won't be seeing them right now. What you will see, what you haven't probably seen before is the soldiers that were with them. Soldiers from the Afghan national army. You probably haven't seen them, because it's a young army just about two years old being trained by the U.S. military and other coalition partners. It's about 8,000 strong right now. They together with U.S. army's Green Berets are really doing a lot of the heavy lifting in Afghanistan in terms of the fighting both on the eastern front, on the Pakistani border, the border with Pakistan and also where I was in southeastern Afghanistan in places like the Zabul (ph) province. Now a little bit about how difficult this fight is. Very loud plane right there. A little bit about how difficult this is, the Zabul province probably one of the most remote rugged places I have ever been. Very -- I think we have some video, very difficult to move around. Very difficult to find anyone. And very easy for any Taliban and al Qaeda fighters that might be in that area to get away. What the U.S. military does, the strategy really working with the Afghan national army is to create a presence in the area, to roam around in small numbers to present the image of being weak to try to draw out some of those fighters from the mountains to actually try to get them to shoot at them so that they can return fire. They have some other means of finding the fighters. They have some technical means and also use some informants. I want to show you some nighttime video. We have some video that I shot from inside a U.S. army humvee through night vision of a ranger truck that's carrying soldiers from the Afghan national army. This is how it normally looks when the soldiers go in for a nighttime raid. They are in black-out conditions. You see here that the Afghan national army is out front. That's how it usually happens. U.S. army sitting back to provide support to them. They only turn on the lights when they actually go in, in this case the informant was really using the soldiers in a tribal dispute and it turned out that there weren't any Taliban or al Qaeda fighters inside. Nevertheless, the Afghan soldiers went in and checked the situation out and will continue to look for Taliban and al Qaeda in the area -- Wolf.", "Ryan Chilcote doing some excellent reporting for us and he'll be doing a lot more in the hours and days to come. Ryan, thanks have much for that exclusive report. There's also a report some Islamic militants arrested in Jordan last week had plans to attack the United States embassy there. U.S. State Department sources telling CNN the U.S. embassy in Amman was one of several buildings the suspects hoped to hit. Several Jordanian government buildings also were on the list. Authorities say they made the arrest when they found several cars filled with explosives. An unusual and potentially startling sight in the skies over the nation's capital today. Fighter jets in an area that's been off limits to most aviation since 9/11. The jets were flying alongside a passenger plane bringing back grim memories of the September 11 hijackings. Worried citizens called authorities but it turns out the flights were authorized. The Air National Guard planes were being photographed over Washington for recruiting posters. Major offensive taking place right now against the United States marines in Ramadi, that's in the Sunni Triangle. In Iraq we'll go live to the Pentagon. We'll also talk with someone who predicted precisely this kind of uprising. Our coverage of this breaking news will continue. Plus... Forbidden to fly, innocent passengers being prohibited from planes. Find out how they're fighting back. And why some people in the suburb of Los Angeles want to roll back Wal-mart. All that coming up.", "Welcome back to CNN. New fierce fighting under way right now in Ramadi in Iraq. Also in Fallujah, a major offensive against U.S. Marines inside the so- called Sunni Triangle. We'll go live to the Pentagon for a complete update. First, though, a quick check of the latest headlines. The ACLU has filed a federal lawsuit, saying the government is harassing innocent airline passengers whose names wind up on its so- called no fly list. The complaint says the list has resulted in the repeated detention of passengers with no links to terrorist activity and no way to clear their names. Senior U.S. officials tell CNN they now believe fugitive terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi did not have his leg amputated before the war in Iraq. Bush administration cited reports that Zarqawi had the surgery in Baghdad as evidence of Iraq's alleged links to terrorism. Updating our top story right now, CNN has learned that insurgents in Iraq have launched an offensive against U.S. forces in Ramadi. That's not very far away from Fallujah. Our senior Pentagon correspondent, Jamie McIntyre, is joining us once again with information that he's learned -- Jamie.", "Well, Wolf, I have talked to yet another Pentagon official who is tracking events in Ramadi. And like all the previous ones, they want to caution that these are initial battlefield reports and invariably some part of it is wrong. But the latest report they have is that this attack which occurred several hours ago was against a Marine position in the vicinity of the governor's palace in al-Ramadi. And according to Pentagon officials, as many as 12 Marines were killed and a significant number wounded as well, some number less than two dozen, greater than 12, but less than two dozen wounded in this incident. We're also told that the U.S. forces inflicted heavy casualties on the Iraqis. And it's not clear at this hour, Wolf, if the fighting has essentially settled down. There was a question about whether or not at any point a building went into the control of the anti-U.S. forces, whether there was an effort to have to take it back. Again, they are just getting those reports back, but, again, as many as 12 Marines killed, possibly some number greater than that wounded as well, heavy casualties on the other side. And they still don't know exactly who they are dealing with. The prevailing suspicion seems to be that these are former regime elements, much like the ones in nearby Fallujah that the U.S. Marines are trying to crack down in an operation today -- Wolf.", "And correct me if I'm wrong, Jamie, but these Marines who went into the Ramadi area in the so-called Sunni Triangle, they only got there relatively recently, is that right?", "Well, the Marines just took over this whole area, which was referred by one Pentagon official today as the badlands, the area that involves the Sunni Triangle, in fact all the way over to Syria, took over from the 82nd Airborne Division. So they have just assumed control in this area and have been basically getting a handoff from the soldiers that had been in control of the area. So it's a relatively new area to them, yes.", "Jamie McIntyre will continue to follow this story for us here on CNN throughout the night. Jamie, thanks very much. Fawaz Gerges is a professor of international affairs at Sarah Lawrence College in New York state. He has predicted that these kind of uprisings in Iraq would take place. He's joining us now live on the phone. Professor Gerges, thanks very much for joining us. What exactly did you suspect would happen based on your knowledge of the region?", "Well, I think, Wolf, as you know, the official version in Washington is that most of the attacks were launched by foreign fighters, al Qaeda terrorists and a few small remaining pockets of the former Baathists. I think what appears to have happened, Wolf, is that I think the insurgency, the armed insurgency in Iraq has grown deeper roots in particular within the Sunni Arab community. And now unfortunately it appears to be spreading into many Shiite areas. And I think what has happened in the last few months is that the insurgency is being led by religious and nationalist sentiment. That is, it's a real insurgency deeply rooted in nationalist and religious sentiment. And if this is so, if the thesis is correct that foreign fighters and al Qaeda terrorists and diehard Baathists are playing a marginal role, rather than a substantial one, then, Wolf, what we are doing now, that is military escalation, will alienate the Iraqi community further and drive many of the members to take arms against the American and coalition forces.", "If I hear you right, Professor Gerges, are you suggesting that there is some sort of alliance of convenience, if you will, between Shiite radicals and Sunni radicals aligned, united by their hatred of the United States military in Iraq?", "Well, I think, Wolf, let me put it this way. I think the Sunni Arab community has been deeply embittered as a result of the American invasion and toppling of Saddam Hussein. And the community itself has supplied most of the insurgents. And in particular, many Shiites remained dissatisfied, in particular Muqtada al-Sadr, the fiery young Shiite cleric, who has been a very consistent and steady voice in opposing the American occupation in Iraq, and this is why I think the worst-case scenario, what we feared the most was that the insurgency will spread from the so-called Sunni Triangle. The Sunni Triangle is a strategic area of hundreds of square miles in central Iraq, includes Fallujah, Ramadi, Baghdad, the whole Anbar area. But it seems now, if you look at the Iraqi map, Wolf, in the last 48 hours or so, the insurgency has spread to almost every single town, Baghdad, Kufa, Basra, Najaf, Nasiriyah, Ramadi. This is very serious. This is what we are witnessing today, a major, major popular uprising. And to suggest that somehow we have a magical wand by going against Fallujah or if you -- this is what we are doing. We are playing directly into at least the hands of the dissatisfied forces in Iraq. And at the end of the day, regardless of what you think of the political configuration in the country, there is no military solution to the violent struggle unfolding in Iraq. We must think of a political exit strategy, a political solution, political solutions to deal with the situation in the country.", "Fawaz Gerges offering us some perspective, as he always does here on CNN. Fawaz, thanks very much for joining us. There are also new details being reported right now about fierce fighting in the town of Fallujah. That's 30 miles or so west of Baghdad also in the Sunni Triangle. U.S. forces have been battling insurgents there with combat said to be raging from block to block. The Associated Press reporting that in one strike U.S. warplanes fired into four houses tonight, killing 26 Iraqis, including some women and children. Al-Jazeera television has been airing this video which it says shows body bags in Fallujah. A hospital puts the total number of Iraqis killed in that city today alone at 34. More debate coming up on the ongoing conflict in Iraq. Radio talk show hosts Al Franken, Michael Graham, they are standing by to sound off. Plus, opposing Wal-Mart, why the retailer's bargain may not be enough to sway some California voters. They are deciding the fate of a proposed store right now. We'll get to all of that. First, though, a quick of some other news making headlines around the world.", "The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has agreed to step up cooperation. Visiting Iran today, Mohamed ElBaradei said a team of inspectors will arrive in Tehran next week to verify that uranium-enrichment activities have stopped. What lies beneath? Israel says Palestinian militants used this tunnel to smuggle weapons between Egypt and Gaza. It's the seventh such tunnel to be discovered this year and Israeli troops blew it up. Mexican floods. Flash floods have killed dozens in the city of Piedras Negras, about 150 miles southwest of San Antonio, Texas. Homes have been destroyed, neighborhoods have been evacuated, and Mexican President Vicente Fox has declared a state of emergency. April in Paris. Britain's Queen Elizabeth strolled through a Paris market, visited a church and enjoyed an equestrian show on the second day of her three-day tour of France. The visit marking the 100th anniversary between a treaty of Britain and France is an attempt to thaw often frosty relations. And that's our look around the world.", "The war in Iraq constant fodder for debate. So, today, we have voices from both sides of this issue. From New York, Al Franken. He's host of Air America's fledging liberal radio talk show, \"The O'Franken Factor.\" Here in Washington, conservative radio talk show host of WMAL's network, \"The Michael Graham Show,\" Michael Graham.", "Hi.", "Thanks to both of you for joining us. I want you to listen to what Senator Kennedy said yesterday, Michael, about the situation unfolding right now in Iraq.", "How do we reestablish the working relationships we need with other countries to win the war on terrorism and advance the ideals we share? And how can we possibly expect President Bush to do that? He's the problem, not the solution. Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam. And this country needs a new president.", "Explosive words, Michael. What do you say?", "It's absolutely outrageous. First of all, I love hearing the favorite senator of the United States distillery association on any topic whatsoever. But when I hear a member of his end of the party use Vietnam, what I understand -- and Al Franken can perhaps clarify this -- I understand him stay saying that it's an immoral war that we cannot win. I reject that on behalf of the troops on both sides. I wish he would say that standing in front of the one of the rape rooms we closed down about the immorality part. And, as far as we can't win, I have no doubt that our troops can win this war. Our troops have been winning wars like this for years. And they have the tools. They have the ability. This is -- I cannot think of a statement more designed to undercut the troops in the field than calling this a Vietnam. He dropped the V word on our troops. And I'm outraged by it.", "Al Franken, I want you to respond, but also respond in connection to what Senator Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor shortly after Senator Kennedy spoke out. Listen to this.", "Well, today, the senator has mounted another vicious attack on the president by leveling claims so outrageous, so completely outrageous, that I'm not going to repeat them here on the Senate floor, although they are being carried on television across the world, presumably even in Baghdad, where those who are fighting Americans in the street can view them.", "Al Franken, he presumably is suggesting that Senator Kennedy is giving aid and comfort to the enemy right now.", "Well, first of all, I just want to say how sad I am about what is happening today. I was -- I was in Iraq a couple months ago and my heart goes out to the families of the troops that we lost today. There's so much to say about this. We had James Fallows on yesterday, who wrote a piece in \"The Atlantic Monthly\" about how this administration, specifically Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Cheney, ignored, willfully ignored, all the preparation that was done for a post- invasion Iraq, including making fun of General -- humiliating General Shinseki, who said we should be sending several hundred thousand troops, including Rumsfeld, when the looting started, saying, like, the people are free to, in a free society, to do bad things, to loot and to do crime. And they aren't. And we have done this so badly. Whether or not you are for or against what we did, I think what -- what -- what Senator Kennedy is saying is that we have lost a tremendous amount of credibility around the country, because it is clear that we were misleading the world about weapons of mass destruction. And it's clear that Colin Powell at the U.N. said things that just weren't true.", "Let Michael respond.", "I just have a question, Al. And, by the way, Al, thank you for going and entertaining the troops. They had a great time.", "My honor. It's my honor.", "But don't -- when you hear a Democrat -- I hate to say Democrats -- when you hear people on your team say Vietnam, aren't they saying a war you can't win and a war that is wrong? Isn't that what it's shorthand for?", "Well, I think it's saying that it's a quagmire. And I think that that's something that Dick Cheney said in 1991 when he was asked why they didn't go into Baghdad after the Persian Gulf War. And he used that word. He said that we would be going into a quagmire because it's an artificial country. Now...", "I'm sorry. But to call Iraq a Vietnam, when we never made it to Hanoi and we were in Baghdad in, what, two weeks, when we have taken the whole country, when we're fighting fringe fighters, in fact, when we're fighting the extremist Shias that the other Shias fear and, according to the reports I've seen, are trying us, please, take this wack job, Sadr, out, that's hardly a quagmire. We're just fighting bad guys. You do understand that people die in wars, that bad things happen. It's not a picnic.", "I understand that. What I'm saying is, is that people on your side have been saying from the beginning of this war that things are going very well. I remember Brit Hume going on Fox on his \"Special Report\" saying that it's less dangerous to be a soldier in Iraq than to be a resident of California, because California has 6.6 murders day and, in Iraq, we are only losing 1.7 troops. That was obscene. And that's the kind of -- and I think that you have to have a little bit of understanding and more sophisticated understanding of what we've done wrong. And there is so much hubris on the part of this administration. And I think that does parallel to the hubris that we had in Vietnam. And whether -- right now, we're well above 600. This administration will not show caskets coming back. I think there is -- this is something that is very serious.", "And I don't think it's something that you start off by saying, I don't like hearing from the senator from the distilleries or whatever that joke was. This is not that kind of matter.", "These are troops that I visited. And I would not be a human being if I were not furious at this administration for their lack of preparation and for their arrogance in the way that they did this invasion.", "And I think that's legitimate, but I also am outraged at the defeatism that is coming from Ted Kennedy saying our guys can't win. And you guys are always throwing cold water on the troops themselves, saying this task is beyond them. It's one year. We've taken the whole country. We're accomplishing amazing things, along with the bad news. Don't throw out the good news with the bad. That's what I hear you doing.", "Well, I have supported our troops. I have been there. I've been on four USO tours. And I don't know", "But can they win? Do you think they can win? I think they can win. Do you think they can win?", "We have to. The problem is...", "Excellent.", "I think what Ted Kennedy said is right. We need international cooperation. You don't get international cooperation by going to the U.N. and saying that there is definitely a nuclear program being made by Saddam, when there is not.", "And you don't get peace...", "You don't get international cooperation when you lie about weapons of mass destruction. And we need to", "President Bush did not lie. That is an outrageous charge. You know it. But you don't get peace by going to the U.N. Ask people in Kosovo. Ask people in Iraq today or", "In Kosovo, by the way -- by the way, in Kosovo, Trent Lott and Tom DeLay and Senator Lugar, whom I respect a lot, were tearing into President Clinton, while we had troops in harm's way. And your buddy Sean Hannity was doing the same thing, saying that the president didn't have the moral authority and didn't have the ability to conduct that war and that we were running out of ammunition. He said that.", "And you are not -- and so you guys got to remember that when we were fighting in Kosovo, you guys were doing the same thing.", "And we were rescuing people from the ineptitude of the U.N. And, by the way, when you're raising moral authority, Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton are about the two worst people you can bring up, Al. Just a tip from my side of the radio.", "Let me just wrap this up. First to you, Al Franken. How is Iraq, in your opinion, going to play out in the political campaign over the next several months?", "Well, I don't think that the president will be showing footage of him landing on the aircraft carrier in the flight suit underneath the \"Mission Accomplished\" banner, for one. And I just think that -- I hope that we aren't seeing what we're seeing in this last week anymore. But I think this is -- will work to the president's disadvantage.", "Unfortunately, we have to leave it right there. But we'll invite both of you back. Michael Graham, as usual, thanks very much.", "My pleasure.", "Al Franken.", "Bye, Michael.", "Bye, Al.", "We'll let both of you go. Al got the last word, Michael got the first word in this debate.", "Thank you, Wolf.", "To be fair here. Controversy surrounding America's largest retail store. See why some residents in this California city are against Wal-Mart's ambitious new plan, voters deciding right now the store's fate. Stay with us.", "Residents of Inglewood, California, are going to the polls to decide whether or not to clear the way for Wal-Mart to build a shopping center. The retail giant is proposing a 60-acre shopping destination in L.A. suburb. But Inglewood's city council blocked it last year. Wal-Mart collected more than 10,000 signatures to force an Inglewood ballot initiatives. Opponents of Inglewood say if it passes it will allow the company to circumvent zoning, traffic and environmental reviews. We'll have the results of our \"Web Question of the Day.\" That's coming up next.", "Here's how you're weighing in on our \"Web Question of the Day.\" Take a look at this, remembering that this is not, repeat, not, a scientific poll. Let's get to some of your e-mail. John writes this: \"The Iraqi people do not want the Americans there. We have not been greeted with flowers and hugs, but with bullets and bombs. This is understandable. We have invaded their country. If another country invaded the U.S. and shoved its customs and beliefs on us, wouldn't we fight back?\" Valerie: \"We must show the insurgents in Iraq that they've misjudged the American public and our democracy. We disagree and argue among ourselves, but our strength is that we can come together to defeat a common enemy.\" \"LOU DOBBS TONIGHT\" starts right now. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLITZER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLITZER", "ANNOUNCER", "BLITZER", "WALTER RODGERS, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "RODGERS", "BLITZER", "RODGERS", "BLITZER", "BRIG. GEN. 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{"id": "CNN-388580", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-12-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/23/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Holiday Stalemate Grips Senate Impeachment Trial; DOJ Argues Courts Should Stay Out of Don McGahn Testimony Battle; GOP Blasts Pelosi for Withholding Impeachment Articles.", "utt": ["-- have the week off. And right now the Senate's top Democrat once again demanding more witness testimony when the chamber takes up impeachment. The latest order from Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer comes as redacted government e-mails show the effort to freeze security funding to Ukraine began just 90 minutes after Trump's July 25th phone call with the Ukrainian president. Now Schumer says we need to hear from the White House budget official Michael Duffey.", "If there was ever an argument that we need Mr. Duffey to come testify this is that information. This e-mail is explosive.", "Meanwhile, we are learning overnight the Justice Department has told a federal appeals court to stay out of the fight over the testimony of former White House counsel Don McGahn, seeming to contradict the GOP position the Democrats should have let this play out in the courts. Let's begin this morning with CNN congressional reporter Lauren Fox. She's on Capitol Hill. Lauren, what are lawmakers saying following the release of these redacted e-mails?", "Well, you heard there, Ryan, from Chuck Schumer. He's basically arguing that these e- mails are explosive and they really provide more evidence for why the Democrats need to hear from witnesses as part of that Senate impeachment trial. But we heard from Majority Leader McConnell just a few minutes ago on FOX News and what he said essentially was that they are not prepared to have a debate about witnesses in the very early stages of this trial. Instead, he's arguing Nancy Pelosi just needs to send those articles of impeachment over, then they will have a discussion about witnesses after they've heard a presentation from the House managers who are going to make their Democratic case, then they're going to hear a presentation from the White House's side who is going to make their case. Then they will make a decision about where to go from there. Whether or not it's a vote on the articles of impeachment, whether there's going to be 51 senators ready to vote or whether they move on to witnesses. So McConnell's arguing right now he and Schumer are at an impasse, but not a lot is going to change. Here's what McConnell said.", "Look, we're at an impasse. We can't do anything until the speaker sends the papers over. So, everybody, enjoy the holidays.", "And Nancy Pelosi just a few minutes taking -- a few minutes ago, Ryan, taking to Twitter and arguing that she is not prepared to send those articles over until she sees exactly how a Senate trial is going to be taken apart -- Ryan.", "All right. Lauren Fox live on Capitol Hill. Lauren, thank you for that report. And new this morning, the Justice Department is arguing that our federal appeals court should not decide if former White House counsel Don McGahn could testify before House lawmakers. The House Judiciary Committee said it needed McGahn's testimony as part of its impeachment inquiry related to President Trump and obstruction of justice. But DOJ attorneys argue that since the impeachment vote last week, McGahn's testimony is no longer necessary. A three-judge panel in Washington is set to hear the case on January 3rd. All right. Let's discuss the legal ramifications of this with former federal prosecutor Gene Rossi. Gene, thank you for being here this morning. Now this came in --", "Thank you for having me.", "This came in a late-night filing last night. Let me read to you what the White House said. It said, quote, \"If this court now were to resolve the merits, the questions in this case, it would appear to be weighing in on a contested issue in any impeachment trial that would be part -- that would be a questionable proprietary whether or not such a judicial resolution preceded or post-dated any impeachment trial.\" Do they have a point?", "They have a small, tiny sliver of a point. When I worked at the Department of Justice for 30 years -- by the way, Happy Holidays. When I worked at the department for 30 years or so, we never told the court, hey, don't make a decision that we have asked for. The Department of Justice, after Judge Brown Jackson's ruling on November 25th, basically wanted an expedited appeal process with the D.C. U.S. Court of Appeals. They're now saying that we don't want you to rule, so as you said in your prologue here on your show, there's a little inconsistency in the Department of Justice's position. So they have a tiny point, but it's overridden by the practice and procedures that they followed for the last 150 years.", "And also, this, of course, comes against the backdrop of how Republicans have been treating the court's involvement in all of this. They've repeatedly slammed Democrats for attempting to get the court's involved in this impeachment process. Aren't they contradicting themselves a bit with this particular filing?", "They are.", "First off, the Justice Department headed by Attorney General Bill Barr has engaged in a plethora of contradictions over the last year and a half, so this is just another, you know, feather in the cap if you will. It doesn't surprise me. What really -- at the end of the day, the appeals court is not going to make a ruling on the McGahn issue until probably February, March or April because it's going to be a three- judge panel, they all would want to write some, you know, fulsome opinion, Warren piece, for history books. So you're not going to get a ruling in January. I would be shocked if there was a ruling.", "So -- I mean, is there really anything Democrats can do at this point? I mean, they've essentially already handed this over to the Senate at this point. It seems unlikely that McGahn is really going to be a part of this process. Is there anything Democrats can really do?", "They can't do a thing. The McGahn issue is sitting on a back burner in the court of appeals. What the Democrats and members of the Senate should do is focus like a laser beam, present their case, and let the chips fall where they may. If President Trump is removed, that's the Constitution. If he's acquitted, so be it. Let's move on.", "All right. Gene Rossi, appreciate your perspective, former federal prosecutor weighing in on this information, playing out in the courts related to impeachment. Gene, thank you. Let's keep the conversation going now with Karoun Demerjian, a congressional reporter at \"The Washington Post\" and Francesca Chambers, White House correspondent at McClatchy D.C. Francesca, let's start with you. I mean, these new e-mails do show efforts to freeze security funding to Ukraine. It actually started roughly 90 minutes after President Trump spoke on the phone to Ukrainian President Zelensky on July 25th. I mean, if you're the Democrats what can you really do with this at this point?", "Well, without testimony from those officials and Mick Mulvaney, there isn't too much that they can do with this at this point especially over the holidays by the way. And there's been conflicting information about whether or not there would be live witnesses at this point in a Senate trial. We heard Mitch McConnell this morning saying that they still haven't made a decision on the live witnesses, but just yesterday Lindsey Graham said there wouldn't be live witnesses, we shouldn't expect to hear from these Trump administration officials because the president has given them executive privilege. So there seems to be a disconnect about what would happen in a Senate trial, regardless of what Nancy Pelosi does.", "All right. Let's take a listen to what vice president's chief of staff said about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to hold off on sending articles of impeachment to the Senate. Take a listen.", "Quite confident that this position is untenable and she's going to move it along and that Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell reach a deal on how it's going to proceed in the Senate.", "So you think that she'll eventually give in.", "She will yield. There's no way she can hold this position.", "Karoun, you spent a lot of time around Nancy Pelosi. Is Marc Short right? How long can she old on to this position?", "Well, Nancy Pelosi has held on to positions based on her convictions for longer than others have around her and she and McConnell are very alike in that way, that they're both very strong-willed, they've both very good at counting their votes and deciding what to do based on that. But it does seem like it's a little bit politically difficult for the Democrats to sit on those articles of impeachment in perpetuity. They went through this entire process, it was a politically -- there were some potential benefits, there were a lot of risks involved, and to not let it go forward into the trial there are too many Republicans that are basically accusing them of being afraid that they don't have a good enough case. So there's some leverage she has especially in this period in which nothing was going to happen anyway because it's the holidays, to push Mitch McConnell, to push the Senate to try to make some of their stances clear about witnesses and as you heard McConnell say on FOX today, he started to speak a little bit more open language about what witnesses may or may not be allowed in. But her leverage starts to potentially fade once they get back to town in January because something has to happen and the more it doesn't, the more there's going to be fingers pointed at her for saying why aren't you letting it? Are you not confident in this case?", "Yes. It will be an interesting staring contest over the holidays.", "Yes.", "Will they really be --", "And they're both very good at it.", "Exactly. Exactly. And how engaged will they be. Of course Nancy Pelosi still tweeting about it this morning so it's obviously on the minds of both of them. You know, Francesca, you obviously cover the White House. This of course Nancy Pelosi's tweet from this morning, talking about how she's not even going to hold off on naming impeachment managers until they know exactly how the Senate is going to handle this. And of course, Francesca, from the White House perspective, we know that President Trump is anxious to be acquitted. In fact Marc Short said that this weekend. You know, in the minds of the White House, and in the GOP, is an acquittal a full exoneration? Is that how they're going to sell it to the American people?", "That's absolutely how President Trump plans to sell it to the American people. And there's also this question of the State of the Union now. Nancy Pelosi has invited him to give it on February 4th and whether or not a trial would be finished by that point, and so that's a question that's at play. And what I've been hearing from White House officials overall about Nancy Pelosi and what we expect over the next month is that they are wondering at this point what she will do next and saying that what happened to the lack of urgency. Before she has said that this was urgent, now White House officials are saying well, how urgent can it be if you're now saying that you're going to delay it indefinitely while we go back and forth over the Senate trial procedures and that was another argument that Marc Short had made yesterday. But realistically, again, because of the holidays it's very tough for the White House to do anything or Mitch McConnell or the Senate, until they get back into session this month or next month, sorry.", "Yes, meanwhile, Karoun, President Trump already in Mar-a- Lago, mixing it up with his allies, on vacation there. Already seen meeting with conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh. We know Rudy Giuliani is down there. I mean, how will this impact all these folks surrounding President Trump, his mentality going into that Senate trial?", "Well, this is what some people feared, right? Which is that when he's at Mar-a-Lago, the access to him is pretty much more wide open than when he's at the White House and all of his aides and advisers are around to control that. I think Trump has not always been in lockstep with his legal team. His legal team seems to be more in line with Mitch McConnell's thinking in terms of keeping this small and tight and keeping witnesses out of it if they can. The president has taken to Twitter and said give me the whistleblower, give me Hunter Biden, and you can't really get those two. I don't think that there would be 51 Republicans that would agree to just the GOP side witnesses and not others who are in the administration. And so if the president decides that he is going to just kind of play a little bit fast and loose, he could really undercut the position that the GOP is trying to take and that could add to Nancy Pelosi's leverage in this situation because if the president swings the balance or really pushes this past the point where Mitch McConnell can hold everybody else in line, there you go. That's not your 51 senators anymore and then Democrats may be able to get some sort of deal that involves some measure of the witnesses on their preferred roster.", "To think this is going to be a quiet few weeks while the Senate is out of town I think is a little bit of a fantasy, especially because President Trump still has access to his Twitter account while he's at Mar-a-Lago with all those folks around him. All right, Karoun Demerjian, Francesca Chambers, terrific discussion, thank you both for being here. And still to come, we're just over a month away from the Iowa caucuses. Candidates are canvassing that key state in a final sprint, and we have Democratic hopeful Andrew Yang with us. He joins me next. What's his battleground state strategy? Plus, new CNN reporting about Kim Jong-un's Christmas gift to the United States. What that may turn out to be or not be. That's coming up. And Saudi Arabia sentences five people to death over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Why now?"], "speaker": ["RYAN NOBLES, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY)", "NOBLES", "LAUREN FOX, CNN POLITICS CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-37579", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-8-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/20/lt.05.html", "summary": "Girl Survives Alligator Attack In Florida", "utt": ["If you are tired about all these stories about shark bites, well let's go into the lakes of Florida, shall we. Or, do we dare? Edna Wilks went into a lake in central Florida and had an alligator encounter. We get the story now from Central Florida News 13.", "She's my best friend. I've -- she was my best friend before this, but still it's like I owe her my life.", "Edna Wilkes can't say enough about her friend, Amanda.", "She came back and she gave me her raft, her boogie board.", "The teens were both swimming with a group of friends in Little Lake Conway, Saturday night, when a gator grabbed Edna's arm and pulled her underwater.", "I just heard screaming, and every time I'd hear a scream I would just get this shock through my body. And I never want to feel that feeling again.", "Instead of climbing out of the water, Amanda helped pull her friend to the shore.", "I knew I was risking my life, but I didn't really care.", "Edna says, for the past five years she's never even thought twice about swimming in the lake.", "We've never seen one the whole time we've lived there, and it just came out of nowhere.", "In all, three alligators were pulled from Little Lake Conway less than 24 hours after the attack. The smallest, just two feet, the largest was over 11 feet long. (voice-over): As for Edna, she has a broken arm and a deep cut on the hand she used to pry open the gator's mouth. Still, Edna knows the attack could have been much worse if it wasn't from her friend Amanda.", "Way to go, Amanda.", "Let's hear if for Amanda. As you know, alligator attacks are extremely rare as are shark attacks, but it's been a summer, hasn't it."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "EDNA WILKS", "KELLY TEAGUE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "WILKS", "TEAGUE", "AMANDA VALLANCE", "TEAGUE", "VALLANCE", "TEAGUE", "WILKS", "TEAGUE (on camera)", "LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-398356", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2020-04-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/24/acd.01.html", "summary": "Top Admiral Recommends Captain Be Reinstated After Former Navy Secretary Fired Him For Coronavirus Warning; Top Admiral Recommends Captain Be Reinstated After Former Navy Secy Fired Him For Coronavirus Warning", "utt": ["There's breaking news tonight on Captain Brett Crozier who received a hero sendoff after he was stripped of his command of the carrier Theodore Roosevelt. Captain Crozier was fired after warning of coronavirus outbreak that was spreading throughout the ship. As of today, 856 sailors have tested positive for the virus. Huge uproar ensued. The acting Navy secretary who swung the axe was, himself, subsequently fired after calling Captain Crozier either naive or stupid. Now, the Navy is recommending he be reinstated at the TR's helm. Barbara Starr joins us now with more. So, what is the status of the naval recommendation tonight?", "Well, good evening, Anderson. Earlier today, the head of the U.S. Navy, four-star admiral, Michael Gilday, recommended to the defense secretary that Crozier be reinstated to his command of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and be in charge of the nearly 5,000 people onboard that carrier. But Esper did not expect the recommendation, at least not yet. Esper is saying he wants to read the whole investigation report. And make sure it's, you know, his aids his aides are saying he wants to make sure it's thorough and comprehensive, and then he'll decide if he's going to accept the recommendation to reinstate Crozier. But, to be very clear, that is not the way the day started out. Here, at the Pentagon, the word was out that that recommendation was going to be made, and there was every expectation that Esper was going to accept it.", "Any sense of what -- so the calculus for Secretary Esper would be?", "Well, you know, we don't know. You know, is he going to accept it? It will be a real test of whether or not he has confidence in the Navy leadership. And he is willing to accept their recommendation after they investigated it. What the big unknown, Anderson, is whether there is any White House calculus in this. Is it that Secretary Esper wants to run this past the White House, and see if President Trump wants to get involved? We've seen him get involved in Pentagon matters before. And, tonight, there's really no answer to that.", "And what about the sailors on board who had the virus? Do we know the latest on their condition?", "Well, as you said, more than 800 now have tested positive. Very sadly, one did pass away from the virus. Captain Crozier, himself, tested positive. But we are told, in the last day or so, he is no longer in isolation in Guam. It's really interesting. The Pentagon and Centers for Disease Control have a medical investigation going on right now, trying to figure out how that virus spread so widely through that ship. More than 800 sailors testing positive, and this is really the biggest outbreak the U.S. military has seen so far. They're asking for help from the CDC, in trying to figure out exactly what transpired.", "Barbara Starr, appreciate it. Thanks very much.", "Sure.", "Joining us now, friend of the captain's, former naval aviator, Brett Odom. Brett, thanks so much for being with us. I know you have been in touch with Captain Crozier today since the news broke. Can you say anything about his reaction to all this?", "Yes, and I should just make clear that I'm not speaking for him, and he is clearly not speaking to the media. So, you know, I'm comfortable talking about his general attitude and where he is.", "Fair enough.", "There's been a few of us, close friends, we've had a chat group. We stayed in touch and talked to him. And throughout this, his entire attitude has been, you know, he did the best that he could. And he stood by his decision, and he's kept his sense of humor and has really taken everything in stride. So, you know, I think he was -- my sense of his reaction is he's deeply humbled. And -- and -- and deeply grateful for the way the navy, the way they've handled this. From what I gathered in our conversations, everything's been incredibly professional. The Navy's done an incredibly good job of taking care of him and his family. And so I think his attitude is that, you know, obviously, I expect he's probably very glad to be vindicated by the recommendation of the CNO and excited at the opportunity to lead the sailors if it comes to pass.", "I'm, also, guessing that he is incredibly concerned about all the -- I mean, 800 people aboard that ship, more than, coming down with the virus. I'm sure he's -- continues to be concerned about them as he, himself, as been in quarantine. Do you know, is he able to -- I mean, I guess he's able to get updates about -- about them. I would assume.", "You know, I know he's talked to a lot of folks. We have some classmates in Guam who've, you know, kept in touch with him. I'm sure he's in -- in connection with folks in the Navy. You know, he says he had a lot of phone calls. We didn't get into the details. But, certainly, any skipper and commanding officer of Brett's caliber would be deeply concerned about the crew. And, you know, I know they're first and foremost in his thoughts.", "Do you -- I mean, I don't know, again, you say what you can say but is he hopeful to retake command of the USS Roosevelt?", "Well, like I said, I think the news today, he -- I gather he did not have any forewarning. I sent him a link, and spoke to him shortly after. My -- my sense is that he's -- he's humbled. He is excited if the opportunity comes to pass. And, again, this is a man who's put 32 years of his adult life into the naval service. It's a calling. It's a vocation. And if he has the opportunity to lead the greatest sailors on the -- in the -- on the planet, I think he would be happy and grateful to do that again.", "You're a navy man yourself. I'm wondering what -- I mean -- for you, what do you think the -- I mean the lesson in all this is? Is there a lesson in this?", "You know, we've talked about this becoming a leadership case the Naval academy, our group of classmates, I have no doubt this will be taught. I think it -- again, I'm not speaking with any inside information, just looking at it from the outside. I think it's a situation where you had a fast-moving virus, you had asymptomatic carriers, you had a long incubation period. And you have support environment where as you states on the Diamond Princess, the peer reviewed article he quoted in his memorandum. It's nearly impossible to contain this in that situation. So I think that you could get to a point in cold analysis where everybody did the right thing, and maybe there's a breakdown of communication. But I -- you know, I think he's comfortable with the decision he made.", "Yes. Brett Odom, I appreciate you coming on in and talking about your thoughts on this. Thank you so much.", "Happy to do it. Take care, Anderson.", "You take care. Just ahead, latest on the vaccines now development to treat coronavirus. Our Sanjay Gupta is going to join us again for an update, when we continue."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "STARR", "COOPER", "STARR", "COOPER", "STARR", "COOPER", "BRETT ODOM, FRIEND OF CAPT. CROZIER", "COOPER", "ODOM", "COOPER", "ODOM", "COOPER", "ODOM", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "ODOM", "COOPER", "ODOM", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-356163", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2018-12-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1812/03/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "Trial Of Charlottesville Driver Underway", "utt": ["It was a deadly incident that shocked America. Now, more than a year after Heather Heyer was killed, when a car plowed into the crowd of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, the trial of 21-year-old James Alex Fields is under way. He faces a possible life sentence if he is convicted of first-degree murder. Fields also faces eight more counts related to eight people who were injured. Sara Sidner has been following the trial and she joins me now. Sara, good evening to you. The prosecution is expected to rest the case tomorrow, but there's some new evidence they're trying to bring into court?", "Yeah, we have all just seen publicly some new evidence that could be potentially damaging for James Fields' defense because it could speak to his state of mind. What we are now seeing from prosecutors who are trying to get the judge to allow this to come into the case are text messages between James Fields and his mother long before police say he rammed his car into dozens of protesters here in Charlottesville, Virginia. I'm going to read out the text messages that the prosecutor is trying to get into this case. Here's what the first text says. It says, \"Fields tells his mom, I got the weekend off, so I'll be able to go to the rally.\" His mother responds like any mother would, telling him to be careful. Fields then sends this text back that reads, \"we're not the one who need to be careful\" and he adds an image of Adolf Hitler to that message. That is very damaging evidence because it could speak to his motive. It could talk a little bit about the fact that police have already accused him of being a Nazi sympathizer. You have a picture of Adolf Hitler there and you also have his aggression coming out in those text messages. It sounds like pre- planning, if you will, as well. Then you have this. Three months before any of this happened. There was a meme that James Fields put out on Instagram. And that the judge says can come in to this case. And I'll take -- look at this meme. Basically you see that picture there.", "Wow.", "It's someone running into a bunch of people. And it says, \"you have the right to protest, but I'm late for work.\" So it shows a certain kind of callousness. Now, remember, that is several months before he has been accused of running his car into all these people, killing Heather Heyer. But I do want to mention to you what was really striking, I think, in court today. We heard from some of the victims, some of the victims who are still recovering after being hit by the car here in Charlottesville. We heard from a victim named Jeanne Peterson. She said that she was there, she was near Heather Heyer, she saw Heather Heyer being hit, fly up into the air. She looked into her eyes and said, \"I think that's what the eyes of a dead person looks like.\" And she is still in a wheelchair, Don. [23:44:58} She has such damage to her leg that she is still going through surgery. She has a sixth surgery that she is currently awaiting. Her life will never be the same. We also heard from Thomas Baker, who was a conservation biologist. He talked about the fact that he really didn't want to take part in any of the crazy machinations that happened here in the rallies. None of the violence. He actually just kind of want to come down and see, but he also wanted to be present. He was new to the area, and he did not like the idea of the \"unite the right\" rally coming here and spewing hate. So he wanted to come out and observe and also just be present. And he says he got a part of this group that was cheerful and happy. They were sort of celebratory. They were singing and chanting in the streets. They were not being violent. When all of a sudden he heard tires screeching. He too got hit by the car. He says he will never be the same. He used to be an athlete. He says it was part of his identity and that has been stripped away. He now cannot run. He says it hurts sometimes just to sit or stand. So these are just some of the stories of the victims. But Heather Heyer's mother, Susan Breaux (ph), has been here every single day listening to the details of the worst day of her life. We all listened as a paramedic who got to Heather Heyer and the first person that tried to save her life talked about Heather Heyer being alive when he first got to her and then her skin color changing. He talked about all of her multiple injuries to her chest. Her ribs were broken. Her lungs were bruised. Her leg was broken, and one of her arteries was severed in half. She ended up taking so much trauma that her body just couldn't handle it, Don.", "Couldn't handle it. I've got to ask you, because it's obvious. I wonder what the defense is going to say, because this alleged murder is caught on camera. I mean, you can see the video here, and it's very graphic. But we saw this happening almost in real time.", "And not just in one place, but there was someone who spoke, a witness who spoke who had Facebook lived it. There were other videos of this. There's some surveillance video as well. So there were multiple different places where people had video of either the beginning of the incident or the whole thing. So there is a lot of video out there due to social media in part. But the defense appears to be trying to say that this was done in self- defense. Now, we haven't heard the defense's case yet. We are expecting the prosecution to rest its case before lunch tomorrow. This case going very quickly, according to the judge. But we are listening to the cross-examination by the defense. And much of what they are trying to bring in is the fact that there were not a lot of police around in the area, that the police presence was very small, that there was nothing blocking the streets, that there was no protection, if you will, around James Fields, and so that he felt scared potentially in this particular area. But everyone who testified today said they didn't really see anybody around him before they heard the screeching of tires and then the thumps. That was him hitting people. Don?", "Sara Sidner, I appreciate your reporting. Thank you so much. The nation is honoring the 41st president tonight. We're going to talk to someone who worked closely with President George H.W. Bush and with his son, President George W. Bush."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "SARA SIDNER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "SIDNER", "LEMON", "SIDNER", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-173115", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-9-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/28/cnr.01.html", "summary": "How to Fix a Broken Government", "utt": ["Well, our CNN in-depth series continues on our broken government. So, how do average Americans see it? Our latest CNN/ORC poll shows your trust in the federal government is now at an all-time low. Just 15 percent of you trust the government to do what's right always or most of the time. So, what's the solution? Author and lawyer Philip K. Howard has some suggestions. He's chair of Common Good, which advocates a good approach to running the government. I read a number of your ideas, Philip. So, why don't we start with cleaning out the staples of government? I was reading, you say, entitlements, mandates, regulations, boom, out the window.", "Yes, the problem is, we've sort of all stuffed up with obsolete law so the regulations pile up over the years and the problem is not that we're re regulating the wrong thing. We don't want to get rid of environmental regulation, but you've got to let people take responsibility to actually meet their environmental requirements and give the freedom to enforce it.", "Well, you talk about not understanding the law and that is one thing you say we need to do is radically simplify the law. I mean, they've got to be understandable in order to be effective.", "That's completely right. I mean, there are 180 million words of binding federal law and regulation. Nobody can read it all, much less comply with it. We need to go back to old principles, which is basic responsibility.", "How did we get out of touch with basic responsibility? It seems so simple.", "You know, we had this idea that you could create a legal system that was like a software program. You know, if you, but humans don't have a hard drive and a processor. Humans are pretty good at getting things done. You tell them that they have to meet a certain standard pollution, they can figure out how to do it. But if you give them thousands of pages to comply with, they'll just end up catching the pollution in the wrong place. So, that's happened at every level, really -- even teachers. Teachers are drowning in bureaucracy.", "Well, and you actually point that out that we need revive accountability for public employees and you specifically address overhauling civil service and teachers' tenure.", "Yes. There is a great deal to be made here. You can liberate, for example, teachers. You can let them be themselves, again. Take back control of the classroom, be spontaneous and do the stuff that humans need to do, teachers need to do to -- to interest the children, but only if they can be accountable if they do a lousy job.", "So Phillip, you've got about a few weeks. Why aren't you putting your hat in the ring and run for president? You seem to know exactly how to fix our broken government, my friend. What are you doing?", "Well, you know, the American people know that it all boils down to humans. Rules don't make anything happen and -- and we are talking to the presidential candidates and President Obama has actually endorsed some of our reforms and some of the Republican candidates look like they're going to, as well. So our goal is to try to change the dialogue and move it away from this partisan baloney towards the actual conditions under which we could break out of this paralysis and get something done.", "Well, I can see why your book \"The Death of Common Sense\" is a \"New York Times\" bestseller. Phillip, thanks so much for weighing in this morning. I really appreciate it.", "It's great to be with you.", "You bet. All right, for more on Phillip's ideas on government fixes, you can just check out his Web site, it's just his name, right there. There you go, there's his book, too, PhilipKHoward.com. And coming up all this week more of CNN's In Depth series, \"Our Broken Government\". So what do you get for someone who just lost their job? How about a sympathy card? Well, some people question whether this gesture could be a bit misinterpreted."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "PHILIP K. HOWARD, CHAIRMAN, COMMON GOOD", "PHILLIPS", "HOWARD", "PHILLIPS", "HOWARD", "PHILLIPS", "HOWARD", "PHILLIPS", "HOWARD", "PHILLIPS", "HOWARD", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-76863", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2003-9-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/13/cst.09.html", "summary": "Colin Powell Travels To Switzerland In Hopes Of Settling International Differences", "utt": ["It is noon in Atlanta, 11:00 a.m. in Nashville, Tennessee, 6:00 p.m. in Geneva Switzerland. I'm Fredricka Whitfield at the CNN Global Headquarters and this is CNN LIVE SATURDAY. We begin in Switzerland where the focus today, has been on stabilizing Iraq. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is holding talks with the foreign ministers of the four other permanent members of the United Nations' Security Council. From Geneva, CNN's senior international correspondent, Sheila MacVicar with the very latest -- Sheila.", "Fredricka, that meeting broke up just a few minutes ago. Secretary Powell will be shortly leaving Geneva and heading off, as you said, on a trip which will take him to Kuwait and Iraq, departing a little later on today from Geneva. Now the meeting took place here, as the League of Nations, the old Palais des Nations building, here in Geneva. A symbolic choice, perhaps, given what the U.S. administration had been saying about the United Nations in the months leading up to war with Iraq. You remember perhaps, the phrase, I think was used was that they were \"irrelevant\" that was the time the U.S. chose to go to war. A war, only with the cooperation with the British. Now, they're back talking about a U.S. resolution, which is on the table now, which would give U.N. Security Council approval to additional troops, multi-national troops, the U.S. saying it wants between 10 and 15,000 troops to go into Iraq, the question, of course, being where those troops should come from, the U.S. hoping, very much, that they might come from Muslim nations, like Turkey and Pakistan. Now, the other members of the Security Council have suggested that, in large measure, they would accept such a proposal, but the sticking point has been this question of the transfer of citizen control away from U.S. authorities and put into the hands of Iraqis, themselves. Now, this has clearly been a difficult day. here in Geneva, and we heard from Secretary of state Powell. His views there had been perhaps some progress made.", "I will leave this meeting, encouraged with the points of convergence, but also recognizing that there's still some difficulties and differences that have to be worked out. What we're all committed to, as the secretary general said, is to put authority back into the hands of the Iraqi people.", "As quickly as possible, now, that is indeed the question, here. The French have a view it should happen very quickly indeed, perhaps within a month or so. The United States making very clear, over the course of the last week, that it believes such a swift transfer of authority was unrealistic and indeed would not be responsible. That clearly has been one of the discussions that has been taking place, here today. All parties careful to say that their -- the purpose in being here today was to listen, to try to get some consensus that they could then take back to New York and try build on -- Fredricka.", "All right, Sheila MacVicar, thanks very much, from Geneva. International Differences>"], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "SHEILA MACVICAR, CNN SR. INTL. CORRESPONDENT", "COLIN POWELL, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE", "MACVICAR", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "NPR-1964", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2018-11-23", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/11/23/670449014/crews-continue-searching-through-remains-in-californias-camp-fire", "title": "Crews Continue Searching Through Remains In California's Camp Fire", "summary": "Searchers sift through the burned city of Paradise, Calif., more than two weeks after wildfires erupted. There are new concerns about toxic debris washing into waterways.", "utt": ["In Northern California, search crews continue to sift through the burned city of Paradise more than two weeks after the fire erupted. NPR's Bobby Allyn is in nearby Chico, Calif., and he just got back from a meeting with searchers who are now fighting rain and heavy winds across the scorched landscape.", "Bobby, thanks for joining us again.", "Of course.", "What's the latest with where the search mission stands in Paradise?", "So the massive fire here is almost completely out. Firefighters say there's almost no fire activity, but, you know, searchers say it's going to take several more days to get through all the buildings that were scorched. And there's many of them, right? Twenty thousand structures were - were burned to the ground, and the death toll here just keeps rising by the day. It now stands at 84, and officials tell me that's far from the final count.", "We've got, now, more than 600 people who are unaccounted for in the burn area in Paradise, which is enormous, right? It's - the burn area is larger than the city of Chicago, so that's a pretty big area for searchers to be scouring over.", "So the number of dead keeps growing. It has not yet crossed a hundred, but the number of missing is going up and down. It was over a thousand. Now it's around 600. Do searchers think that they're going to be able to identify what happened to all of those 600-some people? Will some just be presumed dead and never found?", "Officials fear that is probably going to be the case. The number has been yo-yoing up and down for days. At its peak, it was 1,200 people. Then they realized there were duplicates. Some people were in the hospital, treating burn wounds. Some people were on vacation. Some people just didn't even know they were listed as officially missing.", "Now after vetting the list, it's somewhere in the ballpark of 600, and searchers stress that some of them might be alive. But, as you said, some others probably have died. And their remains maybe never will be found.", "Here is Brian Vidosh. He is the safety officer for the recovery mission, and he says, you know, as the search starts to wind down, Butte County officials here are going to have to start to make some really tough decisions.", "What we're looking for at this point are end stages of cremation. You know, they're small bones. So it's really tough. At some point, there are people that are just going to be missing.", "And the searchers are also dealing with the fear that some of the sludge they're wading through is toxic. Tell us about that.", "Yeah, so there's lots of these giant piles of ash, and it's potentially toxic. And now it's like a toxic slush with the rain that's turned to this, like, really thick mud. And officials here have been referring to it, among themselves, as a hazardous soup. And, you know, emergency crews say they're doing everything they can to make sure it doesn't contaminate local waterways in the Paradise area. Here's Vidosh again talking about how burned homes can turn into a chemical nightmare.", "Think about all the stuff you have in your own house, all the cleaning materials. If you're somebody who messes with cars, you've got your greases, your gasoline, your - your solvents. All of that stuff is now mixed together.", "We've also been hearing for days about fears that the rain will create mudslides. Has that happened?", "No mudslides yet, but meteorologists say today they are on high alert. We're supposed to get more rain here in Northern California than what we have seen since the fire broke out. So we'll be watching that. Emergency crews will be watching that carefully. Here's Vidosh telling me the likelihood of mudslides happening in Paradise.", "We call it moonscaped. The way the fire came through, there's nothing on the hillside left. Fortunately, right now, the saturation hasn't occurred. So the hills are still holding. To me, it's not if. It's when.", "So Vidosh is basically saying that mudslides are kind of a forgone conclusion. That's why they're being very cautious about where they're putting search crews at some of the steepest points of the slope that are completely incinerated. Firefighters are not going around there. They are concerned about their safety right now.", "That's NPR's Bobby Allyn in Chico, Calif. Thanks, Bobby.", "Hey, thanks, Ari."], "speaker": ["ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE", "BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE", "BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE", "BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE", "BRIAN VIDOSH", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE", "BRIAN VIDOSH", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE", "BRIAN VIDOSH", "BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-187025", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-5-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/31/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Hunt For Porn Star In Severed Body Case; Verdict Reached In Edwards Case", "utt": ["We're continuing following the breaking news coming out of Greensboro, North Carolina, where a verdict has been reached in the corruption trial of former senator and former presidential candidate John Edwards. We've got our team in place. We are awaiting the verdict. Joe Johns, he is in the courtroom ready to bring that when it comes. I have John King standing by with me who can bring a lot of perspective on the man and kind of the fall, if you will. We also have Jeffrey Toobin, our senior legal analyst. He will be joining me to break it all done as well as CNN producer Ray Lynn Johnson. She has been following this probably closer than most and she'll be bringing a good perspective on that. I want to first go to John King. John, you know more about this man than probably many people do. Pretty amazing that we're talking about the verdict, kind of his fate, and where he was and could be and where he is today, right?", "It's the fall that you mentioned. In some way it's a tragic Shakespearian drama in the sense that when John Edwards came to Washington, he was the new Democrat from North Carolina, young attractive, a public speaker who won a seat that was held by a very, very conservative Republican. Democrats took that as not only do we have a young rising star in the party we are making inroads in a state where we have struggled for so, so long. He goes from that, a young senator, to being, because of his appeal, because of his potential to change the map, if you will, he's suddenly his party's vice presidential nominee for John Kerry back in the 2004 election campaign. And then of course, that made him a leading contender for the Democratic nomination in what turned out to be a field of stars. Hillary Clinton ran for the nomination. The young senator, Barack Obama, who ironically how did Barack Obama become a national figure? At the very convention that nominated John Edwards to be the vice presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. Not yet Senator Barack Obama gives a keynote speech and then rockets into national stardom. But when you look at the trajectory of John Edwards, he went up, Kate, his trajectory was up so fast and because of this allegations almost regardless of the verdict, back down to earth, a very humbling ending to the political career of John Edwards.", "Sorry, John. I'm just hearing we are being told right now in my ear that the jury is entering the room, which we would assume means that we will be getting this verdict very soon, but you said this fall, it is really, really amazing as well as how public it was. The \"National Enquirer\" and how salacious the details were. I want to quickly move, John, to Jeff Toobin, our senior legal analyst. He's with me in New York. Because Jeff, I want you to help me kind of break this down. A lot of our viewers have not been following this from the very day-to- day -- from the beginning of this on the day-to-day. This is actually a pretty complex trial in terms of campaign finance law. Where do you land on where you think the verdict is going to be and kind of what this argument and this verdict really is hinging on?", "Well, the facts of this case -- what's unusual about this case are that the facts, the core facts of this case, are not really in dispute. Everybody knows that Bunny Mellon, the Virginia heiress, and Fred Barron, the Texas trial lawyer, gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to support Rielle Hunter who had John Edwards' baby. That's not disputed. Both sides agree on that. The question really comes down to John Edwards' intent. Was his failure to report those hundreds of thousands of dollars as campaign contributions, was that a criminal act? That's what this case is really about. Edwards' defense is, I thought this money was to be used for protecting my family, protecting my wife from the truth, deceiving my wife. The prosecution is saying, no, that money was to preserve and sustain the presidential campaign. So Edwards' intent about what that money was for is really what this case is about.", "Now, let me quick check with the control room. Bear with me, everybody. Is our Joe Johns ready yet? I see him in one of the monitors because I saw him running out of the courtroom. Is he ready yet? OK, so we'll continue. I know he's miking up -- hold on? OK, I'm going to hold on and wait for Joe Johns to bring this to us. Tell me when he is ready so we can get this verdict right away. Joe johns just ran to the camera coming out of the courtroom. Joe, what do you know?", "Right, count three only. They've reached a verdict on count three only. You know, this is a six-count indictment. And that is the only count that they have apparently agreed upon and reached a unanimous verdict. They didn't deliver that unanimous verdict in the courtroom. The judge instructed them to go back into the jury room and apparently was going to talk over with the lawyers precisely what they're going to do now. Count three would be one of the -- well, it depends on how they're doing this. If they're looking at the indictment, count three is a count relating to -- is a count relating to Bunny Mellon. This is one of the two counts that the rich woman from Virginia who gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to John Edwards. The issue, of course, is accepting illegal campaign funds from her. So that's what we know. I mean, there were five other counts in this indictment that they either still have to work on, and I know Jeffrey Toobin can probably tell you, Kate, better than me. But I have seen it before in federal cases. Typically if the jury hasn't reached a decision on any of the other charges, at least as to those charges, the judge has the option of issuing what's called an Allen charge. An instruction to the jury that you need to work a little bit harder. I'm going to send you back to deliberate some more. We have a graphic on that and I can talk to you a little bit or you can ask Jeff Toobin about it if you so desire.", "Thank you so much. You're doing a great job. If this case wasn't complex and dense in the facts of the case and the fact we're dealing with campaign finance law, it sounds like the verdict is equally as complex and confusing. We're not quite there yet is the laymen's terms of what I'm gathering. Let me bring in Jeffrey Toobin. Joe, thank you so much for the hassle. So Jeff, what we know now is that the jury reached a unanimous decision on count three. This is the count dealing with allegedly illegal campaign contributions by Bunny Mellon. I think it's somewhere in the area of $725,000. But from what I'm gathering, we don't know yet, which way the jury has decided on that. Is that what you're hearing as well?", "Absolutely, yes. No, Joe Johns got right to the point. We don't know whether it's guilty or not guilty and that's obviously what we all want to know. But let me put it simply this is a mess. This is not how trials are supposed to end.", "For our viewers, how is this a mess? I mean, the verdict is difficult to understand.", "No, I assure you the legal term for this is a mess because juries are supposed to resolve an entire case. They are supposed to reach verdicts on every case -- on every count before them. Now, if they reach a partial verdict, it is possible for the government to accept the verdict, whatever it may be in that count, and then go back and retrial the defendant on the remaining counts. But that is a cumbersome, expensive, inconvenient, some people would say unfair way to end a criminal trial. So everyone involved, certainly the judge, wants to get a complete resolution of this case in this trial, not an extended trial. And what makes the situation particularly messy and difficult to resolve is that often when you have a hung jury, it's a hung jury on all the counts. And that at least you can just sort of start over from scratch. If you have a partial verdict, that makes retrying the case even more difficult and complicated. It's not to say it's impossible, but it is more difficult for everyone concerned to have a partial verdict than no verdict at all. Again, I don't want to assume too much, but what most judges would do when informed that, we, the jury, have reached a verdict on one of six counts, the judge would invariably say go back to work. Keep trying. You know, there are lots of good reasons to resolve this now. And I am certain the judge is not going to just dismiss the jury and say, well, that's all --", "I will tell you, Jeff, you are essential in understanding a lot of stuff a lot of times, and you are very essential today because I'm going to need you to analyze when this all comes down. We have some additional information I want to bring to our viewers, that the judge is -- has told -- the judge is taking a five- minute recess, that the defense is asking for a mistrial. The prosecution though wants the jurors to continue to deliberate. Obviously wants to work more on that. I want to now go back to Joe Johns who was in the courtroom, hustled out, and is now with us from right outside the courtroom in Greensboro, North Carolina. Joe, what are you hearing now?", "Right. That was actually what I wanted to tell you. The judge essentially has been asked by the prosecution to send those jurors back into the jury room to try to get resolution on the other five charges. The defense, of course, has taken a completely different tact. They want to know now what the decision is on the one charge, on that count three, and as to the others, the defense has actually asked the judge to declare a mistrial. So that is what the judge has to sort of ponder, and if past practice is any indicator, what she does typically is take 5 minutes, sit there and think, and then reach a decision as to what she's going to do next. But it's pretty clear that this is kind of an unusual situation because they've only got, you know, a decision on one count out of six. The defense is probably feeling pretty good about that even though they don't know what that decision is.", "Right, and that's a good point especially since they're now in their ninth day of deliberations. Stick with me for a second. I want to head back to our john king who has been following this as well. John, Jeff Toobin called this in legal terms, this is a mess. One thing I found kind of surprising, I think many court watchers did throughout the trial, is that John Edwards himself did not take the stand. Rielle Hunter did not take the stand. You'd almost think that John Edwards, him being a well-known attorney himself, would want to take the stand and kind of have his day and his say, right?", "He has a very strong lead defense counsel, Abbe Lowell who has handled tough cases, very high profile cases for years. And a lot of people who know John Edwards think, yes, his DNA and his reflexes give me a chance with that jury because that's how he made his name, as trial lawyer, persuading juries to go his way in big cases. My understanding is that Abbe Lowell made a very persuasive case to John Edwards that the risks would far outweigh the benefits if that were the case. They thought if they argues as Jeff Toobin said, the facts aren't really in dispute. The question is was the money hush money out of a campaign or was it funnelled through a campaign. Was it about having a viable presidential campaign or just having John Edwards keep this from his family members, specifically his late wife. And so the legal questions got to the point where I am told that Abbe Lowell said we do not want to put you on the stand that would turn this more into theatre and add more risks to it. There are very complicated legal questions here. The jury is clearly after nine days of deliberation asking a lot of questions, asking for the exhibits, clearly having a very hard time with this one. So we look at the legal questions. There's not really a political question here. John Edwards is done. He's done politically, but there's a personal toll. There's a personal toll. This family, we've seen Cate Edwards going in and out of court every day. There are two other younger children. They have lost their mother and they are going through this. So from our personal standpoint, you shake your head. There are some people who are asking why did the government prosecute this case because John Edwards has no viability in the future? There are others say why didn't John Edwards take a plea deal? Again, on that front, the plea deal question. The plea deals put before him I'm told all required some jail time and giving up his law license and he was adamant he wouldn't do that.", "I think you make a great point about the personal toll. Obviously, we are awaiting to remind our viewers, for more information about the verdict. The judge has taken a five-minute recess here. But we know a verdict at least on one count has been reached. But one thing that often gets lost in kind of the spotlight of a trial and kind of the pomp -- I don't know, the circus around it is the personal toll. Cate Edwards has not only -- and her siblings have not only lost their mother and seen the down fall of their father, she has endured being in the courtroom with him almost every day. There was some question if she would even take the stand at one point because she seems to be such a strong voice, if she was going to make the case to kind of save her father.", "And there was one day when she left the courtroom quite emotionally when they were getting into testimony about, I believe, I could be wrong about this, but I believe it was about what did Elizabeth Edwards know and when did she know it essentially and Cate Edwards left the courtroom. I don't pretend to know Cate Edwards . I met her a few times back in the 2004 campaign, perhaps in the 2008 campaign may have encountered her at some early events. I just remember her from very brief encounters at events with her father as a young, much younger woman then than she is today. With just remarkable poise and a bubbly personality, a very friendly person, someone who was always asking questions about what we did in our business when you met her. She wanted to know about politics and events and the media coverage of politics and the media coverage of politics. She's a very curious, charming, delightful young lady who is a bit older now and being very loyal to her father in what has to be an incredibly painful experience.", "All right, John King. Thanks so much, John. I'm sure you have to get ready for your show at some point. But thank you so much for the perspective."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BOLDUAN", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST", "BOLDUAN", "JOHNS", "BOLDUAN", "TOOBIN", "BOLDUAN", "TOOBIN", "BOLDUAN", "JOHNS", "BOLDUAN", "KING", "BOLDUAN", "KING", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-315982", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2017-07-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/04/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Vietnam's Growing Craft Brewery Culture. 08:00-09:00a ET", "utt": ["Welcome back. You'll be interested to know that beer is big business in Vietnam. And now it appears craft breweries are on the rise. Krsitie Lu Stout has this report.", "It's Monday night in Ho Chi Minh City and friends are meeting for beer. The post-work activity is a national pastime in Vietnam. Last year the Vietnamese downed almost 3.8 -- (voice-over): -- billion liters of beer, making Vietnam the biggest market for the beverage in Southeast Asia.", "There's so much more to beer culture in Vietnam now than just that particular image. The story about craft beer has really taken off in the last couple of years.", "Today, the streets of Saigon are buzzing with IPAs, ghosis (ph) and other small batch brews from brands like Heart of Darkness and Winking Seal.", "As Vietnam has continued to experience income growth, that's where craft beer has really come in. The taste and the preferences of Vietnamese consumers are changing and evolving. And there are lots of people trying to rush to that market.", "More than two years, John Reid, an America, bet that Vietnam's fondness for beer could extend to craft.", "We wanted to create something in Vietnam for them to have a local craft beer brand but not an American brand. We wanted a Vietnamese brand that we started here. And everything was local and it was created from Vietnam.", "Picking up international awards and recognition Pastor Street (ph) Brewing Company is available nationwide in Vietnam as well as in Malaysia and Thailand.", "We've got a lot of fun stuff in the tanks right now.", "This year, the company started exporting to the U.S. market.", "About a year into it, about 10, 15 breweries started opening up and we didn't see any decrease in sales for our taproom or our distribution. It just all grew. So it just showed that all these breweries are opening up, all helping to build the culture together.", "State-produced beer and multinational brewers still fill the glasses of most Vietnamese. But craft breweries hope that better quality and taste can lure customers despite the higher cost. For Loc Truong, founder of East West Brewing Company, one sip is all it takes.", "A lot of people, they didn't know that there's so many different flavors in beer out there. Once they tried craft, they never went back.", "In a move to educate the public, this taproom's beers are made onsite.", "We cannot really show what craft beer is when you don't have a craft brewery to really guide them through.", "This year, the Southeast Asia Brewing Conference is being hosted for the first time in Ho Chi Minh City, a toast of sorts to the growing influence of Vietnam's microbreweries", "I think aside from maybe owner of Ferrari, owning a beer company is the next best thing. The market is still so open and the possibilities of what you want to do, how you want to shape the market, it really depends on yourself.", "Kristie Lu Stout, CNN.", "Well, that is News Stream. I'm Anna Coren. Thanks so much for your company. World Sport with Alex Thomas is coming up next. END"], "speaker": ["COREN", "KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LU STOUT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LU STOUT (voice-over)", "JOHN REID, BEER ENTREPRENEUR", "LU STOUT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LU STOUT (voice-over)", "REID", "LU STOUT (voice-over)", "LOC TRUONG, EAST WEST BREWING COMPANY", "LU STOUT (voice-over)", "TRUONG", "LU STOUT (voice-over)", "TRUONG", "LU STOUT (voice-over)", "COREN"]}
{"id": "CNN-133440", "program": "OPEN HOUSE", "date": "2008-12-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0812/20/oh.01.html", "summary": "Gift Cards May Not Be the Gift to Give This Season", "utt": ["You might want to think twice before buying a gift card for somebody this holiday season. With so many retailers closing shop in this rough economy, that business could be out of business even before the gift card is redeemed. Todd Marks is a senior editor with \"Consumer Reports.\" OK, Todd, tell me, should I just avoid it altogether this year? No, no, none of these cards, right, I mean, too many problems?", "Well, the reality is that gift cards are one of the most popular gifts to give and to receive. People want them, they like them. There are a lot of issues with gift cards and you mentioned a key one, bankruptcies. Many, many companies are either in bankruptcy or on the brink and you never know. Once a company goes belly-up or files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, these cards could ultimately become worthless and you could end up online as a creditor and with that company in bankruptcy court, because...", "And we know how much money you get for that.", "Oh, if you're lucky, you get pennies on the dollar a few years down the road, because you're on a long list of creditors. And believe it, the consumer's not at the front of that line.", "Well, OK. So, you know, even so, we're expected to spend some $94 billion on gift cards this year. What would you tell folks? What's the checklist of things to think about if you're going to buy one of these?", "Well, if you're going to buy a gift card, one, make sure it's to a store that's going to be in business. Now, there are no ironclad guarantees, but you can check out the Better Business Bureau, you can find out if there are any complaints about it, have there been issues about redeeming cards, getting refunds or exchanges. So, you want to make sure they're solvent. You also want to make sure that the person on your list is going to use that card. Did you know that one out of 4 people who got a gift card last year didn't spend it yet? They didn't use it, they couldn't find anything they want...", "That's unbelievable, Todd.", "We do these holiday surveys every year. One out of 4 people haven't used it because it expired, the company went out of business, they couldn't find anything they want, or they lost it.", "Unbelievable.", "Yeah, it's amazing. So, gift cards are not the panacea a lot of people think they are. But they're convenient and they're easy and they're popular.", "I need to know, what are the terms and conditions I'm going to face? What do I need to know, here? Because there are some devils in these details.", "Sure, and the devil is always in the details and with gift cards it's bingo, you know? When you're buying a gift card from a credit card company, such as an American express gift card or one from MasterCard, you have to be aware of the fact that they tend to come with strings and conditions. And expiration dates are first and foremost. If you don't use it by a certain time, it may be worthless. Second, they come with transaction fees, service fees, inactivity fees, dormancy fees, all of which can diminish the value.", "This drives me crazy. This drives me crazy.", "Me too.", "It can be bad enough, you know, for the person giving the gifts, but what if I'm getting the gift. What should I need know if I'm actually getting a gift card from somebody for Christmas?", "Spend it immediately. Don't wait, don't sit on it, don't put it in a desk, don't try to combine it with anything else. Go out to the store, especially with all of this talk about bankruptcies, the idea is that don't wait to find out if the card might not be worth something, go out there and spend it as quickly as possible, so you don't forget about it and you maximize the value.", "I love spending it. That's the right answer there, Todd. Sounds like more trouble than it's worth.", "Most of the time it is.", "Fantastic information, Todd Marks, thank you for that.", "My pleasure, Gerri.", "Haven't finished your holiday shopping yet? Well, you've still got a little time and we've got plenty of great ideas for any budget.", "This holiday, there are presents you can give that won't take quite so much from the earth. And joining us now is Jessica Williamson, the environmental Web site, ZapRoot.", "And Jessica, you found some toys here that are not only cute, but these guys are eco friendly too.", "They are. One of the things I wanted to talk about was handmade gifts. A lot of times", "Now, as a parent, myself, I'm really concerned with the materials that these are made from, too.", "Yeah, a lot of parents are this year. So over here, we have this cardboard dollhouse. You don't have to worry about the toxins because it's made from cardboard and not plastic. The other thing, took, is your kids can only going to use for 10 maybe 12 years, your child does not need this for 1,000 years and that's how long it takes for plastic to breakdown.", "So, not only good for the environment, but good for your child.", "Exactly, exactly. Another thing that's not only good for the environment, but also good for you is biodegradable soaps and shampoos. People don't realize that each day we're exposed to over to 100 known carcinogens through chemicals and beauty products. You don't have to worry about pollutants and toxins getting into the ocean when it goes down your drain.", "We've moved outside, into the warm sunshine for a look at a couple more gift ideas.", "OK, this is a Solio and it's a solar-powered handheld charger. And basically, you can charge any hand held device from your computer to your lap to your cell phone all by the sun. Another thing that's going to save your friends some money is this and it's called a KiloWise (ph), and what this does is you plug your appliance into this and then plug it into the wall and it will tell you how much money that appliance is costing you per month."], "speaker": ["WILLIS", "TODD MARKS, CONSUMER REPORTS", "WILLIS", "MARKS", "WILLIS", "MARKS", "WILLIS", "MARKS", "WILLIS", "MARKS", "WILLIS", "MARKS", "WILLIS", "MARKS", "WILLIS", "MARKS", "WILLIS", "MARKS", "WILLIS", "MARKS", "WILLIS", "KARA FINNSTROM, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WILLIAMSON", "JESSICA WILLIAMSON, ZAPROOT", "FINNSTROM", "WILLIAMSON", "FINNSTROM", "WILLIAMSON", "FINNSTROM", "WILLIAMSON"]}
{"id": "NPR-45199", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2010-04-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125729965", "title": "After 18, Foster Kids Face Tough Road Ahead", "summary": "New research shows that less that half of former foster youth are employed at 23, and only six percent have finished college. Mark Courtney, research and development director at Partners For Our Children, and Jeremy Long, who aged out of foster care three years ago at 18, talk about the challenges facing foster kids as they grow up.", "utt": ["This is TALK OF THE NATION. Im Neal Conan, in Washington.", "Every year, almost 30,000 kids age out of the foster care system after childhoods when many move from house to house and school to school. For most foster kids, the day they turn 18, they're suddenly on their own, responsible to find a place to live, manage their money, they're suddenly on their own, responsible to find a place to live, manage their money, their shopping, their clothing, their food and try to continue their education, all when most of their peers still get help from mom and dad.", "A lot of former foster kids have a hard time with all of these abrupt changes. They're less likely to find a job, go to college or even find a place to sleep every night.", "If you were once in foster care, what happened when you left the system? What made a difference for you? What might have helped? Tell us your story. Our phone number is 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation at our Web site. That's at npr.org. Just click on TALK OF THE NATION.", "Joining me here today in Studio 3A is Jeremy Long, who aged out of the foster care system three years ago, and he is in many ways an exception: now a senior at the University of Northern Colorado, also works with current and former foster youth as a member of the Bridging the Gap Youth Leadership Board in Denver. Jeremy Long, nice to have you with us today on TALK OF THE NATION.", "Thank you for having me.", "And tell us what that day is like. Suddenly, you've been in the system your whole life. Suddenly, you turn 18.", "Yeah, for me, it was actually an okay position, just for the fact that being in foster care, I had a very positive experience. So like most foster youth, when they age out at the age of 18, they're kind of on their own, but I was able to really create those networks and those connections that are still in my life today that have really helped me get to where I am.", "And you were fortunate to have just one foster parent through your entire experience.", "Yes.", "And how has that helped?", "It's actually been extremely beneficial, just for the fact that I didn't have to get used to numerous different families, which is very hard on the emotional state of a lot of foster youth. And to this day, we're still in connection, and to this day, she's still my mom. So...", "And to this day, she's still your mom. And that's really important. That's one of the things we learn from this new research that's out today: continuing relationship with caring adults. And how is she doing?", "She's doing quite well.", "Good. And so she's putting up with you.", "Yes, still.", "Still. Well, we'll have to see when you get back. We're talking about foster kids, and we'd like you to join the conversation. If you aged out of the foster care system, give us a call: 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. And let's turn to Joy, Joy's with us on the line from Charlotte.", "Hi, how are you?", "I'm well, thank you.", "Good.", "Did you age out of foster care?", "I certainly did. I aged out like everyone else at age 18, but I was in college. I had gone into college when I was 17, and so I knew that I would have that extra subsidy per month as long as I was in school.", "The student loan.", "Well, it wasn't quite a student loan. There was a subsidy that stayed in effect until I was 21. The trick is that I didn't graduate by the time I was 21, and so I was suddenly left without that income stream and ended up relying entirely on student loans.", "And that can be tricky.", "It can be very tricky. I went on from there to graduate school, still relying on student loans. And now I'm struggling because even though I'm a working professional in an executive director job at a nonprofit, I have over $200,000 in loan debt that I have to figure out how to pay back.", "And, of course, a lot of people have that problem, but it's certainly not easy for anybody. I wonder, as you were considering this problem when you were 18 and then again at 21, did you feel abandoned?", "Well, of course I did, right? Because I had - you know, I didn't have parents that were paying for school for me like other people were. I didn't feel as though there was anyone there really looking out for my interests, and I really felt as though at 18, all the decisions that I needed to make were encumbered on me without any wise advice.", "And is there a special feeling of accomplishment now that you've gotten to where you are?", "Oh, I think certainly. I just would go back and have, obviously, you know, done it on a little bit more of a maybe fiscally responsible manner.", "And maybe that five-year college program.", "Right, right. No, without any question. And so I think, you know, I would go back and attribute that to say, well, I accomplished a lot on my own two feet, but really, I would probably be in a much better situation had I had responsible, loving, caring adults helping me with those decisions.", "Joy, thanks very much, and congratulations.", "Thank you.", "Good luck with those loans.", "Thanks. Bye.", "Bye-bye. Joining us now is Mark Courtney. He is research and development director of Partners For Our Children at the University of Washington School of Social Work. He's been following youth who have aged out of foster care since 2002, lead researcher for a new report from Partners for our Children and Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. Thanks very much for being here with us in Studio 3A today.", "Good to be here.", "And Joy, who we heard from, and Jeremy, who we heard from, they are -well, it's nice to hear from them, but they're exceptions.", "Well, they're exceptions, but they actually represent an important group. I mean, we've been following 700 young people for a number of years now, from 17 at this point to 23, 24, and on average, yes, young people transitioning from foster care as a group aren't faring well.", "They're - less than half of them are employed at 23, very high rates of involvement with the criminal justice system, lots of struggling parents, rely on public assistance. But they're - you know, actually Joy and Jeremy represent maybe as many as half of the young people aging out that are doing okay, but struggling to do okay.", "They're working really hard. They finished high school, and they have some college. It sounds like Joy has, you know, more than some college.", "More than some, and more than some debt, too.", "Yeah, and that's unusual. I mean, we find, you know, only about six percent of young people we're talking to at 23, 24 have any kind of college degree.", "And more than four times more likely than that not to have a high school degree.", "That's right. That's right. The young men are six times more likely than their peers to be convicted of a crime. One-quarter of the population are really struggling parents who are barely making ends meet. They're still parenting, they haven't lost their kids.", "And then we've got a big group that, in fact, have lost their kids, have been involved in the criminal system, et cetera. So I think the trick is following the philosophy that Joy and Jeremy are talking about, is to continue to be a parent, in a sense.", "The child welfare system took these young people away from their parents and kind of abandons that role at 18. And like any family, you've got a range of the family, some that are going to go right to college, some that are going to need a lot of help. I think that's true of these young people, as well.", "Jeremy, let me ask you: What do you tell foster youth as they approach their 18th birthday, people who may not have been as fortunate as you?", "I pretty much just tell them that, I mean, even though that life has thrown a lot of unfortunate circumstances your way, if you have the mental capacity and hopefully the proper connections, you can easily overcome them and become successful in whichever way you choose.", "Easily?", "Not always easily, but for some people, like six percent of us do have those connections that are definitely going to help us get there.", "And the emotional part of it - yes, it's a lot of hard work, but the emotional part of it, for so many people, that feeling of abandonment - of course, Joy mentioned it. There's not much you can do about it, but there it is. And the huge responsibilities: a lot of well, responsible adults, theoretically, have problems getting their laundry done on time, much less kids suddenly thrown out on their own at the age of 18.", "Yeah.", "What's there to say about that? Yes, of course.", "It's definitely unfortunate. I think with the emotional state, I was fortunate enough in foster care to be placed in therapy, which really helped me. It definitely got my emotional state where I was capable of handling any situation.", "All right. Let's get another caller in on the conversation. April joins us from Minneapolis.", "Oh, hi, Neal. How is it going today?", "Oh, not too bad.", "Excellent. I was very fortunate. When I got kicked out of foster care at age 18, I had a phenomenal social worker because, you know, I was completely terrified. I had no life skills. I wasn't taught anything. You know, I didn't have any job or anything that I could fall back on.", "And my social worker, because, you know, he had - his own county would not let me stay in the foster care system because I was not in college. He found - he went out. He found another home, a foster care home, that was sitting unused in another county, and he basically got special dispensation from his bosses to basically funnel me money every month, and then I would just pay these people as boarders in their household.", "So I wasn't in the foster care system, but I was still renting. You know, I still had a place to stay. I still had a roof over my head. And that six months that I got with that home made all the difference in the world to me.", "I was - you know, instead of being forced to, you know, get any job I could, a minimum wage job, get into drug dealing, get into whatever I could to, you know, have food and a roof over my head, instead I was able to, you know, get a nice job, you know, in a stable company.", "And because of that, you know, I have a great job now. I'm married. My life is really awesome. You know, if it wasn't for that social worker who really, like, stuck his neck out, I would have been - I would have been lost, like most foster kids who get kicked out of the system.", "And I hope you invite him every Thanksgiving.", "Oh, I do. In fact, I'm one of the few kids that he still sees on a regular basis. You know, I just saw an article in the New York Times about, you know, about how few foster kids actually make it, you know, after they get kicked out of foster care.", "He said I was one of just a handful of the thousands of kids he's seen, you know, who made it into the University of Minnesota and who's actually been successful, which is really sad. But he's one of my best friends, and I, you know, I basically consider him my dad at this point.", "Well, you should. It sounds like he really went out of his way to help. April, thanks so much, and continued good luck to you.", "Thank you very much, Neal. You have a great day now.", "You, too. And Mark Courtney, that's another heartwarming story, but by the edge of her - the skin of her teeth, a social worker willing to go out on the edge.", "Yeah. We certainly need people like that. We need adults in the lives of these young people to help them negotiate this transition to adulthood. But we don't want to rely on the good graces of that, and I think...", "Of happenstance. Yes, there ought to be a system for that.", "Right. And you hear her worker says you're the exception, really. And I think that the trick is for us to get more serious about having policies that increase the likelihood that young people who actually could go on to college - I think almost half of these young people probably could pretty much immediately go to college. They're not. You've got some exceptions that do.", "So there are some things we can do to support them in terms of continued housing, support, adults in their lives. But right now, almost everywhere in the country basically kicks these young people out at 18.", "The handful of places that don't - one of which, Illinois, is in our study - I think do a much better job of ensuring those kinds of connections are there. And you begin to see more young people going to school, less homelessness right off the bat at 18, delayed pregnancies, when you continue to act like a parent - you know, when we as a society, through our child welfare system, continue to act like a parent.", "Well, there's some questions about the efficacy of that extra help, from 18 to 21. Of course, from 18 to 21, they're going to do better. After that, they don't seem to do much better than the kids who got out at 18.", "Well, we've looked at a few things. I mean, for example, it looks like extending care - now, we only have Illinois. Let's be clear. This is one approach to extending care to 21. But it looks like it delays homelessness, doesn't prevent it altogether.", "It looks like - in fact, young people are more likely to have college. They're much more likely to have some college by the age of 23, 24, if they were allowed to remain in care. But they're not necessarily more likely to have a degree by then. So I think it's a mixed story.", "We'll continue talking about the new research on kids who age out of foster care and continue to talk with Jeremy Long, one of the success stories, about to graduate from college in Colorado.", "Stay with us. We want to hear from you. If you have aged out of foster care, tell us your story: 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. Stay with us. I'm Neal Conan, TALK OF THE NATION, NPR News.", "This is TALK OF THE NATION. Im Neal Conan in Washington.", "Since 2002, researchers have been following some 700 youth in foster care. They interviewed the kids at various times as they got older to get a sense of what happens to these young people when they leave foster care. Results are not encouraging.", "While some young people do well and manage to find jobs and housing and schooling, far too many end up homeless, drop out of school, are unemployed. Sadly, many of them end up convicted of a crime.", "Our focus today is what happens to youth when they age out of foster care. We want to hear from you if that is your story. Give us a call, 800-989-8255. Email us, talk@npr.org. What happened to you when you left the system? What made a difference? What might have helped?", "Our guests are Jeremy Long, who aged out of foster care three years ago, a member now of Bridging the Gap Youth Leadership Board in Denver, working with current and former foster youth and about to graduate from the University of Northern Colorado.", "Also with us, Mark Courtney, who conducted a lot of that research that we're talking about. He works at the University of Washington School of Social Work and a lead researcher on that report at the Chapin Hall and the University of Chicago. They're both with us here in Studio 3A. Let's get another caller on the line and go to Michael, Michael calling us from Portland, Oregon.", "Hi, long-time listener, first-time caller.", "Thank you for that.", "I worked with children in foster care for 15 years, teenagers, and the issue is more than aging out. We had the IOP program, the independent living program, which by law when a child is 16 in foster care, they can voluntarily participate in the program to teach them the skills they will need to become independent adults.", "The problem was that the system is set up so that they don't get what they need, which is stability, predictability and consistency. The workload is so heavy that workers change all the time. They not only change foster homes, they change workers.", "So kids never get to establish that adult - because when you're a social worker with this group or population of kids, you are effectively a surrogate father. And when you don't have the opportunity to stay with kids and support them through - and particularly, all across the country, they have cut mental health services to these kids.", "And I see Mark Courtney, you're shaking your head in agreement.", "They get to see a therapist now, every other week, and then the therapist changes all the time.", "I just wanted to get a comment from Mark Courtney on this.", "I think that this is  he points out something very important, that the young people in care, in addition to coming in care with lots of challenges. I mean, one thing that the audience might not understand is that most of these young people aging out actually came into care as adolescents.", "So they were in difficult situations, troubled homes for a long time. Then they come into care, and quite often, they do bounce around a lot. They don't necessarily get all the help they need. And in our research, some of the most important predictors we see of later success, are things like being on track in school, having your mental health needs addressed while you're in care, and the kind of social support you get from adults.", "But I think we have to keep in mind, most of these young people actually have families. So it's a bit tricky, right. It's not the case that they're orphans, and they don't have families. They came into care as adolescents.", "And so we need to help them maintain the healthy relationships that exist in their family, but then also as this person was saying - obviously a really long-time social worker - we have to be surrogate parents, as well, and it's complicated because they have a lot of people in their lives.", "Jeremy, you went into foster care at age 13, correct?", "Yes.", "And then later had the advantage of therapy.", "I did, and it was actually a nice situation for me. I was one of those fortunate youth that I had two therapists, but that was over the span of four years. And the reason my first one left was because of retirement, and then we went into another one, who was very stable and was there until the end.", "So very helpful to you, and would you recommend it for a lot of the kids in your situation?", "I would. I would say it's definitely helped me a lot.", "All right, thank you. Michael, thanks very much for the call, appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Bye-bye. Let's go next to Michelle(ph), Michelle calling us from San Francisco.", "Hi, Neal, thanks for having me.", "Sure, go ahead please.", "So I came out of foster care when I was 17, went into college only because of foster care, pretty much. My parents didn't go to school. So that helped. That was a benefit. I got a job over at the dorms, where I pretty much paid for my living there. So that saved me a lot.", "But I really wish that I would have had a network of other alumni, foster care alumni, just to know that I'm not alone, that it's okay that I don't do my laundry all the time, that, you know, I am late on rent. But it really was a challenge knowing, deciding  and I didn't learn until I was 26, that you can't have it all. You can't have a car and have an apartment, have a job and go to school at the same time. One of them has to stop.", "So I'm trying to do, for my part, is I've had a radio show for a little bit on the Internet, called \"Independent Party.\" But, so I'm trying to do something to just for that group. But there's nothing really out there as far as I was aware of, of other foster care kids who were making it and what decisions they had. I mean, there wasn't too many role models available. It was pretty much fend for yourself.", "And Mark Courtney, that sounds like a great idea, that foster kids could help support each other, and are you involved in that, Jeremy?", "I am. I'm actually a member of the Foster Care Alumni Association of America, which is based around foster care alumni coming together and discussing their successful stories, if not...", "And how would people like Michelle find other people in her situation?", "Yeah, how can I get involved?", "Yeah, definitely. Definitely check out the Web site, which I believe is FCAA.org. And then also an organization called Foster Club. It's an online national network for youth that have been in  that are in care and that have been in care. And there's people aged 15, all the way until 80, that'll definitely discuss stories with you.", "And if your pencil wasn't out, Michelle, we'll get that information and post a link to it on our Web site at npr.org.", "I appreciate that. Thank you.", "And good luck with the radio show, Michelle. There's a future in that.", "Thank you.", "Bye-bye. Let's see if we can go next to  this is Lacey(ph), Lacey with us from Winston-Salem.", "Hi, good afternoon.", "Hi, good afternoon.", "I aged out of foster care in 1993 at the age of 21, and the thing that made me able to age out at 21 was because I was in school at the time. Actually, I had got kicked out of three semesters, but then I went on to do volunteer work, and I was kind of working and, you know, being independent, and so I was able to remain until I was 21.", "But it definitely is a very scary prospect when you get to that point that you know that your time is coming up, and you know, you've got  you're counting down the months and the weeks and the days, and then, you know, it's kind like a void on the other side of that birthday.", "You knew that, in a way, you were alone, but not like that.", "Right, yeah, absolutely. And one of the guests mentioned that, you know, there's nothing to go back to. And it's really true that, you know, most people, most people who leave home after the age of 18, 19 or 21, if they fall on hard times, they have a family that they can possibly go back to sometimes.", "But you dont have that when you're coming out of foster care. You can't go back into foster care. You can't, you know, say okay, well, you know, I need a little help. I can't pay my rent. So I need to move back in with you. You know, so it's really hard.", "But I do want to say, one of  I think Jeremy said something about, you know, the state has taken custody, and, you know, they need to continue parenting beyond the age of 21. And I realize that doesn't necessarily mean residential. Like, you're not going to care for the people who have aged out by giving them a place to live, necessarily, but just, you know, some means of support and assistance and networking.", "But one benefit, I have to say, was that even after leaving foster care, I was able to always get federal aid as a student because I was a ward of the state. So I was able to get decent financial aid just by checking off that box that I was a ward of the state. So I was really  that was definitely a benefit.", "All right, Lacey, thanks very much, and good luck to you, too.", "Thank you.", "Bye-bye. This is obviously something that's available to the kids who do go to school. For those who don't, and you're talking about extended care from states, well, I think every state in the union is facing terrible, terrible budget crises at this time. It's not a propitious moment to ask for additional funding.", "No, it isn't, except there has been a change in federal law, which would allow states, starting this next year, to continue their foster care programs, have the same partnership with the federal government, get 50 to 75 cents on the dollar to operate that program. Very few states are doing that.", "I guess the argument I would make in favor of it is that we've heard now from a lot of young and not-so-young people who are in care, who have gone to college. And in many cases, the difference between making it or not, you can have financial aid, but if you don't have a place to live, you're not going to go to school. And so that's kind of part of that parenting role.", "But there's another whole group, large group, that are becoming a serious cost to society. They're ending up in jail. They're having children at a young age. They're losing custody of those children. So from a cost-benefit analysis, I think an argument could be made that not only is it the right thing morally to do because we aren't  I'm not going to abandon my children at 18. You've heard that from all the callers. But I think it's actually an economically wise thing for government to do.", "Here's an email from  it might be Meliss(ph) or M. Ellis(ph), I'm not so sure: I aged out in 1968. I'm a 60-year-old woman. I was completely on my own, attended college on my own with only loans, work. I made it, but at age 26, when I moved from Northern California, my home state, to Pocatello, Idaho, to take my first job as a teacher, I was basically rejected by the foster parents who I believed were my family.", "This devastated me, and for years, I dealt with depression. I became a teacher, later obtained a counseling license. I have a great family and marriage, two grown sons.", "I really needed, however, resources like those being given today and therapy from an early age. Thanks for attention to this group of children who are the bottom of the bottom. It has taken me a lifetime to address all the pain I experienced. I take great pride in being able to contribute to the counseling field. And I dont think there are many like me have made it very far. At least I haven't met one on the counseling field.", "I wonder, Jeremy, you're now basically in the counseling field.", "Not so much. I guess - I wouldnt necessarily (unintelligible) but I definitely do a lot of peer to peer work and definitely give them insight to the resources that are available that were also given to me at a young age that have been really the drive behind my success.", "What do you plan to do when you graduate?", "I plan to actually come here to D.C. because I got an internship with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, which is big here in D.C. on promoting policy within the capital.", "So - but working on foster issues?", "Yes.", "So you're going to, in a sense, stay connected with the issues you've been connected with your whole life...", "Yes.", "...or your whole adult life anyway. And it's interesting, the number of people who called who said they were in foster care and are now counselors or social workers or something like that.", "Yeah. I think a lot of young people end up having social workers and counselor people who helped them and then they want to help. They want to give back.", "Or do what their surrogate father or mother did.", "Exactly. That's their role model, positive role model. The other thing I want to say is that the - a lot of the changes in policy in the last 10, 15 years are a function of people like Jeremy and the folks that have been calling in actually getting involved in policymaking. I think the best policy comes from listening to the voices of these young people and young adults, and theyve been enormously effective at affecting federal policy and state policy.", "Let's talk with Kevin, Kevin calling us from Davison, Michigan.", "Hi, Neal. Thanks for taking my call. I graduated, if you will, out of foster care at the age of 18 and I got a rough go. A lot of things that I didnt learn in the wonderful foster family that brought me in was, you know, how many wolves were waiting for me outside that door.", "Wolves like what?", "Well, my folks were killed when I was 16.", "Oh, I'm sorry.", "And, unfortunately, I inherited some money. It was enough to get me started, but not enough to get me through college or anything. And so I started my own business, thinking that's what I needed to do. And there were a lot wolves that I knew but didnt know that would do what they did. I did some mechanical work on a property. The property owner couldnt pay me so he sold the property and the people he sold the property to refused to pay me because I didnt put a mechanic's lien on it. So you know, things like that you learn real quick who you can and who you can't trust out there.", "It sounds like people took advantage of you.", "Absolutely. And, you know, I've learned - I'm now 44 and I had a wonderful foster family that were gracious enough to take me in - they didn't have to. And it was a rough road, but, you know, through perseverance and learning who you can and can't trust, you know, it helped me out.", "I wonder, do you have any connection with the foster system today?", "I do not, Neal. I was listening to the radio program and kind of feeling guilty about it. I've thought about it. I have raised a son. He's now 21 years old and graduating from the University of Michigan next year. And very proud. And I have the empty nest syndrome  bad. So maybe that's something I really need to look into.", "Well, good luck with that, Kevin, and thanks for the advice.", "Thanks, Neal.", "Bye-bye. Were talking about kids who age out of foster care. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.", "And let me reintroduce our guest, Jeremy Long, who is one of those kids, now about to graduate from Northern - the University of Northern Colorado and about to join us here in Washington, D.C. as a budding policymaker. And also with us, Mark Courtney, research and development director at Partners for Our Children at the University of Washington School of Social Work.", "And let's see if we got another caller on the line. Let's go to Mark(ph) and Mark's with us from Minneapolis.", "Hello.", "Hi, Mark.", "Hi, hi. I'm calling - I'm not a kid who aged out of foster care but I'm the parent of a kid who aged out of foster care. My son spent 11 years in the system and we actually met him after he'd aged out, and actually formally adopted him when he was in his early 20's, although we had been parenting for a period before that.", "What's the point of adopting someone in their early 20's?", "Well, I actually now worked with an agency that specializes with teenagers. We just - all we do is work with teens in the adoption system. We represent families in Minneapolis. And the point of it is that everybody does better if they have stable adults who are taking an interest in their lives and moving them forward. And in the case of our son, because of just the amount of disruptions he had experienced - I think he had 27 placements in 11 years.", "Wow.", "Oh, yeah. Fairly extraordinary. It really was helpful. It's been really helpful to have a family, to have parents who are helping you through school. He's in college now, really doing incredibly well and just thriving, living at home. And you know, I'm not sure that just because you're 20 or 18 that you're ready to not have a family. They still need a family.", "That's psychological buffer, knowing there's a place to go if you can't go anywhere else.", "That's exactly right. That's exactly right. And I think that when we talk about fixing the system, we so often just focus on, well, what are we going to do about kids who age out, and we forget that the first step should be: can we find families who can be there for these kids who are willing to step up, and whether they're 12 or five or 17, can we really take on that role of parenting?", "Mark, thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "It's an interesting situation. And Mark Courtney, that's good advice. But in the little time we have left, if there were a couple of changes that you think would make a difference, what would they be?", "Well, I think extending care. I mean, I do think that states should take up that option because it gives them a lot of resources to do it. And then, pay more attention to the fact that a one-size-fits-all solution isnt going to work. You got people like Jeremy who've gotten the right kind of help while they were in care, got the mental health services they need and can go to college to succeed. And then you've got a lot of young people who have suffered enormous trauma for a long period of time who are going to need help for a long period of time, substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment. Theyre going to need the kind of adults that Mark was talking about.", "Mm-hmm.", "And weve got a lot of parents. Half of the young people Im studying, young women, were parents by the age of 21. So if a state like Illinois is going to continue to help them, its going to be helping them with their parenting. So I think just being a lot more thoughtful about the fact that one size doesnt fit all.", "We do have a lot of success stories early on, and then we have some young people who are going to need a lot of help. And I think we need to find the adults to stick with them, and then we have to have the kinds of support, whether its housing, health insurance, educational support, that, you know, that we provide, that I'm going to provide my kids and the parents do these days.", "Thank you very much for your time today. We appreciate it. Mark Courtney at the University of School - Washington School of Social Work and the lead researcher on a new report from the University of Washington School of Social Work in Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. 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{"id": "CNN-278181", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2016-03-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/04/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "LAPD Testing Knife Found at Former OJ Simpson Residence", "utt": ["A stunning announcement from Los Angeles police today. They're examining a knife that was allegedly found on O.J. Simpson's estate. It is a clue -- is it a clue, I should say to the 1994 murders of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman? Joining me now to discuss this is forensic scientist Lawrence Kobilinsky, Jim Moret, the chief correspondent for Inside Edition, also Alex Ferrer, a former police officer and a former Florida Circuit Judge and the host of television's Judge Alex. Gentlemen, good to have you on. I never would have thought in a million years that we would be, you know, talking about this all these years later. So, Lawrence, to you first. You have followed the O.J. Simpson trial closely. Today, Los Angeles Police say investigators are examining this knife reportedly found years ago on the property that O.J. Simpson was living when he and his ex-wife, Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman were killed in 1994. What could be learned from this knife all these years later?", "Well, first of all, I hope that this is the murder weapon. Because if it is, it will answer a lot of question questions. We know that based on the pathology, the wounds on the victim that this knife had to have a single sharp edge not double edge, but a single sharp edge and that it is serrated. So, we know a little bit about that knife. Now, once they get into the laboratory they are going to have to document it, make measurements the length of the blade, the width of the blade, the length of the knife. They will then proceed to do some presumptive testing to see if blood is present. That is follow...", "Could blood be present all these years later? Could you find some sort of DNA all these years later?", "It could. DNA is a very resilient substance. The problem...", "Even if people have handled it?", "Well, that's not the issue. That's not the issue. The issue is that it could have been adjacent to soil. And for four years soil contains a component that degrades DNA. It's quite possible that DNA was there, blood was there, and the DNA was there. But we won't know that until its DNA tested. It could very well survive.", "Yes. But it will tell you if it's the kind of knife you said from the measurement...", "that's correct.", "... that got serrated edge. OK. So, Jim Moret, a construction worker, let's go behind, let's tell the story. A construction worker reportedly found the knife on the property several years ago and gave it to an off-duty LAPD officer, who is now retired. That officer kept the knife for several years before turning it over to investigators. So, what can you tell us about this officer?", "Well, let's go back first. The construction worker was there because the house was torn down in 1998, it was sold to a new owner. The address was changed. So, that's why -- that's why the house was torn apart. And that would give rise to looking for something perhaps somebody saw something. This is what's amazing to me. The construction workers were told -- saw an off-duty LAPD officer, who was working on a movie shoot in the area. And the officer kept it, kept it for 18 years. That is one of the most startling revelations to me about this entire thing. One, could it be the knife, the knife that they've never been able to find? And, two, the idea that this is potentially evidence either inculpatory or exculpatory evidence and it was never turned over. And when you talk about a case where everybody was looking at how the LAPD collected and handled and tested evidence, and then you have potential evidence that's just kept as a memento of gruesome crime. That's the most troubling thing. The officer then has not been released, he supposedly retired in January I'm certainly LAPD is going to be examining this very, very closely.", "I want everyone to pay close attention, but especially you, Judge Alex. There was an LAPD press conference today. Let's listen.", "I would think that an LAPD officer if this story as accurate as we're being told, would know that any time you are -- you come into contact with evidence that you should and shall submit that to investigators. So, I don't know what the circumstances are, why that didn't happen or if that's entirely accurate or if this whole story is possibly bogus from the get go involving a variety of people. So, we're looking into that but I was quite shocked.", "So, Judge Alex, talk to me about this officer's conduct. If this is all -- if this verified, could he be charged with a crime?", "Yes. Actually I think he could be charged with a crime if it turns out to a be knife that's related to the investigation. Because remember, this is still an open investigation. O.J. Simpson was acquitted. So, technically the investigation is still open. Regardless of whether it is the knife or it isn't the knife, the fact that the officer believe it was and so, he kept for 18 years and was looking to frame it and put the serial -- the case number of the O.J. Simpson case on the frame. So, clearly he thought it was evidence, is what is outrageous to me, that the officer knew he had evidence that could lead -- listen, I think most Americans believe that O.J. Simpson was the murderer but that hasn't been proven in any way, shape or form if anything he was acquitted. So, that knife could prove who the actual murderer is. It's described as a buck knife type of folding knife, which very easily could in the nooks and crannies retain the DNA and be instructive in leading to a conclusion of the case. So, the fact that the officer thought he was holding evidence to a crime and decided to keep it, under California law he definitely could be charged with concealing evidence, absolutely.", "So, even with -- even -- even if it's not the knife, you still think that he could be charged because of the possibility that it could have been the knife?", "No, I think it's not the knife, it's not evidence of a crime and he can't be charged. But it speaks to his character. I mean, he thought it was the knife, he believed there was a knife and he kept it. So, I think it's another unfortunately, dark mark on the record of LAPD. I tend to believe it's probably not the knife because I think LAPD scoured that property. I would expect they would. I know they made mistakes. But I think they probably scoured that probably. I think it was knife, be a knife that was left behind by like a gardener or something in the years that followed.", "All right. We shall see. We'll continue on. Stay with me, gentlemen. When we come right back, if the knife turns out to be genuine, what could it mean for O.J. Simpson and the murder case that's still open after more than 20 years."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "LAWRENCE KOBILINSKY, FORENSIC SCIENTIST", "LEMON", "KOBILINSKY", "LEMON", "KOBILINSKY", "LEMON", "KOBILINSKY", "LEMON", "JIM MORET, INSIDE EDITION CHIEF CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "ANDREW NEIMAN, LOS ANGELES POLICE", "LEMON", "ALEX FERRER, JUDGE ALEX SHOW HOST", "LEMON", "FERRER", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-258532", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2015-06-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/30/cg.01.html", "summary": "Chris Christie Running for President; ISIS Fears", "utt": ["Heightened terror concerns from top national security officials. I'm Jake Tapper. This is THE LEAD. The national lead. The terrorist took a selfie with a severed head -- new information coming in today about terror on three continents, the exact type of attacks, maximum horror, minimal planning that have U.S. officials so worried about the Fourth of July weekend here. The politics lead. He's got a bark as big as his bite, but today Governor Chris Christie, once at the top of the polls, entered the race for 2016 as the underdog. Can he pull off a comeback by -- quote -- \"telling it like it is\"? Also, an entire neighborhood destroyed as residents watch their homes burn from across the river, wildfires feeding off strong winds, and the hottest June in one state's history with no sign of it slowing down? Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Jake Tapper. Welcome to THE LEAD. We're going to begin with our national lead and an urgent warning from U.S. national security officials. Concern is growing that ISIS-inspired jihadists may be planning a devastating and symbolic terrorist attack to coincide with July 4 celebrations this weekend, this coming as ISIS claims responsibility and praises a string of deadly attacks across three continents Friday at a beach resort in Tunisia, at a mosque in Kuwait, and at a U.S. chemical plant in France, where a man beheaded his boss, took a selfie with a decapitated body, and sent that image to an ISIS friend in Syria, all before trying to blow himself up in a suicide mission. It is that exact type of lone wolf terrorist attack that is reportedly keeping local, state and federal law enforcement officers in this country on edge. Let's get right to CNN justice correspondent Pamela Brown. She's live in New York. And, Pamela, it's no secret that terrorist groups aspire to stage attacks around symbolic days, attacks quite like the ones we saw in Tunisia and France. But is there a credible threat about July 4 weekend?", "Well, Jake, there's a lot of concern, but we're being told no specific credible threat as of now for the holiday weekend. But, as one counterterrorism official I spoke with today said, with the evolving ISIS threat of supporters rapidly going from aspirational to operational, it's very tough to have credible intelligence of an attack before it happens. And I will tell you the concern is especially heightened following several recent global ISIS attacks you talked about, including that beheading in France.", "New gruesome details about the ISIS-inspired beheading in France at an American-owned factory are raising fears about a similar attack in the U.S. around the July 4 holiday. Today, a French prosecutor said the suspect hung the victim's head from a fence surrounded with two Islamic flags. He also posed for a picture with the body.", "ISIS beheading has been a tactic of choice for them in Syria and Iraq. But we're now seeing this tactic spread throughout the Middle East and also to Europe. The worry is the United States is next.", "In the wake of the near simultaneous attacks in France, Kuwait, in a beachside attack in Tunisia that killed at least 38 people, here in the U.S., the FBI made its ninth ISIS-related arrest this month. Authorities say 23-year-old Alaa Saadeh planned to go to Syria to fight. He is part of a group of ISIS supporters in the New York City area, including a Queens college student arrested recently for allegedly plotting bombings in New York.", "I anticipate you're going to see more and more arrests as we lead up to the Fourth of July holiday. And that's to get these people off the streets, so they can't conduct a terrorist attack.", "U.S. counterterrorism officials fear the symbolic July 4 holiday celebrations coinciding with the Islamic holy month of Ramadan will further embolden ISIS supporters in the U.S. to unleash attacks, a threat taken so seriously, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI sent out a warning to law enforcement officials a week in advance of the holiday.", "Terrorist groups have historically been interested in targeting the United States on the July 4 holiday, because they see that holiday as being very important to Americans and if something were to happen, that this would inflict additional psychological trauma.", "And so of particular concern on the holidays, of course, celebrations, rallies, any place in the U.S. where a lot of people are gathering, Jake. As per standard operating procedure, the FBI and local law enforcement will have command posts set up at various locations. But it's really that lone wolf attack that -- that is so troubling to officials at this time of year.", "All right, Pamela Brown, thank you so much. In Tunisia, the hunt is on for two -- quote -- \"dangerous terrorists\" who may be connected to Friday's deadly massacre where 38 people were murdered at a beachside hotel popular with Western tourists; 11 of the victims have yet to be identified. Let's go right to CNN's Nick Paton Walsh. He's live in Tunisia. Nick, we're learning much more about the man behind this deadly attack. Tell us.", "The most chilling detail, Jake, frankly is that he was trained, we are told, by senior Tunisian counterterrorism officials in Libya at the same time as the two men who attacked the Bardo Museum in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, in March. That attack killed over 20. Now, that is a particularly chilling detail, because it raises the possibility we're talking about a cell here, about coordinated attacks maybe, even. We don't know if those men when they came back to Tunisia from Libya, war-torn, where ISIS have a foothold, actually communicated or knew what the other group was supposed to be doing, but it raises another chilling question that I'm sure is at the heart of what investigators are worried about right now, Jake, and that is, are there more people who have been trained in Libya, sent here? Authorities suggesting the radicalization of Seifeddine Rezgui was in fact online initially, but this trip to Libya has also made them think there could be two key suspects he was involved in. One is a lesser known group called Ansar al-Sharia, an al Qaeda affiliate, but has sort of morphed into ISIS at times, and also ISIS themselves have claimed responsibility and released a picture of the gunman on the night of the attack, so a lot of questions still to be answered, Jake.", "All right, Nick Paton Walsh live in Tunisia, thanks so much. Joining me to talk about the threat from ISIS is former CIA operative Bob Baer. Bob, security bulletins are typically issued ahead of holidays, such as Memorial Day or the Fourth of July, Labor Day. Is this one different?", "Well, the fact that they have gone public with this, I mean, we all know about the Fourth of July. But when they're talking about this, and especially in the wake of the beheading in France and the shootings in Tunisia, the FBI is monitoring people traveling to Syria and Iraq, jihadists, would-be jihadists. But that's not their main concern. Their main concern is a copycat terrorist, someone who will pick up an automatic weapon, go into a Fourth of July event and start shooting people or a simple beheading. And these kind of attacks in Tunisia and France are an inspiration for people who are believers in this country.", "What type of additional precautions or security measures do you think should be put in place, given this FBI/Department of Homeland Security warning?", "I think that -- you know, I think what they have to do is start hauling these people in. You simply -- the FBI can't go knock on their door and ask a suspect, have you been radicalized? You need to do searches. You need to get into chat rooms. You need to be more aggressive. The FBI needs to get out of their offices and hit the streets. It's a thankless job, but there's no choice, because these people are homegrown. And it's very hard to get inside their heads unless you really confront them.", "It seems obvious that while law enforcement should be aware and so should the general public, the way to stop homegrown radicals is primarily through intelligence gathering and not law enforcement, right? You get them before they actually commit an act?", "Well, my understanding is there's so many people that are on the Web looking at the beheadings, subscribing to this philosophy of jihad and are fascinating by it, but a teenager fascinated by what's going on in the Middle East does not mean that they're going to switch over and turn to violence. And that's what's so hard for the FBI is to figure out the ones that are going to do it. And something as simple as find out who goes out and buys an automatic weapon or bullets for it is a better lead. But, right now, they're only catching the low-hanging fruit, the people going to Syria and Iraq, which aren't an immediate threat to the United States.", "The chair of the House Homeland Security Committee told CNN earlier today that more than 10 terror plots in the U.S. have been disrupted since May and that more arrests should be expected this week. In a ballpark way, because I know you're still in touch with a lot of people in the intelligence community, how many suspected jihadis are currently being monitored by law enforcement, by intelligence, or is it impossible to tell; it's just an overwhelming number of people looking at material?", "It's hundreds and hundreds all across the United States. And it's not just Muslims. It's a lot of young people who are fascinated by belonging to this cult that know nothing about Islam. And they feel that they pick up a weapon, they're going to -- you know, it's an act of significance for them, historical significance, and they're doing the right thing. And for you and me, it's insanity, but, for them, it's not. How many precisely? It all depends who you're asking. But there's thousands, if you like, that are potential jihadists.", "All right, Bob Baer, thank you so much. Also in the national lead today, prison leaders now suspended as the FBI looking into whether drugs and corruption run rampant in that maximum security facility. Also today, the captured fugitive is divulging new details about the escape plan that included a practice run the night before -- that story next."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "BROWN (voice-over)", "PAUL CRUICKSHANK, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST", "BROWN", "REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL (R), TEXAS", "BROWN", "CRUICKSHANK", "BROWN", "TAPPER", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "BOB BAER, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "TAPPER", "BAER", "TAPPER", "BAER", "TAPPER", "BAER", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-335807", "program": "HALA GORANI TONIGHT", "date": "2018-03-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/23/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Trade War Fears; Trump Appoints New National Security Adviser; Trump Appoints New National Security Adviser; Trump: Will Never Sign A Bill Like That Ever Again.", "utt": ["Welcome back. We'll go back to Hala Gorani in Paris a little bit later, but for now other news we're following for you tonight. An economic tit for tat is currently underway between the world's two super powers. First, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from China. Then on Thursday, he tightened the screw with new taxes on other goods brought in from China worth up to $60 billion. As a result, the global markets nosedived. The Dow closed more than 700 points lower on Thursday and then this Friday, so far modestly proposing tariffs worth about $3 billion in response to the original round of Trump tariffs. More is likely to come and that is making investors nervous, indeed. This is how the Dow closed today, down 424. That's lower again today and while Mr. Trump is acting increasingly hawkishly on China, he's also just appointed new security adviser, his third since his administration began. John Bolton is the man and he is replacing H.R. McMaster in what is yet another high-profile shake-up of the White House in just the last few days. Bolton is a controversial pick given his views on Iraq and indeed his views on North Korea. So, let's discuss all of this with CNN's White House reporter, Stephen Collinson live in Washington for us. Stephen, John Bolton has been around for some time under various administrations and perhaps his most senior role as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, but might we see a different John Bolton under this president and under this administration and the Bolton we've seen of old?", "I don't think there's any reason to think that the John Bolton that we're going to see in the White House is going to change at least in terms of his policy views and his very hard line, as you said, on North Korea and his against the Iran deal and he's talked about the necessity to bomb Iran to end the program. He was a very prominent voice in the run-up to the war in Iraq supporting that action and I don't think it's likely that he will change his views when he gets to the moments when he has the most power in his entire career. You know, John Bolton is someone who is a very controversial figure in Washington. When he was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the U.N. ambassador, couldn't get a permanent appointment for that job because the Senate wouldn't confirm him largely because he was seen as somebody who was very hard on subordinates. And there was great resistance to him in the diplomatic corps, he's a very hard-charging character, but he's also somebody who knows how to use the levers of power in Washington so he's going to be a formidable opponent for his adversaries in the administration and he's a very interesting pick. The one thing that I would say is that what he must learn is that nobody in this administration is allowed to become more prominent and dominant than the president himself and if he doesn't learn that lesson, I don't think he'd be there for that long.", "And the president himself speaking earlier on, talking about this spending bill which he has now signed into law. You could argue that perhaps it was a useful distraction from some of the other rumors scandals in the White House, and he signed it, but wasn't all that pleased about it. Take a listen to this.", "I say to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this again. I'm not going to do it again. Nobody read it. It's only hours old. Some people don't even know what it is -- $1.3 trillion.", "So, you can hear there, Stephen, he signed it, but he will never do it again and it's apparent he didn't read it.", "Right. I mean, Donald Trump said he would to drain the swamp. This is a prime example of a swamp product coming out of Congress. You know, it's a bill that's bloated. The way you get stuff passed in Congress, everyone gets their pet project, and no one really knows what they're voting for because that's the way you need to get the votes. Donald Trump was happy to Trump it the things he does want to including increased military spending and more money for fighting the opioid epidemic, but to get that money, you have to compromise and concede on other things. What he didn't get in the bill was funding for his border wall which was at the center of his political project, if you like, since he started and that's one reason he's angry, but if he says he's not going to sign that bill again, if you want to get anything signed in Washington because of the way, you know, power is distributed, you have to give and take.", "Stephen Collinson, thank you very much. Appreciate your analysis on this. I want to bring some breaking news and this resolves around activity in the U.K. at the moment. You will, of course, remember Cambridge Analytica, the data firm accused of having used Facebook data in order to help Donald Trump, perhaps help the campaigns around the world, various campaigns to get elected. The U.K. authorities, the Information Commission has been trying to get into Cambridge Analytica's U.K. office for the last week or so to get to the bottom of this and take documents and they just today managed to get a court order to do that. We understand at the moment that 18 officers from the U.K. Information Commission or currently searching those offices here in London. We'll bring you more on that as we get any further detail. But let's get back to what we were talking about before and the shake-ups in the White House in particular. My next guest has met John Bolton, the soon to be national security adviser and he's met him personally and he has wide expertise on the Asian region. Of course, that's interesting because of what we've been talking about with trade wars and the like and the", "This could be, and this is a very significant turning point in America's relationship, not just with China, but with Asia. Since the end of the Second World War, the United States has been really the foundation of peace, security and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. And that depended on America being a responsible player in that region and in the world, and so, America certainly made sacrifices, but also contributed through security, through open markets and through all these kinds of things that the United States provided to the world and we benefited enormously. Donald Trump and his administration are looking to redo that deal and for America to behave like in many ways any other country, just with narrow, nationalist activities and behaviors and so now certainly, they talk of trade, we are not just with China. China has behaved not well at all and there are reasons for the united states to get tougher on China, but to get tough on China, the United States needs to do what it's done for so many years, which is to build coalitions around positive values and that's what this administration isn't doing.", "It isn't doing at the moment and if we talked specifically about the tariffs in particular, it was some $50 billion, wide-ranging tariffs that the U.S. has put on China specifically, but China's response is being quite measured. Are you expecting more to come?", "China is waiting to see what the United States is really doing. The U.S. tariffs won't be applied immediately. There's going to be about a month of a negotiation process potentially, so China wants to wait and see. Nobody certainly, China doesn't want to have a trade war with the United States, but at the same time China has gotten away with a lot of bad behaviors, blocking access for American international companies and forcing technology transfer and stealing intellectual property rights or stealing intellectual property and keeping America's big tech companies out of the Chinese markets. So, China has known that the United States at some point will need to get tougher on China, but China also recognizes that President Trump is weakening America so significantly through his erratic behavior by the tumult within the administration and there are all these threats that have been made that haven't been carried out. So, they want to see whether this is real or not, and whether Trump has the political ability and just the capacity within an administration that's in complete chaos to deliver on these tough words.", "You talk about the chaos within the administration at the moment and the shake-ups going on, I am wondering what you think China might be making of John Bolton coming into the new role as national security adviser, given the fact that he has been very outspoken in the past at least about say, North Korea, a proponent of military intervention as opposed to any kind of dialogue and presumably China might be feeling quite sidelined by what's going on between the U.S. and North Korea right now.", "I don't know if they're feeling sidelined because China still has the cards in many ways for North Korea because China's trade and aid and energy resources keep North Korea alive. So, whether this meeting happens between North Korea, Kim Jong-un and President Trump happens or not, it's very clear that North Korea will not be giving up its nukes any time soon. That the Trump administration has no meaningful strategy so it's not that there's going to be some kind of deal or could be some kind of deal that sidelines China. But what I do think is that people all across the region are extremely concerned that the so-called moderates, the relative moderates and the so-called adults in the room from the Trump administration are all being sidelined, and a series of ideologues are taking their place. The John Bolton who I know is a very smart, very thoughtful person, but he has been on the aggressive use of military action in Iran, for Iraq, and North Korea, and this is going to be a very, very difficult situation because the president already has erratic impulses. Already his administration is under threat because of all of these scandals and he is, in the middle of the night, when decisions are made in the old days at least you can say there were some people who are trying to moderate their impulses. Now every day, we are losing what limited protection we have. This is a very, very dangerous situation.", "Yes, exactly. A lot of people saying that the president has just surrounded himself by yes men. Even Kellyanne Conway is saying get with the program or get out to staff members within the administration. Jamie, that's what we got time for. Jamie Metzl, we appreciate it. Thanks very much, indeed. Still to come on the program tonight, after a terror attack in Southern France leaves three people dead, we're asking does France have a specific problem? Hala Gorani is back live in Paris next."], "speaker": ["JONES", "STEPHEN COLLINSON, CNN POLITICS SENIOR REPORTER", "GORANI", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "JONES", "COLLINSON", "JONES", "JAMIE METZL, SENIOR FELLOW, ATLANTIC COUNCIL", "JONES", "METZL", "JONES", "METZL", "JONES"]}
{"id": "CNN-78299", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-10-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0310/20/lad.11.html", "summary": "Sniper Trial in Virginia Beach, Virginia Opens", "utt": ["It's been nearly a year since John Allen Muhammad was arrested in the D.C. sniper case. And this morning his trial in Virginia Beach, Virginia opens with statements from prosecution and defense attorneys. CNN's Jeanne Meserve has more on the case.", "At this gas station on October 9, 2002, Dean Meyers was filling his tank. J.R. Raymaker (ph) was working the cash register.", "We were standing right here and we heard like pooh, like a shot or something.", "Meyers lay dead by the pump, the seventh killed by the Washington sniper. No one saw John Muhammad at this shooting scene or any other in the Washington area. He has never confessed to any of the murders. Prosecutors say the case is circumstantial. That does not mean it's weak.", "Fingerprints, hair samples, DNA, ballistics evidence, that evidence is clear cut. It stays the same from the time the crime was committed until the trial starts.", "The strongest piece of evidence in this case, the Bushmaster rifle, found with Muhammad and Malvo at the time of their arrest and linked through ballistics testing like this with Meyers' murder and other D.C. sniper slayings. The Chevy Caprice in which they were found had a sniper perch and firing port in the trunk. Inside, a wealth of other evidence.", "The window broke and shots came in.", "A laptop stolen from an earlier shooting victim. On it, law enforcement sources say maps and notations about past and apparently planned shootings. Some locations marked with a skull and crossbones and smiley faces. Also in the Caprice, a global positioning device, walkie-talkies and a tape recorder, all alleged to have been used in the crimes.", "I think it's also highly incriminating. The real question is is who is it incriminating of, both of the people in the car, only Muhammad, only Malvo or some third or fourth persons that may have been in the car.", "There is more. At the restaurant across the street from the Meyers shooting, investigators found a map with Muhammad and Malvo's fingerprints on it. And the police chief of Montgomery, Alabama says witnesses can place both Malvo and Muhammad at a shooting there before the Washington spree. (on camera): Defense attorneys watching the case say if they were representing Muhammad, they would try to undermine the credibility of the forensic evidence, exploit contradictions in the investigation and create opportunities for appeal. They would also underline emphatically that no one saw John Muhammad commit the crimes. Jeanne Meserve, CNN, Washington."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "J.R. RAYMAKER", "MESERVE", "TODD SANDERS, FORMER PROSECUTOR", "MESERVE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MESERVE", "HANK ASBILL, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "MESERVE"]}
{"id": "CNN-317751", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-07-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/28/cnr.08.html", "summary": "As Trump Weighs Sanctions Bill, Moscow Expels Diplomats, Trump's Wild Week from Boy Scouts to Chaos to Cursing", "utt": ["Russia retaliating today after congress passed a new sanctions bill against Moscow, a bill that is right now sitting on the president's desk. Vladimir Putin taking control of several U.S. diplomatic properties and ordering many U.S. diplomats and staff out of the country. But here's the question. Will president Trump sign this bill that cracks down on Russia for meddling in last year's election? The White House has been reluctant, saying it will hurt the president's chances to cooperate with Russia. Ben Judah, author of \"Fragile Empire\" is back with us today. Ben, nice to see you.", "Thank you.", "Let me just begin with a retaliation. Can you explain the significance of these moves, these sudden moves by the Kremlin?", "The Kremlin's classic playbook is mirroring retaliation, any sanctions that the United States puts on Russia, it wants to be able to mirror them, to show that it too is a superpower that can bite at what matters to the United States. The problem for Russia is that whilst Russian money and Russian kleptocrats and Russian banks have lots of reasons and lots of interests in the United States, there isn't so much that the U.S. has in Russia that makes it vulnerable to leverage. So, what Putin has done is try and hit on U.S. diplomats and U.S. diplomatic services here. Is it comparable to the effects of the sanctions hitting banks, these sanctions hitting really the funding networks of Russian kleptocrats? Not really.", "But if the president goes on and signs this bill, how will Vladimir Putin react to that?", "What it will mean if the president goes on to sign this bill is that hopes of a reset, hopes of a deal between Trump and Putin are dead. Because the core of this has always been Putin trying to lift sanctions. Why is Putin so desperate to lift sanctions? That's because Russia is a kleptocracy. They will take their money out of Russia and put it abroad and launder it through the wests and what the sanctions have done is limit and freeze a lot of their financial flows so he's desperate to lift them because it harms his partnership with the people around him. Now, this bill, if passed, cements those sanctions. And it means that what Russia's meddling would have given it over the last election cycle in the U.S. is really very little, and it will be fitting in with what I see as a historical pattern of Russian overextension, of overplaying its hand, that we see in the 19th century and we see in actions that precipitated the Cold War.", "Well, it's a piece of legislation that is waiting for the president's autograph that had so much support within congress it is veto-proof. Ben Judah, we'll see what the fallout is either way. Coming up next, if your head isn't entirely spinning from this crazy week in Washington, you have not been paying close enough attention. We'll discuss where the Trump administration goes from here."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "BEN JUDAH, AUTHOR OF \"FRAGILE EMPIRE:  HOW RUSSIA FELL IN AND OUT OF LOVE WITH PUTIN\"", "BALDWIN", "JUDAH", "BALDWIN", "JUDAH", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-302705", "program": "CNN 10", "date": "2017-01-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/09/sn.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Intelligence Concerning Russia; Wicked Winter Weather Slams U.S.; Mixed Signs About U.S. Economy", "utt": ["This is CNN 10, explaining global news to our global audience. I`m Carl Azuz. The first story we`re covering this January 9th, the first official U.S. intelligence report concerning Russia and the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It was ordered by President Barack Obama and given on Friday. The intelligence said that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign, which included cyber hacking, that was aimed at the U.S. election and that included a, quote, \"clear preference for President- elect Donald Trump over his rival Hillary Clinton.\" After intelligence officials met with President-elect Trump about the issue, his transition team said the hacking occurred before Trump was the clear Republican Party nominee and that it seemed intended more to harm Clinton than to help Trump. The Obama administration has accused Russia of undermining the U.S. democratic process. Russia has consistently denied interfering, and a Russian senator said the American process was, quote, \"undermined by the Obama administration and the media which supported Clinton against Trump.\" U.S. intelligence officials said they did not assess whether Russian activities actually affected the outcome of the American election. The FBI is investigating an attack at a Florida airport on Friday. A 26- year-old man who`d served in the Puerto Rico and Alaska Army National Guards has confessed to planning the shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Five people were killed and six were wounded. The suspect, Esteban Santiago, now faces federal charges that could lead to the death penalty. Santiago had served in the Iraq war from 2010 to 2011, and received a combat related honor. But his brother says he believes the shooting was caused by mental issues that arose after Santiago`s service. He`d received a mental evaluation but the conclusions weren`t enough to keep him from owning a firearm. FBI officials say they`re not ruling out terrorism as a possible motive.", "Ten-second trivia. The U.S. National Weather Service defines a blizzard as having what wind speed? Fifteen to 30 miles per hour, more than 35, or zero miles per hour? By the Services` definition, a blizzard has heavy snow, very limited visibility and wind speeds of more than 35 miles per hour for at least three hours.", "And it was blizzard conditions that hit part of the U.S. Northeast over the weekend, bringing massive amounts of snow to Massachusetts, and coating areas of Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut. The same winter storm system swept snow and frigid temperatures all the way the East Coast, knocking out power to tens of thousands in Georgia and North Carolina, covering roads and bridges with ice, and leading to the cancellations of thousands of airline flights, stranding travelers. Out West, heavy rain, plus forecast of mountain snow factored into the fact that 77 million Americans were under some sort of winter weather advisory in recent days. Parts of Oregon were expecting sleet and freezing rain.", "We`re talking about freezing rain and sleet. What`s the difference? It all comes down to the temperature at different levels of the atmosphere. Take freezing rain, for example. You start with the snowflake high in the atmosphere. It will enter a warm layer, temperatures above freezing, that will cause the snowflake to melt and basically turn in to a rain drop. That warm layer is so thick that temperatures don`t get below freezing until just above the surface, not enough time for that raindrop to freeze again. So, it freezes on everything it makes contact with, roads, bridges, power lines, tree branches, everything. On the other hand, you have sleet. The only difference is that warm layer isn`t so thick and the raindrop has enough to freeze again. That`s why a lot of times, you can hear sleet. It sounds like ice hitting the surface. Roads, cars, anything it touches.", "Some mixed messages coming in concerning the U.S. economy. First, the December jobs report. It indicated that the unemployment rate increased 1/10 of 1 percent, from 4.6 percent to 4.7 percent. U.S. employers added 156,000 jobs nationwide in December. That was down from the 204,000 added in November, and the average monthly growth in 2016. But there was an increase in wages, of 2.9 percent, and that was the wage increase in seven years. Some bad news for American retail companies, though. Women`s clothing brand the Limited announced Saturday it was closing all of its stores nationwide. Its website will stay up, though. These closings add to those of Sears and Kmart, who planned to shut down a combined 150 more stores. And Macy`s is closing in many places, cutting more than 10,000 jobs.", "Macy`s is closing 100 of 650 stores, 15 percent. That is astonishing for this iconic retailer that used to be a mainstay in America`s malls. America`s malls are facing a lot of difficulties because the anchor tenants like Macy`s are in trouble -- companies like JCPenney, Sears, Nordstrom. These are companies that have all been faced with the threat of Amazon. Amazon is eating everyone`s lunch. Internationally, you`re seeing it as well with China`s Alibaba reporting strong sales, too. What does this mean for people who work in the industry? Unfortunately, these are not good times. More than 40,000 retail sector jobs have already been lost near the gate. That number likely to go higher as more tradition retailers shutter stores. The good news, if you want to call it that, is that there are still some thriving retailers out there, companies like T.J.Maxx, Dollar General. These are doing extremely well, as well as fast fashion companies like Zara and H&M. The problem, though, what does it say about this economy? Bargaining hunting is what everyone wants. People trying to save as much as they can, and not spend more than they need to -- another sign of America`s soft economy.", "As part of our fantastic changes with CNN 10, now, you can read along with Carl. On our home page, you can read the word transcript right under the video box. My big head will play on the right side of your screen, while you scroll through the words. It`s a great tool for learning English or seeing exactly what the puns are. The 2017 Consumer Electronic Show, CES, has just wrapped up in Las Vegas, Nevada. You hear a lot about technical advances on this show. A new technology is what CES is all about. Its product categories include everything from 3D printing and driverless cars, to augmented to reality, drones and electronic gaming to robotics and wearable technology. In fact, the product you`re about to see kind of combines those last two.", "This is the base screen (ph) we have to the games and these are the games for physical therapy. It can virtually like do a lot of activities, which maybe challenging in your real life if you are the stroke patients, or any type of patients with the brain injury.", "So, like squeezing a lemon.", "Exactly.", "So, right now, these sensors are just reading how much I`m clinching. So, I clinch and it`s seeing if I`m doing a good job, a bad job. But what are some of the advantages of using a program like this at home to do physical therapy?", "The biggest advantages, the -- it`s more fun. It`s more engaging. Lots of our home patients say they`re not even realizing they`re actually going through the rehab process. So, that`s one factor. And the other factor is actually matters to range emotion of viewers. So, instead of saying that, oh, you`ve been making improvement,\" now, it can be a lot more objective by saying, \"Oh, I made progress by three degrees, say, over past two weeks.\"", "How much does it cost to use this device and the service that comes with it?", "It costs $99.", "Ninety-nine dollars.", "A month, like to rent the device.", "Do you see this as a replacement for a physical therapist?", "That`s really not. The machine can never replace the physical therapist, but this is actually like the tool made for the physical therapist.", "Oh, finally! I`m way better at this in the digital world than the -- oh, or not.", "Skydivers (ph) who typically aimed for \"10 Out of 10\", swimmers often compete for the best time. These Georgia Tech swimmers are trying to look like they`re having a good time swimming in the snow. Their meet at Virginia Tech was canceled over the weekend for the snow. So, in this Twitter video, you can see them making the best of their predicament, outside of their hotel, outside in the cold, far outside of any heated pool. Certainly, a frosty reception for the visiting team. But even if their pace seemed glacial, all their moves were crisp, all their times were brisk, just watching them gave onlookers goose bumps, and while it might have been a polarizing idea to begin with, they all came away looking like winters. I`m Carl Azuz and that`s \"10 Out of 10\" for CNN 10. We`ll see you tomorrow. END"], "speaker": ["CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR", "AZUZ (voice-over)", "AZUZ", "JENNIFER GRAY, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "AZUZ", "REPORTER", "AZUZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAMUEL BURKE, CNN TECH CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BURKE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BURKE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BURKE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BURKE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BURKE", "AZUZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-180565", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-2-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/05/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Reports: 30 People Dead In Syria; Heavy Snow Socks London; Rivers Burst Banks In Australia; Church Works To Drop Abuse Cases; Preventing Priest Sex Abuse", "utt": ["All right, happening overseas this hour, another day of violence and death in Syria, at least 31 people reportedly died today in clashes with Syrian troops. An enormous crowd also packed the city of Homs to mourn the hundreds of people killed in what witnesses call a government ordered massacre. In the U.K. two to four inches of snow fell overnight. That's pretty heavy for London. Big fun for kids with sleds there, throwing snowballs, pretty big headache for travelers however. Heathrow Airport canceled about half its scheduled flights today. Troublesome weather in Australia as well in the form of high water. Heavy summer rains pushed rivers out of their banks in the eastern state of Queensland. Officials are warning thousands of residents to brace for what may be record breaking flooding. This week a federal judge will consider whether to throw out some priest sex abuse claims in the Milwaukee diocese. More than 550 people alleged they were abused. The archdiocese filed for bankruptcy last January and these claims are part of that case. The archdiocese is asking the judge to throw out up to 95 percent of the claims saying this, that many of the claims were filed beyond the statute of limitations. The alleged abuse involves someone who wasn't a church employee and some victims already got settlements from the archdiocese. Many of the victims are furious at the archdiocese. It's trying to toss out those claims. Pope Benedict XVI wants all catholic churches to have guidelines in place to prevent clerical sexual abuse and respond appropriately when allegations are made. That's the focus of an international conference happening next week in Rome. More than 200 representatives from bishop's conferences and major religious orders around the world are invited. I want to bring our Vatican analyst, John Allen to talk more about this. So John, good to see you. From what I'm reading about all this, this conference seems very focused on action, finding solutions for how to deal with this issue. Is that what you're hearing?", "Yes, Fredricka, that's absolutely right. These would be the people coming together who are representing these bishop conferences and religious orders would be experts in child protection. That is people who are on the ground working for the church on this issue in various parts of the world trying to identify best practices in preventing, detecting and prosecuting abuse and trying to make sure that those best practices become a global standard. One of the problems here with the church's response is that supervision of personnel is handled locally. That is it's handled sort of parish by parish, diocese by diocese, religious order by religious order. It's always been difficult to come up with uniform global approach, but that's what this conference is trying to achieve.", "Is it also the case that some alleged victims are planning to attend this conference? If so, what is their role going to be?", "Yes, in fact, one of the first major speakers is going to be a victim of clerical abuse from Ireland. Ireland, of course, has had one of the most massive Catholic sex abuse crises anywhere in the world. This is a victim by the name of Maury Collins who has publicly talked about her experiences and has, in fact, been very sharply critical of what she sees as the church's failures to really get its hands around this. She has been invited to make one of the first presentations because organizers say they want to hear the voices of victims and the way they go about trying to fight this.", "And is the Catholic Church in large part publicizing that there is this conference about to be under way to address the fact that membership worldwide in some parts is dropping significantly in the Catholic Church?", "Well, I don't think it's quite as crass as that. I mean, first of all, the truth is that globally the Catholic Church is growing significantly. I mean, it's true it's losing membership in some parts of the west. But, you know, you take a place like Africa, the Catholic Church actually grew by 7,000 percent in Africa during the 20th Century. So I don't think trying to stem membership loss is the issue. I do think the church, however, realizes that it's taken a massive blow to its moral authority and to its public image. I do think they want to try to turn that around. But fundamentally, I think the motive for this conference is that church leaders want to try to make sure that the church is a safe place for children, and for everyone else for that matter, and try to put policies in place to make sure, as much as humanly possible that's the case.", "John Allen, thanks so much for joining us from Rome. And in this country more than half of voting Catholics backed President Obama in 2008. But a new law about birth control might change that this year. Details on that next."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "JOHN ALLEN, CNN SENIOR VATICAN ANALYST", "WHITFIELD", "ALLEN", "WHITFIELD", "ALLEN", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-348735", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-08-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/28/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Stormy Daniels Gets Star Treatment in 'Vogue'", "utt": ["Stormy Daniels like you have never seen her, all decked out in high-end designer couture, photographed by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz and gracing the pages of high fashion's Bible, \"Vogue\" magazine. This is, shall we say, a far cry from the film sets where she was once an adult film star or the strip clubs where she now dances. It is a bit closer to the look she dons for media appearances outside courthouses where she is suing the president of the United States and his one-time lawyer Michael Cohen over keeping quiet an alleged affair. Daniels is getting the royal \"Vogue\" treatment in a gown by a designer who refuses to dress the first lady. The article is called \"Stormy Daniels Isn't Backing Down.\" And with me now, Amy Chozick, who wrote the \"Vogue\" piece. She is author of \"Chasing Hillary.\" So nice to have you on.", "So good to be here. Thanks for having me.", "OK. So just start at the beginning. Why did you want do interview her?", "Well, I was really intrigued by her. And there's been a lot written about her, but after that \"60 Minutes\" interview, she really hasn't done any interview. We haven't heard her own voice in this.", "Yes.", "We have heard Michael Avenatti, her lawyer, defending her and talking about the case, of course. But I really wanted to get at kind of the psychological and personal toll that it's taken on her being one of the president's, you know, chief adversaries. What is that like? And so we really kind of dove into that over a couple conversations.", "So, you talk about -- I have to quote this line in the piece, because you set it up, comparing her to, of course, what we saw in that \"60 Minutes\" interview...", "Yes.", "... all fancy and makeup job and everything. And you write: \"In person, Stormy is nothing like that stoic, on- message woman. She is blunt, foulmouthed, funny. I ask her for more details on her alleged 2006 affair with Trump.\""], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "AMY CHOZICK, \"VOGUE\"", "BALDWIN", "CHOZICK", "BALDWIN", "CHOZICK", "BALDWIN", "CHOZICK", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-287774", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2016-06-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/29/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Dozens Killed in Istanbul Airport Attack; Imagine a World.", "utt": ["Tonight: a day of mourning in Turkey after a suicide bombing at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, killing at least 41 people. The country's prime minister blames ISIS. So how can their terror be stopped? Also ahead: a disastrous outcome, the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland on Brexit and why he is calling for a united Ireland.", "I think there is a considerable amount of anger across the community in the north of Ireland at the decision that had been made mostly by people in England to effectively drag us out of the European Union.", "Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. I'm Christiane Amanpour in London. Turkey is in mourning again after three suicide bombers with guns attacked Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, the busiest one in the country; 41 people are dead and hundreds more are injured. Surveillance cameras captured disturbing video like this one, showing the terrifying moment when one bomber blew himself up. Turkish officials say signs point to ISIS and U.S. President Barack Obama reacted by vowing to defeat the extremist group.", "It's an indication of how little these vicious organizations have to offer, that, beyond killing innocents, they are continually losing ground, unable to govern those areas that they have taken over, that they are going to be defeated in Syria; they're going to be defeated in Iraq. They are going to be on the run, wherever they hide. And we will not rest.", "But they're still a force. And we're going now to our Nima Elbagir at Ataturk Airport. Nima, can I just first start by asking you, you were there for the Brussels attack, too. And there are a lot of similarities in terms of the target, in terms of how the terrorists got to the airport.", "Absolutely, a chilling similarity that is the exact same M.O. You had gunmen wearing suicide vests, targeting a vulnerable area of congregation just before the security parameter began. So they start a little bit further back from us but they managed to shoot their way after detonating that first explosive through the sliding doors, where you can see -- this is where the security line begins. This is where the security check-in begins. So very similarly to the way that those -- also three attackers in Brussels forced their way in; one of them was even wearing a coat which sparked the suspicions of authorities. And you'll remember the infamous man in the white coat from the CCTV pictures. Then, when they went in, again, a very sophisticated attack. They used the mayhem created by that first detonation to move further and deeper into the airport, where there were more vulnerable congregations of people. And just the stories we've been hearing, Christiane, they bring back so many of those awful, awful memories. One woman described the havoc that was wrought by the falling shattered ceiling tiles and having to slip and slide on blood-soaked tiles. Again, exactly what we heard in Brussels. What we're hearing from intelligence officials is that mirroring, they believe, is intentional and that's why -- that's one of the main reasons they think that this bears all the hallmarks of", "And Nima and, yet, you have been watching them clear up. The airport is working again. It's quite different in sort of the aftermath, right?", "Yes. This was a very quick cleanup. And this is a very different airport. It is much more secure than Brussels. And the security parameter is much further out. So this was a lot more difficult and yet a lot more successful than what they managed to do in Brussels. But you have seen people stream behind me. This doesn't just feel like a normal day in the life of an airport. This feels like a very busy, very normal airport. And the sad reality is, Istanbul has reeled from so many terror attacks in the last few months that they have unfortunately become expert almost in patching back those ragged edges of --", "-- normality. And it is also politically intentional. Erdogan, President Erdogan, after every attack, wants to show the Turkish public and the wider world, OK, this happened; but we are not on our knees, we're getting our lives together, we are fighting back. And fighting back here in Turkey today means normality -- Christiane.", "Do you have any idea how they managed to get through in a taxi? Apparently the guy was arrested and questioned, the taxi driver. But there is a lot of security. Any clues as to how they managed to get through?", "Well, this was the weaker end of the parameter. And these are the questions that are now being asked, how wide does that security parameter in airports have to start? Because you drive through and, at the initial checkpoint, cars are only stopped if they trigger intense suspicion. And this car, these individuals, clearly didn't, sadly, unfortunately. It's only when you get past the dropoff point which is where they detonated the first explosive, then you finally come to a solid security parameter. They did their homework, Christiane. Everyone I've spoken to calls this an incredibly sophisticated attack.", "Well, it seems so. And a huge loss of life. Nima, thank you from Ataturk Airport there in Istanbul. And of course, it was the 14th attack in recent months in Turkey. And they've had a huge spate of terrorist attacks. What does it say about security? How will the Turkish state react? Joining me now from Istanbul is Akin Unver. He's the assistant professor of international relations at Kadir Has University.", "Mr. Unver, welcome to the program. First and foremost, the security, that's a problem. People there with guns. They came in in a taxi and they managed to get through at a time when we know that these terrorists are threatening airports.", "Yes, exactly. And I think this is quite problematic in terms of Ataturk Airport being one of the most secure airports in the world. First, you have an initial pre-check-in security measure screening. Then you have another one after the check-in. And sometimes with flights to the United States or United Kingdom you have a third layer of security, another screening before boarding. And in a lot of times, this actually frustrates a lot of people and people actually say that this is too much security. Now to the best of my knowledge, the only airport in the world which has a fourth layer of security is Ben-Gurion airport, which essentially monitors cars. There is a pre-entry into the airport screening. Other than that, if this kind of an attack took place in Europe, for example, I'm afraid the casualties would have been much higher.", "Ben-Gurion, of course, is the airport in Tel Aviv in Israel. You say you think the casualties would have been much higher had it been elsewhere and you've tweeted, though, about this one. \"Victims, almost all Muslims. Given this was a planned attack, attackers didn't even go for Western Europeans.\" Tell me what you got from that.", "Basically, in order to carry out this attack you have to monitor everything quite carefully. And a lot of analysts are actually, sadly, stating that a lot of ISIS members, you know, foreign fighters who flew in from abroad, they actually know Ataturk Airport quite well because they have been there a lot of times. So the attack suggests that this was actually planned, studied for quite a while. They knew which way they had to go in from, they knew which way to run, essentially. They knew what kind of security existed at which part of the airport. And this basically suggests that they knew what kind of a sociology, what kind of a group they were attacking against. And --", "That's a very good question. Any answer to that would be highly speculative at that point.", "OK.", "But when you look at the list of the deceased, there is only one Ukrainian. Otherwise, all of the dead people are all Muslims.", "So how is the Turkish state going to react, do you think? Because two things, the prime minister has blamed ISIS, even though there has not been a claim of responsibility as far as we know yet. And also the prime minister gave a press conference not long ago, in which he said, regardless of who it was, ISIS or PKK, there shouldn't be any discrimination because there is no such thing as a good or bad terrorist. Where do you think the --", "-- government is coming down on who is to blame and how will they react?", "I think they're first studying attack types. There is a particular attack type specific to the PKK and another attack type specific to the ISIS. Both groups use suicide bombers in different ways. And basically, the use of machine guns, killing people and detonating oneself when you basically have no other choice, looks more ISIS than the PKK at this point. But the prime minister himself told that we need about two days to properly confirm. Essentially the literature on terrorism study actually says that terrorist organizations don't really claim attacks if there is substantial civilian casualties because civilian casualty is a very sensitive issue. And when there is a substantial civilian casualty then there is higher tendency to not claim those attacks. So at this point, this is the only, you know, measure that we have. And based on what kind of investigation that there is going to go in the next two days and if there is ISIS, then we can expect more and more concrete Turkish response against", "Well, interesting. First of all, the CIA in the last couple of seconds has come in and said it bears all the hallmarks of ISIS. Really interesting that you say ISIS people really know this airport because that airport is the gateway from the West and elsewhere into Syria. Turkey has been reluctant to join the fight against ISIS because it wants to go after Assad as well. So what happens? Does anything change now in terms of the Turkish response?", "I do think that there is going to be a change because one of the reasons why previous prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu was forced to end his tenure was because of the foreign policy identity that was associated with him. Now apparently Turkey wants to open a new chapter in its foreign policy and fundamentally change things. This may mean that Turkey would drop its insistence on regime change in Syria and, instead, focus on more pressing issues domestically, such as a very large number of ISIS cells or what to do with the Kurds in the southeast. So I think there is a change in focus right now, away from foreign policy adventures and more into maintaining security and order within.", "Akin Unver, thank you very much. And you raise that point at a time when President Erdogan is reestablishing relationships with President Putin. And obviously he has his own views about the way things are in Syria. Mr. Unver, thank you very much indeed for joining us. And coming up, the U.K.'s continuing crisis: first Scotland, now Northern Ireland. It voted firmly to stay in the E.U. So will it become another part of the United Kingdom to want a separation? I speak to Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness about an Ireland with one foot in and one foot out of the European Union. 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{"id": "CNN-231942", "program": "@THISHOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2014-6-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/04/ath.02.html", "summary": "Noise Could be Clue to MH370.", "utt": ["Could an underwater sound be related to the final moments of Flight 370? An Australian university has released audio recordings picked up by underwater listening devices.", "Researchers say it is a long shot but it's possible this sound may have been the impact of the plane on the water or an implosion of parts of the craft as it sank and fell in upon itself. We want you to listen, judge for yourself. It is very subtle. So the researchers think that came from the area on this map, which is thousands of miles northwest, I mean, thousands of miles northwest from the current search area in the Southern Indian Ocean. But they say it could be just as likely it was a natural event, an underwater earthquake, a landslide, not related to the plane. What was it? Joining us now, CNN safety analyst, David Soucie, to tell us exclusively. David, you've investigated accidents before, crashes like this, maybe you heard something different.", "You know what I heard was a low frequency vibration. There's a pulse going on, and this pulse, you couldn't hear with the human ear. You would feel it perhaps but you wouldn't be able to hear it with the human ear. They'd sped it up so you can interpret it by the human ear. So that's not really what it sounds like. Remember, the lower frequencies in the ocean travel much, much further than higher frequencies. That's what you'll here, that low frequency pulse. It won't give you much characteristics to tell you specifically what it was.", "What's interesting is we showed the map a second ago, the area of interest where the sound came from is a very large area. It's also very far from the arc. So the arc is provided by the information, provided by Inmarsat. So if the Inmarsat data is -- let's say this is right and this sound is from the plane, that means the Inmarsat data would be wrong.", "Yeah, it does, we all know Inmarsat data is under scrutiny from outside sources. But as crucial as that is, it doesn't discount the fact those arcs are the best information they have. One, it's not very specific, so it's hard to say it is the aircraft. Could just as easily have been a small earthquake or other movement in the ocean. So it's not really conclusive. So to try to, you know, dissuade the search that's ongoing now, I don't think that's going to happen. The second reason I have, because these low frequency vibrations can travel for thousands and thousands of miles, I'm not sure how they even figured out where it came from, to be honest with you. It could have just as easily been refracted off another object under the ocean. There's a lot of variables here. I just don't see a lot of credibility in it. I think they're even saying it's a 10 percent chance --", "What would it take for them to check this out at this point? Search more in the area they're searching now, then in a year, come back to this and say, there was this would be thing, maybe we should follow up on that?", "I think it would take -- at this point with what they have, I think it would take an exhaustive search of the existing area. Then maybe start grasping at further straws further away. But I still put all the faith down in the lower arc.", "David Soucie, always a pleasure. We'll be watching to see if this turns into something or not. 10 percent, as you said, is a very low, low piece of fact they can follow.", "We'll be listening in this case.", "More importantly, we'll be listening. I want to share something, also from Australia, on a much, much lighter note, Lego. Legoland craze created quite a black market for those bricks.", "So Australian police are on the lookout for thieves who stole $15,000 worth of Legos from a huge toy store north of Melbourne. This was a high-tech operation. Removed apparently the store's glass. They raced off in a van. Apparently they were targeting the Legos. Police say the professionalism of this operation suggests there could be a syndicate specifically targeting Lego. A Lego crime syndicate in Australia. You thought we had problems.", "That's it for us @THISHOUR. I'm Michaela Pereira.", "And I'm John Berman. \"LEGAL VIEW\" with Ashleigh Banfield starts right now."], "speaker": ["PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "DAVID SOUCIE, CNN SAFETY ANALYST", "PEREIRA", "SOUCIE", "BERMAN", "SOUCIE", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-264941", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2015-09-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/19/ndaysat.03.html", "summary": "Pope En Route To Havana, Cuba; 8-9a ET", "utt": ["It's 23 minutes past the hour right now. Just eight hours away from the pope's arrival in Havana. He's high above the Atlantic before making his way to the U.S. in a few days. That state side trip is a moment millions of Catholic faithful have anticipating aside from his meetings with the president and Congress, there's going to be plenty of chances to see him. He's taking part in a parade at the national mall on Wednesday as well as a procession through Central Park on Friday. Vatican correspondent, Delia Gallagher, is in Rome following all of this. Here's the thing, you have traveled on the plane with the pope. How accessible and candid is he to the reporters when they get this one-on-one time with him?", "Well, traveling on the plane is really unique for that very reason because the pope comes back. He greets all of the journalists, one by one, sometimes, there's up to 100 journalists on the airplane. Usually going over, he doesn't give an interview, he give ace little chat. Going back, he gives a longer interview in which he usually makes headlines. And of course, the plane itself is not the pope's plane. It's a regular plane, which they kind of kit out for the pope's trip. He gets a slightly bigger seat. They put a headrest on the seats with the pope's crest, the papal insignia, embroidered in color on the back of it. You get a papal pillow on each your seats and the papal menu, which has plenty of journalists to eat and drink while they have the time because these papal flights are just news to do. A lot of journalists on board have a lot of excitement, but there's a lot of work ahead for them. As far as the interview with the journalists it used to be in the pay of John Paul II it was a free for all. He'd come back and answer questions. There are more journalists, news travels more quickly. So they put the journalists in language groups. Each group gets to ask a question, French group, English group, et cetera. And give it to the pope. Right now, they're probably relaxing a little bit reading over some of the speeches. You get the speeches ahead of time to be prepared and getting ready to hit the ground in Cuba -- Christi.", "All right, Delia Gallagher, definitely a very unique experience. Thank you so much. We appreciate it -- Victor.", "All right, 16 candidates running for the GOP nomination for president, when could we see the slimming of the field, that number dwindle possibly? And what determines when a candidate decides to leave? That conversation next. Also, the decision is now in the hands of the military, will they rule that Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl could face court martial?", "A musician in Georgia not only plays a guitar, but he builds a smoking good one from a cigar box. He tells us about the cigar box guitars business that he runs out of his garage in this \"CNN Money Advance.\"", "I'm Mike Snowden, and I'm a musician and a cigar box guitar builder. I was in a band, I was touring. We were playing like 250 shows a year. Looking back on it, it really just wore me out. I really quit playing music for five or six years. I was looking for something to do. I actually stumbled across a guy strumming a cigar box guitar on YouTube. I thought man, that's it. I built them out of my garage. I've made about 1,000 of them. Most of my sales come from the online store. They're all individual. Every cigar box is a little bit different. I do six strings, some four strings. It doesn't sound like a banjo-o guitar. A deep box has a tighter tone. Also when I perform, I do a limited band with cigar box guitars. When I'm down here working on guitar, I'm like, man, what am I doing? I'm making cigar box guitars but when people say them, it's like whoa, man. How cool is that. It's a gift. It's something unique."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "MIKE SNOWDEN, MUSICIAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-99104", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2005-10-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/28/lad.02.html", "summary": "Wilma Aftermath; 9th Ward Tour", "utt": ["Florida Governor Jeb Bush says there are plenty of supplies at the more than 75 distribution centers in the state. But people are still lining up for food, water, ice and gasoline. President Bush joined his brother in Florida. The president toured some of the damage left behind by the hurricane. He also met with volunteers who are helping to hand out relief supplies.", "Things don't happen instantly, but things are happening. Right here on this side people are getting fed. Soon, more and more houses will have their electricity back in, and life will get back to normal. In the meantime, the federal government working with the state and local governments are responding as best as we possibly can.", "Millions of homes in south Florida still don't have electricity. Excuse me. Florida officials say people near Miami and Fort Lauderdale may not have power for another month. Well, here's a twist of irony for you. The stadium that's home to college football's Miami Hurricanes is now being used for hurricane relief. CNN's J.J. Ramberg in Miami. Good morning,", "Good morning, Carol. Well, I'm at the Orange Bowl here. And this stadium actually will be hosting a football game on Saturday. But today, the main function here is still distribution of ice and water. Now, trucks have already started coming in this morning, even though it doesn't open until 12:00 today. We saw a couple of people come by asking to see when it's going to be open. But there aren't long lines like there were yesterday. Yesterday, things finally got organized. There were long lines, but they did move very quickly. There were adequate supplies. And so, some of those tempers that had really flared up earlier in the week when there was so much confusion about, (a), where to go, and, (b), when stuff was going to get here, because in so many cases the supplies were either late or didn't come at all. Those tempers really cooled down by yesterday, even by Wednesday in some cases. So, today they expect a lot of people to come through here. But, again, they expect it to be very organized. They expect to have adequate supplies. Now, the real problem here, the place where people are still incredibly frustrated, is when they're going to get gas. The lines there are so long. I spoke to people yesterday who waited in line anywhere from an hour to four hours just to get gas. And the problem is not necessarily the supply. There's enough gas here. The problem is that there's not enough power to get that gas into the cars. They can't pump it. So right now, the electricity has been restored to more than 40 percent. There are still about 1.7 million customers who don't have power. And as power comes on, all of these issues will go away, because people won't need to come here to get ice, because their refrigerators and freezers will be working again. And gas won't be a problem, because they will be able to pump that out. So, the real issue here in Miami and throughout the southern part of Florida right now is still power -- Carol.", "J.J. Ramberg reporting live from Miami this morning. The Red Cross is borrowing money for its disaster relief fund. Agency officials say they need $340 million to cover costs wiped out by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. They say of the $2 billion needed for the Gulf Coast relief effort, they received 1.3 billion. And all of that money has already been spent. This comes as Congress and some relief agencies have started questioning the Red Cross' response to Katrina. It's the first time in the charity's 124-year history that it has sought a loan for disaster relief. The State Department is helping to bring home Americans stranded in Mexico by Hurricane Wilma. Officials say they brought home more than 8,000 tourists this week. But several thousand more Americans are still stuck in Cancun. State Department officers are visiting shelters and hotels to make sure Americans have the food, supplies and medicine they need. And they are trying to arrange flights home for them. American aid may soon be sent to Cuba. Parts of that country were badly damaged by high winds and severe storm surges brought on by Wilma. It's a big change for the communist country since leader Fidel Castro has refused disaster aid in the past. A three-man disaster assessment team will be sent in to determine how to best help Cuba. Castro went on television to tell citizens that he had not asked for assistance, but believes that countries should help each other during disasters. Prison officials in Louisiana fortunately intercepted checks sent by FEMA to two inmates. That makes 52 people charged so far with Katrina-related federal crimes. More than half the charges involved fraud to obtain the $2,000 payments in disaster relief funds. The two inmates claimed they had homes in New Orleans, but asked FEMA to send the checks to the prison. And FEMA caught them. In this DAYBREAK follow-up story, nothing to go back to. A look- and-leave bus tour of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward provides flooded-out residents just a glimpse of what used to be. Daniel Sieberg rode along.", "This is for you. It's your opportunity to at least see your area.", "For Pat Simon and her mother, this is not the homecoming they had in mind. They're among the dozens of lower 9th Ward residents who will soon see their devastated homes, some for the first time.", "I don't like this. I didn't want to -- I am only here because of my mama. And I know her house is gone. It was over there where the breach was at and everything. So I'm only here because of her.", "As the bus drives up and down streets destroyed by flooding, we also meet Bishop George Albert and his wife, Vernette (ph).", "Yes, man. Well, I'm over here now, and I'm telling you, man, it's like nothing we've never seen before, man.", "Home after home, unrecognizable. At times, no one says anything.", "We've weathered many storms here in New Orleans, and as always, we packed a few clothes to go and come right back. There's nothing to come back to.", "For a few minutes, people were allowed to get off the bus, but just to see an example of what the houses look like here in the Lower 9th Ward. (voice-over): Under the ground rules for this trip, people aren't allowed to get out and inspect their homes. They aren't happy about that restriction, but officials say it's necessary, because the houses are not structurally sound, and because bodies are still being recovered.", "Wait, wait, wait. Just one minute. This is my house. This is my house.", "Pat strains to make out a few belongings, and reminders of what was once normal life.", "I got mail in the box.", "She's determined to get whatever remains in her home.", "And I think about it all the time. There is something. I think of what some of my things are made of, the material that it's made of. It survived. And I want to go in there to retrieve it. I wouldn't care if I come out with one item, I want it. It's mine.", "But George manages to persuade the driver to briefly pull over at his home.", "It's hard, man. I mean, you know, we invested a lot in our home. Our memories are here. Raised our children here. My wife and I built this home, and to see it devastated like this is just heartbreaking.", "As the tour wind down, George still believes he'll come back.", "And as you know the song says, only the strong survive. And we will survive. Daniel Sieberg, CNN, New Orleans.", "More on our top story this morning. The White House waits for possible indictments in the CIA leak investigation. Miles O'Brien joins us now for a look at what's coming up on \"AMERICAN MORNING.\" Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol Costello. How are you? It's Friday. We're pleased to report that. And it's a very important day in Washington. Could it be indictment day in Washington? Could a top administration official receive an indictment? And is it possible -- there's Scooter Libby, the White House -- excuse me -- the vice president's chief of staff. Is it possible there will be an extension to all of this; that the grand jury will continue on, continue its focus, and this story will just go on and on and on? What do you think about that -- them apples? That would be something. And Ann Coulter. We'll ask her about that. Senator Orrin Hatch will also be here. Senator Pat Leahy will talk about Harriet Miers suddenly being withdrawn on her nomination. What's next for the White House? What does this mean when the right wing of the president's own party has toppled his nominee? And finally, Carol, the big question I have in my mind is: What's that smell in the air here in New York?", "I'm telling you...", "Yes.", "... is it the weirdest thing?", "I don't know. I wonder if there is -- you know, Mrs. Butterworth has come to haunt us all.", "Well, let's explain to our viewers.", "Oh, yes.", "Early this morning, outside it smelled like maple syrup in all of Manhattan, or hazel nut coffee.", "Yes, yes. I mean, it's a good smell. It's a good smell. But in this post-9/11 world, of course, immediately we think what bad thing smells like maple syrup. But maybe it's just maple syrup.", "Yes, somebody spilled really a lot of maple syrup maybe in the Hudson River, and it's like...", "It means we're all a pancake.", "Yes. Anyway, we're going to explore that issue. And they've investigated the smell, and it's safe. It's just weird.", "Yes. Yes, we're going to get to the bottom of it one way or another.", "OK.", "And one thing is certain. I'm hungry just talking about it.", "I know. I'm going to drink some hazel nut coffee now.", "OK.", "Still to come on DAYBREAK...", "All right, we'll see...", "Bye, Miles.", "OK.", "The connection between the Chicago White Sox and Venezuela, why it is inspiring the country's love affair with the windy city. Venezuela is even offering some Chicagoans cheaper gas. But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Friday."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "COSTELLO", "J.J. J.J. 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{"id": "CNN-151382", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-5-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1005/26/ltm.01.html", "summary": "BP Top Kill Operation Planned to Plug Oil Leak; Grand Isle Mayor Weighs in on Outrage and Anger Over BP and D.C.; Cost of BP Oil Spill", "utt": ["Good morning, and thanks so much for joining us on the Most News in the Morning in what is a big news day. I'm John Roberts in New York. Good morning, Kiran.", "Hey, John, good morning. I'm Kiran Chetry. And we're here right along the beaches the Gulf of Mexico in Grand Isle, Louisiana. And really it's much of the same. Each day the locals here are waiting for something to happen. They either want to know from BP whether there's a plan for compensation. They want to know whether or not they're going to finally get that leaking well capped or stopped. And in the meantime they're suffering. This is prime shrimping season. All of the fisheries in this area are closed down, all of the fishing areas, all of the beaches. The mayor of Grand Isle told me around this time they'd be expecting right before Memorial Day weekend about 10,000 people to come to this town. They come to this area, use these waters. And all of that is effectively stopped. Meantime, the oil giant's \"top kill\" operation is poised to begin. You're looking at live video feed of the oil leak. It's at the bottom of the gulf and we'll be showing it to you all morning as BP attempts to inject thousands of pounds, 50,000 pounds of industrial mud into that spewing well in an attempt to stop it. And of course, the eyes of the world are on this operation. Hundreds of miles of coastline now covered with the crude. Wildlife and literally the way of life all in jeopardy. Now if the \"top kill\" doesn't work, the environmental disaster could continue as we've been talking about unchecked for months. Meantime, there is an enormous amount of pressure right now on BP where 37 days into this environmental disaster and a frustrated President Obama is blasting the oil company for its inability to plug the leak so far. He's going to be heading to the Gulf Coast on Friday to meet with locals and to see firsthand again the devastation. The president is also putting a stop to BP's plan to turn off the video feed of the leaking well which they wanted to do as this top kill operation started to get underway. The oil company announced last night that it would black out the pictures during the \"top kill\" operation, but the White House objected and BP backed down. And there's also some new information about the moment leading up to the explosion that triggered this leak last month. Clear warning signs that something was terribly wrong. Leaks and also pressure spikes in the well were all ignored apparently by BP. Meantime, about the dispersants, it's risky and there's a lot riding on the top kill attempt. But even if it works, it's still millions of gallons too late. And there's another very serious concern on Grand Isle and that is the chemicals being used to clean up the spill, the Corexit 9500 that we've been talking so much about. The federal government has told BP to cut back on it. BP has not done that. And many experts and people who fish these waters are worried that it may end up being more toxic than the actual sludge that's washing ashore. We have David Mattingly with us this morning to tell us more about the \"top kill.\" Also Ed Lavandera on the dispute over the dispersant. Thanks to both of you for being with us this morning. And, Dave, let me start with you as we talk about this live camera. They're going to, I guess, do diagnostics today, this morning in just a few hours to see if it's all a go to attempt this risky operation.", "Right. They started those diagnostics yesterday. And as of the last release from BP that came in overnight they are still continuing that. No word about when they plan to start that top kill. They wanted to start at dawn today. We haven't received that notice that says they've got the green light to do that. Those diagnostics are very important. They're dealing with this huge piece of machinery down there called the blowout preventer, and they were making sure that that device was still capable of handling this type of -- this type of operation. It's going to be a lot of pressure there putting through that device to push this oil back down. They're essentially trying to drown this well and those heavy fluids, so they have to make sure their equipment can take this pressure before they move forward.", "This has been attempted and been successful in wells in the Middle East, right? But they've all been above ground? So at this depth, this has not happened before?", "It's been successful but not 100 percent successful. They've had some failures on land, and they've tried this on land and they've had some success. They tried this in shallow water. They've had some success. They've never done this at a mile under the ocean. Every step they've taken through this entire step has been literally into unchartered waters.", "And largely not successful from the containment dome to the top hat to trying to siphon it off on and on. Everything has sort of failed up until this point. Now explain to us just briefly how this \"top kill\" is supposed to work.", "The way it's supposed to work they're pumping these heavy fluids into that blowout preventer. They're trying to create more pressure to counteract the pressure of the oil that's spewing out. So they're going to push that oil back down, so to speak, sort of drown this well and then they're going to put cement on top of it to temporarily hold that oil back until they come up with a permanent solution of drilling those relief wells. But let's put this in perspective. This is BP's best shot. And they're giving it a 60 percent chance of success. So they've been walking back anticipations of success on this just to make sure everybody is prepared and let everybody know, we don't know how this is going to turn out because we never tried it before.", "And so that means there's no timeline as to when we know if it's successful? They don't know at what stage of the operation they can start figuring out whether or not it's working?", "Even when they start the top kill, they were saying it's going to take 10 hours, maybe more. So they don't know. They're trying to give themselves a lot of leeway here to learn as they go and to maybe make adjustments as they go.", "And so as the hopes for a permanent solution ride on this operation is taking place, meantime, Ed, there's still a big debate and controversy over what they're using right now to break up this oil, the dispersant. Explain the latest on BP sort of thumbing its nose at the EPA when it comes to a, stopping it, and b, cutting down on using it.", "Well, there's a lot of frustration over the EPA. And essentially so people understand these dispersants are being sprayed on the surface of the water. But then about a couple of weeks ago they started spraying underwater at the site of the leak. And what it's supposed to do is break up the oil into droplets. And what environmentalists will tell you is that it doesn't make the oil go away, it just makes it essentially kind of harder to find.", "Invisible, right?", "Which is, of course, of great concern. We spent a little bit of time yesterday from the National Wildlife Federation. A scientist over there by the name of Doug Inkley and he was kind enough to spend some time with us. And he talked about what he worries about here not just in the coming weeks and the coming months, perhaps even years.", "What I'm concerned about here is that these dispersants are being applied a mile beneath the ocean at an experimental basis in quantities of the hundreds of thousands of gallons.", "You get that sense, they just don't -- there's not enough science at this point to really understand how this works under water. EPA right now its scientists are checking out all of the different dispersants that are essentially viable options at this point. I don't think we've heard the last of this controversy.", "Oh, yes.", "There's still that struggle going on between BP scientists and the EPA scientists. And I think in the coming days if the EPA decides that the Corexit that they're using right now, they don't feel is a best option, I think we're going to see a big circle over that.", "Right. And you know, a few of the locals that I had a chance to talk you yesterday including experts in fish and wildlife feel that they want to -- BP doesn't want the water to look oiled. And so it's getting dispersed far under, but the questions about whether or not it's having an impact on the very basics of the sea life, you know, the food chain is another question entirely and they're very, very upset about it. All right. We'll continue to follow that aspect as well with the \"top kill\" operation. Meantime, let's send it back to John. Also, one note we want to let you know about. Coming up in about an hour, we're going to be interviewing BP CEO Tony Hayward. He called the environmental impact of the spill modest before then backtracking on that. We're going to ask him why he's so much more confident than the government even that this \"top kill\" operation will work and why it took so much pressure to keep the cameras on during the operation -- John.", "All right, Kiran. All that just ahead. Meantime, new this morning, President Obama is sending up to 1,200 more National Guard troops to our border with Mexico. The White House also says he's going to request $500 million to beef up security there. Arizona Senator John McCain says that is simply not enough. The call for more border protection has been growing since Arizona's governor signed the state's controversial immigration law. The Feds say 89 deaths could be tied to unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles since the year 2000. Officials are still working to verify these new allegations. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it has received 6,200 complaints alleging sudden acceleration in Toyotas over that same period. The FDA is investigating reports of seven deaths and hundreds of serious side effects related to Tylenol, Motrin and Benadryl drugs that were recalled earlier this month. The drug maker McNeil recalled 50 children's versions of the nonprescription medicines because of quality and safety concerns. Let's get a quick check of this morning's weather headlines now. Bonnie Schneider in the weather center in Atlanta. And how are we looking today, Bonnie?", "Well, John, you may know this already being in New York. But it is looking hot out there. We are getting ready to hit some incredible numbers in the northeast, like 95 degrees in New York City. Wow. Now, note, the heat will come with its consequences. Big thunderstorms rolling through the northeast corridor from Philadelphia into New Jersey and New York certainly later today. We're also tracking low pressure off the southeast coast. This almost was Alex. But really in the end this is going to bring some rain to coastal sections of the Carolinas. But keep in mind the riptides will be high all the way from northern Florida up through the Virginia Beach area. We're also tracking severe weather in parts of the plains. We'll have a complete forecast coming up in just a bit.", "Looking forward to that. Bonnie, thanks so much. Next up on the Most News in the Morning, we're going to go back live to Grand Isle, Louisiana. We're going to talk with the mayor there about the impact that the oil spill is having. Nine minutes now after the hour."], "speaker": ["JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR", "KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHETRY", "MATTINGLY", "CHETRY", "MATTINGLY", "CHETRY", "MATTINGLY", "CHETRY", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHETRY", "LAVANDERA", "DOUG INKLEY, CERTIFIED WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST", "LAVANDERA", "CHETRY", "LAVANDERA", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "BONNIE SCHNEIDER, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-52123", "program": "CNN SUNDAY", "date": "2002-4-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0204/07/sun.05.html", "summary": "Powell to Spearhead Renewed Push for Negotiations in Middle East", "utt": ["Well, Secretary of State Colin Powell will spearhead a renewed push to get both sides talking in the Middle East. As the administration pushes toward some kind of progress, CNN's John King is standing by at the White House today. John, what's the feedback from the White House so far?", "And, Carol, despite that criticism, U.S. officials say it is critical that Secretary Powell start first with Arab leaders he will meet. He begins his trip tonight and he will meet first with the Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, who recently put forward a new peace initiative. He will also meet with the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and Jordan's King Abdullah. What Secretary Powell wants from them, we are told by senior U.S. officials, is support, pressure on Yasser Arafat to do more to stop the attacks against Israel, and also public statements from moderate Arab leaders, if possible, to have them condemn violence as any means of settling the Israel-Palestinian dispute. Secretary Powell saying today he leaves with relatively modest expectations. Yes, down the road he would like the Palestinians and the Israelis to begin talking about some sort of a political dialog that ultimately brings them to a peace process once again, but for now Secretary Powell says his goal is simply a cease-fire.", "I would hope that as a result of my trip, and when I finally get to Jerusalem, we may be in a position where the level of activity we are now seeing will have dropped to a point where the two sides can begin talking to one another again about entering into the Tenet Work Plan.", "The Tenet Work Plan, of course, named for the CIA Director George Tenet. That calls first for a cease-fire, then increased security cooperation and then conversations about a political dialog and a peace process. As Secretary Powell heads to the region, Arab leaders already because the Israeli offensive continues, questioning U.S. influence and U.S. credibility, because President Bush said end the Israeli offensive without delay and it continues. In the Arab world, Secretary Powell expected to be asked why isn't Israel listening to the United States. Because of those questions, the President's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice saying earlier today that Israel must very quickly end its military activities.", "Without delay means without delay. It means now. As a matter of fact, I think the President used the word \"now\" with Prime Minister Sharon. Obviously, the withdrawal needs to be orderly. We understand that. Anybody understands that, but the President expects to see results and to see that happening as soon as possible. Without delay means without delay.", "Also unclear as of now is whether Secretary Powell will sit down face-to-face with the Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat. Most U.S. officials believe by the end of the trip that will happen. They know they will face severe criticism, not only from the Palestinians but other Arab leaders if it does not happen. But Secretary Powell saying today a number of issues need to be resolved first, among them security issues, Mr. Arafat confined to Ramallah, unclear whether the Secretary of State would want to head into that environment, but the special envoy General Zinni has done so. U.S. officials say the number one reason they have not committed to that meeting right now is, over the next several days, they want Mr. Arafat to do more to stop the violence. Carol.", "So, John, the picture that you just painted is that Colin Powell goes to the Middle East but his schedule is wide open and nobody really knows what's going to happen next.", "Well, they have this scripted out and they hope, they hope that the Israeli offensive, as we heard in Jerrold Kessel's piece, will be largely over, almost completely over by the time Mr. Powell hits the ground in Morocco, certainly by the time he reaches Jerusalem at the end of the trip. They expect there to be no more offensive military actions, but that, of course, results -- it depends not only on the Israelis pulling back, but on there not being any major new attacks. So, he wants to impress upon Arab leaders that they must pressure Mr. Arafat to stop the violence, to do more, and Mr. Powell will meet with him only if he sees evidence that that is happening. So yes, there is some uncertainty and very modest expectations. Once again, these are two parties, the Israelis and the Palestinians, that clearly don't trust each other, two leaders who clearly don't like each other. U.S. officials say the best they can hope for is out of such a high level trip by the Secretary of State is to get an agreement on a cease-fire and then from there, hope that cease-fire holds and hope from there you can make slow and steady progress.", "John, what are the chances that the Israeli government is going to keep Arafat from meeting with Powell, even if Secretary Powell wants to do so?", "Nil. No one here at the White House believes the Israeli government would stop a meeting unless there are a series of major attacks between now and then that the Israelis blame directly on Mr. Arafat. That could be a complication, but if the Secretary of State of the United States says he wants to meet with Mr. Arafat, the full expectation is that Israel will do everything it can to bring about that meeting, to allow for that meeting, and to help with the security arrangements for that meeting.", "All right. Thank you very much, John King, live with us at the White House. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Middle East>"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE", "KING", "CONDOLEEZZA RICE, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER", "KING", "LIN", "KING", "LIN", "KING", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-159908", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-12-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1012/23/cnr.06.html", "summary": "South Korea Wraps Up Military Drill; Taliban Reject U.N. Report", "utt": ["Happening now, a mine collapse in Sumter County, Florida, has trapped a miner under water. Officials say, the ground gave way and one worker fell into a pit full of water at the phosphate mine. The mine's aggregate used to make cement. There's been no word from the miner for the past couple of hours. They're starting to clean up in California after a deluge of rain that cause flooding and mudslides. As many as 40 homes were damaged in the hard hit San Bernadino County. Flood warnings and watches remain in effect in parts of California and surrounding states. And South Korea wrapped up controversial live fire military drills today 15 miles from their border with North Korea. North Korea had threatened to attack if the South went ahead with the drills. South Korea's president said he'll respond to any surprise attack by the North with, quote, \"merciless counterattack.\" Time now to go \"Globe Trekking.\" In Rome, Italy's interior minister now says a pair of parcel bombs that injured two people today came from Greece. The first explosion today happened at the Swiss Embassy. Police say a package bomb seriously wounded a 53-year-old mailroom worker who opened it. Both of his hands were badly injured. He could lose one of them. The Swiss Foreign Ministry says there was no warning before the attack. Shortly after that, another bomb exploded at the Chilean Embassy. It also wounded one person who had to be taken to the hospital. No one has claimed responsibility for either attack. Police have launched a citywide inspection of all foreign embassies. Let's go now to Afghanistan where a new U.N. report sheds light on civilian casualties in that nation. It blames the Taliban for 76 percent of the deaths and injuries in the first 10 months of this year. More than 2,000 people were killed and just over 3,800 wounded, but the Taliban says the report is fabricated and partially influenced by U.S. politics. The International Committee for the Red Cross is also weighing in on war casualties in Afghanistan. It says a Kandahar Hospital has nearly 1,000 new patients with weapon-related injuries. The ICRC says the situation for aid organizations is the worst it's ever been.", "We feel that the conflict is entering a new and more murky phase. There seem to be more local armed groups active in several different parts of the country. Some of these groups may be affiliated with the government. Some may be affiliated with another position. Others may be affiliated with themselves, may just be criminal groups or groups with shifting alliances.", "The aid group provides help to nearly 600,000 Afghans. It's concerned that deteriorating security conditions will prevent them from getting help to those who need them the most. Well, they fell in love on a movie set. Lived, loved and had a baby together. The relationship between actors Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams seems scripted for happily ever after. But suddenly after three years together, they split. Not five months later, he was dead. Bad combination of prescription drugs, tragic accident. Williams kept her mum in mourning and didn't speak publicly about the loss. But now, coming up on the third anniversary of Ledger's death, the actress opened up on \"ABC's Nightline.\"", "The notion that your life can change in an instant --", "I know. I've got kind of obsessed with that for a while, before and after. I mean, a lot of things died. There's a line from a book that gave me so much comfort. It said, when you've truly lost everything then at least you can become rich in loss.", "So I'll give you one. The greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning. Have you figured out the meaning yet?", "Boy, I found meanings around the circumstance, but the actual event itself still doesn't have -- I can't find a -- I can't find it. I can't find a meaning for it. I can find meanings in things and people and relationships that have sprung up and friendships that have strengthened. I can find a lot of meaning in that, but not in why, you know?", "Michelle Williams is raising their daughter on her own. Matilda is 5 years old now. Seven people killed in six days in New Orleans. A body found in a suitcase in New York and the serial strangler in Philly still on the run. All that right after this quick break."], "speaker": ["VELSHI", "BIJAN FARNOUDI, ICRC SPOKESMAN", "VELSHI", "CYNTHIA MCFADDEN, ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT", "MICHELLE WILLIAMS, LEDGER'S FORMER PARTNER", "MCFADDEN", "WILLIAMS", "VELSHI"]}
{"id": "CNN-243823", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-11-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/22/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Obama Says Immigration Plan is \"Middle Ground\"", "utt": ["Mass amnesty would be unfair. Mass deportation would be both impossible and contrary to our character. What I'm describing is accountability, a common-sense, middle-ground approach.", "That's President Obama speaking, saying he is staking out the middle ground in the immigration debate. But his decision to work around Congress and issue an executive order has unleashed a new round of post-election political bickering. Let's bring in Mickey Kaus, columnist from \"The Daily Caller.\" He joins us from Los Angeles. Thanks for coming in. We appreciate it, Mickey.", "Thanks, Poppy.", "What do you make of the timing here? We've heard the president say that he was going to do this from way before the midterms, and then it came after. Obviously, there's politics involved here. But was it purely political, the timing?", "Well, the delay was political. It's not a popular thing. And he delayed it in the hope that some his Democratic Senate fellow party members would win. And they lost, anyway. Now he's been -- he's been very impatient about this. And I think he's made a strategic blunder. It seems to me he had about a 40 percent chance of getting the bill he wanted through the House, and that's gone now. So he's blown that chance. And I think there's a good chance this will get overturned by the courts. The Constitution doesn't say if the president doesn't get what he wants he gets to impose it unilaterally. He's supposed to have to go through Congress. And the Supreme Court I think will be very sensitive to that. And even his own office of legal counsel thought that the 2012 program, the so-called DACA program for the Dreamers, was very questionable, of questionable constitutionality. So I think it was a mistake on his part.", "Do you think that there is any chance, though, that it actually does get Congress to move on immigration because they don't want what he has put through himself?", "Sure, there's a chance. And you never know what's going to happen in the perverse world of Washington.", "Let me get your response from this piece in \"Politico\" arguing the president acted for several reasons but, quote, but also this, \"It is very possible that the president has another motive as well, blowing up the GOP. No issue has more potential than immigration to ignite the hard right base and embarrass Speaker John Boehner, especially after the speaker's post-election warning to Obama not to play with matches or to cause headaches for the GOP heading into the 2016 elections.\" Fair? Is this an attempt to blow up the GOP?", "I think that's fair. It was a very smart article. I think one of Obama's goals is to so-called troll the GOP. That's sort of what he's best at. He's met with the birth certificate. He's very good at angering the Republicans and getting them to make fools of themselves. He's hoping somebody, like Steve King of Iowa, will talk about how people crossing the border have calves the size of cantaloupes because they're drug runners and say things like that. Unfortunately, they know that he's hoping that they'll do this and they're on their best behavior. So I don't think he will trigger the sort of inflammatory statements that he might be hoping to trigger. The Republicans, I think, will behave very respectfully in this.", "Mickey, don't go anywhere. We'll talk about this more after a quick break. And is the president's plan amnesty? Republicans, who oppose it, say, yes, it is. The president has a different definition of that word. Who's right? We'll debate ahead."], "speaker": ["BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HARLOW", "MICKEY KAUS, COLUMNIST, THE DAILY CALLER", "HARLOW", "KAUS", "HARLOW", "KAUS", "HARLOW", "KAUS", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-258434", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2015-06-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/29/cg.01.html", "summary": "States Pushing Back on Court's Ruling.", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. Today's politics lead: if you thought that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring same-sex bans to be unconstitutional would end the debate -- well, you were wrong. Some states counties and parishes are now pushing back against the decision. The Texas attorney general blasted the ruling, calling it, quote, \"lawless\". And he's not alone. Judges and lawmakers in three other states are also fighting the implementation of the ruling.", "The jubilant crowds at pride parades in cities this weekend were hard to miss this weekend. Less enthusiastically some stalwart states that had upheld same sex marriage bans accepted the ruling.", "Frankly, our reaction to the decision is one of disappointment.", "But a nation that was divided before Friday's ruling is not all rainbows and kisses today. Counties continue to oppose same sex marriage, citing conflicting state laws, religious freedom, and even paperwork issues. In Mississippi, state officials say not so fast. The right to wed will have to wait for a lower court's approval, despite the decision by the nation's highest judges. Governor Phil Bryant added that the new marriage standards, quote, \"are certainly out of the step with the majority of Mississippians. In Louisiana, a 25-day waiting period is now being suggested for county clerks before they begin issuing marriage licenses. Attorney General James Caldwell, wrote, \"There is not yet a legal requirement for his states to issue them.\" In Alabama, same sex couples are tying the knot in Montgomery, but in some more rural counties, licenses have been halted for all couples, the only way around the Supreme Court's decree. Voters around the country have repeatedly rejected same-sex marriage when it's been put to a vote, but courts have ruled in the opposite direction, and polls indicate that there has been a sea change in public opinion on the issue in recent years.", "Right now, more people are in support of same-sex marriage than the percentage of people who voted for Reagan in 1984.", "Professor Brian Powell has been studying same sex marriage trends for years, and he predicts pushback will not last long.", "Today, people who in Mississippi, in Louisiana, in the South where opposition is still the greatest, there support of same sex marriage is on par where other states were just a few years ago.", "Many holdout counties and clerks are putting religious liberty front and center. In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton has told officials they do not have to uphold the new Supreme Court ruling, writing, quote, \"The reach of the court's opinion stops at the door of the First Amendment, and our laws protecting religious liberty.\" In Harris County, Texas, Friday the clerk says he simply didn't have the correct application forms for those first in line to get hitched.", "If you go look at the current form, it says man and woman on the side of it. And it's got some fields that are specific to like maiden names.", "Interestingly, Powell says coverage of the debate over same- sex marriage is what will lead to more acceptance of it, even in the pockets pushing back.", "What happens is people are basically getting used to the idea, and then they're getting more comfortable with the idea. And so, they're shifting their view from \"why should that happen\" to \"why not\"?", "Another day, another American arrested for potential ties to the terrorist ISIS. That along with new images of deadly terror around the world have leaders here in the U.S. on alert, especially with the July 4th holiday ahead. One CIA insider is talking bluntly about what could happen given what he knows. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "TAPPER (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TAPPER", "BRIAN POWELL, SOCIOLOGY PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA", "TAPPER", "POWELL", "TAPPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TAPPER", "POWELL", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-148458", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2010-2-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1002/27/bn.13.html", "summary": "Tsunami Warning Lifted in Hawaii", "utt": ["Welcome back to our continuing coverage. I'm Fredricka Whitfield in Atlanta. We welcome our international viewers on CNN International, as well. Tsunami waves hit Hawaii today after a massive earthquake in Chile. We continue our special coverage of today's earthquake, and its aftermath. Hawaiians began evacuating coastal areas early this morning. The first waves actually reached Hawaii's Big Island just about an hour ago. So far no reports have of any damage or injuries. We understand the waves are only about three feet or so, but you'll hear from Jacqui Jeras, the first waves are usually the smallest ones. The entire Pacific Rim, however, is it under tsunami warnings after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Chile early this morning. The death count in Chile has risen to 214. President Barack Obama contacted Chile's president to express his condolences and offer some help. Jacqui Jeras in our weather center. Let's talk about the tsunami to start off with. That's the immediate threat right now. '", "Right.", "Yes, there have been a couple of waves that have hit the Big Island. But those aren't the waves that people are the most concerned or worried about, right?", "Not necessarily. The first couple ones aren't necessarily the biggest, so we can continue to see these waves or, you know, rises in the water levels move on in. The worst that we have seen so far was just over three feet, and that was on the island of Maui. So we have seen it in many of the Hawaiian islands now, all of these rises have been anywhere between even less than half of a foot, to that just over that three foot rise. We just got a direct quote from the director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center saying that he thinks Hawaii very likely has dodged a bullet. But we want to be really careful with that, and let you know that the warnings are still up. And they're still posted. And so we want people to stay on high alert, to stay in those evacuated places that they're in, just to make sure. We also had confirmed rises in tsunamis in California, a little bit of damage in Ventura, some buoys out in the water were damaged when that water came back away from the shoreline. So the waves will come in, and then they'll come back out. We saw rises above normal tide, about a foot and a half to two and a half feet in California. So we'll continue to monitor this as we go through the hours. The Hawaii event was to take place 15 hours out. As we progress out into time, we'll watch as this moves up the coast here. The U.S. and on towards Alaska, so they can expect to see those rises. And we have also been seeing things happening around New Zealand where the rises have been a little bit more significant here as well. So those waves will continue to propagate out over time, and we could see some sloshing back and forth. So hopefully this has been the worst of it in Hawaii. We'll continue to, you know, watch and see if anything else comes on up. These are the dark buoys, as we call them, and this is a series of warning systems. And what these are, they are sensors that are on the bottom of the ocean floor that feel the pressure changes and any movement that would be happening with the crust. And see all these things lit up here, those are ones that are in that active mode.", "Wow.", "That have seen any of these changes, so, yeah, so --", "That is incredible.", "It is all happening across the Pacific Basin. We're expecting that to continue in the hours to come. Now in terms of who sees the worst of it, OK, this isn't all just, you know, how far away from the initial tsunami you live, this also has to do with the bisymmetry, or you know, the elevation basically of the ocean floor and what the shoreline looks like. And so as we take a look at this computer model of what we were predicting here, you can see the red is anywhere where we were expecting to see heights of about a meter or more. So that's about three feet. Here's Hawaii right in the middle. So you can see as you get into the shoreline areas, you see that red, right? So it is the elevation, it is with the coastline, where we start to see some of those things increase. And that's one of the reasons why we're so worried about what could happen in the Hawaiian Islands here is that, you know, this curves around the coastlines. And you get into these little bays and that water funnels up into the bay, for example, you know, here in Hilo, and so the water rise is going to be much greater in those little bays. And even go up the rivers than they're going to be, say, on the front side of the big island. This is going to continue to move through the chains in the upcoming hour. So, you know, tsunami continues to be a concern. The other thing, Fredricka, by the way, not just the tsunami, we have been dealing with aftershocks. We have had dozens and dozens and dozens of aftershocks already. Some have been pretty strong; 6.0, 5.0, those are pretty strong. Most of which have been offshore, and away from the populated area. Santiago is up here. And most of these have been occurring further down. It is a very unpopulated area.", "So sorry to interrupt, but that would be offshore, and that's pretty strong. 6.0, and beyond, magnitude, could that, too, help fuel the push of more tsunami waves, or could that, you know, help fuel the existing tsunami wave?", "Probably not. You have to have a little bit more strength I think than that. I think anything around the 6.0 or less is not very likely to generate another tsunami.", "That's good news.", "But sometimes additional earthquakes can happen as a result of this, you know? If the plate moves, this could eventually push the plate elsewhere and trigger other earthquakes. So we'll continue to watch that threat as well. But these aftershocks can last for days, weeks, months and, yeah, even over a year after the big one happens.", "Wow. That's incredible. Thanks so much, Jacqui Jeras, we'll checking back with you, momentarily. On the Big Island, the island that has already seen a couple of those waves, even though they are between that one and three foot range that Jacqui was talking about, our own Thelma Gutierrez vacationing there on the Big Island, with her family. She's joining us on the phone right now. Your family is now at higher ground. But you are staying at the hotel, where you all were, so you're able to continue to report on this, right?", "Fred, actually, the family was moved up to higher ground, but then they came at the very last minute and told several of the managers of the Hilton Waikoloa, and myself, and another reporter, that we had to evacuate as well. So, they moved us to higher ground. I'm sitting in an evacuation center with nearly a 1,000 people. And I can tell you here there are a lot of anxious people, folks who left all their belongings back at the hotel, people who were here with weepy children, who are taking naps on the ground, and who are watching the coverage of this thing. And one of the things that we're expecting right now -- within the next half hour, Fredricka, is the Hawaii County civil defense. And hopefully they'll be able to, you know, announce an all clear. Of course, it is too premature to speculate on that now. But that's what", "And so while you're at an evacuation center. We were also seeing images of people in their parked cars along the roadway. Particularly in Oahu, on the way to the evacuation center, were you seeing some of the roadways on the Big Island that simply became parking lots?", "Well, on the way to this particular spot, it was really interesting, Fredricka, we're on Highway 19 and that actually hugs the coast. That's between Kona and up toward the Kuala coast. And what was really -- what really stood out about that is you had law enforcement officials along the way. They closed that highway down as soon as this warning was sounded this morning. They were doing this because they did not want anybody to try to gain access to the beaches, to take pictures of this, or to observe because it would just simply be too risky. And so all of that highway was closed, which is also an eerie site because usually this area is well traveled as you know. And so the resort closed down, lots of people just laying around this evacuation center, waiting for word that they'll be able to return, either to the airport, to leave the island, or back to the resort.", "Wow, I'm feeling for all those with the small children, including you with your kids, who are pretty shaken by all this. Thelma Gutierrez, thank you very much. Be safe. We'll continue to check in with you. All right. So we're talking about the tsunami that is threatening Hawaii. All of this was triggered by that massive earthquake that took place overnight in Chile. Ralitsa Vassileva is at the International Desk, which we are now calling the Chile Desk, to give us an idea of what's taking place right now. Earlier I spoke with the ambassador to the U.N., the Chilean ambassador to the U.N., who said, we're almost used to this, earthquakes that is, and we're not necessarily relying on any other countries to help in our emergency rescue efforts.", "That's right. That's what I'm hearing also. A call went out to doctors to report for duty. They're talking about major damage to hospitals. However, they're saying we can manage on our own. They're used to this as a country. Used to earthquakes, prepared very well for them. I want to show you video, though, of the immense damage caused by the power of waves that crashed ashore in a town which is close to the epicenter, a town by the name of Talcahuano. You see the amazing force of this water, that tossed around fishing boats just like little toys, crashed them into each other. The pier has collapsed. Some major, major damage there. This earthquake, it was so powerful, it was felt across the border in Argentina; 1300 miles away, two people died there from this earthquake. That's how strong it was. As I mentioned in the beginning, there has been major damage to hospitals. Want to show you this hospital in another town, which is like about 65 miles from the epicenter, very close. Talca, you see the hospital there, the patients have been evacuated in what looks like a basement. They're waiting on the military, which is evacuating patients from many hospitals which sustained very severe damage. The president, Michelle Bachelet, is saying they're trying to transfer patients to different hospitals which don't have as much damage. They're using schools; going to see if they can convert schools to shelters for patients. We also heard from the undersecretary of health saying that all hospitals are functioning. Those that are damaged are still open for patients. If anybody is injured, they can go there, even if they have to be treated in the streets. And, again, Fred, they're saying we don't need outside help. We are managing. Although a call, I heard a call go out to doctors to report for duty, to come in from the north of the country to the center. A call to people to go to the hospital only in an absolute emergency. There is also call to people to save energy, to save fuel so that there is enough for the ambulances to go around. Not clear exactly the extent of injuries to the patients. I was listening to the authorities talk about that, they're just say they have a lot of trauma injuries, won't go beyond that. Also they're worried about the quality of the water. There is the end of summer in Chile. Very hot weather, people are thirsty. The water drains are burst, in many areas the water has been cut off. Also we heard some looting, desperate people getting into -- breaking into stores to try to get some supplies. The president called on people not to loot, to have patience, that they're handling the situation. And we'll be hearing from President Michelle Bachelet within this hour. We'll bring you the latest. I'll tell you what she has to say. Fred, back to you. This is the situation.", "Thank you so much, Ralitsa. Appreciate that. More of our continuing coverage from Chile to Hawaii after this.", "Welcome back. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. An update on the Chile earthquake and the tsunami worries that were triggered across the Pacific Ocean. The first tsunami waves are rolling into Hawaii, actually. Tsunami warnings have been issued for nations along the entire Pacific Rim. The death count in Chile is up to 214 after today's 8.8 earthquake. There are no reports that any U.S. citizens have been killed or injured. President Barack Obama says the U.S. is ready to help if Chile wants it.", "Earlier today a devastating earthquake struck the nation of Chile affecting millions of people. This catastrophic event was followed by multiple aftershocks and has prompted tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean. Earlier today I was briefed by my national security team on the steps that were taken to protect our own people, and to stand with our Chilean friends. Early indications are that hundreds of lives have been lost in Chile and the damage is severe. On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to the Chilean people.", "All right, so what was triggered by that Chilean earthquake were the tsunamis, and so now we understand that Hawaii already has been hit by maybe two tsunami waves, but just in the realm of one to three feet, not that significant. We're hearing from oceanographers and our meteorologist Jacqui Jeras that first few waves are not the ones to worry about. They're concerned about what is to follow. And Hilo, on the Big Island, is expected to get the brunt, expected to get the first big brunt of these waves. So let's talk to reporter Gina Mangieri of CNN affiliate KHON, in Honolulu. Give me an idea how exactly people prepare? I understand that the warnings went out, the advisories went out, the sirens went off and people were to prepare. What does that mean?", "Well, we had an exceptionally long time to deal with this, reporting to you here from Hawaii state civil defense, which is inside a bunker, inside Diamond Head Crater. Diamond Head, of course, one of Waikiki's most notable landmarks. Hawaii State Civil Defense usually, under normal circumstances, has a rule of thumb they call, three by three. Starting three hours before the first anticipated arrival of the wave, they would start issuing the first of three warnings. Instead, this time they started warning us six hours earlier. So, starting from 6:00 a.m., a full five hours before the first wave is expected to hit, we got an unexpected wakeup call, of course, that was our first of many sirens. And then one on the hour, every hour, and then again on the half hour before each island expected the arrival of its waves. So we had plenty of time --", "What do they do with that time? We hear everything from people going to get supplies, like what supplies? Clearly we see a lot of the boats, like the video we're seeing now, boats being either moved to higher ground or taken out to sea. How do people prepare in that six-hour span?", "In the case of -- unless you were near the shore, or in a tsunami inundation zone, there wasn't much to worry about. The state was telling people just stay put. In Hawaii, most families do abide by the practice of keeping quite a bit of emergency supplies on hand; water, batteries, flashlights, electricity, to supplant if the electricity were to go out. Those seem to be in good supply. People, of course, rush to get gas and any back up supplies there. For those who lived on the coast there was a lot of needing to check, remind themselves they were in the tsunami inundation zone, and exactly where that was. We have an enormous tourist population at any given time, tens of thousands of people, especially for instance, in Waikiki. Each hotel has its own procedure, whether they evacuate people out of the building and up to higher ground, or vertical evacuation.", "And what does this mean, this inundation area?", "That's right. We have in our phone books, or even the state civil defense website the tsunami inundation zone. It is a line drawn on a map, based on where the water would be expected to hit if there was a 9.5 earthquake, from Chile. So that is what our models were based on. So, we went into today with a high degree of confidence that our inundation zone maps, that most of us rely on in our households, were accurate and would withstand this magnitude of earthquake because it was lower than the previous worst-case scenario that we had seen.", "So does it mean most households kind of have this map or have their plan in place or something is posted, you know, in their homes or maybe it is on the Internet where people can at the ready get a reminder of these places?", "That's right. There is a real quick reminder on the Internet. In this case, I don't know many people have them taped up to their wall, but it is in the phone book in the white pages. So you can easily flip to it. And the state civil defense web sites were very busy this morning as well with people double-checking. You can even go in and check your address and see where you were.", "I think you heard you earlier, before you came to work, you were among those in the store trying to get all the supplies, trying to get your family in check, so that they would not have any worries while you're at work.", "That's right. We have, you know, the kids are in a good place. My husband is a mariner, so he's on the sea taking care of boats at this time as well. So we had to do what many families have to do, get the babysitter, get to work. And make sure we can both do our jobs for the community.", "All the best, Gina. Appreciate your time. Gina Mangieri, be safe.", "Thank you.", "We'll have much more of our continuing coverage of the earthquake in Chile, and now the tsunami threatening Hawaii.", "All right, we continue to watch the developments out of Chile, as well as Hawaii. Josh Levs is following the latest stream of information online as well.", "It just keeps pouring in, Fred. Really continuously. One thing we're watching now is all the latest out of Hawaii. We have the information from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center up right behind me. We're also following a web page over here that is hitsunami.info, which is carrying live video from various locations inside Hawaii. We're watching the absolute latest throughout there. Also throughout the day, since very early, I've been watching everything we have been getting out of Chile. I'll tell you we are getting some pretty stirring descriptions, even from our own iReporters about things they saw today. I have some graphics for you. We pulled up some of the most powerful quotes from our own iReporters today. Let's go to this first one. I want you to see this: \"We live in a 20-story building and with the way it was shaking, was not about to see how long it could last. Things in our apartment were falling off the walls and tables. The three of us made our way down the seven stories and got outside. We tried to gather ourselves and make sure everyone was OK. That's from Luke, who was in Santiago. We have another one here as well from Anna Fernando (ph), also in Santiago. She said her bed was moving so violently that it woke her up. She says, \"I'm on the 10th floor of a building and it was swaying and shaking. Suddenly it was just gone. Then the aftershocks came. My bed kept shifting.\" Now, I want to show you some of the most powerful photos we have been getting throughout the day. One thing I have for you, we have been looking at photos from all sorts of different sources, including the Associated Press. Look at that, Fred. I don't know if you've seen this one.", "Yes, that is extraordinary.", "It is extraordinary. This is one of the first pictures we saw from Santiago and it shows the power of that quake, that highway ripped apart. Those cars turned upside down. As we go through a few more photos there, from the AP, what I want everyone to see here, especially if you're catching up on the news now. That's an area called Talca, which is also one of the areas early on authorities were concerned about, that was a house. We're looking at pictures from Talca and Santiago of roads ripped apart, homes ripped apart, and some places you can't even tell what it once was that you were even seeing -- look at that. It is absolutely striking.", "Extraordinary.", "I will also tell you that we can provide information all day long, but there is nothing like hearing the words of a person who is physically there, experiencing that quake. I'm going to bring you now a little piece of my interview earlier today with who would have \"thunk\" a guy name Elliott Yamin, who is known to \"American Idol\" viewers all over the world. He was a finalist a few years ago. He happened to be in Chile. He gave me a description of what happened to him in the hotel.", "I just feel very lucky to have sought out safety. I took the steps. There was one lone person who happened to be my neighbor next door to me, who was left on the floor at the time. And as I was yelling out, saw him kind of peek around the corner, and he started heading for the stairs. And amidst the building kind of rumbling, it was like a movie, it was like a Hollywood film. We're running down the hall as we're being kind of thrown about the hallways. So we reached the staircase and ran down six flights of stairs to safety and luckily got out unharmed, unscathed.", "And you'll see on CNN.com right now our full interview with Elliott Yamin, is one of the most popular things we have on the web right now. In fact, you hear him talk about the fact that he didn't bring enough insulin medication. He's a diabetic, but he has worked that out. He says he'll now be OK. I'll do one more thing, Fred. I'm going to bring this full circle. We started off talking about Hawaii. You know what, scammers will take advantage of anything.", "Oh, that's true.", "And I want you to see a Tweet that I was taking a look at here.", "OK.", "And this is really important. This is a reTweet from a place called Twitter Tips. Careful with links to-I'll tell you about this in a second-popular target for spammers and malware right now. This thing right here is very popular on Twitter. This is called a hash tag. Anybody who is reporting anything on Twitter about Hawaii and the tsunami includes that in there. It is the pound sign and then HItsunami. And what Twitter Tips is saying is there are people out there trying to take advantage of this. They'll send out Tweets, they seem to be pictures or videos or information about the Hawaii tsunami. But what they actually are spamware or malware that can infect your computer. So, you know what, just don't click on any links that are unfamiliar to you. Check them out, be careful.", "Wow. What a shame that there would be people who would want to take advantage of others in desperate situations like this.", "They are out there.", "All right. Josh, thanks so much. It is pretty extraordinary to hear so many different accounts coming from Chile, just like we just did as well as Hawaii. We're going to continue our coverage and continue to reach out to people living through this experience right now.", "Welcome back. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Now an update on today's earthquake off the coast of Chile, and the tsunami waves that followed it. The massive 8.8 quake rocked Chile early this morning. At least 214 people are dead. Buildings have been toppled, roads crumbled, and bridges have collapsed. The earthquake triggered tsunami warnings for the entire Pacific Rim. The first tsunami waves hit Hawaii's big island about an hour and a half ago. So far, there are no reports of serious damage or injuries. Hawaiians are still waiting for the all clear, however, signal. But an official at the Pacific Tsunami Warning center says Hawaii may have, quote, \"dodged a bullet.\" Jacqui Jeras is in the severe weather center. Boy, that's a very confident kind of outlook. Something tells me, you know, no one wants to let down their guard as of yet.", "And that's smart. The warning is still out there, so you don't want to say, hey, you know, everybody go back. Because there is still a little bit of uncertainty about these situations. But when the director of the Tsunami Warning Center says we dodged a bullet, hey, that's great news. Hopefully -- hopefully that's the case. We did have a tsunami. It occurred. It happened. We saw several rises in sea heights for the Hawaiian Islands. We actually had more significant ones over in Chile. We had, you know, more than seven feet of water which came in there. So this continues to go. We also had reports across New Zealand and this thing, as you can see -- this is the forecast and the timing for the propagation of this tsunami. You can see that this is going to head up, you know, the Western US coast. It is go to move up toward Alaska. This will be heading over towards Indonesia and into Japan. In fact, you know, the tsunami that happened in 1960 from Chile quake, the highest tsunami that was reported from it was in Japan. So you don't want to say we're over and done with this yet. While it feels at this point -- at least for Hawaii, it feels like a nonevent, let's hope that's the case. But as long as the warnings are up, I want people to pay attention to that, stay where you're at, stay where you're put, until those warnings have been dropped. There is no expiration time on a warning like this. The Tsunami Warning Center will say, hey, OK, we feel that that threat has been cleared and we'll cancel the warning. Until that happens, we're going to say, you know, we'll watch for more waves, and that's a good possibility.", "So tell me how or whether all of those aftershocks that people are feeling in Chile might in any way impact the tsunami watch.", "Probably not. Probably not at all. Because, you know, you usually need a 7.0 or higher, in terms of generating a tsunami. So, you know, we had an 8.8, which is unheard of -- if it verifies, and that's what ends up being the case, that will be in the top ten that we know of in terms of most intense magnitude for earthquakes. So this is crazy strong. In fact, coming up, when I see you again, Fredricka, I'll show you a comparison between this earthquake and Haiti, and why we have had less damage with this one. A lot of that has to do with the building codes.", "And the population.", "And the population, exactly. This happened about three miles offshore in an unpopulated area. Santiago is way up here compared to where the big quake was. And so all of those things made this a little lesser than it could have been. Granted, you know, still very tragic and we'll continue to see these aftershocks. There have been dozens of them, over 30, possibly as many as 50 now. I got to count them up. There have been that many.", "That's incredible.", "But you expect to see hundreds of these aftershocks easily after a big quake like this would occur. And not are they going to just last for hours, but they're probably going to be lasting for days, for weeks, months, possibly well over a year.", "You poor people are going to be shaking to the core for a long time.", "It is a very active fault, Fredricka. They're used to earthquakes, just not ones like this.", "This was the big one. Thanks a lot, Jacqui Jeras. We'll be checking back with you throughout the evening. Let's go Ralitsa Vassileva at the CNN International desk, which we're now calling the Chile Desk, because you're able to get a handle over all of the things being said from the president of the country on down.", "Fred, we're still waiting to hear from the president of the country, Michelle Bachelet, but we just heard from the president-elect of the country. The country is in a transition. In two weeks, it is going to have a new president. We're hearing from both of them. The president-elect is in the city of Concepcion, which is the second largest city in the country, the closest main city to the epicenter. And we heard from the president-elect right there in that city, talking about the damage to bridges, talking about a collapsed 15-story building. He's very angry about that, says that if building code was not followed for that building, that those who built it will be prosecuted to the full letter of the law. This is a country which is very serious about building codes, having been through so many major earthquakes. That building, he said, was 50 percent inhabited. Rescue efforts are under way. He said that in Concepcion, thousands of people have been injured. There are a lot of hospitals damaged. They're trying to tend to those who are in need. He also said water, badly needed water is being trucked into the city. He hopes that electricity will be put in there very soon, that it will be back there and running. As I mentioned, bridges are severely damaged. Lots of concern for that building there in Concepcion. Also close to the epicenter, I want to show you another piece of video that we have. This is from a smaller town Talcahuano. To give you an idea of the strength of the water, the waves that crashed into that port. A pier is totally destroyed. The boats have been tossed around like toys, crashed into each other, one on top of the other, and into each other. You see the force of this earthquake and the destruction it has caused. It was so strong that in neighboring Argentina, 1,300 miles away, people felt it and two people died. We have heard from the undersecretary of health saying that there has been major damage to the hospitals. However, they don't need outside assistance at this point. They're trying to tend to all patients at the hospital, tending to the patients on the streets. But they are managing. They have sent out a call to all doctors and nurses, wherever they are, to report to duty, asking people to go to the hospital only in an absolute emergency, asking them to conserve power, to conserve electricity. And so that's what's going on, Fred, right now. We expect to hear from President Michelle Bachelet within this hour at any moment. We'll bring you her statement as soon as it comes in.", "Ralitsa, thank you so much. Appreciate that. While they continue to pick up the pieces, try to assess the damage, try to reach those injured or in trouble there in Chile, in Hawaii, they are simply waiting. They're waiting for the results of what that earthquake triggered. We're talking about tsunami. Already there have been a couple of waves that have hit the big island. But nothing significant thus far and that's what people are most concerned about.", "About 15 hours or so after that earthquake, 8.8 magnitude, hit Chile and still there are people, even stateside here, who are trying to reach out, trying to find their loved ones in Chile. Our Susan Candiotti is in New York. Susan, give us an idea what those efforts have led to.", "Well, in one case, for several hours, the Rojas family -- they own a small grocery store in a town called West New York, New Jersey, right near New York City. And they have been frantic over what may have happened to their mother. So since early this morning, the family has been on the phone every ten minutes or so, trying to reach Iris Rojas. She's staying in Santiago for about three months, in their home, spending time with relatives. Last night, just before the earthquake hit, her husband Hector left on a flight back to New York. So for hours they have not known what to think and whether Iris was OK.", "We don't want to think nothing happened to our mom. And we're still hoping the best, that at any moment she will communicate with us.", "Exactly. If only you could talk to someone else who lives nearby or --", "Yes.", "We try. We tried some neighbors. We tried friends we have in common over there in Chile. And people tried to call, but seems to be like there is no communication. Communication all break down in Santiago. And we don't know what time they're going to establish communications, or really don't know what's going on. It is hard to say when you try to call every five minutes and you don't get an answer.", "And this is Iris' husband, who broke down in tears saying he knows his wife is strong, and that he has faith in god that nothing has happened to her, and that he eventually will be able to reach her. Well, good news, Fredricka. After trying all day, we just found out a little while ago that their prayers have been answered. Iris is fine. It turns out the house has some cracks. She was, you know, swept out of her bed. This happened in the middle of the night as you know. There is no power, no water. So she's been looking all over the place for some way to reach her family and finally she found someone with a working phone that could get out, and she called them and told them that she was fine. So I guess it just goes to show that in so many cases we're hearing, time and again from families, don't give up, keep trying. But, of course, not everyone will necessarily have a happy ending.", "Wow. That's great news for Iris Rojas and the rest of the family. I know they were worried sick, wondering how she was doing. Grad we're able to report that good news. Susan Candiotti, thanks so much. Of course, a lot of folks are hoping for news like that as it pertains to them. So many of you in the US are trying to get information about those American relatives or friends in Chile. Right now, we want you to grab a pen and a paper. Here is the number you need to call. The US State Department toll free number is 1-888-407- 4747. Again, 1-888-407-4747. All right, let's check in with our Jacqui Jeras because we know that people have been kind of at the edge of their seats in Hawaii, worried this tsunami that was triggered by this earthquake in Chile. Now what is the latest?", "The latest is that that bullet we were talking about officially dodged, Fredricka. They have just canceled --", "Incredible.", "They just canceled the tsunami warning for Hawaii. So that is a bit of good news. They say the worst is over. The threat is no longer out there for a destructive tsunami. However, you're still going to be seeing fluctuations in the ocean levels. The water continues to be very rough and very dangerous. And so they're saying even though the warning is canceled at this time, they say don't go back to resuming your normal activities or even re-entering any of these evacuated areas. You want to wait and listen for the official word from your county, civil defense people, because there could still be some dangerous conditions out there. So the worst is certainly over with. We had the tsunami. Just over three feet was the highest that we saw on Maui. I would say, yes, Hawaii officially dodging the bullet on this one. And such great news. However, keep in mind that those warnings are still out there for other countries, which do extend all the way to Japan. You know, it is not completely over and done with, but certainly a bit of good news here tonight.", "And you mentioned that 1960 earthquake and tsunami, Japan got hit very hard. So Asian coasts as well as New Zealand, Australia, all of them are still keeping a close watch on what potentially could be brought from this tsunami.", "Right.", "Jacqui Jeras, thanks so much. Appreciate that. A lot of folks who have evacuated, they're going to be really glad to hear this, but not really clear, Jacqui, whether they'll be --", "Don't go back until they say it is all OK.", "We don't know if that means all clear, you can go back to your hotels or homes, right?", "My guess is -- they have a siren system, so my guess is that they also have some type of an all clear siren that they'll be sounding. In addition to that, I know prior to this, when the warnings were issued, the Coast Guard flew along the coast lines and made announcements that way. I would expect the same on the flip side of this event.", "Wow. I was really feeling for those families with small kids that were, you know in parking lots and evacuation centers, because this now will be great news, including our Thelma Gutierrez vacationing on the big island.", "It is a scary thing. It is a threat that they're going to be dealing with for eternity, basically. So it is a good warmup, a good practice to realize how serious a tsunami can be. And now you know, because you lived through it, what you need to do in that situation.", "Jacqui Jeras, thanks so much. We'll have much more of our continuing coverage of what was a tsunami that appears now to be officially lifted and, of course, still the aftermath of that earthquake in Chile.", "Welcome back. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. If you're just now joining us, we want to update you that the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says Hawaii is now in the clear. No longer is there a destructive threat. However, what caused this warning in the first place, that earthquake in Chile. And we're still learning new information about the damage caused by this sizable quake. It was centered about 200 miles away from the capital city of Santiago. You can see the damage in this suburb right here. Pretty extraordinary. Some homes simply toppled, flattened. Officials say many buildings closer to the epicenter were reduced to rubble, just like this. The main international airport in Santiago also suffering heavy damage, and right now it is closed. Our Josh Levs has been communicating with a number of people online, whether it be from chile or even Hawaii. I know a lot of the folks in Hawaii are breathing a huge sigh of relief, because now it appears that the most dangerous threat of the by that quake has been lifted.", "Yes, that's great news. Again, as you and Jacqui were emphasizing, this does not mean go run around and go in dangerous areas, obviously. Listen for the authorities on that. But, yes, the warning has been lifted. Fred, I've been over by the big touch screen computer throughout the day, 12 hours now. I moved into the middle of the NEWSROOM, which has been buzzing throughout the day. We have had a lot going on. Everyone coming in for a weekend duty, doing a lot of work here. And one thing we have been finding today is that in Chile, also in Hawaii, a lot of people turning to the Internet. One thing that's been getting a lot of use today is Skype, people communicating over the Internet. I have a guy who is up on my computer right here, Charles Ball. We're about to speak with him. Charles has been inside Honolulu. And Charles, as I understand it, you basically are holed up inside Honolulu today. And your plan was you were going to wait it out there, right?", "That's true. We're in a condo building at the edge of Honolulu Harbor, and we evacuated upwards in the building.", "Talk to me about this. First of all, I want to emphasize, the authorities were OK with what you did. You were inside the building and you were told if you stayed there, that would be OK.", "That's right. That was a recommendation from the hotels down in Waikiki also, to simply get above the third floor, and in the modern concrete structures would be safe.", "I know you stocked up with all sorts of stuff. Lots of water, lots of food. Before we get to that, do me a favor, now that the warning has been lifted, turn around, look behind you, let me know -- because we're seeing a little bit behind you. Let me know what you're seeing. Are you seeing any activity? Is anything changing in the last few minutes? Are boats moving in? What's going on?", "No, we never saw a major surge at the Honolulu Harbor. In fact, the waves appeared to be normal throughout the day today. The ships did sail out this morning. The Coast Guard cutters left before dawn. And most of the commercial shipping had left by 10:00 am. And they're still waiting offshore to be allowed back into the harbor.", "You told me all you've seen is a real stillness. You told me you didn't see anything on the water that concerned you for your safety today, the water itself?", "No. Not at all.", "But you did tell me it's sort of freakishly empty outside?", "The police have -- we're down in an area that is considered to be a tsunami evacuation area. And so the police have stopped all traffic along the roads here. We're literally 50 feet from the water. And there is actually a highway that's between us and the water.", "We've got to tie it up here. Quickly, you have seven days worth of food and water and backup supplies with you. What are you going to do with it all now?", "The water will go down the drain. The food we'll eat over time.", "The water -- the water is going to go down the drain? Perfectly good bottled water?", "It is actually water from the tap that we put in some re- closeable bottles.", "Good for you. OK. Also don't want to make light of the fact that authorities are still saying don't go running outside. Just because the warning has been lifted doesn't mean that everything is going to be perfect conditions.", "No, we're staying at home.", "Charles, thank you so much for joining us. He is actually one of the many people who joined us via iReport. He's been sending us photos, video, stories. I'll tell all our viewers, if you're in a position to do so safely, go to IReport.com, no matter where you are in the world, and send us your latest. We'll share some right here.", "We love that. So great to hear first person accounts. Thanks, Josh. Appreciate it. We're going to keep bringing you the latest official information from Chile, as well as any information coming out of Hawaii. But to really understand what it is like, you have to hear what people are saying who have gone through this. Loreno Rios was visiting Santiago and she was riding in a car when everything started shaking.", "It was the most terrifying experience because it started, and it kept going -- increasing and intensity kept going up and up and up. And everything was moving. We -- I actually thought that the ground was going to swallow the entire car. And, you know, it was -- we were shaking. It shook the car, like nothing. And people start coming out on the streets. And then we also saw some type of lightning in the sky. And I think it was because it was shutting down the electricity. Fortunately we did not see any -- any buildings suffering any kind of damage. However, many people got hurt inside because people fell on them or they got caught with glasses that had broken when they were running out of the building. This is a very high density area and there are many apartment buildings everywhere. People were in the streets with their kids, their families. And, you know, it just felt that it was never going to end. For a fraction of a second, I was paralyzed. The thing is that we were standing under the electric wires, so I knew when the worst position or the worst part we could possibly be. I told the guy that was driving, back up, because we were right under the electric wires. And at that point, we tried to back up, but the car wouldn't respond to the driver. I mean, it was like each wheel was going in a different direction or was kind of undulating and just going up and down. It was like a wave on the ground.", "Eyewitness account there out of Chile. The CNN NEWSROOM continues with Don Lemon, with more on the Chile earthquake and how Americans are working to contact relatives there. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. 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{"id": "CNN-203601", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2013-3-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/23/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Military Officer Benjamin Bishop Arrested", "utt": ["It is the kind of plot you may find in a spy now, but an older man who falls for a beautiful young women who is up for something and it isn't love. That's what allegedly happens with this defense contractor and former army officer. He is charged with passing nuclear secrets to his Chinese girlfriend. Here is CNN's Brian Todd.", "He is an army reservist with top secret clearance, doing contract work for the U.S. military specific command in Hawaii. Benjamin Bishop now stands accused of leaking military secrets, including information on nuclear weapons, war plans, early warning radar systems. U.S. officials say he gave them to a Chinese woman 32 years younger who he was having a relationship with. Bishop has been arrested and in is in custody. His attorney says this.", "He served his country honorably for 29 years. And he maintains he would never do anything to intentionally harm the United States.", "Is the woman a Chinese spy? Court documents identify her as person one, 27-years-old, a Chinese national. The documents say she met Bishop at a defense conference and quote, \"may have been in the conference in order to target individuals such as Bishop who work with and have access to U.S. classified information regarding person One's purported interests.", "Well, this is a honey trap case.", "Eric O'Neill, former FBI counter intelligence officer says a spy master sends an attractive target person to lure a target with sex or blackmail to give up information. O'Neal took down FBI agent Robert Hanson who spied for the Russians. O'Neill was portrayed by a Ryan Philip in a Hollywood movie \"Breach\" on spies that use honey traps. When they are in the compromising situations, how they actually get the information from?", "They can use a couple of different things. If it is a prostitute, for example, pillow talk. Pillow talk, you know, that pillow talk comes from this, from the honey trap, from spies. You talk to someone. You get them to talk, you know, after you're done and you are very relaxed, and all the endorphins are flowing and the happy things are going on in your brain, and people's tongues loosen.", "It is not exactly a new phenomenon. One of the most famous cases of a honey trap was the", "During the cold war, these Germans under Marcus Wolf had a very active program of sending Romeos as they were called into West Germany, seeing who they could meet and develop relationships with them, if they had access to intelligence.", "A program that Earnest says worked very well for the East Germans. We tried to get the Chinese embassy in Washington to respond to the documents indicating the woman in Benjamin Bishop's case is likely a Chinese spy. They haven't responded to our calls and e- mails. U.S. officials haven't yet charged the woman with a crime. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "When we come back, critics are calling for him to quote, \"come back to earth.\" But the House budget committee chairman, Paul Ryan pushes ahead with his plan to balance the nation's books with major spending cuts. He is here in the SITUATION ROOM and he is next."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BIRNEY BERVAR, BENJAMIN BISHOP'S ATTORNEY", "TODD", "ERIC O'NEILL, FORMER FBI COUNTER INTELLIGENCE OFFICER", "TODD", "O'NEILL", "TODD", "PETER EARNEST, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM", "TODD", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-367602", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2019-04-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/20/ndaysat.02.html", "summary": "Dem Judiciary Committee Chair Subpoenas Full Mueller Report; Dem Judiciary Committee Chair Subpoenas Full Mueller Report", "utt": ["Oh, there is a showdown brewing between House Democrats and the Justice Department it seems. House Judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler, subpoenaed Attorney General William Barr for a full unredacted version of special counsel Robert Muller's report. Now, Barr previously said, he would not provide the full report to Congress. Arguing, he can't legally turn over grand jury information. In the meantime, there are Democrats who are calling for impeachment proceedings against the president. An issue that is really divided in this party. Let's talk to democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania, Madeleine Dean. Congresswoman, thank you so much. She sits on the House Judiciary Committee, by the way. I want to read to you something that 2020 democratic candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted earlier yesterday. She said the severity of the misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside political considerations and do their constitutional duty. That means the House should initiate impeachment proceedings against the president of the United States.\" Do you agree that has to happen?", "Well, those words tell you where we are, Christi. We're at a grave moment. The Mueller report reveals a tremendous number of turns and twists where the president or his colleagues or his associates attempted to obstruct justice and attempted to interfere with this investigation into Russia's interference. So, I understand and take the senator at her word. She's expressing the severity and the seriousness of what's going on. As a member of the Judiciary Committee, I'm determined that we will do our job. Chairman Nadler has charted a course for us to get the entire Mueller report and all of its supporting documents so that we can see all of the evidence. Right now, we have a very difficult read here with the Mueller report, but it is redacted. And there's probably even more troubling information in the redacted version. So, we've got to do our job and collect the evidence and tell the American people exactly what happened.", "OK. So, are you saying that you are not yet ready to push for impeachment?", "I think we're not at that spot yet. I think, the judiciary actually has the awesome responsibility to do the investigation, and that's what we're going to do. Impeachment is not yet on the table, but it is certainly not off the table.", "So, what do you need to see in that report that would convince you to pull the impeachment lever, so to speak?", "Actually, just a full display of the report. Anytime, there's shadowing or a charade that is going on here about what actually took place, I don't think it would be wise to move forward. What we need to do is have all of the facts. And then, when we have all of the facts, we would move forward. But I think, until we have everything, America deserves the entire report. Attorney General Barr has mischaracterized the report. He has misled the American people. And what it -- what our job is, is to make sure we get -- we shine a light of truth on exactly what happened.", "So, if you sit down or if Attorney General Barr sits down in front of you, what do you want to ask him specifically?", "Why would he have shrouded the report? Why would he had put together a scant summary? Why would he have held a press conference about nothing, because he didn't even release the report? Why is it that he doesn't seem to be serving in the public interest as he promised during his testimony before the Senate confirmation committee? Why does he appear to be serving the president's best interests?", "There's a phone call that's going to be made on Monday, we understand, amongst democratic leaders to discuss the strategy moving forward here. So, we have -- you know, Elizabeth Warren and several others calling for impeachment already. We know that there are other Democrats; Speaker Pelosi, in fact, not quite ready, as you are, to jump onboard that train. And Democrats who have ardently and heartily tried to quash the idea of impeachment. They say they want to focus on legislative priorities on investigations on the 2020 election. Realistically, how much support do you think Democrats will have for impeachment?", "Well, on the Monday call, I don't know. We are diverse, broad caucus, but we are a brand-new majority. And take a look at what's happening with this majority. We are doing robust oversight and investigation of an administration that had no oversight for the past two years. So, what I expect on that call is our leadership will talk about our plan to methodically do the oversight that we have to do. But at the same time, and I don't think this should be lost on the American people, as grave as this situation is, we also have other responsibilities of substantive legislation. Legislation that we will pass and that have already passed. And then, it is up to the Senate to take up. But I'm certain this will be a robust conversation with the leadership, about next steps, and what the role of oversight from various committees are, but most especially from judiciary.", "Speaking of next steps, the Mueller report -- despite whatever it said about President Trump itself, one of the big takeaways from the Mueller report was the fact that it proclaims Russia did, indeed, attempt to manipulate the 2016 election. What is Congress prepared to do to make sure it doesn't happen in 2020?", "I'm glad you raised that. Because, isn't it stunning that this administration, knowing that, has never spoken up and said America must never be attacked in that way again? And in fact, what the president tried to do, as you read in this report is over and over again, try to thwart the investigation. We know that Russia interfered in the 2016 election in sweeping ways, as Mueller says. And we will legislatively make sure that we take some action. But I think the absence of the administration's outrage about that is incredibly telling.", "But the absence of their -- of their rage about it, doesn't change the fact that there is work to be done in 2020. Is there some sort of plan crafted in Congress to keep it from happening again next time around?", "Absolutely. We're crafting legislation around that. But again, take a look at what happened here. The administration welcomed the interference by Russia. Notice what Russia is doing right now.", "Right.", "They are analyzing where this Mueller report stands. Because they are going to do it again. Make no mistake about that. And there are other bad actors that will want to do the same thing. We will fortify our election process in a very complicated world. But it is stunning that the leader of the free world, this American president has called out this problem loudly and clearly. And, in fact, he and his associates spent a lot of time meeting with the Russians.", "All right. Congresswoman Madeleine Dean, appreciate your time this morning on this holiday weekend. Thank you for being here.", "Thank you, Christi.", "An overnight explosion, sends a group of firefighters to the hospital. We have an update on their conditions.", "Also, the medical examiner in South Carolina, says a birth defect is what caused the death of a South Carolina student who died after a fight in her classroom. An attorney for the girl's family says, there's still a lot to investigate here."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-413419", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-10-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/15/cnr.19.html", "summary": "World Bank Calls for More Help for Poor Countries.", "utt": ["Negotiations on a second coronavirus stimulus package will resume on Thursday with the White House hoping for an agreement before the election. Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin is offering increased assistance for both child care and the paycheck protection program. But he wants Democrats to authorize $300 billion already in the Treasury Department account.", "Meanwhile the head of the International Monetary Fund is calling on private creditors and China to offer increased debt relief in developing countries struggling with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. CNN's John Defterios is in Abu Dhabi and he joins us live. We talked about this last hour, this divide in what countries have at their disposal, the U.S., the biggest country that has the biggest arsenal, as you like, can decide how much it wants to spend. Other countries don't have that luxury.", "That's for sure, we have the case of the haves and the have-nots, John, and it is the second wave so it is very difficult for the developing countries, especially those in extreme poverty to cope with this. Then the willingness of the G20 countries to spend more at home and not talking about just abroad. So the message coming from the heads of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank is don't pull back at home domestically and continue to focus on the world's poorest countries. It's vital. The World Bank put over $25 billion to the developing world. Doesn't seem like a lot of money. Another $12 billion for vaccine distribution. This will be vital when they get access to those. But his warning here in COVID-19, we're not talking about recessions and different economies around the world, John, we're talking about a depression for the poorest countries. Let's take a listen.", "For many developing countries and the people in the poorest countries, it is truly a depression, a catastrophic event. And it is continuing to add to the ranks of those in extreme poverty.", "And the calculation is by the World Bank is at the autumn meetings they will add 150 million people to extreme poverty and that is ranked living on about $2 a day. Or less John. They will not eradicate poverty in 2030 for the sustainable development goals of the United Nations.", "Right now it seems the industrialized world, the richer countries, are not doing a whole lot to help. These economies in the developing world which are struggling during the pandemic. That seems to be very short term or very short sighted if you'd like because what happens in the developing world during this pandemic, will find its way back to Europe, back to the United States back to Australia and the rest of Asia.", "Yes, this is my concern, the very beginning of the outbreak, John, back in February when it started to heat up, is that the focus has been domestically, we're looking at about $12 trillion in the G20 spent. Most of that is being utilized, at home. But to think this is a global pandemic and you don't focus on Latin American, Africa, is a mistake. The debate right now within the G20 is they extended debt suspension for another 6 months. You notice I didn't say debt relief. That's where the World Bank and the IMF is suggesting. They will consider it in the next month. So you can suspend your debt, the interest continues to pile up for the world's poorest countries, relief and they're asking China to get to the table. China has been lending money to African and Latin America. They in turn spend it on Chinese infrastructure. That's what's been happening. And now they're suggesting to China, you have to cut the debt going forward. You have to sit at the table.", "Is it very -- it looks like a whole vicious cycle. They borrow money, they get the debt, they can't pay it back they borrow more. None of it ends up going anywhere. John, I guess we're out of time but thank you. And thank you for watching CNN NEWSROOM. Stay with us. More news in 15 minutes."], "speaker": ["VAUSE", "VAUSE", "JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR", "DAVID MALPASS, WORLD BANK PRESIDENT", "DEFTERIOS", "VAUSE", "DEFTERIOS", "VAUSE"]}
{"id": "CNN-339329", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-05-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/06/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Nunes Threatens Move to Hold Sessions In Contempt", "utt": ["Congressman Devin Nunes is lashing out against the Justice Department. The Republican chairman of the House Intel Committee says he's moving to hold U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress for withholding documents in his panel's probe of government surveillance.", "Two weeks ago we sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a classified letter. Per usual, it was ignored, not acknowledged, just completely ignored. So last week we sent a subpoena. And then on Thursday we discovered that they are not going to comply with our subpoena --", "So what are you going to do about it?", "-- on some very important information that we need.", "What are you going to do?", "The only thing left that we can do is we have to move quickly to hold the attorney general of the United States in contempt, and that's what I'm going to press for this week.", "All right, joining us right now is CNN Justice Reporter Laura Jarrett. So Laura, do we know what's in these documents and what they're being withheld?", "Well, Fred, this is really just the latest chapter in an ongoing battle between Chairman Devin Nunes and the Justice Department over sensitive materials related to the Russia investigation. But this is interesting for two reasons. The first is that, I obtained a letter that shows that the Justice Department told Chairman Nunes on Thursday that it was not going to be able to fill this request because these documents actually could risk national security. Now the head of legislative affairs for the Justice Department told Chairman Nunes that the request could actually pose a risk to human lives, pose a risk to sources and an ongoing investigation. But this is also interesting because he's lashing out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but as he knows, the attorney general is actually recused from the Russia investigation. Most of his dealings have been with the FBI Director Chris Wray as well as Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. So it's unclear what the play is here on Sessions.", "And then, there's some more precedence here because CNN has reported that Nunes has demanded Justice Department records before but then, not even read them. So, what's really -- what's this all about, really?", "Yes, it's something of a curious pattern that based on our reporting shows that he continually demands documents always related to the Russia investigation, largely classified. The Justice Department eventually capitulates, relents and turns them over. And then he does not read them according to multiple sources Manu Raju and I and Jeremy Herb reported on Friday that this is how the situation has played out again and again. Now, his supporters say that Congressman Gowdy and his staff have maintained a good grasp on all of these documents. They have read all of them. But Chairman Nunes, the critics point out, that for the amount that he has demanded and how sensitive they are, you would think that he would want to read them himself.", "Or perhaps that they hand them off to the White House. The White House would not have access to some of this material.", "Well, that's true. And we don't have any reporting to suggest that he's sharing them in any improper way. But you do -- you see how the fact that the Justice Department has continued to turned over materials after materials, document after document that it initially says that it doesn't want to because of national security, because of these grave risks. It's clear that the Justice Department hasn't had the support of both House leadership Paul Ryan and the White House, who has, you know, declined to exert executive privilege again and again. That's the result of the so-called Nunes memo. All of that is a result of both leadership in the White House not having the Justice Department's back in these instances, Fred.", "All right, Laura Jarrett, thank you so much. And we'll be right back."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "REP. DEVIN NUNES (R), INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NUNES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NUNES", "WHITFIELD", "LAURA JARRETT, CNN JUSTICE REPORTER", "WHITFIELD", "JARRETT", "WHITFIELD", "JARRETT", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-68667", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2003-3-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/29/se.05.html", "summary": "Baghdad Rocked by Explosions Again", "utt": ["I'm Daryn Kagan live in Kuwait City. Here are the latest developments at this hour. We want to show you a live picture of Baghdad which has been rocked by a series of explosions throughout the morning. On Friday, the Iraqi information ministry in Baghdad was a target of coalition air strikes. A huge blast was heard followed by Iraqi antiaircraft fire and smaller explosions. Arab media is reporting that 52 civilians were killed in a coalition air raid on the Al Shula neighborhood in Baghdad but the coalition Central Command says it can not confirm that information. Kuwait City's luck ran out at missile 13. Earlier today, an Iraqi missile landed right here in Kuwait City causing the heavy damage to a shopping mall and injuring two people. CNN identified the missile as a Chinese-made Seersucker. Missile defense systems stopped 12 Iraqi missiles launched at Kuwait. The suspect in the grenade attack that killed two U.S. Army officers has left the detention facility in Germany but the military won't say where he's headed. The \"Stars and Stripes\" newspaper reports that Sergeant Asan Akbar is being transferred back to the U.S. Although fighting continues around Nasiriya, U.S. Marines on Friday recovered the bodies of some of their comrades who were killed earlier this week. Iraqi civilians had buried two Marines but handed over the personal effects of the buried troops. Senior Marines tell CNN the Nasiriya fighting is the most fierce the Marines have faced since Vietnam. The Halliburton Company, former employer of Vice President Dick Cheney, is not in the running for a multi-million dollar contract to help rebuild Iraq after the war. The U.S. Agency for National Development says that two unidentified firms are still in the running for the $600 million contract. Cheney was Halliburton's CEO from 1995 to 2000. The State Department is reacting to what it calls credible reports of planned attacks on American interests in Yemen. The threats prompted the State Department to offer free flights home for some of its embassy staff. It also repeated a warning against Americans traveling to Yemen at this time. And that's a look at the hour's latest developments. Now back to more of the coverage of the war in Iraq with Aaron Brown -- Aaron.", "Daryn, thank you very much. Christiane Amanpour has been meeting with British officials, a briefing with the British officials and Christiane joins us now. Good morning.", "Good morning, Aaron. Indeed, we've had the first briefing of the morning of the general activities, military activities in the British sector around where we are in southern Iraq, and specifically near Basra, Iraq's second biggest town, and an important test of how this war is going to go in terms of liberating the civilians. Well, all along we've been telling you that the British have been waging a psychological campaign as well because it's not just about heavy fighting they tell us but also about showing who's in charge, trying to win hearts and minds. So, to the extent, today we're told that about a couple of hours ago the 7th Armored Brigade staged \"an aggressive raid\" into the middle of Basra with tanks and armored infantry. Their aim was to crush, to knock over, to smash the central statue of Saddam Hussein in the center of the town. Now, apparently, we have reports that two statues have been taken out. We're not sure whether it's the main one of Saddam Hussein, but the aim we're told here is to psychologically hit at the will of the Baath Party, the ruling party, which maintains its control and dominance over the people so think the British.", "Basra remains a flash point. About 2,000 Iraqi civilians tried to leave the city when, say British military spokesmen, Saddam Hussein's loyal militias fired on them and sent many fleeing back inside. The British then fired on the militias. British forces still trying to disengage the civilians from the regime's political control say this incident suggests the militias are keeping the population from leaving on pain of death. One weapon for winning over the civilians, humanitarian aid, and on Friday the first big supply ship docked in southern Iraq. (on camera): The British ship, Sir Galahad, has come with 200 tons of aid, its aim not just at relieving humanitarian needs but also sending a powerful psychological and political measure that the British are here, along with the Americans, to liberate the people of Iraq. (voice-over): Water, food packets, and staples, as well as medical supplies and blankets will be unloaded and slowly distributed to the population. Commanders here acknowledge they have a way to go before convincing the Iraqi people to trust them and the outcome of this war.", "The civilian population have got very mixed feelings. They're still very nervous. They're a little bit frightened of uniforms. They're not convinced actually that Saddam Hussein is going to be beaten, so they're sort of", "So, to instill confidence, the British want to look like benefactors, not just bombers. It took about a week to secure the port of Umm Qasr and fight off the Iraqi military resistance. Commanders say the Iraqi regime had sent units from Baghdad to try to defend the port. Since seizing this part of the south, the British say they have rounded up about 3,000 Iraqi prisoners of war.", "Now, the colonel that we spoke to in charge of the royal marines there at Umm Qasr has also been out and about in the town, and he feels that the people may not bring out the sort of white flags and the welcome until they know for sure that Saddam Hussein is gone. In any event, you know, we've heard a lot from all individuals and groups involved in this war, whether it be the politicians, the military. We've heard very little from the Iraqi people about what they think. We're going out shortly to try and get a pulse of what people think, how they're feeling, and how they think this war is going -- Aaron.", "Well, that will be a fascinating day of reporting. How bad do the British believe the humanitarian situation is in Basra?", "Well, there's a lot of unknowns to be very honest with you. Since they don't have people inside, I mean we had reports earlier that there were intelligence people inside, but we're not getting a full picture from inside. What we know is that the electricity is sporadic, that it's mostly a problem with the water. They're trying to connect the water and, in fact, they're going to be bringing a pipeline and extending it, the one that comes through Kuwait and they're going to try to start turning on fresh water to the people in this region. I think a lot of the aid, it is necessary, you know, like 60 percent of the Iraqis have relied for their entire humanitarian needs on the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food Program which has been disrupted since the war started, so a lot of it is needed but, you know, a lot of it is also as psychological and confidence building weapon.", "They can have all this aid on the ship but it doesn't do any good if they literally can not deliver it to the people in Basra. Is there any -- anybody give you any sense of when they might be able to get it in?", "Yes. Yes. Well, they're first going to start pushing it out from the points closest, for instance to the town of Umm Qasr and Safwan and further up north, and what they're going to do is take it to the parts of the cities that they control. There's a city south of Basra. To the west of that is controlled by the British and they're going to start pushing it in from the outskirts, the same with Basra, the western outskirts. They have some freedom of movement in there and they're going to start pushing it in and hope that word of mouth reaches the people and that people will, you know, just slowly, slowly, they'll be able to push it ever deeper inside the city. That's the aim.", "Christiane, I think there's a fascinating day ahead if you're going to get to talk to Iraqi civilians, and we look forward to your reporting on that. Thanks as always Christiane Amanpour with us tonight. Bob Franken is at a forward Air Force base in Iraq. We've heard from him. It's been a couple of hours. Bob, are you able to hear us?", "I am. Hello, Aaron.", "Tell us what's happening.", "Well, at the moment what's happening is the same steady flow of planes coming in, bringing in members of the crews for the various operations, A-10s. Also, planes are coming in and depositing ground troops who are quickly then taken away by truck. This is an airfield, of course, that had been pretty much abandoned, unused for the last ten years. It was part of the southern no-fly zone which, of course, was prohibited, so there was no activity here. In fact, there is still a lot of debris from Gulf War I. But, the airfield in back of me is in good shape, the airstrip is, and that's good enough for the U.S. military so they will be using it and using it a lot as a forward air base. When you come on this base you see the big required poster of Saddam Hussein, but once you get onto the field it becomes clearly a U.S. and coalition base and it's becoming more and more clear. We're expecting within the next few hours or days the landing of the first A-10, the antitank plane, the one that has been used so extensively to supplement the ground maneuvers that are going on. As I said, ground forces are also operating out of here. This is a fairly hostile area. Surrounding the base, a few miles away, an awful lot of combat is still going on, what they call red zones. At this base they do feel, however, it is very secure, secure enough that they have been bringing POWs here that have been captured from elsewhere, keeping them here long enough to decide where to take them from here. One of the spots that they have in mind is a place called Camp Buca (ph) down the road toward Kuwait. That is going to be the POW encampment. They're in the midst of preparing it. The only problem may be the Geneva Convention requirement that it has to be far removed from the combat area. At the moment, it is not far removed from the combat area. This is not far removed from the combat area. As a matter of fact, the combat area is going to become part of this base. It's 150 miles closer to all that combat than the home base, so they're going to be launching a lot of strikes out of here, particularly the A-10 and the search and rescue missions -- Aaron.", "How many POWs are you talking about there?", "Well, I've seen groups of about 100. Probably several hundred have gone through. Some of them came through last night in the darkness. Of course, they are now numbering in the thousands according to coalition spokesmen but we've seen several hundred. This is just a convenient transit point. It's a very convenient get for the military for the United States and the coalition all together.", "And, what kind of conditions at this way station, if you will, the POWS, how are they kept? Are they kept outdoors? Are they kept in one of those barbed wire pens?", "They're just seated on the tarmac. When we arrived yesterday, we saw a group of them sitting down on the ground, on the cement ground, surrounded by security forces. They were then taken by trucks and we don't know what the conditions are elsewhere. I will say that at the camp that's being constructed, it is being constructed in a way that there's a large berm, a large pile of dirt which will surround the area where the POWs are kept. The main reason for that is so they have no view whatsoever of the actual operation of the camp. They're obviously kept isolated.", "Bob, thank you, Bob Franken at a forward air base in central Iraq covering a couple of topics. General, I promised you 30 seconds to finish the thought we were talking about before on the size of the force. Why don't we do that and then we'll take the break.", "Well, basically the idea is to get the facts out on this thing. I mean as we said you have -- the commander will make his plan. He will argue for the force. We don't know what that plan is. We're not inside his head and I support the commander, just trying to get the facts out on this thing because it is becoming a subject of a lot of media attention.", "And what I said to you is sometimes simply reporting the facts will get you criticism. People will take that as criticism.", "That's a hazard of the job.", "But you're not criticizing the plan. You're just saying here's what it is.", "Here's what it is.", "Okay, I believe you.", "It gets judged by its effectiveness not by its components, not by the size but does it work. That's the way you assess a plan.", "And we're only I guess nine days into it.", "Yes, we're just at the start of this thing.", "And it's very early to be judging its effectiveness.", "Right.", "We'll take a break. Our coverage continues in a moment.", "I guess we say this every night that American networks are not the only place you'll find wall-to-wall coverage of the war in Iraq. The message that gets out on one network often is, in fact, different stories. Different stories take on different importance depending on the audience and we've asked Bruce Burkhardt just to survey the world to see how the story is being reported.", "And you're watching our continuing coverage of the war in Iraq.", "And we continue our extensive coverage of the war on Iraq.", "Our continuing coverage of the war in Iraq.", "If you want to get away from all the war coverage, it will take more than getting out of the country. It's virtually everywhere.", "(Unintelligible).", "This is a newscast from Chile, and if we've noticed a common thread how this war is reported outside the U.S., it's the greater attention paid to the story in Baghdad.", "(Unintelligible).", "Translation, the population has adapted to the severe living constraints. Some supermarkets and restaurants are staying open until 6:00 p.m.", "(Unintelligible).", "That's not to say that everything is taken at face value. Here they're reporting Iraqi claims that the U.S. has dropped cluster bombs on civilians but followed quickly by the disclaimer that they have no independent confirmation of that claim. But others, like this English language newscast out of China, tend to pass along Iraqi pronouncements without comment. This is their report on a press conference with the Iraqi information minister.", "And Baghdad has not ruled out the possibility that Americans will use weapons of mass destruction. I also have added the U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is going mad.", "(Unintelligible).", "The use of retired generals to comment on the battle is not unique to American coverage. This is Nile TV out of Egypt. It's true that Iraqi soldiers outnumber the U.S. forces but this is not the point. Weaponry is what counts here. Finally this from Channel News Asia, out of Hong Kong, a nifty graphic that shows better than anything else I've seen a rendition showing the incredible detail of Saddam's bunkers.", "And the blast doors lead to decontamination rooms.", "Bruce Burkhardt CNN Atlanta.", "General, does it surprise you -- obviously it doesn't surprise you that Americans are interested. Their sons and daughters are there. Does it surprise you how much interest there seems to be in Asia and across Europe?", "No, no it doesn't.", "Because it's America?", "It's because it's America and because this is representative of a new America. This is an America that is", "But is it that they're watching to see because they might be -- I don't -- that they might be in some way impacted by the big dog, whatever their position is?", "Everybody in the world is impacted by the United States in one way or another. We have so much influence in our economic terms, in what we do in the United Nations, in the G8 group and the World Trade Organization. We're enormously significant in the lives of people in countries around the world.", "And do you think that there is at some level certainly in no sense is the United States ever the underdog, going and rooting for the underdog. Are they wishing that there was some balance on the United States around the world do you think?", "Some do, some don't. I mean one of the attractions of the United Nations for a lot of these people is they say oh, well the United States is part of the United Nations and we have a vote and there's international law and so forth. And so, the fact is that whenever we have to take actions that the United Nations doesn't explicitly endorse, it does send a certain degree of tremor through many countries around the world. There are others who are traditionally adversarial to the United States. They wouldn't mind seeing U.S. power taken down a notch or two. But, even among those who don't feel that way, they're interested in this. They want to see what we're doing. It affects their economy, their investment decisions.", "Everything.", "Everything.", "It seems like a long time ago now that there were -- that other news was being reported around the world and that when you opened your newspaper or turned on your TV it had nothing to do with a war or maybe it was simply a discussion of when would the war start. We asked Beth Nissen to take a look at some of the stories that you haven't seen.", "News of the war has pushed so many stories to the margins of the nation's newspapers and off network newscasts, international stories like this one, the worrisome global spread of a mysterious illness from China through Asia to Canada and the United States, what's called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome that killed 50 people worldwide. One thousand four hundred others are infected. Public health officials do not yet know its cause or an effective treatment. There were developments in several stories that dominated the news just a little more than a week ago. There were new rounds of angry finger pointing in the case of Elizabeth Smart, with accusations from several quarters that law enforcement officials ignored information that might have helped recover the 15-year-old sooner. She was found nine months after being abducted from her bedroom in Salt Lake City. And, in Washington, the Amber Alert Bill stalled in Congress despite a written plea from Elizabeth Smart and her parents for quick passage. In the rape scandal that has rocked the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, four school officials resigned as part of a sweeping attempt to change what was terms a boy's club climate at the school. The Air Force has documented 56 sexual assault cases at the academy in the last decade. Many were reportedly mishandled or ignored. The continuing investigation into the explosion of the Space Shuttle Columbia has further examined the shuttle's left wing and foam insulation on fuel tanks. Top NASA officials floated suggestions that future shuttle flights have smaller crews or no crews at all. Four and a half years after Swiss Air Flight 111 crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia killing all 229 people on board, a final report found that an electrical short circuit, mostly like in the in-flight entertainment system, had started the fire that led to the crash. There were developments in several crime stories that held the nation captive recently. Actor Robert Blake, released on bail two weeks ago, returned to court and pleaded not guilty in the May, 2001 murder of his wife. Stories from the battle front supplanted local crime stories too. In Woodbridge, New Jersey, a 10-year-old boy was charged with luring a 3-year-old boy from a local library, then molesting him, beating him with a baseball bat and leaving him to die in a storm drain. And news on the war in Iraq pulled national attention away from another very tense part of the world, North Korea. Both the U.S. and Japan stepped up efforts with spy planes and spy satellites to monitor North Korea's missile program and suspected nuclear weapons program. Just days ago former Defense Secretary William", "The news of the week condensed to about two and a half minutes. We'll take a break. Our coverage continues in just a moment.", "It is Saturday morning in Baghdad and everyone now getting a look at some of the damage that was done overnight. The city was rocked by a huge explosion and now there is some tape coming in in what was hit and what the damage was and what it looks like. There was a sense that what the coalition was going after was the information ministry or at least the regime's ability to communicate to its own people. This has gone on for about three days. There was an attack on Iraqi TV, state run TV, and then the last couple of nights the feeling was that they were going after the information ministry, but you can see -- we see some damage certainly but that building still stands, satellite dish is still up there, and the pictures are still coming out. So, so far at least there has been the coalition if it was its intent to cut Baghdad off from its own people and from the world, it hasn't done that. General, I've got about a minute. Why allow, if you're the war planner why allow them the Iraqis to continue to send their stuff out and why in a sense allow foreign media in there to keep filing, keep filing out? Wouldn't you want to shut that down? Might you want to shut that down?", "Well, I think it will be shut down eventually, Aaron. I think it's just a question of time and doing it. The way the plan has unfolded is that they were communicating secretly to some of the Iraqi generals. They were trying to use a degree of persuasion.", "Yes.", "They were trying to avoid impacting the civilian infrastructure. You know, ultimately the way the lights went out in Serbia and the way the television got cut off in Serbia is we ended up attacking the electric power supply. So, it wasn't just that the Serbs couldn't broadcast, nobody could receive it.", "General, thank you for your work today, Carol and Anderson by in a minute. We'll see you again tomorrow evening, Saturday evening I guess that would be, and we leave you with some of the images of the day. Have a good Saturday across the country. Goodnight.", "A group of civilians, mainly women and children, approximately 1,000 in number massing on the Basra side of the bridge that's just up the road behind me. Two or 300 made the move across the bridge and at that time they started being shelled by Iraqi forces.", "You have to understand that they've been almost 100 percent reliant upon government rations for their food at least 60 percent of the population. And so, the idea that suddenly that has been cut off from them I think is making the population very nervous.", "What we've had here today is an enemy prisoner of war that was brought in from a forward operation that's going on. He had multiple injuries to his left knee, right shoulder, left wrist, multiple lacerations. It looks like it was probably some sort of blast rather than a gunshot wound. So, he was fairly stable when he came in. What we've done is we just stabilized him with the fractures, given him something for the pain, and then sent him on his way back down to the", "I'm nervous I'm in the country. You know what I'm saying. I really don't know about", "What makes you nervous,", "Oh, I feel safe as long as I got these guys I feel safe, but everybody out here is nervous, you know what I'm saying."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "AMANPOUR (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "AMANPOUR", "AMANPOUR", "BROWN", "AMANPOUR", "BROWN", "AMANPOUR", "BROWN", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (via videophone)", "BROWN", "FRANKEN", "BROWN", "FRANKEN", "BROWN", "FRANKEN", "BROWN", "GENERAL WESLEY CLARK, (RET.), CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "BROWN", "CLARK", "BROWN", "CLARK", "BROWN", "CLARK", "BROWN", "CLARK", "BROWN", "CLARK", "BROWN", "BROWN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BRUCE BURKHARDT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BURKHARDT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BURKHARDT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BURKHARDT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BURKHARDT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BURKHARDT", "BROWN", "CLARK", "BROWN", "CLARK", "BROWN", "CLARK", "BROWN", "CLARK", "BROWN", "CLARK", "BROWN", "BETH NISSEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BROWN", "BROWN", "CLARK", "BROWN", "CLARK", "BROWN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CASSANDRA NELSON, SPOKESWOMAN FOR MERCY CORPS", "LT. 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{"id": "CNN-300867", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2016-12-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/16/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Evacuations Halted in Eastern Aleppo Philippines President Defends Comments in Singapore", "utt": ["I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong, and welcome to News Stream. Now, Russian President Vladimir Putin spokesman hits back at the U.S. saying that they should provide proof that Russia was involved in hacking attacks to influence the U.S. election. The evacuation of civilians from Aleppo has halted, but Russia state media claim only militants remain in the eastern part of the city. And a new chapter for the Galaxy far, far away. We'll get the verdict on the first Star Wars spinoff movie Rogue One. Moscow and Washington are facing off over allegations that Russia meddled in U.S. elections. Now, the Kremlin today said the U.S. should offer some proof or stop talking about it. Now, meanwhile, President Obama now pledges Russia will face consequences. And an official familiar with the investigation tells CNN that tools used in the cyber attacks against the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign have, quote, unique signatures, and that only the top levels of Russia's government could have approved the hacks. Now, President-elect Donald Trump has called the Russia link ridiculous. And that has prompted harsh criticism from White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. Sara Murray has that.", "A week of Russia revelations and Donald Trump's denials creating a rift between incoming and outgoing administrations.", "This foolish guy, Josh Earnest.", "The president-elect taking shots at President Obama's press secretary.", "He is so bad the way he delivers their message. He can deliver a positive message, and it sounds bad. He could say, \"Ladies and gentlemen, today we have totally defeated ISIS,\" and it wouldn't sound good.", "Lashing out after the White House sharply criticized Trump's continued dismissal of intelligence about Moscow's election meddling.", "Mr. Trump obviously knew that Russia was engaged in malicious cyber-activity that was helping him and hurting Secretary Clinton's campaign.", "The president is very positive, but he's not positive. And I mean, maybe he's getting his orders from somebody else.", "Russia putting a strain on the roller-coaster relationship between Trump and Obama. The two attempting a show of unity for a smooth transition after a bitter campaign. Now, tensions rising between the camps, fueled in part by Trump's tweet accusing the White House of only complaining about the hacking after Hillary Clinton lost. But, in fact, in early October, the intelligence community was saying they were, quote, \"confident Russia was behind the DNC hack.\" Clinton herself addressing the hacking for the first time since the election, telling donors that Russian President Vladimir Putin's grudge against her prompted the attack against the DNC. This as Clinton's former campaign chair, John Podesta, penned a scathing rebuke of the FBI's handling of the hack, writing in \"The Washington Post,\" \"When the FBI discovered the Russian attack in September 2015, it failed to send even a single agent to warn senior Democratic National Committee officials,\" adding, \"Something is deeply broken at the bureau.\" Podesta's criticism echoed by outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.", "I think that it's about time that Comey acknowledged publicly what a disservice he's rendered to our country by doing nothing -- nothing except interfering with the election. He became such a partisan that he should become the new chair of the RNC.", "And that was our Sara Murray reporting there. Now, let's dig deeper into the latest findings with Sean Sullivan. He is the security adviser for F-Secure. He joins us live from Helsinki. And Sean, welcome back to the program. The Kremlin has responded saying basically produce some proof. So, what is the most definitive proof that can be given to the Kremlin to say, yep, you're behind the hack?", "Well, definitive proof would be an email chain, I suppose, saying do it. I don't think that sort of proof is going to come forward, though. What we do have is more -- sorry.", "Go ahead, what do we have?", "What we do have are forensic evidence, binaries that are typical of the tools used by agencies, or tools that are used by what we believe are agencies because of the way they operate in and out of Russia. So, that's the best evidence that we're going to get. It's not beyond a reasonable doubt, but it is preponderance of evidence. It is does clear that bar.", "But how about the evidence that it was directed all the way from the top by Vladimir Putin. How do you determine if a hack was state sponsored, that it was sponsored or directed by the president himself?", "That would be something I think that the NSA and the CIA might have resources, either of a human or they do have technical access to get into the communication streams. I don't think that sort of information is the sort of thing that the Obama administration is going to make public. I don't think we need that to know that the Russians are involved. But Russian hacking is very fuzzy in the sense that whether it's an agency or if it's a privateer, because a lot of Russian hackers involved in criminal activities also do work for the government. So, you can't definitively say this is this Russian agency, you only have your best leads and you have a preponderance of evidence to suggest it's not anybody else, so therefore Russia. The only way that they could definitively prove that this was ordered by Putin, I would think, would be to have something on a communications chain. But that is what the NSA does, and so perhaps they do actually have that information.", "What do you know about the Dukes. This is the cyber criminal team believed to be linked to the Russian government and believed to be behind this hack attack on the DNC?", "Yes, well, of my colleagues here at F-Secure has done an extensive analysis of The Dukes. He took a look at the toolset from years ago until more recently and he found something that was in between from our sample base. He went through and figured out that this has been evolving over time and therefore I should be able to find something between versions 2 and 4. I can go hunt and look for version 3. And indeed he did, and he found it by using the sort of forensic tools and he looked for the signatures involved, sort of fingerprints, if you will, of the toolsets from one year to the next. And he found samples. This is a tool that's been evolving over time. It's a tool that's used by an agency, we believe, because in the way in which it's used outside of Russia and which it's used inside of Russia. And we don't think it would be used inside of Russia unless it was being used by an official agency, because they wouldn't dare risk coming on, you know, the wrong side of the law. So, therefore, it provides very good evidence that it is something that is authorized by higher ups.", "And you can identify that something has been authorized higher up. You can identify a cyber criminal gang, but how do you bring them to justice? I mean, we know that Russia, they don't extradite citizens, but how difficult is it to even track down and find a cyber criminal?", "Well, cyber criminal is very different story. I think this is - - this is a matter of nation states and it's not a criminal court of law. So, there's a lot of discussion about, you know, is thee a definitive amount of evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. That's for a criminal court of law. In a civil court of law, you've got preponderance of evidence. And I think nation states probably will operate somewhere in between that they've got preponderance of evidence that indicates to them that this is beyond, you know, what they need to -- you know, it's not somebody else, therefore it is the most likely candidate. There's more than enough evidence to suggest that this is Russia. If you want to try to prove it, you know, in a criminal court of law, I don't think there's an International Criminal Court, so I think that's kind of a moot point.", "Right, but looking at -- and just a final question for you, I mean, looking at what Russia in the end was able to achieve, and it was able to do so undetected at the time, is cyber power the perfect weapon here to achieve a specific effect?", "I think absolutely, particularly in terms of the sort state craft that the Russian government would like to practice. It's -- a good level of plausible deniability. It, again, it's not something that can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. so, in order to make really hard sanctions and apply them to a country, you have to have something that you can physically point to as a cause for action. Cyber provides sort of a web of possibilities that -- you know, it looks like it's most likely Russia, but it cannot be proven in a way that we would like to have in the real world for like the UN to apply sanctions against a nation state. So, for nation states that have soft power goals that they want to achieve, cyber provides a very good avenue.", "All right, Sean Sullivan of F-Secure joining us live from Helsinki, thank you so much for joining me. Take care.", "Thank you.", "Now, as Moscow responds to those hacking allegations, the Russian president is on a state visit to Japan. Now, let's bring in Andrew Stevens from Tokyo. And Andrew, Vladimir Putin is there to shore up ties with Tokyo, but has he addressed these serious U.S. charges of Russian hacking?", "Well, in short he hasn't at all, Kristie. He's been in Japan for two days and he has not spoken publicly at least on anything to do with the growing hacking scandal. There was a press conference today at which several international media, including myself, armed with questions on this very topic. But the Japanese hosts said there would be only four questions taken for Mr. Putin and Mr. Abe and only Russian media or Japanese media could ask those questions. So, the questions were asked and it did not include the hacking. It did include Aleppo, so Putin spoke about Aleppo. But as far as addressing the issue, almost the elephant in the room, it just didn't happen. I mean, the Russians have said, as we know in the past they've continually denied that they are involved, and as you pointed out, they've continually said if we are involved, well show us the evidence. So, Vladmir Putin was in no hurry whatsoever. I mean, he could have turned the topic to that if he wanted to, but he decided against it.", "Interesting. I mean, Japan has really been rolling up the red carpet for Vladimir Putin from that, as you described it, pretty much controlled press conference with safe questions being asked, arranging talks at a hot springs resort. There was a visit to a judo center. We know Putin enjoys Judo. I mean, why is Shinzo Abe so eager to shore up this friendship and this alliance with Putin.", "Well, there are two key reasons at play here, two key currents. The first, very much is something Abe is very, very passionate about, and that is trying to regain ownership of four islands, the Kurile Islands, north of Japan, which were seized by Russia in 1945 just after the end of the war. Now, Mr. Abe realizes that Russia is not just going to turn around to hand them back to Japan, but he wants to start a dialogue with Vladimir Putin which could eventually lead if not to ownership, maybe shared ownership or maybe some compromise. But this is something that Abe's father was involved with when he was the foreign minister and Abe has picked up the baton on that. And to help ease the process of that, he has laid out some economic plans for Russia, which Russia is badly in need of economic aid, particularly in the east. The other side of this, too, is that closer ties with Russia in Japan's sort of strategic outlook means that it could help offset the growing weight and the growing might of China. So, getting closer to Russia is important for Japan to get a little bit more balance in this region, Kristie. The interesting thing is, of course, is that if Japan goes ahead with these economic packages, the question becomes would they bust sanctions, which Japan is a party to, these sanctions against Russia. The U.S. is watching that very closely. And the last thing Japan wants is to be a sanctions buster, particularly with the U.S. And given the fact that those two remain a very, very close alliance, it's difficult to see that Japan would go that far, but certainly they're very keen to bring Russia on board.", "Absolutely. Andrew Stevens reporting live from Tokyo for us, thank you. Now, in Aleppo, Syria, the evacuation of rebel-held Aleppo could be over just a day after it began. Now, Russia says the operation is complete with only militants left in rebel-held neighborhoods. And the REd Cross says taht Syria has told it to leave areas of Aleppo held by the rebels. Now, meanwhile, in Japan as reported just then, Russian president Vladimir Putin, who backs the Syrian president, well, while there he has proposed peace talks in Syria's civil war. Now, let's bring in our Fred Pleitgen who has of course reported extensively from Aleppo and about Aleppo for CNN. He joins us now live from Beirut. And Fred, first these conflicting reports about what's happening on the ground in Aleppo are the evacuations from the city suspended or complete?", "Well, it looks as though at this point in time they are suspended, Kristie, but it really is a very confusing situation on the ground there, and certainly one at this point in time looks like it does have the potential to escalate and possibly end quiet tragically. Now, what the opposition is saying is that the convoys were actually running quite smoothly yesterday and then throughout the night, apparently between 8,000 and 9,000 people were evacuated, most of them women and children and people who were wounded, who needed immediate medical attention, some rebel fighters apparently also among those who were evacuated as well. But then at some point this morning, one of the convoys was shot at, or at least the route it was suppose to travel down was shot up. The convoy was stopped and then was turned around back into those rebel-controlled areas. And at that point in time, the whole evacuation agreement apparently stalled, both sides blaming each other. Now, the Syrian government saying that the rebels were trying to smuggle out heavy weapons whereas the opposition is saying they believe that Shiite fighters who were unhappy with this deal in general were the ones who stopped it. Now, you're absolutely right, the Russians came out with a statement saying they believe that the evacuation is complete. The Turks deny that. They say there's still tens of thousands of people in eastern Aleppo who want to get out. So, certainly at this point in time with the volatility of the situation on the ground with the fact that you have people who are very trigger happy on the ground there as well, this does have the potential to escalate. And we have to keep in mind that the folks would still be in there would be people who are very weak, who haven't eaten anything real in days, who are cold and who tried to get out and are still looking to try and leave that enclave. So, certainly something that we're keeping an eye on, it's something that really has the potential to end very badly, Kristie.", "Fred Pleitgen, keeping an eye on the situation in Aleppo from Beirut for us. Thank you, Fred. Take care. Now, inside Aleppo, I mean the news, as you heard just then, it's so fluid. It changes on a dime. Just 24 hours ago, the evacuations were beginning, now they could be over. ITN's Dan Rivers provides some perspective with a look back at what happened only 24 hours ago.", "Even on the last day of besiege of Aleppo the despicable violence against civilians didn't stop. The sun had barely risen when this ambulance was attacked. In the front, a man was being hit in the head. In the back, children who thought they were about to escape. The gunman had other ideas. The ambulance abandoned its rescue and still the sniper tries to kick them off. We don't know who was shooting but you can see the effect. A searing portray of the last hours of besiege images which should haunt those responsible. Later, thousands gathered as words spread that the ceasefire was holding and mass evacuation was being organized. They are being targeted for four and a half years, but finally these people were preparing to leave. And these pictures show while fighters were among them most appeared to be civilians, women, children, the injured, and the vulnerable all caught up in the catastrophe of this conflict. Outside, the regime buses were lined up and ready. A solitary vehicle carrying a Red Crescent flag emerge from rebel lines terms agreed it was time to end the suffering. The buses threaded their through the debris to stop the evacuation. For two and a half hours we waited and watched as did the world hoping this would not collapse into more fighting as it did yesterday. That smoke blowing from fires set by rebels hinted at a scorched earth policy to deny the regime the use of anything they were leaving behind. It's hard to imagine there was much left to burn. The call to prayer kept through the silence as a tenth city held its breath and hope for peace. Then the first sign of flashing lights, a convoy of ambulances and buses emerging onto Aleppo's ring road. Well, this is the moment the world has been waiting for. The civilians are leaving their enclave and ignominious defeat for the rebels. But finally, the battle for Aleppo is over. The occupants of the buses came almost face to face with the men who sought to kill them, but they were allowed to leave unhinged. And it didn't take long for President Assad supporters to stop their celebrations.", "I feel very happy. I feel -- I feel that this victory will continue to all Syria.", "It is of great joy, we were waiting for this day minute by minute. We couldn't just believe this day would come. I congratulate all the Syrians.", "But after so much bloodshed this shouldn't have been a day of celebration rather a time to reflect on why this took so long. Dan Rivers, ITV News, Aleppo.", "And that was ITN's Dan Rivers reporting from Aleppo while the evacuations were underway. And again those evacuations appear to have been halted. Now, the president of the Philippines is not backing down despite criticism of his violent approach to fighting drug crime. And after the break, more tough words from Rodrigo Duterte."], "speaker": ["KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST", "SARA MURRAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MURRAY", "TRUMP", "MURRAY", "JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "TRUMP", "MURRAY", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-23704", "program": "Special Event", "date": "2001-1-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/15/se.01.html", "summary": "President-elect Bush Delivers Martin Luther King Day Address at Houston Elementary School", "utt": ["In this country, it is a day to remember slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And part of that is George W. Bush, the president-elect. He is speaking now at Kelso Elementary School in Houston.", "I was told this is an annual event of Rod Paige's, to travel this vast city and this huge school district and remind people, particularly the students, about what he just said. And so I'm so thankful that you would have me, Ron. And Principal Hayes, thank you very much for going to work and putting up with all the crowd. I want to thank the teachers who are here. I want to thank you for teaching. Yours is a noble calling, an incredibly important profession, and Rod and I will always remember that in those august halls in Washington, D.C. I want to thank the parents who are here. I want to thank my friends who are here. And I want to thank the students for your welcome. Before I begin, there are two members of the state senate who have taken time out of their busy schedules to come and say goodbye. I can't tell if they're here to say goodbye with relish or with sadness.", "President-elect George W. Bush there at Kelso Elementary School in Houston. You saw him make reference to and then shake the hands of Rod Paige, that is his man -- his nominee to be education secretary. President-elect Bush noting that Martin Luther King was a strong and clear voice for freedom, and making the connection to education, something that George W. Bush plans to make a centerpiece of his administration, stressing that today the challenge in civil rights is different than it was when Martin Luther King was engaged in his struggle. On the subject of education, he says, access is equal today, but too many schools are not fulfilling their commitments to provide quality education, leaving too many kids behind, and he pledged to make that the highest priority of his administration."], "speaker": ["FRANK SESNO, CNN ANCVHOR", "PRESIDENT-ELECT GEORGE W. BUSH", "SESNO"]}
{"id": "CNN-135170", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2009-2-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/18/ng.01.html", "summary": "More Investigative Documents, Photos Released in Caylee Murder Case", "utt": ["Breaking news tonight in the desperate search for a beautiful 2-year-old Florida girl, Caylee. Six months of searching culminates when skeletal remains found in a heavily wooded area just 15 houses from the Anthonys` confirmed to be Caylee, manner of death homicide, this after a utility meter reader stumbles on a tiny human skeleton, including a skull covered in light-colored hair. The killer duct tapes the child`s mouth, then finishes off by placing a heart-shaped sticker over the child`s mouth. Bombshell tonight. As we go to air, still sorting hundreds -- hundreds -- of police investigative files and literally over 1,000 crime scene photos taken by land, by air. Is this the nail in the coffin for the tot mom defense? Caylee`s tiny skeleton discovered triple bagged like she`s trash, her body encased in two trash bags and a tan laundry bag. Police reveal when tot mom learns behind bars police find Caylee`s body, she hyperventilates, demanding medication. As we go inside tot mom`s personal diary, we learn she writes on June 21 she`s the happiest she`s been in, quote, \"a long time,\" and she hopes, quote, \"the end justifies the means,\" this after we learn cops narrow Caylee`s disappearance between June 16 and June 27. In another bombshell, prints on duct tape around little Caylee`s skull clear grandmother Cindy, grandfather George, and brother Lee. But what about tot mom? We also learn police match the heart-shaped sticker on Caylee`s mouth, diapers, laundry bag, garbage bags, duct tape on Caylee`s skeleton all from the crime scene back to the Anthony home, clothes in that bag even bearing the same manufacture code as those in Caylee`s closet. And tot mom blaming chloroform in the car trunk on cleaning supplies, going on to point her finger directly at former lover Jesse Grund, claiming he had a key to the car, a car that was likely 2-year-old Caylee`s first coffin.", "Stunning developments today in the case of 2-year- old Florida toddler Caylee Anthony. In documents just released, evidence shows the duct tape found on the gas cans owned by the Anthonys is the same color, size and model as the duct tape used over little Caylee`s skull.", "Caylee`s grandfather, George, said Casey had his gas cans in her trunk in mid-June, after he reported them stolen.", "She didn`t want me to go in the trunk of the car. I just get back where the passenger rear taillight is to her car, she throws open the trunk. She says, Here`s your f-ing cans.", "Not only that, but investigators recovered numerous heart-shaped stickers inside the Anthony home. A heart-shaped sticker was intentionally placed over the duct tape found on Caylee`s skull. Crime scene investigators also detail the discovery of the remains, saying that quite a bit of hair was still visible on the skull and the hair was holding the duct tape in place.", "I`m not control over any of this because I don`t know what the hell`s going on. I don`t know what`s going on. My entire life has been taken from me! Everything has been taken from me!", "Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Tonight, will hundreds of pages of police documents, thousands of crime scene photos taken by land and by air, tot mom`s own personal diary, duct tape evidence -- is it all poised, poised to send tot mom Casey Anthony to Florida`s death row?", "I`m trying to make sure that I`m not going to give anybody anything else to throw against me. Even if with me giving them nothing, they`re still doing it!", "Breaking news in the case of 2-year-old Florida toddler Caylee Anthony. Just released documents show the duct tape found on Caylee`s skull is similar to duct tape found in the Anthony home. Evidence also shows that a canvas bag found in the Anthony home is the same make and color as a canvas bag recovered at the crime scene. Interviews with friends of the tot mom reveal some shocking revelations, including that tot mom Casey Anthony wanted to be committed to a mental institution.", "Can someone let me -- come on!", "The over 500 pages include crime scene reports, photos of the remains site, list of items recovered from both the Anthony home and the wooded area, as well as a detailed narrative of the discovery of the skull of little Caylee.", "I have to keep my mouth shut. I have to keep my mouth shut about how I feel and everything else because all I need to do is give the media more stuff, and the detectives and whoever else, to throw back in my face when this goes to trial.", "Straight out to Kathi Belich there in Orlando, joining us from WFTV. Kathi, what`s the latest?", "Well, the latest is that there`s evidence that was found in the Anthonys` home that matches up to evidence at the crime scene -- a laundry bag the exact same make that was found with Caylee`s remains. Also, there was a similar heart sticker, a backing for a missing heart sticker that appears to be similar to the heart sticker that was placed on the duct tape over Caylee`s mouth. Another bombshell in these documents, that Cindy told investigators when they came to the house in December after the remains were found that she told someone to go to the scene a month earlier and look around, and she claimed at that point that nothing was found. And that could be the explanation behind that videotape that we had gotten showing their private eyes videotaping a search around that scene a month earlier. Also, as you said, the body triple bagged, two black plastic garbage bags, a laundry bag, as well. The diary seeming to indicate that she believes she made the right decision. She doesn`t say what that decision was, but she talks about how happy she is and that she hasn`t been that happy in a long period of time. Again, everything about Casey and nothing about Caylee being missing. At that point, Caylee would have been missing for five days.", "You mentioned the heart-shaped sticker matching up to a sticker, an empty spot on a sticker sheet. Explain that to me.", "Could be. There were several heart-shaped stickers found at the Anthony home, but one of the things that was also found was the backing for a heart-shaped sticker, that heart-shaped sticker being missing from the backing. And obviously, they took that from the house, so there must be some possible correlation there.", "To Mike Brooks, former fed with the FBI. Explain the significance.", "Oh, Nancy, you can match up the adhesive that they found on the duct tape with the adhesive on the backing where that one heart is missing. Also, on the duct tape, Nancy, there was a specific brand of duct tape that was found...", "Henkel.", "... around -- Henkel, which is one of the largest manufacturers of duct tape in the country. That also apparently matched back to the duct tape on the red gas can that was found there also.", "And also, Mike Brooks, there were bits of duct tape there at the scene that were also Henkel duct tape. I want to go back, Mike Brooks, over exactly what we know now. Everyone, just released -- we`re still sorting it all as we go to air. We are showing you part of thousands, literally over 1,000 crime scene photos that have just been released. This is under Florida discovery law. You are seeing photos taken from the home. You`re seeing crime scene photos. And the photo you just saw with little Caylee`s pants circled, those pants match pink striped pants found in the bag with her skeleton. Take a look. Those apparently are the pants found in the triple bag with Caylee`s skeleton. And speaking of the triple bag, back to Rory O`Neill with Westwood One, joining us at the jailhouse. Explain to me about the triple bagging. Up until now, we had been told double bagged.", "Right. Well, it was double bags of two plastic bags, two plastic garbage bags, that by the way, match the similar kind found inside the Anthony home just a couple blocks away. And then they were placed inside this laundry bag. And it, too, had a similar partner that could be found inside the Anthony home. The bag was the same make and made by the same corporation. So they again are two things that tie the crime scene back to the Anthony family home.", "To Natisha Lance, our producer standing by also at the jailhouse there in Florida. Natisha, her private diary was also taken. Take a look. You`re seeing a canvas laundry bag at the Anthony home, same model, even, and color as the canvas bag found at the site of Caylee`s skeleton. These laundry bags, if police dig, they`ll be looking to find if they came out of the same box. Back to Natisha Lance at the jailhouse. Natisha, this is a treasure trove for the prosecution. Here you are seeing tot mom`s private diary. And I`m stunned. I`m stunned, Natisha. Even if you want to believe that tot mom is innocent, explain to me -- the police have narrowed down her being killed between June 16 and June 27, the day her car was first observed abandoned. In this time, on June 21, tot mom writes what in her diary, Natisha?", "Right, Nancy. June 21st, Casey Anthony makes a diary entry, and she talks about how she`s the happiest she`s ever been. She also goes into saying that she has new friends. She said that she hopes that she`s made the right decision. She doesn`t know, but she said she hopes that she will soon see. She also goes into saying that she hopes this brings -- this justifies the means -- the end to the means. And she also talks about she hopes that the future holds a lot more positive things for her to come.", "Does she mention anything, Natisha, anything about her daughter? Because by her own admission, when her mother confronts her in July, Caylee has already been missing for 30 days, at least 30 days. So at this point from her own admission, Caylee is at the very least missing, Natisha.", "That`s right, Nancy. There`s no mention of Caylee in this June 21st entry. We haven`t seen all the diary, but she does go on to mention these new friends that she has. She said that she had positive people in her life and she hopes that the future holds a lot more positive things for her. And as she said, it`s the happiest that she`s ever been.", "Well, you know what, Natisha? She`s going to make a lot more new friends behind bars. Let`s unleash the lawyers, Susan Moss, Alan Ripka, Doug Burns. Weigh in, Susan.", "She writes this diary at least five days after this child goes missing, and she says that the ends justify the means? To the prosecution, I bet this sounds pretty keen because it sounds like a confession. She writes she has no regrets, that she trusts her judgment, that she`s made the right choice. This sounds like a confession.", "Doug Burns, there`s apparently nothing in that diary about nanny Zanny stealing the baby.", "Oh, sure. Of course. And that totally undermines the red herring that she put out there earlier, and she never should have put that out there that early. Big mistake.", "What about it, Alan?", "The bottom line is you don`t know what she`s talking about in that diary. And she could be talking about her boyfriend or the social scene.", "The only reason that I don`t want to be here is so that I can be at home so that I can get Caylee back faster. That`s the only reason. It`s all I care about.", "Investigative documents show duct tape was found on the mouth area of the skull later identified as little Caylee. CSI experts even had to cut hair attached to the skull just to remove the duct tape. When the remains were brought to the lab, investigators discovered that a heart-shaped sticker had been intentionally placed on the duct tape.", "Everybody wants me to have answers! I don`t have any answers because I don`t know what`s going on! I`m just as much of a victim as the rest of you.", "Investigators found a canvas Whitney (ph) laundry bag in the Anthonys` home that is exactly the same as the laundry bag Caylee`s remains were found with. They also found the backing for a heart-shaped sticker in the Anthony home, a sticker removed. It could be the sticker they found at the scene that they say appeared to have been intentionally stuck to the duct tape around Caylee`s mouth. Investigators are comparing the duct tape found with Caylee to duct tape on the Anthonys` gas cans, the ones that Casey had stolen in late June after Caylee disappeared.", "Straight back out to Natisha Lance, our producer there at the jailhouse. We also learn from these documents that according to the tot mom, her parents, George and Cindy Anthony, had tried on more than one occasion to get custody of little Caylee. What do we know?", "That`s right. This was according to her friend, Annie Downing (ph). She talks about how Cindy is a horrible person. She says that George and Cindy had tried to get Caylee on more than one occasion. She also goes into saying that at a birthday party for Caylee, Cindy was the one who was acting like mom. She said that Cindy had asked Caylee to call her \"Mom.\" She said that this was a day that was supposed to be Caylee`s day, and Cindy was apparently helping Caylee open these gifts. And Casey was saying that she was the one who should be helping Caylee open the gifts because it`s her daughter and it was her birthday.", "To Marc Klaas, president and founder of Klaas Kids Foundation. He suffered the kidnap and murder of his little girl, Polly. Marc, this is a treasure trove for the prosecution. What do you anticipate?", "Well, first of all, my heart is just broken by these revelations. What I anticipate is that every -- it`s item after item after item that connects the home with the crime scene where Caylee`s remains were found. Taken individually, they might not mean much, but when you start piling them on top of each other, it points directly to somebody within the home. We know that Cindy insisted on the 911 call. We know that George didn`t want to live without having Caylee in his life. And we also know from the evidence that was released today that Lee encouraged Annie Downing to be forthcoming and tell the police the truth and not cover up for Casey. We know that, given the fact that all of this -- all of these items were in the house and at the crime scene, that that also really eliminates Zenaida Gonzalez. She didn`t have access to the house. Really, it leaves the only conclusion being that Casey Anthony did this crime and most likely acted alone. Now, I think what they`ll probably try to do at this point is cut some kind of a plea bargain. I don`t know, though, that the prosecution would want to have anything to do with that. I suspect that they probably will want to pursue the death penalty, and I truly believe in my heart that`s exactly what this woman deserves, if, in fact, all of these things prove to be true.", "And also, to Steve Helling, writer with \"People\" magazine, who has been covering the case for some time now. Steve, welcome. We also learn about the tot mom`s reaction behind bars when she learns police have found little Caylee`s remains. Explain.", "Yes, she had a panic attack when that happened, an anxiety attack. She started hyperventilating. She asked for medication. And it`s worth noting that at other times where there were questions whether bones were found or something, she had no reaction at all. But when these bones were found at this scene, she had a very, very severe reaction.", "Demanding medication. To Dr. Joshua Perper, the chief medical examiner in Broward County, author of \"When to Call the Doctor.\" Welcome, Dr. Perper. Dr. Perper...", "Thank you.", "... this is just frankly the beginning. There is more discovery to be released by the state. And I`m wondering -- Dr. Perper, we know now that the police took Bissel cleaners, wet vacs and vacuum cleaners from the Anthony home. Everyone, you are seeing just-released photos from inside police files, thousands of photos, including crime scene photos taken by land and air. Dr. Perper, what would they find in a Bissel, a wet vac or a vacuum cleaner?", "Well, they may find evidence of blood, for example. You have to remember that the central reason why this is a homicide and why the medical examiner made this determination is because of the tape. And everything else around it`s like filling a puzzle which until now fits the fact that, indeed, the mother is responsible for the act, for the crime.", "And it`s very possible that the crime scene was, in fact, the home. Dr. Perper is talking about police confiscating Bissel cleaners, wet vacs and vacuum cleaners from the home. As we go to break, the Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Foundation treats the number one cancer killer in the world, lung cancer, claiming more lives than breast, colon, prostate, melanoma and kidney cancers combined. P.S. You don`t have to smoke to get lung cancer. Joan Gaeta, a beloved wife, a mother of five, a teacher who lost her battle with lung cancer. In her honor, the second annual Dancing for Joan fundraiser, it`s for lung cancer research, this Saturday, February 21, Marietta, Georgia. For info or to make a donation, go to Dancingforjoan.org.", "I`ve been praying every single day for insight and everybody`s thoughts and everybody`s feelings, so I know where you stand, where you`re coming from. And I know where you`re sitting right now, and Mom and Lee and Joe Schmo walking down the block that`s seen this every day on the media for the last month.", "Awful, awful. Sick.", "I can understand everybody else`s side of this, but the worst part is that nobody can see my side.", "A treasure trove of discovery released by police and prosecutors. As we go to air, we are just now still sifting through all of it, over 1,000 crime scene photos, which we are showing you continuously throughout tonight`s program, as well as hundreds of pages of documents, including what was taken from the Anthony home, what was found there at the crime scene, the tot mom`s private diary. To Steve Helling, writer with \"People\" magazine. In fact, Steve, as it relates to the clothing found in the bag with little Caylee, the ID number from the manufacturer matches that same number in the collar (ph) taken out of a closet in the Anthony home.", "Yes, that`s absolutely right. And that just goes to show that whoever killed Caylee had access to this home and had access to the closets in every part of that home and...", "Let`s unleash the lawyers. Following up on what Steve Helling with \"People\" magazine has just said, Susan Moss, Alan Ripka, Doug Burns -- Alan Ripka, who else but the tot mom would be responsible? Who else would have access to all of these items? I mean, nobody in the home had ever seen Zanny the nanny.", "Well, first of all, you have to agree that the tape and the pants and all the things that you mentioned earlier are necessarily connected to the murder and connected to the house. Following that, this is a circumstantial case. There`s no direct evidence. She didn`t admit it. No one saw her do it.", "I asked you a direct question. Who else but the tot mom could be responsible with all these items relating directly back to the home?", "Well, first of all, the items are (ph). But there are friends that were in the house. There`s other family members in the house. And it`s up to the prosecution to prove the case. It`s not up to the defense to prove who else it might have been.", "Doug Burns, be pragmatic, Doug, because, you know, to be a good defense lawyer, you have to be anticipate what the state`s going to do and vice versa. So where do you go, as the defense, in light of what we have learned today?", "No, I agree it`s a very strong case. However, I also agree with Alan that, in a sense, the way you`re going to defend is this is to say that -- you know, put all the hyperbole, all the bad behavior on her part out the window and just focus, ladies and gentlemen, on the fact that we don`t have specific proof of exactly what happened.", "OK, Susan Moss...", "But I still think it`s a hard case.", "Maybe that would be possible if you didn`t have a defendant who`d opened up her mouth and wrote this damning diary. But you`ve got a defendant who`s made statements about a Zenaida, who no one can find and who has never been in this house, and you have all these connections between the house and the crime scene. She`s dug her own grave.", "It breaks my heart today that Casey is not here to honor her child whom she loves so very, very much.", "Casey deserves prayer, she deserves understanding, she deserves love.", "CMA, I miss you. I love you. CMA, I am so proud of you.", "I`m sick and tired of hearing, you know, she`s already tried and convicted.", "What can I say? You -- believe your child, you put faith in everything, you know?", "That I love her and I support her and I understand and every day that goes by, I know exactly how hard it is that she`s giving up her life to protect her child.", "This family is united, but this family is incomplete.", "This little child right here, she is the victim in all of this. Casey is also a victim in all of this.", "Do not form any judgments because I`ll tell you, you don`t want to be in any of our family`s shoes.", "When investigators collected the evidence from the house after Caylee`s remains were found, they say in the documents that Cindy Anthony told them a Winnie the Pooh blanket was missing from Caylee`s bed. Caylee`s remains were found with a Winnie the Pooh blanket.", "Straight to Kathi Belich with WFTV. Now how did we learn about the Winnie the Pooh blanket, that it was actually missing from the home?", "Actually, Cindy told investigators that when they went to the home after Caylee`s remains were found to get more evidence that would possibly correspond with the evidence they found at the crime scene. She offered that information to them that the Winnie the Pooh blanket was missing from the home.", "So there`s no speculation, Mike Brooks.", "No, none whatsoever, Nancy. And you know, as you know, those kind of things usually come in a set. There is a little label on just about everything from a t-shirt to the Winnie the Pooh blanket. And usually you have what you call an RN number. That`s a mail number so you can go back and find out where it was manufactured, where it was distributed to and where it was sold.", "I want to go back to Natisha Lance. Natisha, I also understand that there was a book recovered, I assume, from the tot mom`s room in the home about raising children and then had been earmarked and lined, highlighted on a section regarding tantrums, when children throw tantrums?", "That`s right, Nancy. There was a child or parenting book that was found in the home and police did note that there were certain pages that were earmarked that had to do with child tantrums.", "I understand it said, Dr. Deltito, holding the line when your child throws a tantrum. What does that mean?", "I`m not sure what holding the line means but one could wonder if she did something to control a tantrum which led to the accidental death of the child and then all of this is the cover-up, secondary to it.", "But, Dr. Deltito, how would that explain Google searches on the computer days and days ahead of the death regarding chloroform?", "I`m not talking about the totality of the case and she probably did it and it probably wasn`t an accident. I`m just saying that there may have been a moment in which it actually happened, which was a quasi accident, which is the way some people allow themselves to do things, leaving some doubts in their own mind that they really meant to kill the kid. I`m speculating, of course.", "Oh, I see. You`re saying that, rationalizing to yourself, the defendant may have explained to herself, brainwashed herself that it was an accident?", "I think that people do this sometimes, that they`re thinking of doing harm to someone and then they set it up in such a way that to themselves it was a semi accident, it was something that needed to be done. They become very forceful in how they may punish a child, discipline them, thinking that it`s for their own good, but meanwhile they have really malice in their own heart. But in their own mind, they`re trying to elicit something for themselves to allow them to live with it in some sort of way. So I think there are a lot of sort of these pseudo-accidents which might occur.", "To Marc Klaas, president and founder of KlaasKids Foundation, Mark, you have been through this. What are the Anthonys going through? And also what do you make of the tot mom`s reaction behind bars when she learns the body of her little girl has been found?", "Well, Nancy, when we found out that Polly was dead, I had the presence of mind to observe an awful lot of people, including family members, law enforcement, certainly Polly`s mother. And everybody reacted very differently. So I think it`s kind of hard to read anything into that immediate reaction, although, again, it does tend to be very telling. As far as what the Anthonys are going through, the person that I feel so much sympathy for is poor George. It just seems to me that this was a toxic family to begin with and this poor guy has been stuck in the middle and the only remnant of sanity he seemed to have to hold on to was his relationship with this beautiful little girl who has been taken from all of them and now he`s just watching his family disintegrate. I hope that he finds purpose in his life and is able to utilize his skill set as an investigator to assist other families who find themselves in this kind of a situation.", "And we understand.", "That would be my hope for him.", "Marc, we understand he`s already doing that, in the search for little Haleigh down in Florida, Satsuma, Florida. I want to go to Rory O`Neill, Westwood One Radio. Rory, also, we hear the tot mom explain -- or try to explain -- why her trunk was saturated in chloroform.", "Right, during that brief time when she was released from prison and before when she was jailed on check fraud charges, and before she was indicted for murder, she was back at the home and she told some friends that her car was filled with other cleaning chemicals, which is what somehow combined to give them a false test of chloroform coming from the trunk of her car.", "Dr. Perper, is that possible that household cleaning items can somehow transform by sitting them in your trunk into chloroform?", "Well, it depends if they are mixed, sometimes it can happen. But that`s very unlikely.", "Very unlikely. With me, Dr. Joshua Perper, out of Broward County. And also -- back to Natisha Lance, I understand she points directly in these documents we`ve just got in our midst on, directly pointing the finger at her former lover Jesse Grund. What did she say?", "She said that Jesse Grund had keys to her car and it`s possible that he may have come and done something to her car after it was abandoned.", "What is she saying, Mike Brooks, that Jesse Grund came along and dumped a dead body in her car trunk?", "Yes, where else he got some chloroform and he put it in the back of his car. I mean, again, she just goes right -- points her finger at somebody else. It`s never about her, it`s always someone else.", "Let`s unleash the lawyers. Susan Moss out of New York, Alan Ripka and Doug Burns, joining her. Doug Burns, in light of all this -- now we understand the defense attorney has gone to the hospital with a stomach ailment.", "Right.", "Where does the defense go? I`m talking about Baez, not Linda Kenney-Baden. Where does the defense go?", "They don`t go anywhere. I mean, basically, the prosecution has got to prove the case. While we`re analyzing it in great detail and effectively in the media, the reality is it`s got to be.", "Would you put Burns back on the screen? OK, so, Burns, what you`re telling me.", "Yes.", ". is if this were your case, as a defense lawyer.", "It`s up.", ". you wouldn`t go anywhere. You would sit there and you wouldn`t put on a shred of evidence? You wouldn`t mount a defense.", "Oh no, no, no. I`m sorry, I didn`t mean that.", "OK. What`s your defense?", "What I meant is -- no, what I meant is, obviously, the case begins in court. It doesn`t matter how many media shows have been done.", "Yes, I know that.", "That`s when it starts.", "What`s your defense?", "And then I`m going see how it plays out in court. There may be no defense because under a little piece of paper called the Constitution, I don`t have to put one on, obviously.", "OK. Alan Ripka, what`s your best defense?", "The bottom line, Nancy, is what I`m going to do is I`m going to hit each piece of evidence they get admitted, and that`s a big step. They get it admitted.", "Right.", "We`re going to hit those pieces of evidence methodically. For example, the duct tape. The duct tape could be anywhere from anywhere in the entire country, as well as many other things. We`re going to show there`s no intent. We show there`s no direct evidence. So that`s the job of a defense attorney to go one piece at a time and put reasonable doubt into the jury`s minds.", "But, of course -- back in Mike Brooks -- intent can be formed in the twinkling of an eye in the time that it takes you to raise a gun and pull the trigger. So", "No, they have not said exactly what was on that tape, because -- the way they talked, Nancy, in the reports, it says that basically the duct tape was held on the head by the hair. So they had the cut the hair off and then evaluate the duct tape that way. So we still don`t know, though.", "Everybody, as we go to break, a special happy birthday to Tennessee friend of the show Martha. She never misses a show. We think the world of you, Martha. And happy birthday.", "I spend the day almost completely by myself. Completely and utterly miserable.", "Right after little Caylee`s remains were found in the woods on December 11th, detectives searched the Anthony home for any evidence that would link back to the crime scene. Now Local 6 has learned more about one of those links. Investigators took plastic bags from the Anthony home which we now know look visually the same as the black plastic bags with yellow handles which once held the toddler`s body.", "A page from Casey`s diary contains disturbing passages considering her daughter had disappeared just days before. On June 21st, she wrote that she had, quote, \"No regrets, just a bit worried. I just want for everything to work out OK. I completely trust my own judgment and knew that I made the right decision. I just hope that the end justifies the means. I just want to know what the future will hold for me. I guess I will soon see.\"", "Can someone let me -- come on.", "Casey, hold on, sweetheart. Settle down.", "Nobody is letting me speak. You want me to talk but.", "All right, I`ll listen.", "Give me three seconds to speak.", "You`ll have plenty of time to speak at trial if you take the stand, tot mom. Just released, our staff is still sifting through it all. Hundreds of pages of documents over a thousand photos taken of the crime scene, as well as the Anthony home. You are seeing some of these photos, as many as we can show you vials and vials of soil sample, bug samples taken from the crime scene, all divulged in these documents. And within a couple of hours after the documents being released, all of these photos, we hear from the defense, Jose Baez, claiming the entire pack of documents is one-sided, contains junk science, is speculative and biased, and goes on to suggest that even fingerprint evidence is unreliable. OK. Mike Brooks, if that`s going to be the defense at trial that fingerprint evidence -- print evidence is unreliable, based on a \"New York Times\" article sometime back claiming that forensic testing is really shallow and cannot be depended on, they`ve got a long way to go if that`s where they`re headed.", "Oh yes. The FBI lab is unreliable, Nancy. Fingerprint evidence which has been used for years is unreliable. Jose Baez is inexperienced.", "He also says the Anthony case may be one to set a precedent in exposing the laws of evidence that only law enforcement has tested. Out to Susan Moss, Alan Ripka, Doug Burns -- Susan Moss, isn`t it true that under our constitution, the defense has the right to test all the evidence themselves including the forensic evidence?", "Absolutely. And the judge in this very case has made orders so that they can do so. I think they`ll have better luck going back to the Zenaida Gonzalez defense.", "Well, the problem is, Alan Ripka and Doug Burns, as Susan points out, Alan came up with an excellent theory to try to explain the fact that the killer had so much access to the home. Let`s look at friends, relatives, people that come in and out of the home, someone that wanted Caylee. But the problem is that she`s already blamed Zanny the nanny, claiming the nanny kidnapped the child at Jay Blanchard Park in broad daylight. Remember that little problem? That`s going to come back, Doug Burns, just like a boomerang to bite the defense in the neck. They can`t go anywhere. They`re stuck with that.", "No, no. no. There you hit it right on the head. When we were discussing earlier about how to defend the case, you could easily defend the case except they`ve got all these consciousness of guilt stuff piling up. One month delay in reporting, Zanny the nanny. That`s the type of stuff that`s the strongest of all. You`re absolutely right.", "To Dr. Joshua Perper, joining us out of Miami -- Dr. Perper, do you anticipate that even though at this juncture police have only cleared grandmother, grandfather and uncle off the duct tape that there are prints on the tape? I mean, for them to say that they`ve cleared these three people, doesn`t that suggest that they are comparing prints off the tape?", "Well, we don`t yet if there are prints on the tape. Perhaps the tape was attached very firmly. There will be fingerprints on the inside of the tape. But remember, the skull was in water and any fingerprints might have been washed away.", "Back to Steve Helling, writer with \"People\" magazine, so where does this leave Jesse Grund? She`s pointing the finger at him, suggesting he could have put a body in the car trunk after it was abandoned. And how does that jibe with her earlier statements the nanny took the baby?", "Well, it`s a totally different defense. And, you know, we`ve spoken with Jesse Grund before and -- you just understand that he knows that he`s going to be the one who she`s going to point a finger at. And that`s why he has representation, just to defend himself from that. It may come out in trial, but she`s still going to have to explain the whole Zanny the nanny defense.", "And Dr. Joseph Deltito, back to you regarding her personal diary that was taken by police out of the home. You see so much conflict between the tot mom and her mother, Cindy Anthony, who has stood staunchly by her from the very beginning. Basically, an intense hatred. And it seemed to manifest over Cindy`s love and receipt of love from little Caylee.", "Well, it sounds to me like Casey abdicated a lot of her parent duties to Cindy and Cindy was functionally operating as mommy, and Casey, in some ways, was out of the loop in certain ways, probably of her own choosing, but nevertheless, may have had animosity about the developing relationship, even though she left the child in the care of Cindy.", "You know, that`s a real double-edged sword. That`s a dichotomy, Dr. Deltito, because, I`m just thinking back when one of the twins` grandparents visit the twins. It makes me so happy for them to be together. But I don`t believe there`s ever been a point I`ve even asked someone else to change a diaper because that`s my duty. And the child is going to love whoever takes care of it, who loves it back.", "That`s exactly true, and that`s why it`s not unusual that the child might have called Cindy Anthony mama on occasions, as been reported.", "Susan Moss, what do you make of it all?", "What I make is that this is a very disturbed family and that the apex is a very disturbed girl.", "Don`t care. Don`t care. Don`t care who`s disturbed. I care about who killed Caylee and will it be proven in court. That`s what I`m talking about. What do you make of these revelations?", "Yes and yes. There is so much evidence tying the house to the crime scene. No one else had the type of access that Casey had especially to her car, especially with the chloroform evidence, especially with the -- the air samples which shows that there was a dead body in that car. It is too tight. If she doesn`t take the stand she goes down and if she takes the stand she goes down by her own word.", "Anything you want me to say to Caylee, anything", "Just tell her that I love her, that I miss her. I mean that`s -- that`s the constant.", "Investigators found a canvas Whitney laundry bag in the Anthonys` home that is exactly the same as the laundry bag Caylee`s remains were found with. They also found the backing for a heart-shaped sticker in the Anthony home, a sticker removed that could be the sticker they found at the scene that they say appeared to have been intentionally stuck to the duct tape around Caylee`s mouth. Investigators are comparing the duct tape found with Caylee to duct tape on the Anthonys` gas can, the one that Casey had stolen in late June after Caylee disappeared.", "We are showing you, throughout our program tonight, just released crime scene photos. There you see the crime scene where little Caylee`s skeleton was found triple bagged into two back trash bags and a laundry bag. All three matching bags found in the Anthony home. Back to Natisha Lance, our producer standing by there at the jail house. Natisha, what do you believe is the strongest evidence that has been revealed today?", "Well, some of the strongest evidence, Nancy, are those things that are tying back to the Anthonys` household. That Whitney Design laundry bag, as well the garbage bag and that Hinkle duct tape.", "Right.", ". that we`ve heard about previously.", "What about it, Marc Klaas?", "Well, I completely agree. It occurs to me -- it`s the totality of the information.", "Right.", ". that`s coming out. Everything that`s putting the various crime scenes together.", "Everyone, let`s stop, let`s remember Army Staff Sergeant Darris Dawson, 24, Pensacola, killed Iraq on a third tour. A leader, he just took charge of an eight-man squad. Loved pickup basketball. His nickname on the court, Smoke. Leaves behind parents Darrell and Maxine, widow Latasha, four children. Darris Dawson, American hero. Thanks to our guests but especially to you for being with us. I`ll see you tomorrow night 8:00 sharp Eastern. And until then, good night, friend. END"], "speaker": ["NANCY GRACE, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GEORGE ANTHONY, CAYLEE`S GRANDFATHER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CASEY ANTHONY, CAYLEE`S MOTHER", "GRACE", "CASEY ANTHONY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CASEY ANTHONY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CASEY ANTHONY", "GRACE", "KATHI BELICH, WFTV", "GRACE", "BELICH", "GRACE", "MIKE BROOKS, FORMER D.C. POLICE, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "GRACE", "BROOKS", "GRACE", "RORY O`NEILL, WESTWOOD ONE", "GRACE", "NATISHA LANCE, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER", "GRACE", "LANCE", "GRACE", "SUSAN MOSS, FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY", "GRACE", "DOUG BURNS, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "GRACE", "ALAN RIPKA, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "CASEY ANTHONY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CASEY ANTHONY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GRACE", "LANCE", "GRACE", "MARC KLAAS, KLAAS KIDS FOUNDATION", "GRACE", "STEVE HELLING, \"PEOPLE\" MAGAZINE", "GRACE", "DR. JOSHUA PERPER, BROWARD CTY CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER", "GRACE", "PERPER", "GRACE", "CASEY ANTHONY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CASEY ANTHONY", "GRACE", "HELLING", "GRACE", "RIPKA", "GRACE", "RIPKA", "GRACE", "BURNS", "GRACE", "BURNS", "MOSS", "CINDY ANTHONY, CASEY ANTHONY`S MOTHER", "GEORGE ANTHONY, CASEY ANTHONY`S FATHER", "LEE ANTHONY, CASEY ANTHONY`S BROTHER", "C. ANTHONY", "G. ANTHONY", "C. ANTHONY", "L. ANTHONY", "C. ANTHONY", "G. ANTHONY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "NANCY GRACE, HOST", "KATHI BELICH, REPORTER, WFTV, COVERING STORY", "GRACE", "MIKE BROOKS, FMR. DC POLICE DETECTIVE SERVED ON FBI TERRORISM TASK FORCE", "GRACE", "NATISHA LANCE, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER", "GRACE", "DR. JOSEPH DELTITO, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY", "GRACE", "DELTITO", "GRACE", "DELTITO", "GRACE", "MARC KLAAS, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, KLAASKIDS FOUNDATION", "GRACE", "KLAAS", "GRACE", "RORY O`NEILL, REPORTER, WESTWOOD ONE RADIO, ON LOCATION FROM TOT MOM JAIL", "GRACE", "DR. JOSHUA PERPER, MEDICAL EXAMINER, AUTHOR OF \"WHEN TO CALL THE DOCTOR\"", "GRACE", "LANCE", "GRACE", "BROOKS", "GRACE", "DOUG BURNS, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "GRACE", "BURNS", "GRACE", "BURNS", "GRACE", "BURNS", "GRACE", "BURNS", "GRACE", "BURNS", "GRACE", "BURNS", "GRACE", "BURNS", "GRACE", "ALAN RIPKA, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "BURNS", "RIPKA", "GRACE", "BROOKS", "GRACE", "CASEY ANTHONY, MOTHER OF CAYLEE ANTHONY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CASEY ANTHONY", "C. ANTHONY", "CASEY ANTHONY", "C. ANTHONY", "CASEY ANTHONY", "GRACE", "BROOKS", "GRACE", "SUSAN MOSS, CHILD ADVOCATE, FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY", "GRACE", "BURNS", "GRACE", "PERPER", "GRACE", "STEVE HELLING, STAFF WRITER, PEOPLE MAGAZINE, COVERING STORY", "GRACE", "DELTITO", "GRACE", "DELTITO", "GRACE", "MOSS", "GRACE", "MOSS", "C. ANTHONY", "CASEY ANTHONY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GRACE", "LANCE", "GRACE", "LANCE", "GRACE", "KLAAS", "GRACE", "KLAAS", "GRACE"]}
{"id": "NPR-33392", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2011-04-12", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/04/12/135354898/dont-flip-camcorders-may-be-dated", "title": "Don't Flip: Camcorders May Be Dated", "summary": "Cisco Systems says it is killing off the Flip camcorder as it pulls back from consumer operations. But some analysts think this is just one more sign that consumers are leaving behind their camcorders and instead shooting videos with smart phones.", "utt": ["NPR's Zoe Chace reports that the video camera industry is struggling to find its place in the smart phone era.", "People love making movies, even the most mundane.", "This is \"Cooking with Dave\" once again. I'm Dave. Today I'm going to cook a couple of eggs, a little Southern breakfast with some grits and some ham.", "And with how easy it is to upload your movies onto the Internet, people are really into filmmaking. Only, apparently, not with a camcorder - they do it with a phone.", "Suddenly you have a device that not only does video, but you can make phone calls, you can do email. So, why do you need another device in your pocket like a Flip?", "Lance Ulanoff, editor of PCMag, says your smartphone is enough. And he says Kodak, Sony, Flip's competitors have to be a little flipped out. Flip created the market for pocket-sized camcorders. So maybe now the market is dying.", "I think everyone does believe at some point in the future, the stand-alone video camera will become a challenged product.", "Cisco is not primarily a consumer electronics company like Apple, Sony or Kodak. Though Cisco's cameras were performing well, their earnings were not. And Baker says Cisco sent a message to their investors that they would make some serious changes. But in the tech world, Baker says, ignore the customer at your peril.", "Consumers are the driving force for innovation, growth and change in the technology market.", "Zoe Chace, NPR News."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "ZOE CHACE", "DAVE", "ZOE CHACE", "LANCE ULANOFF", "ZOE CHACE", "STEPHEN BAKER", "ZOE CHACE", "STEPHEN BAKER", "ZOE CHACE"]}
{"id": "CNN-258700", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-07-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/02/nday.02.html", "summary": "Interview with the Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken", "utt": ["All right. Extra innings, overtime right now in the nuclear discussions with Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry is in the middle of the discussions right now. Can a deal be struck by July 7th? The first deadline was June 30th. So, where are we right now? What are the latest on the negotiations? Here's a man with us who knows, the deputy secretary of state, Tony Blinken, here with us. Thanks so much for being here.", "Thanks for having me.", "June 30th was the deadline. Where I come, a deadline is a deadline. The new deadline though is July 7th. Is that rock solid July 7th or bust right now?", "You know, we have been at this for almost two years and it was worth taking a few extra days to lock in the commitments Iran has already made when we announced the basic elements of the deal in Lausanne a couple of months ago. And that's what we're working toward, because the single best way to prevent Iran from getting the material for a nuclear weapon is to get this deal done.", "That means it could go past July 7th?", "Well, it could. But I think we're very, very focused on getting it done over the next few days, and we'll. We'll know if Iran is prepared to make good of its own commitments. Whether it has the political space to do what it said it will do, or if it doesn't. As you heard the president say the other day, if it is not prepared to make good on its commitments, we'll walk away.", "CNN just received a statement from the vice president of Iran. It sounds like they have a different take on this, not surprisingly, than what you're saying. They say that hopefully the deal will be finalized and signed. All of this depends on the demands of the 5-plus-1 countries. If they come away from their, quote, \"excessive demands\", then for sure, an agreement will be signed. Is the U.S. looking for excessive demands?", "Absolutely not. What we are looking is what was agreed already in Lausanne. And the challenge has been, taking these basic elements that were clear and translating them to a details agreement. When you do that, that's when the differences start to emerge.", "Right, such as inspections. I mean, so the U.S. would like an international group, IAEA, to go in to see if Iran is keeping their promises. However, the ayatollah, as you know, has said they would not allow this near the military sites. So, is that the condition that the U.S. would ever give on?", "The short answer is no. Inspections are absolutely critical to this deal. And if we don't get them, we won't make the deal. There's a lot of posturing going on, people are making statements. They're playing to different constituencies, different audiences. I think that's what's happening. But at the end of the day, the bottom line is, if we don't have the verification, the transparency, the inspections that we need to make sure Iran is not developing material for a weapon, we don't have a deal.", "So, what inspections would you be willing to give up?", "Well, this is exactly -- we're not going to give on anything. What we need to do lock in in detail exactly what the inspection regime would involve. That's what they're working on right now.", "Does it have to be military sites?", "Any place that the IAEA has concerns about the possibility that Iran is developing material for a weapon, they need to have access to that site, military or non-military.", "It has to be nuclear scientists, free and unfettered?", "So, there are people, there are places, there are documents that the IAEA will need to have access to. All of that is what's been negotiated right now and it's the details that country. And if the details are not there, we won't have a deal. But my sense is that the Iranians have invested a lot in trying to get to this point. And we'll see if they are prepared to do what's necessary to lock everything in.", "You think ultimately they will acquiesce to allow free and unfettered inspections?", "Well, again, if they don't, we won't have an agreement. And they need an agreement. They need it more than we do. And the president is very clear about this, if the international community is not satisfied that we have what we need to be able to tell the world that Iran is not going to develop material for a nuclear weapon, there's no deal.", "Let me ask you about a place where we have a deal already, with Cuba. Just opened up diplomatic relations with Cuba and the embassy going to be in Havana. The embassy in Washington, a Cuban embassy. But one of the questions is, will there be an actual ambassador to Cuba from the United States? Florida Senator Marco Rubio says, not on my watch. Let me read you a quote. He says, \"It remains unclear what, if anything, has been achieved since the president's December 17 announcement in terms of securing the return of U.S. fugitives being harbored in Cuba. I intend to oppose the confirmation of an ambassador to Cuba until I see these issues addressed.", "Well, look, I hope we do get an ambassador when the time comes. Yesterday, I actually took a -- received a letter from President Castro to President Obama to reestablish the diplomatic relations and we sent a letter from Obama -- President Obama to President Castro yesterday as well. You know, we shuttered our embassy 54 years ago, the year before I was born. So, my memory and I suspect yours is a relationship that had no diplomatic relations. What we are hearing overwhelmingly from the Cuban people is that this is what they want. They want this relationship to be reestablished, we ought to listen to them because that is a quicker path, surer path to more freedom, more openness, more democracy in their country. Now, they're going to have an ambassador here. It would be unfortunate to penalize ourselves and not have an ambassador there. More and more Americans are going to Cuba. We need an ambassador, an embassy to make sure that their interests are being protected. And most important, we have an ability now to engage more with the Cuban people from our embassy. Have them come to our embassy, have our diplomats travel around the country to hear their voices. All that will be much more effective if we have an ambassador in place. But first things first, the embassies will open in -- toward the 20th of July. And then we'll move from there.", "We want to ask you about ISIS. There had been attacks just this week, Tunisia, Egypt, Kuwait. It feels as though ISIS is expanding its reach. Is it?", "We've seen two things. The al Qaeda, which was the group that we were dealing with after 9/11, its core has been decimated in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But what's happened over the last decade or so is that the problem of groups has metastasized and groups are springing up in different parts of the world, including some of the countries that you just mentioned. And ISIS is the new force in town. So, we put together a coalition of more than 60 countries to deal with this problem, to cut off the financing, to cut off the foreign fighters, to deal with the messaging.", "But it doesn't seem to be working when we're seeing these brutal attacks this week.", "Well, it is working but it takes time. And the president is very clear about this, it's going to take time. Let me give you an example, because we get a lot of bad news and sometimes we lose focus on what's happening. Iraq, over the last year since we had this coalition in place, the territory controlled by ISIS is down 35 percent. Thousands of their people have been killed. Much of their material has been destroyed. So, they're actually moving backward in Iraq.", "Backward into Ramadi, which they didn't control before. They still are in Mosul.", "Well, Ramadi --you're right, Ramadi is a particular place because it's in Anbar province, a Sunni province. You had predominantly Shia Iraqi military going in, a kind of alien force. What the prime minister is doing now in Iraq is he's enlisting and trying to mobilize more Sunnis to get them into the fight, and they will fight for their towns, they will fight for these cities, they'll fight for their lives. That's the trajectory in Iraq, and it's moving in a better direction. But it's a challenge. It's going to take time. But we have more than 60 countries now in this fight working together to try to stop", "Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken, thanks so much for being with us. Really appreciate it.", "Thanks a lot.", "Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.", "Let's head over to Michaela.", "All right There's much debate about the Confederate flag. Again, renewed conversation about it. Should it stay? Should it go? You might be surprised by the results of that and other numbers in our latest CNN/ORC poll. We'll have that for you, ahead."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "TONY BLINKEN, DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE", "BERMAN", "BLINKEN", "BERMAN", "BLINKEN", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "BLINKEN", "CAMEROTA", "BLINKEN", "CAMEROTA", "BLINKEN", "BERMAN", "BLINKEN", "BERMAN", "BLINKEN", "CAMEROTA", "BLINKEN", "BERMAN", "BLINKEN", "CAMEROTA", "BLINKEN", "CAMEROTA", "BLINKEN", "BERMAN", "BLINKEN", "ISIS. BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BLINKEN", "CAMEROTA", "MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-321623", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2017-09-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/19/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Trump Speaks at Luncheon with U.N. Secretary-General", "utt": ["Michael Cohen being questioned by investigators from the Senate Intelligence and he released a statement that all of us have read by now and they said he will come back another time in open session. Do you understand why these Senate Intelligence investigators wouldn't at least want to question him behind closed doors for a few hours?", "My best guess is they came to them as a matter of courtesy. Cohen was not going to speak to the media. Those are the rules of the road. It's important to have mutual trust and voluntary conversations. And for Cohen to breech it right out of the gate, you can see how he will be interested in open testimony. That makes them far more accessible and it's reasonable for them to say the ground rules.", "Showing pictures of a luncheon the U.N. Secretary-General is hosting for a lot of world leaders, including the president of the United States. You understand why they wouldn't at least want to take advantage of Michael Cohen and question him for four or five hours and he may not be under oath and you cannot lie to a Senate committee. If you do, that's perjury.", "That's right. I would say let's go forward. He did breech the protocol that is wrong, but we have him here. He has important information to tell us about Trump's Russia doles for the Trump Moscow property. Let's get it and say to him later, do you that again to us and there will be more consequences for you.", "Surprising to me, too. David, I assume to you too. They have a million questions they want to ask him about Donald Trump and the campaign and Russian medaling and what were you doing trying to build Trump Tower in Moscow in the middle of the campaign? You think they would want to get the answers and say you know what, he released a statement saying he didn't do anything wrong.", "He is trying to influence the news coverage and you can't see the questions he asked. Clearly, they rather than get what usable material they could get, they don't like that being done and would rather force them into open session when he can be cross examined rather than trying to influence the coverage. It gets to how these committees and how open session is used to make arguments about which way the investigation is going or made conclusions about what the facts tell us.", "Usually, they want to have closed Sessions and get as much as possible. When their bosses ask questions, they will do a better job at open session. We can get into the nuances of this down the road.", "His counsel would tell himself he is putting himself in jeopardy if he violates the protocols agreed to. Apparently, counsel felt otherwise.", "Guys, thanks very much. The president of the United States is at a luncheon hosted by the U.N. secretary-general. We will see if they say anything and continue to monitor that. We heard the president's tough speech. In fact, he is speaking right now, we are told. Let's listen in as they look like they will raise glasses and have a toast.", "Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary-General. I have to say that as someone born and raised in New York it is a great honor to have the United Nations in New York and always has been. For years, I have been a critic, but I have also been somebody that said that the United Nations has tremendous potential. Under your leadership, and I have seen what you have done and working with Nikki Haley -- and she made so many friends here and Rex Tillerson has been a fixture here. We are working very hard to solve world problems. But there is no better forum and can be no better forum and certainly there can be no better location where everybody comes together. I want to congratulate you. The word is potential. The potential of the United States in terms of what it's done is good, but we can do better. The potential of the United Nations is unlimited. I really believe and I met your representatives and I know you well, you are going to do things that will be epic. I certainly hope you will, but I feel very, very confident. I want to toast everybody in the room. Let's give this as a toast to the potential, the great, great potential of the United Nations. Thank you all for being here. Thank you very much.", "There you have it, the president toasting the potential of the United Nations. David Gregory is with us. Normally with a toast like that, they raise their glasses and there is a round of applause. I didn't hear the applause.", "This is a crowd that I don't think the president has won over. He is making an essential point that I think is very much in keeping with his philosophy and some of the criticisms he made with the U.N. overtime. It's very much consistent with a message that brought him into the presidency. I will call the institutions out for not doing a good enough job and not pulling their weight if it has to do with NATO in terms of the percentage of their defense budget that is dedicated to NATO or I'll call out agreements that are bad, the Iran agreement. That's a controversial position. He has a lot of people who support that. Look at the problems we have been having with North Korea going back to the '90s when Bill Clinton negotiated a position. This is consistent with a tough approach to the United Nations. He is not very diplomatic about it. He says, he has been a critic, but there is potential to work together. That's what the supporters will say was a win today and he will have other conservatives in the establish say, yes, the United Nations have been coming up short for a long time.", "He has been getting support from his base and the Republican establishment. People like what they heard, but a lot of people are criticizing. The Republican base, the people who elected him president were pleased by his tough words today as far as North Korea and Iran and radical Islamic terrorism which he cited at the same time. David, thanks very much. Meanwhile, there is a new Republican effort right now to overturn Obamacare, and its gaining momentum and why this bill would have a dramatic impact on America's entire health care system. We will update you on that. Also, after insulting and publicly berating them, there's new word President Trump is trying to mend fences, with several Republicans, at least in private. This is CNN special live coverage."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "SUSAN HENNESSEY, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY & LEGAL ANALYT", "BLITZER", "MICHAEL ZELDIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "DAVID GREGORY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "ZELDIN", "BLITZER", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BLITZER", "GREGORY", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-180361", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2012-2-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/01/sp.02.html", "summary": "Facebook Prepares for IPO; Interview with Senator Mike Lee", "utt": ["I like it. I like it. I like it. People are shooting for it. That would be Republican senator from Utah Mike Lee's playlist. That's Jimmy Eat World, \"The Middle.\" We like his music. Good, people should try a little harder than some of the music we've had on.", "Tom Davis is a cooler guy than you thought.", "He's going to join us in a few minutes not to talk about music but some other stuff as well. First we've got to get to some headlines. Christine Romans has those for us. good morning, again.", "Good morning. I'm going to go broke buying all of these songs on iTunes. I keep adding to my list. Thanks, Soledad. Another night of bloodshed in Syria. Government forces clashing with armed demonstrators in the city of Homs. At least 20 people were killed. Meanwhile, Russia is blocking a U.N. resolution calling for Syrian President Assad to step down. Earlier on STARTING POINT former assistant secretary of state Jamie Rubin explained why he thinks Moscow is siding with the Syrians.", "Syria is one of the last places that Russia can remember what it's like to be a great power, where it has an ally who has a naval base that it can use, who buys weapons from it, who has close personal relations between the two leaders. So that gives them that sense of we're a world player and we have to go along.", "Pakistan is denying a leaked NATO report that says Pakistan is directly assisting the Taliban in Afghanistan. The BBC obtained the report, which it says is based on 27,000 interrogations with captured Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. Pfizer is recalling one million packets of birth control pills this morning. They've discovered a packaging error which could leave women with a less than adequate dose and increase their risk of accidental pregnancy. And President Obama following through on his promise to a Texas woman to help her husband find a job. On Monday Jennifer Wedel told the president her husband is an engineer who hasn't worked full time for three years. This morning on early start Jennifer told us she got a call yesterday from the White House.", "She said that the Obama personally that morning made it a point to get my husband's resume out to several DFW contacts. So we are very grateful for that.", "Jennifer is a Republican but she says she's not impressed with the GOP field, hasn't ruled out voting for the president come November. Soledad?", "She hasn't ruled in or out anybody. I thought that was an interesting thing she said. She said I'm underwhelmed on all fronts. I've found that has mirrored the country.", "I bet her if her husband gets a job --", "She said even if your husband gets a job, we're not the only people out of work. It's going to depend on policy.", "In polling you ask which party can better revive the economy, about a quarter of Americans consistently have said neither.", "But what you could do is go ahead and just buy all the Facebook stock.", "Good luck with that.", "Then retire. IPO from Facebook. We're told literally it could be any day now. IPO stands for initial public offering. What's the valuation? What will this go for?", "It looks like maybe $5 billion is what people are targeting. We don't know yet. That's why we're waiting for the filing and the process that will unfold over the next few months. But $5 billion would make it the biggest tech stock. This is the first real look under the hood of Facebook, an eight-year-old company that rules the world. It's the first look under the hood.", "How realistic is it that somebody, say you or me, could get in and actually get in on an IPO for Facebook?", "You know, I don't have multi-millions invested at Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley.", "Is it expensive, or we don't have access?", "We don't have access in the first place, and then you'll have to say -- you look at the big investors, they'll get the first shot at it. The pension funds, endowments, people who have accounts and ties with the big investment banks who will be on the road pushing, trying to sell this. They'll be on a road show trying to sell this initial public offering to these big investors. The way we get in on it is later on, even maybe the next day or two, I don't know, when you buy the stock in your account or if your mutual fund company has bought it and now has put it in some mutual funds in your 401(k).", "In other words, I have to come to work tomorrow.", "Yes, we both have to work tomorrow.", "OK, thanks, appreciate it. Campaign heating up. Of course, president and political background in Washington D.C. getting hotter too. A committee hearing talking about president Obama's recent appointments. There was one senator who's been fighting back against those appointments. That senator would be our next guest. Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah joins us. Nice to have you, sir. We like your music. Already we're off to a good start on that front. We appreciate you joining us.", "Thank you.", "Let's not get to that first. Let's talk about the race first and the victory and look at some of the exit poll numbers. We will get to Obama's appointments in a minute. Tea Party, strongly support the Tea Party went for Newt Gingrich in the state of Florida. Mitt Romney came in only at 33 percent. I'm wondering if your take is, listen, this could be a problem for Mitt Romney, or is it down the road anybody versus President Obama is going to get the support of those strong Tea Partiers? Which is it?", "I would go more toward the latter of the statements. Any Republican who gets the nomination is going to have the enthusiastic support of all Republicans, I believe most Americans, and the overwhelming majority of Tea Party supporters. It's interesting that two-thirds of those who voted in Florida's presidential primary identified themselves as those who support the Tea Party. And Mitt Romney still won by a margin of about 15 points. But, look, regardless, the Tea Party is all about limited government. It's all about the fact that the federal government's too big and too expensive. Mitt Romney supports those principles and the Tea Party will get behind him if and when he becomes the nominee, which is looking increasingly likely.", "Senator, good morning. Ron Brownstein. Republicans are concerned about the president's recess appointments, in particular Richard Cordray to run the consumer finance bureau. But the Republican position was that they would not confirm any appointee to that bureau unless the president agreed to substantive changes in the underlying law. Can you name a precedent in American history where the Senate took a position that they would not confirm someone for a legally created position unless the law itself was changed? Has that ever been done before?", "You know, I'm not sure that I can name a precedent where that has happened. I also cannot name a precedent where the Senate has been asked to confirm someone to a position that wields this kind of power. The CFPB holds power that is unprecedented. This is someone that would act without any oversight by Congress or the president, doesn't serve subject to the pleasure of the president, and would have unprecedented power over our financial services industry. And so this is concerning to many Republicans and it's concerning to many Americans.", "So here's what you said last week. I want to play a little chunk of that and we'll talk on the other side.", "Given this president's blatant and egregious disregard for both constitutional procedures and for the Senate's unquestioned role in such appointments, I find myself duty bound to resist the consideration and approval of additional nominations until the president takes steps to remedy the situation.", "OK, so am I wrong in hearing you say when you say \"I find myself duty bound to resist the consideration, I will not do anything until this is fixed in a way that I'm satisfied\"? Is that what you're saying?", "No, I'm not saying I won't do anything, but what I said is I'm going to resist them. I didn't indicate exactly how I'll be doing that. Generally I don't show my cards in advance of exactly what play I'm going to make, but what I'm saying is I've cooperated with this administration up to this point. I've voted for scores of presidential nominees with whom I had some significant philosophical difference. Now the president has taken power that doesn't belong to him.", "But some people read this as you saying I'm going to be an obstructionist. Here in Congress I'm going to be an obstructionist moving forward. I'll play a little chunk of what president Obama said and then we'll talk on the other side.", "No, that's really not what I'm saying.", "Hold on one second. I hear you.", "And they deserve better than gridlock and games. One senator gumming up the whole works for the entire country is certainly not what our founding fathers envisioned.", "OK. So sorry to cut you off there but I wanted to play what the president's takeaway from what you said was. You said that's not what you meant. Explain that.", "That's not what I said. The president was eager to make that characterization. That's not what I said. Look, my point is this, this discussion. This discussion about the Constitution. It's about the fact that ours is not a government of one. I've talked to people throughout my state and across the country who are concerned. They feel somewhat powerless because the president has taken power and exercised power that doesn't belong to him. It belongs to the people. And it's authorized to be exercised by people who are duly elected to the United States Senate. He's made recess appointment at a time when the Senate was not in recess for purposes relevant to the recess appointments clause, and that is a problem. Because we don't have a government of one, we have a Senate that makes sure that presidential nominations of a certain level have to be confirmed, and he didn't follow that process here. I'm going to hold him accountable for that.", "Go ahead.", "Senator, what about going to the courts on something? Recess appointments have been defined. You could adjourn one evening and he could appoint between the evening and the next day under this definition. What's the answer? How is the Senate going to react to this?", "Thank you for raising that point. That's part of the concern here is that under the president's own logic, taken to its logical conclusion it could suggest he could do exactly that, that we could adjourn for the weekend or perhaps even for the evening and he could say, OK, I'm making a recess appointment.", "OK, before I let you go, I hear you and I get what you're saying. But I want to ask you this final question, which is in a way he's making you, and you're becoming the poster child for a Congress that stands in the way of something getting done. Isn't that kind of the bigger problem? The people hear this and they say, god, again, Congress, 11 percent approval. Can you people not get to work and get something done please?", "We are getting to work and we're doing our best to get something done. We are at the same time duty bound to that Constitution to which we've all taken an oath. And our job is to get something done and to do it within the procedures that have been outlined in our law of laws, the U.S. constitution. And we can't simply overlook that just because the president wants to have his way and he wants to have his way right now. The constitution isn't always efficient, but it is the law. We are duty bound to uphold it. The American people deserve better than to have that document overlooked.", "Senator Mike Lee joining us. He's a Republican from the state of Utah. He was joining us from the Russell Rotunda, hard time seeing those pictures. We appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Still ahead this morning on STARTING POINT. The Senate is considering a blow that would ban insider trading for members of Congress. Really? Shouldn't that have been written in somewhere already? Coming up we're going to talk to a lawmaker who says they engage in that practice more than you might think. You're watching STARTING POINT. We've got to take a short break. We're back in just a moment."], "speaker": ["O'BRIEN", "WILL CAIN, CNN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR", "O'BRIEN", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "JAMES RUBIN, FORMER ASSISTANT U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE", "ROMANS", "JENNIFER WEDEL, PRESIDENT OBAMA HELPING HUSBAND FIND JOB", "ROMANS", "O'BRIEN", "TOM DAVIS, (R) FORMER VIRGINIA CONGRESSMAN", "O'BRIEN", "CAIN", "O'BRIEN", "CAIN", "O'BRIEN", "ROMANS", "O'BRIEN", "ROMANS", "O'BRIEN", "ROMANS", "O'BRIEN", "ROMANS", "O'BRIEN", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-157270", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-10-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1010/22/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Pension Vote Nears in France", "utt": ["And hello, again, everyone. Top of the hour in the CNN NEWSROOM where anything can happen here. Here are some of the people behind today's top stories. Protestors hit the streets over government cuts. We're talking about painful economic realities making for frustrated people in France. What lessons could Europe's drastic measures hold for the United States? Just 11 days before the election and the mud is flying in the race for President Obama's old seat. We are following the big races and candidates as we count down to election day. And you are online right now; we are, too. Sandra Endo is following \"What's Hot\" -- Sandra.", "All right, Tony, what do NBA star Shaquille O'Neal and Madonna have in common? Well they both know how to strike a pose. Find out more in \"What's Hot?\"", "OK, let's get started with our lead story. Protesting pension reform, you try to raise the age of retirement, you're going to get intense backlash. The government of France feeling that full force. More than a million people have turned out nationwide to protest a plan to push the retirement age from 60 to 62. The government insists it is necessary to save money. And senators are set to approve the proposal. Senior International Correspondent Jim Bittermann is in Paris. And Jim, first question, once the measure passes the Senate, as it is expected to do, will the strikes end, or is there a chance they could even intensify?", "Could intensify, Tony. The fact is that it's going to be a fait accompli, this law, in about -- probably early next week. It's going to pass the Senate tonight and it has to go through a reconciliation process, but it will be passed. In any case, the unions are calling for more demonstrations and strikes, even though it's passed. And, you know, just listening to Fareed Zakaria there talk about the gloominess in the United States, it's one of the things you see here, too, a gloominess and a kind of pessimism, and people are anxious. And this pension law really is -- has taken a second seat to this overall angst about things and anger at President Sarkozy -- Tony.", "Well, Jim, the strikes, we understand, have really caused some crippling fuel shortages in the country. Has that situation eased at all?", "Well, not very much. The energy minister said this morning that there's about 20 percent of the gasoline stations in the country that don't have any gasoline at all, and that 80 percent are working, but some of those don't have all sort of varieties of gasoline you may want. And this country uses a lot of diesel fuel, and not a lot of diesel fuel around. In any case, tomorrow starts the long -- two-week-long vacation here, fall break for school kids, and so a lot of people are planning to take to the roads. And the question is, are they going to have the gasoline? There's uncertainty and they're anxious about that. It just adds to the overall anxiety here, I think -- Tony.", "Well, heading into that break, that holiday, give us a sense of the general public's mood standing on issues important there in France.", "Well, one of the things -- it's interesting. A poll that just came out this morning asking whether or not people, despite the hardships of this strike and this mass movement that's been going on for weeks now, despite all the hardships that that has incurred on the average person, are people supporting the strike? And, in fact, the poll indicates that about 70 percent are still supporting the strike. But when you ask them specific questions, do you, for instance, appreciate the idea that they're blocking refineries? Is that a good thing? That percentage drops way down, because people are not in favor of individual kinds of things. But overall, they'd like to see the government challenged more. They'd like to see some kind of an opposition to the government, which, in this country, basically, ,has been able to get all it wants in the way of reforms. And that really is one of the things that people are most anxious about, I think.", "All right. Jim Bittermann in Paris for you. Jim, good to see you. Thank you. Let's do this -- let's bring in our Richard Quest to really help us bring this home. He is live in London. Richard spent a lot of time in the United States, as you know, lived here for a period of time as well. All right, Richard, if you would, bottom-line this for us. America, as you know, has to start balance its books. So what lessons can the U.S. learn from France's attempt to make some real cuts here?", "Well, I think the first thing to understand is that the U.S. economy is, for a variety of technical and financial reasons, very different to the individual economies in Europe. It's got the reserve currency of the dollar. It has got vast resources. The North can be in recession, the South can be in boom, the West can be having financial problems, the Northeast can be enjoying the good times. So, the liquidity, the depth, and the range of markets and the economy gives it a huge, huge home court advantage. That said, Tony, the spending cuts that have been seen in the U.K., in France, in Spain, in Italy, will eventually have to come to the United States. And I need to look no further than the sort of cuts that Governor Schwarzenegger finally got through to the California legislature in Sacramento to really make the point clear. Whether it's Illinois, New York, Florida, or California, there is no way that the spending can continue as it has been.", "There he is, Richard Quest, the host of \"QUEST MEANS BUSINESS.\" Richard, as always, good to talk to you. Eleven days until the midterms, and the gloves are coming of in the fight for President Obama's old seat. First, though, our \"Random Moment\" in 90 seconds."], "speaker": ["TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "SANDRA ENDO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "JIM BITTERMANN, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "BITTERMANN", "HARRIS", "BITTERMANN", "HARRIS", "RICHARD QUEST, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-209232", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2013-6-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/20/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Top 5 Best True Crime Movies of All Time", "utt": ["Tonight on the \"SHOWBIZ Countdown,\" the top five true crime movies of all time.", "What do you do?", "I`m in construction.", "\"Goodfellas\" raw reality. It`s a violent depiction of real-life mobsters. But how close does it come to reality? The stars of \"Mob Wives\" are here with the answer. They also reveal their stunning personal connections to the real men portrayed on the big screen. But can \"Goodfellas\" top a headline-making serial killer?", "It`s a homicide.", "Police received a letter from the 44-caliber Killer, calling himself the Son of Sam.", "What happened?", "I just saw the bodies.", "I`m the monster.", "\"Summer of Sam\" horror. Spike Lee`s hit film relived the very real terror of a serial killer on the loose in New York City. Michael Badalucco, who plays the notorious serial killer known as Son of Sam is right here. What`s his personal connection to the horrific case? And what is the No. 1 true crime movie of all time? A special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT starts right now. Hello, I`m A.J. Hammer. Thank you so much for watching. Tonight on the \"SHOWBIZ Countdown,\" the top five true crime movies of all time. Yes, those outlandish fictional Quentin Tarantino outlaws are certainly fun to watch, but whether it`s the talkative mobsters of \"Goodfellas,\" the deranged serial killer in \"Monster,\" or the smooth-talking drug kingpin in \"American Gangster,\" a crime drama is even more gripping when it`s based on characters who really lived and on stories that actually happened. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you that, when it comes to can`t-miss movie moments, true crime really does pay.", "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.", "Maybe movie goers want to be gangsters. How else can one explain the popularity of movies like \"Goodfellas,\" \"Pain and Gain\" or \"Public Enemies\"?", "What is it exactly you do for a living?", "I`m John Dillinger. I rob banks.", "Movies that feature stories of real crimes committed by real people who really lived, and in many cases, killed. Proving that two of the most tantalizing words in crime movies are \"true story.\"", "You get to see all of these awful, awful things done by a very real person. So you`re living vicariously, and I think that`s what makes true crime amazing.", "You`re going to have to catch me.", "The nature of true crime movie is as varied as crime itself.", "My name is Frank Taylor. I`m a co-pilot for PanAm.", "You have your lighthearted criminal capers, like the ones depicted in \"Catch Me If You Can,\" where former teen con artist Frank Abignale Jr. was played by Leonardo DiCaprio.", "This is America.", "There are tense cat-and-mouse crime dramas, Like \"American Gangster.\"", "My investigation indicates that Frank Lucas is involved with the mafia.", "Which shows the battle between 1970s drug kingpin Frank Lucas, who`s played by Denzel Washington...", "Put me in or out, it ain`t going to change one thing.", "That`s the way it is.", "... and Richie Roberts, the cop who eventually brought Frank down. Roberts is played by Russell Crowe.", "Don`t rat on your friends. And always keep your mouth shut.", "And then there are also shockingly violent mob dramas, like \"Goodfellas,\" which depicts the glamorous rise and ugly fall of infamous mobster-turned-informant, Henry Hill, played by Ray Liotta.", "I`m an average nobody.", "The real Henry Hill died last year. In 2003, he told CNN what we saw in \"Goodfellas\" was pretty accurate.", "It was right on.", "In fact, watching the dramatic push-pull between cops and robbers is what gives true crime movies their appeal. They allow us to experience a life of crime that`s sometimes thrilling, sometimes funny.", "How the", "Just don`t tell the gangsters that.", "And we are kicking things off with No. 5 on the \"SHOWBIZ Countdown\" of top true crime movies with \"Goodfellas.\" So just how close is the movie to real life? Well, I sat down with two women who have the inside track. They`re cast members of the reality show \"Mob Wives,\" and they have lived life inside the mob. Ramona Rizzo is the granddaughter of the infamous mobster Benjamin Ruggiero, also known as Lefty Guns. Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino played Ramona`s grandfather in \"Donnie Brasco.\" Renee Graziano is the daughter of Anthony Graziano, who according to the feds, was a high-ranking member of La Cosa Nostra. Renee`s dad knew Jimmy Burke, a.k.a. Jimmy Conway in the movie \"Goodfellas,\" Robert De Niro played Jimmy in \"Goodfellas.\" So I asked Ramona and Renee how close \"Goodfellas\" is to the reality.", "Actually, that`s a very scary movie to watch for me, because I don`t think growing up we actually truly know what that life is. And when you see that movie -- I mean, from what I`ve seen in the movies and from what I`ve heard or read, that is probably the closest depiction of that underworld, so to speak. So yes, it`s a little scary to me, actually.", "And it graphically shows the men that we love and the lifestyle that we grew up in actually kind of doing their dirt, and you kind of like picture some type of activity that you never really thought like, you know, grandfather, your father would be a part of, because you only knew them as loving people in the household.", "Right. He was Grandpa.", "Yes.", "I don`t think he was Grandpa Lefty Guns.", "No, never, right, never.", "Well, I want to take a look at a scene from \"Donnie Brasco.\"", "OK.", "And this is a scene where your grandfather, who`s played by Al Pacino...", "Yes, he`s a very nice man. I got to meet him.", "So -- and that`s, you know, it`s a tough story but pretty cool. And in this scene he meets Donnie Brasco, who, of course, is played by Johnny Depp.", "Yes.", "And I`m saying to you is you should give it to somebody who don`t know any better, because that`s a fugazi, all right?", "This is a fugazi? How do you know it`s a fugazi? You looked at it for two seconds.", "Well, it`s a fake.", "It`s a funny scene, obviously not a funny story. Your grandfather meeting up with Donnie Brasco and essentially fooled into thinking he was the real deal. But how close to reality do you think that was in terms of how things went wrong for your grandfather?", "Well, I mean, if you really followed the book and whatnot, my grandfather wasn`t the first one who got, you know, introduced to Donnie Brasco. There was another person later on who turned out to be a rat that brought him into the group. And I come from a long line -- my father`s side is jewelers, so that scene would never happen, because my grandfather could have went to my other grandfather and said, \"Hey, is this a fugazi or not\"?", "There`s this great scene in \"Goodfellas\" where Lorraine Bracco`s character is talking to Ray Liotta`s character and asks, \"What do you do for a living?\" And he says famously, \"Construction.\" Which sort of shows us, at least in the movies it did, that the mob wives, or the family members, the women in particular, didn`t necessarily know what was really going on until they were in too deep. How close is that to real life?", "Oh, I don`t know anything. I don`t think any wife, daughter, granddaughter or grandchild knows anything.", "I think how I grew up was more like the original \"Godfather,\" where when Michael had married his wife, she didn`t know anything. But as she grew into this lifestyle, certain things allowed you to know things that you really didn`t want to know, where you started maybe asking questions.", "So fascinating. My thanks to Ramona Rizzo and Renee Graziano. And now the SHOWBIZ Countdown takes us to the gritty streets of 1970s New York. At No. 4 on the SHOWBIZ Countdown of the top five true crime movies, Spike Lee`s \"Summer of Sam.\" It`s the movie about the brutal serial killer who called himself Son of Sam.", "Double homicide.", "Police received a letter from the .44 Caliber Killer, calling himself the Son of Sam.", "David Berkowitz, the infamous Son of Sam, is one of America`s most notorious serial killers. A dark-haired monster with a devilish smirk, who shot 13 people in cold blood, killing six right in the heart of New York City. The great director and famous New Yorker Spike Lee lived through Son of Sam`s 13-month killing spree, and Spike revealed just how terrifying it was in his iconic true crime movie, \"The Summer of Sam.\"", "You busy tomorrow tonight? I`d really like to see you again.", "Berkowitz`s rampage kept New York on edge during a reign of horror that lasted from 1976 to 1977. And the reason he was killing? He claimed his neighbor was an agent of the devil and used his dog to command him to kill.", "(inaudible), how did you get in here? Leave me alone! What do you want?", "The cops finally caught up with Son of Sam in the red-hot summer of 1977 after the largest manhunt in New York`s history. When the NYPD cuffed Berkowitz, he told them, \"What took you so long?\" Now Son of Sam`s infamy has been caught on film forever by Spike Lee`s genius in one of the best true crime films of all time.", "I am the monster, Beelzebub.", "Well, the man who brought Son of Sam to life in Spike`s film, is the great Michael Badalucco, and just like Spike, Michael is a native New Yorker who witnessed that terror of that summer. In fact, before he even took the role, he actually had to make sure his mom was OK with him playing New York`s most famous serial killer. Thankfully, she was, and now you have to watch what else Michael revealed to me about our No. 4 true crime film, \"Summer of Sam.\"", "How close did Spike Lee`s interpretation of that time come to actually representing what you were really feeling, the real fear that everyone was feeling that summer before Berkowitz was finally captured?", "Well, you know, what he captured in the film was the tension. He focused on an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx and sort of the denizens of that neighborhood. And they were looking to catch this guy, and they didn`t know how to do it. And they came upon -- there you have Adrian, right. He turned into a punk rocker, and they started suspecting him, and saying, \"Wow, this guy is weird. Maybe he`s the guy.\" And then there was all kinds of tension, and I think that`s what he captured in the movie. That tension was throughout the city, in the Bronx, in Brooklyn, in Queens. You didn`t know where to turn. You didn`t know if you could go outside; you didn`t know what was lurking in the weeds. And he captured that in the movie, and I was pretty psychotic in the movie, too, I guess.", "Yes, yes, you were.", "Talking to a dog there.", "And it was obviously this huge iconic moment in American history, but when you were making \"Summer of Sam\" with Spike, did you ever think to yourself at any point, \"Hey, this could become or is going to become one of the most successful true crime movies of all time\"?", "You know, I never really thought about that. I know when he announced the project, there was a big controversy surrounding it. I mean, a lot of the victims` families would write letters to the newspapers, and they would protest, and people were sort of -- sort of against wanting to relive that whole horrific time. But he went ahead with it, and I think films at their best sort of show us a way to look at the events like this and put perspective on it, and maybe we could learn something from it.", "So we know you had to check with mom, but I got to know, when Spike said, \"Hey, Michael, I want you to play this guy, Son of Sam,\" did you pause for maybe even just a moment and think, \"You know what? The guys in the neighborhood, they`re never going to let me live this down?\"", "Yes. You know, he said, I said, \"What do you mean? Why would I be the Son of Sam?\" He goes, \"You look like him. You look like him.\" He goes, \"You know, the Son of Sam was Italian. His real name was Falco.\" I said, \"Oh, he was an Italian guy? That`s even worse,\" I said. \"Let me think about this.\" But you know what? It was a job, and I thought about it, and like I said, I just wanted to sort of get into, for me as an actor, what was it like to be so evil? What is your mind like? How do you get into the essence of the evil? You know, Spike didn`t really focus on the character of David Berkowitz, but he focused on, as far as the Son of Sam went, the essence of that evil. You know, what makes a person tick that wants to go out and do this? And that`s what I found very rewarding working on it.", "Thanks to the great character actor Michael Badalucco. Such a fascinating perspective on the infamous serial killer, Son of Sam. And the SHOWBIZ Countdown of the top 5 true crime movies of all time is just heating up. We couldn`t even recognize the beautiful Charlize Theron in this ugly story.", "What are you talking about, you`re [EXPLETIVE DELETED] killing people!", "Now listen to me. They`re not coming.", "Theron transforms for the film \"Monster,\" the real story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos. But did her haunting, Oscar-winning performance top another Oscar winner? Denzel Washington became ruthless drug kingpin Frank Lucas in \"American Gangster.\" And next, we`re talking to a movie insider who reveals stunning secrets from the real men portrayed in this film. But which true crime film will top our SHOWBIZ Countdown? Stick around for that. And now, more true crime movie madness. The hit movie \"Pain and Gain,\" starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson, portrayed a dark comedic take on the brutal story of real bodybuilders turned steroid- abusing killers.", "You said no violence.", "And I meant it when I said it, I swear to God.", "I cannot kill.", "Duly noted. Look, when this is over, we`ll all go camping, all right?", "OK."], "speaker": ["A.J. 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{"id": "CNN-235574", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2014-07-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/29/ctw.01.html", "summary": "No Sign Of Truce In Gaza", "utt": ["This is CONNECT THE WORLD. I'm Amara Walker, sitting in for Becky Anderson. Here are the top stories this hour. International investigators have tried and failed for a third day to reach the crash site of MH17 in eastern Ukraine. Heavy fighting is still making it too dangerous. And in what could be a major escalation of the Ukrainian conflict, US officials say government forces have fired short- range ballistic missiles at rebel-held territory. An influential Afghan politician and cousin of President Hamid Karzai has been killed by a suicide bomber. Hashmat Karzai was at a home in southern Kandahar when the attack took place. He was a key campaigner for presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani. One of China's most powerful former officials is at the center of a new investigation. Zhou Yongkang was the country's domestic security chief until he retired in 2012. The probe is just the latest to emerge as the ruling Communist Party intensifies its campaign to weed out corruption. A Hamas spokesman in Beirut tells CNN they will consider a call from Palestinian leaders in the West Bank for a 24-hour truce. So far, Israel has not commented. The weeks-long conflict has killed more than 1100 Palestinians; 53 Israeli soldiers and 3 civilians inside Israel have been killed. And returning to one of our top stories and a CNN exclusive, US intelligence officials confirm that Ukraine's military fired short-range ballistic missiles at pro-Russia separatists in the last 48 hours. Now, if confirmed, it could be a serious escalation in this crisis. Senior international correspondent Nic Robertson joining us live from Moscow. So, Nic, have we had any response from the Russian government on this development?", "Specifically not on these short-range ballistic missiles, but absolutely on the ongoing conflict in the east of Ukraine. The Russian government is accusing the government in Kiev of escalating the conflict there. They point to an incident today where they say Ukrainian soldiers fired on a school, killing 17 people, 3 of them children. They say that all 17 were civilians. They also accuse them of shooting at a hospital, rounds landing in the grounds of a hospital. They say that the government of Ukraine is escalating the conflict there. They say that somebody there will be held responsible, clearly quite a loaded statement. We've also heard from the Foreign Ministry today saying that Secretary -- Foreign Minister, rather, Lavrov spoke with Secretary of State John Kerry today, urging him to use his influence with the Ukrainian government to urge them to get the Ukrainians into talks with the rebels in the east of Ukraine. So, so far nothing specific on those particular missile systems, but absolutely the accusations continue to fly, the United -- implicitly that the United States and the Europeans are, if you will, encouraging, aiding, and abetting the Ukrainians in escalating the conflict in the east of Ukraine. Amara?", "And Nic, in the meantime, European leaders are meeting, they're discussing the possibility of widening the sanctions against Russia. And it seems that Moscow's had somewhat of an interesting response, at least from the foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, who essentially said that they're not going to retaliate against Europe if these sanctions come through.", "It is interesting. There's certainly been a lot of rumors about what could happen, what Russia's response could be. We understand that the 28 European Union ambassadors are meeting, that they are deciding on language and text that could increase sanctions, taking them from just the personal level to specific people to sectoral sanctions. That would be potentially on the finance sector, potentially on the energy sector, potentially on the arms sector as well. And in that context, it was interesting that President Vladimir Putin yesterday met with the government and talked about finding alternate methods of making sure that the arms industry here can get the components and the raw materials that it needs if, he said, that -- current deals fall through. So, the implication is that the Russians are taking it very seriously what could happen. But I think also we can balance what we're hearing from Sergey Lavrov on the issue of what may or may not happen with sanctions. The Japanese said that they were putting sanctions on Russia because of its -- seizing of Crimea. And there, the Russian response today has been, well, this is going to damage bilateral relationship with Japan and severely set it back. So, the indication is that there will be -- there certainly will be some kind of a response, if it happens. We just don't know what it will be at the moment, Amara.", "OK, thank you Nic, for that, with the view, there, from Moscow. And some news just coming in to us. An EU official has confirmed to CNN that sanctions have been expanded against Russian individuals and companies. Now, it targets eight new individuals, the so-called Putin cronies who have benefited from destabilization of Ukraine, and three entities will now be targeted. Now, those identities will be released on Wednesday. There will be measures aimed at Russia's access to EU capital markets. There will be, also, an embargo on arms imports from -- and exports to Russia, but only on new contracts. For more now, let's cross over to CNN's emerging markets editor, John Defterios, standing by live. So, John, help us understand these sanctions and how damaging they might be to Moscow.", "Well, there was some question whether the European Union, Amara, had the stomach to push ahead with tougher sanctions, but the downing of the Malaysian flight number 17, and now the reports that we've been seeing about arms going into eastern Ukraine, perhaps from Russia, certainly seems to have emboldened the 28 countries of the European Union. We had the United States in an unusual conference call last night with the four largest countries of the European Union. That of course being, Germany, France, Italy, and the UK. The big question mark is whether those four countries will be able to persuade all 28 to proceed. And in fact, the word is in the last 20 minutes, that is the case. These are far-reaching sanctions, if they can stick to them for the next three months. First and foremost, you noted the financial sector, there, with Nic Robertson. They're suggesting that the state-owned banks in Russia will be unable to tap the capital markets, both in Europe and the United States going forward. They hold better than $50 billion of debt that they like to tap into for European ambassadors and US ambassadors as well. There will be an arms embargo going forward. And finally, and this is a very tricky one, can they put on sanctions to limit the investment into the energy sector into Russia. As we know, Rosneft, the big state-owned energy giant, has partnerships with Exxon Mobile, Eni of Italy, Total of France and BP of the UK which, by the way, as a 20 percent shareholder in Rosneft. They want to limit the supplies of technology to limit the ability for the Russian sector to expand. Now, the reason it is very tricky is that the European Union overall gets 30 percent of its gas supplies from Russia, and if you move closer into eastern and central Europe, that number goes up to some 80 percent for Ukraine and some of the other countries of central and eastern Europe. But the news tonight is that the European Union, the ambassadors of the EU met in Brussels, have decided to proceed with sanctions that will be reviewed in the next three months, Amara.", "OK, John Defterios, thank you so much for breaking that down for us. We've also seen a dramatic increase in the fighting between Israel and Hamas. One explosion struck Gaza City just as our Karl Penhaul was reporting on the air.", "-- you would have seen the --", "OK, that was our Karl Penhaul just a few hours ago when a blast hit a building nearby. He joins me now, live from Gaza City with the latest on the fighting. And it seemed like the violence was de-escalating on Monday, but things quickly changes, as we saw there in your live report, didn't it, Karl?", "Yes, absolutely. And that escalation began Monday night after dark. And it was a moonless night, and the Israeli military began firing illumination rounds into the sky over Gaza City. For the first time, we saw those coming down into the sky from very close to the office where we have been based. And then, after about a couple of hours, what the function of those illumination rounds was that overhead drones could get, then, a site with their cameras onto any potential targets down on the ground. And then, after a couple of hours, the artillery started to rain in, F-16 fighter bombers were also carrying out airstrikes, and that carried on pretty intensely throughout the night. There kind of was a lull going into early morning around dawn. But it was amazing. By the time that dawn came and the day began a little, the air was thick was smoke. And just standing here in the office, that smell was of high explosive residue, because the bombing had been so intense during the night. There was a little bit of a lull, and then, in that clip, as you showed, just as we were talking to our colleagues on the morning show as well, some more rounds go in from Israeli airstrikes from less than 200 meters away from where we are, basically. That was an apartment block that got hit. And shortly after it was hit, people began screaming and then flowing out of that building to go to a safer place. Now, I would tell you that my overriding impression is that the skies of Gaza seem to be filling up with black smoke. A little further south of where we are, the Gaza power plant is on fire. That because an Israeli tank shell, according to the Gaza power plant chief, hit the diesel fuel tanks of the generator, and so that generator is out of action, no power being provided by there. A little further north, a gas station has been hit, we're told by our news sources up there. And across on the east of the Gaza strip, huge pounding going on there, 2,000-pound bunker-busting bombs being dropped on a neighborhood there. I would suspect, although I have no confirmation, that bombs are probably being dropped on tunnel complexes there, since that has been one of the Israeli military's main stated aims, to try and stop Hamas commandos burrowing into Israel and taking the fight to their home turf, Amara.", "Now, Israel says that it warns the residents with a phone call or a text message before a strike, and I know that on Monday, Israel is warning residents to leave northern Gaza. My question is, where are the Palestinians fleeing to? Is anywhere safe at this point?", "Well, that is the real tragedy, Amara, because yesterday, those SMS text messages and pamphlet drops were concentrated in northern Gaza, telling people there to flee to safety in Gaza City. There was no such warning in Gaza City, and yet Gaza City was the area that was bearing the brunt for at least part of the evening of those air and artillery strikes. So, essentially, what the Israeli military message did was funnel displaced people towards Gaza City into the danger zone, not out of the danger zone. And remember, this confrontation is three weeks old, now, and so a lot of people have come to Gaza City, which until now had seen less of the action. In some of these homes, you're seeing multiple families in very small apartments. You might have 60 and 70 family members in just one building. And so, that expression of shooting fish in a barrel, this is more akin to shooting sardines in a barrel. There is absolutely nowhere that the people of Gaza can flee to. There is no safe place. One emergency doctor said to me, not one square meter of Gaza is safe. And of course, the borders are closed, so they can't go abroad, Amara.", "And as we reported earlier, Hamas rejecting that cease-fire proposal. Karl Penhaul, always appreciate your reporting. Thank you so much. And live from CNN Center, you're watching CONNECT THE WORLD. John just mentioned the crisis in Libya, and right ahead, we'll take a look back at how the chaos got to this point and what the international community should do to ease the tensions. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["WALKER", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "WALKER", "ROBERTSON", "WALKER", "JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR", "WALKER", "KARL PENHAUL, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "WALKER", "PENHAUL", "WALKER", "PENHAUL", "WALKER"]}
{"id": "CNN-386725", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2019-11-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1911/29/ath.01.html", "summary": "Police Say That Several People Have Been Injured In A Stabbing Incident Near London Bridge; Police Addresses Media Regarding London Bridge Incident.", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "Hello, everyone. I'm Alex Marquardt, in for Kate Baldwin. Today I want to welcome our viewers from the United States and around the world. We're starting with breaking news out of London. Police say that several people have been injured in a stabbing incident near London Bridge. I want to warn you that the video of the incident we're about to show you is graphic. Now, you can see in this video, a man on the bridge right there holding a knife. Then you can hear gunshots fired by the police. Police say that they are treating this as a terror related incident, and they say one man has been detained. Nearby stores and railway stations are on lockdown, the situation very fluid, developing by the minute. We're standing by for a press conference any minute now from Scotland Yard -- that is the London Metropolitan Police Headquarters. But first we're going to go to our Nick Paton Walsh. He is on the scene with the latest. Nick, what do we know at this time?", "Minimal confirmed information, Alex. But what we do know is this incident seems to have started before 1:58 or so in the afternoon, a busy time certainly in this packed central part of London. Police were called to an establishment, premises, they say during which there was a stabbing and it appears as a result of that, that a number of people have been stabbed and one man has been shot. We believe the person who has been shot may in fact have been the assailant that you've seen in some of those graphic videos. What is not clear at this point is the cause of the argument. As you said yourself, Scotland Yard British Police here are saying that they are treating this as though it is terror-related, but they do say also that the circumstances remain unclear. It is important to remember as this develops here because in London, there are lots of other reasons why a stabbing may occur -- gang violence, namely in particular. Let me just remind you the scene we're seeing around us here. I am far away from the north of London Bridge here, a couple of blocks really from the streets here and the scene behind me is what you would normally expect frankly to see of an instant this nature in the British capital. A vast amount of police resources is pulling up into here. A dozen or also vehicles have been blaring their way through this tape behind me here. We've not seen emergency services departing in a hurry which may suggest that perhaps this instance to some degree is under control. But I should point out, about 50 minutes or so ago, essentially the top law enforcement official in the United Kingdom, Priti Patel, the Home Secretary on Twitter referred to this incident as ongoing. So we simply don't know if that one assailant silence who appears to have been shot was the only assailant. We don't know the cause of this argument. We hear eyewitnesses referring to how there appears to be an initial panic and then some degree of a pause, about 20 minutes or so, one man inside a hamburger restaurant like everybody else told to hide beneath the tables as this unfolded, and of course, anybody here in Central London, London Bridge, given the tragic, awful history of the 2017 terror attacks here would immediately have been on their guard and of course, hearing gunshots in Central London, frankly unheard of. A city in this part, to some degree in lock down here and as I say, we are seeing continued emergency services pull up behind me here now. We just heard from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who has again referred to this as most likely being terror-related thanked the emergency services. But it does appear from some of the social media videos of something of a swift response from British Police who sadly over the past two years have become worryingly practiced in dealing with events like this. Well, I should say, the circumstances, they say are still unclear as to how this unfurled. But certainly, around about two o'clock today, they were called to a premises here where stabbings appear to have occurred. They've now just confirmed in the last 10 minutes that a number of people have been stabbed and one man has been shot, but still the situation still unfurling. And around me here now, even as we speak this instance, a matter of hours old, people still being moved away from parts of the buildings, even a couple of streets from London Bridge, the south of which we believe is where this instance was predominantly focused -- Alex.", "Yes, as you say, Nick, the London Metropolitan Police, well-practiced. It has been relatively quiet of late after a string of incidents in 2016. Today's incident, of course, shattering all of that. Nick Payton Walsh on the scene there. We will come back to you soon, but I want to go to Max Foster who is joining me now from our London Bureau. Max, as we've noted, we are waiting on a press conference from Scotland Yard, from the London Metropolitan Police. Given what we have heard from them today, which is not a lot of detail, I'm wondering what you can read between the lines when they say that as a precaution, they are treating this as a terror related incident. And then from the London Ambulance Services saying -- calling this a major incident. They are not trying to tamp this down, are they?", "Well, now, the ambulance service, obviously, if a number of people are stabbed and someone has been killed, then that is a major incident. What the police will be looking at is containing the incident of course, but also trying to look for the motive here and we have to consider the language, so when I've spoken to anti-terror police quite recently, their response when there is an incident, which looks serious is to overreact and treat it as a terror-related incident before they've got it confirmed. So if we look at the language, they're saying they're treating it as terror related as a precaution. What they're not saying is they have evidence that it is terror-related. So that's what we're looking at from this press conference. Can the police confirm this is terror- related?", "On the Bridges, Alex, you know, this area well, after the last instance in 2017, which had a car involved, they put these big concrete bollards along a lot of the major bridges to avoid that happening again. A car wasn't involved, it doesn't seem this time, but it does show that just with a knife, you can cause a huge amount of damage. So is it someone who had some sort of personal grievance or is it someone part of a wider network? This is are the sort of questions we're looking to this press conference for.", "Max, I want to play the video of this incident. Again, I want to remind our viewers that this is graphic. This was shot by a passerby on London Bridge as the assailant was taken down by police. There it is right on London Bridge. And what you're seeing is the London Police -- we're going to listen in to the London Police.", "Oh, he has a knife.", "He has a knife. [Gunshot]", "All right, well we are still waiting for a press conference from the London Police. That there is the incident that unfolded just hours ago on London Bridge. The police taking down a man, shooting him and taking him into custody. We do understand from the London Metropolitan Police that several people were injured and stabbed. Now, I want to bring in my panel of experts, some very well versed people when it comes to these types of incidents: Paul Cruickshank, Kim Dozier, Peter Bergen and Susan Glasser. Paul, first to you, your reaction when you see the types of reaction -- the law enforcement reaction there and what the police are saying?", "Well, they're very concerned. They are treating it as if it was a terrorist attack. They haven't confirmed it was a terrorist attack. But we just saw that video play out. Police at a sudden moment shooting somebody who is on the ground, why would police shoot somebody who is on the ground perhaps after their weapon has been taken away? Well, you know, that's not something that would normally happen. There must have been something that really concerned them about what he has. Could it have been something like a suicide vest or a fake suicide vest? We saw on that bridge, on that area in 2017, in the month of June, a group of three individuals, ISIS-inspired terrorists drive a car into people and then stab people. They were wearing fake suicide vests. They were then shot by police. So a lot of the hallmarks of a potential terrorist attack here, but that has not been confirmed so far by British authorities.", "You don't often hear about gunshots being fired in central London, they simply don't have that many guns over there. But in the wake of the spate of terror attacks that we saw in Europe, the London security forces, the police really did beef up. And there are I understand, quick response teams across London for this kind of thing, because we understand that according to an eyewitness, the police arrived within moments.", "That's right. And in many terrorist attacks, most of the people are killed in the first few minutes. And so there's a real impetus to get people on the ground very, very quickly. The last time there was an attack in this area, I think it was something like eight minutes for police to respond. Their police very, very nearby because they're very concerned that they don't want to have play out what played out in Paris in 2015, by a gunman on the rampage through the city, killing a lot of people. The quicker you can respond, you can keep the casualty count down.", "Peter Bergen, we don't want to jump to conclusions. We never want to immediately assume that something is terror related. But the London Police themselves are saying that as a precaution, they are treating it as terror. Does it look like that to you?", "Well, I mean, I'd make a slightly different point, which is three weeks ago, the British authorities lowered the terrorism warning in in the country from severe to substantial. And if indeed, this is terrorism, which we don't know, that's going to be hard to explain why they would lower it to the lowest point it has been since August of 2014. Severe, you know, substantial still means that there is a -- you know, somewhat high likelihood of an attack, but severe means that an attack is very likely. So I think that in the wake of this, we may see some soul searching amongst the authorities on this issue.", "Kim Dozier, we do -- not to split hairs, but we do have to differentiate between a coordinated terror attack that was perhaps long in the making versus a so called lone wolf attack, the likes of which we have seen quite a few of in Europe.", "Absolutely. Look at this point, it could be, there's an outside chance that this could be as it was initially reported some sort of gang-related violence that was mistaken as terrorism. That said, Britain might have lowered its warning level, but across Europe and I just got back from talking to officials in Turkey, they have been waiting and watching for an ISIS comeback attack, especially as we approach the holidays. I don't know if Black Friday counts as a holiday, but the fact of the matter is, after the fall of DAISH, everyone has been waiting for the other shoe to drop. When are they going to declare, we're not gone despite your declarations otherwise.", "Well, this is a very fluid situation. We're going to take a quick break. We are waiting for the London police to give a press conference. We'll be right back with more."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "ALEX MARQUARDT, CNN ANCHOR", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MARQUARDT", "MAX FOSTER, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "FOSTER", "MARQUARDT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARQUARDT", "PAUL CRUICKSHANK, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST", "MARQUARDT", "CRUICKSHANK", "MARQUARDT", "PETER BERGEN, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "MARQUARDT", "KIMBERLY DOZIER, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "MARQUARDT"]}
{"id": "CNN-404135", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-06-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/30/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Dr. Fauci, CDC Director Robert Redfield To Testify Before Senate Committee", "utt": ["Happening within minutes, you can see the live picture on right-hand side of the screen, Dr. Anthony Fauci and CDC Director Robert Redfield, other top government health officials as well, will testify before a Senate committee as much of the U.S. is right now failing to contain the spread of coronavirus. With me now is Dr. Peter Hotez, Infectious Disease Specialist, he is also the Dean of the School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Hotez, good to have you on.", "Good morning.", "You say, and this is remarkable, there's no proof that partial closures will help stop the resurging coronavirus. Why is that, and what does that mean needs to be done?", "Well, we've never been in this situation before where, really, where we've had a successful closure and helped stem the transmission of the virus and then reopened potentially prematurely, and now we have virus transmission, and now, how do we put it back? So my point has been all along that we need to make some informed decisions, work with the epidemiologists, work with the CDC and get some information. what is the expectation on taking partial measures, meaning only focusing on the bars or only focusing on the restaurants and see do we anticipate that's going to a big impact, because the models looked nearly apocalyptic in terms of the rise that we're starting to see and will that have a substantial effect or not. I haven't seen evidence of that.", "I mean, don't we already have massive test cases for this looking at other countries that got hit first, right? Look at Europe, look at Italy, Spain, even China, though there are doubts about a lot of their data. But, still, can you not look at those countries to see what worked and what didn't work? And if so, why aren't we doing that?", "Well, what we know works is if we do what we did back in March, which is a complete stay-at-home and aggressive social distancing measures. What's less clear and is what the impact of partial measures are, especially in unique settings of the American southwestern metro areas and some low-income neighborhoods. That has to be looked at. I just want to see an informed plan and not be reckless about this, not wait three weeks and say, oh, my God, the deaths are starting to climb and the ICU admissions are now insurmountable, now what? We can't wait for that. So we've got to make some really informed choices right now, and the states I don't believe can do this on their own. This is where we need the full power of the CDC and the federal government. And what I'm looking for Dr. Redfield and the others to articulate this morning. So far, they have not done that.", "Well, they may, right? I mean, they have been consistent in their message, the Faucis and the Redfields. But the fact is the president has contradicted their message and some other Republican state leaders have followed that lead right on, for instance, masks, wearing masks, whether that helps or having indoor events. I mean, the president has continued to have indoor events and campaign rallies. I mean, everybody says you need to wait for a national plan. It does not appear to be happening. So what do you do in lieu of a national plan and national leadership to save lives?", "Well, this is what needs to be done. I don't believe that the current measures being taken and simply leaving it to the states that don't have the horsepower in order to really take on something so aggressive and so difficult as this virus. I think we'll not be able to get there without a full national plan with specific guidance on what we need to do now. And so far, we really have not seen that. What we're hearing from Secretary Azar and the others of a national plan is stockpiling PPE, manufacturing issues and ventilators and FEMA responses. And all that's good but it doesn't go that next higher level order, which is specific guidance in creating that road map for public health control. Every other country seems to have done that. We've not so far.", "The president and vice president's claim that the jump in cases is all or primarily because there's more testing. That's just not true. We've already mentioned that on this program multiple times. They have also said that the death rate is coming down. Is the there any truth to that?", "Well, the death rate has been coming down, responsible for that first initial aggressive level of social distancing. But now, with the cases accelerating at the level they are, I believe it's just a matter of time before the deaths start to climb again. Remember, it's not immediate. There's a lag of several weeks while people are on ventilators. And now we're also learning it's not just the number of deaths. We're seeing long-term consequences of this because of the assault of this virus on the vasculature, permanent injury to the lungs, neurologic complications, we're learning about even neuropsychiatric complications of this. This is an awful virus. So even beyond the deaths, there's a hidden burden of disease that we're not really talking about and articulating. And we've got to prevent it. We have the ability to prevent it and we need to prevent it.", "Well, we wish you luck in your work. Dr. Hotez, always good to have you on the program.", "Thanks so much.", "The president said he was never briefed on Russian bounties to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, but a source tells CNN it was, in fact, in one of his daily intelligence briefings. Whether he read it is another question, but we're going to have more on that, next."], "speaker": ["SCIUTTO", "DR. PETER HOTEZ, DEAN, SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AT BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE", "SCIUTTO", "HOTEZ", "SCIUTTO", "HOTEZ", "SCIUTTO", "HOTEZ", "SCIUTTO", "HOTEZ", "SCIUTTO", "HOTEZ", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "CNN-161081", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-1-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/21/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Google Gets A New CEO", "utt": ["Thirteen minutes past the hour now. It was a parade route. All right. It's a parade that's, of course, like any parade you've ever seen. You've got children going down the street, innocent folks in the community. The FBI is trying to figure out why somebody would put a bomb on a parade route on MLK Day. We're talking about Spokane, Washington. This investigation continues now. A lot of talk was about neo-Nazi, whether or not they had something to do with this. But the FBI saying so far saying no evidence of that but they are at this point looking into it. Local human rights advocates are suspecting that, but again, that is not the case right now so far as the evidence is showing. The bomb was diffused. Nobody was hurt. It did have a remote detonator attached to it, however, and the FBI says this could have killed several people.", "Well, sometimes a hot air balloon has a different plan. And this was the case in Melbourne, Australia, where -- what they were supposed to try to do is land on the beach, then the winds picked up and it forced a splash down in the middle of Port Phillip Bay. None of the 11 people on board the hot air balloon were hurt. But there were no lifejackets in the basket. The balloon company says it will now consider adding them. Yes, when you're sailing around in the air that close to the water, maybe you need them.", "An idea. I don't know what you do about this situation, though. Take a look at this video. Take a look at this boat. Somebody is on it. They are trying to get home. Now when I first saw this and maybe you're thinking too, why in the world would they do this? They had another option here. This is down off the coast of New Zealand, actually. The boat had another route it could have gone but it chose to go through these treacherous waters. Why? The guy had been out fishing for a week. They were itching to get home to their wives and to their families, so they took the most dangerous and treacherous route available. They did make it through, but just barely as you see with two boats. Nobody was hurt amazingly.", "Wow. If you get seasick, that's not a pretty sight. A glimmer of good news when it comes to the economy. According to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, which we're seeing for the first time this morning, more Americans are feeling optimistic about the economy. Here's look. This month, 24 percent of those polled say that the economy is in good shape. That's a - that's a good thing? I guess far less people felt like that last time. Seventy-five percent say they don't think the economic conditions are good right now. But, last year, only 18 percent thought the economy was in good shape and 81 percent thought the economy was poor. So, I guess, some baby steps.", "Some baby steps, but a lot of cities and towns, we've been talking about this week, are just in the red. We know this. But now, we got more evidence of it, in Iowa, in particular, and what they've had to cut now, free preschool is the situation there. $1.1 billion budget gap there. They're trying to make up some of that money. Republicans there said this is a way to do it. It was tough, it's tough for a lot of families, certainly, to deal with, but $500 million is going to be saved over the next three years, but a lot of states and cities trying to figure out what to do. And sometimes programs like that end up having to go, unfortunately. But those are the ones that have so much money attached to them. You can nickel and dime here and there, but unfortunately programs like that end up getting cut.", "Well, with so many states struggling to stop the red ink, especially California, they have a $17.9 billion budget gap, in fact the largest in the country right now. Policy makers in Washington are reportedly meeting behind closed doors to consider whether states should be able to declare bankruptcy. Proponents say that for some states it is the only way for them to get out from under these crushing debts. Critics, though, say it would impact pensions and, of course, the municipal bond market.", "I want to turn to Google now, a big shakeup at the top. The CEO is stepping down, being replaced. Our Stephanie Elam, \"Minding Your Business\" this morning, and you hear this initially, Stephanie, you think, well, he must not have been doing a good job, or they must be in some kind of trouble. Not really?", "Not really. If you take a look at SEC filing, it's - this is where this news sort of was hidden in there. You take a look, you also see that they reported their earnings, they - fourth quarter earnings, they came in at $8.4 billion, up 26 percent. Sounds like they're doing OK.", "They might be doing OK.", "I think the scope's OK.", "Well, so they - they just have a high bar if he wasn't getting it done, right?", "They really wanted $10 billion.", "OK. Maybe that's it.", "No. I'm just kidding. But when you take a look at what's going on at Google, you know, they've said for a long time that they've run the company like a triumvirate between the co-founder Sergey Brin and also Larry Page. At this point, Eric Schmidt says, you know, he has some other things he wants to do. In his tweet that he put out about it, he put, quote, \"Day-to-day adult supervision is no longer needed,\" is what he said. Larry Page will now become CEO. He held that title before and Sergey Brin would no longer be president, but they're saying at this point they want to work on different things and the - to get things approved at the company was taking too long and so, because of that, they feel like they can go ahead, make these changes, things can get through the chain faster, and it's more competitive out there in Silicon Valley. They've had a lot of top Google people leave the company recently, going to competitors, even like Facebook, which is pretty much right across the way there. So it's - it's really a case of where they're making changes to see how this is going to make it better. As you know, Larry Page, who was CEO before, he is a billionaire, and he makes $1 a year, you know, just ceremonially. I mean, you know -", "$1 a year, salary a year (ph).", "Right, because, you know, you don't really - you don't really need money when a billionaire, and he owns a helicopter and he knows how to fly it.", "That's awesome.", "I think it's at Moffett Field, actually, since - T.J., since", "Yes. It's there, right there.", "Right there off the highway.", "Well, and also, you want to keep that growth going, no matter how much you make.", "Right.", "You don't want to stop growing, right? You want to keep the business moving forward. Of course, as the days move forward we're probably going to hear more about what exactly was going on with Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.", "Right.", "You know, people are going to want to know -", "There's always a back story.", "There's always a back story.", "But they're also trying to expand in the smartphone market, with the Android very popular. So, moving beyond just -", "Right. Beyond the search engine.", "--", "Right. Exactly. You got to innovate to stay on top, right? So that's what we're seeing.", "Stephanie, good to see you this morning.", "Good to see you, too.", "All right. We'll talk to you again.", "All right.", "And still to come on AMERICAN MORNING, the Metrodome's roof has fallen. We know that part. Remember this? We saw when that 17 inches of snow just came rolling through. But it might actually take a lot longer than they initially expected to get it back up any time soon.", "Also, this morning, President Donald Trump? Well, why not? It's 19 minutes past the hour."], "speaker": ["HOLMES", "CHETRY", "HOLMES", "CHETRY", "HOLMES", "CHETRY", "HOLMES", "STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "HOLMES", "ELAM", "HOLMES", "ELAM", "HOLMES", "ELAM", "CHETRY", "ELAM", "CHETRY", "ELAM", "HOLMES", "ELAM", "ELAM", "CHETRY", "ELAM", "CHETRY", "ELAM", "CHETRY", "ELAM", "CHETRY", "ELAM", "CHETRY", "ELAM", "HOLMES", "ELAM", "HOLMES", "ELAM", "CHETRY", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-108932", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-8-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/02/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "IDF: 215 Hezbollah Rockets Fired From Lebanon; Hospital Targeted in Raid Used as Hezbollah Base; Relief & Red Tape; John McCain Interview; Israel Releases Video of IDF Raid in Baalbeck, Lebanon", "utt": ["And to our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM, where new pictures and information are arriving all the time. Standing by, CNN reporters across the United States and around the world to bring you today's top stories. Happening now, it's midnight in the Middle East war zone. Hezbollah fires a record number of rockets into northern Israel and one reaches farther than ever before. New details on Israel's deepest strike yet. Also coming up, thousands of Israeli troops try to grind down Hezbollah on the ground in southern Lebanon. And a CNN exclusive. We're on board an Israeli warship blockading the coast of Lebanon. And we're on the scene as a relief ship reaches Lebanon with desperately-needed supplies. And it's 1:00 a.m. in Baghdad, where Iraq's president now says his country's own forces can take over security by the end of this year. Can American troops count on that? I'll ask Senator John McCain. He's coming up this hour live in THE SITUATION ROOM. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. After three weeks of warfare, fresh signs today that the Middle East conflict is actually widening. Hezbollah launching 215 rockets into northern Israel. That's the most it's fired on a single day in this three-week war, and one actually fell in the West Bank, the deepest strike yet. The Israel military released new details and new pictures from its overnight raid deep into northeastern Lebanon. The IDF says the hospital it raided in Baalbeck was used as a Hezbollah base. It says it killed 10 militants and brought five more back to Israel. And as thousands of Israeli ground troops battle Hezbollah face to face in southern Lebanon, diplomats at the United Nations say the U.N. Security Council could take up a cease-fire resolution this week. They say the United States and France are working out differences over the terms. No resolution yet. CNN's Brent Sadler is standing by in Beirut. Let's go to northern Israel first. John Roberts is on the front lines for us once again tonight. What's the latest, John?", "Good afternoon to you, Wolf. Late tonight, the Israeli Defense Forces released video of that daring raid into Baalbeck in the northern part of the Bekaa Valley, very close to the Syrian border. It's night scope video, the commandos going in. Here's what is shows. According to Israeli Defense Forces, the people that you see on the ground are Hezbollah fighters scattering as those Black Hawk helicopters bristling with those special operations commandos are coming into that area. We also see video of Israeli troops on the ground as they prepare to go into a Hezbollah hospital which the Israeli army says is not a hospital so much as it is a base of operations for Hezbollah. They went in, they killed a number of Hezbollah fighters, according to the Israeli army, about 10. They also managed to arrest five Hezbollah fighters, though Hezbollah says they weren't guerillas, those were civilians. And they also say that they got a treasure trove of information. The Israeli military going through files, strategy, intelligence from Hezbollah. They say it was a very good operation. All of the Israeli forces returned, there were no injuries. And now they have what Israeli officials believe could be five bargaining chips for future negotiations between Israel and Hezbollah. Of course Hezbollah still has those two Israeli soldiers that were kidnapped back on July 12th, holding them hostage. Now Israel has what it believes are some high-value Hezbollah midlevel leaders, perhaps even some upper-level leaders that they can use in future negotiations with Hezbollah. We also got today some video exclusively from the Israeli Defense Forces of operations around the area of Maroun al-Ras. The video shows what the Israeli Defense Forces say is a missile launcher right next to a mosque, proof, the army says, that Hezbollah is using religious sites and other areas in the community to hide its missile launchers. And they also provided for us video of them using what are called fuel bombs to clear an Israeli -- at least a Hezbollah outpost of suspected booby traps. They're going in, they're clearing out these areas, they're trying to hold the ground in preparation for that international stabilization force to come in. Now, we should remind you, though, that stabilization force has not even been agreed to yet, but Israeli military and political leaders do believe that in the coming days the United Nations is going to say, time to wrap it up, we've got the framework for a cease-fire, we've got agreement on a stabilization force, now it's time to end the hostilities -- Wolf.", "John Roberts in northern Israel. Thanks very much. We continue to hear that shelling going on behind you. Let's head north to Beirut. Brent Sadler is on the scene for us to report on today's developments there -- Brent.", "Wolf, that attack, that commando raid into Baalbeck really did stir up a hornets' nest. In response to what the Israelis have been saying, a Hezbollah M.P. here, Hash Hassan (ph), said that -- in firing back to what Ehud Olmert said, that Hezbollah was being destroyed, had almost been destroyed, \"How come?\" said this Hezbollah M.P. member of the Lebanese parliament. \"How come Hezbollah can still fire a record number of those rockets, those Katyushas into northern Israel as we saw today?\" So quite clearly, Wolf, Hezbollah is being able to use its historic tactics of guerrilla-style warfare to the maximum, still being able to use the natural terrain, the cover of south Lebanon, and the knowledge of the terrain in south Lebanon to carry on with these rocket launchings. There were more of those Katyushas fired from the southern port city of Tyre. Israeli jets picked up the trails of smoke and pretty quickly launched retaliatory strikes. And there is concern among the Lebanese now, because there's been a sudden run in petrol here, because two-thirds rationing now effectively in place at the gas stations. A real concern among Lebanese that, even though diplomatic efforts are under way at the United Nations over the components, a mandate of an international stabilization force, Lebanese are now getting downwind of real serious concerns that this is going to be a longer war, rather than one that might be finishing any time soon. One quick footnote, Wolf. I was down south near the border for a couple of days. I saw a tremendous amount of devastation. If I flash back, you'll remember to 1982, when the Israeli Defense Forces invaded Lebanon to sweep out the PLO. Compare that destruction to the destruction today, there simply is no comparison. Much of the south is being laid to waste by what the Israelis are doing to destroy Hezbollah, in terms of infrastructure, village setups, buildings, businesses, so on and so forth -- Wolf.", "I remember those days well. I was in Beirut, together with you, back in '82. Brent, thank you very much. And as the fighting rages on in southern Lebanon, civilians face an increasingly desperate plight. Relief supplies are slowly trickling into some of the hard-hit areas. CNN's Karl Penhaul is in the port city of Tyre -- Karl.", "Wolf, that 48-hour lull in Israeli airstrikes does seem to have allowed many civilians to get out of those outlying villages and out to safety. But aid organizations say there is still a growing humanitarian crisis, and quite often the problem is getting aid to where it's most needed.", "A welcome sight for a war-torn city: 200 tons of international aid sails into Tyre harbor. The ship's hull is emblazoned with freshly painted Red Cross, the guarantee of safe passage past the Israeli warships blockading Lebanon's coast. Today, it's bringing basic food supplies and cooking kits. (on camera): It's taking", "You can take the decision upon the minister of energy.", "Before heading into the countryside with these supplies, aid officials must get a pledge from the warring parties not to attack their aid convoys.", "We send maps with key positions of all of the villages we want to stop at. And we have this information passed on to the Lebanese side and to the Israeli side. And by the next morning we normally have either a green light or a red light.", "After a 24-hour lull, Israel resumed airstrikes Wednesday morning around Tyre in retaliation against Hezbollah launching more rockets from the city's outskirts. For now it's too dangerous for the Doctors Without Borders charity to venture outside Tyre, so they're distributing washing kits, along with diapers and powdered baby milk to around 400 refugees at this school in town. Relief worker Hakim Khaldi says the risks are keeping many other aid organizations away.", "It's quite difficult because there is not so many international organizations, but mainly we found local organizations, many Lebanese organizations who have been doing a very, very huge job.", "Many of the refugees are impatient after three weeks of Israeli air and artillery bombardment. This man tries to fight one aid worker as he grows frustrated with the long wait. Others drag him out of punching range. Back at the port, dockers work fast to unload the", "More aid ships are scheduled to be sailing into the port of Tyre in the coming days. But as the International Red Cross itself says, it will still be a question of getting safe passage from the warring parties to ensure the aid gets to those border villages -- Wolf.", "Karl Penhaul reporting. Thank you. Let's go up to New York and Jack Cafferty -- Jack.", "Thanks, Wolf. Well, somebody has finally worked up the nerve to say it out loud. We have a constitutional crisis in this country. So says Congressman John Conyers of Michigan. He's the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. And in an upcoming report, he describes what he calls an alarming pattern by the Bush administration of operating outside the law and with no meaningful oversight by Congress. Conyers says the Bush administration may have broken a total of 26 separate laws and regulations, including misleading Congress and the American people about the decision to go to war in Iraq; manipulating intelligence about the justification for the war; encouraging torture and degrading treatment of prisoners in Iraq; allowing inappropriate retaliation against critics; and approving unlawful domestic surveillance. Conyers says these things have happened because a Republican- controlled Congress has refused to do its job of providing oversight and conducting formal investigation into this stuff, thus allowing an unchecked abuse of power on the part of the White House. We called the White House for a response to all of this, but instead of addressing any of the questions that are raised by Congressman Conyers, we were told to call the Republican National Committee. Here is the question: A top House Democrat says the Constitution is in crisis. Do you agree? E-mail your thoughts to CaffertyFile@CNN.com or go to CNN.com/CaffertyFile -- Wolf.", "Jack Cafferty in New York. Thank you very much. And there's a new development happening right now involving the actor-director Mel Gibson and his arrest in recent days for drunk driving. Let's bring in Zain. She's got details -- Zain.", "Wolf, CNN's confirmed that prosecutors have charged actor Mel Gibson with a misdemeanor drunken driving charge, having an elevated blood alcohol level, as well as having an open container of liquor in his car. As you know, he was stopped around 2:00 in the morning on Friday on Pacific Coast Highway after a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy allegedly observed him driving his Lexus at something like more than 85 miles an hour. There was apparently an open bottle of tequila allegedly found in his car. As well, he was accused, as you know, of making anti-Semitic comments. Since then, he has apologized, has said that he never believes any of the things that he said. And there are also -- he has also issued a report that he will be in rehab soon. But Wolf, this is the latest development. Prosecutors now charging him with a misdemeanor.", "Zain, thank you. We'll continue to watch this story. Up ahead, our exclusive look at Israel's naval blockade of Lebanon. We're going to take you on board an Israeli warship that's in charge of this operation and show you how it's monitoring the waters off the coast of Lebanon. Also, we'll talk about the Middle East crisis and the war of Iraq with Senator John McCain. He's standing by to join us live right here in THE SITUATION ROOM. Plus, Iraq's president predicting when his forces might be able to take over security from American troops. Is he being too optimistic? We'll get reaction from the Pentagon. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN ROBERTS, CNN SR. 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{"id": "CNN-330610", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-01-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/16/nday.04.html", "summary": "Japanese Broadcaster Apologizes For False Missile Alert", "utt": ["We are following some breaking news for you. Japan's national broadcaster, NHK, now apologizing for a text alert that reported that North Korea had launched another missile. This, of course, comes on the heels of Hawaii's false alert that caused pandemonium. Paula Hancocks is live in Seoul with the latest. Paula, what happened?", "Well, Alisyn, this happened just before 7:00 evening local time and it was an alert that came out by the state broadcaster NHK. And the alert read, \"NHK news alert. North Korea likely to have launched missile. The government J-Alert: evacuate inside the building or underground.\" Now, there was no missile. There was nothing coming. And just a few minutes later they corrected themselves, saying, \"The news alert sent earlier about North Korea missile was a mistake. No government J-Alert was issued.\" But the fact is there have been J-Alerts over recent months because there have been North Korean missiles flying either towards Japan or over the top of Japan. And certainly, residents would have been very worried by those J-Alerts and people did take cover. So this is a very unfortunate mistake. And as you say, it's the second mistake in just a few days after that alert in Hawaii saying that there was a ballistic missile on its way -- take cover. So it's really quite remarkable that you can have two very similar alerts that are completely wrong in just a sort amount of time. And, of course, they do provoke reactions, especially in Japan, because the North Korean missile crisis is of a concern to residents there -- Chris.", "All right, Paula. Thank you very much. The timing is terrible. There's no question about that. We're also following breaking news out of South Carolina. Four police officers were shot while responding to a domestic violence call. It happened just outside York late Monday. Police say the suspect took off from the house and fired at officers near the scene. Two of the officers had to be airlifted to the hospital. Police are not disclosing the severity of the injuries yet. The 47-year-old suspect in custody.", "Pope Francis expressing pain and shame over Chile's sexual abuse scandal. The Pontiff making those comments during a speech to government officials in Chile. Several churches were attacked ahead of his visits, some with firebombs. The Pope's scheduled to celebrate an open-air mass in Santiago today and meet members of an indigenous group tomorrow before heading to Peru on Thursday.", "We're getting a look at just an amazing video. Did you just see what happened there? That was a car in Santa Ana, California. This is dashcam video. The car hit the median and it just launched into the second-story of a building. Surveillance video is what showed us, and it nearly clips another vehicles, flies into the air. A second later, you see an oncoming bus drive through the same smoke that's left by the crash. Imagine if that second wasn't there what would have happened there. It was a dentist's office. That's where that thing is right now. The driver arrested on suspicion of DUI. No one was hurt. That car is in the second story of the building.", "I mean, by seconds no one was hurt --", "It would have been --", "-- or killed.", "It would have been catastrophic.", "But, how does a car catch air like that just from hitting the median?", "I guess when it hit the median it literally launched it like it was a ramp. So you had to be going really fast and perpendicular to the median, which means he was going the wrong way, as well.", "All right. Don't drink and drive is the lesson, I feel, from that. All right. Wait until you see this. This is one firefighter's lifesaving catch. One of the heroes who witnessed this rescue joins us, next."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "NPR-37262", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2009-03-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102390073", "title": "U.S. Automakers May Get Another Lifeline", "summary": "Days before a deadline for General Motors and Chrysler to prove they can be viable, major issues still aren't resolved. But there is every indication the companies will live on past the March 31 deadline, and, perhaps, receive more federal aid with conditions.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. At the White House today, President Obama said that he will lay out his plan for General Motors and Chrysler by early next week.", "What we're expecting is that the automakers are going to be working with us to restructure. We will provide them some help.", "The government has already lent the company $17 billion to stay afloat. But GM and Chrysler still have to solve some big financial problems. By next Tuesday, they are expected to show the government that they can become viable. Frank Langfitt covers the auto industry for NPR, and he joins me now. And Frank, where does all this stand? What's the White House likely to do?", "Well, you know, the key terms for this huge taxpayer loan was to really slash their costs. And they haven't quite met those conditions yet. And one of the big things is restructuring billions of dollars in debts and obligations. The government seems willing to give some more money with more conditions. But it's not clear.", "Are they going to hold this money over the head of the companies or are they going to give some more and set another deadline? You know, one of the concerns here is just dragging this thing out. The bottom line is the government did set a deadline and by all indications, it's going to pass without complete resolution.", "Now, one of the options has been bankruptcy, either for one or both of the companies. And there have been recent reports suggesting that it's not the way they're going. Is it off the table?", "Well, you know, the signs are they're not really considering bankruptcy. One task force advisor last, White House task force advisor, last week, Steven Rattner, downplayed that possibility. But people I talked to still say, you know, it could happen. And President Obama hinted at it today.", "If they're not willing to make the changes and the restructurings that are necessary, then I'm not willing to have taxpayer money chase after bad money.", "And that said, there's no real strong indication right now the White House is thinking this way. Many people who talked to the auto task force warned against it. They said there could be huge job losses, and we're already in a deep recession. But, you know, without the threat of bankruptcy, the White House just doesn't have as much leverage to force some of these deep painful cuts.", "Now, you mentioned that the automakers have not met conditions of the loans that the government made back in December. What's the biggest thing they haven't resolved?", "Well, you know, for GM it's getting rid of debt with bondholders and the union. And essentially this is a $47 billion game of chicken. That's what GM owns - owes the bondholders and the union. It has these obligations to the union for retiree health care. And it wants to give the bondholders about 33 cents on the dollar, the union 50 cents on the dollar and the rest in stock, but both sides are really worried that this stock could be worthless over time.", "And right now nobody's budging. They're waiting for a better deal. But as GM is waiting, it's still doing other cuts. Today it announced a 7,500 more hourly workers taking buyouts and leaving.", "That's the good one. That's the GM story.", "Yes.", "Chrysler is seen as the weakest of the Detroit car companies. What does the White House see as Chrysler's future?", "Well, the administration seems to realize that Chrysler is just too small and vulnerable to survive on its own, and sees a potential for a kind of long-term viability with a deal with Fiat, you know, the Italian carmaker. And Fiat has offered to bring some small cars to the United States - Chrysler doesn't have a lot of good small cars - and take a stake in the company. But I got to say, Robert, there are real doubts about this.", "I talked to someone today who talked to the task force, was asked about it, told them it's a bad idea - too long to get those cars here to the United States, could take two years to get this all going. And last week I was in Detroit talking to a lot of people and just about everyone I spoke with, everybody outside of Auburn Hills, that's where Chrysler's headquarter is, they think that it makes more sense to wind down Chrysler.", "And their argument is pretty simple, that in this market and given the economy, and it makes more sense to have two strong companies instead of three potentially weaker ones.", "GM and Ford, as opposed to GM, Ford and Chrysler.", "Absolutely.", "NPR's Frank Langfitt, thanks a lot.", "Happy to do it."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "President BARACK OBAMA", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "FRANK LANGFITT", "FRANK LANGFITT", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "FRANK LANGFITT", "President BARACK OBAMA", "FRANK LANGFITT", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "FRANK LANGFITT", "FRANK LANGFITT", "SIGEL", "FRANK LANGFITT", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "FRANK LANGFITT", "FRANK LANGFITT", "FRANK LANGFITT", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "FRANK LANGFITT", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "FRANK LANGFITT"]}
{"id": "CNN-331595", "program": "HALA GORANI TONIGHT", "date": "2018-01-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/29/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Controversy Takes Center Stage at Grammy Awards; Few Female Winners at Grammy Awards; Fitness Trackers Reveal Remote U.S. Military Bases; The Battle of the Beach Chairs; More than 100 Killed in Afghanistan Over Nine Days; Kremlin: U.S. Attempting To Meddle With Our Election; CNN Goes To Front Line With Yemeni Troops; E.U. Lays Out Terms For Transition Talks.", "utt": ["Welcome back. You are watching HALA GORANI TONIGTH. For three years we have been reporting on the conflicts between the Saudi-backed government in Yemen and the Houthi rebels. A conflict that has created what the U.N. has called the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. But what you are about to see is purely rare. CNN's Nic Robertson was given unusual access to the war and gives us an up-close look at Yemeni troops on the front lines. Here's Nic's report.", "Yemeni government soldiers are taking us to their front line. It's a bone crunching slog up mountains just outside the capital, Sanaa. (on camera): This part of the mountain is so steep, we've had to get out of the truck and walk up for over 2,000 meters, more than 6,000 feet up in the mountains. (voice-over): The fight to get here is grinding and unforgiving as the terrain because camps feet wide, clinging to the rock face. (on camera): The Yemeni military is putting a big show for us here. A lot of soldiers out in force for (inaudible) rockets at the side of the road. This soldier has a message for Houthi he tells me, he is going to come and kill them, (inaudible) said. (voice-over): He has good reason to be cheerful. In recent months, the Yemeni Army has been gaining ground, 85 percent of the country's territory now with the elected government. Only 15 percent with Houthi rebels. Along the way, we passed a large Houthi military base destroyed during Saudi-led coalition airstrikes. The Houthis are still close. Soldiers hurry to show us the discovery they have made. (on camera): Even though the whole base was destroyed by airstrikes, this is -- we are hiding out in a tunnel here, it goes 25 yards into the mountain. Soldiers are going to show us in. (voice-over): They lead us deeper inside passed bedding and tables. (on camera): It's rigged up for lighting as well. There's a battery here and inverters so that they could run their equipment and it is going deeper and deeper into the mountain. It's huge. (voice-over): Inside here, the Houthis sent out the coalition airstrikes and it's what makes the Houthis a tough target today. (on camera): It's incredibly complex there are breakouts all the way along for different sleeping areas, kitchen area, most sleeping areas up here. It's a very, very sophisticated cave system built here. (voice-over): After several hours, we finally emerge at the top, looking down towards the capital. (on camera): We are keeping low here because we have been told the Houthis might (inaudible) from the valley below. We've been told we are about 10 miles, 16 kilometers from the capital center. Maybe double that to the center of the city. We are being close doesn't made the battle any easier. (voice-over): It's wind sweat and desolate but vital to push the Houthis from the capital and retake control of the country. (on camera): So, I can see a small town down here. Are there Houthi in this town? (voice-over): The commander in charge up here tells me he plans to hold this high ground, but he does not want to send troops into the capital because he wants to avoid civilian casualties. Both he and the coalition that back him are accused by the U.N. and others of not doing enough to prevent civilian casualties. In the safety of his command post, a cave cut into the mountainside, he explains more. With a little more equipment, we could take the capital in a week, he says, but that is a decision for our political leaders. We were taken and pillaged by the Houthis. Until that decision comes, these soldiers will be toughing it out on the mountaintop toiling up and down these tortuous tracks. Nic Robertson, CNN, just outside Sanaa, Yemen.", "Nic, thank you for that report. Now the European Union is ruffling the feathers of Brexiters with a hardline on transition talks. European chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, says London can't be confused to what it wants. Brussels says the U.K. must allow for the free movement of people that must abide by European law including changes to that law. The European Court of Justice will apply in the U.K. and Europe wants the transition to end on December 31st, 2020. Now that is several months earlier than the British Prime Minister Theresa May wants. Let's go straight to Bianca Nobilo live in Brussels for us. It seems then that the E.U. is saying to the U.K., abide by our rules, but you won't be a beneficiary of any law deals.", "That's precisely what the E.U. was saying for the period of transition whether that somewhere between 21 and 27 months the E.U. is saying to the United Kingdom that you have to accept all of the E.U. rules and regulations, but you could have no decision-making power. Now also according to the E.U. need to accept the oversight of the European Court of Justice. These are all things that as you mentioned are really going to aggravate Brexiters in Britain who want to see the U.K. regain full sovereignty as soon as possible. They've criticize what the E.U. is wanting here saying it would make Britain essentially a vassal state having to take all of these rules but having no input in designing them.", "Bianca, viewers here in the U.K. would have seen this extraordinary interview between President Trump of the United States and (inaudible), which aired last night here in the U.K. In it, President Trump said first of all that he would do -- would have done Brexit differently, whatever that might have been. But he also talks about the pecking order, who is at the front of the queue or the back of the queue when it comes to making deals in a post-Brexit world. What kind of impact would that have had on those doing negotiating in Brussels?", "The impact of that interview has certainly rippled across the channel because today we heard from the chief spokesperson for the European Commission who had something to say about Trump too namely that Trump would have taken this tough stance on the Brexit negotiations than Theresa May have. But also, the fact that Trump said that deals between the U.S. and the E.U., which amounts to about $1 trillion a year was very, very unfair. He had a few critical words for the way that the E.U. approaches that negotiations. The E.U. responded that if the U.S. implied any form of restrictive trade measure in the future they would respond swiftly and appropriately. It was quite an unusually stilly response from the European Commission. It might not sound like a couch in those terms, but it was so it's certainly something to watch and Trump has said that the U.K. will very much be at the front of the queue for striking trade deals in the years to come.", "So, some good news there and potentially for Theresa May if indeed she is still prime minister when it comes to striking any deals with the United States. But in the meantime, she is facing something of a revolt back home starting with her own cabinet?", "This has been the case really since the election started not to go her away in June 2017. So, the issue in the cabinet is split very markedly between those who want to see a little divergence as possible like the Chancellor Philip Hammond between the European Union and Britain because they think that the best way to preserve jobs and the economy. And of course, you have Brexiters and they are getting to be increasingly well organized (inaudible) who thinks that the prime minister might be softening her stance and diluting Brexit. That's their number one fear. They've been prepared over the last few months to (inaudible) a little bit of watering down. Keeping their eye on that end goal of leaving the European Union, but now it looks like the U.K. to be a vassal state as they are calling it in the period of transition, they're becoming a little bit grumpier. We are hearing more and more in the papers about the fact that they are not willing to support the prime minister if she is going to do that. So, the support of the Brexiters of Theresa May is really conditional. If they see Brexit not going the way that they wanted to then there really will be even more question marks over the prime minister's authority -- Hannah.", "Testing times to come indeed. Bianca Nobilo live for us in Brussels. Bianca, thank you. Now still to come, tonight, should politics and music mix? The Grammy Awards take on a distinctly political tone and not everyone is amused. We'll explain all next. Plus, the Larry Nassar case shocks the world. Now, U.S. lawmakers are set to take action. The details on that coming up.", "Welcome back. The Grammy Awards are a sleek, big budget celebration of the music industry's major names and this year many celebrities use the event to showcase serious political issues, from immigration to sexual harassments. As Brian Stelter now reports some high-profile viewers thought that struck the wrong chord.", "He had a long- time fear of being poisoned, one reason why he like to eat at McDonalds --", "Hillary Clinton making a surprise appearance in the Grammy Awards skit featuring celebrities doing dramatic readings on the tell-all book \"Fire and Fury.\"", "Trump did not enjoy his own inauguration. He started to get angry and hurt. The stars were determined to embarrass him. I wasn't definitely there.", "Trump was not happy his 6:30 dinner with Steve Bannon then more to his liking, he was in bed by that time with a cheeseburger. Why am I even reading this", "The skit prompting backlash from Mr. Trump's allies. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley tweeting that the skit ruined the award show. And the president's son going after Clinton, calling the opportunity to read and asked her from the book a great consolation prize for losing the presidency. Trump's denigrating comments toward immigrants from African nations which he reportedly called shitholes coming up repeatedly.", "Bring us your tired, your poor, and any immigrant who seeks refuge.", "Blessed are the", "Prior to U2's performance, Cuban-Mexican immigrant singer, Camila Cabello paying tribute to Dreamers.", "Tonight in this room full of music's Dreamers, we remember that this country was built by Dreamers, for Dreamers, chasing the American dream.", "A number of artists also honoring the #MeToo movement wearing white roses in solidarity.", "We come in peace, but we mean business. And to those who would dare try to silent us, we offer you two words, Time's Up.", "Singer Kesha who has been tied up in a legal battle with her producer over alleged sexual abuse with the moment of the night given an emotional performance of her hit song \"Praying.\"", "I hope you find a peace falling on your knees, praying.", "Brian Stelter with that report. But let's get more now from the CNN's entertainment reporter, Chloe Melas. Chloe is in New York for us now. What's the feeling here then Chloe? Is this the idea that artists just simply oversetting the mark in talking politics and all their fans want them to do is perform?", "I think that there's only -- it's very small amount of people that feel like politics shouldn't have a role at the Grammy Awards., At the end of the day, musicians are -- their goal is to either sing about things that have happened in their personal lives or to talk about things that have happening in all of our lives and politics and the MeToo movement, especially here in the student states has played such an emphasis, especially over the past few months. Things are getting so heated on both friends. So for them to address these things at the Grammy Awards shows that they're doing their job. Had they not addressed any of this, you would have seen backlash on that, that they hadn't gone hard enough on Donald Trump or that they hadn't addressed the MeToo movement. They did both of those things and I think that they did what they needed to do and they did it well. There are some scenic though out there who was saying that this is just a fad that people -- celebrities and artists are just on the back of it, simply because -- when truth comes down to it, there were very few if any women who actually took home a golden gramophone last night at the Grammys.", "OK. Well, those are two separate issues. So, yes, there was not - - there weren't many females that wanted the Grammy Awards. It all comes down to representation having more female nominees. The recording academy president today, Neil Portnow came under fire for an interview where he did, where he said that it all comes down to women having to step up to the plate and to do more. But we already have a lot of really strong female voices in Hollywood, in the music industry. But at the end of the day, this is all very important for this to be happening right now at this point in time and for all of it to have happened last night at the Grammy Awards, it was so incredibly powerful, especially like Brian Stelter said in his package, Kesha's performance was -- gave me goose bumps.", "Another time when we get with seeing artists, entertainers stepping into the political field is potentially today, that during a People's State of the Union, this is ahead of President Trump's official State of the Union Address held tomorrow evening. Is this just another example though of music fans in particular who are going to be looking out for their idol saying, can you just perform and stay out of this? I need a break. I need a break from politics.", "If people don't want to watch it, then they don't have to tune in. I think it's really interesting, it's counter programming. You're going to have Common who's going to be performing one of his hit songs. You're going to have Whoppi Goldberg. A lot of really big stars who have been very open. Lee Daniels. People who have been very vocal about being not on Donald Trump's team. Something I wanted to say earlier though is that Hollywood really has been affecting change. It's not just about wearing black at the Golden Globes or having white roses at the Grammy Awards. They have started this Time's Up initiative. And they've already started a legal defense fund that has millions of dollars in the banks for people to be able to use that for those who can't afford to fight their own legal battles. So change is coming. As you saw with Kevin Spacey, Sony cutting him out of their movie, \"All the Money in the World.\" Netflix dropping him. Companies aren't standing for this type of behavior anymore. So the more that powerful people speak up, I think the change will happen even faster.", "Chloe, great to get your perspective. Appreciate. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "OK. To the American capitol now where the House is set to vote on a bill in the coming hours. One of them is to protect Olympic athletes from abuse. The votes most accelerate most accelerated after last week's sentencing of a disgraced USA gymnastics Dr. Larry Nassar. The bill would create an organization within the US Olympic committee that would handle abuse reports and involve law enforcement when indeed necessary. Let's cross over to Capitol Hill now then. CNN Sunlen Serfaty is there for us. Sunlen, assuming that this legislation is indeed passed, what would be the immediate impact of it, not just for a U.S. Olympic athletes but for others, potentially as well.", "That's right. And this new bill would apply not only to Olympic athletes, but all other minor amateur sports organizations on that you have young athletes coming to contacts with adults. And as you said, this is a bill that likely will go through this week, but it should be noted that this is an effort that's been worked on for quite some time up here on Capitol Hill last year. It was passed in the House and it went over to the Senate. They made some small changes to it, sends it back to the House. That procedure aside, most likely will go through and this will become law. As you said, it really ups the mandatory training for adults that come into contact with those young athletes requiring -- increase requirements for reporting abuse too. This is a major thing, because as we saw in the case of Larry Nassar, there were many cases where things were flagged, red flags were put up and people were informed, but there was really no direct sort of incident reports that are made available. So certainly this is something that Congress is in the middle of the spotlight being on this case, saying look, we've got to do better, we've got to pass this legislation, so it would up to increase the training and the requirement for information, so.", "The spotlight very much on that case of Larry Nassar, but also Congress has failed to have their spotlight on it in recent weeks and recent months as well about sexual harassment allegations. Is Congress getting its own House in order while it also tries to pass legislation for other organizations?", "They are trying to put simply. This is something that we've been reporting on for months. Really in the wake of the MeToo scandal just how big of a problem it is up here on Capitol Hill, the fact that you have many young aides working up here. The fact that you have an antiquated system which makes the process of coming forth and reporting sexual harassments, sexual abuse, it makes it difficult at best and really turns a lot of people away from reporting it at worst. So this is something that Capitol Hill has been working on for months. There is bipartisan legislation over at the House that likely will get a vote at the end of the month. And what it does is really overhaul the system of reporting up here on Capitol Hill and mandates training for members and their offices. This is something that was not mandated before. So clearly Capitol Hill and members of Congress saying, look, this is a problem that not only affects athletes, not only affects corporations, but it affects Capitol Hill as well.", "And lawmakers would know that the awaiting President Trump's first State of the Union Address expected tomorrow night, of course. Might we see some kind of a statement from lawmakers, perhaps in support of the MeToo movement or Time's Up?", "Yes. You definitely will. I think that we'll hear that visually and verbally as well. Certainly many members have been very outspoken. Not only calling some like Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator Gillibrand calling for President Trump to resign over the allegations made against him. But you will see visually many members wearing all black in the audience, that's of course in solidarity with the MeToo movement and we know that some members just put simply are not going to go tomorrow night. They don't want to attend the address in there making that their protest.", "OK. Sunlen Serfaty live for us there in Washington. Thank you. Now, more than 130 people killed in just the past nine days. Afghanistan is dealing with a new wave of devastating attacks. The latest targeting a military base in Kabul, the capital today. Nick Paton Walsh has all the details.", "Well, Hannah, it has been a devastating week. Nine days really those living in the Afghan capital of Kabul and what's supposed to be a ring of steel and to which many people have fled the violence embroiling so much of Afghanistan. And today's attack against the military academy is just another instance of the insurgence that made it performs trying to show they can project power more or less wherever they feel they can. That's the military academy the day weekend before Saturday. The Taliban attacks part of diplomatic area, a checkpoint there near a hospital and an ambulance used as a suicide car bomb, horrifying tactic, claimed over 100 lives. Then we see earlier, a few days, a charity for children attacking these of the country and then the weekend before the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul attacked by the Taliban as well. This is about making sure that the Afghan government supports its supporters begin to doubt whether their security forces can in fact keep them safe, particular given the attack against the hotel was specifically warned about by the Americans a matter of days earlier. There's not a worrying trends here too and there are two forces of work here. The first is, the Taliban who are quite clearly trying to compete it seems for this of the extremist low grounds being the most brutal, the most savage against ISIS who obviously the rest of the new part of the insurgency who lost of territory in Iraq and Syria, but seen some sort of traction take form perhaps amongst younger fighters seeking a new kind of branding inside of Afghanistan. These two groups it does appear are trying to sort of out to do each other so to speak. None of that competition is remotely any comfort for ordinary Afghans who have seen now 16 years of war slowly erode their ability to have daily lives as one might normally expect inside their country. And now, we are into perhaps a new face in which President Donald Trump has made it clear that personally he pledged that he will win Afghanistan is sending hundreds of American troops closer to the front lines now to train Afghan security personnel. On top of that too, there are some signs the military certainly is trying to reduce the transparency of how this war is full of one key indicator about how well they were doing the number of Afghan soldiers or police or being killed or injured, well, that's been classified now for a number of months. Although many concerns that is we're getting to more of this fighting season that had. Let's hope that information would be available, but still all of this absolutely no solace for those over 100 families grieving from the losses of this past devastating nine days, Hannah.", "Nick Paton Walsh reporting there for us. OK. Still to come on the program tonight, how a fitness app have turned into a security headaches of the U.S. military. 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{"id": "CNN-238891", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2014-09-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/15/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "NFL Star Accused of Child Abuse", "utt": ["Here's some breaking news. Adrian Peterson through his attorney is vehemently denying a report from KHOU in Houston of allegations of abuse of a second child. The station reports the alleged incident happened last June while the child was visiting Adrian, his father. CNN cannot confirm this affiliate's reporting. Meanwhile, in the case in which he has been charged, Peterson says he's not a perfect parent, but he's also not a child abuser. CNN's Jean Casarez has his explanation.", "Do the pictures of Adrian Peterson's 4-year-old son, welt marks and bruises, tell a different story than his explanation?", "Right now, there are many people in our country who believe it is a justified form of discipline. They learned it from their parents. They feel like they turned out OK. They don't necessarily believe the research, which shows that it leads to negative consequences.", "In a statement released Monday by Adrian Peterson, the NFL player states: \"I disciplined my son the way I was disciplined as a child,\" going on to admit he caused an unintentional injury. \"But deep in my heart, I have always believed I could have been one of those kids that was lost in the streets without the discipline instilled in me by my parents and by other relatives.\" The emotional issue was addressed by Whoopi Goldberg in ABC's season premiere of \"The View.\"", "I don't want every Tom, Dick, and Harry to be able to tell me -- if I decided to take a", "Forty-nine of the 50 states allow for reasonable physical punishment in the home. But Peterson has been charged with felony child abuse. The always outspoken Charles Barkley says parents should be able to discipline their children.", "I'm from the South. Whipping is -- we do that all the time. Every black parent in the South is going to be in jail under those circumstances.", "Peterson says he has met with a psychologist to learn other forms of discipline.", "If my job every day is to run as fast as I can and knock someone over, when I come off the field, well, is that going to be different than working in an office? Absolutely. So we really need to teach athletes methods of cooling down, practical methods that they won't slough off and say is a bunch of crap, but real things that are helpful to them to help them kind of change their outlook and change the way they feel so that they're not acting on a whim. They're acting on a well-thought-out, planned way of either parenting or dealing with their significant other.", "To former Minnesota Vikings player Cris Carter, corporal punishment to a child, it's just wrong.", "You can't beat a kid to make them do what they want to do.", "That's correct.", "The only thing I'm proud about is the team that I played for. They did the right thing.", "Yes.", "Take them off the field.", "But the Vikings have not changed course, saying he will be a part of practices this week and most likely will play next weekend.", "Take him off the daggone field, because you know what? As a man, that's the only thing we really respect.", "People just have such a strong feeling about it. People bring the emotions to it, and they bring their own background and their own sense of right and wrong in parenting to that conversation.", "A conversation going on across America on the age-old debate whether sparing the rod spoils the child or helps the child. Jean Casarez, CNN, New York.", "All right, let's debate this more with Dr. Janet Taylor. She's a psychiatrist. And back with us are Van Jones and Judge Glenda Hatchett. Glad to have all of you. Judge, I want to start with you. What is the line between discipline and abuse? Is the law clear on this?", "The law -- there's a lot of discretion. I will be the first to say that, Alisyn. And I want to also say that I think a parent has the right to decide how to discipline a child. It gets to be a problem, though, when that discipline then becomes abuse, where the child is injured, where people end up in my courtroom because the child has been abused.", "OK. So is that the criterion, is that the criterion? If a child is injured, that's the line where it crosses over into a crime?", "Well, yes. And the thing, though, is that it depends on who's looking at that. In the Peterson case, he's been indicted. If it doesn't get resolved, it will go before a jury, it will go before a jury, and the standard in Texas is that what is reasonable based on those community standards as to whether it's abuse.", "OK. I'm glad you're bringing that. And I want to bring you in, Dr. Taylor, because Adrian Peterson says that what he did was reasonable. I'm just going to read you his statement again. \"Deep in my heart, I have always believed I could have been one of those kids that was lost in the streets without the discipline instilled in me by my parents and other relatives.\" He's arguing, Doctor, that this is what was used on him and it was successful.", "Well, you know, there's a saying that when you know better you do better. And discipline is meant to be instructive. And discipline does not have to involve physically abusing or the intent to inflict harm. With -- the marks that were left on Adrian Peterson's child clearly were child abuse based on the fact that they created an injury and they showed harm. But parents do have the right to discipline their child, but what they need to understand is it crosses over to an abuse when there's an intent, when you leave marks, and there's also psychological abuse that happens verbally.", "Right. But you say when there's an intent. He didn't intend -- he says over and over he didn't intend to hurt his child.", "It doesn't have to cross intent legally, though. If he injured that child, whether he intended it or not under these circumstances, it still can be...", "But I want to get Van in. Hold on, because Van I know is going to make an interesting point, because, Van, we have heard from Charles Barkley, you heard just there in the piece, and from Whoopi Goldberg who basically have said that this -- in the South, everybody would be in jail because this is how people, this is -- their families have disciplined them and they see nothing wrong with taking a switch to a child.", "Well, if first of all, a lot of Northerners or Yankees may not even know what a switch is. This is a switch. I brought this to show. If you're -- not just black kids, white kids know what a switch is. Your grandma tells me you go get me a switch. And you pull this twig off of a tree. And they hit you in the legs with it. And whether it's right or wrong, I think people need to understand, this is a part of Southern culture. If you look at the polling data, a majority of all Americans, a majority of white Americans agree with corporal punishment. A majority of Southerners agree, Midwesterners too. This is something that goes on. On the cosmopolitan coasts, this is shocking to people. But there's paddling. There's whipping with belts. There's switching with switches. There's spanking. And this is something that we need to have a debate about. I would say to anybody, because I was corporally punished, kids today, you don't have to do that. Just take their iPods from them. Take their iPad. That's enough. You don't have to do all that stuff anymore.", "But you need to understand, this is something that is a major part of especially Southern culture, and to say that this guy is completely -- a complete lunatic, he took it too far, but it does happen.", "OK, Dr. Taylor, go ahead.", "But this is a mistake also to characterize it as a black issue. The reality is spanking is an ineffective way to discipline children. And what happens is, yes, you may create fear, but if you keep spanking them, you will always create a lack -- also create a lack of respect. And when you have a teenager who does not fear you nor respect you as they grow up, then you have a problem.", "Dr. Taylor, everything you're saying makes sense except that there are statistics, as Van was just saying, that 80 percent of preschool children in this country, 80 percent have been spanked. So not all of them are growing up to be aggressive or to have mood disorders or any of the things that we have heard come from spanking.", "But spanking in and of itself is ineffective as discipline, but we're not talking -- we're talking about abuse that leads to mood disorders and being more aggressive. And some parents do not know the difference between picking up an object to discipline or spank your child vs. a firm pat or removing their hand. When you pick up objects, that's abuse. When you intend and want to inflict harm or pain to teach your child, that is abuse.", "Very quickly, Judge, do you think that there is a cultural divide here, North-South, black-white?", "I think that it's generational, Alisyn.", "I think people do what they have learned. I think they do what they have learned. I don't think it's necessary. I know white families who have been in my courtroom. I know rich families. I know poor families. My point is, I think it's whatever you have been taught...", "Right.", "... is what you continue to do.", "Great point.", "But let me say this.", "It's very important...", "Let me just point out the polling data is very clear that the majority of all racial groups in this country believe in corporal punishment. African-Americans are about five to six points higher. It's not just an African-American issue. It's an American issue.", "I agree. And that was exactly -- and that was exactly the point I wanted to make. But let me just say -- and I think that -- Doc, who I love and know, I think that this is a teachable moment. And I am sorry that this has come to this. But I think it's a teachable moment in this nation.", "What's the lesson?", "We have got to have this conversation, and you can't discipline a child when you're angry. I have said that to thousands of parents. Do not discipline when you're angry.", "All right. Everyone is nodding in unison. Van Jones, Judge...", "Just take their iPod from them. Just take the iPod. That's enough.", "Glenda Hatchett. That's the solution. There you go. That would inflict pain. Dr. Janet Taylor, thanks so much for talking about all of this. It is important to have this conversation.", "It is.", "And we have breaking news. U.S. fighter jets target ISIS positions in Iraq, including an airstrike against a target near Baghdad. So, up next, a full report."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CASAREZ", "WHOOPI GOLDBERG, ACTRESS", "CASAREZ", "CHARLES BARKLEY, FORMER NBA PLAYER", "CASAREZ", "DR. JONATHAN FADER, SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST", "CASAREZ", "CARTER", "TOM JACKSON, ESPN", "CARTER", "JACKSON", "CARTER", "CASAREZ", "CARTER", "WALLACE", "CASAREZ", "CAMEROTA", "HATCHETT", "CAMEROTA", "HATCHETT", "CAMEROTA", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-397913", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2020-04-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/18/ndaysat.02.html", "summary": "Hospitals In U.K. Facing Critical Shortage of PPEs.", "utt": ["So, the growing global number of coronavirus cases and the people who died, it is still reminding us this morning that the world is still struggling to get a handle on this pandemic. According to Johns Hopkins University, more than 150,000 people have died. There are more than 2.2 million cases worldwide. In Japan, the number of cases is more than 10,000 now. 557 new deaths and six deaths reported yesterday. This week, Japan extended its state of emergency through May 6th.", "The United Kingdom is reporting more than 14,000 deaths, more than 100,000 cases, and that's according to Johns Hopkins. And there's a company in the U.K. that sing some promise in an antibody test. And, of course, we know that if it's reliable enough, it could tell if someone has the disease or rather had the disease, I should say, and that could help get people back to work.", "The U.K. is also focusing on the global hunt for the vaccine. Now, the British government, says it's forming a vaccine task force and investing millions of dollars to help bring vaccine to the market as soon as possible.", "CNN's Nic Robertson is following this from London. Nic, let's first start with this trial from Oxford and what it's showing.", "Yes, this is an effort to figure out a way, because the government's under a huge amount of pressure about how it can safely bring the country out of the lockdown, exit from isolation if you will, and to get people back to work, to salvage the economy before it's even more affected. It's -- clearly, this is the global issue effect to many countries. But a biotech company and Oxford believes it is -- it has a strong lead on this. The government certainly hopes it does, the government's being heavily criticized for not articulating a way out of -- you know, a way out of the lockdown strategy. Part of it clearly depends on having this test to check whether people have had the virus or not. And the government in some ways is sort of being held hostage to the science here, and the discoveries that are being made. They found themselves caught out in the past where they've said that these kits, these test kits would be available. They were saying this a month ago. Then, they discovered that the kits that they purchase from overseas, China, in particular, were defective. So, you know, the government is under this pressure. So, when you have a company in Oxford like this one that is very important to the government. But it's not a done deal yet, and of course, that's part of the reason why the government is putting such an effort into bringing industry, into bringing companies together, pharmaceutical companies together, academics together, as well as, as well as governments input to try to find a vaccine for the virus. All of these critical to getting out of the lockdown.", "Nick, I know one of the big headlines there this morning in the U.K. is about this shortage in critical-- excuse me, of personal protective equipment, the PPE. We've been talking about this in the U.S., but what is the deficiency there that they're talking about now?", "Yes, this is a deficiency that even the government is describing now as acute and critical. So, this weekend, there is a real risk, a genuine risk in some U.K. hospitals that they were run out of the repellant gowns that are needed in the high-intensity COVID environments -- the sort of ICU type environment. So, these gowns, these fluid repellent gowns are absolutely vital to the safety of the doctors and nurses. And the government is saying -- is calling for what it recognizes is a compromise and an unprecedented measure.", "It is saying that actually in this environment, some of those gowns will have to be washed for reuse. This never normally happens. But the government is saying this is because there is a global shortfall that they're appealing to suppliers in other countries, but they're finding -- when they're talking to other governments here in Europe, those governments as well are recommending to their own health care professionals that they also going to have to reuse the gowns. So, in the U.K. this weekend that is a very real issue. A live issue today that the gowns that protect the doctors and nurses could run out in some hospitals.", "Wow. Nic Robertson, we're hearing similar accounts around the world. Thank you so much for that report. Let's go to Spain now. You know, like much of the world, the clubs there are closed, people are stuck at home on the weekend, but that does not stop a Friday night party.", "Did you know that your house can become a club, or at least, your balcony?", "Yes, I did -- I do.", "These are people in Barcelona. Yes, Victor knows what that's like. So, yesterday, it was the third week in a row that neighbors were together there on their balconies, well together but distant. As they were dancing and singing, some of the neighbors apparently didn't want to have anything to do with it. Local police did interrupt the party briefly yesterday and saying now future permits are going to be needed for parties. Organizers tell Reuters, they plan to ask for a permit and they hope to be back next Friday. Got to do what you got to do.", "Yes, you got to find a way to have a few light moments. And yes, you can turn your balcony into a club.", "No, Victor knows that well.", "Know for the details.", "All right. That -- we'll leave if that yes. So, Facebook -- I don't know if you've heard about this, put warning labels on 40 million posts on its platform just last month. These are posts that contained false claims about COVID-19. We're going to talk more about their efforts to combat the spread of misinformation."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR", "PAUL", "ROBERTSON", "ROBERTSON", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-373493", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-06-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/28/cnr.03.html", "summary": "A Harris Aide Says Fundraising Boomed After Debate Performance", "utt": ["Facility in Homestead, Florida.", "Families belong together. And they just deserve to have their parents with them, okay? And we are going to fight for your family to be together, okay?", "All right. We're also going to hear today from the democratic frontrunner, Joe Biden, as he speaks at the Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition. What's he going to say about Kamala Harris' attacks on his past actions and stance? We'll get into all of it. Good morning, everyone. I'm Poppy Harlow in New York. Jim Sciutto is joining us live this morning from Osaka, Japan, at the G20 summit, where just hours ago, the President was face-to-face with Russia's Vladimir Putin for the first time since the release of the Mueller report. And, Jim, what did he do?", "Well, I'll tell you, Poppy. It was also the first time in public for these two presidents since that infamous Helsinki moment. The President had another opportunity to confront the Russian President on continued Russian meddling in U.S. elections. And the president did not take that opportunity. In fact, he made a joke of it, a joke that both he and the Russian President smiled about despite the seriousness of this threat to U.S. elections. Later, he took a shot at U.S. journalists, again, buddying up with the Russian President, who, of course, has a very violent history, his government does, with journalists, two disturbing moments here at the G20 as the U.S. President came face-to-face with Putin, Poppy.", "It's going to be fascinating. I know you're reporting on it throughout the weekend. We'll get back to that in just a minute. Meantime, Senator Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden, two candidates waking up rather this morning to two very different realities, one, with what one aide called a booming night of fund raising, that's Kamala Harris, the other, with questions about what happened. Jessica Dean joins us now for more. Walk us through those moments Jess.", "Well, good morning to you, Poppy. That's right. We're waking up after that two hour long debate where Kamala Harris really commanded the stage and went directly after Joe Biden about his -- talking about his working with segregationists and also his bussing history back in the '70s that he was against bussing. And that moment really playing pivotally moving forward. This morning, they're waking up, as you mentioned, Kamala Harris is on the offense. They are reporting very strong fundraising numbers overnight. We've seen her all across media this morning and expect to hear more from them this afternoon. You saw she went to visit the detention center there in Florida earlier this morning and visited with people there. On the Biden side, we're going to see him in Chicago this afternoon at the Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition. I know he's coming up on your show here in just a moment. And the question is, will Biden talk about this? Will he address it? Will he clean up anything? Does he feel like he needs to clean up anything? We heard from his aides in the spin room last night. They defended his record on civil rights, saying that it's unassailable. They also explained the bussing issue with his deputy campaign manager saying that, look, back in that time, they were talking with local leaders. They did not believe -- some local leaders there did not believe that bussing was the best way to integrate schools, trying to kind of give it some context and frame it. But certainly, Poppy, there's no question, the Biden campaign now having to deal with talking about this when they really want to be talking about looking forward. They want to be talking about who Joe Biden is in 2019 and how he can be the best president. Will he talk about it today? We will see.", "Yes, we'll see very soon, Jessica. Thank you so much for that recap. Let's talk about this in depth with the Reverend, Jesse Jackson. He is meeting with former Vice President Joe Biden in just a few hours. Biden will speak before his Rainbow PUSH Coalition event. Sir, such an important voice to have. Thank you for being with me.", "Good morning.", "What's your reaction when you watched that exchange and when you heard Senator Kamala Harris say about bussing, that little girl was me?", "Well, the issue, it was about bussing for racial balance. It was not the bus, it was us. Most children are bussed every day then and now, rural terminal bus, suburban terminal bus, buses with racial balance became a hot political issue, Anna Louise Day Hicks in Boston and Bobby Field (ph) in L.A. And Ed Brooke was on one side and Joe was on the other side, Biden on the other side, and then my judgment was the wrong side of history.", "Okay. You think it was the wrong side of history? Biden said that Kamala Harris mischaracterized his stance last night. But when you look back at what he wrote and did in the 1970s, you can't dispute what he did, right? I mean, he wrote in 1977, my bill strikes at the heart of the injustice of court ordered bussing. I believe there is a growing sentiment in Congress to curb unnecessary bussing. He went on to write then to a fierce opponent of desegregation, former Senator James Eastland, quote, I want to know I very much appreciate your help during this week's committee meeting in an attempt to bring my anti-bussing legislation to a vote. Do you have any question in your mind about where Vice President Joe Biden stood as a Senator then in the 70s on bussing?", "Well, they were on the wrong side of history. You know, we had to have -- the Montgomery bus boycott regarded (ph) in a court order decision in 1956, the federal government had to intervene. The states were left with the power", "Reverend, can I ask you what you are going to say to Joe Biden one-on-one about this today?", "You know, I want to ask him with his positions. He took the position about -- on states' rights and, really, the states' rights have not been in our interest. We've had states rights took the position that we couldn't get to University of Alabama or Georgia. And so we had to have", "Just a little bit of history here for people who might not know, you've run for president twice. When you ran in 1998, you ran in the democratic primary against Vice President Joe Biden. This was after in the '84 race. He told voters to reject your candidacy. I know the two of you have become friends, if you will, since then. Is Joe Biden the person that America needs right now to help sew the wounds of racial inequality in this country? Is he the best person to do that?", "We were competing. And the people did not reject candidacy. As a matter of fact, his was rejected. As a matter of fact, we got 12 delegates in 1998 and the campaign haven't been able to impact upon the founding proportion with the push on states' rights and all of that. So it was a campaign that had a lot of effect in this. I would think that Joe Biden must now address this in a real sense. The role of the federal government to intervene to stop violation by the states, there's a scheme (ph) there, where the Supreme Court's ruled on the issue of gerrymandering. We've got the right to vote in '65 and then gerrymandering and then", "Joe Biden had an opportunity last night on the stage to apologize and say I was wrong then, right? You believe he was wrong. He doesn't believe he was wrong. And he said, look, I just didn't think it was the role of the federal government or the Department of Ed to do this. It was up to the states. And that's when Senator Harris interjected and said, yes, but the states didn't protect us and we needed the federal government. Where was the federal government on this? Should Joe Biden apologize, in your mind?", "I don't know how you will", "You know, but Joe Biden says, I became a senator, you know, in my 30s because of civil rights. That is what drove me to public service. That is what has guided my service throughout my career. Do you believe that Joe Biden, as a senator and as a vice president, has done more to help progress civil rights in this country or to hinder it? What's your view?", "On balance, Joe has grown in the positions he has taken. Think about his role with President Obama. He is being the balance of that ticket was a factor, I think, to President Obama's victory in '08, for example. I think he has grown in the new views of these positions. But, clearly, you cannot run in the shower and can't run in the rain without getting wet. And, Kamala Harris, I think Joe was prepared for an attack from Bernie Sanders on issue of", "I'll give you a final chance to answer that last question, sir. When you look at the '94 crime bill, you look at his letters about bussing and legislation back in the '70s, he called bussing, quote, a bankrupt concept. There's that and then that's all that he has done for civil rights. Has he, on balance, done more to progress civil rights or to hinder it?", "He was hindering it at that point. Now, he has grown", "Reverend Jesse Jackson, I so appreciate your time this morning. I know it's a big day for you guys as you host the former Vice President, Joe Biden. We'll be watching with keen interest this afternoon. Thank so much, sir.", "Thank you very much.", "All right. Still to come, President Trump and Vladimir Putin face-to-face at the G20, and President Trump makes light of election interference in our democracy with Putin sitting next to him. It happened. Also, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg with a display of humility on the debate stage following a deadly shooting in his hometown, a risky move but will it pay off? Plus, voters in South Carolina not holding back on how they think those democratic candidates did last night.", "He just doesn't seem like he has any new answers. He doesn't have a lot of energy.", "Who is he talking about, coming up."], "speaker": ["POPPY HARLOW, CNN NEWSROOM", "SEN. KAMALA HARRIS (D-CA)", "HARLOW", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN NEWSROOM", "HARLOW", "JESSICA DEAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "REV. 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{"id": "CNN-178596", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2011-12-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/31/smn.06.html", "summary": "Some Controversial New Laws to Take Effect in the New Year", "utt": ["We're getting ready to ring in the New Year, 2012, and a lot of us have these lists of what I want in the new year. I don't think any of us had, I hope, for 40,000 new laws, but that's what you're getting, right, Josh?", "Yes. Close to 40,000 laws were enacted in the past year, and some of them are coming into effect tomorrow. As you know we have so incredibly many laws on the books in this country no one knows half the laws in their state. It's almost impossible.", "True. And a lot of them are outdated. What about those new ones?", "Last hour, we talked about some quirky ones. But now we're going to start to dig into some of the meaty and controversial ones, starting with one in California. You're seeing over my shoulder, but let's take it so everybody can see this language. California is creating this rule that is requiring schools to teach, quote, \"the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans in the development of California and the United States.\" So California has these groups kids learn about and they're adding gay, bisexual, transgender Americans to the group that kids are required to learn about. It's a little bit controversial. Some people want it repealed. But that goes into effect tomorrow.", "As long as the kids are learning reading, writing and everything else, I guess the more you can teach them, better?", "Yes. We'll see what happens. Another interesting one, some controversy, you've heard of this kind of thing. This is in New Hampshire, requiring parental notification for a minor who wants to get an abortion or that minor can seek to get a court order to avoid parental notification. Sometimes there are parental consent laws. This is a parental notification law. A minor has to make sure that a parent is informed.", "Gee, thanks. You're a parent. You have to sign a waiver for the school to give them aspirin, yet there are a lot of states who say a child can make this monumental decision and go through this by themselves without letting you know.", "The governor at first vetoed it, saying there should be an exception for rape, incest. But that was ultimately overrode, so it past despite that. One more. This I find interesting because it shows the split in the country over immigration issues. That involves the e-Verify program. We have several states now that are requiring employers to use this e- Verify program to confirm whether a perspective employee is actually a citizen of the United States.", "Doesn't that help them?", "It does in many ways or helps them make sure they have a legitimate immigration status. You've got Tennessee, South Carolina, all requiring that now. California is doing the opposite. They're creating a law saying state and local governments may not require employers to use that program unless they have to.", "But isn't the whole thing in our country right now trying to get Americans more jobs? Why wouldn't you want to help verify you're giving an American a job?", "A lot of supporters say exactly what you're saying. Those opposed to this have a few arguments. One of the key things is it's not 100 percent accurate. There was a GAO study from the government saying it's gotten better, but there are still problems that persist. Also they say it drives undocumented workers further underground into potentially unscrupulous areas.", "Which is a real problem?", "Right. So there real problems. I've posted the language so everyone can see the --", "All 40,000?", "You know what? I'll tell you --", "You did not do that. You do not have the time to do that, do you?", "No.", "If so, I want your life.", "Oh, man, no one wants my life.", "I want that free time.", "There's a great organization National State Legislatures has a list of these, and they have links to the PDF of the actual language. I encourage everyone to get more details.", "So someone somewhere did spend their working life putting all this together, compiling it together.", "Maybe you and I should have their lives.", "Thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "Extreme couponing. The trend may be pretty popular. But one Georgia food bank is using it to help people in need. What a great idea, and we're going to show you how they're doing it."], "speaker": ["HILL", "LEVS", "HILL", "LEVS", "HILL", "LEVS", "HILL", "LEVS", "HILL", "LEVS", "HILL", "LEVS", "HILL", "LEVS", "HILL", "LEVS", "HILL", "LEVS", "HILL", "LEVS", "HILL", "LEVS", "HILL", "LEVS", "HILL", "LEVS", "HILL"]}
{"id": "CNN-227255", "program": "@THISHOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2014-3-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/26/ath.02.html", "summary": "Search for MH370 continues; Recovery Continues after Mudslide in Washington State", "utt": ["Today marks day five of a grim search effort in Washington State. We should point out to you, we're waiting a press conference, press briefing at the top of the hour there in Arlington, where we expect that authorities and some of the emergency management folk will update us on the latest conditions of the search and the latest efforts to search for survivors. At this point, what we do know is that authorities have spotted what they believe are eight more bodies that are buried, but they have not been able to reach them because of the debris from the landslide that smashed through two towns. Right now the death toll stands at 16 and some 176 others missing.", "No one has been found alive since survivors were pulled from the muck and debris on Saturday. We now have video of one of these harrowing rescues. I want to bring in Bill Weir. What's the latest?", "John, yeah, we've just gotten this video of what was probably the brightest moments of the search and rescue. This is the camera they have mounted on the winch in a rescue helicopter, you see them helping out this 4-year-old boy and his father as they try to climb to the top of that debris pile. Helicopters were needed on Saturday, but these days, the tools of choice are shovels and bare hands, because there have been no signs of life. They found a dog a couple days ago trapped. And that sort of lifted the spirits. But even with their, you know, sort of earthquake equipment, search and rescue teams in this part of the world, because this is an earthquake zone, they have all of the stuff you need. The microphones and the little cameras you can put into voids, but that has not really done much good. And as they talk to the searchers, some hold out hope, some say, hey, my dad was a survivalist. We think he's up there somewhere, he just needs a hand. But others like a gentleman I met, by the name of Dayn Brunner, he has been looking for his sister, who was on the phone with their mother driving on highway 530. It went dead at the moment that the slide hit. And so he says it was two days ago that he and his 16- year-old son came to the realization that they were no longer looking to rescue his sister, but recover her body. This is what he had to say.", "A chance to mourn your sister, to --", "No.", "-- so call this in?", "No, I've had my moments. Mainly with my family members and stuff, and my boys, and my wife. But I -- I haven't had a chance to sit and just let it all out. Because I'm still in this adrenaline mode, where I need -- we need to get her, and we need to bring her home. Because that's what my mom wants. My mom wants -- my mom wants to hold her one last time. And that's what we want to do.", "Just that thought, I think, put most of us into emotional pieces. Dayn is a cop, so he's tougher than most. But he's back out here this morning. He's heading on to the pile to keep searching, and he tells me also that his team, they're not just looking for bodies, but recovered a wedding dress and photo album and a diploma. So these sort of human signs of life, Mich and John, really drives it home.", "It really does. And I'm sure being there you feel it that more acutely. We're also seeing -- CNN has their hands on this report by the county from 2010, Bill, that warned of landslides in this area. Have you had a chance to look at that?", "I have. Yeah. This came to light in -- after one of the federal -- or one of the county emergency management officials say we couldn't see this coming. This area was completely safe. Well, no, it's not. They have known about this for a long time. In fact, they spent federal money to do a survey, they had geologists, engineers look and identify the riskiest places, and this town was one of them. But then what do you do? How do you get people out of these areas? They love this place, for obvious reasons. But this is the price they see of such a beautiful spot.", "And they're sticking together right now all through this. Our thanks to Bill Weir out of Washington."], "speaker": ["PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "BILL WEIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WEIR", "DAYN BRUNNER, LOOKING FOR RELATIVES", "WEIR", "BRUNNER", "WEIR", "PEREIRA", "WEIR", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-183537", "program": "JOHN KING, USA", "date": "2012-3-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1203/29/jkusa.01.html", "summary": "Romney Picks Up More Endorsements", "utt": ["Good evening. I'm John King. We're tracking two breaking stories tonight. The only known eyewitness to the Trayvon Martin shooting speaks to our Anderson Cooper. You will hear his description of exactly what he saw. And Mitt Romney picks up two big endorsements, and we're learning of a secret meeting with rival Newt Gingrich. Tonight, for the first time, CNN can give you an eyewitness account of the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Our Anderson Cooper spoke to this eyewitness just moments ago.", "What did you observe after the shot?", "As I said, it was dark. But after the shots, obviously, someone -- the one man got up, and it was kind of like that period of him -- I can't say I actually watched him get up, but maybe only within like a couple seconds or so, then he was walking towards where I was watching. And I could see him a little bit clearer and see that it was a Hispanic man, and he was -- he didn't appear hurt or anything else. He just kind of seemed very -- I guess -- very worried or whatever, walked like on the sidewalk at that point, and put his hand up to his forehead. And then another man came out with a flashlight.", "Senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin joins me now. Jeff, you went up and visited with the Anderson Cooper staff and heard more about the interview. I want to focus on what we just heard in that snippet. He said it was a Hispanic man. That would match obviously the description of George Zimmerman, the man who acknowledges he shot Trayvon Martin. He didn't seem hurt, he says, although he does say later he had his hand up at his forehand. What do we make of the part we just heard?", "Well, the big issue that remains at the heart of this case is who was the aggressor in this confrontation and does Zimmerman have facts at his disposal that would be a good defense either in general or specifically under Florida's unique law? Certainly, I think this is not the smoking gun one way or the other. But, again, particularly when you combine it with the video that was released by ABC yesterday of George Zimmerman appearing unhurt, his argument that he was somehow injured and under threat looks a little tougher to make based on this interview and based on the video.", "When you were up visiting with Anderson and his team, what else significant did you learn about this eyewitness account?", "What I learned is that this is going to be a tough witness at trial because this person doesn't have a really clear view of precisely what happened, who was the aggressor, and this person heard someone yelling help. But I don't think this person knows in particular whether it was -- which one of the two people it was. So again, that's an important piece of evidence that, if this person knew, would be important.", "And you just heard -- let's contrast here. Let's play a little game here of compare and contrast. You heard the eyewitness there saying Mr. Zimmerman, presumably, a Hispanic man, walked away, didn't appear too hurt, did have his hand on his forehead at one point but walking away almost matter-of-factly is the way that was described by the witness. Let's listen here to an account from George Zimmerman's father who says his son told him he suffered quite the beating.", "What did you observe after the shot?", "As I said, it was dark. But after the shots, obviously...", "That's the wrong piece of tape there. Let's see if we can go back and play -- this is Zimmerman's father describing what his son told him.", "After nearly a minute of being beaten, George was trying to get his head off the concrete, trying to move with Trayvon on him into the grass. In doing so, his firearm was shown. Trayvon Martin said something to the effect of you're going to die now.", "Jeff, a very different account there. I'm going to walk over here. You talked about that video that was released. The city has now put this police video up on the Web site. I want to bring it up here and show it. We do know this. Let me turn this around for you here. We do know this. He was treated at the scene by the Sanford police if you look at the police report. We need to be careful in saying that. If he did have some injuries, he did receive some treatment in the police car. But what you're looking for here, you look up here and if he had a broken nose or bandages, there is certainly no bandages in the face. If he was hurt, at least from this video it doesn't appear he was significantly hurt. When you match that up with what we just heard from the father, I want to bring up another piece of the video here, let me move this one aside, I just want to show the back. If you pull this one out here, again this gets grainy as you stretch it out, you do see a small bit of red here -- oops, it's moving on me -- you see a small bit of red there -- let me move this down -- you see right here on the back of the head there's a little bit of red there when you stretch it out, and it's hard to see on television. But when you look at this, it certainly doesn't give the impression that this is someone that was severely beaten if he then gets in the cruiser and goes down to the police station.", "Right. Also in that video you see he's not limping at all. If he had injuries, and he might have had some injuries, they are very, very minor or so it clearly appears. Also, let's keep in mind, George Zimmerman shot this guy. He didn't take a swing at him in self-defense, he shot him dead. So the amount of -- there is potentially an argument of disproportionate response given the amount of injury he has. Now, again, Florida law may be somewhat helpful to Zimmerman on that front. But it's worth keeping in mind that, you know, we're struggling here to find some sort of injury and Trayvon Martin is shot dead. If I could just add one more point about the interview with George Zimmerman's father, under any rule of evidence, that would not be admissible, what he told his father, some self-serving story he told his father. The only way George Zimmerman's statements will be admitted in the course of this if there's a trial would be statements he made to the police or statements that he made if he testifies at trial. So self-serving statements you made to a relative would never -- it's interesting for us trying to fill in our picture of what happened here, but it is certainly not admissible evidence.", "Important context from our senior legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin. Jeff, thanks. That interview with the eyewitness coming up at 8:00 p.m. tonight on \"ANDERSON COOPER 360.\" Also join CNN tomorrow night at 8:00 Eastern. Our Soledad O'Brien hosts a town hall about the rising racial tension across the country: \"Beyond Trayvon: Race and Justice in America.\" That's tomorrow night. Now to tonight's breaking developments in the Republican race for president. Just moments ago, former President George H.W. Bush endorsed Mitt Romney. You see them right there along with the former first lady Barbara Bush at Mr. Bush's office in Houston, Texas.", "I think it's time for people to get behind this good man. Some of them have waged a very good fight. I would say that about some of his opponents. But we're so convinced and mainly because we have known Mitt for a long time that he's the man to do this job and get on and win the presidency.", "Having your support means a great deal to me on a personal basis, a family basis and also on a national basis. So I look forward to being successful in honoring that endorsement by winning.", "It's part of a rally around Romney movement across the GOP generations. Earlier today, the freshman Florida Senator Marco Rubio delivered his endorsement.", "The primary is over, I mean, by the admission of the candidates who have admitted they can't win the primary. they have said the only way they can win is at a floor fight in Tampa. And I think that a floor fight in Tampa would be the worst possible thing we can do in terms of winning in November. So I think Mitt Romney by the admission of his opponents has won the primary and it's time for us to get behind our nominee.", "Also three political sources tonight confirmed to me that Romney and rival Republican candidate Newt Gingrich had a secret meeting this past Saturday in Louisiana. Aides in both campaigns are remarkably tight-lipped about this session, though my sources describe it as pleasant and productive. Beyond that they're not talking. CNN's Jim Acosta and Peter Hamby here with me in Washington. Joining us on the phone is our CNN contributor Mary Matalin, the former campaign manager to President George H.W. Bush. Mary, I want to start. A lot of people will say endorsements don't matter. Does it matter that 41, as you would call, has now endorsed Governor Romney?", "It matters for the reason you alluded to, it's the juxtaposition of the across the spectrum of generations as you said, but also across the spectrum of factions with Rubio and poppy Bush together on the same day, irrefutably leading figures of both those factions. It's a validation that this race is about to accelerate in favor of Romney and close up pretty fast now.", "I know he is one of your heroes so forgive the question. But George H.W. is not very well regarded by a lot of conservatives. Is there any way this could hurt Romney?", "I don't think so. We tend to think that we just created all this political knowledge. But you will recall my humiliation in 1988 when we were beat by a conservative faction, poppy Bush in Iowa. In '92, we were primaried. He is -- over the years, he has made many friends. And we understand that -- and everybody, conservatives and mainstream and whatever factions, names you want to give them at any given time, understand it's not an either/or. It's both. Each faction is necessary and insufficient to defeat the Democratic, the liberal incumbent. I don't think it will hurt. It's a validation of Romney's reach.", "Mary, stay with us. Jim, that sound we played with Marco Rubio moments ago, that was from an interview you conducted with him this morning. He's the other generation, he's the next generation, if you will, and conservatives love him.", "Right.", "He says he endorsed Romney. But he didn't say, gee whiz, I love Mitt Romney. He essentially said, well, sort of it's over so why not.", "That's right. And you saw in that interview there he described Mitt Romney as the nominee. He's not officially the nominee just yet. I also asked him in that interview do you think Mitt Romney will govern as a conservative and he said, yes, I think he will as a conservative. But you're right. It has sort of been like pulling teeth when it comes to the Tea Party conservative wing of the Republican Party to get them to come along. But I think as Mary was saying, the weight, the collective weight of the endorsements over time is now having an effect.", "The collective weight. Peter, when you call around it's hard now to find a Republican who says Romney can be stopped. Not all of them say Santorum or Gingrich should get out. Why is it so hard to get information about this secret meeting with Newt down in Louisiana? We know Gingrich came to the hotel where Governor Romney was staying. I was told it was a decent meeting, productive meeting, polite meeting.", "I was at the hotel. I was with Mitt Romney that very morning.", "You still get your bonus.", "No one saw it. Thank you. Appreciate that, John. As you said, it's remarkable people in the Romney world and the Newt world are not talking about this. They're saying that both campaigns and both candidates and Santorum talk all the time . Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond, who I talked to today said, yes, they're concerned about is this damaging the party, will this hurt them in the long run? But he was saying we view it that even if we go to a brokered convention, this won't be bad for the party. I talked to one person who is close to Newt today who said a brokered convention will be great for the party. This will reenergize conservatives. Look at the poll numbers. Conservatives still say Rick Santorum for example is the guy they identify with and not Mitt Romney.", "The speaker says he's going to stay in because he still thinks it's possible Romney comes up short. But I assume, Jim, from team Romney, even if they don't give us the details, this is the beginning, he's got a lot of healing to do in healing this relationship. He and Speaker Gingrich have been quit raw. It would be quite important.", "Absolutely. That was palpable throughout this campaign to see the tension that was really in place there between the Gingrich camp and the Romney camp. It was striking. When I was with the former speaker on Monday in Annapolis, he had the press conference -- or I think it was Tuesday -- excuse me -- he had that press conference in Annapolis and it was at that point when he said, I would be delighted to support Mitt Romney should he clinch the 1,144 delegates to win the nomination. It was the first time I had heart delighted and Mitt Romney in the same sentence.", "It's been a long road for Newt Gingrich, yes.", "But he's worried about his legacy and reputation as well. Our thanks to Mary Matalin, Jim Acosta, Peter Hamby. Thanks for coming in. We will stay on top of these developments. In a little bit we will ask a former oil company executive what, what, what can be done to bring down your gas prices. But next, a former CIA director looks at why there's such concern about North Korea's plans to join the space race.", "Literally, John, this is rocket science. This is hard to do. And the North Koreans have not had a history of very successful high-end activity."], "speaker": ["JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KING", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST", "KING", "TOOBIN", "KING", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KING", "ROBERT ZIMMERMAN, FATHER OF GEORGE ZIMMERMAN", "KING", "TOOBIN", "KING", "GEORGE H.W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "KING", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-118825", "program": "LOU DOBBS THIS WEEK", "date": "2007-8-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/04/ldtw.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Immigration & Refugee Policy Inconsistent?", "utt": ["Special interest groups and lobbyists play a powerful role in our politics and society. Now some liberal charities are now being accused of acting against the national interest.", "The author of a provocative new book says wealthy liberal elites are destroying this country through their power -- their control of powerful tax-exempt foundations. Phil Kent, author of the book, \"Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super-Rich Undermine America.\" Phil Kent joins me now. Phil, good to have you here.", "Thanks, Lou. Good to be here.", "This is a subject that I find fascinating and most people are not aware of, the role of foundations, the tax-exempts, in influencing policy and the government.", "Absolutely. You've got about 16,000 of these private tax- exempt foundations. You've got $500 billion in assets. And a lot of this, Lou, they're not just benign liberal think tanks that are for big taxes and big government. They are out there actively with an agenda, under the guise of charity, to change America.", "Under the guise of charity, set up under the tax code 503, 504.", "Right.", "I mean, we've got a number of them. But the idea that these foundations can -- who are the worst offenders, in your opinion?", "In my book, I say the Ford Foundation is the most radical, un-American foundation. I'll explain that in a minute. And number two and trying harder is George Soros and his Open Society Institute, absolutely trying to undermine America at every turn.", "How so? How so?", "A couple of quick examples. Both of them give to these radical Islamic charities. Ford Foundation, the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, which supports suicide bombers over in Palestine. That's a recipient of Ford largesse. The same with Soros, funding radical Muslims.", "Well, the idea that this is going on -- there are also a lot of conservative foundations out there and a lot of super-rich conservatives. Why didn't you mess with them?", "You know, it's a good question, but they're not undermining America. They're out there doing their policy discussions, as are a lot of the liberal foundations. These are the most radical, and as the subtitle of my new book indicates, these are the ones that are undermining America, whether it's through a radical open borders agenda, whether it's through a radical green Al Gore type agenda or...", "How about the ACLU? We've been having a lot of fun here lately with them on a number of issues. What -- how about them? They're supported by a lot of these foundations.", "They absolutely are. They're a favorite of all of these foundations, Ford, Rockefeller, Tides.", "Right. We appreciate you being with us, Phil Kent. The book is \"The Foundations of Betrayal.\" Good luck with it, Phil. Thank you. Fascinating reading, a fascinating subject. Come back. We'll talk more.", "Appreciate you.", "Special interest groups in this country came together to influence the Senate on its so-called grand compromise on immigration legislation. That legislation would have given amnesty to most of the 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in this country. But as Christine Romans now reports, the United States currently has no clear policy on who receives amnesty.", "American asylum, refugee and immigration policy is a patchwork of different rules for different nationalities. This court ruling upholds special exceptions for illegal aliens from El Salvador. A California judge ruling the government violated immigration detention standards and found protections given Salvadorans in 1988 during its civil war still stand. Special conditions for different nationalities is a hallmark of American policy.", "The immigration policy is fragmented and is inconsistent. It depends on which administration and it depends on which constituency in the United States has a lot of power and a lot of voting power.", "Migrants from Cuba are allowed to stay in the country under the so-called \"wet foot, dry foot\" policy, so long as they set foot on dry ground. Caught by the Coast Guard on a boat, and they are sent back. It's one reason why some Cubans are crossing the border with Mexico to gain immediate lawful enjoy. Yet other Central Americans caught crossing the border are repatriated.", "Complexity is inevitable. I think there are certain crises and disasters in the world that the United States is obligated to respond to more than others.", "For some nationalities, there is temporary protected status. It means they can work in the U.S. temporarily until conditions improve in their home country. Temporary status for 78,000 Hondurans and 4,000 Nicaraguans who have been here for years has been extended another 18 months. Two hundred thirty-five thousand people from El Salvador are protected from deportation under the same program. Christine Romans, CNN, New York.", "Still ahead, the cost of the war in Iraq is soaring. Some estimate it could eventually cost as much as $2 trillion. And presidential adviser Karl Rove is at the center of the battle over executive privilege between the White House and Congress. Three of the best political minds join me for those stories and more."], "speaker": ["PILGRIM", "DOBBS", "PHIL KENT, AUTHOR, \"FOUNDATIONS OF BETRAYAL\"", "DOBBS", "KENT", "DOBBS", "KENT", "DOBBS", "KENT", "DOBBS", "KENT", "DOBBS", "KENT", "DOBBS", "KENT", "DOBBS", "KENT", "PILGRIM", "ROMANS", "JAIME SUCHLICKI, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI", "ROMANS", "GARY GERSTLE, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY", "ROMANS", "PILGRIM"]}
{"id": "CNN-371936", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2019-06-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/10/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "John Dean Testifies Before Congress; Rep. Justin Amash Steps Down From House Freedom Caucus; GOP Lawmakers Takes Jab On John Dean; DOJ And House Democrats Agree Over Mueller Report; Justice Department Turning Over More Of Robert Mueller's Evidence", "utt": ["This is CNN TONIGHT. I'm Don Lemon. John Dean, the former White House counsel of President Richard Nixon testifying today before the House Judiciary Committee. Dean of course was the start witness during the Watergate scandal decades ago. And now he's telling Congress he sees striking similarities between Nixon and President Trump.", "I would say the Trump administration is in fast competition with what happened in the Nixon administration.", "Hey, Don. Now, Democrats have had a hard time getting the witnesses that they want. People who are named in the Mueller report to actually cooperate with their committee because the White House has interfered as well as the special counsel, Robert Mueller, has said that he does not want to appear in public before the House Judiciary Committee. Thus, negotiations continue behind the scenes. So at the moment Democrats are settling on another strategy to bring in people who have prior knowledge about other criminal acts in office including what happened during Watergate with President Nixon.", "With their party divided over impeachment proceedings, Democrats today began the challenge of spotlighting what's in the Mueller report without the key witnesses who have first- hand knowledge. Their first witness, former White House counsel, John Dean, who played a key role in bringing down President Richard Nixon 46 years ago.", "The last time I appeared before your committee was July 11, 1974, during the impeachment inquiry of Richard Nixon. Clearly I'm not here today as a fact witness. In many ways, the Mueller report is to President Trump what the so-called Watergate road map stated a little differently, Special Counsel Mueller has provided this committee with a road map.", "Dean detailing what he sees as clear parallels between Nixon and Trump.", "Comparing Nixon to just any future administration, would you say there was a future administration that committed more crimes than the Nixon administration as far as obstruction?", "I would say the Trump administration is in fast competition with what happened in the Nixon administration.", "The former U.S. attorney testifying that Trump would have been prosecuted if he were not protected by Justice Department guidelines saying a sitting president cannot be indicted.", "The facts contained in that report would be sufficient to prove all of the elements necessary to charge multiple counts of obstruction of justice. I would have confidence that the evidence would be sufficient to obtain a guilty verdict and to win on appeal.", "Republicans assail the witness' credibility.", "You're no fall guy in the Watergate scandal. The FBI referred to you as the master manipulator of the cover up.", "Incorrect.", "U.S. attorney said you were at the center of the criminality.", "Mr. Biggs, if I might. I did my best to tell the truth when I was asked. I did my best internally to break up the Watergate cover up when I realized we were on the wrong side of the law.", "Wait a second. Mr. Dean has made a cottage industry out of accusing presidents of acting like Richard Nixon.", "Mr. Gaetz, I appreciate you were not born at the time that this all happened.", "The hearings come amid a tense Democratic debate over whether to formally begin impeachment proceedings, which now is supported by chairman of the committee, Jerry Nadler and a number of members on his panel.", "The president repeatedly tried to interfere in the ongoing criminal investigation. He tried to fire the Special Counsel. He wanted to lie about the Special Counsel and say that he had conflicts of interest. The clock is ticking.", "What problem is there if you guys continue your current course of action?", "The problem is we may not be able to get the witnesses we want.", "Now Don, one reason why some Democrats have called for impeachment is what they view as stonewalling from this administration, not turning over documents. But there was a development today over the Justice Department did agree to provide some documents related to the Mueller probe, allow the House Judiciary Committee members and staff to go over the department, review those materials to try to satisfy these demands and head off a threat holding Bill Barr in contempt. Democrat staff and Republican staff have begun to review these documents. I'm told and the full House will still vote tomorrow to authorize the Judiciary Committee to go to court if necessary to compel the Justice Department to comply with their demands and also to try to get Don McGahn, the former White House counsel under President Trump, to come before the committee. He of course has defied a subpoena under the instruction from the White House. So Democrats are saying today's hearing was just the beginning of their fight to get a full access to a range of materials from the Mueller report and they're warning they'll probably go to court if necessary, Don.", "Manu, thank you very much for that. Let's discuss all of this now. Frank Bruni's here, Jennifer Rodgers, Max Boot, author of \"The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right. Also with me, Michael D'Antonio, the author of \"The Truth About Trump.\" So good to have all of you on. Thank you so much and everyone's in house. My house. It's a full house. So today's televised hearing, Frank, is supposed to drive home to the American people exactly what was in the 448-page Mueller report. Do you think it accomplish that?", "I don't know that it did accomplish that. I mean, Don, this is a very, very strange hearing that happened today because this is not the hearing that the committee wants to have. This is not -- all due respect to John Dean -- it's not the witness they want to hear from. He's not bringing them new information or sharing information about what Trump did or didn't do with the American people. He's simply offering historical perspective and opinion.", "And you know what, and I'm watching. I didn't see it because of the breaking news.", "Well, yes, exactly. And that stepped on it as well. So, I think this was a holding pattern and a kind of stalling technique by Democrats who don't want to give this up yet, but can't get the witnesses and hearings they want. And so I don't think what happened today is, at the end of the -- when all is said and done, going to have a huge impact.", "Jennifer, you heard John Dean say that he believes that the Special Counsel provided the judiciary committee with a road map. But my question, how do Democrats, I mean, how do they follow this road map if the White House continues to stall at every turn? As you saw, the first witness was John Dean. Everyone else who would be a good witness said no, why a better witness I should say than all the witness the Democrats wanted would said no and not there.", "Right. So they need the evidence to put it into the hearing, right. So you can't just, you know, put the report in and call it a day. You actually get (inaudible) to get the underlying information, the documents, the witnesses and so on. So that's what they've been trying to do. Apparently there's a bit of a break through today and obviously what actually come over. But they can't do it with just the report so, you know, that's what they're looking for, is the underlying evidence. They really can't start without it. And it's been two and half months since the Mueller report was turned over and they haven't gotten evidence that they've been entitled to for that entire two and half months.", "Yes. Never going to get it.", "Yes, they will get it. And the problem is that there is no legal leg to stand on to hold it back. So, if they were in court, they would have gotten it already. But this whole negotiation that's been going on has been stalling everything. That really is the problem here. They have to negotiate in good faith. The White House is not acting on good faith and so they're stuck with that situation.", "Max, ahead (inaudible) for \"The New York Times\" and he told me that seems Republicans had been talking to Democrats with the fact that Mueller isn't going to testify -- isn't testifying. Is that how you see it? Is this giving the GOP the upper hand here?", "I certainly think the stonewall, Don, has been surprisingly successful. I mean, as Jennifer mentioned, it's been more than two and a half months since Mueller filed his report. And if you would ask me ahead of time, two and half months after the report are we going to be in a situation where Mueller doesn't testify, McGahn doesn't testify, nobody of consequence testifies, I would not have expected that to be the case. In fact, they've done -- the White House has done -- been pretty skillful at stringing this out and avoiding the kind off deeply embarrassing hearings with the whole nation focuses in on the wrong doing that Trump is accused of, and they've managed to evade that so far. To my mind, the biggest surprise of all is that Mueller is being so uncooperative with Congress, that he does not want to testify. He wants, I mean, you saw how much attention he got even with a 10-minute statement, he riveted public attention in a way that, you know, sadly putting John Dean up there, is not going to do.", "What do you think is stopping Democrats from subpoenaing Mueller right now?", "Well, that's a great question. I mean, I think that they've been in negotiations with them and I think they want to avoid a hostile situation with him. They want him to be there voluntarily so that he'll feel good about it and will be able to say as much as possible within the parameters that have been laid down for him. But I think they need to push this along and say hey, we don't have -- this is not indefinite. Sooner or later we need to have Mueller up there, even if he doesn't go much beyond what's in the report. We saw with his 10-minute statement, even simply going on T.V. and having Mueller recite basically what those of us who read the report already know what's there. Even that is very consequential because it grabs the attention of so many people around the country who have not read the report including frankly a lot of members of Congress. And you just had a member yesterday who admitted in an interview I have not read the report. This is very common so I think it's incredibly important to have Mueller testify.", "Let's play more of what John Dean said today.", "Congressman, when I worked for Mr. Nixon, I was really never worried about what the outcome would be and how it would be resolved. I've got to tell you that from the day Mr. Trump was nominated and I was following in a separate set of polls, \"The Los Angeles Times\" as well as the Monmouth Polls. And it looked pretty clear to these pollsters that Mr. Trump had a very good chance of winning. And I began developing a knot in my stomach that sits there to this day. So I'm trying to deal with that in the best way I can to try to tell people these are troubled times and we should go through these processes and sort them out. So, anything I can do to add to the process, I'm more than willing.", "Did he add to the process or was this a mock impeachment hearing as Republicans say?", "Well, I don't think he added very much. And I think there was a problem with him announcing that he was testifying because he had this knot in his stomach. He really should have been testifying as a public service and because he was called to testify. And then we might have a little -- a different perspective on what he had to say. But I think there are a number of things going on here. We have a president and a team behind him who actually feel that Richard Nixon didn't go far enough in resisting Congress. They looked back at this history and think, oh, Nixon wasn't tough enough, we're going to be tougher. So we now have a stonewall presidency. They're not giving Congress anyone to testify about almost anything. So he's -- they're daring Congress to go to court with this and we've talked a lot about constitutional crisis. But this would bring to us to an actual constitutional crisis if the legislative branch and executive branch face off in the judiciary. So, we're now hurdling towards I think a more extreme conflict than we've had with Nixon and Watergate and I'm not sure the president really minds. I think he sees this paying off for him politically.", "Well, you know, he's been paying attention to this especially to the John Dean testifying to the heed (ph) and responded, but there would have bun a lot more coverage of this if it were not for the breaking news, but I mean, hearings like this are not going to go away. How do you think Trump will handle that?", "Oh, I think he's going to rage like this, but you know, there is also the impending deadline or 2020. So they're stalling. They want to I think get to the election and have everyone think well, we're not going to pick on the president especially hard because he's in an election battle. I think Nancy Pelosi is playing the same game. She's trying to figure out how do I get to 2020 in the best condition possible. So, the American public is going to be treated to an extraordinary political spectacle and maybe not get at the truth until after the election.", "OK, hold that thought because we have a lot more to talk about when we come back. Don't go anywhere."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN HOST", "JOHN DEAN, FORMER WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL FOR PRESIDENT NIXON", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "RAJU (voice-over)", "DEAN", "RAJU (voice-over)", "REP. ERIC SWALWELL (D), CALIFORNIA", "DEAN", "RAJU (voice-over)", "JOYCE WHITE VANCE, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY TO THE NORTHERN DISTRCIT OF ALABAMAL", "RAJU (voice-over)", "REP. ANDY BIGGS (R-AZ)", "DEAN", "BIGGS", "DEAN", "REP. MATT GAETZ (R-FL)", "DEAN", "RAJU (voice-over)", "REP. JAMIE RASKIN (D), MARYLAND", "RAJU (on camera)", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-270730", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-12-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/07/nday.06.html", "summary": "CNN Money Now; Bleacher Report", "utt": ["The president is calling on tech companies in the fight against ISIS. \"CNN Money Now\" time. Chief business correspondent Christine Roman in the Money Center. What's the president asking for?", "Good morning, Michaela. Well, President Obama urging tech leaders to make it harder for terrorists to, quote, \"escape from justice.\" It seems to be a reference to this ongoing battle over encryption. It's easier than ever for people to have a private conversation using several different apps and the phones themselves are also encrypted. Tech companies have fought government efforts to change that. The conversation is on. Hillary Clinton pushing her reform agenda for Wall Street. In a \"New York Times\" op-ed this morning, Clinton said, if elected, she would impose fees for risky behavior and give the government more tools to break up big banks if necessary. Plus, she wants to tax some high frequency trading. She also wrote, quote, \"executives need to be held more accountable. No one should be too big to jail.\" Michaela.", "All right. Time for the five things to know for your NEW DAY. At number one, President Obama pledging to overcome ISIS in a primetime address from the Oval Office. His address some say lacked any new specifics as he tried to calm a jittery nation. Syed Rizwan Farook's father speaking out, saying his son was an ISIS supporter and was fixated on Israel. A senior official says the 28- year-old also looked into contacting terrorist groups overseas. The Justice Department is expected to investigate the Chicago Police Department. That force facing heavy criticism upon the release of dash cam video in the fatal shooting of teenager Laquan McDonald. Venezuela's opposition party wins a majority in the - in that nation' election. It will be the party's first time controlling the legislature in nearly 17 years. Jimmy Carter is cancer free. The 91-year-old former president says his latest brain scan shows no sign of the original cancer spots and no new ones since he was diagnosed with brain cancer over the summer. And as you know, for more on the five things, you can always visit newdaycnn.com for the latest. Ah, that music tells me it's time for sports. Jets fans with local bragging rights here in New York. That's making certain anchors here a little unbearable, Andy Scholes -", "Yes, I bet.", "As if he needed any more reason to be. What's going on in \"The Bleacher Report\"?", "Yes, I bet Chris and, you know, Jet fans all over New York are happy because they're going to get to hold on to some bragging rights for a while because, you know, the Jets and Giants, they only play each other every four years. Of course both teams call MetLife Stadium home, so there was no home field advantage in this one. And the Giants, they had this game in hand, up 20-10 in the fourth quarter. But Ryan Fitzpatrick led the Jets in a comeback with 27 seconds left, found Brandon Marshall for that touchdown to tie the game. We go to overtime. The Jets took the lead on a field goal and the Giants had a chance to tie the game but Josh Brown misses it for the first time this season. The Jets win in a comeback 23-20. They're 7-5 now. The Giants fall to 5-7. The Steelers, meanwhile, putting a beat down on the Colts in the late game yesterday. Antonio Brown had three touchdowns. And by far the most entertaining one was his 71 yard punt return that he finished off by doing this. Ouch. That makes me cringe every time I see it. Somehow Brown popped right up and was a-OK. Steelers won that one big by a final of 45-10. And Heisman votes are due today. Guys, for the first time in Heisman Trophy history, I have a vote. So, right now I'm going to go crunch some numbers and figure out who I'm going to vote for right after I get done with this.", "Wow.", "That's great. Every here is very impressed.", "Including you.", "Oh, wait, he can have an Alisyn moment here. The Heisman. You know what it is. Can you give us \"The Heisman\"?", "I can give you \"The Heisman.\"", "Oh!", "All the time.", "This is something. Our baby is all grown up.", "That's awesome. I appreciate that.", "I know.", "That was a little bit of low hanging fruit -", "It was.", "Because she's found so many ways to reject me.", "From bar speech (ph). Yes.", "That was good. Good job.", "Thanks so much you guys. Well, the Republican presidential hopefuls criticizing President Obama's Oval Office address about destroying ISIS. So we will get senator Rand Paul's take when he joins us live in just a moment. Stick around.", "That was impressive."], "speaker": ["PEREIRA", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "PEREIRA", "ANDY SCHOLES, BLEACHER REPORT", "PEREIRA", "SCHOLES", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "CAMEROTA", "PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "PEREIRA", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-146072", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2009-12-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/15/acd.01.html", "summary": "Are CAT Scans Killing Patients?", "utt": ["Tonight: a common medical test that's a lot more dangerous than you think. Researchers now believe C.T. scans could actually be killing thousands of Americans, delivering too much radiation, and causing deadly cancers. We will up close with 360 M.D. Sanjay Gupta tonight. Also ahead, \"Raw Politics\": Senator Joe Lieberman has almost single-handedly forced Senate Democrats to scrap their hard-won compromise on one of their key components of health care reform. So, how did he do it? And is he really the most hated man in Washington tonight? And later, in \"The Shot,\" Larry King takes us behind the scenes of his interview with the cast of \"Nine\" today, just Larry in a room full of beautiful women,. He will tell us what went on during the commercial breaks. First up: the medical tests you may have had and the hidden risks you might have been exposed to. We're talking about C.T. scans. Now, they're used to take images everything from your heart to your head to your pelvis. Doctors and patients like them because they're -- they're noninvasive, they're fast, and they're painless. But, tonight, there are serious questions being raised about their safety. Come over here. Take a look at this wall. Now, this -- well, this is what a C.T. scan looks like. This is actually a C.T. scan of my heart. I had it done in 2004 for a story that we were doing on heart disease. It runs in my family on my dad's side. Now, when you look, when you get a scan like this done, you know you are going to be exposed to radiation, right? And it has long been thought that the ordinary chest C.T. scan would deliver about the same amount of radiation as 100 X-rays. But now researchers found that the radiation doses delivered by C.T. scanners actually varies widely, even within the same hospital with the same types of scans. Take a look at this. C.T. scans actually can be equal to about 440 times conventional X-rays, instead of just 100. Now, use of C.T. scans have -- have tripled since the '90s. They may be getting overused, in fact, and, according to this -- this study, in 2007, about 72 million C.T. scans were performed in the U.S. So, researchers wondered how much cancer all of these scans in just one year could be causing? And that's where this gets really scary. Take a look. They calculated that 29,000 future cancers could result from all those scans done just in that one year, done in 2007. And they estimate that these 29,000 cancers are going to appear in the next two to three decades, causing nearly 15,000 deaths. For women and young patients, the risks are greatest, and they are -- also vary by type of scan. For instance, for heart scans, which typically use the highest dose of radiation, researchers calculate about one in 270 women who receive a heart scan at age 40 will develop cancer as a result. For men, it's about one in 600. Now, as someone who has had a couple of these now over the years, this is scary stuff. Sanjay Gupta has also had a bunch. This is actually a C.T. scan of Sanjay's heart done back in 2004. I talked to Sanjay earlier today about these new studies.", "What's the headline from this? I mean, this seems incredibly alarming when you first look at it.", "I think it is. And I think, again, it is worth pointing out, I have probably, over the day today, gotten 40 e-mails and talked to several people who say, you know, a reminder that this again is projected numbers. This is based on modeling. And no one is saying tonight that anybody who has had CAT scans for sure is going to get cancer. This is somewhat theoretical", "Well, what does that mean, though, that this -- what does this mean, that it is theoretical, that it is based on modeling?", "Well, you look at the amount of radiation being given off by these machines. And, in this case, they actually compared it to the radiation doses that they saw during the atomic bomb, during Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and tried to actually extrapolate the amount of radiation they saw there, cancer rates they saw, and tried to model that will on C.T. scans and the radiation being given today. The American College of Radiology will point out, look, hang on. That was a much less controlled situation. We control C.T. scanners a lot more.", "But it is certainly cause for center. And if you're going to have a C.T. scan done of any kind, it is important to make sure that it is essential that it's -- that it's -- that the procedure is done, that it's not just some sort of added thing that's tacked.", "There was a big thing about full-body C.T. scans a few years back. I think you and I talked about that, people just getting these C.T. scans just to see if there is anything going. That's probably not a good idea.", "Sanjay, we got those CAT scans done back in 2007. Knowing what you now know, would you have chosen another kind of tool, besides the CAT scan?", "Well, you know, it's worth pointing out that there are risks and benefits with everything. And that is particularly true in medicine. You and I both had these -- these tests done. I have a pretty strong family history of heart disease on my father's side of the family. And, Anderson, I think do you, as well, right?", "Right. Yes, definitely.", "With me, there was a series of tests ahead of time they -- that they do before getting to a test like a C.T. angiogram, and trying to figure out if I have risk factors. But, in my case, they -- you know, the doctors deemed that it was a good screening test to have. But, you know, Anderson, you probably know this. About a third of CAT scans that are done right now, this particular study says, may be unnecessary. And there are a lot of other tests out there potentially that could also serve the purpose. But, you know, as we talk about this, and the thing that's important to say that the American College of Radiology and other organizations don't completely accept all these findings and all these increased cancer risks. And, to be fair, there has not been a documented case of a C.T. scan subsequently leading to cancer.", "Well, what is somebody supposed to do? You and I both have a family history of heart disease on our dad's side. What is the alternative to getting one of these C.T. scans?", "Well, you know, there -- there are tests -- for example, someone is having symptoms of some sort, shortness of breath or chest pain or something like, most likely, they are going to get tests that are not quite like this one first, a stress test, for example. Someone runs on a treadmill. They may get an echocardiogram, where they're actually doing sort of ultrasound to the heart. The gold standard test, incidentally, Anderson, is a -- is an angiogram, which I know you have heard of as well. But that involves actually putting a catheter near the heart and injecting dye and taking pictures there. It may has less radiation, but that also carries a set of risks. So, like I said, you know, you know, it really comes back to a risk- benefit analysis of all these things. Do you risk the extra -- the extra radiation vs. getting an angiogram and the risk of potentially having a stroke or something like that, which that can sometimes cause?", "And, I mean, we saw how the levels of radiation can vary depending on the technician who is actually giving the dose. Is there an acceptable level of radiation?", "Yes, I thought that was amazing. I mean, the same exact procedure, same hospital, two different machines, and you can get up to 13 times the difference in radiation doses. As far as acceptable levels, it really depends on the type of procedure being performed. So, the -- the test that we're talking about that you and I had, they talk about 22 units of radiation. Now, that doesn't mean anything to a lot of people. For -- but, for an abdominal CAT scan, for example, it's typically around 30 units of radiation. But, again, in some hospitals, you can have one machine that does 30 units of radiation and one that does 90, 120, much more. So, there is very little regulation at least even within the hospitals themselves.", "So, is there a way that a patient can find out what the acceptable level of radiation is before the procedure, for a particular procedure?", "I think most of this has been sort of internally regulated within the industry. So, I think this is -- this is a little bit of a surprise to many people to hear tonight that there can be such wild variations. So, there's really two things. One is that they have to sort of lower the amount of radiation being given off by these machines in general. That is just be an improvement of the technology. But, to your point, try and reduce the variations, so patients don't have to ask about this.", "We talked how women are more at risk. Who else is at risk, and why these particular groups?", "Yes. You know, so, women more at risk, probably because, frankly, they're usually more diligent about health care and, as a result, get more screening tests, including tests like this one. But -- but, interestingly, it was really people around the ages of 35 to 54 who seemed to be the most at risk, again, according to this modeling. And that's really probably because that's the time that people are starting to get screening tests. It's also the time where people start -- may notice things. You know, if they have had some problems that have been longstanding, they may start to notice it around that age group as well. So, 35 to 54 seems to be the -- the -- the highest target area.", "All right. Good advice. Sanjay, thanks.", "Thanks, Anderson.", "Well, you can find out more facts about C.T. scans on our Web site at AC360.com. That's where you can also join the live chat now under way. AC360.com is the address. In a moment: Joe Lieberman, possibly the most hated guy on Capitol Hill tonight, at least among Senate Democrats, how he ended up calling so many shot in the health care debate, and what happens next to that Senate bill. And later, remember all the talk by President Obama about cutting earmarks, the pork spending or congresspeople just love? Well, there is another massive pork-filled spending bill, $447 billion that includes billion in earmarks. There's nearly a million dollars for a shrimp. Sound like money well spent? It's your money. That's just the beginning. We're \"Keeping Them Honest\" tonight."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "COOPER", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "GUPTA", "COOPER", "GUPTA", "COOPER", "GUPTA", "COOPER", "GUPTA", "COOPER", "GUPTA", "COOPER", "GUPTA", "COOPER", "GUPTA", "COOPER", "GUPTA", "COOPER", "GUPTA", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-64492", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2002-12-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/20/bn.08.html", "summary": "Iraq: The Weapons Hunt: Is War Unavoidable?", "utt": ["Well the question now on everyone's mind is whether war with Iraq is unavoidable, and it's all the more urgent after yesterday's charge that Iraq hasn't accounted for its weapons of mass destruction. That case was made by the U.S. government to no one's great surprise, but also, by the chief weapons inspector. As we said, his name is Hans Blix, and he's standing by now in New York with CNN's Richard Roth -- Richard.", "I'm here at the United Nations, and I'm with Hans Blix, the chief United Nations weapons inspector dealing with Iraq. What does the declaration by the U.S., again, a material breach, something that you have no role in determining, what does that mean though for your inspection efforts now?", "We are trying to clarify what Iraq has done and clarify the weapons programs of the past. And if they have something still, and they have not revealed that now, well, that would be a breach. It's for the U.S. and the Security Council to determine whether it is a material breach. Whether it's so significant as to be characterized as material.", "But this has to add some type of pressure at least to the urgency of the work as Secretary of State Powell uses the phrase and ratchets it up, doesn't it?", "Well, we couldn't be more accelerated than we are. In fact, we have worked much faster than the Security Council asked us. The council said that there should be in operation and do the first inspection at the latest next week. We have been there almost one month, and we have about 80, 90 inspectors in place, and carried out more than 40 inspections, and we should be accelerated further.", "One an arms expert on the nuclear side says that the overview has been done for the council, and we're going to move now from reconnaissance to investigative efforts, maybe returning to sites three times. You have gone back to sites, but is there a different tenor in the next few days following the briefing?", "Not in the next few days, I don't think so. This is a systematic thing that we're doing. We have anything between 500 and 1,000 sites to visit. And of course, it's important to visit those sites, because Iraq will know that we can come there, that means they cannot use the sites of production of a chemical or biological weapons, but we also would like to have clues from member governments who had intelligence to suggest to us it's a good place to go. We'll do it.", "You led me to that area. Secretary Powell seemed to indicate the U.S. giving your agency intelligence. Have you gotten a call yet?", "Not yet, but I hope we'll get it very soon.", "What's the level of cooperation with intelligence sharing? You don't have it yet.", "Well, there's discussion about how to be done and given, of course, briefings in the past about what they believe they know about the chemical program, et cetera. Much of this they may have learned from procurement information. But as to sites, no, they haven't had it before, and I hope they come, because our strong side is inspections, so we would like to learn where should we go.", "Without it?", "Well, without it, you have to have a systematic investigation all over the country. And, as I said, that's important to deter the Iraqis from using the chemical industries, but it doesn't mean that you have zero in on where they're hiding something.", "The U.S. worries about the intelligence being in the wrong hands or Iraq finding out about ahead of time. Do you allay their concern?", "I have full respect for the wishes of the U.S. or the U.K., that their sources should not be revealed, because that would put people in jeopardy and death jeopardy, so we'll tell the U.S. and U.K. exactly how to handle the information, so that it will be secured.", "This has to sting a bit. A lot of tough talk from the U.S. and a lot of conservative critics in the U.S. saying they're not doing anything in the U.S., doesn't hand over information.", "There are lots of things to do. The intelligence is not the only source. You also have overhead satellite imagery, you have procurement, you have information that we have and open sources, so it's not the only one, but it's desirable to have, highly desirable. And the more contending that they're convinced the Iraqis have continued with programs, the more desirable to put specific evidence on the table.", "And the U.S., you're very familiar with this issue, the scientists. The U.S. says, let's bring them out. You say there's problems, yet the government of Iraq preparing a list of scientists, but on the other day, an Iraqi official said we'll cross the bridge when we come to it, regarding taking the scientists out, or giving the names of the families and things like that. Do you think you're going to get them the scientists of the country?", "Well, that's two different pieces. We have asked for names of all those who participated in the programs in the past. And we've been interested to know where are they now? For that, we don't have to take them out of the country. The question of taking people out of the country is interesting, because Iraq may be intimidated for people to speak inside the country. However, lots of practical problems in taking them out. If you identify one single person, the Iraqi government will know that, and they will immediately go and sanitize the place where they worked, then the material might be gone when the inspectors come. You have to consider quite a number of issues related to this. We are not against the idea, but we don't want to do it an amateurish fashion.", "What's the most biggest omission in that 12,000, 200 page declaration by Iraq?", "Evidence.", "In anthrax, you talked about there were contradictions. What were the contradictions?", "Well, you see, it's evidence that we're missing. If you're sure that they have a program, say, on anthrax or VX, well, then you can say they had omitted information, because there wasn't much on it. But we don't evidence they had such a program, and therefore, we are not contending that they are omitting it, but we would like to have the evidence.", "You mentioned biological germ media, things like that, what is the danger that you can't find those?", "They could use it in the conflict. That's as in the past. We know in this country what the anthrax could do, even a small country, around perhaps one single individual.", "How long does it take to your work? Mohammed El-Baradei of the United Nations said it would actually be a year, his official said that. I mean, are you really going to get a snapshot by January 27th, when you're due to return to the Security Council?", "I wouldn't want to give any timelines at all. UNSCOM worked from 1991 to 1998. I hope that we will be done in much shorter time than that.", "What are you hoping to get in the intelligence field in the -- when the U.S. does -- what do you need? What is it? Is it names? Is it places? I mean, you've been there. You have thousands of pages. What are you lacking?", "Places. We would like to have clues as to where U.S. and other countries intelligence feel they know that the Iraqis are storing weapons of mass destruction, then we can send in the inspectors. America cannot send in -- they don't have inspectors there, nor does the U.K. We can do that.", "The U.S. wants more frequent briefings from you, with a council. You are going to that in early January, right?", "There will be probably a briefing sometime early in January, and then on the 27th of January, there will be another updating of the council. I don't think I should dramatize that. We're not expecting any very big things, like a declaration, this time.", "All right, drama, war, television, it's what's happening. Dr. Blix, thank you very much.", "Drama is for you.", "Well, not always. We deal with the fact. Thank you very much, Dr. Blix, chief weapons inspector, the UNMOVIC agency, here at the United Nations. 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{"id": "CNN-28561", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-4-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/16/lt.13.html", "summary": "White House Announces Delegation for U.S./China Talks", "utt": ["Some members of Congress want the United States to take a tough approach to China, when the two sides meet Wednesday in Beijing. Others warn against aggravating tensions, on the rise since the collision between a Chinese fighter and the U.S. surveillance plane. The White House has just announced who's going to the Chinese capital for the meeting, and for more about it, we turn to our senior White House correspondent John King -- John.", "Hello, Natalie. It will be an eight-member U.S. delegation, mostly unfamiliar faces. One person at the table, Brigadier General Neal Sealock -- he became a familiar face. He, of course, is the U.S. military attache to the embassy in Beijing, was the lead official meeting with those 24 crewmembers while they were detained in China. At that meeting, the U.S. side saying there will be some tough questions asked of the Chinese. Number one, CNN was told by a senior administration official that the U.S. side will inform the Chinese that those surveillance flights are about to resume. The U.S. side, we're told, won't give a firm date but will put the Chinese on notice that those flights are about to resume and will ask some very tough questions, we're told, about how will the Chinese respond. The U.S. seeking a commitment from the Chinese that their fighter pilots will not come so close, at least in the eyes of the United States. It is the Chinese side to blame for flying dangerously close to the EP-3 surveillance plane, not only for this collision but in the past as well. We're also told the U.S. side will request permission to send in a repair crew to get the EP-3 plane out of China as soon as possible. And for all of the talk about ramifications, should the United States oppose China's bid to host the -- host the 2008 Olympics, should there be trade sanctions against China, the White House making clear the president will take those decisions down the road a bit but also making clear the political climate here in the United States certain to be affected by the tone that China adopts at Wednesday's meeting.", "During that meeting, I think you can expect some forthright conversations about these flights and about what took place. And, as the president said in the Rose Garden on Thursday, both nations have to make a determined choice about the future of relations, and the first evidence of those determined choices will come in that meeting on Wednesday, and the president wants to hear what the Chinese have to say.", "Now, as the United States prepares to resume those surveillance flights, there has been some discussion here in the United States if perhaps using fighter jet escorts and even some reports suggesting the USS Kitty Hawk, an aircraft carrier, is in the region in the area to provide such escorts. Pentagon sources, though, and other administration officials telling CNN to -- not to look in that direction at all. Most administration officials believing that having fighter jets in the air at the same time as those surveillance flights would only exacerbate the situation, be viewed by the Chinese as a provocative step, and also greatly enhance the risks of another accident -- Natalie.", "All right. John King at the White House. In China, he's been declared a revolutionary martyr, and now he has his own Web site. China's official news agency is inviting people to pay tribute to pilot Wang Wei on line. It was his fighter jet that collided with the U.S. surveillance plane. In addition to the Web site, China's president has given Wang the title \"Guardian of the Air and Sea.\" TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "KING", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-406297", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2020-07-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/23/ctw.01.html", "summary": "U.K. Prime Minister Warns of Quadruple Winter Crisis", "utt": ["Britain apparently is facing a world of worry this winter, according to the prime minister there. He -- as he marks his -- what has been an eventful first year at 10 Downing Street. Boris Johnson is sounding the alarm over what he calls a quadruple crisis looming for the U.K. when the cold weather rolls around. And he has got the army preparing. Let's break it down for you: a second coronavirus spike, flu season, flooding and the end of the transition period out of the European Union.", "Well, Brussels has been doing its get tough dance with Britain. So plenty on the PM'S plate including a new concern up north. Fresh fears over the state of the union, driving Mr. Trump -- sorry, Mr. Johnson -- driving him to Scotland today. We have a lot to cover. CNN's Nic Robertson joining me from live from Edinburgh to do that. We know that the Scottish leader is keen on independence. What did she have to say on the trip?", "She welcomes Boris Johnson's visit, she said this in a tweet, because every time he comes up here that further shows the difference between her and him. And really, one of the things that's become apparent during how the government up here in Scotland and the United Kingdom government in London under Boris Johnson have handled coronavirus are really giving Nicola Sturgeon a political advantage. The polls are bearing this out, that her poll ratings have gone up because people are trusting her. She's delivered a clear message, because they understand she's putting health before the economy; whereas Boris Johnson's message has been more confusing. Here, for example, in Scotland, they have instituted having face masks in shops, making it mandatory a couple of weeks ago. England only moves into that tomorrow. That's just one of the differences. So you have this situation, where the head of the Scottish National Party is surging in the polls. The British leader is diving in the polls. And what that is done here, it drives up support for the first time in many generations, meaning there's now a majority for independence in Scotland. That's why the prime minister has come up here. What he has tried to do is give the message that the union is strong. This is how he pitched it today when he was up here.", "The union is a fantastically strong institution, it's helped our country through thick and thin. It's very, very valuable in terms of the support we have been able to give to everybody throughout all corners of the U.K. And we had a referendum on breaking up the union a few years ago, I think only six years ago. That is not -- that is not a generation by any computation. And I think what people really want to do is see our whole country coming back strongly together. And that's what we're going to do.", "So here's a thing about the prime minister's visit to Scotland. The locations were kept secret until the last minute. More so than the sort of normal concern when a leader moves around. Not only that, the constituency that he has visited so far is a Liberal Democrat one. They have only four constituencies in the whole of Scotland. The SNP, the Scottish National Party, are 48 and the other place we're expecting him to visit is a conservative constituency. They only have only six constituencies in Scotland. So Boris Johnson isn't publicizes his message, isn't going out to meet people here and isn't even going into the areas where he really needs to double down on the message that the union is good for the country. This -- we're in an unprecedented time, I have to say, Becky. I cover Scotland a lot. And I track this move towards independence. And it's taken a significant shift right now. I have been shocked at what I have been hearing from people, that they would not support it before but, based on this government and Scotland's handling of the coronavirus, they would now support it.", "That's fascinating. All right. Well, one of the threats to the U.K., suggested by the prime minister himself, is leaving the E.U., of course. Despite the U.K. siding with the U.S. on China, that doesn't seem to be a transatlantic trade deal on the cards anytime soon. When you listen to Michel Barnier, who is negotiating for the trade deal on that side as well, we are hearing negative things. What's going on, Nic?", "Well, I think one of the things that Boris Johnson's critics would say is that he's always been an optimist and always says let's rise to the challenge, let's be positive, let's be optimistic. But now we're getting to the crunch period. He just had secretary of state Pompeo visit him in London and there were some cold realities laid out there. Boris Johnson was hoping to get an interim trade deal because they had done what the United States wanted him to do in toughening the attitude to China, particularly over Huawei and 5G.", "And the reality is that the European Union has been saying clearly, what you're coming to the table with doesn't meet with what we have previously agreed sort of in broad terms. So the messaging has been coming to the prime minister that, what you're asking for, both to do with the U.S., what you're doing with the European Union, is not currently on the table. The reality is the prime minister's optimism is not being matched by the reality. I think this is the political difficulty he will face. As he said today, the country has massive challenges ahead of it.", "Nic, politics can be quite a snippy game. The prime minister getting a bit of a taste of that earlier. Explain, if you will.", "Certainly. Look, the -- what he's faced here in Scotland is, you know, keeping the location of where he was going to visit, you know, one could say, a secret. Certainly it wasn't publicized in advance, even this morning. We didn't know where he was going and even the details of when he was visiting places was closely held. Despite that, there were protesters out on the streets in the tiny island where, he went to the crab -- a crab processing plant there. Interestingly of course, crabs are one of the products that are shipped to the European Union. And I have spoken to the people -- some of the fishermen who are out getting the crustaceans from the seas around Scotland. And they have been hugely concerned about Brexit because it slows down getting their product to market and maybe even they'll lose that market.", "Nic Robertson is in Edinburgh, I appreciate it. Now Liverpool have been English Premier League champions for a month but yesterday it was a moment 30 years in the making. An entire generation longing to see the Reds lift a league trophy. We'll tell you why they are not slowing down anytime soon. That's coming up."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "ANDERSON", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN  INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR", "BORIS JOHNSON, U.K. PRIME MINISTER", "ROBERTSON", "ANDERSON", "ROBERTSON", "ROBERTSON", "ANDERSON", "ROBERTSON", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-180408", "program": "LIVING GOLF", "date": "2012-2-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/02/lg.01.html", "summary": "Abu Dhabi Golf; Golf Photography", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Kristie Lu Stout. This is CNN, the world's news leader. And here are the top stories. Rescuers are hunting for survivors after a ferry carrying about 350 people sank off Papua New Guinea. Several ships and helicopters are on the scene and so far officials say 238 people have been rescued. Australian authorities helped Papua New Guinea with the recovery effort after the ship ran into difficulties early on Thursday morning. A inquiry is being launched into a football riot in Egypt that killed 79 people and injured more than 1,000 on Wednesday. Clashes began after a match in the northeastern city of Port Said. Ambulance service spokesman said rival fans attacked each other with rocks and chairs. Forty-seven people have been arrested. The U.S. and NATO plan to end their combat role in Afghanistan by 2013. Here's Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced on Wednesday. Panetta stressed that the rule of foreign military would not transition to more of a training and advisory function. The updated timeline for withdrawal is one year before the 2014 deadline set earlier by the Obama administration. And you're watching CNN, the world's news leader. And LIVING GOLF starts right now.", "LIVING GOLF, in time with Rolex.", "Dubai developed golf before all others in the Middle East. But a mere 19 minutes down the road, Abu Dhabi's golfing scene has finally come of age. Many of the best players from all around the globe, four of the last five major champions, the world's number one and the star attraction Tiger Woods, all here in Abu Dhabi for the start of the Desert Swing. So, is this the year that Abu Dhabi becomes the golfing capital of the Middle East? Welcome to LIVING GOLF.", "On this month's show, a new season, a new start for the biggest name in golf. A clinic with Lee Westwood and friends.", "So it's very important to get the right setup and get the right aim.", "And the rough and the smooth as two young pros try to make it on the European tour.", "This year, Abu Dhabi celebrates its most impressive field since the start of this championship back in 2006. And there is perhaps no greater symbol of this than a certain Tiger Woods, who, for the first time ever, begins his season here. Perhaps his comeback year, right here in Abu Dhabi.", "I've always wanted to come here to Abu Dhabi. I've never made the trip here. So, as people know, I've made a trip to Dubai a bunch of times. So this was a first.", "More from Tiger in a few minutes. His debut here. But for other top class players in the field, Abu Dhabi's been a firm fixture for quite some time.", "You know, I've started the season in Abu Dhabi for the last five years and, you know, it's a place I love coming back to.", "I always come here without playing any tournaments for that five, six weeks. So I am very motivated to play golf again.", "Well, it's a great place to start a season. You know, I think Abu Dhabi and HSBC has quickly sort of made this a very big tournament.", "It's the first significant event of 2012. It's the first time we've seen the big boys going at it head to head.", "This is the first one. It's the best one. We have the best field for this year. The top four in the world, plus Tiger. This event can only grow into being one of the world's great events. Never mind the Middle East's greatest event.", "So, is Abu Dhabi looking to steal Dubai's crown as the main event in the desert swing?", "This sport definitely played a big role in promoting Dubai. They've had -- they started the golf or the desert swing, if we can call it now, the desert swing. And we benefit from that experience. Definitely with this government, it's a big statement. Every year we've been raising the stake of this tournament and we cannot go back. It will continue, you know,", "So, what does it take to secure such a cast of players, and in particular the biggest draw in golf?", "I've heard $1.5 million up to $3 million. It could be $5 million. Who knows. I mean it's always gone on. It goes back to Johnny Miller and Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer playing the Lancome French Open, whatever. Same deal.", "Tiger was always under our radar. And I -- we found, you know, the opportunity. And when he was open to discuss coming again to the Middle East, we worked on it. And the deal was for one year, definitely. This is not a secret. It's been announced before. But we are looking at the future also with him.", "And there is speciation, and there is always speculation, but that he received somewhere in the region of $2.5 million to appear here. That's since been brought down to $1.5 million.", "It's all speculation, but definitely it's between the two figures you just said.", "But it's not just the treasures of the tournaments that are enticing the best players to the capital. In a short space of time, Abu Dhabi has become something of a sporting meca. You wouldn't really expect to walk off a grand prix circuit, cross a road, and find yourself here on a beautiful links course that would look right at home on a stretch of Scottish coastline. But then there's probably nowhere else quite like Abu Dhabi's Yas Island.", "It's kind of a bit of an oasis in the desert, if you like. I mean they've put a really great golf course together over there at Yas Links and, you know, it really feels authentic.", "Steven, great to see you.", "Coming from Scotland, the aesthetics of the golf course are actually beautiful. You see you've got the rolling hills, you've got the long grass. And -- but what we're most excited about is that the golf course plays like a links Scots (ph).", "We visited Yas Links a few months before it opened in 2010. In just two years, it's become the number one ranked course in the Middle East. And there are rumors it may become the next home of the Abu Dhabi championship. With a world class tournament and three outstanding golf courses, Abu Dhabi is clearly on a roll. Although not quite everything has gone to plan. To date, there's been no sign of a spectacular title course on Saadiyat Island. Commissioned at the same time as the Yas Links. But Sheik Mubarak insists it will be built and it won't be the end of development.", "We are looking now in the future when really to kick off the start of that golf course. As I said earlier, we'll keep improving, you know, the infrastructure of tourism and of golfing in Abu Dhabi. And that's another championship course. I think Abu Dhabi, in the next five years and 10 years, will reach its maturity as a destination. We are still in the beginning of that care (ph).", "Whatever the future holds for Golf in Abu Dhabi, the fact remains that this year all eyes were on Tiger Woods. We spoke to him about his game and the season ahead.", "My practice session has been very good at home. I've been practicing with Sean and we've done some good things. And all we're doing is trying to build on what we did towards the end of last year. We haven't changed on working on anything different. It's the same things. Just trying to get more efficient on doing them.", "Obviously you're back in full health. The majors are up and coming. How good do you feel about 2012?", "I'm excited. I'm very excited. You know, last year was a tough year. Unfortunately I wasn't -- I missed some of the majors last year. I missed basically the whole major championship season really. The two and then the last one I wasn't in play very well. And -- so it was nice to end the year the way I did and then to, you know, head into this year healthy and ready to go. So looking to hopefully get my game ready for Augusta. And I know it's a few months away, so just trying to get ready for that.", "Now you are rated among spokmakers (ph) to be 7-5. So just a little bit above even to win a major this year. Would you bet on yourself?", "I always bet on myself.", "Still to come, from Q School to the open championships, two young golfers trying to make their mark. Life through a lens. A master class with the world's best golf photographer.", "That's the shot I was looking for.", "And Lee Westwood and friends show us how it's done."], "speaker": ["KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "ANNOUNCER", "SHANE O'DONOGHUE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "O'DONOGHUE (voice-over)", "LEE WESTWOOD, PROFESSIONAL GOLFER", "O'DONOGHUE", "O'DONOGHUE (on camera)", "TIGER WOODS, PROFESSIONAL GOLFER", "O'DONOGHUE (voice-over)", "RORY MCILROY, PROFESSIONAL GOLFER", "MARTIN KAYMER, PROFESSIONAL GOLFER", "LEE WESTWOOD, PROFESSIONAL GOLFER", "JOHN HUGGAN, EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT, GOLF WORLD", "COLIN MONTGOMERIE, EUROPEAN RYDER CUP CAPTAIN 2010", "O'DONOGHUE", "H.E. 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{"id": "CNN-184027", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-4-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/07/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Movie Critic Assesses New Box Office Arrivals", "utt": ["The controversial documentary \"Bully\" now has a PG-13 rating. It was initially rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America because of multiple uses of the f-word and other profanities. The makers of the movie resisted the R rating, releasing the film in a small number of theaters with no rating at all. Now the Weinstein company has edited the movie, cutting some of the curse words out. Here's part of what the rating's board said about its new PG-13 rating saying, quote, \"The Weinstein Company decided to resubmit a new edited version of \"Bully\" to be rated, and the rating board gave this new verse of the film a PG-13 rating for intense thematic material, disturbing content, and some strong language all involving kids,\" end quote, that from the Movie Picture Association. So the edited verse of \"Bully\" opens in theaters nationwide April 13th. Our movie critic Grae Drake from Fandango.com and Movies.com is here to talk about \"Bully.\" OK, so it appears as though everyone got their way. The moviemakers get to keep the original content and have the other, the unedited version, and then the other modification for the PG-13. So many more people will get a chance to see it. That was the objective for those moviemakers. So let's look at a quick clip and then I'm going to have your opinion on the other end.", "Two people to a seat. Two people to a seat. There's two people already here!", "They punch me in the jaw, strangle me.", "All right, very tough, that one child's account of what he goes through all time or had been going through at the time of that filming. So Grae, very real in your view? What was your opinion?", "This movie is shockingly realistic. I mean, just the thought that this is actually happening is horrendous to me. That is such a tiny slice of an entire film filled with terrifying visuals of kids in today's schools, because, I mean, we all know that kids can be horrible when they are growing up, but this just takes it to a whole new level. And I think that part of the horror of the film is how helpless everyone is against it. Even the people who are in charge of our children, who are, you know, their responsibilities to present them, in the film you see them talking about how they can't do anything about it. They refuse to. They just chock it up to kids being kids. And this movie had me in tears over how brutal these kids' lives are. And I'm glad that they have released the PG-13 version to give people more accessibility to it. I don't think that the effect of the film will be changed after just editing language because it's such a powerful expression of this -- the terror of these kids' lives. I mean, it's --", "And you gave it a grade, just as you do other movies that you review for us. And what is your grade? There we see it.", "I gave this movie a B because although it does an amazing job of showing all of these kids and talking to their families, it doesn't show any bullies. They don't talk to any of those kids or those kids' parents. And so it was a little bit limited in that respect. But it didn't change the power of the film. I think everybody should see this movie, and also especially if you have children, and also especially if you are an administrator, because something has to be done, and this movie's a really good rallying cry for us to change the way that we are.", "OK, so from reality to a different kind of reality in some circles. Let's talk about \"American Reunion.\" Quick clip of what is the sequel, right?", "Yes.", "There's a smoking hot 18-year-old girl over there that used to baby-sit, and you're not going to do anything about that?", "Need I remind thaw I am married to Michelle?", "Exactly. Dude, you can take what you learned from her, bring it home, and apply it to Michelle. You do care about your marriage, don't you, Jim?", "What are you talking about, Stifler? I'm not going to cheat on my wife. I'm a father.", "Yes. That's perfect.", "\"American Pie\" kind of grown up, right?", "Yes, kind of. That's -- let me break it down for you.", "It wouldn't be fun if it was totally grown up.", "You know what, the first two movies qualify as fun. This movie qualifies as sad and pathetic at every single turn. I've got to tell you, this movie is like a person that you dated over the summer and never thought about them again until they showed up on your doorstep 13 years later talking about what an amazing connection you had. In other words, you don't want to see them. You couldn't care less that they existed. This movie -- everybody's favorite pie molesters are showing up to their 10-year reunion 13 years later. So if their math is any indication how good this movie is, then I'll leave it at that.", "I get it. Your grade, then?", "They realize they peaked in high school, Fredricka nap is so sad. It was so horrible to watch, and at every single point that I gave this movie and F, except Eugene Levy deserves -- he deserves everyone in America's thanks for making this movie tolerable. And I desperately hope that America will not go see this film and encourage them to make any more pictures. They should have kept this straight to the DVD hell it was languishing in. I could go on if you want me to.", "I know you could, but, sadly, we're out of time. And I'm sure the moviemakers of that film are glad you're not going to go on. Grae Drake, a harsh grade. Calling it like you see it at all times. Appreciate it. You can always watch her reviews at Fandango and Movies.com. You see how technology solved the crime on TV shows like CSI and NCIS. Straight ahead, how technology might prevent a crime."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WHITFIELD", "GRAE DRAKE, CRITIC, MOVIES.COM", "WHITFIELD", "DRAKE", "WHITFIELD", "DRAKE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WHITFIELD", "DRAKE", "WHITFIELD", "DRAKE", "WHITFIELD", "DRAKE", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-92644", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2005-3-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0503/04/lad.04.html", "summary": "Martha Stewart Leaves Her Prison Days Behind Her", "utt": ["Martha Stewart leaves her prison days behind her. But the homemaking guru isn't done serving her sentence. And amending the Scholastic Aptitude Test. You know it as the SAT. Those annoying analogies go away, replaced with a little controversy. And later, the sister of Michael Jackson's accuser returns to the witness stand. Today, we'll find out how damaging her testimony has been so far. It is Friday and you are watching DAYBREAK. Good Friday morning to you. From the Time Warner Center in New York, I'm Kelly Wallace, in today for Carol Costello. Now in the news, she's out. Martha Stewart arrived at her New York estate about three hours ago. You are looking now at live pictures of her estate in Bedford, New York. She will begin serving five months under house arrest after serving five months behind bars for lying about a stock sale. We will have live reports in just two minutes. Canine search teams plan to stop looking for a missing Florida girl today. Nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford disappeared from her home more than a week ago. Authorities say there are no named suspects or strong leads. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is reportedly warning the U.S. not to be aggressive. The Dow Jones News Wire says Chavez will cut oil supplies to the U.S. if Washington tries to \"hurt Venezuela.\" Last month, Chavez accused the U.S. of trying to assassinate him. The State Department called the allegation \"ridiculous.\" And President Bush is heading on the road again. He is pushing his Social Security plan in a 60 city, 60 day blitz. The president will be in New Jersey this morning and at the University of Notre Dame this afternoon. To the Weather Center now again -- and hello to Chad. Chad, did you ever notice on Friday, everyone seems to have a really big smile on their face?", "I think it's the added coffee.", "I think so. You think?", "Good morning, Kelly.", "Good morning.", "Yes, I'm still on my second cup or so here.", "Well, day one of Martha Stewart's new life is our top story. The domestic diva is enjoying the comforts of her home this morning, after being released from a West Virginia prison just after midnight. We have two live reports. CNN's Deborah Feyerick is at the West Virginia airport where Stewart boarded a private jet home. And CNN's Allan Chernoff is at Stewart's Bedford, New York estate. We begin with you, Deb. It was quick but dramatic, right?", "Definitely quick and definitely dramatic. And, boy, what a difference a day makes. Yesterday at this hour, Martha Stewart was getting up to begin her final day of prison duties. Today, she's back on her own schedule. She can sleep late if she so chooses. Martha Stewart leaving prison yesterday at about 12:30 in the morning. She did not linger. She did not spend one moment more than she had to. She arrived directly at the airport. And then came the million dollar moment that you referred to -- the smile, the wave, the bounce in her step. She even spontaneously kissed one man waiting just at the bottom of the steps, who seemed to be a part of the crew, after she apparently recognized him. She did bring with her only a few belongings, really, a box, which seemed to be sort of one of the boxes that you carry paper in, and also a small black duffle bag. She has vowed to remember the women she met here. She put a posting on her Web site that reads: \"You can be sure that I will never forget the friends that I met here, all they have done to help me over these five months, their children and the stories they have told me.\" And then she settled in for the hour long plane ride home, saying also, it would be good to be back home -- Kelly.", "All right, Deborah Feyerick reporting throughout the evening for us from West Virginia. Thanks so much, Deborah. We'll talk to you in a little bit. Business wise, Martha Stewart is better off now than when she entered prison. You may wonder how. Well, CNN senior correspondent Allan Chernoff joins us from outside Stewart's estate in Bedford, New York -- and Allan, what is the scene like there now?", "Well, right now quiet, of course. The sun just rising. But it was 2:00 in the morning when Martha Stewart arrived at Westchester Airport, not far from here. A half hour later, her convoy of three cars was driving up a dirt road right nearby here. And shortly thereafter Martha Stewart finally was back home after five months in prison. Now, of course, she has five more months of home confinement. And she's got an estate here that runs 153-acres. That's larger than the Alderson Prison in West Virginia. But she's not going to be permitted to roam around on that estate. She actually will be restricted to her residence there and by Sunday night she has to meet with her probation officer. She's going to have an ankle bracelet that will be affixed to her. It will be connected via radio waves to a transmitter in her home, which will be hooked up to a phone line. If she leaves the home, the probation officer will know about it. Now, Martha Stewart will be permitted out of the house 48 hours a week. She'll be allowed to visit doctors, shop for groceries, go to church and go to the office if she so desires. She certainly does have plenty of work. Martha Stewart, of course, a very busy person. She plans to write a column for her magazine. She plans two television shows, \"The Apprentice,\" her own version of it; and also a new syndicated program that will premier in the fall. So Martha Stewart certainly has plenty on her plate. She'll be busy. But right now certainly catching up on her sleep -- Kelly, back to you.", "And, Allan, I know you've been talking to some of the leaders of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. I know they're very excited. What kind of role do they see her playing in the company now that she's out of prison?", "Right. Kelly, as you know, Martha Stewart is the founder of the company and the former chairman and chief executive. Right now she does not have an executive role at the company. But they plan to have her very involved in the company. Martha Stewart has been basically the creative force. She has approved all the major projects there. And they are looking for creative input from Martha Stewart. They want to show her the new products that are coming out. The company has a new line of bedding, new ready-to-assemble furniture that is going to be sold at Kmart. They have another new furniture line coming out, a baking book coming out later this year, lots of new projects. And, Kelly, they also are looking into greatly expanding. They are considering, according to the chief executive, considering going into the food business, prepared foods, perhaps frozen foods. They are also thinking of a variety of new ways to deliver their content, over the Internet; also, they plan to package Martha Stewart's TV programs into DVDs, into videos. So lots of projects at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Martha Stewart is going to have plenty to occupy herself with.", "And, Allan, lots of smiles, I'm sure, at the company. That stock price has been going only in one direction, it seems, for most of the time that she was in jail, right?", "Yes. During the time she was in jail, the stock price actually doubled. So she has come out of jail, believe it or not, worth about $500 million more than she did when she entered jail. So once again, Martha Stewart is a billionaire. One note to that, Kelly, though, very interesting, yesterday the stock price rose, but that was the first increase in six days. For five days, the stock price actually took a little bit of a hit. On Wall Street, there's a thing such as buying on the news and then selling right afterward. And it seems that may have happened here. So some people perhaps lightening up on the stock -- Kelly.", "Right, I know. A lot of analysts thinking that that stock price might come down in the weeks and months ahead. Allan, thanks so much. Allan Chernoff reporting live from Bedford, New York for us this morning. More \"News Across America\" now. Two painters were left dangling 10 floors above a downtown Los Angeles street after their scaffolding broke. It took rescuers about 40 minutes to pull them through a window. Luckily, they were both wearing their safety harnesses. Neither was seriously injured. Texas Border Patrol agents successfully delivered a baby after picking up the immigrant mother. The 27-year-old woman was just six months pregnant. Authorities say the woman had been abandoned by an immigrant smuggler because she couldn't keep up. The baby is in intensive care at a Corpus Christi hospital. And a special memorial exhibit has opened at Syracuse University. The exhibit, called \"Faces of the Fallen,\" features pictures of more than 1,400 American soldiers killed in Iraq. Creators of the show intend to eventually send the original portraits of the soldiers to their families. Well, life in a fish bowl -- Martha Stewart, as you know, is out of prison and ready to entertain you. But can she whip up a recipe for TV ratings success? And aptitude versus attitude -- new changes on the SAT. Will it help or hurt your college bound child? And the sister of Michael Jackson's accuser prepares for a second day of testimony. We'll have a live report on the latest courtroom testimony. But first, here is a look at what else is making news this Friday morning, March 4."], "speaker": ["KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "WALLACE", "MYERS", "WALLACE", "MYERS", "WALLACE", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WALLACE", "ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WALLACE", "CHERNOFF", "WALLACE", "CHERNOFF", "WALLACE"]}
{"id": "CNN-409825", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-09-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/02/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Trump's Kenosha Visit Ends Without Answers; California And Florida See Infection Rates Decline; Three Out Of Four Adults Worldwide Say Yes To A COVID Vaccine; Facebook: Russia is Targeting American Voters Again", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. I'm John Vause. Coming up this hour. A presidential visit with a fistful of dollars for the Kenosha P.D., the one that shot an African American man seven times in the back. South Korea bracing for Maysak, one of the most powerful typhoons to make landfall in years. And why did Donald Trump say a stroke wasn't the reason for that mystery trip to Walter Reed Hospital back in November, when no one suggested it was. CNN NEWSROOM begins now. Donald Trump spent three hours in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday. Never say the name Jacob Blake, the African American man who was shot by police, didn't visit Blake in hospital where he's paralyzed. He didn't meet with Blake's family. But he did tour damaged property and he promised millions of dollars in federal aid for business owners and showered law enforcement with praise and promised a million dollars in extra funding to, quote, \"do what you have to do.\" And, for the record, not once was he seen wearing a mask. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports from the White House.", "A thing like this should never happen.", "Tonight, President Trump surveying Kenosha, Wisconsin, a week after police here shot a black man in the back seven times. But the president all but ignored that tragedy, instead lamenting the property damage caused by riots that followed the shooting and delivering political remarks.", "Reckless, far left politicians continue to push the destructive message that our nation and our law enforcement are oppressive or racist. They'll throw out any word that comes to them.", "Also taking credit for a National Guard deployment he did not order.", "This ended within an hour, as soon as we announced we were coming. And then they saw that we were here. This ended immediately.", "Falsely claiming federal troops marched into Kenosha and ended the unrest. The reality? All National Guard troops in Wisconsin are under state control. As for Jacob Blake, Trump addressing the situation only after question from reporters.", "I'd feel terribly for anybody that goes through that. As you know, it's under investigation, it's a big thing happening right now. I guess it's under local investigation.", "Blake's uncle staying above the fray.", "We're not going to get caught up him. He wished he would, and we're not. Were here to heal Kenosha and push forward our agenda for getting little Jake justice.", "Today Trump denying the existence of systemic racism in policing.", "I don't believe that. I think the police do an incredible job. And I think you do have some bad apples.", "Trump is also spinning new conspiracy theories.", "(...) they control him.", "Who do you think is pulling Biden's strings?", "People that you've never heard of. People that are in the dark shadows.", "And then there was this.", "We had somebody get on a plane from a certain city this weekend. And in the plane it was almost completely loaded with thugs wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms with gear. A lot of people were on the plane -- to do big damage.", "The president providing no evidence to back up his strange claim.", "This was a firsthand account of a plane going from Washington to wherever. And I'll see if I can get that information for you; maybe they'll speak to you, maybe they won't.", "President Trump spent nearly three hours on the ground in Kenosha. And during that time, we saw him turn the city into the backdrop for his 2020 reelection campaign, and his focus on this law and order message. We saw him disparage what he called left wing violence and this anti police rhetoric that he feels some politicians are engaging in. What we did not hear from the president in those nearly three hours where the words Jacob Blake. That is the name, of course, of the man who was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. And the president did not utter his name once during those nearly three hours. Instead, we heard the president only address the situation when he was asked about the shooting. And in that case, we heard the president say that he feels terribly about the situation but he declined to weigh in any further. And the president, of course, also did not meet with Jacob Blake or his family. Jeremy Diamond. CNN, the White House.", "Matt Lewis is a CNN political commentator. He's a conservative and a senior columnist for \"The Daily Beast\". And he is with us from Washington. Matt, thanks for taking the time.", "Hey, thanks for having me.", "OK. Well, we've heard from Trump for a while now. He's pushing this sort of Orwellian-like narrative that Joe Biden is a basket weaving, chardonnay sipping, police hating soft- on-crime Democrat while Donald Trump is the tough guy, the law and order candidate. And on \"Fox News,\" he had this defense for the police officer in Kenosha who shot Jacob Black -- listen to -- Blake, rather. Listen to this.", "And shooting the guy in the back many times. Couldn't you have done something different, couldn't you have wrestled him? In the meantime, he might have been going for a weapon -- you know, and there's a whole big thing there. But they choke. Just like in a golf tournament, they miss a three foot --", "You're not comparing to golf. Because, of course, that's what the media will say.", "No. I'm saying people choke.", "People --", "He's not comparing it to golf, except for the fact that he is. There will be some people who think that it's perfectly reasonable to say that sort of stuff. Many more will find it totally offensive to compare the tragedy of a police shooting to that time you missed a three-foot putt. As a conservative, I don't know, can you explain the strategy here that Trump is trying to win the election by?", "Well, yes. First of all what he's doing at that that moment is botching the communications aspect. And he needs Laura Ingraham, who is an ally, to basically help him on track and keep him from making a major gaffe, even more of a gaffe than he did. So the execution's very flawed. But I think there is a strategy, and the strategy is basically to say we've got about 60 days left until the election. And if the election's about COVID or if it's about the economy then Donald Trump can't win. And so what you need is an issue that is just as emotional, just as compelling, to drive out working class white voters and even suburban white voters to the polls. And that would be the law and order issue. And when you see rioting in the streets, that's the opening for Donald Trump. And that's really his only play. It may not be a great play but that's his only play right now. And I think it would've resonated more had he executed it better.", "Yes. Well, the protests in Kenosha and across the United States the past few months ultimately have focused on systemic racism, which is behind acts of violence against black men and women in this country. And, again, Donald Trump speaking at a news conference in Kenosha. Here he is.", "Do you believe systemic racism is a problem in this country?", "Well, you know you just keep getting back to the opposite subject. We should talk about the kind of violence that we've seen in Portland and here and other places. It's tremendous violence. You always get to the other side, \"Well, what do you think about this or that?\" The fact is that we've seen tremendous violence, and we will put it out very, very quickly if given the chance. And that's what this is all about.", "Now if you want to talk about messaging, I think this is actually quite, quite clever, if you listen to it. Because what he's saying is that the protesters and the looters, they're the bad ones. It's not the government or society. And is this a message which wins over sort of garden variety white bread Republicans?", "Well, again, I think it's all that he's got, right? The truth is that reality is more complex and nuanced. We do have systemic racism but we also have looting and rioting. And I think Joe Biden condemned both things. Joe Biden condemned police abuse and looting and rioting. Donald Trump wants to basically -- rather than bring us together, he wants to divide us. And he really wants it to be two teams. One team is basically, in Donald Trump's mind, African Americans and looters and rioters and then the other team are the good people including the police officers. That that is what he wants to set up. And it is possible that Donald Trump could win. Remember, in America, it's not about the popular vote, it's about winning the electoral college. Right? And the key states there could be states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. And so it's possible that enough working class white voters and also suburban college educated whites here in the next 60 days decide they re more afraid of the rioters than they are of COVID, Donald Trump could pull off another electoral college miracle.", "Very quickly --", "That's his only play, I think.", "Yes. Very quickly. \"Politico\" has this report. That -- \"... in Wisconsin, the prediction that those put off by the protest will embrace Trump hasn't yet been supported by the polling or in conversations with pollsters and operatives here. \" the president's handling of the protests continue to be one of the weakest points with Wisconsin voters, even more so than how he's addressed the COVID-19 pandemic.\" Well, is it too soon? Are we going to have to see a lot more violence before this strategy starts working?", "Well, look I think that what happened in Kenosha is still fairly new, right? We're about a week out from what happened there. And I think there is a sense, and maybe it's anecdotal, but there is a sense that there is a sort of fatigue. There were a lot of Americans who a few months ago with the George Floyd shooting or George Floyd killing that were, I think, very sympathetic to the cause, right? And then they were actually in some cases joining in the protests and wanted to do something about police abuse. But as that story shifts and you start to see rioting and looting, the question is will the white folks move away from that support? And, again, I don't know that polling is backing that up, but I think a lot of people who -- let's just look at political history in America. Whether it is Richard Nixon in the 1960s or Lee Atwater running George H.W. Bush's campaign in 1988, the whole Willie Horton story. Race does resonate. And if you're Donald Trump and you can't talk about COVID because it's not a good story to tell and you can't talk about the economy --", "Make one up.", "-- this may be the last move you have.", "It sounds like you make one up though, doesn't it, Matt? Good to see you, Matt. Thank you. Matt Lewis, CNN political commentator.", "Thank you.", "Thank you, sir. This coming weekend is Labor Day in the United States. And if history is prologue, it could be a major spreading event for the coronavirus. Across the U.S., though, a number of states including hard hit California and Florida are seeing infection rates decline. And with that in mind, health experts are pleading with Americans to not become complacent. And now as the country races to develop a vaccine, officials are still trying to figure out how and when to release it. More now from CNN's Nick Watt.", "Three potential vaccines now in crucial phase three human trials here in the U.S. But the FDA suggesting could be approved before those trials are over? Now raising more than eyebrows.", "You don't want a vaccine to be available widely to the American public unless it's been shown to be safe and effective.", "The FDA commissioner now intimating he'd consider resigning rather than greenlight the vaccine under political pressure.", "I think all options are on the table. With respect, I hope we are not in that position.", "Such seismic statements now necessary because through previous misstatements and political pressure --", "We've started eroding the trust that we always had in these otherwise incredibly professional institutions. You can't just have the vaccine, you've to get it in people for it to work. And so trust is a critical element to make that happen.", "In fact and when we get a vaccine, it will be initially in short supply. An independent committee now recommending it goes first to health workers and people with underlying issues. Phase two would be other high risk and essential workers, including teachers, all of the elderly and our prison population. While we wait, nationally new case counts are falling from a great height. Florida finally allowing some visitors into nursing homes again.", "They would like to be able to say goodbye or to hug somebody. So it was --", "But there's a knot in the heartland where average new case counts are rising right now, near double in South Dakota in just a week. The White House coronavirus task force just warned Iowa it has the highest rate of cases in the nation advising mask mandates across the state, bars must be closed and a comprehensive plan for college towns. More than 20,000 confirmed cases and counting at colleges in at least 36 states as students return.", "The only way to find them in the university setting is doing the aggressive testing.", "New York City just pushed back in-person classes by 10 days and announced it'll test some K through 12 staff and students monthly. Hardly aggressive.", "It's great to talk about this utopian kind of ideal where everybody has a test every day and we can do that. I don't live in the utopian world.", "But as one CNN analyst tweeted, \"That's what White House staff and major league sports get now. Sure, let's call it utopia when it's for the less privileged.\" Meanwhile, remember that summer sunbelt surge sparked by Memorial Day? There's another holiday weekend coming up.", "As we approach Labor Day, let me encourage people to be mindful the virus is still looking for you.", "And Dr. Anthony Fauci warning Americans that how they behave this holiday weekend will pretty much set the stage for what the fall might look like with COVID-19 when of course we might also have flu mixed in with all this mess. Nick Watt. CNN, Los Angeles.", "Well, the U.S. president's new go-to guy on the coronavirus task force has adamantly denied media reports he's been pushing for a herd immunity strategy to fight the pandemic. According to the \"Washington Post,\" Scott Atlas was pushing this strategy which would allow the virus to spread unchecked, quickly building immunity among the population. Those who survive, that is. Some studies have found this plan could end with a death toll north of two million.", "\"I'm not sure they fabricated it or someone told them a lie, but there's never been any advocacy of a herd immunity strategy coming from me to the president, to anyone in the administration, to the task force, to anyone I've spoken to. The president does not have a strategy advocating herd immunity. The task force does not have a strategy advocating herd immunity. There is no change in any kind of strategy that I've seen. The whole thing is an overt lie. But this is Washington.\"", "Just ahead on CNN NEWSROOM. Bracing for not one but two typhoons in the coming days. The first just hours away from landfall on the Korean Peninsula. Also, teachers in Russia are among the first to receive the Kremlin's rushed, untested, potentially dangerous coronavirus vaccine. 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{"id": "CNN-164475", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2011-4-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1104/07/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Can Gadhafi Be Persuaded to Leave Libya?", "utt": ["Our Nic Robertson is in Tripoli. He's getting some new information on these journalists that have gone missing. Nic, what are you learning about these foreign correspondents that were apparently picked up or taken by some of Gadhafi's supporters?", "Wolf, there has been a lot of concern here among journalists that", "That's good news for them. You will stay in touch with us on that. Thank you, Nic. Thanks very much for that information. Former Congressman Curt Weldon is also in Tripoli right now. He is hoping -- hoping -- to get a meeting with the Libyan leader, Moammar Gadhafi. Hasn't happened yet. Weldon, who first went to Libya with a congressional delegation back in 2004, says he will tell Gadhafi if in fact, he gets that meeting, that Gadhafi needs to step down. Weldon says Gadhafi's son, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, could play a role, though, in bringing about a new government in Libya. Last hour, part one of our interview. Right now, let's go to part two of the interview.", "When was the last time you spoke with someone from the Obama administration about your mission?", "Well, I don't want to get into the details of what I did before I came. But needless to say, as you've seen acknowledged in the press, I did reach out in an ongoing way with friends who have ties to both the State Department and the White House, and I did interact with friends in the Congress from both parties. I did not seek any endorsement for this trip. In fact the first letter I received to invite me here was from the deputy foreign minister, and I said, \"No, I'm not going to accept that.\" I said, \"If I get a letter inviting me as a private citizen, by someone like Bashar Salad (ph), then I would consider coming.\" I received that letter in both English and Arabic. In fact, I made it available to your network, and that's why I'm here. I plan to provide information when I get back, as they deem appropriate. If they don't want my information, fine. I'm not here to make policy. I'm not here to deviate from the president's agenda. I support President Obama in this effort. I support Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. I think they are taking the right course. Hillary's statements yesterday about what needs to be done here by the -- by Colonel Gadhafi I support 100 percent.", "I just want to clarify your specific role, because some questions have come up about if you're involved in any business deals, have been involved in business deals with Libya over the years. You say you've had no financial relationship with Libya in any of your capacity since leaving the Congress. Is that right?", "Absolutely. I have not made one dime, or I should say one dinar, from Libya, anyone in this country, and that is in case -- that is, in fact, today coming over here. No one is paying me. I'm doing this because, as I did for 20 years as the vice chairman of the armed services committee.", "\"Wired\" magazine is -- has reported that your company, Defense Solutions, a company you worked for, did at one point propose selling arms to Libya under Gadhafi. Is that right?", "No. That's -- first of all, I have no ties to Defense Solutions. I did some consulting work with that company, as did General Barry McCaffrey and a couple of retired investors. That company has not been existence for -- \"Wired\" magazine ought to be -- come up to date, because it's been basically nonexistent for, I think, three or four years. I did some brief consulting for them. Never did I ever offer to sell any weapons to Libya, because as you know, our State Department requirements have never allowed arms to be sold in this country. Unlike the Brits and perhaps some of the other European countries, we have a mandate that that's not been permitted.", "And just to be precise, you never encouraged, you never worked to lift that embargo on selling arms to Libya?", "No. No. I -- I worked to try to normalize relations. I put together a comprehensive series of initiatives that could bring our people together in health care and education, in housing and environment and energy. I put together ideas to create a relationship between the Jamahiriya and the Congress, as I've done in nine other countries. So you know, I'm proud of what I've done, and I'm sad that our efforts haven't paid off, and now we're in the midst of another war that's cost the American taxpayers almost a billion dollars, money we don't have.", "And who's paying for your current trip, together with your delegation to Libya now?", "The delegation is three people I brought over: an attorney friend of mine from Houston, because there are some things they're working on I will not discuss tonight but will tomorrow. You can talk to your -- your own people about that. Your station -- your network has been on the lead in that. The only thing that was covered was my airfare over here, and that's it. I'm not asking for any money. That's not why I'm here.", "Who paid for the airfare?", "The airfare was paid for by the team of Steve Payne and Brian Enzer (ph) of Houston.", "So it's not been -- nothing to do with the government of Libya? Are they -- are they lobbyists or do they have business dealings with Libya?", "No. No. I don't know. I don't believe they do. But you can talk -- I know one of them has had friendships, I believe, Steve, with -- with one of the sons. But as far as I know, no business dealings. I specifically said I would not go to Libya with any money tied into the Gadhafi family.", "And one final question before I let you go. I know you've got to run. But when you met with the prime minister of Libya, what was his major point to you? What did he tell you?", "Well, he went through a litany of typical things that you've heard throughout all of the public relations efforts of Libya about how this is an anomaly and how that we've seen without Libya, unlike any other nation around the world. And we've been oppressive, and this is unfair. They had no advanced warning. And I did not get into that, because I'm not here to do that. I said, \"Look, you are where you are. And all I want to do is see you have an opportunity to interact directly with an envoy from our secretary of state, and that's not going to happen unless you do certain things. And these are some ideas. These were not given to me by our government, but these are some ideas of what I think you should be doing.\" And basically, those ideas are what have been talked about in the open press.", "Congressman, thanks very much for joining us. I'd love to continue this conversation after your meeting with Moammar Gadhafi, assuming it takes place. But good luck over there. Be careful.", "Thank you, Wolf.", "Former Congressman Weldon. He's in Tripoli. A government shutdown now less than a day and a half away. If lawmakers don't reach a deal, Americans from coast to coast will start feeling it very quickly. And Donald Trump says he's now investigating whether President Obama was actually born in Hawaii. Trump has his doubts. 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{"id": "CNN-117465", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-6-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/08/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Paris Hilton in Courtroom for Hearing on Sentence; Mary Winkler to be Sentenced; Fight in Alabama State Senate", "utt": ["All right, here's another live look. We are on Hilton watch this afternoon, outside the courtroom there. We have a reporter inside as well. So, we'll get that news just as soon as it's available. Paris Hilton back in court today. The judge has ordered her to be there in person. In fact, there was some word that she was going to do this via phone, but the judge said oh, no, no, you will show up. In fact, he sent a sheriff's deputy out there to pick her up at her home. She spent just about what -- three days in jail this week and was let out early on home confinement with an electronic monitoring bracelet under the assumption that she had some kind of illness that prevented her from serving her sentence in jail. The judge of course, is going to find out indeed what that illness is. And as soon as we learn more about the case, we will bring it straight to you.", "All right, we are of course getting a lot of e-mails in response to this particular story.", "Oh, yes.", "Betty.", "And we're not sure what upsets you more, Paris getting out of jail or the fact that we're even covering this story. Sometimes, yes, we scratch our heads about it, too, but let me just tell you this. Mike writes, \"I am sick of hearing about Paris Hilton. She should be serving her jail time in the general jail population like any other prisoner. I want to hear about our heroes serving in the military not about a spoiled rich brat!\"", "All right, and a lot of folks agree with B, who writes to us. \"Why are you participating in making Paris Hilton a celebrity for doing absolutely nothing but breathing? Get over yourselves\" -- I think talking to us, Betty, me, me and you ...", "We're just doing our jobs, we're just doing what we're being told.", "\"Get over yourselves and stop making a fool of this ridiculous person as well as yourselves\" -- again, me and you, Betty. \"Nobody beyond puberty cares.\"", "Well, Dan had some fun with it, and he says this, \"If Paris Hilton does in fact serve her time under house arrest, maybe the judge should take her passport. If not, she might end up being Michael Jackson's roommate in Bahrain!\" I can't believe what people are saying. All right, keep those e-mails coming. We hear you, we hear you, but we're still covering it because this is news today, and of course we will keep you up to date on what is happening inside that courtroom because there are a lot of implications. In fact, we have some more guests coming up dealing with the legal ramifications of all of this.", "All right, well, we will turn from Paris Hilton now to some politics, a fight in politics. A physical fight in politics. Story of a state senator who put the bam in Alabama. Tensions boiled over during a final day of this year's legislative session. And Eileen Jones of CNN affiliate WSFA has the blow by blow.", "...giving a little, it's our way or the highway.", "The dispute between the minority group that's made up mostly of Republicans and the majority group, of 18 Democrats continues through this, the last day of the regular session.", "I really -- I get tired of getting damn run over. Then I get unreasonable.", "Hey, we need to cut that kind of talk out, fellas. You know better than that.", "So senators could regroup, they voted to take a recess, but that's when emotions flared.", "And he called me a son of a", "And this is what happened. The two seemed to be in a heated discussion when Bishop hauled off and hit Barron. Security and other senators rushed in and pulled Bishop away. And afterwards, Bishop had only one regret.", "No, I'm not apologizing for that at all. I'll apologize for it happening out here.", "But you're not apologizing -- I'm sorry. What is it you're not apologizing?", "I'm not apologizing -- if he calls me that again, it'll happen again.", "Senator Barron says Bishop hit him on the neck and he says it was a hard punch.", "He used real provocative language at me and I did not call him what he said I did.", "The Democratic senators then asked the Senate to expel Bishop for the rest of the session.", "I do fear for my safety here in this body. And I should feel safe when I come here.", "We are removing him from this floor so he won't hit anybody else. We are removing him from this floor so we won't have another incident that embarrasses all of us.", "I am not going to lay all of the blame on Senator Bishop because it's been going on on both sides. And there has been in the backs of people -- backstabbing. There has been what I call abusive language on both sides.", "I love every one of you. Most of all, I love this chamber. I'm going home. And y'all have a good day.", "All right, the Democrat didn't hit him back. I mean, they say Democrats are weak on defense but that was ridiculous.", "Oh, come on,", "OK, that was Eileen Jones of CNN affiliate WSFA. May not be the end of this incident, actually. The senator who was hit has not ruled out filing charges, and again, he was the Democrat. I'm just saying what they say.", "I hear what you're saying, but we're going to move on to this story.", "All right, we're letting that go.", "Yes, we are, for your sake. Mary Winkler's sentencing is under way in Selmer, Tennessee. She is the mother of three who is convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shotgun slaying of her minister husband. We want to take a listen to the sentencing as it's taking place right now.", "...spousal abuse. Thus, the defendant contends this factor should imply to the sentencing, both at trial and at this hearing, the defendant presented testimony regarding her mental condition at the time of the commission of the offense. This court has considered the extensive testimony presented by the Dr. Saiger (ph) at trial and additional testimony and argument offered by counsel at sentencing hearing and finds this factor should apply. However, this court finds to give some credit to the testimony of Dr. Saiger at trial. Dr. Sager indicated both at trial and at sentencing that she found the defendant suffers from a mental illness and is in need of treatment. Thus, this court has considered the defendant's condition in its sentencing determination. The next consideration for mitigation is whether the defendant held a sustained intent to violate the law for the circumstances of this offense are such that it is unlikely that the defendant was motivated by a sustained intent to violate the law. Additionally, the court finds the defendant has had no prior criminal history. Therefore, the court finds the lack of criminal history or record and gives great weight to this mitigating factor. The court finds the defendant has complied with the rules of her release status and gives weight to this mitigating factor as well. The defendant's supervising probation officer has testified that she's been fully compliant, has met with her at all appropriate times and has maintained decorum. Thus the court finds that the presence of these two enhancing factors, the crime involved the use of a firearm and the defendant has a history of criminal behavior two mitigating factors, those being that the defendant has had prior criminal history and the defendant complied with conditions of release. Therefore, upon weighing the enhancement and mitigating factors, the court finds that the appropriate sentence is to be within the range of three years. With regard to judicial diversion, the defendant seeks judicial diversion for code annotated 4035-313. After reviewing the defendant's request, arguments of counsel and testimony presented at trial, this court does not find the defendant to be a suitable candidate for judicial diversion. According to law, a person is eligible for judicial diversion if he or she is found guilty or pleads guilty to a class C, D, or E felony and has not been previously convicted of a prior felony or class A misdemeanor. Thus it appears preliminary that the defendant meets the statutory criteria to be considered eligible for diversion. However, it is within the trial court's ...", "All right, we're going to have to break away from this just momentarily as he continues to read through the list there because Mary Winkler has not been sentenced as of yet. We're getting to it and as soon as it happens, of course, we'll bring it to you. But Mary Winkler again sentenced on -- convicted of voluntary manslaughter. Her sentence taking place right now. And as soon as we get word of that, of course, CNN will bring it to you. We'll have much more to come. You are in the CNN NEWSROOM.", "Taking you back to Los Angeles. Live picture at the courthouse where Paris Hilton is in there, we assume, trying to explain why she had a medical condition that convinced the sheriff's department to let her out three days into her 23-day sentence. We've been watching this really spectacle for some time this afternoon. The judge sent sheriff's department authorities to her house to pick her up. There she is in handcuffs, being picked up by sherrif's authorities. Taken to a hearing that she wasn't scheduled to appear at, was just going to phone in. The judge said that wasn't going to work. This is one of the latest pictures we have there, certainly a distraught Paris Hilton being driven on the courthouse. But the hearing is going on now. We're keeping an eye on the hearing waiting to see if, in fact, she will be sent back to jail to finish out that sentence. When we get word, we'll bring it to you.", "We are watching another hearing today in Tennessee, that one of Mary Winkler. A sentencing hearing is taking place as we speak. You're looking at a live picture right now. Mary Winkler has a voluntary manslaughter conviction in the shotgun slaying of her minister husband. We will find out what that sentence is shortly. When we do, of course, we'll bring it back to you. I just want to tell you one other thing about today's hearing. Mary Winkler did address her husband's family, saying, quote, I understand you're angry with me but saying she prays for them every night to have peace. She has also asked the judge to let her go home today and be with her children but has said whatever sentence she receives will never punish her enough. So, as soon as we get word of that sentence, we will bring it to you live here on CNN. You are in the NEWSROOM. Don't go anywhere. 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{"id": "CNN-146049", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-12-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/14/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Tiger Woods in the Marketplace", "utt": ["The Tiger Woods scandal may eventually cost him his marriage, but the world's greatest golfer is definitely paying a steep price already -- ducking the PGA Tour for an indefinite period, losing a couple of big-dollar sponsors, not to mention a public relations earthquake that's shaken a once squeaky clean image. Here's CNN's Patrick Snell.", "Boy, it looks like that Tiger Woods is having some trouble, huh?", "They say he may no longer be on the box of Wheaties, and I was thinking, well, my God, if he's actually this active...", "So this is what it's come to for Tiger Woods, from global icon revered for his dominance on the golf course, to the butt of jokes on late-night television for his alleged affairs off it. With his image suffering, many wonder if he still has the ability to be an effective corporate pitchman.", "What you're looking for with these endorsements, a degree of predictability; i.e., we understand the person and we can see how it's all going to work out. But they also need to be interesting. We have now gone past the point where Tiger Woods is interesting. And a lot of his role model persona and the way that people held themselves up to sort of -- see Tiger Woods as being a great sports person is eroding fast.", "And the dominoes are starting to fall. Gillette announced they won't air commercials with Woods or use him for personal appearances for now, and Accenture, the global consulting firm, announced they are severing ties.", "I'm not surprised with the decision relative to Accenture, but I'm surprised with the language. If you look at his statement, their statement, they say that he is no longer the right representative for the advertising. The first corporation that really came out and basically hit him right between the eyes.", "Meanwhile, EA Sports and Nike are two companies that continue to stand by Woods.", "What's in it for Nike is the perpetuation of somewhere near the $800 million of annual sales. Now, Tiger is the reason Nike Golf is as prolific. If you substitute other endorsers, it's not the same. This is unprecedented. This will make every marketing textbook in every case study all across the world.", "Woods has decided to take an indefinite leave of absence from golf. But when he does return, the PGA Tour and television networks will also need to decide if he'll still be the cover boy for the tournaments he plays in.", "When Tiger Woods initially makes his return to the PGA tour, it will be very difficult for the folks who run the tour to put him in PSAs, to really have be the face of the PGA Tour. If he starts winning, if he starts winning major championships again in 2010, then certainly that will change. But right off the bat, I think it will be a little bit of a stretch for Tiger Woods to really be sort of the flagship person or the brand, if you will, for any major organization. I think that right now he's just simply too hot a commodity values. for somebody to put out in front and say this is the person who represents us and all of our", "\"Forbes\" magazine touted Woods as the first athlete to surpass the billion-dollar mark in career earnings, with nearly 80 percent of it reportedly coming from his role as a pitchman. Only time will tell if he'll make another billion as fast as he made the first. Patrick Snell, CNN, Atlanta.", "Well, I know it's hard for many of us to relate to the life and money of Tiger Woods. And that's why I so much wanted to include a personal friend of mine for a larger discussion on this. Many of us remember her for this watershed moment, jumping into the pond at the 18th green after winning the 1988 Nabisco Dinah Shore Classic. And by the way, she also won 28 other tournaments, including five majors. She's also, did I mention, LPGA World Golf Hall of Famer. The \"Lady of the Lake,\" Amy Alcott, joins us live from Los Angeles today. And Amy, I know this is such a controversial subject, and it's hard for a lot of golfers to talk about, because I think it, no doubt, shocked everybody. So let's look at just the game of golf, the business of golf.", "Right.", "And, you know, you were telling me that this scandal is going to impact the game on so many levels. Where do you think it's going to take the biggest hit?", "Well, Kyra, great to be with you, by the way. Lovely to see you. I think that golf is bigger than this. I mean, golf will go on. Golf will survive. It's the most amazing sport that there is, most challenging sport, but this certainly makes everyone take a step back. You know, there is the amazing Tiger Woods, the incomparable Tiger Woods, and then there is the personal scandal involved which is really -- will kind of, you know, stop golf in it tracks, so to speak, right now and make it a very controversial, you know, subject to talk about.", "Well, let's talk about where though that it is. I mean, yes, we know golf is going to survive, and every dedicated golfer is still going to love the game. But let's lay it out there. I mean, it's going to lose ratings, it's going to lose the crowd.", "Yes.", "I mean, put into perspective what he did for this game and how this scandal is going to affect the business of this game.", "Well, you know, it's obvious. Tiger Woods has been golf. I mean, when he doesn't show up, tournaments, they lose 50 percent of their following. He's gate. He's ticket. He is golf. And pro golfers will tell you he's the man. And this is really, you know, something that's taking golf back off the radar and putting it -- the radar is all about, you know, what he's -- all his personal transgressions and everything like that. And it's -- beyond saying it's sad and it's hard to watch, you can always say, OK, well, it's like Mae West -- \"I don't care what they say about me as long as they talk about me.\" But in many ways, this is hurting the game and people don't want to talk about it because it's bringing it over into the -- you know, the news sessions. And everybody's talking about it. So, you know, it's...", "Well, and let me ask you this, too. I mean, we talk about his sponsorship, how much money he is worth, everybody that wanted a piece of him in the advertising world, but he also upped the ante for other golfers, didn't he? Didn't other guys get better deals and get...", "Oh, yes. No question.", "Explain that.", "The money -- anybody will tell you, he has created -- opened the floodgates for other professional golfers to make money. Many of the top golfers will tell you he has, you know, padded their pocketbooks in a big way because he's been the guy who's really changed the face of golf. In many ways, Tiger Woods -- I tell people -- I mean, it's been a privilege to live during a time to watch this man compete and do what he does. Nobody has played golf the way this man has.", "Let me ask you something. Let me follow up on that, because you brought up an interesting point. No one has played golf the way this man has. And I have watched you play. We have talked about the game of golf for more than a decade, and the mental aspect is so key to this game. Looking at what he's going through, OK, which is huge, do you think he will ever be able to come back to this game with the mental strength that he had to be the greatest golfer in the world, or is this...", "Well, you know, Kyra, golf is an amazing game of resurrecting yourself. If you have the courage, the desire, the fight, the will to bring something back, I mean, golf loves these kind of stories. Golf loves people making comebacks. This has been documented throughout the history of the game, where you had it and then you kind of lose your desire or fall off the radar and you make a comeback. I mean, I think golf will be waiting for him to see what Tiger will do when he does decide to come back, because I think, you know, if he has the fight, if he has the want, if he has the courage, it's got to come from deep inside of him to say, I want to play this game and I want to be better than I was, then he can do that. But he's got to have that within him. Golf love this is kind of stuff.", "Wow. Well, it's going to be interesting to watch. Amy, always good to see you and to talk to you about things. Appreciate your insight.", "Thanks, Kyra.", "You bet. So what do you guys think about the business of pro golf surviving this scandal? Here are some of your tweets. Dan says, \"Golf was thriving before Woods and will most definitely survive without the dimwit.\" Michael J.W. Jr. says, \"No, Kyra. Every tournament will now have an asterisk noting Tiger's absence from it. Golf needs someone to fill in the huge void left now.\" SpiderBite says, \"If the music business never seems to be in short of scandal, well, I doubt one man's indiscretions will affect the entire golf industry.\" And From LouisRD3, \"I give Tiger until the first major of the year. He will then return and work out his family issues. Both need each other.\" Thanks for all the tweets. We love hearing from you at KyraCNN. After tragedy on Mt. Hood, the threat of avalanches is hampering efforts to find two missing hikers. The body of a third hiker was found Saturday about 9,000 feet up a notoriously treacherous trail on the mountain. Crews are hoping for a break in the weather this afternoon to airlift a rescuer into the search area. Italy's prime minister on the mend and could be leaving the hospital late tomorrow. Silvio Berlusconis' nose was fractured and two teeth were broken in yesterday's attack. Police say the man who hurled a statuette at Berlusconi's face has a history of mental illness. A Georgia man convicted of supporting terrorism has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison. Ehsanul Sadequee, on the right in the glasses, actually e-mailed the Taliban requesting to sign up and fight against U.S. forces in Afghanistan. His friend and coconspirator on the left, Saed Ahmed (ph), is expected to be sentenced this hour. The lines are long and the people in them are carrying plenty of stuff. If you've got to go to the post office today, you might want to make a pit stop first and make sure you're wearing comfy shoes."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "DAVID LETTERMAN, \"THE DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW\"", "LETTERMAN", "PATRICK SNELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GRAHAM HALES, MARKETING DIRECTOR", "SNELL", "RICK HORROW, CEO, HORROW SPORTS VENTURES", "SNELL", "HORROW", "SNELL", "DAVID DUSEK, DUTY EDITOR, GOLF.COM", "SNELL", "PHILLIPS", "AMY ALCOTT, FMR. PROFESSIONAL GOLFER", "PHILLIPS", "ALCOTT", "PHILLIPS", "ALCOTT", "PHILLIPS", "ALCOTT", "PHILLIPS", "ALCOTT", "PHILLIPS", "ALCOTT", "PHILLIPS", "ALCOTT", "PHILLIPS", "ALCOTT", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-356304", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-12-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1812/05/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Trump Planning Second Nuclear Summit With North Korea?", "utt": ["This just into CNN, new satellite images that show North Korea is significantly expanding a key long-range missile base, despite President Trump's historic summit with the country's leader, Kim Jong-un back in June. Trump often touts North Korea's lack of ballistic missile tests in recent months as a sign of diplomatic progress toward denuclearization. All of this comes as the Trump administration plans for a second summit with North Korea early next year. I want to bring in CNN senior national correspondent Alex Marquardt. Walk us through these new satellite images.", "All right, well, Brianna, what these show is clear evidence that North Korea continues to build up their long-range missiles capabilities, even as the two sides, the U.S. side and North Korea, say that they are working towards getting rid of nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula. That was the pledge that they made back in June. Now, remember, these long-range missiles that we're talking about can carry nuclear warheads, and they can hit the United States. The images we're about to show you, we obtained them from the military -- from the Middlebury Institute -- excuse me. Let's first start with this map here of North Korea. This is the region that we're talking about, the expanded base, the new facility, right up here in the mountainous region of northern North Korea, right up against the border with China. There's already a base there called the Yeongjeo-dong missile base. That has already been well-known to intelligence agencies and analysts. But then just seven miles from there is this new base, is this new expansion that we're talking about. And when you look at that closely, when you zoom in on that satellite imagery, you can see this construction activity. And what you're looking at here is the headquarters and barracks of this new base. You can see the construction and maintenance there. This was taken on November 12, so just under a month ago, relatively new images. Now, Brianna, in addition to that, you also have these new administration buildings. You have got a massive amount of tunneling activity that has been carried out over the last few years. You also have what are called hardened bunkers that have been camouflaged, also drive-through shelters, which analysts say are large enough for those ballistic missiles, similar to the ones that we saw at the older base. Now, we should note that everything we're showing you here is not a violation of any agreements between North Korea and the U.S. or with South Korea. But the Trump administration has insisted that the North's ballistic missile program be eliminated as part of a future deal. North Korea so far has balked at that. Talks are very much at a standstill right now. The Trump administration is arguing that North Korea is not living up to their end of the bargain. And they argue that's why that second summit between the two leaders is needed -- Brianna.", "Hmm. It's such an interesting argument. Alex Marquardt, thank you so much. The Trump administration is now pressing ahead with those plans for a second summit with Kim Jong-un early next year, National Security Adviser John Bolton saying the two sides will look at commitments made at the June summit and discuss how to them. Let's take a look.", "They have not lived up to the commitment so far. That's why I think the president thinks another summit is likely to be productive.", "All right, joining me now, we have Bob Baer. He's a former CIA operative and CNN intelligence and security analyst. It's interesting to hear the rationale here, Bob, because normally the U.S. does not say, yes, let's have a second meeting when a country isn't holding up its end of the bargain.", "No, I mean, this is just -- you don't do that. You do the preparation. You make the agreements in advance, then you have the summit. If North Korea is not adhering to any agreements, you don't meet them until they're ready to do it, until you can show some progress, until you have done your homework. And they're not doing it. So Trump's shoot-from-the-hip international relations and the rest of it is just crazy.", "How does the square that, what they say about ballistic missile tests, and then when you see these -- this activity in these pictures? You can't, right?", "Well, I think anybody who knew North Korea knew they wouldn't disarm.", "Yes.", "I mean, that's their trump card. They weren't going to give this stuff up without a significant, significant agreement, and with Russia and China's input in this. And we have just ignored Russia and China on this. So, it was never going to happen.", "Let's talk about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the \"Washington Post\" journalist, at the Saudi Consulate in Turkey. You had Defense Secretary James Mattis, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo going to the Hill, briefing senators, clearly following the president's script on this. Lindsey Graham called it a technical interpretation of the evidence, as they declined to blame Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. But, clearly, they're toeing the line here. Let's listen.", "As to Pompeo and Mattis, I have great respect for them. I would imagine, if they were Democratic -- in a Democratic administration, I would be all over them for being in the pocket of Saudi Arabia. But since I have such respect for them, I'm going to assume that they're being good soldiers, and when they look at the analysis, they're being technical in their statement, but they're not giving the assessment that I think the Senate will have. I would really question somebody's judgment if they couldn't figure this out. It is there to be figured out.", "Please let me finish. And I think the reason they don't draw the conclusion that he's complicit is because the administration doesn't want to go down that road, not because there's not evidence to suggest he's complicit.", "Maybe he did, maybe he did. They did not make that assessment. The CIA has looked at it, they have studied it a lot. They have nothing definitive. Nobody's concluded. I don't know if anyone's going to be able to conclude that the crown prince did it.", "We have no smoking gun that the crown prince was involved.", "There's no direct evidence linking him to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.", "Well, senators briefed on the intel believe something very different, Bob. And they got another briefing from Gina Haspel when they were upset that she didn't come up, that the CIA director didn't brief them initially. It was just Mattis and Pompeo. When you look at this, and you have Republican and Democratic senators saying they're being misled, what are the ramifications of that?", "It's bad. I mean, what you're doing is, you're signaling the Saudi royal family is, maybe we can live with this guy Mohammed bin Salman, maybe we can't. So this doubt in Riyadh is going to cause instability. What this president should be doing is signaling the Saudis, we can't live with this guy. He's a murderer. He's a psychopath. He's definitely involved. When a senator comes out you could get a murder conviction in 30 minutes, when he says that, trust him. The guy is guilty.", "All right, Bob Baer, thanks so much for your insight. Coming up: The midterms may not have panned out for them, but it seems rising Democratic stars Beto O'Rourke and Andrew Gillum both have 2020 on their minds. Are they getting advice from former President Obama about potential runs? And the day after the president declared himself tariff man and the markets tumbled nearly 800 points, is the White House now in damage control when it comes to confusion over its trade war with China?"], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "ALEX MARQUARDT, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR", "JOHN BOLTON, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER", "KEILAR", "BOB BAER, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "KEILAR", "BAER", "KEILAR", "BAER", "KEILAR", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-199161", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-1-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/11/cnr.09.html", "summary": "Debating U.S. Troops In Afghanistan; U.S. Boeing Investigating Dreamliner; The Future Of Afghanistan; OBAMA & Karzai Meet", "utt": ["I'm Wolf Blitzer in Washington. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. We're waiting for a joint news conference by President Obama and the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai. You're looking at live pictures from the East Room of the White House. It's expected to begin in just a few minutes. The two leaders have been meeting to discuss the U.S. military troop presence in Afghanistan after 2014, also the future security of the country. Joining us now to talk about president Karzai's visit to Washington, what's at stake for the United States, what's at stake for Afghanistan, our White House correspondent Brianna Keilar, our Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger, our Pentagon Correspondent Chris Lawrence, and Richard Haass, he's the president of the council on foreign relations in New York. He's the author of the book \"Foreign Policy Begins at Home,\" a foreign (ph) advisor, the then Secretary of State Colin Powell. Let's go to the East Room of the White House first. Brianna, you're there, they've been meeting now for a while. Set the scene for us. I know one of the key issues involves any U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after all U.S. troops are supposed to be out by the end of 2014.", "That's right, Wolf, and it has been a very cordial reception, I will say, for President Karzai here at the White House, as he comes here today for bilateral meetings that have already taken place as well as a working lunch with President Obama and the vice president. And then, he'll be wrapping up his day here with this press conference with President Obama. But that cordiality which we saw here today and also when Karzai met with Secretaries Clinton and Panetta bellies some tension in this relationship between the U.S. and Afghanistan over the past few years. Some very serious issues that are being discussed today and that we will hear questions asked of both President Obama and President Karzai, and that does have to do, of course, with U.S. troops remaining in Afghanistan beyond 2014. The question is, if any remain in the country. And if so, how many. And as the U.S. has sought to seek some concessions for Afghanistan in this process, they've floated the idea of their being zero troops in the country. Of course, there's also a concern from the U.S. that this would leave the country vulnerable. But at this point, they also are trying to negotiate with President Karzai on the issues of Afghan troops -- or, pardon me, Afghan detainees that are under U.S. control. Something very much of concern to President Karzai. And also whether any troops remaining in Afghanistan beyond 2014 would be subject to Afghan courts and laws. Wolf.", "Brianna, stand by. Chris Lawrence, our Pentagon correspondent, is here. Chris, there are right now 66,000 U.S. troops, part of a larger NATO military presence in Afghanistan. U.S. taxpayers still shelling out billions, maybe $100 billion a year to keep that military presence in Afghanistan. Question, they're all supposed to be out by the event of 2014. The pressure, though, is enormous to accelerate that withdrawal and get them out even more quickly for financial reasons and other reasons. Is that likely to be accepted by sources you're talking to over at the Pentagon?", "Well, and I think one thing as I look at this statement that's going to come out, the word \"sustainable\" keeps popping up over and over again. And \"sustainable\" means money. Can we pay for this over the long run. I think when you look at the fact that the U.S. is going to be kicking in about $2 billion a year to sustain the Afghan forces, that's in addition to any other aid that the U.S. gives, this could very well be a fairly sizable commitment if President Karzai is going to get what he wants, which is a lot of support for a long number of years.", "And given the financial interests right now, Gloria Borger, given the fact that the U.S. has got some major budget deficits, is there an appetite, a political appetite, here in the United States to continue to shell out $2 billion a week to keep that strategic presence in Afghanistan?", "In a one word answer, no. The president is facing the prospect of mandatory cuts in Pentagon spending. If you look at the polling, over half of the American public believes that things are not going well in Afghanistan. There's no real appetite to continue to spend that kind of money there. And I think the question that the president is asking his advisers, and will be talking to Karzai about, or has talked to Karzai about, is just how large a force do you need to carry out the objective. And the objective is training and counterterrorism.", "Right.", "And do you need 3,000 to 9,000 troop, do you need 15,000 troops, do you need no troops and just kind of a minimal force there? And what can you do -- how large a group of people do you need there in order not to alienate the people of Afghanistan, right?", "And what's more important to the United States? Is it training more Afghan forces or is it battling counterterrorism? And I think that's going to be a key question because the interests of the United States in Afghanistan may somewhat diverge on this. I've heard from some sources that President Karzai would prefer that any troops that stay focused on training his forces which bolster the Afghan army, consolidates his power and the power of the government somewhat. Whereas the U.S. may want to focus more on a counterterrorism piece. And, Wolf, when you look at it, I mean, for every year that a soldier or Marine is in Afghanistan, it costs $1 million per man. So even a small force of 3,000, that's $3 billion a year.", "And Richard Haass, give me a quick thought right now. If the U.S. were to completely pull out of Afghanistan after 2014 with a zero troop presence in Afghanistan, just like the U.S. has a zero troop presence in Iraq right now, what would be the difference?", "In terms of counterterrorism, not a whole lot. We could always use drones or special forces, much like we do in other countries. I thinks the biggest effect would be, it would work against the training up of Afghan police and army. And probably even more important, it would be a psychological and political blow to the Afghans. It would be a little bit of a fill up to the Taliban. And just like we've seen Iraq in some ways get worse without any U.S. presence, my hunch is Afghanistan's going to get worse no matter what the size of the U.S. presence is. But if there's zero American presence, it will probably accelerate the downward trend in that country.", "All right, I want everyone to stand by. We're waiting for the president of the United States, the president of Afghanistan. They've been meeting in the Oval Office at the White House. They're about to walk over to the East Room of the White House for a joint news conference. They'll both be making opening statements and then they'll be answering reporters' questions. 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{"id": "CNN-101715", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2006-1-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/14/smn.04.html", "summary": "Al-Zawahiri Dead Or Alive?; Florida Boy Shot By SWAT Officer Remains On Life Support", "utt": ["Was al Qaeda's number two man killed or not? It's Saturday, January 14th. Good morning, everyone. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Tony Harris.", "And good morning. I'm Betty Nguyen. We also have a new development in that school shooting in Florida yesterday. One of the students held hostage in the stand-off is now talking. We're going to hear his story. Well, let's get right to it with some of the headlines now in the news. Wicked weather expected in the Northeast today. Lots of rain and a drop in temperatures in the forecast, as well. This follows a night of powerful storms along the East Coast. You're looking at wreckage from storms in Manning, South Carolina, where nine people were injured and an Alabama woman was killed after a tornado tore through there, causing the chimney of her home to collapse. And eighth grader is on advanced life support this morning after being shot by police at his school. A SWAT team was called to the Orlando area middle school yesterday after students spotted a gun in the boy's backpack. Now, authorities say police fired on the 15-year- old after he pointed the weapon at them. It turned out to be a pellet gun. Tests for bird flu in a patient hospitalized in Brussels have come back negative. That's according to a Belgian government official. The patient had been visiting an area in Turkey where 18 people were confirmed infected with the deadly virus. Three of those people died of it. and Republican sources tell CNN that House Speaker Dennis Hastert has reversed course and is now trying to oust Representative Bob Ney of Ohio from his post as chairman of the House Administration Committee. Hastert is under pressure from within his party to take a strong stand against ethical misconduct and Ney has been linked to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Ney denies any wrongdoing.", "The big question this morning, was al Qaeda's number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri, killed in a CIA air strike? The latest reports from Pakistan say he is not dead and that the CIA acted on false information. But knowledgeable U.S. sources tell CNN al- Zawahiri may have been killed in yesterday's strike on a village near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. CNN's senior Pentagon correspondent, Jamie McIntyre, joins us now live with details -- and, Jamie, how difficult has it been to nail this story what with all of official Washington saying very little about this?", "Well, considering we still have no official comment from anyone in the U.S. government, and really, although there's been some official, no definitive statements from the Pakistani government, only that they now believe it's not likely that Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in this strike. And the biggest indication of that is that the Pakistani government is lodging an official protest with the United States over the strike, which was, according to knowledgeable sources telling CNN's David Ensor, was called in by the CIA, based on intelligence that al Qaeda's number two might have been among some high ranking al Qaeda leaders who were suspected to be gathering in this village in northwest Pakistan. Also unclear is the manner under which this attack took place. Some of the villagers claim they saw planes coming in to bomb or shoot missiles at the location. In the past, the CIA has used armed predator spy planes, unmanned planes, to conduct attacks. The U.S. military insists it was not involved in this strike. And now it appears that the primary victims were women and children, along with, perhaps, some other people, as well. So that's part of the reason for the anger on the part of the Pakistani government. last month, the CIA, in a similar strike, took out or killed a man that they said was an operations chief of al Qaeda. They said that was a success. But in this case, again, pending some definitive word, it's beginning to look like this was not a successful attempt to take out Ayman al-Zawahiri.", "CNN's senior Pentagon correspondent, Jamie McIntyre, for us. Jamie, thank you.", "Well, many of you have seen Ayman al-Zawahiri on videotapes like this one trying to incite his followers with fiery rhetoric. The Egyptian born doctor is widely considered the brains behind al Qaeda. Terrorism experts believe he helped mastermind the September 11 attacks. In 1998, al-Zawahiri formed the World Islamic Front for the jihad against Jews and crusaders. The following year, he was sentenced to death in abstentia for an alleged plot against U.S. interests in Albania. And in December 2001, a U.S. air strike on his residence in Afghanistan killed al-Zawahiri's wife and three children.", "You can depend on CNN for late breaking developments on this story. You can also log on to cnn.com for more on al Qaeda's number two man, including information on his latest videotaped message, in which he called on President Bush to admit defeat in Iraq.", "A tragic ending to a stand-off at a middle school near Orlando, Florida. Police say an eighth grade student was shot and critically wounded by a SWAT team officer after police say the boy terrorized classmates and teachers with what appeared to be a .9 millimeter handgun. But that weapon tuned out to be something else entirely. Bringing us a live update from Longwood, Florida, CNN's J.J. Ramberg -- of course, the main concern here is with the boy. He is on life support, is that what we understand?", "Yes, hi, there, Betty. Yes, he still is on life support at a local hospital here. He's on assisted life support. We haven't had any reports on his condition yet this morning, but as far as we know, it hasn't changed since yesterday, which they're saying that he was on assisted life support. Now yesterday, there was some confusion, as you commented, between his -- what turned out to be a pellet gun but yesterday they thought was a real gun. He brought this gun to school. Two students noticed that he had it and alerted a teacher. But some colleagues of ours spoke to one of those students and his mother earlier today and this is what he said happened yesterday.", "Everyone ran out of the classroom except for me and this one girl. And we were walking. And he said, \"You, stay.\" So the girl, she ran out of the classroom and he told me to get up against the blackboard. And I did. And he put the gun to my back and then we -- then I told him, \"Please don't shoot me. Please don't shoot me.\"", "Now, eighth grader Christopher Penley, who was holding the gun, then ran out of that classroom. He was followed by the resource officers at this school. And then the SWAT team came. And the SWAT team then cornered him in an alcove. They tried to, as they say, talk to the boy and get him to put down the weapon. But then Christopher Penley, they say, lifted up the gun and pointed it at one of the SWAT team, who then shot in self- defense. And, as we know, what happened to the story now and we'll keep on following it to see if there are any new developments -- Betty.", "J.J. let's talk about this gun just briefly because we saw some video earlier of this gun next to a real .9 millimeter and they look very similar, especially from a distance. These officers may not have been able to tell the difference.", "Yes, that's what they're saying. Generally, pellet guns and a red tip and that's what distinguishes them from a real gun. This particularly pellet gun had that red tip painted black. So, from a distance, it looked exactly as they saying, like a real gun.", "All right, J.J. Ramberg in Florida this morning. Thanks for the update on this tragic story.", "Weather wreckage in South Carolina. A possible tornado sweeps through a mobile home park in the east-central part of the state. At least nine people have been injured, four of them critically. One woman is unaccounted for, although it's not clear if she was at home at the time the tornado struck last night. Officials say nine mobile homes were destroyed and 18 others just damaged. A second possible twister damaged homes in North Carolina, but there are no reports of any injuries there.", "In Alabama, the National Weather Service says it was a tornado and not just strong winds that caused extensive damage to homes in one south-central county. Authorities say one woman was killed when a chimney collapsed in Belleville. Fifteen to 20 homes were damaged. Downed trees blocked a section of U.S. Highway 84.", "Well, author James Frey says his memoirs are true, mostly. And Oprah says that's good enough for her. But do readers feel betrayed anyway?", "And fiery words from Iran's leader this morning. What did he say? Our Christiane Amanpour was there. She'll join us live from Tehran when CNN SATURDAY MORNING returns."], "speaker": ["TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR", "HARRIS", "JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "NGUYEN", "HARRIS", "NGUYEN", "J.J. RAMBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "RAMBERG", "NGUYEN", "RAMBERG", "NGUYEN", "HARRIS", "NGUYEN", "NGUYEN", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-189832", "program": "CNN SUNDAY MORNING", "date": "2012-7-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/22/sm.03.html", "summary": "Police Have Disabled Booby Traps", "utt": ["Welcome back to Aurora, Colorado. It was a little over 48 hours ago that the nation first heard of the news of the Colorado shooting massacre. And, finally, this morning, residents here in Aurora are waking up knowing that the threat is over. Bomb technicians have cleared the apartment of shooting suspect James Holmes. Inside were pipe bombs, trip wires and plenty of ammunition, and lots and lots of it. Just before noon yesterday, officers shouted fire in the hole and then this --", "A controlled detonation as they called it of the last rigged explosion. Joining me now retired FBI agent, Ray Lopez, an expert in dealing with exactly this type of situation. Good morning, Ray. Thank you for joining us. I want you to listen to this statement by Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates first.", "I have personally never seen anything like what the pictures show us what is in there. I'm a layman when it comes to the bomb stuff. I see an awful lot of wires, trip wires, jars full of ammunition, and jars full of liquid, some things that look like mortar rounds. We have a lot of challenges to get in there safely.", "We don't yet know, of course, all of the details of Holmes' apartment. But police say they found 30 explosive devices. I mean, this apartment was just 800 square feet. How unusual do you think it is for someone to rig an apartment, a home like this?", "Well, it is very unusual. I don't think that, you know, this may have been one of the first times that I can remember that someone has actually done this outside of other instances in the case of people who produce narcotics or other illegal substances in their homes or drug dealers in the past who have booby trapped their stash or their money or their drugs or other information where they would booby trap in the case of just trying to give them a warning of law enforcement showed up to go out the backdoor, to burn everything and leave the house kind of anti-forensics. But this is the first time in the U.S. that has been rigged to blow up, especially targeting the first responders or anyone who opened up the front door.", "Yes. Police say that the traps actually may have been a deliberate move to, quote, \"attack\" whoever may have opened up the door of his apartment. They say that he actually designed this to kill. But could he have possibly also been looking to destroy evidence?", "Well, I think it's a -- you know, in the case of the bomber and the suspect in this case, it's kind of a win-win for him, irregardless of who opens the door, he does two things, he gets rid of the individual who could be a witness to this and at the same time destroy the evidence that's in there forensically and it can't be used against him later on down the road.", "Right. Yesterday, I want to share with you that we saw the bomb technicians shooting explosives brought from the apartment. What exactly were they doing here? Why was that so significant?", "Well, those are -- those are controlled destruction of the explosives and the incendiary materials. You only really need a small, you know, literally ounce amounts of the originals for core purposes. You only need to take small samples to the laboratory which is critical to identify what these substances are. The rest of it is a danger, because we don't know the state of the chemicals. And -- so, between the hazmat officers and the bomb technicians, they get together. They pull the samples that they need to properly using forensic techniques to identify where they were, who confiscated them and took them into custody and then small samples provided to the laboratory and the remaining mixtures have to be destroyed properly for the safety of the public.", "Just one thing very quickly, I wanted to ask you about that they said they found sort of a homemade brand of napalm. I mean, how deadly could this have been if he had succeeded?", "Again, it could be very deadly. In the sense of not only to the humans, but more importantly, but also to the property, and again, some of these mixtures are unknown. Some of them are provided from some of the darker Web sites online, and there is really no validation or testing. This is somebody's idea of something they may believe worked or saw work one time, and they put it out on the Internet as fact and some people sadly take it out and try to use these things, and they don't really know what the mixture is themselves.", "Well, certainly not. Thank you, Agent Lopez. Appreciate your insight this morning.", "Thank you.", "James Holmes hasn't formally been charged. But he is scheduled to make his first court appearance tomorrow. The 24-year- old former doctoral student is being held in solitary confinement under suicide watch at the Arapahoe detention center. Police still don't have a motive for Friday's massacre. All this violence and horrible stories about what happened inside of the theater, and how do you explain this to your children when they ask about it? We'll get some tips from a psychologist in just a moment when we return live from Aurora, Colorado."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "KAYE", "CHIEF DAN OATES, AURORA, COLORADO POLICE", "KAYE", "RAY LOPEZ, RETIRED FBI AGENT", "KAYE", "LOPEZ", "KAYE", "LOPEZ", "KAYE", "LOPEZ", "KAYE", "LOPEZ", "KAYE"]}
{"id": "CNN-367139", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-04-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/14/cnr.21.html", "summary": "Tiger Woods Seeks Victory at the Masters", "utt": ["Welcome back. Bernie Sanders is in the northern U.S. to repair the Blue Wall. Those are the states that dependably vote Democrat but in 2016, swung right, backing Donald Trump. Ryan Nobles reports the presidential candidate is taking his message to areas devastated by a downturn in manufacturing.", "Senator Bernie Sanders this weekend continuing a rally across the Rust Belt, hitting five different states that Donald Trump all won in 2016 and talking specifically about the issues of concerns to voters in this part of the country. But he's doing it without being able to escape the shadow of the fact that he's yet to release his tax returns and the revelation that those tax returns, once he does put them out, will reveal that he is a millionaire. Sanders sounding a bit defensive during an event in Indiana when asked about that new millionaire status.", "I don't think so. I didn't know that it was a crime to write a good book.", "And my view has always been that we need a progressive tax system which demands that the wealthiest people in this country finally start paying their fair share of taxes. And if I make a lot of money, you make a lot of money, that is what I believe. So I don't apologize for writing a book that was number three on \"The New York Times\" bestseller, translated into five or six languages and that's that. By the way, by the way, this bothers me a little bit. Maybe we might want to talk about Gary, Indiana. Maybe we might want to talk about poverty. Maybe we might want to talk about", "Now Sanders did say we should expect to see those tax returns by Monday, which is tax day in the United States, April 15th. He made a bit of news during his rally in Warren, Michigan. He called on President Trump to scrap the proposed U.S. MCA, the new trade deal that would replace NAFTA. Sanders has often railed against the plan but today specifically said President Trump should go back to the drawing board, saying he should start all over and renegotiate that plan between Canada and Mexico -- Ryan Nobles, CNN, Warren, Michigan.", "Another Democrat is expected to make his way into the packed race within hours and that is Pete Buttigieg, expected to move from the exploratory phase to a full-blown campaign. We'll have to figure out how to pronounce his last name. He's called Mayor Pete, that's easier, in South Bend, Indiana. He's fast becoming a household name. In the early stages of the 2020 race for the White House, he has shot up recently in the polls after starting out as a long shot. But he still has a crowded field of contenders to get through if he wants to challenge President Trump. And he certainly does. Meantime, Democratic senator Cory Booker is trying to jumpstart his presidential campaign by kicking off a nationwide tour. On Saturday, Booker addressed supporters at his first major rally in Newark, New Jersey, where he was a two-term mayor. Since first announcing his candidacy, Booker is working to gain momentum. He's set to hit key states like Iowa, Georgia and Nevada.", "We want to look at sports now because the golfing world is aching to find out if Tiger Woods is about to roar. The 14-time major winner is tied now in second place with Tony Finau at the Masters tournament in Georgia. They trail Francesco Molinari by two strokes going into today's final round. As you recall, Woods had a messy divorce. He was plagued by back problems that sidelined him for years. It all but wiped out his hopes of beating Jack Nicklaus' 18-win major record. If a healthy Tiger wins today, it would be his first major since 2008 and his first green jacket in 14 years. We'll be watching. All right, eight seasons later, it all comes down to this, the final season of \"Game of Thrones\" just hours away. What to expect and the show's legacy. We'll talk with an expert coming up here."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "RYAN NOBLES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (D-VT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SANDERS", "NOBLE", "ALLEN", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-142422", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2009-9-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/01/acd.01.html", "summary": "California Fires Out of Control", "utt": ["Now more on the breaking news we brought you at the top of the hour. Convicted kidnapper and rapist Phil Garrido, accused in the 1991 abduction of Jaycee Dugard, now a possible suspect in the disappearance of two other young girls in the area. Phillips Garrido has been behind bars before, but he got out early. Now, strapped for cash, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger hopes to cut the state's budget deficit by more than a billion dollars with an early parole program. If approved, the bill would reduce the state prison population by 27,000, a move opponents fear could flood California's streets with potentially dangerous criminals. Randi Kaye has the latest in tonight's \"Crime & Punishment\".", "April 17, 1982, the last time Colleen Campbell hugged her only son.", "I gave him a hug, and that was the last time I ever saw him.", "Hours later, Scott Campbell was dead, killed by this man, Donald DeMacio (ph), who was out on parole. Campbell was mixed up in drugs with Laurence Cowell (ph), who hired DeMacio (ph), the parolee, to strangle Scott. Then, the unthinkable. They beat him bloody so the sharks would eat him, then tossed his body from an airplane into the Pacific Ocean. He was never found.", "It's worth the death itself. Hunting for a person.", "DeMacio (ph) was sentenced to life with no chance of parole. He died in prison in 2007. Cowell (ph) is serving 25 to life.", "My greatest fear is that other people will suffer the same losses that we have because prisoners were let out early.", "Because of her son's horrific murder, Colleen Campbell is speaking out against the possible release of as many as 27,000 California prison inmates. The governor says it could save the cash- strapped state more than $500 million. But supporters of the plan say Campbell's fear is unwarranted.", "All of the proposals involved non-serious, nonviolent, non-sex offenders.", "But what about the case of Jaycee Dugard? Phillip Garrido, the sex offender out on parole, charged with kidnapping and raping her served only 11 years for an earlier rape. He'd been sentenced to half a century.", "He would not be near one of the offenders that would be addressed in the governor's proposals.", "In fact, the Department of Corrections says Garrido may have been watched more closely since the plan is to provide better resources to more closely monitor dangerous parolees. Still, critics of the early release plan see it as a literal get- out-of-jail-free card and worry nonviolent offenders could turn violent. (voice-over) Take the case of Lilly Burke (ph), the 17-year-old killed in July in downtown Los Angeles, her throat slashed. Charles Samuel, a parolee, now charged with her murder, says he didn't do it. He had not been considered violent before. Seventy percent of prisoners released in California go on to commit other crimes.", "If you're letting out 27,000 prisoners, and 70 percent of them are going to re-offend in California, that's scary.", "Regardless of money the state might save, Colleen Campbell knows the cost of a human life can never be repaid. Randi Kaye, CNN, Los Angeles.", "Ahead on 360, for the first time freed from North Korea, two American journalists share details about their violent arrest and how they were treated by the soldiers. That's coming up. And later, was the Lockerbie bomber released as part of a deal. Secret documents revealed tonight show that Libya threatened the U.K. over the Lockerbie bomber's release."], "speaker": ["HANNITY", "RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "COLLEEN CAMPBELL, MOTHER OF SCOTT", "KAYE", "CAMPBELL", "KAYE", "CAMPBELL", "KAYE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KAYE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KAYE (on camera)", "CAMPBELL", "KAYE", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-240864", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2014-10-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/13/acd.02.html", "summary": "Anderson Traces His Family's Roots", "utt": ["Well tonight I want to invite you on a journey with me. It's a very personal journey that I undertook for CNN's week long series, Roots: Our Journeys Home. The series premiered last night with interfering Bourdain exploring his past, tonight it's my turn. It's pretty big shift what we usually do at CNN, our job after is to tell other people stories. For the past year though I and several other CNN journalists have been digging deep into our own stories, tracing our roots. Our family trees reveal some remarkable secrets in connections with people, places, and moment and history. A lot of us never imagined. Here is my journey took me.", "Yes that's it.", "Oh wow. In the woods we found an old overgrown cemetery from another branch of my family. So this is Bull cemetery. Wow. This is incredible.", "We've been in here in the long time.", "The Bulls married into the Cooper family back before the Civil War.", "Now that's you're -- that's grandpa Burwell wife, the mother to William Preston Cooper.", "OK. So that's Burwell Cooper's wife.", "Wife.", "Wow.", "Watch for snakes.", "I grew up reading stories about the Bulls in my dad's book. People like my ancestor Jimball (ph). My dad's dad said that he never got over the habit of killing people but then he never killed any (inaudible) deserve it.", "I'm pretty sure that's it was.", "Right. And he would kill man for costing (inaudible) in front of women.", "Right. Rizzy also wanted to show me another cemetery. I've read about it in my dad's book but I never been there myself. We're trying to find the old Cooper family cemetery. It's here along the Mississippi Alabama border. It's deep in the woods that it's hard to find. It's near a house where my great grandfather William Preston Cooper used to live. We traveled along a dirt road for miles, of course of trees and canyons of (inaudible) before we finally find it. Relatives of mine have been working to try to clear the undergrowth and cut down trees just try to clear the cemetery but one of kind of amazing things about is this cemetery is so old and a lot of the headstones have disappeared or been just worn away by the elements. You can't see any names of people anymore. It's even hard to tell what's a headstone. Here, we find the grave of Burwell Cooper, my great, great grandfather. The third states of America. Who fought on the same battlefield during the Civil War as my other great, great grandfather Judson Kilpatrick. Burwell Cooper was shot in the right hand during the Civil War. He lost one of his fingers and he was partially paralyzed in his right arm. Records indicate that because of that paralysis he struggle the rest of his life to earn a living for his six kids. He died at the age of 54. His life was a far cry from Judson Kilpatrick's life who survived the war and went on to become U.S. Ambassador to Chile. There are a lot of people in my family fought for the confederacy nearly all will confer to actually own slaves except for one, Burwell Cooper's grandfather. I recently discovered that one of my ancestors did in fact on slaves, my great, great grandfather Burwell Boykin. He owned 12 slaves. In fact, he was killed by one of those slaves in 1860, one year before the Civil War begun. It's one thing to read about slavery in the history books, it's another to learn that a distant relative of mine took part of the evil.", "Lovely. I'm so glad you came.", "Thank you. My dad and his family left Quitman During World War II and move to New Orleans. His mother, my grandmother Jenny Anderson worked in the Higgins huge factory and making landing craft for the war. She also sold ladies hats at Maison Blanche department store. Back in 2005 when I was in New Orleans, reporting in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, completely by coincidence, I stumbled across my dad's old high school had flooded during the storm. This is the school now. Back then, it was called Francis T. Nicholls Public High School. Francis T. Nicholls was a confederate general, Governor of Louisiana. One of the things I love about New Orleans is that it's the city that embraced its past even if that past is painful. They don't try to erase their history no matter what that history may be. In fact, Francis T. Nicholls' name is still on my dad's old high school, it's still etched in stone. His likeness is still etched above the front door. Francis T. Nicholls was most likely racist, definitely segregationist but they haven't removed his name from the school. Even though the school itself has been renamed, it's now the Frederick A. Douglas High School, named after the famous evolutionist. We were invited to take a look around. People who work at this school said they had old files but I couldn't imagine they've had any of my dads. Wow, that's nice. They showed me closets full of all records and posters dating all the way back to the 1940s.", "They move back after war.", "I couldn't find anything that belongs to my dad. As I was leaving, the school nurse came outside with a surprise for me. My God, that's my dad.", "(Inaudible) a report card but, not only that I cased up there, the file cabinets (inaudible).", "This is his photo.", "That him. Yes, there you go.", "Oh my gosh, that's sweet of you.", "I love you.", "That's so nice. My dad's report card. It's crazy. Do you believe that they had my dad report card all the way going back to 1944. They just had it in the file somewhere in the back. That's awesome. (Inaudible) New Orleans in history, like, they don't throw away the history. They, you know, it's all here. It's all -- the past is very much alive in New Orleans. My dad worked as an actor for years, appearing on stage and T.V., even at a tiny bit part in a movie called the Seven Hills of Rome. We stayed up late on night when he was on T.V. when I was a kid.", "Hey Mark..", "(Inaudible).", "Good luck tonight. I (inaudible) complete sellout. I'll be upfront leading the cheering (inaudible).", "Thanks (inaudible).", "Good bye.", "He then became a screen writer and wrote for magazines as well. My dad is buried in Staten Island, next to my brother who died in 1988. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about them both and wonder what they would think of me, the person I've become. I thing about death is that after a while, you can't remember what a person sounded like, you forget all the little things that you once knew, the sound they made when they opened up for front door, the way they walk, the way they laugh.", "My feelings about what I want my sons to be.", "A couple of months ago, Clock Tower Radio restored an interview that my father did back in 1975.", "My relationships with my sons which are both quite extraordinary, I mean my relationship with my sons is quite extraordinary.", "I listen to it in my office at work. It was the first time I've heard my father's voice since I was 10-years-old.", "They asked me questions (inaudible). How much does a stock (inaudible) because that's what we would like to be (inaudible).", "The thing about the past is, one can't help what the zip code one was born at, what country or family you're descended from. All you can do is learn the lessons of those who came before you, their stories, their mistakes and their successes. You can't choose what family you're born into.", "My sons are very aware that I have certain expectations.", "All you can do is choose how you want to live your own life.", "(Inaudible) live with honor and with dignity.", "I want to thank Rizzy Harrison and all my other relatives and cousins who helped me down -- when were down in Mississippi, also Susan Chana producer of the price together. She did a great job. I learned about Burwell, my great, great, great, great grandfather who own slaves when I took part in the PBS Series Finding Your Roots earlier at this year. Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates is the host and Executive Producer of that great program has been helping people trace their genealogies for more than a decade. (Inaudible) series African-American live. I spoke to him earlier today.", "Professor, you helped me research my family history for your show on PBS, Finding your Roots. You've been doing that show for years now and you're the one who actually revealed to me that my great, great, great, great grandfather not only own slaves but was actually killed by one of his slave.", "Yeah, Anderson when people asked me, \"What the most incredible genealogy story that you've uncovered?\" I said, \"Its Anderson Cooper's fourth grade grandfather, Burwell Boykin.\" And when you were on our show, we didn't know his name. You know, actually we found the story through a diary and the diary is in the Choctaw County, Alabama Library. And it was kept by a woman name Eleanor Finlay Campbell who was your ancestors' neighbor. And she said ...", "Wow.", "... that -- she told a story that Burwell had locked this slave -- his nickname was Sham in a cotton house overnight because he keep running away. And when he went to let him out the next morning your ancestor was carrying a hoe and this slave grab the hoe and beat your fourth grade grandfather to death. And so to make sure the story was true, we went to the county records and there it was Sandy Boykin (ph). Sandy Boykin (ph) was your ancestors' slave who was hanged for murder and that a thing. And there are black Boykins today.", "Are there really? So, there are relative, descendants of Sandy Boykin (ph) still alive today?", "Oh yeah. Your ancestor owned 12 black Boykins. And they are -- they have plenty of descendants today. Now, they find out if you're related genetically. We have to -- as you know we've done your DNA, we have to match their DNA against your", "Well, I'm up for it.", "OK. Well, I think after this program a whole bunch of Boykins are going to be, you know, trying to be e-mailing you.", "That's really fascinating. Well I mean I said, you know, during the broadcast that -- I mean its one thing to, you know, to read about the evils of slavery. To suddenly discover -- because, you know, I always believe that the Cooper side was always, you know, the farmers were -- they were too poor to actually own slaves.", "And they were ...", "But then to learn that one of them did was really -- I mean, its a, you know, it's a very unsettling feeling.", "But you know he was killed in 1860, in May of 1860, a year before the Civil War starts. And the Civil War, you have another amazing paradox. You have nine ancestors who fought for the confederacy. And then you have one super (inaudible) who was a general graduate of West Point who fought for the North. And you say in your show, they could have -- they almost met on the battlefield.", "For those who are able to trace their roots, it really does give you this sense of connection of rooting in a time and a place and -- I don't know I feel differently after having done the interview with you. I feel differently after having done this project with", "Well, when I asked you -- as I asked all my guests on Finding Your Roots, if you could meet one ancestor, one ancestor to whom you've been introduce today, whom we've discuss today, who would it be and you shocked me by saying it would be your father. So, I want to ask you, what would you ask to your father Anderson if you could talk to him today?", "Wow. I haven't thought that far ahead. I mean -- what I, you know, for me my dad died when I was 10, and so the idea of being able to -- and first of all just to have heard his voice for (inaudible) was extraordinary thing but just to be able to ask him, you know, about what he thinks of me and what he think about all the things have gone since he died in our families life. And to just, you know, hear his voice and see his smile and have him talk to me again would be -- I mean, for me that would be an extraordinary thing. So, Mr. Gates thank you so much. Thank you so much for letting me participates in your program on TBS Finding Your Roots. It's on Tuesday nights at 9:00. It's an awesome show. I'm going to watch it this week as well. And I appreciate you've been on my program was well. Thank you.", "Thank you. Be careful down there Anderson.", "Well, as we said Roots, Our Journeys Home continues all this week on CNN tomorrow morning at 6:00 Eastern. Don't miss Chris Cuomo's incredibly journey to his family's history, tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 Eastern. Jake Tapper will share what he found when he look into his past, a lot of surprise there as well. Just ahead, a reported sighting of Kim Jong-un, but is the mystery surrounding North Korea's leader really sold what really happened to him? We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "RIZZY HARRISON, ANDERSON COOPER'S COUSIN", "COOPER", "HARRISON", "COOPER", "HARRISON", "COOPER", "HARRISON", "COOPER", "HARRISON", "COOPER", "HARRISON", "COOPER", "HARRISON", "HARRISON", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COOPER", "WYATT EMORY COOPER, ANDERSON COOPER'S FATHER", "COOPER", "E. 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{"id": "CNN-62651", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2002-11-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/06/se.06.html", "summary": "America Votes 2002: Look at Some Senate and Governor Races", "utt": ["And we pick up our continuing coverage. And again, we are still waiting for a number of results to come in. There are a lot of races that are still undecided here.", "Let's go ahead and take a look at some of them beginning with some of the Senate races that have yet to be decided. Yes, one of the ones with the biggest spotlight on it, the candidates have gone to bed. Norm Coleman, Walter Mondale, still waiting for some key ballots to come in and be counted. So they have called it a night for now.", "And continuing in the Senate, South Dakota, once again, we are still waiting to see what's going to happen in Tim Daschle's home state there. Right now the race too close to call between Tom Thune and -- John Thune, rather, and Tim Johnson.", "This one, we know this much, it will be going to December 7. Mary Landrieu getting 46 percent of the vote, but she needed over 50 percent under Louisiana state law in order to win that runoff with...", "Suzanne Haik Terrell.", "... Suzanne Haik Terrell will take place on December 7.", "And moving on now, we're going to keep our eye on those and some other races which have still not yet been decided. Taking a look now at I believe we're going to look at the...", "The governor races.", "... I believe we're going to look at the, is it governor's races now or House races? These are the governor's races. Here we go in Alabama, right now dead heat between Siegelman and Riley there. Still too close to call.", "Also in Oklahoma, this one surprisingly close as Steve Largent, congressman and former NFL star, in what looks like basically a very, very tight race with Henry and then Richardson, the Independent, also getting some votes in that race.", "And in Arizona, as you were talking about and waxing all poetically about, Napolitano there, slimly there...", "I enjoy Arizona.", "... with Salmon and Mahoney. Still undecided though on this particular race.", "To Hawaii, Maui Mayor Linda Lingle with a slight edge right now over Mazie Hirono. We know there will be a female governor of Hawaii because the two final candidates are women.", "And in Oregon there, Kulongoski and Mannix, dead heat almost there but only one percentage point margin there between the two with 17 percent of the precincts reporting.", "And in Vermont, checking out this race. Vermont also interesting, and maybe Stu Rothenberg can pipe in on this because don't you also need 50 percent in order to become governor...", "Yes.", "... and if not, it goes to the state legislature?", "You are exactly right -- Daryn.", "I studied too much...", "The State House and the State Senate,...", "Yes.", "... individual members get together, they vote and they -- they'll pick the nominee -- they'll pick the governor. It was expected that they would -- might pick the front runner. So far the Republicans hold that chamber, although -- those chambers, although I don't -- I don't know what the elections today did to them.", "There's a lot of controversy in Vermont. This has happened a number of times here quite a bit.", "It's kind of like Louisiana,...", "Yes.", "... got to have 50 percent. You understand the rules going into the game. So right now Douglas with a three percentage lead over Racine.", "All right. So we've got much more to look forward to this evening. Still waiting for maybe a couple of surprises more to come in, who knows?", "We're ready.", "It's been a night full of surprises and a morning full of them as well so stay with us. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Races>"], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "STUART ROTHENBERG, \"ROTHENBERG POLITICAL REPORT\"", "KAGAN", "ROTHENBERG", "KAGAN", "ROTHENBERG", "KAGAN", "ROTHENBERG", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-327530", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-12-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1712/03/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Trump Tweet Says He Fired Flynn for Lying to FBI; Trump Tax Reform.", "utt": ["Hi, everyone. I'm Cyril Vanier at CNN headquarters. Thank you for joining us. A tweet on Saturday from the U.S. President's Twitter account raises serious questions concerning what Donald Trump knew about Michael Flynn and when. It reads, \"I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the vice president and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It's a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide.\" Now if true, this is an explosive statement. It means that Mr. Trump knew Flynn had broken the law when he asked then FBI director James Comey in February to drop the investigation into Flynn. Here's what the president said about that on Saturday.", "What has been shown is no collusion. No collusion. There's been absolutely -- there's been absolutely no collusion so we're very happy. And frankly, last night, with one of the big nights.", "We'll see what happens. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much. Thank you.", "Adding to this context, there's new information that contradicts White House assertions that Flynn was acting alone when he met with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. CNN's Boris Sanchez has more on this.", "The Russia investigation and the dismissal of former national security adviser Michael Flynn likely the last thing that the White House wanted to be talking about just hours after their first major legislative victory in passing tax reform. But with a swift tweet, the president has raised serious questions about what he knew and when he knew it. In this tweet, the president suggests that part of the reason that he fired Michael Flynn as national security adviser was because he knew that he had lied to the FBI. That raises serious questions possibly about obstruction of justice, if after all the president as has been reported asked former FBI director James Comey to get rid of the investigation into Michael Flynn. Further, it also raises questions about the White House's efforts to distance themselves from Michael Flynn. At first on Friday calling him a former Obama administration official and also making the case that President Obama approved of Michael Flynn's conversations with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, to discuss sanctions. The reaction from Democrats was swift, including this tweet from Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. He responded to the president's initial tweet writing, quote, \"If that is true, Mr. President, why did you wait so long to fire Flynn? Why did you fail to act until his lies were publicly exposed? Why did you pressure Director Comey to let this go?\" The White House has a series of questions before them, clearly something that is not likely going to go away anytime soon. Specifically because now there is a new \"New York Times\" report that indicates that several key figures within the Trump transition and within the administration were briefed on Michael Flynn's conversations with Sergey Kislyak before and after their meeting and so this investigation likely will explore where that goes. And as more information continues to leak out during this investigation, it really hangs a cloud over this White House as they continue moving forward with their legislative agenda -- Boris Sanchez, CNN, in New York.", "So what is the White House saying about all of this? The White House says journalists are reading too much into the president's tweet on Flynn. John Dowd, an attorney with Mr. Trump's outside legal team, tells CNN the tweet was a paraphrase of Ty Cobb's statement yesterday. I refer you to Comey's testimony before Congress about FBI view of Flynn's answers. Remember, Ty Cobb is special counsel for the White House. In his statement on Friday after Flynn pleaded guilty, did not mention lying to the FBI as a factor in Flynn's firing.", "Joining me, CNN political commentator John Phillips and political analyst Ellis Henican. He also writes the \"Trump's America\" column at Metro Papers. Now Mr. Trump's tweet about firing Michael Flynn on account of his lies to the FBI raises just an avalanche of questions. In no particular order here, they are. Why did he wait almost three weeks after Flynn lied to the FBI to fire him and do so only under intense political pressure? Why did he ignore previous warnings about Flynn that were given to him? Why has he kept referring to Flynn since then as a great guy? And why did he ask James Comey to lay off the Flynn investigation and then fire Comey after it became --", "-- clear that he wasn't going to lay off the Flynn investigation? So, John, I'd like your reaction on some of these. But first I want to ask you, as a Republican supporter, when you saw that tweet by the president, did you think, uh-oh, trouble?", "No, I thought that when I saw the Brian Ross report and then I stopped sweating when I found out it wasn't true. Just to go through a couple of the questions that you raised. First I'll start with why it was the Trump brought Flynn into this White House and into the campaign after he was warned by Obama and others not to. Flynn was a Democrat. A lot of people forget that. He served in the Obama administration. They had a pretty nasty falling out after her left the DIA. And so there was a political backstory to that as to why the Democrats had hostility to him. As to the tweet that the --", "By the way, he was presented by the White House recently as an Obama guy, which, I mean, honestly --", "-- hard to believe, for anybody who has seen Flynn on stage, we just saw him there with Trump during the campaign.", "Right but he did serve in two very senior level positions within the Obama administration and as to the tweet today that went out today, it was essentially correct. What Flynn did, what he's alleged to have done and has pleaded guilty to is not a crime. The problem was when he lied. And he lied not only to the FBI but he lied to the vice president. He was fired in short order after that happened. And if he broke the law, he should face the consequences.", "Ellis?", "I think this is the first we've heard that the president thought that he broke the law. Up until now, the president's explanation for firing Flynn was that he lied to the vice president. Now, you know, maybe that's not a nice thing to do but it's not illegal. We can all -- remember this, we all have the right to lie to the vice president. But when you're putting it into the realm of actual criminality and you realize that it took weeks before he fired him, once he supposedly knew this and it brings up a whole host of questions here about who else around the president knew about these contacts. We're now getting a trail of emails that suggest that there was plenty, plenty of back and forth with KT McFarland and others around the transition and in the early days of the White House. This thing unfortunately from the president's point of view, I think just inches it closer and closer and closer to those closest to the president and perhaps to him as well.", "Yes, the 800-pound gorilla in the room here, John, is, does this suggest or show or even prove that there was obstruction of justice on the part of the U.S. president when he fired James Comey?", "No, l don't think it did. You go and look at the timeline. This happened after he was elected so there's no collusion relating to the campaign that's associated with this. I think that the firing of James Comey --", "John, I think what critics of the president would say here is that the president fired James Comey after having asked him to lawyer off the Flynn investigation, and we now -- it appears the president knew Flynn had lied to the FBI. So long story short, he asked the then FBI director to lay off an investigation on somebody who had lied to FBI. Could that not be obstruction of justice?", "Well, the criticisms that the president had with Jim Comey go back a long time. It goes all the way back to the campaign, when he criticized the way that he handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation. I'm sure this played a role into why he fired him and the Lester Holt interview, I believe, is probably what triggered the Mueller investigation, in and of itself. But there were a lot of factors that are on the record speaking to why Donald Trump didn't have confidence in James Comey. That being said, I think in retrospect it was a big mistake to get rid of him.", "Gentlemen, thank you so much for your time and thank you for joining us on the show.", "Thank you.", "Meanwhile, President Trump is touting the tax bill that passed the Senate early Saturday morning. He calls it spectacular.", "It was a fantastic evening last night. We passed the largest tax cuts in the history of our country and many other things along with it. Tremendous tax reform, but it was the biggest package in terms of tax cuts ever passed in our country. Now we go on to conference and something beautiful is going to come out of that picture. People are going to be very, very happy. They're going to get tremendous, tremendous tax cuts and tax relief. And that's what this country needs.", "Now this is despite the Congressional Budget Office saying that it will add $1.4 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. Republicans say the tax reform, the tax cuts will pay for themselves through the economic growth that they will create. The Democrats say that's just wishful thinking and they are criticizing the way the bill came together as well.", "Republicans are reaching heretofore unreached heights of hypocrisy --", "-- and the Senate is descending to a new low of chicanery. Read the bill? They're still writing it by hand mere hours before voting on it. Is this really how Republicans are going to rewrite the tax code, scrawled like something on the back of a napkin, behind closed doors with the help of K Street lobbyists?", "Tonight the Republicans provide $1 billion in tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country and to the largest corporations while raising the deficit by over $1.4 trillion.", "One U.S. official is downplaying North Korea's Tuesday missile test. The official says the weapon likely broke up reentering the atmosphere. Pyongyang claimed the missile could strike the entire U.S. mainland and the White House appears to be taking that danger seriously. On Saturday, the national security adviser said North Korea represents the greatest immediate threat to the U.S. H.R. McMaster also told a defense forum the potential for war with North Korea is increasing every day which means that we're in a race, really we're in a race to be able to solve this problem. Moving to the Middle East, Yemen's former president is offering to open talks with Saudi Arabia. Ali Abdullah Saleh says if the Saudi- led coalition stops raining airstrikes on rebel bases and if it lifts a blockade to let food and supplies into the country, then he'll be open to turning the page in the ongoing war. However, Houthi rebels, his allies, are rejecting the possibility of talks with the Saudis. This is the latest sign of splintering rebel factions in a conflict that's killed thousands of civilians. Syria says one of its military sites was attacked by an Israeli missile strike on Saturday. Syrian state media say it happened near Damascus and the site was damaged. Israel didn't comment on the reports but hours later took aim at Iran on Twitter. In a video tweet, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to warn Tehran about its presence in Syria.", "So let me reiterate Israel's policy. We will not allow a regime hell-bent on the annihilation of the Jewish state to acquire nuclear weapons. We will not allow that regime to entrench itself militarily in Syria, as it seeks to do, for the express purpose of eradicating our state.", "Indonesia is warning Bali's residents not to underestimate the Mount Agung volcano. For weeks it's been erupting ash, steam and debris. And authorities say it's still threatening a major eruption. Several airlines canceled flights again from Bali on Saturday, stranding thousands of tourists. About 100,000 people have been evacuated from villages in the immediate danger zone. And that's it for now. Thanks for watching CNN NEWSROOM. \"MARKETPLACE AFRICA\" up next on CNN. 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{"id": "CNN-379327", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2019-09-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/02/qmb.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Gets a New European Partner for 5G", "utt": ["No trading on Wall Street as the U.S. marks the Labor Day holiday. Here is what is moving markets around the rest of the world. No ifs, no buts, but perhaps --perhaps a general election. Boris Johnson throws down the gauntlet to his rivals in his own party. And Argentine stocks are soaring as Mauricio Macri turns to capital controls. And there's a change at the top of Saudi Aramco ahead of what could be the biggest IPO ever in history. Coming to you live from the world's financial capital here in New York City. It is Monday, September the 2nd, I'm Zain Asher in for Richard Quest and this is QUEST MEANS BUSINESS. Good evening. There may have been no trading on Wall Street, but it's been an extremely busy day. We are of course keeping a close eye on Hurricane Dorian. It's already done unprecedented damage the Bahamas as it heads for the East Coast of the United States. We will show you the scene from Freeport in just a moment. But first though to London, where the Prime Minister has just insisted there are no circumstances under which he would ask Brussels for another delay to Brexit. Boris Johnson says he believe the chances of getting a deal are improving and urged MPs to stand behind him. While he didn't call an election, as some has speculated, some suggest it might only now be a matter of time. Mr. Johnson gave a speech before Parliament reconvenes in London and he seemed keen to warn fellow Conservatives not to side with the opposition.", "To show our friends in Brussels that we are united in our purpose. MPs should vote with the government against Corbyn's pointless delay. I want everybody to know there are no circumstances in which I will ask Brussels to delay. We are leaving on the 31st of October, no ifs or buts. We will not accept any attempt to go back on our promises or scrub that referendum --", "All right, for more on all of hits, Nic Robertson is at Number 10 while Bianca Nobilo has more from our London studio. Nic, I want to start with you. You were there, as Boris Johnson addressed the public a few hours ago, what stood out to you?", "The very fact that he has said essentially, if the opposition does what it says it's going to do, which is try to pass legislation to tie his hands either to get an agreement in Parliament for a no deal, or to actually get a deal with the European Council leaders meeting in the middle of October, if he doesn't get that, then they will force him. They want him to send a letter to the European Union asking for an extension. If they have that -- if they have that in lure and if they're able to pass that, he has clearly said nothing is going to stop him doing what he wants. He does seem to be setting the agenda here for the very real possibility of a snap election. Why do I say that? He said he didn't want an election. He said that the British people didn't want an election right now. He started off his whole speech with some campaign rhetoric. But then he said very clearly that if the vote does go against him in Parliament, then he essentially cannot negotiate from the position of strength, he believes he needs to negotiate with the European Union i.e. the very real, incredible threat of a no-deal Brexit. Therefore, what he is saying is he cannot negotiate and the only option will be to head for an election.", "And Bianca, as you heard Nic, just say there that Boris Johnson obviously did say that he doesn't necessarily want a general election. But there are those like former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who believe an election would actually work in Boris Johnson's favor, because essentially, people would prefer Johnson over Jeremy Corbyn.", "Yes, and we have to think about the narrative and the optics here. It's important as far as Boris Johnson and his camp are concerned to at least seem as though they're not going for an election because it's what they want to do. But they're trying to affect the Brexit that they purportedly believe in and Parliament is thwarting them in doing so. So then their last resort would be to say, \"Well, we're going to ask for an election on the 14th of October,\" as was just recently confirmed to us in that case. And that's because there is a huge amount of apathy and fatigue in the British population about the Brexit process, the lack of any kind of progress that's been made over the last couple of years. So it really does suit Boris Johnson not to be the person who seems to be pushing for the election, but he is going for an election because of the circumstances that he finds himself in.", "And if he does have to do that, as you quite rightly point out, Zain, he has been doing much better in the polls than Jeremy Corbyn. There has been a Boris bounce since he took over from Theresa May. The public seem to be responding well to his decisiveness and the way that he has approached trying to break the Brexit impasse. So all of those signs added to the fact that Boris Johnson is a well-known campaigner, and he does thrive in that kind of setting. Plus there being almost no parliamentary options left does mean that it's not as unappealing a prospect as it may have sounded for the government several months ago.", "And Nic, Boris Johnson, in his speech earlier did say that the chances of a deal with Brussels has actually been rising. How so?", "There was some sense that coming out of the G7 meeting, and of course came, you know, that weekend in Biarritz and in the days preceding that, he'd met with German Chancellor, Angela Merkel with the French President Emmanuel Macron. And the sort of sense was that the words that were being picked up were that he was being taken more seriously following those meetings, that there was a sense that people that met him and he sat next, if you remember at the G7 meetings with Donald Tusk, the European Council President that Boris Johnson was grasped and appraised of all the facts and the nuance behind what he was talking about on the Brexit, the difficulties of the Brexit negotiation that he was on top of the game, if you will. That he was also beginning to put forward ideas, some ideas that could be could solve the problem of the backstop, which he said must go from withdrawal agreement, change for some alternate arrangements, but that said that sort of have been in the air in this whole sense that Angela Merkel said that we can do a deal in 30 days. The Chancellor clarified that after saying that's not quite what we meant. So there's some positive spin that came out of all of that. But I think what we have seen since Boris Johnson, proroguing Parliament has taken some of the shine off of that, certainly for some of his own MPs, but this sense that Boris Johnson is not the idiot that some people in Brussels might have thought he was, has counted in his favor, certainly. But the bottom line for the E.U. is at the moment that Boris Johnson and his negotiators on Brexit have not put forward anything concrete that's going to move the situation one iota so far.", "All right, Nic Robertson, Bianca Nobilo, thank you both. Live for us from London. The sterling is thinking over speculation of a snap general election in the U.K. The pound was down more than one percent against the dollar, Monday, as Brexit uncertainty continues to mount. Speaking to me earlier on \"The Express,\" Philip Shaw said the drop doesn't do certain sectors any favors.", "Certainly, importers are going to find the drop in the pound unhelpful, obviously because it raises their cost in sterling terms. In principle, it should help exporters, but of course, if we're talking about possibly in amounts of chaos, with a no-deal Brexit, with ports, traffic in particular being held up by regulatory and customs checks, then the fall in the pound really isn't going to assist exporters or the U.K. economy in general. So I think what the government is also doing to try and reassure business is to say, \"Look, we are aiming to strike a deal with the European Union.\" But at the heart of Boris Johnson's negotiating plan, it's that we are willing to leave without a deal on the 31st of October. And Mr. Johnson is hoping that that galvanizes the European Union into a compromise which his government and the British Parliament can accept.", "And what sort of impact does all the sort of fears about a no-deal Brexit having a on the debt market there in the U.K.?", "Well, in terms of the debt market, there's several things going on. But the threat of a no-deal Brexit itself is encouraging U.K. financial markets to speculate that there could be a cut in interest rates over the next year to 18 months perhaps, and that it's a potentially disinflationary situation over the medium term, perhaps not over the first year or so or two, when after which the pound falls back. But after that, inflation is perhaps less of a concern, so the U.K. debt markets have been held by the fear of a no-deal Brexit, but of course, also by the wider global situation, in particular, the trade tensions between the U.S. and China.", "So uncertainty on both political and economic front. For more, let's speak to George Buckley, Chief U.K. Economist at Nomura. He is joining us live now from London. So at this point, what more should the British government been doing to provide reassurance to businesses?", "Well, it's just spent, I think, 100 million pounds on the most expensive government advertising campaign to try and tell businesses what they should or shouldn't be doing. The problem is, a lot of businesses haven't actually started the process yet. And I think there is a lot of concern that that they think that the process is going to last too long, it's going to take too long to get in place what they need to do. And they're still not convinced that we're going to end up in a hard Brexit. There's some glimmer of hope that what Boris Johnson says about possibly getting a deal might actually come true. And if it does, then all of their preparations and all of this effort that they would have gone to will be for naught. So I think there are a lot of businesses which aren't fully prepared, and that probably will remain the case, even going into October and towards the end, even if we're still looking at a no deal.", "And Boris Johnson earlier said the chances of a deal with Brussels has actually been rising. But in order to get a deal, you need to have no deal on the table. When you heard his speech, do you -- do sort of businesses and do you feel that there is the possibility that we will see a deal between the U.K. and the E.U.?", "Well, I think when you look at what economists are forecasting, a lot of economists, but not by no means all, assuming that a deal is the most likely outcome. Now, the probability is very uniform, to be honest, at the moment between no deal, a deal and no Brexit because they are really the three main outcomes that we could have. When you say the probabilities are uniform, what we mean is that we really don't know where things are going. It's exceptionally difficult. But you have to base your forecasts on one of those options. Now, if you look at what the Bank of England said, it's tried to base its forecasts on a deal of some sort. The problem is, it conditions those forecasts on market variables, such as you were mentioning before about the bond market, gilt yields, for example, and what the market is expecting for rate cuts and Sterling. Now all of those -- all of those financial market variables are pricing in quite a sizeable risk of Brexit. So a hard Brexit that is, and therefore, you've got this very odd combination of a forecast, which doesn't -- isn't really a proper forecast, because it's based on two different, completely different outcomes.", "And how important is it for Boris Johnson to strike deals beyond the E.U., for example, with the United States?", "So one of my favorite statistics is the distance between London and some of the key non-E.U. countries versus the distance between London and E.U. trading partners, the latter, on average is probably about 800 miles. The difference or the distance between London and the top four non-E.U. trading partners is 4,800 miles. There's a big difference. And when you look at these gravity models, what they tell you is it distance is really important about how much trade you do with these countries. So the risk is that, yes, while it could be quite important, the U.S. is a very important trading partner for the U.K., it can be only limited relative to what we might potentially lose from leaving the E.U. with no deal and the countries that we have been used to trading with which are exceptionally close to us geographically.", "Yes, the distance is a huge impediment. George Buckley live for us there. Thank you so much. Hurricane Dorian wreaked havoc on the Bahamas Monday. The monster storm hovered over the islands ripping the roofs of houses and forcing even rescue crews to take shelter. Now the Category 4 storm is the most powerful anywhere on Earth this year and the strongest ever recorded to hit the Bahamas. The Bahamian Prime Minister calling the devastation unprecedented. Meantime, in the United States, there is watches and warnings across Florida. It's currently about 105 miles off the coast of West Palm Beach, Florida and moving westwards at a very, very slow pace of one mile per hour, if that. Dorian is predicted to turn north late Monday and stay just off Florida's East Coast. The Hurricane Center warns even if Dorian doesn't make landfall, the storm surge could still be life threatening. Florida's governor is pleading with residents to take precautions.", "People need to remain vigilant. If you're ordered to evacuate, you need to do that. From Palm Beach County all the way up to NASA, the Florida-Georgia border, all those coastal counties have issued evacuation orders and it's important that residents heed those calls. You know, get out now while you have time, while there's fuel available, and you'll be safe on the road.", "The damage has actually already been done mostly in the Bahamas. Patrick Oppmann has more on the catastrophic conditions from the City of Freeport.", "Hurricane Dorian unleashing its fury on the Bahamas. The record-setting storm striking, leaving behind catastrophic destruction. Wind gusts spiking over 200 miles per hour, becoming the most powerful storm to hit the islands. Dorian, shredding homes here and sending debris across neighborhoods.", "This is probably the most sad and worst day of my life to address the Bahamian people. We are facing a hurricane. Hurricane Dorian that one that we are seeing in the history of Bahamas.", "Heavy rains creating blinding conditions. Some towns submerged in floodwaters. Dorian making landfall in the Abaco Islands on Sunday, leaving devastation.", "Pray for us. Pray for Abaco, please, I am begging you. My baby is only four months old. Please. Pray for us.", "Listen to a mother's desperate plea. Gerza Joseph (ph) waiting with other residents along with her baby. Their apartment building now roofless and surrounded by murky floodwaters rising around them.", "People are trying to make it to the other side with these houses, but some people -- the water just took them and those are the only people that got to make it over there. Some people, they didn't get to make it.", "Those horrifying scenes playing again and again across the Bahamas. With the scale of destruction now coming to light, haunting images showing Hurricane Dorian's dangerous power as it now takes aim at the U.S. coastline. Patrick Oppman, CNN, Freeport, Bahamas.", "And we'll have a full update on the storm's path as it heads towards the mainland United States. We will be live at the CNN Weather Center in about 15 minutes from now. Argentina is taking desperate action to try and stop its currency from falling. The move will give the government more power and demand action from businesses. And Saudi Aramco gets a new Chairman in a push to go public. 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{"id": "CNN-119512", "program": "OUT IN THE OPEN", "date": "2007-8-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/31/oito.01.html", "summary": "Fred Thompson to Officially Join Presidential Race", "utt": ["I want you to tell me, as you look at that man, who that is.", "He looks very familiar.", "Maybe you have seen him on TV?", "Yes.", "Maybe \"Law & Order\"?", "Yes.", "Fred Thompson?", "Sure.", "So, you're a Republican.", "Yes, sir.", "And you're a Democrat.", "Yes.", "They're saying, oh, the next Ronald Reagan. Do you buy it?", "Honestly, I haven't heard enough from him yet.", "All right, they may not know him now, but they soon will. Fred Thompson, actor and former senator, has officially set the date and will get into the presidential race next Thursday. We took his picture down to Times Square and talked to an equal number of liberals and conservatives about this.", "I want you to look at that picture, look into the camera, and tell me who that is.", "Oh, boy.", "No clue.", "Don't have a clue?", "That's the guy from \"Law & Order\" who is running for presidency for the Republicans. I can't remember his name.", "He's a Republican from -- where is he from?", "Yes.", "Who is that?", "That is Senator Fred Thompson.", "Well done.", "Thank you. Is he -- is he in the race?", "All right. It's official. It looks like Fred Thompson is going to become a candidate for the Republican ticket.", "You're kidding? Really? You're talking to Democrats.", "I -- I'm more of a Rudy man than a Fred Thompson man.", "A lot of people are saying, this guy is the one who is going to energize the party, because he's Reaganesque.", "He's semi-Reaganesque. Basically, he answers all the issues, and that's why I will be voting for him.", "... high standard, in my opinion.", "A good candidate is a good candidate?", "I don't think so.", "You don't think he's a good candidate?", "What is he going to do, get up on stage?", "Why would they compare him to a Republican president from the past? Why not compare to the Republican president who is in the office now?", "That's kind of easy, right, when your approval rating is horrendous, and Ronald Reagan's was great?", "Let's now bring in Cheri Jacobus, Republican strategist and founder of Capitol Strategies. Cheri, thanks so much for being with us.", "Good to be here.", "Is this going to be tough? Is it going to be tough? I mean, there's been a lot of hype around this guy.", "Well, sure.", "Now he's got to do the real deal. Can you overcome that?", "Oh, no, I think that he's doing fine. Look, there's a lot of anticipation about him getting into this race. I think it adds some excitement. And here's the dirty little secret about campaigns and politics. And you saw some of this in the piece in some of your interviews. Regular people, people who are not in politics and are not in the media, they really aren't paying close attention right now. Labor Day is usually that sort of line in the sand of demarcation where, after that, people get back from their summer vacations, and they start paying attention. So, this might be just the perfect timing for Fred Thompson.", "Let me ask you something about the way he is going to probably want to portray himself, probably the way a lot of politicians want to portray themselves: I'm the outsider. I'm not like those folks inside the beltway in Washington. Yet, this guy used to be a lobbyist in Washington. You can't get more inside than that. Is that a problem?", "You know, lobbyists, it's sort of a dirty word. But they're not all bad. And there is a very necessary function and a need for them. And there's lots of them in Washington. You only tend to hear about the bad ones. I don't think that is a problem for him. The fact that he was a staffer in Washington, then he went out and did something else, and he's been in Hollywood, he's been an actor, then he was a senator, so, he's kind of done a number of different things, I think he -- you know, he might just strike the right tone in terms of: I have been there long enough where I understand it, but I have done other things, so it's not like it's something I need, and I'm not a complete political animal. And, so, for Fred Thompson, this might be just the right chord for him to strike with the American people.", "Before I let you go, let me ask you some of the questions I asked some of the folks out there. First of all, is he Reaganesque? And why the comparison to Reagan? Why not compare him to the Republican who is in the White House right now? And what does that say about the Republican who is in the White House right now?", "Well, you know, everybody that's running for office likes to have something about them that's compared to Ronald Reagan. Some people have tried to compare him. They have sort of backed off from that. But I think anybody running for president wants to run as their own man or their own woman and not be compared to anyone else, maybe take the better things from former presidents, whether they be Democrats or Republicans.", "OK. Now, 15 seconds. Don't scrub my last question, the one about why they're comparing him to a former president and not a present president, when the guy in the office now is a Republican?", "Well, you know, we just might see as the campaign wears on that there are some of the candidates that want to compare themselves to George W. Bush in certain areas. Like I said, they're going to extract...", "Can you name any at this point?", "Oh, I think that the sincerity of this president and the way he's been consistent, whether people agree with him or not is something that the history books will look at him and say, you know, good job. That is what we need in a president. All right, Shari Jacobus, we thank you, we appreciate your time.", "Thank you.", "Proof of flying saucers? Are they real? This isn't Roswell, New Mexico, it's Davis, California. A company called MORE International, has built an actual flying car. It's great if you're stuck in traffic. They hope to produce about half dozen in the next year, want to work up to a couple hundred a year, they say, eventually. There it is. Take a look inside. Coming up, the exclusive results of a CNN investigation: Soft spots in our security. What happens if terrorists attack using this method? 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{"id": "CNN-292847", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2016-08-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/31/ampr.01.html", "summary": "The Hidden World of London's Immigrants", "utt": ["Welcome back to the program. As Donald Trump's visit to Mexico puts the spotlight on immigration, the issue is being debated just as fiercely in Europe. In France, Marine Le Pen popularity continues while in Austria, far-right presidential candidate Norbert Hofer is currently favored to win the October election. Here in Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May today promised there would be no second referendum on membership of the EU. And whatever form Brexit eventually takes it is certain to impact migrants in this country both legal and illegal. Ben Judah is a journalist who has chronicled the hidden side of London and its migrant communities in his book, \"This is London.\" He joins me now. Really an extraordinary book. Thank you so much for being...", "Thank you.", "...on the show with us. Why is this side of the city so hidden? And what did it take to penetrate it?", "I think that in London, especially, we live on a lot of old myths. We see London as the city of Dickens. The city -- we half see an", "And what did you find? Because I have to say, you know, it's incredibly moving in parts. It's almost hard to read because there is something of a tragedy in some of these stories that you present. But what's the overall theme that you would say you found?", "One of the most important things happening in the world right now is that TV, these images are beaming everywhere. In Eastern Europe and in Africa, or in Asia, people see them. People see them in industrial towns in Poland, or in poor villages in Bangladesh, and starts that dream. People know, as they are watching T.V. that they are living in poverty and they're not living in a way that's satisfied with. And this draws people to these humming, glowing cities like London, Paris or New York. And with all those images in mind, a lot of what I found is that immigration in the 21st century is more than we expect a story of disappointment. These huge dreams of prosperity and plenty crushing against the menial jobs, the persecution, the concluding difference of these modern cities that these migrants would experience.", "And also, we've seen today, a terrible story of the killing of a Polish man, apparently because his alleged attackers heard him speak Polish. We've seen the rise of the far-right across Europe. From your position, do you view this as a sort of -- you know, something that's an unavoidable consequence of this massive immigration? Do you see it getting worse?", "Obviously, it's repellent and disgusting when a man is being murdered on the streets of Britain. But if we look at historians of what's happening to the UK and what's happening to London, when my grandfather who was a Jewish migrant to the U.K. came here in the 1930s, the foreign population of London was 2.7 percent. London wasn't historically this migrant mega city. Today, the official foreign born figure is 37 percent. 37 percent of the population were born abroad.", "And mostly in London, specifically, right? As opposed to the rest of the country.", "The population in London who are immigrants' children or grandchildren, immigrant families is 55 percent. You look at the UK in 1931, the percentage who were born abroad is 1.5 percent. Today, 20 percent of the population of Great Britain are immigrants and their children. If we look ahead towards 2050, we already know what this will look like because we know what the 5-year-olds look like. By 2050, 30 percent of the population of Great Britain will be non-white and 40 percent will be non-white British. So that's a huge transformation. It's a big jump.", "And I want to read, because you wrote -- you know, of the lines that really stood out, \"I was born in London, but I no longer recognize the city. I don't know if I love the new London or if it frightens me.\" And then you go on to cite some of those statistics. At the end of this kind of year that you spent, did you have a better sense of whether it frightens you, whether you love it, whether it's exciting?", "What frightens me about it isn't the fact there's ethnic change. I'm Jewish. I'm not sort of this sort of ancient white British, sort of folks race. But what frightens me about London is the extraordinary lawlessness both of the superrich and the fact that British law is often not implemented from below. What frightens me is that the properties of Central London are used as bit coins by the super rich who laundered their money there, completely contravening what British law is supposed to be. And that these sort of Stockholm mansions they use to house aristocrats are now used as effectively as safety deposits by criminals and narco lords and corrupt police chiefs all over the world. What frightens me below is when I went undercover, pretending to be an Eastern European laborer, I found that minimum wage. People are not paid it. If you drive around the A406, that scruffy ring road separates, you know, London -- heritage London from outer London, which hardly ever filmed. At any of these hardware stores, you'll have 50 to 100 guys just travelling for work from Eastern Europe. What's their wage? Their wage is whatever they can have it for. And it's not in minimum.", "A tale of two cities. Ben Judah, thank you so much for being with us. When we come back, we turn to Africa, where a major new study has revealed the truth about the African elephant's plummeting numbers. 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{"id": "CNN-396775", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-04-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/04/cnr.08.html", "summary": "President Trump & Coronavirus Task Force Hold Press Briefing. ", "utt": ["He's a total disgrace.", "Did you run by your decision to dismiss the inspector general by senator --", "We'll get off this because people want to talk about what we're talking about but let me just tell you something. That's my decision. I have the absolute right. Even the fake news last night said, he has the absolute right to do it. But ask him why didn't you go and see the actual conversation? There was no rush. He said, oh, we have to rush it. He even said it was politically biased. He actually said that. The report could have been -- you know who the whistle-blower is and so do you and so does everybody in this room and so do I. Everybody knows, but they give this whistle-blower a status that he doesn't deserve. He's a fake whistle-blower. And frankly, somebody ought to sue his ass off. All right. It's enough of the whistle-blower. Go ahead, please.", "The governor of New York today said that he is still desperate for ventilators and that he has accepted a thousand of them from the Chinese government. Are you concerned --", "What he didn't say is -- OK, let me tell you what he didn't say. Two very good friends of mine brought him those whistle-blower -- brought him those ventilators, right? Two very good friends of mine. They brought them. If you'd like their name, I'll give you the name.", "But should states", "The governor didn't mention that. It came through the Chinese -- the country of China, but they were given by two friends of mine, but he didn't tell you that. Now, the governor also -- you'll see when you read the letter, the governor also asked for 40,000, 40,000. He wanted 40,000 ventilators. Now the governor, as you know, had a chance to get 16,000 a few years ago. He decided not to get that. The state of New York has asked for help. I've given them four hospitals, four medical centers, then I gave them an additional hospital, then I gave them military people to operate the hospital. They were not supposed to be COVID hospitals. The boat, the ship is not -- interesting thing happened with the ship. People aren't in accidents because there's nobody driving, there's nobody taking motorcycle rides down the west side highway at 100 miles an hour. People are away. So people aren't being injured. Now they're asking whether or not we could open up the ship for COVID. We have given the governor of New York more than anybody has ever been given in a long time, I'll just say. I was going to say in history, but in a long time. And I think he's happy, but I think that -- because I watched what he said today, and it was fine. I wouldn't say gracious. It wasn't gracious. It was OK. I must tell you, Gavin Newsom has been gracious. Los Angeles, California, the job we've done, and all of California.", "Why does that matter if they're gracious or not gracious?", "It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter but I think when we've given as much as we've given to New York, somebody should say, nice -- I'll tell you who's been very nice. Mayor de Blasio has been very nice. He understands what we've given him. We brought him some more ventilators too yesterday, but nobody has been given like New York, and I think -- I know he appreciates it, he just can't quite get the words out, but that's OK.", "So when he says -- but when he says that he needs 40,000 --", "Please, go ahead.", "Come back to Dr. Fauci's comments --", "To which one?", "Dr. Fauci's comments on mitigation. On the reproductive value of the virus, the WHO had it, I think, 2 to 2.6. Others had it a percentage point or two higher. Do we have a new number now based on those mitigation techniques? Have we managed to bring it down?", "Well, Deb, I think you should answer that, Dr. Birx, please. Yes, sure. Go ahead.", "You know, it's an excellent question, and it's why all of the modelers and I really want to thank them again, they're reevaluating all of their models in light of the level of the impact of the mitigation. Remember, none of us had really been through this before. So when we modeled school closures and distancing, and staying at home and all of these pieces, that had never really come into the model before. They're working on that very diligently now. Of course, just to be clear, we won't know how valid the models are until we move all the way through the epidemic. What we're triangulating right now, and instead of working on R0, we're looking at testing and triangulating testing, test positive cases, hospitalizations, ICUs and the whole -- and the, of course, the recoveries because that's also very important to us. I think it's very important that the American people know that there are equal number of states with less than 5 percent positives, despite high levels of testing. So there are states that are mitigating and making this work. They're also the states that you know of, the 18 states that have the larger outbreaks, and we're watching them very carefully, triangulating for them all of the information to ensure that clients who come to the hospital are cared for. And then, there are states in the middle that we're trying to figure out, are they changing or not? Each of those states and each of those epidemics within those states may have a different R value, and that is what we're trying to figure out and it -- it's very, variable on each of these factors. But the bottom line is, and I think going into this weekend, it's really important for the American people to know this -- Spain and Italy are moving through this. They are seeing their number of cases drop. They're seeing the number of people in hospitals drop. We are about, on our models, and on the actual data, about 12 days behind them. At the same time, we see, in the United States, really good case studies of the impact at Washington state, of California, and then a series of smaller states where we're trying to learn from them how to do surveillance and with these new HHS Abbott ID NOW kits, and I just want to thank Admiral Giroir for getting them out, being able to look at testing in a more comprehensive way so we can be doing surveillance and mitigation simultaneously so we can answer that very question. It's going to be very difficult to answer at this moment, across the United States, because each metro cluster is on a different pathway as they move through -- move through the epidemic, and I think we just really ought to emphasize, through. Because we see Italy, we see Spain moving through, and we hope to be in that same position. At the same time, as the president said, he's concerned about every single person that is succumbing to this virus. We all are. That's why we're making sure that in this triangulation, they're tracking minute by minute -- when we say FEMA and HHS is tracking minute by minute the ventilator, hospital, and ICU bed need, that's exactly what's happening. And also being flexible and responsive -- to have DOD take a thousand healthcare providers out of their Medical Corps is a very big deal. I was in the Medical Corps for 29 years. We never did that. So, this is saying, we respect and understand the importance and value of the American lives and doing that, but the R values will be variable by state.", "A week ago, we were talking about county --", "Before I do that, you had breaking news last night. You know that. You saw that, where I think the probable presidential candidate for the Democrats will be Joe Biden, and he agreed that I was correct when I stopped people from China very early, very, very early, from coming into our country. And Dr. Fauci said that was a very big moment because it would be a much different picture we have right now had we allowed thousands and thousands of people from a specific area -- I don't have to go into it -- from China to come in highly infected. It would have been a very different thing. The other thing -- so, I appreciate the fact that he did, because I was called xenophobic, racist, I was called many things when I did that very early. And I got a lot of credit for it in \"The Federalist\" because \"The Federalist\" covered the whole journey and they said Trump was -- I didn't speak to the author, respected author. They said, Trump was right at every single move and on top of that, he was going through a fake impeachment, a hoax. I was going through a hoax when I made the decision. And that does take a little time, and certainly a little thinking time. But I appreciated the fact that Joe Biden announced last night that he now agrees that I was correct. You saw the report come out that I was correct when I stopped people from China coming in at a very early stage.", "Mr. President, can you talk about Captain Crozier of the", "Which one? What?", "Captain Crozier that was removed, the captain that was removed as the commander of USS Roosevelt.", "Yes.", "I don't know if you saw the videos of sailors cheering for him as he left. Our reporting shows that some sailors have said that they are worried to reenlist because they are not convinced that commanders are taking care of their health and taking care of them.", "Yes.", "What do you say to that?", "Well, I don't know much about it. I can only tell you this. Here we have one of the greatest, here we have one of the greatest ships in the world, nuclear aircraft carrier, incredible ship, with thousands and thousands of people, and you had about 120 that were infected. Now, I guess the captain stopped in Vietnam and people got off in Vietnam. Perhaps you don't do that in the middle of a pandemic or something that looked like he was going to be, you know, history would say you don't necessarily stop and let your sailors get off, number one. But more importantly, he wrote a letter. The letter was a five-page letter from a captain, and the letter was all over the place. That's not appropriate. I don't think that's appropriate. And these are tough people. These are tough, strong people. I thought it looked terrible, to be honest with you. Now, they made their decision. I didn't make the decision. Secretary of Defense was involved. And a lot of people were involved. I thought it was terrible what he did, to write a letter. I mean, this isn't a class on literature. This is a captain of a massive ship that's nuclear powered, and he shouldn't be talking that way in a letter. He could call and ask and suggest. But he stopped in Vietnam, a lot of people got off the boat, they came back, and they had infection. And I thought it was inappropriate for the captain of a ship to --", "I don't want -- I don't want to comment as to whether or not, but I agree with their decision 100 percent. In the back, please?", "Joe Biden actually just attacked you in a tweet. I don't know if you have seen it.", "He just what?", "Attacked you. He just said --", "Well, he didn't write anything. Look, he has people -- he has professionals from the Democrats writing.", "Mr. President, let me just read what he said. He said, Donald Trump is not responsible for the coronavirus, but he is responsible for failing to prepare our nation to respond to it. How do you respond to that, sir?", "OK, he didn't write that. That was done by a Democrat operative. He doesn't write. He doesn't -- he's probably not even watching right now. And if he is, he doesn't understand what he's watching. But just so you understand, it was very nice what they wrote. I don't know -- you know, they released it at a strange time, you know? Sort of a strange time to release something like that, but he admitted I was right. And if you read \"The Federalist\" story, which most of you won't, because you don't want to, but you'd learn something because if you go -- it goes through a chart, time. I was early. Dr. Fauci, I think -- I don't think he's changed his mind but he said it was a very important step when we stopped China from coming in, from the specific area that was heavily infected. We'd have a whole different thing right now. So, I don't really know what Joe Biden said. I don't really care. And again, I see every once in a while, I'll say something, I'll make a speech, and then it will be critiqued and I get this beautiful, brilliant critique. Joe Biden didn't write that. Joe Biden didn't write that. He wished he did but he didn't. Go ahead, please. Back.", "Sir, I wanted to ask Dr. Fauci a quick question. China has warned over a resurgence of the virus. Has the U.S. developed a plan if, in fact, a second wave of the virus does, in fact, occur here in the country?", "Yes, we do. I mean, one of the things that obviously is parallel with thinking about the possibility, as I mentioned a little while ago, about mitigation, allowing us to turn the corner, very much on the front burner is what happens when we do because the risk of there being a resurgence is real. So what we need to do, and I believe I said this before, but it's worth repeating, that what we need to have in place, and we will have that in place, is that as you then pull back, you have to have the capability of, in a very pristine, precise way, do the kind of containment when you do see it. Because remember, when you get to mitigation, containment takes the backseat because you're just struggling to mitigate. But when you get it down, you need to make sure it doesn't resurge. That will require the ability to test, to identify, to isolate, and to do contact tracing. That's what we have to have in place and hopefully we will at the time that we then pull back.", "A question for Dr. Hahn from FDA. You mentioned the plasma, sir. So these are -- plasma from people that that were infected that now either recovered or are doing well enough and they're transferring it to family members? Can you walk us through if that's working and is it a case by case basis from hospitals? What are the results from that? I was not familiar with that.", "So, this is a situation where someone who's recovered from the virus doesn't have the virus in their system at all, you can take plasma. And this is a pretty routine procedure, you can actually donate a couple times a week, a couple of times a months, frankly, and give that plasma. That plasma contains the proteins in the blood that have the antibodies against the virus. You can take that, process it and then give it to someone who's ill. And so that allows you to transfer that immunity. It doesn't have to be matched by family or anything like that. Since last Tuesday, the Tuesday before last, we've allowed academic centers and other laboratories and hospitals around the country to do this on a compassionate use basis. What we did was we pulled this together in what's called an expanded access program and run it through the Red Cross because they've got the greatest system and capacity for doing this and this allows us to scale up so that when people get sick, we can actually have these donated plasma packs given to the patients who are sick.", "So are people -- do people need to be donating plasma? Some of us don't know if we've had it and recovered. What should people be doing?", "So, we've started with the Red Cross in this program. We made an announcement yesterday. We are planning to scale that up and have more information this week, because we want to make sure we have the systems in place. It's a superb question.", "Thank you.", "Go ahead.", "Mr. President, can you clarify the situation with 3M right now? Germany said that it was an act of piracy that 200,000 masks were apparently diverted from Thailand to the United States instead of to Berlin. Is that miscommunication -- did that actually happen, and should 3M be fulfilling contracts --", "We're very disappointed in 3M. They should be taking care of our country, and they can sell to others. But they should be taking our -- care of our country. The people that have dealt with them have dealt successfully with many companies over the last month. They don't like the way 3M has treated our country. They don't, frankly, like the representatives of 3M. And no act of prior (ph) -- you said piracy, right? Piracy?", "(Inaudible.)", "There's been no act of piracy. No. There's been no act of piracy. It's the opposite. 3M has not treated our country well. And if they do, great. And if they don't, they're going to have a hell of a price to pay. OK?", "I say it that way. And I watched him on television, on something, talking about how this could be so hard to believe, so hard to fathom. They ought to get their act together. Because I got involved and I looked at what happened. And they have not -- 3M has not treated our country well.", "Can you just clarify about that German order? (Inaudible.)", "Go ahead, please.", "Was that diverted, sir, or was that (inaudible).", "We'll get you the information.", "And (inaudible) for Dr. Fauci. I was wondering about what you're seeing as far as new (ph) patients in regards in coronavirus. I know the President mentioned this earlier, but what does the medicine say.", "What is the question? Is that -- what is the incidence of coronavirus?", "Yes. If you have lupus, do you have a greater chance of getting coronavirus?", "Yes. Yes. There's -- right now, this is being looked at in a natural history study. We don't have any definitive information to be able to make any comment that that -- it's an obvious good question, because it might be a way for us to get some interesting and potentially important data as to the role of those medications. But that's something that is now being looked at. But we don't have any data to be able to say anything definitively.", "(Inaudible.) tell me about --", "(Inaudible.)", "And I hope they use the hydroxychloroquine. And they could also do it with Z-pak, subject to your doctor's approval, and all of that. But I hope they use it because, I'll tell you what. What do you have to lose? In some cases, they're in bad shape. What do you have to lose? It's been out there for a long time. And I hope they use it. And they're going to look at the -- with doctors, work with doctors, get what you have to get. But we have it stockpiled and it's -- we have a lot of it. And we're getting more of it. And I told you, I spoke to Prime Minister Modi. We're getting more of it. But we have a lot of it. And I hope they use it, because it's been used for a long time. And therefore, it's passed the safety test. FDA has been terrific. Dr. Hahn, I appreciated very much, too. But I've seen some results. Now, it's early, I guess, it's early. But -- and you should -- they should look at the lupus thing. I don't know what it says, but there -- there's a rumor out there that -- because it takes care of lupus very effectively, as I understand. And it's, you know, a drug that's used for lupus. So, there's a study out there that says people that have lupus haven't been catching this virus. You know. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not. Why don't you investigate that? And there's also other studies. You know, with the malaria, that the malaria countries have very little people that take this drug for malaria, which is very effective for malaria, that those countries have very little of this virus. I don't know. You're going to check it out. But I think people should -- if it were me -- in fact, I might do it anyway. I may take it, OK? I may take it. And I'll have to ask my doctors about that. But I may take it. Yes, please, go ahead.", "Mr. President, the last -- lastly (ph), the last couple days you've been really optimistic about Russia and Saudi Arabia coming together on a deal on oil. But in the last 24 hours, the OPEC (inaudible) has been pushed back, but trade (ph) (inaudible).", "Well, OPEC can do whatever -- look, I've been against OPEC all my life, because, what is it? It's an illegal-- you could call it a cartel. You could call it a monopoly, you -- a lot of different names for it. But it broke down very violently, very violently. So, I don't care about OPEC. I really don't. I couldn't care less about OPEC.", "Are you going to --", "OK? Yes, ma'am. Go ahead.", "Yes. You tweeted a little while ago about how sad it is for kids. They don't have Little League right now. But I'm wondering if you're willing to share about your youngest son and how he's dealing with life in sheltering in place, not going to school, no sports.", "Well, he's a good athlete, and he loves soccer. And he's like everyone else. I mean, everything is shut down. He's in his room. He's happy. But he's not as happy as he could be. He'd like to be playing sports. Barron. And let's see what happens. But we have to get back. We have to get back. Remember that. We have to get back. And we have to get back soon. OK?", "On the -- on the jobs reports numbers that --", "Do you guys ever stop? Do you want to keep going for a little while? Huh? I mean, do you ever stop? How many times you ask -- and in many cases it's the same. Actually, a lot of good questions. Go ahead.", "In the jobs report --", "But keep going, yes?", "Yes, sir.", "So, you're not going to blame me, that I kept it going too long? People said, \"Oh, he kept--\" -- every time you'll ask it --", "(Inaudible.)", "--no. I mean, no, it's amazing. Tony (ph). Every hand went up. I thought we'd gone through the -- every -- I think every single hand went up the last time.", "(Inaudible.)", "You know what it shows you? It shows you that you love what you do. Go ahead.", "We do love what we do, sir.", "You do. No, you do. And some of you do it well. Not all of you. Go ahead. I'm not looking at you, by the way.", "(Inaudible) get the jobs reports numbers yesterday. Obviously, that's kind of a small portion because it's only the first half of March. Was there anything in there that was any sign of optimism? Obviously, we all saw the numbers. You know, down in retail, down in hospitality. Was there anything that you said, \"OK, maybe with this virus, we will see some sort of net gain,\" or something?", "Look. The job numbers are what they are. We asked everybody to go home. Don't work. So, the numbers are going to be, you know, astronomical. We understand that. I understood that. I know somebody said the mee (ph) -- the numbers are meaningless, and then they took that to mean, \"Oh, jobs don't mean anything.\" And, you know, it was just another fake news story. It wasn't me that said it, by the way. It was a very smart person, but they meant it by saying it really is what -- that's why I answered your question very carefully. The numbers are what they are. We know the numbers were going to be massive, because we told everybody to go home and lock your door, essentially, right? Don't come to work. you can't come to work. Don't go outside. Don't breathe. Don't do anything. We're going to open up our country. But I know -- I know that it's coming back. And in my opinion, it will come back very strong. There's a tremendous energy. There's a tremendous demand. And some good things have happened. I mean, I don't know, you know. There's one habit that, as you know, most of you -- a lot of you have covered me a long time before I did this. I was never a big believer in shaking hands. But I decided if you don't shake hands, you're not going to be winning a lot of contests. What (ph) right now, I'm not sure you have to shake hands anymore. A couple of people have told me -- Debbie (ph), you told me, that if we didn't shake hands, the incidence of flu -- flu is a big deal also. And that flu might be cut down in half. Who knew that shaking hands was such a bad thing? I felt it. I mean, I always felt it. And, you know, I was never to a point where I can't shake somebody's hand. I knew people like that, too, but there weren't too many of them. But when I ran for office, all of a sudden, I'm shaking hundreds of hands. And if I don't, I wouldn't even be standing here. But I think that's a custom that maybe people don't have to -- we have to get close together. We have to sit together at the stadiums. We have to sit next to each other in restaurants. All that stuff is going to happen. But I think the concept of shaking hands, maybe, is something that's going to be a little bit from the past. Let's see what happens. Maybe they'll go right back to shaking hands.", "(Inaudible) about that.", "Good.", "Is there anything you want people to do to show their support -- especially, we have two doctors up there, to show their support for the medical community? Is there something that -- we've seen people clapping when nurses leave --", "Well, we've seen a lot of that. You might say something there (ph). I have seen such support. I saw this morning where everyone's (ph) -- they're clapping for Fire Department. They're clapping for peace (ph). But they are really -- these people are -- you know what they're like? They're like -- they're like warriors. They're like warriors. They were going into Elmhurst Hospital, which has been tragic, right near where I grew up in Queens. Going in, and the people in buildings, there's going -- I mean, they're the rock stars. They're warriors. Nurses, doctors, first responders, what they're going through. And they don't even know what's going to happen. I mean, to go in. and, by the way, even if they have great equipment, they're catching it. You know, great equipment. They have good equipment, they catch it. They catch it with good, with bad. It is evil. But, Tony, you might say something. And, Mike, you may say something about that.", "Yes. I'm glad you brought up that question, because I don't think people can really fully appreciate the extraordinary effort of these people. I mean, it's amazing. I -- you know, I did all of my medical training in New York City, in a big, busy New York City hospital, at a time when it was just what you normally see in a hospital. I came to NIH, and I spent about five to eight years in the very early years of the AIDS epidemic, which was just the darkest years of my life, because almost every single one of my patients died. And yet, as we knew, epidemiologically, that there was very little risk -- it was a small risk, but very little risk of getting infected from a patient, to see now what these brave warriors are doing in the hospitals, not only giving life-saving treatment to people, but every single day putting themselves at risks for themselves and their family. I just think that the American public owe a phenomenal debt of gratitude for these people.", "I (inaudible) show that.", "And they should just salute them at every -- every way you can. You know, when we were at war, and at the height of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, when you were at an airport and you'd see somebody with a uniform come buy, everybody would do that. I think that's what we should do when we see healthcare workers, just applaud them.", "Pretty much what's happening. Mike, please.", "The stories are incredibly moving about what healthcare workers are doing every day. It's not just that they're going back into the hospital in places like New York and New Jersey, earlier than that in Washington state and California where this first began. It's not just that they're providing care to people but, because of the nature of how contagious the coronavirus is, they're also supplementing for family. I mean, that's what -- that's what gets to me. When I hear the stories that, understandably, in nursing homes and in hospitals, they're restricting visitors, and they should, to prevent the spread of the virus, to be brought into the hospital or to be brought out. And so, to hear the stories of healthcare workers who are holding up an iPhone while someone who is critically ill with the coronavirus may well be saying their last good-byes to their family. And then to be there in those moments. I mean, our healthcare workers are -- they're not just doctors and nurses today. They're supplementing for family, for people all across the country. And I just think -- tomorrow's Palm Sunday. It's Holy Week in the great Christian tradition. And I have people ask me from time to time, send me an e-mail, or on the many conference calls that we have, they say, \"What can we be praying about?\" And my first thought is with the families who have lost loved ones, and the patients who are struggling with coronavirus. But during this very special week, I just encourage people to pray for our healthcare workers. Pray for them and their families. They are really the hands and feet every day, not just of healthcare, but at the heart of the American people. And we are all grateful for them, every hour of the day.", "Thank you.", "And think, also, about the Army Corps of Engineers. That's a little different, depending on where they are and where they're working. But the Army Corps of Engineers, throwing up a hospital in New York City, 2,500 beds in three days? I mean, think of that. And FEMA, what they're doing. And the National Guard is now delivering for the states, because the states were unable to get -- we'd drop it at a big warehouse where we're told to drop it. And the states were unable to -- some of the states were unable to bring it from the warehouse to the site. So, we got the National Guard to become a delivery service, if you can believe it. And they would bring it -- and some of those sites were dangerous sites. There were very dangerous sites. Think of that. It's been amazing. It's been amazing. I just think -- I've never seen anything like it. I'm so proud of this country. And -- and, really, it's a world problem. And some -- some countries in the world are just handling it so well. You know, again, I keep saying, it's 151. That was as of two, three days ago. It's probably more. Some people said they didn't know there were that many countries. That's how big this is. And Mike said something else, so -- you have Palm Sunday tomorrow. Think of it. We're not going to churches on Palm Sunday. But think of next Sunday, Easter. And I brought it up before. I said maybe we could allow special for churches. Maybe we could talk about it. Maybe we could allow them, with great separation, outside on Easter Sunday. I don't know. It's something we -- we should talk about. But somebody did say that, well, then you're, sort of, opening it up to that little, you know, do we want to take a chance on doing that when we've been doing so well? But Easter Sunday -- Palm Sunday, I'm going to be watching tomorrow, live from Riverside, California, great church. But I'm going to be watching on a computer, right, on a laptop. I think, on Easter, maybe I'll be watching from a laptop as opposed -- so how sad is it that we have Easter Palm and Easter Sunday, and people are watching on laptops and computers. It's sad. But -- but the job that this whole country has done is amazing. But I'll say this. Our medical professionals, what they have done, because they are -- they walk into those hospitals, you see them putting on their gear and they're putting it on as they're walking through the front doors. And some of those people are going to die. They're going to die. You know, it's, like, incredible. And we can say what we want, Tony and Deb, about young and medium-aged and plenty of those people dying, too. You know, it's -- it generally hits the older people where they have problems. It hits young people, too, and it hits middle-aged people, too. But these people are walking into hospitals. And I watch -- I can't -- I think it's -- it's incredible. And they're putting their outfit -- they're getting into -- and they're going in, they're going -- it's like -- it's like a -- it's like a war. Again, there's never been anything so contagious as this. In -- in 1917, it was vicious if you got it, but it wasn't contagious like this. Now, in 1917, had they had the Internet and all the means of communication, they could have practiced distancing, you know. By the time people started thinking in terms -- in those terms, they lost, I guess, 75 to 100 million people. So that's modern -- you know, that's a modern-day great thing that happened. Please?", "Yeah, just on antibodies, to what extent do you think that you can use antibody tests to determine who can go back to work and how quickly?", "Well, I don't know. I'd rather leave that to the doctor. Doctor, do you have an answer to that?", "We think it will be tool for (OFF-MIKE)", "We think it will be a tool to help us get people back to work. It will be additional information. Because, as you know, if you have an antibody, that means you were exposed and have recovered from it. That, with the information about diagnosis, should help.", "But how quickly can you scale up this testing to determine on a large scale how many people can go back to work and have these antibodies?", "So, as you know, a couple weeks ago, we provided a great deal of regulatory flexibility around this. A lot of great developers have been working on this. Dr. Birx put a call out to the academic labs around the country to do this, and we've been working very closely with a number of manufacturers. So we think that it can be scaled up relatively quickly.", "Mr. President? Mr. President, a question for Dr. Fauci. In a recent interview, you had said that you knew the 15-day guidance would not be enough. I wanted to ask your confidence level about the 30-day guidance and whether it will be enough?", "You know, it's tough to talk about levels of confidence, but I can tell you one thing that I feel strongly, that if we do, in a very proactive way, what I said in my opening comments, and people literally across the country as a baseline have that physical separation, and as we've mentioned up here, there will be varying degrees of that depending upon whether you're in New York City or you're in a place that's less. But every place, everybody should be doing some degree of this physical separation. If we do that, again, I have confidence that what we will see is the turning around of the curve. Whether or not it will be all the way down where we want, it's impossible to say. I would be -- I would be foolish to say that. But the one thing I am confident in -- so let's take this to the bank, that mitigation works. So, it does. We've seen it in other countries. We've seen it in our own country. And that's the reason why I keep coming up at every chance I get to plead with the American people to please take a look at those guidelines that the vice president keeps putting up with his chart. Because every single one of those points has something to do with physical separation.", "And mitigation does work. But again, we're not going to destroy our country. We have to get back. Because, you know, at a certain point, you'll lose more people this way through all of the problems caused than you will with what we're doing right now. What we're doing right now, I think it's going to be very successful.", "(inaudible)", "But you know what? I don't know. We're going to -- we have a big decision to make at a certain point. OK? We have a big decision to make. We went this extra period of time, but I said it from the beginning, the cure cannot be worse than the problem itself. And we cannot let that happen. We have an incredible country. We were having the greatest period in our country's history from an economic standpoint and in many other ways. We cannot let this continue. So, at a certain point, some hard decisions are going to have to be made. Go ahead.", "Mr. President, ventilator manufacturers are doubling, tripling, even quadrupling their production, in some cases.", "That's true.", "And yet, medical experts and some of these manufacturers are predicting that there will still be shortages of tens of thousands of ventilators. Is it time for you to level with the American public that there likely will be shortages of ventilators in some cases?", "Could be. I mean, it could be you have shortages, and it could also be that you have some that have way overestimated the number of ventilators they need. We think that, you know, we have a good -- a good amount ready to move. I mean, literally, like an army, they're ready to move to any hot spot. But some of the ones that you're talking about -- always a nasty question from CNN, but some of the ones--", "Why is it a nasty question?", "Yeah, because I think that, frankly, you know--", "Should Americans know--", "Because you know what? You've asked that question about 10 times over the course of about a month. Look, we're mobilized and ready to go. We have a lot of ventilators ready to go, and if we had given them all out, we wouldn't. And you would be overstocked in many areas. What we're doing is we have a very good plan to take from some areas, even though we have the 10 -- or almost the 10,000, we're also taking from areas that won't be as badly hit as today we think they will be. There will be some areas hit harder than we think. And there's nothing that Deborah or Tony or any of these professionals can do about it. This thing moves in a lot of ways. But what we're going to do is we are going to have, as -- and you look at us compared to a lot of other countries, we're in much better shape. But these professionals have done an amazing job. Now, over the next week, and two weeks, it's going to be a very, very deadly period, unfortunately. But we're going to make it so that we lose as few lives as possible. And I think we're going to be successful. I think we already are successful in that regard. When you look at that graph, and you see all of the -- the bumps, if you want to call it, at a very low level, and you see a couple at a higher level -- they were tough -- but you see all of those levels, you know, when you look -- and when you hear about Italy and then you hear about France and then you hear about -- you know what we have, is we have many Italys all over. We have -- they're like countries. California's a country; New York is a country -- if you look at them from the standpoint of what we're talking about. We have many, like, country spots. Some are hot spots. And there's nothing we're going to do about it. One of the biggest surprises is Louisiana, because it started off so good and then all of a sudden it shot up like a rocket. But we are going to try and have ventilators wherever we possibly can.", "Jeff, go ahead.", "Despite the Herculean effort of some of these companies to ramp up production as fast as possible, it still won't be enough.", "Well, New York wanted 40,000 ventilators, OK, 40,000. Think of what 40,000 is. It's like cars. It's a big project; it's an expensive product. I mean, some of them are $50,000 apiece. I saw one the other day, $55,000. That was before they started playing the games with supply and demand, OK? Some are very, very -- you'd call them luxury. Some are not. But frankly, these are very expensive products. These are very high-tech projects and products, and they take a period of time. We have thousands of them being built right now. Some will be ready. And we're going to have extra. And we'll keep them at hospitals. But a lot of hospitals -- a lot of states had the chance of getting ventilators and they turned those ventilators down for -- so they could spend their money on something else. And in a way, I understand that because who thinks a thing like this -- it's not -- it's not a knock. If I'm told, like, perhaps, New York, you can spend $1 billion on ventilators and get 16,000 or a massive number of ventilators that they've been offered over the years. Or you can build a new bridge or road or something, I mean, I understand how that works. I'm not blaming anybody. I'm just saying a lot of the states had chances of stockpiling a lot of ventilators. They didn't do it. And I think we're doing a very good job in helping them out. Please, Jeff?", "Mr. President--", "And it's a very fair question. I understand that question very well. Yeah?", "Just to follow up on what you and the others have been saying today about it being a deadly week or two coming, can you give us a sense of, perhaps Dr. Birx, of what that means, numerically?", "Sure. I'd like to ask also -- I'd like to say we know pretty much the line of attack. We know the numbers -- the numbers are the numbers. They seem to be checking out, unfortunately, or in some cases, you know, they're on the low side, which we're very happy. We want to keep them on the very low side, and that's where we're headed. And I think that's, maybe, where we're headed. But I'd like to ask, maybe, you and Tony, what are -- where is the -- where is the week or the number of days of greatest attack? What will be our worst day, if that's possible to determine? I think that's what you're asking, right?", "And -- and how many deaths, exactly, are you expecting?", "So, as you can look in the places that are the most difficult hit right now, the Detroit area, the New York area, the Louisiana area, and we are doing it by the counties in those states, because there are -- mostly it's metro areas and the bedroom communities around those metro areas, because people went to work and got exposed and came home and exposed others. If you look out in New York now, you see that it's in Long Island and it's out in Suffolk County and Nassau County. All of those counties, Wayne and Oakland, they're all on the upside of their curve of mortality. So, you know when you get to the peak, you come down the other side.", "And when will that peak be?", "So, by the predictions that are in that healthdata.org, they're predicting, in those three hot spots, all of them hitting together in the next six to seven days.", "Are you thinking tens of thousands of deaths in that period of time?", "You can go to the website. It's variable. Each one of those communities is different. But you know where New York is, how much their mortality has been. And you know -- what we're seeing today are the people who were infected two or three weeks ago. If mitigation in New York worked -- and we believe it is working -- the cases are going to start to go down. But the mortality will be a lag behind that, because of the co-morbidities and other conditions. So that's why all of the predictions are that this next week -- and I think we said this last Sunday when we talked about the charts. And it's difficult to -- and we tried to prepare the American people to understand that you have to -- as much as you go up, you have to come down the other side, because coming down is a reflection of the cases that were coming in before.", "Would you rather not say a number?", "I'd rather not say a number, but the numbers are available if you go to the website. I mean, you can see that there are several hundreds per day in New York. And I think Governor Cuomo has talked about that increasing still into the five, six, 700 range a day. So, you know, that's very concerning to us. We, again, applaud the health care workers who are doing every single thing humanly possible to save more lives. And we are ensuring, on a ventilator by ventilator, day by day, to get them there so that we can say and we can be there when they need it. Because we are supposed to be that group that comes in after all other resources are exhausted. And we really applaud what Oregon did, and we really applaud what the governor is doing about moving between the states, between the different counties, to bring them to New York. Because that's what's needed today. A different place will be needed tomorrow.", "You mentioned -- just to follow up on something apparently you said yesterday, that you had some concerns about Pennsylvania, Colorado and Washington, D.C. Could you expand on that?", "We're watching them because they are starting to go on that upside of the curve. We're hoping and believing that, if people mitigate strongly, the work that they did over the last two weeks will blunt that curve and they won't have the same upwards slope and peak that New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and part of Rhode Island are having. So this is a very important -- the next two weeks are extraordinarily important, and that's why I think you've heard from Dr. Fauci, from myself, from the president and the vice president, that this is the moment to do everything that you can on the presidential guidelines. This is the moment to not to be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe, and that everybody doing the six-feet distancing washing your hands.", "I mean, ditto to everything that Dr. Brix said, but also to emphasize why it's so important to do that because we're looking at three or four really key hot spots that are still going up - it's absolutely essential that the ones that are down at that lower level, that Dr. Birx showed the other day, those communities where they're still going up, we've got to make sure we don't have multiple waves of peaks. That's going to be the answer to the question of when we can start pulling back, because if you keep having multiple peaks, and different waves, that's going to make it very difficult.", "(Inaudible).", "Put your foot on the - exactly what I said, just before, and I keep repeating. Just make sure everybody does at least the minimal amount of that physical separation, because the virus has no place to go if you're physically separated.", "And one of the reasons that I keep talking about hydroxychloroquine, is that the question never asks, and the question that I most hate the answer to, is, what happens if you do have a ventilator, what are your chances? And I just hope that, hydroxychloroquine wins, coupled with, perhaps, the Z-pak as we call it, dependent totally on your doctors and the doctors there, because you know the answer to that question. If you do have the ventilator, you know the answer to that question. And I hate giving the answer, so I don't want to get them there - I don't want to get them there. There's a possibility - a possibility, and I say it, what do you have to lose, I'll say it again, what do you have to lose, take it, I really think they should take it, but it's their choice, and it's the doctor's choice, or the doctors in the hospital, but hydroxychloroquine, try it, if you like. If you have a heart condition, I understand, probably you stay away from the Z-pak, but that's an antibiotic, it can clean out the lungs, the lungs are a point of attack for this horrible virus. But when you have a ventilator, don't ask the answer, because I hate it. If you have it, and it's working beautifully, I don't like the answer because it's not a very high percentage. So, I want to keep them out of ventilators. I want to keep them, if this drug works, it will be - not a game changer - because that's not a nice enough term, it will be wonderful, it will be so beautiful. It will be a gift from heaven if it works. Because when people go into those ventilators, you know the answers, I know the answers, and I'm glad you don't write about it. Mike, please?", "Well you've heard from the experts what our task force has heard, that it's going to be a difficult week for the American people. That you will see testing increase around the country and so cases are going to continue to rise across America, and before I give a few facts relative to an earlier question about ventilators, let me add my voice to what the president just said and what all the physicians who've spoken have said. Even though we see the losses rising, in the days ahead, do not be discouraged, because there's evidence across the country that Americans have been putting the social distancing and mitigation into practice, and it is making a difference. We are seeing it in the new cases that are being reported because, remember, people - families that experience loss, up to this day and into the next week, have a loved one who contracted the coronavirus - in most cases - more than two weeks ago, in many cases, before social distancing and mitigation efforts were put into effect. And so, we want to encourage you, believe in the president's coronavirus guidelines for America. Go to coronavirus.gov, print them off again, put them on the refrigerator and remind yourself and put them into practice. On the subject of ventilators, if I can amplify the point the president made -- our team at FEMA is doing a remarkable job working with governors, state health officials, and local hospitals particularly focused on our priority areas. We would prefer the New York metro area, which includes New Jersey and Connecticut. We're focused on the New Orleans metro area and Louisiana. We're focusing on Detroit. We're focusing on Chicago. These are the areas where we see the significant rise in cases. And we are -- we are surging supplies, specifically ventilators, but all personal protective equipment from FEMA to those areas. And just to give you a couple of examples, I spoke to governors in New York, New Jersey, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan and Maryland today alone. And in those cases, Governor Cuomo is actually assessing all the available ventilators. We sent 4,400 ventilators already to New York. As has already been referenced, they're going to receive a shipment of over 1,000 from overseas. And allow me to say as I told personally today, the governor of Oregon, Governor Kate Brown, her unilateral decision to send 140 ventilators because Oregon -- they felt Oregon today is in a place where they could give those ventilators to New York to me was in the very highest tradition in loving your neighbor. And when I talked to Governor Cuomo, Mr. President, he told me they never asked Oregon for the ventilators, and Governor Brown hadn't even called him to tell him she was doing that. It really is remarkable. When I talked to Governor Hogan today and when the president and I will be speaking to all of America's governors again, I told him how inspired I was and how we ought to spread to other governors in areas where they can -- where they can spare resources to be joining with us at the federal level and providing them to states at the point of the need. But just a few for instances, as we track New Jersey, as I told Governor Phil Murphy, we deployed 200 ventilators to New Jersey today. Louisiana, we're monitoring literally hour by hour what's taking place in New Orleans with some encouraging news but still great challenges. Yesterday, you heard the president say that we've deployed 330,000 gowns that have been delivered to the public health systems and hospitals there, 200 ventilators. I spoke to Governor Charlie Baker today and was able to inform him we're watching Boston area very closely, 100 ventilators are deploying today. I spoke to Governor Gretchen Whitmer today. Detroit is experiencing a significant number of cases. We're watching it carefully, and today, FEMA directed 300 ventilators to Michigan. Again, as the president said, we're all working our hearts out. What I want to say to American families, and what I want to say to health care workers is that we are going to identify the resources, leave no stone unturned, and we are going to -- we are going to focus resources on those areas in the order that they emerge. Now, the last thought is back on mitigation. We are hoping that we do not see other major cities in the country experience what Seattle experienced, what greater New York City areas are experiencing, what New Orleans is experiencing. And that's all in the hands of the American people today. So, I just want to encourage -- again (ph), coronavirus.gov. Put into practice the president's coronavirus guidelines, and you will do your part to save lives, protect the American people and ensure that we will have the resources to meet this moment wherever the need should arise.", "Mr. President, you said earlier the SBA loan program got money yesterday, but we're hearing from a lot of small business owners, a lot of concerns of whether they will get this money. Some say -- some of the banks weren't ready yesterday to start processing loans and some banks were --", "We're way ahead of schedule. The banks have been great. JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, they're so far ahead. This is typical with you in particular. We're either behind with -- they're not behind. It's been a flawless -- it's been flawless so far, far beyond our expectations. You should say -- I hear you're doing well but maybe -- I don't even hear of any glitch. They've done billions of dollars of loans to small business, and these are great loans. These are loans that get immediately paid off. These are loans that get businesses back. I wish you could ask a question where something's working so well. Now, maybe things won't work well and I don't mind that kind (ph). But when something is working so well and you ask that question in such a negative way. It's doing great. Yes, go ahead.", "It's doing great. Really good. Maybe it won't in two weeks, and I'll respond differently, but it's doing great. You know it and so does everyone else. Everyone's shocked how well it's doing.", "Who did?", "Dr. Birx.", "Yes.", "Some demographics such as seeing men might be more susceptible to the virus, seeing in Europe more cases among -- between 30 and 50. Has the data that you've seen in the past two weeks changed that assessment? Are men more susceptible?", "I don't think it's changed much, has it?", "Yes, same pattern as Europe.", "Same pattern, same answer that we've given you for the last month.", "--", "No, I -- tomorrow, I'll bring you all the graphs back, so you can see it.", "We can bring enough, any graph but it's very similar. Yes?", "Mr. President, a few days ago, you talked about possibly restricting flights from hotspots. Where are you on that?", "We're looking at it very seriously. Right now, we're dealing with governors. We're dealing with airlines. We're dealing with a lot of different factors. That's a very difficult decision. We're also testing, getting into planes, very strong testing. States are doing testing on people that leave planes because they don't want to have people coming in who are infected. So, understanding that and the level of testing has been enormous, OK? And some states are saying you have to go on quarantine for two weeks if you come from certain areas. So, knowing that, we're working with the governors.", "Mr. President, what kind of tests -- when you say testing, do you mean domestic travel or people coming in from other countries?", "Both, both. Some states are doing -- when they land, they're doing very strong, very powerful testing. Please go ahead.", "Some airlines, sir, and they say they don't know what you're talking about.", "OK, well, you check up again.", "One last question on ventilators.", "Governments are doing it, too. Our government. Go ahead.", "One last question on ventilators. The governor of New York said that he received donation in ventilators from Jack Ma of Alibaba, which I think is your friend. Would you call on the business community to donate ventilators not necessarily to New York but other states like Louisiana?", "No, Jack Ma, he's a friend of mine and he's made it very possible to get about a thousand ventilators from China, but that was from him and my other friend. That was really a gift, and we appreciate it very much. It was very nice of them. All right, I think we've had a enough. We'll be seeing you very soon. And I'm sure that -- you know, that all of us are going to be working very hard. We're working very hard. We are really coming up to a time that's going to be very horrendous. Probably a time we haven't seen in this country, wouldn't say? I mean, I don't think we've seen a time like this in the country, and we're getting to that point where there's going to be -- some very bad numbers. We want to keep those numbers a lot lower than they would have been, and we will do that. We have tremendous talent working, we have tremendous people, and that includes governors, that includes everybody. Everybody is working. But, unfortunately, we're getting to that time when the numbers are going to peak and it's not going to be a good looking situation. I really believe we probably have never seen anything like these kind of numbers, maybe during the war, during a world war -- a World War I or II or something, but this is a war all unto itself, and it's a terrible thing. We will be seeing you soon. We'll keep you totally abreast. We're also going to be releasing new ventilator numbers because we have a lot of them coming and a lot of them going to different locations. And we appreciate it very much. Thank you. Thank you.", "All right. I'm Ana Cabrera, in New York. You were just listening to the press briefing from the White House Coronavirus Task Force. It lasted nearly an hour and 45 minutes. Let me bring in CNN's Chief Political Correspondent, Dana Bash, CNN reporter and fact checker, Daniel Dale. Also with us, Dr. Carlos Del Rio, who is an infectious disease expert and an associate dean at the Emory School of Medicine. And Dr. Anne Rimoin, who is an infectious disease expert at UCLA. Dr. Del Rio, I want to play something the president said right at the beginning of this press conference. Because it is important. Let's listen.", "This will be probably the toughest week, between this week and next week. And there will be a lot of death, unfortunately. But a lot less death than if this wasn't done. But there will be death."], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "QUESTION", "TRUMP", "QUESTION", "TRUMP", "QUESTION", "TRUMP", "QUESTION", "TRUMP", "QUESTION", "TRUMP", "QUESTION", "TRUMP", "QUESTION", "TRUMP", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-217250", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2013-10-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1310/23/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Fitness Trainer Accused of Fat Shaming Moms", "utt": ["Now on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, \"Geico`s 15 Minutes of Fame.\" Tonight, No. 2 on our countdown, what`s life been like for this fit mom of three since she created a firestorm after posting this photo of herself on Facebook with the caption \"What`s your excuse?\" Did Maria Kang actually inspire people to get in shape just like her, or did she tick off moms everywhere? She is here tonight, and we are about to find out. So that photo of Maria showing off her six-pack abs as she`s surrounded by her three young boys has gone absolutely viral. But it hasn`t been entirely good. So what`s it been like for her since then? Maria is with us tonight from Sacramento, California. Great having you here, Maria.", "Great. Thank you for having me.", "Absolutely. So you`re a fitness trainer and you said that you wanted to motivate people with your fit physique. But of course, you know, you got accused of so-called fat shaming. Did you find it`s really unfair that you`ve gotten so much heat over this?", "Yes, I definitely think it`s a little bit unfair, especially since I`m not a fitness trainer. That`s not where I get my bread and butter. I`m actually a business owner of two residential care homes. So I created this to inspire moms, and I think that there`s a little bit of bullies out there right now.", "So tell me what life has been like since you first -- first posted the photo. What have you been hearing? What have people been saying to you?", "You know, it`s been incredible. People are still posting mean comments, sending me e-mails saying that`s I`m fat shaming, that I should be -- that I`m a bad mother, that I neglect my kids, that there`s no way that I look this good without being -- having surgery or having a lot of PhotoShop done. So it`s been an incredible experience so far.", "Did you have any sense you were going to get this kind of a reaction? Or did you think, \"Oh, just put this out here. Maybe it will inspire people\"?", "Definitely not. I mean, I knew that it was going to be a powerful image. I knew that people were going to see my kids, 3, 2 and 8 months at the time, and my fit image and say, wow, she`s looking pretty good. Maybe I can do it, too. Because I`m a real mom, you know. I`m not some Kim Kardashian celebrity on a magazine out there that`s looking at -- look at me, I have a nice body after having a baby. I`m a real mom. So I think a lot of people were pretty shocked.", "Well, Maria, I`ve got some good news for you, because I just spoke with my good friend, Snooki. She`s competing on \"Dancing with the Stars,\" as you know this season. And I asked her if she thought you were fat shaming people or bullying people in any way. Here`s what Snooki had to say.", "This is not bullying at all. I mean, for me, when I had my child, I decided to lose all my weight and be healthy for my child. So I feel like when she posted that and said, \"What`s your excuse,\" it`s more like motivation. Like it can be done. You have three children. You can lose all the weight and you can be healthy. So it`s not bullying at all. If anything, it`s inspiration and it`s motivation. And I look up to her.", "Well, there you have it, Maria. There you have Snooki putting things in perspective. She`s firmly in your corner. I wish you the best of luck and thank you so much for being with us tonight, Maria Kang. I appreciate it.", "Thank you so much.", "All right. As we move on, our No. 1 must-see, must-share story of the day is so big, it`s on two -- Yes, two -- continents. The big reveal is coming up next. Plus, this SBT exclusive special event.", "Confront his most feared enemy. Himself.", "Give me that briefcase.", "No. Everything Emily expects from me is in here. Everything she needs from me is in this briefcase.", "OK. Have you seen this thing? It is the engagement viral video that is intense. It`s emotional. And I think it`s as entertaining as any big-budget movie. And tonight, the couple in the proposal video right here exclusively to watch it with us. And they`re going to reveal the secrets of what has to have been such an emotional day that they will never forget. Now next week it is all about \"SBT Game Show Madness.\" This is going to be so much fun. I`m going on location, visiting classic TV game shows. Now, on Tuesday I`m taking a spin with Pat and Vanna at \"Wheel of Fortune.\" Wednesday I visit Cedric the Entertainer, the new host of \"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?\" And Thursday it is my dream come true day on \"The Price is Right.\" \"Game Show Madness\" all next week on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT."], "speaker": ["HAMMER", "MARIA KANG, FITNESS BUFF/MOTHER", "HAMMER", "KANG", "HAMMER", "KANG", "HAMMER", "KANG", "HAMMER", "POLIZZI", "HAMMER", "KANG", "HAMMER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BALDONI", "HAMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-239722", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2014-09-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/26/es.03.html", "summary": "U.S. Terror Threats; The War on ISIS: New Help on the Way?; Late Night Protests in Ferguson, Missouri; Obama Sounds Urgent Alarm on Ebola", "utt": ["New help could be coming in the war on ISIS. In just hours, Britain will vote on whether to assist in U.S.- led air strikes in Iraq. Those airstrikes now hitting ISIS where it hurts most -- mobile oil refineries. This as thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing ISIS, line the Turkish border desperate to escape. Live team coverage, ahead.", "Terror threats here at home. Americans assured that the subways are safe, but the FBI still has one big concern this morning. We'll explain.", "Breaking news overnight. Late night protests again in Ferguson, Missouri. Just hours after the town's police chief tells Michael Brown's family. \"I'm sorry\".", "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm John Berman.", "I'm Christine Romans.", "It is Friday, September 26th. It's 5:00 a.m. in the East. And we do begin with terror concerns here in the United States. Federal, state and local officials are scrambling to reassure Americans that subway systems are safe to ride. This is after really getting blindsided Thursday by a warning from Iraq's new prime minister that ISIS, he says, has been planning a terror attack on American transit. While officials are confident the subways are safe for now, they have seen no credible threat at all on the subway. It doesn't seem like the Iraqi leader knows what he is talking about. Officials do say that Khorasan, the al Qaeda cell offshoot in Syria, may still be a danger. The head of the FBI says there is no indication that the airstrikes this week disrupted Khorasan's plan to attack the United States. CNN's Jim Acosta has more now from the White House.", "John and Christine, this all got started when the new Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told reporters gathered at the United Nations that Baghdad intelligence services had information about what he described as an imminent terror plot aimed in the subway systems in both the U.S. and in France. That obviously sparked a lot of concern inside the Obama administration. But senior administration officials said all day long that they had no credible evidence of any sort of plot. And then late in the day, a top State Department official Brett McGurk, he actually went back to the Iraqi prime minister, went back to Haider al-Abadi, talked to him and the prime minister told Brett McGurk that he was only speaking in general terms, that this was not an actual imminent terror plot posed by ISIS against these subway systems. That obviously is going to be reassuring to people in New York City. The mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, went out in front of the cameras to reassure New Yorkers that it was perfectly safe to ride the subway system there. But it is important to point out what senior administration officials have been telling us for weeks, and that is that they don't believe that ISIS has the capability to carry out terror attacks on the U.S. homeland. They are much concerned about this new terror group Khorasan, which is comprised of former al Qaeda members. They say, and so does the FBI director, that that group is capable of carrying out terror attacks. It's something they'll be watching for -- John and Christine.", "All right. Jim Acosta, thank you for that, Jim. Air strikes against ISIS on Thursday focused on cutting off the terror group's income from oil sales. The Pentagon says U.S.-led airstrikes hit mobile refineries in remote area in eastern Syria. In Iraq, French planes hit near Fallujah. Meantime, no relief in sight for the tens of thousands of Kurdish refugees making a dangerous trip through the Syrian desert. They are fleeing advance of ISIS troops. When they arrive at the border, they are trapped in a no man's land between Turkey and Syria. Now, Turkey says it is prepared to accept more refugees, but its resources are stretched thin. CNN's Phil Black is live now on the Turkey/Syrian border.", "Christine, the Turkish authorities have been thrown up here recently, and this is the result. I want to show you what we are seeing here this morning with the latest wave of refugees who just arrived. In this holding pen, which is where they are processed upon being allowed to enter, there are hundreds. You will see mostly women and children. They are tired, they are dusty, they are hungry, they are thirsty. They are carrying sacks, some suitcases and really stuffed to the brim with whatever they could grab and move on. There are men in this number as well. They're at the mobile office just close by going through the process of registering their families, registering them here in Turkey as official refugees. While the women, the children, sit and wait and rest. The reason these people are still coming, it reinforces what we are hearing from fighters, local fighters across the border in Syria. That is ISIS is continuing to advance. While ISIS forces may be recoiling from international air strikes in other parts of Syria, in Iraq as well. What they are doing here in Syria is advancing and taking more territory. The fighters on the ground are holding them back, as best they can, but they are outgunned, outnumbered. And they say that the airstrikes and other parts of Syria are actually driving more ISIS to this location, increasing the number that is bearing down on them. And so, the result is what you see here around me. This tired group of humanity, really. These people who have effectively lost everything, who is telling us they decided to move on in the last 24 hours because they say the fighting and noise of war was getting so much closer to their homes, which proves that ISIS is making ground. ISIS s taking territory and despite the fact the fighters which stayed behind to fight the ISIS advance, what they are calling for the international strikes to assist them and strike ISIS in this region. Just over the border here. Christine, they are saying that has not happened yet.", "All right. Phil Black for us on the border -- Phil, thank you so much. And again, a reminder, ISIS is making advances and pushing those people to that border. All right. British and American intelligence officials believe they have identified the masked man who speaks in the ISIS beheading videos. They decline to name him. Since August, ISIS has posted the gruesome video showing Americans James Foley and Steven Sotloff, along with Briton David Haines being killed. The FBI believes the same militant with the British accent dressed head to toe in black is the same militant speaking in all three videos.", "Eric Holder, the first African-American attorney general, is stepping down. He calls his six years at the helm the greatest honor of his professional life. His tenure, not without controversy. House Speaker John Boehner says the resignation is long overdue. But the attorney general is not going anywhere yet. He does plan to stay on the job until a successor is confirmed by the Senate. The White House says they are just beginning the process of deciding who the president --", "Six years, that's a long time for an attorney general?", "It's a long time for any cabinet. There are only three of President Obama's cabinet in his positions, Arne Duncan, you know, the secretary of education. Also, Tom Vilsack, who is still the secretary of agriculture.", "That's right. Interesting. All right. Tens of thousands of families crossing the border this year failed to show up for required follow-up meetings with immigration agents. This is according to the Homeland Security Department. Nearly 60,000 immigrants were released into the U.S. by government officials. They gave them instructions. They released them and then they say come back in 15 days to the nearest immigration office. Tens of thousands of people did not do that. Meantime, for the first time in decades, a new Department of Defense policy will allow a small number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. to have the opportunity to join the military.", "The FBI director raising concerns about Apple and Google's new privacy features on smartphones. James Comey accuses the two companies' marketing products that make data inaccessible to law enforcement. But Google and Apple announced that their new operating system will be encrypted and will require a pass code.", "And, of courses, a lot of people unhappy with NSA collection techniques are saying, well, this is what we are asking these companies to do. We don't want anybody to be able to come in and get our data. So, it's a privacy move by some of these companies to have better encryption. Something apparently the FBI is not keen about. All right. Eight minutes past the hour. Time for an EARLY START on your money. European shares mostly lower. U.S. stock futures are barely moving so far. But, you know, yesterday was pretty ugly out there, folks. It was the worst day for stocks in about two months. The Dow fell 265 points. It's about 1.5 percent. Tech stocks fueling the plunge. Apple leading the way. Apple shares, 4 percent bite out of the Apple. The company has made headlines for glitches with the operating system and the iPhone 6 bending, #bendgate. Stocks not far from records. Half of the stocks in the NASDAQ are down 20 percent from their peak. So, a lot of people looking inside in the internals of the market and saying it looks like a bit of the tech bubble. The venture capitalist, he says the tech startups are spending too much money and they may fail when the market turns. He had a series of tweets that was scathing about some of these startups.", "This guy knows a bit about starting tech companies.", "Starting tech companies. All right. Nine minutes past the hour. Breaking news overnight. New protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Demonstrators arrested following the police chief's apology to Michael Brown's family. But does it mean he's ready to resign? What he told CNN, ahead.", "And Britain will vote in just hours whether to join in on U.S.-led air strikes in Iraq. The prime minister minutes way from making his pitch. It is always exciting on the floor of the British parliament. 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{"id": "CNN-243862", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-11-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/23/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Suicide Bomber Attacks Volleyball Game", "utt": ["In Afghanistan, a suicide bomber has attacked a crowd at a volleyball match. At least 45 people were dead, 60 others wounded. Nick Paton Walsh joins us live from Turkey. So Nick, what do you know about what took place in Afghanistan?", "This was quite a big volleyball match, kind of a district level competition really, a lot of spectators. The suicide bomber walking into the midst of them, clearly intent on causing as many casualties as possible. Fredricka, 100 lives changed by this and it just serves as part of the backdrop really of daily violence that many Afghans have to deal with now for decades. This taking place where an insurgent group called the Haqqani Network are pretty strong. This is not the kind of thing they normally do. But in the past week or so, it comes as Afghanistan has a new president who wants to dismiss the U.S. in fact improve relations today. The lower House of Parliaments ratifying a key document known as the BSA, the Bilateral Security Agreement. Now that basically means the U.S. could continue to have a combat presence in Afghanistan for the years ahead. They were talking about reducing their presence just Marines protecting the embassy in a matter of years, now that could be aircraft. That could be Special Forces. They want to retain in Afghanistan, perhaps worried about a Taliban resurgence that's still happening. Worried perhaps about al Qaeda affiliates stepping back in and has a power vacuum, but perhaps also to their mind on Iraq where the Iraqi government asked U.S. forces to leave so fast many say Barack Obama doesn't want to see a repeat of that in the Afghanistan, Pakistan region -- Fredricka.", "All right, Nick Paton Walsh, thank you so much. All right, coming up, why the grand jury considering the Ferguson case is unique. First, the war on Syria has left so many children as refugees. Just this weekend, Vice President Joe Biden announced $135 million in new aid for Syrian refugees. CNN's Arwa Damon went to see how some of the war's youngest victims are being helped.", "With new back packs almost as big as they are, the children file into the orphanage after school. Their faces and behavior betray few of the horrors they have witnessed. Their fathers are dead, lost to illness or war in Syria. Their mothers decided to send them here.", "What's your name?", "My name is Arwa. What's your name?", "My name is (inaudible).", "She's 8. Her father killed by a bullet on his way to work. Daddy used to take me everywhere with him she tells us. The orphanage opened in September offering a safe place. Toys replace those they left behind as they fled Syria. Clean water to wash with and regular hot healthy meals. The orphanage was established by the foundation named after another little girl who was paralyzed by shrapnel.", "Children away from all that's happening inside Syria and to give them the right to have a normal life away from the war.", "And the impact is already being seen. Mayada Abdi, head of the orphanage says, head of the orphanage says Maram was very solitary, often lost in the memories of her father. I would see him in my dreams, Maram remembers. I would see him giving someone something. She seems less haunted by his death, dreaming instead of going home to Syria and teaching. Arwa Damon, CNN, Turkey."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "DAMON (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "DAMON (voice-over)", "YAKZAN SHISHAKLY, CO-FOUNDER, MARAM FOUNDATION", "DAMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-199451", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-1-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/16/cnr.12.html", "summary": "NYPD Wants GPS Pill Bottles", "utt": ["New York City combating just about everything these days, and limited the amount of soda you can drink, just put a new huge gun control law in place, and now it is trying to put a GPS in prescription painkiller bottles to combat the surge of pharmacy robberies. Commissioner Ray Kelly of NYPD saying Oxycontin armed thefts are booming and he wants to stop it. He's announced this plan to put bait bottles, that's what he's calling them, on store shelves, fake painkillers equipped with an invisible GPS device. Should a robber steal it, like this person, suspected of stealing from a pharmacy, the GPS apparently is going to go off, shows the person's location, tracks the person, hopefully leads police to bigger stashes across the city and probably elsewhere. HLN law enforcement analyst, Mike Brooks, is here. How exactly does this work?", "Well, Brooke, what it is going to be, because you've got robberies and burglaries, breaking into pharmacies after hours, going in, stealing these things.", "Killing people in some cases in Long Island.", "Killing people -- right in Long Island and last April in East Harlem, there was an off duty cop, pumping gas across the street, confronted two robbers, shot and killed one of them after holding up a pharmacy for pain killers. So what's going to happen? You're going to have basically your pill bottle sitting on the little stand, you take that pill bottle off, and it starts emitting a signal all right then and there. Now these are going to be sealed. So let's say you pick it up and shake it, it is going to sound like there is pills inside that particular bottle.", "They're fake pills.", "But they're fake pills and you have your little GPS tracking device inside of that. They have been using this technology for quite some time with banks because you will have sometimes a bottle of money. You'll have that if a bank is robbed, they'll pull those out. They give you the bait money if you will --", "Follow the money. Follow the money.", "And you follow that signal. They just had a bank robbery today in Houston where they used the same technology to track the car.", "So is this for potential pharmacists with ill means or is this for people who would come in to try to steal the bottles, what kind of pills are we talking?", "Well, this was developed by -- it was developed by Purdue Pharma, which is the maker of Oxycontin. You know, so they are the ones behind this saying, we want to help protect, number one, our brand, and secondly, because they come in, there are so many robberies, so many burglaries happening now just for these particular painkillers. We want to get this technology to try to track these people down, and maybe be a preventive measure because if you know what you're taking could have a GPS device in it, and you could get locked up, maybe that would discourage somebody. But they're hoping that all 1,800 pharmacies in the city of New York kind of get on the bandwagon with this program. It already has gone on in Suffolk County, just not outside the city.", "So you don't think some of these potential criminals would be hip to the GPS devices could be able to determine which pill bottles had GPS devices and could go around it.", "Well, you know, if you go in and you take a bottle and you shake it, there are pills, are you going to take the time to take the tape off and the top off and the foil and the cotton, no. You want to get in, you want to get out, and hopefully they'll get out with one of these decoy bottles.", "Also I'm just curious, big picture, explain what typically happens if you have a successful robbery say in a pharmacy and you grab a bunch of Oxycontin. Where then do the pills typically walk?", "You can take them, you might be someone who is getting paid by someone who is taking these and distributing them to other places around the state, outside the state. So a lot of times you'll say, I'll give you x amount. You can have so many pills so much money, want you to hit this particular one or they'll put in an order. I want 200 of a particular painkiller, go out and get them and here is what I'll pay you. That's what these perps are doing.", "OK, Ray Kelly says no more, no more.", "And I don't blame him, absolutely.", "Mike Brooks, thank you.", "Thanks, Brooke.", "Appreciate it. A look here at what is to come over the president's next four years including why the Middle East could be his biggest challenge. But first, here's a quick look at the markets as the Dow is up 25 points at 13,509. Forgive me, down, that is a minus, blurry eyes here, down 25 points. Back after this."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "MIKE BROOKS, HLN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "BALDWIN", "BROOKS", "BALDWIN", "BROOKS", "BALDWIN", "BROOKS", "BALDWIN", "BROOKS", "BALDWIN", "BROOKS", "BALDWIN", "BROOKS", "BALDWIN", "BROOKS", "BALDWIN", "BROOKS", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-148321", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-2-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1002/23/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Independents Left Out of Primaries", "utt": ["Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. Eleven minutes after the hour. All this week, we're taking a hard look at our nation's government, the frustrating problems and the solutions. And according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, just 26 percent of respondents say they trust the federal government to do what's right. For state government, the number rises slightly to 33 percent. And again proving all politics is local, for local government, the trust level is much higher, just over 50 percent -- 52 percent of people say they trust their local leaders. So, the majority do trust local government to do the right thing.", "Yes. A different story when it comes to federal and state governments. And it's that lack of trust that's firing up an increasingly powerful group of voters, the independents. They're, of course, courted heavily by both parties. Yet as Casey Wian shows us, independents are often being denied the right to vote when it really matters.", "This mother and son rarely see eye to eye politically. He is an unabashed liberal, she is more conservative. But now, Jacob Carr and Nancy Corradini could find themselves in the same boat, as registered independents -- which could essentially rob them to the right to vote in some very important elections.", "I was one of the people who voted for Ralph Nader.", "In 2008, Jason registered as a Democrat to vote for Barack Obama. Today, he is disillusioned and disappointed.", "I guess, throughout the year, my hope flame has been dwindling and dimming.", "Would you consider becoming an independent and decline- to-state voter again?", "Yes, you know, I'm definitely considering that or even maybe registering as some -- like a third party.", "Nancy beat her son to the punch. She became an independent two years ago, after determining her party just didn't speak for her anymore.", "Sometimes, it's difficult to be a moderate Republican in the Republican Party. They call you \"Republican in Name Only.\"", "RINO?", "Yes, I heard that buzz word the other night. RINO, I thought it was so insulting. I emotionally became detached from the Republican Party.", "But Nancy never considered that going independent would actually take away her right to vote in some key elections, primaries. Here in California, political parties get to decide before each and every election whether to allow independents to vote. (voice-over): Joseph Holland is the elections registrar for Santa Barbara County.", "Elections are not simple. They're -- every election is different. They -- believe it or not -- they do change from election to election.", "That can leave independents like Nancy pretty confused. But that's not all. (on camera): On a local level or even on congressional races, primaries are often where the key political decisions are made. Say you're an independent living in a heavily Democratic district. If you can't vote in a Democratic primary, you're not going to have much influence over who wins the general election, it's probably going to be a Democratic candidate you had no role in choosing. (voice-over): In the 2008 presidential primaries, independents in 17 states and the District of Columbia were shut out of some crucial primaries. Those voters had no say at all in determining the major party candidates.", "We are second-class citizens when it comes to political representation and participation.", "Jason Olson is an independent voter activist pushing to change the law in California. This June, there's a proposition on the state's primary ballot to eliminate party primaries entirely.", "All the candidates were on the same ballot. All the voters, regardless of party, vote for the best candidate, and then the top two vote getters will then go on to a run-off style election. So, there would be no more segregating voters by political parties and excluding independents.", "That's how it's done in Washington state and Louisiana. In other states, party officials are trying to move things in the other direction. In Arizona, for example, the Republican Party is trying to close its primary so only registered Republicans can vote. Still, Olson sees momentum moving in his direction.", "We have a real shot to have independents kind of crack over the doors, if you will, and start forcing some change.", "And newly independent, Nancy Koradini, agrees.", "I think it's going to snowball, it's not going to stop.", "Casey Wian, CNN, Santa Barbara, California.", "You know, somebody sent us a snarky e-mail this morning saying, well, of course, independents can vote, they are party primaries. Which is just, I mean, okay, some of them are party primaries. But it's just too simplistic an argument to make as in many states independents can vote, in some states like the state of Virginia, everybody can vote, so republicans can play in the democratic primary, as well as independents, and vice versa.", "The way elections are won, is that somebody gets more people to cross over or gets the independents onboard.", "So, it's not a one size fits all thing. Be snarky if you want, but that's the name of the game. Sixteen minutes after the hour. The Senate takes up a job spill with the help of some Republicans. Five of them weigh in, our Christine Romans is \"Minding Your Business\" for us this morning. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JACOB CARR, DISILLUSIONED VOTER", "WIAN", "CARR", "WIAN", "CARR", "WIAN", "NANCY CORRADINI, INDEPENDENT VOTER", "WIAN (on camera)", "CORRADINI", "WIAN", "JOSEPH HOLLAND, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY CLERK", "WIAN", "JASON OLSON, INDEPENDENTVOICE.ORG", "WIAN", "OLSON", "WIAN", "OLSON", "WIAN", "NANCY KORADINI, NEWLY INDEPENDENT", "WIAN", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "NPR-45151", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2007-03-19", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8993130", "title": "Phil Spector's 'Wall of Sound'", "summary": "Legendary record producer Phil Spector goes on trial Monday, charged with the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson. During the televised trial, you're sure to hear references about the \"Wall of Sound.\" The term describes Spector's approach to producing hit records.", "utt": ["In Pasadena, California, a much delayed celebrity murder trial finally gets underway today. Music legend Phil Spector is charged with killing actress Lana Clarkson in 2003. Spector, who some consider the greatest record producer ever, was the man behind such hits as \"Walking in the Rain\" and \"You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling.\"", "In coverage of the trial, which is airing live on Court TV, you'll probably hear references to Spector's Wall of Sound, that's his trademark production technique. We asked our senior producer, Steve Proffitt, to break down the Wall of Sound.", "Well first, here's what it sounds like in a 1963 Spector-produced recording.", "Ms. DOLORES \"LA LA\" BROOKS (Singer, The Crystals): (Singing) I met him on a Monday, and my hear stood still.", "(Singing) Da doo ron ron, da doo ron ron.", "(Singing) Somebody told me that his name was Bill…", "That hit, by the Crystals, is vintage wall of sound. While other producers tried to isolate instruments so each could be heard cleanly, Specter worked to get a big, flat sound. This hit, \"Be My Baby\" by the Ronettes, is thought by many to be the quintessential wall of sound, too.", "(Singing) The night we met I knew I knew I needed you so, and if I had the chance, I'd never let you go…", "Combining traditional rock instruments - electric guitar, bass, drums - with orchestral strings, harps, even glockenspiels and French horns, Spector created a symphonic pallet that was perfect for the era's jukeboxes and AM radios.", "(Singing) When I was a little girl, I had a rag doll, the only doll I ever owned…", "But the wall of sounds was more than just an unusual approach to instrumentation. Spector assembled a group of stellar musicians, including Glen Campbell, Leon Russell and Mac \"Dr. John\" Rebennack. He created the wall using doubled and tripled string sections, multiple guitar and bass and piano players, as well as virtuoso singers like Tina Turner.", "(Singing) I know I love you baby, baby, baby, baby.", "Echo was an important ingredient. Spector used the legendary echo chambers at Gold Star Studio in Hollywood. Sound from the recording studio was fed to speakers inside specially constructed rooms with very thick and hard walls. Microphones then picked up the reverberated sound in the rooms and fed them back to Spector in the control room.", "(Singing) The long and winding road that leads to your door…", "Spector applied his wall of sound to this Beatles song. Legend has it John Lennon invited him to do so without the knowledge of his fellow Beatle, Paul McCartney.", "Unidentified Man #2 (Singer): (Singing) I've seen that road before…", "A remix of the song that eliminates Spector's embellishments was released on an album called \"Let It Be… Naked.\"", "(Singing) Lead me to your door.", "Fans continued to argue about which version is better, but no one, it seems, doubts that Phil Spector's production techniques continue to influence the way music is made 40 years after his heyday.", "(Singing) I need your love…", "Steve Proffitt, NPR News.", "(Singing) I need your love, darling you (unintelligible).", "More to come after this."], "speaker": ["MADELEINE BRAND, host", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "STEVE PROFFITT", "STEVE PROFFITT", "THE CRYSTALS (Vocal group)", "Ms. BROOKS", "STEVE PROFFITT", "Ms. RONNIE SPECTER (Singer, The Ronnettes)", "STEVE PROFFITT", "Ms. TINA TURNER (Singer, Ike and Tina Turner)", "STEVE PROFFITT", "Ms. TINA TURNER (Singer, Ike and Tina Turner)", "STEVE PROFFITT", "Mr. PAUL MCCARTNEY (Singer, The Beatles)", "STEVE PROFFITT", "STEVE PROFFITT", "STEVE PROFFITT", "Mr. PAUL MCCARTNEY (Singer, The Beatles)", "STEVE PROFFITT", "The RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS (Vocal Group)", "STEVE PROFFITT", "The RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS (Vocal Group)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-79726", "program": "CNN LIVE SUNDAY", "date": "2003-11-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0311/30/sun.11.html", "summary": "U.S. Troops Thwart Iraqi Ambush Attempt", "utt": ["But we begin with a developing story out of northern Iraq, where U.S. forces have thwarted an ambush attempt against at least one U.S. military convoy. As we have told you, U.S. forces killed 46 Iraqi rebels in northern Iraq and wounded 18. Eight rebels have been captured. Five U.S. soldiers were wounded in the attack. Let's get the latest from our senior correspondent in Baghdad, Walter Rodgers. Walter, what's the latest information you have right now?", "Hello, Kelly. The U.S. army's fourth infantry division was sending two convoys, a logistical supply convoy on 2 parallel tracks through the town of Sammarra, that's 75 miles north of Baghdad. Again, 2 convoys taking 2 separate routes through the city. Suddenly, at 1:30 in the afternoon, they were pounced upon. It was an ambush, a running fight between the U.S. military convoy and the Iraqi guerrillas, the insurgents, many of who were wearing the black fedayeen guerrilla uniforms signifying they're indeed loyal to Saddam Hussein. The U.S. soldiers fought their way through, smashingly. What happened was, while they were under constant fire, the U.S. army tanks in the convoy, plus the Bradley fighting vehicles simply overpowered the guerrillas. The tanks of course, carry 120 millimeter cannon. Those cannon on board the tanks were trained on the buildings that the Iraqis had been using to stage their ambush from -- again when those 120 millimeter shells from the A1M1 Abrams went off, they collapsed the buildings with the Iraqi insurgents inside. Also Bradley fighting vehicles with their 25 millimeter cannon which will pulverize virtually anything, including another tank. Again, the U.S. soldiers fighting their way through that town. U.S. casualties in this running firefight, actually two running fire fights this afternoon in Sammara: five U.S. soldiers injured, two already released. None of the injuries were life-threatening. It was much more a pummeling for the Iraqi guerrillas, 46 of them were killed. Again, many of those had those black Fedayeen uniforms, indicating they are organized insurgents loyal to Saddam Hussein. Additionally, there were 18 Iraqi insurgents injured. They of course will be questioned, eight others captured as well and they will be questioned. Now, the convoys, by the way, were carrying exchange notes through the town. The U.S. Army is in the process of helping district new Iraqi dinar's, new bank notes, new money here money and collecting the old money. It looked like a ripe and easy target for the insurgents. It turned out to be just the opposite. The Iraqis took a very bloody beating this afternoon in what may be the biggest actual firefight since the end of the war itself in April or May. Now, shortly after that, there was yet another attack on U.S. soldiers in the very same city about an hour later. Again, four Iraqis in a black BMW, they were carrying a rocket propelled grenade which they never got to fire, ALso small armed ammunitions. U.S. soldiers cut open on them. All four of those Iraqis in that BMW were captured. The Iraqis simply could not match the firepower of the U.S. army, they had nothing bigger than mortars, rocket propelled grenades, small arms fire. The U.S. army had huge cannons on their takes, 120 millimeter, plus the 25 millimeters on the Bradley. It was a firefight, this time the Iraqis bit off more than they can chew and they've blood on their hands to prove it.", "And Walter, of course, looking at this weekend, it has been a tough weekend for the U.S. led coalition forces, seven Spanish intelligence agents were killed, two Japanese diplomats, you had two South Korean power contractors. Is there a concern the sources you're talking to, that these various allied forces are now being targeted one by one to try and prevent them from being Iraq.", "That's true. And what you saw, according to the Army, prior to this firefight in Samarra, a shift from these hard targets, like these military vehicles to the so-called softer targets, these being vehicles on the road, 2 Japanese diplomats killed Saturday, 2 Korean contractors, private contractors, civilians. Also killed driving along the roads here. And the 7 Spanish intelligence officers. And everyone thought the Iraqis were going to the softer targets. In point of fact, this ambush in Sammarra on the 2 convoys suggested they were willing to take on any target of opportunity whenever they see it. Although after the beating they took on in Sammarra, it may be a while before they take on the army again head to head force on force. And we may indeed see more of what we've seen over the weekend, the attacks on soft targets, the diplomats, the civilian contracters and the intelligence agents like the Spanish -- Kelly.", "OK, Walter Rodgers reporting with us from the latest from Baghdad. Thank you. We'll be checking with you for any more developments this hour. Walter Rodgers again from Baghdad."], "speaker": ["KELLY WALLACE, CNN ANCHOR", "WALTER RODGERS, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "WALLACE", "RODGERS", "WALLACE"]}
{"id": "CNN-261169", "program": "DR. DREW", "date": "2015-08-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/03/ddhln.01.html", "summary": "New Details in Sam DuBose Shooting: What Was Inside the Car When It Was Pulled Over", "utt": ["Tonight, breaking news in the case of an unarmed black man shot and killed by a police officer. Plus, another lion is killed an American hunter in Africa. And, Bobbi Kristina`s casket photos sold to the highest bidder. It all starts now with our breaking news. Tonight, we will know more about what was inside the car when Sam DuBose was pulled over. Take a look at that traffic stop that eventually turned deadly.", "OK. Well, until I can figure out if you have license or not, go ahead and take your seat belt off for me.", "Man why you --", "Go ahead and take your seatbelt off. -- Stop. Stop!", "Frame by frame, you see the police officer reach for DuBose`s door. He asked DuBose, who is driving on a suspended license to remove his seatbelt. DuBose starts the car. It begins to move. The officer`s gun comes out. He shouts, \"Stop. Stop!\" Then the gunshot. Car speeds up, the officer is on the ground. The gun in front of the camera.", "This is the video slowed about 20 percent. You can hear the car engine. The officer shout twice and then that single fatal shot.", "The video also show Sam DuBose handing the officer a bottle of what appears to be alcohol. This is what we have new information on watch this.", "What is that bottle on the floor there?", "Oh, that is a bottle of air freshener.", "Bottle of what?", "You can smell it. It is air freshener.", "OK. You have a license on you?", "Tonight, we know that bottle that was labeled gin was air freshener. It was not gin at all. Tests found the liquid negative for any ethyl alcohol and consistent with compounds commonly found in fragrance products such as air fresheners and perfumes. Joining me, Anneelise Goetz, attorney and host of \"Your Life And The Law\" Podcast; Vanessa Barnett, HipHollywood.com; Mike Catherwood, \"My Love Line\" an KABC co-host. He also a host of \"Chain Reaction\" on GSN. Rolonda Watts, ost of \"Rolonda On Demand\" podcast and Lisa Bloom, trial attorney at the Bloom Firm and legal analyst at Avvo.com. Vanessa, I am not used to seeing air fresheners in a gin bottle, is that unusual?", "It is not unusual. It is common, especially in that area, especially with that culture. And, what it is, is it is just a condensed oil. It is like an innocence oil, and they washed out these gin bottles. They put them in there, sometimes water bottles. It is not -- you know, he said it was an air freshener and it was. He was not lying.", "He was not lying. It was.", "Yes. And, so, I guess if you are not familiar with that by all accounts it looks like gin. You will think it is gin, but no it is a cultural thing, I guess, in that area.", "It is so peculiar. I mean I could not understand --", "But, not really.", "-- but he should have known that. The cop should have -- the police should have known that, right?", "Yes. I mean if white people do it as recycling. He does it and all of a sudden, you know? I have seen white people turn wine bottles into flower vases. So, I am just saying. You know, that is recycling at its best.", "Does it matter, Lisa, what was in the bottle? And, it really does not matter, is not it?", "Right.", "It does not justify shooting somebody.", "The point is it is all completely irrelevant to the shooting. But what it is relevant to is what we see in these cases over and over again is that kind of vilifying the victims.", "Yes.", "Trying to find something immediately to make the victims of police shootings look bad, even if it had been alcohol. Even if he had been under the influence, even if he had been trying to drive away, the shooting would not have been justified.", "Right, and you agree of course?", "I do agree. And, I think that Lisa makes a good point. I think we see it in rape cases as well. You know, you go after the victims. You start demonizing the victim, and it is sad. And, I think that when you are going to look at this situation, obviously this cop is going to make the argument that my actions were justified. It was self-defense. And, if they are going to make the argument, \"Oh, I thought he was under the influence, I think it is a tough one to make. Because, you see in that video, he pulls it out. He hands it to him, and the officer does not follow up and say, \"Oh, have you been drinking?\"", "No, he did not --", "There does not seem to be any kind of field sobriety. He takes look at it. He puts it on the top of the car and never thinks twice about it.", "So, it was really a nonissue with this whole thing.", "Yes.", "Rolonda, the sister said something. The victim said something interesting. This gentleman was arrested like dozens of times, maybe 50 times or something. And, she goes, \"Well, look, people want to turn that into an issue, you can see in his record he had no problem being arrested without any hassle. He would just give himself up and be arrested. He would not hassle anyone.\"", "Well, what is that they call it? Your M.O., the you operate or the way you work. And, even in a negative connotation, the proof is in the positive, in terms of, he was not running away necessarily. I mean I think that everybody has brought up an excellent point in the fact that he never once said, \"Have you been drinking?\" or \"I smelled alcohol,\" all of a sudden this is like the old hand grenade thrown in. \"Hey, look over there,\" so you are not looking over here.\"", "But, again, it seems weird to me that we are even having that conversation.", "That is the thing.", "A life was lost.", "-- drunk driving just because he was shooting --", "Yes.", "Also, I do not think that anybody even Mr. DuBose`s own family would argue that he has had problems with the law.", "Right.", "His entire life.", "Right.", "He is probably a career criminal. Nothing that is shown in his police record had anything to do with the fact that he was shot at point black range --", "Yes.", "-- without at all reaching for a weapon or putting that cop in danger.", "Well, let me bring in John Cardillo. He is a former NYPD Police Officer, host of \"John Cardillo Show\" on 1290 WJNO. John, there are other things found in the car, is that true?", "Yes. Yes. The most significant is two pounds of weed. Two pounds of marijuana in the vehicle, and thousands of dollars in cash from illegal drug sales. And, so this debunks the narrative that this was a routine traffic stop. No such thing as routine traffic stop as we saw in Memphis, where Officer Sean Bolton murdered. Going a police officer, simply an illegally parked car. And, if DuBose was really going to pick up his 9-year-old son to go to a movie, was he doing this with 2 pounds of weed and the proceeds of illegal drugs was also in the car? So, this changes the dynamic of the entire encounter and changes the motive for why DuBose would want to flee.", "No. It is not.", "And he certainly does and it raises the reasonable doubt -- of course it does. Because now you have a drug dealer trying to flee the police, because he had drugs. It most certainly does count --", "But, it still gives no reason as to why he was shot in the face.", "Hold on. Hold on. It does gives a reason as to what the officer might have observe in DuBose`s behavior that we even have not seen on the video. We now know --", "OK, but none of that made it into the police record.", "It did not?", "We now know. You are talking about things we now know.", "Wait a minute.", "We have to judge --", "Hold on.", "If I may --", "Hold on.", "We have to judge the police officer by what he knew at the time. And, not try to create evidence afterwards of what might have been on mind.", "And, pray it was not planted.", "Why is the prosecutor selectively releasing good details about air fresheners? -- excuse me. And, hiding details about 2 pounds of weed. This is highly relevant and as a defense attorney, you would be --", "I do not think it is relevant at all, and I will tell you why. Because what does having marijuana in a car have to do with the threat to the officer, that justified him shooting to kill a man who was sitting in the driver`s seat complying with all his directives.", "A man who started his vehicle and began to pull away to possibly what we now know evade a felony drug arrest and go to jail --", "You are talking about things, but we now know. We are not after that.", "Listen. You can always deal with what they --", "Hold on. It does not matter what we know. It only matters what the criminal thinks a police officer knows. When a police officer walks up to a car, that he thought passed the red light, but the occupants robbed a bank. And, they shoot them in the face, they think he knows they robbed a bank. So, DuBose, may not have known that the officer did not realize that there were 2 pounds of weed or did not smell it. Everyone is giving the benefit of the doubt to a guy arrested 60 times with pounds --", "No, we are giving the benefit of the be doubt to a man who was shot dead by a police officer again. That is what we are giving --", "Resisting a police officer in a course of what we now know was the commission of a felony.", "Well, why did not he arrested him for those?", "But, why did not he call his backup. You do not have to shoot someone dead. Call your back up. It was not like the guy zoomed off. He rolled off.", "All right.", "Call for backup? It was a split seconds? The guy started the car and took off like a guy out of hell.", "But, one really --", "Guy out of hell?", "Guy out of a hell!", "It is not legally justified. It is illegal under the constitution, under the Supreme Court decisions in the United States to shoot somebody even who is fleeing a police officer, unless there is an imminent threat to the police officer --", "That is wrong. That is wrong.", "No. You can shut me down all you want, but this is actually the law in the U.S. You cannot just shoot to kill because someone is fleeing from a police officer.", "That is wrong. Tennessee V. Garner says the police can, counselor.", "If there are threats to the police officer or someone else, not just because they are fleeing.", "Stop right here. Stop it, everybody. Stop. Josn, hold on. John, I got to turn you off. Turn him off. Turn him off, please. There we go. Thank you. Next, we are going to continue this conversation. John, thank you. We are going to get back to you, do not worry. This is a case of point for decriminalization of cannabis.", "Yes.", "A lot of real unnecessary jail time, unnecessarily lost of life, unnecessary police time spent doing watts, so the guy cannot get stoned. I do not get it. Later, someone took a photo of Bobbi Kristina in her casket and then sold it for the highest bidder. We have that and more after this."], "speaker": ["DR. 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{"id": "CNN-122239", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2007-12-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/19/lkl.01.html", "summary": "Damien Echols: Death Row Interview", "utt": ["Tonight, a LARRY KING LIVE exclusive. Is an innocent man on death row or is a murderer where he belongs? Damien Echols -- he's been in prison for 13 years. But now new DNA evidence has raised disturbing questions in this case. Did he take part in the savage killings of three young boys? Does Damien Echols deserve to die? It's a jailhouse interview you will not want to miss. It's next on LARRY KING LIVE. Before we start our interview with death row inmate Damien Echols, CNN's Ted Rowlands has been digging into the West Memphis Three story. He has background on this shocking crime -- a sensational case -- and the latest legal developments. Here is Ted Rowlands.", "Fourteen-and-a-half years ago, the gruesome murders of three 8-year-old boys shocked West Memphis, Arkansas -- Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore -- second grade playmates -- were found beaten to death, naked and bound in shallow water. One of the boys was dismembered. Police arrested three teenagers, including an alleged devil worshipping ringleader named Damien Echols. At trial, prosecutors used Echols' own words from his bizarre writings to convince the jury that the murders were part of a Satanic ritual.", "\"Thirsty for blood and the terror of mortal men, look favorably on my sacrifice.\"", "Echols and 16-year old Jason Baldwin denied involvement. But 17-year old Jessie Misskelley confessed, telling authorities on three separate occasion, they killed the boys after a chance encounter in the woods. Misskelley, who defense attorneys claim has low I.Q., now says the confessions were coerced. Despite a lack of significant physical evidence linking the teens to the crime, all three were found guilty. Echols was sentenced to death.", "We, the jury, find Damien Echols guilty of capital murder.", "Questions about whether justice was served has loomed in this case since the verdicts. The HBO documentary \"Paradise Lost\" gained the case worldwide attention -- painting the trial as a rush to judgment fueled by Satanic fear.", "West Memphis is pretty much like a second Salem. I mean, you know, because everything that happens there, every problem, no matter what it is, it's blamed on Satanism.", "Last month, defense attorneys announced they have new DNA evidence that shows no trace of Echols or the other defendants at the crime scene. Even some of the victims' relatives, who initially agreed with the verdicts...", "I believe they did it. I would -- I believe I would try to kill them, too.", "...now think the men in jail are innocent.", "I would like to see another trial. Give them a fair trial, present the evidence that really wasn't presented in the other trial. Then if they're guilty, so be it, that's where they stay. But if they're not, God don't put somebody to death because, you know, oops.", "Despite the huge outpouring of support, not everybody believes there's been a mistake. In fact, some of the family members still believe that Echols -- who's here, on Arkansas' death row -- and the other two, who are serving life sentences -- got exactly what they deserved. (voice-over): Todd Moore, father of Michael Moore, told", "\"We know the correct men are in prison and they should stay there.\" Prosecutors won't comment on the case. There's been no state ruling yet on a defense request for a new trial. Ted Rowlands, CNN, West Memphis, Arkansas.", "From the Varner Unit of Supermax State Prison Facility in Grady, Arkansas, we are joined by Damien Echols, who is on death row. He recently had a birthday, by the way. He's 33 years old. Now, how long have you been on death row?", "About 14 years. All in all, I've been locked up almost 15 years.", "Now there's so-called -- let's get into it -- new evidence in your case. It's encouraged a lot of your defenders -- and there are many -- to feel optimistic. Give us the story. What's new?", "There are several things. But I think the main one is probably the DNA testing that know they said it revealed no evidence of me or the other two guys who were convicted of the crime at the crime scene. There was also evidence that said that what the prosecution had alleged were knife wounds, things of that nature were actually more along the lines of post-mortem injuries inflicted by snapping turtles and other things that would have been in the woods.", "Why this late, Damien?", "Well, a lot of the testing that they had to use now to reveal this wasn't available. They couldn't do it at the time that I was arrested. You've got to keep in mind, that was almost 15 years ago. And forensic technology has come a long way in 15 years.", "We'll be getting into the case and the structure of the case. But the legal process, if the DNA excludes you, why are you in prison?", "Well, a lot of people think that if you have some sort of definitive proof of innocence, something like a DNA test, that you're automatically released. And that's not actually true. A lot of times in cases like this it's more about politics than it is about justice. You know, a lot of people have built their careers off of this case. You know, you had police officers who were given promotions. You had the prosecutor, who ran for and was elected judge. The judge -- or the circuit court judge is now saying that he plans on retiring and running for Senate. All of this pretty much happening on the merit of this case. And these people do not want to admit that they made a mistake.", "Now we understand that in late November, a U.S. district court judge ruled that your attorneys must present the new DNA tests and other evidence to state judges before they go forward with the federal filing. Is that your understanding?", "Yes, that's correct.", "And where is that now?", "Well, it's not really moving anywhere right now, just because there are plans to be made. We have to get with the other two guys' attorneys who are also defendants in this case. And it has to be a combined effort. And it takes a little while for everybody to get linked up and dates to be set and things of that nature.", "If you know you didn't do something, isn't all of this frustrating?", "Frustrating doesn't even begin to describe what all this is.", "All right, this is the story of you and two other guys. We'll get into it in a minute. A number of famous people -- celebrities and artists and writers -- have rallied to your cause. How does that make you feel? You've become a cause celebre.", "Grateful, appreciative, thankful -- more so than I could ever even begin to articulate. You know, it's through their efforts and through the attention that they've brought to the case and through donations that people have made that we were even able to do this DNA testing now.", "Do you think you're going to be free someday?", "I believe that, yes. I'm absolutely convinced of that.", "Let's go back to the case. It's you and two other -- were the three of you friends?", "One of the guys I was familiar with. He was more an acquaintance. The other guy was my best friend.", "Give me the case. What happened?", "Well, it started on May 5th, whenever they found the bodies of three boys that had been killed in a small wooded area in West Memphis. About a month later, they arrested me and the other two guys. One of the other two guys, he was border line retarded. He had an I.Q. of about 72. And the police picked him up and who knows what they did to him for, you know, 12 or 14 hours before they finally said that he confessed. The problem was, once he did confess, pretty much not a single detail of what he said was right. They knew that, but they didn't care. They were just trying -- they were under a tremendous amount of pressure to get the case wrapped up as quickly as they could and they were doing whatever it took to do that.", "How old were the boys that were killed?", "I believe they were, all three, 8 -- 8 years old.", "Eight years old. Did you know them?", "No. I had never even heard of them before this.", "Did you live in the vicinity where they lived?", "Well, I lived -- I didn't actually live in West Memphis. I lived in a small town right outside of West Memphis called Marion. So it was within, I don't know, I'd say about a 10, 15 mile area.", "How old were you at the time?", "I was, I believe 18 -- 17 or 18.", "Now, what was the state's case with regard to motive? Why were these three boys killed, according to the state?", "The state alleged that -- they couldn't come up with anything more tangible, you know, like robbery or anything like that. So basically what they threw out was that it was some sort of Satanic ritual murder -- that these children were killed as some sort of Satanic cult thing. I'm not -- you know...", "Were they...", "...whatever sense that makes.", "Were they killed in a weird way?", "No, not particularly. Well, you know, any -- murder is always weird...", "Yes. But I mean how? Were they stabbed? Were they shot? How were they killed?", "The prosecution at the time alleged that they had been stabbed. Now we know that they weren't. We know that the wounds that the prosecutor was saying were stab wounds were actually inflicted by animals after they were dead. From the best we can figure now, I believe they said two of them died from blunt force trauma. And if I'm not -- I'm positive about this now, but I believe the third one they said may have drowned.", "We're with Damien Echols. He's on death row in Arkansas. We'll be right back.", "We, the jury, find Damien Echols guilty of capital murder in the death of Stevie Branch.", "So", "We, the jury, find Damien Echols guilty of capital murder in the death of Christopher Byers.", "And guilty is guilty. And I hope the little sucker when it's coming, they get it. That's right off the bat.", "We, the jury, find Damien Echols guilty of capital murder in the death of Michael Moore.", "Just because somebody wears black and has different", "We, the jury, after careful deliberations, have determined that Damien Echols shall be sentenced to death by lethal injection.", "Faces from an angry, curious community came to see the teenagers who stand accused of a crime that makes no sense.", "He was guilty when I first laid eyes on him.", "Who could do such a thing to three small boys?", "Prosecutors portrayed 19-year-old Damien Echols as a murderous devil worshipper.", "You begin to see inside Damien Echols. And you look inside there and there's not a soul in there.", "There couldn't be a worse capital murder ever committed in this state that I'm aware of.", "Investigators say the suspects aren't the typical boys next door.", "He's not the all-American boy.", "You can feel good returning a verdict of guilty.", "These guys, you know, were put behind bars and now maybe life can go on.", "They want to worship the devil, I hope they meet him real soon -- the sooner the better as far as I'm concerned.", "We are back with Damien Echols. The three boys who were killed, you didn't know them, you weren't anywhere near there. So why you? What were you doing then? Why you?", "I think in the -- this was, once again, 15 years ago. Things weren't exactly the same -- especially in the South -- as they are now. I believe that I probably stood out in the small town where we were living just because of the music I listened to, the clothes that I wore, things of that nature. They considered me an oddity. So I drew attention. For example, one of the things they used against us at trial was the fact that I listened to Metallica. You know, back then, 15 years ago, that was something that was considered strange. Now you hear it played on classic rock stations. It's not big deal at all.", "What about your best friend?", "I think they pretty much just brought him in because he was my best friend.", "Now, did the boy who was border line retarded, did he say you did it?", "Yes, after coaching from the police.", "So where were you when they came to arrest you?", "I was at my mother and father's place. They were gone out of town at the time. It was probably -- it was sometime during the night. Like I say, this has been 15 years ago so it's hard to remember a lot of the small details like times that things took place.", "But you'd be -- I don't need the exact time, but you must remember whether it was night or day and who came to the door and why.", "It was night.", "All right. And who came, policemen?", "Yes, policemen. Once again, I couldn't tell you who they were. It looked like all of them to me.", "Had you ever been convicted of anything?", "No.", "Therefore, can we say they come to the door, they knock on the door, they're there to arrest you, that you're in total shock?", "Well, they had been harassing me for about a month before this took place. They came to my door nearly every single day for the month between the murders and the time that I was arrested. And the night that they did this, I thought it was probably just more of the same harassment. So at first, I didn't even get up. You know, whenever they knocked, I didn't even bother to answer the door. I figured they'll go away -- you know, they'll get tired of it and go away. But they didn't.", "So you knew you were a suspect?", "Yes.", "Did you hire a lawyer during that period?", "No, I didn't. Well, I take that back. I think I did for one -- one day, maybe, during a brief period of time. But for the most part, I didn't think I needed one. You know, I thought only guilty people needed lawyers. You know, I didn't have any experience with the justice system or anything legal, for that matter. So I felt only guilty people needed attorneys.", "Why, Damien, then, not only were you convicted, but you get the death sentence and the other two boys get life?", "You know, I don't believe I've come in contact with many people over the years who haven't asked me that question. And I still have no idea. The only thing I can figure is that I think the police -- maybe they went on what the police were saying, that I was the ringleader of whatever happened. And that's the only thing I can figure.", "Were you all tried together?", "No. The border line retarded guy was tried by himself, separately. And me and my best friend were tried together.", "Was the jury -- was it a jury trial?", "Yes, it was.", "Was the jury out a long time?", "I can't remember exactly. If I had to guess, I'd say, no -- no, they weren't. I don't even want to guess about the amount of time they were out. But I think it was less than two days.", "The first verdict reads as follows: \"We, the jury, find Damien Echols guilty of capital murder in the death of Stevie Branch.\"", "In retrospect, what was the key evidence against you? What convicted you?", "Honestly, I believe it was -- for the most part, I think it was the local media more than it was anything else -- the way they handled the case, the way they made it such a sensational issue and turned it into, you know, this huge story of -- you know, all of these Satanic rumors and all this sort of thing. I believe that was what convicted us more than anything else -- because there was no physical evidence.", "No physical evidence. Was -- was there -- is there a big paper in West Memphis, Arkansas?", "No. There was mostly -- we mostly get the Memphis news stations, the Memphis newspapers, things of that nature. The only paper they had in West Memphis was a small -- you know, a small town newspaper.", "And is it the Memphis papers that played this up?", "The Memphis papers, the Memphis television stations -- but, also, all the stations all around Arkansas. You know, this was a huge deal, not just in Arkansas, but in neighboring states, also, like, you know, Mississippi and Louisiana. It was a big deal there, also. There was coverage, you know, in the tri-state area.", "Did you testify?", "Yes, I did.", "And when cross-examined, what happened? I mean, did it not go well?", "No, it didn't. It didn't go well at all, I'd say, just because of the fact that I was a teenager, had no experience with these sorts of things. And this is what the prosecution does for a living. You know, they take whatever you say and make it look however they want it to look. And I think it was especially easy for them to do that whenever you're dealing with teenaged kids with no life experience and no experience with the judicial system.", "How did your best friend take all of this?", "We haven't really had a chance to communicate that much. They don't want us seeing each other, talking to each other, anything like that. So other than maybe just like -- I saw him a couple of times passing down the hallway, you know, nod at him, something like that. But there's been no real communication.", "We'll be right back with more of Damien Echols and this incredible story. Don't go away.", "Did you kill Michael Moore?", "No, I did not.", "On May the 5th, did you kill Stevie Branch?", "No, I did not.", "On May the 5th, did you kill Chris Byers?", "No, I did not.", "If the West Memphis three are innocent, as Damien Echols' supporters claim, then someone had to have murdered the three boys.", "Terry Hobbs. I don't have any problem with saying his name. In my opinion, yes, I believe he is the perpetrator of this crime.", "A recent DNA test found hair fibers on one of the victim's shoelaces matched Terry Hobbs. He was Stevie Branch's stepfather. But the DNA wasn't found on Stevie's shoelace. Hobbes claims it was a casual transfer to one of Stevie's friends, who spent time at their house. We asked Terry Hobbs to comment. He declined. But his daughter Amanda didn't.", "It makes me sick, it really does. I don't really -- it's just crazy, you know? It's like Mort Byers has been in these shoes for 14 years and now he wants to try to put my father in those shoes?", "Mark Byers was questioned by police shortly after the murders, but never declared an official suspect.", "It's the worst nightmare you could ever imagine. I know the nightmare that the three in prison feel to be wrongly accused.", "We're back with Damien Echols. He's at the Varner Unit Supermax State Prison Facility in Grady, Arkansas. He's on death row, but he's got a fighting chance, it would appear, after this DNA evidence. Jessie Misskelley, he was the -- he is the border line retarded person who was convicted separately and who made statements confessing and implicating you, I guess. What are your feelings towards him?", "Well, I try not to be angry with him, just because I know how the police treated me -- the things they did to me. And, you know, it was hard. It was -- they put us through absolute hell. And I can only imagine -- what it was for me, how it would be for someone with an I.Q. of, you know, 72. So, you know, it's not his fault. I think it was the fault of the police, who would rather psychologically torture a confession out of a border line retarded kid than actually go after the murderers. That's who I am angry with.", "Is he still in jail?", "Yes, he is.", "By the way, one of the people who now believes you and the others were wrongfully convicted is John Mark Byers, the father of the murdered Christopher Byers. After learning of the new evidence, he said he's reversed his belief in the guilt of the West Memphis Three and he now wants you to know, \"I'm here for you.\" Do you have a comment?", "Just that I -- I really do appreciate that. I appreciate everything he's been expressing lately. I've heard several -- I've heard him make comments like that several times on different local news stations and I've heard people repeat that to me. And I really, really do appreciate that. It means a great deal.", "Do we think you know who the murderers are?", "Well, I can -- I can say whose DNA they found at the crime scene, but I'm hesitant to point the finger at him just because I don't want to do the same thing to someone else that was done to me. You know, I was accused...", "Fully understandable.", "... And convicted and tried before I was ever sent to trial. And I don't want to do the same thing to someone else.", "All right. Without that, then, during this period, is anyone, to your knowledge, investigating the other DNA?", "I don't think so. I think once it came out, the prosecution and the police did pretty much what they always do, which is sort of hunker down, cover up, and hope that the media stops paying attention to this so that they can go about their business like they always did.", "Do you have the financial wherewithal to hire a detective?", "We have. There's a private detective who's been working on the case, for the most part, throughout this whole thing. And they -- they uncover little bits and pieces of things sometimes. But you really do need something in a case like this like DNA testing -- something that, you know, really does strongly testify to your innocence.", "When have you last talked to Jason Baldwin, your best friend, who was convicted along with you but who got life?", "We exchanged a couple of words, you know, just telling each other, hey, how are you doing? Hold on. This has got to end some time. Maybe two years ago, I would say? He's -- he was at this prison for a short while and I would see him in the hallway, you know, pass him every now and then. But he's at an entirely different prison now. So there's not a lot of communication.", "Have you come into contact with Jessie, the other boy?", "I saw him a couple of times, too. Pretty much the same thing.", "Have you ever come in contact with the parents of the dead boys?", "No.", "They didn't go to trial? They weren't in court? They never had a -- you never had to confront them...", "Oh, they...", "They had to confront you?", "They were at the trial. They attended the trial throughout. But there's, you know, been no communication with them, anything like that -- you know, direct communication and nothing of that nature.", "You had never been convicted of anything. Did you ever do physical harm to anyone? In other words, were they able to bring up anything in court to show that this is a violent guy?", "No. It was mostly all rumors. You know, they would trying to say this guy is a Satanist because he listens to Metallica, therefore he must be violent. You know, it was all some sort of circular logic type thing. There was nothing -- you know, anything like that.", "What are your feelings about these 8-year-olds? I mean, you must go through some torture here. Three 8-year-olds died, you're in jail -- forever, maybe -- accused of it. You know yourself you didn't do it. Someone out there did it.", "I think it's -- it's -- I wouldn't even want to imagine what they went through. And if there is some sort of afterlife, I can imagine they would probably still be pretty upset right now. I think I would probably feel the worst for their parents who, you know, not only in addition to losing their children in such a horrific manner and then being led to believe that they, you know, were going to see justice done, that the right people had been arrested. And then now, all the new stuff is coming out and they're realizing that a mistake was made. So it's not over for them even now -- even 15 years later. You know, they've been strung along and drug out by this just like I have. So that...", "What...", "...must be horrible.", "What's going to happen, though, is pretty soon, we would hope, that in state court this evidence -- the DNA evidence will be presented. First it must be presented there, right? Do you know when that's going to happen?", "No dates have been set yet. You know, this is one of those things in the legal system, they like to drag things out as long as they possibly can. Like I say, I've been here almost 15 years now.", "Do you have lawyers, can we say, working feverishly on this?", "Yes. Yes, they've been working on it...", "And, of course...", "I'm really happy with the attorneys we have now. They've been working on the case for the past few years. These aren't the same guys that have been working on it from the very beginning.", "We'll be right back with more of Damien Echols on this edition of LARRY KING LIVE. Don't go away.", "We are back with Damien Echols. Damien, in 2001, a psychiatrist for your defense team submitted an affidavit that essentially concluded -- I'm reading this -- \"The nature and severity of your multiple psychiatric illnesses have left you unable to rationally understand the 1994 legal proceedings that convicted you or to rationally assist in your own defense.\" How do you react to that, that you are not in a rational state?", "I think maybe -- I don't think they are saying I'm not in a rational state now. I think what they mean is that I wasn't in a rational state at the time of the trial. And I think that I would probably even agree with that, just for the fact that I was a teenage kid and I was suffering from severe trauma and shock from everything that was going on. I had no experience with anything like that. And it came as a tremendous blow, you know, just the depression and the shock and everything that goes along with it. I would probably agree with that statement.", "So what your psychiatrist was saying, that the nature and severity of your multiple psychiatric illnesses made you unable to rationally understand the legal proceedings against you. Did you have multiple psychiatric illnesses?", "I don't think so. I think at the time I probably suffered from what most teenagers suffer from, you know, just teenage angst, maybe depression, maybe sometimes even severe depression. But I don't -- I think it is harder to judge something like that when you are going back in hindsight than it is whenever you are actually, you know, there at the time. You know, this would have been someone who didn't know me at the time of the trial. This would have been looking back in hindsight and trying to put everything together.", "How was the DNA evidence uncovered?", "They collected at the time of the murders. And they didn't do anything with it. They just pretty much left it laying somewhere in an evidence room all of this time. That -- I guess in a way, that kind of makes me angry too, just to think that a lot of this could have been avoided. You know, I could have possibly had 15 years of my life back if they would have bothered to do some of the testing back then.", "How have your parents reacted to all of this?", "I don't know. You know, it is really a roller coaster ride for them as well as me, for everyone involved in this case. We never know when to get our hopes up. We never know, you know, how to react, how long something is going to take. It is hard.", "What is death row like?", "Not fun. It does what it was designed to do, which is pretty much separate you from all your support systems, tear you away from anything that means anything to you, and keep you there until they are ready to kill you.", "Have any inmates been killed since you have been on death row?", "I was trying to count that, actually, a couple of days ago, trying to remember. Somewhere between 20 and 25, I would say.", "Did you know any of them?", "Some of them I knew quite well. Some of them I knew just as, you know, passing -- maybe speak to them as I passed them, something like that. Some of them I knew quite well.", "How is death performed in Arkansas?", "Lethal injection.", "When they were killed, would every other inmate know the night that was going to happen?", "Yes. They usually come in some time between 2:00 and 4:00 a.m. and take them out. And usually everyone in the barracks will be up and watching as they lead him out the doorway into the death chamber.", "Well, how is -- that must feel terrible for you when you -- especially when you have gotten to know them, right?", "Yes. It is pretty hard. I mean, even if you are not -- even if it is someone you don't know, just watching someone being led out in front of you, and knowing that this person is being taken to their death. I mean, that is a hard thing itself, even if it's someone you don't know.", "Do you have a date set for your execution?", "No, not right now.", "All of that would be on kind of hold anyway, with all of these legal proceedings.", "Right.", "We will be right back with Damien Echols on this edition of LARRY KING LIVE. Don't go away.", "We are back with Damien Echols. By the way, just so we clarify a couple of things. Was the semi-retarded young man -- was he the only witness against you that would be called an eyewitness?", "Yes, he was.", "And did you have any psychiatric treatment at all before all of this?", "Yes. I had been in counseling session for therapy and I had been on anti-depressants for several years, I would say probably between two and three years.", "But not having anything to do with your being violent?", "Oh, no. No, nothing like that.", "OK. In addition to December being your birthday month, it is also the month you married Lorri Davis (ph) in a prison wedding ceremony in 1999. How did Lorri come into your life?", "She was one of the very first people who saw the documentary that they made about the case when it originally aired in New York at a small theater. She lived in Manhattan at the time -- or Brooklyn. And after she saw the documentary, she started corresponding with me, writing to me and we started talking on the phone. And every few months, she would fly back and forth from New York to Arkansas. And then probably about 10 years ago, she finally moved here. We have been together about 12 years now. We have been married for eight.", "Did you regard it -- I don't know if strange is the right word -- that someone would want to marry you that can't co-habit with you?", "I can understand how a lot of people would maybe think that was odd. But we love each other. She is my life. And I'm hers. So we do what we have to do to make it.", "Don't you worry about her on the outside and you are not?", "Constantly. Once again, worry is not even a word that begins to describe it. You know, she has had to work 10 and 12-hour days for years now and then come home every single night and work for hours and hours on this case. You know, she does as much work on my case as the attorneys do, as the private investigators, as anybody has done. She has done that much or more. And she -- quite frankly, after all of this time, she is exhausted, as am I. And it is really hard to see that.", "Do you have any -- Damien, any guilt that even though there is a great deal of love, you are preventing Lorri from having a full life?", "No. I don't think so. And the reason I say that is because she doesn't want to be with anybody else. And I don't want to be with anybody else. This is what we want. We -- our life isn't something that we think of as being something set off in the future that we have to work towards. We have a life together right here and now. And we try to get as much joy from that, as much happiness from that, and we support each other as much as we can. This is our life.", "And it all started with her seeing the documentary about you in New York.", "Correct.", "Has that documentary gotten wide play?", "It has been shown all over the world. I get letters every day from people everywhere from Israel to Australia to pretty much every state of the United States where this documentary has been shown, all over the world.", "We will be right back with more with Damien Echols. Don't go away.", "Even after I die, people are going to remember me forever. They're going to talk about me for years. People will tell their kids stories. It will be like I'm the West Memphis boogey man. Little kids will be looking under their beds before they go to bed. Damien might be under there. (END VIDEO CLIP", "We are back with Damien Echols. In addition to Lorri in your life, you also have a son, right? But not by Lorri. Who is the mother?", "She was someone that I was with before I was arrested, someone I used to live with, a girlfriend at the time.", "You were pretty young then to be a father.", "Yes, I was. My son is already 14 and I'm only 33 now.", "Do you get to talk to him?", "As much as we can. We try to keep him separated from this case as much as possible. He lives pretty far away from here, just to be away from all of this.", "Do you talk to your --", "We try to shelter him as much as possible.", "Talk to his mother?", "Yes. We are still on friendly terms.", "While you were in prison, awaiting trial, you wrote a number of letters containing things a lot of people would consider disturbing. Among them, you wrote to Gloria Shettles, an investigator for your defense team. And you wrote: \"Everyone will pay because everyone is too stupid to open their eyes. This is the final time and I am the new messiah. My body is changing but that medicine is making it happen a lot more slowly than normal. I am outgrowing my skin. I am eating packs of sugar and Kool-Aid to give my body extra energy it needs to make its change. Soon people will be able to know I am the Christ. I always knew I was different from other children.\" How do you explain that?", "I don't know. I mean, like I said, that was 15 years ago. That could have been -- I'm not sure what that was. What I was talking about could have been a short story. I really don't know. You know, I write constantly, non-stop. I actually consider myself a writer. I have had several things published. And some of it is hard to keep track of after all of these years. Even now I come across things that I read that aren't familiar to me. I will recognize my hand writing, but have no idea what it was, what context it was in, any of that.", "Ever thought about suicide?", "Yes. Back in the -- I don't anymore, not since Lorri. But back whenever this first started happening, 15 years ago, yes, I did. This was an extremely hard thing to go through. And sometimes that seemed like a very inviting option back then.", "Is it possible, Damien, just possible that you committed this crime under some sort of delusional state and have blotted it out?", "Absolutely not.", "You didn't know the boys and you know you didn't do it.", "Exactly. And delusions don't leave", "Your wife, Lorri, told \"The Arkansas Times\" a few years ago that she knows some people perceive you as scary, even maniacal. Do you think that is the public perception?", "I think it probably was at one time. I don't think it is so much anymore, just because I have been more exposed to the public. But I think back then, due to the way the local media portrayed me and the way I was portrayed by the police department, I think that would probably be pretty accurate.", "Lorri also said she thinks some of your behavior during your trial may have contributed to your conviction, that you didn't act as a lot of people thought an innocent person would act.", "I would probably agree with that too. But at the time, once again, I go back -- you know, I was a teenager. I was a very foolish kid, basically. There was that aspect of it and there was also the aspect of -- my behavior felt to me at the time sort of like defiance in the face of injustice.", "Some more moments with Damien Echols right after this.", "We are back with Damien Echols. By the way, we understand you are supported by many people. Among them, Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, is that right?", "That is correct.", "Have they been to see you?", "Eddie has. He has been to see me a couple of times. We talk on the phone, write, things of that nature. He keeps a -- he has been -- Eddie has went above and beyond the call of duty to me and my wife both. You know, he has been probably the greatest friend a person could have through all of this.", "Do you have strong spiritual beliefs?", "I think I do. But it is pretty hard to articulate exactly what that is.", "What keeps you going all day?", "My wife. My wife and I guess you could also say those spiritual beliefs.", "You are a Catholic?", "I'm a member of the Catholic Church, yes.", "Damien Echols, he is at the Varner Unit -- V-A-R-N-E-R, Varner Unit Supermax State Prison Facility, Grady, Arkansas. The next procedure will occur in state court dealing with the DNA evidence. Anderson Cooper with \"AC 360\" is next. Anderson? 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{"id": "CNN-149044", "program": "RICK'S LIST", "date": "2010-3-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/15/rlst.02.html", "summary": "Bus, Light-Rail Train Collide in Houston", "utt": ["I got two new developments that I want to share with you. One involves video. The other one involves the tweet. Let's say -- let's start with the video first. This is an accident in Houston, Texas. I think we have got some pictures that we can share with you. There it is. It's a light-rail train that crashed with a bus. And we told you at one point that all we knew was that one person had been taken away in a stretcher. Now we're told 18 people may have been injured and either treated or taken to the hospital as a result of this accident. So, again, this is in Houston, Texas. It's a light-rail train that crashed with a bus. It looks like the bus actually crashed into the train. Those are live pictures from the scene. Pardon me. No, that's tape. I apologize. That's tape that we have collected from the scene from about, oh, 20 minutes ago. As we get more information on this, I'm going to share it with you. Here's another development, story, and this comes in the form of a tweet. You know that we like to collect on a list that we keep. It's called Rick's List. You can go to it, by the way, and have access to it yourself by just going to my Twitter account, right, which is RickSanchezCNN. All right, we told you about what the president's plan was to undo President Bush's plan on No Child Left Behind. Well, here's the NEA, National Education Association. It's a huge union that represents millions and millions of teachers all over the country. They don't like President Obama's plan. Again, they don't like President Obama's plan. They're saying: \"NEA president on blueprint proposal -- quote -- 'We are disappointed.'\" And then they give a URL there where you can go if you want to get more information from them. So, we thought we would share that with you, so you get more information on this story that we have been covering today, which, as I said, at the beginning of the newscast, is a story that affects our children. All right. Making today's list now, the list that you don't want to be on, an obvious choice, FOX News host Glenn Beck. Here's why Glenn Beck is chosen today. He has created a firestorm from Christian groups for suggesting that they should not advocate social justice. First, let me tell you what Mr. Beck said on his show March 2 -- quote -- \"I beg you. Look for the words social justice or economic justice on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice are code words. I am advising people to leave their church. Yes\" -- stop quote. Those are Beck's comments, comments that have now created the National Council of Churches, an umbrella organization for Christians around the country, to shoot back at Glenn Beck, to criticize Glenn Beck. Some other groups are also calling for a boycott of Glenn Beck. And many are pointing out that what he says goes against his own church. Beck publicly describes himself as a Mormon. They talk about social justice. There -- then there's \"TIME\" magazine. Amy Sullivan has written about this extensively. Here's what she says. Here's a quote: \"He managed to outrage Christians in most mainline Protestant denominations, African-Americans congregations, Hispanic churches, and Catholics, who first heard the term social justice in papal encyclicals, and have a little something in their tradition called Catholic social teaching, not to mention the teaching of a certain fellow from Nazareth, who was always blathering on about justice.\" Glenn Beck stirring up a furor among some Christians, finding himself in it because of what he said,. And that's why he's on the list that you don't want to be on. (", "Now, a baby was born to this woman.", "Right.", "He said he would take a test.", "Yes.", "Is he going to take a test?", "I have no idea.", "What would John Edwards' wife say about Rielle Hunter's revealing interview in \"GQ\"? I'm going to share story with you in a little bit. Also, who is on our list of the most intriguing person in the news today? Here's a hint. She's not fond of Obama or Bush. Stay with us. We will be right back."], "speaker": ["SANCHEZ", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"LARRY KING LIVE\") LARRY KING, HOST, \"LARRY KING LIVE\"", "ELIZABETH EDWARDS, WIFE OF FORMER SENATOR JOHN EDWARDS", "KING", "EDWARDS", "KING", "EDWARDS", "SANCHEZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-167389", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2011-6-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1106/10/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Gingrich Vows 'Whatever It Takes'; The 'Other' Republicans; White House Takes Mortgage Giants to Task", "utt": ["T.J., thanks very much. Happening now, embattled GOP presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich, vowing whatever it takes, reassuring supporters he's staying in the race for the White House despite a major campaign implosion and he's ready to square off with his opponents in CNN's first Republican debate in New Hampshire Monday night. Also, the CIA chief, Leon Panetta, warning there are 1,000 Al Qaeda terrorists still in Iraq. Could U.S. troops be withdrawing from the country too soon? And a star in one of television's most popular comedies igniting a national firestorm after making homophobic remarks. Could Tracy Morgan's anti-gay rant end up costing him his job? I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. But up first, the growing political controversy swirling around Republican presidential hopeful, Newt Gingrich, just one day after the stunning revelations that most of his senior staff quit. New questions, also, about his potential viability as a candidate. Gingrich now insists he's in it for a long hall and he's explaining the campaign breakup this way.", "There is a fundamental strategic difference between the traditional consulting community and the kind of campaign I want to run. Now, we'll find out over the next year who's right.", "Let's bring in our chief political analyst, Gloria Borger. She's been working this story for us. What are these fundamental differences that Newt Gingrich is talking about?", "Well, it's very clear, in trying to piece this together over the last couple of days, that this is a campaign staff that felt that they had completely lost control of their candidate, that there was a candidate who had no discipline, who wouldn't adhere to the schedule they wanted. It was very difficult in terms of getting him to focus on a particular vision or a particular set of ideas he wanted to get across to his voters. Someone said to me that he just couldn't make the transition from being Newt Gingrich, the great thinker, to negotiating Newt Gingrich, the candidate, who has to learn to speak succinctly and to tell voters the things he is going to do as president. Then he started making these mistakes, particularly on \"Meet the Press,\" when he came out and called the House Republican budget right- wing social engineering. Things got worse. And they just decided, in frustration, as professionals, that they had to leave this campaign because it was clear to them, after a conference call with the candidate and some real heavy discussions with the candidate, that he wasn't going to change.", "A lot of people think this is the end of his campaign for all practical purposes.", "Well, a lot of people do. And I think it's hard to think otherwise, quite frankly. But Newt Gingrich himself -- you saw that video earlier. And then he pasted something on his Facebook page today. And let me read you from that. He said, quote: \"As someone who has been in public life for nearly 40 years, I know full well the rigors of campaigning for public office. I will endure them. I will carry the message of American renewal to every part of this great land, whatever it takes.\" So there you have it. But let me add one thing here. Some people have been saying, you know what, other campaigns have survived large staffs leaving. For example, Ronald Reagan and John McCain. Ronald Reagan fired his campaign. John McCain fired top advisers. The difference with Newt Gingrich is that his top advisers have quit en masse. So it wasn't the candidate making the decision that the staff needs to go, we need to retool the campaign. It was the staff saying the candidate does not have the discipline or the will to retool this campaign. So that's a little bit different.", "And a lot of people are saying this now creates an opening for Texas governor, Rick Perry.", "Sure. Well, it does for a couple of reasons, the most obvious of which is that Newt Gingrich's two top staffers are very close to Governor Rick Perry. One of them ran his gubernatorial race. We know that Perry has been kind of publicly flirting with the notion. Now he's got, it would seem to me, a readymade staff if he wants it. So we'll have to see what he decides to do. He also has a readymade constituency in the Republican Party, which is that Tea Party constituency that Sarah Palin says has not really been represented well in this Republican field. So we'll have to see what happens on that.", "Maybe another Texas governor in the race for the White House. We'll soon find out.", "We've seen those.", "Yes. All right, thanks very much. Newt Gingrich is just one of many Republican presidential candidates you'll see facing off only here on CNN in Monday night's New Hampshire debate. But as they shape the race, whether any of them winds up winning their party's nomination certainly remains to be seen. As CNN's Jim Acosta reports, some GOP voters may have not found what they're looking for yet.", "Wolf, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, GOP voters seem to have an appetite for some alternatives.", "The Ronald Reagan bumper sticker on the Cadillac parked out front is just the first sign Tammy's Diner in Round Hill, Virginia serves conservative politics right along with the country ham. And it's a good thing the current list of likely GOP candidates isn't on the menu. Some of these Republicans just might stick with coffee.", "I like somebody who's smart and conservative, a staunch Republican. There is no model, no perfect guy sitting right there right now.", "Obama is going to get elected again. None of these guys can beat him.", "You don't think so?", "No, not right now.", "There may be another reason why voters in Round Hill are looking for some other options for 2012. A few big name politicians are acting like presidential teases.", "What about when this session is over, Governor? Are you going to think about it?", "Yes, sir.", "About running for president?", "I'm going to think about it. But I think about -- I think about a lot of things.", "Texas Governor Rick Perry is stoking speculation with plans to stage a national prayer event later this summer. Former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani, keeps popping up in New Hampshire.", "Hi, there.", "Hi.", "How are you?", "And Sarah Palin not only has a campaign-style bus, there's a pro-Palin movie coming soon.", "What do you think the odds are that you will run?", "I don't know. I honestly don't know. It's -- it's still, you know, a matter of looking at the field and considering much.", "New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is headed to Iowa for an education conference next month, but insists he's not running.", "I made a commitment to the people of New Jersey when I asked them for four years as governor.", "Think of these Republicans as specials of the day, not quite on the GOP menu, but not quite off. A new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows Republicans do want alternatives. Two-thirds of GOP voters would like to see Giuliani jump into the race. A slightly smaller, though not too shabby majority, wants Palin to run, as well. Another recent poll found nearly 40 percent of Republicans aren't happy with their choices.", "If the election were tomorrow, it would probably be Mitt Romney. But that's -- that's only because of there's -- of the lack of choice.", "Back at Tammy's Diner, even the prospect of some new choices, like Palin, don't sound too appetizing.", "Are you going to get elected the president and lead that way, too? Give me a break. You couldn't do that.", "A sign that when it comes to the GOP field these days, not every Republican is a satisfied customer.", "While this field has its critics, it may also have a frontrunner. Mitt Romney is the leading Republican, according to a slew of new polls. The only question is whether Romney can fight off any new flavors of the month that are added to the GOP menu -- Wolf.", "All right, Jim. Jim Acosta reporting. I never stop marveling at the occasional weirdness of presidential politics. I often wondered why some Democrats were running for the nation's highest office. The same can now be said of some Republicans. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, he's a smart politician, but he lost his bid for reelection in Pennsylvania to Democrat Bob Casey by 18 points. He now thinks he can win the Republican nomination. Herman Cain, a successful business executive, has never held any elected public office. He lost in his bid to win the Republican Senatorial nomination in Georgia back in 2004. But he's now running for president. Sarah Palin, who's thinking of running, served as governor of Alaska for only two years, quitting midway through her first term. She's made millions of dollars since then. Jon Huntsman quit as Utah's governor during his second term to become the U.S. ambassador to China. \"I believe if people elect someone to a position, that person has a responsibility to finish the job.\" There are many Republicans not satisfied, as you just heard, with the current field. They're urging many others, like Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, Rudy Giuliani, to jump in. Here's a question -- why isn't anyone urging the two most experienced Republican leaders in the country to run, the House speaker, John Boehner, and the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell? Presidential politics always a bit weird and that's why I love covering politics. You can read my thought, by the way, on our new blog, CNN.com/situationroom. Go there. I think you will enjoy. Let's get to the White House right now, where, for the first time, the Obama administration is singling out top mortgage giants for failing to prevent millions of American homeowners from going into foreclosure. Our White House correspondent, Brianna Keilar, is joining us now with more. It's a pretty shocking development that we're learning -- Brianna. Update our viewers.", "That's right, Wolf. The Treasury Department is starting to withhold incentive payments to four mortgage lenders, including some pretty big banks. We're talking about Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo. But what they're really using here as a stick, Wolf, is sort of this idea of really humiliating -- publicly humiliating these institutions into kind of doing the right thing. Here's the big picture, though. This is the first time in the history of this program that we've seen the Obama administration do something like this, in its mortgage relief program that some call a failure.", "February 2009 -- with millions on the brink of foreclosure, President Obama rolled out his plan to keep them in their homes.", "The plan I am announcing focuses on rescuing families who played by the rules and acted responsible, by refinancing loans for millions of families in traditional mortgages who are underwater or close to it.", "Millions of families -- up to four million, in fact, were supposed to avoid foreclosure under the plan. To date, it has kept just about 700,000 in their homes. Neil Barofsky, the former independent watchdog for the program, has become its chief critic. He resigned from his post in March. (on camera): So how do you characterize the outcome of this program?", "It's a failure. I mean I -- I really think it's difficult to define it anything other than as an abject failure.", "Lenders whose loans to people who couldn't afford them led to the foreclosure crisis were supposed to modify loans so struggling homeowners could reduce their monthly payments. In exchange, the government would make an incentive payment to the lender. But it didn't really happen. Barofsky says it's because the payments are not enough and there are no penalties for banks not participating. (on camera): How many fines has Treasury imposed in this program?", "Zero. Not one. Notwithstanding the fact that in November of 2009, they issued a press release and said that they're going to start holding servicers accountable with penalties and withholding payments if they -- if they don't comply with the terms of their agreements, nothing followed.", "While Barofsky blames the Treasury Department, Secretary Tim Geithner points a finger at the mortgage companies.", "They are not putting enough resources in separate. They are not doing a good enough job of helping homeowners navigate through a very complicated, difficult process. They have to do a better job.", "Now, Geithner also highlighted a number of other programs that the Obama administi -- the Obama administration has undertaken to try to help struggling homeowners. One helps those who are unemployed and underwater on their loans. There's another program that targets, Wolf, some of the hardest hit states, giving states the ability to kind of put that money in different places. The thing is, though, there are no numbers on those programs yet. We'll see them soon, but we don't really know how well they're doing.", "It's a story that affects millions, as you point out, millions of our viewers out there. Thank you. Brianna Keilar is over at the White House. Is Moammar Gadhafi on NATO's hit list? He's virtually a fugitive in his own capital now. Is the Alliance targeting getting him for assassination? U.S. troops were expected to pull out of Iraq -- all of them -- by year's end. So why are top Pentagon brass now hinting that they could stay longer? And a rant by the comedian, Tracy Morgan, hits a nerve, sparking controversy across the country. You're going to find out if he's apologizing for making homophobic slurs. Stay with us. 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{"id": "CNN-316155", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2017-07-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/06/cg.02.html", "summary": "Interview with Congressman Greg Meeks of New York.  ", "utt": ["And welcome back. You are looking at live pictures of protests right near the G20 Summit site in Germany. The protests have been violent at times. Police have used water cannons to dispersed demonstrators who have thrown smoke bombs, firecrackers and bottles. Of course, we will continue to monitor the situation there in Hamburg. And just a short distance away, President Trump will huddle with other heads of state tomorrow including Russia's Vladimir Putin, to confront a handful of foreign policy challenges. For more, Congressman Greg Meeks, Democrat of New York, joins me now. Congressman, thanks for being here with us.", "Good being with you, Pam.", "So, Congressman, a reporter -- our reporter on the ground says that many of these protesters are angry about President Trump, in addition to other concerns. How can he repair relationships with European leaders tomorrow?", "Well, I think there's a number of things. Number one, he has to acknowledge NATO and Article 5. He has to talk about the significance of the E.U., and that he wants to be inclusive, not just this America-only agenda of which he ran his campaign on. We got to do things in a multilateral way, not unilaterally. And he's got to talk about he wants to be part of a world order, which everything he has said prior to his election and then his pulling out of the Paris agreement indicates that his America first policy is it's about America and everybody else goes to the wayside. That's not going to work with bringing people together.", "Well, of course, a key topic in these meetings is North Korea following the test on Fourth of July. The Trump administration has said it's not ruling out taking military action against North Korea. But in your view, is that an idle threat?", "Yes. You know, sometimes I don't think that anyone understands what Donald Trump says, not even Donald Trump. Clearly, not his members of his cabinet because they say one thing and he seems to say something else. You know, I think what has to be done here -- I think number one, Donald Trump needs to take a page out of the Barack Obama book to be quite honest with you, as Barack Obama dealt with Iran. And so, first you've got to make sure that you have locked in China and Russia, they're going to have strong sanctions against North Korea. And if that doesn't happen when you have, as you had in Iran, China, Russia, and the E.U., all significantly in multilateral sanctions against Iran, you need the same thing with China, Russia, and the E.U. focusing on North Korea to make, to make a difference there. So, he should be a leader, Mr. Trump, and bringing countries together. And compelling China who has been resistant to say if they are not part of it, then they will have some economic consequences that they will have to face. So that they can join the world order against North Korea obtaining a nuclear armed weapon.", "And, of course, there are so much anticipation ahead of this meeting tomorrow with Vladimir Putin, as you point out, at times the president has said some things people in his cabinet, his administration have said other things, particularly when it comes to Russia. As you heard today, he continued to cast doubt on the intelligence community's assessment that Russia did meddle in the U.S. election despite the fact that people he's actually nominated who are in the intelligence community said they have no doubts that Russia did meddle in the election. What do you think the message needs to be tomorrow when he meets with Vladimir Putin?", "Actually, he has to be strong. And I don't see, you know, I hear they're talking about Syria, and that's important, but you have to talk about Russia's involvement in our democracy and the very same way that President Macron of France talked about Russia in front of Putin. What they were doing in Europe. And their involvement in regards to taking land in the Ukraine. So, he's got to be very firm, and he's got to let, you know, Mr. Putin know, eyeball to eyeball, and then not allow that just to be private, but in a public way, that the United States is very concerned and will not stand for his intrusion to our elections, as well as, you know, some of the things he stated today in the speech in Poland. But he's got -- and he's got to make sure though that because the E.U. and those in Europe are watching to see what his position is, will he try to unilaterally ease sanction against Russia without Russia making the reforms that are necessary.", "But let me just -- because others say, supporters of President Trump say look there are more pressing issues. The election has happened, that's in the past. He really needs to be focused on Russia's destabilizing activities in Ukraine, support of Syria and Iran. What do you have to say to them?", "Well, I've got to say that the president of the United States, that'll be able to do more than one thing at the same time. This is a complicated and difficult job, not as the president said, everything's easy. I hope that he is learning that. So, yes, we've got serious issues across the board of which we have to deal with each and every one of them. And, you could not say that Russia getting involved in our democracy, you know, as all of our intelligence agencies says is not a critical importance to our nation. So that cannot be a casualty to some of the other issues that have to be addressed, all of them within an hour's period of time can be addressed and it has to be that open and frank dialogue so that Mr. Putin knows that the United States is serious that we do not want their intrusion into our democratic society. And president Trump, you know, sometimes weighs the line because sometimes as he said in the campaign, I think he wants to be like Mr. Putin, he would like to shut down the press or have the state run the press. He would like to be more of an authoritarian type president.", "Right.", "He's got to show that he is going to be, you know, democracy and the values that we share like with our E.U. partners are what has to stand forward.", "All right. Congressman Greg Meeks, thank you so much.", "My pleasure.", "So, what should be on the agenda when President Trump and Putin finally get in the same room? The panel has their opinions, you can be sure. That's up next. And we're also keeping an eye on the breaking news right there at the G20 Summit in Germany. Protests erupting this afternoon with the president and many other leaders in town. Stay with us. We'll be back.", "And welcome back. There are ongoing protests in Hamburg, Germany, that's two miles from the site of G20 Summit where world leaders will gather tomorrow. President Trump is there as we speak. And we will continue to monitor the situation there, of course. I want to bring in my political panel now, there is a lot going on there in Hamburg and there's so much anticipation, of course, with this meeting tomorrow between President Trump and Vladimir Putin of Russia. I want to bring in you, Anita, because this is the first time the two leaders will be meeting face to face in the wake of so much going on, the Russia election meddling, Russia's activities in Ukraine, Syria, Iran, Vladimir Putin, a cunning leader. He ran the services before becoming president 17 years ago. Who do you think has the upper hand going into this meeting tomorrow?", "Well, I don't know who has the upper hand, but there are important things for the United States at stake in this meeting tomorrow, not the least of which is the issue of Russia having meddled in our elections in 2016 and more importantly, how do we keep them from this behavior moving forward? It's always distressing to hear the president not only having trouble acknowledging what 16 intelligence agencies and the director of national intelligence have told him. But in addition to that, not dealing with the fact that this is going to happen again, unless the United States deals with it forcefully. So I would certainly hope that would be on the agenda for tomorrow.", "And, Ana, do you on this, it seems like there is sort of two different tales when it comes to President Trump's approach to Russia, on one hand, he seemed to be getting tough on Russia in terms of the Ukraine activity, Syria, Iran, but on the other hand, as Anita pointed out, he's still sort of casting doubt on whether Russia definitively meddled in the election. Let's listen to what he said.", "I think it was Russia, but I think it was probably other people and/or countries, and I see nothing wrong with that statement. Nobody really knows. Nobody really knows for sure. We urge Russia to cease it's destabilizing activities in Ukraine and elsewhere, and it's support for hostile regimes, including Syria and Iran. And to instead join the community of responsible nations in our fight against common enemies --", "So, what do you make of these distinctly different tones?", "It's obviously the difference between scripted and unscripted Donald Trump. It's the difference between somebody putting a speech in front of him to read and him going off the cuff. It's the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of U.S. diplomacy. On the one hand, he gave a very good speech. That was actually a very good presidential sounding speech. Donald Trump is not a highly experienced in this. And then he goes and questions the validity and legitimacy of the finding of the 16 security agencies on the Russia stuff instead of being forceful. He was forceful in the morning, he couldn't be forceful the entire day. And so, it's inconsistent, and it's frankly very disappointing.", "So, let me just go to you, David, on this, the fact that he continues to cast doubt on his own intelligence agencies' assessment, casting doubt on some people he's actually nominated and their assessment, in your view, does that only bolster Putin's hand?", "No, no. So, from what I heard, the clip you just played, he didn't cast out on anybody. The Russians and others, so there's -- there's no doubt --", "-- about weapons of mass disruption with the intelligence community being wrong.", "But there was no doubt on the meddling of election. I know the director of the CIA happens to be my West Point classmate who I've known since 1982, I'm very close friends with, and I know the president has the greatest confidence in the clandestine services and our services --", "Then why does he keep bringing up Iran?", "-- a forceful condemnations here.", "Ana, Ana, I'm right next to you. I'm right next to you.", "Right. Well, answer me then.", "He said, he has no doubt that it's the Russians, the Russians participated --", "They could have.", "No, no, no, listen, hold on. Go back, if you want to replay, listen, he said, the Russians did it, and others.", "It could --", "Have you had classified briefings, Ana? Yes or no? It's a yes or no.", "Listen, Russia meddled in the election --", "That's a yes or no.", "-- and forcefully condemned, that is not a forceful condemnation under any definition. But looking ahead to tomorrow, people who have spoken to my colleagues, Sara Murray, Jeff Zeleny, have said it's not going to be - he may not even bring it up, but if he does, he's not going to focus on it. Do you think that's a mistake for the President?", "Listen, I don't know what's happening behind the scenes with the Foreign Minister, with the clandestine services of both of our nations on this topic. I do know that we face an existential threat to the world in North Korea. I do know the people of Ukraine have had their sovereignty invaded by the Russians, I do know that the Syrians are facing you know, extinction because of the Russian involvement. I do know - I can go on and on and on with the list the problems that we have with Russia that are again existential threat to the world. I don't - I'm not minimizing the election, but I'm saying that there are people dying, right now, because of the Russian actions, and I think, that those things should be taken forefront. And as we discussed earlier, when you get in a room, when you're talking, when you're having discussions on a high level, there are interpreters are involved, it takes an incredible amount of time to cover one topic, one topic. And so I don't think that the elections aren't important, I don't think meddling - the Russian meddling in our election is something to be dismissed. I do think, however, Syria, Ukraine, there are many - North Korea, those issues far outweigh - no, listen -", "You represent a segment, the Trump base, I can tell you that there's a lot of other Republicans who feel like I do, who - and a lot of other Americans who feel that a threat to our elections is an existential threat to our democracy and something that should not go --", "So Anna, if you were given a choice, Anna - if you were given a choice and you had a limited amount of time -", "Why am I given a choice?", "Because -", "Why can't we walk and chew gum at the same time? Why can't we defend our democracy and defend the people of Syria?", "Let me bring in Anita here because the President also -", "If you had a limited amount of time, which you do tomorrow, it's going to be a limited amount of time. Which do you talk about, Anna?", "You talk about everything.", "You can't, that's ridiculous.", "Anita, of course, worked under President Obama so let's -", "And of course, the other thing the President did today was once again criticize his predecessor for not having dealt more forcefully with this even though there's a lot of evidence to show that the President did deal quite forcefully with it. This is something -", "Do you think - do you mean when he actually told Putin, cut it out? Is that what you mean? Because -", "Well, that and also - I know that there -", "There has been - Obama administration officials have been divided in terms of how forcefully he did deal with the situation.", "Well - and I think that what is very clear is that given the fact that he could not get the kind of bipartisan support that he needed really take this to the people and of course in the election that the decision he made which was to deal directly with Russia and also to make sure, first and foremost that we secured our electoral systems which is of course, I think, I agree with Anna, an existential threat, David, that they tried to go in, and they tried to go in and they tried to go in with -", "I'm not minimizing - I'm not minimizing it.", "- cyber security attacks, not just the DNC, not just candidates running against Donald Trump, but to our actual state electoral.", "I'm not minimizing it. And I don't - I mean, I don't know, you and Anna, what you and Anna are saying - I'm not saying that that's not true, I'm saying I don't know and none of us at this table know what's taking place with our clandestine services. Do you know what the NSA is doing? Do you know what the CIA is doing, or DIA? I don't.", "I think we can assume, given their public statements and public testimony that they're extremely concerned about what's going to happen in 2018 and 2020 if we don't deal forcefully with the Russians on this because they said that in public testimony on Capitol Hill, David. So they're very worried about this too. And there are - you're absolutely correct, a host of issues to be discussed and dealt with, with the Russians. But I think many people in America are rightfully concerned about the fact that this President has yet to truly acknowledge, just how serious what happened in 2016 was, and you can do that without having anyone question the legitimacy of your election, but he doesn't seem to see that.", "OK, everyone, thank you so much. I hope you all feel like you had your voices heard.", "Sure.", "Do appreciate it.", "Thank you Pamela.", "Thank you Pam.", "Well she's on one of the committees investigating Russia, the Trump campaign, and the election. So what does Senator Amy Klobuchar want President Trump to tell President Putin? I'll ask her.", "And we're back with our \"POLITICS LEAD\" just in, the U.S. District Court will hear the case against the President's Voter Fraud Commission tomorrow. The privacy rights group ethics says the commission's request for registered voter data is a violation of American's rights. I want to bring in my colleague Laura Jarrett. So Laura, what is the latest on this fight?", "Well, Pamela, lawyers are continuing to battle in Federal Court over the Trump administration's efforts to collect all of this voter data nationwide. Now the President Trump's Voter Integrity Commission says it's only seeking information that's publicly available under state law. But privacy rights groups filed this suit in court earlier this week asking a federal judge to block the collection efforts before they even start. And they're specifically citing cyber security concerns posed by aggregating all of this massive amount of voter data including the names, addresses, party affiliation, and even possibly the last four digits of Social Security Numbers of voters, all in one place. Now the Commission try to pressure the judge to reassure them that this response is no one's being armed here by these requests, and they're taking adequate steps to protect the data including by using a secure application that runs by the Army for uploading and transferring the files, and we expect to judge to rule very soon. But meanwhile, the State Officials have been all over the map in their responses to the Commission's request for voter information. Some have robust the request altogether, others are willing to provide whatever is already public and others say they are still reviewing the requests. Pam?", "All right, Laura Jarrett, thanks for bringing us the latest there from Chicago. And I want to bring in now, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat from Minnesota who just a few days ago told the Voter Fraud Commission to go jump in a lake. Senator, thanks for coming on.", "Thank you, Pamela.", "So clearly you're not a big fan of this, what is your biggest concern if the judge rules on the side of the Trump administration, Senator?", "Well, I hope that doesn't happen because 44 Secretaries of State or States have already come in and said, we don't want to give you this data to the Commission which is a pretty resounding bipartisan objection. And the reason they're concerned, of course, is that right now, that information is the at least disaggregated by state. Secretary Chertoff, the former Secretary the Homeland Security under George Bush just wrote a column about this and said he's concerned about the sanctity of the data because of the fact that we - the government has been hacked several times, millions and millions of private information that has been put out there of citizens. And so I think that this is just a bad idea, unnecessary to get people's Social Security Numbers, their birthdays, their past voting histories, this is the kind of thing they're trying to collect when in fact this is the Commission that's looking for a problem. And they're going to create one big one if they collect all of this data when they're not even a government agency. Their response to this lawsuit has been hey, we don't have to follow the rules, we're not even an agency. I don't know where the data is going to go. And that is one of the things that we've asked 25 senators and I've led this letter with Senator Jack Reed saying where is this data going, how are you going to protect it?", "And of course as Laura reported, the commission says the data will be protected, that it's using a secure military app to make sure that everything is secure, but would you be as concerned, Senator, if the Obama administration had asked for this information?", "Well, I would because under several administrations now, we've seen hacks of data, both in the private sector and in the government sector. And for one thing, we know that the Obama administration was much more focused on making it easier for people to vote. And this commission in fact, has taken a different stand. And because of the Supreme Court, drawing out part of the Voting Rights Act, we've now have over 20 states that put limitations on voting. And we've, in fact, major Courts, Circuit Courts say that these states have been - and this is a quote from the 4th Circuit-been discriminating with surgical precision. So what the real problem is, is that we're making it very hard for some people to vote. I love my state, we've got the highest voter turnout in the country and it works. And we'd like to see that kind of thing in other states. What this commission is doing, is actually saying, we have major problem with voter fraud when study after study has shown that's not the case. And to add to that now, they've asked for data of every state in the country, every voter in the country, and that's why you see objections from states, Democratic and Republican Secretary of States throughout the country. And that's why I told them to go jump in the lake.", "All right. Before we lose you, I want to turn to health care quickly. Politico is reporting that the health care bill vote has been now moved back another week. What role do you see the Democrats playing in this?", "Well the Democrats have been united from Bernie Sanders to Joe Manchin in the United States Senate in saying that the bill that we got that was put together behind closed-doors by 13 guys was not a bill that going to helm the American people. Not only were we shut out, the American people were shut out when they close those doors. And so, there's no surprise that we've now seen major pushback. AARP firmly against this bill because it basically hurts seniors and transfers wealth to the healthiest Americans. So, what we suggest that they do is that they work with us on some actual improvements to the Affordable Care Act, like bringing down the cost of prescription drugs. I have bipartisan bills, one with Senator McCain, one with Senator Grassley that could to help bring down the cost of prescription drugs for the average American. We should do more to make these exchanges stronger. There's all kinds of things that we could do, but not if they just keep doing it on a one side and not including the rest of America.", "OK, so just very, very quickly. What else do you plan to counter with because there are issues with ObamaCare? Do you agree?", "Yes, I said that they had passed, that it was the beginning and not an end. And one of the things that I have been firmly behind since ObamaCare passed was doing something about bringing the cost of prescription drugs down. 41 million seniors, they're not even able to unleash their bargaining power to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices. Let's let them do that. We'll see lower prices.", "All right, Senator Klobuchar, thank you very much. And that's it for THE LEAD, I'm Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapper. I turn you over to Jim Sciutto in for Wolf Blitzer in \"THE SITUATION ROOM.\""], "speaker": ["PAMELA BROWN, CNN HOST", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-361368", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2019-02-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/07/ath.02.html", "summary": "Interview with Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY); Democrats on Ways & Means Committee Fight to Get Trump's Tax Returns; Trump Blasts Democrats as They Ramp Up Multiple Investigations", "utt": ["A new fight to get President Trump's tax returns will start a short time from now on Capitol Hill. Democrats on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee holding a hearing on the important of presidents disclosing their tax returns. Democrats plan to call for future presidential and vice presidential candidates to release 10 years of tax returns as part of an ethics reform package known as H.R.-1. Joining me now, Democratic Congressman Tom Suozzi, of New York, who is a member of the Ways and Means Committee, also the Problem Solvers Caucus. Your committee, sir, is holding that hearing later this afternoon. There's a lot of interest in it, as we know, and also on the thinking behind this. This could turn into a lengthy legal fight. Do you believe you'll be successful?", "I think we'll have a hearing today. We'll go through the process. One thing our chairman pointed out is he wants to go through a process with everything we do, actually listening to the experts. We are looking at this prospectively, looking forward to the 2020 race that anybody that's running for president or vice president, on a future going basis, will have to disclose their individual taxes.", "Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called this political. How do you respond to that?", "Well, you know, we are trying to look out for best interest of the United States of America. Every single presidential candidate and every president since Richard Nixon disclosed their taxes. It was really an anomaly that this president decided not to disclose them. We need to look at this from a public-policy perspective on a forward- going basis whether it makes sense for presidential and vice presidential candidates to show what their entanglements are related to their business relationships that they have in their personal business dealings.", "Your colleagues on the House Intelligence Committee, expanding their investigations. We heard a lot about it from Adam Schiff yesterday. You heard the response of the president calling this \"presidential harassment.\" Do you agree with this broad expansion we are seeing in terms of investigations?", "There has to be a balance that we have to find in this process. We have a duty, as a separate branch of government, of oversight. That's our job. That's what the Constitution says we have to do. So we have to do our job to look at things where we think things are irregular and all of the different committees of jurisdiction. But it can't be only about investigations. We have to govern as well. So many other big issues going on in the country right now. We can't obfuscate the fact that we have a real duty to the American people of oversight, as every Congress has had throughout history.", "Speaker Pelosi telling \"Politico\" in a recent interview that she is treading carefully anywhere the president is involved personally. Are you concern that, yes, there's importance of oversight, and that is what you are elected to do as part of your job, but is there a concern, though, about this very delicate line where things may come across as being purely politically motivated, as we saw the response from Kevin McCarthy?", "I think that's a great way to put it, a very delicate line. You're on a nice edge of balance. You can't go all the way over here and you ignore your responsibilities of oversight. And you can't go all the way over here that you become political and you're going after the president because he is from a different party. It's a balance. I believe the Republican Party, when in the majority, didn't do much investigating whatsoever. We had to find that right balance between what our obligation is constitutionally to do oversight of the president, of the executive branch of the United States of America while, at the same time, not letting it become something that's partisan. We hope our Republican colleagues will join us as other Democrats and Republicans throughout the history of this country have looked at things in a bipartisan fashion when it's for the good of the country.", "Is there anything that would concern you and would be a step too far politically from your view?", "I think when people make a rush to judgment on things. And there's people out there saying, impeach the president today, investigate this right now. That's not responsible. One thing I'm very happy that the speaker is doing and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee is doing and that other leaders of different committees in the House are saying, is we have to be very judicious, we have to go through the process, we have to follow the law, we have to follow the Constitution, and we have to follow our values, to make sure that everything we do is in the interest of the United States of America and the people we represent. Not in the interest of our party, not in the interest of some political agenda, but in the interest of the people of the country, the Constitution and our constitutional responsibilities.", "Speaking of people you represent, you brought as your guest to the State of the Union, the president of the National Air Traffic Controllers' Association, who went 35 days working without a paycheck. The president didn't mention the 800,000 federal workers. What did you hear from him? What does he want you, meaning broader Democrats, to do to give in on and to agree to and to ensure there's not another shutdown?", "Kevin Manney (ph) is an air traffic controller that I brought. He's responsible for LaGuardia and JFK, some of the busiest air space anywhere in the United States of America. One of the things he said to me is, I have guys on my team that have peoples' lives in their hand. It is one of the most important jobs you could possibly imagine with incredible stress. I don't want them to worry about paying their bills. I don't want them to worry about if their car breaks down they're not going to have enough cash to pay for it. I don't want them to worry about anything else except for their jobs. And we can't forget, when this shutdown took place, 800,000 employees and their families were all effected in a negative way. There's a human story there. Every one of those 800,000 people is a story. Some people had the cash, they were fine, they could weather the storm. Other people were desperate. I heard about people selling their cars, trying to auction things off just to have enough cash to pay their rent or pay for medical bills. This is a human thing. In America, the strongest country in the world, we can't say, when Democrats disagree with Republicans, when the president disagrees with the Congress -- this has happened throughout our history -- we don't shut down the government. That's what banana republics do.", "You have been pretty clear that you're OK with more money for a physical barrier as part of a comprehensive border security package. You've also said a number of times that people are really hung up on the world \"wall\" or the words \"no wall.\" Are you confident that this bipartisan group is going to come to an agreement that the president will sign off on?", "We have been through these controversies in our history before. We end up working it out when they sit down and negotiation. People in my district are saying, why can't they sit down and work it out, this has been going on for years and years and years and they've ignored it so long, let's sit down and work it out once and for all. The happy news is the speaker said she will not interfere with the process. She will look at what the bipartisan committee does. We hope the president will say the same thing, don't interfere. Let these people that have been doing this for years and what they are talking about, that know the details, work together to find a comprehensive solution to this problem that gives us secure borders, robust border security, and protects some of the folks that have been here for decades playing by the rules, the DREAMers and TPS people, that we invited into this country, people looking to a path to citizenship, as well as other members of their family. Let's solve this problem once and for all working together for the good of the American people.", "Congressman Tom Suozzi, appreciate your time. Thank you.", "Thank you. Thanks so much.", "Coming up, crisis in the commonwealth. Three of Virginia's top lawmakers embroiled in controversy. Will they be forced to resign or will they fight to hold onto power?"], "speaker": ["ERICA HILL, CNN ANCHOR", "REP. TOM SUOZZI, (D), NEW YORK", "HILL", "SUOZZI", "HILL", "SUOZZI", "HILL", "SUOZZI", "HILL", "SUOZZI", "HILL", "SUOZZI", "HILL", "SUOZZI", "HILL", "SUOZZI", "HILL"]}
{"id": "CNN-140118", "program": "CNN SUNDAY MORNING", "date": "2009-7-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/05/sm.01.html", "summary": "Rafsanjani: Iran Election Fallout 'A Tangled Mess'", "utt": ["A Muslim doctoral student at Georgia State University said she was discriminated against for wearing a head scarf and then punished for speaking up. But now, she wants justice from a court in Georgia along with the college professor who, by the way, is also the head of the Middle East Institute. She actually quit her job over this whole issue.", "I feel like they're very angry at me.", "Because why?", "Because I complained and stood up for myself.", "Ever since she was 16, Selma Shelbayah has worn her hijab, a symbol of modesty in Islam. Not once, she says, has anyone ever discriminated against her appearance until this school year, when she says, her communications professor made a comment about her head scarf.", "She turns back to me and looks at my scarf, and I kind of had it back, maybe a little further back so you could see my bun, this is my hair, and she, you know, points to it and she said, \"What is that a bomb?\"", "According to the doctoral student, that was first of several comments Dr. Mary Stuckey made. Other comments she alleges in the complaint she filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission include, \"What you have under there, bombs?\" \"Are you carrying any bombs on you today?\" \"By the way, don't worry that's the headdress not a bomb.\"", "So much of my work was given to Georgia State. It hurts that they didn't think twice before retaliated against me.", "Shelbayah says her professor did eventually apologize, but then -- as she calls it -- the retaliation began. She was told she could not continue on at GSU as both a doctoral student and a visiting instructor. And she was stripped of her title as director of a study abroad program.", "Total, total shock.", "Dona Stewart was the director of Georgia State's Middle East Institute until this week, and these allegations of discrimination.", "The way in which the college retaliated in the aftermath has sent a very clear signal around the university that if you're a faculty member or if you're in a position of power, it's OK to discriminate. For me, this is not necessarily a Muslim issue. It's a civil rights issue.", "In an e-mail to CNN, Dr. Mary Stuckey, said, quote, \"I have to refer all inquiries to the university.\" The university released this statement, quote, \"The student's complaint against Professor Stuckey was addressed using university procedure and appropriate action was taken in September of 2008. It was Dona Stewart's decision to resign as director of Middle East Institute. While she has resigned as director, Dr. Stewart is still an employee of Georgia State University, and was recently promoted to full professor with the dean's support. In no way was retaliation taken against Professor Stewart nor the student as a result of the complaint.\" As for Shelbayah, she says she is seeking justice. Right now, she finds comfort in family, colleagues and student support.", "We love you and are behind you.", "Someone told me she has just recently decided to leave Georgia State.", "And we got some new development on Iran to tell you about this morning. Josh Levs is going to checking on -- out things at our international desk this morning. Good morning to you, Josh.", "Yes, hey, good morning to you, guys. We have some news. It's a critical statement now by an agency that is the backbone of Iran's religious establishment. We also have news from Britain on whether its embassy employees are being released.", "And we got a statement this morning from an influential religious group in Iran, disputing the election results.", "Josh Levs on top of that story. Josh, what do you have?", "Yes, it's really interesting. Let me actually just go straight to the quote. This is by a very -- as you said -- very influential religious agency inside Iran. Keep in mind, we're talking about an Islamic republic and this is Qom. And this agency, you can see there, Association of Teachers and Researchers at the Qom Seminary School. It's thought of as really the backbone of religious establishment in Iran and they are slamming election results. This is part of their quote. \"It's astonishing that an election, in plain sight of all, extensively used public funds in order to promote one of the candidates and employed government power to bring in votes.\" And I got another quote for you here where they talked about government actions since the election. They say, \"In a militarized security environment, they dragged the voice of people through violence, who were only demanding their rights, peacefully.\" Now, the Iranian government, including the Guardian Council, has insisted that the elections were legitimate, that they checked on it. But this agency, including these religious authorities, have now come out in the opposite side, that will certainly have repercussions throughout the country, guys.", "Josh, what about, you know, there were the two British embassy employees detained ...", "Right.", "... by Iranian authorities. There's news about one of them this morning.", "That's right. We do have some new news about one of them this morning. As you know, there's originally a group of them, several of them have been released and now, there's been some conversations about what's going to happen with the two. Well, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband was on a program on the BBC and he said this.", "I spoke to our ambassador on a daily call last night and the good news is that he was told by the deputy foreign minister that the eighth person would indeed be released today, and that the papers have been signed, that there would not be a court process or charges. That leaves one more in custody and all of our efforts are now directed towards getting that person out.", "He also went on to say -- and I'm going to use his quote -- \"There will be consequences if Iran mistreats the one who remains in custody.\" So, there are still some questions ahead about whether there will be a trial or will not be a trial, what will happen to all those who have been arrested. Clearly, a lot of people focusing on that. And you can get that latest details right here. It's on Iran election fallout page. All you got to do is click on Iran at the very top of CNN.com. We have the latest information about everything going on inside Iran right there for you. There you go, guys.", "All right, Josh, we appreciate you this morning. Thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "Also, to our viewers, we're keeping an eye on a major story this morning breaking out of Orlando, Disneyworld, where at least one person has been killed in a monorail accident. That one person, we understand, how Disney phrases it is a cast member. But that person was driving, was the operator of one of those monorails. No word yet on just how many people on board on those monorails when they collided. And also, no word on any other injuries to guests their at Disneyworld. But this is one of the first pictures we are getting in coming to us from one of our iReporters. We are on top of this story, getting the latest for you. Stay with us here on this CNN SUNDAY MORNING."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "SELMA SHELBAYAH, FMR. GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT", "BALDWIN (on camera)", "SHELBAYAH", "BALDWIN", "SHELBAYAH", "BALDWIN", "SHELBAYAH", "BALDWIN", "DONA STEWART, GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY", "BALDWIN", "STEWART", "BALDWIN", "SHELBAYAH", "BALDWIN", "HOLMES", "JOSH LEVS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HOLMES", "BALDWIN", "LEVS", "BALDWIN", "LEVS", "BALDWIN", "LEVS", "DAVID MILIBAND, BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY", "LEVS", "HOLMES", "BALDWIN", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-268866", "program": "DR. DREW", "date": "2015-11-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1511/10/ddhln.01.html", "summary": "Transgender Child Controversy; A 14-Year-Old Girl Mowed Down By A Hit-And-Run Driver", "utt": ["A 6-year-old has sparked controversy at a day care center in Katy, Texas. The child`s parents, both man, say their son is transgendered. They have asked the children`s lighthouse school not to call him a girl anymore and to treat him like a boy. The owner agreed, but two employees did not and they were fired.", "These two employees who were fired are now suing. Back with Sam, Tanya, Mike. Joining me, Ryan Sorba, head of the Young Conservatives of California. And, Sam, you got some more details on this.", "Yes. One of the women, Madeline Kirksey, she is a Christian author. She was fired as manager because she would not go along with the decision to treat the little girl as a little boy. She cited her religious belief and said it was her duty to protect the girl from bullying.", "Tanya, you are laughing.", "I just think it is a challenging legal position. I mean, when I hear a teacher say, \"I am going to override the decision of parents, I am going to override the decision of my bosses, and I am going to do what I think is right for the child.\" I mean, how would we feel, for instance, if instead of being a Christian author, it was a Muslim author. What if there were a Muslim teacher that says, it is against my religion --", "Yes.", "-- for me to teach girls who do not wear head scarf? We would see this case very differently.", "It is almost like -- what was her -- Davis? What was her name? The license girl --", "Kim.", "Kim Davis.", "Kim Davis.", "The truth to be told is that we got to remind ourselves, regardless of how you feel about transgender issues, regardless of how supportive you are of this young girl`s decision and her parents` decision, it is America, and if you are derelict of duty, your boss can fire you. I mean like for whatever they want, you know.", "Let me bring in Andy Taylor. He is the attorney representing the fired daycare workers. Andy, what are you guys asking for?", "Well, first of all, you know, we are not talking about a college age kid. This is a 6- year-old little innocent girl. I mean, she has been there four months as a girl. I will use fake names, but everybody knows her as sally. And, then on Monday morning, she comes in and her parents say, she is Johnny. My client, who is 48 years old, has been in this business educating children for 27 years. She got the highest certification you can get in the state of Texas. And, warning bells went off. She said, \"That is going to hurt this child. She will be ridiculed. It is going to confuse the other kids.\" And, the parents are going to learn about this for the first time in the Caroline. That is exactly how not to handle a transgender student.", "But, at the same token, because I am really good friends with a number of trans males and females who knew at a very young age that they identified as male or female. Would not this be also a great opportunity to educate the children and the parents on what really it means to be trans and to teach empathy and to teach tolerance?", "Well, think about it. I think the point that you are making about, would not it be a good opportunity to educate, that is the parental authority issue. The parents of these little 6-year-old kids are the ones, who have the authority and should be given the license to be able to talk to their little children about an issue like this. We would not want condoms being handed out at preschool.", "Oh my God.", "That is not an issue that they are ready for.", "Well, sexuality -- whoa, whoa. Wait. Right.", "Sexuality and gender are different.", "Sexuality and gender are very different.", "It is not even relevant. Also, I mean kids are going to ridicule other children especially at that age for a lot of things that their parents impose on them. For instance, plenty of parents feed their kids junk, and I would not agree with it as an educator if I was. But, if they are overweight, they are going to get made fun of. And, I think it is a little bit irresponsible to assume that an educator has the right to decide what is morally OK for the children that she educates.", "Hang on. Tanya, I see you shifting around, here.", "I do --", "You have all kinds of mixed feelings.", "I am having a really hard time reconciling what I heard Andy say on the phone. I mean I can appreciate the representation he is providing his clients and how he wants to protect the rights of these other parents. But, what about the rights of the parents of the trans child, who have made a decision about how they want her to be raised? It sounds as if Andy is suggesting that his clients can overrule those parents and defer the others. And, I do not get it.", "Let me quickly bring in Jessica Taylor. She is the first transgender airline pilot to retain her FAA medical status. Jessica, I do not know if you have heard this conversation. Did you hear much of this?", "Yes, absolutely.", "OK.", "And, I think you are right on in the sense that, you know, there is two different issues here. We are dealing with HIPPA. This is a health care thing. This is a medical privacy thing. So, when we talk about a student that has come out as transgender, we are not talking about a sexual orientation, which I think everybody kind of lumps these things into.", "Right. Stop . Stop and break that down. So , when the attorney mentioned condoms, it was out of left field. It was bizarre. It is more like saying, I identify as a tall person or a short person. I identify as a boy, right?", "See -- you are right on track right there with that.", "Yes.", "He is, basically, trying to lump us in with that LGB kind of silent \"T\" where it is a sexual orientation. This is a medical issue. It is covered by HIPPA. Somebody that is employed with this employment agency or with this company comes out and starts spreading my medical information about my medical information about my child or even myself to other employees as well as parents, you have overstepped the bounds now, and now we are into a legal issue.", "Yes, sir. Put that mic up. You are ready to go.", "Actually, she brought up exactly what I was going to bring up. As a health care provider, I mean HIPPA plays a huge part in it. And, there is a difference between identifying versus going through the actual transition. So, I mean --", "The other thing I would ask is how far do the schools have to go to accommodate? You know what I mean? That is sort of what is at the core here.", "This is a private school, though, too. So, they are serving the parents, and the parents are serving their child. That is what it is about here. It is not -- These two employees have no right to infringe their beliefs, which I respect their beliefs. I do not agree with them. But, they cannot infringe their beliefs on their students.", "Ryan.", "Dr. Drew, gender dysphoria is a legitimate psychiatric category. I would argue that the teachers at that school are not even qualified to deal with students, who have gender dysphoria. And, so I do not think that teachers are out of line at all.", "Wait, wait, wait. You are saying --", "I think the teachers are --", "Wait, wait, wait, wait. Ryan, Ryan, Ryan. You are saying they should not be even dealing with it.", "Of course. And, that is what the teachers are saying is we want out of this situation. We do not believe we understand what is going on. We better leave this to the professionals. And, we need to let this student be with the professionals that he needs to see because according to the American Psychiatric Association --", "You mitigate that --", "It is illegitimate --", "No, you mitigate that responsibility, and you decide to do it yourself as an uninformed individual? You think that is the right act as to take it to the people yourself?", "And, how much more informed are you? How much more informed is the owner of the school? How much more informed are the members of the media commenting on it every single day?", "But, Ryan. That is not --", "Exactly. That is not their position.", "The reason they were fired --", "That is not their position.", "-- is because they on their own personal moral and ethical beliefs refused to call her a boy.", "Right.", "That is right.", "But, you do not have -- have a moral, ethical point of view.", "Ryan, but you are suggesting that these teachers said, \"We do not think the school should take this tack because we are worried about whether or not they are going to do it sensitively.\"", "Yes, rightfully so.", "That is not what the teacher said. The teacher said, \"We do not think we should do this because it is against our religious faith.\" This is a situation where these teachers are saying, \"My religious faith gets to trump the parents` decision.\"", "No. No. Wait. No. Wait. No, that is not --", "Now, the parents -- the teachers --", "I do not think it is quite what it sounded like. But, I think it is quite what he said. Andy, are you still there? Andy, the attorney.", "If they want to know the basis, I can tell them because it is in writing.", "Sure.", "Please.", "Go ahead.", "This educator -- yes, she is a Christian and has strongly held beliefs. But, it is much more fundamental than that. She sees this little girl every day for the last four months. She is the one who knows that even though her parents said she is a boy, she still insists in going in the girl`s rest room. She also knows that when they played football last week, and she got hit she said, \"I do not want to be a boy anymore. This hurts.\" And, so, it is not as simple as that this child is ready to be a transgender. I do not know if she is or is not. That is not the issue.", "OK.", "Who should be triaging this position? And, it is the parents and the school working together. And, everybody should have accommodation and equal rights. You do not put one over the other.", "OK. Hang on.", "Do you know what gender dysphoria is? You just described it to the absolute DSM standard. Somebody who does not conform to what their birth gender is. Gender non-conforming, male to female, female to male. Somebody does not know where they stand in our community. And, you are criticizing this child for trying to figure out where they fit in the gender spectrum?", "Nobody is criticizing the child. They are criticizing -- actually the men who are the parents of this child is two men. And, a lot of people have postulated that it might be that because this little girl was raised by two men, that she might intermittently identifies as a boy.", "No. No. No.", "No. No. We are exploiting --", "We do not understand -- development -", "We are exploiting somebody`s private medical disability.", "They made it public when they went to the school and said, \"We want you to publicly identify our child as the opposite of their biological gender.\"", "That is what anybody who is transgender is going to do. That is what anybody who is transgender is going to do.", "From a legal standpoint, though, I mean you would know it is a private school. Cannot the owner of the private school just say, I am firing you because you suck?", "That is what they did.", "You know, I am going to talk to the school next. I got to break - - I got to break right here. We will get the word from the school. Later, an officer open fire on an SUV as it barrels towards him. All caught on a body cam. Stay with us. Look at that."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER", "PINSKY", "SCHACHER", "PINSKY", "ACKER", "SCHACHER", "ACKER", "PINSKY", "SCHACHER", "ACKER", "PINSKY", "CATHERWOOD", "PINSKY", "ANDY TAYLOR, ATTORNEY FOR FIRED TEXAS DAYCARE EMPLOYEES", "SCHACHER", "ATTY. TAYLOR", "SCHACHER", "ATTY. 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{"id": "CNN-391665", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2020-02-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/01/ndaysat.05.html", "summary": "Coronavirus Declared Public Health Emergency In U.S.; Lakers Return With Emotional Tribute To Kobe Bryant; Super Bowl 54", "utt": ["So new this morning a major development in the battle - the worldwide battle against the spread of the coronavirus. The United States now imposing a travel ban on all foreign nationals who been in China. This is, as health officials declare, a public emergency over the coronavirus here in the United States. CNN's David Culver live really in the center of it all in Beijing with the very latest from there, David?", "Hi there, John. Yes, this containment effort is becoming extreme here. Now we've talked about the lockdown zone, Hubei Province, in particular. 15 cities within that. Some 16 million people. And, of course, the epicenter of all this is City of Wuhan. Well, next to the City of Wuhan, still within that lockdown zone is a City called Huanggang. That city has now implemented a new policy that just went in a few hours ago into effect. It essentially says that people are not to leave their homes, but every other day. And only one person from each household can leave that home and go to the grocery store and then come back. It affects about 400,000 people. But the suggestion from officials that they'll make that a little bit wider and include other communities, that would in total be about 7.5 million if they did that. Take the state of Arizona, it's the same population size. I mean, this is incredible, the extreme measures that they're going through here. They're also, we're hearing about drones being used by Chinese officials. These drones are being flown mostly in rural areas. State media is reporting this. We can actually show you this. This is from Xinhua, one of the state media outlets, and they have this video showing these drones going to these folks and essentially calling them out saying hey, you're not wearing your mask, put your face mask on, to the lighthearted manner, but it's actually very serious in it's undertone, trying to spread this education and awareness campaign. All right, let me update you on the U.S. now. As we talk about the containment efforts here, we know about this mandatory quarantine Alisyn, 14 days, for anybody who has come from Hubei Province, in particular, and that is something that we have not seen in the U.S. in more than 50 years. The CDC putting that into effect. This, as a top U.S. infectious doctor has said, that this virus can spread without somebody having symptoms. Pretty scary to hear that. And that has fueled fears, really, amongst the airline industry too. We've been seeing these airlines cutting back on flights and cutting off all together. Now pilots and flight attendants, they're joining in that flight, calling for all flights to China to and from to be halted, Alisyn,", "I mean airlines and doctors and officials just don't have enough information yet about what this looks like. David, thank you very much for your reporting. So back here, the Los Angeles Lakers honoring Kobe Bryant and an emotional tribute, Friday, at the Staples Center. It was the team's first game since Kobe, his daughter and seven other parents and daughters were killed in a helicopter crash. CNN's Sara Sidner has more.", "This is the Laker nation grieving a Laker legend. It began with a spotlight on the empty jerseys never again to be filled by the man who made those numbers means so much to so many. The sound of Amazing Grace was ushered in to throngs of fans. It was a night of raw emotion, a night to throw away the script and throw on the commemorative t-shirt everyone received and console each other. LeBron James took the lead.", "I got something written down. They asked me to kind of stay on course or whatever the case may be. But Laker nation, man, I would be selling you all short if I read off this (beep) so I'm going to go straight from the heart.", "It is the first times James has spoken publicly about Bryant since the deadly helicopter crash that took nine lives, including Bryant's 13-year-old daughter Gianna.", "The first thing that come to mind, man, is all about family. And as I look around this arena, we're all grieving, we're all hurt, we're all heart-broken, but when we're going through things like this is lean on the shoulders of your family.", "The Laker family observed 24.2 seconds of silence. Then Boyz II Men sent emotions soaring with the national anthem. As the Lakers starters took to the court, a show of solidarity, fans donned the commemorative t-shirts.", "I was just - I had no words.", "It's a lot of emotion.", "It's a lot.", "It's just a lot.", "And the players answered to one name--", "--high school Kobe Bryant.", "Then it was game on, but it wasn't business as usual. In the midst of the joy of the game, halftime brought a reminder of our collective human frailty.", "Once again this fan base expressing their devotion to their beloved Kobe Bryant.", "The final buzzer brought disappointment to the Lakers.", "You see the emotion on the faces of all the players.", "The entire memorial before the game was tough for me to just to see and then you just hear the voice and just have the common realization that, you know, that he is gone. So, you know, it was tough for me.", "It was a it was very emotional. You know, I mean, our guys were teared up going into the - into the jump ball. And you could just - you just felt it all night.", "But LeBron James ended with a revelation about Kobe Bryant, words to comfort the aggrieved.", "Felt like these last three years was the happiest I ever seen him. You know, being able to just be with his daughters, be with his family. Just--", "Sarah Sidner, CNN Los Angeles.", "He definitely looks happy in all of those photos with - that we see of him with his daughters, and with his whole family - his wife. He is beaming. I mean, he just looks so happy to have played that role as well as their father.", "Look, I think that's one of the reasons people were so moved and devastated by his death that they've seen him very recently, coming out much more with his family and being much more public. And I will say, as far as the Lakers go, they had to get through that. That was really difficult for them. I know they were dreading that first game. And you could see it on the court there. They had to get through that. And now they're going to move on. They're going to carry it with them the rest of the season, the rest of their lives, but I know how tough that was. In the meantime, Super Bowl 54, tomorrow in Miami, all but 10 of the Chiefs and 49ers will be taking the game's biggest stage for the first time. In other way of saying, they'll be playing in their very first Super Bowl. Coy Wire has more in this morning's Bleacher Report. Coy?", "Hi, John. Very few NFLers make it to a Super Bowl, but other players that do, there are so many inspiring stories about overcoming adversity like 49ers, Running Back Raheem Mostert is the ultimate fighter. No team drafted in 2015 out of Purdue. You're not good enough, they said, right. Well, over the next 18 months as a free agent, six different teams cut him before he landed with the 49ers in 2016. Raheem he keeps a tally of those teams and uses it as fuel to the fire that has made him his team's leading rusher.", "I know you've heard about the list that I had in my phone. Yes, I look at those dates. And I really - I really just try to take a piece out of out of every spot that I've been at. I always see the light at the end of the tunnel no matter the situation, that's just how I've always been in my life. And, yes, when I was cut by those teams, you know, like I said, I always find positives.", "Now the light of Raheem Mostert's life his one-and-a-half-year- old son Gunner. Raheem doesn't have any photos of his own childhood growing up in rough neighborhoods here in Florida. It's why he's soaking up every single photo op with Gunner now.", "More Super Bowl stories coming your way today in our \"CNN Bleacher Report\" special \"Kickoff in Miami.\" Andy Scholes and I had Jerry Rice, Drew Brees and other mega stars like Rob Gronkowski. Wish you're here, Alisyn and John. It is 2:30 Eastern right here on", "Give my best to Gron (ph). Tell him to come back on the field next season. We need him. Very exciting year coming up. Coy, thanks so for being with us.", "I will.", "All right. So what message could President Trump's acquittal send to the rest of the world? We get the \"Bottom Line\" next."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "DAVID CULVER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CAMEROTA", "SARA SIDNER, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "JAMES", "SIDNER (voice over)", "JAMES", "SIDNER (voice over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SIDNER (voice over)", "ANNOUNCER", "SIDNER (voice over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SIDNER (voice over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANTHONY DAVIS, LAKERS FORWARD", "FRANK VOGEL, LAKERS COACH", "SIDNER (voice over)", "JAMES", "SIDNER (voice over)", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "RAHEEM MOSTERT, SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS RUNNING BACK", "WIRE", "WIRE", "CNN. BERMAN", "WIRE", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-90116", "program": "CNN SUNDAY NIGHT", "date": "2004-11-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/28/snn.01.html", "summary": "President Bush Has Serious Image Problem in the World", "utt": ["Well, some call it the ugly American syndrome. Others just put it down to envy. Whatever the case, it's evident President Bush has a serious image problem in the world. Now at best, his critics see him as arrogant, aloof and distant and at worst, they see him as a dangerous fool. In our hot topic tonight, CNN's Bill Schneider reports.", "In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon went to Venezuela and was confronted with rampaging protesters. This month, President Bush went to Chile and found the same thing. The ugly American syndrome is back. The rest of the world just doesn't get President Bush, not even America's closest ally, the British. Look at the London newspaper headlines after Bush won reelection? How can 59 million people be so dumb? Oh, God. Polls taken in 23 countries this fall found Kerry favored over Bush in 22 of them, usually by overwhelming margins. Bush was narrowly ahead in Poland. Next week, President Bush will be making an official visit to Canada, a country that's supposed to understand the", "Looking forward to bringing the greetings of my great country to your great country.", "But do they?", "I think we've got a lot of issues to discuss in terms of North America and also in terms of the world.", "Two thirds of Canadians say their opinion of the U.S. has worsened over the past four years. Two years ago, a top aide to former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien resigned after she was overheard calling President Bush a moron. Chretien was forced to state that President Bush is quote, a friend of mine. He's not a moron at all. This year, Canadian member of parliament Carolyn Parish had this to say about President Bush's missile defense plan.", "We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. This month, Parish was shown on the news stomping on a G.W. Bush action figure. Prime Minister Paul Martin threw her out of the liberal party caucus. The U.S./Canadian relationship clearly needs repair. What kind of reception might President Bush get in Ottawa? President Ronald Reagan addressed the parliament there in 1987. He got heckled.", "In Nicaragua, we see such a campaign on our own shores. Is there an echo in here?", "Some Canadian political activists are debating whether President Bush could be indicted under Canada's war crimes act. If so, the president could be facing arrest the minute he sets foot on Canadian soil.", "What the polls have been measuring in countries all over the world is anti-Bush sentiment, not anti-American sentiment. People overseas have always insisted that they're critical of Bush, but not necessarily anti-American, although now that a majority of Americans have voted to re-elect President Bush, that distinction may get harder to maintain. Carol.", "You make a very interesting point in your piece. I mean you don't really expect that President Bush would ever be arrested in Canada, do you?", "He will not be arrested in Canada. The government wouldn't dare do such a thing and in any case, lawyers say that if he is the official representative of another government, on an official state visit, he is immune from prosecution. But the view among many experts is, if he tries to go to Canada six years from now on say a fishing trip, he may be in trouble.", "Really? Wouldn't that be a story? All right. What was that doll stomping episode? I mean did she really do that with the intent to cause political damage?", "No, she did it as part of a satirical Canadian television show, an hour and 22 minutes, but it was released to the news media and broadcast on the news media before the satire was ever shown and that got her in trouble and thrown out of the party caucus before this satirical show got on the air.", "So Bill, do you think Americans have good reason to be concerned about the president's image abroad?", "Well, yes, his image abroad is not good and he's not a popular figure in much of the world and there is repair work to be done. Much of the world doesn't trust him and the answer can be in a single word, unilateralism. They think the United States has turned unilateralist under President Bush. He acts alone without really enough consultation with other countries, unlike his father in the Gulf war, unlike most other presidents and many other countries resent that.", "But some Americans might say, well, you know what, so what, that America goes it alone. We pay most of the bills anyway internationally, so why not fight our war the way we want to fight our war?", "And you know what, it obviously didn't bother Americans too much that Bush is not a popular figure abroad.", "All right. Bill Schneider, thank you very much. That leads us to our last call tonight folks. We want to ask you, are you concerned about the president's image abroad? Give us a call at 1 800 807-2620. And Julia Roberts. Well, she's resting tonight after giving birth to twins earlier today. We've got the details coming up. And the debate over using marijuana for medical purpose hits the Supreme Court this week. 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{"id": "CNN-186476", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2012-5-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/21/sp.01.html", "summary": "Dominique Strauss-Kahn Accused of Rape; Some Protests Against NATO in Chicago Turn Violent; Chaos In Chicago; Kristin Wiig Says Farewell", "utt": ["Welcome, everybody. Our STARTING POINT this morning, those violent clashes in Chicago, protesters fighting with police outside the NATO summit on Afghanistan. It's day two of the summit today. Will it be chaos again? And from Beijing to the Big Apple, the Chinese activist in the middle of that fight between the United States and China lands in the United States. He is now free to speak and we'll tell you what he's saying. Plus, a failure to launch. Facebook falls flat and opens the trading week pretty much where it started on Friday. Could the stock be a total bust? Plus, Mick Jagger channels another iconic lead singer, mocks him, and nails it on \"Saturday Night Live.\" It is Monday, May 21st. And STARTING POINT begins right now.", "This is CNN breaking News.", "Good morning. Welcome, everybody. Let's get started with some breaking news on what could become very soon new charges of rape against the former IMF chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Let's get right to Christine Romans. She's got some details for us. Hey, Christine, good morning", "Good morning to you, Soledad. Dominique Strauss-Kahn could soon face charges in the alleged gang rape of a Belgian prostitute. This happened during a party at her hotel in Washington, D.C. almost two years ago. That's a story at least French prosecutors are investigating, launching an investigation into this. A French newspaper says these allegations came from statements that two escorts made to Belgian police. DSK held one of the most powerful positions in the world of course as IMF chief. You may also remember he was arrested after a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault. He was cleared on that charge after her story fell apart. Soledad?", "All right, Christine, thank you for the update. We're watching that story, obviously. It has been chaos in Chicago as thousands of protesters against the war in Afghanistan are at the NATO summit. Demonstrators were clashing with police who were wearing riot gear yesterday. They were voicing their opposition to the war. Police arrested at least 45 people. The protests happened just blocks away from where world leaders are meeting to talk about the endgame in Afghanistan. This brings us to Ted Rowlands who was in the middle of that chaos. Ted, good morning.", "Good morning, Soledad. There were 40 arrests and several injuries one of the protesters standing close to me had a few teeth knocked out. Another was bleeding from the head but there were also police injuries. According to the police department four police officers were injured. One officer apparently stabbed in the leg. The big question today as the sun rises in Chicago, what will the city be in for? There as large protest scheduled at the Boeing Corporation today a few blocks from where we are downtown. Protesters say they plan to shut down Boeing. And police are going to be out in force. Most businesses have told their employees to stay home today to avoid what could be a very chaotic day here in Chicago.", "As far as I can see you have two groups of protesters right? You have the protesters who for the most part are relatively peaceful. Then you have the black block protesters wearing black with the black bandanas around their faces. How many of those black block protesters are we talking about?", "Just a handful. And when you say there are two groups you're absolutely right. There are the groups that are for their protests, for their marches, and they have been following the letter of the law all week long. There have been events. Then there is the fragment groups, these are the folks causing the problems, usually around the scheduled protests like yesterday, all of that melee happened following a scheduled protest when police said the time is up. Please move on. That's when the chaos started. That's really the problem here. It's just a handful of people, but they are causing all of the problems.", "It's been really interesting to see. I think the focus on sort of two pieces of videotape, one we were just showing a moment ago, which was the police using their batons to fight back that crowd. Another one that I thought was very interesting, Ted, was this police van, Chicago police fan. There it is right there. Look as they're pushing a guy out of the way. He is trying to slow the truck. Watch the guy in the black. He is going around the back of the car, stabbing the tires. You see it there. Now you're going to see him right here, he is wearing black shirt, running back out to the crowd. I guess he has stabbed the tires of that truck. The guy who apparently the truck was pushing was able to move out of the way. That is the slow-mo version of that guy. Give me some more sense of just how violent these protests have gotten, because certainly on TV, I've got to tell you, Ted, they look really rough.", "Yes. It was violent yesterday definitely, and the case with the police van, you have two separate stories here. Immediately after that incident there was an alert out by the protesters saying one of our people has been hit by a police van. Well, talked with the police and they say we had a police officer assaulted. In fact, the most serious injury in that incident was to the driver. The police officer there had a concussion because he was struck in the head during that situation. They say he was moving that van to get out because he was in danger. So the answer to your question how violent, in pockets it's very violent. When you see the batons flying and people getting hit, it's pretty intense. But for the most part, and this is what the main demonstrators are concerned about, for the most part these demonstrations have been peaceful. It's just this video is so dramatic this really is the lasting image that people have so far from the protests here.", "Remarkable to see. Ted Rowlands for us this morning, thanks. I want to bring in the Illinois Democratic lieutenant governor Sheila Simon joining us now. Nice to see you. Thank you for being with us. We certainly appreciate it. How comfortable are you with sort of the visuals that you are seeing? How often are you talking to the chief of police and how do you feel about the strategy in dealing with both sets of protesters that we were talking about, the more peaceful protesters and some of those folks you're seeing on TV with more violent protests?", "I'm obviously saddened that there's violence involved that police have been injured, that protesters have been injured, but what I'm pleased with is that for the most part thousands of people have been able to express themselves, have been able to state their opinions about war, about NATO, and Chicago has shown a capability to respond to be a global city and I'm pleased with that.", "Garry McCarthy is the superintendent of police and he was asked about that use of batons. We've seen that in a couple shots and here is what he said.", "Have you authorized officers to use batons?", "Absolutely. To overcome an assault, absolutely.", "You said you were concerned about the image but ultimately the batons did come out and it is not a pretty thing.", "No, but ultimately the officers were assaulted. They don't have to stand there and take an assault.", "Are you concerned that many of the conversations that have been taking place over the weekend and probably will continue to take place today are about the violence and not conversations about what's really happening at this summit?", "I am concerned about that because I think those small images, those few images do form some kind of impression. I think, though, for the most part people who were participating and I have a staff member who was on the scene said that for the most part things were very orderly, that there were plenty of law enforcement officers around to make sure the people could express themselves, that there were legal observers, medical staff, and that it was really an effective use of a democracy where we have to tolerate and appreciate all opinions.", "I know that the protesters have said that they're going to try to, quote, shut down Boeing today, which is based in Chicago and obviously makes gear for defense and aircraft as well. What's the strategy for protecting or I guess keeping the protesters if there is one from Boeing?", "Well, I think the strategy has been all along to work with all of the different law enforcement agencies in concert, and I think for the most part they've been doing a fantastic job of making sure that people are protected and free speech rights are protected as well. It's a tough balance to get but I think they're doing a good job.", "A quick question for you about financial costs. The estimates that I have seen are about $55 million for security. A chunk of that is paid for by the feds. But the upside I've also read is somewhere around $128 million potentially by some estimates being made in, you know, sort of housing and hotels and restaurants, et cetera, et cetera, for the city. Do you think it's been worth it?", "I think on balance it's a very positive thing for Chicago, for the state of Illinois. Chicago is a city with a global influence and now we can demonstrate a global impact. We have lots of advantages in the ability to put something like this together well.", "Sheila Simon is the state's lieutenant governor. Nice to see you. Thank you for talking with us. Appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Time to get a look at the rest of the stories making news this morning. Christine has a look at those.", "Good morning, again, Soledad. Newark, New Jersey mayor Cory Booker is now backing off some surprising comments he made criticizing President Obama for attacks on Mitt Romney. Booker told NBC's \"Meet the Press\" yesterday he was uncomfortable with president Obama attacking Romney's record at Bain Capital.", "You look at the totality of Bain Capital's record, they've done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses, and this to me, I am very uncomfortable with.", "Now Booker says Romney's record at Bain is fair game. In a new YouTube video booker says the president is, quote, \"reasonable to scrutinize Romney's business record.\"", "I believe that Mitt Romney in many ways is not being completely honest with his role and his record even while a business person and is shaping it to serve his political interests.", "Booker says his earlier remarks were meant to express his frustration with negative campaigning overall. Booker, a Democrat, is supporting president Obama for reelection. The Lockerbie bomber will be buried today. Abdelbaset Al- Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer, was the only person ever convicted in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103. And 270 people died when that plane exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. Al- Megrahi died Sunday nearly three years after he was freed from a Scottish prison on humanitarian grounds because he was said to be gravely ill. It is sentencing day in the Rutgers webcam spying case. Dharun Ravi could get 10 years in prison for hate crimes against Tyler Clemente. A jury convicted him of spying and intimidating his gay roommate. Clemente jumped off New York's George Washington bridge and hanged himself after Ravi used a web cam to spy on him with another man. Did you see it? Incredible pictures of yesterday's solar eclipse. Millions looking into the skies to catch a glimpse of the ring of fire. This eclipse, the first of its kind in 18 years, created a golden ring around the moon's silhouette and it was visible on the west coast and in Asia. The next one will happen in 2023. Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees has lost his battle with cancer. Gibb founded the group, which included his two brothers. They sold more than 200 million records, and together they helped turn Disco into a global phenomenon, writing much of the music for the iconic film \"Saturday Night Fever.\" Robin Gibb was 62, and, Soledad, a voice of a whole generation.", "My goodness. No question. Remember my mother used to think that \"More than a Woman\" was \"Bow-Legged Woman,\" and she'd run around the house singing \"bow-legged woman.\"", "Christine, thank you for the update. Still ahead on STARTING POINT, his daring escape from house arrest sparked a diplomatic crisis and really angered China. Now activist Chen Guangcheng has landed in America. He's already exercising his freedom of speech. And the greatest spectacle in racing, the Indianapolis 500 is this weekend. There is controversy. New cars, they say some people slower. Drivers Marco Andretti and Jared Hildebrand are going to join us. And our panel will be talking about that and much more. Nice to have you guys. Welcome. How are you?"], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "ANNOUNCER", "O'BRIEN", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "O'BRIEN", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "O'BRIEN", "ROWLANDS", "O'BRIEN", "ROWLANDS", "O'BRIEN", "SHEILA SIMON, (D) ILLINOIS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR", "O'BRIEN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MCCARTHY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MCCARTHY", "O'BRIEN", "SIMON", "O'BRIEN", "SIMON", "O'BRIEN", "SIMON", "O'BRIEN", "SIMON", "O'BRIEN", "ROMANS", "CORY BOOKER, (D) NEWARK, NEW JERSEY MAYOR", "O'BRIEN", "BOOKER", "O'BRIEN", "O'BRIEN", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-124642", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2008-3-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0803/15/lkl.01.html", "summary": "Encore - Interview with Elton John", "utt": ["Tonight, a music legend.", "He hosts an Oscar party like no other -- and you're invited. Next, it's an all access LARRY KING LIVE.", "What an honor to welcome back to LARRY KING LIVE Sir Elton John, one of the top selling solo artists in music history, an international superstar. He's earned multiple Grammys, a Tony, an Oscar, a Kennedy Center honor and a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth. He's also the Hollywood hostess with the most -- or host with the most.", "Well, maybe -- maybe I could have said it either way.", "And, by the way, did you -- have you recovered from last night?", "Absolutely, yes. And they're really quite exhausting, those parties, because we have to get there about 4:00 and do the press line and stuff like that. And we usually leave about 12:30. And, but, yes, it is exhausting. But I was exhilarated. We raised a lot of money last night. I played for the first time at one of our Oscar parties. I had the best time and...", "You hadn't played before?", "I always ask somebody younger to play and then I go and sing a song with them. But this year, because of the uncertainty of the Oscars were going to happen, I said listen, I'll play. You can't ring somebody up and say will you play, we don't know if it's going to happen. So I said, listen, I'll play with my band and we'll ask, you know, a couple of people to come up and sing with us and do it in reverse. And it worked really well.", "How much did you raise?", "$5.1 million.", "And that's all for your fund, right?", "Yes, for the Elton John AIDS Foundation in North America. We started off 16 years ago and raised $250,000. The party was obviously much smaller. But now, after 16 years, we've got it up to 5.1. And it's our principle fundraiser in North America.", "You gave LARRY KING LIVE special access, for which we are most appreciative, to that party last night. Some of the star-studded guests talked with us about it. Watch.", "You want to know what's inside Hollywood? I got a backstage pass to Elton John's party. I'll show it to you. This is what the room looks like. This is where they watch.", "So did you like hosting this?", "Oh, I loved hosting it. I loved it -- after it was over.", "Is this exciting for you, Oscars?", "It really is. You get a chance to get all dressed up and hang out with the movie stars and see all your favorite actors and actresses. It's a beautiful thing.", "It's everything that has nothing to do with acting. And it has a lot to do with getting people in the seats, which is very important.", "It's the Academy Awards. It's the biggest thing you could probably ever, ever host in your life. So I was not nervous until the moment I walked out. And when I walked out and felt the energy in that room, it's electric. It's just crazy energy. And I was nervous. And then it went away and then I was fine the rest of the night.", "Was Prince supposed to entertain?", "He came late. He said he might come and play. And with him, you never know whether he's going to do it or not. He's, you know, he's that kind of guy and I didn't -- you know, whether he played or not, it was up to him. And he didn't feel like it. And he was going to host his own party. And I think by the time I finished, it was a little late for him and he had to get back to his own house, because he hosted his own party. And that...", "Was that...", "It doesn't. No, that was fine.", "You wouldn't call it a disappointment?", "It's always a disappointment when you want to play with someone like Prince. But I've had the luxury of singing with him twice on stage. So I understand the way he works, the way he thinks. And it's fine with me. I -- you know, I have so much admiration for him. And what he does is -- I think he's, personally, the best entertainer in the world at the moment by far.", "Really?", "...the greatest musician, the greatest showman. There's no one is in the same league as him. And, you know, he's his own man. He's, you know, I understand him. Every musician is different. If they don't feel comfortable, then I don't expect them to get up and do it.", "Are you a movie fan?", "Of course, yes. This year I thought the movies were -- you know, they were hard work, some of them, because they were intense. But they were very, very -- a lot of really excellent movies this year.", "Did you agree with the results?", "Pretty much so. Yes. I mean the standard of excellence this year amongst acting and movie-making was, I think, much better than in previous years. I mean the only category I said would have been the weakest one was the best actress category, only because of the lack of the roles for the actresses involved. I mean Marion Cotillard won and I'm very happy about that. And Julie Christie was fabulous in \"Atonement\" -- in \"Atonement\" and away from her. But I think there wasn't the roles for the women this year. This was the year for the men.", "If you were going to ape lyrics, though, the girl in \"La Vie En Rose,\" right, that was unbelievable.", "Oh, she was -- an absolutely astonishing performance. I mean, you see how beautiful she is. And to -- and the makeup -- they won the makeup award for \"La Vie En Rose,\" and quite rightly so, because they -- she became Edith Piaf. And that's, I think, the hardest thing to do when you're making a movie, whether it's Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne in \"What's Love Got To Do with It?,\" the Tina Turner movie, or, you know, the Ray Charles movie. That's astonishing performances by everybody involved.", "Do you...", "I think it's the hardest thing to do, is to play someone else.", "Did you ever see Piaf work?", "I didn't. I've been enormous fan of her and Jack Berellan (ph) and a lot of French singers, Charles Strine...", "Aznavour?", "Aznavour. Well, Aznavour is still performing...", "Yes, I know.", "And, of course, he's one of the greatest lyricists and Liza Minnelli probably is the greatest interpreter of his work, apart from him. I mean you see Liza sing an Aznavour song and it's quite -- you know, all the hair stands on your arm. It's quite astonishing. He's one of the greats, Aznavour, and he's still performing. He's over 80-years-old now.", "I am not a fashion expert...", "Yes.", "So I am -- this has been told to me by staff, that you wore a Yogi Yamamoto black suit last night with a silver tie -- downright plain compared to other costumes you've worn.", "Yes.", "Is this correct?", "It is correct. Yes.", "What happened?", "Well, I mean I couldn't wear some of my giant chicken outfits to the Oscar party, A, because I wouldn't fit in them anymore, and B, because, you know, I'm 61 years of age next month and, you know, I don't dress as flamboyant as I used to. So -- but I still had a, you know, a nice silver Chanel tie and a sparkly shirt. But it's, you know, there are certain things I don't do anymore.", "Because of your age and maturity and...", "Yes, because I feel like, you know, as you get older, you change the way you think, the way you dress. I always liked to dress a little differently from other people, but, you know, I'm nowhere near the fashion victim that I was a long time ago.", "Our guest is the great Sir Elton John. As we go to break, an Elton John classic. You'll be hearing a lot of them tonight, so why go anywhere else? Watch.", "How did you start that foundation?", "It was started about 17 years ago. And I was an alcoholic and a drug addict for 16 years. And during that time, the AIDS epidemic started, in the early '80s. I never felt really that, during that time, I did enough for AIDS, people with AIDS, being a gay man. I became very friendly with the Ryan White family, with Ryan and his mother Jeanie. And that helped me a lot to see how out of whack my life was, you know, how impossible my life had become, how self- obsessed I had become. And shortly after Ryan died, which I was at the funeral for in Indianapolis -- and I played at the funeral -- I decided six months later, that my life was, you know, pretty horrible. And someone guided me into saying that I need help. And I went into rehab and I, you know, I've been -- this year, hopefully, in July, I'll be 18 years sober and clean. And as soon as I got sober and clean, I thought, you know what, I've been so fortunate to have, you know, been a drunk and been a drug addict and not become HIV-positive, and I've got to do something to help people like Ryan White and the people that I've kind of betrayed when I was doing those kind of things. I mean, you know, I'm a gay man and I think when the '80s -- early '80s happened, it was a gay disease. And the government did nothing. And people, you know, I didn't speak out. I didn't join the ACT-UP people. I didn't. I should have been there. I should have been on the front line. I wasn't. And I just thought you know what, you've been so selfish for so long, you've really got to do something to atone for this. You know, you've been given a second chance. And so I decided because I have experience -- I used to be chairman of a football club in England, a soccer club -- I thought, you know, this is a good chance for me to prove that I can do something positive now. And we started with very small beginnings and we're still a very small organization...", "What does it do?", "When it started, it was for direct care to people, at that time, who needed food deliveries, medical deliveries, buddy systems -- you know, buddies. I used to actually deliver food for -- in Atlanta for Project Helping Hand.", "Now what?", "Now it's still for direct care, but for education. And we've spread our wings. It was just in America and Great Britain when we started. Now we're in over 55 countries.", "Were you able to work, perform while drunk?", "I wasn't particularly drunk on stage, but I was -- I did take drugs before I went on stage. And I was able to perform. In fact, ironically, Larry, I think the fact that I did keep performing and not stay home and shut myself away and do drugs all the time -- I mean, you know, it wasn't a constant thing with me. But when I'd stop, when I started again, it became worse. So I think the fact that I did make records and did tour saved my life, because even though I went on stage under the influence of drugs sometimes, at least I wasn't doing the amount of drugs I would have been doing if I'd have been staying at home.", "Where did you rehab?", "I went to a hospital in Chicago because, at that time, I was bulimic and the food issue amongst men was just only starting. I mean, so there was no facility in North America that would take drugs, alcohol and food addiction, except this one facility in Chicago at Parkside Lutheran Hospital. And I went there for six weeks. And I took the...", "In six weeks you got better?", "Six weeks. And I took a year off.", "Oh.", "I mean I took that whole next year off and did what people told me to do. I listened for the first time in a long time, because you know, you think you know, everything. And I listened. And I spent a long time on my recovery, doing the things that I sometimes went kicking and screaming, but I did them because I was told to do them. And it worked. And I put a lot of time and effort into it, because you just don't reverse that behavior instantaneously. You just can't change it overnight. You have to learn how to become a human being again, basically.", "Since you were last here, you tied the knot with your long- time partner, David Furnish. What is that like in a male-male tied the knot -- when male-males tie the knot, is that a marriage?", "No, I don't think it is a marriage. I mean it's a civil partnership in Great Britain. And a lot of people said oh, well, it's like a marriage. But it's not really the same as a marriage, I don't think. It might -- I mean we've lived together for 12 years before, you know, we did that. But it was the first day of the legislation becoming legal in England. And we wanted to say to people, listen, we're going to do it. We approve of this. I'd seen so many cases of gay couples, one of them dying and the person who died had left their money to the partner and then the families came in and just -- the partner was left with nothing. It just gave people basic rights that married people had. But I don't really consider it a marriage. I just consider it a blissful extension of what we had already. And what we had was pretty special. But I actually felt -- and David felt differently after that. I think it gave us a real sense of security and satisfaction. And I think everybody who lives with someone and who is committed to someone should have that sense of security.", "I talked with David last night at the Oscar party. Here's some of that conversation.", "This foundation does a lot of work around the world. We are very much about direct-based care and helping people that are living with the disease right now.", "How did Elton get committed to this?", "He got committed to this, I think, when he came out of treatment in the late '80s. He looked at a very sort of irresponsible, selfish life that he was living when he was addicted to drugs and alcohol. And I think he was slightly ashamed that he hadn't done more to throw his hat in the ring earlier on to support the cause.", "Is it the number one problem in Africa?", "Well, actually, we're seeing it growing around the world. I mean, at the end of the March, I'm going to India. We're actually seeing a higher per capita transmission rate in India now, for a lot of the same reasons that we saw in Africa.", "India?", "Yes. It's growing quite quickly there, in Southeast Asia. This is a global disease. Our work is around the world.", "Sir Elton John is our special guest on this edition of LARRY KING LIVE. Janet Jackson will be here on Thursday night. What's your favorite Elton John song? Go to CNN.com/larryking and vote. Of course, there are too many to list. We've got a good selection to choose from. Cast your musical ballot now an CNN.com/larryking. Now here's one of Elton's own favorite songs.", "We're back with Sir Elton John. When they made you a sir, a knight, do they dub you? Do they take a knife -- a knife, a sword and go clunk, clunk?", "They do. The Queen...", "They do that?", "Yes, she did it. And you have to kneel down. And they do it on both shoulders. And then you stand up and then you get your medal. And she says a few words to you and then you go away. But...", "How do they tell you you're going to be a knight?", "They inform you a couple of months ahead of time. I got a CBE, which is a commander of the British Empire, about two years before I was knighted. And the knighthood, they let you know two months in advance and you're not allowed to tell anybody. They write you a lovely letter and say, you know, this is what's happening.", "To a Britisher, what is that like?", "It was amazing. I mean I -- listen, I was born in a council house, which government housing, in North London. And so I grew up in my grandmother's house. And so to be -- to have the life that I've had and to end up being a knight or a sir, it makes me very proud. I mean people who, you know, think the honor system is unnecessary -- and to a certain extent I suppose it is. But I have a pride in my country and I love my country. And I've always loved being there and I've always loved being British. So to me, it was an incredible honor and to my family it was, as well.", "We have an e-mail question from Aella in Philadelphia: \"Do you think the United States will ever allow gay couples to marry?\"", "That's a very, very good question. Well, you'll need a change of government to do that. If you have a Democratic person who becomes the president of the United States in the next election, then I think you have a very good chance of that maybe happening. I mean it's not going to happen immediately, but you have a better chance of that happening than if you have a Republican president.", "But you said you don't care if it's marriage or not?", "No. But I just think people should have the -- if you love someone, you should have the chance to commit to them for life. It's just -- and I know that that is a very, very sore point with a lot of people. And I understand that. But I mean, being a gay person, the fact that I can commit to David and say to him, listen, I want to be with you for the rest of my life and I -- you know, we have the security of knowing that if anything happens to either of us, that everything is going to be fantastic, if I -- you know, I can leave things to David and he's not going to have a battle with my family -- not that my family would ever do that, because they wouldn't. But it's just the knowledge that you can wake up in the morning and feel safe.", "Switching gears a little, are you still, at 61, as good a performer as you were at 35?", "I think so. Absolutely. I think I'm a better singer now. I'm not so agile on stage and I don't do so many flamboyant things. But I think I'm a better musician.", "You play piano better?", "Yes. I don't know better, but I'm a -- I mean I think on a much more even keel. I mean you don't see so many uneven performances as maybe when you're younger. There's a lot of adrenaline going when you're younger. And I'm, you know, not a particularly good judge of what I did in the past. But I know that in the present that my aim is to become a better singer and a better piano player. And you look at people like Tony Bennett whose -- you know, I had the privilege of singing on his 80th birthday record. He sings just as good as he ever did, if not better, you know?", "Do you still get the same kick on stage?", "That is what has kept me going. The live performance thing is the thing that really is the thing that I love. The record business has changed. You know that. It's hard to sell records anymore unless you're a Justin Timberlake or a young person. And I've had my day in the sun, I think, as far as record sales grow. But I keep my career because I love to play and I'm never growing tired of playing. I love it.", "Do you still love that audience, that moment when you go on?", "Yes. It's like last night, there were 700 people at the party and I played. And it was just as much fun to playing to 80,000 people or 4,000 people at Cesar's Palace, wherever I play. The audience is there. I have to give them value for money. I mean we played for an hour last night. Normally, people play for 35 minutes at the Oscar party. I couldn't do that. I have to play and give people value for money. So, as far as I'm concerned, I think I'm singing better than ever and I'm playing better than ever. And my ratio of good performances is way up to what it used to be.", "Do you like long shows?", "I, you know, I mean I played -- for my 60th birthday last year, I played last year at Madison Square Garden, which was the 60th show at Madison Square Garden on my 60th birthday. And I wanted to do that there because it's such a special place and New York is a very special place. And I played for three hours and 25 minutes.", "What?", "Three hours and 25 minutes. And it -- and I just wanted to do a special show on my birthday. It didn't seem like three hours and 25 minutes to me and, hopefully, it didn't to the audience, because it seemed to fly by. And we had a choir. And we had a different set list to what I would normally play. It was a good history of the Elton John catalog. And I came on stage and people didn't say great show straight away. They just said how come you didn't pee?", "And it's like, I don't know. Three hours and 25 minutes. And I guarantee you, I'm on stage in Las Vegas for only an hour-and-a- half and halfway through the show, I think, oh, God, I need to parliamentary elections. And it's like I don't know why that happens. But, no. I never play for less than two hours, 30 minutes, anywhere.", "Sir Elton John is our special guest on this edition of LARRY KING LIVE. Valerie Bertinelli will be here tomorrow night. We'll be right back.", "We're back with sir Elton John. How do people who want to contribute to your charity.", "They just go to our website.", "Which is?", "I don't know what our website number is. I don't have a computer or mobile phone or anything. Just Google Elton John AIDS foundation. They can send donations. I'm glad you raised that, because we get a lot of money from very rich people who come to show their appreciation and their generosity from things last night. We also get people sending us their pocket money. Some fans have lunches around the world.", "It's on the screen now. EJAF.org.", "There you go. It's terrible I don't know that.", "EltonJohnAIDSFoundation.org, EJAF.org. We have an e-mail from Mark in Cambridge, Ontario; \"I'm a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. Would you talk about your personal program of recovery and what motivates your sobriety? Do you want to drink? Do you want to take drugs?", "I never want to drink again. I don't ever want to take drugs. You can't afford to be complacent. A lot of people in my life don't drink and don't take drugs, a lot of people who work for me. I'm in constant touch with people who have problems. I still have the same sponsor that I had in Chicago.", "You're AA sponsor?", "My AA sponsor and my drug sponsor. I still phone him every week. He lives in Chicago. He gave me hell when I first started. I went back after rehab and I went back to England. He said, the first thing you do is go to a meeting, and the first thing I did was go to see my soccer team play. I phoned him that night. He said, have you been to a meeting? I said, no, I went to the soccer game. He gave me the hardest time. So I listened to him. He talked good sense sometimes. I never feel that I want to drink. My life is so great without the mayhem that all that caused me. I couldn't possibly ever want to go back there.", "We have more exclusive LARRY KING LIVE video from last night's party. We asked some of the guests about the AIDS foundation and the work it does. Watch.", "What Elton has done, he's given the Oscar the heart. He's made a non-profit charitable event.", "We always look forward to it. It's not just about what dress people are wearing. You're raising money. It's an amazing combination.", "All this is great. It's fun. I'm like a tourist.", "This is your dear friend Lionel Richie here. All I want to say to you is I don't know how you've done this, but you've pulled off an amazing foundation.", "Thank you so much.", "We'll take a call for Elton John from -- Sir Elton. Winchester, Virginia, hello.", "Hello.", "Hi.", "This is my question for Elton; as a parent of a gay teenager, what did your parents do, Elton, or your grandmother, what did they do to give you the confidence to be this success that you are today?", "Good question.", "That is a great question. They loved me, always loved me for who I am. When I told my parents, my mother and my step-father and my family that I was gay, they always supported me. They said, listen, we love you. You're the person we've known all our lives. We always loved you. I was very, very lucky. A lot of people aren't so fortunate. You sound like you're a great mom and a loving mom. A lot of kids get spurned by their parents on that. They have a hard time. And I can understand parents, you know, wanting to have their children grow up and have family and become grandparents, but you have to -- parents have to accept their children for who they are. You don't stop loving your child. You should never stop loving your child. My family always accepted me for who I am. One of the great speeches last night, an acceptance speech, was from the lady who wrote the \"Juno\" film. I think she had a slightly colorful past. She said, I want to thank my family for loving me for who I am the way I am. That is the most important thing you can do for a child. You have to give them discipline sometimes, but it's a traumatic thing for a kid to come out and say to his parents, listen, I'm a little different. I'm not --", "How old were you?", "I was a late bloomer. I was 23. I didn't have sex until I was 23. So, I mean, I grew up in the '50s.", "So you didn't have hetero or homo sex?", "No, nothing until then. And my parents, my mom knew. There's something about mothers that is so instinctive. My mom said, I've known. I know. I'm so grateful that you told us. It was a really hard decision for me. I was crying. I felt ashamed and everything like that. And they were terrific. And every parent out there whose son or daughter comes to them and says listen, I think I'm gay. Please support them. Don't reject them. Rejection is the most hardest thing in the world for someone to cope with, especially from your parents. Try to understand. Try to be compassionate. And the lady that just called in sounds like one of those people. It's so important for your child. Your child is your child. Love them forever.", "We have an I ask question about Elton John's AIDS foundation. Let's look and listen, watch.", "Hello Elton. Jeff from Hollywood here. Congratulations on another successful Oscar bash. I hope you raised lots and lots of money for your foundation. My question is, where does most of the money raised by the foundation go to? Is it research, education, prevention, all of the above? How personally do you get involved in deciding where the funds go to? Thank you. God bless and best wishes to you and David.", "The money goes to -- mostly to prevention and to education and to direct care. It doesn't go to any -- None of the money has ever gone to research. We've left that to Amfar (ph). We work hand in hand with Amfar and do events together. Do I get involved in where it goes? Absolutely. I get grant requests that my people in my office go through. We never give money to a project unless we personally investigate it, whether it's in North America, Great Britain, Europe, Africa, India South America, the Caribbean, it's always investigated first. We give our money. We usually go in at grass-roots level, and we give it to the -- we start projects off. Ninety five percent of what we raise gets out there. We only have five percent overheads. And we have offices in America and in Great Britain. One of the things I was adamant about was that the foundation would never get too big so we were spending 50 percent of our money on people's wages, on people's expenses. Every dollar we raise is so important. For the last two years we've had to four star charity rating, which I'm so proud of. We are an efficient, really streamlined efficient machine. I do vet every dollar that goes out there.", "We'll be back with more Sir Elton John after this.", "There are children who will never hear him sing who are living in Kenya tonight because of Elton John.", "I've seen enough suffering in this world to last me several lifetimes. I don't want to die seeing more suffering. I want to be able to take my last breath and say we have made such a difference.", "What was that like to go to Africa?", "It's quite amazing. To go to Africa in general is -- we go every year on safari at the start of the year because it's such an incredibly moving experience and humbling experience to be out there in the animals and just be a guest in their territory and see this incredible countryside. Then usually we follow it up by going to Capetown and Johannesburg and visiting the projects that we fund. And we did that this year. And it's -- three years ago it was kind of demoralizing. It was pretty bad, and it was really heart wrenching. The stigma, for example, in poorer countries; three years ago in South Africa, if you said you had HIV/AIDS, you were thrown out of your home. You couldn't tell anybody at university. We set up a help line for the students at Capetown University so they could talk to each other because they were in such fear of having HIV and AIDS. Three years later, we're going back and people are wearing I'm HIV positive and I'm proud of it. Women are talking about it. The women, especially in South Africa, have galvanized themselves. They've had the new anti-retroviral drugs. They've got their health back. They haven't passed the infection onto their children. And they're spreading the word. The word has spread that you don't have to die HIV-positive.", "You know, President Bush has given more money to it than almost anything the United States does.", "I know, but he's given a lot of money to abstinence programs. Abstinence programs don't work. He has given billions, but I think some of it has been poured down the drains, because the abstinence programs have been proven, it does not work. You can't say to someone you can't have sex, not in that culture or any culture. It just doesn't work. If you promote the use of condoms and use educational messages to get out there, which we do in lots of our projects, then that helps. But I'm very grateful that America has given that amount of money. When I got my Kennedy Center award, we talked about that. But I think to a certain extent pouring money into abstinence program is a complete and utter waste of time.", "Did you talk to the president about that?", "I didn't, because at that point he had only just given the money. We only just found that out. I got my Kennedy Award three years ago.", "He's give an lot since.", "We had a good talk about AIDS. I found him to be much more knowledgeable than I thought he would be.", "Anderson Cooper standing by. He'll host \"AC 360\" at the top of the hour. What's up, Anderson.", "Larry, Sir Elton, coming up at the top of the hour, Hillary on the offensive. Senator Clinton ratcheting up the rhetoric against Barack Obama. This coming at a time when new polls are giving some fresh insight into how the races in Texas and Ohio are shaping up. Then, of course, there's the matter of that picture, a snapshot of Barack Obama in traditional Somali garb appeared today online. And the Obama camp says camp Clinton put it there. They deny it. We'll try to get to the bottom of it. Plus, Ralph Nader is in, the independent candidate declaring that he is again running for president. The question is how much of a factor will he really be this time around. We'll ask him live tonight. All that plus the shocking story of a young teen murdered in a high school in California because he was openly gay. Did school official ignore bullying the boy allegedly suffered before he was murdered? We'll investigate, 360 at the top of the hour, Larry.", "That's Anderson Cooper at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. You'll want to join us Thursday for a LARRY KING LIVE prime time exclusive. Janet Jackson will be here talking about her new album and a whole lot of stuff. If you love music, stick with me, kid. More with Sir Elton after the break.", "Let's take a call for Sir Elton. Victoria, British Columbia, hello.", "Hi, I'm just so thrilled to be talking with both of you. I'm from Victoria. And I just wanted to ask Sir Elton John if he thinks about Lady Diana at all, and also I wanted to say a quick phrase to him that might mean something; a good friend in life is someone who knows your songs and sings it back to you when you forget the words.", "Well, let's start with the last bit. When I have to rehearse some of my old songs, I have to go to my band to remember the words. I'm terrible at that. I've written so many songs. And my band, who I have to say are terrific people and so supportive of everything I do. I rely on them. They are some of the greatest friends I have. I'm so grateful to them. And Diana, well, she's in the news again because of the inquest that's going on, front page news in England. Yes, I think about her a lot, especially, you know, I have pictures of her in my house and letters from her. I miss her. I miss her humanity as far as it came. She's one of the few people in the world who could go into a room and light it up, and everyone in that room would be entranced by her. She had the ability to make everyone feel welcome. It's a great trait to have. She wasn't shy. She just had that loving ability to make people feel as if she cared. And that's a great trait to have. We don't have that very often.", "Her funeral. Was that the hardest thing you ever had to do?", "That was the hardest professional thing I ever had to do. I didn't want to forget the words. I sang \"Candle in the Wind\" so many times for Marilyn Monroe. I had only just rewritten the lyric. I had to have a teleprompter there, because I thought, if I make a mistake and I sing \"Good-Bye Norma Jean,\" I'm going to be lynched. It was hard because I didn't want to break down. I wanted to be -- the service was so dignified as British tradition is. We're very stiff upper lip. Every thing like that -- the state funerals are beautiful. The music is beautiful. And very rarely that emotion is shown. And it was hard because you walked in -- we were sitting down, David and I, seeing the boys coming in behind the coffin with a beauty wreath that just said mommy on it. Then I'm having to sing this song in front of billions of people. You just have to say, I'm going to use every professional bone in my body to make sure I do not break down here. I cannot afford to break down. I cannot afford to be modeling. This is a serious occasion. Everybody else has behaved incredibly well. I've got to sing this properly. I have to put the emotion in it. But I cannot afford to show any emotion.", "E-mail from Bob in Seattle; if your early albums hadn't hit it big and you had been dropped from your label, what direction would you have taken?", "I would probably still be playing music. I never intended to be Elton John singer. I was forced to make records. I wanted to be a song writer. After I left my group, I teamed up with Bernie and we wrote songs for other people, which were incredibly unsuccessful. Meanwhile, we were writing songs that we liked for ourselves and they became successful. I was forced into making my own records because no one else was covering our songs. So it kind of happened by accident. But if I had been dropped -- and nowadays record companies will drop you after one or two albums, might not even be two. They want the quick buck. They want the fourth-quarter profit. They don't see the longevity of an artist. It's all, you know, let's bang, bang, bang. Let's make have someone who has won \"American Idol\" and make sure we get a lot of money out of that. You have to get a young artist, like myself when I was young -- I needed guidance from people. I needed putting in the right direction. I had to have people who were willing to invest three or four albums worth until I had matured into a proper artist.", "We'll be back in our remaining moments with Sir Elton John. Don't go away.", "The gentleman you've all be waiting for, Elton John!", "This year, Sir Elton John will play Vermont, Delaware and Alaska. That will mean he will have played all 50 states. Maybe the only performer to do that.", "I think maybe, yes. I hope so.", "Vermont, Delaware and Alaska completes the cycle. How do you pick -- from Helen in Boomtown Township in New Jersey, the last one we can get in -- how do you pick the play list for your live shows?", "It's pretty easy. I do set in Las Vegas, which more or less stays the same. I do sets with the band, and that changes, and then I do solo sets, which means I can pick from all my material. You can't play the same set every tour. We have to change it around. I'm lucky enough. I've written enough songs to cover that.", "When you do you go in. When Bette Midler goes out, right?", "I go in after Bette comes out in March. I go in in the middle of March. It's Bette Midler me and then there will be Cher. That's a great lineup. I mean, Celine was there for over 500 shows. They've had to replace her with two other people, because she had the stamina of a thousand men.", "She was unbelievable. You still love playing Vegas?", "I love it, great place. I love it. I love Caesar's Palace. I love the whole thing.", "Crowds and everything?", "Yes, absolutely.", "Always great seeing you.", "Thank you, Larry. Thank you very much.", "Thanks for giving us entree last night. It was a wonderful evening. Sir Elton John. I want to remind you of Elton's website. It's EJAF.org. You can get more information or make a donation. There's a lot to do on our website, CNN.com/LarryKing. You can answer the Elton John quick vote question and download our podcast, Jon Stewart. Tomorrow, the charming Valerie Bertonelli is here. Boy, does she have a story to tell. And the weight loss isn't half of it. Then Wednesday, we'll discuss a hopeful side of autism. Thursday, a prime time live exclusive with Janet Jackson. Now, he's always exclusive, Anderson Cooper and \"AC 360,\" Anderson? 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{"id": "NPR-15177", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2017-04-14", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/04/14/523890715/trip-to-hospital-waits-until-after-the-hockey-game", "title": "Trip To Hospital Waits Until After The Penguins' Playoff Hockey Game", "summary": "A Pittsburgh man who owns an auto detail business was stabbed with a screwdriver. Paramedics arrived but he refused treatment because the hockey game was on. He later drove himself to the hospital.", "utt": ["Good morning. I'm David Greene. We know Pittsburgh has dedicated sports fans, like the guy who owns City of Steel, an auto detail business. He got in a fight at his shop and was stabbed by a screwdriver. Paramedics arrived, but the guy refused treatment because the hockey game was on. The Pittsburgh Penguins were in the middle of beating Columbus, and he didn't want to miss it. After the game, he drove himself to the hospital. I'll admit, he may have had his priorities wrong - I mean, at least this early in the playoffs. It's MORNING EDITION."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-23224", "program": "CNN Insight", "date": "2001-1-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/08/i_ins.00.html", "summary": "A Glimpse Of President-In-Waiting George W. Bush", "utt": ["Moving man - George W. Bush is packing for the White House and preparing for the presidency. On the road from Texas to Washington, expect a few bumps along the way. (on camera): Hello, and welcome. There were moving vans outside the governor's mansion in Austin, Texas, Monday. The president-elect is leaving the home he has occupied for the last six years to head to a new one he can expect to have for at least four. His inauguration is Saturday, January 20. Well, between then and now, two more weeks of transition. On our program today - a glimpse of the president-in-waiting. We begin with Ronald Brownstein and a look at some of Mr. Bush's plans and some of his problems.", "Like every new president George W. Bush's road to the White House was paved with promises. Here's a look at the top five that Bush may find tough to keep. School vouchers - Bush says that low-income parents whose kids attend failing public schools should receive vouchers to transfer their children to private schools if they choose. But almost all Democrats oppose vouchers, as do many moderate Republicans who fear they'll drain money from the public schools. Bush's bargaining power was weakened in November, when voters in California and Michigan rejected pro-voucher ballot initiatives. Social Security - it was one of Bush's boldest campaign proposals. A fundamental restructuring of Social Security to allow workers to invest part of their payroll tax in the stock market.", "The idea works very simply. A younger worker can take some portion of his or her payroll tax and put it into a fund that invests in stocks and bonds.", "With more and more Americans investing in mutual funds and 401(k)s, the idea of private investment accounts may grow more popular over time. But in a Senate divided 50-50 between the parties, the votes aren't there for it today. Only four Democrats supported the idea last year, and three of them have left the Senate. Missile defense - talking tough on national defense last year, Bush promised to quickly build and deploy a national missile defense program. And he said he wouldn't be stopped by the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile, or ABM, Treaty between the U.S. and Russia, which bars the deployment of such a system.", "It is important for us to change the ABM Treaty with Russia, either change it or withdraw from it in order to make sure we have adequate and effective and reliable theater-based anti-ballistic missile system. (", "If the Russians say no, how long would you give them before you pulled out of that treaty?", "Reasonable. Reasonable is not year or years.", "Months?", "Yes, sir.", "With the current missile defense system failing to hit the target in two of the three tests the Pentagon has run so far, it will be hard for Bush to win broad support for a crash deployment program. Tax cuts - few of Bush's campaign proposals were more controversial than his call for a $1.3 trillion tax cut. But with the economy wavering and the federal budget surplus estimate soaring, he's got a good shot at winning approval of a substantial tax reduction this year. The question will be, which taxes and whose taxes are cut? Bush wants an across-the-board cut in income tax rate, including a big cut in the top rate for the wealthiest tax payers from 39.6 percent down to 33 percent.", "The federal government in peace time has no business taking more than 33 percent of anyone's paycheck.", "But cutting the top rate so much after a decade in which the families at the top have done well enough to trade in the Cadillac for the Mercedes is a deal-breaker for Democrats. Finally - bipartisanship. Beyond all of his policy promises, Bush centered his campaign on a sweeping pledge to reach beyond party lines and soothe the partisan hostilities in Washington.", "I will set a different tone in Washington,", "Bush has a strong record of working effectively with Democrats in Texas, but almost everything that's happened since Election Day has been a reminder of how hard it will be to continue that success in Washington. Democrats are already complaining that Bush hasn't shown more bipartisanship in constructing his Cabinet or outlining his agenda. Civil rights groups are gearing up to oppose John Ashcroft as attorney general. Environmentalists are waving a red flag over Interior Secretary-nominee Gale Norton. The AFL-CIO is digging in against Labor Secretary-designate Linda Chavez. On the other side, conservatives are warning Bush against too many compromises with Democrats. (on camera): So, in the end, if Bush wants to make good on his hard promises, nothing will test him more than his pledge to build real bipartisan cooperation in a capital that's grown addicted to conflict.", "We heard there about some of George W. Bush's Cabinet nominees who could have trouble obtaining Senate approval. The most serious problem so far concerns the president-elect's choice of labor secretary. Linda Chavez faces questions about an illegal immigrant who once lived in her home. Chavez says the woman was not an employee, but that she gave her some money to reach out to people in need, as she put it. The labor secretary nominee said she did not know that the woman was an illegal immigrant, and George W. Bush says he is sticking by his choice.", "I do remain confident in Linda. She's a good person, got a good - she'd make a fine Cabinet secretary.", "Did she do anything wrong by - in that situation?", "As far as I can tell, from what I read, I think she's certainly qualified to be Cabinet secretary.", "Is this consistent with your comments on enforcing immigrations laws strictly.", "No, as I said, from what I can tell from, what I've read in the press accounts that she's perfectly qualified to be the labor secretary.", "We're going to take a break, then look at an old adversary who's determined to press his agenda on the president-elect and is not willing to wait. Stay with us.", "Campaign finance reform probably wouldn't have been a major issue in the U.S. presidential election if it weren't for John McCain. The maverick Republican senator ran against George W. Bush for their party's presidential nomination, making campaign fund raising his issue. McCain wanted to regulate soft money - unlimited donations to political parties that can be used on behalf of the candidates. The Arizona senator lost the nomination to Bush, but he hasn't lost his issue. (on camera): Welcome back. John McCain wants his campaign finance reform bill to be introduced within days of George W. Bush's inauguration. Other top Republicans want the new president to have more time to settle into office before taking on that potentially explosive issue. CNN's Patty Davis has more.", "Risking a clash with his former rival, Arizona senator John McCain is vowing to push campaign finance reform in the Senate immediately after inauguration.", "I don't believe that it would, quote, \"cut the legs out from under President Bush.\" In fact, I think it would not interfere.", "But President-Elect George W. Bush, the Senate's Republican leadership and even some Democrats disagree. They'd rather Bush lead with his legislative agenda, including a $1.3 trillion tax cut.", "I think the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law is going to be controversial. There will be a great deal of debate. I'd kind of hoped that we could not lead with that issue because it is divisive.", "It's not just McCain's timing that troubles the Bush camp, it wants any legislation that bans unregulated soft money to address free speech concerns and include restrictions on labor unions.", "One way to do that is for there to be paycheck protection, so that a union member will be able to opt out of a union spending money if he or she doesn't like the purpose for which it's being spent.", "Their use of the labor argument really camouflage for their desire to keep the situation where it is, which is their ability to raise more money faster, easier.", "McCain says he's open to amendments on the issue. But with the addition of conservative Republican Thad Cochran to his cause...", "I think the time is now when we need to reform campaign financing laws.", "... McCain says he now has the 60 votes he needs to stop Republicans from filibustering his campaign finance bill to death. (on camera): Far from throwing up roadblocks to Bush's agenda, McCain claims his approach would clear the way for the reforms Bush wants in everything from education to the tax code by lessening the clout special interests wield in the halls of Congress. Patty Davis, CNN, Washington.", "Joining us now to talk about what's happening and what's ahead is Michael Weisskopf, senior Washington correspondent for Time magazine. Thanks so much for being with us.", "Good to be here, Jonathan.", "I'm going to ask you about John McCain in a moment. But first, let me just ask you about the big picture. When you look at the transition, when you look at the campaign promises, the Cabinet that's being assembled, the Congress that the new president is going to have to work with, how do things look for George W. Bush?", "It's a pretty smooth and efficient start, certainly compared to the early Clinton entree. And he will have some bumps in the road with his nominations to the Cabinet. The McCain proposal serves as kind of a potentially divisive wedge. But on the whole, I think he's progressing pretty smoothly and more easily than anyone thought.", "Let me ask you about the Cabinet then. What kind of Cabinet has he assembled?", "Well, on the foreign policy side, Jonathan, it is a group of hardened pragmatists, people who've been there before to make the decisions and have made them before. On the domestic side, however, he seems to have placated the right wing of the Republican Party. And there in the choice of Linda Chavez for labor secretary, John Ashcroft for attorney general and Gale Norton for interior secretary, he's picked people who are agreeable to Christian conservatives, big business and the kind of right flank of the Republicans.", "What's going to happen to them? The Senate is famously tied at 50-50. Can he get them confirmed?", "He's going to have trouble probably with Chavez and with Ashcroft, and the reason being is that this is a president who promised to be a uniter. And he's united the Democratic Party and its interest groups against those two candidates in particular. The most important parts of the Democratic Party are labor, women's groups, African-American groups and environmental groups. And they have common cause for opposing both of those candidates - and possibly also the interior secretary Cabinet.", "In a nutshell, what's the problem with them?", "This is an election that was decided by a handful of votes. The Senate and the House are almost evenly divided in both places. And the Democrats believe it's a time for bipartisanship and for moderation. Those three candidates represent the more extreme positions in their areas.", "Linda Chavez in particular, there is this question now being raised about whether she employed this alien, whether the alien was illegal, whether Linda Chavez knew it.", "Yes.", "Is that basically just an excuse? Is it because of their ideological positions or all of a sudden the idea that someone might have had an illegal immigrant in their home really offended Democrats?", "Linda Chavez enters with a very strong wave of opposition to her for reasons pretty obvious to the labor movement. She is anti minimum wage increase. She's against affirmative action. She sides with big business on labor issues such family leave. Those are reasons enough for labor to oppose her and for Democrats, who labor support, to look against her. When something new comes in, the sort of straw that breaks the camel's back, traditionally it has magnified effect. It ends up tipping the balance even more because she begins with a foundation of opposition to her.", "The Democrats are going to oppose this nomination. They are expected to. But what is John McCain doing? Let's go back full circle - we began this part of the program talking about his campaign finance legislation that George W. Bush doesn't want to see and opposes. What is he thinking?", "Well, of course, John McCain, when he dropped out, became a pretty warm supporter and hard fighter for George Bush. That doesn't mean he was giving up his own identity and his own ambitions in the process. Really, he stands, more than anything else in this campaign, for campaign - in his career, for campaign finance reform. And he won't wait for anyone. The beginning of an administration is often the best time to move legislation. He wants to get in front of the line. So what the prospect for Bush is the first legislative fight could be within his own party.", "Michael Weisskopf, please stay with us. We're going to take break. And then when we come back, an oddity in U.S. politics. Before a president-elect has time to prove himself in office, he gets tested in transition. A look at that in a moment.", "Out with the old, in with the new. U.S. president-elects have just 10 weeks to fill thousands of jobs. George W. Bush had even less time because of the uncertainty that followed his contest with Al Gore. Regardless of the timeframe, the transition has become a test of the new leader, and the media are keeping score. (on camera): Welcome back. You'd think that after the intensity of the U.S. election campaign that the transition period would be a quiet time. But the media simply switches gears, looking for signs indicating whether U.S. voters have chosen wisely. Here's CNN's Howard Kurtz.", "No sooner had George W. Bush emerged with a less-than-landslide victory in Florida than the pundits started dumping on the new president's prospects.", "There are going to be a lot of people who say he's a lame duck from day one.", "But history shows that media commentators are often wrong about an incoming president, especially during his transition and first months in office. Early stumbles or successes may turn out to be a mere blip in the long run. When Bill Clinton took the reins from Bush's father, the press criticized the baby-boomer president for presiding over chaos. The New York Times called it the worst transition in modern memory, with all the dignity and order of a mudslide. On his first day in office, Clinton touched off a flap about gays in the military. On his second day, he withdrew his nomination of Zoe Baird as attorney general over her problems with an illegal nanny.", "I feel very badly about it, but I'm responsible for it.", "As other nominees fell by the wayside, much of the press and the pundits gave the new president failing grades.", "Bill Clinton has been getting the stuffing kicked out of him during the transition for seeming to change from the campaign.", "Clinton was also stiffing the White House press corps, preferring such venues as LARRY KING LIVE, and he paid a price. Things got so bad that George Stephanopoulos had to step down as communications director, and the young staff resented the hiring of David Gergen, a Republican, to deal with the media. But despite these early problems, Clinton regained his political footing and was easily reelected four years later. George Bush, Sr. assumed power in 1988 after a rough, racially charged campaign in which Newsweek famously derided him as a wimp. But suddenly, said Barbara Walters, it's as if Clark Kent became Superman. Brit Hume spoke of a new George Bush. He was the regular guy going to the White House, said The New York Times. He went fishing and jogging with reporters. But Bush hit a major pothole soon after taking office.", "I'm going to strongly continue to back Senator Tower, and I do not believe he is going down the drain.", "When the Senate rejected John Tower as his defense secretary, the press quickly turned on Bush, saying there is a deepening sense that something is badly amiss.", "The whole trouble is that George Bush is starting this week off with too much symbolism and no agenda.", "That was the complaint four years later when, despite Bush's victory in the Gulf War, he was evicted by the voters. Ronald Reagan, by all press accounts, had a terrible transition. His profile so low it was practically invisible. The Washington Post said that he seems to be remote from the process of shaping his own administration. Reagan held only one news conference in the two months after his election. When his choices for secretary of state and labor were announced, Reagan was off getting a haircut. He spent much of the time at his Pacific Palisades home or clearing brush at his ranch. One day soon after the election, Reagan told reporters there would be no personnel decisions that day. But James Baker and Ed Meese were announced as top White House aides just hours later. When his first eight Cabinet nominees made a joint appearance, Reagan didn't even watch the whole event on television. The great communicator was, well, not communicating. But Reagan got off to a fast start when the American hostages in Iran were released the day he was sworn in. And with his actor's flair, Reagan became a successful two- term president, despite media carping that he was out of touch. (on camera): Journalists have a seemingly insatiable desire to forecast the future - to presume, for example, that a president elected by 537 votes won't be able to get much done. No one knows whether George Bush will make them eat those words a year from now, but remember, it's happened before.", "Michael Weisskopf, senior Washington correspondent for Time magazine, is back with us. Well, you heard what Howard Kurtz has to say.", "Yes.", "We might look at the transition period as a time when the world learns about the president-elect and the president-elect learns about their new world. The way Howard tells it, nobody really learns anything. It's just too soon. Is it just too soon to have a good guess at what George W. Bush is going to be like?", "It is. We have to think in politics, or at least Washington politics, as 90-day segments. And I guess that this is a period that might reflect on how well George W. will do in his first 90 days. After all, in the case of President Clinton, he knew because of difficulty with his appointments that he was going to have to go pretty much solo in the Congress - that is, within his own party, not to reach out for Republican help. And in fact, his first couple of years are really consumed with trying to pass legislation by the slimmest of majorities. To some extent, this is a period which will determine the same for George W. If, for instance, Democrats gang up and knock off some of his nominees, he may well see a strategy more profitable of going only within his own party.", "Well, let me ask you about that. Is there any way to guess, on the basis of what is know about George W. Bush, whether we're going to see audacity, or whether we're going to see great caution when he approaches Congress and the job he's about to begin?", "What we know about George W. is his experience in Texas, which was one really of being a bridge-maker, a broker between parties, an attempt to sort of build his own coalitions around issues without concern for party. We're not certain how he's going to go here. However, his appointments, at least in these domestic areas, suggest that he is going to go all Republican because - and forget about Democratic support - because he's so alienated Democratic interest groups.", "Did Florida cost him anything? There was a suggestion as the court cases were dragging and dragging on that the new administration was losing valuable time. Can you see that now?", "You'll see it more, Jonathan, in his lower level appointments - the deputies, for instance. He had to spend his time on the top guys, the matinee characters who will be filling our nightly news for the next months and years, and not in the kind of depth that he might have looked at if he had more time. The same is true for his White House crew. He was able, of course, to pick the so-called \"iron triangle\" from Texas - three aides he had with him in Austin. But not much beyond that, and that may well hurt him, too.", "One of the things, again, that was being said in Florida, predicted threat that would hurt him, was the polarization of the country. People said that the debate and the contest over who really won that election was so profoundly troubling to so many Americans that the country would be cut down the middle when George W. Bush finally took charge of it. Do you see that still?", "You'll see that in the test over his nominees for Cabinet. African-American groups, for instance, were so alienated by the outcome in Florida that they were ready to go. And when John Ashcroft was named as attorney general nominee, they began mobilizing very quickly. And the same was true for the environmental community. Both those groups and labor invested very heavily in the Gore campaign, both in terms of manpower and money, and they were - felt they were very antagonized by the outcome of Florida. And really, the mobilization began then. Now they've got a cause to come together again.", "We began this program by looking at the Bush agenda and hearing some of the reasons that he might or might not succeed in getting it adopted. Do you think we're going to see at the very beginning a big tax cut, a big change in education, some major departures when it comes to military or international policy?", "Really, the smart question is what will he be proposing? And the thinking was initially that he be going in with a more moderate piecemeal program. However, his nominees suggest that he's going to go straight out and try to go for the whole ball of wax at first. Most members of Congress and leaders think that that's a big mistake.", "Michael Weisskopf of Time magazine, thanks so much for being with us once again.", "Good to be here.", "One final thing before we go. When the Clinton administration ends, one drama of the Clinton years will drag on. The independent counsel investigating his conduct in the matter of Monica Lewinsky is, yes, still at work, and the counsel could still pursue a legal case against Mr. Clinton. A prominent Republican lawmaker is urging the incoming president to pardon the outgoing. For his part, Mr. Bush says it is time, in his words, to get all of this business behind us. \"Let him move on and enjoy life and become an active participant in the American system,\" Mr. Bush said of Mr. Clinton. But he also said he wouldn't pardon someone who has never been formally accused of a crime. So the case continues. That's INSIGHT for this day. I'm Jonathan Mann. You can see a lot more about the transition and the inauguration preparations on the CNN Web site at allpolitics.com. Thanks for joining us. END TO ORDER VIDEOTAPES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF CNN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMING, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE THE SECURE ONLINE ORDER FROM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["JONATHAN MANN, INSIGHT (voice-over)", "RONALD BROWNSTEIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. PRESIDENT-ELECT", "BROWNSTEIN", "BUSH", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, NBC'S MEET THE PRESS) TIM RUSSERT, HOST, NBC'S MEET THE PRESS", "BUSH", "RUSSERT", "BUSH", "BROWNSTEIN", "BUSH", "BROWNSTEIN", "BUSH", "D.C. BROWNSTEIN", "MANN", "BUSH", "REPORTER", "BUSH", "REPORTER", "BUSH", "MANN", "MANN (voice-over)", "PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JOHN MCCAIN, REPUBLICAN SENATOR", "DAVIS", "JOHN BREAUX, DEMOCRATIC SENATOR", "DAVIS", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-223325", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-1-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1401/20/nday.02.html", "summary": "Indian Socialite Dies \"Unnatural Death\"; Big Beer Deal In Asia", "utt": ["There were clashes in the streets of Kiev after thousands had gathered to protest new laws. The new legislation severely restricts people's ability to demonstrate in the Ukraine was passed after months after pro-E.U. demonstration. Now, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been very critical of the new legislation, saying that it was rammed through parliament without transparency or accountability. Following Sunday's clashes, the government has agreed to negotiate with the pro-E.U. demonstrators. Back to you, Kate.", "Erin, thank you so much. And in Japan, a dolphin hunt continues today despite international outrage against it and calls from many for it to stop. Paula Hancocks has the details from Tokyo.", "More than 200 bottle-nosed dolphins are waiting to be either captured or killed in Japan. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says that some of these dolphins are visibly bloodied and injured as they're trying to escape from the hunters. Japan rejects international criticism, saying that the annual dolphin hunting season is an ancient local custom. The U.S. ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, has also become involved in this (inaudible), tweeting that she is, quote, \"deeply concerned by inhumaneness of drive-hunt dolphin killing.\" Back to you, Kate.", "Paula, thank you. And a growing political scandal in India where a government minister's wife was found dead after accusing him of adultery. CNN's Sumnima Udas has more from New Dehli.", "Kate, never has the death of a socialite garnered so much intrigue in India. Sunanda Pushkar and her high-profile husband, the Indian politician, Shashi Tharoor, were really a mainstay in New Dehli's glamorous social circle. But last week on Twitter, she accused her husband of having an affair with a Pakistani journalist. And on Friday, she was found dead in this luxury hotel. Now, doctors say her death was sudden and unnatural. The cause is still being investigated. But Tharoor has given his testimony and says nothing short of the truth will end the indignity that he and his wife have been subjected to. Back to you, Kate.", "Sumnima, thank you so much.", "All right, let's talk weather and Super Bowl. If you are a believer in the Farmer's Almanac, it looks like you should stock up on long johns. Now, Indra Petersons is here to talk. Do you pay much attention, give much credence to the Farmer's Almanac?", "Everyone already knows from my face. They say they're 80 percent accurate, but they have literally zero analysis to prove why they're that accurate. Most meteorologists say not even close. I mean, if you look at any stats they're given, for example, the Southeast, they said it was going to be abundant or very dry, but there's so much rain, they had record rain fall. But regardless, let's talk about what the Farmer's Almanac is saying. First of all, they're giving you three scenarios, so it's winter time. They're saying there's going to be nor'easter. If you're going to go way off-shore, you'll get snow flurries. It's going to go right up the border here, and you're gonna get heavy snow or you're gonna get rain. So regardless, that's kind of encompassing everything except for completely dry. The forecast right now is kind of in between two and three, so right now it looks like, for the most part, average temperatures; 35, though, very cold for the Super Bowl. And temperatures, winds maybe about five to 10 miles per hour and snow. So, I mean, sure, not this huge blizzard. But regardless, they did give all three scenarios, so they're kind of covered at this point. Let's talk about what we actually do know. It's going to be cold, and it's going to be getting colder. Look at these temperatures. They're going to be diving down over the next several days. The departures (ph) from normal are going to be good 20 degrees below normal. So, by tomorrow morning, you're going to be talking about that wind chill again, around Minneapolis, a good 30 degrees below zero. Here's the difference, though. It's not 65 little like last time. There's a drastic difference here between cold polar air we saw and now the arctic air that's moving in. We want to show you very quickly, though, the next clipper that's making its way through. New forecast just came in could produce some heavy snow by tomorrow. The New York City, D.C. heads up five to seven inches of snow for tomorrow. It looks like from us maybe in bed not be able to make it to work unless you stay nearby.", "Breaking out those --", "Thanks, Indra.", "I'm interested in your whole almanac analysis there, because if any of those come true, it will change the odds of the game, because as we all know, one of the quarterback involve in the game --", "We'll discuss. I've been -- people have told me that that -- aversion to cold is over --", "Really?", "When they say that --", "I've talked to many people about this now, and they say that it's overblown. We'll discuss later.", "Yes. It is \"Money Time.\" That's what's happening. Chief business correspondent, Chris Romans, in our money center. The liquor industry is attracting a lot of attention lately. Christine, another big deal this morning?", "Another big industry deal this morning. It's happy hour for these investors in the studio, Chris. Anheuser-Busch InBev, the owner of Budweiser, is going to buy South Korea's Oriental Brewery for $5.8 billion. The private equity owners of Oriental Brewery are going to walk home with a $4 billion profit on that one. Last Monday, Japan's Suntory said it would buy Jim Beam for 16 billion. So, yes, investors bullish on urban (ph) and beer. A U.S. Postal Service employees are up in arms about a new plan from Staples. Staples would open mini-post offices in stores as part of a drive to eventually privatize the U.S. Postal Service. Here's the catch, Staples would use its own employees to man those stations and that something the American Postal Workers union is upset about. Staples declined to comment on the union concern. Nintendo shares at one point this morning down 20 percent in Tokyo trading. Nintendo says it's going to lose, lose $335 million this fiscal year. It hit forecast a nearly billion dollar gain. Software and hardware sales were disappointing over the holiday shopping season. They slashed their forecast for the Wii consul sales, slashed them -- lot of changing taste and technology and the competition in the game's fave (ph), guys.", "All right. Christine, thank you.", "Coming up on NEW DAY, how you know that Amazon knows what you want to order before you even order?", "It's a convoluted question and I'm putting it that was on purpose, because this is really confusing. Amazon has this new plan to stop what you want before you even order it so that you have it nearby. How did they know what you're going to order before you even order? We'll tell you.", "Plus, there are dunks and then there are dunks. How George taking it to the hoop, wait for it. \"Must-See Moment,\" you'll see when we come back."], "speaker": ["ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BOLDUAN", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN COMMENTATOR", "BOLDUAN", "SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BOLDUAN", "PEREIRA", "INDRA PETERSONS, METEOROLOGIST", "BOLDUAN", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "CUOMO", "PEREIRA"]}
{"id": "CNN-313579", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2017-06-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1706/01/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Breaking: Gun Fire, Explosions at Philippines Resort", "utt": ["We're continuing to follow the disturbing breaking news out of Manila in the Philippines where there are reports of major gunfire and an explosion at a casino resort right in the city. This is the first video we're getting. Police and SWAT Teams, they have been deployed. It's a multilevel mall that has casinos, high-end shopping, among other resort activities. It's called Resorts World Manila. CNN's Ivan Watson is joining us right now. You're in Singapore, Ivan, but you're familiar with this area. What are you hearing?", "Most of the information we're now getting is from Philippines news sources and our sister network, CNN Philippines. Right now, what we have is an unfolding situation right now taking place in the area known as Resorts World. And we're getting accounts of gunfire taking place there, of hotel employee who have fled the scene and are describing to our sister network at least one gunman wearing a mask somewhere on the second floor of the Resorts World in Manila. Now, I've been to this area before, Wolf. I've stayed in this area. There is essentially a compound of hotels here. It's close to the international airport in the enormous capital of the Philippines. There's a Marriott Hotel there, for example, a number of other hotels, four-star hotels. There's also a shopping mall and some kind of a casino complex as well. Again, this is very much an unfolding situation right now, but what we're getting right now are reports via our sister network CNN Philippines of some kind of a shooting situation with police being rushed to the area, with Philippine SWAT services being rushed to the area. And we're still trying to get our heads around exactly what is taking place around these reports of gunfire at the Resorts World complex in the Philippines capital right now -- Wolf?", "Reports of gunfire, Ivan, and also explosions inside as well. That also raises alarm bells. Give us a perspective, Ivan. Unfortunately, there's been a tremendous amount of deadly violence in the Philippines recently. Tell our viewers about that.", "Well, and we have no information about any connection here. We don't have any claims of responsibility at this point. But, yes, you have had, just last week, the Philippines government having to declare martial law on a southern island of the Philippines after an ISIS-affiliated group took over a town known as Malawi, and essentially set fire to a prison there, took control of central streets there, and killed a number of Philippine security forces there. And there's been ongoing violence there. And, of course, the Philippines government having to declare martial law. But that is on a southern island of the Philippines, quite some distance from the Philippines capital. We don't have a connection, per se, between these two very different locations. In addition to that, you have the ongoing violence, Wolf, of the government's war on drugs. It has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people. And that's a separate issue of violence that's been taking place.", "Hold on a moment, Ivan. One of our CNN Philippines reporters, Camille Abadicio, is joining us. What are you learning, Camille?", "Really, a series of gunfire and what seems to be explosions coming from Resorts World Manila. We saw 10 heavily armed members of the SWAT team entering the area. Right now, I believe they are engaging with a gunman inside. Right now, I'm huddled with police and other members of the media at the perimeter a block away from where the incident happened. There was a reported shooting incident on the second floor of the resort and casino past midnight. An employee says guests suddenly rushed out of the building. Some of them jumped from the second floor just to escape, and some of them said that there was a gunman wearing a mask and that he opened fire. Now, I talked to a security guard also that we talked to off camera and he said there was more than one attacker but we have yet to confirm that. The regional police spokesperson just spoke to us and said that they can't divulge the information that they have right now for the safety of the police and the people still inside. I also talked to a man who came running from the building and he told us he was on the third floor when he heard loud gunshots and he had to hide inside the bathroom with other guests. He really was very disoriented and scared, and he was just lucky because he saw a security guard who helped him escape. He also said there was smoke inside the building. So it's unclear if there's an ongoing fire but we're seeing fire trucks here around the area. There are also a lot of police and more SWAT teams coming. And earlier, there were already injured guests rushed to the hospital -- Wolf?", "Very disturbing development in Manila at this resort, called Resorts World Manila. You heard Camille Abadicio, our reporter there, who described the police and firefighters and SWAT who have engaged in apparently more than one gunman there. Bot only gunshots were heard but explosions at the same time. We're going to stay on top of the breaking news, all of the news. Ana Cabrera picks up our special coverage.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "Hello. I'm Ana Cabrera. I want to welcome our viewers around the world and here in the U.S. Again, with breaking news. Right now, we are following reports of an attack unfolding at --"], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "WATSON", "BLITZER", "CAMILLE ABADICIO, CNN REPORTER, CNN PHILLIPINES (voice-over)", "BLITZER", "ANNOUNCER", "ANA CABRERA, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-274063", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2016-01-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/16/ndaysat.02.html", "summary": "Michigan To Investigate Flint Water Crisis.", "utt": ["It's 55 minutes past the hour. New from Flint Michigan's attorney general, he's taking steps to see if any laws were violated leading up to this current water crisis we've been talking about. The city's drinking water has been contaminated with toxic lead after what was considered to be a cost saving measure. Now Governor Rick Snyder has declared a state of emergency. He's called in the National Guard, who are delivering clean water to the residents. CNN's Sara Ganim walks us through this.", "As the National Guard arrives with clean bottled water, more agencies are now looking to see if anyone is criminally responsible for the water crisis in Flint. Almost immediately after the city switched its water source two years ago, brown water came out of the tap and children developed rashes.", "This is ridiculous. It's killing us slowly.", "The water is tainted with lead because it wasn't treated properly. Now allegations that state government officials were not only slow to react, but that they may have hidden the truth.", "I think that is the biggest trauma that our community feels right now. They were told for 18 months to relax. That we are meeting all minimum -- you know, we're meeting all guidelines. They've been lied to for 18 months.", "Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a Flint pediatrician took it upon herself to look at the blood lead levels in children in Flint. She found levels had doubled, even tripled in some cases. Even though the state insisted the water was safe. (on camera): Why do you think their information was flawed?", "Their information wasn't flawed. They had the data. They had even looked at it back in July and they had seen these abnormal spikes.", "A leaked draft memo shows that as far back as June, the EPA new of reports that Flint water had high levels of lead and that the city's testing was skewing results by free flushing before samples were taken, but no action was taken for months. The EPA says it was urging the state to fix the problem. What's more, Marc Edwards, the researcher who shed light on these documents says the state not only tested the wrong home, but also altered a report eliminating results from two Flint homes that would have shown toxic levels of lead.", "In essence, the state took an F grade for Flint water's report on lead and made it into an A grade.", "The state says the alterations were legitimate, but e-mails show state officials determine to prove the water was safe. One official writing, \"I would like to make a strong statement with the demonstration of proof that lead blood levels seen are not out of the ordinary.\"", "Let down by this city and this county and the state, let down by the government that's supposed to keep us safe.", "Christi, the problems continue to pile up. This week the governor announced they're now looking into a possible link between a spike in legionnaire's disease in Flint, which is a water-borne bacterial disease and the water switched. During the two years in which the water with was coming from the Flint River, which is highly corrosive, cases of legionnaire's went from the teens into the 40s in both years. Ten people died and they're looking to see if they can make a definitive link -- Christi.", "My goodness, all right, Sara Ganim, appreciate that update, thank you so much.", "Good morning to you. I hope Saturday has been good to you so far as we edge towards the 8:00 hour. I'm Christi Paul.", "I'm Victor Blackwell. A lot to get to, starting with the breaking news. We'll start in California where the FBI now believes the San Bernardino terrorists, Syed Rezwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, planned to detonate a bomb at the Inland Regional Center.", "The same day they shot and killed 14 people in December. Now the two were killed in a dramatic shootout with police last month."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "SARA GANIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GANIM", "DR. MONA HANNA-ATTISHA, HURLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL", "GANIM", "HANNA-ATTISHA", "GANIM (voice-over)", "DR. MARC EDWARDS, PROFESSOR, VIRGINIA TECH", "GANIM", "RHONDA KELSO, PLAINTIFF IN CLASS ACTION SUIT", "GANIM", "PAUL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "NPR-28885", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2011-09-06", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/09/06/140206893/economy-needs-more-than-a-quick-fix", "title": "Sour Economy Thwarts Enthusiasm For Obama", "summary": "David Greene has been revisiting some of the stories he reported on during a trip he took across America back in 2009. The reporting trip was to mark President Obama's first 100 days in office. In his second report in the series \"100 Days Revisited,\" Greene talks to Dorothy Jerse and Carolyn Toops, two of the ladies he spoke to in 2009.", "utt": ["The president is trying to recapture the enthusiasm that swept him into office. And during his first 100 days back in 2009, I was traveling across the U.S., asking Americans how the tough economy was affecting their lives. This summer, we've been checking back with the people I met during that trip.", "Let's remember March 24th of 2009. President Obama described the failing economy this way.", "It took many years and many failures to lead us here, and it will take many months and many different solutions to lead us out. There are no quick fixes, and there are no silver bullets.", "The morning after the president said that, I drove to Boo's Crossroads Cafe in Terra Haute, Indiana, where a group of women in their 70s and 80s were holding their weekly breakfast club meeting. One of them was Carolyn Toops.", "You came to sit next to sit to me. You must want to tell me something.", "Yeah. I wanted to just make a brief statement. I don't want to engage in a dialogue. Okay.", "I won't say anything.", "All right, then. Are you going to ask me who I am?", "Well, you told me I can't be in a dialogue with you. I'm just kidding.", "Yes. Introduce yourself, if you can.", "I'm Carolyn Toops, it's T-O-O-P-S. I have been a resident of Terre Haute for a good many years now. I'm originally from Louisiana. No, I did not watch the speech last night. However, I would just like to say that I think it's unfair to expect the new president to handle this, and he has been in office less than three months. I wish him well. Thank you.", "Well, when I called up Carolyn Toops the other day, she hadn't changed her tune much.", "You said back in 2009 that it was unfair to expect President Obama to get the economy going after just a few months. Now that it's been two years, do you think it's fair to criticize him now?", "No. That's part of what goes on with the job, I think.", "And how do you think he's been doing when he goes on TV and talks about the economy?", "I think the honeymoon is over. It didn't last too terribly long. And with the present situation, I think none of us could anticipate what is happening now.", "Are you worried about him politically if the economy stays in rough shape?", "I think it's going to be difficult for him to be elected for another term.", "How do you feel about him? You know, are you going to vote for him?", "Probably I would vote for Obama for a second term. But, of course, it depends on who is in the opposition.", "Another one of the breakfast club regulars I spoke on that 2009 visit is Dorothy Jerse. Unlike Toops, she had watched President Obama's speech the night before and she was pretty worried that the sour economy would hurt him.", "It's going to depend how bad this gets. You know, if more and more and more and more people lose their jobs, people are going to get impatient, because you always blame the president.", "Jerse was with Toops when I called back the other day.", "So, are people getting impatient?", "Yes, people are impatient but I think we put more blame on Congress than on the president for the current problems of both unemployment and national debt.", "And why do you blame Congress more than the president?", "Because I think they are not agreeing on anything. And you have to figure things out when you're in that position. And I won't go through each of the things they've done - we'll be here all day - but I really think Congress has not come through like we'd hoped they would.", "So, you're still behind President Obama 100 percent?", "Yeah, I'm behind him as he's a wonderful human being. I think he's doing all he's can, but what can he do just by himself without the rest of the government with him?", "Are the ladies still talking politics on Wednesday mornings?", "Occasionally.", "What were you talking last time politics came up?", "Oh, probably unemployment 'cause we all have children and grandchildren and it's tough and we see it around us all the time.", "That's when Carolyn Toops asked to get back on the phone.", "Hello.", "Hi, Ms. Toops.", "Back again.", "Back again.", "OK. Now, you did not ask me about my previous life.", "Do you want me to?", "Yeah.", "Tell me about it.", "OK. I am from Louisiana originally, so I still...", "Eventually, Toops got around to telling me about her two grandchildren. She was especially concerned about one who's had trouble finding work.", "She is still looking for something. You know, she's had summer internships and things like that but, I mean, there are jobs which might not be ideal but who knows when you get your ideal job?", "Well, Ms. Toops, it has been an absolutely pleasure catching up with you again and I look forward to seeing you in person sometime soon.", "Well, good.", "That was Carolyn Toops and also Dorothy Jerse, old friends who have been meeting for breakfast for 25 years at Boo's Crossroads Cafe in Terre Haute, Indiana."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, host", "DAVID GREENE, host", "President BARACK OBAMA", "DAVID GREENE, host", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. CAROLYN TOOPS", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. CAROLYN TOOPS", "DAVID GREENE, host", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. CAROLYN TOOPS", "DAVID GREENE, host", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. CAROLYN TOOPS", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. CAROLYN TOOPS", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. CAROLYN TOOPS", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. CAROLYN TOOPS", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. DOROTHY JERSE", "DAVID GREENE, host", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. DOROTHY JERSE", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. DOROTHY JERSE", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. DOROTHY JERSE", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. DOROTHY JERSE", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. DOROTHY JERSE", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. CAROLYN TOOPS", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. CAROLYN TOOPS", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. CAROLYN TOOPS", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. CAROLYN TOOPS", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. CAROLYN TOOPS", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. CAROLYN TOOPS", "DAVID GREENE, host", "Ms. CAROLYN TOOPS", "DAVID GREENE, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-414159", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2020-10-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/23/cg.03.html", "summary": "Joe Biden Lays Out COVID-19 Response Plan; Candidates Hit Campaign Trail Following Final Debate.", "utt": ["Which that one, of course, devolved into chaos, with the president's frequent interruptions and attacks. It's unclear whether last night's debate will impact the trajectory of the race, particularly with more than 50 million ballots already cast this election, as CNN's Kaitlan Collins now reports.", "After clashing on the debate stage last night, President Trump and Joe Biden back on the campaign trail today with 11 days to go. Before heading to Central Florida to shore up support with seniors, President Trump touted his more restrained debate performance.", "I think this was better. This is obviously a more popular way of doing it. And, no, I think I wanted to play by the rules, I felt very strongly about it.", "Meanwhile, in Delaware, Joe Biden continued his criticism of the president's pandemic response.", "We make up 20 percent of all the deaths worldwide. If this is a success, what's a failure look like?", "Last night, the candidates clashed over Trump's handling of the pandemic right out of the gate, as Trump claimed that he took full responsibility, but then blamed China.", "I take full responsibility. It's not my fault that it came here. It's China's fault. We're learning to live with it.", "Number one, he says that we're learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it.", "On health care, Trump and Biden offered two different visions for replacing the Affordable Care Act if it's overturned by the Supreme Court.", "He's never come up with a plan. I guess we're going to get the preexisting condition plan the same time we got the infrastructure plan.", "So, I'd like to terminate Obamacare, come up with a brand-new, beautiful health care.", "Biden slammed Trump for his administration's zero tolerance immigration policy that has resulted in lawyers being unable to find the parents of over 500 children who were separated at the border by the federal government.", "It makes us a laughingstock and violates every notion of who we are as a nation.", "Trump correctly noted that it was his predecessor who built the systems that immigrant children were housed in, but failed to acknowledge it was his administration's zero tolerance policy that resulted in families being broken apart.", "Who built the cages, Joe?", "Let's talk about what we're talking about.", "Who built the cages?", "The president hitting Biden after he said he would wind down federal subsidies for the oil industry.", "I have a transition from the old industry, yes.", "Oh, that's a big statement.", "I will transition. It is a big statement.", "That's a big statement.", "Because I would stop...", "Why would you do that?", "Because the oil industry pollutes, significantly.", "Vice President Mike Pence voted in his home state of Indiana today, after President Trump announced his vote in person in Florida tomorrow morning, despite defending his plan to vote absentee for months.", "I signed an absentee ballot. Absentee ballots are great. They work.", "Now, Jake, you will remember, at the end of September, we found out the Biden campaign about had about three times cash on hand than the Trump campaign. But we are told the president's reelection effort and the Republican National Committee raised about $26 million last night during that debate. We will see what they choose to spend it on over the next 11 days. Not a lot of time left. And that's the same thing that the president's political advisers are thinking, wishing that he had had that debate performance last night at the first debate -- Jake.", "And, Kaitlan, we should point out that the event you're at right now is that a retirement community, exactly the people who are the most susceptible to the coronavirus, and I don't see a lot of evidence that there any precautions being taken to protect any of these people, who are doing what you're not supposed to be doing during a pandemic, amassing into a large crowd.", "Yes, Jake, we saw a lot of people wearing masks as we came into the door. But now that they're in here, they're settled, and, of course, we are outside. But, as you can see behind me, they're packed pretty closely together, and a lot of people are not wearing masks. Of course, there is no social distancing happening behind me. We are -- the press is up on a riser, so we're a little bit above and far back from the crowd. But a lot of people here who, of course, are part of a retirement community and are the president's supporters are not wearing masks and not social distancing, even though we're seeing cases surge across the United States.", "It's just wildly irresponsible. All right, Kaitlan Collins, thanks so much. Nia-Malika Henderson joins us once again. And let me ask you, Nia, once again, Biden hammered Trump's coronavirus response and explained how he would handle it differently. And then you see the president out there holding these potential super-spreader events. Do you think this works as a closing message for Biden?", "It's the closing message that they have been going with for these many weeks. And it's essentially where Americans are in terms of the coronavirus is top of mind. It's in our lives every single day. Our lives have had to have been completely reorganized because of COVID. So, he is betting at this message at this point in the nation's dealing with the pandemic, given where we're going, that it's going to get worse, according to all that these experts, is the closing message he wants. You saw it last night. That was a big topic. They think that COVID and character are essentially on the ballot. And so far, if you look in these polls, they're doing very well. Again, it's polls. We have got 11 days left, so we will see where this goes.", "Right.", "But that's where they want to remain.", "Ron Brownstein coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, deaths all at their highest points in weeks, if not months, and yet President Trump last night, he said this:", "I take full responsibility. It's not my fault that it came here. It's China's fault. It will go away. And as I say, we're rounding the turn. We're rounding the corner. It's going away.", "There is no credible medical expert who says that we're rounding the corner, we're rounding the turn, it's going away. Does this have an impact, do you think, on the election, especially with undecided voters?", "Enormously. I mean, from the beginning, the original sin of the administration's response to this has been -- response to this has been Trump's desire to project normalcy at all costs, whatever the impact on public health. And that has shaped not only his decisions, but it put enormous pressure on Republican governors to resist closing, to open up too fast, to override local Democratic ordinances on masks. And he is ending the campaign in a way where, as I have said, the medium is the message. It doesn't matter what he says on the stage. Louder than anything he says is the message that he sends by packing people together without masks, without social distancing. And the message he is sending the public is that, no matter how long he's president, no matter how many people get sick, no matter how many people die, he is not going to take this more seriously. And whatever else he did during the debate last night -- and he did some things well -- that first 10 minutes where he made it very clear that nothing is going to change in his response to this, I thought, was the defining moment of the whole night, because you have 60 percent of the country saying they disapprove of him, the way he's handled this. That's the fundamental gravity in this race. And he basically told all of them, don't expect anything different.", "And, Nia, President Trump didn't have an answer or a plan as to how he will address this new wave of coronavirus. He just kept saying that things could be worse, and we can't close our nation. Biden, on the other hand, said -- he detailed a whole plan today. And last night, he said he wants to shut down the virus, not the country. I'm sure that there are people out there who like hearing what Trump has to say. But it does seem, just as a matter of politics, that the majority would like to hear -- well, the majority would approve of Biden's message on this issue.", "And I think some of the polling reflects that. He is trusted, at least in the data that I have seen, Biden is -- with his responding to COVID in a better way than Donald Trump has responded. I think Ron is exactly right. It has been this essential response to say, there's nothing to see here with COVID. He has these rallies as if there's nothing to be afraid of, particularly in that retirement community. And we do know that older folks are much more vulnerable to this. And we also know that he's doing very poorly among folks who are over 65. This is the message that he thinks is going to win him reelection. This is the message that does resonate with a lot of Republican base voters. But we also know that it's not enough. He's got to build a much broader coalition ought to win in November.", "Can I add something here, Jake?", "Go ahead, yes.", "I mean, in that way, to Nia-Malika's point, it really is reflective of his overall vision of how you win this election and the way he's governed for the four years. I mean, there is no effort to persuade a majority of the existing electorate that he is on the right track in handling this. What he's clearly trying to do, I think, as he does on almost every other issue, is mobilize that minority of the country that says open up at all costs, to use masks is an infringement on personal liberty, and change the electorate by bringing out more of those voters. That really is his one path at this point. There is I think no prospect, this late in his presidency, that the broad majority of college whites and young people and people of color who have rejected him are going to change their mind. I think, once again, he is playing to the short side of the field by doing this and trying to send a signal to those voters who are the most ideological, the most alienated from the way America is evolving, and trying to bring more of them into the voting booth in two weeks.", "Yes. It worked once. We will see if it works again. Ron Brownstein, Nia-Malika Henderson, thanks so much. Breaking news about one of the coronavirus vaccine trials here in the United States that was put on pause. Plus: why the head of the National Institutes of Health says the virus could be with us for years."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "COLLINS", "JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "COLLINS", "TRUMP", "BIDEN", "COLLINS", "BIDEN", "TRUMP", "COLLINS", "BIDEN", "COLLINS", "TRUMP", "BIDEN", "TRUMP", "COLLINS", "BIDEN", "TRUMP", "BIDEN", "TRUMP", "BIDEN", "KRISTEN WELKER, MODERATOR", "BIDEN", "COLLINS", "TRUMP", "COLLINS", "TAPPER", "COLLINS", "TAPPER", "NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER", "TAPPER", "HENDERSON", "TAPPER", "TRUMP", "TAPPER", "RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "TAPPER", "HENDERSON", "BROWNSTEIN", "TAPPER", "BROWNSTEIN", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-192466", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2012-9-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/10/sp.02.html", "summary": "\"Covert Affairs\" Actor Reveals All", "utt": ["Welcome back to STARTING POINT. TV audiences love a good spy story. And USA's hit show -- USA TV's hit show \"Covert Affairs\" delivers in spades.", "It's in its third season and stars Christopher Gorham as blind tech ops expert Auggie Anderson.", "Now listen to me, if you don't get eyes on him in the first 15 minutes you pull the plug.", "We're good to go.", "Barbara is going to relay the audio feedback to the", "Hello.", "Don't ever do that again.", "And Christopher Gorham is here. Thank you so much for being with us.", "It's a pleasure. Thanks for having me.", "So a lot of realism here. And I know that Valerie Plame actually consults on this.", "Yes.", "So how is that?", "It's fantastic. We-- we're able to sit down with her for hours when we were starting to rehearse the pilot and had a lot of conversations. You know Annie Walker is the main character of the show played by Piper Perabo. And that role is really based on the inspiration from Valerie Plame because Doug Liman is our producer is from the \"Bourne\" movies. And he was doing a movie about Valerie and her husband. And so he had access into Langley. Piper was able to go into Langley and meet with real CIA agents. Our writers go there every year. It's like a field trip to kind of brush up and get a tour around the building and talk to the officers. So you know this show is fictional, but we try to at least base some of the reality of the interoffice dynamics on the stories that they hear from the real CIA officers.", "Do you think it's as much fun to be a real CIA officer?", "Oh, God, no. No, no, no. It's much more fun to be on the show.", "There's a lot more paperwork involved.", "Yes our offices are much nicer than the real", "Probably not -- probably not as dangerous either, right?", "Yes, no definitely safer to be on the show as well, yes.", "So you play a blind character, right?", "Yes.", "And I read something that you talked about the difference between how sighted people look each other in the face versus how you might look someone who is blind. Literally, how you stare in their eyes. Tell me -- tell me about that.", "Yes well it's a for guy like Auggie because he -- he was a Special Forces guy, right? He had his sight up until he was injured when he was serving in Iraq. For guys like him, they're actually very good at making eye contact even after they've lost their sight. There's a muscle memory there where you just -- they're really good at it. We have to make him worse at it on the show so that it's not confusing for the audience. Where it became really interesting for me is -- are you all right? Put the coffee down, man. In the first season, we had an episode where Auggie was reunited with a girlfriend that he had before he lost his sight. I found it unexpectedly really frustrating in the scenes to not be able to make eye contact.", "Right.", "To have someone who your whole relationship is based on being able to see each other, having that unspoken communication, and suddenly when that's gone it can be really, really frustrating.", "I think we're seeing you there directing. Is that right?", "There you go. Yes, yes, yes. I'm in the middle of directing an episode right now. We're four days into a seven-day episode. We usually take eight days to shoot an episode but since this is my first episode they decided to give me one less day to shoot it.", "Does the government ever tell you that you can't use something because it's secret? Did they ever say to you can't portray that because it's secret?", "Not as far as I know. I mean, you know, our storylines are -- are pretty fictional. The stuff -- the kind of danger that we deal with on the show is very real. And some of the topics that we deal with on the show are very real. But how we do it is always fictional so we don't run into any problems.", "Christopher Gorham, you say this is a good week to watch.", "This is a great episode this week.", "Would you say that if it wasn't?", "Exactly. Right? You know, what I would say, this is a solid episode.", "All right. Thanks for being with us this morning. Appreciate it. The \"End Point\" is next."], "speaker": ["VELSHI", "SAMBOLIN", "CHRISTOPHER GORHAM, ACTOR, \"COVERT AFFAIRS\"", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GORHAM", "DPD. UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GORHAM", "SAMBOLIN", "GORHAM", "SAMBOLIN", "GORHAM", "SAMBOLIN", "GORHAM", "VELSHI", "GORHAM", "VELSHI", "GORHAM", "CIA. BROWNSTEIN", "GORHAM", "CAIN", "GORHAM", "CAIN", "GORHAM", "VELSHI", "GORHAM", "SAMBOLIN", "GORHAN", "SOCARIDES", "GORHAM", "SAMBOLIN", "GORHAM", "VELSHI", "GORHAM", "SAMBOLIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-222383", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2014-1-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1401/06/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Yellen Confirmed as U.S. Fed Chief", "utt": ["Welcome back, I'm Maggie Lake, the headlines this hour. The governor of the U.S. state of Illinois has declared a statewide disaster as brutally cold temperatures hit the American Midwest. The National Guard has been drafted in to provide aid. Almost 7,000 people in the state went without power overnight as well as thousands more in neighboring states. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is calling on the people of Fallujah to \"expel terrorists.\" He's dealing with his most serious challenge yet -- an armed uprising by Sunni tribesmen and Al Qaeda-linked militants in Anbar Province. In Israel, doctors say the condition of former prime minister Ariel Sharon likely will continue to worsen by the day unless there is a miracle. The 85-year-old has been in a coma since he suffered a stroke in 2006. Basketball star Dennis Rodman has arrived in North Korea on his fourth visit to the reclusive state. He arrived with a group of other former NBA players to take part in a basketball game on Kim Jong-un's birthday this Wednesday. German chancellor Angela Merkel has injured in a skiing accident. The 59-year-old fractured her pelvis after falling while she was cross-country skiing in Switzerland. A spokesman for the chancellor said Mrs. Merkel is expected to fully recover.", "The chancellor contracted severe bruising and a so-called partial fracture in her left back pelvic ring while cross-skiing over her Christmas holidays. This makes it necessary for her to lie down a lot or use a walking device respectively for the next three weeks. Accordingly, she will be concentrating on holding a few official appointments in the chancellery and in Berlin. Otherwise, she will be working from home.", "Well, the extreme cold weather across the United States is about to hit New York. Conditions in the South and the Midwest have been nothing short of brutal this Monday. Temperatures in the state of Minnesota are down to -48 degrees Celsius. Your skin takes only five minutes to freeze in conditions like that. The weather in the city of Minneapolis has been officially declared, and I quote, \"particularly dangerous.\" Freezing roads have made travel across the country next to impossible. Around 4,000 flights nationwide have been cancelled. Ted Rowlands joins us from a very chilly Chicago. And, Ted, you look like you're freezing. How is everyone coping?", "Well, they're freezing, Maggie, that's about it. We're on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago. Normally, this bridge would be packed full of people, but, look, we're the only numbskulls out here. It is 12 below Fahrenheit, I think translates to a million below Celsius. Look at the Chicago River -- the steam coming up - - you don't see that very often. It is amazing on a regular business day for Chicago to be this deserted, but that is what people are being told to do -- to stay home. A lot of employers are telling their employees stay home. Schools shut down today and will be tomorrow because it is dangerously cold. The biggest problem, frostbite. We were at local hospital here just a few moments ago, talked to one of the surgeons -- or one of the physicians -- and she told us, you know what, this can happen within minutes, and it could be very, very serious. Is it potentially pretty dangerous -- frostbite -- and what was the worst-case scenario? What happens to the body when it gets that cold and your appendages?", "You can actually lose, you know, parts of your tissue -- so it could be eventually have to be amputated. Parts of your tissue could actually die, so you'll have to have pieces of your tissue you know removed or surgically taken out or amputated.", "And so hopefully, Maggie, we won't have to get anything amputated. I don't think that'll be the case. We're going to scurry into our live truck momentarily. But the headline -- it's cold.", "And, Ted, I feel guilty even asking you a follow-up -- I know it's had to actually talk when it's that cold. Very quickly, this makes -- I see some cars going past you on the bridge. This makes getting around incredibly treacherous, doesn't it?", "Yes, especially when you add to the fact we got a foot of snow over the past few days leading up to this cold snap, so now you've got snow that has been cleared for the most part, but what is left has turned to pure ice, especially over bridges. When I was driving in to the city this morning I saw a couple of cars in the ditch because they just simply lost control. It is very slippery, very treacherous. Most people wisely are staying home.", "All right, we're going to let you get inside, Ted. I don't want any frostbite on my guilty conscience. Thank you so much for braving the elements for us. Appreciate it. Well, Tom Sater is at the CNN International Weather Center to give us an idea of how bad it's going to get, how long it's going to last. Tom, I am frightened looking at those pictures of Ted knowing that this is headed our way. What do we have in store? This is wreaking havoc on travel, isn't it?", "It really, really is, Maggie, and for you in New York, let's say if your New Year's resolution was have less coffee in the morning, mother nature is going to help you out tomorrow morning. Your wind chill tomorrow morning in New York City, -14 degrees Fahrenheit. For our international viewers, -26 Celsius. We've been talking about this -- this polar vortex if you will. Well, you know, we have this every year, and every year we see it kind of ebb and flow. Higher elevation winds kind of keep that arctic air trapped. But just like a rubber band, the elasticity every once in a while, it ebbs and flows and gives and takes. We're seeing this cold arctic air plunge all the way down in the southern parts of the U.S. Last year in March in London it was colder on Easter than it was on Christmas. Two years ago in Europe, it was deadly cold. But look at the wind chill values. I mean, when you have numbers that are -39, -40, in fact, International Falls -- it's colder in International Falls with the wind chill than it is in the Arctic Circle -- this is when it gets dangerous. This is known as the icebox of the U.S. -- we're breaking records. It gives you an idea how cold it is, and you can see the forecast. These numbers are brutal, and it feels this way to all pets, livestock -- to all mammals when you factor in the winds. So, when it is this cold, it's good for everyone to review this. Exposed to skin, all right, in ten minutes frostbite sets in and -35, only five minutes -45 and we've seen numbers already that are -50, -55, -60. It affects automobiles. How about this -- motor oil freezes at -10. Anti- freeze isn't really so 'anti' freeze -- you know, even it has its limits. And -37 in your car, tires start to lose air at -18. Thirty-two states under some sort of warning for the wind -- this is just outrageous. Schools are closed all over the place. Atlanta has been dropping -- they were -3 three -- two and a half hours ago, not it's -6. The numbers are going down. Take a look at Europe, though. It's colder in Atlanta than it is in Stockholm or Oslo -- it's at 1. Copenhagen is 6, Moscow's at 1 -- nice little warm up. When you talk about this, you can even look at Tuesday. Washington, D.C. a high of -6, -2 in Moscow for our -- 2 degrees in Moscow -- so it's much warmer there. Even in Oslo, a low temperature of 3 compared to -4 in Tallahassee. Look at the size of the storm though in Europe -- the series, this conveyor belt of storms continues. Eight meter waves off the coast of Portugal, but let me show you some video of what it's like when you are trying to land in the airport in Spain -- if we have that video, it's in Bilboa. They've had to divert five planes, they had to cancel nine other flights. This pilot just cannot seem to handle these crosswinds. Just incredible storm system here. And the outreach and the extent of it across all of Europe. Let's get in a little bit closer because, again, what we do not need with the storm system is more rainfall. As we get into Tuesday morning, still a level one in the same location that we have seen over and over. To the south and east of London near Hastings in Sussex, we're seeing the collapse of sides of cliffs -- the land is giving way, and there's more rainfall on the way. The good news is, if there's any, even though we have a saturated ground, there are two more systems on the way -- one Wednesday and one late on Sunday. But these are going to be less in intensity, just bringing with it the rain and maybe not so much the severe- ness of the winds. So, at least some good news in the near future. But it has been a crazy month and a half across parts of the northwestern European continent. Back to you.", "It certainly has. All of this makes me want to just crawl under my covers, I tell you, Tom.", "Why not?", "Exactly. Thank you so much. Well, the weather has not stopped U.S. Congress from getting back to work. In the next few hours the Senate is planning to vote on a measure that could restore unemployment benefits for more than a million Americans. It's a topic that has become controversial between Democrats and Republicans. Speaking in the past few minutes to our sister network, CNN U.S., the labor secretary, Thomas Perez, said it was vital that those benefits were restored even as the U.S. economy improves.", "The economy's making progress -- forty- five months in a row of private sector job creation to the tune of 8 million jobs. But our unemployment rate remains too high. The President would be the first to say it. When President Bush signed the law in 2007 or 2008, unemployment was 5.6 or 5.7 percent, the duration of unemployment was 17 weeks. Now we have 36 weeks average duration. Now is not the time to shut off this critical lifeline for so many people.", "Two countries, billions of dollars and one major problem -- how to widen the Panama Canal. It turns out, it's not as straightforward as they'd planned. We'll explain next."], "speaker": ["LAKE", "STEFFEN SEIBERT, GERMAN GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN, VIA TRANSLATOR", "LAKE", "TIM ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DR. 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{"id": "NPR-5229", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2018-04-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/04/13/602090963/news-brief-comeys-book-trump-talks-tpp-again-syria-and-pompeo", "title": "News Brief: Comey's Book, Trump Talks TPP Again, Syria And Pompeo", "summary": "James Comey's new book is making waves as it details some of the president's interactions with the former FBI director. Also, President Trump suggested re-entering the Trans-Pacific Partnership.", "utt": ["James Comey has a story to tell, and based on the response the Republican National Committee has prepared, it looks like it might be a doozy.", "Right. The book isn't officially out until Tuesday, but NPR has obtained an early copy. And it's filled with Comey's recollections of these private conversations he had with President Trump.", "And NPR's Ryan Lucas, who covers the Justice Department, is in the studio to talk about this. Hey, Ryan.", "Good morning.", "There was an awful lot of hype, a lot of anticipation about this book. It is coming out soon - in a matter of days. Can you walk us through some of the biggest headlines here?", "Well, the bottom line, I suppose, is that Comey really doesn't pull any punches here. Not much of a surprise, but there's extra oomph, I would say, when it's there in front of you in black and white.", "Right.", "So Comey spells out why he thinks Donald Trump is, as Comey says, unethical, untethered to truth and institutional values. And Comey expresses concern about what impact this has on the country. One thing in particular - he compares Trump to a mafia boss. Now, remember - Comey worked mob cases when he was a federal prosecutor early in his career, and so this is coming from experience.", "But if you're looking for some sort of grand revelation on the Russia investigation, you're not going to get that here. But we do get sort of an insider's view on a series of very important things that took place over the past couple years, including on the Hillary Clinton investigation, as well as, of course, Comey's interactions with Trump.", "Which he detailed in his own contemporaneous notes...", "Right.", "...As is a practice of FBI agents. But Comey's already testified before Congress, as well. Like, he's been under oath. He's been asked these questions that have brought out some of these stories. So how much of this is really new?", "Well, the big-picture stuff, these kind of signposts along the way, we have heard about. But we do get some sort of vivid, new details on them - things that we didn't hear before. In one instance, Comey just describes a meeting that he had in the Oval Office in February of 2017 during which Trump asks Attorney General Jeff Sessions to leave the room.", "Right.", "And this is when Comey says that Trump asked him to let Michael Flynn, who was Trump's first national security adviser - to let him go.", "This was the whole, he's a good guy - yeah.", "Exactly. And he's talked about that before. But Comey's very critical of Sessions in the book. He describes him as both overwhelmed and overmatched by the job. And he recalls telling him that, you know, he can't be kicked out of the room so that the president can talk to Comey one on one. And he described Sessions' reaction to this. And he says Sessions cast his eyes down at the table, says they darted back and forth, side to side. He didn't respond. He said nothing. And he says Sessions' posture said he wouldn't be able to help at all.", "Huh. Interesting. I mean, it has to be said this is self-serving in some ways, isn't it? I mean, Comey has been attacked from all sides over, as you mentioned, how he handled the Hillary Clinton email scandal. This is about making sure that he secures his own legacy the way he wants to.", "Well, he certainly wants to have his view of what transpired on the record and have people know that this is what he says happened. But, you know, this isn't going to change a lot of views out there in many ways. Views are already so entrenched. You have people who dislike the president who are going to take this as ammunition to bolster their views. And people who feel that Comey is a disgraced, vengeful former FBI director are going to say that there's nothing to see here.", "I also said at the beginning that the RNC had already waged a pre-emptive strike in response.", "Yeah.", "We should just note they've secured a website called lyincomey.com.", "Exactly.", "All right. More, to be sure, in coming days. NPR's Ryan Lucas - thanks so much, Ryan.", "Thank you.", "All right. Remember the TPP? Remember how much President Trump hated this thing? He might be changing his mind.", "Yeah. Yesterday, lawmakers from farm states visited the White House, and they told the president they were worried about how his threat to impose tariffs might hit the agricultural industry. After the meeting, Senator Ben Sasse talked to reporters.", "Definitely, the big headline coming out of this meeting is that the president said he was deputizing Larry Kudlow and Ambassador Lighthizer to look at re-entering the TPP negotiations.", "He is referring to the president's economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. They're apparently going to be looking into rejoining a major trade deal that President Trump pulled the U.S. out of.", "Yeah, right - the old TPP. All right. NPR White House correspondent Scott Horsley is with us. Hey, Scott.", "Good morning, Rachel.", "I know you love talking about the TPP.", "(Laughter).", "So talk about it. Remind us what this thing is.", "This is a trade agreement that the Obama administration spent years negotiating with 11 other countries around the Pacific Rim. China is not part of it, but a lot of other fast-growing economies are. Had the U.S. joined, I think it would have covered something like 40 percent of the world's economy. It would have opened up markets to U.S. products, including farm goods, which is why those farm state politicians are interested in this issue.", "Right.", "It also would have included some intellectual property protections and created kind of a united front for the intellectual property battle the U.S. is now waging with China.", "And why didn't President Trump like it?", "Well, the president is suspicious of trade deals generally and especially big, multilateral agreements like this one. He has waged similar criticisms of NAFTA. He says that the United States gets the short end of the stick in these agreements. And one of his first actions as president was to withdraw the U.S. from the TPP.", "So what has changed? I mean, is China - it's the tariffs all of a sudden. Now he's like, oh. This may have been a good thing - for us to have joined.", "(Laughter) I don't think very much has really changed, except with those other 11 countries. They have proceeded and created a deal of their own without the United States. They say they would be happy to have the United States rejoin the talks, but they're not willing to let Donald Trump or his negotiators dictate the terms on which that agreement would be struck. So it's a little bit like the Paris climate accord, where Trump also announced plans to pull the U.S. out but said, hey, we might be willing to get back in if we could dictate the terms that were more favorable to the United States. And the rest of the world essentially moved on, leaving the U.S...", "Right.", "...On the sidelines rather than in a position of leadership.", "Well, so what happens now? I mean, is it even possible for the U.S. to get into this agreement again?", "It is possible. It's certainly possible. But I don't think it's very likely. And evidently, what happened here was the president told the people in the room at the time what they wanted to hear. And then within 12 hours, Trump himself popped this trial balloon. You have to remember that not only did Donald Trump campaign against this trade agreement, but Hillary Clinton campaigned against this trade agreement. And while these farm state lawmakers are very supportive of the TPP, there's also a lot of opposition in Congress. There's a lot of opposition in the American public. And there's especially a lot of opposition among Trump's base. So I wouldn't hold my breath for any renegotiated TPP with the U.S. as a player.", "NPR's Scott Horsley for us this morning. Thanks so much, Scott.", "You're very welcome.", "All right. The White House says there is still no final decision about potential military action in Syria.", "Although the president did meet yesterday with his national security team to talk about responses to a suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town in Syria. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis walked back some of this talk of an imminent strike. He told the House armed services committee that there's a need to, quote, \"keep this from escalating out of control.\"", "NPR national security correspondent Greg Myre is in the studio with us this morning. Hey, Greg.", "Hi. Good morning, Rachel.", "So we've got Mattis trying to lower the temperature, at least on the rhetoric, about an imminent strike. Does that mean it's not going to happen, or at least it's not as imminent as we thought?", "I would say not as imminent. No final decision is what we're hearing from the White House. He clearly wants to be cautious about this and wants to make it about, it would seem, the chemical weapons attack and not broaden out and to make the U.S. play a larger role in this civil war in Syria. So he does have his concern. He wants the French and the British on board, and it seems they are, if indeed attack does go forward. So that's what he's looking for - is a little more planning here before anything happens.", "Which is interesting because we've spoken on this program with a former U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, who said these one-off strikes don't work. I mean, the Trump administration already struck Assad over a previous chemical weapons attack, and it didn't prevent him from doing it again. So there are some calls for a more sustained military action. You're saying Mattis doesn't have an appetite for that.", "Apparently not. But again, you're absolutely right. Exactly a year ago, there was this response to a chemical weapons attack. Now we see another one. And Assad's position is much stronger right now. He's gaining more territory, consolidating territory. So not only has he not taken the lesson from the previous strike, but he's in a stronger position.", "How could it escalate?", "I - the Russians are embedded in a lot of places there. If a strike hit some - killed some Russians, damaged Russian planes - that sort of thing - that could make Russia want to respond. They're already threatening to shoot down the missiles - that sort of thing. So that would be a way that the Russians could be drawn in. Again, I think the Syrians and the Russians don't want to escalate, but that is always a danger.", "Meanwhile, there's no one leading the State Department right now. Mike Pompeo, CIA director, is in flux. He had his confirmation hearing yesterday, where he tried to push back on being labeled as someone who was necessarily a hardliner on all issues, including Syria.", "He did. He frustrated a lot of the Democrats, who said, you have this long record of very hawkish statements. So we'd like to hear more. But he will probably make the State Department more important to play a larger role than his predecessor, Rex Tillerson. He has Trump's ear. We can expect him to play a loud - a very vocal role. And we have a new national security adviser, John Bolton, this week. So a new team is coming in at a very critical moment.", "All right. NPR national security correspondent Greg Myre for us this morning. 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{"id": "CNN-150126", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-4-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1004/17/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Meteorite Lit Up Sky Over Midwest; Fixing America's Schools", "utt": ["We have been telling you about the volcanic ash that crippled air travel over Europe and affecting flights here. Jacqui Jeras, look at that smoke and ash.", "Oh, yeah.", "There are tons of pronouncers here. There is a Eyjafjallajokull.", "I believe it is Eyjafjallajokull.", "That was the pronunciation I got. Who knows?", "On the internet, you learn how to speak Spanish or how to speak Scandinavian, it goes, agua, water, and gives you time to say how it pronounces. Time to move on. And look at that. I just lost my flight data. Gosh darn it. Basically what I wanted to show you on that was that there are really no planes across northern Europe, which have been traveling at all. We have had some air traffic from Spain down through the Mediterranean and Italy, and then on over to Turkey. So the flights have been able to go in here, but not up here, and that has to do with the upper level winds and which way they have been directing that ash plume. And you can see Iceland, there is the volcano, we have put it on there for you. The winds have been going this way and dispersing and all the way over to Russia now. We expect this weather pattern to continue as we head throughout the rest of the weekend. However, we are hopeful that we're going to see a little bit of a change in the weather pattern by the middle to latter part of the week. We'll see this kind of ridge out as we call it, and send that plume a little further to the north. Scandinavia, but maybe get flights out of Great Britain and down into France and all those people who have been stranded.", "And before we move on to the weather here, what happens, the space shuttle comes back on Monday?", "Yes, space shuttle comes back on Monday and we're not worried about it. So the expected path is that it is going to be trying to come in east of the ash plume area. It is going to go over the Pacific Ocean. You can see a lovely picture as it undocked from the international space station, it did that today. Expect it to land at Kennedy Space Center on Monday morning, I think 7:45 almost eastern time. And if we look at the maps here, it will show you the path that is it is expected to take. . You can see it moving over the Pacific Northwest, going through the central U.S. and landing at Kennedy Space Center. A lot of people will see this. It will be dark out. If you want to get up extra early and see the bright light in the sky, you may be able to do so. There is a chance of showers by the way in the forecast. We'll have to watch for that impacting the landing.", "Chance of showers. What is going on now? Anything interesting?", "Across the U.S. most of us are having a good weekend, right? I won't deny that. We have some really, really extreme weather here across parts of the southern plains states. In particular, we have been watching Texas. We had very heavy showers and thundershowers down there, Corpus Christi, they already moved through the San Antonio area, but put down a good 4 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. So a lot of folks dealing with flooded streets and we also had some stranded cars as well. The northeast, this is just really light stuff, but check it out, don, that's pink. That's white on our winter radar. It is mid-April. So unusually cool. We had a little mixing, not enough to really cause you any travel problems, maybe slick on the roadways. Look at those temperatures. You see that cold front which dropped on through, been real, real quiet all week long. Things are starting to pick up a little bit now.", "Quite a beautiful day where we are in Atlanta.", "It is gorgeous.", "Thank you, Jacqui Jeras. See you soon.", "Okay.", "One day after the deadline to return census forms, the government says three in ten Americans hasn't done so yet. That's fairly close to the rate during the last census, ten years ago. If you haven't returned your form yet, you can expect a knock on the door from census workers in the near future. Be expecting it. It dazzled stargazers across the Midwest last week, but the shard of meteorite that made it to earth was tiny, about the size of a peanut shell. The man who found the fragment said he heard it bounce off the roof of a shed in his backyard in southeastern Wisconsin. Scientists hope other fragments might be found since the meteorite may have exploded into thousands of little pieces. We have this just in to CNN. A daughter of former president Lyndon Johnson has been rushed to the Mayo Clinic. A family spokesman says 62-year-old Luci Johnson, seen here on the left, along with her sister, she was taken from her home in Austin, Texas, to a local hospital after complaining of extreme weakness in her arms and in her legs. She was transferred to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota where doctors suspect a disorder affecting the nervous system. We'll update you on that one. Whether you have children or not, the state of America's education system affects you in countless ways. All of us, really. Many Americans are not happy with what we see. Coming up tonight, at 7:00 p.m. eastern, a CNN one-hour special called \"Fixing America's Schools.\" Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently came to Atlanta to offer his solutions in an exclusive town hall meeting with students, teachers and parents. It was just yesterday and CNN was there. Take a look.", "How do we encourage teachers? How can leaders and school administrators encourage teachers to move outside of the box and be creative in their teaching approaches so that they can reach all needs of students and so that kids can have a quality, world class education and that standard will be met at the same time?", "I think teachers are unsung heroes in our society. I think the vast majority of teachers do an extraordinary job, working unbelievably hard, never had less resources than they do today. Children come to school with more challenges than ever before. We need to do a much better job of supporting those teachers, mentoring them, providing them with meaningful professional development, meaningful career ladders. We don't invest in teachers at our own peril. And I've challenged school education. They need to do a better job of preparing teachers to come into education, more practice, less theory, more hands on experience, but we have to do a much, much better job of helping teachers being successful and rewarding success. We have been scared to talk about excellence. Great teachers make a huge difference in students' lives. Every kind of -- every kind of study shows three great teachers in a row and that average child will be a year and a half to two grade levels ahead, three bad teachers in a row and that average child will be so far behind, they may never catch up. We need to recognize excellence, reward it, shine a spotlight on it, clone the teachers, put them in real leadership positions to help them share their knowledge. We have to stop being scared of talking about excellence. Great teachers, great principals, talent matters tremendously in education.", "It is a fascinating and important discussion that you don't want to miss. \"Fixing America's Schools\" coming up in about 90 minutes right here on CNN at 7:00 p.m. eastern. Addressing problems of the past to change the future.", "Until we raise up our history and our wellness and our greatness, our men and women and children will continue to act inferior.", "A call of action by the African American community and the clock is ticking."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "JACQUI JERAS, METEOROLOGIST", "LEMON", "JERAS", "LEMON", "JERAS", "LEMON", "JERAS", "LEMON", "JERAS", "LEMON", "JERAS", "LEMON", "JERAS", "LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ARNE DUNCAN, EDUCATION SECRETARY", "LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-235240", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2014-07-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/24/es.02.html", "summary": "Latest on Malaysian Airliner Shootdown; Netherlands Holds Ceremony as Victim Caskets Arrive in the Country", "utt": ["This is CNN Breaking News", "Breaking news this morning the FAA lifting its travel ban to Tel Aviv. U.S. flights be now resumed at ban lasting only 36 hours but causing plenty of controversy. We're live in Israel, why the airspace is now been declared safe.", "Also happening now -- Somber ceremonies playing out as more coffins holding victims of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 leave Ukraine bound for the Netherlands as the plane's black boxes are analyzed. Investigators looking for any clues as to who shot that plane down. We're covering all the angles of this developing story for your course. Welcome back to Early Start everyone, I'm Poppy Harlow.", "I'm Christine Romans, 31 minutes past the hour I would welcome all of our viewers here in the U.S. and of course all of you around the globe. Breaking overnight a ban on flights into and out of Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv has been lifted by the FAA. Is really officials pressed hard to convince the agency to reverse its position. Now it's up to Delta, United, and U.S. Airways to determine when to resume their flights. I want to get right to Martin Savidge live from Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv about half an hour ago you had sirens blaring there. You had explosions in the air presumably from the Iron Dome trying to shoot down rockets coming into the vicinity of the airport. Tell us what's happening now and whether you're seeing more activity today in terms of take offs and landings than you did yesterday.", "Christine, well, for the second time, actually in the half hour we have heard more detonations of what appears to be Israel's Iron Dome. To give you an idea of how that sounds any American listening to fireworks in the air and you got loud bang at the very end of the display that is what it sounds like when one of these missiles goes up and makes an intercept. So that means sound like, you know, four of those going up over the span of about half an hour the last ones were sounding more distant but still you could hear them if you're standing here at Ben Gurion Airport. The other ones that came just about the top of the hour those sounded actually much closer to the vicinity. The latest ones were not prompted by Siren, (inaudible) farther away. Take a look at the airport right now, I mean, not pretty much it says the story we're at the departure terminal here and those gates those areas behind those, those would be normally where you would see the carriers like the Delta, like U.S. Airways, like United Airlines, or you would see the major international carrier. Now British Airways don't come here but otherwise most of the big European carriers have not been coming. Now, the FAA banned being lifted of course very welcome news for the Israeli Government hear that have been pushing hard and saying that it was a mistake and an overreaction. However you're not seeing the planes as yet because of course for the American carriers it is now up to their individual airlines to determine whether or not they feel it's appropriate to come back. And then it's like we've been having though in the half hour or not likely to reassure them although, the Israeli's will maintain that they have made this area even more of secure than what it was, Christine.", "You know the Hamas Spokeman yesterday telling Wolf Blitzer frankly that, you know, the airport because it has military presence there it is a target for Hamas. And we'll continue to be certainly showing down the airport it's something that Hamas leadership is very, very happy about shutting down U.S. flights to the airport something that Hamas leadership we're very, very happy about.", "They were I mean, you know, they had stated this was something they had targeted before as you say because of military installations that are near the airport but they also know that if you can stop commercial and civilian aviation for coming in here, it's a big blow. It hurts the pride of a nation, it implies that Israel is not as secure as it says it is and then on top of that there is the financial impact. Israel maintains it is secure, it is safe, the flights should come.", "OK. (Inaudible) Martin, at Ben Gurion Airport. Now a top rebel commander's stunning admission -- Alexander Khodakovsky telling Reuters that separatist did have control of a Buk missile system at the time Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Eastern Ukraine, and that it indeed may have come from Russia. Now Khodakovsky goes on to say it was probably sent back to Russia in order to \"remove proof of its presence.\" Later, though, he told Russian media that his comments to Reuters were taken out of context. On the investigation front, air crash Expert say they have been able to download valid information from the jetliner's cockpit voice recorder. They also importantly say there is no sign at those black boxes have been tampered with -- all of these as the violence rages in that region right around the crash site. Two Ukrainian fighter jet shot down less than 15 miles from the wreckage of MH17. This as Australia announces that it is deploying 50 national police officials to London for possible International deployment to Eastern Ukraine of course their goal like so many is to secure this crash site and do a proper investigation. Let's bring in Nick Paton Walsh. He's live from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Nick spend a lot of time at Eastern Ukraine over all. He spent a lot time with the crash site. At first, let's talk about the victims. We know that more of them will be returned to Netherlands this morning, 74 coffins do we know at this point if we're anywhere close to bringing all of the victims' home.", "Well, about 26 minutes from now, we will see the second set of planes take off from here Kharkiv to the Netherlands again a Dutch C-130 followed by an Australian C-17. They'll have 74 coffins on board now I've just spoken to representative of the Dutch here. They say that they hope tomorrow the last loads will go. They may need one more flight potentially but its hope that work can finish out tomorrow that will probably involve another 74 coffins. Now, do the math quickly that's 188 coffins perhaps could be slightly higher or lower. The thing is they say a number of coffins sadly doesn't represent the number of bodies specifically on the train because there are body parts in body bags. And some body bags go into coffins is more than one inside each coffins. So, it's extraordinarily gruesome task, you know, I'm sorry that I've to go into this details but tries to explain the nature of the job here of the investigators. And also the fact that the final toll of what really how many people was on that refrigerated train that came from the crash site were only been known once they've been able to do their investigative work back in the Netherlands rather than when they finish going through the fourth refrigerator wagon perhaps at some point today or tomorrow.", "You know, Nick, what we heard time and time again yesterday as this country literally stopped and honored all of the victims is that they're finally getting the dignity and the decency in the treatment that they deserve I mean not one of these victims, you know, was from either of the countries in this conflict. And they're the innocent 298 victims of this fighting. When you talk about the investigations are then trying to find any more remains. It clearly hasn't been secured yet and so many people are scratching their heads saying why. Why have investigators of big international team of investigators not been able to get there yet?", "But there is a Civil War in Eastern Ukraine that has been for a long time, Not always in the world's spotlight about a lot of heavy weaponry being used. And it's scrappy conflict between the military. That isn't particularly well equipped and the series of separatist rebels who often are divided amongst themselves, you mentioned that leader who said that being a weapon system who could've brought down the airplane here and have to ship back to Russia while he reportedly is feuding with other separatist to militant leaders. It's an enormous mess, so trying to negotiate passage for International Inspectors ...", "Yeah.", "... even Australian police potentially arriving in London to come here later. That's an extraordinary hard to task if that safety the actual security to how it intact is that crash site is already too compromise. It's going to be a very messy process, but it's something they have to do everything they can about for those relatives of those who died on board that plane. Although, many I think fail the final results will end up being inconclusive. Because the damage done to the aircraft and the scrappy messy nature of where the crash site really is now.", "I think that such an important point to make because the world has seen all of the journalist including yourself there. And have been asking that question but of course it is dangerous for anyone to go there with those two planes being shut down yesterday within 15 miles of the crash zone. We appreciate the update Nick, thank you.", "My heart is so heavy this morning in the Netherlands. The first 40 coffins from MH17 arriving Wednesday marked by Somber ceremonies and steady flow of quite tears. By tomorrow all the coffins carrying the remains of flight 17 victims that have been retrieved so far expected to be on death soil.", "And joining us live from Amsterdam is journalist Laura Starink, I hope I pronounced your last name right. Laura, thank you for being with us. We appreciate it very much. I think we want to start with this. First of all our deepest condolences to you and your entire nation. And it was a beautiful tribute that you gave to the victims' yesterday, one that they'd certainly, certainly deserve. Can you tell us about what it's been like for you on the ground this country coming together in this way to give them the honor that they deserve?", "Well, I think it was very impressive day. It was a kind of a day of relief because of their almost week of waiting for the bodies to come home seeing their horrible pictures of the crash site. The rebels were walking -- taking things off people, were referring disrespectful to the bodies. It was like a sign of relief and hold on that have lost at least part of the bodies have been recovered. And it was an atypical day also because a day of mourning is very atypical for Holland. Just two days ago, our Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that there wouldn't be a day of mourning because that was not corresponding to the character of the Dutch Nation. But also talking to the relatives, he decided otherwise and I think he wisely did.", "I think the character of the Dutch Nation was really on display beautifully yesterday. I mean, really -- there are no words for what that look like -- And you're just from top to bottom, it was so well done and I'd like to know what happens next year. I mean the Dutch, in terms of the investigation, in terms of the crash site, in terms of trying to remove the other victims who may still be there. Tell us a little bit about how the government is working to try to bring everyone home.", "Yes, well of course this is a very difficult task. The Dutch together with the Australians would probably take the lead in the international investigation. But so far, they haven't arrived big groups of investigators on this part of the crime which will make it very difficult to find out what really happened there. And that of course is because of their situation that the rebels. They spoke now in Holland about a police mission or maybe even a military mission to go with this international team that will recover the lost parts of the body and that will research the signs to find out what exactly happened and who are perpetuators. This although is a very -- is a difficult -- this will be a difficult mission because as you know it's a war zone. And there's not much experienced with this kind of situation.", "Please tell me just what did they do the Dutch people, do they want sanctions? Do they want punishment on Vladimir Putin?", "Well, yesterday, I heard one relative say, one work which was boycott. The Dutch have had pretty tough year with Putin. The last year we have seen numerous incidents in which the best way involved, just to name a few, there was talk about boycott of the Olympics because of the Anti-Gay Law that is being adapted in Russia. There has been the international conflict around the Arctic sunrise Greenpeace Ship have lost under a Dutch flag arrested in Mormant (ph) and the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs had to release the truth. And so, but all the time, the Dutch government has been very, very cautious with sanctions because the economic and financial interest with Russia are enormous. But, both the Prime Minister Rutte as our Minister Foreign Affairs Frans Timmermans who did a very moving speech in the United Nation Security Council. They said more or less this is a game changer something substantially has changed in our relationship to Russia.", "All right. We continue to watch that. No, question and you're right. That speech the UN (inaudible) very moving.", "Incredible.", "And I think it was just a real tests to your countrymen. Thank you so much Laura for your report this morning", "Thank you. We appreciate it very much. All right, well, now, is the world ready to punish Russia more heavily. President Vladimir Putin facing ay harsh criticism for his government alleged ties to those rebels in Eastern Ukraine this morning or in the coming days. The Kremlin could be hit in the wallet. We're going to talk about that part of the story. Those potential harsher sanction next."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "ROMANS", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "SAVIDGE", "HARLOW", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "WALSH", "HARLOW", "WALSH", "HARLOW", "ROMANS", "HARLOW", "LAURA STARINK, DUTCH JOURNALIST", "ROMANS", "STARINK", "ROMANS", "STARINK", "ROMANS", "HARLOW", "ROMANS", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-46704", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2002-1-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/04/bn.02.html", "summary": "U.S. Special Forces Trooper Killed by Hostile Fire", "utt": ["We want to go to TALKBACK LIVE in just a moment. That is next. But first, we want to update you on the lead story we're following at this. And that is reports out of Afghanistan of the first U.S. service member to die in hostile action. Now, the Pentagon confirming that an Army Special Forces trooper died today as a result of an exchange of smalls-arm fire, and for more on what happened, let's go to our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr -- Barbara, what more have you learned?", "Judy -- good afternoon. We have just learned from senior officials in the U.S. intelligence community that a CIA officer was also wounded in this incident. This was apparently a team of military and CIA specialists that were working in this area -- Army Special Forces, including possibly some members of the very elite, very secret Delta Force working with members of the CIA. A CIA officer was wounded in the incident. He has been removed. We have no further word on his medical condition, but we are told he is receiving medical treatment. So in addition to the soldier, there is another -- who died, there is another wounded person. We are told that's it at the moment. But we have also learned that a quick reaction force of military personnel moved into the area very quickly once the incident began, and helped to remove all members of this Special Forces team and CIA team. And one senior official here in the Pentagon said it has been described as an ambush, that this team of U.S. specialists walked into an ambush and encountered small-arms fire. And this all occurred in the Gardez area in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border -- Judy.", "Barbara, generally what was going on? What has been going on in that area with U.S. forces?", "Well, what this Special Forces-CIA team was doing was overtly, in a somewhat public fashion, establishing contact with local tribal leaders, moving through the area, making friends, finding out what was going on in this region of eastern Afghanistan, a region that U.S. forces generally had not been operating in. But the fact that we have now learned that some of these military people were, perhaps, members of the Delta Force and the CIA was in there, clearly there was also some covert work going on. They were gathering intelligence, and they clearly were tracking the possible movements of al Qaeda leadership throughout the area -- Judy.", "All right. CNN's Barbara Starr joining us from the Pentagon now with more information on today's news that the first U.S. service person to be killed as a result of hostile fire in Afghanistan, this news coming out just in the last couple of hours. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "WOODRUFF", "STARR", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-74770", "program": "LIVE FROM THE HEADLINES", "date": "2003-8-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/04/se.13.html", "summary": "Officials Warn Terrorists Could Modify Electronics as Weapons", "utt": ["We've got some breaking news coming out of Washington. For that, let's go to Jeanne Meserve, who has some new information about al Qaeda and that new terror threat released several days ago -- Jeanne.", "Anderson, homeland security officials say a new advisory will be issued tomorrow to the aviation industry and all federal screening personnel, directing them to pay particular attention to the screening of small electronic items. Administration officials tell CNN that the discovery in al Qaeda hideouts overseas of small electronic items modified to carry small weapons or explosives contributed to the decision last week to send out a warning to the aviation sector, warning about the possibility of future hijackings. Among the items authorities believe al Qaeda was seeking to modify, cell phones, boom boxes, and cameras. But that is not an exclusive list. Last week's warning read, in part, the hijackers may attempt to use common items carried by traveler travelers, such as cameras, modified as weapons. I should say there was a security directive last week which ordered closer scrutiny of small electronics like cameras. That went into effect and related primarily to the screening of people who were traveling without visas through the U.S., transiting through the U.S. That program, those two programs, rather, that allowed people to stop in the U.S. without visas have now been suspended. The directive last week also applied to domestic travelers who set off metal detectors who were selected for random screening. But the advisory being sent out tomorrow will encompass all travelers. It says it wants to see screening, more intense screening of electronics of all individuals, whether they be flying on airlines or whether they be entering foreign buildings. No new intelligence, I'm told, has been collected since that initial directive went out to the aviation sector last week. But in the abundance of caution they have wrapped together all the various intelligence, everything they have learned, and they're issuing this new advisory tomorrow -- Anderson.", "Jeanne, just one quick question. I'm not sure, you may have the answer to this. How new is this intelligence that they've got, I mean, that they've found, I guess, in al Qaeda hideouts, some of these electronic devices? How new is that?", "Now we are just learning that they found these electronic devices. What I'm led to believe is that this is part of the information which led to the advisory one week ago. When I first learned of this advisory last Tuesday, I was told the information leading to the advisory had been developed over several weeks. We know that, in addition to what may have been found in these al Qaeda hideouts, other factors were interrogations with some al Qaeda detainees and also some electronic intercepts -- Anderson.", "All right. Jeanne Meserve, thanks very much. We're also going talk to Peter Bergen, CNN security and terrorism expert, in just a few minutes. Weapons>"], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "MESERVE", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-339357", "program": "CNN RELIABLE SOURCES", "date": "2018-05-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/06/rs.01.html", "summary": "NBC's Big Mistake About Michael Cohen", "utt": ["Back now on RELIABLE SOURCES. On Thursday, NBC thought it had a huge scoop. The network reported that authorities had Michael Cohen on a wiretap, listening in on his calls. It turned out, the authorities only had a log of his calls. They were not listening in. NBC issued a correction four hours later, and President Trump pounced, saying NBC is as bad as CNN. Of course, some on Fox News used this error to bash the media as a whole. And so, the story continues. Who's lying, who has less credibility, et cetera? Let's dig into it with a trio of authors starting with Amanda Carpenter, a CNN political commentator and author of the brand new book, \"Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Lie to Us\". Jon Meacham also here, former editor-in-chief of \"Newsweek,\" he's the author of the next book \"The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels,\" out on Tuesday. And David Cay Johnston is here, the founder of dcreport.org, author of \"It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America\". Amanda, first to you. The president, as he so often likes to do, he tweeted a falsehood about NBC. He said they probably just made up their sources. Now, to be clear, NBC made a bad mistake, but it shows -- the correction shows that at least journalists do what the president doesn't do, correcting errors when they come up.", "Yes, and this is the problem that poses anyone who tries to take on Trump and criticize him whether you're a political opponent or a reporter, you really have to be perfect. He is a player that fights dirty but will exploit any weakness that you have. And it's a really tough dynamic to participate in, but it's the truth and especially when he's waging this war on the press, if there's any slight mistake that's made, you'd better believe he's going to blow it up. And you know what, that's not the worst thing because it challenges all of us to be better.", "To raise our game, yes. Jon Meacham, in your book, you write about McCarthy, Murrow's response to McCarthy. And I want to put this quote on screen because I think it applies to today as well. You wrote: One journalist of the era observed what could I do? I had to report, quote, from McCarthy. How do you say in the middle of your story, this is a lie? I think journalists are wrestling with that same problem today.", "Absolutely, 70 years on. The Trump playbook, if you will, on dealing with the media and confronting it constantly comes straight out of Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn. And in the way God sometimes does these things, we don't have to make that much of a leap because Roy Cohn was the lawyer for both men. And what happened in the McCarthy era he would attack the media. He would -- he knew exactly when deadlines were. He would call in the afternoon wire reporters with 30 minutes to go and announce a story. It didn't give them time to check it out. They felt that a U.S. senator talking about communism was intrinsically newsworthy and there was a big debate about whether newspapers should actually call out a lie is a lie.", "And do you think journalists are getting it right today? Are we making those same mistakes again or are we getting it right now?", "I think it depends on, to quote Bill Clinton in a way, it depends on what you mean by journalists. I think there are a number of news outsets which think of as more traditional that are doing a terrific job and it's kind of a golden age. There are some outlets that are essentially extensions of the administration. And I think it requires educated, intelligent consumers of news to be able to figure out what's true and what's not.", "Yes, media diversity is great but people have to know what they're consuming. David Cay Johnston, I have a feeling that, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but there's been a lot of folks watching news coverage the last 16 months saying, you all actually don't go far enough calling out lies. Are you one of those critics?", "Yes, and I think the biggest problem, Brian, was during the campaign. Very few Americans know Donald had two trials for income tax fraud, lost them both, confessed to sales tax cheating. And most importantly, spent years so deeply involved with a major international cocaine trafficker he did favors for that the only logical explanation is they were in the cocaine trafficking business together. That's not being discussed, things like that. And Donald is the master, as Jon pointed out, of turning the tables, attack the people who are telling the truth and those --", "Right, but when you bring up drug deals, you've got to provide the proof. Where is -- where can people find that evidence?", "In my book \"The Making of Donald Trump\" and in my current book, \"It's Even Worse Than You Think\", I cite the court records, the letters that Donald wrote and show why what he did as a casino owner makes no sense unless they were in business together.", "You always call --", "And, Donald, if you're listening, sue me if you think I slandered you.", "You always call him Donald. I know that's on purpose. It comes across as disrespectful to a lot of people. So, why do you do that?", "I call all public officials by their first names if I know them. When I was exposing the LAPD 30 years ago, I called the chief of police, Daryl Gates, Daryl, because we're both equals. We're citizens of the city of L.A., Daryl and I are citizens. Donald and I are citizens of the U.S. and we know each other.", "OK, all right. So, Amanda, I wanted to ask you about this term gaslighting since it's a title of your book. I know it's still new to some folks. What is the gaslighting phenomenon? Is there a great example from this week of the president engaging in this? Because you wrote here one chapter, feelings, not facts are essential to a good gaslighting.", "Yes, I mean, the most easily understood example of the term gaslighting really is how he engaged in a campaign of birtherism against Barack Obama. Gaslighting is much more than a lie. It's an elaborate scheme meant to distort reality and eventually drives people a little bit crazy. In my book, I kind of -- I go through these techniques Donald Trump keeps using again and again to create press interest in these narratives because the chaos that he creates with his gaslighting and these lies is a deliberate form of control that works for him, going into 2018 and 2020, people better stop thinking his lies and gaslighting will do him in. It's what works for him. Assume the lies will keep working until someone can go toe to toe with him and confront him. I don't see anyone other than Michael Avenatti doing that right now. He's doing a better job than anyone in the entire Democratic Party, where are they? Assume it's going to keep working.", "Jon Meacham, last word to you?", "I think this is all in the hands of the voters. I think we have a republic here that is worth defending. The republic is only as good as the sum of its parts. Protests matters, resistance matters, and truth will out.", "As much as this show is about the press, of course, I did find myself thinking this morning, this issue about his lies isn't really about the press. We can identify the lies. We can fact check every hour. But ultimately, there's not much more that journalists can do. Sorry, David, did you want to chime in?", "Well, we -- our job is to make a record. But we need to recognize a lot of Trump support is visceral. It's not fact-based. Amanda is right, that's not going to change.", "I appreciate you all being here. Great to talk with you. We have a quick break and then Sunday morning exclusive, with Trump's media allies sounding the alarm on the Mueller probe, former campaign aide Michael Caputo was actually been in the room. He sat down with Robert Mueller's investigators just a few days ago. 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{"id": "CNN-399517", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-05-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/07/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Valet to President Trump Tests Positive for Coronavirus; NY Governor Cuomo Gives Update on Coronavirus Response.", "utt": ["How long is going to be this window where there could be a real question of if the president or the vice president or anyone else at the White House, on the White House staff, could be at a higher risk right now?", "Right. To your point, Kate, testing in this situation can only go so far. All you know is that that person is not getting a positive test at that moment. They could be incubating the virus and they could also feel perfectly fine so they're completely asymptomatic. Just because someone has a negative test doesn't mean that they can't spread the virus. Is it unlikely? Yes, it's unlikely. But it doesn't mean that they don't have the virus. So that's another question that comes to my mind is: Did this valet have a test before he entered the White House? And if it was negative, and it later turned out he was positive, what does that tell us?", "Let me bring -- stick with me, Elizabeth. Let me bring Kaitlan Collins back in. She's on the phone. Kaitlan, maybe to answer the question that Elizabeth led off with at the top. What is known about how close the valet gets to the president and the vice president, the responsibilities of a valet?", "That's what's so notable. They get incredibly close to the president and sometimes the first family. This is someone who is personally assigned to President Trump. There's this elite military unit. They're assigned to the White House. But the point is there are many valets. So did this valet interact with other valets who went into the residence where the first lady is? Questions like that is what the White House will be asked in the coming hours about this. And in the West Wing, how much interaction did this person have with the president, other staffers, other staffers on the ground? Because we do know from sources telling my colleague, Peter Morris, and I, that this person was on the grounds yesterday. What's still unclear is if they were actually in the Oval Office yesterday or, of course, the days leading up to that. So this is someone who works really closely to the president. They handle their food, their beverages, things of that nature. So that is why we are told by our source that the president was upset when he was informed about this, because, obviously, he knows this is someone close to him. We should note the White House told us they were both tested after. They both tested negative. That's the president and the vice president. The other question of staffers getting tested, oftentimes, they're tested in the executive office building next door. If you're looking to the White House right now, it's to the right of it. That's where the National Security Council is. And oftentimes, staffers go in and are tested, and they're sent on their way and told they'll get a call in 15 minutes if they tested positive. Obviously, any news is not good news if you get a call from the medical unit. So often, they're not called back. Clearly, this person was. We were told they were exhibiting symptoms. And it's not clear which symptoms or -- that's what led them to get tested -- or if they were just being tested because they were on the grounds. A lot of questions about the president's exposure here.", "We have seen very clearly, over the past week-plus, the sensitivity that the president and the White House, in general, has to this issue of wearing masks. We saw that with the vice president when he was traveling and with the president as well. Now the reporting coming in from Kate Bennett is that the valets do not wear masks in the West Wing. I wonder now if you're hearing that could be changing.", "So far, the calculus on that is not only do the valets not, many staffers don't wear masks in the West Wing. There's one staffer who is famous for wearing it, the deputy national security adviser, who has been wearing one for weeks now, basically trying to signal to his colleagues about the seriousness of this. But most staffers you don't see wearing masks with the president. So when they go on Air Force One, like they did to Arizona this week, the president was saying he felt comfortable because everyone had been tested before they got on the plane, things like that. But as Elizabeth was saying, the concern is you could contract this and not know it. As even the press secretary pointed out yesterday, if people got tested, you would have to retest them every hour because, theoretically, you can get the virus at any moment. So the question is, because this person is so close to the president, does this change their thinking going forward. And if not, how does it not change their thinking going forward? Because, obviously, the number-one concern that people like the Secret Service and the medical unit are going to have is how to protect the president.", "Absolutely. And that is a very -- a hugely important job in question. And I think we also need to ask, is there any update on how this person is actually doing?", "No update yet. They just said, the White House only confirmed when we reached out with this reporting this morning that it is true someone tested positive. But that's really all we know. We don't know how the staffer is doing, where they are, if they were just sent home. We really don't have more details on who this individual is except that they are a male and that they are a valet assigned to the president.", "Kaitlan is going to have more reporting throughout the day. Kaitlan, thank you so much. Elizabeth, thank you so much. We have to jump over now to Governor Cuomo beginning his daily briefing.", "Lincoln, big believer in the American people always. Let them know the truth and the country is safe. I love Lincoln and the wisdom and the economy of his language. Let them know the truth and the country is safe. Here are the facts where we are right now. So 8,600 total hospitalizations. That number is down. That is good news. And it's a fairly significant drop. So that is good news. The net change in hospitalizations you see is also down. That's good news. Intubations is down. That's good news. The three-day rolling average of hospitalizations is also down. You see the curve. You see the outline of what we went through. You see how fast it went up. It reminds you how fast the infection rate can spread. Look how fast those numbers went up. And you see how, once those numbers are up, how slow, how long it takes to get them down, right? We're on the downside of the mountain. Downside of the mountain is a much more gentle slope than what we went through going up the mountain. We wish it was a steeper decline. But it's not. This is the worst number every day, is the number of deaths, 231. And you can see how slow that has come down and how painfully high it still is. This is a chart of the number of lives lost. And, again, you can see how fast that infection took off and how many lives we lost. And once that infection rate is high and people are getting infected, you can see how long it takes to slow it down and reduce the number of deaths. And they're coming down at a painful, slow level of decline. The top priority for us, one of the top priorities for us, has been protecting our frontline and our essential workers. You have to remember what happened here. It all happened so fast that it's almost hard to gain perspective on it. But the frontline workers, they showed up and went to work and put their lives in danger so everyone else could stay home. I laid out the facts, as Lincoln said, to the people of this state, laid out how dangerous this virus was, advocated and argued based on those facts that we needed to close down, close down schools, close down businesses, stay at home. People did that. In the next breath, I said, and, by the way, we need you, essential workers, to go to work tomorrow. After just having explained how dangerous the virus was to justify shutting down society in a way it had never been shut down before, next breath, essential workers, I need you to go to work. Hospital care, I need you to go to work and help people who come in with the COVID virus after we just discussed how dangerous the COVID virus was and how little we knew about the virus. Look at the courage that those frontline workers had to show. I mean, it is still amazing to me. I just want to make sure, on a human level, we're doing everything that we can for them. So we've been aggressively testing the frontline workers to find out who needs help, how many people actually have been infected. and we've been working with the police and transit workers and health care workers. We tested 25 downstate health care facilities. Downstate New York is a place where a lot of the virus was, over 27,000 employees. So it was a large sample. What we found out was really good news, and one of the few positives that I've heard in a long time. When you look at the percentage of people who have the antibodies, which means they were infected at some time in the past and are now recovered, of the health care workers, in Westchester 6.8, New York City 12.2, Long Island 11.1. That is about the same or lower than the infection rate among the general population. So Westchester, the infection rate among the general population is 13.8, almost 14. Westchester health care workers, it's about half of the rate of the general population. I mean, that is amazingly good news, right? We were afraid of what was going to happen. And the health care workers actually are at about the same or lower than the general population in that area. So that is -- makes two points to me. Number one, our health care workers must be protected. They must have the PPE. We've been saying that all along. It was a mad scramble this last time to get the PPE. Internationally, it was a mad scramble for all of us. That can never happen again. We have to have the PPE. We have to have the stockpiles. We did an order that said every hospital has to have a 90-day supply of PPE at the COVID rate of usage. So we'll never go through this again. But it also shows everybody how important the masks and the gloves and the sanitizer are and that they work. You know, it's not that the frontline workers get anything especially more sophisticated than the masks that people wear, the N-95 masks. They wear a gown, they wear a mask, they wear gloves, but they follow protocol. And those masks work. They work. If they're working for front line workers, they're going to work for people in their day-to- day lives. And the precautions of gloves and sanitizing, they work. Also during this time, it's important that we protect New Yorkers who are facing financial hardships. You have people who live paycheck to paycheck. The majority of people in this state live paycheck to paycheck. All of a sudden, the paycheck stops. The federal government issued a one-time payment of $600, unemployment benefits, but it's not making up the gap for many, many families. And they are struggling. And we want to make sure we're doing everything we can. We have a problem in Upstate New York where many of the farms can't sell their product. You had a lot of farms that were literally just dumping milk that the dairy farms had produced. But at the same time, you have people in Downstate New York who are going hungry and can't buy, can't pay for enough food. Tremendous demand on food banks. So we've been putting the two together. It makes no sense to have upstate farmers who can't sell their product and downstate families that can't get enough to eat. So we have been funding efforts to connect the farmers to the downstate food banks. And we've done that with about $25 million through what we call our Nourish New York Initiative. And that has worked. We're funding about 50 food banks that are -- have 2,100 farms that are delivering food to those food banks. And about 20,000 households in the state are participating in that. And the volume of food and product that is not being wasted that is supporting upstate farms and helping downstate families is tremendous. We want to continue doing that. The state budget is very, very tight right now with what's going on with the economy, so philanthropies, foundations, there are a lot of people that want to help. This is a great cause. And I would suggest they help so we can do even more. People are literally worried about being able to pay rent. You don't work for two months and that rent bill keeps coming in. It's not that the bill payers, the bill collectors have taken a vacation. The bill collectors work, right? They still send a bill and you still get collection notices. We did, by executive order that I issued, a moratorium on residential or commercial evictions. You cannot be evicted for nonpayment of rent related to this COVID situation. And that went through June. So nobody has been and nobody can be evicted through June, either residential or commercial. We're going to take additional steps of banning any late payment fees because a person couldn't pay the rent during this period of time. Also allowing people to use the security deposit as a payment and they can repay it over a prolonged period of time. But also I'm going to extend that moratorium an additional 60 days. It hasn't expired in June, but people are anxious. And June, for many people, is just next month, and the rent bill is going to come due so we're going to extend that 60 days until August 20th. So no one can be evicted for nonpayment of rent, residents or commercial, because of COVID until August 20th. And then we'll see what happens between now and then, right? Nobody can really tell you what the future is, so that will be in place. I hope it gives families a deep breath. Nothing can happen until August 20th and then we'll figure out between now and August 20th what the situation is. Also at this time, principals matter. And I understand the anxiety. I understand the stress. But let's remember who we are and what we're all about and what principles matter to us. People are talking about we should reopen the economy, it's more important than public health, or public health is more important than the economy. And that's the underlying argument and discussion that you're hearing going on right now. To me, it's never been a question of whether or not we reopen. It's not reopen or reopen. You have to reopen. You don't have a choice. It's how you reopen. It's how you reopen. And to say, well, we either have to have a stronger economy or protect public health, No. That's a false choice. It's not one or the other, it's both. We have to reopen, get the economy running, and we have to protect public health. I mean, this is not a situation where you can go to the American people and say, OK, how many lives are you willing to lose to reopen the economy. We don't want to lose any lives. You start to hear these, to me, what are absurd arguments. Well, yes, if we reopen, people will die, but people were going to die, anyway. Look, we're all going to die at one point. The big question is when and how. And the when and how matters. I understand that I'm going to die. I just don't want to die now or next week. And I don't want to die because I contracted the COVID virus unnecessarily. Right? So people are going to die. Yes, we're all going to die. That is not a justification in my mind, right? It would be a novel defense. Persons a person before a judge charged with murder. Did you have a gun? Yes. Did you fire the gun? Yes. Did the person die? Yes. But the person was going to die, anyway. Yes, I know. But it was a gun that killed the person and the bullet, and you fired the gun, right? So to go down this road -- well, there are old people who will die. Predominantly on the numbers. How do you define old? Not that old is a justification. But we looked at numbers yesterday. The number of people coming into -- the new cases coming into hospitals. And 51 years old is where the increase starts, right? So, 51 to 60. And 60 to 70 is the highest, 71 to 80. But 51 to 60. So 51 is not really old. I know that it's all relative. And since I am beyond that 51, it's easy for me to say. But I don't really see 51 as old when we start talking about the old people. I also think -- and I do this for myself -- any leader who makes a decision in this situation should be willing to participate in anything they authorize. So there's nothing that we are going to authorize or allow in this state that I myself will not be part of. It's too easy to say, OK, you can go do this but I'm going to protect myself and I'm going to stay behind the glass wall. No. All human life has the same value. If I say something is safe for New Yorkers, then I will participate in it. Because if it's safe for you, it's safe for me. Right? And that should be our standard going forward. And what we've been doing in New York is, look, make the decisions based on facts and data. Not emotion and politics. And I understand the emotion, and I understand the anxiety and the stress. I understand politics a little bit. But that's not the basis for making a decision. And that was -- every leader who has told us that in different ways. That was John Adams, that was Lincoln, that was FDR, that was Teddy Roosevelt. When the -- when my team comes to me, oh, we had a prison break and there's a flood coming and a hurricane and Ebola virus and their hair is on fire. Slow down. Deep breaths. Let's look at the facts. Let's understand the situation. And let's take action based on the facts. That's the way to lead. That's the way I believe to lead one's life. Here we have a lot of information. We have a lot of facts. We know the hospitalization rate and the infection rate and the number of deaths. We'll be taking antibody tests and diagnostic tests and we are doing tracing. Make your decision based on the facts and the data. It is simple but it is more important than ever before. It is working for us. It is working. That's not just me saying that because I am the governor. Look at what's happening in New York and look at what's happening in the rest of the nation. In New York, the numbers are coming down. It is coming down dramatically. You take New York out of the rest of the nation's numbers, the rest of the nation is going up. We are coming down. What we are doing is working. When it's working, stay the course. Quote attributed to Winston Churchill, \"if you are going through hell, keep ongoing.\" And that's what we're doing. We're going through hell, but what we're doing is working, so we're going to keep going. Because We are New York tough, united and loving. Questions?", "Yes, a question about, you began the briefing with the term like \"high anxiety.\" And what seems to increase that when we think of a second wave later. And you look at people who are concerned maybe if they're die-hard big-city people, for the first time in their lives, they're thinking I want to go to the suburbs. It's individual family's decision. What do you tell folks like that? When somebody in your own family would be like, think I am going to leave the city and try something new, and if that becomes a trend -- I'm putting it way out there - but what do you think is your advice or your thoughts on a possible exodus or flight?", "Yes. You are right, high anxiety, emotions are high. Unfortunately, often when emotion is high, logic is low, right? Well, New York had a lot of cases. Yes. And by the way we now know why New York had a lot of cases. It had nothing to do with New York. First of all, this was a national issue. I am going to leave New York. Oh, yes, and go where that did not have COVID cases? Suburbs? Westchester had them. Long Island had them. Other cities? L.A. had them. Chicago had them. OK, well, New York had more. Yes, but we know why. It had nothing to do with New York. It had to do with the fact that all the experts missed a very important, a fact that, while we were all watching China and talking about China, and doing a China travel ban, the virus had already gotten on a plane in China and went to Europe and infected people in Europe. And then people from Europe were coming to New York because that's where the flights come. Two million people came to New York in February, March. And nobody was stopping European travel. Nobody was screening Europeans coming into the airport. Nobody said to New Yorkers, by the way, any European travelers or people from Italy, from the U.K., from Germany, they may have the COVID virus. Nobody said anything. So we had two million passengers from Europe. Everybody is still talking about China. We do the China travel ban. We are screening people from China. But meanwhile, it came through Europe. Millions of people came from Europe. And we had no idea. We had no idea. That's why the number of cases in New York are so high. They're now looking at people who came from Europe came into JFK and Newark but then took a connecting flight and went to another city. They think the whole east coast may have seen cases coming from Europe. The China flights were going to the west coast. The European flights came to the east coast. It had nothing to do with New York. Now, once the virus is in New York, any place of density is where this virus takes off. Any place of density. So any place - you look at the meat processing plants now, right, that are in the Midwest part of the country, southern parts of the county. Well, they are a problem. No. It had nothing to do with the meat processing plant or you have a hot spot now in an agricultural facility in Upstate New York. It had nothing to do with the meat or agriculture. It is density. That's what happened with Rochester here and New Rochelle, the first hot spots in the United States. What did it have to do with New Rochelle? Nothing. It was the density. It was the person who went to a gathering with 200 to 300 people. It's the density. So, yes, in New York, any dense situation, meat processing, plant, an agriculture plant, city of Chicago, city of New York. Once it gets into density, is going to increase. But why here? Because of the flights from Europe that nobody knew and nobody told us and nobody stopped it. Also, post-9/11, you went through this situation in New York where people asked that question, well, maybe New York is a target. No, we were not the only place attacked in 9/11. But it was highly impactful. We lost a lot of lives. People say maybe New York is the target. Yes, but that lasted for a short period of time and New Yorkers came back, downtown, better than ever before. And we are going to do the same thing here.", "We spoke about a couple of initiatives to help struggling out-of-work New Yorkers, including extending rent relief. What's your message to those New Yorkers? And who's hiring in the state?", "We get to May 15th, May 15th is when it's called the pause, P- A-U-S-E order. The close-down order expires. We'll look at different regions in the state by the data to see if they'll be in the position to start reopening. And we'll start with construction and manufacturing, et cetera. So you will see the economy start to reopen on a regional analysis, not a flood gate, but it will start so we can watch what's happening and calibrate. Because we don't see the numbers goes the other way. In the interim, everyone is making do. And everyone has hardships, et cetera. We just want to make sure those people who are most vulnerable are protected, right? One of the greatest vulnerabilities is, I am not working and I can't pay my rent. I can't pay my rent and I can't feed family. We have to make sure those people are protected. Nobody is evicted because they can't pay rent. Let's take that issue off the table. We have to make sure everyone has food to feed their family. We are doing that through a number of ways, subsidy programs, et cetera. And last resort, these food banks we are talking about today. But the number-one issue that people talk to me about probably is rent and fear about paying their rent. This takes that issue off the table until August 20th. What's going to happen on August 20th? You know what? I can't tell you two or three months down the road. I can tell you, whatever happens, we'll handle it at the time. That's what we've been doing with the situation all along, literally, it two-week increments. This is unlike anything we have seen before. So I am not going to sit here and say I have a crystal ball and I'm tell you what's going to happen in a month or two months. Anyone who tells you that, I think I would question that person seriously. Because there has been no one who has gotten this right from the time it started. Take one more.", "I just thought, I don't want to take too many questions. But about the rent relief and the landlords who would say they've got to pay the mortgage?", "I get it. I get it. There's a tradeoff. None of these decisions are easy. None of these decisions are easily. You are right, the landlords will say, OK, so now the tenants does not pay the rent, but I still have to pay the electric bill. I still have to pay the mortgage. That's true. That's true. And we are working on relief from the banks for the landlords also. And there are programs that the federal government is doing, the state is doing to make sure those banks also get relief."], "speaker": ["KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "DR. ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BOLDUAN", "KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (via telephone)", "BOLDUAN", "COLLINS", "BOLDUAN", "COLLINS", "BOLDUAN", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-394975", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2020-03-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/11/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "Colleges And Universities Are Closing Classrooms And Dormitories, Students Are To Study Online.", "utt": ["The coronavirus pandemic is forcing many colleges and universities across the country to shut down classrooms and dormitories, forcing students off campus and to continue their studies online, from elsewhere. But that's leaving a lot of students scrambling. Let's bring in one of them. Braeden Foldenauer is a student at Harvard who is vice president of Primus. It is the first-generation student union organization on campus that not only works with first-generation undergraduate students but also supports low-income and under- resourced students. I had been reading your resume here, and you are an overachiever. You do a lot. So thank you for joining us. I understand you have a deadline to get out of there and we appreciate you joining us tonight. So, Braeden, you are still at Harvard tonight. What was it like when they said to you that you got to be out by Sunday?", "Well, it was chaotic. I mean, we woke up yesterday to an e-mail that said that you've got until Sunday to get off campus, move out of your dorm, make arrangements for your stuff. There is a lot of uncertainty right now. People are trying to make last-minute arrangements.", "What's the mood like? How are people dealing with this on campus?", "I think that a lot of people, probably the vast majority, are upset, particularly seniors, who thought they had two months to say good-bye, they've got a few days. And, you know, one thing that we are experiencing right now is that it is disproportionately affecting our low-income and disadvantaged students. So I just think there is a lot of concern right now about cost and how to afford it.", "Yeah. Let's talk about that a little bit more because not only are you the VP of an organization that's aimed at supporting under- resourced students on campus, you are a low-income, out-of-state student yourself, correct me if I am wrong, right?", "Yes, sir.", "So what are students doing to help students who need it, students like you?", "So right now, the university is offering students a cash advance. And so basically, if I say, look, I've got no money, I can't get home, the university will, say I need $400, the university is charging $400 to your student account and then putting it into your checking account. And they've asked to -- they've asked the faculty of arts and sciences to help cover the cost to reimburse students, but it's not clear that we're going to get that right now. So, right now, it really seems like it's a zero-interest loan. So, a lot of low-income students are worried that they're going to have to pay back the university to make these last-minute arrangements. And one thing that we have done working with the Harvard alumni Association is trying to find alumni who are willing to donate and willing to help. The student government has stepped in to try to offer some help. But I think my big concern is it seems like a lot of efforts to make this more affordable has been student led. And I think we're hoping for a stronger university response.", "So I'm just wondering if -- what that means. You said they've offered to help. That means computers and so on because -- listen, not everybody has Wi-Fi or computer access at home or internet access. What have they said about that?", "Yeah. Well, look, it's a big concern and there's still a lot of uncertainty around that. I was talking to a friend at a dinner today who said that he doesn't think he is going to be able to go home to his parents. He might stay with another relative because, you're absolutely right, he doesn't have internet access at home. My roommate is from Mumbai, India. He said that, if I have to live stream (ph) in the class, I would be taking class from 12 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every day. So --", "Yeah.", "- there is still a lot of concern around that. The alumni association has raised some money. People in the area have offered to host students, to store stuff over the summer. So we are trying to get students connected to alumni who are willing to help. But still, I think there is a lot of confusion about what's it look like going forward for me to complete my coursework. You know, for students who have term-time jobs and rely on that income, there is a lot of concern. You know, summer stipends where we are still waiting to hear about that for students who have unpaid internships. So there are just a lot of questions that are unanswered.", "Yeah. Listen, I had to work in college. There are students who have to work on campus. They have summer jobs lined up and on and on and on. So it's tough. Listen, what are your major concerns right now, Braeden? What would you like to hear Harvard address?", "Number one, I think that we'd like to hear a confirmation that students are going to get reimbursed because, you know, like I said, essentially what students are getting right now is a zero- interest loan.", "I'm really appreciative of the Harvard employees who are working with students to make sure that travel arrangements are made. But it really seems like Harvard's number one priority right now is getting students off campus. And it seems like there's been a lack of concern or lack of response about what those repercussions look like and those consequences for low-income students. So I think, number one, is just an affirmation that, look, this -- whatever cost you incur, if you're in financial aid, we'll make sure that will be covered. I think that's the number one thing that we're hoping for.", "Braeden, are you sure you're from Mississippi?", "I am sure.", "Where is your accent? That's people always ask me, where is my Louisiana accent, but where's your Mississippi accent?", "Yeah. So my parents are from the north.", "I wasn't blessed with that deep southern drawl.", "He is taking me seriously.", "But I am very much identified as a Mississippian.", "I'm just messing with you, Braeden. I'm just messing with you. Listen, good luck to you and good luck to all of your students. We appreciate you joining us here on CNN, OK? Thanks a lot.", "Thank you so much for having me.", "Absolutely. And thank you for watching, everyone. Our coverage continues."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "BRAEDEN FOLDENAUER, STUDENT, HARVARD UNIVERSITY", "LEMON", "FOLDENAUER", "LEMON", "FOLDENAUER", "LEMON", "FOLDENAUER", "LEMON", "FOLDENAUER", "LEMON", "FOLDENAUER", "LEMON", "FOLDENAUER", "FOLDENAUER", "LEMON", "FOLDENAUER", "LEMON", "FOLDENAUER", "FOLDENAUER", "LEMON", "FOLDENAUER", "LEMON", "FOLDENAUER", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-123431", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-2-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0802/05/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Voters Head to Polls for Super Tuesday", "utt": ["And as always, the best political team on television will be here today, tonight, tomorrow, for the latest on this very important day. Let's turn things over now to Kyra Phillips and Don Lemon in Atlanta.", "Campbell, thanks so much. CNN NEWSROOM coverage of Super Tuesday starts right now. I'm Kyra Phillips at CNN world headquarters here in Atlanta.", "And Kyra, I am Don Lemon at a place I'm sure you're very familiar with and a lot of our viewers in the south are familiar with, the Varsity. It is an Atlanta institution. It is lunch time in the east, lunch time in the Midwest, but out west it's breakfast time so we came to a theater here, and we are gauging the pulse of the voters on this Super Tuesday.", "All right. We'll be checking in with you, Don. And you know it from watching: CNN has got the best political team on television. And we've got reporters fanned out from coast to coast on this Super Tuesday. They're at polling stations, campaign headquarters, talking with voters. You're going to stay with us all through the day and through the night on the biggest day yet in the 2008 campaign. That is the reason it's called Super Tuesday. For the Democrats, 1,681 delegates are at stake. For the Republicans, 1,020. To win the nomination, the Democrat needs 2,025 delegates; and for Republicans, the magic number is 1,191. The race for the White House is the talk of the lunch-time crowd at one of Atlanta's landmarks. That's exactly where Don said he was, the Varsity drive-in near the Georgia Tech campus. Don, what are they saying besides you might have indigestion?", "Kyra, you know, and I got something for you. It's going to be a little bit, you know, by the time we get back. Got a little hot dog for you and some fries. I didn't eat all morning. I was rushing to get here. And I also got, you know, something to drink here. Been rushing all morning. But you know, seriously, we have been talking to folks in line here and people sitting down. Did they vote, are they going to vote, what are issues they're talking about? Here in Georgia, they're talking about this new I.D. voting system -- voter I.D. system that just went into effect in September. We're going to tell you all about that, what you're going to need when you get there. You're going to need this. This is an I.D. But you need a government-issued I.D. Also, you're going to need your voter registration card if you don't have a government-issued I.D. And then a photo I.D. And then once you do that, once you get there -- this is my little work station here, along with my lunch -- you're going to need this. They'll give you this, \"I am a Georgia voter,\" right on a peach. It's really heating up here between the Republicans. Who knows what's going to happen? Usually, Georgia goes on the Republican side, but it's really heating up among Democrats, even though Barack Obama, in Georgia, people are saying that he's in the lead, some polls show, by 20 points. But this was what was on my door last night, Kyra, when I got home. I said, \"Oh, I got a visit today from Barack Obama.\" Just on the door. You know, just like in the hotel room when they -- when they tell you disturb or not disturb. Anyway, and it gives you all the information about voting, where you go. So we're going to talk to some of these people. Very big place to eat here. Huge, gimongous [sic]! We're going to talk to some of these people, coming up in the", "All right, Don. Sounds good. We'll be checking in. And Hillary Clinton is spending this Super Tuesday on her home turf. Our senior political correspondent, Candy Crowley, covering the Clinton campaign in New York. Candy, there's a lot at stake today for Senator Clinton.", "Absolutely. There is a lot at stake, frankly, for both of them here. I can tell you that Camp Clinton, at this point, is saying, \"Well, we think we'll kind of come out and maybe go into March, even April.\" They think that it will be even, that New York, where she represents, to Illinois that he represents, they may balance each other out and that, in the swing states, because Democrats give proportional delegates out according to district, that they will probably split it. So this may not be a definitive vote, at least the way Hillary Clinton is adding it up at this point. They do what they always do on these election days. She was out and about early doing the round of morning talk shows. If you remember, almost half of the 50 states are involved today. So the best way to reach them is go out on the national TV shows. Then she went voting with her husband and Chelsea in tow and pronounced herself feeling pretty good about the whole thing.", "I -- I feel very, very good about the campaign. I've got a lot of people working hard for me across the country. The issue now is who will come out to vote. And I think if people ask themselves who they think will be the best president, and Democrats ask who they think would be the best candidate to win in November, I'm very comfortable with the answers to those questions.", "Although I have to tell you, Kyra, I have yet to meet a presidential candidate or a candidate of any kind that doesn't say they feel good on election day.", "I know. They have to say that. Right, Candy?", "Absolutely. I sort of wait for the one saying, \"You know what? I think I'm going to lose this one.\"", "Yes, exactly. \"I'm going to lose. I'm having a very bad day. No one's voting for me. Life is just down in the dumps.\" All right, Candy. We'll be talking again. Appreciate it.", "OK, thanks.", "Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are locked in a bruising battle for the biggest prize of all on this Super Tuesday: California. It's a whopping 370 Democratic delegates at stake. CNN's Jessica Yellin joins us now from a polling place in Fullerton, California, with more on the Obama campaign. Hey, Jessica.", "Hi, Kyra. You know, what's been happening here in California is a microcosm of what we've seen in the Obama campaign nationwide. This state for the longest time was real Clinton country. Even a few weeks ago, Senator Hillary Clinton had a healthy lead here. But Obama has narrowed that lead so significantly that they're locked in a dead heat. And it's incredibly impressive the amount of energy and attention both candidates have been devoting to California. Barack Obama using this terrain to promote his message -- to new voters, to disaffected Democrats, to independents -- that he's the kind of leader they can believe in and that he would pose the starkest contrast to the Republicans. One of the themes we've been hearing a lot recently is that he's the guy who can really make a change in Washington if it's a fight against John McCain or a fight against George Bush's policies. Let's hear what he had to say.", "Listen, I may be skinny, but I'm tough. And I'm from Chicago, and we know how to play politics. But what -- but what I also know is if you know what you stand for, if you know what you believe in, then you can afford to reach out across the aisle.", "So he's saying he's ready for the fight. One big unknown: how will absentee voters factor into this state? Here in California, as many as 50 percent of all votes might already be in by absentee ballot. Most of them, based on past history, would be women and people who voted right when Hillary Clinton had that surge in New Hampshire. So all of that could help her. We're just going to have to see how it plays out today -- Kyra.", "All right. We'll be watching and talking more. Jessica Yellin, thanks so much. And John McCain is logging some major miles today. Morning in New York, afternoon in California, back home tonight in Arizona. Dana Bash joins us now from Phoenix, where the GOP frontrunner hopes to be celebrating -- Dana.", "He hopes to be celebrating here, but in an indication of the fact that they are a bit concerned, in fat, John McCain himself admitted that he's concerned about the biggest state in tonight's -- in today's voting, that's California. He is making his way to California as we speak for one last day and one last moment of campaigning with voters there, because, you know, as much as they have been focusing on the northeast in the McCain campaign, on New York and New Jersey, those contests that have winner-take-all primaries, they are -- they do realize that California matters big-time. But as you said, John McCain did start his day in New York. And he made pretty clear that that is one of the states he hopes will help him on his way to the nomination.", "Thanks to these people behind you. Thanks to a hard campaign. Thanks to the ups and downs, but thanks for our steadfastness and all the friends and supporters we have, we're going to win New York today and we're going to win New York in the general election, and I'm going to carry the state of New York. And we're going to campaign, and we're going to campaign all over this magnificent state. And we're not going to give it up to anybody.", "Now what John McCain is trying to do there by saying we're going to win New York in the general election is sort of a subtle message, trying to make the case that he is the kind of Republican who can reach out to independents, perhaps win a state like New York, which has not been won by a Republican in a very long time. That, Kyra, as he is absolutely getting pounded still by his chief rival in this race, Mitt Romney, who says that John McCain simply is not conservative enough to be the GOP nomination.", "You're sitting here, going to have the first voice in the battle of the heart and soul of the Republican Party. And I'm going to ask you some questions here, because you're going to have a choice as to whether you're going to select a conservative, myself, to lead the party, somebody who will stay in the house that Ronald Reagan built. or whether we're going to take a left turn as a party. And I'll just ask you these questions. Do you want to have as your nominee a person who voted against drilling in ANWR? Do you want a person as your nominee, someone who voted against the Bush tax cuts?", "No!", "No!", "No!", "Do you want to have a person as your nominee, a person who voted against the marriage amendment?", "No!", "No!", "No!", "Do you want a person as your nominee who voted against federal funding for -- excuse me, voted for federal funding for embryonic stem cell research?", "No!", "No!", "No!", "Do you want as your nominee a person who authored a bill and fought for a bill that gave amnesty to all illegal aliens?", "No!", "No!", "No!", "Now there you hear Mitt Romney absolutely determined not to let tonight be the night that effectively gives John McCain the nomination. John McCain clearly a bit more worried than he has been in the past 24 hours or so, by his words this morning, and also by his actions in going one last time to the state of California. Don't forget, Kyra, there is another Republican in this race. Mike Huckabee also spoke this morning in West Virginia, insisting that he is going to do well in his home turf, in all of these important southern states that are also among the 24 or so that are voting later today.", "All right, Dana Bash live from Phoenix. Dana, thanks. And as Dana said, the first results on this Super Tuesday could come from West Virginia. Republicans there are holding a state convention. They've already had one round of voting, with Mitt Romney leading, but no candidate got a majority. Round two is going on now. We should have a winner this afternoon. John McCain isn't there, but Romney, Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul all spoke to conventioneers.", "Other candidates have had bigger budgets. But you know what? I'm almost tied in delegates with those who have spent 10, 15, 20 times what I have. And kind of tells me something: that it may be that it's time for the people to elect a president and not just the national media and the pundits to pick our president for us.", "West Virginia has 18 GOP delegates up for grabs. The winner takes them all. And we're going to bring you those results as soon as we get them. Now you can be the first to know Super Tuesday results. Just sign up for CNN breaking news e-mail alerts. And you'll know when we know right here at CNN, election headquarters. Just sign up now at CNN.com. Well, Atlanta's Varsity always attracts a big crowd on this Super Tuesday. That includes my co-anchor, Don Lemon. He's sampling the moods of the voters, also the food at the world's largest drive-in. Hey, Don.", "The world's largest drive-in, and the food is pretty good. Not always necessarily great for you, but anything in moderation. Hey, listen, a lot of people are taking their lunch hour, as well, to vote. And I'm holding my voter I.D. and also my driver's license here, because this is what people in Georgia are going to need. Several states across the country are doing these new voter I.D. systems. Georgia's one of them. People out -- precinct watchers sort of watching, civil rights workers gauging that, making sure that people are able to vote now and there aren't any problems with people showing their I.D. We talked about how big this drive-in is. Look at all those folks over here. That's one level. There's about two or three levels to this place. I don't know how many square feet it is. I'll have to ask. But it is gigantic. People ordering their lunch. A lot of them have been in the polling places. A guy back there just said, \"Hi, mom.\" Some have been to the polling places; some haven't. These guys work together. They're all from Georgia. I'm going to go over here. Sorry to interrupt your conversation. You work at Georgia Tech, right?", "Yes, I do.", "Your name is Adam?", "Yes.", "Did you vote yet?", "I did.", "You did. What do you -- why do you think so many people, they're saying in this race there appears to be less apathy, probably, than any other race in history. Why do you think people are so interested?", "First, because it's wide open. I couldn't tell you who's going to win either race. And because of the issues. I mean, things like war and the economy and that kind of stuff is very important to people.", "Yes. How was your experience at the polling place this morning?", "It was pretty good. It was faster than I thought it was going to be.", "Yes?", "Yes. I only had about a ten-minute wait or so.", "Really? No problems with showing I.D.? You were fine?", "No. I showed my Georgia Tech I.D., which is interesting, instead of my driver's license, but they took it, because it's a government-issued", "Are you sure about that?", "Yes.", "We may have some issues with that. I'm glad you mentioned the war. You said the war and the economy are important issues, right, for people?", "Yes.", "All right. Great. Hey, thank you, guys. Go back to your lunch. I'm going to walk over here real quick. It's kind of a big place. Stay with me, sir. Because I saw some -- some men in uniform back here. And I want to get their opinion about -- this is one part of the restaurant, another part of the restaurant we were telling you about. Hey, guys, sorry to interrupt your lunch. You -- you're not from Georgia. Right? You're from where? Washington state?", "That's the last place I was stationed, yes.", "What's your name again?", "I'm sorry. Leonard Paville (ph).", "Yes. Why do you think -- why do you think people are so interested? You voted absentee, right?", "Roger.", "Why did you do that?", "Well, it's a national election. It's important to do that. Exercise your citizenship.", "Yes. One of the guys over there I spoke to just said, you know, every-day guy said to him the important issues are the economy and the war. You're in uniform. That's why I wanted to ask you guys about that. Important to you guys in uniform, our men and women in uniform, because?", "Obviously it's our job. The stance of the candidates, I think, during the -- during the elections, of course, what they say is, I think, vastly different than once they take office.", "Yes.", "I think it's the responsibility of everybody to vote.", "Yes.", "So you can make sure", "All right. Great. Hey, thank you guys for what you do, the sacrifice you make for all of us. We appreciate it. And we appreciate you letting us disturb your lunch for a little bit. So enjoy. Glad you voted absentee. So this is what we're doing, gauging the pulse of the people out here. This is every-day life, Georgia. The biggest and busiest place you can eat anywhere, I'm told, Kyra. Is that right?", "I don't know. I still haven't had the guts to go and try one of those big dogs, but maybe can you bring one back. I'll give it a sample.", "I've gotten orders on my BlackBerry already. Let's see. A bunch of people are saying, \"Here's what I want.\" Chili dogs. Some people like onion rings. So I got it all.", "Because we never have time to eat on this shift.", "... to the", "OK. That sounds good. Thanks, Don.", "I've got to go right now. I'll see you later.", "All right. See you in a little bit. All right. We're going to talk a lot about the candidates this afternoon, both Democrat and Republican. But we're also going to talk about the voters and specifically the role that independents play in the delegate chase. Just a little later, we're going to check out buzz on the blogs with some of the bloggers who live for election days. And we're going to check in with our reporters at polling places across the country as our Super Tuesday coverage continues. 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{"id": "CNN-187650", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-6-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1206/12/cnr.06.html", "summary": "One Dead in Raging Colorado Wildfire", "utt": ["An out of control wildfire is now racing through the mountains of Colorado. You see the pictures. You can see the flames are as high as 20 feet in some places. Look at this. Fueled by dry trees and brush and gas. This huge plume of smoke is rising from the fire. Thousands of people have been evacuated. Some had to just simply watch as their homes were engulfed in these flames.", "Why is it taking so quick?", "Fire burns hot. It's real fast, real dry. Hopefully, they save those houses. What happened to our house?", "Burned down.", "Yes, it did.", "My goodness, how do you explain that to little ones? As many as a hundred structures or buildings have been lost or damaged. In the ashes of one home, firefighters found the body of a 62-year-old woman, the first victim of this fire. CNN I-Reporters, we are so grateful for you. You're sending us these remarkable pictures here from the fire. In fact, joining me by phone from Leveland, Colorado is our I-Reporter Lonny Garris. Lonny, I, you know, clicking through your photos and the only way I could seem to describe it, it looks like this wall of smoke and fire. Is that appropriate? Tell me what you see today.", "Definitely. It was a big wall of smoke. You could see the flames up on the hill and 40- mile-per-hour wind winds. It was terrifying and (inaudible) to be up there.", "Terrifying, what does it smell like? What does it taste like to be that close?", "Well, right now, you know, we're covered in haze. I can't even see our mountains right now. I woke up this morning with a raspy voice due to the smoke. It really just smells like a big old camp ground throughout the whole city area.", "Where exactly is your home, I guess, in conjunction to where this line of fire is? Is your home OK? Are you worried about it?", "No, my home is safe right now. I'm down in Loveland about 20 miles south of the fire. Those photos were across from the fire. I had my wife drag me around and take photos, but they're safer.", "Don't do that to your wife. How many years have you lived in this area?", "I've been in the area about 15 years now.", "In these 15 years, I know Colorado knows their fair share of wildfires, have you seen anything this grand?", "No, nothing like this. This is our third fire this year. We've had our share of smoke, but nothing as dramatic or as close to where we usually go and hang out. It's quite scary.", "I know you mentioned your wife. You have a dog inside. I also read you're a nurse. You're an R.N. Have you had to use your skills here?", "The fire happened on my days off. I'll be going in today and see what's going on and hopefully catch up with my peers at work and see what's they've been experiencing.", "They're lucky to have you. Best of luck to you. Thinking about you and everyone here in Colorado, those affected and those precariously close. Lonny, appreciate it.", "All right.", "New twists in the man hunt for that Auburn shooter. Why police thought they were close to capturing the gunman."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "KYLE ELLIS, LOST HOME IN FIRE", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "ELLIS", "BALDWIN", "LONNY GARRIS, CNN I-REPORTER (via telephone)", "BALDWIN", "GARRIS", "BALDWIN", "GARRIS", "BALDWIN", "GARRIS", "BALDWIN", "GARRIS", "BALDWIN", "GARRIS", "BALDWIN", "GARRIS", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-23688", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2001-1-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/15/ee.06.html", "summary": "MLK Day: Boston Activist Offers New Age Civil Rights", "utt": ["As the nation remembers Dr. King, there's an undercurrent of change as the civil rights movement eases into the new millennium. There's also a new vision of what black Americans face with George W. Bush and what the president-elect can do to expand his black constituency. CNN's Bill Delaney has the details.", "By the time twilight's wrapping itself around Boston's inner city, long-time activist Reverend Eugene Rivers is no where near wrapping up another 18-hour day. His ear's still to the wintry street.", "Most of my opinions come from black guys that I meet in a working-class barber shop every other week. The average black American, while not thrilled by George Bush, can be convinced that, in addition to moral outrage, we've got to do business with the man because he is a fait accompli.", "Why don't we hear that more often?", "There is an industry, called the civil rights industry, which trades on the rhetoric of grievance.", "Rivers wants to cut the rhetoric, and instead cut deals with the president-elect he met for the first time, with a group of clergy in late December. Predictable protest, River says, won't get it done now.", "President-elect Bush was smart, in that he listened.", "What could win over many blacks fast, River says, includes new assistance to fight AIDS in Africa, a degree of expanded Medicaid, a degree of help for women and children, hit hardest by welfare reform. Dream on? Well, Rivers says, were Bush to win over even 10 percent more blacks, he could make himself politically invincible. And Rivers isn't the only one weary of by-the-book protest from leaders like Reverend Jesse Jackson.", "I ain't feeling Jesse. I never felt Jesse, from day one. Want to pull for Colin Powell, want to pull for sister Rice, that's -- that's a good move. That's telling me at least he's trying to make the step. That's -- if that's the olive branch, hey, I am not going to grab it yet, but I see it.", "For George W. Bush, Reverend Eugene Rivers says, opportunity which knocks once. Bill Delaney, CNN, Boston."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "BILL DELANEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "REV. EUGENE RIVERS, COMMUNITY LEADER", "DELANEY (on camera)", "RIVERS", "DELANEY (voice-over)", "RIVERS", "DELANEY", "ANDRE NORMAN, YOUTH OUTREACH WORKER", "DELANEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-395926", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-03-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/24/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Senate Close To A Deal On Massive coronavirus Stimulus Package; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Speaks With CNN As Negotiators Near Stimulus Deal.", "utt": ["Close but not quite there. That's the word on Capitol Hill right now on what could be more than $2 trillion stimulus package begins in the Senate. The goal was to help Americans and businesses dealing with the devastating financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic but there are concerns that some of the most vulnerable businesses are at risk or being left behind by Congress during this pandemic. That's how my guest describes the estimated 57 million people who make up the gig economy. People he says won't get relief from the stimulus at least as now being debated on Capitol Hill. Josh Silverman is the CEO of ETSY. Welcome Josh, to the program. Your concerns are urgent because all Americans are wondering will this help me. In a letter you urged Senator Mitch McConnell and the Speaker Nancy Pelosi to make sure that any stimulus office protections for your sector of the economy, who are we talking about here?", "So we are talking about 57 million independent workers, these are taxpaying Americans that are not part of our bigger business they're business of one. So think about a wedding planner or fitness instructor or the 2.7 million creative entrepreneurs who sell on ETSY. And being a business of one is really than being a business of 10 or 20. If they're left when get sick, they don't have a colleague that they can pull in for help. If revenue declines because of sales or declining, they don't have a steady pay cheque to count on; it comes dollar for dollar out of their pocket. So they're really different and really growing part of the economy. We need to make sure that they are protected and included in these provisions.", "And from what you know of the current proposal and their negotiations behind closed doors. So we don't know the current details especially when you get into the weeds and semi colons which become very important here as to who gets covered and what's available to them? But based on what you do know how does the current proposal fall short when it comes to addressing those people?", "We think there are three particular areas where we want to make sure that independent workers are protected. And in the short term we think direct assistance is very important. These workers are going to feel the brunt often harder than others and so there are specific types of direct assistance that they're going to need today. The second is debt deferment. So they don't qualify for even small business loans. They tend to fund their business on credit cards and mortgages. We think it is really important that they get deferment of payment for their credit card and mortgages. And third we think that the social safety net needs to be expanded to cover this really important part of the work force particularly unemployment insurance. The vast majority of these workers do not qualify for unemployment insurance as constructed today.", "We also should expand the earned income tax credit, the safety net that has been most successful and has bipartisan support to protect people who are most vulnerable in poverty. So those are the three areas we think for short and medium and long-term we want to make sure to get included.", "And do we know Josh at the moment, how they are doing? It's probably an unfair question because you're talking about millions of people who do very different things and a lot of them as you said one or two person businesses there. But you know when the airlines shutdown. You can quantify how many employees they have in the impact. When the auto factory shutdown you can quantify that and talk to the unions about what the members were doing? How do you keep track of these individuals who are spread out all of the country to get a sense that may be some are actually thriving with orders in this environment but I suspect a lot are doing quite the opposite.", "Yes, it is hard to know exactly and things are changing day-to-day. We suspect that vast majority are getting hit pretty hard. Look, if you are a wedding planner, there are not a lot of people doing weddings right now. If you are any kind of retail establishment, that's going to be very challenging. But all of us are feeling economic distress right now. People are tightening their purse strings. So it is pretty fair to say that the vast majority of these independent workers are going to feel very meaningful impact. They just have a lot less support than people who work for companies.", "Josh Silverman is the CEO of ETSY a great online retailer sales site. Josh I want to appreciate you coming in today. Keep in touch as this plays out so we can keep in touch with your workers as well out there. I want to bring in our Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash who has a very special guest who is central to this question. What will Congress do when it comes to the stimulus plan, Dana?", "That's right, John. I am actually waiting to get word that the House Speaker is ready to go. When I do, I will go to her. We are doing everything a little bit different these days. I am going to wait for the control room to let me know that everything is okay.", "All right and as we do--", "You know what John, John I am going to toss it back to you and hopefully we will get this set and as soon as we do we'll back.", "OK. We're working out some tech - as we go do I can just tell you that on the floor today the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying who is at the five-deadline and Chuck Schumer advance that to the two yard line. Dana Bash I'm going to go back to you and see if you can get into the end zone with the Speaker of the House.", "Well, that's going to be up to her and to the Republicans on Capitol Hill. Madam Speaker, thank you so much for taking the time during these crucial times. My first question for you is this, over in the Senate where you are right now, your colleague, Senator Schumer just came out of the meeting with White House officials saying that he feels that they can overcome the few issues that you all have left in the next few hours, is that your understanding and how do you feel of where this $2 trillion package is headed in the Senate?", "Well, let's just agree that if Senator McConnell says we're in the five-yard line and Senator Schumer says we are on the two-yard line that we are in the red zone and hopefully we can get it over the finish line. I do think that much progress has been made and I salute Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats and again the intellectual resource our House Democrats have been in provisions that we have put forth working with the Senate Democrats and then in some cases of appropriations with the Senate Republicans as well. So the fact that they now have assistance for states and local government was a big concern for us. That's my understanding is now in the bill. The unemployment insurance was almost right from the start agreed that we would have it but the scope of that was enlarged and we are very pleased with where it is. I'm exquisitely better but nonetheless good enough for now. Issues that relate to help for small businesses which are essential to job creators the wealth creators in America that was very important for us so they could at least survive until hopefully we have a cure which is what we must find that list goes on and on our appropriations that we've come to most of the agreement on are very positive that are in the legislation. There are few things--", "What is outstanding, what is remaining that you want changed?", "Well, I am not going to negotiate it on TV. I want to have a unanimous consent. I want us to be able to go forward and it is not a bill I would have written in terms of something that related to family and medical leave that relate to workers' protection that ruling and worker's protection, that could be done administratively, we can find other ways. Not enough money for elections etcetera, at this time. Everything we are suggesting just relates to COVID-19. It is not about making for the future. I accept fighting COVID-19 is for the future but I mean it is not changing policy except as it applies here. So again many of the provisions in there have been greatly improved because of negotiation."], "speaker": ["KING", "JOSH SILVERMAN, CEO, ETSY", "KING", "SILVERMAN", "SILVERMAN", "KING", "SILVERMAN", "KING", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "KING", "BASH", "KING", "BASH", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA)", "BASH", "PELOSI"]}
{"id": "CNN-291150", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-08-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/11/nday.03.html", "summary": "Latest from the Campaign Trail; Trump Hammers Clinton over Emails; Clinton Economic Plan Examined.", "utt": ["Good morning Brianna. Well, after a couple days of dealing with the fallout of his latest political firestorm, Donald Trump is looking to change the conversation. He leveled some heated attacks against President Obama and Hillary Clinton last night, including hammering Clinton over her e-mails.", "This is called pay for play. And some of these were really, really bad and illegal. If it's true, it's illegal. You're paying and you're getting things.", "But the firestorm Trump ignited with his own words isn't going away.", "Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although, the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don't know. But ...", "Trump digging in and continuing to blame the press for twisting his remarks.", "The biggest rigger of the system is the media. The media is rigged. It's rigged. It's crooked as hell.", "The bombastic billionaire insisting he wasn't advocating violence.", "There's tremendous political power to save the Second Amendment. Tremendous. And you look at, you know, you look at the power they have in terms of votes, and that's what I was referring to. Obviously that's what I was referring to.", "A secret service official tells CNN, they had more than one conversation with Trump's campaign on the topic. But Trump disputes this, tweeting no such meeting or conversation ever happened.", "Words matter, my friends.", "All as Clinton fires back on the stump.", "We witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments from Donald Trump that cross the line.", "Amid the uproar, Trump is ramping up his attacks.", "ISIS is honoring President Obama.", "Labeling the President the founder of a terrorist group.", "He is the founder of ISIS. He's the founder of ISIS, OK? He's the founder. He founded ISIS. And, I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton. Co-founder.", "The man who once demanded the President's birth certificate to prove his citizenship now emphasizing Obama's full name.", "... the administration of Barack Hussein Obama.", "Sitting behind Trump at the rally as it all happened, disgraced ex-Congressman Mark Foley who resigned in 2006 amid allegations he sent sexual e-mails and messages to teenage boys.", "How many of you people know me? A lot of you people know me. When you get those seats, you sort of know the campaign.", "As Trump pounced on Clinton for having a terrorist father sitting behind her this week.", "Wasn't it terrible when the father of the animal that killed the wonderful people in Orlando was sitting with a big smile on his face right behind Hillary Clinton.", "Now, as Donald Trump looks to get back on track, he'll be campaigning across the sunshine state today, beginning right here in Miami. The latest battleground state poll show him running neck and neck with Hillary Clinton here in Florida. Back to you guys.", "All right, Sara. I want to bring in now CNN's Political Commentator Andre Bauer, he's a former lieutenant governor of South Carolina, he's also a Donald Trump supporter. As well as Richard Socarides, Democratic strategist and former senior adviser to Bill Clinton. And CNN Political Commentator Margaret Hoover, Republican consultant who does not support Donald Trump. All right, to you first, Andre. Because I want to ask you about what we heard Donald Trump say there. He's referring to Barack Hussein Obama. And that conjures up rhetoric that we have heard birthers, Donald Trump among them, using the past, this idea -- yes, that is his name, but this idea that he's sort of not American. Why is he doing that?", "You know, I don't know why he's doing it. I guess it gets some of the folks at the rally worked up. And, you know, it does revisit the birther issue and there are ...", "Is that smart? I mean, what kind of service does that do Donald Trump as he's trying to broaden his appeal? Or as he should be trying to broaden his appeal.", "You know, I question some of it from time to time. You know, he got this far and I haven't. So -- but some of it I would think we'd start moving towards a different crowd (inaudible) the votes for. But this is raw Donald Trump. I mean, you know, he is a guy that speaks from the cuff, and sometimes it's very invigorating and exciting, and it does get people excited that usually don't engage in politics. But also sometimes puts you in a pickle like we've seen in the last few days.", "Brianna, if I can -- I mean, that is a remarkably candid answer from Governor Bauer here. I mean, this is a show he is putting on. He's putting on a show. His narcissism is being fed by the reactions from the crowd. You can see it in that video. But, what I worry about is the effect it's having on our politics, on our election. I mean, we're having an election now just a couple months away in which we will decide the future of our country. We want to be talking about the issues that matter to people. This is the greatest democracy in the world. And here we have a candidate of a major party talking like this and making fun of people, scaring people, calling our President, the person who has been responsible for our war against terrorism and for the most part very effectively run it with military, calling him the founder of ISIS. It doesn't make any sense.", "Well, this is where I absolutely -- I beg to disagree with you, and you. And by the way, you won't like what I have to say here. Because if Donald Trump is going to sort of speak of off the cuff, at least he should litigate lines of argument that actually Republicans can get behind and make a strong policy argument for. Which is that when President Obama left Iraq expeditiously, it did create a vacuum and it did create an opening for ISIS. There's a real argument there that foreign policy experts would like to argue. And you and I can argue that here.", "That would be great if he was doing that.", "This is something -- so here's what Donald Trump sort of lacks. You know, he gets up there, he likes the attention, he says things for entertainment value. But it would be great is if he used the platform to prosecute real policy disagreements between himself and Hillary Clinton.", "That winds up hamstringing himself because ISIS is a problem. They're very straight lines of attacks against with the administration has done with regards to ISIS. When you say that the president and Clinton are founders of ISIS, you kind of shoot yourself in the foot.", "Well and it's a lost opportunity. Because if he gets to issues, he wins this race. If he gets to jobs and the economy and where we are as a nation and security, he'll beat Hillary Clinton, but he's got to stay on that message.", "But he's a little bit of a blessing for her right now because of the Second Amendment stuff, because of how he's dancing about different facts, and owning what he says. He's distracting from some real issues that came up with Clinton. These new e-mails that came out -- I'm not talking about the classified information e-mails. But I'm happy to talk about them because I don't understanding where the confidence is coming from, from your team on this. In 2009, Clinton said, I'm not going to have the foundation do anything with the State Department anymore, I get the semblance of impropriety. We have to be better than that. And then it kept happening.", "Look, I mean, first of all, there's a lot where, you know, that we're conflating a lot of ...", "I'm not. I'm just talking about these 44 e-mails from the State Department.", "All right, first of all, these are e-mails that have been released by the State Department in response to this litigation from judicial watch, a right-wing organization that ...", "... a right-wing organization that's been after Hillary Clinton.", "So you didn't create the e-mails though, they exist. Even if that's how they're being revealed, even ...", "These e-mails are created by people very close, as close as possible to Hillary Clinton.", "Of course but let's talk about what's in these e-mails right. So, first of all, you have two e-mails now that we're spending a lot of time talking about, neither of which is to or from Hillary Clinton, neither of which resulted in anything ...", "Some might argue that an e-mail from Huma Abedin is pretty close to Hillary Clinton.", "But it's not the same thing all right. Let me say this, so, one e-mail is recommending someone for a job. I mean, I have to say that happens in politics.", "It doesn't make it right.", "And the other one is requesting a meeting for somebody who has been very active in the nonprofit sector, who wants to share information ...", "Who's a big donor.", "... who is not asking anything ...", "Very active.", "... who happens also to be a big donor. I mean, listen ...", "That's why they're asking.", "I think we need to be clear here, the meeting is with the then-sitting U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon. This is not ...", "Well, Brianna, you wouldn't want someone who had information about Lebanon to meet with the sitting ambassador to Lebanon. I mean, if an American working and -- and very well versed in Lebanese politics and history and culture wanted to meet with the Lebanese ambassador to help our country -- help advance our foreign ...", "I think it's what's unseemly about this, that he's a key guy there and ...", "So, I will admit certainly that in this context and with all this other stuff about e-mails, that it's not great that these are coming out now. But if you look at them and if you look at them fairly, you will see that there is not much here. You have -- so you want to recommend a campaign staffer for a job and you have someone who's asking for a ...", "Margaret Hoover what's your point?", "Here's what happens. And this is why Republicans, many Republicans, even Republicans who don't like Donald Trump, will never, ever, ever be comfortable with Hillary Clinton. It is the appearance of impropriety, of taking her position that she is in from the people of this country and trading on it, trading that influence for favors for people who have written seven-figure checks to her husband and her foundation. That is incredibly, at very, very worst, at very, very best, it is deeply impossible.", "I would venture to say that if the Russians hacked your e- mail or if judicial watch sued you for your e-mails, that you, too, would have e-mails recommending former staffers for jobs and suggesting that people meet with other people ...", "Nobody has given me a million dollars to five million dollars to recommend somebody for a job.", "Look, there's no -- hold on for a second, let's just make a bigger point that everybody at home knows and very often insiders tend to forget. This happens. There is an uncomfortably incestuous habit in politics where you help the people who help you.", "So transactional.", "It happens. but this is a 40-year pattern.", "There was no meeting.", "There was a telephone call.", "The ambassador says there was no meeting. OK, I don't have any better information.", "But even if there was a meeting.", "But -- OK let's", "He said, I have never meet nor spoke ...", "I'm just saying that's sometimes you go deeply into details to ignore an obvious point. Which is, you're supposed to be the best of us. That's what a president is supposed to be. What is bothersome about Donald Trump is that he's catering to our worst instincts, not our best. It's not a partisan treatment, it's just the truth, governor, and you know it. That's what he does. He's catering to it, it work sometimes. Same thing with Hillary Clinton. If you are doing things that represent the worst of the process, how are you supposed to represent the best of us?", "Chris, there's a false equivalence baked into your point.", "No there's none. I'm saying that each has their issues, each has their issues.", "That is that you have a guy out here saying all kinds of crazy stuff who is so obviously temperamentally unfit to be president ...", "For him, it's just words, for her, she's got a pattern.", "Twenty-seven people -- 27 percent who think she's telling the truth about e-mails.", "Listen, I don't know -- I mean, she's had a lot of people come after her for a lot of things.", "Twenty-seven percent Richard.", "We'll see what the voters say. I have not ...", "They just said it. 27 percent.", "They have not voted with it. The elections are always a contest between two people or three people.", "Well, that's what Biden says. Don't compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative. I'm just saying it's unfortunate that this is the basis of comparison.", "I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. And I think she's fundamentally a very honest person. And I think all this stuff is, you know, you have a long record, you've been in public service for a long time, I think she is very honest. And I think that if you look at the specifics here, it will not bother voters.", "Let's talk about some -- on a different topic, the optics of the campaign audience that is just eye popping. We saw Donald Trump go after Hillary Clinton because the father of the Orlando shooting was behind her. You see, he was wearing a red hat in that earlier shot. And as he's complaining about this or criticizing her about this, behind him is Mark Foley, who sent inappropriate communications to underage boys who were former congressional pages. And -- really, just got out of Congress in a very scandalous way. This is -- I don't even quite know what to say about it. It's almost unreal.", "Yeah, I was a staff person on an incumbent president's campaign. And there was absolutely not a possibility that every single person who appeared in the shot with the president wasn't thoroughly vetted, that they hadn't paid their parking tickets and hadn't paid their speeding tickets. They were not ...", "That's because he was president at the time. It's totally different.", "You're right, there is a lower threshold when you're running for president. But everybody -- and by the way, Corey Lewandowski was on set with us the other night and said this would never happen in the Trump campaign. Look, it does happen. Because it isn't true ...", "Maybe they did want Foley there. Do you know, that the campaign didn't want Foley here?", "Well, this is the thing. He was a congressman representing (inaudible) for many, many years.", "But he said he wanted to see and got there early and he would ...", "But here's the symbolism that nobody is talking about right? One of the reasons that was given for the massive slaughter of the Republicans in 2006, it wasn't just Iraq, it wasn't just hurricane Katrina, it was Mark F Foley's scandal. The irony. The dramatic irony as Donald Trump what marches the Republican Party to its most recent waterloo, is it Mark Foley is sitting in the background of Donald Trump's rally.", "Political. But also -- just another reflection of why more and more people are saying that this is just a daunting proposition when you head into the voting booth in November about who is less bad about what's going on.", "I really think that it's going to be an incredible election. I mean, well I think we have seen nothing yet. And I'm very worried that with the rhetoric and the volume and the back and forth tit for tat that we haven't seen anything yet. It's just going to get worse.", "Well, if we haven't seen anything yet, we're going to need more than 24 hours in a day. Because I don't know how much more we can handle. Gentlemen, thank you very much. Margaret, as always. So, Hillary Clinton speaking about policy, which should matter. There was a big economic speech from Trump earlier in the week in Detroit. Now we're going to hear from Clinton in Detroit. One of the things that her economic plan calls for is almost $300 billion in new spending on infrastructure, and that's going to come in part from higher taxes on the rich. And also aims to raise the minimum wage. So, to figure out how this plan will be pitched, let's get to CNN's Jeff Zeleny live in Detroit with more. What are we expecting, my friend?", "Good morning, Chris. We're in McComb County, Michigan. That is home of all those Reagan Democrats. Of course the Democrats who voted for John F. Kennedy back in his election. And then they voted for Ronald Reagan when he run in 1980 and '84. Now, those voters once again central to this election as they have been in other recent elections. Hillary Clinton going after these blue-collar workers here, trying to make her case on the economy specifically. As you said, she will be calling for the biggest increase in infrastructure and investment jobs, good paying jobs since World War II. She will be drawing a contrast with Donald Trump's plan that he proposed in Detroit earlier this week. Specifically calling him out for what she's going to be calling the Trump loophole, going right after some of his proposals that specifically benefit him and other wealthy Americans here. She's also, I'm told, going to be calling his plans wildly unrealistic. So, this is going to be an economic speech in two parts. Part her proposals, but just as much what she's saying his plan will not work for the economy. And Brianna, this is the reason here. The economy so central to this campaign. About three weeks ago or so, Donald Trump had an advantage on the economy. After the conventions, as you can see here from this poll, she is now slightly overtaking him, but it's all about the economy as normal. That's why she's giving this speech here in McComb County, Michigan today. Brianna.", "All right, Jeff Zeleny for us there outside Detroit, thank you. And turning to the Olympic Games now, Katie Ledecky dominating in the pool, earning another goal medal for the women's swim team. Meantime tonight, Michael Phelps and gymnast Simone Biles are back in the spotlight. CNN's Sports Anchor Coy Wire in the spotlight for us from Rio. Coy, what's going on?", "Brianna, a lot is going on. No doubt a lights-out performance to come from Simone Biles tonight. Phelps can claim gold in the 200 I.M. for a fourth straight Olympics. Let's check the medal count here. USA racking them up, six medals yesterday bringing the total to 32, 21 of them coming in the pool guys. China in second with 23, Japan in third with 18. But it's the pool where the U.S. is dominating here in Rio. And young Katie Ledecky's neck wear game so banging she's making Flavor Flave jealous. Swim team's youngest member, just 19 years old tearing up the pool.", "You know, I think for me, he brings the best out of me. We're racers. So, you know, it's meets like these that I love the most where him and I get to go in and kind of duke it out.", "Any time I get up and race him, it's the best.", "Now, Phelps and Lochte are roommates here in the Olympic Village in Rio, so an interesting dynamic to add to that story line. Also, must see tonight Simone Biles, Aly Raisman competing in the gymnastics all around competition. See if they can add to their team gold -- 21 gold medals on the line today across 11 sports, guys.", "All right, Coy, thank you. He's still on fleek, I will say, for Coy Wire. So that's very important. Thank you Coy.", "He's impressive.", "He is.", "So, we'll take a little break. When we come back, Hillary Clinton's poll numbers are on the way up. That's a concern for Republicans, but it's not just at the top of the ticket. The concern is about all the other races, what we call down ballot. The implications of Trump on those races. A closer look, next."], "speaker": ["SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER", "DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "MURRAY", "TRUMP", "MURRAY", "TRUMP", "MURRAY", "TRUMP", "MURRAY", "HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "MURRAY", "CLINTON", "MURRAY", "TRUMP", "MURRAY", "TRUMP", "MURRAY", "TRUMP", "MURRAY", "TRUMP", "MURRAY", "TURMP", "MURRAY", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "ANDRE BAUER, FORMER LT. 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{"id": "CNN-304147", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-01-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/29/cnr.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Service Member Killed In Raid On Al Qaeda In Yemen", "utt": ["Welcome back. A U.S. service member died from wounds suffered during a raid against al Qaeda in Yemen. Three other service members were also wounded. President Donald Trump authorized this operation and he just released this statement saying \"Americans are saddened this morning with the news that a life of a heroic service member has been taken in our fight against the evil of radical Islamic terrorism. My deepest thoughts and humblest prayers are with the family of this fallen service member. I also pray for a quick and complete recovery for the brave service members who sustained injuries,\" end quote. I want to bring in CNN's Pentagon reporter, Ryan Browne. What more do we know about this service member killed?", "Well, the service member was fatally wounded during a raid on an al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula headquarters that's al Qaeda's local affiliate in Yemen. The raid was what's called a site exploitation raid, which is designed to gather as much intelligence as possible to facilitate further raids down the road. Now a big fire fight broke out, about 14 al Qaeda members were killed. Three additional service members were wounded. While they were leaving, a U.S. V22 Osprey aircraft crashed and the U.S. decided to destroy that. It was a hard landing. They destroyed it to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.", "All right, Ryan Browne, thank you so much in Washington. Coming up, members of the Muslim community rejecting claims that the travel ban is not a Muslim ban. One Islamic advocacy group is threatening to launch another legal challenge with the White House."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "RYAN BROWNE, CNN PENTAGON REPORTER", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-214738", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2013-9-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/17/ctw.02.html", "summary": "Salvage Team Rights Costa Concordia", "utt": ["Well, success after 20 months in the water. The capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia has finally been set upright. It took engineers around 19 hours to roll the 114,000 ton ship onto a platform in what has been described as a perfect operation. This is the first time such a salvage operation has been attempted on a ship of this size. It's not over yet. This is jus the first step in removing and scrapping the nearly 1,000 foot ship, which won't be moved until next summer. With more on this, Matthew Chance joining us live from very close by to that salvage operation. A monumental task just to right this ship. And once righted, the extent of the damage, Matthew, very much revealed earlier today.", "Yeah, really. I mean, it was just an amazing technical achievement that they managed to roll this ship from its side upright. That was in itself something that's never been attempted with a vessel this size. And now that it is upright it's balanced very precariously on a platform that's been built on the seabed to enable the technical teams to actually survey the damage that was done by the jagged rocks to the side of the ship when it crashed up against the coastline in January 2012, of course killing 32 people. But all in all, the salvage operation, at least this first step of it, appears to have gone off without a hitch.", "It was a painstaking and difficult salvage operation that took more than 19 hours to complete. Inch by inch, the giant hulk of the Costa Concordia capsized on the rocks of Giglio was hauled upright. The technique called parbuckling has never been attempted on a ship this large, twice the size of the titanic. But the results, according to salvage workers, was much better than they hoped.", "We are very happy at the outcome. We are happy because the challenges posed by the project as a whole, and everything that the designer imagined and figured out, was confirmed in practice. So their calculations and their design was very accurate to the point that the ship really was in the same place as expected, which was surprising somehow for us too.", "And this was the reaction when news of the salvage success was announced. If vast quantities of toxic sludge on board -- engine oil mixed with rotten food and detergents, residents of Giglio were clearly relieved, a threatened environmental catastrophe had been averted. (on camera): Well, this is the first time this giant ocean liner has been seen upright since it crashed against these rocks with a loss of 32 lives in January 2012. You can see that dark watermark where it has for months laid submerged on its side, two-thirds of the Costa Concordia is still underwater, but at least it's now possible for salvage teams to properly assess the damage on its battered starboard side.", "16 months now.", "That's crucial, say salvage workers as the ship is prepared to be refloated and eventually towed away.", "Last year we had the really bad winter. And we realized that you can't beat the weather here. So we are going to be patient. We'll prepare everything we can through winter. And then in spring we'll start adding the mitigating factors so by late spring, early summer she should be out of here.", "But first, a proper search is now being carried out for the two bodies never recovered from the wreck. Amid all the praise of the salvage effort, this is also now a chance for closure.", "Well, I mentioned in that report, but there's an enormous sense of relief amongst the people of Giglio. It's a small island of just 1,000 people. And everyone we've spoken to absolutely relieved that this sort of nightmare in their recent history may soon, by the middle of next year at least, be coming to an end -- Becky.", "Matthew Chance there reporting. Thanks, mate. Well, the latest world news headlines are just ahead. Plus, the fashion industry accused of racial discrimination. We're going to hear from the supermodels behind this scathing letter calling for change. And a leader in international development tells us about her journey to becoming the CEO of one of the world's best known humanitarian organizations. And...", "It's really good, I would say.", "Could this smartphone really have more germs on it than your toilet seat? Well, one study certainly says so. We're going to investigate that after this."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHANCE", "FRANCO GABRIELLI, HEAD OF ITALIAN CIVIL PROTECTION DEPT (through translator)", "CHANCE", "NICK SLOANE, SALVAGE MASTER, COSTA CONCORDIA", "CHANCE", "SLOANE", "CHANCE", "CHANCE", "ANDERSON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-379137", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-08-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/31/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Hurricane Dorian Targets For Bahamas Before Heading Toward U.S. East Coast; Northern Florida, Southeast Georgia Prepare For Hurricane Dorian, Knowing It Can Change Direction; NASA Moves Launcher Inside Ahead Of Hurricane", "utt": ["It's 3:00 Eastern, noon out West. I'm Ana Cabrera, in New York. You're live in the CNN NEWSROOM. Thanks for being here. Hurricane emergency. A massive storm churning toward the East Coast right now and taking direct aim at the northern-most islands of the Caribbean. Right now, Hurricane Dorian, a category 4 storm, with winds near 150-mile-per-hour. That's not far from cat 5 status.", "People in south and central Florida wisely making their supermarket runs, even though the storm had shifted to the east, making a direct hit there less likely. Still they are keeping up their guard and watching the hurricane's every move knowing it could change direction again. And this is just due east from Orlando. You can see the beaches deserted. Let's get to CNN's Chad Myers in the Severe Weather Center. Chad, before the storm reaches the United States, it's going to hit the Bahamas. Show us where and what people there are about to go through.", "It's going to hit the Bahamas over and over and over. And I'm glad you pointed that out. Because I made a special map to point out what we are specking from the storm now. What the European model and the American model are pretty much agreeing upon. The storm right now is 150-mile-per-hour. We did have a wind gust to 166 from the hurricane hunter aircraft about an hour ago. The plane has now left to come back home and another plane son the way. But we won't get any more pressers or updates by the 5:00 hour for sure. Here is what's going on. The storm is breathing well. The eye is clear. Around the eye is going up and down, going about 15 miles across from one side to the other. We are expecting the turn around the Bahamas and turning right. It appears that this is going to be a smooth turn. But it's not. This is Saturday at 3:00. This is right now. There's Nassau. There's Freeport. There's the storm at 10:00 p.m. Sunday morning. There's the storm at 10:00 p.m. Sunday night. Did you see it move? Here is the storm 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning/ Oh, my gosh, this thing has been in the Bahamas now for 24 hours at 140-mile-per-hour. But wait. There's more. Here you go. Sunday, 11:00, 10:00 p.m., another 12 hours, in the same spot. And then finally begins to move by Tuesday. So this is not turning. It's stopping and then making almost a 90-degree left-hand turn. If you believe that. But it wouldn't have to go much farther west to have that type of stuff still over Florida. That's why you're already prepared in Florida. Don't let the guard down. You have to keep watching. Let's hope it never gets to the Bahamas and does that stop somewhere 60 miles east of the Bahamas. It's still possible but that's not the forecast right now. We will have more models by the time is gets closer and closer. All we already know is that the hurricane warnings are posted for the Bahamas, and rightfully so. And 36 hours of a storm at 140-mile-per-hour or greater in any spot will do unimaginable damage and harm to that area. Storm surge, wind damage, an awful lot of rainfall coming down, too. Like that's not even a huge problem at this point in time when your winds are 140. Waves off the East Coast will be 40 feet. That's not on shore. There will be breakers before that. But eventually, this thing gets all the up to the Carolina with very large breakers. But neither model -- right now, all models are in. The European and the American model, none of them actually have the eye center over any part of the U.S. Not saying that's eye wall. That's the center of the eye. That's some good news. Just get this thing farther out to sea and we'll all be good.", "Fingers crossed if that happened. But still, even without direct landfall, I imagine all those people who are there along the East Coast will still feel the winds and the rains and the storm surge, no?", "No question about it, 20 inches of rain easy. Because it sits over water and uses the water to make its energy and to make it rain and rain and rain on shore. Then you have wind, even if it's just 60- miles-per-hour. Can you imagine 30 hours of wind on shore in West Palm or Port St. Lucy or Port Ritchey? That would push water right into those back bays and into the inner coastal. Water could go up eight feet even without landfall.", "OK. So important for everybody to continue their preparations for the storm. Chad Myers, thank you. People living on the coast in northern Florida and southeast Georgia being told today to prepare for the powerful storm's arrival. It will either hit with full force or with a glancing blow. CNN's Dianne Gallagher is in Jacksonville, Florida. Dianne, how are people there getting ready?", "Look, Ana, we have to point out exactly what Chad said. Whether it's a full force or glancing blow, Jacksonville has to prepare for flooding. A large part due to this right here, the St. John's River. It's location kind of in between the ocean and the river here. They may have to deal with flooding in Jacksonville. I have covered hurricanes in Jacksonville. Even if it's not a direct hit to Florida, they deal with this kind of flooding in the downtown area, simply because of the way it's situated along the water. And they've prepared accordingly, Ana. There's supposed to be a football game. Florida State versus Boise was supposed to play right across the street from where I am. This should be filled, this marina, with boats, people tailgating. It should be active. Instead, they moved the game all the way across the state to Tallahassee because they weren't sure of the track. And that's a lot of what we've been doing. We have come up the coastline of Florida, my team and I. It's that uncertainty, not knowing when it was going to hit, just how intense the storm surge will be, how intense the winds are going to be, getting whether it makes landfall or not, and how it affects the low-lying coastal areas. The good news is the East Coast of Florida is used to hurricanes. The people here are prepared and they know how to prepare and they know what to do. But it's something that makes them nervous. Schools in the area surrounding Jacksonville have already cancelled classes for students on Tuesday. Remember, this is Labor Day weekend, a holiday weekend. They weren't in school on Monday to begin with. But they want to take every precaution that they can to make sure if they do have flooding in this area they don't have people who are caught in it. They don't have kids at school. People who return from maybe being on vacation for the holiday trying to get back here and get stuck in whatever comes this which from Dorian. Now, look, you're not seeing much around here right now. To be honest, there are not a lot of active preparations going on in Jacksonville. The gas station lines aren't here, the grocery store lines, things like that. But remember, we are still a couple days out. They're watching the forecast in these communities trying to see exactly what to expect. But, again, we're likely going to see some kind of flooding here because that's what happens due to that storm surge and due to the river here, due to the proximity to the ocean.", "It's so eerie to see not a soul in sight behind you. Dianne Gallagher, thank you for that update. Of all the people and organizations moving valuable items out of Hurricane Dorian's way, no one perhaps has as big a job as NASA. The space agency decided to move this mobile launcher at the fast clip of one-mile-per-hour. The launcher is as tall as the Statue of Liberty, weighs more than 10 million pounds, and will catapult the next space craft to the moon. But during the storm, it will be indoors for safekeeping. NASA's Derrol Nail is the spokesperson for the Kennedy Space Center. And he's joining us now. Derrol, given the forecast, good news for people in Florida. Does that change anything in terms of your preparations for the storm?", "No, Ana, it does not. We met with our forecaster here at the Kennedy Space Center early this morning. And it's been determined we are going to have potentially still hurricane-force winds here at the Kennedy Space Center as this storm comes by. So we want to make sure we're all buttoned up. We did the operation yesterday to move a very valuable piece of equipment, that mobile launcher that you mentioned, which is the future for the Artemis Program, to send the first woman and the next man to the moon and learn to live on the moon, so we can live on another world like Mars one day. We got the mobile launcher moved back to the VAB behind me. In fact, it's behind door number three, high-bay three. It's locked up tight. The ground systems crew here at the Kennedy Space Center finished their work yesterday. Now they are home preparing and taking care of care of their families and making sure their loved and their homes are ready for the storm.", "That big piece of equipment, the mobile launcher, that's huge. Describe some of the challenges of moving something like that. And how vulnerable is that in a hurricane?", "Well, our engineers tell us the mobile launcher can take winds up to 110-mile-per-hour. But when Dorian started getting over that, we decided, you know what, it's best if we have is it inside. We don't want to test it. It's 400 feet tall. So when you talk about the challenges to doing this, it takes about a 50-person operation by our ground systems team. They all had to come in early in the morning, around 5:00 a.m. yesterday, and it took about eight hours to move that crawler -- or to move the mobile launcher with the crawler transporter from the launch pad on a three-mile journey all the way here to the vehicle assembly building. And along the way, we have to make sure that everything is stable and steady as she goes. It only goes one-mile-per-hour. For good reason, you wouldn't want it to sway back and forth in movement like that.", "No doubt. Fascinating. You sent us a picture of Dorian taken from the space station. It's an amazing picture. Tell us about it.", "Yes, that's awesome. That's from our cameras at the international space station. And you know, we go around the earth every 90 minutes. And so when we got over the top of Dorian's location, we fired up our cameras, trained it on that angle there. And there you see it. It is an impressive and awesome sight from space. As you can see there, just the size of it alone. Even though it's a smaller storm, historically speaking, from that camera angle, from 250 miles above the earth's surface, it really shows you just how powerful it is. Especially looking in the part of the picture where you see that defined eye. It's a great view from space to help understand the power of the storm, Ana.", "That is an incredible picture. Thank you, Derrol Nail, for sharing that with us. Best of luck as you prepare for Dorian to arrive.", "Thank you, Ana.", "We are keeping a close eye on the dangerous storm. Within the hour, President Trump will be briefed on the response to Dorian. Plus, six weeks, 328 false claims. CNN breaks down President Trump's many falsehoods. And a woman gives birth alone in a jail cell, as nearby medical professionals do nothing to help. I'll show you more of the shocking video. You're live in the CNN NEWSROOM. Thanks for being here."], "speaker": ["ANA CABRERA, CNN HOST", "CABRERA", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "CABRERA", "MYERS", "CABRERA", "DIANNE GALLAGHER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "DERROL NAIL, SPOKESMAN, NASA/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER", "CABRERA", "NAIL", "CABRERA", "NAIL", "CABRERA", "NAIL", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-298480", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-11-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/18/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Trump Fills Three Key Positions; Trump's National Security Team Takes Shape", "utt": ["Sources now tell us that Trump has chosen Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to be U.S. attorney general. Critics are sure to bring up claims that Sessions made racially charged comments decades ago. We have also learned that Trump has asked Congressman Mike Pompeo to be his CIA director. And there's another national security post expected to be named today. Sources say Trump wants retired three star general Michael Flynn to serve as national security advisor. Flynn faces strong criticism from former colleagues in both the military and the Intelligence Community. Our correspondents are peeling back all the layers of this decisive day for the Trump presidency. Let's begin though with Sunlen Serfaty. She's outside the Trump Tower. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. President- elect Donald Trump has been holed up in Trump Tower all week conducting interview after interview and now the first contours of what a Trump administration will look like are starting to take place. Donald Trump according to sources making his first three big picks for who he would like on his team, Jeff Sessions, Mike Pompeo and General Michael Flynn. And we know according to sources that a formal announcement will be made by his transition team later today. But there are of course many, many more positions within the administration yet to be filled, yet to be decided on. And that is in part why we are seeing Donald Trump convene a meeting here today at Trump Tower. A two-hour meeting with his full transition staff, to go over some of the top choices to offer reflections on many of the interviews he conducted this week and we know that those meetings will continue well into the weekend. Donald Trump is set to travel to his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he will conduct some final meetings with some people, including with Mitt Romney, one of his chief critics during the campaign trail, who is said to be under consideration for Secretary of State. Carol, many decisions made but many, many more to go.", "All right, Sunlen Serfaty reporting live from Trump Tower this morning. With more on Mike Pompeo, the man who sources say has accepted the role of CIA director, let's head to Washington to check in with politics executive editor Mark Preston, I always get your title wrong, but I got it right. Right, Mark? Yay, so take it away.", "Yay.", "Tell us more about Mike Pompeo.", "So Mike Pompeo, a name that we haven't heard about, certainly hasn't been speculated about that much in the news, has accepted this position or at least has accepted the idea of being nominated for the position of CIA director. Now, he's a three-term Congressman from Kansas. He is a West Point graduate, a Harvard Law graduate. He's somebody who has served in the military. And you know I spoke to a few people that have been with -- Mike Pompeo and known him for a while. One of those went to school with him at West Point. And the first thing this person said to me was he was first in his class at West Point which says something perhaps about his work ethic and his knowledge and his willingness to jump into the job. Having said that, though, he has had some controversial moments here on Capitol Hill, specifically with the Benghazi committee, he was very critical of Hillary Clinton in her handling of it. In fact, at times he said that she put politics ahead of the people and he also said that she didn't act when American lives were on the line in Benghazi. Mike Pompeo was part of that select committee, that select committee that was investigating it in the House of Representatives. He's also said some critical things about Muslims and specifically those of the Islamic faith. After the bombing at the Boston marathon, he went to the house floor and he said that those leaders in the Islamic faith who are not out there condemning it are potentially complicit in it as well. So, he certainly has said some controversial things but getting back to his friend from West Point, described Mike Pompeo as a really stand-up guy, a stainless reputation and somebody though, there's no doubt, Carol, that will be grilled when he goes in for his nomination in the Senate by Democrats.", "Should be fascinating. All right, Mark Preston, many thanks to you. Now let's circle back to Trump's choice for attorney general. U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions. The Alabama Republican was the first sitting Senator to endorse Trump way become back in February and he stood by the candidate during many, many rough patches. So let's bring CNN justice correspondent Evan Perez to tell us more about him. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. Well Jeff Sessions has been playing a very big role behind the scenes for Donald Trump. He'd been helping manage some of the transition efforts over the last few months. And Carol, as you mentioned, he's a long- time supporter of Trump, he's gone to earliest supporters of Donald Trump. He served in the Senate for nearly 20 years so the idea of draining the swamp which is something that Donald Trump says he's trying to do here in Washington, it's kind of a unique thing to look to somebody who has been in the Senate for 20 years to help do that. That said you know Sessions is a very conservative member of Congress. He serves, obviously he represents Alabama, and he has some very strong conservative views on immigration. The Justice Department, he will have responsibility over some parts of that, including immigration judges. We know that one of the things that is on top of his mind is from what he said on CNN in the last few months, is that he believes the Clinton Foundation needs to be thoroughly investigated. That's what he said repeatedly to the press and something obviously Donald Trump also said when he was on the campaign trail. Now if he is confirmed as attorney general, he will be in a position to do just that. That's the question we have in mind right now. We expect Carol, that the justice transition team, whether from the Trump campaign, will land at the Justice Department about 11:00 a.m. this morning so in the next hour and we will see. They will hit the ground running to get the Justice Department running under Jeff Sessions.", "All right, Evan Perez reporting live for us this morning. Our chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto joins me now. He has more details on the appointment of retired army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as Trump's national security advisor. Take it away Jim.", "Well Carol, let me tell you this in the scope of these selections so far, all this talk, there had been some of sort of great moderation by Donald Trump as he comes into office, moving towards the center to some degree with some of these high level picks. But in these early picks, we don't see that frankly. Flynn is someone who led as you will remember the chants \"lock her up\" at the Republican National Convention and elsewhere. And in addition to that, inside the military, has a reputation for, shall we say a very forward-leaning management style. It is that style and I have spoken to people who were around at the time when he was forced out as Chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, that that was significant. In addition to that and I know we've talked about this on the air before, during the campaign he tweeted some very controversial things about the Muslim faith, even tweeting some fake news stories about Hillary Clinton. So you add that appointment with a Sessions, who as Evan was just pointing out, supported at least during the campaign the possible indictment of Hillary Clinton and then Mike Pompeo coming from the House as CIA director. Now, he is interestingly getting a fair amount of praise from both sides, not just Republicans who oppose Donald Trump, Evan McMullin among them, who of course ran against Donald Trump. But even an Adam Schiff, who's the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, a Democrat, saying Mike Pompeo, good choice, gives them confidence. But on the positions, Carol, these are not middle of the road positions. Mike Pompeo, someone who opposed the closing of Guantanamo Bay. He opposed the ban of torture in interrogation of terrorism suspects. So, as you look at these three very key national security appointments and there are others to come, Secretary of State among them, our reporting is that Mitt Romney is under consideration for position like that. That of course would be a move to some degree towards the center, at least the center of the Republican Party. With these three picks, Sessions, Flynn and Pompeo, you really don't see that. I mean, these are selections in line with the tone and the positions of the Trump campaign.", "All right, Jim Sciutto, you stay right there. I want to bring in two more people, so we can talk about this. Joining me now is Jackie Kucinich, the Washington bureau chief for \"The Daily Beast\" and David Fahrenthold, a reporter for \"The Washington Post.\" I'm also joined by CNN politics executive editor Mark Preston. Thanks to all of you for being with - so where shall we start? Should we start with the attorney general pick? Let's start with Jeff Sessions, shall we, because there are some controversial things about Jeff Sessions that should be brought up in his confirmation hearing. So Jackie, I'll start with you. 30 years ago, Jeff Sessions' chances of being a federal judge were sunk after a Justice Department prosecutor testified to Congress that Sessions called the NAACP un-American because, \"They try to force civil rights down the throats of people, and because Sessions reportedly joked to the prosecutor that the Ku Klux Klan was okay until he found out that Ku Klux Klan members smoked pot.\" So Jackie, how much will this enter into Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing?", "Oh, and we should say that Jeff Sessions has denied the allegations -- in line with that. But that said Democrats will certainly bring this up. That said I would be really surprised if Jeff Sessions does not ultimately confirmed. Not only he's a senator, these are his colleagues and generally, the president gets who he wants. I think the larger question is what is he going to do in terms of criminal justice reform? What does this mean in terms of immigration? I think there are a lot of other questions that Sessions will have to answer and maybe while he will have to address this, I don't know if this will be a focus.", "I will -- I ask you this because many Americans are concerned about minorities at this time. In fact, interestingly enough, the attorney general, the present one, Loretta Lynch, just sent out a press release and this is what it says. And she's talking about attacks on minorities across the country. She says, among other alarming trends, this new report from the Justice Department showed a 67 percent increase in hate crimes committed against Muslim Americans. It also showed increases in the number much hate crimes committed against Jewish people -- Oh I'm sorry. This is Mike Pence. So before we go on with this, let's see if there's any new news regarding the transition. Let's listen.", "-- our agency teams have begun to arrive at agencies in Washington, D.C. this morning. We are beginning what -- we are very confident will be a smooth transition that will serve to move this country forward and make America great again.", "All right. That VP-elect Mike Pence saying that the transition team is going smoothly and in the months to come, Donald Trump and his administration, his new administration, will make America great again. Going back to what I was talking about, though, this release from the Justice Department by the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, about attacks on minorities since the election took place. She says the report shows a 67 percent increase in hate crimes committed against Muslim Americans. It also showed increases in the number of hate crimes committed against Jewish people, African-Americans and LGBT individuals. Overall she says the number of reported hate crimes increased 6 percent, a number that does not account for the many hate crimes that may go unreported out of shame or fear. So Mark, for that reason, I think that some in America might be concerned about Jeff Sessions' comments even if they did take place 30 years ago.", "Yes, no doubt. And we certainly have heard this when the speculation was centering around the fact that Jeff Sessions was going to be nominated to be the head of the Justice Department. A couple of things to I think we have to keep in mind. One is he has denied making the comments so you know, it is a he said versus he said type of issue. Second thing is, he has served in the Senate for several terms right now and has had to address this in the past. There's no doubt he will be asked this during his nomination hearing. And In fact, we have already heard from Democratic senators who say that they plan to do so, you know. And that he should expect a full vetting, a full, fair vetting. In the end, I think that Jeff Sessions is going to get nominated and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new head of the Justice Department. But there are going to be a lot of questions around what he has said and what direction he's going to take it. And I do think we have to point out as well, is that for all this talk about how Jeff Sessions, you know, might dismantle certain parts of the Justice Department around civil rights. It's going to be very difficult to do. There's no question about that. I think there's going to be an incredible amount of scrutiny on the Trump administration. So while the fears should certainly drive people to maybe move to action, the fact of the matter is, it is hard to put in place what a lot of these fears are thinking at this point.", "OK, so you guys stick around. I'm going to take a break. We'll be back with much more in the \"Newsroom.\""], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "MARK PRESTON, CNN POLITICS EXECUTIVE EDITOR", "COSTELLO", "PRESTON", "COSTELLO", "EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "JACKIE KUCINICH, WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF \"THE DAILY BEAST\"", "COSTELLO", "MIKE PENCE, (R) VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT", "COSTELLO", "PRESTON", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-185487", "program": "EARLY START WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD AND ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN", "date": "2012-5-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/04/es.02.html", "summary": "New Home Video Of Missing Tucson Girl", "utt": ["It's 51 minutes now past 6:00 on the east coast. Time to get you up to date. A couple of top stories for you.", "Junior Seau's family has decided to donate his brain to science. It's new this morning from the \"Los Angeles Times.\" The death of the former NFL linebacker has been confirmed now as a suicide, but what's still not clear, whether all of those hard hits he took in his career contributed to the suicide. He shot himself in the chest.", "You're looking at just released home video of missing six-year-old Isabel Celis. Isabel's father says he put her to bed on the night of April 20th, and when he went to wake her up the next morning, she was gone, the window opened, and the screen removed. Isabel's father pleading for her return.", "Just please, please, to the person or persons who has Isabel, tell us your demand, tell us what you want. We will do anything for her.", "Tucson's police chief confirms both of Isabel's parents have taken a lie detector test. He hasn't revealed the results and says everyone's a suspect at this point.", "Whoever fired on the U.S. Space and Rocket Center could be facing some serious charges this morning, federal charges. One of the bullets hit a Saturn V rocket that was on display at the museum in Huntsville, Alabama. Several school groups were visiting at the time. Very luckily, there were no injuries reported, but there was some paint damage only. The Saturn VELSHI rocket belongs to the Smithsonian Institution.", "Greenpeace protesters arrested for trying to stop a train in North Carolina. Police say demonstrators attached themselves to the tracks hoping to block the train from carrying coal to a power plant. Greenpeace said it believes coal powered plants are an environmental hazard. It took officials about an hour to remove the protestors.", "Some very quick thinking by a six-year-old, and look at that face. That may have just saved his mother's life. Here's what happened. Last weekend, this woman, Judy Beala (ph), was doing some spring cleaning like we all do at her home, but she fell off that ten- foot ladder and she fell and hit her head, too. She was bleeding and falling in and out of consciousness, but that's when six-year-old Braden(ph) figured out what to do and turned into her lifeline. He run and got towels to stop the bleeding and then he picked up the phone and called 911.", "My mom fell down from a ladder and she broke her head open.", "Do you think he saved your life?", "Yes, I do. He's my hero.", "Your mom called you a hero. Are you a hero? Congratulations.", "What a sweet guy.", "Isn't that adorable? Yes. I am a hero. Vila (ph) received seven stitches after her injury at the hospital, but guess what, she's going to be just fine, and Braden we're here to push that one forward again, you are a hero. Congratulations.", "All right. Michael Jackson is back, not in Tupac hologram fashion, but in a familiar role. We're going to explain, next."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "BANFIELD (voice-over)", "ROMANS (voice-over)", "SERGIO CELIS, ISABEL'S FATHER", "ROMANS", "BANFIELD", "ROMANS", "BANFIELD", "BRADY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROMANS", "BANFIELD", "ROMANS (on-camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-365640", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2019-03-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/28/ctw.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Proposes Cuts to Special Olympics Funding; Solskjaer Promoted from Caretaker to Permanent Manager.", "utt": ["Welcome back you're watching CONNECT THE WORLD. I'm Cyril Vanier. And we want to go to a story close to our hearts here on this show. Abu Dhabi, which is the show's home base as you know, just hosted the biggest Special Olympics games in history. Thousands of athletes with intellectual disability from 190 nations gathered in the city and they competed in Olympic type sports, from badminton, to volleyball, to martial arts. But now the non-profit organization may see its financing cut by a major donor. CNN's Stephanie Elam reports.", "Dustin Plunket faced some hard times as a child, at home.", "Nobody in my family really knew how to support me because of my cleft palate and my intellectual disability.", "And at school where he was bullied until he discovered Special Olympics. Some 20 years later, not only is he an athlete, he's also an outreach manager and inspirational speaker for Special Olympics Southern California.", "90 percent of seniors on high school campuses say that Special Olympics made of an impact and that's why the fund is so important to us.", "The funding that Plunket is worried about is federal. The Department of Education's proposed budget for 2020 would eliminate all grant money for the non-profit. Dropping it from more than $17.5 million to zero. Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, took heat from Congress as she defended the cuts.", "Do you know how many kids will be affected by that cut madam secretary?", "Mr. Pocan, let me just say again, we had to make difficult decisions with this budget.", "Again, this is a question of how many kids not about the budget.", "I don't know the number of kids I also know that I -- I think.", "That's 272,000 kids. I'll answer it for you that's OK, no problem. It's 272,000 kids.", "Let me just say that I think the Special Olympic --", "In response DeVos release add statement saying, quote, the Special Olympics is not a federal program. It's a private organization. I love its work and I have personally supported its mission. Because of its important work it is able to raise more than $100 million every year. There are dozens of worthy non-profits support students and adults with disability that don't get a dime of federal grant money. But given our current budget realities the federal government cannot fund every worthy problem. Particularly ones that enjoy robust support from private donations. A spokeswoman confirmed to CNN that DeVos does support the non-profit privately and did donate part of her salary to the Special Olympics after opposing a cut in funding to the organization in her first budget.", "This is the third year in which the administration has proposed eliminating the funding for our movement our education work. So it's not a complete surprise.", "And the organization's bipartisan support has helped protect its funding.", "If this funding were removed our programs in over 6,000 schools would be sadly devastated. But we have no expectation that that will happen. And we are firmly committed to ensuring that it will not.", "And that report there from Stephanie Elam. And it's important to note here the cuts have not gone into effect and still require approval from Congress. OK, we have some breaking news that we're following. The Saudi government says it has temporarily released some of the 11 detained women's rights activists currently on trial in Saudi Arabia. Rights groups and a source familiar with events on the ground identified those released as Aziza al- Youssef, Rokaya Mohareb and Eman al-Nafjan. Several countries and human rights groups had been calling for their release. The women are facing charges over human rights work and contact with foreign journalists and diplomats. Now yesterday at this same time, in this show, I spoke one of the activist's brother, who told mean about the charges that his sister is facing. And you may be surprised at what is considered a crime in this case.", "Most of the charges are related to her human rights activism. Like dealing with Human Rights Watch, contacting them and contacting the Amnesty International. These are the charges that she is facing. One of the charges is actually applying for a job at the United Nations. That's a charge.", "Well that is an official charge, applying for a job at the United Nations? That is written black and white as an official charge.", "Correct, correct. Yes, that is in the list of charges that she applied for a job at the United Nations.", "You heard that right. And we checked. It is in the charging document. He also alleges that his sister has been tortured and sexually harassed by Saudi officials. We'll continue to follow this story for you right here on CNN. Now to end the show, some big news from football's Premier League. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been named of the permanent manager of Manchester United. Solskjaer has been caretaker/manager since December when Jose Mourinho was sacked. His success the past four months that the club to promote him to the job permanently. CNN World Sport's Patrick Snell honors me with his wisdom and his presence.", "Too kind.", "Patrick, each time this happens in any sport really, and for any club when you have a legendary player that then moves on within the club and stays with that family it's a great story for the fan base.", "It really is. You know, you used the word permanent there. As permanent as it gets at the top-level European football.", "Permanent for now.", "He is under three-year contract. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, a popular Norwegian, revered former player. But let's just show you why the club has made the move to make him a full-time deal as it were at the club. He was appointed interim head coach shortly before Christmas last year. But you know, these stats don't mislead. He's won 14 from 19 games in all competition. He's brought back the feel-good factor at Manchester United, Cyril, and his win rate is highly impressive at just under 74 percent. Big game Saturday in the Premier League. United hosts Watford. He'll want to get off to a flying start in his permanent reign. But I also want to just get a reaction from the man who made this decision, the club's executive vice-chairman, Ed Woodward. Saying, more than just performances and results, Ole bring a wealth of experience, both as a player and as a coach, coupled, with a desire to give young players their chance. And that's really crucial I believe given the ethos of the club. And a deep understanding of the culture. This all means he's the right person to take Manchester United forward. Exciting times. The fans are very happy. Excited as well applies to his former teammates. None other than David Beckham taking to Instagram earlier describing it as amazing, amazing news.", "He should. Lots of questions not that much time. So let me make it simple. What are the expectations for him this season, can he meet them?", "Win, win, win. That's is what I mean by ethos at the club. The club, look, under the Alex Ferguson it won the Premier League title 13 times during his reign. They haven't won it since 2013. This is Britain's biggest football club. They demand and expect success. It's a massive global brand. And I'll tell you what, it's just a question of getting that top four finish. And I say just, because it's really competitive out there. Now when he took over, United were 11 points off the top four. Seemingly out of the hunt. Why is the top four significant? Because the top four clubs in the English Premier League qualify for next season's Champions League and the lucrative pot of financial gold that is. So that is a minimum requirement, I believe, for Solskjaer to deliver a top four finish. And by the way, winning the Champions League would be nice. They produced the miracle in Paris recently against Paris Saint-Germain that through to the last eight of that as well.", "Winning the Champions League, I'm sure they'd like that. I'm sure that would be nice. Patrick Snell gracing us with his presence as I said. Love having you on the set. Thank you very much. Thank you for watching. Stay with CNN. END"], "speaker": ["VANIER", "STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DUSTIN PLUNKET, SPECIAL OLYMPICS ATHLETE", "ELAM", "PLUNKET", "ELAM", "REP. MARK POCAN (D), WISCONSIN", "BETSY DEVOS, U.S. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION", "POCAN", "DEVOS", "POCAN", "DEVOS", "ELAM", "TIMOTHY SHRIVER, CHAIRMAN, SPECIAL OLYMPICS", "ELAM", "SHRIVER", "VANIER", "WALID AL-HATHLOUL, BROTHER OF JAILED SAUDI DISSIDENT", "VANIER", "AL-HATHLOUL", "VANIER", "PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT", "VANIER", "SNELL", "VANIER", "SNELL", "VANIER", "SNELL", "VANIER"]}
{"id": "CNN-132348", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-11-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0811/12/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Minnesota Senate Race Still Undecided", "utt": ["Coming at you right now:", "-- so mean and nasty to the illegal immigrants.", "Ted Turner back at it.", "Their motivation was to find the -- find Latinos and to assault them.", "Another Hispanic attacked randomly, this time killed just for being Hispanic? This Georgia congressman suggests Obama is a Marxist and a fascist. Huh? This FOX commentator says reporters picked on Palin because she didn't abort her baby. Taking note today: Hate. We talk. Two hundred votes apart in Minnesota, less than 1 percent in Mizzou. The election is not over. (on camera): Hi. We welcome you black. (voice-over): And guess who made Jimmy Kimmel's show last night? It is lunchtime in San Francisco, 3:00 in Baltimore. Your newscast begins now.", "And hello again, everybody. I'm Rick Sanchez here in the world headquarters of CNN. There is breaking news as we begin this newscast. As a matter of fact, Roger, let's put up that picture that we are getting from Minnesota. It appears that the secretary of state -- that is Mark Ritchie -- he is about to start talking about what is going on with that extremely close election now separated by only 204 votes. Let's go ahead and listen in.", "Great. Thank you. I want to start out by thanking everyone in the media here today and others who have done a really amazing job of covering this election, the canvassing period, the post-election audits, and soon the recount. I think our citizens are getting a big picture about all the different things that it takes to run a successful, free and fair election in Minnesota. So, thank you for your efforts and your work. I also want to thank my staff and the local election officials. Everybody knows that it has been an unusual year. We had a big primary in September. We had a statewide recount, first one since 1962. Then, we had a big run-up to the election, big Election Day. We had then the canvassing process, the post-election audit process, and soon we will initiate a second statewide recount. So, it has been a big year. My staff here, the local election officials in the counties and cities, the 30,000 or more election judges, and everyone who helped make this process have been amazing in their efforts. And I just want to express my appreciation to all that they have done, knowing there is also a lot of work ahead. The purpose of today's press conference is to announce first the makeup of the statewide election canvassing board. I asked Chief Justice Magnuson to name two members of the state Supreme Court. That is what is in the statute. That is my constitutional responsibility. And I asked the chief judge of the district court here in this county, which is one we are a part of, the 2nd Judicial District, Chief Justice Gearin, to name two. They have both very generously named themselves and in the case of the Supreme Court also G. Barry Anderson. This is a tremendous amount of work. And, so, their willingness to take on this task is very, very appreciated by our office.", "All right, let me dip back into this thing. We're going to be monitoring this thing throughout the newscast. Obviously, this is turning into a huge story. Imagine the fact that they are now separated, Franken and Coleman, in Minnesota by only 204 votes. And it has gotten smaller and smaller as we go along. And you know what else is happening? It is getting ugly. The Republicans are saying that it is somewhat -- quote -- \"mysterious\" that suddenly the votes are going away, that it's moving in one direction, and that there is a Democrat secretary of state. So, as we continue to follow this situation, you can almost feel the tension in Mark Ritchie's voice as he was explaining what the process was going to be. And it is going to be canvassing boards, just like we saw in Florida in the past and we have seen in other places. And as we get more information on this in this newscast, we're going to be sharing that with you. By the way, it is not the only place. It is Minnesota. It is Alaska. It is Georgia and now Missouri, where they still have not been able to confirm a winner between John McCain and Barack Obama. Now to this, Hank Paulson, treasury secretary, will he apologize to the American people? That is actually what he was asked today by reporters as he came out and talked to them. It is one of his first news conferences that he has given thus far. First, does he owe the American people an apology, and did he mislead Congress? Let's take that, Rog.", "Have you abandoned homeowners because you're no longer going to use TARP to help the homeowners? And on a broader question, you're using TARP now completely differently than you told Congress you were going to use it. Did you mislead Congress? What's happened?", "Well, let me get to the -- what we -- what we said to Congress was we needed a financial rescue package because the credit markets were stopped up. And we were focused on the problem.", "When it comes to your money, and your mortgages, nobody better to talk to than our own Gerri Willis. She is joining me now to do just that. Also, we have got Stephanie Elam. She is standing by on Wall Street to bring us up to date on the effect of these conversations today on the market as well. Gerri, let me start with you. He didn't apologize. Does he need to?", "No, no, no, he does not need to apologize, not for using TARP the way he did. It made perfect sense to rescue the system. However, we have rescued the system now. Let's get some help out there for people who need help with the mortgages right now. And there is a proposal out there from Sheila Bair at FDIC. And the treasury secretary said, you know what? I'm not so thrilled with that plan. We don't know about that one.", "Well, here's the issue. And there are a lot of folks who are sitting out there right now who are in trouble with their mortgages and other problems. How do you convince these folks who are watching us right now that by rescuing the bigs, it will trickle down to somehow rescue or help them?", "I didn't say that.", "But how does he do that? How does Hank Paulson do that?", "I think you have got to do both. You have got to do both at the end of the day. You know what I heard today from the treasury secretary?", "What?", "I heard, I'm done. I have stabilized the banking system. We are starting to get our arms around asset securitization. We have got plans in place to help people with mortgages. We are ready to train the next guard, the next people in charge.", "But, wait, no, the work is not done. There is all this talk that there's going to be now a rescue of the big three auto companies. In fact, he was asked about that as well. Here is what he said.", "It's a critical industry. It's critical to the country. Manufacturing is critical to the country. The -- our position all the way along is that any solution has got to be a -- a solution leading to viability.", "When this guy talks, people listen, certainly on Wall Street. Stephanie Elam has been monitoring this throughout the day. What was the effect there while this news conference was on the air today around noontime or so?", "You know, the markets were down all day, Rick. But we are definitely lower than we were at that time. But I don't think it had a tremendous effect there. I think a lot of people were not too surprised by what came out of the news conference today. I think a lot of people expected these changes, because you could already see they were starting to happen.", "I am just wondering, will we see a rescue of the auto industry in the same form that we saw a rescue of the AIGs and some of the banks?", "I think there is money going to the auto industry right now and that you will see more of that.", "You mean out of the $750 billion package?", "No, I think Congress past January 1 is definitely going to get on board and send more money to Detroit. Now, it is arguable whether that's a good idea or not?", "Twenty five billion?", "Stephanie, what is the effect of that going to be with investors?", "Well, I think part of the issue you have got to look at here is that he did say today that he thinks $750 billion is enough for the financial rescue. He also made it pretty clear that he doesn't want to include Michigan, the GM, the Chrysler. He doesn't want to -- and Ford -- include them into this package at all. He is looking at that as a separate issue. I do think, though, there will be more pushing for that. If that does happen, it will probably help the stock. But some people speculate, Rick, that it stave would just off what's eventually going to happen to these companies anyway. So --", "All right. Both of you are sharing your insight and so are our viewers who are connected to this newscast like no other. Let's go to MySpace now. Robert, if you would. \"Rick, why can't we bail out the auto industry as a stipulation they have to start manufacture high-fuel economy vehicles? I think that everyone would benefit. No one wants to see more people losing their jobs. It has to stop.\" Well, that is funny you say that, Mandy. Thanks so much for watching our show. That is exactly the stipulation that Barack Obama says he will have on the auto industry before any money goes to them, whether it is the first $25 billion or the second $25 billion that Nancy Pelosi is talking about. Gerri, my thanks to you for being here.", "My pleasure. Loved it.", "All right. Have a good trip back to New York.", "Thank you.", "And to you as well, Stephanie Elam. As we follow the news for you, there is something else that we're going to be talking about coming up in a little bit. A FOX News commentator apologizes for saying the media wanted Sarah Palin to kill her child, kill the child. That is a direct quote. We will have that for you. And, of course, we are following the latest that is coming out of Minnesota. This is going to be going on probably for months. This is day one. Roger, dip back into that live shot if it is still going on. We will take you out on that. That is Mark Ritchie. He is explaining. And there is a lot of heat on this man because there's a lot of heat on this story. It could turn into a mess. We will be right back."], "speaker": ["RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "TED TURNER, FOUNDER OF CNN", "SANCHEZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SANCHEZ", "SANCHEZ", "MARK RITCHIE, MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE", "SANCHEZ", "QUESTION", "HENRY PAULSON, U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY", "SANCHEZ", "GERRI WILLIS, CNN PERSONAL FINANCE EDITOR", "SANCHEZ", "WILLIS", "SANCHEZ", "WILLIS", "SANCHEZ", "WILLIS", "SANCHEZ", "PAULSON", "SANCHEZ", "STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SANCHEZ", "WILLIS", "SANCHEZ", "WILLIS", "SANCHEZ", "SANCHEZ", "ELAM", "SANCHEZ", "WILLIS", "SANCHEZ", "WILLIS", "SANCHEZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-378389", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-08-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/23/es.03.html", "summary": "Dodgers Rally in Bottom of 9th Inning to Win 3-2.", "utt": ["Welcome back to EARLY START. A new nominee for educator of the year, Hamilton County School Superintendent Bryan Johnson plans to send the $15,000 he earned in bonus money to fund scholarships for his students in Tennessee. Johnson says the scholarships will be made in the name of his mother who passed away two years ago.", "She was a pastor's wife and she raised my sister and I to serve and she raised us to press towards excellence. So we're just excited to be able to allow her legacy to live on.", "The fund will provide one scholarship for a senior in each of the districts learning communities.", "All right. The Green Bay Packers and the Raiders taking the field for pre-season game number three, but it wasn't a complete field. Andy Scholes has more in the \"Bleacher Report.\" Oh, Canada.", "Yes, good morning, Dave. You know, this was a first for the modern day NFL. The Packers and Raiders, they had to play on an 80-yard field in Winnipeg, Canada, because of unsafe conditions in the end zones. So, in Canadian football, the goal posts, they are in the end zone and the holes left behind that they tried to fill under the turf, well, they just wouldn't stay level. Instead of canceling the game, 20 minutes before kickoff they decided to make the 10 yard line the end zone. It was a little odd to watch, full back Keith Smith of the Raiders even admitting he forgot where the end zone was on the touchdown, he ran all the way to the real end zone. Even though this was the third pre-season game, most of the starters like Aaron Rodgers, they didn't even play. You know, the main goal for every NFL team in the pre-season, try to get to the regular season healthy. Well, bad news for the Carolina Panthers. Quarterback Cam Newton injuring his left foot in the first quarter against the Patriots. He reportedly sprained his ankle and is going to have further tests today. Cam leaving the game wearing a walking boot. At least that walking boot still goes with his hat and scarf. All right. For eight innings last night, the Blue Jays dominated the Dodgers, L.A. just one hit entering the ninth inning, they were down 3-0, but, well, you have to get 27 outs in baseball. In the bottom of the ninth, the Dodgers getting three straight hits and with the game tied at 2, Kike Hernandez coming through with a walk off single, second straight walk off for the Dodgers. A fitting way to end it because it was Kike Hernandez bobble head night. The most recognizable mascot in sports these days at it again yesterday. Check him out. Gritty the Terrifying Mascot for the Philadelphia Flyers apparently nails when it comes to throwing axes, not one but two bullseyes. So, David, if you are already have nightmares about gritty, this is not going to help.", "I was, and I will never sleep well again. I'm just glad that video is not from the front on. That terrifying mascot with an ax. Thanks, buddy, I really appreciate that.", "You're welcome. Have a great weekend.", "He's Andy Scholes, tweet him. Julia, what's coming up.", "I shouldn't smile as I say this. Troubling economic signs getting harder to ignore, the Fed chief will try to calm investors today as world leaders converged for the G7 in France. We'll will take you there. We're back in two, stay with us."], "speaker": ["CHATTERLEY", "BRYAN JOHNSON, HAMILTON COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT", "CHATTERLEY", "BRIGGS", "ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "SCHOLES", "BRIGGS", "CHATTERLEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-371985", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-06-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/11/cnr.20.html", "summary": "The Trump Presidency; Tariff Troubles", "utt": ["The United States Justice Department made what appears to be a big concession, agreeing to a request from Congress for key evidence in the Mueller investigation related to possible obstruction of justice by the U.S. President Donald Trump. And on Monday, the Democrat-controlled Judiciary Committee heard testimony from one witness who knows all about a president committing obstruction of justice. Our Pamela Brown has this.", "The last time I appeared before your committee was July 11, 1974.", "Tonight, former White House counsel to President Nixon testifies before the House Judiciary Committee, saying Trump's former White House counsel, Don McGahn, should testify too.", "Mr. McGahn represents not Donald Trump, but the office of the president. His client is the office of the president, and I think he owes that office his testimony before this committee.", "John Dean, a CNN contributor, whose testimony in the Watergate investigation helped topple Richard Nixon's presidency, telling Congress there are many similarities between Trump and Nixon.", "I would say the trump administration is in fast competition with what happened to the Nixon administration.", "Ranking member, Republican Doug Collins, calling today's hearing a \"mock impeachment inquiry.\"", "I don't appreciate the fact that here we are again with priorities in this committee turned upside down.", "But as the drumbeat among Democrats for an impeachment inquiry intensifies, Dean's testimony is driving the ire of the president himself.", "John has been a loser for a long time. We know that. I think he was disbarred, and he went to prison. Other than that, he is doing a great job.", "Trump also on the defensive over his tariff drive with Mexico, which critics have called a manufactured crisis of his own making.", "If we didn't have tariffs, we wouldn't have made a deal with Mexico. We got everything we wanted and we're going to be a great partner to Mexico now, because now they respect us.", "And while Trump claimed that a fully signed and documented agreement will be revealed, Mexico's foreign minister contradicted Trump, saying no secret immigration deal existed between his country and the U.S., and President Trump administration pushing back on The New York Times reporting that parts of the deal were hashed out months ago.", "I've seen some reporting that says that these countless hours were nothing, that they amounted to a waste of time. I can tell you that the team here at the State Department believes full-throatedly that this is an important set of agreements, important set of understandings, one that we'll continue to work on, because in the end we'll be measured by the outcomes that we deliver.", "Tonight, the president also turning up the heat on China trade talks, saying more tariffs will be imposed if the Chinese president does not meet with him at the G20 summit later this month.", "I think he will go and I have a great relationship with him. He's actually an incredible guy. He's a great man. He's very strong and very smart, but he is for China and I'm for United States.", "Trump also railed against the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates, saying they are undermining his negotiations with China.", "We have people on the Fed that really weren't -- you know, they're not my people. But they certainly didn't listen to me because they made a big mistake. They raised interest rates far too fast. Don't forget the head of the Fed in China is President Xi. He is the president of China. He also is the head of the Fed. He can do whatever he wants.", "Pamela Brown, CNN, The White House.", "And now for the context and perspective from Scott Lucas. Scott is a professor of international politics at the University of Birmingham. He is also the founder and editor of EA WorldView, live via Skype from Birmingham, England. It is good to have you, Scott.", "Good morning, George.", "So, let's start with Mr. Trump and tariffs, Trump tariffs. Clearly, President Trump has a growing confidence about the use of tariffs as a tool to either punish or motivate other countries to get what he wants. What do you make of this latest threat towards China so that President Xi will meet with him?", "Well, George, what I think we are seeing is the two themes that are going to be in the Trump reelection campaign all the way to 2020. We are going to see tariffs and anti-immigration, sometimes linked into the case of Mexico. Now, that is fine as long as it \"fires up his base\" as you have noted. But the real race is on between let's say the reality, which is economic damage. And let's say the Wizard of Oz, in which Trump is saying, for example, on one hand that America is doing great from all of this. And as he said yesterday, that the entire Chinese economy has been wiped out because it lost $15 trillion in GDP, which is not exactly true. It is too early to tell. Will voters buy what in effect is largely a campaign which could be called deception or will they feel the pain of the tariffs before November 2020?", "That kind of leads to the next question, the agreements that Mr. Trump has been working on. He and his team say that it was tariffs that really got him over the finish line, but how much of it was real, a real motivator, and how much do you see as political theater that caters to his base?", "Well, you know, when we pull the curtain back, we saw what the Wizard of Oz really was, and what is happening in the last few days since Friday's agreement between Mexico and United States and Donald Trump proclaiming victory, is that Mexico and American officials in December and then again in March, had agreed on the provisions. They agreed that Mexico would deploy more forces. They agreed that there would be some migrants that would be held in Mexico as they awaited hearing asylum application results in the United States. Mexico may have accelerated some of these stuffs, but there was no new element in the agreement. And I think related to the piece, one of your commentators said yes, this is classic Trump, which is, I brought this art of the deal when in fact the deal was already struck. Now, what does he do next? Does he turn back to the Chinese and proclaims some breakthrough when one doesn't exist or does he get mad at Beijing if he doesn't get any type of advance that he can spend for reelection?", "The tariffs on Chinese imports cause American households more than $800 a year despite the spin, the optics of tough talk that satisfies the president's base. What do you think will be the impact among voters as real people start to feel the real difference in their wallets?", "Well, George, one thing that we are finding in the era of 24/7 and social media and just trying to handle the information is we don't which way voters will decide in the end because quite often voters are confused or uncertain about what is happening. So let's get back to some", "Scott Lucas, we appreciate your time. Thank you.", "Thank you, George.", "Also in the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson is viewed as the front-runner in the race to lead Britain's Conservative Party. Still ahead, we will show you how the hard-line Brexiteer is taking his campaign now to the streets. Plus, protestors in Hong Kong staged the city's biggest demonstration in many years. And now, they want to do it again. We will have a live report from Hong Kong as \"CNN Newsroom\" live pushes ahead."], "speaker": ["HOWELL", "JOHN DEAN, FORMER NIXON WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL", "PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DEAN", "BROWN (voice-over)", "DEAN", "BROWN (voice-over)", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-346169", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2018-07-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/27/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "North Korea Fulfills Pledge; Michael Cohen Claims Trump Knew Trump Tower Meeting; President Trump Asks For Assistance To Secure Brunson's Release; Pakistan Election Commission Expected To Confirm Imran Khan's Victory; Strong U.S. Q2 GDP", "utt": ["I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to \"News Stream.\" War remains handed over. North Korea fulfills the pledge made to Donald Trump. Michael Cohen's big claims. Sources tell CNN Donald Trump former attorney says then candidate Trump knew about the Trump's (inaudible) meeting with Russians. And, a roll of flames. A wildfire in northern California turns deadly as firefighters try to contain it. North Korea is making good on promise that leader Kim Jong-un made to Donald Trump in Singapore, returning what are said to be the remains of U.S. troops killed during the Korean War. North Korean officials handed over 55 cases in South Korea and President Trump is calling the return a great moment for many families and has thanked Mr. Kim. South Korea is also welcoming it as a humanitarian move that can help heal the pain of Korean War veterans. Our Will Ripley is in Seoul with more on the story. He joins U.S. now. And Will, what does the return the remains? What does it mean to diplomatically and especially for the families who have waited decades for this to happen?", "Yes, I mean, the families are the ones who we should always keep the top of our minds and many of them have been waiting for true closure. There are still more than 5,000 Americans believed to be missing and buried somewhere in North Korea. These are service members who fought in the Korean War. They died part of the -- some three million people who were believed to have died in that horrific three-year conflict that caused so many lives on this Korean Peninsula and yet the two Koreas ended up divided roughly in the same spot along the 38th parallel. You cannot deny the history of the day that this has happened, the first repatriation, more than a decade occurring on July 27th, the day that the Korean War armistice was signed, the day that people thought would lead to peace, but as history have shown, lead to something -- something else.", "Now, to clear the entire Korean problem and bring about world peace.", "Any hope for peace after the 1953 Armistice gave way to a bitter cold war. Sixty-five years later, the communist North and Democratic South are still divided along the 38th parallel. Very few people cross the DMZ, dead or alive. Korean War dead are no exception. Some three million people were killed including tens of thousands of Americans. Thousands of those U.S. troops are believed to be buried in mass graves, some just miles from the South but impossibly out of reach for their families. Ruth Hebert came to the DMZ searching for her father, First Lieutenant Karle Seydel. The Colorado Marine died on December 7, 1950.", "My mother here, she he had two little babies when he was killed so, it was very hard. My brother was 13 days old when my father left.", "Grief made harder by the fact families may never have closure. North Korea has returned the remains of just 340 U.S. service members since 1990. The search for the missing dead abruptly ended more than a decade ago as nuclear tensions escalated, repatriation efforts stopped. But this year's Korean detente revived the hopes of military families. After the historic Singapore Summit, President Trump declared missing Korean War remains would soon be handed over possibly in days. More than six weeks later, Ruth Hebert is still waiting for news about her father.", "His bones are still here in the North with so many that died there that they were not able to recover but our hearts are really comforted and strengthened being here.", "Strength and hope for closure, hope for a final end to the never ending Korean War.", "It is likely to take months or even years, Kristie, before families like Ruth Hebert's will learn if their loved ones, those who were killed in the Korean War were one of those 55 sets of remains handed over at Osan Air Base here in South Korea. Diplomatically, this is a confidence building measure on the part of the North Koreans who have been engaged in some very difficult negotiations over denuclearization with the United States. We know that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's latest trip to Pyongyang ended with very little results, both sides frustrated. Perhaps this will move things in a more positive direction, but just the fact that it took six weeks, more than six weeks for this to happen when many in the Trump administration thought it might be a matter of days before the handover took place, underscores the difficulty and the length of time that it's going to take the U.S. and North Korea especially when they start negotiating far more contentious issues, Kristie.", "The return of the remains is a confidence building measure. It is also one of the commitments that was agreed to during that summit in Singapore between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. On the North Korean's side, what did the North Koreans expect to receive in return?", "The North Koreans feel that they have already done a lot, you know, the repatriation that happened today to dismantling their Sohae satellite launch facility, blowing up the Pungngye-ri nuclear site which we witnessed a couple of months ago. And now they think it's time for the U.S. to deliver. They want the U.S. to move more quickly on a peace treaty, a formal end to the Korean War and they think that the U.S. should push for that and they are frustrated that it hasn't happened according to a source of mine who is familiar with the North Korean position on these negotiations. And they also want incremental sanctions relief, a step-by-step kind of process where they get something from the United States in turn for giving something with denuclearization. Of course, the U.S. have said that maximum pressure is going to continue until North Korea gives up all of their nuclear weapons. The North Koreans have really stopped at that, you know, you heard the statement after Secretary Pompeo left Pyongyang, accusing the U.S. of being almost gangster like in their demands.", "Will Ripley reporting live from Seoul. Thank you Will. U.S. President Donald Trump on twitter just moments ago denied what could be a potential bombshell in the Russia investigation. The sources say the president's former attorney, Michael Cohen, claims then candidate Donald Trump knew and approved of the 2016 meeting at Trump Tower. That is a meeting where Russians were expected offer dirt on Hillary Clinton. President Trump now saying on twitter he did not know of that meeting in this tweets. Jim Sciutto has more.", "Sources tell myself and Carl Bernstein that President Trump's long time lawyer, Michael Cohen, is willing to tell Special Counsel Robert Mueller that then candidate Trump knew in advance about his campaign's June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians promising dirt on Hillary Clinton and that he signed off on it. This account directly contradicting the repeated denials from President Trump, his lawyers and allies.", "Did you know at the time that they had the meeting?", "No, I didn't know anything about the meeting.", "He was not aware of the meeting. He did not attend the meeting and was only informed about the e-mails very recently by his counsel.", "Do you tell your father anything about this?", "No. It was such a nothing. There is nothing to tell.", "Sources tell us that Cohen alleges that he was there when Donald Trump, Jr. told his father about the meeting, but does not have evidence such as an audio recording to corroborate the claim. President Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, flatly denying Cohen's account in an interview with CNN and attacking Cohen's credibility.", "He didn't know about it. I know that. I've been over this in great detail. I've talked to the corroborating witnesses. There's no way you're going to bring down the president of the United States on the testimony uncorroborated by a proven liar.", "A source familiar with Cohen's testimony says that he did not tell the House Intelligence Committee that Trump had admitted knowledge of the meeting. And Donald Trump, Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee last year that he would not have wasted his father's time with it. Trump, Jr.'s attorney standing by his testimony saying they are confident in the accuracy and reliability of the information they provided. The Trump Tower meeting has long been at the center of questions over potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. When news of the meeting first broke, Donald Trump, Jr. initially said that the focus was primarily on Russian adoptions. Days later, Trump, Jr. publicly released e-mails from publicist Rob Goldstone who set up the meeting showing that in fact it was proposed, \"to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary\" as part of Russia and its government support for Trump. Trump, Jr. replied to the e-mail within minutes, \"If it's what you say, I love it.\" Four days later and two days before the Trump Tower meeting, then candidate Trump said that he'd be revealing information about Clinton.", "I am going to give a major speech on probably Monday of next week and we're going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons. I think you're going to find it very informative and very, very important.", "That speech never happened.", "Another key detail of the story is that Michael Cohen claims that he was not the only person in the room when Donald Trump, Jr., he says, told Donald Trump, Sr. about the upcoming meeting with the Russians and what they were offering. That could provide investigators with other witnesses to question to possibly corroborate Cohen's story, Kristie.", "Jim Sciutto reporting there. Thank you. Now, the U.S. president's own words may also prove problematic in the Russia probe. The \"New York Times\" reports that Robert Moeller is reviewing Mr. Trump's twitter feed as part of the investigation into possible obstruction of justice. The special counsel is reportedly focused on the president's twitter attacks on the U.S. attorney general, Jeff sessions, as well as fired FBI director James Comey. The \"Times\" says this, \"Mr. Moeller is examining whether the actions add up to attempts to obstruct the investigation by both intimidating witnesses and pressuring senior law enforcement officials to tamp down the inquiry.\" President Trump has taken to twitter to threaten Turkey over the detention of an American pastor. Now, Mr. Trump had tweeted this, \"The United States will impose large sanctions on Turkey for their longtime detainment a Pastor Andrew Brunson.\" Now, Turkey's Foreign Minister has shot (ph) back saying that his country will never tolerate threats from anybody. An Israeli official has meanwhile confirmed to CNN that President Trump had asked for assistance from Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to secure Brunson's release. Now, our correspondent Jomana Karadsheh has more from this (inaudible), Jomana, a lot of new lines in the story. We're now hearing that the U.S. asked Israel for help with the release of the American Pastor Andrew Brunson. What have you learned?", "Well, Kristie, the story originally reported by the \"Washington Post\" this morning, basically reporting that President Trump asked Prime Minister Netanyahu in a phone call for his assistance to help secure the release of Pastor Andrew Brunson here in Turkey. Now, an Israeli official, as you mentioned, confirmed that that request was made but did not go into details or provide details of that conversation that according to the \"Washington Post\" took place on July 14th. Now, what \"The Post\" is reporting, they asked -- is that President Trump asked Israel to release a Turkish woman, a 27-year-old who was detained in Israel facing charges of supporting Hamas. In exchange, Turkey would release Andrew Brunson. Now, what we've heard from the -- what happened was that she was released on -- according to her lawyer she was released between the 11th and 12th of July. She left Israel on the 15th of July following that phone call, but Turkish official here, Kristie, have denied this. They are calling this report completely baseless and far from reality according to the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry and another Turkish official saying they have no intention of getting involved in the country's independent judiciary as they call them.", "And Jomana, tell us more about Andrew Brunson. Who is he and why was he detained in Turkey?", "This pastor originally from North Carolina. He has been living in Turkey for more than 20 years. Following that failed coup attempt in July of 2016, thousands of people who were detained in the crackdown that followed one of those people was Andrew Brunson who lived in the city of Izmir in Turkey. And he was accused of links to what Turkey considers to be terrorist groups, the Kurdish militant group, the PKK in addition to the Gulen movement that Turkey accuses of being behind the failed coup attempt, in addition to espionage. And he's facing 35 years in jail. Now, his trial has been going on since April. U.S. officials including President Trump have repeatedly asked Turkey to release him. Some U.S. lawmakers have attended the trial, have described it as a kangaroo court and saying that the charges against him and all the accusations were a, \"compilation of nonsensical conspiracy theories\" and he is described by officials including President Trump as being held hostage by Turkey because last year we heard President Erdowan hinting that he was open to the possibility of a swap, releasing Brunson in exchange for Fhetullah Gulen who is living in exile in the United States. And Turkeys has repeatedly asked for his extradition because of the accusations of his links to the failed coup attempt saying he was behind it, but that has not happened and Kristie, Brunson has really become one of the key issues when it comes to the U.S.-Turkey relationship that was deteriorating over the past few years. Recently, there were signs it was improving and speculation that Brunson would be released, but that did not happen on July 18th with his trial. And a couple of days later we saw a Turkish court basically move him from prison to house arrest. We have yet to hear reaction from President Erdogan to all of these and the stress from the U.S., Kristie.", "All right, Jomana Karadsheh, live in Istanbul across all the threads in the story. Thank you very much indeed. Take care. Now in Pakistan, official results haven't yet been announced but the country's election commission is expected to confirm Imran Khan's victory in Wednesday's general election. Now, the cricket start turned politician has already declared he will be the country's next prime minister following an election that has been marked by violence as was claims of vote rigging. Now Khan is believed to be the favored candidate of Pakistan's powerful military. Nick Paton Walsh is live in Pakistan's capital of Islamabad. He joins us now, and Nick, Imran Khan all along, even in that address last night, live, he promised a new Pakistan. Will Pakistan change under Imran Khan? Can he solve the nation's problems?", "Well that's the sales pitch certainly and as you say, a new Pakistan is sort of what he was been promising. The electorate view him as a force against corruption for a change and obviously, yes. It is the second time in Pakistan independent history there has been a peaceful democratic change of government has always been held by the walls of the ruling party, the PML-N or the PPP, another opposition party. This is the first time that a third party, the PTI, which is run by Mr. Khan has taken control of the government. I say that but that isn't a hundred percent official. The latest results with 97 percent of the seats and vote counted have him on 115. He needs 137 to be able to have his own working majority in parliament. There are still some more to be counted and there are quite a lot of independents floating out there. So (inaudible) is pretty much exclusively on his side to be able to get the majority that he needs. There are couples of issues there that have come along. Many people are criticizing the pace of the vote counting, very slow. And the E.U. parliament or the European Parliament's observer mission here, they've been looking at the votes, have refer to how that do systematic moves to limits the appeal and the progress of the current ruling party, that's the PML-N. They've been marred in corruption accusations and also accusations too that the army has conspired to keep them and other opponents of Mr. Khan of the television and effectively giving him as much media coverage as possible. Now of course, that puts him in a complicated position because clearly it seems he is the military's favorite. Nobody prevails really in a Pakistani election without some kind of accomodation with the security establishment here that runs much of the economy, kind of the (inaudible) in the country. But he sold himself as a new way of life here so, quite how he manages to thread those two particular complicated past we'll see in the months ahead, but clearly at this point, nobody really doubts he is going to be the next prime minister. The question really is what is his first move with the economic issues the country is facing and its variety of foreign policy issues too, Kristie.", "Absolutely. Nick Paton Walsh reporting live from Islamabad. Thank you. You're watching \"News Stream.\" Still to come (inaudible) here in the program, a government official in Laos is pointing the finger of blame of the deadly collapse of that massive dam. We'll have more on that story. Also ahead, a tragedy compounded. 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{"id": "CNN-262554", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-08-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/20/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Jared Fogle to Spend Time in Prison", "utt": ["Welcome back. Former subway spokesman Jared Fogle will spend between five and 12 1/2 years in prison on charges of child pornography and crossing state lines to pay to have sex with minors. Court documents reveal a long and sorted history of behavior involving more than a dozen victims, hidden cameras and possession of child pornography. Randi Kaye reports.", "Jared Fogle moments after agreeing to plead guilty to child pornography charges.", "Jared Fogle has been charged and admitted to participating in five year criminal scheme to exploit children.", "Children as young as six years old, 14 victims in all. Beginning around 2010, authorities say Fogle traveled to New York City to pay minors for sex. The feds say he paid a 17-year-old girl to have sex with him at the plaza hotel, then offered her a finder's fee to find her another young girl, stating the younger the girl, the better. The indictment says Fogle convinced that same girl to send three nude images of herself to his email account. Later paying again her to have sex at the Ritz in Manhattan. Authorities say the girl had also told them she had sex with Fogle three times when she was just 16.", "This is about using wealth, status and secrecy to illegally exploit children.", "Investigators began taking a closer look at Fogle when Russell Taylor, the executive director of the Jared foundation was arrested on federal child porn charges. Authorities say Fogle received images and videos from Taylor of partially clothed minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Investigating this case was no small task. It included search warrants for 16 smartphones, five tablets, six laptops, six hard drives and five cameras including hidden cameras, flash drives, ten memory cards, 46 CDs and 22 DVDs. Investigators looked at nearly 160,000 text messages, more than 47,000 images and more than 3300 videos. As part of his plea deal, Fogle will go to prison for anywhere from five to 12 1/2 years. He's promised to pay restitution, $100,000 to each victim to cover counseling.", "He knows the restitution can't undo the damage he has done but he will do all in his power to try to make it right.", "A stunning fall for someone the world came to love as the subway guy.", "Hi. I'm Jared the subway guy.", "Before Subway, Fogle was an overweight college student.", "The straw that broke the Camel's back for me is getting on the scale can and seeing I weighed 425 pounds.", "Jared dropped weight once he found subway's low-fat menu. A friend wrote about Jared's diet in the campus newspaper. Then Men's health magazine picked it up. Jared got a call from subway shortly after that and by 2000 he was the face of their campaign.", "This is Jared. He weighed 425 pounds. Inspired by subway's low fat sandwiches.", "Jared claimed to lose 245 pounds in one year.", "This is what I used to wear, 60 inches.", "Jared Fogle made millions as the subway guy. Money he will now use to defend himself and pay his victims. Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.", "All right. Time is up. That's the message from hackers who followed through on their threat to release a whole lot of daters from cheaters dating Web site Ashley Madison. Searchable databases of names, emails and, yes, sexual preferences of millions of customers have now made their way to mainstream websites. For instance, CNN found nearly 7,000 addresses linked to the Canadian and American governments. The website's owner now says the FBI is investigating this data breach. Next Donald Trump's interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo. Hear how the presidential candidate says he is learning about U.S. military strategy. His answer will surely surprise you. And the U.S. government is supposed to depend its nuclear deal with Iran yet again. We'll tell you why after this. Stay with CNN."], "speaker": ["BARNETT", "RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JOSH MINKLER, U.S. ATTORNEY", "KAYE", "MINKLER", "KAYE", "JEREMY MARGOLIS, JARED FOGLE'S ATTORNEY", "KAYE", "JARED FOGLE, SUSPECT", "KAYE", "FOGLE", "KAYE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KAYE", "FOGLE", "KAYE", "BARNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-243629", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2014-11-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/19/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Modest Losses on Wall Street; Harsh Winter Hit Q1 US GDP; Extreme Weather and the Economy", "utt": ["The US Federal Reserve is paying attention to recent volatility on Wall Street. That's according to the minutes of the Fed's October meeting. The central bank ended its nearly six-year-long bond-buying program at the meeting three weeks ago. Now, investors are focusing on how soon they will start raising interest rates. It will be our obsession. Here's how Wall Street ended the day, and you can see, some very modest losses. It was awfully close there at the settle, but we did end it down about two points. Now, at least six people have died in a vicious snowstorm that's blasted the eastern United States. Buffalo in upstate New York is one of the hardest-hit cities. Much of the city is buried under almost two meters of snow. And more is expected on Thursday. Buffalo's international airport is open, but good luck getting there. A driving ban is in effect in the southern part of the city. And Buffalo is not alone. The rest of the US is dealing with below-freezing temperatures, even Hawaii and Florida. Well, CNN's Martin Savidge has been braving the extreme weather for many hours. He filed this report for us a short time ago.", "As Buffalo tries to dig out from an avalanche of snow, even more is on the way. The lake effect blizzard hammered southern areas of the city Tuesday, dropping nearly six feet. Yes, feet.", "I believe when all is said and done, this snowfall may break all sorts of records.", "Of the 42 square miles that make up Buffalo, only 10 were impacted. But they're overwhelmed with snow the likes of which rarely -- maybe even never -- seen before. The impact was so specific to South Buffalo, even the airport just three miles away got only 6.5 inches. A break in the weather Wednesday allowed emergency crews to start the big dig. More snow is expected Wednesday night into Friday, which could add a couple more feet on top of what they already have.", "Please do not be fooled by the beautiful sunshine. There is still tremendous amounts of snow on the ground in South Buffalo. If you don't have to drive, if you don't have to go out to work in other parts of the city as well, stay home.", "Driving bans are still in effect in South Buffalo, where snow left many stranded on the New York freeway, including the Niagara University women's basketball team, who got stuck on I-90 for 24 hours. That team was finally rescued. But calls keep coming in from those still stranded, and in many cases, rescues like this one last night were carried out on foot.", "This morning since 6:00 AM, we had 12 new calls. So those people right now, they should be OK, but officers last night were responding on foot.", "EMS and firefighters have been depending on volunteers with snowmobiles to get into hardest-hit areas. The death toll from this brutal storm has climbed to six so far. Some from cardiac arrest shoveling, and others trapped in the snow.", "Sadly, we have to announce we found an individual today, a 46-year-old male in the town of Alden. His car was buried under approximately 12 to 15 feet of snow, and he was found deceased.", "One of the biggest struggles: simply clearing streets. Plows aren't enough. They need front-end loaders, hauling the snow away using hundreds of dump trucks. Rescuers from as far away as Nevada have contacted Buffalo officials to offer their help, and the city says its most urgent need is for anything that can dig up and haul away the seemingly unending mountain of snow.", "And Martin joins us now, live from Buffalo. Martin, this is an area that is used to getting snow, but this is beyond anything they're used to seeing. And if I'm -- if my eyes don't deceive me, it is snowing again.", "Yes, absolutely, it is snowing again. And you're right. This is above and beyond what Buffalo is accustomed to. In fact, it is possible that before this week is out, they will have seen an entire season -- entire winter's worth of snowfall come from a single snow event, this one. It's still ongoing, as you can see, and that was the concern today. They only had a short window of opportunity where they could try and go out and clear streets. This area where we are right here is in front of a fire station. It's considered a critical path, so that's why it looks as plowed as it is. However, I should point out, this also is not the heart of the hardest-hit area. It's actually still about a half mile down that way, add another foot or more to what you're seeing around here and that's the kind of landscape they have. People are surrounded and literally held hostage by snow. Maggie?", "Martin, we're seeing some intrepid people look like they're trying to move around you a little bit, and it's not that easy getting around. What are the conditions like? We've seen pictures earlier today of snow literally collapsing some people's windows, there's so much of it. I know a lot of people have the gear, but do they have electricity? Are they able to get food? Are supplies going to be a concern for some of these hardest-hit areas?", "Well, for the most part, it depends. Buffalo folks are hearty people and they are accustomed to having to stock up, so they knew that was an issue. But then also, the other problem that they've been facing, power you mentioned. There have been some power outages. And those have been dealt with rather quickly. But the overall issue of resupplying, people have been going out on foot, walking to the corner market. We saw people carrying a sleigh. So, they're going out to get the things they need for as long as they can. The big thing here, it's going to warm up this weekend, if you can believe it. Might be 60 by Monday, I'm talking Fahrenheit. If that's the case, all this snow is suddenly going to melt. You can imagine what the next problem's going to be, flooding.", "From one mess to another. Martin, those people are made of tougher stuff than I am, I can tell you. You stay warm out there. Thank you so much. Well, the big freeze is more than just a problem for commuters. Extreme winter weather has the potential to drag down economic growth, just like it did, if you'll remember, in the first quarter of this year. Seems like a long time ago, but take a look at some of these numbers. The US output contracted at an annual rate of 2.9 percent over January, February, and March, the first quarterly decline in three years. Here's how it breaks down: spending falls, blizzards keep shoppers away from malls, restaurants and car dealers. The icy winter weather also shipped -- delayed shipments of both domestic goods domestically and abroad. And as a result, US exports declined. Even utilities like heating suffer, because the rise of cost of production was greater than the increase in demand. Everything just grinds to a halt. Meteorologist Tom Sater joins us from the World Weather Center with more. And Tom, the thing is, this isn't just an issue of snow, the extreme show we're seeing in Buffalo. We've got very cold temperatures, and we know what that frigid air can do. It also can bring things to a halt, can't it?", "It's really amazing, Maggie, the relationship between adverse weather conditions that last a long period of time and the economy. We've seen this happen. What typically occurs -- this is the second arctic wave we've had. We had one last week. There's a short burst of surge shopping. You run out, you buy your milk, your eggs, your bread, medication, to get ready for the cold. And this is the coldest November -- and we're just past the midway point -- since 1976, and there's another wave on the way. It's really something that when you look at the snow maps, and you can see most of this is a nuisance snow, but again, it does keep people indoors, 50 percent of the US. But what's really interesting is to see where we are now in this month of November compared to the first quarter. This is a look at how it is now, all right? Notice all of the colors of blue and purple. This is where the temperature anomalies are extremely low. Notice from the front range of the Rockies, you get extremely warm conditions. And that, of course, goes hand-in-hand with the drought. That's the other part of the equation with the economy. Now, the first quarter, almost no change. If you look at the first quarter, our temperatures were unseasonably cold. The Great Lakes almost completely freezing over, 92 percent of the Great Lakes, so transportation shut down. That was a record since 79. But with the drought areas out west, again, a good 40, 50 percent of the produce is just cut off and null and void. If you break it down -- this is the first quarter, now -- we've got January through March. And if you look at the numbers, and I'll point them out, it gives you a ranking. Blue is the cold. So, Illinois, their fourth coldest winter last year first quarter. Indiana the third, and so on and so forth. This is out of 120 years. So, 120 means California ranks that was the warmest. In 120 years of California. And in Arizona. So, it's not just the cold that can play a role in the economy. And unfortunately, we've got another round moving in. And here it comes. This is the second wave moving through. And if you think that this is the coldest since 76, we're just halfway through the month, we could really be seeing records. I don't think Minneapolis, which hasn't been above freezing since the 9th of November, is going to get up. Maybe this weekend. But another round and another blow to the economy, Maggie.", "We thought we put that polar vortex behind us --", "Right.", "Good thing we learned all about it last year, Tom.", "That's right.", "Thank you so much for bringing us right up to date. Well, the battle for taxi supremacy takes a menacing turn, and there is an indignant reaction to some of the tactics they're using at Uber. We'll hear from the journalist targeted by the company's executives after the break."], "speaker": ["LAKE", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GOV. ANDREW CUOMO (D), NEW YORK", "SAVIDGE", "BYRON BROWN, MAYOR OF BUFFALO", "SAVIDGE", "KIMBERLY BEATY, DEPUTY POLICE COMMISSIONER", "SAVIDGE", "SCOTT PARTONIK, CHIEF, ERIE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT", "SAVIDGE", "LAKE", "SAVIDGE", "LAKE", "SAVIDGE", "LAKE", "TOM SATER, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "LAKE", "SATER", "LAKE", "SATER", "LAKE"]}
{"id": "CNN-326096", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-11-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/15/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Sessions Denies Lying under Oath about Russia Contacts.", "utt": ["All right. This morning, Roy Moore is still in the Alabama Senate race, but national Republicans are calling to drop out because of the on the record statements from women that he molested a 14-year-old girl and sexually assaulted a 16-year-old. The Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, he has an idea who he thinks he would like to get in the race. Watch.", "The name being most often discussed may not be available, but the Alabamian who would fit that standard would be the attorney general, who was totally well known and extremely popular in Alabama. That, obviously, would be a big move for him and for the president.", "Hey, there, Poppy. Conservative leaders are increasingly abandoning ship on Roy Moore, even while he maintains some support here throughout the state. You have conservative leaders drawing into question Moore's character, asking him to explain the inconsistencies of his defense of these sexual assault allegations. Other conservative leaders asking him to flat-out withdraw. It was yesterday we heard from Attorney General Jeff Sessions who says he has no reason not to believe the women who are alleging sexual assault. And we're also hearing from top Republican, Mitch McConnell, who drew into question the character of Roy Moore, also suggested that Sessions might be a good write-in candidate. And it's Moore who's punch back on McConnell in a tweet that he sent, questioning the leadership of Mitch McConnell. Saying, \"Mitch McConnell is attempting to subvert the will of Alabamians yet again, this time helping elect a far-left Democrat!\" We're also hearing from Roy Moore at a campaign rally yesterday, calling this a spiritual war at a church yesterday, remaining defiant, and saying that he -- in one case didn't even know the woman accusing him of sexual assault.", "After 40-something years of fighting this battle, I'm now facing allegations. And that's all the press want to talk about. But I want to talk about the issues. I want to talk about where this country is going. And if we don't come back to God, we're not going anywhere.", "Moore's supporters have done a lot to try to discredit the women that have come forward with stories of either sexual assault or relationships attempted by Moore with these young women. And this race is growing tighter, as Moore is just in a few points ahead of his Democratic challenger, Doug Jones. And that says a lot, guys, considering the last time a Democrat was elected to Senate here was about 20 years ago. Poppy, John?", "Nick Valencia reporting for us. Thank you. Roy Moore says he wants to talk about the issue. An issue is multiple allegations on the record of sexual assault.", "Sexually molesting a 14-year-old might be an issue for some people.", "That's an issue. That's an issue. Our panel is back. Gentlemen, thank you for being here. Doug, to you, overnight, the RNC's poll funding and Sean Hannity - I mean, you know, said something that I think surprised a lot of folks. He's you know one of the only journalists who interviewed -", "Journalist --", "Journalists. He's one of the only figures who interviewed -- thank you -- Roy Moore. And now he's saying -- he's turning on him. Listen to this.", "For me, the judge has 24 hours. You must immediately and fully come up with a satisfactory explanation for your inconsistencies that I just showed. You must remove any doubt. If you can't do this, then Judge Moore needs to get out of this race. This country has way too many issues and problems.", "So, why cut the cord now? I mean, this is Mitch McConnell, this is the RNC funding. This is Sean Hannity, who obviously has the president's ear. The president hasn't said anything yet, but why the turn now?", "Well, I think it's becoming clear in some of the private polling that we're seeing that Doug Jones would win, Roy Moore would lose. And obviously, Republicans don't want to lose the Senate seat. But for me, it's -- you know, so many people have said, gosh, it's amazing that we're going to this point where we may have to potentially unseat a senator who's just been elected. If you look at what's happened with Republicans over the past five years, I don't know why anybody is surprised. We had Christine O'Donnell, Sharon Engle, the Bush tax cut failure to pass the extension, we have the government shutdown, Eric Cantor's loss, which I kind of remember a little closely, John Boehner's retirement. We still have more to go before we finally hit rock bottom, which is crazy when you consider that we have the House, the Senate and a majority of governors. But that's the Armageddon that we're potentially heading into for next November.", "So, Brian Fallon, the Jeff Sessions' notion, Jeff Sessions, maybe put him in there as a write-in candidate. The big questions are there. Would he do it? Could he win? Would the president want him to do it? And what would be the implications of that if the attorney won?", "They won.", "Donald Trump, obviously, the opportunity to pick a new attorney general, one presumably that wouldn't have to be recused from the ongoing Mueller investigation. So I think that that prospect is quite dangerous. But I think the idea is not even a sure thing for Republicans. Because as much name I.D. as Jeff Sessions does have, anytime you're waging a write-in campaign, running against another Republican whose name is actually on the ballot, you have the potential to split the vote on the Republican side. It may make Doug Jones' chances in Alabama, the Democratic candidates all the better. I think -- I don't often have too many nice things to say about Mitch McConnell, but I do think you have to give him a nod. 48 hours ago, it was not at all clear that you'd see the likes of the RNC and Sean Hannity abandoning Roy Moore, but I think when Mitch McConnell came out and said, \"I believe the women,\" that was a turning point. I'm sure he has his alternative motives. He wants to keep the seat. He's in a long-term war with Steve Bannon who has backed Roy Moore, but he did do the right thing here. And it's potentially made this seat more vulnerable. And you can't underestimate the stakes of how important control of this seat is because what the retirement of Jeff Flake in Arizona, with the vulnerability of Dean Heller in Nevada. If the Democrats can pull off this upset in Alabama, you would have a legitimate chance next November to actually take back the Senate, which no one would have thought possible a few weeks ago. And unlike sometimes when the Democrats are caught unprepared not having a good candidate in some of these deeply red stakes because they're not expecting it to be competitive. Dick Jones is a great candidate, former federal prosecutor who tried a big civil rights case from 50 years ago, arson case involving a church bombing down in Alabama. And so, and the national Democrats are handling this just right. They're staying the heck away, not allowing Republicans to try to nationalize this race down there. He's doing a good job and this might create a real serious pickup opportunity that might have ramifications for control of the Senate next year.", "All right. Ryan Lizza, I want to address something else. The president just took to Twitter, to make a statement. Let's read it. \"Do you think the three UCLA basketball players will say thank you President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail!\" Obviously, he had conversations with President Xi of China. They were being held in their hotel room awaiting trial. They are home on U.S. soil. What do you make of the president writing this?", "It's classic Trump. If he does something that he thinks he deserves appreciation for, he's usually the first one to point it out. Other presidents might just allow the appreciation to come naturally. I'm sure there would be a lot of discussion in the press about how he was responsible for this. I'm sure the UCLA players are appreciative that -- if he had something to do with this, which it seems like he clearly did. But Trump does not have any unventilated thoughts and one of the things he likes is a claim for actions he believes he deserves a claim for. So, classic Donald Trump I think we would be surprised if he wasn't tweeting about this.", "Do we think this is happening in a vacuum for his ongoing feud with many athletes in multiple sports over the last month?", "Huh, I hadn't thought of it that way, John, to be honest. Maybe that's in the back of his mind, but I think - look, when he does something, he gets very agitated if he does not get an outpouring of support and a claim. You know, sometimes my title here is political analyst. Sometimes you need a psychological analyst for Trump. But he does seem to have a -- be very needy when it comes to appreciation and praise for something he believes he did that deserves it.", "And John and Poppy, I'm wearing my north Carolina Tar Heels tie, and I would tell you that unless it's congratulating the Tar Heels for winning the national championship, Donald Trump, please don't tweet at my alma mater.", "Gentlemen -", "Doug Heye, Ryan Lizza, Brian Fallon, all the important things. Thank you so much, gentlemen. All right, the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, we were just talking about maybe his next job, but what about his current job? And did he lie under oath when he was trying to get it? We're going to talk to a key member of Congress about that, next."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-332320", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2018-02-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/07/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Kelly: Some DREAMers Who Didn't Sign Propaganda, Too Lazy; Stock Market Seas Are Calm But Storm Isn't Over", "utt": ["Coming to you live from Hong Kong. Welcome back. This is News Stream. Now in Washington, Democrats and Republicans appear to be inching closer to a budget deal but controversial remarks made by President Trump and his chief of staff are not helping efforts to reach a compromise when it comes immigration. Abby Phillip reports.", "If we don't change it, let's have a shutdown. We will do a shutdown and it's worth it for our country. I would love to see a shutdown if we don't get this stuff taken care of.", "President Trump calling for another shutdown if Democrats don't agree to his immigration demands, despite the fact that at the same time, Senate negotiators were touting bipartisan progress on a budget deal.", "I'm optimistic that very soon we'll be able to reach an agreement.", "We are closer to an agreement than we have ever been.", "The Senate budget negotiations do include immigration overhaul, a longtime Republican goal. The Senate's two year includes a boost in defense spending, alongside additional domestic spending the Democrats have been calling for. Press secretary Sarah Sanders left to clean up the president's remarks.", "I don't think that we expect the budget deal to include specifics on immigration reform, but we want to get a deal on that. As we've said, we don't want to hold the government hostage over these items.", "Late Tuesday, Senator Lindsey Graham also indicating the Senate may be making progress on immigration.", "I felt really bad yesterday. I feel better today. People are -- I think we've got a way forward that seems to be fair to everybody. We're back in the ball game now.", "This effort coming amid backlash over these remarks from the president's chief of staff about undocumented immigrants who did not sign up for President Obama's DREAMer program but would be given a potential path to citizenship under the administration's proposal.", "The difference between 690 and the 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, others would say were too lazy to get off their asses, but they didn't sign up.", "It's just an offensive comment, though, isn't it? Just on its surface?", "I think that's something you would have to decide for yourself.", "Kelly later doubling down after Democrat Steny Hoyer reportedly pushed back against his remarks in a closed-door meeting. Kelly, also telling reporters that the president is not leaning one way or another about releasing the Democratic rebuttal to the GOP memo alleging FBI surveillance abuses.", "This is a different memo than the first one. It's lengthier. It's -- well, it's different. It will be done in a responsible way. But again, it's -- where the first one was very clean relative to sources and methods, my initial cut is this one, who is lot less clean.", "Kelly adding that ultimately, the president is waiting for a recommendation from the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, and FBI head Christopher Wray, even though he ignored their concerns about the Republican memo last week. The back and forth coming as CNN learns that President Trump remains eager to speak with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team, despite concerns from his lawyers. The president is also eager to hold a grand military parade in Washington after praising France's Bastille Day celebration last year.", "It was one of the greatest parades I've ever seen.", "The Pentagon confirms the president's request but stresses that the planning process is in its infancy.", "And that was CNN's Abby Phillip, reporting. And moments ago, we have learned this, initial planning for that military parade is now underway by the U.S. military, that has been confirmed to CNN by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And a senior defense official adds that one should be considered is to halt the parade in November in conjunction with the 100 anniversary of the ending of World War I. Now German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a step closer to forming a government. The center-left social Democrats say that they have reached a deal with Merkel's conservatives to create another grand coalition. If approved by the social Democrat's 460,000 members, it would end months of uncertainties since the last election. It leaves the right wing alternative for Germany Party as the main opposition. And we are tracking European markets this hour just to see how they're faring after Tuesday's dismal trading day. But now in recovery mode after posting modest gains in early trade, and right now, it looks like the FTSE are in the green, kind of making gains up to around one percent. Now, it's all fall in the mix picture here in Asia, Tokyo and Sydney ended higher, the rest you could see, Hong Kong Hang Seng, and the Shanghai Composite, both in the red. And this all comes in the wake of the Dow, having its biggest ever single day point loss in history. Some analysts say Wall Street could be in for another bumpy ride. Now, let's bring in Isa Soares. She joins us live from London. Isa, mix picture in some parts of the world has a sense of calm return to global market.", "Hi, Kristie. A degree, Europe, comes, especially if you are looking at those European markets, not saying like the durations we saw in Asia and Europe in the last 24 hours. But let's not stop popping the champagne bottle just yet, because the fundamentals of the U.S. haven't change, this concern that the interest rates of the consent inflation will raise the concerns that the Fed will have to raise interest rates. That is still there. So the problem perhaps -- the problem many ways hasn't gone away. So is the calm before the storm? That's what many people are asking. Let's just look at the European markets because they are making a bit of a recovery but still not making a big enough recovery from those gains -- from those loses in the last 24 hours to 48 hours. If we can bring the markets up, the FTSE was up, doing quite well this hour. The Xetra DAX in particular on the back of the news, the coalition has been agreed temporarily at least in Germany. There you go, almost one percent, Paris also doing well as your account for my doing well, as the (Inaudible). Xetra DAX doing well but there are concerns, of course, about this coalition. He will get what party of course will get the key ministries in particular, the finance ministries, Kristie. But of course, when I have been speaking to traders in nearly out this morning, they warned me about the next 24 hours to 48 hours. And let's not get ahead of ourselves. The word they have been using is caution -- caution, for events that what may happen in the U.S. And if we look at the U.S. market, their future, the last time I look within 150 points, if we can bring the Dow futures up. It's expected to be -- there you go. Also, 100 or so points, almost half of percent were negative (Inaudible), right across the board in the U.S. So, I think the answer really is, buckle up. It could be a rock and roll day in the stock markets. Kristie.", "Yes, and with all those red arrows there, it doesn't look like the sell-off is over just yet all. And all eyes on the Fed. I mean does it need to move aggressively? SOARES Well this is the thing, and we haven't heard from the Fed. I think acting is why so many investors, and so many people will be keen to see what the Fed will say today. We are expecting some comments from the Fed, later on today in particular about how they interpret these markets -- the stock markets' gyration. We are also expecting to hear today and tomorrow of course from the Bank of England, Mark Carney, who is also getting his own interpretation of what may happen. But this is -- this is what everyone have been listening to, because while, the market has somewhat shifted and gone up and down in these huge swings, the fundamentals haven't changed at all. And so, they are looking for signals that perhaps the Fed may move. And if so, how soon, how quickly will it do so. You know, hearing Europe, Kristie, it's very different because some people may be scratching their heads and wondering, OK, so if fundamentals haven't change, why is Europe backing the trend in many ways, why is Europe popping green arrows? That is because the fundamentals are strike and tell you, we have some strong data out of Europe today in terms of GDP. I think we have got the numbers here in front of me, came in the last hour and a half or so. The economy is expected to grow to 2.3 percent -- in 2018 and two percent in 2019, and Germany, the Europe's biggest economy, expected to grow by 2.7 percent this year. So that is the reason why we haven't seen this huge market shift -- stock market shift here in Europe, because the Europe in many ways is (Inaudible) saying look, this is not our problem which is reacting to what's happening in U.S. Kristie.", "And that's why caution is still needed. Isa Soares, reporting live for us in London. Thank you so much. Take care. Now the casino mogul, Steve Wynn -- he has stepped down as CEO and chairman of Wynn Resorts. Now the company and Wynn are facing waves of negative publicity after the Wall Street Journal detailed allegations of sexual misconduct against Wynn. That report affects in the company stopped tumbling, and Wynn, denies the accusations. Now, they are a Super Bowl staple but the boss of the company makes Doritos, thinks the snack might be too manly. PepsiCo CEO, Indra Nooyi said that her firm is developing line seemed to women. So, is there really a battle of the sexes over bag of chips? Well, here is Jeanne Moos.", "Let the chips fall where they may. Lady Doritos?", "I think I'm going to eat the crunchiest, messiest Doritos I want and enjoy the hell out of it.", "Sounds like she has a chip on her shoulder after the CEO of PepsiCo suggested her company was developing chips for her because men eat Doritos differently from women.", "Men a little bit lick their fingers with great glee.", "And guys like to tip back the bag. Yes, men like to be macho with their nachos. While women...", "They don't like to crunch too loudly in public. They don't lick their fingers generously.", "Tell that to this former Ms. Australia.", "I definitely lick my fingers after. I love it.", "Even in network morning show host couldn't resist.", "No, I do not want a silent chip.", "No, I love a loud crunch.", "Because there is no more appropriate snack for the #MeToo era than a chip that tells women to be quiet.", "The only quiet chips are stale chips, tweeted model Chrissy Teigen. Read another comment, my generation mark so future generations of women could enjoy lady Doritos.", "Go tell (Inaudible) and Susan B. Anthony, they can finally rest in peace.", "Sing it, sister.", "Though PepsiCo CEO promised snacks designed and packaged for women would launch soon, the company said, we already have Doritos for women, they're called Doritos. Some men stood up for women's right to crunch.", "Just as loudly and obnoxiously as men do.", "But there are worst things that eating low crunch ladies chips...", "Oh my God, did you just eat that?", "Relax.", "Axel (ph) put his toenails in the chip bag.", "You just ate Axel's (ph) toenails.", "We did one crunchy Doritos fan, can we just get quiet bags instead? Jeanne Moos -- and licking your fingers is cool?", "If I am at home.", "CNN, New York."], "speaker": ["LU STOUT", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ABBY PHILLIP, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R), MAJORITY LEADER", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-152889", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-7-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1007/07/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Russia: Spy Swapping Deal Possible", "utt": ["Scanning your morning passport this morning in France, Manuel Noriega sentenced to seven years in prison. Just add money launderer to the long list of labels, which includes dictator, drug trafficker and CIA asset. Noriega was also fined nearly $3 million, which is the total that he was accused of laundering through French banks. A strange thing happened when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited President Obama yesterday. He arrived in Washington, but guns belonging to his security agents didn't. Now, both Israeli and U.S. authorities are investigating. We're talking about four 9 mm Glock handguns. WNBC News reports that the handguns were mistakenly put on an American Airlines flight from New York to L.A., not Washington. But by the time the luggage was found, the guns had disappeared. A case of espionage that gets better than fiction. Remember the band of 10 suspected spies arrested late month and this sultry stunner who you can see more of, if you get my drift, on the Internet. Well, there's talk that Russia is willing to swap a spy that it has for one of those alleged deep-cover agents. CNN's international correspondent, Matthew Chance, is joining us now from Moscow with more -- Matthew.", "Kyra, thanks so much. That's right. It's a new twist in this U.S./Russia spy scandal. What we're hearing from this prisoner in Russia, he was convicted of espionage, passing secrets to the United States back in 2004. He's told his relatives and his lawyers that he has been given every indication by the Russian security officials that he's been speaking to, that he is part of a prisoner swap deal that could see 11 people being held in Russian jails for spying for the United States and Britain exchange for those 10 detainees being held for -- as part of that suspected spy ring in the United States. The exchange, he says, could happen very soon, possibly as early as tomorrow. Of course, there's no confirmation of this yet either from Russian officials or from U.S. officials. But it would be, of course, a big twist -- an important twist -- in this ongoing spy saga, Kyra.", "All right. Matthew Chance, thanks so much. Well, it's day 79 of the Gulf oil disaster. Weather, a cause of concern now for the Coast Guard. It's closely watching a system near the Yucatan Peninsula. High seas continue to hamper cleanup efforts. And this is some disheartening news, to say the least: Bob Dudley, BP's chief of Gulf Coast restoration, says it's a reality now that those relief wells may not work. On PBS' \"NewsHour\" yesterday, Dudley admits that BP, along with the government, is exploring at least two other options now. Also, a new ship aimed at sucking more oil from the gushing well has been delayed, so as the arrival of a navy blimp that will be used to detect oil and direct skimming ships. They're cleaning up parts of Oklahoma City today. Heavy raining yesterday in Oklahoma City swamped streets, flooded homes and businesses. And emergency crews were called in to try to rescue trapped residents. In a casino in El Reno, Oklahoma, two workers were injured when strong winds collapsed a concrete tent that they were setting up, or concert tent rather that they were setting up. That accident forced the casino to cancel last night's concert featuring rock guitarist Peter Frampton. And in the Northeast, the story is blistering heat, record- breaking hot weather blamed for at least one death in Philly. More heat is on tap today, too. Let's go straight to Rob Marciano at the CNN weather center for more. Rob, it's not looking so good.", "No. When you look at some of these numbers that came in yesterday for record high temperatures, in Baltimore 105, 104 in Trenton, Central Park, 103. And remember, these temperatures are measured in the shade and they don't include humidity. So, if you're working outside in the sun and you coupled in humidity, it feels much, much warmer than that, dangerously warm in some cases. Where are we right now? We are at 92 degrees in New York City, 92 degrees in D.C. And already, 93 degrees in Richmond and we're not even at the lunch hour. So, that gives you an idea of just how incredibly warm things are at the moment. So, what's causing all this and will we see any sort of relief going forward as far as the overall weather pattern? The hot air, the core of it is over Delmarva right now, and that will slide a little bit further to the south. But, again, heat indices, what it feels like on you're body and inside, 100 -- at least 105 and again, in the hot sun, and if you're doing a sort of outdoor activity, that's going to feel worse than that. The core of the heat will begin to slide a little bit farther to the south over the next couple of days. So, we'll see slow moderation of this. But still today, I don't think it's going to be cooler as far as what it feels like. New York to Philly to D.C., and even spots back towards the west, these heat advisories and warnings through the Ohio River Valley and Tennessee Valley and then back through parts of the western Great Lakes, this thing is beginning to get a little bit to more dicey. We mention the showers and storms. Across parts of the mid- south and Oklahoma City and plains, they're around flash flood watch again today. How much warmer do we think it's going to be later this afternoon? Ninety-nine degrees is the record high -- is the forecast high, 98 is the record, 101 expected for a forecast in Philadelphia, and 100 expected -- 101 expected in D.C. I want to point out one thing here -- here's what's going on in the tropics. You know, of course, we had Alex last week. This is what could be our next storm, which would be Bonnie. Right now, the center of it is just about to emerge into the Gulf of Mexico. And you can kind of see back the last couple of frames here, some flare-up of thunderstorms yet. So, this is not anything yet. It's just a disturbance. It could become our next tropical depression, which could become our next tropical storm. It's forecast track is somewhere in this general direction. How strong it gets, we'll just have to wait and see. At the moment, it doesn't appear like it's going to become a hurricane or at least a strong one. But, as you know, Kyra, these things certainly bear watching this time of year.", "Yes. And the Coast Guard keeping a close eye on it, too -- the cleanup efforts. Thanks, Rob.", "You bet.", "Reused colonoscopy equipment -- our vets deserved much better than that. Not being told about it for a year? That's right. Dozens of our vets put at risk for HIV and hepatitis, and they're just now learning about it."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "MARCIANO", "PHILLIPS", "MARCIANO", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-356572", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-12-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1812/08/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Kevin Hart Drops Oscars Gig Over Past Homophobic Tweets.", "utt": ["The Oscars needs a host because Kevin Hart is out. Just two days after the big announcement naming the comedian as host of next year's ceremony, Kevin Hart has had a change of heart following major backlash. It's really about this. Tweets written by Kevin Hart at certain points of his career, homophobic and anti-gay words and slurs he chose to use when he says he was younger and a different person. Brian Stelter is here with me now. He is our chief media correspondent and host of \"RELIABLE SOURCES.\" Brian, the Motion Picture Academy wanted to hear an apology from Hart. He hesitated. He eventually gave one, but now it's too late.", "Right. By the time he apologized, he also said he was quitting the Oscars, and we don't really know if he was jumping or if he was pushed. You know, this might have been one of those cases where the Academy was pressuring him to quit or maybe he did it all on his own. But either way, now he is out of the Oscars. Here's how it went down. As you mentioned, these old tweets, comments from past stand-up routines were really offensive, clearly homophobic. Some of them were from 2009, 2010, 2011, and Hart kind of sort of addressed it in the past but obviously he had not addressed it strongly enough. So when he was hired as the host of the Oscars on Tuesday people started to point these old tweets and by Thursday morning it was becoming a growing controversy on Twitter and Facebook. Here's how he initially responded in the first of two Instagram videos.", "So I just got a call from the Academy, and that call basically said, Kevin, apologize for your tweets of old or we're going to have to move on and find another host. I said who I am now versus who I was then. I've done it. I've done it. I'm not going to continue to go back and tap into the days of old when I moved on.", "So you can see there he was, you know, kind of I don't want to say dismissing the issue entirely, but defending himself and resisting calls for an apology. Then he posted a second video. Here it is.", "I'm almost 40 years old. If you don't believe that people change, grow, evolve as they get older, I don't know what to tell you. If you want to hold people in a position where they always have to justify or explain their pasts it, then do you.", "So that was his point of view. He was saying he didn't want the Internet trolls to win. He called the trolls people who were commenting on those old tweets, but it wasn't trolls --", "Then why did he eventually apologize?", "Right. These were advocacy groups, gay rights groups, Hollywood leaders speaking out criticizing him. So by the end of the day, he backed down. He quit the Oscars and he did apologize. Here's his tweet where he came out, he said he is sorry for his past remarks. He is sorry he hurt people in the past. So he came out and issued a forthright apology after saying he didn't want to do that. Point is here, Hart says he doesn't want to be a distraction, but I'm wondering whether the Academy is going to do. The Academy and ABC have a big decision here about who should host the Oscars. It's the biggest non-sports night of the year on TV. A big even, a big opportunity for a host. You know what's curious, Ana, the Academy hasn't commented. They haven't even deleted their announcement about Hart being the host. So I wonder, are they going to try to salvage this somehow? Are they going to try to keep him on as the host? We don't know. All we know is that he says he is not going to host.", "Let me just -- let me just really quick ask you about Les Moonves. He was fired in September after sexual harassment allegations. You have one of his accusers on your show tomorrow. We're learning more about he allegedly tried to cover things up.", "Yes. This has been the week's other huge story in Hollywood, and a really sickening story. The \"New York Times\" obtained a draft report by lawyers who were hired to investigate what the heck went wrong inside CBS. They found, frankly, a ton of misconduct. They found evidence that Moonves tried to cover up the alleged abuses and in one case a woman who says she had been victimized by Moonves 20 years ago was -- Moonves was trying to keep her quiet by offering her jobs. Moonves allegedly destroyed evidence, text messages that were incriminating. So this law firm has been writing a report, they're delivering a report to the CBS board, and then the board has a $120 million decision to make. That's how much Moonves was owed according to his contract. But if the board decides they can fire him because of all this alleged misconduct, they wouldn't have to pay him $120 million. So you have this intersection of money and power here. It's very ugly, and it goes to show these big companies, not just CBS, but other big companies have been racked by misconduct scandals. They've got a lot of house cleanings still to do."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT", "KEVIN HART, COMEDIAN", "STELTER", "HART", "STELTER", "CABRERA", "STELTER", "CABRERA", "STELTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-337872", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2018-04-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/18/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Cuba Moves to Elect Non-Castro Leader.", "utt": ["If you just joined us, you are more than welcome. This is Connect the World. I'm Becky Anderson. It's just quarter to eight in the evening here in Abu Dhabi. This is our Middle Eastern broadcasting hub. It is hard to imagine Cuba without Castro at the helm. For nearly six decades, the island has been ruled by two revolutionary brothers so that's the late Fidel Castro, then current President Raul. Now, a new era begins, the lawmakers choosing a new president in a two-day session which is underway in Havana. The replacement for Raul Castro isn't expected to be a surprise, but are still a lot of unknowns about the direction that the new leader could steer the country. Our man in Havana, Patrick Oppmann, has more.", "For a man frequently accused of being a dictator, Raul Castro has an unusual wish. He wants to retire. Raul's older brother, Fidel, ruled Cuba for nearly five decades and said he thought he would die while still in power, until a mystery illness and botched intestinal surgery forced him to step aside in 2008. Raul Castro took over as president of Cuba but said he would limit his reign to two five-year terms. Only hours remain before a new president of the communist-run island is due to be elected.", "The National Assembly reconvenes next year on April 19th, Raul Castro said in 2017, \"I will conclude my second and last term in front of the state and government and Cuba will have a new president.\" And for the first time in nearly 60 years, Cuba's government will not be led by someone named Castro. For years, many Cubans speculated that Raul Castro's daughter, Mariela, a member of the National Assembly and advocate for gay and transgender rights, or his son, Alejandro, a colonel in Cuba's counterintelligence who represented the island in secret talks with the U.S., would be the next Castros to take power. But either is now in the running Cuban government officials say. Here's how it works. It's Cuba's National Assembly, not the Cuban people that will pick the next president of Cuba's Council of State and Ministers. And on April 19th, the anniversary of the Cuban victory at the Bay of Pigs, they will gather here at Havana's convention palace to vote in secret. The candidate that comes out with more than 50 percent of that vote will become the next president of Cuba. Many Cubans believe that will be this man, Cuban first vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel who so far at least has promised to follow closely in the footsteps of Fidel and Raul Castro. \"I believe in continuity,\" he says. \"I think there will always be continuity.\" Even though he will remain as the powerful first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party, Cuban government officials say Raul Castro is expected to live in semi-retirement in Cuba's second largest city Santiago de Cuba, where residents there say he recently built this house and where Fidel Castro was buried in 2016. Castro is stepping down as the economy of Cuba's close ally, Venezuela, implodes relations with the U.S. or at the worst point in decades and thousands of Cubans are still recovering from Hurricane Irma.", "It must be a very difficult thing to be the president of Cuba. They have a bureaucracy with the great people who are afraid to do it. It's a tough challenge situation so everything has to come back up to you.", "What is certain is that whoever the next president of Cuba is, they have their work cut out for them. Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana.", "Cuba's National Assembly has begun voting for Castro's successor and the results we are told should be announced on Thursday. That is per Cuba's state run media. Live from Abu Dhabi this is Connect the World. I'm Becky Anderson with you. Coming up, he was a journalist and a gentleman, ahead, we're going to take a look at the incredible life of one of our own, the late Richard Blystone."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "OPPMANN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "OPPMANN", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-57365", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-7-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/11/lt.03.html", "summary": "California Sees High Temperatures, Humidity", "utt": ["I want to bring in a former colleague of mine and a friend, Willa Sandmeyer. She works for KTLA in Southern California. She is where -- you should be at the beach, but, Willa, it looks like the fog might have finally come in.", "That's right. We actually have some coastal fog, and Daryn, it is good to be talking with you directly on the air again. We're down here at the coast, and this is where some people may be seeking relief from the heat that has just been baking Southern California for the past several days. Triple-digit temperatures, I heard Orelon mentioning a high of 108 in Las Vegas. How about a high of 113 in Palmdale, that is just north of Los Angeles, a desert suburban community. But here at the coast, we do have in the summer a weather pattern that occasionally will happen where we have coastal fog. It just kind of hugs the coast for quite a while, keeps things quite a bit cooler. So highs in this area around 70 degrees. And as I mentioned, this is where some people may be coming today to try to escape from the heat. Just a few miles inland, Daryn, it's much, much hotter.", "Yes, and that must be welcome relief to see the fog there, Willa, along the coast. Let's bring Orelon back in -- Orelon, it took a little bit of time there for the fog to kind of move in along the coast. I guess there was a high pressure system, to use a little bit of your lingo, keeping that off.", "Well, there is a big high pressure ridge. What probably happened there -- you got to remember, it is like 8:00 in the morning out there. So it is not really that unusual to get a little coastal fog. Remember that the water is really cold out here. So when you get that cold -- that warm air, the cold air actually move inland, and what you are going to get is it condenses very quickly. And that's where you get the fog from. Usually, about this time of morning, should break down by a little bit later this afternoon. I give it three hours or so, it will start to break up a bit. But, the problem is you are going to be so humid across this area for Los Angeles, that temperature at 84 degrees this afternoon, that it is going to feel like you're up close to 90 degrees. And of course, if you head just inland, places like Palmdale, that you mentioned, Twentynine Palms, those temperature will already be in the hundreds later today. And if you look at the current temperature, look how cool it is at Los Angeles, 66 degrees. So that explains some of the fog situation there -- ain't going to last, though, and it is going to be hot for the next several days.", "Fog is going away, humidity is coming in. Just write it off to a bad hair day in", "Better believe it. Because you think about it, the dew point is 66 degrees right now, that's like Atlanta sticky, so...", "That's frizzy.", "Yes.", "All right. Want to say thanks to Willa, want to say thank you to Willa as well. Willa Sandmeyer, KTLA. We used to work together back in our Santa Barbara days, we know all about heat and fog...", "That's right.", "...and all that kind of stuff.", "But you know, the humidity that Orelon was mentioning, I'm telling you, we're not used to that out here. You know, regularly our humidity may only in the 20's, and when we get down with those really dry, hot conditions it might be in the teens. This morning, Daryn, our humidity was at 87 percent.", "Wow.", "So we feel like we are just wilting out here. It is something that you're much more accustomed to there on the East Coast. But that's really a major contributing factor, as Orelon was mentioning, in making the temperatures that we are having feel even hotter.", "Well, we will send cool thoughts your way. And we will try to think of a dry heat for you, Willa. Thanks for stopping by, and try to stay cool today.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "WILLA SANDMEYER, KTLA CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "ORELON SIDNEY, CNN WEATHER ANCHOR", "KAGAN", "L.A. SIDNEY", "KAGAN", "SIDNEY", "KAGAN", "SANDMEYER", "KAGAN", "SANDMEYER", "KAGAN", "SANDMEYER", "KAGAN", "SANDMEYER"]}
{"id": "CNN-349041", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-08-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/31/nday.04.html", "summary": "\"RBG\" Premieres Monday On CNN At 9 p.m.; Celebrities And Fans Say Final Farewell To The \"Queen of Soul\"; Prince Harry's Singing Wows \"Hamilton\" Crowd.", "utt": ["At least seven people were killed in a head-on collision between a semitruck and Greyhound bus in New Mexico. You can see the horrible aftermath on your screen. Police say the accident was caused when the truck blew a tire, sending the vehicle across the median and into oncoming traffic. Passengers tried to climb out the windows and bystanders grabbed ladders to help them escape.", "A California man charged with making a series of threats to \"Boston Globe\" employees that echo President Trump's anti-press message. Prosecutors say 68-year-old Robert Chain was angry after the paper encouraged the press to publish editorials standing up to the president. Court documents show that Chain called the paper saying quote, \"You're the enemy of the people and we're going to kill every f***ing one of you.\" Now to be fair, the president has never said that.", "Well, he said that we're the enemy of the people.", "He said the enemy of the people. He has not said we're going to kill every f***ing one of you.", "OK. But somebody who is unhinged is parroting those words.", "I -- no, no, absolutely. Clearly, yes. Police say Chain made at least 14 threatening calls to the \"Globe's\" newsroom.", "I mean, look, this is a real world consequence --", "Absolutely and we had shootings --", "-- of labeling the free press as the enemy.", "We had shootings at a newspaper in Maryland. I mean, this is a very serious issue and you should not -- you should be very careful of what you say.", "Yes. I mean, and that guy -- you know, they interviewed him. He's as unhinged --", "Yes.", "-- as they come and obviously, gets what he thinks are his marching orders from somewhere. Meanwhile, Detroit is saying its final farewell to the \"Queen of Soul\" today. Aretha Franklin's funeral has a star-studded line-up of speakers and performers coming to celebrate her life. And that's where we find CNN's Ryan Young. He's in Detroit with more on how she will be remembered -- Ryan.", "Alisyn, look, everybody wants to come to this funeral and about a few hours ago they said that people from the general public could show up to this funeral. Just to show you, Detroit has really showed up. They all are here, all lined up at this point because they want to pay their respects to the \"Queen of Soul\". And as you see all these people, one of the things that's kind of an issue right now is there's no tickets to get inside that funeral. There's been a lot of conversation about who they're going to let in and who's not going to make it in. On the other side of this, though, you have all the pink Cadillacs that are starting to line up down the street as part of the procession. So all of this is happening at the same time. Of course, people want to pay their respects to someone they consider not only an icon in the civil rights movements, but someone they consider an icon for Detroit, so you feel a lot of passion here. And as we look at the list of some of the speakers who are going to be here, we know Bill Clinton is going to be here. We know Rev. Jesse Jackson is also going to be here as well. But you can feel the energy just in terms of the fact that people really want to get a chance to be able to say thank you to the \"Queen of Soul\". She never left Detroit. And as we've seen this year, we know this is going to be a gospel service that's going to last quite some time. They said about five hours but people here are already thinking that it's going to last maybe seven hours when it comes to this funeral because this will be a chance to really pay the homage to a woman who meant so much to this city. Again, it will be interesting to see how they deal with this line that stretches for blocks because people want to get inside. So, over the next few hours we'll see how it all goes.", "Wow, Ryan, look at the people behind you who have come dressed in their finest -- sometimes, you know, Sunday wear --", "Absolutely.", "-- to honor her.", "Yes.", "A 5-hour --", "It's an Easter --", "-- gospel concert will be really important to watch.", "All right. The royal surprise at a benefit performance of \"Hamilton.\" Prince Harry not throwing away his shot.", "He wowed the London crowd by suddenly bursting into song. CNN's Jeanne Moos has the video.", "It's a break-up song King George III sings to American revolutionaries in the musical \"Hamilton.\" \"", "You'll be back soon you see. You'll remember you belong to me.", "No wonder the audience ate it up when the King's real-life grand, grand, grand, grand, grand, grandson opened his mouth and out it came.", "You say --", "OK. Prince Harry sang only the first two -- count 'em -- two words. They couldn't coax more out of him.", "That's definitely not going to happen.", "\"People\" reports his wife Meghan saying, \"Harry loved Hamilton and now he can't stop singing the songs.\"", "You say --", "The audience tends to go nuts no matter how little a celebrity sings. Remember when President Obama paid homage to Al Green?", "I, so in love with you.", "Bill Clinton made a splash playing the sax.", "(Playing saxophone).", "But when it comes to singing John Lennon's \"Imagine,\" we can only imagine he did it because he was put on the spot --", "Imagine all the people --", "-- coaxed into a duet by an Israeli singer celebrating Shimon Peres' birthday.", "\"Imagine.\"", "Hillary Clinton also sang a duet with herself, played by Kate McKinnon on \"", "We know that there's always tomorrow.", "And then-candidate Trump went all out in an \"SNL\" parody of \"Hotline Bling.\"", "And you used to call me on the cellphone.", "Cell phones captured not only Prince Harry singing -- check out the cast member behind Prince Charming. She's not just charmed, she's gobsmacked.", "You say -- Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.", "You're unredeemable. I have decided you're completely unredeemable because two words -- he sang two words.", "It's not just that I love Harry and Meghan. It's that", "Which you -- which you do.", "Which I do. I love their story. I love the fairytale. But I also love when people burst into song as you know I'm known to do but I can't carry a tune, which is the tragedy of my life. I'm going to take singing lessons. I just said it.", "Harry can help you just like he can help everyone.", "Can he? OK. And now I'm even more intrigued by the possibility.", "And now I'm even more creeped out. All right, we're following a lot of news this morning. We better get to it.", "Our Justice Department have to start doing their job.", "His idea that the Mueller investigation is illegal just doesn't sit right on its face.", "He just better not do anything to take away the power of Bob Mueller.", "I'd just like to have Jeff Sessions do his job. The job entails two sides, not one side.", "It sounds like close of business on the day of election. Jeff Sessions will be out looking for a new job.", "He'd much prefer that the attorney general do his bidding in terms of who to investigate.", "The country has fallen in love with John McCain this week."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "RYAN YOUNG, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CAMEROTA", "YOUNG", "CAMEROTA", "YOUNG", "CAMEROTA", "YOUNG", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HAMILTON\" CAST MEMBER (Singing)", "MOOS", "PRINCE HARRY, DUKE OF SUSSEX (Singing)", "MOOS", "PRINCE HARRY", "MOOS", "PRINCE HARRY (Singing)", "MOOS", "BARACK OBAMA, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (Singing)", "MOOS", "BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MOOS", "CLINTON AND LIEL, ISRAELI SINGER (Singing duet)", "MOOS", "CLINTON AND LIEL (Singing duet)", "MOOS", "SNL.\" HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE AND KATE MCKINNON, ACTOR, NBC \"SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE\" (Singing duet)", "MOOS", "TRUMP", "MOOS", "PRINCE HARRY (Singing)", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "I -- BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CLAPPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE"]}
{"id": "CNN-250280", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2015-02-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/27/wolf.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Will Hunt Down Terrorists; Hunting Down Terrorists", "utt": ["A big part of the fight to protect the U.S. homeland is focused squarely on ISIS. The attorney general of the United States, Eric Holder, insists the United States is committed to bringing those terrorists to justice, including the ISIS fighter known as Jihadi John, the man seen in several of the terror group's beheading videos has now been identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born, college- educated London man. Here's what Eric Holder told CNN's Pamela Brown.", "We have shown that it doesn't matter how long it takes. It doesn't matter where you are. We'll find you. We'll hunt you down. And we will hold you accountable.", "But in a war zone like Syria, can you really do that?", "Whether it's through the use of our military, through the use of our law enforcement capacity, if you harm Americans, it is the sworn duty of every person in the executive branch to find you and hold you accountable.", "An intensive search is underway right now for at least four Canadian teenagers who may have flown to the Middle East to join ISIS. Canadian authorities are also investigating more young people who could have followed a similar path. And there has been a new arrest in the deadly shootings that terrorized Copenhagen, Denmark earlier this month. Police now say a young man has been charged with helping the suspected gunman. Two people were killed when the shooter opened fire on a free speech forum. And, once again, a few hours later, outside a synagogue in Copenhagen. The gunman was later shot and killed by local police. Lots to discuss. Let's bring in your Law Enforcement Analyst, the former FBI assistant director, Tom Fuentes. And joining us from Colorado, our CNN Security and Intelligence Analyst, the former CIA operative, Bob Baer. Let's talk about, Tom, the hunt. The hunt for Jihadi John, as he's called. We're learning a lot more about this guy. And he doesn't necessarily fit the pattern of someone who was isolated, poor, didn't have a job. He was pretty sophisticated, highly educated, come from a relatively upper middle class background.", "No, I agree, Wolf. You know, I think there's been too much said by the administration and many people trying to create a profile of only the down and out, only the people that can't get jobs or are uneducated join ISIS or join the extremist terrorists around the world. And we've seen example after example of well-educated people joining who really believe that's the fundamental true religion that they're signing up for. Now, granted, many of them are garden variety psychopaths on top of that and enjoy the killing that they're doing. But there is a basis for that thinking as well. So, we can't pigeonhole that people have joined ISIS into just that -- the down trodden.", "Bob Baer, you know, there's a lot of investigations underway now, a lot of soul searching in the U.K. over whether or not they made a major blunder in letting this guy get out of the country. He apparently had been watched for a long time by British surveillance and all of a sudden he slows up and he's beheading individuals on videotape.", "Exactly, Wolf. I mean, as Tom said, we can't profile these people. And right now we're not even sure how he was recruited. Was it on the Internet? Was it related to the 2005 tube bombings? Why did he choose to pick the Somali conflict? Why, in his mind, was that a great act of injustice? And how that goes from the Islamic State? There's so much we don't know. What's interesting for me is the British didn't, you know, do a full investigation from the beginning once they had identified him from voice analysis. They didn't go to neighbors. They didn't look into this. They had other operational considerations, which I understand. But only now are the details coming out. And once we start talking to the families and friends will we understand how this conversion happened. But, again, I go back to - and Tom and I have talked about this before, you really can't blame the British for not arresting him. He hadn't committed a crime. And by the time he got away, it was too late for them to do anything.", "Was there a misstep, you believe, based on what we know right now by British intelligence or law enforcement, the security personnel?", "No, I don't think so. And when I was running international operations, we worked closely with MI5. And I remember as far back 10 years ago, when the bombings happened in the underground and on the bus in London, the head of MI5 then said, we can't follow everybody. We don't have the resources. And now you probably have 10 or 20 times as many people as need to be followed and I would gather that they have not had the significant increase in resources to do it. So this is going to happen over and over and over. It can happen in our country or Canada or anywhere in Europe. And it's just going to continue.", "Yes. And I know, as you just heard Eric Holder saying, they're looking for this guy. They want to bring him to justice, this so-called \"Jihadi John.\"", "Right.", "We'll see what happens. Guys, stand by. There's other important news we're following, including this -- he was the stuff of science fiction legend. We have sad news to report from Los Angeles. The actor, Leonard Nimoy, has died. \"The Los Angeles Times\" and \"The New York Times\" confirmed the death by speaking with his family. Leonard Nimoy will, of course, be remembered around the world as Spock, the half human, half Vulcan character he portrayed on the \"Star Trek\" series and movies. The actor had chronic lung disease caused by years of smoking. Leonard Nimoy was 83 years old. Up next, we're going to speak with one of his friends, the \"Star Trek\" cast member George Takei. You may know him as Mr. Sulu. Stay with us. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "ERIC HOLDER, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL", "PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "HOLDER", "BLITZER", "TOM FUENTES, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "BLITZER", "BOB BAER, CNN SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE ANALYST", "BLITZER", "FUENTES", "BLITZER", "FUENTES", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-409893", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-09-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/02/nday.05.html", "summary": "Wisconsin Attorney General Interviewed on Investigation into Shooting of Jacob Blake by Kenosha Police; President Trump Visits Kenosha, Wisconsin, But Does Not Mention Jacob Blake's Name During Visit", "utt": ["Sharing your personal experience with us this morning.", "Thank you so much for having me. Thank you so much.", "NEW DAY continues right now.", "A National Institutes of Health panel says doctors should not use convalescent plasma for COVID-19.", "The data around that didn't really reflect reality of what those trials showed.", "It's great to talk about this utopian kind of idea where everybody has a test every day and we can do that. I don't live in a utopian world.", "Do you believe systemic racism is a problem in this country?", "We should talk about the kind of violence that we've seen here in Portland and here and other places.", "We're not talking politics. My son is an actual human being. So if you don't know my son's name, it's Jacob Blake.", "This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.", "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is NEW DAY. And wow, what an interview that just was that you had with Stephanie Winston Wolkoff who wrote the new book about Melania Trump. It was even better when I saw it the first time in \"Game of Thrones.\"", "Listen, there's so much in this book. It's a page-turner because she doesn't pull any punches. You heard her. She believed she had a best friend. She now feels very used. And so she explains how she got from there to here.", "I have to say, the machinations and the production over arranging the photo at the inauguration and Ivanka Trump sending pictures of where she wanted to be and what they did to make sure she wasn't there.", "It's all in here, and it's very juicy, but, as she said, sort of leaves you feeling dirty in some ways because of how calculating it is.", "Winter is coming, as they say in \"Game of Thrones.\" Big news this morning. More than 1,000 American lives lost to coronavirus in a single day, again. God help us if the country gets numb to that. This morning there is growing concern about a rise of cases in the Midwest. The White House Coronavirus Task Force is particularly concerned about Iowa, which you can see in red there. That state registered a 22 percent positivity rate in testing yesterday. Think about that. That's more than one in five people tested who had the virus. The task force is calling for a mask mandate, the closing of the bars, and a plan for reopening universities in Iowa. The governor there, though, has been reluctant. Sound familiar? As of this morning, more than 25,000 coronavirus cases have been reported at colleges and universities in at least 37 states. Iowa State University in Ames, one of the cities seeing the worst outbreak right now, is not only allowing football. It also plans to let 25,000 fans into the stadium to watch in a couple of weeks.", "Also this morning, a remarkable move from a medical panel at the National Institutes of Health. They say there is no evidence to support the use of convalescent plasma to treat coronavirus patients. That puts them at odds with President Trump and the FDA which has fast tracked approval of that treatment. We're following the fallout from President Trump's visit to Kenosha. He did not visit with Jacob Blake's family. In fact, he never said Jacob Blake's his name.", "So joining me now is the attorney general of Wisconsin, Josh Kaul, who is leading the state's investigation into the Blake shooting. Mr. Attorney General, thank you very much for being with us. So the president did go to Kenosha. The governor of Wisconsin didn't want him to. I don't think you wanted him to. Now that it's the morning after, now that the president did not mention Jacob Blake's name, what do you think the impact of that visit was?", "Thanks for having me. The reason we didn't want president Trump to come to Kenosha, and the mayor of Kenosha also asked him not to come, is that the situation on the ground has improved significantly over the last few days, but it's still a tense situation. And this president consistently fans the flames of tension rather than defuses the situations. And what we saw yesterday was, unfortunately, consistent with what we expected. He didn't acknowledge systemic racism. He didn't talk about condemning the violence that we saw from a vigilante who killed two people and shot a third person. It's not the kind of leadership we need, and hopefully we will see that kind of condemnation from the White House and somebody who is trying to unify people rather than divide us going forward.", "You just brought up Kyle Rittenhouse. He is the 17-year-old charged in two deaths in the protests there. I know your office is not investigating him per se, but I do want to know what you think the impact on enforcing the law is when the president in a way offers a defense for the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse. What are your concerns that the impact of that will be going forward?", "It makes our communities less safe when the president does this. Going all the way back to Charlottesville when the president talked about there being very fine people on both sides, he's refused to condemn vigilante violence, militia violence, white supremacist violence. We need to be clear that violence no matter what the motivation is unacceptable. Violence and destruction in our communities is not acceptable. It's a simple thing to say. We need the president to say it. When he doesn't say that, it emboldens people who are vigilantes like this. So I hope we see a clear condemnation soon.", "So your office is leading the investigation into the shooting of Jacob Blake. Can you give us an update on where that investigation stands and how much evidence you have collected?", "We're an independent investigating agency. We're now part of the Kenosha Police Department. We are the Wisconsin Department of Justice. That process ensures that the investigation will be conducted independently, but also with integrity. We want to have a full and thorough investigation. We're moving as swiftly as we can consistent with those goals, and we're vigorously pursuing justice. Over 80 witnesses have been interviewed, over 100 pieces of evidence has been collected, and the investigation continues to move forward.", "More than 20 videos, I understand. Is that just cell phone video, video from the area, or is there actual dash cam footage?", "There are a variety of texts and videos, but it does include dash cam video. The fact that a video was collected, though, I want to emphasize, doesn't mean that it shows anything that's relevant to the case necessarily. These are just videos that were collected. And the reason it's so important that we have such a thorough investigation here is so we can get to the truth of what happened. We can get justice for those involved, and the people of Kenosha will know that the investigation conducted here is one that was fair and thorough.", "And I know there's a lot you can't talk about with the investigation, so in broad terms, explain to me the policy in Wisconsin for police to use their firearms. When it is justified?", "An officer is allowed to use deadly force or force that potentially could be deadly if the officer reasonably believes that a person threatens either their life or the life of a third person or to cause serious bodily injury to them or a third person, if that threat is imminent.", "So explain to people so they understand who have seen the video where they see what appears to be Jacob Blake moving away from the officers, how then could that pose a reasonable threat to an officer?", "I'm not going to weigh in on the ultimate merits of the investigation. Ultimately a charging decision is going to be made by a prosecutor here. But we want to gather every piece of evidence we can that bears on that question of whether there was any imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to either an officer or to a third person so that we have as full of a case as possible so that if no charges end up being brought in this case, it's as clear to the public why that's the case as possible. And if charges are brought, that the case is as strong as possible and that the prosecution will be as strong as possible.", "Hypothetically, can someone pose a reasonable threat to an officer if they're moving away from an officer?", "I don't want to weigh in on hypotheticals. Our goal is collect the facts as fully and fairly as possible. And ultimately the prosecutor is going to make a judgment about whether there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt for charges. And if charges are brought, a jury is going to make the decision about where that -- where the facts are and how the standard applies to the facts.", "Attorney General Josh Kaul, we do appreciate your time. Thanks so much for being with us this morning.", "Thanks for having me.", "Joining us now, CNN political commentator Van Jones and CNN White House correspondent John Harwood. Van, I want to start with you about the president's trip to Kenosha quickly. He didn't meet with the Blake family. Do you understand what the point of that trip was?", "No, I don't. But I do know that the longer we talk about violence and unrest and how he's handling it or not handling, it's all advantage Trump. In other words, this campaign is going well for Donald Trump because we're not talking about the economic devastation that people are experiencing, or the virus really. I think it's time for us to recognize we are in a very perilous situation if you want to see a change in November. We have two social movements. Both have edges of violence to them, one on the left, one on the right. I think it's baked in that Donald Trump is not going to challenge very strongly the police violence and the vigilante violence, and a lot of people, frankly, are comfortable with that. The question is, how are Democrats and progressives going to deal with the edges of violence in our own movement? I think that Joe Biden can actually begin to move his own movement in a better direction, lead a national moratorium on these nighttime marches. That would separate the responsible, productive demonstrations that have united the whole world from some of these other demonstrations that are just not as useful. There are things that Joe Biden and other progressives can do. They can begin to push down on the violence in our movement, and then turn it back toward the people who are actually suffering. The businesses -- there have been a couple of hundred businesses that have been hurt by arsonists. There have been thousands that have been destroyed by mishandling this virus. We've got to get off of this conversation around unrest and back to the conversation around the literally millions of people who are suffering from the Trump economy and the mishandling of the virus.", "Along those lines, John Harwood, I can't help but notice this was, Wisconsin is in the Midwest and is awfully close to Iowa where there has been this incredible rise in coronavirus cases, a 22 percent positivity rate yesterday. The president was right there. He was right next door. What did he say about the pandemic when he made his visit to the Midwest yesterday?", "He didn't focus on the pandemic at all. And that's part of the point that Van is making. I will say, though, that Americans are living through this pandemic. They know day to day about the economic dislocation in their communities. They know about the death toll in their communities. So I'm not sure trying to talk about something else when Americans are living that reality is necessarily all that effective. But what we've seen from the president is he's affirming exactly what Joe Biden says he's doing. Joe Biden is going, saying I condemn violence on the left, I condemn violence on the right. Most police are good, most protesters are good, let's pull the country together. Donald Trump is saying, no, I'm not doing that. I am trying to do divide. I am not going to say Jacob Blake's name. I'm not going to talk about systemic racism. I'm only going to focus on the police and people supporting the police. I'm going to cheer on, egg on these white vigilantes who have injected themselves into the situation. And his calculation in a campaign that he's losing is that if I can turn the temperature high enough, then I can bring out the salience of fears among white people about the ways the country is changing and make them concerned for their safety. There is not a lot of evidence so far that that's working. The vast majority of the people say the country is headed in the wrong direction, but we're going to watch the polling over the next couple of weeks and see in the aftermath of these conventions whether this shift in the conversation that Van referred to is going to be effective.", "Yes, what about that, Van? As John just said, former VP Biden did come out and unequivocally condemn the violence. But are you saying it hasn't been loud enough, not enough people on your side, the Democratic side, are doing it? How do you -- do you think he can seize this moment in a different way?", "Look, I think the vast majority of people remember the summer where we had massive, peaceful protests, people of every color, every kind. You had white people doing peaceful protests, talking about Black Lives Matter in Utah where there ain't no black people. That was, people said it was maybe the biggest social justice movement in history of humanity, just this summer, overwhelmingly nonviolent. And I think that, we've got to get back to that sense of good will and unity coming together to solve tough problems. And right now that's being overshadowed by some of the edges of unrest on either side, mostly on the vigilante side, but some on the progressive side as well. How do you do that? First of all, I do think a moratorium on nighttime marches would be a useful common ground that Biden could be a part of. I think also we're coming up on 200,000 deaths. There should be a national week of mourning where we bring forward all of these voices, all of these stories of the people that we lost. I think also people are tired of the lockdown, and when you only say us saying we're going to follow the science, people start to get afraid that Biden is going to keep us locked down. The chink in Trump's armor that has not been exploited is the need for tests for all. It is possible to have a national program for testing for everybody on a regular basis, and that would let you open up the economy and the schools safely. Donald Trump doesn't like the tests. Let's mourn the people who are suffering. Let's focus on the businesses that have been destroyed by his mishandling of the economy. And let's also have a real solution, tests for all, which would open things up. We have got to get back to our solution set. We've got to get back to the economy and COVID. We cannot stay in a conversation, no, you're for violence, no, you're for violence, no you're for violence. That all plays to Donald Trump because we're not talking about the things that most people care about, as Mr. Harwood just mentioned.", "The president is not talking about that stuff at all, for sure, John Harwood. Instead he is twice in two days inventing this crazy story about a plane. First, he says it was a plane coming to D.C., then he said it was a plane going to D.C. The plane is going somewhere, he can't figure out where the plane is going, but he's convinced that he had someone who told him that it was a plane full of what he calls thugs going to demonstrate somewhere, either in Washington or a different city. He can't seem to figure out which one. But no one at the White House or the Trump White House can provide a shred of evidence that this plane exists or that someone actually told him about the plane. So what's going on here? Is this a delusion? Is this a lie or is it option \"C,\" all of the above?", "Well, probably option \"C\". But we do know on Facebook, rumors of some vague event of this kind had been circulating, The president tends to circulate things that he sees online. What the president is doing and again we were talking about this before, he's been losing support this year among white suburbanites, especially women, among his white working class supporters. And so, he's trying to change that equation. What he's doing with this rumor is inviting people to imagine their worst fears about people coming to their communities, people coming to get you. He doesn't have evidence for it, but that's not the point. The point is to make people afraid. I also think it is not irrelevant. You were talking in the last hour about this ABC report about the Russians encouraging the speculation about Joe Biden's mental fitness and the Trump campaign is doing the same thing. This kind of encouragement of division and racial incitement is precisely what Russian intelligence had been doing in 2016 and what they're doing right now. We know from Robert Mueller that the president welcomed the Russian assistance in 2016. There's every reason to believe as they curtail the intelligence briefing for members on the Hill that he's doing the same thing. He's simply trying this as a tactic, trying to magnify the extent of division on the idea that that will help him, that will revive some of his flagging support among white people, and we do not know whether that's going to be effective.", "John Harwood, Van Jones, thank you both so much for being with us this morning. A quick programming note. Be sure to join Wolf Blitzer for an exclusive hour-long interview with Attorney General William Barr. Watch it on \"THE SITUATION ROOM\" today at 5:00 p.m., only on", "As we mentioned, Iowa now has the highest coronavirus infection rate in the United States. Why it's spreading there, why are they going to put 25,000 people in a stadium to watch a football game? What's being done about it? That's next.", "Plus, we've been talking about suburban white women who voted for President Trump in 2016. How do they feel after his coronavirus response?", "So, just to be clear, L.A. You don't believe that 183,000 Americans have died?", "Not of COVID, no.", "I want you to know that I'm nurse. And I've been a nurse for 27 years and the response to the pandemic has actually been President Trump's greatest achievement.", "OK. We'll fact check some of those things when we get the pulse of the people, next."], "speaker": ["ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "STEPHANIE WINSTON WOLKOFF, AUTHOR, \"MELANIA AND ME\"", "CAMEROTA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "JOSH KAUL, (D) WISCONSIN ATTORNEY GENERAL", "BERMAN", "KAUL", "BERMAN", "KAUL", "BERMAN", "KAUL", "BERMAN", "KAUL", "BERMAN", "KAUL", "BERMAN", "KAUL", "BERMAN", "KAUL", "CAMEROTA", "VAN JONES, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BERMAN", "JOHN HARWOOD, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "CAMEROTA", "JONES", "BERMAN", "JOHN HARWOOD, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "CNN. BERMAN", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "CAMEROTA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-128862", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2008-7-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/21/lkl.01.html", "summary": "\"New York Times\" Refuses To Publish John McCain", "utt": ["Welcome back to LARRY KING LIVE. Filling in for Mr. King, my name is Glenn Beck. We want to introduce a couple new people to you. Ben Stein is a commentator, economist, attorney, actor, TV personality, a just generally good guy. He's got a new book out, \"How To Ruin the United States of America.\" He also supports McCain. He is also the host of a movie called \"Expelled.\" Jamal Simmons is an adviser to the Democratic National Committee who supports Obama. And David Gergen is returning with us again. Ben, let me start with you. \"The New York Times\" has decided not publish an op-ed submitted by John McCain in response to the op-ed on Iraq by Barack Obama. It was published last week. This time, the newspaper issued a statement. And it says, if I may quote: \"It is standard procedure on our op-ed page, and that of other newspapers, to go back and forth with an author on his or her submission. We look forward to publishing Senator McCain's views in our paper, just as we have in the past. We have published at least seven op-ed pieces by Senator McCain since 1996. 'The New York Times' endorsed Senator McCain as the Republican candidate in the presidential primaries. We take his views very seriously.\" Do you buy any of that, Ben?", "Well, I can tell you this, as a person who's been a columnist for a number of years for \"The New York Times,\" they're very, very strict and often extremely maddening in their requirements and requests of columnists. So I do take it seriously. I mean I gather what Senator McCain said was a little vague. I'm positive that if he works with them, they will run what he has to say. But can I go back to something you said a moment ago in your previous group? You know, why is the media so in love with Barack Obama? This is something that goes beyond anything I've ever seen. A friend of mine said, oh, they love him because he's African-American, he's the affirmative action candidate. That's not true. The media ripped Jesse Jackson to pieces. They don't even pay any attention to Alan Keyes. Something is going on here that transcends race, that transcends the historical uniqueness. It's like a mad junior high school crush between the media and Obama. It's like a junior high school crush for the first time someone's ever been in love.", "Jamal, don't you think that it is the media elites and the extreme left? They're in love with him. We've never had a candidate this far left.", "No, I don't think so.", "McGovern was this far left.", "I don't think so.", "OK. No, no...", "But the real issue here.", "That wasn't the question.", "The real issue here...", "That was...", "That was the question you asked Ben.", "That was not the question.", "I know. The question to you is about -- about...", "I thought you were trying to be a straight host tonight.", "I can't do it. I can't...", "You can't do it, can you, Glenn?", "I tried to", "Well, actually, there is a question that he is the most liberal Senator in the Congress.", "There is?", "And there is. I mean you...", "Look at the record.", "I mean just because you declare it, doesn't make it so. You're not Jeb Bush. This isn't Florida. And so I think you've got to -- I think you've got to take a look at Barack Obama's entire record and you've got say that, listen...", "You're right.", "...this is a guy who was...", "You're right.", "...who was for -- not for going into the war in Iraq because he knew it was wrong. He's got the judgment. This is a guy who said that we needed more troops in Afghanistan. Now everyone else is saying that we need more troops in Afghanistan. He said he was for a time line. Now Mr. Maliki and President Bush and everyone else is talking about timelines or time horizons or whatever else it is. So he's been a leader out here in the mainstream of where Americans are. If you look at the American public, 60 percent of the people agree that it's time for us to get out of Iraq and come on home.", "OK. Let me go to David Gergen. I want to play an ad that John McCain was running and ask you if you think this is fair at all. Here's the ad.", "Gas prices $4, $5 -- no end in sight, because some in Washington are still saying no to drilling in America, no to independence from foreign oil. Who can you thank for rising prices at the pump?", "Obama! Obama!", "I mean that -- that's not fair at all. John McCain is just as responsible for high gas prices in -- at the pump as Barack Obama is right now. Neither of them wanted to drill for oil. They both had the same policy. That's not fair, is it?", "No. I thought that ad was fine until it got to that line about who can you blame. And then you show Obama. And what we didn't hear there was the cheering in the background -- \"Obama! Obama! Obama!\"", "Right.", "You know, so I thought that line -- I thought that ad went way over the line. But I want to tell you, it's good to see Ben Stein back on the air so much. He offers trenchant observations.", "But I -- and I think it's worth recalling...", "And you're a handsome man.", "No. He does. And I just...", "You know, and...", "Yes. You can say oh, absolutely. But I want to tell you, you know, it wasn't so long ago that I remember a lot of people thought why in the world is this media in love with John McCain? You know, John -- the media was supposed to be his political base. You know, tell the media -- the media -- I think the media has -- is -- has something of a crush right now on Obama. But I think it comes and goes and I think they're going to be -- you know, I think they're struggling right now on how to get into a more balanced coverage. And that's why I think the McCain campaign has to provide something more themselves. They have to -- you know, we learned from the master, Ronald Reagan, that if you want to get media attention, you have to do it in ways that are dramatically interesting. He had a lot to say and he also did it in a dramatic way.", "Ben Stein?", "Well, I mean there's no -- there's just no two ways about it, McCain is an amazing human being. He's a great -- a genuinely great man. He's a pitiful campaigner. He's like the grandfather that -- your parents want you to have over to dinner and you say no, we know he's a war hero, but do we have to have dinner with him again? Whereas Obama is an incredibly good speaker. Every word he says is hackneyed left-wing platitude, but he's an incredibly good speaker. I mean McCain is just a very dismal campaigner. He's a great guy...", "So can you win...", "...but he's a dismal campaigner.", "Can you win like that, Ben Stein, in today's America?", "If somebody has...", "Could Abraham Lincoln win?", "Oh, yes. If somebody can rev him up and get him started, yes.", "Not the", "But I mean he's just not a crotchety old guy.", "Not the question.", "And an old folks home look about...", "Thomas Jefferson was a horrible public speaker. Abraham Lincoln, horrible public speaker. Could they win in America today?", "What are you talking about? What are you talking about?", "I don't think that's true.", "I mean come on...", "I don't think that's true. I think he was a great public speaker. He did that Lincoln-Douglas debates...", "He was absolutely compelling.", "He was kind of a great speaker. He was a kind of a great speaker. But I don't...", "Thomas Jefferson?", "I don't know, McCain's got a -- no, but Lincoln. I think he's got to do something quite dramatically better. And he's really got to change himself a lot.", "All right...", "And it can be done. Mrs. Clinton did it. It can be done.", "Hang on. We'll be right back. 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{"id": "CNN-83247", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2004-3-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/26/ltm.05.html", "summary": "Condoleezza Rice May Appear Before 9/11 Commission Again; Discussion with DNC Chairman", "utt": ["The White House wants a rebuttal. What's behind the request to send National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice back to the 9/11 Commission. The heavy hitters in the Democratic Party put on a show of unity for the new leader of the party. And gun talk.", "His shotgun was basically an accident waiting to happen.", "The defense is setting its sights on the central piece of evidence in the Jayson Williams manslaughter trial. Williams' former attorney speaks to us on this", "From the CNN broadcast center in New York, this is AMERICAN MORNING with Bill Hemmer and Soledad O'Brien.", "And good morning. Welcome, everybody. Bill Hemmer is off today. Miles O'Brien is sitting in for him. Nice to have you, as always.", "It's good to be here. Everybody else is off. Should I take that as a hint?", "It's nothing personal.", "OK.", "I'm going to write that down -- take vacation when Hemmer does.", "Other stories we're following this morning -- is there a danger now to Pakistan's president after that new audiotape is played? It's said to be the voice of al Qaeda's number two. We'll talk to a journalist who has interviewed Ayman al-Zawahiri and we'll look at what influence he still might wield in Pakistan.", "Also this morning, a request from the mother of the woman who is accusing Kobe Bryant of sexual assault. She's asking for a speedy trial. Will it change the court's schedule? We take a look at that.", "And without Jack here, let's get right to the headlines. The FBI director, Robert Mueller, is reportedly saying terrorists could be planning to influence this year's presidential elections. Mueller told the Associated Press al Qaeda and other extremist groups could attack this summer during the presidential nominating conventions in New York and Boston. He also said that Islamic extremists could try to recruit local sympathizers who are less likely to arouse suspicion. In Taiwan, a violent protest outside the country's election commission building. Demonstrators stormed the building as the commission certified incumbent President Chen Shui-bian as the winner of last weekend's political election. Some opposition supporters have been demanding a recount. Chen won the election by 30,000 votes. About 300,000 votes were declared involved. Connecticut's governor says a fiery tanker crash could snarl traffic on a major highway for weeks. A tanker truck crashed and burned on Interstate 95 in Bridgeport, Connecticut last night. The mile long stretch of highway links New York and Boston. The fire was so intense that it melted a part of an overpass. Traffic is being detoured. A section of the highway could be closed for months. A judge in the Tyco trial has denied a defense motion for a mistrial. Former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and the company's former CFO accused of stealing $600 million from the company. Jurors raised the possibility yesterday they may not be able to reach a verdict. In a note, they said the atmosphere in the jury room has turned poisonous. Jury deliberations expected to resume today. And in sports, the Crimson tide turning out to be the Cinderella team of March Madness. Alabama beat defending national champion, Syracuse, 80-71 in the Phoenix regional semifinals last night and that's just five days after stunning Stanford, the nation's number one ranked team and the region's top seed. And Soledad is still trying to get over that.", "Yes.", "I'm so sorry.", "Thank you, whoever wrote that, for reminding me that I have not a chance now.", "They kind of stuck it to you on that one, didn't they?", "Yes, kind of.", "Yes.", "Yes. That's all right. I'll get them back.", "National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice may appear before the 9/11 Commission again. The White House Counsel's Office has now written to the Commission seeking to have Dr. Rice testify, but not in public. Suzanne Malveaux at the White House for us this morning with more -- hey, Suzanne, good morning again.", "Good morning, Soledad. Well, Dr. Rice has offered up time before the 9/11 Commission to answer those questions privately, not to testify publicly, as the Commission would like. She did this back in February for more than about four and a half hours or so. But the reason why this is so urgent for the White House is that she has come under particular criticism, scrutiny, by Richard Clarke, as you know, President Bush's former counter-terrorism chief. He essentially said that she was incompetent, that there were two 9/11 hijackers that were in the country. Had she been doing her job, perhaps they would have been apprehended before this plot unfolded. These are the type of statements the White House feels that it has to fight back and fight back furiously. In that letter by White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, he says, \"In light of yesterday's hearings, in which there was a number of mischaracterizations of Dr. Rice's statements and positions, Dr. Rice requests to meet again privately with the Commission.\" But it is important to note, Soledad, of course the White House has not changed its position when it comes to testifying publicly. They say that will not happen. They don't believe that an adviser to the president who was not confirmed by the Senate should have to go before a legislatively created body and testify -- Soledad.", "Suzanne, how do you think politics is affecting how the White House is responding to this whole controversy?", "Well, as you can imagine, the pressure has been tremendous to try to get her out there publicly, this coming from Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, as well as other commissioners, who said outright that they did not understand why it was that she could call reporters back into her office, why it was that she was in front of television cameras giving interviews and was not going to testify publicly before the Commission. Even family members are saying the same thing, as well. This shows -- and the White House certainly hopes to give the message -- that they are cooperating with the Commission. But they are going to do so on their own terms -- Soledad.", "Suzanne Malveaux at the White House for us this morning. Suzanne, thanks. For the Democrats, it was a record setting night in Washington, D.C. Hand in hand, the party's big names stood as the torch of leadership was passed to presidential nominee in waiting, Senator John Kerry. The fundraiser brought in some $11 million to the Democratic coffers. Senator Kerry looked forward, he said, to a successful campaign against President Bush.", "Never has the Democratic Party been more united than it is today. Never have we been more poised to win a victory in November.", "Terry McCauliffe is the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, joining us from Washington this morning. Nice to see you, Terry. Thanks for being with us.", "Good to be back with you, Soledad.", "You raised $11 million last night. That's the good news. Of course, the bad news is that you're still $100 million or so, roughly speaking, behind the", "Right.", "What's your strategy for trying to catch up? Or do you think that you're just never going to make it?", "Well, they're always going to have more money than we have, Soledad. If we can keep the ratio to two to one, that's fine. I remind you, in the 2000 election, that the Bush campaign outspent the Gore campaign by $178 million and we did get 500,000 more votes. We're doing great. The DNC has had the biggest four months in the history of our party. Last night shattered the all time record by double. We have $25 million in the bank at the DNC, no debt for the first time in the history of our party. So we're going to have enough, Soledad, to be competitive, to get our message out. I don't care how much money George Bush has. He can run all the ads he wants, he can't convince someone that they have a job when they don't. To the 48 1/2 million Americans with no health insurance, he can't convince them with ads that they have health insurance and that the education system is working in this country. So we're very comfortable where we are today.", "Yes, but there might be lots of people on the fence who would be convinced by an ad.", "Right.", "And they certainly have enough -- the GOP, that is, certainly has enough money to run lots of those.", "Right.", "But I want to ask you a little bit about the love fest last night.", "Right.", "You saw Senator Kerry surrounded by former Presidents Clinton and Carter. Senator Edwards was there. Howard Dean, as well, was there. He talked a little bit, joked, actually, about how he hopes that he could sort of utilize them over the next several months.", "Right.", "Let's listen to a little bit of what he said.", "Right.", "I was going to ask -- missed President Clinton as he came out and I wanted to ask both President Clinton and President Carter what are you doing every night for the next eight months? I think everybody here would agree that tonight we were treated, and the country was treated -- and I hope they heard two extraordinary American leaders tell it like it is. And...", "He was joking, of course, when he wanted to see if they could free up their schedules for the next eight months to basically help support his campaign.", "Right.", "But seriously, though, he certainly is going to try to leverage what they bring to the party. What specifically do you think Senator Kerry is going to do?", "Well, first of all, he wants to use the former presidents. He wants to use everybody who can help us get our message out across the country. I spoke to Senator Kerry after the dinner. He was very excited. We had Al Gore there. We had everybody there last night. We'd never had a party event like that in the history of our party. So he wants to utilize the former presidents. I mean clearly, if you go back and look at the Clinton-Gore administration, 22 million new jobs created, record surpluses. We now have deficits. We have three million jobs lost and millions of Americans with no health insurance. So the more Democrats we have out there reminding them what we had with 1992 through 2000, the greatest economic expansion in the history of our country -- you look at Jimmy Carter, a Nobel Prize winner, served with distinction, brought countries together, worked with nations throughout the world. So you bring the foreign policy, you bring the domestic agenda together. That's what you saw last night and that's what I think Americans are yearning to get back in the White House. And the failures of the Bush administration really were highlighted last night.", "Many analysts say the focus of this election is going to be, as it often is, on the economy. And we heard Senator Kerry saying that he plans to create 10 million jobs over the four years if he were elected and was in office.", "That's right.", "Easy to say, hard to do. How is he going to do it?", "Well, listen, you know, when President Clinton came into office, he said the same thing. We saw 22 million new jobs created. What John Kerry is going to do is get the economic engine of this country again. First, we going to do tax cuts, tax cuts to small businesses, tax cuts to middle income individuals out there across this country, to get the economic engine, to get the money in the hands of the people, you know, who need that money desperately today. Let's give someone a tax incentive to go out and hire someone. Let's do that for small businesses. He's got tax incentives for research and development. We can get this economy moving again. But the top one percent tax cut that all George Bush has relied upon hasn't worked. You just saw this week that Medicare now is in serious financial trouble. We saw two weeks ago Alan Greenspan say that Social Security is now in real financial trouble. He's created, George Bush has, a $520 billion deficit just this year. We've got to go back to surpluses. We've got to get the economic engine running. Only three out of 10 college graduates got a job last year. We've got to get everybody. We've got to go back to the days of full employment in this country, where people are moving, they're out spending money, getting the economic engine moving. And that's what John Kerry is all about. That's what this election is all going to be about -- jobs, education and health care.", "DNC Chairman Terry McCauliffe joining us.", "Thanks.", "Thanks.", "Thanks. Soledad.", "Miles?", "Still to come on the program, an audiotape calls for the death of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. It's believed to be the voice of al Qaeda's number two leader. We'll have more on that and reaction in Pakistan, coming up.", "In the Jayson Williams trial, the defense officers a contradictory theory on a crucial piece of evidence. A look at that is up next.", "And a harrowing ordeal for one California family and their son. We'll tell you how it all turned out. That's ahead on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "RICHARD ERNST, BALLISTICS EXPERT", "S. O'BRIEN", "AMERICAN MORNING. ANNOUNCER", "S. O'BRIEN", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. 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{"id": "NPR-16677", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2007-02-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7181398", "title": "Bloggers Need to Come Clean", "summary": "Microsoft raised eyebrows in December when it offered free laptops to some of the bloggers who review their products. Journalist and blogger Scott Kirsner discusses the ethical choice bloggers have to make in his op-ed that appeared in Sunday's San Jose Mercury News.", "utt": ["Right now, the TALK OF THE NATION Opinion Page. Microsoft raised eyebrows in December when it offered free laptops to some of the bloggers who review its software, and it wasn't the first time marketers approached blogs like this. Reporters, of course, generally follow the ethics rules of their publications and would never accept a freebie. But what about bloggers?", "Many of them want nothing to do with the mainstream media and pointedly make clear they are not journalists. In an op-ed in Sunday's San Jose Mercury News, Scott Kirsner, both a blogger and a journalist himself, argues that bloggers have a choice to make: be a source of information that their readers can trust or just an online version of an infomercial. And he says whatever their decision, blogs need to come clean with their readers.", "Scott Kirsner edits the blog CinemaTech. He's the author of the book \"The Future of Web Video,\" and he joins us now from the studios of member station KALW in San Francisco, and nice to have you back on the program today.", "It's great to be here.", "And we want to invite listeners to the conversation. If you rely on blogs for some of your news or reviews of equipment, would it bother you if those bloggers accepted free gifts from the companies or the people they cover? How do you decide which blogs you can trust and which you can't? 800-989-8255. E-mail is talk@npr.org. And Scott, some of the bloggers did accept free laptops from Microsoft, and some of them also disclosed that on their blogs.", "Yeah, it's true. I mean, one of the points that I make in my piece is that actually I think bloggers are having a much more open conversation with their readers than the traditional news media have ever had in terms of what are the rules of the game here? Are you allowed to accept a laptop worth about $2,000? Can you, if you're a blogger who covers restaurants, can you accept a free meal from a restaurant that wants promotion? Or maybe if you're a political blogger, what are the rules about volunteering for a campaign or making campaign donations?", "All those rules have been developed in radio and TV and print media over about 100 years. They've always kind of been a little bit of a secret. You know, there's an ethics policy that journalists have to sign when they work for a newspaper or a magazine. In the world of the blogosphere, though, what's fascinating is that these debates and discussions are happening out in the open, in the comment space on lots of blogs, including the ones that accepted free laptops from Microsoft last month.", "And does it turn out that the readers of blogs care about this?", "Well, I think there is definitely a division. With the Microsoft issue, some readers said no, you know, I understand that you're just an individual who publishes this blog about technology. It's okay with me if you take a free laptop. I would do the same thing. And in a way it almost kind of ratified the importance of these bloggers, that Microsoft thought they were influential enough to give them a free laptop.", "But there were some comments on a few of the blogs that said, you know, yeah, I feel like you've sold out. I feel like your credibility is gone. Whenever you write about Microsoft now, I'm going to remember the fact that they sent you this free laptop with their new Vista operating system on it, and I'm going to kind of, you know, look askance at anything positive that you might say about Microsoft in the future.", "And has anybody - have any of these bloggers had a, you know, note - you know, this blog typed on a free laptop from Microsoft?", "Well, you know, most of them were very straightforward about it, but you kind of got a little bit of this momentum effect, where once a few -there were about I think 100 bloggers that got this free laptop in December, right around Christmastime, appropriately enough; and once a few of them started to disclose it, others felt like they needed to disclose it, too.", "So it almost was this, you know, this mob mentality of, you know, if you're someone who got the free laptop, you suddenly felt like, oh gee, I'd better disclose this because other people are starting to talk about it too.", "You know, and you could view that as a positive thing, that most of these bloggers do disclose it. A lot of them, though, said I'm keeping it. A few of them said no, I'm going to send it back. And I think there was a third group that actually said I'm going to give it away on my blog, you know, as kind of a promotion for my blog, and that might have some ethical issues around it, too, you know, getting a free laptop from Microsoft and then using it to sort of help build the readership of your blog.", "We're talking with Scott Kirsner about bloggers and ethics. His op-ed ran yesterday in the San Jose Mercury News. We have a link to the op-ed at our Web site. You can download all of the recent Opinion Page podcasts at npr.org/talk. And you're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.", "And I found one of the most interesting things in your op-ed, Scott, was the statement that, you know, if you are influential - and there are plenty of blogs who are influential - if you are influential, they are going to try to influence you.", "Yeah, I really do think that within the last year or two, we've really started to see marketers and P.R. people realize that these blogs have very big readerships, and just like they send free products or party invitations or other promotional material to journalists and people in TV and people in radio, they really need to focus on these bloggers too.", "And you've even got big P.R. firms starting up divisions specifically to focus on bloggers. And you mentioned that I maintain a blog that kind of focuses on the entertainment industry. I definitely do get all kinds of press releases now and occasionally invitations to things, and I think I'm working through these issues too, in terms of trying to be careful about if I've gone to a conference at the invitation of a company, mentioning that, you know, that I'm here with a free ticket.", "Yeah, if - yeah, there are all kinds of rules about do you accept a fee for speaking to a company who you cover.", "Yeah, I mean, we did see - it wasn't mentioned in the op-ed piece I ran yesterday, but Maria Bartiromo too, being the focal point of, you know, an ethics quandary about should she have been flying around on Citigroup's jet for free when Citigroup is obviously a company that she covers.", "I don't believe that journalists are pure and live in glass houses and never violate ethics rules. Obviously, I think both journalists and bloggers can kind of fall into a trap of, you know, assuming that the reader will trust them no matter what they do, when you really - you know, the best thing is probably to disclose where you have some financial ties or you might be swayed by something that you got for free.", "Let's get a caller on the line. This is Daniel, Daniel with us from Spearfish in South Dakota.", "Yes. I am a blogger and podcaster for the San Francisco company PodShow, and I realize that although I have a distinct advantage in terms of marketing and promotion, many bloggers do not, nor do they have training as media or journalist professionals.", "However, it is in - anybody who interacts with the public in a mass-media forum has a responsibility for full disclosure as to where their money comes from or any type of kick-back comes from, but it's also in their best interest as a media producer to have full disclosure. I think that blogs, once trust is lost - trust is essential for any type of new media communications tool, and once readers lose trust, it does not behoove the blogger to hide or not give full disclosure on any type of financial gain they may have.", "Yeah, and Scott Kirsner, as you point out, these rules have been developed over many years for the mainstream media, who have editors, and this history, this, you know, precedence to go back (unintelligible), and most bloggers are individuals.", "Right, and they don't have an ombudsman looking over their shoulders, as many newspapers and broadcast media have. I don't think that a blogger needs to write a 10-page ethics policy. I think they just need to think about hey, this is a conversation between me and the reader that I'm having, and what sorts of things would I disclose in a conversation with a friend?", "If I am making a stock tip to a friend and saying, oh, I believe that Acme Corp is a great company, and the stock's definitely going to go up 10 points, I would probably also say, yeah, I happen to own some stock in Acme Company. I wouldn't hide that fact.", "So I think thinking about blogging as a conversation, and what would you reveal if you were talking to a friend is probably a good starting point.", "Daniel, thanks very much.", "Thank you very much.", "And the other point that you make is that the Internet itself is sort of a corrective feedback mechanism.", "Yeah, and bloggers really do call each other out, just like they call the mainstream media out when they perceive that there's an ethical lapse or, you know, a hazy line between advertising and editorial in the mainstream media. You know, bloggers really do like to be the first to disclose something, and sometimes that which they're disclosing is so-and-so was at this dinner party and went home with a bag of freebies from the company.", "You know, I do think, as the caller kind of brought up, that blogging is a really new medium, and we've had decades or in some cases longer to develop a relationship with a newspaper and kind of understand, okay, this newspaper or this TV station has a certain reputation. Bloggers don't have that length of time to develop their reputations.", "Scott Kirsner, thanks very much for being with us today.", "Thanks for having me.", "Scott Kirsner edits the blog CinemaTech. He's the author of the book \"The Future of Web Video.\" He joined us from member station KALW in San Francisco. To read his op-ed and download all of the Opinion Page podcasts, go to the TALK OF THE NATION page at npr.org.", "And this is NPR News."], "speaker": ["NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "DANIEL (Caller)", "DANIEL (Caller)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "DANIEL (Caller)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. SCOTT KIRSNER (CinemaTech)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-179548", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2012-1-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/17/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales", "utt": ["So, today, I was on YouTube and typed in the phrase \"Barbie Girl\" as is I'm a Barbie Girl. Anyway, I was able to find a download of perfect audio version of the song. And to spare you my terrible voice, I was going to play it. And off with the band behind it, it didn't get a cent when I downloaded it. Actually, we have taped this and I was playing it and danced and all that. But Will Surratt (ph), our executive producer, was worried that we get sued. So, we're not playing it. But the point is, if you know the song, this is part of the giant battle inflaming the passions of millions, including the co-founder of Wikipedia. In fact, if you go to Wikipedia at midnight tonight, the Web site will be dark. You can't go there. Wikipedia is shutting down in protest of legislation that's working its way through Congress called the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA. You may remember, we were one of the few to report on the story last week. Since then, it's blown up with tech giants Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, eBay and AOL joining the fight against SOPA and supporters throwing their muscle behind it, including the parent company of this network, Time Warner, which owns HBO. So, what is SOPA? It's a proposed bill that aims to crack down on copyright infringement, meaning it protects Aqua from people like stealing songs. But SOPA would also restrict to entire Web sites that host even one piece of content that's obtained without permission. Critics say that's unreasonable and it would cost a lot of money. Earlier, I spoke to the man at the center of this entire story, co-founder Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. He joined me from Switzerland, and a U.S. television exclusive, and we asked him about stealing songs by Aqua and \"Barbie Girl\" and why he's so passionate about this issue.", "Well, for us, the openness of the Internet, the freedom of speech issues are really paramount. You know, one of the things that we do know is that in the U.S., we have a perfectly reasonable and workable regime for dealing with copyright violations. So, for example, if the group Aqua wants to have that song removed from YouTube, all they have to do is notify YouTube and YouTube has the responsibility to take it down. That's not really the issue here. The issue is things like DNS blocking, blocking overseas sites that have some infringement content, placing all kinds of burdens on community generated sites like Wikipedia to police everything that our users are doing in an unreasonable way. I'm a big believer that we should be dealing with issues of piracy and we should deal with them in a serious way, but this bill is not the right bill.", "So, let me ask you about something specifically. I mean, you're talking about Wikipedia. And what it appears to be a fair point, right, that how are you supposed to police everything in a site that is created by millions and millions of people around the world? But there's a Web site we found called Pirate Bay, really exists for the purpose of sharing content that it doesn't own, pirated content. They have a lot of popular shows available on that Pirate Bay. \"Glee,\" \"Deadliest Catch,\" \"Lost,\" a whole lot of others. Do you support sites like that or does that fall on that's a problem you think needs to be fixed?", "Yes. For me, I think that site is a problem. And I think the right way to fix it is not to place censorship on the Internet, not force Google to stop listing them, not to force Wikipedia to stop talking about them. The right answer is: follow the money. If you have large scale piracy going on, it's this same as any other trade dispute and I think that's the right approach.", "So, for you, give me an example of how this would restrict free speech on something like Wikipedia, if this act passes.", "Well, there's a lot of different versions in the act. In the worst versions of the bill, Wikipedia would be defined an as search engine and would not able to even link to something like the Pirate Bay, even in our encyclopedic description of what Pirate Bay is. I think that's a real problem. That raises really serious First Amendment issues.", "So, Rupert Murdoch, obviously News Corp. And on the side of people who like this act because obviously they make a lot of content. But here's what he said. He was angry at President Obama for jumping on your side of this. He said, quote, \"So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery.\" Why is he so wrong?", "Yes. It's such a ludicrous statement, I don't even know where to begin. Certainly for Wikipedia, we're not anybody's paymasters. We're at charity devoted to sharing free knowledge. We're a community that's come together to build an encyclopedia and give it away for free to everyone. We have absolutely no positive interest in encouraging piracy or we have no way of profiting from piracy. It's just completely ludicrous.", "All right. Well, Jimmy, thank you very much for taking the time. Appreciate it.", "Yes, thank you for having me on. It's really great.", "All right. And let us know what you think about SOPA. But don't try go to Wikipedia tomorrow. Some sites in Europe are already shutting down -- 25 million people a day go to Wikipedia. All right. Well, thanks so much for watching. Sorry to pain you with singing. But that's what Will Surratt did to our show tonight. \"ANDERSON COOPER 360\" starts right now."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "JIMMY WALES, CO-FOUNDER, WIKIPEDIA", "BURNETT", "WALES", "BURNETT", "WALES", "BURNETT", "WALES", "BURNETT", "WALES", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-98528", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2005-10-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/11/ng.01.html", "summary": "Susan Polk Goes on Trial", "utt": ["And I hope that people will not be prejudiced by the charge that`s been brought against me and that they will listen with an open mind to what I have to say.", "Forget the charge. I think it`s the 22 stab wounds that is probably going to get to the jury. We`re talking about a California case. A woman drove a truck all the way from Montana to California to get her furniture and then, very quickly after, her husband was dead. Back out to Gasia Mikaelian -- I`ve been working on it in the breaks, Gasia -- with KTVU. What`s the most damming evidence the state has? And what`s the defense`s best shot?", "Well, from what we could tell inside the courtroom today, I think it`s going to be up to the prosecutors to prove that, not only did she act in cold blood, that she didn`t do anything about it. If they`re trying to refute the self-defense claim, they need to prove that she did not call 911, did not tell a friend. If it`s self-defense, you would ask for help. And in this case, that doesn`t happen.", "You know what`s amazing to me, though, Gasia, is -- Dr. Saunders was saying, in a struggle with a knife, that may have been how he got all cut up. But wait a minute. If you`re hand-to-hand struggling and rolling on the floor, why is she not cut up, too? Why are all the cuts to him?", "And that`s a good question here. I mean, it certainly is uneven. But what exactly happened -- only the autopsy and the woman inside the courtroom are able to tell us.", "OK, Daniel Horowitz, do you have more defensive wounds other than the scratching and biting you say this man inflicted on the woman?", "Well, Nancy, you`ve got two black eyes. But remember this: She kicked him in the one place where men are more vulnerable than women and she got the knife away. The rest of the time he`s on top of her trying to get it from her. Five stab wounds, Nancy. Why are they exaggerating and trying to make it more, if she really did what they said? It`s because it`s defensive on her part and they need to make her into a crazed woman, instead of what she was, a victim who survived.", "Daniel, Daniel, did she have a single knife wound?", "No. And, Nancy, let me tell you...", "OK. That`s all I wanted to know.", "... we always feel bad when women are victims. When they`re dead, we mourn them. But when women survive, it`s always, \"How could a woman win?\" That`s...", "No, that`s not what I`m asking, Daniel. I just want truth and justice to win out in this case. And you know what? Maybe you`re right. We haven`t heard all the evidence yet. Daniel Horowitz, thank you for being with us. We are switching gears, very quickly, and going live to Seattle for the shaken baby case. Rosie, do you have that picture of the tiny tot`s killer? Remember her, Sabine Bieber? We just brought you this trial live. In this case, Sabine Bieber charged with death by cough medicine on an infant. Who could forget the Louise Woodward case, the au pair hired in a northeastern city? A jury found her guilty in the death of baby Mattie Eappen. And now a 13-year-old baby-sitter on trial for shaking a 19-month-old child to death. Very quickly, I want to go out to Barney Burke standing by. Barney, what happened in court today?", "Well, Judge Roberts gave the defense much of what they`ve been asking for since the sitter was charged with second-degree murder back in January. She ruled out two videotaped statements where the sitter allegedly confessed to shaking the baby. And the judge also, however, allowed the sitter`s 911 call and some other statements to police to be admitted as evidence.", "You know, I heard today, Anne Bremner, joining us from Seattle -- Anne Bremner, high-profile attorney in that jurisdiction -- that the state is actually thinking of dropping the case after the judge ruled out the confessions?", "Well, Nancy, exactly. And court recessed for the bulk of the day today. And for the prosecutor to talk again to the medical examiner to see if she correctly has ascertained what that testimony will be. But the rumor is that there could be a dismissal in this case, and the case has barely started.", "Well, Anne, as much as I want to see the case go to trial -- of course, this is a bench trial -- there you see the mom just in tears, today at the end of the courtroom day, after the judge threw out the confessions.", "Awful.", "This mom of this little girl held up the picture at the baby- sitter. And this mom must be beside herself. She comes home, the baby`s dead, and now the case could get thrown out?", "Well, and I think that`s what was played out today, Nancy, was this cannot be happening. She wanted to show the picture and say, \"Remember my baby.\" You know, she wants justice. And she`s looked it in the face today, I think, in her own mind and is hoping against all odds that this case will continue. It could be a plea bargain. Bryan Hershman`s here, too...", "Well, I`ll tell you what, Anne. I would take the case to trial...", "Sure.", "... and lose before I threw it out, that prosecution.", "I would, too.", "But very quickly, the police screwed the whole thing up. They did not give the girl her Miranda rights when they took her into custody. Of course, the statement`s going to be thrown out.", "Well, and it`s like that song, you know, you have trouble and it`s tailor-made. I mean, it`s a case that is -- that exclusion came from mistakes made in the investigation. And the prosecutor was involved during that process, as well.", "Everybody, we`ll all be right back out of Seattle. But to tonight`s \"Case Alert.\" \"All-Points Bulletin.\" FBI and law enforcement across the country on the lookout for this man, Roberto Ramirez, wanted in connection with the January 2005 Chicago murder of 21-year-old Melissa Dorner. Ramirez, 25, 5`6\", 180 pounds, black hair, brown eyes. If you have any information on this man, Roberto Ramirez, call the FBI, 312-421-1333. Local news next for some of you, but we`ll all be right back. And remember, live coverage of the Seattle shaken baby trial 3:00 to 5:00 Eastern, Court TV. Stay with us, as we remember Staff Sergeant John Glen Doles, just 29, an American hero."], "speaker": ["POLK", "GRACE", "MIKAELIAN", "GRACE", "MIKAELIAN", "GRACE", "HOROWITZ", "GRACE", "HOROWITZ", "GRACE", "HOROWITZ", "GRACE", "BARNEY BURKE, REPORTER, \"PORT TOWNSEND LEADER\"", "GRACE", "ANNE BREMNER, TRIAL ATTORNEY", "GRACE", "BREMNER", "GRACE", "BREMNER", "GRACE", "BREMNER", "GRACE", "BREMNER", "GRACE", "BREMNER", "GRACE"]}
{"id": "CNN-204068", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2013-3-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/30/smn.05.html", "summary": "Chicago High School Basketball Star", "utt": ["Now for some more March madness, here's one player you won't see on the court this year, but next season, you may want to take note of Jabari Parker. He's a high school star destined for a college power house, Duke. Ted Rowlands is in Chicago and shows us why.", "From Chicago's notorious south side, 17-year old Jabari Parker is one of the best high school basketball players in the country and one of the nicest young men you'll ever meet.", "As long as I keep working and just keep on having a good humble attitude, I think that will take me a long way.", "That attitude is what makes people so excited about Jabari Parker's future, including his coach at Simeon High School, Robert Smith, who also coached NBA star Derrick Rose.", "It's his off the court stuff that I love. He's a caring kid. This is not about Jabari. This is about Simeon and it's about everybody else.", "Jabari has been getting a lot of attention. He made the cover of \"Sports Illustrated\" last May. When he announced he was going to Duke, it was carried live on national television. The south side of Chicago is dangerous and has been for years. In January of this year, a 17-year-old boy was shot and killed after attending one of Simeon's games. Nearly 30 years ago, another Simeon all-star, Ben Wilson was shot and killed while walking down the street with his girlfriend. His number 25 still hangs on the wall at school.", "Sometimes I have been uncomfortable, but it's never been a moment of time where I have been totally unsafe because I have so many people on my back and help me get out of scuffles.", "This season, Jabari led Simeon to a record fourth straight high school basketball title. He also excelled in class earning a 3.7 grade point average.", "We are truly blessed to have him.", "Growing up, Jabari was the youngest of four children in a home where school and the family's Mormon faith came before basketball. He may play in the NBA some day, but his family expects him to graduate from Duke.", "That degree will be more precious to us than any millions that he'll make.", "Jabari's dad Sonny played six seasons in the NBA for the Golden State Warriors. When he retired, he returned to Chicago to start a youth foundation helping at-risk kids.", "I know there's a lot of kids on the south side that lack parents or a two-parent home. I know I'm fortunate to have my dad aside of me. What he does in the community, it just helps me want to be like him when I grow up.", "A lot of people are looking forward to Jabari growing up to see what he can do not just on the court, but off. Ted Rowlands, CNN, Chicago.", "\"CNN NEWSROOM\" starts at the top of the hour. I'm here with Fredricka Whitfield. You got a busy show ahead.", "Oh yes, we've got a very busy day beginning with our legal guys with us every weekend. We love Avery and Richard. They are going to help tackle the case of the Jackson estate taking on in a civil matter the concert promoters AEG Live. They are alleging that AEG is culpable in the death of the pop star by way of being negligent in the hiring of Dr. Conrad Murray who is now serving time for the death of Michael Jackson. We'll talk to our legal guys about that. And then springtime, summer makes you think about getting the family together. How about a road trip? How about to the red rocks of - well, that's not the red rocks there. That looks like Hawaii. Isn't that gorgeous, Hawaii - road trip to Hawaii. Once you get there, rent a car. How about that? How about the red rocks of Utah or maybe even Washington State? And then a man who has kind of been called a godfather in the music industry. I'm talking about Clive Davis. He's credited for helping to catapult the careers of Alicia Keys, Janis Joplin.", "Under a lot of controversy though.", "Under a lot of controversy by way of revealing some personal things in his book, his memoir. It's called \"The Sound Track of My Life.\" I talk about his sound track of his life by way of some of the high points and some of the low points and how he -- what are the qualities that he looks for when he taps a new star, when he recognizes somebody has that it thing. We talk about all that straight ahead.", "Good stuff. You have gadgets. I've got gadgets. We all want to show off our gadgets no matter where they are. Wearable technology is the next big thing. I'm going to show you some new ways to stay connected. Keep it right here."], "speaker": ["KOSIK", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JABARI PARKER, SIMEON H.S. BASKETBALL PLAYER", "ROWLANDS", "ROBERT SMITH, SIMEON H.S. 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{"id": "CNN-16074", "program": "Moneyline News Hour", "date": "2000-9-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/18/mlld.00.html", "summary": "Techs Tumble and Gillette Rattles the Big Board; Oil Prices Hit New 10-Year High", "utt": ["Tonight on", "Wall Street smacked down again. Techs tumble and Gillette rattles the Big Board with a sales warning, pinning the blame on a weak euro.", "The market's other big worry: oil prices, hitting a new 10-year high. How much higher will they go? We'll ask the head of the world's second largest oil company.", "Corporate America's biggest merger faces a critical threat from thousands of miles away. Is the E.U. ready to say: We object to AOL-Time Warner?", "And, a special Monday night look at marketing on the football field: one team that's the undisputed champ.", "This is MONEYLINE. Reporting tonight from Los Angeles, Willow Bay, and from New York, Stuart Varney.", "Good evening everyone and welcome to MONEYLINE. I'm Willow Bay.", "And good evening, I'm Stuart Varney. Our top story tonight: Yes, the September slump continues on Wall Street. Stocks took another ugly beating today, as fears intensify over surging oil prices, the weak euro and corporate profits. Confession season, that's in full swing with Gillette and Rockwell both warning that results will disappoint. The two-session loss in market value now, nearly a half trillion dollars. Let's move to the Dow industrials. Today, they fell 118 points and that's on top of the 160-point loss Friday, closing out at 10808, just about 10 points from its low for the session. As for the Nasdaq, it plunged nearly 3 percent, losing more than 108 points. It closed at 3726, as key stocks like Dell and Worldcom hit 52-week lows. The S&P; 500, down 21, it was at 1444, and that's a loss of nearly 1 1/2 percent on the day. It has been a brutal month for stocks. So far this September, the Dow is down more than 3 1/2 percent, losing ground in all but four trading sessions. The Nasdaq has taken a much bigger tumble, losing more than 11 percent, after stellar gains in the month of August. Let's check in now with Terry Keenan at the New York Stock Exchange with all the day's action -- Terry.", "OK, thank you very much, Stuart. Well, today, talk here turned from the buzz about why the euro is down so much and oil is up so much to even greater worries about why this market behaving so badly. Case in point Microsoft: The Dow component got some potentially good news this morning when Rick Sherland of Goldman Sachs, indicated the company management had no plans to make any pre-announcements ahead of the earnings. But the stock sold off nevertheless, and tonight it's just $3 above a very key support level. Other Dow losers included J.P. Morgan, which has gone straight down since its $30 billion deal with Chase, announced just last week. Eastman Kodak also a loser, as was Johnson & Johnson. Concern there about its exposure to overseas markets. And finally, ExxonMobil, that's the only bright spot, that's why I paused. One of the few stocks up, a new high on that stock today. The market breadth also got a lot worse today. Look at this. And if you think that was ugly, you should have seen the market breadth on the Nasdaq. Volume continued to be rather light, as you can see there on the screen after triple-witching on Friday. Taking a look at where the money was moving today, Nortel giving back its rally from late last week. Micron Technologies, a loser as well. Dan Niles at Lehman Brothers had some encouraging words on this stock this morning but investors sold into that rally, not a good sign. General Electric, one of the stand-out winners on the Big Board, up a dollar. Lucent, though, falling to a new multi-year low. And Chase, look at that, down 2 9/16, now trading at just 12 times earnings. Here are some of the story stocks we're following this evening. Gillette, that is a new low on that stock, warning that the euro will hurt its earnings. Lehman, in a very tough brokerage sector, down $7. Rockwell also down seven. It will miss its fourth quarter, the company warned. And Delta losing more than a dollar, a downgrade there. AOL, however, was up a quarter, the company meeting with analysts this afternoon, this amid reports that the European Union is looking to block its takeover of Time Warner, the parent of this network -- Stuart.", "And that is Terry Keenan at the New York Stock Exchange. Thanks very much, Terry. Willow.", "Stuart, today's Nasdaq plunge is just the latest decline in what has been a terrible September for the index. In fact, this may well end up as the Nasdaq's worst September in a decade. John Metaxas joins us now with a look at the stocks that drove the Nasdaq under, today -- John.", "That's right, Willow, down almost 12 percent since Labor Day. Every sector was lower here today, led by the biotechs down 5 percent. Decliners swamped advancers by a three-to-one. The focus was on earnings warnings and a couple of smaller companies doing that today. You can see the damage that Wall Street inflicts. ICG Communications down 57 percent, not only issuing an earnings warning, the company needs more funding, they're talking with financial institutions right now. Allaire says they'll have a third-quarter loss when Wall Street expected a gain, a 40 percent haircut today. Now I want to show you two gainers, but these were the exception, not the rule today. As we said, every sector lower. Sun Microsystems got permission from the government to export high-encryption products, and Network Appliance reaching a new all-time high today, this company's products chosen to power genomic research. They make file storage servers. Finally, Cisco Systems today down 4 percent. This was typical of many of the blue chips of the Nasdaq here. It held $60 a share, but in the last week Cisco has broken through its 200-day moving average. The purple line is Cisco, the yellow line the 200-day moving average. You have to go back three years except for a couple minor blips to find the last time when Cisco broke down below that 200-day moving average -- a significant change in the market for Cisco Systems, and many say for the Nasdaq itself. Technicians think this Nasdaq right now is oversold. That means it's prime for buyers to step in. But the buyers are not stepping in, and some of the technicians say we may see 3500, 200 points below where we are now, before things turn around here. John Metaxas reporting from the Nasdaq marketsite.", "And Later on MONEYLINE, the stock-picking stars of the financial world. We'll begin a special two-week look at the fund managers who have delivered standout returns in a rough market year. Tonight, we'll talk with Mark Herskovitz, whose Dreyfus Premier technology growth fund is up double digits in 2000.", "Clearly, one factor making for a rough year on Wall Street is the soaring price of oil. It is up more than 40 percent in 2000. And today, oil continued its remarkable rise, shooting above $37 a barrel before settling at $36.88. That is a new 10-year high. Allan Chernoff now joins us with a look at the rising price of oil, the dismal performance of the euro, and what happens to America's corporate profits. What do you have there?", "Well, Stuart, one way to sum it up, the energy and currency markets today teamed up to wreak havoc on the stock market.", "Day after day, we get negative earnings preannouncements, and it's really rocking the confidence of a lot of investors.", "The latest victim is Gillette, saying the weak euro will translate into fewer dollars reaching the bottom line, though an increase in pricing should rescue the quarter. Auto parts maker Dana Corporation also laying some blame on the euro, while chemicals firm Vulcan Materials and Corn Products International say their troubles result from high oil prices. The expensive petroleum has been depressing share prices for months, but now with oil at its new height, the profit outlook is turning bleak in some industries. Chemical companies are watching raw material prices sore, and airlines, earnings estimates are falling for every company in the business.", "Airlines or railroads that haven't hedged forward, their purchases will have a hard time passing on these increases to their customers, and, therefore, there should be a negative impact to earnings.", "Exposure to the sinking euro is widespread as well. The S&P; 500 companies earn about one-quarter of their profits overseas, the bulk in Europe.", "It's a big, big part of their profit outlook, and if Europe is in trouble these companies will be in trouble.", "Among the S&P; 500 companies with the biggest exposure: Tupperware, Crown Cork & Seal, Wrigley, BestFoods, advertiser Omnicon Group and International Flavors and Fragrances. All traded lower today.", "Do not expect a letup on these stock market problems any time soon. The euro can't seem to get out of its own way, and as far as oil, there's not much hope in near term. Refineries are tight, and there's talk in the market now of oil hitting $40 a barrel. And, Stuart, John Hill is saying $50 a barrel is a possibility.", "Just wait until there's cold snap in the Northeast, where the oil market is located.", "That might do it.", "All right, Allan Chernoff, thanks very much -- Willow.", "Stuart, still to come on MONEYLINE, with oil prices at those new 10-year highs, is there any relief in sight? Well, we're going to put that question to the man at the helm of the world's second-biggest oil and gas company, the chairman of Royal Dutch Shell. Plus, a look at one fund manager who has racked up double-digit returns for his investors, while the rest of the market has gone nowhere. And Cadbury-Schweppes juices up its arsenal of soft drinks, shelling out big bucks for Snapple and more.", "From CNN's Los Angeles and New York headquarters, this is THE MONEYLINE NEWS HOUR."], "speaker": ["WILLOW BAY, CNN ANCHOR", "MONEYLINE", "STUART VARNEY, CNN ANCHOR", "BAY", "VARNEY", "ANNOUNCER", "BAY", "VARNEY", "TERRY KEENAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "VARNEY", "BAY", "JOHN METAXAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BAY", "VARNEY", "ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LAURIE CAMERON, J.P. MORGAN", "CHERNOFF", "JOHN HILL, ABN AMRO", "CHERNOFF", "PETER CANELO. MORGAN STANLEY DEAN WITTER", "CHERNOFF", "CHERNOFF", "VARNEY", "CHERNOFF", "VARNEY", "BAY", "ANNOUNCER"]}
{"id": "CNN-387918", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-12-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/14/cnr.10.html", "summary": "\"Richard Jewell\" Sparks Controversy For Portrayal Of Late Journalist", "utt": ["A big studio movie opens this weekend that puts a major real-life event in U.S. history on the big screen. It's about Richard Jewell, the man who was falsely accused of planting the deadly bomb that exploded in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics. That's Richard Jewell on the left. The actor that plays him, Paul Walter Hauser on the right. Here's a clip from the new movie, \"Richard Jewell.", "You always look at the guy who found the bomb just like you always look at the guy who found the body.", "Jewell fits the profile of the lone bomber. A frustrated white man who is a police wannabe who seeks to become a hero.", "We're running it.", "Don't talk. I talk. Say it.", "I don't talk.", "This might be the only way to clear your name. I want you to say there's a bomb in Centennial Park. You have 30 minutes.", "Trying to be their best friend.", "I was raised to respect authority.", "Authority is looking to eat you alive.", "Now this film is directed by Clint Eastwood with some heavy hitters in the supporting cast too. Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell. CNN Senior Writer on Media and Entertainment, Brian Lowry, joins us now. Brian, you've seen this movie. Your full review is on cnn.com. Did this movie get everything right?", "Well, I think, you know, fact-based movies never really get everything right. There are always some liberties taken. But I think in this case, what's really triggered controversy around the film was the depiction of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter who broke the story played by Olivia Wilde. And it's an extremely unflattering portrait and according to people who work with her and her at the editor of the paper where she worked, completely misleading in terms of what she did in order to get the story.", "And now the actress, Olivia Wilde is speaking out. She's been very vocal about that particular criticism of the movie. What is she saying?", "Well, she's kind of made a mess of this. She originally said -- the movie very strongly implies that she -- that Kathy Scruggs, the character she played, slept with her source in order to get the story. And at first, she defended it as sexist, that people were criticizing her because she was being sexual which completely missed the point of what people were upset about which was the ethical consideration of a reporter and especially a female reporter which in film has a very kind of long ignominious history sleeping with a source in order to get a story. She then tried to clean that up and said that that wasn't the way that she read it and that wasn't her understanding of Kathy Scruggs, but it's hard to have seen the film and come away with really any other impression that that's what they were implying.", "Interesting. Her tweet says, I do not believe that Kathy traded sex for tips. Nothing in my research suggested she did so and it was never my intention to suggest she had. Another movie based on real life events, \"Bombshell\" is out in select theaters now. It looks at the culture in politics behind the scenes at Fox News. It got several nominations for the SAG Awards this past weekend. Megyn Kelly is reacting to it saying it was incredibly emotional watching Charlize Theron play her on screen. Here's a quick look at \"Bombshell.\"", "You may have heard there was a dust-up involving yours truly and presidential contender Donald Trump.", "There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.", "Oh, my God. Did he just accuse me of anger menstruating.", "Wait, am I going to be the story?", "No.", "No.", "I'm going to be the story.", "No.", "Brian, your take on the movie. Should we expect any bombshells?", "Well, I don't think there are any real bombshells if you followed what's going on at Fox News over the last few years. And it does follow a miniseries on the same topic, \"The Loudest Voice\" which aired on Showtime. But I think the two of them work really well together in a way. They're viewing them in tandem. The miniseries focused on Roger Ailes, the late head of Fox News. And the movie focuses on the women of Fox News were instrumental in essentially bringing leading to his downfall. You saw there Charlize Theron who was just uncanny as Megyn Kelly. I mean, she captures the tone of her voice in a way I don't -- she sounds more like Megyn Kelly than Megyn Kelly does her time. And then Nicole Kidman is Gretchen Carlson. And it's very much like an HBO movie almost. I'm not sure people are going to rush to see it in the theater. But it's a very well made film.", "Another movie that's getting a lot of buzz and it hasn't even opened yet, the new \"Star Wars\" installment called \"The Rise of Skywalker.\" Now, \"Star Wars\" fans are very different breed, Brian. Not all of them fell in love with the last \"Star Wars\" movie. Is Disney worried?", "I don't think Disney is too worried. \"The Last Jedi\" was very divisive. It interestingly got very strong critical response. But the fan reaction, especially in the most vocal quadrants of social media was not favorable. And, of course, there were some people who did like \"The Last Jedi\" and so now you have people who are -- think this may swing too far in the opposite direction. You know, one of the things is people get upset, people are very passionate about these films. But I can't imagine anybody who's passionate enough about these movies to want to online and vent about them not wanting to be in line opening weekend to see them.", "OK. Brian Lowry, it is that time of year. A lot of people are hitting the movies. Thanks so much. Quick break. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CABRERA", "BRIAN LOWRY, CNN SENIOR WRITER ON MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT", "CABRERA", "LOWRY", "CABRERA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CABRERA", "LOWRY", "CABRERA", "LOWRY", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-230355", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-5-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/12/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Sterling's CNN Interview; Shelly Sterling vs. Donald vs. the NBA", "utt": ["Anyway, a lot of news to get you this morning, so we get you to the \"NEWSROOM\" with Ms. Carol Costello.", "Good morning, Carol.", "And I hear you, Chris, because I was on the free lunch program when I was in grade school and just being on the free lunch program was so embarrassing to me for a time. So, kudos to them for fixing the problem.", "Yes.", "And you're right, the school system is like, what were you thinking? Thanks so much. NEWSROOM starts now. Good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Disgraced NBA owner Donald Sterling breaks his silence and pleads for forgiveness, yet he also found a way to insult a beloved icon of the NBA and even shift some of the blame for his racist rants that may cost him his team. Here's some of the exclusive interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.", "I'm a good member who made a mistake and I'm apologizing and I'm asking for forgiveness. Am I entitled to one mistake in my -- after 35 years? You know, I love my league. I love my partners. Am I entitled to one mistake? It's a terrible mistake and I'll never do it again.", "The vice president of the NBA Players Association, Roger Mason, he said that the players won't accept anyone in the Sterling family owning the Clippers, not you, not your wife, not your son-in-law, not your daughter. Do you believe it?", "I really don't know. The people that are going to decide my fate I think are not the media and not the players union, but the", "The owners?", "Pardon me?", "The owners?", "The owners. If the owners feel I deserve another chance, then they'll give it to me.", "But there is a path for you to fight their decision, isn't there?", "Of course. But if you fight with my partners, what at the end of the road - what do I benefit, especially at my age. If they fight with me and they spend millions and I spend millions, let's say I win or they win, I just don't know if that's important.", "Why wait so long to apologize? It's been a couple of weeks. You could have come out --", "That's a very good question. I just -- I'm so emotionally distraught. And the reason it's hard for me, very hard for me is that I'm wrong. I caused the problem. I don't know how to correct it.", "Do you trust people? I mean there -", "I do.", "There have been a couple of phone recordings just in the last week or two that have come out of people you've talked to on the phone, or seems to be your voice, who have then sold it to, you know, Radar Online or TMZ. And I hear that and I think, do you have anyone you trust around you?", "I don't give interviews. The only one that I know that I talked to is Magic Johnson.", "You have talked to him?", "Twice. And then - yes, he's --", "Did you apologize?", "He knew the girl. He said -- he knew the girl well. He --", "Did you apologize to him or -", "Well, if I said anything wrong, I'm sorry. He's a good person, and he -- what am I going to say? Has he done everything he can do to help minorities? I don't think so. But I'll say it. I'll say it, you know, he's great. But I just don't think he is a good example for the children of Los Angeles.", "Anderson Cooper is here with more on his exclusive interview. Anderson, he seems to have some sort of fixation with Magic Johnson?", "Well, there's clearly some issues he has. He actually goes into a lot more -- he says a lot more about Magic Johnson and I think it's going to really probably anger a lot of people. That will obviously be on tonight. And he claims that he's had two conversations with Magic Johnson. I haven't been able to confirm that with Magic yet. But, you know, it's a wide-ranging interview. I mean we spoke for well over an hour and really covered everything there is to talk to him about. He answered all the questions. He was very - you know, his main point was he wanted to apologize and he did so in a lot of different ways and he's clearly -", "But not to Magic Johnson clearly.", "Well, clearly not to Magic Johnson. That is correct. And I think after what he'll say tonight, there's, you know, even a lot more that people will be kind of shocked by.", "All right, so Shelly Sterling says that he's suffering from early onset dementia. In your mind, was he completely present during that interview?", "You know, look, I clearly don't know him in the way that she does or a close friend of his would. You know, I certainly, in my talks with him, I met with him about a week - a week or so ago and obviously met with him on Sunday when we did this interview yesterday. There wasn't anything that gave me pause in terms of, you know, actually sitting down and doing an interview with him. I didn't feel he wasn't in control of himself. He certainly, you know, is a very capable and smart guy. He's a smart attorney. He clearly has - you know, he's in a situation. He isn't trying to figure his way out of at this point. But during the conversation, for instance, you know, if I would ask something and then I'd ask something on another topic based on where the conversation went, he would often bring the conversation back to the previous question. So, I mean, he clearly remembered things and, you know, was certainly competent to do an interview.", "To have his talking points, right. Why did he agree to talk to you?", "You know, I -- my - I don't know -- you know, when I met with him a week -- more than a week ago, you know I simply said, look, I think you need to get your voice out there, you know, rather than being defined in the public sphere by V. Stiviano, by people who are selling tapes of phone conversations you had, people should hear from you and you can say whatever you want to say and, you know, we'll have a conversation and I'm a fair guy to talk to. So, you know, he was willing to sit down and talk and that's what we did.", "All right. So the full interview, an hour long, will air 8:00 p.m. Eastern tonight, right?", "Yes.", "All right, Anderson Cooper, thank you. Be sure to watch Anderson's full interview with Donald Sterling, as I said, tonight at 8:00 p.m. on CNN. For her part, Donald Sterling's wife Shelly says she isn't giving up on giving up her half of the team without a fight. And in an interview with Barbara Walters, as I just said, Shelly suspects her husband has early dementia. She also talked about their relationship and what the team means to her.", "Mrs. Sterling, you own 50 percent of the L.A. Clippers. There are reports that the NBA wants to oust you completely as a team owner. You will fight that decision?", "I will fight that decision.", "What does the team mean to you?", "It means a lot. And it's my passion. And I love it. And it's my legacy to my family. It was horrible when I heard it. I mean it was just degrading and it made me sick to hear it. But as far as a racist, I don't really think he is a racist.", "Have you discussed these remarks at all with your husband?", "He saw the tape and he said, I don't remember saying that. I don't remember ever saying those things.", "What did you think then?", "That's when I thought, he has dementia.", "Really?", "Yes. I don't love him. I pity him and I feel sorry for him.", "What is your relationship today with your husband?", "We're estranged. We've been estranged for about a year.", "Why not divorce your husband?", "I've been thinking about it. I filed these divorce papers. I signed them. I was all ready to file. My attorney and my financial adviser said now is not the time.", "But the NBA says if Donald Sterling is voted out, Shelly's interest in the Clippers would automatically end as well. And that has her attorney gearing up for a fight. In a statement he writes, quote, \"we do not agree with the league's self-serving interpretation of the constitution, its application to Shelly Sterling, or its validity under these unique circumstances. We live in a nation of laws. California law and the United States Constitution trump any such interpretation.\" With me now, CNN's Stephanie Elam, who talked with Sterling's attorney, and Clippers' season ticket holder and criminal defense attorney Brian Claypool. Welcome to you both.", "Hi, Carol.", "Actually, I want to talk first about Donald Sterling's interview with Anderson Cooper. Brian, why do you think he agreed to do that?", "Well, Carol, first of all, I want to tell both Donald Sterling and Shelly Sterling they need to get a better acting coach because that was a pathetic attempt at trying to win over the public. First of all, Donald Sterling, and this alleged dementia, he's losing his memory? You have to be kidding me. He has visited nearly eight law firms in California, Carol, over the last week or two. That's why he hasn't given an interview. He's been out lobbying, trying to find lawyers to sue the NBA. And you have to look back at who he's apologizing to. He's not apologizing to Doc Rivers. He's not apologizing to the Clipper players. He's not apologizing to the black and Hispanic tenants that he was prejudiced against. He's not apologizing to the season ticket holders. He's apologizing to one set of people, that's the board of governors. That's the 29 owners who are going to vote. It's absolutely disgraceful and pathetic.", "And, Stephanie, it's interesting that Shelly Sterling also agreed to an interview on national television, this with Barbara Walters, and she talked about how she wanted to hold ownership of the team and she went into the dementia thing, right? But she also went into, like, yes, I'm going to divorce him and I've been thinking about it for 20 years but I haven't done it. What do you make of that?", "Well, I think it all comes down to finances and whether or not this was going to be a beneficial decision financially is what was the most important thing. Now, how perception plays into this is probably a huge part of that. What's also interesting in that Barbara Walters interview is that, when she was asked whether or not she thought that the - that the NBA did the right thing by banning her husband, she said no comment. But after this first happened, she put out a statement through her lawyers saying that she had talked to Commissioner Silver and that she fully supported what he had done. So there's a bit of a mixed message here on what is happening. And I - you have to keep in mind, even if they are estranged, she says she doesn't love him, they still have a family together and you have to care about that you would imagine in her position. So it's hard to extricate the two, whether or not she's seriously talking about this because of how she feels personally as a woman or whether or not she's looking at this as a bigger financial issue.", "Brian, is there anything the Sterlings can do at this point to repair their reputation, to make people think they really, truly are sorry that all of this has transpired?", "Are you absolutely kidding me? There's zero that they could ever do. Did you hear the comment that Donald Sterling made to Anderson Cooper? He said - he said, Carol, if I said something wrong to Magic Johnson. Are you - are you serious, Donald? Do you really mean that? He said, also, it's a mistake. It's not a mistake, Donald. Mr. Sterling, hear me, it's a mentality. It's a 30-year mentality of being a racist. And you can't claim that's a mistake. That's engrained in your brain. You need help. You need to move on because there is nobody in the city of Los Angeles, including the mayor, who I saw at the game yesterday, Carol, who I happen to be personal friends with, Eric Garcetti, and he reiterated that we will do everything in our power to make sure that no Sterling family member has ownership in that team.", "Well, and I think another thing --", "And, Stephanie, I want to get into this Magic Johnson for just a second, because he seems to have this fixation on Magic Johnson. And we haven't heard the full extent of his remarks about Magic Johnson yet. That will air at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on Anderson Cooper's show. But what does he have against Magic Johnson?", "What boggles the mind is now we've heard three different recordings, one that we know about with Anderson, right, and the other two that were surreptitiously done, or so we've been lead to believe. All three of them, he has mentioned Magic Johnson. That is really bizarre. He seems to be obsessed with Magic Johnson. Now, Magic is a larger than life personality. When you're in a room with him, you know he's there. It's not like you can - and it's not just because of his height. He's also known because of his basketball skills, of the businesses that he's opened outside of basketball, outside of sports. Let's remember that he opened up a bunch of Starbucks all throughout southern California as well. He's a businessman. He's opened up theaters in Harlem as well. So he does have some sort of issue with him. And I think the fact that he keeps bringing up - bringing up Magic Johnson does not help his case at all. And also this idea that if he has dementia, that that could somehow help his case, I actually think it hurts him more because it would show that he is not in the right sound mind to be owning an operation and running it. And the other thing that I've learned since I've been covering this story from the beginning is that when you spend time at the Staples Center around people who cover the Clippers all the time, how Donald Sterling has conducted himself, how he has spoken about people of different races, this is not new. Maybe this is a bigger extent of it. Maybe this is the first time he was caught on a recording. But apparently, to a lot of people down there, this is not new that he has said things that are inappropriate racially.", "All right, Stephanie Elam, Brian Claypool, thanks for your insight. I appreciate it. 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{"id": "CNN-67636", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2003-3-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/06/se.01.html", "summary": "Rumsfeld Holds Town Hall Meeting", "utt": ["Right now, we're going to go to the Pentagon. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld holding a town hall meeting with Pentagon employees. Let's listen in.", "... will be more likely, very likely more deadly than at any time in modern history. Notwithstanding the successes that our country's had and our coalition has had -- a giant coalition of some 90 nations -- in this global war and the good work that has been done, we're still not yet arranged to deal successfully with this new security environment. We entered the century really arranged to fight big armies, big navies and big air forces, not to fight the shadowy terrorists and terrorist networks that operate with the support and assistance of terrorist states. And that's why we're so focused on transforming the department and the armed services. To win the global war on terror, the armed forces simply have to be more flexible, more agile, so that our forces can respond more quickly. But the same is true of the men and women who support the forces in the Department of Defense. We also need to be more flexible and more agile. We also need freedom -- the freedom to move resources and to shift people and design and buy new weapons more rapidly so that this great department can, in fact, respond to the changes in our security environment. Today, we still do not yet have that agility. In an age where terrorists move information at the speed of an e-mail and money at the speed of a wire transfer and people at the speed of a commercial jetliner, the Defense Department is still bogged down to too great an extent in the micromanagement and bureaucratic processes of an earlier era. Consider just a few of the obstacles we face each day. This department spends an average of $42 million an hour, and yet we're not allowed to move $15 million from one account to another without getting permission from four to six committees, a process that sometimes takes months. Think of the fiscal year 2004 defense budget. It was developed by many of the people in this room from the period probably of March of '02 to December of '02. It was then sent to the Office of Management and Budget for consideration between December of '02 and February of '03, last month, when the president presented it to the Congress. Congress will be considering it from February of '03 probably until October or November of '03, and, as in the past, probably making 10 to 20 percent changes in what was recommended. DOD will then try to live with what's left during the period between October of '03 to September of '04. That means that at any given time during the fiscal year of that budget, it will be between 14 to 30 months old while we are trying to implement what Congress provides us.", "We've been listening in to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who is holding one of his regular town hall meetings with Pentagon employees. We are going to keep listening to that. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-250559", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2015-03-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/04/ng.01.html", "summary": "Bobbi Kristina`s Fiance Threatens Suicide on Twitter", "utt": ["Breaking news tonight. American songbird superstar Whitney Houston`s only child in a coma, found unconscious face down in a tub, doctors telling family prepare for the worst. Bombshell tonight. Family rushing to Bobbi Kristina`s bedside on this, her 22nd birthday, where Whitney Houston`s only child remains in a coma. And in a stunning turn, Bobbi Kristina`s live-in fiance, Nick Gordon, threatens suicide after Gordon comes under fire for his CPR attempts on Bobbi Kristina. What really did happen in Whitney Houston`s exclusive condo the day her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, found face down in a tub of water?", "A 21-year-old female in a bathtub face down.", "Nick Gordon tweeted, I forgive you, Bobby Brown. What`s love (ph). At least we could get together and deal with this as a family.", "The chance that someone saw something are pretty high.", "And live, Silver Spring, extremely agitated parents in an uproar after child services investigates them on a complaint they let their children, just 6 and 10, walk over a mile each way through busy thoroughfares to a playground. Think about it, a 6-year-old, a 10-year-old alone for over two miles through a commercial area? Well, the parents call it free range -- you know, like the chicken, free range? But others call it neglect.", "Should your little", "I need my kids to be independent. I need resiliency. They need to learn the confidence. The only way they`re going to grown up to be strong, confident adults is by having that freedom and independence.", "Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight. American songbird superstar Whitney Houston`s only child, her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, in a coma, found unconscious face down in the bathtub, doctors telling family prepare for the worst. Bombshell tonight. Family rushing to Bobbi Kristina`s bedside on this, the night of her 22nd birthday. And in a stunning turn, Bobbi Kristina`s live-in fiance threatens suicide, this after Nick Gordon coming under fire for his CPR attempts on Bobbi Kristina. What really happened in Whitney Houston`s exclusive condo the day her little girl found face down in a tub of water? Joining me right now, national correspondent for Radaronline.com Alan Duke. I don`t understand what`s happening. How do we know Nick Gordon threatened suicide?", "Well, his tweet, \"I`m so hurt, I want to do myself in.\" I e-mailed his lawyer to see if his client is OK because I`m really concerned when somebody starts tweeting such desperation to the public. But he`s been getting increasingly sadder in his tweets. He`s getting it from several sides, not only from the Brown family and Houstons, who won`t let him go and visit Bobbi Kristina at the hospital, he`s getting it from the cops, who are investigating what happened in the house in the weeks and months ever before that. And he`s also getting it from himself, feeling guilty, perhaps, about the situation that Bobbi Kristina is in.", "Now, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Whoa, whoa whoa! Hold it! Everybody, you`re seeing video of Whitney Houston and her daughter, her only child, Bobbi Kristina, singing on ABC`s \"GMA,\" \"Good Morning America.\" In the last hours, we learn her fiance there at the time she is dragged out of the bathtub facing face down in a tub of water, dragged out by their friend. Now we learn that Nick Gordon threatening suicide! So Alan Duke, Radaronline.com, what would move him to threaten suicide?", "Well, he`s been tweeting about the CPR efforts and his regrets that the CPR effort was not as effective as it could have been, that it took 15 minutes for paramedics to get there. But you read in his tweet some feeling -- if not criminal guilt, certainly personal guilt is what I`m talking about, that he wished that he could have done more to preserve her and to save her when she was found in the tub. So I mean, that would work on anybody, I`m sure, in that situation.", "Everybody, you`re seeing Whitney Houston`s \"My Love Is Your Love\" from Arista Records. Her only child, Bobbi Kristina, fighting for her life, Emory Hospital, found face down unconscious in a bathtub. This is the last thing Whitney would have wished for her daughter. And many wondering tonight why suicide threats on behalf of Nick Gordon, her live-in fiance. OK, Alan Duke, you`ve gone on a couple of times about the family not getting along. Well, the family has never gotten along with Nick Gordon. For those of you just joining us, her fiance threatening suicide. Not only that, we know that today, on Bobbi Kristina`s 22nd birthday, her family rushing to her bedside there at Emory University Hospital, one of the top 10 neurological hospitals in the country. Tweets, other tweets by the fiance about money, about disagreements with the father. Alan Duke, why he has been banned from Bobbi Kristina`s bedside?", "Well, as you note, it`s been bad blood for a long time, but it`s gotten worse. Once the family realized what they thought happened to Bobbi Kristina, they started shutting him out from the very first day, getting the keys to the townhouse where he lived and banning him from the hospital. Of course, some of the Houstons already have a temporary restraining order out on him because they feared violence from Nick Gordon. It didn`t get any better than that. He worked quietly behind the scenes, hired a lawyer to help him, but it still didn`t get any better, and now he`s resorted to really some nasty tweets against the Brown family.", "OK, nasty tweets regarding what?", "Well, about Bobby Brown, suggesting Bobby Brown was an absent father and that Bobby Brown is only there for the limelight when it involves his daughter and suggesting that he, Nick, was the one who was helping solve any problems that she had, not Bobby Brown, and now he`s being forced out.", "OK, everybody, in the last hours, we learn that her fiance threatening suicide on this, her 22nd birthday. To Candace Trunzo, senior news editor, Dailymail.com. Candace, what more do we know?", "Well, we know that it`s an incredibly sad day as Bobbi Kristina turns 22 today. And we know that family has rallied around. But we also know that Nick has not been able to see her. And the reason that he hasn`t is that Bobby Brown wants to find out from Nick Gordon exactly what happened, his account of what happened on that day, the day the Bobbi Kristina was found face down in the bathtub. And to this, day Nick Gordon has not related to anyone in the family, at least to their satisfaction, what exactly happened on the day that Bobbi Kristina fell unconscious.", "Look at this. It`s Polish TV, TV", "Now, that`s a cappella and that`s her voice that she has been (ph) struggling to cut an album, to get it out there. She`s on the cusp of that when she is found basically unconscious, no heartbeat. And she`s been in a medically-induced coma. Dr. Ciro Ramos, neurologist with University Hospital`s Case Medical Center. Dr. Ramos, what`s going to happen with Bobbi Kristina if she remains in this medically-induced coma? We know last week, they tried to take her out of the coma. She went into severe convulsions and seizures. What happens to a patient`s body when they remain in a coma for a long period of time?", "Well, what we typically do is we try to decrease the metabolic rate, the needs from the glucose and oxygen standpoint, both in the brain and in the other organs in the body. And that way, we would eventually prevent injury and help healing.", "Unleash the lawyers. Joining me tonight, Robert Schalk out of New York, Peter Odom out of D.C. When you`re the person found in the home, for instance, with Bobbi Kristina...", "Right.", "... and then threatening to commit suicide after that -- many people are implying guilt out of that, that he had something to do with it. That`s not necessarily true, Peter Odom.", "I agree with you, Nancy.", "From what we know, he could be overcome at this moment with grief, with feeling like a lot of survivors feel, What could I have done differently? What did I do wrong?", "Of course.", "Did I not do CPR correctly?", "Of course.", "Dealing with not getting to see her. This is her 22nd birthday. I mean...", "Right. Under these particular circumstances, I don`t think you can read that as being some sort of an indication of guilt. His biggest problem isn`t guilt. His biggest problem has been his silence. And I know that, you know, as a defense attorney, I`m reluctant to say that silence is an implication of guilt, but you know, people want to know and he knows and he`s not saying, and that`s at least in part the reason that the family has alienated him. So he`s only got...", "Put him up, please!", "... himself to blame.", "Put up Peter and Schalk. Peter Odom, you`re right. You`re right about that. And I spoke at length with his lawyer, Randy Kessler, one of his lawyers. And Kessler made it very clear to me, Schalk. He said, Look, Bobby Brown is angry that Gordon hasn`t told him what happened. But we`ve gone to the authorities. We`ve told police what happened, and that`s all that matters. But can you blame Bobby Brown? Can you blame the father for being mad and angry? I mean...", "No. He`s grieving.", "... if the last person with his daughter before she goes into a medically-induced coma won`t tell you what happened? You know what? I see why Bobby Brown is mad.", "I see why he`s mad, too. I agree with what Kessler is doing. He took him to the authorities. That`s his biggest concern, is whether or not the authorities are coming after him. But Bobby Brown`s anger may be misdirected because he`s bringing it on himself. Why can`t they", "Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait! You know what, Caryn Stark? Maybe that is true in Robert Schalk`s code of defense attorney logic, but in the real world, I think Bobby Brown does have a right to know what happened to his daughter. That`s complete BS! I mean, come on, people! This is her 22nd birthday. She`s laying in a medically-induced coma. We still don`t know what happened. Of course he`s", "Well, I don`t know if I`m concerned about Nick Gordon and suicide because I`m not sure of that. That just may be a cry, you know, for people to pay attention to him, to get him in there, Nancy. But Bobby Brown is her father, and he deserves to be there. He definitely deserves to be there, and I imagine he has concerns about her. He`s not doing this for the publicity. He has a connection to her. There`s just bad blood between them so they just don`t stop all this arguing, which is ridiculous.", "Well, you know what? And I understand why, Caryn Stark, people are suggesting, Oh, he`s threatening suicide because he had something do with her condition. That is not necessarily true. He has been taken away from the woman he`s engaged to. He hasn`t been able to see her. It`s her 22nd birthday. She still remains in a coma. So before we paint this in a nefarious -- with a nefarious brush, I think all that has to be taken into account. Everyone joining us tonight, it`s Bobbi Kristina`s 22nd birthday. We have some updates about her condition. She remains in a medically-induced coma. Her relative, Jarod (ph) Brown, created a \"Pray for B.K.\" video, begging the public for prayers.", "Possible cardiac arrest.", "I could not see her like that.", "Tonight marks the 22nd birthday of Whitney Houston`s only child, Bobbi Kristina Brown, family rushing to her bedside tonight as she remains in a medically-induced coma, this as her fiance threatens suicide. Not only that, Alan Duke, a lot has been made of tweets by Nick Gordon arguing, suggesting that her whole family is all about the money, Whitney Houston`s money. What do those tweets reveal?", "Well, he`s not the only one. Yes, his tweets suggest that the Browns are enjoying this too much, that they`re trying to promote their own finances or their own careers with all the attention the media is giving them. Now, whether that is true or not from Gordon`s perspective, this has been quite a media spectacle for the Brown family. And of course, the reports that they might be doing a reality television show -- those don`t surprise me. I`m not sure what network would want to carry it, though.", "You are seeing Bravo`s reality show \"Being Bobby Brown.\"", "Immediately called 911.", "Bobbi Kristina Brown...", "... unresponsive in a bathtub.", "The chances that someone saw or heard something that day are pretty high.", "Meanwhile, the man she calls the love of her life is not at her bedside.", "Back out to Alan Duke, national correspondent with Radaronline.com. We confirmed with a producer -- everybody, you`re seeing Lifetime`s \"The Houstons on Our Own.\" They`ve got a long history both with Bobbi Kristina and her mother and father -- \"Being Bobby Brown\" reality show. Let`s see that, Liz -- reality show. And we have confirmed with a producer that family members -- and let me stress this is not Bobby Brown, her father, OK? Her father is not part of this, and he`s made that clear. But other family members. Alan Duke, you`re seeing video of Bravo`s \"Being Bobby Brown.\" Take a look at this. There`s Bobbi Kristina right there, I think. There you go - - that other family members are resurrecting old reality footage that they pitched a long time ago and are commencing shooting another reality -- a Brown reality show -- repeat, not Bobby Brown, but other family members.", "Yes. It`s -- there are a lot of them, a lot of members of the Brown family. Some of them aspire to entertainment careers. Others would like to have some financial incentives. But who`s going to watch that? I mean, the \"Being Bobby Brown\" TV show that was on years ago with Whitney -- that was entertaining. I remember some of the episodes and seeing young Bobbi Kristina on it. But I`m not sure I want to see these Browns on television. I`m very informed about what`s happening behind the scenes, and it is very sad. I don`t want to see it on television.", "Everybody, right now, you`re seeing video from Bravo reality show \"Being Bobby Brown.\" To Clark Goldband, also on the story. What are we learning from Nick Gordon`s tweets? What are we learning about any money grabs going on, according to him anyway?", "Yes, Nancy, when you read Nick Gordon`s tweets, this is a man who is very stressed out and grieving that he cannot see his fiance, Bobbi Kristina. Now, Nancy, some interesting personal note for you. Last night to celebrate Bobbi Kristina`s 22nd birthday, Nick Gordon said, in fact, he was going to be watching their favorite movie together. So he posted a shot of him watching a film. I believe it was \"The Hobbit.\" And Nick Gordon just really wants to see Bobbi Kristina. Of course, we know the response from the is that Nick Gordon needs to talk to Bobby Brown before that is allowed to happen.", "And to Candace Trunzo, senior news editor, Dailymail.com -- everybody, there you see Whitney Houston singing on stage. As we go into this 22nd birthday evening, I know the family is at her bedside. Do we know any change in her condition at all?", "Nancy, as far as we`ve heard, there has been no change. There was a blip last week, where they tried to take her off the drugs that might take her out of the coma. But she had a series of seizures, and they put her right back on those drugs. She is still in the same really sad, bad shape.", "Right. Everyone, between the tracheotomy that has just been performed on Bobbi Kristina, she`s breathing through that, the family at the bedside, a 22nd birthday almost passed, her relative, Jarod (ph) Brown, creating this video begging for your prayers.", "Live, Silver Spring. Extremely educated parents in an uproar after child services investigates them on a complaint they let their children, just 6 and 10 years old, walk over a mile each way through busy thoroughfares to a playground. Think about it. A six-year-old and a ten- year-old child, alone for two miles through a commercial area? Now, these parents call it free range parenting, you know, like the chicken. But others call it neglect.", "This Maryland couple allowed their two young children, ages 10 and 6, to walk home from a park without adult supervision.", "We`re giving our children the (inaudible) that we had. The idea that kids can be trusted to go down the block, to play in the park, to walk home from school. Basically encounter the world on their own.", "Straight out to Dan O`Donnell, anchor with WISN. What happened?", "Well, these two children as you mentioned, Nancy, age 6 and 10, were allowed by their parents to walk home from this park they were playing in. Apparently, this is something that the parents do quite often. These children are, as you said, free range children using the parents words, that they are able to just go off on their own for extended periods of time.", "I want to go out to special guest, two of them joining us tonight. Lenore Skenazy, author of \"Free Range Kids\" and host of \"World`s Worst Mom.\" Also with us, lawyer for the free range parents, Matthew Dowd out of DC. And with us, Mark Klaas, president and founder of the Klaas Kids Foundation. Lenore, thank you for being with us. Explain to me how it`s okay to let your children walk alone through two miles through a busy thoroughfare?", "Well, what I advocate at free range kids and what the Matit (ph) family was doing was something that my parents did with me and that Daniele, the mom`s parents, did with her. Which is teaching us to cross the street safely, look both ways, that you can talk to people but you can never go off with anybody. And gradually giving the kids a little more independence. Making sure that they understand the rules. Making sure they come back when they are supposed to. And just as my mom let me walk to school back in the days when I was six years old and my crossing guard -- crossing guards back then were ten, just like the boy in this story. She is letting her children do this. I let my own children do this too.", "You let your children walk two miles unattended?", "I let my children learn how to be independent, safe and cautious when they are out in the world. Because thankfully, we are living in safer times today than 1963. The crime rate today is lower than when I was growing up. And lower than when most of today`s parents were growing up. And if you were given the opportunity by your parents to play outside, go to the park, walk to school, your parents were letting you do it at a time when the crime rate was higher.", "Ms. Skenazy, crime rate has not lowered in certain areas.", "That`s true.", "Like Silver Spring, Maryland, which has the highest crime rate in all of Montgomery County. If you can see a monitor, we`re showing you how many sex offenders within a ten mile radius, 607 registered sex offenders. With me is Lenore Skenazy, author of \"Free Range Kids,\" host of `World`s Worst Mom,\" and I`m very familiar with your work. You are extremely educated, very articulate.", "Thank you.", "I understand your theory. I too could ride my bicycle all afternoon. I`ve walked home from school.", "Did you like it?", "Yes, I did. But guess what? I don`t have my children do that. Do you know why?", "No.", "I want you to look at this video, Lenore, if I may call you that, could you please show this video, Liz. This is Carla --", "I`ve seen this video. We`ve all seen this video.", "Everyone, Carly Brucia (ph) is approached. She`s been told not to talk to strangers. Keep watching. She is walking across the car wash. The last time she`s ever seen alive. Right here. Walking home. She was just walking a few blocks. She`s one of so many people. There is Etan Patts (ph). Jacey Dugard (ph). Ben Ownby (ph), Sean Hornback (ph). All very close to home. Some in rural areas where there is no crime. Some in other areas, where there is more crime. Jacey Dugard, her stepfather saw her being abducted at the bus stop. She was that close to him. Ownby. Very near his home, walking home from the school bus stop. Hornback, out riding his bike, like I used to do, like Lenore Skenazy did growing up. Samantha Runyon in her grandmother`s front yard. That is why this is wrong. Matthew Dowd joining me, the lawyer, very well-respected lawyer out of D.C. The lawyer for the free-range parents. I understand that your clients are angry. Child Protective Services opened an investigation. And they have got this claim that will remain open I guess for five years. Tell me your thoughts, Mr. Dowd.", "That is correct, Nancy. Thank you for having me on. I wouldn`t characterize our clients as angry, more as concerned. I would be concerned as well too. Put yourself in their shoes. What they came home to one day is the threat of the government seizing their children without --", "Hold on, Mr. Dowd. Everybody, you are seeing something from Washington Post. And P.S., Matthew Dowd. They just showed a tag that said I`m a free-range kid, I`m not lost. That is like a sign over their head screaming kidnap me, perv. OK? A tag that says I`m alone. Please steal me.", "That`s not right, Nancy. I would have to say the issue here, the legal issue, which is what we`re focusing on is that we want a system where Child Protective Services has some obligation to show that there is, quote, a substantial risk of harm to the children. As of today, the agency has never shown any proof that there is a substantial risk of harm. And I understand that you put up some statistics and some images, but I would invite you to come down to this neighborhood in Silver Spring. It is one of the safest neighborhoods in the entire country.", "Mr. Dowd, you know what, let me see him in a two-box, please, Mr. Dowd, God bless you. Because you know what, that may be a beautiful neighborhood. In fact, I`m sure it is. I`m sure it is peaceful. But you know what? That is just the kind of neighborhood where Carly Brucia was. Where Samantha Runnion was. Where so many children are. Sex offenders or evil doers don`t care what neighborhood they go into. Mark Klaas, please help me here. Please help me make the point I`m trying to articulate.", "Well, there are three things I`d like to say, Nancy. First of all, Elizabeth Smart lived in probably the safest neighborhood in Salt Lake City. But that didn`t stop a predator from breaking into her house and stealing her. Secondly, the whole idea that you tell your kids not to talk to strangers or don`t go anywhere with strangers is a great concept, but it is patently absurd in its application. Because we`ve all seen the videos of children who are so easily lured away by the promise of candy, by the promise of money or to help somebody go look for their puppy at the same time that their parents are watching this in aghast on a video monitor. And thirdly, there is a startling statistic. One-third of all kidnappings occur to children as they are either walking to school or coming home from school, and the reasons are obvious. One, they establish patterns of travel, so that anybody who had had an interest in them would be able to know where they are at any given time. And secondly they tend to be unsupervised. And we all know and I think everyone would agree that there is not a 10-year-old or a 12-year-old child in America that is going to be able to fend off the advances of a very determined predator.", "Let`s test your crime IQ. What did serial killer John Wayne Gacy request as his last meal before execution? Tweet or facebook your answers using #crimeiq. I`ll reveal one of the winners here on the show tomorrow night. All you legal eagles, you got 24 hours. Go.", "If we can`t let your children do what we were allowed do, what does that say about our parenting?", "Kids need to be given their freedom. They need to learn how to navigate the neighborhood, how to cross the street on their own.", "Carlie Brucia was 11 when she was kidnapped by a stranger while walking past a Sarasota car wash in 2004. Her body was discovered four days later. 13-year-old Ben Ownby was abducted in 2007 while coming home from school in rural Missouri. Thankfully, he was found alive four days later. Jessica Lunsford, 9, was snatched from her Florida home by a neighbor in 2005. Briefly held captive, she was raped, murdered and buried in a shallow grave. Etan Pates (ph) was only 6 when he disappeared in 1979 as he walked two blocks to catch a school bus. 11- year-old Jacey Dugard was abducted in 1991 outside her California home. She spent the next 18 years in captivity, living in a backyard shack at the home of her kidnapper and his wife.", "Parents now outraged that CPS, Child Protective Services, investigated them and now have a file on them that will last for about five years. This after they let their free-range children, as they call it, and the woman who created that, author of \"Free Range Kids,\" Lenore Skenazy is with us. Let them walk two miles alone. One six years old. One ten. They go through a busy thoroughfare, where there are a lot of shops, a lot of businesses, red lights. Stop signs. You know what? I believe that a ten- year-old could probably negotiate -- ouch -- stop signs and red lights. I did before I saw that anyway. I`m not as worried about the red lights as I am about child predators. With me, Lenore Skenazy, author of \"Free Range Chickens --\"", "Kids.", "Different species.", "I know it`s not the same thing. With me Mark Klaas and Matthew Dowd. Matthew Dowd, CPS, if you are worried about CPS investigating your clients, let me clue you in on what I`ve learned, sadly. And that is, it seems like every other day, I get a new report of a child dead. And CPS has been called and called and called, and they are overloaded and they can`t or don`t follow up. And the child ends up dead. If you don`t know a horse, Mr. Dowd, look at their track record. I doubt CPS is going to be knocking on your client`s door asking for an in-home inspection. I doubt they will ever hear from CPS again. Tell me about your client`s concern. Because it`s my understanding they were angry about this, but you say your clients are concerned. Why are they concerned?", "The concern is that our clients have a right to parent as they feel fit. And they intend to do so. And CPS will investigate this in the future, and there is no reason to to do that. There has been no showing that there`s been any substantial risk of harm to the children. And honestly, the way this is right now is that our clients are existing in a legal purgatory. They have been accused or found guilty of so-called unsubstantiated child neglect.", "They have not been found guilty of anything. Finding someone guilty occurs in a court of law. CPS opened an investigation on them, and you let your children walking unattended through that downtown scenario we just showed, and do it routinely, and you say you`re going to do it again? I see why CPS is angry.", "Nancy, for the benefit of your viewers, I was using the word guilty, but you are right. They were held quote, responsible of unsubstantiated neglect.", "Mark Klaas, look at this. There`s nearly 700 sex offenders within ten miles. You don`t think they are on these streets right there, where these children are stopping at the stop signs and red lights? Mark?", "The problem is, Nancy, only about 20 percent of all sex offenders are actually registered sex offenders. They`re the stupid ones. They are the ones that are actually caught in the act. Just multiply that out, and you really do put your kids through the gauntlet every time you send them outside, whether they are supervised or unsupervised.", "To Lenore Skenazy, author of \"Free Range Kids\" and host of \"World`s Worst Mom,\" I noticed that you skillfully avoided my first question to you.", "Let me hear it again.", "That was, would you let your children or -- let me refine my question. Have you ever let your children together or separate walk two miles in a busy thoroughfare, red lights, stop signs, lots of traffic, alone?", "I don`t think I avoided that question. But I`m sorry if I did. I think I came to national prominence for letting my 9-year-old ride the subway alone. That was back in 2008. And subsequently, I let both my children, yes, walk by themselves, the way my mom let me, because she was not using Google in her brain the way we do it now. Nowadays, the names of the children, the tragic stories that you have just played before us twice, come to the top of our minds when we ask, gee, I wonder if my kid can walk outside safely. Can my child wait at the bus stop safely? Because we have those particular stories popping up at the top of our brain`s Google search, we think they`re the most relevant. We think the Jayce Dugard story, the Elizabeth Smart story is most likely to happen, when actually it`s the least likely to happen. But we cannot call up to our brains the tens of millions of children who walk to school safely every day. Fortunately, my mom did not have to Google all these names that have been brought to prominence -- to a certain extent by your show -- before she let me have my very happy childhood. Most of us when we think back on our childhoods, think back with joy to the walks we took on our own, to walking to school, to playing in the forest, to making a fort. I don`t think we should deny that to our own children.", "Before we run out of time during your lovely monologue -- and I`m glad to hear about your happy childhood, I also had a happy childhood. But I want to go to Stacey Newman. Stacey, the thoroughfare there in Montgomery County, it`s highly populated. Silver Spring has the highest crime rate in the county.", "That`s right. There`s some parts here, Nancy, that have eight lanes of traffic. Let`s remember, the state law says a child under eight should not be in the care of a child who is under the age of 13. And that`s what we have in this case.", "It`s a violation --", "You are not allowed to be --", "She`s saying in a structure. You are right, Stacey. It says in a structure. Mark, we heard Lenore Skenazy talking about the least likely scenario and the most likely scenario. But you know what, when you ask a crime victim like you, whose daughter was stolen out of her room and murdered or me, a crime victim, a tangential victim of murder, we don`t see it that way.", "Of course we don`t see it that way. If you extrapolate that out, I think the statistics are that one out every six girls will be sexually abused at some point in their life. I`m sorry, one out of every four girls and one out of every six boys. So why make the problem even worse by allowing them to be unsupervised in the open public in a high crime area?", "What about that statistic, which is true? One out of four girls are sexually abused.", "When we look at --", "Why would you want them out walking around like this? Two miles?", "First of all, perhaps they are safer outside. Statistics also show that the vast majority of crimes against kids -- I think you know this, too. It`s a really sad fact. Are committed by people they know, close personal friends, family members, step parents. So the idea that the outside is dangerous and we can`t let our children out without a security detail turns out to be completely at odds with the actual facts of how children get molested.", "I`m not so worried about nature, Lenore. I`m more worried about what goes on in the inside of a perpetrator`s car when they snatch a kid. Let`s remember American hero, Marine Lance Corporal Jeremy West, 20. Iguana (ph), California. Purple Heart, National Defense Service Medal, from a family of military vets. Loved fishing and football. Parents, Lisa and Dave. Stepfather, Ron. Brother AJ. 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{"id": "CNN-176343", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2011-11-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1111/21/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Egyptian Capital the Scene of Violence for the Third Straigh Day", "utt": ["A warm welcome to the NEWS STREAM, where news and technology meet. I'm Manisha Tank in, Hong Kong. And we will begin in Egypt, where at least 20 people died in three days of clashes on the streets of Cairo. Also ahead, the victims of a phone-hacking scandal speak out in London. And a Hollywood ending for Beckham's American adventure. Egypt's capital is gripped by the worst violence since the revolution. For a third straight day now, security forces are facing off with protestors in Cairo. Fighting erupted on Saturday when police tried to clear demonstrators from Tahrir Square. Doctors say they've seen people suffering from gunshot wounds, tear gas inhalation, and beatings to the head. At least 20 people have been killed, according to the Health Ministry there. And there are reports that the Culture minister has resigned, to protest the government's handling of the demonstrators. Well, let's check the scene in Tahrir Square right now. Senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman joins us live from Cairo. Ben?", "Yes, downtown Cairo right now is a real scene of chaos. There are battles ongoing around Tahrir Square (inaudible). And, as you said, the death toll is at least 20. But it seems to be increasing as the day goes on. It -- there's a standoff outside the Interior Ministry, where there are hundreds of people. They've set up barricades with burned-out cars and they're throwing rocks back and forth between the demonstrators and the security forces. One thing a moment ago was evidence that there has been live ammunition use. We saw some bullet holes and were shown a pool of blood where we were told by witnesses that one young man had been shot from an adjacent building. And it just -- it's just a scene of utter chaos in this area where the demonstrators are still holding on to Tahrir Square. It seems more and more people are coming to join them as the day goes on. The military council has insisted that they will allow these demonstrations to take place. But they must be peaceful. But there's nothing peaceful around Tahrir Square at the moment.", "Yes, very worrying development. Keep an eye on things for us. Stay safe. We'll be checking in again with you. Ben Wedeman there, live for us, from Tahrir Square. Well, let's show you where all of this is actually taking place. As they did in January, many of the clashes in the last 48 hours have centered, as we were saying, on Tahrir Square. But violence has also broken out along streets east of there and around the Ministry of the Interior. And Ben was just alluding to that. Social media, again, has been giving -- has been -- really been a key in giving the outside world a blow-by-blow account of how events have unfolded over the last few days. In fact, journalists in Cairo took to Twitter. They've been sending out details, minute by minute. So we start with Sunday, and CNN's Ian Lee, we'll see what he had to say. The protesters and the police are fighting again. A plainclothes man behind police lines threw a rock to spark it. Then hours later, reporter Jon Jensen witnessed police unsuccessfully trying to negotiate an end to the violence. Let's see what he had to tweet about that. \"Molotov cocktail just landed right on riot troop's helmet, burning his face and forcing a massive police retreat.\" And new details are coming through every minute. Just over an hour, Jensen also tweeted that a street near Tahrir Square was blanketed in thick, white tear gas. Well, Egypt's military rulers have also turned to social media. They're posting an apology on the council's official Facebook page and promising an investigation. But one protester says, \"People feel as though Egypt has gone from an autocracy under Hosni Mubarak to a dictatorship under the military. Tahrir Square is once again the focal point for voicing these frustrations.\" Here's Ben Wedeman again.", "Much has changed in Egypt in the last 10 months. But Sunday in Cairo was a day of deja vu. Running street battles raged around Tahrir Square between protesters and security forces, in a growing revolt against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which took over from Hosni Mubarak last February. Tear gas and rocks flew fast and furious. Security forces fired upon protesters with hard rubber pellets like these.", "(Speaking foreign language).", "This is what the police of Egypt are using against us, says Zahara (ph). They're killing the youth of Egypt, shooting them in the eyes. I tell her, we were here on January 25th. It was the same scene. What has changed?", "(Speaking foreign language).", "Nothing has changed, she responds. We've gone backwards. The military council is garbage. Mubarak is still alive and well, and the people are dying.", "Mubarak (Speaking foreign language).", "Shouts this man, \"Mubarak is running the military council and the whole country from prison, Mubarak and all the corrupt business men around him.\" Motorbikes rush the wounded to a makeshift field hospital, the same one that treated those injured during the uprising against Mubarak. To the protesters, the new military rulers look an awful lot like the old one. On January 25th, we were on this very street and we were also teargassed. Now, months and months later, it's November, and the same thing is happening all over again. (Inaudible). So, now, of course, here you see, you know, some of the services provided by the revolutionaries. They are putting saline solution in our eyes, giving us Kleenex to wipe it off. What has changed is the once cowed and silenced people of Egypt have found their voice.", "(Speaking foreign language).", "Whoever ends up running this country will have to contend with a politicized, vocal and demanding population that has learned to fight back. In a statement, the government said, \"People have the right to protest peacefully as long as they don't commit acts that threaten Egypt's stability,\" a stability that most Egyptians are desperately seeking. Shopkeeper Ahmed (ph) hasn't seen a tourist in days.", "(Speaking foreign language).", "For now, the economy is collapsed, and the country can't take it, he says. \"We're on the verge of bankruptcy. There's no tourism. There's nothing.\"", "(Speaking foreign language).", "\"People say Mubarak was wrong. Maybe he was,\" adds his partner, Mohammed (ph). \"But I had work during Mubarak's days.\" Publisher and human rights activist Hisham Kassem warns that the country can ill afford open-ended revolt. Publisher and human rights activist Hisham Kassem: The poverty belt is now the ticking time bomb in Egypt. It threatens that what we went through could be defeated. And if our economy can barely go through it this time, I don't think we'll survive a second uprising in those final 10 years (ph).", "On November 28th, Egypt will begin voting for a new parliament. It may herald a new dawn. But with Tahrir Square once more a battleground, the country seems to be stuck in unending revolution -- Ben Wedeman, CNN, Cairo.", "We take you now to Libya. And two of the country's most wanted fugitives are now in custody. Revolutionary forces captured Moammar Gadhafi's former intelligence chief on Sunday, and on Saturday, they captured this, Gadhafi's second oldest son, Saif al-Islam. He was taken into custody after a gunfight in the Libyan desert. CNN has obtained video of Saif al-Islam in custody in the Libyan city of Zintan. He says he's being treated well.", "(Speaking foreign language).", "Well, as we know, for decades, Moammar Gadhafi kept a tight grip on power and public information. Now books banned by his regime are on display in Tripoli. Jomana Karadsheh shows us what people can now read openly, and many for the first time.", "This was part of their revolution: burning the dictator's ideology -- his green book. Taking its place, books they'd never had a chance to see. With the end of Moammar Gadhafi's regime, Libyans can now enjoy things that were once banned, like books previously blacklisted, now on display at this exhibition in Tripoli. Abdel Minem Abu-Saleb (ph) is one of the organizers. He says Libyans are emerging from a dark era. \"It is time for people to see and learn different opinions and develop critical thinking to broaden their horizons,\" he says. \"The upcoming period is an important one and we need educated people.\" Some of the banned books include subject like homosexuality, or like this one, on human rights in the Arab world, but the regime's ban was mostly on books of a religious nature, like these on Wahhabism and others on the Salafi movement.", "Even publications like this Tripoli guide containing detailed maps of the capital were banned. According to organizers the ban stemmed from the dictator1s paranoia", "Once unthinkable political satire ridiculing the dictator is now available. After 42 years of a cult personality dictatorship, people here say Libyans are thirsty for a Gadhafi-free education and culture. Seventeen-year-old Ziad Eldebri is interested in history books, especially his own country's.", "He didn1t even let us know anything about the Libyan history because he didn1t want us to know the Libyan -- the personalities that he was present is (ph) because he wants always to be like a god or something. He wants -- he wants us to worship him.", "Organizers hope their small exhibition will be the start of a new era, turning the page on decades of indoctrination -- Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, Tripoli.", "Pretty incredible developments there. Well, the Arab Spring may have brought regime change to Libya and to Egypt. But it could be a long winter for anti-government (inaudible) in Syria. President Bashar al- Assad remains defiant despite growing international pressure. We'll have details just ahead. First, heartbreaking testimony at a hearing into phone hacking at a British tabloid, how hacking gave one family false hope that their missing daughter was still alive. And socialists are swept aside in the Spanish elections as the conservative Popular Party wins big."], "speaker": ["MANISHA TANK, CNN INTERNATIONAL", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN REPORTER", "TANK", "WEDEMAN", "ZAHARA (ph)", "WEDEMAN", "ZAHARA (ph)", "WEDEMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEDEMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEDEMAN", "AHMED (PH)", "WEDEMAN", "MOHAMMED (PH)", "WEDEMAN", "WEDEMAN", "TANK", "SAIF AL-ISLAM GADHAFI", "TANK", "JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN REPORTER (voice-over)", "KARADSHEH", "KARADSHEH (voice-over)", "ZIAD ELDEBRI, LIBYAN STUDENT", "KARADSHEH (voice-over)", "TANK"]}
{"id": "CNN-42773", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-10-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/30/lad.25.html", "summary": "Interview with Julianne Malveaux and Armstong Williams", "utt": ["And welcome back. As you know the government is getting criticized for its handling of the anthrax mailing. Postal employees complain they were not tested as quickly as the staffers on Capitol Hill, and their facilities were not shut down when the anthrax threat was known even though that's exactly what happened on the Hill. Some are calling it racism.", "Is there a double standard here?", "Yes, there most certainly is a double standard. The \"New York Times\" say might be some racism in it. If you read the \"New York Times\" yesterday's paper, it said that the facility in Washington, D.C. is a majority minority and we know in this facility it's 82 percent minorities work in this facility. The \"New York Times\" said it might be some racism in here. So I want them all to understand and I want America to understand that the world is looking at this.", "Is it racism or not? Well, syndicated columnist Julianne Malveaux believes race was a factor the way Washington postal workers were treated. Syndicated columnist Armstrong Williams disagrees. Good morning to you both. Welcome.", "Good morning, Paula. Good morning, Armstrong.", "Good morning, Julianne.", "Oh, they're making nice to each other before we get going here. Very, very bad sign. All right, Julianne, explain to us, why you believe racism is involved here?", "5.2 percent of the people who work on Capitol Hill are African-American. 28 percent nationally, and as the man has just said, in D.C. majority minority, and New York, 82 percent, there was a different value placed on people's lives. When the letter got to Capitol Hill you suddenly wanted to test, well the letter came from somewhere. It didn't drop out of sky. People handled the letter in order for it to get to Capitol Hill. Duh! Why did --", "All right, wait -- wait -- wait -- Julianne -- Julianne, let's talk a little bit about what the government officials have told us. They said they had to work that letter backwards through the system, and they said they were not aware of the fact that you could get some sort of anthrax poisoning simply through a sealed envelope. They have thought the envelope had to be opened.", "Paula --", "You discount that completely? You're saying that is not the case?", "-- why does question not get raised? I mean I just feel that we heard about Tom Brokaw, the letter that went to Brokaw, we heard about the postal facility in New Jersey. It seems to me the complexion and the class of these people allowed the CDC and others to treat them with absolutely reckless disregard. Maybe they weren't thinking. I call it racism.", "Armstrong Williams, do you think race had anything do with this?", "No. It is so unfortunate, my heart really goes out to gentleman who was just on camera. Obviously these people frightened obviously, they are frightened for lives, a lot has transpired since September 11, many accusations are being made. Some that's worthy of merit, some that are not. It is unfortunate that in a situation like this, when people cannot find simple answers as to why the government or some other agency did not react as quickly as they should have, we stretch, looking for solutions, and it's easy to say racism because by using racism, we simply say that resolves and answers all the things that we are trying to address at the time. The fact as far as I'm concerned is that the government has gone out of its way to try to bring the situation under control. This something new for government. If you listen to our governmental officials in the past several weeks, they have been having different conversation what anthrax is about, whether anthrax has been weaponized. I am convinced that this government is committed to treating all Americans the same. Like you said, the top health officials and medical doctors have said they did not know someone could contract anthrax by just handling the mail. So this is something new. It's unfortunate, many lives have been affected by this. I think it's sad that someone with Julianne's level of intelligence and respect that she has that she would even just take this conversation as far as I'm concerned into the sewage to try to say that racism --", "The sewage, Armstrong, is that two populations were treated differently. The sewage is that is two populations were treated differently. When you looked at those young people on the Hill, and I want everybody who feels they need to be tested to be tested. I'm simply saying those postal workers also. The week's delay cost two people lives, Armstrong, that's the sewage here. It could have been prevented. Just by looking ahead. I'm not saying is that anyone deliberately wanted these people to die, but I think you have to look at two different population, two different racial compositions, and two different kinds of treatment.", "Julianne, I was on a show with you not long ago and you implied that the reason why the terrorists attacked us on September 11 in the first place was because we pulled out of the race conference in South Africa. I just wish that you would try to think that racism --", "You can't stick to subject, can you, Armstrong? The subject is these postal workers. So you can't --", "I -- I think if you can make an issue out of racism and terrorism, it only goes back to your thinking what you are trying imply now and I think it's so unfortunate. I think do you country and yourself a disservice when you try to distract people away from the real issue.", "Armstong, let me ask you a question. Hang on, hang on, Julianne. Let me ask Armstrong a question. Why do you think the senators got the treatment they did and the representatives, and postal workers did not? There clearly was a week delay, and Julianne made the point that that week delay probably cost two people their lives.", "Because, Paula, as you stated early on, I mean, obviously they have been exposed to this anthrax, they are United States senators, they are in the Congress, obviously they reacted to them because they were afraid, they did not realize as they were trying to trace this that postal workers had been exposed. I -- I --", "So wait, wait, wait. You're saying that they don't have a higher value? That -- that the higher value in their lives was placed --", "No, no, I'm not saying -- it's just -- it's a time issue. No, it has nothing to do with whether they have a higher value, of course they have just as much value as anyone else. And as soon as government realized that those postal workers were exposed, they immediately said that they should be given the Cipro. I mean, I think we are just -- we are just going through -- I mean.", "All right, Julianne, Julianne, Julianne -- You need to answer this question, though, because Armstrong made this point several times in the last minute or two. Are you simply not willing to grant the government a learning curve?", "I'm willing to grant them a learning curve, but I also want to grant people human consideration, Paula. When -- when Tom Daschle's office got the letter, there were offices that were not adjacent to his -- the Hart building was not the same place. I mean they closed down Congress, not the Senate. So it seemed to me that this little -- this hysteria which may well have been founded, allowed some closings, allowed some very rapid testing. It just seems to me -- I'm not -- I am giving the government perhaps more credit than they deserve in saying these are intelligent people, the letter didn't drop from sky it wasn't like manna from heaven. It came from people who put their hands on it. So it just seems to me that the same logic that would allow you to close Congress, would say, \"gee, where did letter come from? Brentwood. Let's test people at Brentwood. Let's just take a look over there.\" Instead these people were simply left in abeyance, and even now everyone has not had opportunity to be tested or to have Cipro. I have talked to several postal workers in Washington, D.C., who were very, very worried, they haven't got any --", "Armstrong -- Armstrong, I need a really quick reaction to this because I need 20 seconds a piece for a final thought. Armstrong, quick reaction to what Julianne said and I want to move to you another subject.", "We don't need to divide this country any further. We're attacked as Americans, not as blacks, not as white, not as latino. And this is time for us to be together and support our government as they try bring this evil doing to a close. We don't need to divide any further, Julianne, we need to be together.", "Well --", "All right, I need to throw a question out to both of you. Julianne, let's move on for a final topic here. And that is, do you think the government handed the terrorists a victory by making a second warning last night, that there is intelligence to suggest there could be another terrorist attack against American interests abroad or here at home?", "Well, you know, the government is in a very tough situation, Paula, and Julianne. I think that what the government is trying to do is protect itself because of what happened on September the 11th. And they want to go on the side of caution as best, if you --", "So you think the announcement is an okay thing.", "No. I'm just saying if someone is saying to you that there is a possibility of -- probability of more terrorist attacks, you don't ever want to Americans to become too comfortable to think that it is not going to happen again. So it is best for them to prepare themselves to watch, as well as pray, for whatever may come. I think the government is doing what it has to do. And I trust the government.", "Okay, Julianne, 10 seconds. Final thought from you.", "It was ambiguous announcement that I think will make people very paranoid. I agree with Armstrong that they do need to make an announcement. However, you're on alert, go back to normal. It's ambiguous. People don't know what to look for. People are saying I'm afraid go to the mall, I'm afraid to go here. We need to reduce the fear or terrorists have indeed won.", "All right, Julianne. Armstrong, good to have you both of you with us.", "Good seeing you, Paula."], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "WILLIAM SMITH, PRESIDENT, NEW YORK METRO POSTAL UNION", "ZAHN", "JULIANNE MALVEAUX, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST", "ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST", "ZAHN", "MALVEAUX", "ZAHN", "MALVEAUX", "ZAHN", "MALVEAUX", "ZAHN", "WILLIAMS", "MALVEAUX", "WILLIAMS", "MALVEAUX", "WILLIAMS", "ZAHN", "WILLIAMS", "ZAHN", "WILLIAMS", "ZAHN", "MALVEAUX", "ZAHN", "WILLIAMS", "MALVEAUX", "ZAHN", "WILLIAMS", "ZAHN", "WILLIAMS", "ZAHN", "WILLIAMS", "ZAHN", "WILLIAMS"]}
{"id": "CNN-228041", "program": "@THISHOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2014-4-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/08/ath.01.html", "summary": "Search Fails to Relocate Pings; Kerry Says Russia Fomenting Unrest in Ukraine as Pretext; UConn Huskies Win Fourth NCAA Title; Dramatic Day in Pistorius Trial", "utt": ["The search area shrinks. The urgency grows. Crews desperate to find Flight 370 hear nothing, no new pings that might lead them to the plane.", "The memories prove too much. Oscar Pistorius overcome and breaks down on the stand as he tells the court about the night he shot and killed his girlfriend.", "And President Obama, this hour, signs two executive orders aimed at shrinking the pay gap between men and women. The president's actions coming on Equal Pay Day, but is this really about pay or politics or both? Hello, everyone. Great to see you. I'm John Berman.", "And I'm Michaela Pereira. We're not going to talk about that, about how much each of us makes, are we? That could be a (inaudible). It is 11:00 a.m. in the East, and 8:00 a.m. out West. Those stories and so much more, right now, @ THIS HOUR. To the search for Flight 370, search crews, once again, coming up empty, they failed to relocate the pinging sounds that they had detected that they had hoped would lead them to Flight 370's black boxes deep in the Indian Ocean. Now this, certainly seen as a setback as the search enters a second month.", "Right now the search zone is drastically scaled back, reduced to about 30,000 square miles. One expert says instead of looking at an area the size of Texas, crews are now searching an area about the size of Houston. Still, it's daunting. Fourteen ships, fourteen aircraft were involved in today's search, and really, they are on borrowed time with the 30-day batteries on the plane's flight recorder either dead or dying. Australia's defense minister says, at this point, they are holding nothing back.", "You can be assured that we are throwing everything at this difficult complex task in these -- at least these next several days whilst we believe the two pingers involved are still active.", "The belief that the pingers are still active is based on the possibility that the batteries could last a few days longer than their 30-day expiration date if they were at full-strength to begin with.", "Yeah, they're past that date now. That's the key here. Remember, time after time in this 32 day search at this point, hopes have been raised only to be dashed. We're joined now by Will Ripley, live from Perth in Australia. The Australian ship, the Ocean Shield, desperately trying to get a fix on those signals it picked up over the weekend. What's the latest?", "Well, you know, we are just one hour away here in Perth from entering Day 33 of this search, and it has now been more than two days since the team members on the Ocean Shield have heard any trace of those signals that they detected twice over the weekend, once for two hours, once for about 15 minutes. They need to find these signals if the black boxes are still pinging, and here is why. The way that the tow pinger locater works, they have to basically sweep around the area, and each time they get a lock on the signal, it gets them closer to being able to figure out exactly where these devices and where possible debris might be. Right now, even after hearing the signals twice, it's still a massive area, 30,000 square miles, where all of this might be, so they think they're on the right track, but they need to continue this work to try to find these black boxes. And if for some reason they can't find them, it's going to make this search effort much more complicated and much more time consuming.", "So, to that end, Will, what do they do? What -- I know that from time to time they reassess, they reexamine the data, they reassess the search area, they redefine it. Have they made a contingency plan if they don't find the -- they don't relocate these pings?", "Yeah, there is a plan. There is other technology onboard, specifically that Bluefin-21, the underwater submersible which actually goes down and scans the ocean floor. But they're not ready to deploy that technology anytime so on. They're going to keep listening as long as they can possibly can, because one day's work for the tow pinger locater, the area that that can cover, it would take a full week for that underwater submersible. And, just deploying the submersible, it takes two hours to get down, three miles down, then 16 hours at the bottom, and then another two hours up, so you're talking about a significant amount of time for just a fraction of the result, which is why they're going to keep listening, at least for now.", "Yeah, using that technology, at this point, when they don't know where the location, would be even more than a needle in a haystack.", "All right, let's turn to Ukraine now. Thanks so much, Will. We appreciate that. To Ukraine where, @ THIS HOUR, things are certainly heating up. Russia's foreign ministry is warning that any use of force in eastern Ukraine could lead to civil war.", "And just moments ago, Secretary of State John Kerry weighed in on this escalating crisis. He said Russian forces and special agents are the ones stirring up trouble in eastern Ukraine. Take a listen to this.", "No one should be fooled and believe me no one is fooled by what could potentially be a contrived pretext for military intervention just as we saw in Crimea. It is clear that Russian special forces and agents have been the catalysts behind the chaos in the last 24 hours. Some have even been arrested and exposed. And equally as clear must be the reality that the United States and our allies will not hesitate to use 21st century tools to hold Russia accountable for 19th century behavior.", "Pretty harsh words from the secretary of state, \"contrived chaos.\" We're joined now by our senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh, live in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, and, Nick, first of all, talk to me about the chaos. What are you seeing on the ground there right now?", "It's remarkable. I'm standing in Donetsk here where life seems to be going around pretty much as normal, apart from a pocket of chaos about 200 meters away from where I'm standing, the local administration building taken over now for three days by pro-Russian activists. They've built barricades out of tires, barbed wire, anything they can lay their hands on. They've got Molotov cocktails, iron rods. They're pretty angry in many ways. It's also fair to say they're pretty disorganized, as well. They don't seem to have a leader. They seem to want a referendum to bring this country -- sorry, this part of Ukraine into Russia at this point, and it did seem late last night they were very worried that Ukrainian special forces might move into clear them out as they have done in other cities in the east where such activity has happened. That didn't occur. They are digging in. But I spoke to the local governor here who's been appointed by Kiev, the pro-Ukrainian, obviously, government there in the sense of the country there, and he thought negotiations could perhaps see some sort of way out of this. He didn't want to use force, but importantly, too, he tried to suggest that, despite what Secretary Kerry is saying, Russia isn't really spearheading this. This is about local economic gripes. People are upset at the lack of jobs for themselves here. That's perhaps his way of trying to take the geopolitical heat out of this, but still tense moments ahead here. John?", "All right, and U.S. warships, by the way, headed to the Black Sea right now as a show of force. Our Nick Paton Walsh, live in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, thanks so much, Nick.", "Now to other stories making news @ THIS HOUR. Court has adjourned early in South Africa after Oscar Pistorius' emotions got the better of him. Pistorius was on the stand describing in detail the night that he shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home. The memories broke him down. Now, as stipulated by the judge's broadcast rules, you are not going to see Pistorius on camera. You're just going to hear his voice. Take a listen.", "We'll take adjournment. Court will be adjourned.", "And, with that, adjourning for the day, really a dramatic day in court, we'll have a live report for you coming up from Pretoria, South Africa, ahead. We're also going to take you live to the White House @ THIS HOUR as President Obama takes action on equal pay for women, the president set to sign two executive orders, one forbidding federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss their compensation. The other will force federal contractors to give the Labor Department data about their employees' pay, including their race and gender. Both of these laws are aimed at encouraging pay transparency.", "And the madness is over, except in one place. They're celebrating --", "Just beginning.", "-- at the University of Connecticut today. Look at this. They haven't learned all their lessons in college, some pretty stupid celebrations there, tearing down some stop signs and the like. Nevertheless, it was for an OK reason. The U-Conn Huskies taking home their fourth NCAA basketball championship with a win over Kentucky last night. U-Conn was a seven-seed, and they made something of an unlikely run to the championship. They knocked off Florida. They beat Kentucky, you know. And, you know, they were just good. Unfortunately, after the win, as you saw before, some of the people there got a little bit rowdy, tearing stuff down. Police made several arrests. I expect a much classier display --", "Yes!", "-- when the Lady Huskies, who are, in many ways, way more impressive or equally impressive, at least --", "Who do they face off?", "They face off Notre Dame in the title game. And I noticed, Michaela Pereira --", "Talk to me.", "You are the second-most-famous basketball player to come out of Canada other than Steve Nash. You noticed --", "In my own mind.", "You noticed something key in last night's game.", "Yeah, free throws, 10 for 10. My coach used to make a big deal about our free throws, and U-Conn held it down, 10 for 10 at the free-throw line.", "In Canada, they take free throws very, very seriously.", "I was a defensive player, too, so enough about my high school football or basketball prowess. Ahead @ THIS HOUR, let's talk about the search. It is getting smaller, the search area, but we know that it's still pretty huge. We'll talk about what's next in the search for missing Flight 370."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN CO-ANCHOR", "MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN CO-ANCHOR", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "DAVID JOHNSTON, AUSTRALIAN DEFENSE MINISTER", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PEREIRA", "RIPLEY", "PEREIRA", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE", "BERMAN", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA"]}
{"id": "CNN-203786", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2013-3-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/26/sp.01.html", "summary": "Teenager Sells App to Yahoo!", "utt": ["Welcome, everybody. Let's intro the team this morning. Richard Socarides is with us, former senior adviser to President Clinton. Now a writer for \"Newyorker.com.\" Also this morning, Christopher John Farley, senior editorial director of digital features at \"The Wall Street Journal\" and editor of their \"Speakeasy\" blog. And Gloria Reuben is back, this time on our panel. She, of course, is an actress and a philanthropist. Nice to have you with us. Christine Romans is with us, as well. She's going to look at the day's business.", "Good morning, Soledad. We're \"Minding your Business\" this morning. Stock market looks like it could rebound after those losses Monday. The concerns about the eurozone still front and center. We're going to get some data on the U.S. economy this morning. In particular the housing market. That could put stocks back in rally mode. The S&P; 500 pretty close to record highs, about 13 points or less than 1 percent away. Okay, Yahoo!'s latest acquisition, an app invented by a teenager in England. The kid's name is Nick D'aloisio. He's 17. He's about to be worth tens of millions of dollars. Yahoo! reportedly just bought his company and the tech blog, \"AllthingsD\" (ph) put the price tag at $30 million. He invented a news reading app called Summly. In December he told CNN's Piers Morgan how he got the idea.", "Sure. I started programming when I was 12, and had been doing apps for a few years, and the way I thought of this idea is I was revising some history exams and I thought if I could build a piece of technology that could take pre-existing content and summarize it and condense it, it would really help people my age and everyone else consume it.", "The app turns articles and takes them, turns them into short summaries to make it easier to read on your smartphone. Nick still has to finish high school so he'll work from Yahoo!'s London office. He, of course has to comply with the new policy that band telecommuting. So, he'll be studying for his finals and working from Yahoo! and counting the money in his bank account, all at the same time.", "Wow. Love that kid.", "When I was 12, I was listening to led zeppelin. I didn't even know --", "You weren't programming?", "I wasn't. I should have been, clearly.", "It's like the Cliff's Notes. Basically he made Cliff's Notes.", "For everything. For everything. And like some of our news like is like some people think the news is like in too much of a summary fashion already. But now this is going to summarize it and condense it even more.", "Can I still adopt him? Is he too old to adopt?", "You'd be rich.", "I love that story. Still ahead this morning on STARTING POINT, we're following lots of breaking news that we'll be talking about. An Italian court has ruled that Amanda Knox should stand trial again in the death of her roommate. What now? One of her longtime defense attorneys is going to talk with us coming up next. And don't blame the groundhog. We'll tell you about Punxsutawney Phil's handler says it is not his fault that he got the spring prediction wrong. You're watching STARTING POINT. We're back in a moment."], "speaker": ["O'BRIEN", "ROMANS", "NICK D'ALOISIO, CREATOR, SUMMLY", "ROMANS", "O'BRIEN", "GLORIA REUBEN, ACTOR AND PHILANTHROPIST", "O'BRIEN", "REUBEN", "O'BRIEN", "RICHARD SOCARIDES, WRITER, \"NEWYORKER.COM\"", "CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY, WRITER, \"SPEAKEASY\"", "SOCARIDES", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-164467", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2011-4-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1104/07/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei Detained", "utt": ["Welcome to NEWS STREAM, where news and technology meet. I'm Kristie Lu Stout, in Hong Kong. Now, China speaks out about the detention of artist and activist Ai Weiwei, saying it has nothing to do with human rights. A CNN exclusive. Alleged Libyan rape victim Eman al-Obeidy tells her story to CNN. And after an earthquake, tsunami, fires, now radioactive seawater. Japan's fishing industry struggles to cope with the impact of the country's multiple disasters. Now, the family of famed Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei say that they still have not heard from him. His whereabouts have been unknown since Sunday, but Beijing has confirmed that Ai Weiwei is in custody. The government says he's being held for suspected economic crimes, but offer no details on those charges.", "Mr. Ai Weiwei is under investigation on suspicion of economic crimes. It has nothing to do with human rights or freedom of expression.", "Now, China has strongly rejected foreign criticism regarding Ai Weiwei's arrest. Eunice Yoon joins us now live from CNN Beijing. And Eunice, what more did the Foreign Ministry say about Ai Weiwei? And what tone did the spokesman take during the briefing?", "Well, Kristie, the ministry really did address the international outrage, saying that other countries should respect China's laws. The ministry spokesperson's tone was relatively neutral and polite, but the spokesperson just wouldn't engage in any more conversation about Ai Weiwei. And that really suggests that the ministry is not ready to go beyond the stated talking points -- Kristie.", "You also spoke to Ai Weiwei's mother and lawyer. What is their reaction to his detention?", "Well, we also spoke to the wife as well, and the family, as you had said earlier, hasn't heard from him at all. His wife is demanding answers. She went down and visited the Public Security Bureau in Beijing and asked police to show her the legal documents that would allow them to hold her husband for so long. The lawyer also said that he hasn't heard any details about these charges. And we did speak to his mother, who said that she thought that these charges were ridiculous. She said that the government was playing tricks, and she said that she's also very concerned about her son's welfare because, she told us, that he's a very stubborn person.", "Interesting reaction there. Now, why is Beijing investigating him for economic, as opposed to political, crimes? Is this a strategy to somehow shift the world's focus away from him?", "Well, what people who follow the dissident community have told me is that this is actually a very typical practice. When officials have difficulty building a case against an activist for political reasons, they often opt for economic crimes such as tax evasion, fraud, or corruption, for instance, in order to try to discredit that activist publicly. Ai's lawyer, as well his family, though, say that he has no financial issues. And his lawyer, in fact, told us that even if he did have financial issues, the charges shouldn't have been lodged in this way, that he believes that the government actually is not following legal procedures despite what the ministry spokesperson today said, that the investigation is proceeding according to Chinese law -- Kristie.", "All right, Eunice. Thank you for that. Eunice Yoon, joining us live from Beijing. Now, CNN reports on Ai Weiwei are being blacked out in China by censors. And they have also blocked many mentions of his name in online forums. Now, this right here, it spells his name, \"Ai Weiwei.\" And the characters look very similar to these, which reads in Chinese as \"Ai Weilai (ph).\" That means \"love the future,\" and that became a popular way to refer to the artist until the censors caught on. So, what are people in China using right now to talk about Ai Weiwei? Well, here are a few substitutes: \"Ai,\" meaning \"sigh.\" And others are using Ai Weiwei's father, his name, instead. Ai Qing was a famous communist poet. Now, this one, it doesn't actually meaning anything, \"Ai Weiwei.\" But it sounds just like his name. And some poets (ph) refer to a baker of sunflower seeds, and that's a reference to Ai Weiwei's recent art exhibition at the Tate Modern in London. Now, Moammar Gadhafi's political allies continue to seek a diplomatic end to the country's crisis, while the Libyan leader himself has been largely quiet. But he did send a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama with a fairly blunt message: end the NATO bombing of Libya. Now, a Libyan official told reporters that a British air strike had hit an oil pipeline, but Reuters news agency reports a rebel oil official saying that it was Gadhafi's forces that attacked the Savir (ph) oil field on Wednesday. A U.S. official said that the White House was not taking Gadhafi's letter seriously. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weighed in, saying it is Gadhafi who must relent.", "I don't think there is any mystery about what is expected from Mr. Gadhafi at this time. That is an international assessment. And the sooner that occurs, and the bloodshed ends, the better it will be for everyone.", "Now, the tone of Gadhafi's letter to the U.S. president bordered strangely on the compassionate. \"Despite all this,\" the Libyan leader wrote, \"you will always remain my son.\" But there has been little compassion shown by government troops in cities such as Misrata. The U.N. secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, says he is deeply concerned about conditions there, adding that the population is trapped and unable to receive basic supplies. And away from the bloodshed and ruin, one small note for optimism. Now, this tanker carrying crude oil left the eastern port of Tobruk on Wednesday. Now, it is the first known export of oil by the struggling opposition since this crisis began. Now, he is under siege but holding out. While time is running out for Ivory Coast's self-declared president, Laurent Gbagbo, forces loyal to the internationally-recognized president-elect, Alassane Ouattara, stormed Gbagbo's residence Wednesday after reported negotiations for a surrender failed. Now, a spokesman says Gbagbo is in the basement of his residence, despite being surrounded by opposition troops. Now, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says it is time for him to step out from the shadows.", "It is totally unacceptable that Mr. Gbagbo is still persisting against the will of a total international community. He should know that there is nobody in this world to support him. Now, he must cede his power peacefully.", "And we've got some dramatic rescue footage for you now. You're watching an overnight operation. It was conducted by French and U.N. peacekeeping forces to rescue Japan's ambassador to Ivory Coast. Now, helicopters flew in after forces believed loyal to Laurent Gbagbo broke into the ambassador's house and used it as a base for heavy weapons. Seven staff members and a security guard were evacuated. So, let's map some of this out for you. Now, the helicopter rescue, it took place in the Abidjan suburb of Cocody. Now, Gbagbo's forces are believed to have stormed the property. Now, that despite it being some distance from the presidential palace, where Ouattara's forces believe Gbagbo is holed up. Now, they're not certain, but a Gbagbo spokesman says the embattled leader is in the basement of his besieged residence. Now, still ahead here on NEWS STREAM, she has come to define the brutal nature of the conflict in Libya. We'll bring you Nic Robertson's exclusive interview with alleged rape victim Eman al-Obeidy. And adding insult to injuries. We hear from a fisherman who claims Japanese nuclear bosses are damaging an industry already crippled by last month's natural disasters. Plus, a long farewell. A former CNN sports anchor is making sure he stays a part of his daughter's life despite terminal cancer."], "speaker": ["KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST", "HONG LEI, CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER SPOKESMAN (through translator)", "STOUT", "EUNICE YOON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "STOUT", "YOON", "STOUT", "YOON", "STOUT", "HILLARY CLINTON, SECRETARY OF STATE", "STOUT", "BAN KI-MOON, U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL", "STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-148490", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2010-3-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/01/acd.01.html", "summary": "Osmond Tragedy: Marie's Son Commits Suicide", "utt": ["Marie Osmond is speaking out about her son's suicide. His name is Michael. He jumped from his Los Angeles apartment Friday night. We have this picture from Michael and his mom from \"The Insider.\" He reportedly left a suicide note. Michael was a student at the Fashion Institute of Design in Merchandising. He was just 18 years old. In a statement Marie Osmond said, and I quote, \"My family and I are devastated and in deep shock by the tragic loss of our dear Michael and ask that everyone respect our privacy during this difficult time.\" This is a tragedy, obviously, that many American families have suffered through. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for young Americans. We wanted to dig deeper with Dr. Drew. He's -- Dr. Drew Pinsky. He's an addiction specialist and best-selling author. Dr. Drew, thanks for being with us. I lost a brother to suicide. This is something which I think a lot of people don't focus on, because it makes them very uncomfortable. There's obviously, you know -- whether it's for religious reasons or social reasons, people just find a hard time talking about this. And yet, it's, you know, third leading cause of death, I think, for kids 15 to 24.", "Right. Particularly young males, Anderson. And the fact is I think it is some sort of residual of the notion that mental health disorders of some sort of a weakness. The fact is these are -- when depression gets so severe that somebody is contemplating suicide. It is a medical issue. And people need to recognize, if anyone out there is suffering depression or someone they love is, 20 percent of people with major depressive disorders will kill themselves.", "And yet, if you add something like drugs or alcohol into the mix, which is probably something that people who are depressed will sometimes use to maybe mask their symptoms or to deal with their depression, right?", "That is absolutely true. Drugs and alcohol are a common concomitant with depression, and they make depression so much worse or they cause or bring on depression. So yes. And if somebody does have addiction and depression, the addiction has to be treated first and thoroughly before the depression can really adequately be addressed.", "What are warning signs that parents out there or friends should look for?", "Well, if you believe that somebody may be suicidal, if they have been giving away their things, if they begin contemplating or talking about suicide, if they're making a plan, if they have difficulty functioning, getting out of bed. Even more mild disturbances like change in their sleep cycling, appetite disturbances, irritability, agitations, feeling of worthlessness or guilt, and this goes on more than a couple of weeks, that's all symptoms of somebody that needs medical attention.", "I'm told the rate of adolescent suicides has actually increased in recent years. And it's a tough story to report on because, in talking about it and reporting on television, that actually can sometimes, if it's not done properly, kind of bring it into people's lives who hadn't previously thought about it.", "Unfortunately, there is some copycatting that goes on in adolescents. But young adolescent males have a particular capacity for completing suicide. In other words, they...", "Women attempt it -- girls attempt it more often, but men tend to, when they do attempt it are actually more successful at it in terms of -- because they use more violent means.", "Correct. And then also to -- if you or someone you know has experienced this, it's not your fault. The family tends to feel guilty and tends to second-guess themselves. This is a medical disorder that kills one out of five patients. You've got to deal with it that way. And if the outcome is bad, it's not because you could have done anything different. It is a serious and life-threatening medical disorder.", "And also, it seems in this country people don't take depression seriously enough. I mean, it's not something that people view -- go ahead.", "You know that's -- Anderson, I think that's true of all mental health conditions. We have a very strange and sort of primitive way of looking at it, as though these are personal issues that have to be dealt with through being strong or gritting it out or moving through it. It's simply anathema to the fact. The fact is, these things have treatment. There are diagnostic conditions. People need to reach out for help, and the outcomes can be significantly improved.", "Dr. Drew. Appreciate it. Thanks, Drew. Coming up at the top of the hour, the latest from Chile. The search for survivors and how it looked and sounded as the tremors hit."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-238350", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-09-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/08/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Obama to Outline ISIS Strategy This Week; Hundreds Of Children Sickened By Severe Virus; Prince William And Kate Expecting Baby Number Two", "utt": ["He's on the front page of every newspaper. And just to let you know how unlikely this final match was according to R.J. Bell in Las Vegas. It's over a thousand to one odds that these two would meet in the final game. So it might not be the one everyone was hoping for, but hopefully we get still some good tennis tonight.", "I hope so. Andy Scholes, thanks so much. The next hour of CNN NEWSROOM starts now. Good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thanks so much for joining me. It's been a weekend of U.S. airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq. Now comes the news the world has been waiting for. President Barack Obama gets set to announce his strategy to defeat ISIS. He's already started talking about it. The first phase involves air strikes which, of course, as you know, is well under way. The second phase will involve an intensified effort to train and equip the Iraqi military and Kurdish fighters. The final phase will center on destroying ISIS in Syria, a military campaign that could last 36 months. Our senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta joins me now with more. Good morning, Jim?", "Good morning, Carol. That's right. And remember Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken told our Wolf Blitzer last week that this could take some time, going into the next administration so that three-year timetable is something administration officials have been talking about for about a week now. As for conducting air strikes in Syria, senior administration officials say the president has not made a decision on that yet, but at the same time one senior administration officials tells us that the president and his top aides have started working on the speech that will be on Wednesday to lay out this new ISIS strategy to the American people. It is one that the president talked about somewhat yesterday in that interview on \"Meet the Press\" when he said he's ready to start going on offense. Here's what he had to say.", "What I want people to understand, though, is that over the course of months we are going to be able to not just blunt the momentum of ISIL, we are going to systematically degrade their capabilities. We're going to shrink the territory that they control and ultimately we're going to defeat them.", "Now the president said this is not going to be a repeat of the Iraq war, more of a counterterrorism campaign. Speaking of Iraq, the White House did release a letter the president has sent to House Speaker John Boehner and Congress notifying them, really an official notification that ha to take place that the president has expanded the air campaign against ISIS. As you know, Carol, over the weekend, new air strikes were launched on ISIS targets around the Haditha Dam, the first time the U.S. has struck ISIS in Western Iraq. But the big question remains, Carol, whether or not the White House will continue to provide these war powers letters as they expand this operation into Syria? Or will they go to Congress and ask for an authorization of air strikes, talk to senior officials, they said they're not ready to announce that decision just yet if they've even made one at this point -- Carol.", "We'll see if he says anything about that Wednesday. Again, President Obama will lay out his strategy to defeat ISIS on Wednesday. Jim Acosta reporting live from the White House this morning. With me now, Peter Beinart, CNN political commentator and contributing editor for \"Atlantic Media.\" Welcome, Peter. It's interesting that the president is going to lay out his strategy to defeat ISIS a day before the anniversary of 9/11. Do you think that's on purpose?", "Not necessarily. I think what you saw last week was that the political pressure was mounting on the president to do something more aggressive. You started hearing criticism from even Democrats in Congress. Republicans are using this on the stump in the congressional election so I think the pressure was there for President Obama to get ahead of this. And now I think it will be harder for people to say he doesn't have a strategy because he's going to lay something out at some length.", "All right, we'll see. It seems the State Department has a new strategy, too. It has this video to try to convince Americans thinking of joining ISIS not to. This video, it features crucifixions and beheadings and lots of gruesome stuff. So I'll show a bit of the video that I can to our viewers so watch.", "As I said, the State Department flooded social media with this gruesome video to discourage people from joining this terrorist group. Is it effective, Peter?", "Well, we'll have to see. It's clearly aimed at Muslims and one message it's trying to get out which is an important message is that ISIS is killing huge numbers of Muslims. Maybe some of the potential recruits who are going there, who think that they're fighting for Islam don't realize how brutal ISIS towards Shi'a Muslims. And, indeed, even towards Sunni Muslims who don't share their political agenda. Maybe getting out that message may make some of these people think twice.", "Maybe, I hope so, anyway. I don't know it just seems like a strange strategy but who knows? It could work. So back to the strategy, the military strategy, to defeat ISIS. The president will lay out this three-pronged plan and parts of the plan has to involve Muslim countries, they must help. Are they any closer to achieving that? Because I know Chuck Hagel is going to go to Turkey, right, and try to get Turkey on board and you wonder why Turkey is not on board because that's where the extremists enter Iraq and Syria from, which would be Turkey.", "Right. Well, there's an interesting history here. Turkey initially a few years ago was quite -- really helped to create the Free Syrian Army and was actually disappointed with the Obama administration that they were not more aggressively supporting it itself. But remember Turkey also has a whole number of their own diplomats who have been captured by ISIS. So Turkey has its own concerns about going after ISIS so aggressively because they have Turkish people whose lives are on the line here. But Turkey is important because of that border has become a major route for people to enter Syria and if you could close it down I think that would be an important blow against", "OK, let's talk about Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia could help the United States conduct air strikes, right?", "Well, I think financing is really key. The Saudis can be an important source of funds for the moderate Sunni rebels in Syria, also for Jordan, which is on the front lines, which is involve very much in counterintelligence efforts. And also Saudi Arabia and some of the other gulf countries can also work harder to turn off the flow of private donations that are going to ISIS and also to al-Nusra, which is al Qaeda's official affiliate in Syria.", "OK. So Chuck Hagel, the defense secretary, is working on Turkey. John Kerry, I would assume is working on the others. So this regional coalition is starting to form. Will this regional coalition be more effective than the coalition of the willing was during the second gulf war?", "Well, I think the question is whether you're talking about Iraq or Syria. I think it's easier in Iraq. First of all, you have the Kurds who are an effective U.S. ally. You also have a government that although pretty dysfunctional wants the U.S. in. Remember, if the U.S. goes and bombs in Syria, we could have potentially our planes shot down by Syrian air defenses. We have no requests from the Assad government to go in so it's a more hospitable environment in Iraq and even the Sunni countries around Iraq, which don't like the Shi'a government of Iraq recognize that ISIS represents a threat. So you can see why Obama wants to start in Iraq because I think we have better prospect there is. Syria is going to be a significantly bigger climb.", "Peter Beinart, thanks so much for your insight, appreciate it as always. Hundreds of children have been sickened by a nasty respiratory virus that has sent many to the hospital. Several states have asked the CDC for help, mostly in the Midwest and southeast. Kids are dealing with symptoms that start out like a cold, but quickly get much, much worse. Doctors are scratching their heads as to why this outbreak is occurring. Elizabeth Cohen is here with more. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. Carol, you probably had a summer cold at some point in your life. That's an enterovirus. Usually it's not a big deal, but this time this particular type of enterovirus is unusual and it is virulent.", "For this teenager, it was a near-death experience.", "White as a ghost, blue lips, he just passed out, had his eyes rolled back in his head and I had to call 911.", "The culprit, Enterovirus D-68. So far, ten states have asked the Centers for Disease Control for help. There are no official numbers nationwide, but one hospital in Metro Denver reported treating about 900 children for severe respiratory illness, 86 of them have been hospitalized. In this hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, more than 400 children have been admitted with signs of the virus. Of those, 60 have been in intensive care. All of this in less than one month. An official at the Centers for Disease Control said these cases might be just the tip of the iceberg. Why has this type of enterovirus, which was first identified in the 1960s, gotten so out of hand this year?", "Why one virus or another crops up is inexplicable. It's a mystery to me.", "But he does have some good news. Enteroviruses usually aren't deadly.", "The fortunate thing is they'll get better.", "The virus can start as just a cold. Some children develop a rash and difficulty breathing.", "This can happen fairly rapidly so don't dawdle if you really think your child is sick. It's time to call.", "OK, so don't dawdle. But I wonder since so many kids are coming down this virus, is there something about this time of year, Elizabeth?", "There is, indeed, Carol. This is the Enterovirus season, it's late summer to early fall so we're right in the thick of it. Another thing going on is in the Midwest and southeast, schools for the most part started up in mid-August, which is when we started seeing this so kids are infecting each other. So it's a bit of a perfect storm.", "All right, Elizabeth Cohen, thanks so much. I appreciate it. Dr. Rick Sacra, the third American infected with Ebola continues his recovery at a Nebraska hospital. Doctors say they're encouraged by his progress so far, but it's too early to say if he's turned a corner toward a full recovery just yet. Sacra is being treated with another experimental drug different than the other one being use that treated the other two.", "Buckingham Palace confirms Will and Kate are expecting baby number two and the official announcement came in a tweet. I want to bring in our royal correspondent, Max Foster at Buckingham palace. Max, the Twitter announcement said simply \"The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting their second child.\" How far along is Kate?", "I spoke to someone in the palace and they said she's not yet 12 weeks pregnant. They had to announce it early because she's got this acute morning sickness again and has had to cancel various engagements. They said they wanted to be fully open with the public so they wanted to announce this at this point so people weren't questioning why she wasn't turning up to events so she's actually confined to the palace, Kensington Palace. She's got doctors at her side. They're not overly concerned about her, but they need to keep on top of her sort of well-being because they're concerned with morning sickness, particularly as badly as she gets it, she can get dehydrated. So she's being looked after. Prince William carried on with an engagement in Oxford so doesn't seem too worried. So a happy story. A little brother or sister for Prince George.", "Was Britain much surprised by the announcement? There have been rumors for weeks, you know.", "Well, there have been rumors, but I blame some American magazines who do this regular thing saying \"Exclusive, we've heard that she's going to be having a baby.\" And then they say it enough times and it becomes true and we end up having to respond to it. Kate and William themselves only found out very recently. The queen literally the last few days so I don't think there was anything in the rumors but we all knew that she so enjoyed being a mother, she's completely hands on. He's loved being a father and has designed his whole career around being near Prince George. So we knew that inevitably they'd want to have another child. This is when it starts happening. Seven months away we reckon so April next year we'll be back on air delivering the news on whether it's a boy or girl.", "That's right. You'll be camped outside of some hospital waiting for her to come out once again.", "Come over and join me, Carol.", "I'm going to this time because I really enjoyed it the last time. Max Foster, thank you so much. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, the controlling owner of the Atlanta Hawks is selling his stake after the discovery of a racially charged e-mail. CNN's Martin Savidge got an exclusive interview with the team's CEO. We'll bring it to you next."], "speaker": ["ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "ACOSTA", "COSTELLO", "PETER BEINART, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "COSTELLO", "COSTELLO", "BEINART", "COSTELLO", "BEINART", "ISIS. 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{"id": "CNN-370762", "program": "FIRST MOVE WITH JULIA CHATTERLEY", "date": "2019-05-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/27/fmjc.01.html", "summary": "Populist Parties Across Europe Failed To Make Significant Gains, But The Centrists Struggled, Too; President Trump Says The U.S. Isn't Ready For A Deal With China; Renault Set To Tie Up With Fiat-Chrysler.", "utt": ["Live from New York, I'm Julia Chatterley. This is FIRST MOVE and here's your need to know. A far-right fizzle. Populist parties across Europe failed to make significant gains, but the centrists struggled, too. \"We'll call you,\" President Trump says the U.S. isn't ready for a deal with China. And a whole new alliance. Renault set to tie up with Fiat-Chrysler. It's Monday. Let's make a move. Welcome to FIRST MOVE once again. I hope you had a great weekend. And if you're still on holiday today, then enjoy it while we bring you up to speed with what's been happening around the world. I'm calling it a populist polls in the European elections with many parties underperforming expectations, but that didn't stop a few fireworks and we've got all the details; and of course, no pause in the war of words between the U.S. and China over trade. Right now U.S. and U.K. stock markets are closed, so global volumes are expected to be a bit muted, but as you can see Europe is making gains, green across the board here. Greek stocks. Look at Athens over there, up by more than 6 percent. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called a snap general election following his party's defeat in both E.U. and local elections. Greek bond yields are also significantly lower, too. Is that a measure of perceived riskiness here? We'll take that I think as a positive sign as well on that general election call. Meanwhile, over in Asia, stocks had a mix session. President Trump said in Japan today that he's not yet ready to make a trade deal with China and the tariffs could rise further on Chinese goods. China responded though blasting the U.S. negotiators for not being on the same page as them on trade. Didn't a third of those pages get red lines scribbled all over them? Just saying. The Chinese also saying higher U.S. tariffs will have quote, \"very limited impact on their economy.\" Well, new numbers out today tell a different story. Chinese industrial profits tumbling in April and we've got manufacturing business survey data. Later this week, too, we'll be bringing you that. Some analysts watching for a contraction in activity. Now, we say in FIRST MOVE all the time, that the stock market is not the economy. But I do think this chart speaks volumes and I'll continue to show it to you. At the beginning of this year, if you remember, Chinese stocks with a big winners with the MSCI China index, outperforming the S&P 500. Since President Trump's pivot away from that trade deal, the S&P has outperformed. It slipped 13 percent so far this year with a mere 4 percent higher for the MSCI. So that relative performance, they're important. That said, the U.S. won't escape scot free. Last week's report on U.S. manufacturing was a shocker. It showed factory activity falling to an almost 10-year low this month. JPMorgan thinks that we could see us growth boil to just 1 percent this quarter. The political center, of course took a hit in Europe this weekend. I question whether the economic center can hold on any better during the trade war. All right, let's go to the drivers. People from 28 nations have picked their representatives for the E.U. Parliament and it was a fragmented picture. Centrist groups did poorly, but populist parties didn't perform as well as some polls had suggested. Erin McLaughlin is in Brussels to give us all the details. Political fragmentation, I think that's the phrase following these results. Erin, talk us through it.", "Yes, that's absolutely the phrase, Julia. I think it's interesting to look at these results in a context of three camps that exists here inside the European Union. On one camp, you have the status quo, then you have those who want more Europe and then you have those Eurosceptics who want less Europe. What we saw last night evolve is a picture in which the status quo lost ground and the other two camps essentially gain ground. We saw strong gains for the ALDE and martialist, the liberals as well as strong gains for the greens, but we also saw the Eurosceptic camp make gains as well, although not as much as some had originally feared. We saw strong gains for the Eurosceptics in Italy particularly strong performance from the Deputy Prime Minister there, Matteo Salvini. We also saw Marine Le Pen in France have a strong showing come out victorious, though a narrow victory over French President Emmanuel Macron. Although, in total, those who are pro-Europe within this Parliament vastly outnumber those Eurosceptic groups. So we don't expect the Eurosceptics to have too much of an impact on the internal workings that's more seen as a warning shot to the European project in general.", "The other big figure that everyone here is talking about in Brussels is voter turnout. It was particularly strong at almost 51 percent, the strongest it's been since 1994. The first time since the elections were introduced in 1979, voter turnout has actually gone up seen as a very healthy sign here for the E.U. in Brussels -- Julia.", "Yes, one could argue that Brexit and the difficulties of that challenge have certainly sent a message to voters in regional Parliament's. But to your point, if we break it down in terms of the Eurosceptics and those that are more pro-E.U., how coordinated are the parties on the Eurosceptic side if they want to create tensions and get in the way of voting and decisions in Brussels, how coordinated are they? Because the challenge has always been for me that actually even if they are Eurosceptic, the differences between them are vast.", "Yes, absolutely. The differences are vast by definition, they're nationalists who want to exercise their own national interest. So traditionally, in the past, these nationalist parties, these Eurosceptic parties have not managed to coalesce. We see the likes of Matteo Salvini trying to change that with his new alliance with Marine Le Pen of the National Rally in France. We're going to have to watch that space very carefully to see how successful he is. So far, he has been unable to bring others on board like Viktor Orban's Fidesz Party, have been unable to bring on board the Eurosceptics out of Poland. They all have very different economic as well as foreign policies. So it'll be very interesting to see if they'll be able to come together to make any sort of impact. But regardless, they do not have the majority. In fact, far from it in terms of this Parliament. The pro-European parties still have a majority of the seats in the upcoming European Parliament.", "Yes, we were just showing the smiling face of Matteo Salvini, one of the other big winners of the E.U. elections as well. Erin McLaughlin, thank you so much for breaking that down. Brexit one word and the one issue that dominated voting for the U.K. Nigel Farage's Brexit Party storming to victory with nearly 32 percent of the vote. There were also small but strong gains for parties to back remain, including the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party. Phil Black is at Downing Street for us and have been following these results. Phil, for me, the key takeaway for the U.K.'s voting was here. If you have a firm view on Brexit, whether you're a Brexiteer, or you're a remainer, you actually won votes. If you're an established party here, you got crushed.", "Yes, that's precisely right, Julia. Parties that took a clear unequivocal view on Brexit one way or the other, were rewarded by the electorate. The clearest example of that, as you touched on is the Brexit Party, this new Nigel Farage single issue vehicle that was only formed a month ago last month, and yet now has emerged to capture a third of the vote and come in at first place, which really is an extraordinary result. But what it's been very good at doing is sweeping up the discontent that exists across pro-Brexit areas around the country. People who voted for Brexit, three years ago and who to this day simply cannot understand that what they voted for has not yet been delivered. On the other side, the Liberal Democrats, as you mentioned, up until pretty recently, something very akin to a political courts in this country, they have been incredibly effective at capturing the remain vote by say definitively unequivocally that they want to stop Brexit, they want a second or a third referendum in order to do that. And then there were the main parties which were punished. Labour lost a lot of its votes to the Lib-Dems, punished for that consistently murky policy of theirs saying, \"We respect Brexit but at the same time, maybe we might back a further referendum,\" and that Conservatives, they knew they were going to take a hit on all this. They could see this coming. For many conservatives, it was one of the reasons why they push to force out Theresa May last week, but even still, they came in at fifth place, historically terrible. It will be a shock to the party, and it will very much likely inflame passions during the coming conservative leadership contest -- Julia.", "Yes, it's such a huge illustration, I think of the polarization of public opinion is, as you quite rightly point out. But let's move this forward then, what does this ultimately mean in the win for the Brexit Party here? Does it mean that the conservatives have no choice but to go for a hard Brexiteer, when you've got Nigel Farage saying, \"Look, I want to be party to the next talks and the next Brexit negotiations.\" The challenge remains and it's still a huge challenge to get something that works for all here.", "Indeed, but it's difficult to see how this will not frame the coming discussion within the Conservative Party.", "Really, they are already feeling the pressure, the need to elevate someone to the leadership who is a dedicated Brexiteer, someone who promises to take a tough line with Brussels, someone who if necessary, is willing to accept and perhaps enthusiastically embrace the idea of a no deal Brexit scenario. Even before this result, much of the conversation about who the leader should be was through that paradigm, if you like, and it is very difficult to see how with this result in, the clear threat that many feel from the rise of the Brexit Party, how that will not further influence the discussion that is taking place in the Conservative Party over the coming six to eight weeks or so as they go about the process of not just choosing their new leader, but of course, choosing Britain's next Prime Minister as well.", "Absolutely. And we will continue this discussion later on in the show, but for now, Phil Black, thank you so much for that. All right, let's move on to our next driver and we go over to Tokyo now where President Trump had some choice words for China. During a Summit with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, President Trump says the U.S. is quote, \"not ready to strike a deal with Beijing.\"", "So as far as China is concerned, they want to make a deal. I think they probably wish they made the deal that they had on the table before they tried to renegotiate it. They would like to make a deal. We're not ready to make a deal and we're taking in tens of billions of dollars of tariffs. And that number could go up very, very substantially very easily. But I think sometime in the future, China and the United States will absolutely have a great trade deal.", "U.S. companies are paying those tariffs just to be clear, but White House correspondent Boris Sanchez is in Tokyo for us to give us the latest. Lots of pomp and ceremony here and a few Sumo wrestlers as well Boris, but it was the President's comments about North Korea and China, too that I think perhaps garnered most attention. Talk us through it.", "Yes, well, specifically on China. It's a big part of the reason that the President is here and bringing up key talking points with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The main reason the President wants to open up agricultural markets to American businesses is because a lot of American farmers are suffering because of the trade war with China and the impact that tariffs have had on them. So that was news there. The President saying that the United States is not ready to get back to the negotiating table. But you're right. Some of the most surprising comments from President Trump were about North Korea. The President apparently taking the side of Kim Jong-un when it comes to the short range ballistic missile tests that North Korea launched last month that going against the outlook of his own National Security adviser, Ambassador John Bolton and even Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who was standing just a few feet away from him when the President basically said that he wasn't working worried about these missile test. Abe, however, said that he believes that these tests are regrettable. The Japanese Prime Minister has to walk a fine line here. He needs to sort of charm the President, engender his support for a bilateral meeting between Shinzo Abe and Chairman Kim, something that Abe is still seeking. And yet he also wants to condemn Kim and confront him with, in his words, some harsh truths. We should point out the President and Abe just departed from a banquet held in the President's honor by the new Japanese Emperor, Emperor Naruhito. The President and the First Lady are turning in for the evening. A big day ahead tomorrow. They're scheduled to tour joint Japanese and American Naval facility before the President ultimately has back to Washington tomorrow afternoon -- Julia.", "Yes, I mean, you raise some really important points, strategic partners in many respects, whether it's trade, whether it's security, whether it's tackling things like North Korea and China. Can we call this a successful few days between the two nations?", "Well, it depends what the expectations were. White House officials before we even got to Japan had told us that this was largely going to be a symbolic visit. That it was meant to strengthen ties between the two nations and show the strength of the Alliance as well. But there really hasn't been a tremendous amount of progress to tout on a trade deal, or on some sort of joint coordination regarding North Korea. Perhaps, the biggest thing that came from that press conference in terms of any deal or coordination between the two countries was this announcement that Japan and the U.S. would work closer together on an effort to explore space. President Trump talking about soon going to Mars. But again, this is more about diplomacy. This is more about showing a united front than it is about actually getting something on paper and accomplish. President Trump telling the press and the world on Twitter that we could expect some kind of deal after elections are held here in Japan in July -- Julia.", "Yes, it's such an important point. The symbolism here perhaps front and center and Melania Trump wins, her face at that sumo wrestling match was just a picture and that was all over social media at the weekend, it did make me laugh. Boris Sanchez. Thank you so much for that over in Tokyo for us.", "All right, two big carmakers are on the road to a potential merger and investors are loving it. Renault's Board says it will study a quote, \"friendly proposal\" for a 50/50 merger it received from Fiat-Chrysler. Shares of both companies are rallying in Europe and Peter Valdes-Dapena joins us now and has been looking into the details. Talk us through what this combined entity would look like? The world's third largest carmaker here, what will that mean? And also what will it mean for the Renault-Nissan Alliance as well going forward?", "Well, that's something that's really going to be a lot of discussion. By the way, if you include the Alliance partners in this, this would be the total package, the largest automaker in the world, including Nissan and Mitsubishi with Fiat-Chrysler and Renault. Obviously a very, very big deal for the industry. So far, Nissan is not commenting publicly on this arrangement. It hasn't said anything about it. There are reasons Nissan might be happy about this, because, of course, Renault has been pressuring Nissan looking to do a full merger and Nissan has been resistant to that. And now Nissan could say, \"Well, there. You have your merger. You're happy, and we can maintain our independence in this.\"", "You know, it's interesting, I was looking at some of the synergies that come from the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi partnership here. It was 5.7 billion euros in 2017. So we're talking if this alliance only generated half of the synergies that that Alliance does, we're talking some two and a half billion euros a year, which would be lovely. The challenge that I see here is Europe, Italy, where there is greatest crossover between these two things, try telling France or Italy that we're going to be cost cutting and closing factories and things. Huge challenge.", "Of course, now officially speaking in this announcement, Fiat Chrysler said it would not have to close any plants. That this would all be through other sorts of synergies. But in the long term, who knows? It can be tough in this industry to cut costs without closing factories, but so far, they say they're not going to. But clearly Europe is the biggest challenger. It's a very -- it's a very challenging market to begin with and one where both these companies do have a lot of overlap. The benefits -- the big benefit -- for them is going to be in the U.S. where of course Fiat Chrysler has deep dive big pickup trucks and lots of profits.", "Yes. And the future is technology, of course. I have an eyebrow raised. We shall see. Peter Valdes-Dapena, thank you so much for that. All right. Let me bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making headlines around the world. The Austrian Parliament looks set to sack Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's caretaker government in a vote of no confidence. In a few hours' time, the crisis began after a video sting scandal which took down the Vice Chancellor and dissolved the coalition between the Chancellor's Conservatives and the far-right Freedom Party. A climber who died on Mount Everest over the weekend had warned of overcrowding at the summit in his last post on social media. Robin Haynes Fisher one of nine people killed on Everest this year. Experts say conditions this season have become increasingly dangerous and some mountaineers lacked experience. All right, we're going to take a quick break. But still ahead, what the E.U.'s fractured Parliamentary elections mean for global business and the centrists; and don't wave goodbye to the populist wave just yet. 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{"id": "CNN-35109", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-7-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/19/lad.14.html", "summary": "Russian Programmer Arrested for Violating Copyright Laws", "utt": ["Well, no fun and games at a hackers convention. Yes, they have these things. In a hackers convention in Las Vegas, FBI officers actually moved in this week, arrested a programmer on charges of violating copyright laws. And CNN's science correspondent Ann Kellan is here to tell us a little bit more about this. I mean what happened?", "Well, basically, he was invited by is Def Con. Def Con is the hackers convention -- Dmitry Sklyarov. And basically, what he did was he told people how to go into Adobe and basically break the code, to copy e-books. And according to Japan press, that's legal to do in Russia if you are the -- if you buy an e- book. And actually, you should be able to be allowed to copy or get a backup copy. So, in Russia, it's something that is legal. In the United States, there's a new -- 1998 act that says it's not legal.", "So the FBI shows up...", "Yes.", "...arrests this guy...", "Right.", "What's that about?", "Well, I think the hackers at Def Con is -- we were just seeing pictures of him, but the Def Con convention is a place where people come and they talk. And you find people in T-shirts, you find in all walks of life and hackers are good and bad. And this is a place where hackers can meet, both good and bad, and trade secrets in a way. So...", "The FBI is normally there thought.", "Of course, they're there.", "I mean they're there kind of watching out.", "Right, absolutely.", "So was it any big surprise that somebody finally got nabbed?", "Well, I think it is a surprise because for one thing, he was invited in to talk about this at the conference. And so I think there's a raised eyebrow about that. But also, it -- I'm sure that the people who are going under cover probably didn't want to use this forum to make an arrest. They like to keep it open. They like to hear the secrets because they're going to get the secrets from the bad guys.", "I was going to say, they get the information.", "Exactly. And so, this is probably not what they would have thought as an ideal situation.", "And is -- I guess it's probably not clear yet whether this alleged hacker was doing this in good faith, thinking that -- as he could in other countries, he could go ahead and do this or whether he was actually trying to cause trouble?", "Right, we don't know that. We have no idea. He does know the code. And I'm sure if your Adobe and you want to protect the code and that's something that's, you know, private and he invaded their privacy. If you look at it from their side, he has violated the law in this country.", "I wonder if it will change the way the hackers hold their conventions.", "You know it's going to be interesting whether -- but as they've always said, if you really are doing something bad, you're not going to tell the secrets anyway.", "Right.", "But it's that gray area where they have been able to exchange ideas. And so, it will be interesting to hear, from the hackers, whether they will feel as open in the upcoming Def Con conventions.", "All right, thanks so a lot. Great story, Ann Kellan, appreciate it."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR", "ANNE KELLAN, CNN ANCHOR", "MCEDWARDS", "KELLAN", "MCEDWARDS", "KELLAN", "MCEDWARDS", "KELLAN", "MCEDWARDS", "KELLAN", "MCEDWARDS", "KELLAN", "MCEDWARDS", "KELLAN", "MCEDWARDS", "KELLAN", "MCEDWARDS", "KELLAN", "MCEDWARDS", "KELLAN", "MCEDWARDS", "KELLAN", "MCEDWARDS"]}
{"id": "CNN-384322", "program": "CUOMO PRIME TIME", "date": "2019-10-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/30/CPT.01.html", "summary": "Source: Alexander Vindman Believed Trump Personally Withheld Aid As A Way To Force Ukraine To Announce Probe Into Bidens; Donald Trump's Russia Ambassador Pick Confirms Testimony On Rudy Giuliani's Ukraine Role.", "utt": ["News continues. I want to hand it over to Chris right now for \"CUOMO PRIME TIME\". Chris?", "All right, thank you my friend. I'm Chris Cuomo and welcome to \"Prime Time\". Are Democrats about to snag their biggest impeachment witness yet? We have big news on that front. And we have a key Senate player here tonight with a Ukraine connection of his own. Plus, one of the biggest assaults on a key witness, Colonel Vindman is about to get blown up in this show in just moments. So what do you say? Let's get after it. The President's Former National Security Adviser John Bolton, is he the next big witness. A source tells CNN he was invited for next Thursday. His lawyer said tonight it's not going to happen without a subpoena. That's arranged easily enough these days. Meanwhile, a Bolton top NSC Deputy just resigned on the eve of his appearance before impeachment investigators. Tomorrow Tim Morrison, why would he be important? He can back up what Bill Taylor testified to as to the understanding as to why there was a quid pro quo. And CNN has learned that Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman also tied the President to a Ukraine quid pro quo in his testimony on Tuesday, as was expected. And also, according to sources, he told investigators he was convinced the President was personally blocking $400 million in military aid to force Ukraine to publicly announce an investigation into the Bidens, even before Vindman heard that July 25th phone call. So with that let's bring in Senator Chris Murphy. He was in Ukraine last month. He said he raised red flags to President Zelensky about not getting dragged into American politics. The Foreign Relations Committee Member, Democrat from Connecticut, joins us now. Good to see you, Senator.", "Thanks for having me.", "So what can you tell us about Ukraine's President's mindset towards what we're dealing with here?", "First of all, I had heard back in the spring from many of my friends in Ukraine and those who go back and forth to Ukraine that Zelensky as a brand new President, someone with no prior political background was very worried about these overtures he was getting from Rudy Giuliani and the demands that were being made of him to get involved in the American election. And of course that just stands to reason, any foreign leader would be concerned if they are getting visits from the President's political operatives asking them to get involved in the President's political campaigns. So part of the reason that I went to Ukraine in early September was to, you are know, raise this with Zelensky and tell him that, you know, he really should stay out of American political campaigns and that he should conduct his business with the State Department. What was interesting about the meeting, amongst other things, was that before we even really sat down and engaged in what a normally diplomatic pleasantries at the beginning of the meeting, Zelensky went straight into the question of the aid, he wanted to know why he could get that aid, why it was being held up, it was of dire concern to him because he knew they were going to be Ukrainians who died on the front with Russia if that aid were not released. At the end of the meeting I recommended that he stayed out of American politics and he agreed with me. Of course it was just weeks later we learned the extent of the corruption but at that moment in early September, he was very focused on getting that aid restarted and seems to be really crying out for help in terms of how he could convince the administration to change their mind.", "And just so we understand, why did you know at that time to ask him to stay out of American politics?", "Rudy Giuliani in May was openly bragging about his attempts to try to get Zelensky to investigate the Bidens so this was, you know, not a secret from anyone. I actually wrote a public letter to the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the spring asking for an investigation because it seemed as if there was this shadow foreign policy trying to corrupt the Ukrainians that we needed to ask more questions about. I don't think it was a surprise to anyone. I spoke to Ambassador Taylor as well about this while I was there. And he expressed concern at this back channel again at the time I didn't know that he actually was involved in these conversations, but he clearly was alarmed when we were there in early September.", "So let's look at the President's state of play. How big a deal with John Bolton be to you, the Former National Security Adviser?", "So, you know, I don't know that we should expect that John Bolton is ultimately going to be the white knight here. He has a very broad belief of executive power but from Fiona Hill's testimony we know that he was deeply uncomfortable with what he called a drug deal that was being manufactured by Mick Mulvaney and others on the Ukraine beat. So I expect that he will likely just fill out a few more details in a story that is just crystal clear.", "You don't have any questions. You believe you know what happened and you know why?", "I think the testimony from Taylor, the statements that Sondland has made, the details that Fiona Hill and Colonel Vindman fill in just make it absolutely clear that this aid was being held up, the White House meeting was being denied in order to get the Ukrainians to investigate the Bidens and launch investigations into the Clintons. I think it's clear as day at this point. I don't know how Republicans can deny that after all the testimony that they've seen at this point.", "Well, if you watch the show, they find new ways every night. I still think the big question is going to come down on your shoulders about whether or not this is worthy of removal. I think there's still reasonable arguments to be made on the side of why it's not worthy of removal but we'll get to this later. Let me ask you two quick things. We're obsessed about the July 25th phone call. What about the July 30th phone call between the United States President and Putin? The President was asked about it and he said we just talked about Siberian Wildfires. That strains credulity. Five days after the Ukraine call that's what he talked to Putin about? How much interested are you in that call and is there any chance of access?", "So I'm interested in that call. Listen, I think we've got to be a little careful about making demands for - you know a large number of private communications between the President and others. I think when we have evidence from whistleblowers that there has been corruption or illegality committed on a phone call between the President and a foreign leader--", "That's different.", "--then I think that's appropriate for us to ask for the transcript. If we're just sort of fishing with some suspicions, even though they may be reasonable suspicions, I just think we want to be careful about the precedent of expecting that all of these private communications be made public.", "I don't disagree. I think that this question is the better part on that. You want to candor in those kinds of conversations. The question becomes does anybody that's being interviewed in the depositions now or in later hearings bring up that call because may be he had the same people on both and there will be something. Let me ask you something else, today you had Sullivan before your Committee. He's the selection by the administration to be Ambassador to Russia. He gave the President cover on Ukraine. He said, yes, I look, I know what happened in the call. The President said these investigations were relevant and part of policy but there was no quid pro quo. Does that answer make you comfortable with him as the diplomat in charge of Russia communications for the United States?", "Well, you know, listen, John Sullivan's an honorable guy, I like him but his answers doesn't make sense. The bulk of his testimony was that he was kept in the dark, that he actually had no knowledge of any of these entries into the Ukrainian's and investigations into the Bidens until the whistleblower came forward. So I have no idea that he can now represent that he knows there was no quid pro quo when in fact he has seen the reports of the testimony that make it clear that there was a quid pro quo and he has no present - he has no real time knowledge because he is trying to save himself by suggesting that he was in the dark. So you can't have it both ways. You can't say that you didn't know anything about it but you're absolutely certain that there was no corruption, especially when all of the testimony from career public officials, from member of the Trump Administration makes it very clear that there was a quid pro quo. And as you know, because I said this before on the show, I think there was a quid pro quo but I frankly don't think that you need to prove it for this to be corrupt. I think a President asking for investigations into his political opponents is corrupt, potentially illegal, even if there isn't a demand on the other side or withholding of support or aid on the other side.", "After Mueller we had people saying if a foreign power comes to you and offers it, contact the FBI, stay away. Now asking a foreign power for help isn't a problem? Anyway, Senator Chris Murphy, I appreciate your perspective very much, an important time in our history. Thank you for being with us.", "Thanks.", "Now, there's one name that keeps coming up in each of these testimonies, even again today. The name that we cannot forget is Rudy Giuliani. I know that's gone quiet, you're not seeing him anywhere and that's with good reason. But we have to remember what he means in this narrative. Prosecution or not, he is completely relevant to understanding what happened here and why. Let's shine a light on what we know next."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN HOST", "SEN. CHRIS MURPHY, (D-CT)", "CUOMO", "MURPHY", "CUOMO", "MURPHY", "CUOMO", "MURPHY", "CUOMO", "MURPHY", "CUOMO", "MURPHY", "CUOMO", "MURPHY", "CUOMO", "MURPHY", "CUOMO", "MURPHY", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-309383", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2017-04-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/06/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Sources: Bannon's Role Is Diminished In White House.", "utt": ["New tonight, Steve Bannon, again by the president's side after being demoted. The president's chief strategist traveling to Mar-a-Lago one day after being kicked off of the National Security Council. How much longer will Bannon have the president's ear? Tom Foreman is OUTFRONT.", "He's a man of tremendous talent and experience.", "President Trump praising his new national security adviser, whose influence appears on the rise while Trump's controversial advisor, Steve Bannon, is getting a demotion.", "I can run a little hot on occasions.", "For Democrats, there is no greater lightning rod than the ultra-conservative, Bannon. Some instantly praised the move to push him from the inner circle of security.", "I think it's a very positive step. He's certainly introduced a political element there that doesn't belong there. From my own point of view he doesn't belong in the White House, either.", "Bannon bonded early with Candidate Trump using his appearance on a radio show on Breitbart to help him along.", "They were laughing at me when I was saying, hey, this guy Trump is going to be -- this is going to be very serious.", "But Bannon also brought an extremist orthodoxy which has infuriated many on the left, civil rights advocates.", "Now, I believe that's of beginning stages of a global war against Islamic fascist.", "And he's angered mainstream Republicans, too.", "Look at the intelligentsia of the Republican Party and the conservative intelligentsia. They were mocking the Tea Party. They were mocking these grassroots organizations.", "For now, Bannon and his allies are trying to put a good face on his move away from the National Security Council. In a statement, Bannon said \"Susan Rice, security advisor under President Obama, operationalized the NSC during the last administration. So, I was put on the NSC to ensure it was de-operationalized. General McMaster has the NSC back to its proper function.\"", "What that statement means is not really clear, but this is. The embarrassing failure of Republicans to be able to overturn baker and other setbacks for this administration have resulted in other advisors getting more influence, including the president's own son-in- law and it is not clear right now if Steve Bannon can stay at the top of the heap -- Erin.", "All right. Tom, thank you very much. And OUTFRONT now, Kayleigh McEnany, contributor for \"The Hill\", John Avlon, editor in chief for \"The Daily Beast,\" and Jamie Gangel, our special correspondent. So, Jamie, let me start with you. Look, from the start of Trump's presidency and even in the transition, we've all been at meetings. We have seen pictures of meetings. Steve Bannon has been at every single one of them, in some way, shape or form, he is there, by the president's side. Has there really been a change?", "There has been a change. I think what's going on is very simple. Donald Trump is not happy. He is not happy about the failures of health care. He is not happy about his poll numbers. When was the last time -- remember in the campaign, he always talked about how great his poll numbers were, his ratings. I think the other thing that is true that we've been told is that Jared Kushner and Ivanka have fallen out with Steve Bannon, whatever that relationship is, it's not -- it is not going well. He's not going to fire his son- in-law or his daughter.", "So, it's sort of a one faction versus another. I mean, Kayleigh, Bannon has a history of saying controversial things, right? And these are some of the things that made more traditional Republicans really dislike him. Here some of them are.", "Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. What we need to do is bitch-slap the Republican Party. We're now I believe at the beginning stages of a global war against Islamic fascism.", "So, is less power for Bannon a good thing? Certainly you'd think it is for the more moderate Republican faction at the White House, the Reince Priebus side of things as it maybe?", "No, I don't think it's a good thing and here's why. Look, he -- yes, he's known for having that flamboyant kind of temper Breitbart, but here's something he's known for -- Steve Bannon, when the establishment Republican Party was taking the party off the cliff, Steve Bannon said, hold on guys, let's put a brake to this. We have to stand up for the worker. We have to be against some of these free trade deals. We need to stop border crossings -- illegal border crossings. We need a hard-line stance on immigration. He was saying these things that Donald Trump said in the primary that got Donald Trump elected. I fully believe that, right now, Donald Trump is materializing on what he promised the American people, TPP, immigration, those things are happening and that is because you have Steve Bannon there saying, don't listen to the Washington establishment, do what you told the American people you would do.", "Look, if you've ever worked in politics, one of the ironclad rules is don't fight the family. It's always a losing bet. And, you know, you're your point -- you can't fire Jared Kushner. Now, there are deep ideological and philosophical divisions between the two. We reported at \"The Daily Beast\" today the Bannon called Kushner a globalist and a cut-servative, which is really fighting words among the alt-right. But that is indication of the bad blood going there. And the other --", "I thought that was a typo at first.", "Oh, no, no, no. It's a term of art.", "Look it up, it's a term of art.", "But the second bit is, you know, there was a conscious movement among some folks to start pushing this idea of President Bannon. He was presenting himself as a Svengali, a very outsize powerful figure. That's going to get under Donald Trump's skin. We've also reported that that \"SNL\" skit where Bannon orders Donald Trump to the little desk didn't play real well either.", "Yes. So, let's show that skit because there's all these other comments, Jamie, and \"The New York Times\" opinion piece, President Gannon. GQ, Steve Bannon is our president. \"Politico\", the man behind Trump still Steve Bannon. 'Foreign Policy\", President Bannon's hugely destructive first week in office. I remember a brief conversation I have with him. He was sort of joking about how one article referred to him as Darth Vader. He was laughing about all this. But these are the sorts of things that could truly, truly damage a man who gets his news from reading mass market publications and runs into these kind of things, i.e., Donald Trump.", "Correct. And the other thing I will tell you is, when you talk to the Republican establishment, they are thrilled about this. I mean, Steve Bannon's loss of power, they have felt that he was destroying the Republican Party. They feel that -- there was a sense of ding-dong, the witch -- the witch may not be dead but maybe the witch is going out. They want Steve Bannon out of there.", "But that's exactly why, John, I wonder if he's going to be, because Donald Trump doesn't want to feel like the establishment has won. That is anathema to what he stands for. So, maybe now he wants to teach a lesson to Steve Bannon but is he really going to lose power?", "Look, I think that's a fair appointment. You've got sort of an accelerated game in Washington in real time being played through leaks in the press. But at the end of the day, I think to Kayleigh's point, Steve Bannon was sort of Donald Trump's spirit animal at the end of the campaign.", "Spirit animal.", "He's sort of kept him through to what he said he'd do. The problem is you also have a game of contain the president going on. And there's an axis of adults in this administration trying to keep the administration from going off the rails. That based on and rooted in real responsibilities of governing is a pretty compelling argument, too.", "Let's remember, you know, Steve Bannon was the person who would allegedly go on the plane with President Trump and President Trump would call him into a room and they -- he would be his calming force. Steve Bannon was the one that got along really well. I think in the end, it's a balance. You need the Reince Priebuses of the world. You need Ivanka. You need Jared. You need those moderating forces. But you also need the person that's going to hold President Trump's feet to the fire and say you cannot betray the base.", "And remind him, as one person told me, that he did every day, this is what you're elected to do. This is what you're elected to do. That's what Steve Bannon was doing for Donald Trump. Thanks to all. And next, Republican ripping up the rules to get Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on the bench. Tonight, Trump already talking about his next justice. And Bernie Sanders with a major hit that millions and millions are watching. 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{"id": "CNN-93999", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2005-4-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/25/lol.02.html", "summary": "Conservatives Call for End to Filibuster; Highlights in the History of the Filibuster", "utt": ["Detectives in Georgia say they have no reason to suspect foul play in the disappearance of two toddlers. 2-year-old Nicole Payne and her 3-year-old brother Jonah went missing from their Warrenton, Georgia, on Saturday, and the search for the children stopped temporarily last night because of searchers' fatigue, but it resumed earlier today. We'll keep you posted. The death toll now stands at almost 60 from Japan's worst rail accident in more than 40 years. A commuter train left the tracks and slammed into an apartment building outside Osaka this morning. More than 400 people were injured. The cause is under investigation. Democracy yes, but on Russia's terms. The country's president Vladimir Putin has taken heat from Western nations for backtracking on reforms. Today he insists his country is moving forward and remains committed to ideals of freedom. In his sixth annual state of the nation address, Putin says Russia must protect its own values, hold on to its heritage and find its own road to democracy.", "A showdown looks likely in the Senate over the filibuster, that Senate rule that allows unlimited debate unless 60 senators vote to stop the debate. Republican leaders threaten to seek a ruling ending filibusters against judicial nominees. Takes only a simple majority for that. And now religion gets thrown into the pot. CNN White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux reports.", "Senate majority leader Bill Frist is at the center of the showdown between Republicans and Democrats over the president's judicial nominees. Frist is delivering a videotaped address to a religious telecast sponsored by the conservative Family Research Council, aimed at increasing public support for President Bush's judicial nominees. Excerpts from the speech show Frist supporting Republican efforts to limit filibusters.", "My Democratic counterpart, Senator Reid, calls me \"a radical Republican.\" I don't think it's radical to ask senators to vote.", "Simulcast on Christian television and radio and to churches across the country, religious conservatives are launching an aggressive campaign to portray blocking Mr. Bush's nominees as an act against people of faith.", "As American citizens, we should not have to choose between believing and living by what is in this book and by serving the public, whether it be on the bench as a judge or whether it be in any other elected office.", "Another religious group denounced conservatives' efforts to turn the filibuster in a religious litmus test. The key senators involved in the filibister debate called for their parties to compromise.", "My Republican colleagues are ought not to vote for the nuclear option as a matter of party loyalty, and the Democrats ought not to be voting in lock step on filibusters as a matter of party loyalty.", "I agree with Senator Specter. We ought to find some way to back away from this because, I think the Senate would be hurt, but ultimately, the country would be hurt if you remove an area of checks and balances.", "The competing rallies underscore the important role that religion plays in politics and the tug-of-the-war that is taking place across the country over the federal courts, which rule on such hot button issues as abortion and same-sex marriage. Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, Crawford, Texas.", "So how has the Senate filibuster rule become a religious issue and should it be? We're sure to get some conflicting views from our next guests, public policy consultant Randy Tate, former executive director of the Christian Coalition.", "Hey, Miles.", "And former Democratic Congressman Tom Andrews, national director of the Win Without War Coalition, there in our Washington bureau. Welcome to you both, gentleman.", "Thank you, Miles.", "Randy, let's start with you. Religion and politics.", "Sure.", "They're not supposed to be discussed in polite conversation, right? Didn't your mama always tell you that? Don't discuss religion and politics. Now we've got them -- it seems that every issue we confront now boils down to religion somehow. How did we get to religion on filibusters?", "Well, I think you can look back to what's happened over the last several years as Democrats, particularly liberal Democrats, in the United States Senate on the Senate Judiciary Committee began inserting and injecting religion into their questioning of potential nominees. You saw that with the nominee Mr. Pryor, you saw that with Mr. Pickering, you saw that with Mr. Holmes, where their questions were raised about them and their religious beliefs and...", "So you basically are saying, they started it. But do you agree with Republicans who say that Democrats who support the filibuster of these nominees are against people of faith? Is that really a true statement?", "No. I think what you've seen is a disturbing pattern that's developed over the last several years, where someone's deeply- held belief systems, and many times that's their religious beliefs, are now being used as an issue to have a filibuster and not even allow a vote on those individuals. You know, the constitution is very clear, Miles. There should not be a religious test on anyone holding public office or the public trust, but you see it being inserted and being raised in these issues and I think that's troubling.", "Well, to the extent, however, that religion leads to morality and morality leads to decision-making, I suppose it is valid series of questions to ask. Tom Andrews, basically, what Randy is saying is Democrats started it by letting the religion genie out of the bottle, by asking those questions. What could do you say?", "Listen -- we're talking, Miles, first of all, let's put this in perspective. We're talking about 200 judicial nominees of the Bush administration have gone through under -- with Democratic support. We're talking about ten nominees out of 200, less than five percent. This is not a judicial crisis, as you've heard. And the fact is, is that holding up a nomination because you have grave concerns about the judicial temperament of someone, whether they're going to base their decision on the facts, on the law and of the judicial temperament that you want in these very powerful positions, is not an act against God as, of course, we're being told.", "Tom, Tom, wait a minute. Isn't there a little more politics involved there than you're giving it credit? You're saying that in each and every one of these cases, these people do not have the temperament to be judges? Do you really believe that?", "No. Let's -- again, let's put this in perspective, Miles. I mean, when Bill Clinton, President Clinton, tried to get his nominees through, 60 of those nominations were stopped by the Republicans. Now, we're talking about ten being held up with the Democrats here in the system. Now, to take a filibuster system that has provided that checks and balances that we so need in this country, served us well since 1809 -- to throw that out the window is something that a majority of Americans oppose, a majority of Republicans oppose.", "All right, and that...", "And this is what's at stake right now.", "Yes, but let me ask a question about that, because there is another strategy that the Republicans could employ, instead of this so-called nuclear option, as Harry Reid calls it.", "Or constitutional option.", "Or whatever you want to call it. There are ways around it -- recess appointments -- there are ways that Republicans can maneuver to get these judges on the bench. Why don't they do that?", "Well, I don't think you should have to try to maneuver to do what the constitution lays out.", "Well, but politics is all about maneuvering. What are you talking about? It's always maneuvering, right? Compromise, maneuver.", "Yes, but listen, listen on this. The constitution is clear that the president sends the nominees to the Senate, they have to advise and consent, and this is unprecedented. This has never happened in the history of the country, what has gone on in the last couple of years. At the end of the day, whether you think a nominee has a judicial temperament or not, there should a vote on it. As Bill Frist said, it's not a radical idea to ask senators who are duly elected to actually sit down, or go to the United States Senate, actually vote. I mean, to me that seems like a pretty reasonable idea. If you don't think...", "Randy, you -- Randy, let me ask you a question, though. . Aren't you concerned, however, that in this fight, what is brewing right now is a significant backlash against the Republicans? Because ultimately, if they change the rules, the Democrats are going respond by just gumming up the works of the Senate. The Senate is basically going to shut down business, no real business gets done, Social Security reform, all that goes out the window. I have a feeling if all that happened, the American people might be a little disappointed.", "Well I -- here's what I think's going to happen, Miles. I do think, as Senator McConnell said yesterday, the Republicans have the vote, and at some point, they're going to vote to change the rules. As you said, Harry Reid, the Senate minority leader, said he's going to retaliate and shut the government down, shut the process down. I don't think that dog hunts, so to speak. I don't think that's going to work. I was in Congress in 1995 when the government was shut down. That's not a strategy for success. I don't think that is a strategy that's going to serve the Democrats well. Holding up funding for the troops in Iraq, stopping important legislation, I just don't think that's going to work.", "Well, probably critical things like funding Iraq would be passed, of course, but Tom Andrews...", "But I just don't think that -- I don't think that's going to sail, Miles.", "Tom Andrews, if it does come to that, if it goes that far, let's assume that the Republicans vote, they -- because it only takes a simple majority, ironically, to end the filibuster rule and then the Democrats respond in kind by, you know, no more unanimous consent, let's say. Who's going to get blamed for that? The Democrats stand a good chance of getting blamed, don't they?", "I think's it's going to be a pox on everybody's house, Miles. You've got a rule that's been in place since 1809. Checks and balances, compromise. That's why that rule exists. People have got to sit down and work out their differences. If you eliminate that rule, you take that system of checks and balances and you throw it out the window, and that seriously compromises the system we have in place. Look, the Republicans control the White, they control the House of Representatives, they control the Senate, they control seven of the nine Supreme Court -- members of the Supreme Court. Now, that's an awful lot of power. You can't get 100 percent of what you want 100 percent of the time under the current system. So what the republicans are saying, we want 100 percent of what we want 100 percent of the time, and that's something that hasn't been done since 1809.", "All right, Randy.", "Final thought here, final thought. I just want to just do one final thought in here. Let's talk about Bill Frist and that videotape. All of this kind of being played out in churches. Is that appropriate?", "I think it's a great thing. In America, where people of faith -- I think Tom and I could agree on this -- to be engaged in a political process, that table we call democracy, to be able to come on", "But, is that what we go to church for? Is that what we really go to church for?", "Well, we go to church, obviously, for a deeply held moral beliefs and religious thoughts. But I also believe that it is a welcome opportunity to learn more about the important issues of the day. And, if you have the Senate majority leader have a chance to address 60 million households, which was available to him yesterday, on an important issue, before the American people, I think that's important that the majority leader be able to educate, and engage, those people.", "Tom Andrews -- it's not why I go church. Tom Andrews, what do you think?", "To say that support for the constitutional system of checks and balances, to support this filibuster rule is an act against God and people...", "Nobody said that.", "...is so far over the top, Miles, that it's not even on the planet. I think most people -- in fact, polls are showing that people are frustrated with this, they're opposed to the change in this rule, and I frankly think that, as George Will has said, as former Senator Bob Dole has said, this is very dangerous for Republicans. It could backfire on them -- I think it's backfiring on them right now. This thin reed of checks and balances that we have remaining in this system, this filibuster rule, serves the country well. It has since 1809, and to say that you want to support this is not a...", "You got to end it there, guys.", "I apologize. Got to end it.", "The time elapsed on our debate. Obviously, we didn't settle this one, did we?", "Not today.", "Randy Tate...", "Soon, I hope.", "Randy Tate and Tom Andrews, come back any time. We appreciate it.", "You bet. Thank you.", "Thank you, Miles.", "Well, here's a bit of filibuster trivia for you: the name comes from a Dutch word meaning \"pirate.\" Not exactly a positive connotation. And frustration over filibusters goes a long way back. Of course, here's CNN's Bruce Morton with a look.", "Originally, the Senate had unlimited debate, but in 1917, after a handful of Senators successfully filibustered a bill to arm U.S. merchant ships, President Wilson charged that \"a little group of willful men have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.\" The Senate changed its rules: if two-thirds voted to cut off debate -- voting for cloture, it's called -- debate ended. The Senate used the rule to end the filibuster against the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I. In 1975, the Senate changed the number needed to invoke cloture down to 60. Filibusters through the years, Jimmy Stewart was the good-guy filibusterer in the movie \"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.\"", "No matter what his race, color or creed.", "Huey Long of Louisiana did the gourmet version in 1935, offering recipes for pot liquor -- that's what you cook the greens in -- and fried oysters. Longest by an individual, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, in 1957: 24 hours and 18 minutes. But the big one was the filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which ended segregation in the South. Relays of Southerners spoke for 57 days, Senators sleeping in shifts, stumbling in from midnight quorum calls. But, in the end, it passed and changed America. Filibusters against judicial nominees? Yes. Republicans, when Lyndon Johnson tried to name Justice Abe Ford (ph) as chief justice in 1968. A cloture vote failed, Johnson withdrew the nomination. Majorities hate filibusters, minorities don't.", "It's not a filibuster when do you it, it's a filibuster when the other fella does it.", "In the House, majority rules unimpeded, debate always limited, up and down votes when the majority wants them. The Senate was meant to be more deliberative. George Washington called it the saucer, where passion is cooled. If the filibuster is abolished, will that change?", "The right of unlimited debate, though it's rarely been invoked, has been one of the distinguishing features of the Senate and it's one of the characteristics that sets it apart from the House of Representatives.", "Will they get rid of it? A test could come very soon. Bruce Morton, CNN, Washington.", "Well, everyone, especially the staff of LIVE FROM... love a good animal story, and no one love as good animal story more than the kids here, right here at -- well, this one right here especially, Kyra. You just sort of got hint of what...", "Wait a minute, we should go back to that shot. We just -- we got to...", "Well, that's all you need to know. Breast -- yes, breast feeding tigers. That's all. That's all I'm going to say!", "Oh, oh.", "Ah, anyway, let's...", "There's just something uncomfortable about that, Miles. I don't know.", "We need to go to Sibila right now.", "Yes. Ouch.", "Yes, I don't know how I'm going to follow that one, but let's try. A British pop star is about to walk down the aisle, and is reality TV about to get touched by an angel? Are you curious? I hope so. I'll explain when LIVE FROM... continues."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SEN. BILL FRIST (R-TN), MAJORITY LEADER", "MALVEAUX", "FRIST", "MALVEAUX", "SEN. ARLEN SPECTER (R-PA), CHMN., JUDICIARY CMTE.", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-43806", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-11-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/15/lt.02.html", "summary": "Bush Pleased With Rescue of Aid Workers", "utt": ["Also, President Bush, we mentioned him watching the latest developments from his western outpost, that ranch in Crawford, Texas, that's where we find White House Correspondent Major Garrett, watching things with us. Major, good morning.", "Good morning to you, Bill. Now, top Bush administration officials here in Crawford and in Washington monitored the situation with the eight international aid workers intensively yesterday. Why? Well, because there was a German report early that morning that in fact they had been released. The administration considered that a potentially credible report because four of the international aid workers came from Germany and the organization itself, known as Shelter Now International, is based in Germany. And all day long, Bush administration officials worked feverishly to find out if the workers had been released. Once they had found out they had been, special operations forces were sent into Afghanistan to ferry them back to Pakistan. Late this last evening, at his Crawford Ranch, President Bush interrupted his dinner with the Putins, Vladimir and Lyudmila, to tell the nation about the happy news.", "I am pleased with their -- way our military has conducted its operations, and I am glad to report to the American people that this chapter of Afghan theater has ended in a very positive and constructive way.", "The president said that he never ever considered using the international aid workers as bargaining chip, that that Taliban had often requested that he do, and very glad that all this has ended peacefully for those concerned and their families. The president continues day three of his summit here in Crawford with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. The two spent an hour together, just the two of them, last evening. Spent the entire time just talking about the situation in Afghanistan. Not only militarily but a coming government, a U.N. possibly sanctioned government, to provide stability and a completely representative form of government for all Afghans. That was the key topic of conversation. President's taking President Putin on a tour of his ranch this morning. The two will then go to Crawford High School to take questions not from reporters, but from students and other representatives of the Crawford community to talk about U.S.-Russia relations. Bill.", "All right, Major. Major Garrett, right there in Crawford, Texas. We will have the comments from Presidents Bush and Putin a bit later here live on CNN. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "MAJOR GARRETT, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "GARRETT", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-411476", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2020-09-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/21/ctw.01.html", "summary": "U.N. Marks 75th Anniversary As We Pass 31,000 Cases", "utt": ["We of course have to be prepared to take action.", "Europe's second wave turns into a tsunami. Is it becoming too late to avoid another round of COVID lock downs? Then.", "I give ourselves an", "An A for 200,000 deaths for U.S. now approaching an horrific milestone. And the Supreme Court battle there adds a divisive new twist in what is an already messy American election. This hour, our once in a generation struggled meets and historic moments. I'm Becky Anderson and this hour, we are connecting a world that needs to remember that divided we fall. United we stand. In the next few minutes the American president known for his America first brand of unilateralism will deliver a speech marking 75 years of what is perhaps the world's greatest testament to multilateral diplomacy, United Nations. This as we are just a day away from the U.N.'s great big yearly bash. Its general assembly known as UNGA by the type of people who were who attend, but it won't look much like it normally does this year because of the pandemic. And to go forward, we need first to look back. I sent my team back into the archives to find this U.N. meeting back on June the first 1945. For the deciding vote on what would be the UN's DNA, its charter. All as the world still smolder from the Second World War. And we sit at such an historic juncture needing unity once again, just since the last time we broadcast this show. On Friday, at this time, there have been more than a million new cases of the virus around the world. We are now at 31 million reported cases. So, we all must come together on research treatments and the vaccine United Nations is meant to do just that. Unite Nations, consider that as we get through this show, because right now, more and more people are getting sick from the virus across Europe than ever the situation more and more dire by the day, it seems nowhere is that more acute than in France. It reported new daily highs over the weekend with more than 13,000 cases. Some days, it's getting so bad that some French hospitals are nearly out of intensive care beds. And the U.K. warning that it might not be so far behind. Just hours ago, the government's chief medical officer warning that as cases double every week, it might now be forced into another lockdown. And away from the cold hard numbers in these graphs. Let me show you these scenes from Spain.", "Protesters on public health system in Madrid, where almost a million people are now in lockdown. They are angry because they think it's unfairly targeting the poor.", "And of course, as you would expect in and spread out across Europe so we can connect you to everything that is happening. Let's get you first as Scott McLean, who is in London. Scott, Matt Hancock, who is the Health Minister speaking on the BBC earlier, calling for everyone to follow the rules or risk another national lockdown. The question is are people in the U.K. taking this seriously enough or are they suffering pandemic fatigue at this point?", "I think everyone's suffering a little bit of pandemic feed or fatigue to be -- to be honest with you here, Becky, that's probably not unique to the U.K. by any stretch. But what's interesting here is just as President Trump says that the U.S. is rounding the corner of the pandemic. Health advisors here were quite blunt that the U.K. has turned a corner in a bad way meaning things are getting much worse. They announced this morning that the pandemic was doubling every seven days or the number of cases were doubling every seven days. And if you follow that trajectory in just four weeks, the U.K. could have some 50,000 cases per day.", "That's more even than the United States has. The U.K. has just last week announced new measures, they could have some 50,000 cases per day that's more even than the United States has. The U.K. has just -- last week announced new measures to clamp down on social gatherings limiting them to just six. They have also in some places limited almost all the in person social interactions with people outside of your own household. But a week on it's not really clear whether those message or whether those measures are having much of an impact. Today, Britain's Chief Medical adviser said everyone has to do their part. Listen.", "If I as an individual increased my risk, I increase the risk to everyone around me and then everyone who's a contact to theirs. And sooner or later the chain will lead to people who are vulnerable or elderly or have a long-term problem from COVID. So, you cannot in an epidemic, just take your own risk. Unfortunately, you're taking risk on behalf of everybody else. It's important that we see this as something we have to do collectively.", "Some warning then from Chris witty. Meanwhile, Patrick Valance. And these are two characters that the Brits are now very familiar with. They've been seeing these two men since March. Patrick valance is U.K.'s Chief Scientific adviser. He says the U.K. is heading in the right direction for a COVID vaccine, Scott. Have a listen to this.", "The U.K. therefore has put itself in a good position in terms of vaccine supply, and the possibility that one of these will work. We don't yet know that they will work. But there is increasing evidence that it's pointed in the right direction. And it's possible with some vaccine could be available before the end of the year in small amounts for certain groups, much more likely that we'll see vaccines becoming available over the first half of next year. Again, not certain, but pointed in the right direction.", "Scott, we have reported extensively on those in the U.S. who are hesitant to take a vaccine, antivaxxers. Many call these people. What's the attitude towards vaccines from the British population?", "Yes, it is certainly a great question, Becky, the U.K. is in good hands when it comes to vaccines assuming that everyone actually wants to get one. Right now, there are some 40 different vaccines that are in clinical trials, many of them are in the late, late stages. And so, we could have one quite soon. But regardless of whether or not Brits are sort of keen to jump and actually take that vaccine, the bottom line is, there's not going to be one available until as you heard they're at the very earliest, sometime early next year. So, the bottom line that health officials here are making is that look, we have to buckle up, we have to do what we need to do right now to sort of tamp down this virus. And so, the bottom line is people need to follow the rules as they are before, as the health secretary said over the weekend, before the cavalry comes in mass testing, vaccines and obviously better health treatments as well.", "The cavalry being a general lockdown. Scott, thank you for that. Let me bring back those numbers that we were looking at earlier for you, viewers. With France, seeing its highest daily case numbers in months, I want to get you on the ground there in central Paris, where Melissa Bell is standing by. And we just heard of the potential for a second national lockdown in the U.K. Is that also on the cards in France?", "Now what we've seen here on the continent in Europe, Becky, is on the contrary authorities saying that really this is simply not something they're willing to consider, given the costs of it economically, these are not economies they say that could bear the brunt of a second general lockdown. And yet who knows, we may come to that. For the time being though, we've been heading in another direction here on the European continent, France, delegating down to local authorities, the powers necessary to try and bring their numbers under control. And what we've seen here in Europe is a rise in those big urban centers. As people, Becky, have gone back to work, they've gone back to school, they found themselves in city environments with all that affluence around them. The numbers here in Paris as an example have shot up but in other European cities as well. Hence what you're seeing now in Madrid. This is something pretty new, those kind of lock downs that we'd seen back in the spring in several European countries on a national basis decided instead on a city- wide basis with as you say, all those questions that go with it. We're talking about six districts in the south of Madrid, with 850,000 people who from today are confined much as we all were back in March. But this time, it's not the entire country. It's not even the richer suburbs of the city. So, a whole host of new questions that raised themselves. But I think this is something we might be seeing more and more over the coming weeks, because the figures are rising show so sharply, because they rise in clusters around big cities with such a strain on the city's health care systems.", "Individual cities perhaps deciding we're having a poster up on them lockdown restrictions in order to avoid them being imposed at a national level.", "Things are clearly very tough on the continent. Thank you for that. So, we're looking at a picture which basically says Europe equals more cases, more restrictions. But the story very different in Sweden, which is keeping open now much as it did. During the first wave. My colleague Max Foster spoke to Swedes about attitudes towards a pandemic and indeed, towards a COVID vaccine Have a listen to what they told, Max.", "No lockdown, and few masks if any at all. Sweden tends to avoid issuing mandates when voluntary guidelines are usually enough. Many here feel that approach has been vindicated by the latest pandemic numbers. After a spike in coronavirus deaths, mainly amongst the elderly. Mortality is now down to normal seasonal levels. infection rates are also falling as they surge elsewhere in Europe, where local lockdowns is still part of the strategy. Sweden increasingly a shining example for American conservatives who oppose masks and lockdown. All eyes now on how they handle the vaccine. We already know their plan. The Swedish British pharmaceuticals chance, AstraZeneca is one of the frontrunners in developing a coronavirus vaccine. If and when they succeed, adults will be advised by the health authorities here to take it or the approved alternative and starting with the most vulnerable. There's no real debate here about mandated vaccination.", "We worked with voluntary vaccination during the last pandemic and Sweden probably reached the highest rate of vaccination anywhere in the world.", "Chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell known as the architects of Sweden's COVID-19 pandemic response, children won't be advised to take the vaccine at all, at least at first, because they aren't considered spreaders of the virus.", "We have very little data that spread of disease at all. So, at least in the beginning to vaccinate children will be not the most relevant action to take. The most relevant action to take is to vaccinate the people that are really at risk, which are mainly the elderly, and people working with them in health care and social care.", "But members of this family aren't sure they would ever take part in another vaccination program after the last one. Their 13-year-old who doesn't want to be named as the chronic sleep disorder narcolepsy, which his doctor says was triggered by the swine flu immunizations of 2009. A vaccine hastily rolled out in Europe at the time has been linked to an increasing cases leaving this family and others wary of vaccination.", "After school we don't have energy to do stuff, saying just go home and play video games.", "His father says he wouldn't take another vaccine unless there was a guarantee of compensation for side effects.", "Yes, I think I will doubt to take.", "Same. But I'm his stepmother. I live with him every other week. And I see what happened to him.", "If a vaccine suddenly appears for the virus, so you'd like me to take it?", "No.", "Why not?", "I'm scared of it, though in the beginning. Yes. I don't -- I feel I'm strong enough without it.", "No, I won't do it.", "Why not?", "Because I think it's too early. They can try first on some other people.", "I think I'd take it.", "Why is that?", "If it's safe, then -- if it helps, then why wouldn't I?", "Sweden's National Health Agency says all the parties involved in developing a new vaccine are doing everything possible to prevent dangerous side effects ever happening again. Swedes have a reputation for following official advice on medication without questioning it. But even here, you'll find plenty who won't be at the front of the line for a brand-new coronavirus vaccine. That raises the question of whether we'll ever be rid of this deadly and endlessly disruptive virus. Max Foster, CNN, Stockholm, Sweden.", "That's the story in Sweden. Quite different from the rest of Europe of course, which is seeing record highs in new cases. The United States now on the verge of 200,000 American lives lost to COVID-19 so far. Well, the bell at Washington's National Cathedral told 200 times on Sunday, once for every thousand lives lost in the pandemic.", "Democrats outside the White House outside the White House lit up a sign that read \"Trump lied 200,000 plus have died.\" I just want to take a quick look at the big board for you at this point, the Dow is continuing what is a downward trend to start this week? There are those who say virus fears hurting this market stimulus uncertainty of course, let's not forget there was a key level of 27,000 there and that's likely to have triggered selling programs. So, when you see these numbers knock around at specific levels, you can probably blame the market as much on a -- on a -- on a technical issue as you can on any sort of overarching atmosphere. But certainly, the idea that this stimulus program is still outstanding that these fears over COVID continue to worry people not helping the markets today the Dow Jones Industrial Average down over 2-1/2 percent. Let's get you up to speed on some of the other stories that are on our radar right now. Lebanon report 779 new coronavirus cases in the past a day, that's the highest number since the pandemic began. The total case count has now their past 28,000 people, 286 have died. The surge comes as Lebanon recovers from the port explosion last month of course it killed almost 200 people. New Zealand has dropped COVID-19 social distancing restrictions for all areas of the country expect -- except its most populous city, Auckland. That city will remain on level two restrictions until at least October, the seventh meaning no gatherings of more than 100 people and mandatory mask wearing on public transportation. And Australia's Victoria stage recorded 11 new coronavirus cases suddenly. That is the lowest number of new infections in over three months. Victoria's largest city Melbourne could begin easing restrictions if cases remain low. Victoria recorded some 20,000 total cases and more than 760 deaths. Well, the death of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Republicans backtracking on promises they made four years ago about choosing an election year replacement.", "Let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination and you could use my words against me.", "Well, promises a lot. Lindsey Graham has a very different opinion in 2020. That is up next. And later this hour, thousands of wildfires raging unabated through pristine wetlands. In Brazil, if you ask its president, he says he is doing a stellar job on the environment."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BECKY ANDERSON, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "A. 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{"id": "CNN-333333", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-02-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/21/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Parkland Students Rally to Demand Gun Reforms at State Capitol", "utt": ["Welcome back. I'm Brooke Baldwin. As students in Florida are pleading with state lawmakers for stricter gun laws. We often hear from gun rights activists that it's better to enforce the laws we already have than pass new ones. And I just wanted to take a moment today to parse through some of those laws just to better understand where changes maybe introduced. And so, to do that I have the help of two great legal minds. CNN legal commentator, Ken Cuccinelli and Jennifer Taub, she is a professor at Vermont Law School. So, Ken Cuccinelli, let me begin with you here. You have Republicans facing all this pressure, to move in some sort of direction on gun control. Comes down to the second amendment, this guarantee to keep and bare arms. And so, I really wanted today to talk about the Heller decision. Right? This is the Supreme Court's 2008, landmark decision, which among other things essentially said that the right to keep and bear arms subject to reasonable regulations. So, let me just quote the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia here. Who said, like most rights the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited, the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner, whatsoever and for whatever purpose. We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons. So, does that then leave the door open for any sort of legislation that we're seeing pushed in the wake of this school shooting?", "For some of it, sure. Like, banning bump stocks would not be impaired by Heller. The common discussion about bringing guns on to government places is explicitly addressed by Justice Scalia in the Heller decision as being allowable under the Second Amendment. States of course have their own constitutional protections in addition to that. But most states have more or less conformed themselves to the Second Amendment. And I would note, the critical element of that decision was the right to keep and bear arms it's a personal right. It's not some group right or militia matter. It is a personal right. As you noted Justice Scalia also said, like other rights, these just example being the first amendment, you can have some restrictions on it. The first amendment classic example is you can't yell fire in a crowded movie theater because of the danger imposed by it. Those opportunities exist. Obviously, people like me believe we ought to be very restrictive in how we go about restricting second amendment rights for law-abiding citizens. And you want to see more vigorous enforcement and following of the procedures we have in place, and we saw that failure by the FBI sadly in Florida.", "Jen Taub, to you, just again, and I hear Ken being on the more restrictive side. But just so everyone understands, with this Heller decision, the notion perhaps that some people are floating of banning let's say a semiautomatic weapon, that door is open, yes, respecting the second amendment but that door is open because of Heller.", "Absolutely. I think, I'll add on to what Ken said, I look at Heller as being slightly more narrow. He's absolutely right that it was the first time the Supreme Court recognized that the second amendment right is available to individuals, but it's not sort of -- it's not as broad as he would suggest. It's really about the individual right to own a handgun in one's home for personal protection. That's what Heller spoke to. And Heller leaves open the door to regulate and even restrict or ban for automatic weapons, such as AR-15s and similar types of weapons.", "Which is part of what is being discussed. I just wanted to get into Heller. Ken, to you, looking back to 1994, we find an example of Washington jumping in on this issue, that was when President Clinton signed into law the public safety and recreational firearms use protection act, outlawed more than a dozen types of semi automatic weapons similar to the one that was used last week that Douglas high school. But that expired in 2004. So, talk to me a little bit more about what happened then.", "They also, if I remember my history correctly, I'm going back 24 years, they also instructed state officials, sheriffs in particular, that they had to do certain things. And those pieces were found unconstitutional. Because the federal government can't tell state officials to do things even in the area of the gun control or I should say including in the area of gun control. And I really think you're going to see a more, if we're ever going to impact the particular problem, the tragedy we saw in Parkland, remember we had Virginia Tech and Virginia, we had similar failures in our mental health system. If we're ever going to address this, it's going to be a lot more comprehensive than any one single type of solution and no gun ban under the second amendment with the protection I should say of the second amendment, and with American society and history will ever be effective in doing this. All the people who have been calling for that are hard pressed to articulate a gun restriction, a gun law that would have stopped a tragedy like we saw in Florida, like we saw in Sandy Hook and even like we saw --", "I don't know if we know that. Your shaking your head. With all due respect, I don't know if we know that definitively. I mean go ahead, Ken.", "I mean only because you can't disprove a negative.", "Yes, so I mean, I want to say it, we have to be really careful to distinguish between legal arguments and policy arguments. So, I just want to break this apart and to say as a legal matter, the Supreme Court in November declined to -- to hear a challenge to Maryland's ban on assault weapons. And they made that choice similarly just yesterday, the Supreme Court also declined to hear a challenge to California's ten-day waiting period. So, I do think that the supreme -- by the way, several other states, in cases that have come up to the Supreme Court where the court can't get those four votes it needs to grant certiorari. So, I do think as a practical matter where the court is right now and also what Heller allows as a legal matter, an assault weapons ban would be permissible. As to the policy question as to whether it would be sufficient, I find it really odd that is seems to be only in the area of gun control that we demand a particular, perhaps incremental solution to solve everything. I can just give you a few examples. We do have nutrition labels on packaged foods even though that hasn't fully addressed the obesity epidemic. I'm required as I imagine you are to, to take off my shoes at the airport, although that does certainly not protect me from for example domestic terrorism when someone is shooting a semiautomatic weapon through a hotel window. I don't think that policy argument really holds water.", "OK.", "Brooke, if I could.", "Quickly, Ken.", "None of those examples touch on fundamental and I use that word intentionally, fundamental constitution rights. And the constitutional right of to keep and bear arms was found to be a fundamental right in Heller in addition to everything else that we have talked about. That's a major difference when we're addressing policy opportunities that might solve problems or at least make them less likely like the Parkland tragedy.", "OK, I wanted to start the discussion. I feel the disagreement on both sides, but we've got to leave it, Ken and Jennifer, thank you.", "Thank you, Brooke.", "Thank you.", "This debate continues this evening right here on CNN. The students of Stoneman Douglas High School speaking out to demand action and an end to the violence once and for all. It's a live town hall moderated by Jake Tapper. It is airing at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time right here. Also, today, can we talk about Syria, the U.N. Secretary General says, quote, hell on earth is unfolding. More than 300 people killed in just the last couple of days as the brutal Assad regime intentionally bombs hospitals and clinics in what was once a safe zone. The images that we should not ignore, amidst everything else. 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{"id": "CNN-6628", "program": "WorldView", "date": "2000-4-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/22/wv.01.html", "summary": "Elian Gonzalez Case: Tensions Ease in Little Havana; Cuba Remains Calm After Reunification of Father and Son", "utt": ["And tensions have eased somewhat on the streets of Miami's Little Havana neighborhood tonight. The protests have died down. Still, Miami police remain on alert there. CNN's Gary Tuchman joins us now with more on the mood and the situation down in Miami -- Gary.", "Brian, three days ago, after an appellate court ruling went their way, the people of Little Havana were out in the streets celebrating. What a difference 72 hours make: anger, confusion, disbelief, disgust, and, yes, violence have marked the day today in the Little Havana section of Miami. A short time ago this evening in a neighborhood nearby -- we're on Flagler Street right now -- where the street has been shut down to regular traffic to quell potential violence -- and about 40 police officers stand behind me in case of violence. But a short time ago, just a few blocks away from here, a fire was set in the streets. A tire was thrown in the streets, some more garbage was thrown there, and that's what we've seen much of the day in the Little Havana section of Miami. Police say at least 100 fires have been set in this neighborhood. There have been countless confrontations between police and demonstrators. Four police officers have been injured. Three of them remain in the hospital for allegedly getting hit by a demonstrator with a baseball bat. Some of the demonstrators have also been injured. We need to point out, this is very important: there have been no life-threatening injuries all day. That is the good news. But police have had to use tear gas and pepper spray to quell some of the violent protests throughout the day here in the Little Havana section of Miami. Now what they've been very concerned about all day is the potential that this could grow even more. They were very concerned that when the sun went down and it became nighttime here in Miami they'd have more problems. Right now, at this point, what they've had tonight is nothing as serious as they had this afternoon, and that is the good news here in Miami. Now, there has been a backlash against the news media after this decision. About four hours ago, a tent that CNN has used throughout this episode in front of the Gonzalez household was torn down by a group of angry protesters. There are many people here in Little Havana angry that CNN has a news bureau in Havana, Cuba. CNN is the only television network to have a bureau in Cuba, the only one allowed to, and it enables us to cover the story just as easily in Cuba as outside of Cuba. That has always angered people here in Little Havana, but especially tonight after Elian was taken away from their neighborhood that resulted in this. We have taken steps to protect all of our people here who are covering this story right now in Little Havana. Frankly, many people here are just stunned. They knew it was possible that some day federal agents would come in to remove Elian, but many of them had a dream that Elian Gonzalez would spend years here in Little Havana, and their dream has been shattered like fragile crystal. Brian, back to you.", "Gary, the scene behind you and some other pictures I've been looking at show a lot of police cars out in the streets of Miami tonight. Are they out in full force? Is this a somewhat more heightened state of alert than you expected after things had quieted down today?", "The police have had plenty of time to think about how they would handle a situation like this, and this is a tactic. You have a large presence out on the streets and that discourages violence. Wherever you go here in Little Havana, you see police, you see blockages. There's a major highway that runs through Little Havana, Route B-36, and you can't get off of the exits in Little Havana. And they're doing everything they can to show they mean business and they will not tolerate any violence. And it's very important to point out that although there has been some violence and lots of demonstrating, there have been no serious injuries, not only here but also when they went inside the house, the federal agents today, and that, if you can say, is the good news about what's happened here today.", "Thanks, Gary. Gary Tuchman in Miami. Across the Florida Straits, a study in contrast: Cubans reacted to today's news of the reunion with joy and restraint. The government has urged Cubans to remain calm. Still, hundreds of thousands of Cubans have turned out at government-sponsored gatherings in support of Elian Gonzalez. Here now is Havana bureau chief Lucia Newman.", "It was one of so many government-organized rallies to demand the return of Elian Gonzalez to Cuba. But on this day, there was more joy than outrage. And few were more overjoyed than Elian's grandmothers.", "Apart from feeling so happy and thrilled that the boy is with his father, I'm even more happy because now I know my daughter will be able to rest in peace.", "Many people say they were moved to tears by the news that Elian had been seized -- or rescued, as they call it here -- from the home of his Miami relatives, an operation Cuban state television retransmitted in full.", "That made me very happy to wake up to such good news after so many months of anguish and not knowing what was going to happen.", "This option was the only choice and had to be done a long time ago.", "Elian's paternal grandmother thanked the people of the United States for what she called their support. While addressing the rally, President Fidel Castro had nothing but scorn for a federal appeals court which refused to rule out the possibility of Elian applying for political asylum in the United States.", "They are telling parents from the Third World that they have no rights over their children, a child that's six years and four months old in that inferno can ask for asylum against the expressed will of his parents.", "In fact, this rally was the only public demonstration in response to the reunification of Elian with his father. (on camera): The government has specifically called on the Cuban people to use restraint. The real victory, say officials and many ordinary Cubans, will be when Elian is allowed to return to his land of birth. Meanwhile, President Fidel Castro has praised the INS and the Justice Department, saying that this is a day for a truce with the United States. 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{"id": "CNN-96107", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2005-7-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/15/ip.01.html", "summary": "The Story So Far: CIA Leak Investigation Timeline; Schwarzenegger Under Fire for Magazine Deal", "utt": ["As the markets get set to close on Wall Street, I'm joined by Christine Romans in New York with \"THE DOBBS REPORT.\" Christine?", "Thanks, Joe. A quiet day on Wall Street. It's often the case on a summer Friday, and it is today. Stocks little changed -- right now at the bell, the Dow Industrials up less than eight points -- 10,636. And the NASDAQ is a quarter percent higher. It's at its best level since January 3. On the economic front, producer prices were unchanged in June, another sign inflation remains in check. Enron is trying to clear up a five-year-old mess involving its role in the California energy crisis. The bankrupt company has agreed to pay more than $1.5 billion to settle price gauging charges. However, the final amount actually paid? Well, that will depend on what Enron has left after its creditors are repaid. California and other western states had accused Enron of using illegal tactics to drive up energy prices in 2000 and 2001. Big changes may be in the works at Hewlett Packard. There have been rumors circulating for awhile now that HP plans to cut thousands of jobs, and now reports say the official word? It could come early next week. The company is still not commenting. You may recall HP sacked its CEO, Carly Fiorina, earlier this year. Coming up on CNN at 6 p.m. Eastern on \"LOU DOBBS TONIGHT,\" homeland insecurity. The Senate voted yesterday not to hire more border patrol agents and failed to increase detention space for those caught illegally crossing the border.", "Anybody who comes into the United States of America across our southern border today and is from a country other than Mexico, 95 percent chance they will continue their journey to wherever they want to go. We don't have enough detention facilities. We don't have enough beds.", "Also tonight, political analyst Lawrence O'Donnell was one of the first to suggest Karl Rove was the CIA leaker. He'll give us his insight into this controversy. And some members of America's labor unions are calling for radical changes at the AFL-CIO. We'll tell you why. Plus, Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute will join us to explain why he thinks the U.S. should not worry about China's bid for the American oil company Unocal. That and more, 6 p.m. Eastern, \"LOU DOBBS TONIGHT.\" Now back to Joe.", "Thanks, Christine. Now back to INSIDE POLITICS. Other than the Supreme Court, the CIA leak investigation has seemed like the only thing people here in Washington have been talking about this week, or trying not to talk about. But this story actually has been unfolding for more than two years. Here's what we know as of today about what's been said and left unsaid.", "January 2003, President Bush makes the case for invading Iraq by suggesting Saddam Hussein posed a nuclear threat.", "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.", "In July, former Ambassador Joe Wilson calls the president's claim about Iraq's nuclear intentions highly doubtful. In a \"New York Times\" op-ed piece, Wilson says he investigated similar allegations for the CIA on a trip to Africa the previous year. Days later, columnist and CNN political analyst Bob Novak calls Karl Rove and tells him he has heard Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Africa. A lawyer familiar with the investigation says Novak identified Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA agent. Rove responded, \"I heard that too.\" Rove then talks to \"TIME\" magazine reporter Matthew Cooper. According to an e-mail sent to Cooper's editor, Rove said Wilson's wife apparently works on weapons of mass destruction issues for the CIA and authorized Wilson's trip to Africa. July 14, 2003, Bob Novak writes in his column that Plame is a CIA operative and that she suggested sending her husband to Africa. He cites two senior administration officials as sources. In September of that year, the Justice Department acts on a CIA request and launches a criminal investigation in the leak of Plame's identity. It's against the law to knowingly reveal the name of an undercover CIA agent. The White House dismisses speculation that Karl Rove was Novak's source.", "It's totally ridiculous.", "If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.", "Fast forward to 2004, the president, vice president, Rove and other administration officials are questioned about the leak. At the GOP convention in August, CNN asks Rove about the Valerie Plame leak.", "I didn't know her name and didn't leak her name.", "The story heats up again in 2005 as two journalists caught up in the leak probe face possible jail time for refusing to reveal their sources. In June, the Supreme Court refuses to consider an appeal by \"TIME\" magazine's matt Cooper and Judith Miller of \"The New York Times.\" \"TIME\" decides to surrender Cooper's notes to the grand jury, and Cooper agrees to testify, saying his source gave him permission to break their confidentiality agreement. Miller, still refusing to name her sources, is jailed for contempt. Cooper later confirms reports that Rove was a source who let him off the hook. The White House is pummeled with questions about its previous denials that Rove was linked to the leak.", "We're in the midst after on going investigation. And I will be more than happy to comment further once the investigation is completed.", "Hey-hey, ho-ho, Karl Rove has got to go.", "Hey-hey, ho-ho, Karl Rove has got to go.", "Hey-hey, ho-ho, Karl Rove has got to go.", "Democrats seize on the story, demanding the president fire Rove.", "The White House's credibility is at issue here and I believe very clearly Karl Rove ought to be fired.", "Though the time line is getting clearer, there's still a great deal we do not know. Was the leak of Plame's name a crime? Some argue it was not. But with the investigation still underway, the jury that still counts on that is out. Now to a controversy on the West Coast. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is under fire for having a multimillion dollar deal with fitness magazines that advertise nutritional supplements. Critics say that's a conflict of interest, but the California Republican is pretty much ignoring them. CNN's Peter Viles reports from Los Angeles.", "It turns out the boss of California politics has a boss of his own.", "Give him a big hand to David Becker and American Media.", "Under this contract which wasn't made public until this week, Becker's American Media has been paying a consultant it calls \"Mr. S\" -- and yes, \"Mr. S\" is Arnold Schwarzenegger -- no less than $1 million a year.", "Governor Schwarzenegger has been secretly taking in millions without telling the public.", "The governor gets a percentage of the ad revenue in the magazines \"Muscle and Fitness\" and \"Flex,\" much of which comes from nutritional supplements, pills like T-Bomb, Blitz, Blaze and Hot Rox. And here's the controversy. While under the contract, he vetoed a Bill that would have put state regulations on those supplements.", "Here's a case where a Bill coming before the governor, is he ruling on the merits or is he ruling on his own private financial interests? I mean, that's as clear a case as you can have of a conflict of interest.", "In vetoing the Bill, Schwarzenegger wrote, quote, \"Most dietary supplements are safe.\"", "The evidence would suggest that many dietary supplements are dangerous and have been linked to the deaths of more than 100 people.", "The federal Food and Drug Administration does not regulate most supplements but has banned some considered unsafe. The governor's staff says his position is not new. He has always believed in supplements and complied with state law by disclosing last fall that he is paid by American Media, even if he never said how much money he's making.", "You guys are asking me questions that you should have been asking me last fall, which actually, I think you did ask that we didn't answer at the time. There is no technical conflict. I'm not sure anyone cares about it anyhow except all of you.", "And for a big star like the governor, critics suggest there is another advantage to working for American Media. It's a kind of scandal insurance because you're now working for the same company that owns those aggressive tabloids, \"The Star,\" \"The Enquirer\" and \"The Examiner.\" Peter Viles for CNN, Los Angeles.", "And we'll have much more on the controversy surrounding Schwarzenegger coming up in our strategy session. Some of Schwarzenegger's fellow governors are busy laying the groundwork for 2008. Coming up, a different kind of fair in Iowa, showcasing presidential wannabes. We'll talk to one possible contender, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack. Also ahead, party crashers. Should a couple of high political figures have had second thoughts about their cameos in an \"R\"-rated movie? And when we go \"Inside the Blogs,\" the buzz about a retirement that is happening and one that isn't."], "speaker": ["JOHNS", "CHRISTINE ROMANS", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA", "ROMANS", "JOE JOHNS, HOST", "JOHNS (voice-over)", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "JOHNS", "SCOTT MCCLELLAN, WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN", "BUSH", "JOHNS", "KARL ROVE, WHITE HOUSE DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF", "JOHNS", "BUSH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "JOHNS", "SEN. JOHN KERRY (D), MASSACHUSETTS", "JOHNS", "PETER VILES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-236940", "program": "DR. DREW", "date": "2014-08-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/19/ddhln.01.html", "summary": "The Death of Michael Brown: New Protests Underway", "utt": ["Tonight, smoke.", "These are just stun grenades, Don.", "Tear gas.", "We`re going to walk down the street to get away from the tear gas.", "Gunshots.", "You are unlawfully assembled. You need to get out of the roadway.", "What is the strife in Ferguson doing to the people in that city and in this country? I`ll speak about 10 days of turmoil. Let`s get started.", "Good evening. I`m coming to you from New York City. My co-host Samantha Schacher is in Los Angeles. And coming up, we are talking about events in Ferguson tonight.", "Yes, that`s right, Dr. Drew. We`ll hear from people who are there in Ferguson, as well as from our own legal expert and Dr. Drew, I`m really anxious to hear Evy explain why and how police should be using deadly force.", "Right. Why six shots, how -- she`s been in that situation, I believe.", "She has.", "I`m going to ask her that question. But, first, protest in Ferguson, Missouri, turned violent last night. I monitored CNN until 3:00 in the morning, HLN, until 3:00 in the morning last night, watching this. Two people were shot. Four officers were injured, 78 arrested. We continue to monitor the situation closely right now. Take a look at this.", "Peaceful protests quickly unravel into pockets of violence.", "Come on. Right here. Right here.", "Two civilians shot, four officers injured, at least 78 people arrested.", "What`s going on there?", "This is a photographer. This is a photographer who got hit pretty badly by tear gas.", "We did witness at least one Molotov cocktail thrown in the direction of police.", "Police are moving in. You will see a line of people peacefully submitting.", "Joining us, Anahita Sedaghatfar, attorney, and Vanessa Barnett from HipHollywood.com, Crystal Wright from ConservativeBlackChick.com, and I have CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam who is in Ferguson right now. Stephanie, as dusk descends upon this town, how are things playing out?", "So far, things are calm. There are definitely a lot more people out here now, Dr. Drew. When you take a look, you can see behind me that you got people who are walking. Police are out here asking people to not stop and stand in one place. But they keep on moving. So, you`ll see small groups of people getting together and then come and tell them to disperse a little bit. I have seen some friendly interaction between people here in Ferguson and police officers at this time. But we`ve seen people marching. They go up a certain way up here on the street, to the blockade, then they come back down to the blockade on the other end. So, you can see there are plenty of people down here. Some people handing out roses here today, saying they want it bring peace back to the community. Also a lot of people saying, you know, hands up, don`t shoot. They`re still saying that, saying that they`re out here for Mike Brown. I talked to one family who told me they come out during daytime. And by the time the sun goes down, they`re going back to their homes because they think the people causing the disturbance in the evening, a lot of those people they say aren`t even from Ferguson. And so, they want it make their voices heard. Make it known that they are upset about what happened with Mike Brown, but at the same time, get out of the way so that there could just be these peaceful protests during the day and then clear the streets out at night. But as you can see, there`s still a lot of people out here, but most people out here right now, there is nothing going on. It`s calm. You can see some police officers are out there behind us, talking to people on the street, telling them to keep it moving if they are out here it march. But overall, the scene is calm. But you can definitely tell, that there`s a lit bit of tension in the air, Dr. Drew. Everyone is waiting to see if things turn on dime.", "Yes, sure. Yes. And, Stephanie, I just hope it stays calm. I like the idea of making your point during the day. No good comes after midnight, that`s for sure. Every night, that has been proven. So why stay after midnight. I`m just saying. Thank you, Stephanie. Anahita, how do you feel police have done handling the situation? Have they escalated it or they`ve done what they just have to do to do their job?", "They are doing what they have to do. I mean, anyone who`s criticizing the police presence needs to watch that package. Look at what`s going on there. I mean, the police -- these people have a right to protest. That`s their First Amendment right. They are allowed to be there peacefully. But the fact is, Dr. Drew, there are people that are being violent. They are looting. They`re throwing things at cops. Molotov cocktails. What do you expect the police to do? You want them to be dressed in tuxedos and suits and just sitting back? No. They need to be dressed in these military clothes. They need to be with these SWAT trucks, because they have a duty to make sure that everything is in order within their jurisdiction and they need to keep people safe. So, I don`t understand -- any suggestion that police presence there is somehow fuelling the flames is absolutely preposterous, in my opinion.", "Well, Crystal, I suspect you feel very much like Anahita. But it feels -- you know, the history of this country is that we have certain freedoms to move about. And when you see our government acting out in what looks like a militaristic fashion against its own citizens, I think all of our teeth get set on edge.", "Well, I don`t know if all my teeth get set on edge, but as an America, I do like freedom and liberty. At the time, Anahita points out a fact, the police are there to serve and protect. They`re not there to be our best friends, to have cocktails with us. And Captain Ron Johnson, the black St. Louis trooper who has taken over trying to help the Ferguson police manage this situation stood up, I believe yesterday or today, and said, hey, guys, you throwing Molotov cocktails at my men will not be tolerated. And the reason why the police are saying move, get out of the way, is because you have journalists that can be distinguished from peaceful protesters and rioters. As you pointed out, Dr. Drew, when it hits midnight, why are you out on the streets anyway? When the police say get out of the way, move. I do think the National Guard is overkill. Way overkill.", "Well, OK, interesting. There you go. Where is that line? And, Vanessa, on a second, Vanessa, you made the point last night, I thought that was very good, that fear seems to be one of the motivating problems in this entire circumstance and seeing a bunch of guys with AK-47s aimed at you creates a little fear.", "Absolutely, and I`m glad you brought that up because I understand what Anahita is saying, but I don`t necessarily agree, because there`s a situation where 90 percent of these protests are peaceful. So, when you come to just show support and you come to have your voice heard and you are met with a gun in your face, that is instant fear. That is instant aggravation. And that escalates the situation. I know the police are there to protect and serve, but I think they are unintentionally escalating some situations. And, unfortunately, the deplorable actions of a few are overshadowing the amazing actions of many. People are wanting answers. People are being peaceful.", "Hold it. Got it, Vanessa. I`m going to hold this panel together. I`m going to bring you across the break, continue the conversation. One of the questions I have is the support for the officer who shot Michael Brown is beginning to grow. Is he getting support? And later, you are part of the story. Everyone it seems is saying something on social media about the events in Ferguson. Our social media sites are just on fire. I will share posts with you. We are back after this.", "I stood there and listened over the radio and heard the screams of those officers who are under gunfire. I went back to our squad vehicle, saw the gentleman laying in the back who had been shot. I saw a car pull up and drop a gentleman off. He had been shot in the hand, who was dazed walking down the street.", "Back with Sam, Anahita, Vanessa and Crystal. And we`ve got live pictures, you`ve been looking at in a second there. They are live pictures from Ferguson tonight, as dark descends. I`ll be checking back with Stephanie Elam in just a minute. Now, Sam, Crystal mentioned in that last block, Captain Johnson, whom you just saw there in that little piece, he`s become somewhat of a local celebrity, but even he cannot restore the peace. How do you think he`s been doing?", "I think he`s actually doing a great job. I`m glad that they had Captain Johnson step in, Dr. Drew. But, you know what, looking at the video that you just showed before showing the raw footage, it actually rips my heart out. I do understand that he and the police are trying to do their best job, I guess, to restore peace. But I`m looking at a community who appears to me to be voiceless and discriminated against. And I`m afraid that this militarized action is only engulfing the flames. I get it. And I get that there`s looters. I get that there`s Molotov cocktails. And I wish the police would somehow be able to arrest these people, who are essentially hijacking the voice of all the", "But how -- Samantha, you know, I don`t like the paternalistic view that you`re taking because the majority of the protesters and the rioters are black. I doubt you would be saying the same thing if the majority of the protesters were white. And this is the problem I have with this whole narrative that we have concocted, the mainstream media. The majority of the violent rioters are black. You had a gentleman quoted in \"The Washington Post\" today, he said, \"I`m homeless, and I came to Ferguson to get justice. If I have to do it with violence, that`s what I`m going to do.\" And when it comes to blacks and crime and white cop killing the black kid, I constantly many am disgusted by the media walking on egg shells around the facts. Example and then I will stop talking. \"The Philadelphia Daily News\" decided to pull a photo of rioters looting because it painted the black rioters in a bad light. News is about not sanitizing the news. If it was OK to release the officer`s name, Darren Wilson, it`s OK to release video of Michael Brown before he was arrested, stealing cigarettes and roughing up a clerk. We need to stop the political correctness. I think it is horrible that the young man was shot six times in the front. But even the examiner, the New York examiner, who did an autopsy said, we do not have enough information to draw conclusions. This is why blacks and whites are now hating each other in suspect. It makes me weep as a daughter of a civil rights -- my parents who lived through segregation, it makes me want to cry. I should not hate you and judge you because you`re white. And this is wrong what we`re doing. This is wrong.", "Can I respond to that? I agree with a lot of your narrative.", "Vanessa, had a reaction and I want to get her reaction, and Sam. Vanessa?", "I understand where you`re coming from. And a large part of this, and we spoke about this yesterday, is moving forward, is healing, is becoming one nation and not so --", "Vanessa, Vanessa, Vanessa, I want to interrupt you. You seem to be getting emotional as Crystal was talking. What were you feeling?", "I was feeling -- well, I was going to say, when she brought up the fact when they released the video, we weren`t mad about them releasing the video. It was the timing of the video. It was very strategic and it was released in an effort --", "How --", "It was a distraction because of the officer`s name. They could have released that video the first day it happened. The second day it happened. The video doesn`t change the facts. The video could have been released at any point in time. It was a diversion against the same day, the same time the officer`s --", "I disagree.", "That has nothing to do with race.", "You say it was a diversion because it painted Michael Brown - -", "But you`re saying it was a diversion because it painted Michael Brown in a bad light. And the fact is --", "It doesn`t paint him in a bad light. It is a fact. I`m all about the facts. The fact is that is him in the video, then you can release that video if it has it do with this case.", "It did.", "But when the police officer pulled up, he had no idea that he was a suspect, one.", "But it showed --", "Two, and the video did not need to be released at the same exact time that Mike --", "Wait a minute, real quick. It showed Michael Brown that night could have had a predisposition for anger because we also know there is conflicting eyewitness testimony that says he went after Officer Wilson. Now, I`m not saying that he is right. The eyewitnesses like Darian Johnson, the friend that was with Michael Brown, I`m not saying he`s right. I`m also not taking the side of the officer. But there are a lot of facts here we want to gloss over when they paint Michael Brown in a bad light, just like during Trayvon Martin trial.", "Hold on one second. Vanessa -- one second. Got the point. Hang on, ladies. Sam, go ahead.", "Yes. I just wanted to respond to crystal. The latter part of your argument, that I hate what it is doing to all of us. I hate that it is dividing races. I hate what I see on social media. But I also have to agree with Vanessa, that I do think that there has been a lack of transparency when it comes to this police department in their initial investigation. And that`s why people have this distrust.", "Anahita, 30 seconds, then me.", "I`m just saying, that video is absolutely relevant to the case. It goes to the officer`s state of mind. It might potentially corroborates his statement and what he says happened. And I don`t like the fact that people are using this video, the release of this video, the timing of video, as another way to divide people based on race, Dr. Drew.", "Right.", "I don`t like we are being divided based on anything.", "Right. Me too.", "I think we need to be very cautious about the language we use, everybody. I wish our government officials would be as sensitive as I hope my guests and panelists will be tonight. We need to stop using words like you and them and they. It is our problem. The president did say something that I thought was extremely relevant last night, that we have a history. This country has a history. We have a history. And we need to solve that together. Not by us and them. Not because of somebody who didn`t get something and somebody needs justice against you against them. That`s divisiveness. We need to come together with this. I agree with -- I think we all agree on just about everything on this panel, but we have very intense feelings about it. We`ve got to put our feelings aside a little bit and stay in the solution. Let`s bring in the behavior bureau in here next. Can they make further roads into helping us understand this, and deal with the emotions that are being generated? And later, social media flooded with your opinions. We will get back to that after this.", "What`s bugging you? Because something is on your mind. Something is on your mind, I know.", "What`s on my mind is this has to stop. It has to stop. I don`t want anybody to get hurt. I don`t want an officer to get hurt. I don`t want a citizen to get hurt. If we all go away, they`re going to be on this mall and they`re going to destroy this mall. The peaceful protesters that decided, yes, this is what we want. We want it have our protest, and they got that Thursday. And they went home. The other group was, wait a minute, he has come in and changed their behind. We can`t let him win. We can`t let that philosophy win.", "Back with Sam and our behavior bureau. Emily Roberts, psychotherapist, Spirit, the host of the show \"The Daily Help Line\", Jennifer Keitt, life coach. Michael Brown`s mother appeared on NBC`s \"Today Show\" to talk about the unrest in Ferguson. Take a look at that.", "What will bring peace to the streets of Ferguson?", "Justice. Him being arrested, charges being filed, and a prosecution.", "Jennifer, is what it`s going to take? What do we do to get - - I want to ask each of you, what do we need to do to get this to stop and bring us -- bring us together to heal a wound that has never been healed?", "I wish that I could say, Dr. Drew, that prosecution of that officer is going to bring the peace that we`re looking for. But I honestly don`t believe that.", "What is it going to take?", "What is it going to take? We are going to have to have national dialogue. I cannot stress that enough. You know, Dr. Drew, before I came on, I had dinner with my husband. And I laid down a scenario for my husband, who`s a 50-year-old-plus black man, very successful in his career. And I asked him, when you see the blue lights behind you, if you might have been speeding or even if the car is going to be passing you, I said, what is the first thing that you think about? And he without hesitation said, the first thing that I think about is having harm come to me if I am pulled over. That is a problem, Dr. Drew. That is a problem if a 55-year-old executive in a company whose a black man in America is still thinking that way. I didn`t tell him to think that way. And by that same token, when white officers are officers sit down with their family members and all day long, they have dealt with all kinds of folks, including African-American males, and in their mind and in their psyche, they see that kind of person being linked to crime, you can`t tell me that that is not impacting them when they`re out there on the streets. I`ve talked to law enforcement. I know that`s the way. So we`ve got to have meaningful dialogue apart from the explosion that we have going on right now.", "All right. Spirit?", "You know, Jennifer hit it just right. We have got to open up the dialogue. And we cannot wait for situations like this where opportunists are able to come in and take advantage of the situation, Dr. Drew. We need to get real and talk about race relations in America. There is no perfect scenario here.", "But, Spirit, we talk about it all the time, I thought.", "No, we don`t.", "What are we missing?", "We sugar-coat it. We are politically correct about it. We do not have real conversation.", "What is missing? Help me.", "What is missing --", "Let me say something. Let me tell you one thing that I think is -- and let me frame it when I seem so ignorant on the issues. When people have privilege, privilege is invisible. I want to say that. So, I`m a white male. So presumably I have a certain amount of privilege just being so. So, it`s invisible to me. It`s people who don`t have it that really see it.", "But it`s not invisible to everybody else. You`re right.", "That`s right. So, what do I need to do? Where do I need to be engaged in conversation that I`m not?", "What you have to do is you have to not be resistant to recognizing that as a white male in America, you come from a line of privilege and that is real, and that privilege is afforded to you even today, through no fault of your own, and through nothing that you have done to earn it. That is real in America. Race relations, we are a divided nation. And until we get real about our biases, until we get real about our fears, our hatred, our ignorance, our lack of knowing each other, we are in communities where we still don`t know each other. Where we pass each other like two ships in the night and we don`t have bonds, we don`t have connections. We don`t have love for people that don`t look like us. Many of us don`t have love for people that do look like us. And so, until we get real about relationship and what matters in this country, and until we have frank dialogue and not be afraid it hurt each other`s feelings, nothing is going to change.", "Samantha, you were nodding your head.", "Yes, absolutely. I think it`s really interesting that you brought up the point that we need to be really frank and honest about it, because today, the mayor in Ferguson, it kind of back fired on him when he was trying to sugar-coat over the issue by saying that there`s no racial divide in Ferguson. And, of course, there is outrage after that.", "That is crazy.", "But I think, Sam, we need to point, Emily, is it`s invisible to people that have it. Like if I have a privilege, I don`t see it. People that don`t have it really see it and feel it.", "But to be the mayor, though, Dr. Drew, real quickly, to be the mayor, there is a disconnect then within him and the community. He should be aware of that.", "I`m very concerned about leaders generally. I`m really concerned they are not leading us out of this. That`s my concern. But, Emily, help me with the feelings that have come through here. I think a lot of the feeling based experience, and what do we do with that? Is there something we`re missing here?", "We need more mediators. We don`t need anymore instigators. There have been enough going on there. We need more people that want peace and who can express themselves in a way that says -- we need people on the front lines no matter what color they are, saying, hey, look, let`s have a conversation. Help me understand. Help me communicate. Please help me understand what you`re going through. This way we can have dialogue about what you ladies are saying. We need a conversation.", "But we are having conversations.", "Not everybody is represented at the table. Not everybody gets to come to the table to have that conversation and then for the folks that do show up, not everybody has the language. They are communicating loud and clear in Ferguson. Their frustration, the best by they know how. Are they right? Absolutely not. But unless, they are invited to the table and unless we are willing to be real about the fact that people are angry that they don`t have jobs. They are angry they can`t take care of their families. They`re angry that they don`t have the same access to health care and education, that other people, through again, no right or fault of their own, have access to. Until we get real and provide real solutions to those problems, this is going to continue.", "You know, I think they goes beyond that as well because here is the deal. I should not be called racist if I have a very frank and real conversation with my son as I just did before I dropped him off at college on Saturday, telling him, do not be caught after certain hours. Make sure that you watch who you are hanging out with. Do not be the only black man in the crowd because if it goes down, there is a good likelihood that something might happen to you. I should not be called racist when I am being very real with the situation and context in which we live in. By that same token, if an officer should say, \"Look, I am fearful of black men, say it. Say it. So, that I know what we are dealing with.", "But, you know, we also have to be real about law enforcement and the fact that we move towards enforcement and not towards service and not towards protection. And, this is part of the problem when we have individuals that do not live in our communities, and by our, I mean whenever you live, that is your community. When people come in to enforce, and they do not know you, they do not know your family. They do not know your mother. They do not know where you grew up. They do not know about you. It makes it easy to feel disconnected.", "Yes.", "And, to deal with you as an object instead of an individual.", "Absolutely.", "Right. Well, at least you can feel as though somebody is doing that. And, I know law enforcement is trying to take a different model. In fact, I am going to bring in our own Evy Poumpouras. She is a former agent with a secret service. I want her -- there she is. I wan her to address these kinds of issues, policing issues. When deadly force needs to be used? When police should use it? Why six shots? What are her thoughts? And, more right after this.", "Six gunshot wounds including the lethal one that entered the top of the skull and caused such severe brain damage, incompatible with life. Now, another important issue, though, is the toxicology.", "Toxicology, that also will make an affect if there is any substance within an individual`s body or also genetically the biology of an individual. It may take somebody one shot to go down and to stop and cease and desist and another individual multiple shots.", "We keep talking about the fear that this police officer had because of this black man that could have been charging at him. What about the fear that this man had?", "Back with Sam, Emily, Jennifer. Joining the group, Evy Poumpouras, former special agent with secret service. First up, you know, guy I got some new video just obtained by CNN of officer Darren Wilson, the man who shot and killed Michael Brown. It is from 2011. In it, he is receiving a commendation. Apparently, he has been with the city of Ferguson for six years. No previous disciplinary action on his record. He is 28 years of age. On paid administrative leave. He will have to undergo psychological evaluation per police policy. This is the guy that we have all been thinking about the last few days. Evy, have you ever been in a situation like that officer found himself?", "This is a difficult topic because it has been hard for me to listen to all of the dialogue. And, I have tried to remain objective, obviously. But, I do have somewhat a different perception from different point of view, because I have been in that situation, where you have your weapon drawn, where you engage with an individual, regardless of race, gender, what have you. People do not always comply. And, here in lies the problem. Where you are in a situation, where you got seconds, and a limited amount of information to decide. Do, I discharge my weapon because this person is not listening to me, is not heeding my information or do I wait and hold back and risk the possibility of this person hurting me. This is not an easy decision to make by far. It is a heavy burden that police carry. And, I have to tell you, it is one of the worse places to be put in as an individual. To make that call and risk making the wrong call, because it could be him and you take the shot and you take that person down. Or you risk it and then it can be you. So my -- the one thing I want to ask of everybody, please take a moment and put yourself in that officer`s position. And think, what it is like in that moment, with limited information, with seconds, with stress, with adrenaline, with all of the things going on, possibly have not been assaulted, making that decision. Do I shoot or not shoot. Could it be him or could it be me. This here in is what I really feel that we should also be looking at.", "Evy, I agree with you. However, I want to take this to a place that is really uncomfortable, because as I just heard from Jennifer and Spirit in the last segment, I think what my African-American friends and colleagues are telling us is that there is enough of a bias in that moment against the African-American male that those scales shift necessarily. And, I do not want to say that it has to be, but it seems as though it shifts towards the -- in this case, the victim. Towards the African- American male, even when it is an African-American male officer, I think people would say. I think that is what I am hearing. Do you think that is true? If it is true, how do we solve that problem?", "I do think it is true to a certain extent with certain individuals. I cannot presume to tell what you is in the heart and mind of this officer who discharged his weapon. I cannot. I only know what is in my heart and my mind. I cannot tell you what is in the heart of other law enforcement officer. Do I think bias exist? Yes. Do I think racism exists? Yes. And, the thing is education and being very selective in who we allow into our police department. Many police departments, such as NYPD, which when I first joined -- I joined the NYPD, I was evaluated and put to take the MMPI-2, which I am sure you are familiar with, Dr. Drew,", "A psychological test.", "It is a psychological exam to determine my predisposition. What is wrong with me, my attributes, my temperament, racism, bias? You need to thoroughly determine the individuals that you take and give a badge and gun and put them onto the street to police. Are they there because they want to preserve and protect human life? Great. You put them out there. But if they are not, if they are looking to be cowboys, or make these decisions or be bullies, or abuse their power, they do not deserve to have a badge or a gun.", "And, so where is the dialogue then? Where is the forum for this?", "No. No. Jennifer, I just want to make sure I am getting at the right issue here. I love Evy`s solutions here. This is the way I have always felt about regulating people and staying on top of people with professional responsibility. Let`s choose them better, train them better.", "OK. But, it is not just one-sided, to that point. If I walk empathetically in that officer`s shoes, I absolutely agree with what Evy is saying. I absolutely do.", "But, are we getting at the issue.", "Yes. It is from that vantage point. Can we then turn around too and walk in Michael Brown`s shoes.", "Right.", "When we walk in one another shoes, I am wondering, Dr. Drew, is that what is the problem here, because there is hell to pay if I walk in the officer`s shoes. As an African-American woman if I get on national television and say, \"I understand his judgment call, and I do not like it, but I do understand it.\" Then I might be seen as a sell-out or an uncle tom or whatever the case may be.", "But, that is a splitting nonsense -- that is what we call splitting behaviors, which is it is us and them. It is a way of maintaining my status quo. We all need to forget that.", "But, we have to be able to understand one another. How can we do that unless we can see it from both vantage points.", "Yes.", "Absolutely. Absolutely. And, why cannot we have a dialogue about this, though. Everyone deserves an opportunity to speak about this and educate themselves on this, right? You are absolutely right. When we do these evaluations, I have done them myself and we have to have a really, really strategic measure here in order to pick the right people to serve and protect. And, I do not know that is actually happening in a lot of places. You add in this environment and you add in these conditions that this particular officer was in a very tension environment and we do not know what to expect.", "And, so, now, as African-Americans, how do we trust the very people that we are supposed to say we are law abiding citizens? How can I trust that when you pull me over or when you come to my home, it is going to be OK?", "All right. I got to stop you there. I got to go out, because we are going back out to Ferguson to see what is happening right now. As you see, night has fallen. Stephanie is still there. We will be right back after this.", "No one will ever know exactly what happened, other than Michael Brown, who is not here to tell his side. So, we kind of have the black community feels like they have to stand up for him because he is not here. And that police officer who has not said a word.", "Of course, as black man, I am upset. But, it is what we discussed today. We all give a group hug, because we knew that together is when the change happens. When we are separate, and that is what I feel is happening right now. There are too many people that are on this side and some on that side. You know, you all should be getting hate tweets. It should be, let us get together.", "We know that. We know that.", "We know that.", "We have good times together. Please no hate tweets. These women are amazing. And they just want -- they just want to ask questions.", "That, unfortunately, I do not think that stopped the hate tweets before Leeann. I apologize to her tonight. Back with Sam, Evy, Jennifer, Vanessa --", "I am getting them, too.", "You are getting them now?", "Not today. I think we have had really good objective dialogue tonight, and I am grateful for that. I am trying to be better for that. But last night, not so much.", "All right. Now, you may have seen this link on your Facebook page today. A petition submitted to the White House asking for a law to require all police officers to wear body cameras has more than 120,000 signatures so far. Evy, at first, that sounds terribly expensive to me. It seems like more bureaucratic mess. But is that the solution?", "Yes. Actually, that is something they transition to doing to avoid situations like this. And, the reason why all departments have not is because of money. It always comes down to the money in the budget. But, when have you have a camera set up in the car, on the officer, himself then you can avoid this type of guessing game. And, then it also keeps -- keep in mind, it keeps in check as well the officer. Psychologically, it is also a psychological deterrent to the officer to do anything that might be considered inappropriate, because you are being recorded. It is excellent. And, at the Same time, it also can corroborate what an officer says.", "All right. So, we are saying -- again, I am trying to stay in the solutions tonight. I know dialogue is something that everyone is saying we need to do. Here is something tangible we can do. We are having a dialogue. But the dialogue needs to be directed toward solutions and towards -- I think Vanessa, was that you, honesty is where we need to stay. Vanessa we will get your thoughts right now.", "Absolutely, honesty. You said something last episode where you said we need to kind of go back and have that frank and honest discussion before we can almost even tackle this conversation right now. And, I think that is poignant because until we face those issues, until we -- I am going to say it, until we figure out and can come to some discourse and conversation about slavery. I mean it is still rooted there. We cannot forget that and we are told African community to forget that. We got to start there, because people are still angry with that. And, I know a lot of times that is hard it believe, but that is where the anger comes from. That is where the fear comes from. That is where the tensions come from.", "Listen. It is called intergenerational transition of trauma. I think you are on to it. Samantha, are you comfortable having that kind of conversation?", "100 percent, Dr. Drew. And, I know that because I am a white female --", "That is why I am asking you.", "I have never been harassed by police. Never, ever, ever have I ever been harassed by policeman.", "But, I have been.", "You have been?", "And, he was an African-American guy. And, he almost shook my head off. And, when I was in high school, he lifted me off the ground and shook me. And, I thought, \"All right, now when the blue lights are going off by me, I do not think about that guy.\" It is not just about that. I think Vanessa is on to it. It is a deeper thing here. We have to get honest by that. Jennifer, you are nodding.", "I agree wholeheartedly. I mean the conversation -- honestly, every time a black -- I feel like every time I mention race, I am always being judged as having a chip on my shoulder, and that should not be.", "Yes.", "That really should not be. I am a black woman. I love being a black woman. And, I love you for being a white male, Dr. Drew. And, I think this is part of the conversation starter right here. National media has the power to change. And, I applaud you for at least being willing to say, I am a person of privilege, and I want to understand.", "That is why I like talking to Miss Alley, although she says this thing is so inflammatory, I want to try to understand. Well, there is somewhere in there and usually I can get to it; but, in the meantime, she alienates everybody so it puts everyone off.", "I am back with Sam, Evy, Jennifer, and Vanessa. Let`s go out to see what is happening in Ferguson right now. CNN`s Stephanie Elam is there. Stephanie, can you give us an update?", "Sure, Dr. Drew. If you take a look behind me, you can see there is a crowd that is out there. It is a much larger crowd than the last time we spoke to you, but it is a very diverse crowd. I have been watching the people walk by. I have seen just about every race among them. Men, women, walking peacefully protesting, saying, \"Hands up! Do not shoot.\" Saying, they are out here for Mike Brown. The same idea. A couple of times they did kind of stop in one place, and the police came along and disperse everyone and told them to keep moving. But, overall, so far, it has been calm. We did see the Attorney General from Missouri come out here with his security and walk out here for a bit. But over all, you still feel the tension but the peaceful protesting has been going on here. A lot of people chanting. A lot of people yelling. One woman calling for President Obama to come to Ferguson. She is out here talking about everything that she thinks is wrong with the situation and people stop to listen to her in the middle of the walking. But, if you take a look out here, a lot of people is still out here. A lot of people is still on the side.", "Good. Excellent. Thank you, Stephanie. We hope and pray that this continues to be a productive and not destructive night. I think it may have termed. Guys -- Jennifer, I love the way you framed those comments you made in the last segment. I really do. That is the opposite of divisiveness. That is bringing us together. The President did say we share a history, and it is a unique history that we all as Americans share. And, Vanessa, you are right. Slavery is part of that history. We need to not shrink from it but address it directly and honestly, as you were saying, Vanessa.", "Absolutely. And, I think that is kind of where the anger sometimes stems, because you know, a lot of times it is like, let`s forget that. Let`s not talk about it. Or even now, I have heard things as crazy as, you know, the President is black, so there is no racism. Like, we cannot keep stepping on these issues. We cannot keep covering them up and we cannot keep acting like they do not exist. And, there is nothing wrong with the dialogue. There is nothing wrong with being uncomfortable and getting really honest. I want to be uncomfortable and I love that we could talk about things like this here. It starts with conversations like this.", "All right. Let`s get to social media. I promise a little bit of that. I got limited time. Here is one now from Jany. They want to know if there is any drugs in his system. Let`s drop that topic, because I am telling you the only drugs of any relevance that would make somebody aggressive in that setting, that this all went down would be PCP and methamphetamine. And, there is no evidence that anything like that happened. Please everybody, stop talking about pot and whether or not this kid had pot his system. Let`s stop that. Look, there is already a standoff. People need to get on the street. There is no good coming -- Why do we not have weapons -- Oh, this is a good question -- subdue or capture a suspect and not need to kill them. Evy, what about that? Why shooting to kill? Why not have better weapons to help subdue?", "Right. Police do have tasers. They have pepper spray. They have all those things that they can use. This is a situation here, again, we are talking about what we have the information we have. We are talking about seconds here that transpired between the officer and the victim, Michael Brown. You have to assume that officer has time to transition from his firearm to pepper spray to a taser, if he even has access to taser or any of those things. It is not that simple. I want to touch on one more thing that has not been brought up, training. We talk about old different things, but training is a key important factor in having police officers who are effective. They put you through the academy. You are done with the academy, and then they send you out. But, you need to have continual training, continual scenarios, stress factors, adrenalin scenarios, where you put officers in a continual basis so that when they are on the street they can react quickly and efficiently.", "And, by the way, Evy. If there is a bias against African- American males, train that out.", "Yes. Thank you.", "Figure out a way of dealing with that, because that is what we are all saying here. Let`s not shrink from any of these issues. Let`s say they are there and let`s start managing them. Let`s start dealing with them. Listen, I love the way Jennifer framed this. I commend you for being so healing in the way you talked about this tonight. Let`s stop talking about us and them. Let`s do this together. Let`s work on solving this problem. 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{"id": "NPR-9136", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2019-08-21", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/08/21/753213133/louisville-mayor-greg-fischer-on-his-vision-for-gun-control", "title": "Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer On His Vision For Gun Control", "summary": "NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer about his vision for more effective gun control and his desire to meet with President Trump during his Louisville visit.", "utt": ["Ahead of today's trip to Louisville, Ky., President Trump received a letter. It began with the line - when you visit our great city this coming Wednesday, I would appreciate the opportunity to meet. That letter came from the mayor of Louisville, Greg Fischer. Mayor Fischer has some ideas for the president about the kinds of gun safety bills that could make Americans safer and how the country's mayors can help with that.", "President Trump was not able to meet with Mayor Fischer today, so we invited him to join us here. Welcome.", "Hey, Ailsa. Thanks for having me.", "Thank you for making the time. So if you had gotten a meeting with President Trump today, tell me what you would've said to him.", "Well, the first message is, be not afraid. This is a mainstream issue right now. All of America is looking for - practically all of America is looking for common sense gun safety reform, whether it be background checks, whether it be assault weapons. So the people are behind you. And these are not radical ideas in terms of gun safety. What's radical is that nothing is being done right now.", "So it's a time in our history where - when a statesperson steps up and does something, they will be remembered forever for changing this tide. Americans, Louisvillians, are just tired. You know, when you think you can go to a shopping center...", "Well, let me ask you, though...", "...To a ballgame and you're worried about being gunned down - and unfortunately, we know it's going to happen in another city sometime soon. So something has to be done. A leader must step up.", "On what can be done - I read your letter - you advocate for expanding background checks, passing red flag laws, a ban on assault weapons and on high-capacity magazines. I just want to get real with you. Do you actually see a Republican-led Senate passing all of that, even an assault weapons ban?", "It's possible. Look. As I said, these aren't radical ideas. And not only is this the platform of the United States Conference of Mayors, it's also the platform of the Major Cities Police Chiefs. So think about this. This is law enforcement saying this. This is the people that are closest to their citizens - the mayors - saying this is what your citizens are demanding. So if people can abandon this as a partisan issue and embrace it as a human issue, as an American issue, to say, this is so far out of whack that this is not normal.", "This morning, I talked to a grandma that said - she said, I'm thinking about buying my granddaughter a bulletproof backpack that comes with a bulletproof vest. I didn't even know those things existed. They shouldn't exist. This is where we've gotten to as a country right now. And I would just hope anybody that's elected would say this has gone too far. This is not a party issue. We've got to get on the same page here.", "Now, we've seen President Trump appear receptive to expanding background checks in the past, but we've also seen him step that back. Do you see an opening with this president this time around that maybe you didn't see in the past?", "I think we have to keep calling the question. When you remember Sandy Hook, it was never again. Dayton now is do something. The president sees that, and I believe he knows this is the right thing to do. Advocates that are, you know, high-paid lobbyists somehow seem to overwhelm the voice of the American people. So I think this is a moment where a true statesperson will look over that and say enough is enough. This is what we're going to do.", "And it can't just stop with background checks. I mean, the minimum thing is for the president to give the green light to the Senate - for Senator Mitch McConnell to call the vote so people can be accounted for. Young people are coming out like never before. We saw a great program put out by our young leaders in Parkland today. Young people are going to be voting on this issue as well.", "But you do seem to think that this time feels different. Do you feel like we've reached a tipping point?", "It has to. Moms are not going away. Students aren't going away. Mayors aren't going away. This issue needs to stay front and center. It's not just the mass shootings that make the headlines. It's the daily drumbeat of deaths that we see in our country - suicide by gun.", "Now, let me ask you - your letter mainly focused on what lawmakers in Washington can do, what the president can do. But I'm wondering, you know, because you mentioned Louisville itself is seeing a spike in gun violence right now, what can mayors do about gun safety?", "Well, believe it or not, there's common sense things that just don't happen all the time. Some of these weapons that we're finding that are involved with local shootings have been stolen from people that leave their cars open. So imagine that - somebody has a gun, they leave it on the front seat of their car, and then it's gone and then used in a crime. Kentucky, unfortunately, has very loose gun safety laws here. So we are preempted from the state from doing anything, but we can certainly...", "Right. I understand state law bars any local action on guns. So what can you do as mayor?", "Well, as I said, encourage people to practice safe gun practices. Lock your car. You shouldn't even have a gun in your car. Lock your gun up at home. How many times have we heard about the young boy or girl that's taken their life because of a gun being out there? Use gun locks. These are just super-common-sense things.", "As we move forward, though, and as you see President Trump continue to backtrack on his comments on background checks, in the last 30 seconds we have, what would you like to tell him to stay on the message that you would like him to stay on?", "Listen to the American people. We're a democracy. That's what we're supposed to be doing. There can be special interests that are whispering in his ear. They represent the past. What the future is are the kids in our elementary schools or high schools that practice a mass shooting drill during the first couple days of school. That's not the United States of America.", "Democratic Mayor Greg Fischer of Louisville, thank you very much.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["AILSA CHANG, HOST", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "GREG FISCHER", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "GREG FISCHER", "GREG FISCHER", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "GREG FISCHER", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "GREG FISCHER", "GREG FISCHER", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "GREG FISCHER", "GREG FISCHER", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "GREG FISCHER", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "GREG FISCHER", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "GREG FISCHER", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "GREG FISCHER", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "GREG FISCHER"]}
{"id": "CNN-188187", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-6-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1206/22/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Record Floods Ravage Minnesota; Slow Growth, Bank Fears Roil Markets", "utt": ["Good morning, Soledad. Good morning to all of you. Happening right now in the NEWSROOM, here's a headline, $3 gas. Prices are plunging overnight. New outlook this morning that's great news for your wallet. Plus this.", "Obviously, you don't buy flood insurance here. You don't do it. So I'm kind of emotional because I don't know what to do.", "Police in Duluth, Minnesota, saying it's not safe here. Historic flooding wiping out bridges, roads and lives. One town being described as an island. We'll talk with the mayor of Duluth straight ahead. Sandusky bombshell. An adopted son of the Penn State coach claims he, too, was molested by his father, and he's offering to testify. Will new charges be filed? We're live at the courthouse. Plus --", "Oh, my god. You're so fat. Karen, you're fat.", "Southwest Airlines reached out to us today. They'd like to send you and nine people to Disneyland in California.", "You've got to be kidding me.", "The bullies apologized, taunted and teased bus monitor Karen Klein, grateful and humbled today after the jokers fess up and say, we're sorry. This morning Karen is stunned by all the support. It is Friday. Happy Friday, June 22nd. NEWSROOM begins right now. And good morning to you. I'm Carol Costello. We begin this morning with your money. Less than 30 minutes from now, Wall Street tries to rebound from a double whammy. One of its worst days in months. Major American banks that you problem have money and slammed by ratings agency Moody's. Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup. The bad news sent international markets plunging overnight. But there is a silver lining to this report. Futures are up.", "Business correspondent Christine Romans joins us live from New York. So is that a silver lining or am I exaggerating things?", "You're always looking for the bright side, Carol.", "I know.", "Futures are up, and that's something we sometimes see when you have a big down day. The Dow was down 250 points yesterday, and it felt pretty ugly all day long. And so they're up, futures are up a little bit here this morning. That often happens when you've had a big down day. But it's not just the bank issue here. Right? I mean the bank downgrade shows us that there's still a concern about slowing global economy, about credit markets, about the debt problems in Europe. And that's something that banking analysts are concerned about. And there's a lot of talk about a summer slump. A summer slump in the U.S. economy and the global economy. Slow jobs growth is what that will mean. Very low interest rates quite frankly and record-low mortgage rates. That's a result of that summer slump. A weak economy. And falling gas prices. All of these things are what -- kind of this whole macroeconomic grew is giving us right now. There's a lot of things to worry about. Contagion from Europe. We're talking about a U.S. slowdown. We're talking about factories around the world slowing down. We're talking about the banks trying to put a ton of money aside so they can withstand all of this. And we're also talking about the debt ceiling and a fiscal cliff. And congressional inaction on that. Put it all together, and you've got people very concerned about where we are right now in the -- in the cycle, Carol. And it's interesting, too, because Mike Mayo, who's a bank analyst we talked to late yesterday after that downgrade, he was saying on the bank downgrade, in particular, you know, it's not going to affect the way you're doing business with your bank right now but it's going to affect how banks are doing business with each other. And they are what pumps the oxygen into the global system. That's why it's so important. He also said it's probably going to be the worst 10 years for bank lending since the Great Depression. So that affects you, too. You know, the banks are stockpiling their money, trying not to take big risks so they can withstand something terrible happening in the economy. That means you can't really take advantage of those low mortgage rates.", "Yes. We've heard that song before.", "Yes.", "Christine Romans, reporting live from New York this morning. Also this morning, a deadly ending to an 11-hour standoff at an Afghanistan hotel. Afghan and NATO troops engage in a fierce gun battle with Taliban militants. They stormed the hotel, taking several dozen civilians hostage. Police say the militants killed 15 civilians and four others before they were killed. Fifty other hostages were rescued by the time the standoff was over. Right now jurors are meeting behind closed doors to decide the fate of Jerry Sandusky. They deliberated late into the night, ending their discussions less than 12 hours ago. They are now reviewing testimony from two witnesses who appeared on the stand. The former Penn State football coach could face even more charges, though, after a bombshell announcement from one of his six adopted children. Matt Sandusky. You're going to see him shortly. He is in a striped t-shirt. You see him on the right. He says he, too, was sexually abused by Jerry Sandusky. National correspondent Susan Candiotti is outside the courthouse. Susan, I want to talk a little bit about Matt Sandusky. He says through his attorney that he was ready to testify. Why didn't he?", "Well, he didn't testify, Carol, because he -- because his father didn't take the stand. It was a pivotal moment back on Wednesday, you will remember, when we were all waiting to find out whether Jerry Sandusky would take the stand in his own defense. We saw Matt Sandusky come through the witness door that day, and then it was revealed that prosecutors, through sources, had Matt Sandusky on standby in their back pocket to bring out as a surprise rebuttal witness if Matt's father, Jerry, had taken the stand in his own defense. That didn't happen. So Matt didn't testify. But then it was revealed yesterday through that statement that you just mentioned, through Matt Sandusky's lawyers, saying that Matt is now revealing that he was abused by his father. Making that claim now. And what makes it particularly are interesting, Carol, is that before now, up until now, Matt Sandusky has always publicly spoke out in support of his father. Now Matt's name did come up during the trial testimony when alleged victim number four took the stand. And we have an excerpt from that testimony. It goes like this. Alleged victim number four speaking. He says, \"Jerry started pumping his hand full of soap like he was going to throw it. He was in the shower. Then he says Matt got out. He went to another shower area.\" And the prosecutor asked, \"And what was the look on Matt's face when he saw the defendant was about to start a soap fight?\" And the accuser said, \"Nervous.\" Now there had been testimony throughout that oftentimes preceding alleged sexual assaults in the shower that Jerry Sandusky would soap up his alleged victims, and start rubbing them and that's when the alleged abuse would occur -- Carol?", "Of course, he didn't testify. The jury is not considering his testimony. But they have plenty of other -- they have plenty of testimony to consider. I know they are back at work. They just started. We'll get back to you, Susan, to see how they're progressing. Thanks so much. This morning National Guard troops are fanning out across northeastern Minnesota where several cities are reeling from the worst flooding on record. As the governor declared a state of emergency, Coast Guard crews swept in and rescued at least 15 people from homes that were cut off by rushing water. Neighborhoods in and around Duluth have been swamped by up to 10 inches of rain this week, and for many days of anxiety are taking their toll.", "When it gets up to this line, we're moving everything out of the house. And we're done. We're moving out. And, you know, obviously, you don't buy flood insurance here. You don't do it. So I'm kind of emotional because I don't know what to do.", "Hundreds of people have had to flee their homes and take refuge in Red Cross shelters. Remarkably, there are no known deaths so far. But the damage is staggering. Duluth's mayor says there's at least $50 million in damage just to the city's infrastructure. Mayor Don Ness joins me now by phone. Good morning, Mayor.", "Good morning.", "How unusual is this kind of flooding for the Duluth area?", "Well, it's very unusual. You know, our previous record for a 72-hour period was 6.5 inches. And some of our neighborhoods received nine to 10 inches in less than a 24-hour period. When you couple the fact that, you know, that's just the rain falling on one neighborhood. And Duluth is a beautiful city built upon a hill, a rather steep hill. And so all that rain that was falling further up the hill then started rushing down and into our lower neighborhoods. And the combination of the rain falling on our lower neighborhoods and the water rushing down the hill created a tremendous amount of pressure that overwhelmed our storm water system. And blew out manholes and damaged both our stream beds as well as our street infrastructure.", "Let's talk about the infrastructure damage. Because we've seen these incredible pictures of the water taking out an entire bridge. We see highways buckled. How many other scenes like we're seeing now, you know, on CNN's air are there in Duluth?", "Well, Duluth has 25 named drought streams running through our city. It's one of the things that people love about our city. It's because we're built on a hill and we have these beautiful ravines. But when you have that much rain falling in such a short amount of time, it simply overwhelms the system. And you had a great -- a large amount of volume coming down at a very rapid pace. And it hit the smaller ravines and just kind of blew the system -- the system up. And so there is a lot of damage, and yet it's localized to these areas where we have the culverts, we have the ravines, we have where the streams went under the road. You know, most of Duluth is in -- is in OK condition, and one of the messages that we want to send is that Duluth is open for business. That the -- as long as you don't go around the barricades, you're going to be safe in our city.", "So come on out and fish.", "Thank you so much, Mayor Don Ness, talking with us live this morning. Let's find out why all that rain is falling in Minnesota. Alexandra Steele is here to explain. You heard the mayor. This is really strange for this area.", "Well, it's probably some of the worst flash flooding they've had in 30 years. But it's so beautiful, isn't it? Duluth. Just look at this beautiful picturesque area. What we've seen is such bad flash flooding. Because it's really kind of a two-day affair, the 19th and the 20th. So a few days ago. Between about seven and 10 inches of rain. And the problem was, Carol, it fell on already saturated ground. So the ground was already wet. And then in comes this seven to 10 inches of rain. So you can see what it looks like there. In terms of the forecast, you know, today we're not going to see any rain for the most part. Really dry in for the next 10 days. It's looking at the forecast, you can see it's really Saturday there's the threat for some scattered showers. And then Sunday morning. But nothing as heavy certainly as they've seen. And you can see how dry the balance of this next five days is. And then even the 10-day outlook is pretty good as well, dry weather.", "You're watching another system, too.", "That's right. Something that is heating up is what's happening in the tropics. So here's a look at what we're talking about. We're watching the Gulf of Mexico, really most notably the northern Yucatan Peninsula. And there's the area of interest there. So this is an area of low pressure. You can see it's getting better organized. No question about it. They're delineated in that square. Now what we're going to see especially in the next two days, the National Hurricane Center says the depression probably will develop the next 48 hours or so. And the problem is the terrain of interest is so vast, all the way from the Texas Gulf Coast to the Florida Gulf Coast. Now this is what we call, Carol, there are spaghetti models. And you can see there's a better consensus with this last run of these spaghetti models. You can see now moving it a little bit toward Florida more so. Before, they were more distributed in terms of where they could possibly go. So all eyes for the next 48 hours or so. As this kind of air gets more organized. And take a look. It's all contingent upon the jet stream. That's kind of the driver so the jet stream will push this system maybe to the west, to Texas, or possibly to the east to Florida. So Florida looks like it could get about four inches of rain, but contingent upon this path which we'll know a little more in the next day or two.", "OK. We'll keep an eye on the spaghetti model.", "Alexandra, thank you. The Miami Heat's NBA title summed up in one word by their hometown paper this morning. \"Kings.\" The banner headline in the \"Miami Herald\", kind of a play on, King James. Though LeBron is the finals' MVP, the whole team is basketball royalty today. John Zarrella was with fans last night. I bet it was crazy.", "I've got to tell you, Carol, it was outrageous last night. When you look at it today, you know, you can see the street Biscayne Boulevard back to normal. A lot of morning work traffic. The arena is quiet. I've got to say, though, I think a lot of those people going to work this morning are going to work with hangovers because nine hours ago, this place was insane.", "Who's number one now? Who's MVP now? The Heat are number one. We're number one, baby.", "I have been a Heat fan since I was born, man. I'm so proud of my dude LeBron. Finally got his ring.", "Wade got a second ring.", "Wade got a second ring. This is the great -- this is the happiest day of my life.", "Heat, they rock. We won the finals.", "You know, I have spent two years fighting across the country with every non-Miamian I know defending my team. They all hate us. And as Franklin Roosevelt said, I welcome their hatred. This is an emotional win for all of Miami, for me. You know, you never forget your first championship. This is our second. It's our first one at home. This is special.", "I love that guy who said that that was the greatest day of his life. It may have been the greatest day of LeBron James' life. You know, Carol, they were handing out these towels last night that have \"XVI\" on them, 16, which is the number of games they had to win to get the championship. And they did it. They did it.", "I know. I know.", "LeBron got his first. And he silenced the critics.", "OK. Well --", "And you're not happy, are you?", "No. Because I'm from the Cleveland area so I've been one of those critics.", "I know.", "And I just want to run this by you, John. The Cavs' owner, the Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert --", "Sure.", "He tweeted, congratulations to Miami and OKC for an exciting finals, but he did not mention LeBron, unlike his scathing attack two years ago when LeBron left Cleveland and Gilbert guaranteed his team would win a title before LeBron. I assume LeBron did not mention Dan Gilbert last night?", "Not that I know of. I listened to quite a bit of his press conference, and in fact, at one point, LeBron was asked if he had any message or anything to say to the Cleveland fans. And I may be mistaken, but listening, I recall him saying, you know, that this was about Miami. This was about the victory last night.", "Blah, blah.", "And I think he kind of sidestepped that question, yes. Exactly.", "Smart man. John, OK, congratulations. I know you're a Heat fan. Thank you, John. There could be a silver lining to all those economic problems in Europe. 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{"id": "CNN-355615", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2018-11-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/26/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "Melania Trump Unveils White House Christmas Decorations.", "utt": ["The White House is all decked out for the holidays. Today, First Lady Melania Trump tweeted a video showing some vibrant and colorful Christmas decorations. They're getting a lot of attention. This year's theme is American treasures. It features ruby red Christmas themes and some decorations that bear the first lady's slogan, be best. Take a look.", "Joining me now is Kate Andersen Brower, the author of \"First Women.\" Hello to you. You book and your wardrobe tonight sort of matches the video that includes the blood red trees. I think it was 40 striking blood red trees that line the east room. What do you think is the significance of the red color?", "A lot of people on Twitter are criticizing it, saying it's", "Let's talk that because the gloves, right, because it was red leather gloves, matching red leather gloves which is -- some people are wondering why she is wearing them inside, but is this just her showing off her personal style?", "You don't normally see her hands free like that either. You see her with her coat over her shoulders all the time. I think it's her style. She's obviously very into fashion. This is something that they would have been planning, you know, over the summer. This is something that she and the social secretary would have been thinking of for months. They bring in more than 200 volunteers. It's a huge event. Everything is thought through. But she keeps having these missteps and I think part of that is because of the charged environment that we're in right now.", "You know, it's a big deal. Every year, people look to the White House. The White House is typically beautiful and the first lady usually handles it. So every year, there's discussion about how the first lady is decorating the White House. That's just how it is. But this time, this first lady chose not to attend a traditional press preview, the White House holiday decorations today. Her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, said that Mrs. Trump decided to let the decorations speak for themselves. So, you're saying this may be partly because of the chaos or just the environment that we're in?", "I think she doesn't want shouted questions at her by reporters and that's happened with other White Houses where, you know, Nancy Reagan who started the tradition of doing these media avails of the White House Christmas decorations, was questioned about Don Regan and how she was trying to get rid of her husband's chief of staff at the time, Don Regan. So she doesn't want to have a question about the Russia investigation or something shouted at her. It's embarrassing and I don't think she would know what to do with it, obviously. So I think it's a protective measure.", "Yes, especially since she featured her \"be best\" in the Christmas decorations. It was sort of to promote -- there it is, some of the balls right there. This is a wreath made from \"be best\" pencils and so on. So, you know, is she taking a lot of flack for this? I don't know if Mrs. Obama ever put carrots or anything under the Christmas tree. Maybe she did. I don't know.", "I mean, to be fair, Michelle Obama while she was a much more relatable first lady no question, did not take questions at these events either. And if you do do a media avail, what ever first lady has done in this case is talk about the work of the social secretary, the chefs, the florists, people bringing it together. It's a moment to shine a light on the people working to make it happen. And a lot of people wonder about what \"be best\" really is. There hasn't been a lot of movement for it on it. Is this kind of amorphous campaign? She hasn't defined it very well, so it's a little odd.", "Well, it is the people's house. It belongs to the people. And if you have an opportunity to go and check it out during the holidays, I think that every American should do that. So thank you, Kate.", "Thank you, Don.", "I appreciate your reporting. Happy holidays. I love the red.", "Thanks. Thank you. Bye, Don.", "Thanks for watching. Our coverage continues."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "LEMON", "KATE ANDERSEN BROWER, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "LEMON", "ANDERSEN BROWER", "LEMON", "ANDERSEN BROWER", "LEMON", "ANDERSEN BROWER", "LEMON", "ANDERSEN BROWER", "LEMON", "ANDERSEN BROWER", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-241885", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2014-10-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/27/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "New CNN Poll: Obama Unpopular, Voters Angry", "utt": ["Just a week to go until the midterm elections, a new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows Democratic candidates' biggest problem may be -- may be President Obama himself. The poll shows the president remains unpopular. His approval ratings stuck in the mid- 40s, which is where it stayed for most of the year. Let's bring in our chief national correspondent John King, and our chief political analyst, Gloria Borger. The new numbers in this CNN/ORC poll show, point out that for Democrats, 30 percent of Americans say they're very angry about the way thing are going in the country right now, 22 percent said that in 2012, the percentage today is about the same as it was in 2010 when the Democrats suffered a shellacking, in the words of President Obama, as you remember. So, what's going on here?", "It's a very similar dynamic, absent that the Republicans don't have the intensity, I don't think they had in 2010. But you do have, look, that presidential number, that's the national number. Remember, most of the competitive terrain, the competitive terrain this year is in red states. Most of the Senate races, the count in red states. A few of them in states the president carried. But even in those states like Colorado and Iowa, the Republican candidates are leading at least by a little at a moment. So, you look at the national number, then you look at that anger. What does that tell you? The president is weak. The voters are mad. And in a midterm year, the history is they take it out on the president and his party. Now, no incumbent should be happy in this environment, but history tells you, the president and his party get the bigger whack.", "You know, one of the numbers we looked at, Wolf, is we asked people if they're satisfied with the way they're being governed. And the answer was 74 percent, no. So, to John's point, that really hurts Republicans as well as Democrats. One of the reasons you may not see one of these wave elections, is that people are so dissatisfied with everybody. They're going to hole their noses and vote no matter whom it's for. But there is no sense like, oh, right, the Republicans would be so much better than the Democrats. They really don't feel that way.", "Yes, two-thirds say they're angry. As many as 60 percent say they're very or somewhat scared right now. So, that's a pretty significant number right there.", "And you look at the terrain of the last couple months -- yes, there's been better economic news, but what are we talking about? We're talking about beheadings of American journalists. We're talking about a military campaign against ISIS. Now, we're talking about the threat of Ebola, you know, in West Africa, and the isolated cases here in the United States. So, the American people are processing grim, bleak, depressing, scary, anxious news. And that makes them anxious as voters. And again, history says, you know, Democrats think this isn't fair. But history just says they take it out more on the president and his party in the midterm election. That's the way it goes. But to Gloria's point, look at the Senate race in Kentucky. Barack Obama carried four counties. So, if there was ever a year where the Republicans should be winning a state easy, it is that state. The president is an issue in the midterm election. It's a state where he's hugely unpopular. But Mitch McConnell is in really close race. Why? Because he's a poster child for Washington.", "Gloria, in this new poll, only 26 percent of Democratic voters said they're extremely or very enthusiastic about voting, 36 percent of Republican voters said they're enthusiastic about voting. So, that presumably is going to hurt the Democrats.", "It's going to hurt the Democrats. It is clear there's a Republican advantage on enthusiasm. But if you go back to 2010 when there was a wave election, 54 percent of Republicans said they were enthusiastic. So, you know, you saw that more in 2010 than you're seeing it now. Again, yes, Republicans are anxious to go out to vote. Yes, Republicans dislike the president more than Democrats do. But are they as enthusiastic as they were when Barack Obama lost control of the House of Representatives and John Boehner became speaker? No.", "Let's talk quickly about Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor. Some of all of sudden, some of his relatives are saying, you know what, he's serious thinking about running for president.", "Yes. It's kind of been a little drip, drip, drip. We saw George P., his son, his eldest son over the weekend telling ABC that his father was more than likely that he's giving this serious thought. I spoke with someone who is close to Jeb Bush today who said, wanting to do this and doing it are two different things, and nobody understands better about what it takes than Jeb Bush and also, of course, Hillary Clinton.", "But significantly, his son, they are very close. George P. is running for office in Texas. They're very, very close. His son says the family concerns are being mitigated. He says the wife is onboard, he said Barbara Bush, the mother is willing to be quiet. So, if that's the case, if the family issues are settled or at least close to settled, then Jeb Bush has this decision to make. He's against his party based on immigration. He's against his party based on Common Core, the education standards, because he want to run for president and essentially plant a flag, look the base in the eye and say, to win, you have to admit you're wrong.", "I just got a tweet from George P. Bush saying he is following me on Twitter.", "Well, we hope he's watching, right?", "I don't know what that means but he's following me. Guys, thanks very much for joining us.", "Sure.", "That's it for me. Thanks very much for watching. If you want to follow me on Twitter, go @WolfBlitzer. \"ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT\" starts right now."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "KING", "BLITZER", "BORGER", "BLITZER", "BORGER", "BLITZER", "BLITZER", "BORGER", "BLITZER", "BORGER", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-126490", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2008-5-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/12/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "West Virginia to Hold Democratic Primary Tomorrow", "utt": ["For a short time Hillary Clinton is reliving what it feels like to be the front-runner. She's the odds on favorite in tomorrow's West Virginia primary. But the overall odds just got even better for Barack Obama. Obama now has an overall lead in the delegates with 1,869 to Clinton's 1,697. That includes Obama's new edge in the superdelegates. He leads by four now in that category. Let's go live to CNN's Sean Callebs, he is watching this story for us in West Virginia. This is your hometown, your home base over there in West Virginia, Sean. What's going on?", "It's been great to be back here. It's been fascinating to watch the voters. They are as excited as we have seen voters across the country. Hillary Clinton's campaigning in this eleventh hour down to the wire. Tomorrow morning at 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time the polls open up and certainly Senator Clinton is hoping for a big turnout here tomorrow. She's hoping for a huge win in West Virginia to propel her campaign. But the question everybody has been asking today, sit going to be enough to keep her campaign going?", "First I'm going to Clearfork. Then I'm going to Logan ...", "Hillary Clinton is working in West Virginia to up the stakes. Even as Barack Obama moved past her in the all important superdelegate count. Senator Clinton hopes for a huge turnout Tuesday. Enough that she could put a dent in Obama's lead in the popular vote and continue her push for the White House.", "You know, even when times are tough and it looks like the deck is stacked against you, Americans are still resilient. And, boy, West Virginians are sure resilient.", "Barack Obama did little campaigning in West Virginia. The head of the state Democratic Party here expects that Obama will lose here by at least 30 percentage points. But with momentum and growing talk he'll be the eventual nominee it was easy for him to be gracious.", "I am extraordinarily honored that some of you will support me. I understand that many more here in West Virginia will probably support Senator Clinton.", "West Virginia with its primaries so late in the political season is relishing its time in the spotlight. This is the first time in nearly half a century its getting so much attention. Since West Virginia helped a Massachusetts senator take the Oval Office back in 1960.", "West Virginia has a record of picking president. West Virginia made it possible for President Kennedy to become the president of the united states. West Virginia in the general election votes for the winner.", "And we already have a gauge of just how excited people in West Virginia are about this election. A record 76,000 have cast their ballots early. If you break down the registration in this state, Democrats outnumber registered Republican by about a two to one margin. However, the McCain campaign is not conceding anything. He simply looks back to 2000 and 2004 when, Wolf, George Bush carried the state.", "Good point. What about the state itself? How has it changed over the past 10 years?", "You know, it really has changed a lot. If you look at the makeup of the state, when I was growing up here, it was such a labor intensive state. Unions were really king. There was the UMW, steel workers' union, the number of railroads through the throughout the state. They've lost a lot of their clout, their muscle over the years. Really the economy is trying to change. More health care, more education, more high-tech. And so it's becoming a little more conservative. It used to be a very, very liberal voting state. Look what happened in 2000 and 2004. Before that even back in the Reagan a era, that's where we saw the state begin to change.", "Sean Callebs, thanks very much. Sean's watching this in West Virginia. West Virginia is Clinton country. That's obvious. Largely white blue collar and low income. It fits her strengths. But some Democrats worry that tomorrow's primary will highlight Barack Obama's weaknesses going forward. Let's go live to our chief national correspondent John King. He's looking at this story for us. John, will a poor showing by Barack Obama tomorrow in West Virginia potentially come back to haunt him?", "That certainly is one of the concerns of democrats, Wolf, that if Senator Clinton makes such a strong push in West Virginia she'll get a victory but with most assuming Obama will be the nominee will it show once again his weaknesses especially with white working glass and white rural voters. Let's look at the neighborhood first as you zoom in West Virginia. If you look around the neighborhood, yes, Barack Obama did do well over here in Virginia and Maryland. But what are the differences between West Virginia and Maryland and Virginia itself? Let's pull out to West Virginia and take a look at it. One of the reason he is did so well in the neighbors states they have large African American populations. West Virginia, Wolf, is demographically is built for Senator Clinton it's 95 percent white. Not a large African American base. Not even a modest African American base for Senator Obama to make a run in. It's also one of the oldest states in the country. And as we all know Clinton has done very well with voters especially over the age of 60 and over the age 65. It is one of the lower education states. More people only have a high school diploma in Virginia (ph). It's about 48th when it comes to those with high school diplomas. It is built demographically for Senator Clinton. She wants a strong showing to make a point. And this is her point. I'm going to draw you a line along the coast out here, the border with Ohio. Along the Ohio River, Wheeling, Parkersburg, down here to Huntington and around this way. These are the major population centers along with Charleston and Morgantown. She wants to take us back in time and say look. This is how George W. Bush won West Virginia back in 2004 and 2000. Had Al Gore won this state like Democrats had throughout the earlier 20, 40, 50 years, Al Gore would have been president. What Senator Clinton wants to say is I can get these white working class voters here, I can get the rural voters here and I'm a stronger Democratic nominee. As you pointed out, many Democrats believe Obama is on a path to the nomination and what might happen here is a big Clinton win that gets her time in the race, perhaps a little more fund raising but most of all raises questions about why is Barack Obama running so weak among these voters and what can he do about it?", "And there's a history about West Virginia. Bill Clinton carried the state twice. Al gore didn't have that much luck in 2000. George W. Bush won West Virginia both of his contests. There's a history that we have to appreciate going forward this year.", "Exactly right. It is one of the states, look at Iowa, a state that President Bush has carried that was a democratic state. West Virginia is one of the 10 states Michael Dukakis won back in 1988 and it was a Republican landslide. It has a deep Democratic history but also one of the states, New Hampshire is another one, one of these states with rural white populations that more and more over the past decade have trended toward the republicans and certainly changed the Electoral College map. We were talking earlier about the competition for states. This once reliably a Democratic state is now counted as red or at least leaning red heading into November. That's one of the changing demographics of American politics in part of the Republican Party's success with white working class and white rural and religious voters. It's a problem for the Democrats and Senator Clinton is arguing every day, Wolf, it's a problem for Barack Obama.", "All right, John. Thanks. Stand by. We're going to see you back here with that wall coming up in the next hour. Tomorrow night we'll bring you all the election results from the West Virginia. From the CNN Election Center, coverage begins right here in THE SITUATION ROOM at 4:00 p.m. Eastern. You're going to want to stay with CNN for that. A bizarre and deadly trend in Japan. Dozens of suicides committed in a very unusual way. Using a common household product. The story. Plus what officials are doing about it. That's coming up. And a tiny Oklahoma town crushed by a monster storm. You'll see firsthand as a family goes back to what's left of their home. Stay with us. And wildfires and a state of emergency right now in Florida. An update on our breaking news when we return."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SEN. HILLARY CLINTON, (D) NY", "CALLEBS (voice-over)", "CLINTON", "CALLEBS", "SEN. BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CALLEBS", "CLINTON", "CALLEBS (on camera)", "BLITZER", "CALLEBS", "BLITZER", "JOHN KING, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "KING", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-354894", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-11-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/16/nday.05.html", "summary": "Julian Assange Named in Court Filing; President Trump's Comments Praising WikiLeaks While Campaigning for President Examined; Number of Missing Persons Due to Wildfires in California Increases; Discussion of President Trump's State of Mind.", "utt": ["Is it connected to Russia? We don't know. Speaking of Mueller, CNN has learned that President Trump met with his attorneys to discuss written responses to the special counsel. He's had three meetings over three days. Rudy Giuliani tells the \"Washington Post\" that the president and his lawyers have not decided if he will answer all of the questions, saying some of those questions create more legal issues than others. We have a lot to cover. Let's begin with CNN's Laura Jarrett live in Washington. Trying to understand, Laura, exactly what happened with this revelation, possible revelation about Julian Assange.", "Either way, John, it's actually truly remarkable. This development all coming overnight in court filing papers in a completely unrelated case that was only recently unsealed, but in an attempt to try to keep that case under wraps back in August, federal prosecutors in Virginia twice referenced charges against Julian Assange. And here is what they said \"The complaint, supporting affidavit, and arrest warrant, as well as the motion and proposed order would need to remain sealed until Assange is arrested in connection with the charges in the criminal complaint and, therefore, no longer evade or avoid arrest and extradition in this matter.\" When I asked about why his name appeared in this unrelated court filing in Virginia, he told me, quote, the court filing was made in error. But he did confirm that Assange was not intended to be there. But he wouldn't go any further. Now, the charges, the precise charges that he could be facing still remain very unclear, but seeking any criminal complaint would be an extraordinary development in light of WikiLeaks' role in releasing those thousands of hacked DNC e-mails during the campaign and the mounds of other defense materials from years from the State Department, the Pentagon, even before the DNC hack. As CNN had previously reported the prosecutors actually struggled with the First Amendment complications in all of this, and his lawyer has put out a statement just now hitting back, calling this haphazard release troubling and saying it's actually dangerous to prosecute someone for publishing truthful material. John, Alisyn?", "There are so many implications for us. Thank you very much for breaking that down for us. Joining us now to discuss it, we have CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, CNN contributor and \"New York Times\" op-ed columnist Frank Bruni, and CNN political commentator and Republican strategist Alice Stewart. Great to have all of you here. Happy Friday. The idea that this was a cut and paste mistake and that's why we have learned about this overnight that Julian Assange may have been charged is remarkable, and why computers scare me, number one. But number two, let's start with forget about the First Amendment implications, of which there are many, the legal implications of what this might mean for the Mueller investigation.", "Well, remember, the Mueller team has already charged that Russians facilitated the distribution of stolen e-mails to WikiLeaks.", "So the 12 charges that had to come out in July that Robert Mueller issued, that's already happened.", "That's already out there. What they did not do is say that Assange and WikiLeaks committed a crime in then further distributing them. That question is unresolved and that may relate to the charges that are referred to here. The other issue is on the other side of the transaction. Mueller is obviously investigating Roger Stone and people around Roger Stone for getting documents from WikiLeaks and possibly engaging in some sort of illegal activity there. All of that is related to each other, but we don't know where, if anywhere, charges are going to be filed.", "And of course, one person we do know who was a big fan of WikiLeaks for some time was then candidate Donald Trump. I think we have to hear this again.", "This WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable. It tells you the inner heart. You got to read it. Another one came in today. This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove. I was getting off the plane, they were just announcing new WikiLeaks, and I wanted to stay there, but I didn't want to keep you waiting. This came out. WikiLeaks. I love WikiLeaks!", "It sounds like everybody gets a car!", "If you ask him today, he'll say WikiLeaks, what WikiLeaks? I don't know what you're talking about. But here's the question, and Jeffrey is spot-on with the legal aspect of this. These are all just different dots that Mueller is looking at, and how they connect is the big question. And as we said, Roger Stone, as we remember, touted about knowing that WikiLeaks was going to dump a bunch of Hillary Clinton e-mails six days before it happened. So he knew about some of the activity WikiLeaks was doing. And we also know, as we just heard, the president was a big fan of what WikiLeaks was doing, obviously putting out information about his opposition. Right now it is obviously premature to try and speculate how this all connects together and if this was an inadvertent putting of Julian Assange's name on this document. That still remains to be seen. But there just a little bit, too much cloud in here to not think that there might be smoke or fire at the end of it.", "This is totally hazy. The Obama administration was as big a foe or anti-fan of WikiLeaks as Trump, as you just saw, was. They were trying to find ways to charge Assange for years.", "They might have. General Michael Hayden was here before and said he always assumed that there was a sealed indictment for the last five years.", "Back about Chelsea Manning.", "But we never it. It never went forward, and my understanding -- Jeffrey, correct me if I'm wrong -- is that people in the Obama administration didn't think there was a way to bring an indictment, to pursue charges without getting into messy freedom of speech and freedom of the press areas. It's hard to believe that Donald Trump's Justice Department under Donald Trump, who is such a fan of WikiLeaks, is going to do something to its founder that the Obama administration never managed to.", "I will say, playing that sound, though, it is extraordinary, and it does show what the problem is here for Donald Trump politically, is that whatever the charge might be against WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, we have the video of Donald Trump loving them to death. It's weird for a president to love someone being charged for anything.", "It's never weird for Donald Trump to love someone who is doing him good. That's Trump way of viewing the world.", "It's important to point out what the First Amendment issue is here, because it is difficult. What happened in just a general way is someone gave classified information to WikiLeaks, to Julian Assange, and he published it. Journalists do that all the time. Frank's colleagues at the \"New York Times\" do it. Bob Woodward has made a brilliant career of getting classified information and then publishing it. Is that a crime? Historically, the Justice Department has not --", "But lots of people have stopped classifying Julian Assange as a journalist.", "But how do you -- how do you define what a journalist is if Julian Assange is not one?", "I'll tell you how Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defines it. Listen to this.", "It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is -- a nonstate hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia.", "A nonstate hostile intelligence service is different than a journalism outfit.", "Well, I mean, so says Mike Pompeo, then I think at the", "True.", "But Assange in court could say, but how do you define what I'm doing as different from what journalist do? I get classified information and I publish it. I have no doubt that WikiLeaks has done the work of Russia. That's part of the Mueller case. But journalists do the work of people with agendas all the time.", "The issue is, or one of the issues could be, did the WikiLeaks, were they complicit and/or involved in the theft, in the stealing of it? The other thing, and the charges could be -- the charges coming the other way that have already been faced by people in the Russia investigation, is attempt to defraud the government of the United States. And was WikiLeaks timing the release of the information they had? Were they coordinating with people in the United States? That's could also put them in legal jeopardy. And that's not journalism. So that's where they could, I suppose, face some legal jeopardy. And it's all happening when we know, Alice, the president has been meeting with his lawyers all week.", "Sure. And he's not been happy about that based on what we heard. And as you mentioned yesterday, he's pissed at darn near everyone, pardon me. And the reality is, one of the things that Giuliani has said and he's concerned with is as he's answering these written questions, which I think that is the smart thing to do, but I don't think he needs to sit down and actually do this. As he's answering these written questions, Giuliani has express expressed concern about possible traps. In my view, the way I look at it, if there is no collusion, as he has said, there's no collusion and no coordination, and he's being truthful, there's no opportunity for him to get caught in a trap. So I think it's best if there has been nothing wrong and if he can be forthcoming and credible, answer the questions, answer them fully and truthfully, and let's get this behind us. However, Frank doesn't think that's possible.", "No, no, no. I'm just laughing because you say answer the questions truthfully. I think the problem is they look at these questions is as they are determining how to answer them now, they have to go back and look at the eight different ways that Trump and the people that represented him answered in the past. And that's the trap. When you have given so many versions of the supposed truth which isn't the truth over time, and now you are committing one version to writing in response to these questions, how do you come up with an answer that's truthful and that doesn't contradict and put you in a lie before or put you in a lie now? I think it's interesting we now have an answer to, we've been talking about Trump's sour, angry mood this week. And we had that tweet storm on Thursday morning. We now learned that for 90 minutes Wednesday night he was huddling with his lawyers trying to figure out how to answer these questions. That may be why he had Mueller on the brain Thursday morning and went into such a --", "The one thing you do is you tell the truth in the one that's under oath.", "Right.", "I mean, these answers will be under oath. As we all know as journalists, it's not illegal to lie to the press and people lie to us and people lie in speeches.", "And to voters.", "They lie to voters. The remedy for that is political. It's not legal. If you lie in this submission, you have a world of trouble that is very different.", "As you and John have been pointing out all morning, this one should be the easy part because it's the written questions. And it sounds like from what Josh Dawsey was told by Rudy Giuliani, Giuliani tells me this afternoon that Trump and his lawyers haven't decided whether they will answer all of Mueller's questions. So even the written questions, which, by the way, are exclusively about events pre-election. This is a good multiple choice for them.", "Right, as we have described it, this is the open book take- home exam, which should be somewhat easier. Remember, the whole issue of whether or if the president answers questions about obstruction of justice, the firing of James Comey, while he was president is unresolved. The president's lawyers have said answering questions about that violates Article Two of the Constitution. Whether Mueller issues a subpoena about that, we don't know. So again, even with these written answers, it doesn't end this whole controversy.", "And one of the things we've been dancing around, Frank, is there is mild speculation going on, and it is just speculation, that there could be something happening soon. Could be today. It's Friday. Everyone's like, could there be a Friday news dump from the Mueller team?", "And the speculation, a lot of it has been about is Donald Trump Jr. going to be indicted? And again, when you talk about how the president is feeling right now and why he feels so under siege and scared and freaked out, if his son is going to be indicted, which he has told some people he is worried will happen, that's a very dark day for this man.", "For anybody.", "Roger Stone, I think he is probably one of the first to face the next axe with regarding to this. I don't think Mueller -- I think Friday news dumps are classic for political administrations and campaigns. Robert Mueller is going to indict people when it is ready, when the ink is dry and he's ready to pull the trigger. It's going to happen.", "And when the grand jury is sitting. Just as a legal matter, you can only indict someone when there is a grand jury.", "So when's that?", "It's not clear, but it is usually one day a week, and the day usually moves. But grand juries don't sit -- it's not like a trial jury where they sit every day. They come in usually one day a week and Mueller has a grand jury that he's working with. And there has been indictments in his case on Friday, but not always on Friday.", "Friends, fascinating. It's Friday, 8:12 a.m. right now. Let's talk again when we get tonight.", "The death toll in those devastating California wildfires is now at 66. That number is up. And while the number of people still unaccounted for and the Camp Fire has soared to 600, now 600 people missing or unaccounted for. CNN's Scott McLean is live in Paradise, California. And, Scott, that's the number that jumps out this morning, 600 people unaccounted for?", "Yes. These are pretty terrifying numbers for the people who live here, John, not only because the death toll from the campfires has now reached 63, but because there are 631 people who have been reported missing. The reason why, though, is because authorities say they have gone back through their 911 call logs and their police reports that were filed in the frantic early hours of this fire and may have been simply set aside. So they're going back and mining those for names and adding those to the list. The good news is the expectation is that many people on that list will be found safe and sound. Probably most of them don't even know that they have been reported missing at all. The main thing for a lot of people, though, who have been displaced, and we're talking about well over 20,000, is just getting by, just finding a place to stay. Hotel rooms are nearly impossible to find within an hour radius of here. The shelters, many of them are also full, and at least one of them is dealing with a norovirus outbreak. So that is not an appealing option for many people. And so some people have opted to have their own space. So they have gone to a Walmart parking lot. They are sleeping in their cars or they're sleeping in tents that have been set up there. And it's not just adults. It's families as well. And keep in mind, the temperatures overnight here are frigid. We're talking about low 40s. This is not comfortable. And a mom with her seven-year-old daughter yesterday, they were sleeping in the car. They said, hey, it could be worse. We could be out in a tent. I met a grandmother staying in a tent. She said you could not put enough blankets on to keep her and her nine-year-old grandson warm. That grandson told us what he missed most about his house, which has been destroyed. Listen.", "Just being in a bed.", "You just miss your bed? It's warm.", "Being under a ceiling and actually having a real bathroom. It's just hard.", "That's pretty heartbreaking to hear. And President Trump will actually be here in California tomorrow, and he will not have to look hard to find people just like that family there. Alisyn?", "Oh, my gosh. Scott, thank you very much. We have sons that same age. Can you imagine?", "That poor kid. You just want him to get home at some point soon.", "And it's not going to be soon.", "No.", "Now to this. First lady Melania Trump flexing her muscles, going after that member of the administration. A presidential historian tells us why the first lady's actions were, quote, \"jarring.\""], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "LAURA JARRETT, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN CHIEF LEGAL ANALYST", "CAMEROTA", "TOOBIN", "BERMAN", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CAMEROTA", "ALICE STEWART", "FRANK BRUNI, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BRUNI", "BERMAN", "BRUNI", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "MIKE POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE", "CAMEROTA", "TOOBIN", "CIA. 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{"id": "CNN-245234", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-12-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1412/14/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Drones vs. Interrogations; Sony Reeling after Epic Computer Hack; NSA Expects \"Traumatic\" Cyber Attacks", "utt": ["But the same thing is sort of happening. There are no rules and regulations about drones internationally as in combat situations as we're now using them. But one day other nations are going to have drones of their own. What if they start targeting Americans here? It's going to be in America's interest to get some sort of legal protocols about how drones can be used for warfare purposes. At the moment, we're out there pretty far in front of anybody else using them. And I think they're going to grow in importance from the conversations because of the numbers who are being affected. Here's what's interesting, Poppy. The -- all the C.I.A. torture reports and everything like that were about 119 people who were detained by the C.I.A. over time, of whom 39 were subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques; these harsh techniques, some called torture. Many called torture with good reason. If you look at drones, we don't know the numbers precisely, because the government won't tell us, but there are organizations out there and I've been counting up in Pakistan, and there are as many as 2,500 to 3,500 people who have been killed as terrorists, but there are as many as 400 or so who are civilians who have been killed. In other words, there have ten times as many civilians killed in Pakistan, according to reports, as the number of people who were harshly interrogated by the", "Yes. It's going to become an increasing conversation and also what legal sort of guidelines there are going to be, David, also.", "Right.", "What the President, the administration may be legally-held responsible for down the road.", "Right.", "Thank you for having -- coming on this evening. We appreciate it.", "Thank you. It's good to see you again.", "All right. Breaking news into CNN -- We are receiving word of a possible hostage situation in Sydney. Take a look at this video. This is video from just moments ago outside the Lindt Chocolate Shop in Martin Place -- this is a pedestrian mall in Sydney's central district. Looks normal -- looks like nothing is going on. What the authorities are very concerned about is what may be going on inside that shop. Very little information at this time including how many hostages there may be or how many people they may be holding if this is, indeed, a hostage situation. What I can tell you is that we have spoken with the New South Wales police media unit. Here's what they tell us. Quote, \"all we can confirm at this time is that there is a police operation taking place. We are recommending that no one goes near the area. We are trying to establish exactly what is happening.\" I can also tell you our affiliate there, News 7 in Sydney, says there are two gunmen on the scene. We have not independently confirmed that yet. Obviously we're working our sources on the ground there and will bring you the latest as soon as we have it out of Sydney, Australia. Also this, Sony Pictures is starring in its own nightmare right now. The celebrated studio is in full damage control mode after hackers exposed embarrassing e-mails, salaries, secrets. And now they are threatening -- the hackers -- this $8 billion company with a so-called Christmas gift that promises to put Sony, quote, \"in its worst state\". Joining me with some insight on all of this: CNN national security analyst, Bob Baer; also Jamie Dettmer, who's a contributor for \"The Daily Beast\". Thank you both for being here. Bob, let me begin with you. There has been so much talk about who this group is, the GOP group of hackers, whether they're directly in cahoots, if you will, with the North Korean government or just independent of it. A lot of people tying it to North Korea -- what's your take?", "First up, I've got to say that I have an interest with this because I have two contracts with Sony related to movies -- so once we're through that. This sounds like it's very sophisticated. It looks like it's revenge for this movie coming out. This -- it was done -- it was launched from multiple locations. And Sony has a very good cyber security. They saw this coming four, five months ago and they tried to improve their security and these guys are good, whoever they are.", "Interesting we got this letter this afternoon, or the \"New York Times\" received a letter, CNN has not yet, from Sony -- from the attorney for Sony, David Boies warning media outlets telling them, Jamie, they should not report on some of this private information that has been leaked saying it is stolen information. Again -- CNN has not received that letter yet. Are you surprised by that?", "No, not really. I mean -- although I think it's an impossible request. Once this information is out, even if mainstream organizations at the beginning of the report, it goes out on Twitter, it goes out on Facebook pages, then some of the new Internet startups start reporting it and eventually the rest of the media have to follow. So I think that Sony should have been better at guarding their secrets rather than making requests now for information not to be shared.", "Bob, when you talk about information such as celebrity phone numbers, e-mails, et cetera, exposed, private embarrassing e-mails, this breach forces change, but this is -- it is a fact, a security fact, it seems, that every single company is vulnerable to this now, no matter how good or how poor their walls are.", "Anybody who goes on the Internet with a computer is hackable. The only computers that are not are standalones. Intelligence communities have figured out this long time ago. They have to be separated physically. They in no way could ever access the Internet because every computer is vulnerable. And they're vulnerable in other ways, too. They send off emanations, it's called Tempest. So if you have a secret to keep, don't put it on a computer, don't put it on a smartphone. Write it on a piece of paper -- whisper it in somebody's ear. Nobody is safe.", "Exactly. You said it -- any big company is vulnerable to this. And if you insert any big company name in its place, it would spell trouble for their companies, their credibility, their stock. Online security experts say it is a guarantee hackers will hit the corporate world again and again. Our Deborah Feyerick took a fascinating look at this. Let's watch her piece and then come back on the other side.", "Cyber attacks against Sony, Target, Home Depot, JPMorgan Chase, Google, e-Bay, and virtually every business sector have allowed criminals and bad actors to steal millions of Americans' personal data, credit card numbers, as well as corporate secrets. Now imagine if similar cyber attacks made your lights go out or cut off your water supply. Imagine if a critical infrastructure we rely on every single day simply shut down. The threat is not only very real, it's inevitable.", "It is only a matter of the when, not the if, that we are going to see something traumatic.", "Admiral Michael Rogers heads the NSA and cyber command.", "We have seen individuals, groups, inside critical U.S. infrastructure.", "That's right. Power plants, banking systems, air traffic control, subways. All are vulnerable.", "Years ago, what could have only been accomplished through a kinetic attack using missiles or bombs now can be done with a few key strokes where they could wipe out, you know, a whole sector of our nation's electric grid not just for days or weeks but potentially for months.", "According to the Department of Homeland Security, adversaries from China, Russia, and elsewhere are inside hundreds if not thousands of U.S. critical infrastructure computers. It's not just about getting information it seems, but it's also the ability to control those sectors.", "This is something that we worry a lot about.", "CNN was given rare access to the DHS' heavily protected cyber security center known as NCIC (ph). It's run by the DHS undersecretary Suzanne Spaulding who oversees teams of federal investigators analysts and private infrastructure experts scrutinizing real-time cyber breaches.", "The thing that keeps me awake at night is knowing that there is the potential there for adversaries to get into those control systems -- those systems that really run machinery, whether it's gates on dams or parts of the electric grid.", "Isn't this an act of war?", "Well, that's the million-dollar question. What the Chinese are doing is really preparing the battlefield -- if that day were to arrive then they would have significant advantage.", "Cyber security expert Tom Parker showed us just how easy it is to shut down something like a power grid.", "Here we have the hacker's computer and the hacker has already broken into the electric utility and now we have access to the electric utility's network. We've reverse engineered the codes which are running, the operation system that's running on this device which is controlling the electric grid in this scenario.", "Once inside the system, the attacker waits to strike and then watch as the lights go off in less than a second. More than three quarters of the nation's critical infrastructure is privately-owned. Critics say those companies are not doing enough to safeguard their own systems.", "They don't want it coming out of their bottom line.", "Congressman Langevin says the threat is akin to knowing about the hijackers pre-9/11 and still doing nothing.", "We know that there's a glaring vulnerability and we're not moving with all urgency to close it.", "Deborah Feyerick, CNN, Washington.", "All right. Let me bring back in my guests. Bob, you're a national security expert. So it's more than clear that big companies from Target to Home Depot to Sony are vulnerable to the attacks. But realistically, how vulnerable are our power grids, our financial networks?", "Poppy, absolutely the bank -- we've seen them hit banks before and they can again.", "JPMorgan.", "You can hack into a car and control the speed of the car. It's sort of whatever you can imagine, they can do. And the Russian Mafia is very good at this. The North Koreans as we now know. And we simply don't have the defenses in place to stop this sort of thing.", "So, Jamie, given what Bob said --", "I'll also add there --", "Yes, please. Dettmer: I'll also add there, it's not just state actors. We know that al Qaeda and ISIS have been looking at this for years. Al Qaeda chiefs have been talking about this being a potential other Pearl Harbor if they can get inside critical infrastructure computers in the United States and the systems. They've talked about trying to bring banks down. They'd like to do another 9/11 -- a financial crash, if you want. ISIS in particular has got a whole generation of new young computer programmers who have been working with them. We've seen evidence on this on online activity and conversations going on. So it's not purely Moscow and Beijing we have to be concerned about, but other non-state actors as well.", "So Jamie, given that --", "Jamie is absolutely right.", "Go ahead, Bob.", "They are very sophisticated. They beat NSA at their game and they've been very sophisticated in the fight for Mosul using mobile Wi-Fi, defeating the National Security Agency. They can easily take this sort of technology and hit our banks and I think it's just a matter of time. Jamie is absolutely right.", "Yes, and it begs the question, how are we going to fight this new war on that front? And how are we going to beef up our skills on that front to defeat it? Guys, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Wish we had more time. We have breaking news into CNN. Jamie and Bob -- thank you. All right. This breaking news just in to CNN. We have new video of a possible hostage situation. This is all unfolding in Sydney, Australia. You're looking at video shot moments ago from the Lindt Chocolate Shop in Martin Place. That is a big pedestrian mall downtown in Sydney's central business district. It's a popular spot for tourists and also people going to work. You think, you know, Monday morning there. There is very little information at this time. What we don't know -- how many possible hostages are there? How many people could be holding them at this point in time? The New South Wales police tell us this. Let me read you this quote. \"All we can confirm at this time is that there is a police operation taking place. We are recommending that no one goes near that area. We're trying to establish exactly what is happening.\" We also have an affiliate, News 7 on the ground there in Sydney. They say there are two gunmen involved, and CNN cannot independently confirm any of that. We're checking and I'm also hearing we're getting new information coming from our affiliate. Our affiliate on the ground telling us that around 9:44 a.m. local time, remember, it's Monday morning there, a woman right there in Sydney's central business district saw a man with a blue sports bag. She thought it was a gun. She called the police at that point in time. She said a man entered the Lindt Chocolate Shop there -- this is what that eyewitness is saying, and says this then turned into a hostage situation. What we also know at this point in time, according to seven networks, CNN's affiliate on the ground in Sydney, is that civil aviation is shut in terms of the airspace above Sydney -- shut down right now. And our bureau, the bureau for the affiliate, News 7 in Sydney, is located right near that area. Let me recap this for you. What you're looking at is video shot just moments ago in Sydney, Australia, where it is Monday morning. This is from the central business district there. Concerns about a possible hostage situation in the Lindt Chocolate Shop there, in a pedestrian mall that is heavily traveled. Here's what we from our affiliate on the ground. Around 9:44 a.m. local time, a woman say a man with a blue sports bag. She thought it might be a gun. She called the police. The man then entered that Lindt Chocolate Shop. That is when we are told that it possibly turned into a hostage situation. Also as a precautionary measure, we're told that the airspace above Sydney has been temporarily closed. We are obviously monitoring this incredibly closely, working with our sources on the ground. As soon as we have more information, we will bring it to you right here. Quick break -- we'll be right back."], "speaker": ["DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "C.I.A. POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "GERGEN", "HARLOW", "GERGEN", "HARLOW", "GERGEN", "HARLOW", "BOB BAER, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "HARLOW", "JAMIE DETTMER, CONTRIBUTOR, \"THE DAILY BEAST\"", "HARLOW", "BAER", "HARLOW", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ADMIRAL MICHAEL ROGERS, NSA DIRECTOR", "FEYERICK", "ROGERS", "FEYERICK", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-395843", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-03-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/23/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Soon: Senate To Vote On Moving Forward On Coronavirus Stimulus Package; Massachusetts And Michigan Issue Stay-At-Home Order; Tensions Very High Over Coronavirus Stimulus As Clock Ticks; Aides: Donald Trump Itching To Scale Back Social Distancing After 15 Days; Senate In Standoff Over Coronavirus Stimulus Talks.", "utt": ["I am John King in Washington. This is CNN's continuing Special Coverage of the Coronavirus pandemic. States acting on their own now to try to mitigating the explosion of cases, just now getting some help from the federal government, the country at a tipping point.", "This week is going to get bad. We really need to come together as a nation.", "You don't think people are taking it seriously?", "I think that there are a lot of people who are doing the right things. But I think that unfortunately we are finding out a lot of people think this can't happen to them.", "The United States just a week ago, only a few thousand cases. Now look number of deaths are also raising exponentially, hospitals running out of everything they need to treat and to test patients doctors and nurses pleading for help, pleading for supplies. Massachusetts and Michigan now in the last couple of hours becoming the ninth and tenth states to issue a stay-at-home order. The Governors there are closing all nonessential businesses. Several other major cities are doing the same to try to blunt the virus. All this is the markets react, the Fed stepping in today with an unprecedented step to try to calm investors and the Senate also trying to get involved in helping the economy with a massive stimulus bill. Senate right now returning to session one item front and center for their attention, a massive stimulus package with the price tag around $2 trillion, we expect to hear from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer as the Senate comes into session momentarily. First let's bring in our Kaitlan Collins at White House and Manu Raju live on Capitol Hill. Manu, let's start with you. Overnight negotiations Mitch McConnell still blaming the Democrats for lack of a deal Democrats blame McConnell saying this is pro-corporate doesn't do enough for workers. The Treasury Secretary trying to fix it where are we?", "Intense negotiations happening all morning long. Secretary Mnuchin of the Treasury has been meeting with Chuck Schumer as well as Eric Ueland at the top of White House official. They have been shuttling back and forth between Schumer's office and the Vice President's ceremonial office here in the Senate. As they continue to work the phones and talk to the Senators now also Mnuchin meeting with some key Democratic Senators who were not in the leadership Mark Warner of Virginia and Sherrod Brown of Ohio as they try to cut a deal to the Democrats liking Democrats are concerned about some of the language in the bill namely how to deal with funds that would go to distrust industries? Democrats are criticizing that proposal. They're arguing restrictions you needs have to more restrictions--", "Manu, I'm sorry, the Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is speaking now on the floor of the Senate about the stimulus deal. Let's listen.", "Best resources to our healthcare heroes and American workers and families. Democrats and Republicans sat down together we crafted this version of a proposal together. This compromise package would push tens of billions of dollars to hospitals to healthcare providers. It will send a direct check to millions of American households. It would massively expand unemployment, insurance and those crises. It would stabilize industries to prevent mass lay-offs and crucially it would deliver historically relief to small businesses to help main street employees from being totally crushed, crushed by this pandemic but yesterday when the time came to vote on these urgent measures our Democratic colleagues shows to block it. So why are the American people still waiting? It is a good question to ask. I hear the markets are not doing well today. They're like to ask the question of us. Why not move? Why are Democrats filibustering the bipartisan bill to help write? An appropriate question to ask this morning as the country waits on us. So let me give the American people a taste of the outstanding issues we woke up to this morning. Here are some of the items on the Democrats wish list over which they choose to block this legislation last night. Tax credits for solar energy and wind energy provision to force employers to get special new treatment to big labor. And listen to this new admission standards for their - are you kidding me? This is the moment to debate new regulations that had nothing whatsoever to do with this crisis. That's what they are up to over there. American people need to know it. Democrats won't let us fund hospitals or save small businesses unless they get the dust off the Green New Deal.", "I would like to see Democrats tell New York City doctors and nurses who are literally over run as we speak that they are filibustering more funding and more masks because they want to argue the airline over their carbon footprint? I'd like to see Senate Democrats tell small business employers and their states that are literally being laid-off every day. That they are filibustering relief that will people on the pay roll because Democrats' special interests friends want to squeeze employers while they are vulnerable squeeze these employers while they are vulnerable. I would like to see Senate Democrat tell all American seniors who are seeing their hard earned retirement savings that literally melt away. As the markets attracted or their worse month since 1931. That they're continuing to holdup emergency measures over tax credits for solar panels. Tax credits for solar panels. Even with the Federal Reserve announcing even further extraordinary steps today. The markets are tanking once again as I said because this body can't get its act together. The only reason they can't get its act together is right over here on the side of the isle. So these are just a few of the completely non-germane wish list items that they are rallying behind preventing us from getting this emergency relief to the American people right now. An 11th hour - Democrats decided more important than Americans' paychecks and personal safety of doctors and nurses. So remember what one of Speaker Pelosi's top Lieutenants in the House said just a few days ago and this is a direct quote. \"This is a tremendous opportunity to restrict things to fit our vision.\" That was the Democratic whip in the House just laying it out there reminds me the definition of Washington gaffe. When a politician in Washington tells you what it really means. And we heard something similar here on the Senate floor just last night here was one of our Democratic colleagues, \"How many times are we going to get a shock a $1 trillion plus program\" right there on the floor last night? I don't know how many trillion plus packages we are going to have. In other words, let's don't waste this opportunity to take full advantage and get our whole wish list done. They ought to be embarrassed, Mr. President in fact, I heard from some of them who are embarrassed. Talking like this is some juicy political opportunity. This is not a juicy political opportunity. This is a national emergency. We have days of productive bipartisan talks to get to this point. Senate Democrats down to Senate Republicans in negotiated furiously to get to this point. The bill now contains a huge number of changes that our Democratic colleagues requested including major changes. We were this close, this close. And yesterday morning and Speaker of the House flew back to San Francisco and suddenly the Senate serious bipartisan process turned into this left episode of super market sweep unrelated issues left and right. I will tell you what will lower our carbon footprint Mr. President, if the entire economy continues to crumble with hundreds of thousands of more Americans are laid off because Senate Democrats won't let us act. That'll lower our carbon footprints all right. They'd be seeing American outside of Washington knows this is no time for this nonsense. A Surgeon in Fresno, California says \"We are at war with no ammo. We are at war with no ammo\" that's a Surgeon in Fresno and intensive care nurse in New York City says if we don't get the proper equipment soon, we're going to get sick.", "Democrats are filibustering more masks and aid for hospitals. Every day more Americans wake up to the news that their jobs are gone. Their jobs are gone. Democrats are filibustering programs to keep people on the payroll and they're filibustering a hug expansion of unemployment insurance which they themselves negotiated and put into the bill. Hundreds of dollars extra per week for laid off workers on top of existing unemployment benefits and Democrats are blocking it this got to stop. Today is the day it has to stop. Our country is out of time. When the Democratic House passed their phase two bill even though Senate Republicans would have written it very differently we spend it through the Senate and passed it quickly without even amending it. I literally told my colleagues to gag and vote for it for the sake of building bipartisan momentum because Republicans understand their national crisis calls for urgency and it calls for bipartisanship. It is time for that good faith to be reciprocated. It is time for Democrats to stop playing politics and step up to the plague. The small businesses in their own states deserve it and their own state's emergency room doctors deserve it. Their own state's emergency room doctors deserve it. Their own constituents who have lost their jobs deserve it. In my home State of Kentucky, the Governor has effectively paused commerce across the state and our unemployment system crashed due to demand. Kentuckians need help now and we are not alone. I've heard the police from healthcare workers in New York and Seattle and I've listened to the small business owners crying out in Brooklyn and Chicago. That is only one side to understand that this is urgent. Why are these hard hit cities, our own Senators are happy really to keep this slow walking going on in definitely? Is that really something these folks on the other side are comfortable with, in definitely slow walking all of this? How can how half the Senate are not raised to the occasion at a time when everybody else in the country is pulling together? They are pulling us apart. Examples are all over the country that we ought to look to. The healthcare heroes, to neighborhood volunteers to national industries everybody is unifying and pitching in, what about here in the Senate? It is time to get with the program, it is time to pass historic relief that we have built together. The country does not have time for these political gains. It needs progress. So we are going to vote in just a few minutes. I assure you Mr. President the American people will be watching.", "The Majority Leader Mitch McConnell just finishing a speech where he rallied against Democrats blaming Senate Democrats with the help of the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holding up a $2 trillion stimulus plan. Mitch McConnell is saying and we expect to get the Democratic response momentarily from the Democratic Chuck Schumer. McConnell saying that this bill was being held up because of unrelated issues, he said Democrats are insisting for example for tax credits and solar and wind energy and new protections for labor unions in the United States and new emissions standards for the airline economy.", "Mitch McConnell saying \"Are you kidding me?\" He called it a left wing episode of super market sweeps and said the American people and the American economy demands swifter action by the Senate. Again we are expecting the Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to come to the floor momentarily. We have with us Kaitlan Collins -- Chuck Schumer now coming to the floor of the United States Senate to give his response, let's listen.", "Thank you, Mr. President. Well, every time we hear the Majority Leader come out it is a partisan scream. Well, I am in my office with the President's Secretary of Treasury, the President's congressional liaison getting things done. We Democrats are trying to get things done and not making partisan speech after partisan speech. Now in the past 24 hours, we got word that a member of this chamber, Senator Paul has tested positive for Coronavirus. And the husband of another member, Senator Klobuchar also tested positive, he's in the hospital. I want to let them know both of them that the Senate is thinking of them and praying for their speedy recovery as we are for tens of thousands of American families who are confronting the same situation right now. Whether you are afraid for sick family member or older relatives in the hospital or struggling without work, income or the knowledge of when your isolation might end, our thoughts are with you right now. These are trying times for all of us but the scorch of this disease will pass and the American people as always will prevail. As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States eclipses 35,000, the Senate continues to negotiate what will likely be the largest emergency funding bill in American history. As I've mentioned we have had almost continuous discussions with Secretary Mnuchin. He left my office at about 12:15 last night and was there at about 9:00 this morning. The White House Congressional Liaison Eric Ueland has been in and out of the office as well. We are very close to reaching deal, very close. And our goal is to reach a deal today. We are hopeful even confident that we'll meet that goal. We have been working on a few outstanding issues that are no surprise to everyone. From the very beginning Democrats have insisted on a marshal plan for our medical system. More money for hospitals, community health centers and nursing homes and urgent medical supplies like gloves and masks ICU beds testing kits ventilators and PPEP. Since our negotiations, the numbers have gone up dramatically because the hospitals, our healthcare workers need the help. We are fighting hard and making progress for funding for states and local governments. They are propping up local care networks virtually on their own. Their revenues are dramatically declining many towns and villages across America the smaller ones in particular might be going broke pretty soon if we do nothing. If we can help the big corporations, we can help our local towns and villages and the taxpayers they represent. On unemployment insurance, the bill has moved in the direction we've outlined. The original bill had the unexpanded employment benefits lasting only three months. We need to make it longer because the dislocation caused by this crisis will not be over in 90 days. People who lose their jobs need help. But is says to every American who loses his or her job the Democratic plan that is now in the bill that you will get your full pay from the federal government. You can be furloughed by your employer, that means you will keep your benefits health and otherwise, and it means that you will be able to come back in the business you have to leave we can reassemble itself quickly after God willing this crisis ends. The bill still includes something that most Americans don't want to see. Large corporate bail out and almost no strings attached. May be the Majority Leader thinks it is unfair to ask protections for workers and labor to companies that are getting hundreds of billions of dollars. We think it is very fair to ask for those. Those are not extraneous issues. That's a wish list for workers and nobody else. And so we are looking for protection. We are looking for oversight.", "If this federal government is making a big loan to someone to big companies, we ought to know it and detail it immediately of the bill that was put on the floor by the Republican Leader, said no one would know a thing about those loans for six months at least. In those so-called bail-outs, we need to protect workers, the workers those industries employee. We have been guided by one plan, workers' first. That's the name of our proposal. The bill needs to reflect that priority. Now, we are working on all these items in good faith as we speak. We hope and expect to conclude the negotiations today. This vote in the Senate is no surprise is about to take a nearly repeat of a vote that failed last night. Leader McConnell continues to set arbitrary vote deadlines when the matter really important is the status of the bipartisan negotiations. So let me be clear, the upcoming procedural votes are essentially irrelevant. The negotiations continue no more than 30 feet away from the floor of the Senate in our offices where the real progress is taking place. Once we have an agreement that everyone can get behind, we are prepared to speed up the consideration of that agreement on the floor. So I am going to get back to negotiations. We all know time is of the essence. The country is facing the twin crises in our health care system and in our economy. We have an obligation to get the details right. Get them done quickly. That does not mean blindly accepting a Republicans only bill. That was the bill we were given. A lot of things we did even know about Saturday. That means working to make this bill better. Better for us small businesses and better for our working families and better for our healthcare system. Democrats, will not stop working with our Republican counter parts until we get the job done. I will continue to update the Senate on the progress of our negotiations.", "Senator Chuck Schumer speaking there just moments after the Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blame Democrats, Chuck Schumer the Democrat saying no, he will call that a partisan speech and he said he's actually working with the President's team as we speak. He said he interrupted those negotiations to come to the floor for that update. Let's go straight back up to CNN's Manu Raju up on Capitol Hill. Finger pointing Manu, we are in the middle of a pandemic we're also in the middle of an Election Year that cannot be forgotten. Mitch McConnell going to the floor saying Democrats are trying to add an extraneous items and Schumer is saying actually I will get this done by the end of the day. Calm down.", "Yes. And it was notable that Chuck Schumer indicated that the vote that is going to happen at 1:00 is in his view irrelevant because he said the real negotiations are happening in his office. So what that essentially means, is that the vote that is going to happen at 1:00 to move forward on this proposal probably is going to fail if they don't reach a deal by one. But he said even if it fails again no worries because the negotiations are happening between him and Secretary Mnuchin of the Treasury Eric Ueland of the White House. And he said they are very close to a deal. And he says once there is an agreement between the administration and him and presumably Mitch McConnell, too. That's when he would agree to speed up consideration for a final vote. So essentially he would allow this measure, if they do get a deal to move to a final vote as soon as today. So he says even if this fails, we're still going to get this done. Now he did indicate a few outstanding issues dealing with funding for hospitals and he said changes to the unemployment insurance program and dealing with how industries were seeking money and how that program would be structured? So there is still seems to be some outstanding issues and he said but he contended they're very close. Now one other dynamic too John, is that - copy of the bill that the House Democrats are circulating and that Nancy Pelosi the House Speaker plans to offer herself a competing bill, the stimulus measure competing from the one that is being negotiated in the Senate. So the question now is that if Senator Schumer does reach a deal with the administration and does agree to allow this bill to move forward and that it passes the Senate will Nancy Pelosi also agree to let that Senate bill to pass the House and let it go into law very quickly. That's still an outstanding question or that she will push forward on her own proposal and that could lead to protracted negotiation for some times. So it is uncertain how the - what the end game is looking like here?", "But Chuck Schumer sounding optimistic of a deal even as Mitch McConnell says the Democrats are trying to push their liberal agenda into this measure and so we'll see how it day plays out? But a lot of negotiations ahead as the Democrats are optimistic that a deal can be reached here in the Senate John.", "And the Washington wrinkling, you can see the market is down 560 points right now. They were down much more earlier in the day coming back a little bit. We'll see some times the in action or a vote in Washington can affect the financial markets the political climate as well. To Kaitlan Collins at the White House Kaitlan, the President obviously has his people involved in these negotiations trying to get a big stimulus bill that he thinks is critical to put some juice back into the economy a safety net under the economy and at the same time he seems to be agitating according to the reporting of you and your colleagues. Agitating thinking one week from today we hit the 15-day mark of those 15-day recommendations from the White House, and it sounds as if the President thinks 15-days might be enough.", "Yes. And that's the question because that is not what we've been hearing from health officials. So that's really been you know the main focus of why the Treasury Secretary has been the one leading these negotiations talking to Chuck Schumer as Manu was pointing out several times yesterday because they're hyper-focused on the economy and the economic stand point here. And now the President seems to be operating under this idea that potentially these guidelines that he put out and that he fronted himself may have done more harm than good and now he seems to rethinking them. There is a question of what exactly he is going to do a week from today when they are supposed to issue new guidance about those restrictions because they were very clear to say this is for 15 days. Here is how we think you should operate now we'll likely up this another time in 15 days but now that's seems to be coming under question, John. And the reason that it is so significant is because the people on the President's own task force, the health experts the scientists don't think seem to be navigating that they think that is the smart way to go from here. Dr. Fauci is probably the most recognizable face who's been pushing this, actually pushing for more restrictions internally. He's sort of making the argument it is better to be safe than sorry here and then of course you saw the Surgeon General earlier this morning on NBC saying it is going to get worse this week and it is going to look pretty bad. So they do not seem to be favoring any kind of easing restrictions here. But the main reason the President who wanted to do that is because he's worried about the economic blow that having these people stay home and having these guidelines about not having too many people in one place has caused. So that is what they're rethinking right here. The question is really going to be a fluid one of which side prevails and of course that all goes. They're waiting to see when this bill is going to happen because we should note this deadline that we had today by this legislation was self-imposed by the Treasury Secretary. The reason the market are reacting is because they saw him tease a potential deal today. And of course now that's open the question of when we're going to get that.", "Big question mark. We'll continue to watch Manu Raju on the Hill and Kaitlan Collins at the White House, appreciate that. Come back to us when you hear more about any of these big developments. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, of course he is our CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent. Sanjay, the President put these 15-day guidelines in place. You've heard Dr. Adams on television today, he is not only speaking to the American people he is trying to speak what we called the audience of one here Washington. He knows the President watches a lot of television. The guideline says don't be in crowds of 10 or more people, they're due to expire a week from now. Are we at a point where we can let them expire or do they need to be extended?", "Well, look I think that some may say that they can be expired but that doesn't mean they should expire. I think that even when the 15-days went into place some time ago, the thought was even at this point that was going to possibly get even more stringent after two weeks not be relaxed. That's from conversations that I had with public health officials sort of wanting to ease things a little bit. There is another prevailing group of public health officials who believe it should have been more stringent from the start but you know obviously that didn't happened. These were just recommendations that were made and states around the country have sort of adopted their own recommendations. One thing to keep in mind, John, is that and you know and we've talked about this but we are looking at a lag time here right? Between the time someone gets exposed to the time they actually develop symptoms and then the time they get tested, it could be up to a couple of weeks. So it is kind of like looking at the light from a star, right? I mean, we know that light started a long time ago. We are just now seeing it and the same thing with what's happening with Coronavirus. So if anything, we are still even with increased testing, we are still not getting the complete picture and by all accounts the numbers are going to increase. So what trigger and what reason would people have to say okay, now it is time to relax as the only measurable that we really have show things going in the other direction. I don't think that is permanent by any means but as we've talked about if you don't apply these social distance mechanisms early, diligently, consistently and honestly, they're just not going to work as well. So this idea sort of being uneven state to state and recommendation to recommendation just does not make sense John.", "Right. I don't think it makes sense from a medical standpoint and it also can be very confusing from a political standpoint. You were trying to get people to have the discipline to social distance to isolate to be more careful."], "speaker": ["JOHN KING, CNN HOST", "DR. JEROME ADAMS, U.S. SURGEON GENERAL", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ADAMS", "KING", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "KING", "SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), SENATE MAJORITY LEADER", "MCCONNELL", "MCCONNELL", "KING", "KING", "SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER, (D-NY)", "SCHUMER", "KING", "RAJU", "RAJU", "KING", "COLLINS", "KING", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-346562", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2018-08-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/01/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Plastic Outrage; Bright Red Salt Lake", "utt": ["Coming to you live from Hong Kong, welcome back. This is \"News Stream.\" People around the world are slowly learning how damaging single- use plastic like bags and straws can be for the environment. But a supermarket chain in Australia is reversing a plastic bag ban and letting customers use them for free.", "The U.N. says eight million tons of plastic waste enters the world oceans every year and yet plastic is still being used widely, including by Coles supermarket in Australia which is giving out these plastic bags for free after reversing a ban. The chain says they phased out single-use plastic bags on July 1 but \"some customers told us they needed more time to make the transition to reusable bags, so we are offering complementary reusable better bags to help them complete their shopping.\" Better bags refers to more durable plastic bags intended to be used more than just once. Some people are glad, many others are not.", "Happy they're giving them away?", "Yeah.", "Why is that?", "Save money.", "You got to (ph) say something, you should do it, then people get used to it, and then there is no problem.", "But there is a problem. Plastic. A lot of which comes from food and drink packaging, isn't just getting into our oceans in mass quantities, it's getting onto beaches, harming wildlife and heading right back into the food chain like in fish that we often buy from supermarkets. Greenpeace says Coles decision to indefinitely offer free plastic bags makes a mockery of stated commitments to reduce plastic waste and offering them for free means they are far more likely to be used once and thrown away.", "Most states across Australia now actually have statewide plastic bag ban. So we know that it is something people want and something people really care about. People can go to Australia beach. They can see the impact of plastic in the environment and in our oceans and actually after plastic bag ban", "The United Nations wants to eliminate single-use plastic by 2022, and says more than 60 countries are taking steps to ban or reduce plastics. Among them, Australia where other big supermarkets have successfully implemented a charge. But when Coles tried to charge for bags, some customers were furious,", "A simple but powerful protest against plastic there. Now, time to behold an incredible scene in Northern China, where this thousand-year- old salt lake has turned bright red. The reason? A surge in temperature has also led to a surge in algae and brine shrimp which are multiplying just in the warmer weather. And this is one of just three great sodium sulfate inland salt lakes in the world. The others are in the United States and Russia. And now finally to a royal heist in Sweden that sounds like something from a Hollywood movie. Now, police, they are looking for at least two men who are believed to have stolen a royal orb and the two crowns you see right there. The thieves took them in the middle of the day from a display at a cathedral near Stockholm. Witnesses say that the men then escaped in a motorboat. The stolen jewels were the funeral crowns of the king and queen from the 17th century. That is \"News Stream.\" I'm Kristie Lu Stout. Don't go anywhere. \"World Sport\" with Christina Macfarlane is next."], "speaker": ["LU STOUT", "LU STOUT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "LU STOUT (voice-over)", "ZOE DEANS, MOBILISATION CAMPAIGNER, GREENPEACE", "LU STOUT (voice-over)", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-168787", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-7-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1107/10/cnr.01.html", "summary": "\"News of the World\" Closes; Inside \"Phreaking\"", "utt": ["The \"News of the World\" scandal in Britain has focused new attention on telecommunications hacking, or as insiders call it, \"phreaking.\" Michael Calce was an accomplished hacker by the time he was just 15 years old, launching attacks against major websites, including CNN.com. He is now a computer security expert and the author of \"Mafia Boy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It Is Still Broken.\" He joins us now from Montreal. So, Michael, how does this phone hacking or phreaking, as you call it, work?", "Well, there's a lot of tools that, you know, basically surround this industry. The phreaking industry is a subdivision of hacking, and they have quite a few various tools that are - that will enable them to tap phones and received messages. And as phones become more sophisticated, it's actually becoming easier because of the Bluetooth and various technologies that basically enable these phreakers to - to gain access to your phone.", "Easier? OK, so the \"News of the World\" reportedly listened to the messages on a missing teenager's telephone. They even managed to erase some of the calls on the phone to make room for new calls that would come in. Can you kind of explain for us how they were able to do that? I mean, you say now it is much easier, but do you have to be, I guess, professional or really proficient in being able to do this?", "Well, you need some expertise in phreaking. Me, personally, I'm well versed in phreaking. I'm actually more on the hacking side, where phreaking is a subdivision of hacking. But they have a few various tools. All they need is the phone number and there's some tools that will basically grant them some access. A lot of them are sophisticated tools that aren't exactly very easy to obtain, but it's not as hard as - as some people might think. You just got to know which tools to use.", "All right, so -", "You have, I suppose, in your arsenal.", "So this wasn't exactly what you did or even what anybody has accused you of doing. You did this a little differently. You were just 15 years old and you were hacking into websites. A, why did you do that? What were - what was it that you were after?", "Well, I wasn't after monetary gain, which is what hacking is about now. It was more testing the status quo. And I was part of a hacker war that was conducted on an - on an Internet chat, and basically I wanted to make a show of strength and show how powerful I had become. And I was known for launching a denial of service attack, which was - which is basically a botnet combined, which is network of compromised computers connected together, generally all set up to be slaves connected to one primary computer known as a master or a hub. And from that master you are able to transmit a command to all the slaves, and you can shut down a website by using incredible amounts of", "So there was something empowering about this, I mean, with this kind of competition, as you say, in this world of hackers?", "Oh, yes. It's - it's a big show of strength, and hackers are constantly battling it out. I mean, 10 years ago this is more the objective, was to show other hackers how good you were and basically what kind of power you had.", "But you're trying to be elusive, and it's only within the world of hacking that people might know something about your identity. They may not know that it's you, Michael, you know, Calce, but they know that it's you, whatever your symbolic name was in this competitive world of hacking?", "That's right. I went by the nickname Mafia Boy, and basically nobody knew who - what my real name was or who I really was, but everybody goes by an alias or a nickname. And from that nickname you got to - you got to make your name for - with all the other hackers, basically make your name notorious.", "OK, so now I understand your knowledge of this world of hacking. It certainly means that there are certain things that you don't do. May not be on Facebook, like most folks. You may not use an ATM, like a lot of people. How can one protect themselves, like you are trying to protect yourself, against phreaking or hacking?", "Well, you have to basically limit yourself. I am on Facebook, but I limit myself to who I accept and basically what information I'm putting out there. The - the fact is information now has monetary value. With that in mind, I think it's important to keep the information we put online to a minimal. You know, it's also important to be aware and stay up to date, constantly run scans and change your passwords. My motto is every time you change your toothbrush, you should be changing your passwords", "Oh my gosh, so that's like every six months or so?", "Exactly. You got to stay one step ahead of the hackers. And another thing is a lot of people have antivirus software and firewalls, and they'll get a little box in the corner that pops up that says to update your antivirus, and for some odd reason a lot of people click no when it's very important to stay up to date because there's constant viruses being released every single day.", "Oh, my goodness. All right, great advice. Michael Calce, thanks so much. Appreciate your time and your advice -", "My pleasure, Fredricka.", "-- for those of us who want to protect ourselves against being potentially hacked. All right, up next, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge head to Skid Row. From the polo match to Skid Row. It's all for a good cause. We'll explain."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "MICHAEL CALCE, SECURITY EXPERT", "WHITFIELD", "CALCE", "WHITFIELD", "CALCE", "WHITFIELD", "CALCE", "WHITFIELD", "CALCE", "WHITFIELD", "CALCE", "WHITFIELD", "CALCE", "WHITFIELD", "CALCE", "WHITFIELD", "CALCE", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-7228", "program": "CNN International Best Of Insight", "date": "2000-5-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/01/i_boi.00.html", "summary": "Re-Airing Of A Legacy Of Letters", "utt": ["Lines from the front lines. The letters of soldiers and their families are literally about life and death. And long after wars end and old soldiers fade away, it is the letters that survive. (on camera): Hello, and welcome. Few people fight a war alone. War is a collective tragedy that people face in public, but also in very private ways. Their letters have that dual nature as well. They are documents destined for particular people that can tell anyone who reads them something meaningful. In the United States, an effort that calls itself the Legacy Project is collecting and preserving letters, the personal correspondence of American men and women who found themselves caught up in conflict from the Revolutionary War to the ones on the front pages. On our program today - a look at letters written in wartime.", "\"Dear Mom and Dad, I don't imagine you could ever guess where I am as I write this letter.\"", "Writing the letter was traumatic because I would remember the people who died and the screaming.", "\"Dear Betty Anne, I saw something today that makes me realize why we're over here fighting this war.\"", "The greatest thing in the world for a soldier is to get letters. That's the only tie you had with anything except the rotten life you were living.", "Now, stand by for evening prayer.", "Let us pray.", "\"They would herd the Muslim men in the parking lot and just spray them with gunfire.\"", "It's his voice that comes through, and it's a sense of who the real person was. And it is - and his vulnerabilities.", "The organization is called the Legacy Project, and the whole purpose or whole mission is to encourage people from all across the country to go through their attics, their basements, their closets and try and find letters that they have written during war time. In these letters are extraordinary stories about what they saw, what they experienced. And that's what letters can do is they put you in the front row of history. This is, by far, I think the most extraordinary letter we've received. This was written from Hitler's apartment in May 1945, just days after Hitler committed suicide.", "\"Second of May, 1945 - Dearest Mom and Lou, a year ago today, I was sweating out shells on the Anzio beachhead. Today, I'm sitting in Hitler's luxuriously furnished apartment writing a few lines home. What a contrast.\" Wherever we went, any town, any time we went in the lines, somebody picked up the place where the command post was going to be. In Munich, at the end of the war, they set us up in Hitler's apartment. Well, the apartment itself had a big long meeting table in it. You could write letters on it, do whatever you wanted. I wrote a lot of letters, a lot of people got that stationery. \"A still greater contrast is that between his quarters here and the living hell of Dachau concentration camp only 10 miles from here. I had the misfortune of seeing the camp yesterday. I still find it hard to believe what my eyes told me. \"The first boxcar I came to had about 30 what were once humans in it. All were just bone with a layer of skin over them. And then, into the camp itself. Filthy barracks suitable for about 200 persons held 1,500. There was a gas chamber and furnace room in one barracks. Two rooms were full of bodies waiting to be cremated. In one room, they were all nude. In the other, they had prison clothes on as filthy as dirt itself.\" Sometimes I felt we were making a movie or something. It was almost like a movie. And other times, I thought, \"I hope this is just a big dream.\" Eisenhower had ordered any troops near any of those death camps to see what they were fighting for, so they could take it home and know that they didn't waste their time over there. You can't put up with stuff like that, you know? I took pictures of the boxcars and the camp itself. And when they were developed, I had thought about it and thought about it. And I took them, and I tore every one up. I wouldn't send them home to my wife. I wouldn't send them. I didn't want others to see what I had taken, it was so - it was just terrible. \"Well, enough for now. Miss you all very much. Your son, Horace.\"", "Hey, there. I just want to thank you so much for sending those letters. We've received about 10,000 or 20,000 contributions of letters. And also, not just from World War II. If you've got friends who were in Korea or Vietnam or even the Gulf, we'd love to see them. Through the handwriting, through the paper, you get a sense of the immediacy of that time, even if it's from 200 years ago, from the American Revolution or their Civil War letters. To see the spots of mud, the little flecks of blood that are often on some of these letters, it brings it alive. Some of the most agonizing letters we've received are from the Vietnam War, and I especially want to make sure that war is remembered, the emotional cost those men endured and still live with to this day. One example we have is from a man, Bob Leahy, who was in battle, an extraordinary battle, and he wrote a letter to the sister of one of his friends who was killed in combat.", "\"Dear Carol, the following is my recollection of your brother's death. On Thursday, June 12, 1969, our company was walking down a mountain path in Vietnam, when someone opened fire on our point man with a .51 caliber machine gun.\" Asking people to walk to their death and to watch people die when you're 20 is fairly soul-searching. If you want to see a true measure of a man's character, you watch him as he faces his death. \"We were in heavy jungle. When we advanced again, they opened fire. We assaulted the bunkers time after time, and we lost men each time. The lead platoon was basically wiped out.\"", "Get Medevac up here. I want to get these boys out now, over.", "\"When it ran out of men, my platoon was brought in to take over.\" We might have been 120. But they were probably 500. So we were 5- 1 in the wrong direction. \"Steve was less than 20 yards from the bunker, and he was trying to toss a one-pound grenade into a small opening about six inches high. The task is especially difficult because the man inside is doing his very best to kill you. Steve evidently crouched up too high or someone opened fire from a second bunker. In any case, he was seen and shot several times with an AK-47. The platoon medic, who was right next to me, started working on Steve. All he could do was basically make him comfortable. \"A battle was a very noisy affair. The machine guns, the rifles, the grenades, the mortars all make a great deal of noise. In addition, there are screams from the wounded. There was too much noise to hear Steve during the peak. But during each of the lulls, I could hear him laboring to breathe. The wounds in his chest had punctured both lungs, and the lungs were filling up with blood. Our lieutenant told us to carry Steve down to the Medevac area and leave him there. I did so, and I never saw him again.\" It's not the sort of thing that I will ever forget. You know, enormous numbers of people died for nothing, and I can't see any way of forgetting that. You can cut out a liver. You can cut out a finger. You can cut out a kidney. But you can't cut out a memory. \"Sincerely, Bob Leahy.\"", "Hey, there. It's Andy Carroll with the Legacy Project. We work mostly as a conduit so that when people send us letters, we then help them get them to museums, historical societies, archives throughout the country. And that way, scholars and people from all walks of life will have access to these letters and insight to these letters and realize what these men and women gave up and what they sacrificed. We receive a lot of love letters, and we're often asked what relevance did love letters have to warfare. Well, to me, the love letters in many ways are the most important because they put a human face on the soldier.", "\"To the best wife a man ever had. Honey, I am writing this letter to you to say a few things that I might leave unsaid if I should depart this world unexpectedly. In this flying business, you never can tell when you might all of a sudden get mighty unlucky and wake up dead some morning.\" My father was squadron officer, and he was sent to Bermuda in '56 with my mother and my four brothers. She was five months pregnant with me. \"First of all, let's face one fact. Everybody ends up dead. Even if I should die the day after writing this, I still claim I am one of the luckiest people who ever lived, and you know it.\" And there were quite a few reasons why before he left, he might have written my mother that letter saying that it was it, it was dangerous. This was sort of a Cold War mission. His objective was to travel up the Atlantic, sort of running parallel to the Eastern Seaboard looking for Russian submarines. \"I've got a lot to live for, all the rightness (ph). But when I count up all the blessings I've had, I can see that I've already lived a lot. When you come right down to it, I've done just about everything I've wanted to do and seen about everything I've wanted to see.\" My brother John was 7. He was helping my mother make pancakes. And the two men came to the door in the Navy dark blue suits. He said that my mother then just sat down on the couch and started to cry. \"Sure, I'd like to stick around while the boys are growing up and to have fun with you again when we have time after they grow up. But you and I agree so closely on how to raise a family, the boys are going to be all right. I'm sure of that. And I've had enough fun with you to last anybody a lifetime.\" I didn't know anything about my father growing up because my mother remarried when I was 4. And it was, I'm sure, her feeling that I should, you know, become part of this new family. I was about 10 years old, and I was in the basement of the house that we had moved into, and I came across this letter. \"Don't let the memories of me keep you from marrying again if you run across somebody fit to be your husband, which would be hard to find, I know. But you're much too wonderful a wife and mother to waste yourself as a widow.\" It was the first time I had ever heard his voice. I kind of had a sense that maybe I did come from somewhere, you know? \"Life is for the living. That's not original, I'm sure. So get that smile back on your face. Put on some lipstick and a new dress, and show me what you can do toward building a new life.\" These are letters that tell the whole story. They're like the whole person. I can tell you how many medals my father has. I can tell you now how many battles he fought in. But that doesn't tell you who he was. These letters say who he was.", "Reading through these letters, you learn a tremendous amount about human nature, about perseverance, about sacrifice. But also, how much we can endure. People have a lot of different reasons they want to send us letters, and one of them is to, in many ways, bring back to life the people whom they loved and knew. And that's one of the things we hope to do is to preserve their memory and to keep them alive through their own words.", "The first world war was unlike any war before in a number of ways. One of the easy ones to overlook - the letters. Never before had so many men who could actually read and write engage in battle. Never before had so many letters been written to record what those men endured. (on camera): Welcome back. The Imperial War Museum in London has long collected the letters of British servicemen. It has about 100,000 of them in its archives, only a few dozen actually on public display. Just a short time ago, we got in touch someone who has read more of them than most people - Roderick Suddaby, keeper of the Department of Documents at the Imperial War Museum.", "Letters were, of course, an enormously important means of communication during both world wars because servicemen were separated from their families often by many thousands of miles or an ocean or two. And in consequence, letters became an absolutely key means of communication. We have figures for the first world war which show that no fewer than 2,000 million letters were written by people in Britain to servicemen overseas and that 1,600 million letters came back the other way from servicemen on all the fighting fronts to people in this country.", "So if you multiplied that by all of the belligerent nations, an awful lot of mail going back and forth. Why did the countries involved try so hard to make that kind of communication possible (ph)?", "Because it was vital to maintaining morale. There was nothing for which servicemen longed more than news from home, and there was nothing that their families back on the homefront wanted more than reassurance that their men were surviving the circumstances.", "I can't imagine that that's the kind of thing that changes a lot over time. But you've seen letters from very different eras, from very different people. Do the letters change much depending on the war, depending on the people who wrote them?", "In one sense, they change a little as the century has gone on. So educational standards have risen, and in consequence letters written by ordinary servicemen during the 1939-'45 war, sometimes they're slightly more sophisticated than those written by the previous generation. But what is remarkable really is that the quality of the letters written despite the wartime constraints of censorship, the quality of the letters written by all ranks in both world wars. There wouldn't be a Department of Documents in the Imperial War Museum if it wasn't for the fact that these letters were worth preserving.", "Have men's attitudes towards war changed in all of the years that you've studied, or their families' attitude?", "I think war is such an extraordinary circumstance that doubtless many of these men, but for the separation of wartime, would never have been writing letters in the way and with the intensity which they did. I think that the first world war, the first great total war of the 20th century, in a way, conditioned those who fought in '39-'45. So that there isn't perhaps the surprise in their letters at the sheer scale and horror of war that you might find in some of the letters written during the '14-'18 war.", "Let me ask you more about that because you have the historian's ability to look back and measure the accuracy of those letters against what other sources may tell you. Did the men tell the truth? Were they able to? Were they censored? Were they unwilling?", "There was both censorship and self-censorship in both world wars. That men would obviously be careful in writing not to disclose information that if the letter fell into the wrong hands might be of value to the enemy. And of course, there was a whole system of censorship in place to ensure that this did not happen. And at the same time, however, they were often moved by their circumstances to write in a way which is extraordinarily frank. And you will find in letters statements of their horror at what they'd witnessed, of occasionally you will find criticisms of superiors and of the staff. And you will find a whole range of observation. The censors obviously didn't have the time to look at every letter. Some were censored locally, others were censored further away from the man's unit. And obviously, a great deal did slip through the net.", "Roderick Suddaby of the Imperial War Museum. We have to take another break. But when we come back, the other great passion we put on paper - love letters. Stay with us for that.", "The computer revolution has not only changed the way we work and learn, but also the way we communicate with each other. E-mail is the easiest and fastest way to correspond there ever has been. But are we losing a crucial part of our heritage? (on camera): Welcome back. Letters can be extremely personal, especially handwritten ones with everything that makes them individual, including their imperfections. Electronic type lacks a certain character, not to mention that if an e- mail is not saved or printed onto paper, who will be able to read it in 10 or 20 or 100 years? Earlier, we spoke to Cathy Davidson of Duke University - a scholar of love letters, actually - about love letters and letters emotional and electronic.", "I think a love letter is a performance. A love letter is not just the words on the page, it's how those words say, how they express the character of the love letter writer, and they're almost a kind of - they require technique. And it's almost like sexuality. It has a performative aspect to it, and it's there to display yourself in front of the person who loves you and maybe make them love you a little more.", "Now you are a scholar of love letters, and you've read and studied a great many of them, especially the love letters of great writers. When it comes down it, are they all the same in the respects you just described?", "No, there are many different techniques. Some writers are soulful. Some are melancholy. Some are very deeply earnest. Others are witty. Some are actually abrasive. I think one quality they all have is the appearance of revelation. I think a love letter doesn't work unless it seems as if you're telling something from the depths of your soul. Whether you tell that in a witty or a serious register, it has to sound like it's really communicating the inner self.", "It's interesting the words that you choose. You describe it as the appearance of something and as a performance. I'm getting the sense from you that love letters aren't really true.", "Well, they're different than truth. I'm not sure they're a lie. They may be some middle ground in between. I think a love letter is the performance of our very best selves. It's the self we wish to be loved, the person we wish we were and the person we know is the most lovable aspect of ourselves. So it's, I think, a performance in that sense. There's always a little bit of a seduction in a love letter, although, of course, there are moments where all the seduction breaks down, especially if you think you're losing the beloved and you surrendered a pure, deep objection and all of the other phases of love. And then there are other times when the performance falls away and what you get is this aching sincerity of the person.", "Now, you've studied particularly the writings, the love letters of people who actually write as an avocation. Do they tend to write letters the way they write books and novels? Are they that careful or, once again coming back to the question of sincerity, do they give something of themselves away and let their craft kind of drop for a moment?", "Well, I think writers don't love any better or worse than anyone else. The difference is writers write about it. And so, the craft of writing is extremely important to writers. And there are many cases - for example, Hemingway is one - of writers who write letters, get the kind of adrenaline flowing in the excitement of writing a love letter, and then later on take out that passage and put it actually into a novel almost verbatim. In fact, it's almost as if the situation of a love letter juices them up and gives them some of their best prose that they can then put into their fiction. Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald did exactly the same thing.", "Do the letters you read tend to be racy?", "Often they're racy. I mean, often the letter is a kind of foreplay. The love letter is a prelude to what will come when the people are no longer apart and when they finally see each other face to face.", "That's easy to imagine on the printed page. It's hard to imagine that kind of emotion and sentiment and sexuality with a computer. But e-mail tends to be wave of the future. Have you ever read a love letter that began as e-mail? Can you imagine that?", "Well, actually, it's quite common. And of course, in chat rooms, one thing people do is they take the convention of performance in a love letter even further, and sometimes people will even pretend they're somebody else - a man pretending to be a woman, or somebody pretending to be fat who's thin or thin who's fat - and they'll actually create a character as themselves and send out a love letter, or often an erotic letter from this fictitious self. But I have to admit e-mail doesn't quite seem as sexy to me as a beautiful piece of paper and a scented envelope and all of that ritual of opening the letter and seeing the stamp from some wonderful foreign place - all of that exotic quality of the love letter.", "Whether for love or any other reason, do you think e-mail is changing the way people write to each other?", "Absolutely. I don't know about you, but I now find it very difficult to write an actual letter. I used to be a great letter writer. Now I answer my 200-some e-mails a day, but I can barely stand to go through all that ritual of finding a letter anymore and sending it off. And I think that's a condition of modern life is that the letter is becoming less prevalent because e-mail has become so ubiquitous. I mean, we hear from each other altogether too much sometimes. For all the benefits we have of being able to communicate more and faster than ever, sometimes the problem is that people are communicating with us more and faster than ever. And as anyone who's gone away on a trip and come back to find an inbox filled with e-mails knows.", "Catherine Davidson, the book is \"The Book Of Love: Writers and Their Love Letters.\" Thanks so much for talking with us.", "Thank you, Jonathan.", "One final word about another love letter of sorts, featuring man and machine. We asked the co-author of the book, \"Letters of the Century: America 1900 to 1999,\" what his favorite letter was. Stephen Adler's choice was not the words of a great leader, but the scribblings of an outlaw. Clyde Barrow, one half of the murderous, infamous, bank- robbing duo of Bonnie and Clyde, wrote a letter to Henry Ford. Clyde thanked the automaker for developing the Ford V-8, which he praised as the best get-away car on the market. Six weeks after the note was written, Bonnie and Clyde's life of crime ended inside a stolen Ford V-8 - the car riddled with bullets. That's all for this edition of INSIGHT. I'm Jonathan Mann. Stay with us. There's more news just a head. 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{"id": "CNN-332680", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-02-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/12/nday.04.html", "summary": "Tensions Escalate After Israel's Clash With Iran & Syria; Power Plant Explosion Causes Blackout In Puerto Rico", "utt": ["Israel's cross-border clash with Iranian and Syrian forces escalating hostilities along the country's northern border. It comes after an Israel fighter jet came under fire and crashed. CNN's Oren Liebermann is live in Jerusalem now with more -- Oren.", "Erica, this is the first time Israel has openly struck Iranian targets in Syria, making this the first direct confrontation between Israel and Iran since the start of Syria's civil war. So, let me walk you through what happened over the weekend. This all started on Saturday morning when Israel says an Iranian drone enters Israeli airspace. Notably, that drone is a copy, Israel says, of an American drone that Iran intercepted back in 2011. A drone that was, at least at the time, supposed to be stealth. Israel downs that drone with an attack helicopter and retaliates by striking the drone's command and control center in Syria. In that strike, a Syrian anti-aircraft missile downs an Israeli fighter jet for the first time in some 35 years. Israel strikes back, hitting 12 different Iranian and Syrian targets in Syria. That military tension peaks, roughly, on Saturday afternoon and even as the rhetoric and the threatening language keeps flying back and forth, the military tension, the escalation there has ebbed a little bit and the tension, itself, has eased. But you get a sense of who the regional players are and who's looking. Chris, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Russian president Vladimir Putin on the phone Saturday night. Putin took a very evenhanded approach between Israel and Syria, urging both sides to deescalate. Remember, Russia and Putin have ties with all of the players here -- Israel, Syria, Iran -- and it's Russia that has the leverage to tell both sides to back off here. There was a phone call to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who is on a tour through the Middle East now. Notably, Tillerson not visiting Israel on this trip -- Chris.", "That is something that is painfully apparent to many. Oren, thank you very much. Keep us in the loop on how this develops. All right. So, news of an explosion and fire at a power substation that caused a blackout in parts of northern Puerto Rico, including San Juan. Officials say this was a mechanical failure which caused the fire. It was quickly extinguished. The explosion knocked two other substations offline. This is the latest setback for the U.S. territory's efforts to fully restore power more than five months after Hurricane Maria and it is also a reflection of infrastructure problems that they had there from the beginning.", "That's true. We want to show you now some live pictures. This is -- these are live pictures of the active search for any remains of the passenger plane that crashed near Moscow on Sunday. The crew did not report any problems before that plane went down. All 71 people on board were killed. The plane disappearing from radar shortly after takeoff. Now, witnesses report seeing an explosion. You see some surveillance video here. Witnesses, again, saying they believe there was an explosion before the aircraft went down. Moscow, we should also point out, is experiencing its heaviest snowfall in decades. It is not clear, at this point, whether the weather played any role in the crash.", "All right. So, going on this morning, we're going to take you to some aerial views that show the rugged terrain where a sightseeing helicopter went down in the Grand Canyon. I know we just told you about another plane crash. This is totally unrelated -- different place, different circumstances. We do know that there were six passengers aboard, all visiting from the U.K. Three of those people are now dead. Three others, along with the pilot, airlifted to a Nevada hospital and they are said to be in critical condition. And I'll tell you, looking at the pictures it is amazing anyone survived.", "I had -- I had the exact same thought in seeing that. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is speaking out to CNN about the #MeToo movement, telling Poppy Harlow it will have staying power. And, she also called for an equal rights amendment. Take a listen.", "I don't think that there will be a serious backlash. It's too widespread. My concern is that it shouldn't stop with prominent people. It's amazing to me that for the first time, women are really listened to because sexual harassment had often been dismissed as well, she made it up or she's too thin-skinned. So I think it's a very healthy development.", "I think we can call it a healthy development.", "Yes, and look, the sad part of the reality of what the Justice supposed is playing out right now in the White House. I mean, what else do you describe as the president saying well, I'm going to take his side?", "Yes.", "He's a good guy and, you know, a lot of these women -- you know, they lie.", "Yes.", "So, let's keep that in mind. It's exactly what's happening right now.", "And that's what playing -- that's what is playing out. All right.", "She's obviously right.", "At least some consistency, I guess.", "That's true, that's true. Heavy rain -- it's not letting up in parts of the southeast and mid- Atlantic. Flash flooding now a possibility. CNN meteorologist Chad Myers has your forecast. What are the factors?", "It's warmer than it should be in many spots so we're talking rain and possibly flooding rather than what could be or would have been a major snow event. This weather is brought to you by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Packed with goodness. It has been raining across the northeast. It has been raining, and still will, across Richmond and Hampton Roads. But all of south Florida, too, picking up some significant rain today. It could slow down a few airplanes but other than that, that's really, truly about it. A lack of moisture on the map here for the next couple of days after that -- some rainfall here. Some could be three to four inches deep. Those rainfall totals somewhere around Pensacola could make flooding on the roadways. Be careful this morning. And we will talk more on the Olympics weather later on tomorrow. Last night was really tough --", "Yes.", "-- in South Korea.", "Cold and windy, too. Chad, thank you.", "Yes.", "Steve Bannon speaking out on the #MeToo movement. Why he thinks it could be a major threat to President Trump. 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{"id": "CNN-27355", "program": "Moneyline News Hour", "date": "2001-3-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/19/mlld.00.html", "summary": "Dow Rises 135.70 to 9,959.11; Nasdaq Climbs 60.27 to 1,951.18; Investors Await Fed Action", "utt": ["A late day surge on Wall Street. Investors hoping Greenspan tomorrow will do what he's never done before: slash interest rates by more than a half point.", "What is Greenspan's good friend at Treasury doing to calm world markets? Critics of Paul O'Neill say not much.", "The California energy crisis flaring up again: rolling blackouts ordered for the first time in months. And, we kick off a special series, \"Oscars Inc.\" with a look at the movie marketing blitz, studios pulling out all the stops to grab those coveted trophies. Welcome to MONEYLINE. I'm Willow Bay in Los Angeles.", "And I'm Allan Chernoff in New York. We'll have complete coverage of a late session buying binge on Wall Street with Terry Keenan and John Metaxas. And we'll get the expert opinion on what Alan Greenspan might do tomorrow with a man who knows the Fed inside and out, David Jones.", "But we begin here in California with an escalation in the state's power crisis. The first rolling blackouts ordered in months and the first to affect southern California as well as northern. Casey Wian joins us now with the very latest -- Casey.", "Willow, blackouts weren't supposed to happen in California until this summer, but today power was cut off to hundreds of thousands of customers up and down the state. Traffic lights in some neighborhoods were out, businesses, including a Sun Microsystems plant, had to shut down temporarily. Even one fire station was operating on backup generators. Power grid officials say several things went wrong at once. First, more than a third of the state's power generating capacity was down for scheduled maintenance or malfunctioning equipment. Then a fire knocked out a plant in southern California. Also several small, so-called green power plants have stopped running because they haven't been paid by the state's nearly bankrupt investor-owned utilities. Finally, temperatures in some places approached 90 degrees, that means air conditioners and more electricity demand. President Bush issued this warning.", "There are no short term fixes, that the solution for our energy shortage requires long-term thinking and a plan that will implement that will take time to bring to fruition.", "Governor Gray Davis has been struggling to manage the power crisis. He has part of a rescue plan in place, but a deal to rescue utilities from bankruptcy is still in the works. Even if that succeeds, California, and some say the rest of the nation, should be prepared for more blackouts in the months ahead.", "So who else? What other places are vulnerable?", "According to Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, New York for one.", "Casey, thanks. Speaking of New York, on Wall Street, stocks took a late day bounce ahead of the Fed's decision on interest rates. For most of the session today it seemed like investors were stuck in a Fed limbo as the suspense continued to build going into tomorrow's meeting. But stocks snapped out of the funk in the last two hours of trading; the Dow and the Nasdaq enjoying a much-needed rebound. We begin our market coverage with Terry Keenan at the New York Stock Exchange -- Terry.", "Well, Willow, with the market on full Fed alert, many traders didn't expect much action here today. So they were pleasantly surprised at the nice snap back rally that we had after last week's 800-point drubbing of the Dow Industrials. The Federal Reserve has never cut interest rates by as much as 3/4 of a point in one fell-swoop, but that was what many were betting on today, at least in the afternoon. This morning, the Dow did sell off, briefly trading as low as 9,800 before mounting an almost 200- point turnaround by the close -- pretty impressive there. The S&P; 500 closed up just over 20 points. Leading the way in the Dow: Hewlett Packard, by far the Dow's biggest winner up 8 percent, IBM also rebounding from Friday's $9 swoon; also to the upside today, Corning, the stock bucking a warning from the fiber optic company that it will miss its numbers for the year. Lucent also having a great day after it signed a $5 billion deal with Verizon wireless, and Merrill Lynch reflected the positive sentiment on Wall Street today; Lehman Brothers saying it sees value in the brokers. All in all, a positive day, but one that sets the stage for the Fed to disappoint. Now lets go to the Nasdaq where the party was even a little bit more rowdy than here at the Big Board -- John.", "Whether you call it bargain- hunting or short covering, the Nasdaq managed a nice snap back, 3 percent rally. In the morning, we hit new session lows, as you can see from the intra day chart, and the market hugged the flatline for much of the day before rallying in the final two hours for that 2 percent gain of 60 points back above the 1900 levels. Intel was actually down on the day; concerns about the PC market contracting this year for the first time ever and the analyst in the U.S. Bank Corp says he sees no sustainable recovery until the second half of next year. But the chips rallied, despite Intel. There was bargain-hunting in many of the beaten down big caps, including Oracle, which was up 10 percent on the day. PSI Net trading pennies on the dollar now; down 73 percent on the day and it may soon be worthless. The stock, according to the company, they've asked Wasserstein to restructure their debt. The hope is for 75 basis points in cuts tomorrow. Said one analyst, echoing the view on Wall Street, that it will be the right thing to do -- Allan.", "John, thanks very much. The hot debate on Wall Street today revolves around one question: just how aggressive will Fed policy makers be in cutting interest rates? It is a debate over fractions, but fractions that have a crucial importance to the nation's economy which some say is already in recession.", "Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan will preside over the meeting where central bank policy-makers are almost certain to provide medicine for the economy. But how much? A MONEYLINE survey of 23 economists finds 70 percent predicting the Fed will cut the Fed funds rate by 50 basis points, which is 1/2 percent; 30 percent are looking for an unprecedented 75 basis-point cut. That's a 3/4 of a percent in the rate that banks borrow money from each other overnight. But some economists say the risk is that the Fed will appear to be panicking if it takes the more aggressive step.", "They have been sounding fairly upbeat about the economy, so if you do 75 then you must be worried about something, so either you weren't being truthful and you were more worried about the economy then what you were letting on or, B, you are really concerned about the stock market and you don't really want to create that impression of being concerned about the stock market particularly.", "But Fed watchers point out the central bank needs to take strong action. Japan's economic turmoil is presenting a threat as America's economy and corporate profits are slowing. And the sinking stock market has eliminated more than $3 trillion of investor wealth, which could squeeze consumer spending.", "These relentless declines in the stock market threaten the health of the economy. They are beginning to feed on consumer confidence and business confidence, and they've created a tremendous negative wealth effect potentially. The Fed has to stem the decline in the market at this point.", "The Central Bank raised the Fed funds rate six times beginning in June of 1999, all the way to 6 1/2 percent in an effort to slow the economy. Some argue it went too far. And in January the Fed cut the rate twice to 5 1/2 percent in an effort to revive the economy.", "Joining us right now are two top economists you agree on what the Fed will do tomorrow, but disagree on what's ahead for the struggling economy and who's to blame. Diane Swonk, chief economist at Bank One, joins us from Chicago. And David Jones, chief economist, at Aubrey G. Lanston is here in New York. David, let's start with you. First of all, let's imagine we're behind those huge wooden doors in conference room right next to Alan Greenspan's office. What's the key issue that will dominate tomorrow morning's debate?", "The key issue is the economy. I think they'll be a lot of opinion that will say, look, the economy held up a bit better than we thought in the first part of the year. We're not in a recession; a major slowdown to be sure, but not in recession and thus the right rate cut should be a half percentage point or 50 basis points. Those who want to listen to the market will be the other side of the debate and they'll say we have to do more. It's true we never cut rates by 75 basis points or 3/4 in one fell- swoop but the markets are demanding it. That's the essence of the debate.", "Diane, what's the Fed going to be listening to, the economy, the markets? What do you say?", "I think the economy will be weighing in the strongest; I agree with David on that. The issue on the markets will be really highly debated in terms of the last time when they did the inter-meeting move on January 3, they were really disappointed at how the markets reacted with the panic; some people thought the Fed was in then. I think 75 basis points will send two wrong messages. One, either the Fed is panicking or, two, they pandering to financial markets, that are throwing a temper tantrum. I don't think those messages are ones the Fed wants to sound right now; the Fed doesn't believe we're in recession, We're hedging against recession. And given that, they're willing to do whatever necessary so this boat doesn't sink and their verbiage will reflect that after tomorrow's release of a 50 basis point cut. But also, I think it's important to know, if they're hedging risks -- if the risk of recession is say only 20 percent, 80 percent of the time will be wrong and overshooting.", "David, has the stock markets decline really damaged the economy very much thus far, is there a negative wealth effect?", "There will be. But I think the key that the Fed will note is look, confidence is down. The stock market is down and yet at least in January and February to some degree in early March, consumer spending is not as weak as some would have thought. And indeed, it's strong enough to keep the economy at least in the first quarter out of recession; I think that will be the Fed's judgment. The problem is, if psychology in the markets starts to feed on itself and starts to feed on consumer confidence as well, there could be trouble ahead. So the Fed, I think, will cut a half a point and the wording of their announcement will be very important. They'll say the risks still are weighted toward an economy that could weaken further and may even say like they said last December that they will be especially vigilant with the regard to the economy. That could give you a possibility of a cut between meetings.", "Diane, is there trouble ahead? Are we going to remain in a dark tunnel or do you see light at the end of the tunnel?", "I see light at the end of the tunnel. That doesn't mean the Fed won't stop hedging its risks every session. And I agree completely with David that the Fed will remain vigilant; yet, I see already -- here I am in the middle of the economic malaise in the Midwest and auto production schedules for the second quarter are simply stunning. We've gone through the vehicle cycle in terms of inventories; as soon as April we're going to see big increases in vehicle production. Frankly, I haven't factor them all to my forecast because I just don't believe they can ramp up that quickly again. They've been so low. It's a major turnaround in vehicle production. But that's one of the largest swing factors; it will take a lot out of growth this quarter but add right back in the second quarter, as long as vehicle sales settle down from recent highs, but not fall in cliff, you have got a nice setup for finally the auto industry driving growth again, rather than dragging it down. That doesn't cure the high-tech problems out there but that, combined with the recent, sort of, rebound -- albeit mild rebound in consumer sentiment -- that points to good news going forward. We've got mortgage refinancing picking up again and all that money coming back in the economy with utility bills going away, it will be a much stronger second half and second quarter than many people think.", "So, in one sentence, Diane, has Alan Greenspan blown it or not.", "I don't think he blew it at all. He's hedging risks here. When you hedge risks, you overshoot. I think it's appropriate for him to hedge risks. I don't think he blew it on the upside either.", "David, what's your opinion?", "I think the surprise here it's corporate recession not a consume recession, profits down two consecutive quarters, over investment which means that companies will cut back in investment spending. That could leave us in a very slow growth mode, maybe for the first three quarters of this year, and a very weak recovery after that.", "David Jones and Diane Swonk, thanks so much. Ahead on MONEYLINE, late breaking news on the inquiry of a U.S. submarine and a Japanese fishing boat. A live report from Hawaii. Plus: More on the markets from a bullish voice in a sea of bears; we'll ask fund manager David Alger while he's forecasting a market turnaround."], "speaker": ["WILLOW BAY, CNN ANCHOR", "ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN ANCHOR", "BAY", "CHERNOFF", "BAY", "CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "NPR-7130", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2016-04-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/04/26/475773220/your-song-changed-my-life-led-zeppelins-jimmy-page-on-lonnie-donegan", "title": "Your Song Changed My Life: Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page On Lonnie Donegan", "summary": "NPR Music's Bob Boilen talks with Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin about a song that changed his life, \"Rock Island Line,\" by Lonnie Donegan.", "utt": ["Jimmy Page is a guitar legend. Just to refresh your memory...", "Page is one of the founding members of the rock band Led Zeppelin. For the book \"Your Song Changed My Life,\" NPR Music's Bob Boilen spoke to Page about the song that changed his life, and it's not a hard-rocking song. The story begins when Jimmy Page was 8. His family moved from the London suburbs to the town of Epsom. And in their new home, someone had left behind a guitar.", "It was the campfire guitar, you know? It was sort of, you know, round hole - yeah, literally that, like a campfire. But it did have all the string on, which was pretty useful.", "(Singing) I got all livestock. I got all livestock. I got all livestock. And the man say, well, you're all right boy; just get on through. You don't have to pay me nothing.", "And there was this sort of explosion of music in the '50s. And what we had over in England was this guy Lonnie Donegan. The song I'm going to sort of give as an illustration of this is \"Rock Island Line.\"", "(Singing) I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron. Now, I'll tell you where I'm going, Boy - down the Rock Island Line. She's a mighty good road.", "I mean, he was superb. It was absolutely superb. But there he was, playing, like, an acoustic guitar. Sort of every Saturday there would be a show on the television where usually he was on every other week, and it was just something to behold at the time, just his whole passion and the way that he deliver this material.", "Now, the thing is that he'd been in a jazz band prior to that, and he really understood all of this sort of blues, American country, blues and all of that. By the time you get to the end of this, he's really spitting it out - \"Rock Island Line.\" It's fantastic stuff.", "(Singing) Down the Rock Island Line - she's a mighty good road. The Rock Island Line is the road to ride. Yeah, the Rock Island Line - she's a mighty good road. But if you want to ride, you got to ride it like you find it. Get your ticket at the station of the Rock Island Line.", "So this guitar was there, and then somebody showed me how to tune it up - somebody at school. Then I started strumming away like - not (unintelligible) but having a go, just sort of strumming chords and all of that stuff. You'll find so many of the guitarists from the '60s will all say Lonnie Donegan was the influence. So here you go. Have a listen.", "(Singing) The Rock Island Line - she's a mighty good road. And if you want to ride, you got to ride it like you find it. Get your ticket at the station of the Rock Island Line.", "That's Jimmy Page of the band Led Zeppelin. He was talking with NPR's Bob Boilen about the song that changed his life, Lonnie Donegan's recording of \"Rock Island Line.\"", "(Singing) The Rock Island Line - she's a mighty good road. And if you want to ride, you got to ride it like you find it. Get your ticket at the station of the Rock Island Line."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "JIMMY PAGE", "LONNIE DONEGAN", "JIMMY PAGE", "LONNIE DONEGAN", "JIMMY PAGE", "JIMMY PAGE", "LONNIE DONEGAN", "JIMMY PAGE", "LONNIE DONEGAN", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "LONNIE DONEGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-269172", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2015-11-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1511/13/wolf.02.html", "summary": "ISIS Claims Responsibility for Today's Double Bombings; U.S. Military Targets Jihadi John as Kurds Push ISIS Out of Sinjar.", "utt": ["Let's return to the developments we're following in the war against ISIS. The masked man who became the face of ISIS may now be dead. The Pentagon is still trying to determine if a drone strike took Jihadi John out. They're reasonably certain, they say, it did. In Iraq, a victory for Kurdish forces backed by U.S. air power. They say they forced militants out of Sinjar. Joining us to discuss this is our military analyst, retired Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona; and former California Democratic Congresswoman and president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Jane Harman. The killing of Jihadi John, assuming he's dead, Jane, the victory in Sinjar, those are significant developments, but I don't think we have to go overboard and say it's turning the tide.", "I agree, it's too early to put the banner that says mission accomplished on top of the aircraft carrier. And in Sinjar they have to hold it. They represent the dominant fighters. It was the Peshmerga that won the battle with our air cover.", "They're the Peshmerga fighters.", "Yeah. I don't know where this goes. We still have to get Raqqa, Ramadi, and continue the raids, to quote Ash Carter.", "There's a lot of other stuff going on. Colonel, Sinjar is important because it's on that road from Raqqa, the so-called capital of the Islamic State. Which they still control the second largest city in Iraq. They have now controlled it for a couple years. No indications of the Iraqi military stepping up to the plate to retake that city. There's still a long battle ahead, right?", "I think so. This would probably be one of the first steps. It's very important. And I think this was important that they cut the supply line. Now as the Congresswoman says, is will probably try to retake Sinjar because that route 47 that runs all the way from Raqqa into Mosul is their key supply line. Replicating that is going to be difficult. We're going to see more fighting there. The city is not clear yet. Although ISIS has pulled back, there's still a lot of clearing they will have to do. The city suffered tremendous damage from the allied air bombing.", "We'll see if they can hold on to Sinjar. They are getting no support from the Iraqi military at all. They got other issues with them as well. How significant, Jane, is the current killing of Jihadi John seen in the videos beheading Americans and hostages?", "Big deal. It's not confirmed. I think the CIA wants to make sure we don't know what the sources and methods were of finding him, so they are reluctant to put out proof. But I don't think they would be advertising this if it weren't fairly certain.", "It's a big deal because he killed Americans and could kill more. So stopping him personally matters, but it sends a signal we're out looking for these guys. It was probably the worst, as a Westerner.", "There were plenty of others out there, Rick Francona, beyond Mohammed Emwazi, Jihadi John. He spoke English well and had a flare, but there are a lot of others who could come in and fill that gap.", "Absolutely. He wasn't really in the power structure of ISIS. He was the face of ISIS. He was that brutal face we saw in the videos. He wasn't that important. So taking him out won't really change the battle on the ground, but it sure sends a message. It brings justice to the families and does put a lot of the ISIS leaders on notice that we will not only have the capability to come get you, but we have the willingness to do so.", "Do you see a more assertive U.S. military posture, Jane, unfolding now, including more boots on the ground?", "You bet, and I love it. But we're not going to win this militarily. We're going to win it diplomatically. What I like even better is the meeting in Vienna of the relevant parties, including the Iranians, Egyptians, Saudis and others, will continue this weekend. There has to be a diplomatic solution. And I'm betting even though there are some arguments against it that Russia and Egypt will redouble efforts after their huge embarrassment in Sinai.", "224 people were aboard that plane as well.", "Yeah.", "Jane Harman, thank you very much. Rick Francona, thanks to you as well. That's it for me. I'll be back at 5:00 p.m. Eastern in \"The Situation Room.\" The news will continue on CNN, right after this quick break."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "JANE HARMAN, PRESIDENT, WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS & FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN", "BLITZER", "HARMAN", "BLITZER", "LT. COL. RICK FRANCONA, CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "BLITZER", "HARMAN", "HARMAN", "BLITZER", "FRANCONA", "BLITZER", "HARMAN", "BLITZER", "HARMAN", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-69917", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-4-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0304/25/lad.17.html", "summary": "Northwest Aims to Cut Labor Costs by Nearly $1 Billion", "utt": ["In the world of business, taking a walk, his company on the brink of bankruptcy, American Airlines' CEO Don Carty steps down. The move follows an emergency board of director's session. Carty came under fire for a plan to give executive bonuses while union members were agreeing to millions of dollars in concessions. Carty ultimately cancelled the bonuses. Two of three key unions have said they'll honor concession agreements with small changes that could avert bankruptcy. And that is only part of our business buzz this morning, because another airline is using the threat of Chapter 11 in an effort to get its employees to agree to pay cuts. For more on that, let's head live to New York and Susan Lisovicz -- good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. It's a familiar story, isn't it? Northwest Airlines is asking its employees to accept $1 billion in annual cuts and says that if they don't that the company could be forced into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. But the rank and file is upset because they say, among other reasons, the top two executives received a $2.5 million bump in compensation last year. They plan to demonstrate today in New York where the company is holding its annual shareholder meeting. They're also upset about the length of the contract cuts. They say that if the industry improves, say five years from now, there are no givebacks. The CEO, meanwhile, Richard Anderson, is defending that little bonus he received last year. He said that Northwest outperformed its rivals and also met its financial targets last year. Analysts say Northwest is actually in a little better financial shape than some of its rivals, but it is one of the major carriers to Asia and therefore among the factors that has hurt its bottom line is the outbreak of SARS and the restriction of travel there -- Carol.", "It just astounds me that if you're the CEO of a company and you know that you've received this big bonus, how do you get the nerve to ask your employees to take a huge pay cut?", "It's very tough for credibility. And even if Northwest did meet its targets and did outperform its rivals, it was a really tough year for the industry overall. So I would say that among other things, expressed a lot of confidence in his ability to lead and Northwest's ability to ride out this storm.", "Yes, confidence or arrogance, but it's all a question of semantics. Susan Lisovicz, many thanks, we'll get back to you in the next half hour. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN FINANCIAL NEWS CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "LISOVICZ", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-20352", "program": "Special Event", "date": "2000-11-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/21/se.02.html", "summary": "Florida Supreme Court Spokesman Holds News Conference on Timetable for Manual Recounts Ruling", "utt": ["We're keeping our eye right now on things in Florida. We want to show you now a live picture that we're getting from the steps of the Florida Supreme Court. We expect there to be an announcement coming from this point any minute now. We have no idea what this announcement's going to be.", "Also, Buffalo, New York just got slammed with inches and inches of snow. You stood up and you said...", "Feet.", "Feet, excuse me. I should say feet.", "Feet of snow.", "Leon said, that's about right here on me.", "Yes.", "We're going to be talking to people there and what they've been dealing with. Luckily no injuries and no deaths reported. Just a big hassle for folks.", "Yes, we'll get that to you in just a moment. For now, let's go to Bill Hemmer standing by down in Tallahassee -- Bill.", "Hey Leon, Kyra, good morning again. Wish somebody could keep my seat warm here. Got some chilly temperatures for a couple weeks. But it's better than Buffalo right now. Listen, as you mentioned, Craig Waters: We were given an indication just about 15 minutes ago the public information officer for the state supreme court would be coming out to say something. There is a microphone, again, set up, Leon, as you were indicating in front of the state supreme court building here in Tallahassee. What that message could be is quite unclear. And staying away from speculations, we are not indicating that there's a ruling just yet. There may be, but we just don't know. In addition to that, we're not quite sure what he will offer shortly here in Tallahassee. But we're standing by. Indeed, when Mr. Waters decides to come on out, we'll have it for you. In the meantime, though, let's continue our discussion here and bring in, once again, CNN's Mike Boettcher, sitting here to the right. And, Mike, let's talk more about the rather interesting element taking place inside the capitol here. The state legislature is being sworn in. We have some videotape that we can show our viewers. Katherine Harris, the secretary of state, coming into the House chamber first, the Senate chamber second, and both times getting a standing ovation, both times she entered the chamber there.", "It was quite a scene. And if you go to her office as well down on the first floor of the capitol, it's full of flowers. One thing I picked up in some of the speeches there at the state capitol, made from the podium when they were nominating the leadership, was the fact that Floridians are very aware of the spotlight they're in and they feel, in some cases, their state has been negatively portrayed. And it was a very nonpartisan atmosphere this morning in the legislature when these nominating speeches were being made.", "OK, hang on one -- yes, here's Craig Waters now.", "We are still in the same stage we were yesterday. We have no -- nothing, no schedule, no timetable at the present time as to when anything maybe coming out of the court. Again, I will let you know whenever anything happens, but right now the rumors about 10 o'clock, about 1 o'clock, about 2 o'clock tomorrow, all of those are untrue. We have no timetable at the present time.", "Are they deliberating now?", "I'm sorry?", "Are they deliberating now?", "Well, there are some ceremonial events that have been going on this morning across the street that the justices participate in, so I'm not aware if those justices are back yet. I can tell you that our staff has been working full-time. I left here late last night and there were many lights on in the lawyers' offices. So the work has been going on continuously. We are putting in an extraordinary effort in this particular case.", "Whenever there is an opinion, what we are going to do is, 30 minutes in advance, the marshal will come out and will say that there will be a statement in roughly 30 minutes. After the 30 minutes have ended, we will simultaneously post the opinion on our web site. We have two duplicate web sites, so keep checking those. At the same time the opinion is being posted, I will come out and read a prepared statement as to what the bottom line of the opinion is and what the votes are from the justices. I will not be able to take questions at that time. So after the statement is made, I will return into the building. And shortly thereafter we will open the door for people to come in to get paper copies. But once again, your best bet at getting copies the fastest is on the two duplicate web sites we maintain.", "Would you give the names, the URLs, please?", "The two sites are www.flcourts.org, that's O-R-G; and the second, our duplicate site, is www.firn.edu/supct.", "Still hoping to give us a head's up that there will not be an opinion issued on a given day?", "When the chief justice can tell me that there is no possibility of an opinion being released on any particular day, I will come out and make a statement to that effect. And if we reach the point that it appears that nothing will be possible before the holiday this week, the chief justice is going to let me know so that I can tell you when the court will be back in business, if we reach that point. But, again, there is no timetable at the present time as to when a decision is going to be made. We just don't know.", "Will the court be open on Friday?", "We do not know that at the present time.", "How late were you here last night? How late were the justices here before they went home? What time?", "I'm not aware of how late all of them were here. I stayed here myself till past 9 o'clock, and I'm in a part of the building that's separate from where the justices are, so I did not go passed the offices to see who all were here. I can tell you that I saw a lot of lights on in a lot of offices.", "Are some justices here right now?", "Yes, some justices are here right now.", "Are there any other cases, Craig, that the justices are taking any time on other than this?", "Well, we do have regular oral arguments scheduled for next week, so some of our staff attorneys, of course, are working on those cases. We fortunately have a rather limited calendar for next week, which is beneficial, something that wasn't planned, but is making it easier for us to address these matters.", "Will you go over the procedure after the hearing ended last night? Did the justices adjourn to a meeting room and take an initial vote to see where everybody stood?", "Well, again, I'm not privy to what goes on in the conferences.", "I can tell you what the usual procedure is. After an argument, the justices will meet in conference and go over their initial impressions about the case. They sometimes will make an initial vote. There is a justice that is assigned to write a majority opinion. Some justices may agree with that, but want to write a separate opinion of their own; some may disagree and decide to write a dissenting opinion. Typically, they break up and go back and start doing research and start drafting opinions. They sometimes write memoranda and circulate those to other members of the court, just to get feedback on particular issues. Eventually, there will be a majority opinion. As I've told you before, Florida's Constitution requires that at least four justices must agree before the court can take any action whatsoever. So they have to reach at least that threshold. Then after the opinion is finalized and any dissenting and concurring opinions are also added, the chief justice will authorize the release at a certain time. And then the procedure that I told you about will kick in.", "Is anybody in the conference besides the justices and the court clerk?", "Only the clerk of court, and he is not always there.", "Who wrote the initial opinion on this one? Do you know, who's going to?", "I'm sorry?", "Do you know who's going to write the initial opinion on this?", "We have no way of knowing. And, again, there are opinions that are issued that are unsigned opinions. There are various reasons why. One example of why there would be an unsigned opinion is because sometimes a justice writes a separate opinion that is so persuasive that the other justices decide to include it in the majority, so you would actually have two authors of that opinion. And by custom, we don't allow one justice to claim the credit for what the other justice has done. So those are issued as per curiam, unsigned opinions.", "Are all the justices over at the swearing-in?", "No, I do not believe all the justices were over. They were the swearing-in of the legislature, of course.", "Do you know whether opinions have been drafted by the justices in this case at this point?", "I'm sorry?", "Do we know whether there has been an opinion drafted by any of the justices in this case?", "No, we do not know.", "Are you saying that there is one opinion that is before this conference now? That one opinion has been offered by the...", "No, what happens at the conference is they simply meet and discuss initial impressions. Then they would usually go back to their offices and begin drafting opinions -- a majority opinion, perhaps a dissenting opinion if someone decides to dissent.", "What is the status of conference then? Is the conference still going on?", "Again, I'm not sure all of the justices are back here yet. Normally, conferences are only held if all the justices are here.", "But they began this morning?", "We do not know. There are many ways they actually meet about cases like this. They sometimes meet informally in their offices. Sometimes they gather in the chief justice's office. Sometimes they simply exchange memoranda. Sometimes they'll talk on our intercom phone lines. So there are many different ways they can actually discuss the issues in the case.", "Do you know how long the conference lasted after the oral arguments yesterday?", "No, I do not know how long the conference lasted yesterday. I was busy answering a lot of questions from you all in the press and that took a considerable amount of time. You can look and see how many reporters there are here. I've been answering all your calls.", "Are you allowed to pose that question to the chief justice now?", "I'm sorry?", "Are you allowed to pose that type of question to the chief justice now?", "What type of question?", "How long they met yesterday, where they are in the process, that type of thing?", "I can ask them that and try and get that for you.", "What time did they come in today -- the justices?", "Well, most of them come in early and I know they've been coming in earlier because of this particular case, but I just don't know exactly what time.", "Is there a cutoff time tomorrow, since the court closes for the holiday?", "Well, again, there's no cutoff at the present time, but if the chief justice does tell me that there's no possibility of any action until a certain date, I will come out and let you all know that so that you don't have to stand out here over the Thanksgiving holiday, waiting for something that's not going to come. And I know your all happy about that, but I am too. I've actually got a family reunion to go to in Alberta, Alabama, and I'd like to be there. I've already RSVP'ed and my Aunt Ethel would be very upset at me if I do not attend.", "Thank you, Craig.", "All right, Craig Waters here, the public information officer at state supreme court. Really, the information he just gave us helps us to do our job a whole lot better.", "It helps Aunt Ethel, too.", "He's off to Alabama. Listen, he talked about a couple of things: same stage as yesterday. Extraordinary effort in this case. I'm sorry, is he back at the podium now? OK, Craig Waters is not back up there. Let's continue with our discussion here. Rumors are not true, he said, about a decision being reach and no time table given just yet. But, again, the information he provides gives us some insight as to what's happening inside, just a bit.", "No, it does in that you can figure out how the justices go about doing this. In one sense it can be very informal in chambers with each side or each justice, by seniority, being asked his or her opinion.", "Mike, I apologize, I'm being told that we can hear Mr. Waters again.", "You will let us know if the justices choose to spend more time than their 5 o'clock normal going home time? If they're staying to work late, you'll let us know?", "I will talk with the chief about that.", "Craig, effectively, the justices met yesterday in a brief conference, but you don't know what emerged out of that.", "No, I don't.", "And likewise today, they did meet again in conference when they first came in?", "I don't know that.", "And you don't know if anything is written or anything is on the table?", "No, I don't.", "Thank you very much.", "All right, Craig Waters again, a couple quick Q&As;, as we say, on the steps down there at the state supreme court. Mike, finish your thought. I apologize about the interruption.", "Well, they can meet in many different forms. Initially, when they went behind the curtain after that two-hour 22- minute hearing yesterday, they met in the more formal chambers. Each justice was allowed to give his or her opinion. Those opinions were offered by rank of seniority. Then they go back to their chambers, they work on their own opinions, they try to build consensuses talking over the phone, through memos. They could even go down to the corner bar if they wanted to over a beer and do this.", "Interesting. He talked about them talking on the telephone, too. I thought that was quite telling, conversations that can take place at any point if they want to talk about it.", "Well, you know, one thing to point out is they didn't begin their deliberations yesterday, they began talking back and forth when they knew this was going to come their direction. So over the weekend they've been thinking about this and in -- we're told by courtroom observers that they've been talking informally. But it's hard to get a sense in a secret court setting like that.", "I would say, also, a couple Web sites right now are crashing based on the Internet addresses he gave out. Let's go quickly to Roger Cossack in Washington. Roger, jump in here. Your thoughts on what we just heard?", "OK, well, the first thing I want to do, guys, is remember about 15 minutes ago when I told you it seemed like we were going to have a decision in the next 15 minutes?", "Yes you did.", "OK, well, forget that. I didn't mean that. I just wanted to make sure everybody was listening.", "What's that?", "... is how this Craig Waters comes out and tells you how the process is going on...", "Right.", "... tells you how they meet, tells you what they do, tells you how they get together for their first discussion and then they can talk about it various different ways, you know, this lack of secrecy. I'm really impressed with this sort of -- with what they call the sunshine information in Florida.", "Yes.", "I just think this is a wonderful way to conduct government and a wonderful way to conduct supreme court deliberations.", "You know, Roger, I think that may be a legacy out of this, for other state supreme courts across the country to see how it's done, and the fact that so many of us could peer into what's happening inside yesterday by way of television cameras. Ultimately, something like this may proceed -- make take us several years -- to the U.S. Supreme Court as well. Why not let Americans go ahead and peek in on the legal system at really the highest level? I'm impressed with this sort of what they call the sunshine information in Florida. I just think this wonderful way to conduct government and a wonderful way to conduct supreme court decisions. Bill: may be a legacy out of this. For other supreme court to see how done so many can peer what's happening by way of television cameras ultimately something like this may proceed make take several years so the U.S. Supreme court as well. Why not let Americans pick -- peek in on the legal system at really the highest level?", "You know, I have no answer as to why not. Oh, I'm sorry, Mike. I didn't mean to interrupt you. But I can tell you that I have been a supporter of cameras in the courtroom. And I understand the argument about in the trial courtroom, there's an argument that perhaps it intimidates witnesses or juries. But certainly not in appellate courts like we saw yesterday.", "You know, it's a very open court. Usually in formal court over there -- they apologized to me when I first went over and said, hey, look, we're not usually this formal. It's not like knocking on the door at Oz trying to get in to see the Wizard. But they apologized for that and said, this is such a big thing and so many reporters, we're a little bit more formal. But they said when this is all over, come in and we'll show you around, give you a cup of coffee. And they really do have an excellent staff over there and they've been very helpful to us. And one thing, Roger, if I have time for one question...", "Please, yes.", "After the O.J. Simpson trial, there was a lot of criticism of cameras in the courtroom. Do you think this will go a long way in perhaps somehow changing the perception of the public in terms of cameras in the courtroom?", "Well, two things, I think, Mike. Certainly I think it should change the perception of cameras in the courtroom for appellate-type arguments. You know, those are the arguments that we saw yesterday. Clearly there's nothing intimidating about a camera in a courtroom. There's no jury to be intimated, there's no witnesses to be intimidated. There's lawyers and judges, and that certainly doesn't have any effect whatsoever. And the other thing is that perhaps now that we have cameras in the courtroom, this will go -- and the American people were able to see what went on in that courtroom yesterday -- this will go a little ways to perhaps bringing back some of the confidence that maybe the O.J. Simpson cost us in our court system and in our legal system, because I think you had nothing but to be proud of what happened in that federal -- in that Florida Supreme Court yesterday.", "That may be the first thing we learn and change about American society out of this, but we shall see. Roger, thanks again. Roger Cossack in Washington, Mike Boettcher here in Tallahassee. And one more thing that we did pick up, if they don't have a decision by Turkey Day, Thanksgiving Day two days from now, they're going to come out and let us know. So maybe Aunt Ethel will get Craig Waters eventually after all. We shall see.", "Relax, Aunt Ethel. He'll be there, I'm sure.", "You got it. Keep the pumpkin bread in the oven. Let's go back to Atlanta now. Here's Leon and Kyra now once again.", "We should go live from Aunt Ethel's house.", "We should.", "What do you think?", "Well, Aunt Ethel, if you're watching, maybe we'll see you in a couple of days, huh?"], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "HARRIS", "PHILLIPS", "HARRIS", "PHILLIPS", "HARRIS", "PHILLIPS", "HARRIS", "BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "MIKE BOETTCHER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER", "CRAIG WATERS, SPOKESMAN, FLORIDA SUPREME COURT", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION:  (OFF-MIKE) WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "HEMMER", "BOETTCHER", "HEMMER", "BOETTCHER", "HEMMER", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "WATERS", "QUESTION", "HEMMER", "BOETTCHER", "HEMMER", "BOETTCHER", "HEMMER", "ROGER COSSACK, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "HEMMER", "COSSACK", "HEMMER", "COSSACK", "HEMMER", "COSSACK", "HEMMER", "COSSACK", "HEMMER", "BOETTCHER:  (OFF-MIKE) COSSACK", "BOETTCHER", "HEMMER", "BOETTCHER", "COSSACK", "HEMMER", "BOETTCHER", "HEMMER", "PHILLIPS", "HARRIS", "PHILLIPS", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-261711", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2015-08-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/10/ctw.01.html", "summary": "The Syrian War From the Perspective of Damascus Residents", "utt": ["After more than four years of bloody conflict, is support for a negotiated solution growing in Syria?", "What you would usually find here when we came in the past to Damascus is that people were very optimistic that he civil war would be over very soon. And when you speak to them today, they are a lot more cautious.", "Tonight, we are live in Damascus with the very latest for you. Also ahead, new U.S. military hardware arrives in Turkey as the country steps up its role in the fight against ISIS. But there's growing trouble at home after another day of deadly attacks. We'll ask a leading Iraqi Kurdish official about Turkey's handling of its Kurds. And violence erupts once again in Ferguson in the United States. We'll take you to the American town as it marks one year since Michael Brown was killed.", "Live from CNN Abu Dhabi, this is Connect the World with Becky Anderson.", "Well, the U.S. stepping up its firepower in the fight against ISIS. A very good evening. Half a dozen F16 fighter jets have been deployed to Incirlik Air Base in Southern Turkey along with 300 personnel and support equipment. Now these additional six planes join Turkish assets like these already at the base. The deployment will make it easier for the U.S. to strike ISIS targets in Syria and comes after Turkey officially entered the war against the terror group a month ago. Well, CNN's own Fred Pleitgen is in Syria where he's been talking to ordinary Syrians in Damascus. And for many, it seems hope is fading that airstrikes like these will actually impact the overall fight. Firstly, to the news of the day. And Fred is it clear when these airstrikes will begin and what their specific targets are likely to be?", "Well, it's mostly likely the targets are going to be ISIS operatives inside Syria. And I think one of the things that the U.S. wants to do is it wants to be able to be in that area of operations as fast as possible. And obviously getting there from Incirlik Air Base is something that will allow them to do that very, very quickly. Of course one of the things that the Turks say they want to do is they want to create what they call that safe zone inside northern Syria where they want to get rid of ISIS there. They say that that is for a corridor for refugees, for instance, to gather there so that they can be safe as well. And, the U.S. says it wants to start hitting these targets as fast as possible, especially on the border area, because one of the other things that the U.S. has also been trying to do, Becky, and that's very important for the U.S. is actually trying to help seal the Turkish border, because one of the things that we have heard in the past is that ISIS has been using the Turkish border, which of course is very long and very porous with Syria to get new fighters, new weapons to their territories as well, Becky.", "Some are going to say this is too little, too late. Is it?", "Well, I mean that's certainly what many people here in the government-controlled part of Damascus have told us in the past -- when we've been talking to them. They say they believe that six fighter jets are not going to make very much of a difference. They also say that they believe that it's actually their military, the Syrian army, that's the one that's taking on ISIS inside Syria. Of course, they also see that ISIS is clashing with other rebel forces as well. But one of the things that I've seen here for the first time really in such force, much more than before, is a lot of concern among many people about the advances that ISIS is making. The last time that we were here, which is a little over a year ago, you wouldn't hear anybody even fathom the fact that ISIS could enter into Damascus. Now what we've seen is in Yarmouk, for instance, which is an area that's seen a lot of violence, was that ISIS showed up there a couple of months ago. People here in Damascus have seen that the Syrian military has had to give up places like Palmyra, has had to give up another town just last week where a lot of Christians have had to flee that place. So certainly there is a lot more concern here. And very few people believe that these airstrikes are going to make very much of a difference in the overall battlefield picture.", "Fred, given the Syrian government is so guilty of so much loss of life in what has been this bloody civil war, many argue providing the fertile ground for the rise of ISIS, other arguing further still that the militants are covertly supported by Bashar al-Assad's government. How much support, if any, are you finding for the government? I know that Damascus is government-controlled, but are people prepared to voice their support or not at this point?", "Well, there certainly are many people who will voice their support, I mean, if you go through the government-controlled part of Syria, especially here in Damascus, there's a lot of Syrian flags. There's pictures of Bashar al-Assad. There's convoys of cars going around. And also one thing that we've seen is that there's a lot of people, especially from the Syrian minorities who are actually volunteering for the Syrian armed forces. Now the Syrian armed forces, we know, has had a lot of trouble keeping up its manpower, because it's suffered some very heavy losses in the four years that this civil war has been going on, but especially I think the people of minorities are ones who more and more feel that for them it's very difficult to find any sort of alternative to Bashar al-Assad. They see that ISIS is getting stronger in the east of the country. The north of the country, of course, is very much in disarray with those many groups all fighting each other. So, if you look especially at the minorities, the Alawites, the Christians, the Druze by and large they are either trying to stay out of the conflict or they are behind Bashar al-Assad, at least the majority. Of course, there are also some among those people who are against Assad as well, but by and large that's where he draws a lot of his support as well as a lot of secular people as well, Becky.", "Very briefly. I know you've been out and about. And I know that we just got some new video in from you. If you can just talk to this about your sort of impressions about what you've been finding and what was -- and I hope will be going forward -- such a beautiful city that is Damascus.", "Yeah, I it is definitely a city with a lot of culture, of course also a city with a very long, a very rich history and also quite frankly a very proud city. Damascans (ph) are obviously very proud of the history, of the heritage and of (inaudible) that they have here in this town. The big issue that they're dealing with right here of course is that there is also major fighting going on, especially in the outskirts, but also in some places in the center of town. There's been a lot of destruction. And now what we're seeing is that there's also a lot of shortages, very difficult to get -- we actually made a run for fuel ourselves earlier today, took us a very long time to actually get to the pump. And that's something that everyday citizens contend with a lot. Also, a lot of power outages that we're seeing as well. The interesting thing, though, is that the economy here has actually still been quite resilient. There are many people who have been saying for years that this economy is on the brink of collapse, but they are still somehow still muddling through. And if you go to shops, for instance, in central Damascus, you can still get most of the items that you would have been able to get before the crisis. However, of course, much more expensive and in some places it is very difficult to get. And of course the industrial sector has been suffering a lot as well, Becky.", "Fred Pleitgen is in Damascus. And he continues his reporting from inside Syria all of this week. Fred, thank you, bringing you viewers a rare look inside the country that has been engulfed in war, as you know, since 2011. We're going to get updates from Fred on Connect the World in the coming days, so stand by for that. And coming up later in this show, we'll speak to the head of foreign relations for the Kurdish regional government to find out what they make of key political changes in Iraq and indeed what is going on in Syria and in Turkey at present. Plus, a live update on what has been a deadly day in Turkey. In the West Bank, a father whose child was killed in a so-called pricetag arson attack has now died of his own injuries. Thousands attended the funeral of Saad Dawabsheh on Saturday in his home village of Duma. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to find the perpetrators. I'm going to take a very short break. Back after this."], "speaker": ["BECKY ANDERSON, HOST", "FRED PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON", "ANNOUNCER", "ANDERSON", "FRED PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON", "PLEITGEN", "ANDERSON", "PLEITGEN", "ANDERSON", "PLEITGEN", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-83242", "program": "NEWS FROM CNN", "date": "2004-3-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/25/nfcnn.01.html", "summary": "Battle Between Clarke, White House Continues", "utt": ["We're following several important developments this hour including the all-out battle that's unfolding between Richard Clarke and the Bush administration. The charges and the countercharges, the intense media campaign. Can any conclusions be made so far? We'll break it all down for our viewers. Also, the scene in the Middle East. Look at this. A would-be bomber, only 14-years-old, is caught before potential disaster. And 2,000 additional United States Marines are headed to Afghanistan right now, presumably to search for this man, Osama bin Laden. We'll get to all that, first, some other headlines. A new home for Haiti's former leader. Jean-Bertrand Aristide is currently in Jamaica and officials there say he'll soon be moving on, to South Africa. But it reportedly won't be until after April 14 when South Africa holds elections. No confirmation yet from South Africa. One for the history books. British Prime Minister Tony Blair meeting with former foe, Libya leader Moammar Gadhafi. Libya's standing in the West has done an about-face since Colonel Gadhafi publicly renounced terrorism and vowed to get rid of his country's weapons of mass destruction. The flame is burning and the countdown is underway to the Summer Olympic Games in the place where it all began, Athens, Greece. For the next 20 weeks, the torch will travel the globe. Forty-eight thousand five hundred miles in 27 countries. The games begin August 13, that's a Friday. First this hour, the continuing fallout from the charges being leveled by Richard Clarke. By now the name and the face hardly need introduction. But for the record, he's the former White House official who's accusing President Bush of dropping the ball on the war on terrorism. In sworn testimony yesterday, Clarke told the federal panel that's probing the attacks of 9/11 before 9/11 the fight against terror was important to President Bush, but was not, repeat not, a matter of urgency. That particular charge he supported last night in an appearance on \"LARRY KING LIVE.\"", "The president was told on a regular basis the al Qaeda threat was coming. Al Qaeda attack was coming. And what does the president say in his own words to Bob Woodward in \"Bush at War\"? He says Bush acknowledged that bin Laden was not his focus or that of his national security team. \"I was not on point,\" the president said. \"I didn't feel a sense of urgency.\" Well how can you not feel a sense of urgency when George Tenet is telling you in daily briefings, day after day, that a major al Qaeda attack is coming. That's my point. That's one of my points. My other point, which I'd like to get to, that by fighting the war in Iraq, the president has actually diminished our ability to fight the war on terrorism.", "In conjunction with the hearings held this week, the 9/11 panel issued preliminary findings that fault the current administration as well as that of President Clinton for lapses that occurred before September 11. Clarke served in both administrations. But his harshest comments are reserved for President Bush and his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice.", "And if Condi Rice had been doing her job and holding those daily meetings they way Sandy Berger, if she had a hands-on attitude to being national security adviser when she knew there was a threat to the United States, that kind of information was shaken out in December 1999. It would have been shaken out in the summer of 2001 if she had been doing her job.", "Battling Clarke's charges has occupied the White House for much of this week. It's a bit of mixed message. The vice president, Dick Cheney, says Clarke was out of the loop in the fight against terrorism. Condoleezza Rice disputes that notion but she says that Clarke's strategy wasn't working. Others have said Clarke is simply trying to promote his book. For the latest from the White House, we turn to our White House correspondent Dana Bash. What are they saying this morning over at the White House, Dana?", "Well, Wolf, first of all in response to what we just heard from Richard Clarke essentially suggesting that Condoleezza Rice, perhaps if she had more meetings could have prevented the attacks from occurring. As you can imagine that is not going over very well here this morning. One official saying that the suggestion more meetings could have stopped anything is really outrageous. Also, that is perhaps a dig at Richard Clarke as somewhat of a disgruntled bureaucrat, if you will. Now White House officials all morning have said that as personal and perhaps ugly as this point/counterpoint is getting between the White House and their former employee, Richard Clarke, as long as they say Richard Clarke continues to take to the airways to promote his book and to make assertions to the president, they will continue to try hit back at least on the substance. Now this morning, it was Secretary of State Colin Powell who used and appearance on Capitol Hill to try to discredit Richard Clarke.", "The very first briefing I received during my transition period, some four days after President Bush announced me was from Mr. Clarke. And the other colleagues that he had and that were becoming my colleagues in the outgoing administration were involved in intelligence and terrorism. This isn't the sign of somebody who didn't have an interest in terrorism. It was also something the president made clear we had to be interested in.", "Now, Secretary Powell, the designated administration hitter this morning, also took issue with any suggestion from Richard Clarke that there was warning of some kind, any kind of knowledge before September 11 that it was actually happening. He said that any idea that there was a magic moment, as he put it, a magic bullet where it was possible to connect the dots is simply not right -- Wolf.", "Dana Bash at the White House. Still very sensitive explosive story unfolding. Dana, thanks very much. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry got a copy of Richard Clarke's book. Look at this.", "It's very interesting. I haven't finished it. Before I give you any opinions.", "Kerry's expected to get the endorsement of Howard Dean. We're standing by to go over to George Washington University here in Washington D.C. to cover that formal endorsement. Howard Dean endorsing his former rival, John Kerry. That's expected to take place this hour. Once former rivals, now evidently on the same page. CNN's Kelly Wallace is watching all of this unfold over at GW, at George Washington university. Sounds like there's a pretty enthusiastic crowd behind you, Kelly.", "Yes, Wolf. Several hundred college students very excited as they listened to the former Vermont governor, Howard Dean, who is talking right now. Howard Dean, certainly one of the biggest critics of John Kerry during the presidential primary campaign. But what he says is that his goal has always been to defeat President Bush in November and that John Kerry is the one with the best chance to do that. So Kerry's aides say this is incredibly important, this public endorsement from Howard Dean. A way to validate John Kerry in the eyes of Howard Dean's base of thousands, hundreds of thousands of supporters. Something else though that Howard Dean is doing, especially as Ralph Nader seems to be doing better and better in some polls, is try to prevent his supporters from embracing a third party candidate. Saying that would not help defeat President Bush in November. So we're expecting to hear John Kerry momentarily now. Wolf, back to you.", "All right. Let's listen in briefly to hear what Howard Dean has to say.", "... balancing budgets and God knows you can't trust the Republicans with your money because not one of them have balanced the budget in 34 years. But the real issue is this. You know I got such a kick out of seeing the president huff and puff and get all indignant over the testimony of Richard Clarke this week. And the real issue is this: who would you rather have in charge of the defense of the United States of America? A group of people who never served a day overseas in their life or a guy who served his country honorably, has three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star on the battlefields of Vietnam? Kerry, Kerry, Kerry, Kerry! So my question, my question to you is this: who do you trust to bring jobs back to the United States of America and to our people? George Bush or John Kerry? Who do you trust to protect our environment? George Bush or John Kerry? Who do you trust to bring health insurance to every man, woman and child in America? George Bush or John Kerry? Who do you trust to save Social Security and to balance budgets? George Bush or John Kerry? Well, I know who I trust. I trust John Kerry. And that's who I'm voting for. That's who I'm working for. We're sending George Bush back to Crawford, Texas. And it is a pleasure and honor to introduce to you, the next president of the United States, John F. Kerry!", "Thanks a lot!", "So there's the introduction, there's the welcome, there's the formal endorsement. Howard Dean making it clear he supports the senator from Massachusetts, John Kerry, as the next president of the United States. We'll continue to monitor this rally at George Washington University. Get back there if there's any other news that develops. In the meantime, let's turn to the war on terrorism. As part of a spring offensive, the United States will soon have more Marines on the ground in Afghanistan. Our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, is joining us now live. She has details -- Barbara.", "Well you know, Wolf, no one at the Pentagon even officially acknowledges there's a spring offensive. But indeed some details shaping up about what we are going to see over the next few weeks. About 2,000 additional Marines going to Afghanistan. They will unload on their ships in the Persian Gulf and then fly into Afghanistan, we are told, with their equipment, with their Harrier Jump Jets. All getting there in time to beef up the U.S. military presence for this coming spring action. Now one of the questions on the table, of course, will be, how long will they stay? Will this just turn into another rotation, with some troops coming back? Or will this be a plus-up, if you will, in addition to the 11,000 troops already in Afghanistan, that will be there through the spring searching out remnants of the Taliban and the al Qaeda? Every indication now is these troops will stay for a while. They will engage in missions along the border with Pakistan. Move into some of those mountain areas. Try and root out those Taliban and al Qaeda remnants -- Wolf.", "Barbara, I just want to clarify one sensitive point as far as the rules of engagement for the U.S. military forces in Afghanistan right now, as they hunt nor Osama bin Laden, Ayman al- Zawahiri and the other al Qaeda and Taliban remnants. Is there any doubt they have the authority, the legal authority, to go out and kill them if they come upon them, because as you know, in the testimony over the past couple of days, up on Capitol Hill, the CIA operatives on the ground said it wasn't clear to them that they had the clear-cut authority to go ahead and kill, assassinate, if you will, Osama bin Laden, in earlier years.", "You know, Wolf, this gets to the point that nobody really wants to talk about. Here's the dilemma: Who is holding that gun? Who is pointing it. If it member of the United States intelligence community, of the CIA, there is a ban against assassination? The CIA is not supposed to go out and assassinate people. There is the question of legitimate self-defense, however. If it is someone that poses an immediate threat to the United States, then we are told by very senior administration officials, there is no doubt there would be authority to kill that person. We have talked to very senior officials since that testimony yesterday. And according to people we've talked to, there is no doubt at this point, that the people who might be holding that gun, whether they are U.S. military special forces, whether they are members of the intelligence community, they feel they have all the authority that they have all the clear lines of communication to do whatever is required -- Wolf.", "Barbara Starr at the Pentagon, clarifying that issue for us. Thanks, Barbara, very much. Punch, counter punch, Richard Clarke versus the Bush administration. It's getting pretty heated here in Washington, indeed around the country. What about Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico? What's he saying about the 9/11 investigation and other sensitive issues? He's my guest. He's coming up live, when we return."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "RICHARD CLARKE, FRM. WHITE HOUSE COUNTERTERRORISM ADVISER", "BLITZER", "CLARKE", "BLITZER", "BASH", "COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE", "BASH", "BLITZER", "SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BLITZER", "KELLY WALLACE, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "HOWARD DEAN (D), FRM. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "KERRY", "BLITZER", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "STARR", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-263872", "program": "CNN RELIABLE SOURCES", "date": "2015-09-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/06/rs.01.html", "summary": "Stumping Trump on Foreign Policy", "utt": ["Hey, good morning. I'm Brian Stelter. And it's time for RELIABLE SOURCES. We have a fantastic lineup of stories for you this Labor Day weekend from what looks like a campaign at FOX News to label Black Lives Matter a murder movement, to the Colbert-ization of the late show. Yes, Stephen Colbert preparing to step out of character and maybe break some big news with Joe Biden. But let's begin with a name you've heard once or twice on this show before, Donald Trump. All summer, critics have been accusing the political press of letting Trump run amok, reveling in the circus atmosphere of his campaign while giving him a pass on substance. Well, this week, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt did not give him a pass. He threw Trump some curveballs, and everybody is talking about it. Here's just an example of what happened.", "Are you familiar with General Soleimani?", "Yes. I -- but go ahead, give me a little -- go ahead, tell me.", "He runs the Quds Forces.", "Yes, OK. Right.", "Do you expect his behavior --", "And I think the Kurds, by the way, have been horribly mistreated by us.", "No, not the Kurds, the Quds Forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Forces, the bad guys.", "Yes, right.", "Do you expect his behavior to change --", "Oh, I thought you said Kurds, Kurds.", "No, Quds.", "Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you said Kurds.", "So, what is it like to stump Trump? Let's ask Hugh Hewitt. He joins me now from Denver. Good morning.", "Good morning, Brian. Happy birthday weekend to you.", "Thank you. You being here is a great gift. So, tell us your intent with that interview, because you've interviewed Trump many times before, and you told him this time you wanted to ask him some commander-in-chief questions.", "Yes. I have talked to Donald Trump four times in 30 days. And I don't do gotcha questions. And I'm very open to being criticized by people if they think it's a gotcha question. But when I asked Jeb Bush, would he be hesitant to invade Iraq a third time because of his brother and his father, when I asked Jeb Bush if he was worried about dynastic politics influencing young democracies, these are tough, focused questions. I ask everyone straight, hard- hitting questions. But I have no favorites or disfavorites. So, I didn't think it was really a gotcha question. It was in my mind it was a lead-in to talk with the anti-Iran deal rally that I had done with Ted Cruz the day before.", "Were you surprised he seemed caught off guard?", "Well, sometimes people are caught off guard, and he had a great interview, by the way. The rest of the interview, he actually had a tough question for me on how would he respond as president if the Chinese were to sink accidentally or intentionally a Japanese or a Philippines vessel, and he gave a very sophisticated I would almost say Nixonian answer about why you don't tell people what you're going to do in certain situations. So, he didn't like some question. He liked the other questions. He took a shot at me, that's fine. I tell people I'm not perfect. I'm just the best on radio. I think I am the best interviewer on radio in the United States. But what's important to me is that people know the debate is coming up. I have no favorite. I have no disfavorite. I'm going to ask them all hard questions because I think the job of hosts is to ask questions that Republican primary viewers, and there are millions of them, and they're across a broad spectrum want answered. And some people want hard questions. Some want softballs. I think I keep in mind the Republican primary voter, who do they want to nominate to run against in all likelihood Hillary Clinton, and how are they going to do that and are they prepared to beat her? So, that's my objective coming up on September 16th when I'm working with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash on the next debate.", "Let me ask you about that in a moment. But let's talk about Trump's reaction to you. Here's what he said on \"Morning Joe\" on Friday morning.", "By the way, when you say Quds versus Kurds, I thought he said Kurds, this third-rate radio announcer that I did a show. And he was like gotcha, gotcha. Every question was, do I know this one and that one. And, you know, it was like he worked hard on that. But I thought he said Kurds.", "He says he thinks you worked hard to prepare for that interview. Maybe he is just now punching at the messenger.", "Well, look, I got my Donald Trump tattoo and I'm proud to join Krauthammer and Chuck Todd. But listen, Donald Trump is the great interview of America. I would lead every show with him every time. He has been on four times this month and many other times. He endorsed my book \"The Queen\" on air. So, I'm like -- you know, if he wants to take a shot at the question, that's fine. If -- in our business, we have to be willing to listen to the criticism. Interesting thing that I did after the conversation with him which I had on air about -- oh, I'm sorry, did you think it was a gotcha question? I didn't.", "Right.", "I immediately contacted Carly Fiorina before the interview aired, asked her to come on, did not tell her what the questions were and taped an interview of the questions so I could have a control group on whether or not -- because I hate gotcha questions. Who is the president of Nigeria is a gotcha question. I think the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah is significant. But the audience can decide. I will ask them all the same questions.", "And Carly Fiorina received a lot of compliments for the way she answered your questions, some of the same questions.", "Yes. And she also admitted which is a good thing, sometimes she gets the names confused. Abu Bakr Baghdadi, sometimes Julani, sometimes -- are we talking about Nasrallah and Hezbollah. Are we talking about the guy running Hamas? It's easy to get confused. But what matters to me and where I was going with the interview is Israel is surrounded by proxy states and proxy terrorists of Iran.", "Looking ahead to the debate. You're going to be a questioner. Jake Tapper, the moderator on the September 16th debate. You and Dana Bash will be participating in the questioning. And some people wonder if you'll be fair to Trump. We saw Breitbart.com coming out saying that you can't be fair to Trump, that you're clearly biased. What's your response to them?", "I'm going to be fair to everyone. I am not biased to anyone. I have no favorites. Same question set I had before. It will not be impacted by Donald Trump's criticism or his praise. People can send me love notes and valentines. They can say horrible things about me. It's not going to change my point of view, which is to ask questions that the Republican primary electorate wants answered. And I hope to do more debates after this. And if the criticism that comes comes and the praise that comes comes, I don't think it should affect our job as journalists. Like I say, I've been doing this for 25 years on television and radio. A lot of times, people have been upset with me. A lot of times, people have been happy with me. It doesn't change my approach and I'm not anti- Donald Trump.", "Hugh, we'll see you at the debate September 16th. Thanks for being here this morning. And before we look ahead to the debate, let's look back, because the Trump show has been, without a doubt, the blockbuster event of the summer. We wanted to trace the arc of the story back to June before he even entered the race. Here we go.", "Donald Trump's once again making noise about running for president. Why is anyone taking this talk seriously?", "They don't think I'm running. Nobody, it's really a funny thing. You maybe surprised.", "I will only be surprised if you say you are running.", "He will be tempted to run, be predictably shellacked.", "Do not tell me that Donald Trump is in this to win this, OK? He is a side show.", "This is going to turn a three-ring circus into a freak show.", "I am officially running for president of the United States.", "He's running for president. He's running for keep me famous.", "I thought this was maybe some strategy for a new reality show.", "How should Republicans handle Donald Trump?", "Ignore him.", "They all said I'd never run. I announced I was going to run.", "This guy is not a serious candidate.", "He has not filed his FEC election papers.", "Well, he'll never file his forms papers. I filed my form papers. Oh!", "He is tapping into something, and angry at politicians, Republicans included.", "He's a war hero because he was captured.", "\"Don Voyage\", it says. \"Trump is toast after insults.\"", "You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs.", "She starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions and, you know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.", "He creates controversy because that in turn creates media, which in turn keeps him in the headlines.", "The ratings! They say, if I didn't get ratings, they wouldn't be here.", "I mean, look, it's all entertainment. He is having the time of his life.", "Donald Trump is God's gift to the Democratic Party, cable TV pundits and late-night comics. We're having a Trump-gasm.", "I'm really doing well. I mean, you know, hey, are we leading in every poll? Every single poll.", "Putting Donald Trump atop the field of U.S. Republican presidential candidates.", "Can anyone stop the Trump juggernaut?", "It's clear that Donald Trump is not what some people think, which is a summer fling.", "It's the summer of Trump. How good is that for my ego?", "Well, that demonstrates that the summer Trump has confounded the predictions of political talking heads. So, before Labor Day gets here, we thought we'd look back and do some self-examination. It's a clip from mid-July when Trump was taking a lot of heat for seeming to criticize the war record of John McCain. My guests on the program that morning were Nate Cohn, Washington correspondent for \"The New York Times\", and Rick Wilson, a Republican strategist who has been one of the summer's biggest critics of Trump. Watch.", "Now, what you're going to see the rest of the Republican Party is going to rally against him. That was totally change the way that he is covered for the rest of the campaign. He will now face scrutiny from across the party and from the media. That will eventually blunt his surge in the polls and eventually reverse it.", "Blunt his surge in the polls. Cohn's prediction was that the McCain insults would, quote, \"probably mark the moment when Trump's candidacy went from boom to bust.\" And since that didn't happen, Nate Cohn and Rick Wilson rejoin me right now. Gentlemen, thank you for being here.", "Great to be back.", "Good morning.", "I think this is sounded kind of rare on cable news, to go ahead and look back on what was said before. So, Nate, tell us -- are you surprised that weekend was not more of an infliction point in the race?", "Absolutely. I think the clip captures that pretty well. I think that there were two things about what Trump looked like then and what we see now that suggest a much more robust candidacy than it seemed at the time. The first is it looked like Trump was a media-driven candidate. You know, that sounds like it's not important but it really matters in terms of where his support is coming from. If it's just about news coverage and there's nothing else underpinning. Then once the coverage changes, Trump goes away. But I think now we can at least say that he's not just benefiting from media attention. He's driving media attention in really interesting and important ways that allows him to deflect the debate away from maybe things that would otherwise hurt him. The Megyn Kelly thing distracted from his refusal to pledge to stay with the Republican Party. His comments about Jeb Bush speaking Spanish deflected from a very strong attack ad about Jeb Bush -- I'm sorry, about Mr. Trump's record on policy issues that were quite liberal. This is a skill. It's not something that would be like Kim Kardashian, which I think when I was at the show, I joked that Kim Kardashian would benefit from the same media attention. I think that's right to some extent. But Mr. Trump is showing additional skill that wasn't evident at least to me at the time.", "Rick, this was one of those moments where that line, past performance is not a guarantee of future results comes to mind. I mean, you've called Trump a cancer, a giant hair shadow with a delicious hint of fascism. And those are just the quotes I can say on the air. Do you think you've had any impact this summer then?", "You know what? I've come to recognize that the folks in the core of Trump supporters as I like to say, they are post-rational. They don't care what his history, what his record is. They are in love with the celebrity candidate. They're in love with the character Donald Trump plays on TV. They've stopped caring about policy. I do think that the one driver of policy for him is immigration, but the rest of the things -- even when you point out inconsistencies in Trump, they don't care. They're so locked into the dynamic of being with this rebellious media character and the reality TV show that he's creating instead of our normal political dialogue, our normal political discourse, they love it. And the media folks love it and he loves it. We talked about this in the beginning of the summer. The spectacle is great for ratings. It's great -- there is a dynamic there in the fact that he'll call into any show and that everybody will take his calls, you know, has led him to continue to eat up cycles. And the other candidates, you know, they don't have the same privileged position where they can -- you know, Marco Rubio can't call up Sean Hannity and say give me an hour on TV. It's just not going to happen, or Jeb Bush or anybody else. So --", "Maybe it would. I mean, we don't know if we know that for sure. I think some shows would take phone calls from other candidates. But I think you're right to some degree. There is a unique quality to a Trump interview. You're guaranteed to make some news. He is guaranteed to be unpredictable. So, in the minute I have left, we're here all revising our predictions from July. That's great. But a lot of TV pundits are not held accountable very often. There are not a lot of consequences when we or they all get it wrong. So, I wonder if that's a factor in Trump's success -- you know, that voters are tuning out the usual political voices. Rick, to you first. What do you think?", "Well, look, I think there is a certain degree in the Trump base where not only do they not want to listen to the normal political voices, they are now declaring them to be an anathema. They're throwing them off the island. I mean, we are in the point in the conservative movement where the Trump faction believes that FOX News, \"The Wall Street Journal\", George Will and Brit Hume, Charles Krauthammer are insufficiently conservative and pure. It's a Jacobin kind of feeling, though. They're after people who disagree with Trump, not just ignoring them.", "Nate, what do you think of the idea that because that pundits are not always held accountable. We sometimes forget or move on from what we see here on TV, that people tune it out, they tend not to believe our predictions?", "I think that's often true. And I can't blame people for that. I do think, though, that, you know, if you have a well-grounded analytical framework for the way you understand candidates, you're going to be right more often than not and I think it's fair to take risk and apply that, you know, across the board. Sometimes, they'll be wrong but that's part of usually being right.", "Nate and Rick, thank you so much for being here. Thanks for being good sports about this. Coming up here, finding a new foe on FOX News, as a number of anchors and guests are going after the Black Lives Matter movement for what they see as hateful speech. Or was it hateful or misunderstood? Dr. Cornel West and Marc Lamont Hill have a message for the critics when we return."], "speaker": ["BRIAN STELTER, CNN HOST", "HUGH HEWITT, RADIO HOST", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "HEWITT", "TRUMP", "HEWITT", "TRUMP", "HEWITT", "TRUMP", "HEWITT", "TRUMP", "HEWITT", "TRUMP", "STELTER", "HEWITT", "STELTER", "HEWITT", "STELTER", "HEWITT", "STELTER", "TRUMP (via telephone)", "STELTER", "HEWITT", "STELTER", "HEWITT", "STELTER", "HEWITT", "STELTER", "HEWITT", "STELTER", "CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC", "TRUMP", "MEGYN KELLY, FOX NEWS", "GEORGE WILL, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "RON REAGAN, COMMENTATOR", "TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LOU DOBBS, TV HOST", "CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS", "KARL ROVE, GOP STRATEGIST", "TRUMP", "ROVE", "LUKE RUSSERT, NBC NEWS", "TRUMP", "BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS", "TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KELLY", "TRUMP", "ANA NAVARRO, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "TRUMP", "HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "PAUL BEGALA, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TRUMP", "STELTER", "NATE COHN, THE NEW YORK TIMES", "STELTER", "COHN", "RICK WILSON, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST", "STELTER", "COHN", "STELTER", "WILSON", "STELTER", "WILSON", "STELTER", "COHN", "STELTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-258743", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-07-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/03/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Richard Matt Wrote to Daughter Before Escape", "utt": ["New details this morning about the New York prison escape including a letter and a promise made by now dead escapee Richard Matt to his daughter. According to the \"Buffalo News,\" Matt reached out to his daughter before the infamous prison break vowing to, quote, \"see you on the outside.\" Jean Casarez is live for us in Dannemora, New York, with the details. Good morning, Jean.", "Good morning, Poppy. \"The Buffalo News\" is reporting through an unnamed law enforcement source that the daughter of Richard Matt actually received a letter on June 9th. Now that was after the breakout right here at the prison, but it was written and mailed before he escaped. And the pertinent part of that letter, we have it for everybody, it says, quote, \"I made you -- I always promised you I would see you on the outside. I'm a man of my word.\" And, of course, we don't know if he was bragging here, if the intent was to finally get to his daughter, but the New York State Department of Corrections as per policy does not go through outgoing mail from the inmates unless the superintendent by written authorization believes there is a security risk, believes there is something in a written correspondence that they need to know for the prison itself or for the community. But that was the last written correspondence we know that Richard Matt made, but it was one week ago today in the afternoon when Richard Matt was surrounded by law enforcement. Now, in the hours before that happened, we want to show you the trailer that Richard Matt was in, one of the many areas he was in. This trailer is not far from the road, as you can see. It is dilapidated, it is abandoned. The registration on it says 1998. It was from that trailer, not far from the road, that Richard Matt shot that 20-gauge shotgun and shot into the camper of a passing motorist. Well, that was when the tactical unit of the Customs and Border Patrol were alerted. They flew in in helicopter. They did a ground search, and about 3:45 in the afternoon a week ago today, they cornered Matt. One agent asked him to surrender because they saw that 20-gauge shotgun, and now we are learning Matt actually pointed the gun at the agent who then shot three shots into Richard Matt in the head, shooting and killing him -- Poppy.", "Wow. Jean Casarez reporting for us right outside the prison. Thank you. Let's talk more about this investigation with Patrick Johnson, he is a former warden at Chautauqua County Jail."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-34804", "program": "CNN WORLD REPORT", "date": "2001-7-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/15/wr.04.html", "summary": "Car Chases in Britain Cause Damage to Bystanders", "utt": ["Police in England are evaluating the effects of high-speed car chases; they're intended of being a method of protecting the public. But human error and unsafe vehicles at times lead police car chases into to deadly road. We get more from Britain's ITN.", "The high-speed car chase may be a good way of catching criminals, but a cost to the public was revealed to be higher than every before. According to the Police Complaints Authority, the number of deaths has risen sharply over the last four years. The cause could be too little training and wrong vehicles being used. Today's response from police is even one death is too many but the figure should be put in perspective.", "On a daily basis, almost, there are daily cases of people being run down by drunken drivers; there's cases of people being killed by disingenuous joy riders who have stolen vehicles and are driving excessively fast, so the number of occasions that police officers are actually involved in is very small.", "It was a police car that hit Robert Scutts who can walk now with help but a head injury ruled out his dream of being a pilot.", "It's taken me a long time to get used to the problems it has caused. Physical and mental. It's more -- it's learning to live with it, and I think I have learned how to live with it now.", "All forces are being urged to review their driving policy. (on camera): A change in the law could soon be an option. Police officers are only allowed to run red lights and break the speed limit"], "speaker": ["ASIEH NAMDAR, CNN ANCHOR", "LINDA KENNEDY, ITN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "RICHARD CULLEN, ASSN. OF CHIEF POLICE OFFICERS", "KENNEDY", "ROBERT SCUTTS, POLICE PURSUIT VICTIM", "KENNEDY"]}
{"id": "CNN-385342", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-11-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1911/11/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Hong Kong Protester Shot By Police Officer; Crisis in Bolivia; President Trump Impeachment Inquiry; Spain Decides", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. We are coming to you live from CNN Center in Atlanta. I'm Natalie Allen. This is \"CNN Newsroom.\" Ahead here, chaos in Hong Kong. Police are defending an officer who fired live ammunition at close range amid clashes with protesters. Also, crisis in Bolivia. Allegations of election fraud forced Evo Morales to resign as president after almost 14 years in power. Also ahead here, sources say British lawmakers ignored warnings about Russian interference in U.K. politics. It is a CNN exclusive. Thank you again for joining us. Our top story, a police shooting is fuelling more outrage in Hong Kong, where protests are in their 23rd week. A warning, what you are about to see is graphic. Video shows a traffic officer with his pistol drawn wrestling with a protester. A different protester approaches and he is shot point blank in the torso. Other protesters grapple with the officer and two more shots are fired. The wounded protesters survived. Authorities say he is in hospital in critical condition. For more, let's go to CNN's Will Ripley. He is live out in the streets in Hong Kong for us. Will, this is another example of a tragedy on the streets in this ongoing crisis.", "It is, Natalie. The video of the shootings spread like wildfire on social media here in Hong Kong. And within hours, protesters were vowing revenge. In fact, the chant that protesters have been repeating out here on the streets has changed and now they are saying Hongkongers take revenge for what they feel is excessive and disproportionate force by Hong Kong police although, keep in mind, the protesters allegedly involved in this incident were physically trying to beat the officer who then pulled out his gun and fired live rounds of ammunition. I want to show you what is happening here, Natalie. We are on Hartford Road -- Connaught Road Central. This is one of the main thoroughfares here in Hong Kong busiest shopping district. This is a five-lane roadway that in a matter of like 10 minutes has been completely shut down by this group of protesters, predominately young people based on what I can see behind their masks, which they are wearing in violation of Hong Kong's anti-mask law that was designed to prevent precisely this kind of thing. And now what they're doing behind these umbrellas there, they are ripping up bricks from the sidewalks that they become very accustomed at doing. They set up like a little supply line and they're getting the bricks from the sidewalk across the highway to the other side of the road. These bricks are being put in place to prevent police and fire vehicles from -- you see them pulling the bricks right there -- to prevent police and fire vehicles from being able to drive in here and take control of the scene. It is extraordinary how efficient they are. You see people putting up their umbrellas to block the view of our cameras to try to protect the identities of the protesters who seem undeterred by the threat of punishment including jail time, fines, potentially years behind bars. That is not stopping these young people from doing this basically almost every day. We see scenes like this or at least every week for sure for 23 or 24 consecutive weeks now, more than five months of protests here in Hong Kong. And this is a city that stunningly seems to show no signs of coming under control. In fact, the sense I get here on the streets is that the city is losing control. People are angrier. They are more determined than ever to continue to disrupt life in the city despite the fact that the city is now in recession. The hospitality and service industries are in the tank. And then you have this, a police officer shown on camera on a motorcycle basically trying to ram the motorcycle right into a group of front line protesters dressed in black who are running away from the scene of an activity just like this. Tensions are flaring on all sides. We also have reports that a man who is voicing support for the Chinese government was doused with petroleum and set on fire. There is a video of that. We are working to get that clear to make sure that it is authentic. But it is absolutely horrifying -- the things that we are seeing play out on the streets of Hong Kong in less than 24 hours. It's only Monday, Natalie, and this is what is happening. We have our gas masks ready because inevitably the police will come.", "They are going to fire tear gas and maybe pull out the water cannon. But yet it does not seem to stop any of this from continuing week after week.", "It is really amazing how these protesters are so determined. And as you say, it's been going on for five months. All right, take care, Will Ripley and your team. Thanks for bringing that to us. We will stay in touch. Right now, it is not clear who is leading Bolivia after political after political upheaval forced its president to resign. Evo Morales had been in power for nearly 14 years. After a handful of other resignations, the second vice president of Bolivia Senate says that leaves her next in line and is willing to assume the office. When Morales announced his resignation, he claimed he was forced out in a coup. Crowds cheered and waved flags as they heard the news. A big change from the past few weeks when protesters stormed into the streets accusing Mr. Morales of fraud after he claimed victory in last month's election. CNN's Patrick Oppmann has more on the developments.", "A political earthquake is rocking Bolivia after the country's longest-serving staunch leftist president Evo Morales was forced to step down. It's been weeks of violent protests and allegations that Morales had stolen an election to become president for a fourth term. Morales had denied that and said that he was facing a coup. But after report came out showing widespread fraud, Morales finally on Sunday offered to hold new elections. The offer came too late for the country's opposition for the military and the police, many of them have risen up against Morales. The head of the military said on Sunday it was time for Morales to leave office. In hours, Morales did just that, shocking Bolivia and much of Latin America. He said that it was a coup. It was forcing him from power. He recognized that if he didn't leave, there would be bloodshed, and he wanted to avoid that. Many of Morales's critics said that he become too authoritarian, that he was never planning on leaving the presidency, and that he was essentially becoming a dictator. So while Morales is out, he has received offers from other countries to seek asylum there. But Morales says while he may no longer be president of Bolivia, he is not going anywhere. Patrick Oppmann, CNN, Mexico City.", "Reaction to the events unfolding in Bolivia is so far mixed. In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo commended the OAS audit of the election. He says that the United States supports calls for a new election and the installation of a new electoral council. Mexico's foreign minister says 20 Bolivian officials are seeking refuge at the Mexican ambassador's residence in La Paz. He added, Mexico would grant Morales asylum if he requested it. But Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez is condemning what he called a coup against Morales. That sentiment is being echoed by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. We turn now to the U.S. impeachment inquiry entering a pivotal phase this week with the launch of televised hearings. Beginning Wednesday, lawmakers will hear from witnesses about allegations President Donald Trump withheld military funding to pressure Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Among the first to appear is the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine. This man is Bill Taylor. Meantime, House Republicans want to hear from Hunter Biden and the anonymous whistleblower, who triggered this inquiry, though Democrats insist that will not happen. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham weighed in on that.", "It is impossible to bring this case forward in my view fairly without us knowing who the whistleblower is and having a chance to cross examine them about any biases they may have. So if they don't call the whistleblower in the House, this thing is dead on arrival in the Senate.", "In another development, The New York Times reports the attorney for one of Rudy Giuliani's associates left Parnas, says Parnas delivered an ultimatum to Ukraine's new leadership at Rudy Giuliani's direction. For more on the hearings and the Republican strategy, Natasha Lindstaedt joins us now from Colchester, England. She is a professor of government at the University of Essex. Natasha, good morning to you. Thank you for coming in. First step here, we are getting insight into the republican playbook for this week.", "They are working to divert and distract ahead of the hearings. They are floating conspiracy theory and confusion. With that, will these hearings be able to provide the clarity and openness that Republicans have requested when it was behind committee doors?", "Well, I think they are going to be able to provide clarity. The Democrats have been trying to provide a clear narrative about has happened. The testimonies of George Kent, Bill Taylor, and Marie Yovanovitch have been actually very clear. They have all agreed with one another. They all corroborated what the whistleblower initially said. They put together a very clear story to understand that the president was basically extorting Ukraine until they would investigate his political opponent and that there was a shutout diplomacy effort taking place. And on top of that, a smear campaign led by Giuliani to undermine the credibility of Marie Yovanovitch because she was getting in the way of this attempt to get the Ukrainians to investigate the Bidens. So we have been hearing the same story over and over. I think what's gonna happen with the public hearings, one is that the Republicans can no longer say that the process is not transparent, so they can't really keep arguing that anymore. People will be able to also just see for themselves and gear for themselves these testimonies, which I think are going to be very damning and which are all going to be on the same page, corroborating the story from the original whistleblower.", "Right. Also, the president is warning moderate Republicans to stick by him, claiming he did nothing wrong. What do you expect from moderates? There are some republicans not up for re-election. They're retiring.", "So far, the Republicans have stuck by him. They have been pretty loyal to him. They did not necessarily publicly state that they believe there was no quid pro. In fact, they mostly stayed silent. But if you look at the way the House voted, not one Republican decided to vote alongside with the Democrat or the one independent. So we have seen that there has been a pretty tightknit group. But what is going on behind closed doors is a completely different story. We are continually hearing reports that Republicans are incredibly frustrated, particularly these moderate Republicans, that this is just a huge mess for them, that it could ruin their chances of reelection. And then for those that aren't going to be running for election, this really is a question about what kind of legacy do they want to leave. We've also seen the elections in Kentucky and in Virginia. Democrats have made huge gains possibly because of this whole impeachment inquiry and mess surrounding Trump.", "That's so true. Well, we heard Lindsey Graham a moment ago talk about the fact that unless the whistleblower comes forward and is allowed to testify, that this hearing will be invalid. But the whole point is a whistleblower is allowed to remain anonymous and has offered to give written testimony. So where do you think that argument is gonna go?", "Lindsey Graham is really missing the point here of what whistleblower is supposed to do. They are supposed to be able to remain anonymous. As you've already mentioned, there are even statutes to protect whistleblowers because if they don't remain anonymous, they might not come forward. They take on huge risks. They play a really important role in democracies, in checking abuses of power and other types of corruption. So this argument is just insane to me. The other issue is that the whistleblower has provided his or her account and we had testimony after testimony that has corroborated the account, most notably Alexander Vindman, who even had a first-hand account. He was on the phone call. He corroborated everything that the whistleblower has said. So there is no reason to try to out this whistleblower and post some sort of risk to this person. It doesn't make any sense, this type of argument. But again, we are seeing Republicans returning to this idea that the process is wrong and therefore we are not gonna listen to any of it.", "All right. It begins this week, and we will talk again, Natasha. Natasha Lindstaedt for us. Thank you for your insights.", "Thanks for having me.", "Sure thing. Spain once again finds itself in the political stalemate after socialists came out on top in the country's national elections but failed to gain a majority, this as the far-right Vox party more than doubled its seats in parliament. Acting prime minister and socialist leader Pedro Sanchez is calling on all parties to help ease the political gridlock starting Monday. Spain has struggled to form a stable government.", "This was the second election in just over six months and the fourth in as many years. Well, the British government is accused of delaying a report on Russian influence in U.K. politics. Coming up, in a CNN exclusive, how sources say parliament was worried about the meddling but failed to act."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "RIPLEY", "ALLEN", "PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC)", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "NATASHA LINDSTAEDT, PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT, UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX", "ALLEN", "LINDSTAEDT", "ALLEN", "LINDSTAEDT", "ALLEN", "LINDSTAEDT", "ALLEN", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-174842", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-10-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1110/28/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Mayor of Oakland Apologizes for Violent Clash Between Police and Protestors; NYPD Union Threatens to Sue Protesters; \"Occupy Nashville\" Deadline to Leave", "utt": ["It is 14 minutes past the hour. Welcome back. After seeing what happened in Oakland, a New York City police sergeant is looking to protect 5,000 officers in his union. He says you're not hearing the whole story about the violence in Oakland or in lower Manhattan, and he is threatening to sue any protest who injures an officer. Joining us now is Sergeant Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association in New York. Also speaking on behalf of the protest is Dan Cantor, executive director of the Working Families Party in New York. Welcome to both of you.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Let's start with what happened in Oakland, because one of the protesters was injured there yesterday. The mayor of Oakland apologized for what happened, although she did not place any blame on police. From your perspective as a police officer, what went down in Oakland?", "Well, I don't know her reasoning behind giving the green light, so to speak, to have the police take action. My understanding of what happened was that, you know, specific laws, conditions were created and being broken, and protesters were basically being asked to, you know, move and clear - clear out. That didn't happen, and then police took action, and it escalated.", "At what point did police decide to use tear gas, let's say?", "Well, that's an interesting decision to be made. You know, tear gas would be used in, you know, violent crowds. We see it all the time on TV. Particularly in a lot of foreign countries, where crowds are being disbursed.", "But in this particular instance in Oakland, I mean, there were reports that protesters were throwing things like rocks and paints at police - at police officers. Do those actions in themselves warrant the use of tear gas?", "They could. Absolutely could.", "And, Dan, from your perspective, what happened in Oakland?", "It seemed that the police overreacted, that the amount of force was used on an overwhelmingly peaceful group of demonstrators. There were just some outliers. The police have a tough job. They've got to keep order and respect the first amendment rights of protesters. That's not a trivial balance to keep and we count on the police to uphold the rights of protesters to petition their government, so to speak, and to assemble freely. In Oakland, it was terrible. This young Iraq vet is in critical condition, maybe serious now.", "He's better now.", "He's better now, good. Regardless, it's terrible that in - in such a situation somebody's back from Iraq gets hit in the head and is in the hospital. So it's good that the Oakland mayor apologized. We see many police departments around the country dealing much better with the protesters than in Oakland. Much more respectfully. And that's how it should be, because this is a very serious amendment to we're trying to uphold.", "But even you have said that police are in a tough position, right? And tell us about that, because --", "Why they're trained.", "-- do police feel they're in the middle and they're being used in a way?", "Well, authority can be used. I mean, our job, police across the country, their job is really to hold the constitution, when you think about it, and when violations occur, laws are broken, there becomes the issue of conflict. This is a decision that has to be made whether action is taken, and, you know, everyone understands the right to free assembly and protest. We get that. But there are also rights of other person who are on their way to work, live in the area, who need to get in and out of traffic and, you know, walk around their particular city.", "And you say officers have been injured in Lower Manhattan, 20 officers. Tell us about that?", "That's right. There's approximately 20 officers, maybe a little bit more than that right now who have received injuries, minor injuries. No one has been put in the hospital like, you know, in the case of this veteran in California. You know, they've received injuries in the course of making arrests or being assaulted, and what I'd like to see is that not happen. I'd like to see nobody get injured. And, you know, we talk about the veteran in Oakland who was injured and, you know, yes, he's an Iraq veteran, but it could be anyone have gotten injured and that wouldn't be a good thing either. So, you know, my method was to put everybody on notice -", "Who is injuring these police officers?", "What happens in a demonstration, when - when there is a need to take action, to correct a violation, a law, or correct an obstruction of, you know, pedestrian traffic, two things can happen. Either the protesters comply or they resist. And we've seen peaceful demonstrations in the past. We've seen sit-ins where people just get arrested, and that's the end of it. In cases where conflict comes about and violence comes about as a result of it, we now have a situation that escalates to a whole different level, and - and that expands into other people or people that want to -", "So you're saying that protesters in the Occupy Movement have injured police officers in the course of arrests?", "Yes. That's how it generally happens.", "Well, in general, these have been overwhelmingly peaceful protests all over the country. Unfortunately, New York, the most prominent example of unfortunate action was the pepper spraying by a police captain of one of the protesters. Listen, that - that happens and there are outliers we count on the police to exercise restraint and we count on the protesters to be non-violent. There's an irony here, of course. It becomes the decision about this, as opposed to what protesters are really about, which is why the Oakland thing was so upsetting. It's even ironic. My favorite sign down at Occupy Wall Street, one of my favorite is, \"Police join us. They're destroying your pensions, too.\" And I know this is, you know, on the minds of Sergeant Mullins and his members. Their pensions were undone by some of the gambling that happened on Wall Street. So it's important to keep in mind what this is really all about, and not turn it into a battleground.", "Well, let me ask you this question. Why is it important that these protesters camp out? Why can't they go home at night and come back in the morning?", "Well, you might have asked the same to the protesters in Tahrir Square in Egypt. You have to be there physically to make your point.", "All night long?", "Sure. Why do the protesters stay in Resurrection City on the mall when King - after King died? There's a long, historic tradition. It's not the only way protests happen, but it's a long and historic one and it's a way of saying this is so important we're going to upset our normal routine and be here overnight. This crisis - this unemployment crisis, this housing crisis are so important to people that they're willing to do that and they have to be respected for doing it.", "And just your thoughts, your final thoughts, Sergeant, on these protesters camping out overnight, would you rather they not?", "I would, and I, honestly, I believe that they have an impact to other businesses in the area, to the community in the area, and, you know, they're arguing for pensions, but public safety has to come before money. And that seems to be the big issue in this country. It's always about money. We lost touch with public safety, values and things that affect the everyday working person. If we're all for the working person, then we would be doing orderly protests, we would be doing", "Thank you both for coming in. Sergeant Mullins -", "Thank you.", "Dan, thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "Ali?", "Great discussion, Carol. Thank you for that. It's time to check on the weather. Twenty-two minutes after the hour. Let's go to Rob. Rob, you've got a lot to report on, say, in terms of the weather. We got snow in the south. I'm getting tweets now from Connecticut and some just around New York saying that there may be snow very close to where we are.", "Yes. There's been snow in many spots and there's more to come, Ali. First off, we start you off with what happened in the Texas Panhandle. Amarillo reporting a significant snow over the past 24 hours, enough to at least coat the roadways and the grassy areas. Two to three inches of it, as a matter of fact. This - we didn't think they'd get this much snow and they're certainly take the ongoing drought, any sort of precip is welcome. But this is early in the season and that is certainly a shocker. Also seeing snow across parts of New England, as Ali mentioned, upstate Connecticut, upstate New York, Western Massachusetts and just outside of Boston also seeing significant snow and Vermont, too. Anywhere from four to seven inches from the system that rolls through yesterday, and it's kind of prime things up, setting the stage for what's about to come over the next 24 to 36 hours. The storm system down across the south is bringing some rain across the Tennessee Valley and the mid-south. That will be making its way towards the East Coast. As it does so, it will be winding itself up like a nor'easter would do. Memphis back to Nashville seeing a little bit of rain. It's getting into Huntsville now, not terribly strong but it will strengthen as it gets towards the coastline. A little bit of rain across Florida from what's left of Rina. All right, here's our storm system towards the Carolinas, towards the Delmarva, winding itself up during the day tomorrow and throughout the overnight period tomorrow night. And we will see it looks like significant snow in inland areas. Ocean temperatures still kind of warm. So as long as you get that breeze off the water it's going to keep the temperatures just warm enough so that we don't see a significant accumulation, but could see a dusting (ph) - maybe an inch, maybe two inches in places like New York City or Boston. But if you go a little bit further inland, we got winter storm watches that are posted as far south as Virginia to, of course, as far north as parts of Maine. Three to six inches potentially. And you may be saying, well, it's that time of year? No. This is unusual if we get this much snow to fall this time of year. We still have leaves that on the tree branches. It's going to weighted down by the snow. We're going to see a significant power outages especially you get away from the I-95 corridor. So for some folks, Ali and Carol, we're going to see maybe a bit of a white trick-or-treat scenario.", "I love it. I got - we got people tweeting that their kids are going to wear their snowsuits for the first time before their Halloween costumes. But, you know, I'm like you, Rob. I love the snow.", "Bring it on.", "Carol, on the other hand, would rather like it to be a little warmer.", "Man, I was born to live in a tropical climate. I'm sorry.", "You're welcome here anytime, Carol.", "See you, Rob.", "You bet.", "Still to come this morning, everybody's favorite airline fees, they're still going up. We'll have details for you after the break."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "SGT. 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{"id": "CNN-269488", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2015-11-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1511/20/ath.02.html", "summary": "U.S. House Votes to Pause Acceptance of Syrian Refugees", "utt": ["He just said that yesterday.", "We need to make sure we can close any gaps we're aware of. The task force I was on identified 32 findings, which are across the board, related to the terrorist threat, the foreign fighter flow, and the homegrown extremism we're seeing. Having been a former combat pilot and participated in targeting and air campaigns on many different levels, we have to unleash American air power in Iraq and Syria. We have to take the gloves off our pilots and stop having them come home with our weapons while we allow ISIS to fund their terrorism and export it abroad.", "You talk about tone in criticizing the president. Tone has been a big question on the presidential campaign trail. I want to get your take on a couple of points. In praising this move to make it more difficult or making stricter rules, one of the front-runners, Ben Carson, he said this. I hope you can hear this one. He said this about some of those refugees making a comparison to rabid dogs.", "If there's a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog. And you're probably going to put your children out of the way. Doesn't mean you hate all dogs.", "Equating some of them to rabid dogs. What do you say to that?", "We are the most compassionate country when it comes to refugees. We take in more than any other country. We spend a significant amount of resources to help refugees. The American people really want to make sure we keep our country safe. So, this --", "Is he helping that?", "I can only tell you what we're doing. I've spent hours in classified hearings and briefings this whole week, working on our own legislation. My intent as a member of the House of Representatives with a national security background is to address all of these threats to make sure we keep America safe. We need a strategy more than ever. The president is failing in that regard.", "One thing that would fall on Congress, if this would actually happen, is Donald Trump in Iowa, he seemed to suggest just yesterday that he would put in place or want to put in place a national database for Muslims in the United States. Is that something you think is -- should happen, would happen? You would support if that came before Congress?", "No. Look, what we identified is there is a sophisticated threat of homegrown extremism. That doesn't necessarily mean if you're Muslim. We've seen individuals being radicalized, the average age is 24, from Western countries. We have investigations right now in America, in all 50 states. 70 arrests so far this year. And the uptick is really straining our resources with federal investigators. This is something we all need to work together, all hands on deck.", "What about that?", "We've got to make sure we in our own neighborhoods and communities are identifying those that are becoming radicalized for any different reason. It doesn't have to be, you know, related to their faith. I think the Muslim community also needs to step up because their religion has been hijacked. This is a very complicated issue.", "Complicated, no question. I mean, if there was --", "And we need a comprehensive strategy, which this administration has not given to us. We need leadership, we need resolve and we need a strategy that is coherent --", "You want to change the leadership in the White House, no question. You want a Republican in the White House. If this Republican is in the White House and he wants to make a national database, is that --", "Right now we have someone in the White House, commander-in- chief, leader of the free world, and what we need right now -- we can't wait another 14 months. Right now my focus is this current commander-in-chief is stepping up, showing leadership, coming up with a comprehensive strategy to hit ISIS where they are, work with our allies in the region, to keep our interests and allies safe, and also to address the homegrown extreme that's happening here. We have very real vulnerabilities. Our task force identified them. I'm focused on getting solutions right now and not all the political theater.", "Congresswoman, thank you for your time. I really appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "A very urgent time, a very urgent need for solutions. Absolutely. Let's get back to our other big breaking story at this hour, the attack ongoing, an ongoing situation at the hotel in Mali in West Africa. U.S. Special Operation forces are assisting in the situation. We'll talk about that, their role and what's next, what's going on there right now in Mali. Also, an important programming note for all of you this week in the premiere of \"The Hunting Ground,\" that airs this Sunday. The film is an in-depth look at how two college students, both survivors of sexual assault, join forces to challenge universities to take sexual assaults on campuses more seriously. Take a look.", "We've known for probably 25 years now that the problem of sexual assault on college campuses is enormous.", "On college campuses it is not the person jumping out of the Bushes or in the parking lot who is going to rape our sexually assault you. It is a person whom you know, the person you may have classes with, the person you see at a party. You think about, you know, the people we don't know that we should be worried about but it's really the people that you do know you should be worried about. 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{"id": "CNN-109898", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2006-8-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/30/lol.01.html", "summary": "Lebanese Government Makes Efforts to Rebuild", "utt": ["U.S. Marines in court. Hearings start today at Camp Pendleton for seven Marines and a Navy corpsman, all charged with murdering an unarmed Iraqi man four months ago. Prosecutors say the troops took the victim from his home in Hamdaniya, shot him, then tried to make him look like an insurgent. Defense lawyers question the credibility of the Iraqis who reported the killing. The hearings will determine whether to recommend courts-martial. The blockade isn't budging for now. U.N. chief Kofi Annan has failed to move Israel to lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon. Israel worries that would open the flow of weapons to Hezbollah. But after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Annan says that Israel's concerns are being addressed.", "I think we need to be able to take care of the concerns of Israel. And I understand the issue of rearmament, that we need to make sure that arms do not come in, either through the airports and the borders, or through the seaports. And I can assure you that in my discussions with the Lebanese authorities, they are taking this issue seriously, and they are taking measures to deal with it. And the international community should work with them to deal with it. But in the meantime, I do believe that the blockade should be lifted.", "Well, Israel says that it will lift the blockade once international forces are on the ground, along Lebanon's borders with Israel and Syria. Now Lebanon is offering roughly $33,000 to citizens who lost their homes in the fighting with Israel. Two weeks ago, Hezbollah began handing out $12,000 payments in Southern Beirut. CNN's Anthony Mills is in the Lebanese capital to tell us more about those checks -- Anthony.", "Kyra, it really does appear as though the Lebanese government is trying to re-seize the initiative now with this package of $33,000 or so. After being almost embarrassed a couple weeks ago when Hezbollah was handing out wads of cash in the southern suburbs, $12,000 a head to people who lost their homes there. And this in the run-up to a conference which will be attended -- a donor conference in Stockholm, Sweden, which will be attended by government officials. Now, even in the cleanup there is Hezbollah eclipsing the Lebanese government. Let's take a look.", "An aerial survey of Lebanon's coastline, stained by a massive oil slick, six weeks after thousands of tons of oil leaked into the sea from a power plant struck by Israeli missiles in the heat of war. Along the coast, oil blackens beaches, coats rocks, clogs ports and settles on the sea bed. In the normally bustling fishing harbor of Biblos, north of Beirut, boats sit idle, trapped in a black sludge.", "All these nets are ruined. They cost $5,000-6,000. Nobody's helping us or compensating us.", "Lebanon's government hopes that an international donor conference in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, on Friday will yield hundreds of millions of dollars in funds for reconstruction. But before Lebanon can begin large-scale reconstruction of homes, the country's damaged infrastructure must be fixed and thousands of tons of rubble cleaned up.", "We need to remove, to clear the areas of the rubble. We need to take care for the infrastructure first.", "In Beirut's once densely populated southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold heavily bombarded throughout the five-week Israel/Hezbollah war, there is one destroyed building after another. Hezbollah has been quick to organize a huge cleanup effort in the suburbs it controls. (on camera) All day long, hundreds of trucks transport twisted metal and concrete from Beirut's devastated southern suburbs and dump it here, creating a mountain of rubble. (voice-over) Although government officials say the government is involved in the cleanup, this is very much a Hezbollah-run operation, in the heart of Hezbollah-controlled territory. Armed guards, who ordered us not to film them, watch over the dump site. And everywhere are Hezbollah symbols. A foreman with a Hezbollah association, overseeing the cleanup, who declines to reveal his last name, highlights Hezbollah's role.", "They're helping us a lot. We are very grateful for that.", "As Lebanon's prime minister, Fouad Siniora, heads to the Sweden donor conference, seeking to reassert governmental authority in the cleanup and reconstruction process, back home in the southern suburbs, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, not Prime Minister Siniora, is seen as a savior.", "Even in the cleanup process in the southern suburbs, Kyra, there's no question that Hezbollah's in control.", "Anthony, the latest on Lebanon's rebuilding effort. Let's talk about that for a minute. There definitely appears to be a constant tug-of-war between Hezbollah and the government to this point. Do you think they'll find any common ground?", "Well, there really is a tug-of-war. On the face of it, people are talking of unity, and there's no real attacking -- direct attacking of one party by the other. But there's certainly a tag of war in efforts to appear to really be doing something. I think the Lebanese government really was stung by criticism in the early stages of the cleanup, when Hezbollah suddenly started distributing these packages of cash in the southern suburbs and the Lebanese government was effectively accused of, A, doing nothing, and even, to a certain extent, allowing a state to function within a state. Because we're talking about a large sum of money. There are thousands of people who have lost their homes. By the prime minister's account himself today in the press conference, 50,000 homes were either partially or completely destroyed in those southern suburbs. So this is really the Lebanese government fighting back.", "Anthony Mills, live from Beirut, thank you. Three more Brits are charged today with plotting to smuggle liquid bombs onto airliners bound for the U.S. Fifteen suspects have now been charged out of 25 people arrested by Scotland Yard in connection with that alleged plot. Five remain in custody but have not been charged. Five others have been released. A lunch hour hit and run rampage. The weapon, an SUV. Details from San Francisco. Plus, a fast-moving wildfire in Southern California. Two communities threatened. We're going to take you there, straight ahead on LIVE FROM."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "KOFI ANNAN, U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL", "PHILLIPS", "ANTHONY MILLS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MILLS (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "MILLS", "YAACOUB SARRAF, LEBANESE ENVIRONMENT MINISTER", "MILLS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "MILLS", "MILLS", "PHILLIPS", "MILLS", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "NPR-48102", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2011-06-11", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/06/11/137123229/nato-reaches-a-draw-in-libya", "title": "NATO Reaches A Draw In Libya", "summary": "While the NATO chief claims Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi could be expelled any day now, others say the situation in Libya has reached a stalemate. Host Scott Simon talks with Dirk Vandewalle, professor of government at Dartmouth, about what's led to the stalemate and the prospects for breaking it.", "utt": ["The conflict between rebels and the Libyan government has reached a stalemate by most observers' standards. But over this week, NATO has intensified bombings, day and night, in Tripoli, the country's capital and at Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold. And NATO Secretary-General Anders Rasmussen has declared that Gadhafi's days were numbered, even as the Libyan leader himself repeated he's not going anywhere.", "Dirk Vandewalle is a professor of government at Dartmouth College and an expert on Libya. He joins us from the campus in Hanover, New Hampshire. Professor Vandewalle, thanks for being with us.", "My pleasure.", "It's a stalemate?", "I think it is indeed a stalemate. It is quite clear that the rebels themselves in the eastern part of Libya simply don't have the capability of really conquering the rest of the country. And so the stalemate is even more acute in part because the international coalition that is NATO in effect has become now the arbiter of whether or not it remains a stalemate or whether or not Gadhafi gets deposed.", "What about the initial premise to protect civilians? Has that been met?", "It has of course been met to a certain extent but the problem has been that, remember, at the very beginning that President Obama warned us against mission creep and that is exactly what has happened. Because it's gone far beyond simply protecting individuals. It's now actively targeting Gadhafi and the people around him.", "And in effect what NATO is now trying to accomplish is what we would call a regime change, for all practical purposes.", "Is it beyond the realm of possibility now to you that regime change might occur in the next few weeks or months?", "I think regime change is inevitable in Libya. The resources that the Gadhafi government has at this particular point in time are steadily being degraded and being degraded at rapidly almost an exponential rate I would argue. But also the ability to feed the population in Tripoli (unintelligible), and particularly in Tripoli access to money to pay for the resources that he needs.", "And so in the end, I think, the removal of the Gadhafi regime is inevitable at this point.", "Yet, back in March you were on with our colleagues on WEEKEND EDITION SUNDAY when the plan to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya was initiated. You said it created more problems than it solved. How do you feel about that now?", "In a sense I still feel the same way. The only positive development that we've seen so far is that the rebel, the transitional government in Benghazi has been able to organize itself a bit better, and is trying to build an infrastructure. But in a sense the very basic problem remains that NATO now needs to act more forcefully to remove Gadhafi.", "When you bomb a man's house or perhaps it should be palace, do you kind of close of any possibility that he'll decide to go into exile and obviate the military campaign?", "It certainly, I think, makes it much more difficult. And in a way that scenario that even the United States was interested in, let's say, about a month and a half ago, has frankly, I think, disappeared. First of all, the international criminal court has indicted Gadhafi, his son and a couple of people around Gadhafi. So that means effectively that he has very, very few places that he can go.", "And then also the intensification of the bombing has really brought home the message that Gadhafi has kept repeating since this uprising started, that this is a kind of a Western-orchestrated attempt to get at Libya's oil, to occupy Libya again. And so in a sense for Gadhafi this has become a self-fulfilling prophecy and by all indications Gadhafi and probably his family around him are indeed not showing of any signs of wanting to leave Libya.", "And as Gadhafi himself put it, he wants to become the kind of martyr that kind of resonates with the anti-West rhetoric that we've heard from the regime all the way going back to 1969.", "And to be blunt about it, do you foresee him getting his wish in a few months?", "I do, unless something really unexpected happens. I think, as he expressed again over the last couple of days, that he is the personification of Libya as a nation, therefore he himself, I think, will likely not leave Libya.", "Dirk Vandewalle, a professor of government at Dartmouth College. 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{"id": "CNN-164333", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2011-4-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1104/05/acd.02.html", "summary": "U.S. Warns of New Threats in Japan", "utt": ["Breaking news about Japan. \"The New York Times\" reporting tonight that U.S. government engineers sent to help with Japan's nuclear crisis are now warning that the troubled Fukushima Daiichi plant is facing new threats, long-term threats as a result of the measures being taken to keep the plant stable. The \"Times\" got hold of a report outlining potential problems, and in a moment we're going to run them by nuclear engineer Michael Friedlander. But first, some other developments today with this plant, TEPCO. The owner of the plant says it has finally stopped a serious lake at the Number Two Reactor. TEPCO released this photo earlier, saying its latest attempt to repair a crack had reduced -- that had reduced the flow of highly radioactive water into the ocean. You can see the difference here. The picture on the left was taken Saturday; shows much more water gushing from that crack. A short time ago, TEPCO released this photo showing the leak has stopped, and that is very, very good news indeed. Just today, tests showed that water pouring from the Number Two Reactor contained radiation five million times the legal limit. Days ago, it was actually higher. Apart from that leak, though, the plant is still dumping tons of -- thousands of tons of radioactive water into the ocean to free up its storage tanks for water that's even more radioactive. Now high levels of radiation have been found in fish. Today for the first time authorities issued radiation safety standards for fish. Meantime, TEPCO facing a growing backlash, has offered payments to residents in ten communities near the plant. It's calling the money a token offer and says more compensation will come. But one city has already flat-out rejected the money, saying it amounts to about $12 a person. CNN's Kyung Lah joins me from Tokyo, and in Hong Kong, Michael Friedlander, who worked as a senior nuclear power plant operator for more than a decade. So Michael, U.S. government engineers helping the plant are warning that the plant faces new threats, one that could persist indefinitely, mounting stresses on the containment structures, the possibility of explosions due to the release of hydrogen and oxygen; what do you make of these new reports the \"New York Times\" has reported?", "Well, you know, Anderson, let's put it into a little bit of context. We are so far outside the original design basis of this power plant. I think it's prudent that some people step back and take a look at it and ask all the \"what if\" questions. You know, it's important to note that they created a laundry list of these different things that are absolutely just -- they need to be looked at and they need to be considered. But at the end of the day, and I've said this before, we simply cannot put ourselves in the situation where we stop injecting water. That is the only means of cooling the cores. But more importantly, what it does is it illustrates better than I could have ever articulated the absolute sense of urgency that TEPCO needs to take in terms of getting on the long-term method of core cooling, which is the residual heat removal system. It's something we need to consider, it's something that people need to be standing back and asking the \"what if\" questions. But quite honestly, other than that, there's really nothing more that can be done.", "You talked about the heat removal system. What do you mean?", "Nuclear power plants are designed so that, when they shut down, we have systems -- it's a two-loop system. It's sort of like the radiator in your car, where we circulate water through the reactor. It picks up the heat and then it flows through a heat exchanger and that exchanges the heat with another loop that ultimately sends hot water into the ocean, not radioactive but hot water. And that is the long-term method of core cooling that we have to get on. That equipment is normally powered by emergency diesel generators, which of course we know were knocked out during the tsunami. And in fact, they found when they were trying to restore these systems; that was when the radioactive water was found that they've been dealing with now for more than a week.", "Kyung, when I heard TEPCO is offering what they say is a token payment, I didn't realize how much of a token in some places this was, $12 per person. That's kind of stunning, isn't it?", "It's very stunning to the town of Namie (ph). This is one of the towns that was evacuated from the shadow of the nuclear plant. The town basically said, TEPCO, take your token money and you can just keep it. The city manager of Namie says put yourself in his shoes. His people have been evacuated. They haven't been given a timeline that they can go home. They've lost their jobs, their loved ones, their bodies still lying around after the tsunami. They haven't been able to bury them. How is he, as a city manager, supposed to go to these evacuees and say, \"Here; here's $12. Hope you feel better.\" Basically, Namie saying they're just not going to do that.", "Michael, in terms of the international help that -- that Japan has asked for, has received, have they asked for enough? You'd like to see more international involvement, right?", "Absolutely, Anderson. It's difficult for me to -- to understand if it's simply a matter of logistics or if it's an issue of communications, or if this is simply a cultural issue of trying to save face and demonstrating that they can do it themselves. There is capacity and there's certainly capability external to Japan that can be brought to bear on this. I sit here daily astonished looking at just how the government and how TEPCO is flailing around dealing with this issue. We are now three weeks into a major international crisis and I've seen almost no external help brought in.", "And in terms of the water going -- the radiated water going into the ocean, they've stopped that leak. And we showed those pictures before. But they're still dumping tons of water, radioactive water into the Pacific, right?", "You know, you are absolutely correct. On one hand, we can declare a bit of victory for the extremely highly radioactive water that was being dumped in some form. But it's exactly how you said it; we're still in the process of dumping more than three million gallons of water that has more than 100 times the allotted limit of radiation into the ocean. Furthermore, they have not provided any isotopic analysis of exactly what's in that water. And furthermore, because of where that water is coming from, we have reason to believe that there are long-lived radio isotopes in that water. Again, the issue they have been dealing for several weeks now, we simply need to keep our eye on the food chain, because this is where this is all going to come home to roost.", "Michael Friedlander, appreciate your expertise; and Kyung Lah, as always thank you for your reporting. Still ahead, tough talk from President Obama but still no budget deal; we have new information behind the scenes talks to avoid a government shut-down on Friday. Plus, what executives at the company that own the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico now say they plan to do with their huge safety bonuses. 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{"id": "CNN-282538", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2016-04-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/26/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Al Qaeda Affiliate Says It's Behind Bangladesh Killings; Spain Faces New Elections; Prince Did Not Leave a Will; T-Mobile Adds 2.2 Million Subscribers.", "utt": ["Hello. I'm Richard Quest. Of course there's more QUEST MEANS BUSINESS in just a moment. When iPhone sales could be declining for the first time and Apple results are due out any moment now. They could be as we're speaking. A number of chief executives have their own earning drinking game We're going to ask T-Mobile's John Legere, why he insists on such vulgarity. Before that, this is CNN. And on this network, the news always comes first. Families of the Hillsborough victims say justice has been served after a jury ruled 96 Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed in a crush in 1989. The jury found the fans themselves were not at fault. The police error was a factor in their deaths. Margaret Aspinall, whose 18-year-old son was killed that day says she hopes criminal prosecutions will follow.", "What we have gone through, somebody's got to be held accountable. If I say prosecution, yes, I think they do need to be prosecuted. For what they put us through, the truth was there for 27 years. We never got that truth. A lot of that's come out in the court over the past two years. It's things that we have never seen. We haven't seen before. And that's what shocked me. And I thought that is been there. Why wasn't that handed over?", "An Al Qaeda affiliate has claimed responsibility for the brutal killing of two men in Bangladesh. They were hacked to death in an apartment in the capital of Dakar. One of the victims was the editor of the country's first LGBT magazine and also worked for a U.S. government agency. Half an hour from now, the first exit polls from the latest rounds of primaries in the United States. Five Northeastern states voting this Tuesday. Big wins for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton would tighten their grip on their respective party nominations. Spain is to head for new elections. According to the head of the country's Socialist Party. It's been four months since the Spanish originally went to the polls, but they gave no party a majority. Now, King Felipe has met with the political leaders to see if a coalition can be formed after Sanchez says he doesn't have enough support and therefore elections are inevitable.", "it's not been possible and, therefore, we'll face a repetition of the vote. And I am saying a repetition of the vote and not a second round as some people want to call it. It will be a repetition of the vote as consequence of the in ability and unwillingness of Mr. Iglesias to lead the change with me and Ciudadanos, and in that way to put an end to Mariano Rajoy's government.", "The sister of the music legend Prince says that the late singer did not leave a will. Tyka Nelson is Prince's only full sibling, and she's asking for a special administrator to deal with his assets. Prince, who was not married and had no living children is believed to be worth $300 million. T-Mobile strategy has paid off in a big way with more than 2 million customers joining the network in the first three months of the year. The chief executive took to twitter to gloat. \"AT&T and Verizon trying to buy out T-Mobile customers, but we still took their customers and kept ours,\" he said. John Legere has been aggressive in going after his rivals. And his company's been aggressive in courting customers with expanded network and perks like unlimited video streaming. It seems as though T-Mobile lags behind the leaders. Speaking to me earlier, John Legere said the trend is in his favor.", "We added 2.2 million customers this quarter. That's the 12th quarter in a row over a million, so it's not a fluke. Six of the last seven quarters we have added 2 million. And then when you go down, you know, we had a million postpaid subscribers, which is, you know, seven in a row. And then 877,000 post-paid phones and interesting this quarter, 807,000 prepaid nets. Another trend coming is churn is low. So not only customers coming, they're staying. And the biggest news of our earnings today was service revenue up 13.6 percent and EBITDA up 98 percent. So we're cleaning their clocks is what it means.", "Do you think you have, if you like, not you personally, but a reputational issue that people don't believe --", "Absolutely.", "-- that your coverage is as good?", "Yes, and it's not like a reputation. It's a reality that our network investment in our coverage has changed so much that the issue that I spend every day doing is saying, who do you use? What is your opinion of T-Mobile? How old is it? Is it third hand or firsthand? And if it's more than a month old, it's old. So just try it.", "Bingeing and streaming. We were talking about it yesterday -- and Spotify, and the things -- they offer you great opportunities, but require huge amounts of bandwidth. And they require you to invest vast sums, don't they?", "You have to invest vast sums to have a scale of network anyway. Doing things for consumers that solve pain points is fundamental principle of who we are. Music streaming, it's small amounts of data. It's very easy to stream music free. And what we did with BingeOn was fascinating. Understanding of the fact that a mobile device does not require 1080p and with a deal with a customer, if you agree to stream it at 480p we'll zero rate to video streaming. It actually lowered the utilization of the network on the day we turned it on by 12 percent.", "Why do you feel the need sometimes to be so personal?", "You have such a great way of saying --", "In your -- some might say vulgar.", "Vulgar definitely. Come on.", "You revel in it.", "You know, I have said many times, I am my customers. I talk, I act, I say the things that you're all thinking about. You're afraid to say. And, and I am who I am. This is a consumer business for the most part and I relate to my customers. I relate to my people. And that's who I am. I don't take myself too seriously.", "Twitter.", "Yes.", "You have 2.4 million followers.", "So far, yes. It's a long day.", "You tweet constantly.", "Yes.", "You tweet incessantly.", "Yeah.", "You tweet almost to a Trump-esque.", "Ah.", "Why? What for you is --", "See, twitter and social in general, it's not a game. This is a major tool I use to run my business. I'm constantly in touch at a moment's notice with my customers. Everybody else's customers. I can learn exactly what's going on. I get great feedback.", "Double-edged sword though. If somebody tweets and you don't rely. They have a problem.", "No, I always reply. I reply. See, what I do, I've got large customer service teams. All I need to do is see it. I need to see that message and by the way, when I do and I reply, the big benefit is who's watching. 100,000 people that see, holy crap, that person just wrote to that guy about service in their home and he wrote back and they're taking care of him. I'm going over there.", "John Legere talking to me earlier. Now Apple results are outand iPhone sales are topped estimates. But these were estimates that were very sharply revised down overall. So you've got iPhone sales that are -- which account for two thirds of the revenue. And they fell quite sharply. We'll give you the numbers in just seconds. It's something like 16 percent year-on-year on the quarter. And other things also missed, other product sales were down quite sharply. That includes the watch and along with some of the services. And revenues overall, it missed the revenue estimates. Pete Pachal is with me from \"Mashable's\" Technology Editor. Good to see you, sir.", "How are you doing, Richard? Good to see you.", "So let's go through this collection.", "Let's do it.", "I have the results here. The headline numbers, I mean, the headline numbers show revenue quarter versus quarter down from 58 to 50 billion. Revenue is sharply lower.", "Revenue is down and it just shows Apple is iPhone company. The bare existence, their profits, their revenues are tied almost completely to the iPhone. It makes up roughly two thirds of their revenue, this one product. So if iPhone sales decline as they did in this quarter, 16 percent, you know, the company follows.", "This one. Let's start with this one. There we to. The iPhone's down 16 percent, 51.2. How serious is that for them?", "It's fairly serious. Remember this is the quarter before the iPhone SE. So they had just announced the iPhone SE, the small screen iPhone, which is a significant market for them. One, because people, a lot of people prefer the smaller phone and also it's a cheaper phone. So it should do logically do better in those growth markets of China and India. So next quarter if we still see some serious drop-off, that would be a huge reason for alarm and this time expected. It is not good -- for long term not good.", "Of course it's not good. This, I mean, now they brought out the larger iPad.", "Yes, the Pro.", "The Pro. But the numbers down 10.2 million iPads sold in a quarter, down 19 percent. I mean, I'm not suggesting the day of the tablet is over and suggesting don't take two and call the doctor in the morning.", "Yes, absolutely. Tablets are definitely on the slide. They've been on the slide for a while. I think they peaked for Apple like around Christmas 2013 and then we started moving on to wearables and other gadgets and whatnot. So with the iPad it's never going to be that thing the iPhone was. Credit to Apple, they single handedly created the tablet market and it will always there. It's just never going to be that bell weather that iPhone is. Oh, the watch. I see what you have there.", "The watch.", "Yes.", "What's happening with the watch?", "You know --", "They don't break out the numbers. They only break it out as revenue and the revenue, if you go is basically down sharply q-on-q but not year-on-year.", "Yes, it's a bit of a mystery how well it's going. You can do reverse engineering math, but because the price of the watch varies so wildly, it's really hard to get a beat on exactly how many of these things they have sold. But we do know it's the most successful wearable ever, but it also shows that's not saying much. Wearables and the Apple watch had not going to be -- I think pretty much clear, they're not the must have device that a smartphone is.", "Right. So we have --", "There we go.", "We have the Mac. We have the phone. We have the iPad. We have the wearables. Put it all together with this set of results. Is apple in trouble?", "Apple in the long term is in trouble. Because these -- all these products in one way or another, except for maybe the watch, were kind of transcendental. They really either created a product category or revolutionized it. Right now, as far as we can tell, they don't have something that is, you know, imminent that's going to change things. There's been talk about a car. That's probably years out if it's ever going to happen. We heard about the Apple TV service, another rumor. That's probably a little more short term. That could change the game for them. That probably is the best shot. But it's really an open question whether Apple makes the deals to get, like, a Sling type TV service best in class. Where you can get over the top, you can get all the TV via the internet. I don't know if they can do it.", "We're very grateful sir that you come in and help us understand the machinations of this.", "My pleasure. Thank you very much indeed.", "Cheers.", "Thank you. We'll continue QUEST MEANS BUSINESS tonight. Three decades on and the disaster at Chernobyl looms large in the global consciousness. I'm going to take you inside the fallout shelter. 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{"id": "CNN-64334", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-12-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/16/lad.18.html", "summary": "Lott of Trouble, Support Slipping", "utt": ["As you know by now, Trent Lott has apologized several times for what are being called segregationist remarks, but the senator's mea culpa is falling on deaf ears, and his support in his own party is slipping. This weekend, there was a major break with the Mississippi senator. Our Gary Tuchman has details for you.", "A fellow Republican senator calls for a vote for a new Senate Republican leader. Trent Lott learns about it before he heads for church.", "It's Sunday morning, and we're going to my hometown church. So, that's what I'm focused on this morning.", "I just have one quick comment about that, though, Senator Nickles made a point to also say this on Sunday.", "Well, you let him explain that. See you.", "Oklahoma's Don Nickles, former Republican whip, who could become a candidate for majority leader, declared: \"I am concerned Senator Lott has been weakened to the point that it may jeopardize his ability to enact our agenda and speak to all Americans. There are several outstanding senators who are more than capable of effective leadership, and I hope we have an ability to choose.\" Nickles is the first Republican to call for a vote. But if five Republican senators call for a closed-door meeting to discuss the possibility, that such a meeting will be held. And Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel and Virginia's John Warner have now called for that.", "It is our responsibility as a group to come together, make a decision and then go forward. Not to let this thing be dangling out there day after day.", "Trent Lott received an enthusiastic welcome in his hometown church. Congregates at the First Baptist Church of Pascagoula shook his hand and hugged him. All of the 400 plus people there were white, except for a family of five African-Americans who came in late, saying they were visiting the church for the first time. That family also later greeted Trent Lott. The Senate majority leader received a 45-second ovation after the pastor said -- quote -- \"Senator Lott, we love you, we accept your apology, and you have our prayers and support.\" (on camera): But will he get the support he needs to keep his leadership position? It's too early to tell, but these Republican rumblings indicate that Trent Lott might have to gear up for an intra- party battle. Gary Tuchman, CNN, Pascagoula, Mississippi."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SEN. TRENT LOTT (R), MISSISSIPPI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LOTT", "TUCHMAN", "SEN. JOHN WARNER (R), VIRGINIA", "TUCHMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-77387", "program": "CNN NEWSNIGHT AARON BROWN", "date": "2003-9-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/26/asb.00.html", "summary": "White House May Compromise Over Money to Reconstruct Iraq; New Twist in Gitmo Spy Scandal", "utt": ["The last Friday in September, Rosh Hashana, the start of the new year for Jews all around the world. It's still technically summer but it feels like a seasonal change very much in the air. This is the last weekend of the regular season for the major leagues and what seems like the beginning of the real push in the race for the White House as Democratic candidate number ten takes his first trip to New Hampshire. We'll deal with both of those stories tonight and a lot more. Now, Aaron may be off tonight but he left his whip behind and I would face 40 lashes if I didn't use it myself, so let's get cracking. To John King first and a possible new White House strategy in selling that $87 billion Iraq plan. John, a headline please.", "Miles, because of a firestorm of criticism in Congress from both Democrats and Republicans the administration concedes it will be forced to compromise. The president won't be able to give all $20 billion of that reconstruction money in grants. The Iraqi government is going to have to eventually pay some of it back -- Miles.", "John King at the White House. The Pentagon next, CNN's Jamie McIntyre with some new twists in the case of the airman accused of spying at Guantanamo Bay, Jamie the headline.", "Well court records, Miles, shows that that Air Force translator was under investigation even before he was sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba where he is accused of espionage and aiding the enemy -- Miles.", "Jamie McIntyre at the Pentagon thank you. On to Arkansas and a first for the military since the Vietnam War, CNN's David Mattingly with the story tonight and a headline from there.", "Miles, he misses NASCAR, his girlfriend and his family not necessarily in that order but tonight a young GI comes home on a vacation from war -- Miles.", "David Mattingly in Arkansas, thank you. Finally to New Hampshire, D-Day plus one, that's D for debate for Wesley Clark. CNN's Dan Lothian was there as the former general showed he isn't taking that state for granted. Dan, a headline from you please.", "Well, Miles, roughly 17 weeks until the New Hampshire primary, Wesley Clark was here at a town hall meeting, meeting with supporters. He was also meeting on the streets trying to not only introduce himself but win over voters -- Miles.", "Thanks very much, Dan Lothian, back with all of you shortly. Also coming up on the program tonight, the state of play in California, more endorsements for Arnold Schwarzenegger from key Republicans with an eye toward persuading the number two Republican to bow out of the race. He isn't budging. A closer look at how the military chooses Muslim chaplains and whether the organization it turns to for help doing it has ties to terrorism. And we'll close out the week with a look at my hapless hometown team, Motor City's Tigers in the tank. They're trying hard to do what they've had a hard time doing all year and that's winning a ballgame or two and staying out of the record books as the losing-est ball club in modern history, all that to come in the hour ahead. Off tonight with the cost of rebuilding Iraq and who in the end will pay for it. After a week or so of taking it on the chin for the big number at the bottom line, the White House is finding even more resistance for its Iraq shopping list. Do Americans want to foot the bill for everything from garbage trucks to zip codes? Well, if not how about a little creative financing. Here again, CNN's Senior White House Correspondent John King.", "Off to Camp David at the close of a contentious week knowing he likely will have no choice but to compromise on his $20 billion request to help rebuild Iraq.", "We're continuing to fight for the package as we outlined it and as we presented it to Congress but obviously we recognize this is a process where we work together on it.", "Even some Republican White House allies say the reconstruction money should be a loan not a grant and the fine print is stirring up the president's critics, $9 million to develop a zip code postal system, $4 million to bring telephone area codes to Iraq, 40 garbage trucks at a cost of $50,000 each.", "Mr. President, this document is an insult to the American people. It's an insult to our troops who are paying for their lives.", "The $20 billion in reconstruction money is part of the president's $87 billion war budget request and opening the door to reconstruction loans instead of grants is a clear sign of White House worry. Rounding up international help in Iraq is another worry and the focus of the president's hand-on diplomacy this weekend. The warm Camp David welcome is for good reason. President Putin says he is eager to reach agreement with the United States and is not ruling out offering Russian troops in Iraq down the road.", "And, senior administration officials tonight concede that at least a modest portion of that $20 billion in reconstruction money will have to be in the form of loans, not grants. Some think the percentage might even be a bit higher than modest this uproar in Congress a sudden blow to a president. Even long time allies are now questioning his Iraq policy and not only the policy overseas but its impact on domestic politics here at home -- Miles.", "John, I could have sworn I heard Paul Bremer, the civilian administrator in Iraq this past week say it's very important that this money not be loans that they be grants because Iraq has such a debt already.", "Such a fragile economy, Paul Bremer makes the case and an international debt that it inherits from Saddam Hussein. Dick Cheney told Republicans in a private meeting don't make this loans because then you could feed the perception this war was fought for oil because that is where the money to repay the loans would come from. But, as members of Congress go home, their lawmakers were saying -- I mean their constituents are saying why not a bridge for us, why not a courthouse for us, and what about the debt here in the United States, a record federal budget deficit. The heat on the president comes because when these members of Congress are going home, Miles, at a time of a difficult economy here they are getting heat from their own constituents.", "Thank you very much, CNN's John King at the White House. We learned more today about the young man who sits tonight in a brig at Vandenberg Air Force base in California charged with spying. CNN has obtained some court documents that show he was under investigation even before he showed up for duty as an Arabic translator at Guantanamo Bay perhaps the most sensitive and secret place in the U.S. military. Here again, CNN's Jamie McIntyre.", "Even before senior airman Ahmed al-Halabi arrived for duty in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he had fallen under suspicion of military investigators. Court documents say that in November of last year an \"investigation was initiated based on reports of suspicious activity while he was stationed at Travis Air Force Base and also while deployed to Kuwait and Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.\" Al-Halabi served as an Arabic language translator at Camp Delta, the prison for Taliban and al Qaeda suspects at Guantanamo from November until July when he was arrested just before he planned to fly to Syria to marry his Syrian fiancee. The court papers also allege: \"Al-Halabi made statements criticizing United States policy with regard to the detainees and the Middle East and that he also expressed sympathy for and had unauthorized contact with the detainees.\" Al-Halabi is accused of providing unauthorized comfort items to Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners and attempting to smuggle out more than 180 of their messages.", "Now his attorneys insist that al-Halabi is not a spy that he's in fact a star performer in the Air Force who was even named airman of the year in his squadron but his defense attorneys say with most of the evidence in the case classified they can't say much more on his behalf. However, they did put out a call today for experts in what they said was psycho sociology and Muslim culture that they're looking for to help with his defense -- Miles.", "Jamie, any sense just yet as to how much damage might have been done by the release of all this information?", "Well, you know at this point and it's very early in this investigation, it doesn't appear that there's a lot of damage to national security. What it looks like is that this person, assuming the charges are correct, was trying to give aid and comfort to the detainees that he perhaps sympathized with them and was trying to get messages from them out to sympathizers or their family. It's not a big damage to national security but it's a major violation of the security procedures at that base.", "Well, and it's worth pointing out that the administration does not want to even release a list of those detainees. Just giving away their identity would be a violation of national security rules, right?", "That's right and the information that was found on his laptop computer included the identities, the numbers, the numbers that have been assigned to those prisoners, and information that he had taken from handwritten notes and turned into electronic communication.", "CNN's Jamie McIntyre at the Pentagon, thank you very much. Of course Airman al-Halabi isn't the only one under suspicion tonight. James Yee, a chaplain at the base also finds himself in custody and the military finds itself under scrutiny over how it chooses its Muslim clerics. That part of the story coming up a little bit later in the program. Now on to some other things, you can almost smell the home cooked meals and hear the Barry White tunes playing tonight as 192 military families torn apart by the war in Iraq are made whole once again. The servicemen and women were in the vanguard of a two-week R&R; campaign to spell Iraqi-weary troops. Watching the smiles and tears as they put boots on U.S. soil for the first time in a long while, you can't help but wonder how hard it will be when it is time to go back only 15 days from now. Again, here's CNN's David Mattingly.", "By the time he heard the welcome home applause in the Little Rock airport, Private First Class Dustin Bohannan was less than 36 hours removed from driving a tank in Baghdad. His boots still covered with Iraqi dust, Bohannan is among the first wave of troops shuttling back home for brief R&R;, a vacation from the war. We followed him as he first set foot on U.S. soil in Baltimore, through the last legs of his journey home, a world away from the life he was leaving behind.", "I'd probably be on a patrol right now, you know. It's like 3:00 in the morning so that's patrol time.", "His needs are simple, a hot shower, some civilian clothes and to lose himself in the embrace of family.", "It's definitely tough on the people here. Like I said when you're over there you're not thinking about home. You're just thinking about, you know, what you have to do, what are you doing the next day. You all is too busy.", "As a teenager, Bohannan would worry his parents racing his truck down the back roads in nearby Louisiana. Now, a full 20 years old, he conducts overnight patrols down the back streets of Baghdad looking for explosive devices.", "I'm not worried about anything right now. I mean it's wonderful except (unintelligible).", "In his brief time reunited with the family he said goodbye to when he deployed back in April, Bohannan seems remarkably unaffected by his experience in Iraq, a little taller, a little older according to his family and a little harder to say goodbye to a second time.", "But you hear things like today. Somebody was killed yesterday then you start wondering was it him? And it's scary. It's scary and I'm glad he's home.", "But like so many of his fellow GIs, Private Bohannan knows that the clock is ticking. In just two weeks' time he has to go back to Iraq, back to that tank in the streets of Baghdad -- Miles.", "Well, it's short but it certainly will be sweet. We can certainly say that. What have they told the likes of Dustin about how long their stint will be in Iraq? It's still kind of up in the air isn't it?", "It is up in the air and he says he tries not to think about how long it's going to be. He says he's in the Army now for three more years and he has no idea how long he's going to be in Iraq. He's just making the most of the time that he has here like the other troops that came home today say they're going to be doing and he's not thinking about just how long his life may be in Iraq.", "David, are these troops getting younger or am I just getting older?", "I thought the same thing when I saw him.", "Wow.", "I tell you what he has an awful lot of poise for a young man of 20 years old, of course an incredible experience he's going through right now along with so many other soldiers in Iraq.", "All right, we should all be proud of the likes of Dustin Bohannan. Thank you very much David Mattingly, Eldorado, Arkansas tonight. Ahead on NEWSNIGHT for a Friday, big name Republicans line up behind Arnold Schwarzenegger with one notable exception and he could be a spoiler. And later the bad news Tigers on the verge of becoming the losing-est team in modern baseball history. 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{"id": "CNN-189595", "program": "EARLY START WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD AND ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN", "date": "2012-7-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/17/es.02.html", "summary": "Needles Found In Food On Delta Flight; Romney To Announce VP Pick?; Obama Slams Romney On Outsourcing; Cousin Claims Zimmerman Molested Her; Gunfire Kills Two At Toronto Barbecue; Three New Sandusky Accusers", "utt": ["Good morning. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm John Berman.", "And I'm Zoraida Sambolin. It is 6 a.m. in the east. Also coming up this morning, decision day for the FDA on a brand new diet drug. We'll talk with our Elizabeth Cohen about whether Qnexa really works.", "And how was relationship with humanity and the universe?", "Great.", "Well, it could even better. We're going to talk to the man who can do it, Deepak Chopra coming up. He will explore these relationships and also how he's using the internet.", "I'm looking forward to that actually. I could use some advice there. But first this morning, we have our top stories for you. The FBI and international authorities are working to find out how sewing needles ended up in four sandwiches on Delta Airlines flights. The needles were found on four separate flights. Take a look at that there. That's the arrow pointing to them, all traveling from Amsterdam to the United States. Officials say one passenger was injured by that needle, but declined medical treatment. Federal agents have launched a criminal investigation now. CNN's Sandra Endo is live with the very latest. And Sandra, what have they uncovered so far?", "Well, Zoraida, a full blown investigation is under way and the FBI and local authorities in the Netherlands are trying to find out how the needles got into those sandwiches in the first place. A Delta spokesperson said the needles were found in sandwiches on flights from Amsterdam to Minneapolis, Seattle and two flights to Atlanta. Two of the needles were found by passengers and one was discovered by an air marshal. When Delta found out about the needles in the food, the airline said it notified all 18 flights from Amsterdam to stop serving the sandwiches. Here's what one passenger who got one of the contaminated sandwiches said when he spoke to affiliate, KTSP.", "I bit down on it so that I wasn't biting down on the sharp side, but on the flat side. It could have been a bad injury orally, but had I taken a big swallow and swallowed that down, I'd have a needle inside, that would be very concerning to me.", "Gate Gourmet is the company, which provided the sandwiches to Delta and a spokesperson for that company says the sandwiches were prepared in Amsterdam. In a statement, she goes on to say, this is a terribly upsetting situation. First and foremost, it's the safety of the traveling public. There's nothing more important to us at all than the safety of the passengers and crews. So the Transportation Security Administration is also saying it's looking closely into this investigation as to what happened as well as a security protocols being conducted by the air carrier and the airport authorities -- Zoraida.", "OK, so the company that makes these sandwiches says it also provides food to other airlines, so is there a concern now on other flights as well?", "Well, Gate Gourmet says it's fully cooperating with the FBI and local authorities in the Netherlands and it's conducting its own full scale investigation. Now the company says it does provide food to other airlines, but have received no other reports or complaints.", "That's kind of scary here this morning. CNN's Sandra Endo, thank you very much.", "All right, can you feel the buzz? Can you feel the anticipation? It must be the veepstakes. Mitt Romney, is he about to pick his vice president? A top campaign adviser says it could happen this week, which would be very, very early or not this week. That clears things up. Some analysts say this is really about shifting focus from discussion on his record at Bain and also his personal finances. Our Peter Hamby from CNN joins us live now from the Washington D.C. Bureau. Peter, what would be the shift in attention? Why would Romney be doing that? What's the calendar tell us right now about by why he would do it now versus later?", "Yes, well, I mean, first of all, John, you're right. There's a ton of buzz right now. You know, the buzz for Tim Pawlenty or Rob Portman is deafening, who thought I would ever say that. But yes, Romney, if he does pick a running mate now would have somebody he could tag team the country with. They could go to different cities around the country, command media attention and raise money. But, you know, do they get this media pop too early? Actually I was e-mailing with some Republicans yesterday about why -- you know, what you would get by naming a running mate this early as opposed to around the convention. Alex Castellanos, a Republican strategist, actually e-mailed me and he said, you don't run one of your best secret plays to win in the second quarter. Everything will be a 100 times more important later. Patience obi wan is what he told me. Basically saying that use the VP pick later in the fall when people are really paying attention to the campaign to really generate a lot of media attention. But the Romney campaign as you mentioned right now might want to change the subject from this constant fuselage of attacks from the Obama campaign about Bain Capital, his record there, and his tax returns. Romney is only releasing two years of tax returns.", "It is the biggest weapon you have in and the campaign would be shocking to see it this early. As you said though, these attacks on Bain and taxes are deafening. And there is a new one that we're reporting just this morning and has to do with the swing states that all campaigns are targeting right now.", "That's right. Romney is going to be in Irwin, Pennsylvania, that's just outside of Pittsburgh, white working class voters are who he's targeting today. But the Obama campaign is not letting him get -- command the day. Look at this really, really tough new ad that they just released this hour in Pennsylvania only. Take a listen.", "Tax havens, offshore accounts, carried interest. Mitt Romney has used every trick in the book. Romney admits that over the last two years he's paid less than 15 percent in taxes on $43 million in income. Makes you wonder if some years he paid any taxes at all. We don't know because Romney has released just one full year of his tax returns and won't release anything before 2010.", "You know what, I put out as much as we're going to put out.", "What is Mitt Romney hiding?", "That's a really bare knuckle ad from the Obama campaign. It just goes to show you, John, they are not afraid to take the gloves off against mitt Romney and they haven't been for a year. That's the first time they've gone straight at Mitt Romney's tax returns and his pension for secrecy in one of their TV ads.", "The Romney team not at all happy that we continue to focus on this either. One adviser told me last night about the taxes, all they could do was go sigh. Peter Hamby, CNN, thanks very much for joining us from", "Thanks.", "It is 6 minutes past the hour. It sparked deadly wildfires and fears of food shortage. Now word that the nation's most severe drought in decade is spreading, more than half of the continental United States is now in some stage of drought. And most of the rest of the country is really close to it as well. That's according to a report from the National Climatic Data Center in Ashville, North Carolina. It is the largest area of land affected by drought since the 1950s.", "George Zimmerman's attorney and the Trayvon Martin family are reacting to a new stunning twist in this trial. A female witness in the case, only identified as witness number nine is accusing Zimmerman of molesting her when they were both children. The accusations released yesterday in an audiotape from the state's attorney's office.", "It started when I was six. He's -- he's about almost two years older than I am. He would reach under the blankets and try to do things and I would try to push him off, but he was bigger and stronger and older.", "She also said Zimmerman and his family flat out said they didn't like black people unless they acted like white people. Zimmerman's attorney, Mark O'Mara has identified the woman as Zimmerman's cousin. Last night, he told Piers Morgan the allegations would not be admissible in court, but may still affect the search for truth in the Trayvon Martin shooting.", "These allegations, which George contends are untrue. Now we need to spend our resources and time rebutting them. And actually put in a difficult if not delicate position of deciding how much we attack the source of this story or just leave it be and move on to what really counts.", "An attorney for Trayvon Martin's family issued a statement saying that the woman's testimony should be included in the evidence. Benjamin Crump saying witness number nine would be a rebuttal witness, very similar to that in the Sandusky trial showing that George Zimmerman has a history of violence and manipulation. Zimmerman's mentality, he says, is very relevant to this trial.", "A bloody night in the east end of Toronto. Two young people killed and 19 others wounded when gunfire broke out at an outdoor barbecue. A 3-year-old child is among those injured. Toronto's police chief said this is the most serious crime of its kind ever to hit his city.", "Tonight's event is unprecedented. Today's event I think is shocking to every Torontonian. It will be shocking to all of Canada. Because of the number of people that injured, the level of violence is something we have never experienced.", "Police have a person of interest in custody, but are looking for more suspects now.", "Now he says he's not a hero, but if he's not a hero, I have no idea who he is because check this out. He saved a little girl's life. This is cell phone video taken by a New York City neighbor. It shows a 7-year-old jumping up and down on the air conditioner before falling three stories that's when Steven Saint Bernard, a New York City bus driver raised underneath, you can see him there, making the catch, helping break the fall in the bushes below and she survived without a scratch. Not a scratch. The little girl is said to be autistic. Police have been looking in it as they say they are not going to charge the parents for any negligence or anything else. Everyone just thrilled that this man is in fact a hero and catches really well.", "Yes, you know, I was reading more about the story. He said that he was hoping that he could save her. He was so worried about her. He actually sustained a torn tendon in his shoulder.", "Really?", "Yes, but otherwise he's fine. He said the entire time he was thinking about his 7-year-old girl. His little girl calls him a hero.", "And so do", "Drop some pounds by popping a pill. Coming up, with a brand-new weight loss drug just hours away from FDA approval, we ask, does it really work and is it safe?"], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN, CNN ANCHOR", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN", "SANDRA ENDO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-299106", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-11-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/26/cnr.21.html", "summary": "Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro Dies at 90.", "utt": ["4:00 am on the U.S. East Coast. Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. We are following the breaking news this hour, the death of Fidel Castro at 90 years old. I'm George Howell.", "And I'm Cyril Vanier. The former president and revolutionary leader was 90 when he passed away. For years, he had been out of the public eye. His brother, current president Raul Castro, made the announcement on Cuban television. Here it is.", "Dear people of Cuba, with profound pain I have to sadly inform you, to our friends from America and to the world, that, today, November 25th, 2016, at 10:29 in the evening, the commander and leader of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, died. Following the explicit desires of leader Fidel, his remains will be cremated in the early hours of tomorrow, Saturday, 26th of November. The Organizing Commission of the Funerals will give our people detailed in fn about the organization of the posthumous tribute that we will give you to the founder of the Cuban revolution. Until victory, always.", "Let's go straight to Patrick Oppmann, our CNN correspondent in Cuba now. He is in the capital, Havana. Patrick, you've been covering this with us. You've been with us for four hours now throughout the night. What is the latest that you are hearing from the people who continue to just find out about this news?", "An eerie silence; we sent one of our camera men and as you would expect, as he went about interviewing, there are a lot of people who said he was our commander, he was our hero. But as we talked about in previous hours, people really often don't talk about their true feelings. I remember coming here in the '90s and people wouldn't even say the name Fidel Castro in the street. They would go like this, and stroking their beard. And so there is perhaps a little bit more freedom to talk about it now that he has -- he has died. On the other side, though, government officials that I have talked to tonight were breaking down and crying. Very emotional. And I know the one time I ever saw Fidel Castro in person, if you loved him or hated him, as so many people did as well, when he would walk in the room, everyone took notice. He had that kind of presence that even few world leaders have. So even though he has been out of public eye now for some 10 years he was still casting a large shadow over this island. I think many people though still have yet to learn about Fidel Castro's death. Only now in the last hour or so, state media has released or picked up the reporting on his death. We have frankly done a lot more on CNN than they have done on Cuban television. And I think when the sun comes up and people turn on the radio and get their copy of the Communist Party daily, \"Granma,\" they will remember for a long time where and when they were when they learned of Fidel Castro's death. It's a moment many people have been waiting for, many have been fearing and now it has occurred.", "It is important to point out the context just to our viewers around the world who are watching this hour. Patrick Oppmann is the only U.S. correspondent live and based in Cuba who is live with us this hour. So very important to point out that he has a great deal of background and experience covering this. Patrick, I know that your team there on the ground has been gathering facts, talking to people. But what can you tell us about what happens next with this former leader? I do understand that he is to be cremated?", "Yes. So those were his express wishes, according to his brother, Cuba's current president, Raul Castro. And that planning will begin for what we can only expect will be a massive state funeral, where he will be ultimately buried or there will be a memorial in his honor. No one knows the number of sites where that could occur. But this will be a process that lasts for a while. I remember when Hugo Chavez died after being treated in Cuba. Of course he was a close ally of Cuba. It was such a blow to the government here. They ordered that there be no music. Even in my daughter's kindergarten class they were told they could not sing that day. I think the official mourning will go for quite a bit longer here. And whether it's real or not, but it will certainly be mandated by the state that hundreds of thousands of people will need to turn out and show their grief and some people will feel very real grief after all these years. I was talking with one woman who I knew, is not an admirer of Fidel Castro, and she began to cry when I told her the news --", "-- and it really struck me the weight of history of the end of an era, an era that changed Cuba and Cubans forever.", "Patrick Oppmann, CNN correspondent in the Cuban capital, Havana, thank you very much. We'll of course continue to cross back to you throughout the night. And we'll be particularly interested to know what kind of reactions Patrick gets as Cubans wake up. Some of them will only be getting the information a few hours from now. All right. Let me turn now to CNN correspondent, Rafael Romo. Rafael, the question I've been wondering as I was listening to Patrick and some of our earlier guests, is how long can the Cuban -- the current Cuban political system outlive -- how long can Castrismo outlive or survive after the death of Fidel Castro?", "It's a very interesting question. And to answer that question, let me read to you a reaction that we just got from none other than Arturo Sandoval -- those who know he is one of the greatest musicians of all time, a Cuban and very proudly living in the exile. And he said, \"The dictator of Cuba has died finally,\" all capital letters. \"I've been waiting for this day for so many years in my life and, unfortunately, after 58 years of a horrible dictatorship, the damage that he did to our country, it's impossible to fix, at least in a few generations to come.\" And listen to this, \"I think that he'll not even be admitted in hell.\" It gives you a pretty good idea about how the Cuban exile --", "-- resentment from --", "-- in Miami and elsewhere. But he raises a very good point. It is true. It is probably going to take a few generations for people to see real change in Cuba. And why is that? Because, starting in 2006, when Fidel first gave the power to his brother, when he -- after falling ill, this succession plan started. By this, I mean they started grooming and raising a new political generation of young Cuban leaders, who are essentially the mirror version of themselves, just about 20 to 30 years younger. And so it was very telling for me to see the last congress, when you essentially heard the very same political messages come from the congress, no dissension whatsoever. The same political discourse as we had heard for the last 60 years. Cuba has had to deal with reality, though, and we've been talking about how, after the USSR fell in 1991 and they stopped sending those $4 billion that they used to send to Cuba every year, they had to live on their own for about 10 years. And then Venezuela happened and then China happened and somehow they managed to live for an additional 20 years. But the reality is that the situation in Cuba is very, very bad. And one thing that I need to mention is that one of the greatest migration crises in the world right now has to do with Cuba. If you look at the numbers of Cuba -- of Cubans in Central America in the last couple of years, most of them are trying to get to the United States, fleeing from hunger, fleeing from political repression in Cuba. So it's very indicative of the reality that Cuba is living right now.", "Rafael, if you would stand by and just -- we want to take a look at what's happening in Miami, if we have the images, just to talk about the reaction that we're seeing at this hour, 4:00 am, 4:08 in the morning on the U.S. East Coast, look at that. I mean, that is the situation right now just outside Versailles restaurant there in Little Havana. And you do get a sense. People are celebrating. People are dancing in the streets. It was raining just a bit earlier; not sure if it's still raining there but -- not but this is the sense, the reaction, now knowing that Fidel Castro has died. Many people have been waiting to hear this news.", "And you know what, a lot of people are doing this to honor their parents because I see a lot of young people there. My assumption is that a lot of them are Cuban Americans, who were born in the United States, but who probably had their parents flee at some point in the '60s or the '70s or the '80s because of one of the many reasons that we have described before. So they're probably doing this more for their parents, but themselves. But this is a very diverse group. We see all kinds of ages. And we're listening to people banging pots and pans. But then in the background, you would hear, \"libertad, libertad,\" \"freedom, freedom,\" which is something that they would like to hear people freely chant in Cuba. And that hasn't happened in the last 60 years.", "Rafael, I just want your take on this picture because the more I look at it and I do understand it's 4:00 in the morning East Coast time now but the more I look at it, this does not strike me as a huge group of people mobilizing. And I have covered similar situations before. This looks to me like there's a lot of media but also a hardcore group of political activists; possibly that you see cameras around them. I'm not seeing this as a massive wave of Cuban Americans taking to the streets right now.", "Yes, we probably need to wait until the sun comes up. And the other thing I will say is a lot of people -- let's remind our viewers that the death occurred at 10:26 pm Eastern. A lot of people didn't even hear about this before going to sleep. So I don't know. I cannot tell you anything about the number. But the reality is that, in Cuba, as Patrick was telling us, and in Miami, a lot of people don't even know that Fidel Castro has died yet.", "It is interesting also, just noting that that camera shot is -- seems to be in focus on one particular group. I remember seeing just earlier it was wider.", "Yes, we did see more people earlier.", "Yes, it seemed like it was a wider group of people. Maybe some have left and maybe some have come in. But again, this is the scene this hour, 4:11 on the streets of Miami, Florida. Let's now bring in Jose Rodriguez, who is in Miami, a senior correspondent for our sister network, CNN Espanol. And I believe that you are on the streets, on the ground there. What do you see? What do you hear?", "How are you, George? Good morning. What we see here in Little Havana is people marching, people hitting pots, people just went as soon as they knew that news of the death of Fidel Castro, you know, with flags. People is singing. People is dancing. People have been here, you know, coming all over the night, you know, just to express joy and celebration. You are able to see that people, you know, is absolutely happy here about the news. You see people from different generations that are coming here. People from Cuba came here in 1959 and you see people from different generations. Let's start with some of the people that came tonight. How do you feel about the death of Fidel Castro?", "Well, this is a celebration but in a way not a celebration of death. It's celebration of the beginning of liberty, that we're all waiting for for many years. Many years we have been waiting for this type of situation. And the hope is that not just because Fidel died but also hopefully opens up to people in Cuba to open up a little bit more and going against whatever it is going on over there.", "You were born in Cuba?", "Yes, I was.", "Your parents are alive?", "One of my parents are alive. And certainly they suffered total, as many families from Cuba, suffer the separation of families. It was a very hard thing to --", "I imagine that they never came back to Cuba.", "No, they never have returned. They never have returned to Cuba. But hopefully someday. It's getting us closer and closer. Hopefully we do that some --", "And do you think that after the death of Fidel Castro, there is some hope of political changes in Cuba?", "Hopefully. Not just so much as the death but, yes, hopefully, this is the beginning. That's why everybody is out here trying to celebrate that many years' suffering that we have been through and hopefully that will be a start. That will be a start.", "Thank you very much, sir, for", "Yes, I was.", "Yes. So how are you living?", "I feel that this is a great moment, not to celebrate the death of somebody but to celebrate freedom. There are many -- still many political prisoners in Cuba, many who live here in the United States and throughout the world. And to have somebody that perpetrated so many human rights abuses and enslaved a country, we still hope -- and hopefully this is -- Castro's death foreshadows political freedoms on the island.", "So do you have any hope to one day go to Cuba with your parents, maybe with your grandparents, to enjoy the freedom in Cuba, if it's possible in the future (ph)?", "Definitely. I would love to go to Cuba, a free Cuba. Right now, Cuba is not free. And so the hope is -- and I think the real celebrations here show -- that everybody here hopes for a free Cuba soon and for human rights on the island to come to pass. And so that is my hope.", "Thank you very much. This is the expression that we live here and we have at last another person --", "-- who is celebrating with a flag. How do you feel tonight, sir?", "Oh, my god, there is no words. It's so emotional for my grandparents that are no longer, that they came for freedom and liberty to this country.", "They never returned?", "They never returned back to Cuba. They lost everything in Cuba, it was taken away by the government or businesses. Their homes that were paid for, owned by them and they worked hard, the Castro regime, they didn't just care. If you didn't want to give it to the government, they would have just -- they would execute you. The regime is still there. Raul Castro is going to keep going with the same system and the same ideas. But there is a day of celebration.", "Yes, and with this separation, but there is a lot of emotion. It's a very emotional moment for many people here in this community.", "I mean, like I said, there's no words. We're happy. We're grateful, you know, that such a bad person -- you know, Fidel Castro is like -- for us, it's like a Hitler. You know, it's like a Hitler. He is a Communist. He depresses the people. You know, and there's no court system. If you don't agree with the government, they put you in jail for 30, 40 years or they execute you.", "And do you expect that, after the death of Fidel Castro, some changes can occur in Cuba?", "Well, it's something we hope for. It's not something we're seeing. You know, now with Trump coming into presidency, could tighten up a little bit stronger with Cuba and they got to give us human rights. Cuba has to have human rights for everybody and liberty and justice and peace for everybody. If we get that and then we can lift the embargo.", "Thank you so much for this interview. George, this is the reaction that we can see. Many people celebrating here in Little Havana, the heart of the Cuban exile here in Miami. This is what you can see right now. It's 4:30 am and probably you will see people coming -- you know, new people coming, probably old people who are sleeping right now will come anytime soon to celebrate. And here at the corner of Cafe Versailles is one of the most traditional coffees in Miami that there were many people from the Cuban exiles come. You will see the celebration continues in the rest of the day. Back to you in our studios.", "Jose Manuel Rodriguez is senior correspondent with our sister network, CNN Espanol. Jose, thank you so much. Stand by with us. We'll be back with you, I'm sure, through the hours to come. So again, that's what we're seeing there on the streets of Miami, Florida. That is the reaction. People are celebrating the fact that this former leader has died. A different reaction, though, from some world leaders. We're hearing from the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro. He tweeted the following, he said, quote, \"I just talked with President Raul Castro to transmit the solidarity and love for Cuba before the departure of Commander Fidel Castro.\" So, again, that from the leader of Venezuela. You also got reaction?", "Yes, we're getting reaction just a few moments ago, a few minutes ago, from the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy. He says, \"My condolences to the government and authorities -- to the Cuban government authorities -- on the death of former president, Fidel Castro, a figure of historical significance.\"", "Rafael, stand by. We're joined now by Peter Kornbluh, he joins us from Washington. He is a CNN analyst. He has written extensively about Cuba. Peter, thanks for your time and thanks for being with us. I know it's the middle of the night. I want to ask you, people such as yourself, who have written about Cuba, you know, you've considered scenarios for what might happen after the death of Fidel Castro. He was the son around which all of Cuban politics orbited. What's your reaction?", "Well, I think as your CNN correspondent in Havana, Patrick Oppmann, said, it's the end of an era not only for the Cuban people but on the international stage as well. Because regardless of the very deep and difficult feelings of Cuban Americans in Miami, around the world, Fidel has been seen as a rather substantive revolutionary statesman and that's because of his ability to transform a Caribbean island into a major actor on the world stage by supporting the anti-apartheid movement, becoming friends with Nelson Mandela, training doctors around the world and sending Cuban doctors around the world, the health care system in Cuba, the education system, et cetera. So it's certainly going to be a change for the world. And I think you're going to see quite a few condolences from major world leaders, including the presence of some of them at the tribute that Raul Castro said is being planned --", "-- now for Fidel. In terms of, you know, the kind of significance, Fidel has been off the political stage in Cuba for a number of years now, almost 10 full years since he became gravely ill with diverticulitis in 2006. And the transformation of power went really smoothly in Cuba, much to the dismay of the Bush administration in 2006 and 2007. But there was a complete transformation and passage of power from one brother to another. And even though I think a lot of people will hope for that in Miami, and some in Cuba, but will hope that this opens the door to changing the system significantly, the truth of the matter is that the Cuban Communist Party is deeply entrenched in Cuba and has been since Fidel got sick and shows no sign of wavering.", "Peter Kornbluh on the line for us, a CNN analyst in Washington, following this story. Peter, thank you for your insight and, of course, stay with us. We'll come back to you through the hours to come. Again, CNN following the breaking news this hour, the death of Fidel Castro. I want to show you as well this photo, this photo that was taken November 15th in Havana. This is when he met with the Vietnamese president. This image of Fidel Castro. Our breaking news coverage continues right after the break. Stay with us.", "An historic moment, the death of Fidel Castro. Castro, who basically led Cuba for half a century, he is dead at the age of 90 years old. He came into power in 1959 with a small band of revolutionaries. He overthrew an unpopular dictator and then rode tanks and Jeeps into Cuba's capital of Havana.", "For decades after that, he ruled Cuba with an iron fist, creating a one-party state and bringing the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere, aligning his country with the Soviet Union and denouncing the U.S. He swept away capitalism in Cuba and expanded education and health care. But he also clamped down on political and religious freedoms, banning free speech and executing or jailing thousands of political opponents. Now CNN's Matt Rivers joins us from Beijing as we try to get reaction from around the world right now. Matt, I'm going to assume that there is no -- and correct me if I'm wrong -- that there hasn't been official reaction yet from Beijing to the death of Fidel Castro. What is the reaction likely to be like? What are the thoughts likely to be like?", "Well, you are right. No official reaction yet from the Chinese government. Usually we get a statement or, even more frequently than that, the Chinese government will release a statement through state media here. And we expect the statement to kind of go in line with what we're seeing from other state leaders across the world and that would be offers of condolences and, frankly, the Chinese and Cuban relationship has been much stronger recently. And I will take you back to when these two countries were first started. You know, Fidel Castro and Chairman Mao Zedong, the founder of the current iteration of China, were two of the greatest larger- than-life socialist icons of the 20th century. And yet those two men really didn't get along that well. In fact, there was an interview in the late '70s that Fidel Castro actually criticized Chairman Mao, saying that while he agreed with him on an ideological standpoint, he said that he had done much harm to China. He said his ego was outsized and that he took too much power into his own hands and hurt his own people. And because of that, even though that they were two of the functioning Communist states in the world, China and Cuba did not have formal diplomatic ties until 1993. Which for those who might not follow this that closely that, that might seem surprising. But like so many other relationships that China has with other countries around the world, the economics really ended up winning out. So in 1993, both sides got more friendly with one another. Castro actually made a visit here to China in 1995. Trade between both sides really ramped up. You saw President Xi Jinping, the current leader of China, visit Fidel Castro in his home in 2014. China's second in command, Premier Li Keqiang, went to Fidel Castro just this year in fact, in late September. So both sides really warmed up their relationship. Both sides -- Fidel Castro actually won the Chinese version, called the Confucius Peace Prize. It's the Chinese version of the Nobel Peace Prize. Fidel Castro actually won that award just a few years ago. So things have gotten much better than where they were, say, 40 years ago. And right now China is actually the largest single country trading partner that Cuba has.", "Matt Rivers, reporting live from Beijing, thank you very much.", "Matt, thank you. Let's take a look now at the reaction that we're seeing on the streets of Miami. We have seen these crowds that have been gathering for the last several hours. And this is the scene in Little Havana, Pequena Havana. It's what you would refer to it as. You see many people there that have come together to celebrate, many people who are dancing in the streets after they heard the news that Fidel Castro had died. Again, this is --", "We just heard the depth of their feelings over the last few hours.", "We really have. We have a correspondent there on the ground, who is speaking to people. One person compared Castro to Hitler in that interview. There is a very sharp and strong reaction there on the streets of Miami. And just for context, this is just outside the Versailles restaurant. It's a very important restaurant; many people come together there, Cuban Americans, to talk about politics and at this hour coming together to mark a moment in history, the death of Fidel Castro. CNN will continue following the breaking just after the break. 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{"id": "CNN-329727", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-01-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/03/nday.02.html", "summary": "New England Bracing for Nor'easter", "utt": ["The deep freeze in the eastern U.S. is about to get even worse. Hard to believe, especially for New England. People there are bracing for now a powerful nor'easter. CNN meteorologist Jennifer Gray is at the CNN Center with more. What does it look like, Jennifer?", "And, Alisyn, this comes on the heels of record-breaking temperatures as winter has a firm grip across the country.", "One-third of the United States gripped by dangerous subzero temperatures. More than 100 million Americans under wind chill advisories. The deep freeze killing at least 11 people, including a 27-year-old woman in Wisconsin who wandered from a New Year's Eve celebration with her friends.", "It looks to just be a very tragic accident.", "In Texas, where four people have died of exposure, the Red Cross setting up additional warming centers across Houston.", "We're offering a place for people that need it to get out of the weather.", "In the Midwest, the wind chill colder than on the surface of Mars. Waterways across the country, from rivers, to lakes, to waterfalls, frozen solid. Even Niagara Falls surrounded by sheets of ice. The wintery mix wreaking havoc on roadways, including a massive 75-car pileup on Interstate 90 near Buffalo, New York. In Massachusetts, firefighters struggle to go work in the bitter cold.", "The water freezes on our equipment, on our air packs, on our masks.", "The punishing chill even hitting as far south as Alabama and Florida.", "Extra blankets, heaters, whatever it takes.", "Officials preparing shelters and warning residents to stay indoors as they brace for ice and snow.", "If you don't have a reason to be out, don't be out.", "And that's good advice because we're already seeing icing conditions across portions of north Florida and Georgia. And it's going to turn into snow by the time it gets to the Carolinas and then possibly blizzard conditions for portions of New England. So as this develops, it is going to get stronger with time. We're going to see snowfall all along the coast. New York, Boston, Portland. Hurricane force winds possible. And the snow fall accumulation in Philly, one to two inches. New York City expected 3-6 inches. Boston could see up to a foot of snow. And the big problem with this system, Chris, is that if we see power outages, like we many times do with nor'easters, temperatures are going to be in the teens and single digits by Friday and Saturday. So you're going to have to find a way to keep warm.", "It's getting colder. J. Gray, already fighting the cold. Newborn baby at home.", "Yes.", "Welcome to our life as parents. It will end in about five years.", "I'm here.", "Thank you for the information.", "I believe it.", "We'll check back with you later. All right, so the firm behind the infamous Donald Trump dossier is defending its research and accusing Republicans of conducting fake Russia investigations. What do they mean? What do they want? Next."], "speaker": ["ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "JENNIFER GRAY, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "GRAY (voice over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRAY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GRAY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRAY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GRAY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRAY", "CUOMO", "GRAY", "CUOMO", "GRAY", "CUOMO", "GRAY", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-233094", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2014-06-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/22/ndaysun.01.html", "summary": "Militants Seize Four More Iraqi Towns; Kerry Arrives In Cairo For Iraq Talks; Is ISIS Closing In On Baghdad?", "utt": ["What ISIS has been able to do now is to take control of the whole valley, from that border crossing all the way to the western outskirts of Baghdad.", "I was amazed they lasted that long in the water. I never seen something like that before.", "Maybe God put us there to save them.", "There was a face now to those people who made that sacrifice 53 years ago. They are my heroes.", "You're still in the middle of your weekend so don't worry about it when the alarm goes off this morning. I'm Christi Paul.", "I'm Victor Blackwell. It's 6:00 here on the east coast. This is NEW DAY SUNDAY. First up this morning, Islamist militants have tightened their grip on Iraq seizing a strategic border crossing in three other towns in the country's tenuous west.", "The four nearly captured towns include Al-Qaim, a critical gateway to Iraq along its border with Syria. Now the towns also line a main highway as you can see here. They connect Syria to Baghdad. That heightens the chance for militants to march in the west to go to the Iraqi capital.", "Now the big headline purportedly this video shows fighters with the group Islamic State in Syria, Iraq and Syria, ISIS, laying claim to the border town as some residents hailed their arrival.", "In the meantime, thousands of Shiites did heed a call we're told by the powerful Iraqi cleric to rise up in a show of force against the ISIS militants.", "And less than two hours ago, Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Cairo, his first stop on a swing through the region including Iraq to try to defuse the sectarian bloodshed. Just as the first at least of some of the 300 U.S. military advisers are due to arrive in Iraq.", "Iraqi officials say several Sunni tribes are supporting ISIS in the west. The latest town to fall to the militants is just 62 miles outside Baghdad.", "Nima Elbagir joins us from the Iraqi capital. Nima, how is the city reacting to the news that reportedly these militants are getting closer?", "As you can imagine, it is extraordinarily tense here. We've now had confirmed to us by Iraqi officials over 70 percent of that Western Anbar Province that borders between Iraq and Syria, is now under ISIS control. They have most of the Euphrates (ph) River Valley in their hold and that gives them avenues to reinforce, that gives them avenues to move troops and assets. And they have now Iraqi officials told us set their sights even closer to Baghdad, they are now looking at the Sunni areas right on the outskirts of the capital like Abu Ghraib where the infamous prison was. The push just feels like the momentum is picking back up. That's one of the things that's worrying Secretary of State John Kerry -- Victor.", "Nima, we know that Secretary of State John Kerry is in the region, do we have any indication what the governments in Baghdad and elsewhere in that region are expecting from him?", "Well, we've had clearly from President Obama that he wants an inclusive government and what people are reading between the lines of that here is that Al Maliki's government has not been inclusive and many of the Shia complaints are what has given rise to a lot of support from the Sunni tribes. Many of the Sunni complaints I should say, has been what's given rise to the support that ISIS is enjoying from amongst the Sunni tribes. So the concern is that it can't just be business as usual. Whatever it is the U.S. does to try and hold back the floodgates of ISIS, will that be bolstering a government that has proven that it can't move Iraq into the new stage, can that be the government -- the government that is overseeing much of this Sunni gaining of ground, is that the government that can take Iraq into the next stage? That's what U.S. officials need to figure out now, Christi, what happens on the ground when those U.S. military advisers finally arrive here.", "All right, Nima Elbagir, thank you so much, Nima, for keeping us up to date on what's happening there. Appreciate it.", "Let's talk more about this trip of Secretary of State John Kerry, again, now in Cairo, just arrived two hours ago. First up on a diplomatic mission of trying to calm this crisis in the region in Iraq there.", "Chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto is traveling with Secretary Kerry. He joins us now by phone. Jim, what is Kerry's goal, first of all, in Egypt?", "In Egypt, you have a new president elected, which is General Sisi and it's the first senior American official to visit him after that election. And you have a lot of problems. They acknowledge it's a difficult transition, you remember that they had this mass trial where they sentenced hundreds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death in two hours, a trial that no one says followed due process. So clearly a challenge there. Also they have imprisoned a number of journalists as well and Secretary Kerry and other U.S. officials say these are two key areas of concern. But at the same time they say that Egypt is a strategic partner. They want to keep this relationship going. They have shared interests. And as always with this country, that balance between trying to push them to a more democratic government at the same time is trying to keep them on the same side with peace with Israel, and with a shared threat from terrorism.", "Jim, President Obama has said that Iraq has to settle this issue, the sectarian disputes, of course, itself and that it's a political solution and the U.S. can't fix the problems. Secretary Kerry plans to travel to Iraq soon. That's got to be a difficult line to walk, to support reconciliation, I mean is he going to also pressure Maliki to resign?", "No. U.S. officials say the focus now is on one action stabilizing the country, in this fight against ISIS, but two, providing political space for a more inclusive government. They say that Maliki has not brought an inclusive government, they want him to do so, but they are not saying they are pushing him out or making that a requirement for U.S. help in pushing back against ISIS. But what they say is your immediate threat is from ISIS, it is a horrible terrorist group. It has territory. It's got money. It's got weapons, it's got -- it's battle hardened from fighting in Syria. This is spilling across from Syria. And this is threatening to tear the country apart. So, they say the first priority is getting all sides on the same page, the Sunni, the Shia, the Kurds in Iraq, to fight ISIS, and at the same time find political agreement and I'll tell you though, the situation is so bad on the ground right now in Iraq, it's difficult to imagine how you make reasonable political compromise in that environment. On the other hand, fear could be a good driver here because all these groups are equally fearful of ISIS' advance.", "All right, Jim Sciutto traveling with the secretary of state. Jim Sciutto, thank you very much. Stand by, we'll talk with you later throughout the morning. As we said ISIS militants are closing in it appears on Baghdad. Four key towns between the Syrian border and the capital have fallen into the hands of militants just this weekend.", "I want to show you this map again so you get a really good gauge of what we're talking about because this opens up a path for fighters from ISIS in Syria to get to the outskirts of Baghdad now. I want to give you a time table here, in less than four hours. Let's bring in Lieutenant Colonel Bob Maginnis. Bob, thank you so much for being with us. So I know Baghdad seems to be partly surrounded at this point. From a tactical standpoint, how much in danger is Baghdad right now and how do they -- do they have enough, do you think, to fend off ISIS and the Sunnis that they teamed up with? LT. COL. ROBERT MAGINNIS, U.S. ARMY", "So you said that after the Ayatollah Sistani called for so many Shia to join forces and protect the capital, there is now this blurred line between Iraqi forces, the official army, and the Shia militias. Does that complicate the American support for the official army?", "No. There's no doubt, Victor, that it's complicating and in fact, Sadder himself who runs the Mahdi Army says that Americans that may join to assist are fair targets. The old animosities that came from our occupation have not gone away. This is a very complex arena. Hopefully Maliki and his army officials will protect our people who are embedded there. Primarily as President Obama said, to kind of assess the army, to prepare perhaps airstrikes in the future. But certainly to bring stability and it's a very complex and very tight wire that we're walking here.", "We know ISIS militants want to create this Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq. In Iraq, they have the support of the Sunnis right now, but the Sunnis' goal isn't necessarily the same goal as ISIS. So my question is how long will these two groups work together or support each other because right now it seems to be a matter of convenience.", "Great question. The reality is that the Sunnis are doing this because they have been alienated by Maliki and company. So should ISIS move in, and not rule very well, in other words, antagonize, you know, marginalize the Sunnis, then you'll find that the Sunnis are going to try to find accommodation elsewhere. And in fact, there's already been indications that Maliki has reached out once again to the Sunni population to try to reel them back in. They don't you know, Iraq does not benefit by having a three-part Iraq in the future. ISIS needs to go, but Maliki has as Jim pointed out from Cairo, some very difficult ways ahead trying to divide things up. So, we'll have to wait and see.", "All right, Colonel Maginnis, so good to have you with us this morning and help us explain this.", "Thank you, sir.", "CNN will have more on the American response to the Iraq crisis at 9:00 a.m. Eastern on \"STATE OF THE UNION\" with Candy Crowley with guest Senator Rand Paul and Senator Dianne Feinstein. Turning to Brazil, get ready for World Cup", "All eyes on the game, folks. Tonight, the U.S. trying to pull it off again. This time against Portugal. We'll have a preview for you. My gosh, this story from the sea. People, you're not going to believe. A man and woman rescued off the coast of Florida. They tread water for 14 hours."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "NIMA ELGAGIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PAUL", "ELBAGIR", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (via telephone)", "BLACKWELL", "SCIUTTO", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "MAGINNIS", "PAUL", "MAGINNIS", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "USA. PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-27635", "program": "Breaking News", "date": "2001-3-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/27/bn.03.html", "summary": "Jerusalem Rocked by Second Bomb Blast", "utt": ["First, we go to the Middle East, where a bomb blast has rocked Jerusalem for the second time just today. CNN's Jerrold Kessel is in Jerusalem with the latest on that story - Jerrold.", "Good morning, Carol. And one person is said to be killed and two in critical condition in a bomb blast just off side a bus in the northeastern part of Jerusalem. And according to the latest version that the Israeli police are patching together now from this incident, a man got aboard a bus and aroused the suspicion of some of the travelers. He quickly disembarked from the bus. And then there was the explosion. And he is the dead man, according to the Israeli police, who now presume he was a suicide bomber who had planned to blow himself up aboard the bus. There are also two people in critical condition and a number more likely hurt in that explosion -- this the second of bombings today in Jerusalem -- just as the early morning rush hour was getting going in a busy commercial center, a district in the southeastern parts of Jerusalem, another explosion there inside a car -- the police say very powerful debris of explosives in that car. It blew up as a bus passed by. But only four people were hurt there: the driver suffering what is called moderate injuries; the others lightly hurt in that incident. Police said it could have been far worse had it blown up a half-an-hour later when the busy rush hour would have been in full flow and there had been a lot of people on the sidewalk -- all this creating a good deal of tension and anger boiling and boiling, particularly on the Israeli side, in the wake of an incident yesterday in the divided West Bank town of Hebron. A 10-month-old Jewish infant was shot and killed, Israel says, by a Palestinian sniper operating from a hillside overlooking the town of Hebron, territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority. And, according to Israel, the sniper deliberately targeted the baby girl, who was with her parents, Jewish settlers, in the courtyard of one of the few small Jewish settler enclaves in that divided town. Tension there very great this morning: Israel has imposed a curfew on all the Palestinians living in the part of the town that it controls, a cordon around the entire Hebron, a population of 120,000 -- and the tension building, as Jewish settlers have been seeking to go on a rampage against the Palestinians living in the town and have been prevented by the Israeli army, who has said -- whose officers have said that the settlers should allow the army to do its work. And that is the situation, with a good deal of tension in -- both in Hebron and there in Jerusalem with these two explosions -- Carol.", "Jerrold, focusing on those explosions: Has anyone taken responsibility for either of these explosions? And is it in any way tied with the Arab summit meeting in Jordan today?", "Well, the second explosion next to that bus -- would now presume to be a suicide bomber -- come -- came just in the last half- hour. There's been no claim or reference to it. But the first explosion of that presumed car bomb in the southern part of Jerusalem, there was responsibility taken, both by faxes to international agencies in -- news agencies in Lebanon, and a telephone call to an international agency here in Jerusalem by the radical Islamic group Islamic Jihad. And Israelis had been bracing and saying that, in advance of the Arab summit now convening in Amman, Jordan, that there would be a rash of violence -- the Israelis saying, regretfully, from their point of view, that that has been borne out. There has certainly been violence both yesterday and today. And it could be only the start of things to come, say people on both sides.", "All right, Jerrold Kessel reporting live from Jerusalem -- clearly a challenge for the new prime minister, who has promised more security for Israel -- Colleen."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LIN", "KESSEL", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-242348", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-11-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/03/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Midterm Elections; Biden Prediction; Midterm Election Prep", "utt": ["All right, Wolf Blitzer, thank you so much. Great to be with all of you on this Monday. I'm Brooke Baldwin. The election is tomorrow and the polls are breaking Republican. Should the GOP secure a net gain of six seats in the 100-seat Senate, then the Republican Party will own Capitol Hill, will control both houses of Congress, something Barack Obama has not yet faced in his nearly six years in the White House. But hold on though because you have to run these elections first, right? So here is the vice president speaking to CNN saying his Democrats still have hope. Roll it.", "First of all, I don't agree with the odd makers. I predict we're going to - we're going to keep the Senate.", "You do?", "I've been in 66, 67 races all told and I don't get the feeling that the odds makers are giving.", "Be that as it may, here is the bad news, Mr. Vice President. Bad news for Obama. In fact, bad news for the Dems. In Iowa, a Democratic seat the Dems have hoped to hold, Republican Joni Ernst has taken a seven-point lead in a Des Moines register poll. Georgia, another hope for the Democrats may be waning as a weekend poll showed Republican David Perdue outdrawing Michelle Nunn. And West Virginia, South Dakota, Montana, these are Democratic states right now but will not be after tomorrow. We can pretty much say that for sure. Three more takeaways and just do the math and the GOP owns the Senate. Joe Klein with me, political columnist for \"Time\" magazine. That Joe Klein sitting with me here on set. So nice to see you, sir.", "Good to be here.", "Let's just begin with - so you have the polls breaking Republican. You --", "Sort of.", "Kind of, sort of. But then you have the vice president saying, no, we're going to hang on. Which is it?", "I don't know. I mean, you know -", "Honesty. I like it.", "Obviously the election sets up pretty good for Republicans. It looks like they're going to do it. But all -- there are all these states out there that are not runaways. A four-point difference in Georgia may mean nothing. You know, a lot of it depends on turnout. Polls down ballot from, you know, the presidency are notoriously inaccurate. Nobody's going to do what Nate Silver did four years ago -", "Called them all.", "Who called them all, right. And so, you know, I would suspect the Republicans are going to take control of the Senate. But for people like me are stupidest when we say they're absolutely going to take control.", "We're not calling it. We're not calling it. We will have that moment when we wake up Wednesday morning when it's over.", "Leave that to Wolf. Wolf will - Wolf will do that.", "We'll have it. So, woke up this morning, read your piece, time.com, and the five things to watch for. So let me just begin with the first that jumped out at me. You talk about Democrats and women and you write this, point blank, \"the alleged toxicity of Barack Obama has made it unsafe for Democrats to discuss much else.\" So are you saying the only thing that Democrats can bring to the table are so-called women's issues?", "Well, that's pretty much the way it's looking around the country. I went on a road trip through the south and that was just about all Democrats we're talking about.", "Women.", "Yes. They used to be able to talk about foreign policy, but that's gotten a lot more complicated over the last couple of years, especially with the rise of ISIS. And so they have clean arguments there, equal pay for equal work. It just sounds right, doesn't it? How can you be against that? And yet Republicans are avoiding that issue throughout the south and in other places. It's the democrat's strongest point. But I don't know whether you can pin a whole party and hang a whole party on that one issue.", "It's the women issue you point out is one of the five things to look for.", "Yes.", "You also talk about where Democrats are really struggling. You talk about states where it's not surprising that they're struggling, so let me quote you here. \"There is no excuse for the tight races that estimable Democrats Jeanne Shaheen and Mark Udall find themselves struggling through in New Hampshire and Colorado.\" Do you think it is the president -- you mentioned before his toxicity -- do you think it's the president that's dragging them down?", "It's the only issue.", "It's not anything else?", "It's not anything else.", "Wow.", "I mean Jeanne Shaheen is a legendary politician in New Hampshire. I was just up there yesterday, Hillary Clinton was there campaigning for -", "Lots of women you were saying.", "Yes. In fact, New Hampshire is the future. A women governor, sitting governor now, two women senators, two women congresspeople or congresswomen.", "Congresswomen.", "And Jeanne Shaheen is a legend. She's the only woman who's ever been both a senator and a governor and she's very, very strongly regarded up there and she is in a knockdown, drag-out, one-point differential race with Scott Brown, who, you know, is a carpet bagger. He came from Massachusetts. So -", "So singularly playing (ph) out the president.", "Yes, I mean people look -- people do not understand where this president has gone. And especially in this fall with Ebola and, you know, the summer and fall with", "Yes.", "And, you know, people don't feel the impacts of Obamacare because it only affects very few people, but it's a bad label to have hung around your neck even though the program's kind of succeeding.", "And we were talking earlier, and we'll talk a little bit more, on just about how the economy's so, so, so much better -", "Yes.", "Yet people still aren't totally feeling it. Joe Klein, thank you so much. A pleasure having you on.", "My pleasure.", "So, back to Joe Biden. He is certainly defying the odds makers. Says his Democrats will hold on to the U.S. Senate. Gloria Borger asked him essentially, what if you're wrong? Take a listen.", "But what if that were to be the case?", "Well, I don't think it will change anything in terms of what we're about. We know we have to get done the last two years and quite frankly going into 2016 the Republicans have to make a decision whether they're in control or not in control or they're going to begin to allow things to happen or they're going to continue to be obstructionist. And I think they're going to choose to get things done.", "Gloria Borger, she joins me now live from Washington, our chief political analyst. And so did the vice president offer specifics as to how the White House would approach this post-election reality in which both houses are run by the opposition.", "No. No, I - I think what we see is - I think what we see is the beginning of a strategy here, Brooke. You know, he's sort of putting out his hand and saying, OK, yes, we can work together and he said to me, we're willing to compromise and if they are willing to deal. And what he did say, which kind of surprised me, was that he admitted that the White House really needs to do a better job of communicating what it's doing to the American people. I mean, he wouldn't say that what they were doing was at all wrong or bad or anything else. He just said, look, we effectively haven't been telling our story as well as we need to tell our story.", "All right. So all this talk of compromise, Gloria Borger. You have the vice president, 71 years of age, talking as though he just might have another election left in him.", "Yes.", "Maybe for the white house. Roll that sound bite.", "It's not about Hillary?", "No. Well, it really is not. I mean you know me too well. I mean if I run, I'm confident I will be able to mount a campaign that can be financed and it will be credible and it will be serious.", "Would you run if she runs?", "Absolutely. That's not the reason not to run or to run. The question is, am I - do I -- am I convinced I am best positioned of anyone else to lead the country the next four years.", "Are you?", "Uh-huh. Does it - I mean he's considering it. he is considering it. Does that surprise you?", "Yes, he is. Look, first of all, he's not going to say it right now because -- let's say he decides not to run. He's not going to say it right now because he doesn't want to be a lame duck, right? I mean the president has that problem, why should he have that problem, right? Then, what did surprise me, though, Brooke, was when I asked him whether he was -- didn't like all the attention that Hillary is getting. And he's the sitting vice president and he's not getting the attention and Hillary Clinton, everybody's buzzing about her candidacy. He said, you know, I really don't feel badly about that. He said, even when I say it, it doesn't sound real, but that's actually how I feel. I don't feel badly about it. So he wasn't giving away any secrets there but, you know, not closing any doors, at least not yet.", "How about just in the final moment I have you, you know, when the cameras weren't rolling and, you know, when you were talking, as we reporters do, anything, you know, on the record that he shared with you that you want us to know?", "No, I think, you know, he's sort of the eternal optimist. And, you know, when I asked him the first question, you know, can the Democrats - you know, what - everyone's says the Democrats aren't going to win, he really even privately is not giving up on that. And, you know, I think they've got an awful lot at stake there and they understand that and they know that. And I think what we're all going to be talking about after election night is the strategy and the question of whether all these red state Democrats should have kept the president out as much as they have because could they have gotten the base out more with the president out there on the campaign trail and will the base stay home? And I think that's a worry that everyone in the White House is having right now.", "Something we may be talking about in 48 hours from now.", "Right.", "Gloria Borger, thank you so much, and for that interview with the vice president. Thank you. You know, this is the election that will shape the nation for the next two years. Make sure you join us tomorrow night here on CNN for \"Election Night in America.\" We will be here until that final vote is counted. Next here on CNN, Virgin Galactic's CEO Richard Branson speaking out after last week's crash of Spaceship II. Why he says he still plans on being the first passenger going into space on his company's crafts. And next, the terror group ISIS tweeting out absolutely gruesome photos of death and destruction at their hands in Iraq's Anbar province. How they're using these pictures to recruit scores of new members. 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{"id": "CNN-307129", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-03-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/08/nday.05.html", "summary": "Interview with Democratic Congresswoman Linda Sanchez of California.", "utt": ["It's a great bill. I really believe we're going to have tremendous support.", "Hasn't happened yet. There are certainly some challenges to this early phase coming from Republicans. They have problems in the House. Who knows what happens in the Senate? But it is a starting point to change the current the American Health Act. So, the Affordable Health Act. So, let's get the view of the other side of the aisle, the Democrats. We have Democratic Congresswoman Linda Sanchez. She's a member of the House Ways and Means Committee. Now, when you look at this plan, I do see what you guys are complaining about in terms of overall coverage, that's being ducked by the right so far. But there are a couple of counter allegations. One is, a lot of people can't get coverage right now with the ACA, and with their current plan, young people, middle income people, about $40,000, $50,000, they're going to do better potentially under this new plan. What do you say to those pluses?", "Well, for younger people or middle income people, once you get sick, your out-of-pocket costs are going to be much higher than they are now. Those are things like the co-pays that you pay to visit your doctor. And pretty much what you see with this plan is, less people will be covered, at least 10 million people less, possibly more. You're going to say a bigger hit for seniors. That's why AARP has come out against the bill. You're going to see uncompensated care rise again at alarming rates. That's why the American Hospital Association is opposed to this bill. There are just so many nasty little provisions embedded in the bill that are going to make people pay more, and it's going to give them much less. So overall, it's a prescription for disaster for working families, for working families that are struggling, for seniors, for women. There are no guarantees against gender discrimination. So, it's really not a viable replacement plan. I say let's go back to ACA and let's fix some of the provisions that are problematic, instead of scrapping the whole thing and replacing it with a far inferior plan.", "But I want to get into some of the things you said. But as one political question, right now, the word is unanimously that you guys aren't working with Republicans on this. No matter which faction I talk to, when I ask if they're getting any buy-in from you guy, they say no, the Democrats have been told not to work with us at this point. Is that a realistic solution for you guys? You don't have the numbers. The ACA does have its problems. Shouldn't you be working with the other side right now to fix some of these things rather than stay back and just criticizing it?", "You know, it's funny that they say we're not working with them. We've never been allowed to be in any of the discussions. We weren't allowed to see the bill until yesterday when they presented it publicly. Nobody has ever asked the Democrats, anybody in the Democratic Party to sit down and work on this bill. So, it's kind of a false claim that, you know, we don't want to work with them. We've never been allowed. We've never had a seat at the table. They control everything and they act as if, you know, we're immaterial to proceeding with this. We have amendments. We're marking it up in my committee today, Ways and Means. Democrats have amendments to try to improve the bill. We are going to try to do what we can, but over all, the bill is fundamentally flawed. Not even Republicans agree on the bill that's been presented. I think it's just a disaster.", "Well, a lot of Republicans don't agree because they don't think it goes far enough. They want Medicaid expansion out altogether and they want to replace it with what they see as more choice and freedom for states and individuals. One of the things we just heard from Congressman Mark Meadows I want your take on. He was asked about, you know, how the poor are going to do here. Are they going to have the same level of coverage and the same numbers will be covered as of right now? And he said, you know, there's a federal law that says everybody gets coverage, and all you have to do is go to a hospital and you must get care. Now, is that what qualifies as care going to an emergency room in your opinion?", "No. What the Affordable Care Act did was reduced uncompensated care, because by expanding coverage to 20 million people that never had health insurance, they didn't have to wait until they were so sick that they walked into the emergency room and got their care there which, by the way, is the most expensive point of entry in the health care system. Instead, what ACA did was it increased coverage so people could go for routine office visits and preventive care visits at no cost. And this bill doesn't do that. It increases costs, again, on middle class families, working families, working families that are struggling. You know what it does? It's a huge tax giveaway to some of the wealthiest Americans in this country. It makes people pay more for their health care so insurance companies CEOs can get a tax break, so that the wealthiest 400 families in this country can get a tax break, so that pharmaceutical companies can get a tax break. You know, President Trump ran on helping the working class families in this country. And this is a huge tax giveaway. And, by the way, the Republicans presented this bill and were marking it up without getting a score from CBO about what it would cost or how many people would lose coverage. How insane is that to present a bill and already start moving on marking it up before you have the basic fundamental questions of answered of what is it going to cost and how many people would be covered? Because President Trump promised on the campaign trail that coverage would be great, it wouldn't diminish under this plan from ACA, and that it was going to cost less and be better health coverage. And quite frankly, it's just not. There's no way they can get around the fact that this bill does not cover as many people as the ACA covered, does not provide the quality health care and the consumer protections, they can't make those allegations. That will come out in the markups today because we're going to be going through these bills with a very fine-tooth comb.", "All right. Linda Sanchez, thank you very much. This is just a starting point. Let's see what your side comes out with, what the other side comes out with and whether or not you're all willing to work together to get something for the American people. Thanks for being on", "My pleasure. Thank you.", "Alisyn?", "OK. Another campaign promise, President Trump's border wall. What do people who live on the border say about that wall? Our Van Jones went there to get \"THE MESSY TRUTH,\" and he joins us next."], "speaker": ["TRUMP", "CUOMO", "REP. LINDA SANCHEZ (D), CALIFORNIA", "CUOMO", "SANCHEZ", "CUOMO", "SANCHEZ", "CUOMO", "NEW DAY. 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{"id": "CNN-266180", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2015-10-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/07/lvab.02.html", "summary": "BBB Giving High Ratings To Some Bad Companies", "utt": ["You think you could trust the Better Business Bureau. Its stamp of approval is supposed to give people confidence in the quality of a business or a charity, but what if the ratings are wrong? Nearly 5 million companies throughout the United States get a grade from the better business bureau from A+ to the way down to bad one, F. But an investigation by CNN, money is giving the better business bureau its own failing grade for the high marks it is handing out to really bad companies. Here is Senior Investigative Correspondent Drew Griffin", "NourishLife, sold dietary supplements claiming they treated speech disorders of children with autism. It was one big problem according to autism advocate Julia Bascom. No proof the product worked.", "They're selling false promises. They're selling promises that haven't been supported by any kind of scientific research. They're selling a product that hasn't been tested. We don't know what it does.", "After an investigation of federal trade commission this year filed a lawsuit claiming the companies claims deceptive. NourishLife paid a $200 thousand fine and was forced to stop making claims that its supplements help kids with autism. It was a huge blemish on the company's record, but you wouldn't be able to tell that from their rating, the Better Business Bureau rated NourishLife A+ its highest rating. Julia Bascom has one question, How?", "Damage were may flood (ph), damage were exploited. Disabled people and disabled children were exploited.", "NourishLife tells CNN it \"prefers to move on\" and says it's received \"the Better Business Bureau complaint free award for the past six years and maintains an excellent customer service program.\" It turns out the Better Business Bureau rating for NourishLife isn't the only rating you maybe leery off.", "For more than 100 years Better Business Bureau has been helping millions of consumers find businesses they can trust.", "A CNN MONEY investigation has uncovered more than a hundred companies that had been the target of serious government regulatory action in the last year but still received A+ to the A- ratings from the BBB. And that even includes a company called Freedom Stores, it's a chain of furniture and consumer electronic stores that cater to the military and gave easy credit to service members. But according to Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, the company ripped off gullible consumers by garnishing wages, taking double payments and even charging credit cards without permission. I mean it sounds like they're just preying on the military?", "It is unbelievable that anyone would single out and target our military service members like this. And, you know, I am not about to let Virginia be a safe haven for companies who would target our veterans, our service members or families or really any consumer.", "Herring sued last year forcing freedom and its affiliated companies to pay back customers $2.7 million. They also paid a fine of $100,000. But guess what? Freedom's Better Business Bureau rating remained in an A+ and its affiliated company, military credit service received an A-. They're not A rated in your book?", "I certainly not going to buy anything from them", "This summer the company announced it was closing its retail stores and declined for comment for this story. The list of companies highly rated by the Better Business Bureau also includes Adventist Health System, a company accused by the justice department of recklessly cutting corners by providing potentially harmful radiation at some of its hospitals. That resulted in a $5.4 million fine. Provident funding associates force to pay $9 million dollars in damages for preying on minority borrowers. The companies wouldn't respond and the Better Business Bureau wouldn't go on camera instead they sent us this statement. \"Ratings are dynamic the Better Business Bureau statement reads and the may fluctuate on a daily basis to reflect the addition of new information or removal of data that's more than three years old.\" As for the more than 100 companies we found that they serious government action because of the bad business practice. The BBB said government action is only one part of the determining a company's rating, and it just can't keep track of every action against all the 4.7 million companies it rates. The consumer advocate Joe Ridout, that sounds like the Better Business Bureau isn't doing an A rated job.", "I would not counsel anyone to trust the BBB without looking at other source of information. It can be useful when you find a low grade. But if you have a high grade if you trust that that trust is likely going to be misplaced.", "Ashleigh, the Better Business Bureau actually beginning changing those ratings or chose to give no ratings at all, NourishLife went from an A+ to an A-. But, you know, in the end, it's really up to consumers to do their own research about a company for more on this story go to cnnmoney.com. Ashleigh.", "Drew, thank you for that phenomenal work, I appreciate it. Cnnmoney.com is the place to go for more extensive reporting from Drew and his team have a look that is critical material for consumers. Coming up next, that case against Bill Cosby, boy, it just won't go away, will it? And it is just taking a giant leap off of the tabloid pages, and right into federal court. Want to know what that means? Back right after this."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT", "JULIA BASCOM, AUTISM SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK", "GRIFFIN", "BASCOM", "GRIFFIN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GRIFFIN", "MARK HERRING, VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL", "GRIFFIN", "HERRING", "GRIFFIN", "JOE RIDOUT, CONSUMER ACTION", "GRIFFIN", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-136336", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2009-3-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0903/25/ldt.01.html", "summary": "Massive Spending Plan; Red Storm Rising", "utt": ["Wolf, tonight, President Obama on Capitol Hill trying to sell his $3.6 trillion budget to members of his own party. There's also some good news on the economy and the housing market tonight, so much for doom and gloom in Washington and on Wall Street. Also tonight, a troubling new report on communist China's rapid military build-up and the rising threat to this country, among my guests here tonight, Congressman Brad Sherman and Senator Judd Gregg will be talking about President Obama's budget and the future of this economy, all of that, all the day's news and much more, straight ahead here tonight.", "This is", "news, debate, and opinion for Wednesday, March 25th. Live from New York, Lou Dobbs.", "Good evening, everybody. President Obama took his budget sales pitch to Capitol Hill. Today, he met with Democrats in the House and Senate, trying to persuade them to go along with his $3.6 trillion spending plan, already Democratic leaders are scaling back the president's domestic programs and his middle class tax cut. Republicans tonight are calling upon the American people to rise up against the president's spending plan. Dana Bash has our report from Capitol Hill.", "A trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to rally support for his budget, going behind closed doors with fellow Democrats, wary of big spending and soaring deficits.", "He asked the caucus what he asked me; preserve my priorities, education, energy, health care. Reduce the deficit substantially.", "But even as President Obama made his case, Democrat-led House and Senate committees were writing their own budgets and scaling back some of the president's plans. Most prominently, the signature tax cut he campaigned on, $400 for most individual, $800 for couples. The Senate budget would eliminate funding for that in two years, unless the White House finds a way to pay for it. Congressional Democrats are also slashing $250 billion the White House set aside for more Wall Street bailouts. The Democratic budget chairman called the changes critical to taming the exploding deficit.", "In light of the new reality, those are the fundamental differences we have had to insist that things be paid for, and I make no apology for it.", "CNN is told that some conservative Democrats used their private Obama meeting to question the wisdom of his plans for big spending on health care, education and energy in difficult economic times. Meanwhile, Republicans are trying to exploit differences among Democrats. Listen to this GOP appeal to conservative Democrats.", "You hold the cards. You have the votes that can make the difference in this. You can stop this. I'm asking you join us to stop this fiscal train wreck.", "Now, one of the major changes congressional Democrats are making is, Lou, they are taking out the $600 billion-plus that the president set aside to reform health care. That of course is one of his top priorities. Now, Democrats say that they still, of course, vow to tackle this issue. But now they're going to have to find a way to pay for it. And everybody agrees it is going to be a mind-blowing price tag.", "Well, the mind-blowing price tag may be coming down if people like Congressman Paul Ryan, as you just reported, opposing directly, publicly and with some passion, the president's proposals. We know 16 Democrats in the Senate, doing the same thing. This president has a real battle on his hands on Capitol Hill with this budget, doesn't he?", "He absolutely does. He's unlikely to get any of those House Republicans. He doesn't need them in the House, but with regard to those Senate Democrats, I talked to a lot of them going in and out of the meeting with President Obama today. Many of them did tell me that they feel a little bit more comfortable with the budget that's going through the Senate now because of those changes. They weren't major changes, but changes enough for some of them that they feel more comfortable with the fact that Congress is trying to tackle the deficit issue, at least better -- from their perspective -- better than the president has.", "\"Better\" is as it implies, a relative term. I mean, these are huge deficits and additions to the national debt extraordinary. Thank you very much, we appreciate it. Dana Bash.", "Thanks, Lou.", "Well Republicans are also directly appealing to the American people to fight the Obama budget. Mike Pence, congressman from Indiana, today calling on Americans to, as he put it, rise up against the president's proposals.", "I will always believe, as long as I serve here, that a minority in Congress plus the American people equals a majority. We intend to take our case for fiscal discipline, growth, and tax relief, to the American people from sea to shining sea and if the American people will rise up, anything's possible on Capitol Hill.", "Congressman Pence accused President Obama of proposing the most fiscally irresponsibility budget in history. Two more Republican voices tonight saying loudly and clearly that President Obama's policies take this country in the wrong direction and they want those policies to fail -- senior political analyst Bill Schneider with that story.", "It is not their right to remake this nation...", "Last month, talk show host Rush Limbaugh created a stir when he said...", "What is so strange about being honest and saying I want Barack Obama to fail, if his mission is to restructure and re-form this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? Why would I want that to succeed?", "Now, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has joined the fray.", "Make no mistake, anything other than an immediate, a compliant well, no, sir, I don't want the president to fail, is treated as some act of treason, civil disobedience or political obstructionism. This is political correctness run amok.", "Former Senator and Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson seems to agree.", "I want his policies that I believe take us in the wrong direction to fail.", "Are these critics crossing the line between fair and unfair criticism? Where is the line anyway? It's fair for critics to oppose the president's policy. That's politics. It's harsh, but fair, to predict that those policies won't work.", "And we believe that it is a dangerous path that could harm the very promise of America.", "But is it fair to say, unless the president does what I want, that I hope his policies fail?", "Do you want the president to fail? It depends on what he it trying to do.", "These critics see the president's policies as failed by definition, bigger government, more debt.", "Well if he takes us down the road of tripling our national debt in 10 years, and making us vulnerable to higher interest rates and higher inflation and things of that nature, I want all those policies not to succeed.", "If you believe President Obama's policies are wrong, you might assume they have no chance to work. But not everyone shares that assumption.", "Ideologues believe that if a policy is wrong it can't probably work, even if it does work. Pragmatists believe that whatever works is right. Most Americans are pragmatists -- Lou.", "And ideologues, to put it in the affirmative, also believe that what they believe will work, which creates the problem we're facing right now in the nation's capital.", "Exactly.", "Bill Schneider, thank you very much. The current president of the European Union says the president's recovery plan is, as he put it, a road to hell. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek says huge government spending is a mistake and it's already causing panic in Europe. Under the plan announced by Treasury Secretary Geithner, the federal government would buy half a trillion dollars of toxic assets from commercial banks that are in danger of further default. Today, the dollar fell against the euro, another confusing statement from Treasury Secretary Geithner in which he contradicted his testimony before Congress. During an appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the treasury secretary was asked about proposal from China's top central banker -- China's idea to replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency.", "I haven't read the governor's proposal. We're actually quite open to that suggestion. But you should think of it as rather evolutionary, building on the current architecture, rather than moving us to global monetary union.", "Well, you may remember that the treasury secretary had said just 24 hours earlier to Congresswoman Michele Bachmann something quite different.", "I'm wondering would you categorically renounce the United States moving away from the dollar and going to a global currency as suggested this morning by China and also by Russia, Mr. Secretary.", "I would, yes.", "You categorically and the Federal Reserve chair?", "I would also.", "Well, upon looking at the contradiction of his testimony, Congresswoman Bachmann says just a day later \"Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table. I want to know which it is. The American people deserve to know\" -- unquote. Secretary Geithner spent the rest of the day trying to double back on what he had said this morning, trying to reassure world currency markets. That was not successful, the dollar plunging in currency trading. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown taking searing criticism for following the lead of the United States on economic recovery. Listen to this statement from Daniel Hannan, a conservative British member of the European Parliament.", "Perhaps you would have more legitimacy in the councils of the world if the United Kingdom were not going into this recession in the worst condition of any G-20 country. The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.", "Well, we wondered how that particular comparison would work out with the president's projected debt in 2010 of 1.4 trillion deficit, rather. If those children in the United Kingdom were burdened with that, that would work out not to 20,000 pounds but 120,000 -- $127,000 each. Well, there's good news about the economy for a third time this week -- sales of new homes, up almost five percent in February. This is the first increase in those sales since last July. That's on top of Monday's report that existing home sales rose more than five percent, the biggest increase since 2003. On top of all of that, more good news, housing starts up 22 percent last month. That's the first increase since July. And more good news, another positive report on the economy. Durable goods orders up more than three percent last month and that is the biggest gain since 2007. Up later here a troubling new warning from the Pentagon about communist China's rapid military build-up. That's something, by the way, the Defense Department may have missed it, but we've been reporting on here now for more than two years. And next what Secretary of State Clinton is saying tonight about Mexican drug cartel violence and who is responsible. We'll tell you all about that next. You may not like the answer. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["LOU DOBBS, HOST", "ANNOUNCER", "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "DOBBS", "DANA BASH, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SEN. KENT CONRAD (D), BUDGET CHAIRMAN", "BASH", "CONRAD", "BASH", "REP. PAUL RYAN (D), WISCONSIN", "BASH", "DOBBS", "BASH", "DOBBS", "BASH", "DOBBS", "REP. MIKE PENCE (R), INDIANA", "DOBBS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST (voice-over)", "RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST", "SCHNEIDER", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-306963", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2017-03-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/06/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "North Korea Test Fires Four Ballistic Missiles; Trump Administration Set to Unveil New Travel Ban; Philippines President Accused of Directly Death Squads As Mayor of Davao.", "utt": ["I'm Ivan Watson in Hong Kong. Welcome to News Stream. North Korea test fires four ballistic missiles drawing condemnation from the U.S., Japan and South Korea. The Trump administration is set to unveil a new travel ban, but the White House is still on the defensive over the president's shock accusation that his predecessor ordered his phones tapped. And we go to the birthplace of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. His hometown where the controversial leader is hailed as a hero. Years of economic sanctions and repeated international condemnation, they have done little to deter North Korea. Pyongyang once again has defied the world community. Early Monday it test fired four ballistic missiles. They were launched from a site northwest of Pyongyang, not far from the Chinese border. They traveled eastward for nearly 1,000 kilometers before splashing down into the sea. Japan says three landed within 200 nautical miles of its coastline. The launch has drawn sharp reactions from Tokyo and Washington as well as Seoul where Paula Hancocks is following developments right now. Paula, let's bring some important context to this salvo of missiles that were launched because the launch coincides with annual military exercises. So is it unusual for Pyongyang to conduct these launches at the same time as these joint U.S.-South Korean exercises?", "Well, I don't think anyone is surprised at the timing. As you see, these drills are -- they are annual. The U.s and South Korea say that they are routine, they are defensive in nature. But that is not how North Korea sees them. North Korea believes that they are effectively a dress rehearsal to invade their country. And so every year we see this kind of reaction. We always see some kind of show of anger from North Korea. We've had some bellicose rhetoric from them, from state-run medial recently about these military drills, and now you see these ballistic missiles. Just a few years ago there were several dozen ballistic missiles, short range and medium range during the two months that these massive annual drills go on. So I think we can expect for a few more ballistic missiles going forward as well. I don't think anyone is surprised at the timing here - Ivan.", "What about the nature of the launches here? Have the experts, have they learned anything new about North Korea's missile programs with these latest launches?", "Well, we did have one U.S. official say to us that initial reports suggested it was an intermediate range missile or four of them were intermediate range missiles. We have seen these missiles before. We're not completely clear here's anything knew we're going to learn from these missiles themselves. The fact, though, that they did fly 1,000 kilometers and also the height. They flew up to a height of 260 kilometers, according to the joint chiefs of staff here, meaning it's a fairly steep trajectory, which means the actual range could be further again. So certainly it is significant just the fact that -- that North Korea is carrying this out now. Remember, this is only the second time that they have carried out a ballistic missile test since the new U.S. president took over, so that relative restraint we saw from North Korea just before the election and shortly after the election, it appears now as though that's gone and it's business as usual here.", "Paula, in their criticism of the North Korean neighbors, South Korean officials seem to be almost linking the missile launches to the assassination of the half brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-nam, which, of course, took place in the airport in Malaysia several weeks ago. I -- I would like you to kind of explore some of the consequences of that murder, because now it seems that North Korea and Malaysia are engaged in some kind of a tit for tat diplomatic war, and these two countries used to be on fairly cordial terms, right?", "That's right. Well, South Korea for its point of view in the national security council meeting this morning is trying to link the two, that the acting President sHwang Kyo-ahn aid that because of the brutality and recklessness he said of what North Korea did in that airport, the consequences of a nuclear-armed North Korean regime would be appalling beyond imagination. Now, North Korea denies any involvement in this. But we know that two days ago the -- the North Korean ambassador to Malaysia was told they had 48 hours to leave. They have now left the country. And just in the last hour and a half or so, KCNA, the state-run media in North Korea has said they've also told the Malaysian ambassador to North Korea that they are persona non grata and they, too, have to leave within 48 hours. So this tit-for-tat is really increasing between these two country, as you say, that were once fairly close.", "All right. Paula Hancocks live in Seoul. thank you very much for that update and that very valuable context there. So, now repeated missile tests by North Korea are raising the question can anything be done to stop them? Some experts believe China could hold the key. Matt Rivers looks at the options Beijing has when it comes to its reclusive neighbor.", "How do you solve a problem like Kim Jong-un and North Korea? President Donald Trump's answer always looks west.", "China has to get involved. And China should solve that problem. And we should put pressure on China to solve the problem.", "Before talking about what more China could let's talk about what they've done already. February 2017, China says they're done importing North Korean coal for the year. Some estimates say that could lower North Korea's GDP by a full 5 percent. March and November 2016, two new sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions levied against North Korea the toughest yet. China helps draft and approves both. Beijing also regularly condemns North Korea's weapons program and in perhaps the most telling sign of a frosty relationship. Chinese President Xi Jinping has yet to meet Kim Jong-un despite years of opportunity. So, what else could they be doing? Well, a lot. Trade flows constantly across this bridge in Dandong, China on the North Korean border. China accounts for at least 70 percent of North Korean trade, not to mention vast amounts of food and fuel aid. Critics also argue Beijing doesn't really enforce those U.N. sanctions. China could triple the Kim Jong-un regime almost immediately if it totally stopped this flow of trucks loaded down with goods. But in all likelihood the show will go on. Because of the regime collapses two things might happen. One, Korea unifies under a pro- U.S./South Korean government. Subsequently putting U.S. troops right on the Chinese border. Two, a potential refugee crisis on China's doorstep. Neither options suits Beijing. For China, North Korea is like working at a job they don't like but still needing that paycheck. So, for now, China will play ball with sanctions at U.N. Security Council while hoping the Trump administration chooses to negotiate directly with North Korea. But many experts think that no matter how much foot and fuel China sends cross that bridge right there to North Korea, Kim Jong-un is not going to give up his nuclear weapons program. Because in reality, it is the only real card to play on the world stage. For North Korea, nuclear weapons, equal survival, not even China can change that fact. Matt Rivers, CNN, Beijing.", "All right. Let's turn now to the U.S. where we could soon see President Donald Trump's new travel ban. An administration official sailed he would reveal it early this week and that could happen in just hours. You may remember that the first travel ban was blocked in court. The administration plans to reveal revised restrictions on travel from countries the U.S. administration considers a security risk. Another controversy involving the White House after President Trump accused the previous U.S. administration of ordering his phones could be wire- tapped during the election. Sources tell us the FBI has asked the Justice Department to publicly reject Mr. Trump's claim. He made the charge without offering any evidence and is now asking congress to investigate. But critics say this is a tactic to divert attention away from any ties the Trump campaign might have had with Russia. A new CNN/ORC poll shows 55 percent of Americans are concerned about any possible links, 37 percent are very concerned, 18 percent somewhat concerned. For more on this Joe Johns is with us now from the White House. Good to see you, Joe. Now, since the U.S. president made these pretty shocking allegations in that tweet storm on Saturday, has the White Houseor any other government department any evidence to support these accusations?", "No evidence so far, Ivan. And quite frankly the White House is not backing away from that wiretapping claim made by the president. The takeaway from the White House this morning here in Washington is that the president firmly believes it happened and that the assertion needs to be tested and investigated despite the fact that it's been contradicted by a former director of national intelligence here as well as the FBI.", "President Trump's unfounded claim that former President Obama ordered his phones to be wiretapped in the midst of last year's election coming under fire. Sources say the FBI is now asking the Justice Department to publicly refute the allegations, but so far, the Justice Department has remained silent. Such wiretapping of a U.S. citizen's phones would be illegal or require a court order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who spearheaded the investigation into Russia's meddling in the election, giving a firm \"no\" to any such claim of wiretapping.", "For the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign.", "Multiple former senior U.S. officials dismissing President Trump's allegation, calling it nonsense. And a spokesman for Mr. Obama says it's \"simply false.\" But without providing any evidence, the White House is doubling down, calling for a congressional investigation to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused.", "I think he's made very clear what he believes. I think the bigger story isn't who reported it but is it true?", "White House officials say the president's sources on the incendiary claim come from conservative media, not from government sources. In fact, there are zero publicly-known credible reports to back up Mr. Trump's claim. His allegations coming in a familiar form: a series of furious tweets early Saturday morning from his home in Florida, in which he called former President Obama a \"bad or sick guy.\" His top advisers far away in Washington. This is not the president's first time repeating unsubstantiated allegations. Just after his own inauguration, Mr. Trump alleged that millions of fraudulent votes were cast during the election without proof.", "When you look at the people that are registered dead, illegal in two states.", "The president called for an investigation, but one has yet to be conducted.", "I have no -- I'm not sure what it is he is talking about.", "This latest allegation of wiretapping leaving some Republicans confused as top Democrats call the Twitter outburst a complete distraction.", "The president, you know, is the deflector in chief.", "An intentional move to stir focus away from the deepening concerns over connections between a handful of the president's advisers and Russians.", "I think this is just a distraction to distract from this very, very serious interference by a foreign power on our democracy. The question of whether Trump world, his campaign, his business associates, had anything to do with it.", "The president flew back here to Washington, D.C. and the White House after spending the weekend at his estate in Florida. He's expected to hold meetings today with several of his cabinet members. Ivan, back to you.", "Joe, the implications would be simply astounding if there was anything to support these accusations, the implications of what that would mean for the U.S. democracy. Pretty remarkable that 48 hours since they were made still no evidence to back them up. Thank you very much. Joe Johns live from the White House. So now let's get more on the revised travel ban that President Trump plans to unveil and justice reporter Laura Jarrett, she joins us now from CNN Washington. Good to see you. Is this new draft that's coming together, is it essentially travel ban 2.0 after the courts blocked implementation of several key sections of the first travel ban?", "Well, that's right, Ivan. And this one is going to be different. Sources tell us that there will be some major changes. For instance, green card holders living in the U.S., legal permanent residents as they are known more formally, will be excluded from the travel ban as will existing visa holders. So they will be able to travel just as they did before. Now, the question is what happens to those who haven't yet applied for the visa? We'll have to wait and see what happens to those, Ivan.", "Laura, do you have any details about which countries and travelers from which countries will be affected? Is it the same predominantly Muslim countries that were singled out in the first attempted travel ban?", "Well, it appears as though those countries, those Muslim maority countries will be altered in one respect, which is Iraq will likely be removed from the list. We heard last week that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, among others in Trump's cabinet, had advocated for Iraq's removal for diplomatic reasons, given its role in helping to fight ISIS. So we can expect to see a modification there, at least on one country.", "And that would probably be very relevant since there are thousands of U.S. troops currently involved in the conflict against ISIS in Iraq. Now let's go to possible delays. I mean last week this new version was supposed to be released and it was delayed. Could that happen again?", "Well, we've been full before. We'll have to wait and see. Last week, as you said, it was supposed to come out on Wednesday and then the president gave his speech. And we were told at least the White House wanted to have the speech have its own moment, so to speak. But now that we believe that we should see a new executive order early this week as soon as today. So soon to come, Ivan.", "And you'll be watching it very closely, I'm sure. That's our justice reporter Laura Jarrett live from Washington. Now, police in Kent, Washington are investigating the shooting of a Sikh man as a possible hate crime. The victim is a U.S. citizen originally from India's Punjab province. According to witnesses and other reports, the gunman approached victim in his driveway on Friday. We're told their conversation became heated and the gunman told him to, quote, go back to your country and then pushed him to the ground and shot him in the arm. The victim is expected to make a full recovery. The gunman is still at large. Now, this follows a similar shooting last month when two Indian immigrants were shot in Kansas and one of them died. In the Philippines, the Philippine Senate is probing allegations that the president ran a death squad while he was mayor of Davao. Coming up, what a retired police officer told lawmakers about his role in the killings and the group's alleged connection to President Duterte. And China looks on the bright side in the face of what to Beijing are some gloomy economic numbers. We'll have a live report from Beijing just ahead."], "speaker": ["IVAN WATSON, HOST", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "WATSON", "HANCOCKS", "WATSON", "HANCOCKS", "WATSON", "MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "RIVERS", "WATSON", "JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JOHNS (voice-over)", "JAMES CLAPPER, FORMER DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE", "JOHNS", "SANDERS", "JOHNS", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "JOHNS", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-185262", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-5-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/01/cnr.05.html", "summary": "New Poll: Most Muslims Don't Like Bin Laden", "utt": ["Today is the first anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden. And Navy SEALs shot and killed the al Qaeda leader in his compound in Pakistan. Well, a new poll shows that no love loss for bin Laden in the Muslim world today. Only 13 percent of people in Pakistan have a favorable view of bin Laden, 55 percent have an unfavorable view, and 31 percent have no opinion at all. Reza Sayah, he has set up an open mic in Islamabad to hear first-hand what people think of bin Laden.", "It's been a year since the death of Osama bin Laden and Pakistan is still criticized for being the country where the most wanted man in the world managed to hide for nearly a decade. It's no surprise many Pakistanis have strong opinions about one of the most notorious men in history. This segment of open mic, we hit the streets of Islamabad with this question -- how will you remember Osama bin Laden?", "Is it rolling?", "Yes.", "Hi mom.", "Osama bin Laden was a terrorist.", "I'll remember him as a terrorist, you know, just as he was.", "I will always associate him with the war on terror.", "He should not be remembered.", "I don't have anything -- any positive feeling about him.", "I don't want to remember him. Why?", "I would remember him as a freedom fighter.", "As a freedom fighter maybe he was. But other than that, he was just a nobody.", "In the case of Afghanistan, I believe a foreign country, you know, they invaded a land. In my opinion, aggression was committed on that land. And those people who were trying to retaliate, I see them as freedom fighters, including Osama bin Laden. That's my personal feeling.", "All those people who are saying him as a freedom fighter were wrong.", "What he did (p) was right or jihad of any kind I believe it wasn't right at all. His views (ph) weren't. And I wouldn't agree with him. Not now. Not in 10 years or 15 years or whenever.", "Did we know him? We never knew him. We got to know him because of America.", "The U.S. foreign policy that they need to sort that out. That's my opinion. They've created a lot of mess around the world.", "If you want to hear more comments from Pakistanis about Osama bin Laden from the open mic, go to cnn.com. And remember these chilling images of the tsunami that devastated Japan. Well, ever wonder where all that stuff ended up? We're going to get a look at a Harley-Davidson motorcycle just washed up on the beach in Canada."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "REZA SAYAH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAYAH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-203497", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2013-3-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/21/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "New Jersey Weighs Gay Therapy Ban", "utt": ["Happening now, did the U.S. secret service accidently fire a shotgun (ph) near Iran's president when he was in New York? The debate over banning so-called gay conversion therapy heating up in New Jersey, and now, the pressure is on the Governor Chris Christie to choose sides. And she's a beauty queen with such a unique story that President Obama wanted to meet her in Israel. She tells us about that meeting. That's coming up. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in the SITUATION ROOM.", "Because this program, I attempted suicide three times. This is nothing more than legalized child abuse.", "It's one of the most controversial forms of treatment in this country, so-called gay conversion therapy based on the premise that homosexuality can be reversed. The debate is heating up in the state of New Jersey, and now, the pressure is on the Republican star, the governor, Chris Christie, to take a stand. Let's bring in our chief Congressional correspondent, Dana Bash. She's looking at this story and has got the latest details. Explain what's going on.", "Well, it really comes down to a question of whether being gay is a choice or not. But it also reminds us of the issue of gay marriage which is something that is in front of us politically and how much things have changed just even over the past four and a half years. It has gone up nine points, nine points, that support. But it really is only among Democrats and independents. For Republicans it is really stagnate. And that is why, probably, gay rights are such a thorny issue for Republican politicians who may be eyeing a Republican primary race for president like Chris Christie who now faces a decision on a very controversial topic.", "Homosexuality is an abomination.", "In this 2012 documentary, \"Curing Gays,\" Adam Hood, identified as a former homosexual, talks about his work in what's known as gay conversion therapy.", "Many people hate me temporarily and get saved a month later and thank me for holding the line.", "In New Jersey a bill to ban gay conversion therapy with minors is making its way through the state legislature. Jacob Rudolph, a self-described bisexual teenager, testified in favor of the New Jersey ban earlier this week.", "I am not broken. I am not confused. And I do not need to be fixed.", "In order for the ban to become law Republican Governor Chris Christie would have to sign it but the normally outspoken governor is not ready to say what he'd do, telling reporters he is of, quote, \"two minds on the issue.\" \"I think there should be lots of deference given to parents on raising their children.\" Going on to say, \"On bills that restrict parents' ability to make decisions on how to care for their children. I'm generally a skeptic of those bills. Now there can always be exceptions to those rules and this bill may be one of them.\" Christie's indecision underscores how dicey issues relating to gay rights have become for Republicans. Especially those who may have ambitions for higher office.", "Protecting marriage as a union of man and woman as husband and wife.", "Not too long ago opposing gay rights was a no brainer for Republicans. George W. Bush won re-election in part by endorsing state bans on same sex marriage. Now?", "My son came to Jane, my wife and I, told us that he was gay, and that it was not a choice.", "A slow move in favor of more gay rights. Republicans like Senator Rob Portman are reversing opposition to gay marriage in part because of people close to them are more open about being gay. (", "What was your reaction when he told you?", "Love. Support. You know, 110 percent.", "GOP leaders against gay marriage appear to get that their opposition has become a minority view in America and they're increasingly careful to strike a more tolerant tone.", "I respect everyone's opinion. I just gave my opinion. My opinion is born out of my childhood, my faith, my beliefs, that marriage is between one man and one woman. I respect other people's views.", "Now anecdotally in conversations with Republicans in the hallways of the capitol it seems as though Republicans, especially those on the younger side, believe that this should be not a federal issue anymore but a court -- excuse me, a state issue. And we'll see if the Supreme Court decides because they're going to hear a pair of really important cases next week.", "Yes. Big cases on gay marriage here in the United States. All right, Dana, thanks very much. Let's dig a little bit deeper in our \"Strategy Session.\" Joining us our CNN contributors, the Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, and the former White House Bush press secretary, Ari Fleischer, he's a consultant and a board member, by the way, of the Republican Jewish Coalition as well. Ari, what do you think about this decision that the governor of New Jersey needs to make? How do you think it will play out politically one way or another?", "Well, Wolf, number one let me state at the outset I think gay conversion therapy is wacky. I just -- I have a hard time understanding this. All my gay friends, people I know, and I think logic tells you that this is the way people are born, and as they get older there is just something inside them, inside their nature that moves them into one direction. And I'm glad we're a society increasingly respecting of that and accepting of that. And so I do think it's wacky. Having said that, though, you know, I do wonder about what role government should have in outlawing procedures that a parent wants to have for a child or for that matter for anybody. If this is something that somebody on their own free volition decides to do even though I think it's wacky and I would advise them not to do it, does the state have the right to say to them, you may not do something that you might think is good for you that you want to do? That's a different issue and that's the role and the power of the state to outlaw things that many of us just don't agree with. That's a different issue and I think that's why this is a little more delicate than it appears at first blush.", "How do you see it, Donna?", "Well, I believe that Governor Christie has come out in the last few hours, at least a spokesman, said that he doesn't believe in this -- he doesn't believe in gay conversion therapy. I think it's ineffective. I think it's harmful. And I think it's destructive to the individual. Gay children needs to be loved and nurtured and respected. Not tortured and put through these untested therapies. When you read some of the therapies used, inducing vomiting, showing them horrible pictures of people doing things I can't say right now on television, I really do believe that the practice should be outlawed and in California they have an assembly bill that the New Jersey legislative body has taken up. It may all end up in the courts. But I think the practice itself should be banned.", "If you were Christie, Ari, and you were thinking of running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 what would you do?", "Well, he cross pressured on this because his base in the party is not the conservative base. His base in the party are -- is a much more moderate base and it's a base of crossover Democrats or independents who would be drawn to his candidacy. Independents of course a huge constituency in New Hampshire that can vote. And so if he does sign this, he supports himself among his core constituency. If he fails to sign it or doesn't sign it, then he is moving toward what you might call the right on this issue and I think that's going to alienate his core group that would be more inclined to support him because conservatives don't trust him on issues other than some of the economic issues to begin with.", "Republicans, I assume, Donna, you agree, as we go down the road, they will become more liberal on these gay issues. Given the nature of public opinion especially among young people in the country?", "You know, when it comes to human rights, civil rights, and equality, I don't believe we should have the left versus right. These are moral issues. These are issues that goes to the heart of what human beings -- who we are and what we should be about not toward the partisan politics but like everything else it's going to get played out in a partisan atmosphere but I would hope that we respect the individual people who through no fault of their own are just trying to live their lives and not be tortured or be subjected to these type of conversion therapies.", "Donna and Ari, guys, thanks very much. Just ahead, did the U.S. Secret Service accidentally, accidently fire a weapon near Iran's president when he was in New York? And why would Iran keep quiet about something like that? Stand by."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BRIELLE GOLDANI, AGAINST GAY CONVERSION THERAPY", "BLITZER", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ADAM HOOD, SELF-IDENTIFIED FORMER HOMOSEXUAL", "BASH (voice-over)", "HOOD", "BASH", "JACOB RUDOLPH, SELF-DESCRIBED BISEXUAL TEENAGER", "BASH", "GEORGE W. BUSH, 43RD PRESIDENT", "BASH", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-86038", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2004-7-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/07/lt.01.html", "summary": "Pentagon Still Not Confirming Reported Release of U.S. Marine Held Captive in Iraq; Microscope Now on John Edwards' Record", "utt": ["I'm Daryn Kagan. Now in the news, President Bush arrives in North Carolina. And in just a few minutes, we'll meet his judicial nominees from the state. He wants to stir public outcry for congressional action on those nominations. Mr. Bush's visit comes one day after North Carolinian John Edwards was named to the Democrat's presidential ticket. Also getting under way at any moment, the full Armed Services Committee will open a hearing on Capitol Hill. They are discussing U.S. troop strength in Iraq in light of last week's call-up of nearly 5,700 members of the Individual Ready Reserve. Less than two hours from now, testimony is due to resume in the murder trial of Scott Peterson. The family of slain wife Laci Peterson left the courtroom yesterday when testimony focused on the discovery of her body and that of the couple's unborn son. The Trusted Traveler program begins a a tryout today. They're going to try it out at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Some frequent fliers have already given their fingerprints, optical scans, which allows hem to bypass the screening on the day of their trips. The pilot program will we expanded over the next few weeks to four other cities. Keeping you informed, CNN is the most trusted name in news. The Pentagon is still not confirming the reported release of a U.S. Marine held captive in Iraq. The brother of Corporal Wassef Hassoun told CNN more than 24 hours ago that he is certain that the 24-year-old has been safely released, but he would not provide details. Our Miguel Marquez is outside the family's home. He is West Jordan, Utah. Miguel, good morning.", "Good morning to you. It's a lot of mixed messages over the past few days, which must be put ago lot of anxiety behind closed doors here in the suburbs outside of Salt Lake City. It's another day of waiting for the family of Wassef Ali Hassoun, the 24-year-old Marine Corporal. He was last seen the 19th of June. He was reported missing a week later. The video surfaced of him blindfolded with his captors holding a sword over his head. But yesterday, the family had some good news, his brother, his older brother in Tripoli, Jordan reported -- or Lebanon, reported that he had been contacted and had been given a sign that Hassoun was alive, but his brother would not divulge exactly who he had been contacted by, how he had been contacted or what exactly that sign was. The Associated Press is also reporting that an anonymous Lebanese government official is sort of backing that story, saying that they have information that Hassoun is indeed alive, but those reports are difficult to sort of get to the bottom of as well. A group calling itself Islamic Resistance released a statement on Monday, saying that Hassoun had, quote, \"been sent to a safe place after he announced his determination not to go back to the U.S. forces.\" That statement was posted on the Al-Jazeera Web site. But U.S. -- the military on their Pentagon Web site is only saying that they can't say whether or not Hassoun is alive or dead. And today in Salt Lake City, the Interfaith Roundtable will meet to offer prayers and hope for the family that continues to wait -- Daryn.", "Any explanation, Miguel, about the secrecy and the confusing lack of information, or the conflicting information in this particular case?", "Well, in some cases, it's the fact that you have part of the family in Lebanon, part of the family here in Salt Lake City. Also, we've seen this happen so many times with grizzly outcomes. The family doesn't want to say or do anything that would prejudice any chance they have for their relative to survive -- Daryn.", "Miguel Marquez in West Jordan, Utah. Miguel, thank you. Let's get back to the political scene now. The microscope is now on John Edwards' record, and Republicans are making an issue of the military. Barbara Starr is following that story for us, and she is at the Pentagon. Barbara, good morning.", "Good morning to you, Daryn. Well you know, in the last election, George Bush was perceived as many as the freshman on national security and military issues, Dick Cheney, the veteran on those matters. But now on the Democratic ticket this time, it appears to be a mirror image.", "Republicans wasted no time in attacking John Edwards' lack of military experience on a GOP Web site: Who is John Edwards? One criticism: Edwards voted for the war in Iraq, but then last year voted against the $87 billion in funding for post-war Iraq, a move the Republicans say didn't support the troops. Edwards doesn't apologize.", "I thought it would be a mistake for me to say to the president, what you're doing is right. I support it. Go forward. Here's your blank check. Come back next year and ask for more money.", "Edwards says President Bush should seek more international support in Iraq to lessen the U.S. presence.", "It's one of the reasons the Iraqis are so hostile toward America right now.", "Edwards has a significant military constituency, and he pays attention to it. North Carolina is home to major installations: Fort Bragg, headquarters of the Elite 82nd Airborne; Camp Lejeune, the East Coast base of the Marine Corps; and, Pope Air Force Base. It's a traditional Republican voter block Edwards knows may be discouraged by long deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.", "I think the military reaction will be open-minded. I think that's the simplest way to sum it up on this his first day as John Kerry's choice for vice presidential nominee. I think military personnel recognize that Edwards is concerned about their well-being.", "Edwards is also expected to point to several measures he has cosponsored to improve benefits for the troops, but how all of this plays in the fall campaign, of course, remains to be seen -- Daryn.", "All right, we have several stories kind of converging here that I want to pick your brain on. First of all, this Intelligence Committee report that's coming out supposedly will be very critical of the intelligence community and George Tenet. John Edwards sits on that committee.", "Absolutely, although he is a freshman member, indeed a committee member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He's been fully briefed, as all committee members are, on the ongoing question of prewar intelligence, also intelligence about the 9/11 attacks. He has been a critic of the Bush administration, about how they handled the al Qaeda intelligence prior to 9/11. Expect to see him on the campaign trail talking very actively about both of those issues.", "And then, Barbara, just a few minutes ago, we were showing our viewers a live picture of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the full committee meeting today, talking about troop strength in Iraq, especially in light of the nearly 5,700 members of the Individual Ready Reserve that are being called up. Why in particular is that so important?", "Well, the committee is very interested in hearing about this so-called Individual Ready Reserve. Remember, this is not something that's often been done, and certainly not on the scope that the Pentagon is doing it now, to fill billets, empty slots in Iraq. They are really reaching down deep into their pockets to call upon these people to come back on active duty and go serve in Iraq or Afghanistan. It's worth remembering, these are people who served at some point in the active duty military, but left before their eight-year obligation was up. So it's all perfectly legal, to be blunt. They still owe or have some time on their initial eight-year obligation in which they are open to the possibility of being called back to active duty, and that's what the Pentagon is doing. But what the Senate wants to know is why. Does it mean they need more troops? Does it mean that the Army and the Marine Corps are too small? Does it mean there just simply aren't enough boots on the ground? Why is the Pentagon taking this very unusual step? Expect to see a lot of tough questioning on that issue -- Daryn.", "All right, we'll be listening in. Barbara Starr, at the Pentagon, thank you. To health news, a drug company steps in to help uninsured Americans cover some drug costs. We'll find out who qualifies and how much it might help. And you're going to have to stick around for this one. You know him as \"Elf,\" and also from \"Old School.\" Well, now he is an anchorman. Comic Will Ferrell joins us to talk about Ron Burgundy, coming up in the next hour."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "MARQUEZ", "KAGAN", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "STARR (voice over)", "SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D), VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "STARR", "EDWARDS", "STARR", "MICHAEL O'HANLON, SR. FELLOW, BROOKINGS INSTITUTE", "STARR", "KAGAN", "STARR", "KAGAN", "STARR", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-39902", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-9-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/19/lad.05.html", "summary": "America's New War: New Developments Around the Country", "utt": ["I'm Paula Zahn reporting from New York City this morning. I will also be joined by my colleagues John King from Washington this morning, Bill Hemmer from here in New York City, not far from what is considered ground zero, and Miles O'Brien, who will have all the latest developments right now from Atlanta -- good morning, all. Miles.", "Good morning, Paula. Good morning. Let's bring you up to date in what's going on in the latest developments on America's new war on terrorism. Federal agents have spread a dragnet for 190 people. Seventy-five are already in custody, including three men arrested in Detroit yesterday after producing false identification. And news from authorities in the Philippines. They claim they told the FBI six years ago about a plot to hijack airliners and crash them into the Pentagon, CIA headquarters and other buildings. The Manila investigators tell CNN the plot sounded farfetched then but doesn't anymore. And more economic fallout from the terrorist attacks. The airlines financial woes now acute. Plane maker Boeing, seeing no big sales any time soon, as Paula just mentioned, Boeing says it will lay off 30,000 workers by the end of next year. More on the Boeing layoffs now from Lori Matsukawa of CNN affiliate KING in Seattle.", "Supposedly the company is going to be announcing workforce reductions of 20 to 30 percent in the commercial airplane side in response to the impact of the terrorist activities.", "Some members of Boeing's engineering and technical workers union hear the news outside the union hall. SPEEA has 20,000 members in Puget Sound, 15,000 of them in the commercial airplane division.", "I think a lot of people were expecting some sort of impact on the industry because of the terrorist activities, but to have this magnitude, it is shocking.", "Some members consider today's travel environment and seem to be taking the news in stride.", "I think I'm prepared to face anything and whatever is needed, whatever is going to happen. There's really a lot going on right now in the big picture of things that are a lot more important, which is our nation and our security.", "I'm not angry at the Boeing company. I'm angry at the situation.", "The machinists union sounds a hopeful note even though it suffered thousands of layoffs in 1999 and the majority of its 27,500 Puget Sound members work on commercial aircraft.", "The industry cuts jobs, cancels orders, Boeing reacts. You know, the task is to pull government, business together and put the industry back on its feet. That's going to create jobs.", "That report from Laurie Matzukawa of CNN affiliate KING in Seattle -- back to Paula in New York.", "All right, thanks so much, Miles. A lot to share with you this morning. We wanted to let you know we had hoped to check in with Christiane Amanpour right now, who is in Islamabad, Pakistan. Right now she awaits a briefing by the Pakistani foreign minister. As soon as that briefing is over, we will go to her live. In addition to that, Nic Robertson, who is the only Western journalist that was in the Taleban controlled part of Afghanistan, is now told to be on the move, the Taleban telling him he is no longer safe. We will hope to catch up with him by video phone as he works his way out of the country. Let's check back in with John King. Some interesting things out of Washington and some interesting interactions between the French government and the U.S. government -- how are you this morning, John?", "I'm fine, Paula. Good morning to you in New York. That's right, President Bush, intensifying his diplomatic efforts, had a two hour session last night, including a working dinner with the French president, Jacques Chirac. U.S. officials saying they are satisfied with this meeting. The French president said the United States has the complete solidarity of the French people and the French government. And on his way out of the Oval Office last night, Mr. Chirac said it was conceivable, said he hadn't been asked for any promises, but he said it was conceivable the French would join the United States in a military action if requested. Most of all, though, we're told behind-the-scenes the United States asking for more up front moral support, if you will, from the French government. There has been criticism in recent years over French business dealings with the government of Iran and Iraq. The Bush administration position is that if this is to be a long-term comprehensive war against terrorism that allies and friends of the United States should not be doing business with governments the United States blames for sponsoring terrorism -- Paula.", "All right, John. Sorry, I was getting some interruption in my ear. There are some key meetings today going on with senior U.S. administration officials and Russian officials. Can you give us some guidance on what is expected to be accomplished there?", "Conversations with Russia, and that includes a meeting between Secretary of State Colin Powell and his counterpart, the Russian foreign minister, Mr. Powell's deputy, Richard Armitage, also meeting with a key Russian official, the United States asking for several things. One, words of public support for the campaign against terrorism. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had very strong initial comments. President Bush would like some additional public support from the Russian government. Most importantly, though, remember, Russia, of course, the biggest part of the former Soviet Union. The Soviets fought a very unsuccessful war in Afghanistan and also has access to intelligence information that the United States might not have about Mr. Bin Laden's movement, about the topographical, geographical area of Afghanistan where Soviet troops fought some time ago. So the United States seeking intelligence cooperation from the Russian government as well, again, as key statements of public support. One of the great debates here is if the United States launches military actions, will there then be a debate about whether those actions are appropriate? There were conversations between the Chinese president and the Russian president yesterday, this more of the Bush administration's diplomatic outreach.", "I know that the administration officials haven't been forthcoming in exactly what other countries they're dealing with at the moment to come up with these base agreements, to try to come up with legally binding commitments for military intelligence and other assistance. Can you share that with us this morning? Do you know specifically what other countries the U.S. is talking to?", "Well, we know the United States has made progress with Pakistan. Pakistan obviously the key neighbor of Afghanistan, Pakistan part of that demand that the Taleban turn over the lead suspect, Osama bin Laden. That demand rejected, at least as of yet, but there has been progress with the Pakistani government not only about using air space, but we're also told, about potentially using ground areas within Pakistan for staging of U.S. military troops. There have been conversations with the government of Uzbekistan to the north of Afghanistan that have gone well also and other conversations about perhaps using areas over there. India has promised to cooperate. That's potential. Pakistan, of course, closer, would be more favorable. If there was a problem there, the United States could fall back on a place like India. Those conversations continuing. You know, President Bush alone has spoken to nearly two dozen world leaders about this issue now. At the Defense Department, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his deputies reaching out for military to military contacts and the first wave of these negotiations being led, of course, by the secretary of state, Colin Powell. And as you noted, key conversations with the Russians today, the Saudi foreign minister also due in town. There's another diplomatic angle to this, too. The president will meet with the president of Indonesia today, the world's largest Muslim nation, looking for statements of support from there, as well.", "And just about 10 minutes from now you're going to be interviewing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. We will come back to you for that -- thanks, John.", "Thank you.", "Right now it's time to check in with Jeanne Meserve, who joins us from Pier 12 in Norfolk, Virginia, not far from the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt. Also joining us, Brian Cabell, who is with the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Good morning to the two of you -- Brian, why don't you start things off this morning.", "Good morning, Paula. It is a rainy day here at Fort Campbell, which means the congestion behind me at this gate is greater than ever. Not only do we have heightened security measures, but we have rain backing things up and it's even worse than it was yesterday. Still no word from the Pentagon. We were awaiting that all yesterday. It has not come in yet as of this morning. Yesterday, the meeting were not allowed on post. We are told later today we will be allowed on post. There is a deployment scheduled, a pre-scheduled deployment of a company to Bosnia, so we will be allowed on post for at least a little while. But we've talked to a number of officers, we've talked to a number of officials and soldiers. They say there is nothing extraordinary happening inside of Fort Campbell, no training that seems unusual, nothing to indicate that a deployment is imminent. And it looks as though, they say, life is routine at Fort Campbell right now. This is, of course, an aerosol division. The 101st Airborne flies helicopters into battlefields all around the world, drops off troops to begin fighting, and that is why experts have said it is very likely, it seems, that if there is a deployment into the region around Afghanistan, the 101st would be among the first to go. We've talked to a number of soldiers and wives over the last couple of days. Some of them are concerned but you also hear an awful lot of anger, an awful lot of determination.", "Do you think this country is ready for a war when they know there may be some serious casualties?", "Yes, by all means.", "What tells you that?", "What tells me that is the sheer anger that they put into the American people and American soldiers. With NATO standing behind us and with other countries that are standing behind us, by all means. We're more than ready.", "They may be ready, but a number of the families aren't especially happy because, of course, the holidays are coming up and if the soldiers are sent they don't know how long the soldiers will be sent for. And again, at this point, Paula, we don't even know if they will be sent. That word has not yet come down from the Pentagon -- back to you.", "All right, Brian. Thanks so much for that report. Let's now head over to Norfolk, Virginia where Jeanne Meserve is standing by this morning -- good morning, Jeanne.", "Good morning, Paula. As you may be able to see, crew members are streaming past onto the USS Roosevelt, which is right behind me. They've been doing this for hours. When it's done, 5,000 men and women will be on board. Their average age, only 19 1/2. For many of them, this is their first deployment. When this aircraft carrier group and the marines' amphibious ready group get all together and set sail, there will be 15,000 sailors and marines on board more than a dozen vessels, including the Roosevelt, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, amphibious assault ships, combat support ships and two submarines. This deployment on this date had been scheduled long ago, but the terrorist strikes on the World Trade Center and on the Pentagon have changed the expectations of the crew. Many of these men and women believe that they will be taking part in the war on terrorism and they expressed a range of emotions and opinion about that.", "Fear? No.", "What is your emotion?", "Mostly I'm mad. I am a native New Yorker.", "Uncertainty I guess. Nobody really knows what we're going to do. We'll just wait and see.", "Freedom and what the navy stands for and what the United States stands for. I mean that's, you know, point blank.", "I don't know if this picture captures it, but this vessel behind me, the USS Roosevelt, is absolutely huge. From its keel to the top of its mast it is 24 stories high. Its flight deck has an area of 4.5 acres and when the air wing joins it later today there will be more than 70 aircraft on its deck. That's larger than the air forces of many small countries. What exactly will its missing be? That is unclear. Its destination at this point is being described quite vaguely as the Mediterranean and possibly points east, as the U.S. formulates its response to the terrorist attacks in Washington and in New York -- Paula, back to you.", "Jeanne, of course, administration officials over the last three days have been preparing the American public for a long, drawn out, what they call sustained campaign. It was interesting that when you spoke with some of those folks that could potentially be called up, they said they absolutely believe they will be deployed. Are they telling you when they think that will happen?", "No. I don't believe they have the details. They have not gotten their marching orders, as it were, or sailing orders in this particular case. They simply believe that because this carrier battle group has taken place and many other significant engagements, including strikes over Iraq and also Kosovo, they fully expect that they will be incorporated into whatever the master strategy is to deal with this situation -- Paula.", "Thanks so much, Jeanne. And we will continue to follow the progress of this -- and movements of this carrier battle group throughout the morning. Thanks again, Jeanne. Time right now to check in with Bill Hemmer, who joins us from an area not far from ground zero. Much of a reaction there, Bill, to the mayor basically saying last night that hope is running out to find survivors?", "Yes, Paula, good morning to you. We have heard that indication through New York's mayor for the past several days and again yesterday, as you indicated, he said the chances of finding anyone alive are very, very small at this point. It's been a week since anyone has been pulled out alive from the rubble you see behind me. Two hundred and eighteen confirmed deaths out of a total of 5,000. Four hundred and twenty-two missing. Just about two percent of human remains and human bodies have been found in the former World Trade Center complex. I want to bring in Garrett Goodwin now. He's an observer here. He's been here since last week when that building did collapse and go down. And you helped lead a group of people through yesterday on behalf of FEMA and others inside. And overnight, what I find quite interesting, you went way below the street level to the subway area. What did you find beneath there?", "What we found there is no trains. There were no signs of survivors. It looks like everybody had plenty of time to get out, which is a very good sign to us.", "What about the rubble underneath there? Is the building collapsed in an area where it's so condensed you can move or cannot move?", "There are areas that are restricted for movement due to safety and just from being collapsed that we just can't get anybody into, but the New York Fire Department, the New York Police Department and the FEMA rescue teams are working very diligently to get through there and accomplish that missing.", "Through FEMA we were given some videotape yesterday. I want to show it to our viewers again. This is just absolutely devastating tape here when you consider the area and you consider the large amount of rubble. You were telling me that you're using special heat sensing cameras to find out where the hot spots, the fires are still burning. How is that equipment being used and how can one explain here nine days later how fires can still burn inside that rubble?", "The way I understand it, and I'm not a fire expert, that it's working as a furnace and as wind and oxygen gets to that fire it flares back up. And the fire department is doing a great job getting their ladder trucks in there and putting that out. But as the equipment gets moved around, as I beams get moved around and the rubble gets moved around, oxygen is going to get to that fuel and it's going to keep burning.", "When you were below, down in that subway, how much oxygen was there?", "There was plenty. We weren't using...", "There was plenty?", "We had no outside apparatuses other than our respirators due to the asbestos and other stuff inside.", "The other thing you were describing to me a short time ago, you're finding small pockets, small holes. How often is that happening and how do you penetrate those?", "I'm not sure what the frequency is on that. I'm not in that overall command structure. But those are being penetrated mostly by heavy rescue equipment.", "For those people working here alongside you, we have seen thousands and thousands of people go in and out, working 12 hours at a time, sometimes a lot more. What can you say about that?", "I've been to disasters all over this country -- earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, fires. I've worked with public safety for 10 years and I've never ever worked with agencies like the New York Fire Department and the New York Police Department that work so diligently and so hard to accomplish this. Their heart and souls are into this and they won't quit. They're the best agencies I've ever worked with and it's an honor to work beside them.", "Garrett Goodwin, thanks for stopping by today. Good luck and get some sleep. I know your shift has just ended, but again, you'll be back here later today. Garrett Goodwin, an observer here with the rescue operation that does continue. We have been told that later today New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will be back here at this site. Along with him, French President Jacques Chirac, who arrived in Washington last evening. Also, Governor George Pataki will bring a select number of families who are still missing loved ones inside the rubble. They will be given a small tour, as well. On another note, business slowly returns to normal in this part of Manhattan. I'll give you an indication. Overnight, 13,000 more customers have had their power and electricity restored here. We'll watch it, Paula -- back to you.", "OK, thanks so much, Bill."], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED UNION MEMBER", "LORI MATSUKAWA, KING TV (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED UNION MEMBER", "MATSUKAWA", "VICKI HARP, SPEEA MEMBER", "MARK BLONDIN, IAM", "MATSUKAWA", "BLONDIN", "O'BRIEN", "ZAHN", "JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESP.", "ZAHN", "KING", "ZAHN", "KING", "ZAHN", "KING", "ZAHN", "BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CABELL", "WARRANT OFFICER MICHAEL ROBELLI, U.S. ARMY", "CABELL", "ROBELLI", "CABELL", "ZAHN", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER", "MESERVE", "UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER", "UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER", "UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER", "MESERVE", "ZAHN", "MESERVE", "ZAHN", "BILL HEMMER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GARRETT GOODWIN, RESCUE WORKER", "HEMMER", "GOODWIN", "HEMMER", "GOODWIN", "HEMMER", "GOODWIN", "HEMMER", "GOODWIN", "HEMMER", "GOODWIN", "HEMMER", "GOODWIN", "HEMMER", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "NPR-24683", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2013-11-29", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2013/11/29/247765499/dench-makes-resolution-in-philomena-worth-waiting-for", "title": "Dench Makes Resolution In 'Philomena' Worth Waiting For", "summary": "We're heading into Oscar season, and one name that seems to be on everyone's lips this year is Judy Dench. The actress stars in Philomena. It starts out like a comedy, but the more serious it gets, the more involving it becomes.", "utt": ["The actress Judi Dench is in the running for an Oscar once again. She's starring in \"Philomena,\" which hits theaters nationwide this week. Here's our film critic Kenneth Turan.", "\"Philomena\" starts with fun and games. But the more serious it becomes, the more it draws you in. The humor comes courtesy of Steve Coogan, who plays Martin, a British journalist who has lost his job and his bearings, but not his weakness for wisecracks.", "(As Philomena) I had a hip replacement last year, Martin, titanium, so it won't rust.", "(As Martin) Otherwise, I'd have to oil you, like the Tin Man.", "(As Philomena) Is that right?", "Martin is introduced to Philomena - played by the wonderful Judi Dench - who has quite a story to tell. She was an Irish teenager in 1952, when she found herself pregnant and unmarried. Her only choice was to be handed over by her family to the nuns at the Sacred Heart Convent. Philomena does daily, backbreaking work in the convent laundry and is coerced into giving her son away for adoption. It haunts her for a full half-century until she tells her daughter what happened, and starts on the journey to find him. Martin, being the journalist that he is, senses there's a story here. He signs on to go to America with Philomena, looking for her son. What they find, instead, are Americans that bring out the worst in Martin.", "(As character) We also have fresh pancakes.", "(As Martin) Thank you. Trying to have a private conversation.", "(As character)My apologies, sir.", "(As Philomena) You should be nice to the people on the way up, because you might meet them again on the way down. Now, you, of all people, should understand that.", "As \"Philomena\" dives deeper into her son's story, the comedy fades away, and the film gains confidence in the strength of its dramatic narrative. Credit goes to Dench as Philomena. The actress brings an instinctive dignity to her characterization, managing to create someone who is both average and extraordinary. The film may be unsatisfying at first, but Dench's performance makes its resolution worth waiting for.", "That's Kenneth Turan. He reviews movies for MORNING EDITION, and also for the LA Times."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, HOST", "KENNETH TURAN, BYLINE", "JUDI DENCH", "STEVE COOGAN", "JUDI DENCH", "KENNETH TURAN, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS", "STEVE COOGAN", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS", "JUDI DENCH", "KENNETH TURAN, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-218392", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-11-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/08/cnr.11.html", "summary": "Guns and Ammo Writer Fired for Advocating Gun Control", "utt": ["All right, so here's a question for you. What's more important, free speech or the right to bear arms? One magazine chief just learned a hard lesson. The editor of \"Guns & Ammo\" resigning after he published a column advocating gun control in next month's issue, you know, getting in the other side of the debate. Well, that didn't sit well with the readers, so Jim Bequette fired the writer of that column. Then he wrote an apology, which in part described the feedback from readers who questioned the magazine's commitment to the Second Amendment. Well, Bequette goes on to say that he was untrue to the tradition, so did he even deserve the heat? Let's talk about it, shall we? Emily Miller from \"The Washington Times\" and editor of \"Emily Gets Her Gun,\" and Chris Kofinis, Democratic strategist and former communications director for John Edwards. OK, so, Emily, I'm going to start with you. First of all, do you think heads deserved to roll on this?", "I think there's a lot of pressure from advertisers and from readers. It was a business decision more than anything else. I mean, Jim Bequette and Metcalf as well, they really heard a lot of anger from their readers and long-term readers. This is a very old magazine. And two advertisers, manufacturers threatened to leave, because, under pressure, and this is what is so important, is that this year, the Second Amendment is under attack like no other. You go in something like \"Guns & Ammo\" and you expect to hear absoluteness when it comes to the Second Amendment.", "OK. Interesting. So, I'm hearing a discussion on Second Amendment and then I'm hearing about the power of social media possibly causing someone to cave here because money and advertising dollars come into play. This is a private magazine, obviously, so they can do anything they want, but, Emily, can gun owners not even hear the other side of the debate?", "As a journalist, I would like people to hear both sides of the debate.", "I mean, that's First Amendment.", "Absolutely. And the First Amendment is just as important as the Second Amendment, absolutely. I do not favor more restrictions on the Second Amendment. That's what my book \"Emily Gets Her Gun\" is about. It's about this attack from the White House and Bloomberg. However, I believe the debate is on facts and the gun control debate is quite simple, is that there's no gun control law has ever reduced crime. If you debate on facts, you're going to win. I do take issue with these people, with the pro-Second Amendment people who don't want to have any debate. At least on the pages of \"Guns & Ammo,\" that's their right, they subscribe to it, they pay for it, but let's have a debate because I promise you guys you're going to win because you have the facts.", "Interesting. OK. Well, then I do want to point out, by the way, that not all the readers ripped the magazine. Some of them actually defended some kind of push for control, which I thought was interesting. Others said it would energize gun control efforts. Saying the column is like throwing a bucket of blood in shark-infested waters is actually what somebody said. Chris, do you see it that way?", "What it does I think kind of reinforce how the various groups look at each other. What the pro-gun control groups look at is the fact that when you look at, you know, in terms of reasonable, commonsense reforms, now, what this editor was talking about, if I'm not mistaken, was simply training. He wasn't talking about anything, I would say, by normal standard would be considered draconian.", "Yes. That's a point well-made. That was pointed out.", "So even though they had such an objective response -- such a heated response to this, I think when you look at the reality, the overwhelming majority of Americans support background checks. The overwhelming majority of Americans support commonsense, reasonable reforms.", "And, by the way, and just for the record, the notion that somehow gun control has no impact on gun violence, you know, there's a reason why, for example, we have more gun murders in this country than Canada does or any other European country. It's because we have more guns that are unregulated.", "We're not talking about Canada. We're not talking about Canada. As much as you sound like Piers Morgan, we're not going to talk about England. We're going to talk about the United States, and gun crime and gun murders have gone down 50 percent in the last 20 years as gun ownership has gone up to its highest rates. Secondly, the government CDC study has proven not one single gun control law has ever reduced crime. So, those are just the facts.", "No one -- by the way, no one is talking about taking away guns. All that people are talking about is reasonable reform.", "And let's get back to what was being written about in the editorial, OK, because the right to bear arms is not resolute. It's regulated. OK? We know that. As the writer points out as I see here that the Second Amendment says so itself, a well-regulated militia. I thought that that was an interesting way to put it. The writer argues that he was making a point covered by the Constitution.", "Well, the Heller decision, the Supreme Court decision in 2008 clearly explained that the well-regulated militia part of the Second Amendment is separate from the individual right to keep and bear arms. And what Metcalf was writing about was the training requirement for a carry permit in Illinois. It was a pretty narrow column. Illinois is the state that was forced to allow carry rights. They set up this system where it's very hard, it takes a lot of training, it takes a lot of time. Other states make it a lot of simple, take a short class. That's the issue, how much requirement it takes to get carry permits. That's pretty specific to that. It's not about what types of gun you're going to carry or any kind of like assault weapons ban or things like that.", "You what is interesting. I listen to the details both of you lay out. I read the column. Chris, really, what this all comes down to is the power of social media. And it got what it wanted.", "It's just -- it's the age we live in now. It's a 24/7 interconnected world where if you -- you know, if you stir up the pot, you're going to get a lot of stings.", "You can start revolutions and you can bring down editors.", "Absolutely. It's just the reality of the day and age that we live in. But, listen, in this case, I would say it's isolated because you're talking about a magazine where the audience was obviously very pro- gun. In terms of the wider debate, the overwhelming country believes that, I don't know, it's not I think unreasonable that if someone wants to carry a gun in a concealed fashion, that they should maybe be trained. I know that's kind of crazy to some people, but it's a pretty reasonable response for most.", "No matter what side you're on, I bet you a lot of people are going to be buying that magazine. I can tell you that.", "That's right.", "Well, one of us will be.", "Oh, Chris. Chris is going to be sneaking a peek, I can promise you that. He won't let anybody see him.", "Yes, of course.", "Emily, Chris, thanks a lot, you guys. Appreciate it.", "Thanks, guys.", "Thank you.", "All right. Coming up, new details in that NFL bullying controversy. Alleged victim Jonathan Martin releasing explicit texts that he says he received, what he says he was forced to endure, next. And CNN's Rachel Nichols sat down with Tiger Woods. We have got some of that exclusive interview for you right after the break."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "EMILY MILLER, \"THE WASHINGTON TIMES\"", "PHILLIPS", "MILLER", "PHILLIPS", "MILLER", "PHILLIPS", "CHRIS KOFINIS, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "PHILLIPS", "KOFINIS", "KOFINIS", "MILLER", "KOFINIS", "PHILLIPS", "MILLER", "PHILLIPS", "KOFINIS", "PHILLIPS", "KOFINIS", "PHILLIPS", "MILLER", "KOFINIS", "PHILLIPS", "KOFINIS", "PHILLIPS", "MILLER", "KOFINIS", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-315684", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-06-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1706/30/nday.06.html", "summary": "Trump vs. Media; Trump's Twitter Attack; Exploring Chinese-American Community", "utt": ["Sunday is the season finale of CNN's \"United Shades of America.\" W. Kamau Bell tries to understand the modern Chinese- American identity and society's misconceptions about the community versus the country, China.", "Their books over and over again with dragons, you know?", "With dragons? It's always with dragons?", "Always something about, you know, the rising dragon. You know there - it - it inspires a lot of fear. It's really disturbing because then that gets sort of mapped on to Chinese- Americans here and people begin to have these fears of Chinese- Americans and they see them as one in the same -", "Yes.", "Without, you know, distinguishes. China is China as a political economic, geopolitical kind of entity. And you have Chinese-American, whose have really been here for a long time. Who have adopted the ways, you know, of American culture and kind of becoming part of this multicultural, multiracial society.", "Kamau Bell joins us now live. And I just wanted to ask about this idea. You know, Chinese-Americans, what's their feeling of connection, or is there a strong feeling of connection, to China, which has become this kind of looming force on the world stage?", "Well, I mean, I think that, you know, often America's politicians and then also Americans in general who are not Chinese assume there's some sort of strong connection to China. But when it comes back down to it, for many Chinese people, they've been in this country for maybe several generations. So they may have been to China, but they don't have - they are Americans. They just happen to be Chinese-Americans. But we often force them to sort of answer for China's sins because that's how we work in this country. You are like those people, so you must be those people. So when really the show tonight - the show on Sunday is about how there's a Chinese-American identity that is wholly - that is in some ways wholly separate from China.", "And let's talk about that because, you know, you make a very good point that will pop some eyes. The Chinese predate just about every other ethnic group - I guess the English could make a good case that they're in there as well. But certainly, you know, my wave of ethnics, you know, the Italians and when the Jews came over, they were here long before. They dug a lot of the infrastructure, built a lot of the infrastructure in this country. And how does that play. What does it mean to the Chinese-American today in terms of their affinity for this country?", "It means that many of them, you know, feel like very proud Americans and feel like they have contributed to the country's history and yet they also know that part of that history of Chinese people in this country was the Chinese Exclusion Act, which happened right here in the Bay area where I live, that said that Chinese people couldn't live here, that they had to go back to China. So it's that same thing where, like, you know, as you say, Chris, Italians, when they got here, weren't necessarily considered white the way the British people were white, but you guys eventually graduated, whereas some of us, we don't get to graduate to whiteness as we know.", "You had now two seasons of \"United Shades.\" I'm just curious, is there kind of a take all or a takeaway, rather, of what you've learned about the state of race relations in this country?", "I mean, this season a lot was framed by the election. We started filming right before the election and then we filmed after - after the election. And so it really felt like it was - it was framed by a lot of those issues. And, for example, this episode, President Trump, when he was a candidate, demonized China a lot. Then once he became president, he became sort of friendly with China. Now he's starting to demonize them again. But I - really what I've learned is that, if we can get away from the two-party system of team politics, we all care about the same stuff. Everybody wants better schools, everybody wants more jobs, everybody wants to be able to live safely where they live. If we can get away from the team sport of electoral (ph) politics, we could get - we could actually solve these problems, I believe.", "You know, Kamau, we always hear that. You say is very eloquently and you demonstrate it in a really unique fashion on your show. I enjoy watching it. So what happens? How does it go from people who are like, it doesn't matter what color you are, what creed you are, where you're from. It's like, I worry about my kids and what kind of quality education they get, what kind of world are they coming up in and making sure that I can make ends meet. And then we wind up somehow capitulating to a tribal culture, like what we're seeing break down with the latest Trump tweets. How does that happen?", "I mean this is - it's on us. We allow people to appeal to our basic fears a lot of times and I think that that's why President Trump is in office because he appealed to some of the basic fears of Americans, of some Americans. And so when you start to sell the fear, you forget the fact, you're like, wait a minute, I actually do like my neighbors. I do like the undocumented Latino family across the street. They're very nice. They've very helpful. But we have to stop letting politicians appeal to our most based fears is what I believe.", "Al right. Well, W. Kamau Bell, the season finale of \"United Shades of America\" airs this Sunday, 10:00 p.m., only on CNN. Don't miss it. Thank you so much.", "A smart guy. A funny guy. A good show.", "Thank you.", "New technology - this is a great story - inspired by \"Star Wars,\" OK, is now helping our wounded veterans. The Luke Bionic Arm is not your average prosthetic, and it is really here and going to be put into effect. 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{"id": "CNN-247595", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-01-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/21/cnr.10.html", "summary": "New Footage Released Of Looting In Ferguson; 36 Measles Cases Linked To Disneyland", "utt": ["St. Louis County Police releasing new video that shows exactly how bold the looters were during the Ferguson chaos. You've seen the pictures of outside the stores, right. This is the first time we are seeing all these people inside. More than 180 suspected looters were caught on camera after the prosecutor revealed that the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown would not be indicted. Police are hoping people will recognize these faces and call in and offer up help. The memories being made at Disneyland these days not exactly all happy ones. Let me explain. At least five employees at the California theme park have come down with measles since last month. This is on top of nine previously confirmed cases among visitors to Disneyland or Disney California adventure. In all, health officials say 36 measles cases have been linked to Disney. Part of the worst measles outbreak in California, actually, in 15 years, and health officials are also looking at cases in Utah, Colorado, Washington and Oregon. So I'm lucky enough to have the chief medical correspondent here sitting right next to me, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, talking about something that sounds a little frightening. I mean, if you're a parent really anyone, you're thinking measles.", "You think measles, you think Disneyland, those two things they shouldn't go together.", "They shouldn't go together.", "And the reality is Disneyland really has nothing to do with this. Only in the sense that it's a place where a lot of people cluster and come together. It could be any -- any other place as well. What's amazing about this is you have nearly 50 cases now of measles in this country. It's a highly contagious virus. We talked about Ebola, Brooke, it wasn't that contagious. Measles is. It can spread through the air and they say if you are not vaccinated and you come in contact with someone have measles, you have about a 90 percent chance of getting it yourself. That gives you an idea how contagious this is. So that when you have situations where a lot of people are coming together in a particular place, it can set up a situation just like this.", "So you were just telling me, though, in commercial that measles was declared eradicated more than a decade ago.", "Yes. This drives the public health community crazy, you know. In 2000 we were able to say we have no measles in the United States. We have gone a long enough period of time without any new cases. We can say that's in the past. But in large part because of people not getting vaccinated, there's vaccines available that are very protective against measles, the people not getting vaccinated, one case can suddenly turn into many cases as we've seen here. Now we have six states declaring people having measles. You have 50 cases of measles already just within the first two weeks of this year. So you get an idea of just how big a problem that is. All totally preventable.", "So what's the take-away for I guess parents listening and not quite sure what to think?", "You know, I think that there's been a lot of obviously concern about vaccines and a large part of it comes because of concerns about side effects from vaccines. There are studies that may have added some fuel to that fire. But those studies have been debunked. And we know that vaccines can prevent against illness without causing autism, for example, which is something a lot of parents worried about. You know, Brooke, it was interesting as a reporter but also as a dad, I have three kids, who -- who we went through this whole process.", "Of course.", "And we got our kids vaccinated and got them vaccinated on schedule, on time. And I say that only to say that I looked at all these studies, I looked at the data, these are my own children and I still got them vaccinated. And I think if people did that we wouldn't be seeing cases of measles like this. Luckily, you know it sounds like these people are going to do well. Luckily, it seems like this particular outbreak is already over. But this is potentially a fatal disease that is completely preventable.", "OK. I have to embarrass you just a little bit. I know you are pretty modest. But Ben Tinker, your producer sent me this. This is why I have this. Show the object. \"One of journalism's most prestigious awards, more than two years investigating these two hours specials, Sanjay changed his mind and the country's mind and lead and any that really can have medicinal benefits. Incredible ceremony. Sanjay Gupta and team got the duPont Columbia Award.\" And there you are, who came with you?", "The whole team.", "The whole family?", "You know, that the team, and you know, Brooke as they say, like Aristotle said it, \"the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.\" And that's the case with this team over there.", "Yes.", "Yes. You know it's an amazing team. We got to spend two years flying around the world asking questions of the people who had the highest impact and put together this documentary. It's great.", "I mean, getting this kind of award, I remember when it was announced, by the way you take this, this is yours, not mine. But I just remember the huge applause over the network call and seeing everyone buzzing about getting to go to the ceremony last night and just so, so, so proud. And the guy you see on TV is exactly like what you see, what you get. In the brain, I can't even imagine and the scheduling, I feel for the people who -- who have to figure out because we want like 50 of you. So --", "You're nice to say that. Thank you. You know. it's a privilege to work here, do this work. I mean, you and I both get to experience that.", "Pinch myself every day. Sanjay Gupta, thank you and congratulations. That's it for me. I'm Brooke Baldwin here in New York. We'll see you back here tomorrow. In the meantime, \"THE LEAD\" with Jake Tapper starts right now."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "GUPTA", "BALDWIN", "GUPTA", "BALDWIN", "GUPTA", "BALDWIN", "GUPTA", "BALDWIN", "GUPTA", "BALDWIN", "GUPTA", "BALDWIN", "GUPTA", "BALDWIN", "GUPTA", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-113702", "program": "LOU DOBBS THIS WEEK", "date": "2007-1-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/13/ldtw.01.html", "summary": "Bush's New Iraq Plan Greeted With Skepticism, House Votes to Raise Minimum Wage, U.S. Trade Deficit With China Reaches All Time High", "utt": ["Back in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rick Sanchez. And here's what's going on right now. The families of two Missouri teens are rejoicing. The boys returned from the clutches of a kidnapping suspect. A truck being sought in Monday's disappearance of Ben Ownby led to 13-year-old Ben and there police also found 15-year-old Shawn Hornbeck. He disappeared four years ago. Forty-one year old Michael Devlin is being held now on $1 million bond on a single kidnapping charge at this point. That could increase though. Winter strikes again in the nation's heartland again. A slippery glaze of ice, sleet and snow extends from parts of Texas into Illinois with Missouri under a state of emergency. The storm is being blamed for at least six deaths, widespread power outages and dangerous driving conditions. Coming up in just a little bit, this week at war, an Iraq War veteran reacts to the president's new war strategy. Also, a look at the war of words between the Hill and the White House. John Roberts is going to be hosting THIS WEEK AT WAR. That's going to be at 7:00 Eastern. I'm Rick Sanchez and as things happen I'll break in. LOU DOBBS starts right now.", "President Bush trying to sell his plan to send more troops to Iraq. Democrats, some Republicans hammering the president's strategy. Intense hearings on Capitol Hill. We'll have a complete report. And the House of Representatives has voted to raise the minimum wage for the first time in a decade. The corporate and special interests trying to block the increase with the help of their friends in the U.S. Senate. All of that and a great deal more straight ahead here tonight.", "This is LOU DOBBS THIS WEEK, news, debate and opinion. Here now, Lou Dobbs.", "Good evening, everybody. President Bush tonight is facing rising skepticism and some anger about his new strategy for Iraq. The president says his plan to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq is the best way to break the cycle of violence there, and to hasten the day our troops return home. But Democrats and some Republicans say the plan is a huge mistake. That could simply lead to more American casualties. More than 3,000 troops have been killed in Iraq. More than 23,000 others have been wounded. Elaine Quijano has the report from the White House. Elaine?", "Lou, the Bush administration does continue to face sharp criticism from both Democrats as well as some fellow Republicans who do feel that sending more than 21,000 additional U.S. forces to Iraq is, in fact, a mistake. Now, this weekend the president met privately at Camp David with GOP congressional leaders trying to shore up support for his ideas. But senior Bush aides though say that the doubt on Capitol Hill does not come as a shock. Here is White House press secretary Tony Snow.", "I don't think we're terribly surprised. You knew going in that there was going to be opposition and you knew that a lot of people had made public statements about the commitment of additional forces to Iraq. But on the other hand, what we now expect is people to actually look at the plan.", "Now, Snow says those critics have an obligation not just to oppose the plan outright but to come up with alternatives. A senior Bush aide, though, as this is debate intensifies says that President Bush predicted he would be politically isolated on this plan but that he continues to take the long view, that the United States should not retreat. At the same time, the official acknowledged it is a very difficult political climate for the White House as it tries to build is public support for this idea for a U.S. troop increase. The officials saying until things change on the ground in Iraq, the White House fully understands and expects this criticism will continue. Lou?", "Thank you very much, Elaine Quijano from the White House. The president's new plan has apparently his full unshakable conviction that this war in Iraq can be won. The president has ignored the doubts of some of his most senior military commanders about the wisdom of the increase and President Bush is also determined to override congressional opposition to his plan from both Democrats and some members of his own party. John King reports.", "He was on shaky ground to begin with and made his choices knowing it would leave him more isolated.", "It's a lonely road. George Bush thinks he is on the right path. This is very uphill. This is a lonely walk.", "Speaking to troops at Fort Benning, Mr. Bush said his strategy offered the best chance of success.", "This is new. This is something different. That enables the military folks to predict that we will succeed in helping quell sectarian violence in Baghdad.", "But critics and even some past allies see stubborn defiance, ignoring evidence past troop increases haven't worked and ignoring the message war-weary voters sent last November.", "He's been willing to ignore the will of the people perhaps more than any modern president certainly on this issue. We could be headed for a constitutional crisis. It kind of depends on how determined the Congress is to push back.", "In trademark Bush style, he defied his critics and upped the ante. This National Security Council slide presentation outlines a plan that not only orders more troops into Iraq but vows key operational shifts will include new efforts to counter Iranian and Syrian action that threatens coalition forces. Such talk alarms some in Congress.", "Let me say that again. Explicitly denies you the authority to go into Iran (ph).", "The administration says it has no intention of widening the conflict.", "We can take care of the security for our troops by doing the business we need to do inside of Iraq.", "Another key tactical shift raising eyebrows is a plan to remobilize the National Guard, which most governors oppose and most of all, critics cite the promise of bold new steps by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, the same prime minister the president's national security advisor described in a recent classified memo as \"unwilling or unable to make the necessary tough choices.\"", "And Lou, an interesting dichotomy here. As the week drew to a close, out in the country many strategists in both parties saying the president deserves more credit for being more contrite in that speech, acknowledging mistakes were made and accepting personal responsibility for them. But here in Washington, quite a different dynamic. Even some past supporters of the administration say they have severe doubts that an administration that got it so wrong so many times can now get Iraq right. Lou?", "John, thank you very much. John King from Washington. The Pentagon's top civilian and military leadership insists the new plan will work. Defense secretary Robert Gates says it is a pivotal moment for Iraq. The defense secretary said failure in Iraq could lead to nothing less than calamity for this country. Jamie McIntyre reports from the Pentagon.", "The Iraq new strategy is a last ditch effort to secure Baghdad by correcting the two biggest failings of the old strategy. Too few troops in the Iraqi capital, both U.S. and Iraqi and too much political interference that has allowed Shia extremists to act with impunity.", "The Iraqi military will be in the lead in these operations. Another is that no parts of the city will be immune, that there will be no more calls from government offices to Iraqi or U.S. forces who have detained someone who is politically connected demanding that they be released.", "The strategy calls for putting an Iraqi commander in charge of Baghdad and dividing the city into nine sectors. Each would have an Iraqi brigade in the lead, several thousand troops, backed by a U.S. battalion, several hundred troops. The Iraqi army and police would clear neighbors with U.S. help, but unlike the last plan, U.S. troops would stay and help keep the peace. While some American troops are already moving into Baghdad, the Pentagon stresses the full deployment of more than 17,000 U.S. soldiers will be gradual. So there is time to determine if the Iraqis are really doing their part.", "I think within a couple of months or so, whether this strategy is in fact beginning to bear fruit, it's going to take awhile.", "And it won't be hard to tell. If violence drops, the plan is working. Gates says the U.S. will be quick to adjust if it fails but no one in the administration is willing to say what would be next.", "Senator, I don't think you go to plan B. You work with plan", "That's not a plan B. That's a very critical issue here.", "You work with plan A and you give it the possibility of success, the best possibility of success.", "The Pentagon says the plan was devised by U.S. military commanders including generals like George Casey and John Abizaid who in the past opposed send are more U.S. troops to Iraq.", "I have been one who has said frequently do not send extra troops, just to do what the troops there now are already doing.", "And Lou, Secretary Gates ended the week with an admission that the U.S. strategy in Iraq could fail. But saying that plan B should not be the phased withdrawal called for by some Democrats. Asked what the alternatives would be, he said at this point he doesn't know, but that none of them look good. Lou?", "Jamie, as you reported during the week, the Joint Chiefs of Staff divided on the issue of this proposal, some styling it as unanimous disagreement among the Joint Chiefs. What is the impact of that?", "Well, at this point, this is a done deal. The strategy is going to go forward. It has been fashioned by U.S. commanders. The critical part of this is that absolutely everything rests in the hands of the Iraqis. It's really out of the U.S. military's control. If they don't do what they're supposed to do, they're going to have to have a major assessment very quickly. So what the Joint Chiefs and those who have reservations within the Pentagon are simply holding their breath and hoping for the best.", "It is I think perhaps to many people remarkable that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been relegated effectively to an advisory role in the chain of command.", "Well, that is their role as advisors and we do have civilian control of the military. You know, the famous saying by Clemens (ph) that war is too important to be left to the generals. For better or worse in the United States, we have civilians in charge. And that commander in chief is President Bush.", "Absolutely. But again, a mere advisory role for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is I think a remarkable situation when there can that kind of division at the highest levels of our military leadership. Jamie, thank you very much. Jamie McIntyre from the Pentagon. Iraq, of course, not the only issue facing this new Congress and this nation. Congressional Democrats have begun implementing an ambitious agenda of domestic reform in their first 100 legislative hours. Among the issues, an increase in the federal minimum wage. This is the first time in a decade that Congress has voted to raise the pay of someone other than themselves. Lisa Sylvester reports.", "The minimum wage has not been raised in 10 years. Take into account rising gas, housing and food prices and the effective minimum wage has not been this low since 1955. Eisenhower was in the White House, and Elvis was singing \"Heartbreak Hotel.\"", "But these days, it's poor folks, poor working folks who have the heart breaks when the minimum wage is not even close to being a living wage.", "The bill is passed.", "By a vote of 315-116 largely along party lines, the House of Representatives is approved a bill to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour phased in over the next two years.", "The lowest paid workers in America have been frozen out of the economy of this country. They have ended up every year after going to work every day, every week, every month, they ended up poor.", "The Senate will now take up similar legislation. Business groups are against raising the wages earned by those at the bottom of the economic scale arguing it would be detrimental to small companies. The owner of 21 Wendy's franchises testified at a hearing.", "On January 1st, the minimum wage in the State of Ohio increased to $6.85. That may not sound like much, but the cost of 41 cents more an hour equates to $370,000 annually to my business.", "While Democrats want a clean minimum wage bill, Republicans back attaching business tax breaks. Without them, they say workers will lose their jobs.", "Some will have a mandated pay raise in America. Those will be the lucky ones. Many more will have their hours cut, Mr. Speaker. Many will have their benefits cut.", "But critics say corporate America and business owners have had it good for the last decade, receiving numerous tax breaks while low paid workers were ignored by Congress.", "The House bill extends the minimum wage to the American territory of the Northern Marianas Islands, however, it does not cover another U.S. territory American Samoa. The primary employer in Samoa is Starkist Tuna which is based in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district. Some Republicans say there's something a little fishy about that. Lou?", "Lisa, thank you very much. Lisa Sylvester from Washington. Coming up here next, America's farmers protesting U.S. federal efforts to actually enforce immigration laws and even some rare efforts to secure our border. We'll be telling you all about that and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposing new benefits for illegal aliens in his state subsidized of course by the taxpayers. We'll have that story and communist China, manipulating its currency, forcing some Americans out of jobs. What's your government doing about that? Why, not much. We'll tell you all about it in our next special report. Stay with us.", "American farmers complaining they're being unfairly burdened U.S. immigration laws that require them to verify the legal status of workers and those farmers claim the agricultural industry in this country will collapse without those illegal aliens. But the evidence certainly suggests otherwise. Casey Wian reports.", "Nine out of 10 farmers attending the American Farm Bureau convention in Salt Lake City this week say they have an unfair burden to ensure workers are legal according to a Reuters survey. Now that federal immigration authorities are beginning to crack down on employers of illegal aliens and improve border security, many farmers are complaining they can't find enough workers.", "In Arizona and California, in the areas of the country that are trying to harvest lettuce right now, trying to harvest broccoli, there's crops in the field that are not being harvested because there is no one here that wants to do the job. Whether it's $10 an hour, whether it's $20 an hour.", "But a 2006 Congressional Research Service report reached a dramatically different conclusion. It found a significant surplus, not a shortage of agricultural workers. Since 2001, the annual farm worker unemployment rate has averaged 12 percent, more than double the jobless rate for other U.S. workers and farm workers earn about 50 cents for every dollar earned by other non-supervisory private sector employees. Still farmers are pressuring Congress for a guest worker program to legalize the same illegal labor critics say has driven down wages and destroyed American farming jobs.", "I've gone to ag hearings all around this country. And I see people in the business that have premised their business on hiring illegal labor and then they come to the hearing and ask us to legalize those illegal employees.", "Fifty two percent of U.S. agricultural workers are illegal aliens up from 37 percent 12 years ago. The Congressional Research report says it can't determine if the farm industry's addiction to illegal alien labor could be cured by raising wages or relying on mechanization because farmers have never had to operate without illegal aliens.", "Farmers say they don't want amnesty, only temporary guest workers who can help them compete against cheaper foreign imports. However, this week, four senators introduced a bill that would grant amnesty to 1.5 million farm workers over five years. That, Lou, despite the fact that 100,000 farm workers are already unemployed each year in the United States.", "And despite as well the fact that there is no indication whatsoever that the federal government could reasonably determine who has been working in this country for five years or reasonably determine who has valid identification. A remarkable situation.", "Perhaps they're planning on using the fake Social Security cards that these workers have been using to get those jobs, Lou.", "That would be an interesting thing to have those illegal alien workers show up and prove that they've been using false identities for a period of time, which is the situation many would be put in actually. Casey, thank you very much. Casey Wian from Los Angeles. California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has angered members of his own party and the public by prosing new benefits for illegal aliens. Governor Schwarzenegger proposed mandatory state subsidized state health insurance for all state residents including illegal aliens. Peter Viles reports.", "California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing that everyone in his state, including those here illegally, be required to purchase health insurance.", "If you can't afford it, the state would help you buy it, but you must be insured.", "He argues since the state is obligated to pay for emergency room treatment for illegal aliens, it makes financial sense to force them to buy subsidized health insurance.", "Our question, the decisions that our team has made was not should we treat them or not treat them. The question really is how can we treat them in a most cost effective way. We are trying to be realistic here and not live in denial.", "Republicans immediately criticized the governor's plan saying it would attract and reward illegal aliens.", "If they break the law, come into our country, they'll get benefits that they wouldn't receive if they played by the rules, and that kind of message is a very dangerous message for a nation that supposedly believes in the rule of law to send anywhere around the world, especially in our own neighborhoods.", "This would be further validation of saying that illegal behavior is OK. I don't think that's where Californians want to go. Californians have been very clear about that.", "Schwarzenegger estimates the cost of subsidizing insurance for illegal aliens at roughly $2.5 billion a year. California already spends heavily on health care for illegals. In 2004, an estimated 43 percent of all births covered by the state's MediCal program were to illegal aliens. The cost of those 105,000 deliveries was $400 million. (on camera): This is a national problem, in Dallas, Texas, at Parkland Hospital, the hospital where President Kennedy died, 75 percent of the babies now born at that hospital are born to illegal aliens. Peter Viles for CNN, Los Angeles.", "A new poll shows that a majority of Californians are opposed to guaranteeing health coverage for illegal aliens. Nearly six out of 10 California voters in fact, are strongly opposed to providing guaranteed health insurance to those in this country illegally. The poll conducted by San Jose State University. Up next here, one congressman's efforts to see that justice is done in the case of two convicted U.S. Border Patrol agents. I'll be talking with Congressman Dana Rohrabacher about his fight for justice for agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos. And new trade numbers indicate communist China's policies will cost more Americans their jobs. We'll have that special report. And trade agreements being made by elitist groups without any consideration for working men in this country nor any oversight from Congress. We'll have that report as well. Stay with us for that and a lot more straight ahead.", "The U.S. trade deficit with communist China has hit a new all time high. That deficit reaching more than $213 billion and the final numbers for the year aren't even in yet. But as China keeps its currency undervalued, its trade surplus rises and that leads to the loss of American jobs. Kitty Pilgrim reports.", "Prepare for an avalanche of cheap Chinese products. China grew its global trade surplus by 74 percent last year, to a record high. And expects even more growth this year. But China is a trade cheat. China keeps its currency artificially local to boost its products in foreign markets. The issue is vital to American jobs. Made in China means that product is not made in the USA. And not made by U.S. workers. Some in Congress want to put tariffs on Chinese products until China makes a currency adjustment.", "Nobody wants to put tariffs on China, but we're to the point now where we really don't have many more options. We've heard lip service for years. They continue to manipulate the statistics. They manipulate their currency and so when push comes to shove, the United States of America is going to having to act in its own best interests and the best interests of a stable global economy.", "The head of the Chinese he central bank again paid lip service to the currency imbalance, saying, \"I think the flexibility of the exchange rate will be increased.\" Back in July, China was under similar pressure to let its currency rise, but so far, the adjustment is only a pittance, 3.8 percent.", "China has let its currency rise a bit in value but nowhere near enough. China's currency is 40 to 50 percent undervalued and letting it rise two or three or four percentage points a year won't do much good.", "The U.S. Treasury Department buys into China's all talk and no action. A U.S. delegation led by Secretary Henry Paulson returned from talks in Beijing in December. But afterward, the Treasury Department tepidly reported that the Chinese currency reforms were considerably less than is needed.", "A U.S. delegation led by Secretary Hank Paulson returned from talks in Beijing in December. But afterwards, the Treasury Department tepidly reported that Chinese currency reforms were considerably less than is needed. Lou?", "Currency reforms, that may be fun for the inside baseball game but the fact is this country isn't exporting enough of its own goods and services, nor will China permit the entry of those products and services. That is truly the issue. Thank you very much, Kitty Pilgrim. Reports tonight that another state-owned Chinese company is defying the United States in preparing to announce a huge energy deal with Iran. China's Natural Petroleum Corporation is close to investing nearly $4 billion in an Iranian gas field. That in addition to the $16 billion already pledged by C-NOOC. The U.S. trying to cut Iran off from foreign investment because Tehran sponsors terrorism, is trying to manufacture nuclear weapons in defiance of UN sanctions. C-NOOC in that deal, they're now under congressional review. China refusing to back down, however. The Chinese Foreign Ministry this week telling Washington it must not interfere. Coming up next here, the two Border Patrol agents days away from prison. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher trying to stave off that eventuality and trying to right a terrible wrong. And a former U.S. trade representative pushing a bold agenda for big business. We'll tell you why it's bad for the rest of us Americans. And two distinguished former military leaders give us their assessment of the president's proposals to escalate in Iraq. Stay with us.", "Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is among the leaders of an effort to see that two former U.S. Border Patrol agents are treated at least as well as the drug smuggler they stopped. I asked Congressman Rohrabacher whether there's any hope that U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez will do anything at all.", "If he does not and this administration does not act, we will have two heroic individuals who for five and 10 years have put their lives on the line for us, willing to take a bullet to protect our families and our community, they're going to send them off to prison for what they did trying to stop a drug dealer from coming in from Mexico. And I will tell you, we have sent letters to Gonzales, to the attorney general. He doesn't even give us the courtesy as elected officials of returning our phone calls directly. Has some underlings do it.", "The idea that Republicans, both in the administration and the Congress -- and you're one of -- and all of -- nearly every one of the Congressmen I'm familiar with was Republican in that letter to the president. Not getting a response at all, the arrogance of that is breathtaking to me. How do you respond to it?", "Well, listen, I've supported the president in Iraq for example and have been very vocal in trying to make this a successful administration. I am, after all, a Republican. But first and foremost, I am an American, and we expected that the president was going to be on the side of the good guys, the Americans. And here he is, you know, bringing down two men who are our greatest defenders after he's willing to send people clear across the world to defend us against our enemies. But he's leaving the southern border open and he's undermining the morale of our defenders.", "How can Alberto Gonzales, the U.S. attorney general, how can this president, this administration, possibly refuse to enforce that border? We're in a time of a war on radical Islamic terror, at a time when it's the principle source of methamphetamines, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin into this country. Is this not the most cynical position that any administration could possibly take?", "Well, it is bizarre. There's a bizarre policy in place here. The president's not wanted to admit to us like in the totalization agreement where they've included illegal immigrants to get Social Security benefits. He hasn't wanted to admit to us exactly what his policy is towards Mexico. And who has to pay for it? Who ends up getting hurt? Our Border Patrol agents, the guys who are trying to protect us. Of course, the other people getting hurt are the people who are being raped and murdered by illegal immigrants who come into our society, the criminals who now know the southern border is opened.", "Well, not only opened, that when confronted by the Border Patrol or our National Guard will actually retreat in the face of armed illegal aliens crossing into this country.", "Lou, but the people -- the only way this is going to be solved -- we can't just rely on the president. He's obviously a hard-headed man.", "No, we can't rely on the president, at all.", "But we have to rely on each other, and Americans have to step forward. It's only the outrage that -- the righteous outrage of the American people. They need to call the White House. They need to say that if Ramos and Compean are not given a pardon, if they go to jail, the president has declared himself on the side of enemy.", "I think that's where we're going to have to leave it. Congressman, we thank you. We thank you for everything you're trying to do to introduce justice to the Justice Department and to this administration. We thank you, sir.", "Thank you.", "To show is your support for Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean, you can contact the White House or the Justice Department and you can find that contact information on our website, loudobbs.com. The Border Patrol this week seized 2,000 pounds of marijuana at the Tahoa-Oadum (ph) Reservation in Arizona. The ton of pot was found in two separate locations on the reservation, the combined street value more than $2 million. As we reported here, one community on that reservation voted to ban the National Guard from using its tribal lands to patrol a section of the U.S. border with Mexico. The reservation about the size of the state of Connecticut is located on the section of the border with the highest number of illegal crossings and drug smuggling trails. Those trails, at least one of them, somebody kind of cast aside $2 million worth of pot. I wonder what the connection is. Border control or borders themselves won't be an issue if some business and political elitist groups have their way. This week a proposal for an expended so-called free trade zone from Alaska to the tip of Argentina. It's a plan from those elitists that will cost more American jobs, cost more American sovereignty, but it would fulfill the president's father's vision. Bill Tucker reports.", "It's not a new idea. President Bush talked about it back in 1991.", "It is a big idea, a new world order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause.", "Now former United States Trade Ambassador Robert Zoellick is talking about it again with renewed vigor, this time a new world order with business at the helm of trade and economic policy, advocating what he calls the Association of American Free Trade Agreements, a separate non government entity which would include North, Central and South America.", "What Zoellick is really proposing here is a stealth trade agenda. It's not a national agenda. He's proposing to set up what's essentially a private organization to try to achieve what he couldn't get done when he was the U.S. trade representative. And this is a business agenda.", "It's an agenda that goes hand in hand with the United States, Mexico and Canada working quietly and behind the scenes to promote a common market with common deregulation for the benefit of multinational corporations. It's an agenda that so far has resulted in an increase in U.S. corporate profits of 45 percent while wages of American workers have risen only three percent from the last five years.", "The main danger raised by Zoellick's proposals is that the future of American international economic policy, which affects not only our nation's prosperity but its national security, will be set not by the American people and their elected representatives, but by a small corporate elite that is accountable to no one but itself.", "Effectively surrendering the sovereignty of the United States.", "And as justification for trusting those who would have the authority, well, the argument is made that free trade promises democracy and welfare of the people. Lou, you have to look no further than China to see if in fact that's true.", "Yes. The nonsense that is growing up among corporate and political and academic elites in this country, that the economic system -- that is, free markets, so-called, are far more important to the United States and, indeed, the world, than the political system that makes them possible, that is, democracy. And that is -- that is an imperative that's got to be thrown back in their faces. Thank you very much, Bill Tucker. Coming up next, we'll have the political perspective, the military perspective on the president's proposals for Iraq. Three of the country's best political analysts join us to give us their assessment. I'll be talking with two outstanding former outstanding military leaders about whether or not the president's new strategy can succeed. Stay with us.", "Now two of the country's most distinguished former military leaders, General Paul Eaton -- he served in Iraq in 2003 and 04 leading the effort to train Iraqi troops and police -- General David Grange, a decorated Vietnam veteran serving in infantry and airborne forces leading the famous Delta Force. I asked General Eaton whether he believes the president's plan will work.", "Lou, I think it's a compromise approach, given the number of soldiers we have available to the United States right now for deployment. And what's really going to be interesting is how these soldiers are used and whether or not they embed these men into Iraqi formations to help -- help leverage numbers of Iraqis with the professionalism and the combat power that U.S. forces bring.", "General Grange, the plan is, as the president put it forward, is to put Americans in battalion strength into Iraqi brigades and to begin the operations for securing Baghdad, ostensibly to disarm, particularly the al Sadr militia. What's your thought?", "Well, I think that one reason the Americans bring, of course, the firepower, the command and control, the expertise, the experience -- and to make sure the Iraqi units do what they say they're going to do. It also gives them a little bit more of hope of accomplishing their mission, instead of feeling a little bit underdogs with the militia, who are doing quite well. I think that if you don't take down the militia, if you don't do something with that and you don't provide the protection, the security for the people, you'll never have the loyalty from the people in Baghdad. So I think that's a must.", "General Eaton, striking is that, while there is a great firestorm of protest about the president's plan, the additional 21,000 troops -- 4,000 of them being dispatched out of al Anbar province, the rest going into Baghdad -- that still puts us well below the height of the force levels in Iraq just about a year ago.", "Lou, it does. And again, I think this is a compromise number that's been worked out between the Army leadership on their ability to produce numbers and a gauged bet that this will be below a certain radar line with the American people, not to -- not to exceed that which we can provide.", "How would you judge its impact, if this is carried out, on overall morale?", "That's a great point because it's underrated I think that they're watching carefully about -- \"Hey, look, if you have me do this mission -- whether you have me do the mission with what I have now or you add another 20-plus thousand, please resource me. Please support me to accomplish this mission or get me the hell out of here. Do one or the other but don't be wishy-washy about trying to win this thing if your heart is not into it.\" And that's really what these G.I.s need and what they understand; do you or do you not support them and what you sent them into harm's way to accomplish?", "Does the General Staff, General Eaton -- do they understand that we are in -- there are many complex elements involved?", "Lou, our senior leadership in the armed forces fully understand what's going on. And what they should be gratified to have heard is the -- and we have to get into execution level detail on this -- but a leverage the diplomatic and political approach and the leverage against the current Iraqi leadership to get them motivated, to get them on line to produce; and the economic power of the United States brought to bear in the environment, so that we can provide a real build in the clear, hold, build environment of Baghdad.", "General Grange, let me conclude with you. It will mean more strain on those troops, on all of the troops, but certainly the Reserves and the Guard who are carrying a heavy burden here. Are we taking them to the breaking point?", "They're near the breaking point. But right now this next six months, this next year has to be a total effort -- a total effort to be successful. And it's going to take all that we have -- to include much more of the American people and the government in order to accomplish this. And we ought to do it -- to do it right because there's too many consequences if we don't.", "Do you concur, General Eaton?", "Absolutely. We've got to win this. This is not the loss of Vietnam. Loss in Iraq will have repercussions worldwide.", "Gentlemen, thank you very much for being with us. General Eaton, General Grange.", "Coming up next, three top political analysts assess the president's decision to raise the number of troops in Iraq. And the political and possibly human cost. We'll be right back.", "Joining me now, three of the country's best political analysts: James Taranto of the \"Wall Street Journal\"; Errol Lewis, columnist, \"New York Daily News\"; Miguel Perez, syndicated columnist. Gentlemen, good to have you with us. Twenty-one thousand troops. Is it going to work?", "I think the question is less the number of troops than whether the military has got itself a new strategy, has learned the lessons of its previous failures and its successes here and there with counterinsurgency. David Petraeus is the guy who led some of the few successful counterinsurgency efforts they've had. He's now in charge of Iraq, so it's all up to him I think.", "Yes, I -- well, the co-author, in point of fact, of the counterinsurgency strategy for the Army. Errol, what do you make of all this?", "Well, you know, the problem -- and it runs all the way through the counterinsurgency manual that Petraeus worked on -- is that it assumes that there will be a central, stable government that's not involved in all of the sectarian fighting. And the point of the counterinsurgency is to prop up and to help that central government operate efficiently and effectively and stabilize the country. The existence of that central government that's not participating in the bloodshed and the militia activity and the counter strikes and all of the religious civil warfare is not clear. Everything you see about it suggests that there are elements of the police force, there are elements of the government itself that are in league with Shiite or Sunni or former Saddam loyalists...", "Some people characterize the situation as a mess. Do you agree with what Errol's saying?", "It's a huge mess. And it's just -- you know, we are going into police a civil war. It's not a war between Americans and Iraqis. It's a war between Sunnis and Shiites. And we cannot win that war. It was -- the war was between Americans and Iraqi when we first went in there. And it stopped being that a long, long time ago. And it's also a question of whether we can confide or believe in the Iraqi government and all its promises...", "... the credibility of this administration, this government, this Congress, either political party on the issue of Iraq? Neither party has distinguished itself, but the Republican administration has responsibility for the conduct of this war. I can recall vividly the president talking about all that political capital he had garnered with the election of 2004. James, he has spent that and more. If I've ever seen a man in deficit with political capital, it's him.", "Yes, sad but true. There's no way he gets his political capital back unless this is a military success.", "And the military leaders are telling us, Errol, that it can't be won militarily.", "Well, and they're absolutely right. The mantra all along has been, \"We're going to do what the general tell us.\" That's what the generals are telling us. They're going to send these boys and girls over there. They're going to clear out every neighborhood that they're asked to clear out. And it still is not going to accomplish what the stated goal was.", "Over the past week, I've talked with the House Armed Services Committee Chairman, I've talked with the Senate Armed Services Committee. Both men, holding hearings, moving straight ahead on this issue. This -- Bob Gates, the defense secretary, says this can't -- will not happen, this escalation, surge, troop increase, reinforcements, whatever you want to style it, it won't happen until February. Do you think the Democratic Congress will stop support, that is, appropriation support for the war?", "I think the Democrats are afraid of stopping it, especially stopping the funding for it because if we lose, end up losing the war, then they may get blamed for it. And that's the bottom line here. The Democrats are willing to criticize but they're not coming up with a solution themselves either.", "Well, and furthermore, everyone pretty much recognizes that it would be catastrophic if we just pulled out, as the Iraq Study Group said. And I -- so, you know, only the most ideological Bush haters want to do that. And the problem is right now we have three options. We have total withdrawal, which would be a disaster. We have the Bush plan. And we have the status quo, which is already a mess...", "Whoa, whoa. We've got other plans here. Let's be fair. We've got the plans of the generals in theater that were rejected. We've got the plan of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and their views, which have been rejected, describing, as Jamie McIntyre here reported this evening, describing their consultation as unanimous disagreement on this plan. It is -- there are other policy options here. It's not really that black and white.", "Well, I don't see any of them coming out of the political system, though.", "Well, the political system. What about the government system? What in the world has happened to governance in this country? Because everywhere you turn right now -- and this is not simply -- certainly George W. Bush is going to be judged, I think, harshly for the conduct of the war in Iraq. I think he's going to be judged harshly on a number of issues. But, my gosh, these two political parties right now, what they have accomplished over the last decade is frighteningly feeble.", "It reminds me in a way of what was said around the funeral of Gerald Ford, that this was somebody who just fell on his sword politically, so to speak, that he issued a pardon which right or wrong was what he thought was right. And it didn't work for him politically, but he went ahead and did it anyway. What we have right now -- what I see in Washington is both parties -- a lot of people in government are really jockeying to see on whose watch are we going to have one of those end of Vietnam scenes when the last helicopter is being thrown into the sea and the nation's credibility is being torn to shreds.", "We'll be right back with these gentlemen and a lot more. Stay with us.", "We're back. And Miguel's just asked the question, \"How does all of this affect those who want to be president in 2008?\" I'm not sure I quite care yet. But, Miguel, what do you think?", "I think it's very damaging to John McCain. He's the one that advocated additional troops...", "And is still advocating.", "He's still advocating. He wanted a lot more though, and Bush didn't give him a lot more, an overwhelming force. So -- but still people -- voters in 2008 are going to tie John McCain to Bush's policy and I think it's detrimental to him. I like John McCain. I'm sorry to see it happen.", "Well, there's a lot happening to those candidates. Barack Obama is awfully sensitive about his ears. Hillary Clinton is doing poorly in the caucuses in some early polls. What do you make of it?", "Well, I'll tell you -- actually, to go back to McCain for a minute, it may look unwise from the standpoint of predicting what will work in Iraq, but if he picks up the 30 to 32 percent who are still with President Bush, that may be enough to get him through the primary season. And that's where all of these folks are. They're going be looking to play to the extremes of the parties, at least in the early rounds, and then try migrate back to the middle sometime before November of 2008.", "Are these political candidates -- and best I can tell, every one of them to a person is in favor of amnesty for illegal immigration, not a one of them has advanced a plan to urgently secure these borders and ports of ours that remain absolutely wide open. Not one of them has put forward a reasonable, urgent plan to save public education, take control of public education. What in the world are we watching here, a dance of personalities and politics as usual?", "Well, we're watching a wide open presidential for the first time since 1952. And I think we're looking at a lot of candidates who are trying to play it cautious right now. And perhaps, if somebody comes out and acts more boldly, that will be to his benefit. But we haven't seen it yet.", "Or hers.", "Or hers, sure.", "Absolutely.", "I mean, a lot of the freedom that candidates had in years past is just gone. I mean, they know that Lou Dobbs will be watching every statement and it will be blasted out -- any misstatements will be blasted out...", "And about a million other folks...", "Well, that's right, with the Internet, digital radio, all of that stuff. And so people, I think, are going to try and push the other guy forward and let them take the first bullet.", "The idea that all of this is being judged right now -- and we're guilty of it ourselves as we sit here, as I listen to us. We're talking about this in political terms, this war in Iraq with 3,000 Americans dead, 22,000 wounded, almost 11,000 of them so seriously they can't return to duty -- the issues are too profound to simply be talking about as the Republican and the Democratic opportunities or pitfalls politically. As a nation, we have exceeded our limits as a superpower. We have exceeded our bounds in national values. And no one is articulating a national vision. When is this going to change?", "Unfortunately, as long as the next election and the next election and the next election -- that's American politics, that's how they...", "But it has always been...", "It's self-preservation. Democrats...", "But it's always been so, Miguel. We've -- these elections have been coming around every 24 months for a very long time, thank God.", "Sure.", "But the basics have always been that, you know, you can't win the game if you're not in the game, so that the first duty of every politician, in their mind, is to get reelected.", "And when you look at a president like Reagan, who we now view as a success, he certainly had moments when he looked very weak and the country looked like it was in trouble. And, you know, we came back. I don't know that the current president or his predecessor or his successor will necessarily be viewed that way. But we do have to take the long view. And if the country needs a stronger vision, it will come along eventually.", "Spontaneous combustion in national ideas and vision. I would like -- I would like to be able to share with you that faith-based view of our future. I'm too much -- shackled to cause and effect. Thanks you very much. James, good to have you here. Errol, thank you very much. Miguel, thank you. thanks for joining us tonight. For all of us, thanks for watching. Good night from New York. \"THIS WEEK AT WAR\" with John Roberts begins now. 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{"id": "CNN-323077", "program": "STATE OF THE UNION", "date": "2017-10-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/08/sotu.01.html", "summary": "Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Danger?", "utt": ["Welcome back to STATE OF THE UNION. I'm Jake Tapper. Here with us is Democratic Senator from Connecticut Chris Murphy. He's also a member of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate. Senator, President Trump is expected to announce next week that he's going to -- or this week, rather, that he's going to decertify the international nuclear deal with Iran. The president offered a preview of his thinking earlier last week. Take a listen.", "The Iranian regime supports terrorism and exports violence, bloodshed and chaos across the Middle East. That is why we must put an end to Iran's continued aggression and nuclear ambitions. They have not lived up to the spirit of their agreement.", "On the issues President Trump raised, he's right. Iran does support exporting terrorism. It does export violence across the Middle East. Was it a mistake on the part of the Obama administration to not require that Iran stop its support for terrorist groups as part of this deal?", "Absolutely not. The president is right that there are all sorts of other misbehaviors of Iran in the region. But what we came to the conclusion -- we came to the conclusion that those behaviors would be much more dangerous if Iran was a nuclear weapons country. And so we made a decision to take away from Iran a path to a nuclear weapon. And the reality is, the president is about to impose on himself and this country a dramatic self-inflicted wound, because by pulling out of this agreement, Iran will go back on to a path to develop a nuclear weapon. The other partners that were with us on sanctions over the last decade will not reimpose them. And Iran will look like the victim in this situation. They will get everything they want. They will be able to restart their nuclear program. They will continue to get sanctions relief, and they will look like the aggrieved party. And it is just absolute fantasy to think that this president is going to be able to get them back to the negotiating table, when they ultimately will get everything that they want if we were going to -- if we ended up violating this agreement.", "Let's turn to Harvey Weinstein. He's the Oscar-winning producer and major Democratic donor who took a leave of absence from The Weinstein Company this week after it was revealed in \"The New York Times\" that he has quietly settled at least eight sexual harassment complaints over three decades. A variety of Democratic senators are returning contributions from him. You have not gotten any contributions from him, I should note. But a variety of Democrats are returning them or giving them to charity. But the Democratic National Committee, the DSCC, the Senate arm, and the DCCC, the congressional arm, the House arm, are not giving all the Weinstein money back. Do you think that all of that Weinstein money -- we're talking here about more than $400,000 -- needs to be returned or donated to charity by all of the arms of the Democratic Party?", "Yes, I think that probably makes sense. I mean, this is a pretty bad guy who did some really awful things. And, you know, if people need for that money to be returned in order to make it clear that the entities that received them want nothing to do with him and his behavior, then it is probably a smart move. But let's be honest. We take tens of thousands of contributions. I don't require a background check for -- to contribute to my campaign. And so there are probably lots of people with unsavory backgrounds and pasts who have given to both Democrats and Republicans. But this was a high-profile individual who did some truly awful things, and people that took money from him should probably give it back.", "Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is on thin ice this week, according to sources in the administration, after we all learned that he referred to President Trump in a private meeting as a moron. By all accounts, Tillerson is pushing for President Trump to stay in the Paris climate agreement. He's been trying to de-escalate tensions with North Korea. He is seen by many in the foreign policy community as a moderating force. If Tillerson were to step down, are you worried about who might come next as secretary of state?", "I am worried. And I think whoever would replace Secretary Tillerson would be in a no-win situation. The fact of the matter is, we have two different foreign policies in this country right now, which is catastrophic for us. We have one foreign policy that comes from the State Department and the Department of Defense. And then we have another foreign policy that comes from the president's Twitter feed. The president was undermining Secretary of State Tillerson at the exact moment that he was in China trying to negotiate with the Chinese to get tougher on the North Koreans and their nuclear weapons program. And so there is no way that you're going to unwind these big foreign policy crises if nobody knows whether the secretary of state speaks for the president. And I have a feeling that whoever replaces Tillerson would suffer the same problem, that President Trump would never give them the authority to ultimately try to speak on their own. Yes, if you have been accused of calling the president a moron, you should probably clarify that you didn't do it. But, at the same time, this problem is not going away, so long as the president has, you know, his own foreign policy through social media.", "Do you think Tillerson should resign?", "Again, I don't think that that solves the problem. I think the president should stop undermining the people in his administration. I think he should stop doing hurtful things to the country's national security, like telling the North Koreans that there is no diplomatic path for them to give up nuclear weapons. I have big disagreements with Secretary Tillerson. I don't think he's been a good secretary of state. But I'm not sure that there is anyone that can succeed in that position, given the just absolutely catastrophic dysfunction of this White House.", "All right, Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, thank you so much. Appreciate your time.", "Thanks, Jake.", "President Trump issuing a cryptic warning about the calm before the storm. What could the ominous comments mean? The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee will be here to weigh in next. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "TRUMP", "TAPPER", "MURPHY", "TAPPER", "MURPHY", "TAPPER", "MURPHY", "TAPPER", "MURPHY", "TAPPER", "MURPHY", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-61717", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-10-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0210/15/ltm.05.html", "summary": "Talk with Sen. Richard Shelby", "utt": ["Officials in the U.S. and overseas see a disturbing pattern in the latest terrorist attacks and they're drawing the lines back to al Qaeda. President Bush making it clear where he stands.", "I believe the attack on the French vessel was a terrorist attack. Obviously the attack on our marines in Kuwait was a terrorist attack. The attack in Bali appears to be an al Qaeda-type terrorist -- definitely a terrorist attack, whether it's al Qaeda related or not. I would assume it is.", "Is the terror network that's blamed for September 11 gaining renewed strength? Senator Richard Shelby, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is back. He joins us from Washington. Good to see you again, sir.", "Good morning, Paula.", "Thanks for being with us. So, Senator, do you think this latest attack in Bali was the work of al Qaeda?", "Either al Qaeda or an al Qaeda related group. There are a lot of these terrorist groups. A lot of the terrorist groups are affiliated with al Qaeda and this is probably what you are going to find out. A lot of them were trained there and have sustenance from those various groups.", "You talk about a lot of them being trained there, we actually have exclusive video of what CNN says is a training camp in Indonesia and we're going to show some of those pictures. I don't think you'll be able to see them, but it's really quite astonishing what you'll see in this videotape. Now, the Indonesian government so far is refusing to acknowledge the existence of the camp. But over the weekend, an Indonesian defense minister admitted that he is convinced that al Qaeda is operating inside of Indonesia. How, what kind of numbers are we talking about here?", "You're probably talking about a lot of people. Indonesia is, I believe, the largest Muslim nation in the world. This is a haven for the sympathizers with the terrorist groups and the terrorist groups themselves. I believe that the government's got to stop being in denial. They've got to face up to the fact that the terrorists are operating there and it is a haven for some terrorist groups. This is just the beginning, I believe, of more terrorist attacks not only in Indonesia, but elsewhere in the world. Everywhere, including the U.S., will be at risk.", "Why is it do you think the defense minister would admit on one time -- at one point now that al Qaeda is operating within his country and not concede that there are training camps there?", "Well, it's inconceivable to me that he would do this, but this is a large Muslim nation and perhaps there are political repercussions to getting involved, trying to root out the terrorists there, because they could be so deep into the country.", "I know that you said on Sunday that this Bali attack is an indication to you that there is a lot more of this to come even in the United States. What kind of evidence points to perhaps future attacks in our own country?", "Well, they're always looking to the U.S. if they can because this is the ultimate target, the United States of America. We know this. They will hit around the world in soft areas, our allies, our friends, or, perhaps, our assets. On the other hand, if they can hit us in the U.S., they're going to do it. And we know that in the United States, as we speak, that there are hundreds, perhaps in the high hundreds, of potential terrorists that will do damage to us in this country. And I believe these are not isolated incidents. There's a measure here. There's a pattern. And I believe they're just waiting for the opportunity to hit us again. We need to stop these attacks everywhere we can.", "In the meantime, what kind of position is the U.S. government in to stop these kind of attacks that you say could potentially happen?", "Well, I think we're on alert big time since September the 11th in this country. And the FBI and the CIA and the other intelligence people are doing everything they can. But I believe at the end of the day, they're going to have to do a lot more, because terrorist attacks are something. You don't need to react to, you've got to prevent them. And if we don't stop them before they happen, there's going to be a lot of devastation in this country.", "We have heard reports of a lot of chatter being analyzed now coming from these various sleeper groups. Is there anything you can share with the public today that would help us better understand what we could potentially be confronting here?", "Well, if we look back in the history of some of the recent attacks, there has been stepped up signals traffic, that is, radio traffic, telephone traffic and so forth, before there have been new terrorist attacks. The summer before the September the 11th attacks, attack in the U.S., we, there were signals all over the world that there was an attack imminent. Recently, we've been hearing renewed signals and I believe that this is just indicative of what's to come.", "Senator, a final question for you this morning. There are those who believe that al Qaeda has actually been weakened by the war on terror and there are others who believe that in many ways, al Qaeda is more menacing because it's split into so many diffuse groups. What do you think?", "I think it's a combination. We have destroyed their sanctuary. We've destroyed their central command. But we have dispersed them around the world and a lot of these people will be acting on their own. But they're well trained and you'd better consider them very dangerous.", "Senator Richard Shelby, as always, good to have you with us on", "Thank you, Paula.", "Appreciate your time. I know you've got a busy day ahead. Appreciate your dropping by."], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ZAHN", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-106232", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2006-5-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/22/acd.02.html", "summary": "Storms to Come; Nagin's Plan; Hurricanes and Oil; Built for a Hurricane", "utt": ["...13 to 16 named storms. Eight to 10 of those hurricanes. Four to six of those hurricanes, major category three or higher. Katrina was a category three when it hit the U.S. So were Dennis, Rita and Wilma. There were 15 hurricanes last year, 28 named storms. Far more than predicted, and one of the deadliest in history.", "If there is anything good that can come out of the last hurricane season, and that's pretty hard to find, I hope that the motivation to help create a culture of preparedness. We have got to do a better job than we've been doing.", "Absent that culture of preparedness, Katrina killed more than 1,500 people and caused an estimated $100 billion in damage. Now, it seems, everyone is preparing.", "What we've been doing in FEMA is fixing those issues that we saw that did not work well in Katrina, looking at our logistics, how having the right things at the right place at the right time is so important.", "But preparation isn't just about supplies. It's also understanding the risks posed by more hurricanes for at least a decade ahead.", "It's not all about the numbers. It just takes that one hurricane over your house to make for a bad year. We're in this very active period for major hurricanes that may last at least another 10 or 20 years.", "So whether it's the 2006 hurricane season or the next 20, if you live in the path of hurricanes, the forecast does not look good. Rob Marciano, CNN, Atlanta.", "Well, one of the people strongly criticized for the way he handled Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath is getting a second chance. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin won reelection Saturday, beating his challenger Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu by a narrow margin. The outspoken mayor didn't waste time telling people what he plans to do in his second term to get New Orleans back on track -- or to at least plan to get New Orleans back on track. He's CNN's Gulf Coast Correspondent Susan Roesgen.", "Nine months after Hurricane Katrina, much of New Orleans is still a wasteland. But after the election, Mayor Ray Nagin says give him 100 days, and he'll figure out how to fix things.", "What does he think he's going to do in 100 days that he hasn't done in nine months? That's what I don't understand.", "Homeowner Ellen Schully says, look around. Her neighborhood flooded and is barely hanging on.", "They've moved. this one's moved, that one has moved. The next one, she moved.", "Ellen says her neighbors need help to move back and she's sick of seeing all the trash. Mayor Nagin says he'll form a commission to spend the next 100 days focusing on trash collection and housing. But this isn't the first time he's asked a commission to come up with a game plan. Back in January, the mayor's \"Bring New Orleans Back Commission\" recommended the city abandon the most badly damaged neighborhoods, to focus on protecting those on higher ground.", "Tell it like it goes.", "But the outcry from some neighborhoods was so great, the mayor rejected his own commission's report. On Saturday, Mayor Nagin narrowly won reelection, defeating Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu. Nagin got 80 percent of the black vote and just 20 percent of the white vote, but that 20 percent was vital. Political analysts say Nagin was able to convince conservative white voters that Landrieu was too liberal to be trusted, and that gave Nagin just enough of a boost to win.", "I want to thank all the wonderful people of the city of New Orleans for this encouragement, for this victory, for this time for us to set the stage for our recovery.", "Like Mayor Nagin, Ellen Schully is also hopeful for recovery. She just thinks 100 days to study the city's problems won't be enough to get things done.", "I think it's going to take five to 10 years to get it back the way it was. Unfortunately. Susan Roesgen, CNN, New Orleans.", "Well, when the Gulf Coast was hit last year, we all felt the effects, especially at the gas pump. The average price of a gallon of gas jumped over $3 last year after Katrina and Rita tore through a number of oil rigs. Right now gas prices are already nearing that and there is yet to be a major storm in the Gulf. So CNN's Randi Kaye took a look at what oil companies are doing to prepare for this year's hurricane season.", "We're on our way to the Gulf of Mexico right now. This helicopter is going to take us out to the Ram- Powell oil platform. It's one of about a half a dozen deep-water floating platforms operated by Shell Oil out there. And this will be our first look at the damage that was done and the repairs still under way. The hour-long flight takes us over the water, which is spotted with oil platforms that survived the terrible sisters -- Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. According to the U.S. Department of Interior, 113 structures were lost in the Gulf. Now, most of those were the older oil platforms that were in shallow water. But when those platforms toppled down, they did major damage to the pipelines and disrupted the flow of oil. Shell's Mars platform, which was the biggest producer in the Gulf was one of the hardest hit. Unable to land there, we stopped at the similar Ram-Powell oil platform. This is what the rig looks like on Mars. It weighs as much as two 747s. The problem was that during Katrina, it actually toppled over and fell onto the processing area, putting oil production at a standstill.", "For Hurricane Katrina, the clamps that clamp the rig down on Mars, they failed. And so the entire rig toppled over.", "For this hurricane season, Shell has designed new clamps to withstand more than 2 million pounds of pressure -- enough to withstand another Katrina. That's the oil well right there?", "That's it.", "During last year's storms, drilling rigs also lost their moorings and floated aimlessly, dragging their anchors along the ocean floor. An underwater robot like this one, never before used so deep, repaired this crack in 2,700 feet of water. Shell says it spent between $250 million and $300 million on Gulf recovery.", "We came back online, and by the end of 2005, we had about 70 percent to 75 percent of our production back on.", "And finally, starting today, Mars is producing oil and gas again. Before Katrina, it turned out 140,000 barrels of oil each day. It expects to reach those numbers again in June, just as the next hurricane season begins. Still, 15 percent of the Gulf oil platforms are still down. But with an estimated 71 billion gallons of oil still out there, ready to be drilled, there was no question Shell and its competitors would rebuild. And it hopes when the next Katrina blows through, they'll be ready.", "So, Randi, it seems like most of these companies chose to rebuild in the Gulf and repair pretty quickly. How quickly did they need to make the decision, given the damage they suffered?", "Normally, Anderson, they have to make that decision in about six months. Within that time, they have to evaluate, repair and actually ramp up production. And if they don't, the federal government can actually take over control of that oil platform. Now, being that Katrina and Rita were both so severe, these oil companies are getting a bit of an extension and they're working very hard, Anderson, from what we saw today. Already Shell has put in over 1 million man hours in Gulf recovery. And they're also getting creative. We showed you how they're coming out with these new clamps now on the oil rigs for the next hurricane season, the one that's starting just in another week or so. They also are coming out with some new anchors, they've come up with those to try and keep those oil platforms in place. And some of the oil companies are actually planning on using GPS on the oil rigs in case they break free. So they're trying to do this as quickly, but as efficiently as they possibly can.", "Randi Kaye, thanks. The Gulf of Mexico is a major source for America's oil needs. Here's the data. As Randi mentioned, oil reserves in the Gulf total an estimated 71 billion barrels -- 56 billion of those are in deeper waters. Before last year's storms, companies produced 1.5 million barrels a day. Barring future disruptions, it estimates at about 2 million barrels of oil a day will be produced. So while the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico make preparations for the hurricane season, so is the National Weather Service. It's got to provide vital information, even when it's right in the middle of a storm. So last October, in Key West, Florida, it opened a bunker, designed to keep operating even when Mother Nature is at its worst. CNN's John Zarrella takes us inside.", "Sloppy Joe's bar, the southernmost point in the U.S., a postcard sunset -- all are must- sees for anyone visiting Key West. And now, this...", "Ahead on the far left corner is the new location of the National Weather Service in Key West.", "The new weather service bunker has made the famed constrained tour.", "I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about hurricanes. It's become such an obsession down here, and rightfully so.", "The $5 million structure is designed to allow Matt Strahan and his staff of 21 to continue gathering data right through a category five hurricane.", "We can't even hear, for the most part, that the storm is going on outside.", "Good evening. And the launch from the corner of White Street and United is approved. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE Thank you very much. Launching in one minute.", "Roger.", "Sending up last-minute data-gathering balloons, analyzing changes in the storm. It's the kind of information that emergency managers say could save lives here in the Keys if people listen.", "And I can assure you, if they don't pay attention to this, we're going to lose thousands of people if we have a three, four or five make landfall down here.", "The bunker is made of concrete and steel. The windows are made to withstand winds of 165 miles an hour. If that's not enough, 500-pound storm shutters add protection. (", "Now, if for whatever reason, this outer area should fail, the forecasters can retreat inside here. This is the safe room. The walls are 13 inches thick, poured concrete, steel reinforced. The door weighs 450 pounds. It opens to the inside so that it can't be blocked by debris. The entire room is designed to withstand winds of 255 miles an hour. (", "On one wall are pictures drawn by schoolchildren who went through Hurricane Wilma last October. One child wrote, my house had two feet of water. My room was destroyed. Another said, Wilma destroyed everything. But Wilma wasn't the big one. Forecasters say if the big one does hit, though, they'll be here.", "The forecast for the lower and middle keys, including Key West in Marathon.", "Tracking the storm, even if they're in the middle of it. John Zarrella, CNN, Key West.", "Well, if anyone were to adhere to federal safety standards, you'd think it would be the federal government. Just ask folks living in those infamous FEMA trailers. Turns out that some of the people who got them have also been getting sick from them. We'll tell you why. Plus, this weekend's mining tragedy was exactly the kind that talking heads and politicians vowed wouldn't happen. We'll look at why it happened again. Also, step into the real world of Opus Dei. In the \"The Da Vinci Code,\" the religious groups is painted as powerful and corrupt. We'll meet some real-life members, and can you judge for yourself, when 360 continues."], "speaker": ["ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST (voice-over)", "MAX MAYFIELD, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER", "MARCIANO", "DAVID PAULISON, ACTING DIRECTOR, FEMA", "MARCIANO", "MAYFIELD", "MARCIANO", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "SUSAN ROESGEN, CNN GULF COAST CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ELLEN SCHULLY, HOMEOWNER", "ROESGEN", "SCHULLY", "ROESGEN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROESGEN", "RAY NAGIN, MAYOR, NEW ORLEANS", "ROESGEN", "SCHULLY", "COOPER", "RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GREG GUIDRY, SHELL OIL", "KAYE (voice-over)", "GUIDRY", "KAYE", "GUIDRY", "KAYE", "COOPER", "KAYE (on camera)", "COOPER", "JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ZARRELLA", "MATT STRAHAN, METEOROLOGIST-IN-CHARGE", "ZARRELLA", "JOHN RIZZO, METEOROLOGIST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ZARRELLA", "BILLY WAGNER, MONROE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGER", "ZARRELLA", "On camera)", "Voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ZARRELLA", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "NPR-33816", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2011-02-10", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/02/10/133660792/White-House-Reaction-To-Unrest-In-Egypt", "title": "White House Reaction To Unrest In Egypt", "summary": "Host Melissa Block speaks to NPR National Political Correspondent Mara Liasson for the latest White House reaction to the ongoing protests in Egypt.", "utt": ["NPR's Mara Liasson joins me now. And, Mara, we also had a written statement from President Obama later today. He said it's not clear that the transition of authority in Egypt is immediate, meaningful, or sufficient. What else did the president have to say in that statement?", "The president was briefed on the situation all day. He was on Air Force One when he watched President Mubarak's speech. But he has less influence than I think the White House would like to affect events there.", "And we are left with the impression, Mara, that the Obama administration was blindsided here, got at least its signals crossed about what was going to happen today in Egypt.", "President Mubarak has proven to be a lot more stubborn and unmovable than anyone thought. But the president has been struggling to strike the right balance here. He says that change has to happen immediately, he wants this to happen now. But he has stopped short of saying that President Mubarak himself must go at any specific time.", "This has been just an extraordinary two and a half weeks, watching these protests in Egypt. There's been concern - the president has expressed concern privately that his intelligence was not up to speed on what was going to happen, that they were caught off guard. What's your sense now?", "But the president is frustrated. These events have been unfolding live, he's had to scramble to catch up. They happen in real time and he hasn't been able to anticipate them or get ahead of them.", "NPR's Mara Liasson, thank you.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "MARA LIASSON", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "MARA LIASSON", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "MARA LIASSON", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "MARA LIASSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-365985", "program": "CNN RIGHT NOW", "date": "2019-04-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/01/crn.02.html", "summary": "Sen. Ben Cardin (D) of Maryland Discusses Democrats' Request for Full Mueller Report, Trump's Threat to Close Border, Cutting Aid to Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador.", "utt": ["A top Democrats is raising the stakes in the fight to see the full Mueller report. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Jerry Nadler, is preparing a subpoena for the full unredacted report. The move comes one day before the deadline set by Democrats for the attorney general to provide the report to Congress. Democratic Senator Ben Cardin, of Maryland, is with me now. And, Senator, what do you make of Chairman Nadler's threat?", "Dana, first, it's good to be with you. It's important the report is released not just to Congress but the American people. We need to understand exactly how these conclusions were reached in regard to collusion and obstruction of justice. It's important also in defending our country against further attacks from Russia on our election system and other democratic institutions. It's incumbent upon Mr. Barr to get this report to Congress as quickly as possible.", "But, Senator, the attorney general has said he expects to make a redacted version of the report public by mid-April. In a couple weeks, if not sooner. So are the Democrats pushing a little bit too hard here given the political situation or is it for political reasons?", "Well, as you know, we have a summary of the report almost immediately upon it being presented to the attorney general. It's important that this report be released as quickly as possible. We certainly understand there may be certain sections, such as grand jury testimony or dealing with individuals that are not public officials that were not indicted, that type of information we understand being redacted.", "Right.", "But we are concerned that the principle information is made available to Congress.", "But is preparing a subpoena and announcing it, when the attorney general says it's already going to come in a couple weeks, jumping the gun on the Democrat's part?", "Well, you know, it takes time for a subpoena to be executed and issued, et cetera. If we wait a couple weeks and there's a couple more weeks and a couple more weeks and a couple more weeks -- it's important this report be released as quickly as possible. And I hope we can reach an agreement with the attorney general for the release of the report as soon as possible.", "Maybe it's a negotiating tactic?", "I think the bottom line is that it's important that the report be released.", "OK.", "We don't want to release a month from now. We don't want to release two months from now. It's important that the report get released.", "OK. I want to quickly turn to what's happening at the southern border and the president's threat to close the southern border. Also his decision to cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The administration says those countries could do more to ease what is a humanitarian crisis at the border. What do you think about the approach and, more importantly, how should he handle it differently?", "Cutting off aid to the countries of the northern triangle in Central America is against our national security interests. Our aid is helping that country develop stability to deal with their gang violence and drug trafficking. It's in our national security interests to improve the conditions in the countries so there will be less individuals who will be tempted to leave to come to our country. It's counterproductive for us to cut off the aid. And closing the border, that makes no sense at all. We need Mexico's cooperation to work with us and cutting off the border tells Mexico we're doing it alone.", "OK, but, I mean, we only have unfortunately thirty- seconds left, but can you, in a nutshell, say what he should do given the fact that he is pointing to a humanitarian crisis?", "Work with Congress and let's enact comprehensive immigration reform. The Senate passed that several years ago. You now have a House that's prepared to take up comprehensive immigration reform. If the president wants to get the immigration system the way it should be, work with us for comprehensive immigration reform and stop doing these types of activities that just turns our neighbors against us.", "I like the fact that you are still optimistic about the notion of bipartisanship on something as tough as immigration. Senator Cardin, thank you so much for joining me. I appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "And much more on this as we go live to the border coming up. Plus, new surveillance video includes from the night of the disappearance of a student who was killed after getting in a car she thought was her Uber. Brooke Baldwin is next."], "speaker": ["BASH", "SEN. BEN CARDIN, (D), MARYLAND", "BASH", "CARDIN", "BASH", "CARDIN", "BASH", "CARDIN", "BASH", "CARDIN", "BASH", "CARDIN", "BASH", "CARDIN", "BASH", "CARDIN", "BASH", "CARDIN", "BASH"]}
{"id": "CNN-339134", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2018-05-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/03/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Giuliani: North Korea to Release U.S. Prisoners, White House Can't Confirm; Sources: Trump Legal Team, White House Blindsided By Giuliani Bombshells; Sanders Learned About Trump Repaying Hush Money Last Night.", "utt": ["-- surprise if it were going to happen, because obviously the North Koreans want to have something like this before that crucial summit. Brianna?", "Paula Hancocks, thank you so much. I'm Brianna Keilar, and thank you for watching. Erin Burnett OUTFRONT starts now.", "OUTFRONT next, Trump and Giuliani going it alone, blindsiding the White House staff and legal team. Plus, Sarah Sanders unable to answer basic questions, admitting she's in the dark. Does the White House press secretary have any credibility left? Plus, Giuliani touting the release of three Americans held by North Korea. Except for they weren't released. Why is the president's personal attorney breaking national security news? Let's go OUTFRONT. And good evening, I'm Erin Burnett. OUTFRONT tonight, blindsided. That's how President Trump's legal team says they're feeling tonight. Thanks to Rudy Giuliani's 24-hour media blitz starting with the bombshell that President Trump paid Michael Cohen back the Stormy Daniels hush money.", "Funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it.", "Oh, I didn't know that. He did? He fired Comey because Comey would not, among other things, say that he wasn't a target of the investigation. We got Kim Jong-un impressed enough to be releasing three prisoners today. Jared is a fine man. You know that. But men are, you know, disposable. But a fine woman like Ivanka? Come on.", "Each one of those statements leaving a trail of chaos on the president's own team. For example, the president, of course, said not even one month ago that he did not know about the Stormy Daniels' payment. And those American hostages? The White House says it can't confirm they're being freed today. CNN is learning members of Trump's legal team are angry tonight, saying Giuliani was not prepared, winging it was the word they used. In fact, the president's press secretary was even at a loss. The best she could do, refer questions back to Giuliani.", "I'm not part of the legal team and wouldn't be part of those discussions. I would refer you back to the statements, pretty lengthy statements, made by Giuliani, both last night and this morning.", "OK. Well, Giuliani's explosive comments made front page headlines across this country and across the globe. And Sanders was actually being diplomatic. One White House aide said Giuliani's interview stunned and shocked Trump's communications staff too of which of course she is the leader. Imagine how you'd feel if you were the president's spokesperson, and you had to go on camera, in front of the world, and admit this.", "When did you specifically know that the president repaid Mr. Cohen for the $130,000? You personally?", "The first awareness I had was during the interview last night.", "OK. I mean, just think about that for a second. It certainly seems like her boss, President Donald Trump, has not been telling her or the American public the full story. But let's just play the president's own words on Air Force One. This is April 5th.", "Did you know about the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels?", "No.", "Then why did Michael Cohen make those if there was no truth to her allegations?", "You'll have to ask Michael Cohen. Michael is my attorney. And you'll have to ask Michael.", "Do you know where he got the money to make that payment?", "No. I don't know.", "So, is Giuliani saying Trump repaid his lawyer, a $130,000 to pay off a porn star, and didn't know about it? No wonder there's chaos and anger at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue tonight. Jeff Zeleny is OUTFRONT live at the White House. And Jeff, people inside the White House had no heads-up at all on what Giuliani was about to do. I mean, the president's own press secretary having to admit today she had no clue any of this even happened until Rudy Giuliani said it on Fox News last night.", "Erin, that was shocking. But I will tell you, not surprising. After what is this, 15 months or so of covering this administration, this White House, a pattern has emerged. The president sets the tone here, he tells his staff what he wants to tell them. So the press secretary has come out before us many, many times saying things she says are true at the moment, they turn out not to be true. But there is little question, based on a day long of conversations here with people, they were legitimately shocked by what Rudy Giuliani was doing last night. And if there's a credibility crisis, which one could argue there certainly is, that is rooted in the Oval Office. It's not a problem of the press secretary, it's certainly hers to deal with. But the reality here, Erin, is this. There were two things going on today. There was the political fight going on, that's what Rudy Giuliani was leading. That is the arena he is sharp and good in. The legal fight, it seems to me, will have to sort of be on the back burner for a touch. But the question is, as we leave, did the legal fight get complicated by pushing for the political fight here? But one thing is clear --", "Yes.", "-- the White House press shop, the people we see as the face of this White House, they knew nothing about what was going to happen last night, Erin.", "All right, thank you very much, Jeff Zeleny. I mean, it's just -- I'm sorry, I can't get over this. I mean, just to have at least the respect for your own press secretary, who's in charge of convincing the rest of the world that they believe in you, so everyone else should. The first I found out about it was last night during the interview. I can't get over it. OUTFRONT now, Paul Ryan, vice president for policy and litigation at the watchdog group Common Cause, which filed the complaint with the FEC, the Federal Election Commission, and the Justice Department about Cohen's payment to Stormy Daniels. Gloria Borger, our chief political analyst, and Harry Sandick, former assistant U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York. Gloria, I want to start with your reporting, blindsided. The brand- new White House legal team, let's just emphasize this, brand-new, all these new heavy hitters, you got all these people in there were ready to go and they're blindsided and angry.", "Well, they are. And, you know, my colleagues, Pamela Brown, Evan Perez, and I have been reporting this all day. And what we're hearing is words like, blindsided. The president threw a grenade into all of this. That Giuliani was winging it. And that, you know, Giuliani has said that he spoke with the president about this, and as we've said all along, the president is his chief legal strategist --", "Yes.", "-- so maybe they concocted this together. But it might have been nice for them to talk to the rest of the legal team about whether he ought to be doing this. Because their sense of Giuliani, from speaking to them today is that, he's the guy who ought to be out there delivering the message they need to deliver. Which is, the president's being treated unfairly --", "Yes.", "-- Comey doesn't tell the truth, the Department of Justice needs to start dealing with Congress, and needs to start cooperating, and the president won't testify unless these questions are fair, et cetera. All of that. Instead, what he did was he started talking about Stormy Daniels. He raises an issue nobody wanted to talk about. And oh, by the way, in doing that, he contradicted what the president himself has said. So he created more headaches for this new legal team, not less.", "And, you know, Harry, you're a lawyer, so let's just talk about this, right.", "Yes.", "You've got these legal advisers in there, they're blindsided, they're angry. You heard Gloria saying grenade was the word that one of them used. Emmet Flood, powerhouse attorney who represented Clinton on impeachment joined this team yesterday.", "Right.", "And everybody said this is a game changer, you've got this guy on here. Are people like that going to want to stay on this team? I mean, how damaging is this for this new team?", "I think it's damaging, and I think it's something that has to be worked out quickly. The lawyers have to get into a room together, and they have to make clear that no one's going to throw any grenades until there's a decision that a grenade needs to be thrown. The president intro -- the president's lawyer, Giuliani, introduced all sorts of doubt about what happened with Cohen, about what the real reason for firing Jim Comey was. There was no need to talk about any of that.", "Right. All of those things, which we played several of them, you know, were completely unnecessary in the context of what at least the legal team thought they wanted out there, Paul. And I want to turn to more of what Giuliani said. Of course we remember Trump denied knowing about the payment made to Stormy Daniels. Let me just play that again because it wasn't even one month ago. Here's the operative question.", "Do you know about the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels?", "No, no.", "OK, that's the two-word answer, \"no, no.\" So, here's what Giuliani said last night, Paul, about the payment.", "The president repaid it.", "Oh, I didn't know that. He did?", "Yes.", "There's no campaign finance law.", "Zero.", "So the president --", "Just like every -- Sean --", "So this decision was made by --", "Everybody was nervous about this from the very beginning. I wasn't. I knew how much money Donald Trump put into that campaign, and I said, $130,000? He could do a couple of checks for $130,000. When I heard of Cohen's retainer of $135,000, when he was doing no work for the president. I said, well, that's how he's repaying -- that's how he's repaying it with a little profit and a little margin for paying taxes.", "All right, so Paul, Giuliani seems to be saying, right, and you got to read between the lines. But what it seems he's saying is, yes, Trump paid him back but Trump did might not have even known he was repaying Cohen, right. He's paying this retainer, it's going to nothing, I have this great idea, let's apply it towards that porn star, we're done with this. Does it matter if the president did not know that he was repaying Cohen?", "It matters. It doesn't change common cause's allegations that there was an illegal contribution from Cohen to the Trump campaign, and that the Trump campaign violated campaign finance law by failing to disclose this. But I'm going to back up a step.", "Yes.", "I cannot believe that Donald Trump at some point didn't become aware, didn't know about this payment to Stormy Daniels. And it was at that point that he had a legal obligation to have his political campaign amend their disclosure reports and report this political expenditure. You know, Rudy Giuliani gave America evidence that the president committed a crime. We don't know the timing of the crime, but I cannot imagine he didn't know at some point that Michael Cohen had made this payment on his behalf.", "Now, of course, Harry, he's saying he didn't know, right? He went on Twitter today and said this sort of thing happens all the time with celebrities, they're wrongly accused, you paid -- you know, have this happens, so it's a -- don't worry about it, there's nothing to see here. He also tweeted, \"Mr. Cohen, an attorney, received a monthly retainer, not from the campaign, and having nothing to do with the campaign, from which he entered into through reimbursement a private contract between two parties known as a nondisclosure agreement or NDA. \"By the way, I just want to make it clear, it's obvious Mr. Trump did not write this tweet, a lawyer did.", "It doesn't sound like him.", "OK. But Trump -- Trump on his Twitter account is saying the repayment had nothing to do with the campaign. Is it possible? Do you accept that?", "The timing of it makes it very hard to accept that. And in fact, one of the other things that Rudy Giuliani said last night was he stressed that this payment was made, thank goodness Michael made it, it was right during the heat of the campaign, he did the right thing to make the payment, drawing the connection between the payment and the campaign that would make it a FEC violation and against the law.", "Now Gloria, Michael Cohen, of course, said in a statement, this was back in February, \"I used my own personal funds to facilitate a payment of $130,000 to Ms. Stephanie Clifford\", that's Stormy Daniels. \"Neither the Trump Org or the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction, and neither reimbursed me for the payment directly or indirectly.\" Now this would appear to be very confusing, right? Because obviously now they're saying he got -- he was repaid. So, you know, the Washington Post -- then Giuliani goes to the Washington Post today as part of his 24-hour media blitz, Gloria, and he says -- when asked when the president was told about the payments, Giuliani says, he wasn't, since it was somewhere 10 and five days before the election. \"He wasn't told. Even if he was told, he wouldn't have remembered it, like I wouldn't have remembered it.\" I mean, there's so much in here, Gloria but could we start this.", "Well --", "Is it serious? He couldn't have remembered that someone's like, hey, I just paid $130,000 to this porn star --", "No!", "-- for you?", "Of course. Of course he -- it's hard for me to believe that he wouldn't have remembered it. Donald Trump has a pretty good memory, as we know --", "Yes.", "-- and as he tells us. And, you know, I think Michael Cohen has made the case that he paid this out of his own funds, that he had to take out a loan --", "Right.", "-- to repay this. And what Rudy Giuliani is saying is that, no, this was part of some retainer that Michael Cohen was on, and that's how this got paid. So in a way, you know, Rudy Giuliani, if I were on Cohen's legal team, I'd be calling Rudy Giuliani today and saying, what are you talking about here? Because they have a client who's been very specific about how he repaid this. And it seems to me, like Rudy Giuliani, who by the way just joined the legal team, maybe he's not up to speed on everything that's been going on the last month or six weeks.", "Yes.", "But these two legal teams ought to be singing from the same song book, I would think.", "Right. And of course -- I mean, it would seem to me that you're going to have an issue with Michael Cohen being like, what do you mean, I deserve my retainer. That's separate. You owe me a $135,000 on top of it.", "Of course, you know.", "I mean, that's a shock if that is the case.", "Of course.", "Paul, you know, the point though when he says -- Rudy Giuliani says, even if the president was told, he wouldn't have remembered it. The only way this makes sense is if this was the sort of thing, and the sort of person, description of a person, to whom the president regularly would have heard that payments were being made to, hush payments, right? Would that change things though? You know, if this happened all the time, maybe the fact that it happened a few days before the election was just, you know, coincidence or circumstance if it happened all the time?", "It wasn't coincidence or circumstance. The timing matters. Also the motive matters. We know that Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, she was talking to major national media outlets about going public with her story, and Rudy Giuliani said on Fox and Friends this morning, imagine if this story came out on October 15th. This was all about the election. It's obvious. And that the real problem here is the cover-up. Donald Trump could have made this payment without violating any campaign finance laws. It's permissible for him to have spent --", "Right.", "-- as much of his own money as he wanted to, to influence the election. He just had to do it transparently. Because Americans have a right to know who's spending money to influence their vote on election day.", "Yes. And of course, who knows how all this would played out. But, you know, if no one cared about the \"Access Hollywood\" tape, maybe they wouldn't have cared about this and made to do all of the", "We give the very best information that we have at the time. Again, we give the best information possible at the time.", "But look, she didn't know about the payment until last night, well, we all knew about it so maybe she doesn't have any information. Plus, Giuliani warning Bob Mueller tonight, don't go after Ivanka. But her husband? Disposable. And confusion tonight, over the fate of three Americans being held by North Korea. Giuliani says they were released today. But where are they? Former CIA director Michael Hayden is my guest."], "speaker": ["PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR", "RUDY GIULIANI, TRUMP PERSONAL LAWYER", "SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS HOST", "BURNETT", "SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "BURNETT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SANDERS", "BURNETT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TRUMP", "BURNETT", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BURNETT", "ZELENY", "BURNETT", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST", "BURNETT", "BORGER", "BURNETT", "BORGER", "BURNETT", "HARRY SANDICK, FORMER ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK", "BURNETT", "SANDICK", "BURNETT", "SANDICK", "BURNETT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TRUMP", "BURNETT", "GIULIANI", "HANNITY", "GIULIANI", "HANNITY", "GIULIANI", "HANNITY", "GIULIANI", "HANNITY", "GIULIANI", "BURNETT", "PAUL RYAN, VICE PRESIDENT FOR POLICY AND LITIGATION, COMMON CAUSE", "BURNETT", "P. 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{"id": "CNN-86942", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2004-8-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/09/ltm.04.html", "summary": "Pakistan Claims Sting Operation Compromised After U.S. Prematurely Released Name of Terrorist Operative", "utt": ["Are you kidding me? Look at that blue sky. This is a Willie Nelson kind of day. I say that when Soledad is here; it's a blue-sky kind of day.", "Just for Soledad?", "Well, no, I say it for you, Daryn.", "Thank you. I just checked in with her. She's doing fine.", "Yes, is she?", "She's doing good. She's hanging in there.", "She's resting?", "We trade e-mail because she's bored.", "Yes. Can we say she's days away, or not?", "Hopefully not.", "Yes?", "I mean, she's trying to stretch it.", "Oh, I see.", "Yes, literally.", "This is Daryn Kagan, working for Soledad. Now you're updated on everything that's going on around here. Great to have you here in New York.", "Good to be here.", "Coming up in the next 30 minutes here, some of the latest news, the arrest of the two men in Albany, New York, accused of helping terrorists. The story broke on Thursday of last week. They were caught in a government sting, we're told. We'll talk to a lawyer for one of the men who say this was just a case of entrapment, so that's coming up in a few moments here.", "Also we are \"Paging Dr. Gupta\" -- soy has been a super food and a cure-all. It's been called that, at least. Dr. Gupta now has a little reality check for us, and that is coming up. Meanwhile, though, want to check in on Pakistan. It claims it has a sting operation that was compromised after the U.S. prematurely released the name of a terrorist operative. Pakistan is reportedly worried that al Qaeda might retaliate. Our Maria Ressa reports from Islamabad.", "Over the weekend, another al Qaeda operative was arrested in Dubai and sent to Pakistan, part of an ongoing global crackdown which led to increased security in the U.S. and U.K. It was spurred by a treasure-trove of information discovered after the July 13 arrest of computer expert Naeem Noor Khan. Authorities here said he was working with them as a mole to help track down other al Qaeda operatives around the world, compromised after the U.S. prematurely released its name last week.", "Haider, the Pakistani interior minister, actually said --maybe -- of Khan's name -- if it hadn't been released it might have led to getting bin Laden himself.", "But U.S. officials say they had a duty to warn about possible pre-election plots against the", "The problem is that when you're trying to strike a balance between giving enough information to the public so that they know that you're dealing with a specific, credible, different kind of threat than you've dealt with in the past, you're always weighing that against kind of operational considerations.", "There are other irritants to the Pakistanis. Last week, a U.S. official warned of possible al Qaeda training camps in Pakistan, a charge officials here vehemently deny.", "This is a", "Since 9/11, Pakistan says it's doing all it can in the war on terror, including sending its armed forces into the tribal areas for the first time ever to hunt for al Qaeda. Pakistan says it has arrested nearly 600 al Qaeda members. Now al Qaeda is striking back with increased bombings and targeted attacks. Two assassination attempts against Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf and just two weeks ago, a suicide bombing attack against its prime minister designate. Though questioning our commitment, now says Pakistan, even as it asked its cabinet ministers to cut down public appearances while this crackdown continues, anticipating what al Qaeda can do when its further pushed against the wall. Maria Ressa, CNN, Islamabad.", "The U.S. maintains that it did the correct thing in alerting the public about the name and potential terrorist plots as the 9/11 Commission report warns. Al Qaeda is looking to inflict catastrophic damage in the country.", "About 26 minutes now before the hour. Two leaders of an Albany, New York mosque were arrested last week in a government sting operation. They were charged in a plot to buy a grenade launcher to be used to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat. One of the men charged is Yassin Aref, reportedly listed as, quote, the commander in a book left behind at a vacated terrorist training camp in the country of Iraq. Terry Kindlon is the attorney for Yassin Aref.", "Why do you believe this was entrapment, sir?", "This so-called crime was entirely the creation of the imagination of the FBI and an undercover informant. There is no actual crime here. What happened was that this fantastical story was made up -- it was told to, I think, two very unsuspecting individuals and they were tricked into believing that something was happening that in fact wasn't happening.", "What explains then why your client was listed as commander in this terrorist training camp, a book that was found in a camp in Iraq?", "Well, you know, that's an interesting question. I've heard this and the source of that information is said to be an -- an unidentified confidential government source who leaked it to the \"New York Post\" or somebody. I really would like very much to see the document that they're talking about. My experience with the government is that when it's holding all the cards, and it's holding them close to its chest and saying to you I have here a card that says such and such the best response for me is to be as skeptical as possible. I'd like to see what it is that they've got and see what it is they're talking about. It -- certainly it could be almost anything.", "The governor of New York, George Pataki was with us on Friday. Here's how he talked about the case at this point then.", "I'm not a criminal lawyer but I think the answer is very simple. If someone comes to you and says he's a terrorist operative and he needs you to illegally get him tens of thousands of dollars so he can buy a shoulder-fired missile to kill the Pakistani ambassador, how are you going to react? If your reaction would be -- I mean, I think 99 out of 100 at least people would say this is a criminal act. They'd either turn the person in or they'd certainly say no.", "That's what the governor said on Friday. How do you respond to that?", "Well, first of all, I deeply resent the governor sticking his nose into a pending criminal case. He has no business doing that. He is maybe not a criminal lawyer but he certainly is a lawyer and he should know better than to use his position as the executive of the state of New York to try to influence a case. I think that he was incorrect in doing that and also just to be bipartisan about this, Charles Schumer weighed in and he had some negative things to say as well. They should know well enough to wait for the process to run its course. You know, this is a marvelous, magnificent criminal justice system that we've got and I'm confident that in the fullness of time it's going to exonerate both of these men but to have interference from people in elective office -- it really does everybody a disservice.", "You met with your client the end of last week. Your impressions of him are what?", "He seems like a really nice guy to me. He's a family man; he is a refugee in this country. You know, he grew up in Kurdistan, which is in northern Iraq. He fled there to Syria. Studied comparative religion while he was in that country. Married, became the father of three children to whom he's very devoted and then finally secured refugee status and was privileged to leave Syria and to immigrate to this country and when he got here through a process of church activity he was sent to Albany, New York and here he's established himself as an imam at the local mosque.", "Again, Terry Kindlon earlier today, the attorney for Aref. If convicted, 70 years in prison he could face and a $750,000. Now Daryn with more.", "We are just about at 38 past the hour, time for a look at some of today's other news. Carol Costello handling that -- hi, Carol.", "Hi, Daryn -- thank you. Ohio police are searching for a 15-year-old Ethiopian girl who was missing after competing in the International Children's Games. Aden Alemu disappeared from her sponsoring family's home on Saturday. Family members say they overheard the young girl talking on the phone about defecting to the United States. Police believe she may have been heading to Atlanta. And in California, the search for 9-year-old David Gonzales, missing for more than a week in the San Bernardino Mountains is over. Authorities reluctantly called off the search Sunday after hundreds of deputies and volunteers failed to turn up any trace of the boy. He disappeared during a family camping trip. Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader says he'll keep trying to get on California's ballot. Officials said Nader fell short of the 153,000 signatures needed to get his name before the state voters in November. His campaign spokesman says Nader may try to run on the Green Ticket, even though the party has already chosen a candidate. And finally, it's not the hanging chads that are worrying some federal election officials come November; it's the elderly poll workers. According to U.S. election officials, cited in \"U.S.A. Today,\" the average age of a U.S. poll worker is 72. The commission wants to minimize voting glitches this November by issuing an online tool kit and recruiting and training new volunteers. Back to you, Daryn.", "All right, Carol, thank you for that.", "Still ahead on AMERICAN MORNING while you might have to postpone your home improvement plans, shortages could send cement prices through the roof. We'll tell you what it will cost you.", "Also having some soymilk on your cereal today perhaps? Soy products, the latest American obsession. Are we making too much of them, Daryn?", "We could be, perhaps.", "Sanjay has some guidance next here on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "HEMMER", "KAGAN", "HEMMER", "KAGAN", "HEMMER", "KAGAN", "HEMMER", "KAGAN", "HEMMER", "KAGAN", "HEMMER", "KAGAN", "HEMMER", "KAGAN", "HEMMER", "KAGAN", "MARIA RESSA, JAKARTA BUREAU CHIEF", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-154478", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-8-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1008/17/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Gallantry in Action: Army Awards Silver Stars for Bravery", "utt": ["Stories of true heroism now. Seven soldiers singled out by the Army for one of its highest honors. Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr has their stories from Fort Bragg, North Carolina.", "Ordinary soldiers, extraordinary men. These Special Forces troops each receiving a Silver Star here at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.", "I just did my job.", "I'm a guy who on one day in June of 2008 earned my paycheck.", "The Army begs to differ.", "For gallantry in action in Afghanistan on June 11, 2007, signed Secretary of the Army.", "They all survived deadly Taliban ambushes. All ran into fields of fire to save each other, to save other wounded Americans, and even to save Afghans. Staff Sergeant Daniel Gould and Sergeant First Class Mario Pinilla were ambushed by Taliban, who literally jumped out right in front of them.", "I got hit in the helmet, and then my helmet went flying off my head.", "Pinilla ran into the gunfire to put his body between the enemy and his friend. He was hit.", "I immediately dropped down to the ground, because I couldn't feel my legs anymore. They were numb. I dragged myself -- I was trying to look for some cover. Then he grabbed my weapon and continued to fire into the enemy.", "The army calls it gallantry in action. But for these men, an unbreakable bond from risking it all, risking it together.", "I look at Mario, not just as a friend, but this guy came to save my life and in turn, I helped save his life.", "The Chief Warrant Officer Mark Roland and Sergeant First Class Antonio Gonzalez also pinned down in an ambush, ran to save Afghan troops, trapped by heavy Taliban gunfire.", "It's the right thing to do.", "But what makes somebody repeatedly run across an open field of fire to go save other men you don't even know?", "We spent countless hours, days, weeks, into months, out on patrol with them. And so the -- the bond is not just nation to nation. But it's person to person.", "We grow so close that we build that brotherhood bond.", "Sergeant First Class Jonathon Clouse, another soldier determined to do the right thing when his patrol was ambushed. He ran repeatedly into the line of fire to drag other American troops to safety. He refuses to be called hero.", "There were guys that were dying. If I didn't run to them, they would have died. There wasn't a lot of thought at the time of the danger. It was just, they called -- guys called me, they needed me, and so I went to them.", "These highly decorated soldiers may be sent to Afghanistan for yet another tour of duty, another tour they will tell you when they are just doing their job. Barbara Starr, CNN, Fort Bragg, North Carolina", "And then there's this. A Missouri law restricting protests at military funerals has been struck down by a federal judge. The ruling is a victory for a controversial Kansas church whose members protest outside military funerals. They believe the deaths of U.S. troops are God's way of punishing the country for homosexuality. The judge ruled the state's limits on protests violates First Amendment rights. We are bringing you news from around the world, and we are also watching what's hot online. Ines Ferre is surfing the Web for us. Ines, good morning.", "Good morning, Tony. Top on CNN.com, a dispute in Italy over who owns the world's most famous statue, Michelangelo's \"David.\" You're watching CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["HARRIS", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JULIO BOCANEGRA, MASTER SERGEANT, SPECIAL FORCES/SILVER STAR RECIPIENT", "CLOUSE", "STARR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "STARR (voice-over)", "DANIEL GOULD, STAFF SERGEANT, SPECIAL FORCES/SILVER STAR RECIPIENT", "STARR", "MARIO PINILLA, SERGEANT FIRST CLASS, SPECIAL FORCES/SILVER STAR RECIPIENT", "STARR (voice-over)", "GOULD", "STARR", "ANTONIO GONZALEZ, SERGEANT FIRST CLASS, SPECIAL FORCES/SILVER STAR RECIPIENT", "STARR (on camera)", "MARK ROLAND, CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER, SPECIAL FORCES/SILVER STAR RECIPIENT", "GONZALEZ", "STARR", "CLOUSE", "STARR", "HARRIS", "INES FERRE, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-160511", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-1-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/07/cnr.06.html", "summary": "A School for the Homeless", "utt": ["Homelessness is a huge problem in California. With high unemployment, rise in foreclosures, more families are finding themselves on the streets and they are struggling to keep their kids in school. There's one school now where homeless students make up the entire student body. CNN's Thelma Gutierrez reports.", "My name is Chase Knaul. I have my mom and my little sister. This is my horrible neighborhood. My brother's wife has kicked us out of his house. This is where we came to seek shelter.", "Hi. I'm Michael Young. Some people over there, I feel very sorry for them. I'm real tired right now. Tired but I have to go to school and get an education to get a better life.", "We're in the heart of San Diego where Monarch School is located. What make this school so unique is that the entire student body is homeless. (voice-over): Sarita Fuentes is principal at Monarch.", "Historically, we have always hovered at a hundred students. And we went up to 165 students last December?", "A lot of this due, of course, to the economy.", "Yes, absolutely. And for the first time ever, our population, the face of the homeless student changed because we receive students that had actually lost their home due to foreclosure.", "How difficult was it to uproot your life to move here and then to become homeless?", "It was very hard because I had just turned 9 and I had to leave my best friend. We don't get to like see each other grow up.", "Chase, give me one.", "Monarch students are taught by credentialed teachers. They also get free tutoring to make up for any gaps in their education, and free medical and dental care, and simple things to make life better, like new shoes, a place to shower, and a laundry room to wash their clothes. (on camera): Were you treated differently by other kids when you went to the other schools?", "Kind of.", "How?", "Like teasing.", "What would they say to you?", "Like bum or something.", "Did they actually call you a bum, knowing that you were homeless?", "Yes.", "That's a terrible thing. That's very mean. How did that make you feel?", "Sad, mad.", "What did you tell them?", "Like if they were in my situation, they wouldn't be saying the same thing.", "That's my mommy. She loves me a lot. Every day we have to wake up about 5:00 in the morning and then we had to be out of here by 7:00. On the weekends, we had nowhere to go, and if it was raining, we'd just be sitting somewhere under a tree trying to keep dry.", "What do you want to do when you grow up?", "Be the president of the United States.", "You want to be the president?", "Yes.", "What do you like studying? What are you good at?", "Math, science, and handwriting.", "Those parents they came, picked up their kids, and took them home. She didn't have that.", "Do you think kids get embarrassed?", "Oh, I'm sure that they do. Oh, yes, I'm sure that they do. I know they must be.", "Did your kids ever come home?", "No, they would never say that to me. They know I was doing everything I could to try to make everything.", "Some kids for their birthday, they go to Chuck E. Cheese or something. Us, we just have like not even a birthday party. When I get older and get like a job and everything, I want to buy a house and have my mom move in with me and like I take care of her.", "What do you want with Mike?", "I'm hoping that he'll remember this and see how important it is. Like half this stuff here, I don't think I would have to go through it had I had a proper education.", "Having experienced so much loss so young, homes, friends, even family, parents say Monarch is giving their children something no one can take away.", "Monarch has given me a program. Steel bands, I really love it. They've given me a technique and talent.", "Thelma Gutierrez, CNN, San Diego.", "It's 43 minutes almost after the hour. Let me bring you up to speed on some of the developments of our top stories. After 16 years in prison, these two Mississippi sisters were released earlier today on the condition that the one on the left donate a kidney to the one on the right. Listen to this.", "We're free.", "That's them leaving prison. The state Department of Corrections says they are no longer a threat to society. The governor noted that the cost of dialysis was a substantial expense for the state. We expect to hear from the sisters at a news conference just a few minutes from now. We learn that the nation's jobless rate dropped last month to 9.4 percent. It's down from 9.8 percent in November. One hundred and three thousand new jobs were added to the economy -- that was short of expectations. For all of 2010, though, the United States added 1.1 million jobs and that's the best year for hiring since before the recession started in 2007. While any gain is good, gains like these do not keep pace with population growth, and they certainly don't replace the 8 million jobs that recession wiped out. New York City emergency workers criticized for their slow response to the recent Christmas blizzard will get a second chance to prove themselves. Another snowstorm albeit one that is a lot smaller has begun charging across the eastern states. Snow is predicted as far south as Georgia by the end of the weekend. Many Northeast airports began reporting major delays this morning, including LaGuardia, Philadelphia, and Newark. 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{"id": "CNN-371772", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-06-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/07/nday.01.html", "summary": "Biden Reverses Abortion Stance Amid Intense Criticism; Nadler & Pelosi Clash Over Trump Impeachment Inquiry; Trump Faces Deadline Today to Impose Tariffs on Mexico; U.S. Navy: Russian Destroyer Almost Collided with Cruiser; More Rain to Hit Southeastern U.S.", "utt": ["I can't justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need.", "Biden, is, in fact, going to support repealing the Hyde amendment.", "This is a clear cave to the pressure that he was getting.", "It may very well come to a formal impeachment inquiry. We will see.", "Behind the scenes, he has made multiple pitches to the House speaker. The two Democrats are at odds.", "They are more focused on undermining this president than they are to solving major problems in the United States.", "This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.", "We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is NEW DAY. It is Friday, June 7, 6 a.m. here in New York. And we begin with Democratic front- runner Joe Biden reversing his stance on federal funding for abortions. After days of criticism from his Democratic rivals and women's rights groups, the former vice president says he no longer supports the Hyde amendment, which bans the use of federal health care dollars to pay for abortions. The about-face is sure to be an issue on the campaign trail as a majority of the Democratic hopefuls head to Iowa this weekend.", "We have new developments this morning in the debate over impeachment. CNN has learned that the House judiciary chair, Jerry Nadler, is privately lobbying Speaker Nancy Pelosi to begin an impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Sources say he's offered two new arguments. Will they persuade her? Also, today is the manufactured deadline on Mexican tariffs. If the president is serious about imposing new tariffs on Mexico starting Monday to force action on immigration, he would have to sign the order today. U.S. and Mexican negotiators have been meeting. Both sides claim some progress, but so far, no deal. We have it all covered. We want to begin, though, with this huge reversal on a huge issue for Democratic voters. CNN's Arlette Saenz live in Atlanta, where Joe Biden just flipped, Arlette, on federal funding for abortion. Why?", "That's right, John. This was a major reversal for Joe Biden. This measure bans the use of federal dollars on most abortions, except in cases of rape, incest, or for the life of the mother. And it's one that Biden has supported for more than four decades. But last night here in Atlanta, as he spoke to Democrats, Biden, after he had faced swift pressure from his Democratic colleagues, decided that he is now reversing his position and is against it. Take a listen to what he had to say.", "I make no apologies for my last position and I make no apologies about what I'm about to say. I can't justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally-protected right. If I believe health care is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone's ZIP code.", "Now, over the past two days, Biden had faced intense criticism not just from his Democratic rivals, but also from abortion rights groups that had said said the former vice president was wrong in supporting this amendment. And right now, abortion is really an animating issue for many Democrats, especially as you're seeing more states try to implement legislation that creates abortion restrictions in their states. Now, while most of the Democratic field is going to descend on Iowa this weekend, Joe Biden won't be there, but he is heading to Iowa next week and, in fact, will be in the state the same day as President Trump -- Alisyn.", "OK, Arlette, very interesting. Thank you so much for that. Meanwhile, CNN has learned that House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler is privately pushing for an impeachment inquiry to begin into President Trump. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not yet buying that pitch. CNN's Lauren Fox is live on Capitol Hill with more. What have you learned, Lauren?", "Well, Alisyn, new details in closed-door meetings. We've learned that the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Jerry Nadler, has been pushing Nancy Pelosi to move forward with impeachment as sort of a way to try to coalesce the investigations that have been going on for several months now.", "House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler making his pitch to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a private meeting. Again, laying out why he believes it's time to begin an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. A source tells CNN Nadler told Pelosi the inquiry will help centralize House Democrats on growing investigations into the Trump administration and make it easier for lawmakers to discuss allegations against the president on the House floor and within committees.", "When that decision has to be made, it will be made not by any one individual. It will be made by the -- probably by the caucus as a whole. Certainly, Nancy will have the largest single voice in it. Our various committee chairmans [SIC] and rank-and-file members.", "The California Democrat explaining her reluctance earlier this week.", "When you're impeaching somebody, you want to make sure you have the strongest possible indictment. Because it's not the means to the end that people think. All you do, vote to impeachment, bye-bye, birdie. It isn't that. It's an indictment.", "According to Politico, Pelosi told her colleagues behind closed doors, \"I don't want to see him impeached. I want to see him in prison.\" President Trump firing back at Pelosi in an interview with FOX News Channel, while sitting in front of tombstones of World War II heroes in Normandy.", "I think she's a disgrace. I actually don't think she's a talented person. I've tried to be nice to her, because I would have liked to have gotten some deals done. She's incapable of doing deals. She's a nasty, vindictive, horrible person.", "In addition to the House speaker's resistance, a source telling CNN Nadler is also receiving pushback from House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, who's also a key figure in leading Trump investigations. But Pelosi's spokeswoman writing that she and committee chairs, quote, \"agree to keep all options on the table and continue to move forward with an aggressive hearing and legislative strategy,\" something Nadler told House Judiciary members in a conference call according to multiple participants, offering alternative solutions to keeping the pressure on Trump after unsuccessful negotiations with Pelosi. Nadler pledging to ramp up on growing obstruction of justice investigations into the administration, by issuing more subpoenas and holding more officials in contempt of Congress, if necessary. And this question about whether or not it is time to open up an impeach inquiry, of course, has divided Democrats for several months now, but we're starting to see a bit more pressure from leading committee chairman like Nadler. And of course, the question is how many more Democrats will come out in support of an impeachment inquiry in upcoming days or weeks -- John.", "The number has been rising day by day, but slowly and certainly not yet, a majority. Lauren Fox for us on Capitol Hill. President Trump heads back to Washington this morning, following his five-day trip to Europe. As you heard from Lauren, he faces new questions about the political attacks he hurled just feet away from gravestones of U.S. service members. He also faces a deadline if he's serious about slapping new tariffs on Mexico to force immigration -- action on immigration. If he wants the tariffs in place by Monday, he'd really have to sign the order today. CNN's Abby Phillip traveling with the president. She joins us live from Limerick in Ireland, with the very latest on this. Abby, what have you heard about the negotiations?", "Well, John, President Trump is expected to head back this morning for the United States, where he's going to face, potentially, a revolt among Republicans over his stance on tariffs. According to White House officials, the talks have been ongoing for the last two days; and they have been positive, characterized by both sides as positive. But there has been no breakthrough yet, and most officials believe that the first round of tariffs expected to go into place Monday will go into place, because they won't be able to get anything nailed down by today, which is really the deadline for President Trump to sign the order in order for those to go into effect. But President Trump is defiant this morning. He's telling Republicans that they really should love what he's doing with tariffs.", "Tariffs are a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful word, if you know how to use them properly. Republicans should love what I'm doing. Because I view tariffs in two phases. No. 1, it's great to negotiate with, because people don't want to be tariffed for coming into the United States. They don't want that. And No. 2, frankly, if they go in, you make a fortune, because all the companies are going to move back into the country.", "What has made Republicans so uncomfortable with this move from President Trump is because it's intended to deal with an unrelated issue, immigration. It's not to do with economics, really. And we may have reached a high-water mark. If President Trump does go forward with this plan, there could be enough votes in the House and the Senate to potentially block him, setting up a major fight for the president, as he goes forward, trying to put into place tariffs against Mexico and also China in the future -- Alisyn.", "We will see. Of course, he doesn't think it's unrelated, but we will talk about a lot of that in the program. Abby, thank you very much. The Trump administration insists that tariffs on Mexico are needed to slow the overwhelming flow of migrants attempting to cross into the U.S. So why has the situation at the border become so much more urgent recently? CNN's Dianne Gallagher is live in El Paso, Texas, with more. What's the situation, Dianne?", "So, Alisyn, look, we had more than 130,000 people who were apprehended by Customs and Border Protection just in the month of May. The majority of those were families and unaccompanied children. Now, here in El Paso, at least when you're looking at fiscal year comparison, we're looking at almost a 1,500 percent increase in the number of people that are being taken into custody. Now, the reason why they're coming is, of course, due in part to what's going on in those northern triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. You're talking about violence, extreme poverty, and weather conditions coupled with food and things like that. But the Republican who represents this El Paso border area -- in fact, Will Hurd, represents more border than any other representative, 800 miles worth -- says that part of these increases might be due to the Trump administration and its interpretation of asylum laws. Now, Will Hurd has created a proposal to narrow down asylum laws himself, but he says that the Trump administration is treating everyone they apprehend as if they are seeking asylum. And that's creating some of this backlog we're seeing. Both the Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services have requested emergency funding to kind of catch up with this, because there are so many women and children and families who are coming right now. We're seeing this backlog. We're seeing this overcrowding situation in shelters and in these processing centers, so much so that even the charity organizations that have been doing for this decades, like here in El Paso, they're sending them to other places, John. Now Mexico has said that they are sending 6,000 National Guardsmen to the border with Guatemala to hopefully appease President Trump and the administration when it comes to those tariffs.", "All right. Dianne Gallagher for us in El Paso. Thank you for being there and telling us what's actually going on. Appreciate it. We do have breaking news. Local media here in New York City reporting that a man has been arrested in an alleged terrorist plot. Sources tell the \"Daily News\" the man was looking into buying grenades to try to set them off in Times Square. Police then arrange an undercover operation to catch the suspect, who they believe acted alone. Officials have not yet released his name. We are told he is expected to appear in federal court in Brooklyn today.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We have just gotten this breaking news into our newsroom. The U.S. Navy tells CNN that a Russian destroyer almost collided with one of its guided cruisers in the Philippine Sea. The ships came so close together, that the Navy says they had to throw the vessel into reverse and hit the gas to avoid a crash. CNN's Fred Pleitgen is live in St. Petersburg, Russia, with all of the breaking details. What happened, Fred?", "Hi, Alisyn. Well, apparently, all this happened in the morning hours of this morning in the East China Sea, and the ship involved was the USS Chancellorsville. And apparently, what they're saying that this Russian destroyer, the Admiral Vinogradov, came at the Chancellorsville so quickly as it was trying to recover a helicopter that, indeed, the Chancellorsville had to hit full throttle reverse to try and avoid a collision. Now, the U.S. obviously extremely upset about this, calling this maneuver unprofessional. I want to read to you the statement the navy has put out. They're saying, quote, \"We consider Russia's actions during the interaction as unsafe and unprofessional and not in accordance for the international regulations for preventing collisions at sea, the rules of the road, and internationally recognized maritime customs.\" In fact, an official is telling our own Barbara Starr, Alisyn, that the U.S. is so angry and taken aback by this incident that they're actually thinking of and trying to declassify both images, as well as video of this incident to show just how dangerous this interaction was from the Russian side. Now, the Russians, for their part, are also lodging a complaint about this incident. They came out a little earlier today with a statement saying that it was the U.S. ship that they believe acted unprofessionally. They put the distance at a little bit bigger. The U.S. side is saying 50 to 100 feet. The Russians are saying it was about 50 to 100 meters. So that's a little bit of a larger distance. All of this, of course, coming as the relations between both the U.S. and Russia and the U.S. and China continue to very much deteriorate with that trade war going on between Washington and Beijing. And at the same time, right here where I am, at the St. Petersburg economic forum, the Russians and the Chinese really cozying up to one another. Vladimir Putin meeting with Xi Jinping in just a couple of minutes from now. And both of them have already said, of course, of one another that they are each other's best friend. And both of them, of course, very critical of the United States at this point -- John.", "All right. Frederick Pleitgen for us in St. Petersburg. Fred, thank you very much. I have to say, a hundred feet, a hundred meters, and it's still incredibly close for vessels of this size. And if the Russian vessel did get that close, you have to wonder what they were trying to do. It was obviously some kind of, if not a provocation, at least game playing that was very dangerous.", "Well, we just don't know if it was incompetence or intentional at this point. And as Fred said, they're trying to declassify those photos. Maybe that will reveal something. But obviously, we'll be following this story, because that is much too close for comfort. And the timing is also interesting, as Fred just pointed out, because of what's happening there in St. Petersburg.", "Generally speaking, you can't get that close by mistake, is sort of the problem, is what they're going to have to explain, the Russians.", "In 1976, Congress outlawed federal funding for most abortions. Joe Biden backed that plan, and he backed it until yesterday. Why he changed and what it means for his campaign. That's next."], "speaker": ["JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "REP. JERRY NADLER (D-NY)", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ANNOUNCER", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ARLETTE SAENZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BIDEN", "SAENZ", "CAMEROTA", "LAUREN FOX, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "FOX (voice-over)", "NADLER", "FOX", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA)", "FOX", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "FOX", "BERMAN", "ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "PHILLIP", "CAMEROTA", "DIANNE GALLAGHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "ANNOUNCER", "CAMEROTA", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "NPR-10861", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2019-04-18", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/714810730/congressional-lawmakers-continue-to-work-through-findings-of-mueller-report", "title": "Congressional Lawmakers Continue To Work Through Findings Of Mueller Report", "summary": "As the contents of the special counsel Robert Mueller's report are digested, Congress is closely reading the report to understand what happened during 2016.", "utt": ["In the studio with us now, we have NPR congressional reporter Kelsey Snell. Hey there, Kelsey.", "Hi there.", "So let's talk about what the senator just had to say. What strikes you?", "You know, I thought it was very interesting that he talked about the voters in 2020 being the ones who get to ultimately decide about this report. I think that is largely keeping in line with what we're hearing from a lot of Democrats talking about voters making a political decision, not Congress making a political decision about impeachment.", "And I think that we're going to see that message evolve over time. And it might be something really difficult for Democrats to handle among themselves, as some parts of their progressive wing push for impeachment or other, you know, very aggressive moves by Congress.", "Right, in some cases, campaigned on it.", "Yeah. That is - it has already been something that has split Democrats, and I can imagine that that will continue to happen after this report.", "We're talking with Kelsey Snell right now because we are continuing our coverage of the redacted Mueller report released today.", "Back to you, Kelsey Snell. So what are Democrats saying on the Hill as they are digesting this report? And we should say - right - we're talking a couple hundred pages, so people are theoretically still reading.", "Yes. And we are getting a lot of statements from people saying that they are still reading and that they may be withholding judgment about some parts of this. But a lot of the reaction from Democrats is more or less what we would expect. They say they have evidence and reason to keep investigating President Trump and his associates. And they say this report really bolsters that.", "One notable trend is that they are really focusing on whether or not Attorney General Barr misled them with his original characterization of the Mueller report. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler was explicit about this in a press conference in New York.", "Attorney General Barr appears to have shown an unsettling willingness to undermine his own department in order to protect President Trump. Barr's words and actions suggest he has been disingenuous and misleading in saying the president is clear of wrongdoing.", "Now, he is not alone in this either. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate, released a joint statement where they said the differences are stark between what Attorney General Barr said on obstruction and what special counsel Mueller said on obstruction. And they said that as they continue to review the report that they believe that Barr presented a conclusion that did not represent what Mueller found. And they're giving a really strong impression that they're going to take a hard-line tack.", "But again, they're not talking about impeachment. They're not talking about specific steps. So it's really not clear yet how this is going to manifest.", "Republicans were largely pleased with the summary that the attorney general released a few weeks ago. I assume that the report didn't really change much of that for them today.", "Right. And they also fall into this two camps of saying - some people saying that they are still reading it and then a group of people who are responding in the way that we would expect from Republicans. The ones who are speaking up are defending the president. There - some are saying that he's been fully vindicated.", "And they focus primarily on the question of whether or not there was collusion with the Russians. Take Steve Scalise, who's the Republican whip in the House. He says Democrats owe the American people an apology. He says there was no collusion and no obstruction and referred to what Democrats have done over the past couple years as a smear campaign.", "We also heard from Kevin McCarthy, who's Republican leader in the House. And he says nothing has - changes, that this is exactly what they had expected out of the Mueller report for the past 22 months.", "Just to go back to something we heard a little bit from the senator earlier. I mean, Democrats have been very focused on the question of obstruction by the president. And as we've been talking about, Mueller doesn't offer an official judgment on the report, leaves it to Congress to come to its conclusion. What does this mean for Democrats, particularly in the House, if they are, as you're saying, hinting that they're not talking about impeachment in as strong terms?", "Right. Yeah. This is the kind of fodder Democrats really did need to move forward. They needed to be able to point to some sort of evidence that says, yes, there are unfounded or undecided parts of this. And it specifically says investigators wanted to preserve and maintain evidence and - for testimony in future prosecution or congressional action, and that sets up those next steps.", "How likely are they to get that information?", "That part is yet to be seen. They really are going to keep pushing for that. And we've already heard some talk of subpoenas or other ways that they could go about getting the information. We do know that they want Attorney General Barr to come testify. He'll be in front of Congress in May. And they're asking for Mueller to appear before the end of May. So we have a couple of weeks ahead of us between - you know, between now and then, we'll see what the administration and what DOJ is willing to produce for those requests.", "That's NPR congressional reporter Kelsey Snell. Kelsey, thanks for your reporting.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "JERRY NADLER", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-263830", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-09-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/05/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Officials Confirm Part Is From Missing Plane", "utt": ["French investigators made it official a piece of a plane that was found on an island in the Indian Ocean is from the Malaysia missing airline. The Paris prosecutor said that a part of the airplane wing that's called a flaperon found in July is from MH370. Shortly after the part was found, Malaysian officials also said they believed it was from the plane. I want to bring in Mary Schiavo. She is a CNN aviation analyst and a former inspector general at the U.S. Department of Transportation. After this part was found on the shore we had Malaysian officials weighing in. It took the French a number of weeks to finally come forward and apparently talked to Spanish investigators they were brought in. And they have now determined it is from the aircraft, which I think we all actually almost believed with certainty that they can say so now apparently through documents. Let me ask you this, Mary, I'm confused. Who is in charge of figuring out what happened to this plane?", "Martin, that is an excellent question because who is in charge is technically the Malaysian officials. They delegated the responsibility to search to Australians and people have been happy with their diligence and efforts. But when the part washed up on the shore of French territory then the French claimed they had authority to get into the investigation. They could have referred the part back and allow the investigation to remain with those already involved in the investigation. But they used the fact that there were four citizens on board to then take control of at least this part of the investigation. They do have the right to do that. But it also means there are way too many cooks in this stew.", "It seems that way. Let's look at the flaperon itself. Does it give us any clues or tell us anything as to what may have happened?", "Well, the answer is it can. I know it sounds a real legalese answer. It can. They did put the fiber optic inside the piece of the part and determined the serial numbers. That could have been done almost immediately. That equipment is on hand at almost every aviation crash investigation lab, but they finally confirmed that. At this point having confirmed it, now the really hard science can take over. They have a lot of places they can look for clues just on that small flaperon, the marine life to identify if it's possible what part of the Indian Ocean it really was in for so many months, for a year and a half. They can look at that part with now testing, they can look for any patterns of scratches or things that might have happened to it on its way down or in the crash sequence they can analyze it for explosives, fire, et cetera and they really will have to comb every square micron of it because it's all that they have.", "The fact that the flaperon is the only piece we know of so far does that suggest to you any kind of scenario?", "Well, it can. Again, I hate to hedge my words so carefully, but you know, because the flaperon is a part that could have become detached in the crash sequence as it was coming to earth, there could have been a lot of stresses put on it. And it had an air wings directive, a warning that the attachment points on this particular flaperon were weak. It was attached with an actuator assembly and in the United States, it had to be replaced. Those laws don't apply to Malaysia. It could have come off in that way. They will be able to analyze that better. Trailing edge was very beat up. That could have happened in the ocean and washing back and forth on the shore. The attachment points could give it a clue to see if it came off as it was crashing to the earth.", "Some have suggested the fact that you have this relatively large piece, over 6 feet it was a soft landing on water not necessarily survivable. Do you buy into that?", "Not necessarily, no. I think if they look and once they start doing this and remember the French investigations can be very slow, the BEA is well qualified, but some of their investigations take three years, ten years. The concord investigation took about ten years before it was finally went to court. So it can be a long haul, but the attachment points might be the clue as to what they find, if they can find anything left, any evidence left after this long in the water. And also if they are fortunate enough to find anything else amiss on that part any kind of residue at hall, pitting, burning, scorching that might help as well.", "Mary Schiavo, I can talk to you all day about this. Unfortunately they won't let me. Thank you. We'll continue another time. Drama and suspense during the U.S. Open, we're talking about another flying object this time a drone that disrupts a tennis match. But would you believe this isn't the first time a drone got too close to a major sporting event?"], "speaker": ["SAVIDGE", "MARY SCHIAVO, CNN AVIATION ANALYST", "SAVIDGE", "SCHIAVO", "SAVIDGE", "SCHIAVO", "SAVIDGE", "SCHIAVO", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "CNN-262527", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2015-08-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/20/ath.02.html", "summary": "Trump, Bush Attack Each Other in Dueling Town Halls", "utt": ["Jeb Bush and front-runner Donald Trump turning into Frazer and Ali in the race. Jeb Bush on the ropes, but now punching back. Listen to an excerpt of the thrilla in New Hampshire.", "He's very low energy.", "Mr. Trump doesn't have a proven conservative record. He was a Democrat longer in the last decade than he was a Republican.", "Do you know what's happening to Jeb's crowd right down the street? They're sleeping. He was supposed to do well in New Hampshire. He's going down like a rock.", "Look, Mr. Trump has clearly got talent. There's no denying that. But when people look at his record, it is not a conservative record. Even on immigration where it's -- you know, look, the language is pretty vitriolic for sure.", "The only thing constant is Trump. All of them change on the bottom. They're going up and down like yo-yos.", "The thrilla in New Hampshire. Dueling town halls last night. Let's bring in CNN political commentators, Dan Pfeiffer and Ana Navarro. Dan is a former adviser to the president. Ana is a good friend of Marco Rubio, but a big-time to Jeb Bush supporter, and a big-time Floridian. Ana, let me show you a new poll out of Florida right now where Donald Trump is leading Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, in a poll right now. Tell me, Ana, do you think it's a good idea for Jeb to be punching back at Donald Trump?", "I think it's great. I almost want to get up and dance. Hallelujah. You know, it's finally happened. Look, Trump is running against 16 other people but the way he's focused on Jeb, you would think he's only runs against Jeb Bush. If you want to make it a hand-to-hand combat between Bush and Trump, I couldn't think of a more stark choice for voters to have. I hope they go at it at the debate. People aren't going to need to say Jeb needs to bring in the energy. I want him to show that same energy and continue making a contrast between his record and Donald Trump's record. So I think this is good for Donald Trump. I think it's good for Jeb Bush, and I think it's good for voters because they get to see the contrast. Remember, John, there was another guy who had a town hall at the same time as Jeb Bush and Donald Trump last night in New Hampshire. Nobody is even talking about him.", "It's a good point. So you want him to go from a joyful tortoise to a spry turtle. But there are risks, Dan Pfeiffer. You noted on Twitter a few moments ago that being pulled into a fight for Donald Trump for Jeb Bush does have some problems.", "I think on paper this is the right thing to do. Donald Trump is right that Jeb Bush has been, quote, \"sinking like a rock.\" He's struggled. He's behind him in every state, including his home state in the most recent CNN poll. Jeb Bush is less electable than Donald Trump so he is a challenge. My view is if he's going to throw a punch, he should really throw a punch. I thought his performance at the town hall was really sort of pitiful. There was no energy. It was very milquetoast. If he's going to do it, he has to be willing to show some passion, show some fight and stand on the debate stage next to Trump and make the case to his face and do it with passion and be able to handle the counter punch because everyone else who has punched Trump has lost the fight. We're going to see if Jeb Bush has more fight.", "But he's also engaging sort of on Trump's field because Trump is using the phrase anchor baby to talk about babies born to illegal immigrants in the states and now Jeb Bush using the same language, Dan.", "I think Jeb Bush made the case when he was going to run he was going to offer an inclusive message, reach out to communities, but because he's behind Trump, he's speaking Trumps language. He's using a term I think many find offensive. If Jeb Bush were to be the nominee, he will regret and suffer from having been pulled into this debate with Donald Trump.", "Ana, I want to give you a chance to talk about polls that may bring you some joy. And that's on the Democratic side where Joe Biden in this new Quinnipiac poll, Joe Biden's doing better against Republican candidates than Hillary Clinton is in these key swing states. What does that tell you?", "You know, I'm not surprised by it at all. I will tell you that I know Joe Biden, and I know Joe Biden has been in Florida a lot during his long career in public service. He's very well liked here, and I do think that, you know, instead of focusing so much on Jeb's problems, Dan should be focusing on Hillary Clinton's problems which are great and numerous. You know, we have a Trump problem. Hillary Clinton has a Hillary problem, and I would say that's a much more serious problem than what we're facing. She's going down in every poll. She's under 50 percent in these three swing states of Florida, Ohio, and --", "Pennsylvania.", "Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania where Joe Biden is doing great. Of course, Joe Biden is an adopted son of Pennsylvania. So I think she's got a host of problems. You're talking about how Jeb did in the town hall yesterday. Let's talk about how Hillary did in her press conference where, number one, she was flippant about being investigated and, number two, she was testy and thin-skinned about getting asked about it.", "Well, we have successfully raised a lot of problems now. We will try to focus and answer some of those problems another time.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Shots fired. Threats of more violence. These threats coming over a loud speaker. North Korea warns the South to stop its psychological warfare or else. We'll explain. And he thought he only had weeks to live, but now surprisingly at ease, former President Jimmy Carter about to begin treatment for cancer spots on his brain."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & CEO, TRUMP ORGANIZATION", "JEB BUSH, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR", "TRUMP", "BUSH", "TRUMP", "BERMAN", "ANA NAVARRO, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BERMAN", "DAN PFEIFFER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BERMAN", "PFEIFFER", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "BERMAN", "NAVARRO", "PFEIFFER", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-187680", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2012-6-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1206/12/sp.01.html", "summary": "Holder Faces Contempt Charge; Giffords' House Seat Up For Grabs; Father Kills Daughter's Molester; Official On Tape Beating Stepson", "utt": ["Good morning. Welcome back to STARTING POINT. Let's get right to Zoraida Sambolin for today's headlines. Good morning.", "Good morning, Christine. A House committee is considering holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. A vote is scheduled in eight days. The committee says Holder has had more than enough time to produce documents they've requested for their investigation of \"Fast and Furious,\" a flawed gun smuggling program that wound up arming Mexican cartels. A battle for Gabrielle Giffords' House seat will be decided today in a special election in Arizona. Former Giffords' aide, Ron Barber faces a tough challenge from Republican Jesse Kelly, an ex-Marine and an Iraq war vet who's backed by the Tea Party. Barber was wounded in the 2011 Tucson shooting rampage that critically injured Giffords and killed six others. Take a look at this shocking video of a Florida woman set on fire in an apparent domestic dispute in Boynton Beach. Police say the suspect, 52-year-old Roosevelt Monster poured gasoline on the mother of his 4-year-old son and torched her after pulling her out of a convenience store. He is behind bars this morning facing attempted first degree murder charges. And a father's rage turns deadly, but neighbors in the small town of Shiner, Texas are feeling his pain. Police say the father beat a man to death after catching him molesting his 4-year-old daughter.", "Defense of her trying to get her away from him, he struck the individual in the head several times.", "I don't think he should be arrested for it. I don't think any charges should be filed.", "If somebody abused my grandchild like he did, I think he deserved everything he got.", "Especially 4 years old. That's terrible.", "Yes.", "The sheriff says the little girl suffered mental trauma, but physically she's OK. The father has not been arrested. A grand jury will decide on possible charges in that case. In this morning's \"House Call,\" are you sleep deprived? If you get fewer than six hours of sleep each night, you could have a higher risk of stroke, even if you are otherwise healthy. A study from the University of Alabama found that early symptoms of strokes like numbness down one side of the body, vision loss, dizziness or losing the ability to express yourself could be associated with less sleep. But scientists say more research is needed there. A huge blow to autism researchers. A freezer malfunctioned at Harvard's brain bank damaging a third of the world's largest collection of brain samples used to study autism. Officials say the freezer's temperatures rose too high and the alarms that were supposed to go off did not sound. Researchers say the damaged brain samples were a priceless collection. Investigators say foul play cannot be ruled out. Boy, that is terribly unfortunate -- Christine.", "I know and on Twitter this morning, a lot of people who are advocates for finding, you know, the source and cure for autism are frankly just really upset about this.", "Absolutely.", "A lot of parents talking about it this morning too. Thanks, Zoraida. A disturbing story, a stepfather caught on camera, hitting his stepson with a belt during a game of catch. He could face some felony child abuse charges. The Imperial County Sheriff's Office plans to file a case with the district attorney this afternoon. A neighbor took this video of Anthony Sanchez, hitting his stepson in their backyard last week.", "I'm having a problem with you for beating the -- because he won't catch the ball.", "Do you know my son?", "I don't know your son, but I'm watching you. I'm -- a father too.", "Sanchez was arrested after turning himself in. He has since resigned from his elected post there in the town. Joining us now are Anthony Sanchez's attorney, Ryan Childers and psychologist, Dr. Dale Atkins. Thanks for both being here. I want to start with you, Ryan. First of all, the video looks bad. He knows it looks bad, right? He's seeking parenting classes or counseling. But this is not abuse, you say, this is him disciplining a child with behavioral problems?", "Well, what I'm saying is that my client in doing this was intending to discipline his son. It wasn't about a son --", "Disciplining him for what?", "I want to be careful. My client wants to be careful. We don't want to make this about Zach. This isn't Zach's fault. My client understands that. So I don't want to go into that, but a lot of people said this is about a game of catch and because he wasn't playing catch correctly. This is why this happened and that's not the case.", "This is during a game of catch. Tell us in your client's words what was happening here.", "Again, to do that, I'd have to get into what was going on with Zach and I don't want to make this about Zach. This isn't Zach's fault. My client has seen the video, I've seen the video. We realize that it's hard to watch. My client has regrets about this and realizes he may need to learn some better skills for dealing with a childhood behavioral issues such as this. But the question here, should my client spend six years in prison on felony charges? Is this illegal? Spanking is not illegal in California and California law --", "Was that a belt? Because we can see it from the video that he reaches down to pick something up. He was throwing the ball earlier and he had something on the ground, looks like a belt. Picked up the belt to go -- that was a belt that he was spanking him with?", "This is a belt that he was spanking him with. But again, California law says that using something other than your hand does not make it illegal. The question here, parents can decide for themselves what's right and wrong in their own discipline, but the question for us is what's illegal.", "What does the boy's mother, she's on a pre-planned, family vacation, your client stayed behind. How is she doing and how is the child doing?", "Well, needless to say the whole family is torn up by this entire event. I mean, this -- before they went to authorities, this was put on Facebook. And so my client has suffered tremendous amount of outrage about this and of course, young Zach has had an event that was horrible for him, exposed to the world. This is something that he's going to have to deal with when he goes back to class and for quite a long time.", "He's aware -- Zach is aware of this has become a national story.", "The family has tried to shield him as much as possible, but it just couldn't be done to the extent they would like. So he is aware, yes.", "How often would your client discipline the child this way?", "In my understanding is that from the mother, the maternal grandfather and everybody who has been around my client, they've never seen an instance where they felt that his discipline with young Zach was ever inappropriate or crossed the line.", "You talked about his behavioral issues. The family is dealing with the behavioral issues -- this is how they are dealing with it?", "I can't speak to other instances of discipline, but certainly they believe that spanking is an appropriate form of discipline. That's not --", "And this is the spanking?", "In this instance there was a belt used and I'm not saying in every instance of discipline, there's a belt used. I can't speak to that. I don't know about that.", "I want to bring in Dr. Dale Atkins here. I want to ask you. For childhood behavioral issues, is this an appropriate response?", "It is generally inappropriate response. Children with behavioral issues particularly children who have attention issues, have difficulty regulating themselves. They have difficulty staying in the moment. And they really do better not with aggression, which then teaches them that it is a way to deal with problems and do deal with their own self-regulation issues. But rather ways you can deal with them more appropriately are trying to address them personally --", "And when you talk self-regulation, I mean, I think for a lot of parents, this is when I child is compelled to do something. A child can't say. I'm not going to do something. Whether it's a movement or a sound or acting out, they can't regulate themselves.", "That's exactly right. That's one of the issues. When people talk about trying to discipline a child who has behavioral issues, the issue is the child has issues regulating their own behavior. And that's what this -- in part this is about, but I would like to go back to one thing you said, which was this really isn't about the child. This really is about the child. I know you're speaking about a legal perspective, but what we're talking about is how we deal with children. Whether they have behavioral issues or not, and I believe that if we all had a sense of when a parent is angry or when a parent is frustrated. This is the time that you don't want to be engaged in a physical interaction with your child. That's when many people are interacting --", "So you're saying never spank a child? Are you saying at all?", "This isn't a spanking --", "I got you, but the reality is, spanking is going to be a part of this conversation because it goes beyond this incidence. I'm asking you, do you believe in never spanking a child?.", "Let me preface that. There has been a change in thought about this from professionals over the course of time. When I was quite young, spanking was considered the standard for disciplining children.", "You're asking me a direct question and my direct answer is that I do not believe in spanking children. I do not believe in hitting children. I believe and so much of the research in my own 40 years of experience working with children and working with families, dealing with abuse for most of my life, is that it does not have a positive effect. Not only on the child, it does not have a positive effect and has a deleterious effect on the relationship between the parent and child often. It does nothing to enhance a child's self-esteem and makes parents feel terrible about themselves afterwards and children remember very, very well, not only what was said to them, but was done to them.", "Isn't there a difference between abuse and spanking. I can tell you flat out, I got spanked and I can tell you right now that had my dad not disciplined me and my brother and my three sisters. Look, we would have been off that deep end and not one of his children he had to go bail out. So some people sit here and I can tell you right now, some people say that's not right and proper. I can tell you right now, from my own experience, I can imagine where I had been had my dad not put his foot down and discipline us.", "There are ways to put one's foot down. There are ways to deal with children and most people in this country have been spanked. Most children have been humiliated. Most children have been made to feel in a situations where they are really not in control of themselves that they are made to feel less than. One of things about hitting kids, is that what it says is it's OK for a big person to hit a little person. It's OK for a strong person to hit a weaker person. I think there are ways -- I don't know the discussion about having is spanking good or bad. The issue is what are we doing to our children and what are we doing as a society that's my point.", "A lot of us come from the angle of what happened to us when we were kids. This is a story about child with behavioral issues and this particular case and whether this is routine spanking, which I think anybody watching this does not think this is a kid being spanked. This is a belt and some -- an adult who's clearly angry. We can't hear what was going on there. You don't want to tell us exactly what the behavior was an elicited this response. Is your client going to do something like this again do you think?", "Well, I don't believe -- I think that my client has learned that this may have been excessive and he's very sorry about the fact that there may have been some excessive action here. But again, this comes back to is this a felony that he should spend six years in prison for? Is this something that is illegal? I realize people have opinions about discipline and seeing the video inflamed a lot of people. But what is the appropriate legal course here or has the sheriff's department overreached because of the pressure they've gotten from social media and the blogosphere.", "Can I ask you another question? Is this family -- do the school district or whatever, do they have help in support with the behavioral issues and the ADHD part of this story?", "Absolutely.", "Because there are a lot of professionals, early interventions, a lot of things that states trained adults who can help families figure out how to handle behavior that is hard to contain.", "And Zach has had treatment and ongoing treatment both with a psychiatrist and a psychologist.", "Ryan Childers, thank you so much. Thank you so much also, Dr. Dale Atkins. I'm sure it's a discussion we'll continue to have. Coming up, some startling news, the American family's net worth drastically shrinking. We can actually quantify what went down the drain. How many years of savings and investment was lost in the recession. We'll tell you what that number is after the break. Also a photo journalist risks his life to show the world was going on inside Syria. His amazing video of a country at war with itself. You're watching STARTING POINT."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "SAMBOLIN", "SHERIFF MICAH HARMON, LAVACA COUNTY, TEXAS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SAMBOLIN", "ROMANS", "SAMBOLIN", "ROMANS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROMANS", "RYAN CHILDERS, ATTORNEY FOR ANTHONY SANCHEZ", "ROMANS", "CHILDERS", "ROMANS", "CHILDERS", "ROMANS", "CHILDERS", "ROMANS", "CHILDERS", "ROMANS", "CHILDERS", "ROMANS", "CHILDERS", "ROMANS", "CHILDERS", "ROMANS", "CHILDERS", "ROMANS", "DR. DALE ATKINS, PSYCHOLOGIST", "ROMANS", "ATKINS", "MARTIN", "ROMANS", "MARTIN", "HOOVER", "ATKINS", "MARTIN", "ATKINS", "ROMANS", "CHILDERS", "ROMANS", "CHILDERS", "ROMANS", "CHILDERS", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-125806", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-4-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/21/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Pennsylvania Primary: Democrats Get In Last Minute Campaigning", "utt": ["All right. Finally, it's here. After weeks of harsh words and attack ads, it could be make or break time in the Democratic presidential race. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spending a final day on the stomp, on the attack ahead of tomorrow's crucial Pennsylvania primary. We have new poll numbers for you. CNN's Poll of Polls in Pennsylvania suggests Clinton has 50 percent support, seven points ahead of Barack Obama. But seven percent say they are still unsure. So let's very quickly bring in our roundtable -- two Democratic strategists, two sides. Julian Epstein, a Clinton supporter. Jamal Simmons is an Obama supporter. Hey, Julian, I want to ask you real quick, do you think most people have made up their minds?", "I think most people have. But I think there are enough undecideds so that you could either have a narrow win for Obama or a very significant double digit win for Clinton. So most have, but there's enough that could make the difference right now that haven't made their minds up.", "All right, well, Jamal, you saw that the poll of polls, Clinton, 50 percent, seven points -- seven percentage points ahead of Barack Obama. Do you think at this late time that people have made up their minds and do you expect an upset when you see these poll numbers?", "I don't really expect an upset. Senator Clinton is pretty far ahead. She's been bouncing around between a five point lead to a 10 point lead, really, for the last two weeks, the last 10 days. So they'll probably finish somewhere inside of that bandwidth. The closer it is to five points, though, the more troubling it is for Senator Clinton and I think we'll be taking a look to see which populations turned out for which candidate. Barack Obama has got a very strong ground game, a very strong turnout operation. But Senator Clinton, you know, will most likely catch the break on late deciding and undecided voters.", "OK, Julian, we have seen -- and I've heard from people in Pennsylvania, mostly in Philadelphia. They say you cannot turn on the television without seeing an -- ad an attack ad, usually, but especially an ad for Barack Obama. He's spending a lot of money there. Do you think that this is -- especially the attack ads -- has this helped or hurt any one of the two candidates?", "Well, I think, you know, the old expression, politics ain't beanbag. I think that the longer the race goes on, the more excitement there is, the higher the turnout is. But I think the negativity is hurting both of them, at least on the margins. Barack Obama...", "But do you think the negativity, though -- I've got to jump in and ask you. Do you think the negativity is hurting -- and this is what the polls are showing -- Hillary Clinton nationally. But what about in Pennsylvania, where these ads are running? Do we know that for sure, if it's helping or hurting her?", "Well, she actually popped up ahead on Democratic voters over the weekend at the Gallup Poll. I think that the negatives for both of them have gone up as a result of negative campaigning. As you point out, Barack is spending -- outspending Hillary Clinton three to one and previously had really foresworn negative campaigning. But over the weekend, as you see not just with the ads, but the robo-calls and the campaign call on Saturday where they wanted to raise -- re-raise these issues about Hillary Clinton's trip to Bosnia. I think what you're going to see as a result is that there -- this election tomorrow is going to be a referendum mostly on Barack Obama. There have been a lot of questions -- some of them unfair -- raised about his statements and associations. He's now taken on negative campaigning, which Jamal said last week was not -- was something that he stayed away from. I think if he wins the race in Pennsylvania or comes very, very close, then I think he might be able to argue that he has been able to withstand those attacks...", "OK.", "If Hillary Clinton wins, I think people will say, look, we're really -- and if she wins big -- we're really beginning to have second thoughts about Barack Obama's electability.", "Don...", "OK, Jamal, wait. You heard that, but I want to ask -- I've got to ask you this. I mean he talked about the attack ads. Let's talk about the debate which just happened. I mean a lot of criticism from everywhere, you know, what ABC did, Barack Obama's performance. As a Barack Obama supporter, what do you make of his performance?", "Well, I don't think that Barack Obama would ever make Denzel Washington's \"Great Debater\" team from that movie that came out last year. But I think that...", "Do you think, though, his -- I mean, and I get what you're saying. But do you think his performance in that debate hurt him?", "Do I think it hurt him? No, I don't think it hurt him. I mean, listen, presidential campaigns are -- I think Obama says it -- Senator Obama says it himself, they're like decathlons, not like marathons. There are all sorts of different events you have to be competitive in.", "Right.", "He's not that great at debates. But he's a very good speech maker. He's an extraordinary writer. He's great one-on-one with voters...", "OK.", "But aren't his forte.", "OK...", "But I don't want to leave this negative ad thing, because -- all right, let's just go to this one second. We did see Senator Clinton do something today which is really appalling. She put an ad up with Osama bin Laden in it to try to scare voters in Pennsylvania. We all saw this in 2002, when they did this against -- when the Republicans did this against Max Cleland. And even people like John...", "Jamal...", "...and even people like John McCain said it was too much. I think that the negativity on behalf of Senator Clinton is going to have to stop after they get out of Pennsylvania...", "Well, but, to be fair, Jamal...", "...or else she's going to be dinging up the ultimate nominee.", "All right, that's...", "To be fair, Jamal. To be fair, Jamal do you think...", "Hey, I'm sorry. That's going to have to be the final word. We're out of time. I'm sorry to both of you.", "Well, there's negativity going on on both sides.", "Yes. Julian and Jamal, thank you both, but we've run out of time. I could talk about this with you guys all afternoon. It's going to be pretty interesting to see how it plays out. And regarding those ads that both of you are talking about, I'm sure \"THE SITUATION ROOM\" will be taking care of that. Thank you both. Have a great day.", "Thanks for having us.", "Thank you.", "I'll see you tomorrow, maybe. And you can join the league of first time voters at CNN.com. Get accurate, easy to find information about voting, express yourself and connect with others. Check out CNN.com/league right now and become a member.", "A powerful wind followed by a dramatic rescue on Lake Michigan. 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{"id": "CNN-155873", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-9-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/21/cnr.04.html", "summary": "View From the Front Lines", "utt": ["Grim news from Afghanistan today. We've heard about this military helicopter. It's gone down. Nine U.S. service members have been killed. Take a look at the map with me. This happened in the southern part of Afghanistan where coalition and Afghan troops have been battling the Taliban for nine years. This year, by the way, the deadliest so far for coalition troops -- 526 reported killed, 350 of them American. And coalition commanders say part of the reason is more boots on the ground. As combat troops pull out of Iraq, more U.S. troops have been going into Afghanistan. Our very own Pentagon correspondent Chris Lawrence was there just a couple of months ago, really getting a taste of what troops are facing overseas. He is now back with us at the Pentagon. Chris, I think that was April -- correct me if I'm wrong -- April, when you were over there.", "Yes.", "And I'm just curious, given the news of this helicopter crash, and so much else coming out of Afghanistan -- you keep in touch with the troops who you met when you were over there -- how is morale today compared to what it was in April?", "Well, you know, Brooke, there's this one young Marine. I actually met him back in December at Camp Lejeune. His unit was going to be one of the first to go to Afghanistan as part of President Obama's surge. Then, a few months later, just by coincidence, I ended up embedding with his unit at a really remote base down there in Helmand. Spent a couple weeks there living together, eating together, going out on patrols with these guys. And I remember when we were with him in April, every day those units would go out. They were getting hit by the IEDs. No big injuries. A lot of the MRAPs were taking the brunt of it. But then I saw him just about a month ago here at the pentagon. He was part of the Wounded Warrior Tour. He had lost his leg. And we have just been e-mailing back and forth. And he told me, \"I know you had some questions about what happened to me.\" He had gone into a building. He was the second guy in. The bomb blew up, and he said he almost blacked out. And he looked down and he said, \"I knew my leg was gone.\" But it just really kind of reinforced -- you know, even though you hear about these nine deaths, even sometimes here in the Pentagon you get glazed over with some of the numbers. But when you start to put faces and families to it, it really brings it home -- Brooke.", "It brings it home. I was at Walter Reed -- I think it was about last month -- and I met a young man who lost both of his legs in an IED. And you're right, I think a lot of people, it's tough to hear these stories of these young people coming back, if they are coming back.", "Exactly.", "And yet, at the same time, Chris, I saw this recent CNN poll which gives a different perspective. Americans reached an all- time high with unpopularity with the war in Afghanistan. So it's like you have this juxtaposition of men and women have a duty to perform overseas, yet many people here at home sort of nonplused with what's happening over there.", "That's right. And I think there is definitely a disconnect between the American people's view of Afghanistan and the actual troops on the ground. You know, official views may be one thing. There's a lot of problems, you know, folks have at the official level with the things that are happening in Afghanistan. A lot of military officials are dissatisfied with, say, the progress in President Karzai's regime and sort of, you know, negotiating with the Taliban, or taking steps to reform corruption within their government. But when you talk to the actual troops on the ground, the sergeants, the captains, the men and women who are really doing the bulk of the fighting, they still are very upbeat about their mission. And again, you've got to remember, they have each got specific, smaller missions. They're not looking big picture, how is the entire country doing? They're looking at, are we making a change in this small area where we are? And I think for the most part, even when you're seeing higher levels of violence, you still see the troops very committed to what they're doing there.", "Still, so tough to hear the numbers, especially these nine dead from this helicopter crash. Chris Lawrence, I remember your reporting from Afghanistan. It was excellent. Thanks for talking to me today about all of this. Appreciate it.", "Thanks, Brooke."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "LAWRENCE", "BALDWIN", "LAWRENCE", "BALDWIN", "LAWRENCE", "BALDWIN", "LAWRENCE"]}
{"id": "CNN-285764", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-06-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/03/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Iraqi Army Soon to Storm Fallujah, Take Back from ISIS. Iraqi Army Soon to Storm Fallujah, Take Back from ISIS", "utt": ["And welcome back. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Natalie Allen. Let's update you on our top stories.", "Iraqi security forces appear ready to storm Fallujah soon and take it from ISIS. But a big concern is the number of civilians the terrorists might be using as human shields. CNN's senior international correspondent, Ben Wedeman, is live in Baghdad right now. Any word on when Iraqi government forces will move in and what they're trying to do to avoid hurting or impacting civilians that are trapped in Fallujah, Ben?", "Well, Natalie, what we've seen in the last, almost two weeks since this offensive began, is that the Iraqi military and associated groups have been trying to clear the countryside around Fallujah. Fallujah is a fairly large city. Under normal times, it had a population of about 300,000. Yesterday, the Iraqi army announced they had been able to cut the last route into Fallujah. That is the town leading from Fallujah to Sackulawea (ph) in the northwestern area around the city. So now the city is completely surrounded. They're quite close to the edges of the town. [02:30:00:] For instance, in one area, they're just 400 meters from the neighborhood of Shu Hadel (ph), which is in the southwest of the city. But they've been hesitant to go inside, because we know there are hundreds of ISIS fighters who have dug trenches and tunnels around the city. They've been in control of Fallujah since January 2014. Just the other day, when the Iraqi army tried to enter the city from the south, there was an ISIS counterattack that went on for four hours. Now yesterday there were reports that the offensive had been halted, in part, because of concern about the approximately 50,000 civilians still inside the city, but those reports were denied by, among others, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi who said the offensive was ongoing and still on schedule. But as yet, they have not actually entered the city itself. And it's difficult to say at this point when exactly that's going to happen -- Natalie?", "And, Ben, what do we know about Fallujah itself, what the city has endured under ISIS control?", "Well, certainly in the initial period when ISIS took over, it actually was fairly calm and peaceful. Although obviously the restrictions imposed by ISIS upon people and simply the way they live their ordinary lives were quite difficult. But since September of last year, there's been a concentration of Iraqi forces, not completely surrounding the city, but around the city, and therefore it's been basically since then was the last time any sort of relief supplies were able to reach the inhabitants. There's an extreme shortage of food. Relief agencies say that many people are simply subsisting on old dates from the date groves around the city. There's a very severe shortage of medicine. There is food inside the city. It's very expensive. And much of it is being hoarded by ISIS itself. So the few people who have been able to get out tell stories of starvation, of mal nutrition, and of course horrific conditions in the hospitals -- Natalie?", "And finally, Ben, if Iraq gets Fallujah back from ISIS, what would this victory mean overall to the fight to knock down ISIS in the region?", "Well, symbolically, it would be extremely important, since it was the first city that is took control of. In practical terms, for instance, many of the car bombs that have plagued Baghdad in recent months, for instance, just a few weeks ago, there was a spate of car bombs which left around 200 people dead. On Monday, there were three car bombs in Baghdad, killing 22 people. Iraqi intelligence believes many of those car bombs and the suicide bombers are coming from -- or were coming from Fallujah. So to gain control of the city would perhaps stop this wave of attacks that's been happening. And beyond that, it's important to keep in mind that Fallujah is on the main road route from Baghdad to Jordan. And since Fallujah was taken over by ISIS in January 2014, that road has been either restricted in terms of traffic, or cut off altogether. So to restore that route -- land route between Jordan and Baghdad would be good for Baghdad, and also good for Jordan as well. So you have a variety of implications, quite positive, if the Iraqi army is able to crush is once and for all in Fallujah -- Natalie?", "Thank you very much. Our man, Ben Wedeman in Baghdad for us on the fight to get Fallujah back. Thanks, Ben. Fighting and fleeing ISIS is all too real for one Yazidi family. A child only 6 years old, forced to build bombs for the terror group. Unlike so many others, she and her family escaped. Arwa Damon has their story from northern Iraq.", "Ashia twirls the end of her braid as we try to talk to her. Under ISIS captivity, the emir had ordered her to assemble bombs. Her mother, Delleen (ph), cradling her youngest, says she barely speaks and is now afraid of strangers.", "The work to make the bombs was at the basement of the building we were in. It took my daughter from 5:00 p.m. until 1:00 a.m.", "Aisha was only 6 years old at the time. ISIS threatened to kill her if she refused to obey their orders. Ashia finally speaks.", "We were in a place and they would dress us in all black. There was material and sugar and powder. And we would weight them on a scale and heat them and pack the artillery.", "An ISIS militant would then place the wires to complete the bomb. The family was among the thousands of Yazidis captured by ISIS. The last time Delleen (ph) says she saw her husband, his arms were in the air and he was being marched away. Delleen (ph) was sold and raped regularly. She did not resist. The children's lives were at stake. But she also knew that she had to escape before Ashia turned of age, where ISIS would consider her suitable for marriage. Finally, their captor left for an operation, giving Delleen (ph) the chance to call a relative, who was already smuggling captive Yazidis out of ISIS territory.", "I begged him to hurry up and get us before they would take my daughter.", "She tells us she can only hope that one day perhaps Ashia will forget she was an ISIS slave and will know what it is to be happy. As for her, it's too late.", "My husband is always on my mind. I'm always aware that he's not with me. So I cannot forget what we went through.", "Arwa Damon, CNN, Dohuk, northern Iraq.", "Tune in Friday for Arwa's reports on Iraq, investigating is atrocities and the suffering of Yazidi women under is rule like the story you just heard. \"ISIS in Iraq\" airs Friday at 4:30 in the afternoon in London. The rush is on right now to save priceless works of art from flooding. Rising waters are moving closer to the Louvre in Paris. CNN's international correspondent, Jim Bittermann, is live there. This must be historical flooding for the city, and has the Louvre ever been in a position like this, Jim?", "Well, it has, actually, Natalie. There have been times in the past when they had to evacuate the works of art, especially in the basement. In fact, we're watching the water levels rise right now. The water's at about almost 20 feet over their normal levels. And that's almost equal to the flood of 1982, which a lot of people remember here, including myself. And it could reach that high later on today. They're waiting to see, they think around midday the levels will be that high. At the Louvre, they've shut it down, so the staff can be pressed into service moving works of art from the basement. They're legendary because of the storage capacity they have. They're works of art people don't usually see. They're going to be moving the ones in the basement and priceless works of art down there, as well as across the river at the former train station, which was converted into a museum, and there as well, they're worried about the things stored in the basement. And the museum has been closed and the staff working today to bring things to upper floors -- Natalie?", "That's got to be quite an undertaking, especially under these conditions as well. Also as far as the city as a whole, Jim, we've been seeing photographs and social media of the Seine River waters extreme high. How high are they, and what kind of threat does the river pose?", "Well, in fact, it's pretty much of a threat right now. A lot of people who live along the seine in the House boats are really concerned, especially about the debris in the river. There's a lot of floating trees and debris from houses and things like that. We saw refrigerators there yesterday and all kinds of things floating down the river. So they're worried about that. They're worried about finding perhaps as the environmental minister said here just a few minutes ago, they're worried about finding perhaps some people who did not get out in time, who as the flood waters recede here, already it's known that two people have died because of the flood, including a horseman yesterday, a 74-year-old rider, whose horse was swept away. The horse managed to survive, but he did not. And there's a great deal of concern about the damage this is all causing. The pedestrian areas along the seine, which are on both banks, in fact, this is the time of year when they would be normally filling up the restaurants and cafes along the river, and in fact, they've been pretty much wiped out by this. A lot of the kitchen equipment has been damaged to the extent it will have to be replaced. So there's going to be a good deal of damage right here in Paris. I should just say this morning, one of the things that's happened, they've shut down one of the main commuter train lines, the RERC, which carries about a half million people per day in and out of Paris. It's been shut down because the waters have flooded the rail tracks in the Paris area. So it's a complicated picture this morning, and also a lot of traffic on the roads because the people can't use the trains and some of the metro stations have been closed down. They've been taking cars and that caused gigantic traffic jams as we've seen this morning -- Natalie?", "Enduring quite a lot. And it's not just Paris we know, but surrounding regions as well. We thank you. Jim Bittermann, with the latest on the flooding in Paris. Thanks, Jim. Prince, killed by an accidental overdose of a powerful painkiller. 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{"id": "CNN-204860", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2013-4-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/11/cg.02.html", "summary": "Bugged by a Progressive Group; Rift Over Same Sex Marriage", "utt": ["The \"Politics Lead.\" They apparently found them all, a secret recording of a campaign strategy session between U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell and his advisers hit the internet this week on \"Mother Jones\" and, well, let's take a listen.", "I assume most of you have played the game Whac-A-Mole? This is the Whac-A-Mole period of the campaign when anybody sticks their head up, do them out.", "The more questionable part of the recording, of course, came when some of McConnell's advisers talked about the mental illness of a potential running mate. McConnell learned the recording and we have learned the recording was made by two leaders of the liberal group \"Progress Kentucky\" that's according to a Democratic operative who spoke to CNN's Jim Acosta.", "They said that they were hanging out around the McConnell office and the campaign office that they were there. They overheard a conversation from the outside of the door.", "Here to talk about this and some other issues Democratic strategist and CNN contributor Hilary Rosen, Rachel Campos-Duffy, blogger for catholicvote.org and wife of Republican Congressman Sean Duffy of Wisconsin, and Michael Scherer, White House correspondent for \"Time\" magazine. It did seem I have to say at first a lot of people were in the media, maybe were skeptical of McConnell's, this was a bug. The bugging incident type thing, but maybe he had a point.", "This wasn't exactly a bug. The way it's described is someone in the hallway. The big difference between a bug and someone in the hallway, one is illegal.", "Good point.", "If you're a party to a conversation and you can hear a conversation through a wall then you're allowed to tape that conversation. If you're not a party --", "You are a party if you can overhear it?", "Yes. If you leave a recording device though and then leave the room and are no longer party to it then you're in big trouble.", "Interesting. Hilary, your take on this? I know that a lot of -- I had this very jaded panel the way this broke and they were like this is what happens. Democrats and Republicans go over everything.", "It does although Mitch McConnell's sort of faux outrage is a little amusing to me. You know, when he is in there talking about how we're going to do them out. We're going to play Whac-A-Mole with these candidates and literally trash Ashley Judd who I happen to know and is a lovely person. You know, trash her on the basis of like calling her looney and mentally ill and the like is ridiculous. So he ought to just say, you know, this is what happens in campaigns. Campaigns are rough. I'm sorry, you know, people had to hear that kind of conversation. That's how it goes. But to go on how now he is the victim because he was somehow overheard actually having a conversation with his strategists is really offensive.", "Rachel?", "How about the full outrage from a strategist about what's pretty normal, you know, opposition research. I mean, everybody's freaking out about it. Look. There should be an obvious understanding of privacy when you're in -- these people were crawling around the walls, recording things. We know they shouldn't have been there. And then everybody's freaking out that they're actually doing their job, which is to vet candidates who are going to run against a candidate. I mean, I know she is your friend, but she has put herself out there. That's what happens.", "That's my point. Politics can be really ugly and what he was planning on doing was being extra ugly. And what he ought to do now is just admit that that's what he was doing instead of making it about this whole other thing.", "Yes.", "I would say though Mitch McConnell's problem right now is he has a problem, primary problem on the right. He's trying to unite the right and by playing this up, by saying there is an evil left out there, crawling through the ceiling.", "Works for him.", "This group, \"Progress Kentucky\" had a racist ad against --", "This is the second time they basically help the guy they're trying to hurt.", "He is married to an Asian-American from Taiwan and they did a racist ad.", "Right. That's the point. There is hypocrisy all the time on this kind of stuff. So had somebody on the right said something racial you can bet --", "Well, people condemned it. I just called it here on", "It was. But I haven't seen as many stories about it as I've seen about this.", "But the other thing is that, Michael raises a right point, which is that Mitch McConnell would rather have the people of Kentucky thinking of him as a victim than actually the leader of the Republicans in Washington when he hasn't done a budget. When he's trying to help sneak, you know, and water down a gun control bill, when he's trying to do all sorts of other activities that are --", "That serves a purpose.", "This is what Mitch McConnell wants the story to be about instead of real politics.", "Let's change subjects for one second. So Delaware announced new legislation today. That if passed would make it the 10th state to legalize same sex marriage. Attorney General Bo Biden is one of those leading the charge. Rachel, I want your point of view on this. In all our coverage of same sex marriage one of the things we talked about was real world San Francisco because Pedro I think it's fair to say was a revolutionary person on television. He was the first to a lot of Americans then young, now middle aged, the first out gay person in their living rooms.", "Sure.", "Bo Biden, Joe Biden, these are Catholics. You are a conservative Catholic, but you also happen to have had a relationship with Pedro.", "Yes, I did.", "What is your view on same sex marriage?", "Let me just say you bring up I think a really good point. I think culturally, pop culture wise there has definitely been a softening of people's position on this. Even you see it is a generational thing. If you talk to a young Republican these days, a lot of them will probably say they don't care about the issue. They're in the party because it's the party that promotes, you know, economic liberty and self-reliance and is very entrepreneurial and up by your boot straps kind of party and that is what appeals to them. You know, as far as Bo Biden and Joe Biden being Catholics, look. The Catholic Church has teachings. They're dogma based on 2,000 years of history and church theology. They don't move with the winds of American popular culture. I don't know how devout these fellows are. I will tell you that I know that, you know, Joe Biden was a member of the Knights of Columbus and I know his membership was in question because of his position on abortion. So I don't really think people are looking whether they're Catholic or say they're Catholic. Let's just say they're not in communion with the church because --", "Clearly, the church is out of touch with this. Look, the home country of the new pope, Argentina, has legalized same sex marriage. You know, that's where he was the leader of the institution. I think this is not a religious issue though. No religion would ever be forced to marry people of the same sex. They can do what they want, but marriage is a civil right. Granted, by the government and government benefits accrue to it and all Americans have to have that.", "Right.", "It's wrong to keep bringing religion into this.", "I want you to put on your pundit hat. Will there be any Republican presidential candidates who support same sex marriage and will there be any Democratic presidential candidates who oppose it?", "In 2016?", "In 2016, yes.", "I would say yes. We've had large enough fields. I don't think the nominee will support same sex marriage, but probably support civil unions on the Republican side. But you could easily have one person on the early debate stage who does trying really to do what the RNC is saying needs to be done, which is to attract younger voters.", "And Democrats?", "And Democrats. You could possibly also see but not really. I mean, at this point there's three left in the Senate or four left in the Senate.", "Yes. It's an endangered species. Rachel Campos-Duffy, Hilary Rosen, Michael Scherer, thank you so much. Does the thought of giant mating bugs falling from the sky excite you or terrify you? Well, you might want to book a flight if it terrifies you. The cicada apocalypse is coming. That's our \"Buried Lead\" and it's next."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "MITCH MCCONNELL, SENATE MINORITY LEADER", "TAPPER", "JACOB CONWAY, KENTUCKY DEMOCRATIC OFFICIAL", "TAPPER", "MICHAEL SCHERER, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, \"TIME\" MAGAZINE", "TAPPER", "SCHERER", "TAPPER", "SCHERER", "TAPPER", "HILARY ROSEN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "TAPPER", "RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY, SPOKESPERSON, THE LIBRE INITIATIVE", "ROSEN", "DUFFY", "SCHERER", "DUFFY", "TAPPER", "SCHERER", "TAPPER", "DUFFY", "TAPPER", "CNN. 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{"id": "CNN-3041", "program": "Burden of Proof", "date": "2000-2-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/21/bp.00.html", "summary": "1991 Restraining Order Against Fox's 'Multi-Millionaire' Groom Revealed", "utt": ["Today on", "The Fox network scored huge ratings playing matrimonial Cupid on prime-time television. But the honeymoon may be over as court documents reveal a previous restraining order against the show's groom based on accusations of assault from a one-time fiancee.", "This is BURDEN OF PROOF with Greta Van Susteren and Roger Cossack.", "Hello and welcome to BURDEN OF PROOF. Last week, the Fox TV network cashed in on the latest prime-time game show craze with a hit of its own. \"Who Wants to Marry a Multi- Millionaire?\" garnered more than 23 million viewers by the end of its broadcast, but new revelations about the show's groom has prompted network executives to cancel tomorrow's rebroadcast.", "In the program, 50 women paraded on stage in bikinis and wedding dresses in competition to be chosen the bride of 42-year-old bachelor Rick Rockwell, who's birth name was Richard Balkey. But 1991 court records reveal that Rockwell was accused of hitting and threatening an ex-girlfriend after she broke their engagement. At the time, a Los Angeles County superior court judge issued a restraining order against Rockwell, instructing him to stay at least 100 yards away from his former fiancee. Joining us today from New York is James Poniewozik of \"Time\" magazine. His article, \"Fox's Bride Idea,\" can be found in this week's issue of \"Time.\"", "Here in Washington, civil litigator Andrew Marks, divorce lawyer Sanford Ain and Tina Drake (ph). And in our back row, Muna Otaru (ph), and Al Pedersen (ph), and Barbara Zimmerman (ph). Let me go first to you, James, what is the show all about?", "The show basically played matchmaker for 50 women and one multi-millionaire, who was apparently barely a multi-millionaire, worth about $2 million, just meeting the definition, and it was essentially a beauty pageant minus the, you know, class and intellectual depth. They trotted out women in bathing suits, in basically sort of an evening gown competition except with wedding dresses, and asked them questions along the lines of, you how would you spend my money and would you mind if I went to strip clubs, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So it was quite a flabbergasting crass spectacle that drew a tremendous amount of rubber necking among the viewing audience.", "James, there was a qualification process for the bride, how about for the groom? Did the show try to find the perfect groom or did they do any sort of search themselves, or is it just one man applied?", "Perfect is quite a relative term. If you are producing a TV show, apparently, \"perfect\" means \"very media-genic.\" And the groom that they found had worked as -- he was sort of a -- had not a very successful stand-up comedy career, a role in the movie \"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes,\" and was a corporate motivational speaker. So they were trying to pick up somebody who came across well on TV. They say that they vetted him fairly extensively, apparently not quite extensively enough, judging by the egg they have on their face today.", "Jennifer Mann joins us by telephone. Jennifer, you were a contestant. Tell us how you became a contestant on the show?", "I actually was a morning show in the D.C. area that I heard an interview being done, and the DJ had asked for callers, particularly women, to call in and give their opinion. So being 6:30 in the morning sitting in traffic, I did just that. From there, I got an invite to participate in a local, I guess, preliminary, and entered that, not really realizing what it would end up into. But entered that, and then got an invite later on from Fox to participate in the show.", "Jennifer, what was the attraction to you to do this?", "At the time, I was -- Well, I am 23, single, hadn't dated anyone for about a year and a half and I thought: Why not? What the heck?", "Jennifer, were you prepared to get married, if you would have been selected?", "At time I was, believed or not, yes. Actually, everyone that signed on to the show that was the agreement we made going to Las Vegas for the week.", "Jennifer, did you sign a prenuptial agreement of any sort, and what were the sort of the rules and regulation of it?", "Actually, every single woman that was flown out to Las Vegas did sign a prenuptial agreement, as did the groom, obviously. Pretty much it stated that what we walked into the marriage with, as well as the groom, we would both walk out with. I can't go into details as to what else was mentioned within the prenup, but that was -- that is a good summary of it.", "Without telling me the details of the prenuptial agreement, did the prenuptial agreement lay out the assets of the groom, how much he had?", "Not detailed. It gave a summarization of his assets.", "Jennifer, did anybody tell about this groom? I mean, what did Fox tell you, other than the fact that he was supposed to be a multi-millionaire, did he tell you anything about his background and what he did?", "Well, we were given information that he was undergoing the exact kind of extensive background check that we were going, and I don't know if you read in the \"Washington Post,\" but it stated that we went through criminal background checks, financial checks, medical history, things of that nature. We were told, you know, that he was a prominent man in society, very well known, et cetera, et cetera.", "Sandy, you represented a lot of men and women in writing prenuptial agreements. Does a prenuptial agreement to be binding have to be detailed or can it summarize assets?", "Well, it needs to have some reasonable level of detail. The basic requirements for any prenuptial agreement are that each party have independent representation; that there be full disclosure, so that each party knows exactly the assets and liabilities than the other, and that they not be signed under duress. This one seems fails on a variety of respects.", "Why?", "For instance?", "Why would duress fit into this? or would it?", "It may, because they are presented, they are on the show, they're given the opportunity to be in this terrific position, for some of them, although I question that myself. And they can't go forward unless they sign this prenuptial agreement. It is analogous to handing someone a prenuptial the day before the wedding or a week before the wedding and say: sign this or we're not getting married, or you are not going no the show. And these people are faced then with the dilemma of: Do I sign this and waive everything, or do I walk away at this point, after having gone through all the steps up to that point?", "You think that is duress? I don't think that is duress when you can walk away and say: Listen, so I won't be on the television show.", "Well, you can walk away from a wedding too, a month before the wedding or a week before the wedding, if you don't want to sign this prenuptial agreement, you just don't have to get married.", "Frankly, I that is the least of the problems. They may not be legal problems, but there maybe others. But let me go back to James. James, what do we know about the asset? You said a few minutes ago that he just barely qualified as a multimillionaire. Do you know what his assets are?", "Well, we know that he apparently made most of his money in real estate investing, investing in a boom market, not apparently in the lucrative field of corporate motivational speaking. But we don't have a lot of specifics on, you know, what type of, you know, what type of assets his money is tied up in and so forth, simply that he met the sort of minimal qualifications of $2 million in value one way or another.", "Jennifer, how far did you get in the selection process and did you have second thoughts at any point during the process?", "I actually made it to the final five during the taping of the show. As for second thoughts, I think with any potential bride, getting up to the point of putting the wedding dress on and walking out on stage, yeah, I had second thoughts, but not that I was putting my faith in the Next (ph) Entertainment or the Fox Group as to picking my potential husband, but I know what I had gone through in order to be a contestant on the show, and I had no qualms that they had also made the bachelors go through the exact same questioning and background check. So I was fairly comfortable.", "All right, we are going to take a break. We'll be right back. Stay with us.", "Forty-two-year-old real estate developer Rick Rockwell was chosen from more than 100 potential multi-millionaires to appear on Fox's wedding game show. The program, which aired the night after Valentine's, pitted 50 bachelorettes in competition for Rockwell's hand in marriage. Andy, this was played on a network. Does a network have any obligation to vet, for instance, Mr. Rockwell, to make sure that he's a good candidate to engage in this marriage?", "I'm -- I would think that they do have an obligation to do due diligence. And, to the extent that they did not act in a diligent way, to the extent they were careless, they didn't look where they should have looked, I think they do open themselves up to potential exposure.", "But, isn't it sort of buyer-beware in a marriage? I mean, this isn't selling one corporation to another corporation. I mean, any sort of woman who is willing to engage in this type of arranged marriage -- I mean in some countries they do range marriages -- I mean, isn't it sort of like tough?", "Well, there's certainly a...", "And he may be a good catch.", "He may be a good catch. There is, certainly, a certain amount of risk that the potential brides assumed and agreed to assume. But, it sounds like that they, the potential brides, went through a very rigorous vetting process. And they were told by the network, this is as I understand it, that the potential groom also went through a vetting process. And so, to the extent that that representation was made, but it wasn't lived up to, it wasn't carried out.", "But we don't -- but do we really know if it was? I mean, I'm sorry, Roger, but James says he qualified as a multi- millionaire just barely.", "Right.", "But, wait, Jennifer says -- Jennifer? Jennifer, are you still with us?", "I am, I am.", "All right, Jennifer, now, what did they tell you about the groom? Didn't they tell you that they were checking him out the same way that you were checking out, and didn't you rely on that?", "I wouldn't state it that way. But, like I said, the...", "But why don't you state it that way?", "Well...", "No, go ahead.", "We weren't told specifics on the groom. But, we were told -- I mean, we're going -- we had to go through a rigorous screening process, and so did he. We also signed a document saying that we're entering this agreement and to this show -- I don't recall if it was exactly at our own risk. But everyone went in eyes wide open. But I think you guys are putting more of the blame on Fox than need really be. Everyone here was in this agreement...", "Jennifer, did you think that the person that was -- you had the option to marry, was a person that had no allegations, and these are only allegations of, perhaps, assaulting a person in -- nine years ago? And those are only allegations.", "I was...", "Do you think that person is...", "Is it really anyone's fault? Yes, it's someone's business entering into a marriage. But, these are allegations; nothing was proven.", "And I agree with Jennifer, I will tell you. And let me go back to you, Andy. I mean, these -- there were allegations in 1991, this is not a conviction, these were allegations. It could have been a very unhappy ex-girlfriend.", "Don't you think, though, that Jennifer should have known that?", "No.", "No?", "No, I mean, marriage is different than a business.", "This maybe a guy-girl thing because I agree with Roger. I think that she was entitled to -- the brides were entitled to know that, and they could go in with their eyes wide open.", "Under a moral basis or a legal basis?", "No, I think on a legal basis. I think...", "Sandy?", "I agree, I think, on a legal basis. Something, even if the charge is false, something that serious, I think is something that has to be disclosed and has to be discussed with each of the potential brides.", "Why, though, I mean, this isn't a business contract; this is a marriage.", "Well, that's not true in that it is a business contract.", "I can't believe I've got this position and you three have this, but go ahead.", "It is a business contract.", "What if it is completely false? And it may very well be.", "Then, Rick could have said to the producers who could have said to the 50 people: This charge has been made, he says it is completely false. Do you still want to be here? Do you want to marry this person?", "James, why is Fox not showing this program again?", "Well, clearly, it's a big embarrassment. The fact that these allegation have materialized is not something that Fox would have wanted to be saddled with in the first place, and I'm sure they certainly don't want to be seen as inviting further criticism by, you know, capitalizing and basically profiting more by a re-airing now.", "But isn't that -- Andy, isn't that a PR issue? You know, the fact that it might make Fox look bad, but is it a legal issue? Could Fox ever be in any way held accountable to this woman who has signed on to this marriage?", "Well, The answer is, if she feels sufficiently grieved, she could commence litigation against Fox, and I think she would have some grounds, depending on what kind of damages she might be able to allege.", "What are the grounds, though? You didn't go back and tell me that he had been accused once before in 1991?", "Through grounds of misrepresentation and negligence, that she believed and relied on the fact that they were doing a due diligence investigation. And even without being specific, one element of that investigation would certainly have been whether he had some kind of a record, even if it was just allegations.", "But he has no record, he has no record.", "Sandy, it would be grounds for annulment in a divorce, if a wife said to her future husband: You know, before we get married, I want to know something, have you been accused of violent acts in the past? And he said no?", "That is not grounds for annulment, except in some states grounds for an annulment are falsely disclosing -- or having been incarcerated and not disclosing that to your spouse or being convicted of a felony and not disclosing it to your spouse. So in some states, that would be grounds for annulment.", "Jennifer, were you asked whether or not you had anything in your past that might be an allegation of even criminal conduct? Was that past of the application process?", "I believe on one of the questionnaires, yes, it did ask whether or not we had been convicted of a felony.", "Convicted of a felony. So that makes a difference, does it not, Sandy?", "It makes a difference in terms of the level of disclosure that the contestants were required to give. But I'm not sure it makes a difference in terms of the questions were that should have been asked. I think it's an appropriate question to have been asked.", "But should have versus what were is what matters if this were a legal issue.", "From a legal standpoint, in terms of an annulment, yes. From a legal standpoint, in terms of the duty of Fox to do some due diligence, no.", "OK, let's take a break. Up next -- I still love you -- according to Fox, none of the contestants were required to get married. At the end of the show, they could have said, \"I don't.\" But will this wedding's television venue play a legal role should Mrs. Rockwell wish to say goodbye? Stay with us. (", "What Whitewater-related case will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court tomorrow?", "U.S. v. Hubbell. The case questions whether Webster Hubbell's immunity agreement with the Independent Counsel extends to the contents of documents he turned over that were used to indict him. (END Q&A;)", "Rick Rockwell and his bride, 34-year-old Darva Conger, have returned from their post-television wedding honeymoon. But Fox officials say they're taking it slow and opted to sleep in separate quarters during their Caribbean cruise. Greta, I want to go back to this discussion that we just got finished with or just ended with. Don't you think that in the situation that these two were presented with, to go on a ship for a week, well, they opted for separate quarters, but they are sort of trapped together for at least a week that both parties should know as much as there is to know about the other party, and if there is at least an allegation of violence in someone's background that Darva Conger should have known about it? VAN SUSTEREN; You know, Rog, first of all, I mean, I have -- I mean, how far are we going to take this? I mean, you have two people who can go into a bar at night and meet and then go get a hotel room and we don't vet those people. We let people do pretty much what they want when they are adults.", "We don't act as brokers, like Fox did.", "But nobody forced either one of these two, I think it's pretty bizarre what they did. But nobody forced them to do it. And that's the big difference. People enter into marriages all the time. For whatever reasons, these two have entered into this marriage for whatever reason. But I don't think that Fox had an obligation to find out if he had ever been accused of speeding, smoking marijuana. I think prior convictions...", "If you buy a car with defective brakes, does the manufacturer of that car have a...", "If there's a warranty. I don't think they're going to warranty this guy. I don't think people warranty marriages.", "But listen, but if they knew that this guy had allegation of violence in his background.", "Allegations is a far cry from convictions. This was nine years ago. You could have had some unhappy girlfriend, for whatever reason, go into court and make this accusation about this guy. You can do this what they call ex parte. He doesn't even appear in court.", "And she did it ex parte.", "We have no clue what his idea is. What we are talking about here...", "But don't you think he should have been given the chance to deny it then?", "No, I, frankly, if these two want to get married under these circumstances...", "Under the circumstances of knowing nothing about each other.", "In some cultures they arrange marriages, I don't know. Sandy, do you want to weigh in on this?", "I think that there was duty on Fox to give some investigation. Jennifer's comments were interesting to me because she had some understanding that Fox had done some vetting of Rick.", "But what -- the vetting is the issue, I mean, how far the vetting? Maybe I should ask Jennifer. Jennifer, were questions asked about health issues?", "For myself and the other contestants? Yes.", "Yes. What about -- and you don't have to answer this particular question -- but did it ask you whether or not you had ever smoked marijuana, driven your car past the speed limit, questions like that?", "No, no, I was never asked any type of question like that.", "Did they ask you whether or not you had any criminal record?", "Like I said earlier, they did asked whether or not I had been convicted of a felony. But I just want to say, blasting Fox for not divulging information on his previous allegation. We all walked in knowing what we were all walking into. And to say that it's only their fault, I think, is ridiculous. The man and the woman that entered into this marriage knew that there were going to be some questions, some blank spots, and we all agreed that we were willing to take that risk.", "You know what is so curious about this, is that the women on this show for some reason don't think there was this huge obligation to reveal an allegation, but the men seem to think there is some legal obligation.", "The women on the show, you and the women that went on the show, don't think there is a huge legal obligation.", "If there is a lawsuit, I think that Jennifer ought to be one of the prime witnesses.", "And I think I ought to represent Fox on it. James, where is this going? I mean, are there going to more shows like this?", "Oh, there are already more shows like this in the works. There is a syndicated show that is going to be coming out called \"Wed at First Sight,\" which hopes to, on a daily basis, marry two strangers off to each other. It is going to be sort of a dating game-type situation, where three guys compete for a woman's hand in marriage. Fox had had plans to do more of these multi-millionaire specials, possibly reversing the genders, if they haven't backed away from that. And they are smart ratings-wise they'll go ahead with it. Because I can't imagine that any less people want to watch it now.", "And my prediction, the next one is \"How Do You Divorce a Multi-Millionaire.\"", "Let's get that one now.", "That's all the time we have for today. Thanks to our guests and thank you for watching. Weigh-in on campaign 2000 today on \"TALKBACK LIVE.\" The candidates head for another standoff, this time in Michigan. That's at 3:00 p.m. Eastern time, noon Pacific. COSSACK; And we'll be back tomorrow with another edition of BURDEN OF PROOF. 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{"id": "CNN-41694", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2001-10-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/13/smn.30.html", "summary": "U.S. Navy Accidentally Bombs Civilian Area in Afghanistan", "utt": ["For more on the reports that a U.S. Navy jet accidentally bombed a civilian area near Afghanistan's capital city, let's go to Sheilah Kast. She's at the Pentagon for us this morning -- Sheila.", "Jeanne, the jet was aiming for a helicopter at the Kabul airport according to a senior Pentagon official and somehow the missile missed its mark by about a mile. The Pentagon said this was a smart bomb, a precision-guided bomb and the Pentagon does not know at this point why it went so far off its mark. The Pentagon cannot confirm civilian casualties but earlier the Al Jazeera Arabic-language television network said it had sent a reporter to the scene. It described the residential area as a very poor area. It said the bomb destroyed houses there. And Al Jazeera reported at that time that one person was killed, three were injured, including a woman and child. As I said, the Pentagon cannot confirm that. The question of civilian casualties has come up in this building recently. Secretary Rumsfeld addressed the question saying that if there was -- there is no question that there will be civilian casualties when you're operating in a military operation, but he said there's also no question that everyone involved including him regrets the loss of civilian life -- Jeanne.", "And Sheilah, this is not the first time munitions have gone astray in the past week, is it?", "That's right. The Pentagon confirmed five days ago when there were four Afghan civilians who worked for a United Nations- funded agency that cleared mines -- four -- those four civilians were killed. And the Pentagon acknowledged later that one of four Tomahawk cruise missiles that had been launched at the same time was missing that probably was the cause of the explosion that killed those four Afghan civilians -- Jeanne.", "Sheila Kast at the Pentagon -- thank you. And now we're going to go up to Camp David. Kelly Wallace is there, as is President Bush. Kelly, any reaction from White House officials as yet as to what's happened?", "No, Jeanne, no reaction just yet. We have talked to some administration officials, expecting those officials to get back to us. Not clear, though, if the administration will really comment beyond what Sheila said; and that is, of course, that this administration has tried to prepare the American people and the international community for the possibility that there could be military and civilian casualties -- that you always have some casualties in the case of a war. But that, of course, the administration regretting any loss of life when it comes to civilians. So we'll keep you posted on that. We did of course, though, hear from President Bush today. We should mention, also, though, we do know the president did spend about 30 minutes chairing another video teleconference with his national security team this morning. That was from 8:30 to 9:00 a.m. so very, very likely that the president and his top advisers going over this information, if the information had been received by that time. Now again, as to the president going before the American people today in his radio address -- his weekly progress report really during this campaign against terrorism. The president focusing on two fronts: focusing on the military campaign and also the efforts here in the United States to beef up efforts against domestic terrorism. First, on the military front, the president declaring the first military strikes against Afghanistan a success so far.", "Our men and women in uniform are performing as they always do -- with skill and courage. And they have achieved the goals of the first phase of our campaign. We have disrupted the terrorists' network inside Afghanistan. We have weakened the Taliban's military and we have crippled the Taliban's air defenses. American forces dominate the skies over Afghanistan and we will use that dominance to make sure terrorists can no longer freely use Afghanistan as a base of operations.", "The president, though, saying this campaign will not be one with one attack, and so he says the war goes on. We also, of course, heard today that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime rejecting President Bush's second chance offer -- his offer to reconsider this military campaign if the Taliban decided to turn over Osama bin Laden. Administration officials not surprised at all by this rejection of the Taliban, and they say that the military campaign will continue until the president's goals and demands are met. Now, number two, back on the home front really, the president obviously trying to reassure a very jittery nation. Very much concerned about an FBI alert that came out on Thursday notifying Americans that there is a possibility there could be terrorist attacks in the United States or against American interests overseas over the next several days. And then, of course, the latest case of anthrax in New York on top of three cases in Florida. The president's message really, Americans should be calm. The government is doing everything it can to protect the American people.", "I understand that many Americans are feeling uneasy. But all Americans should be assured we are taking strong precautions. We are vigilant. We are determined. The country is alert and the great power of the American nation will be felt.", "And Jeanne, we have heard the president give that message almost on a daily basis. One other note to report. Of course, the administration reporting so far that it doesn't see any definite link so far between the New York and Florida anthrax cases and the September 11 terrorist attacks. But as we've been reporting, Vice President Dick Cheney, in an interview with PBS on Friday, says he's very suspicious and says it is possible these anthrax cases could very well be linked to Osama bin Laden -- Jeanne.", "Kelly Wallace at Camp David -- thank you. And now to Martin in Atlanta.", "Thanks you, Jeanne. We want to get reaction now from Pakistan. For that we are pulling in CNN's John Vause, who is in Islamabad. And John, what is the latest you're hearing pertaining to either this accident -- the U.S. military planes -- or others events coming out of Afghanistan?", "Martin, we're still working to find out to get confirmation to exactly what's happened in that residential area in Kabul. But our sources in Afghanistan and our CNN people on the ground there telling us that an attack is underway on Kandahar right now, at this moment. We are being told that a military headquarters has been hit. This stage, no reports of casualties from Kandahar but our people there tell us they are hearing several loud explosions from around the city. We go to Kabul, we are being told by the Al Jazeera television network that a strike is underway in Kabul as well. Our sources in Kabul tell us that a very poor neighborhood has been hit, and one girl has died and several others have been injured. Our people are trying to find out the exact extent of the casualties from that stray smart bomb. At this stage we don't know. Once again, the information which we have received is from our sources on the ground there in Afghanistan and also from Al Jazeera. Now, Al Jazeera today provided us with some video of an air strike on the capital, Kabul. What we see in this video is we've seen a plane flying in. After that we see several plumes of smoke coming up from the horizon presumably from the explosions that followed. Al Jazeera has also supplied us with some video of the aftermath of these strikes. Now, we understand that this is from around the Kabul region. As to when it was shot we're not sure. We did received this videotape today. This is the extent -- the result, rather, of the air strikes on Kabul -- very intensive air strikes on Kabul in the last few days, the United States using cluster bombs and so called bunker-busters. Al Jazeera has also provided us recent videotape of children who have been wounded in these attacks. These are the kinds of pictures that the White House is desperate to avoid, but obviously hasn't. And especially after tonight we can only wait and see how many more casualties will result from that stray smart bomb on a residential area. We're also being told that people are leaving the cities, trying to make their way to the relative safety to Pakistan -- to try to get to the border. And, in fact, so many people are leaving that the United Nations is proposing to set up refugee camps on the Afghan side border of the Pakistani-Afghan border. So many people they can't deal with. The Pakistan government here has closed the border. A crisis situation according to the United Nations -- Martin.", "John, a question on the military activity that you're hearing about currently -- any way to know, is it more severe, heavier or less than what it was, say, 24 hours ago?", "At this stage we don't know. We understand that the attack is underway. But, as you said, the attacks certainly let up in the last 24 hours because it's been a Muslim day of prayer. There's also another religious celebration on over this weekend. But it certainly seems that the respite that they had for the Muslim day of prayer -- the Sabbath, if you like -- is now over. And those strikes have begun again in earnest. We understand that there are several explosions rocking the city, which would indicate that indeed this is a fairly intensive air strike.", "All right, John. John Vause joining us from Islamabad. Thank you very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR", "SHEILAH KAST, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MESERVE", "KAST", "MESERVE", "KELLY WALLACE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-138000", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-5-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0905/09/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Santa Barbara Still Threatened by Wildfires", "utt": ["In Scott County residents reported seeing a tornado on the ground. At least four houses were damaged and one woman is talking about her family's close call with a twister.", "I just thank god that my husband, his nephews and the people that was helping him in the garage was ok, because I knew the garage was gone.", "To do that much damage in just a few seconds, it's just unbelievable.", "All right, those storms not quite done. Might be doing some more damage in other parts of the country today.", "And I'll piggyback right off what you talked about, Reynolds, and show our viewers some of these pictures you were just talking about and what's happening out there in southern California, in Santa Barbara. Reynolds just mentioned the army of firefighters essentially they have out there. Seeing as many as 80 homes burned so far. Many more are in immediate danger now. Evacuation orders went out to some 30,000 people. That number could grow significantly again, as Reynolds was just reporting, depending on what happens with those winds. Those winds are really going to be key as to what happens with these fires in the coming days. But hopefully, again, he says no rain is expected out there, but the winds could kick up, so we could be seeing more and more of these pictures in the coming days.", "All right, but you know not everyone is heeding the call to evacuate. Some homes in the fire's path were just rebuilt seven months after another wildfire ripped through Santa Barbara. CNN's Thelma Gutierrez introduces us to one family who isn't running from round two.", "Worried that we could still see flames, and it's burned over that area once already, and it's still burning.", "For three days and nights, since the Santa Barbara fire began, Lisa and Kaye Camarillo have watched the flames on the ridge. All their neighbors have evacuated. The Camarillos told us they're staying behind.", "My family has lived here for many generations. This is our land, and we have to defend it.", "Their nerves are raw. Just seven months ago, flames roared through this canyon, destroying hundreds of homes.", "It happened so suddenly, that the sparks flew. And were right here.", "Kaye Camarillo fled for her life. The home she grew up in, where she raised her children, burned to the ground. It's hard to imagine what the homeowner feels when they come back and they look at that.", "The memories, yeah, the little things, the photographs, yeah. You know, little things like the bench that my father built. That we all sat on when we were little kids. Those irreplaceable things. That's hard.", "Camarillo didn't have enough insurance to rebuild, so the community environment council in Santa Barbara came to her rescue. Volunteers built a new fire-resistant green home. Two weeks ago that home was relocated to her property.", "You'd be absolutely astounded at how many people put their time and effort into this.", "And just when she was ready to settle in, the fire threatens once again. Why would you rebuild here, why not move somewhere? Live somewhere else in Santa Barbara?", "No, no, this is our home. This is our land.", "Land high above Santa Barbara that has belonged to the Camarillo family for more than 100 years.", "Now we've got ashes again on our mountaintops.", "Thelma Gutierrez, CNN, Santa Barbara, California.", "The probe into a deadly U.S. air strike that killed insurgents and civilians in Afghanistan is now complete. And now the president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, telling the U.S. the air strikes must stop. CNN's Stan Grant joins us now by phone from Kabul. Stan, tell us what are the results of this probe?", "T.J., the probe has shown that the civilians were indeed killed by U.S. air strikes. Now, these strikes were called in to the Farah Province in western Afghanistan at the height of the battle between the Taliban and U.S. and Afghan forces. The strikes were called in to try to target houses where they believed the insurgents were holed up. Now, it did kill a number of civilians, men, women, and children, exactly that number, though, has been cause for debate and dispute. The U.S. military's putting the number at around 50. Others saying much higher, including Afghan president, Hamid Karzai. He said the information he's received puts the number well over 100. Now, the U.S. also saying it is a tactic of the Taliban to use civilians as human shields, and they are investigating whether, in fact, it happened in this case. Hamid Karzai also saying, it is a tactic of the Taliban to use civilians in this way. At the same time, Hamid Karzai saying that these air strikes are a major problem, a major cause of dispute, between Afghanistan and the U.S., and as you reported there, they must cease. T.J.?", "How long has the President Karzai really been calling for this? And any chance he's going to get his way?", "It would appear to be unlikely, of course, the U.S. is in a battle here to try to defeat the Taliban, along with other allied forces, and Afghan forces. The problem is, though, in trying to reduce the number of civilian casualties, as he pointed out, is a major area of tension between the U.S. and Afghanistan. It causes problems for the Afghan people. Obviously grief being among them, but it hardens anti-American attitudes here and makes it all the more difficult for the U.S. to achieve its ambition. Also, Hamid Karzai has an election coming up in August. He's not a popular figure in the country. Many accuse him of corruption, incompetence, people are frustrated at the lack of improvement in their lives and he obviously wants to be re-elected in August. This is another issue he can campaign on. T.J.?", "Stan Grant for us in Kabul, thank you so much Stan.", "Pakistani officials say a suspected drone attack has killed five people. It happened in a tribal district near the border with Afghanistan and that area has seen a sharp spike in the number of unmanned U.S. drone attacks on what are believed to be Taliban targets. Pakistan's prime minister is responding to the attack. Take a listen.", "This is not a normal one. This is a guerrilla one. But it is a resolve and it is a resolve of the army that there should be minimum collateral damage. And it should be over as soon as possible.", "Expect an in-depth look at the Taliban threat in Pakistan today, at 4:00 p.m. eastern. Fredricka Whitfield shows you how the situation in the region could affect life here in America. Nuclear weapons are not the only reason you should care.", "Well, you'll remember on the campaign trail, President Obama, then candidate Obama, was promising that he would make a speech to the Muslim world in the first 100 days of his presidency. He's not exactly going to make that 100-day mark, but still, he has chosen a place. Ed Henry explains why Egypt is now the place for his long- promised speech.", "White House spokesman Robert Gibbs already deflecting questions about whether Egypt is the right choice for this speech, given the fact that President Hosni Mubarak has resisted democratic reforms. But Gibbs said Egypt was chosen because the president believes it represents the heart of the Arab world, and this president began his outreach from week one here at the White House. In fact, his first television interview in office was with al Arabiya and then it continued on a trip to Turkey where the president took off his shoes before entering the famed blue mosque to show his respect. Then he delivered a speech of course to the Turkish parliament where he delivered a very clear message.", "So, let me say this as clearly as I can, the United States is not and will never be at war with Islam. In fact -- in fact -- in fact our partnership with the Muslim world is critical, not just in rolling back the violent ideologies that people of all faiths reject, but also to strengthen opportunity for all peoples.", "White House aides say the president plans to build on that message on June 4th in Egypt. Right before he heads to Normandy, France, to mark the d-day anniversary. It's going to be a very busy summer of foreign travel for the American president. Ed Henry, CNN, the White House.", "Well, Pope Benedict XVI is doing some fence-mending today in Jordan. He toured Amman's biggest mosque with the king's top religious adviser and apologized for offending Muslims three years ago. Back in 2006, the Pope gave a speech and quoted a medieval emperor who called the Prophet Muhammad's teachings evil and inhumane. His weeklong papal tour in the Middle East is aimed at improving strained relations with Muslims and Jews. The Pope goes to Israel on Monday.", "California voters gearing up for a special election. How the results could mean more painful cuts for the cash-strapped state."], "speaker": ["BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR", "SHERRI BIRD, STORM VICTIM", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "T.J. 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{"id": "CNN-173712", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-10-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1110/08/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Spinal Cord Victims Assistance; Amputee to Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro", "utt": ["We're introducing you to CNN's Top Ten Heroes every Saturday, and this week hero was nominated for his role in assisting young people injured on the football field. Dozens of teens suffer spinal cord injuries while playing the sport that they love. Eddie Canales started Gridiron Heroes and is working to improve the lives of these paralyzed teens. Eddie, great to see you.", "Thank you very much. Great to see you.", "Well, it's pretty amazing what you're doing, but unfortunately it took a really tough moment in your life to get to this point. And that was when your son, Chris, was playing football. Take us back to that moment.", "Well, it was a tough moment to see your son go down like this and being told that it was a possibility of spinal cord injury. At the time when we went down on the field, we just tried to think that it was only a stinger. And so it was a very tough time. But I'd like to also, you know, start by saying something else. I'd like to ask the viewers, we need your help in prayers. Two days ago we received a call that another young man in Texas suffered a spinal cord injury in a small town of Vega, Texas in the Panhandle. He was playing for Vega High School. And so we'd like to ask for your help in prayers for Luis Morales and his family. We have already reached out to his family and to the school and the coaches. And we just ask for your help and prayers right now.", "You know, Eddie, and you bring up - actually, you bring up an interesting point. I mean, I lived and worked in Texas. You know the state well. This is big for high school football. I mean, it's huge.", "It is. Yes.", "Which is why you see a lot of injuries, and that's why you were so involved with football, your son so involved with football. But here's what's amazing. We're going to talk a little bit more about what you're doing for these athletes, but it was your son that actually said to you at some point when he was really struggling, dad, we got to do something, right?", "Right. That's correct. At his lowest point, I took him to a state championship game just to get him out of the house. And we had almost lost Chris twice in ICU and once when he came home. All we could offer at the time was that, you know, if the Lord wanted him by his side, he had three chances to take him. Something good would come out of his injuries. So taking him to that game, we were there for a purpose, as we look back on it. And being there at his lowest point, we witnessed the young man go down, but Chris turned to me and said, dad, we've got to go help him. I know what he's going to go through and you know what the family is going to go through. And that was the starting point, the inspiration behind Gridiron Heroes.", "So Eddie, tell me what the scope -", "Chris and I actually -", "No, I'm sorry. Go ahead.", "Well, actually, Chris and I are already making plans. Tomorrow we head to Amarillo where this young man is at right now. He's in ICU, and we will be meeting with the family and the coaches. It's a good 10-hour drive, but this is something that we have to do.", "And tell me about that. Eddie, since we have a case that has happened so soon, explain to our viewers what exactly you and Chris will do to basically step in and try to tell this young man, you know, it's going to be OK?", "Well, this is the hard part. You know, Chris and I, we all have to relive that injury, and that's the hard part about, you know, being there for the families. But what we want to do is be able to provide the best way to say if is information, inspiration and hope. A lot of times the hope is taken away. The family is going to be given the worst-case scenario, and you know, we've seen other situations where coaches - or where the doctors have provided the worst-case scenario, and we've had situations where young men that have suffered a similar injury are now walking. So, you know, we wanted just to make sure that they're there. That they don't feel alone. Because they may have a whole ICU room full of people, but as a parent going through this, you feel so isolated because very few people will understand what this family is going to go through. We do. And so we've walked those shoes and we live it every day. So being able to have someone to talk to and offer the information and guidance is very important. And that's where we come in. Being there for them immediately, organizing the community, the coaches on how to help, you know, this young man and his family. And so that's so important. Because, again, there's a lot of people that might want to help, but have no clue how to help.", "Well, they're going to know now.", "We can guide those families.", "Darn right.", "Yes, ma'am.", "Gridiron Heroes, and Eddie Canales, not only are you our hero, but we got - we should put your son Chris right along with you. Thank you so much for talking about the program.", "Oh, yes.", "We so appreciate having you with us.", "Thank you very much.", "You bet. And CNN has announced its Top 10 Heroes for 2011. Who are these inspiring people doing extraordinary things? Well, check them out at CNNHeroes.com and vote for your top choice for Hero of the Year and watch them or DVR it. \"CNN Heroes, an All-Star Tribute\" live on Sunday, December 11th, 8:00 P.M. Eastern, 5:00 P.M. Pacific. Well, climbing Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro is quite a feat within itself. But a 25-year-old Georgia man who was born a quadruple amputee is taking on the awesome task, all while raising awareness for African children with disabilities. WGCL reporter Hena Daniels has the story.", "I think Kilimanjaro is going to be the toughest test I've ever faced.", "And Kyle Maynard knows all too well about challenges. He's a quadriplegic born with no arms and no legs.", "To me I'll never know any difference. So my parents raised me with that. You just go and believed that, you know, the disability was there, but it wasn't something that was going to affect my life.", "And it hasn't. The 25-year-old has competed in wrestling, martial arts and cross fit. But now he's preparing to climb more than 19,000 feet on Mt. Kilimanjaro.", "So looking forward just to send a message to people that, you know, just, you know, get up and do something. We got to get out of that mentality that, you know, we just whine and complain about all the bad things that can go and happen to us. You know, just go and say, like there's life to live. Like I'm just going and start to do something now, you know, live it.", "Kyle and his team prepare for the climb on Stone Mountain. Kyle will not use any prosthetics or be pulled up with any equipment.", "So basically just doing a bear crawl down on all fours.", "All he has is mountain bike tires wrapped around his limbs with gorilla tape.", "There's no Ace Hardware in Africa where we're going to, you know, to pick up gears. So if something breaks like we've got to make sure that we can fix it.", "Team Kilimanjaro consists of Kyle and his friends who will connect with children in Africa also affected by disabilities.", "People would think that like a grown guy born without arms and legs that that's the worst thing that can happen to him. 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{"id": "CNN-100212", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2005-12-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/01/lol.04.html", "summary": "One Person in Custody After Shooting at Fort Worth Naval Air Station; AIDS in America", "utt": ["Shots ring out at the Naval air station in Fort Worth, Texas. We know that three people are hurt, but other details are still developing. Fredricka Whitfield following the story in the newsroom right now -- Fred.", "All right. Well, we know that the -- three reportedly have been wounded. And we also are being told that one person is in custody there at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in West Fort Worth. You're looking at a live shot right now provided by WFAA. And outside the gate of the air reserve station is Yolanda Walker, who is with WFAA. And she has just spoken with authorities there. And, Yolanda, do we know, at this juncture, whether those wounded and the suspected shooter are civilians or otherwise?", "Now, it appears that all three persons involved are military personnel. And we're told that the gunman in this case is -- was a disgruntled employee. He has been transported to the hospital, in critical condition. We don't know his name or what the problem was. We do know that the two injured may not have been severely injured. But one of them, we think, has been transported as well. We're still waiting on the chief here to come out and give us some more information. And what information we do have came from a Fort Worth police officer. Fort Worth police have been called off of this investigation, because military personnel, they have their own police force. And federal investigators are on the base now. We're told that this happened somewhere in the ops center, or near the ops center, which is part of the control tower on the base. They were holding traffic coming out of the base for quite some time and had several roadblocks set up. Now they're allowing traffic in and out of the base at this time.", "And, so, Yolanda, for clarification one more time, are we talking about two wounded or three?", "We're told, initially, that it was three wounded, one being the gunman. And he -- and he may have wounded himself, as a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The other two, we're told, the injuries were superficial. But we're hearing that unconfirmed.", "All right, Yolanda Walker of WFAA, thanks so much for being with us on the phone there. So, Kyra, of course, involving military personnel, as you heard from Yolanda, now a -- a matter that is being investigated by military and even federal authorities there at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in West Fort Worth. And this is an air station, where -- it is also home to fighter attack and airlift units from the reserve components of the Air Force, the Marines and the Navy -- Kyra.", "Operation Thunder Blitz launched Tuesday in Iraq along the Tigris River in Southern Baghdad -- hundreds of U.S. troops and Iraqi forces taking part. And, according to the U.S. military, dozens of suspected insurgents have been arrested. The aim is to stabilize the area before key national elections later this month. And a tale of two cities in Iraq, Tal Afar in the north, and Fallujah in the heartland, both of them tests of a new Iraqi military that is very much a work in progress. President Bush cites the progress. But CNN's Nic Robertson reports, the focus in country is very much on the work.", "Tal Afar two months ago, the battle President Bush touts to show the Iraqi troops are getting better -- the president said 11 Iraqi battalions took the lead, with 5 U.S. battalions in support, and said the Iraqis performed better than in the Fallujah offensive a year ago. But they were two different battles, Fallujah an all-out offensive, Tal Afar, a dangerous, but more contained large-scale cordon and search. Even with many Iraqi troops, the battle was fought from a U.S. plan, requiring U.S. tanks and helicopters -- in other words, no U.S. troops, no victory. The next big operation, Steel Curtain, U.S. troops led the way, outnumbered Iraqis six to one. \"Uneven\" was how President Bush described Iraq's security preparedness. He's in tune with his commanders here.", "Progress is uneven, and -- and it's uneven across the country. It's uneven in units. It's uneven between the army and the police.", "President Bush said there were 120 Iraqi battalions, 40 leading the fight, 80 fighting alongside U.S. troops. Iraqi battalion commander Colonel Thear is capable of leading the fight.", "He is the most effective counterinsurgency combat leader serving with this brigade task force right now.", "But Thear lacks even an armored Humvee. He says U.S. forces are planning to downsize significantly at his base, and he wants to expand.", "We told coalition forces, just, we need like support.", "Iraqi soldiers being trained by Lieutenant Colonel Ross Brown are a long ways short of Colonel Thear's readiness.", "When did he last clean his weapon? No, that's the answer. But look at that weapon. What did he clean it with?", "It's a daily battle for Brown, getting the unit he mentors ready to fight alongside U.S. soldiers.", "They didn't do too much work yesterday. They didn't do too much work the day before. They haven't done too much work since they have been here.", "President Bush didn't say how many Iraqi troops are at level-one readiness, units capable of planning and carrying out counterinsurgency operations on their own.", "And I don't know what the particular number today is on level one.", "As expected, President Bush didn't detail precise conditions for U.S. withdrawal. Iraqis we talked to said, even if he did, they wouldn't believe him. But what President Bush did do was send a very clear message to the insurgents: The U.S. won't withdrawal until the Iraqis are ready. Nic Robertson, CNN, Baghdad.", "America's highest-ranking soldier stuck to the White House battle plan today at National Defense University, a day after President Bush released his national strategy for victory in Iraq, one based largely on standing up a credible Iraqi military. Joint Chiefs Chairman Peter Pace confronted the issue of American troop strength. Too much or too little?", "The question I get most often is -- about security and security forces -- is: \"Don't we need more troops?\" The answer is: \"We need more Iraqi troops. And we are working on that.\"", "Now, regardless of what President Bush says, or the Joint Chiefs chairman, or any other administration official, Democratic Senator John Kerry is show no sign of letting up in his criticism of Mr. Bush's Iraq war policy. Kerry was on hand with Mr. Bush today at a White House event honoring Rosa Parks. At first, it was all smiles and a handshake. But, once the ceremony was over, Kerry went on the attack, saying that more of the same in Iraq will just prolong the war.", "If you just continue along the road we're going now, without a more concrete transfer of responsibility, a -- a -- a target schedule, by which you begin to turn over provinces, by which you specifically begin to shift the responsibility, I think a lot of people fear that it's going to be more of the same. So, I'm not asking even for the specific timetable of withdrawal. I'm asking for a specific timetable of transfer of authority, of transfer of responsibility, of the shift and the setting of the benchmark specifically that allow us to bring our troops home.", "Well, Kerry also says the president is ignoring the realities on the ground in Iraq, as military leaders have described them to Congress. Not inevitable and not acceptable, President Bush's perspective on HIV infects and AIDS -- as many as 40,000 new cases in the U.S. alone every year. On World AIDS Day 2005, we know that some 40 million people around the world are living with HIV. The U.N. estimates that more than half of those, some 26 million, live in Africa, a million or more in America. More than three million people have died of AIDS worldwide this year alone. And, despite all the spending, research and cutting-edge treatments, the World Bank says 2005 will be the worst year ever for HIV infections and AIDS deaths. One group of Americans is particularly vulnerable to the -- to the scourge and the stigma. And you may be surprised to learn which. Here's CNN's Ali Velshi.", "I was literally dying.", "Ida Byther-Smith remembers her shock the day she took a routine blood test and found out she had", "You made a mistake on my name when I walked in, so I know you got the wrong person.", "But it was true. Seventeen years ago, she was infected by her husband, who left her for another man. After a long period of shame and silence...", "I thought I was going to cut my wrists.", "... Ida told her family, forgave her husband, and nursed him for three years, until his death. She now works to prevent AIDS among African-American women, a highly vulnerable group, according to the Centers For Disease Control. HIV is the leading cause of death in African-American women age 25 to 34. Black women are 21 times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than white women. And 76 percent of all women are infected through heterosexual sex.", "Your viral load is really out of control. And...", "On the front lines is Bethsheba Johnson, a nurse who runs a clinic for AIDS patients on Chicago's South Side.", "Hey.", "She says, every day, she sees why HIV cases are up among African-American women.", "We don't like to think of our -- our partners as being bisexual or gay. We don't want to think of our men possibly incarcerated having sex with other men. It -- it's just a lot denial: \"My man wouldn't do that.\"", "Health officials believe some ex-offenders go back and infect their wives and girlfriends. Other men may have multiple sex partners, putting women at risk. Bethsheba says women still assume that AIDS is just a gay white male disease.", "Or, \"It just won't happen to me,\" if you're young. \"I'm invincible.\"", "I wasn't a prostitute. I wasn't a gay white man. I wasn't on drugs. People think they can see HIV. You can't see", "For Ida, the answer lies in empowering African-American women. That means educating themselves and practicing safe sex...", "You have got to confront something before you can fight it. We have got to acknowledge that this is happening.", "... and never have a false sense of security.", "We need to look in the mirror and say, this is the face of HIV. Ali Velshi, CNN.", "Well, the part of New Orleans hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina is open today -- and today only -- so that residents can see what is left of their homes and remove their most cherished belongings. We are talking about the city's lower Ninth Ward. It was largely demolished by the breach of the London Canal -- London Avenue Canal, rather. And, up until today, the only access the residents had was a one-day bus tour. Three months now since Katrina roared ashore, this is how it looks, overturned cars, neighborhoods converted into fields of debris, homes moved from their moorings and buried under rubble. In the words of one resident, and probably many more, \"Everything is gone.\" Once again, this is the scene today in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Also in New Orleans, a suburban shopping mall has removed a Yuletide display that may have been a little too realistic. The snow- covered scene had a train that ran through neighborhoods where homes were covered with tarps surrounded by rubble and marked as condemned. Officials at Lakeside Shopping Mall in Metairie said, most people seemed to like it. But, to some, it apparently cut too close to the bone. The designer, Frank Evans, he spoke this morning to CNN's Miles O'Brien. (", "I think, when people come back to New Orleans -- you know, people are coming back every day. And the people go through a grieving process, and the people who have been here the longest, they -- you know, they finally looked at the display and said, you know, I don't want to cry anymore; I just laugh about it. And some people weren't to that point yet, I guess, and it -- it might have upset them. So, you know, I had family members. My daughter lost her whole house. She helped me build the display, and she enjoyed it. You know, she -- she thinks it's funny.", "Evans says he has received requests to mount his display elsewhere. And don't forget to check out \"AMERICAN MORNING,\" of course, at its new time, 6:00 a.m. A political balancing act -- Senator Clinton states her case on the U.S. role in Iraq, why she criticizes the president's strategy, but still defends her vote to authorize the war."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "YOLANDA WALKER, WFAA REPORTER", "WHITFIELD", "WALKER", "WHITFIELD", "PHILLIPS", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over)", "GENERAL MARTIN DEMPSEY, U.S. ARMY, COMMANDER OF MULTINATIONAL SECURITY TRANSITION COMMAND", "ROBERTSON", "COLONEL STEVEN SALAZAR, 3RD BRIGADE", "ROBERTSON", "COLONEL ISMAEL THEAR, IRAQI ARMY", "ROBERTSON", "LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROSS BROWN, TRAINING IRAQI SOLDIERS", "ROBERTSON", "BROWN", "ROBERTSON", "DEMPSEY", "ROBERTSON (on camera)", "PHILLIPS", "GENERAL PETER PACE, CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF", "PHILLIPS", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-101274", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2006-1-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/01/bn.01.html", "summary": "Oklahoma City Neighborhoods Burning; Evacuation Orders In Effect", "utt": ["This is CNN Breaking News.", "Good evening, I'm Carol Lin at the CNN Center and what you're seeing right now on your screen is parts of Oklahoma City on fire right now. These grassfires are beginning to spread into the urban areas. I'm told at least a dozen wildfires inside of Oklahoma City are burning right now. Mason Dunn, he is a pilot for our CNN affiliate KWTW, I believe, is on the telephone with me right now. Mason, what are you seeing from the air?", "Mason, it just looks like it's spotted, there's a grass fire in one neighborhood, then another house on fire in a different neighborhood. Why is it so checkerboard?", "Well, this fire has spread very quickly. We had a wind shift come through and that did not help matters at all. Firefighters on the other fires were preparing theirself for the winds coming out of the southeast and we had a cold front or something come through, a wind shift, now the winds are directly out of the west and these fires have just taken off and firefighters are not able to get a handle on it right now.", "How many homes do you think are on fire right now?", "Just on this one fire", "A short time ago I spoke with the Oklahoma fire marshal, Robert Doke (ph) and he was saying at that time about 10 fires burning in Oklahoma City. He says he believes these may have been started by cigarette butts, people carelessly throwing cigarettes out of their car windows.", "That could be, Carol, because two of the fires that we went on were started right at a road. A paved road that somebody probably could have been driving down and threw their cigarette out. We've got 40 mile an hour winds right now. They were trying to call the Chinook helicopters in to come help try to put this fire out right in the metro. The helicopters are not flying because it's dark or too windy or both so right now Oklahoma City Fire Department has a lot on their hands trying to get this fire out, just attacking it on the ground, Carol.", "It's dark so we can't really tell. You and I over the last several days have been talking about rural fires out in farm country but we are looking at a city neighborhood?", "You're looking at a really nice neighborhood. These are pretty good-sized homes with big lots, so the homes are not really close together like the fire we had in Guthrie. The fire in Guthrie I was on earlier. We had about five structures that were taken in that fire and this one just started soon after that as we were coming back from Guthrie. We're about 50 miles from Guthrie and I can still see the fire in Guthrie burning at this hour.", "Mason, I'm looking at a huge home now on fire. The flames are coming right out of the roofline of the second story.", "Yeah that house is pointed to the west, OK? So it's the east side that's on the fire, the winds are about 35 to 40 out of the west to the east right now so you can see it was actually the east side of that house that caught on fire. That is a very large two- story home. Somebody is losing their home here on the first day of 2006.", "I also just a report, too, that highways in the area are now closed. What are you hearing?", "Well, the highway, I-35 was closed earlier on the Guthrie fire. It is now reopened. They've got the Guthrie fire under control. There is a large fire out in Cimarron City that we were covering whenever the wind shift comes through and once the wind shift comes through that fire just took off. They do not have that one under control at this time. But right now traffic in the city of Oklahoma City except for this intersection around northeast 63rd and Sooner, around Coltrane and 50th, those areas are the only roads that's closed right now, Carol.", "Some 250,000 acres will have burned when all is said and done, that's according to a state estimate and some of the cities that I'm reading about here, Mason, on the wire, Cimarron City, you mentioned, Stigler, Wainwright, OK Slick (ph), Shamrock, Welty (ph) and Cashon (ph). Give our audience some appreciation of how big an area that is?", "Well, these are like fires you'd see out in California except we had them here in Oklahoma. We don't have the hills that you have in California, but once these fires keep going, Carol, it is amazing, it's like a firestorm, if the wind blows, this fire will travel about a mile - about a quarter mile to half a mile wide, it will travel a mile in about 10 minutes. So if you have a house, we watched a house yesterday just get fully engulfed with some tall grass that was around it and it was just amazing how quick these fires spread. We have had about 20 to 30,000 acres, is that what you said ...", "No, the fire marshal is estimating that it is going to be something like 250,000 acres, a quarter of a million acres burned in Oklahoma.", "Yeah, we were out on the Shamrock fire earlier and we were just watching cattle and horses and all of that. Farmers are out there trying to get their cattle and horses rounded up and out of the pens because they're penned up and they get trapped in there so luckily we've only lost - unfortunately we've had one death with all these fires and I'm not sure on the animal count right now, Carol.", "Mason, maybe you can explain this. One of our screens that the audience is seeing is a line of fire or a wall of fire. The line just sort of runs jaggedly across what appears to be a hillside. Is that the fire line where the firefighters are trying to stop it?", "That is close to where the fire started, Carol. That is on the West Side as my photographer David Young is going to pan back to where the fire is, that's the house that's on fire and you can see how quickly this fire has moved. That's about a mile stretch and this fire moved very quickly. They did have to evacuate a - sejition (ph) over here, by the way, too, Carol.", "Yeah it looks like a snake of flames moving through that neighborhood and you're saying this is a pretty wealthy neighborhood?", "Well, you know, Carol, out here you got a little bit of both. You'll have a wealthy - a nice house next to a nice trailer house so who knows? I would say yes, it's a very nice neighborhood around here and of course you're right in the metro. This is right inside the Oklahoma City limits.", "Right. So how far is this from, say, a downtown area?", "Downtown is off to my left and it's about 10 miles right now. I can see a beautiful shot of downtown Oklahoma City right now and I might add that whenever the wind pick up today you can not see a half a mile when we were flying back from Shamrock to Oklahoma City. You couldn't see a half a mile with all the blowing dust. So this is my second photographer that I've had today. My first one got sick so I had to drop him off and pick up another, Carol.", "So is it fair to say that this fire may be threatening Downtown Oklahoma City?", "No, it is not approaching Downtown Oklahoma City. It is actually going the other way. It's going away from Oklahoma City right now and they're trying to head this fire off at the next paved road that we have, which is Sooner Road. They're doing a good job of that right now. There's so much smoke I can't - usually I have a frequency I talk to the fire department so if I see anything dangerous I can actually talk to the fire department directly and lead them into the fire sometimes or tell them that the fire has jumped about a half a mile.", "So what is it heading toward then?", "I really couldn't tell you, Carol. It's really dark down here but I see all the fire trucks are on Sooner Road so hopefully they have it dropped off at Sooner Road, but across from that was an addition that they have already evacuated. Oklahoma City Fire Department wastes no time in evacuating homes around here. They will drive right to the homes anywhere within a half a mile of this fire and start evacuating homes and that's the right thing to do and they'll start fighting the fire up in the front with all the wind gusts.", "Anybody has got to be crazy to stay in their house right now if they're anywhere near that neighborhood. This fire has been moving so quickly, all for the last five days and it's fair to say that it's just way too dangerous to try to hold on to their property. I know a lot of people have a hard time letting go not knowing what they're going to return to. I'm from California and I've covered so many wildfires and so many mudslides and people even in the evacuation zones, they just say that they don't want to sit somewhere else and worry about it, they want to be here fighting the flames and then they get overcome.", "That's right. I saw a lot of people out with water hoses watering down the top of their roofs, which is a good idea but Brian Stanaland, the major -- fire official around here, he's a major, he talks about keeping the grass around your house mowed pretty low and that's a good idea. I saw a great example of that yesterday when we were watching the fire approach this house and the fire went 50 yards in about 20 seconds, Carol, so it was just some amazing video that we were showing and it just reminded me of a firestorm, Carol.", "Mm-hmm. That's sure what it looks like right now in that urban neighborhood near Downtown Oklahoma City. Mason, how long have you lived there? Is this home for you?", "I was born and raised here, Carol. I've lived here all my life. I am very lucky to fly for a local TV station. It's like getting drafted by the home team. So we've got a very good TV station here, KWTV Oklahoma City. I'm very proud to work for them, been born and raised here like I said and just glad to be here.", "What is it like for you to look down on these neighborhoods and cover this story and even know some of the people who may be evacuated or losing their homes?", "Well, on one sense I feel helpless but on the other sense I feel like maybe I'm doing something or helping somebody. It's like a catch-22. I have a job to do and we get it done and sometimes I do feel very helpless out here watching these homes go up in flames but we do our fair share of landing and picking up fire chiefs and taking them around to try to head off the fire. We've done that numerous times out here so I get a little - I'm glad I'm able to do that and maybe help in some way with the helicopter, Carol.", "Yeah. So many heartbreaking stories on the ground, even just amongst these firefighters who have been battling these flames 15, 20 hours a day, walking on hot coals and getting blisters.", "I'm sorry, Carol, could you repeat that?", "I'm just saying that these firefighters are working their bottoms off, walking on hot coals, or the equivalent of hot coals for 15, 20 hours. They ...", "You're talking about the firefighters right now?", "Yes I am.", "I'm losing my coverage a little bit. I'm trying to pick you up but you've got to remember, Oklahoma City, every fire station around here has been fighting fires for the last week and they are very tired, running out of resources. Firemen and women. I've seen - landed the other day and there were several women out there fighting these fires. So you've got to give it to these firefighters around here. It's been a terrible last week and a half, Carol.", "It sure has. Mason, we've been really glad to have you onboard. We want to stay with you throughout this. You're getting a bird's eye view of the fires burning in an Oklahoma City neighborhood not far from Downtown Oklahoma. So, Mason, stay right there. I've got with me on the telephone right now Albert Ashwood. He is with the Department of Emergency Management for Oklahoma. Mr. Ashwood, can you give us the big picture situation, because it sure looks pretty bad from our vantage point right here.", "Well, obviously it's terrible. I'm looking at the pictures that Mason is giving you right here on CNN as well as the 12 other active fires we have across the state of Oklahoma right now. It's not just the Oklahoma City area. Luckily in Oklahoma City we do have a large fire department and they do an outstanding job. Across the state we also have about 900 volunteer fire departments that are fighting these things and have been fighting them for the last week.", "Do you have enough fire manpower, firefighter power behind these fires to at least try to contain them?", "I don't think you ever have enough manpower, especially with the conditions we currently - we've requested resources from other states through our forestry division of the Department of Agriculture. I know we have U.S. Forest Service compacts that are being utilized with fire teams from Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina. They have all come over. We are probably going to get some more to pre-position them, to help out with these fires and as well as equipment. But it's just extreme conditions here in the state and it's going to be a while before it gets any better.", "So what are you predicting for tonight? I mean, at least the temperatures must be dropping in the night time but you've got a dozen fires burning.", "Well, we do have a drop in the temperatures, that's a good thing, and humidities will go up. Unfortunately, the winds have shifted. Now they're directly out of the west and we have a new front that's coming through here. It's almost 7:00 at night and we're still having 30 to 35 mile per hour gusts and that's extremely unusual for this state. When the winds get down, hopefully there can be some containment but then again, we'll fight them again first thing tomorrow.", "So who's in the path of this fire that we're watching right now?", "Well, there are numerous homes in that area but Oklahoma City, like most of Oklahoma is spread out to where you have housing additions and then open area, a lot of ranches, a lot of farms so it's sporadic going from house. This is an area that is very close to the state capitol, frankly, it's only a few miles from here. And we're watching it just the same way you are.", "So what are the dangers or the chances that this fire is going to - the winds are going to shift and this fire is going to start blowing towards the downtown?", "Well, I think the main thing that we have the Oklahoma City Fire Department out there and they do an outstanding job and we've had a fire in close to this same area a few days ago and they did an outstanding job putting it out. Unfortunately, after dark here we do not have the aerial fire suppression that we had earlier in the week with the Chinook helicopters and the Black Hawks with the buckets. It's just too dangerous to fly after dark and especially in these high winds.", "Mr. Ashwood, I want to keep you on the telephone line. I just want to update our viewers in case they are just joining us. You are looking at live pictures of grassfires burning inside the Oklahoma City city limits. This is a neighborhood of very large family homes about 10 miles from Downtown Oklahoma City and I have with me on the telephone Albert Ashwood. He is with the Department of Emergency Management for the State of Oklahoma. All right, sir. Mr. Ashwood, if we could hold you as long as we can, I want to go to our affiliate KOCO and listen in to the coverage there on the ground.", "Just right in that area so if there was a house fire there this is probably just the ongoing cycle of the house fire that is in that area.", "Now, Rob, it seems as though if that were indeed a house fire, there are so many crews on the scene of this, they would be on the scene pretty quickly.", "Well, there are a lot of crews around this area and I would guess - I've seen crews headed that way. I don't know if they're just going up and down 50th but I would guess they are back in that area. I don't know what kind of terrain is back in there. This area of Oklahoma County is a bit hilly and it's a little bit hard for these guys to work their way back in there but they are great at what they do and they are great at getting back into areas where the fire is. It is starting to flare up a little more there, getting a little more orange, you're seeing a couple plumes there, that right there that you just saw the burst of sparks, if you will, that is also something that happens when a pine tree or a cedar tree goes up, so it may just be a clump of trees that's on fire back in that area.", "We can only hope so, Rob, and that's an excellent point. One of the best views so far we've had of this fire is from our towercam (ph) far up in the air and it is windy up there but it has been showing hot spots glowing on occasion for the last hour and a half or so. As we look off to the due east area, we and our towercam are both at Britain Road (ph) near Kelly (ph) so this is looking straight east. The trouble area around ...", "You're listening to our affiliate coverage, KOCO as they had a reporter right in one of those neighborhoods in that Oklahoma City neighborhood where they were watching as the fire was moving in on a residential home. Once again, on the telephone with me right now is Albert Ashwood. He is with the Department of Emergency Management in Oklahoma. Mr. Ashwood, we were just listening in to this report and frankly, it's remarkable that the reporters could get that close but also, KOCO reporting that so far no injuries or deaths in these most recent fires. Is that true?", "Well, that's amazing. We have had two deaths since basically the first about a month ago when we started having fires but in this recent outbreak we have not had any that we're aware of. Of course, there's going to be a lot of heat exhaustion. There's going to be some firefighters that are going to have some trouble and we'll work with that but frankly all we need right now is we need some precipitation, we need something to change in the weather because we are a bit at the mercy of the weather right now.", "All right. Mr. Ashwood, listen in because I've got Monica McNeal, our meteorologist at the CNN weather center. Monica, these people are desperate for any kind of humidity or moisture. What's in the forecast?", "It doesn't look good, Carol, right now. It doesn't look like we're going to see any moisture in the near future. As of right now, just about the entire region is still under this fire danger and with these very, very low humidities and this wind it's still a problem. I want to read some of the latest relative humidity and wind speeds for you. Out of Stillwater, their winds are out of the south at about 20 miles per hour, they're gusting at 31. Right there in Oklahoma City the winds are 22 and gusting at 36 and the relative humidity is about 30 percent, so that's a little bit higher than some of these other areas like in Texas, Abilene, Texas, their relative humidity is 17 percent, Wichita Falls, 17 percent, so this just gives you an indication of just how dry it is in this general area and what these gentlemen are up against. I do want to point out something else to you that is playing a big role in this problem that we're having. In the upper levels of the atmosphere there is an area of low pressure that has just moved through parts of Kansas. You can see the rotation. Now, how does this play into what's going on? Well, when you have an area of low pressure, there is counterclockwise, OK, winds around it so it is dragging a lot of the winds out of the west and southwest. That's bringing in some more very, very dry conditions. So that's playing a big part. On top of that, you've got extremely record warm temperatures for this time of the year. We're talking about temperatures, folks, in the 70s and in the 80s. It's 77 degrees right now in Dallas and you can see this bubble of warm air extends all the way as far up as St. Louis, so that just encompasses the entire state of Oklahoma, with your temperatures in the 70s, possibly near record temperatures for this time of the year so when you've got record warm temperatures, Carol, you've got this lack of humidity and with no rainfall for nearly months, that's what's creating these problems, and it doesn't look like we're going to see any rain tonight or even tomorrow.", "All right. Is there anything developing off to the west or to the north that might help them even in the coming week?", "Well, it's funny that you ask that. As of right now, just to the east of this system, what's happening in Oklahoma and Texas is a dry line. And when we talk about a dry line, it's pretty much straddled right in this general area through Oklahoma, back down through parts of Texas. Out ahead of it, across the Southeast, believe it or not we're dealing with showers and thunderstorms. A dry line separates very warm, moist air from dry air, so that's what's the problem here, too, they're stuck right in this dry line zone, so we're not going to see any relief over the next 24 hours.", "Monica, thank you. All right, Albert Ashwood with the Department of Emergency Management in the State of Oklahoma. Mr. Ashwood, I wish I had better weather news for you but it looks like the map is pretty dry and pretty hot in your neck of the woods.", "Absolutely. We've realized that for some time. Hopefully there will be a change in the near future.", "Well, given that we're looking at parts of Oklahoma City now on fire, what is your biggest worry? I mean I've got a laundry list here. Cimarron City, Stigler, Wainwright, Oakhay (ph). What are you worried about the most if you have to prioritize?", "I don't think that you can - you have to prioritize different fires, one over the other just for the amount of damage they can do. You have to look at first protecting the individuals and then protecting the homes and property. Some fires that are out in the pasturelands just have to burn for a while so our firefighters are out there actually doing the work, they are the ones that have to do the priority and we have to support them any way we can to make sure that they do the best job possible.", "Mm-hmm. Well, taking a look at parts of this Oklahoma City neighborhood burning, there are firefighters right down there in the midst of this trying to save some of those homes, trying to keep the fire from spreading any further, it is remarkable the heroics and the stamina of those firefighters right now.", "Absolutely and we have to rely on individuals to take every caution possible to make sure that they're not careless, make sure that they do not accidentally start fires or burn trash out back or anything like that. We have to take the personal responsibility to be prepared as possible for the coming events.", "I was talking with the Oklahoma fire marshal, Robert Doke (ph) and he believes that some of these fires in the city may have been started by cigarettes being tossed out of a car window.", "That's always a possibility. There are numerous careless fires that are started. Unfortunately, in the conditions that we have right now, it's critical not to have that happen.", "All right. Albert Ashwood. We appreciate your time. Stay with us for as long as you can and listen in because I've got Brian Stanaland, he is with the Oklahoma City Fire Department. Mr. Stanaland, it looks like a serious situation on the ground. Are you able to contain this fire at least to this neighborhood?", "We do believe that we can contain it. That is the goal now. We were able to evacuate large areas of this neighborhood that you see. Unfortunately, there are some houses that are burning down there in the neighborhood. We do believe we are going to be able to contain it. We're trying to make a stand here at one of the model section (ph) roads to be able to stop this fire. Our biggest concern is if it spreads further then there is going to be further neighborhoods in danger so we have already as a precaution evacuated neighborhoods to the east of this fire. Winds are strong, like 40 miles an hour out of the west just blowing, just extremely hard out here, carrying these embers far away.", "Yeah, how far? Because in California wildfires I've covered, embers can go as far as a mile sometimes.", "Oh, absolutely. That's easy to do out here in these winds that are happening right now and we're just so dry out here, we haven't had rain for long and we had a really we summer, so we had a significant growing season, so all the vegetation grew up real tall and thick and now it's dead and dormant and dry and it is really - it is just a disaster out here going on right now but the firefighters, we're doing the very best we can with what we've got, trying to keep these fires contained and trying even more than that to prevent injury to any of our citizens.", "Mm-hmm. It's remarkable - given the scene that we're looking at right now, that there haven't been more deaths and injuries.", "Yeah. You're exactly right and a lot of that is thanks to the citizens taking heed and getting out and the strong work of these firefighters on the scene, just working diligently to try to keep these fires at bay and we're relying on our citizens, also, to try to keep things under control.", "Mr. Stanaland, I had heard remarkable stories of courage by these firefighters and the incredible stamina that they have put forth in the last five, six days, fighting these fires. They have to be exhausted.", "Well, the good news at Oklahoma City, we are full time, paid department with about 950 firefighters on staff and we staff each day with 200. We have three shifts and at least 200 on duty every day and these rotate every day, every 24 hours so the crew that, for instance, is working today, worked Friday, but they had yesterday off and that's just how we do things, we rotate our crews so that - even with our rotation, fatigue can set in very easily with these constant, constant wildfires that keep popping up all over town. And that's the thing for the viewers that are used to seeing California wildfires - you don't have one large fires moving, in this case you have a bunch of smaller fires consuming the land, so that's kind of the difference.", "And it's harder to fight in that way, isn't it? Because you don't know where it's going to go.", "You don't know where the next one is going to happen, that is exactly right. You don't know where the next fire is going to happen so you just position your rigs, taking some educated guesses of how you know the terrain is in the area and just hope you've made the right decision.", "How many neighborhoods, then, or how many homes are in the path of this fire?", "To be honest with you, I don't know in this particular neighborhood but numerous - there's a lot of homes back there.", "Because I'm just wondering how you're positioning your firefighters. You've got to have some right on the ground in that neighborhood and you've got some working ahead maybe towards the east, since the winds have been coming from the west.", "That's exactly what we're doing. We've got positions taken up in the east neighborhood on the other side of the road trying to patrol for embers. We've got crews in the neighborhood itself trying to extinguish the fires and we're trying to make a stand on this road here, it's a road called Cedar Road here in Oklahoma City.", "So can you give me an estimate of how many people you had to evacuate or homes you had to evacuate?", "No. I don't have a count at this point.", "All right. Because I'm imagining there's got to be somebody heading off to the east knocking on doors. Is that how you do it? Do you knock on doors and you let them ...", "Yeah. You've got to knock on doors and what we're telling people is get in their vehicles and leave the area and just about everybody is doing exactly that.", "How much time do you think those families have? I guess I'm saying, if someone is knocking on my door and says there's a grassfire headed your way, do I have time to grab things, should I pack a bag?", "Not really. I would tell people in that situation to grab their pet, a couple of small things and get out. You've literally got just a few minutes.", "Really. So by the time the knock is on your door, it's too late to pack, you've got to get out.", "Oh yeah. You just need to get out. That's exactly right. And that's what we're telling our citizens, to stay tuned to television, stay tuned to the radio so that we can do these evacuations when necessary.", "Have you had any problems, people refusing to leave?", "Not any reported so far.", "That's pretty good.", "Can you hang on a second?", "Sure, sure. I'm talking with Brian Stanaland, obviously, very busy. He's the public information officer for the Oklahoma City Fire Department. He's telling us that they've got close to 1,000 firefighters right in the midst of it there, either battling the blaze in that particular neighborhood, which is about 10 miles from downtown Oklahoma City or leapfrogging ahead to the East to try to warn people to get out and get out fast. He said part of the problem with this fire, instead of like a wild lands fire where you may have one single fire, albeit large and battling it, this is spot fires moving in perhaps different directions. The winds are gusting now 30-to-35 miles per hour in the city limits. You're looking at live pictures of parts of Oklahoma City neighborhoods on fire right now. This is just part of the last five days of grass fires we've been covering both in Texas and Oklahoma. Brian Stanaland are you back with me?", "Yes, I am, I'm sorry.", "All right, was it an emergency?", "We're just talking about utilizing the police helicopter for an aerial view. So that's what we were discussing.", "So what's the latest report that you have on the ground?", "The latest really hasn't changed. We're still trying to make a stand here, trying to get things shut down here at the roadway and of course we're going to get back in the neighborhoods down there, and try to extinguish the fires as quickly as possible.", "Is there a point where you let a neighborhood burn, because there's nothing more you can do, or do you take an individual stand at all of the houses around those that are burning right now?", "You try to triage the situation, if you will, and try to save the houses that are not yet burned. But you also have to concentrate on extinguishing those that are burning because of all of the embers that are flying off and being put off.", "What do firefighters do if they come across pets?", "We just try to do the best we can and get those out, if possible. And the hope is that homeowners will take them with them when they're asked to evacuate.", "Yes, because that's got to be a tough situation there. You know, you're fighting for your own life, to try to stay safe while battling a fire, and here comes somebody's pet dog, lost and alone and your heart breaks. But what can you do?", "They just have to make the best judgment call they can.", "Brian Stanaland, thank you very much. If you can stay on the line, please do. I just want to update our viewers now that we're close to the top of the hour here that we are in breaking news mode. You are looking at parts of Oklahoma City on fire right now. That large ball of fire is a family home. This is a neighborhood that's about 10 miles from downtown Oklahoma City. I was just talking with the Oklahoma City Fire Department. They've got about 950 firefighters battling these blazes, working in different shifts. The emergency management folks say that the situation is very serious. What they're trying to do is take a stand, block off one of the main roads there, try to fight the fires that are burning and consuming these homes, while protecting others in the neighborhood. And then they've got firefighters leapfrogging ahead into neighborhoods to the east, warning people to get out. And when the knock on that door happens, those people have a matter of minutes before their life is in danger. So they are saying that one of the reasons why they've been so few reports of any injuries or deaths is because people have been heeding the evacuation order. People are on the run, because their houses are threatened. These grass fires we've been talking about since last Tuesday are now in the city of Oklahoma City. We are told by Mason Dunn, who is the helicopter pilot for KWTV in Oklahoma City, that so far, even though this fire that you're watching is so close to downtown Oklahoma City, the winds are blowing in a different direction so there's very little danger of this neighborhood fire spreading to the downtown buildings. But in talking with the Oklahoma Fire Department, they're saying what's different about this fire is that they are little spot fires. You know, these embers are spreading, you know, in different patterns. And they don't know where the next fire is going to break out. And that is one of the difficult things, the most difficult things in battling this particular blaze. They're counting on lower temperatures tonight, but it has been unseasonably warm both in Texas, as well as Oklahoma. Monica McNeal, our meteorologist at the CNN Weather Center. Monica, are they going to get any help at all tonight, even just temperatures dropping into the 60s or 50s, which sounds cool right now?", "Carol, you know, the temperatures will drop, but in terms of the winds, will still be somewhat gusty at times. I want to read some of the latest wind information for you. Oklahoma City winds out of the west at 26 miles-per-hour, gusting 35 miles-per-hour. Stillwater, southwest wind 17, gusting up to 28. Norman, Oklahoma, winds out of the west at 24, gusting up to 33. You may have heard me say west winds a couple of times. That's because a weak front has moved through some parts of Oklahoma City and is that going to help things out? No, it just reinforces the already dry air that's already in place at this point. You're looking at a satellite right now, and this is just showing you that the skies are absolutely clear. We can't buy any moisture. All of the moisture is out ahead of a cold front that's hammering parts of the southeast at this time. You could see in the upper levels of the atmosphere, this is an upper level low that's pulling its way toward the North and East. That has also created a lot of problems for parts of Oklahoma, and into Texas, because it's helping to pull those winds out of the southwest. But now as that weak front has moved on through, it is shifting those winds around to the West now. And they're still extremely gusty. The temperatures will cool off tonight, but then will be back to the same old thing once we get started with tomorrow because temperatures will warm back up and will be in this dry region again. I do want to point out something to you, I was telling you about how ahead of what's going on in Oklahoma, and Texas, is some very moist air. There's a dry line that's creating a lot of this problem as well. When we talk about a dry line, that's a system that is right between Oklahoma, back down into parts of west Texas. And when you have the dry line, it differentiates very warm, moist air that's out ahead of it and then dry air that's behind it. So that's a big problem, too. And then we've had record temperatures. Take a look at these temperatures right now. We've got temperatures that are this warm at this time of the year. We're in winter, the 1st of the year, it's 75 degrees in Oklahoma. It was 72 degrees about an hour ago in Oklahoma City. So with temperatures this very warm, and with the constant dry winds, looks like it's not going to be anything favorable over the next 24 hours. Carol?", "Well, Monica, boy, these guys need a break.", "Yes, they do.", "Hey, listen in with me if you can. We're going to tune in to one of our affiliates, they've got the Oklahoma County sheriff online, he might be talking about evacuations.", "The plan of attack on the fire is going to change and we have to relocate equipment. It's difficult to do that with all this traffic that's out here.", "What about your crews right now, Sheriff, and what your deputies are doing. Are they involved in the evacuation right now?", "Our crews are assisting Oklahoma City police. Hopefully we're going to be able to get a stop on this thing pretty quickly. And it looks like if it doesn't jump the road, they'll be able to do that.", "That is good news. This has been a common question, Sheriff, over the last several days, with all of the emergency workers and public servants that we've spoken with who are veterans of various droughts and wildfire conditions here in the metro and across central Oklahoma. Where does this situation, both today and over the last week rank in your memory, regarding the serious drought conditions you've faced in the past and the danger of wildfires?", "Well, I think this is at the top. I was involved in the 1991 fires that came through and destroyed the 40 homes out here in the eastern part of the county. That was like a single-day event, but these keep reoccurring every two or three days. I don't think I've ever seen it this bad or as widespread in Oklahoma County as we've seen this year.", "And you mentioned the widespread nature of this, Sheriff Whetsel. This is thankfully the first day we've really had major trouble here in the metro. Both Tuesday and Thursday, dangerous days for the most part, east of the metro and not heavily populated areas. But you talk about the spots we've seen, within your county today, 122nd and Penn, 33th and Kelley, 150th and Lincoln. If any of those fires were to have gotten out of control that presents serious dangers for the people who live there, and there are just so many structures there.", "There really are and that's one of the things we're talking to people here. We've got a lot of people that have been evacuated. We've got them at our command center and at the different road blocks. And it's really sad to talk to these people. They know at this point in time nothing's happened to their property, because they can see their homes. But there are some that can't see their homes and they see these huge balls of fire come up, and they're just hoping that it's not their home. And that's really the difficulty in dealing with these people there, because they want to be there, but they know they can't and there's nothing they can do about it.", "It's a bit of an unusual situation, Sheriff, but not unprecedented. It reminds me somewhat of severe weather season, when we are tracking severe storms, especially tornadoes and we're watching on advantage doppler H.D. as everyone else is, and you're trying to gauge the path of this storm. And you know where you live and you see your cross streets on advantage doppler and you can watch that storm coming. But this is something you're doing and it's a much more, it's a much slower moving situation and presents a different set of anxieties and concerns. Our final question for you, Sheriff. Your advice to everyone out here? You mentioned first of all, stay off the roads, don't come and be a spectator at these events. What else can you tell people when we're in such a dangerous fire situation?", "All I can tell them is certainly don't throw a lit cigarette from a motor vehicle. I'm sure that that's caused many of these fires. And for those that live in -- especially in the rural parts, what we're seeing is fire comes up to these homes. The biggest battle is what the home owner has planted or what the home owner hasn't moved.", "And we've seen pines and cedars causing so much trouble. Sheriff John Whetsel from Oklahoma County, thank you very much for your time. We could hear it in your voice, just what a long week you and your crews have had. Now, to bring you up to date...", "... You've been listening in to our CNN affiliate KOCO's live coverage there in Oklahoma City. The situation, if you're just tuning in is that there are fires burning now inside of Oklahoma City metro proper. You are looking right now as the flames are just about to come upon this home in this neighborhood near Sooner Road. They've got close to 1,000 firefighters in the Oklahoma City Fire Department. They are doing everything they can to save this neighborhood, and to keep this fire from spreading into the neighborhoods to the east. This is about 10 miles from downtown Oklahoma City. We have continuing coverage of this and other fires burning across the state of Texas, so stay with us. 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{"id": "CNN-314498", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2017-06-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1706/16/ath.01.html", "summary": "Hospital: Scalise Improving But Still Critical.", "utt": ["House Majority Whip Steve Scalise remains in critical condition today after another day of surgery from the gunshot wound that he suffered in an ambush earlier this week. Hospital officials in D.C. do say that his condition, though, has improved over the last 24 hours, which is welcomed news to everyone. Particularly his colleagues, who in a rare show of bipartisan unity came together on the field and off for the congressional charity baseball game last night that went on, despite the ambush at the Republican practice this week. Democrats, they won the game, 11-2, I believe, handed over the trophy to the Republican manager, Joe Barton. You're seeing it right there, in order to give it to Congressman Scalise. They're placing it in his office for when he returns. Another show of lawmakers putting their differences aside, a historic first, two joint interviews on CNN of House and Senate Republican and Democratic leaders.", "It's a tough age. It's a partisan, polarized country. What we're trying to do is tone down the rhetoric, lead by example, and show people, we can disagree with one another, we can have different ideas without being vitriolic, without going to such extremes.", "We're all close to Steve Scalise. He's a lovely person. But this game is a game where we always come to have fun, root for everybody, do our very best and hope our team wins. Tonight, we're all Team Scalise.", "We'd ought to be able to have big, robust debates in this country without having this level of animosity that a lot of people feel.", "If we can still, despite the rhetoric, work together in areas where we can work together in the Senate, as the cooling saucer, helping bring people together a little bit, that's a very good thing.", "Joining me now, a member of the Democratic congressional baseball team, Congressman Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania. Congressman, thanks so much for coming in.", "Happy to.", "Thank you. How would you describe what it was like to be there last night?", "It was very special, Kate, to be a part of it, especially the pregame ceremony. And really, I think the highlight for me -- well, there were two. First was when Steve Scalise at the end of the player introductions, Steve Scalise was introduced as the last player, and we all looked up at the screen at a picture of him, and he got a standing ovation from the crowd, an extended one. And then the other one was when the Capitol Police officer, one of the heroes from the incident a couple days ago, was actually out on the field with us in crutches. Had the opportunity to embrace him after the player introductions and say thank you to him for his heroism, saved the lives of my colleagues. Those are two highlights I'll take away and never forget.", "Have you noticed a real difference in the capitol since that shooting took place? There's been a lot of conversation, of course, Congressman, of the things need to change, and the rhetoric needs to tone down. Have you felt a difference?", "Yes, there's no question. Really, the last 48 hours, you can sense it and I think that's been pretty unanimous. Each member has felt it as well. It's a pretty dramatic thing to have experienced, especially for those of my colleagues who were there on the Republican team at the practice. I think there are a lot of questions about, OK, how do we build on this so it's not just a short-term thing and people don't go back to old bad habits. I think that's probably the next step. For myself, I can only control what I say and how I behave. I know that it's something the last week that I will certainly not forget.", "And it's an excellent point. It's how do you make it stick. I mean, we have been here, unfortunately, before, after Gabby Giffords was shot six years ago, Speaker Boehner gave a speech similar to Ryan on the House floor. How do you make it stick this time?", "I think we all have a responsibility, those of us in Congress as leaders, the president, the media, and also constituents, too. I mean, I can tell you, even a couple days ago, shortly after the incident happened with Steve Scalise, I know on my Twitter, seeing real vitriol, less of it than you would typically see, but it's still out there. So, I think each of us in a free and Democratic society has a responsibility to make sure that we behave in a way that's responsible and doesn't incite others. You know, I can feel strongly about an issue and speak out on it, but if you go beyond a certain line, know that that sort of rhetoric might end up leading very unstable people -- it might be the thing that pushes them over the edge.", "Right. But if we're all being honest, we know that, does this really change the gridlock in Washington which has put Congress' approval rating in the tank? I mean, Republicans still want to get rid of Obamacare, just talking about health care, and Democrats still hate the Republican plan to put in its place. I mean, what does unity look like and sound like on Capitol Hill then?", "Unity doesn't mean that suddenly we all vote 100 percent on an issue, but I think it has to do in terms of the tenor and the tone of the debate, both here in Washington and also throughout the country. You know, there's another point that I want to make about this, too, is that when we talk about gridlock, a lot of times people perceive that's the system breaking down that's not working. Remember, our founding fathers purposely designed us a system in which it was very difficult to get things done. In many ways, gridlock is the system, it is the fact that it's difficult to get a bill through a House and then work the Senate and then have agreement from the executive. It was designed that way on purpose. If we had a parliamentary system, things would be much quicker, but our founding fathers didn't give us that, and I think for good reason.", "In hearing members of Congress like yourself describe it more that way rather than it's the other side holding everything up, that might be a step in the right direction of what you're talking about, having differences, but letting it tone down and move forward. Congressman Boyle, it's great to see you. Thanks so much for coming in.", "OK, thank you.", "We are going to go back to our breaking news, forget the president's lawyers that he brought on to respond. White House officials now say that President Trump is taking matters into his own hands in the Russia investigation. The fiery political fight that he seemed to pick this morning with a member of his own administration. That's ahead. Plus, we'll hear from the president very soon, the president in his own words, when he touches down in Miami, Florida, taking on U.S. policy with Cuba. What's the big change and what all will he say when he takes to the microphone? We're going to bring that to you live. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), HOUSE SPEAKER", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), MINORITY LEADER", "SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), MAJORITY LEADER", "SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY), MINORITY LEADER", "BOLDUAN", "REP. BRENDAN BOYLE (D-PA), FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE", "BOLDUAN", "BOYLE", "BOLDUAN", "BOYLE", "BOLDUAN", "BOYLE", "BOLDUAN", "BOYLE", "BOLDUAN", "BOYLE", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-257214", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-06-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/12/cnr.03.html", "summary": "More Evidence against Prison Worker?", "utt": ["And good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. I want to begin with a desperate manhunt for two convicted killers. We now know prison worker Joyce Mitchell provided escape tools, including hacksaw blades. She supplied those things to Richard Matt and David Sweat before they broke free from a prison in upstate New York. That's according to two law enforcement sources. Mitchell has not been arrested or charged as of yet. Authorities say she is cooperating with police.", "She continues to cooperate. She continues to come in and speak to us, and each day we're learning a little bit more information as to her involvement in this case and how she developed a relationship with these two men. I can't speak for Miss Mitchell, but she may feel obviously some responsibility and guilt for her involvement, and she wants to help that situation or help herself out in her situation.", "All of this as bloodhounds pick up the inmates' scent at a gas station just one mile away from the prison. Moments ago I talked with one resident who lives in Saranac, New York. He claims there's a swarm of police activity in his neighborhood. Listen.", "We just got word from one of our neighbors that they possibly spotted the inmates jumping a stonewall at -- near the intersection of Cringle Road and Bucks Corners Road, and I know SWAT is there, and we also have several armed officers moving in towards the house. The helicopters are now flying south of me doing like search grids and to the east. So I'm not sure if it's like a delayed report and that they're searching other areas near there, but there definitely is a swarm of activity now.", "OK. So we're still trying to figure out what's going down in that neighborhood. But we want to get right to CNN's Jason Carroll and Alexandra Field. They're both on the ground in upstate New York. Let's start with you, Jason. Tell us the latest on the search.", "Well, from where our vantage point, we're at the eastern section of Route 374, that portion of the route still shut down. It was shut down yesterday. You heard from that resident there from Saranac, the Saranac Central School District has shut down classes again for the second day. A bit of new information emerging, Carol, about the possible trail of these two inmates, and that has to do with the gas station that you mentioned located just about an hour -- excuse me, located just about a mile or so away from where the prison is located. That's the Maple Field Gas Station. It's in all likelihood these two inmates stopped there trying to get food, perhaps trying to get supplies, maybe went through the dumpster there. Investigators are currently reviewing security cameras to see if that in any way will provide them any leads as well. In the meantime, as you know, those same dogs that hit on a scent there at the Maple Field Gas Station also hit on an area not too far where we are right now. We talked a little bit about that yesterday, that particular spot where perhaps these two had been bedding down for a period of time. Investigators now at this point have to try to confirm if, in fact, they were there for a period of time. We talked about those wrappers that were there on the ground that they found. Well, they've got to make sure that those wrappers were brought there, not blew in from another location and just happened to end up here -- happened to end up there. That's all going to be a part of the investigation that's going forward. In the meantime, they do have a perimeter there off of Route 374. They have narrowed that perimeter, but at this point still no sign of those two missing inmates -- Carol.", "All right. Jason Carroll, many thanks to you. Now let's head to Alexandra Field for more information about this prison worker, Joyce Mitchell. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. You spoke to one resident who described how he and so many others in this area are feeling pure disgust he said for the alleged responsibility that Joyce Mitchell may have had in helping these two inmates to escape. The Clinton County district attorney has said that he believes that she might be feeling some sense of guilt or responsibility and that's what could be motivating her to continue speaking to investigators on a daily basis without even having an attorney present. We are learning more about her alleged role. Two law enforcement officers saying she brought not only hacksaw blades into that prison but also drill bits and eyeglasses with lights on them, materials they say she had purchased within just the last few months. Another law enforcement official saying that it was her cell phone that was used to contact some of Richard Matt's associates. Police, of course, believe that Joyce Mitchell had planned to drive the getaway car and then at some point, the last minute perhaps, changed her mind leaving the two fugitives without any sort of plan here. The district attorney investigating her alleged role in the escape, while of course -- investigators are trying to track down the two fugitives who are still on the loose. The district attorney here says that at the end of this investigation he has every intention to pursue charges. Those charges could include felony charges like accessory to escape and promoting prison contraband. We are also learning a little bit more about why investigators focused so quickly on Joyce Mitchell in the aftermath of that escape. It was apparently investigated an earlier time, there had been reports of some kind of relationship between Joyce Mitchell and one of the escapees. There was an investigation. The D.A. says they didn't turn up any evidence that would confirm a relationship, but David Sweat was moved out of the tailor shop that she worked in here at the prison. We also know, Carol, that she has told investigators about her rapport with Richard Matt, saying that he made her feel special.", "It's just hard to fathom. Alexandra Field, Jason Carroll, thanks to both of you. I want to bring in criminologist Scott Bonn now. He's the author of \"Why We Love Serial Killers.\" I'm also joined by CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes, he's also a former FBI assistant director. Welcome, gentlemen.", "Good morning.", "Good morning. Scott, I want to start with you. Joyce Mitchell, what was she thinking?", "Well, this woman sounds like that she was in love or obsessed with one or both of these individuals, and these things happen sometimes. I really believe that in the case of Richard Matt you're dealing with an individual here who based upon everything that I have been able to learn about him is likely a psychopath and psychopathic individuals are very manipulative. They tend to be very intelligent and it's come out Matt's own son has said that his father has, he believes, a genius level IQ. So you have an individual here who is diabolical, cold-blooded, very manipulative, very intelligent, and it's very likely that he just won the affection --", "But it's one thing for a psychopath to talk to a woman and the woman doesn't know his criminal background.", "Right.", "I mean, Mr. Matt is a bad guy. He dismembered his boss. David Sweat is a bad guy. He shot a deputy 22 times, and Miss Mitchell would have known that.", "That's absolutely true, but even Charles Manson had his groupies and continues to have his groupies today. There's this fascination sometimes with individuals who become obsessed with very bad people, and perhaps she thought that he was misunderstood. Perhaps she thought that she was some -- in some way a soul mate, that she could change him somehow. You know, we don't know this woman's psychological makeup. She may be a very damaged or troubled person herself, and he fulfilled some need. That's what psychopaths do. They find a need that you have and they manipulate you and twist it in order to get what they want, and clearly this was extremely well planned. I mean, this was a meticulously well planned escape. And the fact that they may be in the woods just a few miles away from the prison is an indication that this was a botched job. Probably Joyce didn't show up as planned to pick them up because if she had, they probably would be long gone by now.", "Interesting. So, Tom, supposedly Miss Mitchell smuggled in hacksaw blades, safety glasses with lights, and drill bits. How would she have done that if she did indeed do it?", "Well, Carol, we don't know what the security measures were there for employees, contractors that come into the prison every day to work. So, you know, did she bring in a gym bag so she could work out and maybe, you know, hid it with that or made it look like she was trying to work out? You know, so we just don't know the security measures that were in place there to see how easy that would have been.", "And, Tom, I don't know if you heard him, but I just heard from a resident in Saranac that says there's a swarm of police activity just a couple of miles from where that prison is. Supposedly his neighbor said on Facebook that her -- in her parents' backyard these two guys jumped over a fence and went into the woods. Do you think that police are closing in or do they get a lot of these kinds of calls that may be accurate and maybe not?", "Could be both. You know, they do get a lot of those type of calls, and particularly if they get a call like that in this area where they believe these two are hiding in pretty close proximity to the prison, that they didn't get picked up and get driven out of town, out of state, so -- but even so they're going to take every one of these completely seriously and send in all of the police and SWAT teams and use aviation assets, everything they can do to try to locate them. They're not going to just blow off somebody that calls in on the phone and says, I have seen these guys. They're going to go. They're going to explore every possibility.", "It seems pretty obvious that authorities think they're still somewhere in the area because that's where they're concentrating their search. Is that a good guess on my part?", "No, and I think they've said that. That they were pretty, I guess, confident that that was the best choice at the moment, but they've also said, don't disregard the possibility that even if they were in that area up until as recently as yesterday, that they could have slipped out of the net. They could be out of state by now and on the loose, on their way somewhere else. You just don't know. And we don't know as cunning as they are whether their plan might have been to find a vacation home that nobody is occupying, enter it, shelter in that house for several weeks until all of this dies down a little bit and officers go back to more normal duties and the media stops covering this every day and showing their pictures and their tattoos and they're alleged girlfriend and, you know, at that point maybe try to get out of town. So we just don't know what their complete strategy was in the aftermath of somebody not picking them up that should have been there.", "So authorities say Joyce Mitchell was involved, but there had to be more people involved, right? How many people would have to be involved in something like this to go down?", "Well, I don't know. If she was able to bring in all of the tools and equipment that they were able to use to actually get out of the prison, then the question is what was the plan when they got out of the prison? If she was one of the people that was supposed to pick them up, she did let them use, or they did get access to her cell phone, so we don't know if they called other people and maybe they led her to believe that she was the one and she's the one they were going to rely on and maybe they did have somebody else that came along and was already always supposed to come along to pick them up or pick them up nearby at a couple miles from the prison. We just don't know. So we don't know that somebody that did all of the planning they did to get out of that prison must have had plan A, plan B, plan C for what they would do when they got out. It's hard to believe that once their ride didn't show up that they were completely stymied in where they were going to go and what they were going to do at that point.", "Yes, and I see, Scott, you're nodding your head. You agree?", "Absolutely. This was too well-planned on the inside for it to be so botched on the outside. Something went awry. There's been so many hits now with the dogs indicating that they slept in the woods. At a gas station they picked up the scent again. So there's a very strong indication that they are in that very, very close vicinity, and if that's the case, that can't possibly have been the original plan. And so something went awry. If they're now left to having to commit crimes in order to just survive to get food, to get money, to get shelter --", "There's no indication of that, though.", "But if -- as this goes on, if they -- they stopped by a Subway sandwich shop and if they're stealing food and going to dumpsters and things like that, they're going to make mistakes and they're going to get caught sooner than later.", "Scott Bonn, Tom Fuentes, thanks to both of you. I appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Still to come in the NEWSROOM, President Obama makes a surprise trip to Capitol Hill ahead of a crucial trade bill vote. Plus, former president Clinton opens up to our Jake Tapper. Why his answer to this question might surprise you.", "There are polls that show that fewer and fewer Americans think that your wife is honest and trustworthy, and this has happened at the same time these questions about the foundation, questions about her e-mail, and that must really bother you."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "ANDREW WYLIE, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, CLINTON COUNTY, NEW YORK", "COSTELLO", "THOMAS LASALLE, LIVES IN SARANAC, NEW YORK", "COSTELLO", "JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "TOM FUENTES, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "COSTELLO", "SCOTT BONN, CRIMINOLOGIST", "COSTELLO", "BONN", "COSTELLO", "BONN", "COSTELLO", "FUENTES", "COSTELLO", "FUENTES", "COSTELLO", "FUENTES", "COSTELLO", "FUENTES", "COSTELLO", "BONN", "COSTELLO", "BONN", "COSTELLO", "BONN", "COSTELLO", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST, \"STATE OF THE UNION\""]}
{"id": "CNN-280944", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2016-04-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/08/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "Sanders Vs. Clinton; CNN Democratic Debate Next Thursday; The Battle For New York; Sanders To Visit The Vatican", "utt": ["... is the most vigorous response that we can give to deal with this. You knew you had to be aggressive.", "\"Race for the White House\" Sunday, 9:00 p.m. eastern, that's another good one. Right now, \"CNN Tonight\" with Don Lemon.", "The battle for New York is getting personal. This is \"CNN Tonight\" I'm Don Lemon. If you are Bernie Sanders, you probably wish you'd never said Hillary Clinton was unqualified to be president.", "Seriously, I've been call a lot of things over the years, but unqualified has not been one of them.", "But the senator is not done with his criticism of Hillary Clinton. Listen to what he tells our Jake Tapper.", "I have my doubts about what kind of president she would make.", "Imagine what will happen when they go head-to-head in our CNN Democratic debate next Thursday. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton has second thoughts about his confrontation with Black Lives Matter protesters.", "So, I did something yesterday in Philadelphia I almost want to apologize for but I want to use it as an example of the danger threatening our country.", "Here's a good question. Is the campaigner in chief helping or hurting his wife's White House run? And what will it mean for black voters? Plus, how much have we really changed in 21 years? I'm going to talk to the creators of the hit T.V series \"The People V O.J. Simpson.\" The people versus O.J. Simpson. But let's begin with the battle for New York. Joining me now is CNN's own Michael Smerconish. It's good to have you here on a Friday evening sir.", "It's good to be back.", "I can't wait to watch you tomorrow. So it's Bernie versus Hillary an epic showdown in New York, what do you think of this battle?", "Stakes are huge, I think, for him and for her. But, you know, he needs to continue the momentum. If he can defeat her here in the Empire State, then all of a sudden, I think it's a totally different race. Otherwise he's run a wonderful race but he's just not going to get there.", "Yeah, Bernie Sanders isn't back pedaling, I'm sure you heard about, you know, whether not she's qualified to be president, listen to what he tells Jake Tapper.", "I just want them to understand that, you know, we have tried to run an issue oriented campaign but we are not going to be attacked every single day. Our record is not going to be distorted, we are going to fight back. And what I said is that a candidate like Secretary Clinton who voted for the disastrous war in Iraq, who has supported virtually every disastrous trade agreement which has cost us millions of decent paying jobs and who receives incredible amounts of money. We're talking about tens of millions of dollars through a Super PAC from every special interest that you can think of and from the billionaire class, you know, I have my doubts about what kind of president she would make.", "Before you answer, I want to tell our viewers that you can catch that full interview that's on Sunday on \"The State of Union\" at 9:00 Eastern that begin at noon as well. So clue and some frustration between these two the candidates?", "I thought he looked pretty when he said she started it. And it caused me to go back and look at the chronology of the week.", "It's like Donald Trump, right ... (", "Absolutely, yes, I'm like a counter puncher.", "Right.", "It's exactly what I thought of. But the reality is she didn't really start it and she really didn't question his qualification for office. He waded into this. It was a mistake. There are many, many things that you can say about her. I don't think this is one of them.", "Yeah. The former President Bill Clinton was asked about the original comments today. Watch.", "I just wanted to ask you, on these comments that Bernie Sanders has made about Hillary not being qualified. If a man with the same resume has that, do you think that look happen that gender is a piece of this at all?", "Of course it would but I think he walked it back today did he?", "He did a little bit but for him to say it at all, do you think gender was a factor?", "I don't know, I'm -- you guys commented and I think she be the best president and I think it's obvious by a country mile and that's all that matters to me. Yes, I think there are some different standards, some were self conscious.", "You know, it's interesting watching the former president because he has to weigh every word. He is not running, when he's running, he can be.", "You can see the wheels turning.", "Yes, the other way yeah, yeah, what's your reaction?", "Listen, I think every time a microphone is put in front of him and they are asking about her qualifications, they're loving it. No matter what his answer is, it's playing right into their wheelhouse. Look at the remainder of the stage both Republican and Democratic side and tell me who has more qualifications than Secretary Clinton? Again a lot of negatives you can raise about her. This isn't one of them.", "Qualification there ...", "Correct.", "... not one of them. Do you think she should be worried about New York?", "I think she needs to be worried about New York only because the momentum it seems to be on his side. If you believed the polls when she's got a great comfort level but she can't take anything for granted at this stage.", "Did he -- so Bernie Sanders announced today that he received an invitation from the Vatican to go four days ...", "Right.", "... before the New York primary. Do you think a trip like that is going to help him or hurt him leaving the country?", "Don, does he get the meeting or not? Is he going to get the meeting with the pontiff? Because to go over there and come home without having been in the company of the pope, I think makes it a trip that was perhaps not worthwhile. I get why he'd want to go. A lot of Catholics in this Midatlantic states like my own, Pennsylvania, that are about to vote. But I hope they've done the advance work and they know they're going to have that papal audience because otherwise, I think it doesn't look so good.", "But if he does meet with him, I mean don't you think that will make him look like a statesman?", "Absolutely, on my God, if it puts him in a different light because I think foreign policy is his Achilles Heel. Now you've to wonder what's going on behind the walls of the Vatican because they must be assessing the United States political situation and deciding, hey, this guy Sanders from Vermont, are we going to give him a meeting with the Pope.", "That's it, you have him.", "And by the way, you've got the former Secretary of State. Don't think that she doesn't have some pull at the Vatican. You don't think that ...", "Right.", "... behind closed doors they're working the phones and they're saying ...", "Don't meet with him.", "... don't meet with him. Right, don't give him the audience. Yeah.", "You took the words out of my mouths. So you got him, you know, going to the Vatican, right? Possibly meeting with the Pope. You have Ted Cruz making matzah, you know, in Brooklyn. She is riding the subway and on and on and on I mean.", "Right, she looked like me at the subway by the way, that's always me. You know, three and four times trying to use the pass card.", "I went to subway all the time so sometimes it takes me a couple of swipes.", "Yeah, that the only people who are critical of that, they've never been on the subway of New York City.", "I don't think it ride in limousines or taxis all the time you've never been to New York City. Yeah. So I want to ask you, this is about the GE CEO, all this remark say Bernie Sanders is taking some heat. He says that GE is destroying the country's, \"my countries moral fabric\" right and so they are upset about that and firing back. Is this good for Bernie Sanders to be doing?", "I don't think it's good for Bernie Sanders because I thought that Jeffrey Immelt had quite a strong response to Bernie Sanders. I wonder why. I get the income inequality discussion that has initiated, he's deserving of a lot of credit for that but would it kill Bernie Sanders every once in a while to use the word entrepreneurship.", "Right.", "And to talk about the virtue? GE is not a small business. But to talk about the virtue of small businesses in the United States he never says those sort of things. And I think it's just, it's a disadvantage.", "GE, and I think the statement was they pay lots of taxes ...", "Right.", "... but it never been popular with socialist. I'm paraphrasing here, right.", "It's a good paraphrasing.", "Yes, which was a good thing. Let's talk about the Republicans, now, all right?", "OK.", "Donald Trump canceling his campaign trip to California saying, you know, I have to stay away from the campaign trail. Here is what was he tweet, he said, \"So great to be in New York. Catching up on many things, remember, I am still running a major business while I campaign and loving it\" Do you think it's bad for him to be away or good to remind people that he is a businessman? Does this help him out?", "I think first of all, I don't believe he ever takes a day off. I think behind closed doors he is now working a different strategy that is focused on retail politics only in New York but also in a strategy to get to 1,237 pre-Cleveland. I watched that interview this morning on \"New Day\" with Chris Cuomo. I was very impressed with Paul Manafort's presentation.", "Yeah, yeah, yeah.", "It seemed to me that Donald Trump had hired an adult and it was a recognition on Trump's part that he's brought it this far but he really needs professionals to carry him over.", "Were you right finally, this ...", "Well, you know, and listen.", "... there's an adult in the room.", "His chief virtue does far has been but he does this all himself. No focus groups, no advisers. It's based on the strength of his personality.", "You can only do that for so long.", "Correct and he reached that point. Maybe he reached that point too late that recognition point. And by the way, you got to believe behind closed doors there will be going to be some tussles between the current campaign apparatus and the new guy.", "So I mean, he's going to do well here in New York right, Donald Trump is in to do, he's a New Yorker. Do you think, he's going to get to that magic number as New Yorker when he get there?", "I think he's going to come up shy.", "You do?", "Yeah, I think he's going to come up shy of 1,237. I really do. And, Don, if he doesn't go into Cleveland with the majority of delegates, I don't think he comes out with the nomination. And I think that's why Manafort was brought in.", "You are a straight-shooter. So what do you think of this New York values thing? Do you think that it was, some people are saying it was an anti-Semitic trope? Do you think it was?", "I think when you ...", "It's hurting him?", "... so I parsed that paragraph. As I like to say, that's the brooder of the field and, you know, like three-fifths of it are fine. It's the usual sort of an argument that you would hear made by a conservative about liberal values. But why money and media? It's like my antennae went up immediately when he gets to money and media because I said this on radio today. When you say money and media and put it in the context of New York, I'm thinking Jewish.", "Yeah.", "And I think that's probably what he had on his mind.", "Yeah, it sounds like a dog whistle.", "It does. And so some people would say, will why would he say that in New York? It will wreck him here, yeah it may wreck him here. He's not going to win here anyway and that probably help some him with his base in the south.", "Yeah, thank you, Michael Smerconish.", "OK, my friend.", "I will remind you, 9:00 a.m., \"Smerconish\" airs right here on CNN. Also Donald Trump takes questions in voter in our town hall, moderated by our Anderson Cooper. The candidate's wife Melania and daughter Ivanka will be there also. That's going to start on Tuesday night at 9:00 Eastern, we've got you covered, Smerconish, Anderson, Wolf, me, all of us. All of us, Jake.", "It's good team.", "Yeah a good team.", "Yeah.", "When we come back, why Bill Clinton says he almost wants to apologize for his dust-up with Black Lives Matter protesters. Is he helping or hurting Hillary Clinton's campaign?"], "speaker": ["JAMES CARVILLE, BILL CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN MANAGER", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "DON LEMON, CNN TONIGHT ANCHOR", "HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "LEMON", "BERNIE SANDERS, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "LEMON", "BILL CLINTON, FMR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "LEMON", "MICHAEL SMERCONISH, CNN ANCHOR", "LEMON", "SMERCONISH", "LEMON", "SANDERS", "LEMON", "SMERCONISH", "LEMON", "OFF-MIC) SMERCONISH", "LEMON", "SMERCONISH", "LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "B. CLINTON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "B. 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{"id": "CNN-103125", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-2-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/21/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Bush Shifts Tone Over Energy, Yet To See Policy Shift", "utt": ["Some second-day guessing today of President Bush's energy pitch. Some workers at a renewable energy lab in Colorado question why they are suddenly employed again. Back here in Washington the administration's past comments about oil dependency are now under some serious scrutiny. President Bush's line on energy conservation took a turn this year with five words. Quote, \"America is addicted to oil.\" That's not the way the Bush White House used to describe the nation's gas guzzling ways. Let's bring in our senior political analyst, Bill Schneider. Bill?", "Wolf, with President Bush going around the country promoting alternative energy, a lot of people are wondering, is this a Nixon goes to China type thing?", "It should be the goal of policymakers to protect the American way of life. The American way of life is a blessed one. We have a bounty of resources in this country.", "Vice President Dick Cheney, another oil man, said in a 2001 speech...", "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it not a sufficient basis, all by itself for sound comprehensive energy policy.", "That's why it was a little startling to hear President Bush say in his State of the Union speech ...", "America is addicted to oil.", "... and even more startling to hear him say this week in Milwaukee ...", "We have a chance to transform the way we power our economy and how we lead our lives.", "There's clearly been a shift in tone, but critics say they have yet to see a real shift in policy.", "He actually proposed budget increases that were less than were authorized in last year's energy bill.", "What about Bush's proposal to replace 75 percent of oil imports from the Middle East?", "It's only nine percent of our total oil imports. That's not very ambitious.", "The driving force here may be politics more than policy. President Bush needs to show he's trying to do something about high energy prices. Remember this picture of Bush strolling hand-in-hand with a Saudi prince on his Texas ranch? The White House would like you to forget it.", "One of the objectives of the White House staff this week is to put some new pictures in the public's mind when it comes to President Bush and energy policy.", "Now there's a furor over the Bush administration's allowing a company controlled by an Arab government to manage major U.S. ports. Better to have a picture of President Bush touring the facility that produces cutting-edge energy saving technology -- Wolf.", "Bill Schneider reporting for us. Bill, thank you very much. Up next, more on the furor over the president's decision to allow the United Arab Emirates to control America's largest ports. Jack Cafferty has been going through your e-mail. And we'll go live to the White House. One of the president's top advisers Dan Bartlett. He'll join us live to explain the administration's decision. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "SCHNEIDER", "DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SCHNEIDER", "BUSH", "SCHNEIDER", "BUSH", "SCHNEIDER", "DAVID SANDALOW, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION", "SCHNEIDER", "SANDALOW", "SCHNEIDER", "SANDALOW", "SCHNEIDER", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-298927", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-11-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/24/cnr.21.html", "summary": "Trump Makes Cabinet Pick Before Holiday; The Future of U.S. Ties With Saudi Arabia; Rich Culture Blooms in the Shade of Intolerance", "utt": ["The green party nominee in the U.S., Jill Stein, has launched a bid for a vote recount in the states of the Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The campaign says it's raised more than $2.5 million to pay for the recount. A bid follows reports that a computer scientist told the Clinton campaign about the possibility of hacks in those states. Turkish police are investigating a car bombing in the southern city of Adana. State media say two people are dead, 16 others are wounded. The blast happened in a parking lot near the governor's office during morning rush hour. No one has claimed responsibility. A frantic rescue operation is underway at the site of a construction accident in China. State media say at least 40 people were killed when a platform at a power plant in Fengcheng City collapsed. A number of people are reported to be trapped under scaffolding. And Hurricane Otto is expected to make landfall Thursday near the Nicaragua/Costa Rica border. The storm is unusually late in the season and unusually far south. If Otto hits Costa Rica, it will be the country's first hurricane in recorded history. We'll return now to our top story, though, and that's the transition to the administration of U.S. President-elect Trump. Come January, he'll have to turn campaign talk into action. And the task he's facing is especially sensitive when it comes to some of America's staunchest allies like Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom has been the target of repeated criticism from Trump over the past year. As Becky Anderson explains, his anti-Saudi rhetoric was all the more surprising given his own business links to the kingdom.", "They make a billion dollars a day, folks. And whenever they're in trouble, our military takes care. You know what we get -- nothing.", "Bad value for money. As presidential candidate, Donald Trump's assessment of U.S. ally Saudi Arabia was typically provocative. As president-elect he may be more diplomatic. His claim that Washington is helping the wealthy kingdom too much and getting too little in return rankled for some in the gulf. There's also a distinct sense that actions matter more than words.", "We have to wait and see what Trump will do. There has been great concern in Saudi Arabia and naturally over this JASTA bill.", "JASTA stands for Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, and it allows U.S. families of 9/11 victims to sue Riyadh over alleged involvement in the terror attack. Saudi Arabia has denied any link. Under legislation which Trump supported, it's one of the things souring the mood in the Kingdom when it comes to America.", "This is amazing.", "On the campaign trail, Trump threatened to stop importing Saudi oil, saying he wanted independence from, quote, \"America's foes and the energy cartels.\" The president-elect has pledged to stop the U.S. acting in his view like the world's policemen, saying Arab boots on the ground are needed in places like Syria to fight ISIS. Regional ties with Washington were cooling anyway under President Obama because of worries about the Iran nuclear deal which the president-elect has vowed to scrap. So, the Trump-Saudi relationship may surprise observers.", "Sometimes you get the impression that people have had so much America in the Middle East that they would be happy to see the back of America. Trump is suggesting that that's what we would see.", "There is one angle to America's relationships with the Middle East on this the former businessmen will understand instinctively. Gulf States are not just U.S. allies. They are customers. And the U.S. is the top arms exporter while Saudi Arabia is the biggest importer on a global basis.", "I love that sign --", "Trump also has personal business interests in Saudi Arabia. It sold property to the Saudi government in New York in the past.", "I like the Saudis. They're nice. I make a lot of money with them. They buy all sort of my stuff.", "So, while Trump the entrepreneur's views are clear, Saudi Arabia will be keeping a close eye on how President Trump feels come January the 20th. Becky Anderson, CNN, Abu Dhabi.", "Well, joining me to talk about President Trump's transition from business mogul to world leader is Morris Reid. He's a political and Democratic strategist. He was adviser on the Bill Clinton/Al Gore 1996 campaign. And also, Leslie Vinjamuri, she's lecturer of international relations at University of London, friend to CNN, of course. First of all, to you, Morris, just this idea of Trump going back into the Middle East and trying to rebuild bridges, Saudi Arabia is going to be crucial, right? How is he going to take back --", "It's not just Saudi. When you run as a candidate, you say and act and do one thing. But when you become the president, it's completely different. I think that the fact that he's familiar with most of these people that he's talked about, he has a relationship and gives them a leg up, people will understand that Trump the businessman is not Trump the president of the United States. So, I think that rhetoric will go aside. They are allies. We need each other and I think he'll dig in and figure out a way to mend those fences.", "What are you hearing from the region? Are they open to his overtures as president?", "I mean, I think everybody's going to be nervous in the region, given the inflammatory rhetoric during the campaign about anti -- you know, not letting Muslims into America. This is really dangerous hearing this. If you're sitting in the Middle East wondering what in the world you can expect. But I think it's -- you know, right now, everybody is waiting to see. It's deeply uncertain time. So, we don't know.", "He does sound very different, doesn't he? He sounds presidential.", "He does. But I would remind you that Barack Obama came in as an antiwar closing Guantanamo Bay candidate, it's still open. So, what you see as candidate is not necessarily what you do as president. I think that people should step back from the rhetoric and engage for their own best interests. That's certainly what Donald Trump was going to do. That's what the folks in the Middle East should do, as well.", "And also, a discussion about his mandate, as well. These calls for recount and this growing margin between Clinton and Trump in terms of the number of votes, does that delegitimize him on the global stage?", "I think sometimes people understands, we keep hearing that Hillary Clinton's gotten two million votes, right, in the popular vote --", "Doesn't mean anything, does it?", "Well, it means there are a lot of people in the country who didn't vote for Donald Trump. He's the sort of person who will be sensitive to that, very aware of it. It's interesting, we see him reaching out further to even candidates to come into his administration that didn't support him during the campaign.", "Yes.", "But the recount, the recount is politically potentially very divisive.", "Leslie alluding there to Haley and possibly Romney coming into that foreign international role --", "What's interesting on Haley is this was a surprise pick, a woman that hasn't had much experience. I think maybe she's traveled as governor to a few places. But when you have an unstable world and a changing world, you really want expert hands --", "But has Romney got the experience?", "Listen, he has the experience because he's been in a business -- been a businessman engaged around the world. He's also been a presidential candidate. You notice the trend. You go to your opponent and put them in an important pivotal job. So, when that person lands with a big American flag, in a big plane, they know you're speaking for the president and you also represent millions of voters that also voted for you.", "Donald Trump's a man that holds grudges, right? Are they going to have the letter to in I had administration, having oppose -- in his administration, having opposed him in the past?", "Well, I think that's a key concern. He hasn't told us who the secretary of state is. And Mitt Romney is name that's out there. Nikki Haley to the U.N. But they've opposed him. So, I'm sure Mitt Romney is sitting, though, thinking, you know, how much influence will I have if I join this administration, if I'm offered and I join. And so, that's something we have to wait and see. But it is -- it is sort of -- a good signal that he's willing to sort of reach out beyond those that supported him. I mean, he hasn't placed a lot of emphasis on expertise in any of the posts. So, I think that is something that's worrying. Nikki Haley, you know, first woman he's appointed. She comes from an Indian background. So, she's adding a degree of diversity. She's young, she's energetic, and she hasn't -- she has openly spoken out against him. So, it is a very interesting appointment.", "Because they haven't had a particularly big international presence in terms of diplomacy in the past, could that be an advantage for them, for world leaders dealing with them and foreign secretaries dealing with them? Perhaps, you know, this is a chance for a fresh start.", "Yes. I mean, America has very long-stabbed interests. You don't just enter into the United Nations system and dramatically change those. The question is whether or not she'll be able to move the needle both within the administration on particular policies and how effectively she'll be able to work a system that she isn't familiar with in the United Nations.", "The interesting thing about Romney is he's a businessman. Donald Trump, where you will see, I think you'll see a pattern emerging, his next few appointments will be business people. People that he understands, he understands business people far more than he understands politicians, people that are pragmatic and understand the chain of command. Although they opposed him, he is the boss. You know, the president of the United States is the boss. Business people understand the chain of command like the military. I think you'll see more business people, not less, entering posts with him.", "And based here in Europe, and there's all sorts of dynamics going on within the continent, how do you think him stepping into that is going to change dynamics here, led by concerns in the European Union right now and Brexit in particular?", "Well, this is a guy who doesn't believe in multilateral things. He is a businessman. So, he likes to deal one on one. So, you will see more free trade agreements. But you will also see him saying, look, if we have a deal with NATO, you have to do your part. When people were alarmed that, well, he's not going to protect them, he said we have a deal, you have to do your fair share. And then you get the fruit of the labor. So, I think that he will be a person that really digs in. He'll look for opportunities to win. And anyone that's going to help with his winning narrative will get a lot of attention from him.", "The frightening prospect for, you know, countries to the east of the continent is the sort of relationship he'll have with Russia. And Russia perhaps, more incursions, particularly in Scandinavia, for example, Ukraine, they're not going to get support from NATO perhaps that they used to have because they won't have the resources of the U.S. necessarily.", "Well, that will be interesting, too. This is another reason why Mitt Romney's potentially an interesting pick because he has a very different attitude toward Russia than Trump has had. So, Trump has been willing to extend the hand to Putin, and Mitt Romney historically has been more concerned about the threat that Russia poses. So, I think we have to again see who does he appoint and how much are they able to influence him? But, you know, I think America is likely -- Donald Trump's likely to get pulled back in to recognizing America's long-standing commitment to NATO. But if you're sitting in Europe, that's probably not very reassuring at this point.", "We need to hear more from him don't we? That's the point here.", "We do need to hear more.", "It's interesting, Donald Trump is doing exactly what Barack Obama said he wanted to do. The Russian reset. There were other interests that took over, why he couldn't do that. So, I think people are alarmed, but this is exactly what Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama wanted to do. Let's see if Donald Trump can do it and get Russia back to the table.", "OK, thank you very much indeed for joining us today. We'll talk lots more in the months ahead. Now, from America to here in Europe, and we are seeing a rise in populism and nationalism with racial and anti-Semitic overtones. This week, white nationalists, the so-called alt-right, held a rally in Washington complete with \"hail Trump\" cheers and stiff arm salutes reminiscent of the Nazis. But history shows how a rich culture blooms even in the shade of intolerance. Our Ben Wedeman delves into a fascinating past of the Jewish people and their survival in one of the world's first-ever ghettos.", "Kids on a field trip enter the Jewish ghetto of Venice. Today, the ghetto is clean, calm, and quiet. Once, it was crammed and chaotic, with thousands of Jews forced by law to live within its walls. The rumors of Venice created the ghetto, Europe's first, 500 years ago. This year is a bittersweet remembrance for a people who managed to flourish while living in prisons, says historian Simon Levis Sullam.", "We commemorate segregation, exclusion, separation, and celebrate the fact that Jews were brought together and flourished in cultural terms. And also met and exchanged culture and knowledge and information.", "A trading superpower, Venice attracted Jews fleeing the Spanish inquisition, wealthy Jewish merchants from the Ottoman Empire, and Jewish craftsmen and artisans from Germany and elsewhere in the Italian peninsula. \"It was like New York City,\" the Rabbi Shalom Bahbout tells me. \"Politically, it was an important city because it was a crossroads between east and west.\" But it was a city where Jews struggled under severe restrictions, hundreds of Hebrew books were published here, but Jews were banned from owning printing presses. (on camera): Under the system imposed on the ghetto in 1516, the gates were shut every night. They used to be here. There was, however, an important exception to that rule, doctors, Jewish doctors who were in great demand all over the city were allowed to come and go as they please. (voice-over): Narrow canals formed the ghetto's boundaries, boundaries that seemed even more restrictive at night. And after the gates were shut at night, Christian guards patrolled the canals around the ghetto to make sure nobody got out or in. And adding insult to injury, the inhabitants of the ghetto were compelled to pay the salaries of their guards. The system of segregation came crashing down in 1797 when Napoleon conquered Venice and abolished anti-Semitic laws. The Jews of Venice were quick to move out and move up until the Second World War.", "Two hundred and fifty Jews died in the Holocaust, they were tracked and arrested in Venice by Italians and by Germans. And they were of all ages.", "Today, around 400 Jews live in Venice, compared to more than ten times that when the ghetto was at its height. Jews and non-Jews alike have moved as the economy of Venice has become dominated by tourism. Psychotherapist Dora Sullam looks at the ghetto with mixed feelings.", "For us, the ghetto has a completely different meaning. When I was a little girl, the ghetto for me was the place where there were the synagogues. And we would go mainly only to go to the synagogue, and it was not a very nice part of the town. It was quite poor.", "Today, it's undergoing something of a revival. Attracting Jews from outside Italy.", "Now, I think we really feel it's the heart of the Jewish life.", "A heart that still beats despite it all. Ben Wedeman, CNN, Venice.", "And still to come: motivated by hate, a right wing extremist is jailed for life in the U.K. for the murder of a beloved politician."], "speaker": ["FOSTER", "DONALD TRUMP (R), U.S. PRESIDENT-ELECT", "BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "FAISAL AL YAFAI, COLUMNIST, THE NATIONAL", "ANDERSON", "TRUMP", "ANDERSON", "AL YAFAI", "ANDERSON (on camera)", "TRUMP", "ANDERSON (voice-over)", "TRUMP", "ANDERSON", "FOSTER", "MORRIS REID, POLITICAL ANALYST AND DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "FOSTER", "LESLIE VINJAMURI, SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON", "FOSTER", "REID", "FOSTER", "VINJAMURI", "FOSTER", "VINJAMURI", "FOSTER", "VINJAMURI", "FOSTER", "REID", "FOSTER", "REID", "FOSTER", "VINJAMURI", "FOSTER", "VINJAMURI", "REID", "FOSTER", "REID", "FOSTER", "VINJAMURI", "FOSTER", "VINJAMURI", "REID", "FOSTER", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SIMON LEVIS SULLAM, HISTORIAN", "WEDEMAN", "SIMON SULLAM", "WEDEMAN", "DORA SULLAM, PSYCHOTHERAPIST", "WEDEMAN", "DORA SULLAM", "WEDEMAN", "FOSTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-309988", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-04-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/14/nday.05.html", "summary": "Interview with Republican Congressman Mike Coffman of Colorado", "utt": ["We do have breaking news. We want to show you new video of that massive bomb that hit ISIS targets in Eastern Afghanistan. This is just the latest in a string of military actions taken by President Trump. Joining us now is Republican Congressman Mike Coffman of Colorado. He is a member of the Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Committees and a Marine Corps veteran. Congressman, good morning.", "Good morning.", "You served in both Iraq wars as a marine, we should say. What do you think of this action we've seen? This is the new video we're just looking at. The MOAB bomb, largest-ever nuclear ordnance used by the U.S. That seems like a lot of fire power to kill 36 terrorists. What do you think the point of using of this bomb was?", "Well, I think there's a couple points. First of all, I think, number one, to accomplish the mission in what was a very hardened target that would have required quite a few casualties in terms of taking a carve and tunnel complex laden with, or strewn with IEDs. But there's another element to this, too, and I think it's a signal from the Trump administration to the Taliban and a lot of these ISIS fighters are prior Taliban fighters that just happen to change jerseys. But the fact is, the Taliban has no desire to negotiate right now. They feel that time is on their side and so, there's no -- there's no peace -- opportunity for peace in Afghanistan without some kind of negotiated settlement with the Taliban. And so, I think it's a signal for them to -- that the U.S. is going to, you know, strengthen its resolve to bring this war to a close and for them to come to the table.", "Is it also a message to North Korea? As you know, the USS Carl Vinson is heading in that direction to North Korea. That's certainly gotten the attention of North Korea, and they, in fact, released this statement. This was from their foreign ministry, \"The U.S. is disturbing the global peace and stability and insisting on the gangster-like logic that its invasion of a sovereign state is divisive, just and proportionate, pushing the situation in the Korean Peninsula to the brink of a war.\" How do you interpret their stance?", "Well, first of all, there's no question the use of this MOAB, the largest conventional munition in the U.S. inventory on this particular target, also would send a message to certainly North Korea, China, Russia and Iran, of the narrative that this president is going to be decisive in terms of protecting America's national security interests. And so -- and, obviously, I hope that it, that the president, does some to be moving this direction, putting pressure on China, who really controls the cards in this region in terms of North Korea --", "Yes, but --", "-- to try and bring peace to this --", "I mean -- sorry to interrupt you. It doesn't feel like it's deescalating. It feels like it's escalating. If the North tests a nuclear -- does a nuclear test this weekend, or fires a missile, how should the U.S. respond?", "Well, I think -- well, I don't think we should respond in terms of going to war. I think -- I think our concern is that it is, it is another step towards North Korea gaining the capability to not only attack targets within its region but also the United States. And so, again, I think showing I think resolve from a military perspective all options are on the table, but I think, sending a message to China we are serious. China is North Korea's only true ally, true trading partner and I do think by putting pressure ultimately on North Korea, we can -- it's the only way we can resolve the situation. I mean, with China, it's the only way to resolve this situation with North Korea.", "Congressman, let put up a map for you of the interaction since President Trump came into the Oval Office, because there are lots of places, hot spots where the U.S. already acted. There is, of course, Syria. There was the strike on the air base there. There was also a terrible friendly fire incident there. There was Yemen and the failed raid that killed the -- well, I shouldn't say failed raid. The one that went wrong and killed civilians as well as a marine. You see what's happening in Afghanistan. You see what's happening in Somalia. You see what's happening in North Korea. Is it time for President Trump to consult Congress for permission on some of these things?", "Well, I think if we look at the situation in Syria, he certainly consulted congressional leadership within 48 hours. I'm looking at tightening up what we call the War Powers Act of 1973 that kind of defines the relationship between the White House, the president as commander-in-chief, and Congress in terms of authorizing military action. But I think the president certainly was within the parameters of current law in what he's done.", "OK. Congressman Mike Coffman, thank you very much for being with us on NEW DAY this morning.", "Thank you very much for having me.", "Over to John.", "All right. Thanks, Alisyn. On the campaign trail, President Trump promised an American-first policy. In just 85 days, he's made several reversals on that vow. Is there a strategy?"], "speaker": ["ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-215981", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-10-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1310/06/cnr.04.html", "summary": "U.S. Army Delta Force Captures Abu Anas al-Libi In Tripoli; Conversation with Cicely Tyson", "utt": ["Hey, everybody, that's it for Fred. It's me now Don Lemon. Thank you for joining us here in the CNN NEWSROOM. We're going to start with stunning developments today in the U.S. Special Force raid in Libya. The Pentagon confirms commandoes credited with snatching a top al Qaeda leader in Libya where members of the elite U.S. Army Delta Force. The man captured is Abu Anas al-Libi. Just a short time ago, his wife spoke exclusively to CNN about what she saw happened outside her home.", "What I saw were Libyans, maybe they had American was them but I didn't see them because there was more than one car. They say there were ten people but I believe there were more than ten. I couldn't count them because there are many of them. I can't confirm if they were Americans or not. What I saw were Libyans.", "Well, Libi, at least, publically has deemed his capture a kidnapping. Abu Anas al-Libi's wife spoke exclusively to CNN's Jomana Karadsheh. And Jomana joins me now on the phone from Tripoli. What did she tell you?", "She was defending her husband saying he was an innocent man saying all of the allegations against him and his involvement of the U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania are fabricated allegations that are not true. She said and she says her husband returned back to Libya in 2011. After he had left al-Qaeda, she did admit that he was a member of al- Qaeda, that he was a close associate of Osama bin Laden, but said in 1996 he left again and left al-Qaeda at the time. She says he returned to his country, Libya, in 2011 to take part in the revolution to oust Moammar Gadhafi. And she said all these years, he has not had any contact with al-Qaeda members and he has not been involved in any terror activities. And she says that her husband was here to return to his country to be a part of it. Now, of course, we have heard this from western security officials, intelligence officials last year, Don, saying that al-Libi returned to Libya to try and establish", "And she is saying, if this is correct, she believes that it was Libyans who look like Libyans who had come and captured her husband, not Americans?", "Well, what she said, Don, was interesting. She said when he had -- he was coming back from morning players Saturday mornings between 6:30 in the morning and 7:00. And she heard some noise and commotion outside. And when she looked outside the window, she described the men that she saw as Libyan-looking. She said the unmasked men looked like they were Libyans and that she heard Libyan dialect. And initially, until that U.S. announcement was made later on in the day. She said she believed this was some sort of criminal activity, abduction, some sort of revenge. She did not think Americans were involved. So, this is something, Don, we are only hearing from the wife. We are only hearing from the family. There has been into indication so far that Libyans were leaving this way or even involved in it at this point.", "All right. Jomana Karadsheh, thank you very much for your reporting. There's still lots of questions about what exactly happened in Libya. I want to bring in now CNN's pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr. Barbara, how is the Pentagon responding to these claims that Libyan is possibly worked in conjunction with U.S. forces to get al-Libi?", "Well, let me say, the Pentagon, no Pentagon officials are talking about this publicly. In fact, it was a U.S. official and administration source that told us it was U.S. army delta force that conducted the raid in Tripoli that grabbed al-Libi. The Pentagon officially isn't saying a word about any of this. But administration officials w are talking to are making it very clear. It was a mission led, conducted by U.S. specs operations forces. There may have been a translator along with them. They often operate that way, but they don't do joint operation. There is absolutely no indication there was any kind of joint operation with Libyan forces. And I guess you have to think of it this way. If the U.S. forces, if the U.S. commando was on the street with his face uncovered in Tripoli in the middle of an operation, I think there's probably a fairly good chance that U.S. troop would be have some sort of disguise, perhaps wig, makeup, something to disguise his normal features because these guys simply don't show their face in public in the middle of an operation -- Don.", "We have a lot of questions yesterday, still questions today. But some of them can be answered today like al-Libi is one in connection, Barbara, with the twin U.S. embassy bombings in Africa. How big of a get is he?", "Well, I think that my colleagues like Nic Robertson would tell you and Peter Bergen that there's a lot of thought out there that al- Libi, you know, may have sort of gone into semi retirement. Maybe he was in Libya, of course, to start an al-Qaeda operation there, but had sort of moved away over the last 15 years from some of his potential activities. But the U.S. believes very strongly that he is still a major senior al-Qaeda figure 15 years later. Yes, from the embassy bombings, but not giving up, still going after him. And very much aware of his previous activities. In Britain, when he was said to be involved of some bomb intelligence and operations. So, this is a guy they wanted very badly and they had been looking for him for an awfully long time.", "Look, I have a question for you. I don't know if you remember I asked you this question within a break. I want to turn to Somalia now. Remember I asked you about SEAL team six. Because that is the same unit they got Osama bin Laden and storm the home of the top leaders of al-Qaeda's al-Shabaab in Somalia. I should say top leaders of al- Shabaab in Somalia, the group that carried out the recent terror attack in Kenya in that mall. They killed at least one person but they had to retreat. Was it a failure?", "Well, you were right last night, Don, when you asked me that. It did turn out to be SEAL team six, the same group that killed bin Laden, went into Somalia. Now, what they are telling us so far and we don't have all the details by any stretch at this point, is the SEALS go into this town. They know within al-Shabaab strong cold. They know they are going to take fire but they are going to a particular villa to look for top al-Shabaab leaders. But, they come under intense fire and there are civilian in the area so they are telling us that the Navy SEALS commander on the ground made the decision that the SEALS would retreat essential, that they would get out of there. They say that they have some concerns about civilian casualties in the area and that it was just not any longer prudent for them to be there. The problem, they don't know at this point, did they get the man they were going after. Was he even there at all. That will be a very tough thing possibly now to determine. And they will have to keep looking for more intelligence to figure out what the results were of that raid.", "Barbara Starr. Great reporting. Thank you, wheel alley see you later on here on CNN. The house speaker, John Boehner said it's time for the Republicans to stand and fight against Obamacare. And he wants President Obama to negotiate with congressional Republicans. Boehner says don't expect a clean spending bill without ties to Obamacare because he does not have the votes in the House to get. So, what exactly would those negotiations with president cover? We will have a live report from Washington coming up. Also, Republican senator Ted Cruz, he has floated a new idea right here on CNN about how to fight Obamacare funding. Meantime, the nation's treasury secretary said without a debt ceiling increased by October 17th, the U.S. won't be able to pay its bills for the first time in 224 years.", "We never got to a point where the United States government has operated without the ability to borrow. It is very dangerous. It is reckless. It will mean that the United States, for the first time since 1789, will not paying its bills, hurting the full faith in credit because of a political decision.", "Head out now to CNN's Erin McPike, tracking this shutdown stalemate. Erin. House speaker John Boehner says he wants to talk but he is not going to compromise. So, what is his plan?", "Well, Don, for everyone who wants to see a quick end to the shutdown, there isn't much of a plan. As you said just earlier, he says he wants republicans to stand and fight Obamacare. The other thing we got from his 12-minute interview essentially this morning on ABC News is basically that he just wants to have a conversation with the president. He said the word \"conversation\" 21 times in his interview. Here's a little snapshot of that.", "What we expect in Washington. When we have a crisis like this that the leaders will sit down and have a conversation. It begins with a simple conversation. It is about to have a conversation. It's time for us to sit down and have a conversation. That's what the American people expect.", "And that was basically what we heard this morning from John Boehner. Just that he wants to talk to President Obama. But so far, as yet from our reporting, we have not heard that the White House has reached out to the speakers' office and vice versa. But maybe sometime later this week, we will be talking about a Merlot Summit. Who knows, Don?", "We shall see or Scott Summit. So listen, Erin. Republican Senator Ted Cruz made ways with his comment today on Obamacare. What did he say and how are people in Washington reacted to what he said?", "Well, Don, basically, what he wants to do is to attach this fight over Obamacare to the next battle in Congress which is over raising the debt limit. The amount of money that the United States can borrow. Now, the deadline to do that is 11 days away. And so, the fear in Washington is that we can have another big problem and that United States could default on its debt. Listen to what he said this morning on \"STATE OF THE UNION.\"", "In my view in the debt ceiling, we should look for three things. Number one, we should look for some significant structural plan to reduce government spending. Number two, we should avoid new taxes. And number three, we should look for ways to mitigate harms from Obamacare.", "Now, he also said just after that the debt ceiling has historically been the best leverage that congress has. And so, what we heard from a number of people this weekend, is that if Congress cannot raise the debt ceiling and then United States defaults on its debt, we could see problems worse than we saw with the economy in 2008. So, there's a lot of concern in Washington about that strategy -- Don.", "All right. Erin, thank you. Appreciate that. I have some breaking news to tell you about. I want you to take a look at this. One of the most popular race car drivers in the world seriously injured in a crash in today's racing in Houston. Dario Franchitti who is separated from actress Ashley Judd, was driving this car when it slammed into the wall. No words yet on the extent of his injuries. And spectators who were injured as well, some treated and released, others taken to the hospital. We are going to follow the story very closely for you right here in CNN NEWSROOM and we will get information just as soon as we get it. Back to today's top story. One of the FBI's most wanted terrorist now in U.S. custody. Is he a big fish in the terrorist pond? A former CIA operative weighing in next."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "UMM ABDUL RAHMAN, WIFE OF CAPTURES AL-QAEDA LEADER (through translator)", "LEMON", "JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (via phone)", "LEMON", "KARADSHEH", "LEMON", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "STARR", "LEMON", "STARR", "LEMON", "JACK LEW, TREASURY SECRETARY", "LEMON", "ERIN MCPIKE, CNN GENERAL ASSIGNMENT CORRESPONDENT", "REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "MCPIKE", "LEMON", "MCPIKE", "SEN. TED CRUZ (R), TEXAS", "MCPIKE", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-109977", "program": "CNN IN THE MONEY", "date": "2006-9-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/02/cnnitm.01.html", "summary": "A Look At America's Unions; Ten Jobs That Pay Six Figures", "utt": ["Coming up on IN THE MONEY why there is so little labor in Labor Day these days. We will look at the state of America's unions. Looking at the last time for tips on the next time. See if Katrina taught America anything about preparing for a natural disaster. And the $100,000 question. Find out about ten jobs that can pay you $100 grand or even more. All that right after a quick check of the headlines.", "Welcome to the program. I'm Jack Cafferty. Coming up on today's edition of IN THE MONEY, union blues. It is Labor Day weekend but do America's labor unions have anything to celebrate, see if organized labor is on its way out or perhaps on its way back. Also ahead, storm warnings. Hurricane Katrina had lessons to teach about handling a disaster. Boy, did it. Find out if Washington has wised up any. And give yourself a raise. You wouldn't believe some of the jobs that pay $100,000 a year, or even more. Stick around, we might have a few surprises you'll enjoy learning about. Joining me today a couple of IN THE MONEY veterans, we have Jennifer Westhoven and we have Andy Serwer. We have gas prices for the first time in a long time apparently coming down. There is one national survey I read said they could hit $2 a gallon by Thanksgiving. That might be a little optimistic, but they're lower right now than they have been since April 20th. What's going on?", "Well number one, I mean I think it is a blip. But that's just my take. It is also a big running debate right now whether they are headed to $2; go back to $3 or $4. The folks at the Chrysler Corporation seem to be suggesting they're going to stay up for a while. Other people, maybe rose-colored glasses, think they're going back to $2 but I'm not one of them.", "\" Do you want to put in your cynicism about the election here?", "Certainly thought to cross my mind. I mean the oil companies have a vested interest in seeing that the Republicans remain in control of the federal government. I mean they wouldn't --", "Coincidence, or not?", "They wouldn't pull prices down before the mid terms now. Would they?", "Even if it is temporary. It seems like it could help a lot of people, we have been seeing a lot of these corporate earnings from fancier retailers like Williams-Sonoma saying they're having problems, a lot of people are struggling with higher gas prices, furniture sales are up, Wal-Mart, Costco saying the expensive stuff is not selling.", "There are a couple of real things going on. Crude oil is below $70 a barrel. Hasn't been that low in a long time. One of the reasons that I read was the hurricane season hasn't been what it was expected to be and the price of a hurricane season like last year was already built into this year's gas prices.", "You've got that Jack, and you've got Iran and you have Venezuela and Nigeria. Any of these things could erupt or turn bad or anything at any point. Blaming it all on the hurricanes or trying to suggest that the hurricanes are going to be good this year I can tell what the hurricanes are going to be like in October, that's tough stuff.", "All right. Whatever the reason, we'll take it. If it goes to $1, that would be OK too. That will never happen. Funny to have a holiday that uses to be all work wound up being more about play. Back in the beginning, Labor Day was part demonstration, part celebration. Labor unions all across the country held parades on this day to show their strength, the workers then got together for parties afterwards. For the most part as far as American workers are concerned today, Labor Day weekend has now become about getting out of town or getting into a big sale and workers it seems have a lot less to party about. Labor consultant Beth Shulman is going to help us understand how we got to where we are and we are going from here, she is the author of \"The Betrayal of Work, How Low-Wage Jobs Failed 30 Million Americans.\" Beth nice to have you with us.", "\" It is a pleasure to be here.", "Fifty years ago one-third of the non-agricultural jobs in the United States were union jobs: good wages, good benefits, a pretty good middle class life. Now there are 9 percent of the jobs left, nonagricultural jobs that are union jobs. What's going on?", "Well certainly what we have seen, well first of all I think it is important to remember that unions were absolutely instrumental in bringing the American dream to a large percent of Americans. We saw manufacturing jobs go from kind of bad jobs, dirty jobs, to the good jobs of the 20th century. And what happened was certainly the decline of the manufacturing sector, globalization, and deregulation. But I think the untold story was the real assault on unions. Certainly by corporations and by government. You know, Americans today, if they want to organize a union, they are confronted by employers firing them, they're harassing them. A human rights watch story showed that in fact a huge percent of workers end up being fired just trying to organize a union. So that's been a large part of the story. But I'm optimistic this Labor Day. I really see a resurgence of the American labor movement in organizing the growing service sector.", "Well, after all this systematic weakening of workers bargaining power, as you call it, we've really seen though a split between the AFLCIO and some of the other big unions out there. A lot of pundits and headlines that came out of that were people who were basically starting to write the obituary saying this was the death for organized labor. What do you think is the state of it today? What gives you hope that things are coming back?", "Well I see great hope. I see if you look at service sector certainly, you're seeing janitorial jobs becoming good jobs when they're organized. If you take a janitor and unionized employer, they're making $13 an hour, have health benefits and pension plans and time off, as opposed to the non-union janitor that is making $8 an hour. Security guards are being organized. We are seeing the same increases. In a lot of the service jobs, like home health care and janitors and hotels, and nursing home aides, security guards, these are the growing jobs in our economy and they can't go anywhere. So once they're organized, they're not going to China, they're not going to India, and they're staying here in the United States. And we're seeing an increasing amount of these jobs being organized across the country.", "Hey, Beth, one of the leading lights of the union organization, Labor Union Movement, I should say, and perhaps the only leading light, is Andy Stern of the Service Employees Union. He is seen by many people as a radical. Do you see the union movement having to radicalize to really make in roads?", "I don't think Andy Stern is a radical. I think he is absolutely mainstream in saying, look, profits are up, productivity is up, and Americans' wages aren't even keeping pace with inflation. That's not the American dream. That's not the promise. He's saying, look, if productivity is up, if profits are up, normally what happens is that wages went up, benefits went up. And we're saying, look, he's saying look, and the labor movement is saying, look, Americans are entitled to a fair share of those increases. You know, we look at the fact when unions went down in terms of the mound of people they ended up representing, what we saw was, wages stagnating, the number of people uninsured have skyrocketed to more than 46 million, traditional pension plans have gone by the wayside. What's happening now is unions are organizing workers, more than 60 percent of American workers say if they had the chance to organize a union, they'd want to. And what American labor is saying is, let's go ahead, let's get out there and organize these workers that want to be organized.", "I saw a great bumper sticker the other day, said \"Nafta plus Cafta equals Shafta.\" I think there is something to that. Jobs that used to pay big bucks have been outsourced and sent to places all around the world where the companies can get them done for one-third or less of what it use to cost them. We've got between 12 and 20 million illegal aliens running around this country. Nobody knows much about them, how many there are, who they are, except they've driven American wages down. What about the impacts of those kinds of things on the ability of American middle class workers who get a fair shake in this country these days?", "Well, certainly our global trade agreements have never taken into consideration any kind of labor standards, which they need to. And we need to ensure that immigrants have the kind of status they need --", "I'm not talking about immigrants. I'm talking about illegal aliens. Immigrants are different from illegal aliens.", "Well, the real issue here is whether or not we're going to allow Americans to organize unions. And right now they don't really have that right. If they do, what we see is that we can change these service jobs that aren't even in the global economy, like a nursing home worker.", "Or like Wal-Mart.", "Or a home care worker. Or Wal-Mart, for example. These jobs aren't going overseas, so once they're organized they are going to become the middle-income jobs. You know, there was nothing inherently good about an autoworker or steel worker. They became good jobs. And the same thing that can happen we can do here with regard to the growing service sector in our economy.", "But, let me just follow up though. If there are illegal aliens willing to work for half of what American citizens expect to be paid for, whatever kind of job you are talking about, and as long as there are companies that are willing to hire them, how are you going to overcome that?", "Well, we need to ensure that we raise the minimum wage that's been stuck at $5.15 an hour. We need to make sure that there is wage floors beyond which employers can't go. That's the important thing. We need to have some standards here in the United States that say, look, if you work hard, you should be able to support yourself and your family. And we need to have standards here that ensure that.", "All right, Beth. Interesting stuff. There is a lot of work that has to be done if we're ever going to get back to the days when an American middle class job represented the kinds of things it used to back when I was growing up. Hopefully we'll get there at some point.", "Absolutely. I see hope in the future.", "Good. Beth Shulman, author of \"Betrayal of Work.\" When we come back on IN THE MONEY, making the best of facing the worst. We will see if America is any smarter about dealing with crises after hurricane Katrina. And beyond petroleum. The BP slogan fits like the company maybe never intended now that its problems go well beyond that pipeline mess in Alaska. We'll look at that in some detail. And return on investment. A new book looks at how effective advertising dollars are. Find out whether Madison Avenue is cheering or weeping as we move forward."], "speaker": ["JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR, IN THE MONEY", "CAFFERTY", "ANDY SERWER, EDITOR AT LARGE, \"FORTUNE\" MAGAZINE", "JENNIFER WESTHOVEN, CORRESPONDENT, \"HEADLINE NEWS", "CAFFERTY", "SERWER", "CAFFERTY", "WESTHOVEN", "CAFFERTY", "SERWER", "CAFFERTY", "BETH SHULMAN, AUTHOR, \"THE BETRAYAL OF WORK", "CAFFERTY", "SHULMAN", "WESTHOVEN", "SHULMAN", "SERWER", "SHULMAN", "CAFFERTY", "SHULMAN", "CAFFERTY", "SHULMAN", "CAFFERTY", "SHULMAN", "CAFFERTY", "SHULMAN", "CAFFERTY", "SHULMAN", "CAFFERTY"]}
{"id": "NPR-62", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2016-10-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/10/09/497256640/some-republicans-withdraw-support-for-trump-in-wake-of-his-crude-comments-about-", "title": "Some Republicans Withdraw Support For Trump In Wake Of His Crude Comments About Women", "summary": "After a video surfaced of Donald Trump making vulgar remarks about women, many in the GOP reconsidered their endorsement of him. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Republican strategist Stuart Stevens.", "utt": ["Joining me now is Stuart Stevens. He was a chief strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign. He has been an outspoken member of the Never Trump movement since the beginning. He joins us on the line now. Mr. Stevens, thanks for being with us.", "Oh, it's great to be here. Thank you.", "How are you feeling right now? I mean, what do you make of your Republican colleagues who are now speaking out, disavowing Donald Trump when you have done so months ago?", "Well, this whole process of Donald Trump has been depressing, and it just gets more depressing. I worked for George Bush. I worked for Mitt Romney. And just the quality of the person - you could like or not like these people as political figures, but they were good and very decent people. And that Republicans have a representative of Donald Trump to me has just been sad, to use a phrase Donald Trump likes. I've felt that this was almost inevitable, that Donald Trump would force a separation between himself and the party. You know, Republican leaders that I know, for the most part, even those that are still supporting Donald Trump because of a binary choice, are not like Donald Trump. They believe in attempting to govern. They don't believe in his sort of tactics. They're sort of appalled by him. So I - it's...", "...Let's talk a little - it sounds like you're still trying to make sense of this and really what it means moving forward because it is a delicate line, right? We saw House Speaker Paul Ryan yesterday. He disinvited Donald Trump from his GOP unity event, but he hasn't taken away his support for Donald Trump because he still has to get Republicans elected.", "Well, I think with Speaker Ryan, he's just in a unique situation because he's representing, you know, the House Republicans and third in line to the presidency. And I can't imagine those pressures. You know, clearly the best thing would be for Donald Trump to step aside. As you said in your earlier report, there are provisions then that he could be replaced. That would be the best for a national discussion about real issues.", "Although you know he has said that's never going to happen.", "That's true. I have no idea what Donald Trump will or won't do, but I can only speak to what would be best. And I would argue that would be best for Donald Trump and his long-term image or career of businessman because the next 30 days or, you know, 28 days here are going to be not pretty for Donald Trump. He has said a lot of things and done a lot of things which the public has not been exposed to yet, and the odds that they will come out and then - between now and the election are pretty great. These conversations, you don't sit on a bus like that and talk like that, you know, the only time you've done it. And he's been around a lot of microphones and been on a lot of TV sets and people are rolling tape. You know, one of the most amazing things about this is that he said this to Billy Bush when he knew he was mic'd. This wasn't captured by somebody by chance.", "As you see this increasing schism - I mean, as someone who's been calling for the party to reinvent itself, do you see a kind of utility in this moment? I mean, is there an opportunity here as someone who's looking down the pike, trying to look at the future of the GOP?", "You know, I - that's a great question. And I have no idea. You know, after 2012, the party went through this process, so-called autopsy, which I think Reince Priebus deserves a lot of credit for. And now the party's turned 180 degrees from that. I mean, everything that was recommended as far as outreach and becoming a party that must confront the fact that we have to get to be a national governing party, more non-white support. And now the party's done the exact opposite. So I really don't know the degree to which parties are learning organisms.", "We'll have to leave it there. There's still obviously a lot to talk about, and we will continue to do so. Stuart Stevens, thanks so much for taking the time.", "Look forward to it. Take care. Bye."], "speaker": ["RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STUART STEVENS", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STUART STEVENS", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STUART STEVENS", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STUART STEVENS", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STUART STEVENS", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STUART STEVENS"]}
{"id": "CNN-237117", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2014-08-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/21/ng.01.html", "summary": "Mom of Four Struck by Huge Rock During Road Trip Vacation", "utt": ["Heart-breaking tragedy. A beloved teacher, breast cancer survivor, mother of four goes on summer vacation with the whole family when out of nowhere the car`s front windshield destroyed by a huge rock the size of a soccer ball, shattering mom, Sharon Budd`s face and head. Tonight we uncover this was just the tip of a crime spree iceberg.", "Keefer, what do you say about all this?", "I have no comment at this time.", "But you had -- you said that you threw rocks before. I mean, what do you --", "I have no comment.", "He told the court, quote, \"We were all laughing thinking it was funny. We laughed, tossed out rocks and drove home.\"", "Very, very malicious, violent.", "In the last hours we learn one of the perpetrators is testifying against the others, I guess trying to save his own skin. Listen to the injuries on this mother. I`m talking about a mom of four, Sharon Budd, middle school teacher, breast cancer survivor. On a family vacation, she loses sight in the right eye, has already undergone two surgeries, one which saved her life. She is looking at a complete restructuring of her skull with man-made material. They`re going to have to try and put together her face, what was once her face. It goes on and on. She`s speaking through a trach right now or breathing through a trach. Straight out to Sarah Bartlett with WKOK. Sarah, how did this whole thing happen?", "Nancy, it started when we heard that a rock was thrown off an overpass. And once we heard about Sharon`s injuries we realized that this was much more serious than we thought. Now we have four 17- and 18-year-old boys who admit that they threw the rock over the overpass.", "Now Keefer McGee is apparently testifying against the other two. This is what the father, Randi Budd, tells us.", "We were all awake. And all of a sudden it`s as if somebody would have put a grenade in that car, that`s what it sounded like. I mean it just was an explosion. And none of us. We didn`t know what happened. I looked up and just saw a big, big hole in the windshield. I still didn`t know -- my daughter started screaming. She goes, dad, what should I do? What happened? And I said -- and so I talked to her over to the side of the highway. We came to a stop. She turned the lights on and saw her mom`s head sideways and saw the most gruesome thing that probably anybody could ever see with her head split open with her base of her skull and her brains visible. Kayley screamed and ran from the car. I immediately ran around to the car to see what she saw. And oh, my god, it was gruesome. I called 911 immediately. Kayley, she`s so strong. She came right back in. So I was -- I was on the passenger side. Kayley climbed in in the driver side and we just -- we just held her hand. That`s what we thought at the time when she was just bleeding out. There was blood coming out of her nose, her mouth, her brain. And then she came to. And when I mean came to she started moving. And she was just moving all over the place and trying to grab at her face. I don`t know if she remembers it. We were trying to keep her hands down so she didn`t injure it more. And then she started -- she started gurgling in her own blood. And we just kept waiting and waiting for the ambulance. The only way she could breathe was through her brain.", "To Dr. Bill Manion, medical examiner, forensic pathologist joining us out of Philly tonight. Dr. Manion, they spent a large amount of time cleaning pieces off her skull that were jutting out of her brain. They had to actually remove a portion of this mother of four schoolteacher brain. They`re having to replace her whole skull with a man-made skull. Can she ever -- can she ever make a comeback, Dr. Manion?", "Well, frankly I`m surprised she lived. I mean, there are so many blood vessels, arteries, middle", "Unleash the lawyers. Jeff Gold, New York, Patrick McDonough, Atlanta. First to you, McDonough. They`re of course being charged as adults as they should be. They`re 17- and 18 years old. But you know the law presumes you intend the natural consequences of your act. I once told my juries, what that means is, I take a piece of fine China. I throw it to the cement floor. The law presumes I mean to break it. So when you throw a boulder the size of a soccer ball off an overpass onto a car, the law assumes you mean to injure someone. What about it?", "Yes. Sure. This was a tragic event. But according to you, everybody`s the same.", "So tragic an event it`s a crime.", "All four are equally the same. And you`ve got one of these co- defendants, one of these kids that wasn`t even out of the car when this took place. There`s no information or evidence that says they all got together and said let`s take this boulder and drop it off. You`ve got one kid that did that.", "Wait, wait.", "One of the kids isn`t even out of the car.", "What do you mean there`s no evidence they didn`t all plan it? Also with us is Clark Goldband. Now this is a 4 to 8-pound boulder the size of a soccer ball. Weren`t they all on the overpass, Clark?", "Size of a cantaloupe, Nancy. It`s not clear who was in and out of the car. It really depends who you believe. In fact, Nancy, one of the kids`s attorneys that`s charged say he shouldn`t be facing any charges because he never actually got out of the vehicle. What`s interesting is how these suspects were caught.", "You mean out of the vehicle on the overpass? What?", "Correct.", "In other words he`s behind the wheel as the other three throw the boulder over? You know, Clark, I`m actually surprised that you even repeated that.", "But, Nancy, what`s interesting is how these kids got caught.", "Why do you keep saying kids? They`re 18. They`re being tried as adults. This was part of a crime spree.", "Yes. Yes. OK. How these suspects got caught, Nancy, they went back to a home, started to watch a movie. But then they went back to the scene not once but twice according to authorities. And when police noticed the second time a car driving slowly, an officer took down the license plate and then went to the home. 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{"id": "NPR-37257", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2009-03-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102390076", "title": "Mortgages Offer Rare Positive Economic News", "summary": "Rates on home mortgages have dropped to all-time lows, and there are early signs that home sales may finally be coming out of their tailspin. Still, the economy is still not at a place where it is regularly functioning.", "utt": ["Here's something we don't get to report all that often lately, good financial news. Mortgage rates fell down to a record low this week. The average for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage is 4.85 percent. It's never been lower, at least not since 1971 when the official survey began. The Obama administration has been eager to get mortgage rates low so that more people can buy houses and housing prices might stop falling. Rising housing prices are crucial to any economic recovery. And joining us to sort out all this news is NPR economics correspondent Adam Davidson. Hi Adam.", "Hi Robert.", "Suddenly it's very cheap to buy a mortgage, is that a great sign, cause for a celebration over at the White House?", "I'd say it's certainly some of the best news they've gotten in a long time. And it comes after a few weeks of good news in the housing market, you know, the front lines of this whole crisis. We've been seeing housing purchases moving up over the last three weeks, after months and months and months, where they just moved down, down, down.", "And seeing mortgage rates so low implies that more and more people are going to take advantage of the discount. But we are not yet at the place where this is a regularly, naturally functioning market. This is really a ridged game. The government is forcing these mortgage rates low.", "When you say it's a ridged game, what is the government doing to force mortgage rates low?", "Well, I talked to an investment banker today, a former investment banker who said that if he as an investment banker did what the government is doing right now, he would go to jail.", "I don't want to make it sounds so conspiratorial. But basically, in a very open way, they're very clear about it, the Federal Reserve is buying huge amounts of long-term U.S. government debt. And their explicit goal is to get interest rates lower than they would be otherwise, so that mortgage rates can be lower, so that more people can buy houses.", "The reason the investment banker thought he might go to jail is because it's like a company buying its own stock at a crucial moment just to artificially increase the price so that they can make more profit.", "It means the Fed is running a pump and dump scandal here?", "I don't - I'm not saying that at all.", "They're fairly open about the whole thing. But they are clearly saying that wherever the natural market would be is not where they want it to be, and they are going to intervene aggressively. But that tells us this is not a self-sustaining phenomenon. This requires trillions of dollars of government support.", "Now, for many years mortgage rates have been lower because China and other foreign governments have bought huge amounts of U.S. debt. Are they still doing that, and should we worry that perhaps they might stop?", "Yeah, this is certainly on everyone's mind these days. They've been buying U.S. government debt forever, and U.S. government debt has gotten less and less attractive to them because it's been paying lower and lower interest rates. But we are not there yet. We are not at the falling over a cliff place. China is still buying a very healthy amount of U.S. government debt and so are many other foreign governments.", "But we are hearing signs. We are beginning to see the early stages of them saying, hey, maybe we're going to diversify. Maybe we're going to move to other assets. And what we hope very much, we should, I mean, I think everyone in the world would benefit if that happens in a slow and measured way and not in an abrupt way. I don't think it's in China's interest to just send the U.S. economy on some horrible downward slide. So hopefully that will happen in a measured pace.", "Is anybody authoritative offering some measure of how far along the road toward recovery we can now say the economy is?", "I'd said it's notable that they're not screaming out how wonderful this news is today. I think this may turn out to be the first tentative steps towards a healing of this economic crisis. But that's the very best case scenario that it's the first tentative steps. I think that there's an awful lot that has to happen before our banks are fundamentally healthy, our credit markets are fundamentally healthy and people in businesses are able to get the money they want to borrow so that they can start the economy being, you know, in its own self-sustaining way, productive again. If this is a turning point, it's a very small and tentative turning point.", "That's Adam Davidson, part of the Planet Money team. Their podcast and blog can be found at our Web site npr.org/money. 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{"id": "CNN-92448", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2005-2-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/25/ng.01.html", "summary": "Suspect in BTK Killings in Police Custody", "utt": ["\"Bind, Torture, Kill,\" the BTK killer is back. Last night, we took to the airwaves asking you to help with John Walsh.", "This is him coming out after 30 years and saying, \"I`m not as famous as Ted Bundy. I`m not as famous as the Hillside Strangler. I want my 15 minutes of shame, 15 minutes of infamy, and he is absolutely torturing this community and absolutely breaking the hearts of the victims` families.\"", "Tonight, a possible break: CNN affiliate KAKE reports a \"person of interest\" in custody for questioning. Tonight, a search of the person`s home being conducted as we speak. This is a live search of what`s going down. With us, FBI agent and profiler Candice DeLong, defense attorneys Daniel Horowitz and Ed Sapone, prosecutor Deborah Robinson. Let`s get right down to it. Ed Sapone, what does it mean?", "Well, I think this person should not say anything to the authorities. In this country, we have a Fifth Amendment...", "OK, hold on. Hold on, Ed.", "... and we should exercise that.", "I`m going to come back to you before you start preaching the Fifth Amendment. I`m talking about \"person of interest.\" You have got eight dead bodies. Suddenly, 20 years later, Candice DeLong, somebody sends police the victim`s driver`s license from 20 years ago. We got a guy in custody as a person of interest. What is a person of interest?", "A person we want to arrest.", "Candice DeLong?", "Well, it actually seems to be a new term that...", "I heard it in Peterson.", "Right. The first time I heard it was after the Richard Jewell fiasco in the Atlanta bombings many, many years ago.", "Yes, that stunk.", "Right. The fact that they have been issued an arrest warrant, I think, is very significant. When we arrested the Unabomber, or when we searched his cabin, we only had a search warrant and were hoping to find something in the cabin that we could eventually arrest him, which, of course, we all know what happened there. In this case, they actually were issued an arrest warrant. And that gives me hope that they have very good reason to believe this individual may very well have committed the crimes and be", "You know, out to Daniel Horowitz. Daniel Horowitz, what we`ve learned so far -- and these are reports, they`re flying -- we understand the person in custody that`s being questioned -- he has not been formally charged -- is married, has a family, 59-years-old, and is gainfully employed with a, quote, \"ordinary job.\" What do you think, Daniel?", "Nancy, I think they`ve got him. Remember back in December they had the wrong person. But I thought then, and I think now, that the BTK killer purposely led the police to the wrong guy. He probably left some clues. It wasn`t just a random person, probably somebody...", "He`s smart.", "... within BTK`s sphere of influence and friends. You know, this is a strange serial killer, Nancy. He can act normally. And in his missives to the press, he talks about trying to control this demon within him. He`s really, truly a split between that killing psychotic and a normal person.", "You know, when you just said those words, \"demon within him,\" Candice DeLong, this guy has been begging cops to find him. Describe for the viewers the missives he has been sending, not only to police, but to radio and TV stations.", "Well, since the beginning when -- actually in the `70s, when he initially was committing these crimes, he started taunting the police, communicating with them, giving them information proving that the person that was sending them the information was, in fact, the person that committed the crimes. Then he goes underground for several years and then re-emerges with all this communication, although not claiming any recent crimes, sending them the driver`s license of the woman he supposedly killed in 1985. I have to say, the age, 59, in my mind -- and we studied this case when I was in profiling school 20 years ago -- 59 to 62, 63, perfect age when a figure of...", "For what? Perfect age for what?", "What the profile was then...", "Oh.", "... for the age of the person, for how old he would be right now, late 50s, early 60s.", "Got you.", "Fits perfectly.", "Quickly to Ed Sapone, before we get to the trial, OK, before you jump ahead to what he should do at trial, tell me, this guy right now is just a person of interest. Can he walk out of the police station if he wants to?", "Absolutely not. I mean, the police have him in there for questioning. He has a choice, either submit to the questioning or not. But I can tell you this, Nancy, there`s an arrest warrant. There`s probable cause for this individual. He`s not going anywhere anytime soon.", "OK. According to Ed Sapone, the guy cannot just get up and leave. To me, that sounds like he`s under arrest, sounds like he is the target. But tonight police are only saying that he is a \"person of interest.\" Remember, they said that about Scott Peterson, too, and he just got sentenced to the death penalty. I want to tell you that Jessica`s father has now been hooked up. He`s ready to speak. We`re going to come right back to Jessica Lunsford`s father down in Florida. But very quickly as we go to break, \"Trial Tracking\": The 16-year-old girl, Sarah Johnson, remember her, the Idaho girl on trial for her parents` double murder? 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{"id": "CNN-152769", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-7-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1007/04/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Oil Scaring Away Tourist; Celebrating the Fourth of July", "utt": ["On this Fourth of July, some in the Republican Party want to declare independence from Chairman Michael Steele. One of the only conservatives speaking out in his defense, Ron Paul. He joins us this hour. California, once one of the most viable economies in the world, now taking drastic measures some worry will spread across the U.S. Could you live on minimum wage? And the food fight that landed a hot dog eating champ in jail. And it's all caught on tape. Happy Fourth of July to everyone. I'm Don Lemon. Lots of eyes peering into the night sky this evening catching the rockets' red glare. Some amazing fireworks shows across the country this evening. And our correspondents are standing by across the country as well. Sandra Endo is at the National Mall in Washington, the site of a huge celebration there. Our Allan Chernoff and John Zarrella are at different spots but both of them along the Gulf Coast tonight where the oil disaster is keeping many tourists and their money away on this very -- on this usually very busy weekend. We want to start with John Zarrella tonight in gulf shores, Alabama, area. John, what have you seen on the beaches there today?", "Well, Don, you know, the beach here for the most part today was very, very empty. A fraction of the normal crowd that you would expect here. In fact, the lifeguards were telling us that during a normal Fourth of July, they couldn't ride their golf carts along the beach. That wasn't the case today. There was plenty of open space. But now you can see tonight. Look, a lot of folks have come in pouring in here for the big firework show that they're putting on here that's supposed to start in just a few minutes. And folks came in this afternoon, late in the afternoon. A lot of the people over here on the beach stayed for the show. But many, many more came this afternoon. And there's a live band. There they go. You see a few. There you go. Take a look out there, Don. They've started some of the fireworks off the pier here because of the weather conditions. They had to move the show from a barge they were going to do the display on over to the pier out in the distance there. So some of the first fireworks of this July 4th for our audience. Don, take a look.", "Very nice there, John Zarrella. Very nice. Glad to see people having a good time. At least a little bit of fun down there on the gulf coast. And, you know, on the Fourth of July, it's really an American holiday. It's most American of all the holidays here. And we celebrate it with family and friends. Cookouts and barbecues. Even for the folks here at CNN. And what would the Fourth of July be without those fireworks that we have been seeing. Well, one place that could really use some cheering up of course is the gulf coast. And CNN's senior correspondent Allan Chernoff is in New Orleans for us. Always a prime place for a party. I see you are wearing your Mardi Gras beads. What else is going on, Allan?", "This, as you know is definitely party central. You know, in New Orleans, any nights an excuse for a party. July 4th, something very special. And behind me in just a few minutes we're going to have the battle of the barges. Two barges on the Mississippi River right behind me, and everybody is waiting for those fireworks to begin. Really should be something spectacular. The 20th annual showing of those fireworks right here on the river between the two barges. We've got the Pugh Family over here. They've got 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds. I think it's past their bedtime, is it not?", "It is.", "But a special occasion for it.", "Very much so.", "You're very excited, I'm sure.", "Definitely.", "Happy Fourth to you all.", "Thank you.", "And Don, by the way, the celebration over here, this fireworks display, it is in part sponsored by Chevron. Competitor of BP. But you can see behind me here, lots of people, thousands of people here in New Orleans. The spirit not dampened at all. At least right here in spite of that oil spill in the gulf. Don?", "And those are two really cute kids right there. Thank you Allan Chernoff down in New Orleans. You know, one of the best places to take in the sights and sounds of Fourth of July, well of course is the nation's capital. Washington is a beehive of activity on Independence Day. The Obamas put on a barbecue for military heroes and their families at the White House. Thousands gathered for the annual concert right there on the mall. And of course, an inspiring fireworks display that lights up the nation's most cherished monuments. And one of the best places to catch the show, of course, is the national mall. And CNN's Sandra Endo has a front row seat. One of the best assignments tonight. Sandra, are you having quite some fun there. I see you have some partiers right behind you.", "Oh, yes, Don. The party is still managing to go on right now. Even though the fireworks show is over. A lot of people are clearing out of this area, the National Mall. But so many people have come from far away. Germany, Orlando. What did you guys think? Everyone wearing their red, white and blue tonight for the 17- minute show. It was spectacular. You heard oohs and ahs from the crowd. And it was funny. After the roar in the sky, the roar down here, then it was like one more fireworks like a goodnight kiss. Don, back to you.", "All right, Sandra. Good times there in the nation's capitol. Thank you very much. Stay safe. In Afghanistan, July 4th took on more than symbolic meaning for some of our soldiers. They proved you can have a little fun on our national holiday, even in the middle of a war zone. CNN's Atia Abawi is at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.", "Don, General David Petraeus officially took command of ISAF forces on the Fourth of July in a ceremony held in Kabul. But it's here at Bagram Airfields where the troops are celebrating independence day with a dunk tank, music, barbecue and this.", "It feels different. I mean, we are aware that there's a war going on. But at the same time, we're all here serving the same thing, and, I mean, we deserve to celebrate, too. So -- but it's fun. I'm having a great time.", "We can't really do live fireworks here, so we're not going to see a fireworks show. But I hope we don't see a firework show. But I'm going to miss hanging out with my family watching fireworks and having a good time watching parades and stuff. So my family the most.", "The festivities ended with good food and good company. And although the troops do miss their family and friends on their independence day, they say they are proud to be serving in Afghanistan on the Fourth of July. Don?", "Atia, thank you for that. Vice President Joe Biden spent the Fourth of July in Iraq. He met with Iraqi leaders still in political deadlock nearly four months after national elections. The vice president and his wife also had a holiday lunch with U.S. Troops. During his visit, three mortar rounds hit Baghdad's green zone. No damage or injuries to report. This was Biden's second straight visit to Iraq on the Fourth of July. It looks like being benched from an eating competition was too much for Takura Kobayashi to chew. The former champ was hauled off in handcuffs at the annual Coney Island hot dog competition. We will tell you why. Plus, RNC Chairman Michael Steele in the midst of controversy over recent comments he made last year. He told me there's a reason behind every gaffe he makes. Take a listen.", "So if I do something, there's a reason for it. Even it may look like a mistake, a gaffe, there is a rationale. There's a logic behind it.", "So does the same hold true for his Afghanistan comments, or will he pay the price here? Congressman Ron Paul and our political expert Mark Preston weigh in on the debate. And don't just sit there, everyone. Be a part of our conversation. Be a part our show. Send me a message on Twitter and Facebook, and check out my blog at CNN.com/Don."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHERNOFF", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHERNOFF", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHERNOFF", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHERNOFF", "LEMON", "SANDRA ENDO, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "ATIA ABAWI, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CAPT. BRIDGETT SCOTT, U.S. ARMY", "MASTER SGT. 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{"id": "CNN-346804", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-08-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/04/cnr.06.html", "summary": "QAnon Conspiracy Supporters Growing Among Trump's Base", "utt": ["We're starting to see a new type of supporter at President Trump's rallies. In fact, we might see them tonight, people wearing T-shirts or holding signs with the letter \"Q.\" The \"Q\" stands for QAnon, a group that believes, among other bizarre things, that the deep state is out to kill President Trump. And that's just scratching the surface. CNN's Tom Foreman has more.", "Photos of missiles and mysterious strangers, rants about a shadow government, Freemasons, secret symbols, and predictions of a world about to change, all of this is part of the conspiracy stew cooked up by QAnon, an Internet conspiracy persona. Some followers of whom showed up at the president's most recent rally, and many of whom see him as a hero, like them, ready to embrace wild theories, to claim secret plots against him, and to attack anyone who says otherwise", "Fake news, fake news.", "They are fake.", "Internet postings associated with the movement gained traction fast among followers, like one that says the Parkland school shooting victims and witnesses were really actors. NBC News noted earlier this week a spate of YouTube videos falsely accusing top celebrities of pedophilia.", "The higher you go, the more sick it gets.", "At the same time, the \"Q\" is attracting interest from others, including Roseanne Barr and Curt Shilling.", "I've been asked --", "Do you believe the \"Q?\" Do you know who \"Q\" is?", "The Washington Post\" says \"Q\" is, \"An anonymous user claiming to be a government agent with top-security clearance, waging war against the so-called deep state in service to the 45th president.\" But back on earth, this is known. The promotion of conspiracy theories can have real consequences.", "The Hoover Dam was evacuated.", "In June, police detained an armed man after he blocked Hoover Dam, demanding the release of a government report, apparently about Hillary Clinton's e-mails, although such a report was already out. In 2016, police say a man fired a rifle in a D.C. pizza place as he claimed he was investigating a widespread conspiracy theory about human trafficking. He was convicted and is now serving four years.", "We're not covering Pizzagate enough.", "And Alex Jones, who pushed the Pizzagate conspiracy on his radio show, is now in court over another made-up tale. Families of victims in the Sandy Hook school shooting say they have been hounded mercilessly since Jones claimed their stories were all part of a hoax to push for gun control. He is countersuing them for legal defense fees. (on camera): And yet, for all that, back in 2015, Candidate Donald Trump praised Alex Jones. So perhaps it's no surprise the QAnon crowd is now crowding around the president, offering their support. Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.", "QAnon is the name of the group. And \"Daily Beast\" reporter, William Sommer, has been reporting on this bizarre movement, and joins us now to discuss further. So, William, it's so bizarre. And yet, it seems to be growing. Are QAnon followers drawn to Trump, or are Trump followers, do you think, drawn to QAnon?", "You know, it's interesting, I think it's a mix of both. Sometimes you see people who are already hardcore Trump people, and they turn to QAnon or believe in it because it portrays this world where, you know, Trump is constantly winning and victorious and sort of engaged in this very dramatic battle. At the same time, I think there are people, especially people drawn from the far left, who find it appealing because it portrays this world sort of controlled by evil banks and shadowy forces, and they, in a way, sort of meet in the middle with QAnon.", "How is this different than Pizzagate or Birtherism?", "Sure, in a way, it's sort of a combination of all of them. It's a mega-conspiracy theory that offers this explanation for all of that going on. So they say, oh, Pizzagate is real. That stuff's real. Maybe Barack Obama wasn't a legitimate president because he was born in Kenya. They claim the Seth Rich conspiracy theory. They claim he was murdered by Hillary Clinton, this DNC staffer. So it combines all this stuff that's been bubbling up for a long time now and offers this explanation of Trump versus this global cabal.", "But a lot of those we hear that are not supportive of the president, the person in power, these seem to be backers of the current president.", "Sure, so this is the interesting thing about QAnon. Is that conspiracy theory experts have looked at this and they say, normally, you get a conspiracy theory like, let's say, Birtherism, when your side loses. This time, though, it's the president's supporters. The Republicans control the entire government. So what's going on? I think what's going on is that the president -- he made such extravagant promises and his supporters believed in him so much during the campaign. So, for example, they were chanting, \"lock her up.\" Hillary Clinton was never going to be sent to prison, but they're disappointed that she wasn't, so they create this world or believe in this world like QAnon where they think Hillary Clinton's going to be sent to Guantanamo Bay.", "CNN's Gary Tuchman got a chance to speak to some of these QAnon supporters. Here's what they told him.", "You guys are --", "So you don't believe in the First Amendment?", "I totally believe in the First Amendment.", "You guys are weaponized. You guys are totally weaponized by the CIA.", "By the CIA? I don't know anybody in the CIA except a couple people I've interviewed over the years.", "OK.", "You believe there's a deep state?", "Yes.", "And what do you think that deep state is doing? Do you think they're running this country?", "I believe they were, and they're petrified now because they're losing their control.", "And who is in this deep state? Who are the people in it?", "Oh, I definitely believe that, like, the Clintons, the Bushes, the Obamas.", "Do you think the Clintons, the Bushes and the Obamas are running this country as we stand here in the rain?", "No, they're trying.", "William, you say, \"QAnon's impact on politics and Trump world is dangerous.\" Explain.", "Absolutely. Well, we saw in the earlier segment, we've already seen one QAnon believer who shut down a bridge. He was armed. He had a weird improvised armored truck. He's a hardcore QAnon guy so we know he's motivated by that. At the same time, obviously, in 2016, we saw someone with Pizzagate, you know, an armed person invade a pizzeria in Washington. So what's happening here is the QAnon people are saying, we're not violent, we're not violent. And admittedly, so far, no one that we know of has been hurt by this. But at the same time, you know, you're telling people these sort of extravagant conspiracy theories about pedophiles and people abusing children, and the fact that the idea that essentially democracy is broken, the government's out of your hands, and so then I think, naturally, that's going to appeal to some fringe people. And as we know, it already has.", "Increasing emotions and passion. William Sommer, thank you very much for your reporting. It's so interesting.", "Thanks for having me.", "Great to have you with us. We have this just in to CNN. First lady, Melania Trump, taking sides in her husband's feud with Lebron James. And you might be surprised whose side she's on. 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{"id": "CNN-403161", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-06-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/19/cnr.22.html", "summary": "Is American Football's Season in Jeopardy.", "utt": ["Well, one person often mentioned as a possible running mate for Joe Biden has withdrawn from consideration for that role. Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar called the former Vice President to say she didn't want him to pick her.", "This is a historic moment and America must seize on this moment and I truly believe, as I actually told the Vice President last night when I called him, that I think this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket.", "Biden tweeted his appreciation. He said in part, from the moment you announced you were running for president in a snowstorm, it wasn't hard to see you had the grit and determination to do anything you set your mind to. Well, American football is, to put it mildly, a contact sport. Not exactly ideal in this era of social distancing. Our Brian Todd takes a look at how COVID-19 is shaping up to be a formidable opponent for the National Football League and putting the upcoming season in real jeopardy.", "America's top voice on coronavirus is casting doubts on whether one of America's favorite sports can return this season. Dr. Anthony Fauci telling our Sanjay Gupta, unless players are essentially in a bubble, insulated from the community and they are tested nearly every day, it would be very hard to see how football is able to be played this fall -- a prospect that millions of fans don't even want to think about.", "It's going to be absolutely devastating for sports fan. And this is for a higher percentage of sports fans the league and the sport that they cannot do without.", "The NBA is planning to put players in a so-called bubble, resuming its schedule with all teams and no fans at a Disney resort in Orlando later this summer. Will the NFL consider that? Responding to CNN, an NFL spokesperson said, no. We have been preparing for all contingencies and we'll continue to make decisions based on the latest guidance from medical experts. The league said separately, it's got a comprehensive testing plan in place but hasn't said if it will test players every day as Dr. Fauci recommends. The NFL still says it plans to play the 2020 season as scheduled. The commissioner giving no detail, telling ESPN of stepped up safety measures.", "The protocols are stringent. They're designed to be that because they're protecting the safety of our players and our personnel, including coaches.", "According to the NFL network, several players from the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans recently tested positive for coronavirus. The reports said both teams followed proper health protocols, but experts say football carries even more risk of coronavirus transmission than other contact sports like basketball or hockey.", "It's hard to imagine an activity that is more likely to spread coronavirus than the muscular and intense clashes that you see in football. The taking off of a helmet and putting it on, the exchange of people who are really almost at war with each other, yelling at each other. All of these things spread the virus a lot more than other sports.", "It's still unclear whether the NFL will allow fans in its stadiums, if and when it starts the season. Even without them, epidemiologist Larry Brilliant worries about what can happen if the league doesn't plan things out in detail.", "I think the most dangerous thing that could go wrong if football resumes too soon are the incremental increase in the number of people who would show up. There's trainers, then there's the friends of the football players, then there's the owners in the owner's box, and then there's their friends. And soon, this idea of there will only be players on the field becomes 10-more-thousand people who show up.", "Then there's the timing of the season. Dr. Sanjay Gupta worries that when the season begins in September there could be an uptick in coronavirus cases. And he says flu season begins in late September or early October which could worsen things. So a tough decision in for a league that doesn't let us in on many of its plans. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "And thanks for your company this hour. I'm Rosemary Church. \"EARLY START\" begins right after this. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["CHURCH", "SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN)", "CHURCH", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JERRY BREWER, SPORTS COLUMNIST, WASHINGTON POST", "TODD", "ROGER GOODELL, NFL COMMISSIONER", "TODD", "DR. LARRY BRILLIANT, EPIDEMIOLOGIST", "TODD", "BRILLIANT", "TODD (on camera)", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-126591", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-5-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/15/cnr.05.html", "summary": "California Supreme Court Overturns Ban on Gay Marriage", "utt": ["All right. And just moments ago, the California Supreme Court overturned that state's ban on gay marriages. I'll say it again. The California Supreme Court overturned that state's ban on gay marriage. San Francisco was one of the plaintiffs trying to overturn the ban. And joining us now by telephone, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. A victory for you, sir.", "Well, not just for me, but for literally millions of people across this country and, for that matter, around the world. What the court did is simply affirmed their lives, affirmed their rights to live their lives out loud the same way that many of us take for granted that are getting married each and every day across this country. And it's just an extraordinary day, because California's Supreme Court, six out of seven judges which were Republican appointees, stood up, did the right thing, read the Constitution of the state of California, and noted was to me and others self-evident, that there's nothing in that Constitution that allows people to discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation. And that was affirmed today.", "OK. And I'm going to read exactly what you said. \"Accordingly, we conclude that the right to marry, as embodied in the Article I,\" which is from the statement that we have and the ruling that we have, \"that it guarantees same-sex couples the same substantive constitutional rights as opposite sex couples to choose one's life partner and enter with that person into a committed, officially-recognized and protected family relationship that enjoys all the constitutionally-based incidents of marriage.\" What happens in California, sir, many times spreads across the country. What do you think?", "Well, I do think -- I mean, it's a throwaway line, but I do think it's true. As California goes, so goes the rest of the nation. And I don't think people should be paranoid about that. I don't think people should stop and pause and go, this is the end of civilization as we know it, as some have already asserted. Look what happened in Massachusetts a number of years ago. Massachusetts is doing just fine. The state is doing wonderfully. The fact is that marriage is an institution and Massachusetts has not come to an end. People are doing OK. And that is exactly what's going to happen in California. And that's inevitable, and I think as other states adopt similar strategies to do the right thing, that will happen in those respected states.", "Well, and, you know, this is no secret to you, San Francisco has a reputation as being one of the most liberal places in the country. And people are going to say, you know what? This is just going to happen in San Francisco and California because you're very liberal there. That, in fact, the country is a little too conservative and the country believes that marriage should be between a man and woman, and it's not going to happen elsewhere.", "Well, here's the problem. The Constitution then is the real problem. And that is why I think the president of the United States wanted to write discrimination into the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution since the Bill of Rights that's only been amended 17 times to extend people's rights -- to abolish slavery, to allow women the right to vote. The problem is -- and this is why six out of seven Republican judges that were appointed on our California Supreme Court, at least four of them, concurred -- the point is that there's nothing in that Constitution, that document. Forget politics, let's just talk principles, the foundation of our Constitution, that allows people to discriminate based on sexual orientation. So, unless you amend the Constitution of the United States -- and this is where I agree with the president -- there's no foundation, no justification for discrimination. That's not a liberal or conservative problem. That's just I think fundamentally and factually constitutionally protected.", "Yes. I'm going to move on and let you -- because we need to get to our justice correspondent. But you, you know, also have some things to do here. You said barring politics, but also religion as well, Mr. Newsom, because people have said that marriage should be between a man and a woman and that's what the Bible says.", "Yes. We're not going to touch religious institutions. Forty percent of marriages are done outside religious institutions. We're not going to offend or do anything to impose our point of view on any religious constructs. This is about civil marriage, this is about fundamental rights. These are the same principles that we stood up as it relates to the denial of interracial marriage in 1967, when the Loving versus the State of Virginia was adjudicated by the U.S. Supreme Court. The same arguments then are the same arguments that are still being used today against same-sex marriage. It was the right thing to do in '67, it's the right thing to do today. I'm very proud of the Supreme Court's decision.", "Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco. Thank you, sir.", "Thank you.", "All right. Let's get to our justice correspondent now, Kelli Arena. She's standing by. Kelli, I'm looking at this ruling. And it is a huge ruling...", "It is.", "... over 200 or 300 pages that we're having to go through, and several of those quotes I pulled. What are you hearing there and what did you think of what we just said -- what we just talked to Gavin Newsom about?", "Well, you know, Don, this ruling was definitely a big shock to some legal experts. The court in California, as you heard from the mayor, does have a rather conservative reputation. And so California, shockingly, is now the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry. But what this ruling does not mean, Don, is that couples will not be entitled to federal benefits, Social Security and so on. But they can claim benefit status under state laws. And as you just discussed, this decision could prod other states to go ahead and pass similar legislation using California as a precedent. Now, the court said in very plain English, it is a basic civil right to marry someone that you love, which includes all Californians, whether they're gay or heterosexual. And so as long as that ruling is, that's what it boils down to.", "All right, Kelli. And what about politically? How will this -- or how might this, I should say -- obviously you don't have a crystal ball, but how might this play out politically getting very close to deciding the Democratic nominee? We know who the Republican nominee is.", "I'll tell you, I don't need a crystal ball. I've got a BlackBerry. And I'm already being completely inundated with e-mails from all sorts of conservative groups. I mean, there' s definitely going to be more of a focus on where the candidates stand on this issue, which hasn't been, you know, one of the top three issues we've heard about.", "It hasn't, Kelli.", "No, it hasn't. But...", "What's interesting, in the last two presidential elections, and even during the Clinton term, remember \"Don't ask, don't tell\"?", "That's right.", "And then when George Bush was elected the first time and the second time this was a huge issue. But this time not so much.", "Not so much, but I think -- I think obviously this will put it on the radar screen. All three presidential candidates actually oppose same-sex marriage. But Democrats support the idea of civil unions. And you know what, Don? This is going to bring a lot of attention to the courts and the type of judges sitting on the bench.", "Yes.", "And that is something that political analysts say will definitely energize conservatives. You know, they're going to call attention to that and say, look, you know, do we want, you know, someone who is liberal in the White House, which will then translate into liberals on the bench where you get decisions like this one which many conservatives obviously oppose.", "Ah, OK. Very well put. Our justice correspondent, Kelli Arena. Thank you, Kelli.", "You're welcome.", "And now from Washington we head out to California for reaction to that high court decision. CNN's Ted Rowlands in Los Angeles. What is the reaction there, Ted?", "Well, Brianna, as you might imagine, a lot of reaction, a lot of emotional reaction from both sides of this very divisive issue in San Francisco, where the state Supreme Court is located. A large group of people gathered waiting for this decision, and when it came out, huge cheers went up in San Francisco, as you might imagine. The governor has weighed in, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying in a statement released, \"I respect the court's decision and as governor I will uphold its ruling. Also, as I have said in the past, I will not support an amendment to the Constitution\" -- the state constitution -- \"that would overturn this state Supreme Court ruling.\" On the other side of the court, the Alliance Defense Fund is promising that they will try to push through that exact next step, and that is a constitutional amendment. They said in a statement, in part, \"Marriage is now jeopardized because of this ruling.\" It \"ignores the will of the people, and a perfect example for the need for a marriage amendment.\" Gay and lesbian groups are holding press conferences throughout the day. Mayors of major cities of course -- we just talked to Gavin Newsom on the air. Antonio Villaraigosa is holding a press conference here in Los Angeles. \"The Advocate,\" the gay and lesbian news magazine, also coming in with a quote. \"We are thrilled with today's landmark decision. It is immensely gratifying to see our community finally achieve another step towards complete equality.\" The next step will be that counties will be told that they have to accommodate this, and we're going to see now in the coming weeks and months different counties around the state of California allowing these marriages to take place. And so this is just the beginning of what we anticipate of weeks and months of reaction here in California -- Brianna.", "Ted Rowland for us in Los Angeles. Thanks Ted. And all three presidential candidates, they oppose same-sex marriage, but they do have some differences. Republican John McCain opposes a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, saying each state should decide. And he also says if courts start overturning state laws, he might support a federal ban. Democrat Barack Obama, he opposes a constitutional ban. He supports though civil unions. And Hillary Clinton, of course a Democrat, also opposing a constitutional amendment. She supports civil unions, as well adding that each state should make its own decision.", "Well, John McCain is predicting what America and the world would look like if he is elected in November. In Columbus, Ohio, today the presumptive Republican nominee laid out what he expects after a first term. And here's what it is on the health care front. McCain says after his first four years in office, more small businesses would offer their workers health plans. And government insurance pools could cover Americans hard-pressed to find insurance because of pre-existing illnesses and these other predictions.", "Health care has become more accessible to more American than at any time in history. Reforms of the insurance market putting the choice of health care into the hands of American families rather than exclusively with the government or employers.", "Walk-in clinics -- walk-in clinics as alternatives to emergency room care, paying for outcome in the treatment of disease rather than individual procedures, and competition in the prescription drug market have begun to ring out the runaway inflation once endemic to our health care system.", "That's four years into the future for health care. Coming up in the NEWSROOM, we'll look at McCain's economic forecast and how that might affect you.", "Rescue efforts in China are giving way to grim reality. The odds that anyone could survive more than three days in this rubble here of this catastrophic earthquake from Monday fading fast. The government has raised its projected death toll to more than 50,000 people. More than four million homes are said to be damaged or destroyed, 130,000 troops are mobilized for rescue and recovery efforts, and about 10 million people are said to be directly affected by this quake.", "To Myanmar now, where the official death toll from Cyclone Nargis jumped to more than 43,000. According to the Red Cross, nearly three times that many may have died. Well, the group also says emergency food and water have reached only about a quarter million people, with up to 2.25 million still in desperate need. Today Myanmar's military junta warned against hoarding, and it announced the approval of a constitution crafted to bolster its hold on power. The public referendum was held after the storm hit May 2 and May 3.", "President Bush is touring the Holy Land, addressing Israel's parliament, and man, oh, man, did he say something that fired up the Democrats back home. We're going to explain ahead.", "And hard times fall on a famously tiny (ph) town on the coast of California. We'll tell you what the city of Santa Barbara is doing to help women who suddenly find themselves homeless."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM, SAN FRANCISCO", "LEMON", "NEWSOM", "LEMON", "NEWSOM", "LEMON", "NEWSOM", "LEMON", "NEWSOM", "LEMON", "KELLI ARENA, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "ARENA", "LEMON", "ARENA", "LEMON", "ARENA", "LEMON", "ARENA", "LEMON", "ARENA", "LEMON", "ARENA", "LEMON", "ARENA", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR", "LEMON", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MCCAIN", "LEMON", "KEILAR", "LEMON", "KEILAR", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "NPR-37640", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2009-02-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100301363", "title": "Mysterious New York City Smell Is Fenugreek", "summary": "Every since 2005, New Yorkers have occasionally experienced the smell of maple syrup wafting over their neighborhood. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday the mystery was solved: fenugreek seeds being processed by a food-manufacturing company in New Jersey.", "utt": ["Since 2005, New York City residents occasionally have been mystified by a sweet maple syrup smell that has wafted over the west side of Manhattan and beyond. Well, today, in his best Sherlock Holmes manner, Mayor Michael Bloomberg laid this mystery to rest.", "Here's NPR's Margot Adler.", "Whatever you may think of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, he has fun doing his job, and that was clear today at a news conference where the mayor spent a full 20 minutes telling the city and the media…", "The mystery of the maple syrup mist has finally been solved.", "He pointed to a map with dots where the smell was reported, and arrows to show wind patterns and triangles to show processing plants in New Jersey. Mayor Bloomberg said a team of investigators put it all together. The wind was blowing west to east from New Jersey across the Hudson. The odor reports came on days when the wind speed was moderate and the air somewhat humid.", "Investigators found that the odor came from a compound that uses fenugreek seeds. Fenugreek is an ingredient often used in vanilla, maple and butterscotch flavorings. One New Jersey company that processes fenugreek is called Frutarom.", "We also learned that one of the last times Frutarom's facility in North Bergen processed the seed was, in fact, last Thursday night.", "The very night that some 80 people called the 311 hotline to complain.", "I can think of a lot of things worse than maple syrup.", "It's completely safe, said the mayor, and not harmful, and the company was apparently not breaking any laws.", "It just happens to be one of the aromas that we're going to have to live with in a city like New York, which is surrounded by neighbors who are also bustling and industrious.", "The case is closed, he said, and having reassured his English-speaking audience, he began to give his soothing message to Spanish-speaking New Yorkers.", "(Speaking Spanish)", "Margot Adler, NPR News, New York."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "MARGOT ADLER", "Mayor MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (New York City)", "MARGOT ADLER", "MARGOT ADLER", "Mayor MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (New York City)", "MARGOT ADLER", "Mayor MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (New York City)", "MARGOT ADLER", "Mayor MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (New York City)", "MARGOT ADLER", "Mayor MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (New York City)", "MARGOT ADLER"]}
{"id": "CNN-143811", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2009-10-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/09/ldt.01.html", "summary": "President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize; America in Decline", "utt": ["Wolf, thank you. Total and complete shock over President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, the mainstream media perplexed, even the president himself says he doesn't deserve it. What were the Norwegians thinking? Is this just the final repudiation of President George W. Bush and President Obama's military advisers making their case today, arguing for tens of thousands more of our troops for Afghanistan -- a new strategy being discussed, focusing on killing al Qaeda and allowing the Taliban to remain. Taxpayers bailing out the banks with billions of dollars, some Americans facing crushing credit card debt while interest rates only go up -- is it time for the government to step in? Also tax cuts, are they the answer to record high unemployment? That's the subject of our \"Face Off\" debate here tonight.", "This is LOU DOBBS TONIGHT; news, debate and analysis for Friday, October 9th. Live from New York, Mr. Independent Lou Dobbs.", "Good evening, everybody. Surprised and humbling, that's how President Obama described winning the Nobel Peace Prize today. The announcement in Oslo, Norway, clearly caught just about everybody off guard. President Obama was not even mentioned as a possible front-runner. Reporters in the room actually gasped when the announcement that he had won was made. The Nobel Committee's vote was unanimous, they say in the president's favor. Reaction was anything but. The choice raises some serious questions, why bestow one of the world's prestigious awards on a president a mere nine months in office with very few accomplishments to speak of. Ed Henry has our report.", "Good morning.", "Yes, he can win the Peace Prize on the same day his war council met again to consider sending up to 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan. While a second war is winding down, but still raging in Iraq, fresh reminders this award is more about the promise of change than actual change.", "We have to confront the world as we know it today. I am the commander in chief of a country that's responsible for ending a war and working in another theater to confront a ruthless adversary that directly threatens the American people and our allies.", "The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited the president's ability to create a new climate around the world.", "A deliberate approach from day one to break from the Bush years, especially with an historic speech to the Muslim world in Cairo.", "And I'm also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country.", "As well as major speeches in Prague and at the United Nations, laying out an aggressive plan to rid the world of nuclear weapons.", "All nations have the straight to peaceful nuclear energy, that nations with nuclear weapons have a responsibility to move toward disarmament and those without them have the responsibility to forsake them.", "But so far, only great speeches with little tangible results.", "I think certainly he's -- you have to give him an \"a\" for trying but at the end of the day, what has he accomplished?", "Not to mention the details of other accomplishments are still a little, well, fuzzy.", "I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed, and we are doing the hard work of forging a framework to combat extremism within the rule of law.", "Top administration officials now admit that they're likely to miss the January deadline to close down Guantanamo, a real stark example of how difficult it will be to translate the president's vision into some actual victories here and abroad. Lou?", "All right, Ed, thank you very much, Ed Henry. Questions tonight many people are asking, perhaps you're wondering what the criteria were used by the Nobel Selection Committee. Alfred Nobel himself laid out the requirements in his will. He wrote the prize should go to quote, \"the person who shall have done the most of the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.\" If you're wondering who the other nominees for the prize were, you'll have to check back in 2059 when the names will be made public. The Nobel Committee did not say it had received -- did say that it had received 205 nominations for this year's prize. That is the highest number of nominations ever. The Nobel Peace Prize is ultimately decided by a five-member committee. The process is lengthy. When all nominations have been submitted, a short list of up to 20 names is reviewed by the Nobel Institute's director, a small group of advisers as well, made up of Norwegian University professors. Their reports then are poured over by the committee of five, all of whom are former or current deputies of the Norwegian Parliament. The winner is then chosen by a simple majority if a unanimous vote is not possible. It was this time. President Obama's accomplishments enough for the committee but not Arizona State University. Arizona State University surprised the White House, you may remember, by refusing to give the new president an honorary degree when he delivered the school's commencement back in May. An ASU spokesman at the time explained the decision \"it's our practice he said to recognize an individual for his body of work, somebody who's been in their position for a long time. His body of work is yet to come. That's why we're not recognizing him with a degree at the beginning of his presidency.\" Arizona State did end up creating a scholarship program in the name of President Obama. This international honor for the president comes at a time when new questions are emerging about the future of this nation itself. A recent report from the American Political Science Association says despite the president's presidency, there remains a deep global dissatisfaction with the United States. Ines Ferre reports now on critics predicting the fall of the American empire.", "Since 1945 the U.S. has enjoyed being a global superpower but in recent years some foreign leaders and scholars have been predicting the end of the American empire. This is what Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recently told a group of Russian students at the University of Moscow.", "The Yankee empire that might have dominated the world can no longer do it. It's already falling.", "Chavez and other politicians who oppose the U.S. have made similar predictions in the past, from Fidel Castro to Chinese leader Mao who predicted American militarism would someday lead to the downfall of the U.S. Russian academic and former KGB analyst Igor Panarin goes even farther. He says the U.S. will fall apart in 2010 because of an economic and moral collapse. Assistant professor of European history at the University of New England, Eric Zuelow (ph) has studied past empires. He thinks these predictions are overstated and points to a fairly new phenomena that would hold the U.S. together, the concept of a nation.", "Although we may disagree about some pretty significant political issues, at the end of the day we nevertheless imagine ourselves to be part of the same community. We may disagree about the fundamentals of what the founding fathers intended, but we don't disagree that the Constitution and the founding fathers are ultimately common shared history that bring us together.", "French historian and demographer Emanuel Todd (ph), who is credited with predicting the downfall of the Soviet Union argued in 2003 that the U.S. was about to relinquish its place as a sole superpower. Why -- the decline of its industrial base, and more dependence on other countries for consumptions. And in August, 2008, NYU Professor Nouriel Roubini wrote quote, \"recent economic, financial and geopolitical events suggest that the decline of the American empire has started.\"", "And the U.S. military remains the envy of the free world but national debt close to $12 trillion with China as the largest foreign holder of our debt and the United States' massive trade deficits is behind the arguments that the U.S. position in the world is in decline, Lou.", "All right, thank you very much. We appreciate it. Ines Ferre. Well coming up next here, we'll have a lot more on whether or not the American empire is in decline. We'll be talking about the Nobel Peace Prize controversy and 10 years and almost $1 trillion, the Senate health care overhaul legislation coming with a large price tag and with price tags beyond that are largely written in invisible ink but with profound impact on states. And state governments are now demanding changes to the legislation, and overcrowding in California's prisons could land Governor Schwarzenegger behind bars. We'll explain next."], "speaker": ["LOU DOBBS, HOST", "ANNOUNCER", "DOBBS", "BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "OBAMA", "HENRY", "HENRY", "OBAMA", "HENRY", "OBAMA", "HENRY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HENRY", "OBAMA", "HENRY", "DOBBS", "INES FERRE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "PRES. HUGO CHAVEZ, VENEZUELA (through translator)", "FERRE", "ASST. PROF. ERIC ZUELOW, UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND", "FERRE", "FERRE", "DOBBS"]}
{"id": "CNN-44129", "program": "MORNINGS WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2001-11-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/20/ltm.06.html", "summary": "Ask CNN: After Ending Threat of Osama Bin Laden, How Do We Continue to Combat Terrorism Worldwide?", "utt": ["I'm Rosie Depaola. I'm from Decatur, Georgia and my question to CNN is, after ending the threat of Osama bin Laden, how we continue to combat terrorism worldwide.", "Rosie, it's been made clear that this is going to be a long war -- a wide war in many places around the globe. One of the dangers of the ongoing activities in Afghanistan are that if we get bin Laden and we get the al Qaeda cells, that the people will think the war on terrorism is over. It is not. We're going to pursue terrorists and their terrorist cells wherever they are reportedly right now in 60 countries, including the United States. This is going to be done not only by military means, but by also by financial means; by diplomatic means; and by other means such as law enforcement."], "speaker": ["ROSIE DEPAOLA, CNN ANCHOR", "MAJ. GEN. DON SHEPPERD, (RET.) CNN MILITARY ANALYST"]}
{"id": "NPR-24036", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2015-09-14", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/09/14/440327578/kentucky-county-clerk-remains-defiant-after-returning-to-work", "title": "Kentucky County Clerk Remains Defiant After Returning To Work", "summary": "Kim Davis returned to work Monday after being released from jail for her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses. She remains defiant but is allowing her deputy clerks to keep issuing licenses.", "utt": ["There was a scene again today at the county clerk's office in Rowan County, Ky. Reporters crowded in to see if the defiant clerk Kim Davis would issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. It was Davis's first day back at work after spending five days in jail on federal contempt charges. Kentucky Public Radio's Ryland Barton was there.", "County Clerk Kim Davis says she won't issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because it goes against her religious beliefs. She defied the U.S. Supreme Court and was put in jail. Her deputy clerks issued the forms last week when Davis was in jail. Back at work this morning, Davis said she wouldn't get in the way of her deputy clerks, but she would strip her name from the licenses.", "Any unauthorized license that they issue will not have my name, my title or my authority on it. Instead, the license will state that they are issued pursuant to a federal court order.", "The test came when a lesbian couple from nearby Lexington stopped in to get a license.", "Thank you, Brian. Woo, Brian.", "Shannon and Carmen Wampler-Collins were greeted by deputy county clerk Brian Mason. It took just a few minutes, but soon, they had their license in hand. The form did not have Davis's title and name. Shannon Wampler-Collins said it was ridiculous Davis changed the form.", "You know, no one is asking her, nor do we seek her blessing, you know? It's just a legal document certifying that we meet the requirements. And I think it's a little ridiculous that she needed to go to that length, but at the same time, I'm very happy that it's making it possible for people to get licensed here.", "U.S. District Court judge David Bunning let Davis out of jail after the deputy clerks started granting licenses. He said she'd be held in contempt again if she interfered. That hasn't stopped Kim Davis and her attorneys from complaining. They say without the clerk's name and the fact that she didn't authorize them, this license and the others issued in the last week are invalid.", "University of Illinois law professor Robin Wilson says that's not true. She says the licenses are valid because Kentucky's marriage laws already authorized deputy county clerks to issue marriage licenses.", "The code expressively contemplates deputy clerks issuing these things, right? So I doubt that she could say no deputies can issue, right? And Judge Bunning just told her that that's going to be contempt of court, so I think that question's resolved.", "Other legal experts say the continuing religious freedom arguments don't hold any weight. University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias says even though Davis isn't issuing licenses herself, the situation is fixed as long as couples can get them in Rowan County.", "Religious objections are accommodated at least for the head of the office and maybe the other deputy clerks. But some deputy clerk is going to have issue licenses from that office so people who want to get married have their rights vindicated.", "There's mounting pressure on Kentucky's legislature to change the state's marriage laws so the county clerks don't have to sign marriage licenses. Kim Davis has repeatedly asked outgoing governor Steve Beshear to call a special legislative session so the laws can be passed. But he's refused so far, and the legislature doesn't meet until January. For NPR News, I'm Ryland Barton in Morehead, Ky."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "RYLAND BARTON, BYLINE", "KIM DAVIS", "RYLAND BARTON, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN", "RYLAND BARTON, BYLINE", "SHANNON WAMPLER-COLLINS", "RYLAND BARTON, BYLINE", "RYLAND BARTON, BYLINE", "ROBIN WILSON", "RYLAND BARTON, BYLINE", "CARL TOBIAS", "RYLAND BARTON, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-14854", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-8-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/29/mn.09.html", "summary": "Philadelphia City Manager Discusses Wide-Spread Building Collapses", "utt": ["Want to take you now to the city of Philadelphia there. Officials fear that some 3,000 buildings could collapse at any time. Twenty-two row houses have fallen down since Thursday, and the most recent collapse happened last night. However, residents there not home at the time of that collapse. Most of the other problems have involved empty or abandoned buildings, all in poor neighborhood. Only minor injuries resulted from the collapses. More now from the telephone and Joseph Martz. He's the city manager in the city of Philadelphia. Sir, can you hear me?", "I sure can, Bill.", "Tell us what's happening right now with these row houses and what seems to be contributing to these collapses.", "Well, all we can ascertain at this point is that there just seems to have -- it has seemed to have been an unusually wet summer here in the city of Philadelphia and we believe that the water has much to do with the problems that we're experiencing right now.", "And I understand your answer there, but would it take more than just water to force houses to collapse? Is there not more of an issue here structurally?", "Well, we recognize that. And, as a matter of fact, a year ago when Mayor Street was actually running for mayor, he -- his program at the time was that he would put $250 million into a blight program to help us eradicate some of the problems that exist right now. We actually have between 6,000 and 6,500 homes that are dangerous or imminently dangerous and need to be taken down.", "For the people still living there inside, have they been warned, notified of possible danger to them inside?", "For those homes, most of those homes are actually vacant. We actually have in the city of Philadelphia between 23,000 and 25,000 vacant properties. Today, as we speak, there are members of our Department of Licenses and Inspections in the air with our police department reviewing a number of the properties. We're actually approaching this on a census-track-by-census-track basis. We have about 100 census tracks in the city of Philadelphia that have an inordinate number of imminently dangerous and vacant properties.", "So what's been the reaction there in the community? Certainly when they see buildings collapse like this at this great number, folks can't be too pleased.", "No, obviously not. And, as I said, I mean, the mayor recognized this was a huge problem a year ago and we are in the process of putting together a blight strategy here in the city of Philadelphia. And as I said, I mean, I can't think of another time in the city's history when we planned to spend upwards of $250 million on any project of this magnitude. I mean, we're very, very concerned about it. We believe that there are going to be more collapses and we're doing our best right now to get our hands around the problem and start the process of actually demolishing these properties.", "And, quickly, the figure you give, $250 million, seems like a pretty good amount of cash, but is it enough to take care of what appears to be a pretty massive, wide-scale problem?", "Well, it costs about $10,000 to demolish a property. And, hypothetically, if it's 25,000 properties, that would be $250 million.", "All right, Joseph Martz, city manager in Philly, best of luck.", "Thank you very much, Bill.", "All right, sir, thanks."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "JOSEPH MARTZ, PHILADELPHIA CITY MANAGER", "HEMMER", "MARTZ", "HEMMER", "MARTZ", "HEMMER", "MARTZ", "HEMMER", "MARTZ", "HEMMER", "MARTZ", "HEMMER", "MARTZ", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-251013", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2015-03-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/11/es.02.html", "summary": "Jury Sees Tsarnaev's Writings on Boat", "utt": ["A key piece of evidence presented in the trial of the suspected Boston marathon bomber. At hand, the cryptic bloody messages he wrote while hiding on a boat after the attack. CNN's Deborah Feyerick takes us inside the courtroom.", "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has shown virtually no emotion in court. So, the note that he scribbled inside the boat really is the first time jurors have had an opportunity to get insights into what he was thinking immediately after the blast. Now, in the note, which is scribbled in pencil, it's marked by bullet holes as well as his own blood, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev says he's jealous of his brother who he believes has now entered paradise. He says he was meant to stay behind in order to shed light, in his words, on the brothers' actions. He blames U.S. policy, saying that it was the killing of innocent civilians that, quote, \"we Muslims are one body, hurt one, hurt us all.\" So, this was really the first time the jurors got a chance to see or consider what he might have been thinking at the time. That's a big part of the defense's attempts to spare him from the death penalty. Now, the judge did give the jurors an afternoon off, and that's because the judge, along with lawyers for both the defense and the prosecution, went to go see the boat. There's a question as to whether the jurors will actually be able to look at the note itself --bullet holes, blood and all. So, right now, that's under consideration. The trial expected to continue today -- John, Christine.", "You know, and Deb's been covering that trial, she told me it's so emotional in the courtroom. Even the jurors have been wiping tears from their eyes. Even seasoned reporters who have covered Whitey Bulger and all kinds of, you know, really horrific trials, have been a hard time keeping their composure. It's been just that sad and dramatic in that courtroom.", "Even for the people who lived through it once already.", "Yes. Forty-nine minutes past the hour. Robin Thicke and Pharrell taking a big hit in the wallet this morning. They have been ordered to pay up for copying a song from Marvin Gaye. We'll let you listen for yourself after the break."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-99403", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2005-11-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/08/acd.02.html", "summary": "The Relationship Between Men and Women: Are Men Necessary?; Kinsey Report Updated", "utt": ["So, how does your sex life match up? A new comprehensive survey is out. We're going to get to that in a moment, but first here is a look at what's happening at this moment. In Jacksboro, Tennessee, a high school assistant principal is dead. The principal and another assistant are fighting for their lives after a student opened fire this afternoon using a small caliber handgun. The suspect is a 15-year-old. He is in custody. No students were wounded in the attack. The CIA has asked the Justice Department to review a possible leak of classified information. The information was used in a \"Washington Post\" article on the agency's secret prisons around the world. Republican leaders in Congress have also called for a joint investigation. France is under a state of emergency tonight as the country tries to quell riots that have been going on for nearly two weeks. Local officials have begun imposing curfews. Since the rioting began more than 1,500 people have been arrested, thousands of vehicles torched. France's prime minister says his country is at a hour of truth. And here in the States, it is election night. Several noteworthy races going on. The Associated Press reports that New Yorkers have re-elected Republican Michael Bloomberg as mayor. Meanwhile, CNN projections indicate that Democrats have kept control of governorships of New Jersey and Virginia. Well, since Maureen Dowd brought it up, we thought we'd talk a little bit more about sex tonight. Not gratuitously, of course, not here at 360. No, this is legit. The biggest survey of American sex lives in 50 years. And we're going to be taking your calls on it. You can call us at 1-877-648-3639. Ask some of your questions to our experts. No small matter, this survey. Men's fitness and shape magazines teamed up for the project. A full report of what they found is in the latest issue of \"Men's Fitness\", just out on newsstands today. And what they found? Well, you can decide for yourself. Here's Adaora Udoji.", "Stim-u-lation. Who can tell me which part of the human body can enlarge 100 times?", "In \"Kinsey,\" Liam Neeson played the researcher who blew the covers off America's sex lives in the '50s. Now a half century later, \"Men's Fitness\" surveyed some 11,000 people, as many as the landmark \"Kinsey Report\" did, about sex to see what's normal these days.", "We felt it was time to take on the \"Kinsey Report\". Times have changed. Sexuality has changed. Folks have evolved. And we wanted to take a look at where we are.", "Where we are, according to the study, is between the sheets, at least three times a week; 64 percent of men, and women, said they're having sex three times a week, or more.", "Three times a week is, indeed, a great thing report. Good news, we're sexually doing quite well as a country. But folks want more.", "So much more they may be willing to stray. For Jude and Sienna, maybe it was the hottie nanny; more likely though the problem was the time apart. As 59 percent of men say, they're driven to cheat because their not getting enough sex or attention.", "Women do report a fairly high incidence of cheating as well. Primary reason for that, is that folks are not communicating and getting what they want, at home, in the bedroom.", "Here's proof men and women, uh, see things a little differently. While 82 percent of men say they're good or excellent in the sack, 43 percent of women say only a small number of men were memorable. And 90 percent of all women say their man would never hire a hooker, but nearly 60 percent of men think prostitution should be legal and 20 percent have paid for sex.", "I wish I had had a bravado rating, because I think men boast that this is something that's OK, when in fact, I think much fewer men engage in this practice than they'd probably want to report.", "We heard a lot of women talking about sex in the hit show \"Sex and the City\". They were New Yorkers, and New Yorkers have more casual sex than residents of any other state. But Alaskan men have the greatest appetite for casual sex. As for the safest sex, that honor goes to Rhode Island, where men and women get tested for sexually transmitted diseases more than anywhere else in the country. More sobering, a recent Zogby poll shows just 39 percent of Americans ask a lover if they're infected with HIV. And experts say we need to start practicing safer sex.", "And it is one of the easiest and least expensive practices to engage in.", "Adaora Udoji, CNN, New York.", "All right. So those are just the outlines, lots to talk about -- Mom turn the TV off right now. Joining me now is Neal Boulton, who you just heard from Adaora's piece, he's the editor and chief of \"Men's Fitness\". And Belisa Vranich is the magazine's health and sex editor and a psychologist as well. Thanks for being with us.", "Thanks for having us.", "Let's talk about this. People are probably hearing the results of this and asking themselves, are they normal? What is normal in 2005?", "Well, that's what we kept having our readers ask us at \"Men's Fitness\". Am I normal? Do I think about it as much as everybody else? Do I do it as much as everybody else? So we did the survey. And surveyed over 11,000 people to find out exactly what is normal. What we found is that the definition of normal is a lot broader than you would think. Like you said, 64 percent of Americans are having sex three times a week, or more. So Americans are really having a lot of sex. But the definition? It really is broad and it really is flexible, which is nice to hear.", "What's the biggest complaint, Neal, you hear from women, about men?", "Well, what we hear is that they're not as good as men think they are.", "Men have -- I think you said in the piece, a bravado index, is what you wanted.", "Yes, I wish I had a bravado index. No, women often complain that men believe they're a bit better in bed than they actually are. So, there.", "What about complaints -- men about women?", "You know, men often say, they want women to be more aggressive, believe it or not. They want women to maybe even be a little bit more creative in the bedroom.", "Also, I was pretty fascinated by this. Almost 40 percent of say their desire for sex has increased since their teenage years.", "Absolutely", "Only 24 percent of men say their desire has increased. A whopping 76 percent of guys say their desire has stayed the same, or actually gone down. Why do you think the difference?", "Well, women are being more exogen about their sex lives. They're actually admitting they have a high libido later in life. And in the second part of that is that work stress is really taking a toll on men's libido. So we're seeing men's libido plateau or go down and women's go up.", "I think stress is a huge factor that a lot of people don't really pay attention to.", "That's true. I mean, like folks are still reporting -- you know, it is sort of the Yuppie syndrome we read about in the '80s. It is still continuing in the 2K years. Folks are tired, they're not engaging in sexual relations as much.", "What about cheating? A lot of men, women, obviously are cheating. What are sort of the relationship danger zones?", "Well, one of the dangers is that they are not being safe about their cheating. You really shouldn't be cheating in the first place. And 60 percent of Americans do not cheat. So, it is a nice high number.", "Oh, 60 percent do not?", "Do not.", "According to what?", "According to our survey. What you have to remember, completely -- on the computer, anonymous, so people are actually being pretty straight forward. And telling the truth, we hope, we expect.", "All right. We're going to be taking calls from our viewers.", "Sure.", "We already have a ton of calls in. Still ahead on 360, if you want to hear about you, or have your questions answered try to call us the toll free number is 1-877-648-3639, 1-877-648-3639. We'll put your questions and your e-mails to our guests. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "LIAM NEESON, FROM \"KINSEY\"", "ADAORA UDOJI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "NEAL BOULTON, \"MEN'S FITNESS\" MAGAZINE", "UDOJI", "BOULTON", "UDOJI", "BOULTON", "UDOJI", "BOULTON", "UDOJI", "BOULTON", "UDOJI", "COOPER", "BELISA VRANICH, HEALTH & SEX EDITOR, \"MEN'S FITNESS\"", "COOPER", "VRANICH", "COOPER", "NEAL BOULTON, \"MEN'S FITNESS\" MAGAZINE", "COOPER", "BOULTON", "COOPER", "BOULTON", "COOPER", "VRANICH", "COOPER", "VRANICH", "COOPER", "BOULTON", "COOPER", "VRANICH", "COOPER", "VRANICH", "COOPER", "VRANICH", "COOPER", "VRANICH", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-170232", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-8-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/07/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Swimmer Diana Nyad to Attempt Havana to Key West Swim", "utt": ["Look at that. Police in London investigating unrest in one of Europe's most ethnically diverse neighborhoods. This is what it looked like in the northern Tottenham neighborhood Saturday night. Riot police fought with crowds who pelted with them with bottles and bricks. When it was all over, 26 police officers were hurt. Dozens were arrested. The violence was sparked by a fatal shooting during a reported exchange of gunfire with police.", "I may have been a bit faster back then, but in the water, I feel stronger. I feel stronger physically. I feel like I can walk through a brick wall.", "Can you believe that? She's 61 years old and set on doing a feat no swimmer has done before. The story of Diana Nyad in a moment. But first, I want to tell you about another astounding human achievement. This one is tough. It's not in the water, but it's in the air. We will go \"Globe Trekking\" right now with CNN's international desk editor, Azadeh Ansari. Azadeh, this sounds nuts, right? A man in China walked a high wire between two hot air balloons, really?", "Right, why?", "Why?", "Exactly.", "All right.", "Yes.", "OK.", "She's again trying to prove that age is not a deterrent to reach your dreams, to follow your goals, all this stuff. She wants to be the first person to swim from Havana, Cuba, to the Key West. She wants to do this to prove that you can do whatever you set your mind to. she tried to do this in 1978, and wasn't able to complete it because of, you know, weather conditions. But I want to say, look at this. She has been trying to practice for two years, swims, like, eight to 12 hours a day. We actually have a CNN crew following alongside her. The key is, she wants to do this because it's in open waters. There are not shark cages, but there's a shark shield. It sends out electrical impulses to scare the sharks away.", "Was it last year or the year before she tried something?", "In 2010. Again, weather was a factor.", "All right, I've got you.", "It will happen -- I mean, tick tock, I'm telling you, Don, in about 30 minutes, she will hit the water.", "All right. We wish her luck.", "Conditions are better overall, Don. At nighttime, the winds calm down, so the seas will be calmer. Think about how hot it is in this area. 90 degree temperatures with the sun beating down on you is certainly uncomfortable. At nighttime, it will be a bit cooler. And the seas will be calmer. That's the good news. She'll be moving from Havana, heading up towards Key West. This is about a 103-mile swim for her and expected to take about 60 hours. That's three nights and two days that she will be taking this swim. We're expecting conditions to be good overall. Seas will be between one and three feet. Isolated thunderstorms will have to watch out for. And water temperatures are going to be warm. Closer to Cuba, water temperatures are averaging between 86 and 88 degrees. As you get closer to Key West, they're warmer, about 91 degrees. That's the water temperature in Key West. That is extremely warm. She will be encountering that Florida current. If you saw those arrows on my map earlier. So she'll have a bit of pull coming in from that. But overall, things are looking good weather-wise. We always watch the tropics this time of year. We don't see anything developing that could interfere with this. We have been tracking Emily off the coast of Florida. That's dissipated now. But those water temperatures are very ripe for more tropical development in the upcoming days. There you can see the satellite picture from Emily, which should not be a factor. In case you missed it earlier this week, I want to mention something really important about the hurricane season. While it may have seemed like it has been a slow start, it's been busy with five named storms. Now NOAA has come in with an upgraded forecast calling for a few more storms than they originally anticipated. They're expecting now between 14 and 19-named storms. Seven to 10 of those becoming hurricanes, three to five of those major hurricanes. So, Don, the heart of the hurricane season, between mid-August and mid-October. So things will start getting busy, we think, in the upcoming weeks.", "Good luck, Diana, but look out for Emily. We appreciate it.", "Sure.", "New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez under fire for reportedly playing a game he's not supposed to. How is he taking the heat and why? That discussion after the break."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "DIANA NYAD, SWIMMER", "LEMON", "AZADEH ANSARI, CNN INTERNATIONAL DESK EDITOR", "LEMON", "ANSARI", "LEMON", "ANSARI", "LEMON", "ANSARI", "LEMON", "ANSARI", "LEMON", "ANSARI", "LEMON", "JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "LEMON", "JERAS", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "NPR-699", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2019-02-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/02/05/691734603/matthew-charles-becomes-one-of-the-first-inmates-to-benefit-from-first-step-act", "title": "Matthew Charles Becomes One Of The First Inmates To Benefit From First Step Act", "summary": "Matthew Charles is one of the first prison inmates to be released under the First Step Act. His cause has been championed by prominent politicians.", "utt": ["The State of the Union is the president's opportunity to lay out his agenda and tout his administration's accomplishments. Over the years, it has become a tradition for the president to invite an eclectic group of guests, each putting a human face on a political message.", "Democrats have also gotten in on the act, and members have invited a number of people who illustrate their policy priorities. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has invited two active-duty transgender service members.", "Freshman House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is bringing the sexual assault survivor who cornered Republican Senator Jeff Flake during the battle over then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Representative Pramila Jayapal from Washington state has invited a climate scientist.", "California Congressman Jimmy Gomez is bringing a woman who was undocumented when she worked at the Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey.", "And the president's guests include 13 people who will sit in the House chamber's balcony with first lady Melania Trump.", "Right. Among this group - an Ohio mom recovering from opioid abuse. This month she'll mark a year in recovery.", "Also a man who got his job back after the White House says his lumber plant reopened due to a provision in the tax bill.", "And Melania Trump will not be the only person named Trump in the balcony. Sixth grader Joshua Trump will join her. The White House says Joshua has been bullied in school because of his last name.", "Matthew Charles will also be sitting with the first lady. He was recently released from prison. He's one of the first inmates to benefit from a new law called the FIRST STEP Act. NPR national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson has his story.", "It's been hard to keep track of Matthew Charles during his whirlwind visit to Washington. There were the trips to Capitol Hill, the photo-op with the vice president and now a prime seat for the State of the Union.", "So receiving an invitation to the State of the Union as well as to speak with some of the senators was - I mean, to me, it's like hitting the lottery without the check.", "Charles has had a dizzying few years. In 2016 after 21 years in prison, he won early release. Charles got a job, started volunteering and began to rebuild his life. But less than two years later, an appeals court found there had been a mistake with his release, and he was sent back to prison. Matthew Charles' plight attracted national attention. Kevin Ring runs Families Against Mandatory Minimums, which advocates for inmates and their families.", "People saw this was a changed person, and what I fear and what, you know, he and I have talked about is that there's people you don't hear from. If the judge didn't make that mistake, he would have served another nine years, and no one would have ever heard his name.", "Late last year, Congress passed a law called the FIRST STEP Act. Soon after, Charles was freed. Now he says he's trying to take things day by day, but he does have one short-term goal.", "March 1, I need to be in my own apartment (laughter), drive my own vehicle because I'm using the, you know, great graces of my friend, you know, at the moment.", "Charles says he wants to use his voice to help other people serving long prison sentences.", "For a person with a life sentence, they don't have a release date. You know, they have an expiration date. It's incapacitation as opposed to rehabilitation.", "That includes men he met behind bars who won't ever get a second chance like he did. Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "MATTHEW CHARLES", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "KEVIN RING", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "MATTHEW CHARLES", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "MATTHEW CHARLES", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-67621", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2003-3-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/06/ltm.19.html", "summary": "Secretary of State Colin Powell Beginning Two-Day Mission to U.N.", "utt": ["Secretary of State Colin Powell is beginning a two-day mission to the United Nations. He is hoping to get elected members of the Security Council to embrace a new resolution authorizing force to disarm Iraq. Let's check in with Andrea Koppel, who's standing by at the State Department with the very latest. Good morning, Andrea.", "Good morning, Paula. It is a very busy day today for the United States' top diplomat Colin Powell, who in a few minutes will be heading up to Capitol Hill to testify before a Senate subcommittee Commerce, Justice and State. But the real heavy lifting today is going to take place in New York. As you just said, Paula, he heads up there for some preliminary meetings. The next 24 to 48 hours, U.S. officials believe, could determine whether or not the United States ends up going into Iraq with a coalition of the willing or whether it goes in with the blessing of the United Nations Security Council. The focus of Secretary Powell's energy, of course, coming ahead of the Hans Blix report, which is, the U.S. hopes, going to be the last time that the U.N. weapons inspectors make their report before the U.N. Security Council. Secretary Powell and others focusing on what's known as the undecided six, six smaller, poorer countries actually on the U.N. Security Council whose votes could make or break this second resolution. There have been reports, as we have been reporting on CNN, in the British press, that Tony Blair's government has been talking with some of the U6 nations to try to come up with some compromised language. I also know that U.S. officials have been talking with the same governments. Just last weekend, Secretary Powell had a secret meeting with the Mexican foreign minister at his home, hoping to get them to support the resolution. Nobody has given guidance of what the language would be. I'm told they're sort of noodling around with the ideas, that perhaps there could of a slight extension. But again, nothing firm, nothing on paper, I'm told. Secretary Powell will be meeting again with members of the U6. He'll meet with Jack Straw today in new York and try to get the necessary votes, Paula. The big question, of course, is whether or not France, Germany and Russia will exercise their veto power. Just yesterday, there was a big meeting in Paris in which both France and Russia threatened to do so -- Paula.", "Got to leave it there this morning. Andrea Koppel, thanks so much. to U.N.>"], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-238193", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-09-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/05/cnr.08.html", "summary": "FAA: Unresponsive Plane Crashes North Of Jamaica", "utt": ["It has just been over an hour since this plane, this small aircraft, crashed off the Coast of Jamaica. We know it took off right around 8:30 this morning from Rochester, New York, was supposed to land in Naples. And we now know that did not happen. What we now have is a transcript. We're working on the audio. But we have a transcript. Go ahead and throw up the graphics, and we'll parse this through with Miles O'Brien in just a second. Here's what we have. This is from the pilot. We need to descend down to about 180. We have an indication that is not correct in the plane and then you hear the response from the controller. Stand by, 900 KN descend and maintain 250. This is from liveatc.net, air traffic control. Pilot responds, 250, we need to get lower 900KN. Controller, working on that. That's the bit we have. Miles O'Brien, CNN aviation analyst. When you see that, translate that for me.", "You know, I just listened to the tape itself. The conversations between the pilot, a high time, TBM pilot, more than 5,000 hours in TBMs. This was a brand-new model of TBM that he was flying. But he had a lot of experience in the aircraft. And he indicated to the controller in Atlanta Center, which covers that sector of North Carolina, that he had a problem with an indication, in an instrument and in a very nonchalant way said he needed to get to flight level 180, which is 18,000 feet. This was an area with a fair amount of traffic and the controller not hearing the magic word. The magic word in this case being \"emergency.\" We have an emergency. He in a nonchalant way the pilot asked to get lower to 18,000 feet. The controller ended up sending him off to the west and down to 25,000 feet, which explains that jog we saw. And after that, there were a few other exchanges where the controller asks the pilot to get down to even lower altitude, 20,000 feet. And he was nonresponsive to those commands and eventually nonresponsive verbally. All of this taking place in the span of about 10 minutes. So something was wrong with that airplane. The pilot confessed that there was a problem, but did not state it as an emergency, which if it was, in fact, a depressurization event would be an emergency. You declare an emergency and you go down. You own that air space. And you're -- the controller will not say, I'll get back to you and send you off in a vector and give you a -- you know, an altitude higher than you expect. And eventually, this plane became nonresponsive. The controller tried to relay with other aircraft, tried to talk to the pilot doing -- with that method, but there was just no response. So it's just chilling to listen to this -- Brooke.", "Miles O'Brien, stay with me. I want to parse through this a little more with you and Mary Schiavo because I also want to double back to one of your questions, how much training, how experience would this pilot have been to not utter that magic word \"emergency.\" Thank you, Miles. We have someone on the phone from the Jamaican Defense Force who can walk us through exactly what's happening now at the crash scene, 14 miles off the coast of Jamaica. We'll talk to him after this."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN AVIATION ANALYST", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-207948", "program": "YOUR MONEY", "date": "2013-6-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/01/cnnitm.02.html", "summary": "Low Income Students Not Applying to Select Colleges", "utt": ["The Supreme Court is expected to make a decision soon in an affirmative action case. They court could outlaw any consideration of race in college omissions. Opponents of affirmative action say colleges should focus on a different kind of diversity, income diversity. And 70 percent of students at elite colleges come from the top income quartile. Those are top earning families with all the spots, 70 percent of the spots at top earning schools. They outnumber low income classmates 14 to one. So why aren't the low income students getting into the best schools? It turns out they're simply not applying.", "I grew up in Washington heights.", "Lorizbeth Guzman didn't grow up with much, but she always excelled in school.", "My SAT scores were around the 1400s.", "But her small high school in the Bronx had limited resources.", "We only had one school come and visit which was Mercy College. Everybody in my class applied, and almost every got accepted. We're like, all right, we have never heard of this school, but if they're all accepting us, why not?", "According to a new study from the Brookings Institution, only 34 percent of top low income students apply to the country's most selective colleges. That's compared with 78 percent of top high income student. The college wasn't the right fit. After the second semester she dropped out.", "I wanted to go back a few months after I left Mercy. But everything happens and I was working full time and I got pregnant.", "Low income, high achieving students thrive at very selective colleges and universities once they get there, whereas if they attend a non-selective postsecondary institution that they tend to apply to, they have about a 50 percent chance of graduating on time.", "Meanwhile, she is still paying off her loans. She says she didn't have enough information to make the best choice.", "I heard about scholarships and opportunities you can get and I would research, but there are so many out there. So I never knew which would fit me.", "For very high achieving low income students, the more selective the college or university they attend, the less they will pay.", "A lot less. The most competitive colleges have more resources and can offer more scholarships, so low income students usually don't come even close to paying that scary sticker price.", "I understood that I needed to go to school for free because my parents would not be able to afford it.", "Fausto Jimenez grew up in Harlem.", "There were often shootouts while we were walking down the street. There was actually a drug factory essentially right across the hall from my apartment.", "He always dreamed of going to Columbia University.", "I remember saying I want to be here. I want to come to Columbia. I think my mom chuckled at the time.", "Thanks to the Gates Millennium scholars program he was able to get that Ivy League education for free.", "I don't have loans. All I had to do was concentrate on my studies.", "It is important to apply to some of the most selective colleges you can get into if you are a low income, high achieving student. Narrow in on a set of colleges and apply to several. If are you a low income student, you can get application fee waivers, so you should not have to play application fees.", "Attending Columbia has been a transformative experience in my life. I may still live in Harlem but I know I now understand Harlem a lot better.", "Fausto is giving back to his community. He works for a New York City organization helping kids get into top schools like he did, and Laura Beth is planning to head back to school in the fall to make a better future for her young daughter. This time around she is applying for lots of scholarships. Thanks for joining the conversation this week on YOUR MONEY. We're here every Saturday 2:00 p.m. eastern and Sunday at 3:00. Until then you can find me on Facebook and Twitter. My handle is @ChristineRomans."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "LORIZBETH GUZMAN, DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE", "ROMANS", "GUZMAN", "ROMANS", "GUZMAN", "ROMANS", "GUZMAN", "CAROLINE HOXBY, PROFESSOR, STANFORD UNIVERSITY", "ROMANS", "GUZMAN", "HOXBY", "ROMANS", "FAUSTO JIMENEZ, COLLEGE GRADUATE", "ROMANS", "JIMENEZ", "ROMANS", "JIMENEZ", "ROMANS", "JIMENEZ", "HOXBY", "JIMENEZ", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-256668", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-06-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/04/nday.02.html", "summary": "Stanley Cup: Blackhawks Take Game 1", "utt": ["Law enforcement sources say the Boston terror suspect shot dead by police plotted to behead prominent activist Pamela Geller. Geller organized that draw Mohammed contest in Garland, Texas, that ended in gunfire when ISIS sympathizers tried to attack the event. Authorities say Usaama Rahim scrapped the plan and instead plotted to randomly kill police officers.", "Breaking news out of Ghana's capital. At least 76 people killed in a blast at a gas station. This is in the capital, of course, Accra. So, the death toll is expected to rise. Officials say the explosion was sparked by a fire that erupted in a nearby truck terminal last night.", "Deadly bus crashes to tell you about in two separate states. Three people killed in the Poconos in Pennsylvania when a tractor trailer and a bus full of tourists collided head on in Monroe County. Thirteen others injured in that crash. And in Texas, a bus driver and passenger died after a bus ran into a flat bed truck along highway 10. That's 90 miles west of Houston.", "United Airlines apologizing after a flight attendant refused to give an unopened can of soda to a Muslim passenger. Tahera Ahmad told NEW DAY She was left in tears. The flight attendant refused to give her the unopened beverage, claiming the can can be used as a weapon, especially by her. The flight attendant will no longer serve customers and is receiving sensitivity training.", "There you go. That helps.", "Yes, it helps, it helps. I always believe the speed at which you address the wrong is as important as anything else that you do. So were they fast enough here?", "It was less than a week. But it certainly was more than one day. And what she endured on that flight being called names by other passengers, nobody stopped it being --", "Because you know people were big dealing it when it first happened. And the reaction to the interview, a can of soda, big deal, that means the people are a bigot? Yes, it kind of does. People think you're going to be violent if you think this can, but I won't. What does that say?", "And they insulted her. They used really nasty names. But in any event they're addressing it now. All right. Meanwhile, the Stanley Cup Final is underway as I can tell you. And it was Chicago Blackhawks striking first, taking game one against the Lightning, as I know. Andy Scholes has more in this morning's bleacher report. Hi, Andy.", "Hey, good morning, Alisyn. I'm sure you were on the edge of your seat all night last night watching this. All right. Now, game one and two of the series are in Tampa Bay. And the Lightning, they are doing whatever it takes to make sure they have the home ice advantage. Not only do they limit ticket sales to residents of Florida, they're not allowing Blackhawk fans to wear their colors in certain parts of the arena. Black and red are flat out banned in some sections. Now, Tampa Bay, they got on the board in game one with this goal. Take another look. Just amazing stick work by him. And the Lightning led the game into the third period but that's when Chicago got two unanswered goals. Blackhawks come back to win game 1, 2-1. Game 2 of this series will be Saturday night. The NBA finals, meanwhile, tips offs tonight at 9:00 Eastern in Oakland with game one between the Cavs and the Warriors. This is the fifth straight trip to the NBA finals for LeBron James. He's the first guy to do that since the 1960s. At this point, LeBron knows what it takes to win it all.", "For me, as leader of the team, you know, it is my job to lead the guys and to perform well. At the end of the day -- win, lose or draw, that is all I can ask out of myself and ask out of my guys, and we'll do that.", "And be sure to tune into \"All Access at the NBA Finals with Rachel Nichols.\" She will be joined by Grant Hill and Steve Smith to break down the series. You can see that Saturday, 2:30 Eastern, right here on CNN. All right. Chuck Blazer, who was one of -- he was on FIFA executive committee admitted he and others took bribes that rigged votes on where the 1998 and 2010 World Cups would be held. That's according to newly released federal court records. The 40-page document indicates that Blazer pleaded guilty to money laundering, fraud and tax evasion in 2013 and he played a central role in the U.S. government's case against other FIFA officials. I have another thing to note on that. FIFA vice president Jack Warner, he was one of the 14 charged in corruption, in this entire case, guys, he went on TV in Trinidad. He said he's currently fearing for his life right now because he's about to turn over a mound of evidence in this big corruption case that implicates Sepp Blatter. So, this case is just getting started.", "All right. Thank you very much, Andy. As always, follow the money. Coming up, the parents of Josh Duggar speaking out for the first time since molestation allegations surfaced. What are they saying about their son and being victims themselves? Ahead.", "I think as parents we felt we're failures. Here we tried to raise our kids to do what's right."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "LEBRON JAMES, CLEVELAND CAVALIERS", "SCHOLES", "CUOMO", "MICHELLE DUGGAR, 19 KIDS AND COUNTING"]}
{"id": "CNN-301973", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-12-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/30/nday.06.html", "summary": "U.S.-Israeli Relations Hit Rock Bottom; Israel on Two-State Solution", "utt": ["Welcome back to NEW DAY. The long-held alliance between the U.S. and Israel is now on the rocks following a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in east Jerusalem and in the West Bank. So how will things change during the Trump administration? Probably a lot. Joining us now is Daniel Kurtzer. He's the former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt. He's now a professor at an OK university, at Princeton University. Thank you for being with us, sir, and happy New Year.", "Thank you. To you, too, Poppy.", "I'm very interested in your insight as to whether or not what has transpired between Israel and the United States is at least in part because of personal animus between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu, or if you don't buy into this as personal at all?", "Oh, it's highly personal. The foundation of the U.S./Israeli relationship actually is better than it's ever been. Provision of U.S. security assistance, support for Israeli anti-missile programs, intelligence and strategic cooperation are at their height. But the two leaders, Netanyahu and Obama, just never got along. And you're now seeing this come out in a very negative way right at the end of the administration, especially after Mr. Netanyahu appears to have endorsed Mr. Trump. So it's really a shame that we're not looking at what's important here, which is the strength of the bilateral relationship.", "And the interesting - Netanyahu's spokesman told me yesterday that Israel is still committed to a two-state solution. But Kerry says Netanyahu's policies are quite different than that. He said as much in his speech. Do you agree with that? Who's right?", "Well, Don, you know, he's made contrary statements over the past years. Back in 2009, he said he supported a two-state solution. On the eve of his last election, he backed away from it. He's back and forth on this. And it's hard to know exactly what he's thinking. What is clear, as Secretary Kerry said in his speech, is that the Israeli government has not pronounced itself in favor of a two-state solution and most of the members of Netanyahu's cabinet actually oppose a two-state solution. So it's hard to see Netanyahu's claims to be credible.", "As Don well pointed out in that interview yesterday, a number of these cabinet members are opposed to a two-state solution very publicly, very vocally. Palestinians - a number of Palestinians will say that that's just talk and very careful wording by the spokesman or the spokespeople for Netanyahu. Netanyahu himself saying, yes, I stand by a two-state solution. Netanyahu said it recently in a \"60 Minutes\" interview, because they don't believe that that really means an independent and equally sovereign Palestinian state in places like east Jerusalem, Gaza, the West Bank, et cetera. How do you read it?", "Well, that's exactly why Secretary Kerry's speech, as well crafted as it was, should be read carefully, because the point that he made is not really whether one mouths the words two-state solution, but whether or not actions on the ground, whether it's settlements on the Israeli side or incitement and violence on the Palestinian side, are proof of whether the two sides are ready to make peace. And Kerry was unsparing in his criticism of both sides saying it's about time that people actually do on the ground what they say they want, which is to create a two-state solution.", "Yes, saying one thing and doing another, and that - that's exactly what John Kerry said in the speech. You said that there wasn't anything new in that speech. So then the question is, why is Netanyahu so upset? Is it because he is maybe strategically he doesn't have as much leverage as he once had?", "Well, I think he's upset largely because the speech is as strong as it was, and it lays bare all of the inconsistencies in both Israeli policy, but also in Palestinian policy. And no leader is going to want to see that happen. He's now exposed. The Israeli press, for example, has taken him to task since the time of the U.N. resolution a week ago for policies that are leading Israel into a very bad direction in which you may have the beginning of a one-state reality where Israel will have to make a choice between being a Jewish and democratic state, or not.", "The Palestinian president, Abbas - do you have a question? You want to take it?", "Yes. No, no, no, go for it.", "Say that, you know, he's ready to meet once Israel stops building settlements, but Netanyahu said it's the Palestinians' refusal to accept Israel as a Jewish state that has caused a stalemate.", "Yes.", "What do you think is holding up this process?", "Well, I think both of them are avoiding taking hard decisions. I think the Palestinians have put themselves high up in a tree without a ladder by demanding a full settlement freeze before even talking. I think Netanyahu has put himself up in a different tree by continuing this settlement policy, which is eating up Palestinian land. And both of them are simply climbing higher and higher in this tree without taking into account the fact that they ought to come down to earth and understand that their two societies are the ones that are suffering from their lack of leadership.", "Well put.", "Yes.", "Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Have a great New Year.", "Daniel Kurtzer.", "Thank you, you, too.", "Coming up next, let's have a little fun.", "All right.", "It is - it is New Year's and we've had a lot of hard news this morning. So, we're going to talk a little music, a little classic rock. I got to hang out with the classic rockers Chicago.", "What? You did?", "You are jealous.", "Jealous.", "As they celebrate 50 years of music. We get a preview of their New Year's documentary, next."], "speaker": ["POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "DANIEL KURTZER, FORMER AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL AND EGYPT", "HARLOW", "KURTZER", "DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "KURTZER", "HARLOW", "KURTZER", "LEMON", "KURTZER", "LEMON", "HARLOW", "LEMON", "HARLOW", "LEMON", "KURTZER", "HARLOW", "LEMON", "HARLOW", "LEMON", "KURTZER", "HARLOW", "LEMON", "HARLOW", "LEMON", "HARLOW", "LEMON", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-122608", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2008-1-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/05/smn.01.html", "summary": "Extreme Weather on the West Coast; New Developments in Case of Missing Hiker", "utt": ["Talk about severe weather, Reynolds Wolf, you have bear the brunt of a lot of it throughout the nation, and today we're talking feet of snow. Correct?", "Absolutely. Here in Truckee, anywhere from one to three feet of snow, but in the higher mountain passes they got upwards of some places around seven feet of snow. We're still under a blizzard warning here in Truckee and toward much of the Sierra Nevada, although the heavy snow fall has begun to move off. So, looks like things are going to settle to get better. As we mentioned, 10:00 a.m. is going to be the cutoff time, and by that point, we should be in a big-time state of improvement. Roads are starting to clear up a little bit but still I-80 remains closed. I'll give you the full scope coming up.", "All right, looking for to that. Thank you.", "All right. Got a few stories need to tell you about here. First: The previously unheard of Islamic group has claimed responsibility for the killing of U.S. diplomat, John Michael Granville in Sudan. The group put the statements on several Islamic Web sites making that claim. Granville has stood in his driver was shot and killed earlier this week.", "Well, Colombia's top", "And I'm T.J. Holmes, hello to you all. Thank you for starting your day right here with us. It is a big day, big weekend in politics. All the attention now on New Hampshire.", "The candidates are there and so are we, live coverage of all the big events this morning.", "I got another big event going on right now, a big storm out in California. We start with that weather out there making life miserable for folks in", "Listen to this. There are reports of early morning flooding and mudslides in southern California. Still though, the worst may be yet to come. People there have been trying to prepare with sandbags and hay bales and so far about 3,000 people were ordered to evacuate.", "Heavy rains and strong winds made travel treacherous in the San Francisco area. Trees limbs down all over the place and sometimes they're finding targets like that vehicle you see. More than half a million people still without power this morning in northern California.", "Up in the Sierras there's a whole lot of snow. Look at this. Forecasters say as much as 10 feet of snow could fall up there. Already the main interstate through the area has been closed. The Red Cross has opened a shelter in Truckee, California to help travelers stranded by all that snow.", "All that snow is what CNN's Reynolds Wolf is in and he is on it for us in Truckee, California. Good morning to you, again, sir.", "Good morning to both of you. I got to tell you right now if you're obviously watching, not to", "All right Reynolds, thank you. To the latest now from Brad Huffines, he is following this storm in California. He joins us live now at CNN center. What are you seeing, Brad?", "Well Betty, as that storm now continues to move inland, the heavier snows are now moving into intermountain west and the rain showers now down south. But as that storm pushes across parts of Utah into Colorado, several areas, wind warnings, wind advisories being issued. I want to take you now to Denver, Colorado, where we're seeing a very calm and fairly serene picture right now. Inside of Denver, KUSA courtesy of, you're seeing the really light winds, fairly nice weather there this morning in Denver, but up in the mountains and across the mountains through I-70, some wind profiles or high profile vehicles could see some real problems due to the wind threat that continues to move toward portions of inland and high elevation Colorado. Now as you're looking now at all the winter storm warnings, still as they're spreading from the west coast to the intermountain west, you're seeing snow advisories and winter storm watches and warnings from Salt Lake City up into just about Denver, but again, most of the highest elevations seeing those problems. And the other issue with this continues to be the very heavy rains, two to four inches of rain possible today across the coastal section and valleys of southern California, five to 10 inches of rain in the mountains. And of course you can imagine what that will do to the burned, scorched areas and the mudslides that are going to be likely across parts of southern California as that storm continues to push in. How much rain so far? So far, this is not including what will fall today, up to eight inches of rain in Goleta, California, Cambria, almost seven inches, Santa Barbara even about seven inches of rain. So as you can imagine, the rain that has no place to go will soak in and eventually guys, the mud is going to come down with it, so people in Southern California need to be really careful with this storm. More on that coming up later this morning.", "All right, Brad, thanks. Police this morning are questioning a man that they are calling a person of interest in the case of a hiker missing in the mountains of north Georgia.", "Twenty-four-year-old Meredith Emerson disappeared after she went hiking on New Year's Day. Family and friends have joined rescue teams combing a 400 square mile area, looking for her now.", "And CNN's Reggie Aqui joins us live from Blood Mountain in northern Georgia. Talk to us about this latest development in the search.", "Right, well, Meredith Emerson was last seen on New Year's Day here. She came here with her dog to go hiking and that was the last time anyone saw her. Now we do know that several witnesses saw her with a man, that person of interest. We'll get to that in just a second. But first I want to show you, as people begin gathering here once again this morning, you can see that folks are here from the Georgia defense force. They're going to go out and search once again. We're talking about a 400 square mile area that they have to comb through to try and find this missing 24-year-old. Now let's get to these big developments that happened late last night. Now just north of Atlanta in a suburb of Atlanta, police are telling us they got two 911 calls around 7:40 last night. They got a call that someone had seen a man that looked to be the person police were looking for, the person eyewitnesses say they saw Meredith Emerson with the day that she disappeared. Turns out those people who called 911 were right. Police got to a gas station, they went inside a convenience store and found Gary Michael Hilton, the 61-year-old they have been trying to find for the past couple of days. They're interviewing him right now. Exactly what information they're getting from that we don't know yet, and hopefully we'll get more information from the investigators later today. There was a second big break in the case. As I mentioned at the top, Meredith came here with her dog Ella, a black lab on New Year's Day and we're told that her black lab was actually playing with Gary Michael Hilton's dog at the time when they were last seen on the trails here. I just talked to Meredith's roommate a few minutes ago. She was telling me her reaction after hearing that that dog was found 50 miles away from where I'm standing today.", "We're all obviously hoping that the dog was still with Meredith. But at some point, you don't know if you're an animal that you stay with your owner or do you try and go get help. That's the situation that we don't know. And, you know, I mean it's just like Ella to stroll into a Kroger and say, here I am. It's a little concerning that they're not together, but you can't draw too many conclusions from that.", "And you heard her say that the dog just walked into a Kroger. That's exactly what investigators are saying. They found this dog, they took it to a vet. The vet was able to scan that microchip that some dogs have and they were able to positively identify that dog did belong to this missing 24-year-old. Now I should tell you Betty, after talking to that roommate, I thought it was remarkable how well she has been able to keep it together. She's been out here every day. It's been extremely cold during the day and during the night, hoping and waiting for someone to come back with some good news that her roommate is out here somewhere and that she's somehow able to survive and is in good condition.", "It's been very cold overnight. But back to the dog walking into the Kroger store, I got to ask you this, that store wasn't exactly close to where Meredith and the dog were last seen, what, about 50 miles away.", "Fifty miles away and so you can see just how far this is now reaching, because the dog was 50 miles away and then the man, the person of interest, Hilton was close to Atlanta. And just to do some quick geography for you, it takes about 90 minutes to go from Atlanta up here to the mountains. So now investigators are moving to comb out at least three locations, trying to figure out how all these pieces come together.", "And a lot of work ahead of them, thank you, Reggie Aqui joining us live today. We do appreciate it.", "And now disturbing new information to tell you about on the deaths of two American soldiers killed in Iraq. It happened the day after Christmas. The U.S. military says they were allegedly killed now by Iraqi army soldier during a joint operation near Mogul. The military said they don't know why the Iraqi soldier opened fire on U.S. troops. That Iraqi soldier now in custody along with two other Iraqi soldiers. Three U.S. soldiers were wounded in that attack.", "Let's move onto politics now because Iowa is so yesterday's news, we want to tell you about New Hampshire. It's now the focus of the presidential candidates with just a couple days left until Tuesday's primary. And as our Dana Bash reports, the granite state is offering a new challenge for one early front-runner.", "Here's something you don't hear much from Republican presidential candidates.", "And let's rock the house.", "Three songs on bass guitar with \"Mama Kicks,\" a favorite New Hampshire band. Mike Huckabee may look like he's just celebrating his big Iowa win. But he's also trying to convince New Hampshire voters to give him a chance.", "This coming Tuesday, you have an opportunity to take a stand and I hope send a message to the rest of America, there's a fresh, new wind blowing in this country.", "He's hoping to put to rest questions about whether he can harness his momentum.", "I have been listening to the television pundits who said, well, Huckabee did well in Iowa, but he won't do that well in New Hampshire. Why not? I have not lived here. I have not perhaps run for office here before. I have not spent gazillion's of dollars trying to convince you what a wonderful person I am.", "Huckabee's biggest challenge -- proving he can prevail in states like New Hampshire that don't have the kind of big evangelical base that fueled his Iowa upset, so he's changed his pitch. Noticeably absent were frequent promises in Iowa to oppose abortion and same sex marriage, instead an appeal to granite state live free or die libertarians.", "I don't trust the government or the private insurance companies to take care of me. I want to take care of me. I think...", "And a staunchly anti-tax Republican base.", "Scrap the tax system, get rid of the IRS, end all of the taxes on our income and productivity and move to a consumption tax that everybody has to pay including all the people who are operating the multi-billion dollar underground economy.", "Huckabee advisors admit the next presidential contest states that's most fertile ground for the former preacher is not New Hampshire. It's South Carolina, which has a big evangelical base. The reason they tell us he's staying here in New Hampshire until next Tuesday's primary is a practical one because we in the national press corps are here and for a campaign still struggling for cash, they want what political strategists call free media. Dana Bash, CNN, Henniker, New Hampshire.", "And the New Hampshire scramble is on for the Democrats as well. The big three there, no disrespect to the others in the race, but you see what we're getting at. Those three are all in different parts of the state this morning. Obama is in Nashua, Clinton in Pinnekook (ph) and then Edwards kicks off things in Portsmouth. We'll keep an eye on all of them, bring you parts of those events as they happen. And CNN's Ballot Bowls, we're in the season of football and bowls, so we're having the ballot bowl. We're bringing it back. We're doing it again this afternoon. It's all about the candidates in their own words. Ballot bowl kicks off at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time.", "All right T.J. So we all would love to live our lives by the golden rule, treat others like you would want to be treated.", "Yes. We all do that. We do that around here.", "Pretty much. But that's not actually the case for many folks.", "When we come back, we're going to introduce you to this gentleman, who was a good example of that golden rule. Let's see if you would do what this guy ...", "... which is so refreshing I was going to say. And here's a preview of today's \"HOUSE CALL\" as well with Dr. Sanjay Gupta.", "Good morning everybody. Could you be a medical hero? Today on \"HOUSE CALL,\" we introduce you to everyday people doing small things that make a huge impact, stories that prove that anyone can make a difference. Plus, are you prepared for a medical emergency? 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{"id": "CNN-115749", "program": "HOUSE CALL WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA", "date": "2007-3-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/31/hcsg.01.html", "summary": "Food Ads Harmful to Children?", "utt": ["Welcome to HOUSECALL. You see these ads primarily on weekend mornings. They're targeting kids, pushing them to eat candy and other junk food. Question is, are they harmful? Some experts say yes. And now a new report says despite years of criticism, these food companies are still primarily marketing junk to our kids.", "And the number one network for African- American...", "It's Vicky Rideout's job to keep an eye on advertising that can affect our health, especially children. And she's not happy with what she's seeing.", "Kids of all ages in this country are exposed to what I think by anybody's standards would be a large amount of food advertising on television every day. Thousands of ads a year.", "Rideout is a vice president with the Kaiser Family Foundation. This week the foundation released its largest study ever on TV food advertising for kids. Of the thousands of ads studied, 34 percent were for candy and snacks, 28 percent for cereal, and 10 percent for fast food. Get this -- not one advertised fruits or vegetables.", "All laziness is suspended until further notice.", "And only 15 percent of the ads showed children in some type of physical activity.", "I guess I would say that's a relatively small proportion of the ads that include physical activity now.", "And the issue isn't even new. In a report by the Institute of Medicine back in 2005, research showed that there was a direct connection between food ads for kids and childhood obesity. The report recommended advertising companies push healthier products and show physical activity in their ads. So far, change has been slow.", ": I think companies are clearly getting it. I think they're not sure what to do yet, but there's no question that they're concerned, as they should be, about the public concern over the increase in childhood obesity.", "Corporations are generally motivated by profit. And fatty snacks tend to be popular. Pepsico, which owns Pepsi, Fritolay and Tropicana is trying to market more healthy, yet tasty items.", "All of the products that were advertised were baked that were advertised to children. So it's looking at our healthier products.", "The Kaiser Family Foundation hopes impress on advertisers that the childhood obesity problem is not going away until real changes are made.", "And that Institute of Medicine report that we just mentioned also recommends that companies stop using cartoon characters to push products. And this Kaiser Family Foundation report found that 11 percent of ads still use some sort of children's television or movie character. So some improvements still needed there. Coming up, what to do after a breast cancer diagnosis?"], "speaker": ["GUPTA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GUPTA, CNN HOST (voice-over)", "VICKY RIDEOUT, KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION", "GUPTA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GUPTA", "RIDEOUT", "GUPTA", "MIKE MCGINNIS, INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE", "GUPTA", "NANCY GREEN, PEPSICO", "GUPTA", "GUPTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-293258", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2016-09-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/05/lvab.01.html", "summary": "Candidates On Labor Day Campaign Blitz; Clinton Welcomes Press Aboard New Plane; Poll of Polls: Clinton Leads Trump By 5; 7 Million Still Under Threat From Storm", "utt": ["That is tonight. But for now, thank you so much for joining us at this hour.", "LEGAL VIEW starts right now.", "Hello, everyone, I'm Christine Romans in for Ashleigh Banfield. Welcome to LEGAL VIEW and welcome to the homestretch of the 2016 race for president, just 64 days separate Labor Day from Election Day. And that explains some labor-intensive campaign travels that aren't limited to the candidates themselves. Today, Hillary Clinton gets some campaign help from Bill Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, who can talk about labor and election in the very same breath like nobody else. They will be spread out across five state today. Donald Trump meantime has his running mate, Mike Pence, by his side as he campaigns in the crucial swing state of Ohio. A short time ago, he sat down at a round table with labor leaders in the suburb of Cleveland.", "-- that he (drive) from (inaudible) to Mexico. And your manufacturing is it's incredible what's happening. And right now as we speak, they're negotiating deals to move out of Ohio and go down to Mexico. So it's going to be a two-way street. And with me, it's going to be a one-way street for a while, I will be honest with you.", "Now, more proof that politics doesn't take a holiday my blue- ribbon panelist Labor Day, CNN Political Director David Chalian and Senior Political Correspondent Brianna Keilar joining me from Washington. CNN Correspondent Phil Mattingly and our Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger are here with me in New York. Welcome everybody. There are no holidays and there are no weekends between now and Election Day. So we're all working stiffs here. Brianna, Hillary Clinton getting back on the rally circuit with a brand new airplane. And she's sharing it with reporters. That's a first for her or trump. Check it out.", "Hey, guys.", "Hi.", "Welcome to our big plane. it's so exciting.", "What do you think?", "I think it's pretty cool, don't you?", "I never feel very (inaudible) --", "You're supposed to say yes. I am so happy to have all of you with me.", "Have you missed us?", "I've been just waiting for this moment. No, really. And I will come back and talk to you more formally. But I want to welcome you on to the plane.", "How is your Labor Day weekend?", "It's good. It was really good, yes. We had a good time. The last moment of -- hello, Mark.", "How are you (inaudible) --", "I recognize your hat. How are you? I'm glad you are here. Yes, the last moment before the mad dash, the next two months. So I hope you guys are ready.", "Are you ready?", "I'm ready. I'm more than ready. Are you ready, (Ro)? Has (Aronda) taking good care of you?", "Yes.", "(Aron) has been -- how long have you been working for me now?", "Two and a half years. He started right out of -- he was still -- you were still in college, right?", "Right out of can.", "Right out of can.", "I know, I know. We're so happy.", "Happy Labor Day.", "What?", "Happy Labor Day.", "Happy Labor Day. I know. That's exactly right.", "Do you have a Labor Day message?", "I like you, you're good. I definitely -- I definitely do. If you want more happy Labor Days, you know who to vote for. Thanks. I will come back later. Thank you.", "Bye.", "Thanks. I will come back later. I think maybe that means maybe there's going to be a more formal Q AND A. But to me, correct me if I'm wrong. You've been on the campaign. You've been in these planes before with candidates. That feels like kind of an awkward first date to me.", "Well, I think there always is perhaps an element to that. And let's just be clear so the viewers know, there's still a separation between the press and the candidate. The candidate has some privacy up at the front of the plane. I believe, you know, in some of these cases, you could even have the press entering through the back of the plane while the candidate enters through the front. I remember on Bernie Sanders' plane, you would actually walk by the senator. And when I was on his plane, you know, he would just read his newspaper and sort of be doing his own things so even as you entered, there might not really be a chance there. But, you know, as a journalist, this is something that is welcomed. Hillary Clinton declared her candidacy last April and for the last 16 months or so has traveled on a separate plane than the press. A lot of times -- and look, we should mention as well, Donald Trump does that. But a lot of times, you know, you think back to Romney, 2012, he traveled on the same plane as his press. There is still some separation; make no mistake about that. But there's definitely an opportunity, a bigger opportunity, if traveling on the same plane that the candidate can come back and gaggle. That goes two ways. If there is something they need to address, they can come back and quickly talk to the press about that. And then hopefully, it does give the press more access. And that Hillary Clinton hasn't had a press conference which is that's the formal press conference, right since December, it's very welcome.", "You know, Gloria, I want to ask you about Biden. Because Joe Biden is out there in his element in Pittsburgh rallying against 'People Like Trump' he says while praising the minimum wage. Let's listen to that.", "Where does it come from? It comes from people who understand what it's like to look across the table in the bargaining room and know that the guy on the other side really doesn't respect you, know that there are so many people like Trump who look at us like we're not their equal. I'm sick of it. I've had it up to here.", "Sick of it, people like Trump. This feels sort of personal for Biden, doesn't it?", "Well, I think it is. And don't forget, you know, he is a boy of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He's middle class Joe. He believes that he can speak to these voters that Donald Trump is speaking to and get them on board with Hillary Clinton. And so I think he becomes the character witness for Hillary Clinton with the working class. And that's his role. And it's going to be his role in Pennsylvania. It's going to be his role in Ohio. It's going to be his role throughout the Rust Belt. And I they he believes that he can make that connection and take on Donald Trump very directly on that issue, asking where has he been, where has he been, for example, on the minimum wage, et cetera, et cetera and that's going to be his role.", "And he will say I feel your pain --", "Yes.", "-- that working class voter. But I know how to fix it. The Democrats know how to fix it, not the Republicans. Dave, I want to look at the latest poll of poll showing Clinton's lead half what it was a month ago but it (inaudible) to 12 from all those fund-raiser. So, how does she stand heading into these final 64 days? Particularly, in these states that Gloria just talking about where, you know, there's a working class voter who is, you know, who went for Trump.", "Yes. Listen, I think the state of this race is sort of back to where it was before the conventions, when she opened up a wider lead after having a good convention and Donald Trump was immersed in controversy over the Gold Star Family, the Khans. That sort of created more separation that we had seen on cycle. Now, it's kind of returned to this slight advantage Hillary Clinton. But in talking to her campaign, I don't even think they take a ton of comfort in that word slight, Christine. I think they really do see this as going to be a close fought campaign all the way through the fall even though right now as you look state by state, she's got this slight edge. But, you know, nine weeks is a long time to make some movement.", "It really is. And so many times over the past year, Trump has been underestimated. No question about that. You know, Phil, I want to talk about the tax issue, you know. Trump's running mate now says he will release his tax. The whole word wants to see Mike Pence's tax, not. But Mike Pence is going to release his tax return sometime this week. And Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's running mate, keeping the pressure on Trump to do the same. Here's what Kaine said this morning, guys.", "Donald Trump is now looking at us and saying, hey, guys, trust me. I'm not going to give you my tax returns like everybody has done. Even Richard Nixon produced his tax returns. If you can't meet the ethical standard of Richard Nixon, I mean, God help you, folks. God help you. You wouldn't hire somebody for a summer job who wouldn't answer your questions in a job interview. And he wants you to hire him to be president of the United States? He thinks we're chumps.", "I wonder if Mike Pence, Governor Pence, assuaged concerns about Donald Trump's taxes by saying he will release them eventually when the IRS audits are over or if he just drew attention to it again?", "He just drew attention to it again. Because that's no change than their position has been for the last couple of weeks and months. And look, if you talk to Trump's advisers, you recognize theirs a calculation here. His lawyers advised him according to the campaign not to release his taxes while under audit. But there's nothing illegal about releasing your tax under audit. If he wanted to do it, he could. The question is, what's the political calculation if he does? What would people be able to see that maybe Donald Trump wouldn't want them to see related to charitable givings or perhaps his tax rate --", "Or the lack of charitable givings.", "Lack of charitable givings. Look, he's in real estate development. There's loopholes all over the place.", "Right.", "The idea that his tax rate would be extremely low is also their associations he might have through his businesses. The calculation here is, is it worth giving people all of that to look into over the course of this campaign numerous possible stories to hit him on, a load of opposition research for the Clinton Campaign or is it worth just having Tim Kaine out on the campaign trail, every once in a while talking about this issue and assuming that voters don't care about it. I think that's the calculations going on right now. And if you talk to his advisers, they're leaning a lot more towards no sense in releasing them right now, I think, if they're being honest.", "We're watching the Hillary Clinton's plane, by the way, landing here outside of Cleveland. You know, Bernie Sanders, Gloria, you know, he is stumping for Hillary today. But he made some comments over the weekend about the Clinton Foundation that almost gave more ammunition to Trump. How much does Hillary Clinton still need Bernie Sanders here?", "A lot. And what Bernie Sander said was that there has to be a separation between Hillary Clinton and the foundation and if she's elected, a complete separation.", "Right.", "I think she needs Bernie Sanders a lot. I think she needs him to go to every college campus in America and and get out younger voters, younger African-American voters -- she is still not doing well with that demographic and Bernie Sanders is the one who can tell them what the binary choice is here and that they will be better off with Hillary Clinton. And she needs him.", "I'm so lucky to have all of you guys around for the next 64 days. No vacations, everyone.", "None.", "We're going to feel awful seven days a week on Labor Day. Thanks, guys, Phil Mattingly, Brianna Keilar, Gloria Borger, David Chalian, thank you everybody. Nice to see you. Just ahead, President Obama gets face to face with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Conference in China, hear what he said about their meeting next. 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{"id": "NPR-4370", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2010-09-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129834970", "title": "Remembering Renowned Race Scholar Ronald Walters", "summary": "Ronald Walters, a celebrated scholar of race and politics in America, has died of cancer at the age of 72. One of the principal architects of Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns, Walter was a familiar voice to many NPR listeners for his insights on the politics of race.", "utt": ["We learned over the weekend, of the death of Ron Walters, a familiar voice on this program and many others - both a scholar of race and politics and a practitioner. He was one of the principal architects of the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson.", "Ron Walters joined us tonight the, then-Senator, Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for president, something he said he never expected to see in his lifetime, especially after his experience on the Jackson campaigns.", "People are not aware of the fact that with the tremendous effort of Reverend Jackson. He arrived at the Democratic Convention with over 1,200 delegates and a very formidable showing. And so, for someone like Barack Obama to have reached this point, one has to ask, is this simply an investment in Barack Obama?", "I've concluded that it really isn't, that what you're looking at here is the fact that he has hit a deep vein, in the American people, of change. And the American people said it in the 2006 election cycle by changing the control of the Congress of the United States, from Republican to Democrat. And they've also said it in some of the special elections. And so they have been telling us that there is this deep desire for change.", "Barack Obama showed up. He built a campaign around it. He was able to articulate it successfully. And I think that really was - has been the key to his success.", "Activist, professor and sometime pol, Ron Walters, died of cancer last week at the age of 72. We're going to miss him.", "If you'd like to find out more about his long and accomplished career, our own Ken Rudin wrote about him on his Political Junkie blog. Just go to npr.org.", "Tomorrow, women in music. Suzanne Vega will be our guest. Join us. This is TALK OF THE NATION, from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan in Washington."], "speaker": ["NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Dr. RONALD WALTERS (Former Government and Politics Professor, University of Maryland)", "Dr. RONALD WALTERS (Former Government and Politics Professor, University of Maryland)", "Dr. RONALD WALTERS (Former Government and Politics Professor, University of Maryland)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-39219", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2001-9-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/11/bn.13.html", "summary": "Terrorism Attack on New York City and Washington", "utt": ["Jeff, just step back for a second. You know, you talk about anger, and we stand up here and we look at this, and we've all listened to what's been going on now as we've been on the air for three hours or so. And there was a woman that Richard Roth interviewed about a half an hour ago, who said what I suspect that most Americans are feeling right now, and some would like to say it can't, how angry she was, how cowardly this all seemed to her. Quickly we go back to Washington, and Judy Woodruff. Judy?", "Aaron, government sources telling CNN that President Bush, who had been in Florida for a two day trip, and who broke that trip off this morning to head back to Washington, will now not return to Washington. Repeating, President Bush will not return to Washington. We do not know where the president will land or where his aircraft will go, Air Force One. But, we just are passing along this information just as soon as we have it. Again, as we were talking to former NATO head Wesley Clark, General Wesley Clark a little while ago, he pointed out there are contingency plans that the military and security people have for the president in a situation like this. So, we're not going to do any speculating right here about where the president might be going. Joining us now on the telephone we want -- there is some information we want to share with you about aircraft in the sky that is, we're told is safe right now. We're told by the FAA, the Federal Aviation Administration. They're telling us 50 aircrafts are safely in the sky right now, all within about 50 miles of their destination. But in the meantime we want to talk to Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, who's joining us on the telephone. Senator Hatch, are you there?", "Yes, I am.", "And I know my colleague Wolf Blitzer, who is here with me in the studio in Washington, had also talked with you. Senator, you've been briefed by what authorities?", "I'm on both the Judiciary Committee and also the Intelligence Committee, and I've been briefed by the highest levels of the FBI and of the intelligence community. I just have to say, our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of this terrible tragedy caused by a bunch of cowards. And there is no justification for what these cowards have done to purely innocent Americans. But I do have some information.", "Senator Hatch, this is Wolf Blitzer. Tell us -- I spoke with you earlier on the telephone, but tell us precisely what you are now being told in these high-level briefings about those who may -- and I repeat the word may -- have been responsible for these attacks.", "You're right, they've come to the conclusion that this looks like the signature of Osama bin Laden, and that he may be the one behind this. I think most authorities agree that this is something that we doubt seriously if Iran, Iraq or Libya would try and do, because they know of the massive response that we'd have to bring down on them. But there was no advance notice at all. They had no way of knowing that this was going to happen. It was carefully planned. And what it means is, it seems to me that if that turns out to be true, we're going to have to revitalize Shah Masood and the other people in Afghanistan who basically are fighting to get rid of this type of terrorism. And I think we're going to have to ask our friends in Pakistan to get, in turn, to be more cooperative than they have in the past. And then, we'd have to work with our allies, have an international strategy to combat this type of international jihad against the West.", "We're listening to Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. We also have joining us on the telephone Senator John McCain, from his home in Arizona. Senator McCain, I assume you've been talking to authorities as well.", "Yes, Judy, and I'm on Capitol Hill, in Washington.", "Oh, I'm sorry.", "Yes, no problem. The situation is so serious that words don't describe it. I think that it's clear that the organization and magnitude of the attacks required more than a few people to perpetrate it. And it will take some time to determine who they are and who supported these attacks. But I think we'll find them out, and they will suffer the full measure of our justice. This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States of America.", "What do you mean \"obviously an act of war,\" Senator McCain?", "These attacks clearly constitute an act of war. I mean, unwarranted, unprovoked attacks against innocent American citizens is clearly an act of war, and one that requires that kind of national response and international response.", "Senator Orrin Hatch, I believe, is also still with us.", "Yes.", "And, Senator Hatch, you mentioned the bin Laden organization. Former NATO head General Wesley Clark also said to us about an hour ago in an interview that he believes that it's only the bin Laden that is capable of carrying out attacks this coordinated and on this massive a scale. What are you basing your information on?", "Well, keep in mind, there are nations that also could carry out these attacks, but they, I don't think, would dare do that, knowing that their signature's going to be figured out; we're going to find out who did this, and then we're going after the bastards. It's that simple. And I just have to say that both the FBI and our intelligence community believe that this is bin Laden's signature. And I believe it is. I was the first to point out bin Laden to the Clinton administration and said they're going to kill Americans, and we've got to get on top of that. And I think we've going to have to get on top of it, because this is a cowardly bunch; it will stop at nothing to -- like you say, have a jihad or a war against the United States, and to do it in the most cowardly fashion.", "But, Senator McCain, I mean, there will be those who are saying the United States was taking all reasonable precautions; we have security at airports, metal detectors, and so forth and so on. How much more is going to have to be done to prevent something like these things from happening again?", "Judy, I don't think our life styles will be the same for a long time, since it was before these attacks, as far as use of transportation, particularly airports, are concerned. You know, there have been warnings about whether our security was good enough, and whether the proper measures were being taken. I'm sure that will all be reviewed. By the way, I have no information as to who caused this, and I hesitate to speculate.", "But I am confident that the president of the United States will lead us, and we will find out who has carried these acts. And I think it's a little premature to make that determination until we have the hard facts, but I'm sure that we'll get them. The other aspect of this is that it may highlight over time the need for more human intelligence. We have very good technical intelligence capabilities -- satellites, et cetera -- but we, for many years, we haven't had the kind of human intelligence which determines motivations before actions are taken.", "I'm going to interrupt you, Senator McCain TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["AARON BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-149470", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2010-3-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/28/lkl.01.html", "summary": "Ryan Seacrest & Jamie Oliver Wage War on Obesity", "utt": ["Tonight, Ryan Seacrest and superstar chef Jamie Oliver taking aim at the unhealthiest city in America. (", "I'm here to start a revolution -- a food revolution.", "Waging a war on fat, hoping to shape up an entire town a kid at a time, like it or not. (", "How's your pizza for breakfast?", "Good.", "Ryan knows what he's talking about. He was a fatty.", "I wouldn't say I was obese, but I was embarrassed as...", "Really?", "-- as a teenager.", "Next on LARRY KING LIVE. Ryan Seacrest is here. He's executive producer of \"Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution\". And the guy in the show's title -- the man on the front lines of the food revolution -- Jamie Oliver, joining us from New York. He, of course, is the superstar chef and best-selling cookbook author. The two-hour premiere of \"Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution\" airs Friday, tomorrow night, on ABC. How did this come about, Ryan?", "Two reasons. One, we know that childhood obesity is a major issue in our country. And number two, superstar there, Jamie Oliver. He's -- he's done this in the U.K. He's gotten on the frontlines of the U.K. school system and he's recognized there was a real problem in those cafeterias. And he made significant change.", "Who contacted who?", "I think what, you know...", "Or is it whom contacted whom?", "I think, Jamie, this was sort of the perfect timing. You had done this in England, and you were looking to do something in the United States, but were looking for the right opportunity. Isn't that the way it sort of came out?", "Yes. We went through a friend-of-a-friend, and I wrote to Ryan. I didn't know Ryan before then; I just knew him as someone that the country loved and trusted. So I wrote to him and told him what I dreamed to happen. Look -- Ryan, the foodie -- he's got massive love of course for this own country. And he was back within a couple of days. \"Give me the stuff.\" So I gave him the stuff that I'd done before. And I think -- correct me if I'm wrong, Ryan -- you got even more passionate about seeing it. Actually, making changes -- little steps, but steps in the right direction -- causing a fuss, telling a story; telling the truth. And really trying to get everyone. Everyone. Not just schools. Everyone to make a difference.", "Ryan, why Huntington, West Virginia? This is the pilot program, sort of.", "The series opens up in Huntington, West Virginia. The idea behind this is to create a national movement. We started in Huntington, West Virginia because it got a bad rap. It was on the list and called, \"The Unhealthiest Town in the Unhealthiest Region of America.\" And so we figured --", "That's Appalachia?", "Yes. That area -- the tri-state area. So we figured, \"Let's start there,\" and hopefully create a legacy of change and improvement. Not just with the schools, but also with the great people there. And I could tell you -- I mean, Jamie did some incredible work on the ground. And initially, even those who were almost opposed to this initiative really began to turn, and now become almost ambassadors to our program.", "\"Opposed,\" meaning people in Huntington who felt embarrassed, maybe?", "I just think that, \"Who's this guy? What's this TV show about?\" And it truly is bigger than a TV show.", "A lot of Jamie's food revolution efforts focused on that elementary school in Huntington. Check out the kind of challenge he found himself facing. (", "Good morning.", "So what are they having here then, darling?", "That's a pizza. Then there's fruit and cereal a la carte.", "Right. Wow. This is where it's at, guys. This is the future of America. Sitting here having pizza for breakfast.", "I walk into this school and I'm a tiny bit nervous. I want to be the polite English guy. But the first thing I see is pizza for breakfast. How's your pizza for breakfast?", "Good.", "All right, Jamie, were you ticked about pizza for breakfast?", "Well, you know, it's -- I think that, for -- for starters, Huntington had been under the spotlight for a number of years. So, actually, as far as normal school food is concerned in the whole of the United States, actually it's probably up there as some of the best. Nonetheless, fast food, you know, highly processed foods and pizza for breakfast were -- was just a number of things. You know, even -- even the milk wasn't virginal. You know, the milk that you saw there has nearly as much sugar as a -- as a tin of soda. And that gets poured on some cereal which has got loads of colorings and flavorings and sugar in it, as well. And then they've got the pizza next to that. And it just sort of seemed just an avalanche of corn dogs -- mo -- mobile, portable food, you know, corndogs, nuggets, burgers, pizza. And it just sort of felt to me that if the nutritional standards were up to scratch, you know, there'd be a lot more home-cooked food happening every day.", "I've talked to Bill Clinton a lot about this, who's kind of wild on this subject, because he was a fat kid. And you remember when he came into office first, he'd stop at McDonalds every day while he jogged. Of course, Michele Obama is leading a movement. Were you a fat kid?", "I was, actually.", "Yes?", "You know, I wouldn't say I was obese, but I was embarrassed as...", "Really?", "-- as a teenager. Yes, I was in...", "I mean did you eat stuff like that in school?", "I -- yes, I did. I -- you know, my mother sometimes would pack a lunch and then I would buy. And we'd have pizza squares and we'd have sloppy joes and we'd have chicken nuggets and we'd have burritos and chimichangas. And when you think about all of that throughout the course of a week, after time, it adds up and it has an affect on someone's body. I mean that -- it's proven that if you eat like that over a long period of time, it can kill you. It's just not good for you. I think President Clinton has said the same thing. I mean, if he had eaten better as a child, he has said that he wouldn't have the problems he has now with his heart.", "Jamie, we don't associate -- when we hear \"famous chef,\" we don't associate that with health foods. We associate -- we associate it with sauces and prime French foods and all of that.", "Yes. Well, you know, it's...", "What got you into health?", "I don't know. I think -- well, to be honest, I mean my -- I mean I kind of get drummed in with health, but my approach is quite mixed. I mean, you know, a lot of restaurant food can be just as bad if you have it every day as fast food every day. I think, you know, for -- for me, this is a -- a dark time in American nutrition. It's a stressful time with regards to the health reform, in general. And I think this is the first generation where kids are expected to live a shorter life than their parents. Now we all know that. We've...", "Yes.", "You know, Harvard has proven that if you eat proper food, you know, you're 7 to 10 percent more intelligent and able to learn at school. I'm sure the teachers of America would appreciate that. But, you know, I think -- you know, at the very basis of stuff, you know, with mom and dads working harder than ever, kids go to school 180 days of the year from the age of four to 16 or 18. And what they eat at school counts. What they eat at school matters. What they eat at school sets tastes, standards, habits for a lifetime. And -- and it's not just what they eat at school. It's -- I -- I truly believe, personally, that an environment of food and food education in elementary school should be compulsory. And it really needs to happen and -- and also supported and, also, learning to cook just 10 meals to save your life in every high school in the country is important for the next 10 years.", "Well...", "Why? Because health determines that it needs to happen. And I think -- here's the thing. When you can't cook basic things, you have no choices. When you're hit with a recession and you can't cook, you have no choices. And if you can cook, it doesn't matter if you've got $5, $10, $20 or $100, you have choices.", "Yes. Well said. We'll be right back. And when we come back, a mom and her stepson trying to revolutionize their own diets.", "Here's your breakfast. It is those bloody corndogs.", "Wow. And Jamie was dumping the food on the table. It was like stunning.", "You tell me how you feel looking at this.", "Yuck. It's gross.", "I need you to know that this is going to kill your children early. You know, we're talking about 10, 13, 14 years off their life.", "Joining us now from the Huntington Kitchen -- that's a kitchen built by Ryan and Jamie for this production -- Stacie Edwards and her stepson, Justin. Their story is featured on Jamie Oliver's \"Food Revolution,\" which premieres tomorrow night on ABC. Stacie, why did -- why did you agree to get involved with this?", "Well, I knew our family needed help. So I just said, what better time to start than now?", "What was, Jamie, your first reaction, Jamie, when you ran into what the Edwards' situation was?", "It was a struggling mom trying to look after the family. She was a great mother. You know, I immediately loved her. You know, she's a great character. But Stacie and Stacie's story is common around the whole of America -- and England, you know. And I think what we've got is -- you know, when you've got families -- you know, men or women -- that have gone through the three generations of non-cooks that happen now -- you know, and that means they weren't taught to cook at home and they weren't taught to cook at school and then they have families. And what are they supposed to do? I mean I think, you know, just food knowledge in general and the lack of food education over the last 30 or 40 years has really created times where, you know, Stacie just felt that the only options she had was the stuff that was made easy for her. And, of course, as Stacie will tell you, I mean a lot of that was, you know, the pizzas and the corndogs and the stuff like that.", "Yes.", "And after an -- after an amount of time, you know, it -- it catches up on you.", "Justin, what would you eat in a typical day? Take me through a typical day, Justin. You get up in the morning, what would you eat for breakfast?", "For breakfast, I'd like -- sometimes gravy and biscuits or bacon or eggs or something like that. And for lunch, sometimes it'd be corn dogs or I'd have like a bologna salad sandwich. And for dinner, sometimes it would be Hamburger Helper or chicken nuggets or corndogs.", "Did you ever say to yourself, I -- I'm overweight and I don't like this, I'd like to change this? Did you ever think you were doing something hurting yourself?", "Yes. Like I knew I was hurting myself because I knew that this stuff wasn't good for me, but I was eating it anyway.", "Now, your -- Ryan, your purpose in here was to change them. The purpose of a revolution is change.", "Yes. I think -- and I think that, initially, it's -- it's to get them information and training and -- and show them what they can do that's -- that's easy and affordable and practical. Because Jamie certainly doesn't tolerate -- or he doesn't promote zero-tolerance. You know, it's not like he says you can't have any of this. What he really pushes for is using fresh foods and not having frozen and processed foods. And I -- you know, the great thing about this is that Justin wants to be a chef. He wants to learn more about cooking great food and having great meals. And, you know, this family is -- is a wonderful family that loves each other that was very brave to come on and share their story with us.", "Sure. Stacie, do you think at all that you set a bad example, that you eat poorly?", "Yes, I eat very poorly. It was -- I -- what the kids ate, too. I ate the nuggets and the burgers and the pizza -- fast food.", "Oh. So you're changing now, too?", "Oh, yes. I've changed tremendously.", "This is quite a project. It all starts tomorrow night on ABC. As we've said, Jamie got a school involved in his food revolution. It wasn't an easy sell with people who feed hundreds of kids a day. We'll discuss that next.", "Chicken breast is the first ingredient, here.", "Do you not question any of that stuff? Look...", "What's wrong with that?", "What's wrong with that? What's right with that? Would you eat that?", "Yes. This stuff is good.", "And that list of ingredients doesn't bother you in the slightest?", "Not in the slightest.", "OK. Well, you know what, it doesn't bother me that adult eat it. What bothers me is that kids eat it.", "Ryan Seacrest wrote a blog exclusive for us about Michelle Obama's efforts to help kids get fit. Read it at CNN.com/LarryKing. Joining us now from Huntington, West Virginia, Patrick O'Neal. He's the principal of the Central City Elementary School. His school is featured in Jamie Oliver's \"Food Revolution,\" which debuts tomorrow on ABC. Also with us is Rebekah Farrell, a fifth grader at Central City; head school cook, Polly Midkiff; and school cooks, Millie Bailey (ph) and Alice Gue. We'll start with the principal, Patrick O'Neal. Did you object to this at first?", "Pretty much, I -- I did. We -- we were given this at a principals' meeting about a show that was coming. And I was very hesitant about taking part in this because I didn't know what it was going to do to my cooks.", "Well how is it working out?", "Well, it's working out great. You know, when Jamie first came here, we -- we just didn't really know how to -- to take the -- take Jamie when he came in, because we really didn't know what the show was going to be about and -- other than, you know, just trying to make a change in our lunch program.", "Well, Polly Midkiff, you're the head school cook. Did you resent this?", "Yes, I did, at first. But after a couple of weeks, I adjusted to it and we get along just fine.", "And, Alice Gue, you are a school cook. How did you feel at first? How do you feel now?", "Actually, we're doing really well with it now. The kids are accepting it a lot better and we've made things a little easier for ourselves, doing the new recipes.", "And Rebekah, our fifth grader, I know about fifth graders. Did you like this at first, Rebekah, truthfully?", "Well, I thought it was going to be hard for the school at first, but I like it now.", "Jamie, when you -- you came -- you went to the school, what did you think they were doing and what are they doing now?", "Well, I think the thing to remember is -- is already, Huntington had had a light shined on them because of the CDC report. And, really, the kitchens were very well-specced. The girls in general were very happy. And they were probably over delivering as to what you would call the normal school lunches in the whole of America. That aside, I mean this -- the story we're telling, really, was about sort of changing what was coming into the kitchen in the first place. So, you know, look, when -- when a -- when a foreigner comes in, when they've got a funny voice, that's one thing. But when anyone comes into any area in any country and wants to sort of change things, it is always problematic. And, you know, Principal O'Neal was very generous to even let me in the school, to be frank. And, you know, it always has a massive impact on the ladies in the kitchen. The first few weeks were tough. And -- and it wasn't really helped by some of the local press that was kind of making it look like I was demeaning the locals or the kind of -- the people of the area. So it was a fairly hard two or three weeks. But, look, the -- the girls are really solid. I mean they're -- they run the kitchen -- the kitchen incredibly proficiently. My job was just to get the food coming in different. I didn't want the processed nuggets or, you know, I didn't want the pizza for breakfast. I didn't want, you know, the scrambled eggs that were already cooked that you'd reheat. I -- I wanted them to, you know, to be able to cook again. And -- and to do that, I had to go to their bosses and their bosses' bosses. And as you know, with lots of things in America, there's lots of red tape and lots of bureaucracy. But I mean, no, really, this whole project was supposed to be an experiment and one that told a story.", "Right. Ryan, did you feel any hesitancy, I mean knowing that this Englishman was coming into Huntington, West Virginia to tell them what to do right?", "Yes, because I'm familiar with that on one of the other shows.", "Sure.", "I work with an Englishman who, you know, is relatively bossy on that \"Idol\" program.", "I've heard of him.", "You've heard of Simon?", "The -- the thing with -- with this television series, we knew from the get-go, was that it wasn't just going to be a television show. We knew that with ABC, they wanted to be part of this -- this entire movement. And the other thing we knew was that we weren't quite sure what the outcome was going to be. And rarely do you get into a series or a project without knowing sort of what the outcome is going to be.", "True.", "And, you know, a credit to this group that's sitting right there in Huntington, those ladies have a job to do. And they work long hours doing that job, like a lot of other cooks around the country. But they were willing to at least listen, even if they disagreed at first, and -- and make a change. And I know that our principal there has lost a little bit of weight, I -- I noticed in his shot.", "So perhaps you're applying some of this at home.", "Yes. We'll ask him about that when we come back. We'll go back to school right after this. (", "The bad news is I think I didn't like what the kids ate today. When I saw breakfast, I had never seen kids being given pizza of any kind for breakfast before. I think, you know, to go from pizza to nuggets...", "Those things are set up on a -- a monthly nutrition analysis on the meals.", "I don't think I'm here because I think the nutritional analysis is great. It's that kind of food that's killing America.", "You don't have processed food in England?", "God, yes.", "OK.", "And it's killing England, too.", "Well, it sets like concrete and mostly...", "And they're like, you know, whisk it fast, whisk it fast, otherwise it will set real hard and you'll never get it out. And I'm like, what is this stuff? It tastes like starchy fluff with popped nuts in it. Absolutely disgusting. I know it's only mashed potatoes, but when I start looking at mashed potato and then the nuggets, then the pizza, then the milk's got crap in it, the cereal's got crap in it -- all of those little things together pisses me off.", "We're back with our group at the school and Ryan Seacrest and Jamie Oliver. Ryan, the exec producer; Jamie, the superstar chef. It's his \"Food Revolution\" that starts tomorrow night on ABC. Rebekah Farrell, what -- what -- is there any food you ate every day at school you now don't eat?", "I used to eat the spaghetti a lot when it was -- when the cooks made it. And when Jamie Oliver cooked it, he put mushrooms in it. And I'm not a big fan of mushrooms.", "So what -- what do you eat now? What's your favorite food now at school?", "I like the beef-a-roni a lot.", "And -- and Polly, do you like cooking this better than you liked cooking what you used to cook?", "I don't have a problem with it. I like what I did before, but this is a little more work. But I feel like it's healthier for everybody.", "Alice, how are -- how are the kids reacting in general?", "A lot of them are still asking me if it's Jamie's food. And I think the only reason they did that was because of all the publicity. And if -- if it was just -- we just tell them that it's always been our food. And a lot of them, they're -- the kids that are going to eat will eat. It doesn't really matter. But a lot of them adjusted to it really well and especially the -- the pizzas.", "Patrick, have you seen -- is there a noticeable difference?", "I would say yes, there has been. But, you know, as Alice was saying, there's still a lot of resistance. And the kids are calling it, \"Jamie's food.\" Well, we started coming out with our own message. It's no longer, \"Jamie's food.\" It's our food. It's Cabell County food. And we are implementing it into the other schools. We were at the start of it and now it's spread out through, I think, probably about 16, 17 or 18 schools now. And I just hope that they're seeing the success that we're having. But because I guess here recently we've had a drop in our lunch counts, that we've also lost a half-time cook now. So instead of me having five cooks, we're down to four-and-a-half. So that's -- that makes it a little struggle.", "Do you notice, Patrick, any noticed improvement in test scores, alertness and the like?", "Well, you know, that's still yet to be determined because, you know, with -- with a lot of these students, you know, we -- we do daily testing. And we do what we call our trimester testing. So we're seeing some improvements on the scores. But yet our -- our big assessment is coming up here in May. So that will help us out to -- to really see if the more healthier food is impacting that area. But it's still a long...", "It certainly can't hurt.", "-- a long way to go.", "It certainly can't hurt. Ryan, are you expecting other schools in other cities to come aboard?", "Just like Patrick said, you know, we started with this one and it's already spread to 16. And we're -- we're still in the process of -- of doing that. And the lo -- you know, the local community there is embracing it. And they're actually in the process of spreading the message and the word and the revolution. And since we had a little sneak peek of this show and since it's been talked about online, we've already had cities like New York and Atlanta and St. Louis say, we realize there's a problem. We're not quite sure what the solution is -- nor Rebekah, really. I mean we -- we can't tell you exactly what to do, but we can certainly stir it up a little bit. So, yes, it's spreading -- which is great news.", "Jamie recruited everyone he could into his food army including the local clergy. We're back with the man that calls Jamie a godsend right after this.", "Just recently in 2008, the Center for Disease Control report came out. Huntington and our area came out as the most obese city in the most obese region in the most obese country in the world. What, my friends, does that tell us about our culture? When we don't think anything about being the worst in the entire world.", "Joining us now from New York Pastor Steve Willis of the First Baptist Church in Kenova, West Virginia. And from Huntington, West Virginia, Marisa Clayton. She is a 17-year old high school senior, one of six young people that Jamie picked to be part of his \"army\" in this Food Revolution. Pastor, how did you get involved?", "Well, our church began this about a year ago before Jamie came to town. And we weren't making the progress that we needed to make. So I prayed with my wife. This is no exaggeration. I prayed with my wife. I said, \"You know, I can get people to exercise. But the nutritional aspect of this is beyond my pay grade.\" And the very next day, Jamie's production people called and said they were interested in coming to Huntington to help us out.", "And Marisa, what is your role, as one of six -- part of an \"army?\"", "Basically I'm just -- you know, I'm here to help. I'm trying to, you know, get this out into the city and just help this Food Revolution begin.", "Jamie, did the pastor have a big influence on all of this?", "Absolutely. I mean, look, my job, wherever I go, whatever I do, is to get -- you know, you can't make change, you can't learn what the problem is unless you dig yourself into a community. And the quickest way to do that was to go to Pastor Steve's community. His communion. He was doing various sermons at the time, and you know, it was a very inspirational time for me because I was getting a bit of a hard time and I really needed to find an ally. And of course, what everyone forgets is, you know, apart from all the other great work that Pastor Steve does, you know, ultimately he's the sharp edge of the knife because he has to bury the people that are dying. And this is not a pleasant thing for anyone.", "Yes.", "Even for a man of God to do. But I mean you'd noticed, hadn't you, over the last sort of 5 or 10 years that the amount of people dying?", "Especially in the wintertime, Larry. This is the main point that I want to make to pastors is gluttony is really the only one of the seven deadly sins that is widely accepted in the church. This is a moral issue, how we feed our children and how we feed ourselves. Just sitting down and having a healthy meal with our families together -- God designed us to be healthy people so that we could love Him and love our neighbors. And we can't do that if we're not healthy.", "I've never really heard it put that way. Pastor, I understand that Stacie Edwards and Justin, who's going to be back with us in the next segment, are in your church. Right?", "Yes, they are. They're very active. In fact, I was just playing ball with Justin. Can't really tell you about the finale of the show, but when our Family Life Center that Jamie helped us out with, Justin's been involved. And he's learning how to play basketball with us. We're having a good time. And Stacie's involved in a number of exercise programs at our church and doing some good cooking down there, as well.", "Jamie, who did you find -- why did you pick Marisa?", "Look, Marisa is one of my gang. She's a lovely, sparky, intelligent young American girl. It was important for me that I got a handful of guys that represented, you know, the cross-section of the school, the city, the neighborhood. And I needed people that had issues with the problem out there. The problem out there is that it's not just the people struggling. It's not just about obesity. OK? There's plenty of scrawny people out there that have got diabetes and bad health. It affects everyone. And it's not just them. I mean as Marisa will tell you now, I mean, you know, she's been affected. She lost her father to obesity. And she lost her uncle. And you know -- and I think, you know, it's not just the people that have the problems that are hurt. It's the greater family out there.", "Yes. Marisa, you want to go to culinary school. Right?", "That is very true. I love to cook.", "What effect has Jamie had on you?", "Jamie has -- he's made a big change in my life. He has definitely made me look more positive towards things. I had my mom and my stepfather start, you know, going to a gym three times a week because I don't want them to become overweight. You know, like you said, I lost my father. So, you know, Jamie's just been a positive influence on my life, completely.", "I got to say -- we'll be right back in a moment, Ryan and the group -- there is no negative to this.", "Yes.", "Back with Stacie and Justin. They're coming back. And the progress they've made since joining this fight. Don't go away.", "We got an interview with Jamie Oliver on our blog. See how he answers five questions at CNN.com/larryking. We're joined once again with Stacie Edwards and her son, Justin -- stepson. This story, of course, is featured on \"Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution\" premiering tomorrow night. Earlier we got some insights into Stacie and Justin's lives before Jamie Oliver. Our LARRY KING LIVE crews spent a day with them to check out some of the changes they've made since getting drafted into the Food Revolution. Take a look.", "I'm Justin Edwards. I'm 12. Since Jamie's been here, we started eating better, and I've lost about 20 pounds. The changes that Jamie's been making me do to my diet is learning how to eat better. He has me working out and he has me cooking. I used to eat all the time. We'd mostly have fried food out of the deep fryer. Right here in this patch, you'd see grass. But now it's mud where our family and Jamie came out here and buried our deep fryer. And that's the story about the deep fryer. But now we're eating salads and stir fries which are better for you.", "Tonight we're just going to make a little bit of stir-fry. We're just going to add all of our veggies in with our meat that's already cooked. What's good about dinner is that it's fast, it's easy, it's quick, whatever, you know? It tastes good. A serving size for someone like two ounces of pasta. You think you're not getting that much but you really are getting enough anyway.", "I think Jamie's awesome and he has done a lot of stuff for us. Right now we're eating better and I'm working out and now I know how to cook and that's the best thing that I've been.", "Great story. We've got a question submitted to LARRY KING LIVE Facebook page. It says, \"Having been a chubby kid, I remember turning to food when I felt unloved or stressed. Do you ever feel that way?\" Justin? Justin, do you ever feel stressed and turn to food when stressed?", "Yes, I do sometimes. Like when my parents got divorced. That's when I was stressed.", "Stacie, did you sense that he felt badly over that, and therefore turned to food?", "Yes. That's somewhat of what I thought the problem was.", "Do you deal with the psychological questions here, Ryan?", "You know, we do.", "It's not just overeating, is it?", "It's not just overeating. I mean it has to do with what's happening at home -- a lot. It has to do with -- I remember as a kid, we used to sit together at the table. And my mother would say -- you know you're going to sit there and you're going to have a conversation. And we would eat food that she cooked. And that set a great example for me. And so I think that, you know, while we're talking a lot about the schools, it also has to come from home. You look at that -- what I noticed this hour, you look at that tape of Stacie, and you remember you saw all the food piled up. The corndogs and the pizza and the burgers piled up on her table. And now you see her making stir-fry, and you see them sitting together having a conversation, talking about their day. That's the most important part of this.", "My problem, Jamie, maybe it's the way I was raised, is I would always say, \"Eat, eat\" to the kids. No matter what it was. If it was pizza, \"Finish your pizza.\" I was wrong; right?", "No, no, you weren't wrong. I mean I think, you know, that was in a time where food was scarce or money or poverty. And in some respects, all over the country, in different countries, that's still the same now. You don't want to waste food. But I mean, you know, I guess, you know, times are changing. Lifestyles are changing. Fifty years ago, 12 percent of women worked, now 60 or 65% do. You know there are a lot of hard-working parents out there that don't have much time. And money, of course, is a stress. But the problem is, is when food culture -- learning to cook at home -- stops, which it has. When learning to cook at school has stopped, which is pretty much has. And when you do have it, rarely is it that relevant. You know, what happens is, you kind of buy into other peoples' solutions. And often, they're the ones that are buy-one-get-one-free, and it's the wrong stuff. So, you know, I think what needs to happen, Larry, is we need to draw a line in the sand and say, \"OK, it's kind of getting too bad.\" You know, with $150 billion spent a year on obesity alone, that is set to double in the next 8 to 10 years, which, by the way, you can't afford. So we need to start proactively thinking about what we're going to do. You know what's the main street going to do? Fast food going to do? What commitments are supermarkets going to do? We don't have to fight with them. We don't have to make them look bad. You know there's wonderful brands out there that have been blamed for a lot of stuff. You know I might've been horrible to them five years ago, but I believe now that we're all part of the solution. And, you know, if we all do a bit -- and I think driven really by the government's", "We thank Stacie and Justin. Back with our remaining moments. And Ryan's got a petition for us. Don't go away.", "A spokeswoman for Huntington says, \"What people need to realize is, there was already a movement to make Huntington healthier.\" Jamie -- do you take credit for the revolution that they've already started?", "Look, Huntington had already been under a microscope. And Governor Manchin of West Virginia is probably one of the most inspiring governors I've ever met -- or politicians. Had already been doing quite a lot of tireless stuff with his wife, working in schools and across different areas. Absolutely, the school system had already made lots and lots and lots of changes. And really, Kennedy, I guess my job was to kind of -- it wasn't just schools. It was kind of all the elements of the community coming together and, in one moment, to tell a story and to also sort of join forces and do even better. So, you know, I don't want to take anyone's credit. I mean there's -- the only upside for me is sustainable, independent, good movements forward. You know we're in a very -- I think we're in a precious time right now with the Nutrition Act going through Congress. You know I think Michelle is trying to do some great things. And I'm very worried about Congress. You know yesterday a whole load of work got done. $4.5 billion over a 10-year period is embarrassing, is rude, is disrespectful. It won't do anything. You know to think that $4.5 billion to help the child nutrition and the obesity across all the schools in America over 10 years, compared to $7 billion in a month in Iraq. You know, it's -- we need more funds. Absolutely. I know it's about money. But there is nothing more precious than the kids and the future of this country.", "What else is there? Jamie -- it's hard to draw Jamie out. Right? He's so not opinionated.", "Yes, I know. Right?", "He doesn't believe in this at all. I mean this guy has the amazing ability to lead this revolution. But he's a human being. You know, he doesn't preach. He's kind. He was in Huntington for months, basically living there, while his babies and his family and his wife were in the UK. And he truly believes in it. And like you said earlier, what's the downside? There's no negative that can come out of this.", "Did you have any trouble selling this to ABC?", "Jamie, you remember the day that we decided to go around Hollywood? And we had a list of meetings. And I believe we walked into two places, one of which was ABC. And Steve McPherson at ABC, who runs it, said, \"I'm in. Not only for the show, but for this entire movement.\" And that was important to you, Jamie. It wasn't just a television show.", "No. Absolutely. You know what? From Steve McPherson all the way down, I think everyone -- this project has touched their heart. It's made them feel passionate about TV doing the job that it was invented for. I think we think it's a moment in time where actually it's not just a story; it really could be a revolution. If everyone watches the show and feels passionate and emotional about it, everyone watching can do something. They can contribute. This show is not a spectator's sport. I mean I think good things can happen in the next three to six months.", "Well said. Our CNN Hero of the Week is someone who's been here before. Anne Mahlum was honored as a Top 10 Hero in 2008 for helping the homeless get back on their feet. And now her program is nationwide. And this week, we've caught up with her in Washington as she expands it to the nation's capital.", "CNN Hero Anne Mahlum.", "A few years ago, Anne Mahlum was honored as a CNN Hero for her \"Back on My Feet\" program, which inspires homeless men and women to change their own lives through running and job training. What started off as a small running club of 300 expanded to more than 1500 members with 17 teams running three times a week nationwide.", "We're doing great. Since being a CNN Hero, it's been extraordinary. We received so many request for expansion and people wanting to bring this program to their city.", "Last year alone, more than 170 members found work, started job training or moved out of shelters.", "All right, we're at the home stretch, guys, so pick it up.", "And is also featured in this month's issue of \"Fitness\" magazine along with the First Lady Michelle Obama, and has plans to expand to Boston and Chicago later this year.", "We just gave them the opportunity to do something great. They took advantage of it and they did it.", "What a great program. To find out if Anne is coming to your city, or to nominate someone you think is changing the world, go to CNN.com/Heroes. More with Ryan and Jamie and some \"Idol\" chatter next.", "We only have a few moments left but Ryan Seacrest, who I know is pretty apolitical, is carrying a petition. What is this?", "Well, this is Jamie's notion. And Jamie plans to take a million signatures to Washington. Last night at \"American Idol,\" I had Joe Jonas signed this, take a picture with it. And Demi Lovato.", "What does it say?", "I know.", "Yes. OK. This is, \"I support the revolution. I believe that every child in America has the right to fresh, nutritious school meals.\" And it goes on. So, Larry, we need your -- do you've got a pen there? We need your support.", "You've got it. Yes.", "Come on, Larry.", "I'm doing it.", "I mean, the King is doing it. He's marking -- he's time-stamping it and all. There it is. See, that is what we need and we appreciate. And, you know, I have to say that being on the radio, Larry -- you've been on the show before. When we started talking about this, I don't know, two years ago, even before Jamie and I had a chance to meet, moms called in, and they said, \"You have a platform, to me. You have the ability to talk about this stuff.\" And I thought, you guys are right. This is something meaningful that we can use -- the radio show and the TV show -- to talk about. And I think that it can be fun, as well. I think cooking is fun.", "Jamie had spent a lot of -- we only have much time left. You had to spend a lot of time away from the family. Are you proud of doing this?", "Well, it's always hard. I finally just got my picture through from my second daughter's birthday today where she's dressed up as \"Annie\" and she's getting her cake. So, yet again, I'm not there. But the point is, I get time in my life to have good, loving quality time with my family. And if I were 60 or 70 years old and got asked why I didn't take the opportunity in my career like what Ryan said -- with the platforms that we have -- to try and make a difference in one of the biggest countries in the world. And also, by the way, guys, if America changes, it's not just America. You know, whether they admit it or not, everyone copies America. Things will change around the whole world. And I think really if anything can happen it's about a better perspective. And I'll mix in a --", "Jamie, I -- I might add a little pun. This is a revolution; this side, your side might win.", "Well, let's try.", "OK. A little joke there. One other quick, before we leave. How's it going with Simon and Ellen and --", "Oh, the drama's fantastic. I love it. You know anything that stirs the pot, over there.", "Do they not like each other? Like each other?", "I think they like each other just fine. I think that they come from different points of view. I mean Simon is tough and he's acerbic and -- no offense, Jamie, he's English. No offense to the English, but --", "That's who he is. Whereas, Ellen is just kind of generous, but she's so genuine. And she's so quick and funny. So it makes for sparks this season.", "How many more years are you committed to that?", "I have four more years.", "That's it for tonight.", "Thank you for this, Larry.", "Thanks for everything.", "Thank you, Larry.", "That's it for tonight. Thanks for everything. Where do you go to sign up? Thank you, Jamie. Where do you go to sign a petition? On dot-what?", "You go to FoodRevolution.com. And you can sign it right there. It looks like there. There's the King's signature.", "And Jamie Oliver's \"Food Revolution\" premieres tomorrow night on ABC. We'll see you tomorrow night with Snoop Dog. It's a riot.", "The full hour?", "We pretaped it. It's a riot. Check out our photo gallery and show preview at CNN.com/Larryking, and see me bounce along in the Snoop's car. 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{"id": "NPR-45391", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2018-05-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/05/09/609650231/infrastructure-plan-stalled", "title": "Infrastructure Plan Stalled", "summary": "The Trump administration's plan to invest in infrastructure seems to be stuck in a rut, even as a week to highlight the nation's infrastructure needs approaches.", "utt": ["If you're listening to us as you're commuting to work, was that a pothole you just hit? Wouldn't be surprised. Because it's pothole season across large parts of the United States, it's that time of year when gaping pits open up in the pavement after the long winter. Those potholes serve as a reminder of the need to fix and rebuild infrastructure. But President Trump's plan, which was announced with great fanfare three months ago, now appears to be stalled. Here's NPR's David Schaper.", "Margaret Leonard (ph) loves driving a semi tractor-trailer rig across the middle of the country.", "It's the best job I could ever do. I don't want to ever do anything else.", "Leonard says she finds the time to herself to listen to music or books soothing, unless she's driving over crumbling roads.", "The potholes, the missing chunks. It's just - it's horrible. It's absolutely horrible.", "It's so bad, it's costing Leonard and her employer money.", "The mudflaps on my truck, as simple as that, they fall off on a constant basis because the constant rattling and jolting rips the bolts out. And it happens all the time.", "In fact, after filling her rig with diesel here at the World's Largest Truckstop, along Interstate 80 in Walcott, Iowa, Leonard was taking her truck to maintenance again to have mudflaps put back on. She and some other truckers here say they're willing to pay higher gas taxes to fix and replace aging roads and bridges. The American Trucking Association is calling for a gas tax increase of 20 cents a gallon. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants an even bigger increase, 25 cents a gallon over five years. The reason? The federal tax of 18.4 cents a gallon on unleaded hasn't been raised in 25 years so it doesn't buy as much steel, concrete and asphalt as it used to.", "The general consensus is that the buying power of this gasoline tax dropped by at least a third since it was last increased in the Clinton administration in 1993.", "Jeff Davis of the nonpartisan Eno Center on Transportation says, in addition, with cars and trucks becoming more efficient, there's less fuel being pumped and taxed, meaning even less money for the Highway Trust Fund. And, without a fix, it could run dry in three years. But President Trump's infrastructure plan doesn't address that problem at all. The president is calling for $200 billion in new infrastructure spending over 10 years, but without identifying where that money would come from. The administration claims that $200 billion would attract huge increases in state and local funding and private investments in infrastructure to raise a total of $1.5 trillion.", "It was an absurdity to begin with, and it's, you know, it's nonexistent. It was never real.", "That's Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio the ranking Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He says the president's plan is going nowhere, even in the GOP, and congressional efforts to come up with a different infrastructure plan fall short.", "Funding is absolutely critical, and there is the rub.", "Many Republicans continue to oppose any hike in the gas tax, and because of that, even the president acknowledges an infrastructure plan he promised to pass within his first 100 days will now likely have to wait until at least after the midterm elections in November. David Schaper, NPR News."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "MARGARET LEONARD", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "MARGARET LEONARD", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "MARGARET LEONARD", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "JEFF DAVIS", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "PETER DEFAZIO", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "PETER DEFAZIO", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "NPR-21404", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2016-07-19", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/07/19/486646154/hizmet-movement-accused-of-influencing-coup-attempt-in-turkey", "title": "Hizmet Movement Accused Of Influencing Coup Attempt In Turkey", "summary": "NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Joshua Hendrick, professor of sociology at Loyola University and author of the book Gulen: The Ambiguous Politics of Market Islam in Turkey and the World, about Fethullah Gulen and the Hizmet movement in Turkey.", "utt": ["With us now to talk about in the man Turkey says was behind this coup is Joshua Hendrick. He's a professor at Loyola University who has written a book about Gulen. Welcome to the show.", "Thank you.", "This is a man who hasn't lived in Turkey for a long time. He lives in a small town in Pennsylvania. What does that tell us about how big and pervasive his following is inside Turkey?", "It's a little bit of a challenge to give a specific number. There's no card-carrying identification that says, I'm a member of the Gulen movement. Estimates range from a quarter million to 4 million adherents in Turkey and around the world.", "And so how would you describe him? He's called a cleric. He's called the head of a charity. Who is he?", "Fethullah Gulen is a religious community leader. While working as a religious teacher in the early part of his career in the 1960s, he developed a following of primarily young men. His teachings offered a focus on modern sciences, on professional economic pursuits that were argued by him to be completely parallel and harmonious with the teachings of Islam.", "Fethullah Gulen and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan at one time were allies. How did that happen, and then how did they eventually come to differ?", "They are two different brands of Islamic political identity in Turkey that share far more in common in their worldview than they do not. Where they united, more specifically domestically, has to do with removing the military's capacity to act as an oversight force over Turkish government.", "When that obstacle was perceived by both to have been handled, they then turned on each other, and it's been proven over the past two years that the AKP is far more powerful and has effectively purged members of the Gulen movement from a variety of institutions to the last stronghold of Gulens within the Turkish state - was in the Turkish judiciary and then in segments of the military, which then...", "Right.", "...Leads to the allegations that he was behind the coup.", "So if you look at the purges now - such high numbers of people being purged from the ranks. What does this mean? I mean the government is saying these are terrorists; these are people who attempted to take our lives. What is your sense of this?", "I have no problem intellectually seeing how the Gulens could be pointed to as the perpetrators of this event. I also, however, knowing Turkey can see how that is a very neat and tidy scapegoat that does provide rationale for a cleansing and a purging of a variety of state institutions that so far have made things somewhat difficult for Erdogan to realize his full goals.", "How do you think these purges inside Turkey will affect Gulen's movement?", "If this coup was perpetrated by the Gulen movement, which there's certainly enough circumstantial things to point at that would lend credence to that, it was so ill-conceived and is so antithetical to their collective identity that I view it as being cataclysmic to not only their activities in Turkey but around the world.", "Their whole collective identity has to do with advocacy for interfaith dialogue, for conflict resolution, for democracy. This event flies in the face of all three of those things, and thus it really would prove what many of the Gulen movement's critics have been saying for some of which over 40 years that they are wolf in sheep's clothing, a Trojan horse waiting patiently until their time to strike.", "Turkish state media says Turkey has now sent a formal request to the United States to extradite Gulen. Will this happen, do you think, and does this put the U.S. in a difficult position?", "Absolutely puts the U.S. in a difficult position. Will it happen? There's been lip service to that for years. The burden of proof will be on the Turkish state to provide the evidence required for extradition for somebody who holds a permanent residency in the United States, which Fethullah Gulen has since November of 2008.", "That's Joshua Hendrick. He's assistant professor of sociology and global studies at Loyola University, Maryland. Thank you very much.", "It's my pleasure. 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{"id": "CNN-45116", "program": "MORNINGS WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2001-12-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/06/ltm.09.html", "summary": "Various Factors That Could Play into Possible Surrender of Kandahar", "utt": ["CNN military analyst General Don Shepperd joins me now from Washington. General, you've been following this campaign since the very beginning. Does the possibility of a surrender at Kandahar make it more likely, or did it happen more quickly than the military expected?", "Yes, we had an indication of this a couple of days ago, Paula, when Hamid Karzai, the Pashtun leader coming in from the north reportedly said that Kandahar would fall just like Konduz, through a negotiated settlement rather than fighting. Now the elements of that are he's probably very much in favor of taking the city with negotiations because it's a city and population about the size of New Orleans and you can imagine how difficult it would be to go house to house and all the ugly things that go with city fighting. So it's very likely he'd like to take it to negotiations. On the other hand, the U.S. interest is that Omar does not escape and the al Qaeda do not escape. It could be that Karzai would be willing to let them escape in exchange for the city and the U.S. not. And then we would have some type of political solution here to work with and it could be difficult.", "I know Bob Franken reported from the Pentagon a little bit earlier this morning that U.S. administration officials are viewing this report with perhaps some deal of skepticism. They've said in the past they've found these Islamic Press reports semi-reliable, Allen Pizzey reporting on the ground from Kandahar that the U.S. military operation proceeds as if this had not been confirmed.", "Yes.", "Give us your insights into that.", "Sure. Obviously, you're going to proceed that way. Again, Mullah Omar and the al Qaeda and the remaining Taliban fighters in Kandahar are in a world of hurt. You've got Hamid Karzai coming in with increasing forces from the north. You've got Gul Agha and his Pashtun tribes coming in from the south. You've got the marines to the southwest. You've got the Northern Alliance up in Kabul to the northeast. He has no place to go. So again, it's a difficult situation, but the other thing is the al Qaeda fighters know what happened in Mazir-i-Sharif and Konduz and it may be that no matter who wants to negotiate, they fight to the end. Lots to be decided and real early in this reporting of this settlement, Paula.", "So in this murky period of time where we can't really confirm these reports are true, what remains the mission of the marines on the ground there?", "It appears the marines are in a blocking position. They're gradually expanding their patrols. They're trying to stop supplies and people from flowing into and out of Kandahar area. They also are in position to take part should an assault take place on Kandahar. They're also in a position as a forward operating base to operate against the remaining al Qaeda cells and then search for bin Laden in the area down there, reportedly the area of Marouf (ph) to the southeast of Kandahar. So they're doing what the marines were brought there to do, which is increase the pressure on the remaining Taliban and al Qaeda and provide General Franks with options.", "I need a quick yes or no here. Essentially what you're saying, if I read between the lines then, is even if Kandahar falls, the U.S. can't declare this a success until they've gone on and either gotten Osama bin Laden or the other leaders of the al Qaeda movement?", "Absolutely not. We need al Qaeda cells. We need bin Laden. We'd like to have Mullah Omar. Lots left to be done to pacify the country and get all that done, Paula.", "You can take a cue there. General Don Shepperd, thank you very much for your insights this morning. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "MAJ. GEN. DON SHEPPERD (RET.), U.S. AIR FORCE, CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "ZAHN", "SHEPPERD", "ZAHN", "SHEPPERD", "ZAHN", "SHEPPERD", "ZAHN", "SHEPPERD", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-194659", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2012-10-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1210/23/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Senator Barbara Boxer", "utt": ["OUTFRONT next, 14 days before the election, President Obama lays out his vision for a second term. But does his 20-pledge plan add up? Plus, the aggressor versus the agreer (ph). We saw two really different styles during last night's debate. Whose strategy worked? And Apple unveiled a thinner, lighter, smaller iPad. But is it its price tag maxi? Let's go OUTFRONT. Good evening, everyone, I'm Erin Burnett. OUTFRONT tonight, the big reveal. Today, President Obama unveiled his plan for the next four years.", "Folks who are still not convinced, they can look right here and find out what it is I intend to do in a second term.", "All right. That booklet in his hand, I've got it here, it's a new 20-page glossy from the Obama campaign, laying out the president's policies. Now they put a lot of time and effort into this glossy thing, because 3.5 million copies are going to be mailed to swing state households, millions more are going to be given out door to door. And that's not all. The campaign also released a new 60- second ad today airing in those nine key battleground states.", "But we've made real progress. And the last thing we should do is turn back now. Here's my plan for the next four years.", "So what new information warranted this big campaign rollout just two weeks before Election Day? Well, nothing, really. And the campaign admits as much.", "Obviously, a lot of people have made up their minds. There is a small universe of voters who haven't. We want to make sure that those voters have access to the information they need to make the judgment as to which direction they want to go.", "So what we've really got is a fancy repackaging of ideas that we've heard before, and some of the pages here, reviving American manufacturing, energy made in America, growing small businesses, putting you in charge of your health care. These are familiar topics. But here's the problem. Some of these ideas still don't add up. So let's take the core of it. The president's tax and deficit plan. According to the glossy, and I'll read it here. President Obama's plan reduces the deficit by more than $4 trillion over the next decade. How, you might ask? Well, first, the president includes $1 trillion in spending cuts already signed into law last year. So those are cuts already on the books, no matter who is in the Oval Office. So maybe then it's three trillion. But next the president says the plan makes sure that millionaires aren't paying lower tax rates than many middle class families. Now, to that end the president plans to let the Bush tax cuts expire for households making above $250,000 a year. According to the Joint Committee on taxation, that would reduce the deficit by just $829 billion over the next 10 years. Not even a quarter of the four trillion that the president says he's going to guarantee. Now the president also says he'll get there by cutting corporate loopholes and cutting spending. Now of course, he doesn't say what loopholes or what spending. Sound familiar?", "You say that you're going to pay for it by closing loopholes and deductions, without naming what those loopholes and deductions are. And then somehow you're also going to deal with the deficit that we've already got. The math simply doesn't work.", "Hmmm. All right. Let's take a look at one more aspect of the president's plan as laid out in today's glossy. The president will commit -- would commit half of the money saved from responsibly ending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to reducing the deficit, and the other half to putting Americans back to work, rebuilding roads, bridges, runways and schools here in the United States. All right. The problem is here's what the president said just a couple of weeks ago.", "One of the main reasons we went from record surpluses into record deficits is because we put two wars and two credit -- two -- and two tax cuts on a credit card.", "All right. That's right. The money spent in Afghanistan and Iraq was largely borrowed. The president's word, put on a credit card. And he even wrote that in his glossy. So how can the president save the money which was borrowed in the first place, and how can he save money that he never intended to spend since the administration has long said it would end those wars? It doesn't add up. Senator Barbara Boxer is a Democrat of California and Senator, we appreciate your taking the time. I know you're out on the campaign trail, fighting for the president today. Let me just ask you this question --", "And --", "-- though about and start with these issues --", "And Congresswoman --", "-- defense.", "And Congresswoman Shelley Berkley. I wanted to make sure you knew I was also out in Nevada campaigning for Shelley Berkley --", "Yes.", "-- who we're trying to make a senator from the House. First, I have to say the president did put the wars back on budget. So it is true that George W. had them off budget. They're on budget, so that criticism is wrong. Let me tell you how I respond to everything you said and I listened to it intently.", "Yes.", "I've run 11 successful elections for myself. They're hard. They're difficult. But it is true at the end you still have those undecideds. And even though President Obama, as you point out, has talked about these ideas -- for example, one you didn't mention is taking away tax breaks for companies who ship jobs overseas. The reason he wants to put this together is because they're still undecided, and the Republicans are complaining where's the beef, where's the plan. So he put it together in a book and I think that's a smart idea for those who are undecided.", "Right and I mean -- I see your point. As David Axelrod said, there aren't many of them, but if this is going to help them make up their mind it makes sense for the president.", "Yes.", "But what about this question?", "Yes.", "He says in the glossy half the money saved from ending the wars is going to go to reducing the deficit. The other half to putting Americans back to work --", "Yes.", "-- rebuilding roads. But it's borrowed money. Once it's not spent, he would have to borrow money to do those other things.", "Well, I'm just going to take issue with you. The money for the wars, when President Obama took office he stopped the sham and those went on budget. So they're actually savings here. So, yes, you know, it just -- it just -- it really makes sense if you think about it. We're spending so many billions abroad --", "Well, I understand they're in the budget. They're in the budget --", "He wants to bring --", "Right.", "Yes.", "But in the budget --", "So my point is --", "-- doesn't mean on the budget. You know what I'm saying?", "It doesn't -- I don't think -- well, let me just tell you what I know. What I know is we've been spending a lot of money rebuilding other countries and the president is right. It is time to rebuild our country. I'm the chairman of a committee. I'm very fortunate. I hope I keep the gavel that is in charge of building the roads and the bridges and the water systems and the sewer systems. We are so far away from doing what we need to do. You're -- you know the economy. You have to have a strong infrastructure to have a strong economy. You have to move people. You have to move goods. And you have to move them efficiently. The president is right to do that, so I don't know why people, yourself included would have a problem with this notion of bringing the money back and spending it here in America.", "Right.", "I think it's smart. I'm for it --", "I don't have a problem with it at all. I'm just saying --", "Good.", "I'm just saying is he saying that he's going to be borrowing the money to do that, right? Because he's saying money that --", "No, he's not.", "-- wars are ending, they're not going to be spending, and when they were in the wars we were borrowing it. So he's saying I'm going to spend half of it on ending -- on the deficit and half of it on rebuilding the roads. So if you want to rebuild the roads --", "Well you could say that --", "-- I guess that a lot of people applaud that. Would you support borrowing the money?", "No. No, you could say that every single thing we do is borrowed. That makes no sense at all. The fact is the wars are on the budget. They are budgeted. Instead of budgeting for the wars, we're saying we're going to take half of that money, reduce the deficit, take the other half and invest it in our people, in education, in job training, in building roads and bridges and highways. And yes, we're going to ask the people at the top to pay a fair share like they did under Bill Clinton when we created 23 million jobs and balanced the budget. So I'm really glad he put together this book. And I think it's important for those people who haven't really followed everything and who are inundated with these negative commercials from every side they can actually take a look at this and see what the president wants to do in the next four years.", "And let me ask you this of the overall -- the number and let's take the four trillion --", "Sure.", "-- just because that's the number he put out there.", "Yes.", "You know obviously, when he took office, he said he was going to cut the deficit in half. The economy did not help him and that's a big part of the reason why he didn't and that's fair to notice. But when you look at -- obviously, we've been running trillion-dollar deficits since then. Even if you keep our debt firm where it is right now and it doesn't grow and of course it is growing, but at 16 trillion, his four trillion is only a quarter of that. So now he's saying from going -- saying he's going to cut it in half, we're only cutting it in a quarter off, a much bigger number. Is that right? I mean do you support that?", "Well let me talk about -- let me talk about what the president says. The president has a plan to cut $4 trillion and you're absolutely right in your other comments. A trillion has been cut and believe me that was painful. I had to vote for those cuts. A lot of them broke my heart. But he has shown that he is willing to do that. And he has laid out a very clear plan to get to the other three trillion. Now, if you look at Mitt Romney, he wants to spend two trillion more on the military than the military wants to spend. He wants to give tax breaks to the people at the very top, billionaires, millionaires, you name it. He doesn't want to take away tax breaks from people who ship jobs overseas. So he has no plan whatsoever, so one could argue that the president's $4 trillion plan will be tough to do. I believe he will do it. He's a man of his word. When he says something he does it.", "All right. Well thank you very much, Senator. We appreciate your coming on and making the case for him tonight. Thanks for your time. And still to come, Mitt Romney played it cool while President Obama was on the attack last night. Which style won your vote? Plus, the two candidates squared off over how and when to deal with Iran and the threat of a nuclear weapon. One candidate says it's about capability, the other about actually having the weapon. Does that difference matter? And sent to prison for what six scientists did days before a devastating earthquake. Does that add up?"], "speaker": ["ERIN BURNETT, HOST", "BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BURNETT", "OBAMA", "BURNETT", "DAVID AXELROD, OBAMA SENIOR CAMPAIGN ADVISER (via phone)", "BURNETT", "OBAMA", "BURNETT", "OBAMA", "BURNETT", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-36689", "program": "CNN NEWS SITE", "date": "2001-8-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/08/ns.03.html", "summary": "What Was Life Like Before Air Conditioning?", "utt": ["OK, here's some imaginative thinking about covering heat and cool. On days like this, it's hard to imagine summer before the air conditioner. Yeah, did you ever think about that?", "Well, there were actually lots of people at the turn of the century who were experimenting, and who were really pioneers with air conditioning. You might call the godfather of air conditioning a man named John Gorrie, who received the first patent for an ice-making machine back in 1851 in Florida.", "I guess in Florida, even in the 1850s, they probably needed that. All right, let's take a look at some questions from our Web chat audience right now . Char Robinson asks: \"I wonder what people did before they had air conditioning. Did it contribute to a lot of deaths?\" Do we know that?", "Air conditioning still contributes to a lot of deaths. I think most people remember just a few years ago in Chicago there was a real problem with especially elderly folks staying indoors and being afraid to even put their fans on because of costs with electricity. But you know, today most metropolitan areas have cooling centers, and they get the word out immediately that those places are open. So hopefully, that kind of tragedy doesn't happen too much anymore.", "Yeah, you think about how much air conditioning has changed our lives, changed simple things like geography, Now, take a look around some of the pictures we're seeing here. This is out in Phoenix, Arizona. Could a city like Phoenix even exist today had it not been for air conditioning?", "Well, it could exist, but it certainly wouldn't be the same without air conditioning. We've seen a tremendous -- the tremendous growth of the Sunbelt cities -- Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Miami. There's just been an explosion of population down there because of air conditioning. I mean, you went there before, but it wasn't an all-around, year- round place to go. I mean, maybe the best example of that is Las Vegas. You can't imagine going to the desert, a place like Las Vegas in the middle of summer, but certainly we do now, and that's because of air conditioning.", "Think for a moment again here about what else has changed just because there is air conditioning. I mean, I suppose I would never have a chocolate bar in my pocket if there weren't air conditioning, but it would also change how we live, what kind of architecture, everything, wouldn't it, clothing, everything?", "Absolutely. I mean, our homes are very different today than they were in the past. Now, we can have large picture windows and sliding glass doors. Those things wouldn't really have been feasible in many parts of the country if it weren't for air conditioning because they just let in too much heat, and there's no insulation with that material. I mean, today we have much better insulation with glass, but when that first came out in the '50s, homes were literally known as hot boxes, because the modern architecture -- we wanted those big picture windows and sliding glass doors. The only thing that made that -- that picture possible was really the air conditioner. So we've become dependent on the air conditioner.", "Yeah, I was thinking about my father, who's in his 80s now, and he tells me that in Europe in the '30s, '40s, they still used like big ice, blocks of ice, put a fan next to it, and then were able to blow the cooling of that. That was still used in this country as well at that time.", "Exactly. Well, that was what John Gorrie first -- first really proposed or introduced, you know, blowing the fan across ice. But I mean, in many cases we -- our relationship with nature itself has been changed. I mean, now we think about staying indoors. Before we used to get out of doors, and you know, go to the beaches and go to the mountains.", "And now we can have TV studios because we have AC. Thanks very much...", "Exactly.", "... Chrysanthe Broikos. She is with that exhibit, \"Stay Cool: Air Conditioning in America.\" Think about it. Where would you be without AC? TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRYSANTHE BROIKOS, ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN", "CHEN", "BROIKOS", "CHEN", "BROIKOS", "CHEN", "BROIKOS", "CHEN", "BROIKOS", "CHEN", "BROIKOS", "BROIKOS"]}
{"id": "CNN-104311", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2006-3-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/27/ltm.05.html", "summary": "Immigration Battle; Iraqi Army Recruits Attacked; Preacher's Wife to be Arraigned on First-Degree Murder Charges", "utt": ["Good morning. I'm Miles O'Brien.", "And I'm Soledad O'Brien. A wife accused of killing her preacher husband heads to court for the first time today. She's confessed, she's even apologized. But why did she do it? It's till a big question. We've got a live report straight ahead.", "New developments in the case of those two missing boys. It's now a criminal case. We'll have the latest for you. Plus, we have seen those huge protests. Now the real fight in Washington begins over a proposed crackdown on millions of undocumented immigrants in America.", "Then this morning, this: he's Hasidic, he's into hip-hop, and he's popular on the reggae charts. He's Matisyahu. He is all the rage. We've got his story just ahead. Also, how much would you pay for a little bling-bling for your baby? We're going to take a look on this", "Well, it is borderline political civil war in Washington as Republicans debate immigration reform in that city today. We saw protests and demonstrations last week. Now it all moves to D.C. The Senate today taking up some controversial proposals for the government's new immigration policy. CNN Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash joining us now. Dana, what are we going to see on the Hill today?", "Well, Miles, today we are going to see how all of that emotion that you just talked about actually translates into any particular legislation. That is going to start in the Senate today. The focus of the drama will be in the Senate Judiciary Committee. And staffers worked all weekend trying to find some middle ground on the issue that rips Republicans apart. That is, whether or not illegal workers should be able to stay in the United States and on what terms. Now, the Senate Judiciary chairman, Arlen Specter, over the weekend seemed to indicate that he supports some kind of temporary worker program that would lead to a path to citizenship.", "They are going to be checked out very, very carefully. They are not going to go ahead of people who have been waiting in line for citizenship. They are going to go to the end of the line for people who have stayed at home and have gone through the normal channels.", "Now, there is yet another Republican proposal that would allow illegal workers to stay and work legally in the United States for five years, but then would have to leave the country and apply to reenter. But some other Republicans, some more conservative, I would say, Republicans, like Tom Tancredo of Colorado, say, Miles, all of this is akin to amnesty.", "When you reward millions and millions of people, which Senator Specter's bill does do, for coming across the border the wrong way, doing it illegally, then you -- it's a slap in the face to every single person who has done it the right way and to everybody who is waiting out there to do it the right way. It's bad policy.", "There you hear one Republican saying it's bad policy. The Judiciary Committee in about an hour is going to start to debate this, and they could work well into the night trying to find the compromise, at least something to bring this particular bill to the Senate floor. But, Miles, they might not have to worry about that, because the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, says he has a measure that he's going to bring to the Senate floor for the full Senate to debate no matter what happens in the Judiciary Committee, and that could happen as soon as tomorrow -- Miles.", "All right. We'll be watching that. Meanwhile, one of the proposals out there, Dana, is a 700-mile fence or wall along the border there. Does that idea really have much traction?", "Well, that actually passed the House of Representatives, over $2 billion to build that wall. That is just one of the issues that maybe illustrates how difficult this is going to be to actually go to the president's desk, because it passed the House of Representatives, in the Senate there are lots of different proposals. At this point there doesn't seem to be a lot of support for that kind of broad", "Dana Bash on the Hill. Thank you. The president's remarks on immigration reform scheduled for 10:00 Eastern this morning, right after our program, a little less than an hour from now. We'll bring it to you live, of course -- Soledad.", "There has been a deadly suicide attack on a group of men lined up in an Iraqi army recruiting center. This videotape just into CNN. Take a look. At least 30 people are dead. At least another 30 injured. It happened in northern Iraq near Tal Afar. CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson is live for us in Baghdad this morning. Nic, good morning.", "Good morning, Soledad. The details of this attack have become clearer through the day. And we can see clearly now from these pictures that this was, as it was described to us, a mobile base with very little security around it. A mobile recruiting center for the Iraqi army that the insurgents have chosen to target. Thirty Iraqi army and civilians lined up waiting to sign up for the Iraqi army killed when a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest walked up to the line of would-be recruits, detonated his explosives. We're told 30 other people also wounded in the attack. We understand that no U.S. personnel were involved, were caught up in the casualty list there. But we do understand that a U.S. medical team came in very quickly to provide medical support for the -- for the Iraqis caught in the blast. But this appears to be an indication of the insurgents seeing what appears to be a relatively soft target and targeting these would-be army soldiers as they lined up to join the new Iraqi army -- Soledad.", "Nic Robertson reporting from Baghdad for us this morning. Nic, thanks for the update -- Miles.", "The preacher's wife who is accused of murdering her husband in court this afternoon. Mary Winkler to be arraigned on first-degree murder charges in Selmer, Tennessee. She is accused of shooting her husband, Matthew Winkler, last week. Live now to Selmer. Rusty Dornin is following it for us. Good morning, Rusty.", "Well, Miles, the big question on everyone's mind is, why on earth would Mary Winkler, who was supposedly in a very happy marriage and a very loving couple, shoot her husband in the back, as she confessed to police over the weekend? Police are keeping it very close to the vest. They say they know what the motive was. Meantime, her colleague, Pam Killingsworth, visited Mary Winkler in jail over the weekend, said she seemed to be in pretty good spirits but seemed very upset about how what she had done might have an impact on others.", "Just repeatedly through our conversation she was asking me to apologize to this one or that one for all the problems that she'd caused them, that she was so sorry that she had caused the church all the problems that we're going through right now.", "Killingsworth said she never actually admitted to shooting her husband, and her attorney is now saying she will plead not guilty in her arraignment later this afternoon. He's saying he hasn't even seen the confession and won't see it until he sees the discovery. Meantime, funeral arrangements for Mathew Winkler will be taking place tomorrow -- Miles.", "Rusty, tell us about members of his congregation. How are they doing? Did they have services yesterday, for example?", "It's been very difficult for the congregation because apparently -- Pam Killingsworth just told me also -- they lost two other members of their congregation to natural causes, apparently, in addition to this. They had services yesterday. The deacon there saying please don't talk to anyone, don't speculate on the motive for what happened. And please have forgiveness, please forgive Mary Winkler for what she has done. So they are trying to stick together and trying not to apparently speculate on the motive in this case.", "Very difficult time, to say the least. Rusty Dornin in Selmer, Tennessee. Thank you very much. Once again, that arraignment this afternoon. We'll keep you posted on that. Let's get to Carol Costello in the newsroom with some other stories we're looking at. Good morning, Carol.", "Good morning, Miles. Good morning to all of you. Two Americans and a British man held hostage for the past month in Nigeria will soon head home. Militants released the men earlier today. They're now with Nigerian officials. The men were abducted five weeks ago as part of a protest against oil companies in the region. Police have a name but no motive in a mass shooting in Seattle. Six people killed, two injured Saturday after a rave party. The suspect, Aaron Kyle Huff, apparently left the party but came back armed and opened fire on a house full of people. He then shot himself. Medical marijuana and the right to fight for life, that's the issue facing the federal appeals court in San Francisco. It's hearing arguments about whether marijuana should be legalized in very special, very serious cases. The Bush administration says the case is without merit. An Afghan man who faced the death penalty for converting to Christianity could be released today. The Afghan court dropped the case, saying there wasn't enough evidence. In the meantime, some 1,000 people in Afghanistan are protesting the court's dismissal. They say the Afghan courts caved in to Western pressure. Pretty incredible pictures from Brooklyn New York, to show you. Check out that -- that's an SUV in that hole. It's teetering on the edge of a manhole. There was a water main break underneath the street and that caused the street to literally cave in. A good old-fashioned sinkhole for you. The driver is fine. She was able to get out safely. The street, though, has been shut down. Subway service for that line that runs underneath the street now on hold. And Tillie is getting another chance at a crime-free life. Tillie is the mannequin a Colorado driver used to get into the HOV lane. He was caught. The mannequin was sold on eBay for $15,000. Proceeds benefit the teen safe driving group Alive at 25. That makes it a little better, doesn't it?", "Fifteen thousand? Is that what you said? Fifteen thousand dollars?", "Fifteen thousand dollars. But it goes for a good cause, so maybe...", "Oh, no, that's a great cause. I mean...", "... that's why they spent that much money.", "Wow. Just $15,000 for Tillie?", "Otherwise -- I know. Otherwise...", "That he kind of put together with, like, spit and glue, pretty much? OK.", "Pretty much.", "Maybe she looked like the Virgin Mary.", "What?", "Well, you know, remember that grilled cheese sandwich that...", "Oh, I see. No, Tillie, nothing.", "Nothing.", "Looking nothing like the Virgin Mary. Carol, thank you. Let's get to the forecast. Chad has that. Tillie, $15,000 -- would you pay $15,000 for Tillie, Chad?", "You know, somebody wanted that Breckenridge hat. That's all I can think. It was a very valuable hat, because the body was Styrofoam, wasn't it?", "Yes. Yes, pretty much.", "OK. Whatever. I'm sure somebody will tattoo something...", "What are we going to auction off here?", "Something -- someone will...", "How much for my laptop?", "Exactly. Good morning, everybody.", "Back to you guys.", "Chad, stay with us for a moment. We have a picture. We want to introduce you to a friend of ours.", "A friend of Miles.", "Hopefully -- check this out. This is a guy, he's got some kind of Pier One offering (ph) there, enjoying the sun, he's got a little drink. It looks like he's waiving at us. Does he have CNN out there or something? Now, pull back. Where are we, folks? Right in the middle of Columbus Circle.", "Which for people who don't know, it's right in the middle of Manhattan. I mean, he's basically surrounded by a roadway, and Central Park, of course, right next to him. But it's kind of a strange place to sit, even on a beautiful day, Chad.", "I hope he has his sunscreen on.", "Yes. Yes. And we were thinking about auctioning off that little Pier One cushy deal.", "Yes, the lounger.", "The papa san?", "The papa san. It's a papa san.", "That's right, supposedly.", "What do you offer for that, Chad? We'll start at $100. We'll let our friend know that we're selling the chairs.", "We'll give him a cut.", "It's all fair.", "Ten bucks.", "All right. Thank you, Chad.", "All right.", "Coming up, a much more serious story for you: 911 from 9/11. New York City repairs to release emergency tapes from that fateful date, and many victims' families are angry about that. We'll tell you why.", "I can imagine. Also this morning, we're going to find out today if Zacarias Moussaoui will testify in his sentencing trial. At least one legal expert says that would be a nightmare scenario. We'll ask him why.", "And a Red Cross rip-off. The charity has fired three, but is the problem bigger than that? We'll ask the man at the top. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "AMERICAN MORNING. M. O'BRIEN", "DANA BASH, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. ARLEN SPECTER (R-PA), CHAIRMAN, JUDICIARY COMMITTEE", "BASH", "REP. 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{"id": "NPR-6281", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2016-01-02", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/01/02/461782252/saudi-arabia-executes-dozens-exacerbating-sectarian-tensions", "title": "Saudi Arabia Executes Dozens, Exacerbating Sectarian Tensions", "summary": "The country executed 47 people today, including a prominent cleric for the minority Shia in the Kingdom. Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was a vocal critic of the Saudi monarchy and was arrested in 2012.", "utt": ["We're going to start the program today with international news. In a few minutes, we'll find out why Turkey is in the middle of a construction boom for mosques and why Russians are foregoing their beloved overseas beach vacations. But we start with disturbing news from the Middle East. Earlier today, Saudi Arabia executed some 47 people, including a top Shia cleric and government critic, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. The U.S. State Department released a statement late Saturday saying they are \"concerned that the executions risk exacerbating sectarian tensions at a time when they urgently need to be reduced,\" unquote. NPR's Leila Fadel reports.", "In the largely Shia eastern city of Qatif, protesters filled the streets.", "(Chanting in foreign language).", "A video from a Shia activist in Qatif shows demonstrators pumping their fists in the air and chanting their support for Nimr.", "(Chanting in foreign language).", "Later, in Nimr's hometown of Awamiya, citizens grieved. All four of the Shia men executed are from there. The town is dark, everyone's in black and recitation of the Quran fills the air. Shia Muslims are a minority in the Sunni Muslim country of Saudi Arabia. Sunnis and Shias are different sects of Islam. And the battle for influence in the region between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran has inflamed sectarian tensions.", "Protests also broke out in Bahrain. Pictures and videos show tear gas and burning tires in the streets while demonstrations also took place in other parts of the region. Saudi Arabia says the executions were to preserve the safety of the kingdom. Those executed were accused of radical ideology, terrorism or criminal plots. Besides the Shia Saudi citizens, a Saudi court convicted the 43 others on charges of working with al-Qaida. Adam Coogle is a Human Rights Watch researcher.", "It's clear that the Saudi authorities are trying to send some sort of political message to Saudi society, whether it be, you know, don't be a jihadi, don't join a terrorist organization or, in the case of Nimr, don't got out and protest.", "He says Nimr's trial was flawed. He wasn't allowed a lawyer during his interrogation and for much of his trial. And some of the young Shia men executed or on death row say they were tortured and coerced into confessions of inciting violence. Iran reacted with anger. The foreign ministry spokesman told the Iranian Student News Agency that the Saudi government would pay. Similar condemnations rolled in from Shia clerics around the region. Human rights groups also condemned the execution. In Awamiyah, Nimr al-Nimr's brother, Mohammed (ph), grieved the loss.", "(Foreign language spoken).", "\"It was a shock,\" he says. He called his brother's execution unjust and an assassination of a man who refused violence, sectarianism and demanded legitimate rights peacefully in a country where Shias say they're treated as second-class citizens.", "(Foreign language spoken).", "He also called for self-control. He says the reaction to Nimr's death must follow the example of his brother's message of peaceful objection.", "(Foreign language spoken).", "And he worries that his young son, Ali al-Nimr, will be next. He's on death row, arrested at 17 for taking part in protests. His father says he was tortured in detention and forced to confess to crimes he did not commit. There's been an international outcry over his death sentence. Today's mass execution is the largest in Saudi Arabia since 1980. Amnesty International says there's been a sharp uptick in executions since 2014.", "Leila Fadel, NPR News, Dubai."], "speaker": ["MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LEILA FADEL, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTORS", "LEILA FADEL, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "LEILA FADEL, BYLINE", "LEILA FADEL, BYLINE", "ADAM COOGLE", "LEILA FADEL, BYLINE", "MOHAMMED AL-NIMR", "LEILA FADEL, BYLINE", "MOHAMMED AL-NIMR", "LEILA FADEL, BYLINE", "MOHAMMED AL-NIMR", "LEILA FADEL, BYLINE", "LEILA FADEL, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "NPR-18356", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2016-10-11", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/10/11/497487321/special-delivery-at-wal-mart-utah-woman-gives-birth-in-checkout-line", "title": "Special Delivery At Wal-Mart: Utah Woman Gives Birth In Checkout Line", "summary": "A woman went into labor at the store in Payson, Utah. The Provo Daily Herald reports she had been buying groceries. The baby came swiftly — maybe it was because she didn't want to hold up the line.", "utt": ["Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. There was a reason for the long delay in the checkout line at Wal-Mart. A woman was going into labor at the store in Payson, Utah. The Provo Daily Herald reports she was buying groceries when she ran out of time. The baby came swiftly, maybe because she didn't want to hold up the line. Employees and other customers helped make the delivery before emergency crews arrived. And once they did, the mother and baby went to the hospital safely. It's MORNING EDITION."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-219123", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2013-11-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/19/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Virginia Lawmaker Stabbed; George Zimmerman Charged With Assault", "utt": ["Happening now, George Zimmerman out of jail again. He's facing new assault charges involving his girlfriend and allegedly a shotgun. CNN's Nancy Grace is with us. She is outraged. Plus a lawmaker stabbed in his own home, his son is dead. And police suspect it was an attempted murder-suicide. We're standing by for new details. And how can anyone survive a monster like this? We have new video of a killer tornado and new stories of people who believe they were saved by social media. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. First this hour, we're learning more about the horrific stabbing of a well-known politician, a state lawmaker who ran for governor of Virginia. Police suspect Creigh Deeds was attacked by his own 24- year-old son in an attempted murder-suicide reportedly just hours after the young man had a psychiatrist evaluation. CNN's Chris Lawrence is in Charlottesville, Virginia, and he's got the very latest -- Chris.", "Wolf, we have now learned that Creigh Deeds has been upgraded to fair condition, and that there was an altercation with his son in that house. And after he was stabbed multiple times, Creigh Deeds made it 75 yards down a hill to the main road where he was then picked up by his cousin.", "Police found a chilling scene after an early morning 911 call.", "Deputies arrived to find Senator Deeds stabbed multiple times about the head and upper torso. He was flown from the scene to the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville.", "Police say Creigh Deeds was able to speak with them, but is now in critical condition. Inside the rural Virginia home, deputies found the senator's 24-year-old son, Gus, suffering from a gunshot wound. He died at the scene.", "We're not seeking any suspect at the time.", "Creigh Deeds is well known in Virginia politics. In his unsuccessful bid to be governor in 2009, he garnered a presidential endorsement.", "When I look at the way he conducts himself and his campaign, speaking truth to power, but always doing it in a way that reminds us that we have to bring people together instead of driving them apart.", "Deeds was elected to the Virginia Statehouse in 1991, and in 2001, was elected to fill the state Senate seat of TV personality Katie Couric's late sister. He wrote and helped pass Megan's Law in Virginia, which requires law enforcement officials to notify communities of registered sex offenders, and he sponsored the Amber Alert program in the state.", "Now, \"The Richmond Times-Dispatch\" is reporting that Gus Deeds, his son, had an emergency mental health evaluation on Monday, but that he was released because there were no beds available. The facility in question will not confirm that, but say under an emergency custody order no one could be held longer than six hours -- Wolf.", "All right, Chris Lawrence reporting. Just in, we have learned that George Zimmerman was served divorce papers in jail before he was released on bond just a little while ago. The lawyer for his estranged wife, Shellie Zimmerman, tells CNN it happened last night soon after Zimmerman was taken into custody on assault charges. He's accused of pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend, all this coming just months after Zimmerman's acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin. CNN's Alina Machado is joining us from Sanford, Florida, right now with more. What is the latest, Alina?", "Wolf, as you mentioned, George Zimmerman is free tonight on bond. He spent one night in jail after this incident. He left the correctional facility here in Seminole County, Florida, just a little while ago with his bail bondsman. He didn't answer any questions as he walked away. This release came just a few hours after he made his first court appearance, and the judge set his bond at $9,000. Zimmerman was taken into custody yesterday afternoon following a domestic dispute with his girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe. That domestic dispute allegedly turned violent and physical, and that's why Zimmerman is facing a felony count of aggravated assault as well as two misdemeanors. In court today, prosecutors said that yesterday wasn't the first time his girlfriend feared for her life. Take a listen at what they said.", "The victim had indicated that there was a prior domestic violence incident that occurred approximately a week- and-a-half ago that involved a choking that she'd not reported to the police. She was in fear for her safety on the day of this incident. She had indicated that they had been discussing breaking up. He's also mentioned suicide in the recent past due to those factors and the defendant indicating at the time he was threatening to commit suicide, he had nothing to lose.", "Now, prosecutors also claimed Zimmerman is suicidal, a claim his attorneys say is simply false. Now, as a condition of his release on bond, Zimmerman has been ordered not to have any contact with his girlfriend, and he's also been banned from having weapons or ammunition in his possession. He will be monitored electronically, and he is expected to be back in court in January -- Wolf.", "And Nancy Grace, the host of HLN's \"NANCY GRACE,\" is joining us right now, as is Jeffrey Toobin, our senior legal analyst. What was your reaction, Nancy, when you heard he is going to be out for $9,000 bond?", "You know, my honest reaction, it was, well, he's done it again. George Zimmerman has gotten his hands on a gun again. From my understanding, it's Kel-Tec, the same kind of gun he used to gun down Trayvon Martin. This time, it's a long gun or shotgun. That was my first thought. He's done it again.", "What was your first thought, Jeffrey?", "He's in a world of trouble. And I have to say that my first thought was O.J. Simpson, because, remember, O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the murder case, the double murder, but then was prosecuted in a case that was frankly very marginal and there was an element of payback I thought in that case. And I immediately thought, is it going to happen to George Zimmerman?", "The amazing thing is -- and a lot of immediately people made that comparison, Nancy, to O.J. Simpson, acquitted on murder, but then finds himself in a heap of trouble on other charges in Vegas. He's now in jail. You see that similarity in this particular case?", "Yes, I do. What's interesting is it was decades later when O.J. Simpson, Orenthal James Simpson, finally had to pay the piper. This time, it hasn't even been a year. I mean, you would think, right, Wolf, that he would have learned from what happened with Trayvon Martin. But if you look at his history, which a lot of people don't want to look at, there was a brush with the law when he had a fight, had a simple battery with a police officer. Then there was the other girlfriend, the fiancee, that made a domestic call. Then there was Shellie, his wife, who claimed he was threatening her. That was just in September. I mean, this goes on and on and on. All I know is this, Wolf, five 911 calls about George Zimmerman. I have never had a 911 call on me. Have you? I know Toobin hasn't. But what about you, Wolf? Is this a coincidence, to get five 911 calls on one person?", "But can any of that, Jeffrey, be admitted as evidence? Assuming they go forward in this current case, with these two misdemeanor charges, one felony charge, can any of those previous incidents be admitted as evidence since as far as we know he doesn't have any criminal record?", "If he goes to trial in front of a jury, none of that is admissible. However, prosecutors are human beings, and they will make up their mind about how to charge this case and whether to charge this case based on their knowledge of all the facts. And so, you know, as a technical legal matter, it's not admissible. But when prosecutors are deciding, do we want to lock this guy up, do we want to keep him off the streets for as long as we can, you bet they're going to consider his history.", "And they will also take a look at the woman, the ex- girlfriend Samantha Scheibe, Nancy. What do we know about this woman?", "Well, I know that they were sharing an apartment. I know, a lot of other things about her that, in my mind, are irrelevant. I am having Zimmerman's spokesperson on later this evening who actually posted the bond for him, Frank Taaffe. He claims all of this is because of George Zimmerman bad choice in women. I disagree with that, OK? And I agree with Toobin. The not guilty verdict will never be brought in as a similar transaction to show modus operandi, course of conduct. But some of the other incidents may be brought in. The prior domestics on Zimmerman, they don't have to be a conviction to be brought in as a similar bad act.", "You want to react to that, Jeffrey?", "Well, that's true. And all of that leads to, I think, a very important point we need to make here is, we don't know exactly what happened yesterday between these two people. There are two 911 calls that describe very different set of events. Obviously, they have very different versions of what happened. Police have to do a real investigation here. They have to look. Are there witnesses? Is there anyone who saw anything? Did they see anything?", "He had the gun, Jeff, and he barricades himself in the house when he's got the gun? Hello? A grown man barricades himself in the house with a shotgun, pushes the girlfriend out and he calls 911? No. Uh-uh.", "Well, I would like to know where the gun was. All this stuff has to be collected very meticulously. Was the gun in a cover? Was the gun locked up? I don't know. But all of that will lead to how this case and whether this case is prosecuted. So it's going to take some time. It's at least until January until there's another court appearance, so I do think the facts are going to be, obviously, the most important thing here.", "In the meantime, he will be out on bail, as they say, until the next court appearance in January.", "God help us.", "What did you say, Nancy?", "I say, God help us. George Zimmerman is out on bond again.", "Next time, you will have to tell us how you really feel, Nancy. Thanks so much, Nancy Grace, as usual, Jeffrey Toobin, as usual. Thanks to both of you. And we just received a statement from the family of Trayvon Martin about George Zimmerman and what's going on right now. This is a statement from the attorney Benjamin Crump. I will read it to you. \"We, like many others, are watching these latest proceedings against the man who killed our son with a keen interest. However, we're more focused on the Trayvon Martin Foundation and defining his legacy\" -- that statement from the attorney for Trayvon Martin's family. Still ahead, heart-pounding new video of a monster twister ripping a home apart. We will show you how social media helped save lives in the Midwest disaster area. And if you have stories to share, tweet us. And use #SitRoom. And the president shared this woman's story with the world. CNN has learned she is now disappointed and embarrassed. 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{"id": "CNN-49682", "program": "CNN TALKBACK LIVE", "date": "2002-2-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/20/tl.00.html", "summary": "Why do so Few Minorities Participate in the Winter Olympics? Is Ashcroft Couching U.S. Policy in His Own Religious Beliefs?", "utt": ["The U.S. strikes the mother lode and makes history in the process.", "I feel really blessed to be the first male or female to win a gold medal as an African-American.", "Also, separating church and state.", "Civilized individuals, Christians Jews and Muslims, all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the creator.", "Did the attorney general cross the line? And would you order a restaurant entree called Viagra ceviche (ph) ? We will tell you why the company that makes Viagra wants it off the menu. Hello, and welcome to", "AMERICA SPEAKS OUT. I'm Susan Campos and I'll be your host for the rest of this week. The USA was golden yesterday, picking up two more medals in the winter Olympics, one for the first ever women's bobsled run, the other in men's speed skating. For bobsledder Vonetta Flowers, it was a unique award, the first gold ever won by a black American athlete in the winter games. Gold medal speedskater, Derek Parra, is Mexican-American. Of the 201 American athletes at the winter Olympics, all but 10 are white. Why isn't there more diversity? Let's ask Mike Moran, spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee. Hello, Mike.", "Hello, Susan. How are you?", "Why no diversity there?", "First of all, I think you shorted Vonetta because she is the first black male or female from any country ever to win a gold medal at the winter Olympic Games, not just an American. The answer to diversity I think is far ranging. I don't have the answer. What I do know is we are going to take advantage of this. We have some programs opening up this spring under the leadership of our new CEO, Lloyd Ward -- by the way, the first African-American to head up the USOC -- who is going to reach out using Olympic athletes into the communities where minorities traditionally maybe only get exposure to the summer sports, or basketball, football, things like that and try to really take advantage of where we are going. Some of our sports governing bodies are very active right now, and we are seeing some of the affects of it in recruiting minority youth into their programs. I think you have only seen the beginning of something that by 2006 is going to be very special.", "Mike, is it a financial matter as well? It is not financial. It is exposure, it's opportunity. We have a lot of money to be able to put now into the grassroots pipeline. And of course the USOC is made up of 75 member organizations that include CYOs the police athletic leagues, boys and girls clubs, Jewish Community Centers. We are going to work with them to take this to the grassroots level, and try to increase this. Another thing too, in our brand-new, this year, performance agreements with each of our sport-governing bodies, some of their funding is depended upon a very effective and aggressive program of recruiting minorities both into administration and into the sports programs. So we are really optimistic about the future. But I gotta tell you last night with Vonetta and Derek, and of course Michelle Kwan, an Asian American, the other night Naomi Lang, a Native American athlete for the United States in figure skating, this will open the doors for so many girls and boys across the country who will want to know how to get into sports and we think we are going to have the answer.", "Mike, that is good news, and they are also very good role models. We have someone in our audience -- Chris has someone in our audience who wants to ask you a question, Mike.", "Great.", "I think one of the things that is stopping people -- black people being the Olympics is the fact that it is so cost prohibitive. You have private lessons for your kids, you have music that has to be choreographed. You have the coaching and all of the rest of that, plus the travel costs, so it's not really inviting to people who may not be on the higher of the economic scale. I have a daughter who does competitive cheerleading and competitive dance, and I know how much those things cost, and it is just not easy.", "I agree with you 100 percent, but it is across the board. It's not race specific. It is very difficult for young kids in the sport of figure skating specifically to get into that sport at the grass roots level because of ice time, coaching time. It is very expensive. But in those other sports now, like bobsled, luge, skeleton, and all of that, there are opportunities, summer programs, cost-free opportunities that I think our sports governing bodies will unveil, where it won't cost the parents and their families money to get their kids involved at the grass roots level, then as they come up through the pipeline, if they are fortunate enough, to become an elite athlete at the age of 18 or beyond, our funding will be able to pick that up. Olympic training center programs in Colorado Springs, Lake Placid and here in Salt Lake, after these games, funding, it's available. We have to reach out with a wider net to find these youngsters and get them interested. I think it is going to be spectacular for the future.", "Mike Moran, thank you so much, and we are looking forward to seeing all those changes. And there is so much controversy surrounding this winter event, and it seems Olympic skaters simply can't escape it. Even last night's delicious performance by Michelle Kwan is tinged with semi-sour grapes. Joining us now from Park City, Utah is CNNSI correspondent, John Gianone. Hello, John. What is going on there? I see it's snowing, but what else is going on in skating?", "Snow makes for a picture perfect postcard setting here in Park City, but you know, it's been a growing controversy here at the winter games ever since the pairs figure skating competition last week, and that whole snafu about the Russians won the gold and the Canadians four days later were given the medal. There is a growing belief among the Russians contingent that there is this quote \"anti-Russian sentiment\" at the Olympic games and the Russian federation filed a protest in aerial's competition yesterday, and sure there are some whispers now that perhaps Irina Slutskaya of Russia should be in first and Michelle Kwan should be second. But truth be told, the top five skaters in the competition, Kwan, Slutskaya, Sasha Cohen from the U.S., Sarah Hughes from the U.S., even Maria Butraskaya from Russia, they all skated flawlessly in their short programs and that is almost unheard of. So the line between how those five skaters skated is so thin that I believe that Michelle Kwan being in first place, you can make just as much of a case for Irina Slutskaya, or even Sasha Cohen.", "And John, the Lithuanian skates of course have also filed a complaint.", "Right. That came in the ice dance competition. The Lithuanians came in fifth place in that competition on Monday, but what happened was the Italians came in third, the Canadians came in fourth. Both the Italian team and the Canadian team fell, which is relatively rare in ice dancing. Some people said the Lithuanians had the best performance of the night, but the Lithuanians stayed in fifth place, so that delegation filed a protest with the international skating union. It should be noted that nine judges formed that competition. Eight of the judges placed the Lithuanians either in fourth or fifth. The only judge that put the Lithuanians third was from Lithuania.", "And John, the craziest sport of all, the skeleton is back this year, after being banned for 50 years, tell us what that is?", "Skeleton is basically sport where you slide down a very thin board with some blades on it at about 80 miles per hour face first. It is almost the opposite of luge. Instead of lying on your back with your head at the top of the sled, in skeleton you lie at the front of the sled face first, your chin about three inches of above the track, you go 80 miles an hour. But you know, the United States is awfully glad that they got the sport back at the Olympics, because on the men's side, Jim Shea won the gold medal this afternoon, and on the women's side it was a 1-2 American finish. Tristan Gale (ph) won the gold, Leanne Parsly won the silver, so three more medals for the United States today, and they all came in skeleton.", "Go USA. And I guess skeleton, which looks so frightening, and everybody is clapping here because they are happy for the USA. John Gianone, thank you for joining us today and get inside. It looks freezing out there.", "I love it out here.", "You are studly. All right, up next, extreme Olympians: real cool dudes or just hot dogs? Will the extreme go mainstream?", "Welcome back. Who would have thought snowboarders and freestyle skiers would cause such excitement at the winter games? Flying, turning and flipping their way to a stream of medals -- unchained youth, adrenalin unleashed: could this be the future of the new Olympics? Joining us is Andy Clurman, president and publisher of \"Mountain Sports Media,\" and \"Trans-World Media.\" They both cater to extreme sports. Also snowboarder J.J. Thomas, winner of a bronze medal and Scott Ferrell, a WNEW sports-radio talk show host. Good to see all of you, thank you for being with us. What is that? OK, J.J., we want to start with you. I heard that for many generation Xers the Olympics is kind of like selling out. Is that true?", "No, I think that is more of a rumor. It is not really selling out at all. It's just new, so people aren't used to it, but it's not selling out.", "Andy what do you think of all these extreme ports? I don't think Andy is hearing us right now, but Scott, what do you think about all the extreme sports?", "Radical. For all of us snowboarders that like to rip and torque. First let me introduce my new line of clothing that I am going to get after I cop a medal. This is my Irish whiskey Jameson hat -- isn't it fresh? My new goggles are my Sunny Shade Rippers. I have a torque neck-grabber, and my new whiskey flask line that is coming out in the fall. I've go my new Jack-the-Ripper gum, which is going to absolutely seal the deal. I met so many chicks and NHL stars out of this, I just want to be a thrasher. I got my '96 Olympic jacket and I am going to do a double axel torquer, indy grab, triple sow-cow finish with a double axel grinder, and to finish up...", "All right, Scott...", "I love it. Radical! Get me a new...", "Scott, where do we go from here? Does that mean you like it or you don't like it?", "I just think that we are going to forget all about these kids. First it's the X-games, then it's the triple X-games, then it's the cash-flow games. Everybody is doing a drastic -- look at the dinner roll, and I want to do a McNugget, I got to do a axle- grabber! And I am going to listen to Metallica, and get an endorsement...", "Andy, what do you...", "Radical, Dude!", "I don't know. Andy what do you think of this?", "X-games, Dude! Come on, bro, Metallica, c'mon, dude, Metallica...", "Andy, what do you think?", "I think it -- you know, there is a lot of the athletes who are -- I think if you just look at the kind of the experience they had being here, and the snowboarders and the kids on the halfpipe, and I think it's been the fist time that the what we are calling extreme athletes have joined the mainstream and it seems like they are getting the recognition and the rewards that they have been working for just like the other athletes. So, it's hard to say this could be bad for extreme sports in any way.", "Is it also maybe a ratings ploy to get young viewers in and it is actually working because the ratings are up for NBC?", "I do not think so. I think it is really a reflection of what is going on in the world and in sports today. You go to any mountain during the season, you will have 25, 30 percent of the kids out there snowboarding versus skiing. So this is truly the organic growth of the sports and it is time they kind of got their due in the Olympic.", "All right, and I know that a lot of our audience members love all of this. Chris, you have somebody right now?", "This is Don, from Norfolk, Virginia.", "I really think that there is danger involved, and people are really thrilled to watch this. And it's just like watching skydiving. They really enjoy it and see the thrill that is involved.", "What do you think about that J.J.? What do people tell you?", "Basically what that guy said: it is new to them, and they love to see it. And everyone is kind of not used to it, it is new to them and it's exciting, so everybody seems to like it.", "Scott, I am almost afraid to go to Scott, but Scott would you actually like to actually see more of the old Olympics?", "Yes, I think that the need for speed, I love the hockey, the competition. Tonight you have the U.S. against the Germans. You have Wayne Gretsky complaining for a week. It will be interesting to see what happens. If it wasn't for us the Germans would be speaking French and tonight they are going to beat them 7-1 like everybody else has been beating them. And it is wide open, it's great. I like the figure skating, I live Michelle Kwan, I love the downhill. I am just glad that Picaboo is Susie Chapstick now. She is going to make a bunch of money. I hear she's coming out with an album in the fall.", "All right, well we actually do -- I don't know where you ever go from here, but we actually do have Nic in the audience now. Nic, what do you think about extreme sports?", "I think it is perfect to get the younger viewers to watch it, because how many people, like I was saying before, is watching figure skating, besides looking at the women, I'm not a sexist or nothing but hey, and also it is a good marketing tool to get them to watch it, to get us into it, to get them, like, go U.S. Because who else watch some regular old boring sports that can't nobody really get hurt, but like a little broken shin, or twisted ankle. I am truing to see some broken arms and legs where they have to go home like this.", "You want to see people get hurt?", "I am saying...I just want to see some action. Let me say that, to be safe. Hands down, whatever, to everybody...", "The are going to 90 miles an hour in the down hill.", "That's what I'm saying, right! That's what I am trying to see. Headfirst. How can you get hurt with your legs going first? I'm trying to go head first.", "What are they going to do, bring in the snowmobiles next and have bodies flying off snow mobiles and kids hitting trees and dying? Snow skiing in the trees, with -- what are they going to have next? Making out in the trees up on the mountain? That will be great, come here we baby, we might win a gold, and then we will have Wayne Gretsky complain, and maybe we'll get gold, just like the Russians -- Radical Dude! Radical!", "Just one minute, we have Tammy the phone from New York, go ahead.", "Hi, I figure these kids and adults have been doing extreme sports for years, skateboarding, and whatever and they love doing it. Why not represent their country in doing what they love? They have their own sports show on ESPN, and ESPN 2, why can't they represent their country on national TV?", "Well, there you go, and I think that Andy, quickly you would agree with that, right?", "You just look at the evolution of sport and you have a whole category of new sports that are coming up, and really reflecting what kids are out there doing today, whether it's on snow, whether it's on bikes or on skateboards in skate parks. This is not a marketing ploy. This is what is happening in America.", "All right. Andy, thank you very much. That is all the time we have for this segment. Andy Clurman, Scott Ferrall -- wow -- J.J. Thomas, thank you. Up next, God and the attorney general. Coming up on", "Speaking of God.", "It is impossible not to see the stark difference between the way of God and the way of the terrorist.", "The attorney general takes a lashing for invoking God in the war on terrorism. Is he violating someone's civil liberties? Find out who has a gripe, next.", "Attorney General John Ashcroft was speaking to a meeting of religious broadcasters yesterday, so it may not be surprising that he would bring up God and religion into an address about the war on terrorism.", "It is a conflict between good and evil, and as President Bush has eloquently reminded us, we know that God is not neutral in the battle between good and evil.", "It is exactly that willingness to express himself in religious terms that worries his critics. Here to talk about it is Wendy Wright, senior policy director with Concerned Women for America, and Hussein Ibish, communications director for the American Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee. We want to welcome you both. It's a pleasure. Thanks.", "And we want to start with you, Mr. Ibish. I know that you have a problem with what he said. Tell me exactly, what do you have a problem with?", "Well, I think there are two problems really, with the attorney general's comments. Fist of all, they have to be seen in the context of his other recent comments on religion, which include really unfair and inaccurate condemnations of Islam reported by Cal Thomas, which he has not adequately explained or in any way really repudiated. So this additional sort of religious outbursts, which casts the war on terrorism in religious terms is very problematic in that regard. Secondly, by saying that all civilized people agree with him and share his religious values, he seems to be foreclosing the debate. It's a lot like when he sat in the Senate and told the senators that if they questioned his policies and his national security approach, they would be giving aide and comfort to terrorism. He seems to be using every opportunity to foreclose the debate and say, look, we can't talk about the war on terrorism because this is the will of God, and we can't talk about my policies, because that is aiding terrorists. This is not right.", "Is it basically that he is saying believers verses nonbelievers?", "Well, I don't think it is exactly that. I think what he is basically saying is, you can't argue with my policies, you can't question what we are about to do in the war on terrorism without opposing God, essentially. For example, the administration is talking a lot about the need to attack Iraq to remove the government of Saddam Hussein and all of these things. You know casting this in religious terms as the will of God, when there are a lot of Americans who are going to have serious questions about that, who have raised real objections and almost every other country in the world, including all of our allies who have objected to this already, is really, I think, frankly, framing things in a very hostile and aggressive manner and trying to wrap yourself in a religious mantle where what we are talking about actually is politics and diplomacy, and not theology. This is not theology -- theocracy, rather.", "Wendy, let me see, what do you think?", "Ibish has completely mischaracterized what John Ashcroft said yesterday. In fact, to point this out, we actually put his speech on our Web site, encouraged people to read it for themselves. Do not listen to what pundits are mischaracterizing it as saying. And what he is said is that this is not a war between Christians and Muslims, or Muslims and Jews, but rather it is a conflict between peace and destruction. He very clearly outlined what this the war on terrorism is about, and in fact, pointed out the common elements that Christians, Jews and Muslims hold, that we find that our rights for freedom, and human dignity come from our creator. That is a quote from the Declaration of Independence. So if there any disagreement with John Ashcroft's statements, the disagreements are not with him, but rather with the founding fathers of our country.", "Well, I completely disagree with that. We do not live in a theocracy. We live in a secular republic where our policies are created by human choices, where we essentially do not proceed by wrapping ourselves in a mantel of God, and saying, if you do not agree with me, if you don't agree with my policies, then you are anti- Christian, anti-Muslim, anti-Jewish, and all civilized...", "John Ashcroft never said that.", "He did. He characterized civilized people as Muslims Christians, and Jews, people who believe that human dignity comes from the creator. There are many other ways of looking at things and many Americans take a very different view, and actually many of the founding fathers of this country took a very different view.", "In fact, George Washington said that we cannot have political prosperity unless we find it in religion and morality. We had similar statements from Thomas Jefferson, from John Adams, from Benjamin Rush, so our founding fathers clearly saw, as John Ashcroft said, that virtue is the arena for liberty. If you do not have virtue, you cannot have liberty.", "Wendy, Hussein, we will talk about this more. First we have to take a break. When we come back, Mike is on the phone and he has something to say as well. We will be right back.", "I would say that it is against my religion to impose my religion. For, if God made us free, who would I be to supersede his judgment?", "Welcome back to", "\"America Speaks Out.\" I am Susan Campos. And I am talking with Wendy Wright and Hussein Ibish about John Ashcroft's latest comments on religion. And we have somebody on the line right now. We have Mike from Oregon. Mike, what do you have to say?", "Good afternoon. I think that Mr. Rumsfeld has all the right in the world to speak religious beliefs, just like we all do, just like we all should. I would just like to ask the male panelist there if he would like to just maybe create a politics in this country where none of us speak any religious beliefs, because it does not fit his criteria?", "No, no, of course, not, caller. And that is not what I am saying at all. What I am saying is that, first of all, as attorney general, he is representing the policy of the government. He is not talking about his own personal beliefs only. He is couching our national policy, our foreign policy, our domestic policy, the whole war on terrorism as a religious crusade, as a crusade of good vs. evil, as the work of God. The problem with that is that it shuts down the debate, or it is an attempt to shut down the debate, where you can't take issue with specific elements of that policy without being, then, open to the charge that you are opposing the will of God, or what have you. What I am arguing for is a kind of secular politics, which is basically what we have had in this country for a long time, where we view the political realm as the result of a set of human choices. If we have a problem, it is because we got ourselves into it with choices. We can get ourselves out of it. We don't blame things on God. And we don't ask God to get us out of our problems. We take care of things for ourselves.", "And, in fact, John Ashcroft did talk about how we do have the freedom to make choices. But choices have consequences. And some of those consequences are either good or evil. So we can't just divorce the question of choice away from the idea of consequences. And, again, I encourage people, read John Ashcroft's speech for yourself, because Ibish has completely mischaracterized what he said.", "All right. And we have Bob in our audience right now. And you have a question or you have a statement?", "Well, I don't have any problem with the speech itself. I just hope that when we do this, we do it right, not like the last time.", "What do you mean by that?", "Go in and finish the job.", "We have another member of the audience. Chris?", "This is Emily. Emily, go ahead. She wants to talk to Hussein.", "I have never seen the truth twisted quite as much as what I have heard here today. The man made a very simple comment. And I did not hear the speech. I just heard what I heard on camera. But the man spoke the truth. And unless we as a country realize that God is real, and God is very alive, and he may mean other things. He may have different names in every culture, but unless we realize that, until we come together, and our hearts get right, that I hope we do have a God who is in charge of everything.", "I would like to say, I have a lot of respect for that. I have a lot of respect for that, but there has to be space in our policy, in our party, in our government's policies, for people who are agnostics, for people who are Hindus and Buddhists, and people who fit the very narrow definition that John Ashcroft did in fact gave in his speech. And our policies should reflect the interests of all Americans and not people of certain religious beliefs. That is my point. And I think that is very reasonable.", "In fact, what John Ashcroft did, is he showed the difference between a fireman and a suicide bomber: those who choose to in fact lay down their own life to save the innocent as opposed to someone who will lay down other people's lives.", "Wendy, we are quickly going to take a call from Bill in California.", "OK. Ashcroft is an avowed Christian fundamentalist. The two principles of Christian fundamentalism: You have to believe in God as they define God. And you have to convert everybody who does not believe what they believe, OK? So, if you asked John Ashcroft who is his allegiance to, God or the United States, I will give you six to an even he would say God, not the United States. He is the attorney general.", "All right, Chris, another member of our audience.", "From Nevada.", "Thanks. I had an issue with what Emily said. And we have to involve everyone. There are people who do not believe there is a God, a creator, a supreme being. There are people who believe that we are on this planet. We live. We die. And that is it. And whether you agree with their belief or not, to exclude them from the conversation and exclude them from this fight against terrorism is wrong.", "And, in fact, what I am hearing is an effort to exclude Christians from the conversation, exclude Christians. In fact, the founding fathers said that there should be no religion test as to whether someone can hold office. But what I am hearing from some people who disagree with John Ashcroft is that, because he is a Christian, he should not be allowed to be in office.", "No, that's not what we're saying.", "In fact, Muslims, Arab-Americans, Hispanics, blacks, Jews are all much infinitely safer in the United States with John Ashcroft at the helm of the Department of Justice than Christians are in Sudan, Pakistan, Iran.", "Look, the point is that the attorney general yesterday made a clear definition of who civilized people are. And they are people who share his religious beliefs. That is what he said all civilized people were.", "And he included Christians, Jews and Muslims.", "Yes, yes, but there are also Buddhists and Hindus and atheists and agnostics, all kinds of people who need to be represented by our attorney general. He can't be just the attorney general of the religious people. He has to be the attorney general of the United States.", "And, in fact, he is.", "Hussein, do you think he is acting more like a religious leader rather than an attorney general?", "Yes, I am afraid so. Some of the language that he used really does reflect an excessive degree of insertion of his own personal, political beliefs into his office. If he said, \"Now, I am speaking personally here,\" that would be one thing. But he did not. He framed the entire war on terrorism and the definition that we use for civilization and for inclusion in the political process in religious terms. I agree he was expansive and he gave space to Christians, Muslims and Jews, but there are a lot of other people out there. And I just think it was highly inappropriate, especially when you combine it with his earlier very insulting and inaccurate anti-Muslim comments.", "And, again, I want to point out, Ibish is not telling the truth. He is not...", "I certainly am.", "He is not framing what John Ashcroft said in the light of truth.", "I certainly am.", "And I would encourage people to read his speech for yourself. Go to our Web site. It's CWFA.org. Read the speech for yourself.", "I would encourage that, too. And you will see that I am absolutely accurate.", "And, again, our founding fathers very clearly stated that you cannot have political prosperity without religion and morality. So, to sanitize our public arena from any mention of religion or morality will in fact harm the United States.", "Of course, no one wants that.", "Well, that is exactly what we are hearing.", "Of course not. There is a huge leap from doing that to creating a very narrow, exclusionist, exclusivist zone for people who believe in exactly the same kind of religion that John Ashcroft does.", "And John Ashcroft never did what you're saying he India.", "I would say that he certainly did. And I agree with you, people should read his speech.", "He has been in office for a year now. In fact, he was attorney general twice of the state of Missouri. He was governor of Missouri. He was a senator. He has a long track record of being a great advocate for all people.", "Well, he needs to clarify his anti-Muslim comments immediately, which he has not done.", "Hussein, Wendy, we have another caller. I'm so sorry to interrupt. We have another caller from Canada. Go ahead.", "Yes. I would like to give you my comments, which are, John Ashcroft has gone way over the line. Religion, belief, supreme being, it is all a very personal thing. And it is not the attorney general who should be telling us how we should believe. Thank you.", "And the Declaration of Independence says that our rights come from our creator. So, if we were to sanitize any mention of our creator, of God, then we would have to get rid of all our founding documents of the United States.", "Well, that is not true at all. The Constitution is the principal founding document of the United States and it is not a religious document.", "Which was addendum to the Declaration of the Independence.", "No, it is not an addendum to the Declaration. That it is preposterous.", "It was added to it.", "It was based on the Declaration of Independence.", "That is really, completely false. It is not a addendum to anything. It is a stand-alone, founding document to this country. That is the fact.", "Well, you would have to sanitize all the comments from our founding fathers from history as well.", "Hussein Ibish, Wendy Wright, I'm so sorry. We're out of time. Thank you so much for the lively discussion. And thank you again for joining us today.", "Thank you so much. Always a pleasure.", "Thank you.", "And let's take a break. Still ahead: stiff penalties for a sexy supper. Still ahead, food for lovers: a dinner entree named for the drug Viagra arouses the wrath of Pfizer. The restaurant could face stiff penalties. Find out why right after this.", "All right. This is a good one. A New York restaurant is serving up a lovers' delight that is ticking off drug giant Pfizer. Originally called the mattress breaker, the dish has even taken on an even more promising tone after being renamed Viagra ceviche. But the maker of Viagra wants to cool the sizzle. Pfizer claims: \"This is a simple issue of infringement of a Pfizer trademark. Legally, we must defend our trademarks in order to maintain them. Otherwise, we lose control and they become valueless.\" OK. Meet John Soler -- he is general manager of Sabor, the restaurant serving that yummy dish -- and Tom Holt, an intellectual property attorney with the Boston firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart. Thank you both for being with us. All right, so, John, tell me, how did this all start?", "Well, it all started on Valentine's Day when we got a letter that was stating that we had to stop using the Viagra name for our ceviche. And the reason is that our ceviche uses only aphrodisiacs like clams, mussels, oysters. So we decided, well, let's name it Viagra for fun. Food is supposed to be fun. And that is how it was started.", "And is it a big hit?", "Well, people keep on coming back for it, so I guess it is doing something for them.", "Are a lot of people pregnant and having babies, the whole thing?", "Yes. And they keep on bringing their babies to the restaurant. So I guess they...", "All right, Tom, what do you say about it?", "Well, I think, obviously, it is a certain source of amusement, I think, up to a point. But I think that Pfizer's point is well taken. From a trademark standpoint, the word or term Viagra is probably going to be accorded the highest level of protection that we will give a trademark, because it is really almost inherently distinctive. And I think that it also has become so famous, not just certainly in the New York area and in the United States, but globally among, really, the widest segment of the population. And it is associated with a particular purpose. It is very famous. And, as a consequence, in addition to simple trademark protection and infringement action, Pfizer would be well within their rights also to file a lawsuit under the so-called federal anti-dilution statute because of the very fame that has become associated with the word or term Viagra. So, I think it is certainly, in many of these cases, the public, or certainly nonlawyers, or nonowners of a very valuable and valid trademark such as Viagra, to say, what's the big deal? But it is really important from a legal standpoint for Pfizer to take prompt action if it intends to protect its rights.", "Tom, because it is so in the pop culture, as you are saying, isn't it kind of like it's OK to do it, because everybody talks about it?", "Well, the mere fact that everyone talks about it in a general way -- but when you start using it for commercial purposes to advance the sale of a particular dish -- and I am sure that that ceviche is a superb dish -- but when you start doing that, that is when you cross the line beyond something that would be appropriately the subject of conversation or discussion. That is where you sort of run afoul of the law. If I could just use a couple of examples, it might help explain this. For many years, the Xerox Corporation very appropriately guarded the term Xerox, because I know that, in many office settings and elsewhere, the term Xerox, in the minds of many, became was synonymous with copies. And it was important for the Xerox Corporation to jealously guard a fanciful mark, a name that had been developed over time associated with a product line.", "They had to protect that name.", "A Kleenex would fill the same bill. That's exactly right.", "Kleenex. John, did you know that were you getting into all of this?", "Not really. Actually, if I knew, I would not have used the name. I just want to make one thing clear. We at Sabor restaurant, which is 462 Amsterdam Avenue...", "Oh, John, you are shameless.", "Yes, I am.", "But you were already in page six today. Isn't that enough for you? You were in \"The New York Post.\"", "I'm not doing it for the P.R. I'm doing it because food is supposed to be fun. And why not put a name like -- I mean, the condition is very serious that Viagra treats. But it is supposed to be fun. And if it is necessary for us to retract the name, we will. It's not a problem.", "So you will do it if you have to.", "Oh, absolutely.", "Oh, you will? OK, we have Pete on the phone from Florida. Go ahead, Pete.", "Yes, Hi, Susan.", "Hi.", "The thing is, that cannot use a registered trademark for your commercial purposes as a matter of trademark law.", "Well, the other thing that I am wondering about with that -- that's a very good point -- the other thing I am wondering is that, is it possible, because they kind of selected Bob Dole to do that commercial -- and that was a big coup -- do you think, Tom, that maybe what they were trying to do is say, when we use the name Viagra, we only want to use it in a certain way?", "Well, as the owner of the trademark, they are fully entitled to use it as they see fit. And it is certainly in association with that product which has been developed at considerable expense to Pfizer. To the extent they have selected or had selected Bob Dole as a spokesperson, that certainly is their call. Pete has correctly pointed out that there is really a violation of trademark or infringement here. There is no question that this is a valid mark. And when you begin using that identical mark for your commercial purposes, that is when you hit the trip wire, the legal trip wire. But I think that, certainly, Pfizer is entitled to select their spokespersons in the marketplace.", "All right, and we have somebody in our audience right now who has something to say about that.", "Yes, this is Bob, who is from New York.", "First of all, I just want to say that every time this happens, it seems that it is always in New York. And I am getting a little tired of it, traveling around the country. But, seriously, both of these gentlemen, John and Tom, must have their tongues firmly implanted in their cheeks. You guys have to get serious. As you know, we had a book called \"Prozac Revisited.\" There are drug names in a number of things that we do in this country. John, get over it. Change it to another name. They will leave you alone. You will have people coming to your restaurant. You know, let's just minimize this thing. It is just silly. Why are we talking about it?", "Well, actually, somebody else has another solution. Philip in Texas is on the line. Philip, what is your solution?", "Hello?", "Hello. What is your solution, Philip?", "Well, I think this lawsuit business is pretty silly. I think the guy ought to just spell Viagra with two G's and go on down the road.", "That was great.", "Very good.", "Is he off the hook now, Tom?", "I don't think he would be. Again, the confusion issue does creep in there. And just to respond to, I think, to Bob's comment. It is silly in the sense, if someone does not have an interest in it. But to the Pfizer Corporation, it is not silly. I think it can be a source, again, as I said at the top of the segment, of amusement. But, again, I think, unless you as a company take these rights pretty seriously, you can lose that. But I think that the willingness to stop using this goes a long way towards resolving the problem. Again, I don't have a dog in the fight here. I am not representing any party in this thing. I am just sharing my views as a trademark lawyer and a trial lawyer here. But I think the Pfizer is -- they're well within their rights. And I think the restaurant owners are probably going to come to that view shortly.", "All right, Tom, thanks very much. We actually have an e-mail that we are going to put up on the screen. Here is what Don in Ontario says: \"Tell Pfizer to cut a check to Jay Leno and David Letterman for expanding name awareness for Viagra. And, by the way, didn't Viagra rip off Niagara?\" OK, you go, Don.", "And we have somebody in our audience, Chris, who has a comment about this as well.", "This is Bob from Michigan -- Bob.", "Hi. I think it is just nothing more than an advertising ploy. The restaurant wants to sell their dish. Viagra wants to sell their pill. If this gets to court, the court ought to use a little common sense. Just throw it out. The issue will go away.", "All right, and we have Nick on the phone. Go ahead, Nick.", "Hi. I would just like to say that, as far as the restauranteur, what I am hearing sounds a little bit like what we were going through with Napster a while back. It's kind of all in pop culture. You have a word the everyone is talking about and everyone is doing it and using it, so what is the problem? It is fun for everyone. And I think that, like it or not, the copyright laws are the copyright laws, and should we respect them. But, at the same time, maybe it's time that we as citizens reassess copyright laws with pop culture the way it is and everything being out there, and making things a little bit easier for people to just say things without the fear of being sued.", "Go ahead. Do you want to respond to that, John?", "Yes, I absolutely agree with him. It is well said. It is a name. If they are so cautious about their name, we are willing to let it go. But that does not mean that people are going to stop talking about Viagra and making jokes or whatever. It is part of the American culture. And it's a great, great part of it.", "When would you actually let it go? Right now, are you going to continue it? Tonight will it be on the menu?", "Well, come on over and find out.", "And, by the way, my address is blah blah blah blah. OK.", "Good.", "He's like, yes, give it one more time. Quickly, we are going to take an audience response.", "Go ahead.", "Yes. I think what everyone has to remember is that the Pfizer company spent quite a bit of money to develop the name Viagra. It did not just pop out of someone's head one day. What happened was, they paid a company a lot of money to help develop that image. That is part of why the name has so easily become part of pop culture. And they need to recoup that investment.", "Tom, we have 15 seconds. Do you want to respond?", "I think that is well said. I think that is exactly what will be part of Pfizer's position on this. I also think it is important to remember that, when you do have trademarks, they do serve a purpose of protecting the public to make sure that, whenever that word or term is used, it is being used appropriately in conjunction with a product that has been tested, particularly in the pharmaceutical area.", "All right, Tom, John, thank you so much. It was fun. We are out of time.", "Thank you, Susan.", "Thank you very much.", "Thanks. Thank you. And thanks to our guests and to you at home watching. We will be back again tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. Eastern. I'm Susan Campos. And I will be your guest host for the rest of the week. 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{"id": "CNN-127730", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2008-6-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0806/18/acd.02.html", "summary": "Michelle Obama Reintroduced in \"The View\"; Senator Obama's New Problem with American-Muslims", "utt": ["I think the one thing that a nominee earns is the right to pick the vice president that they think will best reflect their vision of the country. And I'm just glad I will have nothing to do with it.", "You have no say-so whatsoever? You cannot --", "I don't want it.", "Michelle Obama on \"The View\" today. Part of a reintroduction, you might say. Some would call it a makeover. Trying to soften her image for the general election. We're going to show you more from that appearance in a moment. But first, a sign that Michelle Obama is still very much a lightning rod. In a new interview, Cindy McCain today, discussed Michelle Obama's past comments about America. And both candidates criticize the other for allowing their wives to be put under the microscope. Senator Barack Obama fired the first shot on today's stand by your woman showdown. CNN's Tom Foreman has the Raw Politics.", "Many families feud. But they better not on the campaign trail. That was the pointed message from Barack Obama to John McCain, in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network.", "I think families are off-limits. I would never consider making Cindy McCain a campaign issue. And I -- if I saw people doing that, I would speak out against it. And the fact that I haven't seen that from John McCain, I think, is a deep disappointment.", "Obama was talking about attacks on his wife, Michelle, questioning her loyalty to the country. But the McCain camp fired back promptly, charging that the Democratic National Committee openly criticized Cindy McCain for not including enough information when she released her tax returns. In a written statement, McCain's campaign said, Senator McCain agrees with Senator Obama, that spouses should not be an issue in this campaign. And he has stated that position frequently. Unfortunately, when the Democratic National Committee was attacking Mrs. McCain, Senator Obama was not strong enough to stand up and speak out. This is just the latest in the battle of the spouses. The Tennessee GOP put out an ad in May, suggesting Michelle Obama was unpatriotic, for saying this was the first time she was really proud to be an American. And \"Good Morning America\" is now promoting an interview tomorrow with Cindy McCain, where as she has before she once again slams Michelle Obama over that comment. Everyone has their own experience. I don't know why she said what she said. All I know is that I have always been proud of my country. Traditionally the families of politicians have been somewhat off- limits. Depending, of course, on how much they campaign. And frankly, what they say about the opposition. But this is hardly a traditional election. So, no matter how many times a candidate says --", "But I also think these folks should lay off my wife.", "The family feuds may continue. Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.", "Certainly seems like it. On \"The View\" this morning, Michelle Obama clearly wanted to try to show viewers the kind of woman she says she really is as opposed to the way she's often been portrayed. It was the first step in what you might call her re-launch. On a popular show, whose viewers, mostly women, are a key demo her husband needs to win over. Here's CNN's Randi Kaye, \"Up Close.\"", "Conservative blogs have called her an angry black woman. Even accused her without evidence of using the word, \"Whitey.\" One way to tackle ugly rumors on the blog, is with the ladies of \"The View.\"", "I have to be greeted properly.", "For nearly an hour, the Mrs. who might be first lady, talked about everything from politics to pantyhose. No, she doesn't wear them. She also defended her now-famous comment critics called unpatriotic.", "Of course, I'm proud of my country. Nowhere but in America could my story be possible.", "Her story is something you'll be hearing more of. Her stump speech is getting a makeover, as the campaign attempts to reposition her.", "I'm a girl that grew up on the south side of Chicago. My father was a working-class guy.", "Less controversy, less heartache for the campaign.", "People aren't used to strong women.", "Political expert, Larry Sabato.", "If you're a candidate for first lady, probably the best thing you can be is innocuous.", "Sabato says softer settings like \"The View\" and the style section are good venues for avoiding controversy.", "The idea is to let that candidate for first lady get known in a softer form. Have the personality come out. Have the roles as mother and as wife come out. Be known. That's going to be attractive to a lot of women and men.", "Does Barack take out the garbage still?", "No.", "A new \"Washington Post\"/ABC news poll, find about half of those questioned view Michelle Obama favorably including 54 percent of the women. Nearly nine in ten African-American women polled view her positively compared to about half of white women. As audience members filed out of \"The View\" studio, many told me they were impressed with Michelle Obama. They thought she was funny and relaxed. They felt like they got to know her.", "My name is Michelle Obama.", "Mrs. Obama shared she's taking cues from First Lady Laura Bush.", "There's a reason people like her. It's because she doesn't, sort of, fuel the fire.", "You do not want a first lady candidate taking any positions that are harder-edged than her husband because it raises questions about who's really going to be governing in the White House.", "Instead, Mrs. Obama shared stories about her girls and the struggles of parenting during a presidential campaign.", "Made her softer; a softer image. That's the way I thought it was anyway. It was good.", "Does Michelle Obama need softening?", "Maybe a little. I think we all do.", "She stands up for what she believes in. And her family's first. And I give her high praise.", "Exactly what the Obama campaign wants to hear. Barack Obama needs women in his corner. Michelle Obama may help get them there.", "The less she says and does, the better it will be. The less she is on the front pages, the less she is profiled. The better it will be for the Obama campaign.", "Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.", "Well, just ahead, we dig deeper with our panels. See what they think on the battle over the running mates. Plus, an apology from the Obama campaign, for its treatment of two Muslim women. Why didn't they want Muslim-Americans in head scarves to sit behind Obama in the crowd? We'll have details and the fall out. Also ahead remembering Tim Russert his memorial service was filled with memories and music and some magical moments. World-renowned heart surgeon Dr. Wayne Isom will join us to talk about the silent killer that felled Tim Russert and what you can do to help your heart."], "speaker": ["MICHELLE OBAMA, WIFE OF SENATOR OBAMA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "M. OBAMA", "COOPER", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-318165", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2017-08-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/02/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Trump Backs Immigration Plan; Bill Significantly Flawed", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Wolf Blitzer. It's 1:00 p.m. here in Washington, 6:00 p.m. in London, 8:00 p.m. in Moscow. Wherever you're watching around the world, thanks very much for joining us. Up first, President Trump tackled some major issues, including new sanctions leveled against Russia and a new plan to limit legal immigration into the United States. The president has just signed a bill to impose additional sanctions on Russia, but it also restricts his ability to ease those sanctions against Moscow. And just a little while ago, the president announced a plan to dramatically overhaul the immigration system in the United States. It's called the RAYS Act. The president says it would give priority to highly-skilled workers and limit the number of unskilled immigrants.", "This competitive application process will favor applicants who speak English, financially support themselves and their families, and demonstrate skills that will contribute to our economy. The RAYS Act prevents new immigrants and new immigrants from collecting welfare and protects U.S. workers from being displaced.", "And the Trump administration hasn't given up trying to repeal and replace Obamacare but some Republicans are now breaking with the president on health care and other issues. But let's begin with Russia sanctions. The bill passed by Congress by an overwhelming margin. And it gives lawmakers, not the president, the power to ease those sanctions on Russia. Let's bring in our Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta and our Congressional Correspondent Ryan Nobles, he's up on Capitol Hill. Jim, the president signed the bill but he certainly didn't celebrate the event. Tell our viewers what he's saying about this new sanctions' law.", "That's right, Wolf. And we should point out, unlike other acts that the president has taken here at the White House, this did not happen in front of the cameras. He signed this behind closed doors and then issued a couple of statements. One of those signing statements that accompanied the signing of this legislations which imposes some new sanctions on Russia's energy industry. Also limits the president's ability, as you said, to lift sanctions on Russia. You'll recall, after the 2016 election, the Obama administration slapped sanctions on the Russians, ejecting them from those diplomatic compounds on the Maryland eastern shore in New York. But the president, along with that signing of the legislation, issued a statement that he disagreed with portions of it. And we can put this on screen. He's essentially saying that it's not constitutional. And here's what he has to say in one of these statements. It says, while I favor tough measure to punish and deter aggressive and destabilizing behavior by Iran, North Korea and Russia, this legislation is significantly flawed. In its haste to pass this legislation, the Congress included a number of clearly unconstitutional provisions. So, that is a suggestion there, Wolf, that even though this bill has become law, the president has signed it, the president does intend, the administration does intend to exercise its authority, in terms of the implementation of this law. And we should also point out, Wolf. There was another statement that was put out by the White House from the president on all of this. And it said that he signed this bill for the sake of national unity which is a very interesting statement, Wolf. Because it obviously acknowledges some of the deep concerns that exist, not only on the Democratic side, but even on the Republican side, about the Russia investigation. About what's going on over here at the White House. If you'll recall, it was just yesterday when Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House Press Secretary, acknowledged that the president helped craft that misleading statement from his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., about that meeting he had with Russians during the campaign. And so, it appears in the signing of this legislation and the statements that went along with it, that the White House is trying its best to move on and deal with some of the fallout, the public relations fallout, P.R. fallout, of this Russia investigation which is ongoing -- Wolf.", "You know, Ryan, you're up on Capitol Hill. The bill passed by a vote of, what, 98 to two in the Senate, 419 to three in the House of Representatives. So, Congress would have been able, clearly, to override a presidential veto. There was no veto. He signed it into law. But the he's message he sending lawmakers is very clear. This is significantly flawed, he says, and contains unconstitutional provisions.", "Yes, Wolf. And I think, by the margins that you talked about there that this passed by so overwhelmingly, it's, quite frankly, the bipartisan thing that this Congress has done in 2017. It shows that both Republicans and Democrats don't necessarily trust the White House all that much as it relates to Russia. And even Bob Corker from Tennessee, who's largely been supportive of the administration, and he was the lead negotiator in the Senate and was in open conversations with the White House about this particular bill. He said publicly that the fact that the White House has not really given strong statements, as it relates to Russia, is one of the reasons that this bill had to be passed. And provide more controls by the Congress, as it relates to the implementation of sanctions like these. So, this is another indication, Wolf, of, kind of, the rocky relationship between Capitol Hill and the White House right now. And it's not just Democrats. There are more and more Republicans that are uncomfortable with that relationship. It even tracks back to the health care debate. So, this was a loud and clear message from this Congress that they are a co-equal branch of government and part of their job is to keep the White House in check.", "Yes, the president clearly does not believe that. We're going to get into that a little bit more. Ryan Nobles, Jim Acosta, guys, thanks very much. Let's discuss all these late-breaking developments. I'm joined by Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Senator, thanks so much for joining us.", "Thank you, Wolf. Thanks for having me.", "So, you were a part of the 98 who voted in favor of the Russia sanctions legislation. You know President Trump, he just signed the sanctions bill into law but he also said it was significantly flawed, contains clearly unconstitution -- a number of clearly unconstitutional provisions. And he then added this to the statement and let me read it to you because it's very significant. My administration will give careful and respectful consideration to the preferences expressed by the Congress in these various provisions and will implement them in a manner consistent with the president's constitutional authority to conduct foreign relations. He seems to be suggesting, Senator, he's going to decide what is constitutional, not constitutional. He's not simply going to implement what you guys on Capitol Hill wanted. Your reaction?", "So, there's always been tension between the executive and the legislative when it comes to -- when it comes to foreign affairs. It goes back to at least Henry Cabot Lodge and Woodrow Wilson. On the other hand, we, as a legislative body, wanted to clearly say that Russia's recent actions are beyond the pale and that they deserve some response. If the president decides to have something which is a half measure, then obviously Congress has their own tools. But I'd rather think that the president and Congress will work together with each other, as opposed to against each other.", "Yes, he clearly has that threat in there. He will decide how to implement it, not you guys. And then, he goes one step further, Senator, and he really slaps the U.S. Congress in a separate statement, personal statement he released. Quote, \"The bill remains seriously flawed, particularly because it encroaches on the executive branch's authority to negotiate. Congress could not even negotiate a health care bill after seven years of talking. By limiting the executive's flexibility, this bill makes it harder for the United States to strike good deals for the American people.\" And then, he adds this. I built a truly great company worth many billions of dollars. That is a big part of the reason I was elected. As president, I can make far better deals with foreign countries than Congress. He's really giving Congress a slap right there. I want you to react to that.", "I'm kind of chuckling. That's such a Trumpian statement. The fact is, though, is if the legislative branch has a role in this, we're exerting that role. If the president comes up with a better deal, I'm sure Congress will be open to that. On the other hand, we felt there had to be a response to some of the actions that Russia has taken recently. And I'm glad we passed the agreement.", "Yes, he basically suggesting what you passed and what he actually signed, even though he says it's unconstitutional and significantly flawed. He's basically suggesting he will decide how to implement it, whether to implement it, and he's not going to really pay that much attention to it. But let's get on to some other critically important issues, Senator, while I have you. As you know, he's had a series of meetings with some of your Republican colleagues. Later today, he's extended an invitation to Senator Portman to come over. Has this outreach worked so far? Because increasingly, we're hearing a lot of grumbling from Republican senators.", "Well, the president clearly still wants to replace Obamacare and that's a good thing, from my perspective. And I think we've made some progress. But we're doing it differently. We're bringing in governors, hearing from their Medicaid directors, finding out what would make a bill work for them. If you look at the data, if you look at a state which increases coverage, it has much more to do with the actions of a governor than it does with the individual mandate. So, if you really care about coverage, we need to get the governors engaged. The president's doing that. I'm working with the White House as well. I think it's a really good direction to go in.", "Let's talk about the immigration policy that he unveiled today. He announced that the United States would like -- he wants the U.S. to switch to what he called a merit-based system. Do you -- giving preference to skilled workers to come to the United States, entrepreneurs, people who speak English. Do you think this is something that could work and do you think the votes are there to make a significant change like that?", "You know, I think that's been proposed in the past and absolutely I think that that would be well received. I'm not -- I don't have a clear read of what Democrats would say about that. But we want folks who will make our economy more prosperous. And the folks that will are those that come with skillsets or with capital that can, again, create jobs for Americans who are already here. That is the sweet spot in immigration policy. If the president advances that, I would like to think there'll be bipartisan support for that.", "Because a lot of Democrats and some Republicans are already saying what he announced today goes against the tradition of just to welcome in rich people or people who speak English, but welcome immigrants of all types and give them an opportunity to experience the American dream. What do you say to that?", "Because this is not just about those who are coming, it's also about those who are here. And those who are here will be more prosperous, if an entrepreneur comes into their depressed community, creates a business which then creates thousands of jobs. We have to consider not just those coming, but first those who are here. I think the president is doing that. I think that's the better way to go.", "You're a physician. A final question on health care right now. You're a member of the Senate Health Committee as will. The chairman of that committee, Lamar Alexander, a man you know well, he announced that the committee will hold bipartisan health care hearings. He really wants to work with the Democrats now, now that repeal and replace has failed in the Senate. Do you believe there is an opportunity now to come up with some bipartisan legislation that will fix many of the problems of the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare?", "Well, already, I think the chairman has an agreement with the ranking member to work on the cost sharing reduction payments, at least through 2018. Those families who are looking at 40 percent increases in their premiums, Republicans tried to address that recently. We failed, unfortunately to get 50 votes. Nevertheless, that would address this issue through 2018. So, it's a -- if you will, already a bipartisan solution for an immediate problem. Going forward, I've always been about, personally, getting something bipartisan. I think it's the better way to go and I continue to work to that end.", "Senator Cassidy, thanks for joining us.", "Thank you, Wolf.", "Good luck. Up next, President Trump says his Mexican counterpart called him to praise his work on border security. But guess what? Mexico's president says that call never happened. We have new information. Plus, the U.S. says it's successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile today. As tensions with North Korea escalate, this comes as one key U.S. senator says war with that rogue nation is now inevitable. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BLITZER", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "RYAN NOBLES, CNN WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "SEN. BILL CASSIDY (R), LOUISIANA", "BLITZER", "CASSIDY", "BLITZER", "CASSIDY", "BLITZER", "CASSIDY", "BLITZER", "CASSIDY", "BLITZER", "CASSIDY", "BLITZER", "CASSIDY", "BLITZER", "CASSIDY", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-273065", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2016-01-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/06/ath.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Ben Carson's Former Campaign Manager.", "utt": ["It is \"T\" minus four weeks to the Iowa caucuses. Amid the mudslinging, today Chris Christie is putting out a very different message. Hours after telling \"The Washington Post\" that Rubio, quote, \"can't slime his way to the White House,\" Christie switched gears with this new TV ad to run in New Hampshire.", "Do not be fooled. Any significant division within the Republican Party leads to the same awful result, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in January of 2017, taking the oath of office as president of the United States. This country cannot afford that outcome. And thus, we Republicans have a duty, I believe, a profound, moral duty, to work together.", "I'm Chris Christie, and I approve this message.", "So it's not clear the \"let's all work together\" message has reached Donald Trump. He is now raising questions about the eligibility of Ted Cruz to be president because Ted Cruz was born in Canada. The question now is, what does all of this look like from the inside of the fray? Let's get a unique perspective now from Barry Bennett who, until last week, was Ben Carson's campaign manager. Barry, thanks so much for being with us.", "Hey, guys. Thanks for having me on.", "So, look, Donald Trump is raising these questions. He's not out and out saying that Ted Cruz should be president, but look, he's raising the issue. He's bringing it up. Apparently over the last 24 hours just about whenever he can. So from your perspective, from seeing this from the inside, why do you think he's doing this, and do you think it will work?", "Well, you know, I think that it's a legitimate issue, first of all. And if you, as Republicans, if you believe that the Democrats or Hillary Clinton and her supporters are not going to bring this up in the fall, you're foolish. Of course they will. So, you know, it's good to throw it out on the table. Let Ted Cruz practice his responses, you know, let's get -- we need more practice, showing our flaws as a party. But, you know, as we get closer and closer to Iowa, it's game day, right? This is the real thing. People are starting to go after one another. You know, there's a lot of jockeying, it seems, for fourth, fifth and sixth place which is kind of silly. Calling each other names and spending all their money going after each other, that seems silly to me. Donald Trump is sitting there at above 30 in most of the polls. And unless something, you know, horrific or tragic comes along when the establishment has been waiting on now for ten months, he's going to be our nominee. And we need to start thinking about that.", "And so, Barry, you truck about, you say it's game on. You know, we're heading into the Iowa caucuses. You've got basically Trump and Ted Cruz now on one side. And then you've got the rest of the folks on the other side of the primary right now, and these guys are killing each other on the trail and on the airwaves. It makes me wonder, from your perspective -- you've been on the inside, just recently now on the outside -- who are you most impressed with?", "Well, I mean, if you look at what's really happening out there, I mean, all you've got to do is compare the size of everyone's rallies. And that's really a demonstration of grass-roots support, right? Donald Trump is having 10,000, 12,000 people show up at rallies. A lot of these guys are having five or six people show up at their events in Iowa. There's just not a comparison. You know, the establishment can fret about it all they want, but this is the new reality.", "Just to be clear, you know, this is coming from a guy until a week ago was Ben Carson's campaign manager. Barry, you just said that unless something radical changes, Donald Trump will be the nominee.", "Yeah. I mean, he's sitting in a polling position -- I mean, you know, people are getting kicked off to the next debate. Some people will be kicked off to the junior table. And nobody is moving up beyond 11 percent or 12 percent, and Donald Trump stays at 30, 32, 34, 35 percent. And Chris Christie is attacking Marco Rubio. It's kind of an offense. And they're all leaving Donald Trump alone. And he's got the support out there right now. And unless something cataclysmic happens, he's going to win.", "You know it's so interesting, Barry, hearing you say that no one's taking on Donald Trump. That was absolutely the strategy of Ben Carson."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "CHRIS CHRISTIE, (R), NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CHRISTIE", "BERMAN", "BARRY BENNETT, FORMER BEN CARSON CAMPAIGN MANAGER", "BERMAN", "BENNETT", "BOLDUAN", "BENNETT", "BERMAN", "BENNETT", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-126475", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-5-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/12/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Powerful Earthquake Rocks China: Thousands Feared Dead; Severe Weather Strikes Across the Midwest", "utt": ["Describe for us if you would Joan just how unnerving because there were a lot of people who are watching us right now who have never experienced what you've gone through a couple of occasions now. Would you describe for us how unnerving it is, frightening it is to be in the middle of an earthquake.", "It was very frightening. Because you don't know if it's going to go on and on, what effect it's going to have on the buildings. Because they could start falling apart. And when you get out on the street, or, you know, we got outside of the house, you didn't know where it was safe to be. So the maid let us out to the street, where it didn't have any buildings, you know, to fall on you. They were there too. It was a thoroughfare where there were traffic jams. We could hear sirens. And people were just clustered along the street. We were the only Americans on the street.", "Yes.", "Everybody else was Chinese. And they were frightened to death. That makes you even more frightened.", "Joan, if you would, just hang on for just a second. Don't go anywhere. I just want to give folks watching us a bit of a reset on where we are on this story. Once again, top of the hour, welcome back, everyone, to the CNN NEWSROOM. Tony Harris and Betty Nguyen and a powerful earthquake rocks China. It has been the story of the morning. Three thousand people feared dead, that according to Chinese media. And that figure does not include almost 900 children buried in the rubble of their collapsed high school. Still waiting for updated information on that. The report does not say if the buried children are believed to be alive. The death toll from the 7.8 magnitude, and Joan Uht is on the line with us. She can testify to the intensity of this earthquake -- 7.8 magnitude quake is expected to continue to rise as rescuers search collapsed buildings. And Joan, is an American tourist. She is in Chengdu in Sichuan Province which is the epicenter of this earthquake. And Joan, given the damage, well, let me ask it as a question, how much damage have you been able to see?", "Well, really, in this area, it's mostly residential around here. I haven't seen anything significant. I know in the house itself, pictures were, you know, askew on the walls. And the first floor, I think one piece of glass broke.", "How about drywall? Are you talking about cracks in the drywall? Anything like that?", "We haven't seen any cracks. It's really very unusual. On the second floor, things were flung off a desk. And pictures, again, askew. And, you know, kind of a little disordered on the second floor. The third floor took quite a hit, with TV sets on the verge of falling on the floor. You know, just -- that was a mess up on the - I haven't even gone up there. I haven't been up on the second story yet myself. I was just so unnerved.", "Joan, if you would, it's another kind of question to the point of how unnerving something like this is. But tell us what it feels like, because I've been through an aftershock, which was a little crazy making for me. Give me a sense of what it's like, what it feels like, and what it does to your orientation, to your senses, when the ground starts moving.", "Well, I mean, you just don't want to fall over, No. 1, because it was really violent. You want to find something to hang on to. And we were very fortunate, I had been on the second floor, and I came down to have tea with a friend. And if I had been on the stairs, it probably would have thrown me down the stairs. That's how powerful it was.", "My goodness. So how fortunate do you feel?", "Very.", "Yes.", "Very, I just feel so sorry for the people. I'm sure there are people who have been really hurt. Now, we did hear that all of the hotels were being evacuated. They wouldn't let people back in. And on television I saw people standing around in bathrobes.", "Yes. Well, Joan, we can't thank you enough --", "Well, you're very welcome.", "-- for your time. Joan is an American tourist in Chengdu. That's in the Sichuan Province, the epicenter of the earthquake. Jaime FlorCruz is at our Beijing bureau and will be joining us, pardon me, in just a couple of moments.", "Well, we do have severe weather here to tell you about, because our other big story is this. You're looking at it right there, picking up the pieces in the plains, and the southeast, after a series of violent storms and tornadoes over the weekend. At least 22 people killed across Oklahoma, Missouri and Georgia. A deadly Midwest tornado just ripped through this part of Oklahoma. The twister was a mile wide at times. And all that is left of this house, you see it there, just the bathroom. Tornadoes also tore through Arkansas. The high winds crumpled sheet metal like it was just paper, snapped utility poles like matchsticks. Several cars flipped over. Georgia has declared a state of emergency in six counties on Sunday. President Bush has already promised federal aid for the hardest hit areas. And the head of FEMA will be touring those regions tomorrow. Let's talk now about Picher, Oklahoma. Because it is one of the areas hardest hit. Our Susan Candiotti is there. And she's going to be showing us around. Susan, what a tail especially of people, just trying to save themselves and their children?", "That's right. And they'll be starting to offer counseling for those who did survive. Six people were killed. Everybody knows everybody in this small community, of anywhere from 800 to about 1,000 people or so. But just to give you a sense of the utter destruction, I mean, you see this pile of rubble, yes. But the force of those winds are so strong, in a tornado this size, an EF-4, as it's described, that it can actually strip the bark off of a tree. Look at this. Smooth, the bark. And then you walk over here and have to worry about the dangers, because people will be coming back in to retrieve their belongings, and what they can salvage. I mean, you see this all over the place, you really have to be careful wherever you walk. Because injuries, people are very worried about that, and sanitation as well. Yesterday we spent part of the day with John Hutchison and his family. His wife is in the hospital. But his daughter and two grandchildren, all of them survived this storm by huddling together in a closet. And their whole house was moved about 70 feet from where they were to where they landed. And yet they came out of it alive. Take a look.", "John, as we look at the foundation here of your house, is this all that is left?", "That's it.", "What was it, a one-story house? Two-story house?", "It was a one-story, three-bedroom.", "Three bedroom and it's all gone.", "Yes.", "It's all gone.", "It's all over there by the tree.", "Can you show me where you and the family were bunkering down?", "Yes.", "Be careful. Over here.", "This was the closet. There was a bathroom right here. And there was a closet door going to each bedroom on each side. But we got in this closet right here and we all huddled down together on the floor.", "But the storm shoved you way over here. Where did you wind up?", "Under this door just on the other side of this little table. And my wife was right next to me. She had the little grand baby in her arms.", "How old?", "About two.", "About two.", "And my daughter, Tressy, was just on the other side of her with the other grand baby. She's about 4. Between 4 and 5.", "So all of you were under this --", "Well, I was right here. My wife was here with one grandbaby. And Tressy was holding the other one. We was all laying right there. We all walked out alive.", "Now, if you want to get an idea of what Mr. Hutchison was staring in the face before he and his family took shelter, you're looking at it now. A home video shot by Wesley Schultz. He was driving along. He stopped actually to fill up with gas right here in town. Looked up and saw this monster funnel cloud coming right at him. Had the presence of mind to pick up a camera to get a shot of it, and then quickly got him and his children out of dodge. Now, Mr. Hutchison and other people took shelter. But they survived. Others did not. I want to briefly show you, this is the gravel pit. You can call it a chat pile. It is the mining waste from the lead and zinc mines that were operating until the 1970s that were shut down by the federal and state government. A massive cleanup was under way. There was contamination caused by these mines, and also there were cave-ins. That's what prompted the federal home buyout program and cleanup. Now the question is going to be for all the people who own these homes, are they still going to get that buyout. Will they have to go to their home insurance and/or will they get assistance from FEMA. Authorities are trying to sort all this out. Who knows how long it will take. They say they're trying to do it quickly to get these people some answers. Back to you, guys.", "My goodness. What a number of issues they have on their hands. And most of them are just trying to figure out where do I go next. All right. Susan Candiotti joining us live. Thank you for that. Well, there is more help for Florida fighters this morning. One hundred additional firefighters are expected to be called to help battle this brush fires in Brevard County. Fires have burned more than 2,000 acres there, and threatened some homes. Now, farther up the East coast, brush fires forced the evacuation of about 400 homes in Cocoa, Palm Bay and Daytona beach. Heavy smoke forced the closing of interstate 95 along a 15-mile stretch yesterday. But it is back open this morning. And we understand a news conference is happening right now, in Daytona Beach, Florida. Let's take a listen.", "Now, some of those in Bayberry here, that evacuation order has been rescinded. So it's not quite that high total now. But again, that could change today as fire conditions, you know, as the events play out.", "Do you have any indication that --", "We have no indication one way or another yet. Basically everything was dedicated yesterday to either trying to get people out of the way of the fire, or try to contain the fire. Today, you know, with daylight and more resources available, I'm sure they'll be dedicating some investigators to determining the cause.", "Certainly. Every home in the area was threatened. The burning embers from one of these fires can fly a mile to a mile and a quarter away from the fire. So, just because a home isn't immediately adjacent to it doesn't mean it's not threatened. But there were plenty of homes that were adjacent. Fortunately, you know, through the efforts of the fire department and forestry firefighters, no homes were severely damaged or lost. But the potential was certainly there.", "There were people throwing buckets of water on the fire. But really, how do you plan to get this under control?", "Well, fortunately Florida has some of the best wildland firefighters in the world. So as bad as conditions can be, we've got the people with the training and experience and the equipment, that we will get it stopped eventually. The water drops that you're talking about from the helicopter are just basically kind of a short-term attempt to knock down the fire intensity, which will allow the ground crews to get in. Basically, you can't put a fire out from the air. You have to be on the ground. And the helicopter can assist the ground forces by knocking down hot spots, and doing reconnaissance. But the tractors have to get in there, and basically create a firebreak between where the fire's burning and the fuel ahead of it. And the stronger the wind is blowing, the wider that break has to be. So we've got some heavy tractors in there creating very wide fire lines, and then we have crews patrolling them. So that if a burning ember were to cross the line, hopefully we'll be able to spot it immediately and respond", "So we've been listening to a news conference out of Florida, dealing with the firefights there. And the firefighters who are helping, we understand 100 additional firefighters are on the scene trying to put out this wildfire. The big concern, though, is burning embers moving into neighborhoods and then catching homes on fire. Let's take you now to the CNN severe weather center and Rob Marciano. Rob, the question right now, is mother nature going to cooperate with them trying to fight this fire?", "Not today, Betty. We've got, this is all from the storm that brought the tornadoes to Oklahoma, throughout the southeast, now it's kind of cranking itself up across parts of the northeast. So that's the main problem. Get rid of this map, I want to get to another one. It's the second and it's going to show the winds that are driving down across Florida. And with that, we've got dry air. We've got winds that are gusting at times 20 to 30 miles an hour. And this is not good for firefighters. So we've got relative low levels of humidity, northwest and west winds kicking off the land. And even at this hour of the morning, we're seeing between 10 and 20 miles an hour. And the threat for today will be extreme fire danger. That's one step above just plain old critical. Tomorrow, slight relief. We go to critical as opposed to extreme. So, the next two days are going to be very bad there. Where the rain is, is up across the northeast. The center of the low is here. That's helping drive some of those winds across Florida. It's also helping drive winds into parts of the northeast. A quick shot of Daytona Beach. Here you go. WFTV, our affiliate right there. These fires - well, I can't see it on this monitor, but you probably can't see the smoke from there. Nonetheless, Florida under fire danger for sure as we go through today. We have areas in Delaware that are evacuating along the coast, Kent County specifically, because of the heavy rains and the strong winds that are pushing water onshore. Jersey also seeing some flooding. We've got delays at the airports. All the major airports are seeing traffic delays at this hour. Two hours and five minutes at La Guardia. Newark at almost two and a half. And Philly, same deal. So, all sorts of headaches we're trying to get through here.", "You're just as busy over there as we are over here, Rob.", "Get through it. It's only Monday.", "That's true. Happy Monday to you. Speaking of being busy, we want to check now on our breaking news out of China. Thousands feared dead in an earthquake there. Plus, almost 900 children believed buried in the rubble of their collapsed school. So let's get you right to CNN Beijing bureau chief, Jaime FlorCruz. Jaime, we're looking at numbers between 3,000 and 5,000 already reported dead, or feared dead.", "Yes, Betty, and that could still rise, the death toll could still rise, because the rescuers and rescue teams are just barely able to reach the epicenter. The epicenter is in a very mountainous, lush area. In fact, the habitat of the giant pandas in Sichuan the province. But also, it's home to about 110,000 people. So we're talking a lot of people who live in houses that are usually three, four-story houses, made of bricks, or of flimsy materials. And many of these structures are believed to have collapsed and have cost many of the people to be trapped in the rubble. And that's why we are just beginning to hear that the rising toll from 3,000 to almost about 5,000 people dead so far -- Betty.", "Jaime, Chengdu is the area where the epicenter was. Talk to us about this area. Are there a lot of high-rises? You talk about buildings being collapsed, but what is centered in this area?", "Well, Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province, which is still about 150 kilometers, or about 50 miles away from the epicenter. The epicenter itself is a county that is mountainous. I've been there a few years ago to report on the pandas. That's where the panda reserve area is located. It's lush, it's mountainous. But it's only about 50 miles away from Chengdu, but it took me about four hours to drive from Chengdu to the panda reserve area. So you can imagine how difficult it is to reach this place, and how difficult it will be for the rescuers to reach those who are trapped in the collapsed structures in the places where they have been, where the epicenter is right now.", "And Jaime, we haven't even begun to talk about the number of people injured. We're just talking about the people feared dead, feared under all that rubble. But when it comes to injuries, I'm seeing a number around 10,000 people who might be reported injured at this hour. Is there enough emergency personnel, enough crews to handle not only the rescue operation, but the injured?", "Well, 10,000 is probably a very conservative estimate right now. As I said, they are just beginning to restore communications there. Transport and telecommunications were cut off after the earthquake. The Chinese are very good at organizing rescue and medical operations in natural disasters like this one. Because of their top-down government structure, they're able to muster enough manpower, and goods to send to these disaster areas. The Chinese People's Liberation Army is usually very good at responding to these emergencies, and they're in fact leading the operations right now. A lot of the operations may in fact involve using things by hand. For example, wading through the rubbles of collapsed structures to rescue people who are trapped there. And many of these will have to be done by the People's Liberation Army soldiers -- Betty.", "A lot of work to be done. Time is of the essence. As people are indeed trapped under rubble. Considering how many are affected by this 7.8 magnitude quake, a very powerful quake. Jaime FlorCruz, joining us live from Beijing. Thank you, Jaime. And CNN I-Reporters in China are sending us their photos. Take a look at this. This one from Michelle Christenson, a daughter of a diplomat in Beijing. Michelle says she was sitting at her computer when the quake. It made her feel very dizzy and see the walls shaking there a little bit. She said the quake shook her house and made the lights sway as evident in that shot. Well, this picture from Yi Wei Ang who lives 30 minutes from downtown Beijing and granted Beijing is about 900 miles away from the epicenter. This I-Reporter says school was evacuated. Everything in the neighborhood was relatively calm. Residents are now bracing for those aftershocks. In other news, help for cyclone survivors. CNN exclusive video, you have to see this, a U.S. aid plain arrives in Myanmar. More flights are planned. We have so much more on this story we are covering for you. 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{"id": "CNN-329793", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-01-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/04/es.04.html", "summary": "Trump Vs. Bannon; Trump Ends Voter Fraud Commission", "utt": ["All right. Steve Bannon's fire met with President Trump's fury. The White House with a statement like you have never seen before --", "Yes.", "-- trashing the former chief strategist. Will Bannon's takedown of the Trumps hurt his own stock as the midterms near? \"CNN POLITICS\" reporter Tal Kopan live for us in Washington. Good morning. If you live in a cave and you've just woken up this morning and you're hearing these headlines, let me explain what's happening. I don't mean you, I mean for our viewers. There is a book by Michael Wolff, who is a kind of fuzzy book author.", "Yes.", "Not a Woodward and Bernstein, but someone who --", "Fair assessment.", "-- had good access to the White House. Was on a couch there in the West Wing offices and interviewed 200 people, and has come out with this big book and pieces of it have been coming out. And I think the bottom line here -- a few takeaways. Trump and the team didn't ever think he would win. They never did, so some of the recklessness --", "But maybe he didn't want to according --", "Right.", "-- to the book. And the lack of discipline you see around them, it was because they didn't think that he would be the president. Steve Bannon suggests that Donald Trump knew about the Russia meeting with Don, Jr., Manafort, and Kushner, and he even calls it treasonous. He attacks -- in this book, Steve Bannon attacks the president's family and says Ivanka and Jared made a deal -- this book says Ivanka and Jared Kushner made a deal that if the opportunity arose Ivanka would be the first woman President of the United States. Is it fair to say that Washington is consumed by the book and its revelations this morning?", "I think it's fair to say there's certainly a lot of interest in this book. You know, it was interesting. I was up on the Hill yesterday evening as senators returned and you ask Republican senators what they make of this and they all brush it off and say oh, I don't pay attention to it. It's all just -- you know, I hope it doesn't distract anyone. But, certainly, once again, this is what lawmakers are being asked about instead of about policy. This is what's dominating news coverage because it's just so fascinating and remarkable and we've never seen anything like it before. You know, it has implications going into elections in 2018. So yes, it's partially palace intrigue but it also has ramifications in terms of the soul of the Republican Party and the functioning of the Trump White House.", "And the stability of the President of the United States -- the decision-making process around him. I mean, that -- some of this is very, very unflattering for him.", "Yes. The personal characterization of this president is disturbing and I'm not even talking about sitting in bed with a cheeseburger at 6:30 watching three television screens. That's the flattering part of the personal characterization. But let's get to the legal and the implications down the road because Steve Bannon, on Trump's knowledge about that Trump Tower meeting, is of particular interest. Here's what Steve Bannon says, again, according to this book. \"The chance that Don, Jr. did not walk those jumos up to his father's office on the 26th floor is zero.\" Jumos is a word the Internet is debating. Let's just go with clumsy loser from urban dictionary. What if that is true? What does that mean, and might Steve Bannon have his time before Congress?", "Well, look, if that statement is true -- if, in fact, these individuals were introduced to Donald Trump after that meeting then it has incredible ramifications, including the fact that everyone involved has denied it. But, you know, at this point it's an entirely speculative statement. He is not saying I know for a fact that these individuals were introduced to the president-elect -- or, at that time, the presidential candidate. He's saying the chances that they weren't are pretty low. And so, a speculative comment like that certainly is not anything that could be considered evidence in an investigation in terms of conclusive evidence. But, it certainly opens the door for investigators, again, to go back and look at it because it is a credible questioning of the truthfulness of those denials and will likely open another round of questions. And you're absolutely right. It is quite possible that those folks are going to want to interview Steve Bannon now pretty in-depth about this.", "Yes.", "It will be really interesting to see how the White House continues here today with its counterpunching on this because we heard the president -- you saw the president's statement. A remarkable statement from the White House. I'll read part of it. \"Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. When he was fired he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I already won the nomination by defeating 17 candidates.\" He really minimizes the Steve Bannon influence here, something that every political reporter who has stood in front of the White House cameras says is --", "Not true.", "-- not true. One wonders if he'll -- they will attack the credibility of his author, Michael Wolff. If they will say some of these things are just fake -- if it didn't happen. What does it mean, do you think, though, for Republicans who are looking for their -- you know, for their north star as they try to win in some of these races in November? I mean, does Steve Bannon continue to have a big influence?", "Well, it really makes that a lot more complicated. I think at the end of the day Donald Trump is probably still the most popular figure with his base, maybe rivaled only by Jeff Sessions, the attorney general who has long been popular with this particular base. But, you know, Steve Bannon isn't necessarily the leader of this base. He's been more of the channeler of it at \"Breitbart\" for quite some time and an influencer, for sure. But his influence has long been behind the scenes. It was really his time with Trump that made him a bit of a celebrity. And so, you know, it's likely that voters are still going to consider an alliance with Trump to be a more important factor than the alliance with Bannon. But there are a number of candidates that were sort of counting on that Bannon support in terms of money, in terms of strategy, in terms of endorsement. They're now having to completely rethink their strategy --", "Yes.", "-- if they have to wade into a potential feud between the two men, Trump and Bannon, which way do they go. It certainly makes the water a lot murkier for them and probably, they hope that Bannon will mostly have a behind-the-scenes role and nothing more.", "Yes, and Bannon always wanted to deconstruct the administrative state but it looks like he blew up his own career at this point. We shall see how it evolves. Tal Kopan, thanks so much. Appreciate it.", "Although last night he called the president a great man, whether he's giving a speech or -- you know he had --", "Damage control.", "Right. He had kind words for the president last night. We'll see what happens next.", "All right. President Trump dissolving his highly-touted Voter Fraud Commission. The reason given by the White House, too many states refusing to participate. The commission has been criticized as a misguided effort to bolster the president's false claim he would have won the popular vote if not for voter fraud.", "CNN has learned there has been concern about the commission inside the White House for months. One senior adviser calling it a \"blank show that went off the rails.\" President Trump appointed Vice President Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to lead the panel. A source close to the vice president admitted a recent lawsuit against the commission by one of the commission's own members didn't help. Kobach tells \"USA Today\" disbanding the commission is just a change in tactics. He insists an investigation into voter fraud will move forward.", "All right. Your retirement party, folks, will have to wait. No grand prize winner in last night's $460 million Powerball drawing. That means Saturday night's jackpot worth an estimated $550 million. One person in Florida did match five numbers for a $2 million payoff. Mega Millions north of $400 million. That drawing is Friday night for those not like Christine Romans.", "Yes. You're just burning your dollar bill but the dream is priceless.", "Dream into luck.", "All right, computer security experts have found two major flaws that could virtually all smartphones and computers at risk.", "Wow.", "It's not pretty, folks. More on \"Money Stream,\" next."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "TAL KOPAN, REPORTER, CNN POLITICS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "KOPAN", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "KOPAN", "BRIGGS", "KOPAN", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-401959", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2020-06-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/05/es.03.html", "summary": "George Floyd Remembered, As Officers Appear In Court; Police Violence Caught On Video", "utt": ["We'll lay out the strategy.", "Disturbing acts of violence by some law enforcement in several cities caught on video during a night of peaceful protests. Good morning, this is EARLY START. I'm Laura Jarrett.", "And I'm Christine Romans, 30 minutes past the hour this Friday morning.", "As family and friends said goodbye to George Floyd, three former Minneapolis police officers charged in his death appeared in court yesterday pointing the finger at the fourth. Thomas Lane, Tou Thao, Alexander Kueng already mounting a vigorous legal defense illustrating, in part, why the attorney general in that state has said these cases are so hard. Lawyers for the three officers seemed to place the blame directly on Derek Chauvin, the senior officer who pressed his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes. And the lawyers tried to highlight their relative lack of experience.", "Yes, for two officers, in particular. Now, we've learned it was only Lane's fourth day on the force. He said he tried to give Floyd CPR on the way to the hospital. It was King's third full shift on the job and Chauvin was his training officer.", "Those details emerging just a half a mile from the memorial site where the family and local officials, like the Minneapolis mayor, were visibly emotional 10 days after a death that has reignited a worldwide movement for change. Today, the Minneapolis City Council will vote Friday on some of the first changes to the police department since all this began. CNN's Miguel Marquez reports from Minneapolis.", "Christine, Laura, this is the memorial to George Floyd. It has been going all week. And today it is -- it is celebratory but it's also -- it feels like a somber protest. This is the spot where George Floyd had his knee to the neck. That mural has been added in the last couple of days, and the stage has gotten bigger and bigger.", "What's his name?", "George Floyd.", "I said what's his name?", "George Floyd.", "And this is what they do all day. They have person after person coming up to the mic. It's become sort of a communal open mic here in this neighborhood. It's also a place where you can get almost anything you need -- water, groceries, Pampers. You can register to vote down here. It's become a real center for the community. This, on the day that George Floyd was memorialized here in Minneapolis.", "Growing up -- I mean, I'm a lot younger than him, but my grandmother raised him. I didn't have a father figure present in my life so I grew up in the same house with him. And, you know, my uncles were more of a father figure in my life and him being the alpha male, I gravitated to him. Coming up, I played sports -- he did. You know, that kind of connected us and brought us real close. I'm trying not to be sad. This is a lot harder than I thought it would be.", "When you spoke to George, they felt like they was the president because that's how he made you feel. He was -- he was powerful, man, He had a way with words. He could always make you ready to jump and go all of the time. Everybody loved George.", "Mr. Floyd's body will be moved to Houston, Texas where there will be a public memorial on Monday, and then he will be laid to rest in a private ceremony on Tuesday. Three of the officers involved in his death were in court. They had their bail set at at least $750,000. And lawyers for two of them, Keung and Lane, actually said that those officers had only been on duty for a couple of days -- had only been officers for a few days, each. They talked to Officer Chauvin, who -- at the scene, telling him that they -- that he shouldn't be doing this, but that fell on deaf ears. One of the officers even providing CPR in the ambulance on the way to the -- on the way to the hospital. Still, all three officers now charged with aiding and abetting -- second-degree murder and aiding and abetting manslaughter. Laura, Christine.", "All right, Miguel. Thank you so much for that. A 10th night of protests nationwide remained mostly peaceful. Curfews have actually ended in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. But there is new controversy this morning over alarming incidents caught on video. In response to so many large demonstrations across the country we are seeing, more and more, exactly how police have used force on some protesters. Now, it is impossible to quantify exactly how much this is happening but the camera simply doesn't lie, and this video will be disturbing to watch. Two Buffalo, New York police officers suspended after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground. You can see right there the man approaching the officers, then he stumbles backward, hits his head on the ground after being pushed, is bleeding. Police originally said the man tripped. The mayor of Buffalo says the man is hospitalized in serious but stable condition. Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the incident \"wholly unjustified and utterly disgraceful.\" The two officers have been suspended without pay.", "All right. A top cybersecurity official at Google says hackers with ties to China and Iran have tried to access the presidential campaigns of Joe Biden and President Trump. Shane Huntley, the head of Google's threat analysis group, said hackers targeted the G-mail accounts of staffers working on those campaigns but they were unsuccessful. The disclosure highlights the continued risk of foreign interference in U.S. elections, even as the country responds to a pandemic and protests across the country. Meanwhile, Facebook announced it will start labeling posts and pages from state-controlled media outlets. The labels will immediately start showing up for users in the U.S. on pages belonging to outlets like \"Russia Today\" and China's \"Xinhua.\" The labels will eventually be introduced in other countries. Facebook says it's rolling out these labels so users know more about where their information is coming from. Facebook also plans to start blocking state-controlled media outlets from running ads in the U.S. later this summer out of an abundance of caution ahead of the election in November.", "All right. Well, coming up, after months benched by coronavirus, the NBA is on the verge of tipping off. Coy Wire is back with this morning's Bleacher Report."], "speaker": ["CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "LAURA JARRETT, CNN ANCHOR", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CROWD", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CROWD", "MARQUEZ", "BRANDON WILLIAMS, GEORGE FLOYD'S NEPHEW", "PHILONESE FLOYD, GEORGE FLOYD'S BROTHER", "MARQUEZ (on camera)", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "JARRETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-170912", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-8-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/20/cnr.01.html", "summary": "American Hikers Sentenced to Eight Years in Iranian Prison; Libyan Rebels Close on Capital of Tripoli", "utt": ["From the CNN Center, this is CNN Saturday Morning. It's August 20th. Good morning everybody. Thanks for joining us. I'm Alina Cho. T.J. Holmes is off this morning. We have new word on the fate of two American hikers held in Iran. We'll have the latest court ruling. It is breaking news out of Iran at this hour. Also, rebel fighters are closing in on L capitol of Tripoli. Is its leader, Moammar Gadhafi, going to stay and fight, or could he possibly leave? And we've just gotten this dramatic video showing armed rioters shooting at police in the British city of Birmingham. So what's the latest in that investigation? We'll have a live report. Let's get right to the breaking news of Iran. Iranian state television is reporting that two Americans accused of spying have been sentenced to eight years in prison. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were arrested after crossing into Iran during a 2009 hiking trip from Iraq. A third hiker, Sarah Shourd, was also arrested, but she was later released last fall for medical reasons. Journalist Shirzad Bozorgmehr joins us now by phone from Tehran. We're going to have him in just a moment, but first we want to turn to our very own Susan Candiotti, who also joins us by phone from New York City. She's been in touch with the families of these two men. She joins us now by phone. And Susan, I know you're trying feverishly to speak to these families. When was the last time you spoke to them or their representatives, and what did they tell you?", "It would have been within the last couple of months. More often than not the families, when there's a situation like this, prefer to work through a representative that is speaking on their behalf. And it's not uncommon at all to discuss things among themselves, the three moms and their relatives, figure out exactly what they want to say, and then put out the word, initially, anyway, through their media representative, who is based in New York. So we're working all of those angles. I've reached out by phone to all of the families, and of course, other methods as well, as well as the representative. So I'm quite sure that's what's happening now is they're speaking among themselves to gather information, figure out what they can from all of their sources before they respond in some way, Alina.", "Susan, I think there were a lot of people here in the United States who thought that these hikers would ultimately be released. You've been following this case very closely. How surprised are you that they've now been sentenced to eight years in prison item.", "I'm sorry, Alina, could you repeat that part again, please?", "You've been following this case very closely, and I'm curious to know, how surprised are you by this ruling today, that they'll be sentenced to eight years in prison?", "Well, unfortunately, not surprised. Certainly, the hope on the part of the family members here has been that perhaps they would have been sentenced to time served, if they received a sentence at all. That's not the case. Now, this is clearly a much longer sentence than the families would have expected. But certainly there is always the possibility of appeal. How long that could take would certainly be another matter altogether.", "Susan, they have 20 days --", "You also have to keep in mind that this is coming down during the time of Ramadan, and so it is much harder to get information. The courts there are closed at this time. Our man who is in Iran, you'll be speaking with shortly, is trying to get information. It's very difficult because of the time change now. So they were hoping that during the time of Ramadan that there would have been forgiveness granted, that they would have been released because of that.", "Interesting.", "Unfortunately, that hasn't happened.", "Right, of course. And we should mention that I'm seeing now crossing our wire that they do have 20 days to appeal this verdict. You can bet there will be an appeal, and we do want to get -- and Susan, stay with us, but we are still waiting for our reporter from Iran. Susan, I just want to remind our viewers about this case. Take us back to 2009 when these three hikers were taken into custody. What happened?", "Indeed. Covering this from day one, they were on a vacation. These are three young people who lived overseas. They knew each other. One of them had even written as a freelance journalist for various publications, one a social worker. They all worked overseas. And they decided to go on holiday. They went to this particular area because they had heard that it was very popular, very scenic with hikers, and so they said they went out this one day. There's some dispute as to whether some people had warn them that this might be a dangerous area. They maintained that they did not have that information. But when they went out, they said that they were beckoned over a particular unmarked part of the trail, beckoned to cross over this line, so to speak, an invisible line, but someone with the Iranian authorities, and at that time, they were taken into custody. Ever since then, for quite some time, to have any sort of representation, eventually to meet with the Swiss consular, because the United States does not have formal diplomatic relations with Iran. And so eventually they did. Now, they have only had -- they only had one visit from their mothers that came about a year after they were held. And not long after that, Sarah Shourd was released, who was the only female among them, and she -- because of health reasons. She came back to the United States and has been working very hard on behalf of their release ever since.", "Susan, I know you've been watching this case very closely and I know you're trying to talk to the families of these hikers. If anyone can, you can. So we know you'll be watching this case closely and we'll be checking with back with you throughout the hour. Our Susan Candiotti live for us by phone. Susan, thank you. We want to move now to Libya where NATO planes hit more targets around the capital of Tripoli overnight. Libyan officials are denying that Moammar Gadhafi and his family are looking to leave Tripoli, that as rebel leaders say they are closing in on the Libyan leader's Tripoli stronghold. Our Sara Sidner has more.", "Just a 40-minute drive from Tripoli, rebels battle their way closer to the capital. This is the city of Zawiya. On this day, even if you could not see the firefight close up, you could hear its deafening sounds reverberating from the eastern part of the city. (on camera): So it is just getting too close. There are snipers on tops of building. There's loud bangs. There's artillery fire. There are mortars. So we've got to get out of here. (voice-over): Despite the firing around him, a rebel fighter who did not want to be identified to protect his family was confident of victory. (on camera): Considering the fighting is fierce here in Zawiya, how long do you think you could push into Tripoli?", "Hopefully, in a couple of days.", "A couple of days?", "A couple of days or one week maybe.", "You think it is that soon?", "I think so because we are controlling 80 percent of Zawiya.", "But to push forward, they need to secure the whole city for Gadhafi's army is doing everything it can to keep a hold of this strategically important town. (on camera): Why is Zawiya so important?", "Because of oil factory.", "Zawiya has one of the last remaining functional oil refineries in the country and is the most direct supply route to the capital, Tripoli. As of now, the rebels have captured the refinery. We are told there is a large amount of oil still left in the storage tanks. But the opposition fighters say, for them, this is not about oil, it's about securing their homes and neighborhoods. Most of the town is shuttered, abandoned by frightened residents, but some families remain. This family is staying put, including the children, even though missiles and mortars are falling around their home.", "A person feels unsafe and can't rest because of the", "She and the rebel fighters are convinced the end of the Gadhafi regime is near. But most here agree, trying to take control of nearby Tripoli will be one hell of a fight. Sara Sidner, CNN, Zawiya, Libya.", "And there's continuing fallout from Israel's response to Thursday's deadly bus attack, and it's putting a strain on relations between Egypt and the Jewish state. Egypt has yanked its ambassador to Israel and is demanding an investigation into the death of three of its security forces. This morning a senior Israeli defense official says that investigation is now underway. Egypt is one of the few Arab countries that shares diplomatic ties with Israel. Check this out. We have some newly released surveillance video from police in London. They are trying to identify armed rioters who were caught on tape shooting at police during the days of civil unrest that roiled a number of cities in England. Earlier this morning, I spoke to CNN senior correspondent Dan Rivers from London about the riots' aftermath and the release of these images.", "This video was actually from the 9th of August. It's only just been released today. But for the last few days, there has been complete calm here. They have surged the number of police officers in London and other big cities, completely flooded the streets with officers on horses and just, you know, lots of officers on foot as well. That seems to have kept a lid on the trouble for now.", "West Midland's police say more than 500 people have been arrested and a third of those have already been formally charged. Well, 18 years ago, they were teenagers, sentenced to prison as child murders. But this morning, the so-called West Memphis Three are free men. Yesterday, they cut a complicated plea deal with Arkansas prosecutors allowing them to walk out of prison. Now, the trio were convicted for the killing of three Cub Scouts back in 1993, a crime they've long maintained they never committed. So listen to what they had to say after the judge amended their sentences to time served.", "In the beginning, we told nothing but the truth, that we were innocent, and they sent to us prison for the rest of our lives for it. And then we had to come here, and the only thing the state would do for us would say, hey, we'll let you go only if you admit guilt. And that's not justice no matter how you look at it.", "I'm just tired. This has been going on for over 18 years. And it's been an absolute living hell.", "Even when you're in prison, it goes on every day. You have to worry about your own safety. It don't matter what crime it is, you still got to worry about your safety, regardless.", "Prosecutors agreed to the deal after an Arkansas Supreme Court ruling that could have led to new trials. Well, state police in Indiana say a sixth person has now died following last weekend's stage collapse at the Indiana state fair. That dramatic video is obviously been played many, many times over the week. Five people earlier in the week were killed and 40 others injured. And now this sixth person has died. It's a 22-year-old student from nearby Ball State University who died yesterday morning from the severe injuries she suffered in last Saturday's disaster. In Pittsburgh, flash flooding is blamed in the deaths of a mother and her two children. They were found trapped in their vehicle that had been submerged in the floodwaters yesterday. The victims haven't been formally identified yet. Authorities are still looking for another woman who went missing during the storm. More severe storms are on the way for the Ohio valley. Reynolds Wolf has details on that. Plus, a look at where tropical storm Harvey will make landfall today. Also ahead, the GOP presidential race is heating up with a crowded field. Candidates are there, trying to set themselves apart, including Governor Rick Perry. 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{"id": "NPR-5438", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2006-01-19", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5163060", "title": "Roundtable: New Orleans Demolition, D.C. Lobbying", "summary": "Topics: A federal judge's ruling will allow housing demolition in New Orleans, and the Democratic Party's plan to curb lobbyist influence in the nation's capital. Guests: Mary Frances Berry, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania; John McWhorter, Manhattan Institute senior fellow in public policy; and Bob Meadows, writer for People magazine.", "utt": ["This is NEWS AND NOTES. I'm Ed Gordon.", "On today's roundtable, people will receive notice of home demolitions in New Orleans. And another NBA player heads into the stands. Joining us today from New York, John McWhorter, Manhattan Institute's senior fellow in public policy. Also with us, Bob Meadows. He's a writer with People Magazine. And from our headquarters in Washington, D.C., Mary Frances Berry, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. I thank you all for joining us.", "I want to get into what we broached with the secretary just a moment ago, and that's that a federal judge has approved a settlement this week in a lawsuit over the first demolitions of New Orleans homes ruined by Hurricane Katrina. City officials suggest that they will give advanced notice to homeowners before the demolition begins. But there are a lot of people who are crying foul, suggesting that this seven to 10 day notice before demolition will occur is unfair because the way the notice will happen is the city will publish an advertisement over three days in the local newspaper there, listing the addresses affected. They will also post warnings on their website, and they say they will try to contact owners by mail. But many of these owners, Mary Frances Berry, will not be able to be found, quite frankly.", "Well, I think that's right, but I think that balance, this is probably the only solution we can reach. And I also know that some of the local community organizations are in the business of trying to notify people and tracking people. Everyone who has looked at that area, and I just spent three weeks down there on the Gulf and in New Orleans, knows that those buildings need to, or what's left of them, need to come down. The question is, how to do it, and what is the fairest way to do it, and what's going to happen to the people and their property.", "But I wanted to add to the interview you had. I just must say this. That HUD has done so little to help the people down there to either find housing if they were in public housing before, or to make sure that they are not discriminated against. And the Fair Housing Agency inside HUD is one of the worst run federal agencies. You can read a report on the website of the Commission on Civil Rights. You can go back over the years and read every single report evaluating the agency. It's always been under-resourced. It doesn't handle complaints when they're supposed to, on a timely basis. So it's nice for them to have an ad campaign, but the housing part of HUD hasn't done its job in trying to help people in a way that housing would be made available. And the enforcement part, I just think that the ad campaign is nice, but it is window dressing.", "But on balance, I think that the judge's order down in New Orleans is probably the best way we can go at this time and try to notify people, because the property needs to be cleaned up. Those areas, there are many places where there is wood and bricks and everything else out in the street, and obstructions, and that's got to be cleared away before we can do something else.", "Bob Meadows, it must be difficult though, if you're an evacuee, and you see the structure that is not just a structure to you, but your home, and knowing that emotionally you believe and hope that you'll be able to save it. But as Mary suggests that possibly it is the emotion in your heart thinking more than your need.", "Certainly, it is. And that was one of the things that people were arguing for and asking for them to delay, or at least try and give notice, is that so people would at least be able to try and get home, try and come back and at least go through, because one of the things we have to remember is that we're not necessarily talking about physical structures that are standing.", "Mm hmm.", "A lot of these places, as Dr. Berry implied, these places are rubble, rubbish, just refuse left over, but they do want people to at least be able to come home and perhaps go through it and see if they can find anything that means something to them. But, as we also said, this is the Lower Ninth Ward that they're starting at. A lot of these people were people who had to be evacuated and, therefore, are scattered around the country. Seven to 10 days? Not likely they're going to be able to get home in time.", "Mm hmm.", "You know, one of the most…", "Sorry.", "Let me ask you this, John, and then pick up on that point. Mary raised an interesting question and I thought it was interesting to hear, when I asked the secretary about the idea of HUD and their thoughts of what had been going on and his suggestion that that is more a regional than a local issue, but knowing that, they may in fact have to come in on the backend and provide housing.", "There still seems to be the idea of, this whole situation, this whole region, this whole area, of being too much of a hot potato for anyone to want to hold.", ": Yes, there is a problem. I mean, nationally, in terms of what the people we're talking about have had to go through, these are people who, you know, don't have apartments. And in terms of the trailers, there's this not in my backyard issue as to where the trailers are going to be. People are being kicked out of their hotels.", "And it seems to me we definitely have a situation where the local organizations are going to have to do most of the work. And the exciting thing is that there are community advocates for these people, such as Tracy Washington and Bill Quigley. And it seems to me that in terms of looking ahead, I really agree with what Mayor Nagin said about the chocolate city and I eagerly anticipate it. And so with all sensitivities taken care of, I want to see these houses raised so that we can build a functioning chocolate city and show that there can be such a thing that is not a pit of destruction.", "Washington, D.C., will tell you it's chocolate city two.", "And chocolate city, chocolate city, by the way, Nagin had used it in speeches before. And as listeners might know, I'm now a great defender of his. And before, what he didn't understand is after what happened down there and these issues now, he couldn't just say something like that and have it taken in the same way. He should be more careful about what he says. But I realize the stress that he's under.", "All right. Let's turn our attention to something that's very interesting, quite frankly, and that is, surprise, surprise, that we are now seeing Democrats and Republicans vying for the first to be true in talking about the idea of truly reforming lobbying in Washington. We had on this week, two African American lobbyists who clearly want it known that by virtue of their prism, they believe lobbying is doing just fine and there are only just a few rotten apples in the bunch, but now Democrats are suggesting that you ban all gifts and travel paid for by lobbyists. They're aiming to seize this issue, obviously, as people take a close look at this. Republicans counter with a 24-page document targeting Democrats as being hypocritical and the hypocrisy, quite frankly, is flying on both ends here.", "How realistic, John McWhorter, is it to be believed that we are going to see any kind of real reform when it comes to lobbying in Washington when you know the kinds of dollars that fly in the nation's capital?", "Oh, well, please. I mean, we can chase an ideal, but this doesn't get to the heart of it which is the influence that special interests always have and I think always will have on legislation. That's the way the Republic has always operated, for better or for worse. And it does bear mentioning that I think that in the case that something is being lobbied for that is considered a good thing by what you might call the blue state crowd, somehow I think we're a little bit less indignant, sometimes a little bit of lobbying can be a good thing.", "Obviously, the Abramoff scandal is the bad kind of lobbying. This is too flagrant and too sleazy. But we're not going to really change anything. Don't we see something like this happening every, about every 20 years? This is just the latest episode.", "Well, Mary, I was going to bring that up and I'm curious what you think about this Democratic plan, as I suggested, would try to curb all of these perks, if you will, barring lobbyists from giving gifts to members of Congress. The Republican plan, like this one, said they want to end fact finding trips, that's where these trips are paid for by often lobbyists...", "Well, it's where you go play golf in Scotland.", "...and deemed as fact finding. But you do all of these wonderful things in lieu of finding fact.", "Right, absolutely.", "They also want in-dead-of-night insertions of special interest legislation and we should note that that is the pork barrel spending that is added on to bills that most people wouldn't blink an eye at and it's usually done “late at night\" and in hopes that people won't realize it. This has been going on for years and years and years. Mary, this has been talked about, reform has been talked about, nothing happens.", "Absolutely, absolutely. And both sides have done it. The problem now is that what Delay and the crowd did was over-the-top. I mean, and they were so open about it, this K Street Project. I mean, saying publicly, you know, you guys, I know some people who run lobby firms here and they tell me, we were told you better hire so many Republicans if you don't hire them by whatever, don't, you know, come in here and they better be these people. And so it was sort of over-the-top and there's nothing wrong with lobbying.", "What's wrong is the money, the influence, the payoffs and all the rest of it, that have been going on. I think the legislation should be passed. I think the Democratic legislation is a little bit stronger, and it should be passed. And if you wonder why it's not as much of a political problem for the Democrats is because, you know, Willie Sutton robbed banks because that's where the money was. The Republicans got most of the money because they're the ones who have the power. They're the ones who control all three branches of the government.", "But the problem is whether or not the reforms when they're passed, and something will pass before the election, whether they will be enforced on the Hill and they're not because the House Ethics Committee doesn't even work now. It hasn't even met and it isn't even doing anything. And in fact, Abramoff would not be known about publicly as this guy who was crooked if some reporter hadn't done a big series in The Washington Post and then that forced the Justice Department to go out and take a look at him.", "So this is all happenstance that is happening. Yes, it should be passed. Also bottom line, if we don't do something about campaign finance and the money that's paid for campaigns, all that will happen is the money that's going now for the lobbyists, the lobbyists will give the money to the campaigns and then they'll get the same result.", "Bob Meadows, let me ask you this: Is it smart for Democrats to use this as a campaign issue when, as Mary and John both noted, that this does happen on both sides of the isle. Can this come back to bite you?", "Sort of like Ted Kennedy challenging Alito's membership and then finding out that he had his own. It is the pot calling the kettle black as they say, but you know, I thought it was interesting that Barack Obama, who's new to the Senate said that, you know, Republicans have suddenly found religion. But I think it's actually everyone finds religion on this and John said every 20 years.", "I think it's every two years because that's how often the elections come up. This is something that the Democrats want to grab onto and hope that they can ride. They have a 12 year losing streak in Congress right now. They want to grab onto to this and hopefully ride it into more seats in both Houses.", "But let's not forget though, it is an important issue. Even though we're talking the inside baseball on it. It is a very important and serious issue that money can influence us directly and if you've got a whole big pile of money, you can influence what projects get approved and get earmarks and do all this kinds of stuff. Whatever party is doing it.", "It's the money.", "And right now, the Republicans have the problem because they get most of the money and they have most of the ties with most of the guys who turned out to be crooked. So in that sense, it is a good political issue.", "So, John, Should we believe that that will not change today and that we will see a lobbying effort against this, money being thrown toward this, and we're going to see a watered down reform package?", "It seems to me at that this point, I think as we're all concurring here, there's certain gestures going on that are just based on which party is in power and which party would like to be in power sometime in the near future. But really, I think the ideal that we should seek is just that there is lobbying on both sides, that's it not intimately tied to the sleazier sorts of exchanges of money and trips that we're talking about, because we can admit that lobbying can actually concentrate forces for justice, if it's done right, and would inevitably arise in any governmental system.", "Let me bring this up, particularly since we have two people who spend a lot of time on college campuses and with young people, I'll be interested in your thoughts here. If alumni groups weren't in the news enough already this week, a fledging group in California, UCLA, is now suggesting that they're going to offer payments to students up to $100 per class to provide information on instructors who are \"abusive, one-sided, or off topic\" in advocating political ideologies.", "This is an organization, the Bruin Alumni Association, if you were going to give it a political slant, it would slant to the right. It says it wants to expose UCLA's radical professors.", "Mary, let me start with you. You are a professor. When you hear this kind of thing, what's your thought?", "My thought is that most students, at least most of mine, wouldn't know whether what I was saying was off topic or not, simply because they're in the class to try to learn something. And so, I'm wondering if this guy who's running thing, who's a graduate, I guess, out there, whether he would know that. They have freedom of speech and freedom of expression and they can do whatever they like and if they want to spend their time doing that, let them go ahead and do it. But I think that it is crazy and if you look at the people who are on their board, some of them, they wouldn't know whether what I was saying was off topic or not.", "I mean, if I say Benjamin Franklin said if you give up your liberty for the sake of security, you deserve neither liberty nor security. Does that mean I believe we shouldn't wire tap? You know, and am I trying to give a subtle message against policy? So if they want to spend their time doing it, let them go ahead and do it. I think it's silly and it's the sign of our times in that rationality seems somehow to have escaped people on occasion.", "John McWhorter, there are those political neophytes that run around college campuses who aspire and hope to be the next you-name-it, who would, in fact, not only spurred on by the idea of being a poor college student and looking for that hundred dollars, but also trying to make their mark, if you will.", "Oh, yeah. I mean the money part is, that's bound to create, people creating things, et cetera. I think that it's sleazy, it's virtually unethical. It's very small thinking. But the idea behind this, I think, is dead on. Tenured radicals was just a cute title for a book, but it is definitely true that on college campuses there is a strong tilt to the left in what students are taught in classes in humanities and the social sciences.", "And, frankly, it's more than a tilt. And it's largely a matter of just what is not talked about. But another thing is that, one, to truly understand what goes on, does need to have some live exposure to what actually goes on. There are courses that I remember other people teaching where if you looked at the syllabus it looked okay.", "But if you actually watched the professor doing what they do, not a zealot, but clearly one was being inculcated into what was considered a certain, you know, leftist way of looking at things, such that there are many very reasonable people who think that the reason, for example, that there are so view avowed conservatives in top political science departments is because science and reason simply couldn't support any view on the right, which simply isn't true. So there is an issue that this guy is dealing with the method of getting at it, I think, shall we say, draconian.", "Well, I just, I don't, no, no...", "Looking at his Web site, you know, he also is...", "Bob, real quick.", "Yes, he's also talking about, he's against the African American studies. He's against the bias. He's talking about the biased admissions policies. You know, we can talk about this with hiring the students. That's sort of an acute issue maybe. But he's got some very serious issues on his website that could lead to something even worse going on.", "Well, what it is, all of this is part of on the political side and Bob, you're right on. It's part of the whole attack on the kinds of changes that are taking place in the academy that have made it more inclusive so that there are people there as students who wouldn't have been there before. There are classes there that wouldn't have been there before, many of which need to be there because it reflects the changes in knowledge and the changes in interest that ought to be there.", "And so this whole thing about left bias and all the rest of it is all part of an attack and one should look at the website and take the whole thing, take it whole, and decide where the motives are and whether one would support it, I would think.", "All right guys. We had hoped to get into an incident that happened last night at another NBA arena where Antonio Davis of the New York Knicks went into the stands for fear that someone was harming his wife, but we're running out of time. We'll probably pick that up tomorrow.", "Ed, it was time out though.", "It was time out, but he still went in those stands. But we'll talk about it. Certainly a different circumstance than what we knew in my hometown of Detroit. So, Mary, John and Bob, thanks so much. 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{"id": "CNN-142272", "program": "CAMPBELL BROWN", "date": "2009-8-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/27/ec.01.html", "summary": "Saying Farewell to Ted Kennedy; Kidnapped Girl Found 18 Years Later", "utt": ["Tonight, here are the questions we want answered. What really happened to Jaycee Dugard? She was kidnapped 18 years ago on her way to school and then showed up alive today.", "I had given up hope of having her alive.", "A convicted rapist and his wife behind bars tonight. Where was Jaycee for almost two decades? And how can she possibly recover from the trauma?", "She was in good health. But living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll.", "The very latest in the investigation of this unbelievable case.", "Tropical Storm Danny, will it become a hurricane this weekend? We have answers. Plus, a funny thing happened to this stand-up comic. She's half- black, half-Swedish, and she is being sued by her Jewish mother-in-law for jokes like this.", "I walked in. And I'm trying to be real polite. And I said, Ruthie, thank you so much for having me. She said, oh, the pleasure's all mine. Have a seat. Elliott, put my pocketbook away.", "But who will get the last laugh in court? Also, the devil wears Prada, the most feared woman in fashion, \"Vogue\"'s Anna Wintour.", "I feel it's quite one- dimensional. But, also, the girls always look the same, Alisa (ph), if you look at your pictures. The way they're dressed. It's always the same.", "And farewell to Ted Kennedy. All the latest details on the extraordinary final procession through Boston and plans for the senator's funeral this weekend.", "This is your only source for news. CNN prime time begins now. Here's Campbell Brown.", "Hi, everybody. Those are our big questions tonight. But we're going to start as we always do with the \"Mash-Up.\" It's our look at all the stories making an impact right now, the moments you may have missed today. We're watching it all, so you don't have to. And we do begin tonight with breaking news out of California. A girl kidnapped more than 18 years ago now safe at home. This is an unbelievable story.", "The stepfather of a girl who has been missing from the Bay Area since 1991 says it's like winning the lotto, now that his daughter has actually been found.", "A girl name Jaycee Lee Dugard, you see her right there, was 11 years old when she was abducted.", "She's 29 years old today and may have had two children by her abductor.", "Police arrested the registered sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife on kidnapping, child molestation and conspiracy charges.", "He was keeping Jaycee and their children hidden in what police call a backyard within a yard, sheds and buildings where Jaycee and her children lived shielded from view by the outside world.", "She was in good health. But living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll.", "So many unanswered questions. Stay with us. We're going to have breaking details on the investigation. Plus, you will hear tonight from Ed Smart, from his daughter Elizabeth. You will remember Elizabeth was kidnapped at the age of 14. She was held for nine months before finally being reunited with her parents. In Boston tonight, an outpouring of emotion for Senator Ted Kennedy. You're looking right now at live pictures. This is from inside the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, thousands of people waiting in line for a chance to file past the senator's coffin, capping off an emotional journey today in Hyannis Port.", "Generations of Kennedys left their Hyannis Port compound, along with the man they described as the center of their family and joyous light in their lives. After a private mass, the motorcade began a 70-mile journey winding past landmarks that had special meaning throughout the senator's life.", "Boston's mayor, Tom Menino, rang the Faneuil bells 47 times, one for each year Kennedy served in the Senate.", "That motorcade has now arrived at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and Museum. There you see the family.", "And behind us right now in line, Caroline Kennedy and her family, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., members of the Kennedy family here to greet those who have come to pay respects to Ted Kennedy.", "Senator Kennedy to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday, that morning, his funeral including an obituary from President Obama. Tomorrow, Kennedy will lie in repose, at 7:00 p.m., a memorial service, Vice President Joe Biden and Senator John McCain among the speakers. Join me, Wolf Blitzer, John King for live coverage. That will happen right here on CNN. Kennedy coverage wherever you turn today, lots of pomp, bold- faced names, but still the most poignant reflections coming from average Americans telling how the legendary senator touched their lives with small acts of kindness.", "Gloria Gomez (ph) holds something dear to her. It's a letter Senator Edward Kennedy wrote her weeks before his death.", "He sent it July 31 and I receive it on August 7.", "The letter was a response after she wrote Kennedy, thanking him for an act of kindness by his family decades ago.", "ABC News colleague Jon Karl was driving with his wife and two young daughters in California in 2002 when they were in a terrible crash, surviving, but hospitalized and shaken.", "The very first call that I got from somebody who was not part of my immediate family was a call from Ted Kennedy.", "Lauren Stanford (ph) was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 6. He stayed in touch with Lauren over the years with letters and phone calls.", "Lauren, this is Ted Kennedy.", "I was home on a convalescent leave from Walter Reed. I had been able to go home. Now and then, a story about me would be in the newspaper. And he might, you know, clip it out and send it to me in the mail, along with a nice letter.", "That final reflection there from Peter Damon. He is an Army mechanic who lost both arms in Iraq. Kennedy checked in on him regularly, even sending football tickets as a Christmas present. We're going to turn now to Pakistan and growing violence on the Afghan border, today, a deadly suicide attack claiming at least 21 lives.", "Now the attack came in the early evening hours of Thursday, when people were sitting down to breakfast. We're told that a young boy between the ages of 15 and 20 walked into the barracks carrying two jugs of water. He put the water down and then exploded his suicide vest.", "This is the second border attack in as many days. Yesterday, a NATO truck heading to Afghanistan was blown up on that very same road. In Philadelphia tonight, a standing ovation for Michael Vick as he took to the field in his first NFL game since 2006. A long day for Vick, and it began in a Virginia bankruptcy court.", "He had to convince a judge in Virginia he has a plan to pay back all his creditors. And he did convince the judge. A bankruptcy judge approved the plan to repay more than $20 million, on the condition he hires a personal financial planner. After the proceedings, he headed back to Philadelphia for tonight's preseason game.", "Vick seeming pretty serious in his pregame warmup. The game is ongoing, so reviews still out. In the U.K. tonight, a triumphant homecoming for a young hero of the high seas.", "... offers its sincere congratulations to Michael Perham on his record-breaking single-handed circumnavigation.", "He has waited nine months for this moment. And finally it comes, confirmation from the Royal Navy that he's the youngest person ever to circumnavigate the globe. Mike Perham has crossed 30,000 miles. The 17-year-old has battled technical problems, gale-force winds, and 50-foot waves to become a world record-breaker. He is due to sail his 50-foot yacht into Portsmouth on Saturday. It's three years since he became the youngest person to cross the Atlantic. With another record to his name, it's bound to be a hero's welcome.", "Now, around the world, sailing apparently all the rage with kids these days. Strange case in Holland playing out right now, child protective services there seeking custody of this 13-year-old girl before she embarks on her own solo adventure. The girl's parents are fine with their daughter's dream. The Dutch government says it's just too dangerous. And now a daily dose of crazy, a bizarre appearance by actress Anne Heche that is going viral in a big way. Heche was on \"The Late Show\" last night basically just unloading on her ex-husband, Coley Laffoon. Watch this.", "Oh, gosh. I mean, can -- I don't know if you can say -- can you say lazy ass on TV? No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. I think he wants to be coaching soccer right about now. But it's funny, because you can't quite let go of the ex. I can't even get a divorce. Like, I can't -- like, I'm divorced, but now he wants me to come and watch him run around in his little white shorts playing soccer, you know, because he wants the 7-year-old team. Like, I divorced you. I don't want to see you on Saturday.", "What does he do for a living?", "He -- Dave, he goes out to the mailbox, and he opens up the little mailbox door and goes, oh, I got a check from Anne. Oh, my gosh, I got a check from Anne.", "Today, Laffoon tells \"Us\" magazine that he works in real estate. And he says he is disturbed that Heche is taking out her personal frustration on the father of her child on national television. Ouch, people. And that brings us to the \"Punchline.\" This is courtesy of Conan O'Brien. His target, our vacationing president. Take a look. (", "The president's on vacation. We read about it every day. Here's the rumor. Latest rumor is that President Obama is going to have dinner on Martha's Vineyard with Oprah Winfrey. That's what they're saying.", "That's right. The most powerful person in the free world is going to have dinner with President Obama.", "Conan O'Brien, everybody. That is the \"Mash-Up\" tonight. Tonight's big question, a serious one, what really happened to the girl who was kidnapped 18 years ago and just showed up alive? We're going to hear from police and her stepfather, who actually saw her get kidnapped in 1991. This is an unbelievable story with still many unanswered questions.", "The hidden backyard had sheds, tents, and outbuildings, where Jaycee and the girls spent most of their lives."], "speaker": ["CAMPBELL BROWN, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "C. BROWN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "C. BROWN", "C. BROWN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "C. BROWN", "ANNA WINTOUR, EDITOR, \"VOGUE\"", "C. BROWN", "ANNOUNCER", "C. BROWN", "FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "C. 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{"id": "CNN-61834", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-10-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0210/17/lad.04.html", "summary": "Police Cannot Develop Composite Sketch", "utt": ["There are countless leads, and we say countless. We're talking tens of thousands of leads that have come in over the past two weeks. At last count, close to 70,000 to the hot line that the FBI is operating right now, and 15,000 of those came in on Tuesday, the day after Linda Franklin was gunned down at the Home Depot on Monday night. It's been quiet now for the past two-and-a-half days. No incidents to talk of, Carol. That's the good news for the people living around this area. But the bad news again, at this point anyway, it does not appear that investigators are perhaps getting as much information about the shooter on Monday night as they initially had hoped -- things like a composite sketch, eyewitness accounts seem to be not running in parallel at this point. So, certainly the investigation continues. A number of people, we're told anyway, are under surveillance. But what that means is quite unclear. Let's talk about all of those topics now. Patty Davis is back with me again this morning here in Rockville, Maryland to talk, first of all, Patty, about this composite sketch. We thought it may come out yesterday, but they were quite hesitant about it, and indeed it did not. And at this point, it doesn't look like it will.", "And it's a source of great frustration for police, even though they have some of their best witnesses yet in this Home Depot shooting Monday night. They are unable to come up with a composite sketch, because witnesses seem to disagree on exactly what this person looks like. Police say that they do know that it is a man, but that's about all that witnesses can tell them that they agree on.", "The issue regarding a composite has come up repeatedly, and at this point, there is not a composite. Fairfax County Police have worked with their witnesses, and unfortunately, because of darkness and distance and perhaps, you know, excitement and adrenaline at the time, they are unable to come up with a composite.", "Now, police are running license plate numbers. They believe the tag is a Maryland license plate. Investigators have also put a number of people under surveillance, as you said, Bill, although they're saying that these people aren't necessarily suspects. And they're also looking at video from the Home Depot, from surveillance cameras outside other businesses around that Home Depot, as well as video from the dashboard of police cruisers, who were coming onto the scene, perhaps to see if anybody was fleeing. Now going back to the Home Depot where they've got a makeshift memorial set up there for that victim, Linda Franklin, investigators right now saying that that video was inside the Home Depot, and not necessarily outside.", "So, it's inclusive right now if any of that videotape is going to help in this search right now.", "Yes, we just don't know, Bill.", "And one thing we heard yesterday from the police here in Rockville, Maryland, it is an ongoing education system for the police and the FBI trying to educate the public as to what to look for, if they see anything, what to record in their own minds. What was the advice given out yesterday", "Well, it's not only a learning experience for the police, because they've never seen a serial sniper/killer quite like this, but also for witnesses. Not everybody you expect in your lifetime to be a witness to a crime. And they were giving out basically witness 101 yesterday. They were telling people, you need to -- first of all, your safety has to come first. You get down, take cover, but listen and look where that shot came from. Then, they were saying, take down some characteristics if you see a person -- their complexion, their height, their build. Also, if they have a car -- the make and the model, specifically. A lot of other things like hair color, color of car, et cetera, could change. And then, have a pen with you, write it down. If you don't have a piece of paper, write it on your hand. And don't talk to anybody else until you've talked to police, not even to other witnesses, because it could contaminate what you know. They were giving witness 101 out here, because they're so frustrated that these witnesses just can't come together on what they know.", "Keep your story clean, I think is what they were saying yesterday. The other thing I thought was quite interesting, don't point out things like the clothing they're wearing. Figure out the physical build of a person, how tall, how much do they weigh -- characteristics like that. And at this point, all we know is that person was -- I think the quote yesterday was, \"He is not white and he is not black.\"", "Right. And there were some witnesses who were saying they saw an \"olive-skinned man,\" but police are saying that's even in question now. So, they want people to really be trained to know what to look for.", "Right.", "Just like a policeman would.", "You got it. Patty, thanks. Patty Davis working the scene here in Rockville, Maryland. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CAPT. NANCY DEMME, MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE", "DAVIS", "HEMMER", "DAVIS", "HEMMER", "DAVIS", "HEMMER", "DAVIS", "HEMMER", "DAVIS", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-144926", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-11-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0911/10/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Ida's Arrival; Tropical Storm Track; Memorial at Fort Hood; D.C. Sniper Execution; High School Hostage Situation; Remembering the Victims", "utt": ["Good morning, John and Kiran. That's right. Here's what we're working on today. Late-season tropical storm makes land. Ida's heavy rains could bring flooding to the southeast and travel delays beyond. Plus, remembering the victims of the Fort Hood shootings. President Obama attends today's memorial service as we learn more about the suspect. And scary subway scene. A woman falls on to the tracks as a train comes barreling into the station. We'll tell you more about that, too. Good morning, everybody, I'm Heidi Collins in New York, and you are in the CNN NEWSROOM. Well, it lost some punch, but tropical storm Ida is still delivering a weather smackdown to the U.S. Gulf Coast this morning. The storm made landfall near Mobile, Alabama just before dawn. Here's what it left in nearby Destin, Florida. These images captured by CNN iReporter Jan Mull. So, Jan, thank you for those. Big storms are not unusual for Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, or Florida. All four states preemptively declaring states of emergency before the storm. Across much of Florida's western panhandle high winds downing a few power lines and trees. And we're hearing some about sporadic electrical outages and localized flooding, too, especially in some of those low-lying coastal areas. It is not over yet. The situation could get worse with expected storm surge. In Pensacola, water levels could be 3 to 5 feet higher than normal. So let's find out how things are looking down there right now. CNN's Rob Marciano just had to head to the beach for his field duty this morning. Wow, we can barely see you, Rob. It's definitely no picnic there. Ida, though, is not the category 1 and 2 hurricane it once was, so is that any consolation for the people on where you are?", "Well, it certainly is. I think the people here were preparing for a hurricane, even though pretty much everyone couldn't believe their eyes. They know the history of November tropical systems, and that is, there aren't many of them. And certainly aren't many of them that make landfall. The last hurricane to make landfall in the United States was back in 1985. Last tropical storm, back in 1988. So it did increase in intensity to a tropical storm. That was sort of expected. And then the storm surge that we saw here in Pensacola, also expected, which means not terribly bad. Along the Alabama coastline up towards Pensacola, we saw about a 3 to 4 foot above average tide. And now when you get to where I'm standing right here, and since then the tide, the astronomical tides have receded. So even though we have onshore winds right now, which would push the water onshore, we've got the moon pulling the water offshore. So that's a good thing. There's been a little bit of beach erosion. There have been some sporadic power outages because of the winds that have been gusting over 40, 50 miles an hour at times, but not terribly widespread. About 2,000 or so as far as power outages are concerned. A couple of local roads are under water, but generally speaking, most roads and all bridges are open. The Coast Guard has shut down all ports along the Florida panhandle to the Mississippi coastline until tropical storm Ida winds down. Now conditions have actually gotten a little bit worse here. You can see the waves pounding along the pier. Waves 10, 15, and in some cases 20 feet high. Since even though the storm has weakened, because it's getting closer to us now after making landfall a couple of hours ago, the winds have been steady, if not steadily increasing. So I think it will be a good 12 to 24 hours before things begin to wind down here along the Florida panhandle as this storm makes that right turn that I'm sure Jacqui Jeras will describe for you. But, Heidi, as far as the damage here is concerned, four inches of rain, about three of that came in about four to five hours. So tremendous amount of heavy rain...", "Wow.", "... last night just leading to localized flooding. But as you can see right now, most of the rain is north and east of the system, and right now we're about parallel with the storm, which is about 30 or 40 miles to my west. That's the latest from here. An unusual situation.", "Yes.", "And you think back to just two weeks ago, Heidi, we had a major snowstorm across the high plains in the Midwest. And now we're still talking about tropical storms rolling into the United States.", "Yes.", "So certainly some interesting weather to say the least the last two weeks.", "Yes. Really weird, too. But, boy, those waves are definitely looking big behind you. So we'll keep our eye on that and of course come back to you anytime we should need to do that this morning. Rob Marciano, thanks so much. Appreciate it, Pensacola, Florida, this morning. Want to get you a little bit more now where the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida are tracking. For that, meteorologist Jacqui Jeras is standing by in the Severe Weather Center this morning. So, hi, Jacqui.", "Hey.", "This storm is going to make its way north at some point, is what we're expecting, right?", "Well, eventually but it's going to take a trip to the east first. Kind of a complicated pattern that we're going to be seeing, but basically Ida is going to get absorbed in a cold front and it's almost going to take a nor'easter kind of pattern. In the meantime, we're still kind of starting that northeasterly turn a little bit. We did have landfall earlier today at Dolphin Island. Right now it's over Mobile Bay, but we are going to be seeing landfall once again. It's really hard to pinpoint because our system has become so disorganized and it's really hard to find the center. And you're going to have to rely on things like wind profiles to help figure that all out. Maximum sustained winds, 45 miles per hour. It will continue to weaken. Rainfall, certainly the big story. And check out that big swath here of those rain bands. We're expecting to see anywhere between about three to six inches of rainfall. Pretty widespread. Our winds so far, you could really hear it gusting, couldn't you, from where Rob was? There you can see our sustained winds have been in the 10 to 20-mile-per-hour range in this area. But gusts certainly still reaching along the 30 to 40-mile-per-hour range or so. I want to show you. There you can see the flood warnings, winds and watches which are in effect at this hour. We just kind of want to show you that track and all of this rain. This is not just a coastal storm. Watch how this moves through Charlotte and to Raleigh and eventually into the mid-Atlantic states. We could see some rain in places like Washington, D.C. from this storm and some very windy travel conditions -- Heidi?", "All right. Jacqui Jeras, we will continue to stay up to snuff on all of this with you as well. We're getting a little bit of news coming in, Jacqui, so we'll check back with you later on.", "OK.", "Thank you. At any moment now, the president and first lady will leave the White House and head to Fort Hood, Texas. There, they'll meet with survivors of last week's shooting rampage and attend a memorial service for the 13 men and women who were killed. CNN's David Mattingly is at Fort Hood right outside the gates where the memorial will actually be taking place this morning. David, good morning to you. Sure to be a very, very emotional day today.", "That's right, Heidi. Already, a very powerful moment this morning. Every morning here at the post, as they do every day, there's revelry, the soldiers stop and salute as the flag is raised. But since the tragedy of last Thursday, after the flag is raised, it is then slowly lowered to half-staff. A constant reminder of the 13 people who lost their lives in that shooting rampage. And the president and Mrs. Obama due here. They're going to be meeting with the victims and some of the wounded that are still in the hospital -- that will be private -- before the president speaks to a very large gathering here. It's supposed to be, we're told, a traditional type of program for this memorial service. But in scope, it is very large and the emotions in play are still very raw here at Fort Hood. We're getting some indication of what type of emotions and how strong they are from some of the services that have been held in small -- in hometowns of the victims all throughout the country. Just last night, there was a candlelight vigil, this in Kiel, Wisconsin. And this one was for Sergeant Amy Krueger. She was 29 years old. She joined the Army after 9/11. She was part of the 467th Medical Company. Her story like others lost in this shooting, we have been telling -- we have been hearing that she is -- was committed to duty. We're hearing about her enthusiasm for service and of course, how much she will be missed.", "I love you, Krugels, I miss you so much, and thank you for being the best friend that anybody could have ever asked for.", "We all love you very much and we'll miss you every minute of every day. We are proud of the sacrifice you have given to our country and all of us that are here tonight. You are the definition of a true American hero. We salute you.", "I'll personally miss seeing her and hearing her say, hey, Uncle Bob. Amy -- Kreugs, this world is definitely a lesser place without you in it and you'll be forever remembered and loved.", "And thousands expected for the services here, Heidi. This is a very big challenge to the military. Everyone here so used to having to deal with losses on the field of battle. This one hitting very close to home, affecting people in ways they hadn't counted on.", "Absolutely. All right, David Mattingly, we're going to make sure we stay up to speed on all of this as well. In fact, want to make sure we let you know. You can join us for our special coverage, \"MEMORIAL AT FORT HOOD.\" It will begin at 1:30 Eastern, 10:30 Pacific. If you're away from your TV, you can always watch the full memorial coverage on CNN.com/live. Now let's take a moment to turn to the investigation. Investigators say Major Nidal Malik Hasan will be charged by the U.S. military rather than in a civilian court. They say it appears he acted alone and without any outside direction. He did, however, communicate with a radical cleric overseas as many as 20 times. They say those communications appeared innocent. Nearly one year ago, the FBI began looking at the accused gunman before deciding he did not pose a threat. Well, now the FBI is turning the microscope on itself. Director Robert Muller has ordered an internal review of the bureau's handling of that information. Twelve hours. That's all the time John Allen Muhammad may have left. The mastermind of the D.C. sniper attacks is set to be executed tonight. CNN's Jeanne Meserve is at the prison in Jarrett, Virginia where three weeks of terror went on. You remember it all too well, right, Jeanne?", "I do, Heidi. It was 23 days, 16 shootings, 10 people dead. A terrifying time in the greater Washington area. And tonight, John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to pay for those sins with his life. Shortly before 9:00 Eastern, he'll be taken into the death chamber here at the Greensville Correctional Center. IVs will be put in both arms and he will be given a lethal injection. But before that happens, he's going to have a visit from his first wife, Carol Williams, and their son, Lindbergh. Carol Williams says she's been getting about two letters a week from John Muhammad. Last night Larry King read one of those letters on his program. Here's a bit of it.", "\"Carol,\" he writes, \"you need to be here in Virginia on the night of November 9, '09 so that you can be at this prison at 8:30 a.m. on November 10, '09, so that you can see me at 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. And then take an hour and a half break and then see me again for a contact visit from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. \"Carol, I miss my family for the past eight years. I don't want to be missed the day that these devils murder my innocent black", "And yesterday the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Muhammad's lawyer. They argued that he should not be executed because he is mentally ill, still pending a clemency appeal that's before Virginia's governor, Timothy Kaine. Back to you, Heidi.", "And Jeanne, what is the reaction to his impending execution?", "Well, they run the gamut. Earlier this morning, Charles Ramsey, who was the police chief in Washington, D.C. at the time, was interviewed. And he said, if he had the opportunity, he'd like to be the one to administer the death penalty to John Muhammad. He said he's absolutely deserving. Many victims' families believe the same way. However, there is a different point of view. His lawyers, of course, believe that he's mentally ill. And also, we spoke to Reverend Al Archer. He ran a mission out on the west coast where John Muhammad stayed first with his three children, with his wife, Mildred Muhammad, and then later with Lee Boyd Malvo. Archer was very suspicious of what he saw Muhammad doing with Malvo, but he feels also that he's mentally ill, that he should not be executed. He's very upset to see this happening tonight. Heidi, back to you.", "All right. CNN's Jeanne Meserve. Jeanne, thanks so much. And just as we are talking about the D.C. sniper, we want to get this breaking news to you out of New York state. In fact, a hostage is apparently being held at a high school. We want to go ahead and get Gregg Pulver on the phone now. He is the Pine Plains town supervisor, actually on the scene of what's going on to find out exactly the latest here. Gregg, if you can hear me OK, our understanding is that at Stissing Mountain High School there, there's apparently a hostage that is being held by a gunman inside the school and is it true that you believe it could be the principal of that high school?", "Yes. We are -- we are being told that it's an administrator. At this point, we're also being told it is a principal. There are two principals, so we are unclear which one at this point. We do believe, though, it may be the high school principal.", "This happened, I believe, after kids came to school, is that correct? Where is everybody else in the high school at this time?", "The school is under lockdown. They have the gunman contained to a single room. He is being monitored. They have been in communication by phone with him. As I said, they are considering this a hostage situation. They are trying to negotiate and they are keeping the students under lockdown until they have -- you know, until they're confident of an evacuation plan.", "Yes.", "We are asking all parents to go to the Stissing House parking lot in the center of town. It's a restaurant. That's way if there is a -- that way when they're released or can be a reunification in a single spot. So that's where people should go for updates, parents, and hopefully we see this as a good outcome and...", "Well, Gregg, I have to ask you. Boy, as you hear information like that, I'm considering if parents are listening at home right now, this is two hours from New York City, I understand. The children are in an area that is completely separate from where this is going on? I mean, they have been isolated, in a way?", "They have him isolated. The students are in their classrooms.", "OK.", "Are locked down. You know, there are police in the building. They are safe, at this point in time. And we have no reason to believe that they will not become safe. You know, as this comes to a conclusion. So they are -- you know the police -- we have the state police MRT, the Mobile Response Team. We have the Duchess County Sheriff's SWAT team, as well as -- you know, you can imagine, a lot, a lot of police here at this point.", "Absolutely. Is there any idea on who the gunman is? Are we talking about a student possibly?", "No, it seems like an adult. I hate -- I don't want to use the term \"parent,\" because we don't know if the person has any kids in the school. At this point, it is an adult. It is not a student.", "OK. And just to give a little bit of detail here, we're talking about -- about 500 kids, about 100 staff members, so that's 600 people or so that are in the building, potentially, at this time, right?", "Correct.", "All right. And so you're working on the evacuation plan and probably most encouraging, and I just want to make sure we point that out, once again, is that the gunman is in contact and so they are negotiating with him as we speak?", "That is my understanding. That they have been in contact with him. That they are currently negotiating a peaceful end to this.", "Of course.", "We all pray. We all pray for that, obviously.", "Absolutely. Well, Gregg, we're going to stay in touch with you, because we want to make sure that we continue to get all the latest information out about this pretty scary situation. One of two principals being held hostage by a gunman inside of Stissing Mountain High School. This area is Pine Plains, New York. And Gregg Pulver, Pine Plains town supervisor, was just talking with us. Gregg, thanks so much. Again, this area is about two hours north of New York City. We will absolutely monitor the situation and bring you anymore details just as soon as we get them here. Right now, though, if you would like to do something to help the victims at Fort Hood, Texas, but just aren't sure how, Josh Levs is here to give us some ideas on what you can do. Good morning to you, Josh.", "Good morning to you, Heidi. Absolutely. We do have a list of places that will help you reach out to help those affected by the tragedy at Fort Hood. 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{"id": "CNN-366598", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-04-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/08/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Texas Tech vs. Virginia For National Title Tonight.", "utt": ["All right, NCAA bracket, my favorite topic of conversation of late. Both of us did pretty well. We had a good run.", "I'm -- I'm in seventh. And I didn't even do my bracket. Brian Tetsler (ph), who produces this show every day, behind the camera, you can't see him, he did mine and I thought I was like last and I'm seventh, Jim.", "Well, I'm going to lose to the -- to the much smarter Ana Cabrera regardless of what happens tonight. But we're not going to say where Andy Scholes is in that list --", "Right.", "Because I can't count that high. You know, I went to a lot of school. I can't count that high. But how's it going, Andy? It's going to be a big night.", "It's going to be a big night. I'm not too far behind you guys, just so you know. I'm like in ninth place, Jim.", "Double digits.", "But props to you for having both Texas Tech and Virginia in your final four. That was not a very popular pick. Neither team has ever won a men's college basketball championship, so we will see some history later tonight. For Texas Tech, I mean, this would be huge. They've never won a men's championship, really, in anything. The only team sports title they have to their name is a women's basketball championship back in 1993. And that team is still so revered in Lubbock, Texas, that they named a freeway after the coach, Marsha Sharp. And, unfortunately, the students there at Texas Tech not quite accustomed to handling all this success yet after Saturday night's big win. They were setting some fires, turning over cars. I asked the Red Raider players yesterday what they thought about those images and what messages they had for their fellow students.", "Don't burn down Lubbock, you know, you know, before we can get back. You know, I just hope nobody gets hurt. But, you know, I heard it was crazy out there.", "Enjoy the moment. Don't do nothing to crazy. But, I mean, keep the city there for us when we get back.", "Calm down. It seems like they're losing their minds. Sometimes you just have to like chill out a little bit. I'm glad that they're having fun. END"], "speaker": ["SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "SCIUTTO", "SCHOLES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE"]}
{"id": "CNN-96295", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2005-7-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/22/lol.01.html", "summary": "Bombing Investigation Extends Far Beyond London", "utt": ["We're live from Washington, D.C., and we're talking about the London bombing investigation extending far from London, to South Asia and the Northwestern United States. CNN's Rusty Dornin has been tracing a possible link here.", "There are a web of connections between the London attacks, the Dar-es Salaam Mosque in Seattle and this desolate ranch in Bly, Oregon. We start with this man. He was born in Seattle, as James Ernest Thompson. When he quest converted to Islam he changed his name to James Ujaama. He attended the mosque on Union Street, which has since been torn down. But in July, 2002, he was arrested for terrorist activities and later pleaded guilty to conspiring to support the Taliban in Afghanistan. U.S. authorities say he didn't work alone. That he had, in the technical jargon of court papers, three \"unindicted coconspirators.\" Of the three men, who were not named in the documents, investigators say it is coconspirator number three who is now getting attention from British authorities in connection with the London attacks. (on camera): Officials familiar with both the London investigation and the Ujaama case say his name is Haroon Rashid Aswat and that he provided some type of support to the now-dead London bombers and left Britain just days before the attacks. (voice-over): What is he alleged to have done in the U.S.? The court documents say he traveled here to Bly, Oregon, to help set up a terrorist training camp. In 1999, while visiting the potential camp along with Ujaama and others to work up a security plan, according to the court documents, Aswat interviewed potential candidates for jihad training and participated in firearms training. All of this allegedly went on right under the nose of their neighbors.", "If it was happening, I'd know it. I live across from that ranch. If there was any automatic fire out there. We'd have heard it right here in the center of town.", "The court documents allege Aswat went to Seattle in 2000 where he quote, \"expounded on the writings and teaching of radical British cleric Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri.\" Ujaama, meanwhile, went to London to work on Abu Hamza's Web site. Abu Hamza is now jailed in London and wanted by U.S. authorities to stand trial on terrorism charges. So where is Haroon Rashid Aswat, the man who went to Oregon to set up the terror camp? Officials with knowledge of the London investigation say before his latest visit to Britain, he was last known to be in South Africa, and now there's a worldwide manhunt for him. Rusty Dornin, CNN, Seattle, Washington.", "It's summer and it's hot. We know that. But in certain places, the heat is proving unbearable, even dangerous. For over a week now, the Southwest has seen temperatures reach triple digits. In Phoenix, Arizona, at least 18 people have died from the unrelenting heat, most of them homeless. Well, the heat is now enveloping Chicago, where it's expected to hit 100 degrees this weekend. Nancy Loo with our affiliate WFED is in Grand Park, where they're getting ready for a big event. Hi, Nancy.", "Hi, there. It's not too bad right now. It's a bearable 80-something degrees around here, but there is growing concern here in Chicago. It is expected to reach the triple digits by Sunday. I'm standing next to the setup and preparation for Lollapalooza Chicago. Some hot bands are expected this weekend, including Weezer and the Killers. You can see tents are being set up and they're going to put up misting fans because 70,000 people are expected to pack into Grand Park here in Chicago over the next couple of days. And of course, city officials are warning that this weather may be a killer. So everyone is being warned. The concert-goers and everyone in Chicago, warned to take precaution. I'm standing in front of Chicago's famous Buckingham Fountain. And that, of course, will be a popular stop over the next few days as the temperature heads even higher.", "All right, Nancy Loo, we'll follow up with you. Thank you so much. Well, how hot is it going to get where you are?"], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CHESTER BROWN, BLY, OREGON RESIDENT", "DORNIN", "PHILLIPS", "NANCY LOO, WFED REPORTER", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-294863", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2016-09-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/24/ndaysat.01.html", "summary": "Florida Nightclub Shooting 911 Call Audio Released", "utt": ["44 minutes past the hour right now, and newly-released 9-11 calls reveal a closer look, let's say, into what happened at the Pulse Nightclub mass shooting back in June.", "Yes, we're hearing more of what the gunman told 9-11 operators and police negotiators during that stand-off in the club in Orlando. 49 people, you'll remember, were killed, 53 others were wounded. Here's CNN's Miguel Marquez.", "In the midst of the unfolding horror and chaos, people fleeing, others shot being carried from the bar. In the end, hundreds of calls to 9-11 operators.", "Yes, we have gunshots at Pulse.", "Perhaps the most disturbing of all, one call came from the shooter himself, Omar Mateen. Even just the transcript is chilling. \"This is Mateen. I want to let you know I'm in Orlando, and I did the shooting.\" The 9-11 operator tries to engage him. \"What's your name\", says the operator. \"My name is I pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State.\" The operator continues to try and engage Mateen, but almost as soon as the call starts, he hangs up. As the massacre unfolded, Mateen called 9-11 several times, and operators desperately tried to call him back. It's not clear there was ever any more discussion between Mateen and the 9-11 operators. For three excruciating hours, Mateen held up in the building, at first moving through the club looking for victims. For the first time, we're seeing the actual attempted negotiations between police and Mateen. \"You have to tell America to stop bombing Syria and Iraq\", Mateen tells negotiators. \"They are killing a lot of innocent people. What am I to do here, when my people are getting killed over there? You get what I'm saying?\" The gunman telling police his attack on the nightclub was in retaliation for an airstrike that killed ISIS leader Abu Waheeb, an Iraqi who fought the U.S. during the insurgency in the Iraq war, and later joined ISIS as a military commander. \"That's what triggered it, OK?\" Mateen tells negotiators. It's unclear why Mateen attached such importance to Abu Waheeb's death. Nothing in the transcript tells us why. Mateen mentioned other terrorist attacks, like the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, that killed three, and injured hundreds. \"My homeboy, Tamerlan Tsarnaev\", says Mateen, \"did his thing in the Boston Marathon. My homeboy did his thing, OK? So now it's my turn, OK?\" He told negotiators he was wearing a vest, teasing them at times about whether or not it was explosive, and whether bombs were in his car. No explosives were ever found. Mateen threatened, \"your people are going to get it, and I'm going to ignite it if they try to do anything stupid.\" Mateen was finally killed when police stormed the building shortly after 5 AM, more than three hours after the shooting began, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, 49 people dead. Miguel Marquez, CNN, New York.", "Well the worst Santa Ana winds of the season are fueling a wildfire threat in southern California. Meteorologist Allison Chinchar has been looking at it. What are you learning, Allison?", "And good morning to you. Yeah, we take a look at what we've got going on for you here today. The winds are going to peak today, with the temperatures peaking tomorrow, and it's that combination of the two that could potentially fuel some fires. We'll have some more details coming up."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED CALLER", "MARQUEZ", "PAUL", "ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST"]}
{"id": "CNN-307061", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2017-03-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/07/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Will Republicans Investigate Wiretapping Allegations?; House to Probe Trump Wiretap Claim in Hearings This Month.", "utt": ["Happening now, breaking news: work in progress. The president publicly embraces the House GOP's health care bill, with many crucial details like the cost still a mystery. Tonight, rebel Republicans are blasting their own party's plan as Obamacare-lite. Is it dead on arrival? Not backing down. The White House says Mr. Trump has no regrets about claiming President Obama tapped his phones during the campaign. The accuser in chief still failing to offer any proof, as Congress agrees to investigate. CIA breached. WikiLeaks claims to reveal the agency's secret hacking operation using high-tech phones and TVs to spy on people worldwide. I will ask the former CIA Director Leon Panetta for his response to this truly stunning allegation. And Russian dressing down. The president's nominee for deputy attorney general feeling the heat at his confirmation hearing. Did Democrats get anywhere in demanding a special prosecutor investigate the Trump campaign's contacts with Moscow? We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "Breaking news this hour: The House Intelligence Committee chairman sets a date for the first public investigation of Russia's alleged election meddling and potential ties to the Trump campaign. The chairman, Devin Nunes, announcing a hearing will be held on March 20 that will also look into Mr. Trump's claim that President Obama had his phones tapped during the campaign. Nunes joining other top Republicans in acknowledging that he's seen no evidence that the wiretaps actually happened, this as the White House says Mr. Trump has no regret about making the truly stunning claim without offering a shred of proof. Also breaking, President Trump says he's proud to support the House Republican health care bill. He's warning fellow Republicans that the party will suffer a bloodbath in the 2018 midterm if they fail to repeal and replace Obamacare. Republican opposition is growing, though, with conservatives coming forward to push for changes in the legislation they're dismissing as Obamacare-lite. The fate of the measure is now in question, as both parties seek critical details, including a price tag and how many people would gain or lose coverage. Tonight, there are also urgent new questions about CIA spying techniques and the agency's security after the latest bombshell from WikiLeaks. The group posting what it claims are internal CIA documents that describe software used by the United States to break into computers, smartphones and even Internet-connected TVs. I will talk about that and more with former Obama Defense Secretary and former CIA Director Leon Panetta. And our correspondents and expert analysts, they are also standing by. First, let's go to our senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. Jim, the president is ramping up his public show of support for the House Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.", "Yes, he is, Wolf, but this was not a united Republican front on health care today. President Trump did throw his support behind the House Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, but some influential conservatives were howling over the proposal, with some calling it Obamacare-lite. And barely after the ink was dry, conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation and FreedomWorks announced their opposition along with the House Freedom Caucus. But sitting down with House Republicans who are backing the plan, the president said he does favor the proposal. Here's what he had to say.", "I'm proud to support the replacement plan released by the House of Representatives and encouraged by members of both parties. I think really that we're going to have something that's going to be much more understood and much more popular than people can even imagine.", "But the House is only one half of the equation. More evidence of the split inside the GOP over health care, four Republican senators announced they're concerned about plans to scale back Medicaid coverage. That, of course, is a key pillar of Obamacare. And Ohio Governor John Kasich, one of the president's old campaign foes, said today is a bad idea to scale back Medicaid as part of this effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. Wolf, the new HHS secretary, Tom Price, was over here at the White House today calling all of this a work in progress. Indeed, it is.", "Jim, the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, held his first on-camera briefing in about a week. You were able to press him on the president's claim that his phones over at Trump Tower in New York were tapped under the direct order of President Obama. Explain what happened.", "That's right. Well, simply put, Wolf, the White House once again declined to provide any evidence to back up the president's claims that he was bugged by former President Obama. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the president has no plans to withdraw the accusation, insisting he has no regrets about making this allegation. I asked him about all of that earlier today. Here's what he had to say.", "The president made a very serious allegation over the weekend, and I think we would all be remiss if we went through this briefing and not try to get you on camera to at least offer some evidence. Where's the evidence, where is the proof that President Obama bugged President Trump?", "Well, I answered this question yesterday on camera on your air, so just so we're clear, I know this will now be twice. But I think I made it clear yesterday...", "Since yesterday?", "Nothing has changed. No, it's not a question of new proof or less proof or whatever. The answer is the same. And I think that -- which is that I think that there is a concern about what happened in the 2016 election. The House and Senate Intelligence Committee have the staff and the capabilities and the processes in place to look at this in a way that's objective. And that's where it should be done. And, frankly, if you have seen the response from -- especially on the House side, as well as the Senate, they welcome this. And so let's let the Senate do their job, and the House, Intelligence Committees, and then report back to the American people.", "Will the president withdraw the accusation? Does he have any...", "Why would he withdraw it until it's adjudicated? That's what we're asking. It's for them to look at this and see if there is...", "No regrets from him about raising this accusation?", "No, absolutely not.", "Now, the White House was also being very careful today about questions of confidence in the FBI director, who privately raised questions of his own about these unfounded claims from the president of bugging Trump Tower. Asked if the president still supports Jim Comey, the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, Wolf, said he has no reason to believe that the president does not. But, Wolf, you have to question whether the strategy that the White House is implementing here is the right one. Keep in mind, earlier today, the House Republican Intelligence Committee chairman, Devin Nunes, said he plans to hold hearings on this coming up, and that if you look at the slew of people who may be invited to testify, from the DNI, Jim Clapper, to John Brennan, the former CIA director, Jim Comey, the FBI director, this could really open up a Pandora's box up on Capitol Hill and implode in ways that the White House never intended -- Wolf.", "Yes, and both Republican chairmen of the two Intelligence Committees say they have seen no evidence yet to back up what the president said. All right, Jim Acosta, thank you very much. Let's get some more on the president's wiretap claim and the pressure to offer up at least some evidence, even as Congress prepares to investigate. CNN's Jessica Schneider is with me here. Jessica, the Trump White House clearly not backing down from this allegation.", "Yes, Wolf, they're not backing down. But they're also not backing up their claims with any evidence. Press Secretary Sean Spicer today saying the White House will not offer specifics on the wiretap allegations and will only continue to call for those reviews and the congressional investigations.", "Tonight, the White House refusing to comment on the president's accusation that, as president, Barack Obama ordered Trump's phones tapped when he was a candidate, but the White House reiterating the president's desire to investigate leaks to the press.", "As the president said in a statement on Sunday, we believe that that investigation, as well as the investigation of other classified leaks and other important information that threatens our national security, be looked into by the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.", "The House Intelligence Committee announcing public hearings on the Russia charges, including wiretapping, beginning March 20. Witnesses will include FBI Director James Comey and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who was fired by Trump. The House Intelligence Committee chairman saying he hasn't seen the wiretap evidence.", "I have not seen that evidence. As you know, I think a lot of that was maybe a little bit -- the multiple tweets were, perhaps, a little bit strung together, but I think the bigger question that needs to be answered is whether or not Mr. Trump or any of his associates were, in fact, targeted by any of the intelligence agencies or law enforcement authorities.", "The wiretap accusations now also part of the Senate Intelligence Committee's comprehensive investigation. The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, saying it's up to the Intelligence Committee to investigate. When asked if he's seen evidence the former president wiretapped Trump, his response?", "No, I haven't.", "The Justice Department staying mum on the issue. Earlier today, Attorney General Sessions refused to refute the president's allegation.", "Sorry. No comment this morning.", "All of this as Rod Rosenstein was grilled on Capitol Hill in his confirmation hearing to become Sessions' deputy. Now that Sessions has recused himself from the investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, Rosenstein would be the one in charge.", "I certainly did read about the tweets that were reported over the weekend, yes.", "What was your reaction?", "I don't think it's appropriate for me to share my reaction, Senator. If the president is exercising his First Amendment rights, that's not my issue.", "Rosenstein also facing relentless questioning on whether he would appoint a special prosecutor, but he danced around numerous questions on whether that special counsel is necessary.", "So, I'm trying to figure out what your bottom line is. I interpret that as a no. Is that fair?", "Well, I don't know, Senator. I think the answer is, I'm simply not in a position to answer the question because I don't know the information that they know, the folks who are in the position to make that decision.", "Republicans seeking to shut down the questions. Rosenstein also confronting lingering anger toward Attorney General Sessions.", "I think Senator Sessions should come back. I think he owes it to this committee to come back and to explain himself.", "Senator Franken still stewing seven weeks after A.G. Sessions told him he was not aware of Trump campaign contacts with Russia.", "And I consider what Senator Franken asked Sessions at that late moment that that story just came out as a gotcha question.", "It was not a gotcha question, sir.", "It was, from the standpoint he didn't know what you were asking about.", "And Senator Al Franken tonight telling CNN he has come to the conclusion that Attorney General Sessions -- quote -- \"perjured himself\" when Sessions said he had no contact with Russian officials. Franken did point out that he never even directly asked Sessions a question on that subject during his confirmation hearing. Senator Franken tonight also saying that Sessions' response letter addressing the discrepancy was -- quote -- \"ridiculous,\" Wolf, and he does want Sessions to come back before the committee to explain himself.", "At some point, he will have no choice. He will have to come back before the committee which oversees the Justice Department. Jessica Schneider, thanks for the report. Let's get some reaction to all of these dramatic developments. Leon Panetta served as the defense secretary of the United States and the CIA director under President Obama. Mr. Panetta is joining us now. Thanks so much, Secretary, for joining us.", "Nice to be you, Wolf.", "The president called it a fact. He used the word fact. And Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told me last night that if President Trump is making these claims, \"He's got his reasons to say it. He's got some convincing evidence that took place.\" That's what Kelly said. Do you believe there's any evidence to back up this assertion that President Obama illegally wiretapped Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York during the campaign?", "No, I don't. You know, we have heard directly from the head of intelligence, former head of intelligence, the DNI, who said that no such wiretap took place. And we have heard stories from the FBI that indicate that they did not engage in any kind of wiretap. Those are the two agencies that have the responsibility to request wiretaps. They didn't do it. So, there is no evidence to support what the president has alleged.", "What could the consequences of President Trump's claim be?", "You know, Wolf, I -- I just find it very difficult when someone who's president of the United States engages in throwing out these kinds of allegations without any evidence to support it. I mean, this is the president of the United States, and he has a responsibility to speak the truth to the American people. And when he engages in these kind of tweets and throws out these kinds of allegations, I think he weakens the office of the presidency. So I'm very concerned. I sense that the White House is in a bunker mentality in which, you know, they think everybody is against them. And the president feeling that way is now tweeting out anything he wants to say in an effort to try to divert attention from, I think, their concern about what's happening with the investigation on the Russian situation.", "The Senate -- the House Intelligence Committee chairman, Devin Nunes, he just said this a little while ago. Let me play the clip for you, what he said about the president's claims and his tweets.", "The president is a neophyte to politics. He's been doing this a little over a year, and I think a lot of the things that he says, you guys sometimes take literally. Sometimes, he doesn't have 27 lawyers and staff looking at what he does, which is I think at times refreshing and at times can also lead us to have to be sitting at a press conference like this answering questions that you guys are asking.", "All right, you just heard the chairman call him a neophyte, new to politics, said sometimes he's taken too literally. Is that fair for him to say that? Is there room not to be taken literally when you are the president of the United States and you make these statements on Twitter or elsewhere? \"Terrible. Just found out that Obama had my wires tapped in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism.\" Should we not take the president at his word?", "You know, I think President Trump has to understand that he is now president of the United States, that he won the election in last November and he became president of the greatest country on Earth. He's not the head of \"The Apprentice\" show. He's not a TV personality. He doesn't have, you know, the convenience of basically saying whatever he wants to the American people and to the world without substantiating that there is any kind of truth to what he's saying. He just -- he can't do that as president of the United States, without damaging the office of the presidency and without damaging our country. So, look, presidents of the United States have a staff. They're supposed to have people around them who are able to determine what the truth is. And a president who is responsible will take the time to ask that staff and the people who are working for him, what is the truth and what can I say? And when they provide that truth, then the president can speak. But for him to just throw out these kinds of accusations without any, any bit of evidence to support it, I think, creates a very dangerous precedent in the office of the presidency.", "Because you would think that before he would make a serious charge like this against President Obama, he would at least consult with his FBI director, James Comey, who would know, if, in fact, it were true. We're told there was no consultation, no conversation then or even in the days since. CNN has reported, you probably know this, that Comey was incredulous when he found out what the president was tweeting very early, 6:30 in the morning, Saturday morning. Here's the question to you, Mr. Secretary. Should Comey speak publicly about this and release the facts?", "Well, I'm assuming that the FBI director has made clear that this was not the case and has asked the attorney general and the Justice Department to indicate that. He's going to he's going to be called to testify, and I assume he will have the opportunity to say just that. But to have to go through these kinds of games that are being played right now -- and they're dangerous games, where the credibility of the FBI and the credibility of our intelligence agencies are called into question -- is just sending a terrible message, not only to the American people, but to the world. I mean, everybody's asking, what the hell is going on in Washington, D.C., right now? And when that happens, it weakens us. It weakens our country. Now, look, the president is going to have to try to get legislation through the Congress. He's going to have to try to deal with, you know, the whole issue of the Affordable Care Act. He's got to deal with the issue of whether or not we're going to fund infrastructure. He's got to deal with tax reform. If a president undermines his credibility by doing what he did over these last few days, he's going to weaken his power to be able to have any influence over the legislation that he wants to get through the Congress. That just puts us in a very dangerous moment in the history of this country.", "Mr. Secretary, I want you to stand by. There's a lot more happening right now, including WikiLeaks releasing what it says is hard evidence of CIA espionage techniques. We will have that and a lot more when we come back."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "THE SITUATION ROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-234886", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2014-07-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/18/cg.01.html", "summary": "Interview With New York Congressman Peter King", "utt": ["We now know that at least one U.S. citizen was on Malaysia Air Flight 17 when it was shot down. If you connect the dots, does Vladimir Putin have American blood on his hands? I'm Jake Tapper. This is THE LEAD. The world lead. The U.S. government believes that the missile that shot down flight 17 came from an area of Ukraine controlled by Russian-backed separatists. So how guilty does that make Vladimir Putin in all this? If you choose to believe him, not at all. And he was the only known American on board Flight 17, what we're learning about him and the nearly 300 other victims who died with him. And also in world news, flares in the night sky over Gaza, as Israeli boots march below, Israel pushing a ground offensive and warning, this may be only the beginning. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Jake Tapper. Welcome to THE LEAD. We're going to begin with the world lead, of course. His name was Quinn Lucas Schansman. He was a dual American-Dutch citizen, he was a young man, and he was one of the 298 people on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 when it was shot down, most likely by a surface-to-air missile, shot, the Obama administration believes, from a section of Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists. Now, a senior defense official tells CNN that the working theory in the U.S. government is that the Russian military supplied the rebels with the Buk missile system used to shoot down the plane. President Obama personally confirmed that at least one American was on board and he demanded an immediate cease-fire in Eastern Ukraine among Russia, the separatists and the Ukrainian government. He also called for a -- quote -- \"credible international investigation\" into what happened. The president repeated an accusation today that U.S. officials have been making for months, that Russia is pulling the strings on these rebels.", "They are heavily armed and they are trained. And we know that that's not an accident. That is happening because of Russian support. It is not possible for these separatists to function the way they're functioning without sophisticated equipment and sophisticated training, and that is coming from Russia.", "And yet Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has denied any Russian involvement in stirring up any of the unrest in Ukraine, despite Ukraine's government claiming to have photographic proof of Russian soldiers waltzing around with guns inside their country, well, Putin, he blames Ukraine for the downed plane.", "I want to emphasize that this tragedy would not have happened if there were peace on that land, and, in any case, if the military activities had not resumed in the southeast of Ukraine, and, of course, the state over which territory it happened is responsible for this terrible tragedy.", "The mere act of investigating this atrocity has proven to become dangerous. European inspectors report shots fired near the crash site. And their spokesman says they have only been allowed to inspect about 200 yards of debris at the scene. The debris of course goes on for miles. They're hoping to find the black boxes, the plane's data recorder and cockpit recorder. But there are fears among the Ukrainians the rebels may have already found the black boxes and handed them over to Russia. I want to get to our Phil Black standing by live in Donetsk, Ukraine. Phil, what are you hearing about access being limited at the site of the crash?", "Well, Jake, I can tell you we have moved out of Donetsk and we have actually just arrived at the site of the crash just as we speak right now. We're near the town of Grabovo, which is further east of Donetsk. it's very late here, 11:00 p.m. It is dark. It is remote. The roads out this way, they are pretty terrible. It's taken some hours to travel this way working our way through rebel checkpoints. But we have just arrived. We're just starting to see things right now. We have just seen for the first time a large piece of what clearly looks like part of the fuselage of the MH17. We're seeing what appears to be the beginnings of a recovery operation, an organized effort, which we're told is being put together and run by local administrations from the Donetsk region not connected directly to the central government in Kiev, but these are local authorities, local administration. We don't know how much progress they're making just yet, as I say, dark, difficult to see. But we have gotten an indication from those European observers who were the first international team to get on the ground here today, and they talked about experiencing a great deal of hostility from the rebels here, and, also, disturbingly, talked about seeing some of the bodies already decomposing in the sun. So, clearly a lot of work to be done here, and access here is very difficult. But access is what will be needed to investigators, to recovery efforts and so forth in order to get the evidence and also recover the bodies of the people who so tragically lost their lives on this flight, Jake.", "Phil Black, thank you so much. Stay safe. As we have reported, U.S. intelligence indicates that the missile that brought down Flight 17 was fired from an area of Eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists. But what is the evidence for this claim? Well, Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr joins us now live from the Pentagon. Barbara, behind the scenes, how did U.S. intelligence come to this conclusion?", "You know, Jake, it's just like a bunch of cops looking at a crime scene. And that's what this is, looking for who had the means and the motive. They had two pieces of intelligence to start. U.S. intelligence, satellites and radars saw two things. They saw a surface-to-air missile system radar being turned on, emitting a signal. They also saw the heat signature of a major explosion in the sky not too far away. That was the starting point. They then worked their way backwards and plotted the trajectories of both the missile and aircraft and came up with what they believe was the point of impact over this area of Ukraine that is controlled by Russian separatists. Now, for several weeks, U.S. commanders have been warning that the Russians have been transferring heavy weapons across the border. So what about this surface-to-air missile system? Well, they kept looking. There are two Russian systems that would have the capability to even do this, the warhead power, the guidance, the distance, the range. One is not in that region at all. The other one is this, the Buk, known by the U.S. as the SA-11, known by the Russians as the Buk. This is essentially what was left standing once they eliminated all the other possibilities. The question now, did the Russians actually send this Buk system over the border from Russia into this area of Ukraine? The Pentagon says it's not sure about that point yet, but what the Pentagon press secretary, Admiral John Kirby, said today was, in his words, it strains credulity to think that the separatists could have done this all on their own. They get the training, the advice, the help from the Russians. This is a very complicated system to operate. Not very likely they did it all by themselves.", "Barbara Starr at the Pentagon, thank you so. The Ukrainians also say they have intercepted phone calls between Russian forces and pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine, talking about moving the kind of weaponry believed to have brought down this passenger jet, that Buk missile system, across the border before the crash. Let's take a listen to that audio.", "Where do we have to unload this beauty? Nikolaiovich?", "Yes, yes but that one which I delivered. I am already in Donetsk.", "Is this what I am thinking about, B, M? That one?", "Yes. Yes. Buk. Buk.", "Is she on the truck?", "Yes, she is on there. We need to unload her somewhere to hide it.", "Let's bring in Congressman Peter King. He's a member of the Homeland Security Committee and a chairman of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. He's a Republican from New York State. Congressman King, this information comes directly from the Ukrainian government. Obviously, they have been fighting these rebels. Obviously, they are against what they allege Russia is doing in supporting these rebels. How much stock do you put in this intelligence?", "I would put a lot into it, even standing by itself. But when you combine it with everything else we know, as Barbara Starr laid out, to me there's a very convincing case here, compelling case that these -- that this is Russian weaponry. There's no other place it could have come from except for Russia. And there's no way that these separatists would have been able to operate this equipment either without a tremendous amount of training from the Russians or even having a Russian special operator there with them. So Russia has to be ultimately responsible at the very least for criminal negligence, and in the world of international politics and diplomacy, they have to bear responsibility. Transferring weapons of this magnitude to a rebel group, you have to be responsible for the consequences. I'm not aware of this happening before, any weapons of this type being given by a major power to a splinter group or a secessionist or insurrectionist group.", "So, does Putin have blood on his hands with this plane crash?", "Putin is responsible. If you want to use the expression blood on his hands, I would say yes. As a world leader, he has to know that when he transfers weaponry of this sophistication, which is so lethal, he has to be responsible for the consequences for that. An American died. So I would blame Putin for that. And I would also put responsibility on him for all of the others. He's the one who made the decision. If he had not transferred this equipment, it wouldn't have happened. And if he hadn't ordered the training of these secessionists to operate the equipment, it couldn't have happened. So, yes, in the world stage, he's responsible.", "So, Congressman, what should the consequences be? What would you advise President Obama to do?", "I was critical of President Obama yesterday for not being more assertive. I thought he was very effective today. I thought Ambassador Samantha Power was extremely effective at the United Nations. And Americans have to come together behind the president on this. I think though we need very strong economic sanctions, stronger than we have had. And I have urged actually that we consider having sanctions on Aeroflot, the Russian-owned airline, the government-owned airline, and deny them access to our airports, and not just the U.S. We get our Western allies to go along with that, because that would have a real economic impact and also tremendous symbolic impact. Putin is going to have to acknowledge that he is responsible for this. He's going to have to not only just make amends for it, but he has to I believe show that he's withdrawing all of this type of equipment from Eastern Ukraine and to have it back into Russia.", "Congressman, what can you tell us about the investigation into what precisely happened here?", "It's going to be difficult. We're talking about a crime scene. It's a crime scene that's spread over 10 miles. It's already been contaminated. And we don't know the where the black box is. Every piece of evidence is vital, and yet -- so I would say it's important for the OSCE to get in there, the OSCE to go in and for Russia to guarantee that they have safe passage in and out. Otherwise, the blood that Putin has on his hands is only going to be magnified. We can't go back to the old days of Stalin and Brezhnev and Khrushchev, where something like this is covered up. We live in a very international world today. And we depend on commerce. We depend upon certain ground rules being observed. And one of them is that you don't shoot down passenger airliners. And if a major power is involved in that, they have a real responsibility and Putin has to now try to undo some of the harm he's done by guaranteeing safe passage and access to an international investigation team going in there, right now, I would say initially by", "All right, Congressman Peter King of New York, thank you so much. Coming up, Ukraine quick to point the finger at pro-Russian rebels for shooting down Flight 17. And they say those phone recorded conversations prove it. But how we do know they're authentic? Well, I will ask the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States coming up next. Plus, scientists, students, babies traveling home or on summer vacation, the tragic stories of the lives lost on Flight 17 in the words of the family members and the loved ones they left behind."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "TAPPER", "VLADIMIR PUTIN, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT (through translator)", "TAPPER", "PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "TAPPER", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-155205", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2010-9-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/03/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Massive Earthquake Hits New Zealand; Hurricane Earl's Path; NASA Tests Next Generation Rocket", "utt": ["As the shuttle program draws to a close, NASA is testing the next generation rocket, but what if it does not make the cut? Here is CNN's John Zarrella.", "Three, two, one, fire.", "The test firing of the 154-foot Ares rocket lasted just about two minutes. Pretty cool. Well, enjoy, because this could be the last time that candle is ever lit. The Ares, built here in Promontory, Utah by ATK Aerospace, was going to be the backbone of the future -- the rocket that propelled astronauts to the Space Station, the moon and some day Mars. The problem is -- and it's sort of a big problem -- no one can agree whether this is the rocket they want. The White House wants something new, much bigger and cutting edge for deep space missions. So does", "We have always had big dreams, but we have all -- we have also always failed to match the -- the -- the budget or the funding to those dreams. I think, for the first time, at least that I can remember, a president has matched the funding to the dreams.", "Meanwhile, commercial companies like SpaceX want to take over the shuttle's role of ferrying astronauts to the Space Station. For its part, Congress is leaning toward continuing the development of Ares, but one more powerful than this one, just in case cutting edge doesn't cut it because it doesn't yet exist.", "It's really a matter of money. If Congress is asking NASA with its own resources to divert some resources to keeping the Ares project alive, something else is going to suffer. It could be scientific missions, Mars missions, for example.", "Greg Kotter runs ATK's Ares rocket program. They've built rockets here for more than 30 years including every space shuttle, solid rocket booster. The Ares is an evolution of that booster, bigger and more powerful. One billion dollars has already been spent on its development and until the funding runs out and someone tells them to stop --", "We're working as if, you know, this is what we're going to do. I mean, that's our direction and what we're under contract to do and how we're behaving.", "In coming months Ares' future will likely be decided by NASA, Congress and the White House. Aries program supporters say if it's completely abandoned then this test was quite literally your tax dollars going up in smoke. John Zarrella, CNN, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.", "And you are in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now, breaking news: a devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake causing widespread damage in New Zealand's second largest city. We will get a live update this hour from the scene of the disaster. Also, new numbers on the U.S. economy are putting new pressure on President Obama and the Democrats, with midterm elections just two months away. What can they do to turn it around? And a controversial device designed to prevent loitering, we're going to show you how it takes advantage of age to specifically target teenagers. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You are in THE SITUATION ROOM. The Labor Day weekend here in the United States is beginning with a washout along the shores of the Northeastern parts of the United States, as Hurricane Earl moves in. It is a Category 1 storm right now packing some high surf and powerful winds, a force of nature that anyone disregards at their own risk. After some lashing of the North Carolina coast, Earl now poses the greatest threat to eastern Long Island and Cape Cod and then on to Canada. Our national correspondent Susan Candiotti is joining us now from South Yarmouth, Massachusetts. She is standing by. Susan, stand by for a moment. I want to get the latest forecast from our meteorologist and severe weather expert Chad Myers over at the CNN Hurricane Center. What do we know about this hurricane right now, Chad?", "Down to 80 miles per hour in the center. That is good. The problem is still, if you are going to do a vacation this weekend, just don't leave today. Leave tomorrow. This will be long gone. This will be 1,000 miles into Canada by tomorrow night, but from the cape down through Long Island and even into New Jersey, the weather today is not great. Travel is not that good, a lot of rain coming down and there's an awful lot of traffic on the roadways. Give it a day or give it a half a day and it will be great. It missed Cape Hatteras, thank goodness, because it was a big storm then. It was a large Category 2, small Category 3 at that time. And now it's going to skirt what would be Nantucket and also Cape Cod and here Montauk and into all of Long Island. And so the good news, the skirt happened because the storm finally did turn. And, Wolf, we talked about this last night; if this storm waited six more hours before it turned, this would be onshore. All of the winds would be significantly higher, probably double. The biggest wind gust we had was about 80. We could have had wind gusts easy to 120 to 130 miles per hour with this system. There is the eye of the cell right there. You can't see the whole thing because it is too far offshore. And we are happy it is offshore. There will be big waves all the way through the weekend all the way down the East Coast. If you are not a swimmer with a life jacket on, stay out of the water and go swim at the pool, because this is a weekend that will have rip currents all up and down the East Coast, even into Maine, although we don't really have all those sandbars up there, but whole up and down the East Coast, the surf is up for sure. The storm goes away. Look, by Saturday, this is well past Nova Scotia. So, it's just about done. Still hurricane warnings for the cape, for Nantucket and also almost back to Narragansett, but tropical storm watches, tropical storm warnings have been canceled for the rest of the trip up and down the East Coast. Give it a few hours and make a safe trip tomorrow, rather than try to force it today.", "It could have been a whole, whole lot worse.", "Oh, it would have been.", "Chad, thanks very much. Let's check in with Susan Candiotti right now. She's out on Cape Cod. What is it like there, Susan? Unfortunately, we are not hearing Susan.", "Susan, we weren't hearing you. Your microphone was not on for some reason, so start again. Tell us what you are seeing and what you are hearing.", "OK. Let me know if you are not hearing it yet. And then we will try to switch out microphones for you", "We are hearing you fine now.", "But if you -- terrific. If you can see over my shoulder, not too many whitecaps right now. It does not look bad at all. Of course, it's not expected to get bad for another, oh, six eight hours. It's not going to get bad until maybe midnight, 2:00 in the morning. And of course, we will be up for that. In the meantime, people here are as prepared as they can be. That is because the state worked hand in hand with FEMA to preposition some supplies here, water, food, generators, tarps, just in case. But obviously with the news that Earl appears to be staying offshore and here on the cape, itself, we will probably only be feeling hurricane- force gusts, that means people are breathing a slight sigh of relief. But they still have a full night of pounding surf and high winds to live through. Undoubtedly, there are going to be power outage. We are probably going to see downed trees and there is going to be flooding, because it floods here when it rains just a little bit. So, we are expecting all of that. In the meantime, the ports have all been closed since overnight. They have shut down all the ferries, so everyone better be where they are going to be and intend to be for this very long night ahead of them. The biggest area of concern right now frankly is Nantucket, but it is -- because it is closest to the path of the storm. And we have a crew there that will be watching and waiting to see what Earl has in store for Nantucket Island. But the people there, I talked with some of the residents, they are safe and secure. Unfortunately, as you said, this is just a bad weekend for the tourism trade here, a mainstay as you know of Cape Cod here. Some hotels have really taken a hit, only 40 percent occupancy. Here on the beach hotels, where we are in this area of Cape Cod, there are 4,000 available rooms. Only 100 tourists so far are in them. And we are part of that 100 number, Wolf -- back to you.", "Hopefully it will be normal, back to normal by tomorrow, Sunday and Monday. It is a long holiday weekend here in the United States.", "They expect it to be.", "All right, thanks, Susan, very much. Other important news we are following, unemployment ticking up a notch in August. The Labor Department reporting a 0.1 percent increase to 9.6 percent. The economy shed 54,000 jobs overall, many of them U.S. Census-related jobs, but the bigger picture is not quite as grim. The critical private sector did add 67,000 jobs, beating analyst expectations. What is not counted in all of this are the millions and millions of Americans who are way underemployed. They may have a job, but it is not the job they were trained for. CNN's Mary Snow has their story. Talk a little bit. Mary, you have been doing some checking of what we mean by the underemployed.", "Yes, and, Wolf, these are people who have become so discouraged they have either stopped looking for work or they take part-time work while looking for a full-time job. Now, the ranks of the underemployed can also include workers no longer able to use their skills or who have gotten big pay cuts , like the man you are about to meet. And counting the underemployed gives a fuller picture of the labor market.", "I knew things were going to get tough.", "But Richard Crane didn't know it would be this tough. Yes, he has found a full-time job after getting laid off, but he is underemployed. He now earns $16 an hour at Lowe's. He could not find work that used the skills of the job he had at a unit of General Motors operating heavy machines. There he earned as much as $130,000 a year.", "The overtime people used to make, you know, it is not there. It is not there. It is not. I see it every day. You know, I see it every day. I mean, what are we going to do? It is America. Where's our jobs?", "In his new job, Crane has taken a pay cut of almost $100,000. He is struggling to keep his house and provide for his son, now 14, and his wife, who is battling cancer. He has given up second jobs to spend more time at home. His story of taking a job below his skill level is all too familiar, but it is largely untold.", "I can't hazard a guess on what percentage of the labor force is facing that right now, but we do know that it is sizable and it is really impacting families.", "Heidi Shierholz is a labor economist with the Economic Policy Institute who says that what is measured are discouraged workers who have given up actively seeking employment and part-time workers looking for full-time jobs. And that amounts to an underemployment rate that stands at 16.7 percent. While she expects the labor force to recover to pre- recession levels, she say has the effects of losing a job have a lasting impact.", "So people like Richard are in the situation where they are likely to face that earning hits that can last for decades.", "And for Richard Crane, his goals are forever changed.", "When I was working for GM, I was looking forward to turning 56 and retiring, and, you know, maybe try doing something else or even go until I'm 62. Now, we are just -- there's no real plan. It's -- our plan is to get from month to month.", "And as for Americans living month to month, consider this. According to the Labor Department, one in six Americans are currently either unemployed or underemployed -- Wolf.", "All right. Sad, sad situation indeed for so many millions of Americans. Mary, thank you. Jack Cafferty is off today. Among the stories we are working on right here in THE SITUATION ROOM, President Obama dogged by a stagnant economy, so what should he do right now? I will ask the former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and \"The Wall Street Journal\" columnist John Fund. Also breaking news, we are getting new details right now of that magnitude-7.0 earthquake that caused extensive damage in New Zealand's second largest city. We are going there for a live update. And the new drill that could -- could potentially cut the rescue time for those trapped miners in Chile, maybe even cut that time in half."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "NASA. 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{"id": "CNN-378330", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2019-08-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/22/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Court Docs: El Chapo Associate Orders Hit From Prison.", "utt": ["The notorious drug lord El Chapo may be locked up in the toughest prison, but his cartel's reign of terror may be continuing behind bars. CNN's Brian Todd has been looking into this. What have you been learning, Brian?", "Brianna, tonight, we've learned that the tentacles of power of the convicted drug kingpin, who has a horrifying record of violence just on his own, could still be targeting potential witnesses even with El Chapo being held in a supermax prison.", "He is locked behind bars at America's most secure prison, convicted on multiple counts of drug trafficking. But tonight, CNN has learned the world's most dangerous drug lord may still be lording over his empire. Court documents say a trusted lieutenant of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman offered $25,000 to take out a hit on another former lieutenant while they were both in jail. The target, a former associate of El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel. The documents say the order was to, quote, split his head.", "I think it speaks volumes about how they can still use people in their network, whoever that might be, to send messages to rivals. I think it's not since the mafia, the real mob, years that we've heard of this kind of stuff going on.", "Court documents don't say the name of the target, but Damaso Lopez Serrano recently testified in court that he had learned that gang members had been offered $25,000 to beat him while he was held at a heavy security facility in Chicago. The hit was never carried out, and Lopez Serrano, according to law enforcement forces, was quickly moved to another facility for his safety. Lopez Serrano has been a key witness against members of the Sinaloa Cartel even though he was once among their top lieutenants and, analysts say, a godson of El Chapo's.", "I think Lopez Serrano is a very big threat to the cartel knowing as much as he does about the sons of Chapo Guzman, knowing as much as he does about Chapo himself. Now, remember, Chapo's been sentenced but that doesn't mean that Lopez Serrano doesn't know tons about Chapo's circle.", "Lawyers for the 62-year-old El Chapo say he is jailed at America's only supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. Experts say, likely, in a seven by 12-foot cell at least 23 hours a day. Former DEA agents tell us it's important that El Chapo be kept there, so he can't continue to run the cartel's operations.", "Let's understand something. The hallmarks are -- of organized crime are -- corruption, first. If they can't do that, they'll turn to intimidation. If intimidation doesn't work, then they'll inflict brute violence, right? And we've taken all of those things away from him, OK? He -- you know, right now, he can't manage the Sinaloa Cartel. And guess what, that's the position that he needs to stay in.", "At his trial, a former associate of El Chapo's testified that his former beauty queen wife, Emma Coronel, played a key role in one of the kingpin's legendary prison escapes although she was never charged. Could El Chapo and his associates get help in running the cartel and order running hits from Coronel?", "She has never shown any willingness to get involved in the -- the ordering, the facilitating of violence. That is an old-fashioned cartel rule. The women do not generally get involved in that.", "As for the target of the alleged prison hit attempt, Damaso Lopez Serrano, analysts say it is very likely that he'll be called to testify at the trials of other alleged drug traffickers. So prison officials could be under more pressure than they've ever been under to keep him safe while he's incarcerated, Brianna.", "And this former cartel associate who was targeted, he has his own track record of extreme violence, right?", "Brianna, he is no choir boy. Damaso Lopez Serrano has reportedly admitted having a hand in more than a dozen murders and close to two dozen kidnappings. He is said to have been very close to El Chapo's sons who are now believed to be running the Sinaloa Cartel. He was close to those sons until they all turned on each other.", "All right, Brian Todd, thank you so much for that report. Coming up, the hunt is on for a sniper who ambushed a sheriff's deputy in southern California. What is behind this attack? And the CEO of overstock.com resigns after revealing a sexual relationship with accused Russian agent Maria Butina."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TODD (voice-over)", "MALCOLM BEITH, AUTHOR, \"THE LAST NARCO: INSIDE THE HUNT FOR EL CHAPO, THE WORLD'S MOST WANTED DRUG LORD\"", "TODD (voice-over)", "BEITH", "TODD (voice-over)", "MICHAEL BRAUN, FORMER CHIEF OF OPERATIONS, DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION", "TODD (voice-over)", "BEITH", "TODD", "KEILAR", "TODD", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-198870", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2013-1-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/07/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Compete Home Automation Becoming Reality With Smartphones, Internet", "utt": ["Welcome back. Now we have some new pictures coming in to us right here at CNN. Let's bring it up for you. And it shows the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presumably on her way to work. Now it is her first day back since she was sidelined last month by a stomach virus followed by a concussion and a blood clot near her brain. Now Clinton was released Wednesday from a New York hospital. Now let's take a look at this picture. It's a high tech thermostat on display as part of the international Consumer Electronics Show which kicks off in Las Vegas this week. So why are we showing this to you? Well, because it can be powered by your smartphone. As Laurie Segall reports, it's part of a growing trend in app development.", "It's 10 below.", "Warm up your car with your Smartphone.", "Thank you for flying with us.", "Technology now possible and starting to take off.", "You're starting to see more products connect to the internet. And I think over time, it's starting to create the sort of home of the future where everything talks to each other and things happen automatically like the Jetsons vision.", "So, what does the home of the future look like?", "I've got a button on my phone that I can press and when I press it, right away it's off.", "Spark is a company building a product that connects items in your home with your Smartphone.", "Our first product is the socket and it's a little device that screws in your light bulb socket, it connects to the internet over Wi-Fi and lets you control your lights from Smartphone tablet, computer, wherever.", "The idea started as a technology built for the founder's father who is deaf.", "If I text him and he's at home he doesn't note if his Phone's not in his pocket. And so, I wanted to build something that would let his lights flash when he got a text message.", "Spark is one of several companies looking to make your home more connected. A company called smart things lets users attach wireless sensors around your house that make everything from your window to your refrigerator Smartphone controlled.", "What they're trying to build a hub in the middle of your home that allows hardware such as your scale, your stove, your door, your dog to talk to it and then software that allows you to be aware of what's going on. And so, it will send notifications, hey, your dog just went outside. Hey, you left your door open. The lights are on.", "Is it just the technology's smart enough now.", "The platforms have been built. And so, there's connectivity both in your pocket, through Wi-Fi, through 3G and LTE, but there is also connectivity at home.", "And major industry players are taking note. GE took the concept outside the home experimenting with sensors placing them on everything from wind turbines to measure efficiency to hospital patients to keep track of them in the building.", "You have this controller in your pocket that can enable you to do things that three, five ten years ago were wildly impossible.", "Laurie Segall, CNN Money, New York.", "Something else to lose if you lose your mobile phone. And that is News Stream. World Business Today is next. END"], "speaker": ["LU STOUT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SEGALL (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SEGALL", "ZACH SUPALLA, CEO, SPARK", "SEGALL", "SUPALLA", "SEGALL", "SUPALLA", "SEGALL", "SUPALLA", "SEGALL", "DAVID TISCH, INVENTOR, SMARTTHINGS", "SEGALL", "TISCH", "SEGALL", "TISCH", "SEGALL", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "NPR-41384", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2007-02-04", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7165872", "title": "Calderon and Chavez Trade Barbs over Economics", "summary": "Two of Latin America's most influential leaders — Mexico's Felipe Calderon and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez — had a public spat this week. Calderon's presidency faces major challenges, including price increases for basic foods. Chavez, however, is steadily consolidating power in pursuit of 21st Century socialism.", "utt": ["This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Debbie Elliott.", "Two of Latin America's most visible leaders publicly feuded this past week. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez called Felipe Calderon the little gentleman after the Mexican president criticized Chavez's economic policies. The spat goes to the core of the leaders' very different ideologies.", "Chavez is moving ahead with his plan to implement what he calls 21st century socialism and won new power from his Congress to rule by decree. Calderon is a free market fan.", "For more, I spoke with NPR's Juan Forero, who's been in Caracas, and NPR's Lourdes Garcia Navarro in Mexico City.", "And Juan, we'll start with you. Tell us more about Chavez's new powers and his moves lately to nationalize more businesses.", "Well, the decree powers give Chavez 18 months to pass laws by decree. That means that the National Assembly does not need to vote on any of the laws. That's unusual to a lot of people because, you know, the National Assembly is completely in Chavez's hands. All 167 members are allied with the president. But the president wants to move fast and this will allow him to do it. It appears that most of the 40 to 60 laws that are expected to be passed will be in the economic sphere.", "The government talks in very general terms about what they want to do. They say that they want to transform the state to make it more efficient, to permit public participation in decision making, and they want to invest more in science and technology. But perhaps what's garnering the most headlines is the relationship with foreign firms, and they want to create a framework to govern nationalizations. The nationalizations have aroused great interest because Chavez says the government will take control of telecommunications and utilities in the next few weeks, and there's a lot of American investment in those companies.", "Now, how far is Chavez going to go with this new power and where's the opposition?", "Chavez remains very popular because he's funneled billions in oil revenues straight to the people and the opposition has been weakened to the point where they have little influence. They launched a coup in 2002 and then a strike later that year that devastated the economy. And Chavez used those errors to his advantage. He painted the opposition as pawns of the evil Bush administration, and that has worked. And the opposition continued to stumble. In 2005, they boycotted congressional elections. That's why everyone in the National Assembly is an ally of the Chavez administration.", "Let's get Lourdes Garcia-Navarro in on the conversation now. As Chavez has been trying to position himself as the heir to Fidel Castro, in Mexico you've got President Felipe Calderon, a conservative free market champion, and recently, there were words between the two leaders. Lourdes, can you tell us a little more about that flap?", "Yeah. Things were bound to head in this direction. You couldn't have two men who are more ideologically different. Still, Calderon began his term, it has to be said, by saying that he wanted rapprochement with Caracas after years of frosty relations. You have to remember, former President Vicente Fox and Chavez at one point withdrew their respective ambassadors from each other's countries. So this isn't a new tension. But on Calderon's recent trip to Europe to drum up investment for Mexico, he said that Mexico is a safer place to invest than Venezuela, for example, because Mexico is not going to nationalize industries.", "And while that did set off a firestorm in Caracas - Chavez said that Mexican policies are what are sending people north and why Mexico is so poor, etc. - it will be interesting to see how this proceeds. The United States would certainly like to see more robust repudiation of Chavez coming from within Latin America and I think it remains to be seen whether Calderon will do the U.S.'s bidding on this.", "Now, Calderon himself has been making a lot of news. He was just inaugurated in December after a bitter election battle. What he has been doing? How has he been trying to assert his authority?", "Well, Calderon immediately tried to assert his authority by tackling the drug gangs. This is a really big issue here. He's taking a page out of Columbia's book by using extraditions to the U.S. He's using the military to move into areas with the local and state authorities have been either ineffective, cowed or corrupt. This is a man, as you said, who came to power after a bitterly contested election and a very slim margin of victory. So fighting drug crime, which soared under his predecessor, is something that he's doing to try and stamp his authority immediately.", "There is a big section of the Mexican electorate that is still unhappy with Calderon. And they were out protesting again this week, protesting the high price of corn and their food staple, tortillas. How serious a challenge is this to President Calderon?", "It's quite a serious challenge. You've got to understand that Mexicans eat up to two pounds of tortillas a day. When workers take a break at lunch they go to the tortillaria and buy half a kilo or a pound for their mid-day meal. It's a staple. So when prices go up, it really affects people. Fifty percent of Mexicans live on less than $4 a day. Spending 75 cents for two pounds of tortillas, which is where prices stand right now, is a lot of money.", "I went to talk to people waiting in line at a tortilla shop yesterday and they were all blaming the government. It's the easiest target. And the left, which lost the presidential elections, has been using this issue to great advantage, saying it shows Calderon's callousness and indifference to the working classes. The union staged a march in Mexico City this week. They say this wouldn't have happened if Mexico wasn't importing about a quarter of its corn from the United States. They blame the North America Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, for destroying the Mexican countryside. Under NAFTA, it has to be said, Mexico shed about thirty percent of its farm jobs. So it's highlighted a lot of issues here that people feel very strongly about, and it is really causing some problems with Calderon and his opposition is flexing its muscles over this issue.", "NPR's Lourdes Garcia Navarro and Juan Forero. Thank you both.", "Thanks.", "You're welcome."], "speaker": ["DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "JUAN FORERO", "JUAN FORERO", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "JUAN FORERO", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO", "LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO", "LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "JUAN FORERO", "LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO"]}
{"id": "CNN-53874", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-5-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/08/lt.14.html", "summary": "Interview with Dr. Julius Few, Plastic Surgeon", "utt": ["All right. From face lifts to liposuction and tummy tucks, the fight against Mother Nature is on. But are those quick fix surgeries worth the money and the risk? That's the focus of our encore \"Paging Dr. Gupta\" segment. Last hour, we went under the knife to learn more about plastic surgery, and now we are going to hear from you. And if you're with us, you saw Dr. Sanjay Gupta as he -- he didn't go under the knife. He went under the computer.", "Right. I wasn't brave enough to go under the knife.", "Let's put those pictures up at the plastic surgeons office. They said, well, if you're thinking about it -- what did they do to you here? That's just with the computer.", "Yes, this is just the computer, but it's sort of remarkable actually. A few things...", "Come on, tell us what they said. They said you had a slightly bulbous nose.", "Yes, they did comment on my nose, which was a little bit of a shocker for me, quite honestly. But they lifted my eyebrows a little bit here, that's something that gives a little bit more of a youthful appearance. They gave me a nose job, rhinoplasty, all external, as you can see. Some of the changes in the nose, turned it up a little bit...", "And then did a chin implant too.", "A chin implant as well. All pretty subtle. The chin implant, incidentally, if you have a large nose, may make your nose appear smaller.", "Yes, there's that. I think Sharon Merrill (ph) speaks for all of us. She wrote this e-mail in. This is going to be the first e-mail. And Sharon wrote, \"Please, Dr. Gupta, do not take what that lady said about your appearance to heart. We've always commented about how handsome you are.\"", "Thank you, Sharon. Yes, very nice. I appreciate that.", "So the vote is in. You are not going to do any of those procedures.", "No, I'm not going to do it. But the interesting thing, you know, some of my personal observations from the plastic surgery office, subtlety is key. No dramatic changes. That's not what they were recommending here. And, in fact, they made a point of saying tell us what you're sort of looking for. They didn't come out and say to me, OK, your nose, your eyebrows, your chin. Subtlety. No dramatic changes. And Dr. Few, our plastic surgeon with us today, I asked him to comment a little bit about that subtlety. Dr. Few, good morning. Welcome.", "Good morning.", "Subtlety is a big key with regards to plastic surgery. What's a typical patient visit like for you when you see somebody?", "I think you're absolutely right. Really, the most important thing is to look at enhancing somebody's appearance without taking away truly important personal traits and to really do that with the least risk possible. My most routine consult really emphasizes those points, and often patients, if they're concerned about anything, they're concerned about surgery making them look artificial.", "Dr. Few, good morning. Daryn here. We're going to be starting off the e-mail for you, and our first one comes from, let's see, Susan in New York. She is interested in getting liposuction on her thighs, \"but the fat is rather lumpy (cellulite). I've ready conflicting reports on the ability of liposuction to help. How can I find the best information\"? Does the liposuction make you smaller, or smoother as well?", "It often can do both, but can tend to sculpture as well as remove or reduce the amount of fat in a given area. The problem that she's describing can be a difficult one to completely take care of, but I would recommend that she look at the official web site for the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, which is www.surgery.org.", "How much do they run, thigh jobs?", "It varies greatly, but it can be as little as $2,500 or as much as $10,000 or more.", "We've got a bunch of questions, Dr. Few. I'm going to go ahead and go straight to our next one. It's from Scott in San Antonio. Quick question. \"What is the frequency of nerve damage as a result of facial cosmetic surgery\"? These procedures are not without risk, right Dr. Few?", "You're absolutely. Fortunately, significant nerve damage happens very infrequently, especially in experienced hands. I would say that the reported kind of risk is somewhere around one or two percent.", "This is a question about following up one surgery with another in terms of gastric bypass, if someone has gone through and done that, and is now looking to get rid of the excess skin that comes after a large amount of weight loss. This question coming from Sharon. She wants to know, how long do you wait after you've had gastric bypass to have, I guess it would be a tummy tuck?", "Right. Right. That's becoming a much, much more common problem that patient's are coming to seek improvement on.", "How long do you wait though?", "Typically, we like to wait around 9 months to a year, average.", "To make sure that their weight loss is complete?", "Exactly. And that it's stable.", "All right. We have another question coming in from Alabama, I think. Mr. Sykes (ph) wants to know if anything can be done for a flat butt. Not something that we hear too much about, but certainly an important question as well -- Dr. Few.", "That's a good problem to have.", "There are several series that talk about actually moving fat from one part of your body to the buttock region to enhance the appearance, and actually that's been shown to be very effective.", "OK. You know, we giggle, but I'm sure you hear all sorts of things about people, and what each of us wants to change about our appearance. Dr. Julius Few, it's been a pleasure to have you with us these last few weeks.", "Likewise. And I would definitely have to say both of you do not need to go anywhere near a plastic surgeons office.", "That's very much appreciated advice. Dr. Julius Few, joining us from Chicago today?", "In Chicago. Right.", "He didn't make it back to Vegas. That's good news indeed. And, Sanjay, thank you, too, for your expertise.", "Thank you.", "And like Sharon said, none of those procedures.", "All right. I'll keep that in mind. 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{"id": "CNN-295257", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-09-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/30/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Some Young & Black Voters Plan Not to Vote in Protest", "utt": ["As Hillary Clinton heads into the home stretch for the race for the White House she's stepping up her efforts to gain voters of young people and African-Americans. She's in South Carolina. She has to convince everyone to come out in large numbers to show their support for her, like they did for President Obama. Turnout is a particularly large concern for both party nominees, and some say they plan to protest by not voting at all. Here's what a former presidential candidate said.", "If everybody didn't vote, that would be a powerful political statement, wouldn't it?", "Mary-Pat Hector is with me. She's the national youth director for the National Action Network, and founder of Youth in Action. She's also a student organizer at Spellman College. Thanks for being with me.", "Thank you for having me, Poppy.", "Part of what you're doing is trying to make sure what Jeb Bush just said doesn't happen, that every eligible voter goes to the polls. Hillary Clinton has African-Americans, 93, according to one poll but her support among young black voters is 60 percent according to this survey from just last month. The big question is how many of them will turn out on Election Day. Are you running into that problem as you talk to people, a lack of support for her from black youth?", "It's not even just Hillary Clinton but it's both presidential candidates. What's lacking is when asked questions like at the debate when you're talking about issues that affect African-Americans like police brutality we're hearing much more answers regarding how we're going to deal with the victims instead of how we're going to deal with the officers that commit these crimes and hold them accountable. Once we come out with actual plans that the young people are asking for and that's, again, on both parties and especially really talking about one who's not released a plan at all then we will really begin to see young people engaged and ready to vote.", "Young black woman quoted in a recent \"New York Times\" article said choosing between Clinton and Trump is like deciding stabbed. Some of that probably hyperbole but, still, how do you convince someone that feels like that that they need to vote?", "Because you know it's more than the presidential elections. When you're registering to vote and you look at cases like Trayvon Martin and others, they choose the juries based off of registered voters. When you think about the Senators and congressmen and others that create policies and laws we live by as day to day citizens, it's important to exercise your political agency. And when you have presidential candidate openly demean citizens and women and people who are Americans then it's important to exercise your right to vote. Lastly, Poppy, when you think about this being the very first president after the very first African-American president of the United States then it I important to exercise your political agency.", "On that point, black voters have traditionally been -- last recent decades been very loyal to the Democratic Party. I wonder if you think we're seeing a generational shift. A few weeks ago, I was speaking with a young black voter in his 20s and he said, quote, \"The '94 crime bill signed under President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton's support, her comment about super predators sticks with me, even though she's walked those back.\" How do you counter that sentiment?", "Poppy, I feel like so many times people don't necessarily think about Clinton and all she's proposing and they only focus on Bill Clinton and his past policies. She's openly stated that the crime bill was problematic what we need to focus on are the people that voted for the crime bill as well as the stations and police officers that use that crime bill to target African-Americans. That's what we need to focus on and more so what she's pushing policies she's pushing now that will benefit not only African-Americans but Millennials and other people that need help in this country.", "Mary-Pat Hector, I wish we had more time. Thank you for being with us and thank you for all you are doing to get everyone to exercise their right to vote. It's nice to be with you.", "Thank you very much, Poppy.", "Coming up next, more on our breaking news, video just released of Donald Trump answering questions under oath. His videotape deposition. Also, the Commission on Presidential Debates issuing a statement regarding Donald Trump's microphone at the debate. You heard him complain it wasn't working right. Is that true? Next."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "JEB BUSH, (R), FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR & FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "HARLOW", "MARY-PAT HECTOR, NATIONAL YOUTH DIRECTOR, NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK & FOUNDER, YOUTH IN ACTION & STUDENT ORGANIZER, SPELLMAN COLLEGE", "HARLOW", "HECTOR", "HARLOW", "HECTOR", "HARLOW", "HECTOR", "HARLOW", "HECTOR", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-128632", "program": "GLENN BECK", "date": "2008-7-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/14/gb.01.html", "summary": "McCain Tells La Raza to Trust him on Immigration", "utt": ["You know, coming back to work on Mondays is always interesting to me, because I reflect on all of the conversations that I had with my friends, you know, in front of a barbecue or whatever. And they never reflect what the media is saying. None of my friends -- I don`t know about you -- are asking if gas prices are going to continue to go up. The question is, how much are they going to go up? And the bigger mystery, at least with my friends is why? Why is no one doing anything? Well, tonight, we may have some answers. Former president of Shell Oil in tonight`s \"Real Story.\" Key word, former, president of Shell. But first, during the early days of the primaries, it was John McCain`s amnesty-riddled immigration policy that hurt him with the Reagan Republicans and old-guard conservatives. Well, now that he`s the GOP presumptive nominee, McCain is hoping his views on immigration don`t get lost in translation. So today, with the goal of bolstering support, McCain addressed the National Council of La Raza. La Raza, otherwise known as \"The Race.\" What did McCain say to these people? Basically, he said, \"Trust me.\" He feels he`s earned some street cred. Well, since he almost committed political suicide by co-authoring insane immigration bill with Senator Ted Kennedy, McCain said that the key Hispanic voting bloc has the best shot with him. La Raza may be buying what McCain is selling, but if they do, should we? Jim Geraghty writes the Campaign Sport blog for \"National Review\" online. Jim, tell me about La Raza. A group called \"The Race.\"", "Glenn, I`m at the point where I think now we have to take our small victories where we can. And for me, it was a small victory that McCain gave the speech in English today. Well, this -- you know, it`s one of those things where immigration had turned into that awkward issue that you don`t talk about at the family dinner table.", "yes.", "When it came to the Republican base and to John McCain. But as he got into the general election, he had a choice when it came to invitations to groups like this and LULAC and a couple of other -- groups with similar views on the issues of illegal immigration. He can either turn them down and then get pilloried for it and you know, his already low support numbers amongst Hispanic voters can go even lower. Or he can go before them and try to make the case for himself. And that`s basically what he did today and I think we`ll see more of. He already has an ad up on the air in three states with high Hispanic populations, all kind of touting his response to a comment earlier in the GOP primary, where he kind of gave a bit of a verbal smack-down to Tom Tancredo, emphasizing the contribution of Hispanic-Americans have made and how they served their country for...", "Has anybody questioned -- I have never, ever once questioned the Hispanic-American and what they have brought to this country. I`ve never, ever once questioned any immigrant that comes in the front door. In fact, I encourage them to come in the front door to remind us lazy Americans what we`ve got here. What does this mean with John McCain`s ad?", "Well, Glenn, with answers like this, he`s running well ahead of the straw man involved in recent polls.", "And you say nobody`s making this argument.", "Absolutely. But it`s one of those things. Look, here`s the thing. The Republican brand is very badly damaged amongst all kinds of voters, amongst the Hispanic community in particular. So what he`s got to do is kind of reestablish his bone fides. He`s got to get them listening again. And so by showcasing this moment in which he kind of stood up to Tom Tancredo and said, \"Hey, let`s not paint with too broad a brush. Or let`s not get into anti-Latino sentiment,\" you know, this kind of establishes his street cred. Or at least that`s the thinking behind this ad. But I also know that, to a certain extent, even if, even amongst other groups who may not agree with the National Council of La Raza or other organizations, they don`t necessarily want to be seen as supporting a racist or xenophobic or nativist candidate. So to a certain extent, this is also...", "Wait a minute. Wait. Let me just get this straight. So, John McCain knows that people don`t want to support a racist, right? Which I agree with. I don`t want to vote for a racist either. So, by proving that he`s not a racist, he goes to speak to an organization called \"The Race\"?", "Indeed. You know -- you know, there are times where I do keep looking around for Rod Serling, to see if we are actually living in the twilight zone.", "Man. We are.", "This is one of those things where he has to, you know, reassure the soccer mom vote, and say, look, I would never associate with these types. I would never associate with, you know, all of the hatred of other people, all the other things that make small town Pennsylvanians so bitter, Senator Obama.", "I`m going to have to tell you, I`m so sick of this argument. I am so sick of the people on the other side trying to paint people who would like to end modern-day slavery by forcing people to live in the shadows at the -- at the wealth expansion of these global corporations. I`m tired of being painted as a racist on that. Jim, thanks a lot.", "Coming up, we`re going to talk about Iran. You know, if they`re good at one thing, they`re good at freaking the rest of the world out. I`m going to talk to one best-selling author who says we should be, and he didn`t really want to come to this conclusion. Then, you know, the border problem is getting worse when El Paso hospital starts using the same security scale as the homeland -- Department of Homeland Security. Mexican gunshot victims are sending the immigration issue to code red. Oh, racists look out. That`s coming up."], "speaker": ["BECK", "JIM GERAGHTY, \"NATIONAL REVIEW\" ONLINE", "BECK", "GERAGHTY", "BECK", "GERAGHTY", "BECK", "GERAGHTY", "BECK", "GERAGHTY", "BECK", "GERAGHTY", "BECK", "BECK"]}
{"id": "CNN-48243", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-1-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/29/lt.23.html", "summary": "New York D.A. Has Charged 12 People with Stealing Money From Two Charities", "utt": ["Word that at least 12 people, including several Port Authority staffers, have been arrested. For more on that and the reasons why, let's check with our Deborah Feyerick who is in New York. Deb, hello.", "Hey, there, Daryn. Well, even with something like the World Trade Center tragedy, the government says there still people trying to take advantage and make a quick buck. The district attorney charged 12 people with stealing money from two charities, the Red Cross and Safe Haven. The people in question worked with the Port Authority, the agency that owns the Twin Towers and the land. Prosecutors say that these men and women claimed that they were out of work, even though these prosecutors say -- the Port Authority says they were being paid all the time. One woman we spoke to who was charged spent two days in jail. She was arraigned and left just a little bit ago. She said she was going down the stairs of World Trade Center, one World Trade Center on the day of the attacks. She fell, she hurt her leg, she told us, and when she went to Red Cross, she said they told her she could definitely apply. She has resigned. She said what the Port Authority is doing not right. The port authority lost 75 people. Their offices completely destroyed. The chief investigator said he's sick that people would try to cheat the real victims. The Port Authority right now is asking all charities for the names of employees of theirs who have applied to get money. This is an aggressive investigation right now. In another scam, four people have been charged with ripping off FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The people in that claim the apartments were damaged. The government says the apartments weren't damaged at all. The amounts we're talking are about 1,000- 3,000 dollars. The district attorney say if these people are convicted, he's not even sure that any of them will serve jailtime -- Daryn.", "And why would that be? if they were convicted, why wouldn't they serve jail time?", "Well, the amounts we're talking about, the top amount is $3,000. So in the realm of everything, it's not a huge crime, but this is being prosecuted because of the principle of it all, so many real victims out there, that anyone would even try to take advantage, that is looked at very seriously by the district attorney.", "Yes, it sure does kind of burst the bubble of good feeling that has surrounded especially New York City since the disaster, for one man helping out another. Deborah Feyerick in New York. Deborah, thank you very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "FEYERICK", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-397683", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2020-04-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/15/cg.01.html", "summary": "Business Leaders Warn Trump About Reopening Country Without Testing.", "utt": ["Breaking this afternoon, in a call with President Trump today, business leaders said that testing needs to be dramatically increased across the country in order to boost public confidence, before relaxing any restrictions and attempting to open up the economy, according to a source. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, of course, has warned that without increased capacity for testing, so as to be able to isolate the virus, May 1, which is the president has set as a possible deadline, is overly optimistic to reopen the country and could, in fact, cause a resurgence of the disease. The head of the CDC today cautioned the same thing, saying that more testing and contact tracing is necessary before any American goes back to work. It's a sentiment that was echoed by New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo earlier today.", "The more testing, the more open the economy. We need the federal government to be part of this. Testing capacity to me is like what ventilators were over the past month.", "Let's start with that warning from business leaders to President Trump today that testing needs to be ramped up significantly, it needs to be far more widespread before any discussions of bringing people back to work. CNN's Kaitlan Collins is live at the White House and is bringing us the story. Kaitlan, this was the first meeting, a phone meeting, I guess, of the president's new business council. Are there any indications that the business leaders were able to convince the president?", "Well, that's the question we're going to have for him this afternoon at the press briefing, because this is the first of a series of calls he had today with these business executives that he's invited to give him advice, as they are weighing reopening the country and when exactly they're going to do that and really what that's going to look like. And the first message from these executives on this first call, which was banking executives, financial executives, those from retail, hospitality, restaurants, of that nature, was that you're going to have to ramp up testing if we're going to open up our businesses and people are going to feel safe coming in. They made sure to tell the president that was a priority for them, and essentially saying that they do not feel that they're at the level of that right now, because a lot of these companies were basically telling the president, if these consumers don't feel comfortable coming in, then we're not going to be opening up until this testing has ramped up further. Now, we are told there was a lot of praise for the president on this call and what his administration has done so far. But, Jake, this could be kind of a reality check for the president, because, for the last two weeks, we have seen him insisting that testing in the U.S. is fine. He said he has not heard a lot of concerns about the testing so far anymore from state officials, though we know state officials have been talking about this as well. And it comes, of course, as the president and his economic advisers are pushing to have at least some kind of opening on May 1, when those deadlines expire.", "Every single state official I have heard talk about this has said he or she needs much more ramped-up testing across the state and across the country. Kaitlan Collins, thanks so much. As testing remains the central issue around reopening the country, there is more tension between the president and the nation's governors, including this question: How much is President Trump going to push them to do what health officials are currently advising them to not do? As Erica Hill reports, Governor Cuomo said today that, though New York appears to be on the downslope of the virus, they are not out of the woods yet.", "More masks, more time apart, more testing, and more realistic expectations.", "If we move too quick, we put 50,000 people in Yankee Stadium, and that's part of why you see a resurgence of the disease, that would be the worst of all worlds. So you got one chance.", "As the president continues to push for a symbolic May 1 reopening, officials around the country are focused on their communities, following the lead of California Governor Gavin Newsom, confirming this new normal is here to stay. In New Orleans, the mayor suggesting major events like Jazz Fest won't be back until 2021. Mississippi the latest state to close schools for the remainder of the academic year, as experts predict the virus will return.", "We're going to have another battle with it, up front aggressively next winter. This is why it's so important that we take the time now to really improve our testing capacity, expand our public health, capacity to do early case recognition, contact tracing and isolation. I call it block and tackle, block and tackle.", "Los Angeles now offering same- or next-day testing to its 10 million residents. Anyone with COVID symptoms is eligible. The nation's first saliva testing site is now open in New Jersey, Major League Baseball pitching in for antibody testing, players, their families, concession workers, some 10,000 volunteers in total part of a nationwide study to better understand the infection and its spread, knowledge that is essential to any reopening.", "It is very hard to bring this to scale quickly. And we need the federal government to be part of this.", "New York today announcing mandatory face coverings in public, when social distancing can't be maintained, as the state cautiously embraces a plateau. Meantime, Georgia prepares for a potential surge, and Midwestern states discuss a coordinated regional plan to reopen, similar to efforts in the Northeast and on the West Coast.", "This is not a light switch going on or off. This is going to be making a change, testing it, modeling it, and then seeing whether it works. And then, if it does, you can make another change.", "Also key to any lasting change, a vaccine.", "We're targeting fall for the emergency use. So that would be for health care workers and people who might be in constant contact and in risk of being exposed over and over.", "For the rest of America, that vaccine is likely at least a year away. With each new day, new victims put a face on this battle. Gregory Hodge, an EMT, was a 24-year veteran of the FDNY. He helped at the World Trade Center after 9/11. The department announcing his death due to COVID-19. Gregory Hodge was 59 years old.", "Jake, we're also learning more about efforts in different cities. San Francisco today saying that they are launching a partnership for contact testing. And, in Los Angeles, the mayor, Eric Garcetti, last night in his press conference talked about something he labeled CARES Corps, a proposal he's working on with the mayor of Oklahoma City that would put people to work doing contact tracing and other important jobs in local areas. He says he should have some more details on that today and also said, Jake, that he believes that should be funded by the federal government.", "All right, Erica Hill in New York, thank you so much, and stay safe. Joining me now, as always, CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Sanjay, this does seem significant that business leaders, in addition to top health officials, are urging President Trump to get up to speed much more testing before allowing or pushing individuals to go back to work to reopen the economy.", "No question. I mean, testing has been the priority, will continue to be the priority, as we try and reopen the economy. There's no question about it. And now we know that there are people who can even shed this virus, Jake, spread the virus, even before they develop symptoms. We know that people in the past who are asymptomatic, never develop any symptoms, can spread it, and now we know the most vulnerable time for people who do develop symptoms is before they even get sick. They need to be tested. They have no idea. Right now, I think the question that should be asked, I think there's plenty of -- it sounds like there's more and more tests out there, that the labs are doing fewer tests and more people want to get tested. So what's what's going on here? People want the test, the testing is available, there's no backlog. What's going on there? Something in between is broken. Everyone in the country should be able to answer this question. Right now, if you wanted to get tested, would you know exactly what to do? Could you get the results back in a day? Everyone in the country should be able to answer yes to that question before we can really reopen the country.", "Let's dive into some of the points you just made. The first one, you referred to, you alluded to a study published today in the journal \"Nature Medicine,\" finding that people actually might be most infectious, meaning most able to infect other people with the coronavirus, before they actually show any symptoms, which adds to this growing body of evidence that seemingly healthy people are really spreading the virus to a large degree.", "Yes.", "What should people watching at home do, if anything, with this information?", "You know what they should do, Jake? It's probably the thing that you and I talked about, I think, six weeks ago now, I remember, still on your program, and we said people need to behave like they have the virus. That's been the point. That was the point then. It's still the point. You may not know you have it. You may never develop symptoms or you may not have yet developed symptoms, but not only could you be infectious. You could even be more so than when you get sick. And this also speaks to contact tracing. Think about, like, everybody that you may have come in contact with after you were sick, maybe a smaller number, because hopefully you stayed home. But do you know everyone you came in contact with for the three days before you started to develop symptoms? It's going to make this process really challenging. But, again, that needs to be in place before we can start opening the country again.", "Also really shows the importance of testing, if you're most infectious when you don't have any symptoms at all. Eliminating the social distancing restrictions or physical distancing restrictions would obviously rely to a large degree on there being some sort of vaccine. The lead NIH scientist on the vaccine, Dr. Corbett, said yesterday that NIH hopes to have something ready for front-line workers, meaning health care workers, and EMTs and police and the like, by the fall, with a larger public rollout next spring. Is that timeline realistic? That seems kind of like good news.", "Yes, it does seem like good news. I mean, I was part of that interview with her. I mean, she seemed confident. But there's a lot of caveats, Jake. I mean, the vaccine has got to still be proven to be safe and proven to be effective. But I got the sense, Jake, there's three phases. There's phase one, which is safety, phase two, which is effectiveness, and phase three, where you do the really large trials of lots of people to make sure it holds up. My sense was that, maybe after phase two, as part of an emergency use, they may allow this to start being used in health care workers, maybe still as part of a trial. But she seemed pretty confident, by next spring, it should be available for the general public, which would be good news. I mean, vaccines can take up to 10 years to make, Jake, so this is a pretty rapid schedule.", "Very rapid. And, Sanjay, you also referred to this. The daily number of COVID-19 tests performed by commercial labs has declined in the past week, even though demand is only increasing. Do we have any idea why this is?", "I think there may still be too strict a criteria for who can get tested. I mean, we know the criteria have been all over the place. But now it's saying people who only have symptoms should get tested. As we were just talking about, obviously, a lot of people may not have any symptoms or may not yet have symptoms, and they need to be tested. So I think, ultimately, if we say testing is widely available, for the individual out there, it's got to mean, as they watch this, they know exactly who to call or where to go, or have someone come to their house even, or have an in-home test, or something that they can get tested. Everyone in the country should be able to answer the question, would you know how to get tested right now if you had to? And I think the majority of people still don't know that. I still get calls from health care workers in some places, Jake, where they still have a hard time getting tested. So numbers have gone up, but it's not widely sort of distributed or applied around the country.", "The FDA has now approved at least three different tests for antibodies, which theoretically detect whether or not somebody has been exposed to the virus and recovered from it. If you have had the virus -- we talked about this yesterday, but just to reiterate, if you have had the virus, if you test positive for antibodies in your system, we don't necessarily know, because this virus is -- this coronavirus is so new, so novel, we don't necessarily know that it means that you're then free and clear, and you can never get it again. But that's the hope. Am I right?", "Yes, I think that's the hope. And I think if you talk to most infectious disease doctors, they will say, presumably, that's the case. You should have some immunity against this, because that is how other viruses and even similar viruses have behaved. We don't know how strong that immunity will be. We don't know how long. By the way, I just got to say. You brought up Dr. Corbett earlier, who's spearheading the vaccine. I said, well, how do we know the vaccine will work then, because of this -- we don't know if the antibodies are protective? And she said, the vaccine is going to be totally different. Because it'll have been tested, it will give you the longer and stronger protection than the antibodies you get from becoming infected. So she was drawing a distinction between the vaccine that hopefully will be available by this time next year vs. just getting infected, because a lot of people say, why don't I just get infected? I will be protected that way. The vaccine is a much better approach.", "Yes. I mean, also, you might get killed by the coronavirus. As we have seen, it's deadlier than the regular influenza.", "And you can get really sick, exactly, yes.", "Yes. Right. And even if you don't die from it, you can get very, very sick. There are a lot of accounts of people who have survived it who are still really, really hurting. California Governor Gavin Newsom laid out what the new normal could look like, California and -- in California and across the country, as social distancing is eased, temperature checks at restaurants, waiters wear gloves at restaurants, tables are set up six feet apart, limited large gatherings. Is this what Americans should prepare for when we talk about the new normal, that we're not really, at least in the next year or so, going to go back to what things were like?", "I think there's going to be incremental changes in society. I don't think it's going to go back to normal right away, by any means. I think it ultimately will, though, Jake. I mean, that's one thing. There will be some things that maybe are going to be forever different. But I think, for the most part, at some point, I think it will go back to normal. Two reasons. One is, I think the vaccine will make a big difference. And two is that we -- we -- Jake, you have covered news for a long time. We do have incredibly short memories. As powerful and indelible, seemingly, this experience is right now, people do forget and move on at some point, Jake.", "Well, maybe. I mean, we're still taking your shoes off at airports. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Be sure to tune in for a CNN global town hall, \"Coronavirus: Facts and Fears,\" hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Anderson Cooper. That's tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. right here on CNN. Also, don't forget to check out Sanjay's podcast. The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, will join me live next to talk about the push for testing, President Trump defunding or putting a pause on funding for the World Health Organization, and whether or not the - there will be another stimulus package. Plus, President Trump loves to put his name on buildings even if he doesn't actually own the buildings. Now, his name could be possibly causing a delay for stimulus checks that millions of Americans are waiting to be cut and sent to them. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "GOV. ANDREW CUOMO (D-NY)", "TAPPER", "KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "ERICA HILL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BILL DE BLASIO (D), MAYOR OF NEW YORK", "HILL", "DR. ROBERT REDFIELD, DIRECTOR, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION", "HILL", "CUOMO", "HILL", "GOV. KATE BROWN (D-OR)", "HILL", "KIZZMEKIA CORBETT, NIH", "HILL", "HILL", "TAPPER", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "GUPTA", "TAPPER", "GUPTA", "TAPPER", "GUPTA", "TAPPER", "GUPTA", "TAPPER", "GUPTA", "TAPPER", "GUPTA", "TAPPER", "GUPTA", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "NPR-44750", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2007-04-06", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9423733", "title": "Cutting the City's Lights to Make a Point", "summary": "Officials in Sydney, Australia turned off the lights in their downtown last weekend in a move to make people more aware of global warming. Laura Miller, mayor of Dallas, talks about whether she would consider doing the same thing in her city.", "utt": ["From water to electricity now, and in a moment back to Dallas. First, in Australia last weekend, they turned off the lights in Sydney. Now this is a city of four million people. It's got a glittery downtown, the famous opera house, but the lights were all off for an hour at the request of the mayor as a way of asking people to think about global warming. They've also tried this in Japan.", "Well, what about this country and our bright city lights? Remember the Jimmy Dale Gilmore song called \"Dallas\"?", "(Singing) Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night? Well, Dallas is a jewel. Oh yeah, Dallas is a beautiful sight. And Dallas is a jungle but Dallas gives a beautiful light.", "And so, why not make the phone call to Dallas, to the mayor. She is Laura Miller.", "Mayor Miller, welcome to our program.", "Thank you for having me.", "What do you think about when you hear about the cities going dark at night, sort of a turn making a statement, maybe even starting something that could move on to something bigger in terms of saving energy - what do you think?", "I think it's wonderful. I think, right now, in America, the place where there is most progress being made on energy conservation and being progressive and innovative, is the cities.", "Well, have you suggested turning out the light in Dallas at least for one night?", "You know, I haven't. I think that would be quite a shock to the night by the city in America, because we are the fossil fuel capital of the world. So I think, if I told them to turn the lights off, they'd think I had lost my mind, but it's a great thing and I'm glad to see it.", "What is the real iconic building on that skyline? Dallas is known as the emerald city of the prairie, I understand, and the real icon there in terms of light would be one of the bank towers?", "Yes, it's the Bank of America tower. It's 63 storeys tall. It's very, very large and all outlined in green neon. So it really is the emerald city on the prairie.", "When you see the skyline, when you look at the buildings at night, how many of those lights that are on make sense in terms of safety or efficiency that they have to be on, and how many are just really for the great look?", "Oh, most of them are for the great look. And I don't mind so much outlining the buildings. I think that's very dramatic. But certainly, we're like a lot of other cities where people leave at 5:00 to go home, and they leave their office light on and no one ever turns if off, and in that way, of course, we waste as much electricity as a lot of other folks.", "But surely, some of the buildings are lit just as a matter of policy.", "Well, sure. I mean, yeah. Some buildings are but - you know, Dallas is very progressive on a number of fronts. None of the buildings that we build anymore with our taxpayer money are anything less than lead certified - just incredibly highly energy efficient.", "But as you suggested, there are people in Texas who would say, she's not going to turn off those light in those buildings and be elected mayor again.", "Well, I don't have to worry about that because I leave office June 25th.", "Right. Well, you have a great chance then.", "Oh, no. Listen, I think it's a great idea. And I think it would be fun. But, you know, one of the reasons that, in the back of my mind, I'm nervous about turning off the lights is that we've had this enormous, wonderful grassroots effort to stop the construction of new pulverized coal plants in Texas because unfortunately our energy company's proposed doubling the number of coal plants in our state last year. And we rose up together, elected officials, to fight it back.", "But their mantra, especially TXU, which is our predominant utility here in North Texas, they said if you don't build these old style pulverized coal plants, then the lights will go out in Texas. So literally, as we've reached the peak of that fight here in the last few months, if we were to turn the lights off now, everyone would assume it was because it was true that because we didn't the coal plants we're dark.", "Laura Miller is the mayor of Dallas, Texas. Thank you, Mayor Miller.", "Oh, you're very welcome.", "(Singing) Did you ever see Dallas from a DC-9 at night? 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{"id": "NPR-4260", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2014-07-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/07/13/331133743/what-will-become-of-obamas-request-for-immigration-relief-funds", "title": "What Will Become Of Obama's Request For Immigration Relief Funds?", "summary": "NPR's Arun Rath talks to political correspondent Mara Liasson about the chances of a political agreement over how to handle the migration of thousands of Central American children.", "utt": ["Bitter words are still flying over what to do with the tens of thousands of Central American children who are streaming over the Mexican border. It looks like an urgent humanitarian crisis - children fleeing from countries plagued by gang violence. But it's politically fraught for president Obama and potentially for his fierce Republican critics as well.", "NPR's senior political correspondent Mara Liasson joins us to assess the chances for finding a solution to the crisis. And, Mara, the president has requested $3.7 billion to care for the children and to hire more immigration judges. What do you think the chances are for approval of this emergency aid?", "Well, I think in the end, something will get approved - not $3.7 billions. Republican say that's too high. Some Republicans are also balking at calling it emergency funding. That means it won't be offset by cuts elsewhere. Other Republicans say they don't want to write the president a blank check because he's the one who caused this problem by not securing the border. We should actually point out that these kids are not actually sneaking across the border. They are turning themselves in in the hopes of getting a hearing on asylum or at least getting to stay in the U.S. for a few years while they wait for a hearing. And that process stems from a 2008 law which is also a big subject of debate in this crisis.", "Could you explain what this law does and what the discussion is?", "The 2008 law which was passed unanimously and signed into law by George W. Bush made a distinction between how Mexican kids and Canadian kids - contiguous country kids - were handled and how Central American kids were handled. The idea was that kids who come from noncontiguous countries, especially from Central America, where they are fleeing gang violence, they are subject to sex trafficking - those kids should have a more complex legal process to make sure that they're not being sent back into dangerous situations.", "The White House wants flexibility. It wants to be able to treat the Central American kids the same way as Mexican kids - speed up the process of their hearings so they can get them sent back quicker. Some Republicans say they want the actual law changed before they'll give the president any money. And there are a lot of fault lines here.", "There are Republicans who say they want to fix the law but still provide for asylum where necessary. Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain have proposed a bill that would speed up the process for getting these Central American kids back home but, at the same time, increase the numbers of kids who could claim asylum.", "There are fault lines in the Democratic Party. Immigration advocate groups and Hispanic Caucus members and some progressive Democrats don't want the law changed. On the other hand, you have Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Leader in the House, say she's fine with having it changed because she needs - we need to solve this humanitarian crisis. And you've got the administration sending Jay Johnson, the Homeland Security Director, down to the border to these detention facilities to tell these kids you will be sent home.", "Now, Mara, if there is bipartisan cooperation on this crisis, could that brighten the prospects for immigration reform?", "I don't think so. I think the prospects for immigration reform are nil this year. John Boehner has already told the president he is not going to bring any bills up in the house this year. The president has said that he gave the House Republicans a year. He's now given up waiting for them. By the end of the summer he's going to be deciding on unilateral actions that he can take by executive authority to ease deportations. This crisis has really caused problems for the president as he tries to make these decisions on unilateral action because it riles up the anti-amnesty base of the Republican Party right before the November elections.", "Demanding the deportation of children makes for kind of ugly headlines. Could that be politically dangerous for the Republicans?", "Not in the short term. I think it's good for them in the 2014 elections because it makes the president look like he can't handle the border. But there aren't very many battleground states with large numbers of Hispanic voters. But in 2016, when Republicans will have to run in a national election, this could hurt their attempts to reach out to Hispanic voters. And they really need to do better among Hispanic voters if they're going to win the White House again.", "NPR's senior political correspondent, Mara Liasson. Mara, thank you.", "Thank you, Arun."], "speaker": ["ARUN RATH, HOST", "ARUN RATH, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "ARUN RATH, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "ARUN RATH, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "ARUN RATH, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "ARUN RATH, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-263258", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-08-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/29/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Donald Trump Holds Political Rally", "utt": ["All right, Donald Trump is talking about getting prepared for the next presidential debate, speaking in New Hampshire today to the National Federation actually in Nashville, Tennessee, actually, the National Federation of Republican Assemblies. Here's what he told CNN.", "Well, you know, it's very hard to prepare for a debate when you're talking about 30, 40, 50 years worth of material. You have to know what you're talking about. But it's going to be largely based on national security and things, and I think I know -- I think the biggest surprise about me will be national security. If I win, I think I'll be a great jobs producer. I think I'll be a great deal maker in terms of trade. We're going to make our country rich again. But I think I'm going to be great on matters of the military.", "CNN politics reporter M. J. Lee is live in Nashville, where Donald Trump was speaking today. So tell us more about the event and your conversation with him.", "Hey, Fred. Before I go to that, I do want to let you know that we've just gotten word that at the straw poll at the NFRA event, Trump was the winner. He apparently received some 52 percent of the votes. Probably not a surprise because he was the only candidate that spoke at this event and came to the event, but nevertheless another data point that the Trump campaign you know will be touting in the weeks to come. The conversation that I had with Trump about how he's preparing for the CNN presidential debate that is coming up, he basically said -- and you didn't hear this in the sound when I asked him at the follow up -- will you be doing anything differently in the second debate? And he answered no. He feels like he won the first debate, that it went very well. Obviously his performance was quite explosive. So it's interesting that he is, one, focusing on national security issues, and, two, that he thinks that it went very well and that he plans to sort of give the same performance that he did in the first debate, which was hosted by FOX News and clearly made a lot of headlines.", "Yes. And you also talked to him about the whole notion of a third party, whether he would leave the Republican Party, do something else. Did he offer any new clarity?", "Look, the third party run question has been really bothering the Republican Party, I guess is one word for it, because they want to know the answer. They want to know will Donald Trump run as an independent, because that would be bad news for some of the establishment candidates. He hasn't really, you know, said that he will not make that run or make that decision because he wants to have the room and the space to make that decision if he wants to, or at least wants the party to think that that is a possibility.", "All right, M. J. Lee, thank you so much, there in Nashville. And we will be right back."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "WHITFIELD", "M. J. LEE, CNN POLITICS REPORTER", "WHITFIELD", "LEE", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-80364", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-12-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/19/lad.12.html", "summary": "Kobe Bryant Pretrial Hearing Today", "utt": ["Now in Eagle, Colorado, Kobe Bryant is dressed for court today, as attorneys begin arguing over what evidence can be presented in his sexual assault case. CNN's Keith Oppenheim is live in Eagle with more details. Keith -- pretty interesting that the defense attorneys are going to be asking for the medical records of the alleged victim.", "Yes, that's on a long list of things that they want the jury to hear about today and in the future motion hearings to come. This is really getting down to the nitty-gritty. It's the pretrial battle ground, where both sides will try to find out what evidence can get or may not get to a jury's eyes and ears. And success or failure here can make all the difference as to whether or not Kobe Bryant is ultimately convicted or acquitted.", "Kobe Bryant's defense team hopes to present to a jury details about the accuser's medical and sexual history. Last June when the accuser was working at this mountain resort, she met Bryant just before he underwent knee surgery. Bryant claims the sex was consensual. The accuser says it was not. In court documents, defense attorneys claim the accuser has been suicidal and on anti-psychotic medication. And if the prosecution's case is based on injuries Bryant may have caused his accuser, the defense is trying to get around Colorado's rape shield law and introduce evidence about other men the accuser may have had sex with right around the time she met Bryant.", "That they are claiming that somebody else may have caused that injury right before Kobe Bryant, and then some third man may have aggravated the injury after her sexual encounter with Kobe Bryant.", "Credibility is crucial in a case like this, and anything the defense can get into trial about the accuser's life could be significant.", "We are looking at a set of motions that the prosecution desperately needs to win to keep evidence away from a jury.", "Meanwhile, Kobe Bryant's father has, for the first time, spoken publicly about his son's legal troubles.", "He's a special young man. I mean, he's very worldly and very intelligent, and I think they'll get through all of this.", "And, Carol, we should note that the defense alone has filed 17 motions in this case, and it will likely take weeks before trial judge, Terry Ruckriegle, has sorted through all of the decisions that will shape what will be and what will be presented at trial. Back to you.", "All right, thank you very much, Keith Oppenheim, reporting live in Eagle, Colorado. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "KEITH OPPENHEIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "OPPENHEIM (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "OPPENHEIM", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "OPPENHEIM", "JOE BRYANT, KOBE BRYANT'S FATHER", "OPPENHEIM", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-183684", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-4-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/01/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Unarmed African-American Teen Fatally Shot by Police", "utt": ["In California, Pasadena residents want to know why a teen was fatally shot by police. This is what we know so far. The incident began when a 911 caller said two armed men had stolen his computer and backpack. When the police arrived on the scene, they said they saw a young man running, and they chased him. That young man was 19-year-old Kendrick McDade. Police said it appeared to them that McDade was reaching for something near his waist. The officers fearing it was a gun. Fired multiple shots and killed him. Police now admit the young college student had no weapon him. As for the man who called 911, well, he confessed that he lied to police about the young man having a gun, and then he was arrested.", "Pasadena police officers responded to that scene, believing that an armed robbery had just occurred. The shooting of Mr. McDade is absolutely tragic.", "The shooting has left many in the community outraged. At a town hall meeting yesterday, the police chief tried to answer questions. And there are still so many questions unanswered. Let's talk more about this now with criminal defense attorney and former prosecutors, Holly Hughes. All right. So as a former prosecutor, think about how this investigation will play out. Will it be the police department who are going to ask the questions, exactly how was this played out. Internal affairs -- will it be the D.A. who says, how -- what are the sequences of events? Was there a calling out of, freeze, you know, show me your hands, something before those weapons were fired?", "Right. Well, there doesn't have to be, OK? What happens is, typically when the police holler out, police, freeze, something along those lines, it's to identify themselves. And you might see that with an undercover officer, an officer in plain clothes, detective, who is not necessarily identifiable. So, the fact that they didn't holler out, police, freeze, is not really the issue here. The issue is, they have been told, the police have been told these guys have guns. They robbed me. So they're already amped up. They're responding to a call where they believe there are weapons involved.", "It still would be the police's responsibility to double- check or know that for sure because a caller can tell you anything. They know that.", "That's exactly right. But here's the thing, that's a split- second decision. And I'm not saying it was right. I'm not saying it's justified to shoot. That's something that will be determined after all the facts and the evidence. And there are some things about it that give me pause.", "Like what?", "OK. What happens is, they get a call that there's two armed robber suspects with guns going down orange avenue or orange boulevard, I believe it was. So it's not a robbery in progress. So it's not like you're going to have to sneak up on them. Why weren't the lights and sirens activated? If the lights and sirens have been activated, Fred, the camera in the car automatically would have been on.", "Right. And, apparently the videotape on the dash cam because that light is on.", "Because that didn't happen. There's also a way to activate the camera --", "Is there a reason why that wouldn't be activated?", "That's a question we need answered. It's one of those unanswered questions we just talked about. I'll say this for the police chief, at least he got up there and gave a press conference. He is not running away. He's not hiding. He's trying to answer the questions. We are going to investigate because again, the young man is unarmed. Now, the officers responding don't know that. Their adrenaline's rushing. And when they reach for a waistband, the police don't have to wait until they see a gun, because by the time they see it, it could be too late. So it's going to come down to those split seconds, did they have another way to avoid it.", "But something else might give them pause if they were looking for two men, and they see one.", "Right.", "One running, who fits the description.", "That's a good reason to follow. No, I totally understand your concern. That's an absolutely good reason for them to follow. Because they might have split up for all we know. So what they know is, you know, let's place the blame where it fully lies, with the person who called in, and filed the false report, who has now admitted I made it up. He's been charged with involuntary manslaughter. I think the charges should be higher than that. I think it should be voluntary manslaughter because it was reckless disregard for human life. You send armed police officers after what you're saying are armed suspects?", "Because of you just mentioned earlier, it's a split decision.", "That's right, it's a split second.", "That bodes well, really, for the police officers who will be asked for what happened exactly. But because there was that split decision, you know, that they had to make, that really does offer a level of protection.", "Some level. But again, everything will factor into, why did you not activate your lights and sirens? Is that the only course of action you could have taken? Because this young man based on what we're hearing was in an alley. So, was there a way for him to escape the other end of the alley or do you know for a fact he was trapped because the shooting occurred while the officer was still inside the vehicle? That does not bode well. Technically they're allowed to do it, but there's got to be a really good reason. Because, if you're still in your reason, back up three feet if you think there's a gun pointed at you. At least at that point in time say stop or I'll shoot. Give some type of warning. But again, everything will be taken into consideration. Because on its face, we're all sitting here horrified that, oh, my God, but let's place the blame squarely where it lies, somebody sat there and said, this man has a gun and he robbed me and he's dangerous. And you've got the police officers out there, and you don't want a widow sitting home at night.", "Sounds like a series of tough decision.", "It absolutely was.", "Calles that were made. Holly Hughes, thank you so much. And we'll be talking about this case much more. All right. Three mega winners, one huge fortune. But when will we find out who won this jackpot? 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{"id": "CNN-340647", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-05-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/21/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Trump Blinks in Trade Standoff with China", "utt": ["The very first woman to lead the CIA is officially on the job, she is Gina Haspel. She took the oath of office at CIA headquarters; President Trump was there to congratulate her.", "Today we also mark another proud milestone as Gina becomes the first woman ever to lead the CIA. I know that you will thrive as the agency's director. And help keep our nation safe, strong and proud and free. Good luck. God bless you, and god bless the men and women of the", "Mr. President, thank you again for giving me the opportunity to serve. To represent the men and women of CIA, and to carry out the critical work of helping protect our country, our people and our way of life. I also want to express a special thank you and welcome to Eliza and Zoe who have joined us today. The notes from these two young ladies ages 6 and 7 sent to me, sat on my desk the last two months and motivated me daily. They express their excitement about the opportunity my nomination represented, and to Eliza and Zoe, I would say, we did it.", "Now, she had faced some criticism from a number of Democrats in the Bush administration's detention. Gina Haspel was confirmed by a vote 54-45. President Trump touting a victorious deal with China on trade among a flurry of morning tweets -- he claimed, quoting him, China has agreed to buy massive amounts of additional farm and agricultural products. But despite a U.S./China joint statement, the reality is a bit more murky as Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross acknowledged.", "It's not a definitive agreement. For the moment it's at the 40,000-foot level. This is not a definitive agreement. This is what we hope will be a path forward. We have agreed on a framework; the effort is to translate that framework into an executable reality.", "The reality right now, the only firm commitment is from the United States which has agreed to suspend new tariffs on Chinese goods while talks are under way. Let me bring in two voices. CNN's senior economic analyst and former Trump economic advisor, Stephen Moore, and CNN political commentator and \"Washington Post\" columnist, Catherine Rampell. Great to have both of you on, and Catherine just starting with you, think of President Trump and the mantra, we have to get tough on China. Did he just blink in his own trade war threat with China?", "I will say at the outset I think it's a good thing that we are not imposing these tariffs, no one wins a trade war despite what the president has said. But that aside, it's not actually that clear we've gained a lot of ground with China. Basically, we have sutured a self-inflicted wound in that we put tariffs on the table and then took them off. And we haven't really gotten any firm commitment from China on the things that really matter which is intellectual property. That's where we're really hurting, that's where American companies really have the most to complain about, it's not about deficits, it's not about exports, which frankly in the two areas where we appear to have gotten concessions, that was likely to happen anyway namely agriculture and energy. The thing that matters is IP and there was some really meal- mouthed language in that joint communique on that matter.", "But on IP, Stephen, I want to hear how you feel. Aren't China's so-called concessions like keeping intellectual property, blocking U.S. companies while Chinese companies invest freely, aren't those things they were going to do anyway?", "Well, you never know with China. I don't want a trade war either. That would have negative consequences for the economy and the stock market. It's tough to get tough with China. I think it's time to do that. Have we gotten concessions? It's really kind of too early to tell. China has been stone walling according to my sources in the White House. They're not making a lot of concession concessions quite frankly. The repercussion by the way of that, if they don't start making concessions, they need to. They are stealing 300 to $500 billion of our technology a year, that's the intellectual property we're talking about. Trump is -- maybe excessively obsessed about the trade deficit. We've reduced our trade barriers a lot with China. China still has enormous barriers to American markets penetrating that market. So, I think the bottom line here is, not a lot of progress yet, if that doesn't happen, I think Trump will slap them with some pretty punitive tariffs.", "But Stephen, if they aren't making the concessions why did Trump take the tariffs off the table?", "Because he's trying to get to that point. This is -- look, with Donald Trump it's always about the art of the deal. He's a pretty darn good negotiator. We all hope for the best. We want to see China make those concessions. I think the point is, he hasn't really taken the tariffs off the table. I think if this breaks down, those tariffs are coming.", "What was last week about, Catherine, Trump's shift to save Chinese jobs. ZTE, despite his own intel community calling ZTE a threat.", "His intel community called it a cyber security threat. The Pentagon said it was a cyber security threat. More to the point, the Commerce Department a month ago, imposed these harsh penalties on this company because they had repeatedly violated a settlement agreement related to illegal sales to Iran and North Korea. There were a lot of things to complain about with ZTE. It's a little peculiar that Trump made that tweet last week. What you're seeing is, this administration has a very incoherent policy agenda related to trade. You have these warring factions within the administration, the more free-trade side like Larry Kudlow and Stephen Mnuchin versus Peter Navarro and Robert Lighthizer. There's a lot of warring going on, dueling messaging. You have mixed messaging over the last 24 hours coming from the administration in various TV interviews and statements. Because there's all of this incoherence and the administration doesn't really have a fixed coherent set of demands of what we want from China, and China does have a fixed set of demands it wants from us, it puts China in a much better negotiating position.", "We don't have a fixed coherent set of demands. You want to respond to that?", "I think it's fairly coherent. Donald Trump is demanding China make some real concessions here. He's the first president in 25 years to get tough with China. Where was Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama.", "In what sense has he gotten tough with China? Barack Obama actually put together the so-called coalition of the willing that Larry Kudlow has been touting, the Trans Pacific Partnership.", "Except it didn't --", "Except Trump pulled us out of it. If we wanted to get tough with China on intellectual property protection. The way to do that was through a multilateral action banning trade with other countries which we have similar complaints.", "I happen to be -- fine. I happen to be in favor of TPP. The point, we haven't made any progress with China for 25 years, as the trade deficits get bigger and as they've continued to steal from us $300-$500 billion a year. That can't continue.", "Yes, but we had a route.", "How would that have --", "TPP that you agree with.", "There were problems with TPP. You can't blame Trump for not getting a deal and being too tough with China. I think he's going to be really tough with China. I think if we don't get many the American people are behind him. Donald Trump understands something that George Bush and Barack Obama didn't understand. China is our enemy. China is not our friend or ally. Look what's happening in terms of military --", "The mechanism that would have been affected in terms of getting what we wanted out of China, would have been banding together with our allies. Beefing up our IP protection along with our allies. And using that as leverage. We lost that leverage which now belatedly the administration seems to recognize.", "Also, hanging out in the forbidden city didn't look much like enemy territory to me either. We'll see what he does from here on out. And if he will stay true and be tough with China.", "Look what they're doing militarily.", "That's a whole --", "Look at Korea, a look at the fact that they continue to cheat and steal and lie about, how is that the behavior of a friendly country?", "Who wants to follow up with the president and the action, Stephen and Catherine, that's another conversation, we've got to go but I appreciate that helping the discussion very much. We have to talk about what's happening in Hawaii next. 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{"id": "CNN-340592", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-05-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/20/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Texas School Shooting; Trump Demands More Info on Alleged FBI Informant", "utt": ["This is 17-year-old Jared Black. He was supposed to have his birthday party on Saturday. That's now. Pakistani exchange student Sabika Sheikh, pictured here. And 17-year-old Christopher Jake Stone. Another picture, teacher Cynthia Tisdale. Now these are four of the 10 victims of Friday's school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas.", "CNN has learned that the body of the exchange student that we just mentioned, Sabika Sheikh, will be sent home to Pakistan on Monday. That's according to the Pakistan consul general in Texas, who called Sheikh, \"a bridge between our people and cultures.\" The victims of Friday's shooting at Santa Fe High School were remembered at a Friday night vigil. One of the survivors who knew the alleged shooter says there were no clues that he would do something like this.", "I love everyone in Santa Fe's coming together and in a beautiful way. The vigil last night that we were at, so many faces that I haven't seen in years -- sorry...", "You don't need to apologize.", "-- people that I was -- that I hadn't talked to in years, people that I had gotten in huge fights with, they just came up to me and hugged me. They said even though I'm upset that it happened I'm glad you're OK.", "I know you know some of the victims. That's a lot to process. That's something that you and your friends have been talking about?", "It is. We were just talking about how just Thursday, we were laughing with them. We were cutting up, just being teenagers and now we don't get to do that anymore.", "You also knew the shooter.", "I did. I was talking to him in 7th period on Sunday -- or on Thursday. And there was no warning signs. There was no indication that he could do any of this because he was very quiet and very sweet. He was funny. He was never mean to me. He was nice. We'd make jokes. We laughed about memes on the Internet. And there was no red flags, no warning.", "That was Madalyn Williams, one of the survivors of the shooting, speaking to CNN's Erica Hill. The family of the suspect, the alleged shooter, who is a 17-year-old student at the school, has released a statement. And it says --", "-- that they are as shocked and confused as anyone by these events. They add that they are gratified by public comments by fellow students that, quote, \"showed Dimitri as we know him, a smart, quiet, sweet boy.\" Robert Spitzer joins me now. He is chair of the political science department at New York University, author of the book, \"Guns across America.\" Robert, this is the 22nd school shooting in the U.S. this year and just as chilling, the third time this week that a gunman has been on a school campus. Is this scenario doomed to repeat itself?", "Well, the answer I believe is yes, partly because these incidents feed off of each other and there's a lot of evidence to show that people who commit these sorts of mass shootings often go to school, so to speak. Prior mass shootings to some degree are inspired by them or get the idea from them and use that as a jumping-off point. That does not explain, of course, the underlying rage or alienation or other feelings that prompt a person to do something terrible like this. But it does suggest that there -- we will likely see similar incidents, although we are coming up on the summer months when schools will be out. And that may be a welcome break and that may help break what seems to be an accelerating cycle.", "-- and is sparking more conversation about gun control. But in this instance, the alleged shooter took his father's handgun and shotgun. He also had no known criminal record. So wasn't known to law enforcement. Is there a law out there or a potential law that would have prevented this from happening?", "Yes, pretty simple, which is you could say by law that people who keep guns in their homes are required to lock them up when they're not using them. Now as a matter of good practice, even organizations like the National Rifle Association tell gun owners that they should lock up the weapons, that they should keep them unloaded, that the ammunition should be located in a different location and that, too, should be locked up. It's an elementary safety measure. Many gun owners follow that procedure. But one of the unfortunate facts of mass shooters such as this one and others was that they had ready access to their parents' guns with the most deadly consequences.", "Look, Americans see this happening again and again. And yet the laws have not changed. Is it fair to say that this country collectively prefers to protect gun rights at the expense -- at the expense of student lives?", "Well, I think that it is not surprising that people come to that conclusion. I don't think the state of affairs, this kind of paralysis that we face about national gun policy is specifically because that kind of rational calculation has made. But it is the outgrowth of the kind of political stalemate, the polarization, the great political strength of the gun lobby, of the gun rights movement and related factors that essentially immobilize the national government and prevent it from doing anything on this subject. The current Congress clearly will not take any action on gun policy. There could be 100 mass shootings --", "And yet, Robert, and yet -- let me interrupt you for a second -- listen to the U.S. president Donald Trump about this.", "My administration is determined to do everything in our power to protect our students, secure our schools and to keep weapons out of the hands of those who pose a threat to themselves and to others. Everyone must work together.", "Now earlier this year, another school shooting in Parkland, Florida, left 17 students dead with all the national outcry that we covered. Did Donald Trump take decisive action then, which he had promised? And do you think he will now?", "He didn't then and I do not believe he will now. He speaks those words after the Parkland shooting in February. He said -- made some similar comments about possible changes in federal law that he seemed to be embracing. But then he had a meeting over the weekend after those comments with some leaders from the NRA and he backed away from those comments. I mean, leaving aside the gun issues, he simply wanted to focus on mental health, on improving school safety and on improving the physical facilities of public schools around the country. Where is the legislation? Where are the appropriations to pay for these possible changes that, even aside from implementing stronger gun laws? In terms of actual policy proposals, the Trump administration has proposed nothing and I would predict with great confidence that it will not propose anything concrete to Congress, along those lines, much less any meaningful gun laws or gun --", "-- measures that could have some possible benefit.", "Robert, thank you for joining us here on the show.", "Yes, Cyril, good to speak with you.", "There are new reports of countries besides Russia allegedly hoping to influence the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. According to \"The New York Times,\" Donald Trump Jr. took a meeting in August 2016 with a man called George Nader, who claimed to represent two Arab princes who wanted to help Mr. Trump get elected. Also offering help at the meeting was Joel Zamel, an Israeli social media expert. A lawyer for Trump Jr. told CNN that nothing came of the Trump Tower meeting. Still, it's illegal for foreigners to be involved in U.S. elections and both Zamel and Nader have come under scrutiny by special counsel Robert Mueller. Meanwhile, the president continues to hammer away at the notion that an FBI informant might have been inside his presidential campaign. Mr. Trump is demanding the U.S. Justice Department reveal more details about this mystery person. CNN's Ryan Nobles explains.", "President Trump is continuing to put pressure on the Department of Justice and the FBI to bring out more information about an informant that attempted to gain access and information to the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. The president tweeting about this topic again on Saturday, saying, quote, \"If the FBI or DOJ was infiltrating a campaign for the benefit of another campaign, that is a really big deal. Only the release or review of documents by the House Intelligence Committee, also Senate Judiciary is asking for, can give conclusive answers.\" Then he went on to say, \"Drain the swamp.\" Now the president has continued to say that someone had infiltrated his campaign or was embedded in his campaign and sources tell CNN that actually wasn't the case, that this is someone outside the campaign and they will only tell us that it was a U.S. citizen. But we've learned from reports by \"The New York Times\" and \"The Washington Post\" that this was someone outside the campaign who was working to build relationships with people working on the campaign as a way to get information that could be a part of this FBI investigation. Now there is a concern by the intelligence community and the Department of Justice and even some elected officials that the release of some of this information could lead to the identity of this informant going public and that that could hurt future investigations. Mark Warner, a Democrat, the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has specifically warned against this. And Christopher Wray, the current FBI director and of course an appointee by President Trump, said, quote, \"The day we cannot protect human sources is the day we become less safe.\" But this is clearly something that the president is not going to let go. He has now tweeted about this issue on four different occasions. And it seems as though he is attempting discredit the Mueller investigation and any information that may have been gleaned by this informant. It's important to point out, though, that this informant began his work prior to the launch of the Mueller investigation. He was attempting to make contact within officials related to the Trump campaign during the campaign and the Mueller investigation did not launch until well after the campaign. One thing is for sure, though, that the president is not letting this issue go. And this could be a big point of contention between the president, his own Justice Department and members of both the House and Senate -- Ryan Nobles, CNN, at the White House.", "All right. More impressive pictures coming out of Hawaii, paradise paved over by hot volcanic lava. Up next, we're checking in on Hawaii's big island, where eruptions are still opening up the ground. 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{"id": "CNN-177316", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-12-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/08/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Two Dead In Shooting At Virginia Tech", "utt": ["Top of the hour now. I'm Fredricka Whitfield, in for Brooke Baldwin. Again, we're watching a breaking story out of Blacksburg, Virginia. You're looking at pictures right now thanks to our affiliate there at the Virginia Tech campus. It is on lockdown because of a shooting that took place earlier today. Police are looking for a suspected gunman. What we do understand, according to Virginia Tech authorities, two people were shot dead. One was a police officer making a routine stop on the campus. And then according to eyewitness accounts, the alleged gunman then took off to a parking lot where another person was killed. Still unclear, the identity of that person, but, again, the entire campus on lockdown as authorities continue to look for this suspected gunman. Now watch this. An emergency summit to save the euro, Jon Corzine on the hot seat over millions of missing dollars. Jerry Sandusky a free man for now. And possible dangers of two birth control drugs.", "All right, next, Jason Carroll in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, Where former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky just posted a quarter of a million dollar bail.", "Well, Fredricka, Jerry Sandusky was released from the Centre County Correctional Facility. He is now back at home under house arrest. Cameras were there as he pulled into his driveway. He is out on $250,000 bail. As part of his bail, he will have to wear some sort of an electronic monitoring device. Also, he will not be allowed to have any contact with any victims or any potential witnesses. He can have no unsupervised contact with any minors, this all the result of being arrested yesterday. He now faces new allegations of sexually abusing two boys. That now brings the number to 10 victims, alleged victims, who say Jerry Sandusky sexually abused them when they were young boys. His next legal hurdle will be his preliminary hearing, Fredricka. That is set for next Tuesday.", "All right. Thanks so much, Jason Carroll. The makers of the birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin are in the hot seat. The FDA want to know if Bayer concealed information about dangerous side effects. Our senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, is here. So, Elizabeth, what are we learning about these drugs that perhaps people did not know before?", "Well, these were heavily, marketed drugs. You saw ads for them all over the place. Women together and running through fields and looking happy. And what some are alleging is that studies that were done, not by Bayer, who markets the drug, but by independent doctors, that they show that this drug has a two to three times higher blood clot risk than what the Bayer studies showed.", "They didn't know this before? Or is this data new?", "Well, here's what's happening here is that plaintiffs, people who are suing say that in fact, Bayer knew about this and basically hid it. I want to introduce to you a woman. She is 20 years old. Her name is Elizabeth Rippee. She died on Christmas Eve 2008. And her twin sister and her mother will be testifying. They said she was perfectly heavy (sic). She had taken other birth control pills before. But after a couple of months of being on Yaz, she collapsed. It turned out she had a blood clot and they say doctors say that it was because of Yaz.", "OK. Now, when someone sees an advertisement for a drug, they figure it is FDA-approved. That means it is safe pending what your doctor prescribes. Should people rethink how they look at ads?", "I think people should rethink how they look at ads. And here's why. If you see an ad for a drug, it is pretty much by definition new. And new means expensive. And they're pushing it because they want to make money. New drugs are not as tested as old drugs. If you're seeing an ad like this one here, new drug, has not been tried out most likely on millions and millions of people yet. And drugs that have been tried out on millions and millions of people are -- we know more about them. They have more of a track record will. So before you go to your doctor and say, hey, give me that thing I saw on TV, think again. You might want something older that has more of a track record. And, remember, if you're seeing these ads, guess who is in your doctor's office most likely?", "How interesting.", "Drug reps pushing the same drug. So your doctor has been told, this is the greatest thing ever. You're being told this is the greatest thing ever. And, really, it might be just as good or maybe even worse than drugs that are already out there. I also want to add here that Bayer says Yaz and Yasmin are safe and they say that may be giving a statement by the end of the day.", "OK. We will look forward to that. Thanks so much, Elizabeth.", "Thanks.", "All right, meantime, this just in now. We're getting word that exams, final exams have been postponed on the campus of Virginia Tech. Earlier, we have been reporting to you that the entire campus is on lockdown now on this first day of what would have been final exams. There was a shooting on campus. At least two people, according to Virginia Tech authorities, two people have been killed, including that of a police officer making a routine traffic stop. We will give you more information as we learn it, but, meantime, those exams have been postponed, but lockdown still in place. Up next, Eric Holder under fire and on the hot seat. The attorney general called to testify on the operation that sent guns to drug cartels and Republicans aren't forgiving, floating words like jail, lies, and even impeachment. That's next. Plus, they died serving this country, yet the remains of dozens of U.S. troops were dumped in a landfill -- why the military's mistake is worse than previously thought. Stay right here."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "WHITFIELD", "JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "COHEN", "WHITFIELD", "COHEN", "WHITFIELD", "COHEN", "WHITFIELD", "COHEN", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-198868", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2013-1-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/07/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Lionel Messi Favorite To Win Fourth Straight Ballon d'Or; Seahawks, Ravens Advance In NFL Playoffs", "utt": ["Live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream. Now AC Milan returned to the pitch a week after suffering racial abuse during a friendly. Amanda Davies joins us now with more on this story -- Amanda.", "Hi, Kristie. Yeah, the team are back on the pitch, but the Italian interior minister has very much weighed into the racism row in football saying that matches shouldn't be stopped if only a handful of fans are involved in racist chanting. Anna Maria Cancellieri has spoken following Kevin-Prince Boateng's decision to walk off the pitch last week in protest to racist abuse from fans. That match was stopped. But she did, however, praise Boateng's actions for highlighting the issue. Boateng and Milan were back in action on Sunday for the first time since their abandoned game. And they ran out 2-1 winners against Serie A's bottom side Siena. Ahead of the game, they wore anti-racism slogans on the backs of their shirts. Well, on the NFL playoffs, the final eight line-up is now decided after the wild card games this weekend. And Ray Lewis's last horrah goes on after the Baltimore Ravens saw off the Indianapolis Colts. Lewis went into the game knowing it could have been his last having announced his retirement ahead of the playoffs. And he made sure he was going to enjoy it in front of the Baltimore faithful. With the Ravens ahead 3-0 in the second here, he almost made a huge play, but drops the interception. But despite that, the Ravens pulled away in the second half thanks to a couple of touchdown passes from Joe Flacco here going 24-9 ahead midway through the fourth quarter. And the vaunted Ravens defense put the game away later in the fourth as Kerry Williams intercepts Colt's quarterback Andrew Luck. Ravens win 24-9. And Ray Lewis will have to put off that retirement for at least one more game. They play at Denver next week. It was a sad end to the season for Robert Griffin III and the Washington Redskins, though. The rookie quarterback inspired the Redskins to a 14-0 first quarter lead over the Seattle Seahawks, but his troublesome right knee just couldn't keep pace. His counterpart Russell Wilson responded late in the second quarter, finding Michael Robinson for the four yard touchdown pass that cut the deficit to 14-10. With Seattle down by one midway through the fourth quarter when Marshawn Lynch gets the handoff, makes one man miss and runs 27 yards for the score. Seahawks take a 21-14 lead after a successful two-point conversion. One last chance for RGIII and Washington, but he goes down after a bad snap and reinjures that knee. So that was it for his game and his season. Seattle tacked on a field goal to win 24-14. In the end, there was a little bit of argy-bargy after the game. Nothing too serious. But it's Seattle that advance to play the Falcons next week. Now the golf community are hoping it'll be fourth time lucky for the PGA Tour's season opening tournament of champions in Hawaii. They're hoping Monday will see 36 hole plays with another 18 on Tuesday to finally get a 54 hole event completed, because for the last three days players failed to get going because of strong gales and heavy rain. It is quite sunny, but not great golfing conditions. Matt Kutcher, for instance, tries to tee off, but there goes the golf ball off the tee. And have a look at Ben Curtis trying to line up an already difficult birdie. The little white ball there just takes off on its own. There we were thinking Hawaii was a wonderful place for holidays. Not at the moment, Kristie. They are going to try again today, though.", "That's right, that's more than trade winds there in Hawaii. Literally blown off course there. Amanda Davies, thank you so much. Take care. Now, let's slip over here. Lionel Messi, he is one of the most recognizable names in international football and he could soon become one of the most decorated. He is in the running to win the prestigious Ballon d'Or for a fourth time. As Pedro Pinto shows us, the Argentinian is facing some tough competition.", "Lionel Messi can do something no one has ever done before: win the Ballon d'Or four years in a row. The 25 year old Argentine is quite an expert at beating records. In 2012, he set a new mark for goals scored in a calendar year. The Barcelona star hit the back of the net 91 times for club and country.", "Considering everything Messi has done this year, I think he is the favorite. He has really played at a different level at Barcelona.", "With 90 goals in one season, I don't think he's ever put that kind of output. So if he doesn't win it this year, he shouldn't have won it the other years for sure. So, tough luck for Ronaldo, I have to say that, but I think he'll win it.", "Speaking of Christiano Ronaldo, he may not have reached Messi's heights when it comes to goal scoring, but he did win the Spanish League title and helped Portugal reach the semifinals of Euro 2012. In a recent interview, the 27-year-old Portuguese star told me how much he would like to win this award.", "A lot. This would mean a lot for me.", "So if you were someone voting and someone would ask you why are you going to pick Christiano Ronaldo instead of Messi, what would you say?", "Well, I will put everything in one bag and to see what they've done by the year. If you speak about me and Lio, who win more things, who play better. So I cannot say I deserve to win. But I think I'm in good position.", "Andres Iniesta could be seen as an outsider to win Monday's big prize, but he shouldn't be overlooked. The 28 year old midfielder already beat the odds when he was named UEFA's European footballer of the year ahead of Ronaldo and Messi back in August. The fact he lead Spain to an unprecedented second straight European championship title stands him in good stead with the voters. And who are those voters? National team coaches and captains, plus an elite group of journalists. They're not only picking the FIFA Ballon d'Or winner, but also the women's world player of the year with Marta looking to pick that award up for the sixth straight time. The coach of the year title is also up for grabs. Vicente Del Bosque of the Spanish National Team is the favorite for that. No doubt, it should be a drama filled evening here at the Congress House. Pedro Pinto, CNN, Zurich.", "Now still ahead on News Stream, could this man be the next U.S. Defense Secretary? If former Senator Chuck Hagel is nominated today, he could face a big battle before he even gets the job. And taking a stand against censorship, journalists in China stage a rare protest. We'll tell you why."], "speaker": ["LU STOUT", "AMANDA DAVIES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "LU STOUT", "PEDRO PINTO, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "EMERSON, FORMER BRAZIL MIDFIELDER (through translator)", "PETER SCHMEICHEL, FORMER MANCHESTER UNITED AND DENMARK GOALKEEPER", "PINTO", "CHRISTIANO RONALDO, REAL MADRID MIDFIELDER", "PINTO", "RONALDO", "PINTO", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-190883", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2012-8-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1208/11/bn.05.html", "summary": "Romney Picks Ryan as VP; Romney, Ryan Speak in Norfolk", "utt": ["And let's bring in some of our CNN contributors, John Avlon, senior political columnist with TheDailyBeast.com; former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer; Democratic strategist James Carville; and CNN senior political analyst, former presidential adviser David Gergen. You know, he really, Paul Ryan, when you think about it, David, he has no real foreign policy, national security experience, no private sector experience. He's basically been in government virtually every since he graduated from Miami University of Ohio. What does that say to you?", "It says to me that this announcement this morning is important because he's going to be introduced for the first time to a lot of Americans who never thought about him as potential vice president. And I think for the Romney campaign overall which has been mostly playing defense this is an opportunity to go on offense as they go big and bold. After all, the whole idea for choosing Paul Ryan was to make this about big, bold ideas. They have to show us that they can do that, that they can go to that level and also be persuasive. It's going to be a big challenge for them Wolf. But this is a very important -- we'll be watching this closely to see if they are up to the challenge they have just given themselves.", "John Avlon, you know, for the first time maybe ever -- I think we should double-check this, there's not going to be a Protestant on a major presidential ticket. We have a Mormon, Paul Ryan is a Catholic. What, if anything, does that mean?", "It is fascinating and it's a sign I think of how the country has evolved to the extent that that's not even the top line part of conversation. One other new factor, Wolf, is that Paul Ryan becomes the first pure member of Generation X to serve on a national ticket as well. So to some extent this ticket represents the torch passing, you know. I think it will reinvigorate the base not just in terms of style but substance and really bring this whole presidential campaign debate to a much more serious level. So I'm looking forward to that.", "What's the most important thing, Ari Fleischer, that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan need to convey within the next few minutes once they are up on that stage right near the USS Wisconsin?", "Wolf, they need to plant the ideological flag. They need to send a signal to the country that somebody, and it's them, is serious about dealing with the nation's the biggest threats and those threats, of course, are high unemployment, ridiculous amounts of debt and high deficits. That's what it is. I think also interestingly they have a chance to recapture some of what Barack Obama had in 2008 and that's the message of hope. I think under President Obama we've seen the status quo was continued high unemployment. If they can make the case that they can restore America, as they put it, the comeback team, that's an uplifting message of hope that the Republicans are going to try to capture away from the Democrat this time.", "Should the Democrats, James Carville, be all that enthusiastic, gleeful right now about this selection?", "I would not only be gleeful. I want to make one big point that Democrats are going to contest vehemently, and I suspect very effectively, that Ryan is anything like a deficit reducer. You know, he was on the Simpson-Bowles commission and voted against that plan. And most analysts think that Ryan's plan would actually increase the deficit. And most analysts think that his plan will actually increase health care costs. So, this is -- they are not going to concede anything on the deficit argument. They are going to go, the Democrats and a lot of people are going to go right at that Ryan's plan, will actually increase the budget deficit. They are not going to cede any ground on fiscal responsibility here at all, not an inch. And that's one thing I do predict, and I think that's very important to keep in mind as this unfolds. And I'm sure that, you know, Ryan is a bright guy and they will go back and forth on this. But we'll see. But I think the Democrats think their position is very strong here.", "All right, let me bring back Jim Acosta, he is in Norfolk for us. Jim, you are getting more information on how this decision was made. Is that right?", "That's right. That's right, Wolf. A top Romney adviser just e-mailed me this information just a few moments ago. I want to read it verbatim so I get this right. A little sleep deprivation and a lot of running around this morning. So, let's get this right: Quote, \"Governor made his decision on August 1st and placed a call to Ryan from Beth's office at headquarters. That, of course, is Beth Myers, the head of his vice presidential selection process. This was after he returned from his foreign trip. He asked to meet with Ryan in person. And they subsequently met and the offer was made. That according to a top Romney adviser. No word, Wolf, as to when they sealed this deal, waiting to get some guidance on that. But we are starting to put some of the pieces together, that a call was made, it looks like, on August 1st, to Paul Ryan. So, not only did Mitt Romney make this decision and know about this decision on August 1st and keep all of this secret from the rest of us for several days, nearly two weeks, so did Paul Ryan, Wolf.", "Interesting stuff. But John King, should we be surprised that this decision is being announced even before the formal end of the Olympic Games? We all thought he didn't want to do that, because that would take away some of the excitement.", "Well, if you think Paul Ryan is a surprise, you might think the timing is a surprise as well. But look, one person and one person alone decides who and then decides how. And I'm sure, you know, Governor Romney's staff just yesterday - you and I were having a conversations where a lot of the people who said it would happen early next week after the Olympic closing ceremony of this weekend. We said, well, maybe now he'll wait till after the bus tour to try to gin up excitement. Well, you know what, some of them -- this is close to Governor Romney, didn't know that this was going to happen. Some of them were told later last night it is going to happen. Others, you know, the outer circle of advisers woke up this morning and said, whoa, and they started being reporters just like us. So, you know, the governor has to make this decision. And we look at this from a traditional standpoint, that why would you do this with big Olympics event, why would you do it this far off from the convention, because now we'll all pick Paul Ryan apart. In the new media age 24/7, they made a decision. Look, you can argue this, you can argue that. Barack Obama announced his candidacy on the Saturday, Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy on a Saturday. I think they announced Biden -- it leaked Friday night, but they announced it on a Saturday. So, there are no golden rules anymore in the new world of communications. And he is going on this bus trip. He does need to change the dynamics of the campaign. I think they decided, you know what, let's go.", "And I think once they chose him, which is August 1, and let him know, as we now all know, I think it was a -- I think it was a matter of when they thought the right opportunity was. Well, you have this bus tour going on, you want to gin up a lot for attention for your bus tour, what better way to do it than announce your running mate?", "And on weekends you give it a crowd, because people aren't at work --", "Right.", "So, that's number one. And number two, even if you look at it from old media, he will dominate the Sunday morning talk shows, I can assure you, as well as the Sunday morning papers, when people stay home and actually read their newspapers and watch a little Sunday morning. So, you know, and John is perfectly right. You get --", "There's no self-interest in that. Watch a little --", "No, no, just saying, 9:00 a.m. That's all I'm saying.", "Indeed.", "So, what's interesting to me, is then you may use this byte on your \"Sunday Morning\" talk show. But, of course, we have Newt Gingrich talking about the right wing social engineering that was the Ryan budget, when he was a challenger. He's since apologized for that. We have President Obama calling the Ryan plan social Darwinism. And so these are all -- these are all bytes that we'll be using to talk about just what is in the Paul Ryan plan. What we know is that he wants to raise the Medicare eligibility age to 67, which Mitt Romney has already embraced and has already spoken about. But I think these things are going to be very controversial. Not to mention that he voted for the TARP bailout, and Paul Ryan also voted for the auto bailout. So here is the conservative who voted for two bailouts.", "Because Wisconsin is like many of those Midwestern states very much influenced by the auto industry.", "That's right. He was voting his district.", "It is interesting in this, you know, 2010 was the Tea Party election. And we have a nominee, Mitt Romney, who is not a darling of the Tea Party. Candy made a great point earlier about his business career, where he's taken a lot of risk. As a candidate for the nomination, he was pretty cautious. Why? Well, in part, because he was out of step with the energy of the moment in the party. But again, not -- this is not to take sides, but give him credit, he won the nomination. Some will say weak field, some will say he had more money. He's the nominee. He won. And winning matters, and so this is a -- this is a bolder choice. We are 86 days -- 86 days in what is a very close election trending a bit toward the president right now in the polling numbers. If you look at the other fundamentals, Wolf, though, no president has ever won re- election with an economy like this. No president has ever won re- election with consumer confidence lagging where it is. This is a fascinating race with huge consequential issues before the country. And to John Avlon's point earlier, and I think we've all talked about this at some point. If we can talk about Medicare, Social Security, tax reform, America's place in the world, the fiscal cliff, the Euro crisis, instead of Bain and Solyndra, amen.", "Well, and that's -- and that's -- and honestly, when we talk about timing, what would we have been talking about? Harry Reid and, you know, I think he didn't pay any taxes at all, et cetera, et cetera. And this takes that off the table for now. And I think what happens is if you come back with that and Harry Reid or somebody who says, yeah, but we really need to see the tax returns. They say, that's great. We'd like to actually talk about some policy here. And so they can, you know, just sort of high road attempt, which gives them off some of the things that they obviously haven't been comfortable with.", "And he picked the man who is really at the intellectual center of that part of the party. I mean, you know, for better or worse, you can agree with Paul Ryan or disagree with him, but he's the intellectual behind the budget plan.", "It's dangerous for Washington", "By the way, the woman that we see over there, you see here over there, right near that post in the pink sweater, that's Ann Romney, Mitt Romney's wife. She's meeting with some of the folks over there. It looks like she's got a cap, maybe says USS Wisconsin. She's getting excited I'm sure as well for this announcement. Ari Fleischer, let me bring you back into this conversation. You're a good solid Republican, you worked in the Bush White House. The fact that Paul Ryan really is a product for the last 20 years of his life of inside the Washington, D.C. Beltway, either as a staffer, or think tanker, or a member of Congress, that he really has no practical, private sector experience. No real national security experience. How much of a liability is that going to be for this ticket?", "You know, Wolf, it's a great question. And I know Paul very well. He doesn't talk like he's from Washington. He really has retained kind of the core being from the heartland, the ability to just connect with people, to speak plain English. You won't hear him do as Bob Dole, a creature of Washington did, talk in Senate speak or Congress speak. He has that way of speaking in a very humble, very down to earth, easy to understand manner. So, you wouldn't know he's from Washington in that sense. So, I think he's a good combination of a real policy expert who also brings intellectualism to a conservative ideology, with something that people, like many conservatives, have been searching for. We really want somebody who can wrap the reason we need to confront the deficit, confront the debt in an upbeat manner because this is how you save the republic. That's what he conveys when he speaks. And I think that's exciting for Republicans. What you don't want is an accountant put on the ticket, somebody who speaks like an accountant. You want someone who's uplifting nature to them. The private sector side, Wolf, I think Republicans give him a pass because, first of all, you have Mitt Romney who comes from the private sector, makes a nice balance for the ticket. And I don't think for independents, or the Democrats who are persuadable, that's going to matter.", "And the fact that he's never really managed anything in his career other than a relatively small congressional staff, what does that say?", "Well, certainly it worked for President Obama. And State Senator Obama really didn't have much experience,", "Does that neutralize some of the criticism of President Obama and Joe Biden, for that matter?", "That criticism is not what this election is about. This is not an election by virtue of -- this is an election that Mitt Romney needs to turn into ideology, turn into the big policy matters that are going to change this country for better or for worse. That's where this election stands. Now from President Obama's point of view, he wants to make the focus on senior citizens, on Medicare, and, of course, on Mitt Romney's record.", "There's Bob McDonnell. He's the governor of Virginia. He was supposedly on one of the short list as well. Obviously he didn't get the vice presidential pick, but he's going to be introducing Mitt Romney, who in turn will introduce Paul Ryan. So, we're not very far away. Stand by for that. I want to quickly bring in Donna Brazile, our Democratic strategist who was the campaign manager for Al Gore's 2000 campaign. Donna, give me a quick thought. What do you think about this decision? The most important decision that a presidential candidate can make, who the running mate will be. What do you think of Mitt Romney's decision?", "I think it says a lot about Governor Romney that he selected someone who is the architect of a radical Republican budget on Capitol Hill, that would basically double down on tax cuts for the wealthy, cut back, you know, government programs for the poor and the middle class. This is going to be a classic conversation as to the role of government in our lives. We know that Paul Ryan opposed Simpson-Bowles deficit solution because it contained revenues. So, I think this is a conversation that the country should have. It may allow us to have a substantive conversation in terms of the challenges we face long-term in terms of the fiscal -- get our fiscal house in order. But was it a bold choice? Absolutely. Was it a risky choice, you bet. And Democrats understand that Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney now will, you know, put seniors at risk by jeopardizing Medicare, turn it into a private voucher system. This is going to be a conversation that we look forward to. But for today I think the best thing I can say as a Democrat, as an American, is congratulations to Paul Ryan and his family. This is going to be an interesting race. And I'm sure that over the next couple of weeks we'll get to know Paul Ryan's budget, his ideas, his plan. But for now I think it fills a big doughnut hole that Mitt Romney had in his own campaign, and detailing what he stood for on many fiscal issues. Paul Ryan will, his budget and his proposals will now fill that gap.", "You know, this is going to be a good serious substantive debate. Let me bring David Gergen back into this conversation, as we await Mitt Romney. He's getting ready to speak, he is being introduced by Bob McDonnell, right now the governor of Virginia. He's speaking about a whole bunch of Virginia-related issues, some races out there as well. David Gergen, the Republicans will argue, and you know this, that what Paul Ryan is proposing as far as Medicare, for example, is concerned, he wants to save Medicare because if it keeps on going away it is right now -- it will be destroyed for everyone. That's why he's come up with his bold ideas for people under 55 years old. Is that argument going to sway a lot of folks out there?", "Well, it is certainly -- I think it was certainly brave, Wolf, when he put this forward. So many political leaders have ducked the question of entitlement reform. And the Ryan plan frankly has bipartisan roots. You know, it's closely tailored to a plan that Alice Rivlin and Pete Domenici -- Alice Rivlin, a former budget director for Bill Clinton came up with on how to save Medicare. So I do think that that is a, you know, I give him credit for putting an idea on the table in the courageous way he did it. The question is whether in the middle of a political campaign like this, with 87 days left to go, you can persuade Americans that this is not something risky.", "David, hold on a moment. I want to hear what the governor has to say. He is getting ready to introduce Mitt Romney. This is Bob McDonnell, the governor of Virginia.", "And he said something I still can't believe, I'm still looking at that transcript to see if it was right. He said if you are successful in a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.", "Thank you. What a welcome. Thank you so much, Virginia. (Inaudible). Thank you so much. What a great governor you have. What a terrific man and a terrific leader. Way to go.", "Wow! Hey. And right in front of the U.S.S. Wisconsin, huh? Man! Every now and then I'm known to make a mistake.", "America is more than just a place, though. America is an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not from government.", "We can turn this thing around. We can. We can turn this thing around. Real solutions can be delivered, but it will take leadership and the courage to tell you the truth.", "All right. So there he is, listening to a little bit of Kid Rock in the background there, \"Born Free,\" and the families coming up, the Romney family and the Ryan family. It's going to be a beautiful picture up there, two beautiful families. This the first time we're seeing both families together. This is the ticket. There you see his wife, Janna. There you see the three Ryan kids, Liza, Charlie, and Sam. And obviously we've seen Ann Romney on many, many occasions with her husband, Mitt Romney, their five sons and many, many grandchildren as well. So that's the Republican ticket for the race for the White House, 87 days to go or so. It's on November 6th. We're going to get to know a lot more about Paul Ryan, the Republican Congressman from Wisconsin. We're going to get to know a lot more about his wife, Janna, originally from Oklahoma, now from Wisconsin. We've gotten to know a lot, obviously, about Mitt Romney and Ann Romney over these past several years. Pretty important speeches from both Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney, even though Mitt Romney self- acknowledged a little bit of a blunder there when he introduced -- when he introduced Paul Ryan as the next President of the United States, unfortunately for him, that was a mistake. He later came back and said, you know, I've made mistakes before. I'm really talking about the next vice president of the United States. Stuff like that happens all of the time. We'll play that clip for you later. Let me bring John King, Gloria Borger, Candy Crowley into this conversation. We've got our analysts all standing by as well. And they obviously staged this, John, very, very carefully for millions of Americans. It's really the first introduction of Paul Ryan.", "And that's part of the two big challenges: number one, introduce a guy most of the country doesn't know. Maybe they have heard his name, they've heard a Democratic congressman say the Ryan budget or things, but this is the first time most people are getting a good look at it. But part of it is the personal introduction. And then the other part of it is what do you want to say, what do you want this to be about. And you heard Paul Ryan, especially at the end there, essentially saying we know what we want to do is tough, meaning also controversial, but we're going to have an honest conversation with the American people. We're going to put the tough choices before them and making the case that President Obama has failed to do that in his three-plus years in the White House. It's the beginning of a Romney narrative, switches the dynamic of the election quite fundamentally. Mitt Romney, up to this point, had been trying to make this about President Obama, period, and almost not about him, just about President Obama. This makes it pretty clear they've decided that approach wasn't working. And they're now going to have a choice. We're going to have a choice. And if that means a great policy debate about the big choices facing the guy who's going to have to govern in January, I think that's good.", "I think it's good, too. Gloria?", "You know, I put that question about doesn't this change the election to a senior Romney aide, I said, isn't this now more about Mitt Romney and not about President Obama. And this aide said to me, no, this is still about Barack Obama. But I think what they are trying to do is say, you know what, he hasn't made the tough choices that we need to make in a serious way to save the economic future of this country. So I think the debate is going to shift onto a very substantive ground. But I'm looking in my inbox. Of course, you know, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Steve Israel sent out a note that said that this match of Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney will be a nightmare for seniors who've earned their Medicare benefits. So you see the debate, predictable as it is, already starting.", "And, Candy, we heard Paul Ryan say this is going to be a good partnership. He'll bring things to the table that maybe Mitt Romney doesn't bring, but certainly Mitt Romney brings things, especially private business experience that Paul Ryan doesn't bring to the table.", "Paul Ryan has some inside Washington experience. I think the other thing that's interesting, just stylistically to me, there's always something about Mitt Romney that's a little bit hesitant with his words. You always are kind of on the edge in some ways, thinking where is he going with this? There's a force of words that Paul Ryan has, that's -- was very clear, I think, in this speech. It doesn't mean he will overshadow him. And I think we saw in the speech he doesn't intend to. Fully, what, three-quarters of it was about Mitt Romney and the other quarter was about, OK, folks, this is what this election is about. So I think he does bring a real certainty and power to the words that sometimes Mitt Romney sort of seems to be searching for the next way not to get in trouble that doesn't seem to be that with Ryan and he'll be a power on the campaign trail. But he's not Joe Biden. And that's what's going to be interesting, is that Joe Biden -- we have seen him now for however many years, but even most recently in this election, Joe Biden is out there. He is smashing the opposition. I don't think this is that attack dog number two.", "Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, the former Republican presidential candidate, is joining us on the phone right now. Mr. Speaker, thanks very much. Give us your immediate reaction to the Romney-Ryan ticket.", "Well, we're very, very happy. Callista has known Paul since he was an intern for Bob Cashton (ph). He has grown into one of the great intellectual leaders in this country. His work on the budget is extraordinary. It is a real decision by Governor Romney that this is going to be a very substantive fall campaign, it's going to be an enormous choice for the American people. And I think Ryan is going to be very effective. He represents a Midwestern industrial district. He's gotten re-elected by big margins, explaining his policies. He knows how to campaign in places like Michigan, Ohio, Indiana. I think he's going to be a very, very big asset.", "You know, I know it got a lot of buzz when you were running for the Republican presidential nomination, when you were on \"Meet the Press,\" and you said this at the time. I know you subsequently explained what you meant. Let me play the clip. Let's go through it, because you know there's going to be a lot of people talking about what you said then vis-a-vis presumably Paul Ryan. Listen to this, Mr. Speaker.", "I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering. I don't think imposing radical change from the Right or the Left is a good way for a free society to operate.", "Now was that a criticism of Paul Ryan and his budget plan?", "Well, the fact is that Paul Ryan, I think, listened carefully and he worked with Ron Wyden and they have introduced a bipartisan Medicare plan that allows you the choice, you can stay in the current system if you want, or you can go to a new system. But it's your choice. And I felt in our conversations over a period of months that Paul was listening very carefully and was contemplating exactly how to do the right thing the right way. Remember, we're now operating in a world where Barack Obama has ended Medicare as we know it by taking $700 billion out of the program. I mean, for Democrats to run, pretending they're going to defend a program that they have gutted, is the ultimate hypocrisy.", "Because a lot of people probably don't remember that after Ryan -- Paul Ryan came out with his original plan, he then worked together with Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon to come up with an alternative of that plan, which is what you're talking about, Medicare. But even a lot of Republicans -- you remember Donald Trump, he was very critical of Republicans for even talking about Medicare, because he thought politically that would be -- that would be destructive.", "Well, I think -- but I think you have to, first of all, put it in context. Barack Obama has taken hundreds of billions of dollars away from Medicare. And ObamaCare represents, in effect, the end of Medicare. So for the Democrats to campaign, once again, dishonestly, pretending something is not true, this fall campaign is going to be a very interesting contest between the ability of simple, straightforward truth. And I think you just saw with Paul Ryan, a guy who is going to be very factual and very knowledgeable, but he's going to calmly and directly tell the truth. And you're going to have the Democrats who cannot defend their record running the most demagogic campaign of modern times. And you saw that if you saw \"The Wall Street Journal\" lead editorial that said they can't find any truth coming out of the Obama campaign. I mean, it is pathetic how bad they have become.", "Look ahead to the debate that will take place in October between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden, two men you know well. You have seen them both in action over the years. I'm pretty excited about it. What about you?", "Oh, I think it will be terrific. I think that Ryan's command of the facts, his understanding of reality, his ability to talk in the language of Janesville, Wisconsin, it is going to be very interesting to watch that debate. But I also think you're going to see between now and then, Paul Ryan is going to have an impact on the campaign trail. You have a 42-year- old, really committed, competent person, who's enthusiastic, energetic, has a beautiful family and is a very faithful Catholic. He's going to have a big impact in that community which currently feels it is under siege (inaudible), at war with the Catholic church. I think Ryan has many different positive impacts. I think it was a tremendous decision by Governor Romney. Well, Joe Biden is a Catholic as well, so you'll have two Catholics running for vice president of the United States. As you look ahead to what's going to happen over these next, what, 86, 87 days, it looks to me like this race now is going to be much more substantive, dealing with serious economic related issues as opposed to some of the frivolous stuff.", "Well, I think that was a deliberate choice by Governor Romney. Governor Romney wants to have a debate over public policy and I think he knows that he may or may not win a campaign on personal attacks but he's going to win a campaign based on public policy.", "Newt Gingrich, we'll stay in close touch with you, the former Speaker, the former Republican presidential candidate. We'll take a quick break. When we come back, we have an exclusive, something you will see and hear, only hear on CNN. Beth Myers, the woman who helped Mitt Romney put this ticket together, she speaks to our own Gloria Borger."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "JOHN AVLON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BLITZER", "ARI FLEISCHER, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BLITZER", "JAMES CARVILLE, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BLITZER", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST", "CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BORGER", "CROWLEY", "KING", "CROWLEY", "CROWLEY", "BORGER", "BLITZER", "BORGER", "KING", "CROWLEY", "BORGER", "KING", "BLITZER", "FLEISCHER", "BLITZER", "FLEISCHER", "BLITZER", "FLEISCHER", "BLITZER", "DONNA BRAZILE, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BLITZER", "GERGEN", "BLITZER", "GOV. BOB MCDONNELL (R ), VIRGINIA", "FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY (R-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "REP. PAUL D. 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{"id": "CNN-2216", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-2-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/07/mn.07.html", "summary": "Face-Off Imminent as President Clinton Sends Eighth and Final Budget to Congress", "utt": ["In some ways, it is a final chapter of the Clinton presidency. Just two hours ago, the administration released its eighth and final budget report. For a closer look at the proposals and what they could mean to you, live to Capitol Hill and CNN's Jeanne Meserve for more on this. Jeanne, good morning.", "Good morning, Bill. It's ready, set, go: The face-off between the Congress and the White House over the budget is just about to begin. The budget documents arrived here on Capitol Hill this morning, and as they did, House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich characterized it as a fantasy budget, a laundry list for special interest groups. The budget has a price tag of about $1.8 trillion. That's close to a four percent increase over last year. It projects a non-Social Security surplus of about $750 billion over the next 10 years, and here are some of its specific provisions: $350 billion in tax cuts, $110 billion for health care, $30 billion for tuition tax credits, $112 billion additional dollars for defense. Senate Budget Committee chairman, Republican Pete Domenici, appeared on CNN this morning and called it an election year budget of the highest order.", "It is a budget that's on autopilot in terms of all the programs of our country for 10 years. They're growing at the rate of inflation automatically. And then there's about $340 billion in new programs. And the more you look at it, the more you wonder, Is this an overt, conscious effort to put so many spending programs on the line that there will be nothing left of any significance to give back to the American taxpayers even when you have the largest surplus in the history of America?", "But Jack Lew, the White House budget director, defends the budget as reasonable.", "Spending in this year's budget is the smallest as a percentage of the economy since 1966. It's gone down every year that President Clinton has been in office, and it continues to go down over the projection of the next 10 years. We think that combined with the real record of debt reduction -- we paid down debt in 1998, we paid down debt in 1999 and this year. We're doing the job, we're sticking to the course that we're on, which is fiscal discipline, and it's balanced with investments in our priorities in the future.", "Republicans on Capitol Hill are indicating this morning that they will be concentrating on holding down the spending in this budget. They say there are 50 new spending initiatives which they say would, in essence, spend away the budget surplus. Look for the Republicans also to do a lot of talking about tax fairness, something they say this budget does not include. One area where there is likely to be compromise: a new Medicare benefit to cover prescription drugs, their disagreement about the size and the scope of that, but look for a compromise in that area. Jeanne Meserve, CNN, reporting live from Capitol Hill.", "Jeanne, thanks for the preview there. Expecting the president to formally announce his budget plans about 10:15 a.m. Eastern, about 11 minutes from now. We'll have it live for you when it happens live in Washington."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. PETE DOMENICI (R), BUDGET CHAIRMAN", "MESERVE", "JACK LEW, WHITE HOUSE BUDGET DIRECTOR", "MESERVE", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-294210", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2016-09-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/16/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Oliver Stone Film:  Snowden is a Whistleblower", "utt": ["Edward Snowden, depending on your point of view, he's either a patriot or a trader. The debate that is divided citizens not only in the United States but around the world. The NSA contractor leaked documents that exposed mass surveillance programs. And then he fled first on Kong and now, of course, has political asylum in Russia. Oliver Stone has dramatized the tail in a new film. Here is Edward Snowden's moment of realization about the extent of U.S. spine on its own people.", "Think of it as a Google search. Except instead of searching only what people make public, were also looking at everything they don't. So, emails, chats, SMS whatever.", "Yeah, but which people?", "The whole kingdom, snow white.", "Really it is a fast-paced political thriller. I have seen the movie twice. It is a good movie, and I think for those perhaps confused by the revelations three years ago, it tells the story clearly about how an idealistic young American working for U.S. intelligence, working for the National Security Agency, was so appalled by what he saw, he took, stole, tens of thousands of secret documents and jump off to Hong Kong and give them to a bunch of journalists including from my newspaper, \"The Guardian\". So what it does is bring the story to life, hopping between continents and explaining some of the serious issues behind it.", "Mr. Snowden has suggested that perhaps President Obama pardons him before he leaves office. Already a bevy of congressmen and women from the intelligence committee have written saying we urge you not to pardon Edward Snowden. In their words who perpetrated the largest and most damaging public disclosure of information. Is there any realistic chance of being pardoned?", "I think that Snowden is playing a game, stuck in Moscow, being charged with espionage. As you say it is clear the house intelligence committee which released a report, having researched for two years on the eve of this movie, clearly an attempt to undermine the movie, doesn't like him one bit, doesn't want him pardoned. But you know, he also has powerful supporters, Bernie Sanders called for a pardon. Amnesty International, the ACLU, Human Rights Watch, they are all behind him as well. And he has tremendous sympathy, in Latin America, in Germany, in Europe, so I think he thinks that with time it can be possible. But I think we are talking years here rather than months.", "From your knowledge of Mr. Snowden, how is he coping?", "I was in Moscow four years as \"The Guardians\" correspondent there. And I was actually kicked out of the country in 2011. So I know Moscow very well, I know the FSB very well which is the KGB updated. It is Vladimir Putin's spy agency. And clearly Snowden's predicament is not great. Russia is a pretty dark place and then Putin, I think he would rather be almost anywhere else. But he has few options. But really he could still debate, he gives interviews, he participates. He writes software on privacy, he sees his girlfriend -- my colleague talked to him on Monday by video link, and he seems in good form. He lives on U.S. time. He is a geek, he spent a long time on the internet anyway before all of this happened he spent a lot of time on the internet and he still does that. I think he is playing a waiting game until the political dynamic in Washington changes and then maybe he can come back to the U.S.", "A fair and honest assessment. If you're at a trendy restaurant, and the beautiful meal arrives, it is hot in the kitchen but don't eat it just yet. Oh no, it is not a valid meal unless you have actually taken pictures of it, and then post it everywhere and anywhere. We'll look at how Instagram is changing the food industry after the break."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE, EXCERPT, OLIVER STONE'S MOVIE, SNOWDEN", "SNOWDEN (movie character)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LUKE HARDING, AUTHOR, THE SNOWDEN FILES", "QUEST", "HARDING", "QUEST", "HARDING", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-339313", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2018-05-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/05/ndaysat.03.html", "summary": "Hawaii Volcano Sparks 400 Plus Earthquakes In 24 Hours", "utt": ["All right. It is just a frightening scene in Hawaii right now. This active volcano is still shooting out lava. There are earthquakes that are still rattling the ground there. We're talking about 400, more than 400 earthquakes in the last 24 hours.", "All of that is scary, absolutely, but what's even scarier, experts can't predict where the destruction will head next. So far, you know, for the people who once lived in that area, they have to wait and hope their home survives.", "The lava could pop up any place in this risk zone. It's like a highway of lava underground and you know, it's -- it's proven to pop up in the middle of the street basically.", "CNN's Stephanie Elam has more for us now.", "Volcanic eruption spewing molten rock, ash, and toxic gases on the Hawaii's big island. The eruption stemming from a series of cracks and Puu Oo's rift zone, miles from the Kilauea Volcano. Video from earlier this week shows walls of smoke billowing as the vent of Puu Oo collapses leaving behind a red, rocky surface, similar to that of Mars, with gaping holes giving us a glimpse of the orange liquid magma smoldering below. And this time lapse shot last week shows gushing rivers of lava flowing as night turns to day. Residents are fleeing from their homes as forests burn and roads break open.", "You could feel the heat coming from the ground. Yes, there's heat coming up out of this.", "Officials warn that the sulfur dioxide levels are extremely dangerous. More than 700 structures and 1,700 people are within the mandatory evacuation area.", "Now we have about 100 people up here at the facility at the shelters. We just got another wave of them that were evacuated because the volcano and (inaudible) more off on the street.", "Lava is coming out in Leilani. So, this is real.", "At the center of the activity lies the community of Leilani Estates. A resident there captured this lava fountain shooting over 100 feet into the air.", "Down the road, all we heard was a boom. What is that? And all of a sudden you smelled the sulfur, sulfur dioxide. We knew something was happen. Within minutes, smoke, and now we see the lava coming across the street and it's pumping right now. This fissure is opening up and this is our next eruption.", "The eruptions are part of a massive geological event set off by the collapse of the Puu Oo crater floor. That collapse led to hundreds of earthquakes this week which continued to jolt the big island.", "The tough part about this eruption is that it's unpredictable. We don't know which way the lava is going to flow, and we are planning actively for every contingency that we can think of.", "We'll keep you posted on how that continues to evolve today.", "Last hour there was this historic liftoff on the west coast. The Atlas 5 rocket launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force base. It's the first interplanetary launch from the west coast.", "And the first time NASA has launched a robotic lander designed entirely for looking at Mars. Stay with us in the 10:00 a.m. hour. Former NASA Astronaut Leroy Chiao (ph) is going to join us to talk about this mission.", "All right. Looking forward to that. President Trump will meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House later this month to discuss the historic summit with Kim Jong-un coming up. We'll talk about that meeting."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "JANEY SNYDER, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER (via telephone)", "BLACKWELL", "STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ELAM", "RANSON YONEDA, SUPERVISOR, PAHOA COMMUNITY CENTER (via telephone)", "CHELSIE SETTLEMIER, RESIDENT", "ELAM", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ELAM", "DAVID IGE, HAWAII GOVERNOR", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-324935", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-10-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/31/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Inventor Admits Dismembering Journalist, Denies Murder; Spacey Accused Of Sexual Advance Toward 14-Year-Old", "utt": ["Well, a Danish inventor has admitted he dismembered the body of a Swedish journalist but insist he did not kill her. Kim Wall was researching a story on Peter Madsen and after boarding his privately- built submarine, she went missing.", "Madsen now says Wall died from carbon monoxide poisoning inside the sub while he was on deck, but earlier Madsen claimed she died after hitting her head on a hatch cover. Madsen's trial is scheduled for March.", "Okay. Lesson of the day after BuzzFeed published a bombshell sexual assault allegation against actor Kevin Spacey, Netflix has announced it's pulling the plug on his show House of Cards which is filming its sixth season.", "Thank you very much.", "So here's the thing, after years of telling journalist and basically the world that his sexuality is nobody's business, that nobody should care, it's just gossip, Kevin Spacey decides that faced with allegation of sexual misconduct, now is the time to come out and say that he is gay. Let me just put up on screen the reaction from one Billy Eichner, an actor and comedian. I know that you've seen this. He said this, \"Kevin Spacey has just invented something that has never existed before, a bad time to come out.\" Here's my question here, Alonso, is this a definition of opportunism?", "Yes, this is a grossly cynical move. This is -- this is classic, \"Hey, look over there.\" Because yes, Spacey, you're right, he's been very off non-forthcoming for decades now, coy about that --", "And aggressively toward some journalists.", "Oh, definitely angry with some journalists, you know, making little slight sides about it when hosting the Tony Awards.", "That's right.", "And now suddenly when someone comes forward with this allegation of sexual misconduct, of, you know, sexual misconduct against a minor.", "Yes.", "Now suddenly he's gay and that becomes the story and shockingly for some news outlets, not CNN, I give you guys point for that.", "Thank you.", "The original headline was, \"Oh, Kevin Spacey comes out.\" I was like, \"No, that's not the story here. The story here is that Kevin Spacey tried to have sex with a 14-year-old.\"", "Yes, and let's be part of the Spacey statement because we -- obviously we just read the first tweet but then he get along to say that -- and we'll put it up on screen, \"This story has encouraged me to address other things about my life. I have loved and had romantic encounter with men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man.\" Now, there's several things that are troubling about your statement. I'm going to take your side, but you tell me what you think. From some of the reaction that I'm reading it is conflating it would seem and he's deeply inappropriate behavior as told by Anthony Rapp with homosexuality so a minor --", "Correct. A long time bugaboo that they -- that people try to conflate that all gay men our predatory and that all gay men are pedophiles, neither which is true. And on top of that he tries to use the \"I was drunk\" excuse which as one of my favorite tweets that I -- it says, \"I've been very, very gay and very, very drunk and I have never hit on a teenager.\"", "Yes. And then there's a whole, \"I choose now to live as a gay man.\" Do you want to take that?", "Well, you know, using the word \"choose\" I think is a really bad red flag because that digs up the whole idea that somehow, you know, being gay is a choice, I mean, it's not. And, you know, yes, he can certainly choose to be out now for having chosen to not be for a long time. But Kevin Spacey has lived as a gay man for a long time.", "And a lot of people have known that.", "A lot of people have known about it. He -- his friends have known, his co-workers have known. This isn't a sudden thing. He is choosing to make this public now which is a very different thing and he's choosing now to do that because he want to talk about anything but the Anthony Rapp story.", "GLAAD, you know, the media organization -- media monitoring organization founded by LGBT, individuals that monitor the media basically said that -- they put out a tweet as posted by \"The New York Times\" coming story should not be used to deflect from allegations of sexual assault, but you touched on this earlier that a lot of people in the media fell for it. What does that say about the media?", "You know, it says that this publicists obviously knew what they were doing when they timed to this thing but it's a -- it's a terrible choice to make and, you know, I -- but what really becomes dispiriting about all this is that because he has been holding back this information for so long and because BuzzFeed, Adam Vary has been working on this story for quite a while, they approached Spacey many times for some kind of comment, as soon as the BuzzFeed story goes live they released this.", "So they had the statement ready?", "So they had it -- they had the statement ready and then all -- and the -- and if you look at the long game, Spacey was, I think, holding back on this information, waiting for this kind of accusation to come forward.", "He does say, as you point out, holding back, waiting for this accusation, this kind of accusations come forth. \"This story has encouraged me to address other things about my life.\" There are other stories out there. He touches on that.", "You know, there's never one. As we've learned anything from what's been happening with Bill Cosby, with Harvey Weinstein, with Donald Trump, there's never just one. So I think that he's trying to get ahead with whoever's going to come following Anthony Rapp's would set with their own stories, with his -- with this ludicrous statement which is just -- it's offensive, it's cynical, and it's a distraction.", "House of Cards, it's a -- that's a -- it's done, they say, this had --- it had nothing to do with it.", "And yes, for the -- what you hear from people who said that that was something that was long in the works, but frankly, I would've loved to have seen President Robin Wright.", "Your thoughts on what this means -- this means going forward.", "You know, I don't know. Somebody asked me today, \"Is Kevin Spacey over?\" And a part of me likes to think yes but part of me thinks, well, you know, Hollywood forgave Mel Gibson. So everything is on the table.", "Interesting, which we'll see but I guess, that we'll only going to answer that question truthfully, if more -- if and when --", "Absolutely, who else is going to have something to say about this?", "Still what they have to say.", "Yes.", "Yes. Well, thank you so much. Thank you for the great conversation.", "Well, next on CNN NEWSROOM. Now the toughest day on the Trump presidency played out on Fox news. First came denial, then anger, bargaining, in the hands of depression, finally acceptance. The five stages of grief."], "speaker": ["VAUSE", "SESAY", "VAUSE", "ALONSO DURALDE, AUTHOR AT THEWRAP", "SESAY", "DURALDE", "SESA", "DURALDER", "SESAY", "DURALDE", "SESAY", "DURALDE", "SESAY", "DURALDE", "SESAY", "DURALDE", "SESAY", "DURALDE", "SESAY", "DURALDE", "SESAY", "DURALDE", "SESAY", "DURALDE", "SESAY", "DURALDE", "SESAY", "DURALDE", "SESAY", "DURALDE", "SESAY", "DURALDE", "SESAY", "DURALDE", "SESAY", "VAUSE"]}
{"id": "CNN-136871", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2009-4-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/09/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "President Prepares for Next Big Fight", "utt": ["To our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now, high seas standoff -- Somali pirates still holding a U.S. captain hostage off Africa. The U.S. Navy is on the scene watching closely -- what surveillance video is now showing. A big blunder by the head of counterterrorism in the U.K. -- the secrets he accidentally revealed and the operation that had to be rushed. And a big surge on Wall Street -- the Dow closing up this day 246 points, hitting its highest level in two months. Analysts say strong profits announced by banking giant Wells Fargo fueled the rally. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. We're getting word from the White House the president of the United States pushing forward with comprehensive immigration reform, trying to keep a campaign promise. Let's go to our senior political correspondent, Candy Crowley. He certainly has a lot on his plate right now. Add one other major issue.", "Absolutely. But let's call this sort of pushing forward. The immigration issue, both legal and illegal, did make its way into \"The New York Times\" headline today and the White House Briefing Room. White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said immigration reform remains a priority. But with an economy in crisis and a soaring jobless rate, critics think the administration is simply playing politics -- trying to nail down the Latino vote.", "For several years, it brought outrage to the streets...", "...ignited town hall meetings...", "And when is the Republican Party going to come out and say we've got to do what's right for the country?", "...and dominated radio talk shows.", "I want only legal citizens in my country. I want illegal immigrants out of my country.", "It's played a role in elections -- both won and lost -- and it's never been resolved. Now the White House has let it be known a comprehensive immigration bill remains a priority.", "Well, obviously it's a -- it's an issue out there -- a big issue out there that the previous administration and Congress worked to try to address. And it's something the president is committed to addressing as he said throughout the campaign trail.", "Buenos tardes.", "As a candidate, the president promised immigration issues would be a priority in year one. He won 67 percent of the Latino vote. Fierce critics of his plan say that's exactly what this is about.", "There's no way the American people are going to understand a move -- a big move for an immigration amnesty now is anything other than a naked party power grab of putting party interests above public interests.", "The president said throughout the campaign that, among other things, he wants better border security and reform of the immigration bureaucracy. But what has stoked the opposition and has made this issue so divisive is illegal immigrants. The president proposes what supporters call a pathway to citizenship and critics call amnesty.", "We also need reform that finally brings to 12 million people who are here illegally out of the shadows. Requiring them to take steps to become legal citizens, putting them on a pathway to citizenship.", "The both sides of the debate fired up press releases and offered up interviews, there is time yet.", "Obviously, there are a lot of things on his plate and a lot of pressing issues relating to the economy. I don't think he expects that it will be done this year.", "Immigration, it appears, is a lesser priority.", "In fact, it would probably be more advantageous for the White House to push for an immigration bill this first year, which is traditionally a pretty popular time for presidents and certainly so far for this one. But this year or next, it's an uphill climb for immigration reform, which ignites pretty passionate debate from the streets and on the air waves. Wolf?", "All right, Candy. Thanks very much. Let's discuss this and more with Democratic strategist and CNN political contributor, Donna Brazile, and Republican strategist, the former White House press secretary, Dana Perino. Dana, President Bush, he tried his best for comprehensive immigration reform. He had Senator Kennedy, Senator McCain working together. Couldn't do it. You think this president could do what President Bush couldn't do?", "Well, Wolf, I think that one of the things is I'm not so much concerned that President Obama has bitten off more than he can chew, but he might have bitten off more than the Congress can chew and get through this year. And I think one of the things from a communications standpoint, maybe it was playing politics a little bit but actually it could have been actually floating a trial balloon just to see where the opposition is. Remember, during the immigration debate the President Bush led in 2007, it was mostly the GOP that was fighting amongst itself and the Democrats weren't drawn out. So you don't exactly know where those Democrats fall down on this issue. And we weren't....", "And the economy was a lot better in 2007 than it is...", "That's right. And it's going to be harder because people -- the main issue came down to people are concerned that their jobs are going to be taken by those who are illegally in our country.", "Totally different economic environment right now. Take a look at these 12 major issues. We recently did a CNN Opinion Research Corporation poll, whether these issues were extremely important for the president and Congress to deal with in this current year. It came out 10th out of 12 issues. If you take a look at the economy, terrorism, healthcare, immigration is all the way down near the bottom of that list.", "Wolf, but I think everyone would agree that our immigration system is broken and that it needs to be fixed and I think it's time that Congress as well as the president learns how to walk and chew gum at the same time and tackle many of these concerns. I think it's important that we have strict boarder controls and have incentives to ensure that those who are here...", "But to Dana's point, the president may have a full appetite to try to do all these things. Congress's appetite is more limited.", "Well, maybe we need to increase the appetite to do more because this is an issue that we continue to put off year after year and the president has said it's time to have a discussion. May not pass it this year but he is read to have a conversation later on this year.", "If I could add one other thing on that.", "All right. Let's -- go ahead.", "I do -- I believe that we would have had a bill in 2007, May 2007, if Senator Reid would have kept the Congress in and the Senate in that weekend, but they all -- he let them go home and the political hammer came down from everybody and they all scattered. With a Democrat in the White House and the Democrats controlling Congress, maybe they have a better chance but I think it's a really tough battle ahead.", "All right. Well, we're going to have more on this in the next hour as well. But I want to move on to some controversy involving the president when he was in Europe last week. He met with the king of Saudi Arabia. We got a picture there. I think we also have some video as well. He appears to bow when he met with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. And the White House press secretary Robert Gibbs had this exchange with our Dan Lothian over at the White House briefing earlier.", "It does appear that the president actually bowed to King Abdullah. Did he bow or didn't he?", "I think he bent over with both to shake -- with both hands to shake his hands. So I don't...", "To show one hand...", "No. I...", "Did he bow or didn't he?", "No. But I think this meeting was like a week ago, right?", "That's right, but this is something that a lot of people are still talking about today.", "I can only imagine it is of great cause and concern for many people struggling with the economy.", "All right. Clearly trying to play down the issue. The \"Pittsburgh Tribune Review\" editorial said this, Donna, \"In the least, it was an embarrassing protocol faux paus. Mr. Obama is not the king's subject but his equal. But the bow,\" in quotes, \"actually was worst than that, it's a troubling metaphor for a deferential presidency.\" He's getting a lot of criticism from the right.", "Well, you know, they criticized Michelle Obama, the first lady, for supposedly touching the Queen, so I don't know if it was a bow, a nod or that was his way of saying -- you know (speaking foreign language), I don't know what the greeting was, but look, the fact is that he was just showing his friendship and his kindness to a country that we hope remains a strong ally in the Middle East.", "Big deal or little deal?", "I think it's a little deal if they would have let it be a little deal but I think that they have perpetuated this story for several days because if you look at the tape, just from the plain face of it people can look at it and go, oh gosh, that kind of looks like a bow. But I think they could have handled it differently. Look, when President Bush did the cultural and customary thing of grabbing the king of Saudi Arabia's hand, we saw the Democrats play that card over and over again.", "He went further. Take a look at -- turn around, you can see the video we have. If you turn around, Dana, right behind you. But he went further, he actually gave him a kiss.", "Well, that's the customary thing to do. And you get your State Department memo, you left that protocol and you want to do the right thing.", "But you can imagine if President Obama...", "But no American bows to anybody else.", "... would have kissed King Abdullah...", "But America -- our whole country is based on the fact that we're not the subject of anybody else and we're not supposed to bow. That's probably why this is a controversy. I think the White House probably could have blown this off earlier if they would have just said thought that that was the protocol, trying to be kind. You know, move on. Instead, now it's like four days later and we're still talking about it and you're showing the videotape.", "All right.", "Look, I just think he was just trying to show just some -- just show mutual respect.", "On a totally different matter, we have the first lady of the United States saying this on an intriguing subject. Listen to this.", "When are you going to get it?", "Soon.", "How soon?", "Soon. .", "When is the question.", "Look in this last row.", "OK. Come on.", "Talking about the little dog that's coming into the White House. Maybe a big dog, we don't know.", "Well, look, and I'm sure the dog is getting trained as we speak to be able to salute the president.", "All I can say is that the Obama children are very patient because they were told on January 20th they were going to get this dog and I admire them for holding strong and waiting.", "Good things happen to those who wait.", "Yes, I'm sure it'll be a great dog.", "Didn't your mother once tell you that? Didn't every mother wants...", "I'm a huge dog fan, I think it will be great.", "I'm a huge dog fan as well.", "We remember Barney. He was a cute little dog, too.", "He was a very cute little dog.", "That's right.", "I have a beagle still one at home, too, named Tutu.", "Me too, Henry.", "I have a dog growing up in Buffalo. All right, guys, thanks very much. From President Obama's inner circle, a rare, optimistic forecast for the economy. Details of what a top economic adviser is saying. Plus, the first lady plants her fruit and vegetable garden over at the White House with a little help from some friends."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "CROWLEY (voice-over)", "CROWLEY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CROWLEY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CROWLEY", "ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CROWLEY", "DAN STEIN, FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM", "CROWLEY", "OBAMA", "CROWLEY", "ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "CROWLEY", "CROWLEY", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "DANA PERINO, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST", "BLITZER", "PERINO", "BLITZER", "DONNA BRAZILE, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "BLITZER", "BRAZILE", "PERINO", "BLITZER", "PERINO", "BLITZER", "DAN LOTHIAN, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GIBBS", "LOTHIAN", "GIBBS", "LOTHIAN", "GIBBS", "LOTHIAN", "GIBBS", "BLITZER", "BRAZILE", "BLITZER", "PERINO", "BLITZER", "PERINO", "BLITZER", "PERINO", "BLITZER", "PERINO", "BLITZER", "BRAZILE", "BLITZER", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "MICHELLE OBAMA, FIRST LADY", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BLITZER", "BRAZILE", "PERINO", "BLITZER", "PERINO", "BLITZER", "PERINO", "BRAZILE", "BLITZER", "PERINO", "BLITZER", "BRAZILE", "PERINO", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-407974", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-08-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/11/nday.03.html", "summary": "Coronavirus Cases Surge Among Children in U.S. as Schools Reopen; Putin Claims Russia has Developed First Coronavirus Vaccine", "utt": ["To talk about, coming up. In Georgia's Cherokee County School District, more than 800 children and 42 employees were quarantined his morning. 50 students and staff have tested positive since reopening last week. Georgia's governor continues to oppose a mask mandate, which puts him in odds with Dr. Fauci, who says in an interview that masks should be universal to fight the virus. And overnight, right here on CNN, one expert warned that children may be able to spread coronavirus as easily as the common cold.", "And we know how easily kids do that. Meantime, important, new developments involving college sports, the Mountain West Conference postponing all fall sports, that includes football. ESPN, meantime, reporting a decision about the Big Ten Season could come as soon as today. And also reporting, a rare heart condition has been found in at least five Big Ten athletes that could be linked to coronavirus. And breaking this morning, Vladimir Putin now claiming Russia has developed the world's first coronavirus vaccine.", "All right. Joining us now is CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Rochelle Walensky. She is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Mass General Hospital. And, Sanjay, I want to start with you. When we learned that there's been a 90 percent increase in coronavirus cases among children the last four weeks, that is a lot. It is a huge increase. You saw the raw number of about 100,000 new cases the last two weeks of July, and it really does cause concerns as we are in some areas reopening schools.", "Yes, no question about it, John. I mean, I think the number of children becoming infected is increasing and it's increasing at a more rapid pace. I think there're two things that are happening here. I could just tell you a little bit from our reporting but also from personal experience. Up until recently, it's been harder to get the younger people tested at all. You had to be symptomatic to get tested. It was mostly adults who were symptomatic. So I think the increase in testing among younger people is driving some of this. But I think another big part of this is just the fact that, especially young kids, since about middle of March, have largely been home. And now they're starting to get out and about more. You're seeing it, maybe getting ready for school, getting ready for sports, whatever it might be. And I think it's very clear that these kids are transmitting this virus amongst themselves to other people, whatever it may be. That's happening. And a lot of people have gone back and they keep citing this South Korea study, saying, hey, look, kids under the age of ten really don't seem to transmit it that much. I went back and looked at that study carefully with a couple of sources. There were some 50,000 contacts that were traced across all age groups in that study. But for kids age zero to nine, it was about 57 contacts total. Point is, they didn't have a lot of contacts, there wasn't a lot of data there. We know kids carry this virus. We know they can spread it. And I think the numbers you're citing there are just more evidence of that.", "And we also know that masks can help prevent that spread. I mean, this is something we've known for months at this point. Dr. Walensky, as we hear from Dr. Fauci saying there should be a universal wearing of masks, what are the chances we actually see that happen when there's still so much resistance in many areas?", "Good morning, Erica. You know, I think we're going to have to have universal masking at the local level because we're not getting it at the federal level. I want to echo a bit of what Sanjay has said, and also note that, you know, over time, we have commented about how kids have done comparably well when you look at adults. So, adults over 80 have mortality rates of this disease of 15 percent. Children have mortality rates somewhere around 0.5 percent, 0.4 percent. But when you look at the numbers, the sheer numbers of children who are now reported to be infected or have been infected, 100,000, we're talking about deaths of like 500, 600 young kids. And so, I think when you start looking at the sheer volume of numbers, even very small death rates tally to a lot of children dying from this disease.", "And, look, that's exactly what concerns me and what questions it raises for someone like me, without a medical degree, this morning. We know that this new spike in cases that we saw in June and July was fueled by younger adults, people in their 20s who were starting to go out and circulate. What I'm worried about, Sanjay, is now we could see a new spike fueled by kids again. And when you see the raw numbers, even if kids, you know, five to ten, don't spread it as much, if tens and tens of thousands of kids are getting it, that's more of them to spread it.", "Right. And, look, that first point, John, I think that they do spread quite a bit. I mean, you know, I think that historically, if you go back and even look at other infectious diseases, it was initially believed kids weren't that big a spreader of the disease. Take flu, even, for example. So, the inoculations, the vaccinations were primarily reserved for elderly people. And then they realized, well, there's a lot of spread going on still, where is it coming from? Oh, it's kids. We should vaccinate children as well, make them a priority for vaccination as well. So, that's something we have to certainly keep an eye on. I think we're early days still in all this. We're making lots of conclusions based on very little data, very early data. I think, you know, kids carry this virus in their nose, they're likely to spread it. And you know, if you follow the demographics and look at the data very closely, it's exactly what you say. We're starting to see more and more that the largest group of people who are now infected with this virus are younger people, not super young kids, but younger people, and that's clearly a result of their increased mobility.", "Yes, we saw those numbers and we learned in California alone in kids and teens, cases up 150 percent over the past month. Some of the other data that really has me scratching my head this morning is when we looked at testing. So, the number of tests in both Florida and Texas has actually declined, and fairly significantly, down 29 percent in Florida, down 31 percent in Texas. But the positivity rates not only remain high in Texas, they jumped over the past month, now at 24 percent. You know, the big question is, I know we need to look at the positivity rates because that tells us a real story, but the fact that we're seeing, Dr. Walensky, fewer tests, when we know that more tests are what can help move the country forward. I mean, look at where we've plateaued, almost, in Florida, how high that rate of positivity is.", "Right. It's a really good point. You know, there are lots of different metrics that we can use to see how we're doing with the spread of this disease. One of them is our positivity rate, as you know. And the fact that our positivity rate is four or five times higher than we feel it should be in order to demonstrate that we have control of this demonstrates we're doing about, you know, 20 percent of the testing that we should be doing. Another one of those metrics is your cases per 100,000. And that is reported in both Florida and Texas, in some of these counties at 40, 50, 80 per 100,000. Schools that successfully opened in Europe did so at case rates of 1 per 100,000. So we're talking 20, 50, 80 times higher in some of these places. And then the real question is, why do we not have testing? Why is testing not going on? Is it because it's young people and young people are less prone to be symptomatic? Is it because they're feeling well? Is it because access is really a problem? Is it because they simply don't have the tests or don't have the public health infrastructure to conduct those tests? I think all of those could be a reason. One other key point I want to make sure everybody knows and understands is we've talked about this golden vaccine that we sure hope is in our horizon, all four of the vaccine candidates that are being looked at and enrolling, we hope, in the next few months ahead, none of them enroll children under 18. So, while we're looking for these vaccines to be a real golden opportunity, we are not at a place where, even if we have one in the months ahead, that it will be -- we will have adequate data for children.", "I didn't know that. I didn't know that they weren't enrolling kids under 18. Sanjay, to the point that Dr. Walensky was just making, one of the things I do want to say about the Texas data -- and it's weird. I mean, hospitalizations in Texas are not going up, even as the positivity rate is going up, the hospitalizations are. So it's not that there are people so sick that we're not seeing that are going to the hospital, at least not yet. But, Sanjay, why do you think fewer tests are being administered in Florida and Texas?", "I think testing's, you know, it's been a problem all along. We've talked about this for months on this program. I think when I talked to Admiral Giroir about this, he basically said they're going to surge testing in hot spots. And you know, if there's other places in the country where they need more tests, they're going to start surging them in those areas, so they may be surging away from Florida and Texas right now. They shouldn't be, because, obviously, these are still places that are of concern. But we still have a testing infrastructure issue in this country. We're still doing basically symptomatic testing, mostly, very little surveillance testing, and even less what we call assurance testing, trying to give people the assurance they don't have the virus, that people around them don't have the virus. We're not in the position to be doing that kind of testing really at this point. As far as the hospitalizations, you know, I think this all sort of fits, you know. Even though the tests are -- the positivity rate is going up, which means there's a lot of cases out there that we're missing, we know that, increasingly, it's in younger people. And, thankfully, younger people are less likely to get sick, but they can get sick, as Dr. Walensky was mentioning. If you increase the absolute number of infections, you're going to increase the absolute number, obviously, of hospitalizations as well. But it's a lower percentage than elderly people. So we may see increasing cases, lower hospitalizations, but, ultimately, you know, the numbers will all continue to go up, unless we bring the overall viral load down in this country, which we're still not. I mean, the virus is still spreading. Whether we're testing or not, it's still spreading.", "Yes, whether we find the cases or not, they're still out there. It doesn't mean they don't exist, more than 20 million cases now globally, as we know, Dr. Walensky. And as we sort of -- you know, you were pointing to what we were looking at in terms of cases per 100,000 for schools to open in different countries. As we look at what's happening around the world, how much can we take from other countries as a lesson at this point when we continue to see the rise globally?", "Right, it's a really good question. First of all, you look at countries that have started to see maybe what they're calling a second wave or a surge in cases. I want to remind people, their surge in cases we'd be lucky to be at. So, I think, first, we have to look at what we're doing locally and realize we're not doing nearly enough. We haven't clamped down enough to get where we need to. We haven't taken the first lesson from Europe, which is how do you get this under control. I do think that some of the lessons we can learn is that, you know, they have opened precipitously in some places. People are tired of this. There is fatigue out there. Travel has increased. Tourism has increased. Bars and nightclubs have opened. And those are all the places where they're seeing increased cases. And I guess one of the real questions is, in the next phase of this, whenever we may get to the next phase of this, is it going to be possible to exert local efforts to put out local fires, or are we going to have to sort of go broader? Will we find those local fires quickly enough to be able to control them?", "Dr. Walensky, Sanjay, thank you both so much for being with us. You know, we talk about this three hours a day every day, and I can still learn new things from you both. I really appreciate it. Erica?", "My pleasure. Thanks, John.", "Breaking news this morning. Vladimir Putin claiming Russia has developed an approved the world's first coronavirus vaccine, a claim that is being met with heavy skepticism despite Putin announcing his own daughter is among the first to receive a dose. CNN's Matthew Chance is live in Moscow. So, Matthew, we've also learned that the Kremlin has named the vaccine.", "They have, indeed. They've named it Sputnik V, V for vaccine, sputnik after the first satellite that was sent by the Soviet Union back in 1957, astonishing the world into space. This is the first vaccine, of course, that's been launched into the global pandemic. And so they kind of like that sort of parallel that it draws between the sort of symbol of Soviet technological excellence back in the '50s to the symbol of Russian medical science now. That's one of the reasons I think critics have been saying that Russia has been pushing so hard to get this vaccine out there, first of all, because it wants to show the world it's still a superpower when it comes to its scientific technology. But within the past hour or so, Vladimir Putin has gone on national television, on a video conference with all his ministers, announcing that that first vaccine against COVID-19 has now been approved for use inside Russia. He said this, it's had all the necessary checks, according to Vladimir Putin. I know it's effective, he says. He said it forms a stable immunity. That's what he told his health minister. That's what he told the country, speaking on national television. As evidence to that, he said this. He said, my own daughter -- one of my own daughters has had the injection. She had a slight temperature at first, he said, but now she feels well. It's an astonishing revelation, because in a decade, I have not heard Vladimir Putin mention any of his children. And so, it just underlines just how much confidence the Russians want to show that they have in this vaccine, that Vladimir Putin would make it public that his own daughter -- he doesn't say which one -- but his own daughter has had this vaccination and seems to be doing very well. It is a huge contribution to the victory over coronavirus. That's what the health minister added. But in terms of more technical details, the Russian director of investment fund, which is the sovereign wealth fund here, which is essentially bank rolling this coronavirus research, saying that they already had orders for a billion doses from 20 countries around the world. And so, that's pretty astonishing.", "Yes.", "Now, astonishing even more so given that there is such skepticism and such concern about this vaccine. Human trial was not complete. And, in fact, really, the third-phase trials only start tomorrow. And so there are big concerns about whether this vaccine is effective, and indeed, whether it is even safe, Erica.", "Absolutely. Matthew Chance, wow, it will be interesting to see where this falls. I appreciate the reporting. Thank you. College sports on the brink. Many star players and coaches say they want to play, but can they do it safely?"], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN NEW DAY", "ERICA HILL, CNN NEW DAY", "BERMAN", "DR. 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{"id": "NPR-8776", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2013-05-07", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2013/05/07/181947269/the-cleveland-case-and-missing-persons-investigations", "title": "The Cleveland Case And Missing Persons Investigations", "summary": "Three women who disappeared almost a decade ago in Cleveland were found Monday night not far from where they had each been taken. They were discovered by a neighbor who heard screaming. Too often, cases like this unsolved indefinitely with no known crime scene, no witnesses, and no leads. Rachel Dissell, reporter, The Plain Dealer\nRobert Lowery, executive director, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children", "utt": ["This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. In Cleveland last night, a dramatic call for help.", "Cleveland 911. Do you need...?", "I need police. Help me. I'm Amanda Berry.", "Do you need police, fire or ambulance?", "I need police.", "OK, and what's going on there?", "I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for 10 years. And I'm here, I'm free now.", "Amanda Berry last seen in 2003, and two other women who had long been missing, were rescued last night after a neighbor heard screaming coming from the house next door. While there's a great deal we still don't know about what happened to them and why, there is special joy and relief at their liberation because these kinds of cases don't usually end this way.", "Too often, they just go cold, unsolved indefinitely with no known crime scene, no witnesses and no leads. To many others end with the discovery of a body. If you've working missions persons investigations, call and tell us about a case that illustrates the challenges. Our phone number, 800-989-8255. Email talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.", "Later in the program, the political risks of humanitarian intervention. But first to Cleveland, and we begin with Rachel Dissell, a reporter at The Plain Dealer, and good of you to be with us today.", "Hi Neal, nice to be with you, as well.", "And what have we learned? What's new?", "Well, I mean, we're slowly getting more details, you know, about the way in which these women were held captive, and we're also learning more about the suspects, the three brothers who were arrested. Interestingly enough, one of the things that we've been looking into is that one of the teenagers at the time, who was Gina DeJesus' friend and who talked to the police and the FBI over the years and being the last person who saw her alive, has been connected to one of the suspects as being his daughter.", "And so over the years she gave a number of interviews, you know, giving these last, you know, couple minutes that she saw Gina alive, and it was very shocking to connect the two together.", "Because two of these cases got a lot of publicity.", "That's correct. The Amanda Berry case and the Gina DeJesus case have been written about and reported extensively in the Cleveland area, mostly because Gina DeJesus' parents and Amanda Berry's mother passed away, and her family, have continued to kind of try to keep these cases in the media and to get attention for them.", "Neighborhood activists have kept stores and poles, you know, plastered with flyers for, you know, nearly a decade now with their pictures. You couldn't walk into a corner store without seeing Amanda's picture somewhere, or Gina's picture somewhere. And every year, you know, on the anniversary of these disappearances there would be vigils and other things.", "And, you know, one of the things that always comes back to me is, you know, Gina DeJesus' mom, Nancy Ruiz, would always, always, always say, you know, I know she's still out there. And a lot of people would try to say, you know, they just need to let it go, and they were never - they were always resolute that there would be, you know, an ending to this that they would find their daughter.", "Have we heard anything from the family members today?", "I have not personally. From what I've heard from some of the people who are close with them and have had contact with them, they really just want to spend some time with these family members. The family members also need to be interviewed by the police so that they can, you know, get the really vital information they need to make a case and get as much of it as they can quickly.", "However, police are also - they said that they're really taking care in the way that they interview these women, you know, with understanding they've been through great traumas, and they don't want to push them too hard. They want to give them a little bit of time, as well, with their families first to celebrate this momentous, you know, occasion.", "Amazing occasion. The third woman, though, Michelle Knight, 20 at the time that she went missing, but she was never reported missing. She was, as I understand it, believed to have been a runaway.", "Yeah, I mean, I do believe that her family did, you know, report her missing at some point, but her story is quite different. You know, she was an adult when she went missing. So the case didn't, you know, really get nearly as much attention as the other two, and was never really in any way publicly connected to them.", "My colleague here at the Plain Dealer Leila Atassi, has spoken to many of her family members who are really trying to find a way to reach her. They themselves haven't even been able to get a hold of detectives to reach out to her because they're kind of scattered. They live in different states now.", "And they, you know, they said that in their own ways, over the years, they would try to come back to the neighborhoods and canvas and ask about her, but it sounds like they didn't really have a lot of hope that they would see her again.", "Now back in 2004, and this is after Michelle Knight had vanished and after Amanda Berry had vanished, police visited the home where eventually they were found.", "Yeah, and that was, you know, on a completely separate case, you know, involving a report of a child possibly left on a school bus and not dropped off at home. You know, Ariel Castro, the man who's been arrested along with his brothers, was a Cleveland Schools bus driver for a number of years. And police and Children Family Services were just checking out a report about whether a child had been left on the bus or not.", "I believe that police, if I can remember correctly from the press conference, that police, you know, later made contact with him. They didn't believe there was any criminal act in the child being left on the bus. And so it wasn't like there was a huge investigation or a reason for them to attempt to get into this house. You know, there wasn't any other allegation other than a child had been left on a bus.", "What else do we know about the three brothers?", "We know they are all pretty close in age. The family that they belong to, the Castro family, is pretty well-known on the west side of Cleveland. Family members own, you know, corner stores. I believe there's a music store. The father of some of these folks was very well-known in the neighborhood as, you know, being a guy who ran businesses and was very generous for community causes.", "So most people in that neighborhood know the Castro family as well as most people know the DeJesus family. And the families had some, you know, connections over the years. You know, the uncle of Gina DeJesus, you know, owned a music club where people would come and dance, and Ariel Castro apparently would come play in bands in this club.", "And he knew the family at least tangentially, if not even a little bit more. You know, some people said that when Gina went missing that Ariel Castro and members of his family helped canvas, helped raise money to look for her and to pay for flyers.", "And have they been charged as yet?", "You know, I haven't seen the latest email. I know that their mug shots were just sent out. So I believe that I heard that they were going to be charged with rape and kidnapping, but I was making some other calls and working on another angle, so I'm not up to date on my email. Sorry.", "With rape, there was a young child, a six-year-old child. Do we know who the mother is? Do we know who the father is?", "We do know, according to Cleveland police, that Amanda Berry is the mother of the child. They did not talk about who the father could be or possible was. They said that they were really going to wait until they were able to hear the stories from these young ladies before they started putting the information out there.", "And they also really caution people who are getting, you know, information from, you know, anonymous sources or people who say they're family members and putting out some very specific and very upsetting information about maybe how these women were held captive. And the police and the detectives who have worked on this for years and are close with these families have really cautioned people to be careful.", "These are very sensitive details about a trauma, and to rush to misreport them is really unfair to these women, who really have been free less than, you know, 24 hours or something. So...", "And obviously they - their access to the outside world was limited to where they - do we know anything about the way they were held? Were they able to watch TV, listen to the radio, read the newspaper?", "You know, there was - you know, in Amanda Berry's own 911 tape that's been played widely, she seemed to indicate that she knew she was in the news. You know, and many people have reported, and we've also reported, that, you know, there was some physical restraint of these women up to a certain point.", "From what we've gleaned, it wasn't an exclusively kind of physical restraint of them in the house, but they may have been locked in rooms or chained up at certain times but not completely all the time and they may have had some access to wander around the house. But there's really no indication that they were able to come and go or leave from the house at all.", "Now in 2009, Cleveland Police Department went through a complete review of the way it handled missing person cases, amongst others, because of, well, mistakes were made.", "Sure, and that was based on the case of serial killer Anthony Sowell, and family who had reported their family members missing and felt like they weren't taken seriously by Cleveland police. In this case, none of the parents that we've talked to have ever said that the police weren't taking the cases seriously.", "You know, as the local newspaper here, you know, we're always the first ones to ask questions, and if there's a criticism that needs to be waged, we're going to, you know, ask the questions that probe that. In this case, there were constantly Cleveland police detectives working on this, constantly FBI agents, you know, leads every couple months.", "You know, I know that the agents and the detectives who worked on this were very close to these families, always updating them. Any tip that they called in they would check out. They went into one house and, you know, really tore it up based on a tip a couple years back. They dug up a vacant lot based on a tip. So they were really doing anything that they could to run down at least those two cases.", "We don't know as much about the investigation involving Michelle Knight yet. It seems like that was a little less of an intense investigation, possibly because she was an adult when she went missing, and her family members were unsure, you know, whether she was abducted or whether she possibly left on her own.", "What changes were instituted as a result of the review?", "As a result of the review, they moved some of the information to a centralized place that they call a fusion center to make sure that they were bringing together all the resources not only for the city of Cleveland but for the surrounding area. They also instituted some rules on certain things that have to be done in a certain amount of time in missing person cases in terms of getting a picture out, when to put a release out.", "And they also, they made some materials and some pamphlets that would be given out to families and some information so they knew what they were able to do to help find their loved one, as well, and how they could help police find their loved ones. And so that's been going on for a couple years now.", "And we hear from people that it's gotten better. And there's a couple blips here and there where someone will call and say that the protocol wasn't followed, or there is an issue with a certain missing person, but by and large missing persons cases in Cleveland, since that happened, have been getting far more attention than they would have in the past.", "And the timeline critically important because in many cases if information is not acted on very quickly, it's too late. And 10 years afterwards is extraordinary. This is great news. Thank you so much for your time today.", "Thanks.", "Rachel Dissell is a reporter for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, and she joined us by phone from there. We want to hear from those of you who may have worked missing person investigations. Call and tell us about a case that illustrates the challenges that these kinds of cases can generate, 800-989-8255. Email us, talk@npr.org. Stay with us. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.", "This is TALK OF THE NATION; I'm Neal Conan. Part of the challenge of missing persons investigations is that they're not always crimes. Teenagers run away from home, and so sometimes do adults. In 2002, wife and mother Brenda Heist vanished. Her husband was investigated and cleared. He eventually got courts to declare her legally dead.", "But then late last month she turned herself in to Florida police. She told them she left her family behind after some bad news. She was crying in a Lancaster, Pennsylvania, park when three homeless hitchhikers invited her to join them. She did, trading her life for one of sleeping under bridges, scavenging for food and begging for money. After 11 years, she'd had enough. She's now dealing with the emotional and legal fallout from her disappearance.", "If you've worked missing persons investigations, call, tell us about a case that illustrates the challenges, 800-989-8255. Email us, talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION. Joining us now for more on missing person cases after the discovery of three women in a Cleveland house is Robert Lowery, executive director of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He's also former assistant chief of police for the Florissant, Missouri, police department and joins us by phone from his office in Alexandria, Virginia. Good of you to be with us today.", "Thank you for having me, and I appreciate being on.", "And how unusual is this case in Cleveland?", "Well, it's highly unusual. It's the first time that I can tell you that we've found three women together that have been reported missing for this long a period of time. And additionally it's been the first time we've ever seen involving three abductors.", "You know, it's not unprecedented that we find long-term missing children, as you know. You mentioned a couple of the cases, but of course we know Jaycee Dugard stands out as a very visible reminder, Elizabeth Smart, as well, Shawn Hornbeck from St. Louis, from my hometown, all show us that these children can be found and returned home. So we can't always assume the worst has happened.", "And the case - in this case they were hiding in plain sight, the abductors.", "They sure were, and it's not unusual. You know, abductors and criminals, you know, they act within an area that they feel very comfortable and most - where they feel very safe, where they can move about rather unnoticed, which is what happened in this case.", "But it's also, you know, a lot of folks were asking us today is how could this have happened, and how could they have kept this a secret. Well, I think we're going to find that out in days to come, but certainly they went to great lengths to conceal their crime, to conceal these women.", "I can only imagine what these women endured for the last decade.", "You mentioned a case in St. Louis. Did you work that case?", "I did and very peripherally. Shawn Hornbeck, when he was taken, you know, he was missing from a very rural county, taken by a pedophile. All we had to work with was his bicycle that was found laying out in the street, which is really a challenge that law enforcement faces when we have an abducted child is that there's an absence of facts.", "There's - rarely do we find a credible witness or a witness that can be helpful. There's no real crime scene to work on. So all the things that we depend on as criminal investigators when we're in the field is just absence and that you have to go out there and develop your own leads, your own information and to try to find these children. That's what then makes it a very, very difficult investigation.", "And we're told on TV that the first 24, 48 hours are critical.", "Oh absolutely. You know, I think the last statistics we had was if the child were to be murdered, it would be in the first two to three hours, according to the Washington State study. But I also want to preface this as saying that not all children that are abducted are murdered, as we've seen here in this instance.", "In fact in many cases, abductions of children are custody cases.", "Well, you know, yes in some cases, and children go missing for a variety of reasons. Child custody cases are one, but I wouldn't minimize those because there's an awful lot of emotion tied to those cases and a lot of violence against those children. But we also have a lot of runaway children and often dismissed as just a behavioral problem, when in fact we see many of these children are running away from a situation, say an abusive home, or maybe even in other cases they're being lured by a predator.", "So we don't minimize any missing child case, and we want to remind everyone that we consider all these child endangered, and we've got to get them found and get them returned home as quickly as we can.", "And what can you tell us about the demographics of the abducted? Are they mostly young people, or are they - what can you tell us?", "Well, it depends on the type of scenario, but when you have a case like what we had last night, you know, those generally are females, generally the school age. We said that the children on abductions are most vulnerable, according to our analysis, either going to or coming from school or a school-related event.", "You know, it's a time that they're oftentimes alone. They're walking. And what we tell parents is that we don't want children frightened to the point that they don't leave home, but empower your kids and tell them it's OK to say no if someone tries to lure them into a car. It's OK to run. And if someone grabs them, we urge the children - the parents to tell the children kick, scream, bring as much attention to that situation as they possibly can.", "We're talking about missing cases, cases of missing persons. If you're an investigator who's worked one of those cases, give us a call, 800-989-8255. Email talk@npr.org. And we're going to start with John(ph), John's on the line with us from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan.", "Hi, good afternoon.", "Afternoon.", "I was just listening to your person, I don't know who it was exactly because I turned my radio off, and I worked in child protection for over 20 years in Michigan. And we used to discuss that really safeguarding children or young people is a community responsibility. And I looked at my job as responsibly to investigate complaints or situations where a child might be in danger or in harm.", "And it's real clear to me that we could only do so much, by we I mean authorities through child protection, police and court. I recall several instances where - in fact this is a remarkable situation where you have stranger abduction and 10 years of confinement.", "What we typically were involved in was children who are hurt by family members. And I can recall a couple situations that might be similar to what you're looking at, where young women who, in Michigan at the time I was working, there was a limbo area of between 17 and 18 where courts did not have authority, and parents really did not have authority through the courts or police, to make that 17-year-old live with them or go to school or do things that we would normally expect of younger children.", "And a number of young women would put themselves in dangerous situations. One I recall was I had worked with a family whose 16-year-old daughter was rebelling, and a mother asked for some assistance because of some things that the stepfather was threatening to do to the child. And we resolved that somewhat, and then about - some time later, maybe within a year, that child had turned 17.", "And the mother was calling me asking for help because the child had run away with her biological father. And I said, well, there's really not much we could do. And then she let me know that it wasn't just a father-daughter relationship, that this man, who had been in prison, or not in the child's life, had taken his daughter in a sexual way, also, so, you know, really coerced her emotionally and physically to be subject to him.", "We often dealt with young women who would attach themselves to young men, anywhere from 16 to 17 years of age. I think I heard somebody talking earlier on the radio about somebody living under a bridge.", "Yes.", "We had a young woman who was adopted by very well-to-do, upstanding citizens, the father was a college professor. She ran away from home at age 16, late 16 years of age. The courts tried to deal with it. By the time she was 17, the courts could no longer have authority over her, and she had attached herself to a young man who - in fact they were living under a bridge, scavenging for food and trying to survive.", "I later dealt with that family in a child protection situation where this woman, this young girl and then - or older girl and then young woman, had children with this young man. And they were neglectful. There was issues of sexual assault and physical abuse towards the children. And unfortunately the community has had to deal with not just the harm to that child, the original mother and teenager, but also the harm to her children.", "And it's again a very large persistent problem that the community has, really, difficulty grappling with in many ways.", "Thanks, John, for the call. It's a very sad situation so many times.", "Yeah, it is distressing, and I think our hearts go out to all young people who are hurting. And again this is a very dramatic situation that came out through the news in Cleveland, and again I would just emphasize that as difficult and as dangerous as those situations are, more commonly it's a family, inter-family issues that cause harm to children.", "John, thanks very much.", "You're welcome.", "And let's see if we can get another caller in. Let's go to Dave, and Dave's on the line with us from Miami.", "Hey, how are you?", "Very well, thanks.", "Yes, I had a case that was up in Atlanta some years back. One of the biggest issues that we bring (technical difficulties) missing person case is, of course, (technical difficulties) child. We did finally recover a body in the general area. Of course, it's so decomposed. What we had to do is try to reconstruct the way that person may have looked at the time. And, you know, based on bone structure, based on several other factors, and it made really difficult to identify this person, but, fortunately, the reconstruction was good enough to get a decent composite of what that person looked like.", "We were able to then go back and check through the cases and match up the DNA and so forth. But once you finally have that person, you know, identified, well, then you have a whole other issue, and that's trying to figure out, OK, well, who did this? And I think if there's one thing that if I could, you know, make a suggestion, you know, on the air, we have a major issue with putting sex offenders right back in the community. If a person goes to their local state and types in the sex offender registry, puts in their address, they would be dumbfounded how many of these people live right within, you know, walking distance of their home.", "But I think if there's some new legislation to, you know, put these people behind bars and really keep them back there, we would see missing cases drop significantly. And I know in states where they take a harder stance against some of the sex offenders instead of just treatment (technical difficulties) we've seemed those numbers drop significantly.", "Well, I understand what you're saying. Of course, not every sex offender reoffends. But, Robert Lowery, what do you think of that suggestion?", "Well, I agree. I mean, not everyone does reoffend, but we do keep an eye on the ones that - that are out there (unintelligible) there are high rates of recidivism among sex offenders. But he - this gentleman does bring up another topic that we work on every day here is that remains of children that are found, and they're not been identified. And right now, we're - we - here at the National Center, we're assisting on over 650 such cases that we believe to be long-term missing children.", "Your caller is correct. It's very difficult to start a homicide investigation on those cases until we can identify those children, put a name to them because that's where that investigation really starts in earnest, so we could track where they've been and the activity and who they may have been with. But it is a dilemma. And it's one that we are addressing here at the National Center.", "Dave, did you ever find out who did the murder that you're talking about?", "The family was - the child's murderer was never identified. However, there were a couple of people that were picked up in related cases that more than likely that was the killer. But it's something we may never know. It's kind of like the Ann Walsh case. I mean, that is one where there are some pretty good speculation but we're probably never going truly know. But, you know, that's the tragedy of this is, you know, the gentleman mentioned the recidivism rate is extremely high among sex offenders.", "And when we talk about, hey, we keep track of them, well, it depends on what you define as keeping track. I mean, we know where they live, but we don't have the manpower to be watching a hundred people in one small community at the same time. And if there's one another message, I guess, I can really get across to parents is watch your kids, never let them out of your sight, you know? I don't think kids should ride to, you know, school on their bike by themselves or walk to school by themselves, even if it's only a block or, you know, two blocks away.", "It is really amazing to me how many times I'm just out and about, and I have kids too. And I see some little child just walking around by themselves, you know, completely unsupervised. And it's no wonder that we have some many missing today. And I think as parents, we're a little more proactive about keeping their eyes on their kids at all times whether it's in a store, whether it's, you know, different, you know, places, you know, going to and from school.", "That would reduce the number of missing kids significantly. But, you know, like I say, I think we definitely need to have some new laws at least structure how many - how we track these folks and whether we should let them out at all depending on the crime.", "Well, that's a pretty sobering recommendation to be - and in any case, a lot of people would argue and - well, thank you very much for the call, Dave. A lot of people would argue that at least in the cases that people have served their sentences or they've done their time, and then they're still being serving - being punished for crimes for which they've already served their time. And if they're going to change that, you need to change the laws, as you suggest. I'm Neal Conan. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.", "Our guest is Robert Lowery, executive director of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Let's go next to Olin(ph), and Olin with us from Topeka.", "People do come and pump the oil.", "Olin?", "Yes. Hello?", "You're on the air. Go ahead, please.", "Yes. I've had a 5-year-old went missing in 1981.", "You've had a 5-year-old of yours?", "Yes.", "I'm sorry to hear that. Was there any investigation? They did find any leads?", "Oh, yeah. They had investigations and leads, and one of the Topeka Police Department had a - like a local cold case show, and then they've got some more leads off of that and - but as far as I know, they haven't come up with anything yet.", "And then you hear about a situation like the one from Cleveland, and you must have mixed emotions.", "I'm just terribly happy for them people.", "Of course, you are. Of course, you are.", "Thanks.", "Well, Neal, if I could add, is that there are a lot of parents like Olin in our country today that are desperately looking for their children that need answers to what happened. And it's important that the public stays engaged as reminders that we are still looking for Olin's son or his daughter, that there's someone out there that has information that might help find the child, and that they need to call police or call us here at the National Center with that information because, like I say, not all - and I think it's important for Olin to know that we can't always assume the worst, although I think we face the same harsh realities when children are gone this long a period of time. But I think these children last night, they are proof that things do happen. There are miracles out there, and we can't let go of that hope.", "And you can't let go of that hope, Olin. Thank you so much.", "Yeah. Yeah. She's listed with the National Center, and I appreciate everything they're doing.", "Thank you, Olin. We'll keep working.", "Thank you.", "And one last question, Robert Lowery. We used to famously see children's pictures on milk cartons. Where is the information posted today?", "Well, you know, that's funny that you mentioned it. That actually was a program of many years ago. It wasn't very successful, unfortunately, but it seems to be the thing that most people seemed to remember about missing children posters. But now, today, we have, you know, the ability to engage the public through 24-hour news stations, smartphones have been a blessing for us when the missing children - when we're looking for missing children because we can engage the public real time.", "And one of your early callers just say something that's important is that it's important that the public stay engaged when we're looking for children because they are the eyes and ears of law enforcement. When they see something or they see a child that resembles a missing child, they need to not hesitate. They need to report as quickly as they can because that's how we find these kids.", "Thanks very much. We appreciate your time today.", "Thank you, Neal.", "Robert Lowery. 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{"id": "CNN-154207", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-8-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1008/11/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Addicted: Prescription for Danger; Taliban Urges Pakistan to Reject U.S. Aid", "utt": ["Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. Twenty- four minutes past the hour. On our continuing series \"Addicted,\" something you'll see only on AMERICAN MORNING. We're talking about prescription drugs. Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson, the tragic death of these stars, of course, made headlines, but America's problem with prescription pill addiction goes much deeper and much further from the Hollywood spotlight. And it can be deadly not just for the addict abusing the prescription drugs, but for the doctor who comes between them and a fix. Our Carol Costello has the story from Washington this morning. Good morning, Carol.", "Good morning, Kiran. It is easy to sit back and shake your head when you hear stories about people addicted to prescription drugs. It's sad but it wouldn't touch my life. Well, that's not exactly true. Prescription drug abuse is so pervasive and so dangerous for doctors, he may refuse to write you a prescription no matter how much you're hurting.", "Small town America with a big problem -- pill poppers.", "I didn't really realize how bad it was getting until after I'd gotten out of college.", "Danielle Sandlin grew up in Eastern Kentucky. Her father was a doctor, who, like other doctors in this part of the country, watched prescription drug abuse spiral out of control.", "In December, things came to a head here in Cornettsville, Kentucky, population 792.", "In this clinic, Danielle's father, Dr. Dennis Sandlin, refused to prescribe painkillers for a man he suspected was an addict. Police say that man, John Combs, left angry and came back with a gun.", "My dad was writing in a chart at the nurse's station, and they -- someone heard my dad say, \"You don't want to do this. I take care of a lot of elderly people.\" And he said, \"Well, you didn't help me,\" and that's when he shot him.", "Dr. Sandlin's murder didn't come as a shock to Dr. David Greene.", "Any other phone calls?", "He works at a Family Practice clinic in Berea. Addicts often come to his clinic to shop for doctors. They use every trick in the book to get him to prescribe powerful pain medication like OxyContin. It can get ugly.", "So have you had people come in and -- and scream at you?", "Yes. Yes.", "Physically push you or touch you?", "Oh, I've had them -- I have less of a problem because I'm male and I'm taller. So -- but, one of the things we have to do in our office, because I'm the only male doctor, is I'm sort of on call for situations like that that involved anybody else, and I'll deal with them.", "But some doctors do refuse to deal with it. They no longer write prescriptions for pain medication, for anyone, regardless of need. Detectives in Louisville can understand that. They arrest two or three suspects a day who routinely call in fraudulent prescriptions to pharmacists.", "So, this is a forged prescription that you went and picked up, not just once, a bunch of times. Do you know who's calling these in? I know?", "Yes.", "Is it you? Claiming to be in this instance --", "It wasn't in the beginning, but, yes.", "It's become an old, tired story.", "That's actually her at the pharmacy.", "Detective Steve Watts (ph) is dedicated to fighting just one kind of drug crime -- illegal prescription drug use. He's looking at surveillance tape of a woman who allegedly used a doctor's name to call in a prescription for Xanax.", "There she is, with the same distinctive bag, her Wal-Mart bag, walking out.", "We rode along with Detective Watts.", "We're almost here.", "It wasn't long before she appeared, along with her father and that purse.", "If I can make this her worst day of her life so that tomorrow she will seek treatment, then I've won.", "Back in Cornettsville, there are no winners. Dr. Sandlin's alleged killer has yet to face trial. He says he's not guilty.", "He has to see what he's done. He has to look at my family and know what he did, took somebody's life. It's the lives of these patients affect community. It -- you know, it's everybody.", "It is. Danielle is working with a number of groups to make it safer for doctors to practice medicine. Dr. Greene is working too. His clinic has informed every pharmacists in Berea, Kentucky they're no longer calling in prescriptions. Of course, Kiran, the biggest problem for doctors is trying to figure out who's really in pain. Many times, the only way to find out is to ask, \"Are you in pain?\" and -- and as we now know, patients will lie to get their hands on those pills.", "Yes. And they talked about, you know, other solutions, you know, computerizing the records a little bit more, you know, just -- it's -- it's a little bit ironic, when you talk about this abuse, a lot of people say it's really bad in Florida as well with these -- with these pill mills, as they call it, which could be changing as well because of legislation.", "I hope so. But it's been a long time coming. And -- and, you know, in the meantime, doctors aren't prescribing medication for pain, and that is not a good thing for any of us.", "Yes, and especially for people who really need it. Carol, thanks so much.", "It's crossing the half hour now. It's time for this morning's top stories. Investigators in Alaska converging on the scene of a deadly plane crash that killed former senator Ted Stevens and four other passengers. They're trying to figure out why the plane went down Monday afternoon near the Bering Sea. Four others survived the crash, including former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe and his teenaged son.", "The JetBlue flight attendant who grabbed a couple of beers and slid down the escape chute is now out on bail. Steven Slater, facing felony charges, may be out of a job, but he's become a hero to workers across the country. JetBlue says that Slater has been suspended pending an investigation.", "And tropical storm warnings have forced BP crews to suspend drilling that relief well in the Gulf when they were, oh-so- close to getting it done. But federal officials have re-opened more than 5,000 square miles of the coast of the waters off the Florida Panhandle for commercial and recreational fishing. No oil has been seen there for the month now. Officials say they will continue testing fish that are caught in that area.", "Well, the worst flooding in Pakistan's history is now moving south. So far, more than 1,300 people have been killed in this devastating flooding. But officials say there will likely be many more victims.", "The United Nations special envoy is calling this the biggest disaster that Pakistan has ever faced and says the country will need billions of dollars to recover. Our Reza Sayah has been tracking the story since the floods first started. He's in Islamabad for us live this morning. And, you know, Reza, just amazing scenes and tragic scenes of destruction and still so much suffering going on.", "Yes. And I think the international community, John, is starting to understand the scope of this disaster. This is day two of the floods and the affected areas seem to grow by the day. These floods, of course, can create a host of other problems. Among them are landslides. Officials are telling CNN that a deadly landslide taking place in northern Pakistan, 44 people killed in that landslide. More than 50 people missing. Also, reports of severe food shortage in that area. In the meantime, international aid continues to come in. The U.S. is contributing another $25 million, in addition to the $35 million that they had already pledged. The U.S. also chipping in with a number of military helicopters, donating prefabricated bridges, water filtration systems, and 90,000 pounds of foods. Also later today in New York City, the U.N. is set to announce another $400 million in aid. So, the relief work, John and Kiran, seems to be picking up some momentum, but there's a lot more work left to be done here.", "And we also understand that the Taliban is urging the Pakistani government not to accept aid from the United States? What's the latest on that?", "Yes, that's right. Remember, many of these regions -- especially northwest Pakistan -- that were ravaged by these floods, are regions that were plagued, and in some cases, still plagued, by the Taliban. The U.S. is doing", "A bit of an irony there. Reza Sayah for us this morning -- thanks.", "Well, a couple of things that we've seen over the last couple of days. First, there was flight attendant Steven Slater who quit his job in -- shall we say -- spectacular fashion. Then there was the woman who drove up to the drive-through of McDonald's trying to order McNuggets at 6:00 in the morning and didn't like the answer that she was getting from the attendant. Why do people snap? We'll find out coming up next. Thirty-four minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO (voice-over)", "DANIELLE SANDLIN, DAUGHTER OF DR. DENNIS SANDLIN", "COSTELLO", "COSTELLO (on camera)", "COSTELLO (voice-over)", "SANDLIN", "COSTELLO", "DR. 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{"id": "NPR-41972", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-08-17", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5665201", "title": "Will the Pension Protection Act Do the Job?", "summary": "President Bush signs the Pension Protection Act of 2006, which he calls the biggest reform of the nation's pension system in more than three decades. The legislation is designed to strengthen the government's deficit-ridden pension insurance program. But some companies say the stricter funding requirements could push more firms to dump pension programs in favor of 401(k) programs.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.", "Today President Bush signed what he called the biggest reform of the nation's pension system in more than three decades. The legislation is designed to shore up the government's deficit-ridden pension insurance program. But some companies say the bill's stricter funding requirements could push more firms to dump their pension programs in favor of 401K plans.", "NPR's Frank Langfitt reports.", "Forty-four million Americans participate in traditional pension plans that pay a fixed amount of money each month. But that bedrock of the country's retirement system is in trouble. The government agency that insures pensions faces a huge deficit, and financially struggling companies owe more than $100 billion to their pension plans.", "President Bush said today's bill will force companies to help close those funding gaps.", "President GEORGE W. BUSH: The message from this administration and from those of us up her today is this - you should keep the promises you make to your workers. If you offer a private pension plan to your employee, you have a duty to set aside enough money now so your workers will get what they've been promised when they retire.", "The bill will make companies pay nearly $6 billion more in premiums to the government's beleaguered Pension Insurance Agency. It will also tighten loose accounting rules, which allowed many companies to under fund their pensions in the first place.", "But those changes will also make it harder for companies to predict how much they'll owe their pension plans in the future. And it could persuade some of them to halt their pension plans altogether, undermining the very purpose of the bill. Ron Gebhardtsbauer is senior pension fellow at the American Academy of Actuaries.", "This new bill is going to increase the contributions that employers have to pay into their pension plan. In fact, it could increase it by 25 to 50 percent at some companies. So some employers may decide that they want to get out of the traditional pension plan and move over to the 401K arrangement for their employees.", "And everyone agrees that that would be a loss for workers. Traditional pensions tend to be more generous and more reliable because they pay a fixed amount every month. 401K plans are subject to the ups and downs of the stock market and put more responsibility on the employee to save for retirement. Again, Ron Gebhardtsbauer.", "We actually have seen that individuals don't save enough, they retire too early, they spend their money down too fast and they're more likely to run out of money in their 80s, when they can't go back to work.", "If some companies don't like the accounting changes in today's legislation, they're even more concerned about the changes coming in December from the Financial Accounting Standards Board. That month, companies will have to begin to show their future pension liabilities on their balance sheets for the first time. Analysts say that requirement could wipe out stockholder equity at companies like General Motors, which has huge pension obligations.", "Jan Jacobson works for the American Benefits Council, an advocacy group for corporate benefit plans. She expects a significant number of companies to drop their pension programs.", "Well, we have approximately 30,000 defined benefit plans left. I know a lot of our members are really trying to keep their plans. Although it's hard to predict, I would say at least hundreds and it could possibly get into the thousands.", "How many companies, if any, get out of the pension business won't be clear for some time. The accounting rules in today's legislation won't begin to take effect until 2008.", "Frank Langfitt, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, host", "MELISSA BLOCK, host", "MELISSA BLOCK, host", "FRANK LANGFITT reporting", "FRANK LANGFITT reporting", "FRANK LANGFITT reporting", "LANGFITT", "LANGFITT", "Mr. RON GEBHARDTSBAUER (American Academy of Actuaries)", "LANGFITT", "Mr. RON GEBHARDTSBAUER (American Academy of Actuaries)", "LANGFITT", "LANGFITT", "Ms. JAN JACOBSON (American Benefits Council)", "LANGFITT", "LANGFITT"]}
{"id": "CNN-399052", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-05-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/02/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Fauci to Appear before Senate Committee", "utt": ["Welcome back. Dr. Anthony Fauci of the White House Coronavirus Task Force is to testify before a committee in the Republican-led Senate on May 12th. That is what an aide to the committee chairman is telling CNN. But earlier we learned the White House is blocking Fauci from testifying next week before a committee in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives. U.S. lawmakers are gearing up for an oversight battle. Fauci, of course, a key figure. He has repeatedly distanced himself from how the Trump administration has been framing the response to this pandemic. The White House has been blaming a lot of things for the virus spread; in particular, China, even pushing the theory that it all started in a lab in Wuhan. But Chinese officials are pushing back and accusing the Trump administration of trying to deflect blame for its own handling of the pandemic, as CNN's David Culver reports.", "Chinese state-run media now ramping up its propaganda against the United States, taking direct aim at secretary of state Mike Pompeo. This week, a near daily CCTV commentary attacks Pompeo for calling out China's mishandling of the coronavirus. One saying, he is turning himself to be the enemy of humankind by spreading a political virus. On Thursday, the peoples daily, the official newspaper for China's Communist Party, ran an editorial saying that Pompeo's rhetoric makes the U.S. look like it is dealing with a colossal moral deficit. Government controlled Xinhua tweeted an animation further mocking the U.S' blaming of China and portraying it as hypocritical.", "Are you listening to yourselves?", "We are always correct, even though we contradict ourselves.", "In the shadows of the coronavirus outbreak, the war of words is creating a deepening rift between the U.S. and China.", "China is a very sophisticated country and they could've contained it, they were either unable to or they chose not to. And the world is suffering greatly.", "It is a change from Donald Trump's more sympathetic tone, expressed repeatedly over the past few months.", "Look, I know President Xi loves the people of China, he loves this country and he is doing a very good job with a very, very tough situation.", "While still not directly criticizing President Xi Jinping, President Trump is increasingly criticizing China for the virus' devastating and deadly spread, echoing secretary of state Mike Pompeo's hardline stance.", "We know it started in Wuhan, China, we don't know from where it started. And in spite of our best efforts to get experts on the ground, they continue to hide and obfuscate. That is wrong and it poses a threat to the world. This is classic Communist disinformation. This is what Communists do.", "The White House now further pushing the origin theory that the virus started in a Wuhan laboratory. Last week, CNN returned to Wuhan post lockdown, traveled to the lab in question, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. We captured a few images from the exterior of the gated campus. Chinese officials dismiss allegations that it started here. In a statement Thursday from the U.S. office of the acting Director of National Intelligence, said that it concluded the coronavirus was not manmade or genetically modified but noted it was still evaluating theories linking to the outbreak to the lab. CNN's early reporting of this revealed that China's covering up and silencing of whistleblowers. Our reports put into question China's official number of cases, which have been revised repeatedly and is widely believed to be vastly under reported.", "However, China believes that the U.S. and the Trump administration in particular is trying to deflect for its lack of preparedness in battling this virus in the United States. Until you have this heated rhetoric, this increased blame and the world's two largest economies no longer looking at international collaboration but rather, in the midst of this animosity filled face off -- David Culver, CNN, Shanghai.", "Thousands of workers at food processing plants across the U.S. have tested positive for coronavirus. How do you keep workers in these places safe while also preventing a food shortage? We will discuss when we come back."], "speaker": ["HOLMES", "DAVID CULVER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CULVER (voice-over)", "TRUMP", "CULVER (voice-over)", "TRUMP", "CULVER (voice-over)", "MIKE POMPEO, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE", "CULVER (voice-over)", "CULVER", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-146975", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2010-1-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/13/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Jimmy Kimmel Does Jay Leno Parody", "utt": ["Hello. Hello. My name is Jay Leno. Let it hereby be known that I`m taking over all the shows in \"Late Night.\"", "Did you see this? It`s a barely recognizable Jimmy Kimmel there as Jay Leno. The plastic chin on with the gray hair, of course. Adding fuel to the already raging late night firestorm over at NBC. Can you imagine what they`re thinking over there? Tonight, Jimmy`s hilarious scene that has everyone was cracking up, making up everyone. You can tune in to Jimmy Kimmel live on \"Late Night.\" You might have actually thought, you tune in to the wrong show. I was so happy I caught this last night. Jimmy did his entire monologue as Jay Leno. Let me tell you, the gloves were off. Jimmy did a scathing impression. It was dead on. The folks at NBC were probably cringing, but I got to say it was a nice job by Jimmy. Hysterical. Watch this.", "Great to be here on ABC. Hey Clido (ph), do you know what ABC stands for?", "No, man, I don`t.", "Always bump Conan. Conan O`Brien today announced he is leaving NBC. He released a statement today that said \"I won`t participate in the destruction of the \"Tonight Show.\" Oh, man. Fortunately though, I will. Burn it down if I have to.", "There you go. Jimmy also interviewed all of his guests in his Jay get-up but dropped the impression. I imagine it was distracting to the guests but funny. All right. Tonight Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie springing into action for the Haitian earthquake victims. The glamorous couples aren`t wasting time any time at all in helping the desperately poor country, now of course, reeling from the catastrophic earthquake. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT just got the statement from Pit and Jolie, here`s what they`re saying, \"We are devastated from the news from Haiti. We will work closely with our good friend Wyclef Jean to support humanitarian efforts on the island and help those who have been injured and left without homes and shelters.\" As you may know, Hip-Hop Star Wyclef Jean is from Haiti. Tonight he`s there and he`s doing all he can for his native country. Now Wyclef is pleading for your help in a very unique I think is an incredibly simple way. This is what he told us in a statement, \"I cannot stress enough what a human disaster this is. We must act now. Text, Yele, to the number 501501 which will automatically donates $5 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund.\" Now, once you send the text the $5 donation to Wyclef`s Foundation will be charged to your cell phone bill. Wyclef is a good guy, and it`s a really easy way for you to help out. So, Tuesday, we asked you to vote in our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day. Moments ago, this has ended the final results. The question, \"American Idol\" -- Can it survive without Simon and Paula? As you see, 28 percent said yes, 72 percent no. E-mails coming in fast and furious including this from Shellee in California writhing, \"I think that `American Idol` is established enough to make it without Simon and Paula. I will watch it as long as it is on.\" And Nancy from New Jersey writes, \"With Simon gone, I really won`t have any reason to watch. It will become just another singing show. Where Simon goes, I will follow.\" Well, that`s it for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York. You can catch SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on the 11 p.m. Eastern Time, Pacific into the morning, 11 p.m. Eastern on HLN. END"], "speaker": ["JIMMY KIMMEL, AS JAY LENO", "HAMMER", "JIMMY KIMMEL, AS JAY LENO", "CLIDO (ph)", "KIMMEL", "HAMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-343539", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-06-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/24/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Fourth Night of Protests Over Shooting of Unarmed Teen; Teenage Boy Missing From Detainee Facility in Texas", "utt": ["The viewing for Antwan Rose is set to begin next hour. Rose is the 17-year-old who was unarmed when he was shot and killed by East Pittsburgh Police last week. His death sparked several nights of protests in Pittsburgh including last night with roughly 250 demonstrators walked through the city's entertainment district. CNN's Ryan Nobles is in Homestead, Pennsylvania where the service is taking place. So Ryan, any more answers about this?", "No, there really isn't, Fred and that's why the community here is still very much on edge as they are looking for some answers to exactly what happened to Antwon Rose Jr. And they want some changes made as to how the investigation is going to take place. You can see behind me the funeral home where the calling hours are set to take place for Antwon Rose Jr. It's not supposed to take place for another 15 minutes or so, but there's already a long line outside of the building for mourners to come and pay their respects. We've seen protests here pretty consistently for the last four days but they're actually expected to suspend those protests for the next two days in honor of the Rose family. The calling hours taking place today, the funeral taking place tomorrow and the protesters have decided that they are not going to take to the streets to allow the family an opportunity to grieve in peace. But they are warning that they will kick things right back up after the funeral takes place unless they get a certain set of demands met including the district attorney Stephen Zappala being taken off this case and recusing himself and having the case handed over to the Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. At this point, Zappala has told us that he has no interest in stepping away from the case so it's expected, Fred that those tensions will continue.", "All right, Ryan Nobles, thank so much in Homestead, Pennsylvania. And we have breaking news about a teenaged boy who was been reported missing from a detainee facility. CNN's Polo Sandoval joining me now with more on this from McAllen.", "Fred, you know, we have been asking questions about this situation that unfold about 50 miles east from where we are here at McAllen, Texas in the city of Brownsville. One of these privately- owned and operated shelters if you will, that converted Walmart that we've talked about. We can confirm now that a 15-year-old child who was at that facility has now been reported missing. I spoke to a spokesperson with the Brownsville Police Department who got called out there yesterday at 4:30 to this welfare concern. Authorities now confirming that they searched for a 15-year-old boy in the water ways around the areas, some of the surroundings there at that facility, but they were unable to find him. So what happened next, that child was then input into a database of missing children across the country. A spokesperson just told me if that child appears somewhere else in the country then they will know -- likely know who he is. Important to point out however, we do not know that child is. In what circumstances surround his stay or at least why he was in or around that facility. We do know that Southwest Key, the program who runs this operation has released a statement a little while ago just sharing a little bit more investigation. I'll read you that statement that just came into CNN. A spokesperson, Jeff Eller saying, quote, as a licensed child care center, if a child attempts to leave any of our facilities, we cannot restrain them, we are not a detention center, we talk to them and simply try to get them to stay. If they leave the facility, we call law enforcement. A 15-year-old boy left the Casa Padre child center in Brownsville yesterday. We called local law enforcement and continue to work with them. Fred, certainly it's something that we want to find out a little bit more about. Many of these children who have been there for of course some time now, it will certainly call into question some of the practices there of some of these children are being held there while their parents are prosecuted under zero tolerance. Then what kind of procedures are in place to make sure that something like this doesn't actually happen. We'll continue to dig for more information but again, we can now confirm a 15-year-old child walked off one of these locations that has been used to house some of those children that's recently been separated from their children.", "All right, Polo Sandoval, thank you so much for that update. Appreciate it. And we'll be right back."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "RYAN NOBLES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "SANDOVAL", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-377259", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-08-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/12/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) Kentucky Won't Call Republicans Back To Debate Gun Control", "utt": ["Welcome back. I'm Poppy Harlow in New York, and more than a week after two more mass shootings and lawmakers have taken no action on gun control. Right now, it is weeks before either the House or the Senate will be back in session. More than 200 Democrats in Congress have signed a letter calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to bring the Senate back right now. McConnell has yet to commit to any proposals and Trump has waffled on measures like universal background checks that he has previously said he would support. Let's talk about this with Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania. He is one of the Democrats who signed that letter to McConnell. Thank you for being here.", "Thank you, Poppy, for having me back.", "Of course. Look, the majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has said that this issue, gun control, will be front and center when Congress comes back into session. Let's wait. Let's see if anything is different this time. You've signed this letter. Your fellow Democrat in Congress in the House, Al Green, said on this program to Jim just last week that it's a mistake for you guys not to be in Washington right now. Is it a leadership mistake in the Democratic Party not to bring the House back to session right now to be on the floor debating this?", "Well, certainly when it comes to background checks legislation, bear in mind in the House, we passed that legislation exactly six months ago. Every single Democrat voted for it --", "I understand, HR-8 and HR-11, 12.", "-- and several Republicans. Yes.", "Yes. No, I hear you, but should you be there --", "The first thing --", "Go ahead.", "Yes. The first thing is for Mitch McConnell to call back the Senate and move our background checks bill, which I believe does have a chance of passing the Senate, maybe not the 60 votes, but certainly clearing the 51 vote threshold. So that's really the first thing and has been the main focus. I would be willing to go back to the House. I'm from Philadelphia where, by the way -- and I know you brought up the mass shootings that happened in El Paso and Dayton, and understandably. So let's not forget that right here in my home town of Philadelphia where I represent, 12 people were shot over this weekend. So the Philadelphias of the country, the Chicagos, the other places where we have a slow-rolling mass shooting every single week also need attention, which is why Washington needs to act. Now, as far as my willingness to go back to Washington, yes, I would be willing to go back. But let's not allow that to delve into some sort of false equivalency. Mitch McConnell has been in the pocket of the NRA for far too long doing their bidding. He needs to stop blocking the background checks bill and to bring back the Senate, move it so that way we can finally put it in front of the president.", "Okay. Let's talk about specifics here quickly. I would like to get through two proposals. First of all, would you vote for a standalone red flag law?", "It would depend on what exactly that means and is in it. I do get -- I would support red flag legislation. However if that is suddenly the beginning and the end of the gun control conversation, that would concern me deeply.", "So listen to this. From your fellow Democratic, former member of Congress now running for president, Beto O'Rourke. Here's his exchange with Jake Tapper this weekend.", "You were asked in May whether you supported a plan for federal gun licensing. You said it might go too far. I'm wondering what you think now after the El Paso and Dayton massacres if you feel the same way or if maybe your mind is opening about that. That's a proposal that Senator Booker and some of your other rivals are out there talking about.", "We should do it. We should have a national licensing program in this country.", "Do you agree with him?", "It's an interesting idea. I mean, I happen to be a co- sponsor, I think, en Every gun control legislation that is out there, was as a state legislator and had been for the last five years in Congress. That is not one that has been really on the forefront of the agenda. We do license every single automobile vehicle, though not at the federal level, at the state level. So it seems to me if something like an automobile is licensed, there shouldn't be any problem with some sort of database in terms of guns given the danger they present. That said though, would it be the most effective way to reduce gun violence? Probably not. I think there are other measures. We talked about background checks, limiting magazine clip size. The fact that these shooters had been able to get off two rounds a second, the ability to shoot over 20 people within one minute, just one minute of damage, can cost us about two dozen lives.", "Look, we saw that image.", "That's something that we really need to address. Yes. We saw it in Dayton.", "Look at the images, exactly. So on the rhetoric, on the issue, on what we saw in the manifesto from the shooter in El Paso, a number of your Democratic colleagues, as you know, in the last week have gone so far as to call the president a white supremacist. On July 16th, you Tweeted the president is, quote, a racist. Do you, Congressman, also think that the president is a white supremacist?", "This is something that I've really wrestled with, because I think language matters and we have to be careful with how we address these things. When it comes to specifically the El Paso shooter, ultimately, the responsibility is borne by that person who picked up the gun and squeezed the trigger and killed those people. However, I do believe responsibility also lies with the person who inflamed the shooter, who gave him his cause in life that he was looking for. The fact that you had this mass murderer out of El Paso quote almost verbatim lines that President Trump has used, the fact that he drove the length of Texas, about a ten-hour drive, to go to an overwhelmingly Hispanic city because he purposely wanted to murder Hispanics, and he was using the same rhetoric that President Trump has used. Yes, I do believe that President Trump bears some responsibility for that action. All of us as leaders have a deep moral responsibility to be the sort of leaders in society that model good behavior and that bring out the best in our people. And when we don't have that at the very top, it leads to the sort of consequences that we're now dealing with.", "A number of Republicans and the president's defenders have pointed to the language used by the shooter at the congressional baseball game, a Bernie Sanders supporter as well, and have said, look, Bernie Sanders is no more responsible for that than President Trump is for this shooting. What do you say in response? And just also an answer to my question about whether you agree with your fellow Democrats who have called the president a white supremacist.", "Well, first, what happened to my colleague, Steve Scalise, and I was on the Democrat's congressional baseball team at the same time, it was absolutely horrific. I think all of us have to be careful about our language, anyone who has a megaphone. The greatest megaphone of all, of course, is the bully pulpit of the White House. That being said though, again, let's be clear not to delve into some sort of false equivalency. Bernie Sanders has never used the kind of language or attempted to stigmatize a group of people the way President Trump has with the minorities and with others who are the, quote, unquote, other in society. In terms of your question though about the president being a white supremacist, there is no question that he has used the language of white supremacy and white nationalism to attempt to inflame things. So he either truly believes it or doesn't believe it but doesn't really care and is willing to use it in a cynical way to gin up support either is wrong and deeply immoral.", "Congressman Brendan Boyle, thanks for your time this morning.", "Thank you.", "Ahead to Iowa, we go to Democratic hopefuls barnstorming the state this weekend. In a few minutes you're going to hear from California senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris. She will be live from Iowa right here."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-1152", "program": "", "date": "2000-1-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/20/aotc.08.html", "summary": "'Financial Times': Vodafone Softens Tone Towards Mannesmann, Offers Larger Stake", "utt": ["We've got a lot brewing over there in Europe, this morning. Vodafone is making overtures to Mannesmann, and there's a battle for who's going to head the IMF next.", "All right, we're going to get more on those stories from Richard Lambert of the \"Financial Times\" in London, starting with a question about Vodafone and Mannesmann. Richard, they just won't give up, will they?", "No, they're taking this one right to the wire, which is when the Vodafone offer closes early in February, there. What we're seeing now is that Vodafone is making kind of friendlier noises towards Mannesmann and saying they might be prepared to tweak their offer a bit and make management concessions if Mannesmann would just be a little bit nicer to them and stop throwing punches at them. But it doesn't look as though that's going to happen. Vodafone said that it might be prepared to increase its terms a bit. At the moment, I think, Mannesmann stands to get just over 47 percent of the enlarged company, and they may take that up to 49 percent, but Mannesmann says, look, we want well over 50 percent before we sign up for this one, so they're still a long way apart. What's making the difference is that Vodafone's share price has been really strong in the last couple of weeks. It's gone up nearly 30 percent, and that seems to be tilting the deal in Vodafone's way. But it's still got a week or three to run, and I think it's going to go right up to the end, there.", "Wow, interesting. There was a buy rating on Vodafone, this morning, as well. Moving from a German company, Mannesmann, to the German economy, what did you make of the survey we saw this morning?", "Well, that's the IFO-wise man's kind of index of how the German economy is doing, and it looks good. I mean, it looks like the final quarter is clearly going to be strong in Germany. The figures aren't quite as high as some people were hoping for this index, so the euro was weakened a tad after the (OFF-MIKE), but I don't think you should take any notice of that.", "Hey, you know, Richard...", "The European Central Bank is meeting this morning, but they're not going to raise interest rates today, trust me. They'll (", "We trust you, sir.", "For the record.", "Another question for you, maybe a silly one, but I thought the head of the IMF had to be French. I understand Germany's pushing a candidate.", "Well, no, he doesn't have to be anything. It's a completely crazy thing. I mean, it's by tradition it's been a European -- it's been a European by tradition. I can't see any reason why it should be a European or a -- it would be a bit difficult for the U.S., but the U.S. runs the World Bank, more or less. I think there would be a good case (OFF-MIKE) somebody from Asia or somewhere outside Europe, but Germany is pushing a candidate very strongly. The only little problem is, everybody in the world, apart from the Germans and certainly including Larry Summers of the Treasury, won't have this guy at any price. So, we could be heading for another of these, you know, dreadful things which we saw at the WTO where they just bicker for ages about who's going to be the boss of this outfit. But Camdessus is leaving in the next few weeks, so they need to come to a decision, quite clearly, but it doesn't look as though they're getting close to one yet.", "We're out of time, here, but real quickly, why won't they have him at any price?", "Because he's -- his background is wrong. He worked for the World Bank, his in the development, he has no political clout and nobody's ever heard of him.", "Well, that's a good -- that's a good reason, wouldn't you say?", "We can't pronounce his name correctly, that's the other problem here.", "(OFF-MIKE)", "... of the \"FT,\" always great to see you. Thanks for coming back."], "speaker": ["JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN ANCHOR", "DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "RICHARD LAMBERT, \"FINANCIAL TIMES\"", "DEFTERIOS", "LAMBERT", "MARCHINI", "LAMBERT", "OFF-MIKE) MARCHINI", "DEFTERIOS", "MARCHINI", "LAMBERT", "MARCHINI", "LAMBERT", "MARCHINI", "DEFTERIOS", "LAMBERT", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "CNN-85390", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2004-6-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/14/lol.03.html", "summary": "Flag Day Story of Stars, Stripes and Standing; Countdown to Handover in Iraq; Economic Recovery?", "utt": ["Welcome back to LIVE FROM. I'm Betty Nguyen.", "And I'm Miles O'Brien. Here's what's happening at this hour.", "Afghan President Hamid Karzai is visiting the halls of America's military might today. He's meeting with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon. Later, Mr. Karzai is scheduled to speak on his country's relationship with the U.S. and outline his expectations for Afghanistan's upcoming parliamentary elections. Tomorrow, he's scheduled to sit down with President Bush and congressional leaders. Justice Department officials announced the indictment of a Somali man on charges of supporting terrorism. Nuradin Abdi is accused of plotting with an al Qaeda operative to blow up a shopping mall in Columbus, Ohio. Abdi is already in U.S. custody for alleged immigration violations. He's also accused of visiting a terrorist training camp in Ethiopia. An Article 32 hearing is scheduled for June 22 for Private First Class Lynndie England. England is one of the female soldiers accused in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. In two of the more infamous photographs, England is seen holding a leash tied to an Iraqi prisoner.", "Up first this day, a Flag Day story of stars, stripes and standing. Fifty years to the day after Congress added the words \"under god\" to the Pledge of Allegiance, the Supreme Court of the United States says they can still be constitutionally recited, but not necessarily because they're constitutional. The court finds the alleged harm done to a California child by hearing the pledge every morning at school is, legally speaking, none of her father's business. And that brings us to CNN legal analyst Kendall Coffey, joining us from Miami. Kendall, good to have you with us.", "Hey. Good afternoon, Miles.", "Did the Supreme Court have a bit of an artful dodge here? Is that what happened?", "Well, I think that's what some are going to suggest. Certainly three justices, justices Rehnquist, Thomas and O'Connor, all felt that there was standing, at least sufficiently for purposes of hearing what is a very controversial case. On the other hand, the Supreme Court may have legitimately taken the position that if these issues are so important, we need the right kind of plaintiff, the right kind of injured party in front of the court, not a father who looks disappointed about the way the child custody rulings have gone in the family courts of California.", "Well, now -- and I asked this question earlier. I'm just curious what you think. Shouldn't his standing have been settled more clearly prior to actually walking up the steps of the Supreme Court of the United States?", "Well, that seems to be one of the big questions, if, in fact, the injury that he as a father professed. Because remember, whatever injury the daughter may have had was basically eliminated from the case. In fact, the mother, who has primary custodial decisions on educational matters, and the daughter, herself, are apparently Christians who had no objection to the pledge. But to the extent that the father's so-called injury was an issue, one would have thought it would have been resolved by now. That's what three of the justices of the Supreme Court maintained in the opinions they wrote today.", "All right. Well, Michael Newdow is nothing, if not possessed with a healthy ego. He says, \"I may be the best father in the world.\" I might quibble with him, you might quibble with him on that point. But the point is, is this, in effect, something that will set precedent for family court law? Those are state courts.", "Well, I don't think it's going to set a precedent for family law. If anything, it's just a reminder that the federal courts, especially on constitutional questions, don't want to have to get involved with the intricacies of what goes on in custodial matters in the family courts. But I think what is wide open now is this question. And will Michael Newdow himself go back to some kind of custody issues, try to get broader custody, so that he can claim he does, in fact, have standing? In other words, we've rolled this entire issue back to where it was before the first decision was made years ago that exploded in so much controversy. But will this issue come up again, perhaps with Michael Newdow as a plaintiff at some future point?", "So it is possible he could clarify his standing in some way, shape or form, and then appeal to the court again? Would he actually have to argue once again, or would his argument already stand?", "It would start from scratch, because the effectiveness is someone has pressed a delete button on the original decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which struck down the Pledge of Allegiance for the words \"under god.\" That decision basically never appeared. And so if Newdow or somebody else comes back, they'll be writing on a blank slate, at least as far as the original controversy- creating decision is concerned.", "All right. Let's leave with a final thought here. We have some poll numbers I want to share with you and our viewers. And I guess these numbers would not surprise you. This is back in March, end of March, and this is a CNN-USA Today Gallup poll. Ninety-one percent of those polled think the pledge should remain as is. Eight percent say remove the words. Let's ask the frank question. Does the court hear that one way or another either directly or indirectly? Are they responding to public opinion?", "Well, courts pride themselves on rising above public opinion. But when the Ninth Circuit decided this very controversial case, both sides referred to what they called the uproar around the country over the Pledge of Allegiance. So it may not get talked about, but it certainly is there.", "Kendall Coffey, who always pledges to give us good legal insight, thanks very much.", "Thanks, Miles.", "Betty?", "Seventeen car bombs in 14 days. Sixteen days before the formal transfer of sovereignty in Iraq, 13 people dead after yet another suicide attack in the capital. And once again, Iraq's battered and broken power grid is a casualty of war. CNN's Guy Raz checks in from Baghdad.", "Baghdad's landscape now characterized by chaos. A morning rush hour car bomb this time, the 17th car bomb in Iraq this month. Westerners were targeted, Iraqis part of a terrorist's collateral damage. Charred bodies were pulled from the rubble of this three- story building, burning vehicles smoldered in the middle of the road. Condemnations from all corners. Still, those behind the attacks seem more determined than ever.", "We deplore this terrorist act and vow to get the criminals to justice.", "An angry crowd gathered around the bomb site. \"America is the enemy of god,\" they chanted. Confused Iraqis passing along conspiracy theories blaming America and Jews. Less than one month before administrative authority is handed over to an Iraqi government, officials warn of more attacks to come. Most of them silently concede they'll be difficult to stop. Guy Raz, CNN, Baghdad.", "On America's economic front, retail sales are said to be going strong. But the recovery hasn't helped everyone. And some consumers remain nervous about the future. CNN's Kathleen Hays with that.", "I feel a little bit of uneasiness.", "With the economy the way it is now, I find myself shopping a little less, trying to hold on to my pennies.", "It's at a steady pace. It's flat. I don't see it going up or down.", "Blame this insecurity on gas prices that have risen too quickly and paychecks that haven't risen quickly enough.", "There is a disconnect between some of the economic cheerleading that's going on and the way many working families are experiencing the recovery. We see the latter in some of the consumer confidence reports which have been quite negative lately.", "The Consumer Comfort Index has fallen for the last three weeks and is nearing the lows of the year. And in May, when nearly a quarter of a million new jobs were created, more than 30 percent of those surveyed by the Conference Board said jobs were still hard to get. But this may not be as bad as it looks. After all, consumers are still shopping.", "What's really more important is not what consumers say. It's what they do. And if you look at, you know, weekly chain store sales, look at overall retail spending, you look at car sales, things of that nature, that all remains very, very solid right now.", "Economists saw this same disconnect coming out of the recession of the early 1990s. Job growth was accelerating by 1993, but confidence didn't really pick up until well into 1994.", "I'm encouraged. I think things are improving. The stock value is going up and my investments are gaining value.", "But many lower-income families, whose budgets are hit hardest by rising gas prices may continue to swim against the tide for awhile.", "I think it could take as much as another few quarters of solid job growth before a real sense of confidence in the economy returns.", "Kathleen Hays, CNN Financial News, New York.", "He was the man at a grieving widow's side throughout the week of mourning for former President Reagan. Coming up, Commander Galen Jackman shares some of his experiences being Nancy Reagan's shoulder to lean on. And these two had each other to lean on throughout their careers, but now the Olsen sisters, not twins, are taking on new roles. We'll explain. 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{"id": "CNN-73138", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2003-7-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/02/lol.01.html", "summary": "Schools in Tennessee Sued for Placing Cameras in Middle School Locker Rooms", "utt": ["Now back to our top story -- one that's ticking off a lot of parents in Tennessee. Hidden cameras in a locker room in a middle school. Jack Lowery is an attorney representing one of the basketball teams that used the locker room at that school. He joins us now live from Nashville. Thanks for being with us, Jack.", "No problem. Thank you, Kyra.", "Well, first of all, can you legally put security cameras in a middle school locker room?", "It is our position -- there is no law that we know of specifically. But it is our position that that is something that you just do not do and through other cases, we have, that it is standard procedure that you would not put cameras in a place where someone has an expectation of privacy, such as a locker room.", "All right, you say standard procedure. But is it a law? Did the school break the law by putting those hidden cameras in there not telling kids or parents?", "No, there is no law on the books for Tennessee nor is there a federal law. There are certain laws, if they intended to place it for certain intended purposes, that it could be a criminal act. But in this case, nothing has risen to a criminal act at this date.", "Have representatives from the school said to you this is why we've put the cameras in there? Look, we've got an issue with drug use or with larceny? Was there an issue at hand?", "Actually, we've given them ample opportunity, and we have not received any sufficient explanation, nor any explanation as to why the cameras were placed in the locker room, nor can we think of any conceivable, reasonable explanation why someone would place a camera in a locker room, especially of 10, 11, 12, and 13-year-old children that are changing.", "All right, now I was reading here that the images were reportedly accessed 98 times between July 2002 and January 2003. I'm talking about the images that were stored in a computer there, I guess a computer of the assistant principal. And that sometimes late at night, early in the morning, and through Internet providers in Clarksville and Gainsboro and Rock Hill, South Carolina. What's the story here? Who is accessing these images? And why were they stored on the computer of this assistant principal?", "We don't know who actually accessed the images at this point. That is something we will hope to discover as we go through the discovery phase of this matter. The way the school had this system set up -- it was a network that could be accessed outside of the school through a dial-up provider, if a person had one. They had a software that had a security system that you had to enter that was left at the default password. And it was placed on the network -- it wasn't necessarily the principal's computer, but it was a network computer there in the school, where these images were stored, I'm assuming they stored all images from all electronic surveillance, so that they could go back and review it if they ever needed to. And it was at this place that the access was made into this computer.", "Is there a concern that these images could have been used for something else, being sold or transferred or anything of that nature?", "Obviously, that is the concern of our parents and these children and our concern, that our proof shows, we feel that it was the access at odd hours of the day, early in the morning. And certainly the places it was accessed from, outside the state and from distant -- long distances within the state, we can think of no conceivable reason, nor has any been given, as to why someone from that area would need to access this computer.", "And finally, Jack, before I let you go, I was reading the cameras had been installed in several other Overton County schools. Is that true? And are all these cameras up and running right now?", "We do not know if all the cameras are still up and running. It is our information and belief that when Livingston (ph) installed these schools it was something that was done countywide throughout Overton and in all of the schools.", "All right, Jack Lowery. We'll continue to check in with you and find out what happens. You'll keep us updated, right?", "Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Kyra.", "Thanks, Jack. You bet. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com School Locker Rooms>"], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "JACK LOWERY JR., ATTORNEY", "PHILLIPS", "LOWERY", "PHILLIPS", "LOWERY", "PHILLIPS", "LOWERY", "PHILLIPS", "LOWERY", "PHILLIPS", "LOWERY", "PHILLIPS", "LOWERY", "PHILLIPS", "LOWERY", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-293474", "program": "STUDENT NEWS", "date": "2016-09-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/07/sn.01.html", "summary": "Efforts to Remove Unexploded Bombs in Laos; How the Flu Shot Works; The Start of the Paralympics", "utt": ["Covering current events from around the world, this is CNN STUDENT NEWS. I`m Carl Azuz. Thank you for watching this Wednesday. First up, the remnants of a secret war. We`re taking you to the Asian country of Laos. It`s a landlocked communist nation located between Thailand and Vietnam. And during the Vietnam War, from the 1950s to the 1970s, Laos was fighting a civil war of its own. And the United States had a role in it. In Vietnam, the U.S. supported South Vietnamese forces fighting the communist government of North Vietnam. In Laos, the U.S. supported southern Lao forces fighting communist forces in the north. The U.S. mission led by the Central Intelligence Agency dropped millions of tons of bombs on Laos. But many of them did not explode and 43 years after the mission ended, some are still going off when people find or step on them. An average of 50 people in Laos are killed or maimed each year. And the presence of the bombs prevents much of the agricultural country from expanding its farmland. Yesterday, the U.S. government pledged $90 million to help clear these bombs out. U.S. President Barack Obama, who`s in Laos, made the announcement. Andrew Stevens gives a sense of the challenge ahead.", "For nine years until 1973, the U.S. carpet bomb Laos, trying to stop the communist insurgency and smashed North Vietnamese supply lines. It was known as the Secret War. No American boots on the ground, just American bombs. More than two million tons of them rained down. Per capita, more explosives were dropped here than on any other country in history.", "And they`re still exploding today. This is a controlled detonation by the Mine`s Advisory Group which works in Laos to clear the bombs literally a few square yards at a time. Every patch of land has to be mapped and then swept. Once detected, they zero in on the object and uncover it. And this is what they usually find, clustered munitions known locally as bombies. Up to 80 million of these failed to detonate and 1 percent of them have been cleared. (on camera): How long realistically with the resources at the country`s disposal is it going to take to make this country safe? NEIL ARNOLD, MINES ADVISORY GROUP", "Decades?", "Yes.", "And that is one more explosive device taken out, but across these plains, across these valleys and across these mountains, there are still tens of millions of threats remaining.", "Good news and bad news from the animal kingdom. We`ll start with the bad. The eastern gorilla is now considered critically endangered. That means there`s a high risk of this animal becoming extinct in the wild. This is according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It says that the eastern gorilla, which is found in the African nations of Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, has decreased in population by more than 70 percent in the last 20 years. Illegal hunting was left fewer than an estimated 5,000 eastern gorillas in the wild. It`s the world`s largest living primate. Now, the good news. The giant panda is no longer considered endangered. Between 2004 and 2014, hundreds more giant pandas were added to the population, bringing their number in China to more than 1,860. It was helped by a nationwide ban on trading panda skins and the significant increase in the animal`s habitat. The species is still considered vulnerable. In the U.S., flu season starts next month. It`s a time when flu epidemics often break out in the country. The Centers for Disease Control says it can last from October to May. This year, a group of American Pediatrician says flu mist, a nasal spray, designed to prevent the flu, should not be an option. The reason: this summer, the CDC said it was not very effective. Doctors are still recommending that Americans get the flu shot, just not the mist. They say everyone six months and older should be vaccinated and that that`s the best protection against getting the flu. Vaccinations are not 100 percent effective. There`s a chance you get the shot and still catch the flu. You just wouldn`t get it from the shot itself.", "Let me try and settle this flu shot thing, although I`m sure it`s going to keep coming up again and again.", "Debunking flu myths.", "You can`t get the flu from the flu shot. It`s a dead virus, it can`t actually cause flu. Why do people feel sort of crummy afterward? It`s because the flu vaccine is actually working, making your immune system fire up, get ready and recognize it, if it actually sees the flu, how to kill it. No, it`s not 100 percent fail safe. But it`s still going to offer a lot of protection, so you are not going to be as sick as likely to get sick or if you do get sick, have a shorter duration. OK, so if you are like me, your mom probably said don`t go outside in the cold without your hat on, you are going to catch the flu. You can`t catch the flu from just simply being outside in the cold. But it does raise the question, why are there so many more flu cases in the winter months? You are likely to stay indoors more. So, if one person is sick, more people are likely to get sick. The sun is lower in the sky, and as a result, you have less Vitamin D actually being produced in your body. Your immune system starts to get suppressed a little bit. You are more likely to get sick with the flu. Winter months tend to be lower humidity. Viruses like the flu virus they like lower humidity. They are likely to live longer. So, your mom may have been right: I mean look, moms are always right, but maybe not for the reasons you originally thought.", "Now, we`re headed to South America where the 2016 Paralympic Games start today in Brazil. The roots of this international competition date back to 1948, when the sports event was organized for British World War II veterans who had spinal cord injuries. Today, the Paralympics bring together thousands of athletes with disabilities. They come from all over the world. They compete in the same city that hosted the Olympics, which is Rio de Janeiro this year. And the athlete we`re profiling today, a two-time Paralympian and one-time world championship gold medalist has advised that applies far beyond the sports she`s competing in.", "My name is Amanda Dennis and I`m a paralympic goalball athlete. I really didn`t actually enjoy playing sports. I started off with soccer, I tried to block it out a little bit, but I sat in the middle of the field because I really couldn`t see the soccer ball, so I just watch everybody else play. So, I really wasn`t that into playing sports. My visual impairment came from birth. So, I have a rare condition called an aniridia, which takes away your irises. It doesn`t let you see light properly. Everybody on the team has a visual impairment. So, the equalizer on the playing field is that everybody is blindfolded. I just love playing. I love picking up the ball, throwing it, the sound of the ball hitting the net. When I was about 10 years old, I decided that I wanted to make the Paralympic team. I wrote to the U.S. coach who`s my coach today, and I was like, hey, I know I`m only 10 years old but I really want to make this team, like you have no idea. I had about three years or so to make myself as good as I could get to make that team. There are going to be people who pushed you down, who tell you you can`t do it. You`re not old enough. You`re not good enough. You`re never going to be on this team. But to keep doing what you love, do it because you love to do it. And if you have passion for what you want to do, you always find yourself successful.", "When it comes to snorkeling, you probably envision clear, warm, tropical waters, the brilliant pastels of a coral reef and the shimmering ocean life beneath. This next snorkeling event has none of that. The water is cold. It`s not near an ocean. It has all the charm of your average peat bog. But since 1986, it`s been bringing together people with unique taste in recreation.", "Bog snorkeling takes place in two trenches, which had been dug about three feet deep and are filled with murky water. The surprising thing is that you really can`t see a thing, nothing. The taste of the bog water is when you watch potatoes in some water and then you try and drink that. It`s not pleasant.", "One hundred fifty people competed at 2016`s World Bog Snorkeling Championship in Wales. Competitors must swim 120 yards. The world record is 1 minute 22.56 seconds. Swimmers traveled from Australia, South Africa, Sweden, and Germany to compete.", "Definitely do it again, but we`ll have to be fitter, because I had to go halfway.", "The next in to the bog is Pete Rockwall (ph) and he is the over 50s champion from 2015.", "Three, two, one, go!", "Maybe bog snorkeling is just a boginning of bog sports. Who wouldn`t want a peaticipate in bogminton, bogsketball or bogxing. Footbog, volleybog, hot air boglooning, bog air bogs, ball tee bog (ph), wiffle bog, skate bogging, snow bogging, sandbogging, weightbogging and, of course, the winner time favorite, tobogganing. I`m Carl Azuz getting bogged down in puns for CNN STUDENT NEWS. 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{"id": "CNN-263562", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-09-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/02/cnr.20.html", "summary": "U.S. Frackers Trying To Survive Oil Market Volatility; Iran To Ramp Up Oil Production If Deal Signed.", "utt": ["Crude oil hasn't been immune to the recent market volatility. Prices plunged more than 7 percent at one point on Tuesday.", "As oil prices fall so do the profits of U.S. frackers, but as Richard Quest reports some are managing to prosper.", "They knew it was just a matter of time.", "The thing goes to the well head and down the casings.", "Two years ago the oil men of West Texas were riding high. Oil was over $100 a barrel.", "It's gold. It's liquid gold.", "They didn't gloat. They knew very well the history of oil. (on camera): You don't believe it's here to last?", "No, sir. It's not here to last. I've been through two of the busts. Comes and goes. It's part of it.", "That was the boom then came the bust. On the floor of the NYMEX where they place bets on the future price of crude, traders have been rocked by huge price swings.", "It's been tough. The market is unforgiving here.", "The problem is there's oil everywhere. The frackers keep pumping. Production's only fallen slightly from near record levels and Saudi Arabia is priming the pumps. The story of the past few weeks, volatility, oil bounced back in the last days of August and the Frackers are still in a tough spot.", "The firming up that we've seen in the prices doesn't change the fundamental fact that you are still in an oversupplied situation. We've got far too much supply for too little demand.", "The frackers who resisted pressure to cut may be forced to do so soon. The bankers are running out of patience.", "October is a point where the banks will relook at how much they want to be giving out in loans. The amount of capital that these companies can get ahold of may start to be pinched off.", "Investors are already running scared. Energy stocks have been volatile. Bonds issued by energy producers are losing billions of value. Oil and gas firms Quicksilver Sources and Endeavor International have filed for bankruptcy and more may fail.", "At some point, you see more merger or bankruptcy and then acquisition.", "From West Texas to the badlands of North Dakota, the new age of oil barons relished the battles with OPEC and insists they will survive.", "The Saudis and OPEC haven't killed American oil or shale. They have made it faster, stronger, better and more ready to compete with them going forward.", "Oil enjoyed its biggest rally in decades over the past week. Still the U.S. energy landscape could look very difficult very soon. Richard Quest, CNN, New York.", "And despite a price-killing surplus in the world oil market, Iran is planning a comeback in petroleum. CNN's John Defterios spoke exclusively to Iran's oil minister who says Tehran wants to start exporting oil as soon as sanctions allow it.", "After one year the reaction of the market on shale oil producers means and shows us that it has no important effect. And I think we are going to the point, as I said, to decide how to manage the market.", "Some are suggesting that Iran is planning to come by the end of March with 1 million barrels a day. That takes the oversupply to a 17-year high and pointing the finger at Iran as spoiling the market even worse than we've seen over the last 12 months.", "Can we wait and not produce after lifting the sanction? Who can accept it in Iran? Do you believe that the nation of our country will accept it? Not to produce for secure the market for others? The first oil producer in the Middle East, can we lose our share in the market? It's not fair?", "By 2020, the combined production of Iran and Iraq will be about level with Saudi Arabia. This will change the dynamics within OPEC and the OPEC leadership. How will it change do you think?", "We, with all difficulty that we had, it's the history of OPEC that we should cooperate with each other and to go ahead with each other. It's very, very important. We should cooperate with each other. It's the organization. It's the signal to the market that we want to be with each other.", "You are producing 2.8 million barrels a day right now. Your pre-sanctions peak was 2.4 million barrels a day. How will it take to get up to 4.3, 4.2 million barrels?", "We are trying around the end of the next year we will be close to these figures.", "By the end of 2016?", "Yes.", "Most people don't think you can add more than 600,000 barrels a day. Six sources said you will be lucky to add 600,000 barrels.", "They should wait.", "You can get to 4.2 by the end of 2016?", "I wish.", "German, French, Italian, British delegation is there space for the Americans to come in? It seems like the Europeans are rushing to get to Iran to get a head start on the Americans.", "I hope U.S. administration not to put sanction against them to come to Iraq and from the Iranian side we have no objection or difficulty. We are open for receipt and they will come if they want to come. And only U.S. companies lose in that market. Now I hope they don't lose in this new stage of development of Iranian oil projects.", "You share the largest gas field in the world with Qatar. Most of the territory is Qatari. Will it create a problem because Qatar doesn't want to increase production? It wants to last 100 years. Is it a political problem?", "No. We have no political -- no dispute with Qatar. And Qatar has reached to the highest level of production that they can for -- from many years ago. And we should accelerate our activities to reach to the level that Qatar has produced before.", "That was John Defterios with the Iranian oil minister there. Now after a brief taste of autumn last week parts of the U.S. are dealing with the hottest start to September in decades. Our meteorologist, Pedram Javaheri, join us with more. Explain these crazy swings and fluctuations.", "This is something last week we were touching on nice conditions and everyone wants to tie everything to climate change. If this happens consistently as it has been when you look back in ten years you can say between 2010, 2020 you saw it happening more than the previous decade before that. But we want to show you what is happening, the warmest September since 1985 for Chicago so pretty impressive set up. We have the autumn like temps and the summer like temps returning for some places. It's incredible to think about what it is like right now. Chicago, Illinois, 3:45 in the morning Eastern Time. Chicago is it 76 degrees Fahrenheit. That is equivalent to the beaches of the panhandle of Florida, a muggy and warm air mass in place. But a week ago, the temperatures were far cooler. In fact, the high temperature was 67 degrees on Wednesday and warming to the 80s. And Chicago has hit 92 three times this summer. And they could support another one, but Atlanta was the coolest since May. And I want to show you Atlanta and Sydney. They are at similar latitudes one in the north and one in the south. September is the initiation the meteorological autumn or fall. In Atlanta you see a dramatic cooling trend from the mid-80s to the upper 70s you expect. While in Australia is the spring beginning. So the temperatures go from the 60s Fahrenheit up to 70s as the days become longer, a changing pattern of the seasons. But for parts of the U.S., the change is not here to stay as the heat continues for the next couple weeks.", "Next couple of weeks -- OK, don't know what to expect these days.", "I don't mind.", "See how long it keeps going.", "I'm happy to have the heat. And straight ahead, a fish tale you will have to see to believe. One man is changing the sport by catching fish from the air. We'll explain when we come back."], "speaker": ["BARNETT", "CHURCH", "RICHARD QUEST, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "QUEST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "QUEST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "QUEST (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "QUEST", "JAMIE WEBSTER, IHS ENERGY ANALYST", "QUEST", "WEBSTER", "QUEST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "QUEST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "QUEST", "CHURCH", "BIJAN NAMDAR ZANGENEH, IRANIAN PETROLEUM MINISTER", "JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ZANGENEH", "DEFTERIOS", "ZANGENEH", "DEFTERIOS", "ZANGENEH", "DEFTERIOS", "ZANGENEH", "DEFTERIOS", "ZANGENEH", "DEFTERIOS", "ZANGENEH", "DEFTERIOS", "ZANGENEH", "DEFTERIOS", "ZANGENEH", "BARNETT", "PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "BARNETT", "CHURCH", "JAVAHERI", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-70278", "program": "CNN CAPITAL GANG", "date": "2003-5-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/03/cg.00.html", "summary": "Bush Addresses Nation From Aircraft Carrier Deck", "utt": ["Live from Washington,", "Welcome to CAPITAL GANG. I'm Mark Shields, with Al Hunt, Robert Novak, and Margaret Carlson. Our guest is Republican Senator John Sununu of New Hampshire. It's good to have you back, John.", "Great to be here.", "Thank you. President Bush addressed the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln from the deck of the aircraft carrier.", "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.", "Meanwhile, the president unveiled the road map to Israeli-Palestinian peace.", "For ending the disorder and chaos of arms with the threats that are imposed on the country will be one of our main tasks, and we will not be lenient at all.", "But after a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv left three dead, the Israeli military forces then killed 14 Palestinians.", "I am not willing to talk about anything which has to do with the political situation before there is a stop and a cessation of terror and violence against the people of Israel.", "Margaret Carlson, is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, crisis, raining on George W. Bush's victory parade?", "A hurricane couldn't have interfered with that particular parade. It was so well done, and even though we knew that everything was choreographed down to, you know, catching that fourth hook on the ship, it was still a pretty stirring tableau. Cecil B. DeMille couldn't have been done better. And even though you know there's no Santa Claus, Christmas is still great, and that was with that particular moment. As for the Middle East, Bush has kept his distance from it up to this point, and he's not associated so much with the violence, but it is off to an awfully bad start. And Colin Powell being sent there is going to get the administration involved. And only administration involvement is going to move it along.", "John Sununu, I'm going to give you a chance to agree with Margaret Carlson.", "Well, if you recall, I believe Margaret and I agreed on the last show I did, and she makes a good point. The administration does have to be involved. They've got to be involved aggressively. That's what putting out the road map is all about. There are going to be highs and lows in this process. What is important is that there's a true commitment to end the violence, to end the terrorism, and that there's confidence building in the near term, an ability to -- for Palestinians to move back and forth to their jobs, to help support economic growth, and in addition to that, commitment on the other side, to stop the growth of settlements. Those are critical steps, but this is going to be a very long process. And I don't think the administration is going into this with rose-colored glasses.", "Bob Novak, the political reality of it, though, if you look at it, the religious right, much of it, is a -- is opposed to this. Large sections of the American Jewish community, both Republicans and Democrats, members of Congress, 297 of them signed, you know, basically a letter endorsing the Sharon position. I mean, is the president willing to spend this kind of political capital?", "I don't know. And this is the biggest test of his presidency, in my opinion, because you will not have a good situation in not just Israel and the Palestinian area, but the entire region, unless this problem is addressed. You know, the -- it -- the scenario was so bad after he put out the road map, was that the terrorist group who doesn't want any peace killed -- did a suicide bombing, and immediately the Israeli Defense Force went on a rampage, and we had an announcement by this official spokesman that we can't have peace while this is going on. They don't -- Sharon doesn't want a Palestinian state. We all know that. But I just have to say one other thing, that that was a great photo-op on the aircraft carrier, and the Democrats I've talked to tried to think of Joe Lieberman in an Air Force jumpsuit, and they can't quite make it.", "Well, it was just as unlikely for some of us to see George W. Bush in that position after...", "He grew into that.", "It was fantastic political theater. I mean, it was as good a photo-op as I have ever seen. Democrats not only say what, say what Bob just cited, but they're a little upset about this. They say they're using it for political purposes. Well, guess what, get used to it, because the second-most powerful man in America, Karl Rove, is going to use this war and any success in the war on terrorism any way he can. If things are going well in Iraq a year from now, if the war on terrorism's going well, that will make a powerful television commercial. If things aren't going well, they'll have to drop it. I think the Middle East -- there are two key questions. There are two -- there's two, still two troubling thorns, if you will. One is Arafat. I think we have to be encouraged by what's happening with the Palestinians, but I -- let's be careful about Arafat trying to muck up this new constitution, giving himself too much power. And if Sharon overreacts, because there's going to be acts of terrorism. And if he uses it as an excuse to sandbag this thing, then it's going to put tremendously...", "What, what, what do you think of killing 14 Israelis, including a 2-year-old baby...", "Fifteen Palestinians.", "Fourteen Palestinians, including a 2-year-old baby, just in, just immediately? And, I, you know, to me, this is all -- this is all orchestrated,", "He is up to it. He has to be up to it. You know, you pointed out that this will affect -- his commitment to this process will affect the way we're perceived throughout the entire Middle East, Israelis, Palestinians, throughout the Arab world. And if he wants to solidify and build upon the success that we've had in Iraq, and hopefully progress in working with the -- a lot of the Iraqi people to establish representational government, he also has to show commitment to this process. Otherwise, those gains...", "I...", "... might go by the wayside.", "I don't argue with that, John. But, boy, certainly the early returns from Iraq are anything but encouraging. When you read that General Jay Garner, who has been in charge up until now, doesn't have phones himself, doesn't have e-mail, doesn't even have security, and doesn't have any way of communicating with what's going on. One of his top aides was unaware of the fact that American troops had fired on and killed 14 Iraqi civilians.", "And he may be trumped by Paul Bremer being appointed, and the lines of command there getting muddied just at a time when things aren't up and running.", "Mark, just for the sake of correction, in Iraq, you say is -- fired on 14 Iraqi civilians. The -- our troops, which I believe, said they were fired on, they told them not to fire, and then they -- and they only shot them, I believe our troops, not the Iraqi civilians.", "I'm not talking about, Bob, if you listen to what I said, I said the -- one of his top aides was unaware of the fact that", "I'm just", "Correcting a mistake you didn't make.", "Look I...", "Yes, that's right.", "... I think we still have, we still have, have this tremendous conundrum over there that we, A, want to get out quickly, and B, we want to build a model, a model democracy. Well, they're, they're, they're contradictory. You can't do both. I think John Sununu, Sununu is absolutely right that over the long term, if you don't have progress in the Middle East, if he's right and George Bush is really committed to it, that's an incredibly important, Mark.", "As political theater, the only thing that could top the \"Abraham Lincoln\" on Thursday night would be George W. Bush giving his renomination acceptance speech at Ground Zero in New York. That would be, that would be the only thing, I think, that would be...", "He -- and he's going to get, he's going to get as close as possible.", "One step beyond -- That's right. And have the courts shredded the McCain-Feingold finance reform? John Sununu and THE GANG will be right back with an answer."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "THE CAPITAL GANG. MARK SHIELDS, HOST", "SEN. JOHN SUNUNU (R), NEW HAMPSHIRE", "SHIELDS", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-80230", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2003-12-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/15/lol.08.html", "summary": "Interviews With Soldiers Involved in Saddam's Capture", "utt": ["Well, for all of Saddam's bluster and for all the speculation that he'd never be taken alive, he did surrender without a struggle. The colonel who led the raid says that his team was ready to fight but never had to.", "We were prepared for any type of enemy response. We had overwhelming combat power. We actually expected to have a bit of a fight here. And we were prepared to win that fight rapidly and decisively and use absolute overwhelming combat power to do it. However, the most important part of the plan was based around stealth and speed. And that's why we chose to come in rapidly with assault troops, with zero illumination, as fast as we possibly could, to try to overwhelm the enemy through speed and shock and thereby avoid direct fire combat situation.", "I think everybody expected a lot more resistance, especially how his two sons went out. But everything went well. Everything went according to plan. And we came out victorious. Everybody was surprised how he was living. You know, nobody expected him to be living like that. It was pretty incredible.", "I mean, it's -- we acted like it was no other different raid. We came in here, acted like it was a normal raid. So we just got lucky, I guess. It's really exciting. I'm glad we made history.", "Brigade Commander Hickey says that Saddam's final hiding place surprised him. He says he envisioned something more than a pit barely big enough for a human. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "COL. JAMES HICKEY, CMDR., \"RAIDER\" BRIGADE", "SGT. DARYLL SAFFEELS, U.S. ARMY", "MAJ. BRYAN REED, U.S. ARMY", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-120111", "program": "LOU DOBBS THIS WEEK", "date": "2007-9-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0709/23/ldtw.01.html", "summary": "Iraq Burns as Bush & GOP Complain about NYT Ad", "utt": ["We are back with Errol Louis, Miguel Perez and Diana West. And I would like to bring in the General Petraeus Iraq situation this week. The Senate voted 75-25 to condemn an anti-war ad that really took on the reputation of the U.S. commander in Iraq, General Petraeus. President Bush actually criticized Democrats for not being stronger in condemning that. Let's listen to what the president had to say first.", "Most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left wing group like moveon.org, are more afraid of irritating them than they are of irritating the United States military.", "So he's accusing Democrats of playing politics with the war. What do you believe?", "Yes. It's not the Democrats. The Democrats should be condemning MoveOn. I think the best friend Bush has right now is MoveOn. Sometimes I wonder whether republicans in disguise, because these ultraliberals are what supposedly have given ammunition to Bush and the Republicans to continue the war.", "It's classic Bush politics. Split the country down the middle and try to come up with slightly more than half and just kind of inch along. That's how he's won his elections. That's how he's tried to govern. It hasn't worked particularly well. In this case, with the moveon.org ad, there was no particular reason Democrats had to denounce it. I think a fair number of Democrats felt the same way as the president, it was a disgusting ad, a distraction at best, an unwarranted attack on someone who has more important things on his mind than some ad in the \"New York Times.\" So I think it was a distraction that the president tried to use for political reasons and it's about as unfortunate as the ad itself.", "Diana, Senate Democrats this week failed to pass any measure to change the course of the war. What's your view on how Democrats are proceeding through their own policy agenda?", "Well, I'd like to address Errol's last comment because I don't think this is a matter of Bush playing politics. You had this really disgraceful attack on General Petraeus' honor and conduct as a commander and you had all of the Democrats to a man and woman not moving away from it, not denouncing it, indeed, finding nothing objectionable about it. And I think it put our whole debate last week onto the worst kind of footing and it distracted from the important questions. President Bush, in this case, I've been critical of him in terms of the war but in this case he said the only thing that could be said to defend the general and to really wonder where the Democrats are also joining him in doing so.", "Yeah. It was not a good episode. We have to end it there. Errol Louis, Miguel Perez and Diana West, thank you very much. And thank you for joining us. Please join us tomorrow. For all of us here, thanks for watching. Enjoy your weekend. Good night from New York. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.voxant.com"], "speaker": ["PILGRIM", "GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. PRESIDENT", "PILGRIM", "PEREZ", "LOUIS", "PILGRIM", "WEST", "PILGRIM"]}
{"id": "CNN-270956", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-12-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/10/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Plot in Switzerland; Trump Dominates Rivals", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "Hi there, I'm Brooke Baldwin and you're watching CNN. I want to begin with the breaking news involving this frantic manhunt for terror suspects on the loose and they are linked to the attacks in Paris. We're talking specifically today about Geneva, Switzerland. You can see the map, Geneva, not too far at all from Paris. And right now the city in Switzerland is on high alert as security officials there say they have gotten, quote, \"a vague threat.\" They've gone from a vague threat to a precise threat. Police are searching for five suspects possibly connected to the attacks last month that killed 130 people in France. So let's get right to Paul Cruickshank, our CNN terrorism analyst. And, Paul, first, let me just ask you about, when we hear specific or precise threat, what does that mean?", "Well, in this case, the specific part of it, Brooke, is that there are five individuals that they're looking for in Geneva and the surrounding area around Geneva, that they're very worried about. Their worried that they could be a threat within Geneva itself, could be a threat potentially to international organizations, the U.N. They're ramping up security there. Also at the airports. There seems to be some concern, according to local media, that a U.N. meeting tomorrow between the Americans and the Brits and others related to Syria could be some kind of target. A lot of this is not clear yet at this point. But we're learning at CNN that this group of five individuals believed to be linked to a recruiter for the Syrian jihad who is the guy who recruited one of the attackers at the Bataclan in Paris. So that's the connection to Paris, the recruiter being somebody called Murad Farez (ph), who is in jail in France right now but recruited a lot of people from France and Switzerland to go off and fight in Syria. What we're also finding out now, what we're being told by sources is that these individuals, that they're trying to find in Switzerland, could also be some kind of threat to cities in the United States. The Swiss have been told this. In fact, they - we're being told they were alerted about these individuals from the American intelligence services. And the American intelligence services seem to have some kind of information suggesting there is some kind of threat nexus back to the United States as well. What does that all mean? It's not completely clear right now.", "Right. Some kind of threat. My goodness.", "Maybe they have some kind of aspirational plans. Maybe they were overheard talking about American cities. Not clear at all at this point. We're trying to sort that out. We're trying to talk to our sources on this, Brooke. But the epicenter of this threat right now in Geneva, a group of extremists, five individuals they are looking for. Four of those individuals we understand were identified by U.S. intelligence services, it appears by the", "As soon as you get more, obviously, Paul, people's ears perking here in the U.S. when we hear some kind of threat to cities in the United States as the hunt is on for these individuals in the Geneva, Switzerland, area. Paul Cruickshank, thank you so much. I'm sure we'll talk again. Meantime to politics we go here. Check the calendar. It seems as the primary contest get closer and closer, Donald Trump's lead is getting stronger and stronger. Check the polls. Less than two weeks to - months to go until the Iowa caucus, remember that's February 1, a new poll finds Donald Trump has a whopping 35 percent of the Republican vote. More than double that of his closest competitor, Senator Ted Cruz. We should note that most of this poll was taken before Donald Trump pushed his plan to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, a plan he further clarified last night with my colleague, Don Lemon. Here you go.", "As you know, I have many friends who are Muslim that are phenomenal people. They are so happy at what I'm doing.", "This doesn't apply to U.S. citizens?", "It never did. From day one it never did. I don't know why people thought it did. This applies to people coming into the country and all it is, is a break until our politicians, who are grossly incompetent by the way, can get their act together.", "What exactly does that mean? Figure out what? What is there to figure out?", "Why is there such hatred and such viciousness? Why is somebody willing to fly airplanes into the World Trade Center and go after even prior to that?", "With me now, CNN political director David Chalian and CNN political commentator and veteran investigative journalist Carl Bernstein, who's also the author of \"A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton.\" Gentlemen, great to have you. Let's get to you, Carl Bernstein, with you up first. I mean when you look at the calendar, listen, we're six weeks away from Iowa. Holiday hibernation is about to, if not already, you know, a little bit, setting in. And with the look of that poll, Trump is undeniably the favorite right now.", "Well, something dangerous is happening in America and the agenda of one of the two political parties and the arguments have been driven by a celebrity crypto fascist and the media has gone along with this debate. Finally there's some real pushback by the media and by people within the Republican Party in the last couple days, but it's very late in the game in terms of the cultural impact, though it's a very long time till the election.", "Will there be more pushback? I mean you call - you call him a celebrity crypto fascist. Do you think there will be additional pushback the further along this goes?", "It's starting now, but it doesn't mean that the damage to our culture hasn't been done. That we now have 35 percent of the voters in one party, plus another 15 percent who embrace Carson's ideas, who go along with an agenda that really is about exclusion, bigotry, fascism. We haven't had this in our country really going back for several generations, and it's terribly - it's serious and it's terribly dangerous.", "David, so with everything Carl just said, I mean with you - with the Republicans here, excluding Trump, what are they - what's brewing? Would you have like a soft political coup here, a take down? I mean what do they do?", "I have not seen any evidence over the course of the last six months or so that Trump has been leading here that any attempt sort of from the establishment side or from the other candidates to try to take him down has any kind of effect. Now, granted we haven't seen sort of a full onslaught of hundreds of millions of dollars of television ads, but everything Donald Trump has showed us so far, Brooke, indicates to me that he's not susceptible, he's not vulnerable to that kind of traditional political attack. In fact, I think it only emboldens his supporters when he does come under that kind of attack.", "To me it's like when you read all about this, and I've been on vacation in like a dark hole for the last couple of days and I've been catching up on all of this and it's like, I don't know if this is more about Trump or about our country and about how people feel, not just the Washington inside the beltway, but elsewhere, Carl Bernstein.", "Yes. This is about the people of the country and their grievances. There's an awful lot of no nothingness involved in this. It's about people who want something outside the established order and they're moving increasingly towards authoritarian ideas and solutions that are proposed by a celebrity who we in the media are enabling. We're not giving anything like equal time to the other candidates. We have promoted the circus. We provided three rings. And it is a very self-destructive circus and it's time we started talking about ideas.", "I'm listening to you very closely, Carl. David -", "I don't - I'm not sure that it's just the media here, Carl.", "Yes, respond to that.", "I don't think it is. I think that - that misses like the voters we saw this morning on \"New Day\" with Alisyn Camerota who were supporting Donald Trump that there is a - he is tapping into something -", "He is.", "Inside the Republican Party mostly right now that is real. That is -", "It's not just inside the Republican Party.", "And it's galvanizing support.", "It's not just inside the Republican Party. There is a deep vein of legitimate frustration in this country today, economically, about stasis in the political system -", "Yes.", "About our national security, about the failure actually of the left and the center left and parts of the Democratic establishment to start calling Islamic terrorism by name and what it represents. And at the same time, this has been amplified by a demagogic and fascist, I keep using that word, a word that's been thrown around much too much in our culture until now because now it's applicable to what we're seeing, about a desire for a kind of nationalistic authoritarianism that is antithetical to everything both political parties have stood for in the past but now is being embraced, not just by Donald Trump, but by several of the other candidates in many of their pronouncements who haven't distanced themselves from Trump and have been driven by his ideas.", "David, let me - let me jump in. Let me just ask you this, because a lot of people are talking about, OK, well, maybe Trump could run as an independent. But if you flip the script, let's say he wins the Republican nomination, could there, would there be a push that a Republican candidate could then make a third-party run?", "I don't think there would be an effective push for that. And no - none of the Republican candidates that have been on stage have indicated that they would try to do that. But I also don't think that - if you have not been able to galvanize support in one of the great, major political parties in our country to take down Donald Trump, I don't know that your - that with all of the challenges there are in running as an independent or a third-party to begin with in our system, Brooke, if one of these failed candidates would then be able to actually take him down from outside that system. That - that doesn't seem to be a plausible outcome to me.", "David, we're days away, all of us, from jumping on a plane and heading to Las Vegas for what will be a massive, massive Republican debate. I'm curious, of everyone who will be on the stage, who do you think has the most to lose?", "Oh, man, that is a good question. I mean, obviously, if you're the dominant front-runner like Donald Trump, you always have the most to lose because he's - he's holding the most shares right now. But I think that the stakes are high for many of them because, remember, this is now so close to the voting, the debate will be six weeks away from the voting, Brooke, and in entirely new, shifted landscape of a news environment, post-Paris, post-San Bernardino. This is a commander-in-chief test and I think the stakes are going to be incredibly high for everyone on that stage.", "Agree. Agree. David Chalian and Carl Bernstein, thank you so, so much.", "Good to be here.", "Again, a reminder, we are days away, we're five days away from that next Republican debate. The stakes are huge. The final Republican debate of the year. Tuesday, December 15th, 9:00 Eastern, right here on CNN. Also today we have some breaking news as we are learning the national office for the Muslim group CAIR has been evacuated here in Washington. A foreign substance was apparently received in the mail. More on that in a moment. But first, also more breaking news involving the San Bernardino killers. One of the shooters linked to a convicted terrorist. Plus, new questions about whether a terror group arranged their marriage. Also today, Bowe Bergdahl in his own words. For the very first time, we are hearing his reasons for leaving his Army outpost, eventually becoming a Taliban hostage. Why he brings up the movie character Jason Bourne. And outrage erupts over this picture. Have you seen this? These are citadel cadets with white pillow cases over their heads. We've got the back story for you and the response. I'm Brooke Baldwin. This is CNN."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL CRUICKSHANK, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST", "KEILAR", "CRUICKSHANK", "CIA. 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{"id": "CNN-127019", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-5-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/28/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Harsh Criticism of President Bush From Former White House Insider", "utt": ["And good morning, everyone. You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Tony Harris.", "Hi there, everybody. I'm Heidi Collins. You'll see events come into the NEWSROOM live on Wednesday, May 28th. Here's what on the rundown. Iraq by the book. A former White House press secretary slamming President Bush over the Iraq war.", "Florida -- critical to Hillary Clinton's long-shot chances. Political activists in court today forcing to get Florida's delegates seated.", "Killed during war by an unseen enemy. Improperly grounded electrical equipment. A CNN investigation in the", "He served as the public voice of the Bush White House. Today Scott McClellan is speaking out and some say selling out the Bush White House. A bombshell memoir and allegations of deception and propaganda. The response -- swift and angry. CNN's Elaine Quijano is at the White House. And Elaine, from the excerpts of the book out so far, most of the criticism seems to be leveled at some of the people serving the president.", "That's exactly right. He does -- in fact, Scott McClellan, former White House press secretary, in this book lashes out. Here it is. It is called \"What Happened.\" The full title, \"Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception.\" The book, 341 pages long, sending shock waves throughout Washington. In it, McClellan blasts the Bush administration for, among other things, Iraq. And on that topic, McClellan writes that the president, quote, \"He and his advisers confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and sustain public support during a time of war. In this regard he was terribly ill-served by his top advisers, especially those involved directly in national security.\" Now, no official comment yet from the White House, but last night former Homeland Security adviser Fran Townsend fired back on \"AC360.\"", "I think people need to understand that as an adviser to the president, I or Scott have an obligation, a responsibility to voice concerns on policy issues. Scott never did that on any of these issues as best I can remember and as best I know from my White House colleagues. So it's...", "Never spoke out?", "No. And so for him to do this now, frankly, strikes me as self-serving, disingenuous, and unprofessional.", "Now we should mention that McClellan did speak briefly to my colleague Ed Henry and said that he stands behind the accuracy of this book. Again, Tony, we are still awaiting official White House comment. We're looking for that later today -- Tony?", "Well, Elaine, just a quick follow here. It's clearly not the book the administration expected as someone who traveled from Texas to Washington with the president, a Bush loyalist, we must say. The administration could not have seen this kind of criticism coming.", "Yes. You know, and that's absolutely right. You know, there were no indications of any kind of bad blood between Scott McClellan and the Bush administration when McClellan announced his resignation back in April of 2006, almost two years ago. In fact, I can recall at that time there were really some warm words exchanged between McClellan...", "Yes.", "... and President Bush. Let's take a listen to what the president had to say.", "One of these days he and I are going to be rocking in chairs in Texas talking about the good old days of his time as the press secretary. And I can assure you, I will feel the same way then that I feel now, that I can say to Scott, job well done.", "So, the bottom line here, Tony, is what makes this memoir so particularly stunning is not necessarily just what is being written, what has been written here, but who has written it. As you point out, Scott McClellan is a formerly staunch Bush loyalist who dates back to 1999 when President Bush was then governor of Texas. They go back a long way. Certainly, a lot of people here in Washington saying they simply did not see this coming -- Tony?", "It is the talker of the morning. Elaine Quijano at the White House for us. Elaine, thank you.", "So who is Scott McClellan? Here's a look at his career highlights. McClellan served as spokesman for George W. Bush when he was governor of Texas. Then in 2003, McClellan replaced Ari Fleisher as White House press secretary. In April of 2006, as you just heard, McClellan announced he was resigning. At that time, President Bush praised him for, quote, \"a job well done.\"", "How the west is won. Three presidential candidates campaigning in western states today. Presumptive GOP nominee John McCain is holding a town hall meeting in Reno, Nevada. He met up with President Bush for a private fundraiser in Arizona yesterday. The closed-door event raising an estimated $3 million. On the Democratic side, Barack Obama rallied supporters this afternoon at a town hall meeting in Thornton, Colorado. Hillary Clinton shifts from Montana to South Dakota, holding rallies there this afternoon and evening.", "A court hearing next hour in Tampa, Florida, is part of one voter's battle to seat Florida's Democratic delegates. CNN national correspondent Susan Candiotti is in Tampa now with the very latest. This is very interesting, Susan.", "It sure is. Good morning, Heidi. This Democratic Party activist, Victor Dimaio, is back in federal court again over a lawsuit that he filed against the Democratic National Committee last August. He's taking the party to task for punishing Florida over staging its primary early. But he also claims that the party used ethnic origin and race for allowing Nevada and South Carolina to hold its primary and caucuses early because of the state's large Hispanic and black populations.", "We decided this is not right, this is wrong.", "Political consultant Victor Dimaio and his lawyer, Michael Steinberg, the two-man team taking on the Democratic National Committee, suing to make Florida's January primary vote count.", "This is nuts. I mean this is not right. I mean how can they ignore Florida? I mean of all the things we Floridians have suffered through, through hanging chads, through Bush versus Gore, and you know, they're sticking it to us again.", "Their lawsuit was filed last August. Senator Bill Nelson and Congressman L.C. Hastings also sued, but their case was thrown out of court by a different judge. DNC chair Howard Dean won't budge.", "You cannot violate the rules of the process and then expect to get -- be forgiven for it.", "Why shouldn't the DNC be able to make its own rules?", "But the rules have to comply with the United States constitution.", "Steinberg dusted off the constitution and based his case mainly on the 14th amendment. \"No state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.\" Steinberg says in 1940 the Texas Democratic Party would not allow blacks to vote in a primary and the U.S. Supreme Court making national headlines ruled in favor of black voters. He compares that case to Florida's battle with the", "Now, the Democratic Party is arguing, oh, you had a right to vote, we just weren't going to count it. But it's like saying, OK, black people can vote in the Democratic primary. We just won't count your vote. If you don't count the vote, then it does -- then it's not the right to vote.", "This is not about Victor Dimaio or even Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. This is about the poor suffering voters of Florida wanting their vote to count.", "So, again, the DNC says it has the constitutional right to make its own rules without interference by the courts. Now, Dimaio says that he hopes for a quick decision because, remember, on Saturday the rules committee of the DNC is meeting in Washington to try to settle Florida and Michigan's primary fiascos. And Dimaio says if he loses, he plans on appealing to the Supreme Court -- Heidi?", "I bet he does. All right, Susan Candiotti, we know you'll be following that one for us as well. Thank you.", "Got some startling new figures this morning on the number of U.S. troops with posttraumatic stress disorder or PTSD. Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr is here with details. And Barbara, good morning.", "Good morning to you, Tony. They call it the wound you cannot see, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, the stress of being in combat, and the number of troops now diagnosed with this very sad problem is reaching record levels. The army published some numbers yesterday indicating that since the war began in Afghanistan in 2003, now with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, nearly 40,000 troops have been diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder. The jump has come really in recent years. Last year, 2007, 14,000 cases, and look at it compared to the year before, in 2006, just over 9,000 cases. And that's for all members of all military services. And what the Pentagon tells us is the real numbers could be significantly higher because these are only the cases that have been diagnosed. It's still a very tragic fact to report that many military members do not report their symptoms because they believe the stigma of seeking mental health treatment will hurt their careers. That's something Secretary Bob Gates is trying to change. He's trying to tell the troops, please, get help when you need it -- Tony?", "Well, Barbara, I apologize in advance for the leading question because I kind of know what's coming here.", "Yes.", "Any more bad numbers expected to come out of the Pentagon", "Yes, you bet, Tony. We are told that sometime this week, in fact, the army is finally going to publish the suicide numbers for its troops in the year 2007. That, too, Tony, is expected very tragically to take a jump. We will get the final numbers later this week, but every expectation is that the army will report that suicide numbers for its active duty troops reached a record level since the war began in 2007, Tony.", "Our Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr for us this morning. Barbara, thank you.", "Jacqui Jeras over at the Severe Weather Center for us today, because we are talking about more tornadoes and damage from them.", "Why? Are we going to the tropics? Is that why it's getting interesting?", "We wish we were all going to the tropics.", "Yes. And this might not be the time. All right.", "Yes, it doesn't sound good.", "OK.", "All right, Jackie. We'll check back later. Thank you. Helping survivors in the quake zone. An iReporter's amazing story from China coming up next in the", "\"Weather Update\" brought to you by..."], "speaker": ["TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "HARRIS", "COLLINS", "NEWSROOM. HARRIS", "ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "FRANCES FRAGOS TOWNSEND, FMR. BUSH HOMELAND SEC. ADVISER", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "TOWNSEND", "QUIJANO", "HARRIS", "QUIJANO", "HARRIS", "QUIJANO", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-76490", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2003-9-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/04/lol.14.html", "summary": "Interview With Gray Davis Campaign Director", "utt": ["We continue our focus on the California recall with a look at how supporters of Governor Gray Davis view the governor's chances. With me now from San Francisco is Steve Smith. He is the governor's campaign director. Steve Smith, first of all, can the governor beat this recall if he's not even going face-to-face with the other candidates in these debate situations like last night?", "Absolutely he can beat the recall. The reason the debate was set up the way it was last night is, in California, there's two questions on the ballot. There's question one, which is yes or no on the recall. And then there's question two, which lists all the alternative candidates. We're obviously focused on question one. And the debate last night was set up to reflect the ballot, where the governor stated his case on the recall that will be question one. And then the rest of the candidates debated on question two, which is the replacement candidate.", "Well, that being the case, however, with all the increased focus on these replacement candidates, doesn't that cut into and undercut the governor's efforts to build up his own case? When you've got more attention on, whether it's Arnold Schwarzenegger or Cruz Bustamante or Arianna Huffington or whoever it is, doesn't that inevitably hurt the governor's efforts to build up his own credibility?", "That's one of the reasons, frankly, why the governor is traveling all over the state and doing these town hall meetings. The Walnut Creek half-hour before the debate was a semi-town hall meeting. He's doing another town hall meeting in San Diego tonight. He was in San Francisco last week, Los Angeles. And we're moving all around the state and letting the governor really make his case directly to the voters, what he's gotten done, the fact that the test scores are up, the fact that more kids have health care. There's a lot of good things that have happened in the last few years.", "We heard last night the lieutenant governor, Democrat Cruz Bustamante, say, if he had been governor during the power crisis, energy crisis last year, that he would have called the power companies' bluff. Now, clearly, he's setting himself apart from Governor Davis. Do you think the governor is going to be prepared to endorse Cruz Bustamante at the right moment?", "Well, actually, going back to the energy situation, the governor, frankly, himself, acknowledged that he moved too slowly in that situation. He kind of smelled a rat, that we were being taken to the cleaners by the out-of-state energy companies. But everyone told him what he should do is just raise rates. He refused to do that. He did call their bluff. But it took him a while to do that, because he was, frankly, afraid of risking the energy grid here in California. When New York went down a couple weeks ago -- in fact, a lot of the East Coast went down two weeks ago -- California stayed up. And that's because of the efforts that happened on energy. But we were too slow to act. Hindsight is always 20/20.", "Right. Right. I was trying to get at the disagreement between him and the lieutenant governor. But let me quickly also ask you about the governor's comment last night that there are times, dealing with the state budget deficit, which is enormous, when there's going to be a need to raise taxes. Does that signal to all the state voters that raising taxes is going to be the primary prescription if this governor is not recalled?", "No. Actually, we've gotten through most of the budget crisis. As you know, last year, it was over $30 billion. And the governor did propose increasing taxes on the wealthy and increasing the cigarette tax. The Republicans rejected that and forced us instead to have to increase the car tax, which is something the governor, frankly, didn't want to do. But we're through most of that now. This year's budget is balanced. We do have a structural deficit that's much smaller than the one we were confronting with last year. And over time, we'll work through that.", "All right, Steve Smith, we're going to have to leave it at that. He is Governor Gray Davis' campaign director. We appreciate your talking with us today.", "Thank you.", "Thank you very much."], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "STEVE SMITH, GRAY DAVIS CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR", "WOODRUFF", "SMITH", "WOODRUFF", "SMITH", "WOODRUFF", "SMITH", "WOODRUFF", "SMITH", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-210557", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-7-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/16/cnr.01.html", "summary": "\"The View\" Hires New Host", "utt": ["We could learn more today about the death of actor Cory Monteith. The coroner in British Columbia has completed an autopsy, but toxicology test results could take longer to come back. \"The Glee\" star was found dead Saturday in a Vancouver hotel room. He was 31. Authorities have ruled out foul play. And a new face will be shaking up things on \"The View\". Actress comedian Jenny McCarthy will be joining the team starting this fall. McCarthy said it's been her lifelong dream to join \"The View.\" She's been a guest host several times, more than several times. But her hiring is stirring up controversy. CNN entertainment correspondent Nischelle Turner joins us from New York. Really?", "Seventeen times she's been a guest on \"The View,\" Carol, as a matter of fact. You know, I think she is going to stir a little something up on the show. Jenny McCarthy has a lot of activities on her resume. Let me run a few down for her. She's a Catholic schoolgirl turned \"Playboy\" centerfold. She's an actor, author, and activist. She broke out in the '90s on MTV. Remember that show? Since then, she's had an up and down career. She's had some talk shows. She's had a sitcom. She's wrote some bestselling books. And now she's 40 years old and still looks like she could pose for \"Playboy,\" by the way. So, \"The View\" is obviously hoping she will add some life to this franchise. In her advice column in \"The Chicago Sun Times,\" Jenny says she's going to do anything she can to provoke conversation on the show. She also says, pretty funny, I might add, Bradley Cooper better watch out next time he does the show because she might go into his dressing room only in a towel. It's that edge -- it's that funny edge that they hope that she brings to the show. That's what producers are looking for. But she does have a serious side and that's what brings the controversy in this situation, Carol.", "She's been anti-vaccine, that's the controversy surrounding her.", "Yes.", "And some people don't think that message should be sent out on national television.", "Yes, there's a lot of doctors who feel that way. There's a lot of them out there that believe her views could cost lives. She's been a very public advocate for children with autism ever since her son was diagnosed with the condition several years ago. She's become kind of this hero to some parents who also have kids with autism. That's the good side. But she's also been very public about her relief that vaccines can cause the disease, and that's when she comes under fire, because medical research says there's no link between vaccinations and autism, but there are parents out there who believe they shouldn't give their kids these vaccinations because they are worried about that. So, it's a balance. She had a bit of an issue with Barbara on \"The View\" one day when they were discussing this, so I think there could be very interesting conversation coming up this fall.", "That's absolutely true. Nischelle Turner, thank you.", "We always have interesting conversation, Carol.", "We do. We should be on there. Good morning. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Carol Costello. Just about 30 minutes past the hour. Time to check the top stories. Speaking under the cover of darkness, a juror in the George Zimmerman case shared her thoughts on the verdict exclusively with CNN.", "I want people to know that we put everything into everything to get this verdict. We didn't just go in there and say we're going to come in here and just do guilty/not guilty. We thought about it for hours and cried over it afterwards. I don't think any of us could ever do anything like that ever again.", "In the next hour we'll have more of the juror's comments, including what she thinks happened that night. Also, just minutes from now, the Reverend Al Sharpton will step in front of the U.S. Justice Department building and call for action in support of Trayvon Martin."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "TURNER", "COSTELLO", "TURNER", "COSTELLO", "TURNER", "COSTELLO", "JUROR B37", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "NPR-33896", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2008-12-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97843620", "title": "Looking Ahead To College Bowl Games", "summary": "This is the final weekend of college football's regular season. Big games will be decided on the field and then computers will decide which tams play for the National Championship.", "utt": ["This will be the final weekend of college football's regular season. Big games will be decided on the field, and then computers will decide who plays for the national championship. We've brought in commentator John Feinstein to try to make sense of this annual ritual. Good morning, John.", "Good morning, Renee.", "Is there any way that tomorrow's games will produce a match-up between the number one team in the country and the number two team in the country?", "Absolutely not.", "It can't possibly happen because in the Big Twelve, which along with the Southeastern Conference are the two conferences that will decide the national championship, Oklahoma got into tomorrow's championship game against Missouri as a result of the fifth tie-breaker - which was the BCS poll. A computer, in other words, decided that Oklahoma would get to play in this game over Texas and Texas Tech, even though Texas beat Oklahoma during the regular season on a neutral field, and had the same record as Oklahoma. So, the answer to that question, in my long-winded way, is no.", "OK. But if Oklahoma loses tomorrow, would that mean that Texas gets to play for the national title?", "Very possibly, it could - although it's not a guarantee. Again, USC plays a game tomorrow; Texas does not play a game tomorrow. It's possible the computer might move USC past Texas, and then USC would get to play the winner of Florida-Alabama in the national championship game as opposed to Texas. So, we just don't know and again, the sad thing is much of this will not be decided on the football field.", "OK. What about the other BCS bowl games? Is it confusion there, too?", "Total confusion, as usual. One team from a non-BCS conference - there are six BCS conferences - will be in one the BCS bowls. That's Utah, they're guaranteed a spot; they're 12 and 0. But Boise State is also undefeated from a non-BCS conference, and I'm willing to bet you a lot of money that on Sunday, they're going to say Ohio State, with a 10 and 2 record out of a BCS conference, gets to go to one of the big bowls over Boise State, even though Ohio State didn't beat a quality opponent all year. That's not computers, that's politics.", "Now, there are people who would defend BCS, in fact, support it. Is there a quick way for you to explain why the BCS schools refused to adopt a playoff system, why they like this whole system?", "There's a very quick way - money. They don't want to share the money with the rest of Division I - that the non-BCS schools or with the smaller schools in Division II and Division III, and Division 1AA of the NCAA. Ninety-five percent of the BCS money goes to the 66 BCS schools right now. Those presidents don't want to share the wealth, even though they're remarkably short-sighted because not only would a playoff system be fairer to the players, but it would ultimately make them more money because a playoff, even though they'd have to spread the money out, would probably be worth two or three times what the BCS is currently worth.", "OK. Let's end on a high note, and that's the one game completely unaffected by the Bowl Championship Series. Your favorite game of the year...", "Right.", "Army-Navy, in Philadelphia?", "Yeah. They're playing in Philadelphia tomorrow, as you said. Navy has won this game six straight years - that had never happened in more than a 100 years of this rivalry until now. They've done a remarkable job to be as competitive as they've been in a time of war, because it's hard to recruit to a military academy during a time of war. And now, Army is copying Navy's offense in an attempt to try to be more competitive. I hope we'll see a close game tomorrow because it's been a few years now, Renee.", "John Feinstein is author of \"A Civil War: Army Versus Navy.\" And thanks for joining us again today, being the 20th anniversary of your star appearance on Morning Edition.", "I was 12 when I started, Renee. Thanks a lot.", "Take care, John."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "Mr. JOHN FEINSTEIN (Sportswriter, Commentator)", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "Mr. JOHN FEINSTEIN (Sportswriter, Commentator)", "Mr. JOHN FEINSTEIN (Sportswriter, Commentator)", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "Mr. JOHN FEINSTEIN (Sportswriter, Commentator)", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "Mr. JOHN FEINSTEIN (Sportswriter, Commentator)", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "Mr. JOHN FEINSTEIN (Sportswriter, Commentator)", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "Mr. JOHN FEINSTEIN (Sportswriter, Commentator)", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "Mr. JOHN FEINSTEIN (Sportswriter, Commentator)", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "Mr. JOHN FEINSTEIN (Sportswriter, Commentator)", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-139103", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-6-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0906/06/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Republican Senator Jeff Sessions' Take on Sotomayor's Confirmation Process", "utt": ["We have been looking back this day, 65 years, this anniversary of the D-Day in Normandy. We've been watching the ceremonies all day. We've been showing you live pictures here on CNN. Our Dan Lothian was at that ceremony. He joins us now on the phone. Dan, things have kind of wrapped up there now, but remind our viewers just kind of, we understand that your idea of the theme. But a lot of these leaders hit on some of the same points today.", "They really did T.J., and when you're watching it on television, you hear it on television, you get one sense of what this ceremony was all about, but when you're there in person, it really was a powerful and emotional commemoration remembering the soldiers who died, more than 9,000 buried here, Americans buried here at the American Cemetery. And then the veterans who landed on Omaha Beach and other beaches here in Normandy and are now still alive, up in age, but still alive. We heard from those speakers as you mentioned, from Gordon Brown of Britain, from Prime Minister Harper of Canada, from Sarkozy of France and then of course Mr. Obama talking about faith, courage and sacrifice.", "I think we just lost our Dan Lothian. We're having some issues with that signal today. Dan, we do appreciate you. But Dan checking in for us there. He was at that ceremony again, American Cemetery there in Normandy. Really overlooks Omaha Beach where so many Americans did land, did come ashore on this day 65 years ago. Here you're seeing a picture of the president during that ceremony. But really, a day to remember, a day to celebrate, a day to commemorate as well. There are the five leaders, you see Prince Charles there as well who was part of the ceremony. But part of our D-Day commemoration and coverage here on", "A little bit closer to home, officials in northwestern Mexico are dealing with a tremendous loss. At least 31 preschool children killed and more than 100 hurt after a massive fire at a daycare facility. It happened in Hermosillo yesterday afternoon. Parents they rushed to the scene trying to find their children. All of the victims are, get this, five years old or younger. Some are being brought to Shriner's hospitals here in the U.S. for treatment. The fire is believed to have started at a warehouse next door, and Mexico's president has called on his attorney general to investigate. In fact, we are trying to get a Mexico state government official on the phone to talk with us and give us an update on this story, and as soon as we get that, we'll bring it to you. But in the meantime, I want to tell you about this. Two key Taliban figures, they are dead after an ambush in Pakistan's Swat Valley. What's really ironic about this story, Taliban fighters themselves may have killed these men. The men were prisoners of Pakistani troops, the Pakistani military says they were both killed when the Taliban ambushed an army convoy that was transporting the prisoners. It's not clear whether the men were killed by the troops or the Taliban fighters. It's been a busy week for Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor. For three days she was on Capitol Hill meeting with and greeting with senators and answering questions about controversial comments that she's made in the past. Well we've learned those comments weren't a one time thing. We're talking about her saying Latina woman with her experiences would oftentimes reach a better conclusion than someone who is of a different color or race. Well in papers she submitted that comment came up in speeches from 1994 and as recently as 2004.", "They're actually saying, Betty, it was almost like a stump speech she was giving. It was part of a stump speech. So she came out and said it was a poor choice of words. Some republicans came out and said well it was a poor choice that she made repeatedly on these words. This morning the top republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said there was a central question he has for Sotomayor. In the weekly republican address, Senator Jeff Sessions says yes, he wants to know if Sotomayor will allow her ethnicity to color her decisions on the bench like some of those comments seem to suggest to some. Sessions has his own unique perspective, however, on the confirmation process. Our senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash explains.", "Listen in to what republican Jeff Sessions told the democratic president Supreme Court nominee.", "You will get a fair hearing before this committee.", "He is so emphatic because of his own experience. Twenty- three years ago, Sessions was nominated by Ronald Reagan to be a federal judge but was rejected.", "I am sorry that the Senate Judiciary Committee didn't see fit to find me qualified for it.", "He is now the top republican on that very committee.", "That is a very odd thing. Somebody says it gives new meaning to the word irony.", "Irony bringing back memories he tries to forget.", "It was not a pleasant event, I have to tell you. It was really so heartbreaking to me.", "Then a 39-year-old Alabama U.S. attorney, Sessions was accused of racial insensitivity, calling a black lawyer boy, a white lawyer a disgrace to his race and civil rights groups like the NAACP un-American. He was pounded by democrats like Joe Biden.", "They may have taken positions not considered to be adverse to the security interests of the United States.", "Does that make them un-American?", "No, sir, it does not.", "Does that make the positions un-American?", "No.", "Some democratic senators Sessions now serves with called him racist.", "Now that was not fair. That was not accurate. Those were false charges and distortions of anything that I did, and it really was not. I never had those kind of views, and I was caricatured in a way that was not me.", "Sessions went on to win a senate seat in 1996, but the allegations still sting.", "I think it was hard on them.", "The parallel to today, some republicans charging Sotomayor as a racist is eerie. (", "When you hear that, do you hear Ted Kennedy and other democrats going through your head saying Jeff Sessions is a racist?", "You know that's such a loaded word, and I don't think it's appropriate.", "Sessions will ask tough questions about deep differences with Sotomayor on judicial philosophy but also hopes to use her hearing to close the door on a painful part of his past. Dana Bash, CNN, Capitol Hill.", "Hundreds of mourners turning out today in Kansas for the funeral of Dr. George Tiller. Interfaith prayer services were held Friday in Wichita. Tiller was gunned down last Sunday in his own church. He was one of the few U.S. doctors who still performed late- term abortions. Anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder has been charged in Tiller's death. Federal civil rights lawyers have also launched an investigation. We're going to have a rare look at the front lines of the Normandy invasion all online. 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{"id": "CNN-259560", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2015-07-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/13/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Greece, Eurozone Narrowly Avoid Crisis; Tsipras Must Sell Debt Deal to Country; Debt Deal Faces Opposition in Greece; Greeks React to Debt Deal; International Reaction to Greek Deal; Greek Banks Closed Until Thursday; Markets Rally After Greek Deal News; Deal Still Minefield", "utt": ["Michael Douglas is ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange.", "Now, that's what you call a real gavel at the end of the trading day. Well done, Mr. Douglas, sir, from \"Ant-Man\" and Marvel. It's Monday, it's July the 30th (sic). A strong gavel and the deal is done. Now the hard work begins as Greece rushes to push difficult reforms through its parliament. Athens in uproar. Hundreds are protesting, fearing more economic pain. And the markets are rallying with relief after the longest-ever EU summit. Back in London, I'm Richard Quest, and of course, I mean business. Good evening, and a warm welcome to our program tonight. They were marathon negotiations, there was flaring tempers, and the talks neared collapse. European leaders are dealing with the aftermath of a defining weekend in modern European financial history. Greece and its partners have to execute the plan, which was so painful to put together. The Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, is heading back to Athens hoping to convince the country and the parliament to accept the new deal. The Greek financial system is still closed, and even with the new agreement, the ECB has refused to increase emergency liquidity. It all means the cash in the Greek banks will start to be running short. And the tough negotiations over the weekend have left eurozone relations frayed. \"The Financial Times\" reports the European Council president, Donald Tusk, had to stop Mr. Tsipras and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, from walking out at one point. The French finance minister praised the Greek government's resolve.", "I pay tribute to the courage, especially the political courage, of a government which faced up to the difficulties, including the legitimate political debate -- and serious and difficult political debate -- to put in place, finally, solid reforms, which will allow Greece to get out of the situation it finds itself in.", "Now, Alexis Tsipras must now persuade his country and his parliament to accept a deal which many say is worse than the one that was rejected in the referendum. Here are the details.", "The new agreement sees $55 billion in Greek assets that will be moved to this new fund. The scope of structural reforms has been massively expanded. And all economic legislation needs approval from the creditors before going to the Greek parliament, as well as there'll be -- the rollbacks will need to be rolled back themselves. The agreement specifically rules out any haircuts or cuts on Greece's debts, but it does offer the possibility of debt restructuring in the future. If the Sunday and Monday were busy, well, on Monday, once again, eurozone finance ministers had to go to work to discuss the 7 billion at least in bridge financing required by the 20th of July. The money will be used by Greece to pay debts to the ECB, the IMF, and the Bank of Greece. I spoke to the Finnish finance minister, Alex Stubb, and asked him how he and his colleagues were dealing with such an unprecedented crisis and finding the money.", "The big thing here is that yesterday there was a road, and then that road went in two directions. One direction was Grexit, and the other direction was a deal, and we found that deal. Now, bridge financing is a short-term measure, approximately 7 billion euros that will be needed by the 20th of July. I'm sure some kind of a solution will be found, and we're working on it. But people also have to understand that for us, the finance ministers, it's very difficult to start to give bridge money, which is basically free money, without any conditionality. So, we'll have to find some kind of another solution.", "Is it difficult to look at somebody like Euclid Tsakalotos, the finance minister, and although you're not talking personally about him per se, but looking at him and saying to his face, \"We don't trust you\"?", "No, we don't do that, and we don't say that. What we do say is that, listen, here we have a package, approximately 82 to 86 billion euros, which tops up the already 370, 380 billion euros that we have helped you out with. We need conditionality. You need to do what you promised to do. And we say three steps of trust. Number one, as a government, go and sell this package at home. Show faith that you have backing for the deal. Number two, vote it in your parliament. And then number three, we can start, perhaps, the negotiations on the new package. So, we just needed these locks in order to be able to move forward, and I think we got them.", "The Greek prime minister is championing the agreement as a victory. Alexis Tsipras says his government has brought about a major change and created a new legacy for Europe. He also said the new agreement will help restore investor confidence in Greece. Mr. Tsipras did admit the bailout terms will lead to economic pain for Greeks.", "Today's agreement keeps Greece in a state of financial stability. It gives the possibilities for a recovery. It will, however, be an agreement whose implementation will be difficult. The measures included are the ones passed in parliament. They will unavoidably cause recessionary effects.", "Alexis Tsipras still faces major hurdles at home. Senior members of his own party are now saying they will refuse to back the new plan. I'm joined by Rania Antonopoulos, and she's Greece's deputy labor minister. So, we can be clear on where you stand, how will you be voting on these various measures?", "I am in full support of my government and of the prime minister. At this juncture, we had to literally save the country by accepting a host of measures that run against the grain of what this government --", "Right.", "-- stands for. But stability of the financial sector and renegotiating the debt, leaving some opening, some room for that, is a key priority.", "Whichever way you look at this, the deal that you now have is worse than the deal that was on offer two to three weeks ago when Mr. Tsipras walked out. So, a simple question: now we know the worst of this deal. Was that a mistake to have walked out and thrown away the deal that you previously had?", "I think this agreement has definitely some very harsh measures. But I also think that there is room for us to say that this is not a horrible, horrifying outcome. The investment package, of course, is a key priority of the government, has been a key priority of the government, so that road can restart in our country.", "Right.", "But also, please recall that many of the structural changes proposed were part of the agenda and, in fact, opening up the economy and making it more competitive, less -- relying less to oligopolistic structures that have been haunting the Greek economy, have been key priorities of this government. So, I would say that definitely there are measures that will be terribly painful for our people --", "All right.", "-- but at the same time, we need to treat this as a period that we will roll up our sleeves and work hard and get through so that we can --", "-- really focus on what is needed, which is investment --", "Right, but let --", "-- in this country.", "Right, but let me jump in here. The vote will get through parliament because the opposition -- all the opposition parties are pretty much going to go along with it. But how hobbled is the government if it can't carry a mandate of its own MPs going forward after this?", "We will need to weigh very carefully the developments tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. There is a lot of disgruntlement within the party, as you very well know. What the outcome of these discussions will be tomorrow and day after remains to be seen.", "Is it likely that the prime minister will have to refashion the coalition? And if necessary, could -- and I'm not as familiar, obviously, with Greek politics -- but could he end up having to go to the country again?", "I most certainly hope that that will not be the case. I think that having a political stable environment, one that does not invite another period of elections and whatever comes with it, is extremely important. I hope my colleagues in the parliament and in the government will recognize that this was a (inaudible). There is no alternative moment that we were facing. I hope they will also recognize --", "Right.", "-- that Mr. Tsipras and this government has the best chance to lead the country out of the mess that the last five, six years have gotten us into. And that at the end of the day --", "All right.", "-- very calmly, we will be able to move on to the next stage.", "And we hope to talk to you about these moves as the Greek vote continues. Thank you for joining us, Minister. Now, we've heard how the politicians have reacted to Monday's announcement. It's the ordinary Greeks who will be the most affected by the decisions in Brussels, of course. CNN's Isa Soares has been looking at how the news of the deal, worse or better, depending on your point of view, but how that deal has been received at home.", "Dazed and confused, Greeks woke up to a new reality with even more austerity and tougher reforms.", "These are not good. This is left system for the people nothing.", "It's a stark contrast to the celebrations in Athens more than a week ago after a national referendum. Greeks voted no to an EU deal with even less austerity than today's agreement, an even harder pill to swallow for many who had hoped for a different outcome.", "We tried the medicine two -- the same medicine two times before, and it failed spectacularly.", "Even before a deal was finally reached in Brussels, there was indignation in Athens and anger towards Germany's hard line. Blaring headlines, \"Monster bailout, Greece in Auschwitz.\" For some, the latest deal was just too much.", "All these reforms could happen five years ago, when people had some more money. Now, we're dry.", "As the details of the deadline trickled in, the mood went from shock to outrage.", "The people of Greece had already lost a lot of their rights, all the years have passed. Now, they lose everything.", "Some Athenians we spoke to are just resigned to it.", "I think this deal was necessary in order to avoid chaos in Greece and disorder throughout the eurozone. It was almost the best possible and the (inaudible).", "Now, its leader is racing against time. Alexis Tsipras has only 48 hours to convince parliament to push these measures through or the banks will run out of cash.", "I have the feeling, the confidence, and the hope that the 35 billion euro development package, which we managed, along with the debt restructuring and secure financing for the next three years, will create the feeling among markets and investors that a Grexit is a thing of the past.", "No Grexit, but banks are still closed at least through Wednesday. And no sign of capital controls being lifted.", "All this is adding pressure on the Greek people, who are emotionally and financially drained by this crisis. They may not like the terms of this deal, as the rally behind me shows, but even Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister who has fought every step of the way, acknowledges that this is the best possible outcome. Isa Soares, CNN, Athens, Greece.", "No relief yet for the Greek banks. Up next, why they're still mired in crisis as the shutdown stretches into a third week."], "speaker": ["RICHARD QUEST, HOST", "QUEST", "MICHEL SAPIN, FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER (through translator)", "QUEST", "QUEST", "ALEX STUBBS, FINNISH FINANCE MINISTER", "QUEST", "STUBBS", "QUEST", "ALEXIS TSIPRAS, PRIME MINISTER OF GREECE (through translator)", "QUEST", "RANIA ANTONOPOULOS, GREEK DEPUTY LABOR MINISTER", "QUEST", "ANTONOPOULOS", "QUEST", "ANTONOPOULOS", "QUEST", "ANTONOPOULOS", "QUEST", "ANTONOPOULOS", "QUEST:  OK -- ANTONOPOULOS", "QUEST", "ANTONOPOULOS", "QUEST", "ANTONOPOULOS", "QUEST", "ANTONOPOULOS", "QUEST", "ANTONOPOULOS", "QUEST", "ANTONOPOULOS", "QUEST", "ISA SOARES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SOARES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SOARES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SOARES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SOARES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SOARES", "TSIPRAS (through translator)", "SOARES", "SOARES (on camera)", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-348975", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-08-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/30/nday.04.html", "summary": "Mother Says Bullying Led 9-Year-Old To Commit Suicide.", "utt": ["We have a heartbreaking and shocking story for you out of Colorado where a 9-year-old boy committed suicide. Jamel Myles' mother says her son wanted to come out as gay to his classmates, but just four days into the new school year she says Jamel took his life after being bullied. That mother, Leia Pierce, joins us now. Leia, we are so sorry for your loss. This story has just gripped the country. I can't tell you how many people have e-mailed me or wanted to talk about it in some way because it just seems that Jamel is just way too young to deal with such emotionally-challenging and painful issues. We're so sorry. Can you just tell us what happened? I mean, as far as we know the story, over the summer he came out to you as gay. He was worried about what your reaction would be but you immediately told him that you loved him and accepted him. And then I guess that perhaps gave him the courage that he wanted to come out to his classmates. And then what happened?", "It didn't end well obviously because I'm here, but I wish it could have been different.", "We do, too. Did you talk to him? When he said that he wanted to tell his classmates, did you and he have any conversation about that? Were you comfortable with his plan to do that?", "He just said he wanted to wear his nails and be himself. And I said never be anyone else but yourself because nobody else could be you better than you.", "And when you say he wanted to wear his nails, he wanted to wear painted nails on the first day?", "No, they were -- they were -- they were -- they were fake fingernails.", "And so he went to school with fake fingernails and he wanted to tell his classmates. And then, do you know what their reaction was?", "He didn't tell me. He just came home and acted normal.", "So he acted --", "Something broke his heart.", "So he acted normal. Did you know -- did you have any indication that he was suffering?", "No. If I did, I would have hugged him tighter. I would have told him it was OK so he didn't have to feel like that if I did.", "Yes. How do you know that he was bullied at school?", "He told me, his sister told me. They never called me about my son but I got a bunch of phone calls about my daughter saying about the --", "Meaning -- hold on a second. I just want to -- I just want to make sure that we understand. He told you last year that he was being bullied --", "He told --", "-- but not this year.", "Yes. These first four days he didn't say nothing to me. He just acted normal.", "But did he confide in his sisters that he was being bullied?", "He went up and told his sister that the other kids told him to kill himself.", "He told his --", "And they told him --", "-- sister that the other -- his classmates -- the other kids told him to kill himself?", "Yes, and they -- he heard it a couple of times before but he would always get upset because he's -- he was just so sweet and sensitive so he hurts easy. And we -- they told him -- they were like just calm down. They were like, breathe. They were like take a nap, chill out, and they were like when you wake up you'll feel better and what they said won't matter. Whatever they said really hurt his heart because it matters a lot to him.", "And then, did he take his sister's advice? Is that when he killed himself?", "If he took her advice I'd still have him.", "Yes. Have you been in touch with the school? Have you had conversations with the school about how all of this unfolded?", "They finally called me Tuesday night around 5:00 and he just said they're looking into it and that they sent out a letter about suicide and bullying, and that was pretty much it.", "Here's their statement. I'll read it to you and to our viewers. \"At the Denver Public Schools, we are deeply committed to ensuring that all members of our school community are treated with dignity and respect regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or transgender status. It is critical that our students receive all the support they need to learn and thrive in a safe and welcoming environment. Our policies and practices reflect this commitment to ensuring that our LGBTQ+ students can pursue their education with dignity and joy -- from training to prevent and stop bullying to policies and guidance materials that fully respect gender identity (including use of preferred pronouns and restrooms).\" Leia, who do you hold responsible for what happened here?", "Technically, taking in the whole situation and knowing everything I know, I do hold the teachers responsible because last year, one teacher dumped water on my son.", "Why? Why?", "I don't know. He got in my car crying. He was like the substitute teacher just walked up and dumped water on me. I was like, what? And my little daughter looks at me and goes he came out of his classroom wet, mom. I called the school and I told them what happened and they just said they'll get back to me, just like they did over this incident. They'll just get back to me. They finally got back to me like four days later this time.", "It sounds like Jamel has been struggling for a long time.", "He didn't really have these problems until about a year ago. He's never had this problem until about a year ago. And he just wanted to stand up for his sister.", "Because she was also bullied, you're saying.", "They were really, really mean to her --", "Why? What did --", "-- and he got sick of seeing --", "Why is she being bullied?", "Because she's -- because black girls aren't supposed to have long, pretty hair.", "And so, Leia --", "So she chopped off all of her hair and now she has short hair and they pick on her and call her boys and they're mean to her. And it broke my son's heart and so he started standing up for his sister. He started standing up for his sister because he got -- he got tired of seeing her hurt so he wanted to take her pain and his -- I'm sorry."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "LEIA PIERCE, 9-YEAR-OLD SON COMMITTED SUICIDE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE", "CAMEROTA", "PIERCE"]}
{"id": "CNN-209252", "program": "AROUND THE WORLD", "date": "2013-6-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/21/atw.02.html", "summary": "Protests Gain Momentum in Brazil", "utt": ["-- early elections. No real chance of that happening.", "And you'll recall Mr. Morsi was elected after the popular uprising ousting longtime President Hosni Mubarak. No let up in the anti-government protests, this is out of Brazil now. These are scenes and they are getting more violent. This huge crowd took to the streets. This is Rio de Janeiro. This is last night, fighting with the police. Matthew Chance has the story.", "Not in 20 years has Brazil seen anything like this. From the capital to its biggest metropolis, vast crowds of protesters have again taken to the streets. In Rio alone, more than 300,000 people marched through the city Thursday demanding change. Well, this is easily one of the biggest protests that's taken place in Brazil since the demonstrations began. You can see it's partly a victory parade because the government here has U-turned on this initial issue, which was the rise in (inaudible). They have changed their minds and they've put those fares back down again. But this has also become something much broader, much more important. It's as if a catalog of grievances are being unleashed from official corruption to poor health care and education. There's even anger that the money spent on preparations for the next World Cup, astonishing in a country so fanatical about football.", "It's so many causes that we've got to focus. Today is about these five causes.", "Five?", "Today is five causes, but it won't stop here. It won't stop now.", "I'm protesting for the corruption, the health system, the transportation system, the education system.", "So many issues?", "Yes.", "And many Brazilians appear increasingly impatient to change. In the capital, Brasilia, protesters tried to storm government offices for the second time this week. In Rio, riot police fought running battles with demonstrators to clear the street. Brazil appears increasingly engulfed in turmoil. Matthew Chance, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.", "Coming up, for the first time since her double mastectomy, Angelina Jolie, she is now back on the frontlines of the refugee crisis. She's going to share her exclusive, firsthand account from a camp near Syria."], "speaker": ["MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHANCE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CHANCE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CHANCE", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-266229", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2015-10-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/08/ath.02.html", "summary": "U.S. Says Russia Propping Up Assad, Not Fighting ISIS", "utt": ["New this morning, Syrian officials say they have launched a wide-scale offensive in that country. They claim they're targeting ISIS and other terror groups after days of heavy bombing by Russia, though, there are serious doubts in the U.S. that Russia is doing anything other than prop up Bashar al Assad, and ISIS is a mere afterthought. Defense Secretary Ash Carter expressed his deep concern this morning.", "Now, the Russians originally said they were going in to fight ISIL and al Nusra and other terrorist organizations. However, within days of deploying their forces, the Russians began striking targets that are not any of these groups.", "And in another development, for the first time, the Pentagon says it had to divert two U.S. military aircraft from their missions over Syria because Russian fighter jets were also in the area. The two countries have not agreed yet on flight safety protocol over Syrian air space. For more on this, let's get to CNN senior international correspondent, Arwa Damon, from Istanbul, Turkey. Arwa, what is the real target? What are you hearing?", "Well, first of all, it's quite -- the Syrian forces to advance especially in some key areas where they have been clashing quite fiercely with rebel fighters for quite some time now and in speaking to activists on the ground, they will say not only are the Russians not necessarily just targeting is. According to Turkey, NATO and the U.S., only 10 percent of Russia's strikes are against ISIS positions. People on the ground say these strikes are very indiscriminate and hitting civilian targets. The Syrian civil definition forces also known as the white helmets, they're an independent medical volunteer team, they said they have documented since these Russian strikes began 180 civilian deaths, including two of their own, over 500 wounded. These are casualties, they say, a direct cause of Russian strikes. We cannot independently verify this, of course, but the Kremlin, on the other hand, is boasting of its accuracy, saying at this stage it is not targeting civilian areas or casualties, civilian casualties. When you look at visuals coming out, YouTube video, children covered in dust and blood. One particular image of a child being treated, crying out in pain, screaming for his mother. The doctors could barely keep his calm. It doesn't matter at this stage who is to blame. The most despicable thing of all is this is actually happening. So, while the U.S., Russia, NATO, the Syrian regime, all the other key players talk about strategic moves and military gains on the ground, the reality, what it looks like for the civilians suffering the brunt of this, is told in the images of the dead and the wounded.", "We know, Arwa, you've been covering this for the last few years and you've seen that pain firsthand. Thanks for being with us, Arwa. Happening now, secret vote. Republicans heading behind closed doors to pick the next speaker of the House. Does anyone have enough votes to win?", "Plus, Ann Romney is here. Her candid new book about her long-fought battle with M.S. and her candid take on the 2016 race."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ASH CARTER, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-6580", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-4-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/17/ee.07.html", "summary": "Wall Street Fallout Threatens Asian Tech Stocks; Nasdaq Futures a Bright Spot Today", "utt": ["Regardless of what happens today on Wall Street, the fallout from Friday's result has threatened to tarnish tech stocks in Asia. Lisa Barron of CNN Financial News is covering the story in Hong Kong.", "Monday morning in Hong Kong-based Typhoon Eight Research and the brains behind the stock market information Web site are trying to calm clients.", "This is, so far, almost entirely a reaction to what's happened in America. The reason it's hitting us so hard is because so many industries and so many markets in Asia have actually been trying to copy and make themselves links to Nasdaq rather than older-economy stocks like the Dow.", "Chief among them, Tokyo, South Korea and Hong Kong, which all sell fast and furiously, especially the tech-share indices the Kosdaq in Korea, the Growth Enterprise Market, or GEM, in Hong Kong.", "It's a retail investor-led reaction at the moment, and mom and pop, Mr. and Mrs. Wesnabe (ph) in Japan, Mr. and Mrs. Kin (ph) in Korea, Mr. and Mrs. Choy (ph) in Hong Kong, are the ones that are selling. They've been the people who've been bidding these markets up fastest and strongest, and they're the ones who are panicking.", "Even in markets less dominated by tech stocks, from Shanghai to Sydney, shares reacted to the double-whammy from the", "the tech selloff and economic data showing a rise in inflation which sparked fears of higher interest rates.", "To start with , the market is full and a bear as expected. The U.S. market was down 5 or 6 percent. We're down 5 or 6 percent.", "Only Taiwan shares stood up Monday, closing more than 1 percent higher. But Taipei had already followed the U.S. in its Saturday trading session, falling 5.4 percent. The million-dollar question in Asia is: What happens next? Analysts say the answer lies on Wall Street. In the meantime...", "We're actually advising people to avoid all technology-related stock probably for the next three months. It's not going to be a discriminant cull.", "Analysts say it's a minute-by-minute, second-by-second situation, and it's too early to say whether this is a correction in Asian markets or a crash -- Carol.", "Lisa, would you say that all the losses were a direct result of Friday's U.S. market closes?", "Pretty much, it's been purely the U.S., Carol. Both factors, the tech selloff, of course, and the data about inflation and sparking fears of interest rates is what spooked investors in Asia, primarily.", "Well, Asia appears to be in a recovery. So what could this mean -- this dip mean for tech stocks in Asia for the long term?", "Well, a lot of the companies that have actually been listing on Hong Kong's Growth Enterprise Market, or similarly heavy tech indices around the region, have been little more that a concept. A lot of companies with no revenues, no staff, no Web site even, have been launching on these markets and having millions of investors buying into them. So what analysts are saying is that what's going to happen now is that a lot of those second- and third-tier tech stocks without a lot of substance or even revenues will not be listing and not getting the money, and investors will be looking for the tech companies that do have that substance in revenues -- Carol.", "All right, perhaps a return to fundamentals. Thank you very much, Lisa Barron, in Hong Kong. So what can investors expect today? Susan Lisovicz is at the New York Stock Exchange. Susan, what are the futures telling us now?", "Well, actually that is one of the few bright spots we can concentrate on this morning, Carol. We have seen them turn around, especially for the Nasdaq futures which were, in the middle of the night, down 110 points. They are now, if I'm looking right there, up 37. So that is a dramatic turnaround. The S&P; futures were also pointing south, and they are up now as well. And that is an indication of what the markets will do on the open. The other thing, of course, is that buyers -- investors have learned to buy on the dip. And the key question today is whether that psychology has been broken. That's been a mainstay of maintaining this bull market -- the bull market which, of course, is very much in doubt -- Carol.", "All right, Susan, well, some important earnings are coming out today. How is that likely to impact the market?", "That is the other bright spot, Carol. We've had some fantastic earnings. We did expect to see them for the quarter just ended. Two Dow-listed stocks not only beat the Street estimates, Citigroup just blew through the estimates, reporting its first-quarter revenue of $17 1/2 billion, beating the Street by 26 cents, a very wide margin. A number of other high-profile companies, including Ford, Eastman Kodak, Sears, Bank America, Bank of New York, all expected to report today. And earnings are going to be one of the headlines over the next week or so. Economic reports -- not as many coming out this week, and that may be something that investors can grasp on as a sign of confidence in the market.", "All right, we need to see some confidence today. Thanks so much, Susan Lisovicz. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "LISA BARRON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DOUGLAS HANSEN-LUKE, MANAGING DIRECTOR, TYPHOON EIGHT RESEARCH", "BARRON", "TONY SHALE, FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY", "BARRON", "U.S.", "DENNIS MAHONEY, BNP EQUITIES AUSTRALIA", "BARRON", "HANSEN-LUKE", "BARRON", "LIN", "BARRON", "LIN", "BARRON", "LIN", "SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LIN", "LISOVICZ", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-155569", "program": "JOHN KING, USA", "date": "2010-9-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/13/jkusa.01.html", "summary": "Campaign Season; David Plouffe Interview", "utt": ["My campaign manager, David Plouffe.", "That was election night, 2008. At times seems like it was light years ago. We're now 50 years from the 2010 midterms, and as this weekend's \"Los Angeles Times\" put it, the Obama coalition, blacks, women, Latinos, young voters and suburbanites is, \"frayed and frazzled.\" Great time to go one-on-one with the president's former campaign manager, David Plouffe who joins us from out in Sacramento. Let me ask you before -- I've got some policy questions and some politics questions, but it does seem like light years ago, in many ways, does it not?", "It sure does. But, you know, I think that, you know, we have an election right in front of us, as you said, and what we're trying to work as hard as we can to convince those people who participated in '08. And you're going to have a big drop-off. Listen, we had almost 140 million people vote in the presidential, you're have 80 million vote, now. This is a historic problem. But I do sense some intensification in the last couple of weeks around activism and volunteerism, and I am hopeful that can translate into better Democratic turnout.", "Let's go through some of that. One of the ways you can energize people is to give them a good policy fight to carry into their political activism, and yet there's a debate on the left of your party. As you well know, many people who think the president hasn't done enough to try to spur economic growth. Robert Kuttner, a man you know well, a liberal economist, writing today in the \"Huffington Post,\" says this, \"Send Congress more emergency recovery legislation, job creation, aid to the states, extended unemployment benefits and dare Republicans to vote against it. It doesn't matter if a few misguided Democrats oppose you, too. The main blockage of a stronger recovery program is the Republican Party.\" How would you answer those on the left who say the president is not doing enough stimulus, enough government intervention in the economy?", "Listen, obviously people are going to have their points of views and we need all the great ideas we can, obviously, in the economic situation we're in. But I was in Iowa yesterday -- I'll be in Sacramento tonight -- talking to a lot of people who are involved in the elections, and I think people are very proud of what we've done on the economy. And you know I saw some of your program earlier, the debate on the tax cuts. This is really galvanizing Democrats. I mean, basically, the Republican Party is saying, we want to spend another $700 billion -- almost as much as the Recovery Act, by the way -- to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. As opposed to the president and a lot of Democrats who are saying, let's give them to the middle class. And this is going to be a big debate in the coming weeks. It's a very important debate for the country. And listen. Essentially what that says to the American people is the Republican economic policies, which are a big contributor of the recession, that's all they're offering. I mean, they're quite clear. Every time you have a Republican on your program and you asked them what's their plans going to be, they either don't answer it or they say we're going to go back to what we did before which led the country this close to a great depression.", "And so then I'll ask you this. You have that just about right. There are -- but there are some Democrats, as you know, who don't want the president to raise taxes in the middle of a recession, even though the president ran on this, saying the Bush tax cuts would expire and he would let them expire except for the middle class families. Is this such an important policy point that even if you have eight, 10, 12, 15 House Democrats who say, if you don't help me here, I'm going to lose my seat, that that's acceptable? That the deficit and not extending those tax cuts for wealthy Americans is so important that you wouldn't make a political compromise?", "Well, listen, there were a few Democrats who devoted for the original Bush tax cuts in the first place. And those Democrats that have a different point of view will make their case. But, you know, this was, as the president, I think probably for every day of 700 days during that long campaign you mentioned talked about this. This was very clear. And this is a fundamental difference. Eighty percent of these tax cuts that Republicans want to give a go to millionaires. And listen, everyone is going to get a tax cut. The question is, the president and a lot of Democrats wanted to end at $250,000 worth of income. So -- and, you know, you hear some of the Republicans talk about -- although Boehner was honest about this yesterday. We're only talking about 3 percent of small businesses. Most of those are big lawyers -- I mean the small businesses that they're talking about are small businesses like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin and they're a media empire. So the distinction here is clear. And again, it's a -- it's a trip down memory lane. These are the policies that led us off the cliff in the first place. So you've got one idea, the president, the Democrats saying, tax cuts for the middle class, for small businesses. The Republicans, who like to lecture us on fiscal discipline, who created these deficits in the first place, are more than comfortable giving $700 billion in tax cuts, largely to millionaires and billionaires, and they won't tell you they can pay for it. Even worse, they say they shouldn't have to. So this is a big difference. And I think it helps crystallize for people that there is a choice here. There's a choice between going back to the economic policies that led us off a cliff, or we can move forward, no one is satisfied with where we are today economically, but we're moving in the right direction.", "I want to -- you wrote a book after the campaign and then you updated it a bit to focus a bit on the 2010 midterm elections and in that update, you wrote this. \"We are blessed with incompetent opposition. The Republican Party has failed, even in a time of perceived weakness for Democrats, to instill any confidence in the American people or in independent voters in particular.\" That is your position, David Plouffe, but I wanted to show you the numbers from our most recent CNN polling. You say the Republicans have not inspired any confidence in independent voters in particular, and yet when we ask independents, how will you vote for Congress this year, 62 percent of independents now say they will vote Republican. If the Republican Party hasn't inspired confidence in them, has the president and the Democratic Party just driven them away?", "Well, listen, independent voters, particularly in recent times, do fluctuate a lot from election to election. And you know that's a national number. I see a lot different numbers in states and districts. But the point is, none of that vote is really based on them improving their image. And listen, what's going to happen in Delaware tomorrow -- whether Castle wins or loses -- is a big problem for the Republican Party. In the short-term, I think it can help us remind Democrats, who might not be inclined to vote, and independents who are still gettable that this is the Republican Party. That Palin, Limbaugh, Beck and that wing of the party is in control. And if you look down the line in elections, you know, even in '12, where you're going to have 60, 70 million more voters, I can tell you, most of that increase is not people who are part of that extreme right wing. They're going to be more moderate independents, a lot more Democrats, as you mentioned, minorities and younger voters. So it's a real problem. And I think something that is fascinating to watch. Now that being said, the Republicans are going to come out to vote in big numbers. There's no question about that. And I don't think we can expect that to abate. What we have to do is go out there and make a case to the independents. I think a lot of independents haven't yet focused on the choice. Our candidates are starting to lay that in front of them. We have to make this a choice. And unlike '94 -- I mean I was out running a Senate campaign in '94 in Delaware, actually. And listen, voters tuned us out at some point. They had decided. That's not where they are right now. Because, again, this isn't a budding love affair in the offing with Mitch McConnell and John Boehner. They're still distrustful of the Republicans. So we have to go out there and have conversations with voters and say, remember those economic policies that hurt you and your family and hurt the economy? That's all they're offering. And of course we have a lot more work to do, but we're on the right track here.", "I want you to listen to a voter we encountered last week. You talk about going back to the Obama coalition, essentially trying to grab them by the lapel and say, look, maybe you don't think Congress votes matter or governors don't matter, but this one matters. I want you to listen to Keisha Sails. We met her in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The town has been devastated in the recession. She's an African-American woman, was very excited about Barack Obama, and she is dispirited now.", "These people come from good homes or good backgrounds or had houses and land and property, and was able to do the things that they wanted to do, you know? But they don't care. They really don't care. So I think that's why the people around here are, like, I'm just going to do me. I'm going to live my life and that's it. You know? Nobody else matters.", "How do you convince her it matters?", "Well, and I understand and appreciate her frustration. And that of millions of Americans, obviously. And I think what we have to do is try and reach these voters one on one, have a conversation between a neighbor, a family member. And once -- you know, first of all, explain what we've been trying to do here. That while the economy is not where any of us would like, it is moving in the right direction. But more importantly than that, is what's motivating the president and a lot of people in his party, which is, unlike the policies that led us into this mess, and the Republicans want to offer again, it's squarely focused on the middle class. People trying to get into the middle class. And so we have to -- on tax cuts, on help for small business, on the new jobs that are being created in the energy sector. We have to say we are trying and that there is an alternative here. So we have to do two things. We have to educate them about all the things we've tried to do. And I think that can be impactful. I find it to be. And then secondly, talk about an alternative. But there's no doubt this is going to be hard. I mean we have tough atmospherics, we have a tough economy. In 2008, I can tell you, the turnout that we got amongst younger voters, minority voters, it was really hard to do. It just didn't happen. It took a lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of focus. And we in good Democratic campaigns are trying to bring that to bear. We're not going to replicate what we did in '08, but if we can do a little bit better than projected, we're going to win some close races that right now looks like we might lose by a narrow margin.", "Let me ask you this in closing, and I suspect I'm about to fail at this attempt. But I'm going to ask you to answer this as David Plouffe, political strategist, the guy who's run a lot of campaigns and understands why politicians do the things they do and say the things they say. Not as a partisan Democrat. Newt Gingrich quoted in the \"National Review Online\" this weekend, says, \"What if Obama is so outside our comprehension that only if you understand Kenyan anti-colonial behavior can you begin to piece together his actions? That is the most accurate predictive model for his behavior.\" What is Newt Gingrich trying to get at there?", "Well, you know two words that come to mind are \"sad\" and \"reprehensible.\" I mean, you know. I was working in Congress when he was speaker and disagreed with just about everything he did. But, you know, you got the sense there was some principle involved. He's clearly a very intelligent person. And to see him doing -- it makes me think, by the way, he's probably pretty sure he's going to run for president because he's clearly trying to appeal to the folks that are supporting Christine O'Donnell in Delaware tomorrow. And you know, whether he believes there's a perceived weakness there or not, I'll leave that to him to answer. But it has no place in our politics. He knows better. He's made comments like this in the past around the Islamic center in New York, for instance, that are really not the Newt Gingrich I think a lot of us remembered. So I think it's very sad. I think it reprehensible. It may have an audience during the Iowa caucuses next year or, you know, in New Hampshire or South Carolina. But I don't think that's where most Americans are. And you know, you ought to ask other Republicans out there whether they agree with that. You know, maybe they're in so -- they are so -- have to pledge so much", "David Plouffe, we appreciate your time tonight and we hope you'll let us check in with you a little closer to Election Day to see if you can do the work you promised you were going to try to do tonight.", "Thanks, John.", "David, take care. When we come back, we'll look at some of the day's big political stories, including pop stars getting involved."], "speaker": ["OBAMA", "KING", "DAVID PLOUFFE, OBAMA '08 CAMPAIGN MANAGER", "KING", "PLOUFFE", "KING", "PLOUFFE", "KING", "PLOUFFE", "KING", "KEISHA SAILS, BRADDOCK, PA., RESIDENT", "KING", "PLOUFFE", "KING", "PLOUFFE", "KING", "PLOUFFE", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-334089", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-03-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/02/es.01.html", "summary": "China Trade Ministry Slams U.S. Tariffs", "utt": ["Turmoil at the White House. Now stretches around the globe. The White House announcing new tariffs on steel and aluminum that could raise prices and kill jobs. The policy is not yet ready, but allies already angry, global stocks tumbling.", "I miss every one of you every day. I went --", "A joke or something worse? Chaos at home shows no signs of letting up. The National Security adviser appears headed out the door and one of Ivanka Trump's business deals is now under the FBI's microscope.", "And a day after appearing to back gun reforms favored by Democrats the president has a surprise sit-down with the NRA. The group now says the president does not want gun control. This a 180 far faster than it was on immigration if in fact the NRA is right. We'll get to that in a moment. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm Dave Briggs.", "I'm Christine Romans. It is Friday. It is Friday, I'll say that twice. It is March 2nd and 4:00 a.m. -- 4:01 in the East. Big news here. President Trump slapping tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum. A controversial move sparking fears about a trade war. The plan here, impose tariffs of 25 percent on steel, imported steel, and 10 percent on imported aluminum to help those struggling industries.", "When it comes to a time when our country can't make aluminum and steel, and somebody said it before and I will tell you, you almost don't have much of a country.", "Trump gave no further details. In fact he said the policy is still being written and while this decision makes good on his campaign promise to get tough on trade, it has made -- it was made against the wishes of his top advisers. People close to the president, titans of industry. Key Republicans. In fact basically the entire Republican Orthodoxy are against this. And it could bring a host of negative consequences. Traditional, conventional wisdom is that tariffs are bad for the U.S. economy. \"The Wall Street Journal\" editorial board slamming this as Trump's biggest policy blunder that will punish American workers, invite retaliation that will harm U.S. exports, divide his political coalition at home, anger allies abroad, and undermine his tax and regulatory reforms. If you drive a car, fly, drink a can of beer, prices could go up. Anything made with steel or aluminum will become more expensive. Companies would raise prices or cut jobs. In fact a beer industry group predicts this will cost 20,000 jobs. Now it's not clear if these tariffs will exempt key U.S. allies. So experts think this could spark retaliation especially from China. Farmers in particular worry it could flat tariffs on soy, China is the top climate for U.S. soy. But that damage is all so theoretical. Global stocks are already down very sharply. Asian and European markets falling overnight. Down about, that's the Dow there. Trump's announcement sent the Dow down 420 points. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 fell 1.3 percent. Shares of plane and carmakers were especially hit hard. Boeing, GM, Ford. Investors do not like uncertainty and I've got to be honest with you, there's a lot of uncertainty about exactly what is the plan here.", "Yes. Just from a process standpoint, it was surprising. Right? Because no one knew this was going to happen yesterday and the way he shocked his own administration. Republican reaction, just a quick sampling, Ben Sasse from Nebraska. \"You'd expect a policy this bad from a leftist administration, not a supposedly Republican one.\" And Mike Lee calling it a huge job- killing tax hike. Just a few of the Republicans weighing in but the president's tariff talk drawing condemnation from U.S. trading partners around the world as well. The president of the European Commission denouncing the move as blatant intervention to protect American industries. In just the last few hours China weighing in as well. Let's go live to Beijing and bring in CNN's Matt Rivers. Good morning to you, Matt. What's happening overseas? What's the reaction?", "Well, China has weighed in. We're interested in two kinds of China reaction, right? What they said today but also what's going to happen down the road. So we'll get to that in a second but today the Ministry of Foreign Affairs basically slammed this ruling or this proposal from the president, saying it doesn't help, saying it will hurt global trade, saying it will put a dent in U.S.-Chinese relations. And that's not surprising. That's what we've heard from the Chinese government any time they are asked about potential U.S. protectionist stylist policies. But you heard Christine get into that a little while ago. It's what's going to happen down the road. How, if any way, does China retaliate here? And they have a lot of tools in their tool kit to hurt American companies. So you heard Christine talk about soy, for example. Billions and billions and billions of dollars of American soy is bought by Chinese buyers every single year. It's one of the biggest American exports to China. If China decides, hey, we're going to buy soy from Argentina or Brazil instead, that will have an effect on the tens of thousands of U.S. jobs supported by the soy industry, and by the way, most of the jobs are in states that voted for Donald Trump in 2016. The Chinese government knows that. They know where to apply political pressure points. So maybe that's one avenue they could take. The other thing they can look at? Airplanes, for example. They buy a ton of aircraft from Boeing. Could they restrict market access there? So the Chinese government has a lot of different ways to retaliate. It knows it can hurt U.S. businesses, U.S. jobs, the question is, will it do that? Only time will tell. But that's something we're going to be watching very closely.", "Interesting, Matt, because China of course is not even in the top 10 of U.S. steel imports. It is 11th on that list. And yet this policy appears aimed at China. We'll check back with you later in the program. Matt, thanks.", "All right. The NRA claims it has the president on its side. After huddling at the White House last night with the president and the vice president, the head of the NRA's lobbying arm Chris Cox tweeting a blunt message after that meeting, insisting both men oppose gun control. Asked if the White House agrees with Cox's statement, a senior official would only say the president, quote, \"believes in the Second Amendment.\"", "Last night's meeting with the NRA follows Mr. Trump's freewheeling meeting with the bipartisan group of lawmakers to discuss gun reform. Some lawmaker at that meeting. Florida congressman and Army vet Brian Mast still believes the president will take action.", "Well, he said very clearly that if we get him a bill that addresses bump stocks, background checks, and buying age that he's going to sign it.", "The NRA met tonight with the president and the vice president. Do you think the president may tack back to his original positions which were more in line with the NRA positions?", "I certainly hope not. You know, he's had a great deal of strength in this issue, you know, telling all the other lawmakers, look, you've got to be strong in this, you can't be afraid. You've got to go with your gut and got to do what you think is right. You can't say that and then walk away from that.", "Many of the president's suggestions at that meeting, that bipartisan meeting, were in line with Democratic positions. Now officials scrambling. Sources say the rollout of new measures to curb gun violence will not be released today as planned. Majority leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate will take up a banking bill next week dashing hopes of quick action on guns in the wake of the school shooting in Florida. And remember, the president said there were a lot of common sense things that he could be done that he personally would do. He would write out bump stocks. He said we should raise the age of buying weapons to 21. He said that people who were mentally ill, they should have their guns taken away before there is due process. He was specific, the president was, on his plans. He huddled with the NRA, maybe those ideas went away. Chances are you are happy it's Friday. I am. Now imagine how happy you'd be if you worked at the White House? The Trump administration struggling to turn a corner after a chaotic week. CNN has learned that National Security adviser H.R. McMaster is set to leave by the end of the month. The West Wing is denying his departure is coming soon, but multiple sources say it is likely McMaster will retire as a three-star general instead of returning to the military. Two sources say McMaster has spoken to top officials at the Hoover Institution about a job there.", "Sources also telling CNN one of Ivanka Trump's international business deals is under scrutiny from U.S. counterintelligence officials. The FBI looking into Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver. It's one of the few Trump branded properties to open since the president took office so the timing of the negotiations and most importantly financing for the deal could be of special interest. FBI attention could create a hurdle for Ivanka as she tries to obtain permanent security clearance.", "A spokesman for the first daughter's ethics counsel claims no red flag or problem has been raised with her clearance application. This on the heels of reports several countries discussed ways to use Jared Kushner's business deals to manipulate him and that his family real estate got half a billion dollars in loans after lenders met with Kushner at the White House.", "Another sign of turmoil, CNN has learned the president was fuming after Attorney General Jeff Sessions pushed back against him with the statement defending his own integrity and honor. It was a rare gesture of defiance after the president called Sessions disgraceful in his latest Twitter tirade. And asked about Sessions, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders did not exactly give a ringing endorsement here.", "Does the president want to get rid of the attorney general?", "Not that I know of.", "After nearly a week of this drama, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly vented a little at a Homeland Security event.", "I miss every one of you every day. I went --", "Truly, six months, the last thing I wanted to do is walk away from one of the great honors of my life, being the secretary of Homeland Security, but I did something wrong and God punished me, I guess.", "Just a joke. Trump allies in Washington describe a feeling of meltdown at the White House. They say the president wants to do something to turn the tide, but it is not exactly clear what that would be.", "The U.S. is looking for a new ambassador to Mexico. Roberta Jacobson announcing she is stepping down in May in search of other opportunities. Jacobson is a seasoned diplomat who was nominated to the position in 2015 by then President Barack Obama. Now relations with Mexico have been strained over trade and the border wall. Jacobson ending her announcement written in Spanish by declaring -- we are stronger together. Last weekend, Mexican President Enrique Pena-Nieto called off an official trip to Washington after a tense phone call with the president. Ahead, U.S. officials say they're skeptical about Vladimir Putin's claim to have a missile so powerful it can penetrate NATO defenses. We're live with the latest in Moscow."], "speaker": ["DAVE BRIGGS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KELLY, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "MATT RIVERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "REP. BRIAN MAST (R), FLORIDA", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST\"", "MAST", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "SARAH SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "ROMANS", "KELLY", "KELLY", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS"]}
{"id": "NPR-46403", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2005-12-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5045541", "title": "Youth Radio: The Lingering Legacy of Apartheid", "summary": "Although South Africa is making major strides towards democracy and against racism, Youth Radio reporter Fadia Williams says it's still hard for young people there to overcome some of her country's entrenched Apartheid-era attitudes.", "utt": ["It's been 11 years since South Africa began forging its democracy.  The      changes have helped that country's black and colored youth make important      gains in employment and education, but many young people say when it      comes to race, the attitudes of the older generation can make it      difficult to completely leave apartheid behind.  Youth Radio's Fadia      Williams has this perspective.", "My dad is colored, but he looks white.  His dad is Scottish and his mom      was Egyptian.  So under the apartheid rules, my dad, he was colored      `other' because he had foreign parents.  My mom, she looks very Indian,      and she was plain `colored' because she had some African-colored parents.      So when they walked down the street, he'd walk on the one side of the      street and she'd walk down the other side because together that was      against the law.", "For me, it's always interesting to see how people react when they find      out I'm colored.  Actually, I exaggerate my accent so that they know I'm      colored because I want to be open about who I am.  For example, I work      for Clinique so we're working with beauty products.  We're working with      makeup.  And it's in a really posh mall, predominantly white ladies      coming up to you.  And the funny thing is when they realize, well, you're      colored and you're not white, they treat you differently.  They'll ask,      `Do you know if your supervisor is around?' or `Can I speak to your      manager?'", "Our parents made us feel that as young girls growing up in the colored      community, makeup and beauty and things were for older white ladies and      we shouldn't even go there.  Because our parents were a part of the      apartheid era, they are making us more aware and more conscious of,      `You're colored. You have the opportunity to do this now.  You're      colored.  Where are you going?' I mean, `Do you have white friends?      Let's invite your white friends over to dinner.'  We are becoming      self-conscious and more conscious of our blackness and our whiteness and      our coloredness.", "We have to grow up with this and teach our own children that is not what      you're supposed to be thinking about.  How do you teach your children      `Don't look at color' and `Don't look at race' if it's all over and all      around us?", "That was Fadia Williams of Youth Radio."], "speaker": ["ED GORDON, host", "FADIA WILLIAMS", "FADIA WILLIAMS", "FADIA WILLIAMS", "FADIA WILLIAMS", "ED GORDON, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-339650", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-05-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/09/nday.04.html", "summary": "Mueller's Team Questions Russian Oligarch About Payments To Michael Cohen", "utt": ["CNN learning exclusively that the special counsel's team has questioned a Russian oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars that his company's U.S. affiliate made to President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Let's discuss all of this with CNN legal analyst Michael Zeldin. He served as Robert Mueller's special assistant at the Justice Department. And, former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti. OK. Let me just put up for everybody the timeline as we know it, gentlemen, and then get you to flowchart all of this for us. OK. So, in October 2016, that's when Michael Cohen sets up his LLC called Essential Consultants. October 27th, Cohen wires that payment of $130,000 to Stormy Daniels. Between January and August of 2017 -- this is the U.S. affiliate of the Russian oligarch's company. It's called Columbus Nova. That's when these $500,000 payments occur. October 2017, AT&T also pays Michael Cohen, they say, for -- to gain insight into the new administration. They know that he has access to Donald Trump. In 2017, Novartis pays him, we assume, for the same reason. November 2017, Korea Aerospace Industries pays Michael Cohen, we assume, for virtually the same reasons. So, Renato, you say that somehow this doesn't add up to you. Why not?", "Well, I'll tell you. It's pretty unusual. Michael Cohen doesn't appear to be practicing law and certainly was not practicing law for AT&T and Novartis and these companies.", "Well, I know. But, I mean, hold on. To be clear, he doesn't say he's practicing law. He's a consultant.", "Right and I'm curious what he's consulting about. Apparently, it seems likes he's -- it appears that he's selling access to the Trump administration. And I think the real interesting thing is why he's taking money from a company that's affiliated or indirectly owned by a Russian oligarch when he knows that there's a Russia investigation going on.", "Well, they say it was for real estate investing, which he also does.", "Well, it -- you know, it -- what federal prosecutors, I suspect, are going to be looking at is whether any of that money, directly or indirectly, went to Stormy Daniels or to other women because the Stormy Daniels payment is arguable campaign-related. I think a good argument could be made on the other side but Rudy Giuliani went on national television and said that the timing of it was -- it was great that it was -- it was so important that it was before the last debate. So, you know, if that payment was indirectly made by a foreign national then there's potential campaign finance issues there.", "OK. Michael, how do you see it?", "Well, I don't know how I see it because we don't have enough facts really to be fully transparent into what's going on here. Clearly, there are companies that are buying Cohen's access to the administration. All of those companies, if you want to look at it in its worst case, have been business before the Trump administration and Cohen may be a conduit for them to understand what the position of the administration might be. Or it might be in good faith --", "OK, and hold on. Let me just stop you right there. That's not illegal, right? Is that sort of called --", "No, no, exactly.", "-- lobbying or access? I mean, that's not --", "No, no, exactly.", "People do that.", "Yes, exactly -- yes. So, I mean, Trump wins. Cohen's his right-hand man. He sets up a limited liability corporation in Delaware with his name fully transparent on it. These companies hire him to gain insight into what the Trump administration's position on issues that affect their companies. That's all business as usual in Washington. I don't see anything on the face of it that's wrong about that. The only thing that's of any interest to me is the contributions made to the inauguration by the -- whatever he is -- brother-in-law, cousin of the Russian oligarch. That seems a little bit odd given that that contribution is way out of the range that the contributions of him previously are. That's something maybe to look at. But otherwise, on its face, I don't really see much here legally that's of interest to me.", "OK, here's the flowchart as we've set it up so that people will understand it visually. Viktor Vekselberg, who's the Russian oligarch, owns a Russian conglomerate called Renova. That has a U.S. affiliate called Columbus Nova. That is what paid Michael Cohen $500,000. Now, here's their statement. Here's Columbus Nova's statement -- the attorney's statement. \"Columbus Nova is a management company solely owned and controlled by Americans. After the inauguration, the firm hired Michael Cohen as a business consultant regarding potential sources of capital and potential investments in real estate and other ventures. Reports today that Viktor Vekselberg used Columbus Nova as a conduit for payments to Michael Cohen are false. The claim that Viktor Vekselberg was involved or provided any funding for Columbus Nova's engagement of Michael Cohen is patently untrue. Neither Vekselberg nor anyone else other than Columbus Nova's owners were involved in the decision to hire Cohen or provided funding for his engagement.\" So, Renato, what do you think of that?", "Well, you know, I think it's going to be up to investigators to probe the truth behind it. You know, the difference -- the only difference I think I have with Michael, I -- you know, and I respect his opinion quite a bit -- is just that I think that this was the LLC that was set up to pay Daniels and potentially, other women. I think those payments and how -- where that money comes from is going to be of interest. If it comes from a foreign source, that's a problem. And also, as Stormy Daniels' lawyer talked about yesterday, there were -- he alleges there were false statements made to the bank in connection with opening the account. That, potentially, is of interest. There needs to be more information to know whether or not there's a potential crime there but that's also something of interest. I think this helps all of us understand why federal prosecutors in Manhattan are taking a look at it.", "There you go. Michael Zeldin, Renato Mariotti, thank you both very much -- Chris.", "All right. The president's nominee for CIA director will face tough questions at her confirmation hearing today. What Gina Haspel plans to tell lawmakers about torture tactics used in terror interrogations. What is she going to say? How is going to explain what she would do with her new boss who seems to want to go back to those measures? Tough spot, next."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "RENATO MARIOTTI, FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR, PARTNER, THOMPSON, COBURN (via Skype)", "CAMEROTA", "MARIOTTI", "CAMEROTA", "MARIOTTI", "CAMEROTA", "MICHAEL ZELDIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST, FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR, FORMER SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO ROBERT MUELLER, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE", "CAMEROTA", "ZELDIN", "CAMEROTA", "ZELDIN", "CAMEROTA", "ZELDIN", "CAMEROTA", "MARIOTTI", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-55336", "program": "CNN CROSSFIRE", "date": "2002-6-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/04/cf.00.html", "summary": "Is Church Policy on Abusive Priests Strict Enough?", "utt": ["Welcome back to CROSSFIRE. Still to come, trucking through Florida with Janet Reno, if you can even imagine that. And Queen Elizabeth rides in a carriage that won't turn into a pumpkin. Right now, though, we're stepping into the pulpit. Today we got our first look at the U.S. Catholic bishop's response to the scandal of priests who molest children. Despite calls for a zero tolerance policy or a one-strike-and-you're-out policy, an ad hoc committee is recommending something different. In the future men who abuse one or more children will be removed from the priesthood and reported to authorities. That also goes for priests who abused more than one child in the past. The priests who have been caught molesting only one child might be allowed to stay. They have to have a clean record since the incident, have not been diagnosed as a pedophile, and be approved by a review board. Will the new rules satisfy the faithful, and who's willing to bet their child that a priest with one strike won't do it again? Joining us to answer those questions from New York City is Bill Donohue of the Catholic League.", "How are you doing?", "Bill, thank you for joining us very much, sir. Let me read to you from what our bishops released today. This is the new standard for past acts of child sexual abuse. And according to the bishop's document, regarding acts of sexual abuse of a minor committed prior to this date. If the cleric is a pedophile or if he has committed more than one act of sexual abuse on a minor, there will be a request from the cleric", "Well, as a matter of fact, they're not. A pedophile is somebody who rapes somebody.", "No, no, that's not what they're saying. What they're saying is this. If, in fact, from now on out, if you're involved in sexual assault, you're gone. If you've had multiple cases in the past, you're gone. If you were involved...", "... wait a minute -- if you were involved with a child and you've not been diagnosed as a pedophile, then it will be up to a lay review board. In other words, what they're saying is this, fellows. Let's tease it out. If you've got a priest today who's a senior citizen and who a generation ago was guilty of fondling, bad as that is, you may go out if you were -- if you're diagnosed as a pedophile you're automatically out. It is, in fact, zero tolerance for pedophiles past, present and future.", "Well wait a second Bill. Let me -- if I'm in a drunk driving accident, I don't need a diagnosis of drunk driving to be a drunk driver, do I? So I guess if I rape a child, I don't need a shrink to tell me I'm a pedophile. I am, by definition, correct?", "But of course. That's what -- that's what they're saying. If you've been diagnosed as a pedophile...", "... unless you've been diagnosed...", "... is you're not really a pedophile.", "There's a bit of a sting going on in the media on this. Look, I've been highly critical of the way the church has handled this in the past. But the fact of the matter is what they're saying is this: If you were guilty of one infraction in the past, like rape, you're gone because you're obviously a pedophile. What they're saying is that if you've not been diagnosed as a pedophile, but you have been involved in some kind of untoward condition, such as fondling or groping, then it'll go up to the lay review board, and you may still be out. That's a giant leap forward.", "Bill, I got four young kids and I am raising them in the Catholic Church. Tell me, why should I turn them over to a priest that ever once fondled or groped a child?", "Well, let me tell you something, if the person hasn't been diagnosed as a pedophile and, in fact, there are no outstanding crimes against them, either in the civil courts or in the criminal courts, and in fact if they're going to make public disclosure, it's a hell of a lot better than what you'd get at Harvard University, where next year if a girl is raped, she has to have an eyewitness.", "But don't you think that the holy mother church, which I love and you love, should have a higher standard than a secular college?", "No, look, what they're saying is there's going to be some diocesan autonomy in the draft. Now, they may change it. They may come -- they may raise the bar again, but what you haven't addressed is they're going to break the institutional code of secrecy, namely no more of these confidentiality agreements between lawyers, no more of this business of a guy like Shanley being shipped off to New York City or San Bernardino, and we don't know what his record is. This guy's record, his personnel records will travel with them wherever he goes. In other words, they're going to be looking in the window at these guys, finally.", "Well I -- you know I -- all of this, and everyone, of course, is glad the church is taking steps to make it better, but the church doesn't appear to be taking steps to understand how it happened in the first place. There have been no church-authorized studies into what about the culture of Catholic clergy has given rise to so many incidents of child abuse. Don't you think the church ought to get on that, and maybe figure out why?", "Yes, I think they will. And they have an office of child abuse that's going to be set up and institutionalized. But remember, we've had 220 priests since the beginning of this year who've had to step down because of some charges. That's less than one-half of 1 percent. I think one case is too many. But take a look at the general population, 8 percent. Take a look at elementary...", "Wait a second...", "... and secondary school children: 15 percent claim that they have been sexually aroused -- or abused by their teachers.", "... wait a second -- no, no. But Mr. Donohue, I mean there are estimates, you've seen them that anywhere from 30 to 60 percent of all Catholic priests are homosexual. I don't know if those are true or not. But clearly the incidence of homosexuality is far higher in the Catholic Church. Don't you think it's at least worth asking the question why?", "Well let me tell you something. This may surprise somebody because I'm a conservative. I don't believe that because you're gay you're going to necessarily act out. Now maybe you do.", "I don't, but I think it's...", "... interesting -- it's an interesting incidence.", "Yes, but you talk about the culture. I don't think there's anything peculiar to the Catholic Church's culture that allows for the numbers that they have. In fact, there are about the same percentage in the denominations of other religions, and it's less than in the general population. Now, there is a problem because I think we should hold Catholic priests to a higher standard. But let's get real in terms of this where it's coming from in the culture. Maybe you want to turn the channel and look at", "Well Bill, I want to also go -- hold our bishops to a higher standard.", "Yes.", "What should the punishment be for a bishop who aids and abets the rape of a child by shifting these predators around from parish and parish?", "He should be thrown out, all right, flat out...", "Cardinal Law -- Cardinal Law...", "... let's name names.", "That is -- that is the most abusive element to the whole thing, the most unconscionable element of the whole thing, of playing musical chairs with these people. But I think -- now that you're going to have the reporting procedures, I can't imagine -- I mean somebody's going to have to be almost drunk not to understand that the public is fed up with this.", "But how can we look for moral authority to Cardinal Law, Cardinal Egan or any other bishop, who anywhere in America or the world sent predators, knowingly -- knowingly -- sent predators into our communities?", "Well I think what they're trying to do in this document is to focus on the kids and what can be done at this point. I do expect that some people who could stay on technically for another four years may not.", "Bill Donohue from the Catholic League, one of the great defenders of the faith, thank you very much for joining us, friend. Appreciate it. Next in our CROSSFIRE \"News Alert,\" don't worry about India and Pakistan anymore, Al Sharpton's on the case. 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{"id": "CNN-122967", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2008-1-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/18/sitroom.03.html", "summary": "President Bush Announces Plan to Boost Economy; South Carolina Prepares to Vote", "utt": ["To our viewers, happening now: Even President Bush admits America could be on the brink of recession and he's now pushing Congress to give the economy a big shot in the arm. Also, Democrats are seizing on the economy, but they're also going after one another. We're following the presidential candidates in Nevada on this, the eve of their next big contest. And Southern comfort, which Republican will find it in South Carolina tomorrow? We're on the campaign trail in a state where campaigns traditionally have been made and broken. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. President Bush is trying today to stay on top of an issue that is driving the race to replace him. Of course that would be the economy. He's now laid out his vision of what Congress should do to give strapped Americans some immediate relief. Let's go to the White House. CNN's Kathleen Koch is standing by. The president toning down his normally optimistic statements about the state of the economy.", "Quite so, Wolf, a dramatic change of tone for this president, who is often accused by Democrats of being far too optimistic about the economy. But, you know, the R- word, recession, focuses people's attention. It's gotten the attention of this White House. And, today, the president admitted the economy needs a boost.", "A shot in the arm to keep the economy healthy, a rare admission by a president that the economy he once described as strong and getting stronger needs help.", "They are areas of real concern.", "The stimulus package President Bush is prescribing would be large, $140 billion to $150 billion. It would include tax incentives for businesses and tax relief for the American people. President Bush wouldn't give specifics, but sources on Capitol Hill say the White House has suggested tax rebates similar to those given in 2001, when individuals and families received checks for between $300 and $600.", "This gross package must be built on broad-based tax relief that will directly affect economic growth, and not the kind of spending projects that would have little immediate impact on our economy.", "But Democrats insist spending programs, combined with tax rebates, would be most effective.", "We know extending unemployment insurance is one of the most effective stimulus proposals because we have deployed it successfully in the past and it gets the most bang for the buck.", "Democrats are also upset that tax rebates would not help the poorest Americans, those who don't earn enough to pay income taxes. Aides on Capitol Hill say a plan that ignores the most needy won't pass, but the administration says that's not what this stimulus package is about.", "Not on thinking about ways to distribute and take care of different needs. Albeit those needs, perhaps, particularly important, we believe that this is what we're talking about right now, and that's growth.", "Democrats do applaud the president's decision not to insist extension of his tax cuts due to expire in 2010 be included in the package.", "So, when might a stimulus package become a reality? Both sides are saying as soon as possible, perhaps a matter of weeks. Wolf, this is certainly the kind of item that the president would love to tout in his January 28 State of the Union address.", "Kathleen Koch, at the White House, thank you very much. Out on the campaign trail, Democrats say they would do better than President Bush helping Americans in these tough economic times. Republicans are talking about what they would do as well. All the presidential candidates are focusing in on fears about the economy. It's part of their strategy to win contests tomorrow. CNN's Dana Bash has more now on South Carolina's Republican primary. Actually, Dana Bash is standing by. I want to go to Jessica Yellin in Las Vegas first. The Democrats are getting ready for their caucuses out there tomorrow and they're making final appeals to voters.", "They are, Wolf. They are addressing voters' concerns about the economy. But they're also taking time to beat up on each other, trying to fire up their supporters and make sure they get a strong turnout tomorrow.", "You are what we have.", "On the campaign trail, the candidates are promising to heal economic wounds.", "I think your government that you pay tax dollars to should do more to help small businesses.", "We modernize our unemployment insurance laws to cover more people, that we get help to the states directly.", "I have called for a tax rebate. Every American immediately gets $250, and then an additional $250 if the economy keeps on getting worse.", "Sounds substantive, right? Well, while the candidates are taking issues, the campaigns or their supporters are on the attack. (", "Hillary Clinton", "The ad says Hillary Clinton supporters went to court to prevent working people from voting, and Hillary Clinton has no shame. The ad is paid for by a labor union that supports Barack Obama. Now John Edwards is calling Obama a hypocrite, since the ad is paid for by one of those reviled special interest groups.", "I hope Senator Obama will call for this ad, first denounce the ad, second, call for it to be stopped.", "And camp Clinton is getting in on the circular firing squad, leaping on this from Obama.", "I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.", "Clinton supporters say they're stupefied, baffled that Obama would praise Ronald Reagan, a man they say made life worse for women, minorities, and the homeless, and proves she's the real Democrat in the race.", "Wolf, the tit-for-tat didn't stop there. This afternoon, Senator Obama accused Senator Clinton basically of cribbing from his economic stimulus plan. But the Clinton people laughed. They say she came out with her plan first. Bottom line, there's not a love lost out here on the campaign trail -- Wolf.", "Jessica Yellin in Vegas for us -- Jessica, thanks very much. Let's head over to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. Dana Bash is watching the Republicans. They're getting ready for a contest tomorrow. Normally, what happens in South Carolina for Republicans goes on to happen as far as the Republican eventual nominee is concerned. This year could be different, though, Dana.", "Well, that's right. Republicans take a lot of pride in the fact that here in South Carolina in the fact that they traditionally, at least in recent history, do pick the GOP nominee. But tomorrow's primary may not just be a test about whether the Republicans can beat one another in the primary. It also may be an early indicator of whether they can beat a Democrat in November.", "Mike Huckabee's final plea for South Carolina votes goes like this.", "And if you want someone who understands what life growing up in the South, growing up like so many of you did would be in the White House, I ask for your vote and your confidence.", "Fred Thompson is going for Southern bonding too, his drawl a bit thicker here.", "It sure is good to be among folks that don't think I know -- that I talk funny and know how to cook green beans.", "Any advantage helps for GOP candidates facing their first Southern contest.", "Every year since 1980, South Carolina has picked who the next Republican nominee would be.", "Critical because of that and winning in the South is also a test of whether a Republican can win the general election. Look at this map. In 2004, the only big Northern state George W. Bush won was Ohio. It was the Southern states in red that propelled his victory.", "If you cannot win in the South, you will not win the presidency. That's a fact of life for Republican candidates. It's actually a fact of life for Democratic candidates as well.", "And we're going to join together here in Nevada in a great campaign.", "Which makes former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's decision to leave South Carolina in search of delegates in Nevada risky.", "One of the biggest challenges for Romney is, can he compete in the South? Can he appeal to social conservatives, the evangelical wing of the Republican Party?", "But South Carolina poses the greatest challenge for this man.", "We will win tomorrow.", "John McCain must prove he can win among Republicans outside New Hampshire, where independents fueled his comeback, trying his form of South Carolina bonding.", "It has enriched my life to be able to be among the most patriotic citizens in this country.", "Now, I talked to some Republicans, and they say it is critical for the party to reach beyond the conservative South and find a nominee who can do that. Now, that might be true, but the reality, Wolf, is that you can't win without your base. And the ideological and geographical base of the GOP is right here in the South -- Wolf.", "All right, Dana, thanks very much. Dana will be watching the story unfold with all of us tomorrow. Let's go to Jack Cafferty. He's got \"The Cafferty File\" in New York -- Jack.", "They just say anything, don't they?", "Anything. They're shameless. They will say anything.", "Are you surprised? Are you surprised?", "All right. You know, things are getting ugly out there on the campaign trail -- excuse me; I couldn't help myself -- when the candidates start going after the news media. And that's what's happening right now. First, there was that heated exchange between Bill Clinton and a local TV reporter in California, the former president getting visibly annoyed when the reporter asked him about the decision to allow caucuses in Las Vegas casinos, where a lot of Barack Obama supporters work. Enter Republican candidate Mitt Romney. When he was asked about the role of lobbyists in his campaign by an AP reporter yesterday, he became defensive. He said he don't have no stinking lobbyists running his campaign. What he does have though is a high-level adviser who's also the chairman of a large communications firm. Oh. And John Edwards is whining about the media, too. His campaign is launching a full-on assault on the media for what they claim is inadequate and unfair press coverage. His communications director says -- quote -- \"For the better part of a year, the media has focused on two celebrity candidates\" -- unquote. He wasn't finished whining. He said, the media continued to focus on Obama and Clinton, despite the fact that Edwards beat Clinton in Iowa and that polls show competitive races in states like Nevada and South Carolina. You see, complaining about the media comes as naturally to a politician as having his hand out. Here's the question. Is it the news media's job to keep all the candidates happy? Go to CNN.com/caffertyfile and get on my blog and have yourself a merry time -- Wolf.", "Jack, thank you very much. And I have read your blog, and they do. To some, it's a symbol of pride, for others, a symbol of pride. One governor says there are more important issues to talk about.", "If you were to talk to the vast majority of South Carolinians, they would say that we do not need to be debating where the Confederate flag is or is not.", "South Carolina's governor talks about the Confederate flag and other issues that have crept into the presidential race. Also, Barack Obama explains his weaknesses. How much will they really matter? And regarding that British Airways flight that came down short on the runway, just before it landed, its engines simply stopped responding. We will have the latest. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KOCH (voice over)", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KOCH", "BUSH", "KOCH", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-184045", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2012-4-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/07/smn.05.html", "summary": "Fred Couples Leads at Masters", "utt": ["All right, so let's talk a little golf, shall we? Tee-off is on at the masters. We're keeping an eye at the leaderboard. Let's straight to Patrick Snell. Patrick, good morning. The surprise leader now, 52-year-old Fred Couples? He would be the oldest golfer to win a major, right, if he wins it?", "Absolutely right. Randi, yes, welcome to Augusta. This is moving day at today's major. Let me get straight into Freddy couple, 52 years young, what a story unfolding. He won his first green jacket back in 1992. This is a player who's just rolled back the years. There's a real buzz about the place. He first came here, you know, back in 1983 to play as a professional and a quite staggering record. He hasn't missed the cut on more than two occasions since, quite incredible. What a story it would be if he could go on to take his second major off that spectacular 1992 triumph. What's impressive is at his age he's got great length off the tee. And that gives him added confidence going through the week. He believes he can still be a major factor here at Augusta.", "This is certainly getting exciting. Let's talk about tiger woods for a little bit as a well. He was certainly a heavy favorite entering into this. He's struggled and looked frustrated on the course. But do you think we should count him out yet?", "No, definitely not, Randi. Tiger Woods is a force to be reckoned with. The crowds are here in the thousands watching him tee off. He's eight shots back. He has a lot of work to do, there's no question about that. But at three over par, it just wasn't happened for him on Friday. He had such high hopes coming into this convenient. He'd won recently on the PGA at the Arnold palmer invitational in Orlando. That was his first tour win in two-and-a- half years. But he just went to pieces in on the backside. We saw frustration. We're going to show you some video of him kicking away his club in anger. That's certainly not good to see for the thousands packed around the green and watching on worldwide television. This is hole 16. He took a nine iron. He couldn't put it on the green add his frustrations kicked him quite literally. Woods at three over par with a lot of work to do. Tiger sticking to his guns, he's a defined character, a fighter. He still believes he has a real chance.", "I've been around the block for a number of years, and I understand how to be patient. I understand how to grind it out. And the tournament's not over. I mean, you know, last year in the final run I made up seven shots. So, you know, I can do this. I've just got to be patient.", "Got to be patient. Let me show you the leaderboard very quickly. There you can see it's Jason Duffner and Freddy Couples. Tiger, eight shots back, Randi.", "Thank you for the update. Patrick Snell there watching it at Augusta. Kim Kardashian's love life grabbing headlines once again. Is she or is she not dating rapper Kanye West? Her surprising answer is next."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "PATRICK SNELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAYE", "SNELL", "TIGER WOODS, GOLFER", "SNELL", "KAYE"]}
{"id": "CNN-170972", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2011-8-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/21/bn.03.html", "summary": "Rebels Advance on Tripoli; Libyan Rebels Take Zawiya", "utt": ["These are pictures we are just getting in from our own Sara Sidner and her team. They are in Tripoli right now. You can see the video. You can see the streets around what's called Green Square. It used to be called Green Square. At least the rebels not call it Martyr Square in Tripoli. Not very crowded. The rebels went in. Then they pulled out, apparently they're concerned about their security. But Sara is joining us on the phone right now. Sara, the images are powerful from Tripoli. You were right there in Green Square, now called Martyr Square. Where are you now? Give us a sense of what you're seeing and hearing.", "We are outside the city. We basically had to turn and run. We were following the rebels in. And one of the gentleman that was with us in the car said get out, get out now, we have information that Gadhafi's troops are headed this way. They say they have that from intelligence. We ourselves did not see any of Gadhafi's forces in the area, but we certainly felt the tension. We also got quite a scare when they said there are snipers. We also, you know, did not see snipers, though oftentimes you wouldn't see the snipers but you would see people who have been shot. We did not see that as well. However, when we were told to leave, there was definitely fear in the eyes and these rebels definitely said they meant business. They were taking their positions, so we moved out of the Square. I can tell you that the Square picture is very empty for the most part. I mean, what we were seeing is perhaps 30, 40 rebels who were there, most of them armed and ready to fight. We were not seeing civilians really. We saw maybe a few people who were milling about. But, again, most of them seemed to be people who were intent on fighting and staking their claim.", "Am I right in assuming that all of the rebel forces who were at the Green Square area, they have all left or did some remain behind?", "No, no. The rebels, 90 percent of them stayed behind. They were taking positions because they were preparing for a fight with what they thought were Gadhafi's forces pushing into the Square. We also, on our way out of town, saw dozens upon dozens, the most that we've seen so far, number of cars with rebels inside. They were all headed toward Tripoli with their guns ready. So what they are expecting is a real battle here. And we do want to reiterate there are a lot of rumors flying, as you might imagine, Wolf, and you've been in this sort of situations where, you know, there is so much going on. There is a lot of fear, there's a lot of nervousness, but there's also the feeling of jubilation. But it's tempered because they are not quite sure what's happening with the Gadhafi regime. They were expecting thousands of professional army members out in the streets and they are not seeing them. So they're not sure what to expect, to be honest.", "And Sara, we know that two of Gadhafi's sons, Saif al-Islam and Saadi, have been arrested. Based on all the information you're getting, do you have any clue, any idea where Moammar Gadhafi himself might be right now?", "No. Nut I can tell you that one of the main rumors that's going around right now -- and we even heard people celebrating in Zawiya as we were leaving, because they have heard, they believed that Moammar Gadhafi himself have been arrested. There was quite a bit of firing in the air, cheering. We even heard children and women cheering and chanting \"Free Libya, Free Libya,\" but then that died down because everyone said, oh, we don't know, this might be a rumor, we do know his sons have been arrested. Nobody so far has heard from Moammar Gadhafi in the last hour or so. So we are all wondering exactly where he is and so are the rebels.", "Because the rumors are flying all over the place about Gadhafi, that he's escaped to Algeria, to other countries in Africa, that he's hiding out some place in Tripoli. We are standing by to get accurate information. Sara, hold on for one moment, because General Wesley Clark, the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, is joining us now. General Clark, NATO, obviously very much involved in this operation. The NATO air power but ground forces as well training these rebels. What can you tell us about what NATO troops have done on the ground as opposed to in the air to help the rebel forces get rid of the Gadhafi regime?", "Well, Wolf, it's pretty clear that the NATO forces, the French and British advisers and perhaps others are in there helping them plan and organize this, because what you have seen in the last four weeks is a dramatic improvement in the ability of the rebels to maneuver on the ground. And it's the maneuver augmented by NATO air support which could go after the heavy forces of Gadhafi.", "All right. General, hold on one second because we got a tape of Sara doing a report. I want to just listen to her report.", "Ten minutes later after we talked to some of those in the Square who were happy to be back in their homes who had left to Tunisia, who had left to other countries for safety, they had come back to fight.", "All right. We're going to cue that tape up. General, sorry. Let's continue this conversation. We'll get Sara on the phone because I want you to talk to her as well. You were telling our viewers here in the United States and around the world that there are NATO troops on the ground with the rebels helping them. Is that right?", "No, I don't think that's actually technically accurate. What I'm told is that there are some advisers in there from national forces, but these are not necessarily under NATO command and control. They may be special forces. They may be under the British government. They may be under some other government's control. But it's clear that they have done some work in helping the Libyan rebels organize and plan their maneuver because...", "I want to interrupt that, General. It's not -- these special forces, whether they are specifically under the command of NATO or directly under the command of various NATO allies, they haven't just been training these rebels. They've actually helped them go in with precise logistics and intelligence and information to help in this assault. Is that your understanding?", "My understanding is they have been able to provide some information to them, that clearly there's been some logistics brought in, not only -- or perhaps not primarily by NATO member-countries, but by some Arab countries involved in this. And there is a broad coalition working on the ground that is not under NATO command and control is my understanding. NATO is working the air campaign in accordance with the U.N. Security Council resolution.", "All right, General, hold on for a second. Sara Sidner is with us on the phone. She is on the outskirts of Tripoli. She was at Green Square. But now they pulled back for security reasons. Sara, do you see any evidence of Westerners aiding these rebels as they move towards Tripoli?", "We are not seeing evidence of that. We drove quite a bit around. We went directly to Green Square, drove through the city from the west and we didn't see anyone in the vicinity of the Square. All we saw were rebel checkpoints and then rebels in the Square and that was about it. Now, to be fair, it is about 4:30 in the morning our time so it's not a time when people would normally be out. But if we were to see anything such as, you know, certain kind of security force, we're not seeing that anywhere near the Square.", "General, do you have a question for Sara Sidner who is on the scene?", "Yes, I do. And Sara, can you -- can you talk to people and find out whether they have pushed the Gadhafi forces back into this so-called district that is controlled by Gadhafi?", "I'm sorry. You will have to ask me that again.", "Apparently, Gadhafi's forces control one small district in the city. But are the rebel forces pushing against it or are they staying away from it? Have they probed it? What's the status of that?", "We did hear that they were -- that the rebels say they are not in complete control, that Gadhafi forces do control a small section of the city. That much we do know. What we do not know is how they got the information that they believe that those troops were then turning around and coming into Green Square which the rebels had taken control of. So, yes, we do know that they -- that they are not in complete control of the city and that there are parts, if not just one part, that Gadhafi forces are still in and still control. But we are not hearing the blasts, booms and bangs that you normally hear when there is a firefight going on.", "Right.", "General, it's going to be daylight -- it's going to be daylight in Libya very soon. It's 4:30 a.m. there now. What do you expect once the sun comes up in terms of fighting and resistance, if you will, from whatever remains of Gadhafi loyalists?", "Well, I think that the fighting -- I think that if Gadhafi still retains his district, I think he'll tighten it up. If there's anyone in control of that district, they'll tighten it up. They'll put snipers on the rooftop. The snipers will have better fields of view. These rebels who have been up all night, they're going to crash down and try to get a few hours of rest and reload and eat something. And so the real time to have broken through Gadhafi's resistance is tonight. Right now. Before that line of defense hardens around Gadhafi's district. The fact that Sara says she's not hearing the shooting going on indicates to me that the rebels' attempts to clear the city are not very well organized, honestly.", "I'm sure they are not very well organized. Is that your assessment, Sara, that these -- that these rebel forces, as they move in, they obviously aren't highly trained professional military. Is that right?", "That is absolutely correct, Wolf. I mean, what we know is, in a really surprising turn, we bumped into someone who we talked to about five months ago when we were in Benghazi, who had never held a gun before, who was from Tripoli but has lived in Canada for years as someone who worked in IT, never picked up a gun and had to start training because he wanted to come back to his country because he was so upset with what is going on and he felt that uprising that it was about time. So he came back here and we just met him in Tripoli. Now, he and his Tripoli brigade, as they are called, these are all guys from Tripoli, they know that city. And that's one advantage they are having. Really know the city well. But they have to start learning how to be a soldier from ex-military, from anyone who would teach them in just about four to five months' time. And so what you are seeing is a group of people who may not have the kind of coordination that you might expect certainly from a professional army. They are definitely not a professional army. What we saw in the Square was that of panic, a little bit of concern about how they are going to deal with any kind of tanks flowing in there. What we're seeing", "It looks like they may -- Gadhafi loyalists may still control a small part of Tripoli but the overwhelming part looks like it's under the control of the rebels as is the country right now. And as the president of the United States said in a statement that he just released tonight, the momentum against the Gadhafi regime has reached a tipping point. The president saying Tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a tyrant. The Gadhafi regime is showing signs of collapsing. We'll take a quick break. More of our coverage right after this."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "SIDNER", "BLITZER", "SIDNER", "BLITZER", "GEN. WESLEY CLARK (RET.), FMR. NATO SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER", "BLITZER", "SIDNER (voice over)", "BLITZER", "CLARK", "BLITZER", "CLARK", "BLITZER", "SIDNER", "BLITZER", "CLARK", "SIDNER", "CLARK", "SIDNER", "CLARK", "BLITZER", "CLARK", "BLITZER", "SIDNER", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-158997", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-12-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1012/02/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Senator McCain Comes Out Against Repealing \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\"", "utt": ["Looking here, we have 25 seconds before this vote is officially finished and about 231 now voting on the floor of the House. The question is, is this essentially DOA in the House. What will happen in the Senate? I want to bring in Wolf Blitzer who is in Washington. Let me ask you a logistical question. What happens next?", "Hello?", "Wolf, can you hear me?", "Reporter: Now I can hear you. I wasn't hearing you before.", "My question is this, now that the vote is officially finished, logistically speaking, what is next?", "Well, it's a little bit of a theater, as Dana has been talking about, because it's probably not going to pass in the U.S. Senate and as a result they will have to work on a compromise that will allow the tax rates for the wealthy to go forward for two years, maybe three years. It's not going to be a permanent arrangement. They are going to kick the ball down the road a little bit. But it will give the negotiators, the president has designated his budget director to work with the Republican leadership on the hill hoping to get a compromise. And by all accounts, they are getting closer and closer to that compromise that would allow the tax rates to continue for everyone for the next two, maybe three years. But as I say, right now, what the Democrats have managed to do in the House of Representatives, they have on record the fact that the Democrats, by and large, they support making the tax rates -- the Bush tax rates for the middle class, those earning under $250,000 a year, permanent. The Republicans voted against that. So they will be able to argue, well, the Republicans voted against it. The Republicans argue we voted against it because we want all of the tax rates for everyone to be made permanent. So it's a little bit of political theater going on right now. Everyone is still getting ready for the compromise that presumably will be in the works.", "Looking at this vote, Wolf, and at these numbers here, we still have on the floor of the House 167 nays. What do you make of that number?", "Those are the Republicans by and large, who say, you know, they want all of the taxpayers, everybody who has to pay IRS taxes, they want all of the tax rates that were approved in 2001 and 2003 during the Bush administration to continue as is. So it's a little bit of a debate going on, a little bit of what Republicans like to call \"class warfare,\" differentiating between the rich and the middle class, if you will. So it's an interesting development. But I think it still requires, if they are going to go forward in this lame-duck session, it's going to require a compromise on the part of the Democrats and the Republicans on the other on what to do with the tax rates, because if they don't pass formal legislation between now and the end of the year, everyone's tax rates will go back to what they were during the Clinton administration, which is a little bit higher than those 2001-2003 tax rates.", "If they don't act come December 31, all of our taxes go up. So that is one huge story that we're following out of Washington. Mr. Blitzer, the floor is yours. What else do you have on the Political Ticker?", "Well, right now the taxes are very significant, and another significant development, the hearings before the Senate armed services committee on repealing \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell,\" the policy that forbids gays from serving openly in the United States military. And John McCain is the ranking Republican on the committee saying this is not a good time to change the policy right now. He says it's not a good time for combat personnel, those young combat soldiers and marines in Iraq and Afghanistan to be forced into changing the policy right now. He doesn't like it. At this time he said we should be inherently cautious about making any changes that would affect our military and what changes we do make should be made with careful and deliberate consideration. Secretary Gates and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Mullen testified saying that it's a good time to change the policy but McCain strongly disagrees. What will be interesting is what is going to happen tomorrow when some of the other chiefs will be testifying, including the marine core general who opposes getting rid of Don't Ask, Don't Tell right now. So that will be interesting. We know that the chairman of the armed services committee, Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, supports getting rid of the policy. One final thing that is moving on the CNN Ticker right now, CNN politics, Newt Gingrich singling that he's irritated are Michael Steele, saying that -- he's been supportive of Steele in the past. He's saying that Steele, whoever is the new chairman, especially if it's Steele, would be a very strong number two to deal with the fundraising and administrative issues. Apparently they feel Steele hasn't been that strong. He hasn't yet announced whether he's going to seek re-election as chairman of the RNC. A lot of people think he will but he's facing stiff competition. A lot of Republican leaders are lining up to challenge him.", "Wolf Blitzer with what is hot off the Political Ticker. We've got to go. Hour two is coming up in just a moment. We've got a sneak a quick break in. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "WOLF BLITZER, HOST, \"THE SITUATION ROOM\"", "BALDWIN", "BLITZER", "BALDWIN", "BLITZER", "BALDWIN", "BLITZER", "BALDWIN", "BLITZER", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-297749", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2016-11-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/06/ndaysun.02.html", "summary": "Hillary Clinton Rallies With Celebrities", "utt": ["Let's once and for all as we welcome her to the stage, let's prove that love Trumps hate. Katy Perry!", "Katy Perry, there she comes. One of many celebrities joining Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail in recent months. This is part of Clinton's push to connect with those younger voters and try to get them to the polls.", "Tonight I want to hear you roar. If you're still all geared up and ready to go, come join -- come join us at Independence Hall Monday night with President Obama and Michelle Obama!", "Well, that's not how Donald Trump sees it. Yesterday Trump repeated his claim that Clinton might be cheating, that's his word, by bringing celebrities to her rallies.", "We didn't bring any so- called -- so-called stars along. We didn't need them.", "You know, the reason Hillary has to do that is nobody comes for her", "All right. So here to discuss, Hilary Rosen, she's a CNN political commentator, Hillary Clinton supporter; Amy Kremer, Donald Trump supporter and co-found of Women Vote Trump; Brian Stelter, CNN senior media correspondent and host of \"RELIABLE SOURCES.\" Welcome back, everybody. Amy, so when Donald Trump says this is a form of cheating when you bring celebrities out on the campaign trail and he, tonight, is going to have Ted Nugent out at his event. Is that a form of cheating when Donald Trump does it?", "I don't know what he meant by cheating, I don't.", "OK. All right.", "I don't. But --", "That is refreshing.", "No, I don't.", "Victor, for you it is --", "Let's just say I have no idea what he's talking about.", "Well -- I mean, I don't. I mean, maybe he meant --", "Other than that Donald Trump thinks everything is cheating.", "Well, I think what he's trying --", "What I thought he said --", "He wants it to be Clinton versus Trump. He doesn't want to bring in surrogates. He doesn't want to bring in celebrities.", "But wait a minute. Are you telling me that if these people didn't call his campaign and say, hey, I want to come campaign for you, he would say no?", "No, I'm with you. Listen, I don't know if will have Beyonce or Jay Z because he said he was offended by Jay Z's language the other night. I would say they're the first family of entertainment. Absolutely they would be coming to a rally but there have been lots of celebrities. So, yes, if they were to call and ask to come, Trump would have them come. But I think I can understand why in the final days he feels like he has momentum. He doesn't want anything to affect that so the appearance of celebrities seems to affect his momentum. That's his impression.", "Right.", "I mean, the thing is his message is resonating with America. You see the crowds that he has. And you can't say that Hillary Clinton is able to bring in those same crowds. She's not. She has to bring in the celebrities. So when your message is resonating, that's all you need. He doesn't need anybody else out there because the people showing up to hear him.", "What do make of that, Hilary?", "That's not what it is because it's about the audience, it's not about the candidates. It's about a targeted audience so when Hillary Clinton has Jay Z and Beyonce, she is looking for African-American youth. When she sends Katy Perry to the University at Las Vegas in Nevada...", "That doesn't --", "... she is -- she is looking to turn out college voters, Miley Cyrus going to the dorms over here at George Mason University. So it is not about the candidate it's about how are you broadening your audience and Donald Trump hasn't been able to do that. I do think there might be one other thing going on because Donald Trump for his entire career has been kind of in that celebrity world.", "But to say he has --", "And what he has found over the last year and a half of this campaign is that his celeb friends are really not with him on this. You know, whether it's the Russell Simmons or the --", "Because we see the impact on his businesses.", "... but not in politics. They're not with him.", "And they potentially don't want (ph) it (ph) impacting (ph)", "I think that we should hold all of our leaders in a higher place where they should actually exhibit behavior that, you know, is OK for our children to see. I don't think that it's OK for anybody to be talking about other people that way. I mean, we've been talking, you know, this week about the meanness that we get from Twitter when people are able to sit behind a keyboard. I think that we've all seen it. We're all ready for this campaign cycle to be over because it's been hard for us. The meanness out there. We need to respect each other. We may not agree with each other all the time but we need to respect each other. And we don't need to resort to name-calling. It's not helpful to anybody.", "I agree.", "To your point though, do we have any gauge, any indication as to whether these events for Hillary Clinton do equate to votes? I mean, we do know that there is large engagement of the young voter, especially when you look at the Bernie Sanders people --", "Well, just look at the -- you know, we'll see what happens in Ohio on Tuesday with these two events she's been doing there. But just the other day in North Carolina at the Pharrell event at University of North Carolina, we saw an uptake in young African- American turnout and so we will be seeing, I think, the fruits of this because it is all about, you know, exciting the base.", "They don't always vote. I mean, what kids are not going to go show up for a free concert. These are free concerts.", "But we don't know -- I mean --", "So they show up at the concert. You don't know that --", "Yes.", "We'll see.", "Let me bring Brian in here because the Clinton campaign has been strategic about where they're placing these events. They're close to these early voting locations. Not just randomly but they are -- the president even gives the address. It's two minutes away. It's a short walk.", "Sometimes there's even transportation to head over to the voting center afterwards. There's almost too many stars to count on the Clinton side. You can say, oh, that's all Hollywood liberals. There's some truth to that. But there's a lot of stars we're not hearing about that are out every day. Christina Aguilera having a concert. The creator of \"Scandal\" Shonda Rhimes out on the stump yesterday.", "Yes.", "Some of the stars of \"Scandal\" in states like Ohio. It's interesting how underneath the surface it's not just the Beyonce but lots of others stars not appearing with Clinton but on her behalf working these battleground states. And it will be very interesting to see how much that pays off on Tuesday.", "All right.", "All right. Brian, Hilary, Amy, thank you so much. Always appreciate your voice here. All right. Leading up to Election Day and we are less than 48 hours away.", "Yes. Of course we will have every race, every result covered. Special live coverage all day here on CNN until the very last vote is counted. Count on us. What happens on Wednesday if Donald Trump wins? Will Mexico at least have a contingency plan? We have a reporter who will be in Mexico City. What will they do they're calling about this hurricane, they say for its economy?", "\"Saturday Night Live\" too real quickly using this last weekend of the campaign to get in prompted (ph) says (ph) a few last jokes?", "No.", "I don't think they're going to be the last jokes.", "They've got a few more after the election, I'm sure.", "How are you both doing this week?", "Really, really great, Erin. They're all still buying it.", "It wasn't all laughs. 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{"id": "CNN-237904", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2014-09-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/01/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Americans Detained In North Korea Speak To CNN's Will Ripley", "utt": ["I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet. Now CNN speaks exclusively to three Americans held in North Korea. Struggling Manchester United make a shock move for Colombian striker Falcao. And activists in Hong Kong make a stand after China confirms the city must choose its next leader from a list hand-picked by Beijing. Now, we begin with a television exclusive from North Korea. Right now, three Americans are being detained in the reclusive nation. And they sat down with CNN just a short time ago to talk about their treatment and send messages home. Let's briefly tell you about these three men. Now Kenneth Bae has been held the longest. He was arrested November 2012 accused of hostile acts to bring down the government in Pyongyang. Now Bae is serving a 15 year prison sentence. Matthew Miller Todd was taken into custody this April. And according to North Korean media, he entered the country seeking asylum and tore up his tourist visa. And Jeffrey Edward Fowle has been detained since May. He allegedly left a bible in a hotel room. Now CNN was allowed to speak with each man for about five minutes. And CNN's Will Ripley joins us now live from Pyongyang. And Will, what did they tell you?", "Well, they told us that their situation is growing increasingly desperate. Kenneth Bae, as you know, has already been convicted of crimes against the North Korean government here and he is serving a 15 year sentence at a labor camp where he works -- he works hard labor eight hours a day, agricultural work, we're told. And he works six days a week. But recently he was in the hospital, because he says his health conditions have been failing. Here is what he told us when we spoke to him.", "I'm serving 15 year sentence right now. And I've been going back and forth from hospital to the labor camp last year-and-a-half. And right now I'm serving at the labor camp right now.", "Tell me about the conditions at the labor camp.", "Condition at labor camp is I'm working eight hours a day six days a week and working agricultural work to other hard labor that is required to do every day.", "Do you feel you're being treated humanely.", "Yes.", "And, your message to your family.", "Well, I'm sure they're very worried about my health at this time. And even though right now last month, month-and-a-half my heart is getting -- it's been failing, so right now what I can say to my family and friends is to continue to pray for me and also ask them to continue on (inaudible) getting me released here.", "Your message for the American government.", "Well, American government right now I've been asking the American government to act upon getting me released here. And I do believe that special envoy need to come in order to resolve the situation that I am in right now. So, I do ask U.S. government to send an envoy soon as possible and other -- I think that's the only hope that I have right now, you know, for me to go home and be reunited with my family.", "What is the bottom line about your situation here and the message that you want to put out to the world.", "So right now is that I'm here. I've been here for almost two years now. And then I do believe that I'm -- I've been treated humanely as possible. They have been doing that for me. But at the same time I realize that at this point that is -- I've been here -- I am the American that has been here the longest since the Korean War. And I do believe that sooner that this get resolved it would be better for not only myself, for the rest of the other Americans may come in the future as well.", "Bae was found guilty of what the North Korean government calls a Christian plot to overthrow the regime here. The other two Americans are currently being detained, but they're not in prison yet. In fact, they're staying in hotel rooms here in Pyongyang. Matthew Miller is the young man who tore up his tourist visa when he entered the airport here and sought asylum, and also Jeffrey Fowle, a father from Dayton, Ohio left a bible behind while he was on a government rail tour that he was taking as a tourist. Both men say they have signed confessions and have apologized to the North Korean government and its people for breaking the law here. But now all three men are desperately asking for some kind of intervention from the U.S. government to get them back home, Kristie.", "There in North Korea, how did you secure these interviews? And under what kind of conditions did you conduct these interviews with Kenneth Bae and the other American prisoners in North Korea?", "When we arrived here in Pyongyang five days ago, Kristie, one of the first things we did was put in a formal request to speak with the detained Americans. And we were told that it was highly unlikely that that request would be granted. So today we set out on another day of a government guided bus tour. We were supposed to be touring a temple two hours north of the capital city here. When we were in the middle of lunch abruptly pulled out of lunch and told we needed to get in a van right now and head back towards the city to speak with a high ranking government official. As we were in the van, our government minders were making phone calls with top level officials. But we still thought that we were going to talk to someone in the government as we pulled in here to Pyongyang to a hotel in the center of the city. And only when we got out of the van and prepared to walk in the building were we told that plans had changed and we would speak with the detained Americans. But they were very specific conditions. We have five minutes with each of them. And we could only talk about certain topics, which were the charges they were facing, the conditions that they're being held in, and any message they have for their families and the government. If we exceeded the time or strayed beyond those topics we were told there would be consequences for that. We abided by the conditions that we agreed to. We interviewed the men under five minutes for each of them. And tonight we're not awaiting to see what the U.S. government response will be to their plea for help.", "All three men making that plea, an appeal for their release. But what will it take to get North Korea on board to release these three Americans in its custody?", "You know, the sense I get from speaking with government officials here -- and we have been able to have some pretty candid conversations -- is that now is the time when the North Korean government appears to be ready to open up a direct line of communication. And it's very important to them to have a line of communication with the United States. There's a lot of tension right now in this region. Certainly North Korea for years has been the focus of sanctions from -- you know, unilateral and multi-lateral sanctions. The United States a driving force there. It's obviously had quite an effect on the economy of this country. At the same time, one of their huge benefactors here in North Korea is China. There have been some tensions along the border with China that have developed in recent months. And so it seems that the North Koreans appear to be open and willing and eager, in fact, to have some line of discussion with the United States. And I would imagine they are hopeful that a big name from the United States, someone like a Bill Clinton who came here to secure the release of journalists who crossed over illegally, or one of the detainees mentioned George W. Bush. Some big name from the United States coming here to Pyongyang to sit down with government officials and perhaps work out a deal possibly to secure the release of these American citizens.", "So what they want is some sort of high level intervention. Will Ripley, we'll leave it at that. Will Ripley reporting live for us with that exclusive from inside North Korea. You're watching News Stream. Still to come, Britain promises to take on the fight against radical Islam starting at home. We'll take a look at what Muslims in the country's capital are saying about the UK's new crackdown on terror. We'll also bring you live to northern Iraq where we've seen an ISIS defeat. Details ahead."], "speaker": ["KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KENNETH BAE, AMERICAN DETAINED IN NORTH KOREA", "RIPLEY", "BAE", "RIPLEY", "BAE", "RIPLEY", "BAE", "RIPLEY", "BAE", "RIPLEY", "BAE", "RIPLEY", "LU STOUT", "RIPLEY", "LU STOUT", "RIPLEY", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-158808", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-11-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1011/28/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Heading Home after the Holiday", "utt": ["Millions of Americans are heading home right now after the long Thanksgiving weekend with friends and relatives. CNN is committed to keeping you informed on travel issues you need to be aware of. Our Sandra Endo has been monitoring the comings and goings of Reagan National Airport in Washington -- Sandra.", "Well, Joe, pretty easy day for travelers here at Reagan National Airport. Take a look at all these lanes. We have not seen them filled up the entire day. And the short lines that we have seen, we've noticed that travelers have been easily getting through the security lines. What they will see is increased signage and travel advisories indicating what they can bring on board, what they're not allowed to. And one of the new requirements by TSA is that travelers cannot bring in, carry on or check in toner and printer cartridges. And as you know, that's a result of last month's terror bomb plot that targeted the United States. Now earlier we talked to travelers who had just arrived here in the nation's capital and this is what they had to say about their travel experience.", "It was good, not bad. A little bit increases security where I traveled from, Knoxville, Tennessee. But pretty smooth over all.", "It was fine honestly. I just walked right through. I had no problem moving up and back and I didn't -- I saw one person getting patted down, but it really -- it's actually faster than usual it seems like.", "And here at Reagan National, they have one of those controversial body scanning machines in effect right here. And actually there are only 400 used nationwide out of 70 airports. So when you do the math, there's really a small percentage of passengers who actually have to go through those screening machines and virtually, the consensus here so far is that so far so good in terms of air travel this very busy holiday weekend -- Joe.", "All right. You got that right. Sandra Endo at Reagan National Airport this Sunday, thank you so much. And,", "Yes, J.J.?", "That's right. This is one of those places where you say J.J. and everybody and everybody looks up and says, what.", "What, me?", "So, what have we got going on?", "Well, you know, like Sandra said, things have been going really well overall you know. The airports in particular, the delays have been relatively minor and it's only been a few airports that we've been talking about. Teterboro right now looking at a ground stop though; we've had some significant problems here all day today. And this is just due to volume; it's not even weather-related. Reagan National in D.C., departure delays, 30 minutes; it's been on the increase. And White Plains looking at two hour and 20-minute delays; that's getting into White Plains. Hartsfield Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, the busiest airport in the world, has been reporting no delays all day and security wait times of only ten minutes. Look at this -- it's a beautiful day in Atlanta albeit a little bit on the chilly side. Now, where have we been having some of these troubles? Primarily out west in terms of the interstates because we've had a lot of snow and a lot of wind to deal with; we've been focusing in particularly along Interstates 80 and 70. Across parts of Utah and into Colorado is where we've been seeing the snow. And of course Salt Lake City had a blizzard on Wednesday; yes, you're dealing with a", "Yes, for sure. But I have to tell you. You know, I'm one of those people, normally this time of year, I want to see some snow, but I come from the Washington area, where we had three blizzards.", "Yes. Snow-mageddon on that last year.", "You know, I can probably do without it this season but --", "Well, then it's the West Coast's turn and --", "Right, yes. Let them have it, yes, and all of it. Enjoy. All right. Thanks Jacqui. Coming up pretty soon, education contributor Steve Perry shows us a California school where parents participate in almost every facet of their children's education and it's getting great results. And is it better to use a credit card or debit card when shopping? An expert weighs in."], "speaker": ["JOHNS", "SANDRA ENDO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ENDO", "JOHNS", "J.J.  --  JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "JOHNS", "JERAS", "JOHNS", "JERAS", "JOHNS", "JERAS", "JOHNS", "JERAS", "JOHNS"]}
{"id": "CNN-155584", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2010-9-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/13/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Michael Moore's Idea for the NY Islamic Center", "utt": ["Michael Moore is no stranger to controversy and he doesn't hold back. How he feels about the proposed Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero in New York City is no exception. The filmmaker has taken an uncompromising position on how that project should be handled. Joining us now from Miami, the documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. Michael, thanks very much for coming in.", "Thanks for having me, Blitz. I appreciate it. I can call you Blitz, right?", "You can call me Blitz, you can call me Wolf, whatever you want. That's fine.", "All right. Thank you.", "Let's talk -- let's talk a little bit about this latest -- this latest article or blog that you wrote because it sort of jumped out at me. You said you don't want the Islamic cultural center to be built near Ground Zero, you want it to be built on Ground Zero. Tell us why.", "Well, I'm just so offended by the bullying that's been taking place, picking on people who make up a very small percentage of our population and treating them as if they're not Americans. And they have every right to be in, near, around, at Ground Zero as anyone else. And I think -- I just got to thinking that, you know, the America that I believe in is an America that is generous of spirit and not one that wants to attack people because of their religious faith. And I personally feel very bad that these 19 murderers of 9/11 who killed 3,000 people were able to hijack a religion, did something what they said was in the name of Islam, and have made life very difficult for everybody else who is a member of this faith. And I thought what better way could we, those of us who are not of the Islamic faith, do to show our fellow Muslim Americans that we so understand that these murderers hijacked their religion from them, than to help restore the good name of their faith right there, right there at Ground Zero. I mean, I frankly...", "Let me just...", "I believe that there -- yes.", "I was just going to say, let me -- let me interrupt for a moment because, as you know, a lot of Americans think that they have every right to build the cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero, but they don't think it's necessarily appropriate. A brand-new Quinnipiac University poll, for example, asked, \"Is it appropriate to build a mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero?\" And 28 percent said yes, 63 percent said no. Why do Americans -- why are they so opposed to this idea of building this mosque and cultural center near, not on Ground Zero, but even near Ground Zero?", "Yes, even near it. Yes, I think it's because we're -- we're a little slow on the uptake sometimes. Those are pretty much the exact numbers of the people at the beginning of the Iraq war of 28 percent, 30 percent opposed it, and about 70 percent were in favor of it. We always seem to get it wrong at first. Whether that was with slavery, killing Indians, women not voting. We're not very good at the beginning of these things. We're really great, though, as we move along. We live in a nation where, sadly, people listen to things; they get afraid very easily. We have 40 million adult Americans who are functional illiterates, which means they can't read and write above the fourth grade level. So that's the America we live in, and sometimes we have to put up with that. But everybody, regardless of their level of ignorance, I believe at their core is good and has a good heart and, if presented with the truth, and the truth is, is that -- that Muslim Americans are Americans the same as every other American.", "And what do you say, Michael -- what do you say, Michael, to a family member of someone who was killed at Ground Zero who says, \"You know, I don't really think this is appropriate\"? Look in the camera and tell us what you would say to that family member.", "I would say that I completely understand how you feel. If a member of my family was murdered, I live in a nation where they would not allow me to sit on the jury. Yet common sense KIND OF says to me, but who better to judge those who took my family member's life than the family itself to get retribution? But we don't have a system like that, do we? The reason we don't is because -- is because we have to separate the emotion from it, because sometimes, if we just let emotion take over and run things, the wrong decisions get made. I went to mass yesterday, Wolf. Do you think I'm a pedophile sympathizer? Should I be judged because some priests committed a crime against children? Do you think less of me because of that, or because Timothy McVeigh was a Catholic and blew up the Oklahoma City building? Should a Catholic Church not be allowed anywhere near the Oklahoma City building, because he was Catholic? I've got to tell you, I remember the very first presidential election I remember -- I was 6 years old -- John Kennedy versus Richard Nixon. And I remember, 6 years old, hearing all this stuff about, if Kennedy was elected, the pope was going to run the country. And I remember feeling like there was something wrong, there was something bad about -- why was I bad because I was Catholic? And -- and this is our history, and we have got to stop this. And -- and those of us who are part of the majority have to always stand up for the minority when they're being bullied by people who are using this issue for their own political gain.", "What did you think of the way the president, the commanding general in Afghanistan, General Petraeus, the news media, for that matter, handled the whole issue of that -- of that pastor in Florida who said he was going to burn a couple hundred copies of the Koran?", "Well, it's never good to have our general saying that we're afraid of anything. I mean, I just -- I got a whole other thing about that. That could -- we could take another show on that. I just think when you're talking about burning the Koran, let me just point out again to my fellow Americans, 80 percent of whom don't have a passport and never leave the country, never see the rest of the world, don't know anything about what's going on -- you know, I've had had the good fortune to be able to get out of here and see a bit of this planet we live on. The Koran has 25 different mentions of Jesus in that holy book, 25. They consider Jesus a messenger of God. Why would you burn a book that beautifully mentions Jesus at least two dozen times? I mean, how many Americans even know -- even know that? It really is just -- I just -- it just seems so crazy to me. I'm just -- I fed up with it. And I just felt like I had to take a stand and say something about this. You know, Arabs and Muslims, you know, they're 0.6 percent of our population. Whenever the angry mob turns on a small group, it's best to know that when they're done with that group, they're of to the next small group. So everybody should think about that, because we all belong to our own ethnic groups that either came to this country by choice or whose ancestors were brought here by force as slaves or who were here originally as Native Americans. That's the melting pot of who we are. And we should always stand up against the angry mob when they're trying to take away a basic inherent right of anybody in this country.", "Michael Moore, there's so many other issues that I want to get into, but that will have to wait for another day. Thanks, as usual, for coming in, really appreciate it.", "Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it here. Appreciate it.", "A wrestling match over taxes. Is the House Republican leader about to cry \"uncle\"? And Barbara Starr took you on the journey home with wounded troops. Now she shows you how they're recovering together."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "MICHAEL MOORE, FILMMAKER", "BLITZER", "MOORE", "BLITZER", "MOORE", "BLITZER", "MOORE", "BLITZER", "MOORE", "BLITZER", "MOORE", "BLITZER", "MOORE", "BLITZER", "MOORE", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-81059", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2004-1-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/09/lad.18.html", "summary": "Hundreds of Soldiers Fanning Through Tikrit Raiding Homes, shops, Looking for Insurgents", "utt": ["It is being called a major sweep in Iraq. Three hundred American soldiers fanning out through the city of Tikrit, raiding two dozen homes and shops, looking for insurgents. Details now from CNN's Karl Penhaul. Let's take you live to Baghdad -- hello, Karl.", "Good morning, Carol. Military authorities from the 4th Infantry Division have told us this morning that from that raid they now have 12 suspected members of Saddam Hussein's old paramilitary Fedayeen militia now in custody, those they believe were leading the insurgents in Saddam's hometown, Tikrit. Now, the raid was larger than many of the raids we've seen in recent days. We're told that 300 members of the 4th Infantry Division swept through Tikrit, backed by armored vehicles, raiding more than 20 homes and a number of shops and capturing these suspects. At the same time early this morning, the 101st Airborne Division staged another raid in a town near the city of Mosul. They netted six people that they suspect of leading the insurgency in that area. Now, while we may not report these raids every day, each day there are a number of smaller raids around the country and these are part of the coalition's continuing efforts to break the back of the insurgency. In another incident that occurred here in Baghdad this morning, quite a dramatic event at the Burj al-Hayat Hotel, not far from, actually, where we're staying. Guards there tell us that four men got out of two vehicles and fire rocket propelled grenades at that hotel, which is used often by U.S. contractors and was formerly used by weapons inspectors. There was a brief gun battle there. The attackers took off. We're told that there were no casualties, only damage to the outside of the building.", "Karl, is there any update on that Black Hawk helicopter crash?", "So far, coalition authorities are still investigating the cause of that attack -- or that crash, rather, I should say. As we mentioned yesterday, the military was describing it as an emergency landing. The nine occupants aboard died. But so far they haven't specified whether they believe hostile fire was involved, although witnesses at the scene did tell us that they saw the flash of what they thought was a missile hitting the helicopter seconds before it hit the earth.", "Karl Penhaul reporting live from Baghdad this morning. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com shops, Looking for Insurgents>"], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "PENHAUL", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-352101", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2018-10-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/12/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Hurricane Michael Death Toll Now at 17, Expected to Rise; Search and Rescue Missions Underway; 1.1 Million Without Power", "utt": ["And that's it. Thanks very much for watching. \"ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT\" starts right now.", "OUTFRONT next, breaking news, the death toll from Hurricane Michael keeps rising. It now stands at 17. Many still unaccounted for. And new details tonight about the missing \"Washington Post\" contributor, did he use his Apple Watch to record his own death? And President Trump's ties to Saudi Arabia running deep. How he's been doing big business with the kingdom for decades. Let's go OUTFRONT. Good evening, everyone, I'm Kate Bolduan in for Erin Burnett. OUTFRONT tonight, we have breaking news, the death toll from Hurricane Michael rising. Now, at least 17 people across 4 states and officials expect that number to go up still. You are looking at the devastated remains of Mexico Beach, Florida, the town that took Michael's first and most damaging blow. Late today, 16 people across Mexico Beach were rescued. One survivor was literally pulled out alive from underneath the rubble. One of the biggest unknowns, though, how many people are still missing tonight? Local, state, and federal officials not offering an estimate but acknowledge not everyone is accounted for. Today, some residents risking their own safety once again by trying to head back home to Mexico Beach. Before the storm, this was a little sleepy beach town. That on the left, Mexico Beach before the storm. Homes, businesses, dozens of boat slips. On the right, just after the storm, they're all gone. And look at this. On the left, the curved building is Panama City's Bay City Medical Center where some 1,500 people were sheltered from the storm. After the storm, extensive damage. National Guard and Coast Guard search and rescue teams are now fully deployed, combing the widespread wreckage. A Coast Guard helicopter crew found this survivor in Panama City. Miguel Marquez is OUTFRONT tonight in the town. Officials are calling it ground zero, Mexico Beach, and Miguel it is very clear why they are calling it that when you look anywhere, everywhere that you've been. What did you find today?", "It is absolutely unbelievable to see the extent of the damage here. The search is on for survivors and possibly the dead because this is what you're looking at. Those stairs used to lead up to a house. This was once beach front property. It is now completely wiped away. The ability of searchers and rescuers right now all depends on dogs and the absolute grit of these individuals getting out there and searching.", "An entire town almost gone. Those who rode it out -- (On camera) You were up to your neck in water?", "Yeah, with a 96-year-old lady next door, and my mother. And two dogs.", "And you made it?", "We're here, baby.", "Would you do it again?", "Nope.", "They barely survived. Search and rescue now searching for survivors and possibly the dead. Emergency officials expect the death toll to climb.", "And I do expect that we're going to find that kind of bad news and, you know, there's a process that we go through for that, and then we, you know, our priority, obviously, is the living, and we're looking for people that are trapped.", "Several people we spoke to say they haven't yet heard from neighbors and friends who rode it out. (On camera) What's happened to Mexico Beach?", "It's a disaster. It's -- I was really shocked to see what it looked like.", "This CNN exclusive video of the moment the hurricane hit shows winds as high as 155 miles an hour, shredding this once tranquil beach town. Then, an enormous storm surge, a dozen or more feet of water bulldozed large sections of Mexico Beach from the coast to the interior. 30 miles out from Mexico Beach, some roads no longer exist, entirely covered by downed trees for miles.", "Brandy, it's dad.", "With power out, those who survived have no way to tell the world they're still here. When they do, the news, about as bad as it gets.", "Do not come down here. Do not. You can't get in. It's -- everything's -- it's devastated. We had a hole in our house but that's all that's wrong with it. Grandmother's house is completely gone. It looks like a bomb landed.", "The devastation here, jaw dropping, the main drag, highway 98, collapsed in many places, water eroding the sand beneath. Entire homes, their living rooms still intact, slammed into condos across the street. And the most popular bar here, Toucans, reduced to a pile of rubble.", "Now, as that search continues for the living and possibly the dead, there's also a clean-up that's just begun, some heavy machinery has finally gotten into town, they are starting to clear out debris on 98 so that searchers and rescuers can get in and out and that the clean-up and the rebuilding, because everybody wants to rebuild here, the rebuilding of this town can finally begin, but it is going to be a long, long time before Mexico Beach is back to where it was, Kate.", "Absolutely. Or anything even like it. Thanks, Miguel, I appreciate it. Our Erika Hill is also in Mexico Beach. She is joining me now. Erica, you just spoke to several people, including the mayor, about this latest death. What have you been able to find out?", "Yeah, Kate, that's right. And in terms of that death, he did confirm for us that one elderly man was found deceased here. He said he could not confirm whether that man's name was on the initial list of people that they had who they knew were staying behind. So, as Miguel pointed out, that's one of the things that local officials are still trying to determine, who ended up staying, who was initially on that list who said they would and can they match up all the names? They're still trying to account for them. People making their way back in because as Miguel pointed out, some of those roads have been cleared. And what they are finding in many cases, they told me, is even worse than what they imagined.", "From what I've seen in pictures where bombs are dropped, that's kind of looking like what it looks like here. And -- but we're going to -- with God's help, we're going to rebuild and gain our strength again. It's just going to set us back a little bit. But we're pretty resilient people, I think, in Mexico Beach.", "There's 75% of our city's not here. There's not one local business here that's operational. Not one. And we're mom and pop. This isn't, you know, Hampton Inn and Pizza Hut and Walmart.", "I asked the mayor too, he told me that he was told today it could be two months before power is back. There's no water. There's no sewer. So I said what about people who want to stay? Whose homes may be habitable? He said, that is what we're debating right now. How do you tell someone who's OK with these crude conditions in his words, who has a home that they can't live in. How do you tell them they have to go to a motel? That's one of the things they're trying to figure out. One other woman I met, Kate, he has a summer home here. She and her husband have been coming here, married 43 years, they dated here, they fished on this gulf, their kids, their grandkids have come down. Their house is gone. They were hoping to find a table that her husband had made. They didn't find the table, but they were overjoyed that they found a bench that he made for that ding table. She said her grandkids are going to be so happy. She found some of her son's fishing rods. She said we drove to the edge of the world and it looks like Mexico Beach fell off but we will build back just like we did, Kate, after opal.", "So resilient but two months before power is back, unbelievable. Erica, thank you so much. Now let me show you another view, what's left of a Campground in Mexico Beach. Just another view of how much this town is in ruins. This is what it looked like before Hurricane Michael. What home also looked like for my next guest, Tangie Horton. But it isn't just where she lived that was ravaged by the hurricane, also this, this is the El Governor Motel, the Beachside Motel where Tandy worked and this is what is left of the motel. The roof walls, even rooms themselves, torn apart. Tangie is with me right now. Thank you so much for being here, Tangie. It has been two days since this hurricane hit. It was also the same day of your 32nd wedding anniversary. Have you been able to make sense yet -- sense of it yet, of what's happened?", "No, ma'am. It's just -- it's devastating. Everything's gone. We got married, renewed our vows on that beach two years ago, our 30th anniversary. And that part's gone. You know, our friends and family was out there. Our RV park family, you know, we loved the whole place. But there's nothing left.", "It is -- there's -- it's just -- I'm so sorry. It is so hard to even see it behind you, to wrap our minds around it, watching it from anywhere else than where -- then being on the ground in Mexico Beach. I mean, this is where you've lived. This is -- it's not only where you lived, but it's also where you worked that has been torn apart. When you're standing there today, what's tomorrow like? I mean, what are you thinking right now, Tangie, of where you go from here?", "Well, we have -- my husband works for a waste management, and they have really come together and, you know, they're the ones that offered us to put our camper in shelter in Callaway and we thought it was going to be safe there. And we got inside the big building there with the roll-up doors and, you know, just very sturdy building with our camper inside it, and you know, it was lifting off the ground. And you just never think of something -- some winds that strong coming through and, you know, we saw stuff because we took shelter inside waste management's building because we didn't feel safe in the camper. And we watched as carports flew by. We watched as, you know, people's roofs coming -- flying by, and I told my husband, I said I felt like I was in the twister movie, you know, when they was saying stuff was flying by. The wind, you know, where we were at in Callaway on State Road 22, the wind was 140 miles per hour. I can't imagine what Mexico Beach dealt with as of wind coming out of the eye, and I just -- we don't know where we're going to go tomorrow. I know some of our RV folks are looking for us long-term campgrounds again. We would all love to back in Mexico Beach, but we don't know if they'll rebuild the RV Park or the hotel.", "That's right.", "I have talked to the owner.", "Yes. I mean, that's what I was wondering. I mean, do you plan to -- do you hope to, to be back in Mexico Beach? I mean, just looking at it, it's hard to imagine when that's going to be possible?", "I know. I know, and that's what we're just -- we're trying to deal with now, where we'll go from right now and then until they do get something built back there and we're -- there, again, we're not sure if they're going to rebuild back or what. So, you just hope they do because I worked at the front desk of the motel and you would not believe the guests we had that has been coming there for 50 and 60 years. I mean, it's -- it was just a quaint little place, not busy. We didn't have any fast food restaurants out there. It was all locally owned restaurants. They were some of the best seafood restaurants out there. And you know, you just -- you wonder if it will ever be the same, and it won't, you know? But we hope they'll build back.", "Tangie, what's the toughest thing for you when you see just the wasteland that is now what was your home and a beautiful beach town, or it the uncertainty of what's going to come next?", "Just knowing that my friends that I worked with, my coworkers, you know, most of them live there. And if they didn't live on the beach or right across 98, they lived inland, and their houses are all gone. They have nothing out there. My family is coming from Alabama this weekend. They're going to try to get in with a U-Haul Truck that my family and I will have just have got together and got supplies for everybody, clothes, donations, diapers, you know, toothpaste, toothbrushes, you know, stuff that people don't have anymore out there. And they're bringing all that stuff and we're going to distribute it as soon as we can get to Mexico Beach and try to help some of our friends that stayed or if they left, they lost their house too. The campground had probably 14 trailers -- campers still in it that people didn't have a way to get them out of there, and you know, they've lost everything they had because most people was like us, they sold their home to make Mexico Beach their home, and now they don't have nowhere to go, so.", "So many people, so many people and the very same situation, from street, to street, to street in Mexico Beach. Tangie, I'm so sorry to be meeting you under these circumstances but thank you so much for coming on.", "I appreciate y'all, and we appreciate everything that the EMS, the county, the city, the police department, the -- I mean, everybody's just coming together. You wouldn't believe the people that's just stepped in and started cleaning up. I know waste management's high people coming today and it was like a war zone where we were at, and now it looks completely different. They've come in and cleaned up, but we appreciate all the donations and everything that's everybody's gave, and we want to get to Mexico Beach and try to distribute them as soon as we can.", "Well, there is hope in that that you're coming together still in the face of this real tragedy that the community is coming together. Tangie, thank you.", "Thank you.", "What a wonderful woman. OUTFRONT next, rescues are under way across the Florida Panhandle. We're going to talk to one rescuer with the Cajun Navy who's been on the ground since Hurricane Michael hit. Plus new reports about the missing \"Washington Post\" contributor, did he use his Apple Watch to record what happened when he went inside a Saudi Consulate and never came out? 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{"id": "NPR-14776", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2017-06-16", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/06/16/533176620/morning-news-brief-trump-implementing-cuba-restrictions-congress-plays-ball", "title": "Morning News Brief: Trump Implementing Cuba Restrictions, Congress Plays Ball", "summary": "President Trump is imposing new restrictions on travel and trade with Cuba. Also, Democrats and Republicans faced each other in congressional baseball, and an update on the London fire investigation.", "utt": ["Cubans really thought that their long era of economic isolation from the United States was over.", "And they had reason to think that. You recall President Obama restored diplomatic relations with Cuba and lifted portions of the economic embargo against the communist-led government. As a candidate, Republican Donald Trump ripped this policy.", "The agreement Obama signed is a very weak agreement. We get nothing. The people of Cuba get nothing. And I would do whatever is necessary to get a good agreement.", "Now that he's president, Trump plans an announcement today. Now, you never know what this president will do until he does it. But early word from the White House is this - the basic policy that he once criticized will stay, but it will be tightened. The president is set to tighten rules on Americans traveling to Cuba, for example, and also cut off most transactions between United States companies and Cuban firms that are controlled by the military there.", "OK, and NPR foreign correspondent Carrie Kahn is in Havana, and she's on the line to help us understand this.", "Hey, Carrie.", "Hi, David. How are you?", "I'm good, thanks. So just listening to Steve there, I mean, tightening some rules on traveling and cutting off some transactions between U.S. companies and firms controlled by the military - is this a big deal?", "Of course it is a big deal for Cubans here. I think what Steve said is true. You don't know what's going to happen until we actually hear it from Donald Trump.", "Right.", "So I think here on the island, there's a lot of confusion and worry. You know, many have been bracing for changes to the warmer relations between Cuba and the U.S. once Trump took office given his, you know, his campaign rhetoric was - hinted at a much harder line towards Cuba. But the devils are in the detail, and people are anxious to hear what exactly that means, you know?", "On the street here, you know, Obama was very much admired in Cuba. After all, he was the first U.S. president to visit the island in decades. And this opening of relations had brought a lot of hope here. And so people are just angry and sort of looking at this as a step back. And why now? And why is this happening?", "So it's...", "(Unintelligible) Now. And it doesn't look...", "...It's sounding like the devil might be in the details. And obviously, we'll look at that. But some of this is just the messaging itself. The Cubans are having a reaction to a president who is just delivering a very different message than his predecessor.", "Clearly, that is what you hear. You know, Cubans don't get the news as quick as we do. It takes a little while. And the official government communications here has been actually quite mum on the situation. So they don't really know what those details are and when they will come.", "Well, is there evidence that President Obama's approach just wasn't working exactly as he advertised?", "Well, I think that's tough to say. You know, it's only been two years. Although the opening of the economy began before the Obama warming with Cuba. It started about 2011. But, you know, on the short answer, you do see great changes in Cuba comparatively. You know, it's very, the opening of the economy. And people are, you know - they want that happening - they want that opening happening quicker. And they see this more as a step backwards.", "You know, the president's announcements today, at least as it's been described to us, sounds like the president's approach to Iran, another country where Trump was very critical of Obama's policies, is ending up keeping those basic policies but working around the edges, looking for little ways to stick it to a government that he strongly opposes.", "Yeah. All right, we'll be following exactly what all of this means once we hear from the president. NPR's Carrie Kahn in Havana. Carrie, thanks.", "You're welcome.", "OK, so there is another Obama-era rule that the Trump administration has officially ended.", "It was known as the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans or DAPA. And it was designed to protect undocumented immigrants who have children who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The parents were to be offered some protection from being deported in order to protect the kids, too. This rule was introduced in 2014, but it was put on hold as more than two dozen states sued.", "And NPR's Scott Detrow is here in the studio to help us understand this. Hi, Scott.", "Morning, David.", "So this plan from President Obama, we should say, never actually went into place. Why was that?", "It was blocked by the courts before it ever went into effect, much like the current status of President Trump's immigration ban. A federal appeals court held that block up. It went before the Supreme Court last year. But that was the period when the Supreme Court only had eight members. They deadlocked 4-4. They issued a ruling just a couple sentences long. And what that did was kept the lower court ruling in place, putting it in this limbo status. And at the time, everyone just thought this will be decided by the next president. Now it appears to have been that - so.", "All right, so if you're President Trump, you don't like this policy. But it never actually went into effect. It was caught, as you say, in legal limbo. What is President Trump doing? Why now and, yeah, why?", "Well, they're rescinding it. The statement in the release that came out last night from Homeland Security Secretary Kelly said that there just wasn't a path forward here. You know, the timing is interesting. It came on the five-year anniversary of President Obama signing a different immigration order meant to protect people brought into the country illegally when they were children. But President Trump did campaign on overturning DAPA.", "It was part of his hard-line immigration stance that really resonated with Trump voters, with early Trump supporters. But there wasn't much of a heads-up on this. This came in a press release issued after 9 o'clock last night, at a time when most of Congress and a lot of Washington reporters who cover this were actually at the congressional baseball game.", "Including you, right?", "That's right.", "What was the feeling at that game? I mean, after Wednesday's attack by the gunman on the Republican practice, I mean, that sort of changed the context for this entire game. But they decided that the game would go on.", "Yeah, it's typically a really light evening, and it still was. But there was an emotional undercurrent there. Twenty-five thousand people came to this game. That...", "Wow, that's more than, like...", "Yeah...", "...Most baseball games (unintelligible)...", "...We checked.", "...Many.", "That's more than, I think, three games last night in the major leagues.", "Wow.", "A huge outpouring. The Democrats won 11-2. But when the game ended, the Democrats had decided to actually give the trophy to the Republican team...", "Oh, wow.", "...So they could give it to Steve Scalise's office to put in his office as he recovers.", "Yeah.", "And during the game, the hospital actually issued a statement saying that he's still in critical condition, but he did make some improvements yesterday.", "That's good. So it was a feeling of, like, civil discourse and a moment away from the normal politics we see in Washington.", "Yeah. And lawmakers from both parties seemed really sincere about wanting to make things more civil. They're certainly not going to get on the same page in terms of policy any time soon. But they said that one step you can take is just talking to each other more civilly.", "Well, this is an artifact of an older style of politics in Washington, which can seem hypocritical from the outside - and maybe it actually is hypocritical, but it sometimes works - where lawmakers essentially say to each other, there's nothing personal here. This is just politics, these horrible things I'm saying to you in public. We actually can sort of get along.", "And then go out to dinner, even after...", "Or to a game.", "...We've said all those terrible things.", "Yeah.", "Yeah. NPR's Scott Detrow fresh off a late-night baseball game. Thanks, Scott.", "Thank you.", "All right, a number of stories we are following this morning. We want to let you know we are keeping an eye on reports out of Russia that say the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, might have been killed in a Russian airstrike.", "Word of caution - he's been reported dead before, and that turned out not to be true. The U.S.-led coalition, in this case, has not yet confirmed that Russian report. And it's also worth noting that people don't really know where he has been these last few years. So we'll see.", "All right, and we're also following the British government, which is now launching a criminal investigation into a London high-rise fire that that left at least 17 people dead.", "Yeah, you saw the images...", "Yeah.", "...If you were anywhere on - watching TV or social media the last few days. Massive building - for London anyway, which is mostly a low-rise city. Many people were trapped on the upper floors as much of that building went up in flames. And one question is why the siding on that building burned so quickly.", "Yeah. NPR's Frank Langfitt is on the line from London.", "Good morning, Frank.", "Good morning, David.", "So police say the death toll probably going to rise from...", "Yeah...", "...This fire, right?", "...Much, much higher. There were hundreds of people living in the building. According to local news media, about 45 people - at least 45 still missing. And there's a lot of concern about safety and fire damage to the building, so investigators haven't been able to get into all the apartments on the upper floors. One police official last night said that he hoped that the death toll would not rise into triple digits.", "And now we have a criminal investigation...", "Yeah.", "...Which is a big move. Why is that?", "Well, you know, the residents, if you remember, they complained repeatedly about fire safety violations in the building and warned that it would take a catastrophe just like what we've seen to get the management company to act. There's been growing anger. A man named David Lammy - he's a member of parliament with the Labour Party - called this corporate manslaughter. I was reading my - one of the tabloids on the way on the train today called Metro. And its headline was \"Arrest The Killers.\" So a lot of anger here in London about this.", "A lot of anger and a lot of focus on this material that I had never really heard about - cladding. What...", "Yeah.", "...Is that exactly?", "Well, cladding, what we would - I didn't know it either. And what it really means, I think, is siding, like what we would think of as the aluminum siding you might put on a house in America...", "Oh, yeah.", "...Except this would be on a 24-story tower block. And the reason for it is to improve insulation, also make it look nicer. The focus now, as Steve was just mentioning, is it seemed to burn very, very quickly. And so what government documents show is that these were metal sheets, and they had a thermoplastic compound in the middle of them. Contractor says that these met fire safety requirements. But one of the questions is how fire resistant was the core of these panels? And why did it seem that they were able to burn so quickly?", "All right, Frank Langfitt reporting for us in London in the aftermath of that deadly fire where we're expecting the death toll, sadly and potentially, to rise. 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{"id": "CNN-385826", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2019-11-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1911/17/ndaysun.02.html", "summary": "Source: President Trump's Medical Exam Was Unscheduled.", "utt": ["Thirteen minutes after the hour now. The White House is brushing off questions about unannounced visit by President Trump to a military hospital yesterday. A source tells CNN that the president's medical exam was unscheduled, but the White House denies the president has any health issues.", "Kristen Holmes is following the story from the White House. What are you hearing there, Kristen?", "Good morning, Christi and Victor. Well, this is certainly an unusual set of events. President Trump, yesterday, going to Walter Reed, which is where he receives his annual physical and he was there for about two hours. Now, according to the White House, he was having some quick tests and labs that were all part of a routine annual physical. But there are some very unusual circumstances surrounding this trip. Now, remember, we have two other annual physicals while he has been in office to go off of and they were very routine. They followed the exact same pattern which were they were announced ahead of time. They were noted on his daily schedule and on top of that, he took Marine One to Walter Reed. Yesterday was a completely different kind of trip. First of all, not only was it not announced but we heard from sources who say it wasn't on his schedule as of Friday. So, last minute trip and he took the motorcade which, of course, means less exposure to reporters, less exposure to cameras there. Now, President Trump late last night tweeting in defense of himself, and this is what he had to say. Also began phase one of my yearly physical. Everything very good, great. Will complete next year. So I want to note something here. His last annual physical was in February. So this would be incredibly early for him to have this physical. Now, but Stephanie Grisham, the press secretary, defended this timeline. Listen to what she had to say.", "We've got a really busy year ahead, as you can imagine. And so, the president decided to go to Walter Reed and kind of get a head-start with some routine checkups as part of his annual exam. That's all it was. It was very routine. We had a down day today. So, he made the decision to head there.", "And there's no truth to the rumors that it was something else? Because the rumors are flying.", "Oh, the rumors are always flying. Absolutely not. He is healthy as can be. I put a statement out about that. He's got more energy than anybody in the White House. That man works from 6:00 a.m. until, you know, very, very late at night. He is doing just fine.", "So, you obviously heard the press secretary there, routine, routine, routine. I think she said that word at least twice in that interview and that is what they are going to continue to say here. And there have always been questions when it comes to the release of President Trump's medical records, when it comes to these annual physicals, what exact information they are going to give out. But Stephanie Grisham said they are not giving out anything after this physical. They're going to wait until the entire physical is done, which as President Trump said, will be next year.", "All righty. Kristen Holmes, thank you so much.", "New details in just released transcripts from the impeachment inquiry could mean some trouble for Gordon Sondland, the ambassador to the E.U., excuse me. The former official with the National Security Council said that Ambassador Sondland had been given a mandate from the president to go make deals. The witness also said that the ambassador was a problem and operated irregularly. Plus, we learned that the transcript of the July phone call with President Trump and Ukrainian leader, President Zelensky, ended up on a highly classified server potentially by mistake. Let's bring in CNN legal analyst and former special assistant to Robert Mueller, Michael Zeldin. Michael, good morning to you.", "Good morning.", "OK. Tim Morrison, who is the White House national security official we were discussing, testified that he was told that the records of the call were placed on this higher security code word classified server by mistake. Give us the credibility of that for us.", "Well, you know, it seemed to me at the time that there was concern about what the contents of the call contained and that they were concerned about it leaking out. And that it seems that Eisenberg, the lawyer that was alerted to this, tried to make sure that it was protected and so what the transcript says is that his, you know, instruction that it be protected was interpreted to mean move it to another secure, more secure server. So I'm not sure, Victor, we make much of this thing. The more important when everyone heard that call, they were all alarmed by its contents. Not so much where it was -- where it ended up but what was the content of the call that is more alarming.", "Yes. Morrison goes on to say he says that Ambassador Sondland also told him that he was discussing the matters involving Ukraine with the president. Does that cause any more trouble for the president now that we have this weekend that the president was in or that the Democrats proposed at the end of last week? Like does this move anything significantly?", "So we have another witness who was saying that the president was personally involved in asking for some sort of quid pro quo or some sort of public statement as a condition to get the White House meeting and/or the security assistance. If Sondland is to be believed or all of those people who heard Sondland are to believe believed and Sondland, himself, when he testifies on Wednesday, confirms all this, then you've got direct evidence linking the president through Sondland and others to what, you know, some call the bribery extortion shakedown scheme. So, Sondland becomes, in some sense, like the John Dean of this investigation. If he is forthright, consistent with what the people said he said, then it's not going to be a good day for the president.", "There's also the question the credibility of testimony, initially saying he doesn't recall being in any conversations with the White House about investigating the Bidens and then there was the correction and then the revelation of that phone call on July 26th that we heard from David Holmes in which Holmes said he overheard Sondland conversing with the president and see where that comes this week. Let me move to Mark Sandy. He's the career employee at the office of budget and management, or Management and Budget, I should say, OMB. The profile of someone sign off on the documents related take the military aid to Ukraine, he said that a political employee, a political appointee was brought in to sign some of the documents. White House OMB spokesperson said the idea that administration officials would not be involved in budget execution is absolutely ludicrous. What do we learn from the addition of this political appointee to this process?", "So, if you believe the allegations that this was some conspiracy to get Ukraine to do personal political investigations for the benefit of the president and that in order to accomplish that, they, one, had to move the ambassador out of Ukraine so that she was not a road block. And then, two, they had to sort of decrease the value of the career people in OMB to put a political person in there to do the bidding of the president. So, you have potentially this consistency between the removable of the ambassador, a career person who was not about to do their bidding, the removal from the front line of the OMB people to a political person could do the bidding, and, you know, it creates that appearance. Now, whether it's fact or appearance remains to be seen but that is the appearance it's creating.", "All right. We'll wait to get the fuller testimony of Mark Sandy. Michael Zeldin, thanks for being with us this morning.", "My pleasure, Victor. Thank you.", "Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick abruptly cancelled an NFL workout and decided he was going to hold his own. We're going to talk about what it means for Kaepernick's future. That's next."], "speaker": ["BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "STEPHANIE GRISHAM, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRISHAM", "HOLMES", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "MICHAEL ZELDIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BLACKWELL", "ZELDIN", "BLACKWELL", "ZELDIN", "BLACKWELL", "ZELDIN", "BLACKWELL", "ZELDIN", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-398213", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-04-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/22/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Virus Could Have Arrived To U.S. Earlier Than Thought; Drug Touted By Trump Proving Ineffective Against COVID-19; GA Governor Gets Pushback On Reopening State; Dr. Anne Rimoin Discusses GA Governor Reopening State Too Soon; Updated Model Has 10 Percent Increase In U.S. Deaths", "utt": ["That celebration to include fireworks. Of course, no details have been hashed out yet. De Blasio saying, quote, \"This is a day we cannot miss. There's no day like the fourth of July. One way or another, the show will go on.\"", "We're all looking forward to seeing that. Thank you so much for being with us today. We'll see you back here tomorrow morning. I'm Poppy Harlow.", "I'm Jim Sciutto. \"NEWSROOM\" with John King starts right now.", "Hello to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm John King, in Washington. This is CNN's continuing coverage of it coronavirus pandemic. And 2.6 million is where the global case count sits this hour. The city of northeastern China now outlawing inbound traffic to stop the coronavirus surge. Lebanon's government today confirming the first coronavirus case in a Palestinian refugee camp. And a United Nations monitor warns of widespread famines in countries forced to save people from the virus only to die of hunger. And 45,000-plus have died here in the United States from the virus. That is a remarkable rise in just two weeks. And 32,000 American lives lost in the past 14 days. Today, there's new evidence indicating the virus arrived on American shores earlier than we initially thought. A northern California county said an individual died from coronavirus back on February 6th, three weeks earlier than what was thought to be the first confirmed virus fatality in Kirkland, Washington. The disclosure adding to the growing stack of information suggesting the case count and the death toll could be far higher than the current count. The president is having a scatter-shot morning. Threatening Iran in one tweet, wishing a gossip columnist a happy birthday in another. On the pandemic, The president is again out ahead of the facts or trying to create alternative facts. He says states are safely coming back and reopening. Fact is, that process is just now beginning. And only in a few places. Georgia and Florida do want a quick return to work. Texas also taking some first steps. Delaware's governor, though, says he wants to double the president's advice and log 28 days of declining cases before thinking about reopening his state. Currently, no state meets the letter of the president's own reopen guidelines. And the president's own medical experts are advising caution. The CDC director says a tandem flu and coronavirus assault next fall would, quote, \"put unimaginable strain\" on the health care system. And this morning, the FDA commissioner echoes the giant concern about a second wave.", "Are you worried about that second wave?", "I think that it's certainly a possibility, and the whole task force of doctors is concerned about the second wave.", "The timetable for a vaccine, which would be really a game changer, last we checked in with you was about a year off. That would be march of 2021. Is that still the case?", "Still the case that the estimate is march, but we're really trying to accelerate the efforts.", "Trying to accelerate the efforts. But perhaps a year or so or more even to get a vaccine to emerge, which puts a premium on finding therapeutic drugs that at least help with treatment. Today, one study showing a drug repeatedly touted by President Trump is not effective in treating COVID-19. In fact, patients who took the drug had higher death rates than those who didn't take it. This as the FDA approves the first at-home test for detecting coronavirus. Meantime, a leading model upping its projected death toll to 10 percent in the United States up to 66,000 by August. CNN Senior Medical Correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, joins me now. Elizabeth, what do we know and what does it mean, the fact there could have been two COVID-19 deaths in California back in early February?", "It tells us that people were dying earlier than we thought, and also, it's very important, the coroner there saying these two folks did not travel. They had no link to Wuhan or any other hot spot, so they got it just out in the community. Community, it appears. John, let's take a look at these dates. These autopsies were February 6th and 17th. No known travel history. The first case of unknown origin was February 26th, so it appears it was actually spreading in the community much earlier. February 29th, the CDC announces the first death. So these two autopsies are significant for both reasons, an earlier death than we had thought and early community spread than we had thought.", "And, Elizabeth, also today, a lot of discussion about this new test, new study on Hydroxychloroquine. What does it tell us?", "Right. It's a study done by the Veterans Administration. It was over 350 people. So by comparison, this is quite a large study. Let's take a look. The folks who were taking Hydroxychloroquine, they had a 27.8 percent death rate. The folks who weren't had an 11.4 percent death rate. And that's after the researchers adjusted for any differences between the two groups as far as how healthy they were or weren't. That was after statistical adjustment. Now, John, I will say this was put up on a Web site that's called the Preprince Server. It's not peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal.", "We need more evidence but that one study tells you be cautious at a minimum there. Elizabeth, a lot of talk about testing. A lot of people thinking if I go back to work, can I be tested first? Tell us about the new at-home test. Does it work?", "Yes, the folks who make it say it works and they have been allowed to mark it. It's very interesting. It's very convenient to be able to do this at home. This could help a lot of people who don't know where to go to get tested. Let's look at how it functions. You collect the sample yourself. You put what looks like a Q-Tip in your nose and you do a swab. And it costs about $119. And you mail in the results. So that this can be something -- I have certainly talked to people who are thinking, gee, I don't know if I have COVID or not. They don't know where to get a test. They don't know if they want to go out and expose themselves in case they're not already infected. That takes care of a lot of those problems.", "Elizabeth Cohen, a lot of updates on important developments. Appreciate it very much. Thank you. Now let's shift to the reopen debate here in the United States. States deciding on their own when they can reopen. The president hopes it's as soon as possible. But in Maryland, Oregon, West Virginia, restrictions now being extended indefinitely. Virginia's governor setting June 10th as the date to possibly reopen his state. Meantime, Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, is going full speed ahead, reopening a variety of businesses in that state, even though, as you can see, the number of coronavirus cases not exactly on a steadily decline in Georgia. CNN's Martin Savidge is outside Atlanta for us. Martin, the governor getting pushback from local officials. Where are we right now?", "From the very moment he announced his plan, which was on Monday, he's had a tremendous amount of pushback, And it's not all coming from just officials or those in the opposite party. It's also coming from some people who run the very businesses that could benefit. We're at a strip mall here. There are at least a dozen businesses here that would under the guidelines of the executive order be allowed to open starting on Friday. But that's not to say they will. The governor has been going on the defensive. He was on FOX News. He was also on a number of local interviews. And he's been doing a lot of tweeting. Here's one of them that he put out. It reads, \"Due to favorable data and more testing, gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys and a litany of all those businesses that will reopen.\" But the first line, \"due to favorable data and more testing?\" We have another chart that shows you the number of coronavirus hospitalizations in the state of Georgia. They have actually gone up in the last week. When he talks about testing, Georgia has ranked nearly at the bottom when it comes to all the other states where testing has been conducted on the general population. So it doesn't jibe with what the medical authorities are reporting here. And remember, this is the governor who, famously, not that long ago, came out and said he wasn't aware that people who were asymptomatic could be spreading coronavirus, even though the CDC is literally around the corner from where he works and where he lives. So a lot of this is being looked at skeptically by business owners who say look, I'm not sure I can actually open by Friday, and even if I do, I'm not sure that customers are going to walk through that door. I don't even know if my employees will show up. There are so many questions. And Friday is not likely to be the end of them.", "Martin Savidge for us in Atlanta. Martin, appreciate it. Whether you agree or disagree, they have the mayor pushing back, the businesses pushing back. Be nice if they could sort all this out. A note, we have invited Governor Kemp to come here to visit us on CNN. He's been on FOX and other networks. The invitation is extended. He's so far declined. Here to join me to share her insights on these major medical developments this morning is Dr. Malloy, a professor of epidemiology at UCLA. Doctor, let me start with you. This is a little mix of medicine and politics, but when you see hospitalizations in Georgia are up, the case counts on a bit of a roller coaster. You might be able to go back two weeks and say the trajectory is going down. That's what the president says, but you have some bumps. If you were advising the Georgia governor, would you say go now or would you say wait a little bit?", "If I were providing advice to the governor, I would say that it's time to wait. We don't have the testing in place. We don't have the ability to do the contact tracing that we need to do. We just do not have all of the things that we need in place that meet all of the criteria that have been set forth of how to be able to reopen. So I know that everybody is champing at the bit to get started again, get moving. But we really risk losing all of the gains that everybody has worked so hard to be able to achieve here.", "And when you look at the latest model out of IHME, the University of Washington, a model often cited by the White House, but they are now, as they have watched this play out, they have more and more U.S. data to put in their model. Initially, it was based on what was happened in China and Italy. They have increased by August 1st the U.S. death toll will be up to 66,000. That's up 10 percent from the previous model. And these numbers, on the right side of the screen, they're important. They're also depressing, 45,150. If we had the conversation today. What is changing that is leading them to think, OK, it's going to go up a little bit?", "Well, it seems that we have now gotten a lot more information here in the United States about how the virus is spreading, what the actual mortality rate is here. And that also, that has improved by going back and looking at some of the nursing homes and really looking to see who had -- who could potentially have the virus and who didn't. They are now classifying presumptive cases or cases that were suspected to have met all of the clinical criteria but were not tested at the time, now as COVID. So that's increasing the number of deaths associated. And so the more we understand the data here, the more we really know what's going on. We put that into the model, and the model then is adjusted. Everybody has to remember that models are predictions. And they're only as good as the data that are in them. So that's why the IHME models are being constantly refined and getting better and better, because they're finetuned to the situation at hand right here.", "And help me and our viewers understand in this coverage, every day, if not every hour, there's a study about this, a controversy about testing here. Testing is the big thing before us right now. You hear about the armies of contact tracing. You hear the president say, oh, states have enough. You hear governors saying no we do not. Maybe we have the labs, we don't have the supplies. When you're looking at this every day, help our viewers since you understand it better than most, what is the most important thing you have seen in the last 24 hours on the testing question that you think needs to be looked at?", "Well, I think that some of the questions about how well these tests are identifying people who have COVID is coming into play now. It's something that we all know, no test is going to be perfect. But we really need to be careful by making decisions on, you know, based on data that is not perfect. So we're still trying to sort out so much about this virus. It is a novel virus. I know people hear that all the time. This is a novel virus, new to humanity. We're still trying to understand what's going on, but it's really true here. It's really amazing how much work has been done and how much science is done on a daily basis, but many of these papers that are coming out are still in preprint, meaning they have not been peer reviewed and gone through the normal process of vetting and questions being asked by other experts. And so I think that this is a really big issue in trying to digest everything in particular for the general public who is seeing the papers on preprint and not understanding that this is -- these papers are not the same as a paper that is already in a published -- that's in a journal that's gone through peer review. That's why so much is being refined over time.", "The world is seeing on an hourly basis the things that you get to see behind the curtain, but you understand them better. It's confusing for everyone else out here. I just talked a little bit to Elizabeth Cohen from this. But from an epidemiology standpoint, if you're trying to understand the scope of all this, you have these two cases in California now that they say go back to early February. What does it mean, how does it impact our study to figure out exactly when did it get here, how did it spread, that we could have cases back in early February, weeks ahead of what we thought was the first case at that senior center in Kirkland, Washington?", "Well, I can just amplify what Elizabeth said, which is that what it suggests is that this virus was circulating in the community much earlier than we knew. These cases that were identified had no direct link to another case. And so these -- and were not people who had been to China. Therefore, it just suggests this was circulating in the community long before we knew that it was here.", "Fascinating as we look forward. Dr. Anne Rimoin, I want to thank you so much. We'll continue the conversation in the days ahead. Up next for us, pandemic policy making Trump style. A tweet that is scrambled by aides and, in the end, a retreat by the president on immigration. Before we go to break, a doctor from Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York sharing one of the hardest parts of being on the front line.", "It's even more stressful when the young patients come in and they don't end up making it. It takes an emotional toll on everyone. It makes us realize that everyone can be affected. And actually kind of scares me a little bit because, if I get it, there's really no telling if I'm going to be a mild case or a serious case."], "speaker": ["JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "SCIUTTO", "JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED NEWS ANCHOR", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-341047", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-05-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/25/es.03.html", "summary": "Rockets Win Puts Warriors in Trouble.", "utt": ["The defending NBA champions are in trouble. Houston is just one win away from reaching the finals. And Lindsay Czarniak is here with more in this morning's \"Bleacher Report.\"", "This thing could all be wrapped up Saturday. And I don't think anybody expected that.", "Unbelievable.", "It is crazy.", "On the brink.", "Yes, on the brink. The Houston Rockets now one win away from pulling off quite the upset over the Golden State Warriors. Rockets rallying behind the city after last week's school shooting at Santa Fe high school. First responders and students from the high school were honored before last night's game five in Houston. And the Rockets gave them a performance to talk about. Chris Paul was really, you could call him the start of the show. He was feeling it. Look at this. The outbalance three-pointer over Steph Curry. Look, and then given Steph a little shimmy taste of his own medicine. Steph said he appreciated that after the game. Paul's coach Mike D'Antoni saying Chris Paul made something out of nothing leading the team. You see the double clutch. Justin Timberlake there, and JJ Watt reacting court side, Eric Gordon joining with team high 24 points. After the game, James Harden acknowledging the tone of the night set from the beginning.", "It was an extremely emotional.", "Something fans are talking about this morning. Chris Paul did injure himself. He hurt his hamstring. He is now questionable for game six Saturday in Oakland. To the NFL now, players and others continue to react to the NFL's decision to change the national anthem policy. We learned yesterday, players will now be fined if they choose to stay on the field and kneel. There are new details this morning about the actual vote that took place at the owners meeting. It has been revealed the vote was actually a show of hands. So, while not every owner took part, there was no one who spoke up against the new policy. Yesterday, President Trump praising the decision to enforce the new rule saying players who kneel, quote, maybe shouldn't be in the country. Players begin to weigh in on those comments, including Colin Kaepernick's college teammate Brandon Marshall.", "I say it's disgusting because of our amendment rights, in our First Amendment rights. You know, we have freedom of speech and freedom of protest. So, because somebody decides to protest something, now we have to be kicked out of the country? That's not how things should work in my opinion.", "It's not American. It's not very patriotic. It's not what the country was founded upon. So, it's kind of ironic to me that the president of the United States is contradicting what our country is really built on.", "Doug Baldwin there. This issue is not going anywhere.", "And at least one owner, the owner of the Jets, if I'm not mistaken, has said that he will pay the fines if the players continue to --", "Christopher Johnson, yes, exactly. And that's interesting statement, right, because, obviously, you have this vote that has taken place and he comes out and says that, he is more in the support of his players. You get the sense that owners somehow could be divided as well.", "You think there could be some momentum on that side from other owners.", "Could be. But if anything would happen, I think it's big question, right? The NFL players association is up in arms about this because they weren't even consulted. So, it will be interesting to see what they can do if anything.", "All right. Lindsay, thank you so much.", "You got it, Alex.", "All right. What was the president's lawyer doing at a classified briefing, two of them, on the Russia investigation? Even some White House staffers are perplexed. That's coming up next."], "speaker": ["MARQUARDT", "LINDSAY CZARNIAK, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "MARQUARDT", "CZARNIAK", "MARQUARDT", "CZARNIAK", "JAMES HARDEN, HOUSTON ROCKETS", "CZARNIAK", "BRANDON MARSHALL, DENVER BRONCOS", "DOUG BALDWN, SEATTLE SEAHAWKS", "CZARNIAK", "MARQUARDT", "CZARNIAK", "MARQUARDT", "CZARNIAK", "MARQUARDT", "CZARNIAK", "MARQUARDT"]}
{"id": "CNN-251762", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-03-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/22/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Ancient Catholic Ritual as Pope Visits Naples", "utt": ["An ancient catholic ritual on full display during the pope's visit to Naples this week has many of the faithful using the word miracle. It happened Saturday when the dried blood of a Naples patron saint half-liquefied during a ceremony with Pope Francis and the archbishop of Naples. The catholic faithful believed it's a miracle when the saint's dry blood turns to liquid. So what is the story behind in saint and this vial of dry blood? For answers, let's bring in CNN's senior Vatican analyst John Allen. He joins us via Skype. So, John, who is this Naples patron saint and why is his dried blood in this vial?", "Hey, Fredricka. In English we would call him St. Januarius. For the Italians, it is San Gennaro, but in any event, this is the patron saint of the city of Naples. Tradition says there aren't actually any historical records to attest to this, but tradition says that he was a bishop in the late 3rd and early 4th century, then a martyr during one of the periodic Roman persecutions. Supposedly he died in (inaudible). His body -- parts of his body were divided up among various sites, but there's this vial of his blood that's been preserved. It was lost for centuries, but then sort of unearthed in the 14th century and brought back to Naples by the guy who was then the (inaudible) bishop. And ever since, this vial has been on display in the cathedral in Naples. And, Fredricka, it is actually believed to liquefy, that is to take on a liquid state, at least three times a year, once in December, which is his feast day. Again in September, which is kind of a feast for the city of Naples, and also in May, which believe it or not was the day on the 14th century when all of the various parts of his body were reunified. This is a miracle that is believed to take place at least three times a year. And it happens regardless of who is present, which is why in this case, if it is to partially liquefy and Pope Francis is there, he's getting some credit as to why it had liquefy a time outside of those three times a year? And also...", "And it happens regardless who is present which is why in this case, it is partly liquefied and Pope Francis is there. He is getting some credit as to why it would liquefy time outside of those three times a year.", "Yeah, that's right. This is the first time -- now, they will say it will occasionally liquefy on other special occasions, but according to the cardinals of Naples, Crescenzio Sepe, this is the first time it has ever happened in the presence of a pope. So you're right, he's getting some credit for it. Now, we should add, Fredricka, that even Francis himself was not over-selling the significance of this. He actually kind of cracked a joke about it. Because what he told the audience is look, this blood only partially liquefied today, which means the saint isn't fully happy with us. We're going to have to do better.", "OK. So what's the answer to the skeptics who say that it's really just that the vial was moved around that could cause it to partially liquefy or liquefy period?", "Listen, there is some basis for that. The vial has been subjected to scientific testing over the years. There's a famous Italian scientist who looked at this and said look, when you have preserved blood, even if it's centuries old, when you jostle it around, it can take on a semi-liquid state without anything miraculous (inaudible). So, obviously, there are some grounds for skepticism there. But, Fredricka, I think this is one of those eyes of faith things, you know, St. Januarius is so near and dear to the hearts of the Neopolitans, the people who live in Naples, he is the one they turn to in times of need. When unemployment shoots through the roof or when a family has lost a child or there's been a civic tragedy, you know, this is the figure that people will turn to, and obviously, they are profoundly convinced this saint has the capacity to work miracles, including this miracle of the liquification of the blood. I'm not sure for them to be honest -- any scientific tests to be performed would mean a heck lot.", "All right. John Allen, thank you. It's so fascinating indeed. All right, we'll be right back."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "JOHN ALLEN, CNN SENIOR VATICAN ANALYST", "WHITFIELD", "ALLEN", "WHITFIELD", "ALLEN", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-147725", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-2-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1002/04/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Toyota's Sales Hit the Skids", "utt": ["All right, stocks fell yesterday, halting a two-day rally, and Wednesday's weakness expected to continue today, unfortunately. Alison Kosik in New York with a look at what's worrying investors as we wait -- or I guess we just got the opening bell, right? Do we hear it?", "The opening bell is on the -- right before the opening bell. Stock futures pointing about 80 points lower. That's because of what was happening the overseas market. They tumbled, at least the European market. And then we got the weekly jobs report. That came out and pretty much solidify that we're going to start in the red at the open. And here is what that report said. Listen to this, 487,000 Americans joined the unemployment line last week, and that's the fourth increase in five weeks. Wal-Mart, it's the latest company to cut jobs. The retailer is flashing 300 administrative positives at its Arkansas headquarters. This all comes just one day before the government releases its big monthly jobs report. Some analysts are expecting the report to show. Businesses did some hiring in January, but as we heard from Stephanie earlier in the hour, there is also going to be a huge downward revision to previous job numbers. The government may have actually underestimated job losses between April 2008 and March 2009 by about 1 million. Let's look on the right side a bit for today. Upbeat earnings from Cisco systems could lift the tech sector today. The company reported quarterly profit and revenue that rose for the first time in more than a year. It's a sign that businesses are spending more on technology. Cisco is considered a bellwether indicator of what to expect from other tech companies, and that's why we look so closely at Cisco. Right now, Cisco shares are up almost 2 percent, and we have to encouraging sales numbers from retail stores, but overall right now, we are starting lower. Take a look the Dow and just real found about 72 points, the NASDAQ up about 17. Happy Thursday. We'll see how the markets do all day -- Kyra", "All right. Thanks, Alison. Another day and another hit for the world's largest automaker. Earlier today, Toyota expanded its recall to include its flagship model, the Prius Hybrid. The recall came after Japan's transport ministry ordered the company to investigate complaints of break problems. Meanwhile, safety experts in the U.S. say they are investigating a growing number of complaints that there may be problems with the vehicle's electronics. Toyota owners are worried and frustrated. They're demanding answers. Chief among them, what did the car maker know and when did it know it? Toyota executives may have to answer those questions under oath. CNN's Deb Feyerick explains.", "Driving this road in Flint Michigan. Lilia Alberto is haunted by her mother's last moments. The fear of the 76 year old woman must have felt desperately trying to control her 2005 Toyota Camry as it barreled down a quiet street at 80 miles per hour.", "And the car went airborne and it was going 80 miles per hour and hit the tree on the top and it just went down. She died instantly.", "Guadelope Alberto, by all accounts was an extremely careful driver in good health.", "That was the first thing that I knew that something had to be wrong because my mother would never cross a street, because of the two-way traffic.", "Witnesses say the car seemed to speed out of control. Nobody knows why. But it fits the pattern of thousands of incidents of unintended acceleration involving Toyota vehicles. After recent state of high profile accidents, Toyota recalled millions of cars, not including the model driven by Guadelope Alberto. They blamed the floor mats and sticky gas pedals. Yet a growing number of automotive experts and class action lawyers like Richard McCune say that explanation just doesn't fit.", "What I hear over and over and over again, I'm driving down the road and my car just takes off on me. I apply the brakes, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. That's the pattern that we have seen.", "So unequivocally, that these recalls simply do not get to the core of the problems that Toyota has. (voice-over): Safety analysts, Sean Kane did more than 2000 in acceleration incidents involving Toyota and believes the root of the problem lies in the electronic throttle system which controls the speed of the car.", "These are computer- guided systems, and we all know that electronics fail, they do fail and they will fail. And the problem with Toyota, is they have not built enough fail safe devices into the cars to ensure that the drivers get control of the vehicle when a failure happens.", "During a press conference in Japan this week a Toyota executive ruled out any software or electronic issue with the accelerator.", "For the electronic control unit we cannot could not come across any case where we found that there was a misfunction in this control system.", "McCune says Toyota's recalls are disturbing in their limitations because they don't apply to all makes and models that have allegedly experienced the acceleration problem '05 Camry Guadelope Alberto was driving. (on camera): Based on your evidence, you're suggesting that there are cars on the road that right now should be recalled?", "I think that the recalls cover less than half of the models and model years that need to be part of this recall.", "Toyota says it basis its recalls on defects that have been identified and not solely on reports of unintended acceleration. Late Wednesday McCune filed a motion for a preliminary injunction demanding that Toyota recall all vehicle models allegedly affected. And also install a brake override system that would stop a car that's accelerating out of control.", "While everybody tries to figure this out including Toyota, I presume, we need a system so the sudden accelerations do not become deadly accidents. And that's what the break override system does.", "A system that possibly could have saved the life of Guadalupe Alberto.", "Once in a while, I come by this just to say a prayer, or just to come and look and remember the place where she died. But, it's very painful. It's still very vivid in my mind and my heart.", "Toyota says that all new cars made next year will be programmed with the break override safety system. In fact, in November during that format recall, Toyota actually said it would install the break override system in what amounts to millions of Camrys, Avalons, and Lexus models. Toyota did not call it a safety measure. They said it was an extra measure of confidence for drivers -- Kyra.", "A lot of cars have these data recorders similar to a black box on airplanes, right? so should not have those recorders have information to explain why this engine surge is happening?", "Absolutely. You would think so. We asked Toyota that very question, and the spokesman said the data recorders on their vehicles are not programmed specifically to detect unwanted acceleration. Even though, they know it's a problem, they are programmed only to record the last five to six seconds before the airbag is deployed, and one we interviewed believes that their program that way deliberately, especially since he said it could provide the car giant a lot of valuable information to find out why the sudden acceleration is occurring -- Kyra.", "All right. Deb Feyerick. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. We may just be seen the tip of the iceberg, not just for Toyota, but for the government as well. Joan Claybrook is a former administrator with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, now president emeritus for public citizen and nonprofit consumer advocacy group. And we're just getting word Joan. This just came across the wires, and apparently, the transportation department is now opening an investigation into break problems for the 2010 model of Toyota's Prius. Japanese automaker came forward and acknowledged some design problems with the breaks in this very popular Hybrid that has been out on the market. Now, it's opened up an additional investigation. So, help me out here. Try and bring us some piece of mind, especially if we own a Toyota. We really don't know who to trust and what to believe at this moment. I mean, Toyota has known about this problem for a number of years, right?", "Correct. They have known about it probably since 2004, at least, because that's when they were first sued, and when they are sued, they pay a lot of attention to that, and so I am very disappointed in Toyota for delaying, persuading the Department of Transportation to close the investigations that it opened when consumer complaints came in 2005, 2006, 2008, and delaying up to this point where now we have huge numbers of vehicles involved and enormous costs and people are really scared to death.", "So, if they knew about it for as far back as 2004, then the government had to know about it, right? Where was the government in its investigations and trying to do something for the public?", "Well, I am not sure the government knew in 2004, but they probably did right about then or 2005, and the government was negligent in my view. They took some of a brief look, a casual look at these issues. They opened six investigations and closed them at Toyota's request. They kept a lot of information secret, and I think that it's refreshing that we have in the new administration, Rey LaHood and new NHTSA administrator who are being very tough on the company and other companies as well, and pushing them to do a recall, but this is a case of a severe problem. If you have a breaking loss, sudden acceleration, or rollover, this on fire, those are the kinds of cases that the agency should jump on immediately and try and resolve as rapidly as possible, and instead they just let Toyota get away with delaying and giving lousy excuses like people put their foot on the accelerator instead of the break. Even in November or October, when the Toyota submitted its papers on doing the November recall for the floor mat and also this break override, which I believe shows it's an electronic issue, they said it wasn't a safety related defect, but they were going to comply with the rules that it has.", "So, you know, you were the former administrator of NHTSA and -- so what is happening here? Why wouldn't the job had been -- why wasn't the job done properly on behalf? I mean, we might understand the PR nightmare for Toyota, but it seems like the government truly failed us? I mean, is this about money? Is this about the economy? Is this about saving face? I mean, why wouldn't the public -- why wasn't the public more protected when this first became a serious problem?", "Well, you know, it's a very curious because when the Firestone Ford Explorer debacle occurred in 2000, the government was reprimanded by the Congress. They got more money, more staff, and more power, and yet they fell back into sort of an old bureaucratic habit of not really paying attention to the issues or doing so as an everyday routine, and not as a serious issue. They have subpoena power. They can get information, demand information or put people in jail if they don't get it from the company, from the suppliers, from the dealers. They can hire consultants and other experts, whoever they want. They can put out consumer alerts and ask the public to let them know if they have this problem. They have enormous authority and yet they just did not do the job. And I think it's -- they were not the cop on the corporate beat, and I think it had to do with the philosophy of the Bush administration at least in part where they did not issue safety standards, and they didn't do much enforcement.", "The public was definitely failed, and I got to ask you this before we go. You mentioned the Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood. Look, he didn't have too spectacular of a day yesterday. He comes out and says to the nation, don't drive your Toyota, and then oops a couple hours later, I didn't really mean that, you can drive your Toyota. Look, you were the head of NHTSA, you've been involved with these investigations. Should we drive our Toyota or not?", "I think the people should drive their car. They have to drive their car, but if they have any concern about it as the Secretary said very appropriately, they should take them to the dealer. The dealers are getting parts now, and they can, if anyone is really concerned that their car maybe dangerous, they can take it in there. All of these cars have to be fixed. It's going to take months for that to happen. If anyone experienced any hint that they have a problem with the accelerator or with the breaking, they should take them in immediately. If they have not, they should be aware of the problem, the potential for the problem, and if it occurs, put it in neutral immediately, so that the vehicle cannot-- this is with the acceleration, so the vehicle engine doesn't race, and then bring the car to a stop and get it to a dealer -- call the dealer and have it towed to the dealer.", "Joan Claybrook, we really appreciate your insight. Timing worked out perfectly as we got this breaking news about the investigation now into the Prius. Our Willy --", "I am glad they opened that one right away. At least they're Johnny on the spot right now under the new administration.", "There is a little bit of good news there.", "That's right.", "Thanks, Joan. We really appreciate it.", "Okay.", "And next hour, a Toyota owner speaks out. A personal story of surviving harrowing accidents as well as the anxiety that seems to be growing every day. 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{"id": "CNN-212793", "program": "THE NEXT LIST", "date": "2013-8-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/17/nl.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Nuclear Physicist Taylor Wilson", "utt": ["When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. And I went after that one with a passion. You know, just kind of realizing the power, this unseen power within the atom was I think what really drew me to it. You know, knowing that I can hold a piece of uranium in my hand that has enough energy locked in its nucleus to bring down an entire city, that's an incredibly powerful thing. To tell you the truth, the reason I started building my fusion reactor was to make things radioactive. I had this obsession with radioactivity. Short of contaminating something to make something radioactive, you had to have a source of neutrons. I don't have weapons grade plutonium around the house -- or at least not at that time -- but anyway, to make things radioactive, I would need a neutron source. I decided to build this fusion reactor, but with that came this interest in fusion.", "My name is Ron Phaneuf. I'm a professor in Atomic Physics here at the University of Nevada in Reno. I first met Taylor, he was 13. And very first thing he told me was that he had this plan to build a fusion reactor. I knew he was serious. And I remember thinking at the time, that, you know, this is not the kind of project that you want to be doing at home in your garage with your family upstairs or on the other side of the wall. So I started to think right then maybe we could find room for Taylor to do that here at the university.", "Well, first impression is he was probably about a foot shorter than he is now. And like I say, painfully young and I was just wondering, could this little guy really be as smart as they say he is? After talking to him, it didn't take very long to figure out that he's very intelligent, very savvy with things -- most anything to do with physics. I figured it would be kind of fun to help him with his projects.", "There were many sleepless nights before I got nuclear fusion. It was an incredible process in my life and time in my life. I can remember checking the neutron detector after my first fusion shock with fusion fuel and seeing the remnants of the neutrons in that detector. And that was an incredible experience. You know, there was lots of laughing and high fives and excitement and calling of parents and friends.", "Well, I really don't know what Taylor's got this from. A lot of that ground is I'm a fourth generation Coca- Cola bottler.", "We have no science in our family at all. I kid people -- I have all their lives say, who like, how did you end up with these kids? I said, well, it's all the health foods I fed them growing up, you know, teasing. He kind of started out just kind of, you know, timid and shy and just took everything in and then, you know, just blossomed. Any interest he had, he just went crazy with it. He started out with construction and learned every name of every tractor and from that went to rockets and learned all the rockets.", "(Inaudible) just about one second after it does, the (inaudible), it's starting to filtrate (inaudible).", "He was about 9 years old and he had become interested in nuclear energy and nuclear bombs.", "We're constantly being bombarded by cosmic radiation, which is gamma rays, x-rays, neutron radiation from the sun.", "So Taylor wanted to go up to Oak Ridge and visit with this professor. He was going to visit with us five minutes. Three hours later, we're still in the department and when we getting ready to leave, Taylor, when you get ready to go to college, I have got a scholarship for you. He's 9 years old and got his first scholarship. I'm sitting there in awe. I didn't know he knew any knowledge or very little of nuclear energy. But after that day, I knew he was something special.", "My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels for it are everywhere. There are problems with fusion. It's easy to make a fusion reaction. It's not easy to make a fusion reaction that produces net gain. The so-called breakeven point, where you produce more power out than you put in. There's a joke in fusion energy research that fusion is always 30 years away and it always will be. But I hope I can make it this 30 years and I think I can. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be just an incredible thing. I really think that I'll be the one that makes fusion energy where we're going. I think that will be probably my greatest legacy."], "speaker": ["TAYLOR WILSON, APPLIED NUCLEAR PHYSICIST", "DR.  RONALD PHANEUF, ATOMIC PHYSICIST", "WILLIAM BRINSMEAD, SR. TECHNICIAN, UNR", "WILSON", "KENNETH WILSON, TAYLOR'S DAD", "TIFFANY WILSON, TAYLOR'S MOM", "TAYLOR WILSON", "KENNETH WILSON", "TAYLOR WILSON", "KENNETH WILSON", "TAYLOR WILSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-333302", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2018-02-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/21/acd.01.html", "summary": "Pres. Trump Expresses Support For Teachers Carrying Concealed Gun.", "utt": ["With a nationally televised listening session with the White House today in the CNN Town Hall on gun violence just moments away, there's a big question surrounding all of it. Is now the time when serious congressional debate on guns can actually begin? Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy has been there, he's been there especially since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary just a little over five years ago. Here's what he said a week ago when news at the Florida shooting broke. 2", "That this happens nowhere else other than the United States of America. This epidemic of mass slaughter, the scourge of school shooting after school shooting. It only happens here not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but as a consequence of our inaction.", "Senator Murphy joins us now. Senator, after Newtown, after the horror there, there was hope that some sort of progress might be made. Does this moment feel different for you? I mean you've been trying to get legislation pass since Newtown?", "Well, the anti gun violence movement has been growing by leaps and bounds since Sandy Hook. The gun lobby, the gun industry has had a head start on us about 20 years when it comes to political organization, but we are catching up. Then I think this may be a water shed moment when all of these kids speaking for themselves, this may compel lawmakers to act. But the fact of the matter is, the public has made up their mind long ago on this issue. 97% of Americans in the last poll want universal background checks, that numbers always been above 80%. Ultimately, you know, we have to convince members of Congress that if they don't vote with 97% of their constituents that want stronger gun law, that they're going to pay a price at the polls and if strength of this movement and the strengths of the students may finally be able to convince those members, that they'll pay that political price.", "You know, the White House has said that the President is supportive of a bill you are cosponsoring with Republican Senator John Cornyn that will help strengthen the federal background check system. Today though in his listening session, the White House, the President seemed most supportive of the idea of arming teachers and others inside the school. Is that part of the solution, do you think?", "Yes, that's an insane idea that will make our schools less safe not more safe. It's a creation of the gun lobby. The gun industry for years has called on societies to arm themselves in order to protect themselves which belies all of the evidence that tells us that communities and homes that have more guns are more likely to be subject to gun crimes. But it has the benefit of allowing gun industry to sell more guns. My bill with Senator Cornyn is a good bill. But let's be clear what it does. It just compels states to comply with existing law. It actually doesn't subject any additional sales to background check. That's what Americans want. And so I hope that will, you know, have a full debate on the Senate floor about the ways in which we can better protect our kids and, you know, all citizens of this country.", "You know, if you look at FBI statistics, so many of the deaths in mass -- in school shootings, take place in the first couple of minutes, really in the first six minutes or so often time police response time is about six minutes or even maybe more in some cases. The argument for arming teachers or others in the schools is that you've been have more guns in the school that can fight potentially fight back. You say is just a recipe for disaster. Can you just explain why you think so?", "Well, it's a recipe for disaster, because what happens when you arm teachers is one, you put a whole mess load of guns close to kids that can be used accidentally. Second, you create cross fire that can get a lot of innocent people killed. Third, you make it hard for police who are responding to figure out who the good guy and who the bad guy is. And fourth there's no evidence to suggest that this actually works, anecdotally or empirically. Empirically we know that in homes that have guns those guns are more likely to be used to kill you, not to kill an intruder. And anecdotally we know in places where mass shootings happened and there were lots of guns, take Dallas, where there were people walking around that square with AR-15 strapped to their backs, it didn't help in that carnage. So this again is simply a talking point from the gun industry. They are trying to make you think that more guns will make your school safer because they are desperate to sell more guns.", "Republican Senator Jeff Flake is now back in bill introduce by Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein that would raise the minimum age to buy an AR-15 type rifle, from 18 to 21 years old, just the age to buy hand gun. Which would have in theory prevented the shooter in Parkland from legally acquiring his rifle. The NRA has already come out against the bill. If history is any guy, does the NRA's opposition guarantee defeat?", "Well right now Congress is owned by the NRA. The reason that President Trump is supporting the bill that I introduced with Ssenator Cornyn is because it's endorsed by the NRA. It's the furthest the NRA would go and thus the furthest that the White House and the Republicans in Congress will go. At some point the NRA will lose their grip, the gun lobby will lose their grip on Congress, but it will probably have to come after an election. I fear that right now, the NRA has veto authority over legislation in Congress. Maybe I'll be proved wrong, maybe these kids are more powerful than they even know, but that seems to be the reality today in Congress.", "A few minutes ago, President Trump tweeted this, he said, \"I will always remember the time I spent today with courageous students, teachers and families. So much love in the midst of so much pain, we must not let them down. We must keep our children safe\". Do you have hope or expectations that this President will spur the Congress to act in meaningful way?", "It certainly didn't sound like today. Again, I'm glad that he's endorsing, you know, the bill that I wrote, but it is just an incremental step forward just to try to make the existing background check system work as it's intended to do. The end of that event today was full of NRA and gun lobby rhetoric, loading our schools up with more weapons, something that teachers don't want and students don't want. There was a day when the President was for the elimination of assault weapons and universal background checks. And maybe when he's thinking about the demands from these kids to fix this problem, he'll remember that. I hope he'll also remember that this isn't just about school shootings. Even on days when there isn't a school shooting, 90 people in this country die from guns. Many of those suicides, but 30 of them are gun homicides. We owe an obligation to everyone who is a victim of this epidemic, not simply those who are victims of school shootings that get a lot of attention on the news.", "Well, Senator Chris Murphy, I appreciate your time tonight, thank you. Former First Lady, Michelle Obama also tweeted tonight, saying \"I'm in total awe, the extraordinary students in Florida, like every movement for progress and our history, run reform will take unyielding encourage and endurance. Barack Obama and I believed in you, we're proud of you and we're behind you every step of the way.\" Join us now is former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod. David, we are just minutes away from this Town Hall, beginning you just heard Senator Murphy. Do you share his feelings on the chances of getting meaningful legislation getting passed and signed into law? I mean he said point blank the NRA went to Congress right now?", "No, and he's been steeled by hard experience. And the country has as well. I mean Newtown seemed like such a clear case and yet even a 90% bill, you know, like universal background checks, never went anywhere. So there is hard experience to look at here. But on the other hand, we've never seen anything quite like this. These kids are just overwhelming. These kids are so inspiring, so impressive. And they are just asking us to suspend our cynicism, to throw off the political shackles that campaign contributions and threats from the NRA represent, and finally live up to our responsibilities. And my great hope for them and the country is that they -- is that we're able to do that. It would be a terrible thing if their earnest pleas are responded to with business as usual. And the President has the ability to make a difference here. I agree with Senator Murphy, his rhetoric at the end of that session at the White House today was very discouraging. On the other hand, he watching -- we know he watches television, we know he's watching these children. He has a sense of the impact they're having. He was in a room today with some very moving people. And perhaps he'll find the courage to take some steps in the right direction. Maybe not all the steps that we need, but more steps than the NRA will allow. And if he does, he'll provide political cover for others to as well.", "You think him coming forward on this would provide enough political cover to buck, for some people to buck the NRA?", "Yes, I think that -- I think that it would. I think it would be a risky move for him with his base. I also think as a political matter that he would make some inroads in places where he needs to like in suburban areas around the country by doing it. But at the end of the day, one hopes it's not all about the political calculus, that there -- that he was moved somewhat by the people in the room, even if he need a note card to remind him to tell them that he's listening.", "It's interesting to me that you feel sort of the voice of these students could possibly be some sort of -- I don't know if \"watershed event\" is too strong a word, but could actually make a difference.", "Yes. Well, listen, Anderson, I don't want to be pollyannish about it. But I've been in tears the last few days watching these kids. I want to believe that America can respond to them. The hard- bitten political side of me says it's going to end the way all the others have ended. But I've seen movements in this country before, the civil rights movement is one, where the young people really led the way and pricked the conscious of the country. Maybe that will happen here.", "David Axelrod, i appreciate your time. Students from Stoneman Douglas High School today met with Florida lawmakers and with Florida Governor Rick Scott. Many students spoke at the state capitol, including Sofie Whitney.", "People are talking about how we aren't serious because we're children. But have you heard my friends talk? We're serious. We are here to discuss with our state legislators how we can prevent what happened to us. We are going to make a change. We will not give up. This is only the beginning of our history. Please be on the right side of it. Help us. Help us so children don't fear for going to school. Help us so mass shootings aren't inevitable. Help us so our children, our grandchildren, and their children after that don't have to march for their lives. Help us for our 17 fallen brothers and sisters. Help us so no one else dies. Thank you. (END VIDEOTAPE", "Sofie Whitney joins me. Sofie, you had a chance to speak with Governor Rick Scott tonight. Can you tell us about that -- what did he say to you and your fellow students? What did you say to him?", "We were actually pleasantly surprised to hear how receptive he was to our ideas. It was more of like an open conversation between us and him. We started it off talking about the policies that we would like to see in the upcoming bill, and he would respond with different ideas to maybe make it a little different than our ideas. But he seemed to really hear what we were trying to say.", "When you and I talked last night, you told me that if you were to craft your own bill, it would address mental health, background checks, some kind of waiting period, banning assault rifles. I'm wondering how many of those specific topics came up.", "Just about every one, except for banning assault rifles. But that was in a perfect world, that's a lot to ask for in one session.", "The legislature in Florida, their session ends in just a couple of weeks. Were you able to get a sense at all today of how much it's going to take to get something done before then?", "Well, according to Governor Scott, he said that there will be a bill proposed this Friday. But that wasn't a positive. But I'm hopeful that he actually might follow through.", "Did he say what would be proposed?", "A bill that kind of combines all of the things we're talking about including background checks, a lot of mental health examinations, hopefully raising the age to buy a gun, a waiting period.", "I know you've mentioned before that actions speak louder than words. Did you leave today's meeting believing that action actually will be taken? Because I mean a lot of times people will say things to your face and then there's no actual follow-through.", "Yes, well, I won't believe everything he says until we see the bill. But I'm going to be hopeful just to keep morale high. But I think that there's a good chance that we're going to get at least some of the stuff that we want out of this bill.", "I'm wondering also at the protest today what you saw today, how you if he felt about how it went, and what you're expecting from the town hall tonight?", "Well, most of the kids on the trip weren't allowed to actually leave to go outside to see the rally. But there were a lot of people protesting inside. I mean it was really good to see people joining us, and a lot of kids standing with us. And from the town hall tonight, I have a lot of friends speaking there. I'm really hoping that Senator Rubio is as responsive and receptive as Governor Scott was tonight.", "Well, Sofie Whitney, I appreciate your time. Thank you.", "Thank you for having me.", "Well, the town hall is now just a few minutes away from starting. I want to check in with our Alisyn Camerota who is there. Alisyn, first of all the turnout for this, I mean I didn't realize what a large event it was going to be, it looks like there are thousands of people there. You also see Senator Marco Rubio in the state, Senator Bill Nelson, Congressman Deutsche from the district where the school is. It's an enormous turnout.", "It is an enormous turnout, bigger than we expected. There are something like 7,000 people here. That's a security estimated for us. And you could -- if you didn't know, Anderson, that something, this unspeakable tragedy had happened, you would think that this was a pep rally for Stoneman Douglas School, because there is so much school spirit here. When they ask the kids -- the students, the kids to stand up, this arena erupted in support and love for them. When they asked the teachers of the district to stand up, the arena erupted. And when they asked the principal of Stoneman Douglas to come out, it brought the house down, people just applauding in sustained claps for a long period of time. There's a lot of love and support in here. We also just watched the sort of 16 to 18 most recognizable faces of the survivors walking out and now they're onstage right behind me. It -- this has already been a remarkable night. It's going to be a very emotional night. People are already yelling some questions to the lawmakers, they're not waiting for it to start. So it is just going to be an extraordinary conversation. The mood in here is filled with love as well as lots of demands and questions from these students who are still in so much pain.", "Alisyn, thanks very much. Time now to hand it over to Jake Tapper. He's going to be leading the CNN Town Hall which we're calling \"Stand Up.\" As Alisyn said, there are some nearly 7,000 people in that auditorium, according to security. Community members, parents, teachers, lawmakers, legislators, and of course, as you saw, students not only from that school, but from surrounding schools as well. Marco Rubio is on the stage. The students from Stoneman Douglas, \"Stand Up\", the CNN Town Hall: Stand Up, The Student of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action, starts now."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "SEN. CHRIS MURPHY, (D) CONNECTICUT", "COOPER", "MURPHY", "COOPER", "MURPHY", "COOPER", "MURPHY", "COOPER", "MURPHY", "COOPER", "MURPHY", "COOPER", "DAVID AXELROD, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "COOPER", "AXELROD", "COOPER", "AXELROD", "COOPER", "SOFIE WHITNEY, STUDENT, STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL", "COOPER", "WHITNEY", "COOPER", "WHITNEY", "COOPER", "WHITNEY", "COOPER", "WHITNEY", "COOPER", "WHITNEY", "COOPER", "WHITNEY", "COOPER", "WHITNEY", "COOPER", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-330072", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2018-01-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/09/ath.01.html", "summary": "CNN: Trump Lawyers Anticipate Mueller Request For Trump Testimony And Want To Limit Its Scope", "utt": ["New in the Russia investigation, President Trump's lawyers expect a request from Special Counsel Robert Mueller to interview the president and they're trying to decide how to limit the scope of the questions. That is according to CNN sources. They say that no formal request has been made yet, but that the matter was raised in a previous meeting and the president's team wants to determine if he needs to testify under oath, whether he can provide written answers to questions from Mueller's team, and whether the testimony should be recorded. Democratic Congressman Jim Himes is joining me now, member of the House Intelligence Committee, one of four congressional committees that is investigating Russia's interference in the election. Sir, thank you for joining us this morning.", "Good morning, Brianna.", "Do you expect that Robert Mueller is going to interview President Trump soon? What's your expectation with this?", "Well, I'll start by saying that there is not much communication as there should not be, between the FBI investigation and, of course, the congressional investigations, one of which I am a part of. That is a law enforcement, criminal investigation that can result in indictments and all that sort of thing that we've actually seen happen so far. Our investigations are different. There's not a lot of communication other than to deconflict, to make sure we don't step on each other. To answer your question, though, yes, I do anticipate that Robert Mueller will want to talk to the president. There are, obviously, questions about his role and his campaign's role in the attack by Russia and, of course, we understand, and I don't have any particular inside information on this, that Robert Mueller may be interested in questions of obstruction of justice. Remember that Bill Clinton, as president, sat and did a deposition with then Special Prosecutor Ken Starr. So, there is plenty of precedence for this. I imagine that we're going to see something along the lines what we saw when Bill Clinton had to do the same thing when he was president.", "There have been other ones, George H.W. Bush, transcribed by a court reporter. There are different parameters for how this could go down and different precedence. CNN is reporting the president's lawyers are talking about what those parameters are going to be. Would you be satisfied with anything less than the president testifying under oath? That said, not necessarily a requirement of talking to the FBI, but it's something that president has, for instance, lambasted Hillary Clinton for not being under oath even though it is a crime to lie to the FBI whether you are, quote/unquote, \"under oath or not.\"", "Yes. Well, that's exactly the point. This question comes up, under oath. Guess what, oath or no oath, if you lie to a criminal investigator or Congress, you're committing a felony. Whether it's under oath or not, you know, it doesn't really matter. What really matters is that the American people get to see candid answers to tough questions. One of the things --", "What -- sorry, go on.", "I was going to say, one of the things that has been challenging in the congressional investigation is that some of these interviews have had happened or have happened behind closed doors. The question of under oath or not doesn't really matter. What really matters is that the president gives frank responses to whatever questions Mueller wants to ask and more importantly, I had to sort of chuckle as your White House guest earlier was saying how cooperative the White House has been with this investigation, boy, that's a different definition of cooperation than the one that I have. When you're out there threatening to fire your attorney general, calling the investigation a hoax, that is not the sign of cooperation. So most importantly, I hope that we quickly get to a point where the president, just as presidents in the past have done, sit down and answer some tough questions in a way the American people get to see the answers.", "Would you be satisfied with the answers being written rather than in person?", "No. No. Again, think of Bill Clinton answering questions in person, other presidents answering questions in person. They did not have the opportunity to look at a written question and think through the answer, share it with attorneys so no. You know, any prosecutor will tell you that they like the opportunity to take the measure of the man or woman to ask question in certain orders. No. I think if we get total candor and do want as the White House says they will provide total cooperation the president should sit with the special counsel and answer his questions.", "You have said that your committee has a lot of work left to do on their investigation. Republicans, obviously, don't feel that way. They want wrap this up. Do you think there are going to be two separate reports, one from Democrats and one from the Republicans coming from the House Intel Committee?", "I'm not sure I agree with your characterization. We continue to work -- the Republicans tend to be focused as the chairman of the committee, Chairman Nunez, is focused on questions of whether the DOJ and the FBI over relied on the Steele dossier. We're hearing lots of possible witnesses to discuss that issue. The Democrats tend to be a little bit more focused on what is clearly central to the investigation about whether there was any sort of participation on the part of the Trump campaign with the Russian efforts.", "Do you think there will be two reports?", "Well, I certainly hope not. Again, we have not been -- I guess characterized by huge bipartisanship but that needs to change between now and when the report is issued. I've said this before, I'll say it again, the Russian attack on our election system on the very core of our democracy, you know, is up there with Pearl Harbor in terms of its seriousness as a challenge to this country. I understand and we've all seen it politics and partisanship gets involved, but the seriousness of that attack really makes it incumbent on Congress to figure out a way to speak with one voice about what really happened. Though the trend is not good, my hope sure is that we can issue one report.", "And finally before I let you go, Oprah, lots of speculation, some of it fueled by those close to her she could run in 2020. Would you welcome that?", "It had to come up, didn't it?", "Of course. You know it did.", "Well, I'll tell you what, like an awful lot of Americans I just thought what an incredible articulation of this country's values she gave at the Golden Globes. I thought it was amazing. I thought it was in stark contrast to the hatred, the divisiveness and the anger that we see coming out of the White House. Whether that then translates into a White House run is a very big leap to take, but like so many people I was so touched by the depth of her feeling and reminder of the people that we are as Americans.", "And we appreciate your insight on that. Not answering the question, but we will try again later, Congressman Jim Himes, thank you so much.", "I know you will.", "I want to bring in CNN national security commentator, Mike Rogers, a former Republican congressman, the chairman of the House -- was chairman of the House Intel Committee and also a former member of President Trump's transition team. So, Congressman Himes would not answer the question about whether there would be one or two reports, but there really could be. I mean, it's almost as if you're seeing two different investigations from Democrats and Republicans on House Intel. What would the impact of two different reports be?", "I think whatever happens now in these -- in most of these legislative committee investigations, is you're going to have half of America is going to hate it and the other half is not going to like it. So, you're going to have this really mixed bag because both folks are going to have comments at the back, there's always this dissenting comments and reviews in the back of these reports. It sure looks like that's the path they're going. The only hope here now it looks like the Senate Intel Committee is a little closer aligned in their investigation. So, you can hope at least one of these committees can come out with a report that is fair and balanced as much as it can possibly be.", "On the --", "Which is difficult on something like this. It's so politically charged. Things are really difficult.", "Do you have hope that the Senate can get to the finish line and still be unified between Democrats and Republicans?", "They've handled it the best so far, the most professional way to handle it. It looks like the Senate committee has done that, but getting across the finish line even from where they are is still a big leap.", "It's the hardest part, perhaps. I want to talk about the reporting we have that the attorneys of the president are now looking toward an interview by Robert Mueller, the special counsel, and President Trump and they're thinking about what are the parameters we want to put on this. A question about, you know, is it under oath like -- I heard you -- I saw you nodding when I was talking about to the congressman about that. That doesn't matter so much. But whether you would have written responses to questions, that is a key thing. Is it going to be recorded? If so, transcribed by a court reporter? Is getting to be audio? Is it going to be video? What do you think?", "And by the way, this is really interesting to me because it says they're anticipating a request from the special counsel and all of this information is coming from the White House. So as an old FBI agent, I look the at this and say they are prepping the battlefield for the legal case that's coming. So, they're trying to establish early what their parameters were, even though the special prosecutor hasn't got than far. Why that's important normally in an investigation like this, if you look at the Hillary Clinton investigation, even criminal investigations, the so- called subject of your investigation is normally 95 percent the last person you talk to and so they're --", "Wrap it up.", "I'm getting ready for the interview, wrap it up. This is really interesting.", "That is interesting. Will it be recorded do you think?", "They will have to have some way to record it. A normal interview would be the FBI agent taking hand notes, that is the most basic way to do these interviews, all the way up to some recording. I think the prosecutor will push for some recording because they want to make sure there's consistency of what comes out of that interview.", "Cover themselves. All right. Mike Rogers, thank you so much. Always a pleasure to have you on. Progress on the Korean Peninsula, North and South Korea holding their most significant military talks in years. Could this be a breakthrough? That's next."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "REPRESENTATIVE JIM HIMES (D), CONNECTICUT", "KEILAR", "HIMES", "KEILAR", "HIMES", "KEILAR", "HIMES", "KEILAR", "HIMES", "KEILAR", "HIMES", "KEILAR", "HIMES", "KEILAR", "HIMES", "KEILAR", "HIMES", "KEILAR", "HIMES", "KEILAR", "MIKE ROGERS, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY COMMENTATOR", "KEILAR", "ROGERS", "KEILAR", "ROGERS", "KEILAR", "ROGERS", "KEILAR", "ROGERS", "KEILAR", "ROGERS", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-252058", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-03-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/26/nday.03.html", "summary": "NYT: Pilot Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash; Three Americans on Doomed French Alps Flight; Saudi Arabia Launches Military Operations in Yemen; U.S. Launches Airstrikes Over Tikrit.", "utt": ["This is NEW DAY, with Chris Cuomo, Alisyn Camerota and Michaela Pereira.", "Good morning, everyone. We want to welcome our viewers here in the U.S. and around the world. This is NEW DAY. And we begin with breaking news. \"The New York Times\" reporting that one of the pilots on Germanwings Flight 9525 got locked out of the cockpit and can be heard trying to break back in during the critical minutes before the plane slammed into a mountain in the French Alps.", "How do they know? This was all captured on the voice recorder as the plane was descending rapidly. This stunning development comes as investigators are still trying to piece together clues from the debris. Families of the victims preparing to board a plane in Barcelona and head to the crash site in France. CNN is covering this story from every angle. Let's begin with Erin McLaughlin near the crash site in the French Alps. Erin, what's the latest?", "Hi, Chris. Well, here are more questions than answers as work continues here in the French Alps. All morning choppers full of investigators have been leaving the staging area you see just behind me for the crash site. There, they're working to recover human remains, as well as to try to figure out what happened to Flight 9525, after all the reports out of what they found on the cockpit voice recorders are chilling.", "Stunning new details this morning in the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525. According to media reports, one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit when the plane crashed into the side of this mountain high in the French Alps. All of the 150 people on board, including school-aged children and two infants, presumed dead. \"The New York Times\" cites a senior military official involved in examining audio evidence from the cockpit voice recorder. This official says, before the plane's rapid descent, one of the pilots left the cockpit and was unable to get back in. The paper quotes this investigator as saying, \"The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door, and there is no answer. And then he hits the door, stronger. No answer. There is never an answer.\" He says, \"You can hear he is trying to smash the door down.\" The chilling report deepening the mystery of why this plane crashed.", "This is likely to become clearer when we have the other black box.", "The lock on the cockpit door is controlled by a lever on the pilot's dashboard. In order to lock the door, someone would have to intentionally move the lever from the normal position into the locked position. The question is who.", "Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, told CNN they did not have any information about the \"Times\" report but are looking into it.", "And this morning we are getting more information about the pilots of Flight 9525. According to Lufthansa, the captain had 6,000 hours of flight experience. The co-pilot, less experience with 630 hours. It's not clear who was the one that was locked out of the cockpit. But authorities here in France not commenting so far on those media reports, though we are expecting a press conference from the French prosecutor in Marseille this hour -- Alisyn.", "We sure hope that press conference brings to light some of this incredible mystery. Erin, thanks so much for that. Now, Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, claims to know nothing about those reports of a pilot being locked out of the cockpit. This, as more details of the pilot's experience and history come to light. So let's get right to Diana Magnay. She's in Germany with more for us -- Diana.", "We do not today know much about the identities of the pilots and the co-pilot. Germanwings and Lufthansa, both for obvious reasons, really, being tight-lipped about their identities and nationalities. But we do know that both were men. The pilot had 6,000 hours of flight time behind him. He has been with Germanwings since May of 2014. And prior to that, had flown with Lufthansa and Condor. And we know that the co-pilot had 630 hours of flight time behind him and had trained at the Lufthansa Aviation Center in Bremen, which is where Lufthansa trains most of its pilots. The company's also unwilling to speculate on the arguments, the lines that are coming out from media reports about what went on in the cockpit. But there will be a Germanwings press conference at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Back to you.", "Very important press conference indeed. CNN will cover it, of course. Now this is all about the dignity of those who died, 150 people on board Flight 9525. And now we know it went from thinking there were no Americans, to two Americans and now at least three Americans involved. Two of them have been identified by the State Department as a mother and daughter from Virginia. For the latest on that, let's get to CNN's Erin McPike. She is live in Virginia where that family lives -- Erin.", "Chris, those two women are Yvonne and Emily Selke. And here's how their family friend, Haley Holmes, remembered them on \"AC 360\" last night.", "Is there anything else you want people to know about Emily?", "I think what people need to know about them and what people should know about them is that they were two -- not two Americans on the plane, not a mother and daughter on a plane. But two -- Yvonne and Emily, two amazing, loving people who left behind friends and family who love and miss them a lot.", "Now, Yvonne was a long-time government contractor for Booz Allen. Her daughter, Emily, was a community manager just outside Washington, D.C. Both of their employers issued very heartfelt statements about these two just yesterday. The family understandably doesn't want to talk. But we do have a brief written statement. I want to read part of that statement to you now. It says, \"Our entire family is deeply saddened by the losses of Yvonne and Emily Selke, two wonderful, caring, amazing people who meant so much to so many.\" Now, we don't have the identity of the third American just yet. Alisyn, back to you.", "OK, Erin. Thanks so much for all that. So what are we to make of all of the mysterious developments overnight? Let's ask Richard Quest. He's our CNN aviation correspondent.", "Good morning.", "Good morning. And Tom Fuentes, CNN law enforcement analyst and former FBI assistant director. OK, Richard, I want to start with you.", "yes.", "We were operating under the assumption yesterday that the pilots had become incapacitated somehow. Now that you've heard this \"New York Times\" report, which has not been confirmed by the airlines, by the way. This is from an unnamed senior investigator, we're told, that one of the pilots, it sounds like, from the cockpit voice recorder, got outside of the cockpit and couldn't get back in. Now what's your theory?", "Well, the theory really falls into one of two categories: either a medical emergency inside, which meant that the pilot who was remaining inside the cockpit was incapacitated and the other one couldn't get back in again because the door had been locked, either intentionally or otherwise. Or a nefarious, that one inside the cockpit had locked the door and was determined to keep the other one outside. There is an override procedure. The problem with the medical theory, which I -- which I went for initially, is that -- is the descent. To actually initiate that smooth descent, that smooth regular descent, but to do it because you'd fallen on the controls, is somewhat extraordinary.", "Because the plane would be...", "It would have been -- if he'd fallen on the controls and pushed the side stick forward, the descent would have been much greater than a -- than a steep, but consistent 3,000 foot a minute.", "And theoretically, the plane would have been in autopilot and that would have kept it level, Richard?", "The plane was always on auto pilot. Even if you manage to change the configuration, it can remain in autopilot. There are ways in which you would come out of autopilot we don't need to get into. But the gist of it is, looking at \"The New York Times\" article, as it stands, it would suggest it either -- leans more towards the nefarious option.", "OK. Tom, do you agree with that theory, that given what we know now, you have to -- it raises the specter, at least, of terrorism or something intentional?", "I agree, Alisyn, that it's something intentional. I think the medical explanation requires too many other coincidences, as well. That you simultaneously have somebody have a medical problem as the captain or the co-pilot leaves the cockpit. And also disengage the lock mechanism so the person can't get back in. Also change the trajectory of the plane to start descending. All three at one time, I think, is a pretty spectacular number of coincidences to happen. So it does sound like, if the article is true, you know -- and we don't know that yet for sure. But if it turns out to be true, that somebody locked the other person out of the cockpit and intended to crash that plane.", "Richard.", "Tom raises such a good point, if the article is true. And that is why I suspect, in the next few hours, it's going -- you know, in the old days they wouldn't bother to tell you. They'd say wait for the report. But if this cat is now out of the bag, and we don't know, then they're going to have to address it sooner rather than later.", "Why? Doesn't did become a criminal investigation? If, in fact this was intentional, it becomes a criminal investigation, and then they don't release any information after that.", "No, no, no, no. The police even in criminal investigations will have to give you some basic facts. The man was shot, the man fell off the roof, the man, whatever happened. Someone was there. You know, this becomes a completely different environment. If this story is true, we are dealing with a case that -- the like of which we've never seen before. Yes, there's Silk Air, and yes, there's Egypt Air. And in both of those cases the reports said one thing and everybody else said something else. Or that there were two conflicting views. But in this case, for a major European carrier to have had something like this happen, this is out of all league.", "Tom, do we know anything so far about the pilots and their background? And how will investigators go about figuring out their mindset?", "Well, the investigators will be talking to everybody that knows them, talked to them. The emails that they sent. Any social media. Often, if someone is suicidal, they'll stop caring for themselves; they'll stop grooming themselves correctly in the preceding two or three days, kind of give up caring how they look or how they act. So there are some signs of that. But you know, I'd like to create or correct the misperception, the criminal investigation or the possibility of terrorism or crime or suicide is something that the authorities start with right at the beginning. They don't wait until other things are ruled out. Because other things might not be ruled out for months or even years. So that goes on simultaneously until the facts determine that it shouldn't be. And then they can rule it out and say, OK, for sure, now we know this was a mechanical problem. But they can't wait to start the criminal investigation until that's a certainty.", "Richard, there seems to be a discrepancy, not a discrepancy, a big difference between the amount of experience the pilot had and the co-pilot had. One had 6,000 hours of flight experience. The other had 600 hours of flight experience. Does that mean anything?", "No, no, it means nothing. I mean, you know, everybody has to start somewhere. And you would expect to see a junior -- you would expect to see a very junior -- and it is, 650 hours, that's at the lower end of expectations, but everybody starts somewhere. A very junior first officer sitting next to a senior, more experienced captain. And as the first officer is raising up his number of hours. So I'm not concerned by that disparity. But it is a junior first officer, working for a low-cost carrier, which is exactly what you see in aviation these days. They get their experience, because they're paid less in low-cost carriers.", "Last, it would sure be helpful to find the flight data recorder. Now that the voice recorder has come out and apparently reportedly shows this conversation or attempt at a conversation between one of the pilots and the other one who was unresponsive. If the data recorder could get information, couldn't that -- wouldn't that hold the clues?", "Completely. First of all we would need to know much more about what's on the cockpit voice recorder. We've been given a snippet. We need to know what was before, after and in the middle. But the flight data recorder will tell us how that descent was initiated.", "Will it tell us if the cockpit was locked?", "That, I don't know. I'll be quite up front about that. I do not know whether the parameters of the cockpit door are part of those of the A-320. No doubt, somebody will be telling me even before we're off air.", "Yes. I mean, intentionally locked, by the way. Richard Quest, Tom Fuentes, thanks so much for helping us navigate through this mystery. Nice to see you. We'll check back in with you. Let's get over to Michaela.", "We want to turn to breaking developments out of Yemen. Saudi Arabia launching airstrikes against Houthi rebels there with help from Gulf Arab allies, Egypt and Jordan. The U.S. is also providing some support. Meanwhile, Iran is demanding a stop to the Saudi action, which comes at a very delicate time for Iran on the world stage. CNN senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh joins us live with the latest -- Nick.", "Michaela, the chaos that's been engulfing Yemen for months has taken a dramatic turn for the worse, on a regional scale, in just the last few hours. The Houthi rebels, who are predominantly Shia, backed by Iran, have swept across the country. They kicked President Hadi out of Sanaa, the capital. He fled to the south, to Aden, the port city there. There are reports, unconfirmed, he may have fled the country. But at this stage, the Saudis have taken it upon themselves to militarily intervene, worried about a pro-Iranian group taking control of a long country along their southern border. Their airstrikes, they say, involve 100 warplanes, three or four other nations in the Gulf, suggestions the Egyptians may militarily be involved, as well. It's a stark moment. There are suggestions that civilian casualties from the strikes. And there are, of course, the United States providing intelligence and even targeting information, we understand, towards their key ally, Saudi Arabia. This does potentially drag Saudi into a proxy war with that Houthi, pro-Iranian group in Yemen right now. It has a severe consequence for what's happening in the Middle East right now. The Shia-Sunni conflict we see in so many countries now. And for the U.S., this is highly significant, because Yemen, enswirled in chaos now, is a key hotbed of al Qaeda, who have sworn to attack the United States and potentially ISIS, as well. A very troubling development for the region as a whole -- Michaela.", "I'll take it, Nick. So many tentacles reaching out of the situation in Yemen. Certainly, for the U.S., right to where Nick is now in Afghanistan. And what else do we know about the U.S. situation right now? They are going to get involved in the fight to retake Tikrit from ISIS. President Obama says the U.S. will launch airstrikes there in an effort to aid Iraqi forces. We have CNN senior international correspondent Arwa Damon live in Baghdad with the latest -- Arwa.", "And Chris, those airstrikes have begun. A dozen or so launched overnight, these happening at the request of the Iraqi government, Tikrit a battlefield that America has by and large stayed out of. Why? Because the flight there is being led by this predominantly Shia force made up of militias, volunteers. Sure, there are Iraqi security forces there. But the Iranian-backed force definitely at the forefront. This request coming specifically from the Iraqi government due to we are being told, the dynamics on the ground. The realities that that fighting force faced as they tried to recapture Tikrit from ISIS, finding the ISIS fighters deeply entrenched within buildings and the Iraqi air force capabilities lacking when it comes to the precision airstrikes that are needed to allow the ground troops to advance. This, however, does further complicate an already very murky situation, because you do have Iranian advisers on the ground, Iranian military commanders fighting alongside, advising those Iraqi troops as they advance, as well. And now you have American airstrikes taking place. Apparently, the U.S. has received a promise from the Iraqis that the sensitive intelligence being used will not be shared with the Iranians, but there is the potential to even further complicate and enhance tensions on the ground at this stage, because that predominantly Shia Iranian-backed militia has said it does not want or need U.S. support.", "OK. Arwa, thanks so much for that update. So many things happening around the world.", "That's actually a good development there, though, because Arwa is right: because of the Iranian influence, there had been less requests for U.S. help. That's dangerous to the relationship. Now with these renewed airstrikes, that emboldens the U.S. position there.", "All right. Well, stick around for more on that. Plus, much more ahead on these stunning reports that one of the pilots on Flight 9525 was locked out of the cockpit as the plane went down in the French Alps. Three Americans were on board that doomed flight. So we will speak to a good friend of one of those victims next.", "And to help understand this, we're also going to go inside a flight simulator to see what such a terrifying descent into the mountains would look like from the plane."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MCLAUGHLIN (voice-over)", "MATTHEW L. 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{"id": "CNN-170369", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-8-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/10/cnr.06.html", "summary": "CIA May be Helping Mexican Government in Drug War", "utt": ["Secretary of State Hillary Clinton minces no words when talking about Mexico's drug war. She says Americans huge appetite for drugs is what's fueling the drug gangs. But just how far should the U.S. go in helping Mexico wage war against the cartels? There are reports the CIA has become involved in covert operations across the border, and some Mexicans say that is going too far. Raphael Romo has more.", "Are CIA agents and retired military personnel secretly working in Mexico? After \"The New York Times\" published an article that they are posted at a military base in northern Mexico, the Mexican government felt pressure to respond. In a statement, the Mexican government admits that there is cooperation but doesn't confirm or deny American presence at military bases. \"We have developed spaces for analysis, evaluation, and exchange of intelligence information,\" the statement says, adding that foreign personnel in Mexico don't carry out operations, nor do they carry weapons. Opposition leaders say it's important to remember that Mexican law prohibits operations by foreign police or military personnel on Mexican soil.", "I believe that it's important to sign cooperation agreements, but there has to be restrictions. There has to be clear rules in how we carry out these agreements, and I don't think that has been the case. It appears to me \"The New York Times\" has revealed a reality that we already suspected.", "A top Mexican official said in July that the arrests of a reputed mercenary for a Juarez Cartel was made thanks to the exchange of information between the U.S. drug enforcement administration and the Mexican federal police. Top officials on both sides of the border say Mexico and the United States have to work together against drug cartels and organized crimes.", "As most things in life, you need two to tango. And as Mexico seeks to shut down the flow of drugs coming into the United States from Mexico, we need the support of the United States to shut down the flow of weapons and cash.", "Obviously our demand for drugs is what motivates these drug gangs. I mean, if they didn't think they were going to make a bunch of money across the border, they would go into another line of work. And so we do share responsibility for the security challenges facing the Mexican people.", "And Raphael Romo joins us now in studio to talk a little bit more about this. The law enforcement ties between the U.S. and Mexico haven't always been easy.", "That's right. On the one hand, Mexican sovereignty laws are very strict. Foreign personnel, military police agents are not allowed to carry weapons or operate in Mexico. On the other hand, there's a lot of mistrust on the part of American agencies because of corruption in Mexico. It has been well- known that cartels have infiltrated Mexican agencies. So there's that element of distrust. And there was one operation, failed operation called Fast and Furious by which the ATF allowed the legal sale of weapons in America to Mexico, and that created a lot of animosity between the two countries. But quickly they decided to work on it because definitely one country needs the other to fight against the common problem, which is drug trafficking.", "Yes, if they're going to make progress at all. Raphael, appreciate it. Before you press the \"send\" key, we need to warn you about e- mails that could get you fired. That's just ahead. But first, magicians use magic hats to pull objects out of thin air. But a new invention could give everyone a similar power. Gary Tuchman has this \"technovation.\"", "Imagine shopping on- line. Seeing something you like and then just printing it out. It might sound crazy. But a new invention called the \"makerbot\" could change the way you think.", "Normally when you need something, you think where will I shop for it? When you have a makerbot, you think maybe I'll make it myself.", "It's a personal 3D printer that makes three dimensional objects.", "You can make anything. Your imagination can go wild.", "Objects are made by melting plastic into thin spaghetti-like strings. Then layer by layer, it's built into the desired object, like this comb.", "People don't like to cook, make spatulas. Coat hooks, replacement parts. It's really limitless what you can do with it.", "You can create your own designs or download others created by users around the world.", "You can get the teleportation like that, like physical objects over the internet.", "Turning visions into reality. Gary Tuchman, CNN."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "RAFAEL ROMO, SENIOR LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS EDITOR", "ARTURO SANTANA ALFARO, MEXICAN OPPOSITION CONGRESSMAN (via translator)", "ROMO", "ARTURO SARUKHAN, MEXICAN AMBASSADOR TO U.S.", "HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE", "KAYE", "ROMO", "KAYE", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BRE PETTIS, INVENTOR, MAKERBOT", "TUCHMAN", "PETTIS", "TUCHMAN", "PETTIS", "TUCHMAN", "PETTIS", "TUCHMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-42862", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-10-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/31/ltm.13.html", "summary": "America Strikes Back: Secretary of Defense to Visit Middle East", "utt": ["We are getting word that the secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, will soon make a trip overseas. Where is he headed, though? Let's check in with Bob Franken, at the Pentagon, to find out the answer on that -- Bob.", "We know he is going to Moscow. He is going to be meeting with his counterpart, the Soviet defense minister. On the agenda is the current situation in Afghanistan, but also, we're told, the ABM Treaty. That would possibly be the very big story right now, were it not for the fact that this very important thing has been overshadowed by the current war going on over Afghanistan. The defense secretary will visit Moscow and visit some other of the countries in the Central Asia region, the countries that are bordering Afghanistan so vital to the U.S. campaign. We found out yesterday from the defense secretary that U.S. ground troops are operating -- a modest amount, he called it -- that have really helped, according to other defense officials, very much with the effectiveness of the bombing campaign, which is going on now with a new vengeance, the targets mainly being Taliban troops, much more so than there have been before. As for those ground troops, the secretary of defense brought the subject up at his last briefing.", "We do have some military people on the ground. They are in the north, and we have had others on the ground who have come in and out on the south. But the ones that are there are doing exactly what I said. They are military- uniformed military personnel, who are assisting with resupply, with communications, liaison, with targeting, and providing the kind of very specific information, which is helpful to the air effort.", "By the way, the secretary of defense and his colleagues said that the reason that there are ground troops is that they were requested by the U.S. nominal allies, the Northern Alliance -- Bill.", "Bob, in Washington today, members of the Northern Alliance and the United Front, the opposition force for the Taliban, say Ramadan should not stop the bombing at this time. The Pakistani president indicated the same thing yesterday; he would not put a fight up on this issue. Has that issue now been put to the side?", "Not at all. The Pentagon is very sensitive to the concerns of Muslims, and Ramadan is a religious holiday. They have not said for sure what kind of response there is going to be when it begins, which is about the middle of the month, approximately November 17. But the Pentagon has not given away exactly what it will do. It will probably involve the president to decide if the war effort will be hampered or if more harm is done by antagonizing Muslims. It's still a decision in the works.", "Bob, thanks -- Bob Franken, and the Pentagon. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "FRANKEN", "HEMMER", "FRANKEN", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-53823", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-5-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/08/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Task Force Looks Into Florida Child's Disappearance", "utt": ["In Florida today, a task force appointed by Governor Jeb Bush is meeting for the first time. Their job: investigate how a five-year-old girl disappeared while she was in the custody of the state's Child Welfare Agency. She has been missing for more than a year now, and no one even knew she was lost. But as CNN's Susan Candiotti reports, as far as the police are concerned, everyone is falling under their scrutiny, including the woman who took care of the little girl.", "A woman regarded as Rilya Wilson's grandmother is convinced the little girl is out there, somewhere.", "Whoever may have her, and I know somebody does, they need to remember one thing. You can't hide her forever.", "She is just as sure police will not find a DNA match between Rilya and a little girl in Kansas City known as Precious Doe, an unidentified youngster found murdered last year, who had a birthmark on one of her shoulders. (on camera): Rilya has no birthmark.", "No. I bathed that child every day. There is no birthmark there.", "A few weeks after a caseworker's last recorded visit with Rilya at this house in January, 2001, Graham says a social worker showed up after she reported Rilya was having behavior problems. (on camera): Did you suspect anything odd about this?", "No. There was no reason for me to. She knew everything that was going on.", "The worker said she was taking away Rilya for tests.", "I hugged Rilya and kissed and told her she would be coming back home in a few days, and I walked to the car with them and stood and watched them drive off.", "It was the last time she saw Rilya. For months and months, she says she kept calling the state, but got nowhere. Graham says Rilya's caseworker, who failed to show up for required monthly visits and is now under investigation for faking Rilya's reports, told her not to worry. (on camera): Do you understand how outsiders look in on this and say, man, I'd be banging on their door. Forget the phone calls.", "I went down there two times, but I didn't get any more results than I got on the phone.", "Finally last month, an unexpected call, a social worker coming over to talk about Rilya.", "We were assuming she was bringing Rilya with her.", "And so?", "Well, I don't know who was more surprised, me or her.", "The state has raised questions about why Graham continued to receive $241 a month for both children in her care, even after Rilya was gone. She claims the state told her to keep accepting the checks.", "If we took Rilya off the system, it would be so hard to get her back on, and since she is going to be coming back to you, leave it like it is.", "Police call Geralyn Graham a witness, adding no one has been ruled out as a suspect. In the 1980s, she did time for food stamp fraud. She knows some people wonder. (on camera): Could she have had something to do with the child's disappearance?", "I have never done anything violent in my life. I have never been involved in anything violent in my life.", "There has been a suggestion that the child was too hard to take care of. That you couldn't -- it was just too much of a burden. That perhaps she got rid of the child.", "Yes, yes.", "Despite a very cold trail, Graham refuses to give in to fear. (on camera): But have you prepared yourself", "I cannot -- she is not dead. She is not dead.", "Susan Candiotti, CNN, Miami.", "We will continue to track the story very closely and keep you up to date on what this task force finds out in its proceedings."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GERALYN GRAHAM, RILYA WILSON'S CARETAKER", "CANDIOTTI", "GRAHAM", "CANDIOTTI (voice-over)", "GRAHAM", "CANDIOTTI (voice-over)", "GRAHAM", "CANDIOTTI", "GRAHAM", "CANDIOTTI (voice-over)", "GRAHAM", "CANDIOTTI (on camera)", "GRAHAM", "CANDIOTTI (voice-over)", "GRAHAM", "CANDIOTTI", "GRAHAM", "CANDIOTTI", "GRAHAM", "CANDIOTTI (voice-over)", "GRAHAM", "CANDIOTTI (voice-over)", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-119471", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2007-8-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/30/acd.01.html", "summary": "Idaho Senator Larry Craig Under Fire Over Bathroom Bust", "utt": ["Good evening. More Republicans, today, called on their colleague Senator Larry Craig to resign. And that was before the tape you're about to hear came out. The staunchly conservative Idaho Republican can be heard in a contentious interrogation room exchange with a Minneapolis Airport police sergeant who had just napped him in a bathroom sex sting. Now, the cop had been in the neighboring stall. We're going to play it all for you. You decide what went down and just what didn't. Then, if you would like, you can call us with your comments or any questions. Our toll-free number is 877-648-3639, 877-648-3639. Send us an e-mail by going right to CNN.com/360. Scroll down to where it says \"Contact Us.\" First, though, some quick background. The tape was released today by the airport police department in Minneapolis. The voices you hear are Senator Craig, Detective Noel Nelson, and Investigative Sergeant Dave Karsnia, who did most of the talking for the police. Now, the senator ended up pleading guilty to disorderly conduct, even though you will hear him dispute the specifics in the officer's account, which turns, for want of a better phrase, on some well-known signs and signals of men's room pickups. Listen.", "Do you wish to talk to us at this time?", "I do.", "OK. I just want to start off with a your side of the story, OK? So...", "So, I go into the bathroom here, as I normally do. I'm a commuter through here.", "OK.", "I sit down to go to the bathroom. And you said our feet bumped. I believe they did, because I reached down and scooted over, and the next thing I knew, under the bathroom divider comes a card that says \"Police.\" Now, that's about as far as I can take it. I don't know of anything else. Your foot came toward mine. Mine came towards yours. Was that natural? I don't know. Did we bump? Yes. I think we did. You said so. I don't disagree with that.", "OK. I don't want to get into a pissing match here.", "We're not going to.", "Good.", "I don't -- I am not gay. I don't do these kinds of things and...", "That doesn't matter. I don't care about sexual preference or anything like that. Here's your stuff back, sir. I don't care about sexual preference.", "I know you don't. You're out to enforce the law.", "Right.", "But you shouldn't be out to entrap people either.", "This isn't entrapment.", "All right.", "You -- you're -- you're skipping some parts here, but what about your hand?", "What about it? I reached down with my foot like this. There was a piece of paper on the floor. I picked it up.", "OK.", "What about my hand?", "Well, you're not being truthful with me. I'm kind of disappointed in you, Senator. I'm really disappointed right now. OK? I'm not -- just so you know, just like everybody...", "Yes?", "I treat with dignity. I try to pull them away from the situation.", "... not embarrass them.", "I appreciate that.", "And I...", "And you did that after -- and I know that", "I will say every person I have had so far has told me the truth. We have been respectful to each other, and then they have gone on their way. And I have never had to bring anybody to jail because everybody's been truthful to me.", "I don't want you to take me to jail. And I think...", "I'm not going to take you to jail as long as you be cooperative, but I -- I'm not going to lie. We...", "Did my hand come below the divider? Yes, it did.", "OK. Sir, we deal with people that lie to us every day.", "I'm sure you do.", "I'm sure you do too, sir.", "And, gentleman, so do", "I'm sure you do. We deal with a lot of people that are very bad people. You're not a bad person.", "No, I don't think I am.", "OK. So what I'm telling you is, I don't want to be lied to.", "OK.", "OK. So, we will start over. You're going to get out of here. You're going to have to pay a fine, and that will be it. OK? And I don't call media. I don't do any of that type of crap.", "Fine.", "OK?", "Fine.", "All right, so let's start from the beginning. You went in the bathroom.", "I went in the bathroom.", "And then what did you do when you...", "I stood beside the wall, waiting for a stall to open. I got in the stall, sat down. I started to go to the bathroom. Did our feet come together? Apparently, they did bump. Well, I won't dispute that.", "OK. When I got out of the stall, I noticed other -- other stalls were open.", "They were at the time. At the time I entered, I -- I -- at the time I entered, I stood and waited.", "OK.", "They were all busy, you know?", "Were you looking at me while you were waiting? I could see your eyes. I saw you playing with your fingers, then look up, play with your fingers, and then look up.", "Did I glance at your stall? I was glancing at a stall right beside yours waiting for a fellow to empty it. I saw him stand up. And, therefore, I thought it was going to empty.", "How long do you think you stood outside the stalls?", "Oh, a minute or two at the most.", "OK. And, when you went in the stall, then what?", "Sat down.", "OK. Did you do anything with your feet?", "Positioned them, I don't know. I don't know at the time. I'm a fairly wide guy.", "I understand.", "I tend to spread my legs...", "OK.", "... when I lower my pants so they won't slide.", "OK.", "Did I slide them too close to yours? Did I -- I looked down once your foot was close to mine.", "Yes.", "Did we bump? You said so. I don't recall that, but apparently we were close.", "Yeah. Well, your foot did touch mine, on my side of the stall.", "All right.", "OK? And then with the hand. How many times did you put your hand under the stall?", "I don't recall. I remember reaching down once -- there was a piece of toilet paper back behind me -- in picking it up.", "And I know it's hard to describe here on tape, but, actually, what I saw was your fingers come underneath the stalls. You were actually touching the bottom of the stall divider.", "I don't recall that.", "You don't recall...", "I don't believe I did that. I don't.", "I saw -- I saw...", "I don't do those things.", "I saw your left hand. And I could see the gold wedding ring when it when it went across. I could see that. On your left hand, I could see that.", "Wait a moment. My left hand was over here.", "I saw -- there's a...", "My right hand was next to you.", "I could tell it with my -- I could tell it was your left hand, because your thumb was positioned -- in a faceward motion, your thumb was on this side, not on this side.", "Well, we can dispute that. I'm not going to fight you in court.", "But I -- I reached down with my right hand to pick up the paper. But I'm telling you that I could see that, so I know that's your left hand. Also, I could see a gold ring on this finger, so that it's obvious it was the left hand.", "Yeah, OK. My left hand was in the direct opposite of the stall from you.", "It's embarrassing.", "Well, it's embarrassing for both. But I'm not going to fight you.", "I know you're not going to fight me, but that's not the point. I would respect you. And I still respect you. I don't disrespect you. But I'm disrespected right now. And I'm not tying to act like I have all kinds of power or anything, but you're sitting here lying to a police officer.", "That is not a", "I have been trained in this.", "I have been trained in this, and I know what I am doing.", "And I saw you put your hand under there. And you're going to sit there and...", "I admit I put my hand down.", "You put your hand and rubbed it on the bottom of the stall with your left hand.", "No. Wait a moment.", "And I'm -- I'm not dumb. You can say, I don't recall...", "If I had turned sideways, that was the only way I could get my left hand over there.", "It's not that hard for you to reach...", "It's not that hard. I see it happen every day out here now.", "I'm just -- I'm just -- I guess -- I guess I'm going to say I'm just disappointed in you, sir. I just really am. I expect this from the guy that we get out of the hood. But, I mean -- I mean, people vote for you.", "Yes, they do.", "Unbelievable. Unbelievable.", "And I'm a respectable person. And I don't do these kinds of...", "... respect right now, though.", "But I didn't use my left hand.", "I saw...", "I reached down with my right hand like this to pick up a piece of paper.", "Was your gold ring on your right hand at any time today?", "Of course not. Try to get it off. Look at it.", "OK. Then it was your left hand. I saw it with my own eyes.", "All right, you saw something that didn't happen.", "Embarrassing. Embarrassing. No wonder why we're going down the tubes. Do you have anything to add?", "Uh, no.", "All right. It's embarrassing.", "Well, that's quite a recording, isn't it? Again, we're taking your calls tonight. The lines are open. The number is 877-648-3639. CNN's Candy Crowley and Jeff Toobin are so. So is defense attorney Jayne Weintraub. Before we talk about the tape, though, first, Candy's going to fill us in on where Senator Craig stands in Washington now and in Idaho.", "To measure the trouble Larry Craig is in, listen to the delicate dance of a friend and supporter.", "You never really un-ring the bell. And the bell has been rung. And, so, as we go forward, I suspect there's going to have to be additional consideration by Larry and his family on where exactly they're going.", "Consider, too, that Nevada's John Ensign, in charge of the committee dedicated to electing Republican senators, told the AP, if he was in Larry Craig's shoes, he would resign. The senator has not been seen publicly since the \"I did nothing wrong\" statement. Wherever he is, he woke up this morning to find that his home state newspaper wants him gone. \"If Craig wishes to keep his secrets,\" wrote \"The Idaho Statesman,\" he may do so as a former U.S. senator. \"His stunning misstep has now cost him his viability and his credibility. He must now step aside.\" It is water torture of the political sort.", "My opinion is that, when you plead guilty to a crime, then you shouldn't serve. I don't try to judge people. But, in this case, it's clear that it was disgraceful.", "John McCain thinks Craig should resign. Ditto Michigan Republican Congressman Peter Hoekstra.", "Right now, the facts are very clear. He pled guilty to what I think is a pretty ugly crime.", "Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman, in a press release: \"Senator Craig pled guilty to a crime involving conduct unbecoming of a senator. He should resign.\" Drip, drip, drip, and no end in sight.", "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.", "The release of audiotapes of a U.S. senator being questioned by police about what went on in a public bathroom only gives the story more oxygen.", "Did I slide them too close to yours? Did I -- I looked down once your foot was close to mine.", "Yes.", "Did we bump? You said so. I don't recall that, but apparently we were close.", "A spokesman for Craig said only, the tapes speak for themselves. With Republicans in turmoil, no need to chime in here, so Democrats are in avoidance mode.", "Hillary Clinton kept herself occupied as questions were thrown at her. And Chuck Schumer, never one to run from the camera, didn't want to talk about whether a Craig resignation would put ruby- red Idaho in play for a Democrat in 2008.", "Again, to me, we will have to -- we will -- we will discuss that in future weeks, not right yet.", "In truth, Idaho is so Republican, probably the only way a Democrat could win the Senate seat would be if Craig were to run again. On the campaign trail, only McCain has called for the Craig's resignation. But all Republican candidates seek distance.", "Well, there's no question but that -- that I and other leaders of this country, and parents across this country, are -- are disappointed and find conduct like that which is alleged here as being disgraceful.", "Until Monday, Larry Craig headed Mitt Romney's Idaho effort. In politics, sometimes, it's not political opponents who do you in. It's your friends.", "Well, Candy Crowley joins us now, along with CNN senior legal analyst Jeff Toobin and criminal defense attorney Jayne Weintraub. Thanks to all of you. Candy, let me start with you. As you talked about in your piece, you see the senator's fellow Republicans bailing, ditching him pretty -- pretty darn quick. How do you think this scandal is different from political sex scandals of the past?", "I think, quite simply, he pled guilty to something. You know, he says now, well, he didn't mean it. He was totally innocent. But the fact of the matter is that he pled guilty to -- to whatever he thought he was pleading guilty to. And there's no way around that. And I think that's currently what Republicans are hanging their hat on.", "Candy, when \"The Washington Post,\" was writing about this today, they said -- they characterized it as his colleagues pushing him under the bus. Do you think that's a fair characterization of what's happening here?", "Well, I -- I think what Republicans know is that they need to get rid of this problem. They have been trying to turn the corner. As you know, there have been scandals before this. The 2006 election was widely seen as also due to Republican corruption scandals and the like. They dearly want to turn this corner. And this is one big roadblock here.", "Jeff, you have heard the tape now, and over and over and over again. And it essentially is his argument. If he had gone to court, I mean, kind of you can imagine that that would be the argument he -- he would have given.", "And it's not a terrible argument.", "I was going to ask you that.", "I mean, would a prosecutor -- would this -- would a prosecutor be able to win if that was the argument in court?", "You know, I don't know. I mean, you would have to see how credible the cop's testimony was. You would have to see if there was corroborating evidence on either side. And, if you read the police report, he has a much more detailed account of what went on there. And it included, you know, looking through the -- the door and many more minutes of activity than -- than Craig describes. But the idea that the cop entrapped him and the whole thing was a big misunderstanding, defendants have gone to trial in these cruising cases and won with that defense. So, I'm not prepared to say it was an impossible defense at trial. The problem is, is, he pled guilty. So, why should anyone believe this defense that he ultimately abandoned?", "Jayne, let me ask you a question. You know, Jeff was just talking about that entrapment issue, which Craig brings up -- Senator Craig brings up in the middle of that taping. You could hear it. Do you think these actions, in any way, could be entrapment?", "Well, officially, under the law as we know it, no, not really, because they're -- the police officer is going to probably make things up, and say that Senator Craig initiated it, and he was there to begin with; he had a predisposition for it. However, what I will tell you, Soledad, is that we don't know what really happened here. And what Jeff was talking about is, this is a typical one-on-one case. Police officer says one thing and the accused says another. In these kinds of cases, where it's a one-on-one, usually, they're not prosecuted? Why? Because we're talking about a criminal case, proof beyond a reasonable doubt. It's a balance, not 50/50. It is a tipping of the scales, proof beyond a reasonable doubt. There's no tape, no surveillance, no corroboration, no witnesses. It's a one- on-one. Senator Craig disposed of this.", "In other words, you're saying, he should have called a lawyer and taken his chances, it sounds like you're saying.", "Well, unfortunately, if he had called a lawyer and taken his chances -- I represented a very high public official on -- on Court TV, cable to cable, soliciting a prostitute, not guilty. We won the case, but he lost the war, because he was thrown off the bench four weeks later. So, what would have been gained here? He was looking at this as a nuisance value. Get rid of it. The cop told him, you will just pay a fine. I'm not going to hurt you. And that's what the senator believed. He believed the cop.", "Well, you know, except that...", "Well, also, I would like to -- I would just like to say, you know, Jayne said, well, of course the cop's going to lie. I mean, I think that's extremely unfair to this police officer, who, as far as we know, is an honest fellow. And, you know, given what we -- you know, the -- what \"The Idaho Statesman\" has reported about Craig's past, this -- this behavior hardly seems out of character for him.", "Well, plus, Jayne, you said he -- you know, he -- he just believed the cops, as in, here he is a victim, didn't even really understand what he was signing away guilty. He didn't under -- I mean, he's a U.S. senator.", "Well, and, also, why would -- why would this cop make -- make something up about this random person who happened to be in the next stall, unless the person in the next stall was doing something?", "Why do cops have to give so many tickets a month, Jeff? It's the same kind of a thing.", "Well, but that's -- I mean, what do you mean? They -- they don't make things up as a matter of course.", "I didn't say he made -- they make things up, but I think they have quotas. And I think they look for people sometimes going three miles over an hour or 20 miles over an hour. And I think there's a big difference.", "At the end of the day, it brings you back to the question, if you didn't do it, and you're a U.S. senator, who should kind of understand what a guilty plea means, why plead guilty? Why not -- why not...", "As a matter of convenience.", "It's not going to go away.", "Convenience? Come on, Jayne.", "That's...", "I mean, how many innocent people would you know, prominent people, who are capable and have the financial wherewithal to hire a lawyer, decide, well, you know, it's more convenient to plead guilty to an extremely embarrassing crime?", "Because then the media comes up with, whoa, they lawyered up. That's a new quote of the decade. You know that, Jeff.", "Oh, come on. But it's a heck of a lot better...", "If he had hired a lawyer", "It's a heck of a lot better to be -- to say that, you know, you hired a lawyer than you pled guilty to soliciting someone in a bathroom. Do you really think those two things are equally bad?", "OK. That's an excellent question to end on...", "Yes. OK.", "... for the moment. Of course, you're going to stick around with us for the next couple of blocks. We have got much more to talk about with our panel, more on Senator Larry Craig. But, first, we want to check a little \"Raw Data\" for you. The senator voted against the gay marriage -- supporting the Federal Defense of Marriage act, campaigned against civil unions in his own state. Before he served in Congress, he worked as a farmer and a rancher, 62 years old, got married back in 1983, has three children, nine grandchildren. That's some of the \"Raw Data\" there. Your calls and e-mails up next. Again, our toll-free number is 877-648-3639, 877-648-3639. Or send us an e-mail. Just go to CNN.com/360. Scroll down to \"Contact Us.\" A short break. We're back in just a moment.", "I don't -- I am not gay. I don't do these kinds of things and...", "That doesn't matter. I don't care about sexual preference or anything like that. Here's your stuff back, sir. I don't care about sexual preference.", "I know you don't. You're out to enforce the law.", "Right.", "But you shouldn't be out to entrap people either.", "This isn't entrapment.", "We're taking your calls now on Larry Craig's arrest, the tape, the guilty plead, the political implications. With us, CNN political correspondent Candy Crowley, our senior legal analyst, Jeff Toobin, who is also a former federal prosecutor, and, for the defense, so to speak...", "... attorney Jayne Weintraub. We have got our first caller on the line. It's Bill in New York. Hi, Bill. What's your point?", "Hi, Soledad. Thanks for -- thanks for taking my call. I want to know what your experts think. Does this guy survive the week? Or is he done by tomorrow?", "Interesting, yes, political question. Let's throw it right to Candy. You know, when your friends line up, your colleagues line up, Candy, even though he has said he's going to stick it out, because he thinks he can do a lot more for the folks in Idaho, but you look at the polls, how long, realistically, can he last?", "Well, realistically, obviously, as all his friends say, it's up to him. But, in the end, again, when you see somebody like Senator Ensign, who heads the Republican Senatorial Committee, the guy who helps get Republican senators elected, come out and say, boy, if I were him, I would go ahead and resign, these are large, public hints. One has to believe he is getting them in private as well. And, if he doesn't, he just has to read his paper.", "And, as important as the people whom we're hearing from are the people we're not hearing from. There is not one senator or one public official that I'm aware of who said, stick -- you know, hang in there, Larry, and fight, you know, not one. I mean, he has no support. He's gone, I think, probably next week.", "We have got a phone call from Bart in Virginia. Hi, Bart.", "Yes. Hi. How are you?", "I'm well. Thank you. What's your question.", "OK. I am a gay male. And I have a lot of -- if this is true, if it's true, I -- I have a lot of friends that have done this act. And -- but it's not my choice. OK? I personally think it's disgusting, if it's true. But, on the bottom line, what does it have to do, if it's true, with the way he handles political affairs?", "Well, that's an interesting question, but doesn't it come down -- let's give that to Jeff Toobin -- because, at the end of the day, isn't this anything, more than anything, to the idea that he -- he pled guilty to a misdemeanor...", "Well, I think there are two things.", "... and didn't tell anybody.", "Right. I mean, a misdemeanor is a crime. He is a convicted criminal. United States senators, politicians cannot be convicted criminals. They have -- they have to leave. Second, I think there is a hypocrisy here. You know, Larry Craig is an extremely conservative, so-called family values politician, who has consistently voted against gay rights and equality for gay people. And to be, apparently, a closeted gay person yourself while holding those...", "Allegedly.", "Right -- hold -- well, he's not -- he's not allegedly criminal. He's a convicted criminal. And that activity -- and it was associated with gay activity. So, I don't think he's -- he's not innocent until proven guilty. He's guilty. And I think the hypocrisy issue is a real one for any politician. And I think it's a fair point to make here.", "All right. We have got an e-mail from Tom in Oregon. Tom writes this: \"Nothing the guy did was obviously criminal. It is the interpretation of the cop. Why plead guilty to a lesser charge? Obvious! Much more time and money necessary to go to Minnesota to trial to defend himself. The only rational approach is to pay the $500 fine and forget it.\" You know, you hear this a lot. And this was actually Senator Craig's own argument kind of in that press conference, which was: You know, listen, I just wanted to make it go away. It just seemed like the simple, easy route. But I guess it brings us back. Let me throw -- get Jayne...", "OK.", "... to -- to -- to jump in on this. It brings you back to the -- the -- the opposite side of that, Jayne, which is, I mean, would you ever advise a client, listen, you know what, you're going to -- 500 bucks, get it over with; just plead guilty? Would you ever tell your client to do that?", "It would depend on my client's interests. I mean, when I was -- if I was representing a senator, I might tell him that he, in considering whether or not to take a plea like this, in writing, you don't even have to appear in court. Maybe nobody will know. Maybe we can get this through the paperwork.", "Jayne, Jayne...", "That's what he did, Soledad.", "You're going to -- you would tell...", "That's the convenience.", "You would tell your client, a U.S. senator, listen, maybe no one will find out; go ahead; you -- you say you didn't do it; it's not true; go ahead, you know, because you don't want to have to come back to Minnesota; it's just better to plead guilty?", "No. You don't want it on the front page of \"The National Enquirer.\"", "Well, guess what? Guess where it is now?", "You don't want a media circus.", "But that was the risk that he took, Soledad, because a trial isn't going to hurt him if he's found not guilty. No matter what, the publicity kills him. So, that's the problem.", "Like, with my case, it was winning a battle, but losing the war.", "Part of...", "What did -- what did the judge accomplish?", "Part of...", "Nothing. He was kicked off the bench.", "What happens in every guilty plea is, the judge says to the defendant, are you pleading guilty because you are guilty?", "Jeff, he wasn't even there. It was done in paper.", "Well, I'm not even -- are you sure that's correct? I'm not sure.", "Yes. As a matter of fact, I have...", "I have seen the paper. You know, I have seen the paper. But I'm not -- I'm not sure -- he didn't appear at all?", "It's my understanding from the paperwork...", "The paper clearly says...", "... and -- and the AP that it's a written plea.", "The paper...", "We have that in Florida.", "Go ahead. Go ahead, Candy.", "Yes, but...", "Hang on. Let me get Candy in here. Go ahead.", "I just want to say, the paper clearly says, no judge will accept a guilty plea from someone who is innocent. I mean, it says that. It's almost the last thing before he signs his name. So, I mean, I do think that the only hope Larry Craig thought he had politically was that this wouldn't come out in public.", "Exactly.", "I think that is why he signed it. I mean, that was his only hope here, because he can't -- I mean, a trial would have the same effect as this is having.", "And he was...", "So...", "It -- it didn't come out for a long time. Listen, guy, we have got to take a short break. But then we're going to have much more with our roundtable straight ahead, more calls, more e-mails as well. Once again, our toll-free number is 877-648-3639. Or just go ahead and send an e-mail, CNN.com/360. Scroll down to where it says \"Contact Us.\"", "OK. And, when you went in the stall, then what?", "Sat down.", "OK. Did you do anything with your feet?", "Positioned them, I don't know. I don't know at the time. I'm a fairly wide guy.", "I understand.", "I tend to spread my legs...", "OK.", "... when I lower my pants, so they won't slide.", "OK.", "Did I slide them too close to yours? Did I -- I looked down once your foot was close to mine.", "Yes.", "Did we bump? You said so, I don't recall that, but apparently we were close.", "Yes, well, your foot did touch mine, on my side of the stall.", "All right.", "We're talking your calls tonight on the Senator Craig bathroom sting interrogation tape. Should he resign? Don't ask, don't tell affair. That's what we call it for short. He's off of Governor Romney's campaign. He's off of the Senate committees for now. His hometown paper says he should go. So do a majority of Idahoans, by the way. You've heard the police tape now. So we're taking your calls and e-mails, as well. With us tonight, CNN's Candy Crowley, Jeffrey Toobin. And criminal defense attorney Jayne Weintraub. Let's get right back to the phones. David in Pennsylvania is on the line for us. Hi, David.", "Hello, Soledad. Thank you for taking my call, first off.", "OK.", "My comment is Senator John McCain has said he should resign. But the thing is, one of you also said that, you know, the judge won't take a guilty plea, even though he it's not guilty. Is it fair to say that justice is blind? But is it just saying that he won't take the guilty plea? Isn't that saying that justice is peaking a little bit or what?", "If you look at the form that he signed, it very clearly says the reason you are -- you certify, by signing this form, that you are guilty of the crime. And one thing judges are concerned about when they take guilty pleas sometimes, is that the defense -- is the defendants are taking pleas to get it over with and/or to, you know, put the matter behind them but they're not really guilty. And judges don't want to do that. That's not how the system is built. You have to be guilty to plead guilty. And that's what Craig certified in this document he signed.", "Matthew in North Carolina, sent us an e-mail. It says this: \"Yet another so-called 'family values' guy gets busted for public behavior of the type he has vehemently tried to forbid others to exercise in private. It's not a question of being a Democrat or a Republican, but of being morally consistent between 'values' and personal behavior.\" Candy, to what degree do you think -- if you could sum that up under a hypocrisy -- question mark -- headline. What -- to what degree is that really at issue here politically for him?", "Well, politically, it's very much at issue. The larger political problem is the party not needing any more taint on it and wanting to move beyond this. They are not all that concerned with hypocrisy. Let's face it: if hypocrisy were a fireable offense up on Capitol Hill, there'd be more than Senator Craig out there. But the fact of the matter is that perception in politics is reality. And the perception that he has been hypocritical because he has voted anti-gay in many instances, is a very powerful thing that propels this story forward. I still think the most powerful thing about this story is that signature on that plea agreement.", "I think this is a problem particularly for Republicans and sex scandals. First of all, because they happen to be the ones in sex scandals at the moment. You know, whether it's David Vitter and prostitutes in Louisiana or Mark Foley with the pages in Florida. The Republican Party is the party of morality, of family values. And to have those people getting in trouble for this kind of behavior makes it more difficult for everyone in the party.", "I think we've got time for just one more call. Mel in Washington is on the line. Hi, Mel. What's your question?", "I really don't have a question. I just think this guy is getting taken to the cleaners. And it's all a war between the Democrats and the Republicans. And we need to start taking care of the country, instead of worrying about this kind of stuff.", "Meaning, you think he should -- people should just back off, let him remain as a senator and stop asking him probing questions?", "That's right. He's there to represent Idaho, in which I've lived for 38 years. And they need to leave him alone and let him do his job.", "Let's give Candy the final response, then. Candy, a lot of people who want him outed said he can't do it. He's lost so much credibility that, as far as it goes to representing Idahoans, he's really not in a position anymore to do that well.", "Well, not only that. When he comes back to Capitol Hill, this is still an issue when they come back from recess. It will remain an issue for a while. He will be under scrutiny. And it is one of the things that is almost impossible to get around. I mean, I think as you heard the governor say, you know, the bell has been rung here. And it's very difficult to unring that bell. And I think politically, it's very, very difficult for him to come back and be viable. And, you know, you heard our Dana Bash reporting on the embarrassment there is in Idaho and the feeling that, if this is allowed to stay this way, he cannot do Idaho's business.", "Well, thank you, Candy Crowley, Jeff Toobin, Jayne Weintraub, for joining us. We appreciate it, from our expert panel. Thanks to our callers, as well, and our e-mailers. If you didn't get on the air tonight, well, we still want to hear from you. Do you think Senator Craig should resign? Send us a v-mail. That's a video e-mail. Just go to CNN.com, click on the link. We're going to play some of those on the air. Erica Hill joins us now. She's got a \"360 Bulletin\" for us. Hey, Erica.", "Soledad, a scare at the U.N., where chemical substances were found. U.N. officials cleaning out offices about five blocks from the Secretariat Building, were surprised to find samples of material from an Iraqi chemical weapons plant, including what may be a poison choking gas used in World War I. The officials say the substances remained sealed and posed no immediate danger. They were taken from a plant north of Baghdad in 1996. An independent assessment says the Iraqi government has failed to meet at least 13 of the 18 political and security goals set by the U.S. Congress. The draft report from the Government Accountability Office will not be released publicly until next week. But the Bush administration, is already reacting to the leak, criticizing the assessment for giving only pass/fail marks with little nuance. And a small victory for former astronaut Lisa Nowak. A Florida judge has ruled she no longer has to wear the electronic tracking bracelet, citing in part, her lack of a prior criminal record. Nowak will stand trial next month for allegedly driving from Texas to Florida to assault a romantic rival, to which she has pleaded not guilty -- Soledad.", "Well, it's an interesting development there.", "Indeed it is. We were a little surprised. On not to the \"what were they thinking?\" for tonight? Kind of an unusual robbery, you might say. And one of the more entertaining stories of the day. This is surveillance video, which strategically has a blurred out spot in the upper right-hand corner. There we go, blurred again, because it's a naked man. Apparently, trying to distract the clerk of this Desoto, Missouri, convenient store earlier this month, doing a hula dance as his buddy stole a case of beer. But the plan didn't really work. The two ran off and joined another friend in a car. Somebody got the license plate number. And all three were caught a few days later.", "They were drunk. And he got naked.", "Yes.", "And tried to steal some beer.", "They probably didn't need the extra case of beer. They'd probably already had enough.", "Yes, one would guess, wouldn't they? All right. Erica, thanks.", "Some other crime video to show you now. Pretty amazing stuff. Speeds up to 130-mile-per-hour, arrest, a shoot-out. Well, imagine sitting in the passenger seat on that one. We'll tell you what happened to that passenger in just a few moments. Also tonight, these stories.", "He rarely gives interviews. Now, the leader of Hamas has a warning for the United States. It's a CNN exclusive. Later, find out which powerful congressman wants to spend a small fortune on a portrait of himself to hang in the halls of power. \"Raw Politics\", only on 360.", "The heat Republicans are feeling from the Larry Craig scandal has some in the party calling for the Idaho senator's resignation, as we reported earlier. That's the big political story in play tonight. But it is not the only news. There's plenty of \"Raw Politics\", too. Here's CNN's Tom Foreman.", "Soledad, Labor Day is looming. And the campaigns are throwing gasoline on the barbecue, heating up the ad wars. (voice-over) Mitt Romney has spent more than any other Republican to buy first place in the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire. But his latest ad has a shoestring budget.", "I'm Mitt Romney. And I approve this message.", "The \"Raw\" read, politicians love looking fit for the presidency, as if it revolves around weightlifting and triathlons. But careful. John Kerry knows this can backfire. John McCain, struggling to get back in the pack, is rolling out a new video, emphasizing his courage and his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. On the Democratic side, big Joe Biden passing the hat. Short on cash, he wants supporters to adopt an ad, with specific donations to pay for TV time. Two quick hits. Fred Thompson, his staff is leaking like a sieve. News that he will be in the race in one week, starting a five- state campaign tour. Hillary Clinton, donating $23,000 of her campaign dollars to charity. Turns out the guy who raised it is wanted for fraud. And our country is at war. The approval rating for Congress, never lower. So, what does Congressman Charlie Rangel want? To spend more than $64,000 on a portrait of himself. The New York Democrat is asking the Federal Elections Commission if he can use campaign funds for a portrait to be displayed in a committee hearing room. (on camera) Now this is not tax money. It is money that Rangel raised. And he is very happy about this. Nonetheless, there will be some constituents, no doubt, who will not be too pleased with the priorities -- Soledad.", "Thanks, Tom. Don't miss \"Raw Politics\" and the day's headlines with the 360 daily podcast. You don't need to have an iPod. You can watch it on your computer. CNN.com/AC360podcast. Or get it from the iTunes store, where it's a top download. Quick program note: tomorrow on 360, the dramatic account of one of the most intense battles in Iraq so far, supposed to last only five days. Turned out it lasted five weeks. The Marines of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, were the tip of the spear. They lost 13 men. Dozens were injured. Many of the Marines who made it home tell their stories in \"Anvil of God\". Here's a preview.", "There were bullets coming from every side of us. In front of us, from the east and west. And then behind us. It looked, sounded and felt like a nightmare.", "It was, like -- it was extremely surreal. I didn't think. You don't think. No time to think. You just react.", "You'll hear more from those Marines and others, tomorrow night in the 360 special report. It's called \"Anvil of God\", 10 p.m. Eastern. Coming up next on 360, an unprecedented access to a leader in exile. His group practices terror, fights for the destruction of Israel. So why does the leader of Hamas think he deserves a spot at the peace table? Nic Robertson's exclusive interview is up next.", "To Hamas fighters, he's their leader. But to the U.S. and Israel, he is a terrorist. Tonight, you're going to meet him. In an exclusive interview, CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robertson sat down with the exiled head of Hamas, the militant organization that wields power over Palestinians and Gaza. It is a rare look at a man who sanctions suicide bombings. Here's Nic Robertson's exclusive report.", "To get to the leader of Hamas, you need to come here to Damascus in Syria. He lives here in exile, shuffling between secret safe houses. Israeli agents tried to kill him ten years ago, and Hamas is convinced Halid Mashal remains a target. We were told to meet a contact in a hotel. (on camera) We weren't allowed to film that meeting. In fact, we had our cell phones taken away. And our photographs taken for their records. They weren't taking any chances that we were being bugged or followed. And I was beginning to wonder, what was this man, seen as a terrorist by Israel, the United States and many others, going to say? Does he plan to block U.S. peace efforts? (voice-over) On the way to the safe house, we were allowed to take a few involve photographs, but no video. By the time we meet Mashal, we'd been through more security checks. They apologize. But reminders of why adorn the walls of the safe house. Upstairs, when we had the second of our two lengthy, exclusive meetings, a picture of Hamas' spiritual leader, Sheikh Yassin, killed by an Israeli missile three years ago. And a huge poster of more than a dozen deceased Hamas leaders. It's the first western TV interview this powerful Palestinian leader has given since Hamas won Palestinian elections a year and a half ago. When we finally get to talk to him, he has a warning. The peace talks the U.S. has set up for later this year will fail if Hamas is not invited.", "This conference will fail for many reasons. First of all, because it's lacking seriousness from both the American and Israeli side. And Hamas is excluded.", "Whether or not Hamas goes to the talks, what they want is U.S. pressure on Israel, to make concessions. Withdraw from the West Bank, go back with conditions, to borders before the 1967 war between Israel and Arab nations. Which Mashal says is a softening of Hamas' demands a decade ago.", "Pressure Israel to admit Palestinian rights and allow a Palestinian state. Then, put pressure on Palestinians and Arabs. And test them to see if they will accept new demands or if they recognize Israel.", "Until demands are met, Mashal says he make no apology for targeting Israeli civilians.", "When Israel stops its occupation and aggression, we will stop, as well.", "He was relaxed and firmly in control. He even took a phone call in the middle of the interview that he claims was from an Arab leader. Proof, he says, that he's not entirely isolated. Mashal's unwavering message: Hamas is here to stay. The U.S. and Israel, he says, will ultimately have to talk to him, if they want peace. Nic Robertson, CNN, Damascus, Syria.", "Up next on 360, a scathing new report on the Virginia Tech massacre. Plus, a wild police chase, caught from four angles. That's coming up next.", "In a moment, riddle me this. Who's responsible for this massive explosion that rocked Chicago's west side? It's tonight's \"Shot\". We're going to give you a hint. A superhero was involved. First, though, Erica Hill joins us again with a \"360 Bulletin\". Hi, Erica.", "Soledad, the president of Virginia Tech said today he will not resign. Nor will he ask the school's police chief to quit. He is under attack now, following a new report that the campus shooting spree that left 33 people dead earlier this year, including the killer. An independent panel found lives might have been saved, had school officials warned the campus sooner that a killer was on the loose. The report also blamed the university for missing red flags concerning the mental illness of the shooter, Seung-Hui Cho. Check out this video released today by Ohio police. Four dash cams show a deadly police chase from four different angles. It all began with a stolen car making an illegal turn. Then, the driver hit the gas. He was clocked at 135 miles per hour at one point. He also crashed into a police cruiser, tried to run over an officer, before being fatally shot. Now remarkably, the car's passenger -- he says he was getting a ride to Walgreen's -- was unharmed. Georgia investigators say the death of Richard Jewell was caused by a heart attack. The 44-year-old security guard, wrongly suspected and later cleared of the Olympic Park bombing in 1996, died yesterday. He had been suffering from diabetes and kidney failure. And on Wall Street, stocks struggling just a day before a much anticipated speech by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on housing and monetary policy. The Dow fell 50 points to 13,238. The S&P; 500 lost six, closing at 1,457. While the NASDAQ was up 2, Soledad.", "All right. Time, now, for \"The Shot\". As Robin would say, \"Holy mackerel, Batman.\" You like that, huh? Look at that. Look at that.", "That is crazy to watch.", "Isn't it amazing? Happened on Chicago's west side. Turned into Gotham City for a shoot, because they're shooting the new Batman movie, called \"The Dark Knight\". The building that's actually collapsing there is a former candy factory, and that's masquerading as Gotham General Hospital.", "You only get one shot on that scene.", "Right. You know, can you imagine if you're the guy responsible and you mess it up somehow?", "Can we get a model, please?", "Yes, that would be bad. That would be bad. That would be something interesting to see when that comes out. Want you to send us your \"Shot\" ideas. If you see some amazing videotape, tell us about it: CNN.com/360. We're going to put the best clips right on the air. Coming up next on 360, the tale of the tape. Hear Senator Craig's audio confrontation with a cop who busted him in a bathroom. First, a break, though. You're watching AC 360.", "More Republicans today called on their colleague, Senator Larry Craig, to resign, and that was before the tape you're about to hear came out. The staunchly conservative Idaho Republican can be heard in a contentious interrogation or an exchange with a Minneapolis airport police sergeant who had just nabbed him in a bathroom sex sting. A cop had been in the neighboring stall. We're going to play it all for you. 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{"id": "CNN-346370", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2018-07-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/30/ip.02.html", "summary": "Trump Attacks NYT After Revealing He Met With Publisher.", "utt": ["President Trump just started a whole new round of attacks in his war with the media calling them -- calling us I should say, unpatriotic and irresponsible. In his new tweet storm coming after he revealed that he met with New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger saying, they had a good meeting -- excuse me, an interesting discussion about fake news and how the term morphed into the phrase \"enemy of the people.\" Sulzberger released a statement saying, he warned the president his language is not just divisive, it could lead to violence against journalist. The president responded with a series of tweets saying, he, quote, won't allow our great country to be sold out by the anti-Trump haters in the dying newspaper industry. Back around the table, Julie, you're the representative here from the New York Times. I have to say that your publisher is one of my heroes because it isn't the fake news. I mean, OK, that's bad. But the -- I mean, that's really bad. But the enemy of the people is dangerous.", "Well, absolutely. And I mean, this was -- let's not forget, it was supposed to be an off-the-record meeting that the president chose to divulge and sort of gives the lie to what he often talks about, you know, made up sources, made up conversations that never happened. This is an example of one of these things that, you know, was supposed to be a discussion between the publisher and the president and he chose to disclose it. Be that as they may, they did talk about fake news. They talked about -- the president said that, you know, actually, some foreign countries have banned fake news and A.G. Sulzberger, our publisher pointed out that actually those are autocratic countries where they're actually trying to", "And he didn't obviously learn anything from it. The president -- because this weekend he tweeted criticizing reporters for covering the inner workings of government. Well, that's what reporters are supposed to do.", "Yes. I mean, that is what reporters are supposed to do in any society, but particularly when you're not in an autocratic society to your point, where you are -- you know, you have the shoe on your head saying you can't report on anything. Thank you to the New York Times for doing that. Thank you for watching and joining us in the INSIDE POLITICS. Wolf starts right now."], "speaker": ["BASH", "DAVIS", "RAJU", "BASH"]}
{"id": "CNN-119629", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-9-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0709/05/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Terror Plot Arrests; Craig May Not Resign; Search For Steve Fossett; Craig Not Resigning?", "utt": ["Sex sting.", "A report that tests show severe brain damage from his time in the wrestling ring didn't lead to WWE's Chris Benoit to murder/suicide. A news conference live this hour. It is Wednesday, September 5th and you are in the", "Unfolding this morning, an alleged terrorist plot disrupted. Three suspects arrested. They are accused of planning imminent and massive attacks against American targets in Germany. Want to get to Frankfurt now and CNN's Frederik Pleitgen.", "German authorities are on high alert after they say they have thwarted what they call a massive and imminent terrorist attack here in Germany. German authorities say they have arrested three individuals, two of them are German nationals who apparently converted to Islam and visited terrorist training camps in Pakistan that were run by al Qaeda. The third individual was a Turkish national. Now the German interior minister says he believes that the orders for these attacks came directly from al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan. Now the method that these terrorists were going to use, authorities say, was that they acquired 1,500 pounds of highly potent hydrogen peroxide that they were going to turn into bomb-making material. The reason German authorities say they did this now, they arrested these people now is that they believe they were on the verge of turning this hydrogen peroxide into explosives. And also with the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks coming up in only a few days, German authorities say they felt they had to make these arrests now. Frederik Pleitgen, CNN, Frankfort, Germany.", "Senator Larry Craig in that men's room sex scandal. He may not resign after all. A spokesman says Craig will fight his own guilty plea. Congressional correspondent Dana Bash is with us on Capitol Hill. Dana, good morning to you. What is the react to this new twist from Republicans on Capitol Hill?", "Well, there's certainly a sense of shock here. People are very surprised. Especially people inside the Republican leadership. Senator Craig's very own leadership that was instrumental in forcing Senator Craig to announce his intention to resign on Saturday. They thought that this was behind them, this political nightmare that they have had over a sex scandal and it turns out that it may not be. And it is because the senator's office is changing their tune a little bit. What they are saying is that he may -- may, and they emphasize the word may, not resign if the senator is successful in his legal battle, trying to overturn the guilty plea he signed admitting to misconduct in a men's room in the Minneapolis Airport just last month. Now this whole idea of pulling back from resigning appears to have been prompted from -- by his colleague here, one of his colleagues, the only colleague who has come out and supported Senator Craig, that is Senator Arlen Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now the newspaper that covers Capitol Hill, \"Roll Call,\" obtained a voice mail from Senator Craig apparently trying to reach his attorney and Senator Craig talked about the call that he got from Arlen Specter. Let's listen.", "Yes, billy, this is Larry Craig calling. You can reach me on my cell. Arlen Specter is now willing to come out in my defense, arguing that it appears by all that he knows I've been railroad and all of that. Having all of that, we've reshaped my statement a little bit to say, it is my intent to resign on September 30.", "Now the very next day, on Sunday, Senator Specter did go on television and make the case that he does believe that Senator Craig has a legal case in trying to overturn his guilty plea. Today he is not adding anything to that. Simply saying that his public words stand for themselves. Now, CNN has been told that Senator Craig is calling around here to Capitol Hill, to his other Republican colleagues, trying to see if there is other support beyond Senator Specter. Unclear what he's been hearing. But what is clear, Tony, is that the Republican leadership, as I mentioned, is not happy about this. They made clear yesterday, the Republican leader himself said that this episode is over and that's how they view it. Wouldn't be surprised if we heard similar words later today.", "Yes. Our congressional correspondent Dana Bash for us. Dana, appreciate it. Thank you.", "Startling news from the military this morning. A B-52 bomber, like this one, mistakenly loaded with six nuclear warheads and flown across country. It happened last Thursday. The mistake not discovered until after the flight. The bomber was flying from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. A three and a half hour flight. It was during that time the nuclear warheads on advanced cruise missiles were unaccounted for. Air Force officials are now investigating how it happened. But important here, they say the nuclear bombs could not have detonated because of redundant safeguards.", "Felix weaker this morning, but still very much a threat. The storm slammed ashore yesterday in Central America as a fierce category five. It is now a tropical depression. The concern now, heavy rain and massive flooding in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. It is reported that at least four people may have died as the storm made landfall. In the Pacific, Hurricane Henriette is a category one storm with winds near 75 miles per hour. It made landfall along the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula yesterday and is still on the move.", "It's just coming from all directions it seems like. Rob Marciano joining us now for the very latest on everything that's happening.", "Here's a question for you. What drove wrestler Chris Benoit to kill his wife, son and himself? A doctor who examined Benoit's brain offers a possible explanation this morning. He told ABC's \"Good Morning America\" the wrestler suffered brain damage from multiple concussions. Doctor Julian Bailes says it could have been a leading cause of the tragedy. He says the damage is similar to that found in Alzheimer's patients.", "Crews in Nevada searching for adventurer Steve Fossett this morning. His plane vanished Monday. CNN's Ted Rowlands is in Minden, Nevada, for us now this morning. And, Ted, conditions, I heard you say a little bit earlier, are at least better this morning in the search for Steve Fossett.", "Much better. And pilots are arriving here. We just got a little bit of an update. They expect to start flying in about 20 minutes. That's 7:30 Pacific Time here. And they expect to exploit these weather conditions and use this day to try to find Fossett, who has been missing since Monday morning. He took off in a single engine plane by himself. The plan had about three to four hours' worth of fuel in it. They have expanding the search area to about a 600-square mile area. A huge area. About half the size of Rhode Island. They're using a grid search technique through this. Yesterday they accomplished some work but the conditions were very difficult. They're hoping to get back up there and accomplish more and hopefully find him. There are some discouraging things. There's a beacon on the plane that if he were to land this thing safely, he would able to manually activate it. And they haven't heard anything from that. On the upside, if there was a crash, it would have gone off automatically. They haven't heard anything on that side either. So there's some good news and some bad news. Time is a factor here. They're very concerned. But this is a guy who has done it all in his lifetime. He not only is an aviator, a sailor, he set world records in sailing, he's even set cross-country ski records, swam the English Channel, been in the Ironman competition, the Iditarod. He is a survivalist. His friend, Richard Branson, another adventurer, said this about Steve Fossett earlier this morning on CNN.", "If he's landed and he's not too badly hurt, he's the one person in the world who will, you know, who will be mentally and physically equipped to get out of this. So, you know, so if anyone's going to end up, you know, walking back up the ranch and apologizing for", "A reference to the Hilton's plane. He took off from a ranch nearby here owned by the Hilton family and was using their plane when he left. And that is where we understand his wife Peggy of some 30 years is with family members. A lot of people around the world very concerned about Steve Fossett, hoping today, Heidi, that they will be able to get some answers. And you hear the aircraft in the background. They're about ready to go up and resume this search. And hopefully today it will be fruitful.", "Hey, Ted, just curious. I know there's Nellis Air Force Base out there. Very, very active Air Force base. Just wondering if there's any possibility that someone from there or people from there might also help in this search.", "Well, the Civil Air Patrol is coordinating this. And they're basically an auxiliary of the Air Force. They handle search and rescue in this area. So they're coordinating it, but they're getting help from other agencies and they're trying to get every asset available to take part in this search. They have to control it, though, because they don't want independent searches going on and they need to control every movement of these planes. But they say they are exploiting the weather and the resources in this area and they're doing everything humanly possible to find Steve Fossett.", "All right, Ted, we know you're on top of it for us. We'll check back later. Thanks so much. And an update on the search for Steve Fossett scheduled for 1:00 p.m. Eastern. We will carry this for you live right here on", "OK, parents, time to check the toy box again. Another big recall to tell you about.", "A senator's sex scandal, a new legal challenge. Can the lawmaker stay in office despite his guilty plea? We'll talk with our legal expert, Jeffrey Toobin.", "She's getting a lot of attention on the presidential campaign trail, but she's not the candidate. Michelle Obama makes the cover of \"Jet\" magazine. We will hear from \"Jet's\" associate editor coming up.", "And U.S. service families in Germany feeling like sitting ducks?", "The extremists or the terrorists that would like to make a statement against Americans would, of course, like to get a hold of Americans' children and American families.", "We'll check out security at the U.S. base in Wiesbaden (ph). You are in the CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "NEWSROOM. COLLINS", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "DANA BASH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. LARRY CRAIG, (R) IDAHO", "BASH", "HARRIS", "COLLINS", "HARRIS", "COLLINS", "HARRIS", "COLLINS", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "RICHARD BRANSON, CHAIRMAN, VIRGIN GROUP", "ROWLANDS", "COLLINS", "ROWLANDS", "COLLINS", "CNN. 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{"id": "CNN-364320", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-03-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/13/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Ex-Trump Campaign Chief Faces Second Sentencing", "utt": ["Thank you for being on it for us. It is truly significant.", "Yes. Top of the hour here, and it is a busy one. I'm Jim Sciutto in New York.", "And I'm Poppy Harlow. Breaking news right now. In Washington, the first person to be indicted by the Special Counsel is in his second and final sentencing hearing. Paul Manafort, the former chairman of the Trump presidential campaign, former top dollar lobbyist foreign autocrats, could get as much as ten years in prison for conspiring against the United States and conspiring to tamper with witnesses.", "We're getting a lot of new information out of the courtroom as those proceedings are underway right now, Manafort facing the judge in this case. You know, it's Pamela Brown, Shimon Prokupecz. They are at the D.C. federal courthouse. We've been hearing some interesting statements and meaningful statements from the judge in the last few minutes. Tell us what you're hearing and why it's important.", "Yes. So there's a lot going on inside court right now. The prosecutors have spoken, the judge has talked and Manafort's attorneys have talked. And they're arguing obviously that Manafort should get some sort of credit for pleading guilty for admitting that he did what he did. Obviously, there are issues because he lied during his cooperation agreement. And what we're learning from our reporters inside in the court is that the judge has said that Manafort has met his burden and has given him some credit for pleading and giving sworn admission court. This is for his pleading guilty. How will all this wind up in the end? We still don't know. But, obviously, the fact that the judge here is saying, okay, I'm going to give you some credit for this, could help in lightening the sentence that Paul Manafort will eventually get here.", "Yes. That's really been a key focus, this idea of whether he has accepted personal responsibility. Mueller's prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann has argued that, no, he hasn't accepted responsibility, he has lied, also emphasizing that even though Manafort argued he was not the leader of the conspiracy, that in fact he was. And so you're hearing from both defense and prosecutors in this case. Just to sort of paint a picture of what's going on inside again to reset [ph] for our viewers, Paul Manafort arrived today in a wheelchair. He was wearing a suit, unlike last week when we saw him in prison scrubs. And our producer, Katelyn Polantz, says that he looks thinner and he looks gray.", "A much different view from what many folks who have not seen Paul Manafort publicly. You know, he wears these nice suits, was always clean cut, wore nice ties. He is wearing a suit today. He is a wearing purple tie. But she did notice how thin he looked and how gray his hair was. So we're getting some color. But sitting, the prosecutor was talking, Andrew Weissman was laying out their argument. He just looked straight. Katelyn Polantz is saying that he just looks straight. He didn't look at the prosecutor. Paul Manafort did not look at the prosecutor as he was speaking, laying out, essentially saying that Paul Manafort has lied and the judge should take that into consideration.", "And just the big picture, you know, this is someone who was the Trump campaign chairman. And just to think about the fall from grace from when he was the campaign chairman to now, as he faces his final sentencing, this really caps it all off today and we'll be looking to see what the judge does. She has a maximum of ten years that she can sentence him to. Will she stack on any years to the four years he's already been given or will they run concurrent? That's one of the things we're looking for.", "I think it's also important to make the point, Pam, that this is really the last -- perhaps the last big argument that we're going to see from the Special Counsel's office about their case, about this two-year, what, like two-year investigation. This is the last time that we're going to hear them speak in court. And what this means for them, keep in mind that Paul Manafort was the center, was really the center of this investigation for quite some time. This is now coming to an end. And hearing from prosecutors in court, you can sense that they know the meaning of this and what this means for them and really for this entire investigation now as it comes to an end.", "Katelyn Polantz, our our producer inside said, actually, Andrew Weissman seemed a little bit nervous for the first time. She noticed because prosecutors know how high the stakes are. This is one of the most high profile investigations of the Mueller probe. And, of course, Mueller's -- Manafort's, rather, attorneys have argued, look, these charges have nothing to do with Russian collusion. We'll probably hear more of the same today. Back to you.", "Those are really good points, Pamela and Shimon. We appreciate it. And, of course, Michael Flynn, Mueller's team also wants to also sentence Michael Flynn. He doesn't want it yet. But, again, sort of the culmination and what this means for the bigger picture here. Jennifer, to you. Today's judge in this sentencing, Amy Berman- Jackson, very different from T.S. Ellis. And she did say at the outset here that this is not a revision of what another court did. Clearly, that's pointing to the pretty low sentence that Ellis handed down last week. So what do you expect today from Manafort?", "Well, you know, I think she is being very business-like about this. You know, she has things she has to do. She has to go through all of the calculations for the sentencing guideline.", "Can I just -- I'm sorry to jump in, but this is germane to what you're answering. So I'm just hearing in my ear that the judge, Judge Jackson, is going to let both sides argue before her right now what they think the sentence should be.", "That's right. So the judge goes through the guidelines and makes the formal calculation that the court will be using. Then she lets each side speak to whatever they want to be, what the sentence ought to be and why. And then she will turn to the defendant himself, Paul Manafort, and ask him whether he wants to address the court. I expect he will. Defendants almost always do, as he did last week. He may not actually apologize or express remorse, per se, but he'll probably talk about how hard this has all been on him and his family and ask for a low sentence. So that's the procedure that the judge will go through. She's being very efficient about it. She's moving quickly. I think she's a bit more nonsense -- no nonsense than we saw last week. But it sounds like she's going through her paces and then she'll make her decision. And it's a holistic exercise in a lot of ways. She has to set the guideline's range. But, ultimately, she has pick a number that she feels comports with everything that she's heard in the case. And so the when the parties talk about should he get acceptance of responsibility or not, it matters to whether he actually technically gets the three points off of the guidelines calculation. But it's really more than that because that's really what goes into what she thinks is the appropriate sentence here overall.", "Well, this brings up the question of cooperating some of the time, right, or telling the truth some of the time. Because with Michael Cohen, for instance, in New York, prosecutors here were brutal on him, I mean, he cooperated on some things but didn't on others. And they said, not good enough. With Paul Manafort, does the court view partial cooperation as, at all, positive or do they demand you've got to be an open book here, you've got to be cooperating all the time?", "You know, I think we have to remember that the judges constitute a separate branch of government in terms of this. They are not -- technically, they don't work with the prosecutors. And they can take into consideration cooperation. But, ultimately, of course, it's up to the judge. And prosecutors here have said that Manafort lied to them after he agreed to cooperate with them, which is really astounding because you don't plead guilty to a crime and then say, I'll cooperate, and then go in and tell lies. It looks horrible. So I think in this case, that will be held against Manafort. We have to also remember that this is the case where Manafort allegedly threatened a witness or tried to tamper with a witness, and that's why he lost his bail. So he's engaged in some activities with respect to this case that he did not engage in allegedly before Ellis. So if she wants to go hard on him, she's got a lot of justification for it. I think, and I happen to agree with Jennifer, there will be a concurrent sentence handed down here but I think it will be a sentence that will add to the time he's doing. So, for instance, if she gives him six years to run concurrent with Ellis's sentence, he serves an extra two years. So I think that's probably where you'll see this sentence fall. However, she could sentence him to ten years as well and say that that's going to --", "We got surprised last week, and then always the possibility for surprise on the upside or the downside.", "Exactly.", "We understand that there are more details coming from inside that courtroom. And, keep in mind, you have the judge speaking, you have the lawyers for both prosecution and defense speaking. We have both Shimon Prokupecz and Pamela Brown outside the courthouse there. What's the latest?", "Well, we're hearing from Judge Jackson and how she views Paul Manafort pleading guilty. And, basically, she, in one sense, gave Paul Manafort a small reprieve, saying he met his burden. She gives him credit for pleading guilty, but she also made clear that is not an example of his character or determination that he legally accepted responsibility isn't a judgment of character, she says. That will come later today during the hearing. Of course, we'll bring you updates on when that comes up. But she said his acceptance of responsibility per her determination so far is not, in a quote, in a more existential and personal sense. So, basically, she is saying here that, yes, he did accept the responsibility by pleading guilty in a legal sense but that is not a reflection of his character, that will be visited later in the hearing.", "And that's going to probably be a big factor in her determination because as much as Paul Manafort did accept responsibility by pleading guilty. And, usually, this is something that judges take into consideration because the whole point of pleading guilty is so you can get less prison time. So that is something she's going to have to consider. But it's his activity after he pleaded guilty, that's something that is very different in this case than we see in most cases because of the lying to the FBI agents and the grand jury.", "Yes. She's basically saying, look, the lying, the witness tampering, that has undercut you pleading guilty, speaking to Paul Manafort. So she's saying that certainly is playing a role here. We'll keep you posted on any developments on that front.", "All right, great reporting, guys. Thank you so much. Dana Bash, to you on the politics of all of it. We all remember what the President said about after Paul Manafort after these charges came down. We remember what he said after the first sentencing a week ago. Sarah Sanders yesterday at the White House when asked about any potential pardon, where the President's head is on that for Manafort, said he'll make a decision when he's ready. What are you hearing about the White House stance on all of this?", "Yes. That's not a no at all and that's note worthy, as is the continued sort of refrain from Rudy Giuliani and other members of the President's legal team which Giuliani even told me again last night that they have said repeatedly to all of these lawyers of all of these characters, we're not discussing a pardon yet. We're not talking about it now. And that's a very important thing to remember here. I mentioned earlier that it was certainly not an accident that Manafort's attorney came outside the courthouse last week after that 47-month sentence and made crystal clear that Paul Manafort was not found guilty of nor is he going to jail for collusion with Russians.", "And a point the President we can expect to repeat. We're getting new details. It's happening as we speak from inside the courtroom. Shimon Prokupecz outside the D.C. federal courthouse. Shimon, what's the latest?", "So prosecutors are continuing to talk. Andrew Weissman, who has been the lead prosecutor on the Paul Manafort case, is explaining to the judge his argument, giving his argument on the sentence. And just a couple of things I want to highlight that he has so far told the judge. He's saying that, quote, Mr. Manafort committed crimes that undermined our political process. They're talking about his work overseas, obviously, some of the things that he did here in the U.S. So they are highlighting going through how he was making his money. But I think it was important to highlight here of how the Special Counsel views Mr. Manafort and they are describing that he committed crimes that undermines our political process.", "And he also said that Manafort accepted money from Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch, even though he wasn't one of the central figures in the case Konstantin Kilimnik was. They made a point of saying that, look, this is someone who illegally accepted money from Oleg Deripaska, this Russian oligarch. And the way he laundered money, his conspiracy against the U.S., the prosecutors are arguing undermines the political process. And remember, in a previous filing, the prosecutors argued that Manafort and some of his alleged lies and aspects of his case goes to the heart of the Special Counsel's investigation. And the judge agreed with him on that even though he is not charged specifically with his work on the campaign.", "Here is just some more color from inside court, what the prosecutors are arguing. They're saying that Manafort had to make a choice. He decided to represent foreign governments instead of work for the U.S. government. Of course, this is what the prosecutors are saying. They're saying that secrecy was integral for Mr. Manafort, wanted to do for Ukraine. This is, again, going through his work for the Ukrainian government, obviously on behalf of the Russians. So they're going through it all. They're laying out -- like I said earlier, I think this is going to be really their last chance. This is for the Special Counsel's office to tell the public what they have been doing these last few years and last year-and-a-half, two years of this investigation. And they're laying it out here. They're explaining exactly what they believe Paul Manafort was involved in.", "And remember, quickly, last week was a blow in many ways to the Special Counsel with the judge sentencing Manafort to around four years, much less than the 25 years that the Special Counsel had suggested. And so this really is a last ditch effort for the Special Counsel to make its case against Paul Manafort, this high profile investigation that's been nearly two years under Mueller. Back to you.", "All right. Pamela, Shimon, thanks very much. And should know that folks will often say this case had nothing to do with anything Russia-related. Paul Manafort was working for, and getting millions of dollars, for the pro-Russian government of Ukraine, lobbying, for instance, in D.C. to justify the jailing of a political opponent in Ukraine, justifying that to U.S. lawmakers. So these are not small things. They're not petty crimes. We're staying on top of all the developments as Manafort faces his second sentencing. Plus, we're now learning just this morning that at least five pilots here in the U.S. have filed complaints about the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft in recent months but airlines in the U.S. are still flying this plane. Dozens of them are in the air over the U.S. right now. What's going on?", "And it's the largest scam of its kind ever prosecuted. A college bribery scheme that allegedly involved dozens of wealthy parents, Hollywood's elite and college administrators themselves. 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{"id": "CNN-239348", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2014-09-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/21/ndaysun.01.html", "summary": "Two White House Security Lapses in 2 Days; Hostage's Wife Begs ISIS to Free Him", "utt": ["\"Release my husband,\" a desperate plea from the wife of British hostage Allen Henning as fears of the terrorist group ISIS could make him their next target.", "An almost unbelievable breach of security and what's supposed to be the most protected home in the nation. How did a man with a knife barge through the front doors to the White House? This morning's scrutiny of the Secret Service and the changes they're making.", "I got it wrong in the handling of the Ray Rice matter.", "But did Roger Goodell get it wrong by not stepping down? Millions are tuning in for today's big games. And as they do, there are more calls for the NFL chief to bow out. Early morning on a Sunday and so grateful for your company. I'm Christi Paul.", "I'm Victor Blackwell. 6:00 here on the East Coast. And this morning security is understandably tight at the White House because there have now been two -- two security breaches in two days. The Secret Service says a teenager identified as Kevin Carr tried to enter a barricaded area, the entrance there, to the White House yesterday. He was in his car. He's been arrested and charged with unlawful entry. And we're now learning that the person who jumped the fence Friday night had been carrying a folding knife in his pocket.", "\"The Washington Post\" reports 42-year-old Omar Gonzalez is an Iraq war veteran. That's the one who ran across the lawn you see there. He served 18 years in the U.S. military including three tours in Iraq. Well, former Secret Service agent Daniel Bongino is joining us on the phone from Washington. Daniel, so glad to you have with us. Thanks for getting up with us here this morning. I know that there have been, you know, the fence jumpers in the past. But none of them actually got into the White House as Gonzalez did. Have they?", "No. And that's why you heard the Secret Service director and their public spokesman say that the location of the arrest was what really had troubled them. To have -- to arrest someone inside the north portico with now what seems to be a weapon certainly makes the situation grave. And as I said, I think on your show yesterday with you, Christi and Victor. This is a -- this is a really big deal. And the Secret Service does not try to put lipstick on these types of things. I think they're going to come out and do a very exhaustive review and hopefully we'll never see anything like this again.", "So two breaches in two days. It is easy to jump to a conclusion that maybe there is some new variable, there's some new reason why this is happening and the possibility that they are connected. What likely are the agents doing now to determine if that's so?", "Well, I don't think the two incidents are connected. Now I'll tell you why. The second incident, that's actually, you know, quite common. People showing up at the vehicle checkpoint locations. And the system did work in the second incident. Showed up, didn't want to leave. Was in the vehicle. Trapped. There is nowhere to go. Check the vehicle, no explosives and the person was then arrested. So in the second incident, although it wasn't something they certainly wanted to happen, it worked as planned. I don't think they were related. Most of my contacts are telling me that they're not. But you have to remember, the White House was not built with security in mind at all. The White House was built as the people's house. It's an old building. It just wasn't built for. The demands being placed upon it are really -- they're incredible. I mean, they have to keep open access to the president without putting him in some insulated iron box. And I think now we're seeing some of the ramifications of that with the fence in the front and North Lawn just not being designed to really keep people out. It's not very secure fence.", "You know, \"The Washington Post\" was reporting there weren't any guard dogs or canine teams released to chase that man down on the North Lawn and that that is standard procedure. Why do you think that didn't happen?", "Yes, that's really got me a bit flummoxed here. I think a lot of security professionals from the Secret Service are started to wonder that as well. The dog -- keep in mind, we use a Belgian Malinois. And these dogs are -- when you get hit by the dog, if you were to make it across the fence and start running, you get hit by that Malinois. It's almost like getting hit by a car. And it's trained to knock you down. Why it wasn't released, I don't know. And I think the Secret Service is wondering that same thing. Having spent five years working on that 18-acre complex, you know, that's almost a fail-safe. And keep in mind, it's one of many layers of security that seem to have failed us. If it's not just one, there are things seen and unseen there. And this man seemed to have cracked them all. That's why this is the first time this happened. We're all shocked.", "All right. Well, Daniel Bongino, we so appreciate your insight because, you know, you just really give us such great information and things that we didn't know before. So we appreciate again you taking time for us this morning.", "No problem. Thanks for having me.", "Thank you, sir.", "Thank you.", "And just one other note, \"New York Times\" is reporting that the Secret Service spokesperson, Ed Donovan, says that the man in the car, Kevin Carr, had attempted to gain access to a separate location on foot a short time earlier. So before we expect this was just a wrong turn.", "Right.", "This was a man who tried to get in. This was his second attempt.", "This is the second. Right. Second attempt.", "We want to pass on to you the really emotional words of a wife of this British aid worker held hostage by ISIS. She's now begging the terrorists to spare his life.", "We're talking about Allen Henning.", "Yes.", "He was taken captive in December back in Syria. ISIS is threatening to kill him. His wife says the 47-year-old is a father of two, was driving an ambulance giving out food and water and that's when he was kidnapped. In a written plea to ISIS, Barbara Henning said, quote, \"Alan is a peaceful, selfless man who left his family and a job as a taxi driver in the UK to drive in a convoy all the way to Syria with his Muslim colleagues and friends to help those most in need.\" She adds, \"When they hear this message, I implore the people of the Islamic State to see it in their hearts to release my husband, Alan Henning\"", "A volunteer doctor and friend of Henning was just a few miles behind him whether he was kidnapped. And she's also begging ISIS to let him go and go home to his family.", "Please do not make him pay for the actions of Western foreign policy. This is not his crime. And killing him will not change this. It will only undermine you and your cause. Please let him go and release him back to us and his family, his friends, and his children who are waiting for him.", "All right. Let's bring in Peter Neumann. He's the director of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence. Peter, thank you so much for being with us. I want to ask you right out of the gate, do you think these latest pleas are going to have any effect on ISIS?", "Well, it's very hard to say. I mean, so far they haven't executed him and there are signs that perhaps they are thinking about exactly what to do with him. What's really important about these messages is that they are coming from within the Islamic community. Alan Henning was part of an Islamic humanitarian convoy into Syria. He was very much in line with the objectives of the opposition in Syria, even with the objectives of the more extreme opposition in Syria. So a lot of people are saying, why are you punishing this guy when he was, in fact, more or less agreeing with your objectives? And so perhaps, just perhaps this is making people in ISIS think.", "You know, Peter, what was interesting about this to me is that it was released through the UK's Foreign Service Office. Now is that, I wonder, typical protocol? Because from what we've seen in other instances, there has been no official word through the government from the family.", "Yes. We had a similar case about 10 years ago in the UK. There was British construction worker who was being kidnapped. And the British Foreign Office convinced an Islamic cleric, an extreme Islamic cleric who was in prison in the UK to record a video statement very similar to the one that we just saw. It didn't work in that case 10 years ago. And I think the chances that it might work now are pretty slim. But they are trying what they can. Their options are very limited. The only thing that they could do short of paying the ransom which is not what they would do anyway would be a special forces operation. But that would require them knowing exactly why Alan Henning is being held and I don't think they do. So all they can do is really to plead with the hostage takers.", "You know, former President Bill Clinton spoke to Fareed Zakaria about the ISIS threat as well. Listen to this.", "So I've got to ask you about ISIS. I saw you on \"The Daily Show\" say that you thought we have to respond to this brutal executions of Americans. But I want to press you. Isn't that what ISIS wants? Isn't -- wasn't the purpose of the executions to bait us?", "No. But there's a difference and, for example, using targeted drones and air strikes as we did against al Qaeda effectively for years to try to take down their leadership and infrastructure and let them know they can't just decapitate people for the cheap thrill of the global media response and horrifying people, and get away with it. And getting bogged down in the kind of war they would like us to get bogged down in that would cost us a lot of lives and a lot of treasure and inevitably lead to greater civilian casualties, which is why I think the president's strategy has a chance of succeeding because the Iraqi government is now more inclusive than it has been since the fall of Saddam Hussein. And that seems to be awakening, if you will, the willingness of the Sunni tribal leaders to participate in fighting.", "By the way, you can see that full interview on \"FAREED ZAKARIA GPS\" a little later today. But he went on to say the President Obama strategy of U.S. airstrikes combined with fighting on the ground by Iraq and Syrian rebel forces will prevent the U.S. from getting bogged down and, you know, I think what some -- most fear this never-ending war, this idea of one. Do you agree with that?", "I think President Clinton is exactly right. I think it would be completely wrong to overreact to these executions which are horrible. But we shouldn't prompt us to be involved in a war including boots on the ground which exactly what ISIS is aching for. They want to fight Americans on the ground because that will allow them to claim that there is an occupation going on and they're fighting against the West. Clearly what should happen is exactly that. Identifying the people who are responsible, trying to find out where they are, bringing them to justice. No overreaction but very finely calibrated action in going through with the plan. That's what's important now.", "Yes. And that's the important conversation happening in Washington as well. Peter Neumann in London, good to have you back.", "Thank you, Victor.", "Thank you, sir. OK. Here's the question so many people want to know right now, where is 18-year-old Hannah Graham? Police trying to answer it this morning a week after the UVA student vanished. Now new developments in the case this morning.", "And a safety warning for more than 200,000 drivers. What you need to know about a massive recall by auto giant GM."], "speaker": ["CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "ROGER GOODELL, NFL COMMISSIONER", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "DANIEL BONGINO, FORMER SECRET SERVICE AGENT", "BLACKWELL", "BONGINO", "PAUL", "BONGINO", "PAUL", "BONGINO", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "DR. SHAMEELA ISLAM-ZULFIGAR, ALAN HENNING'S COLLEAGUE", "PAUL", "PETER NEUMANN, DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF RADICALIZATION AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE", "BLACKWELL", "NEUMANN", "PAUL", "FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST, FAREED ZAKARIA GPS", "BILL CLINTON, 42ND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "PAUL", "NEUMANN", "BLACKWELL", "NEUMANN", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-361380", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-02-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/07/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Maduro Blocks Aid on Bridge from Colombia; Tusk: Special Place in Hell for No-Plan Brexiteers; U.S. Envoy in North Korea to Prepare for Trump-Kim Summit; Venezuela's Juan Guaido Orders Army to Allow Entry of Humanitarian Aid", "utt": ["Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church with your next two hours of CNN NEWSROOM. Let's get started. Venezuelans blocked from getting much needed humanitarian aid after the embattled government blocks this bridge. A congressional Intelligence Committee announces a broad investigation into the president's finances just one day after Trump called for an end to probes into his presidency. Plus the latest warning on global warming. A new report details a worrying trend about the planet's climate.", "Good to have you with us. The latest battle for control in Venezuela is taking place on a bridge along the border with Colombia. Forces backing Maduro are blocking the path of badly needed humanitarian aid, truckloads of food, medicine and diapers. Maduro says his people are not beggars. But opposition leader Juan Guaido is urging the military to let the aid pass.", "We know the containers are traversing the border bridge crossing. We know the tanks are there on the border. And what we are saying is that it is an absurd reaction by a regime which is not interested in its citizens and that we are going to do everything we can so that some of this aid gets in.", "A few kilometers to the south, another bridge from Colombia is filled with pedestrians. They cross back into Venezuela loaded up with whatever they can afford. CNN's Isa Soares is there.", "I'm standing at the Simon Bolivar Bridge. It's the main pedestrian bridge between Colombia and Venezuela. As you can see behind me, there is Colombia and straight in front of me is Venezuela. People have been making this journey every day. According to Migration Colombia, about 30,000 come in and out pretty much every day. They come in with pushchairs, with trolleys, their suitcases, full of money, money that's worth nothing because of hyperinflation. And they come here to buy food, to buy toilet paper, flour, eggs. (Speaking Spanish). What did you buy? (Speaking Spanish). She didn't want to talk. (Speaking Spanish).", "(Speaking Spanish).", "Chicken, no mas?", "(Speaking Spanish).", "(Speaking Spanish). And flour. And flour, too. So some of the basic staples. And of course worth remembering once they get to the other side, they still have a long journey to go. (Speaking Spanish).", "(Speaking Spanish).", "\"Just food, that's all I have,\" he says. And when I ask everyone walking down this corridor back to Venezuela who they blame, so many have told me, time and time again, there's only one man and that is Nicolas Maduro, the man we've said in the last couple of days, has said this is not a humanitarian crisis, this is an economic crisis. We are not a country of beggars. But look at these people. Just look around. People are in need of food -- eggs. So many people desperately trying to make ends meet. Back to you.", "Isa Soares with that. The U.S. national security advisor is trying to persuade Venezuela's generals to defect. John Bolton tweeted, \"The U.S. will consider sanctions off-ramps for any senior military officer that stands for democracy and recognizes the constitutional government of President Juan Guaido.\" Here's how Maduro responded.", "Is John Bolton Venezuela's military chief? That's why we're going to tell John Bolton what the thinking, doctrine, and strength, of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces are. Listen well, John Bolton, here is the response of the armed forces to your so-called coup makers. Let's say our slogan loudly. Loyal always, traitors never, so it could be heard in Washington.", "Mr. Maduro also pledged his support for 12-nation talks in Venezuela scheduled for the coming day in Uruguay. The clock is winding down on Brexit. With just 50 days to go, frustrations are boiling over in Brussels. In a few hours, British prime minister Theresa May is to meet with E.U. leaders hoping to renegotiate a deal. But she was just in Northern Ireland, where she didn't seem to make much progress and E.U. leaders have already signaled they are done with negotiating.", "The Brexit issue is not a valid (ph) question between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, it is a European issue and that's why we cannot accept the idea, which is circulated around (ph), that the withdrawal agreement could be reopened. And that's the backstop. It's part of the withdrawal agreement. We cannot be open to discussion on the backstop.", "The prime minister's meeting with the European Council president may be frosty after Donald Tusk said there's a special place in hell for Brexiteers who didn't have a plan for leaving the E.U. CNN's Nic Robertson has the details.", "The Irish prime minister got exactly the support he was looking for in his visit to Brussels meeting with E.U. leaders there, a very clear united commitment from them that the withdrawal agreement is not something that's going to be opened up for Theresa May, that the backstop remains part of that agreement. Donald Tusk, the European Council president, using very strong language, saying that there was a special place in hell for those who hadn't planned properly for Brexit. For Theresa May here in Northern Ireland, that was incendiary language for some of the political leaders she was meeting here. She was meeting with the Democratic Unionist Party; their leader has called it provocative. They've also called it insulting. So this is something that's deeply polarizing here because Theresa May was also meeting with leaders of the main nationalist party, Sinn Fein. And they said that Donald Tusk was correct to say that there was a special place in hell. They said that Theresa May came here with no new plan, no clear vision for the future and they've even gone as far as to repeat their calls that, if there is a no deal Brexit, there should be immediately a referendum across the whole of Ireland for a united Ireland. Another one of the Northern Ireland party, the Democratic Unionist Party, repeated a call that they've made as well. Just to give you an idea the massive rift of sort of views here in Northern Ireland that the Democratic Unionist Party said that, if there's a no deal Brexit, then London should take over ruling Northern Ireland, go back to what they call direct rule. That's the polarized debate that Theresa May has walked into here. So what she heard from the Democratic Unionist Party, the party that she really wants to convince to support her in a vote next week, she heard from them that they still hold her to that amendment last week that she must replace the backstop when she goes to Brussels.", "Well, I think we're into semantics now. I think what the House of Commons has given her the mandate to do this to replace the backstop and that's there for her mandate to take to Brussels.", "A very clear message for Theresa May there. And what we've heard for the European Union something that they don't appear willing this stage to give. Theresa May now going to Dublin on Friday to meet with the prime minister there for talks, Brexit really coming down to the wire -- Nic Robertson, CNN, Belfast, Northern Ireland.", "We turn to Pyongyang, where the U.S. special envoy for North Korea is paving the way for a second summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un. Mr. Trump announced in his State of the Union address that the leaders would meet on February 27th and 28th in Vietnam. Our Paula Hancocks joins us from Seoul. Good to see you, Paula. One of the biggest issues yet to be figured out by the U.S. special envoy and others is where the two leaders will actually meet. What is said about that?", "That's right, we're only a few weeks away from the 27th-28th of February, when the president said this summit will take place. We only have the country, Vietnam. We did hear in the past few days from U.S. sources, including those in the Trump administration, that they wanted Da Nang, the coastal city, but that the plans were still being finalized. You can only assume from that that North Korea doesn't want it there. Hanoi is the capital; it is where Kim Jong-un would presumably have to go to meet the president of Vietnam. It's where they have a North Korean embassy. So there's an assumption among many experts that's the way it is going. But of course the other issue is what exactly is happening in these working level talks and how much is being prepared before these two leaders sit down again. The criticism from Singapore was that it was very much top down and that was really the only way it was going to happen. But there was very little detail when it came to the statement, working towards denuclearization was even more vague than it had been in previous --", "-- years, when there had been peace declarations. Clearly there is -- there's a desire for more detail to come out from this summit. One reason Mr. Biegun is in Pyongyang talking to his North Korean counterparts. The South Korean presidential spokesperson said they welcome the fact this summit is happening but they would like a more concrete and tangible steps to come from the next summit.", "As you pointed out, we didn't see much come out of that first summit in Singapore. What will happen this time? And what might the U.S. offer Kim Jong-un to entice him to speed up the denuclearization process?", "We have heard some indications from Mr. Biegun, the special envoy to North Korea himself. He had a speech last week at Stanford University and he said the U.S. president is ready to end the Korean War. It ended in 1953 with an armistice. North Korea and South Korea and many in the region would like a peace treaty. That's the end result. That's far more difficult and needs more people and countries involved than a simple declaration of the end of the Korean War. That is a political statement. And it seemed to be the clearest indication so far from Mr. Biegun that Trump may be willing to give that. What would they have in return from North Korea? They want a lot more detail in exactly how they would denuclearize. Biegun said they would like or he would like a list of exactly what North Korea has. They would like independent experts to be in the country to make sure that what North Korea has said they have destroyed is actually out of action and to monitor what they have declared. And going forward, they would help them to destroy their nuclear and missile arsenal. This is a wish list that the U.S. has had for some time. It is one North Korea resisted for some time. So it is a difficult process. All sides agree. But certainly experts and longtime observers of North Korea want a lot more detail when it comes to this summit. Rosemary.", "We shall see. Paula Hancocks, bringing you the latest there from Seoul in South Korea, where it is 4:15 in the afternoon. We'll take a short break here. Coming up next, Trump lashing out after an House committee announces a new investigation against the president. And New Mexico's government takes a stand against President Trump, saying she won't take part in fearmongering along the southern border. 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{"id": "CNN-113392", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2007-1-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/03/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Barbara Walters Enters Feud Between Trump and Rosie", "utt": ["Should Oprah Winfrey run for president with George Clooney as her running mate? I`m A.J. Hammer in New York.", "And some words of wisdom for Lindsay Lohan from Drew Barrymore. I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood. You`re watching TV`s most provocative entertainment news show. It starts right now.", "On SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, the Donald gets a talking to from the Barbara. Tonight Barbara Walters startling and unexpected shot at Donald Trump in his war of words with Rosie.", "Donald Trump also said that I am not happy with my decision to bring Rosie O`Donnell to this table. Nothing could be further from the truth.", "Wait a second, is Barbara Walters calling Donald a liar? SHOWBIZ TONIGHT presents Barbara Walters` trump card. Tonight, inside Britney`s new years eve party. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT with the dramatic video of Britney Spears` party in Vegas just moments before she either passed out or fell asleep. Tonight, is Britney unraveling? SHOWBIZ TONIGHT calls in a doctor to write Britney a prescription for life. Hello, I`m A.J. Hammer in New York.", "Hi there, everyone. I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood. Tonight we are calling in a doctor to help cure Britney Spears of her wild ways. That`s coming up.", "But first tonight the war of the Rosie. Just when we thought the war of words between Donald Trump and Rosie O`Donnell was over, oh, no. Barbara Walters has stepped up to the plate on \"The View\" and knocked the ball right into the Donald`s court. I spoke to Trump today for quite a while, and the only place you will get to hear that explosive interview is right here on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Because now Donald has to respond to the woman he calls his friend, Barbara Walters.", "Donald Trump also said that I am not happy with my decision to bring Rosie O`Donnell to this table. Nothing could be further from the truth.", "Barbara Walters spent her first day back on \"The View\" trying to clean up one big mess. Namely, the feud between \"View\" co- host Rosie O`Donnell and Donald Trump that erupted while Walters was on vacation. Walters tried to counter a statement that Donald Trump made to me right here on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, that Walters regrets bringing Rosie to \"The View.\"", "I have never regretted, nor do I now, the hiring of Rosie O`Donnell.", "Now, in a phone call to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, the Donald himself tells me he is standing by his words. (on camera): You were very clear and emphatic when you told me that Barbara Walters is not thrilled with Rosie. Donald, is she calling you a liar?", "Barbara knows what she said.", "He said, she said, and she said. And SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is asking -- who are we supposed to believe?", "It`s hilarious the way these two are going after each other.", "I think that if we could send Barbara Walters to the Middle East, she would be able to solve all our problems.", "Let`s turn the calendar all the way back to last year when the feud started. Donald Trump, co-owner of the Miss USA Pageant, publicly forgave current Miss USA Tara Conner for reportedly going a bit wild on the New York City party scene. That caused Rosie to say this.", "He annoys me on a multitude of levels. He is the moral authority? Left the first wife, had an affair. Left the second wife, had an affair. Had kids both times. But he is the moral compass for 20 year-olds in America.", "And when I talked to him in his office the next day, the Donald fired back. (on camera): So you think your friend Barbara didn`t make a good choice in hiring her for that program.", "Well Barbara Walters called me yesterday. She is a friend of mine and she is not a big fan of Rosie.", "We are now going to move on.", "Now, as we saw on \"The View\" today, Barbara is saying that`s simply not the case. But Trump tells me he is sticking to his guns.", "Let me explain it to you. Barbara called me. Barbara knows what she said. Barbara is not a fan of Rosie. That`s number one. Listen to me. That`s number one. Number two, I fully understand what she is doing. What is she going to say? She has got to work with the slob. What the hell is she going to say, that Rosie is this or that?", "I fully understand what Barbara is saying.", "Right. But they will hear you saying this and essentially --", "Barbara knows what she said. Barbara knows what she said.", "On \"The View,\" Barbara tried to extend Trump an olive branch, clarifying an earlier statement by Rosie that Trump had gone bankrupt in the past.", "ABC has asked me to say this, just to clarify things and I will quote, Donald Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy. Several of his casino companies have filed for business bankruptcies, they are out of bankruptcy now.", "Initially Trump told me in a rather colorful way that he may sue Rosie.", "Taking money out of her big fat ass would be probably something that`s very easy.", "And now that Barbara has cleared that up, I asked Donald if anything has changed. (on camera): Now that Barbara has gone on \"The View\" and made that statement, will you still go forward with your threat to sue?", "Well, we`re looking at it. The lawyers are very, very -- there are many other things that were said that were very wrong and very inaccurate by Rosie, because Rosie lied.", "Well, one thing is certainly true -- the Donald versus Rosie feud is making for great", "The \"Apprentice L.A.\" starts soon. \"The View`s\" ratings are going up. If we can continue this feud through January, I think it is good for both Donald and Rosie.", "But Trump tells me this isn`t about ratings. (on camera): With \"The Apprentice\" about to launch, I can`t imagine that you`re hating all the press that`s coming out of this.", "I don`t like the press. I don`t like having to waste my time having to fight some low life like Rosie. I don`t really have to do that, but what I don`t like doing is I don`t like seeing somebody lie.", "But we do love seeing people fight.", "Trump had lots more to say when we talked today. He really went off. The name-calling just kept on coming. I have to play the whole thing for you. So stay right where you are. My complete interview with Donald Trump is on the way at 30 minutes past the hour. But no matter how much we enjoy these celebrity feuds, there has got to be an end to it. Please let there be an end to it. This one, of course, has seemed to have taken on a life of its own. What is it going to take to squash it, put an end to it once and for all? Joining me tonight from Los Angeles \"TV Guide`s\" Mary Murphy, from New York Court TV anchor Ashleigh Banfield. Ladies, hang on, bear with me one second. I thought my head was going to explode. OK, perhaps a little bit later on. This is unbelievable that it continues. Hey Mary, Donald Trump, you just heard him tell me directly -- well, he told me directly. You didn`t here it. I was on the phone with him and he said that there is no chance he will ever go on \"The View,\" and call a truce to this thing, put it all to rest, put it behind them. What is it going to take for this to end once and for all?", "Well, the first thing is that Donald is not in a war are Rosie. He is now in a war with Barbara. And Barbara is going to win this war. Barbara absolutely, I promise you, will get Donald Trump on \"The View\" at some point this year, and then we can all go to sleep and rest.", "Now Mary, I asked him if he would ever go on. He was pretty clear about how he felt about that. So that`s kind of a wait and see situation. I am kind of shocked about the things that he was saying about Barbara, because he is making her out to be a liar now. Ashleigh, I understand you talked to Trump today.", "I just got off the phone with both sides, in fact. Rosie is on vacation, so her publicist Cindy Berger (ph) spoke on her behalf. But as far as Donald is concerned, no concessions, no how, no time. So I don`t know that that means no concessions towards Rosie or to Barbara. But he did say I don`t blame Barbara for what she said, because she has to, quote, live with this animal. He is stepping it up a bit. But Cindy had something very different to say. She said he is desperate for ratings. They have buried his show on Sunday night and this is just his ploy.", "Well, that`s certainly an interesting perspective. Now, here`s the thing though. Rosie stopped talking about this before she went on break. She kind of put an end to it. Barbara had no choice but to address it today. Mary, what`s going on here? Does Donald Trump just feel the need, kind of like a kid in a fight, to have the last word, because that`s sure what it feels like to me?", "Yes, I think Barbara lit the fire again and he is like a kid in a fight. But the problem is that Rosie is not in the ring with him anymore and Barbara is in the ring with him. And it`s true, \"The Apprentice\" comes back Sunday night. The ratings have been terrible. He is bringing his children on. I wouldn`t want to be a critic attacking him this week. He is a tough guy. And I`m sure it works in business, but I`m not sure it works in the media.", "Why is he being so tough though Ashleigh? I mean he has hurled insult after insult at Rosie O`Donnell. And Boy, let me tell you, when you hear the phone call I had with him, which is coming up at 30 past the hour, they just keep on coming. Why is he being so venomous? Why is it getting so personal?", "Well, on either side, I think, no one is mincing words and the language is pretty vitriolic. But I`ll tell you this A.J., this is a TV era and these people are television savvy. They work in an industry where it is increasingly more difficult to get press. This is a very good way of getting press. I know both of these people. I have worked with Rosie. I have covered her cases. And I know Donald and I like both of them very much. I think they are both real smart in terms of getting themselves headlines, because they sell a product.", "But isn`t it embarrassing after a while to see this kind of behavior play out? Mary, I mean, who is going to win and who is going to lose when this is all over? Because I understand, good, take advantage of the press and the publicity, but I have a feeling there are a lot of people out there, and I`ve certainly read it out on the blogs and on the Internet, a lot of people are fed up with the whole thing on both sides, and now Donald is coming back at it.", "Well, absolutely. And I think that Donald has always known where the line is and hasn`t crossed it. He is very savvy. But when you attack a woman and when you attack what she looks like and when you attack her so personally, I think a lot of women will be upset by these attacks.", "Yes, if I have to hear Donald Trump saying one more time, I just want to get some more money out of big fat ass, you know, it`s pretty upsetting to me, as a man. So, Ashleigh, what do you think? Is anybody going to win here?", "Well, I`m increasingly getting fatter because I`m pregnant, and so I`m a little offended by it, too. But you know what A.J., Rosie did it too. She slapped her hair over to the side and made fun of his looks too. So I don`t think that`s a one-sided fight when it comes to the ad hominum attacks. I will say this though, neither one of them seems to be willing to back down on this and here`s the other thing, people in TV land have short memories for what battles were all about. They just remember the branding. This is what, I think, what`s most important in this fight, both of them are getting their brands out there constantly.", "I would like to see this one end soon. \"TV Guide`s\" Mary Murphy, Court TV anchor Ashleigh Banfield, I appreciate you joining us tonight.", "Question for you. Should Oprah Winfrey run for president with George Clooney as her running mate? Coming up SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s top seven wishes for 2007. We`re also going to have this.", "We`ve got a dramatic video of Britney`s new year`s eve party just moments before she either passed out or fell asleep, depending on who you ask. But is it all one big cry for help? We`re calling in the doctor. That`s coming up.", "Here comes the doctor. Listen up, Lindsay Lohan. Some words of wisdom tonight for Lindsay from Drew Barrymore. Drew`s advice straight ahead. First tonight`s \"Entertainment Weekly\" great American pop culture quiz. Here it comes. Who sings back up on Carly Simon`s, \"You`re So vain?\" James Taylor, Kenny Rogers, Mick Jagger or Johnny Cash? Think about it. We`re coming right back."], "speaker": ["A.J. HAMMER, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT ANCHOR", "BROOKE ANDERSON, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT ANCHOR", "HAMMER", "BARBARA WALTERS, \"THE VIEW\"", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "HAMMER", "WALTERS", "HAMMER (voice-over)", "WALTERS", "HAMMER", "DONALD TRUMP, \"THE APPRENTICE\"", "HAMMER (voice-over)", "MARC PEYSER, \"NEWSWEEK\"", "JO PIAZZA, \"NEW YORK DAILY NEWS\"", "HAMMER", "ROSIE O`DONNELL, \"THE VIEW\"", "HAMMER", "TRUMP", "WALTERS", "HAMMER (voice-over)", "TRUMP", "TRUMP", "HAMMER", "TRUMP", "HAMMER", "WALTERS", "HAMMER", "TRUMP", "HAMMER", "TRUMP", "HAMMER (voice-over)", "TV. PIAZZA", "HAMMER", "TRUMP", "HAMMER (voice-over)", "HAMMER", "MARY MURPHY, \"TV GUIDE\"", "HAMMER", "ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, COURT TV ANCHOR", "HAMMER", "MURPHY", "HAMMER", "BANFIELD", "HAMMER", "MURPHY", "HAMMER", "BANFIELD", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-1465", "program": "Moneyline News Hour", "date": "2000-1-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/26/mlld.00.html", "summary": "Dow Gains 3.10; Nasdaq Dives 97.50; Dell Issues Profit Warning", "utt": ["Tonight, the Nasdaq tumbled. What will it do tomorrow now that Dell Computer has set off a late-day profit alarm? Coca-Cola, more than a century old, announcing the most dramatic shake-up in its history. So why did Wall Street seem less than impressed? Primetime viewing in the Chicago trading pits, with all eyes and ears on a congressional lovefest -- Alan Greenspan's renomination hearings. And the other Bush with a bold promise about taxes: Does George W. have a plan that will bolster the economy. Our special series continues.", "This is the MONEYLINE NEWS HOUR. Reporting tonight from New York, Willow Bay.", "Good evening. Stuart is on vacation. Direct from Austin to Wall Street, an after-the-bell profit warning from Dell Computer. Just two hours ago, America's biggest PC seller warned that revenue and earnings would fall short of expectations for the second time in a year. The culprits: a shortage of parts and a sales slowdown post Y2K. Dell's stock is off four in heavy after-hours trading. We'll have more on this developing story later on MONEYLINE. Dell was also a loser during regular trading today and had plenty of company. The Nasdaq ended down nearly 100 points, at its session low, causing investors to fear that yesterday's rally was merely temporary. Charles Molineaux joins us now with more -- Charles.", "That's right, Willow. That noise from Dell was the other shoe dropping. But it started with Qualcomm's earnings after the close last night. Worries about earnings and interest rates weigh down on technology stock, keeping the Nasdaq composite in negative territory from shortly after the open all day today. We ended up falling by 97 points, closing out the day at 4,069. Volume was heavy -- 1.7 billion shares. It was the telecommunications stocks that led the market down, after Qualcomm reported earnings that beat the official projections but missed the whisper number and including cautions about demand going forward. That spilled over onto computer and industrial stocks, which both fell off, rattling chip companies, like Intel and chip equipment makers, like Applied Materials and Novellus. As a group, chip stocks fell 4 percent. Telecommunication chips have played a major role in chips sales growth, so not that news from Qualcomm was not what chipmakers wanted to hear. Internet stocks slid by 2 percent. Yahoo! fell. Even bold movers or business-to-business plays like Internet Capital Group fell off on the day today. EBay kept climbing though, after reporting better-than-expected earnings and got some dazzling analysts' comments. Financial and banking stocks actually split the day today, after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said nothing threatening about interest rates. Strategists say we are seeing more of the same. Investors are buying stocks up, expecting good earnings, then selling off if profits miss the best expectations or selling if they get those good earnings, unless the forward-looking picture stays bullish -- Willow.", "Charles, expect Dell will drag the market down tomorrow?", "Absolutely, although Dell's been an interesting case, because there has been expectation of some sort of an earnings warning from the company for months. But of course Dell's expectations have historically been extremely high, so there will be some punishment meted out tomorrow, yes.", "Charles Molineaux, at the Nasdaq, thank you. The Dow continued a two-session winning streak with a colossal gain of, well, just over three points. But considering the steep sell-off on the Nasdaq, fans of the blue chips can't complain about their modest gain. Fred Katayama reports.", "Call it Wall Street Unplugged -- amid a steep slide in the technology sector, traders tuned into blue chip stocks instead. Tech stocks suffered on word of a bearish outlook for shipments from wireless wunderkind Qualcomm. That hurt Bib Board tech stocks, including H-P, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. But a banner profit report from 3M helped support the Dow. By the closing bell, the industrials finished with a 3-point gain at 11032. Not so for the Nasdaq. A selling cyclone ripped 97 points off the composite. It closed at 4069. Fears that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan might roil the markets at his reconfirmation hearing proved unfounded. But even his benign words couldn't stop the drop.", "We will see, unfortunately, gut-wrenching volatility in the sector. If you are a trader, take profits; if you're a long-term investor, hold on, and buy on dips.", "But buying on dips can be difficult in a climate of confusion. Despite confidence in the economy, some analysts question the stamina of the stock market after last year's sprint.", "Advances like we had in late 1999 sort of peak out in a \"V\" fashion, straight up, and then straight down, but sometimes, in fact more than not, advancers top out by a dip, a rally, a dip, a rally. They sort of roll over a month or two time span. So I'm thinking that may be the case here in January.", "Even if the wave motion on Wall Street settles in the short-term, plotting a new course remains a challenge. According to Merrill's McCabe, the cycle of selling should end with a market correction in the spring -- Willow.", "Thanks, Fred. Fred Katayama reporting. Chairman Greenspan may have delivered \"benign words\" to investors, but he sent a stern message to politicians about the surplus: Use it to pay off the debt before cutting taxes. That was the frequent refrain today at Greenspan's renomination hearings before the Senate Banking Committee. The Fed chief also described his role if, as expected, he is granted a fourth term.", "Our challenge in monetary policy is to foster as best we can the financial conditions that will allow this economic expansion and technological revolution to continue as long and as vigorously as possible.", "Greenspan's testimony comes one week before Fed policy- makers are set to decide on interest rates. Five-hundred miles away from Washington today, a corporate bombshell from Coca-Cola. The troubled beverage giant, based in Atlanta, said it would slash more than a fifth of its work force with deep cuts in its home city. It's the biggest overhaul in Coke's history. The company out to decentralize operations, emphasizing local control and more targeted marketing.", "The wireless industry continues to grow. CDMA continues to grow. Within, that, we have some new chips that are now being designed into phones that will be becoming available for the remainder of the year. And so we picked up new customers for the chips. And so we see a question in the second quarter, because of...", "Today's bold move did not help the shares close higher. Coke's stock, the second worst Dow performer of 1999, fell nearly $3. Turning now to the day's other top stories outside the world of business. That long-awaited meeting between Elian Gonzalez and his grandmothers finally taking place in Miami. The women are asking Congress not to pass legislation making Elian a U.S. citizen. Massachusetts police searching for a 5-year-old girl, lost yesterday in an icy river, when she went to the aid of her brother during that powerful winter storm that hit the East Coast. While digging out continued, forecasters warned more is on the way. And Republican White House hopeful Orrin Hatch, as expected, quitting campaign 2000, after his last-place finish in Iowa. Hatch endorsed GOP front-runner George W. Bush. We'll focus on the Bush economic platform and his plans for your money later in this half hour. And we should apologize, that was of course an incorrect soundbite we just played for you. That was, in fact, the CEO of Qualcomm. Time now for a quick check on what some of MONEYLINE's other reporters are working in for tonight's broadcast. We begin with Greg Clarkin -- Greg.", "Well, Willow, Coca-Cola shocks Wall Street and its employees, with the biggest shakeup in the company's 114-year history. But is the restructuring deep enough? I'll tell you what Wall Street thinks.", "And I'm Steve Young. I'll tell you about a research firm whose forecast for business-to-business e-commerce just mushroomed, and a critic who says the number came from the Tooth Fairy -- Willow.", "All right, thank you, Steve. And coming right up on", "As you surf the Web, someone is watching your every move. We'll tell you about the company that's making notes and taking names, and you don't even know about it."], "speaker": ["WILLOW BAY, CNN ANCHOR", "ANNOUNCER", "BAY", "CHARLES MOLINEAUX, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BAY", "MOLINEAUX", "BAY", "FRED KATAYAMA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "RAM KOLLURI, GLOBALVALUE INVESTORS", "KATAYAMA", "RICHARD MCCABE, MERRILL LYNCH", "KATAYAMA", "BAY", "ALAN GREENSPAN, FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN", "BAY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BAY", "GREG CLARKIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "YOUNG", "BAY", "MONEYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-66484", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2003-2-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0302/07/ltm.20.html", "summary": "Minding Your Business: Place Your Bets on Saddam Hussein", "utt": ["Right now, you come over here, so we can talk about another thing that people might not be able to believe. You could call it the \"Saddam factor.\" It's how some people are actually betting that the Iraq issue will move the market. And for that and a preview of the day on Wall Street, Andy Serwer is here to mind your business. Good morning. Good to see you.", "Good morning, Daryn. Saddam futures, I can't even believe this. Anyway, let's talk about the markets first of all. It looks like we're slogging through the month of February. The Dow was down 55 yesterday. A little strength over on the tech side, there over in Nasdaq. Sears was down yesterday big time. Productivity numbers were down big time. I didn't realize this either, the market is now -- the Dow is at its lowest level -- excuse me -- since March. So, we're getting towards a 52-week low, which is bad news. A big number coming out this morning, though, Daryn, payrolls for the month of January. That's the unemployment report. That's the only number that matters, so stay tuned at 8:30 when that one comes out. We'll be covering that. Futures are mixed right now. But let's talk about this Saddam thing.", "Some people bet on park bellies.", "Right.", "Some people bet on Saddam.", "Right. Futures, of course, are betting on a financial instrument of which way commodities or stocks will go. There is a Web site in Dublin, Ireland, called tradesports.com, where you can bet on when you think Saddam will be out of Iraq. I mean, this is unbelievable. You can bet that he's going to leave by March 31, by May, by June. And the odds change daily, just like any other futures contract. Right now, the book said that there's a 37 percent chance he will be out in March. You can see it right there, 63 and 75 percent chance that he'll be out. So, you can see the odds go up the more time you get, which makes sense. To me, you know, if you've got $10,000 lying around and you want to play this game, you go. But it seems a little wiggy to me, right?", "A little wiggy, a little warped.", "A little warped. You know, they bet on a lot of stuff over in England. You've always been able to do it. At this Web site, you can bet on George Bush getting reelected, you can bet on the Arizona Wildcats winning the NCAA, you can bet on anything you want there.", "Yes, now, there's some serious stuff. You've got some money you want to burn? Go for it.", "Go for it. All right, you'll be going for it a little bit later.", "I will.", "Come back. All right, Andy Serwer. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ANDY SERWER, \"FORTUNE\" MAGAZINE", "KAGAN", "SERWER", "KAGAN", "SERWER", "KAGAN", "SERWER", "SERWER", "KAGAN", "SERWER", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-338039", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-04-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/20/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Ted Cruz's About Face, Praising Trump", "utt": ["A tribute to President Trump in \"Time\" magazine's 100 most influential people of 2018 is raising some eyebrows because of the man who wrote it, Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz penned a glowing review of the president, despite the jabs the two exchanged in the 2016 campaign. It was Trump who called Cruz a liar, not so subtly suggested Cruz's wife was much less attractive than the president's and floated the possibility that Cruz's father might have had a role in the assassination of JFK. Still, Cruz praises Trump in \"Time\" magazine writing, \"While pundits obsessed over tweets, he worked with Congress to cut taxes for struggling families while wealthy celebrities announced they would flee the country, he fought to bring back jobs and industries to our shores. President Trump's strong stand against North Korea put Kim Jong-Un back on his heels.\" A much different tone than this.", "Donald is a bully. This man is a pathological liar. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist. A narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen. The man is utterly amoral. And Donald Trump is a serial philanderer. Donald had no substance behind him. Real men don't try to bully women. It's an action of a small and petty man. I don't make a habit out of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my family. It is not acceptable for a big, loud New York bully to attack my wife. Donald, you're a sniveling coward. And leave Heidi the hell alone.", "Whoo! Back with me, Jason Miller and Rick Wilson. Jason -- Rick, let me come to you first. Because, I mean, we point out politicians, hypocrites. How is this not a hypocritical with a capital \"H?\"", "You have the two versions of, at the time, Cruz that I'm going to call you out and now you've got the would you like a latte and foot massage, Mr. Trump? How do you wake up every day and say to your wife, hey, it's cool by the way that I'm now kissing the ass of this guy who called you hideous? And how do you say to your dad I know he said you killed JFK? But we're cool, right? Somebody once called Ted Cruz a dumbest smart guy in the world. Does he think he's going to get something out of Donald Trump or out of Donald Trump's supporters by playing this game? It's baffling to me. But then again, Ted Cruz is kind of a baffling dude.", "Jason, you -- we should point out you served as an adviser to the Cruz campaign as well as the Trump presidential campaign. Can you defend Ted Cruz at all?", "Absolutely. I think it shows ted is playing this pretty smart. The Republican Party very much is the party of Donald Trump now. Ted Cruz is up for reelection, I think he has a very bright future in politics ahead of him --", "So this is totally political?", "No, but it's also, too -- President Trump has been very good to Ted Cruz ever since he's gotten in the office. Ted has had a front row seat when it comes to working on Hurricane Harvey release, NASA reauthorization, tax cuts. The two work together very well. Stylistically, they're completely different, but I think they have a lot of the same vision of what they want to go and do here. I think also, too, for Ted to step up and do this, it shows it's a two-way street and we can work together on these things. I give Ted credit for doing this.", "How then -- help people, Jason, who are watching who is never been in politics and let's rip the band-aid off and say Ted Cruz wants to be president whether it's '20, '24, he needs Trump's voters and base. How do you get past the fact that Trump criticized his wife, accused of father of being part of the JFK nation? How does this, poof, go away?", "Well, he's a pretty big man. I think he can look past --", "He was pretty irked during the campaign.", "He was irked. If we were talking about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, if they this a knockdown, drag-out fight and one came out and supported the other one --", "We'd be having the same conversation.", "No. We'd be saying these people are so genius.", "We'd be having the same conversation.", "You would say these people are so genius. I've never seen geniuses like this. But the fact we had a very competitive primary. Donald Trump kicked our ass. I was working for Ted Cruz and the party rallied and we beat Secretary Clinton. That's the way it's supposed to work. You come together in the general election. The primary was completely different from anything we've seen in American history before. I'm proud of Ted for going and doing this. I have to give the president a little credit. You look around his cabinet and the people he has, Mike Pompeo or Nikki Haley or other people, the president has brought in a lot of people who maybe even worked for other people in the primary. I think that SOS the president --", "He's gotten rid of some people along the way.", "Yes, but he's brought in people. That shows a maturity on President Trump's end as the leader as well. We'll be united here. I'm glad to see both of them getting long.", "Rick, this is your party, too.", "The question that voters -- we see this in focus groups over and over and over again, they hate inauthentic people. They hate people that say one thing and do another, hate people whose views are locked in stone on one thing and turn around and do the opposite. With Cruz, it hurts him in the long run. It relates to how he treats his wife and family and, for political purposes, he's willing to go, it was nothing, no big deal. Can I shine those other shoes for you, President Trump?", "Welcome to politics.", "Who needs a back bone when you just need to win.", "It tends to be.", "I'm just saying. Rick Wilson, Jason Miller, thank you guys so very much.", "Thanks, Brooke.", "Just ahead here, a small Florida sheriff's office reeling today after it would have their own were killed at a local restaurant. What investigators are revealing about the deadly ambush. We are live in Florida next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "SEN. TED CRUZ, (R), FLORIDA", "BALDWIN", "WILSON", "BALDWIN", "MILLER", "BALDWIN", "MILLER", "BALDWIN", "MILLER", "BALDWIN", "MILLER", "BALDWIN", "MILLER", "BALDWIN", "MILLER", "BALDWIN", "MILLER", "BALDWIN", "WILSON", "BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "WILSON", "BALDWIN", "MILLER", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-255019", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2015-05-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1505/11/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Spain's Football League Moves to Stop Strike", "utt": ["Off the lows of the day, but the Dow is still down most -- almost half a percentage point. HTP ringing the closing bell. Time to hit the gavel.", "Oh! That's what you call a good, strong gaveler on Monday, the 11th of May. Tonight, it's a more level playing field literally. A footballer strike in Spain is drawing anger from La Liga. A lot of talking, not a lot of progress. I'll ask the EU Commission vice president what's gone wrong with the Greece talks. And a surreal amount of cash. This painting is about to make history. But would you want it on your wall? I'm Richard Quest. We start a new week together, and I mean business. Good evening. We begin tonight with Spain's football league vowing to stop a strike that could wreck the final matches of La Liga's season. In a power struggle over TV rights, the biggest football stars in Spain are up against the league officials. Now, the players are threatening a strike that, if it takes place, could cost more than 50 million euros a day. Join me at the super screen and we'll talk more about it and you'll see. This is, of course, a strike that you might wonder what on Earth is it all about? Well, the dispute is over plans to negotiate media deals collectively instead of club by club. La Liga, that's the league, they want to create a more level playing field and to do so by pooling TV revenues. The idea is smaller clubs have a chance to take home more money. The Spanish government supports the changes, and they want to stop the strike. And the Spanish government has put in place a law that would allow for this collective bargaining, or collective negotiation. The professional league says a strike would be illegal, and they've filed a suit to stop the strike.", "It is an a la carte strike. For this yes, for this no, I want this. So what does it mean? That it's a strike to hurt La Liga, and those kinds of strikes are forbidden. They're only aiming to hurt the league and teams who are complaining.", "Blow the whistle, because you've got the stop strike on the one side, but on the other side is the Football Federation, which is supporting the strike. It says the changes don't guarantee enough money for the smaller clubs. Wealthy superstars like Messi and Xavi are supporting a protest by the players' union. The head of the union said they will strike because the older system is fairer.", "Do you think these football players here today have any need to get into this situation? They are here because in the FAE captains' meeting, we agreed that whatever change we achieve would be in favor of the humblest for the sake of the division and equally for them.", "Esteve Calzada joins me now from London. He's a former marketing director for FC Barcelona. Good grief! This is complicated as to who is -- who wants a strike, who doesn't want a strike. And now the whole thing is going into the courts. Let me ask you, what is so wrong with this new collective bargaining arrangement?", "It is complicated, but actually, you guys gave a very good explanation of what's going on. I think no one is questioning the fact that Spanish La Liga needs a centralized system that distributes the money in a more equal way. It just has to do with the way this money is distributed. One of the things that the footballers' union is asking for is for more money to go to lower divisions. The way it is now, it's 90 percent for La Liga clubs and then 10 percent for Segunda Liga clubs. They are trying to get this percentage for Segunda Liga and below that higher.", "Right.", "And that's why they are pushing for these changes, right? But I think it's important to put this in context. This is an historical moment for Spanish football, and all the parties realize that whatever they have to achieve, it's now or never. That's why everyone is trying to push to get the right portion.", "Right, but it's unusual to have the players saying that they are going to strike. And if the players do decide to forward this strike, what are the implications just two weeks before the end of the season?", "Of course, the implications are huge, and it's a big damage for Spanish football. I want to think that this is going to be solved. It's happened in the past several times and normally gets solved. It doesn't help, again, the image of Spanish football. But I want to be optimistic and think that that situation will be resolved. Because at the end of the day, we still hurt the players themselves.", "Now, I -- I'm aware that, obviously, the players at the top of the game are getting many hundreds of thousands per match and millions a year. But it's a bit difficult to find too much sympathy for well-paid football players threatening to go on strike, isn't it?", "Yes, exactly. And I would guess that some of them showing in that picture don't really know what it's about, and they just basically follow the instructions that they receive from the union, and they only know that they are trying to help the players with lower income. But again, I would be very surprised if this strike ends up being a concern. But let's see. Let's see, as of now, as La Liga president has said, obviously, the strike is (inaudible), and let's see what happens.", "Sir, thank you for joining us, putting it into context. We'll watch it closely. Thank you. The European markets mostly ended lower. It was concerns about Greece's debt, which we'll be talking about in just a moment. They were the troubles which weighed on investors, and this is despite reports saying that Greece is to make a payment to the IMF on Tuesday. Airbus shares were dropped -- were down 2 percent after that crash in Spain, which has raised questions about the future of the A400M, the military plane. So, you look down, you've got three markets that were down, one market, Zurich, the SMI, that was up And of course, in New York, the Dow Jones Industrials, that closed the day -- we'll talk more about the Dow later, but it did close the day down the best part of just over 80-odd points. Ministers meeting in Brussels have heard that Greece is paying an $800 million bill to the IMF. We'll talk about that after the break."], "speaker": ["RICHARD QUEST, HOST", "QUEST", "JAVIER TEBAS, PRESIDENT, SPANISH PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE (through translator)", "QUEST", "LUIS RUBIALES, HEAD OF SPANISH FOOTBALL PLAYERS' UNION (through translator)", "QUEST", "ESTEVE CALZADA, FORMER MARKETING DIRECTOR, FC BARCELONA", "QUEST", "CALZADA", "QUEST", "CALZADA", "QUEST", "CALZADA", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "NPR-30532", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2010-11-19", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2010/11/19/131437247/cautious-investors-wait-for-gm-to-repay-treasury", "title": "Bankruptcy Still Fresh For Cautious GM Investors", "summary": "The \"new\" General Motors started selling its stock to the public Thursday. The return of GM brought excitement to Wall Street as an American corporate icon was resurrected. But, the new GM still has obstacles ahead.", "utt": ["General Motors is once again trading on the New York Stock Exchange. President Obama hailed this sale as a victory for his administration, bringing GM out of bankruptcy and turning it back to the public, after the U.S. spent $50 billion on a bailout.", "American taxpayers are now positioned to recover more than my administration invested in GM, and that's a very good thing.", "NPR's Sonari Glinton reports.", "Normally, the first public offering of stock is a time of tremendous celebration for a company. Champagne, cigars, pats on the back, cake. But on the conference call after GM's stock began trading, CEO Dan Akerson showed a quality rare for a top executive: humility.", "We know how we arrived here. We know what went wrong. And I believe we've learned a lot from that.", "David Whiston is an analyst at Morningstar.", "I've always been quite optimistic on this deal. I'm not surprised to see it go up on its first day and I'll be looking for it to go up more over time.", "Whiston says the last year of results show the company is worth the risk and he's been urging his clients to buy.", "If GM can now break even when the total U.S industry sells about five million fewer cars a year, that means as vehicle volumes start coming back, GM is going to be printing money.", "Terry Voytko works at GM's plant in Lordstown, Ohio. He bought a small amount of the GM stock. But he did so cautiously - very cautiously.", "I knew so many people that had invested heavily in General Motors prior to this, that I work with and that lost a lot of money. A lot of money.", "John Christie runs the GM Retirees Association, an organization of non-union retirees. He also cautiously bought stock and he hasn't forgotten the bankruptcy either.", "It hurt a lot, but we can't stay there. You know, we do have to move on and this looks like the new GM is starting to come out. At least in some small way I want to be a part of that.", "While Wall Street investors, GM workers and retirees may be ready to turn the page, that doesn't mean the company is in the clear.", "And the public will only forgive GM and Chrysler finally if they repay every last red cent they borrowed with interest.", "Sean McAlinden is with the Center for Automotive Research. He says General Motors still has a lot of hurdles to get over.", "They have to pay back their loans. They have to pay off that pension, and they have to get ready for much higher levels of fuel economy, even under the Republicans, you know, in the future, which will take a great deal of money for investment.", "Sonari Glinton, NPR News."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "BARACK OBAMA", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "SONARI GLINTON", "DAN AKERSON", "SONARI GLINTON", "DAVID WHISTON", "SONARI GLINTON", "DAVID WHISTON", "SONARI GLINTON", "TERRY VOYTKO", "SONARI GLINTON", "JOHN CHRISTIE", "SONARI GLINTON", "SEAN MCALINDEN", "SONARI GLINTON", "SEAN MCALINDEN", "SONARI GLINTON"]}
{"id": "CNN-369184", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-05-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/09/nday.04.html", "summary": "Pope Sets New Rules To Report And Investigate Sex Abuse", "utt": ["OK, we have some breaking news at this hour. Pope Francis issuing a new law holding bishops accountable for sex abuse or cover- ups. CNN's Delia Gallagher is live in Rome with all the breaking details. What are you learning, Delia?", "Well, Alisyn, this is essentially a universal reporting system that is being decreed by the Vatican that all Catholic dioceses around the world must comply with by June of 2020. Two important points of this new policy. One is that it is now mandatory to report cover-up if that cover-up involves somebody in church leadership -- a cardinal or a bishop. There is a separate system which will allow them to be investigated. These investigations, the Vatican say, must take place within 90 days. The report must be sent to the Vatican. So they're putting a time line on this to help streamline this process. The other important point is that all dioceses around the world must have in effect by June of 2020 a public and accessible system for victims to be able to report abuses and cover-up. This is something, Alisyn and John, that in the English-speaking world has been in effect for some time. But we saw in February at the global meeting on sex abuse at the Vatican that there are many countries around the world that still do not have this in effect. So, the Vatican, from the top down, is decreeing that this is going to be the procedure from here on out. It's going to go into effect June first for a 3-year trial period. It remains to be seen, of course, how well this is going to be implemented on the ground, but this is the next step from Pope Francis in his concrete measures to fight sex abuse -- John.", "It's a step, but it's the follow-through that really matters here. Delia Gallagher for us in Rome. Thank you so much. So just days after a deadly school shooting in Colorado, one 2020 candidate is out with an ambitious gun control plan. John Avlon breaks down Sen. Cory Booker's proposal in our reality check -- John.", "America has suffered two fatal school shootings in the past 10 days and lest we forget, kids getting shot by kids at school isn't normal. I want you to listen to this 12-year-old survivor of Highlands Park, Nate Holley.", "I was going to go down fighting if I was going to go down.", "And this brave kid was one of the lucky ones. Twenty years ago when the Columbine killings occurred, a mass shooting at a school seemed a horrific aberration. But in the past 20 years, there have been shootings at 234 schools, according to data compiled by \"The Washington Post.\" And this total doesn't include colleges. At least 144 students, teachers, and other people have been killed in these assaults and more than 300 injured. And the median age of the shooter, 16. This is an American epidemic and it's getting worse. The locations of the deadliest mass school shootings have been scarred in our minds -- Sandy Hook, Parkland -- but the vast majority of them fade from memory. What can't be forgotten is that we haven't been able to summon the political will to stem the bleeding. And yes, this can be done consistent with the Second Amendment. Even the landmark Heller decision written by Justice Scalia recognized, quote, \"...an important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms\" like the \"historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.\" So, it's notable that the first big-picture gun control proposal has been put forward by a 2020 candidate. Senator Cory Booker, former mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has laid down a sweeping plan that he says will help end the gun violence epidemic in America. And at the heart of the proposal is a national program requiring people get a license to buy and carry a gun, much like people are required to have a license to drive a car. Basically, a person would have to be fingerprinted, pass a universal background check, and complete a certified gun safety course before they take possession of a firearm. The license would need to be renewed every five years. Now, similar programs have been put in place in countries like Australia and Canada. They've also been implemented in states like Connecticut where studies show that gun killings fell 40 percent in the first decade after a \"permit to purchase\" law was implemented. Now, critics call Booker's plan dangerous, pointing out that it could lead to the creation of a federal gun owner database, long the subject of NRA fears and fundraising. Speaking of the NRA, Booker is also proposing to go after them, saying that as president, he'll ask the IRS to review the NRA's tax-exempt status. Booker would close gun purchase loopholes and reinstate the assault weapons ban. He's also proposing requiring handguns to be manufactured with technology known as microstamping, which would make shell casings traceable to specific guns to help law enforcement. But there are plenty of practical hurdles. Many of these proposals would require passage through the Senate, which is highly unlikely to have a Democratic filibuster-proof majority after the 2020 elections. There will also be court challenges and cultural barriers, as well as questions on how to deal with mental health. So in some ways, a politically risking plan. Red-state Democrats often cringe at gun reform proposals. But it's bold and may help Booker stand out in a crowded field with a concrete proposal to help stem the tide of gun violence in our country, which is spilling not just into schools but places of worship. Places where even thoughts and prayers can't seem to help. And that's your reality check.", "John, I'm so glad you focused on that. We don't have to live this way. We don't have to send our children to school every day not knowing if they are sitting ducks for a school shooter that day.", "And this is a subject that comes up on the trail all the time --", "Exactly.", "-- for these candidates. All right, John.", "Operation lockdown.", "Thanks very much.", "Yes.", "Thanks, guys.", "All right. The made-for-T.V. drama of two actresses caught up in the college admissions scandal is about to be -- well, made for T.V. Details, next.", "What?", "Yes.", "Very meta."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "JOHN AVLON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "NATE HOLLEY, SIXTH GRADER, STEM SCHOOL HIGHLANDS RANCH, HIGHLANDS RANCH, COLORADO", "AVLON", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "AVLON", "BERMAN", "AVLON", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "AVLON", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-4861", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-3-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/21/tod.07.html", "summary": "Supreme Court Transfers Authority Over Tobacco Regulation Back to Congress", "utt": ["The Supreme Court says: Yes, cigarettes are a serious threat to your health; but no, the government can not treat tobacco like a drug and restrict its sale and use. If government wants that power, then, the justices say, Congress must give it. CNN senior Washington correspondent Charles Bierbauer is at the Supreme Court to help explain today's decision -- Charles.", "Natalie, this is the other court ruling that Attorney General Janet Reno is disappointed with. The Justice Department had argued that the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, ought to have regulatory authority over tobacco. But the justices here by the narrowest of margins, five-to-four, said that was not going to be the case. They had said that in Justice O'Connor's opinion, that they have no quarrel with the objectives that the FDA had, particularly with limiting the access of children and adolescents to tobacco, by limiting the sales, particularly through cigarette machines, by requiring more stringent laws on identification. But the court -- or the courts said that it was up to Congress to provide that authority if it wanted to do so. And it had never done so in the entire history of the FDA legislation. So what this does is to thrust the responsibility back to Congress. Indeed, Senator John McCain earlier today said that's what he had tried to do in 1998, legislation which failed. If Congress wants to act, Congress is going to have to pick it up from here and seek to try and pass legislation giving the FDA authority to regulate tobacco. It's a victory for tobacco, though, today, and not for the government. And that's the way the court has ruled. Charles Bierbauer, CNN, live from the Supreme Court. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web"], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "CHARLES BIERBAUER, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-399077", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-05-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/02/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Explaining The Process of Getting Antibody Testing.", "utt": ["Antibody testing for millions of Americans is critical during this pandemic. But getting your hands on one can be very difficult. Much of the testing available today is for people with underlying conditions or a specific occupation. But now a renowned hospital in Denver is making antibody testing available for absolutely anyone who wants it. CNN's Gary Tuchman goes through the process and shows how easy and stress free it is.", "Getting your blood analyzed for COVID-19 antibodies has not been easy to do if you aren't a first responder or health care worker.", "And this was one thing we could do to really reduce the barriers to care and expand access to testing.", "At Denver's National Jewish Health Center, if you want an antibody test, you can get an antibody test. You don't need connections or even a doctor's recommendation. You make a reservation and drive into a parking lot.", "This type of interview starts an easy process. (on camera): Hello, there.", "Hello. How are you doing today?", "How are you?", "Could I get your name please?", "My name is Gary Tuchman.", "Let me find your paperwork, real quick.", "Thank you. (voice-over): I made an appointment the day before to get a close look at a process that will hopefully get more and more prominent across the country and to answer a question as I continue to cover stories on", "Have I already had COVID-19 without knowing it?", "In the last two weeks, have you had any fever?", "No.", "OK. Any new or worsening cough?", "No. (voice-over): Following the interview, you walk into this trailer for a 10-minute visit to get your blood drawn. (on camera): You did a great job. Right in the vein, right?", "Thank you. Yes. You have a great day.", "Thank you.", "Relax your fist.", "My blood and the blood of others is then walked over to the medical center campus into this lab. The vials go into a centrifuge. MOLLY WOLF (ph),", "Gary Tuchman's vial right here.", "That's mine?", "That's yours.", "Molly Wolf (ph) is the lab supervisor.", "This is the process is where we pull the serum off the whole blood.", "This is the final step for our blood. This machine is called the automated analyzer. The analyzing will take a little over four hours. This test, which has been submitted for emergency use authorization to the FDA, costs $94 but is eligible for insurance coverage. Hundreds of people are getting tested here each day. So while it is important for this country to have a better idea how many people have or have had COVID-19, what does it mean for any of us who test positive for the antibodies?", "I would not let your guard down. Even if you have it, you do not know how much protection you do or do not have and how long that protection will last.", "Well, my guard will definitely be staying up either way. I got my results the next day. The determination? Not detected, which means negative. I have not had the coronavirus. Gary Tuchman, CNN, Denver.", "All right. Hello, again, everyone. Thank you so much for being with me. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. We begin with the U.S. entering a new phase in the fight against the coronavirus. This weekend, more than 30 states are partially reopening. By the end of next week, that number will be at least 42. Easing restrictions means that restaurants, stores, and even shopping malls are permitted to get back to business. Despite that, there are still some businesses taking a more cautious approach, choosing not to reopen."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED PHYSICIAN", "TUCHMAN", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "CNN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN (voice-over)", "LAB SUPERVISOR, NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH CENTER", "TUCHMAN (on camera)", "WOLF (ph)", "TUCHMAN (voice-over)", "WOLF (ph)", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED PHYSICIAN", "TUCHMAN", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-40571", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-9-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/27/ltm.16.html", "summary": "America's New War: U.N. Preparing for Worst", "utt": ["In recent days we have heard increasingly from our correspondents in Pakistan and in Afghanistan of a mounted refugee crisis. The United Nations is making plans now to feed and house roughly a million and a half Afghanistan refugees. Panos Moumtzis is a spokesman for the U.N.'s high commissioner for refugees. And, Sir, thank you for joining us here in Washington this morning. And I understand, just a short time ago, you received new word of a new development in the campaign to help refugees.", "Absolutely. We've just decided to start an early operation, bringing extra relief supplies to Pakistan and all the neighboring countries. We will have tomorrow, the first flight leaving from Europe to Islamabad. In the meantime, of course, we have reinforced all our emergency teams with extra relief workers on the ground, blankets, tents, food, water equipment, medical supplies, basically getting ready for the worst, getting ready to accommodate and receive up to 1 1/2 million refugees out of Afghanistan.", "Does the military planning, the United States building up a military, urging countries to close their borders, does that complicate your work?", "It does, because our principle is that, really, borders should remain open. If there are civilians who are fleeing outside of the country, if there are people escaping a war, human rights violations, they should be allowed to cross the border. We have appealed to the governments of Iran, Pakistan and all the neighboring countries, asking them to make sure that the borders remain open. On the other hand, we feel a little bit reassured because so far Pakistan and Iran have been quite cooperative with us and they have helped identify refugee sites where, should there be a crisis, we already know where these people will be directed in order to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe.", "And take to the degree -- you still have fresh information -- inside Afghanistan. What is the situation on ground there? Any communication at all with the Taliban about trying to help people?", "Well, two days ago we lost communication with our local staff in Afghanistan. Also, all our offices were looted, attacked, and communication equipment were lost. The last thing we had was that there was a big panic inside Afghanistan, thousands of people are on the way -- cities like Kabul and Kandahar are being deserted right now.", "And you sense of the cooperation, how about with the Pakistani government? Are they in full cooperation with you? Any tensions there?", "The Pakistani government have been very positive, extremely cooperative, doing their best, given the circumstances. Pakistan is a poor country. They've been hosting refugee for the last 20 years, have been extremely generous, and right now I think they're doing the best taking into consideration the internal difficulties they have within the country, and they're calling for international support of international community to help with this crisis. We just came out with an emergency appeal asking for $268 million to deal with this crisis. A big part of that would go in Pakistan and Iran, dealing and helping these governments deal with the situation right now.", "Any sense at all as you prepare for this how long of a campaign, how long of operation this will be?", "That's the most difficult part of it. We are preparing an emergency humanitarian response for a military or a political or diplomatic offensive that will take place without really having any information about -- on what is going to happen. So we are preparing, really, for the worst, getting ready for worst-case scenario without having any information whatsoever on what might happen in the next hours, days or weeks.", "And you talk about the preparations to send in tents and food supplies. Help us, what is the most needed, and especially in terms of medical help, are you already sensing that you need medical personnel on the ground, things like that?", "We need, basically, everything. Right now the most important is to have the financial ability to purchase all the items that are needed. We need to have the camps, the site identified, I think is what we did right now. Water is crucial because we can transport aid, medical supplies, but water is very expensive and impossible. So the location of the camps were extremely important. Then working on having the shelter in place. We've purchased over 30 thousand tents, enough to accommodate -- we think our preparedness is for up to a million people in Pakistan, 400 thousand in Iran, 50 thousand in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, making sure that in terms of medical supplies we have our relief workers on the border, so once people start arriving in larger numbers anybody who is sick, all the vulnerable, the elderly, the children would be cared and taken immediately into a safer place. Right now, there's about between 10 and 20 thousand people that have already arrived outside the boarders within Afghanistan. The Pakistani borders open. Yesterday we had two women who delivered two babies right at the border. Luckily, the mothers and the babies were all safe, and we took them in Pakistan, in the border. But these are situations where we want to be ready to deal, once the large steams of people start arriving, to be able to help the most vulnerable and save lives, save the lives of the refugees as they arrive.", "Panos Moumtzis, quite a challenge ahead. We thank you for sharing your thoughts today.", "Thank you.", "from the United Nation, office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR", "PANOS MOUMTZIS, UNHCR SPOKESMAN", "KING", "MOUMTZIS", "KING", "MOUMTZIS", "KING", "MOUMTZIS", "KING", "MOUMTZIS", "KING", "MOUMTZIS", "KING", "MOUMTZIS", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-283505", "program": "VITAL SIGNS WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA", "date": "2016-05-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/07/vssg.01.html", "summary": "Dogs' Ability to Detect Cancer by Smell Examined", "utt": ["The benefits of being around animals are pretty obvious, but that is not the only way our four-legged friends are helping our health. Elephants may provide crucial clues in the fight against cancer for humans. Even though they have 100 times as many cells as we do, elephants rarely get cancer. A study found the cancer mortality rates for these animals is less than five percent. That's compared to 25 percent in humans. Scientists believe the key is an excess of a certain protein that inhibits cancer cells. Meanwhile in the United Kingdom, dogs are helping us detect cancer. My colleague Elizabeth Cohen traveled to the U.K. to meet with these amazing dogs and their bio-sensing noses.", "Dr. Claire Guest is CEO of the charity Medical Detection Dogs based in England. For years she has claimed she can train dogs to smell cancer cells. And now her dogs are taking part in one of the largest clinical trials of canine cancer detection. Dr. Guest is a believer because she says her dog Daisy caught her own cancer six years ago. Claire, you said that a dog caught your cancer?", "That's right. I was actually working on a cancer detection project and working with the dog during this time. She started to behave slightly differently around me, and she kept staring at me and looking into my chest. And it led me to find a lump. I had the lump checked by a DP, and I was referred to a specialist, and I had a diagnosis of a very grade breast cancer. I was told had my attention not drawn to it by Daisy that my prognosis would have been very poor.", "Dr. Guest started Medical Protection Dogs in 2008. The charity trains multiple teams, medical alert assistance dogs, for example, paired with diabetics to sniff out change in blood sugar levels and the cancer detection dogs. Why do we need dogs? There are plenty of tests to detect cancer.", "There are plenty of tests to detect cancer, but sadly not all of them are very reliable, very accurate. There's a great need for improved diagnosis. Treatment is improving all the time. But sadly diagnosis isn't.", "Rob Harris is training dogs to smell prostate cancer.", "This is Lucy. She's a Labrador crossed Irish spaniel.", "They take urine samples from eight different patients. Now one of the eight patients has cancer, and it is the dog's job to sniff it out. To think that a dog might be able to smell the cancer in that small sample is amazing. So it's number four is the one the dog is supposed to sniff out.", "That's correct. So Midas will come in, a Hungarian breed. She'll work with my colleague Mark. Would you like to move the position?", "Let's do it all the way on the other side. Catching it at number one is the most difficult because she won't have anything else to compare it to on this round, so this is a real test for Midas. Scientists suspect volatile chemicals evaporate and send off an odor. We can't smell them because we have a measly 5 million sensors in the nose. But dogs have up to 300 million sensors in their noses.", "Midas has got this nose at the end of her face, but she has also got another. It's called the organ of Jefferson (ph) in the back of her throat, and that is screening volatiles as well.", "Any dogs has a powerful sense of smell, but hunter dogs like Kiwi, she's a yellow Labrador, are more easily trained. A recent smaller study found dogs catch cancer with more than 90 percent accuracy. That's higher than many traditional diagnostic tests. We have known for many years that dogs can detect cancer. Are we finally getting to the stage where maybe this will come into actual use in a hospital?", "For the first time I really believe that what the dogs have to use is mainly be used by hospitals. And that doesn't mean that the dogs will be in a hospital, but what the dogs will do will be working in a training center like this, and the samples will be transported to the center where the dogs give the answer and the results is sent back. So yes, I think we're moving forward to the time when the dogs will be used in the diagnostic process, but not by going into hospital cells or sniffing around patients.", "In three years we will know the results of this large study using 3,000 urine samples from National Health Service patients in England. To you think one day dogs like Midas can save lives?", "I really believe that dogs like Midas can save lives. She might have a fluffy coat and a long wagging tail, but she is a very, very, very sophisticated sensor.", "From dogs to llamas -- you've probably never seen a therapy animal quite like this before."], "speaker": ["GUPTA", "DR. ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "DR. CLAIRE GUEST, CEO, MEDICAL DETECTION DOGS", "COHEN", "GUEST", "COHEN", "ROB HARRIS", "COHEN", "HARRIS", "COHEN", "GUEST", "COHEN", "GUEST", "COHEN", "GUEST", "GUPTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-181236", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-2-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/17/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Opposition Fighters in Control of Syrian Town", "utt": ["It's now 14 relentless days of this. We're talking about a constant barrage of shelling unleashed by Syrian forces in the city of Homs. Our journalists say the streets there are deserted because people have either fled or they are too scared to come out. So those who do venture out risk being killed by snipers or government tanks. As the carnage continues, the international community now struggling to find a way to stop this. This the U.N. General Assembly has passed a non-binding resolution calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down. Now, resistance to the Assad regime is spreading across northern Syria. Our Ivan Watson reports from a town that is now held by the opposition.", "This is the last line of defense for an opposition enclave in northern Syria, a checkpoint manned by young volunteers searching cars by the light of a burning tire. The leader here, 35-year-old Abdullah. Before the revolution, he made a living selling cars. (on camera): What are you looking for? What are you protecting against here? (voice-over): \"We're on the lookout for Bashar al-Assad's thugs and Assad's army,\" Abdullah says. Entire villages and towns here in northern Syria have broken free of the Syrian government. There's no Syrian military presence at all in this town. Instead, children walk to school, pass the flag of the opposition, which flies over Main Street. The green, black and whit flag a symbol worn by revolutionaries, making final preparations a day before their weekly show of defiance against the government.", "We are preparing for tomorrow. We have tomorrow a big demonstration.", "This Friday, the protest will include a message of support for the besieged city of Homs. If that opposition stronghold folds, Syrians here in the north know they may be the next to face the wrath of the Syrian security forces. This 21-year-old university student doesn't expect help from the international community anytime soon.", "We have God helping, nothing more now.", "The Syrian government routinely denounces opposition activists, calling them armed terrorists. When they began demonstrating last spring, these young men chanted, \"Hariya!\" (ph), \"Freedom!.\"", "Now that thousands of Syrians have been killed, the chant is \"Harbiya!\" (ph). In English, that means \"War!\"", "Ivan Watson, he's joining us now from northern Syria. Ivan, first of all, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, he's urging Syria's opposition to come together here. He says that revolution can only be brought from the inside. Do the activists -- do they think that they can accomplish that from the inside on the ground where you are?", "They're certainly trying to, Suzanne, but their resources are limited because these are local activists, these are villages. This is the countryside, in many cases, that have risen up, but they're still facing overwhelming military power on the part of the Syrian security forces. And though there are more weapons now in the hands of the rebels, if you will, they still don't stand any chance against Syrian tanks and the potential threat of Syrian air power. They are calling for some kind of help, desperately calling for help from the outside world.", "Ivan, considering that they are so overwhelmed, outnumbered by government forces, what keeps them going here? What makes them think that they can actually turn things around there?", "Well, I think they do not believe that they are actually outnumbered, Suzanne. I think that they feel the numbers are on their side and that, if you will, they think that justice is on their side. They are striking out against a dictatorship that has ruled this country for four decades that was passed on from father to son. And it's fundamentally undemocratic. So they feel like they have right on their side, but they're facing a government that's been in power for so long that wields force and has a proven track record of using deadly force. So that's where the problem steps in. They also seem to express that they have been backed up against a wall, that so many of their comrades have been killed, that they have no choice but to rebel, knowing full well that their homes can be destroyed, their family members can be locked up and massacred as well. And there's a certain sense of fatalism here in these communities that make up part of this very tenuous opposition enclave that we are exploring this week.", "Ivan, please be safe where you are and continue the reporting that you do. It is such an important story. I want to go to live to neighboring Lebanon now. Our Nick Paton Walsh, he's joining us from Beirut. And Nick, there has been some reaction to this U.N. vote calling for the president, the Syrian president, to step down here. Is there any muscle, is there any teeth to this? And has there been any response?", "Well, there's no real legal kind of implication from this vote. It is symbolic. It's about pretty much the nations who condemned Bashar al-Assad ahead of the vote, putting it on a communal piece of paper and lodging that objection after much diplomatic wrangling. Yes, it may have some impact in the longer term, it may ease humanitarian assistance. It may increase pressure, perhaps, upon the Syrian regime, although bear in mind, China and Russia, two key powers who blocked the original U.N. Security Council resolution, stood by them through this vote as well. We have recently -- we recently suggested to Danny, an activist we spoke to -- people are familiar with him from his videos from inside of Homs -- we asked him what his feelings about the last few months of diplomacy were. This is what he said.", "For the last few months, it's crimes against humanity. Russia and China will be", "So that accusation really is that the U.N., through inaction, has been emboldening Bashar al-Assad, something I think you can see in evidence maybe on the ground today. Reports of a continued if not, in some cases, heightened crackdown. And some video you're about to see from Homs shows a demonstration which, in fact, continued regardless of shelling in the area around it. So indications from many residents in the areas here that the crackdown continues, the onslaught is absolutely 100 percent in evidence. In the east from me here, in a town called Zabadani, clashes breaking out again this morning, a death toll of about 40 today amid these demonstrations. So no real suggestion that yesterday's vote has done anything to sway the Syrian regime -- Suzanne.", "Such a discouraging situation there on the ground. Clearly, people like Danny trying to bring attention to this story. Thank you very much, Nick. We really appreciate it. And another story we're following, Whitney Houston taking on a lot of up-and-coming artists under her wing. She inspired countless artists, and one of those inspired singers, Grammy winner Ashanti.", "Ashanti describes Houston as an amazing talent and spirit. She's going to join us next about being inspired by that amazing talent."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WATSON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WATSON", "WATSON", "MALVEAUX", "WATSON", "MALVEAUX", "WATSON", "MALVEAUX", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "DANNY,\" SYRIAN ACTIVIST", "WALSH", "MALVEAUX", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-13717", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-8-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/11/ee.06.html", "summary": "Democratic National Convention: Gore-Lieberman to Stop in Pennsylvania on the Road to L.A.", "utt": ["Now, Gore and his running mate, Joseph Lieberman, are on the road to the convention. They are making a few campaign stops along the way. CNN's Patty Davis is keeping up with the candidates, and she joins us now from Bridgeport, Pennsylvania. Good morning, Patty.", "Carol, good morning. Vice President Al Gore will be reaching out to the female vote today in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania. He'll be touring a woman-owned doll-making factory that you see behind me. Women voters and specifically suburban women will be key in this election. Now, normally, Democrats do have an advantage among women, but, this year, George W. Bush is making a big play for them and he's doing well. The latest CNN/\"USA Today\"/Gallup poll showed that he got a bounce out of the Republican National Convention. He is right now about 12 points ahead in the women category, but that could change as Al Gore heads into the Democratic National Convention. Now, yesterday, Gore arrived in nearby Philadelphia. He was greeted by supporters. And earlier in the day he made a trip to the South, Atlanta, where he told his supporters there to bank on him, when it comes to keeping the good economic times rolling along. Now, later today, Gore will pick up the official, formal endorsement of the United Auto Workers. They did come out with their endorsement a couple of days ago. He will get it in person today, a long awaited endorsement, crucial to his campaign because it means 700,000 United Auto Workers behind him -- Carol.", "All right, thank you very much, Patty Davis."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-302146", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-01-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/02/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Ill Queen Elizabeth Misses 2nd Holiday Service; Choir Member Quits over Trump Inauguration Performance; Trump Mania Sweeps Kurdistan in Iraq", "utt": ["You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Atlanta. Let's update you on the top stories this hour.", "Britain's Queen Elizabeth has missed a second holiday service due to a heavy and lingering cold. The 90-year-old monarch decided to skip the annual New Year's church service on Sunday after missing the Christmas service a week before. Phil Black has the latest on the queen's health from London.", "A nasty, persistent cold but nothing to worry about. That's what we're being told about the queen's health after she missed the traditional New Year's Day church service. Other royals did attend, including Prince Philip, her husband. He was also struck down by a cold around the same time, but he appears to have bounced back, while the queen is still recovering after almost two weeks indoors, out of sight. The same cold, of course, forced her to miss the Christmas Day church service. These absences are not insignificant. She is the head of the Church of England, something she takes very seriously. So, we can only assume she has been feeling terrible. But her advisers at Buckingham Palace is going out of their way to assure journalists that she is OK. They're stressing that she is still in residence at the Sandringham estate. She hasn't been moved for medical or any other reason, and they say she's up and around. She's still working, receiving the documents, the briefing papers she has to stay on top of as part of her official role as Britain's head of state. Now, they're doing this to ensure there isn't any speculation or exaggerated concern about the queen's health. They want everyone to know that it just an awful cold but she is battling through it. Phil Black, CNN, London.", "We'll talk to a royal analyst about her condition in the next hour here on CNN NEWSROOM. With less than three weeks left in his term, U.S. President Barack Obama took to Twitter Sunday to reflect on his legacy. He wrote, \"From realizing marriage equality to removing barriers to opportunity, we've made history in our work to reaffirm that all are created equal.\" He continues, \"It's been the privilege of my life to serve as your president. I look forward to standing with you as a citizen. Happy New Year, everybody.\" Donald Trump's inauguration is less than three weeks away. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has signed on to perform, but the attention is now on one member, who not only refused to sing for Trump, but quit. Jean Casarez has that.", "Marching bands across the country are going to Washington for Donald Trump's inaugural festivities. 40 organizations will be in the parade, 8,000 participants.", "But a new controversy surrounding those performers. Jan Chamberlain, a four-year member of Utah's Mormon Tabernacle Choir, a state Trump won handily, has written a lengthy public Facebook posting that she is quitting the choir because it agreed to sing for the president-elect. \"It is with a sad and heavy heart that I submit my resignation to you and to choir. I simply cannot continue with the recent turn of events. I could never look at myself in the mirror again with self- respect. I also know, looking from the outside, in, it will appear the choir is endorsing tyranny and Fascism by singing for this man.\" The Mormon Tabernacle Choir said the performance is voluntary, and the choir's participation continues its long tradition of performing for U.S. presidents of both parties at inaugurations and at other settings. Late Friday, Chamberlain responded to criticism.", "I value that in our country we have freedom of speech under the First Amendment. For me, this is not a political issue. For me, this is a moral issue where I'm concerned about our freedoms being in danger.", "This coming just days after it was announced the legendary New York City Rockettes would be performing at the inauguration. In an interview with MarieClaire.com, one Rockette spoke out about the decision, \"The majority of us said no immediately. Then there's the percentage that said yes, for whatever reason.\" The dancers' union ultimately deciding that participations in the inauguration will be voluntary. Madison Square Gardens, which employs the dancers, adding, \"We had more Rockettes request to participate than we have slots available.\"", "It's not about the big names. It's about the American people. And that's who will be represented all over this inaugural. And we've gotten such an outpouring of support, of positivity from all the country. It's been truly humbling. Jean Casarez, CNN, New York.", "The president-elect may have a hard time filling out his inauguration lineup. But he's gaining fans in an unlikely place, Iraq's Kurdistan region. Here's CNN's Ben Wedeman.", "At three weeks old, little Trump isn't bothered by his pesky brother, Rasheed. Yes, you heard right. This is baby Trump. Trump Hassan Jamiel (ph), to be precise, born in Kyrgyzstan. The father explains what's in a name. \"I called him Trump,\" he says, \"because Trump is charismatic and has clear policies. That's why he won the election.\" This man heard Trump say he was a big fan of Kurdish forces calling for the fight against ISIS. In his honor, he named his recently opened fish restaurant in the city of Dohuk after the Donald and even designed the catchy logo. In Iraq's murky waters, Trump has inspired some here to hope he'll also make Kyrgyzstan great again. (on camera): This fish is your standard carp. It's the way it's cooked, it's called mezguf (ph) here in Iraq. It is big-league popular. And this is a catch fit for a president. (voice-over): There's no flip-flopping here. It takes just 45 minutes for the carp, a bottom feeder, to go from the tank to cutting board to grill to plate. No time wasted. \"What I admire about Trump's personality,\" he says, \"is that he's decisive, tough, and hopefully, with that toughness, he'll finish off ISIS.\" This man shrugs off as mere campaign rhetoric Trump's pledge to cast a wide net banning all Muslims from entering the United States. He even wants to open a branch of his restaurant near the White House, Maybe Trump will invite him in. Here's one man ready to serve the incoming administration. Ben Wedeman, CNN, Dohuk, northern Iraq.", "A U.S. company claims the light this machine makes is equal to 10,000 suns in a coffee cup and it could replace electricity. But some say, not so fast. Is this a clean-energy breakthrough for the New Year? We'll show you next."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "ALLEN", "PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN", "JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CASAREZ", "JAN CHAMBERLAIN, FORMER MEMBER, MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR", "CASAREZ", "BORIS EPSHTEYN, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, TRUMP INAUGURAL COMMITTEE", "ALLEN", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "NPR-3948", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2007-06-27", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11466869", "title": "Want the iPhone? There May Be a Hitch", "summary": "Apple's new iPhone will be in stores on Friday, but most cell phone customers won't be able to use it because of an exclusive deal with AT&T. Roughly 140 million users will be shut out unless they switch carriers, something that could be costly.", "utt": ["And now, shocking, shocking news that I'm sure you haven't heard anywhere else. Apple's iPhone goes on sale this Friday. The potential for Apple is huge. The cellphone market is worth about a billion phones a year. The hype is huge too. But as NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports, buying and enjoying the iPhone will not be easy.", "For the uninitiated and those who've missed the TV ads, the iPhone is a stunningly slim, elegantly designed combination iPod, Internet communications device and mobile phone. And in classic Apple fashion, it's been marketed to the max.", "This is how you turn it on. This is your music.", "This ad, for example, touts the ease of using the touch screen display for things such as listening to music or sending e-mail.", "Unidentified Man #1: This is the Web. And this...", "Unidentified Man #1: ...is a call on your iPhone.", "Making sure that call and all the fancy features of the device work as promised is Apple's first challenge. Then there's the matter of price. iPhones are expensive, $500 to $600 depending on the storage capacity. Add to that the service fee. The least expensive plan is $60 a month. And another challenge...", "Certainly for the foreseeable future, if you want an iPhone you're going to have to be an AT&T customer as well.", "That's right. As Michael Gartenburg of Jupiter Research explains, Apple and AT&T, formerly known as Cingular, have an exclusive deal that limits iPhone's service to those on the AT&T network. That means that roughly two-thirds of all current U.S. cellphone users, roughly 140 million people, will be shut out for at least two years. If they want an iPhone, they'll have to switch carriers.", "And Charles Golvin of Forrester Research says most people won't; breaking the contract can cost $175 or so.", "It's relatively a small percentage of people who will - are so hungry for a new phone or relationship or so dissatisfied with their current provider that they're willing to eat that cost.", "Another hurdle: The speed of the AT&T network itself. Golvin says it's not fast enough to handle many of the iPhone's coolest features.", "So that means that the promise of this mobile Internet and browsing on the go, it's going to fall so much short of what some people I think might hope for just because the network that's feeding the Internet content to the phone is fairly slow.", "And what about e-mail? Some users will be put off by the iPhone's lack of a conventional keyboard. Rather than striking keys, there's a visual keyboard that you touch.", "Tim Bajarin, president of the research and consulting firm Creative Strategies, cites another more significant e-mail problem, this one faced by many corporate customers.", "The iPhone today will not support corporate e-mail, and specifically Microsoft Exchange server, and there's going to be going to be some frustration with that audience who clearly would love to have that phone but yet that feature and function will be available for it.", "Apple plans to sell about 10 million iPhones by the end of next year, a figure most analysts say is realistic. No one believes the iPhone is likely to garner the 80 percent market share that Apple's iPod now has.", "But the company's move into mobile phones is highly significant. Competitors are now working harder than ever to make their own super-smart musical cellphones, and the dynamic will forever change what we think of in a cellphone.", "Wendy Kaufman, NPR News.", "And you can check out our list of seven things to consider before buying an iPhone at npr.org."], "speaker": ["ANTHONY BROOKS, host", "WENDY KAUFMAN", "Unidentified Man", "WENDY KAUFMAN", "WENDY KAUFMAN", "WENDY KAUFMAN", "WENDY KAUFMAN", "Mr. MICHAEL GARTENBERG (Analyst, Jupiter Research)", "WENDY KAUFMAN", "WENDY KAUFMAN", "Mr. CHARLES GOLVIN (Forrester Research)", "WENDY KAUFMAN", "Mr. CHARLES GOLVIN (Forrester Research)", "WENDY KAUFMAN", "WENDY KAUFMAN", "Mr. TIM BAJARIN (President, Creative Strategies)", "WENDY KAUFMAN", "WENDY KAUFMAN", "WENDY KAUFMAN", "ANTHONY BROOKS, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-128882", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2008-7-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/21/ldt.01.html", "summary": "Where is Help for the Homeowners?", "utt": ["Well the House and Senate this week still working on emergency relief for homeowners facing foreclosure. Congress has been debating this legislation since -- are you ready -- since March and over that period of time, nearly a million homes have been foreclosed. And as Kitty Pilgrim now reports, millions more homeowners face foreclosure now.", "The housing relief legislation is dragging on another week. It's been stuck in Congress now for five months. Every day they delay, another 8,000 homeowners are foreclosed on.", "I think the thing to say is the problem is getting worse. It's worse now than when the bill should have passed back in March or April and any further delay is just letting the problem fester.", "The current bill in the House calls for $300 billion of federal housing authority loan guarantees to help distressed homeowners but that program is voluntary for banks. The worry is banks will only submit their worst mortgages for federal help, the ones that were going to fail any way because homeowners are so far behind. Also included in the legislation basic insurance measures to provide back-up to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac if they need federal intervention, the bill also calls for stronger oversight of those institutions. President Bush is threatening to veto the bill if it includes a controversial $4 billion in grants to states to buy out foreclosed properties. Today, the White House saying that money would be in the form of community development block grants, which would then be spent on already foreclosed properties which does nothing to help homeowners but helps lenders. Some economists agree.", "You're going to see an awful lot of sweetheart deals and/or an awful lot of pure and confidence in trying to administer something like this. It's not what cities and states do.", "The bill may pass in the House as early as Wednesday and then goes to the Senate after that.", "Now, the Congressional estimate is this legislation could help some four to 500,000 people. Secretary Paulson had said many of today's foreclosures are not preventable, putting the number for this year at about two and a half million. Some banking estimates put it at six million over the next few years. Lou.", "Henry Paulson, does he think Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were they preventable? Was Bear Stearns preventable, any number of other banks, investment and commercial banks preventable? I mean what does this man sit around thinking about? He's an absolute -- it's incomprehensible what he is trying to do here.", "The sad fact about this legislation, Lou, is that even if they enact it next week, it's going to take months and months and months to kick in, to train the people, to administer these programs...", "Because these are blithering buffoons (ph), they have no sense of urgency even though two and a half million Americans are facing crisis and foreclosure. There is no urgency. There is no emergency. And some idiot wants to put forward $4 billion? I don't often agree with this administration but in a foreclosure, in a homeowner rescue plan to put in $4 billion, to pick up property that's already been foreclosed upon, it's unbelievable.", "The economists we talked to today said it would be a big mistake because it would really lead to a lot of corruption and it would benefit...", "Oh no, I can't imagine corruption in the housing industry in this country, unimaginable. Kitty, thanks very much -- Kitty Pilgrim. Well as Kitty just reported, millions of middle-class American families are fighting to save their homes. Last month alone, one out of every 500 households received a notice of default or repossession. And for the second straight month more than a quarter million households received foreclosure filings. Nevada is still the hardest hit, foreclosure filings they're up 85 percent over the past year. California had the second highest foreclosure rate; Arizona, Florida and Michigan also in the top five. Well, time now for some of your thoughts on the salmonella outbreak. In this case, W.B. in Las Vegas said: \"CNN Headline Monday, the FDA has found salmonella bacteria on a jalapeno imported from Mexico. Sources in the industry tell CNN. You called it, Lou. The FDA under the Bush administration has to be the most incompetent agency in the history of this country.\" And Don in Montana writes: \"Lou, $250 million in damages to U.S. tomato growers? Who's going to pay this bill? Does the FDA realize what they have done to these citizens? I think that the whole FDA needs to be replaced by some competent people.\" Oh, if we could only find them. And Debbie in Nevada writes: \"Do you think possibly the Food and Drug Administration doesn't want to find the source of the outbreak since they don't want to admit the food is from Mexico? I think you pose an intriguing question.\" We'll have more of your thoughts here later in the forecast. Up next, a stunning court decision in the infamous wardrobe malfunction case from 2004's Super Bowl. Imagine that. More than four years of courtroom drama to get to a resolution. And that isn't even the headline. And breaking America's dependency on foreign oil. Just whose idea is that? Not a politician's or an officeholder's or a lawmaker's. Oil man T. Boone Pickens with a plan and a man who puts his money where his plan is. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["DOBBS", "KITTY PILGRIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ALAN BLINDER, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY", "PILGRIM", "DAVID JOHN, HERITAGE FOUNDATION", "PILGRIM", "PILGRIM", "DOBBS", "PILGRIM", "DOBBS", "PILGRIM", "DOBBS"]}
{"id": "CNN-307930", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-03-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/19/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Judge Gorsuch To Testify At Sen. Confirmation Hearing", "utt": ["Judge Neil Gorsuch has all set it up to find before the senate judiciary committee tomorrow for his first day of confirmation hearing. Then, if confirm, Gorsuch would become the first former supreme court clerk to take the bench while one of this former bosses, Justice Anthony Kennedy is actually still sitting on the high court. But with President Trump's revised travel ban possibly headed for the Supreme Court. His confirmation would become a political football. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal has not ruled out, in fact, a filibuster based on a litmus test. Here's what he said to Dan, MSNBC.", "Not only filibuster, but use every tool that we have if he is in fact out of the main stream in that way. Let's remember, we're talking about respect for a well-established, long accepted president, Roe v. Wade certainly fits that description and that kind of out of the main stream thinking will cause media filibuster and use every tool I have at my disposal to block his nomination.", "All right.", "Back with mw now, CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen, thanks so much, David for sticking around. You just heard Senator Blumenthal, senate democrats are so frustrated for nearly a year. Republicans refuse to hold those hearings for President Obama's nominee, Judge Merrick Garland. Did that play into the democrats' strategy to potentially filibuster Gorsuch?", "Well, I think that they come in in an angry mood. And their anger is justified, I mean, it was unprecedented through, you know, essentially to block the Garland appointment for such a long time, block any kind of vote. That said, I must tell you, Ana, that President Trump has chosen a man in Gorsuch who by all -- by most -- by the assessment of most people who have talked to him and studied his record is within the conservative main stream, he's not way out in the fringes and he's well qualified for the post. He seems to be a humble man. And I think his rollout, the -- one of the best things, he was one of the best day President Trump has had was a rollout of the Gorsuch nomination. So I think that unless there's some blockbuster piece of information about his past that hasn't come to light, Judge Ggorsuch is going to become the next member of the supreme court. What we don't know is whether it's going to require a filibuster. I think it's a hard choice for the democrats about whether they want to be in -- they want to go all out on the Gorsuch nomination or recognize this one so mainstream that you're not going to able to stop it and you're probably not going to be able to demand public support. You want to elect the democratic senators -- go ahead, please.", "Sorry. Given your expertise and just your history in the White House, are there any parallels between Gorsuch and the Robert Bork situation?", "No, I don't think there -- Robert Bork was a much more -- much more explosive views, he was much more of a dissenter. He was much more towards -- way out of the mainstream, his views eventually carried a lot of weight within republican circles. But that was a much more controversial nomination, this one is relatively uncontroversial. And to be honest with you, you know, there's been so many others things going on in the Trump administration, there have been so many things like this whole, you know, all the issues we've just been just talking about with the Russians, that's given Judge Gorsuch to rather free pass where press has been much more interested on the more explosive issues.", "You know, the juicer issues. But here's the -- here's the democratics' face, if -- they can't stop Gorsuch, are they better off giving a free pass to democrats especially those who are in red states up for reelection in 2018 and there are number of them who would then likely vote for Gorsuch. Or -- and do this without a filibuster, so in effect they say, the republicans say, we're -- democrats say, we don't oppose everybody the president puts up but we're going to oppose the next one if he's out of the mainstream. This one is within the mainstream. In other words, they may gain some leverage I think with the public and with the next choice if they show when it comes to somebody in the mainstream, they want to go through, they're not going to block it. Everybody --", "Exactly. Well, our Supreme Court reporter, when you look behind the curtain of who is Neil Gorsuch, I mean, our Supreme Court reporter tells us that Justice Kennedy was Judge Gorsuch's mentor. But philosophically he aligns more with the late Justice Antonin Scalia as well as well as Clarence Thomas. So what does that tell you about how he might impact this court?", "Well, I don't think -- I don't think there's any question that he's going to give weight to the conservative side and you're going to expect him to be on the conservative side rather regularly, I think democrats would like to see whether he has an independent mind, if he's willing to stand up to the president. And in particular, on questions revolving around immigration, if the president really were to put a ban on the Muslim entry, if a current case -- travel case comes up, how will he come out on that? And in addition, I think there's legitimate concern on the part of many democrats that as you add republican in and then maybe one more soon, that Roe V. Wade could be under direct threat. But, you know, that's the consequence of an election for better or force worse. Republicans have been fighting for this and the -- this election was a real gift to the republicans in terms of building a long-term change in the -- in our judicial branch. If President Obama changed it one way, President Trump is very likely going to change it in a very dramatic way toward a more conservative court.", "And some of the Trump voters who I talked to back when we were covering the election said that that is the very reason they were voting for Trump was because of the Supreme Court seat. David Gergen.", "Absolutely, Ana. You're absolutely right.", "Thank you so much for joining us, always great to hear your expertise. Coming up, healthcare holdouts, skeptical republicans meet with Trump's senior staff at Mar-a-Lago. Can they win them over before this crucial vote this week. That story next."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-139323", "program": "ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL", "date": "2009-6-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0906/11/ijvm.01.html", "summary": "Rihanna to Testify in Chris Brown Case", "utt": ["In the \"Spotlight\" tonight, it is official. Rihanna will appear in court in the Chris Brown beating case. The pop princess got served with a subpoena and will likely take the stand against former boyfriend, pop star Chris Brown, at his preliminary hearing on June 22. Brown faces two charges stemming from the February 8 brutal beating of then girlfriend Rihanna. The graphic police photo of Rihanna after the savage attacks that shock waved around the world. Brown`s attorney hoped the controversy over who leaked the photo would get the hearing postponed while the leak was investigated. But yesterday, a California appeals court shot down that defense request. In the meantime, Chris Brown doesn`t seem too worried at all. He`s been seen playing ball with Shaquille O`Neal. As for Rihanna, she`s been out partying with a new beau. I guess she`s moving on, as well. Joining me now, Ken Baker, executive news editor for E! Ken, so many developments on so many fronts. What do you got? What`s the latest?", "Well, we know this. We know that Rihanna will testify, but her attorney has always said all along that she will testify, that when she`s called she will do what the court asks. But the question is not that. The question is what will she testify to? Will she testify to what she apparently told the police, that he savagely beat her? Or will she change her story? And I think that`s the big question.", "Yes, but Ken, with the photo out there, showing her very badly pummeled face, with the police report which details this long and extensive beating that wasn`t just a momentary snap, but it went on and on, how can she really have credibility minimizing this and changing the story and making it seem less than it was, allegedly?", "Well, she wouldn`t. And the minute that she starts to tell a story in court that is inconsistent with what she told the police, really, is going to damage her and damage her story. But here`s the point here, is that something really interesting. I`ve been down to some of these court hearings, these preliminary hearings. And at every hearing, pretty much, her attorney, Rihanna`s attorney, Donald Etra, has been side by side with Mark Geragos, who`s representing Chris Brown, as if they`re in cahoots and they`re representing the same client. Now, that makes it -- obviously, it raises the question that we all wonder, is that is she basically going to be trying to tell a story that is very pro-Chris Brown and very sensitive to him to try to help this guy get off? And I think that`s a big question, and we`re going to find out on June 22. She will be in the same courtroom with Chris Brown, and it`s going to be very interesting.", "Yes, now Ken, that`s a preliminary hearing. And often these big witnesses who testify, testify in the actual hearing. Are we sure she`s going to -- I remember I got a subpoena once in the Michael Jackson case. I was terrified. And then at the end, they didn`t call me, and I got all worked up for nothing. I mean, is there a possibility that there could be some kind of last-minute plea deal? Or this won`t be the big moment?", "I remember when you were called, and you didn`t look terrified to me.", "Well, inside I was.", "I`m sure. No, but, I think that what we`re expecting, what we do know is going to happen is that she`s compelled to be there, and if she is called, it`s going to be fascinating. Because what`s interesting is that the first few weeks after this alleged attack on her, it was -- it seemed as if she was getting back together with Chris Brown and that somehow, you know, she was going to try to help him make this all go away. But right now they have no relationship. We`re told they aren`t talking, they aren`t in contact with each other, and she has moved on, and so has he. He now has another girlfriend. So I think the loyalties that may have been there at the start may not be there now.", "Well, it`s going to be fascinating. We`re going to be on top of it. Ken Baker, always a delight to speak to you. And we`ll talk to you soon. Is the four-month search for Haleigh Cummings grinding to a halt? I will speak to investigative journalists who`s dug up some shocking new leads. You won`t believe this twist, next."], "speaker": ["VELEZ-MITCHELL", "KEN BAKER, EXECUTIVE NEWS EDITOR, E!", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "BAKER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "BAKER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "BAKER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-367856", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-04-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/24/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Another Roadblock From Donald Trump; Jared Kushner Slams Mueller Investigations", "utt": ["Welcome back everyone. Well, Donald Trump says special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation went far enough. And he doesn't want his current and former aides testifying before Congress. Sources tells CNN the president doesn't want former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify before House Committee. McGahn told Mueller's investigators how he disobeyed Mr. Trump's order to fire Robert Mueller. Meanwhile, the president's senior adviser and son in law, Jared Kushner, is bashing the Mueller investigation. He says the probe was more harmful to the country than Russia's election interference and what he called a couple of Facebook ads. Let's take a closer look at all of this with CNN's political analyst, Michael Shear in Washington. He is the White House correspondent for The New York Times, great to have you with us.", "Certainly good to be here, Rosemary.", "So the White House clearly stone walling on a range of issues missing the deadline to hand over Donald Trump's tax returns and now the treasury secretary stalling for time and giving until May 6th for final decision on this. What would be their legal arguments for not complying with the law and it begs the questions, what are they trying to hide?", "Right. And so in the latter question, I think nobody really knows, though people suspect that his taxes may be filled with all sorts of if not illegal things then, you know, things that rich people do to be essentially, cut down on their taxes, which can be embarrassing when you are trying as Donald Trump does to present himself as the sort of champion of the regular guy. I mean, I think on the legal arguments, this is really a clash between two interpretations of a very simple law. The law says, you know, congressional -- this certain congressional committee chairman can have anybody tax returns, period. Democrats say that is very clear. Republican say yes, but if you're motive is political, than the law never intended for that to be the case. So, they are saying, it's not so much what the law says, it's what the interpretation of what the motive is. And they say that the motive was intended to be a, you know, a committee chairman who needs a particular tax returns to be able to sort of inform policy making, regarding taxes. If that is not the intent, if the intent is political embarrassment of an enemy, their arguments to the court is that's invalid and that shouldn't be upheld.", "Right. We'll see what the courts eventually decide, which is exactly where this is going clearly. So, according to a senior White House official, they will likely fight the subpoena served on the former White House counsel Don McGahn to prevent him from testifying. How do they go about doing that, preventing McGahn from complying with the House subpoena? And what are they afraid of?", "Yes. So on that one, there is a really long -- a much longer history of, you know, sort of legal trail, or a legal record on this question. You know, there have been over many years' attempts by the Congress to compel testimony from a president's aide on any number of subjects, and a White House, a president is given the opportunity to assert executive privilege. To essentially say, look, if you compel testimony from one of my aides that is going to cause me to not be able to rely on close aides in making important decisions that are important to the country. And the courts have, you know, have essentially split. I mean, many of them have come down and said, look, the president does have a right to assert executive privilege, and in other, cases courts have said, yes, but that's limited and there are exceptions to that. And this is going to be another, you know, clash that will probably go to the Supreme Court, because, you know, ultimately, neither side is going to give in. The Democrats are going to insist on McGahn and other top aides coming and testifying, the White House, it looks like it's going to say absolutely not, we don't want them to do that. We are exerting executive privilege. And ultimately, it will have to be the Supreme Court that decides it.", "And of, course all of this is clearly buying time, isn't it? Because we've also got the White House telling the former security Director Carl Kline not to comply with the subpoena over security clearances. What's going on here? And what happens to Kline personally if he does not comply, because he would not be protected necessarily, would he?", "I mean, that is a good question. As of now, the White House isn't actually asserting executive privilege over Kline, they are basically saying, we -- yes he can testify, but we want to put some conditions on it. We want to have another official in the testimony with him, Democrats have rejected that saying look, that's not ever been a condition that we've accepted in the past, Democrat or Republican. I think you have to look at all three of these things that we've talked about in the same context, which is, you know, the president is angry, the White House is angry that the Democrats are in the wake of the Mueller report continuing to lob investigation after investigation their way, and I think the president has essentially, it looks like the president essentially all, but ordered the White House to say we are just not cooperating on any of this. And you know, he will take the fight especially in an election year as we head towards an election year, he figures that, you know, the Democrats will look bad, they will like they're on a fishing expedition, and that the public will be behind him.", "Right. And meantime while this is going, President Trump's son in law Jared Kushner says the Mueller investigation was more damaging to U.S. democracy than Russia's attack on the 2016 election, which he said amounted to just a couple of Facebook ads. Is this ignorance or spin?", "Oh, it's a total spin. It's not ignorance at all. Jared Kushner is a smart man, he understands and has been steeped in everything that is been going on for the last and two and half years, if not before that during the campaign. He knows what the truth is. The truth is it wasn't just a couple of Facebook ads, this is entirely the spin that they have been trying to put on this for, you know, for as long as the investigation has been underway. That it's invalid, and it really is doing more damage than even the underlying circumstances that it purports to investigate. But look, I think that, you know, the real truth here is that it undermines what is really -- put aside the politics, the substantive issue of is this administration, is this country going to push back against Russia in its efforts to undermine the integrity of our elections? And I mean, I think, what Jared Kushner's comments suggests is that they are not taking it seriously. They're not taking it seriously in terms of what happened in the past, and they are not really taking it seriously in terms of the future efforts that Russia is making to undermine the integrity of our elections, and frankly elections around the world. And you know, there is some deep resentments, deep frustrations among the bureaucrats here in the United States, who want to push back, who want to develop, you know, responses to Russia and just can't, because this president and his White House are just not interested.", "It is all extraordinary stuff that we are all analyzing as you, Michael Shear, many thanks for your perspective on all of this.", "Good to be here.", "Well, the pomp and the pageantry and quality time with the Queen, that's what President Trump will be treated to on his first state visit to Britain in June. Mr. Trump was on British shores last year, but that trips was built as a working visit. Still it caused quite a stir prompting mass protest and you might remember the appearance of a giant blimp in the president's image. Well, next here on CNN Newsroom, this young girl says writing in cursive is easy after she won a handwriting competition. And we will tell you why that feat is so remarkable. 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{"id": "CNN-192802", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-9-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/17/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Hope for a Convicted Murderer", "utt": ["All this legal back-and-forth in the case of convicted murderer Jeffrey McDonald is really enough to give you whiplash. Today, the latest and perhaps final turn begins. A federal hearing in North Carolina will determine if this ex-Green Beret doctor should get a new trial more than 40 years after this crime. So, let me take you back to 1970. This military court cleared him of murdering his pregnant wife and two young daughters. Fast-forward to 1979, he was convicted in a federal trial. 1980, he went free. \"The L.A. Times\" reports a federal appeals court dismissed the charges. And then, in 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned that ruling. MacDonald has been behind bars ever since. And, all the while, MacDonald maintained that hippie intruders were the ones who slaughtered his family. Back in 2006, he talked to Larry King.", "Are you optimistic?", "I'm optimistic if the tests are done legitimately, yes. There is no way that those people were in that house and didn't leave evidence and the government record shows the evidence. It shows wig fibers from Helena Stokley's wig. It shows brown hair in my wife's hand that was secretly tried to match ...", "You're saying the government knew this ...", "Knew it.", "Still went ahead and prosecuted.", "Let me bring in legal analyst Sunny Hostin. She's \"On the Case\" with us today. Is there enough evidence for a new trial?", "You know, there very well may be, Brooke. I mean, I've been looking at this case all day. Of course, I remember the movie and I remember this case very well. The district court judge is going to be looking at two key pieces of new evidence. One, DNA. Remember, you just said this happened 40 years ago. There was no DNA evidence at that time. And, so, three strands of hair were found in Jeffrey MacDonald's daughter's hand. Those hairs don't match anyone in the house, not Jeffrey MacDonald, not any of the daughters, not his wife and, so, that's one crucial piece of evidence. Another piece of evidence that is coming in is this evidence that pertains to Helena Stokley. Now, she says that she told a marshal -- or rather a marshal overheard her telling the prosecutor that she was in the home on the night of these murders and that she witnessed her boyfriend and two other men commit this crime. Well, the U.S. marshal says that the prosecutor threatened to prosecute her for murder and then she recanted -- sort of retracted that story and did not say that when she was on the witness stand. So, this is really blockbuster evidence. What is fascinating, though, Brooke, they are dead. Helena Stokley, no longer alive.", "Forty years, Sunny.", "The U.S. marshal, no longer alive.", "Forty years has passed.", "Exactly. So, this case doesn't necessarily get better for Jeffrey MacDonald. It kind of get worse.", "How long is a hearing in North Carolina supposed to last?", "It's going to be about two weeks. It's going to be about two weeks and, so, we may at the end of two weeks hear whether or not Jeffrey MacDonald will be getting a new trial.", "OK, Sunny Hostin, please stay with me because we have to talk about something that every one of you is talking about. And I'm reading your tweets. You're tweeting me about this one. Roland Martin weighed in on this whole topless photos fiasco involving the royal couple. And you know what? Roland doesn't feel sorry for the duchess. He explains. We'll talk to Sunny, next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "LARRY KING, FORMER TV HOST", "JEFFREY MACDONALD, CONVICTED MURDERER", "KING", "MACDONALD", "MACDONALD", "BALDWIN", "SUNNY HOSTIN, LEGAL ANALYST", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-280341", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2016-04-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/01/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "Palin To Speak In Wisconsin; Wisconsin Primaries Tuesday; Could Rubio Emerge At GOP Convention?", "utt": ["Say anything that they want to about immigration, amnesty, but actions scream so much louder than a politician's words. Take the game of eightville to increase foreign workers by 500 percent and green cards increase by (inaudible) percent. Who offer the amendments for that to further collapse the U.S. incomes and jobs and security? Which candidate? Second messed up policy I want to talk about is trade. The loss of our ...", "All right. That's Sarah Palin speaking live in Milwaukee at Wisconsin's largest fish fry, she speaking on behalf of Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Donald Trump refusing to rule out a third party run tonight. Here's what he told Fox News.", "Are you ruling out running as an independent third party candidate? Are you ruling that out? It's a simple question.", "No, it's not that simple. I'm by far as the frontrunner as a Republican. I want to run as a Republican. I will beat Hillary Clinton.", "But if you don't get the nomination?", "We'll going to have to see how I was treated. I'm going to have to see I was treated. Very simple.", "Back with me now, Bob Beckel, Tana Goertz, Jason Roe and Ron Nehring. Bob, do you think that Trump would run as a third party candidate if there's a contested convention that ultimately picks someone else?", "I think, he's using his leverage right now as much as he possibly can, but he doesn't have much room for a margin for error. He loses Wisconsin, and I have a hard time and I got the delegates in 7th presidential race. I have a hard time coming up with the number he needs. And so if they go to a second ballot, there going to be a lot of people, like Michael said before, that are party regulars, that are people that are already saying they're going to peel off in the second ballot. If he doesn't win this outright on the first ballot, he's not going to be the nominee.", "Yeah, but if wouldn't he just be handing the election to whoever the Democratic candidate is?", "Either way, I mean if he gets the nomination, he hands it to the Democrats. If he runs third party, he hands it to the Democrats. So I don't ...", "That's your estimation, right?", "Well, that's my estimation that I suggest.", "Yeah. OK, Tana, what do you think?", "First of all, I'm very confident and positive that Mr. Trump will get to 1,237 and we won't have a discussion. So, I think we're going to do it. I'm saying very confident and our team believes that Mr. Trump will able to do it.", "The numbers in Wisconsin aren't great. I know, the polls, I mean, you know, sometimes are wrong but the numbers aren't great in Wisconsin. And Wisconsin -- I mean that could be the turning point.", "I agree but, you know what, Don -- he's there right now and when he speaks, people listen. And that he saying what they want to hear. They want the jobs and they want security and I mean, Milwaukee is one of the heroin capitals of the world.", "OK.", "And Mr. Trump talks about that. So, I mean, there we have to get through Tuesday and then we'll see. But I believe that he will ...", "OK, point taken.", "... get to that number and we won't have to worry about it.", "Point taken, Ron, I want to bring you in here, the establishment isn't so fond of Ted Cruz either. So you think they're going to come around wither in an open convention or in the general?", "Well, I think we've had a lot of people come and rally behind Senator Cruz for sure. I mean we have five former presidential candidates who have come in behind Senator Cruz, including Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, that's a really big one. And I mean just commenting on this related issue of what people in Wisconsin what to do want jobs, they do want security, they do want freedom and they want Ted Cruz. I mean these voters in the state of Wisconsin right now who are paying so much attention they're choosing Senator Cruz and his numbers are going up and Donald Trump's numbers are dropping like a stone. And that's really, really encouraging, you know, going forward so Donald Trump is not on track to get 1,237 anything at this convention and certainly the, you know, the direction for him is that the air is coming out of the balloon. And so whenever the air comes out of the Donald Trump balloon we can expect more and more erratic behavior from him like we saw today, like we saw last week and the Lord knows what he'll do on Twitter next. You know, that's a sign he's in trouble.", "But why is he winning then?", "There is a 10-point -- there is a 10, but Ted Cruz does have a 10-point lead in Wisconsin. We're talking about Wisconsin, Tana.", "But that's one poll though. That's one poll I just talked to our campaign his, I mean ...", "It's not actually, its two polls. There's more than one poll.", "And you'd noticed that ...", "Tana, you're talking about overall nationwide. Go ahead finish your point.", "Well I'm just going to say, why -- if Ted Cruz is the speak hero, then why isn't he winning, why is and he beating Mr. Trump? Why hasn't he already got to the eight states, I mean if Ted Cruz is this guy, why isn't he beating Mr. Trump? I mean, we just saw what happened in Florida and Arizona. I mean, yes, Ted got Utah, but, you know, that's fine. I mean, the Mormons are very conservative people and it was an open primary. Mr. Trump does fantastic when it's an open primary. I saw in Iowa how he brings in the Democrats and independents that is one of his strain, because ...", "He lost in Iowa, he lost in Iowa. Senator Cruz won in Iowa.", "Right I know he did, but I saw what he did -- I know. Oh let hey, let's not even go there what Ted Cruz did in Iowa. He's a liar, cheater and a thief. We know that.", "Look hold on a second. Hold on a second.", "All right.", "Let's look at the most recent states that's have voted let's take a look at Utah for example where Donald Trump ...", "Sure.", "... pronounced that he was going to win, he spent time, energy and effort there. John Kasich spent a lot of time, energy and effort there ...", "Let's go back to that, let's go back to Utah and the Melania picture ...", "Let him finish.", "Let's go back -- let's go back to Utah.", "Let him finish.", "Ron, I need you to make your point, though. I'm running out of time.", "Make your point, let's go. Get there.", "Yeah, we hit 69 percent there and we got 100 percent of the delegates going forward. Now the next state where people are paying the most attention is in Wisconsin and Donald Trump is in huge trouble. He's dropping like a stone ...", "What's this?", "... and now is the time when people are really seen ...", "He is not dropping like a stone.", "OK Jason. I want to bring Jason in. Jason, you said how ...", "I want to ask you about something Jason that you said which I found very interesting. You said that if you were Marco Rubio, that you would go dark you would let the wounds heal and then you would emerge at the convention, I mean do you think that's feasible? Could that really happen?", "Well I don't think that Donald Trump is going to have 1,237 delegates when it comes time for the convention and I do think that the delegates, when they start to convene are going to be looking at how any of the Republican candidates, whether they were candidates during the process or just names out there, formidable figures, how they match up against Hillary Clinton in November. And I think we're going to get past this where people in a state are going to pick their preference and their primary and start really looking at November and who can win. I mean, we're seeing already Donald Trump is losing by double digits to Hillary Clinton, we will lose control of the Senate. We will lose seats in the House of Representatives if Donald Trump is the nominee and I think that there's going to be a big sober convention in which people realize that Donald Trump will be the death of the Republican Party and they will look to an alternative. And I believe that Marco Rubio still will poll the best against Hillary Clinton and gives Republicans best opportunity to win.", "Jason, Bob, Ron, Tana, thank you very much.", "You've got to go.", "I know I do it.", "Have a great weekend. Thank you all, see you soon. When we come right back, the nastiest moment so far in the Trump-Cruz battle the war over their wives. 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{"id": "CNN-197936", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-12-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1212/21/cnr.09.html", "summary": "Obama to Nominate Kerry as Secretary of State; House GOP Rejects Boehner's Plan B; Kerry Kennedy Fights for Gun Control", "utt": ["I'm Suzanne Malveaux. In just minutes, the president is going to make what the White House is calling a personnel announcement. We have confirmed it is the formal nomination of Senator John Kerry to be the next secretary of state. Stay with CNN. You're going to see it live as it happens. We're expecting that about 1:30 Eastern. Senator Kerry always on the short list to replace Hillary Clinton, but after Susan Rice removed herself from consideration last week, he removed up to the odds-on favorite. Kate Bolduan reports some of the fellow senators were already calling him Mr. Secretary.", "Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary.", "His Senate colleagues have joked about his ambition, what many regarded as the worst-kept secret in Washington. Even in recent Senate hearings, John Kerry already sounded like he was looking ahead to his future job and the anticipated battles over the State Department budget with Congress.", "That must change and in the next session of the Congress, I hope it will.", "He wasn't the first choice. U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, took herself out of the running after the Republican backlash.", "It was unjustified to give the scenario as presented by ambassador Rice.", "Senator Kerry knows himself about being torpedoed by attacks, accused in his 2004 presidential run of lying about his military record in Vietnam.", "John Kerry had not been honest about what happened in Vietnam.", "And criticized for his 1971 testimony opposing the Vietnam war.", "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam?", "Kerry was painted a flip-flopper and out of touch, unable to grasp the struggles of regular Americans. But candidate Kerry did put President Obama, then an unknown politician, on the national stage at the Democratic convention.", "John Kerry believes that in a dangerous world, war must be an option sometimes, but it should never be the first option.", "Following the loss, Kerry immersed himself in foreign policy.", "We stand adjourned.", "Now the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he's been an unofficial envoy for President Obama, helping ease tension with President Karzai in Afghanistan and helping mend strained relations in Pakistan after the killing of Osama Bin Laden.", "We are strategic partners with a common enemy in terrorism and extremism.", "But Kerry is not totally in sync with Obama. He has supported limited intervention in Syria, something the president has resisted. Over his 30-year career, Kerry has built deep relationships with many foreign leaders.", "There are very few people in our country with greater experience over a longer period of time in foreign policy than senator Kerry.", "Perhaps Kerry's biggest challenge to date is not his confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill, but rather following in Hillary Clinton's footsteps who has become one of the most popular officials in the Obama cabinet both here and abroad. Kate Bolduan, CNN, Washington.", "Our Elise Labott joins us at the State Department. Elise, give us a sense of some of the real big issues, the big concerns that he's going to walk into if he is confirmed.", "Well, I think, Suzanne, clearly the Middle East and all of the issues surrounding that. You have what's going on in Egypt with President Morsi and questions about his commitment to democracy, certainly the crisis in Syria and how the U.S. is going to A, get rid of president Bashar al Assad, and B, help stand up the Syrian people and help them recover once Assad is out. The crisis in Iran with its nuclear program and trying to get a deal this year, 2013 is seen as a real pivotal year in terms of having to deal with Iran's nuclear program. And then you have what's going on in Asia. Just last week, you had North Korea testing that long-range missile, there are a lot of questions about what's going on with the leader there. And this whole U.S. pivot to Asia and trying to work more cooperatively with countries in the region to counter China. So certainly, senator Kerry, if he becomes the next secretary of state, will have a full plate.", "What is he like in terms of his personality? I covered him in 2004 when he was running for president in George W. Bush, and he was widely panned as somebody who was not really able to relate or identify to everyday folks. But he has quite a reputation overseas and abroad.", "Overseas and abroad, he has a reputation for really knowing his issues. This is a man, as Kate Bolduan said, has relationships with a lot of world leaders. It was senator John Kerry who convinced Afghan President Hamid Karzai to go for a runoff election when the Afghan presidential elections were in question. And I think he's going to be able to relate to leaders such as secretary Clinton did as a politician when these leaders are having problems compromising to say, listen, I'm in your seat, I know where you've been, I've run for office before and it's difficult. And I think that that will really serve him well. Here in Washington, he is seen as someone who is very confident, very on top of his brief, but also someone who likes to control issues when he's really interested in an issue such as the Middle East. He's someone who's -- drills down and really tries to command things. When you're going to be running an agency of 10s of thousands of people, senator Kerry, if he becomes secretary, will really have to delegate and reach out to the expertise in the building. So, I think that's a big question if he comes over here.", "All right, Elise Labott. Thank you, Elise. I want to bring in Dana Bash on the Hill there. Dana, give us a little bit about the back story here. I know there was a little bit of back and forth because everyone was looking at Susan Rice, and then you have senator Kerry.", "That's right. It was -- I think you and I have talked about this. It was a little bit awkward for a while here in the halls of the Senate because the big question was whether or not Susan Rice could even get through and she would have to get through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and John Kerry is the chairman of that committee. And so, people, like me, were going up to John Kerry asking, can Susan Rice actually get through? When -- what do you think about it? And it was very awkward and he would look at us like, are you really asking me that question because it was an open secret that he wanted this job very, very badly. And even over the past week as we, at least Labott reported I think last weekend even, that John Kerry was going to get the nod. We've been waiting and waiting and waiting for it to officially happen. Pretty much every day I would pass him in the hall or in the elevator saying, congratulations, question mark? And he would say, not yet, I haven't heard yet. So, there's definitely been an interesting hurry up and wait game when it comes to senator Kerry.", "Yes. All right. I don't know if we're hurry up and waiting here for the fiscal cliff thing, but let's talk about that because we saw -- and you spoke with speaker John Boehner earlier today, the Plan B basically never made it to the House floor. You've got 10 days and counting before we could potentially face these big tax hikes and these spending cuts. Where do things stand right now?", "You know, they're really, really in limbo. Just moments ago, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, came out for the first time on the Senate floor and he really chastised the speaker for wasting a week what he has called a fruitless political stunt. It really was absolutely stunning to see what happened in the House that this -- what was supposed to be a show vote, a political show vote, never got off the ground because the speaker couldn't line up his own -- his own members. But what is going to happen now? I actually just talked to a senior Democratic source who said that for all intents and purposes, the action is probably going to start in the Senate now. And they're actually talking about three possible scenarios, which I'll lay out very quickly. One is just to go off the cliff, because the thinking, among some Democrats, is that when the new Congress is sworn in January third, they'll have a stronger handle, they'll have more seats in the Senate and the House, and they'll be able to maybe do something very quickly. Yes, the markets will probably not react well for that day or two when they're -- when they're -- when they're in, but maybe they could do that. And the second and third scenarios have to do with doing something next week. One is maybe what they call fallback position, take the tax increases for everybody making more than $250,000 and add a few other important tax issues to that. That's only if they can get Republican votes.", "All right.", "And then, the other is maybe taking what the president last offered speaker Boehner, the package he last offered which was roughly $2 trillion toward debt relief, and see if they can get enough Republicans on that. But I am told that senator Reid does not want to do anything in this Congress that is not going to pass the House, because he doesn't want Democrats to take the vote that's going to go nowhere.", "All right. We'll be watching closely. Dana, thank you. The gun control debate is also intensifying one week after the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The killing of 20 innocent children putting the issue back on the national agenda. Just about an hour ago, we heard from the National Rifle Association. The executive director, Wayne LaPierre, called for putting armed police in every school. He also lashed out against the media, violent video games and the lack of prosecutions of violent criminals. He said more gun laws are not the answer.", "The only way, the only way to stop a monster from killing our kids is to be personally involved and invested in a plan of absolute protection. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.", "The gun debate very personal for my next guest. Her uncle was shot and killed when she was four years old. And when she was eight, a man with a gun killed her father. We are talking about Kerry Kennedy the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and the niece of President John F. Kennedy. She's joining us next to talk about gun violence in this country. The gun debate very personal for my next guest. Her uncle was shot and killed when she was 4 years old and when she was eight, a man with a gun killed her father. We are talking about Kerry Kennedy the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and the niece of John Kennedy. 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{"id": "NPR-8658", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2013-05-16", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2013/05/16/184524662/will-strong-summer-travel-be-a-turning-point-for-airlines", "title": "Will Strong Summer Travel Be A Turning Point For Airlines?", "summary": "As the summer travel season approaches, air travel provides a barometer for the health of the U.S. economy — and airlines report they're having a good year. After years of financial troubles, industry representatives hope U.S. travelers are more willing to fly. NPR senior business editor Marilyn Geewax explains what summer travel tells us about the health of the economy.", "utt": ["By this point in the spring the air travel industry has a pretty good idea of how many people plan to travel on airplanes this summer, and that projection in turn says some interesting things about consumer confidence and the health of our economy. So we want to hear about your plans. Are they different from last year? Are you planning more air travel? 800-989-8255. Email: talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at npr.org, click on TALK OF THE NATION. Marilyn Geewax, NPR's senior business editor is just back from a briefing by the industry group that generates the summer air travel projection every year and she joins us here in studio 42. Nice to have you with us again.", "Hi Neal.", "And what did you learn?", "This is going to be a reasonably good summer, it looks like. Now, keep in mind the airline industry has just been battered for years. They have had a horrible time in the recession: bankruptcies, losses, mergers. Just one thing after another. But it seems like this year, they sort of figured it out and so have the passengers. They started in 2008 when the recession started deepening to add these fees, you know, the baggage fees that we all find so irritating.", "We all hate. Yes.", "$25, $35, whatever, and then fees for everything: for Wi-Fi, for leg room, for all these various fees.", "Soon they're going to charge us for the emergency oxygen.", "Well, there are all kinds of crazy plans for boosting those fees but last year, the fees totaled about $6 billion, and that was their whole profit margin. Basically, they break even on the air fares and they figured out that if they charge enough of those fees, they can actually turn a little bit of a profit. But they need those profits. They're taking that money and they're trying to reinvest in things like new equipment, upgrading customer lounges, the airport terminals need more Wi-Fi. I mean, there are lots and lots of upgrades that have been deferred during the recession and now they're getting enough money in those fees that they're able to start to turn the corner and upgrade the industry.", "And what does that say about the American economy?", "Well, in all the surveys, really, I've looked at a whole lot of things, various organizations that see where people are heading this summer and it looks like everything is pointing up a little bit. Not gangbusters, not going through the roof, but people do want to travel again this year and that's what this association, the Airlines for America, which is the trade group representing airlines, they're predicting that the number of people getting on planes this year will be about 209 million, and that's the best we've seen since 2008.", "And that represents an increase of 1 percent, and like a lot of the things in this report, tiny increments.", "Yes. Everything is a matter of, you know...", "...it's a game of inches for these guys. They don't make a lot of money. They're not attracting the crowds they used to have, you know? In 2007, we had 217 passengers. So, you know?", "Million, that is.", "Or 217 million passengers. So they're inching back up, getting back to where they want to be but all of it is a tough climb but they're getting there. And I think the overall sense both with the economy and with all the travel segments is that we're reaching kind of a new normal where people have settled into the idea that yes, I'm going to have to pay these fees but I accept that and I'm willing to start to travel again.", "Let's get some callers on in this conversation of how have your plans changed one summer to the next. Do you plan to travel more by air this summer? 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. And Catherine's(ph) on the line with us from Berkeley.", "Hello. Thank you for taking my call. When we made our decision to travel this summer, we thought about how could we better ourselves? How could we view air travel to increase, like the kid's resumes going to sports camps or music camps or it wasn't just a whimsical trip. It was tied into kind of future advancement, basically. And...", "An investment.", "Oh, that's just - yeah, yeah. So it's just - and, of course, we would take side trips and see family or do fun things, but it was kind of like we justified it by making these choices based on helping us in the future. Thank you.", "I like the distinction that you had there between seeing family and doing fun things.", "So yeah, we did make - we are traveling more, but it's making us better somehow.", "Thinking carefully about it. And I think that's a good point, Marilyn.", "Yes. Neal, this is really, exactly - the sentiment that she's expressing is what a lot of surveys are finding. Like I said, people do kind of want to travel again. It's not so over the top, not all, you know, wild travel and crazy parties. It's not over the top at this point. But it's moving the way the airline industry and the way the travel industry wants. People are much more open this year to the idea of staying in a hotel, going to the beach, whatever, instead of just doing the phrase we heard so much during the peak of the recession, was the staycation where people would just simply stay home and try to have fun.", "But they're willing to get out a little bit more this year, and that'll be good for jobs as well, that that should help strengthen the economy in terms of creating jobs for people in the hospitality industry, restaurants and so forth.", "Let's go next to Thomas, and Thomas on the line with us from Iowa.", "Good afternoon. I just want to make a comment. We just arrived back home from a trip to New Zealand, and we don't really have a choice just to drive obviously. But we noticed this time around that, not only the extra fees going up, like carry-on bags and the checked luggage are increasing, but also it's more and more difficult with family, young children. We have two young children. And it used to be where they would let family members on a plane first to get situated and sorted.", "Well, now they're even cutting that out, some airlines. It just makes it more difficult than I've ever used to be, and I guess I wasn't quite sure why. It doesn't cost the airline money to let a young family board the plane early, but yet they're eliminating that now.", "Well, they are selling the privilege to board the plane early.", "Right. That's it. The thing is they are trying to put a price tag on just about anything that you like. If you like to get on early, there's going to be a price for that. If you want more legroom, if you want to take another bag, just about anything that you want, they're going to find a way to stick a price tag on that, that little bit of extra comfort.", "In the story you filed for our website, npr.org, Marilyn, you noted that Frontier Airlines is going to charge up to $100 for one carry-on bag for any customer who fails to book directly through the website. So your carry-on, not the check bag, your carry-on bag, 100 bucks.", "Boy, that's a tough one. I wonder if that one will stick. The - Frontier says it's going to add that fee for this summer, and we'll see if they can keep up their business. But they want you to come only through their own website, not using third party transactions. That way...", "Not Expedia or one of those.", "Right. You know, the one at Orbitz or any of those. They want to steer you to their website. And also, they just basically want to discourage you from bringing carry-ons because there has been a real surge, as you can imagine. With all these fees over the years, people have learned to kind of stuff everything into that overhead and then jam it up there and a lot of tussles on flights. It's tough for the flight attendants because there are always people jockeying to get those bags up there.", "And if they could discourage that, they would. It's funny, I've seen on websites, there are these wearable luggage companies now where you can get a coat that has really, really big pockets, and you can just sort of try to stick all your luggage onto your body and then walk on to the plane wearing your luggage. So that's a trend.", "If you want to read Marilyn's - and, Thomas, thanks very much for the call.", "You're welcome. Thank you.", "And if you wanted to read Marilyn's piece she wrote after her return from the A4A Conference, you can go to our website, npr.org, click on TALK OF THE NATION. And let's see if we can get next to - this is Joe, and Joe is on the line with us from San Mateo in California.", "Hi. Thanks for taking my call. I am planning, this year - or this summer rather - to go to Europe. I was awarded a scholarship to study Czech in the Czech Republic for a month. And this is my first time I've really gone out and started pricing tickets, and one thing that struck me in particular was the difference between what the airlines call the fare and then the fee and taxes.", "On a flight to Europe where I am trying to do an open-ended ticket, well, multi-city ticket through London and then to Prague, the fare was about $1,700, half of which is what they considered the fare, and then half of which was fees and taxes and so forth, which I thought was kind of interesting. And I, you know, I wonder, you know, if that's different or if that's an increase. Is that something new?", "These fees have been just continually going up, and some of them are new because every time they think of something new that they could charge you a fee for, it shows up. As I said, this trend really began in 2008 as the recession was deepening, and we've seen it growing all the time. Well, one of the big fees is - has to do with change fees. You know, they are now up to as much as $200 to change your fee - it's not even...", "(Unintelligible).", "...you know, to change the flight. It's just such a high fee that it's just not worth it anymore. So you end up having to buy a whole new ticket. So that's also another huge source of revenues for the airlines, and all of these things add up. And, of course, governments are looking for new revenue streams, so there are an awful lot of taxes that get added to flights. But, you know, Neal, if you think about it, when you go to a restaurant, there's a sort of a list price on meal.", "But then when you find out what the taxes are and the, you know, and then $2 for a cup of coffee or $5, whatever they want to charge, by the time you're all done with it, it's a great deal more than what you were thinking of originally. So I think we see that in a lot of different formats, whether it's going to a movie theatre and finding out you're getting this $6 popcorn, you know? It - every...", "(unintelligible) more, it's twice as much.", "Right. Well, every industry has its way of boosting its profits because they try to break even on their core business and then make their profits on these add-ons. And that's what we're - the airline industry has figured out. And that's why they're starting to see a little bit of a brighter future for themselves.", "Joe, have a great trip.", "And can I make this one quick note? Also, our family is also going to go to Wisconsin on an annual trip from the Bay Area and that hasn't changed. And so I guess we're part of the trend that's incrementally increasing our travel.", "OK. Thanks very much for the call.", "Sure.", "We're talking with Marilyn Geewax about the projection of this summer's air travel. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.", "There's another big variable in this equation for the airlines, Marilyn, and that's the price of fuel and oil prices going down.", "Yes. They've seen some, at least, a better trend line. Remember at the beginning of the year, we are all very concerned about gas - gasoline prices. If you were driving car it was pretty horrifying. And back in February, early March we saw the prices going up, up, up. And now they backed off. I think that's still very high, but it's basically the same story for the airlines.", "They were very concerned about the volatility and the rising oil prices. And now, we, sort of, settled into a kind of an - I wouldn't call it a great range. I mean, from the airlines point of view, they certainly wish jet fuel were cheaper, but it sort of stabilized at a level that they feel they can work around as long as they can keep up enough people traveling this summer.", "And, of course, one of the things they've been concerned about is the government - if Congress would make life a little bit easier for them. But one of the things they're worried about this spring was the sequestration. You may remember that problem.", "Sure. And people stopped flying because they were worried about big flight delays.", "Right. That was the situation where Congress was - had ordered some cuts in spending. So they were automatic across the board spending cuts that resulted in the FAA saying that they would have to furlough air traffic controllers. That situation went on for about six days in mid-April.", "And what happened was lots of air traffic controllers were at home instead of in the towers. And as a result, there was really - there were lots of flight delays. The industry says there were 7,200 flight delays that affected about 600,000 people. So the big concern there was that, if that continued, if they were going to have both higher jet fuel prices and flight delays, boy, that look kind of scary.", "And now, both of those situations seem to have been resolved. Congress took some action, along with White House, they all agreed to ease up on those air traffic controller furloughs. They're still spending cuts but they're just hitting in a different way. So the flight delays have gone away as a result of that. And you're seeing this - just sort of more a stable environment for the airlines.", "Let's go next to Nonny(ph). And Nonny with us from New Bern in North Carolina.", "Hi. I was just going to comment that, you know, a lot of people - you might think that the airlines don't care at all about the customer any more, but I just recently found that they're completely the opposite.", "We're not planning to travel this summer, but recently my father-in-law had a heart attack and most - my husband and his brother had to travel by air, very suddenly. My brother-in-law went online. His ticket ended up being a $1,000. My husband called the airline explaining his problem. Ended up flying out of a very small town airport, which is typically much more expensive for less than $200. So it's, you know, they were willing to work with us when they knew what was going on.", "Well, that's a good thing about an upward spiral like this, where things get a little bit easier for the airlines and the employees, I think, can feel a little less cranky.", "You can imagine, if you were an airline employee in 2008, '09, '10, it was awful. There were lots of layoffs, lots of mergers, lots of bankruptcies. People, you know, it's kind of hard to come and feeling cheaper everyday when your job is in such turmoil. And now that things have, sort of, smoothed out a great deal, what the surveys are showing is that customers would like someone to maybe smile at them. And the workers are a little bit more inclined to smile. So the J.D. Power and Associates did this survey of how people feel about the airlines. And also, you know, there are - they keep track of customer complaints about things like mishandled bags and all that. Every measure that I could find, of customer satisfaction, it looks like things are getting a little bit better. The customers are seeing a few...", "From a low bar but moving...", "Right. And that's not to say - believe me, I've been on many flights, packed there in, you know, coach class and it's pretty darn miserable, but not as miserable as it used to be.", "Well, there is a sunny. Nanny, how's your father-in-law doing?", "He's doing wonderfully great, great. Full recovery.", "Glad to hear it. And glad to hear that the - your family members got there in time to be with him at the moment of crisis.", "Thank you.", "Thanks very much for the phone call. And, Marilyn, so things are slightly less miserable than before.", "Always good to have you on the program. And a real sunny forecast for this summer.", "It's great to be with you, Neal.", "Marilyn Geewax is NPR's business editor - senior business editor - excuse me - I wouldn't want to miss that. Tomorrow, it's TALK OF THE NATION: SCIENCE FRIDAY. Ira Flatow will be here. Jennifer Ludden will be your guest host on Monday and Tuesday. We'll see you again on Wednesday. Have a good weekend everybody. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. 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{"id": "CNN-394553", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-03-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/06/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Young Republicans Want GOP Climate Change Action", "utt": ["Many young Republicans say that fighting climate change is a generational issue, not a political one. In fact, some of these college students believe the GOP is wrong to dismiss the subject. Our chief climate correspondent Bill Weir wants to know why.", "At the Conservative Political Action Conference, you'd expect Fox News and the NRA, deplorable hammocks, Donald Trump nutcrackers and statues made of nails.", "He's America's superhero, and he's tough as nails.", "But this year's CPAC had something new.", "So do you consider yourself sort of a Republican Greta?", "No, no. I see myself as a solution-seeker.", "OK.", "I'm done with us talking about the problem. We've talked about the problem, we recognize the problem and now we need to talk about solutions.", "She is the leader of this booth full of Republicans all devoted to fighting climate change.", "This is our website --", "With taxes on big oil --", "I've been to a few CPACs in my day, and spotting a climate-woke Republican who wants to have a carbon tax, is like spotting a snow leopard in the wild. I mean, what drives this change?", "I think it's a lot of young people, honestly. This is really a generational issue. We believe that people my age and a little bit older are really waking up to the problem that is climate change on both sides of the aisle.", "And in a packed happy hour around the corner --", "It's really awesome to see such an amazing crowd of conservatives who are about the environment here --", "A rival group of conservative climate hawks gather as, for the first time, polls show more than half of young Republicans believe the government isn't doing enough to fight manmade global warming. But as more of them agree with Greta that our house is on fire, new debates are breaking out over the best way to put it out.", "I think she's incredible, for someone her age to be speaking up and shifting the course of global history.", "Benji Backer grew up knocking on doors for John McCain and Mitt Romney as a kid. And in college, created the American Conservation Coalition.", "Do you support President Trump?", "I don't support President Trump's approach to the environment so far --", "A group built for green and frustrated young Republicans.", "-- and the fact that you have to have some government protections on human health and the environment, and protecting animals and wildlife, that has to be there.", "He says his group now has chapters on over 200 campuses, all who share the belief that free market forces and innovation can stop global warming.", "Everyone in my generation wants to buy Tesla. Everyone in my generation wants to have solar panels on their roofs. They're -- that demand is there, and that's a culture change that no government policy could ever enact.", "He opposes most regulation and a carbon tax. But Kiera O'Brien disagrees. She's an Alaskan, helping pay for Harvard with the money her state takes from big oil and gives to each resident. So she's all in for the Baker-Shultz plan, named for the members of Ronald Reagan's cabinet who helped write it.", "This is the solution that is backed by the largest statement of economists in the history of the profession of economics.", "It would tax carbon and divvy it up among Americans. The average family would get about $2,000 a year to start, but both tax and dividend would ramp up until fossil fuel goes the way of the dinosaurs.", "I would love for President Trump to sign a plan just like this.", "Do you think he will?", "I think he could.", "Really?", "Yes.", "But if he wins again, what does that do for the climate do you think, based on his attitudes historically?", "I mean, attitudes can change in the future. We're betting on it with the Republican Party as a whole. I see no reason why President Trump couldn't change his mind as well.", "Bill Weir, CNN, Washington.", "Our thanks to Bill Weir for that report. Before we go to break, in this week's risk-takers, today's customers want fresh food. And when you think fresh, most people do not thing McDonald's. But McDonald's recently took a risk on a menu staple. Take a look.", "The McDonald's quarter pounder burger, a sandwich that's practically an American icon. It's been prepared basically the same way since it was introduced back in the 1970s. That is, until 2018 when the company decided to make a big change to the recipe: a quarter pounder made with fresh beef, not frozen.", "This was probably the most difficult change that we made since we made the move to all-day breakfast.", "The rollout to 14,000 locations in the U.S. was no small feat. The goal was to cook up a juicy burger without slowing down McDonald's kitchen, and ensuring the food remained safe.", "What was particularly for you something that was really challenging or a nut that had to be cracked that, you know, kept you up at night?", "For me, it was really the food safety piece. That was the number one thing for me.", "Food safety issues can tank a company's reputation. That's what happened to Chipotle after dozens of customers got sick from an E. coli outbreak.", "There can be risks with frozen patties as well as with fresh patties. It just means you have to have more robust procedures when you're handling fresh beef product.", "Those changes included a $60 million investment to upgrade equipment like refrigerators and food packaging technology. The investments have paid off. Sales of the quarter pounders are up 30 percent.", "You can never get rid of all risk, that's impossible. 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{"id": "CNN-333716", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2018-02-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/26/ampr.01.html", "summary": "The Truth About Election Meddling; Michael Ian Black: America's Boys Are Broken And It's Killing Us", "utt": ["Tonight, we know that Russia meddled in the 2016 US election, but how much do we know about America's history of interference in other countries' elections. I'm joined by Steve Hall, the former CIA station chief in Moscow and the former Kremlin adviser Alexander Nekrassov. Plus, comedian and author Michael Ian Black on why America's toxic masculinity is killing us. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. I'm Christiane Amanpour in London. President Trump still needs convincing of Russia's meddling in the US election, but the rest of his government seems certain of it. The State Department today unveiled a new program aimed at countering state-sponsored propaganda just as the intelligence chiefs are warning that the Kremlin is already targeting the midterm elections of 2018. American lawmakers are aghast at Russia's actions, but what's rarely ever mentioned in that the United States has been guilty of the very same thing. The US has long used its own power to influence elections all over the globe. So, is what Russia is doing par for the course or is there a motivation gap? Here now to dig into these questions is Steve Hall, the retired CIA chief of Russia operations and the former Kremlin adviser and journalist Alexander Nekrassov. Welcome to you both, gentlemen. I want to go straight to the American side of things because we haven't really discussed this in this ongoing story. But, Steve, lay it out there. Is what Russia is doing so out of the ordinary?", "Well, Christiane, in one sentence, not out of the ordinary because Russia, of course, has a long history of involving themselves in what they refer to as active measures, which we would call covert action, and it takes a lot of different forms and they've been doing it really since Soviet times and even before. That said, this is the first time that we've seen, at least in recent history, the aggressive attack on our elections, and indeed, not just our own, but also on Western democracies really across the globe. So, it is really sort of a new incarnation, I would argue, of a very old artform which the Russians and the Soviet special services, the KGB, now the FSB and SVR and others, are undertaking.", "So, in terms of what the US did, is that sort of par for the course what Russia is doing?", "In terms of what the United States has done historically?", "Yes.", "I think that the phraseology that you used in the lead-in is accurate. Motivation and context matters. In the case of covert action in the United States, which is, of course, a legal responsibility of the CIA, which only acts at the behest of the executive - in this case, the president - covert action is certainly one of the tools in the toolbox, but the motivation is important. I would say recently, in the past - let's say, since the end of the Cold War, the primary motivation for US covert action has been to try to enable - in societies that are autocratic and closed, to try to enable individuals in that society to act in a free fashion. You can imagine an autocracy, for example, where the autocrat has complete control over the press, where there are no free and fair elections and where the intelligence services and the security services of an individual country will actively work against anybody who is a dissident or anybody who wants to somehow oppose the government. US covert action oftentimes seeks to assist those people who are already in a country looking for more openness in their society, and that's been a primary goal of covert action at least in recent history.", "But in previous history, going back to 1946, I mean, after the war, we know in Iran, Mossadegh, an elected official, was overthrown. We know in America and in all sorts of places. That was pretty toxic stuff, wasn't it?", "Well, if you go back a little bit further, the eras that you're talking about, let's say the 50s and 60s, again, I think context matters. In a lot of those - not in every single case - but in a lot of those cases, what you are looking at is a world that was basically involved in a tension or a fight or a battle between the communist Soviet Union, whose stated effort was to take over and spread communism throughout the entire world, and with the United States being labeled as the main enemy, the \"glavny protivnik.\" This was a worldwide fight that the US, and the West indeed, was engaged in to try to stop Soviet - essentially a Soviet takeover of the entire world. So, yes, I think you could safely say that the gloves were a little bit more off there because the context was sort of - for lack of a better phrase - about world domination and the West, and the United States specifically, felt the need to push back harder in many cases. That was much less so in the 70s, 80s and 90s and even today.", "So, let me turn to you Alexander Nekrassov, I mean, you just heard it - how it's been put into context, do you, first and foremost, all these years after the Cold War buy the historical view of it that Russia really did, or rather the Soviet Union had this world domination policy? And, yes, the United States played these covert games and everybody was doing it.", "First of all, I need to say something unusual. It is in the nature of intelligence services to exaggerate their role in every event in the world. And, unfortunately, KGB did it as well. They exaggerated their role greatly and basically deceived the Kremlin on many occasions, only to get more money. The CIA does the same. A lot of things are happening in the world and intelligence services are trying to get - to jump on the bandwagon and say we did it, we did it, we sent out people there and so on. In the Ukraine, for example, the CIA was saying, oh, yes, we worked hard there, our embassy and so on. Unfortunately, it was mostly the Russians who messed up everything and they basically gave it to the Americans. And to say that the Russian FSB or SVU (ph) could influence the American elections is laughable. Any professional will tell you it's impossible. It's physically impossible. You have to spend billions and billions of dollars and you still get nothing.", "I want to pick up on that. And let's use a President Trump tweet. He said a while back - last week, in fact, that \"If it was the GOAL of Russia to create discord, disruption and chaos within the U.S. then, with all of the Committee Hearings, Investigations and Party hatred, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They are laughing their asses off in Moscow. Get smart America!\" Alexander, are they laughing as the president suggests in the Kremlin?", "Well, I can tell you, obviously, that Putin's team was laughing because they have their election campaign done for them by the Western media, by the Americans, by President Trump. So, Putin looks like an all- powerful leader who can influence elections in America, in Europe, all over the place. He can appoint presidents, prime ministers. He doesn't even need to convince the Russians to vote for him because they will come out and vote for him. So, you must understand it's a game. And the game is being played and has been played for centuries by intelligence services by the governments and so on. Putin and his team, if you noticed, didn't really reject any accusations in a hardened way that would say, no, we didn't. They are basking in the spotlight. They are thinking, OK, the Americans are doing everything for us. The Russian people - and they care about the domestic audience primarily, the Russian people are saying, wow, we have a president and intelligence service that can do for peanuts - they are saying $2.2 million was spent for four years on rigging the American election. Excuse me? Such tiny amounts cannot be spent on this.", "So, let's put the indictment aside because that's real. Thirteen people, three organizations were indicted. Let me turn to Steve. I mean, the way Alexander lays it out, peanuts and giving way too much kudos and credibility to the FSB and to whoever else might be doing this, does he have a point about the amount of effect that they've had.", "Alexander makes some interesting points, not many of which I would agree with, perhaps not unsurprisingly. First of all, the Russian security services have a long history in being able to do this type of thing. And it really - there's very little in today's world with social media and the ability of - to get out there and spread one's message is much easier than it used to be and costs a lot less money and infrastructure and resources to accomplish something. The other thing is with the use of bots and trolls. You've got almost an automated system. So, somebody tweets one thing and it automatically gets millions and millions of repeats, which is amazing propaganda work really for anybody to do. So, this is sort of an old-school solution in a new capability, in a new technical capability.", "So, Alexander - go ahead.", "I would agree with one point that Alexander did make, which is we do help the Russian side in the sense that the Russians don't come up with propaganda on their own. They see American fissures. They see splits in society in the West and those are the things that they take advantage of and echo. So, it's not out of whole cloth. And in that sense, we do provide the grist, I think, for a lot of the work that the Russians have been able to take advantage of.", "Yes. I was actually going to turn to that. The using - whatever it might be, the Black Live Matter movement, the school shooting, all these very divisive issues that are going on in the United States right now, the Russian bots and others are jumping into that, so to exacerbate a very partisan situation.", "Well, first of all, I'm on social media myself, on Twitter. And I can tell you the impact of Twitter is not significant. Social media is greatly exaggerated, its influence. A lot of people there are just bored and want to just to spend time. I think it's a great, great mistake to think you can influence a public opinion in a country like America and or even in Europe by using social media. Social media is not that active. I think what we're hearing here at the moment is a new type of Cold War. It's not as sort of dangerous in the sense that we don't have two different ideological camps standing against each other, which was, by the way, much more stable in the old Cold War. The new Cold War is much more dangerous because it's predictable. Nobody understands what's going on, who is the real enemy, where is the enemy, what it is doing. And I think that this debate about Russia involvement in the elections - and the Russians are blaming the American now, by the way, for their involvement in the current elections. I don't think it actually works because the Americans have failed, for example, in this election in Russia to position Putin as an enemy of the Russians, which they wanted. So, a lot of people look and say, no, no, no, we'll better vote for Putin because this American support for his - for the opposition, we don't like it. So, it doesn't really work.", "So, final word on how does one end this? Steve, we've seen a much more robust pushback against the Kremlin, against this kind of interference from Angela Merkel in Germany, from President Macron in France and even from Prime Minister May here in Great Britain. Much more robust than is coming out of the White House. Wouldn't just a couple of well-placed condemnations by President Trump go a long way to sort of putting this to bed?", "Well, first, Christiane, you make an interesting point. I suppose it's possible that all those leaders in the West that you were just mentioning, to include the United States, are somehow wrong or somehow making it up, the social media and that the Russians aren't taking advantage of that. So, I think it's pretty much a fact that throughout the West, there have been these incursions, if you will, into these open societies. How to fix it? How to fight against it? That is one of the most, I think, difficult questions that we face today as open societies because what Putin has figured out how to do is how to leverage open societies against ourselves. We all want the ability to get on social media. We all want the ability to communicate freely. And what the Kremlin has managed to do is insert itself into this process. And so, how do you solve that tension between wanting to have that open communication, yet protect it against outside influence. Part of it, I think, is education. If you're talking about actually voting in and of itself, part of it is doing the very best you can to electronically protect yourself, so to make sure that your voting systems aren't hacked into. But at the end of the day, I think it's going to rely primarily on governments to educate their societies and their citizens to understand when news is being manipulated, when information is being used, is essentially being weaponized. That, I think, is the real challenge in the years ahead, Christiane.", "And we know some of the European countries are already doing that. Finland apparently has a robust sort of program to try to educate people. Well, we're, obviously, going to be talking about this for a long time to come. Steve Hall, thank you so much. Alexander Nekrassov, thanks for joining me here in the studio?", "So, turning now to the trauma that continues to shake America. Nowhere is the heartache and anger at the school massacre in Parkland, Florida more acute, of course, than with the victims, their families and the first responders. In fact, the school girl Maddy Wilford, who survived multiple gunshot wounds, and Lt. Laz Ojeda who saved her life. Listen to them both.", "At first, it was believed that Maddy had deceased. She looked very pale. I gave her a sternal rub. I go, hey, how old are you? No response. Second sternal rub. Hey, how old are you? She came around. She told me she was 17.", "I'd just like to say that I'm so grateful to be here and it wouldn't be possible without those officers and first responders and these amazing doctors and especially all the love that everyone has sent. And I was sitting on my couch today just thinking about all the letters and gifts that everyone has given, just like all the love that's been passed around. I wouldn't definitely wouldn't be here without it.", "Such emotional first-hand testimonials. And Americans are increasingly fed up. A new polling says there is a spike amongst Republicans who now support stricter gun laws, though many in Congress are pessimistic about the chances for action. Guns are undoubtedly a central issue, but my next guest says there is another aspect that we're overlooking. The writer and comedian Ian - sorry, Michael Ian Black says, \"What do these shootings have in common? Guns, yes. But also boys. Girls aren't pulling the triggers. It's boys. It's almost always boys. America's boys are broken and it's killing us.\" And Michael Black joins me now from New York. Welcome to the program.", "Thank you.", "That's a really right-in-your-face statement and conclusion. And, yes, it is obvious all those guns are wielded by boys. But what do you mean that they're broken? What do you see and feel?", "America's boys - and this can probably be applied to boys worldwide, but I'm confining my remarks to America in particular in relationship to the shooting epidemic that we have - are defined, as we always have been by our masculinity. And the model of masculinity that boys and the men that they grow into seems to be broken and it's having profound and devastating effects not just in these spectacular violent episodes that we see, but all across the spectrum of American life. And I think we can - we need to look more closely at what it means to be a boy and be a man in America and how we define masculinity.", "So, I just want to quote from you yourself, what you wrote in \"The New York Times\". Many feel that the very qualities that used to define them, their strength, aggression and competitiveness are no longer wanted or needed. Many others never felt strong or aggressive or competitive to begin with. We don't know how to be and we're terrified.\" I mean, it is an important conversation to be having right now because it's true many boys/men don't - say they don't quite know how to navigate the current environment, whether it's the toxicness that you talk about or even whether it's the other major issues in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Just explain from your writing, your stand up, your experiences what you think they're feeling.", "I'll speak from personal experience and also as the experience of a father of a teenage son. Growing up, I felt and observed that there was a narrow model of what it meant to be a man in the culture. And that model embraced a lot of good qualities - strength, ambition, at times competitiveness, aggression - but it was and continues to be a very narrow model and doesn't speak to the fullness of the experience of being a man. And that fullness can and should encompass all - the full spectrum of what it means to be a human being. In the piece, I talk about how feminism opened the door and change the language for what it means to be a girl or woman in the culture. It greatly expanded how women viewed themselves. So, now, when we think of, for example, a strong woman, we don't think of a masculine woman. We think of strength as being inherent in being female. At the same time, when you look at boys and men, what we don't have is a commensurate language. So, you don't have the phrase sensitive boy or sensitive man existing in a positive way in the full spectrum of what it means to be a man or a boy. So, instead those words, there are certain words that have a kind of feminine quality to them. And what I guess I'm looking for and asking for is a decoupling in the language from this idea of femininity associated with masculinity as a negative thing or rather to say that we need a broader language for how we discuss masculinity, so we can encompass these ideas.", "So, the British artist Grayson Perry who has also written a book about masculinity and about young men and adolescents, I spoke to him a while back. And he is even more pessimistic than you are about a young man's role or their self-perception in society today. Listen to what he told me about when he visits prisons and others.", "I talked to sort of young offenders and people and I saw that it was when you take away the other ways where a man can have status, he resorts to something very primal, which is sort of defending territory and competition with other men. And I feel a bit sorry for men, in that masculinity has become a sort of redundant phenomena. I call it a skeuomorph. It's an architectural term that used to be functional has become decorative.", "Yikes! I mean, that is a very harsh indictment of how some men think of themselves in today's society. I don't know whether you think it's that harsh, but, I guess, the question then would be how do you channel that kind of feeling, some of the anger that you talk about into relevance, into being able to discuss how you're feeling and into some kind of change in this kind of toxicity?", "I think that is the big question. For men, the way we're raised, we have really two avenues of self-expression. And they both tend to be kind of negative. Withdrawal or rage. Those are kind of the two socially acceptable means for men to really express themselves and neither are healthy. When we talk about masculinity, there's a kind of stoicism to it, a kind of strength that we're meant to exhibit. And when we don't feel those things, when we don't feel stoic, when we don't feel strong, we don't have a language to express those things. I don't think masculinity is redundant. What I think it is too narrowly focused. And I'm trying to figure out a way, and I'm looking for help, to start a conversation about not how we redefine masculinity, but how we expand masculinity, how we make it OK to have a powerful empathy, how we have the courage to be vulnerable. Those are difficult things for most men myself included.", "Well, one of - Grayson Perry has his men's rights and he's talked about what you just said, the right to be vulnerable, the right to be wrong, the right to be intuitive, the right to be uncertain and the right to be flexible and the right not to be ashamed of any of these. But I wonder - I want to just expand a little bit. Melania Trump, the first lady, today spoke about social media and some of the challenges of social media, but also about the children, men and - boys and girls who are affected at the Parkland school. Just listen to this for a moment.", "I have been heartened to see children across this country using their voices to speak out and try to create change. There are our future and they deserve a voice.", "I wonder, Michael Ian Black, whether you are impressed by the real strength of these boys and girls from the school and from around that area, what they've done to move the dial and how, in fact, President Trump has shown that that he's been affected by their pleas? He's moved his dial somewhat. And now, the figures are changing in the country, especially amongst Republicans who want you to see potentially stricter gun laws.", "I'm more than impressed by these teenagers. I'm inspired and it has been a brilliant, incredible response to yet another one of these tragedies. I don't quite know how they're finding the strength to do this. I don't quite know how their finding their voices so easily and have such steely resolve in the face of very powerful opposition. It has been heartening and it has given me, I feel like, courage to talk about this subject in relationship to it. I can't say I am particularly impressed with either the first lady or the president. The president, in particular, his words will always ring hollow to me until we see him actually doing something. I question his ability to be empathetic, not only to these students, but to anybody other than himself. And so, I look for him to lead on this and to actually move the ball forward. I'm doubtful, but I am incredibly optimistic about these students and I hope there are no students to follow, although I remain doubtful about that.", "Well, these children, these students are really showing us that at least for the moment enough is enough and they are really leading from the front. it's pretty amazing. Michael Ian Black, thank you so much for joining us. And that's for our program tonight. Remember, you can always listen to our podcast and see us online at Amanpour.com and follow me on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks for watching. And goodbye from London. 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{"id": "CNN-174991", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-10-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1110/31/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Herman Cain Campaign Dealing with Sexual Harassment Controversy; East Coast Hit by Unseasonal Nor'easter; Cain Denies Sex Harassment Claims; Four Million Without Power; East Coast Stunned By Rare, Deadly October Nor'easter", "utt": ["Cain controversy -- GOP candidate for president Herman Cain denying this morning reports that two women accused him of sexual harassment in the 1990s.", "October surprise -- people cleaning up after a freak nor'easter slams the east coast. It may be days before millions get their power back.", "A milestone birthday -- the world's 7 billionth person is born overnight. Boy, it's getting crowded in here.", "And a healthy Halloween?", "Apple, that's no fun.", "Candy is dandy, but all those Halloween treats can haunt parents. How your kids can survive the sugar rush on this", "And good morning to you and happy Halloween. It is Monday, October 31st. Welcome to AMERICAN MORNING. I'm Carol Costello.", "Good morning, everybody, I'm Alina Cho. Christine and Ali are off today.", "Up first, the Herman Cain campaign has a controversy on its hands this morning. According to a report by \"Politico,\" the Republican front-runner was accused of sexual harassment by two women in the 1990s while he was head of the National Restaurant Association, a lobbying group. Cain's camp is denying the report, calling it \"untrue and an unfair attack.\" Earlier on AMERICAN MORNING, we spoke to Jonathan Martin of \"Politico,\" one of the reporters who broke the story, and he detailed the accusations that have been made by one of Cain's alleged victims.", "One of the women at one point was asked by Mr. Cain to come to his hotel room. And she complained, the woman did, to a board member at the organization about that request and she was one of the women who subsequently did leave the organization, got a cash payout.", "Let's get the latest on the Cain controversy from CNN deputy political director Paul Steinhauser. He joins us live from Washington this morning. Paul, Cain has these two big speeches later on today in Washington, D.C. I don't think reporters will be asking him about his nine-nine-nine economic plan.", "No, I think that's a safe bet, Carol. And Cain was confronted yesterday by Martin. \"Politico\" says they had been questioning Cain or had been looking for answers on this story for about 10 days. So yesterday Cain on the talk shows here in Washington, and Jonathan Martin asked him some questions. Take a listen.", "You won't tell me who they are. I'm not going to comment about two people who you won't tell me who they are, OK? I'm not going to comment on that because, you know, I think that is one of those kinds of things that --", "Yes or no?", "Thanks.", "Last question. Have you ever been accused of sexual harassment?", "OK, so that was Sunday morning. Let's fast-forward about 12 hours and the story breaking online. And the campaign quickly put out a statement. I reached out to J.D. Gordon, the communications director for the Herman Cain campaign. This is the statement they put out immediately after the story hit, and it goes, \"Fearing the message of Herman Cain, who is shaking up the political landscape in Washington, inside the beltway media have begun to launch unsubstantiated personal attacks on Cain, dredging up thinly sourced allegations stemming from Mr. Cain's tenure as the chief executive officer at National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. Political trade press are now casting aspersions on his character and spreading rumors that never stood up to the facts. Since Washington establishment critics haven't had much luck in attacking Mr. Cain's ideas to fix a bad economy and create jobs, they are trying to attack him any way they can. Sadly, we have seen this before, a prominent conservative targeted by liberals simply because they disagree with his politics.\" Carol, that statement is interesting because we talked about inside the beltway, Washington, conservatives being attacked by a liberal media. It seems that is one of the tactics the campaign is taking as they try to push back against these allegations.", "Well, it's difficult to get more information on these allegations because the two women in question, I guess they settled on five-figure settlements, both of them left their jobs, and they're under orders as a requirement of those settlements not to talk about the allegations. But when Jonathan Martin was questioning Herman Cain he said he did not know who these women were, and that kind of defies logic, doesn't it?", "It does seem a little odd. Now, we -- I think what's important today is how Herman Cain responds today. Yesterday is one matter. Now today he is aware of this story, his campaign is aware of this story. As you mentioned, he's got two very high-profile events in Washington. First this morning at about 9:00 a.m. eastern a speech at American Enterprise Institute, which is a think tank, and then later at noon, the National Press Club, he's got an event there as well. And as Jonathan Martin said, he will be there, we from CNN will be there and other members of the national press corps. So how he today responds to these questions is very, very important and could be vital to the success of his campaign, carol.", "Paul Steinhauser reporting for us from Washington, thank you.", "Thank you.", "I want to turn to \"shocktober\" or \"snowtober,\" as some are calling it, the Halloween dig-out, the aftermath of a rare and deadly October nor'easter, the storm dumping wet, slushy, heavy snow from Maryland all the way to Maine. Close to three feet of it in parts of New England, leaving millions without power and forcing so many people to cover up their Halloween costumes with coats. I hate that.", "I know. It kind of kills the whole idea of a costume at all, doesn't it? It was one of those weekends where travelers were in trouble, too. Forth-eight passengers stuck on an Amtrak train for 13 hours when a rockslide blocked the tracks in central Massachusetts. Train passengers were bussed to their destinations, finally, but it didn't happen until late yesterday afternoon.", "But as you said, at least they had a working bathroom. We're hearing stories that make it sound like they were in prison. We're talking about these plane passengers. One said he now knows what it's like to be incarcerated. Here's what happened. Passengers stranded on a JetBlue flight for seven hours as the winds howled outside. They say it was hard to breathe, the toilets were backed up, no food, no water. Just wait until you hear the cell phone calls from inside. We will play them for you.", "Yes, they're pretty horrific. Check out this iReport, time-lapse video of the storm from a backyard in oak ridge, New Jersey, autumn turning to winter before your very eyes. The iReporter says he ended up with 16 inches of snow. He set his camera to take a picture every minute for seven hours on Saturday.", "Well, in some areas, people are being told it could be a week or more before they get their power back. Chad Myers is live in York, Pennsylvania, this morning. Chad, good morning. Three- quarters-of-a-million people without power in that state, it is just unbelievable. What's the biggest problem there as you wake up this morning?", "The biggest problem, I think, is that people are waking up in very cold houses or they're waking up in hotel rooms right now and they're trying to put their lives back together. A lot of school districts have canceled or delayed the openings of the school. We are seeing a lot of frost on the windshields, temperatures down to 25 in our satellite truck this morning where we actually did try to turn it on, so that makes the car a little angry when you try to start it this morning. It's going to be a little stiff. I think, though, we're going to see the fog this morning, and that fog is going to at some point in time make black ice on the bridges and overpasses, and that black ice could have been a problem in Philadelphia as well. We'll take you back to Saturday morning at 3:00 a.m., Philadelphia. This is actually Bristol Township, not that far from Philly, I-95, 30 cars in a pileup. One car left the roadway and ended up landing on the roadway below. Two people killed in this crash here and we know of many crashes, even here in the York county area, up toward Bethlehem, on up toward Lancaster as well. People simply were going too fast for conditions and then visibility was down to about nothing. So, for today, some airport delays. Everything's going to be a little bit slow to go. Many of the airplanes will have frost on top. If the frost is thick enough, they will have to de-ice those planes. That may slow you down 10 or 15 minutes for those de-icers to come. We haven't seen any real significant airport delays yet, but I'm thinks as the big planes come in, that could slow you down. Other than that, it's been a fairly decent morning. Cars are moving. Everybody is little more cranky than they should be on a Monday morning, but they got through it, and now I think now it's just back to the recovery. Let me be very honest -- this snowstorm one month from now without leaves on trees is fairly irrelevant. On a Saturday or a Sunday, fairly irrelevant. Kids just go and play. But because the leaves are on the trees and power lines are down, at one point, 4 million customers were without power. That was the key to the storm, it was so early, not that it was so big.", "Right. It's nice to see people out so early this morning, chad, but they're cranky because they haven't had a shower. Chad Myers, thank you.", "That, too. And they can't make coffee.", "That's right. We'll check back with you later.", "That would make me really cranky. More than 4 million people across the northeast are waking up in the dark this morning. It was the perfect storm as far as power outages go -- wet, heavy snow snapping tree limbs that didn't even have a chance to shed their leaves yet, and that made those limbs so much heavier. It's a mess of branches and power lines all over New England, so many spending a second night without either heat or electricity. Utility crews are slowly making progress. Joining me now is David Graves, spokesperson for the National Grid, a utility company servicing parts of New England, including hard-hit Massachusetts. He joins us live from Rhode Island. Good morning, sir.", "Good morning.", "So, more than 600,000 customers impacted in Massachusetts. About half of them are part of the national grid. What's the latest on getting them back online?", "Well, we were able to restore service to about 78,000 customers in Massachusetts overnight. Unfortunately we still have about 340,000 customers without service, and that's really across the state from the Berkshires all the way eastward into the suburbs of Boston and up into the north shore. We have crews that worked overnight to get those customers back up. More crews went out this morning at sunrise, at 6:00 a.m., and they're going to be working through the day. Unfortunately for some customers we're looking at estimated restoration times of Thursday, late Thursday night, and it could be beyond that for some customers where the damage is most severe.", "OK, so, if I'm a customer who's looking at, what, Thursday or maybe longer for my electricity to be restored, I'm pretty angry. And although I realize that it's difficult to get crews out in bad weather, I'm thinking, why weren't you more prepared for this before the storm hit?", "Well, we were prepared. We began our planning process back on Thursday of last week to make sure that we had all of our crews available to us and all crews did report on Saturday afternoon. We also reached out to utility crews, outside contractors, and we did have crews coming in on Sunday from Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, and those will be supplemented today. Our initial forecast called for about -- the greatest accumulations out in western Massachusetts of about a foot. They actually had about two feet of snow, as the accumulations were also much higher throughout other parts of our service territory. So the storm was more severe than originally forecasted. We did have crews available to us. We still have those crews. We're adding to those crews now. What we had were thousands of trees that have come down. We've had in Massachusetts alone 11,000 reports of wires down just in Massachusetts. And we also serve all of the state of Rhode Island but portions of New Hampshire as well. So, the damage was significant and we're hearing it from every utility in the northeast. Listening to your reports, I think from Pennsylvania up through New York State, Connecticut into New England, every utility was hit very hard.", "David Graves, spokesperson for the National Grid, thanks for joining us this morning. And I do want to ask Reynolds Wolf was the forecast correct? Was the storm worse than expected?", "It was pretty much on the mark. The thing that's so unusual about it is just the timing of this. I mean, Chad put it beautifully. This event takes place a month from now, it's really not that big of a deal. It is the timing with the foliage on the trees certainly a tremendous difference-maker. We have an idea of what happened over the weekend. Obviously, we've been talking about that. Let's talk about what's happening right now. First and foremost, many people along parts of the eastern seaboard waking up with a freeze warning in effect, especially parts of the jersey shore, eastern long island and portions of the Delmarva peninsula with temperatures right at or below freezing in many spots. That's one big story we have going on. Another thing that's happening this morning much farther to the south in parts of Florida, scattered showers are popping up. In fact, some fairly heavy rainfall, especially in Miami back over to Ft. Myers and Tampa. And because the rain you have in Florida, that's where you're going to have plenty of delays. In fact, let's show you some of those. Miami, Orlando, and Tampa, delays possibly, I'd say under an hour or so. Might see the same in Detroit due to scattered showers, San Francisco, gusty winds might give you a wait or two on the tarmac. Meanwhile, in the Great Lakes, we are seeing that low pressure and that frontal boundary, bringing rain to parts of Detroit, scattered showers for parts of the central and northern Rockies, maybe snow at the highest elevations. And out west, relatively dry with the exception of Seattle and parts of, I'd say, yes, probably in Portland, might see some rain later on in the day. That's your forecast. Hey, guys, your turn. Back to you in New York.", "Thanks, Reynolds. Still to come this morning, the world's population hitting an historic milestone, 7 billion and counting.", "And what do millionaire NBA players and the Occupy Wall Street protesters have in common?", "It ain't money.", "Aren't they the 99 percent and the one percent? Well, more than you think is the answer, and we'll explain. It's 15 minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "ALINA CHO, CNN ANCHOR", "COSTELLO", "CHO", "COSTELLO", "CHO", "AMERICAN MORNING. 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{"id": "CNN-218098", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2013-11-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/04/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Eric Holder's \"I Told You So\"?", "utt": ["A strong I told you so today from the U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder, to all those who opposed his plans to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged 9/11 plotters in a New York City court.", "Not to be egocentric about this, but that I was right. I think that had we gone along the path that I announced at that time, we would not have had to close down half of Manhattan. It wouldn't have cost $200 million a year, and the defendants would be on death row as we speak.", "Holder's plans quickly collapsed in a sea of concern from Republicans in Congress and others that such a move potentially could endanger the United States. Joining us now to talk about this, our senior legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin. So you agree with Holder? Does he have a point that -- you know, that the U.S. should have closed Guantanamo, moved Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others to a courtroom in New York City for trial?", "Well, he has at least half a point, I think, because it is certainly true that over four years -- I mean, this was 2009 when he put that plan into -- or he tried to put that plan into effect, he would have -- his office, the Justice Department, would have gotten a conviction and would have gotten a death sentence. The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan has a perfect record on terrorism cases that the evidence against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is overwhelming. So I think he's right that they -- he would be on death row today. The question of whether Lower Manhattan would have been shut down because of antiterrorist precautions, whether it would have cost $200 million, whether there would have been a terrorist attack, you know, no one can know, but he certainly I think was right about the case itself.", "The $200 million comes from what the White House says it cost U.S. taxpayers to maintain that prison facility at Guantanamo Bay. In fact the president just issued a statement through his press secretary saying he remains fully committed to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Made clear that the Special Envoys have his full support as they work to facilitate the transfer of Guantanamo detainees. The press secretary adds, \"To the greatest extent possible the administration will continue transferring detainees who have been cleared to go to other countries. And we call again on Congress to lift the restrictions on detainee transfers, which have significantly limited our ability to responsibly reduce the detainee population and ultimately close the facility.\" I guess the question is, is Guantanamo ever going to be closed?", "That's a hard question because at the moment, President Obama does not have the legal authority to close it. As a result of this political debacle of trying to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the United States, Congress passed a law which President Obama reluctantly signed, saying the facility had to remain open. Now it is true that the administration one by one is trying to place those deemed ready for release around the world, but that's a slow and laborious process. Some of the people like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed himself will probably get military commissions and will probably be sentenced to death, but there is this other category of people for whom there is not enough evidence to try them, but our view is they're too dangerous to release. Their status remains very uncertain and they appear to be in a legal netherworld that will not end anytime in the foreseeable future at all.", "Jeffrey Toobin, with that, thank you as usual. Straight ahead a very different story. CNN's Jeanne Moos finds Jesus in a most unlikely place."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "ERIC HOLDER, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL", "BLITZER", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "TOOBIN", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-19624", "program": "Special Event", "date": "2000-11-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/09/se.06.html", "summary": "Bush Campaign Holds Press Conference", "utt": ["Arlene, I'm sorry I need to interrupt real quickly as we throw to Karen Hughes, who is George W. Bush's spokesperson. Hear what she has to say.", "It's virtually impossible to try to get back to all of you, and so we decided to have this briefing this afternoon in an effort to (OFF-MIKE) Governor Bush has spent the day primarily in meetings at the governor's mansion. He started the morning with an 8 a.m. meeting with members of his governor's office -- senior staff. He's also met with Condoleezza Rice -- Dr. Condi Rice, his chief foreign policy adviser. He has met several times with Secretary Cheney and with members of our senior staff and advisers. He had lunch with Secretary Cheney. This afternoon, he is meeting with Texas Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry (ph), and, again, talking about state business and how all of this affects the state of Texas. I'm now going to introduce to you the chairman of our campaign, Don Evans, and he has a statement from the campaign.", "Thank you, Karen, very much. Good afternoon, all of you. Thank you for coming. We've had a close vote for the presidency of the United States, especially in Florida, and we must now complete an accurate recount there. We are confident that an accurate recount will verify the results of Tuesday night, and that Florida's Electoral College votes will be awarded to Governor Bush and Secretary Cheney, giving then more than the 270 Electoral College votes required for the presidency. Vice President's Gore campaign did not like the outcome of Election Day. And it seems they're worried that they won't like the official recount results, either. In addition, my counterpart at the Gore campaign has made some statements about ballots in Palm Beach County that don't tell the whole story. He notes that 19,000 ballots have been invalidated for over counting, casting votes for two candidates of the same office. He neglects to point out that in 1966 -- 1996, a year with much lower turnout, a similar number of 14,872 ballots were invalidated for double-counting in Palm Beach County, and statewide, 143,000 ballots were invalidated for over-counting in 1996. The Democrats, who are politicizing and distorting these events, risk doing so at the -- at the expense of our democracy. One of the options that they seem to be looking at is new elections. Our democratic process calls for a vote on Election Day; it does not call for us to continue voting until someone likes the outcome. Throughout this process it's important that no party to this election act in a precipitous manner or distort an existing voting pattern in an effort to misinform the public. This process requires a thoughtful, calm, serious and transparent effort.", "And that is exactly why Governor Bush and Secretary Cheney asked that former Secretary James Baker lead this effort on their behalf. I would now like to ask our campaign chief strategist, Karl Rove, to brief you on some of the specifics of Florida and around the country. Thank you.", "Thank you, Chairman. I'd like to address three points. First of all, there were allegations raised today about a disproportionate number of votes cast in Palm Beach County for Pat Buchanan. Not that we're defending Pat Buchanan, but to set the record straight, there are 16,695 voters in Palm Beach County who registered as a member of the Independent Party, the Reform Party or the American Reform Party, which were the labels borne this year by the reform effort in Florida. This in an increase of 110 percent over the registration totals for the same party in 1996. Throughout the rest of Florida, the registration increase for these parties was roughly 38 percent. There are disproportionate share of Reform Party members in Palm Beach County. For example, while there are 16,695 Palm Beach County residents who have registered in the Reform Party, in the nearby county of Broward, there are only 476 individuals registered to this party. The second thing that was talked about was the so-called confusing butterfly ballot. The Gore campaign has been handing out a somewhat hazy and fuzzy copy of it, so we are making available to you, and can do so electronically as well, a relatively clean and clear copy of the butterfly ballot, which indicates that this is not as susceptible to confusion as Chairman Daley indicated. In fact, I really thought it was ironic that Chairman Daley went to great lengths to decry the butterfly ballot as confusing and undemocratic, because I have here the copy of the Cook County, Illinois, judicial ballot, which is a butterfly ballot.", "It's been used in a number of states, in a number of counties, and it's historically been used in Cook County, Illinois. Maybe Mr. Daley's in a better place to decry democracy and confusion in Cook County than he is in Florida, if that's really the case. I'd also like to update you briefly on the fact that there are a continuing series of vote counts around the country which are going to affect the outcome of this election. In Colorado, there are approximately 10,000 votes, most of them from northwest Colorado, which have yet to be counted. I talked to the governor's office in Arizona. There are 168,000 absentee ballots which are still in the process of being counted in that state, 90-some-odd thousand of them are machine ballots, 60-some- odd thousand of them are hand-count ballots. Most of these ballots are from Maricopa County where we ran better than two-to-one or 2.5- to-one among the absentee ballots that have been counted so far. In addition, there continues to be a vote in Oregon. There are two counties in southern Oregon where they are still counting. And this is good turf for Governor Bush. And there are approximately between 570,000 and 700,000 mail-in ballots yet to be counted in the state of Washington. And I discussed this morning with the secretary of state's office in California that there might be as many as 1 million absentee ballots yet to be counted in California. So we are confident that this will carry with it the likelihood of an increasing number of popular votes for Governor Bush and a diminishing margin between the two candidates. I have copies here, which I'll be happy to provide to you afterwards, of the butterfly ballot from Cook County, Illinois. But we'd be happy to take questions. Yes, sir?", "You don't think that it is at all strange that are 43 times more votes who voted for Pat Buchanan in Palm Beach County (", "Well, I think -- the question was, do we think that there is a discrepancy with the fact that this is one of the more liberal counties in the country, that Pat Buchanan got a large number of votes there? There are also -- he received -- roughly 5 percent of the statewide funds raised for this race in 2000 came from Palm Beach County and out of the state of Florida, roughly 5 percent of the state-wide total. And second of all, look, there are lots of Reform Party -- Reform Party members are more likely to vote for their nominee than are people who are not registered in the Reform Party.", "And the interesting thing to me is, is that between '96 and 2000 the Reform Party labels in this county enjoyed a registration increase of 110 percent, which would tend to indicate that the people who are changing their registrations were motivated and enthusiastic, while in the rest of the state the party label only saw an increase of 38 percent. So I think that 110 percent indicates the new converts to the Reform Party in that part of the state are probably more likely to be enthusiastic for voting for their candidate this fall.", "I'm the numbers guy. I'd be happy to yield to the chairman.", "Well, I think the important thing to focus on right now is the outcome of the recount, and that's where really our focus is. Do you need to be thinking about governing the country? Certainly you do. I mean, we know what the results were from election night, and so it's only appropriate that the governor begin to think about governing this country. But right now we're focused on the recount that we think will be concluded today, and once we get that recount then we'll be making a statement from there.", "Well, again, I mean we had a count on Election Day; this is the recount, and it's an automatic recount. And so I think if the recount shows that -- it confirms the Election Day results, which said that Governor Bush had been elected president of the United States, then I think it's only appropriate that, yes, he be thinks that's final.", "I think the networks were the ones who declared the official (OFF-MIKE) that he won. And in this recount, it seems that there's been a diminishing of the margin between Governor Bush and Al Gore so far. If that margin stays small enough then the remaining overseas absentee ballots are probably more numerous than that margin, will you have to wait before you begin to act as (OFF-MIKE)", "Well, the overseas ballots have been traditionally overwhelmingly Republican. Bob Dole won them by 15 points in 1996 and in 1992. So I think the Democrats have conceded that the -- the overseas ballots are likely to be -- be Republican, and we agree with them. Let me mention...", "Well, their spokesmen have been quoted to that effect, yes. Let me add -- speaking of automatic recounts. I want to alert you that there are at least three other states in which automatic recounts are likely. The state of Wisconsin, the -- Gore's lead has shrunk to 5,050 votes. I've talked to Governor Thompson's chief of staff this morning, who says that he believes that after the Tuesday canvas, this will fall under a standard that may require a recount or offer the opportunity of a recount. In the state of Iowa, the margin is now just several thousand votes between Vice President Gore and Governor Bush. And this -- and several ballot boxes from, we think, Republican counties have yet to be counted. This may fall under the -- the automatic trigger that is -- that exists in Iowa law.", "And there's also a recount going on, as we speak, in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, Albuquerque, the largest county in the state; 27,000 ballots were not counted on Election Night, and so they're rerunning the Bernalillo County vote as we speak. That will be concluded about 10 tonight. I talked to Senator Domenici earlier today, who said he anticipated that Governor Bush would pick up a significant number of votes, though it's unclear whether they are enough for us to carry New Mexico.", "Pardon me?", "Is the campaign ready to take steps to support a recount in those two states?", "Well, Iowa may be an automatic recount, simply because it falls under an automatic trigger. We are waiting to see the results of the canvass Tuesday night in Wisconsin, and to be guided by Governor Thompson in this respect.", "Well, as I say, Iowa is an automatic recount. The error in New Mexico was discovered jointly by the Bush and Republican campaigns and election officials, and they're rerunning that without any...", "Not at this time.", "Not at this time.", "What do you think the country should be taking away from this? As it is, the republic doesn't know who the next president is. And now today, there's a marked escalation in the rhetoric, accusations about fair play or unfair play, with regard to politicizing the process. What should be people make of all this?", "Well, I think the country should look at the way the two campaigns are approaching this. We have approached this in a calm, in a thoughtful, in a responsible way. Governor Bush and Secretary Cheney asked Secretary Baker to travel to Florida on their behalf. He's someone -- a man of enormous integrity, in whom the American people can feel great confidence. The process is being governed by our laws. It is -- obviously, sometimes in a nation of elections, sometimes elections are close.", "But we do have a process. The law in Florida has an automatic recount. There has been a final vote count that showed that Governor Bush carried the state of Florida and therefore was elected to the presidency on Tuesday night. There is now an automatic recount under way under Florida law, and I think the American people can be reassured that that recount is being conducted in a careful and thoughtful and calm and responsible way.", "Well, I think that some of the comments made at the news conference earlier today were somewhat shrill. I think that it's troubling that Chairman Daley is making an issue without giving you all all the facts about the ballots, which Karl just explained. I mean, I think it's certainly interesting that they're talking about double-counting. Under our laws, if someone votes twice for the same office that is an invalid ballot. And that not only occurred in this election, but it occurred in the 1996 election in comparable numbers in the same county which they're talking about, and I think that is an important fact that the American people need to know that unfortunately Chairman Daley omitted from his news conference.", "Where is the documentary evidence on the actual (inaudible) Palm Beach County that those (inaudible) votes that you claim were invalidated because they were people voting twice?", "My understanding -- well, first of all, let me make clear about Palm Beach County. The butterfly ballot and the ballot that was used in Palm Beach County was prepared by the election authorities in that county, who are led by an elected Democrat. Democrats designed the ballot, Democrats ran the Election Day, Democrats led the count of the ballot. My understanding is is that the program in the machines is designed to detect instances where an individual votes for two candidates for the same office and automatically rejects those. This is done by the computer scanning the ballot and identifying a simple logic question for the computer: Did the person vote for one candidate or two candidates for this office?", "Do you have a magic number in mind after the recount above which you'll feel justified in saying \"OK, it's over with (OFF- MIKE)", "Well, our view is that this is a process that on Tuesday night yielded a winner. Tonight, we're confident, or tomorrow when the numbers are -- we're confident that we will be ahead. And the process ought to move forward. We cannot stop and wait until the last ballot struggles in in Washington state or the last ballot struggles in in Arizona or Iowa or Wisconsin before a orderly and necessary set of steps are taken.", "Do you expect (", "We're going to wait and see.", "(OFF-MIKE) Is it possible a lot of that happened before (", "Well, it could have, but I would remind you that earlier this year, one of the issues involved with the control of the Reform Party was who were registered members who could then vote for delegates to the national nominating convention of the Reform Party. And as you recall, Pat Buchanan made an extraordinary effort to take his existing support, garnered during the '96 presidential contest, and get them to register as Reform Party members this year. Now, remember this is a county that in 1996 gave 8,000 votes in the Republican presidential primary to Pat Buchanan. This is a county where he has an active, core group of volunteers, lead by a relative. And this is a county that has been a disproportionate share of his money, out of the state of Florida, and it's a part of the country where there are enclaves of strong conservatives. And, yes, I suspect that if you go back and examine the record, you will find that the reason for the dramatic expansion of the registration rolls is the effort of Pat Buchanan to make certain that he was the nominee of the Reform Party. Remember, Florida was originally a non-Buchanan state, was in the Reform Party. In fact, the anti-Buchanan chairman came from Florida.", "Karl, you said a (OFF-MIKE) number of uncounted ballots across the country, and the number of ballots that would be recounted in various states, are you suggesting that truly there's a chance that Governor Bush will move ahead in the popular vote?", "Well, I just -- I suggest that we're likely to see the margin close. And we ought to -- if we're going to make -- if people are going to make strong statements based on the popular vote, as it exists now, we -- we ought to temper them, because there are a large number of -- of popular votes still outstanding. I'm not suggesting that the absentee ballots will necessarily change the outcome in Arizona, they won't. Our margin in Arizona will continue to rise. I'm not certain that they will change the outcome in California, though, I do believe that -- that the margin between Vice President Gore and us in California is likely to diminish.", "I can assure you, there's not going to be a party tonight. As you know, we're meeting at the Dell Community Center because every facility in the city of Austin is booked. And while we're grateful for Michael Dell's gift to the community -- to the people of Austin, in the community center, there's physically no place to do it.", "How is the governor doing? What's going through his mind?", "Well, obviously, the governor is very interested in the situation in Florida. He is receiving regular updates from Secretary Baker. He is very calm. He's upbeat. I spoke to him by telephone early this morning, and he told me I had better get to the office because there was a lot going on. And he said that it sounded from my voice like I was sleepy. Unfortunately, it was that I was sleepy, it was just that I'm losing my voice from talking so much. He is upbeat. He has been in a series, as I said, all day of meetings, and is beginning to think through, as Chairman Evans indicated -- beginning to through some of the planning for a transition, should the vote tonight confirm that that is, in fact, the outcome of this election.", "Does he not have some concern that all the controversy surrounding this will have some impact on his presidency, should he prevail, that this will always be a cloud over the presidency?", "Well, David, first of all, I would point out that Governor Bush, in this election, has received more popular votes than President Clinton did in either of his two elections, in either 1996 or in 1992.", "So Governor Bush has obviously earned a great deal of support and the confidence of the American people in the course of this election. We'll let you -- we'll have to see the results of today's recount. There is a recount -- an automatic recount under way. We've had one final count, on Tuesday night, and now we've got a recount under way.", "I wouldn't say a great deal of time at this point. There have been some discussions -- some preliminary discussions. As you know, those started back before the election, and both candidates, both campaigns -- I think all responsible campaigns realize that you need to do some preliminary planning prior to even Election Day. So there are some discussions. But I would say that most of our staff time, most of our discussions and most of Governor Bush's time today has been -- he's talked with his state officials on state government business. He's also been receiving -- I think most of the meeting that I was in with him we were getting an update on the situation in Florida.", "Well, under our American democratic system what matters is who earns 270 Electoral College votes. But I was just pointing out that I do think the people who raise the issue of the popular vote, it is interesting to look at it in context and realize that Governor Bush earned more popular votes than President Clinton did during both of his two previous elections -- Don.", "Well, I think that all these \"if\" questions start with \"if\" for a reason. And I think what we'll have to do is -- we'll be glad to answer those kind of questions once this recount is complete.", "Karl?", "All right. There's -- officially, when you're talking about large quantities of votes there tend to be differences. But what's interesting to me is, of the 67 counties in Florida, there are either exactly the same results or virtually the same results, that is to say within 1, or 2, or 3, or 4, or 5 votes, in probably 63 of the 67 counties or 64 -- or 62 of the 67 counties. The changes in the ballots have been largely isolated to several counties, the most prominent of which is Palm Beach. In fact, we have sent a letter to the Palm Beach authorities raising a question, because if you look at the number of ballots that they said on Election Night had been cast in the county and compare it to the precinct-by-precinct canvass that was conducted yesterday, the number of ballots in each of those reports, the Tuesday night report and the Wednesday report, are virtually the same.", "However, if you look at their certification to the state, they show 800 more ballots than they had either on Tuesday night, or that you could arrive at by looking at the precinct-by-precinct summaries; 600 votes for Vice President Gore and 200 votes, roughly, for Governor Bush. So this is a disturbing difference. But, look, it's not unusual to have a one- or two-point -- or one- or two-vote difference in a county tabulation. What's interesting to me, is how many counties reflected no difference and how many counties had only one or two. But the one county that has the largest discrepancy between Tuesday night's vote total and Wednesday's canvass, and then the number that they're apparently submitting to the state is Palm Beach County.", "... does it look the same way, the...", "They're -- no, the first page is different. On the butterfly ballot in Chicago they placed the presidential race on a different page from -- you have to turn that page in order to get there. You would have to turn it back, from here.", "I know, but one of questions is, is it laid out the same way? You're suggesting that the county was equally as confusing, that that's what it is to Palm Beach.", "What I'm suggesting is, Bill Daley's standard, which is, you should not use a butterfly ballot, because it is undemocratic and confusing, is questionable, given the fact that Cook County uses the same ballot, as do the state of Ohio, for example, and a large number of other states.", "(OFF-MIKE) it doesn't look like that for the office of president, does it?", "I can't recall the specifics of that page. But it's a butterfly ballot, which is -- which is the point of his remarks.", "Pardon me? It's the same structure, yes. There are holes beside each one of these arrows. So you can have the same situation.", "Well, here you have -- yes, you can have three names right here. Here's one, here's one and here's one. You could have three options next to one name. Yes, ma'am?", "I believe that we have an Election Day for the purpose of having an election. And in this country at least we don't follow the practice of some other countries in the world and hold elections and hold elections until somebody gets the outcome that they desire -- in the place that they want to have the election.", "Given that the polls were open later (OFF-MIKE) more than likely Democratic candidates. What's your thought?", "It was in the city of St. Louis the polls were kept open for some hours after the close of the polls in the rest of the state. I know Senator Kit Bond feels very strongly about this. We've not taken a position on it. It does affect the outcome, we think, of the presidential race. They're compiling information about how much it may have affected the presidential contest, but we've taken no steps beyond that. Thank you.", "Thank you all very much. Thank you.", "If, in fact, you get the announcement in Florida, whatever it is, will we see your face again? (", "I will be glad to brief you no matter what the outcome is. As soon as we know an outcome, we will let you know and we'll have some sort of formal briefing and let you know. We'll let you know.", "No, it was not.", "I'm sorry? I don't know that decision's been made yet. We will keep you posted.", "Tonight?", "Again, if we know tonight. We don't know for certain yet -- the secretary of state requested that all the counties certify the recount by 5 p.m. today.", "We do not know yet whether that, in fact, will be accomplished. There's no -- almost all of them have completed, that's correct. I believe there are still eight or nine that have not completed it. So we just have to wait until we hear from the state of Florida.", "Again, those are the types of decisions we'll have to make once we complete the recount. Thank you all.", "All right, Bush campaign officials meeting with reporters in Austin, Texas, about one, the recount, which you saw on your screen numbers being posted by Associated Press. There are about six Florida counties remaining before that recount has been completed. They had said 5:00 p.m. Eastern would be the completion time: both campaigns saying they're not sure that they can be held to that. One of the purposes of this briefing with reporters in Austin was to challenge some of the Democratic assertions about several matters regarding voting in Palm Beach County, Florida. Bill Schneider, senior political analyst, is with us. One point was that Pat Buchanan got an inordinate number of votes, something the Democrats say was an irregularity. I guess that's how they put it. Republicans are saying, because of the 110 percent increase since 1996 in the number of registered voters belonging to the Independent, Reform, or American Reform Party, that accounts for that.", "That's a tough argument to make. And I, frankly, don't know that Karl Rove and the Bush campaign really want to go down that path. Even Pat Buchanan has gone on air in an interview and said he doesn't think all those people in Palm Beach County meant to vote for him. And he doesn't claim all those votes. It was an extraordinary number of voters. I think it was something like 17 percent of his vote in Florida came from Palm Beach County. Even Pat Buchanan says unlikely. So I'm not sure that it is wise for Bush campaign to be defending the validity of the Buchanan vote in Palm Beach. There are arguments they can make, but that's not their best one.", "The second argument that Karl Rove wanted to make was about the so-called confusing butterfly ballot, which 19,000 of have been tossed out in Palm Beach County, because of double-punching. The way it was laid out, they said, was, in the words of the Democrats: \"confusing and undemocratic.\" Also, the former secretary of state said it was illegal. So there's some debate in Florida about this ballot and Karl Rove holding up the Cook County ballot, saying here is a butterfly ballot for you. That's what you were talking about earlier, you run down this road in Florida and you are going to have to run down other roads in other places.", "That's right. It's an indication that the Bush campaign is fully prepared to raise challenges all over the country. Karl Rove and Karen Hughes talked about recounts going on in states that Gore carried very narrowly, like Iowa, Wisconsin and New Mexico. What, essentially, they are doing, is saying to the Bush -- to the Gore campaign: if you try to get us on technicalities in Florida, we are going to get you on technicalities in Iowa, Wisconsin, New Mexico and possibly Oregon. We don't have a winner there yet; that Gore may have carried very narrowly. This is a very treacherous path. I mean, one of the questioners talked about escalation in the rhetoric that we've seen and the politicization of this process. This is very dangerous for people on both sides.", "What are some of the dangers here?", "The dangers are that the country will suddenly have doubts about the validity of the process. The dangers are that the candidates will look like they will do anything to win and ruin their own reputations and ability to lead the country by winning a disputed election. By hook or crook, they're desperate to win. And also, you know, there's a danger here that they can, I think, create a constitutional problem. You know, they can throw this whole process into the courts, delay the Electoral College vote. Look, there's no question that there was confusion over the ballot in Palm Beach County and that the results are extremely anomalous. They don't look logical. But that's the case in a lot places around the country. And at some point, you have to say, you know, where -- and the candidates have to say this. They have to say, the results are there. You know, we have to accept them. They have to preserve their political standing in this process, too. And I think that by getting involved in this kind of squabble, they are not doing themselves any good.", "Now, we're siting here, waiting for the Florida recount to become complete. When that happens, I don't know, some time maybe before 7:00 p.m. Eastern tonight. But both sides were asked today when that recount is completed, if your man is ahead, will you declare yourself a winner? That question was asked of both campaigns and neither campaign answered the question.", "Well, I think they are waiting to see what the margin is. I mean, the margin for Bush has been diminishing in Florida. It's now, with 61 counties recounted, it's now only 405 votes. Well, let's assume the margin stays at about that level, a few hundred votes when the results are announced. I think it will be hard to declare yourself a winner and have victory celebrations, and transition teams. That would be inadvisable because you have a couple of thousand, my recollection is 2,300 overseas ballots yet to be counted. They could easily change that margin. You are, provisionally, perhaps, the winner and you may claim to be the winner based on the counting around the country and number of electoral votes called. But I wouldn't have any big celebrations yet. That appears arrogant and presumptuous. Again, don't politicize this process. If it is that close when the count is in, you better wait until every single last vote is counted there and in other states that Karl Rove said ballots are still being counted, including maybe a million in California.", "Because he mentioned all these votes that still haven't been counted, he seemed especially sensitive about the amount of the popular vote and the fact that Democrats have been saying Al Gore has, so far, gotten the greatest number of popular votes, therefore, whatever.", "Just the national popular vote, which is the number that has moral standing and has political standing but it has no constitutional standing. The only number that has constitutional standing is the electoral vote. Two hundred and seventy are needed to win. If a president is elected with the electoral vote, according to the Constitution, but loses the popular vote, then there are questions about his legitimacy as the man who won the election. There are moral questions. He can still take office and I think people wouldn't dispute it. And I think he would be able to govern. But he would have to be very, very cautious about what kind of mandate he is claiming because he came in second in the popular vote. That's why Karl Rove was saying that the popular vote may diminish, but he took care to say he did not think it was necessarily going to be reversed. That's a problem concerning the Electoral College and my guess is if it turns out that the guy becomes president didn't win the popular vote, there's going to be a lot of proposals about changing the Electoral College system.", "Weird question: what is happening tomorrow? What are the candidates talking with their advisers about?", "How far to push this thing, what is it worth to win this election. Is it worth creating a constitutional crisis? Is it worth looking desperate to win? Is it worth compromising your ability to lead the country to win the election? Both candidates have to ask that question: How far should we push this? Do you want to win on a technicality or not?", "Senior political analyst Bill Schneider. Natalie Allen, what is next?", "Well, in a couple of minutes, since Bill said that Bush's lead had diminished to four or five, it has been diminished again, apparently with 62 of the 67 counties reporting. As you can see, Bush ahead in the recount by 341 votes. CNN's Mike Boettcher is posted in Tallahassee. He's watching the numbers come in as well -- Mike.", "It's been changing over the last 15 minutes. It went from 58 to 60 to 61, now to 62. So, we have five more counties remaining. And as you said, that vote gap beginning to narrow even more with five counties left. This is the process for the rest of the day: When all of the counties are reported today, and they expect that they will by fax or by phone, there will be a press conference here, the initial one was scheduled between 5:00 and 5:30 by the head of the division of elections here in Florida. They will announce the totals, but that could be delayed. It could go into the evening hours. Tomorrow they hope to receive the official recount notifications from the various counties. Those should be sent here, and then recount becomes more official. Now that's different from certification. Within seven days of the election, which would be a week from last Tuesday, the election must be certified by the county level and then by the state election commission. And then, within 10 days after that, we have to have the overseas ballots certified. So, it's still a process that is going to drag out for a few days. But the most important thing we have right now on our table, the recount, seems close to being over -- Natalie.", "And Mike, will they continue to add to the count after today and make it public as far as the effects these absentee ballots are having on the final count as they come in? Has the state said how it is going to handle that?", "That's a very good question and I will find that out for you. I can't answer that exactly. What they keep telling us is, is that they have to certify those ballots within 10 days. And it is a matter, really, if you divide it between ballots received on election day and before and ballots received after election day. They'll keep continual tabs on those but they're kept at the county level. They are not sent in to the state, the ballots aren't. Those overseas ballots are sent back to the counties and then the counties must get those totals within that 10-day period and then certify them and then have them sent up to the state for certification. The big question is how many of those ballots are still out there, and, frankly, nobody knows, and no one is saying. And it's a very difficult figure and all they can go by is history. Four years ago there were 2,300 of those ballots that were returned in the presidential election. And the majority of those, 54 percent, went to Dole and the rest went to President Clinton, even though Clinton won the state. So, that's the other thing to look for if this narrows up even more because that could make a difference. So, we might not know for several days if this figure keeps in that 300, 400 area that it is right now, 341 to be exact. The gap between Governor Bush and Vice President Gore -- Natalie.", "And so, again, they had hoped that this recount would be finished up by the end of business day, today, which would be 5:00 p.m. Eastern but they may or may not make that, correct?", "My gut tells me that they will make it. But they had said that they want to be absolutely sure, and they are kind of at the mercy of the counties out there. If they have five counties remaining, there's nothing, really, that the division of elections here can do about that if the counties drag behind. Basically, all they are doing up there is adding those figures. They are not inspecting ballots or anything else. They are taking the figures from the counties and adding them up. So, if there are five counties -- and we'll try to identify what five counties those are -- if those five counties are running behind, well, we are just going to have to wait on those five counties. But we are going to try to find out now what those are.", "OK, well, we will keep in contact with you, then. Mike Boettcher in Tallahassee, thanks. Of course, the one county that Democrats have a lot of questions about, regarding how this vote took place there, is Palm Beach County. 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{"id": "CNN-402975", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-06-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/17/cnr.19.html", "summary": "English Premier League Back In Action With Two Matches", "utt": ["The Indian army says it's meeting with Chinese military leaders to defuse a dispute that has left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead. What India called a violent face-off took place over a disputed border between the two countries in the Himalayan mountains. A large buildup of troops has reportedly been taking place for weeks on both sides of the border. Sources tell CNN U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo is set to meet with Chinese officials in Hawaii on Wednesday. CNN producer Vedika Sud joins us now from New Delhi. These deadly clashes, the first in 45 years in the border area, are extraordinary escalation intentions. Tell us what happened.", "This is going to lead to heightened tensions in the next few days. We have been hearing from the Indian government and the Indian army ever since May, when the first standoff was reported between the two sides and the line of action control, one of the largest undymarket (ph) borders in the world. What we got to know from them and the defense minister of India over the last few weeks is that things are being sorted out at a military and diplomatic level. On the night of the 15th of June, things suddenly changed and turned around. There have been 20 deaths as far as the Indian army was concerned. This has been a huge setback for the Indian army. It comes at a time when there are talks on the two sides. On the 6th of June, the top military representatives from India and China met. They decided they would go ahead and withdraw the troops from the disputed area. The understanding had taken place nine days before this incident took place. On the 15th night, there was a violent standoff between both sides, according to the army, which led to 20 Indian army personnel, including the commanding officer, dying at the spot. And, also we do know from the Indian army statement that there were casualties on both sides, something that China has not owned up to yet.", "They have not come out with the casualty figures. This is a huge setback for the bilateral ties between the two countries, especially after last year, when, in October, you saw the leaders of both countries in south India. And that was known as a reset of the Wuhan spirit, where prime minister Modi met with the Chinese president two years ago as well. So this is a huge blow to the diplomatic ties between the two countries. The opposition within our country of India is now demanding answers from no one else but the prime minister. They say it is time he tells us what exactly happened on June 15th. Why did we have so much army personnel dying in that disputed area between India and China -- Anna.", "Vedika Sud, joining us from New Delhi, we appreciate the update. Thank you. Another area of escalating tension is the Korean Peninsula. After blowing up the joint liaison building in the DMZ on Tuesday, North Korea followed up with threats of military deployment along the border. Kim Jong-un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, says inter-Korean talks are over, calling South Korea's president \"a pro U.S. flunky.\" So it is pushing back.", "Such a move can immediately thwart (ph) the efforts and achievements made by the two Koreas to maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula. And the North will surely pay if these measures are put into action.", "Our Kristie Lu Stout joins us now from Hong Kong. Kristie, is this the death knell for relations between North and South Korea?", "The tension is certainly spiking between North and South Korea right now, after North Korea destroyed the inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong in North Korea. This morning, following a flurry of announcements from KCNA, the North Korean state-run news agency, including the announcement that the North Korean military planned to re-enter Kaesong and other DMZ areas, effectively unraveling what was achieved in 2018 during those historic landmark inter-Korean talks. We also learned that North Korea flatly rejects the offer from South Korea to send envoys across the border to help defuse the tension. There was also a lengthy statement published by Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Kim Jong-un, in which she slams the South Korean president Moon Jae-in. She says she, quote, \"despises him\" and calls him a two-faced liar. In the last two hours, we have heard from the office of the president of South Korea. This is what the spokesperson had to say.", "We have also received a statement from the Blue House, saying this. Quote, \"This harms the trust that the two Korean leaders have built in its roots and we clearly warn that we will no longer endure North Korea's senseless comments and actions like these.\" The actions that we have seen North Korea take after the threats is a real slap in the face for the administration of the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, which has been a champion of engagement. It was just two years ago when we saw the historic scene of the South Korean president and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un holding hands as they crossed the border together -- Anna.", "Yes, how times have changed. Kristie Lu Stout, many thanks. We appreciate it. John Delury is in Seoul, South Korea. He is an associate professor at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies. He joins us now. John, great to have you with us. Why did North Korea do this now? Balloons with propaganda leaflets have flown over the DMZ for years. What tipped them over the edge?", "Yes, that is a great question, Anna. And I am not sure any of us really know. My own speculation is that we might be seeing sort of the results of a postponed plan that we would have seen earlier in the year, were it not for coronavirus, which put North Korea on pause, just like it put the whole world on pause. But if you remind yourself of where we were, back in December of last year, CNN reported on North Korea threatening a Christmas gift. North Korea experts were expecting the year to get off to a very, very rocky start and I do think that COVID sort of set that back. Now we're seeing it play out and really, all of last year, inter- Korean relations were pretty hostile, making no progress. And I think now North Korea feels ready to really push out on that and act on some of the issues that they feel strongly about.", "I agree with you, I don't think leaflets are really the key issue.", "North Korea had been making threats since last week. They have followed through with their actions. But surely, that does not bode well for its new threats of military action against South Korea.", "If you are looking at these North Korean statements, demolishing the liaison office, that's just the beginning. Kim Jong- un's sister talked about a series of actions. So that's the first. They have already started following through on the others. They are moving military assets into the ironically named demilitarized zone. There will be an increased chance of an altercation between the two Koreas and their disputed maritime border on the West Sea or the Yellow Sea. And also, we have to consider the possibility that this suddenly shifts back into the North Korea-U.S. channel, because at anytime, we could have a major test of missile capability or nuclear capability. And that sparks that whole fire again, which has been dormant, hasn't it, for quite awhile. So the signals are very negative in terms of North Korea being ready to go another round. And today, the Blue House response, they are kind of, I guess, trying to match the rhetoric. I am not sure how well that will play out. It could accelerate the process of conflict that we are seeing emerge.", "You mentioned Kim Jong-un's sister, Kim Yo Jong. She's playing quite a prominent role in this. What do you make of that and why do you think Kim Jong-un is giving her the limelight?", "The thing about Kim Yo Jong is she has been a key player for years now. She has been steadily moving her way up the ladder. And we have seen her portfolio expanding. I think experts can have legitimate disagreements about this. But I think there's some misinterpretation that this has to do with succession, because also I think we misinterpreted that something was wrong with Kim Jong-un. So we are conflating all of these things together. I think Kim Yo Jong has proven herself over many years. She has earned the trust of her brother, maybe of others in the senior hierarchy. And she has been expanding her portfolio. Within North Korean traditions, family members have played very important roles, including brothers and sisters of the leader over the long history, over the decades. So there is plenty of precedent for her role. And so, she has emerged as a real power player. And obviously, her brother trusts her. It's very important that she is -- Kim Jong-un has remained aloof from this. He is not commenting publicly. There was a politburo meeting and Kim Jong-un evidently talked about the chemical industry. They was nothing of all this so they are leaving room for him to step in at some point, possibly to de- escalate. But I think we are a ways away from that.", "Together, they are a formidable duo. John, how much of this is aimed at the United States?", "That's another very good question. Right now, its focus, North Korea's anger, is focused towards the South, the situation is actually contained when it is purely an inter-Korean context. As Kristie Lu Stout pointed out, no one was hurt. Compare that to what we are seeing on the India-China border, where 20 people lost their lives. No one was hurt and, actually, not a single South Korean, as far as I know, has been killed in any conflict with North Korea since Kim Jong-un took power. As long as that's the case, there's a lot of symbolic conflict but it is still symbolic. The situation actually gets more dangerous and unstable is if and when it shifts over to that nuclear and missile kind of threat, exchange with the United States. The United States is very unstable right now in terms of its domestic politics. I would be very concerned how President Trump would respond to a direct challenge by Kim Jong-un. They are not signaling that at this stage. At any point, though, I would not be surprised if it suddenly shifts over from the inter-Korean context to a North Korea-U.S. context.", "Yes, watch this space. John Delury, great to have your insight. Many thanks. Well, you're watching CNN NEWSROOM. Still to come, jumping for joy. The world's most popular football league returns. It's been a long 100 days and project restart can't happen soon enough for the fans."], "speaker": ["COREN", "VEDIKA SUD, CNN PRODUCER", "SUD", "COREN", "JEON DONG-JIN, SOUTH KOREAN ARMY JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF (through translator)", "COREN", "KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN ANCHOR", "STOUT", "COREN", "JOHN DELURY, YONSEI UNIVERSITY  GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES", "DELURY", "COREN", "DELURY", "COREN", "DELURY", "COREN", "DELURY", "COREN"]}
{"id": "CNN-260869", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-07-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/30/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Campus Cop Arraigned on Murder Charges", "utt": ["The bond will be $1 million anyway.", "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a courtroom. You will conduct yourselves at all times appropriately. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a courtroom. You will conduct yourselves at all times appropriately. The next date is August 19th at 9:00 a.m. is the defendant waiving time? The next date is August 19th at 9:00 a.m. Is the defendant waiving time?", "At this point he is not, Judge.", "Very good. Gentlemen, I'll see you all here August 19th at 9:00 a.m.", "All right. A bit of drama in Hamilton County, Ohio, in Cincinnati. That was Officer Ray Tensing. He's accused of murder in shooting an unarmed black man during a routine traffic stop earlier this month. Jean Casarez was inside the courtroom. I have her now on the phone. Jean, where did the cheering come from?", "Carol, it was really something in there. First of all, it wasn't that large of a courtroom but it wasn't that small of a courtroom. It was packed. Four different rows completely packed. People lining the walls until the family couldn't get in, and Attorney Mark O'Mara representing him walked in, and he seems like to talk with court officials for maybe 10 minutes because the family was here. They were standing outside and while they were standing outside, family members said that we want to go in there. We want to see this defendant, this police officer, because he says that he is devastated by this. Well, we're devastated by this and we want to be in there. So they finally asked members of the community if they would give up their seats to the family, and so people readily did, and they walked in, and the proceeding, as you saw, was very short, very brief, but when that $1 million bail was announced by the judge, the family members of this young victim just started to clap and cheer and try to stand up. A few members of the community but really the family members of Sam DuBose, and at that point you saw the judge just absolutely stamping down, this is a court of law. I think they were exuberant, maybe not expecting a $1 million bail. As far as the defendant, we heard that his father was in the courtroom today, that packed courtroom. We don't know where he was or exactly who he was, but the defendant himself looked serious, looked stressed, and scared, and he was handcuffed as he walked in.", "All right. Jean Casarez, thanks so much. Very interesting doings this morning. To talk about this more I'm joined by legal analyst and criminal defense attorney Joey Jackson and the former commissioner of the Boston Police Department Ed Davis. Thanks to you both for being here.", "Sure, Carol. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol.", "So, Joey, just your reaction to what happened in the courtroom?", "You know, it's a preliminary -- it's a preliminary step in the process and it's the first step, Carol. An indictment as we always -- as defense attorneys remind everyone is an accusation. Now it moves forward to being proved, but I think with the $1 million, in addition to these charges, it shows it's a very serious case. Of course, we know murder carries life in jail. He's also charged with manslaughter which is 3 to 11 years. And so ultimately with the judge setting a $1 million bail, it appears as though this is a matter that's going to proceed forward and he's going to have to defend. You know in terms of the nature of the defense, it may meet great difficulty depending upon and looking at that videotape. The video doesn't lie, and when you look at the videotape and match it against the report, and what is arguably him saying his state of mind there's a lot of explaining the defense has to do here.", "Exactly. And, Ed, is there any way to explain what happened? The prosecutor, even the initial traffic stop, the prosecutor in Hamilton County I think he -- I'm trying to see -- he called it chicken crap because this driver, Mr. DuBose, was pulled over for not displaying a front license.", "You have to agree with that assessment, Carol. I agree with Attorney Jackson. This is a terrible situation. It's unfolded on video. We get to see exactly what occurred. It's striking to me in a couple of areas. One is that this was such a low-key conversation up until the time that the officer drew his weapon. It exploded in violence, and it just -- there were no indicators before that. There were no raised voices, no stress. It was being handled, you know, fairly low key and then all of a sudden there was an explosion. I think every time you introduce new technology into a field you learn things and we're learning things here that need to be addressed by police training and policy as we move forward.", "I do have a question about police training. This was a University of Cincinnati police officer. Is he trained in the exact same way as your local police department?", "I don't know what the situation is in Ohio. In Massachusetts they are trained in exactly the same police academies. But, you know, I found that campus presidents, university presidents, trustees, don't have a good handle on what their officers are actually doing out there. They want security, they want police, they want to be safe, but some of these agencies turn into doing enforcement that doesn't make any sense in a university setting, and, you know, there's going to be an investigation into this, but it doesn't appear to be a university setting there, so why are they stopping vehicles for minor motor vehicle infractions away from the university when they should be interacting with students. It doesn't make a lot of sense.", "Right. I was curious. I think 75 percent, from what we could determine, 75 percent of universities across the country have police officers on campus who are armed, university police departments. The others don't, and the reason they don't is they don't want something like this to happen.", "Exactly. The university presidents that I have worked with over the years have made it clear to me that they want a community policing setting, they want to feel secure, but, you know, sometimes these organizations when they hire ex-police officers to be the chiefs of these university departments, they end up with municipal policing coming into the university, and that might not be exactly what the trustees and the university president wants.", "All right. A final question for you, Joey Jackson, since you're a defense attorney. So there were body cameras on three different police officers. So you have the vantage point from three different ways, right?", "Right.", "And the police officer obviously lied on the police department -- on the police report, rather, because he claimed the car was dragging him.", "That's right.", "The video evidence clearly shows it was not true.", "And --", "So how do you defend him?", "And that he felt that he was going to be run over. I think what we as defense attorneys do is we evaluate a case. Number one, we ask, is it winnable? You look at this case, it does not appear to be. The next question then becomes, could you defeat the top count of murder? And that's really going to be what's at issue here. If you reduce that to manslaughter, make no mistake about it, in essence, for a defense attorney, that's a win. Why? Because murder, the intentional killing, carries a life sentence. Manslaughter, three to 11 years. So you have to demonstrate if it's manslaughter that it was acted out of some anger or out of some heat of passion. Clearly there was bad judgment used, and I think the difficulty for the defense, of course, again is the police report matching it up to what the body camera says, and it just doesn't lie. So if you can mitigate and lessen what he's looking at here, I think, you know, of course you do him a great justice but the justice that needs to be done at this point, of course, is for that victim and his family.", "Joey Jackson, Ed Davis, thanks to you both. I appreciate it.", "Thank you, Carol. Thank you.", "Still to come in the NEWSROOM, a plane's wing flap found on the beach of an island in the Indian Ocean but will this major lead really help determine what happened to flight 370?"], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COSTELLO", "JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "JOEY JACKSON, HLN LEGAL ANALYST", "ED DAVIS, FORMER COMMISSIONER BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT", "COSTELLO", "JACKSON", "COSTELLO", "DAVIS", "COSTELLO", "DAVIS", "COSTELLO", "DAVIS", "COSTELLO", "JACKSON", "COSTELLO", "JACKSON", "COSTELLO", "JACKSON", "COSTELLO", "JACKSON", "COSTELLO", "JACKSON", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-154205", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-8-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1008/11/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Tragedy on a Mountainside; Former Alaska Senator Killed; Colorado Primary Win; Former Alaska Senator Killed", "utt": ["Good morning. Welcome to the \"Most News in the Morning\" on this Wednesday, the 11th of August. It's good to have you with us. I'm John Roberts.", "I'm Kiran Chetry. There's lots to talk about this morning, so we get right to it. First look, now at the aftermath of the mountainside tragedy in Alaska. Investigators now heading to the scene where former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and four others were killed in a plane crash. We're also learning more about Tuesday's extraordinary rescue efforts and why survivors had to wait 12 agonizing hours before help finally arrived.", "Fifteen minutes of fame and you're on the clock. It was an absolute mob scene as the JetBlue flight attendant who flipped and became a folk hero walked out of the lockup in the Bronx last night.", "You're going to lose your job?", "More than likely.", "Tell me about rude passengers. Talk about that.", "There's a lot of wonderful people out there.", "And there he goes. He had a bump on his head and said he desperately needed a bath. We'll have more of what he said and we'll take a closer look this morning at why people snap.", "Plus, is America's economic recovery in trouble? The Feds sending out a warning that is rattling people from Wall Street to main street. What you can do to make sure you're prepared in these uncertain times. We're talking to the CNN Money Team about issue number one coming up.", "And the \"AM Fix\" blog is up and running. Join the live conversation going on right now. Just go to CNN.com/amfix.", "Later this morning, on a rugged hard-to-reach mountainside in remote southwest Alaska, investigators will make their way to the scene of a plane crash that killed former Senator Ted Stevens and four friends. Their plane was found Monday night on a hillside near the Bearing Sea.", "These are the first pictures that we're seeing of the wreckage this morning. The fuselage remaining mostly intact, enabling four other passengers to survive the crash despite treacherous conditions that kept rescuers at bay for 12 critical hours. Ted Stevens' body is back home this morning. The longest serving Republican in U.S. Senate history being remembered as the man who literally put Alaska on the map. Casey Wian is live in Anchorage for us this morning with the very latest. Good morning, Casey.", "Good morning, John. We're at Provident Hospital here in Anchorage where those four survivors of that horrific plane crash have been taken. And we have new information about their condition. Sean O'Keefe, the former NASA administrator, one of the survivors, is listed in critical condition this morning. His teenage son, Kevin O'Keefe, is in serious condition. And another passenger, Jim Morhard, also listed in serious condition. There was a young 13-year-old, minor, male, whose condition has not been disclosed. His father who's one of the victims who died in that crash. The crash that they survived -- one of the pilots that we spoke with yesterday, he flew over the area, said that when he first came upon that scene he didn't think that there was going to be any survivors because of the condition of the plane. As I believe you showed earlier, we're now getting the first pictures of that scene. What the pilot described to us as a plane that looked like it had basically just flown straight -- almost straight into that mountain. It had skidded maybe 100 yards up the mountain. So there's some speculation that maybe the plane was trying to climb. But the weather was really bad at the time and investigators are still looking into obviously what caused that crash. And we have -- CNN earlier spoke with that pilot who was one of the first folks who discovered the crash. And here's what he had to say.", "The main fuselage in the tail was in one piece but the wings were off and the -- I couldn't see the engine. So.", "Do you think anybody could have survived that?", "I didn't think it was survivable.", "And when rescuers finally reached, hours later, the crash site, one of the victims was walking outside -- one of the survivors was actually walking outside the fuselage of the plane. No one was ejected from the plane on impact. And there was no fire. We are going to be hearing, as you mentioned, later today more information from the NTSB as they gather it, but they're having a difficult time reaching that site -- John, Kiran?", "And as we talked about, because of that, because of the remote location, 12 agonizing hours before there could be any type of professional help for the people that actually survived. Tell us more about the heroic efforts. Some of the volunteers that I understand reached the site earlier than the rescuers.", "Yes, there was -- because the weather was so bad as it was described by some of the folks, the clouds were almost down right on top of the crash site. The weather was bad, there was rain. They just couldn't get to this steep terrain. A doctor -- a female doctor was actually airlifted 1,000 feet away from the crash site and she had to hike through this severe dense, wet, slippery brush to reach those survivors and provide some care and comfort overnight. She was equipped with a satellite phone so she was able to stay in touch with rescuers and provide some aid to those victims. At the National Transportation Safety Board's briefing late yesterday, the chief of the NTSB talk about the heroic efforts of those volunteers. Here's what she had to say.", "There were a lot of people who were applying their skills and also supporting those individuals who were trapped on the hillside. Obviously, we don't know what would have happened if they had not been there, but we do thank the Lord that they were there.", "Some of the things that the NTSB is going to be looking at today and in the days ahead are the experience of the pilot who was flying that plane who was killed in the crash. He had 29,000 hours of flying time. But they don't know how much experience he had actually flying this one remote route. They're also going to be obviously looking at the weather. They still don't know what kind of avionics were on that plane, what kind of crash detection -- crash avoidance systems were on that plane. All of those questions they're going to be answering over the next couple of days -- John, Kiran.", "Casey Wian for us this morning in Anchorage. Casey, thanks so much. And we will get the latest on the investigation when the chairman of the NTSB Debbie Hersman joins us live from Anchorage. That'll be at 7:10 Eastern this morning.", "Well, now to politics and two marquee primary races. One in Colorado where incumbent Senator Michael Bennett held off challenger Andrew Romanoff to capture the Democratic nomination. This race was a battle of high-profile endorsements. You had President Obama backing Bennett, and former President Bill Clinton supporting Romanoff. Bennett had zero political experience before his appointment to fill a vacant Senate seat last year. He'll now face the Republican candidate and Tea Party favorite Ken Buck in November.", "And perhaps money can buy you love. Former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, who spent $22 million of her own fortune, won the Republican Senate primary in Connecticut. She beat former Congressman Rob Simmons. It sets up a race now between McMahon and Democrat Richard Blumenthal, the state's attorney general, in November. And coming up a the 8:10 Eastern, we're going to talk with Linda McMahon about the primary victory and the general election campaign ahead which many people think is going to be one of the most negative and shall we say smackdownish type -- campaigns we've ever seen.", "Well, it is just so surreal to see the people hugging her triple H. She was, like, you know, one of the wrestling champs. He's her son-in-law and he's up on the stage like in a wrestling --", "I think WWE and the whole wrestling arena is going to factor very heavily into this race.", "All right, well, she pulled out the primary win. We'll see what happens from here. Meanwhile, do you remember the giant ice chunk that we talk about breaking off of a glacier in Greenland last week? Well, scientists are now worried that it could actually drift into north Atlantic shipping lanes and perhaps even threaten oil platforms off of Canada. The ice island is estimated to be about 100 square miles, four times bigger than Manhattan. Experts say there's not really much they can do to stop something that big from going where it is going to go. Meanwhile, at seven-and-a-half minutes past the hour, we get a check of this morning's weather headlines. Rob Marciano's in the extreme weather center for us. So, I guess the best hope is that -- that the weather will get cold enough, right, the winter freeze, and it'll sort of at least cause it to stop?", "Yes -- no, there is some hope that it gets caught in one of those channels and actually helps build up more sea ice than it would normally. But, you know, it's worrisome that if it slides into the shipping lanes then we might have more issues. Another thing we don't have control of, but we certainly can prepare for, are our tropical systems. We have this tropical depression that we talked about yesterday. And it is forecast to become a tropical storm. Here's the latest on it.", "We'll keep an eye on tropical depression number five and let you know if it becomes a tropical storm here. That could happen as early as before the end of this show -- John and Kiran.", "Wow. All right, Rob Marciano, thanks.", "Getting a little more active out there. Steven Slater's wild ride, Pittsburgh to New York City, down a slide right into jail. Now bailed out and talking.", "Tell me about rude passengers. Talk about that for a second.", "There's a lot of wonderful people out there.", "We'll have more in his own words. More of what happened on that plane that led to his now-famous meltdown on the tarmac. It's nine minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR", "KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR", "ROBERTS", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "STEVEN SLATER, JETBLUE FLIGHT ATTENDANT", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "SLATER", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ERIC HADE, PILOT WHO FOUND CRASHED PLANE", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "HADE", "WIAN", "CHETRY", "WIAN", "DEBORAH HERSMAN, DIRECTOR, NTSB", "WIAN", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "MARCIANO", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "SLATER", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-152606", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-6-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/30/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Verizon to Sell iPhone in 2011?", "utt": ["Twenty-one minutes past the hour. When trading starts in just over an hour, Wall Street is going to try to make up some of the huge losses from yesterday, reacting to a drop in consumer confidence and fears of a bigger global slowdown. The Dow losing 268 points, over 2.6 percent of its worth. The Nasdaq down almost 4 percent. Trading today in Asia finishing with some big red arrows as well. Japan, the biggest loser. Things are a little better in Europe. London's FTSE up just over one-half of a percentage point.", "And Verizon customers, we have heard this before, well the rumors are flying again that the company will be selling the coveted iPhone. Bloomberg news reported sources close to the deal say the Apple device will be available to Verizon customers in January. Insiders say that timetable makes sense because it coincides with the introduction of Verizon's new faster 4G network. No official comment from the companies themselves.", "What happened?", "We discovered a problem with the new iPhone 4. This is the latest generation thing. Apparently -- I found out online that this might be a fairly common problem.", "It went dead on you?", "This was activated yesterday and promptly went dead. Tried everything. Hard reset. People have been writing in. We talked about this earlier saying hold down the two buttons. Tried that ages go.", "And you are positive it is charged. It was not an empty battery?", "Yes, fully charged. No, it is just dead. Dead, dead, dead.", "Well, you know, the upside to that is you won't have to worry about losing reception.", "Exactly. Yes. Apparently, the other problem is, you put your hand on that part of the iPhone and you lose your reception. I don't know if this is -- imagine it is an Apple problem. Apple, can you help us out here? Dead iPhone 4. Don't know what's going on with it. But other people have reported similar problems.", "On the upside, my 3 is working just fine. Elena Kagan letting her guard down. New video shows Kagan's feisty side from her time as the Dean of Harvard's Law School."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY"]}
{"id": "CNN-272748", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-01-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/02/cnr.09.html", "summary": "CNN Investigation into Airport PD", "utt": ["It's a busy travel weekend with a lot of people heading home after the holidays. And O'Hare is one of the nation's busiest airports, along with another Chicago airport, Chicago midway. They are the focus of a new CNN investigation. We wanted to know why some of the officers assigned to protect both airports are not allowed to carry weapons. They work alongside armed police officers. But there is one major difference. If there's an attack at any of these terminals, these aviation police officers say they are trained and told to run away. And now these officers are speaking out. Here's CNN senior investigative correspondent Drew Griffin.", "Take a look around the passenger terminals at Chicago's O'Hare and midway airports and you will see what appear to be police officers. But take a closer look. Not one of them is carrying a gun. In the event of an active shooter or terrorist strike here, you might be surprised to hear how they have been told to react. Not fight back, not try to neutralize the threat but instead to run. You guys are police officers. But you don't have guns. You're unarmed. Do you feel safe when you're working?", "No, sir. Not safe at all.", "Absolutely not.", "Do you feel almost as if you're a sitting target?", "Absolutely.", "It's not for lack of training or licensing or experience, aviation police officers are all sworn officers in the state of Illinois. They get the same training as Chicago police and many are military veterans or have second jobs in suburban jobs. These two officers speaking in silhouette for fear of being fired. Say all they want is to carry a gun like any other law enforcement officer. Just two years ago at Los Angeles International Airport, a man with an assault rifle killed a TSA officer, wounded several others, before being shot and wounded by an armed police officer. If the same event took place in Chicago's two airports, the nearly 300 unarmed aviation police would be defenseless to stop it. So in the event of a let's say to terrorist attack, let's say it's a shooter, what are you supposed to do?", "Run.", "Run?", "Hide.", "Hide?", "And seek shelter.", "This internal Chicago aviation document obtained from aviation department sources outlines the policy. If evacuation is not possible, hide. You must also ensure that unarmed security personnel do not attempt to become part of the response. Here's the training video. Officers say they were instructed to do watch.", "If evacuation is not possible, you should find a place to hide where the active shooter is less likely to find you. Block entry to your hiding place and lock the doors.", "We're nothing but casualties, if you tell to run and hide and how can the public look at us if they see police officers run and hide? That goes against the very oath that we were sworn to, that we took.", "It's the Chicago police who carry guns at both airports since they are the primary law enforcement agency. If there's a major incident or an arrest, aviation police tell us they must wait for Chicago police to show up. A unique arrangement among major U.S. airports.", "It doesn't make any sense.", "Matt Brandon is an official with the union that represents aviation police officers. So basically they're just -- I mean no disrespect to those officers but as their role they are glorified security officers.", "That's exactly right. And my question to the city is you send these men and women to the Chicago police academy to be trained as police officers to be able to respond as police officers, to be able to act as police officers.", "The Chicago Police Department has 231 armed officers assigned to O'Hare and midway and the city says that's enough. So too does the Chicago Aviation Department about its unarmed force. And the staffing level of armed police is for the most part, similar to other major U.S. airports. If you compare the top three busiest in the U.S., Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson has 178 armed police, Los Angeles, 572, while O'Hare has budgeted 175. The numbers do not include additional security such as private security personnel. In an e-mail, the CNN, the Aviation Department says the multilevel security has proven effective in stopping and preventing crime and that violent crime incidents are extremely low. But there's been no explanation why the nearly 300 aviation police officers here are unarmed. The department is declining to discuss security measures. CNN has surveyed large U.S. airports and found Chicago's use of unarmed. Aviation police officers is unique. And according to Miami security expert Wayne Black, \"Absurd.\"", "You've got sworn law enforcement officers at the U.S. airport that are trained to hide if there's an attack. It's crazy. Airports are targets of terror activity. What are they going to do if somebody runs in with a gun and there is no law enforcement officer there?", "In October, a man caught with these knives attempted to gets on the airfield and actually told the officers he knew they were not even armed. The gun issue has been part of an ongoing dispute between the officers and their chief, Richard Edgeworth. Chicago's aviation police recently took a no confidence vote against Edgeworth, calling him incompetent and someone who exerts control through intimidation and fear. Despite the vote, Edgeworth boss says he has the full confidence and trust of the aviation department. Edgeworth has repeatedly refuse to even answer a numerous phone call from CNN. And when we approached him to ask our questions, he did what his officers are supposed to do if anyone approaches them, armed. Excuse me. Hi Chief Edgeworth. I'm Griffin with", "Oh how are you?", "Good to see you. We wanted to ask you why your officers aren't armed? Why there's the only aviation police officers in the United States apparently are not armed? Wouldn't the public be better protected if they were armed and were able to engage the threat instead of sir instead of having to run and hide?", "Now just ahead.", "Can I be -- we have to tell you says that it smells of citrus fruits and pine needles. A mixture of hard and soft just like President Putin himself. So I suppose I should give it a try.", "What do you buy the person who has everything? How about a cologne that captures the essence of Russia's president? We'll explain next."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRIFFIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRIFFIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRIFFIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRIFFIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRIFFIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRIFFIN", "MATT BRANDON, UNION OFFICER", "GRIFFIN", "BRANDON", "GRIFFIN", "WAYNE BLACK, MIAMI SECURITY EXPERT", "GRIFFIN", "CNN. RICHARD EDGEWORTH", "GRIFFIN", "KEILAR", "MATTHEW CHANCE, SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-152327", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-6-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/22/ltm.03.html", "summary": "General Sorry over Article; Obama's Budget Chief to Step Down", "utt": ["I'm Kiran Chetry. Glad you're here. We have a lot to talk about this morning. So let's get right to it. First, we are following a developing story now out of the White House and the Pentagon. The top general in Afghanistan is apologizing after slamming the administration in a \"Rolling Stone\" piece. The White House is now responding and someone has already lost their job over it. We'll have that, plus Pentagon reaction in a moment.", "The president's budget point man calling it quits. CNN learning that Peter Orszag, the man who helped stir the economic stimulus bill through Congress was stepping down next month. He's the first major White House official to go. And we're live at the White House with what this means for the president's economic recovery plan.", "And sex scandal allegations, attacks about race and religion -- the governor's race in South Carolina has gotten pretty ugly on the Republican side of the aisle. Well, today, voters will choose their candidate in a primary runoff and we'll be there live -- coming up.", "And, of course, the amFIX blog is up and running. Join the live conversation going on right now. Just go to CNN.com/am", "But, first, a developing story in a major rift between the commander-in-chief and his top general in Afghanistan exposed. General Stanley McChrystal is now apologizing this morning for a profile in \"Rolling Stone\" magazine. In it, he talks about disappointment, distrust and frustration with the Obama administration.", "General McChrystal is saying the article was, quote, \"a mistake reflecting poor judgment.\" And so his first response was to fire one of the people on his staff. Barbara Starr joins us now live from the Pentagon. Suzanne Malveaux is live at the White House. Barbara, let's start with you though. General McChrystal has been recalled to Washington and also taking some action among his inner circle.", "A bit of action, John, but really, what will happen is still to come here. General McChrystal getting on a plane in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the coming hours, flying back to Washington, called to the White House for a meeting tomorrow, face-to-face with the president and key administration officials that he has criticized through this \"Rolling Stone\" article. Unprecedented -- I think the Pentagon is in shock, to say the least, about what has happened here. \"Rolling Stone\" publishing a major profile of General McChrystal in which top aides speak about the general's views on President Obama. Let me just read you a couple of quotes from the article very quickly. The first one, quote, \"The general first encountered Obama a week after he took office. McChrystal thought Obama looked, quote, 'uncomfortable and intimidated' by the room full of military brass.\" The article has other quotes about the general and Obama saying, quote, \"Obama clearly didn't know anything about him, McChrystal, who he was. Here's the guy who's going to run his expletive war but he didn't seem very engaged. The boss, McChrystal, was pretty disappointed.\" This is the fundamental problem for General McChrystal -- through his staff, disparaging comments about the commander-in-chief. This is the red line in the United States military, this simply is not done. You do not make disrespectful or disparaging comments about the president of the United States. So, General McChrystal issuing an apology overnight from his headquarters in Afghanistan, saying, quote, \"I extend my sincerest apology for this profile. It was a mistake reflecting poor judgment and should never have happened. Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity. What is reflected in this article falls far short of that standard.\" The question now, of course, hangs in the air: Can General McChrystal survive this boiling scandal at the moment? You will recall he's in office because Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen said the previous general, Dave McKiernan, couldn't get the job done and they absolutely had to have General McChrystal in command, that he was the only one that could do it. Now, we'll see if that lasts past tomorrow in that White House meeting -- John, Kiran.", "And we have a copy of the article here. It's a fascinating read. But it begs the question: why would General McChrystal give the interview in the first place or series of interviews according to the author?", "Yes. You know, it's just -- it is mystifying to so many military leaders. I think we all understand that \"Rolling Stone\" is not a typical publication that the U.S. military deals with. In fact, we are told, the aide that set up the interview, a man named Duncan Boothby, has already been fired by General McChrystal for this. The author, Michael Hastings, given inside access to General McChrystal and his senior staff as they traveled around, and a really unvarnished look at Michael Hastings went ahead and published everything he saw and heard. Very interestingly, no one is disputing the accuracy of the article. General McChrystal has not said that any of the quotes were untrue or inaccurate. You know, so it stands as is right now -- John, Kiran.", "All right, Barbara. Let's get the White House's side of this as well. Suzanne Malveaux is standing by there. So, he has been recalled. That's the first White House action that's being made public. What are you hearing behind the scenes? Are they stunned by the revelations that came out in this article?", "Well, we know that they are quite angry. General McChrystal -- this is not the first time, John and Kiran, that he's gotten in the trouble with the White House, with the president. You may recall, there was a big debate that splurged forward of some leaks that came out before about the efficacy of actually troops increase, a surge, in Afghanistan. McChrystal on the side of more troops and that -- having that debate spill out in public, he had received an admonishment before. Well, now, he's effectively going to be taken to the woodshed tomorrow when he is being called personally to meet with the commander-in-chief. I want to give you this quote from a senior administration official and it is very telling here because it says that McChrystal has been directed to attend tomorrow's monthly meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan in person rather than appear on secured video teleconference to explain to the Pentagon and the commander-in- chief his quotes in the piece about his colleagues. It is not a mistake -- they are emphasizing commander in chief. It is a reminder that it is the president of the United States who is General McChrystal's boss here. That this is the kind of thing that's not going to be tolerated and certainly, John and Kiran, this is a test for this president, whether or not he is going to, as Barbara said, draw that line in the sand, that red line, whether or not he is going to tolerate what they have seen now as not the first but perhaps the second of major disappointment And, you know, the defiance, if you will, of the White House and administration's policy, moving forward and putting that kind of public debate over Afghanistan and in this kind of forum -- it is very upsetting to those who have I have spoken with at the White House.", "All right. Also, other news out of the White House this morning -- we're shifting gears here and we're talking about one member of the cabinet looking like he's on his way out.", "Peter Orszag, it's not surprising. He's the director of the Office of Management and Budget, OMB. He's been here for almost about two years or so. And he's someone who has accomplished a great deal, but did not want to stay for the complete two years. He's run his course -- but once again, very effective in terms of the stimulus package, $860 billion, two budgets, overhaul of health care reform. All of that being put on the table. He wants to step down, to step aside, and it comes at a very important time here. Obviously, he handled a lot of big items when it comes to the recession. But he's the guy -- this is the guy who really pushed for deficit reduction. That was his idea. You got to take a look at the deficit and deal with this ballooning deficit. There are others inside of this White House who've been talking about cutting taxes, more stimulus. So, it will be very interesting to see, once he leaves, who's in his place and what kind of position they have on that because it has been at the core, the center, of the debate here in this building behind me. Just having to deal with the recession -- how do you get to jumpstart the economy, get it going again, do you need to focus on the deficit, and reducing the deficit, as he did?", "Suzanne Malveaux for us this morning at the White House -- busy day for you guys. All right. Thanks so much.", "Thanks.", "Well, it's eight minutes past the hour right now. An admission of guilt and also a warning: Faisal Shahzad pleading guilty to all 10 counts in the failed Times Square bombing. He now faces life in prison. In court yesterday, Shahzad was unapologetic, calling himself a Muslim soldier and telling the judge that he, quote, \"wanted to plead guilty 100 times.\" Shahzad also warned that attacks from more soldiers like him will follow unless the U.S. gets out of Iraq and Afghanistan.", "Investigators in Peru releasing photos of evidence in the case against Joran van der Sloot, including a bloodstained shirt, they say, that he wore when he allegedly killed business student Stephany Flores. Prosecutors also gave the judge a psychological exam that calls van der Sloot, quote, \"emotionally immature,\" adding that he doesn't value women. Meanwhile, van der Sloot is now reportedly re-tracking his confession. Van der Sloot told the Dutch newspaper that he only signed papers admitting he killed Flores was because he was, quote, \"tricked by police.\"", "Also, new development this morning from a campfire to 10,000 acres in just two days. Wildfire is threatening the city of Flagstaff, Arizona, now forcing the evacuation close to 800 homes, as well as an animal shelter and two national monuments. Forecasters are also saying that gusty winds driving the flames may not die down until tomorrow.", "Well, if you tuned to CNN last night, you know that Larry King assembled a staggering roster of stars, and with your help, raised more than $1 million to help people affected by the oil disaster.", "Sting was one of the performers last night, while celebrities on both coasts were manning the phone lines.", "Altogether, more than $1.8 million is now raised. If you see what we have across that now, it's not the total, because if you still want to donate, it's not too late. You can go to CNN.com/impact. And there you'll find a list of organizations that are making a difference.", "Well, it's time to vote again. Runoff election day in four states. Nikki Haley eyes victory in a dirty GOP primary race for South Carolina governor. Jim Acosta is there. He's got all the scoop on what's going on in the Palmetto State. Stay with us. It's 10-and-a-half minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "FIX. CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "CHETRY", "STARR", "ROBERTS", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "CHETRY", "MALVEAUX", "CHETRY", "MALVEAUX", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "NPR-23345", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2015-12-15", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/12/15/459827003/looking-for-a-podcast-try-what-i-wore-when", "title": "Looking For A Podcast? Try 'What I Wore When ...'", "summary": "Glamour's Sophia Chabbott poses in the outfit she wore to her Orthodox Jewish divorce ceremony.  In the \"I Got Divorced\" episode of What I Wore When ... , Glamour editor Sophia Chabbott describes what she wore to her Orthodox Jewish divorce ceremony. Wailin Wong, host of The Distance podcast, says, \"To me it's really beautiful because she talks about how she wasn't allowed to speak during that ceremony, but the clothes spoke for her; the clothes gave her a language, a vocabulary to work with when she felt very vulnerable.\" Click here to listen to \"I Got Divorced,\" Wong's favorite episode. And for more great podcast recommendations, visit earbud.fm.", "utt": ["If everyone around you is talking podcasts these days...", "\"Serial,\" \"Reply All,\" Pop Culture Happy Hour.", "OK, wow, that was a shameless plug with that last one, Ari.", "I just love your guest appearances on Pop Culture Happy Hour, Audie.", "There's also stuff you missed in history class and stuff Mom never told you.", "Stuff about stuff.", "Yeah, there are hundreds of possibilities out there, and if Mom never told you what podcast to check out, we have a fix.", "It's called earbud.fm. This is a guide curated by NPR featuring episodes from more than 200 podcasts.", "Each one highly recommended by someone like this.", "My name is Wailin Wong. I am the host of \"The Distance,\" which is a podcast about long-running businesses. My podcast recommendation was Glamour magazine's \"What I Wore When\" podcast.", "This is \"What I Wore When,\" a series from Glamour where fashion insiders talk about what they wore for some of the biggest events in their lives.", "So the episode I recommended follows a Glamour editor.", "Hi, I'm Sophia Chabbott, senior online fashion editor at Glamour, and I'm here to talk to you about what I wore to my divorce.", "The episode actually opens with her talking about when she gets married, and actually, she describes her wedding dress.", "It was off the shoulder with these long, billowing sleeves. It was this textured silk. It kind of had this boxy A-line top. It was actually a skirt and top but it looked like a gown. And the first time I tried the entire thing on I screamed. I was like, I'm a bride.", "I really liked that because it sets up the poignancy of the divorce ceremony later on.", "While most girls dream about their wedding dress, I'd be hard-pressed to find a woman or a man that anticipates what they would wear to their divorce. Let's just start from the bottom up. I wore my highest black suede ankle booties from Christian Louis Vuitton. I'm 5'8\" - they must've made me, like, 6 feet. I wanted to be eye level or above with my soon-to-be ex-husband.", "You go on this journey with her. By the time you get into this scary conference room where she's doing the Orthodox Jewish divorce ceremony, you really feel the weight of that moment and what it means for her to be getting divorced.", "I started to shake. I was terrified (laughter) of the unknown and terrified of what my future would hold, and I still am sometimes.", "To me, it's really beautiful because she talks about how she wasn't allowed to speak during that ceremony, but the clothes spoke for her. The clothes gave her a language, a vocabulary, to work with when she felt very vulnerable in that moment.", "Clothing isn't superficial. Fashion isn't superficial. It is another language. And it was important for me to express myself in a way that I wanted to in a situation where I felt I had no control.", "That's \"I Got Divorced,\" an episode from Glamour's \"What I Wore When\" podcast. It was recommended by Wailin Wong.", "You can listen to that episode and try out other podcasts at earbud.fm.", "(Singing) I've been meaning to phone you from Minnesota. Hell, it's been a very long time. You wear it well, a little old-fashioned but that's all right. Well, I suppose you're thinking I bet he's sinking or he wouldn't get in touch with me. Oh, I ain't begging or losing my head..."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "WAILIN WONG", "UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN", "WAILIN WONG", "SOPHIA CHABBOTT", "WAILIN WONG", "SOPHIA CHABBOTT", "WAILIN WONG", "SOPHIA CHABBOTT", "WAILIN WONG", "SOPHIA CHABBOTT", "WAILIN WONG", "SOPHIA CHABBOTT", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "ROD STEWART"]}
{"id": "CNN-55096", "program": "CNN NEWSNIGHT AARON BROWN", "date": "2002-5-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/30/asb.00.html", "summary": "Rescue Helicopter Crashes Near Mt. Hood; Al Qaeda May Be Able to Shoot Down U.S. Planes", "utt": ["Good evening, again, everyone. We welcome to the world tonight Adam D. Pearl, the mother, Mariane Pearl of Paris, France, the father Daniel Pearl who is now deceased. Most of what the program has to say about the birth of this beautiful six-pound child will come at the end. It will be in the form of a song written for the boy by a colleague of Danny's at the \"Wall Street Journal.\" It is beautiful, and while we always hope you'll stay to the end of the program, we especially hope you will tonight. It is a lovely and gentle song that says a lot about life and the man whose genes this newborn carries. It's not maudlin in the least, but it might make you cry. It will also make you smile, and it comes at the end. What we can say now is that mom and newborn boy are doing well and given what Mariane Pearl went through, her husband kidnapped, the search for him and the discovery that he had been unmercifully murdered, that is no small blessing. So welcome, Adam. Despite it all, this world is a wonderful place, better no doubt because you've joined it. We begin with the whip and the news of the day and it starts in a place we didn't expect to find much today, Mount Hood in Oregon. Those are live pictures you see in the corner. There was a terrible accident there today, but in truth it could have been much worse, when a rescue helicopter when down.", "Look out. Look out guys. There we are talking about things going wrong. Hang on, fellows. Oh, my goodness. Oh, that is horrible.", "The helicopter had gone up to find nine climbers, three of whom are deceased. We'll have more on that coming up in a little bit. Also in the whip tonight another terror warning, vague, nonetheless alarming. Jamie McIntyre on that where he always is it seems at the Pentagon. Jamie, the headline from you.", "Well, Aaron, it started with a disturbing discovery in the remote desert near the Prince Sultan Air Base, a spent missile tube. The FBI now thinks it was an attempt to shoot down a U.S. plane by al Qaeda terrorists. Because of that, they have issued a warning to be on the lookout for the possible use of surface-to-air shoulder-fired missiles against U.S. commercial aircraft -- Aaron.", "We'll all consider how we were on the lookout for that. If that isn't enough to worry about, David Ensor has another troubling angle to this story, so David a headline from you tonight.", "Well, Aaron, though the CIA buy- back program bought back quite a few of the Stinger missiles that the U.S. gave to various people who were fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan and then subsequently in some cases been fighting us, that buy-back program went well but Soviet and Russian-made S-7s and SAM 16s are all over the world. They're cheap. They're light. They're easy to use.", "Doesn't make you feel good tonight. Thank you, David, we're back with you also shortly. And one more stop in the whip, some fascinating legal maneuvers today in the Michael Skakel trial. Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin in New York has that. Jeffrey, a headline.", "Aaron, prosecutors sprung a surprise this morning. They said they wanted the jury to be able to consider a lesser charge, manslaughter. And in the afternoon, they sprung an even bigger surprise, they said never mind. We'll explain.", "Jeffrey, thank you. We're back with all of you as we go along. Also coming up in the program, words fail as they say but the pictures do not, so we will take you to ground zero as the closing up played out this morning. We'll also look at the end of what the recovery means for one very special church in Lower Manhattan, a community that was born on the September 11, a family now today. And just because we like him, Charles Grodin is here. Anyone who's ever seen him on TV that knows only a fool would predict what he's going to say when he actually sits down. I'm no fool, honest. I will not try and predict it, all of that in the hour ahead. We're glad you're with us. We begin on the slopes of Mount Hood in northern Oregon where a slip on an icy slope just below the 11,000-foot summit cost several climbers their lives today and led to a crash of a helicopter that sent rescue - that had been sent, rather, to rescue the survivors. The group of climbers was about 800 feet short of the summit of Mount Hood at about 9:00 a.m. local time, when two of them lost their footing, sliding down the slope and dragging others into a crevasse. Nine people fell in. Three have died. As rescue workers tried to rescue the injured and remove the dead, a helicopter bringing help lost altitude and hit the mountain. Here is how a local reporter from Portland described the scene.", "There it is waving off, so I didn't see anybody go up -- look out. Look out, guys. There we are talking about things going wrong. Hang on, fellows. Oh, my goodness. Oh, that is horrible.", "I watched one guy take two entire flips in the helicopter hanging outside of it until his last gunner's belt finally broke, at which point it just left him sitting in the snow, and each consecutive roll left one more person sitting in the snow. So the helicopter finally came to rest upside down with five people just sitting in the snow, kind of wondering what in the heck had just happened.", "None of the crew members of the helicopter were killed, though several were seriously hurt. Other helicopters then came in to rescue everyone, the climbers and the crew members from the helicopter team. After leaving the mountain, one member of the original climbing team talked about what happened and one person he saw at all was Pat Dooris of KGW TV and he is with us now. Pat, just go back a few hours now. This was, I suppose a fairly routine assignment for you up there in KGW's helicopter. As it started to play out, what were you thinking?", "Well, I know that you've spent time here in the Northwest and there are mountain rescues that go on either on Ranier or here on Mount Hood and we've got the 939 Rescue Wing stationed out of Portland and we routinely see these guys go in and pluck people off mountains, off the back country wilderness area and you always know that there is a bit of danger there, but it always comes off really without a hitch and you always say, gee I wonder how they do that. But as it was unfolding, you know because I've been up in the helicopter a few times with our pilot here, you know you could just sort of tell that it was a tense situation because there was no place to go and it just started to unravel, we were just talking about it right before that. If anything goes wrong, they can't slide out on the mountainside because the mountain's there. They're not very high above the ground and they're at over 10,000 feet, so the air is thin and it was just like watching, no kidding, a movie as it started to come apart.", "Did it seem to play out in slow motion?", "It really did, yes. You know I've interviewed trauma people and I know you have too and you always ask, does it seem like time stands still, and it really did. I mean as I was talking about how these guys live on the edge and how professional they are and how it's great that they have excellent training, we saw the tail dip down. And that's when I was saying something like, whoops hang on there guys and then they started to slide down the mountain and bring the nose down and it was just, you know, instant to instant to instant just feeling like hours saying gee, this is just really unbelievable.", "It is remarkable and great news that the people in the helicopter are banged up some but apparently they're going to be all right. What is the status now of the people they went up to rescue?", "Well it's my understanding, we're just on our way back now from the mountain, but there are three people that have died, slid down for about 600 feet. They were 600 feet from the summit, slid down into this crevasse. At one point there were a total of about 11 people hanging in the crevasse. Three of those folks are dead. All the other injured people have been brought down off the mountain now, including the three people that were inside the military helicopter that were brought down on sleds and toboggans. One of them was airlifted directly into a Portland hospital. So the helicopter crew, one in critical condition, three are pretty seriously banged up. Of the climbing group, there are three dead and I believe nine or ten that have varying degrees of injuries.", "Just, I'm not sure if you can explain this or not. Do you know what happened? Why that -- I mean obviously the helicopter is flying at almost 11,000 feet, do we know what happened, why it went out of control?", "No, not really, because we have seen other helicopters come into that same area and get away OK, and in fact, we saw other helicopters coming after that and I believe picked a person up out of there. You know we heard from eyewitnesses that they had lowered one of their steel cables with a gurney, that the folks on the ground had put the person into the gurney. They were all packaged up, they call it, and ready to go and they came and attacked the line again because the helicopter had gone out and rode around, which is their usual thing they do. They came back, hovered, lowered the cable. They hooked it up and one of the guys on the ground said, right as he hooked it up and was covering this person from the downwash, the person in the basket, all of a sudden he felt the line go slack and looked up and the helicopter was sliding away. And one of the guys inside the helicopter, also noticing what was going on, instantly disconnected that steel cable or else they would have dragged that poor person down the mountain with them.", "Dan, I hat to fall on a cliche, but you're talking about something that could have been a whole lot worse.", "Oh, incredible.", "Pat, thank you for your work for us tonight, and thank all your colleagues from KGW for their help and their extraordinary pictures of all of this. It's good to talk to you, thanks.", "Thank you.", "Pat Dooris of KGW TV in Portland. You might recall that, I think it was last week, there was an accident on Mount Ranier, which is about 100 miles to the north. Three climbers died that day. This is the time of the year when people climb mountains. It's warm enough to do it. It's not too warm, so that theoretically at least it's not dangerous, and these accidents do sometimes happen. On we go to another warning this time from the FBI like the others and there have been a lot. This one is unconfirmed, uncorroborated. It was issued out of an abundance of caution, all the standard boilerplate words apply, and yet this one like the rest, brings a new chill. So in addition to watching out for scuba divers and bridge bombers and dirty bombs and loose nukes, we can now add anti-aircraft missiles to the list. Good luck. Here again, CNN's Jamie McIntyre.", "The nationwide warning followed a disturbing discovery earlier this month at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, first reported by CNN. An empty, expended SA-7 shoulder-fired missile tube was found by a Saudi patrol inside a perimeter fence approximately two miles from where U.S. planes routinely take off and land.", "There are no reports by any U.S. aircraft or any aircraft that we've been able to identify, of any sightings of surface-to-air missile firings. That does not mean it was not fired. It simply means we do not know if that particular weapon was fired at that location or simply dropped off there.", "But the FBI now believes terrorists linked to al Qaeda may have tried to shoot down a plane. A May 22 advisory says: \"Subsequent investigations suggest that the discovery is likely related to al Qaeda targeting efforts against U.S. led forces on the Arabian Peninsula. Two days after the FBI alert, airlines and domestic law enforcement agencies were advised of the information but weren't asked to take any specific precautions. In fact, the FBI warning says: \"The FBI possesses no information indicating that al Qaeda is planning to use Stinger missiles or any type of portable anti-aircraft weapons against commercial aircraft.\"", "Regardless, we take very seriously the fact that our opponents to have surface-to-air missiles, shoulder-fired surface-to- air missiles, and we take precautions on the ground and in the air anytime we have our aircraft arriving and departing.", "Now despite the fact that this warning went out to just about every government agency and law enforcement agency in the country, administration officials today were downplaying somewhat the threat of a firing of a surface-to-air missile at an airliner, saying that this warning was meant primarily to educate police and law enforcement officials around the country, not necessarily to sound a big alarm. But in these days, nobody wants to be accused of failing to share information that might have made a difference in some unknown way. Aaron.", "I think -- this is a tough one because in all of these warnings, people always say well, you know, what can I do about it, but realistically, what can the commercial airline business do about the fact that bad guys may be out there with this sort of weapon?", "Well, remember this went to a lot of local police and law enforcement. So, for instance, here in Washington, D.C., Reagan National Airport, there are several parks around here that are certainly within shoulder-fired missile range of airplanes taking off and landing. If you were a police officer and you get one of these warnings, you might ask yourself are we patrolling those areas enough? Is the access good enough? Have we cleared away shrubs or places where people might hide? And that's the whole intention of this is to just get people thinking that something could happen. And you know this one, it's not based on a specific threat but it is based on a specific incident. They did find a spent missile tube in Saudi Arabia, and they do think that that was an attempt to shoot down a plane there.", "Jamie, thank you. We'll all sleep well tonight. Thank you, Jamie McIntyre at the Pentagon. There is, we've been told at least, one piece of good news in all of this, but reporting it calls for a sentence about as absurd and terrifying as any we've uttered recently. Here it goes. We understand the CIA Stinger buy-back program has gone quite well, but then Stingers aren't the only weapons to worry about, are they? Back to CNN's David Ensor who's in Washington tonight. David, good evening to you.", "Yes, good evening, Aaron. As you say, the buy-back program went well. The Stingers that were taken by the CIA into Afghanistan to get the Soviets out and did a very effective job there, many of them were bought back at $100,000 or more a pop. Some of them are still thought to be there. They're pretty old at this point. The problem is there are all these other missiles. The one in Saudi Arabia was a S-7. That's a Soviet or Russian-made shoulder held weapon. It's simpler. It's less expensive than the American model, but it's extremely effective. About 30 pounds in weight, can be hand carried. It's pretty cheap. It's about five feet long and it works on the same principle, point it at an aircraft and it has a heat- seeking device in it. It will try to hit that aircraft. There are thousands of them around the world. Now this is not a new threat and American air bases and airports even have been long aware of this possibility and have taken a number of measures against it. Still, there's nothing that's foolproof, and the fact is it is something that security officials around the country do need to start worrying about, thus the warning. I should point out though that there are -- the weapon has its drawbacks too. It doesn't work that well at night, doesn't go well against high speed aircraft. It's easily deflected by heat-seeking flares. I used to fly with the Russians over Afghanistan when they occupied the place and they used to throw flares out the back every time we went into Kabul. That was a pretty effective deterrent.", "I suspect if you're a military pilot, that's a good way to go and if you're a commercial pilot, it probably doesn't help at all. On the subject of this is not new, I remember when the war started, talking about these are the kinds of weapons we believe these guys have in Afghanistan. But during the course of the fighting of the war and the heavy air campaign, we didn't really see these sorts of weapons very much, did we?", "We did not. They're effective against helicopters if the helicopters hover at the right height for long enough. The U.S. has gotten pretty good with its tactics against this sort of weapon. They aren't good at night, as I said. They don't reach high-flying or fast aircraft and military aircraft have many ways of defending themselves, such as flares.", "Yes.", "It is commercial airlines that need to worry, but as I say, they've taken quite a few measures, higher fences and various surveillance equipment around airports. So it's not as easy as it used to be.", "David, thank you, David Ensor, national security correspondent in Washington with more on the missile threat. Ahead on NEWSNIGHT tonight, new and greatly expanded powers for the FBI as the tradeoff for more security in the country, less liberty perhaps. Some see it that way. We'll have that story and more as NEWSNIGHT continues on a Thursday night in New York City."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. 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{"id": "CNN-217279", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-10-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1310/24/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Hearing On Obamacare Website Debacle", "utt": ["So then, you know, we heard from Andrew Slavitt who said that, you know, he spoke a little bit about the complexity of the site and about what they called the data hub. So, you know, essentially, when you go in and you're putting your information in there, they ping the IRS and the IRS comes back with your information. That's all the data hub and he says that was working very well. Then he got into what a lot of folks seem to be talking about, that account registration. Even then, carol, he said there were also many other folks working on this not just that and that's where it seems a lot of the problems were lying. As you said before, he went to say that this was a last minute decision to have them -- you know, have people sign in through this account in order to go in, in order to look at those insurance plans. And then you heard from other folks who were also saying, well, we had nothing to do with this. So it sounds like a giant blame game from what I'm hearing.", "Well, it sounds like everybody is throwing everybody under the bus right at the moment. So Laurie, you stick around. I'm going to reset the hour because some viewers are just joining us so I'm going to say good morning to all of you. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Right now, on Capitol Hill lawmakers get their first chance to grill the developers of Obamacare's botched website. Companies are being pressed to explain the crippling problems that plagued the enrollment process and overshadowed the roll out of Obama's signature health reforms. What testimony getting underway just minutes ago, it's no surprise that blame will ricochet in all different directions, in fact, it already has. Joe Johns is monitoring this hearing from our Washington Bureau. Reset this hearing for us -- Joe.", "Well, Carol, that's Congressman Henry Waxman of California testifying right now, the ranking Democrat on the committee. They've just gotten into it. This testimony has been just about as predictable as it gets especially with a complex I.T. start up like this, and this maybe the mother of all recent government funded I.T. start-ups. Finger pointing right off the bat, the first witness with the contractor known as CGI -- that's Carol Campbell testifying -- that there was a problem with a function that serves as the entry portal to the website, but that function was the responsibility of another contractor known as Optum/QSSI. The executive from Optum testified that a bottleneck on the site may have been the result of a last- minute change by the government, apparently requiring registration before consumers could browse the site. The other two witnesses with Equifax and Serco essentially saying they haven't had any problems. So now, they're really getting into the nuts and bolts as the questions are being asked and answered, Carol.", "OK, so you mentioned nuts and bolts. Let's get right to the nuts and bolts right now and listen to testimony. The woman that's talking right now is Sheryl Campbell. She's the senior vice president of CGI Federal, the company mainly responsible for setting up healthcare.gov. She is being questioned by the ranking member of this committee, Henry Waxman. Let's listen.", "Does CGI have to rewrite 5 million lines of code to fix the problems we've seen thus far?", "No, sir. I can tell you that 300 plus employees that I have back in the office would -- I think they would all walk out if I told them they had to rewrite that many lines of code.", "Do you believe it's going to be necessary to scrap the entire healthcare.gov system and start from scratch?", "I do not, sir.", "So you think the web site will be fixed in time to ensure Americans who want coverage by next year that it will be available to them?", "I do, sir.", "Why are you so confident? Can you explain that that these problems will be fixed in time?", "Because as I said, we're seeing improvements day by day. We're continuing to run queries against our database. We're reviewing system logs. We're fine tuning our servers. We are analyzing the code for anomalies. Every day we're seeing where we're finding challenges in the system, in making those corrections, as you would with any system that will go live. When a system goes into production, these are the things that you would typically find after production. Maybe not to the level of detail that's happened in this experience, but when a system goes live, these are the things that you typically do. You continue to provide system builds and put performance into fine tuning to the application to make sure it continues to improve time over time.", "Mr. Slavitt, your company has been deeply involved in troubling and fixing the problems on healthcare.gov. Do you have any reason to believe problems that are being experienced at this launch will prevent Americans from getting insurance for the coming year?", "Congressman, I'm confident that the data services hub that QSSI developed and the EIDM registration tool are working well today and will continue to work well.", "You had problems with your part early on, but you fixed them, didn't you?", "For the first seven days, correct.", "So problems can be fixed?", "We doubled the capacity of that registration tool within seven days.", "Miss Campbell, did CGI system pass its test before the system went live?", "Yes, it did.", "And my understanding is that you felt the system was ready to go on October 1. Is that right?", "That is correct.", "Neither you nor anyone else at the table thought or made a recommendation not to go forward on October 1 because you didn't think the system was ready, is that a correct statement?", "That's a correct statement.", "Mr. Slavitt?", "I refer back to my earlier answer. We did not make a recommendation. We simply made everyone aware of the risks that we saw.", "Ms. Pellecy (ph)?", "No, we did not make recommendations.", "We did not either.", "Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.", "We recognize the vice chair of whole committee, Ms. Blackburn from Tennessee.", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you all for your testimony. I would like each of you to submit in writing for me how much you have been paid to date and then how much you're being paid on retainer or either to clear up. So, if you will submit that to us for the record, that would be wonderful. HIPAA compliance, were you all trained in HIPAA compliance prior to beginning your contract? I'll just go right down the line, Ms. Campbell.", "Yes.", "Mr. Slavitt?", "Yes, we do extensive HIPAA training.", "Ms. Pellecy (ph)?", "Yes.", "Mr. Lau (ph)?", "Yes.", "Did your companies meet as a group with HHS before you started the process? Anyone, did your companies meet together with HHS to discuss the integration? Mr. Lau (ph), go ahead.", "Yes. The security people from CMS and Serco and others have coordinated the security.", "OK, all right, let me ask each of you a question. How many people in each of your companies have physical access to the database servers storing the enrolling information?", "Zero from", "Pardon me?", "We have zero access to the database.", "Zero, OK.", "I believe the answer is also zero for", "Ms. Pellecy (ph)?", "We have no access to the servers.", "About 2,000 people.", "Two thousand people have access to the database?", "Through the key entry of the applications.", "OK. Under HIPAA regs, no one is expected to have direct access to that database. Under the current technology infrastructure, how many separate servers or virtual servers in the Cloud are being used to host and store data for healthcare.gov? Ms. Campbell, Mr. Slavitt, I think that's primarily to you.", "I don't have the exact number.", "All right, we're going to jump away and sort of analyze what's been going on in this hearing. Our tech expert, Laurie Segall has been doing a fabulous job with this. Laurie, we heard CGI, the senior vice president say the problems will be fixed and the system will be OK. Do you believe her?", "You know, I will say when I'm -- I'm very excited they asked about that 5 million lines of code needing to be rewritten. They asked about that and said do we need 5 million lines of code to be rewritten in order for this to work? Let me put this in context for you, Carol, it takes about a day to write 100 lines of code for one software engineer. What Cheryl Campbell said is if I told my 300 employees they had to rewrite that much code, they would walk out. So maybe those estimates, maybe those were inflated estimates. So that could be a good sign, but I think what we can take away here. From looking at everybody kind of deflecting a little bit is the disjointed nature of trying to build something that was such a huge political agenda, such a complicated website. But the idea that there were so many cooks in the kitchen that in order to build a very good technology site, in order to build something that's going to work, A, you have to test it. B, you have to have a lot of folks in-house, on board communicating. What we're seeing here is that there are simple failures of communication to a point where some of these folks are saying, I don't know if we're really ready to go. A lot of folks knew that this wasn't really going to work. Yet it was still pushed out. That's why we had so many people saying we get in and what's happening, and that's why this has kind of turned into such a big debacle -- Carol.", "I know I wrote these numbers down somewhere. I was looking for it while you were talking, but you talk about cooks in the kitchen, 55 contractors were involved, five government agencies, 300 different insurers and a dozen states. You're right. Lots of cooks in the kitchen, how could that possibly work?", "You know, at this point, we're seeing that it hasn't worked. It's safe to say, as we see folks kind of deflecting a little that it really didn't work. That one person was working on one technology, but they weren't communicating with another contractor working on another technology and some people realized that the coding was off. So they told another contractor who was in charge of telling someone else. This is why you -- I mean, from a Silicon Valley perspective, successful web site happens in a successful company -- even Google in those beginning phases, when you're in this lean phase, identify it, take it to the top and get it fixed. Here it sounds as if that simply didn't happen and now we're seeing the outcome.", "Laurie Segall, stick around. I have to take another break. 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{"id": "CNN-240917", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-10-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/13/nday.01.html", "summary": "Is Baghdad at Risk of an ISIS Takeover?", "utt": ["ISIS making startling advances in Iraq and Syria despite coalition airstrikes. General Martin Dempsey, who is leading U.S. efforts to fight the terror group, says fighters came within 15 miles of Baghdad's airport. But the U.S. insists the Iraqi capital is not in danger of falling to ISIS, even though the group stands on the verge of controlling an entire province on Baghdad's doorstep. This as Turkey now says it will let the U.S. use its military bases to fight ISIS. So, let's get to our team on the frontline. Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr, CNN international correspondent Ben Wedeman in Baghdad, and senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh on the Turkey- Syria border. It's great to see all of you this morning. Ben, I want to start with you. We are hearing conflicting reports as to whether or not ISIS could take Baghdad. They are less than 15 miles away. You are there on the ground. What's the assessment?", "ISIS couldn't take Baghdad under the current circumstances. It's a huge city. Most of the population is Shia, which is very hostile to ISIS, in addition to the Iraqi army, which is concentrated in and around Baghdad. There are tens of thousands of Shia volunteers who have been armed and trained with militias as well. So, it's a huge task and ISIS, despite its traumatic gains elsewhere has never been able to take a large population center where the local population does not welcome it if some form or another.", "Barbara, is that the same assessment at the Pentagon?", "Well, that's what they certainly hope. They hope ISIS doesn't really have designs on taking Baghdad. But really, it is the airport right now, Baghdad International Airport. I think it's the U.S. military's focus. They can not lose that airport. What if ISIS were to make some sort of a lightening strike on the west side of the city to try to get control of the airport or shut it down. For the 1,000 or more U.S. military and diplomatic personnel in Iraq, that airport is the only way out if this all goes sideways. That is really right now what the U.S. is -- seems to be very determined to protect.", "You are right. That's what General Martin Dempsey talked about yesterday, about the ISIS encroachment on the airport. Let's listen.", "You're not going to wait until they were climbing over the wall. They were within, you know, 20 or 25 kilometers.", "Of Baghdad airport.", "Sure. And had they overrun the Iraqi unit, it was a straight shot to the airport. So, we're not going to allow that to happen. We need that airport.", "Barbara, when he said, \"We're not going to allow that to happen,\" what's the plan?", "Well, I think Ben will tell you, there -- and Nick as well -- there are significant Iraqi defenses on the west front of the approaches to Baghdad. There are U.S. apache helicopters, which have already been used to push ISIS back. There are also regular drone flights overhead trying to keep an eye on ISIS. But right now, it is becoming tougher by the day because ISIS fighters are changing their strategy, they're blending into local population. They're moving in very small groups. When are you a fighter bomber aircraft at 30,000 feet looking for a target to strike, they are getting tougher and tougher to see day-by-day. So, this is going to be exactly what the Pentagon promised. Airstrikes alone won't work. It's going to be a very long call.", "Nick, speaking of ISIS changing its strategy. You talk about how impossible to predict what ISIS will do next, because tactically, they keep people guessing.", "They are more advanced than perhaps just what you can see by simply reading what they have done in the past 24 hours, certainly. We've seen them on face with moderate rebels in Syria and potential for big showdown there. They pull back, melted away. Months later, they were focusing in Iraq, on taking territory. We are seeing a definite decisive move by them to take Kobani behind them him and there's a key reason for that. Once they have this town, they have 100 kilometers of the Turkish-Syrian border. That's ordinarily useful for them in terms of leverage with the Turkish government in terms of the ability to use this porous area, to get supplies in and out. They may be moving down Anbar. There are suggestions from some observers actually they are moving also towards the south of the capital, to again to confuse the Iraqi army, divide, fracture, corrupt, incompetent in many ways already and certainly not be able to be light-footed as ISIS can be given the discipline they effectively have better numbers on the battlefield, too. In some ways, yes, an extraordinary complex task, trying to work out precisely what a group like ISIS wants to do next -- Alisyn.", "So, Nick, how deep is Turkey's commitment today to helping?", "Well, I mean, Turkey has been involved in the Syrian war for three years. People talk about, are they going to assist the Syrian moderate opposition? Well, they have been doing that for three years. They've been in the Istanbul hotel circuit, assisting them to have meetings, to build a political opposition, they've allowed over a million refugees on to their territory. This isn't a new fight for them. What they want to do, it seems from statements, is not necessarily be led by a Washington plan. Washington, let's be honest has been all over the place for the past three years about who it wants to assist, what level of assistance it wants to provide, if any at all. The key thing for them I think is to see an outcome or direction which satisfies them, because they have to live with the established circumstances of what comes out of this civil war for decades to come. They've had a long-term problem with the Kurds fighting on this side of the border here. They are enemies, frankly, so they're not going to pile and assist necessarily this fight. They, of course, want to see Syrians they are comfortable with take the superior hand in this battle, definitely. But at the end of the day, they're very clear in anchor that they want to see Assad out of power inside Damascus before they're willing to commit more resources to fighting or assisting what's happening on the side of the border next to me, Alisyn.", "Ben, back to Baghdad. What's the feeling on the ground there today about ISIS getting so close?", "People here are fairly confident that there won't be a frontal assault on the capital. Their real worry and it's very well- founded is the series of car bombings that seems to be going on and on, every day there is at least one bombing. The other night Saturday fight, there are two bombings that left more than 40 people dead. So, the worry is really what's going on inside Baghdad, because there are pockets of Sunnis among whom there are sympathizers, if not active members of ISIS as well. But looking beyond that, many people are concerned with the situation in Anbar province, which abuts the capital. We'd just learned that yet another Iraqi army base was overrun today, northwest of the town of Hit. We're getting conflicting reports about what happened afterwards. Some reports saying that the Iraqi burned their equipment and ammunition that they couldn't take with them. Other reports say yet again ISIS was able to get their hands on this very precious American supplied, the hardware and ammunition. So, it's a very mixed picture. But people are nervous as I said about bombs in Baghdad. But they are looking just to the west and increasingly considered about the possible fall of Anbar province, which at this point is 80 percent under the control of ISIS and that remaining under Iraqi army control is very tenuous at best.", "It sure sounds like it, particularly given that bringing news that you just shared with us about the key base being taken over by ISIS. Barbara Starr, Ben Wedeman, Nick Paton Walsh -- thank you so much for being there on the frontlines and giving us all the information this morning. Great to see you. Let's go over to Chris.", "All right, Alisyn. Oscar Pistorius is going to find his fate and soon. How much time is he going to get for culpable homicide? We're going to take live to the courthouse. And a network news team becomes the story, thrown into quarantine after the cameraman tested positive for Ebola. But another one of them has reportedly been spotted driving around New Jersey. What's going on?"], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CAMEROTA", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "CAMEROTA", "GEN. MARTIN DEMPSEY, JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN", "INTERVIEWER", "DEMPSEY", "CAMEROTA", "STARR", "CAMEROTA", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CAMEROTA", "WALSH", "CAMEROTA", "WEDEMAN", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "NPR-34318", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2008-10-03", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95329913", "title": "Honda Takes Aim At Toyota With A New Hybrid", "summary": "Honda has unveiled a new five-door gasoline-electric hatchback to challenge rival Toyota's success with the Prius. Honda's latest hybrid offering was put on display at the Paris Auto Show. It's called Insight, and looks suspiciously like the Prius.", "utt": ["NPR's business news starts with Honda racing after Toyota's Prius. Japan's second-largest automaker is on the offensive as it tries to carve out a bigger share of the market for its hybrid vehicles. Honda just unveiled its latest hybrid offering at the Paris Auto Show. The new Honda Insight looks suspiciously like the Prius - that's Toyota's gas-electric car, the world's best-selling hybrid. But Honda says its new hybrid will be cheaper when it arrives in showrooms next spring. The market for hybrids is still small, but it's a bright spot for car makers as they struggle with plunging sales. Honda sales in the U.S. last month were down 24 percent; Toyota's were down 32 percent."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-376171", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2019-07-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/29/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Three Dead, 12 Wounded After Gunman Opens Fire at Festival; Police Looking for Possible Second Suspect in Attack; Democrats Push for Gun Control After Mass Shooting; Michigan Democrats Eager to Vote Against Trump in 2020; Funeral held for Italian Officer Killed in Brutal Stabbing; Police Say Festival Attacker was 19-Year-Old Man; 16-Year-Old Wins $3 Million as Fortnite Champion.", "utt": ["Hello and welcome to CONNECT THE WORLD. I'm Lynda Kinkade live from CNN's world headquarters here in Atlanta. Well it's 8:00 in the morning in California where shock is giving way to grief for victims of America's latest mass shooting. A man opened fire at a popular food festival Sunday afternoon killing three people including this 6-year-old boy. A dozen other people were injured. Police say the gunman snuck into the festival and appeared to be firing randomly. Families were enjoying the day had to run for their lives. The gunman was killed and now a manhunt is underway for another person who may have been with him. Well another little boy who was near the gunman said he thought he was going to die. Heartbreaking words considering that boy is just 7 years old. CNN's Dan Simon looks at how a day of fun turned into carnage.", "What's going on? What's going on?", "Chaos and confusion erupting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California. With gunfire sending people into a panic.", "I thought it was like a firework at first. But then I saw him like point the weapon up like this.", "We just heard pop, pop, pop.", "I seen everybody that was running getting shot. So I was terrified. I was terrified.", "The rampage leaving three people dead and at least 11 others injured. One woman telling CNN affiliate KRON her 6-year-old grandson Steven Romero was one of those killed.", "This is really hard. There's no words to describe. Because he was such a happy kid, you know. I don't think that this is fair.", "Bystanders stepping in to help some of those hurt on sidewalks and on the back of pickup trucks. Just after 5:40 p.m. police received the call.", "Getting reports of a shooter at the Garlic Festival.", "I'm in the area, and it sounds like there is an active shooter in the park. People are running.", "Quickly racing to the scene on the north side of the festival.", "Officers were in that area and engaged the suspect in less than a minute. The suspect was shot and killed.", "Authorities describing how they believe the shooter was able to avoid security.", "It appears as though they had come into the festival via the creek, which borders a parking area, and they used some sort of a tool to cut through the fence to be able to gain access.", "The gunshots rang out while the band tin man was doing an encore on the stage.", "We ran to the other side of the stage, got down to the -- underneath it, and we waited until the police arrived.", "They told us you've got to run. There's somebody in the bushes or in the field, so either run, get out of here. Just keep going.", "Police are still investigating whether someone assisted the gunman.", "We have some witnesses reporting that there may have been a second suspect, but we don't know if that suspect was engaged in any shooting or whether they may have been in some sort of a support role.", "Survivors of the attack say they are grateful they made it out alive.", "We were lucky we didn't scream or anything because we were that close. He would have shot us.", "Sadly, this is familiar ground for America as we have seen so many attacks like this before. CNN law enforcement analyst, James Gagliano, is in New York and joins us now live. Good to have you with us, James.", "Thanks for having me, Lynda.", "This of course was a festival. There are grandparents. They're taking their kids out for an afternoon of fun. Police say they know who the suspect is. They think there's another one out there who they're hunting for right now. But we don't know much about the motivation. As far as you can tell, it seems like there was at least some element of planning to this attack.", "Absolutely. And look, Lynda the most important thing right here for law enforcement is was there another shooter, and if there wasn't another shooter was there an accomplice. That means someone that provided some type of material support to the active shooter that we know that police essentially interdicted and took down last night. So that is preeminent for law enforcement right now. We've going to absolutely find out if anybody else was involved in this conspiracy. You mentioned the planning. Yes, here's where we are in 2019 America. We live in a great country with civil liberties and we cherish those civil liberties. We love our open society, but these type of events have begun to proliferate. When I say type of events, soft target attacks. We've hardened things like airplanes and airports. We've hardened things like sporting venues and concert venues. Heck, we've even put armed guards now into our schools and our churches and our synagogues and our mosques. But an event like this we are undoubtedly lucky that there were police officers, armed police officers that got to the shooter within one minute. We lost three lives including tragically a 6-year-old, 11 others injured, but, Lynda, I'm here to tell you, could have been much worse.", "As you say this was a soft target.", "Yes.", "But it is uniquely an American problem. I just want to go to some statistics. Over 58,000 Americans died fighting in the 20-year Vietnam War. That same amount of people died from gun homicides in just five years here in the U.S. And as you say, you can do as much security as you want, uncertain targets, uncertain places like airports, but it's festivals like this you just can't do much to prevent this unless you tackle the gun issue.", "OK. I can -- see, that's the third rail sometimes for Americans, and especially for law enforcement folks. But I can give you an even better example than the one that you just provided in using the Vietnam War statistics. Two years ago in what was then the worst mass shooting where an individual in Las Vegas killed 50 people at a country concert. He was able to do that damage. Obviously, he had a number of rifles and he also had bump stocks which have now since been outlawed to some extent. But he was able to kill essentially the same amount of people that were killed in the bloodiest two months of the Iraq war, the battle of Fallujah which took place in 2005. For a little comparative analytics here. Now look, last year the FBI has charted 27 different mass shooting events. Mass shootings are defined as either three or four victims. It happened across 16 states. Eighty-five people lost their lives. Yes, we have a complicated history in America. We've been around for only 243 years, which is almost a drop in the bucket when you look at Europe or obviously other places. But the second amendment is important and we just need to find a way to be able to blend in the second amendment and not take those rights away and yet protect our school children and our Garlic Festival folks.", "Absolutely. And just stand by for us James, because we do have where that festival took place at the scene of that crime. Our Sara Sidner standing by. I just want to get some perspective from you, Sara. The youngest victim -- as I mentioned -- is 6 years old. But there are of course other kids were there that no doubt are traumatized by what they saw.", "Absolutely. We heard from a 7-year-old who talked about thinking that he was going to die. Other children who saved their brothers or sisters by putting them underneath a table to get out of the way of gunfire. These kids traumatized on a day when they were just enjoying themselves at this Gilroy Garlic Festival. Which by the way is a quintessential part of the summer here in Northern California. Lots of folks love coming to this festival, about 100,000 people enjoy this festival, and Sunday was family day. So lots of children enjoying themselves until this person decided to open fire on innocence, something that happens again and again in this country. The person that did this, police have just given a little bit more detail. The suspect according to law enforcement officials is 19 years old. I'm not going to bother saying his name because what matters are the names of the victims. One of them a 6-year-old little boy named Steven Romero. His grandmother telling us that he was a happy kid, a kid who like any 6-year- old enjoyed himself and enjoyed life and now his life taken away.", "Absolutely. And as you say, this happens far too often. So often that this story is not being covered every minute of the day here in the U.S. It's just one of the stories being in the mix today. We know that the U.S. firearm homicide rate is 20 times higher than the combined rate of 22 other developed countries. What are people there saying to you about this? Because so often when you see these sort of attacks, everyone sort of says we didn't think it would happen here.", "Yes, I mean, here's what's happening. What happens is that lists start going in people's heads. Where are you not safe? You're not safe at school, middle school, elementary school, high school, college campuses. You're not safe at a concert. You're not safe now at a Gilroy Garlic Festival. These things start impacting people as they realize that even inside of a movie theater where there was a mass shooting in Colorado that you simply can't go anywhere without having the thought that this is a possibility. And when you hear people talk about almost every time on these things, you hear someone say I just -- I didn't think it could happen here. That's happening less and less because people say, look, we saw something happen at a nightclub. We saw something happen in Las Vegas with hundreds of people shot. And now we're experiencing here. I knew it may come to my community. It is always devastating. It always changes people as they go through this, and again, especially for the children. Who are complete innocents or looking around and wondering what is going on, and that fear and terror being put into their souls as very, very, very young people. This will likely affect them for their entire lives. The moment, for example, that they watched bullets flying or that they saw somebody get shot. People were standing there, just sitting ducks but in a place where you should be able to just enjoy yourself and relax. And now all this tension and this community trying to deal with the fact that this beloved, really truly beloved festival has been marred by this shooting.", "Absolutely. Sara, good to have you there on the ground. I want to go back to James. Because James, you were mentioning earlier about this balance, trying to regulate the gun industry while maintaining second amendment rights. This shooter was killed by police within a minute of this shooting occurring, and so often when we hear gun lobbyists argue for more gun rights, they say that a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun. This didn't seem to happen here. Clearly law enforcement shot him dead pretty quickly.", "They did. And again, I mean, it could have been much, much worse, and that's certainly not diminishing the complex issue that it is. Yes, is a gun issue. It's also a mental health issue. And, Lynda, in the United States a 16-year-old kid just won the Fortnite contest, which was a video game contest. He won $3 million. We also have a violent culture here whether it's movies or TV or video games. I'm not suggesting that any one of those things is the reason or the catalyst, but you put them together and you have this perfect storm, which is what we're experiencing right now in the United States.", "Sure, but you can't say that other developed countries don't have video games, other kids aren't spending a lot of time on screens. This problem of mass shootings is very unique to the United States.", "Yes, that's a great point. We have 330 million people. There are approximately 330 million firearms in Americans' hands. How do we change that? I mean, we can make all the different background checks we want now. We can outlaw any kind of weapons, but it just doesn't change the fact that those weapons are still out there in people's hands.", "All right, James Gagliano in New York, our law enforcement analyst. Sara Sidner in Gilroy on the scene there of this latest mass shooting. Good to have you both with us. Thank you.", "Thanks Lynda.", "Last hour U.S. President Donald Trump spoke about the shooting. The President, again, offering prayers but he didn't say anything about gun laws. Listen.", "While families were spending time together at a local festival a wicked murderer opened fire and killed three innocent citizens including a young child. We grieve for their families and we ask that God will comfort them with his overflowing mercy and grace. We're praying for those who are recovering right now in the hospital.", "You can bet that gun control will come up when the U.S. Democratic Presidential candidates square off in a second televised debate. This round will take place over two days in Detroit, Michigan, starting Tuesday right here on CNN. And many of the candidates are already tweeting about that mass shooting in California. Bernie Sanders calls it sickening and says, quote, our corrupt political system, which is controlled by the gun lobby has a lot of waking up to do. Joe Biden tweeted. This violence is not normal. How many more families will have to lose a loved one before we fix our broken gun laws. We must take action starting with real reform. The candidates are also speaking out about President Donald Trump's attacks on a powerful U.S. Congressman in his predominantly black district in Baltimore. The President digging in today slamming Elijah Cummings in new tweets. He started a firestorm over the weekend when he called Cummings' district disgusting, rat and rodent-infested and filthy. You may remember Mr. Trump also repeatedly used the word filthy when bashing the remarks of four minority Congresswomen, filthy, infested language usually associated with vermin, not human beings. Well indeed Mr. Trump says no human would want to live in Cummings' district. While Republicans remain silent about his attacks, many Democrats aren't mincing words.", "It's unbelievable that we have a President of the United States who attacks American cities, who attacks Americans. Our job is to bring people together, to improve life for all people. Not to be a -- have a racist President who attacks people because they are African-Americans.", "This guy is the biggest identity politician that we have seen in the last 50 years, and he engages in what's known as racial priming. Basically using this language and taking actions to try and get people to move into their camps by racial and ethnic identity. That's how he thinks he won in 2016, and that's how he thinks he's going to win in 2020.", "This President is trying to distract people from the larger reality of this country. So he uses the racist appeal. There is a conman reality of Donald Trump, it's a classic bait-and-switch maneuver every time.", "To be attacked by a President issuing racist tweets is beyond insulting. It is disgusting.", "Let's bring in CNN's Athena Jones for more. She is following all the developments from Detroit this morning where that debate will take place. Athena, good to have you with us. A lot to cover, but I want to start first with the gun issue. Another mass shooting, no doubt it will be discussed tonight, discussed at both debates -- the Democratic Presidential debates. The question is will any of these candidates offer any real solutions? Because so often after a mass shooting here in the U.S. we see a lot of talk but not much action.", "Hi, Lynda, well that is the question. And we did hear from President Trump talking about thoughts and prayers. We've heard from Democrats on Twitter last night and this morning. Also sharing their thoughts and prayers but talking about real action. And this is going to give Democrats a chance to talk about their plans for tackling this crisis on the debate stage. Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, several have put out plans to tackle gun control. Some would say that Cory Booker's is among the most ambitious. He has said that we are going it give the NRA a fight they've never seen. He wants to implement making it necessary to have a gun license. So you would be required to have like a driver's license or passport, required to give fingerprints, have an interview, pass a gun safety course. Kamala Harris has put out a plan saying that she wants to give Congress 100 days to act on gun control or gun safety. If they don't, she has a plan that has several points. One of them being near universal background checks. She wants to require every gun seller who sells five or more guns a year to have to conduct a background check. She wants to revoke the licenses of gun dealers who don't do so. So there are some real plans that Democrats will have a chance to talk about on the debate stage a couple of nights from now. And they're going to be eager to do so because we know that gun control or gun safety is an important issue to Democratic voters. We've seen a poll conducted by CNN just in the last couple of months showing 65 percent of Democratic voters want to see the Democratic candidate be willing to take measures, strict measures on gun control.", "And Athena, just on the racism row, no doubt the candidates again will be weighing in on that given the President is now going off civil rights activist reverend Al Sharpton.", "That's certainly going to come up on stage a couple of nights from now as well. And you heard in that lead into me several of the candidates weighing in on the President's racism they call it. We heard Pete Buttigieg saying that look, America elected a black man Barack Obama President twice and then elected a racist. And so we can expect more of that discussion on the debate stage. I think that one thing that is important to keep in mind in all of this, is that, you know, this is certainly a distraction. And if you listen to some of the President's sort of allies and advisers in recent years, we've heard them say out loud that if they believe that talking about race for the President can be good for revving up his base and distracting Democrat voters and candidates from talking about issues that may help them with voters like the economy. So that's something that could also come up. People on stage saying, look, he wants to divide us. But we're not going to be distracted. We're going to talk about kitchen table issues.", "All right, Athena Jones, good to have you there for us in Detroit. We will speak to you again soon. Thanks so much. In the 2016 Presidential election Mr. Trump won the state that's hosting the debates, but only by a razor thin margin. Now many Democrats in Michigan are determined to turn things around. As CNN's Miguel Marquez reports.", "How motivated are you to vote in 2020?", "I'm motivated as heck because look at who we've got now.", "Detroit artist Shades, a muralist, in 2016, didn't vote.", "Do you regret not voting in 2016?", "No, I'm OK.", "He felt the Democratic nominating process was rigged. He liked Bernie Sanders then and likes him now. But this time, like many who sat on their hands in 2016, he plans to vote.", "I don't know about sitting on my hands -- not this time. I do have to make a decision, but I've still got to figure out what's going on.", "Every vote here counts. Donald Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes in Wayne County, Detroit, its biggest city. Seventy-six thousand fewer voters pulled the lever for Clinton than Obama in 2012.", "Michigan was a Bernie state, you can say. Bernie started early. That's what people don't know. Hillary came here late.", "Michigan political organizer Tashawna Gill says the Sanders-Clinton friction and the DNC's part in it turned off voters in 2016. Today, she's seeing none of that.", "Democrats know how important this is, right, to win. And the DNC now is doing a wonderful job, I can say, of staying out of it and let the process happen.", "So turned off by Democratic infighting in 2016, Dennis Black, son of auto-working union Democrats, voted for Green Party candidate Jill Stein.", "Strong Democrats -- always has been. Always probably will be.", "Who did not vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016.", "That's correct, that's correct.", "Why?", "Hillary was not the candidate for our community.", "Then he backed Bernie Sanders in the primary. Today, he likes Elizabeth Warren. But no matter who becomes the nominee --", "Joe Biden? What if Joe Biden is the candidate?", "If Joe Biden is the candidate, then we will be working to leverage what we can. And yes, I would be voting for him.", "Democrats here upbeat after a strong showing in the 2018 midterms, sweeping statewide offices and flipping two Republican House seats.", "Can you maintain it for a November third, 2020?", "There is no damn choice. We'll have to do that -- absolutely.", "Jonathan Kinloch chairs Detroit's 13th Congressional District Democratic Party and is a vice-chair of the state party. He says Democratic enthusiasm remains high, especially among African-Americans", "In Michigan when black folks vote we win. And I assure you that the African-American vote will turn out in 2020.", "Remember not to miss the next Democratic debates. They will be live on CNN on Tuesday and Wednesday. Coverage beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern time here in the United States, but you can see encore presentations at 10:00 a.m., Abu Dhabi, 2:00 p.m. Hong Kong the day after, only on CNN. Mr. Trump has named his choice for the next director of national intelligence, one of the most powerful and sensitive jobs in the government. It's representative John Ratcliffe, a staunch Trump supporter who has less than five years of national experience under his belt. Sources say Mr. Trump was so impressed by his attacks on Robert Mueller during the former special counsel's testimony last week that he wanted Ratcliffe for the job deeming him a warrior. If confirmed he would replace Dan Coats who has publicly disputed Mr. Trump's assessment of security issues ranging from Russia to Iran to ISIS. Still to come here on CONNECT THE WORLD, the Italian police officer who was allegedly stabbed to death by two young Americans is being fare welled. His funeral held in the same church where he was married less than two months ago. We're going to have a live report from Italy on that ahead. Also, a Kremlin critic hospitalized and Russian officials say it was an innocent allergic reaction. But a doctor says something far mar more sinister could be to blame. And later, as a kid $5 felt like a fortune, but what about the teenager who just won not one, not two, but $3 million from playing a video game."], "speaker": ["LYNDA KINKADE, CNN HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SIMON", "MARIBEL ROMERO, GRANDMOTHER OF VICTIM", "SIMON", "DISPATCH", "OFFICER", "SIMON", "CHIEF SCOT SMITHEE, GILROY, CALIFORNIA, POLICE DEPARTMENT", "SIMON", "SMITHEE", "SIMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SIMON", "SMITHEE", "SIMON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KINKADE", "JAMES GAGLIANO, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "KINKADE", "GAGLIANO", "KINKADE", "GAGLIANO", "KINKADE", "GAGLIANO", "KINKADE", "SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KINKADE", "SIDNER", "KINKADE", "GAGLIANO", "KINKADE", "GAGLIANO", "KINKADE", "GAGLIANO", "KINKADE", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KINKADE", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-248885", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-02-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/08/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Another Major Snowstorm Barrels Through New England", "utt": ["Hello, again, everyone. Thanks so much for joining me. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Boston, canceling school tomorrow and Tuesday as yet another major snowstorm barrels through New England. Here we go again. More than 6.5 million people the time are in its path and it comes as Boston is already dealing with record breaking amounts of snow. CNN's Sara Ganim joining us now from Boston, hopefully from a safer place. OK now, you you're off the street, maybe in a big mound that is supposed to be the sidewalk.", "That's supposed -- this is still the street side. And as we said earlier, this is the problem. Because these snow piles are making this street very narrow, very difficult to drive through, it decreases visibility for drivers, it also forces people to walk on the street where the sidewalks aren't plowed, and this has become a problem. The mayor just spoke a few minutes ago. He said that this amount of snow is unprecedented because it has fallen back to back to back in these snow storm in such a short amount of time. They are having trouble getting it out of the city, getting it off the street and plowed in time before people start to go back to work and get back out on to the street. The mayor mentioned something he said that private contractors are causing the problem. I want you to listen to why that's become an issue when it comes to snow removal. Take a listen to what he said.", "We have had many case where is businesses have been cleaning their parking lots out and their parking lots look beautiful and they're pushing it out on toe the street or into a pile across the street.", "So, he was saying is that private contractors are taking snow off the properties where they contract is to remove it. But then they're dumping it into streets and into allies. He also said it's become a problem that people aren't honoring the parking bans in some places and they're not able to fully plow the streets and therefore remove all of the snow. Now, removal has become an issuing because their budget is completely block busted already, Fred, this year for snow removal. He said he's going to find a way to pay for it to get the snow off the streets. But they may have to loan these snow warmers from the state of New York. They have one here in Boston. They're thinking of loaning two more to try and melt some of this snow. It's only the second week of February, pretty early in February to wait for all of this to melt with just simply be too long. As I mentioned, up to two more feet could fall, between now and Tuesday, Fred. And that's a lot of snow and it's causing a lot of trouble for people in the city who are trying to get around.", "It certainly is, as another vehicle now passes and creeps by you there, see, Sarah, I'm so glad now you're no longer in the street. All right, thank you so much, Sara, be safe. I appreciate it.", "We are further away, yes.", "Yes. All right, then, more snow on the way, Tom Sater, I know it's one day at a time. But OK, now we're three weekends in a row.", "Groundhog day, it is the movie.", "I know. We're just in February, and a lot of times that's the biggest, you know, winter month in the northeast, so God.", "You know, there could be up to two feet. Now, Boston so far to this day, has had about 58 inches, typically they should have half of that. I mean,", "Please, that's right. This is enough. So let's take a look at Boston one more time, how about that?", "All right.", "All right, so right now, yes, just that. And you know, typically, Boston has a nice, thick fog, but now is this kind of like the prelude of the snow? Is the snow falling right now.", "Just lightly right now, yes, but with two feet on the ground, it is very cold. And so, the coldest air of the seasoning moves on, after another batch of snow, Fred, Thursday into Friday. We will talk about that later.", "So that will be the fourth weekend in a row, possibly, that we're going to talk about. All right, thanks so much. I'm sorry folks in Boston, but that is the way it is. Just be strong. All right, thanks Tom. All right, still ahead, we're answering your questions about measles. Tweet me @fwhitfield #measles. And coming up in the 4:00 eastern hour, we're going to actually put your questions to our medical expert in house here when we come right back."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "GANIM", "MAYOR MARTY WALSH, BOSTON", "GANIM", "WHITFIELD", "GANIM", "WHITFIELD", "TOM SATER, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "WHITFIELD", "SATER", "WHITFIELD", "SATER", "WHITFIELD", "SATER", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-49565", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-2-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/19/ltm.13.html", "summary": "Interview of Collin Vause, Brian Fahling", "utt": ["The big question this hour, does a parent lose his rights because of a sex-change operation? A child custody case in Florida is about to examine the legal issue, and could set a precedent. Michael Kantaras is not the biological parent of either of his two children, but he is divorcing his wife, the woman there, Linda, and fighting her for primary custody. Michael is a transsexual, born Margo, and since reassignment surgery in 1987 and hormone treatment, has been living as a man. Now in Florida, same-sex marriages are not recognized, and Linda Kantaras, after years of being together and raising their children together, she now claims that Michael lacks the basic necessities for custody.", "Michael Kantaras is a woman who thinks he's a man. He had a transgender change. He's a woman.", "But, does changing your sex mean you don't have parental rights? Joining us now to talk about this issue from Tampa, Collin Vause, attorney for Michael Kantaras. And from Tupelo, Mississippi, Brian Fahling, attorney for the American Family Association. Thanks very much for being with us. Collin, starting off with you, in your opinion, what is the essential question that the judge has to answer in this case?", "The essential question is whether or not Michael Kantaras is legally a male, or whether, as his wife now claims during the litigation, he is a woman. Throughout the marriage, she has always held Michael out as her husband. She always believed Michael was a male, and she basically has changed her position just for litigation purposes because it is going to be advantageous to her claim for custody.", "Now, if Michael Kantaras ruled to be a woman, then, in effect, it has been a same-sex marriage, which is not a marriage in the state of Florida, therefore, there is no custody. Is that correct?", "That would be a problem if the judge finds that Kantaras is a woman. However, the overwhelming evidence at trial has established that he is, in fact, a male. In fact, the medical community accepts him as a male, his family accepts him as a male, his neighbors, the 17 people who he directly supervises at work, all accept him as a male, and there is no reason why the court shouldn't follow suit.", "Brian Fahling, let me bring you in. Is Michael Kantaras a male? He has had hormone therapy. He has had some sexual reassignment surgery. Presents as a male. Is he a man?", "Well, if we count chromosomes, Michael Kantaras is a female. The immutable fact here, scientifically, is that Michael Kantaras is a woman. You can alter physical appearance, but what you can't alter is genetic code, and Mr. Kantaras is clearly a woman by that definition, which is one that, historically, I think, we have all accepted.", "So you and your organization are basically saying there is no such thing as changing genders, there is no such thing as...", "There really is not. It's a physical impossibility. You know, the strength of belief does not determine that Mr. Kantaras is actually a man any more than me thinking I'm Napoleon makes me Napoleon.", "What about this being a cynical strategy by his wife, that for years they lived together as man and wife. She seemed to accept it at the time, she seemed willing to raise the children with this person as their father. Brian, is this just a cynical strategy?", "Well, I don't know about her strategy. But the implications from a legal and social policy perspective are profound. In other words, whatever her strategy may be, the law says that there's a marriage between a man and a woman, and then from that, you can get custody and visitation issues, but you cannot have a marriage between two women, which is, in fact, what we have here.", "Collin, this has got to be extraordinarily difficult for both parties. What is your client going through in the wake of all this?", "Well, having to listen to an oversimplification, as the gentleman just said, makes it difficult. There's much more to it than chromosomes. Gender dysphoria is a recognized medical condition, and through many years of experience and research, the medical community has come up with a treatment for people such as Michael Kantaras, which includes hormone therapy, a battery of tests, and psychological interviews, and ultimately the gender reassignment surgery. He has completed all of that, and as a result of completing that protocol, that medical protocol, he is now medically a male, and to say that it is simply because the chromosomes may or may not say one thing or another about whether he is a female or a male does not make sense. There's much more to it. For example, there are intersexed individuals whose have ambiguous genitalia, or who have genitalia of both sexes. And chromosomes are not going to help you determine anything in a case such as that. And then you have transsexuals such as Michael Kantaras who know from the very core of being that they are male. So...", "All right.", "Go ahead.", "Collin, thank you very much -- both Collin and Brian Fahling, thanks very much for being with us this morning. I'm afraid that is all the time we have. It is a very interesting case. It will, in many cases, perhaps make a legal precedent in the state of Florida, and we will be watching. 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{"id": "CNN-219162", "program": "CROSSFIRE", "date": "2013-11-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/20/cfr.01.html", "summary": "Who's Inspirational In Washington?; Can Washington Modernize?", "utt": ["Tonight on CROSSFIRE, the torch of inspiration passed across generations, from president to president.", "I hope we carry away from this a reminder of what JFK understood to be the essence of the American spirit. ANNOUNCER; Who that is that spirit now? On the left, Van Jones. On the right, Newt Gingrich. In the CROSSFIRE, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland; and Senator Tim Scott, a Republican from South Carolina. In today's Washington, whose example is inspiring? Whose should be avoided? Tonight on CROSSFIRE.", "Welcome to CROSSFIRE. I'm Van Jones on the left.", "I'm Newt Gingrich on the right. In the CROSSFIRE tonight, two members of a vastly different U.S. Senate compared to the one of the Kennedy era. Here in Washington today, we watched a wonderful tribute to a martyred president, whose killing influenced an entire generation, but here's what really strikes me. The notable thing about John F. Kennedy's Washington is that it worked. The Obama-era Washington doesn't. President Kennedy was able to talk with Republicans, even with Barry Goldwater. When he said \"We'll get to the moon in a decade,\" he didn't mean \"We'll settle for a rocket sitting at Cape Canaveral.\" While he was cautious on civil rights, he made the effort to unify the country, not divide it. It's too bad that, for President Obama, honoring Kennedy seems to just be a symbolic moment, rather than a chance to learn from him, and maybe to change something.", "I loved it all right until the last sentence. Well, look, I...", "Don't you think he should learn?", "I do think he -- I think he should learn and he is learning. Everybody likes to beat up on President Obama right now. But even JFK, he had his Bay of Pigs moment. Don't count this president out. I think these senators know better than to count him out. In the CROSSFIRE tonight, we've got Democratic Senator Ben Cardin and Republican Senator Tim Scott. Welcome to you. Senator Scott, it's your first time on CROSSFIRE, first time, I think, on", "I've been waiting a long time.", "We're lucky to have you. Now, listen, I am concerned, because I've been watching all this footage from the Kennedy era. And it seems like there was a time when you had people -- the parties cooperating, working together, and now it looks like a big mess, even on something as simple as getting judges approved through the Senate. We're going to have to have a nuclear option to get judges approved? What is going on in the Senate and what are you going to do about it?", "I'll tell you that having a nuclear option would be like having Obama care 2.0. The fact of the matter is that, over the last 15 years, we've seen 215 judges approved, only two defeated. Two hundred fifteen approved, only two defeated. So the fact of the matter that, as it relates to getting judges approved, it's happening. The question we really should look at is why can't we find a legislative common ground: lower taxes, put people back to work, and get back to the primary question, which is Americans, they want jobs.", "They want jobs, and we will get to that. But I don't want to let you off the hook that easy.", "It's my first time on the show.", "We've got to put the heat on you. But do -- I do have this concern, this one sticking issue. We can argue about the numbers of judges, but this one issue around the D.C. court, we are not hearing from Republicans saying that the three judges the president wants are terrible people; they're shoplifters; they're doing cocaine; they're bad; they're out in the mainstream. They just don't want to approve any judges. Is that a good idea for Republicans? I hear no argument. They just don't want the president, who's got constitutional authority to appoint a judge, to appoint a judge?", "I think you make a very good point. 2006, the Democrats said something that's very important. What is the workload of the D.C. courts? What is the workload? And today, we're asking the same question. It seems like the D.C. court load is not sufficient to add any judges. There's no question that the work load is lower than most courts, most circuits. And so it's very important for us to use what we have and use it responsibly. One of the ways that we use the resources that we have responsibly is to make sure that the workload is taken care of and not new judges.", "Do you agree with your colleague here?", "Senator Scott is right, the Republicans aren't voting against the president's nominees. They're not allowing us to have a vote for the president's nominees. They're blocking, through procedural ways, so that we're not getting votes of not only the circuit court for the district. We have plenty of the presidential appointments that have not been filled for over months, and that they are using the, basically, the filibuster to prevent an up or down vote on judges, on cabinet-level positions, to a level that has never before been seen in American politics. That's wrong.", "Well, Senator, let me build on that exact point, which is you've now had eight Democratic senators come out for fixing Obama care, at least as it relates to the people who are currently not going to be able to get any insurance. Yet Senator Reid has not indicated he'd be willing to bring a bill to the floor, which will now clearly have, counting the Republicans, a clear majority of the Senate favoring it. I mean, shouldn't that -- if we're going to go back to regular order...", "Oh, I agree.", "... shouldn't we also have votes on things like Obama care?", "As you know, when we passed Medicare Part D, a lot of us were opposed to that, but after it became law, we said let's sit down and let's make it work. Let's make it work the best that it can. The Affordable Care Act, Obama care, is the law of the land. It can be made better. We should be taking up legislation in regular order. The question is -- I could ask my colleague -- will the Republicans want to consider this in regular order and not just try to repeal, but to try to make it work better?", "We certainly would be happy to talk about making Obama care a more effective piece of legislation. The best way to do it, in my opinion, is to repeal it. If we could do that, we could get on common ground. You've even had some criticism recently about the roll-out of the exchange. HealthCare.gov is now synonymous with failure. The challenge with Obama care is simply this. In my state, we had 400,000 South Carolinians without insurance. Today we've had less than 600 sign up for Obama care, but we've had 150,000 additional people losing their insurance because of Obama care. So the real challenge that we see today is that we need to come back to a free market solution, to make sure that people have greater access to health care. One of the ways that we do that is look at alternatives that will reduce the price of health insurance. I've got a couple that I'd like to talk about. I'd love to have this debate about providing the American people with a free market solution to lower the prices, create greater access, and see what can happen.", "We tried that before the passage of the Affordable Care Act. People lost their insurance, and getting less and less. The basic principles of Obama care are sound. I don't think you want to repeal the fact that you can -- that parents can keep their adult children on their policies until age 26. Or do you want to take away from our seniors the additional benefits we've given them in filling this coverage cap, the prescription drugs so-called doughnut hole? Or do we want to go back to the days where insurance companies can put preexisting condition restrictions or caps on insurance plans? The fundamentals of the exchanges are there. We have more companies that have signed up under the exchanges offering more plans at lower rates than we had anticipated. Is it working right? No. We've got to get the online services working right.", "Seven hundred and fourteen billion dollars taken out of Medicare to fund Obama care. So there's no question that what we've seen is we've made -- we've made Medicare more fragile because of Obama care, No. 1. No. 2, let's say that what we did in 2011 in the House, was we passed HR-1, I believes it was, that provided about $6 billion for health- care pools in the states, providing a state-by-state competition, which would then allow for those folks with preexisting conditions to find the coverage. If we would allow for competition across the states.", "Wait, wait, wait.", "Let me finish the sentence.", "There's a...", "I know you guys are courteous to newbies, but one of the challenges -- got to use what you got, right?", "Right.", "One of the challenges that we see here is that, if we allow for free market solutions to come to the table, things like Texas -- Texas dealt effectively -- I know you're going to turn it, but Texas dealt effectively with medical tort reform. That lowers the cost of health insurance. Defensive medicine costs about 25 percent of the overall.", "Let me just -- because I've got to get in one question. I don't want -- I don't want you to filibuster.", "I didn't know we had nuclear options.", "Right here on the show.", "Two point oh, two point oh. Obama care 2.0. All right.", "Here, honestly, I am curious to know -- and you're a resident of South Carolina.", "Absolutely.", "I know you've got politics to deal with. But are you trying to fix Obama care? Or are you trying to repeal Obama care? If you're trying to fix Obama care, all these ideas might go somewhere. But if you are saying you want to destroy Obama case, I don't think you've got any basis to work with with your colleague here. Am I wrong?", "Here's what I can tell you. I think there's a way for us to come together and find a solution to provide a more health insurance opportunities and creating greater access to health insurance in the private sector. One of the things I'm thinking about is next year -- think about this. I was a small business owner. Owned my own business for 15 years. Small business owners today are being incentived to drop their health insurance coverage for their employees. Next year, according to a report that came out today, 100 million more Americans may lose their health insurance because of the small business exchanges.", "We have to wait to see the numbers.", "The numbers are coming out pretty clear. Forty percent increase.", "Let him take that before we go to break. Last shot.", "Every year before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, more and more people were losing their insurance. And as far as Medicare is concerned, Medicare is more solvent today than it was before the passage.", "I keep hearing that.", "It is.", "How, you take $700 billion out of something, it becomes more solvent?", "First of all, we brought down some of the costs of Medicare.", "Write that down for me, because I don't understand this.", "I thought you guys liked it. Got rid of waste and abuse and that type of stuff. That's what we did. But here's the deal.", "We'll come back. We'll come back after the break.", "We'll come back to all this stuff.", "We're going to disagree on that topic.", "Well, we've got to talk about it when we get back from the break. Now, clearly we're bogged down. We need a break out of this bogged-down discussion. And it looks like President Obama himself has been reading Newt Gingrich's new book called \"Breakout.\" Next, I want you both of you guys to respond to this comment from the president.", "In a lot of ways America is poised for a breakout. We are in a good position to compete around the world in the 21st century."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "VAN JONES, CO-HOST", "NEWT GINGRICH, CO-HOST", "JONES", "GINGRICH", "JONES", "CNN. SEN. TIM SCOTT (R), SOUTH CAROLINA", "JONES", "SCOTT", "JONES", "SCOTT", "JONES", "SCOTT", "JONES", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-409166", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-08-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/25/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Study: Rates of Symptomatic Children with COVID Are Very Low; \"Rolling Hot Spots\" in Focus as Midwest Sees Uptick in Infections; Tropical Storm Laura Expected to Slam Gulf Coast as Hurricane", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. I'm Kate Bolduan. Thanks so much for joining us this hour. I'm going to throw some numbers at you but here's the point and the encouraging signs with the fight against COVID. Things are coming down and heading in the right direction. But, of course, with the important context that they are coming down from a very high point. Just under 40,000 new cases reported yesterday. Over the last two weeks, the average number of daily new infections is down nearly 21 percent. Just look at that curve. Only 10 states are now showing an increase there. Many of them in the Midwest, which we will talk about more in just one second. Twenty-three states are seeing a decline. The virus killed another 450 Americans yesterday. But the rolling average of deaths is slowing, slowly falling. And the all-important indicator, the positivity rate, is also dropping. Now at about 6 percent nationwide. So the fight against COVID is having an impact right now. But that is not a permanent state, of course. Just look at colleges across the country. More and more reporting COVID clusters breaking out, leading more and more schools to crack down on students and parties and gatherings. Ohio State is temporarily suspending more than 200 students for breaking the school's coronavirus policies. The University of Kansas is taking disciplinarian action against two fraternizes for hosting parties over the weekend. And the mayor of Tuscaloosa is ordering all bars closed after seeing more than 500 cases pop up at the University of Alabama. Now this also just came out, a new study shedding light on how many children have COVID and don't have any symptoms and what that means for tracking cases and reopening schools safely. CNN's Elizbeth Cohen is joining me now. She's standing by with that information. Elizabeth, this new research was just published out of the University of California, San Francisco. What did they find?", "Kate, these doctors did something really interesting. They looked at children who were at children's hospitals, not for COVID, but for all sorts of other things, for non-COVID reasons. Let's take a look at what they found out. They tested more than 33,000 children who were in for other reasons. They didn't have signs of COVID. Nobody thought they had COVID. They weren't there for COVID. Our of those 33,000 asymptomatic children, 250 of them were positive. Now the number of children who were positive varied by community. In other words, some of these children's hospitals, when they tested those children, but they didn't get a single case of COVID. Other ones, about 2 percent of the children that they tested were COVID. So it varied very much by community to community. Not surprising seeing the COVID rates in this country vary from community to community.", "Absolutely. And these researchers make a really important, I think, and helpful assessment of how they think that this helps communities with regard to many things, including reopening schools safely.", "Right. I think one of the things you have to think about -- and this is something Tony Fauci talks about a lot -- is America is a big place. If you have a lot of COVID in your community, it stands to reason that you will have more children with COVID and you don't know that they have COVID because they're asymptomatic. So schools really have to sort of they don't need to be looking at the national data. They need to be looking at the data in their community. If I knew that, in my community, 2 percent of these children who were tested, who didn't appear to have COVID, but 2 percent of them did, that's going to mean something to me. If I'm stuck in a building with lots of children, I want to know that 2 percent of them might have COVID and aren't showing it.", "Yes. It's kind of a formula, is how they described how you can look at -- look at these reopenings and how it can apply to your community, different applications for different communities. Thanks, Elizabeth. I really appreciate it.", "All right. Thanks.", "So let's talk about focusing in on communities. And regionally is another place we need to focus. Let's focus in on the trends that we are seeing with COVID right now. The northeast, as you remember very well, was the first major hotspot in the United States. Then the Sunbelt, the southern tier of the United States, became the epicenter of COVID outbreaks in the country. Now, it's the Midwest that's becoming the biggest concern it appears. Take a look at this. This shows the story of the south, a steep rise -- you can see that huge rise in cases, and then a decline. But as cases declined in the Sunbelt, you can see the danger ahead in the Midwest with the cases on the rise there. Which does beg the question: Are what we can call kind of a rolling hot spot, are they now the new normal? If so, why? And what's working and what isn't? Joining me right now is Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips. She's a CNN medical analyst and chief clinical officer for the Providence Health System. Doctor, it's good to see you again. So rolling hot spots moving across the country. I've heard it also described as kind of a constant game of Whack a Mole. Do you think that is the new normal?", "I think it is the new normal, at least for the near future. And the challenge is that, as a virus rolls into a community, people start doing the things that we know stop the virus, including things like shutting down bars, getting incredibly good about wearing their masks and social distancing. And then as people -- as it's real, as they see their neighbors getting the disease, people are very adherent to the guidelines. As then as things start to wane, people get comfortable again. And you start mingling a little bit more. And, oh, maybe I left my mask at home, oh, well, I'll just go out anyway. And they get more complacent. This waxing, waning in how we live through the length of time that we have to manage is going to be the challenge over the next 18 months or so until we get the vaccine not only made but fully deployed across the country.", "Yes. And you're answering my next question. But just to put a fine point on it, we've been looking for so long at the Sunbelt, the southern tier of the United States, and how bad it had really gotten. But also now the change. The percentage changed from week to week has dropped by at least 10 percent for the last two weeks in terms of cases. Why is the Sunbelt getting better? What have you seen, from Arizona to Florida to Texas? What are you seeing that's working?", "So I think the measures we are hearing about. The governors in those states actually did start taking the mitigation measures that we have to be able to do to shut down the virus, which includes shutting down those places where you can't wear a mask and still go about your business, bars and restaurants. Indoor dining at restaurants and bars seem to be the social behavior that are really correlated with the highest risk of transmission. So they shut down the bars and restaurants. They started making masks more mandatory. They started increasing rules around social distancing. And, after a time lag, because it takes a little while to get control of this thing once it's out of control, you start seeing the improvements. And those are the proven practices that we need to make sure are consistent as viruses start to creep up in a community. We need to clamp down on those behaviors and then we can, hopefully, stop those peaks from getting too high before we're able to control them.", "Yes. There's a lot of see what we've done here or there to learn what you should be doing right now especially in the Midwest. Dr. Redfield said he's nervous about a third wave hitting the middle of the country. But there's a lot that leaders can learn right now from leaders in the Sunbelt, leaders in the northeast of how to make sure it doesn't spike what we've been looking at. I want to get your take on Elizabeth's reporting. What does it mean if you can get a good estimate of how many children in a particular community are asymptomatic? How helpful do you think this is?", "I think it's a little bit helpful. But to be honest with you, it really is the burden of disease that matters, how many cases per 100,000, and how many tests are positive. Because the more disease in a community, the more likely you will have children who are carrying the germ, whether symptomatic or asymptomatic. The challenge is what are those thresholds that allow us to get kids back to school. Do we have testing available for when kids in school get infected -- because it's not if, it's always a when, right --", "Right.", "-- so we can start containing the virus. And do we have mitigation strategies so that if a child comes to school and is infected it won't spread like wildfire through the rest of the school? And so it's good to know, but it is no means the only factor we need to understand.", "It's the factors that, Doctor, you've been talking about all along, that need to be listened to in order to open up safely and when to open up safely.", "Yes.", "Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. I want to turn now to some --", "Thank you.", "-- breaking news on Hurricane Laura. The National Hurricane Center just released a new forecast on the storm and its path. It is expected to become a major hurricane before slamming into the gulf coast. Let's get straight over to CNN meteorologist, Chad Myers. He has been tracking this. Chad, what is the latest you're seeing with this storm?", "Kate, the Hurricane Center did take the storm and nudge it a little bit to the west, a little bit closer to Houston. And that's concerning because we're 115 miles per hour making landfall and we always say that's plus or minus 10 percent. Could go either way from there. This is a storm in very warm water. Not much here to tear it apart like Marco got torn apart, absolutely destroyed. This is not going to have that kind of shear. And it will make landfall very close to the pass, plus or minus 70 miles left or right. Think how many towns and cities and coastal locations, not so much in Louisiana, along the coast, but how many places that affects in Texas. But it will affect you in Lake Charles. This isn't going to slow down anytime soon. There's not much land between Lake Charles and really the ocean itself, the Gulf of Mexico. Water is over 90 degrees. The inland push of the wind will be all the way to Lufkin, Alexandria, through Lake Charles, all those purple areas. It's 110 miles per hour or more in some spots. So you have to understand the power lines, trees, storm surge will be pushed well inland if it gets to the category 3, plus or minus 10 percent. A lot of rainfall coming down as well. We'll probably see rain somewhere in the 10-inch range. Now this is not Harvey. This isn't going to stop. When this thing gets moving on up into the Midwest, it is going to roll through the Midwest, roll over Nashville, maybe still 30-mile-per-hour winds there. But not stopping like Harvey did. Houston, you are so close to the cone. In fact, Bay City is in it. Houston, Sugarland, you're not. You need to pay big attention. This is going to be a significant damage maker, a significant surge maker in the peninsula. But if it's east of there, that will be the Lake Charles area. If it's west, like some models are taking it farther west, Houston, you are in it. Make your preps now. You probably have 24 hours to do whatever you're going to do. And then the wind will get too strong to put up boards, of course.", "We'll stick close to you, Chad. The next 24 hours will be critical and people are preparing an emergency response getting prepared, especially in the midst of a pandemic. Thanks, buddy. I really appreciate it. Coming up for us, we have Wisconsin now at the center of nationwide protests after police shoot a black man in the back in front of his children. This morning, new details about Jacob Blake's condition. And day one of the Republican National Convention painted a portrait of President Trump that doesn't fit with reality. We'll sort through the fact and the fiction."], "speaker": ["KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "DR. ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BOLDUAN", "COHEN", "BOLDUAN", "COHEN", "BOLDUAN", "DR. AMY COMPTON-PHILLIPS, CNN MEDICAL ANALYST", "BOLDUAN", "COMPTON-PHILLIPS", "BOLDUAN", "COMPTON-PHILLIPS", "BOLDUAN", "COMPTON-PHILLIPS", "BOLDUAN", "COMPTON-PHILLIPS", "BOLDUAN", "COMPTON-PHILLIPS", "BOLDUAN", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-158114", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-11-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1011/11/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Leery Vet Shun Back Pay; Carnival \"Splendor\" Returns to Shore", "utt": ["And it's almost 10:00 a.m. on the East Coast, 7:00 a.m. out west. I'm Fredricka Whitfield in for Kyra Phillips. Here's a look at what has us talking in the NEWSROOM. Today is Veterans Day, a time to honor the generations of Americans who have served and sacrificed in the nation's military, but some of those veterans are not claiming money that's rightfully owed to them. And time is running out. CNN's Chris Lawrence will join us with more on that. And in Alaska, election officials have begun counting the write- in votes of the bitterly fought senate race. So far, nearly 90 percent of the ballots counted are considered clear votes for incumbent, Lisa Murkowski. Her opponent Joe Miller had filed a legal challenge over how accurate the voters' spelling had to be in writing Murkowski's name. And the crippled Carnival Splendor is now just about eight miles from San Diego and due to arrive this afternoon. An engine fire on Monday left the 4,500 people on board without air conditioning or hot water. No hot shower. Meantime, overseas, President Obama is in South Korea on this Veterans Day. He is remembering the so-called \"forgotten war\". The president praised members of the audience that fought in the Korean conflict and the U.S. troops who stand guard today at the border. There will be a full day of remembrances at Arlington National Cemetery in this country in Virginia. Later this morning, Vice President Joe Biden will lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. And just outside the cemetery's walls, Americans are gathering at the Marine Corps Memorial. It's also known as the Iwo Jima Memorial because it celebrates the iconic photo of the flag raising there. All right. Believe it or not, there are many military veterans who are ignoring thousands of dollars in back pay that's rightfully owed to them and time is running out. CNN Pentagon correspondent, Chris Lawrence has that story.", "It's like a winning lotto ticket that's about to expire. The government has half a billion dollars to give away but can't find enough troops to claim it.", "I was immediately suspicious about it. It seemed like another scam that a lot of people prey on soldiers with.", "But it's not. Ian smith earned that money, so did other soldiers and marines. When their enlistment was up, the Pentagon forced them to stay in.", "You have orders to report to the first brigade.", "Not me. I'm getting out today.", "You're leaving on the 22nd, shipping you back to Iraq.", "... enlistment was up, the Pentagon forced them to stay in.", "You have orders to report to the first brigade.", "Not me. I'm getting out today.", "You are leaving on the 22nd. We're sending you back to Iraq. You have stop lost.", "Like the fictional soldier in \"Stop Loss,\" Ian Smith finished his enlistment including a brutal tour in Iraq.", "I could not bring myself to acknowledge all of the horrors. We had daily memorial services for people that were dying in atrocious ways.", "Ian works at a veterans outreach center in St. Louis but still remembers when the Army told him you're going back to Iraq. (on camera): And they weren't just saying, stay another month?", "Or 60 days. Right. It's a surge tour, it's going to be 15 months instead of 12. It was probably the worst news that I could have heard at the time.", "Troops like Ian put off schools and new jobs and some lost relationships, so Congress authorized $500 for any month they were held over. In Ian's case, it was nearly $7,000. But thousands of veterans forgot to fill out paper work or just thought it was too good to be true.", "As your commander in chief, I am here to tell you that this is no gimmick or trick.", "Even after the president implored vets to get their money, there is still nearly $300 million unclaimed, and vets must apply by December 3rd. (on camera): Did you ever think it would be this hard to give away money.", "Well, if you can imagine that someone coming to you and telling you that without any strings attached that they are going to pay you thousands of dollars.", "The Pentagon Lernes Hebert says the VA did direct mailings, and the Pentagon advertised it on every web site it could, but even without that outreach veteran Mike Pereira is rushing to finish his paperwork in time.", "I hope that I don't miss out on the opportunity especially if I had known sooner then I would have been able to prep a little better.", "In just a few weeks, it will be too late.", "If anybody even suspects that they might be eligible for this payment, we want them to apply.", "All right. Chris Lawrence joining us now from our Washington bureau. So Chris, if these vets are just hearing about this right now, how are they supposed to scrounge up their paper work in just a matter of weeks to meet that deadline?", "Well, Fred, all they got to do is go to defense.gov and get the application in by December 3rd. There are a ton of folks who are available to work out the kinks from that point on. You know, like we said, I mean Congress set aside $530 million for these troops. More than half of that is still sitting out there. And so I asked the Pentagon, why are we so wedded to this December 3rd. If you end up, on that date, you still got 50,000, 60,000 people out there who might still be eligible, do we just pull the money away? I mean, this really is not a lottery ticket. They earned that money. He says Congress is keeping a close eye on the proceedings, how many people are filing and how many claims are getting paid. So perhaps there is a little bit of wiggle room in that lame duck session if enough people are still out there that maybe, maybe, they bump that date up again.", "All right. Chris Lawrence in Washington, appreciate that. The greatest generation is passing on its memories of World War II to the next generation. Students are getting a living history lesson from the people who were actually on the front lines. In about 30 minutes from now, we're talking to an 85-year-old vet and a sixth grader spending this Veterans Day together in New Orleans. And that crippled \"Carnival Splendor\" is now just about eight miles from San Diego. And it's due to arrive this afternoon. Images right there. An engine fire on Monday left the 4,500 people on board without air conditioning or hot water. Senior producer Paul Vercammen is in San Diego who is joining us live. So a few hours way, they are inching ever so closer thanks to those tug vessels. Give me an idea what awaits them.", "Well, here's what we're expecting right now, Fredricka. In just a little while, maybe as soon as half hour - don't forget the \"Carnival Splendor\" is a pretty massive ship and it's going to peek its head, if your will, right over my shoulder over there in San Diego Bay and perhaps sort of fitting that all of use are glued together because just behind you can see Coronado Island and that is where the USS Ronald Reagan is stationed. Of course, the military helped out with a lot of the \"Splendor's\" issues, the Reagan delivered supplies to the \"Splendor\" and aboard that ship, it was quite an ordeal over the last few days. It was supposed to be a seven-day cruise to the Mexican Riviera, and just as they got under way, the engine fire, what the passengers have described to us lately here at CNN, \"long lines for the toilet and long lines for food as you can imagine, they have all been getting a little bit antsy because usually on this cruise, you have various shore stops, and people sort of get off and get out and about and get on land and enjoy the vacation. So it's been tough, but again relief came via the USS Ronald Reagan, and of course, the Coast Guard has done a good job supporting and helping the ship. So we expect to see the ship in just about a half hour coming into San Diego Bay. Fredricka.", "Wow! Family members of a lot of the passengers, they're not there in San Diego, or are they?", "They're not here yet because this was quite a twist. You may recall that yesterday afternoon, the people with \"Carnival\" was saying midday, midday. Everything was pointing to midday. We have not seen the first trickle of those family members yet but we anticipate once they get word of this very early arrival, this was quite a surprise, they said earlier this morning. Then we'll start to see family members come on in, and what \"Carnival\" has done - you may have heard at one point they were talking about going into Ensenada, Mexico. They felt like there were more hotels to choose from logistically in San Diego because they need to put up the passengers who came from other parts of the country. They will fly them out of San Diego as well, put their families up. They're going to pay for that as well as, of curse, refund their money and book them on another cruise in the future.", "Boy, ultimately this costs \"Carnival\" hundreds of thousands. I don't know, maybe even millions of dollars. Paul Vercammen, thanks so much. Of course, we'll get a tally, I'm sure. \"Carnival\" will share that with us as soon as they calculate all of those numbers. Paul Vercammen, thanks so much. All right. Turning to politics now, nine days after the election, and we still have one undecided Senate race, in Alaska. The latest count of write-in votes appears encouraging for incumbent Lisa Murkowski and quite troubling for her opponent Joe Miller. CNN political producer Shannon Travis joins us now from Juneau. So Travis, where do things stand?", "Well, where they stand are that Senator Murkowski is probably very happy this morning with the way things and her opponent Joe Miller is probably hoping to still have the last laugh. We are here in the room in Juneau where the vote counting will continue today. There was a lot of furious activity yesterday but let's check through some of the numbers of, the final unofficial numbers that we got yesterday at the close of the counting. Out of 19,000 write-in ballots that they counted, just over 19,000, Senator Murkowski is pulling 89 percent, just over 89 percent of them that are confirmed, clear, unambiguous votes for her. Now, these are unofficial. They are not being added to her actual vote tally. They are being sorted, basically being put in a stack, if you will, to say, hey these are clear votes for her. About eight percent, just over eight percent, almost eight and half are votes being counted for her but being challenged, again, just being sorted into a box, if you will, saying, \"hey, these are votes for her.\" Basically, what this means is about 97 percent of these votes are being sorted in her favor and that looks really, really positive for the senator.", "OK. So Shannon, give me an idea because there's a legal challenge here that Jim Miller is launching. Where does that fight go?", "Yes, I mean, it's a big legal challenge. Basically, Joe Miller is saying hey the state is evaluating voter intent. If a ballot is marked incorrectly, it says Lisa Murkowski but misspells her name or maybe it says Lisa M., an official here is voting sometimes that that counts for her. Joe Miller wants that to stop and he has filed a lawsuit. But yesterday, he sought an injunction to stop those ballots from being counted. The judge, the court wouldn't issue that but is going to hear some arguments next week. So we don't know where this thing is going to go next. It could be a protracted legal battle. Only time will tell, Fred.", "All right. Shannon Travis, thanks so much from Juneau, Alaska. Appreciate that. All right. Performer Kanye West tweeting about his \"Today\" show interview, and he's not happy with Matt Lauer. We're getting the lowdown in our showbiz update."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "IAN SMITH, THE MISSION CONTINUES", "LAWRENCE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LAWRENCE", "IAN SMITH, THE MISSION CONTINUES", "LAWRENCE", "SMITH", "LAWRENCE (voice-over)", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "LAWRENCE", "LERNES HEBERT, SR. PENTAGON PERSONNEL OFFICIAL", "LAWRENCE (voice-over)", "MIKE PEREIRA, THE MISSION CONTINUES", "LAWRENCE", "HEBERT", "FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "LAWRENCE", "WHITFIELD", "PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN SENIOR PRODUCER", "WHITFIELD", "VERCAMMEN", "WHITFIELD", "SHANNON TRAVIS, CNN POLITICAL PRODUCER", "WHITFIELD", "TRAVIS", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-73175", "program": "LIVE FROM THE HEADLINES", "date": "2003-7-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/03/se.03.html", "summary": "Autopsy Backlog in Connecticut Delays Investigations", "utt": ["Dead men and women don't talk, but their corpses do, providing valuable clues in murder investigations. Tonight, in our continuing look at state in crisis, we turn to Connecticut, where budget cutbacks are slowing down the speed at which autopsies are completed. Deborah Feyerick reports.", "With murder, police say the first 24 hours are critical. The body is a crime scene, with its clues, its hints of motive and of the possible killer. We've seen it on the CBS series \"", "Crime Scene Investigation.\" The autopsies that can serve up so much information, the killer is quickly caught. In real life in Connecticut, budget cutbacks taking effect now have taken an autopsy backlog. That's according to the state's chief examiner, Dr. H. Wayne Carver. He says he has had to cut one of six forensic pathologists. And they're no longer doing autopsies on Sundays or holidays.", "There's three ways to approach this: not do them at all, do them bad or do them late. The first two just simply weren't acceptable.", "Connecticut's medical examiner's office performs on average 30 autopsies a week. Carver says before the cuts, 98 were completed within a day. Now, in some cases, he says, it's taking two or three days. The governor's office responds, the medical examiner needs to manage resources better. Others say the delay is real and having an effect. (on camera): A recent case of child abuse, what was the cause of delay in the autopsy?", "The cause of delay would have been just scheduling problems.", "Lieutenant John Brenner works investigations for the Bridgeport Police. He says a quick turnaround is important, especially with child abuse.", "In a case like this with children, where there's no external trauma, it's hard to question the parent because you don't know if the parents a victim or suspect.", "We checked with several police departments in Connecticut. So far the autopsy delays have had no impact on any criminal investigations. But for one family, the backlog was traumatic. They had to wait four days before their relative was released for burial. (voice-over): Funeral director Bill Iovanni (ph) says any hold- up for a grieving family feels too long.", "It just, you know, makes people sit in their house thinking and wondering and it just -- it drags it on.", "Connecticut officials say the medical examiner's office will not be hit with any more cuts this year."], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CSI", "DR. H. WAYNE CARVER", "FEYERICK", "LT. JOHN BRENNER, BRIDGEPORT POLICE DEPT.", "FEYERICK (voice-over)", "BRENNER", "FEYERICK (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FEYERICK"]}
{"id": "NPR-26061", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2013-05-01", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2013/05/01/180240198/business-news", "title": "Apple Sells Bonds", "summary": "On Tuesday, Apple sold $17 billion worth of bonds which is a new industry record. Apple issued the bonds to take advantage of low interest rates as it prepares to make a payout of $100 billion to shareholders by 2015.", "utt": ["NPR's business news starts with a scramble for Apple bonds.", "Apple, yesterday, sold $17 billion worth of bonds - which is a new industry record. Apple issued the bonds to take advantage of low interest rates as it prepares to make a payout of $100 billion to shareholders by 2015."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-302179", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2017-01-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/02/es.01.html", "summary": "Queen Misses New Year's Church Service", "utt": ["This morning new health concerns for Queen Elizabeth. She did not attend the traditional New Year's church service. She cited a heavy cold which had also forced her to miss Christmas mass. Now despite her absence, a royal source tells CNN the 90-year-old queen is up and working. CNN's Phil Black live outside Buckingham Palace with the very latest. Good morning, Phil.", "Yes. Good morning, John. We can only assume that the Queen is still feeling pretty awful from what is consistently described as a heavy lingering cold, which is she is recovering we are told. But of course there have been concerns ever since Christmas or as you say, she mentioned the Christmas church service. You mentioned the New Year church service again, missed that just yesterday. And so it's pretty extraordinary for the Queen to miss these sorts of events because she takes her role as the effective head of the Church of England so seriously. These are significant absences. But the palace behind us, her advisers, are really going out of their way to tell journalists and thus the wider public, that the Queen, the 90- year-old monarch, is doing OK. That she is up and about. That she is, they say, working. That means she is still receiving the documents, the briefing papers that she receives from government and must stay on top of as part of her official role as the head of state. So by all accounts, her absences from church have simply been a precaution really. And it is probably fair to say that Britain's winter weather is no place for anyone with a cold. Let alone a 90- year-old whose health has been knocked around for a couple of weeks now -- John.", "Phil, how is the Duke of Edinburgh? Because we think he had the same cold as well. And how about the other members of the royal family? Are they stepping in to assume some of the ceremonial roles that Queen nearly -- normally takes care of?", "So we saw Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen's husband. He did attend church yesterday. And you're right, he fell ill with a cold around the same time. He appears to have bounced back very quickly. He was at the Christmas church service. He was at the church service again marking the new year. Now this time for the Queen at Sandringham Estate, over the Christmas holiday period, it's traditionally personal time. So that's usually what she gets up to. She gets to spend time with her family, explore the huge spectacular grounds of that estate near Norfolk in England. And so we believe that that's what she is still doing, but she's pretty much confined indoors. She hasn't got to go out and about. So there's not a lot of other royal business, not a lot of other appearances to be made at this time. But we'll get a sense of the Queen's health going forward. She is due to appear publicly at next week's church service near Sandringham Estate. And we understand she is going to be in residence at the estate all the way through January. And another point that her advisers stress, again indicating that she's doing OK, is the fact that she is still there. She hasn't been moved away for medical care or for any other reason at this stage -- John.", "All right. Phil Black for us outside Buckingham Palace. Thanks so much, Phil.", "All right. 16 minutes past the hour. 2016 was the deadliest year in Chicago in nearly two decades according to the Chicago Police Department. There were 762 murders last year, the most in the city since 1977. The city also saw a surge in gun violence numbering more than 3500 shooting incidents, more than 4300 victims. Police investigated 27 shooting incidents, a dozen of which were fatal just in the last week of December. 2015 was Chicago's second bloodiest year since 1997 with 480 murders.", "The hunt is on for the vandal caught on surveillance video lending a little \"high\" comedy to the iconic Hollywood sign. It was altered to read, \"Hollyweed.\" Police say the culprit used tarps to change the O's in the sign to E's. This happened between the hours of midnight and 2:00 a.m. Authorities have since changed the sign back to its original form.", "Well, I have almost nothing to say about that. That is cool.", "Well, on the subject of almost nothing to say about that.", "Yes. Mariah Carey blaming a malfunctioning ear pierce for that onstage meltdown during a performance on New Year's Eve.", "All right. We didn't have a check of this song. So we'll just say it went to number one. And that's what it is. OK. Feels like --", "You can hear Carey say that they didn't have a sound check with that song as she struggles to make it through her '90s hit \"Emotions.\" Representatives for the singer telling Billboard the production set her up to fail. CNN has reached out to Dick Clark Productions for a response. You know, it is unclear. I mean, yesterday, there was some reporting from the \"New York Times\", you know, culture editor that the technical people said no, everything was technically OK. There was some other kind of meltdown. But clearly a live performance on New Year's Eve, you know.", "Boy, it was live performance. I mean, clearly it wasn't that live because the whole thing was sort of lip-synched or there was a background track anyway. So let's just stipulate right there. Some of it was ever going to be live and she didn't even do that part flawlessly. But if the technical people messed up, they messed up, who knows what happened? All I know is that a lot of people were watching. They didn't get the performance they deserved.", "She is mostly -- she tweeted I think after happy new year to everybody and, you know, good health to everyone.", "Certainly a lot of people are talking about it. A lot of people are talking about Mariah Carey this morning.", "Absolutely. Absolutely.", "All right. Kim Jong-un says North Korea is close to testing an intercontinental ballistic missile. The details of the country's growing nuclear capabilities. That's next."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "BLACK", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "MARIAH CAREY, SINGER", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-17993", "program": "TalkBack Live", "date": "2000-10-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/16/tl.00.html", "summary": "One More Debate: Will it Matter?", "utt": ["Both sides have agreed to issue public statements unequivocal calling for an end of violence.", "The Palestinians are really enraged. They feel that this type of agreement was achieved under duress, in the sense that there was an unfair and tremendous pressure on President Arafat.", "We have achieved our goals at this summit, and we'd like to thank the president of the United States, making this effort to bring about the summit here.", "It is too soon to predict an ultimate success for the emergency Mideast summit. But if you must decide which of these two men is better qualified to handle this type of crisis in the future, who would it be?", "Al Gore has been one of the most important leaders in this country dealing with terrorism. He formed a commission to help deter terrorism.", "I think it very well could affect Governor George W. Bush because leadership is important, experience matters, but judgment trumps it all, and that's where I think George W. Bush wins.", "Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to TALKBACK LIVE. Governor George Bush and Vice President Al Gore face-off again tonight for the third and last in a series of presidential debates. The last time they met, they spent nearly 45 minutes debating who's better equipped to handle the Mideast crisis and other international affairs. A CNN/\"USA Today\" Gallup tracking poll of likely voters taken over the weekend shows that both were successful in convincing voters: 47 percent think Al Gore is more qualified while 43 percent say Bush is, a dead heat given the 4 percent margin of error. Now as to who would better handle the attack on the USS Cole: 46 percent said Bush compared to 41 percent who said Gore. Here to talk about all of this and the debate coming up tonight are Joe Conason, a columnist and political editor at \"The New York Observer.\" He is the author of the book \"The Hunting of the President.\" Also, Ramesh Ponnuru, a senior editor of \"The National Review\" is with us. Good to see both of you. Let me just start by saying that the events of the Middle East obviously have pushed presidential politics off the front page for the last week or so. So how much focus do you think will be on international policy in tonight's debate? And how much will it matter, do you think, in people's votes in general -- Joe.", "Well, I think there may be some emphasis on it probably because, as I understand it, Jim Lehrer, the moderator, gets to pick the questions from the audience. Even though it's a town hall meeting, he will select some of the questions, and he's clearly very interested in foreign policy. And I think he's maybe reasonably concerned that there's been so little attention paid to it through the course of the whole campaign, particularly when the events in the Middle East and other things that have happened brought back the reality to voters that this is a big scary world, and the president of the United States has an important role to play. That domestic concerns are not the only ones that matter, and that, you know, we have to be looking outward in a world that's getting smaller, where trade, defense, human rights, all these issued that preoccupied presidents for at least half of their time in the Oval Office in most administrations still matter a lot.", "Ramesh, do you think we're going to hear a lot about foreign policy tonight?", "No, I'd be awfully surprised if we had as much foreign policy as we did in the last debate, where there were 42 minutes of it, because Lehrer was asking the questions. The questions are going to be driven by what the audience wants to hear about, and based on past experience, there's not going to be a ton of questions about foreign policy.", "You know, we'll straighten this out a litter later with Susan Page from \"USA Today,\" but I think Jim Lehrer also get to ask questions tonight in sort of a follow-up manner, so that could -- we'll talk to her about how much control that, you know, he will have. We don't know what's going to happen in the Middle East in the next couple of weeks, but it seems to me that history has told us in the past that voters seem less likely to change their president or their leader in the midst of a foreign policy crisis. Do you agree with that? Could that work in Al Gore's favor, do you think, Joe?", "Well, they don't have any choice but to change their leader this time because President Clinton is at the end of his two terms and he can't run for office again. So they have to assess whether they think, first of all, that the foreign policy of the Clinton-Gore administration is one that they support or that they think Al Gore's 24 years in public life has prepared him adequately to take over as president, and what -- and how that compares with Governor Bush, who has no foreign policy experience to speak of, but is surrounded by advisers from his father's administration. So there has to be a weighing of factors that whether people want continuity, whether they want to return to the old -- what would amount mostly to the old Bush policies, and that's a real toss-up. I haven't seen a lot of polling data about how people compare foreign policy positions between Bush and Gore.", "Ramesh.", "I think it's a bit of a wash, maybe a slight advantage for Bush, actually because Republicans still retain an advantage on questions of foreign policy and defense. And, you know, it's been said that the Democrats are the mommy party, and the Republicans are the daddy party, with the Democrats, you know, take care of you but the Republicans offer you security, and, you know, they're there when trouble breaks out and I think that people may want daddy back.", "That's interesting. Dennis, in our audience, a few moments ago said that you were -- you thought that George Bush would handle an international crisis better because you felt he would surround himself with people like Colin Powell and Dick Cheney. So is it George Bush -- is it right to give George Bush the credit for possibly, you know, handling a foreign policy crisis better or is it -- are people thinking that it's because he would surround himself with better people? Ramesh, or Joe, go ahead.", "Well, I think there's a real question as to whether being surrounded with the likes of Dick Cheney and Colin Powell makes for a better foreign policy team. You know, we had a big foreign policy crisis in Kosovo and at the time that the president decided to join with the NATO allies and bomb to brush back Serbia, Governor Bush hid out in his house for two weeks, Colin Powell opposed it, and it was a very important and successful action on behalf of values that the United States seeks to promote in the world. So I'm not sure that the Republicans any longer have that great an advantage on these issues.", "I think Bush actually took a pretty responsible course during the Kosovo intervention.", "He didn't say anything.", "He supported the bombing and he came out against Congressional attempts to interfere with it. You know, there was an attempt in the house...", "Eventually, he did, but for the first couple of weeks he had nothing to say. And, you know, the point is whoever is surrounding him, whether it's Powell, Cheney, George Schultz, the people who are responsible for Iran-Contra or other any number of other Bush foreign policy advisers, in the end, the president is the one who has to make the decisions, and people have to decide whether they think Governor Bush is equipped to make those decisions.", "And what -- but some of the decisions the president has to make is to figure out whose advice to listen to and I think people do give Bush credit for having very talented and bright team of advisers. I don't think that's anything that Bush needs to, you know, shy away or run away from advertising.", "No, but -- well, they've been trying to educate him on foreign policy matters for a while, but, you know, he showed that he's still pretty shallow on these issues in the last debate. He didn't know that we'd pulled out of Haiti a long time ago. He didn't know that almost three-quarters of the troops to grounds in Bosnia and Kosovo are European allies, and not ours, and several other cases he just doesn't know the territory very well. The vice president has been prepared for this for eight years or more.", "Well, in the first debate Gore appeared not to understand his own administration's policy about bringing the Russians in Yugoslavia.", "Well, there was a real question whether that was the right thing to do, and the timing of that. But, you know, you have Bush on the other hand making allegation against Victor Chernomyrdin, which could have really set back relationships between the United States and Russia, shooting from the hip when he clearly doesn't know what the International Monetary Fund even does. So there's are real problems there's that kind of outweigh the one slip by Gore.", "The bottom line here is, though, I think voters are going conclude that both men are competent and capable of dealing with foreign affairs and I don't think it's going to be a major issue in the election.", "Yes, I was just going to say that because I think what we heard a lot of last week was a lot agreement between the two candidates on how they would handle some of these matters, so are there any real fundamental differences?", "I think people are not going to get into the weeds on, you know, the specifics of each -- of our policy towards each country. I think what we saw in the last debate there's a difference in emphasis where Gore beliefs in using American power abroad to support our values and our ideals, and Bush thinks more in terms of concrete interests, national interests and we should only use our power when it's very definitely benefits the national interests. But that's a difference of emphasis because both of them are willing to concede to the other that ideals and security are important criteria.", "Well, that's a very vague way of saying something that could have very concrete results or impact, and it has in the past. I mean, the Bush-type foreign policy is one that ignores human rights concerns, you know, you can see it in the record of his running mate who voted to -- against a resolution to free Nelson Mandela from prison. You know, consistently supported South Africa over its critics in the international arena. In other countries like the Philippines, where Bush's father was a supporter of Ferdinand Marcos, the dictator there. In other words, these kinds -- this attitude that we should discard human rights and other types of important concerns in favor of simple commercial interests or military interests is one that can have a real impact on people's lives.", "But the other issue that Americans can wrap their arms around is whether or not they think that our military is spread a little bit too thin, Ramesh, and that's the way, I think, a lot of Americans relate to our foreign policy issues.", "Yes, I think Bush has struck a nerve with the idea that the military is not getting the resources it needs and is being over deployed, that it is being pulled in both directions. And I think that that's a debate that Bush and Cheney are likely to win.", "Well, you have to ask yourself, then, why Governor Bush and Mr. Cheney are only proposing a $45 million increase to -- billion, I'm sorry, increase to the military budget over nine years, and Vice President Gore is proposing to increase the military budget by $100 billion over 10 years. So if Mr. Bush...", "Well, Gore is counting a lot of non-military things in the military budget.", "If Mr. Bush would give a slightly smaller tax cut to the very wealthiest people in the country, he could afford to do the things that he says need to be done for the military, which the Clinton administration starting to do, that is to say raise salaries for military personnel, giving them decent housing and improving conditions in the military for our personnel so that people were more willing to stay. And so whatever readiness problems there are, which I think have been exaggerated, can be addressed.", "I...", "Well...", "Quickly, Ramesh, I've got to take a break.", "The administration's been dragged kicking and screaming to improve its lousy record on military affairs. People aren't going to buy that they're better than Bush would be.", "We do have to take a break. We'll be back in just a moment. And as we do, we invite you to you take part in our TALKBACK LIVE online viewer vote at CNN .com/TALKBACK. Today's question is, do you need tonight's presidential debate to help you make your decision? We'll be back. President Clinton oversaw the famous handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn in 1993. Since then, Mr. Arafat has been to the White House a dozen times, more than any other world leader.", "Well, I lean towards Bush. I've always been a Republican, but I like some things about Al Gore also. I like, as a woman, I like that Al Gore is pro-abortion. I feel that's up to a woman to decide and no one else's business. But yet, I feel Bush -- I like it that -- I think he does have experience in some foreign affairs just because of being with his father and around that, and he has experienced that. But I don't know how I feel about tonight, and I think sometimes Al Gore appears too egotistical. And as I said before, I think job sharing would be great, because they both have great qualities. Either one will probably do a good job.", "You knows what, you bring up something that I'm going to follow up on, because it has been in the news, I personally think too much, but nonetheless, the question has to be asked, Joe, because so many people are asking it, which Al Gore are we going to see tonight? That seems to be a problem for a lot of people.", "Well, I think, frankly, that the vice president reacted a little too much to media criticism of him after the first debate when he appeared in the second debate. In other words, he pulled back too much. He should definitely just be himself, which is a pretty aggressive politicians who knows a great deal and has a lot of experience. I think if he unleashes that real Al Gore, he'll do fine against Bush or anybody else, as he's shown in the past.", "John, you're an undecided voter as well.", "I think, you know, if nothing changes, I'll vote the same way I have for the last 25 years. But I'm waiting for something to really hit me. I'm from Indiana, I'm middle class, I think I represent the majority of the population. I want to hear something about health care, education, Social Security that's going to affect me. And I think if a candidate comes out and really hits me with something that I agree with, that's the candidate I'm going to go with.", "All right, I got an e-mail a few moments ago that I thought was sort of interesting. Steve in Indiana says, \"It will be interesting to see how the two candidates react to the tragic death of Governor Carnahan. With Missouri being such a swing state, the candidate with the most emotion and compassion to the governor's death could lock up that state.\" And we have a bunch of folks in the audience from Missouri who said they were discussing that very thing later today. Gina, you think that's possible? You never know what's going to change people's minds one way or the other.", "I mean, I think that Missouri lost a wonderful leader, and I would hate to see his death be politicized. And I think that it really comes down to, you know, if they talk about it tonight, who's going to seem more genuine about it. But, really, I think that it really doesn't have a place, especially in that it just occurred, you know, last night. And I think Missouri's still a little shell shocked over it.", "I think, Ramesh and Joe, too, how do you think it will affect the tenor of the debate, if at all?", "There may be a kind of somber mood to it, particularly in the beginning, when I assume Mr. Lehrer and both the candidates will acknowledge the tragedy. But I think as it goes on, that's not going to be what controls the tenor of the debate. In the hall in Missouri, I think people are going to be very sad, particularly the people who knew Governor Carnahan and who admired him. But I don't -- I hope that, you know, whoever emotes the best as an actor will not swing the debate it in his favor. That doesn't seem appropriate.", "Ramesh?", "I agree with Joe on that. I suppose -- I mean, Gore could, I suppose, talk about honoring Carnahan's memory by supporting some of the policies that Carnahan was associated with, but if he did that I think he'd look like he were exploiting the emotion of the moment. So I really don't think that he will. I think Joe's right. I think you're going to have some opening comments, and that will establish a sort of solemn tone at that time beginning. But then the debate -- the natural dynamic of the debate will reassert itself.", "Let me take a quick break here, and then we'll talk more about other issues that may dominate tonight's debate, and we'll talk with Susan Page of \"USA Today\" as well. We'll be back.", "Joining us now in St. Louis, Missouri is Susan Page, White House bureau chief for \"USA Today.\" Susan, thank you very much for joining us.", "Hi, Bobbie, good to be with you.", "All right, let's talk a little bit about tonight's debate, it will be a little different from the previous two, it's in a town hall meeting format -- we are pretty familiar with that. How is that working tonight for them?", "Well, there are going to be about 100 undecided voters selected by the Gallup organization, and they'll be -- moderator Jim Lehrer -- they will have submitted some written questions, they'll be screened -- the questions will -- by moderator Jim Lehrer, and he'll call on them to pose the questions to the candidates, so Jim Lehrer will know what they're going to ask; the candidates won't.", "And does Jim Lehrer get to do follow-up in any way, shape, or form, or he gets to ask nothing tonight?", "You know, I think he's in control. So for instance, if he felt it was important to ask a question about the Middle East and no voter was going to do that, he'd be free to do that. But I think basically the format is designed to give voters a chance to ask about their concerns, and we know what those concerns are, they're the same things that people in your audience have been mentioning: Social Security, Medicare, patients' bill of rights -- those are the kind of issues that are on the top of most voters' minds.", "Which candidate is thought to have the advantage in tonight's format?", "Well, you know, Al Gore has been in politics for 24 years, and he was doing town hall meetings all that time, initially in his Tennessee House district, so he certainly has more experience with this format than George W. Bush. On the other hand, George W. Bush has a very nice, informal, engaging manner, so it's not as though he's at, I think, a tremendous disadvantage with the town hall format. And it's been interesting in past races to look at these town hall formats, as in 1992, really a way for voters to get a sense of what the candidates are like.", "Ramesh and Joe, do you both agree that this is a positive thing for both candidates tonight, this format?", "I do agree. I think they both have strengths that are served by this format. I think, as Susan said, Bush's manner -- easygoing manner -- is probably helpful to him in a studio audience situation, and I think that Gore's knowledge and quickness on policy issues will help him to address unexpected questions that may come up from voters.", "Ramesh, you too?", "Yes, I do. I think that having politically won the last two debates, though, expectations are a little higher now for Bush than they would be otherwise, and in that sense I think that the -- that he has a little -- he has a bit of a disadvantage going in.", "You know, Susan, one thing that was missing from last week's debate, because the events in the Middle East took precedent, was that there wasn't really much spin after the second debate disappeared so quickly from the headlines. Was that thought of as an advantage or a disadvantage by either camp?", "Well, you know, I think the Gore people were really poised to jump on some misstatements that Governor Bush made. You remember he said that all three of the people in the James Byrd hate crime had been sentenced to death; that wasn't correct, two of the three had. And he said we should have more Europeans in the Balkans among those peacekeeping forces; well, 80 percent of them already are European. So the Gore people were ready to try to capitalize on that, they really didn't have a chance to do that because the Middle East turmoil really took everything over.", "Eduardo has been hanging on the phone from California. Go ahead.", "Hi. First of all, I would like to say my name is Eduardo Cohen (ph), and I'm Jewish, and I think the bombing of the ship in Yemen is symptomatic of a much bigger problem: a very imbalanced policy in the Middle East that really devalues Arab lives, and I think that's represented by embargo against Iraq that's killed a million innocent civilians, according to the United Nations. And in Israel we know that there are radical Jewish demonstrators who throw stones, yet we've seen the Israelis use lethal force against Palestinians they have never used against Jewish rioters. So I think that indicates that this is -- there is a tremendous amount of racism in the violence we are seeing, but in spite of that, I mean, Israel gets away with this because...", "How is -- let me ask you this, Eduardo, how is all of this affecting your presidential choice?", "Well, this is the thing, I think that we need to rethink our policy. Israel is carrying on this violence because United -- we used our U.N. veto to protect Israel from sanctions. We don't allow international law to be applied to Israel. We don't apply the same standards to Israel we do to other nations, even with nuclear weapons.", "OK, I've got to move on, I'm sorry. But I'm guessing from what you are saying is that you don't really think either candidate is the right one for you to handle the situation in the Middle East. But thanks, Eduardo, very much. Comment from -- I'm sorry, I can't read your name tag.", "Brendan.", "Brendan, OK.", "Yes, my comment I have is that, do most voters realize if you vote for Al Gore you are voting for an expanding government that's going to be more invasive in your life, versus George Bush, you have a smaller government that returns more of the power to yourself, and how people feel about that?", "Well, Joe, is that a -- that's a matter of perception?", "Yes, I mean, I -- that's one way of imagining what Gore may do or what Bush may do. I mean, I think, you know, from the perspective of a woman, as one of the members of the audience said before, Gore's vision of a government that's pro-choice is less invasive of people's privacy than Bush's potential vision of a government that dictates that choice for women. So I think it really depends what issues you're talking about. I don't -- I haven't heard Al Gore pronouncing any policies which he proposes to invade people's lives or tell them what to do. He has a different tax and spending policy than Bush does but, you know, for most Americans it's not clear that Bush's policy would benefit them more than Gore's.", "I've got to take a quick break. We'll continue here in a moment.", "We're back; and let me go, quickly, to the audience. Gina (ph), you are a Bush supporter.", "Yes, I'm a Bush supporter. I was saying a little bit earlier that I'm a small business owner and I'm really in favor of smaller, less-intrusive government and I really feel like we're going to get that with George Bush. I don't think that the economy has, really, anything to do with the government. As a business owner, I would like to see the government be as responsible in their decision making as I have to go to be in my business and we have grown and we prosper by the hard work of our employees, that we take care of, and the hard work that we do; and I really think that Bush more closely aligns with my views in that regard.", "And Jeff (ph), you're a Gore man.", "Yes; I'd say that, in the same sense as Clinton-Gore really has a good feel of the issues and won't just have the issues simmer down to know-a-card. But when he's interacting with Barak and Arafat, for example, or in northern Ireland, he's really going to know the issues, have read biographies, have read a lot of State Department research and won't just have a superficial view of the issues. So, like Clinton, he's really going to get in there and be very personable.", "Susan, most people have made up their minds tonight; so who's watching this, particularly over the baseball game, tonight -- and, I guess what I'm asking is, who's undecided right now and why are they still undecided?", "It's really a dwindling group of people. You know, there are people who tend not to be very partisan. Because people who really consider themselves Democrats or Republicans have generally lined up behind the party's candidate by this time. They're disproportionately women. We know that women make decisions in political races later than men do; so it's a very small group of people, really, that the candidates are trying to talk to tonight. They're trying to talk to undecided voters in swing states. And that's probably a group that numbers well under about 1 million people. So, while there are going to be millions of people watching this debate tonight, the intended audience, or the critical audience for the two candidates is just a fraction of that number.", "And Joe, who does Al Gore have to talk to tonight? What does he have to do?", "Well, I think he has to convince people that he is the more qualified, more prepared candidate; and I think he has to enunciate, very clearly, the policy differences that he has with Governor Bush on taxes. And I also think he ought to, for a change, start to talk about the record of the administration over the past eight years, because I do believe the Clinton fatigue is mostly a myth, that the president's approval ratings are high and that the record of the administration, particularly on the economy, is a very strong one that Gore ought to try to take some credit for.", "There is some thought that me may get rather aggressive, as he has been in the last week or so, with George Bush's record in Texas. Is that a good or bad strategy, do you think?", "I think that's a perfectly sound strategy if he has the facts to back himself up. That is the only record that Governor Bush has, is the record of one and a half terms as governor of a large state, but a large state where the governor actually doesn't do very much. So it's sort of a double-edged sword. You can say that he didn't do much because the governor is very weak in Texas but, then, how much responsibility does he really have for the problems that are in Texas that are severe, particularly in the environment, health care and a few other places.", "Ramesh, who does George Bush have to reach tonight?", "Well, I mean -- first of all, I think viewership is going to be down from the previous two debates. I think most people think they've got a pretty good sense of where these guys are coming from; and, particularly, the folks who they most want to reach are probably the people who are least likely to be watching because they tend not to be paying tons of attention to politics and to have sort of a weak relationship to the political process. I think what Bush has to do is again show that he is just he's -- you know, he's unflappable. He's competent and he's got ideas on issues that appeal to people. I think that he needs to do a better job than he has in the past of defending his tax-cut plan against Gore's criticisms. But I think he should welcome a debate about Texas, because I just don't think it's going to work. I think Bush's answer in the last debate makes perfect sense: Look, if I've been such a lousy governor, how did I get reelected with 68 percent of the vote? Does Gore know what's better for the people of Texas than the people of Texas do?", "He outspent his opponent in Texas by literally 30-1.", "Look, if that had been winnable for Democrats, there would have been tons of money in there.", "Probably because the corporate interests that he was serving in Texas poured millions and millions of dollars into his war chest and the Democrats couldn't begin to beat him. But Texas is a Republican state. That doesn't mean that Americans want Texas policies writ large across this country. And I think it's...", "But...", "The other thing is that Bush actually severely distorted his own record in Texas.", "For example, he claimed that the state of Texas pays $4.7 billion -- paid $4.7 billion last year to cover the uninsured. As it turned out, the state of Texas actually paid out aobut $1 billion. The rest of the money he was referring to was -- came from private charity and from hospitals spending their own money to care for the uninsured. That kind of thing could really trip him up in this debate, because the record there is difficult to defend on some issues: on care of women and children particularly in health care, and on the environment, which is a disaster down there, and that he has done very little to improve.", "Ramesh, I will let you answer that when we come back. We have got to take a break.", "A poll by the Pew Research Center showed that, in 1996, 96 percent of voters said they planned to vote on Election Day. Only 48.8 percent voted. This year, 97 percent of voters say they plan to go to the polls. Internet quesiton: Let me go ahead an take this. \"How will Joe Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, deal with the Middle East crisis?\" Joe, you want to go ahead and take that one?", "Well, actualy, you know, I think we've have a lot of Jewish-Americans in the diplomatic service who have delath with Israel, I think, in a quite even-handed way. Dennis Ross, who has been the negotiator, the chief negotiaotr of -- for Clinton -- and who worked in previous administrations as well on the peace process -- happens to be Jewish. And, if anything, he's been criticized by other Jews for being too favorable to the Palestinians in the whole process. So I actually don't think that is going to matter very much. I think Lieberman will be accutely aware that he will be judged for how fair-minded he is in dealing with Middle East issues in particular.", "Ramesh, is that a concern?", "I don't think so. I think Joe is right on that point. If Lieberman is willing to reach out to Louis Farrakhan, I think that he's going ot be able to have an even-handed MIddle Eastern policy.", "Jody, on the phone in Florida. Jody, go ahead.", "Hi, Bobbie. I just have a quick question -- or a comment, really. I don't understand the foreign policy with George W. You know, when Bill Clinton came in eight years ago, there was not a big concern as to what his foreign policy was. And I think they are making more of it. I really don't think people care about foreign policy like they are acting. That is pretty obvious with the downsiziing of the American military. My husband is retired military. So I have a comment for Joe, also. The military is not staying in. And I think people need to be concerned. And I think George W. will make sure that the military is strong again. And I don't believe Gore when he says that he is going to give an increase. We have seen over the last few years where Congress gave themselves 100 percent increases, and our military got anywhere from 2.5 to maybe 3 percent increase. So, yes, that -- I am just a little floored at the foreign policy as far as...", "The biggest -- well, the biggest cuts that have ever been made in the defense budget since World War II were made by George Bush's father. And some of the largest increases in the last 20 years were made by Clinton and Gore. So appearances can be really deceiving on these issues.", "Susan, she -- she brought up another point. She said she doesn't think Americans care about foreign policy. We had an Internet comment there a few moments that said, people, all they care is about their money. And they are going to vote money in this election and not on foreign policy. Do you agree with that?", "Well, if people are only voting money, I think they would probably vote for Al Gore. The county has never had such a period of extended prosperity. And, traditionitionally, you would think that would mean the incumbent party would be in pretty good shape. The fact that the race is so close menas that people vote for things other than money, in this case I think: voting on issues of Clinton fatigue, a desire to return honor and dignity to the White House. That is a phrase we have heard George Bush use a lot. On the issue of foreign policy, it's interesting we see the situation really flip from eight years ago. At that point, George W. Bush's father was running as a person who had with a lot more experience in foreign affairs. Bill Clinton was the governor of a small Southern state, had almost no foreign policy experience. Now, we see that changed. Gore has pretty extensive experience on foreign policy over the last eight years. George W. Bush has very little. I think, in both cases, the impact though is likely be pretty marginalized. I think voters are really inclined to vote on domestic issues.", "I have got to go to break. As I do: a couple of e- mails along those lines. Jerry says: \"President Clinton has no -- had no foreign policy when he entered office, so why does it matter if Bush does?\" Bett in Pennyslavnias says: \"Vice President Gore has demonstrated global performance, knowledge, experience and work ethic -- will move this nation into the next step in foreign affairs.\" And Kayla in Florida say: \"I would vote for that Conason guy if I could. He is one smart man.\"", "Had to throw that in, Joe. I couldn't resist.", "Not running.", "We got to take a break. We'll be back in just a minute.", "By the way, during the break, Ramesh, half the audience said that they would vote for you if you were running for president. Just to keep it even-Steven here. Let me go to Maria (ph) in the audience here, quickly.", "I would like to address the fact that the politicians that are running for office, they, throughout history, they have always given us theories; and yet, in reality, we have not got what they have promised. For example, George Bush, he promised us, \"read my lips\" and we did, all of us; and what did we get? More taxes. You know, what is really happening? I mean, when we go to the polls, do we feel and push that lever, or do we critically think about the issues? And that is the most important thing, is to think.", "Trusting the candidate is also an issue, I think, is what you're bringing up -- to deliver what they promise. You know, that's always been an issue, I agree. Leo (ph)?", "I have to disagree with the comments that the foreign policy issue is not important. Being Jewish myself, I've kept a pretty close look on what's been going on in the Middle East and, personally, I'm very impressed with the track record of the Clinton and Gore administration. I think they have done an incredible job.", "Susan, let me ask you this: Do you think that this debate -- is there any chance at all that this debate could be, sort of, a make-or-break situation for these candidates? Will we see, maybe, any surprises at all or are we just going to, sort of, muddle through until the election?", "Well, I know we often feel like we're kind of muddling through. Yes, I think this could be an incredibly important debate. Now, this race has basically been even up for a couple of months now since we got a week or two out of the Democratic convention. So it, certainly, could go either way. And this is the last big, set piece of the campaign. It's the last time the two candidates will be together speaking to voters. It's the biggest audience they'll have until election night, so it certainly could be very important. But as I saw with the first two debates, it won't necessarily be determinative, because both those debates -- neither of those debates really changed the way the landscape -- we will continue to have a race that's very close, although, at the moment, George Bush is a couple points up. That probably makes the task a little greater for Al Gore tonight. He needs to shake things up. He needs to change the current momentum of this campaign so it comes back his way. So he may have the harder task.", "I have to take another break again. As we do, we'll take a quick look at our poll. The question was: Do you need tonight's presidential debate to make you make up your decision? Ten percent still say yes; 90 percent say no. But 10 percent could, certainly, swing an election, so you never know. We'll be back in just a second.", "We don't have that much time left. Let me ask all three of you very quickly: What issue do you think that will dominate the debate tonight? Ramesh?", "Well, I guess the question is going to be, which Al Gore are we going to see tonight? And since Al Gore No. 1 and Al Gore No. 2 lost their debates, can Al Gore No. 3 actually win one?", "Joe?", "Well, I hope it's not going to be attack politics like that. I think the main issue tonight will be what it has always been, which is responsibly managing the economy and extending prosperity to all Americans and not just a privileged few.", "Susan, quickly?", "A clear task for both. Bush needs to look competent, not make a mistake. Gore needs to look likable -- like a likable human being.", "Thank you all so much for joining us; appreciate it. And we'll see you again tomorrow for more TALKBACK LIVE."], "speaker": ["WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HANAN ASHWARI, PALESTINIAN SPOKESWOMAN", "EHUD BARAK, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER", "BOBBIE BATTISTA, HOST", "MARC GINSBURG, GORE SENIOR FOREIGN POLICY ADVISER", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-365815", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-03-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/30/cnr.03.html", "summary": "White Supremacist Gang Members Accused of Murder, Kidnapping", "utt": ["All right, live pictures right now out of El Paso, Texas where at any moment former Congressman Beto O'Rourke is expected to take to the stage in his first official address as a Democratic presidential candidate. And of course, we'll keep watching that and bring it to you live as it happens. Meantime, less than two weeks after President Trump denied the threat from white nationalism being on the rise, a major announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice about a white supremacist gang known as the 1488. Federal authorities say 18 alleged members and associates operated a significant criminal enterprise, one that included murder, kidnapping, assault, and drugs and weapons trafficking.", "The gang is prison-based like I said with approximately 50 to a hundred members. The gang is whites only, an important aspect to being a full member of the gang is their patch, a tattoo that incorporates Nazi symbols.", "The statutes that you're seeing charged today include racketeering. Racketeering on the same charges that we used to disrupt the mafia of the '80s and the '90s. They allow us to pursue not only the people that pulled the triggers but the people that called the shots.", "All right, many of the charges, in this case, stem from the killing of a fellow gang member in 2017. One defendant is still on the loose, 37-year-old Glen Baldwin who is believed to be in Florida. Joining me right now, CNN Law Enforcement Analyst Jonathan Wackrow who was also a Secret Service agent under President Obama. So, Jonathan, the official did say this was a prison-based, you know, whites-only group, but how representative might this be of what other officials have said, a rise in white supremacists or white nationalist activity?", "Absolutely. So listen, Fred, I think it's important to understand that this gang in Alaska is a prison gang. They're a criminal enterprise that follows a pretty traditional pattern of, you know, criminal activity, whether it's extortion, you know, involved in the drug trade, racketeering, et cetera. The key differentiator here is their link to different hate groups. So, the 1488 gang in Alaska is a microcosm of a larger problem. This gang affiliated and based in hate just by their name, the 14 and 88. The 14 represents a slogan that has 14 words which are the foundation for white supremacy around the world. The 88 is indication -- is an indication of their affiliation in -- to anti-Semitic groups. So, this group is representative of hate. It's a microcosm in Alaska. What happens internally to a group like this in the prison system is one thing. Once it transcends outside of the prison environment, that's really where we see a rising trend and a rising problem, is this dissemination of hate.", "Is there any indication that that is happening while this is, you know, in-prison activity? Is there any evidence that it has infiltrated outside of?", "Absolutely. Listen, you know, the discussion around the rise in white nationalism is ongoing and it's a growing problem throughout the United States and throughout the world. What we're actually seeing is let the data speak for itself. If you look at, you know, crimes that are committed by groups affiliated with white supremacy, white nationalism, they're significantly on the rise. Actually, in 2017 data will show that crimes linked and homicides linked to them have almost doubled. So, you know, the data is clear that outside of the prison walls, outside of the prison environment, you know, crimes that are committed by people who are affiliated to white supremacist groups are significantly on the rise.", "We've seen several deadly attacks, the latest in Christchurch, New Zealand at two mosques leaving 50 people dead. You know, the gunman is a self-avowed white supremacist. So what has been learned, what has law enforcement, you know, globally learned from that case, and how is it being applied to perhaps new measures to identify potential threats that are particularly, you know, white nationalist based?", "Well, listen, I think that the tragic event in New Zealand just highlighted the significant problem that white nationalism, you know, is causing on our society as a whole, but it's also highlighting the challenges by law enforcement. There's a big difference between hate speech and hate crimes. And law enforcement has to, you know, ensure that they are dealing with everything appropriately. So this isn't just a law enforcement issue to solve for the rise in white nationalism, hate speech in that narrative that goes along with it. This is a community issue, this is something that's rooted, you know, in the community that they have to rally around, developing a counter-narrative to hate. So whether it's, you know, white pride, you know, anti-Semitic, you know, sentiment, that's, you know, percolating through a community, the community combined with law enforcement has to take action around this. And we saw that, you know, rising out of New Zealand. We saw the community coming together, you know, putting up a barrier to hate saying we will not accept this in our community. That's what has to happen time and time again to mitigate this threat.", "At the same time the casualty count was very high. It was highly publicized, you know, because it was so tragic and horrible. Did white nationalist groups feel that they became rather empowered by that kind of attention?", "Well, that incident, Fred, is causing a bigger problem because that crime was committed online live streaming. So instantaneously, that hate speech was disseminated globally to tens of millions of people. The utilization of the digital domain whether it's, you know, mainstream social media networks or fringe networks disseminating this hate speech is a challenge that, you know, everyone faces right now. How do you counteract that rapid dissemination of hate, and in that instance, the desensitization -- desensitize the violent act? It was live streamed. It looked like a video game, and it's constantly on my phone, people are sending it to me saying, hey, have you seen this. So even though Facebook has said that they took down that live stream, it's still out there, still being disseminated. So, that's the challenge for our society today.", "All right, Jonathan Wackrow, thank you so much.", "Thanks a lot.", "All right, still ahead, new questions are emerging after charges against actor Jussie Smollett were suddenly dropped. The prosecutor in the case now saying she welcomes an investigation of her decision. What she had to say next. And, we're live in El Paso, Texas where 2020 presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke soon to officially kick off his campaign, and he'll be taking to the stage. We'll take you there when it happens."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "BRYAN SCHRODER, U.S. ATTORNEY, DISTRICT OF ALASKA", "JEFFREY PETERSON, SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE, FBI", "WHITFIELD", "JONATHAN WACKROW, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "WHITFIELD", "WACKROW", "WHITFIELD", "WACKROW", "WHITFIELD", "WACKROW", "WHITFIELD", "WACKROW", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-26910", "program": "Sunday Morning News", "date": "2001-3-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/04/sm.15.html", "summary": "Airlines Face Strike Threats and Potential of Congressional Action", "utt": ["But strike threats aren't the only thing plaguing air travel. Joining us now from Washington is the spokesman for the American Society of Travel Agents, Mike Pingrey. Mike, we hope that your organization isn't planning any strike votes soon.", "We aren't authorized to strike.", "That's a good thing. Good morning to you. It's kind of hard to sort all this out and I do know that, you know, in the airline industry, there's a long history of bargaining well past deadlines for strikes. How -- you know, which airlines should we be watching? Which one is going to become a real strike do you think?", "The ones that you have to watch are the big three. That's United, American and Delta. Those three airlines, between the three of them, control about 65 percent of Americans' air travel. So, if any one of them goes on strike, we're in for a really terrible time.", "And what do you rate the chances right now as you watch it closely?", "You know, I'm fairly optimistic, and I'm optimistic not because I don't think these people will want the strike, but because I think the president is going to have to step in. He's going to realize the danger of this and stop it.", "And I guess, you know, it was a few years that American pilots were on the cusp of a strike, or actually did go one strike, if I recall, and the president stopped that strike.", "Absolutely, and it is a necessity. What we've got with three major airlines, an oligopoly, controlling the airways, we can't allow any one of them to shit down. It's critical to our national interests.", "Well, what happened? Deregulation now is what, getting close to 30 years old, isn't it, or 25, anyhow and the idea was to get away from having, you know, a few number of players? For a while, there was quite a few players. What's going on?", "Yes, unfortunately, there was a lot of encouragement for new start ups and new airlines and things like this but what we've seen over the last several years has been a lot of mergers and acquisitions. The big get bigger and the small get eaten.", "Is this inviting Congress to do something and if so, do you think that's a bad idea or what do you suspect they might do?", "Normally, I would stray from the idea of congressional intervention. However, I think in the case of the airlines today, it's an absolute necessity. There's a bill pending in Congress called the Air Traveler's Bill of Rights that I think must be passed. What we've seen over the past three or four years is a great reduction in service to the American public and great increases in profits to the major airlines.", "Would you advocate full scale regulation as we had in the '60s and '70s?", "I would be very temperate about what I would require. No, I don't think I'd go back that far, but I'd certainly make sure that the airlines are responsive to the air travelers' needs.", "So, what would you suggest then, when you say make then responsive?", "Well, there's a couple of issues. One is the airlines said about a year ago that they would notify people when there were cancellations and delays and give them timely notification. That just hasn't been accomplished. Maybe they've made an effort, but it's not much of an effort. It's pretty half-hearted The other thing is they give the traveling public no option on where to buy their tickets. They're trying to push everybody onto their Internet sites to buy their tickets from them there saying, well, you'll get a reduced rate here. It's just not reasonable or fair to the American traveling public not to have the options, not to have the abilities, not to know what's going on with their canceled flights. And then the airlines will turn and say, oh, air rage, it's caused by the passengers.", "You know, Mr. Pingrey, I'm not an expert on the airline industry. I have never worked for an airline, but you know, as a lay person and as a frequent traveler, I can tell you, this seems to be no way to run an airline. Why can't they get it straight?", "I really am not certain. I think that the bean counters have taken over control of the companies and their entire focus is on short-term profits and not on long-term service and I think that's a horrible position to be in for all the airlines.", "Well, there's always trouble when the bean counters rule, and you can take it from me. Mike Pingrey, thanks so much for being with us on CNN SUNDAY MORNING and we'll check in with you later as this all progresses, if you don't mine that is?", "I'll certainly -- any time, Miles.", "Take care."], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "MIKE PINGREY, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TRAVEL AGENTS", "O'BRIEN", "PINGREY", "O'BRIEN", "PINGREY", "O'BRIEN", "PINGREY", "O'BRIEN", "PINGREY", "O'BRIEN", "PINGREY", "O'BRIEN", "PINGREY", "O'BRIEN", "PINGREY", "O'BRIEN", "PINGREY", "O'BRIEN", "PINGREY", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-163672", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-3-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1103/22/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Japanese Death Toll Rising to Above 9,000", "utt": ["From Japan, some grim news. The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami has climbed above 9,000 now. More than 13,000 are still missing. Smoke is still rising from two crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant and tests have detected radiation now in sea water near that plant, as well as in the tap water. Now, Japanese health officials say that babies in that area should not drink the water. The U.S. Military may evacuate thousands of troops and their families in Japan as a precaution against radiation. Our Jacqui Jeras is going to map out for us exactly what is happening at these damaged nuclear plants and these specific reactors still very much active, it seems.", "Yes, absolutely. We're going to start you out with a little bit of good news that CNN has just learned. And that is that in reactor number three, the power has been restored to the control room. So that is a little bit of good news. That's all we know about that. It doesn't necessarily mean that the cooling system is working, but that's good news and certainly moving in the right direction. There's six reactors in all. Five and six do have working cooling systems and they're working on a generator. So the big focus now, reactors one, two, three and four. And so, let's break it down for you. We're going to start out with reactor number one and those fuel rods that have the nuclear stuff in it have been partially exposed. The building itself, look at that, has been severely damaged, but the containment vessel, they're saying, isn't damaged. So that is good. And they're trying to get power restored to all of these, obviously. Now, number two, the fuel rods here have been exposed too. The building itself hasn't received as much damage. There's some here, but look at it. It's mostly intact. But it's what's inside that's of concern, and that's that core and the shell that surrounds the core that there could have been a little bit of damage in there and that's the concern. They hope to have power, they're hoping to have this done on Tuesday as well as into the middle of the night now as we head into Wednesday morning. But the seawater that they've been pumping into reactors one and two caused a little more damage than they thought. Seawater has salt in it, so it's corrosive and they're going to have to repair some of the parts in the building before they can get that power up and running. All right, we'll take you into reactor number three. This is the one that has the power restored now into the control room. Of course, they're hoping to get power throughout the cooling system altogether. The fuel rods have been partially exposed here. The other concern are those pools that we've been talking about that contain the spent fuel rods. They've been pumping the water into there, trying to keep them cool. The building itself has been severely damaged, so there's really nothing in between that pool and the blue skies. So that is of great concern. And they do have that power, as I mentioned, restored in that area. And last but not least, this is reactor number four. And take a look at the extensive damage that's been caused to the building. In this area, there was one fire here and also at least one explosion. The building damaged severely. The pool containment is the primary concern. So that is the one holding those spent fuel rods. They're having a hard time keeping that full. There's a little bit of a question as to whether or not maybe that has been compromised and that the water has been leaking out and that's why they're having a hard time keeping that full and keeping that cool, and they do hope so restore power to that, again, in the next -- it could happen any time. They're hoping for Tuesday. Obviously, we've passed that window. Hopefully we'll find out some more good news like we did with number three.", "Well, we're hoping for the good news. That's all very informative. And we're going to be speaking with an operator who operated in three different plants in the United States to talk about the timeline, just how fast, how quickly can they actually resolve all of that that is taking place.", "Well, it's been amazing that they've been maintaining these pretty well over the last couple of days. Other than that smoke that was coming out of number three on Monday, we haven't seen anything major occur. That's good.", "OK. Good news. Thanks, Jacqui, appreciate it. We'll have more after the break."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "MALVEAUX", "JERAS", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-357820", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-12-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1812/24/nday.04.html", "summary": "House Passes Spending Bill With $5 Billion For Trump's Border Wall.", "utt": ["A Defense official tells CNN the United States is planning to cut its military presence in Afghanistan in half, just like President Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria was reportedly a factor in Defense Sec. James Mattis -- his decision to resign. Joining me now is Republican Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana. Congressman Banks served in Afghanistan and now sits on the House Armed Services Committee. Congressman, thanks so much for being with us. I had an active duty service member tell me he was devastated by the resignation of James Mattis. What's your reaction?", "Well, I'm disappointed. I've served with Sec. Mattis over the past couple of years as a member of the Armed Services Committee. He's served this country tremendously well and America is safer today because of his leadership at the Pentagon. I'm grateful that he's given the president a few months to make the transition and pick somebody different. I'm sure the president will find someone of the same caliber to replace Sec. Mattis and I will be waiting, somewhat impatiently, to see who that person will be.", "Waiting impatiently. Sec. Mattis, in his resignation letter -- which was extraordinary in that it did not offer any praise to President Trump on his way out the door -- suggested that he thought the president was too solicitous of U.S. enemies and not respectful enough of U.S. allies. Do you feel that way?", "Well, when Russia is praising us for pulling out of Syria, that deeply concerns me as well. But, as Sec. Mattis' departure -- obviously, that is devastating news to our national security and to the Pentagon. A lot of leaders that I'm hearing from at the Pentagon who are disappointed. But we'll look forward to this president picking someone of the same caliber. This president has made good decisions when it comes to national security figures in his administration before and I have a little doubt that he'll do that again.", "You criticized the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from Syria. You know, you served in Afghanistan. What is your reaction to the news, as both a veteran and a member of the Armed Services Committee, that the president wants to cut our troop presence in Afghanistan by half?", "Well, I hope that's not the case. I was in Afghanistan last month. I served there just a few years ago before being elected to Congress. And when I went back last month it was clear that the threat in Afghanistan has evolved. The rise of ISIS-K in Afghanistan poses a much more serious threat than what we've seen there in many years since -- maybe even since 9/11. So, a pullout of Afghanistan today would be a concession of defeat, not just to the Taliban, but it would be turning over the country to ISIS-K, which poses a much more significant threat to the homeland. And that's why we have to remember why we're there to begin with. We're there, to begin with, to prevent another attack on American soil, like 9/11, and I'm more concerned today than ever before that ISIS-K poses that type of threat. So I and other members of Congress, I'm sure, will call on this administration to rethink any strategy that would pull troops out of Afghanistan until the -- until the work there is done. It's clear that today, the work isn't done yet.", "Just so I make sure I understand exactly what you said, you think if the United States reduces its troop presence in Afghanistan by as much as we learned the president is asking for -- you think it increases the chances of a 9/11-style attack?", "I think that it very much could because of the rise of ISIS-K in Afghanistan today which poses a much more complex, a much more serious threat to the homeland of the United States and a threat to our allies, as well. So now is not the time to pull back troops. I've been critical of the administration over the last year because of the lack of attention or a lack of detail about the South Asia strategy. There's been very little meat on the bones of that strategy. And I've always thought the president would serve our efforts there better if he visited Afghanistan and went and listened to the leaders on the ground. He would learn a great deal, just like I did last month when I visited with the bipartisan delegation, myself.", "All right. To be fair, just so people don't think you're all critical of the president here -- you're being critical of his decision in Syria and Afghanistan -- you were very supportive of his action yesterday on the border wall and you voted for the House bill last night -- the funding bill which includes $5 billion for the border wall -- knowing that it likely will not get through the Senate and that a shutdown is likely. And the president wrote this morning that there is a shutdown that could last for a very long time. Would you be comfortable with that?", "Well, nobody on Capitol Hill wants a shutdown. We still have time to get through this process. When the senators return from their premature early vacation and come back to Washington, D.C. today to do their work, then we can still -- we still have time to get this done to prevent a shutdown. But what happened in the House yesterday was important. I am a rank and file member of the Republican Conference and our leadership listened to rank and file members, like myself, who come from districts with constituents who wanted us to vote on boosting border security funding like we did yesterday and send this spending deal back to the Senate so that they can take that under consideration, too. That's how this process of negotiation in the legislative process works. We still have time to prevent a shutdown.", "So the blame game is one of the sillier games we play in this country, particularly before Christmas. But the president did say that he was comfortable owning the shutdown. He sat in the Oval Office with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and said fine, fine, I own this. I'm happy to shut down the government if it's over border security. So, if by tomorrow morning there isn't a deal made and the government is shut down, is this on him?", "The Legislative Branch crafts these spending deals so it is dependent upon Congress to pass a spending deal. We did that, responsibly so, with about 70 percent of the federal government that is funded for the full fiscal year that we passed before the fiscal year began earlier this year. We have about 30 percent of the federal government that isn't funded and we have a chance today to pass a spending deal that will prevent a shutdown and fund the -- fund that rest of the government for the rest of the fiscal year.", "Congressman Jim Banks, thanks for being with us. Thank you also for your service -- appreciate it. Have a wonderful holiday.", "Thank you. Happy holidays.", "All right, the president is awake and he is weighing in on all the events of the morning -- the departure of James Mattis and the government shutdown, which he says could last for a long time. NEW DAY continues right now.", "For Sec. Mattis, who's never been known to quit anything, this was the breaking point.", "His decision to --"], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "REP. JIM BANKS (R-IN), MEMBER, HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE", "BERMAN", "BANKS", "BERMAN", "BANKS", "BERMAN", "BANKS", "BERMAN", "BANKS", "BERMAN", "BANKS", "BERMAN", "BANKS", "BERMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SEN. RICHARD BLUMENTHAL (D), CONNECTICUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-295721", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-10-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/06/nday.03.html", "summary": "Florida Braces for Hurricane Matthew. ", "utt": ["All right, Boris, thank you very much. You have this urgency to move, if you are told to. And then you have the concern, well, where do you go? Many Floridians are heading inland this morning. We're seeing long lines for gas, empty store shelves, as Alisyn said, because Hurricane Matthew is coming, and people are trying to get what they need and get where they have to be. CNN's Nick Valencia live in West Palm Beach. Nick, what are you seeing there?", "Good morning, Chris. Ominous warning signs already over the course of the last hour. The winds have significantly started to pick up, much like where Boris is. This is a community over the course of the last three days that is really prepared for this moment, bracing for potential devastation. When our news crew got here yesterday, we immediately went to go stock up on supplies. What we could find, anyway. There were empty store shelves. The bread was gone. The water was gone. Plenty of nervous families going up and down those aisle, trying to get their hands on the essentials that were left behind. Out on the streets, more eerie signs: some gas stations closed down, because fuel was not an option. There were stores here or gas stations that have completely run out of gas. The governor, however, says there's enough of a supply for the state of Florida to get through this hurricane. When it does hit, we're expecting those tropical force winds to pick up here later this afternoon. Already, this community under a mandatory evacuation. But there are residents here that are choosing not to evacuate. Some say they have nowhere to go. Just a little while ago I interviewed one resident who moved down here from Philadelphia about a year ago. He says he's just going to wait it out. That's not what is recommended by police. They say if you do decide to stick it out here in West Palm Beach, you're going to be on your own -- Chris, Alisyn.", "I'll take it, Nick. Police do not like to hear that people think that they're going to wait out this storm, particularly this one. Thank you for that reporting. Airlines have canceled more than 1,500 flights ahead of Hurricane Matthew. That number will definitely go up as the storm heads towards Florida. As for trains, Amtrak is suspending service in the southeast, urging customers to check your train's status, also review your refund information before heading out today.", "Twenty-four hours, that's the window of urgency that we're going to focus on. We have CNN meteorologist Chad Myers tracking the storm. Chad, what's the latest?", "The latest is you can see the eye on radar now. It's close enough to Miami that the radar can pick it up. That doesn't happen unless it's less than 250 miles away. I'm going to take you through this storm, though. Here we go: 7:30 tonight we start to see hurricane-force winds -- hurricane-force, 74 miles per hour. Now from West Palm down to Boca. But watch this red area. This is the Category 3 or higher wind. This is 110 miles per hour. So at West Palm and Jupiter coming up tonight, 10 p.m. You're at 110 miles per hour. A sleepless night as things go bump in the night with winds blowing around. Now we go Ft. Pierce, Stewart, Jupiter. You are in the zone. That's 110 miles per hour or greater. You move ahead, 3 a.m. in the morning, trying to set up live shots with crews in a very dangerous situation. I hope everyone is safe down there. Ft. Pierce, Stewart, Melbourne about to get slammed with 110-mile-per-hour winds. Now we go to the start for NEW DAY right here. Cape Canaveral. You're seeing the wind over 100, 110 miles per hour as it drives itself up the coast hour by hour by hour, just eroding the beaches. A lot of erosion. A lot of people going to really see these houses that have been standing there for many years, saying, \"Oh, it's been here since 1955.\" Those houses will be in big, big trouble.", "Chad, and reading about the track of the storm, one of the concerns is what you've been saying. Is that it's going to bounce along the East Coast, as opposed to coming in and ricocheting out. Explain why and what the distinction is.", "If you think about the eye wall, that's where the wind is. It's not in the center. The eye, the middle is calm. That eye wall could stay on, bashing the entire coast for hundreds of miles with winds over 120. Maybe even to 145, which is the new hurricane center forecast. One forty-five, Chris.", "Hey, Chad. I know it drives you crazy when you hear some of the reporting that Nick Valencia just gave us of people thinking that they're going to weather this; they're going to stick out this storm. I'm already getting e-mails from people in Florida, tweets, where you know, they have this sense of, you know, people cry wolf. We've heard this before. People sometimes over-exaggerate what's going to happen. This one sounds different, Chad.", "It does. And you know what? This will be a \"cry wolf\" storm if it's 40 miles off-shore. I don't believe that's going to happen. I believe this storm will be right on land with the eyewall. So I just looked at Google Maps, and the traffic is fine. It's time to go now, because after people maybe see the 11 a.m. advisory, it will certainly be too late. All preps have to be done this morning.", "Now, in terms of what it can do, one of the things is, you know, for us, you know, we know what these storms can do. We've seen them; we've covered them. We've been there. But you haven't had one in a number of years down in Florida. So what is the reminder to people about how Florida can change because of the storm?", "And it's also going to be how the wind comes onshore to these beach homes, to these communities, to these mobile home parks. There's not a mobile home in the world that can withstand a 145-mile-per-hour wind. It just isn't going to happen. These parks, if this eyewall is on land in your community, you home will be in trouble. You need to be out of it and on Florida's west coast. It's time to go now. Because I don't want, you know, midnight tomorrow night or midnight tonight everybody thinking, \"Oh, I can -- I can go now. It's in Miami or it's in Ft. Lauderdale. I'll go now.\" There's no chance you want to drive in that. The winds are already going to be 60 or 70. You need to be off the road before they get to that. I mean, this is going to be a tough, tough storm.", "Chad, stay with us if you would. We want to bring in now Dr. Rick Knabb. He's the director of the National Hurricane Center. Dr. Knabb, give us the latest that you're seeing on your screen there.", "Well, Hurricane Matthew getting very close to Nassau in the Bahamas, and it is a major hurricane poised to strengthen some more before it gets to Florida later tonight. But the first outer rain bands are starting to arrive here in Miami- Dade County and in Broward County. Those don't appear to have tropical storm force winds yet. That will happen later today. But really, if you're in southeast Florida, the morning hours are your last chance to take whatever remaining preparations you need to. And I especially want to urge people who are listening to this and, if you're in an evacuation zone that has been told to leave, especially, for example, in Palm Beach County -- they're zones A and B, for example -- you've got to get out now. Storm surges are the deadliest hazard of all, historically. And even if you're in a high-rise don't vertically evacuate. Because you go, like, to the 25th floor, you're just buying yourself another category higher on our Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, and we could have a Category 4 coming ashore in southeast Florida tonight.", "Dr. Knabb, hey, it's Chad Myers here. Overnight in the 5 o'clock advisory, the closest approach to Florida went from 135-mile- per-hours to 145 miles per. And people thinking that's only 10 percent difference. That's no big deal. Describe why 145 is so much more dangerous than 130 or 120?", "It's not a linear relationship between the strength of the wind and the damage that it can do. it's rather exponential. But either way, you know, we don't know exactly what the wind speeds will be at any one location tonight and tomorrow, as this goes up the East Coast of Florida. And we don't know exactly where the center's going to be. But what you need to prepare for is a major hurricane. The core of a major hurricane perhaps coming ashore in your area, if you are here on the East Coast. Florida hurricane. And even if the center stays off- shore, you can still get hurricane-force winds and the damaging storm surge and the inland flooding. So, you can't be counting on any of the details to get you off the hook. And like you said, any stronger that this gets between where it is now over the Bahamas and when it gets to Florida, just makes the damage even worse. Take this seriously. And your point is well taken that any increase in the wind speeds for a major hurricane just makes it even more damaging from the wind and also a greater ability to push the water onshore in the storm surge.", "Dr. Knabb, can you give us context, again? You know, we tend to think that Florida is hit by hurricanes all the time. But you and Chad keep saying that we've never seen anything like this in our lifetime. So what do you mean?", "Well, every hurricane has its own characteristics that are unique. We can point to some past hurricanes that it reminds us of, but every one is different. And this is a terrible track, obviously, for the East Coast of Florida. This could be an extremely disastrous hurricane for so many large areas where so many people can be affected. It's -- it's not going to just come ashore and affect a narrow zone and then move on. It's going to be going up the coast and could remain a major hurricane at the coast or very close to it. The whole way up. That's awful. And we've got Georgia and South Carolina in play, as well. And, you know, down in Miami-Dade County and the Keys, the impacts won't be as great. But we're under tropical storm warnings. And so the whole East Coast of Florida. And we've been talking to Georgia and South Carolina. People are being given evacuation instructions. You've got to heed those and get out and find a safe place to be during the storm and identify that place and get to it quickly today.", "Doctor, the pressure just went down to 939 with the hurricane hunter aircraft. That's almost the pressure that we had when it hit Haiti. Could we see that type of damage?", "Well, every location is different in terms of what the damage will be, because it's all about did wind affect you, did water affect you and what kind of structure are you in? So, what kind of damage we'll see on the East Coast of Florida from one place to the next will vary greatly depending upon which hazard it was and how strong the structure was. But yes, this can be a devastating hurricane from both wind and water. And that's why you have to take it seriously to stay alive. Really. Because you've got to be in a place that's not prone to storm surge, out of the areas you've been told to evacuate from, in a structure that is safe from the wind away from the windows. Look, I put my shutters up on my house last night, and I'm in suburban Broward County in the hurricane warning area in Ft. Lauderdale. So, you've got to take this seriously. Don't ignore this. I know some people are new to the hurricane problem. This is about as bad as it gets.", "OK. We hear your warning. You couldn't underscore any more. We hope people heed your warnings. Dr. Rick Knabb, Chad Myers, thank you. We'll check back in with you through the program -- Chris.", "Joining us now on the phone is the mayor of Cape Canaveral, Florida, Bob Hoog. He has left his town after mandatory evacuations were ordered in part of Brevard County, where his town is located. Mr. Mayor, I hope you and your family have made the proper accommodations for yourselves. What do you know about how the rest of the county and your municipality is reacting?", "Well, we are evacuated. We obtained the state of emergency yesterday morning, and the staff has started all evacuation procedures and preparations of the city. The people are -- some people are staying onboard over there, and I'm hoping they will evacuate, because there is going to be very extensive damage to the coastline.", "I know we just heard the experts say...", "The storm surge predicted of eight feet in our area and multiple wind damage.", "We just heard...", "The staff has done everything that we can possibly do to prepare the city for such a devastation.", "We just...", "We are working very hard, and hopefully, that when we get back, there will not be that much damage that's being predicted. But who knows, and I'm only making a plea to the last residents that have decided to sit and hunker it down over there to leave. This is going to be a devastating storm.", "Well, we just heard from the experts that this is about as bad as it gets in terms of the projection. Obviously, you'd rather be safe than sorry. It's a good thing when we're wrong about how severe a storm is going to be. Who stays behind last in terms of emergency services to clear people out, to house check? Is that done where you are?", "As of right now, the fire service is still on station, and the police department, sheriff's office is onboard. The causeway bridges are to remain open until devastation has occurred; and then it will be shut down, and it will be only back to the municipality by authorization of letters only.", "Have you lived through a terrible hurricane before, and how did it change the area?", "I have been in the area for 60, approximately 64 years; and I have been through a couple hurricanes. But the worst was Donna back in '63, I believe, that we experienced directly like this. But there has not been any devastation other than what is being predicted. But Donna did do devastation back in the '60s to the intercostal area of Cocoa and all new to the west Cocoa area. The beach was hit very hard. But the devastation that was there, I don't believe, will be like we're going to be experiencing here.", "Right. That's one of the things that you're battling against, is that people don't know what it can do on the east coast in the area that you're in. They haven't dealt with big hurricanes, thank God. But maybe that's all about to change. Mayor Hoog, I hope you stay safe. And we will keep information out of what is needed in that area.", "Thank you. My prayers are with everybody.", "Be well.", "Ours, too. We'll continue to track Hurricane Matthew. Obviously, the storm is slamming through the Bahamas right now. So, we will get a live report from a reporter here. Stay with us.", "West Palm Beach is one of the areas that experts fear is going to get hit hard. We have the mayor, Jerry Muoio, joining us right now. Mayor, are people heeding the warnings? You have a special challenge there. People aren't hurricane-hardened. They're not used to this, hearing that they're going to get hit. How are they responding?", "Yes, good morning, Chris. Well, we'll be hoping they are responding the way they need to be responding. They have gotten a little complacent over the last ten years. So we haven't had a hurricane. So we've been urging people to make sure that they get their shutters up. We have mandatory evacuation. They need to get their debris out of their yards so there's no flying objects. And we're out there encouraging people. People driving around and my crew just checking on what's going on in each of the neighborhoods.", "Mayor, what do you want to remind people about what life is like if you stay behind, assuming, God willing, you survive even if your home is intact. What do you want to remind people about in terms of what you just don't have in everyday life after one of these?", "Well, of course, we won't have electricity. We're really hoping that the water is not going to be affected. You just never know. And, you know, cooking and your cell phone is not going to work. And you're not going to be able to charge it. You're not going to be able to play your video games. And getting information is going to be very difficult. So, we really encourage you, if you're in a mandatory evacuation area, you need to leave.", "Now, do people have enough places to go? How are you in terms of emergency service preparation down there?", "Well, we have many shelters open in Palm Beach County. There is one specifically in West Palm Beach, but there are about 12 or 13 all over Palm Beach County. So, there are plenty of emergency shelters. We have an emergency shelter for special needs people, as well as for people who want to bring their pets to the shelter.", "And what are you hearing about how likely it is that you get affected here and what kind of impact it will be?", "We're definitely going to be affected. For the most part, it will be tropical storm wins, but we're pretty certain that we will have hurricane-force winds at some point Thursday evening. This evening into Friday morning. And so when you start talking about hurricane-force winds, that's significant.", "All right. Mayor Jerry Muoio, I hope that you and your loved ones are safe, and I hope that people heed the warning. and I hope we're all wrong. I hope it ends up being less.", "Wouldn't that be nice? That would be lovely.", "It would be nice. I would be very happy to be wrong. We'll check with you soon. Let us know what we need to get out to people in terms of information -- Alisyn.", "It doesn't sound like we're wrong. Let's check in right now. We're tracking the hurricane. We do want to check in with Chad. What are you seeing at this hour, Chad?", "You know, the hurricane warnings, Alisyn, are all the way up from South Carolina all the way down to Miami, right through the middle of Georgia, as well, all the way down through Cape Canaveral. This will be a major event. This will be the biggest hurricane most people in Florida have seen and maybe ever will see. This will be, according to the hurricane center, a 145-mile-per-hour storm coming onshore or very close. If the eyewall is on land along these outer beaches, along the sand bars out there, they will be torn up. You can't do anything with 145-mile-per-hour wind. And it was important what Ms. Mayor was saying there. If you're in an evacuation area, this is no joke. This is a big deal. Let's move you ahead to 10 p.m. tonight. We have 110-miles-per-hour winds onshore from Jupiter down to almost Boca. And that is the area that is going to see the heaviest gusts. Every time an outer band comes onshore, the gusts will pick up significantly, maybe double. And all of a sudden, Ft. Pierce, Stewart and Jupiter, you are now in it. Let's move you ahead. This is midnight tonight. You are seeing a major hurricane destroy parts of your community. That's how devastating it is. And now, look how close it is. This is about Melbourne, Indialantic Beach, right on up to Cocoa and into Cape Canaveral. All of the areas, every area you see here, this entire red zone, it's possible 110-mile-per-hour wind or greater. That big.", "and you know, Chad, even for us. We're thinking about where we can stage, where we can cover this in a place where the technology will be able to sustain what's going to happen. And we have a pretty high threshold. We're going to stay checking in with you. Let us know when information changes. Now, we're also going to be covering this morning these developments since we've had this big debate with the vice presidents. What does Tim Kaine say to the claims from the Trump campaign that he was unhinged at his debate? We're going to find out. NEW DAY with the vice-presidential nominee, next.", "Hurricane Matthew headed towards the East Coast of Florida, hitting the Bahamian Islands right now. In Nassau from WPLG in Miami is reporter Amy Viteri, a CNN affiliate down there. Amy, how are you doing?", "Well, Chris, the weather is getting worse. As you can see, we're really getting slammed. Not only the wind, but the rain now. And I wanted to just give you a look where we are. We're on the northern part of Nassau, northern part of New Providence Island. And you're looking out at Cable Beach there. Now, keep in mind, the storm is actually coming from the south, and we are getting slammed here. We are told we're about half an hour away. You can really hear those winds. We're about half an hour away from that core coming through, and it looks like it's going to head right over us. Of course, at that time probably it won't be safe for us to be out here just based on debris coming through. Now, where we are. This is a resort that has evacuated all of the hotel guest rooms. Everybody was sent about 1 in the morning. They woke everybody up. Security actually went into rooms, because you can see there are no hurricane shutters on these windows. So, the concern here being right on the water with these heavy winds coming through. They evacuated everybody to an interior ballroom inside on the fourth floor. Now, another issue that we're dealing with at this particular resort is the fact that it's an open-air situation here on the lobby level. So if you follow me in here, you can see these tile floors soaking wet. That's something they're going to be working on all morning. Obviously, the damage to the tourism industry here in Nassau will be significant. Alisyn, back to you.", "OK. Be careful, Amy. Take cover there. And thanks so much for the reporting from the Bahamas. All right. So we are three days away now from the highly anticipated rematch between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. This morning the Clinton campaign is debuting a new battleground ad right here on NEW DAY. So let's take a look at it.", "How tall are you?", "How do we measure greatness in America? The height of our skyscrapers? The size of our bank accounts? No. It's measured by what we do for our children. The values we pass on. I've spent my life fighting for kids and families. And it will be my mission to build a country where our children can rise as high as their dreams and hard work take them.", "All right. We're joined now by Hillary Clinton's running mate, Senator Tim Kaine. Good morning, Senator.", "Hey, Alisyn, great to be with you.", "Great to have you here. So tell me the thinking behind that ad. Hmm. I believe the hurricane is already wreaking havoc with our satellite.", "Well, Hillary...", "Hi, Senator. Sorry we lost you for a second. Sorry to interrupt. Can you tell us that again, what the thinking is behind that?", "Yes, absolutely. It really says who Hillary Clinton is and who I am."], "speaker": ["CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "CUOMO", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "CUOMO", "MYERS", "CAMEROTA", "MYERS", "CUOMO", "MYERS", "CAMEROTA", "DR. RICK KNABB, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER", "MYERS", "KNABB", "CAMEROTA", "KNABB", "MYERS", "KNABB", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "BOB HOOG, MAYOR OF CAPE CANAVERAL (via telephone)", "CUOMO", "HOOG", "CUOMO", "HOOG", "CUOMO", "HOOG", "CUOMO", "HOOG", "CUOMO", "HOOG", "CUOMO", "HOOG", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "JERRY MUOIO, MAYOR OF WEST PALM BEACH (via telephone)", "CUOMO", "MUOIO", "CUOMO", "MUOIO", "CUOMO", "MUOIO", "CUOMO", "MUOIO", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "MYERS", "CUOMO", "CUOMO", "AMY VITERI, REPORTER, WPLG", "CAMEROTA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "CAMEROTA", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-152145", "program": "RICK'S LIST", "date": "2010-6-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/16/rlst.01.html", "summary": "President Obama Meets With BP", "utt": ["OK, so we told you at the White House when they were holding that briefing that they would be peppered -- Robert Gibbs, I know you see Admiral Thad Allen -- with questions about BP and the meeting. Let's listen in now.", "-- we have to reduce the cycle time, our ability to respond. We have to put leadership close tore the states and the ability to make decisions out there and put assets on target as soon as we can quicker.", "Following up on the $100 million, you had been saying before -- it sounds like they're being put into a different category with a limited amount of money. Are they not going to be treated as well as they would have if they would have applied just like everybody else for the $20 billion?", "I think there were some concerns about under the law their ability to participate in the other funding. We wanted to make sure there were mechanisms to address their needs. And so the $100 million voluntary contribution by BP and the work that we're doing in Congress we think is a significant step towards meeting their needs.", "I would say this. You heard the president say this in the Gulf probably more than a week ago and reiterated in his speech last night, that he understands the economic impact of the deepwater drilling moratorium, understanding that we do not yet know what caused the accident. And because of that, the president believes it was important to pause additional deepwater drilling, but has asked the national commission that will look into the regulatory framework that we must have going forward to ensure drilling is safe that they can and should look at the framework around deepwater drilling first and report back to him as soon as they can. They do not have to wait for any set period of time.", "But it sounds like they're now kind of in a second class, having to rely on the separate funding. You say going to Congress. That's taxpayer money. Instead of -- it sounds like taxpayers are going to be paying for some portion of this.", "It's for the unemployment insurance portion. That's what we're asking Congress -- some of the workers apparently would qualify under existing laws. Some might not. So we're seeking to make sure that all of them qualify, and now there's this additional fund that's been created.", "Knowing Feinberg, he's got to set standards and there's a lot of bureaucracy and setting up an operation here. How quickly will he actually start handing money out to people?", "It's important to understand, people can continue to file claims. This will be a seamless transition. As Feinberg's operation comes up, they will be shifted over. But there are areas of claims processed today. We all realize it's not working the way we want it to work. That's why we reached this agreement.", "What they're getting a drop in the bucket compared to what --", "That's why we did this.", "When will they be getting the --", "We set this up as quickly as he can and humanly possible. I think picking him and somebody who has done this before understands, as you said, the bureaucracy and the standards that have to take place. I do think it is important to reiterate what Carol said, which is if you were to file a game yesterday or today, you still fall within a 90-day window to have that claim adjudicated. That will continue to be the case. We believe that this will be handed off in a seamless way and that we now have additional backstops to ensure that claims are not just heard independently but the appeals process beyond Ken Feinberg to a three-judge panel and ultimately retaining their right under federal law if they're unsatisfied with even what the three-judge panel rules, that they can visit federal court.", "These are people with mortgage payments, boat payment, families to feed. If they don't get the money in a week or two, they could be looking at --", "Again, we are moving as expeditiously and as quickly as we humanly can.", "And there are claims being honored. And we can get the numbers. They are reported on a regular basis.", "I think BP did a claims call yesterday.", "We have the numbers. So we can get you the numbers of the number of claims that have been responded to. But it's important for people to go into that process if they have a claim today, they will be moved over as this system is stood up. It's also important to understand that under -- if the federal government adjudicates the claims, that we make a one-time payment. Under this, people will be able to apply over and over again as is necessary. So it won't be just a one-time payment.", "In other words, if you're a fisherman in Grand Isle, you don't have to estimate, because I'm not sure anybody knows how long the Gulf is going to be closed. You don't have to extrapolate 12 or 24 months in advance and come up with the paperwork. You can file a claim now. If you're still not able to fish sufficiently two months from now because there's still restrictions on fishing in certain parts of the gulf, you can re-file until you're made whole. That's a different process than if the -- as Carol said, if the federal government ran it, it's a one-time deal.", "But if I'm a fisherman and my boat payment is due in two or three weeks, am I going to get it, or is that just out of the question?", "You will have your claim heard under the current process and seamlessly moved over to a new independent process that we think gives the certainty of the funding as well as the independence of a third party.", "This is the overall summary. We can give you a more detailed breakdown if you wish. As of this morning, there were 66 -- over 66,000 claims filed, disbursed was over $81 million. And checks cut, 26,000. So those are the overall order of magnitude numbers.", "Define dissatisfied claimants. Is that people that receive money and in hindsight feel like it wasn't fair? Define dissatisfied claimants.", "Let's define how the current system works and how it will work. Right now, if you file a claim under the current system and you are dissatisfied with that claim, you have the right to go to the federal trust fund, the oil spill liability trust fund, or to go to court. What this sets up is you can file a claim, Mr. Feinberg will determine whether or not your claim should be paid, how much should be paid. At that moment, you can take it. Two months later, if you're still not working, you can come back --", "BP is legally bound to pay that?", "They're legally bound to pay it. If you don't like what Mr. Feinberg decides, you can go to a three-person panel and have that reviewed. At the end of that panel, you can take that. If you still don't like that -- if you're dissatisfied, what you do -- if you don't like what Feinberg does, you go to the three-person panel. If you don't like what the three-person panel does, you then have a choice. You can go to the federal trust fund, the oil spill liability trust fund, or you can into go into court.", "You can't take the money and be dissatisfied and then --", "But the big thing here is you will get a much more -- you'll get a quicker answer, and you can file over and over again, because that is a real --", "It's also important to understand the 90-day process, the three-person review panel is within the 90-day process.", "It all has to be done.", "What did you guys agree -- can you share with us the details of -- what is the procedure to go back to BP and say, $20 billion isn't enough? Is there a specific procedure you guys agreed upon if you need to go back and say, we need more money. Is there a specific procedure you guys agreed upon?", "BP retains all of its liability. Nothing in that has changed. So if there wasn't money available, let's say, you can go right back -- you could go straight to BP and say I have this claim. So all of the rights of the claimants have been preserved. Right now, this new escrow account, this new claims facility will stand in its place. But if for some reason there wasn't money in that, you have all of your rights to go right back at BP and ask for the payment.", "And that's the -- OK, last night's speech --", "The only people who have limited their rights here is BP. I think that's really, really important to understand.", "If you accept the money, you have limited --", "That was true under the existing situation. We're giving you a better scenario now.", "Last night's speech, the president talked about energy legislation, specifically talked about pricing carbon, cap and trade, et cetera., Is it -- what is the president's -- does he -- will he accept a bill out of the U.S. Senate that doesn't have this? Can you just walk us through that?", "Let me just say this. You've heard the president for three and a half years now talk about his approach to comprehensive energy reform. I don't think he's -- I don't think that's been unclear. He reiterated a call last night and said that the greatest price we pay is the price of inaction. This morning the president spoke with Senator Kerry and with Senator Lugar, each of whom have energy legislation that the Senate is likely to take up in the next several weeks. We announced that next Wednesday we'll have a bipartisan group of senators to the White House to discuss the process that the Senate will use moving forward. I think it is safe to say that the president's direction on energy is very similar to the direction that is in the Kerry-Lieberman bill and that the president feels strongly that including a component to deal with climate is important in comprehensive energy reform. Now, let me just say this. There are a number of proposals. That's why Senator Lugar and Senator Kerry both got calls. There have been ideas about increasing energy efficiency standards in buildings much as Carol has worked tirelessly to with cars and trucks. The president met with business executives of the White House last week, which one of their questions was why more money isn't spent on R&D; when they're spending a ton of money on R&D.; There are a lot of ways to get to this. The president's going to have a meeting next week here to work through that process going forward.", "Comparisons to the public option -- something the president supported the public option but he got 90 percent of what he wanted and he'd rather sign that.", "I don't know why at this point it would be pertinent to get into hypotheticals. I think the president -- go back to what he said at Pittsburgh a week and a half ago. Go back to what he said in 2006 as a U.S. senator. I think his position on how to approach our energy policy comprehensively is fairly well known. Yes, sir?", "Two questions. One is, what is BP getting as a result of this agreement? Are they getting any agreement that they won't be found negligent at all? And then, you said BP would fund the fund with U.S. assets. So is it not cash --", "They will make payments over a four-year period of $5 billion a year. But they will provide assurance for those commitments by setting aside $20 billion in U.S. assets. It's like an insurance policy.", "Over?", "It's not 20 and 20. They've committed to $20 billion. But we will have -- I want to use the right legal word here -- that they will provide assurance by setting aside assets. So as the fund grows up -- as the fund grows in size, the assets could be reduced. It's an insurance policy.", "What is BP getting out of this agreement?", "Ask BP. They may have -- I think they'd have a better way of reading out what they did and why they did this. I think the president's objectives in this were clear. This provides certainty and peace of mind for those in the Gulf. If there was any wonder or concern that they would not be made whole for the disaster they didn't cause, that assurance we have today. And I think -- Carol mentioned this briefly -- that story that the president spoke of with the chair at the end of their meeting in the Oval Office was that when the president asked the chairman, when they're talking about what's happening in the Gulf, when they're talking and discussing these parameters with the board and with other executives, it's the people that he's met in his four trips. The people in Grand Isle, the people in Pensacola, the people in Dauphin Island, who for four generations have fished on these waters to make a living, who have invested their hard-earned money and their sweat in building their business, those are the people that the president has been focused on throughout this process, and he believes that that's what BP should be focused on as they're discussing things.", "Robert, on that point, is there a danger President Obama is over-promising when he says, we'll make you whole and make the Gulf coast even better than it was before? People's lives have been changed, and it looks like it's going to get worse a long time before it gets better.", "And the responsible party has committed today through an escrow account that starts at $20 billion to make them whole. Mark, if you're a fisherman or you're a shrimper and your livelihood has been changed because in what would traditionally be the heart of the season where you made almost all your income, you'll be compensated for that. We've set in place a process that provides independence from the company that caused that disaster with the assurance that the funding will be there. That's important. In terms of Gulf coast restoration, the president was concerned about the region environmentally long before this disaster. And whether it was manmade or natural disaster, Katrina coming to mind, that has seen the wetlands and the marsh erode and become degraded for many, many years, this president believes that we have an obligation to return that valuable eco system and environment to a place better than it was before this accident happened. BP, as Carol said, is liable for the environmental degradation through natural resource damage assessments. Those will be assessed and that bill will be provided to BP. And I believe the basis of that will help restore the environmental vitality of that region.", "Are we right in assuming based on what President Obama said today that no ass-kicking was required at today's sessions?", "Again, I think the president was clear about what he thought BP was responsible for and obligated to do. We came with that in mind and left importantly with an agreement that is substantive, providing the assuring providing the independence, providing the funding that I'm sure people in the Gulf went to bed last night wondering whether that was going to be possible.", "And that is Press Secretary Robert Gibbs there. It's a real who's who at the press briefing today. Earlier you saw Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, and Carol Browner is there, the Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy is there as well. And you saw Admiral Thad Allen at this. They're kind of belaboring the point a little bit to find out exactly what all this $20 billion is going to go to folks down south who have legitimate claims, as they say. But the president did talk about it. Again they're belaboring the point a little but I think it's important to get to specific on it because the president said this fund will not supersede individuals' or states' rights to present claims in court. So they're talking about how the money is going to be disbursed and if this, in some way supersedes them filing other claims. Is this the last of is this the last once they file? Lots to be worked out here, but it appears according to the folks in the press briefing that is not going to going happen. What did this last, some ten minutes-- five, ten minutes we had it here. Wonder how much oil has been gushing out? You see it there, live no one knows for sure, but a whole heck of a lot while they're getting their acts together. Almost 100 Gulf coast residents will tell the Senate how the oil is affecting them firsthand. What are they asking for? We're talking to one of them, next."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CAROL BROWNER, OFFICE OF ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE", "GIBBS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BROWNER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BROWNER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BROWNER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GIBBS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GIBBS", "BROWNER", "GIBBS", "BROWNER", "GIBBS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GIBBS", "ADM. 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{"id": "CNN-79946", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2003-12-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/06/cst.15.html", "summary": "Officials Shut Down Portion Of Ohio I-270 To Perform Forensic Tests", "utt": ["In Columbus, Ohio, a 20-mile section of Interstate 270 has been closed. Police say it will only last an hour or two so they can investigate a string of highway shootings. Are Martin Savidge is live in Columbus with the latest on that investigation - Marty.", "Good evening to you Carol. As you say, they are right in the middle of that shutdown of I-270. it is actually about a 4-mile stretch that they have closed. And that is the area specifically where many of the shootings have occurred. It is not easy closing that highway. It is normally being traveled by about 70 to 80,000 vehicles a day. So the situation right now is that is an extraordinary event. However, the reason they are doing that is to allow federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to use some specific technology, in this case lasers to try to measure exactly where the gunshots may be coming from. They could backtrack that and perhaps find some evidence or at least try to get a better idea as to who may be carrying them out. It shows you the length that law enforcement is willing to go to try to end the shooting spree. However, some say it also shows you how they really haven't got much to go on if they are taking this kind of extraordinary leap to do this, to close the highway down. Earlier in the day, they were canvassing out in a suburb in the same area, going literally door to door asking questions of people who live in the area. What is interesting about this is that this subdivision is very near that elementary school which on November 11 in the middle of the night received a single fun shot through a window. The bullet was retrieved from that school and ballistic tests found that it matched, fired from the same gun that was used to kill at 62-year-old woman who was traveling on I-270 on November 25th. Authorities believe that that community may have some sort of special connection to the shooters. Listen to what authorities had to say.", "Investigators are interesting in that particular neighborhood because the school is off I-270 are where most of the latest (ph) shootings occurred.", "See, the school is removed from where most of the other shooting have happened. So that is why investigators at least find that very, very interesting. So they were out asking questions today. So you've got the extraordinary event of shutting down the highway and then you have them going door to door in force in a community. So they are out there beating the bushes, trying to find information. But they also gave a sense of frustration out their news conference earlier in the day, implying that they truly believe somebody out there either has seen something or knows something. And they are frustrated that that person so far has not come forward. - Carol.", "Marty, what is it that they do know in this investigation? Do they know if it is one shooter? Two shooters? They type of weapon being used?", "Well, the truth is they may know or have an idea about both of those questions, meaning whether it is one shooter, whether it is two shooters. They definitely know what type of weapon is being used. They have not released that information to the news media or to the public, because they say that that kind of information if it was out there would harm their investigative attempts. What they are trying to do also is set up a dialogue, a communication with whomever may be carrying out these attacks, urging them to call on the telephone. They even established a special post office box for this person to write to if they wanted. Is it possible police are withholding or investigators are withhoholding that information because they may use it to confirm that they truly are talking with the person responsible - Carol.", "All right, thank you very much. Martin Savidge on the case there in Ohio on these shootings. USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Forensic Tests>"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DET. STEVE MARTIN, FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT", "SAVIDGE", "LIN", "SAVIDGE", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-336907", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-04-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/05/es.04.html", "summary": "U.S. Diplomats Leave Moscow Embassy.", "utt": ["New this morning from Moscow, eyewitnesses say buses left the U.S. Embassy early this morning carrying American diplomats who are being expelled from Russia. The ejection a tit for tat over Russian diplomats being ejected from countries around the world over the poisoning of a Russian double-agent in the U.K. For the latest, let's turn to senior international correspondent Matthew Chance in Moscow this morning. Good morning, Matthew. What's the latest?", "Good morning, Dave. That's right. This was the deadline for the -- for those 60 U.S. diplomats to leave the Russian capital. And even though the embassy hasn't confirmed to us yet that the departure has now taken place, eyewitnesses from the Russian media, in particular, who have been staking out the gates of the Russian -- the U.S. diplomatic compound here in Moscow have said they've seen at least one coach leave filled with people assumed to be the diplomats. We don't know how many people are on board. But yes, this is the deadline that's come for the -- for the departure of those 60 U.S. diplomats that have been ejected by Russia. That in response, of course, to the U.S. ejection -- expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats that came at the end of March in response to the alleged poisoning by a Russian nerve agent of Sergei and his daughter Yulia Skripal in Salisbury in England. That's something, of course, that the Russians -- that the Russian authorities have categorically denied. But they've been left very diplomatically isolated by that thing happening. Not just the United States but 28 other countries have also expelled Russian diplomats in response -- Dave.", "A lot of lives disrupted over all this. Matthew Chance live in Moscow. Thank you, sir.", "New England Patriots star Julian Edelman may have prevented a potential school shooting in Michigan after a threat was posted on his Instagram account. The NFL player's assistant contacted police in Boston. They helped Michigan authorities track down the 14-year-old boy who admitted to making the threat. The teen is now charged with making a false report of a threat of terrorism. All right, the Masters starts today. Tony Finau will make his Masters debut, maybe. He hit a hole-in-one yesterday and in the celebration backwards, just rolled his ankle in devastating fashion. But Finau, he is the toughest dude on the planet. He pops it back into place, hobbles back to the tee, and continues his humiliated celebration. He'll try and start the Masters today, but there's a look at what he did.", "It's like a perfect right angle.", "I'm sorry. We should have given you a viewer warning for that but it is just a perfect -- it looked like it was fractured or at the very least out of place. He'll have an MRI this morning and try to tee off for the Masters today, which starts at 8:30 a.m. That's too bad.", "I mean, a right angle. I mean --", "It was devastating.", "Yes.", "It was nasty.", "But he's OK.", "You're welcome, America.", "Well, thank you for joining us this morning. I'm Rene Marsh.", "I'm Dave Briggs. \"NEW DAY\" starts right now.", "The president has directed that the Department of Defense to deploy the National Guard to our southwest border.", "I'm, frankly, glad to see him stepping up. I think it's actually a necessary step.", "This is just a political fix because he made a stupid campaign promise over a stupid border wall.", "I want to get out. I want to bring our troops back home.", "His entire national security team said you can't do this. The president apparently got very testy.", "We have a special responsibility. If he just pulls out precipitously it's very like that coalition falls apart.", "Mueller's team is now targeting certain Russian oligarchs.", "The questioning of these people certainly isn't focused on donations and money surrounding the campaign.", "It's always been follow the money. That's where it was in Watergate and that's where it is here.", "This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.", "We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is NEW DAY. It is Thursday, April fifth, 6:00 here in New York."], "speaker": ["BRIGGS", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "MARSH", "MARSH", "BRIGGS", "MARSH", "BRIGGS", "MARSH", "BRIGGS", "MARSH", "BRIGGS", "MARSH", "BRIGGS", "NIELSEN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANNOUNCER", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "NPR-33063", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2009-04-10", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102950730", "title": "Virgin Mobile Gives Laid Off Customers A Break", "summary": "Officials at Virgin Mobile have announced what it calls a \"Pink Slip Protection\" plan. The company says it will waive up to three months of charges if a customer is laid off. The offer is only for monthly prepaid calling plans. The company says customers who use these plans tend to have lower incomes and are more affected by the downturn.", "utt": ["NPR's business news starts with more pink-slip marketing.", "It started with Hyundai. Then GM and Ford also began offering help to cover car payments if customers lost their jobs. Now, a wireless phone company has jumped onto the recession-marketing bandwagon. Virgin Mobile has announced what it calls a pink slip protection plan. It will wave up to three months of charges if a customer is laid off. The offer is only for monthly prepaid calling plans. The company says customers who use these short-term plans tend to have lower incomes and are more affected by the downturn."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, Host", "RENEE MONTAGNE, Host"]}
{"id": "CNN-145527", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-11-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0911/28/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Tiger Woods Recovering From Car Accident On Thanksgiving Night", "utt": ["Thank you for joining us this Saturday morning. I'm Brianna Keilar in for Betty Nguyen.", "And hello to you all. I'm T.J. Holmes. We have a lot of questions this morning surrounding Tiger Woods' late-night accident right outside his Florida home. This is what we do know right now. Police want to talk to Woods today about that crash. The police report says charges are pending. Woods hit a fire hydrant and a tree at about 2:25 a.m. Friday morning. He was pulled from that car by his wife, who broke out a window of the SUV with a golf club. Woods suffered cuts on his face, but his publicist says the golfer is in good condition.", "Now, Tiger Woods is, of course, more than just a sports superstar. He is a global icon. Joining us now on the phone from Orlando, Florida, is former CNN sports anchor and current golf channel reporter Inga Hammond. Inga, thank you for being with us. You also -- you're pretty good friends with Tiger Woods. Do you know anything about what happened? Have you spoke within him?", "It's interesting, because we cover him, and he is so unbelievably dominant in our sport. I have not spoken with him. Basically, Tiger has kind of circled the wagons with his family and friends and advisers right now, and he isn't speaking and from what I understand home recovering a little bit, because it sounds like he got some sort of bonk on the head, as well. But I think the big thing with all the gossip and TMZ and, you know, the Internet kind of has given gossip this forum that it never used to have in the past. And the biggest thing I think is that everyone needs to give Tiger Woods the benefit of the doubt in this situation. He is not one of those athletes who has been in trouble before with either the law or his sport. He's really been a model citizen. And so I think until all the facts are out on this one, people need to kind of, you know, set aside what they're hearing. And I know they want the questions answered, but I think those kinds of things will come in time.", "So then he is somewhat notoriously press shy considering, you know, how renowned he is. But, you know, I think it's sort of the interesting to people that what we got from his communications representative was a very simple statement about his condition and a very brief statement about the accident. But there really not any details about the circumstances of the accident. Even if Tiger Woods isn't feeling so well, you know, I guess conventional wisdom would be that his wife could lend some truth to whatever the facts are. Why do you think there has been no statement about the circumstances of this accident?", "Well, I also think you have to remember this is -- you know, Tiger Woods at the age of two was on the Michael Douglas show right in front of Bob Hope, hitting golf balls. So this is a young man whose entire life has basically been played out on television and in front of the media. So when it comes to his private life, that's the one place where he is able to have privacy. And Elin, you may have notices you've never seen an interview with her publicly. You'll see her at events with Tiger, but she really doesn't talk to the press. And I think that's the way the Woods' family likes it, is that Tiger is the one who does the speaking on behalf of the family and they try to keep private things private amongst them. So it's really not that unusual. I know in some people's minds it raises red flags. But in the Tiger Woods' world and his camp, things are always discussed. Remember, this is the guy who won the U.S. Open basically on a broken leg and didn't announce to the world until two or three days afterwards ...", "Inga, let me ask you ...", "Yes.", "Can you speak to this? Is there any sign that there may be trouble between Tiger Woods and his wife?", "You know, the way I look at it is, you know, any young cup that will has two children under the age of three that doesn't occasionally have arguments or disagreements -- but there have been no public signs whatsoever that anyone has seen. We saw them just a week ago Tiger was inducted into the Stanford hall of fame and Elin was there along with Sam, his little girl, right there on the sidelines with him. So I don't think there's been any outward sign of this.", "But you wouldn't rule out that there is a possibility this could stem from an accident, a sort of domestic dispute between the two?", "Well, I just think any young married couple with kids that are that young, you know, will have disagreements. And when they have them it's usually at night when the family is in bed. But also Tiger Woods is well-known for not sleeping a lot. He sleeps four to five hours a night. He's talked about that. So the thought of him being awake at 2:30 in the morning is actually not as unusual as I think people would think it is. Sometimes he works out at 3:00, 4 a.m. That's not that unusual.", "When, Inga, do you think we'll start to get some more answers here?", "Well, the big date to kind of look forward to is Tuesday. That's when he has a press conference scheduled for his Chevron World Challenge tournament, which is out in Thousand Oakes, California. And that tournament is really one of his babies. It has raised tens of millions of dollars for charity, for the Tiger Woods Foundation. And I would imagine, you know, barring what these facial lacerations look like, I would imagine Tiger would be there, because it is a cause near and dear to his heart. So we'll see if he answers those questions then or if this is deemed purely private matter. And who knows, maybe they won't answer the questions.", "Inga, thank you so much for joining us. Inga Hammond with the Gold Channel, and we certainly will be looking toward Tuesday if there is going to be that press conference at the golf tournament.", "We'll see if he shows, yes. Meanwhile here, a university for parents only. We're going to show you how it could help mom and dad help their struggling children.", "And grab a pen and some paper. 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{"id": "CNN-203792", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2013-3-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/26/sp.04.html", "summary": "Proud to be the Face of MS", "utt": ["He's been playing for the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, but make no mistake, Chris Wright is a trailblazer. The first known NBA player who has multiple sclerosis. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has his story. It's this week's \"Human Factor.\"", "With less than three minutes left against the Atlanta Hawks, Dallas Mavericks point guard Chris Wright is in the game. Playing in the NBA has been his lifelong dream but it almost didn't come true.", "While a student, my whole right leg went numb, right foot went numb, basically it went all the way up to the right side of my body. Last year, Wright was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis -- MS, a disease that damages the protective covering of nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. It's a disease he had never heard of.", "I just have to do what I have to do to maintain my life.", "Doctors told Wright he would never play basketball again. But he responded well to treatment and less than three months after his diagnosis, Wright was back on the court. He made history when he signed a ten-day contract with the Dallas Mavericks. Becoming the first person with MS to play in the NBA. While it may have only been a short stint, Wright believes this won't be the last time he will play in the", "Everything happens for a reason, and everything you go through definitely is not a coincidence.", "Monthly treatments are keeping his MS from progressing, and he's not shying away from his diagnosis. Wright he's proud to be the face of", "Don't be afraid to step out and do what you want to do. That's my message to everyone ahead. Don't believe that's a crippling disease that will define (ph) you the rest of your life. Gupta: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN reporting.", "That's a great story. All right, \"End Point's\" up next. We're back in a moment."], "speaker": ["O'BRIEN", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "CHRIS WRIGHT, DALLAS MAVERICKS", "WRIGHT", "GUPTA", "NBA. WRIGHT", "GUPTA", "MS. WRIGHT", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "NPR-28703", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2013-07-17", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=203032193", "title": "What Missile Shipment Says About Cuba-North Korea Relations", "summary": "Many questions are raised by the discovery of missile parts in a North Korean ship coming from Cuba and passing through the Panama Canal. Cuban authorities acknowledge sending the parts, but they do not explain why they are doing business with North Korea. The incident sheds some light on two of the most isolated regimes on the planet and what political and commercial ties may bind them.", "utt": ["And moving on now to a mystery in Panama. A North Korean ship was stopped there as it was cruising through the Panama Canal carrying military supplies from Cuba. Missile and aircraft parts were hidden beneath bags of sugar in the cargo hold. North Korea is subject to a U.N. arms embargo and the North Korean crew is said to have violently resisted an effort to inspect the ship. NPR's Tom Gjelten has the latest.", "Just about every aspect of this story is bizarre. Two states, both fiercely anti-American, engage in a secret arms transaction that could well be in violation of a U.N. embargo. The North Korean crew puts up a fight. The ship captain allegedly tries to kill himself. Under thousands of bags of sugar, the cargo. The Panamanians said they found missile parts.", "Cuban authorities acknowledged the shipment, saying in addition to those missile parts, they had shipped Mig 21 aircraft components to North Korea for repair. Hal Klepak, a Canadian expert on the Cuban military, says up to that point, the story does make sense.", "The Cubans need desperately to repair their Mig 21s, which are 1958 vintage, really very, very old aircraft indeed. They're terribly old, but they're what Cuba have.", "As for the missile components, they've been identified by arms experts as part of an SA2 system, an anti-aircraft package that by its age, could have been in Cuba since the 1960s when Fidel Castro worried the United States was going to attack him. So why would Cuba send this stuff to North Korea? Hugh Griffith(ph) is an arms traffic specialist at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and he has an explanation.", "Not only do North Koreans offer military equipment, but they can provide very low cost technicians to service, repair or upgrade relatively unsophisticated Soviet era military equipment.", "So maybe the North Koreans were going to service the equipment for the Cubans, being paid in sugar, a barter arrangement, good both for food-starved North Korea and cash-starved Cuba. Or maybe the North Koreans bought the old equipment from Cuba with the intention of upgrading it and reselling it to someone else. David Wright, a missile expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists, says it's hard to see how the Cubans could figure that that old anti-aircraft missile system, even upgraded, would be of any use against the U.S. Air Force.", "The radars that go along with it, if they have not been updated, are probably not very good. And because it's been around so long, countries like the United States and Japan and other countries have long ago figured out how to fool the - jam the radar systems. And so, to a modern adversary it's probably not a big threat.", "Meanwhile, the downside to Cuba of this transaction, the risk of getting caught engaging in a possibly illicit transaction with North Korea seems huge. Hal Klepak isn't sure what to think.", "It may well have been an expensive mistake for Cuba.", "Frank Mora, until recently the top Pentagon official responsible for Western Hemisphere affairs, says he's scratching his head trying to understand what the Cubans were thinking. After all, he points out, Raul Castro has been saying he wants better relations with the United States.", "This doesn't make sense because it doesn't fit with a more pragmatic approach that Raul Castro had versus his brother. This is a very high-risk effort to try to smuggle these engines and other things for very little gain.", "The United States and Cuba, in fact, are currently engaged in talks to restore mail service between the two countries and to update an agreement on how to handle Cuban migration to the United States. A State Department spokeswoman today said the United States is prepared to offer Panama assistance in identifying the arms material seized on the North Korean ship.", "Tom Gjelten, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE", "TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE", "HAL KLEPAK", "TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE", "HUGH GRIFFITH", "TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE", "DAVID WRIGHT", "TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE", "HAL KLEPAK", "TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE", "FRANK MORA", "TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE", "TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-96335", "program": "CNN LIVE SUNDAY", "date": "2005-7-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/24/sun.02.html", "summary": "British Police Arrest Another Man Allegedly Connected To Second Bombing Attempt; Lance Armstrong Wins 7th Straight Tour de France", "utt": ["Ahead this hour, the London terror investigation continues with one growing concern: will there be more attacks? Plus this.", "Four citizen soldiers with something in common, their last name: Pruitt. Four brothers deployed with four different units in Kirkuk.", "CNN's Alex Quade with a unique look at the men and women on the ground in Iraq. And then Lance Armstrong and his long road to victory. Hello and welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY. I'm Lisa Sylvester. Fredricka Whitfield has the day off. All that and more after this check of the headlines. A frightening case of deja vu in Asia, a tsunami warning briefly issued in Thailand today after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck India's Nicobar Islands. So far, no injuries or damage. But there are reports of people panicking. The same region was battered by that giant tsunami last December. The State Department confirms that one American was among the 84 people in yesterday's bombings in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The government has not released the person's name. At least eight of the victims of the popular tourist area were said to be from other countries. And organized labor at the crossroads. Four major unions representing millions of American workers say they'll boycott this week's AFL-CIO convention in Chicago. Union membership has been falling for decades. And critics say the federation has failed to adjust to changes like globalization and the loss of factory jobs. Up first this hour, the latest in the London terror probe. A third person is now in custody in Thursday's attempted transit bombings. Even police say the investigation has been incredibly fast moving. And CNN's Jonathan Mann is keeping up for us in London -- Jonathan.", "Lisa, just to keep track of the details, because it's probably confusing at a distance, there were two sets of attacks hitting points all across London. But most of the progress seems to be coming with the second attack, the botched attack whose bombers all escaped and continue to represent a threat. And it's focused on one area of the city. Police as you said, have now announced that they arrested in a man in a neighbor in a neighborhood known as \"Tawes Hill\" (ph). It's an immigrant working class of the city in the south, not far from where they already arrested two other men, all three of them held in connection with that second set of failed attacks. All three held under the Britain Terrorism Act in a single high security police station and being questioned for what they know. Now, should there be a link between that second attack and the first set of attacks? That's a question that's very much in the air, because of what we know about the first set of attacks. A London newspaper, \"The Daily Mirror,\" has already published a photo, a strange one really, of whitewater rafting, an outing that at least two of the suicide bombers who were involved in the first suicide attack took early in June. Those two men were known to have been on that river early June. Now it is emerging from evidence collected from the scene of the second set of attacks that there may be some link between the second set of bombers and the whitewater rafting center in Wales as well. So the investigation is stretching now from South London all the way north to Wales. Another investigation that's under way, a very different kind of investigation, into the death of a Brazilian electrician here in London, a man who was simply in the wrong place at wrong the time. John Charles de Menezes was killed by police who mistook him for a terrorist, because, they say, he emerging from a house under observation, his behavior seemed odd. He didn't respond to orders. They wrestled him to the ground and shot him dead in front of stunned onlookers at a subway station. And so two sets of investigation, a lot of attention from both of them, but to many people's minds, it is that last man, an innocent who became, in essence, the 53rd victim these attacks, that has attracted the latest attention -- Lisa.", "Jonathan, we saw those four pictures that authorities were looking for those four individuals. Do we know at all if the three people arrested are indeed those four men?", "We know very little about the investigation. Details have come out very very, very sparsely from the police. They are emerging unofficially in the British media. But the indications we have are that the men being held are not among the four that police are seeking. In other words, the four men who tried to kill themselves and so many other people in the British transit system are still at loose.", "Jonathan Mann thank you very much for that update. And now to the investigation into the bombings in Egypt. The State Department confirms an American is among the 84 victims killed in the attacks. Authorities are sweeping the Sinai Peninsula and have reportedly rounded 20 people for questioning. Our John Vause has the latest on the investigation.", "Right now, 59 people are being treated in hospital here at Sharm el-Sheikh. Hospital officials say 49 of them are Egyptians. Six people are still listed in a critical condition. Egypt's interior ministry says at least 60 of the dead were Egyptians. Among the foreign tourists who were killed, an Italian man on hi honeymoon, a Czech tourist and also two British tourists have reportedly died as well. The hunt is now on for those responsible for these attacks. Egyptian security forces have spread out across the Sinai Peninsula. At least 20 people have been reportedly detained as material witnesses, not suspects. Two groups have claimed responsibility for the attacks here at Sharm el-Sheikh. The previously unheard of Holy Warriors of Egypt, but the Abdullah Azam Brigades of Egypt and Syria, the same group which claimed responsibility for a similar attack in Taba on the Israeli/Egypt border in October of last year which left 34 people dead. Many tourists here have now decided to cut short their vacation and head home. Overnight, the airport was busy and the roads out of Sharm el-Sheikh have been heavy with traffic. John Vause, CNN, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.", "And you can read more about our efforts to fight terror worldwide on our Web site CNN.com. And there you can see video about the investigations in Egypt and London and you can read about global efforts to battle terrorism. And now to the potentially dangerous heat wave that's bringing sky high temperatures to much of the U.S. Heat advisories are being issued as far north as Wisconsin all the way south to Mississippi and Alabama. Temperatures in several cities, including Kansas City, Missouri and Chicago are expected to hover around 100 degrees today. There is some relief in Arizona which has been suffering through its own heat wave for weeks. The high in Phoenix is expected to be 105 today. A week ago, it was a sizzling 116. Now for more on the heat wave, we go to CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras live in the weather center -- Jacqui.", "Well Lisa, yeah, like you said, looking a lot better across parts of the west this hour. Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake City all seeing much cooler temperatures. But the heat really concentrated here across parts of the Midwest extending all the way down into the deep south. Chicago, hottest temperature of the year so far, 101 degrees right now so far. St. Louis, getting a temperature of 102. Temperature in New Orleans at 95. Atlanta, not so bad at 89 with a little bit of hazy, but you add in the humidity and it feels a lot worse. Des Moines, 104. Kansas City feels like 103. 105 in Omaha, Nebraska. Check out Chicago, 101 on the thermometer, but 106 is the temperature your body is feeling. 102 in Indianapolis. Check out the conditions here into the Northeast. Looks great, doesn't it? But watch out, because this heat is going to be heading your way by tomorrow. In fact, excessive heat watches have already been posted for Philadelphia extending down towards Washington, D.C., and eastern parts of Virginia, because heat indices should be well beyond 100 degrees for tomorrow afternoon. That's what you're seeing in Mobile 103. 100 in Birmingham and Memphis at 104 degrees. Across the southwest, doing a lot better here, 97 is the temperature your body feels in Phoenix. And we do expect to see some scattered showers and thunderstorms across the four corners, including much of Arizona. High temperatures tomorrow, looking pretty good across the west. Not too bad in the upper Midwest. 93 is still not too bad, at least comparatively speaking to what you're seeing today. 97 in Atlanta. 95 Washington, D.C., and New York City should see a high around 90. Taking a quick check at the tropics. Tropical Storm Franklin, we've been watching this over the past couple of days. Good news is that it's continued to weaken now. 65-mile-per-hour winds and really only a marine interest at this time. One interesting thing that tropical waves or tropical systems can do this time of the year is create dust storms. A lot of them can develop off the African coast. This is a satellite picture we got in from NASA. This was taken on July 19. And there you can see the continent. And check out all this haze that you see right here. That is dust which has been kicked up, very high up into the atmosphere from a tropical disturbance. This down here, you can see it's a little more uniform. That's cloudiness. And this is the dust. The upper level winds can carry this thousands of miles. And that's exactly what's happening right now. We may see a little bit of hazy and some of this dust moving into southern parts of Florida over the next couple of days. Monday, Tuesday, possibly even into Wednesday. Basically, what it's going to do for you is create a little bit of a hazy. It's going to create some spectacular sun rises and sun sets. If you do have respiratory problems, you might want to exercise a little bit more caution. But it's still a little too early to tell how dense the dust will be. We got some reports yesterday out of the Lesser Antilles of visibility's down to five miles. And of course that's going to be reduced pretty dramatically once it makes it all the way to the United States -- Lisa?", "Probably not very good news for people who suffer from allergies, though.", "Yes.", "All right. Thank you very much, Jacqui. Amazing, unprecedented, but certainly not unexpected. Lance Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France crown today. But the win is bitter-sweet, as Armstrong bids adieu to professional cycling. CNN's Jim Bittermann has the highlights from Paris.", "Lance Armstrong with the yellow jersey after winning his seventh Tour de France, a feat not matched in more than 100 years of Tour de France history. In fact, broke the record last year, when he won his sixth Tour de France. But this year winning the seventh put the cap on his career, because now, he says he's going retire after this race. As he faced the crowds of tens of thousands of people along the Champs-Elysees, he says that he loved the Tour de France as a race.", "This is one hell of a race. This a great sporting event. And you should stand around and believe -- you should believe in these athletes. And you should believe in these people. And I'm a fan of the Tour de France for as long as I live. And there are no secrets, this is a hard sporting event and hard work wins it. So vive la Tour, forever. Thank you.", "Armstrong says center from this point, he is going to retire. He said don't expect me to sit in front of the television set and become a fat slob. I am an athlete after all. Immediately after this race, he says he's going to go along with his girlfriend Sheryl Crow and his three children to the beaches in the south of France. And he said he's going drink a little wine and relax. Jim Bittermann, CNN, Paris.", "Sounds like a good idea. Congratulations to Lance. Brothers in arms, one family, four sons, all serving in Iraq. We'll take a looking at their lives on the front lines. Plus, inside the medical hospitals of Iraq: How medics are fighting for lives among some of the most difficult conditions. And staying safe, can the technology troops use in Iraq help protect us here at home?"], "speaker": ["LISA SYLVESTER, CNN ANCHOR", "ALEX QUADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SYLVESTER", "JONATHAN MANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SYLVESTER", "MANN", "SYLVESTER", "JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SYLVESTER", "JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "SYLVESTER", "JERAS", "SYLVESTER", "JIM BITTERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera)", "LANCE ARMSTRONG, CYCLIST", "BITTERMANN", "SYLVESTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-57917", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-7-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/22/lt.14.html", "summary": "Everyone Who is Anyone in Aviation at Exclusive Airshow in England", "utt": ["Everyone who is anyone in aviation is at an exclusive airshow in England right now. American and European leaders in flight technology are showing off their know-how in Farnborough. CNN's Richard Quest made the a-list, as he always does. He joins us from there, now with some of the highlights. Hi, Richard.", "I've got a new aviation, an aeronautical term for you, Kyra. It's called being jiggered, and that's pretty much what I am, having spent an entire day at Farnborough. I have schlept -- and that's another aviation term you may not be familiar with -- from this side to that side. Planes are taking off all over the place.", "It is absolutely ginormous. It is the billed as the world's largest temporary outdoor exhibition. And to get this whole setup setup, the guys and girls have to work for months and months and months, amid acres of cameras, the malls of electrical cable that goes into setting up Farnborough.", "Just a second, we have got a plane coming in to land. We must take the opportunity for that. So stand back. Stand back. Now to prove that this man really does know, because I have got absolutely no idea. They're very hard to identify these, aren't they?", "The best ones to identify are things like the Airbus. They're very, very kind to us all, because they've got those huge numbers on the tail, and the sukoys (ph), when the Russians used to be here, did similar, because you look up, you think, oh, what on Earth is that.", "All right, let's have a quick final thought. It's often billed also the U.S. versus the rest of the world. Boeing is here, Northrup, Raytheon, really big companies from the United States doing battle with their European counterparts. Is that fair?", "I think that's a thing of the past. I think the whole aviation industry is getting together go forward, and forward into the next 21st century, because that's how we have go forward, aviation together.", "A diplomat Stratton (ph). We thank you very much indeed.", "And I hope have you that cup of tea.", "Absolutely. So there you are. We have seen a plane land. We are going to see -- there is another one taking off in a moment, Kyra, and I'm absolutely jiggered. Remember that phrase, you are going to hear it a lot up Farnborough.", "All right, I'm feeling very jiggered now, Richard Quest. I hear you've got the company jet. You were able to come in on the CNN plane. You still have it -- are you still next to it?", "No, we don't have the company jet, actually. We have flown it off. I didn't know you wanted to see the company jet. I'll tell you what, if you come back -- well, I promise I will have the CNN corporate jet for you. We did have it here earlier. I'm sorry.", "That's all right.", "I tell you, we may have the other -- the really big corporate jet. Look at that one. Now, I wonder what member of CNN management is arriving in that particular corporate jet at that end of the runway.", "Definitely not you or me, Richard. We didn't get that in our contracts.", "Well, if you did, your agents are doing jolly good better than mine. I barely got a pair of roller blades and a bicycle.", "All right, Richard Quest, with his head in the clouds there at the airshow. We will check in with you again, I promise. I will be looking forward to seeing the jet that you came in on, all right, Richard?", "All right, Kyra. I'm jiggered remember, jiggered.", "Getting jiggered with it. All right, Richard, thank you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com England>"], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "STRATTON RITCHIE (ph)", "QUEST", "RITCHIE (ph)", "QUEST", "RITCHIE (ph)", "QUEST", "RITCHIE (ph)", "QUEST", "PHILLIPS", "QUEST", "PHILLIPS", "QUEST", "PHILLIPS", "QUEST", "PHILLIPS", "QUEST", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-33633", "program": "CNN AHEAD OF THE CURVE", "date": "2001-6-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/29/aotc.01.html", "summary": "Microsoft Down on Pre-Market Instinet", "utt": ["The markets don't open for more than three hours, but shares of Microsoft are already trading in the pre-market. Jen Rogers has details live from the Instinent -- Jen.", "Good morning, Debbie. That's right, this is on light volume, but we are seeing Microsoft shares extend their gains from the regular session yesterday. They were up $1.60, right now up 41 cents, at $73.15. Again, this is on light volume. Honeywell shares haven't started moving yet, but they were very active last night here. They dipped down sharply, down about $3.20, after reports that the European Union has rejected GE's 11th-hour proposal to get regulatory approval for the acquisition of Honeywell. Right now we do have a bid on Honeywell at $36. If it did open there, that would be down $2.20. So definitely one to watch. No trades on GE yet either. PMC-Sierra coming out last night as the fourth communications chip company to warn, basically, this week. They are coming out saying they are going to post a wider-than-expected loss for the second quarter. You see it there: down 88 percent from their 52-week high. It was very active last night. It dipped down $2.15, and then it reversed, headed up into positive territory. So we'll have to keep an eye for where that opens this morning. Liberate -- this company makes interactive television software -- came out posting a narrower-than- expected loss for the fourth quarter, revenues is up 77 percent from a year-ago levels. And they did not warn on the first quarter, saying they will basically be in line -- and we'll have to see where that one begins trading. And finally, Ingersoll-Rand company coming out and warning. This is a diversified industrial company. They came out saying earnings will be 25 to 30 percent below estimates right now -- Debbie.", "All right, thank you, Jen. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "JEN ROGERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "CNN-291627", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-08-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/17/nday.04.html", "summary": "Major Shake-Up In Trump Campaign; Sources: Roger Ailes Helping Trump Prepare For Debates", "utt": ["We just saw a huge shift in the Trump campaign, not just in personnel but in what this is going to mean for strategy and tone going forward. How will this play out in this first debate that we have a few weeks away? Let's discuss. David Chalian, CNN political director and Brian Stelter, CNN senior media correspondent and host of \"RELIABLE SOURCES\". It's good to have you both. David Chalian, this is not just about personnel. Roger Stone, Roger Ailes, and now Steve Bannon. Having them all involved in Trump's head is basically, in Italian, what we do, this (Italian hand gesture) to the party, (Italian hand gesture) to the big insiders. That's what just happened.", "I speak that language. That means I don't care what you think.", "That's right. (Foreign language), they're saying.", "But they're brawlers, right, and Donald Trump is a brawler and so this going to play into his most basic instincts about how to engage in day-to-day combat with Hillary Clinton to be a brawler more. And so, I think it's interesting to see. It's not going to give comfort to the Republican establishment that has been desperate to sort of get him to a place where he can start really building his coalition in terms of who the people are, Chris. But I do think if, indeed, this means that he takes a fight every single day to Hillary Clinton, I think that will give some comfort to reluctant Republicans who have been concerned about his candidacy.", "Brian, your reporting is that Roger Ailes, former head of \"FOX NEWS\" who left amid allegations of sexual harassment, is talking to Donald Trump about debate prep. What does this mean for the first debate in September?", "Yes, Ailes helping Trump, even in this informal way. There's no sort of formal campaign role here nor would there be. Ailes doesn't need the money from the campaign and the campaign doesn't need the trouble from Ailes given the cloud he's under with this sexual harassment scandal. However, Ailes can be of great assistance to Donald Trump. Even when I joined CNN, Ailes gave me some of the best advice about T.V. I received from anybody. Ailes is a T.V. mastermind, say whatever else you want to say about him, so he can certainly help Trump and he is helping Trump. And I see it almost as a proxy war between Ailes and Clinton. Ailes, in some ways, has been anti-Clinton for decades. This can be kind of a final battle on the debate stage in the fall.", "But it's just that, you know -- look, at the end of the day it all comes down to Trump, right?", "Yes.", "You can put as many different people around you but Trump makes the decisions as to what comes out of his mouth that has caused his problems. But it's about what encouragement he's getting. What we saw here --", "Exactly.", "We keep saying prompter. That's really code. It doesn't matter if he's on a Teleprompter or if he's off the cuff. It's what is your message? How much of it is Clinton is --", "Exactly.", "-- and then listing 10 horrible personal attributes or here's what I'm going to do for you. It sounds like from this, especially with a Brietbart guy -- Brietbart is scorched earth, win at all costs, and by cost we mean the worst things they can do. Now that's who's in his ear? What can that mean for building a coalition?", "Well, but again, if it is Clinton is X, Y, Z, that could be beneficial to Donald Trump. That's a lot better than taking on a Gold Star family or going after Judge Curiel or responding to some personal insult that has gotten Donald Trump upset. If, indeed, it is -- it is a daily fight geared towards Hillary Clinton -- if that's what's in his ear that could prove to --", "This is an outlet that says CNN is Hitler. You think that kind of stuff coming out of Donald Trump's mouth is going to help him?", "I mean, some of these men are masters of the dark arts -- of political dark arts and that's what people should understand, for example, about Steve Bannon. When I saw this news overnight my first thought was OK, nothing is off limits now. Nothing in this campaign is off limits now. We're going to see the most fringy ideas, the most -- the most right-wing ideas bubble up to the surface in a way we haven't even seen before in this election.", "And so --", "Like we saw what he was doing with Hillary Clinton's health recently, bringing that back into the fray.", "That's the kind of conspiracy theory that starts in what we call the fever swamps of the right wing. It bubbles up on Twitter and Facebook and on sites like Brietbart, eventually reaches Sean Hannity, and then reaches Donald Trump, and we're going to see more of those. I mean, it's only August. I can't imagine what they'll be saying by October.", "I'm confused about the math here, David, about how that brings in more voters because traditionally -- so he won a huge amount of voters in the primaries, 13.3 million, and it sounds like Donald Trump wants to return to that strategy of what got him to the party in the first place. But does that brass knuckles, massively right-wing conspiracy theory bring in other voters?", "Well, no, I think we have different components here. Conspiracy theories are not going to bring in many new voters, there's no doubt about that. But we don't know yet if Donald Trump -- we know that this is who is going to be around him now but, again, as Chris said, this is about the candidate. So he's going to have these voices but he's also going to have the voice of Kellyanne Conway, who is going to be presenting the numbers to him on a daily basis, as she's been doing, and how you --", "Established political hand with a good track record, yes.", "And she's been so effective on television.", "Exactly, so I don't think it's just one thing. Here's what I believe in terms of adding voters. The first place he has to add, still, is still within his own party. That is a problem that where this late in the game for him and he is still not having the level of support among Republicans.", "Moderates within his own party? Establishment in his own party?", "Moderates and Independents, as well. He needs to bring them in. He need to try to bring them in. But right now his support, just among base core Republicans -- self I.D.'d Republicans -- is not at the level it needs to be so that's where he has to start. I'm not saying -- that's not sufficient in and of itself. He's still going to try to add voters beyond that but he still doesn't have a locked in base of Republican support at the level it needs to be.", "I mean, I thought five words he said in his last interview with a local station yesterday are the key five words between now and November -- I am who I am. I don't want to change, I don't want to pivot, I am who I am. It's a version of what Corey Lewandowski used to say, let Trump be Trump. That's what Trump is saying. Let me be me, I am who I am. Let's think past November for a moment. If Trump's strategy here if he's thinking past November -- if he's thinking he might lose the election -- what he might want to do is launch a new television channel or launch a new giant website and do subscription service. He might be thinking about a media enterprise and if he is, Roger Ailes and Steve Bannon are the men you want in your corner. So perhaps when thinking about Bannon, we should already look for signs that Trump is thinking beyond November having a plan B in case he doesn't win.", "Boy of boy, this is the moment. There have been lots of moments in this election, there are many more to come, but this will be looked back on in terms of where it went in terms of Donald Trump's fate. This is a very, very key moment.", "Yes.", "Without a doubt.", "Who cares what I think, what do you think? Tweet us @NewDay or post your comment on facebook.com/NewDay.", "Russia is launching airstrikes from Iran to fight ISIS. What does this mean? Should the U.S. be concerned about those two countries teaming up? We're going to talk to the secretary of the U.S. Air Force, next, about this."], "speaker": ["CHRIS CUOMO, CNN HOST", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN HOST", "CUOMO", "DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR", "CAMEROTA", "BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT, HOST, \"RELIABLE SOURCES\"", "CUOMO", "STELTER", "CUOMO", "STELTER", "CUOMO", "CHALIAN", "CUOMO", "CHALIAN", "CUOMO", "STELTER", "CAMEROTA", "CHALIAN", "STELTER", "CAMEROTA", "CHALIAN", "CAMEROTA", "STELTER", "CHALIAN", "CAMEROTA", "CHALIAN", "STELTER", "CUOMO", "STELTER", "CHALIAN", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-243164", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2014-11-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/13/lvab.02.html", "summary": "Mexican Prison Video Diary to Air", "utt": ["A former producer of the hit reality show Survivor has recorded his own real life drama in a Mexican prison. While he's on trial for the murder of his wife at a resort in Cancun from back in 2010. His name is Bruce Beresford-Redman and he's been behind bars since 2012 as his case continues to drag on. And CBS program called 48 Hours gave him a small GoPro camera and they asked him if he would document his life while he was locked away. And he agreed. Weird thing is the prison agreed too, but this is not the United States, folks, it's Mexico. And now CBS is airing the episode this Saturday. And it's against the wish of the victim's family. Take a look at the clip.", "My name is Bruce Beresford-Redman. What you will see is a glimpse into a Mexican prison. I agreed to do these video diaries to give a sense of what life is like here in hell. I'm accused of the murder of my wife Monica. The cell I'm in is a very small cell. It's designed for three men and there are ten of us in here. If I'm convicted, I am facing a sentence of 30 years. There is very large riot going on right now. They tear gassed a couple of times. This is what it looks like to be tear gassed. There's fire everywhere. It's chaos. It's really, really chaos. There were people who have demonstrated poor impulse control and some of them may have mental problems.", "So, his wife is the victim in this case. She was murdered and Monica Beresford-Redman's sisters are asking CBS not to air this stuff until after the verdict in the case. But the network is going ahead with it and here's what the network's saying, I'll quote them, \"We have approached the sisters for the duration of our reporting on the story, though they declined repeated requests for new interviews. We feel we have fairly represented their position in the broadcast. We are confident when people see the show in it's entirety. They will agree we have fairly represented all sides.\" So that's them and then there's this whole issue of, really? From a legal view I want to bring back in our CNN Legal Analyst Danny Cevallos and HLN Legal Analyst Joey Jackson. First let's just be real clear, this wouldn't be happening in the United States of America?", "It would not. Why? Because they wouldn't allow the camera in the first place to do any type of documentaries, now if we were talking about Jodi Arias, that's different, but we won't bring that into this particular equation. But, no certainly there - it wouldn't be even an issue because they wouldn't allow for such a documentary to take place in the United States.", "So, why is this is a problem if this is something that is going to be adjudicated in Mexico? Are we really that concerned or should the family be that concerned of jury tainting?", "Look, the Supreme Court has made it crystal clear that (inaudible) not the Mexican. I'm not very up on my Mexican Supreme Court case law, but ours has said that putting gag orders on the media is an extraordinary remedy, should almost never be used. And that actually comes from a 1994 Supreme Court case involving CBS. So...", "Really?", "... it is, there is present (ph) for this. So you add that to the fact that this maybe a Mexican court and that becomes completely meaningless to our system. In other words, the proceedings in a Mexican court really cannot be -- they can't be stopped, they can't file suit here in America and stop any documentary if they wanted to. There is virtually nothing they could do. But, if you're the family and you want this man convicted, you should be thrilled that he's doing a documentary. Because that will create a treasure trove of evidence that the Mexican government, if they're smart, will TiVo the episode and use it against them.", "(inaudible) always the way, is it Joey?", "Yes.", "I mean, Jodi Arias they copy (ph) at the interviews and ultimately, I think it made some people really paid her. And some of those people might have been on the jury.", "Ashleigh, do you really think?", "Although they're not killing her, they sure did convict her.", "Right. They're doing that now. But, you know, just to take you back off to Danny's brilliant analysis, I get what he's saying is it's not going to happen. Now, they're relying upon the good graces of course, the family that is, if CBS to say, you know, what maybe it's not in great taste, maybe by putting this out there it creates sympathy, it creates sort of this era if he's really innocent and he's enduring these terrible prison conditions, but you know what, the reality is if it goes into a court room and just this not much of a family from a legal perspective can do to stop", "We should add that neither of us have kept up on our bar admissions in Mexico, so candidly the procedure we're a little behind on, right?", "Just a little.", "Can I ask you though, I'm a real fan of this show on another network, waka...", "Is that it...", "Sorry, I don't know what it is, but I love it. How was it any different because those people, they may also have actions still down the pipe.", "Well, yes especially the ones that focused on jails where people are awaiting trial.", "Yeah, trial.", "But then, when the cameras are on and those defendants choose to put themselves out there on camera, they're getting waivers and that can be used in a U.S. court, believe me against them should the prosecution be inclined.", "Interesting you said you're a fan of that show. I'm a fan of legal view.", "Thank you.", "You see that?", "Thank you.", "My favorite show. Can I take that back, my legal view is my favorite.", "There we go.", "I watch them exactly...", "The only show to watch on", "Well listen, this will be the show, I think if this is your best CBS airing to stop, who knows though if the backlash will be anything worth reporting afterwards. Guys, thank you. Danny, Joey as always. So, I showed you that live microphone in Washington D.C. before, still there. Kind of thought this would start at 12:30, but here we are 23 minutes and 19, 20, 21 seconds later and Eric Holder is not at the mic. But he's going to be and so will we after the break."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "BRUCE BERESFORD-REDMAN", "BANFIELD", "JOEY JACKSON, HLN LEGAL ANALYST", "BANFIELD", "DANNY CEVALLOS, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "BANFIELD", "CEVALLOS", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "CBS. CEVALLOS", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "CEVALLOS", "BANFIELD", "CEVALLOS", "BANFIELD", "CEVALLOS", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "CEVALLOS", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "TV. BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-135344", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-2-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/24/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Banishing the Blues; What to Cut", "utt": ["Well, sure they did, Larry, but the private sector, combined with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and some terrible decisions that people in the government made to have people take out loans they couldn't afford to repay. All of the above. But when we get to be a country where only the government can solve our nation's private sector economic problems, the government is too big and too powerful. It's the private sector that can pull us out of it.", "Big government or big business? It could be a while before we find out if those who broke it will be able to fix it. Let's get to the New York Stock Exchange right now. Just past three hours into the trading day. And as you can see, the Dow up 64 points, but -- oh, 59. But that is off session highs for the day. The Nasdaq in positive territory as well, up 16 points. We'll follow the numbers throughout the day for you in the CNN NEWSROOM. The bad economy might help banish the blues. I'm talking here about blue laws that force liquor stores to lock their doors on Sunday. More now from Louise Schiavone.", "The last vestiges of prohibition, partial or complete bans on alcohol sales on Sunday, are alive and well in roughly a dozen states. But now in the search for new revenues, some lawmakers say there's no time like the present for change and fresh funds.", "We have had testimony from various grocers, convenience stores and things of that sort, and those individuals have told us that they lose a tremendous amount of business to South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Florida.", "Georgia, Indiana and Connecticut prohibit any retail sale of alcohol on Sunday. Fifteen states ban only liquor sales. The Sunday sales debate is on in virtually every cash-strapped state where blue laws still exist. In Georgia, action is expected soon on a proposal to let communities decide whether or not they want to sell alcoholic beverages on Sunday. Georgians we speak to agree.", "I think it's a great idea. I think it's probably a little outdated law. And I think the most important point on that is the revenue it's going to generate for the state.", "You can sell it Monday through Saturday, why not Sunday?", "As a practicing Christian myself, I don't think the government should be in the business of determining what day is the Sabbath.", "Conservative religious groups, though, say the last thing society needs, especially in stressful economic times, is another day to sell liquor.", "I know that the media loves to, you know, make folks on this side of the issue look like Bible thumpers that want to impose their will. Just because something consistent with values expressed in one religion doesn't make it bad policy.", "There's also this. Economists at MIT and the University of Notre Dame found last spring that repealing blue laws restricting Sunday commerce led to a decline in church attendance and donations. But advocates of getting rid of remaining restrictions on Sunday alcohol sales say, why not let hard working men and women who bring home the bacon during the week bring home a bottle of wine on a Sunday and deliver some revenues to cash-strapped states at the same time. Louise Schiavone for CNN, Washington.", "How can our government start saving money? President Obama will be announcing plans to try to cut the deficit. We want to hear from you. What should we cut from this budget? Josh Levs is here with some of your responses. What are you hearing, Josh?", "We've been getting responses all morning long, Tony. So many. I think this is the most I've seen in a long time. And I'll tell everybody what's going on. Zoom in on the board for a second. This is part of what's going on today with cnn.com/live hooking up with FaceBook. You know, you can watch the special programming while you sign in to FaceBook over here. Interact with everyone or your friends. So we posed a question on my FaceBook page this morning, joshlevscnn, and we're asking you all day long, \"what should be pulled from the budget?\" Tony, a few answers right here. Christopher writes, \"I think we should cut back on tax breaks and subsidies to companies such as Exxon Mobil.\" Who's next. Darrell Lewis. \"Total campaign funding reform. Total public campaign financing. The nationwide savings from the lobbying industry alone would save billions.\" Let's get in a couple more here. Laurel, \"what about cutting back on our failed war on drugs? It's a multi million dollar effort.\" And we got time for one more. \"It might be easier to look at what we can begin producing ourselves.\" That's from Michael. We got a graphic for you here. I can show you how you can weigh in. If you're a part of FaceBook, it's really easy. Just search joshlevscnn. And, Tony, we know not everybody is on FaceBook. Some people would rather e-mail us. That's cnnnewsroom@cnn.com. And I'll quickly show you a couple answers we got on e-mail and then I'll get back to, Tony. Let's go back in one more time. Joyce writes, \"stop both wars immediately, bring all troops home.\" And Beth says, \"cut the tax cuts. This pandering doesn't work. I just lost my job, so I don't have a paycheck to get less taxes taken out.\" Obviously lots of strong responses, Tony. We'll see what we hear, Tony -- we'll see what we hear?", "Yes.", "We'll see what the president has to say tonight. We're going to follow up on this in the coming days, see how people feel about the president's plan to cut that deficit in half.", "All right, Josh, appreciate it. Thank you, Sir.", "Thanks, Tony.", "Iran says it need the energy. Some wonder if it's all about weapons. Iran's nuclear policy, next in the NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["ARI FLEISCHER, FORMER BUSH WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "LOUISE SCHIAVONE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SETH HARP, (R) GEORGIA STATE SENATE", "SCHIAVONE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SCHIAVONE", "JIM BECK, GEORGIA CHRISTIAN COALITION", "SCHIAVONE", "HARRIS", "JOSH LEVS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "LEVS", "HARRIS", "LEVS", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-121361", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2007-11-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/14/lkl.01.html", "summary": "Donny & Marie Osmond/The Osmonds!", "utt": ["Tonight, it's all about music. The beloved father they lost just last week believed the show must go on, so they're here to celebrate their golden anniversary in show business -- 50 years. Can you believe it?", "But the Osmonds are doing more than looking back. Marie is taking the country by storm, competing on \"Dancing with the Stars\" and becoming America's quick stepping sweetheart. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM \"DANCING WITH THE STARS,\" COURTESY ABC) MARIE OSMOND", "Yet behind Marie's brilliant smile, a painful family secret. She's going to share her heartache with us tonight. Joining us for the hour, Donny Marie and the brothers -- Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay and Jimmy -- America's first family of entertainment -- The Osmonds. They're next on LARRY KING LIVE. What a night. What an hour ahead with the Osmonds -- 50 years in show business. The whole family -- the other brothers will be there later. But we're going to spend the opening portions with Donny and Marie. Marie, the only Osmond sister. All the rest are male. She's a fantastic entertainer, a doll maker and she's now in the final four...", "Yes, baby!", "Yes!", "Don't", "Hey. Wait a minute.", "Now you're in trouble.", "You're not on \"Dancing with the Stars\".", "You're in trouble.", "All right.", "That's not true anyway.", "I got top billing, Larry.", "The Osmonds have had an incredible week. Let's first talk about -- well, he lived to 90. He had an incredible life.", "Yes, he did.", "The passing of your father, was it expected?", "Well, he was ailing. And he had started in the beginning stages of dementia. He couldn't really communicate that much -- little bits here and there. But we didn't know it would happen as quickly as it did, so...", "But he would have -- he would have bouts of absolute senility...", "Yes.", "I mean on top of it, you know. And so it was...", "Well, the day before he passed, he was just having a great time traveling around with a lot of our seniors and having a wonderful day. And then they dressed him for breakfast, left him and 15 minutes later he was gone. My mom", "Who told you?", "My assistant Tina was there. And she called me about 15 minutes after it happened.", "We had just finished \"Dancing With The Stars,\" because he's reporting. And you called me that morning.", "Yes. You were the second to know.", "You had your dad watched?", "Yes. I called to make sure he was watching. And he was excited. And it's really interested how things happened, because we had dedicated that dance to him. We don't pick our music. And they said if you get close to the finals, you get to select a song. And I had chosen \"Boogie\" -- \"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy\" for that song, because my mom and dad loved to dance. It was their thing. That was their first date. They went to a Tommy Dorsey dance. Did you have fun?", "You remember Tommy Dorsey, don't you, Larry?", "I knew Tommy.", "Yes.", "That's a long time.", "Did you really?", "Yes, I interviewed him once. This extraordinary picture.", "Oh, where did you get that?", "This painting -- one of our spies got us this painting. Someone drew this.", "That's Jimmy.", "That's Jimmy.", "Our brother drew that at five.", "This was at your dad's bedside.", "Those are all of us. He put us all into character. Of course my eyes -- I don't wear glasses anymore. I had, you know, Lasix, and...", "And I look best in that.", "Thank you, Jimmy.", "By the way, how much weight you've lost and how did you lose it?", "You know, it's really -- it's crazy. Of course, dancing -- exercise is the key. But I've been doing NutriSystems. And I actually started doing it before the show because I just wanted -- anything with the word systems -- I have eight kids. It seems logical. But it's just -- it's been amazing because the reason I started was not necessarily weight loss to look good. It was for health reasons because that's what my mom died of. And I was -- I carried my weight through here and I was a prime candidate for that. So...", "But she looks fantastic.", "I guess...", "Unbelievable.", "And I'm not sure, Larry. I think it's close to 30 pounds.", "It's just amazing.", "How much of it contributed by the dancing?", "Well, like I said, you know, a lot. Exercise is crucial. But it's fun exercise. Every woman my age should get out, exercise, go dancing. Do something fun.", "Here's Marie's secret, in my opinion, because, as she said, I've been reporting for \"Entertainment Tonight\" throughout this entire season. So I've been analyzing all of this.", "He's analytical.", "I really am. And I think Marie has a shot at doing this and taking the trophy...", "She does.", "...because she's out there having a good time. Her personality is coming out. She's not just dancing out there because, you know, there are some great dancers left in the competition.", "There are. There are.", "But Marie has got the personality.", "Yes. And that's part of dancing.", "That's what show business is, Larry.", "See, when we did a show before you started, with you and three other women who were on the show, and we did a pre-vote of our audience from day forward win (ph) and you won. Remember, that? You won.", "Before we started the season, yes.", "Yes.", "She's going to take it.", "She's going to take it.", "Personality is part of dancing. It's not just the steps.", "No. But like I said, you know, it is show business. And you can't just get up on the stage. Anybody can get on stage, you know, with enough lights and sets and music and sound and whatever and just perform. But it takes a special person to get up there and really to entertain.", "Well, I feel really good about myself...", "...because", "No.", "And she always interrupts me.", "I remember the last time? Remember the last interview, Larry?", "No, no. Don't interrupt him.", "I was just like...", "And I -- on this auspicious, the 50th anniversary, with all your brothers coming on, he hits you.", "Tonight, let me hit you.", "All right. Now...", "Yes,", "No.", "You know, it is amazing when you say 50 years in show business. Obviously, you know, we haven't been in show business 50 years.", "No.", "But our four brothers, who paved the way, you know, celebrating 50 years in the business. How many people can say that and still say we're entertaining? We're out there entertaining people.", "Yes, it's phenomenal.", "It's a very rare thing. And we're very really happy to be part of that legacy.", "We're going to -- in the next set, we're going to show some of the dancing. But I want to bring up a serious note, but something that deserves to be said, to see how you're doing. I know that you have many children.", "I do.", "And I know that Michael is in rehab, right?", "Yes, uh-huh. How did you know that?", "I was told.", "Oh.", "And I think it's important that people know how you deal with it, because -- I have some statistics. Michael is how old, 16?", "My son is 16.", "When a child is 16, 53 percent have used illegal drugs.", "Yes.", "Wow!", "Seventy-eight percent have used alcohol. Fifty-seven percent smoke cigarettes. How are you dealing with it?", "This last week, with my dad passing, was hard for many reasons. That was one of them. My son was put into a rehab. It's really hard. It's really hard. But it's a reality, Larry. Seventy-five percent, like you said, of kids under age 18 are dealing with this. It's affecting every single family in our country. They're having these -- they're called pharm parties, where they go and steal, you know, medicines out of their parents' drug cabinets.", "Medicine cabinets.", "And they dump them in a bowl and they just take them until they pass out. My son didn't do that. But, you know, he's dealing with a lot of issues. I don't know that I feel comfortable talking for him. I think he'll have to deal with that. But I will say this. My son is amazing. He's dealing with a lot. He's one of my kids. He's dealing with adoption issues, all kinds of things right now.", "He was adopted?", "He's. Yes, I think he was. He is the most amazing kid and...", "How are you dealing with it?", "Well, you can see. I mean...", "Yes, but she's also dancing...", "I mean I bring it up because...", "It's been a hard week.", "...no one's had a week like this.", "Yes.", "Fiftieth anniversary...", "Yes.", "I don't...", "...your father passes, you go into the quarter -- there's only four left on \"Dancing With The Stars\" and you're dealing with a son in rehab.", "Well, you know, what I think is what's really helping her...", "How do you bounce all of those balls?", "I'll help you here for a second...", "Thank you.", "...because you're -- you're a little...", "I didn't mean to...", "Larry is throwing darts at you.", "You're fine, Larry. You're fine.", "But, first of all, she's got her support team around her. A lot of people in this country and a lot of people in the world are dealing with these kinds of issues. And the Osmond family, just because we're a close family, it doesn't mean we're exempt from those issues, because society can throw a lot of trash at you.", "It's a hard world kids are growing up in. You know, like you said, they're dealing with peer pressure, with...", "It's a lot harder to be a kid today.", "Oh, please.", "Oh, totally. Totally. But think about the fact that -- as sappy as a lot of people may think this is, we are a close family.", "You are.", "She does have a support system...", "I have the best family.", "Last night -- or Monday night, when Marie was just about to go on stage -- and I hope I'm not disclosing something I shouldn't, but she had...", "I think we're disclosing a lot here today.", "She had a meltdown before the show.", "What?", "She melted down. She says I don't know if I can handle all of this. And I put my arm around her and it was just a touching moment. In a way, as a producer, I wish the camera could have seen it. But in a personal way, I'm glad nobody was there to -- to capture that moment, because it was a brother consoling a sister in a time of need. The whole family is behind her...", "My family.", "We help each other, Larry.", "My brothers are my rocks. And I'll tell you, one of the great mysteries of Godliness is God is there for us. And in those moments when you think I can't breathe, he just lifts it. And I don't know how God does it, but I know he does it.", "In the next segment, we're going to see the dance and -- the dance your father watched and everything and how great you were. And you really were super.", "He is great.", "But, all right, going all -- through all you're going through, while you're dancing, can you put that away?", "Do you know, it's really -- it's really funny that the -- like I said, I'm a scripture reader, I'm a bible reader. And it was -- it was so uncanny the night of the show.", "Oh, this is a great story. I loved it.", "I open my scriptures daily. And it said, there's a time to mourn and a time to dance. It was in Ecclesiastes.", "To dance?", "Yes.", "To dance. And I went, that is not a coincidence. And I really felt like my dad was saying this is your time to dance, so do it. And do it for me. And do it for you, because the endorphins really help right now.", "We're going to take a break. We're going to see that dance with the amazing Donny and Marie. And then we're going to meet all the brothers on their 50th anniversary. Don't go away. (", "Out on the dance floor, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, and that is anything but what my dancing teacher taught. Please, Mr. Cho (ph),", "All I have to say is family is friends. It gets you where you are. And that goes straight for all families. Isn't it -- isn't that where it starts, the family? Tighten up yours and be happy and do the wonderful things that you all were given talents for. God bless you.", "Whoa. Where did we come up with that?", "Wow!", "A week ago, Monday, the day before...", "You know, Larry, your show just stinks today, OK?", "Wow! That was a great -- a great moment, Larry. Thanks for playing that.", "Well put. A week ago Monday, the day before George Osmond passed away, Marie and her partner quick-stepped to \"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy\" on \"Dancing With The Stars\". As Marie said afterward, she had her beloved parents in mind. Watch. (", "My hairdo was mom's hairdo. They met in the military when my dad came back from the service. And when they got married, he had like $19 and she had $35 and they used to dance to make money to eat.", "We love that.", "And so this is for them tonight.", "Whoa. Was that fun to dance?", "So fun, Larry. Do you know, I know why...", "She walked out and I thought, that's my mom.", "You know, the thing is, is I know why dancing was so popular in the '40s, that whole era.", "Oh.", "You -- you're in that studio. You hear that big band. You know, there is something really healthy about dancing.", "Well, they didn't have LARRY KING to watch.", "I mean that's", "Have you -- now you've made the quarterfinals. Now, entertainment producer, \"Entertainment Tonight\" director/ analyst, how is she going to do?", "She's going to do great. I'll tell you why. You know...", "...not to drag this out, but I think she's got more votes than Jenny. I think Jenny is the next one to leave. But it gets down to the semifinals with Helio, Mel B. And Marie. And if you weigh it all, put it on the scale, Marie's got the popular vote.", "Wouldn't it be cool to see somebody more mature win something like this, to say dancing's is not just for the young? And I do -- I do think a woman should win it this year.", "Well, it's...", "It's been three seasons.", "It's been three seasons since a woman has won this.", "Are you the oldest competitor left?", "Maybe.", "Oh, you are.", "I am.", "You are. I'm going to use that one on", "That just means I have more years of wisdom. No", "All right, we've got another call. A few weeks back, Marie, you stunned the \"Dancing With The Stars\" audience by fainting on stage. It's a moment that will live in reality TV for history forever.", "This is just a great show.", "This will be in the top 10 moments. Watch this.", "You dragged Marie through the dirt on this show here.", "Watch this one.", "What the heck. Go for it. (", "For the amateur dancer, for me, this dance, the samba, is the hardest one to master.", "I agree.", "There's lots of different rhythms going on. You have to do steps on the spot. You have to move around the floor. You've got to get this elusive bounce action going. And, of course, you've got to show the gaiety and the fun of the samba. Whoa.", "All right, we're going to take a commercial break.", "Let's take a commercial break, a commercial break.", "We'll be right back and -- we'll be right back after this.", "...decided to get up and help me there.", "Yes. You know, what's really interesting?", "What happened?", "The audience laughed when she fell. Did you hear that?", "Did you hear that?", "No, I didn't.", "They thought it was part of an act or something.", "Because I'm a got out of, you know?", "Have you fainted before? Are you a fainter?", "Oh, yes.", "I've worked with her when she's fainted.", "A few times.", "You bet you.", "My -- what I found out is that I have -- not asthma, but I have allergies really bad. And so I do like a breathing thing just singing once in a while when it gets really bad. And the fires were like horrible that day. Our trailers are outside -- makeup, hair, everything was outside. I was the first dance. And I just -- my lungs just couldn't get air. And so now I know that whether I sing or dance, I do my allergy stuff.", "How long were you out?", "I don't know. I do not.", "I don't know. I was over the", "I don't know.", "I got the news that...", "Oh, you were in England, huh?", "Yes, I was doing a tour over there and I looked at my Blackberry and Marie fainted on -- on live television.", "Did they have -- do they have a doctor there?", "It couldn't have been that long, because it was during a commercial break, right?", "But I love what she said as soon as she came to. Tell everybody what you -- you said when you saw Tom Bergeron.", "Oh, well, I saw my children and then I saw Jonathan. And then I saw Tom and I went -- and then I realized and I went oh, crap.", "That's my sister.", "Was there a doctor there?", "Oh, sure, yes.", "There was?", "Yes. Everybody was very careful. I'm very careful. I'm very healthy. I'm healthier than I have ever been in my life in many ways. And I'm...", "You mean more than physical?", "Oh, yes, absolutely. Women -- when you get in your 40s, you start figuring it out. And life is really great. My life is good, Larry. With everything going on, I'm a -- I'm a happy woman.", "Are you surprised at how well you have done in the dancing show?", "I am.", "No, seriously. I thought Marie was never going to make it.", "Oh", "No. I have never -- you know, I mean we did pointing in the '70s and stuff like that.", "Well, yes, but that -- that was \"The Donny & Marie Show.\" But, boy, man you've surprised me.", "You know...", "You've not only surprised me, you've surprised America.", "Well...", "Yes.", "I'm sorry, you surprised the world with what she has done.", "One thing our dad gave us is a desire to never quit. And he would always say, the only failure is those who fail to try.", "Yes.", "And I love a good challenge. It looked like a really fun challenge.", "The other saying -- anything worth doing is worth doing well.", "That's right, hoe to the end of the roe.", "Yes.", "We had a lot of those quotes in our lifetime.", "But, you know, now that I'm in the semifinals, the word semi doesn't do anything for me.", "But you're not there yet. I mean come on...", "I want final.", "OK . You've got one more week. Vote for Marie. Vote for Marie.", "Please. Let's hear it for the older women. Come on.", "We have an e-mail question from Amy in Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts: \"My deepest sympathy on the loss of your father. I'd like to know, did any of you feel pressured to perform as a child or a teenager? Did you ever want to do something else?\"", "Oh, yes. Absolutely. I mean there were times when I was out on the road I wanted to go home and play in my sand box with my trucks and things like that. But...", "That was just yesterday.", "Man, that was yesterday, right.", "But, you know, it was a -- it was a team. It was a team effort. It was a family effort and my parents did the best they possibly could at the time. Larry, I mean put yourself in their situation. Here's a singing family. The train is going down the track a million miles an hour. What are you going to do, stop it? You know, the success was happening. But...", "But didn't any -- well, we'll ask the others. They'll be on in the next segment. Any of you want to jump off the train? Did any of you want to say, you know, I think I'd like to be an electrical engineer?", "Yes.", "Do you know how many times we would say I just can't? I can't. This is too hard.", "I can't go on.", "And they wouldn't let us. And sometimes we'd say, well, that's really mean. Do you know what that taught us is self- worth, self-esteem. You can get through anything if you believe hard enough. That's what faith is. Faith is nothing but a positive attitude, believing that you can.", "Because life is very tough. You know, it can really throw a lot of curveballs at you. So you have to have within yourself that work ethic, that ability to rise to the occasion. That's what our parents instilled in each one of us.", "You cannot buy self-esteem. You have to earn it. And that's what they taught us.", "So their legacy lives with you?", "And it will for a long, long time.", "They were amazing.", "Yes. They -- as a matter of fact, a lot of the fans have come to me and said they even call our parents mother and father. Someone said to me just the other day -- it's quite funny. She said, you know, I've been with you guys for so long, from puberty to menopause.", "And that's a statement coming from Donny.", "Oh, you mean she said?", "No, she said that to me.", "I thought", "Turn your hearing aid up, will you?", "They're getting old even as we speak. We'll be right back and we'll meet the rest of the Osmonds. When we return, more Osmonds join us. The brothers are here next. (", "The Osmond brothers.", "We do have a large family -- eight boys and one girl. And we'd like to have you meet that one girl right now. Ladies and gentlemen, Marie Osmond. Marie, come on out.", "And now let's meet them all. In Branson, Missouri, Jimmy Osmond, the baby of the Osmond bunch. His emphasis has been business, by the way. He developed most of the Osmonds' merchandising and has teased (ph) and produced the TV special celebrating their 50 years in entertainment. Jay Osmond, a world class drummer, who started his show business career at age two. In addition to entertainment, he's also into real estate, where he makes his most money.", "Yes, there you go.", "Here in Los Angeles, Alan Osmond, eldest of the performing Osmond brothers. And he wants the world to know that while he has multiple sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, multiple sclerosis does not have him. And in Branson, Missouri is Wayne Osmond. He's been performing since age six -- part of that original Osmond quartet that first appeared on \"The Andy Williams Show,\" known as the comedian of the group. In fact, his nickname is Crazy Wayne. And also here in L.A. is Merrill Osmond, the lead singer on many of the hits. They've earned, by the way, 27 gold records over the years. He now stars in \"The Spirit of Christmas\" in Reno, Nevada. And, by the way, speaking of Christmas, Marie Osmond's \"Magic of Christmas,\" her new holiday CD, is already 21st on the holiday list, and it's just out. Congratulations on that.", "Thank you.", "We learn everything here.", "Thank you. It's just...", "All right. We'll start with the -- Alan, you're Mr. Elder.", "Right here.", "What does it feel like all of these years?", "Well, I tell you, I definitely am 50 years old. I was the oldest of the group. I remember when we were singing behind my father and traveling in a car and learning what is called the alto. And we learned to sing harmony. And then father says, \"Alan, get your brothers.\" and we would. And we'd get together and we'd harmonize. I would work one of the pianos with my mother and we'd learn the parts. Then we got on the Disneyland circuit and we worked there. Andy Williams' father saw us and then here we are, 50 years.", "Jimmy, were you kind of -- did you have to be in the business?", "Yes, you know, I thought everybody did what we did growing up. You know, I started when I was three on Andy Williams' show. As a matter of fact, the very first ever live show I ever did with my family, it was in Las Vegas. And it was with Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra. And it was -- it was wild. Again, I thought everybody did that.", "Elvis was", "Well, he was.", "Jay, did you ever think of doing -- or you did real estate. Did you ever think growing up of wanting to do something else?", "Oh, yes. You know, there were a lot of times I think all of us had that feeling. You know, I wonder what, you know, other things there are to do? I wanted to play football.", "He did.", "He did play football. Yes.", "But, you know, we all got to do the things that we, you know, wanted to do. But I think just to add to what little sis was saying about our parents, they taught us that faith was not just a feeling or an attitude, it's a decision. And so we made a decision to stay together and to do this thing called show business. And we felt a lot of love and a lot of respect and a lot of happiness doing it.", "Wayne, what do you make of your...", "And hoping to get it right.", "Wayne, what do you make of your sister?", "Pardon me?", "What do you make of your sister...", "What do I make...", "Yes. With her dancing?", "Oh, what -- oh, I think she's awesome. I mean she's got to win. She's the very best. I mean, really. Seriously.", "I'm not joking.", "How much did you pay him?", "For once, he's not joking.", "Cute. I love you.", "Merrill, what do you make of all of this, that the Osmonds stay hot?", "Well, I just think it's amazing. If you would have told me just even a couple of years ago that the groundswell, especially in the U.K., is increasing the way it is, I'd say you're crazy. But it is amazing. It's -- it's -- it -- of course, Donny has had a massive amount of success over there. But the whole Osmond machine continues to move across the globe. And we're very humbled about it.", "Why the U.K., Donny, do you think?", "You know what? The U.K. has always been a great market for us. And I've never really been able to figure out why.", "You were big in the U.K. during The Beatles run, right?", "Oh, they called us the Osmond mania phenomenon that took place over there. And, as Merrill said, the resurgence is just phenomenal. We put a concert on sale at the Wembley Arena and it sold out in a day. I mean this is like 45 years on into the business and...", "But this is like recent concerts. This was like, what, a couple of weeks ago?", "It was a couple of weeks ago and...", "Wow!", "It's phenomenal, Larry.", "And the girls still scream. It's incredible.", "Hey, watch what you're saying or they be there to support you.", "Oh, they're there. Trust me.", "We'll be right back with the Osmonds and their 50th anniversary. We'll talk to the other -- to the brothers about hearing about their dad and what their dad meant to all of them. Don't go away. (", "Being the only girl and having six brothers and traveling, it's a lot of fun. I've got it", "All of the Osmonds are assembled, celebrating 50 years in the business. An e-mail question from Maria in San Antonio, Texas: \"I have seven brothers and sisters and four or five of them aren't on speaking terms. With your different personalities, how do you stay close?\" All right. Let's start with all of them. We will start with Alan.", "Well, we had a slogan, my father. In some of those times, confusion or whatever he would say, one: you act like one and be one. And I happened to be the leader at the time, and boy, when I said that, it is all I had to do and everyone would just be quiet. It was wonderful.", "Merrill?", "I think the whole thing that the process of working together through a family issue is one of the greatest opportunities any family can have because if you can crush the ego, and the ego is the biggest problem with -- inside families, you are going to be able to get along just fine. I think we have been able to do that.", "I think so too. If I could just add something to that. Even though the two of us were out in front during the \"Donny & Marie Show,\" Merrill talks about crushing an ego, all of my brothers were backstage producing it. Everyone was involved, but we got the notoriety. But you have to keep those egos in check.", "Did it shock you that that doesn't look like (ph) their (ph) egos.", "Well, it is like my brother Jay, who was the drummer, he is the one that watched the cameras on \"The Andy Williams Show\" that got my brothers to be recognized. I mean, so you know, there is some amazing ...", "Jimmy, have you always been close, Jimmy?", "Yeah. I really have. I've had a most amazing relationship with each one of my siblings. But it's kind of funny, I kind of liken it to an aquarium. There is all these fish in there. There is a beautiful angel fish like Marie, there's a clown fish like Wayne, there's a guppy. But I'm more like the bottom feeder guy that just keeps the bowl clean, you know what I mean?", "Well, Jimmy is the one that has pulled us all together on this 50th. I mean, you mentioned something to Donny and Marie about how did you stay together? And you had all of these trials? Well, I've had MS for 20 years, Larry. And Donny and Marie came to me and says, we are not going on without you. I mean, serious. And I'm in Branson and finally had to quit. But now I'm coming back and you and I are going to talk some more about it sometime.", "Oh yes, you know, we are going to do a show on multiple sclerosis. We are.", "Thank you.", "Jay, how do you account for the staying together?", "I don't - I just think that we - I have to attribute it to family prayer, family activities, our belief system, great parents and the opportunities that we had many times to get in fights but we had to work through those things and it became opportunities to grow. And we just - we had a lot of good moments, a lot of hard moments, but that's what life's all about.", "And if I could say one thing. You know, it says \"If thy brother offend thee, go to him.\" I think in families too many times you go ...", "Is that why you have been coming to me a lot?", "A lot.", "Oh, OK.", "No. I think a lot of families, they go around the problem. And society does that a lot. We go around things instead of going through them with logic and love. And I think that is the thing, is if -- and we have all been through stuff. Don't kid yourself. It is like, you know, you work that close together, you have issues. But we will sit down and say, that hurt my feelings. And you work through it.", "Yes. Be open and honest. And the thing is, if you let those feelings fester and become a cancer, so to speak, you throw away so much great history within a family by letting little things creep in and become a cancer.", "I saw a family destroyed when their parents died and they were fighting over a mirror in the living room. Over stuff, a family was destroyed.", "Let it go!", "You have got to let it go.", "You know, at the end of the show -- on the TV show, may tomorrow be a perfect day? It is a like a little prayer for the people. Before we go on stage, every show, we get together as brother and sister and we have a moment of prayer to say we hope we can touch someone's life out there. So that helped us stay together.", "We pray that Alan won't cry all the time ...", "I'm 50 years old, I deserve it.", "You are more than 50, and I love you.", "We will take a break and when I come back, I want to talk about your father. We will be right back.", "We are back. Gosh, it looks like my bar mitzvah.", "Larry, Larry, before you say anything, I challenge you to find any four brothers that can harmonize like that at that age.", "Unbelievable.", "It was amazing.", "All right. Jimmy, what was special about your dad?", "Well, he was just a great man. I was real close to him. Obviously, as we all were. But he had so much integrity. And you know, it's amazing. This might seem kind of strange but I never heard him say an off color joke my whole life. He never swore and he was a man that - he was very humble. We'd be picked up in these fancy limos or whatever and he would always sit in the front and ask about the driver's life or he would ride in the luggage because it was never about an ego thing with him. It was always about his children and what an amazing legacy he left.", "Wayne, what was special about him to you?", "Oh. Our dad was a tough guy. Strong. He was a wild man cowboy and he kind of talked like John Wayne.", "No he didn't.", "And he used to say to us, now get out on the road and make some money or I'll shoot you dead.", "He didn't say that.", "He said it to me.", "Now I know where the \"Crazy\" comes from. Jay, what was he like for you?", "He taught us, our father taught us what love and kindness, what honor and dignity really means and he loved our mother and taught us how to respect women. And I think that's probably one of the greatest things I've learned from him. He loved ...", "And I will tell you as a woman, that is true. I said the other day, on \"Oprah\" I said I wished that my parents could raise every man in the world, because I have amazing brothers.", "What a great example for children to see, a relationship like, how a father treats the mother.", "I know.", "It was just wonderful to be raised by those kinds of parents.", "What was he like for you, Alan?", "Well, father and I were very close. I was the oldest. Alan, get your brothers. Alan do this -- I had two older brothers that were hearing impaired, and it pulled us together, and he supported me like crazy. I went in the Army and I remembered his being tough in the Army. He says, Alan, you can do it. And that saved my life, I believe.", "Merrill?", "Well, first of all, what impressed me about my father as I look back is the fact that, you know, I go back to that ego again, my father demonstrated, he didn't have to do what he did. I mean, he had a very successful practice in very many different ventures. But he literally gave all of that up for our dream as a family. So if you look at the male ego in that, he crushed that. And he demonstrated that to us by giving everything he had to the cause. And whatever that cause was, you know, our mother was the visionary, and our dad was the one that made sure it happened. And that team -- that is why that team was so vitally important for the Osmonds, because we saw the balance. You have got to do it if you are going to say you are going to do it, then do it. Dad did that.", "That is why we kept together. Father also said when we had our TV show, Fred Silverman (ph) said, you are renewed for another year, \"Donny & Marie,\" and they said, well, good, we will do it in Utah. Utah? What is in Utah? My father, it is going to keep my family together. It is why we did it.", "It was all about keeping us together, a family business. I found out something from somebody at the funeral, and I never knew this, because he was a very close friend of father's. And he said, before you guys really got serious in show business, your dad came to me with this idea, I want to create a store, like a hardware store. And each one of his sons and his daughter would have a job in the store. So whether it was show business or something else, his vision was keep the family together.", "You know, he lost his dad when he was just a few weeks old. And my mother came from a family of two kids. Her brother is 10 years younger. And all they wanted was a family.", "Boy. And they had it.", "Yes, they did.", "Yes, they did.", "We will be back with more of the Osmonds, what a night. Don't go away.", "Ladies and gentlemen, \"Donny & Marie.\"", "What in the world could top that this year? Nothing.", "Oh, I don't know. How about this? Might as well have the whole pitcher.", "Oh, I love doing these kinds of things.", "They got paid for that.", "That was awesome. All right. Gentlemen, on the serious note, we will start with Jimmy. Mitt Romney is running for president, running strong in some polls in some states. And the fact that he is a Mormon has brought a lot of attention to him and a lot of questions about the faith. How do you feel about that race?", "First of all I think he's a great man and I think it's important to judge the person on the person but I think there are a lot of misconceptions as to what people think our beliefs are and as people become more aware of our beliefs, it doesn't become an issue at all because we all believe in God ...", "And we're Christian.", "It's just something people need to be more educated about. We're Christians. Yeah.", "Jay, some think that Mitt ought to make a speech like John Kennedy did in 1960 about being a Catholic and how that might affect his being president. Do you think Mitt Romney should make the same kind of speech about being a Mormon?", "Hasn't he already?", "Well, first of all, Mormonism is a nickname, it's because our belief in the Book of Mormon ...", "He has never made a speech about it.", "... but like Marie said, we are Christians and as long as I believe someone is there who believes in God and what this country was founded on and the principles and the heritage that we have and what keeps us all together, that's the main thing. That's - religion aside, I think it's the person and it's the integrity and the honor that that person has and a belief in God, you bet.", "Actually, let me correct you there a little bit, Larry. No, he hasn't made a television speech about being a Mormon, but there was a great article in \"Newsweek\" a few weeks ago that he basically came out and said, you know what? Let's put all the rumors to rest. This is what I believe. You know, I'm a Christian, I believe in God. And I think it has been absolutely wonderful for the Mormon Church to have Mitt out there because people have a little bit of curiosity and they are learning.", "Kennedy spoke to ...", "Yes. He spoke to because he ...", "He spoke to religious leaders of other faiths.", "It was the first time that a candidate was questioned because of his faith.", "Correct.", "It was because he was Catholic. And so I think, you know, to answer your question, I hope that times have -- I hope we have grown up since then. I hope people look at the person and what they have done.", "Yes. But the presidential race, I mean, it is a popularity vote, it can get -- be like a little bit of a circus.", "As Mormons ourselves, we believe in Jesus Christ. It is the name of our church. And ...", "Why do those southern evangelicals question that?", "I don't know, but I would sure like to walk them into my home and have an hour to share with them.", "Back in the Nicene Creed, when churches and the religion were established, I think it was like in 900 A.D. or something like that, they determined what the Bible says. I mean, the whole basic principle of Mormonism is that we believe the truth was restored, not reformed.", "We believe in the Bible. We...", "The Old Testament, New Testament, and another testament that...", "Just to go along with -- and again, I'm not a politician by any means, but there is nothing to hide. I mean, so if Mitt does make a comment or two when asked a question, obviously he is going to -- they are going to get the straight facts. There is nothing to hide about our church and our religious beliefs.", "Jay, do you like ...", "Can I tell you something? Look at my brothers. They are great men. I think our church produces pretty good men.", "And I want to be the first woman president!", "Oh boy, heaven help us!", "OK. I guess you are all going to vote for him.", "Yes. Absolutely.", "Yes.", "Yes.", "Are you, Jay?", "Yes. Right here, buddy.", "Are you going to vote for him?", "I'm still researching.", "I sure am.", "Well, he has got seven votes here.", "What man running for president is so strong on family? Family is everything to the Osmonds. And he is right on target.", "And we will be back with our remaining moments right after this.", "Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny and Jimmy. The Osmonds.", "We have got a couple of quick questions left. You two possibly going to be an act together in Vegas? I just -- the thought of you is so great together, why not come back?", "We are talking. We are talking.", "Are you?", "Did you hear any rumors about that?", "No. We are talking. We are just talking.", "I mean, it would seem so obvious.", "Well, you know, we have a little bit chemistry together, I don't know.", "Merrill and I are going to team up.", "Merrill, what Osmonds are still performing?", "Well, we still work together as brothers. And we have our individual things like I'm doing the whole thing at the El Dorado Hotel in Reno. The brothers are at Branson Variety Theater in Branson. Alan, are you doing something?", "I'm have a retirement program, eight sons. I thought that was what MS was, \"many sons.\"", "Do you perform?", "I am now, thank you.", "Everyone on our show tonight performing?", "Yes.", "You can see them this coming March on a PBS special that we did in Las Vegas. It is the 50th anniversary for my brothers. And Alan is out there, all of the performing brothers.", "Even our two oldest brothers who don't sing, who are hard of hearing, they are on the show. It is a wonderful celebration.", "So the two that are not here tonight, those are the two that do not perform.", "That is correct. But they are at the show, there it is.", "Yes, Virl and Tom are the two...", "You know, the thing is, you say 50 years of entertainment. That is consistent. That is not taking 10 years off here or there. I mean, they just had a hit record over in England last year. And so you know, I mean, it is kind of crazy, but it is really cool for me to sit here because we have got 50 here and 50 here.", "Oh, that is right, you are celebrating 50 years.", "Your 50th.", "Yes, 50 years.", "So, see, we are batting 100.", "Yes. We are doing 100 years here folks.", "Wow. From your lips to God, we will do it another 10.", "Thank you all very much. Marie, Donny, Jimmy, Jay, Alan, Wayne and Merrill, The Osmonds. Hey, don't forget to check out our Web site, cnn.com/larryking. We have got a special \"Donny & Marie\" quick vote and an Osmond Web extra. You can also e-mail upcoming guests and download our podcasts or sign up for our newsletter, all at cnn.com/larryking. And before we go, we want to extend our sincere condolences to a valued member of the LARRY KING LIVE family, our senior supervising producer, John Gilmore (ph). John's mother, Celia Keane (ph), died this morning in Ireland. She was 83. She worked the land as a farmer. She raised two fine sons and our thoughts go out to John and his family and to all of those who knew and care about Celia Keane. Anderson Cooper, AC 360 starts right now. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.voxant.com"], "speaker": ["LARRY KING, HOST", "KING", "KING", "DONNY OSMOND", "D. OSMOND", "KING", "D. OSMOND", "D. OSMOND", "KING", "D. OSMOND", "KING", "M. OSMOND", "D. OSMOND", "KING", "D. OSMOND", "KING", "D. OSMOND", "M. OSMOND", "D. OSMOND", "M. OSMOND", "D. OSMOND", "KING", "D. OSMOND", "M. OSMOND", "D. 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{"id": "CNN-226577", "program": "DR. DREW", "date": "2014-3-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/13/ddhln.01.html", "summary": "Cops: Boy with Autism Tortured By 2 Teen Girls", "utt": ["These allegations are heinous allegations.", "Seventeen-year-old Lauren Bush and a 15-year-old unnamed female.", "They`re accused of torturing a 6-year-old boy who was mentally disabled.", "Videotaped multiple assaults that they unleashed on a 16-year-old boy with autism.", "Drag him by the hair.", "Assaulting him with a knife, kicking him in the groin.", "Forcing him to perform sex acts, some of which involved animals.", "It`s absolutely sick and beyond me.", "Psychopaths finding each other.", "Police say the girls have admitted to videotaping the incidents.", "Why film this? What are they thinking?", "Who could harbor this ill will to do something to completely heinous?", "Back with Jenny. We received an overwhelming response to this story last night. And you wanted to know could two teens be that cruel to a mentally disabled boy? We will hear from his mother. And warning, what we`re about to discuss is very disturbing material. You`ll hear more about what they did, what they forced him to do. There`s my panel: Anahita is back. And joining us is Segun Oduolowu, social commentator, as well as Samantha Schacher, host of \"Pop Trigger\" on the Young Turks Network. I have the police report. Hi, Segun. I`ve got to warn you guys, the viewers, this is a graphic, graphic document here. Here it is right here. Here`s what it is. I`ll show you what`s on some of this police report. Quote, \"Another video shows the victim sitting nude on the bed. He`s engaged in a sexual act with the co-defendant behind him and the defendant, right, recording the victim while attempting to coerce him to have sexual relations with, left out here, with a family dog.\" Another part reads, quote, \"The victim tied the dog to a chair and tried to forcibly have sexual contact with the dog.\" Segun, I`ve not yet heard from you on this story. Go ahead.", "Well, Dr. Drew, if I said what I wanted to say, I`d probably never be allowed back on air again. But, you know, even in prison, even amongst the worst of our society, amongst murderers, rapists, thieves and scoundrels, they don`t abuse the mentally challenged or the physically challenged. For these girls to do that, for the worst of our society to look down on their actions, to actually be able to take the moral high ground with the type of atrocity. I hope they rot. Dr. Drew, I really do. People want to say, Segun, you`re Mr. Miracles. I can go Old Testament with the rest of them. I hope they rot, like this is unforgivable. It`s disgusting.", "Right on.", "Deplorable. I hope they rot.", "I don`t disagree with you. Based on what I`ve heard so far, what I`ve told you so far and what I heard yesterday, let me throw a little fly in the ointment and I`m going to propose it to Anahita first. Here`s what the boy`s mother told \"The Washington Post.\" She said he doesn`t appear to be traumatized. He thinks these girls are his friends and he`s surprised the police are involved. I read somewhere, Anahita, that he actually thought one of them was his girlfriend. Is it possible -- think about it this way -- you always like collecting all the data. Is it is possible the girls are disabled in some way, too, and these two not good to be alone together -- maybe they`re not heinous and psychopaths. Maybe they`re just impaired and they sort of went this unbelievable direction.", "It could be, Dr. Drew. Clearly, there is something wrong with these two girls to be capable of this type of behavior. I don`t know that that`s going to be any type of legal defense for them. And I agree with Segun, I think this is just so disgusting. And what makes it even more sad is just what you said. This little boy still doesn`t think that these girls did anything wrong. They`re still my friends. I still want to hang out with them. And these girls picked on him --", "Anahita, let me just twist it. Maybe the boy motivated some of this, Jenny.", "No way.", "It is possible?", "Dr. Drew!", "Dr. Drew!", "I cannot get my head around this. I can`t understand what -- I just can`t understand what went on here with these kids that they would videotape this and the one kid would still think this is his girlfriend. It just doesn`t make sense to me. But, Jenny, go ahead. Tell me your thought.", "OK, the tell for me, Dr. Drew, is the involving of the dog. These girls are sinister. To involve a dog? There`s nothing you can say to me that they thought this was okay and they were really in a relationship with this boy who`s not all there and it makes it extra sad that he`s not able to understand real relationships. It`s disgusting.", "Dr. Drew, they --", "Sam, I know you`re outraged. It seems like pure exploitation of the boy and the dog. It seems on the surface unimaginable. And yet, by the way, the girls thought this was just a game we were playing. How could they have thought that?", "They enjoyed it, Dr. Drew. They manipulated him. The one that pretended to be his girlfriend, she actually robbed him essentially of his savings account because he continued to buy her gifts. So they used him any way, shape possible. And you know what, Dr. Drew? They have zero empathy. They prey on the voiceless. They prey on the weak. They`re two budding psychopaths who are experimenting. They`re testing the boundaries. And mark my word, if they weren`t caught when they were, I guarantee they would have continued to try to outdo their heinous act and the next step would have been murder.", "Sam, guys, I`ll tell you what, I`m going to bring in a behavior bureau to try to further chew on this. See if they can answer this question that I keep throwing at everybody here in this panel. Why were they videotaping these things also? I can`t make sense of that. And later, a grown man assaults a child for an iPad. Look at this. It`s unbelievable. You got to see it. Be right back with more of this after -- after the break."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PINSKY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PINSKY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PINSKY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PINSKY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PINSKY", "SEGUN ODUOLOWU, SOCIAL COMMENTATOR", "HUTT", "ODUOLOWU", "PINSKY", "SEDAGHATFAR", "PINSKY", "SEDAGHATFAR", "PINSKY", "ODUOLOWU", "HUTT", "PINSKY", "HUTT", "SAMANTHA SCHACHER, SOCIAL COMMENTATOR", "PINSKY", "SCHACHER", "PINSKY"]}
{"id": "CNN-258103", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2015-06-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/24/cg.01.html", "summary": "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Apologizes in Court; Tsarnaev Apologizes, Is Sentenced to Death", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. Now to the conclusion of the Boston Marathon bombing trial in federal court in Boston. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was formally sentenced for the bombings on April 15, 2013. In April of this year, he was convicted of a total of 30 charges, including the killing of 29-year-old Krystle Campbell, 8- year-old Martin Richard, and 23-year-old Lingzi Lu, and the wounding of 264 other people. He was also convicted of the murder of MIT police officer Sean Collier. Today, the convicted terrorist was given the opportunity to speak. He apologized. And CNN's national correspondent Deb Feyerick was there, joins me now from Boston. Deb, what did he have to say?", "Well, Jake, it was interesting, because he broke his silence. He admitted it. He said -- quote -- The bombing, which I'm guilty of, if there's any lingering doubt, I did it, along with my brother.\" And then he did, as you say, apologize to the victims and their families, saying -- quote -- \"I'm sorry for the lives I have taken, the suffering I have caused, the damage I have done.\" And at one point, he paused, seeming to choke up on those words, seeming moved by what he was saying. Now, he spoke in a heavy accent. It was almost a Russian Arabic accent, sounded like. He was standing in a dark gray suit, a gray button-down shirt. And he looked at the judge. And he really said that this is Ramadan, this is the holy month of Ramadan. It's -- quote -- \"a month in which hearts change.\" However, the U.S. attorney spoke afterwards, and like many of the families, didn't believe it.", "What I was struck more was by what he didn't say. He didn't renounce terrorism.", "And so, you see, many of the people were skeptical, saying, look, he could have done that anytime during the ten-week trial. He could have shown remorse at anytime. He chose not to until the very end, Jake.", "And, Deb, obviously, it was emotional, this horrific person who committed this unspeakable act, finally being sentenced to death. What was the mood like in the cord, especially giving the fact that some of the victims and their family members spoke?", "Yes, absolutely. It was -- it was a really interesting mood, Jake. It was defiance, forgiveness. There was anger. There was also a sense of resignation that lives would never be the same. Rebecca Gregory, she was probably the strongest, defiant -- the most defiant. She walked in with her prosthetic legs, and the toes -- the plastic toes were painted this ort of bright, happy coral. She said, you know, it's so funny you smirk and flip off the camera. I feel that's what we are doing to you. Another amputee, Heather Abbott, said that he did not break me. The memory of those killed will be kept alive by those who survived this terror. And a third person says, basically, I forgive you. I forgive your brother. Take responsibility, forgo the appeals process, so we can all move forward in peace. A lot of headiness in the courtroom. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the beginning looked very relaxed. By the end, looking more sober, taken away in handcuffs, Jake.", "Those victims, so brave of them, so much courage must be needed to muster to stand there in the presence of that person. There was also an incident outside the courthouse, Deb. What happened? What was that about?", "Yes, it was really interesting. We broke for lunch, and a lot of the victims actually went down to the cafeteria that's inside the court just behind me, so the line was long. A couple of us moved on. And there was a lot of police activity, and a man who appeared to be in his 20s, tall, wearing a white t-shirt, scraggly-looking hair and beard, striking similarity to Tsarnaev, he had driven his van in front of the courthouse, the car had no license plates at all, and police actually found a meat cleaver inside that car. That man was taken away. He's currently in custody. We're waiting to see if or whether there will be charges filed against him. We don't know his name just yet, Jake.", "A bizarre story. Deb Feyerick in Boston, thanks so much. The Charleston church massacre quickly led to calls to take down the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina capitol. Now, cross the countries others are calling for license plates, statues, and General Lee, not the guy General Lee, but the Dodge Charger from the TV Show \"The Dukes of Hazzard\". Which is the line to be drawn? Today, a shocking revelation from the White House about just how many Americans are held hostage right now around the world. All of that, coming back."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CARMEN ORBITZ, U.S. ATTORNEY", "FEYERICK", "TAPPER", "FEYERICK", "TAPPER", "FEYERICK", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-337511", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-04-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/13/es.04.html", "summary": "Pompeo Facing Uphill Confirmation Battle", "utt": ["Welcome back. The White House says there is no final decision on how to respond to the apparent gas attack on civilians in Syria last weekend, but officials say that President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May have vowed in a phone call to deter further use of chemical weapons in the region. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh is live in Northern Syria. Nick, we are -- here we are, almost a week since that alleged attack and still no military response from the U.S. and its allies. Meanwhile, Syria is about to let in international chemical weapons inspectors. So how does that change the calculus, if at all, of a possible strike?", "Well, indeed, Syria says they may have already let into Syria chemical weapons inspectors, although the OPCW, the U.N. chemical weapons investigators say they won't get to work until Saturday. Now really, frankly of their own making, the U.S. and its allies, the U.K. and France, have a very complicated timetable ahead of them here. They made it absolutely clear in a number of statements that military action is likely. Donald Trump has reeled that back in, in terms of timing. But, France has said it has proof chemical weapons were used. Jim Mattis, U.S. Secretary of Defense, says that he's looking for more actual evidence but he believes that to be the case, too. And the U.K. has been clear on that as well. You can't, though, really strike Syria while U.N. investigators are looking at the actual evidence. That's quite, you might say, disrespectful for the actual process themselves. They kind of have to get underway potentially if they're going to act before during today at some point and they have an 11:00, your time, Security Council meeting to bear in mind as well. So of their own making, frankly, a complex timetable ahead here or a long wait until the inspections come up with their evidence in possibly a week or so from now. Back to you.", "Lots of complex mechanics at play there. Nick Paton Walsh in Northern Syria. Thanks very much.", "All right, 45 minutes past the hour. CIA Director Mike Pompeo facing an uphill battle in his bid to become Secretary of State. Two key Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have signaled they are prepared to vote against his nomination. Republican Rand Paul is already opposed, so Pompeo may not have enough support to win a favorable recommendation from the committee. Listen to Pompeo deflecting questions about President Trump and the Russia probe.", "Senator, I don't recall. I don't recall what he asked me that day precisely. But I have to tell you, I'm with the president an awful lot. He has never asked me to do anything that I considered remotely improper.", "All right, let's now bring in \"CNN POLITICS\" multiplatform editor Brenna Williams live from Washington. Good morning there, Brenna.", "Good morning.", "All right. Well, Pompeo was asked in his hearing about the issue du jour -- about a possible -- a possible Mueller firing so let's listen to that, quickly.", "Senator, I haven't given that question any thought. My instincts tell me no. My instincts tell me that my obligation to continue to serve as America's senior diplomat will be more important at increased times of political-domestic turmoil.", "All right, asked there about what would he do -- deflecting there, saying he would stay away from it. So does this indicate that he's going to be some kind of rubber stamp secretary of state as opposed to Sec. Tillerson and he's just going to go along with whatever the president wants?", "Well, here's the thing. As Pompeo and Trump, as Pompeo said, they're very close. They have a lot of conversations. So, yes, I mean, coming into the State Department if he were to get confirmed, Trump would have an ally there. At the same time, Pompeo has also said that he's committed to doing things that former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson didn't do, like filling a lot of roles, including ambassadorships --", "Yes.", "-- that weren't filled during the Tillerson administration -- or, you know, tenure.", "Holding up the secretary of state at this time -- I mean, you look at all the things that are happening -- Syria, Russia, North Korea talks coming up -- what do you think the chances are here that this becomes a real battle?", "Actually, it's really interesting because usually, you know, high -- when you're in a high-power position like the CIA director -- he already had to go through Senate confirmation -- it's an easier transition. But there are some people, like you said, Shaheen and Kaine among them -- Rand Paul -- that are not really on board for this. Running the CIA -- yes, you need to be a good administrator, but it's a different kind of diplomacy than running the State Department --", "Yes.", "-- so there are some questions about that. So, yes, I think there's a battle although McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, has indicated that he might still bring the vote to the floor. There are ways to do that should the vote not make it out of committee.", "Rand Paul's --", "But --", "Rand Paul's issue is his position on torture. And some of the Democrats' issues is speech -- other things that he's said in his speech in 2013 where he criticized Muslim leadership for not standing up against the Boston Marathon bombing.", "Yes.", "So they say there's anti-Muslim sentiment there, so that's what some of the --", "The pushback.", "Yes.", "Right. Brenna, touch on -- expand a little bit more on that about how extraordinary it would be if the committee were to not recommend Pompeo for secretary of state but then McConnell brings it to the floor for a vote.", "I think it would be a very controversial move and also, Pompeo would need to get some Democrats on his side because it's a very almost evenly split Senate right now. John McCain has not been around because of his health concerns and Rand Paul, a Republican senator as we said, is not going to vote for him. So, Pompeo has been kind of trying to show his diplomacy chops by going out to the Hill talking to Democratic senators -- talking to senators on both sides trying to convince them that he's the guy for the job. So we'll see if his diplomacy works on the Senate side as he hopes it would on the international stage.", "Meanwhile, today in Washington, D.C., I think you're going to have people with their heads buried in a book that they've been trying to get -- this Comey book this morning. We're going to hear from him on Sunday night in an ABC interview -- James Comey, himself. But people are starting to read this. And give me a sense of just what Washington -- what Washington is making of this. And I also think -- we were just talking about how interesting it is that the RNC already has sort of like a strategy to discredit him personally and to attack his character -- James Comey's character.", "Well, we heard reports of this GOP strategy before excerpts from the book even hit. We knew it was going to cause a tidal wave. As my colleague Chris Cillizza said in last night's \"The Point\" newsletter, it hit Washington kind of like an atomic bomb. Comey is coming out swinging. He's not holding back. He's making claims about the president's character, about things that the president said to him in private conversations. So this is not the last we're going to hear of this, right? This is day one of many and the GOP -- like I said, they were expecting it before we even saw one word out of this book. So it's really interesting that the White House hasn't said anything yet but they are on board with this GOP-RNC strategy.", "It's very hard to imagine the scenario in which the president stays silent on this. He's stayed silent on other things --", "You think?", "-- and he's held back on others things. But on this, it's got to be just a matter of minutes possibly before we actually hear from the president on Twitter.", "Washington is waiting with bated breath.", "Brenna, thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "Brenna Williams, thank you. Let's get a check on \"CNN Money\" this morning. Global stocks mostly higher today. Wall Street rose on reports -- I mean, that the president may rejoin the TPP trade agreement. Wall Street likes that. He also walked back threats of an immediate strike on Syria. The hope today is that investors will focus on fundamentals, not headlines. You've got earnings season starting with some big banks -- Citigroup, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo. Wall Street expects big profits from those banks and bank stocks soared yesterday in anticipation. In AT&T's antitrust trial its first witness aims to undermine the Justice Department's case. The DOJ, of course, is suing AT&T to block its purchase of Time Warner, the parent of CNN. The government claims the deal will mean higher prices for you, the consumer, but AT&T's economist argues it will lower prices because the merger creates a more efficient company. The trial began in mid-March and is expected to wrap up this month. All right. Tesla is in an open feud with the National Transportation Safety Board. Both sides accuse the other making improper disclosures about a fatal crash. It concerns the NTSB's investigation of a Tesla crash while in autopilot mode. The agency removed Tesla from the official probe for disclosing details during the investigation. Tesla says no, it wanted to correct misleading statements about autopilot and that it removed itself from the investigation. Tesla says the NTSB is more concerned with press headlines than actually promoting safety and threatens to make an official complaint to Congress. Unusual to see that kind of dispute spilling into the public.", "Elon Musk does like his headlines.", "Yes, he does.", "All right. Well, President Trump quit a huge trade deal last year. Now he may want to get back in. 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{"id": "CNN-162906", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-3-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1103/05/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Football Season; Michigan High School Basketball Player Dies", "utt": ["Well, the big buzz in sports this weekend is still swirling around. Imagine this, in late winter, the NFL, the question being, are we going to have a season or will the owners lock out the players? Ray D'Alessio of HLN SPORTS, joins us with the latest. I said, Ray, when you walked in, I'm worried about this.", "You're worried. I'm not.", "Why?", "You know, I'm not worried, Tom, because they're talking. There's dialogue there, you know, the deadline for the collective bargaining agreement was supposed to expire admit night Thursday night, they extended it 24 hours. Obviously things went well enough yesterday that they thought they could extend it another seven days, now the expiration, now it expires 11:59 next Friday night. So, obviously they're talking, there's dialogue there. There's still a lot to be ironed out. I mean, there's still all the stuff, you know, how do we split up $9 billion in revenue, obviously the owners, the want a little bit more of that money, $1 billion more.", "What do you think the key things are that they have to keep grappling with, here? You can't just sit in the room and say, we need to solve it.", "No, again, they have to find common ground. You know, and the bottom line is how do, you know, how is it fair for both sides? Obviously, you know, the owners are saying that they need, you know, they need a bigger piece of the pot to keep competive to pay the mortgages on these stadiums. You know, ticket sales aren't what they used to be, people aren't buying the merchandise like they used to be, so they're losing a bit of money. They're not poor by any means but they are losing a bit of money and the players on the other hand are saying, OK, you also want us to extended season by two games, but if we get less money is that fair? So they have to find common ground here. And it's a long way off until the season begins. I really honestly, I don't see them canceling an entire season. It's too big of a business, it's too popular right now, and fans are not forgiving. Fans -- it will -- if an entire season is canceled, it will take a while for the fans to come back, it really will.", "Do you think the salary cap thing is the No. 1 issue?", "No. You know, the players agree there has to be some type of rookie salary cap. The salaries are just getting exorbitant. No sure, when you've got guys like Sam Bradford coming out of college, you know, getting a $50 million signing bonus, that helps the veteran players, but there has to be some type of salary cap. The other thing the players are say, we're willing to put a cap on this, but is that money that you're saving going in your pockets or are we going to get some of that as well? Retirement benefits for players, you know, are we going to get a piece of that, as well.", "Well yeah, as you point out, a lot of these guys are, they're seasoned, their lifetime career average is three years.", "The average career, three, four years. The average NFL salary, yeah, there's people like Tom Brady making $18 million a year, but you got to remember, the average NFL salary, only about $700,000 a year.", "You know, people don't think about this. If your average income is $700,000 a year and you only work three years, in many cases you're not going to make much more than a lot of regular workers will make in a lifetime.", "No, and obviously the players do not want a lockout because once that collective bargaining agreement expires, their benefits are gone. There's no, you know, no benefits whatsoever. Obviously if there's a lockout, if there's no season, they only get paid for 17 games. They don't get paid in the off season. They get paid for 17 games. If there's no season, they don't get paid.", "Let's talk about something else, which has captivated everybody this weekend, in really a terrible way. What about this Michigan high school player? Shoots the winning goal, then passes away on the court. Talk about this.", "It's heart breaking, Tom. It really is -- 16-year-old Wes Leonard. You got to remember, Fennville, Michigan, there's only about 1,500 people in Fennville, Michigan. They rally around their basketball. Thursday night, half the town was at this game.", "That's him right there.", "Right. Wes Leonard. He hits the game-winning shot, what turned out to be the game-winning shot in overtime to complete a perfect 20-0 season. He's a hero. He's not only a star basketball player, he's the quarterback for the high school team. Moments later when they're celebrating, he collapses on the court. They try to revive him, rush him to the hospital, he later dies at the hospital. So the town is in shock. The medical examiner came out and said the young man died from cardiac arrest caused by dilated cardiomyopathy, which, I guess, is somewhat of an enlargement of the heart, I believe.", "Yeah. Yeah.", "Nobody knew he had this condition. Nobody knew he had this condition.", "Yeah, I'd like to know more about that. Because, I also believe, if I'm not mistaken a lot of lifetime athletes have some of that in part because of what they've done.", "Right. They say a lot of...", "But, very unusual, a young person like that, for him to be that way.", "And now it brings into question, are we screening these high school kids well enough to see if they have these medical conditions before they take the field...", "That's a tough question, a difficult one. Ray, always good to have you in here, and let's keep our fingers crossed about the NFL talks.", "Positive. Cautiously optimistic. You got to be cautiously optimistic.", "Hey, what kind of shoes are you wearing? Good shoes? You like your shoes?", "These are old, man. I need to get some new ones.", "Well, you need to call Zappos. That's what you can do. It's an online retail company, they're doing booming business by focusing on people like Ray who need new shoes. I visited Zappos as part of our \"Building up America\" series. We're going out on the road again this week, but I want you to take a look at this, because they discovered a secret to success.", "Thank you for calling Zappos.com.", "Not bad for a company started a dozen years ago with a radical concept. Success is about service.", "OK, no problem.", "Not selling. CEO Tony Hsieh.", "And for us, culture isn't just important, it's actually the No. 1 priority of the company.", "The culture is raucous, infection and everywhere. Employees decorate as they choose, enjoying and unbelievable array of company services, including free lunch, ice cream, massages. We asked our guide, Ray Andre, about the business environment.", "This is a business meeting.", "This is a business meeting? There's a lot of giggling going on in there.", "There is. (voice-over): Getting in is not easy. Zappos takes months to screen applicants and even in training, new hires are offered $4,000 to quit, just to weed out those who might not really want to be here.", "So we figure we could train most people to do their jobs, but we can't train somebody to fit into our culture.", "What is your key philosophy about running this business?", "Internally, we have a saying that we're a service company that just happens to sell shoes.", "You realize nobody in America who sees this is going to want to go to work tomorrow. (voice-over): So they can laugh at comments like that, because everyone here seems eager to come to work every day, building up this runaway success.", "When that happens, you feel scared, disappointed, yes, and angry.", "A legendary actor admits he is a victim of elder abuse. It made headlines this week and our legal guys tackle the options he and others have. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["FOREMAN", "RAY D'ALESSIO, HLN SPORT", "FOREMAN", "D'ALESSIO", "FOREMAN", "D'ALESSIO", "FOREMAN", "D'ALESSIO", "FOREMAN", "D'ALESSIO", "FOREMAN", "D'ALESSIO", "FOREMAN", "D'ALESSIO", "FOREMAN", "D'ALESSIO", "FOREMAN", "D'ALESSIO", "FOREMAN", "D'ALESSIO", "FOREMAN", "D'ALESSIO", "FOREMAN", "D'ALESSIO", "FOREMAN", "D'ALESSIO", "FOREMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FOREMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FOREMAN", "TONY HSIEH, ZAPPOS.COM", "FOREMAN", "RAY ANDRE, ZAPPOS.COM", "FOREMAN (on camera)", "ANDRE", "ANDRE", "FOREMAN (on camera)", "HSIEH", "FOREMAN", "MICKEY ROONEY, ACTOR", "FOREMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-380783", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-09-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/18/nday.06.html", "summary": "Teens Accused of School Shooting Threats", "utt": ["Police arresting teenagers in Oklahoma and California this week, all accused of making school shooting threats. Tipsters alerted police after spotting social media posts. CNN's Omar Jimenez joins us live to explain. Thank goodness that people alerted the police. What happened?", "Yes, Alisyn, these cases all separate, popping up in multiple states across the country, California, Oklahoma. Now, in Oklahoma, 18-year-old Alexis Wilson was arrested for making terrorist threats against her former high school. According to the county sheriff's office arrest report, Wilson had recently purchased an AK-47, showed co-workers videos of herself with the weapon and, according to the arrest report, allegedly told a co-worker she was going to shoot 400 people for fun and that there were so many people at her old school in McAlester High School that she would like to do it. Now, police say she told them she was just trying to teach her co- worker not to be afraid of firearms. When police got to her home, they found the newly purchased AK-47 and a 12-gauge shotgun in her bedroom. Bond was set at $250,000 during a court hearing Monday. She's due in court again next week. Her attorney hasn't responded to CNN's calls. But, in Palm Springs, California, three 14-year-old students were arrested after making violent social media threats against their school, Desert Hot Springs High. The post was actually first reported by a staff member from the school district. The district then immediately reported it to police who say they recovered a revolver, a semi-automatic handgun and a replica AR-15. The three students there are in custody, being held as juveniles, all of them charged with making terrorist threats. And in Fresno, California, a 16-year-old student was also arrested for making threats on social media against his Fresno High School. The difference here is officers didn't recover any weapons, but the school district there says they take all threats like this seriously and they're investigated right away when reported. The Fresno School District also says they've rolled out a series of PSAs trying to educate their community about the seriousness of social media threats, especially when they're threats of mass violence. John. Alisyn.", "Oh, my gosh. I mean this stuff is contagious.", "Look, I mean the good news is that it's being caught before something potentially happens. The bad news, obviously, it's still going on.", "So there's this powerful new video just released this morning. It's a PSA. And it is to try to prevent school shootings. So we will show it to you, next.", "First, how a woman with a rare genetic syndrome became an entrepreneur. That's in today's \"Turning Points.\"", "Jessica was having trouble finding a job. Or if she'd find something, it would be great until they didn't necessarily want to work with her challenges.", "After I graduate, I just want a job.", "She has Rubinstein Taybi Syndrome, and that is a genetic syndrome characterized by short stature. They have really wide thumbs and big toes. Often times they have learning disabilities. Jessica had been out of work for a while and was just really getting depressed. We started making dog treats for our dogs, and they liked them a lot. So we decided to take it further. And Jessica opened her store, Yadi's Yummys, in September of 2018. They hand make their treats. It's all natural, human grade.", "Hi, baby. Welcome to Yadi's Yummies (ph).", "Jessica, from the beginning, wanted to hire other people with disabilities because she wanted a place where people could go and be respected and enjoy their work and be valued.", "I like to work here. I like to get some respect. I am the boss."], "speaker": ["ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CYNTHIA EISENBEIS, JESSICA'S MOTHER", "JESSICA EISENBEIS, OWNER, YADI'S YUMMIES", "C. EISENBEIS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "C. EISENBEIS", "J. EISENBEIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-59030", "program": "CNN LIVE ON LOCATION", "date": "2002-8-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0208/13/lol.04.html", "summary": "Search Underway in California for Young Girl", "utt": ["An intense search is underway in southern California, where, nearly 48 hours ago, a young girl disappeared. Police say Jessica Cortez may have been kidnapped, but they're not ruling out anything else. CNN's James Hattori is monitoring the search effort in Los Angeles -- James.", "As you say, Carol, more than 36 hours -- going on 48 -- since her disappearance. But L.A. city and police officials say they are doing everything possible to find 4- year-old Jessica Cortez. Whether she was kidnapped or drowned in the lake behind me, in Echo Park, just outside of downtown Los Angeles. In fact, within the past couple of hours, a lot more police officers have arrived on the scene. They're going leafletting through the area, canvassing the neighborhood. Police boats are preparing to search the lake. To underscore all of this emphasis, L.A.'s mayor, James Hahn, visited the scene a short time ago.", "My heart goes out to the Cortez family, who are all concerned and worried about what has happened to Jessica. You should know that every resource available to us, all the different agencies, are working as hard as they can to find little Jessica. We are very grateful to Sheriff Lee Bacha (ph) for the assistance he has provided to us with latest sonar technology. And his dive crews will go into the lake, into the deeper part of the lake, to see if there is any place that we haven't checked yet.", "Investigators, of course, are still look for a kidnapping suspect, a 20- to 25-year-old African-American or Hispanic man who had been seen in this park approaching young children over past week. Witnesses also saw him walking with Jessica Sunday before she disappeared. Meantime, if she did, in fact, drown, divers are now prepared to use special sonar equipment to scan the bottom of this lake. It's very murky. There is a lot of silt that has obstructed the progress of divers thus far. But police say they are confident that with this equipment with the effort they are making today, they will be able to finish the search of the lake. Meantime, the search for the kidnapping suspect goes on as well -- Carol.", "James, I understand the FBI is now involved? What is their role?", "I think any time there is a kidnapping of a child involved, they are there to lend support. I believe most of the lead activity is being taken by the city authorities. The FBI, of course, has access to interstate information and should there be some sort of a movement between states, they would get involved in that case.", "Thank you very much, James Hattori, live in Los Angeles, at Echo Park. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "JAMES HATTORI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MAYOR JAMES HAHN, LOS ANGELES", "HATTORI", "LIN", "HATTORI", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-242914", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2014-11-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/10/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "2 More Israelis Dead in Stabbing Attacks", "utt": ["Breaking news out of the Middle East right now. Some very disturbing images as two more Israelis are dead in new stabbing attacks, the latest in a spiraling upsurge of violence. Let's go live to our senior international correspondent, Nic Robertson. He's joining us from Jerusalem. What is the latest, Nic?", "Wolf, the very latest is that two people involved in these attacks today have been killed. The first attack happening to -- happening in Tel Aviv around the middle of the day.", "A young Israeli soldier is lifted aboard a stretcher. It is noon in downtown Tel Aviv. He was waiting for a bus when he was stabbed. This paramedic, one of the first responders. (on camera): One stab wound or multiple stab wounds?", "He had few in the legs and in the upper part of the body.", "Not long after, this video appears on YouTube. The attacker, an Arab, still holding a knife, appears to cut his own wrist. The security services move to arrest him. (", "What has security services here concerned is the question, is this stabbing an isolated incident or is it part of a growing trend of attacks that transport hubs over the past few weeks? (", "Within hours, this in the West Bank at sunset, a van driver deliberately drives into someone at a bus stop, knocks them down, all caught on security camera video. Seconds later, the van driver comes back, finds the person he knocked down, starts stabbing them. Then he crosses the road, chases then attacks another victim before he is interrupted. A third man appears to spray something on the attacker. He crosses the road again and returns to his first victim. Police say three people were injured in this stabbing attack. One of them a 24-year-old woman, dying at the scene. The attacker, whom police describe as a terrorist, shot at the scene by a guard. Hours later, the radical Islamist group, Islamic Jihad, praises both the West Bank and Tel Aviv attackers. Tensions and concerns here are rising.", "And what we're hearing now from the prime minister's office, Prime Minister Netanyahu, is that there will be an increase in security. And there's also call for an acceleration in the destruction of the homes, the houses of people who perpetrate these terrorists, who perpetrate these attacks -- Wolf.", "Nic Robertson in Jerusalem, clearly an escalating situation over there. Thanks very much. Up next, we have new details on some DNA evidence that could link the University of Virginia kidnapping suspect to yet another crime. Also ahead, high stakes diplomacy grounded. We have new information about the jet breakdown that delayed a secret U.S. mission to North Korea."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ROBERTSON (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROBERTSON (voice-over)", "On camera)", "Voice-over)", "ROBERTSON", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-135079", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-2-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/16/cnr.02.html", "summary": "NIU Families Reflect on Shooting-Rampage Deaths", "utt": ["Quickly just want to show you some pictures we are getting in now live to the CNN NEWSROOM here. We see President Barack Obama getting ready to get on board Air Force One there. He is leaving Chicago, so O'Hare airport, heading back home to the White House. He spent the weekend there, as we heard from Suzanne Malveaux. Spent some time with family and celebrated Valentine's Day and so forth with his wife and daughters who have already gotten into the aircraft. So, again, he'll be heading back to the White House and then departing tomorrow right away for Denver as we've been hearing that he's going to go there to sign that stimulus bill. So we will continue to follow his movements, of course, and bring them to you as they happen. President Obama leaving Chicago, heading back to Washington. One year ago, five students were killed in a shooting rampage on the campus of Northern Illinois University. Now, our special investigations unit is returning to the campus and talking with the families still struggling with their losses. Here's Abbie Boudreau.", "He says he thought he was giving his daughter good advice.", "What I want you to do is I'd like you to sit in the front row of every class that you're in.", "So 19-year-old Ryanne Mace took her father's advice. Now he wishes she hadn't.", "She was, from what I understand, in the front row of that room. And was probably the first one that had shots fired at her. If I would have said always sit at the back of the room so that you can get out of there and get to your next class fast, it might have saved her life. And it's not an easy thing to carry.", "Someone keeps tying purple ribbons. Purple was her favorite color.", "This tree was planted in her memory on NIU's campus. (on camera): So she would have been 20.", "Couple months shy.", "Missed it by a couple of months.", "Ryanne was one of the five NIU students killed that day.", "We don't have a headstone for her. And that's kind of what this is.", "She was Eric and MaryKay (ph) Mace's only child.", "It's difficult. There's an ache, a loneliness, and a longing. We're going to miss her every day for the rest of our lives.", "I go to bed thinking about her, I wake up in the morning thinking about her. Any time that I've got a free moment, it'll pop up.", "Her parents say they would like to know more about the police investigation into the shooting and about Steven Kazmierczak's mental illness and the medication he was taking. They also question why Kazmierczak, who had a lengthy history of health problems going back to his childhood, was legally able to buy guns.", "Somewhere along the line, the pertinent information didn't get into the right database, and he could waltz out of a store with a legally purchased weapon. And I don't get that.", "He was able to purchase guns in Illinois because more than five years had passed since he was treated voluntarily at this mental health facility.", "The one thing that's kind of ironic about it is that she always did have sort of a fascination with people who had minds like the person who took her life.", "Ryanne was studying psychology and her parents created a scholarship foundation for psychology majors in honor of their daughter. They say they hope it encourages others to help fix broken minds like that of the man who killed Ryanne. (on camera): Do you want people to remember that day?", "Absolutely. I don't want them to forget a single detail about it. Because the details aren't going to change just by forgetting about them. I want Ryanne to be remembered. I want Catalina and Gail and Julianna and Dan to be remembered, as well.", "And if you would like more on this story, you can always get it by going to CNN.com. Our correspondent Abbie Boudreau has actually been blogging about this story. She's been following it ever since it happened. A wildfire racing toward your house, should you stay and defend it? A shocking death toll in Australia is raising new questions now in California."], "speaker": ["COLLINS", "ABBIE BOUDREAU, CNN SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT (voice-over)", "ERIC MACE, FATHER OF NIU SHOOTING VICTIM", "BOUDREAU", "E. MACE", "MARYKAY (PH) MACE, MOTHER OF NIU SHOOTING VICTIM", "BOUDREAU", "M. MACE", "E. MACE", "BOUDREAU (voice-over)", "E. MACE", "BOUDREAU", "M. MACE", "E. MACE", "BOUDREAU", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BOUDREAU", "E. MACE", "BOUDREAU", "E. MACE", "COLLINS"]}
{"id": "CNN-287196", "program": "WORLD RIGHT NOW WITH HALA GORANI", "date": "2016-06-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/21/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Labs Ready To Test Olympic Athletes For Doping; Iraqi Forces Prepare For Next Major Battle", "utt": ["A little more than a month before the start of the Rio games and the International Olympic Committee has focused on keeping them free from doping. The IOC met in Switzerland at a summit where it announced its anti-doping plans. In one measure, athletes from Russia and Kenya will need to be individually evaluated in order to be declared eligible to compete. The reason is because of the unsatisfactory state of the two countries national anti-doping bodies. The IOC also said it supports the ban on Russian track and field athletes by the International Association of Athletics Federation. But it said some Russians could still take part if they're cleared by the IAAF. Olympic organizers say they intend to make sure that no other athletes cheat their way to Olympic gold. Our Nick Paton Walsh visited a lab in Rio de Janeiro that is ready to put Olympic competitors to the test.", "In the race to Rio to be ready, few final tweaks matter more than in this one room, Brazil's 24-hour anti-doping laboratory for the Olympics. Testing 6,000 tiny samples from athletes in the games each able to crush a sportsman's dreams. Where nations will be desperate for a clean slate after allegations of doping on a state sponsored industrial scale. Russian track and field stars banned for now. Russia has categorically denied all allegations, but says it needs to regain trust. Here they're hoping to stay clear of controversy.", "If we are not in the good times, maybe we're really cleaning the system now.", "Doping risks overwhelming the Olympics introducing geo political rivalry, corruption, and essentially cheating at the heart of sports. (voice-over): Here urine is stripped down to the core molecules, these spectrograms then identified, but it's before this stage that samples were allegedly tampered with in the 2014 Sochi games. Russia accused staggering abusing its security services, its new KGB, to tamper with supposedly tamper proof bottles allegedly using this hole in the laboratory wall to switch samples. With each bottle having a special random number on its seal, how do you do that?", "Millions of different caps. Different tubes, open a bottle and close it with another.", "So you basically have to be the people making the bottle to be able to --", "Almost, yes, or have a factory of that to be able to fabricate it.", "But it's almost possible to be sure if countries are willing to do that kind of thing, that level of planning.", "I think it's really hard to reach that point. You need to involve, well, high ranking officials from the country from the country anti-doping agency, from the direction of the laboratory from the technicians, so it's to do that is kind of hard, I think.", "This where the cold gray wearing of science collides with that underworld of alleged breathtaking deception.", "All right, senior international correspondent, Nick Payton Walsh joins me now from Rio de Janeiro with more. How will it work for these athletes that need to clear their names and take additional steps in order to compete like the Russians or the Kenyans? Would they do this also in Rio? How would it work?", "Not particularly easy to understand scheme that the IOC chief told us back later earlier on today. The Russian and Kenyan athletes from all different disciplines are being told that they can't rely on their own national anti-doping mechanism to give them a clean slate of health. That their presumption of innocence has been taking away. And they are effectively now have to use independent anti-doping testing to prove their innocence again. Now through the different international federations for the different disciplines they wish to compete in. It appears, though, the track and field athlete, Russians will not be permitted to compete in these games no matter what extra level of proof is put through. That seems pretty clear at this stage. So a lot I think that the Kenyans will have to do in a short period of time ahead. A lot of potential (inaudible). These tests will not take place in Rio, but other independent areas too. All eyes on that laboratory you're seeing who have an enormously politicized and intense scrutinize job ahead of them for 6,000 samples during the games themselves -- Hala.", "So they have the doping issue. They also have the security issue. We saw in your piece yesterday, pickpockets are taking advantage of the big crowds. How much of a concern is it when really the crowds descend on Rio and other parts of Brazil?", "They're not even here yet and there are supposed to be half a million and still it's a drip, drip of athletes here rehearsing, training, being attacked. An Australian paralympian (inaudible) on Sunday attacked at a beach not far from where I'm standing at gunpoint robbed of her bike. She's gone home now, back to Australia. But the Australian Olympic officials said we're thinking about bringing private security for protection for our athletes here. The supposed hundred thousand Brazilian security personnel on the streets here haven't materialized. They would like to see them there earlier. This isn't the first time we have seen athletes here rehearsing rob or mugged at some stage. Street crime is a serious issue. Increasing because of the recession here. The police, struggling with their budgets declaring state of emergency as a state here on Friday citing the potential for failing funding security personnel too. And Hala, just one other staggering thing that's occurred in the last 48 hours. On Sunday morning, a hospital, one of five designated to treat Olympic visitors here came under a gun attack. Inside was an alleged drug kingpin known as \"Fat Family,\" 20 masked men arrived there, tried to free him. They succeeded. The shootout killed one, injured many others, gunfire, explosions in the hospital corridors here. Absolutely staggering. The closest hospital to the stadium where the Olympic opening ceremony will occur. A lot here building up in terms of worries. So little time ahead before the games begin -- Hala.", "All right. Thanks very much. Nick Paton Walsh is in Rio. Now a 15-year-old boy is dead and the Israeli military is saying it was a mistake. The country's military says soldiers shot and killed a 15-year- old Palestinian boy today mistakenly believing he was involved this a stone throwing incident. A Palestinian official says Mahmud Rafat Badhran (ph) was in fact on his way home from a swimming pool in the west bank when the car he was traveling in came under fire. Several other Palestinians were wounded in the shooting. The Israeli military says it was responding to an attack on cars nearby. It says Palestinian threw rocks and Molotov cocktails as Israeli vehicles injuring three civilians. The Israeli military says troops, quote, \"fired towards suspects,\" but then later identified those hit were, in fact, bystanders. Well, it's been a down and out fight but the Iraqi Army is slowly retaking Falluja from ISIS. It's now regained control of the city's main hospital. Success in Falluja has the Iraqi military looking toward its next major challenge and that's a bigger prize, Mosul. Ben Wedeman shows us the battle ahead.", "On the road north of Baghdad, Iraqi Armed Forces assemble for the next battle in the war against", "This massive military column, I counted more than 250 vehicles is headed north. It's headed to the province where Mosul is located. Even though the battle of Falluja is still raging, what's clear is the Iraqi Army is preparing for the next phase, the last phase of this war in Iraq, the liberation of Mosul. (voice-over): Two years ago, this army was in full retreat. Driven out of Mosul by ISIS. It lost one city after another. It was on the verge of total collapse. Today the tide appears to have turned. The government is taken back to Ramadi and fighting to drive the extremists out of Falluja. With this army says defense minister, (inaudible), we'll wipe ISIS out. God willing, this is the beginning of the Iraq in Iraq. The convoy passed through Tikrit until just over a year ago the city was under ISIS control. The brutal former masters of the city now despised. There are rats and dogs. It took well over an hour for all the vehicles to rumble through Tikrit. The battle for Mosul won't be easy and it won't be brief. Perhaps, the cheering is premature. Ben Wedeman, CNN, Tikrit, Iraq.", "Still ahead, more from the emotional interview with Jo Cox's widower, Brendan Cox. What he says his wife thought about the tone of the E.U. referendum debate where she was murdered last week in broad daylight. We'll bring you that next."], "speaker": ["GORANI", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WALSH (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WALSH (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WALSH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WALSH (voice-over)", "GORANI", "WALSH", "GORANI", "WALSH", "GORANI", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ISIS. (on camera)", "GORANI"]}
{"id": "CNN-244271", "program": "CNN RELIABLE SOURCES", "date": "2014-11-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/30/rs.01.html", "summary": "Ferguson: Tear Gas & Rocks Hurled at Media; Reporting from Ferguson: The Good, The Bad, The Ratings", "utt": ["Welcome back. Let's put up on screen one of the defining visuals from the Ferguson this week. It's of President Obama addressing the nation, when viewers saw this surreal split-screen, one side the president appealing for peace, while the other side the beginnings of a riot in Ferguson. Obama sounded pretty self aware of what was happening.", "We know there's going to be some negative reaction and it will make for good TV.", "Good TV. Well, many agreed with him. One of my last guests, Wesley Lowery, called the violence on demand programming for the nation that flicks from one blockbuster event from the next. So, let me do something unusual here. Let me show you the ratings from Monday. On the left, these are the 9:00 p.m. cable news ratings for the Monday before the grand jury announcement. That's the total audience. On the right, that's the hour of announcement. You can see CNN with 6.2 million viewers while the announcement was coming in. That is more than any moment after Katrina. That's more than any moment after the Boston bombings. These are some of the highest ratings since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And these are the same ratings now but in the 25 to 54-year- old demographic that advertisers covet, 25 to 54-year-olds. You can see, CNN number one, FOX number two, MSNBC, number three. What's important here is the huge surge of young people that tuned in to see the grand jury announcement and then, unfortunately, to see the violence that followed afterwards. I heard many complaints about the coverage on Monday night. Here is one of them. Let me put up on screen. It's from conservative radio host Laura Ingraham. She tweeted this, \"If the media pulled back half of the protesters would disperse and go home. Ferguson would be more peaceful.\" Is that true? Did the media proverbially, I don't know, fan the flames in Ferguson? Well, joining me now to help answer that question is Frank Sesno, the director of the George Washington School of Media Affairs, and Frank Absher, founder of the St. Louis Media History Foundation. Thank you both for being here. And, Frank Absher, let me go first to you since you're in St. Louis, you're in the region. What is your impression been of the national media coverage of the story? You have seen hundreds of reporters basically parachute into your community. So, what's been your overall reaction?", "One of the things that's stood out, Brian, is the fact that a lot of national reporters don't know the territory. As a result, there have been some very serious errors on their part in terms of reporting stuff that's not factual. Six weeks ago, we were told that Ferguson police chief was on the verge of resigning. It hasn't happened. We were told of a major riot in downtown St. Louis. In fact, it was nine miles away in a suburb of University City. And then, on top of that, we were told three floors of the Ferguson hospital had been set aside for injuries from the riots. There is no Ferguson hospital. No hospitals in the area had done that. The outcome is, in fact, that people will trust the media much less knowing that what is being reported is not factual.", "Frank Sesno, did you notice some of the problems, some of the same inadequacies in the coverage?", "Sure. I mean, I think that what you have -- whenever you have a story like this is you have people helicoptering in as you say. They're instantly on the streets, and what they're able to do is cover the snapshot through the straw, exactly what they're seeing at that exact moment. What they don't have, what they don't know is the lay of the land, the personalities, the deep seated animosities, where they exist, and unfortunately, such things as whether there's a hospital or not. The problem is with a story like this and your audience numbers show it, the passions run so deep, the feelings run so deep, the perspectives of the white audience and the black audience are so vastly different and far apart that this is when it calls -- you know, when you want some knowledge on the ground. This is when the nuance in the reporting also matters.", "I put up those ratings, as you're saying Frank Sesno, because I think it's worth keeping in mind, these networks did have huge audiences for this. I should say, it was mostly commercial-free. It's not as if networks like CNN literally directly profited during the hours of the rioting. I think that's worth pointing out. But those ratings get to a point a lot of people online have said, did the networks want this to happen? Did the media want violence to happen? Frank Sesno, what's your take on that?", "Of course, the media don't, no. I think that's a very cynical thing to say. Media -- people don't sit around in editorial meetings at CNN or FOX or anywhere else saying, we hope there's violence so that it drives the ratings up. But you know that something is going to come along and you know that that is going to drive the audience. You know you're going to get an audience, maybe not this big, with a story like that, and you have to plan accordingly. But talking about the audience is getting way too cynical in this way. There is a major story. There is a major issue. And you got to cover it, and then it's a separate subject as to what the consequences of that are.", "Frank Absher, let me ask you --", "Brian, I feel the same way here.", "I'm sorry, go ahead.", "I feel the same way because while a lot of people are quick to criticize and say the media caused this by their very presence, at the same time, if the media had not covered it, they'd have been doing an extreme disservice.", "I want to share a tweet saying a broadcaster friend of mine calling television cameras the idiot maker. When the cameras are on them, the behavior becomes irrational. Frank Absher, is there some truth to that, to the idea that when the cameras are present, people act out for the cameras?", "They do, but also when the national news media celebrities are in town, there's a crush to be a part of this, to be seen with them, to be associated with them. As a result, a lot of people got on television as expert spokespeople who, in fact, were not. The local people know who these folks are. The national media don't. One of the attorneys who was interviewed extensively at the beginning of all of this was in the process of facing disbarment, but the media didn't realize it.", "I want to jump in there, Brian, if I can, because I have been out on the streets with cameras in very strange places when things like this are going on.", "Right.", "What cameras do, they do change the dynamic. They magnify, they amplify, they certainly can distort, and they can antagonize people who are already out there because people who are out there see the cameras ABC News they may perform for them. It has an almost odd effect. There's a camera that's capturing you for the world to see, but in some strange way, there's an anonymity that brings because you feel or someone may feel they're part of something somehow bigger, and so, the danger with cameras always, always is that you're not just there tracking the news and recording the news. You may be helping to propel the news. And that's where this gets to be very dangerous and very delicate.", "A couple days after --", "I'm not sure there's a solution for this.", "Let me play one sound bite from Darren Wilson because this big first interview that ABC's George Stephanopoulos incurred with Darren Wilson made a lot of news later in the week. Here's a sound bite from it.", "I felt like a 5- year-old holding Hulk Hogan. That's how big this man was.", "Hulk Hogan?", "He was very large, very powerful man.", "That moment before the second shot, you guys are staring at each other. And you said there was a look in his eye like something you had never seen before. You described it as a demon.", "Uh-huh. It was a very, very intense, intense image he was presenting.", "There has been widespread speculation that ABC somehow paid for this interview. ABC is denying that. Here's what they say, \"We do not pay for interviews and there was no payment for this interview, period.\" But Frank Sesno, a lot of folks I have been talking to on Twitter don't believe that. The people who are pro-Michael Brown, anti-Darren -- you know, I hate to even put it in those terms, but it's how this story has become. They believe ABC did pay. Do you believe that there's any sort of possibility that maybe there was a licensing deal or some other sort of thing in an interview like this or would that have been too risky for ABC?", "We don't know, you know? I mean, this is one of the stories I'd like to know more about. When we talk about the coverage of this story, there are about 1,000 things I'd like to know more about, and one of them is, how did that interview take place? What was the degree of coaching that Wilson had there? Why was he the kind of interview subject that he was? I found it a strange and sort of clinical interview in many ways, not by Stephanopoulos' part, but by his part. So, the story behind the story on this one, I'd sure like to know.", "Frank Sesno and Frank Absher, thank you both for being here this morning.", "Thanks.", "And we have more to come, including this question, where is Dr. Nancy Snyderman of NBC News? It's been more than a month since she left the air. You know, she was in that Ebola quarantine. But she's still not back. I've got my reporting on that coming up. We're going to stay with Ferguson after the break because this one story could be viewed in two entirely different ways. Is it as simple as black and white? We will try to answer that when we return."], "speaker": ["STELTER", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "STELTER", "FRANK ABSHER, FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ST. 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{"id": "CNN-408289", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-08-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/14/nday.01.html", "summary": "Trump Admits Blocking Post Office Funding to Stop Mail-in Votes.", "utt": ["Developing overnight, Florida records show President Trump and the first lady requested mail-in ballots this week. This as the president has continued his attacks on voting by mail. And it comes after the president admitted that withholding more money from the U.S. Postal Service would make it difficult to process mail-in ballots.", "They want $25 billion -- billion -- for the post office. They need that money in order to have the post office work so it could take all OF these millions and millions of ballots. Now in the meantime, they aren't getting there -- by the way, those are just two items. But if they don't get those two items, that means you can't have universal mail-in voting, because they're not equipped to have it. If we don't make a deal, that means they don't get the money. That means they can't have universal mail-in voting.", "Joining us now is CNN political correspondent Abby Phillip. Now, Abby, we should point out that the Postal Service has said they are confident that they can handle the mail-in ballots this time around. But what's fascinating is that, in the last 24 hours or so, the president has gone from muddying the waters, trying to sow, you know, discord and doubt, to blatantly saying, We don't want to give the post office the money, because we want to make sure that an American's right to vote isn't counted.", "Yes. I mean, Erica, this is one of those things that people have been trying to figure out. Is -- in the president's mind, is there a connection between the post office and its fate, and this election? And then he comes out and says it, that in his mind, there is a connection. He does not want to fund the post office so -- so that he can stop mail-in voting from being implemented across the country and hamper the post office's ability to process millions of ballots. I can't tell you how -- how unusual and alarming that is, frankly. I mean, I think that the post office does not just process ballots. They also process mail for Americans on all kinds of different fronts. We're talking about prescriptions. We're talking about checks, paychecks, tax checks, all kinds of things like that. But there have been some real questions about the president's influence in the post office. And I think we're seeing now that he's clear that he wants to hold off on anything that could stabilize the post office's finances, whether it has to do with ballots or not, all because he thinks that this is the way to ensure that he has his best chances in November.", "There is a definitional struggle over democracy right now. A literal struggle over democracy and the ability to vote that's going on around the country, and some of it's playing out right before our very eyes in explicit terms. That is what, as you so rightly point out, Abby, was so stunning about yesterday. The president just flat- out said it. But there's also stuff happening that a lot of people aren't seeing. The post office has removed, across the country, several machines that have the ability to sort large quantities of mail, and now postal workers are concerned that could slow down the balloting. That's happening on one side. On the other side of this definitional struggle over democracy, Pennsylvania overnight -- and this is a big deal -- Pennsylvania is asking the state supreme court there to extend when ballots can be accepted, mail-in ballots can be accepted in that state. They will no longer have a deadline, as they do, of 8 p.m. election night. They'll now be able to receive ballots for up to three days after election day. That's the other side of this, and that's a big deal, especially in a swing state.", "Yes, there is this tug-of-war going on, and you're seeing it. We are getting reports from all over the country about concerns that postal officers are having about mail delays. And that key Pennsylvania decision -- or not decision, but filing last night that we reported on, basically, it says that the state wants to be able to accept ballots after election day up to three days. END"], "speaker": ["HILL", "TRUMP (via phone)", "HILL", "ABBY PHILLIP, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "PHILLIP"]}
{"id": "CNN-247890", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2015-01-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/25/ndaysun.05.html", "summary": "President Obama, Prime Minister Modi Hold Joint Press Conference", "utt": ["Thank you, Prime Minister Modi, for those very generous words. I want to express my profound gratitude to not only you, but the people of India, for the incredible hospitality that has been shown to me and Michelle. We are thrilled to be back in India. [ SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE ] Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for the invitation to join the people of India on Republic Day. I'm honored to be the first American president to attend this celebration, as well as the first president to visit India twice. And this reflects my commitment since the beginning of my presidency to deepen our ties with India. I'm pleased to be joined by members of my administration, as well as members of Congress and business leaders from the United States, all who believe that a strong relationship with India is critical for America's success in the 21st century. As two great democracies, two innovative economies, two societies dedicated to the empowerment of our people including millions of Indian Americans, we are natural partners. When I addressed your parliament on my last visit, I laid out my vision for how India and the United States could build a defining partnership for the 21st century, and since then, we have made significant progress. Our trade has increased, our military has exercised together more, we are cooperating on key global challenges from nuclear proliferation to global health. Mr. Prime Minister, your election and your strong personal commitment to the India/U.S. relationship, gives us an opportunity to further energize these efforts. I was proud to welcome you to the White House last fall. Your reputation preceded you. As many of you know in New York, the prime minister appeared in Madison Square Garden and was greeted like a Bollywood star. And it was, I think, a signal of the deep friendship between our peoples, as well as our close ties that we are working to expand even further. At the White House, we agreed to take this partnership to a new level. We advanced that work today. Prime Minister Modi, thank you for hosting me, including our chipay (ph) churcha (ph). We need more of those in the White House. But even as this visit is rich with symbolism, we made substantive progress. The prime minister has already indicated the United States and India have declared a new declaration of friendship that elevates and formalizes our partnership, and not only is it grounded in the values we share, but it commits us to more regular meetings at the leaders level and sets up frequent consultations across our government. We agreed that our trade and economic partnerships must focus on improving the daily lives of our people. Prime Minister Modi described for me his ambitious efforts to empower rural Indians with bank accounts and to ensure clean water and clean air for the Indian people, and we want to be partners in this effort. In the last few years, trade between our two countries has increased by some 60 percent toward a record of $100 billion. We want to trade even more, so we welcome the reforms that the prime minister is pursuing to make it easier to do business here in India. Today, we achieved a breakthrough understanding on two issues that were holding up our ability to advance our civil nuclear cooperation, and we are committed to moving towards full implementation, and this is an important step that shows how we can work together to elevate our relationship. We also, as the prime minister noted, agreed to resume discussions about a possible bilateral investment treaty, and we will continue to pursue export reforms so we can advance more high-tech collaborations with India. I am also pleased that we agreed to a number of important steps to promote clean energy and to confront climate change. We very much support India's ambitious goal for solar energy and stand ready to speed this expansion with additional financing. We are also launching joint projects to improve air quality in Indian cities. The United States will share more data and develop tools to help India assess and adapt to the impact of climate change and to help vulnerable communities become more resilient. And going forward, we have agreed to work together to make concrete progress this year towards phasing out hydrofluorocarbons under the Montreal Protocol, and the prime minister and I made a personal commitment to work together to pursue a strong global climate agreement in Paris. As I indicated to him, I think India's voice is very important on this issue. Perhaps no country could potentially be more affected by the impacts of climate change, and no country is going to be more important in moving forward a stronger agreement than India, so we appreciate his leadership. We agreed to deepen our defense and security cooperation. We have renewed the framework that guides our defense cooperation for another ten years, and in a major step forward for our relationship, our defense technology and trade initiative will allow us to jointly develop and produce new defense technologies. We have also agreed to a new vision for the Asian Pacific, so that we are doing more together to advance our shared security and prosperity in this critical region. I thanked the prime minister for India's strong counterterrorism cooperation, and reiterated even as America's combat mission is over in Afghanistan, we are going to continue to be strong and reliable partners for the Afghan people, who have benefited from India's generous assistance over many years. I thanked the prime minister for his continued support for ongoing efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and to arrive at a just diplomatic solution. And finally, we discussed what more we can do as global partners. I reiterated, and reiterate to the Indian people today that we support a reformed U.N. Security Council that includes India as a permanent member, and at the same time, we see India playing a greater role in ensuring international security and peace and meeting shared challenges. As a leading contributor to U.N. peacekeeping missions for many years, India can help the world do even more to protect citizens in conflict zones. We welcome India's leadership in combating diseases and promoting global health, that advances the rights and dignity of citizens around the world. So, Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for welcoming me. I very much look forward to tomorrow's ceremonies, which I'm told are truly spectacular. I'm looking forward to a chance to speak directly to the Indian people on the radio and in my speech on Tuesday about what I believe we can achieve together. This new partnership will not happen overnight. It's going to take time to build and some patience, but it's clear from this visit that we have a new and perhaps unprecedented opportunity, and deepening our ties with India is going to remain a top foreign policy priority for my administration. So let me just say", "I now call upon Julie Pace of AP to ask her question.", "Thank you Mr. President and Mr. Prime Minister. Mr. President, I wanted to ask you about the situations in both Yemen and the Ukraine. On Yemen you held up the U.S. counterterrorism campaign there as a model for what you hope to achieve in your mission against the Islamic State Group. How does the political upheaval in Yemen affect U.S. efforts there, and will it cause you in any way to retool aspects of your broader counterterrorism strategy? And on Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels are again launching new offensives. How at this point can you justify not taking a different approach, given that the Minsk agreement has all but failed, and sanctions may have had an impact on the Russian economy but they don't appear to be changing Russia's calculus when it comes to Ukraine? And Mr. Prime Minister, I wanted to go back to climate change. White House officials have said that the recent U.S. -- they hope that the recent U.S.-China agreement can spur countries like India to make similar commitments to cut emissions. I wonder if you feel any pressure to take that kind of action because of the China agreement, and can a Paris climate summit produce a substantial result without that type of commitment from India? Thank you.", "Well, first of all, with respect to Ukraine, what I've said consistently is that we have no interest in seeing Russia weakened or its economy in shambles. We have a profound interest, as I believe every country does, in promoting a core principle, which is large countries don't bully smaller countries. They don't encroach on their territorial integrity, they don't encroach on their sovereignty, and that is what is at stake in Ukraine. And what we have done is to consistently isolate Russia on this issue and to raise the costs that Russia confronts. Now, when you say that we should take a different approach, Julie, I don't know exactly what you're referring to. I've been very clear that it would not be effective for us to engage in a military conflict with Russia on this issue. But what we can do is to continue to support Ukraine's ability to control its own territory, and that involves a combination of the economic pressure that's been brought to bear in sanctions, the diplomatic isolation that has been brought to bear against Russia. And as important as anything, making sure that we are continuing to provide the support that Ukraine needs to sustain its economy during this transition period and to help its military with basic supplies and equipment, as well as the continuing training and exercises that have been taking place between NATO and Ukraine for quite some time. We are deeply concerned about the latest break in the cease-fire and the aggression that these separatists, with Russian backing, Russian equipment, Russian financing, Russian training and Russian troops, are conducting. And we will continue to take the approach that we have taken in the past, which is to ratchet up the pressure on Russia, and I will look at all additional options that are available to us, short of military confrontation, and try to address this issue. And we will be in close consultation with our international partners and particularly European partners to assure that they stay in lock-step with us on this issue. What we have been very successful at is maintaining unity across the Atlantic on this issue, and that is going to be a continuing priority of mine. But, ultimately what I've said before remains true. If Mr. Putin and if Russia are hell-bent on engaging in military conflicts, their military is more powerful than Ukraine's, and, you know, the question is going to be whether they continue to pursue a path that not only is bad for the people of Ukraine, but is bad for the people of Russia, and are we able to continue to raise the costs even as we create an off-ramp diplomatically, that eventually the Kremlin starts pursuing a more sensible policy in resolving this issue. With regard to Yemen, my top priority has and always will be to make sure our people on the ground in Yemen are safe. That is something that we have been emphasizing for the last several months, and it builds on the work that we have been doing over the last several years. It is a dangerous country in a dangerous part of the world. Our second priority is to maintain our counterterrorism pressure on al Qaeda in Yemen, and we have been doing that. And I saw some news reports that suggested somehow that that counterterrorism activity had been suspended. That is not accurate. We continue to go after high- value targets inside of Yemen, and to continue -- we will continue to maintain the pressure that is required to keep the American people safe. We are concerned about what has always been a fragile central government, and the forces inside of Yemen that are constantly threatening to break apart between north/south, between Houthi and Sunni inside of Yemen, and this is one more sequence in what has been an ongoing turbulent process inside of Yemen. And what we are advising, not just the various factions inside of Yemen, but also working with our partners like the Gulf countries who have impact and influence inside of Yemen, is that at this point, what is needed is to respect a constitutional process that can resolve some of these differences peacefully and assure that all of the groups inside of Yemen are resorting to political, rather than military, means to resolve these differences. But I guess, you know, the point, Julie, is Yemen has never been a perfect democracy or an island of stability. What I've said is that our efforts to go after terrorist networks inside of Yemen without a occupying U.S. army, but rather by partnering and intelligence sharing with that local government is the approach we are going to need to take, and that continues to be the case. The alternative would be for us to play whack-a-mole every time there is a terrorist actor inside of any given country, to deploy U.S. troops, and that is not a sustainable strategy. So we will continue to try to refine and fine-tune this model, but it is the model that we are going to have to work with, because the alternative would be massive U.S. deployments in perpetuity, which would create its own blow-back and cause probably more problems than it would potentially solve. And we are going to have to recognize that there are going to be a number of countries where terrorists are located that are not strong countries. That's the nature of the problem that we confront. Terrorists typically are not going to be locating and maintaining bases and having broad networks inside of countries that have strong central governments, strong militaries and strong law enforcement. By definition, we are going to be operating in places where, oftentimes, there is a vacuum or capabilities are somewhat low, and we have got to just continually apply patience, training, resources, and we then have to help, in some cases, broker political agreements as well. So it is a long, arduous process. It is not neat and it is not simple. But it is the best option that we have, and what we have shown is that we can maintain the kind of pressure on these terrorist networks, even in these kinds of difficult-to-operate environments.", "[ speaking in foreign language ]", "So one of the things that the prime minister of India was asked about was the -- the -- the climate agreement between the United States and India and whether or not it would really have some muscle, some teeth to it. We know that the president, having reached a deal with China recently -- that was the question that was put to the prime minister here -- is whether or not that would be as substantive as the one we have seen between the United States and China. We have got an English interpretation so let's go ahead and listen in.", "We are working still to get that English translation so we can get a better understanding of what we are hearing from the prime minister. Suzanne was talking just a moment ago about the climate change agreement. That is what we are also hearing from the prime minister. I think we have got another question here. Let's listen in.", "-- that has been concluded between the United States and China does not impose any pressure on us. India is an independent country, and there is no pressure on us from any country or any person. But there is pressure. When we think about the future generations and what kind of a world we are going to give them, then there is pressure. Climate change itself is a huge pressure. Global warming is a huge pressure. And all those who think about a better life and a better world for the future generations, those who are concerned about this, then it is their duty and their conscience. They would want to give a better lifestyle to the future generations, a good life and a good environment. There is pressure for all those people (ph). There is pressure on all countries, on all governments and on all peoples. Thank you.", "Last question. (inaudible), ABP (ph) News.", "Thank you. Good evening to both the honorable prime minister and President Barack Obama. My question is for Prime Minister Modi, but let me first congratulate both of you for taking the relationship forward, most specifically on nuclear deal issues. [ SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ] Thank you.", "All right. We have been listening to the prime minister of India. He is taking the final question there. We have been listening to both of these leaders here, and the president addressing a number of really important issues, but, mostly, really paying attention -- we are not only talking about climate change here and a possible nuclear deal between these two countries, but also the state of security around the world, particularly when it comes to dealing with terrorists. And we want to bring in our own Michelle Kosinski to talk about this, because one of the things that the president was asked about was the state of Yemen, and we have seen, just within the last week, the prime minister, as well as the president, resigning from Yemen, and a group of rebels, the Houthi rebels, Shiites, essentially taking over that country. And the president was asked about what impact that would have on the United States' cooperation with that country on counterterrorism efforts. Michelle, I want you to address that, because it's something that he spoke about, and he said, well, our top priority is Americans who are inside of the country, and that we have confidence we will be able to continue those counterterrorism efforts, but to me it seemed like he really downplayed that, because, I mean, this is, I mean if you talk about Houthi rebels, these are for the not folks who welcome a U.S. presence inside that country, whether it be air strikes, drone strikes, or special ops, or even cooperation when it comes to intelligence. I think the United States has a very, very big problem in Yemen now.", "Yes, it's going to be something that is going to have to be looked at. And they could continue drone strikes. As for anything deeper on the ground, I think that is really the question. And when you consider drone strikes, the number of them has gone down considerably in the last few months. There has been obviously trouble brewing there, and now it's reached a head. I think what was interesting is this is a question that has been building for the president. You don't always get a chance to ask the president about this directly, so now that the chance was there, of course, it came up. Julie Pace from the A.P. asking President Obama, you said in the past that Yemen was something of a success in the way the U.S. was able to handle counterterrorism strategy there. What did you mean by that? And isn't it going to change now? I mean, much has been made about President Obama's statement. Actually using the word success as it relates to Yemen. So the president got a chance to explain that, saying that, no, it's never going to be a big success, but in the way that they were able to continue counterterrorism operations, that they were able to get some cooperation from the government. So there is your big question. Now that they may not have any cooperation from the existing government, I don't even know if anybody can define what government there is there now. What is going to happen there? Obviously, it's not going to be as deep in terms of working on the ground or getting intelligence out of there, even a safety in which people might be able to operate. But drone strikes, potentially that might be the only way, Suzanne.", "The question also got to a larger issue of the president's reluctance to send in military, not only into Yemen but into Ukraine. Julie asked about the failure of this Minsk cease-fire. We heard just Friday night that more than a dozen people were killed in that attack in Mariupol, and that, although for a period seemed to have cooled a bit, there certainly is this continuing back and forth and a reluctance and resistance from Russia and Putin. And if there will be this contradiction during this Republic Day parade, that the president is the chief -- actually, we hear the president, let me get the question to you in a moment.", "I do think that, in addition to a personal friendship, that we have been able to build in a fairly brief amount of time, we're also reflecting the warmth and affection between the Indian people and the American people. You know, part of the reason we are such natural partners is because we share values as former colonies, as the two largest democracies in the world, as entrepreneurial nations, as people who believe in the freedom and dignity and worth of all individuals. And so it's not surprising then that we have a friendship, because hopefully we are reflecting the values of our peoples. And what I'm very excited about is given the prime minister's energy and ambition for his country and lifting people out of poverty and moving forward on the reform agenda that he has put forward, that that affection can then be translated into very specific actions, and we are seeing that reflected here today. He is right, though, we can't tell you everything that we talked about. Although I will share one thing, and that is we compared how much sleep each of us is getting. It turns out that Modi is getting even less sleep than me. But, of course, that is because he is still new. After you've been doing this for about six years, maybe he'll be able to get an extra hour, all right? Thank you very much, everybody.", "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.", "So the president there speaking about the personal relationship between himself and the prime minister. Back to Michelle Kosinski and this discussion over Ukraine. The president's reluctance to get involved militarily there. But that is just -- we talked about Yemen and we talked about Ukraine, but there is also Libya, Afghanistan, Syria. This speaks to a larger reluctance on the part of this president.", "Right. But I think the president was consistent in what he said. Remember, this question comes up every time there is an additional round of sanctions by the U.S. and its European partners, and then something else escalates there. The question of is this enough? Russia, obviously, isn't changing its behavior. And what the White House keeps saying is that we know that. Not as if Russia is going to listen, but what happens is Russia keeps isolating itself further, and they keep pointing to the ruble falling, the economy going to pot. Foreign investment tearing out of the country as fast as it can. So that is the stance the White House takes. And the president said it here, and this was in relationship to both Yemen and Russia, that it's not as if we are going to send in troops every time something like this happens. The alternative to sanctions and working diplomatically would be massive U.S. military deployments indefinitely. So he pretty much settled the question with that, that the U.S. is not going to get involved militarily in all of these conflicts, and the White House obviously feels that that would be a disaster for the U.S. to do that. So then you look at what is the alternative to that? Well, it's going to continue to be things like sanctions and attempts at diplomacy. The problem is, when you look at what is going on on the ground in Crimea, it makes everybody nervous. It makes Russia and Ukraine's neighbors on edge, and it makes the U.S. worried about what is going to happen in terms of U.S. influence, and what is going to happen to that part of the world where so many of our allies are.", "Michelle, thank you so much. We appreciate you. You are following the breaking news out of India, and of course a lot of important points there, but the president having to deal with so many crises in so many places, but specifically the Middle East, and conflicts that, as you had mentioned before, you know, there is different grades of U.S. involvement, and, clearly, hesitation to escalate and move forward when it comes to a military response by the United States.", "We will talk more about this throughout the morning. We continue now with NEW DAY."], "speaker": ["BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "NARENDRA DAMODARDAS MODI, PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA", "JULIE PACE, AP", "OBAMA", "MODI", "MALVEAUX", "BLACKWELL", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MODI", "QUESTION", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR", "MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "OBAMA", "MODI", "BLACKWELL", "KOSINSKI", "MALVEAUX", "BLACKWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-386580", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-11-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1911/27/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Giuliani's Shifting Answers On Seeking Info On Ukrainian Oligarch; Ex- CIA Chief Pompeo Refuses To Dismiss Debunked Ukraine Claim", "utt": ["Just into CNN, the president's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, contradicting himself again over how he sought dirt on the president's rivals from Ukrainian oligarchs. Just two days ago, Giuliani tweeted he did not talk with Ukrainian businessman, Dmitry Firtash. He also told CNN back in October that he has, quote, \"nothing to do with him.\" But Giuliani just entirely contradicted that in a text message exchange with CNN. Andrew Kaczynski is our senior editor of \"KFILE.\" Back up. Dmitry Firtash, remind us who he is. And what is Giuliani now saying?", "Dmitry Firtash is a Ukrainian oligarch. He made his money in the gas industry. He is fighting extradition to the U.S. on unrelated bribery charges from 2013. Giuliani told us back in October, when we did a separate trip on Giuliani on a trip he took with his indicted associates to London, he said, I had nothing to do with Firtash. We asked because, during this trip, he spoke to a Ukrainian charity group. And a former spokesman for this oligarch was actually there. And he followed up with that saying he has been absent from Ukraine many years and never thought he had useful information for me related to 2016 or Joe Biden. What he told us now is completely different. He told us that he met with a lawyer for this oligarch for two hours in New York City where he sought information on collusion and corruption in Ukraine. So there's that conspiracy theory that Ukraine colluded in the 2016 election. And when we hear him talk about corruption, that's code for talking about the Bidens. Really interesting here is, he got a little angry when we asked him, you know, did you mislead me, and he said, \"Horse", "That's what he said when you asked to explain the discrepancy?", "That was the first text message I received from him. We had a very long text exchange where we talked about, did he mislead me. I said, you told me you never sought information on this guy and you are now acknowledging this meeting, what's with the discrepancy.", "He's saying it's horse \"you know what.\" What's your biggest takeaway?", "The takeaway from this is on sort of the bigger picture, how Giuliani was reaching out to all of these Ukraine-connected individuals, including this oligarch fighting extradition to the U.S., and actually ended up hitting some attorneys he knows very well, how he was reaching out to all of these folks to look into his campaign to get dirt on Joe Biden. And that sort of leads us all back to the impeachment thing and where we are now.", "Where we are now. Andrew Kaczynski, thank you for that. President Trump has also been known to push conspiracy theories, such as that Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States, and Ted Cruz's father as involved in the Kennedy assassination, that wind turbines cause cancer. To succeed in the Trump administration means agreeing with not openly disagreeing with or not openly disagreeing with Mr. Trump even when his pronouncements involving serious claims. Now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is lending credence to the president's debunked conspiracy theory it was Russia -- excuse me -- saying it was Ukraine and not Russia that interfered with America's elections in 2016. Although he never mentions Ukraine explicitly in his latest remarks, Secretary Pompeo leaves the door open to his boss' interpretation.", "Any time there's information that indicates that any country messed with American elections, we not only have a right but a duty to make sure we chase that down.", "CNN's Kylie Atwood has more on the significance of Secretary Pompeo's remarks. Kylie, in the past, he said he supported intelligence it was Russia who interfered. Intelligence that came from the CIA, which he used to be CIA chief. How is he trying to have it both ways?", "Brooke, let's do a little comparison here to understand how the secretary of state, once the CIA director for the Trump administration, has evolved on this topic. So that quote you just played from the secretary yesterday, in which he left open the door to the possibility that Ukraine was the one who messed with the U.S. elections in 2016, he was specifically asked, does he thinks that the U.S. and Ukraine should be investigating the fact it was Ukraine and not Russia, OK -- given the chance there -- who hacked the 2016 DNC server and release those emails? That is when he gave that answer that you played, leaving the door open to the possibility that it was Ukraine. Back in 2017, he discussed this specifically. He was then the CIA director. He had seen the intelligence that all -- completely made the case that it was Russia that interfered in the elections. I want to read what he said. He said, \"In January of this year\" -- this was Pompeo speaking in 2017 -- \"our Intelligence Community determined Russian military intelligence has used WikiLeaks to release data against the DNC committee.\" There, clearly saying it was Russia. Yesterday, not squarely saying it was Russia. This is really important. We have to consider what is at stake here. President Trump is coming out again getting behind this debunked theory that Ukraine was behind any of this meddling. But we have seen U.S. officials go before Congress in the past few weeks and call that a totally fictitious narrative.", "It was Russia. It was Russia. It was Russia. Kylie Atwood, thank you for that. Disturbing news about living and dying in the United States. Average life expectancy is dropping, and not as many new Americans are being born. Why we're no longer keeping up with other high-income countries. That's next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "ANDREW KACZYNSKI, CNN SENIOR EDITOR, \"KFILE\"", "BALDWIN", "KACZYNSKI", "BALDWIN", "KACZYNSKI", "BALDWIN", "MIKE POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE", "BALDWIN", "KYLIE ATWOOD, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY REPORTER", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-328039", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-12-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1712/09/cnr.21.html", "summary": "Concerns North Korea Could Disrupt Olympics.", "utt": ["Welcome back to NEWSROOM. A senior United Nations diplomat is wrapping up a rare trip to North Korea. Jeffrey Feltman was in that country for five days and met with North Korean officials there.", "State media there blamed what they called nuclear blackmail by the United States for rising tensions but also said North Korea wants to ease those tensions. No word yet from the U.N. on what was discussed. The last time a senior U.N. official visited North Korea was in 2010. Meanwhile, in South Korea, the countdown is on. We are only weeks away from the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games.", "Even though the games are being held in South Korea, the North still looms large on the horizon for many. But the South says don't worry, everything is going to be OK. Our Paula Hancocks has more on that story.", "As the Olympic torch makes its way around South Korea, problems are mounting for these Winter Games.", "The Russian Olympic Committee is suspended with immediate effect.", "One of the world's major winter sports powers is out. The IOC banning Russia for systematic manipulation of anti- doping rules. And there's another major country wavering. U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley was asked by FOX News if U.S. attendance was set in stone.", "There's an open question. I have not heard anything about that. But I do know that, in the talks that we have, whether it's Jerusalem, whether it's North Korea, it's always about how do we protect the U.S. citizens in the area?", "Clarification from the --", "-- White House later in the day, press secretary Sarah Sanders tweeting, \"The U.S. looks forward to participating in the Winter Olympics in South Korea.\" For South Korea, there is no plan B. Officials say North Korea, just 50 miles or 80 kilometers away from PyeongChang, these were the preparations transforming the area outside the stadium where the opening and closing ceremonies will be held. For South Korea, there is no plan B. Officials say North Korea, just 50 miles or 80 kilometers away from PyeongChang, does not pose a risk, referring to previous sporting events they have successfully held, including the Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988. These were the final preparations in PyeongChang a few weeks ago, transforming the area outside the stadium where the opening and closing ceremonies will be held. Park Seung-hei is the site manager. \"Personally, I don't think you need to worry,\" he tells me. \"No one around here is talking about North Korea.\" Ham Young-man has sold jewelry in the area for 40 years. He also dismisses security concerns. \"The slogan for the games is the peace Olympics. I believe tensions will ease and people from many countries will take part.\" Confident voices in the region that stands to lose the most if visitors stay away. Two months out and lagging ticket sales enjoyed a boost from 100-day events and the torch relay. Fifty-four percent is being sold as of November, slightly better than the Winter Games in Sochi four years ago. But organizers now have to contend not only with tourists put off by North Korea, but the likely loss of many Russian spectators if there's no national team to cheer on -- Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.", "Looking forward to the Olympics. A little break from the news. Thanks for watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Natalie Allen.", "And I'm George Howell. NEWSROOM is back after the break. We leave you, though, with these images of a rare sight in Atlanta, hey, not like South Korea but we've got snow, too. We'll be right back after the break."], "speaker": ["HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "THOMAS BACH, IOC CHAIRMAN", "HANCOCKS (voice-over)", "NIKKI HALEY, U.S.  AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS", "HANCOCKS (voice-over)", "HANCOCKS (voice-over)", "ALLEN", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-198966", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2013-1-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/08/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Matthew McConaughey`s Big Transformation for a Role; Drew Barrymore in No Hurry to Lose Baby Weight; Kim and Kanye`s Big Move", "utt": ["OK. So do you remember this scary skinny photo of Matthew McConaughey? The \"Magic Mike\" star hit an all-time low in body fat when he got down to an astounding 135 pounds for a movie role. He was playing an AIDS patient. And now in a brand-new interview with SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Matthew`s opening up about exactly how he was able to psych himself up to do it, and exactly how he rewarded himself once he finished shooting the movie. I can`t wait to hear that. With me now from Hollywood, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s Nischelle Turner. So Nischelle, whittling yourself down to 135 pounds when you`re a man of his size, not for the faint of heart. How did he do it?", "No, the faint of heart, or smart of heart, A.J., you`re right. McConaughey really took some extreme measures to lose weight for his starring role in \"The Dallas Buyers Club,\" a drama about Ron Woodruff, a real-life Texas electrician who contracted HIV in the `80s through IV drug use. It`s gotten him big-time Oscar buzz. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT was right there last night in New York, where McConaughey was awarded best supporting actor by the New York Film Critics Circle for his role. And he shared with us how he lost all that weight under a doctor`s close supervision and why getting so skinny was so important to him. Take a look.", "If I wouldn`t have got down to that weight to play that character as truthfully as I could, I would have been embarrassed for myself. Because my job is to go emulate the life of someone else. And that`s what I was doing. So it wasn`t honestly -- it was a difficult shore (ph), take a distant shore. But after I decided I was going to do it -- I say it all this time: once you run into the inevitable, get relative.", "Wow. Just looking at him there, that -- that picture is amazing, A.J. I can`t even imagine denying myself one day, let alone months of being deprived of all the things I love to eat.", "Yes. Yes. Pretty amazing. Obviously, he has so much discipline, and he`s a professional. But what I`ve really been dying to know is how did he reward himself after he finished shooting the movie. Did he just pig out?", "This is good. Because reward himself he did. Listen to what he told us about that.", "I had a cheeseburger first thing. And I doozied it up for over 22 minutes before I touched it. It was in front of me, but wouldn`t touch it until I had it just right. And it was just as good as I hoped it was.", "I say good for you, Matthew. Sounds like he enjoyed every bite of that burger. Let me bring in Julie Klausner. She`s a correspondent with Vulture.com. So Julie, apparently, listening to Matthew, it took him 22 minutes to dig into that burger. Now, I`m not a hamburger guy, but I would have eaten the fattiest, biggest, juiciest thing in a second. What about you?", "Oh, yes, no question, absolutely. I don`t know if I would have been able to wait 22 minutes. I have some questions about whether or not it got cold. I mean, it`s not a frigging souffle, either. It`s fast food. Right? Twenty-two minutes seems a little excessive. But look, you`ve got to do what you`ve got to do. Maybe it`s anticipation. Maybe he built it up.", "Hopefully, the ketchup came right out of the bottle as quickly as he needed it to.", "I pray that it did.", "McConaughey, by the way, not the only star who`s making big news out of Hollywood today in big confessions about weight loss. Brand-new mom, Oscar-winning actress Drew Barrymore, reveals in a new interview that`s out today in \"Good Housekeeping\" that she`s in no rush to lose the baby weight after she gave birth to her daughter, Olive back in October. Let me read what she says: \"I`m still working on it, but I`m not worrying about it. We live in a society where everyone is, like, `Look how amazing she looks two weeks out from giving birth.` I don`t want to be on that hamster wheel. That`s hell. I`m never going to have the kind of body that makes me excited about bikini season. I`ve never had a beach body, but I want to feel like I`m showing up and doing my best. My goal is to be nice to myself, gentle toward myself, during this process. It`s such a sacred time.\" Julie, I listen to that, I read those words, I`m thinking hooray for Drew. I mean, how terrific of her that she`s just being honest, candid, open and saying what I think millions of moms across the country are cheering her on for right now about not losing the baby weight.", "Absolutely. I was with her down to the word \"sacred.\" Then I kind of lost her. But absolutely, it`s a great sentiment. I do think she`s a good role model for her daughter and other -- for other women who have a hard time losing weight or don`t particularly feel like it moments after they`ve given birth. That said, were we all as blessed as Drew Barrymore with that gene pool, I think it would be a little bit easier for us to accept ourselves.", "Yes. Well, you know, the one thing that I think we`ve always loved about Drew Barrymore, not just as a Hollywood star but as a human being, is she`s so human. She really has always transcended what it is to be big Hollywood. She`s just a cool woman that...", "Yes.", "... I think we all want to be friends with.", "No question.", "All right. Julie Klausner, thank you so much.", "Thanks for having me.", "Let`s move on now to baby Kim-ye`s $11 million crib. Now here, I`m talking crib as in mansion. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West reportedly bought a house that could be bigger than all the houses on your block combined. That`s just one story that made the cut for tonight`s SHOWBIZ Countdown, \"Brilliant or Bananas?\" But will Kim-ye beat out Taylor`s new reported breakup? Yes, that`s right. Taylor Swift may be a single lady again. Is that \"Brilliant or Bananas\"? Which buzz-making story will top our SHOWBIZ Countdown. It is time now for the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT buzz. Here`s what the SHOWBIZ staff is buzzing all about this week.", "Carrie before the \"twos.\" We can`t wait for the Carrie diaries. Now, this is the prequel to \"Sex and the City.\" The new show and series premiers on the CW on January 14. I love this. I was playing it with -- playing it this afternoon. Songza, a free music streaming service that recommends playlists based on your mood, activities, of even time of day. Got a Trekkie alert for you. The \"Star Trek\" Into Darkness app full of cool features. The best thing is, you can use the app to enter to win a trip to \"Star Trek: Into Darkness\" premier in May. Well, we`ve already locked in our July 4 weekend plans. That`s because a hot line-up for the Essence Music Festival has just been announced: Jill Scott, L.L. Cool Jay and a whole lot more will be hitting the stage in New Orleans. And \"Justified\" is back on FX with tonight`s debut of season four.", "He`s been investigated so many times, internal affairs got him on speed dial.", "It`s a gift.", "Maybe so much is planned (ph). 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{"id": "NPR-35042", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2010-07-25", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128758341", "title": "NASCAR Feels Economic Woes", "summary": "NASCAR, which zoomed into prominence on the American sports map over the last two decades, may have to hit the brakes. The economy has forced many NASCAR fans to stay home from pricey races, and a host of rules changes have alienated a portion of the die-hard fan base. Host Audie Cornish speaks with Ryan McGee of ESPN: The Magazine about what's ailing NASCAR, and his prescription for a cure.", "utt": ["Now, a few hours after the last cyclist crossed the finish line at the Tour de France, a race with a little more horsepower got cranking on this side of the Atlantic.", "It seems plummeting attendance, sliding TV ratings, and a sponsorship crunch have NASCAR worried. The circuit's president, Brian France, said as much before the race. He promised impactful changes in next season's schedule and hinted that NASCAR may retune the way it crowns a champion.", "The Magazine. He says NASCAR's economic problems aren't unique.", "When they look in the grandstands and they see empty seats at racetracks that quite frankly always sold out, and that includes Daytona, then I think a lot of people will suddenly - I don't want to say panic, but certainly some concerns at it.", "And I've read that some of it could be in reaction to various rule changes that NASCAR has made.", "There has been a lot of rule changes, you know, primarily with the cars themselves. You know, about five years ago, NASCAR introduced what they called then the car of tomorrow. Now they just call it the COT. We joke now it's the car of today.", "And I think a lot of NASCAR fans kind of missed the innovation. They kind of missed the pushing the rules and, for lack of a better word, the cheating, you know, that went on. It was this kind of cat-and-mouse game between the mechanics, the crew chiefs, the teams and then the people from NASCAR that policed the cars technically. So I think...", "Right, because half the fun is seeing souped-up, hot cars...", "Yeah, absolutely.", "...doing things your car can't do.", "And I think that the fans miss that. And honestly, the NASCAR officials and the crew chiefs themselves miss that a lot more than I think that the league officials probably speculated or realized.", "Aren't there also a lot of differences between the way, I guess, what you would call stick-and-ball - football, baseball - type sports make money and the way that NASCAR team owners and drivers do that affect the sport as well?", "But these days, that's a lot of jobs that you potentially could have kept in the building. And so it's hard to justify spending that kind of money to sponsor race teams. And as a result, the teams have got pretty creative as far as tracking down sponsorship dollars.", "So is the sport really in trouble or is this just a speed bump?", "So I think we're going to have a little bit of a drought for a little while, but I think we'll all survive. The sport will be fine. It's just - Richard Childress, the great NASCAR team owner, always tells me, this is just an adjustment that we probably needed to make anyway. It's just been forced on us.", "Thanks, Ryan.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, Host", "AUDIE CORNISH, Host", "ESPN", "RYAN MCGEE", "AUDIE CORNISH, Host", "RYAN MCGEE", "RYAN MCGEE", "AUDIE CORNISH, Host", "RYAN MCGEE", "AUDIE CORNISH, Host", "RYAN MCGEE", "AUDIE CORNISH, Host", "RYAN MCGEE", "AUDIE CORNISH, Host", "RYAN MCGEE", "AUDIE CORNISH, Host", "RYAN MCGEE"]}
{"id": "CNN-241383", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2014-10-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/20/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Graham Suspect Indicted in 2005 Rape Case; Sources: Teen's Blood on Ferguson Cop's Gun, Car, Uniform", "utt": ["The prime suspect in the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham indicted for sexual assault. A grand jury has just indicted Jesse Matthew in a rape from 2005. The charges, though, very importantly include attempted murder and abduction. The case against Matthew is growing. He has been forensically linked to the case of another dead young woman, Morgan Harrington, a Virginia Tech student who vanished from Charlottesville in 2009. And now, officials are looking at him in a possible suspect in four other unsolved cases in Virginia. This comes as police found a skull and bones scattered just eight miles from where Hannah Graham was last seen. Jean Casarez is OUTFRONT from Charlottesville tonight. And, Jean, did the Hannah Graham case and what they have now found help bring this new indictment for another rape today?", "You know, the commonwealth attorney was asked that question and he said yes, that the Hannah Graham case did help. Now, we know when they collected all the evidence, from the car, in the apartment of Jesse Matthew, it is easy to get DNA of Jesse Matthew, through a cup or a straw, and he had never been convicted of a felony. Furthermore, there is a living alleged victim in Fairfax City, Virginia, that was able to potentially ID who her perpetrator was. Now, it is so different here in Charlottesville. Day and night, crime scene investigators are processing a makeshift grave.", "It has been every day for five weeks, searching for missing UVA student Hannah graham. On Saturday, everything came to an abrupt halt.", "A search team from the Chesterfield County Sheriff's Department was searching an abandoned property along old Lynchburg Road in Southern Albemarle County when they discovered what appears to be human remains.", "Something just inside me, told me, just continue to look.", "Sergeant Dale Terry was part of the search team that made the grim discovery about 10 miles away from the UVA campus. A skull and bones scattered across the creek bed, along with a pair of tight dark colored pants. No hair, no flesh. Pants, much like the one Hannah Graham was wearing when she went missing on September 13th. The development quickly became a difficult reality for investigators.", "The Detective Sergeant James Mooney of the Charlottesville Police Department made a very difficult phone call and reached out to John and Susan Graham to share with them this preliminary discovery.", "It was just last week that Hannah's parents pleaded for anyone to help them find their daughter.", "We appeal to you to come forward and tell us where Hannah can be found.", "Now, authorities may have found her, but it will take forensic experts to confirm it is the 18-year-old UVA sophomore.", "Full decomposition down to skeletalization can occur as soon as three weeks. So, 35 days, I'm not surprised. They expected it.", "The scene continues to be processed right up there by investigators. We are in the southern part of the county, Albemarle County, right outside the city of Charlottesville. And if you go up that road for four miles, what you'll find is the house that Jesse Matthew used to live in with his mother. (voice-over): This is house that Matthew lived in for with six years, according to his neighbors.", "His mother talked a lot and she seemed to be a real nice person. She wanted to stay out here to try to keep him away from the city, away from the gangs.", "But as Jesse Matthew sits in the county jail for the abduction of Hannah Graham, he could be facing a lot more trouble than the gangs of Charlottesville.", "And law enforcement tells me they will continue processing the scene for as long as it takes. It could be at a minimum on Thursday, that they could be finished. And then, Erin, there is so much more to do, because with the chief medical examiner, number one, they have to identify these remains through DNA. And number two, the cause and the manner of death, and then those black pants that they did find at the scene, they've got to see if there is any foreign DNA of the perpetrator that may have caused Hannah -- the alleged victim here to lose her life.", "Jean Casarez, thank you so much. And OUTFRONT now, retired FBI profiler, Jim Clemente. And, Jim, let me start with this question of whether this is Hannah. They said they found a skull and scattered bones but no hair and no flesh. The remains were found 35 days after Hannah Graham was last spotted. Is it possible that this isn't her? That this is too far of a state of decomposition?", "Well, it is possible it is another victim or some random body. The chances are pretty good. I mean, offenders can accelerate that skeletalization process by putting the body in a stream, which then, if it rained, you know, it could have been much more activity. Could have removed the skin and so forth from the bones. But the offender himself could have used some type of acid to get rid of the flesh and hair.", "To try to hide his tracks. Let me ask you a question, though, about where there was. The remains were found ten mile from her Hannah Graham was last seen. I want to show you a map just to lay the groundwork here. So, everyone, as you can see, 10 miles from where Hannah Graham was last seen, four miles from Jesse Matthew once lived, five miles from where Morgan Harrington was found. Matthew has been linked by forensic evidence to Morgan Harrington's disappearance. She went missing outside UVA in 2009. You study serial killers, Jim. Is there any significance that you see when you look at these distances?", "Well, actually, this looks like a fairly classic example of what a serial killer might, and that is, they move the person away from the abduction site to a place where they have more privacy and control. That could be a remote area, an abandoned house, a place they can pull their car off the road without being seen. And then when they kill the person, they want to distance themselves from the body. And typically, they'll go away from the abduction site. Not towards the abduction site when they dispose of the body. In this case, it looks like this was a fairly good disposal site, because it was located behind an abandoned house and in a stream bed. Although there isn't active concealment, it is a very difficult place to find.", "All right. Jim Clemente, thank you. Of course, we're waiting to see. And of course, the hope that that would not be Hannah. We're awaiting those final forensic results. Well, the city of Ferguson, Missouri, is now bracing for a violent protests because there is new evidence that could acquit the officer who shot unarmed teen, Michael Brown. Law enforcement sources tell CNN that Brown's blood was found on the gun, uniform and car belonging to Officer Darren Wilson. This new evidence may support Wilson's account. OK, that account was that he fired in self-defense. That Brown had approached him at the car and attacked him. Sara Sidner is OUTFRONT.", "This is the new normal in Ferguson, protests night and day for the past 73 days. Their number one demand? Justice. To them that means the indictment and arrest of Officer Darren Wilson who shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown August 9th. Tensions are high again after new details about the investigation were leaked by a federal source to \"The New York Times\", indicating forensic evidence may mean potential civil rights charges are unlikely. U.S. law enforcement sources told CNN, Brown's blood was found on the Wilson's gun, inside Wilson's patrol car and on his uniform.", "What that does is that tends to support any testimony that there was some kind of scuffle in the police car. And if so, that tends to support Officer Wilson's testimony and his justification for using deadly force.", "Early on, Brown's friends said there was a scuffle but that Wilson was the aggressor.", "He pulled up alongside us, he tried to push the door open. We were so close that it ricocheted and it bounced back to him. And I guess that, you know, got him a little upset as he was trying to choke my friend. And he was trying to get away. And the officer then reached out and he grabbed his arm to pull him into the car.", "CNN legal analyst Danny Cevallos says the newly reveal forensic evidence only goes so far.", "Ultimately, that officer will have to come one justification, not for firing his gun the first time but for each and every bullet that came out of his firearm, whether at the car or away from the car.", "Whatever happens, police tell CNN, they are preparing, especially after hearing this time and again for protesters in the streets.", "If there is not an indictment -- excuse my French -- all hell is going to break loose.", "Are you worried that there is going to be serious violence?", "Yes. I mean, again, we're constantly looking at those things. I believe it was five shootings in August.", "During the protests.", "Yes, during the protest that came out of that. And then also to protect businesses and the property and the citizens who live in the area.", "Protesters also have plans.", "Everybody is planning for whatever the grand jury decides. I think certainly there are lots of us planning peaceful protests for, should it not be indicted. Certainly there are other people that have other ideas at hand.", "So, Sara, when is the grand jury going to return this decision, and what is the range of charges that they could indict if they did?", "These are all been questions. First of all, let's talk about the range of charges that you asked about. There are four main charges that the grand jury is being asked to look. A one, first-degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter. They're being asked to look at that. They've been given the statutes for what is self-defense and for what is legally the use of force. And as far as when this grand jury is going to come back with a decision, everyone is trying to figure that out. However, we talk to the prosecuting attorney's office and the official there told us, they're expecting something to come down in mid-November. These protesters want to it happen fast better you they say they will be here every single night until then. And depending on what the outcome is, things could get pretty hairy around here.", "Sara Sidner, thank you so much. And OUTFRONT next --", "Survivors. A survivor spirit. Survivors.", "Don Lemon with an emotional trip in search of his roots. And journalism can be a dangerous job. But covering the pumpkin festival? I mean, you know, you wouldn't bet, but you would bet wrong. Jeanne Moos explains."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CASAREZ (voice-over)", "CHIEF TIMOTHY LONGO, CHARLOTTESVILLE POLICE DEPT.", "SGT. 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{"id": "CNN-48593", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-2-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/04/ltm.08.html", "summary": "Bostonians Celebrate Patriots Super Bowl Win", "utt": ["Up front this morning, a night for Patriots on and off the field. Super Bowl XXXVI, the final game of the season for that uniquely American pastime, the National Football League. The game also paid tribute to the victims of September 11th, and to those who were on the front lines, both past and present. Singer Mariah Carey, an admirable job on the National Anthem, to the backdrop of images of firefighters raising the American flag at ground zero, and images at the famous flag-raising at Iwo Jima during World War II. The Irish Rock band U2 provided the halftime entertainment. The names of the victims of the terrorist attack scrolled on a giant screen behind them. This is moving stuff. And for the city of Boston, a night to remember, CNN's Bill Delaney is there, and he joins us now. Hey, Bill, I bet they had some party in Beantown last night, didn't they.", "A heck of party in Beantown last night, Jack. We're here in downtown Boston, where you know, it's still a Monday morning. People are trudging off to work. No obvious signs of jubilation, but in the hearts of all New England Patriots fans in the city of Boston and throughout New England, everybody knows that something great happened last night as quarterback and most valuable player Tom Brady said last night, \"We were the underdogs. Now we're the top dogs.\" The first time in 16 years this sports crazy town has won a big-time championship. That was the Celtics. Back then, lots of horn honking and merry making all over the city last night, but you know, to the credit of Boston, no incidents of any kinds. Some very minor incidents. No arrests or any of that sort of stuff. People just in a very good mood about a very good team that' left good vibes around it now for a long time. I've got a Patriots fan next to me, Kelly Esposito (ph), who's out walking her dogs this morning. You know, Kelly, this was a pretty special Super Bowl on a lot of levels. It was a fantastic game, but it also came in wake of 9-11. And was a team that along has -- like the country has since 09-11 -- talked about how important it is to pull together. What do you think of that element of all of this?", "You know, it's Amazing that it is symbolic in many different ways. One, the Patriots, just representing who they are, red, white and blue. And certainly a young team just you know, giving it all. But it's also symbolic in a way that, you know, with the festivities that will take place here tomorrow dating back to 9- 11, it's almost gone full circle. About four months ago, there was ceremony here for the 9-11. You know, sadness, very sad. But, again, tomorrow it's almost full circle, that again the nation will be focused here in a positive way.", "Kelly, thanks very much. Good an important thought, I think.", "Thank you.", "Good thoughts and important thoughts, I think. But miracles -- well, the patriots something of a miracle Chris Gaylord. But you had a real miracle in hour life yesterday. Tell us about it.", "It was pretty much unbelievable experience. After -- my wife miscarried last year, and my territory ended up getting 40,000 worth of jet fuel dumped on it, you know, the Twin Towers. I work for a mutual fund company in Boston. My wife ended getting pregnant again with twins, and yesterday, you are not going to believe this, not only were the twins born, Theodore and Harrison, but also the Pats won the Super Bowl. And I was even thinking of naming them Ty and Lawyer. But I don't think my wife...", "But they are in Mass General Hospital right now. My wife is doing fine. I'm so happy. I watched the first half with her. I spent the halftime with the boys. And then got to watch the end of the game in Boston, and the crowd just went wild. When that field goal went, it was awesome. Chris Gaylord, thanks so much. And you'll never forget of course. An unforgettable day all over this region and for football fans all over the world. Back to you in New York. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR", "BILL DELANEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KELLY ESPOSITO", "DELANEY", "ESPOSITO", "DELANEY", "CHRIS GAYLORD", "GAYLORD"]}
{"id": "CNN-403511", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-06-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/23/cnr.14.html", "summary": "Twitter Puts Warning on Trump Tweet.", "utt": ["We are getting some breaking news involving President Trump and Twitter. A recent tweet from the President has now been slapped with a warning label. So, Donie O'Sullivan, let me bring you in. And so, the concern is what the President tweeted about protesters in Washington, right?", "That's right, Brooke. Obviously, we saw the protests outside the White House last night. And the President has been critical of the \"Autonomous Zone\" that is in place in Seattle. With that in mind the President this morning posted on Twitter and Facebook this. He said, there will never be an \"Autonomous Zone\" in Washington D.C. and as long as I'm your President, if they try, they will be met with serious force. Now Twitter this afternoon is saying that that tweet breaks its rules. They've put a label on it that reads, the tweet violated our rules about abusive behavior. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public interest for the tweet to remain accessible. Worth noting here as well, they've removed the ability for people to like the tweet and to directly re-tweet it. Twitter has a specific set of rules in place for world leaders where world leaders like Trump are allowed to break its rules sometimes if you or I were to have posted that message, it would've likely gotten removed maybe even our account deleted. But this is the fourth time in just a few weeks that Twitter has taken action against President Trump's account. They've called him out for misinformation about mail-in ballots in California. They removed and labeled a video last week, the President posted of two toddlers. And they also called him out for glorification of violence last month as well. I mentioned this post is on Facebook, Facebook and no commentary. It is probably unlikely that the company will take any move against the post, given that they did not take action against Trump's similar posts last month -- Brooke.", "No, I know just especially given what you said, the fourth in the last couple of weeks. So, you know, you've been reporting on these tensions, right, that are arising that are really simmering between Silicon Valley and the President. And this is just the latest example. We know you will be all over it. Donie O'Sullivan, thank you so much. Good to see you. And that's it for me. I'm Brooke Baldwin here in New York. Thanks for being here. Let's go to Washington. THE LEAD with Jake Tapper starts right now. END"], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "DONIE O'SULLIVAN, CNN REPORTER", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-211045", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-7-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/24/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Family That Zimmerman Helped Due to Speak", "utt": ["In just a few hours, we're expecting to hear from the family who got a helping hand from George Zimmerman last week. The family's SUV skidded off a road in Sanford, Florida, roll on to its side. Police say two Good Samaritans stopped to help the couple and their children get out of that car. One of the Samaritans was George Zimmerman, who was recently found not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Joining me by phone from Sanford is CNN's Victor Blackwell. What more do we know about this family, Victor?", "What we know that they are two parents, two kids who were driving on to I-4 Wednesday, just four days after the verdict. Mark and Dana Gerstle, they're going to be speaking this morning at the office of Mark O'Mara, the defense attorney of George Zimmerman. We're told the reason they called this press conference is because they got so many calls at their home to speak they want to have a news conference once and for all to tell what they know. There is a considerable amount of skepticism here in Sanford and central Florida about this story, Carol. This comes from one deputy on scene who says he ID'ed George Zimmerman at the scene as one of the two men. There were eight calls to 911 after this crash. Not one of them was George Zimmerman. We know from the trial that George Zimmerman has called 911 and called police dispatchers several times but not one of the persons who called mentioned that George Zimmerman was on the scene. Now, granted, several of them were on the highway and driving. There's a chance they did not see him. But this will be an opportunity for both his family and possibly Mark O'Mara as well to answer questions about George Zimmerman being on the scene of this crash on Wednesday.", "It is interesting that Mark O'Mara has called this news conference -- or is hosting this news conference rather.", "It is. I spoke with a pastor here in town on Monday at a meeting and he asked specifically, is the Seminole County Sheriff's Office trying to work PR, public relations, for George Zimmerman? And this is the question that I'll put to Mark O'Mara today, is this an attempt to reboot his image? Again, there are many people who just do not believe this story. We asked specifically to speak with the deputy who ID'ed George Zimmerman, who were told by the sheriff's office there will be no interviews. They released a statement and there will be no more from them on this. But we'll put this out today and ask about them, this appearance of George Zimmerman, so close, less than a mile, actually, from where he shot Trayvon Martin in February of 2012.", "All right. Victor, we'll get back to you. Thanks so much. Victor Blackwell reporting live from Sanford. Up next in", "Anthony Weiner's wife standing by her husband's side after his latest sexting admission. Will New York City voters forgive Anthony Weiner again? And why did Huma decide to stand by her man? We'll talk about all of that when we come back."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (via telephone)", "COSTELLO", "BLACKWELL", "COSTELLO", "THE NEWSROOM"]}
{"id": "CNN-206263", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-5-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/06/cnr.10.html", "summary": "Inside A Colorado Grow Facility", "utt": ["Very soon it will be legal in Colorado to not only buy pot for medicinal uses, but personal use as well. CNN's Jim Spellman talks to the owner of a state of the art grow facility who says business isn't quite booming, at least not just yet.", "Like many small businessmen, Shaun Gindi has employees, a warehouse, retail stores and his fair share of headaches.", "I make this business work paycheck to paycheck.", "But his product is anything but usual. Gindi grows and sells marijuana.", "This is a flower room looks like.", "He grows the cannabis in this warehouse in Denver and has two medical dispensaries in the suburbs.", "I have about 20 people working for me. They do anything from growers to trimming to working as caregivers in the stores.", "So far, his business has been limited to medical marijuana, selling only to Colorado residents with a doctor's recommendation and state-issued red card. But last year, voters passed amendment 64 legalizing recreational use of marijuana. The state is still working out regulations ahead of January 2014 when recreational marijuana stores are expected to open. Dispensaries like Gindi's are expected to be able to convert and sell to anyone over 21, but there are several catches. (on camera): This is still against federal law. That must create an unbelievable amount of stress for you.", "Yes, it does. I'm talking to you right now. There is a voice in the back of my head that, there is an innate nervousness to being in this business.", "A bill in Congress would bar the federal government from going after people in states that have legalized marijuana, but it is unclear if the bill has a chance of becoming law. (on camera): Are you afraid that all that you've built here will be taken away from you?", "Yes. I can't even keep my face straight saying that. That's such a real fear.", "Nate Laptegaard runs the warehouse. (on camera): I want to learn more about exactly how you grow marijuana on essentially an indoor farm. Where does it start?", "It starts in the lab.", "With cuttings known as clones.", "Get a little gel on there.", "That go into these tanks for about two weeks then to this room for about five weeks under simulated sunlight in a CO2 rich environment. (on camera): Each of these plants gets in its own bar code?", "That's right. Every single plant when it comes out of the corner, once it gets into here it's coded individually. We're able to trace that plant from this stage all the way to the end product.", "Then the light is cut back, to simulate the shorter days of autumn triggering the plants to flower and finally it's off to be trimmed and dried. The entire process is regulated by the state. After a criminal background check employees are issued a Colorado marijuana worker I.D. card. Every time a plant is moved, the employee logs it using this software. A fingerprint scanner tracks the employees at every turn.", "There's no scar face here. There's no AK-47s, none of that stuff. We have inspectors from the state in here all the time.", "Even though Gindi pays sales and income tax, marijuana is still against federal law so expenses cannot be deducted from federal taxes and FDIC-backed banks won't take their money.", "There's nothing glamorous about this business. It's a struggle trying to operate without a bank account, trying to run a business without being able to take deductions.", "At his dispensary, Gindi operates in a highly competitive marketplace. About 500 medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado compete for the business of the 108,000 people on the medical marijuana registry. (on camera): Have they become more kind of sores about their marijuana?", "Definitely, definitely. You don't ever see a, quote/unquote, \"swag\" any more. It's all chronic. It's all hydroponic.", "Competition has driven prices down to half of what they were just three years ago, creating razor thin margins. But could that change when more people, even pot tourists from out of state are able to legally buy weed? Gindi isn't so sure.", "There's a risk that comes along with it.", "That might push the federal government into acting where they were comfortable not acting with medical marijuana.", "Right. And I have to make that choice.", "These marijuana pioneers will probably never convince all of their critics that pot should be legal, but they see themselves as the good guys.", "Every single person that comes here that works for me, when they clock in, they put their finger on a sensor. And they know they're committing a federal crime. 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{"id": "NPR-46712", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2006-11-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6461945", "title": "Democratic Sweep Defied 'Conventional Wisdom'", "summary": "In recent elections, political analysts have said the GOP has better campaign tactics. But the Democratic upset Tuesday challenged that so-called conventional wisdom about the kind of strategies that win elections. Have Democrats outsmarted Karl Rove?", "utt": ["This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex Chadwick. It's not just candidates who win and lose on Election Day; these actually are contests of ideas, too. NPR's Mike Pesca looks at how the results of the midterm election have challenged some conventional wisdom about politics.", "After each election comes the deluge of analysis. And once the pundits and professors got to dissecting the reasons for the democratic loss in 2004, a few notions began to gain currency. It wasn't, this line of thinking went, a victory of Republican ideas or even of the Republican candidate.", "The Republicans seemed to have stacked the deck by perfecting a range of tactics. William Galston, a professor and former official in the Clinton White House, puts it this way.", "Look there is not question about the fact that Republicans have had some structural advantages for quite some time.", "Galston lists a few of these structural advantages. One, Republicans raise more money. Two, gerrymandering helps Republicans. Three, Republicans are better at targeting their voters. Add to that a fourth popular explanation which gained traction over the last couple of years: Republicans are better at framing their ideas in pithy soundbites.", "So let's take them in order, the easiest one is money. It's true Republicans raise more nationally and in high profile races. In Ohio, Montana, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Missouri, the Republican Candidate raised more than his Democratic rival and he lost.", "Ruy Teixeira is the Author of The Emerging Democratic Majority. He explains.", "There's just sort of a threshold you have to cross in terms of financial viability. But you don't necessarily have to have as much money or more money than the incumbent; you just have to have enough money to run a real campaign.", "Next up, the master tacticians who have captured voters inside bizarrely drawn congressional districts. Emory University political science professor Alan Abramowitz is skeptical.", "There is a widespread assumption that all bad things are a result of gerrymandering - polarization, lack of competition. But it's a gross over-simplification.", "Abramowitz says there is gerrymandering. He says gerrymandering hurts democracy a little. But his main explanation for all these seemingly uncompetitive congressional seats is natural migration and political patterns, not wise guys in state houses with grease pencils.", "Conservative guru and direct-mail pioneer Richard Vigary(ph) says gerrymandering is an unfair advantage that Republicans have, but a beatable advantage.", "It is, in my opinion, equivalent to having a life jacket on if you fall into water over your head. But there is not much that life jacket will do if you're facing a tsunami, and it will help at the margins.", "Vigary has similar thoughts on the Republican get-out-the-vote advantage. This includes their vaunted voter vault and their use of micro targeting, meaning in-depth research.", "Ruy Teixeira eyebrows are raised.", "The sense seems kind of like magic. You know, somehow by taking consumer databases and voter files and mixing it up in a big vat and throwing in the wing of bat and eye of lizard, the Republicans are able to almost steal election victories out from the noses of the Democrats.", "But I think - to be honest, I think a lot of it is just B.S.", "When Emory's Alan Abramowitz looks at why Republicans were better at getting out their vote in battleground states like Ohio in 2004, he says there was more vote to get out.", "Democrats did a better job actually of increasing their votes than the Republicans did. Now, you know, they still lost because you can only turn out people who support you.", "On to framing, an idea that in general seems pure common sense - make a good argument. But since the 2004 election, the work of linguist George Lakoff has taken off among some Democrats to the point where Lakoff offers briefings to powerful politicians, telling them that the key to victory lies in the right phrases and soundbites. William Galston is not a believer.", "The emphasis on framing and language has functioned as one more excuse for the Democratic Party not to think harder about what it's agenda ought to be. It amounts to the proposition: There is nothing wrong with what we advocate, we just need to find more effective ways of talking about it.", "Reasonable people can differ. This time around Democrats may have been helped by succinct messages like had enough? That one was offered up by master framer Newt Gingrich, by the way.", "In any case, a Democratic victory doesn't just prove the effectiveness of key Republicans tactics, it just shows that the tactics aren't insurmountable. And maybe it will convince certain Democrats that perhaps, sort of, at least this time the systems works. Easier for them to say; they won.", "Mike Pesca NPR News, New York."], "speaker": ["ALEX CHADWICK, host", "MIKE PESCA", "MIKE PESCA", "Professor WILLIAM GALSTON (Professor of Public Affairs, University of Maryland)", "MIKE PESCA", "MIKE PESCA", "MIKE PESCA", "Mr. RUY TEIXEIRA (Author, The Emerging Democratic Majority)", "MIKE PESCA", "Professor ALAN ABRAMOWITZ (Professor of Political Science, Emory University)", "MIKE PESCA", "MIKE PESCA", "Mr. RICHARD VIGARY (Conservative Strategist)", "MIKE PESCA", "MIKE PESCA", "Mr. RUY TEIXEIRA (Author, The Emerging Democratic Majority)", "Mr. RUY TEIXEIRA (Author, The Emerging Democratic Majority)", "MIKE PESCA", "Professor ALAN ABRAMOWITZ (Professor of Political Science, Emory University)", "MIKE PESCA", "Professor WILLIAM GALSTON (Professor of Public Affairs, University of Maryland)", "MIKE PESCA", "MIKE PESCA", "MIKE PESCA"]}
{"id": "NPR-22979", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2014-12-11", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/12/11/370022500/nfl-owners-ok-stiffer-penalties-for-domestic-violence-other-crimes", "title": "NFL Owners OK Stiffer Penalties For Domestic Violence, Other Crimes", "summary": "Any NFL player involved in an assault or in domestic or sexual violence would be suspended for at least six games under rules approved Wednesday. The players' union is reviewing the updates.", "utt": ["The National Football League's personal conduct policy is getting a facelift. Owners of the league's 32 teams voted unanimously yesterday to revise that conduct policy, adding among other things stronger penalties for domestic violence. The changes come after the NFL was criticized for its handling of alleged off-field violence involving some of its highest-profile players. NPR's Nathan Rott reports.", "NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced the owners' decision saying that the revisions are a positive for everyone associated with the NFL.", "The policy is comprehensive. It is strong. It is tough.", "And it is fairly hard to read. So we'll spare you the trouble by hitting the highlights, starting with a little help from Goodell.", "It applies to everyone in the NFL - owners, coaches, league staff, team employees and players.", "It also expands the list of prohibited activities for all of those people to include, among other things, domestic abuse, sex offenses and illegal possession of guns. Under the new policy, a violation involving assault or domestic or sexual violence gets a baseline suspension of six games without pay, but can also result in banishment from the league. And an actual conviction is no longer necessary for league discipline. The policy also greatly reduces Goodell's power and role in disciplining, something that many called for after he initially suspended former Baltimore Raven Ray Rice just two games for punching his then fiancee. For comparison, a player who tested positive for a banned substance faced a four-game suspension. Goodell is not entirely out of the disciplining business, though. Under the new policy he still controls the appeals process.", "Which as far as the players is concerned, is unacceptable.", "George Atallah is with the NFL Players Association, the union representing the league's players. He says that Goodell has forfeited the right to be that arbiter because of his actions in recent years with Rice and other incidents. Atallah says that doesn't necessarily mean the union will seek to block the new revisions, something they could potentially do. But he does say they're reviewing all of the policies, and...", "We believe that if there are any violations of our collective bargaining agreement, we have remedies to be able to pursue, and we'll pursue those very quickly.", "Atallah says that's not to protect or defend players from discipline, but given everything else that's happened in the last few months, they just want to make sure that any changes are done fairly and with transparency. Nathan Rott, NPR News."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE", "ROGER GOODELL", "NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE", "ROGER GOODELL", "NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE", "GEORGE ATALLAH", "NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE", "GEORGE ATALLAH", "NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-398532", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-04-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/26/cnr.22.html", "summary": "Italy Deaths, New Cases Continue Downward Trend; Satellite Photos Raise Questions about Kim Jong-un; Japan's Health Care System Overwhelmed; Vietnam Reports Low COVID-19 Infections, No Deaths", "utt": ["Welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Natalie Allen. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. We appreciate it. New satellite images are offering tantalizing clues about the whereabouts and health of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. These photographs show what is likely Mr. Kim's personal train near his compound. But it's not clear he's there. He hasn't been seen in public for more than two weeks. North Korean media say he sent a thank you message to some workers but CNN has not confirmed that report, that it came from him. CNN also reported on Tuesday that the U.S. is following intelligence that Kim was in grave danger after surgery. So what do we make of it? Will Ripley has covered North Korea on 19 separate trips there and he joins us now from Tokyo. Has Kim Jong-un ever disappeared for this long, Will?", "He did vanish from sight for 40 days back in 2014. However, it was not like this. In terms of the speculation and the conflicting reports from one end of the spectrum that he's perfectly fine to the complete other end of the spectrum that the situation is beyond horrible for Kim Jong-un. I think a lot of these reports are based on second-hand information because well-placed sources I have been speaking with since Tuesday and Jim Sciutto's reporting that the U.S. is monitoring intelligence that Kim Jong-un is in grave danger after surgery, these are people who are usually in the know and they have no idea. Because nothing is more secretive in this -- one of the world's most secretive countries than the health of their leader. They're not going to really tell anyone anything until they're nice and ready. So on state media, you have these routine reports that Kim Jong-un sent a greeting to someone or sent, you know, regards to someone else. These are, you know, electronic messages that somebody else signs off on. They're not confirming or denying the rumors that are spreading around the world. And the silence speaks volumes that something is going on. And then, of course, the presence of his train. It doesn't prove or disprove anything about his health, it adds credibility to the fact that he's probably there. If he's traveling by train and not his preferred method, by plane, that could say a lot of things. Maybe he did have surgery and he can't fly. Maybe there's a serious procession that's about to leave from his compound. It's all speculative until we get the facts from the North Koreans if and when they're ready.", "It's not like he's an old or aging leader, either. Why would he be in grave danger? We know that you're also following another major story for us there in Tokyo and that is the crisis of the pandemic and it seems it's gotten so bad there that the health care system is near the point of collapse. What can you tell us?", "We have seen in just one month a more than tenfold increase in the number of coronavirus cases here in Japan. This is a nation that still has an observable sense of complacency among the general population. People are still out. Yet case numbers are rising quickly and people seem to be hearing the warnings but not taking them seriously.", "Loudspeakers are blaring amongst Tokyo warning people to stay home. Some are listening. Many are not, packing supermarkets, parks, playgrounds, even a gambling park. Japanese health experts warn that without social distancing, hundreds of thousands could die of coronavirus. Getting tested remains incredibly difficult. This man's daughter had a 104-degree fever, 40 degrees Celsius for 4 days. \"My wife and I were very nervous. Desperately asking for a test but they kept saying no. They even hung up on me.\" Within days, his entire family was sick.", "They tried to get tested for two agonizing weeks. \"It was scary. Our first daughter also had a fever, then a seizure. We took her to the hospital but it was too late.\" She was just 16 months old when she died of flu-related meningitis five years ago. His wife and children were never tested for the coronavirus. A doctor says the same thing is happening to a lot of his patients. \"Only 10 percent of my requests are accepted.\"", "90 percent denied?", "On average this month, Tokyo is testing less than 300 people a day. Japan's health ministry has repeatedly told CNN widespread testing would be a waste of resources. Just this week, some areas did begin offering drive-through and walk- through testing. But it is not widely available. Undertesting is not the only problem. Hospitals are turning away ambulances at a rate four times higher than last April.", "Your patient is laying there for up to nine hours, getting no treatment whatsoever and hospitals kept turning him away? \"I have never experienced being turned away by so many hospitals before the coronavirus outbreak.\" Japan's medical association warns the public health system is on the brink of collapsing. Running low on ICU beds, ventilators and personal protective equipment. \"We only get one mask per week.\" CNN agreed not to use her full name, identify her hospital.", "How is one mask a week possible to keep you safe from the virus? \"It is scary,\" she says, showing me the cloth mask that she uses. Experts warn that cloth masks don't protect nurses from coronavirus. Several Japanese hospitals have already become clusters of an infection. \"I am worried about how long this will continue. I am afraid that there is no end in sight.\" With case numbers skyrocketing in Japan, this may be just the beginning.", "How do you shape public policy if you don't have an idea how many have the virus? Widespread testing is what experts say is necessary to find out how many people are walking around sick. Yet here in Tokyo, their testing for the month of April an average of less than 300 people per day. In New York they're testing an average of 20,000 people per day. Supporters of Japan's approach will say, but look at the low number of deaths right now, over 300 but less than a lot of countries. But seven weeks ago, all of the United States had less than 200 deaths. Things can change quickly if the virus spreads quickly.", "Absolutely. Quickly, Will, I'm curious, why are people in Japan not practicing social distancing? Why does this seem to be a laid-back reaction to what's going on?", "One, the government's messaging before the postponement of the Olympics was very relaxed, saying that Japan had a low number of cases. Now there is a nationwide state of emergency. But the problem is, a lot of people have had no choice but to go to work because 80 percent of Japanese companies are not set up for telework. And so people have no choice but to show up at their jobs if their bosses tell them to do so. Only some of the big corporations like Toyota, Nissan and Honda have had employees working from home. A lot of companies haven't done that. It will be the beginning of the golden week holiday. People will be off work. They won't be packing their offices and the subways. The question is, will they stay home as the government is suggesting and warning them to do so? Or will they be out enjoying the time off, gathering in groups at restaurants that are still open? That is what we need to watch and it could be a turning point one way or the other for Japan as the number of cases continue to accelerate here.", "All right. Great reporting as always, Will. Thank you so much. Will Ripley, stay safe there in Tokyo. Staying in the region now, as places like Japan are overwhelmed, Vietnam is drawing attention for its apparent success in containing the epidemic. Michael Holmes has that.", "Vietnam, a country of 97 million people and less than 300 confirmed cases of COVID-19. And no deaths. That's the official figure from the government and that has caught the attention of experts and the international media. The World Health Organization attributes Vietnam's apparent success in beating back the virus to the Communist state's ability to get the public to cooperate, including mass quarantines, lockdowns, mandatory social distancing and aggressive contact tracing and testing.", "Vietnam's strategy in the fight against COVID-19 was remote and early prevention even before the pandemic got complicated.", "The first two cases of the virus were detected in January.", "Authorities immediately suspended flights to Wuhan, then the ground zero of the pandemic, and closed the border with China to all but essential trade and travel. In addition, aggressive contact tracing began, relying on grassroots Communist Party networks in neighborhoods. Here's how one Hanoi resident put it. \"We go to each and every alley, knocking on each and every door. We follow the guidance from our government that fighting the pandemic is like fighting our enemy.\" Easing the restrictions came after no new confirmed case was reported in about a week. But the authorities here insist the crisis is not over. In fact, a town in a province close to the Chinese border was locked down early this month after one case of the virus was detected. Restrictions also remain on two villages during the capital, Hanoi, according to state media. Hanoi residents welcome the easing of restrictions but this man, reminding people not to let down their guard.", "The social distancing has been eased. But this outbreak is unpredictable. Therefore, we cannot anticipate anything.", "In the meantime, many here, just happy that a semblance of normality is back.", "People are cooped up but that means wild animals are out to play. Next, the effect this pandemic is having on wildlife but the risk that is also evident of a pandemic of saving some endangered species. That's coming up."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN", "RIPLEY", "RIPLEY (voice-over)", "RIPLEY (voice-over)", "RIPLEY", "RIPLEY (voice-over)", "RIPLEY", "RIPLEY", "RIPLEY", "ALLEN", "RIPLEY", "ALLEN", "MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "NGUYEN MANH VIEW, COFFEE SHOP WORKER (through translator)", "HOLMES (voice-over)", "HOLMES (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "HOLMES (voice-over)", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-321942", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2017-09-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/23/ndaysat.03.html", "summary": "Trump Slams McCain As Health Care Plan Falters; GOP Health Care Plan: One \"No\" Vote From Failing.", "utt": ["All right, 14 minutes after the hour now. President Trump is going after Senator John McCain after the senator likely stopped efforts to repeal Obamacare this session. President Trump tweeted this morning, \"John McCain never had any intention of voting for this bill, which his governor loves. He campaigned on repeal and replace. Let Arizona down.\" The president's comments, of course, come after Senator McCain said he could not in good conscience vote for the proposed Graham-Cassidy bill without knowing its impact, without knowing how much it would cost. McCain's no vote likely means Republicans will not be able to repeal the health care law with a simple majority by the September 30th deadline. Joining me now is CNN politics reporter, Lauren Fox, Danielle Lippman, \"Politico\" reporter, and Melissa Quinn, breaking news reporter with \"The Washington Examiner.\" Good morning to all. I want to get to the potential of this being over in just a moment, but first, Melissa, let me start with you, the president last night said that John McCain wasn't on his list of potential no votes. This morning he's saying that John McCain never intended to vote for this bill. I wonder why there's any surprise when John McCain said this after his vote -- rather, ahead of his vote that thumbs down for the skinny repeal just a few weeks ago. Watch.", "We tried to do this by coming up with a proposal behind closed doors in consultation with the administration, then springing it on skeptical members, trying to convince them that it's better than nothing. That it's better than nothing? Asking us to swallow our doubts and force it past a unified opposition. I don't think that's going to work in the end, and probably shouldn't.", "And probably shouldn't. Same process, same concerns. Why was there any surprise that John McCain would not support this?", "Well, you're absolutely right. I think when you look back at John McCain's comments just a few weeks ago when the Senate first debated their first go around at repealing and replacing Obamacare, he was very passionate about the fact that any health care proposal that the Senate was going to take up needed to go through regular order, and the Graham/Cassidy bill did not go through regular order. In fact, I think a lot of people would agree that this plan really came out of left field, because Republicans and even President Trump had said that they were shifting their focus to tax reform, but there are two things about the Graham/Cassidy proposal that make it different from the health care bill that the Senate considered just a few weeks ago. First, this is a bill that was sponsored and really spearheaded by Lindsey Graham, who is John McCain's best friend in the Senate, and secondly, the bill had the support of Arizona Governor Doug Doocy, which sort of would have provided Senator McCain a little bit more cover if he did want to come out and support the bill, which we know now he's not going to.", "So, Daniel, let me come to you, I said at the top that this is likely the death knell for this bill, but you've got two noes, that leaves 50 potential yeses, although, we know that Senator Collins is likely leaning no, is this over? Is Graham/Cassidy/Johnson/Heller dead?", "It looks that way because you know, the Maine senator said to her local paper she trashed the bill, and so they are waiting for John McCain to basically give them cover to oppose it. They wanted him to do the same thing he did a month or two ago in terms of, you know, dooming this repeal effort. It's interesting to see how much effort the Senate Republicans have spent on this issue when they have nothing to show their voters. It seems like they are more likely to go into tax reform, where, you know, cutting taxes, that's their party, you know, that's one of their party messages. And so, if they can just go to that, then there's much more likely chance that they would pass something.", "And, Lauren, the president said last night that it makes it more difficult, but he's going to keep trying. The president has signed on to every iteration of a repeal that came out of Congress. First it was the American health care act. The president said, I'm in. Then it was just repeal with no replace. President says yes. Then the Senate said we have a plan, president says let's go for it, skinny repeal, I'm in. The Graham/Cassidy bill, I like that, too. We heard from Congressman Dent, who's going to be leaving Congress soon, that the president needs to lead here not just accept and follow. Here's what he said.", "The president can blame whoever he wants for this. When we didn't pass the House health bill, you know, he told me before he was going to blame me, destroy the Republican Party, all that. But at the end of the day, to be fair, you know, the president really never laid out his principles or his plan on health care. And I've always felt if you're going to change the whole health care system in this country, it demands strong executive leadership, presenting a plan, principles, and going out and selling it. I didn't see that happen here.", "To what degree is that frustration or concern shared on Capitol Hill?", "Well, I think it's a double-edged sword. A lot of members of Congress say that they wanted to craft their own health care bill. They did not want this just coming from the administration, they wanted to work through this. Now on the other end of that, it's very clear that President Trump is not a policy wonk. He is not someone who has poured over exactly what he wants the American health care system to look like. He wants Republicans to get it done. And I think there is some frustration on Capitol Hill that the president hasn't been out there doing rallies, something that he loves to do, something that he could do to energize the base around this. Instead, a lot of members go home and they hear from liberal activists who are at town halls telling them that they don't want them to support this bill. I think there is a little bit of frustration there that the president has not been taking the lead on this.", "So, Melissa, what's next? Will we see as the president calls them Chuck and Nancy back to dinner, trying to work out a deal with Democrats. The president, of course, appreciated the praise that he got after coming up with the deal relating to the debt ceiling and Harvey aid. Not so much the pushback from conservatives on the DACA deal, but is that potentially in the cards?", "Yes. I think we'll have to see. In terms of health care, Republicans are pressing up very quickly against a September 30th deadline and Senator Cassidy has said he wants to continue and push forward and ideally pass a bill overhauling the health care system. But like you mention, Republicans have a very packed agenda in the next few weeks. We have a March 5th deadline in terms of when DACA will be rescinded. We have a budget deal expiring at the beginning of December. We have heard a lot of rumblings for months now about an infrastructure plan, tax reform, so whether or not Republicans decide to put health care aside in the next few weeks and shift to these other items on their very lengthy agenda is ultimately up to Senate Republican leaders.", "Yes. Chuck and Nancy, of course, being the Democratic minority leaders, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi in the Senate and the House respectively. Daniel, finally to you, this event was about a lot of things last night, but it was supposed to be a full-throated endorsement of Senator Luther Strange and his run-off on Tuesday, and I have to say, this was probably the most unorthodoxed endorsement we've heard of a candidate. I want you to listen to what the president said about his support for Luther Strange.", "We have to be loyal in life, you know, there's something called loyalty with these folks and I might have made a mistake, and I'll be honest. I might have made a mistake because, you know, here's a story. If Luther doesn't win, they are not going to say we picked up 25 points in a very short period of time. They are going to say, Donald Trump, the president of the United States, was unable to pull his candidate across the line. It is a terrible, terrible moment for Trump. This is total embarrassment. I mean, these are bad people. And by the way, both good men, both good men, and you know what, and I told Luther, I have to say this, if his opponent wins, I'm going to be here campaigning like hell for him. But, I have to say this, and you understand this, just look at the polls, Luther will definitely win.", "I mean, you put a cherry on top at the end. What's under that cherry is the question. Maybe I made a mistake, I'm dragging him across the finish line, and, hey, if my guy doesn't win, I'll be here for the other guy. The interesting part here is, all of it's true. And if Luther Strange loses on Tuesday, we will say the president was unable to drag his candidate across the finish line, just as the president said.", "I've been watching politician endorsement rallies for several years, and for them I've never seen a single one say I might have made a mistake by coming down here and rallying for this guy. And so, you know, Trump returned to his comfortable, you know, room where he likes to bash the media. That's his -- he loves that line and so -- but it doesn't seem like he was doing Luther Strange any favors last night. And it seems like more people were there to see Trump than Strange. So, there is much more grassroots energy for Roy Moore. So, he may very well win on Tuesday.", "I'd love to know how many of those people in that venue last night actually are going to vote for Roy Moore but just came to see President Trump. Daniel Lippman, Melissa Quinn, Lauren Fox, thank you all. All right -- Christi.", "We have to tell you about the thousands of Americans in Puerto Rico, who are being forced to evacuate because of what you're seeing on your screen there, fears that this dam could collapse. We have a live update for you from Puerto Rico next.", "And right now, rescuers are still hoping to find anyone under this pile of cement and glass and steel. This is Mexico City days after the earthquake toppled buildings there. We're going to go live to one of the rescue sites."], "speaker": ["BLACKWELL", "SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA", "BLACKWELL", "MELISSA QUINN, BREAKING NEWS REPORTER, \"WASHINGTON EXAMINER\"", "BLACKWELL", "DANIEL LIPPMAN, \"POLITICO\" REPORTER", "BLACKWELL", "REPRESENTATIVE CHARLIE DENT (R), PENNSYLVANIA", "BLACKWELL", "LAUREN FOX, CNN POLITICS REPORTER", "BLACKWELL", "QUINN", "BLACKWELL", "PRESIDENT TRUMP", "BLACKWELL", "LIPPMAN", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-89896", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2004-11-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/19/lt.04.html", "summary": "Congress Hopes to Finish Work on $388 Billion Spending Bill", "utt": ["Welcome back to CNN LIVE TODAY. I'm Rick Sanchez. For Americans, maybe yourself, living with maxed out credit cards and a budget bursting at the seams, take solace. There's a similar fiscal strain on Capitol Hill. In fact, folks you have nothing on your federal government. CNN congressional correspondent Joe Johns is joining us now from Capitol Hill to try and make sense of this story, which is really about borrowing an awful lot of money and spending an awful lot of money. Joe, to you.", "Certainly that's true, Rick. Many here on Capitol Hill now hoping the 108-Congress has finally entered the race to the finish line. Of course, work began bright and early on the floor of the House of Representatives today. The focus behind the scenes, of course, is a massive piece of catchall legislation that the authorities are trying to cobble together, to put this work to bed before the Thanksgiving holiday. One important piece of business that has been completed, another huge spending bill. This, of course, a bill to raise the federal borrowing limit by $800 billion. Democrats kicking and screaming, of course, about that bill. Including Congressman Hastings of Florida on the floor today talking about it.", "Just yesterday, my friends in the majority voted to again raise the debt limit. They added billions and possibly trillions more to our national debt, leaving our children and grandchildren to pick up the tab for generations to come. And they called themselves the party of fiscal responsibility. Shame on them.", "Republicans, of course, accentuating the positive; choosing to try to talk about the successes of the 108 in its final days. Among them, Republican Congressman Pete Sessions.", "We're proud that we will have in place this next year again, once again for low-income seniors, the ability for this government to help them not have to make a decision in buying and receiving their prescription drugs. That's something I'm proud of.", "Of course, the big question is how long will all of this take? The best guess right now is the House of Representatives will probably take up that big spending bill late this evening. The Senate possibly tomorrow. Of course, this will include nine different, unfinished spending bills that the Congress has to get out of the way before they leave for the holidays. Rick, back to you.", "Joe, Republicans -- are Republicans concerned in this case that they may be setting themselves up for a bit of a backlash? Many would argue they changed the rules on the Tom DeLay issue and now they're changing the debt ceiling, as well. All in a matter of days.", "Well, that's something that Democrats will always howl about in this situation, because they are in the minority. But the bottom line on it is, that the Treasury Department has said this has to be done. They've run out of maneuvers to try to figure out how to pay the government's bills until the Congress raises the debt ceiling. So it's something that just simply has to be done, the administration says. And they view it as something that they have no choice on.", "So in other words, if they didn't do this, they would have been in what, default?", "Right, that's the problem. The governments has a number of, you know, huge obligations out there that it has to pay for. And simply has run out of money. The Treasury Department has been sort of smoke and mirrors, you might call it, to try to figure out how to pay these bills until the Congress increases the debt limit. It would be a big problem for the credit of the United States, of course. And some bills wouldn't get paid if they didn't raise the debt limit -- Rick.", "Joe Johns, thanks so much for making sense of this for us. We'll certainly be getting back to you as well. Fred, over to you.", "Well, other business on the Hill. Embattled Republican Senator Arlen Specter has won his battle to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee. That chairmanship reveal -- seemed in peril rather, earlier this month after the moderate Republican suggested that judicial nominees would have difficulty winning approval, if they opposed abortion rights. Fellow Republicans unanimously approved his chairmanship, after he promised there'd be no such litmus test, and that President Bush's nominees would get fair and fast committee hearings. A recount of the governor's race is scheduled to get under way tomorrow in Washington State. Workers will begin their scrutiny with four counties in a statewide recount of some 2.8 million ballots. The process should be completed by Wednesday. But election officials warn that it could be Christmas before Washington State residents know who the next governor is. In the closest governor's race in state history, the Republican leads by a mere 261 votes.", "Righting a wrong nearly 60 years in the making. Still to come, how some Minnesota students made sure that a 77-year-old woman received a high school honor that she had been denied.", "And do you want to get out of town? We'll show you the best places to go for travel deals when CNN LIVE TODAY continues."], "speaker": ["SANCHEZ", "JOE JOHNS, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "REP. ALCEE HASTINGS (D), FLORIDA", "JOHNS", "REP. PETE SESSIONS (R), TEXAS", "JOHNS", "SANCHEZ", "JOHNS", "SANCHEZ", "JOHNS", "SANCHEZ", "WHITFIELD", "SANCHEZ", "GERRI WILLIS, CNN-FN PERSONAL FINANCE EDITOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-5775", "program": "Crossfire", "date": "2000-4-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/04/cf.00.html", "summary": "Who Is Looking out for Elian Gonzalez's Best Interests?", "utt": ["Tonight, as protesters form a human chain around the Miami house of Elian Gonzalez, who is looking out for the boy's best interests and who is just looking out for their own political agenda?", "Live from Washington, CROSSFIRE. On the left, Bill Press; on the right, Robert Novak. In the crossfire, Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters from California, and in Miami, Ramon Saul Sanchez, president of the Democracy Movement.", "Good evening. Welcome to CROSSFIRE. It's never all quiet on the Elian Gonzalez front. In Miami, the little boy's relatives negotiated with the U.S. government.", "And the fact that Elian's father has requested and obtained a visa to come and visit the United States makes this the ideal time to have such a hearing, when he can participate with the Gonzalez family as a family in determining what's in the best interests of Elian for the future.", "In Washington, Cuban diplomats negotiated with the State Department about the U.S. visit of the boy's father, laying down conditions: 28 visas for the accompanying delegation, no visit to Miami, and guarantees that Elian immediately be turned over for a return to Cuba. And in Miami, some 80 protesters were permitted through police lines to surround the boy's house. But the overriding political buzz concerned the vice president of the United States. In a new interview, Al Gore reiterated opposition to his own administration's call for a quick return of the 6-year-old. The vice president has upset normal political patterns, as with tonight's CROSSFIRE guests, an anti-Castro Cuban-American praising Gore, a liberal Democratic congresswoman criticizing him. Even Bill and I have changed our outlook...", "Well, you can't be right on every issue, Robert. Senor Sanchez, good evening. Thanks. Welcome to", "Good evening. Thank you.", "I want to ask you, sir, it looks like things are coming to a head in Miami. The boy's father, Elian's father, has a visa to come to the United States, and the INS is expected to tell his Miami cousins that they should hand the boy over to his father. When that happens, sir, will you and your supporters respect that order or try to block it?", "We will do what the family is -- has been asking everybody to do, which is abide by the law. What we're doing is sending a strong signal from here of solidarity with the child and also appealing to the government that whatever is done, to be done within the context of family, a family approach and also for the best interests of this child.", "So earlier -- and there's an article in this week's \"Weekly Standard\" by Tucker Carlson where you're quoted as saying you're ready to shut the city down, you're ready to block the airport, you're ready to block the port of Miami. That's gone now? I mean, that's behind you? You're not going to do that? No plans for that those kinds of -- that kind of civil disobedience?", "What we have said is that we will use civil disobedience only if absolutely necessary, but we have called upon the government to not bypass the legal options that Elian has available to him, and that also we urge not only the U.S. government but the Cuban government and all of the parties involved to do our best to cause this family to reunite under the same roof and be able to discuss what's best for Elian Gonzalez's future in a real family environment.", "Well, Mr. Sanchez, what Elian's father says he wants and what the INS says he should have is immediate custody of the boy when he arrives in the United States. So do you agree with that, yes or no?", "Well...", "No strings attached.", "We agree with that if it's done in a family context, not in the Cuban interests section, which would be like being in Cuba. We have been insistent from the beginning that there are elements around Elian's case that should be looked at by a family court, and we see no reason why in lieu of the family being able to resolve this problem, the child should not have his day in court.", "Congresswoman Waters, I want to try and get straightened out on your position toward the vice president. When the vice president took his position, which actually he's taken for some time, you said you might reconsider your support for him for president. And then you had a talk with him, and you no longer said you were reconsidering your support. What did he tell you to get you to change your position?", "I was stunned and caught completely off-guard when it was announced in breaking news in the middle of an interview that I was having that the president was going to support legislation.", "President?", "The vice president, I'm sorry, was going to support legislation that would give permanent resident status to Elian and other family members. I said I would call him. I wanted to talk with him. I did that. He assured me that it was not just political, that he had been sending those signals all along, that he felt very strongly about it. And more than that, we talked about the team and the fact that the team should have an opportunity to try and influence that decision before it is made public, and we should not be caught by surprise and blindsided with this kind of an important announcement.", "So he convinced you that it's OK, his position was OK. Is that right?", "No, he did not. We agreed to disagree. We disagree. I still feel as I feel that Elian belongs with his father and should be returned to him.", "You know, you mention his father, and I would like to ask you a question about his father, and I would give you some background about the father. But I have a guest questionnaire that I'm going to bring in to give you background about the father. Is that all right?", "I know a little something about the father. I met him. I talked to him.", "I want to ask you listen to the guest question.", "I was in Cuba.", "Is that OK, ma'am?", "Yes.", "Let's listen. Let's listen to the guest question.", "What some people have missed about this controversy is that the father in Castro's Cuba has not been free to say really and truly what is on his mind, because there are paid demonstrators outside of his window, and Castro has not permitted him to come here for more than four month.", "That's a new interview on the Lifetime Network by the vice president. And of course, why -- why -- why is it that you people who are the -- who like Castro so much won't admit that this poor man is intimidated", "Why is it that you people...", "I ask the questions.", "... can come to these conclusions without having any basis for it?", "Well, I'm asking you a question: Why do you believe he's not intimidated living in a police state and a brutal dictatorship?", "I have no knowledge that this man is intimidated by Castro. I do have knowledge that he very much wants to have his son back. He's kind of like any father in the United States. He loves his son.", "How do you know he's not under tremendous pressure from this brutal dictatorship down there?", "When I visited in Cuba, he did not appear to be under any tremendous pressure.", "You could judge that, I'm sure.", "Well, I could do better than you. You've not been there. I have.", "Getting back to Miami, Mr. Sanchez -- Senor Sanchez, can you hear me?", "Yes, I can.", "Yes, I want to ask you that you just heard that -- and you know that Vice President Gore now has said that Elian and his father, his whole family, should have residency status, and he wants this settled in state family court, which is what you and the family in Miami have been saying for a long time. So are you ready to sign up for the Al Gore election campaign of 2000?", "Well, I think that expression on the side of Mr. Gore is something that was welcome here in Miami. And I think it's a sincere one, because, first of all, we have heard from before that that was his position, and also that he has really not much to gain by taking that position, except the votes in South Florida. And there are a lot of Americans that are not informed about the realities of Cuba; however, they have a different position. So I think it was a courageous statement to make.", "Well, you know, Senor Sanchez, this -- all the people -- Democrats and Republicans are not all on the same side of this issue that you'd might expect. I'd like you to listen to one of the more conservative members of Congress, a Republican, Steve Largent from Oklahoma, and hear what he has to say about this case. Please listen, I'd like to get your comment.", "And frankly, I would tell you that a lot of my political brethren have been shameless in terms of dealing with this issue. And I just believe in the bottom of my heart, speaking as a father, that the best interests of this child is to have him reunited with his father as quickly as possible.", "Conservative Republican: quick, get the child back together with his father as soon as possible. He agrees with Maxine Waters. What do you say to Steve Largent?", "Well, I think the child should be reunited with his father if the father is in a free environment where this child is not subjected to a lot of psychological damage if he's sent back to Cuba. We have serious concerns about what will happen to this child three or four years from now if he's returned to Cuba. If this child decides not to say what Castro wants him to say -- for example, if he decides to say that he was not kidnapped in Miami, that his mother was irresponsible but desperate when she got out Cuba, and that the people around his house were not mafia but were working people, to a totalitarian regime like Castro cannot afford for the child to say that.", "Can I just ask you -- can I just ask you a follow-up question, please?", "Yes.", "You know, the father wants his child back. Who are you to put any conditions on that return?", "We are no one, sir. We are only human beings who are in solidarity with this child, because we know the plight of the Cuban people and the plight of many children who have died or are being oppressed. But especially, we know the intentions of this dictator with Elian Gonzalez, and we fear for his psychological well-being in the future and even his physical integrity.", "All right, we have to take a break now. When we do -- we've been talking about politics in this situation. Even religion is getting involved. We'll take a look at that when we come back.", "Welcome back to CROSSFIRE. If it were only Elian Gonzalez's father and his Miami relatives, it might be easier to solve, but then politics and even religion and Fidel Castro get involved, and oh boy. Are Republicans and Democrats using Elian as a vehicle for winning states like New Jersey and Florida where there's a big Cuban- American population? We try to settle the whole problem right here tonight with Ramon Saul Sanchez, president of the Democracy Movement, joins us from Miami, and with Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Democrat, California -- Bob.", "Representative Waters, are you familiar with Article 38, Clause C of the Cuban constitution of 1976?", "No, I'm not.", "It requires all Cuban boys to belong to the Union of Communist Pioneers, and as Chris Caldwell reveals in this week's edition of \"The Weekly Standard,\" Elian has been a member of the Communist Union of Pioneers since he was 5 years old. He will -- when he returns, he will be immediately sent into reindoctrination, re-education. How's your conscience on that, Mrs. Waters?", "I'm not fighting the battle of communism versus democracy.", "Why not?", "This is about Elian Gonzalez. That's the problem. Too many people want to make this another kind of issue. If you want to fight with Fidel Castro, fight with him. If you want to criticize him, criticize him. If Elian's father wants to defect to the United States, let him defect. It's about parental rights and family values! That's what this is about.", "In other words, it doesn't make any difference to you whether he lives in a communist totalitarian society or he is sent out to summer camp for indoctrination in this Marxist mumbo-jumbo and he has a grandmother who says, God -- the hell with God, or whether he lives in the peace-loving United States. That doesn't make a bit of difference to you as long as his father is there.", "Elian was quite happy with his father. They had a happy existence.", "How do you know that?", "He went to the barber shop with his father on weekends. He played with his father. He celebrated his birthday with his father. I was in Cuba. I talked with a lot of people. I talked with the father. I talked with the relatives. Elian was quite happy. Even the anti-Fidel Castro haters down in Miami couldn't say he wasn't a good father. They're grasping for straws now. They're desperate. They're trying to -- but everybody agrees he was a good father and they had a happy relationship.", "Ms. Waters, I always thought you were a pretty tough, savvy politician...", "Yes, yes.", "... who goes up on the Hill and listens to witnesses. I am just stunned at your naivete that you think you can go into this controlled state and these people are going to give you the straight deal.", "At least it gives me a better view than those who have not been there. I talked to them...", "That's dubious. That's extremely dubious.", "I have talked with the man. I do know this: He had pain and he had tears in his eyes, and he wants his son back. That I believe.", "Senor Sanchez, I want to ask you about that, because over the last couple of days, suddenly, after four months, the people of Miami have been saying -- suggesting, if not charging, that Juan Gonzalez is an unfit parent for Elian Gonzalez. Do you believe that? And do you think that's fair, to raise that after four months?", "The family here has done its best to not damage the already somewhat -- to not damage further the already somewhat damaged ties with the father in Cuba. And certainly, I'm not going to contribute to that. But I believe that a family court is -- if it gets a chance to hear Elian Gonzalez, we'll probably look into those aspects and find out what the true relationship between the father and the child was before this terrible incident occurred. I must also say that I resent very much for us to be called haters of Fidel Castro. We are the victims of Fidel Castro, and certainly I would never, ever dream of sending back a child, or would have dreamed of sending back a child to Hitler's Germany much less to a dictatorship like this one, which is going to subject Elian Gonzalez to very painful -- a very painful process of -- quote/unquote -- reprogramming as Castro himself has said.", "Maxine?", "Well, let me just say this: that it is quite clear that the anti-Fidel Castro forces in Miami dislike him, hate him. You can frame it any way you want. This is about Elian Gonzalez. No one has really made an argument that can convince me, or most people that I talk to, that this child should not be with his father. And no one can present an argument that says that this father was not a good father, that he didn't have a good relationship with this child. And that's what I'm discussing, nothing else.", "Ms. Waters...", "We struggle to see...", "I'm sorry. Go ahead.", "We struggle to see that -- I'm sorry. We struggle to see that father reunited with his son in a free environment with his family. It's not a matter of keeping a child away from his father. It's a matter of what's best for that child. And you must understand that above the right of the parent to have custody of a child is the best interests of the child or we wouldn't take away children from fathers who mistreat them in this society. So there is an element above that, and that only element is the best interests of the child, which will be very adversely damaged if this child is sent back to Cuba with at least -- without at least having been heard by a court of law.", "Congresswoman...", "Yes.", "... are you aware that the father has been removed from his humble home in a village where he was a Communist Party member, a security guard, I believe, and set up in one of the elite -- for the communist bigwigs in the suburbs of...", "No, no, no!", "You don't know he's living in a government", "No! You said, am I worried that he's been removed, what do you mean by removed?", "They took him out of his village and they put him in a Communist guest house in Havana. Do you know that?", "I would suggest to you...", "Do you know that?", "... that you don't have any documentation to talk about him having been removed. He may have asked -- he may have asked for all you know. I don't know where he's staying.", "Do you think in the workers' paradise that you can say, I don't like this crummy little place in the village, I want to live where you big oligarchs live? Do you think that's possible?", "I don't think you know that he was removed from anywhere.", "He was removed. I'll tell you what I can show you. I can show you on the screen the kind of play they're getting, that Fidel is making baby sounds and baby faces to the father's youngest baby.", "What does this have to do with his...", "Because they are -- they are -- they are -- they are living up to him.", "Well, I think -- I think your imagination is absolutely...", "It's right there. I'm not imagining that.", "... running away from you.", "I'm not imagining that. Do you -- do you realize -- do you realize that Elian, when you force him back there, will now -- they will treat him as a member of the Communist elite because this is all for political purposes? Can't you see that this has nothing to do with the father? This is a political game that Castro is playing.", "Do you have any children? Do you have any children?", "I certainly do. I've got two children and five grandchildren.", "Can you think of any conditions under which your children should have been taken from you?", "Absolutely. If I were a communist hack in Cuba, my kids should be sent to this country.", "You should take away all of the children who live in communist countries from their fathers and mothers.", "If they could be that lucky. If they could be that lucky.", "You're more extreme than I ever thought you were?", "How many communist countries are there, Maxine?", "I don't care how many there are. We're talking about...", "I know you don't. But I do. And you should care.", "... Elian Gonzalez. Now, you want to bring all of those kids from communist countries to the United States, is that what you want?", "It would be nice.", "Oh my goodness. How revealing, my goodness.", "Maxine, you see what I put with every night.", "My goodness.", "Bob. Thank you. Thanks, Maxine.", "All right. Thank you very much.", "You're welcome.", "... I was just stunned -- stunned by the whole concept.", "You're welcome.", "Senor Sanchez, congratulations to you and thank you very much for being with us. And Bill Press and I will be back with closing comments.", "You're going to get a lot of calls.", "Bob, you know, you do have a great family. I enjoy being with your family. I feel sorry for them sometimes. But look, that's what it's about, Bob. You ought to focus on that. It's about family. It's not about Fidel. You can't talk about this kid without talking about Fidel Castro.", "I feel sorry for you, but I feel more sorry for Steve Largent, because he's a good guy. And he should -- he should really know that there can be no family in the workers' state. There can be no family in Cuba. They're all tools of the totalitarian dictatorship. And any little kid saved from that quagmire is a -- is a -- is a triumph for family.", "Do you realize how wrong you are? Do you know how many families there are in Cuba? Do you know how many happy families there are in Cuba, Bob?", "Do you know what I suggest? That we send you there and keep Elian.", "Ha-ha.", "I think I've suggested that before.", "Hey, Bob, I'll only go if I take you with me. From the left, I'm Bill Press.", "I won't go.", "Good night for", "On the right, I'm Robert Novak. Join us again next time for another edition of CROSSFIRE. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web"], "speaker": ["ROBERT NOVAK, CO-HOST", "ANNOUNCER", "NOVAK", "SPENCER EIG, GONZALEZ FAMILY ATTORNEY", "NOVAK", "BILL PRESS, CO-HOST", "CROSSFIRE. RAMON SAUL SANCHEZ, PRESIDENT, DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT", "PRESS", "SANCHEZ", "PRESS", "SANCHEZ", "PRESS", "SANCHEZ", "PRESS", "SANCHEZ", "NOVAK", "REP. MAXINE WATERS (D), CALIFORNIA", "NOVAK", "WATERS", "NOVAK", "WATERS", "NOVAK", "WATERS", "NOVAK", "WATERS", "NOVAK", "WATERS", "NOVAK", "AL GORE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "NOVAK", "WATERS", "NOVAK", "WATERS", "NOVAK", "WATERS", "NOVAK", "WATERS", "NOVAK", "WATERS", "PRESS", "SANCHEZ", "PRESS", "SANCHEZ", "PRESS", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-142107", "program": "YOUR MONEY", "date": "2009-8-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/22/cnnitm.01.html", "summary": "You Might Be Stuck Paying Higher Drug Prices at the Pharmacy", "utt": ["On the surface it sounds like a victory for proponents of health care reform. The pharmaceutical companies are onboard working with Senate Democrats in the finance committee, even receiving praise from the White House. For an $80 billion pledge to reduce costs over are the next ten years. Former Clinton cabinet member Robert Reich said he's appalled by the deal between the White House and the pharmaceutical industry. I asked him what an alliance between big pharm and the White House will mean for your drug costs.", "Christine, we don't know the details of the deal. In fact, the White House has been moving a little around on whether there was a deal or what the terms were. But according to the pharmaceutical industry, there was a deal, there is a deal and a big part of the deal is that Medicare will not be allowed in the future. Just as it hasn't been under George W. Bush, to negotiate lower drug prices using a huge bargaining leverage that it otherwise would have. This would mean if in fact this was the deal that drug prices would stay quite high and it would put a crimp in overall long-term reductions in health care spending.", "Your column, your piece on this issue was scathing. You are very outspoken about what you see as an alliance between these two. We spoke to the pharmaceutical vice president Ken Johnson, this of course is the group that represents the drug companies and we asked him about this deal and the reports that it's going to save about $80 billion in health care costs in exchange for the government as you point out agreeing not to use purchasing power to lower drug costs. This is what he said; he said \"There is no secret agreement. We were clear with the administration from the very beginning that you can sign us up as partners in health care reform but we will not support price controls because of its impact on research and development. When the Senate and Finance Committee releases details the plan people will see at least $30 billion in savings for seniors as a result of fixing the doughnut hole and approximately $50 billion as a mix of fees and rebates to expand health coverage for millions of Americans.\" How do you respond to their response, I guess?", "Well I would say that the $80 billion they're promises to save is very small in comparison with all of the money that we otherwise would save if Medicare and Medicaid could negotiate lower drug prices. Remember, the baby boomers are approaching the time when they will be eligible for Medicare. And the actual population of Medicare and Medicaid eligibles and not only because they're baby boomers but also because of this new health care plan, should it go through, is going to be very, very large. So if there are going to be savings through negotiating lower drug prices those are going to be much, much greater than $80 billion over ten years.", "Back in 1984, the last time we tried this and it didn't get through, pharma was an obstacle to healthcare. They were opposed to some of the proposals on the table. What could President Obama have done to neutralize their opposition to universal health care without taking away the government's bargaining power over drug prices?", "Well, that's a very good question. I mean the pharmaceutical agency, industry, and also the AMA and the doctors, the hospitals, they last time around in 1994, and I was there, I had a front seat, they all opposed health care reform because it was going to hurt their bottom line. It was going to rob them of profits they thought. This time, the Obama administration may be wisely, as a matter of tactics Christine, decided that it would make deals and therefore essentially buy them off so they would not have that very strong opposition that they had before. Well, the problem is, if you buy them off, then you are essentially going to rob yourself and rob the public of the savings that you want to get over the long-term in terms of health care reform. How do you balance the two? Would it have been possible or is it possible to have a much stronger health care bill that actually keeps the bargaining leverage of Medicare and Medicaid might have over the drug industry and still get the pharmaceutical industry in tow? I don't know.", "Mr. Secretary, about 15 or 20 seconds here, do you think that they'd get reform this time around and do you think it looks anything like the proposals that are on the table now? Is there a lot more horse trading in politics before we're done?", "Oh, there is going to be a lot more horse trading, Christine. There is enough momentum behind universal health care reform. I think we will get it, the question is, and what exactly will we get?", "It's time now for a heart to heart talk with your parents about their money and their retirement. Why you absolutely must talk to your senior parents before it's too late. Coming up next."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "ROBERT REICH, FORMER SECRETARY OF LABOR", "ROMANS", "REICH", "ROMANS", "REICH", "ROMANS", "REICH", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-106767", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-6-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/05/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Senate Debating Gay Marriage Ban", "utt": ["Ali, thank you. To our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM where new pictures and information are arriving all the time. Standing by, CNN reporters across the United States and around the world to bring you today's top stories happening now. An all-out political assault on gay marriage. The president and Republican leaders revive the issue and reach out to the conservative base. It's 4:00 here in Washington where supporters of the gay marriage ban say they are protecting children. Critics say they are pandering. The Senate is debating a gay marriage ban right now. But do voters across the country really care? This hour, we'll get a snapshot from Tennessee and we'll examine the election year politics behind the culture wars. And Donald Rumsfeld under fire again over Iraq. Will the Pentagon chief pay a price for alleged atrocities by U.S. troops? It is midnight in Iraq, scene of new bloodshed, bombings and kidnappings. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Right now, senators are debating one of the hottest of hot button issues, a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage in the United States. Chances of passage are considered slim to none, but many Republicans are keen on making a statement in this congressional election year, including President Bush. With his conservative base shakier than ever, Mr. Bush declared just a short while ago that he's proud to stand with supporters of a gay marriage ban. Our congressional correspondent Dana Bash is standing by, so is our chief national correspondent John King. Let's go to the White House first. Our White House correspondent Ed Henry with the latest. Ed.", "Wolf, Democrats are charging that the president is trying to divert attention from the bad news in Iraq by turning to a tried and true social issue that whips up conservatives.", "President Bush gave restless conservatives the red meat they have been craving.", "Marriage is the most fundamental institution of civilization and it should not be redefined by activist judges. You are here because you strongly support a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union of a man and a woman. And I am proud to stand with you.", "Conservatives are frustrated that people close to the president have been lashing out at the proposed ban on gay marriage.", "Basically writing discrimination into the constitution of the United States is fundamentally wrong.", "While the president has been keeping his powder dry on an issue that helped deliver his reelection.", "There has been some concern that this was an issue that was important enough to campaign on in the 2004 election cycle by Republicans in general, but it's not been important enough to act upon yet.", "Liberals see a president down in the polls suddenly turning to a wedge issue that can drive conservatives to the polls in the midterms.", "Let's be honest with ourselves, there isn't anyone here who is naive enough to believe that the introduction of this legislation now in two consecutive election cycles is anything but a politically motivated effort to win votes by demonizing a class of citizens.", "The president responded by insisting he believes every American should be treated with tolerance and respect and he also responded sharply to critics who say this should be decided by the states. The president said states are trying to do it, but they are being overridden by activist judges. He used the phrase activist judges at least four times just to emphasize that point. That really hits home with conservatives, Wolf.", "Bottom line Ed, how committed is the White House to this issue?", "Well, you know, when the first lady Laura Bush recently said it should not be used as a campaign issue sent kind of a mixed signal to conservatives. Today White House spokesman Tony Snow added to that a little bit by saying, almost painting a picture of a passive president only speaking out today because of the Senate debate, not really doing it on his own, saying it's unlikely the president will be making calls to lobby senators. That only feeds into the Democratic charge that the president is trying to do just enough to whip up conservatives, but not more that might turn off sort of middle of the road voters. But I can tell you, the president may have", "Ed, thank you very much. Let's go up to the hill. The Senate debate now underway. Our congressional correspondent Dana Bash is watching all of this unfold from there. Dana.", "Hi, Wolf. Well the debate started at just a couple of hours ago and we expect senators to vote midweek, probably Wednesday morning but there is no chance, no chance that this will reach the two-thirds majority needed to actually change the constitution. So the obvious question is why in fact are they debating this issue right now? Well, you heard Ed talk on many of the political issues. Senate sponsors especially one in particular, Senator Wayne Allard of Colorado has been hitting an issue hard that we also heard from the president today. That what they think is that states, many of the states where massive numbers of voters, big majorities, 70 in one case, 75 percent in another did vote to ban gay marriage. But as you heard Ed talk about, activist judges overturned the will of the voters. Let's listen to the Senator Allard.", "Make no mistake about it, traditional marriage is under assault. I say assault because the move to redefine marriage is taken place not through the Democratic process, such as state legislatures and the Congress or ballot initiatives around the nation. This assault has taken a place in our courts and often in direct conflict with the will of the people.", "Now proponents do expect to get for the first time a majority or over a majority of votes for this issue. They expect about 52 votes in favor of this constitutional amendment. And they say that at least shows that they have momentum on this issue. But certainly you talk about a long-term policy goal. There's no question that there is also very much a short-term political goal here, Wolf and that is the fact that conservatives say across the board, that they are very upset about the way their Republican leaders here in Washington, especially those up for reelection in 2006 are governing and they simply think that they have not paid attention to their issues enough. So that's their perspective. On the other side Democrats Wolf say that there is something else at play, that that is, Republican leaders simply don't want to talk about the issues that many voters care about because that equals bad news, things like Iraq and gas prices.", "For me it's clear the reason for this debate is to divide our society, to pit one against another. This is another one of president's -- the president's efforts to frighten, to distort, distract and confuse America. It is this administration's way of avoiding the tough, the real problems that American citizens are confronted with each and every day.", "The truth is, this issue was actually put on the Senate calendar, Wolf, at the very beginning of this session, back at the beginning of 2005. But we're not seeing it come up for a vote until now, five months before an election. You talk to conservatives. Many of them may say, wait a minute, we got out and voted for you in the last election for this. So some of them certainly feel taken for granted when it comes to appealing to them on these issues. Wolf.", "You would need 67 votes in the Senate to get it passed, the two thirds majority. You say they might get up to 52 votes. Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, is he the only Democrat who is going to vote against, he's going to vote with, in favor of the constitutional ban?", "He very well could be, haven't seen an exact vote count, but it's possible he could be the only Democrat and on the other side, there will be some Republicans Wolf who vote against this because they don't think that this is the business of the -- this shouldn't be a constitutional issue. This should be left up to the states no matter what happens in the states. So but they do believe, supporters of this do believe they will get 52 votes. That's up from the last time in 2004 they only got 48 votes and the difference is because Republicans have more senators and they think that has ticked up the vote margin for them. We'll see on Wednesday.", "Thank you, Dana. Dana Bash on the Hill. Some gay Republicans are firing right back at the president for promoting a gay marriage ban. They are accusing him of trying to score political points by dividing Americans. In an open letter to Mr. Bush,", "The notion of amending the constitution and writing basically writing discrimination into the constitution of the United States is fundamentally wrong.", "You write this on page 180 in your book. If the Republican Party fails to come around on this issue, same sex marriage I believe it will find itself on the wrong side of history and on a sharp decline into irrelevance. Those are strong words.", "They are strong words and I did write them and I believe them. I think if you look at polls and I do talk about them in the book, this is not a conservative issue, not a liberal issue, not a Republican issue or Democrat issue. This is a generational issue. And as voter -- as younger voters, as younger people come of age, what you're going to see is you're going to see resistance to same sex marriage dissipating.", "We're going to have more of that interview with Mary Cheney and her views on same sex marriage. That's coming up in our next hour right here in THE SITUATION ROOM. The gay marriage debate is front and center here in Washington, but it is also playing out at the state level five months before Election Day. Our chief national correspondent John King is here in THE SITUATION ROOM. You've been traveling around the country seeing what is going on.", "And Wolf, that's because as Dana and Ed just noted, everybody knows the debate in the Senate will not lead to the votes necessary to actually send an amendment out to the states to be ratified. So this action, the real action is taking place at the state level including the home state of the Senate majority leader Bill Frist.", "Joan and Nancy live just outside Nashville, one of the real front lines in the gay marriage debate. Tennessee is one of seven states with proposed amendments this year along with Alabama, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia and Wisconsin. Nineteen states already ban gay marriage. A movement Christian conservatives like Tennessee State Senator David Fowler says will continue to expand if there are not enough votes in Congress to advance a nationwide ban. Fowler disputes critics who say Republicans use gay marriage initiatives to drive up conservative turn-out in the 2004 presidential cycle and are hoping for a repeat this November.", "Many of us, people like me, we deep down do believe that marriage is not one of those things we can define any way we want to and it has nothing to do with politics. If it makes for good politics, fine. But to me it's not about politics.", "White evangelicals are the major force behind the anti-gay marriage movement here in Tennessee and across the country. Many African-American pastors like Henry Coles of Nashville at Word of Faith Christian Center also oppose gay marriage and are striking odd alliances this election year.", "It's a fundamental doctrinal precept of my faith in Christ Jesus and for me as a representative of Christ, unions begin with a man and a woman.", "This testimonial in favor of same sex marriage was delivered at a gay pride festival. Joan and Nancy met in bible study and bristle when God is brought into the political debate.", "I know that my God loves me. And I don't understand why that has to be -- I'm sorry I just don't understand that whole purpose.", "There's so many things and he is speaking of his faith. Should we actually vote to include discrimination into our constitution ever? And that's a legal question, not a faith-based question.", "Now one of the subplots in this debate is, does putting these state ballot initiatives on the ballot, does it actually drive up vote among conservative Republicans? As you know Wolf, that's a great debate in this town. Many Democrats think this president would not have been reelected were it not for the initiative on the Ohio ballot last year. Mr. Bush won Ohio. Many Democrats think maybe they would have won that state if that were not on there. The president's pollster in that campaign says simply not true. He says there's no evidence that this boosts turnout, but we're going to see seven of these on the ballot this November, many of them in states like Tennessee with a key Senate race. It will be interesting to watch say, Harold Ford, an African-American member of Congress, going into African-American churches where some of the ministers are working with Republicans on this issue. It makes for pretty remarkable politics.", "How is he, Harold Ford Jr., how is he finessing this? He wants to be the senator from Tennessee. He's right now a congressman. How does he handle this? How's he answering questions when it comes up?", "Right now in the Senate he's against the constitutional amendment. We could not get an answer from his office as to how he will vote on the state constitutional ban. But the question is going to be, when he's walking into these churches. Some of these ministers of course -- it's very interesting. Some of the African-American ministers are fighting amongst themselves because some say don't get involved in this issue because they think their congregants don't like it. Others say don't stand up with Republicans, especially evangelical Republicans. So it's an issue for the senator. It's also an issue for some of these ministers. The minister we spoke to said many of his colleagues if you will pressure him to not get involved. He says he reads the Bible and he must.", "Thanks very much, John King reporting for us. Thank you. John King. Ed Henry, Dana Bash, they are all part of the best political team on television, CNN, America's campaign headquarters. The most recent polling by the way shows Americans are divided over gay marriage. Fifty percent of those surveyed by Gallup last month say they favor a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman; 47 percent say they oppose it. We'll have much more on gay marriage politics, public opinion, that's coming up from our bill Schneider and James Carville and JC Watts, they'll have some thoughts on this as well. That's coming up in our strategy session. Time now for Jack Cafferty. He's joining us from New York with the Cafferty File. Jack.", "A Michigan judge is going ahead with a lawsuit against the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic spying program. The Bush administration wanted the lawsuit dismissed, along with a similar one here in New York. The administration claims something called U.S. military and state secrets privilege when it comes to these cases. They say the government would not be able to defend the program without disclosing classified information. In other words they don't want any court deciding if the spying program is legal. That could be embarrassing if it came down against them. Some members of Congress have questioned the way this privilege has been used by the Bush White House. Republican Congressman Christopher Shays told \"The New York Times\" it's the very people you're suing are the ones who get to use the state secrets privilege. It's a stacked deck. So here's the question. Should lawsuits challenging the legality of NSA's warrantless spying program be allowed to proceed? E-mail your thoughts to CaffertyFile@CNN.com. or go to CNN.com/CaffertyFile. Wolf.", "Thank you, Jack for that and to our viewers if you want a sneak preview of Jack's questions, plus an early read on the day's political news, what's ahead in THE SITUATION ROOM, here's what you do. You sign up for the daily e-mail alert. Simply go to CNN.com/SITUATIONROOM. Coming up, a new threat from Iran to use oil as a weapon in the showdown over that country's nuclear ambitions. So what does it mean for the white House? What does it mean for the U.S.? We'll find out. Is affirmative action in schools constitutional? The U.S. Supreme Court says it will hear a crucial case on the issue. Details ahead and later much more in our top story, the battle over gay marriage. Once again James Carville and JC Watts, they'll face off in today's strategy session. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "HENRY (voice-over)", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-30516", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-5-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/16/lad.08.html", "summary": "IOC Rates Beijing Equal With Paris, Toronto in Contest for 2008 Summer Olympics", "utt": ["The International Olympic Committee has set aside China's politics and human rights record and has rated Beijing equal with Paris and Toronto in bidding for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. The host city will be chosen by secret ballot in July. CNN's Beijing bureau chief Rebecca MacKinnon has some reaction now.", "We are very confident that Beijing could organize excellent games.", "That conclusion was based on a week-long visit to Beijing in February by 17 Olympic inspectors. The red carpet was laid out by China's leaders, and displays of mass enthusiasm appear to have paid off.", "We think the IOC was fair, and we are happy to hear the news. Beijing has made great improvements since our last bid to host the 2000 games. And no city can compare with us for public enthusiasm.", "That public enthusiasm was plainly in evidence as news spread of the IOC's report. \"Of course, I'm very happy,\" says this woman. \"Our lives and our living environment will improve faster if Beijing gets the Olympics.\" \"We've been trying so hard for so long,\" says this man. \"We can't bear to be disappointed a second time.\" As part of its bid, Beijing has already begun widening roads and improving its sewage system. But as the IOC noted, one drawback is that most of Beijing's Olympic venues have yet to be built. The biggest obstacle, however, comes from those who argue that China's human rights record make it unworthy as an Olympic host. Beijing bid officials insist that's unfair.", "Many comments about Beijing made by the international media are not objective and fair. They don't really know Beijing.", "Officials here realize they have a major public relations challenge. For the 2000 games, they faced it alone and lost. So this spring, Beijing decided to hire a major Western public relations firm in order to maximize its chances. (voice-over): Hoping better PR will make Beijing's dream of becoming an Olympic host come true. Rebecca MacKinnon, CNN, Beijing."], "speaker": ["COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "REBECCA MACKINNON, CNN BEIJING BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over)", "WANG HUI, BEIJING OLYMPIC BID COMMITTEE (through translator)", "MACKINNON", "WANG (through translator)", "MACKINNON (voice-over)"]}
{"id": "CNN-352306", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2018-10-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/15/ip.02.html", "summary": "Hillary Clinton: Bill's Lewinsky Affair Not An Abuse of Power.", "utt": ["Welcome back. Hillary Clinton raising eyebrows for responses she gave during a CBS interview that aired Sunday. She says she played no role in criticizing any of the women who accused her husband Bill Clinton of sexual assault in the early '90s. Mrs. Clinton also says she has no regrets of how she handled her husband's affair with Monica Lewinsky. And there was this exchange during the interview that will disappoint many in the Me Too era.", "In retrospect, do you think Bill should have resigned in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal?", "Absolutely not.", "It wasn't an abuse of power?", "No, no.", "There are people who look at the incidence of the '90s and they say a president of the United States cannot have a consensual relationship with an intern. The power imbalance is too great.", "He was an adult. But let me ask you this, where is the investigation of the current incumbent?", "How's that one --", "The what about-ism.", "Look, this is why Democrats roll their eyes when they see this in October. They say, why is she doing interviews at this moment of the campaign? We talked earlier about Warren taking this pre- emptive step. Now, a very similar critique of why with three weeks out, would you do these T.V. interviews. Well, of course they're going to ask about Monica Lewinsky --", "You know, it really just shows how marginalized the Clintons are really as surrogates. They used to be -- especially Bill Clinton used to be the most", "And some of these came up during her campaign but in the Me Too era now, they -- she just can't walk away from this stuff and they haven't really figured out how to answer it and it really limits her ability to be helpful.", "I think that's part of the issues here. What do you say? What is the answer? We didn't have anything perfectly or, you know, just to say --", "We made mistakes. You can", "Yes. There's a better answer than I think reiterating for everybody why you lost the campaign.", "That's a good way to put it. The why three weeks before a consequential giant election critical to the rebuilding of the Democratic Party.", "Well, you're a central figure in lot of these races too, John. She's on the air in a lot of Senate races", "That's part of the two. All right, thanks for joining us in the INSIDE POLITICS. Hope you enjoy your Monday. Don't go anywhere. More news. Wolf starts right now. Have a great day.", "Hello, I'm Wolf Blitzer. It's 1 p.m. here in Washington. Thanks very much for joining us."], "speaker": ["KING", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CLINTON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CLINTON", "KING", "MARTIN", "MARTIN", "RAJU", "LUCEY", "KING", "RAJU", "JOHNSON", "KING", "MARTIN", "KING", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-250793", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-03-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/08/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Police: Teen Killed By Officer Was Unarmed", "utt": ["Hello again. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Thanks so much for joining me. We're learning more about the fatal police shooting of an unarmed teen in Madison, Wisconsin. An officer responding to a disturbance call opened fire after police say 19-year-old Tony Robinson assaulted him. According to public records, Robinson pleaded guilty to armed robbery in December of last year. And the police chief says the officer, a 12-year department veteran, Matt Kenney, had used deadly force before. Our Rosa Flores is live for us now in Madison, Wisconsin. So Rosa, what more about this investigation and why is so much being brought up about the past of both the officer and the victim?", "You know, if you just look behind me, Fred, it's very telling because this is almost day two and you can see that there's still crime scene, where this incident happened. Take a look, you see that there are Madison police here, guarding the crime scene and there are actually investigators inside of this house, very telling given the fact that it's been almost 48 hours. This community has been angry, has been in fear, and they are asking for justice.", "Hundreds of demonstrators hit the streets of Madison, Wisconsin -- following the shooting death of an unarmed 19- year-old at the hands of police.", "I want to just let them know that I'm there.", "Tony Terrell Robinson's mother devastated and overcome by emotion.", "My son has never been a violent person, never, and to die in such a violent, violent way.", "Police paint a different picture of her son, scanner traffic capturing the dramatic the chain of events.", "Look for a male black light skin.", "Police say they received several calls about Robinson Friday evening, first about the teen jumping in and out of traffic and dodging cars.", "A call for the same suspect.", "Then about an alleged battery incident.", "Tried to strangle another patron.", "The situation escalating when Robinson entered what families say is his best friend's house. Officer Matt Kenny arrived, heard a commotion inside and forced his way in according to police. Officials say Robinson attacked Officer Kenny who then fired the deadly shots. Kenny suffered a blow to the head. Robinson was administered CPR at the scene, but later died at the hospital.", "He was unarmed and that's going to make this all the more complicated for the investigators, for the public, to accept, to understand that deadly force had to be used.", "This is not the first time the 45-year-old officer used lethal force. Kenny was exonerated for an incident that took place almost eight years ago, a fact that doesn't sit well with Robinson's family and friends.", "He was a beautiful, beautiful young man. He stood 6'4\", 200 pounds.", "Robinson's aunt and grandmother speaking out not buying the account from police.", "They are not speaking the cop shot him because he was afraid of him.", "Protesters calling Robinson's killing their Ferguson.", "I'm hurt. I'm frustrated, I'm angry.", "As another family faces an all too familiar anguish, the community deals with an all too familiar question. Was the use of deadly force necessary?", "And as we take another live look, you can see a small memorial here, a sign of the solidarity of this community for Robinson and for his family. Now one of the things that I want to point out, Fred, is that as you have seen Madison Police officers behind me, their police cruisers, you might be wondering why are they at the crime scene. They are only protecting the crime scene. Because in the state of Wisconsin, by law, when there's an officer involved shooting, the department doesn't get to investigate itself. The investigation is in the hands of the DOJ -- Fred.", "So Rosa, this was a friend's house, does that mean that there were witnesses inside the home with Robinson to see what happened just prior to the gun going off?", "You know, this -- family members do tell us that this is his best friend's house that he used to hang out here all the time with his friends. One of the witnesses told us she was next door and she heard the scuffle, and she heard the gun shots. We're actually going to bring you that shortly in a few hours, but she describes the scene, very chaotic, a very thin wall between her home and the home where these shots were fired and she's going to explain what was going through her mind when she was hearing the scuffle. She explains that these kids, as she calls them, these 19-year-olds, they were good kids, like any other 19-year-olds, sometimes they would be horsing around playing, but never drugs or alcohol, she mentioned, that they were good kids and that they were her next door neighbors.", "All right, very confusing situation. Rosa Flores, thanks so much. We look forward to your next report with that account as well. All right, still ahead, live coverage of the Bloody Sunday commemoration march continues, CNN's Ryan Young is in Selma, Alabama. Huge crowds yesterday and it looks even bigger today -- Ryan.", "The crowds here are enormous. You can see all the people that have filled the streets, thousands of them coming here. We'll have a live report. How people feel coming back here for Bloody Sunday 50 years later."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "FLORES", "FLORES (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FLORES", "ANDREA IRWIN, VICTIM'S MOTHER", "FLORES", "UNIDENTIFIED CALLER", "FLORES", "UNIDENTIFIED CALLER", "FLORES", "UNIDENTIFIED CALLER", "FLORES", "CHIEF MIKE KOVAL, MADISON POLICE", "FLORES", "LORIEN CARTER, TONY ROBINSON'S AUNT", "FLORES", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FLORES", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FLORES", "FLORES", "WHITFIELD", "FLORES", "WHITFIELD", "RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-384316", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2019-10-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/30/ampr.01.html", "summary": "House Of Representatives Votes To Present Impeachment Inquiry To Public; Country Before Politics; Two More Diplomats Take The Stand In Impeachment Trial; William Cohen, Former U.S. Defense Secretary, Is Interviewed About Trump's Impeachment; \"Pain And Glory,\" A New Film By Pedro Almodovar; Antonio Banderas Is Interviewed About His New Movie And His Health; Zanny Minton Beddoes Is Interviewed About Brexit And The Economy.", "utt": ["Hello, everyone, and welcome to AMANPOUR. Here's what's coming up.", "I think the vote that they're now going to have to open the impeachment inquiry will be very interesting.", "Democrats get ready on a rare vote on impeachment. I speak to former defense secretary, William Cohen, one of the first Republicans to vote for Nixon's impeachment about what's at stake today. And --", "You haven't been a good son.", "No?", "No.", "Spain's leading man, Antonio Banderas, on \"Pain and Glory,\" his new film that's gaining Oscar buzz. Then --", "There are important things that needs to changed and that need to be looked at, and that's the silver lining in this political turmoil.", "\"The Economist\" editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, joins our Walter Isaacson to explain why rethinking capitalism is at the heart of today's shifting world order. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiane Amanpour in London. After weeks of fact-finding behind closed doors, the House is gearing up to vote on the best way to present its impeachment inquiry to the public, in what will likely be act two of the investigation into the president's alleged quid pro quo with Ukraine. The gathering political storm comes amid of flurry of damming testimonies from top officials. Most recently, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Bindman, the Ukraine expert on the National Security Council who listened in on the phone call between President Trump and the Ukrainian president, Zelensky, and said the White House omitted details of the calls in its transcript. Today, two more diplomats take the stand, Christopher Anderson and Catherine Croft. Both worked for Trump's former envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, who helped the president's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, contact Ukrainian officials close to President Zelensky. Now, former defense secretary, William Cohen, has been watching these hearings. He's a member of the Judiciary Committee during the Watergate hearings. He was one of the handful of Republicans who actually voted for President Nixon's impeachment. And now, he's calling for politicians on both sides of the aisle to put country before party as they evaluate the current evidence. And he's joining me now from Washington. Secretary Cohen, welcome to the program.", "Good to be with you.", "So, can I ask you, first and foremost, do you think the House and the Senate are, in fact, going to or have they showed any evidence that they are putting country before politics?", "I think some of them are. I believe the Democrats who are now leading in the House are trying to get all of the facts as best they can. I think they've gone about it the right way and that is to have private hearings or secret hearings in order to make sure nothing that is classified comes out in open testimony. That's what happened during the Watergate era, where the Watergate committee had private hearings before they went public. And as a result of those public hearings, it certainly educated the American people in terms of what was at stake. And then it came over to the House of Representatives. We conducted almost all of our hearings in private and only went public when we started to debate the articles of impeachment. So, there is kind of a hybrid here because there was no Senate Watergate committee investigating -- a Watergate type committee investigating the -- President Trump and his actions. And so, it's a hybrid now where the House has been required to go and dig out some of the facts before they go public and then they'll go public, I assume, within the next two weeks.", "So, it's very interesting that you are really, you know, hammering this fact, that they have been doing their job behind closed doors because they needed to get all the relevant facts before they could go public. I mean, I assume you're saying that to answer the chorus of criticism from the Republicans and from members of Trump's base that this is somehow, as he says, a kangaroo process with everything happening in a nontransparent way.", "Well, like much of else what is being said is false. Number one, Republicans have been in the hearings behind closed doors. And the spectacle that we saw last week with 40 or 50 Republicans storming the Intelligence Committee room was just that. It was a spectacle. Because many of those who were storming the doors actually had seats on the inside and could have sat there if they hadn't at any time during the course of all of these hearings. So, I think it was more a show. It had little to do with the facts, and the facts were being gathered by Republicans behind closed doors as well as the Democratic majority. And so, now, we'll go public and I think it's really important. It is not enough to have Robert Mueller just read from his testimony of what he had gathered as his findings. It is really important that those who have key information go before the American people, be subjected to critical examination and cross-examinations so the American public can understand what's at stake. And what's at stake is the rule of law and whether or not the president has breached that rule, whether or not he has engaged in conduct which, in my opinion, on its phase is impeachable, namely to call upon a foreign government to dig up critical information or dirt on a potential campaign competitor in the following -- in the next year's race. So, I think that is something, which on the phase of it, would be an impeachable offense.", "Let me ask you, you mentioned rule of law, that's obviously the fundamental principle of one of the main principles of the United States and the democracy there. Are you concerned that the rule of law itself is under threat and are you concerned that the consistent attack on institutions in the United States is having an impact on the democratic process?", "I am. During the time of Harry Truman and Dean Acheson and others, it was called, you know, watching the president at the beginning. I think we are present at the end of that process. So, they were present at the beginning of setting up these key institutions in the United States and elsewhere which helped to maintain, for the most part, peace and stability for the past 70 years. I believe that President Trump is in the process of knocking down those pillars. And so, he feels that doesn't need any of these other institutional guards and such to make -- that he feels that he alone can take action without regard to any other institutions which are there to make sure the rules of law stays intact. And so, that only I can do this, and that has the sound of, you know, a dictator or a dictatorship where only I can solve this problem. I don't need you for a consultation. I know more than the generals. I know more than the ambassadors. And I alone can take this action without regard to you, Congress. I don't need you. I don't have to come to you. And therefore, it becomes one-man rule. Now, if the president can do that in first term, what would we expect if he has a second term and which has no need to go before the electorate again, there's no need to go to Congress to say, gee, I am sorry. I broke this rule. There will be no rules that would go unbroken, in my opinion, because he feels that he is above the law, that he is the face of the law, that he is the face of Justice Department and et cetera. So, I worry about the future as much as I worry about the president in terms of what is happening. I want the president to abide by the rule of law and I want Republicans to say, Mr. President, when you step over the line, you have to be held accountable. You cannot go to a foreign government and ask for assistance against -- dirt on your future opponent. That crosses a line which should not be crossed. Now, whether the majority in the Senate, the super majority in the Senate, two-thirds of the Senate will vote for removal, I think at this point, is rather doubtful. But in any event, even if doubtful, it is important for the American people to listen to the facts to say, you may think it's okay for this president but do you want to set the standards and lower the standards for every other president in the future? Because what is good for President Trump will good for them. And I've always believed -- I want to look up to the president. I want to see the president as a shining example of what the rule of law is supposed to look like in America and why we treasure that rule of law because if you don't have the rule of law, you have the law of rule, and that's something the president seems really more akin to. He likes President Putin, he like Kim Jong-un, he likes President Xi Jinping, he likes President Erdogan. He doesn't much does like our allies in terms of paying the same kind of tribute to them that he does to those who have the kind of one-man rule.", "I mean, you have just laid out a pretty alarming scenario. I mean, if I had to sum it up, you are pretty much saying that potentially the United States is on a sort of route to anti-democracy, I mean, almost like tyranny, you've just said. And from somebody like yourself who's a pretty moderate Republican who served the Democratic president, you're not a flamethrower, it's pretty alarming. I wonder whether your former colleague or current members of Congress, whether the House or the Senate, are listening. And you, of course, signed a letter with 44 other formers, Republicans and others about this issue. And yet, the \"Boston Globe\" has said, where are you all? Where are you all? Where are the Republican senators or Congress people who actually did what they had to do according to the rule of law during the Watergate era? Where are you all apart from you speaking out like this?", "Well, many of the Republican senators with whom I served feel exactly as I do, they are worried about where the country is heading. I would ask everyone to go back and read \"Nineteen Eighty-Four\" 1984 and look at what he was writing about, in a fictional sense, and saying, is that where we're headed? Where you have a ministry of truths in which you can tell the biggest of lies and you repeat them over and over again until they are accepted as the truth. So, you have a situation where the words like war really means peace or ignorance really means wisdom or slavery is equal to freedom and two plus two equals five. When you -- that's pretty fictional but it is not too far removed when you can have the president of the United States say, yes, I wrote this letter and it is a perfect letter. And I would say, yes. Perfectly corrupt in the sense you are trying to dig out dirt through a country that is beholden to us for its security. In order to get that security delivered to them but only if you give us this information on Joe Biden and his family. And so, you keep repeating, it's perfect, it's perfect, it's perfect, and people pretty soon will say, yes, it is perfect. So, that's why it is important to have these public hearings so you can have Ambassador Bill Taylor and Ambassador Yovanovitch. You can have the lieutenant colonel come forward and say, here is what I heard. This is why it alarmed me and this is why every American should be alarmed about this because this is not what we do. This is not how we act. We don't ask Russia -- Russia, if you are listening, come on in. See what you can dig up on Hillary Clinton. If you are listening, Ukraine, come on in and get some dirt on Biden. If you are listening, China, come on in, we are open for business. That's not something that we can accept or should not accept. And to the extent of the American feel its OK, then I think we're headed down a very dangerous path --", "Well --", "-- one that every American should be concerned about.", "So, let me ask you about the American people. Because clearly, the idea of an impeachment is a very divisive and traumatic one for the nation. They have been through it once or twice before, it's rare but it's happened, and it is traumatic. And people will also say as President Trump's allies have said that it is simply attempt to rob an elected leader of his position. Do you -- are you concerned, given what we're seeing in polls right now, that this could be even more divisive, even more traumatic than -- you know, than the rule of law being upheld?", "Well, we had the same arguments we made back during the Watergate. There were people in the streets, we had bomb threats at our hearings. I had to get special protection for my family as well. And the argument was this will tear our country apart. And my argument at that point was, no, it will not tear the country apart. There will be a vice president who will take office. Of removing the head for -- a head of state for actions that are antithetical to what we believe in will not result in tearing the country apart. What will tear the country apart is if we watch the slow unraveling of the rule of law in the name of power of the president. And when you confuse the office of the president with the individual president, then his undoing becomes our undoing. And I try to make that very clear. I believe it still obtains. The president is there as temporary occupant but we have our allegiance to -- it's the office of the president and to the constitution and to the country. And so, I know that President Trump was trying to get members like Mr. Comey, the director of FBI. I want you to pledge your loyalty to me. The answer is no, Mr. President. I don't pledge my loyalty to you, I pledge my loyalty to the constitution. And that's something that has been going on now, insisting upon loyalty to the person, and it has be loyalty to the office of the president.", "So, why do you think then -- sorry to interrupt you. But why do you think then so many Republicans are, in fact, not doing what you are saying, in other words, they are pledging their loyalty to him rather than to the country in your format there?", "Part of it is fear. They fear that because of his popularity with the Republican base, that if they criticize him, they're likely to face a primary opponent or they are likely to be defeated. That's always a possibility. And given his popularity of the Republican right, that's a real possibility. My argument would be, it's more important for the country that you sacrifice your position if necessary, in order to defend the constitution because that's the oath you took, not to preserve your position in Congress but to preserve the constitution. If you are unwilling to do that, you shouldn't be there in the first place.", "And very finally, what is all this doing to America's position in the world? It's the internal politics that we see but is also what happened with the Syrian Kurds, you saw \"The Economist\" cover, who can trust Trump's America anymore? What world leaders or the people who you now speak to on a regular basis, saying about America as a foreign policy behemoth in the world?", "They have less trust in us than never before in my experience. They don't know what will come next. They can't trust the word of the president because he changes his words and mind virtually every day. And so, the need for continuity, the need for predictability, the need for trust is vital in the formulation and the execution of foreign policy. Right now, a number of leaders that I've talked to don't have that. They're worried about us, they're worried about whether they coach or count on the United States, will we abide by the agreements or will we tear them up and look for a better deal tomorrow? So, trust is the coin of the realm, it always has been in human relations. And when you call that into question, then certainly are calling into question the nature of relationships with -- be they with adversaries or with allies, both will come to distrust your word.", "Former Secretary of Defense, Republican, William Cohen, thank you very indeed for joining us.", "Pleasure to be with you.", "So, that is, very very dramatic up there on Capitol Hill. And we turn to a whole different type of drama now from Arthouse Spanish cinema to Hollywood megastar, Antonio Banderas, has done it all. Known for his blockbuster roles in Hollywood films like the \"Mask of Zorro\" and \"Shrek.\" Banderas has been a fixture in popular culture for decades. Now, he is returning to his root for \"Pain and Glory,\" a new film based on the life of the legendary Spanish filmmaker, Pedro Almodovar, who also directs. The role is a study on health, aging and feelings. And is poignant considering Banderas himself only recently recovered from a heart attack. Here's a clip of his character, Salvador, receiving a surprising phone call from a long-lost love.", "Yes.", "Is that you? I couldn't have recognized you. This is Frederico.", "Frederico.", "I'm in Madrid.", "What are you doing here?", "Seeing lawyers about an inheritance. I'm leaving tomorrow night. I'd like to see you.", "Same here. But I'm in bed now. Can we meet tomorrow?", "How about at midday? I'm seeing the lawyers in the afternoon.", "Yes, perfect.", "I didn't ask how you are.", "Old.", "Now, critics are calling this Banderas' most important role yet. And he's joining me now from Los Angeles. Antonio Banderas, welcome to our program.", "Thank you. Thank you for having me here.", "So, let me just ask you. Here you are playing this aging hero really, Spanish film director. How does it feel to see yourself in this aging role? I'm not sure whether you've ever played somebody so, obviously, older than you look anyway. And what does it mean for you to come back to your roots? What does this film mean to you?", "I lot because, you know, I am working with a person that I met 40 years ago, and there were some (ph) revolutionary, in a way, in the Spanish cinematography and in the Spanish society because Pedro Almodovar started working and doing movies only five years after General Franco in Spain. The country was, you know, very conservative at the time, very monolithic. And so, figures like Pedro Almodovar at th time were needed, were needed just to change the minds of people in many different aspects , you know, the morality of the country, sexuality, a number of things. Pedro Almodovar has been, in a way, the peak of a pyramid of people who actually collaborated to do so, you know, to do a", "You know, because you brought up Franco and the times in which Almodovar did his work, I mean, you must have heard the last conversation. I mean, we are talking about, you know, the rule of law being at risk, authoritarianism rising even within our democracies. I just wonder what you make as an art world fixture, as a film actor over the fact that Franco is in the news again, his body was exhumed, he's been, you know, moved again. And this whole -- where Almodovar started, it's kind of backup in the forefront of democratic politics now, this leaning towards nationalism.", "Yes. We are living actually in a very complicated complex world these days. You know, it's true in one side that it was good to remove the body of Franco out of monuments that was, in a way, symbolic of the old regime, and that is healthy thing just to move the body out of there. The possibility of parties anyway to do some kind of electoral campaign, you know, using that -- that's a completely different issue, you know. But in this world that we are living, it's so confusing and so strange in a way, probably the race of population in Spain is one of those countries where this is happening too, has to do probably with the fact that the traditional parties didn't know how to put an end to endemic problems that have been, you know, following as for many years now. The situation, for example, in Africa, the immigration, the -- it's just invading Europe, what to do with this. You know, on one side, you want just be humanitarian and take them into your country. But -- for example, Spain is a country that has an index of unemployment very high. So, what do you do with 250,000 people that can get into the country every year? It is very complicated the world in which we are living in. There are probably solutions. But the solutions to those problems take so many years that actually -- and politicians, they have terms that go from four to eight years that nobody wants to really do -- not a marshal plan but an Africa plan. For example, they would take 40, 50, 60 years to present some solutions to the problems of the continent. But they are never going to get a feedback out of that.", "Right.", "So, nobody wants to get in there. And at the same time, they just may put in the table that it is going to be expensive. But actually, the price we are paying now is even more expensive, not in terms of money but in terms of human lives. So, yes. And we artists, we have definitely a certain obligation to confront all of these situations in a way and to express our self through our art, which is, in my case, my movies.", "So, let me ask you because you are now making -- well, you've made this movie but you've come back from a heart attack and people just kind of can't believe it because you look healthy, you were robust in the film. And I'm just trying to figure out how that affected your performance. I was struck by what I read that you told the story of a nurse who saw you straight afterward and said, you know, people say I love you with all my heart for a reason, that that's where the emotions are, that's where the feelings are and you are going to feel sad. And I wonder whether you did feel sad. And then, of course, Almodovar said that something in you has become more sensitive to certain things, something deep inside you changed for the better. Talk to me about that.", "Well, first of all, I have to be very respectful to people who have suffered disease like me, in this case, a heart attack. A heart attack, you know, it can be in many different ways. There are heart attacks that they just take you out like this and there are others like -- it was very, very, very lucky actually because I had my girlfriend with me at the time and she put an aspirin on my mouth, immediately I started feeling the symptoms. There was a number of things that happened that morning. But if I say what I'm going to say, many people may think that it's strange, but it's true. This heart attack came to my life as a blessing. In way, it thought to me -- or reorder, somehow, my priorities. And so, things that I thought that were very important sunk and only the things that really were important stayed, you know. My daughter, of course, my family, my friends and my vocation. I wouldn't even say my professional life, my vocation, which is to be an actor. It's just to tell story to other. But it's true, there was a certain sadness that has do with the fact that you discover that you are very vulnerable. That death is the only certainty that we have and everything else is absolutely irrelative, including taxes. But death is there, it's perfect. So, I went to live life in a completely different way. And there was something inside of me that changed. And Pedro Almodovar who is a perspective person, he saw that and he said, you know, don't try to hide that because I know you, Antonio, you are going to try just to show that you are fine and you are going to try to be athletic and a number of things in the character, no. This character requires of that kind of solitude, the kind of suffering that you have experienced. And I want you to apply it to the character. I knew exactly what he was talking about. And so, that's what I did. I just put in this character things and -- you know, that I never used before. I didn't use the tools that I always use in -- those things that make you feel secure and safe, you've thrown to the camera. And when you do that, you just eliminate all of those things, it's feel very -- you feel very insecure. But in that insecurity, I think is where creation is. Otherwise, you are kind of repeating yourself. This character and this world with Pedro Almodovar opened my eyes to different possibilities to understand, not only just my professional life, but my life.", "Well, it is -- it's sort of all turns up in this film. And the idea of expressing emotions and how you control them or not is very central to this and it kind of art imitating life because your character, you, the director, tell your actor, you have to avoid sentimentality. Control the emotion. Don't cry. Actors take any opportunity to cry. The better actor isn't the one who cries, it's the one who fights to hold back his tears. Now, this is apparently real advice that Almodovar gave you. And I just want to play another clip where this becomes relevant and then we'll talk about it.", "OK. Sure.", "Each film of yours was an event in my life and I was proud that you were a success around the world. You're the only Spanish director my family knows.", "Your new family.", "Yes.", "Do they know anything else?", "You mean about us? Lucrecia, my wife. Well, my ex-wife, we're separating. I told her but she doesn't know it's you, just that I was with a man in Madrid for three years. And I told one of my sons to encourage him. With time, I'll tell him it's you. He's a real film lover and he'd never forgive me if I didn't.", "Do you have a partner now?", "Yes.", "And you?", "No.", "So, this is you reuniting from Frederico, a lover from your past and you are sort of holding back your emotions there. Tell me about how you played that, what was going through your mind?", "It's very interesting because that particular scene, we shot the mast of night before. And we were rehearsing because Almadovar love to rehearse, contrary to some of the directors, movie directors that prefer, you know, the freshness of the actor coming from the first time to the second. But Almodovar rehearsed almost for a month before", "Yes, it really was poignant and at the very end, you also apologized to your mom because she was, you know, saying that you hadn't been a good son and all the rest. So you did all that. It was very affecting actually. But I just want to go to what you said. Here we were in the cheap seats, in the cheap hotels and then we kept winning. How did you break out in America? I mean, there you are, you didn't speak English. How did you -- what happened? How did that story happen? How did you even learn English? Then you go to Mask of Zorro and, eventually, you know, Shrek and Puss in Boots, and all the rest of it?", "It happens because we came here to Los Angeles, the first time I came to Los Angeles it was -- you know, because a movie that I did with Pedro Almodovar called \"Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown --", "Oh, yes.", "-- was nominated for an Academy Award. And so they're proud on the produces and the distributors have a time of the movie here. They're proud for us a number of visits. And one of those visits where was to an agency of actors. And there, I met a guy who literally -- I mean, he was not an agent at the time. He was just taking coffees to the agent, but he approached me and he says to me, do you want to be -- you want me to be your agent here America? I didn't know the guy, but I said, yes, sure. Thinking, he's going to forget about me probably tomorrow. And so I went back to Spain to make a movie there. I finished that movie and then this person called me and said, you have to go to London. There is a director from New York who wants to meet you there. He's preparing a movie called, \"The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.\" And I said, this guy obviously speaking Spanish. And he said, no, no, no, he doesn't speak of Spanish. What am I going to do? Because I don't speak English at all, he said, we'll just fake it. I said, how can we fake that? So I went to London and I sat in front of this very elegant man. I think what I did is just to fake that I was a very shy person. I basically was saying yes and no to everything that he was saying. I couldn't understand a word. And at the end of this very strange, bizarre dinner, I said, well, whatever you say, I can do it. And a week after, I was in New York with my lines learned phonetically just doing a screen test. For three days, I was doing that and they were crazy because they actually signed me to do my first American with Warner Brothers and the rest is history.", "The rest is history. Let us cut to a clip from Puss in Boots, because I want to talk to you about voice and accent.", "Puss, can you help us? There's no time to waste.", "I will do it.", "Puss.", "Humpty Alexander Dumpty. We're going to need her. She's kitty softballs.", "I'll steal you blind and you'll never even know I was there.", "She is a bad kitty.", "So there you are with your heavily accented English. And you talked to another magazine about how it is kind of ironic that, you know, you might have thought that people with accents might have played the villains. But in your films, actually, you, with the accent with English, played the heroes. Just tell me about that little twist.", "Well, it has to do -- you know, it's interesting because when I did that movie that I was talking about before, the Mambo Kings, you know, the Spanish actors that were in the movie, they said to me, if you are going to stay in America, you're going to play the villain, you know, because that's what we do. And the Spanish actors, we are always the villains. And I said but, you know, I mean, it could be interesting, the villains can be multicolor and interesting to play. But five years after that, I was with a mask, and a hat, and a cape, a and sword, and I was a hero in the movie played Zorro. And the bad guy was blondes, he got blue eyes and he got a perfect English. And I thought, oh, something is changing. And what the change has to do with something that was social more than a distance. And it's the fact that many people from all around the Spanish world came to this country from situations that were very unfair in the country's social situation, economical, political situations. And they work very hard for many years, for decades to get their kids university, to just, you know, be better as a community. And so those kids, they were coming out of universities and now they are architects and they are doctors and they are politicians, so they work in banking. And, you know, and that affected Hollywood too. And I think I got writing in America. Right when that curve was taken place, when we start being accepted. And so -- and then you just talk about Puss in Boots that, you know -- it's very interesting because that movie is also for kids. And it's very interesting because that diversity comes to the mind of kids in that way. That the hero of the movie has an accent and that is natural. And", "It is. It's heroic indeed. Antonio Banderas, thank you so much. And, of course, your new film, \"Pain and Glory\" has a lot of Oscar buzz too, so we'll see how that transpires. Thanks for joining us. Now, at a time when experts are being ignored and alternative facts are being touted as reality, publications like The Economist only becoming more vital. With the readership of more than $1.5 million, it's at the forefront of the global conversation. Zanny Minton Beddoes is an award-winning financial journalist who became the magazine's first female editor in 2015. Currently on speaking towards the United States, she started by talking to Walter Isaacson about the Brexit vote and what it really represents.", "Welcome to America, and your tour here. Let's start with Brexit. Why is all this happening? Why did Brexit pass?", "Why did the referendum passed? Well, it was a combination of things. I think there were a group of people within the Conservative Party who for decades had been unhappy with Britain being part of the European Union and it had being sort of festering within the Conservative Party. And David Cameron, the prime minister at the time decided that putting this issue to a referendum would blunts that boil, if you will, and deal with the problem in his party. And he and everybody around him was fully expecting to win the referendum. It was not something that was high on the agenda of most people in the U.K. In fact, if you look at polls before the referendum, it was nowhere near the top, people are worried about the National Health Service, they're worried about all manner of things, but not Brexit. But that -- the referendum itself, it came a vehicle through which many people voice profound frustration. It was a protest vote. It was a vote of anger, not dissimilar to many of the people who voted for President Trump in 2016. It was a vote not necessarily for anything in particular. It was just a kind of, I'm fed up with the status quo. And there's an interesting English adage that the sort of constellation of people who voted for Brexit were these generally affluent conservative voters and then and a lot of blue collar workers who are angry and felt left behind. And so it's often that it was a collection -- it was a coordination of blue workers and red trousers, because there was a conservative types of them wear red trousers. But so is this protest vote. But since then, what's really striking is that it's become the fault line in British politics. I mean, it's now -- people identify much more about whether they are a remainer or a Brexiteer, then they do about whether they are Conservative or Labour.", "In Britain, do you think there might be a real alignment somehow since the party's don't represent the political fault line?", "Well, it's certainly possible. I mean, there has already been somewhat of a realignment in the sense that Conservative Party has become much more of a populist nationalist party than the kind of --", "Which is a little bit like what happened here --", "Which is what like what happened here. The Labour Party has been essentially hijacked by a far left group of people. And, you know, Jeremy Corbyn, who is the leader of the British Labour Party, is by far, the most left wing leader we've had in the Labour Party, at least since the 1930s. And he really is a Marxist or close to be. And he's surrounded by", "Well, they do with the Social Democratic Party --", "They did with the -- they do with the liberal Democrats.", "Liberal Democrats. Why doesn't that rise up?", "And it is -- we may see it the next selection a very big rise in the number of seats for the liberal Democrats. But the problem with the British the political system, which is you know has first passed the post system, it's actually very, very hard to break through, for smaller parties to breakthrough. So you can get a lot of votes but still not get very many seats. But when you have all the parties where they are now, which is broadly the mid-30s, the Conservative Party polling, and then the 20s for Labour and he Lib Dems slightly below that, we could see a very big reshuffling of British politics. It's going to be one -- the next selection is going to be one of the most exciting elections in modern British history, because you're right, we could throw the whole deck of cards to get something very different.", "The center isn't holding, as you say, the center is not holding in the United States. Center is not holding across Europe and much of the western world. What happened to this sort of force that used to keep us gravitating towards the center?", "So really good question. And I think political scientist for the next decades are going to be grappling with this. The sort of simple lines that we keep hearing is the rise of populism which is true, but I think it's more of a description than it is an explanation. The fact that this is happening in this country, in Britain, as you say, across Europe, in each case, there is some individual", "And the people who tend to read The Economists, tend to at least know about Davos and stuff, they believe it, I think, I did it, and you did. Although I'm having second thought, that free trade, immigration, and technology are all going to be good for the economy. And yet, I'm looking at your new cover, you know, Elizabeth Warren's plan to remake capitalism. We're looking at Trump, we're looking at Brexit, it seems that people have lost faith in capitalism being able to distribute the goods of a growing economy fairly.", "You're right. And I think a lot of people are losing faith and there is a -- there are really big problems that haven't been addressed and that need to be addressed. And I welcome both thinking to do that, and we -- as you see this, and that is -- The Economist, we have a long hard look at Elizabeth warren's plan, which is breathtaking in its scope. And in an area where, you know, there's a lot of policy by tweet. It's incredibly impressive to have a sort of planned program of that scale. On balance, I think she probably gets more things wrong than she gets right. She identifies a lot of the right challenges. But overall, her particular proposals, you know, some of them will be good, but some of them would have quite dramatic negative consequences. But I applaud the kind of -- I think the bold thinking is exactly what we need to do. I rather have sort of both incrementalism than reckless radicalism. But hey, it's -- you're right. There is -- there are important things that need to change and that need to be looked at, and that's the silver lining in this period of political turmoil. At the moment, we see a lot of anger, a lot of frustration, a lot of scapegoating. And a lot of, you know, snake oil salesman pretending that there are easy answers. I don't think tariffs is the answer. I don't think protectionism is the answer. I don't think a draw bridge up kind of mentality is the answer. But we do need to think about is a positive agenda forward and, what is the kind of positive vision for a 21st Century U.S.? And over the next few years, I think that's what this country is going to be grappling towards.", "How old is The Economist more than --", "Hundred and seventy-six years. And we find in 1843.", "And in that period, it is always good for sort of the free minds, free markets, free trade, not that ideological but believing in what are the fundamentals of what I'll call classic liberal, democratic capitalism, free markets. What would you do now to fix that system?", "Well, that's exactly right. We've been -- we stand for the classic English liberalism. And when I -- whenever I use the word liberal in the U.S., I have to kind of presses it by saying classic English liberalism, because it has a different meaning here. Individual freedom, economic and political. I think that we need to have a very hard rethink about what a liberalism in the 21st Century looks like. Actually, last year was our 175th anniversary. And we marked our anniversary with a cover story and an essay on we making liberalism, which -- and I took -- I actually wrote that essay and sort of spent some weeks in the summer writing it last year. And so I went through in some detail, the areas that, you know, were required. And I think the -- part of it is unleashing genuine competition. And that's actually something that Elizabeth Warren talks about. I'm not sure that her specifics reach it. But we've got an economy increasingly concentrated in this country. Big business increasingly building motes around. We need to have a renewed focus on competition.", "So that the anti-trust.", "Yes, a 21st century, antitrust policy. A kind of pragmatic approach to immigration which is not complete open borders. But not draw bridge up. There needs to be -- I think as we look forward, the under lying demographics of many countries, means that they will need more immigration. But we need to find ways to make that immigration politically sustainable. It means, I think, in a geopolitical sense, the U.S. and China reaching a strategic mutually -- strategic understanding that they can work together. Because one of their great strengths at the post-war order was that the U.S. built up a system which the U.S. led that was the multilateral open out for looking system that needs to be modified in an area of a rising China. But we need to find what the new equilibrium there is. So there's a whole load of areas where we need reform voter forms. The welfare state needs to be rethought. When we're all leaving longer, pension systems need rethinking, tax systems need rethinking. The rich do need to pay more taxes. There are different ways of doing it, better or worse, but bold rethinking. And I think part of the problem for the economist reader, if you will, is that many people who have done very well out of this system -- out of a system they considered to be meritocratic, the highly skilled, the highly educated, are actually probably less inclined for bold reforms and they like to admit that they --", "You talk about the sort of competition between classic, liberal, free market democracy on one hand, and China's rise and its authoritarian state. We've seen a lot of pushback recently. Even with the NBA basketball league, pushing back on China's authoritarianism. Do you think that's part of the future of what the west needs to do?", "Yes. I think that the west needs to stand up for what it believes in. And I think therefore, it's important to call out human rights abuses. It's important to stand up for, you know, western ideas, even if China is an enormous market. And so I think that there is, you know, clearly one area of increasing tension, is that China now -- you know, increasingly doesn't -- not only won't continents criticism of what it does internally. It wants no criticism in the rest of the world than what it does internally. And I think that is a fault line and it's one way the west needs to stand up for what it believes in.", "How does The Economist deal with China and have to work through its censorship problems?", "Well, our website is bad in China. Our app is often banned. You know, we write what we think is right. And it's, you know, quite often, they don't like it very much.", "One of the core things about The Economist over the years, is the covers. And there are always clever, maybe even as the British will take two clever by half and takes your moment to figure them out. One of the covers that was most striking this year was your special issue on climate change. Describe that cover and that special issue what was driving it.", "So we decided -- it was the first time we've ever done a special issue where we had in every section of the newspaper, we call it a newspaper. In every section of the newspaper, we had a piece of our climate change. And we had a big -- we had an editorial, we had a big explanatory briefing, and it was -- we had a special logo. The reason we did that was to show that every aspect of our world, so every aspect of what we cover will be influenced by climate change. And it was not the only thing that we wrote about it. There were other things, but it was infused throughout The Economist that week. And the cover which was a colleague of mine who suggested the idea was a very bold graphic that showed in through colored stripes how that world's temperature had risen, so it was the temperature of the world relative to an average, showing that it had kind of warmth quite substantially over the past 150 years. And it showed because it was basically blue, blue, blue, blue, red, red, red on the right hand side. It showed very powerfully what had gone on with global temperature. And it was sort of an unusual cover for us. We don't usually --", "And it was somewhat of an advocacy cover more than The Economist has done in sourcing climate.", "I think it was -- it was pushing the subject. What was -- what was very important to me and if you head the editorial, and you would have seen is that it was very clearly saying that this is you, the fact that the climate is changing is going to affect every aspect of life on this planet over the coming decades. But the dealing with is which requires a profound shift from energy carbon -- energy that comes from carbon to energy that doesn't, that has to, in my view, the only way we will do that is by harnessing the innovative power of capitalism to do it. And part of the -- my frustration with the current climate debate is that many climate activists, those people who are more focused on what's happening with the climate, are also then saying that the evils of capitalism and the evils of economic growth have led to this. And I think that that is, at some point, are kind of dead end of a conversation. The only way we're going to, as a planet, address climate change and if we don't, to be clear, it's not necessarily, it's not going to be existential for the whole planet. But it is going to affect hundreds of millions of people as the earth warms, as we see the ever more, you know, frequent extreme weather events. But to counter that, you have to harness the innovative power of capitalism. You have to -- you have to have all of the elements that The Economist stands for of free markets harnessed to help do that, and we can do that. So it was not an advocacy. It was an explanatory -- and the whole tone of it and if it wasn't this, then we failed. Our goal was very much to kind of lay out the comprehensive nature of what was happening, but do so in that kind of fact-based, rational, analytical way.", "Thank you for being with us, Zanny.", "Thank you.", "Appreciate it.", "And The Economists, factual, analytic, and explaining to us every single week. That's it for our program tonight. But before we go, let us just leave you with something that we're going to be doing tomorrow night. We're going to be joined by the stars of \"Harriet.\" The film telling the story of America's legendary Underground Railroad conductor, Harriet Tubman, who shuttles so many slaves to freedom. Tony Award winning actor, Cynthia Erivo and Leslie Odom, Jr. will tell me how they brought her incredible story to life on the big screen. Remember, you can listen to our podcast, see us online at amanpour.com and follow me on Instagram and Twitter. 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{"id": "CNN-179249", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2012-1-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/11/sbt.01.html", "summary": "A $350,000 Offer to Casey Anthony", "utt": ["Big news breaking tonight on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT - an astonishing offer to Casey Anthony, a $350,000 deal to tell all. Will she take it? The man behind that Casey offer is here in a SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive. Is he worried about death threats from all of the Casey haters? Kris gets cryptic. Kris Humphries` mysterious tweet that the truth will get out about his disastrous marriage to Kim Kardashian. Tonight, the SHOWBIZ Flashpoint - is Kris ready to reveal the truth about his marriage mayhem? We will ask reality star, Holly Madison. She is here to sound of on the Kardashian chaos in a SHOWBIZ newsmaker interview. The new American idol. Remarkable new evidence just revealed that NFL star, Tim Tebow, is bigger than Beyonce and bigger than \"American Idol\" and \"X Factor\" combined. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT with the Tim Tebow miracle. TV`s most provocative entertainment news show breaks news right now.", "You know, I agree with you there. But you know, this is an interview that the whole world wants to see, you know. She is infamous, and you know, she can`t really - her life right now is out in the world but she is still in prison. And people want to know her thoughts. And yes, she might be a liar. She might be hated, but she is still a person. She was found not guilty, you know. And I want to give her that platform on \"The Dirty\" and give her the voice and have the opportunity to have that interview with Casey.", "She may, Nik, as you know, have been found not guilty, but we also know - I guarantee you walk down the street, there is not a person who is going to tell you that they think she is innocent. And we know how big perception is. A lot of people think it is like handing her over this cash prize.", "Yes. You know, I`ve been getting a lot of threats already saying it is blood money, this and that. But you know, they`ve came out publicly and said they are looking for a big payday. This is my opportunity to give Casey that voice using \"The Dirty,\" using my radio show to say what she wants to say. And you know what? I`m going to ask her the questions that I want to know personally. And you know, people are not happy about it but I`m stepping up to the plate and giving her the shot.", "Well, you are treading, I think, as you`ve already learned, in some pretty dangerous waters here. And let`s get a reality check, Nik, because, you know, it is one thing to send Casey`s lawyers a letter. And obviously, it`s quite another to get the actual interview. In your heart of hearts, do you really think Casey is going to take the offer?", "I hope so, and I hope she is watching this. Casey, if you are, you know, this is a real offer. This is your opportunity to talk, because obviously you want to say something to the world. I`m giving you the platform. I`m giving you the chance. \"TheDirty.com\" - we get millions and millions of people coming to the site. The radio show does have 1.2 million listeners. And I want to be the guy that gives you the opportunity, you know.", "But really, yes or no, Nik, do you actually think she will do it?", "I don`t know. I hope so.", "And listen, I`m sure this is not lost on you. There are a lot of people out there who are saying, \"You know what? This is a cheap publicity stunt. You are never going to actually get her.\" And here we are talking about your Web site, mentioning your radio show. You are getting quite a bit of publicity. What do you say to people who suggest that?", "It is not a PR stunt, you know. It is what it is. I made an offer, and I might be the first to make an offer publicly. And there might be other offers out there but I`m standing behind what rumors came out the other day saying, you know, \"The Dirty\" has made an offer. Yes, I have made an offer. I hope she can come on the show, and it is real.", "And what do you think and what are you expecting to get out of an interview with her if you actually get the interview? I mean, do you think you might get a confession?", "You never know, you know. My radio show - you know, I try to crack my guests and try to get in their minds. And I think I`m the best person for this opportunity. Much like Casey, I get a lot of flak in the media with my Web site, \"TheDirty.com\" and what I do. And you know, I`m not a suit. I`m not a Nancy Grace, you know. I`m not someone that she can really look at and be in fear of, you know. I don`t think the nerves will be there for her. And hopefully, you know, she`ll get the shot.", "Obviously, we will be following to see if you get it. You know, obviously, as I said, dangerous waters. But I guess you already realize what you are getting yourself into here. Nik Richie, I do appreciate you being here. Thanks.", "Thank you so much.", "I want to move on to another big SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive. This is about Katy Perry`s daddy drama. Katy`s Dad has just issued a dramatic apology for anti-Semitic comments that he made while preaching in a church in Ohio. Katy dad told the congregation this - it`s still unbelievable to me, \"You know how to make the Jew jealous? Have some money, honey. You go to L.A. and they own all the Rolex and diamond places. Walk down a part of L.A. where we live and it is so rich, it smells. You ever smell rich? They are all Jews. Hallelujah. Amen.\" Now, Katy`s father is - Keith Hudson is his name. He has now publicly apologized for these obviously outrageous remarks after first saying that his words were taken out of context. Well, someone else who had claimed Hudson`s words were taken out of context was senior pastor of the church, Paul Endrei. Paul joins us tonight for an exclusive SHOWBIZ newsmaker interview. Pastor Endrei, I appreciate you being here. I need to understand right off the bat how exactly could it be that rant was taken out of contest. Why did you say that?", "The reason I said that, A.J., is that after he had been speaking the entire night about God`s power in your life and what we could look forward to and God`s blessings in 2012 which is really the reason he was to be there. He wasn`t there to talk about his daughter. He wasn`t there to talk about her divorce or anything like that. He was really there to pray for people and to just share words of hope for this year. Well, at the end, he was praying for different groups of people. And he said, \"Those of you that are business leaders, would you please stand to your feet?\" And a group of people stood to their feet and he began to just encourage them and saying, basically, \"We are going to pray for God to prosper you and God to bless you.\" And just like God had said to Abraham in the book of Genesis, that He would bless him to be a blessing unto others, that God will bless you like that. Then, he went on to talk about, you know, that God wants you to be so blessed that you would make a Jew jealous. Of course, that was inappropriate.", "Sure. I mean -", "But there was a context to what he was saying.", "But quite frankly, I think you would agree -", "He was saying that businessmen should prosper.", "You would agree, context aside, really, really poor use and choice of words that should never be uttered. The public apology from Katy`s dad, as you know, really left no wiggle room.", "No.", "We can forget the \"taken out of context\" claim. Listen to what he said, \"I deeply regret the hurtful and ugly language I used in my message in Ohio. I used images about Jews rooted in the worst anti-Semitism in the past, images that at times led to the persecution and murder of Jews.\" Now that he has said that, I mean, does context even come into play, pastor?", "No, I don`t think it was. I think that was a super-strong apology. I, you know, have apologized it happened at our church. Obviously, I didn`t say the comment. And I made the statement in some of the Jewish newspapers that have gone out here locally and internationally. I felt this comment was stupid. Now, that`s not that he is a stupid person, but I just felt that was a stupid comment. And you know, in my conversations with him afterwards, we both agreed that apologies need to be made and that, you know, if anything was done wrong during the two days that he was here, it was that. I can tell you, he did not talk about divorce issues at all. And I have a feeling that some of the gossip tabloids that were here at the church were looking for some news and they really just jumped on that and that became the story. There were a lot of good things", "Yes. Well, and quite frankly, otherwise it probably never would have been brought to people`s attention. And quite frankly, I think it`s probably a good thing that it was brought to people`s attention so amends can be made. So here is the thing, and understand I see this all the time in showbiz. And I hear that you say you guys discussed an apology being necessary. But I am really trying to understand what is at the root of how this happened, because, of course, first, you and Katy Perry`s dad say the remarks were taken out of context, and then comes the apology. To a lot of people, it seems, you know, someone must have gotten to him and said, \"You know what? You better make this right and issue an apology right away,\" because quite frankly, it looks so carefully worded. I see this from publicists every day.", "Yes. Well, let me just say this. We had long conversations between myself and Keith. And we felt as though after we had talked to people from the Jewish community - we have an excellent relationship, first of all. This is very ironic for our church to have this happen because we are very pro-Jewish and I just led 42 people to the Holy Land last month. So you know, in my conversation with Jewish people, we basically said, you know, \"What do we need to do to be able to make this right?\"", "Right.", "You know that we are not malicious people. He was not malicious. We are not malicious.", "I got your message. I`m afraid I have to jump in and end it there. But I truly appreciate you coming on and setting the record straight with your side of the story. Senior Pastor Paul Endrei, thank you very much for being here. All right. As we move on tonight, I want you to check this out. I was doing a little math today and I realized 72 days now since the end of Kim Kardashian`s 72-day marriage. Yes. I thought that was worth pointing out. Kris Humphries might be thinking, \"Hey, you know what? It is time for me to break my silence.\" Kris tweets that the truth will come out, but the truth about what? The SHOWBIZ Flashpoint - is Kris ready to reveal the truth about Kim? Katie Holmes, nearly topless. We`ve got Katie`s stripped-down, sexy new photos. Is Holly Madison impressed by Mrs. Cruise`s new look? Well, Hugh Hefner`s ex-girlfriend exposes all about that, anyway, in a SHOWBIZ newsmaker interview. Tim Tebow versus Beyonce? So who do you think is bigger? Is it the superstar new mom or is it Tim? Well, stick around because there is evidence that Mr. Tebow is bigger tonight, bigger than \"American Idol\" and \"X Factor\" combined. This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN news and views. It is time for the \"SHOWBIZ News Ticker\" - more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news tonight.", "Halle Berry engaged to Olivier Martinez. George Clooney tells SHOWBIZ he`s successful because of his \"lack of\" success.", "No, because I was - I managed not to have great success at anything. You have to have real huge success at one specific thing and then think typecast you. I never had that, so I just sort of rode around in the middle so they let me do a lot of things."], "speaker": ["A.J. HAMMER, HOST", "NIK RICHIE, \"THEDIRTY.COM\"", "HAMMER", "RICHIE", "HAMMER", "RICHIE", "HAMMER", "RICHIE", "HAMMER", "RICHIE", "HAMMER", "RICHIE", "HAMMER", "RICHIE", "HAMMER", "PAUL ENDREI, SENIOR PASTOR (through telephone)", "HAMMER", "ENDREI", "HAMMER", "ENDREI", "HAMMER", "ENDREI", "HAMMER", "ENDREI", "HAMMER", "ENDREI", "HAMMER", "ENDREI", "HAMMER", "TEXT", "GEORGE CLOONEY, ACTOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-219560", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-11-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/26/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Winter Weather Threatens Holiday Travel", "utt": ["This year might be the year for people to start rethinking those Thanksgiving traditions. Stay at home, maybe consider not going to grandma's house, although that won't be the case in my household. Unless, of course, you like to battle airport delays, cancellations, icy roads, car wrecks. That is what many of you have been dealing with already. And guess what? More of this is on the way, especially in the Northeast. We've seen snow across the Midwest and into the Mid-Atlantic, and while the south has also seen some snow, rain and ice. And for everyone, even if you're being careful, traveling has been treacherous. We've already seen that today.", "I got on the highway and the next thing I know I'm spinning.", "There's a point where there's just nothing you can do. It's just glare ice and you're just a passenger in your own car.", "What do you have to say to Mother Nature right now?", "I don't know. I can't -- I don't want to say that on T.V.", "Now, that's just part of the storm story. We have our Alina Machado watching dangerous roads and heavy rains in Atlanta. Our Shannon Travis braving the snow outside of Pittsburgh and our Chad Myers is in the CNN Severe Weather Center. Chad, let's start with you. What are the dangerous areas right now that people should be aware of?", "It's Pennsylvania and upstate New York right now. But there's an awful lot of rain still coming down in the Shenandoah Valley and parts of just west of D.C. and it's 33. When the sun sets, it's not going to be 33. It's going to be 32. It's going to be 31. And that's going to freeze. So, yes, we're still seeing is the snow up here across Pennsylvania. I mean, Altoona, Dubois, all these areas here, that's all snow and all coming down. What you're seeing with Shannon is some of the melting on the roadways but that melting will stop when the sun sets. That's Pittsburgh. And everything else all down here, that's all rain. And you think, oh, it's just rain. That's no big deal. Well, this is a map of Atlanta in the rain. Here's the center of Atlanta right there. That's what we call the perimeter. And here's one major artery, I-85, shut down right there because of two tractor-trailers that collided just northeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Probably shut down in the southbound direction until 3:00 p.m. Look at your clock. That's a ways away. Here comes the rain. Charleston back into -- even rain can make a big problem. And here's the snow back into parts of Ohio, back into Pittsburgh, still snowing there. And that snow will continue for a lot of the day. I don't think we're going to get a lot of changeover here in upstate New York. This is where the bulk of the snow will be. For a while, the rain will come into our forecast for New York City, even into Philadelphia. And I think that stays rain. I-95 stays rain but everything west of there, west of probably 84, 81, especially right through you, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse. That's all snow all the time.", "That looks like a big mess. All right, Chad, thank you very much. As Chad said, Pittsburgh and its surrounding areas are already experiencing some flurries. And when all of this, you know, stops melting later tonight, it could ice up and get even worse. Our Shannon Travis has been out braving the roads. He's in Irwin, Pennsylvania, about 22 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Shannon, how is it looking out there? You don't look too happy right now.", "Well, not so happy. And, Jim, if you're one of those folks who thinks Thanksgiving isn't quite the Thanksgiving without a little snow, consider this Mother Nature's gift. As you mentioned, we're in Irwin, Pennsylvania, about 20 miles outside of Pittsburgh. We're on Interstate 76. It goes right into Pittsburgh. As we were driving in, there was nothing essentially, Jim, but just like annoying rain. But when we got here, there was this. This snow coming down. It isn't coming down so heavy right now but it's been coming down fairly steady. I'm going to use a very unofficial ruler, my finger, because I left my trusty ruler at home. But it's getting pretty deep as you can see it on here. I a few minutes ago, only half my finger stuck down in there, Jim. And now, it's almost the whole thing. We estimate, very unofficially, about three inches or so. We are in Irwin, as I mentioned. This is in West Moreland County. Pittsburgh is nearby. That's in Allegheny County. Obviously, they are getting hit. They're under a winter storm warning right now, potentially forecast five to nine inches possibly there. I spoke to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. They tell me that in the county, they're going to deploy about 80 trucks, 135 crews. They'll be working in 12 hour shifts back to back in", "OK. And our Chad Myers might take exception to your scientific methods out there, Shannon Travis, in terms of your measuring the snowfall. But we appreciate it very much. Thanks for that live look in the very important Pittsburgh area. A lot of people travelling through that area this time of year. One of the areas also feeling the weather right now and what's happening is the Atlanta area. As Chad mentioned, Alina Machado is there standing outside in the cold and rain -- I'm sorry to hear that, Alina - near Interstate 75 and 85. It's above freezing rights now. Could that change? What does that mean for the folks in that area? Because there's a lot of people, as we know, moving through those highways over the next 24 hours.", "Well, Jim, a bit of good news. It appears that the temperature will stay above freezing. So all this water that we've gotten so far today will not be freezing anytime soon. Take a look at the scene behind me. This is a major thoroughfare here. You can see traffic is starting to build. And this is what we're going to be seeing throughout the south. People seem to be slowing down, taking it easy. And that's exactly what you need to be doing in these weather conditions. Here in Atlanta, we're getting rain. If you head a little bit north, you're going to be getting a little bit of a mix of sleet and rain and possibly some ice and snow. So it all depends on where you're going to be. But wherever you are, you can expect to have plenty of company. The AAA says there's going to be more than 43 million people expected to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday. About 90 percent of those people will be getting in their cars and driving somewhere. So, Jim, the bottom line is, take it easy on the roads. Make sure you know what the forecast is like where you're going. And if you're not - if you're heading out today and maybe see that you're going to be running into some trouble with this storm, you might want to consider leaving tomorrow depending on where you are throughout the country.", "All right, very good advice. Thank you very much to all of our folks watching the weather, Chad Myers, Shannon Travis and Alina Machado. All of you, please stay safe and have a happy Thanksgiving. Thank you very much. Still ahead, if you're worried about getting stranded because of the storm this week, don't panic. Up next, we will get some great advice on how to avoid the worst case scenario."], "speaker": ["ACOSTA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ACOSTA", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "ACOSTA", "SHANNON TRAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ACOSTA", "ALINA MACHADO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ACOSTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-291827", "program": "STUDENT NEWS", "date": "2016-08-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/19/sn.01.html", "summary": "California`s Dangerous Wildfires; Brazil`s Dispute of a Claim By Four U.S. Swimmers; Life and Death in Grand Teton National Park", "utt": ["Just a random observation to start today`s edition of CNN STUDENT NEWS -- Fridays are awesome! I`m Carl Azuz at the CNN Center. We`re starting today`s ten minutes of news coverage in the U.S. state of California. There are currently nine large wildfires burning there. Tens of thousands of acres have been destroyed, hundreds of buildings and have been lost, and almost ten thousand firefighters are involved in trying to blazes. This state is no stranger to these disasters. Throughout the summer, lightning strikes, camp fires, sometimes arson sparks them. And the danger so widespread because about a third of California`s homes are in areas prone to wildfires, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Though this year season has been distracted, its fires are not setting records at this point. Still, a severe drought has parched parts of California for years, combined with the warm, dry Santa Ana winds that blow westward in the fall could make things worse. Here`s a perspective on one of the wildfires that`s currently out of control.", "This Blue Cut fire has been an erratic blaze for firefighters to battle. That`s because with the winds coming in, it is burning in multiple directions and it is also it has plenty of fuel as this is a real dried parched part of California, as we`ve been under drought conditions for several years now. We were talking to one fire official who`s talking about the danger as well of these power lines that are out here. Listen to what he had to say.", "These power lines are called KV lines and it`s a huge concern for us, to have a high amount of electricity, hundreds of thousands of volts in those KV lines. It impacts our aircraft. It makes it unsafe for aircraft to fly above them.", "And those embers are really a big concern because those spot fires can blow up into new branches of this fire and that is what they are concerned about. Thousands of people remained under evacuations, mandatory evacuations. They`re fighting this fire from the sky. Also, hand cruiser out there, as well as bulldozers to try to battle this blaze. But let me just show what something that this fire has done. Take a look at this right here. This is a school bus where the fire has already run through, unbelievable the damage, how the wheels have been burned off, the glass broken out all by the blaze here. And this you can see in this little community here, a little rural community, but obviously very devastating for the people who live here to see much of what they own burned up and destroyed. Stephanie Elam, CNN, San Bernardino County, California.", "There`s another side to a recent story that involved four U.S. Olympic swimmers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On Wednesday, we reported that Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte said he and three other Americans were in a taxi when they were stopped by armed men and robbed. But yesterday, Brazilian police said there was no robbery. They said the four Americans who were intoxicated were stopped by a security guard because the swimmers vandalized the gas station. Brazilian officials say police questioned their claim of having been robbed in part because their stories about it didn`t quite match up. Three of the swimmers are still in Brazil. Two had their passports taken, so they couldn`t leave. Lochte is back in the U.S. and his lawyer says none of the American swimmers committed a crime. If Brazilian police determine that they did, though, Rio civil police chief says it`s not the kind of crime they`d be arrested for. They might instead be charged with lying to police and damaging private property. The investigation continues. As the floodwaters rose in Louisiana, one resident of suburban Baton Rouge left is neighborhood in a truck, he had to come back in a boat. The Red Cross called Louisiana`s recent flooding the worst natural disaster to hit the U.S. since Superstorm Sandy struck the Northeast in 2012. The cause of all this was rain, historic amounts of it, and more is in the forecast. A CNN meteorologist says because Louisiana`s topography is so flat, it could take many days for waters to recede in some areas. Still, there are small signs of recovery.", "Well, take a look behind me and you`ll see the story that we`re seeing right here, right now in Southern Louisiana. You`ll see mounds of stuff down the street. That as people are trying to rebuild their homes and their lives. Take a look here, you`ll see, they`re bringing out everything that will soak inside their houses. This is just the first step. And just to let you know, I`ve been with first responders going door to door as they look for people to make sure that they`re OK. And they tell me that this is a good sign because when they see mounds of stuff in front of homes, that means that the home owner is OK, and that they`re starting to rebuild their lives.", "The U.S. National Park Service, which overseas and maintains hundreds of national parks, monuments and historic sites officially turns 100 years old next week . Through the end of the month, we`re featuring a series of reports on the NPS. And today, we`re taking you to Northwestern Wyoming. That`s the site of Grand Teton National Park, was first established in 1929 and many of those who work their today specialized in saving lives.", "The majesty of the Tetons is what draws people here. There`s another layer, and that is I can look at the range and say, people have died there.", "Life and death in Grand Teton National Park.", "You can basically access any part of the Teton backcountry in a day`s hike. That also means that it`s easy for people to get in trouble sometimes. They think, oh, I`m just going to climb the Grand Teton in a day and they may go in their sneakers and their running shorts. If somewhere along that way, they fall, they roll a boulder, they break their leg, now they`ve become something that could jeopardize their life.", "It`s kind of like climbing rangers. One of our primary jobs is to respond to any sort of rescue or search that might happen in the backcountry up in the mountains. That can run anywhere from a lost kid near the camp ground by Jenny Lake or he could be a major tragedy in the mountains involving several people in a climbing fall. This is a mesh, a mash of steep terrain, rocky river cruisings, everything like that. So, if we do have to go out on a search or a rescue, it isn`t just one simple technique. It`s a combination of everything. It may be partly flying to get close to where the patient is. It may be ladder transport, maybe steep terrain and lowering ropes and everything else. In our work, when we were off in a rescue, there are times when the situation will be heinous. Being able to look at someone, your colleague, and know that they are there for you and you are there for them is a bond that is rare and almost any other sort of work group. At the end of a big rescue, we might have brought a husband, a father, a mother, a daughter, and that in turn has an impact on us. I can`t be more proud to be a Jenny Lake ranger. It`s awesome.", "Not every day you see something this eye-opening on the ocean floor. First, it doesn`t look like much. So, let`s get a close-up. Too close, too close. This wide eyed stare had researchers aboard the AV Nautilus using words like googly eyed and fake. But it`s not. It`s a Stubby Squid. It hides itself and uses those eyes to track potential prey, though in this case, it`s probably shocked at the giant lit up camera that sank down into its environment. What helped it win the staring contest was the sheer deep of the competition. There was so much going on below the surface. You can easily see that under the sea, anything is cephalopod-sable. We`re going to squid while we`re ahead. We`ve got to squidabble anyway. We hope you have a great weekend and then you`ll keep an eye up for more CNN STUDENT NEWS on Monday. END"], "speaker": ["CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR", "STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ELAM", "AZUZ", "ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "AZUZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SUBTITLE", "SCOTT GUENTHER, JENNY LAKE DISTRICT RANGER, GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK", "RON JOHNSON, JENNY LAKE RANGER, GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK", "AZUZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-206607", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2013-5-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/11/smn.03.html", "summary": "Did Russia Drop The Ball On Boston Bombing Suspects?", "utt": ["Let's take a live look at pictures from the International Space Station. This is an emergency space walk that is under way. You are getting a point of view shot from the astronaut's cameras. They are actually trying to repair an ammonia leak that they detected. This could cause problems with the cooling and the power systems. They detected this leak on Thursday and we are going to continue to be checking in on their progress throughout this half hour. Obviously a very delicate sort of I guess you could say a repair job that they're doing up there in space at the International Space Station. We'll be monitoring this. Meantime at least one lawmaker says Russia dropped the ball on the Boston bombing suspect and things might have turned out differently if Moscow had shared more of its intelligence. Let's go now to CNN's Paula Newton in Boston for more details on this. Good morning, Paula.", "Good morning, Brianna. That lawmaker is Mike Rogers. He's the chair of the house intelligence committee and he's basically saying \"Look Russia had a piece of information, this was first reported by \"The Wall Street Journal\" that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older brother, did want to join an extremist group in Russia. That in fact, he had made the text messages to his mother and there had been that discussion. The problem here though, Brianna, even American officials are saying \"Look, even if we had had that kind of information to give the Russians we may not have given that information over to them just trying to protect sources.\" What is clear and what came out during congressional hearings this week in Washington is that there were more pieces to this puzzle that could have been put together before and what would that have changed, Brianna? It might have meant Tamerlan Tsarnaev would have been under some kind of surveillance before the Boston bombings and that might have meant things would have turned out differently. Brianna?", "Paula Newton for us live in Boston this morning. As you know, for women, being pregnant can be scary enough but certainly - actually we're not going to be covering that story. We are going back to those live pictures coming to us from outer spa space. The International Space Station where astronauts there are trying to repair and ammonia leak. You're getting a really interesting view here from a camera of one of the astronauts outside the International Space Station. On Thursday they detected an ammonia leak. It almost kind of looked like because of the zero gravity up there, it almost kind of looked like snow was coming off of the International Space Station. So they detected that leak and now they are trying to fix this, very critical. This is an emergency space walk as they try to make sure that they can restrict that leak, fix it up, and so that it won't have any effect on their cooling systems which as you can imagine are critical up there. We are going to continue to monitor this. We'll bring you more after the break."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "PAULA NEWTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "NPR-30356", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2010-12-17", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2010/12/17/132129684/blake-edwards-dies-from-complications-of-pneumonia", "title": "Director Blake Edwards' Career Spanned 6 Decades", "summary": "Director, writer and producer Blake Edwards, who made more than 40 films including the classic Breakfast at Tiffany's and the Pink Panther comedies, has died. He was 88.", "utt": ["We have another note from the world of film this morning. The career of director Blake Edwards spanned six decades and many genres. His films ranged from the classic \"Breakfast at Tiffany's\" to the slapstick Pink Panther series to the offbeat musical \"Victor/Victoria,\" which starred his wife, Julie Andrews. She was at his side when he died this week in Santa Monica, California. He was 88.", "This is NPR News."], "speaker": ["DON GONYEA, host", "DON GONYEA, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-126002", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-4-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/27/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Children of the Sect: A Community Reaches Out", "utt": ["A lawyer says two boys taken by authorities in a raid on a Texas polygamist compound are unaccounted for, but child welfares says no children have been lost. More than 460 of the kids are settling into group homes across the state of Texas this weekend, while their families and the government fight over what exactly is best for them. Kevin Peters of affiliate KHOU looks at how one Texas community is trying to ease the transition for these children.", "Baby clothing, a lot of diapers, kids' toys.", "The Liverpool City Hall may be just a tiny shack, but today it's warehousing something much bigger than these walls can hold.", "We believe in community. We believe in these kids. We believe in helping each other.", "Lots of diapers.", "One after another...", "Everybody has to come together, and especially in Houston.", "... people stop by to donate.", "What's your first name?", "Brenda.", "Brenda. Thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "A caring gesture to ease the lives of three dozen children at the nearby Kidz Harbor. (on camera): The children spent their first night at this shelter. And workers tell us they're adapting as best they can.", "We want to keep it as close to what they were doing at home as possible.", "Kidz Harbor says the children are playing with toys, with each other, and are adjusting to their new surroundings. As far as their demeanor...", "Really quiet right now, but lots of smiles, which lets me know that they feel comfortable.", "The shelter is preparing to house these children for several months, if not longer. That will depend on what the courts rule.", "I'm going to be here every day.", "One protester camped out in front of the shelter. He says the state wrongly separated the children from their parents.", "They have no evidence, no physical evidence whatsoever. And if they do, they should bring -- do it through the rules. Nobody is above the law.", "We wish the best for these kids and these moms.", "People who donated have their own questions about the state's investigation. But the focus now...", "If each person was to just give a little, think of everything that they could have.", "Where did that bag of socks go?", "Must (ph) be on taking care of the children.", "And we mentioned earlier to you that in Cincinnati, a very somber occasion is taking place. This is the funeral service for a soldier who went missing for four years. His remains were just recently found last month. His body returned to his family there in Cincinnati, Ohio. I'm talking about soldier Matt Maupin. Well, today, a funeral is taking place there right at Cincinnati Reds' stadium. You see the pictures right here. And just moments ago was a military fly-over paying honor to this fallen soldier. And our hearts go out to his friends and family who are now laying him to rest today."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KEVIN PETERS, REPORTER, KHOU (voice over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PETERS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PETERS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PETERS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PETERS (voice over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PETERS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PETERS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PETERS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PETERS", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-149550", "program": "RICK'S LIST", "date": "2010-3-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/30/rlst.01.html", "summary": "President Obama Signs Final Health Care Reform Bill", "utt": ["Hey, Rick. This is Dina (ph) in Georgia. Would you please remind the Tea Party people that they are not the only ones that voted, and that Washington is listening to the other voters? You know, maybe not listening to them, but they're not the only ones that voted.", "Let's do the list of little-known facts. Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez. Did you know that Jill Biden still teaches community college? She does, even though her husband's the vice president. And she was wearing red today and there in attendance when the president signed the so-called fixes to health care reform. Those fixes, by the way, include a huge expansion of the federal student loan program, hence Ms. Biden's personal interest. Mr. Biden was not there, even though this was a big deal, big deal. Time now for Yellin's list. Did you get that?", "I know what you were saying there. Good little joke.", "I was being sneaky. Our national correspondent is Jessica Yellin, and she joins us now because she spent the weekend following Sarah Palin and the folks who follow Sarah Palin. And you were with us Friday, when Sarah Palin fired up the John McCain rally. I wasn't here. T.J. was filling in for me, so I missed that moment. How did she do Saturday at the so-called conservative Woodstock?", "You know, it wasn't the same. She was on fire on Friday in Tucson with John McCain. And, at the Tea Party event, she was much more subdued. She did not have the same energy level. But I will tell you, Rick, the folks who were there didn't notice. They adored her. They were excited to see her, and the crowd really thinned out after she spoke, so they got what they wanted from Sarah Palin that day.", "Let me -- let me cut to the chase on Sarah Palin.", "Yes.", "Is Sarah Palin preparing to run for the presidency, or not?", "You know, I don't know. Is she maybe building a multimedia brand? Is she potentially going to have a, you know, political talk show and a reality show about Alaska and a political message and a big following? I'm not sure that she's running for president. And she definitely doesn't have to get into the race for quite a while. If she wants to, she could let many others declare. She could see what the Republican field looks like and wait until the very last minute, because she has the following and the ability to raise money, to do it fast at the end, if that's what she wants.", "Well, but -- but --", "I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't.", "Her -- she would be betting, though -- and, by the way, you can make more money following a brand, a creative brand, like the one she's doing, with a multimedia platform --", "Yes.", "-- than you could being president of the United States in this political environment. But will this political environment last? I'm just thinking, the folks who like her are the folks who say and feel that they're somehow disenfranchised, at least from this administration. You know, as we say in journalism, what's the shelf life of that group?", "Right. Well, that's what I think is the big question. And we don't know yet. The Tea Party movement to date has not been successful in electing a candidate. And it does seem -- and they have fielded a number of candidates who have gotten Tea Party support in various districts who have not won. So, the question is, can this momentum be corralled into supporting people for elected office? They were very explicit, more explicit than I have heard, at this past weekend calling on audience members to go out and vote, and they had a lot of Republican candidates from Nevada there asking for their vote. But there does seem to be an inherent contradiction, because lots of the Tea Party folks just naturally -- it feels like they want a third party, so pushing their votes toward the Republican Party is maybe electorally smart. It's more likely that could work. But emotionally it feels like they're so upset with the whole system, a third party would make more sense. So, there's an internal tension there, and I don't know how that will shake out. We will have to see.", "Yes, I'm just wondering. When all this stuff was going on last week --", "Yes.", "-- and all the accusations that there was a lot of incivility and the folks screaming at some of the congressmen, et cetera, et cetera, Sarah Palin watches the news. She has handlers who they tell her these things.", "Yes.", "Did you sense in her message that she would -- that she was taking it back a little bit, pulling it back a little bit so she wouldn't be accused of being -- quote -- \"inciter\"?", "No.", "No?", "No, quite the opposite. She really -- and I get the sense she truly believes this, that the media is doing this to her, that she is -- she directly accused the media of mischaracterizing her comments or putting them in the wrong context and unfairly accusing of her of inciting people to violence and twisting her meaning to seem uncivil, when, in fact, she says all she means to do is ask people to go out and vote and to express them. And, boy, did that resonate with the crowd.", "But hold on a minute. Let's be fair about this. That's her version of events, but the version of events that I know is that it was her Web page, correct, that had the crosshairs on?", "Right. And she insists that that has no meaning beyond, let's go and vote. And, Rick, what I'm saying is these -- the people who are Palin believers see her view entirely. They share her view, and believe -- the people I spoke with believe truly that the media is being biased, and any suggestion that she is not being fully truthful is simply biased, that there are not two sides to this story, there are not two ways to come out of this; there's the right way and then the biased way. And that's the message I got from talking to so many people that day. They really feel, if you don't agree with them, you just are not hearing them at all.", "It's kind of like one of those, it's what I believe and what is wrong.", "Correct.", "Jessica Yellin, thanks so much. Interesting discussion. We appreciate it. That's Yellin's list.", "Good to see you.", "Look what you did. You outed a CIA officer. You lied to take us to war. You ruined a country.", "Yes, those charges are being leveled at Karl Rove. Well, this is incivility from the left. You will see it play out. That's ahead, right here. Also, he's finally made it official by announcing something that many people keep to themselves. He is our most interesting person -- pardon me. I flopped that completely. He is our most intriguing person in the news today. That's next."], "speaker": ["CALLER", "SANCHEZ", "JESSICA YELLIN, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "SANCHEZ", "JESSICA YELLIN, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "SANCHEZ", "YELLIN", "SANCHEZ", "YELLIN", "SANCHEZ", "YELLIN", "SANCHEZ", "YELLIN", "SANCHEZ", "YELLIN", "SANCHEZ", "YELLIN", "SANCHEZ", "YELLIN", "SANCHEZ", "YELLIN", "SANCHEZ", "YELLIN", "SANCHEZ", "YELLIN", "SANCHEZ", "YELLIN", "SANCHEZ", "YELLIN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SANCHEZ"]}
{"id": "NPR-7410", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2006-03-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5259841", "title": "Judge Halts Trial of Accused al Qaeda Conspirator", "summary": "A judge ordered an unexpected recess in the trial of confessed al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui on Monday amid allegations government lawyers violated rules against coaching witnesses. Alex Chadwick speaks with Laura Sullivan about developments in the case, including the possibility that Moussaoui may no longer face the death penalty.", "utt": ["A surprise in the trial of alleged 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui today. This morning, Judge Leonie Brinkema angrily declared a recess, because prosecutors have violated rules about coaching witnesses. She's going to consider if she wants to remove the death penalty as an option.", "Joining us is NPR's Laura Sullivan, who was in the courtroom today. And Laura, what happened?", "Well, the prosecution came forward first thing in the morning, and told the judge there had been an egregious violation of the rules. Apparently, one of the government attorneys for TSA had been coaching witnesses, employees of both TSA and the FAA. She had emailed seven employees a transcript of proceedings from the earlier week, including one of the witnesses that testified, and the opening statements of the defense and the prosecution.", "So, tell us about this witness coaching. She had expressly, the judge expressly forbade that?", "She said absolutely, the witnesses should have no knowledge of the witnesses that came before them, or the arguments that the defense and the prosecution were going to be making in the case.", "It's, you know, one of the decisions that she will have to make is how to sanction the prosecution because of this issue. And she's considering throwing out all of their testimony.", "And at this idea, the prosecution jumped up and said that that was half their case. The defense want the death penalty thrown out, and because this is only a question of whether or not he gets death or life in prison without parole, that would essentially throw the case out.", "And then what would happen? Would they re-try the case?", "Well, attorneys were saying in the hallway that they would appeal whatever decision Brinkema is going to make. Tomorrow, they're going to bring witnesses--they're going to bring all seven of the employees forward to ask what they knew, how much did they read, how much has their testimony been tainted. And they're going to hold hearings all day tomorrow.", "She dismissed the jury until Wednesday morning, when she might have a ruling. And she asked both the defense and the prosecutors to submit briefs today over the whole argument.", "And, you know, she called it one of the most egregious violations she's seen on the bench. And the prosecution acknowledged that it was a serious misstep. And it's especially--it's also especially interesting for the prosecution, because it's the second misstep that the prosecution has had. She chastised them on Thursday for asking a highly improper question that she ordered stricken from the jury.", "So, if she decides to take out this testimony, strike this testimony, does that mean the government has no case?", "The government has half a case. They, you know, they can bring forward all kinds of evidence that shows that Moussaoui lied to the FBI, and because of those lies, that he allowed the 9/11 attacks to occur.", "What the prosecution was hoping to include with the FAA is they wanted to show that because of the--if the FAA had known more, that they could have stopped the knives from going onto the planes. Without that testimony, they're in some trouble.", "Thanks a lot. NPR's Laura Sullivan in Alexandria, Virginia.", "Thank you very much."], "speaker": ["MADELEINE BRAND, host", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "LAURA SULLIVAN reporting", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "SULLIVAN", "SULLIVAN", "SULLIVAN", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "SULLIVAN", "SULLIVAN", "SULLIVAN", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "SULLIVAN", "SULLIVAN", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "SULLIVAN"]}
{"id": "NPR-41088", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2007-11-24", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16592892", "title": "NYC Businesses Hurt by Broadway Strike", "summary": "Restaurants, vendors and charities in Manhattan's theater district feel the pain of the strike by stage hands against the League of American Theatres and Producers, now entering the third week. For some charities this is the season to request money during show intermissions.", "utt": ["More about the weak dollar in a moment.", "First, in the shopping Mecca of Manhattan, two dozen Broadway theaters are dark this weekend, shut down because of a stagehand strike now entering its third week.", "NPR's Margot Adler says this, too, has caused an economic loss.", "There are two views of the economic impact of the stagehand strike on New York City. The theater district people will give you one -catastrophic. Tourist bureaus, hotels and the mayor will give you the second -we'll get through. Even the numbers depend on whom you're talking to. At one point, the League of American Theaters and Producers put out a figure of $17 million a day in lost revenue, although they later admitted that would only be if every tourist packed up and went to Florida. The city controller came up with a $2 million a day figure.", "And Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, frankly…", "I don't know how you would put a realistic number; it's really guesswork. Is it a cataclysmic thing for this city? No. Is it bad for the city? Yes.", "If you walk down 5th Avenue, it's packed. The tree at Rockefeller Center is not yet lit, yet swarms of people are watching the skaters and lines for Radio City Music Hall are around the block.", "George Fertitta, the CEO of NYC & Co., the marketing and tourism arm of the city, says hotels are running at the same occupancy as usual and international visitors have not cancelled.", "What we've found is that those people that are disappointed in not being able to go a Broadway show are going to off Broadway, off off Broadway, beyond Broadway, attractions, museums.", "But get a little closer to the theater district and the mood shifts. Tim Tompkins is president of the Times Square Alliance, which represents businesses in the Theater district. He says the city has been sending out a message, Come here. We're thriving. And this hurts that.", "You know, we got through 9/11 and the shows were dark for two days. And now, this is a much longer timeframe than that.", "Angus McIndoe is a noted theater district restaurant on a block with theaters showing \"Spamalot,\" \"Phantom of the Opera,\" \"Les Mis,\" \"Xanadu\" and \"The Grinch.\" The proprietor, Angus McIndoe, says instead of a hundred and seventy reservations, there are 40, and many are friends and symphathizers.", "You know, I bought this restaurant right before September the 11th and opened it right after September 11th. There's been blackouts and, you know, we've been through the worse with this restaurant, but this is the worst one. It's a total disaster, and it's the worst thing that could possibly happen at this time of the year.", "What do you recommend?", "Mr. CRAIG COURSEY (General Manager, Theater Circle) That Fred Astair…", "Two doors down, Craig Coursey, the general manager of the souvenir shop Theater Circle, is looking at piles of t-shirts for darkened shows like \"Les Mis\" and \"Phantom.\"", "Christmas is going to come anyway and people are still going to come in the city and do some shopping, so it's not like I'll shutter up the doors, but, you know, it would be like Christmas without a tree.", "And a couple of blocks away, Sahid Morsey(ph), a pretzel vendor originally from Egypt, sums it up less elegantly. He says he usually does a booming business on matinee days - Wednesdays and Saturdays - but now…", "No business. Yeah, every Wednesday, Saturday, a lot of people come. No coming. I am lose a lot of money.", "And while it's natural to assume that restaurant workers and pretzel vendors will suffer, there are hidden costs people don't see.", "Tom Viola is the executive director of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the theater community's main fundraising and grant-making organization. This is the season they come out at every intermission and ask for money, not doing so is a huge loss.", "It's about $350,000 every week. At this point, Broadway Cares is taking a $700,000 hit.", "And that's for only two weeks. He hopes people will go to their Web site and donate, but it's different than actors coming out on the stage and talking directly to the audience.", "Last year, there were more than 44 million tourists in New York City. Strike or no strike, many of those people will never go to a Broadway show, but as Angus McIndoe said to me as I left his restaurant, a theater district restaurant without theater is like a stadium hotdog without the baseball game.", "Margot Adler, NPR News, New York."], "speaker": ["ANDREA SEABROOK, host", "ANDREA SEABROOK, host", "ANDREA SEABROOK, host", "MARGOT ADLER", "MARGOT ADLER", "Mayor MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (Democrat, New York City)", "MARGOT ADLER", "MARGOT ADLER", "Mr. GEORGE FERTITTA (CEO, NYC & Co.)", "MARGOT ADLER", "Mr. TIM TOMPKINS (President, Times Square Alliance)", "MARGOT ADLER", "Mr. ANGUS McINDOE (Owner, Angus McIndoe Restaurant)", "MARGOT ADLER", "MARGOT ADLER", "MARGOT ADLER", "Mr. COURSEY", "MARGOT ADLER", "Mr. SAHID MORSEY (Pretzel Vendor)", "MARGOT ADLER", "MARGOT ADLER", "Mr. TOM VIOLA (Executive Director, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS)", "MARGOT ADLER", "MARGOT ADLER", "MARGOT ADLER"]}
{"id": "CNN-359436", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2019-01-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1901/14/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Growing Questions About What Trump Discussed With Putin In 2917 As WH Plotted Response On Trump Tower Meeting.", "utt": ["Tonight, growing questions about what President Trump discussed with Vladimir Putin during two face-to-face meetings in Hamburg, Germany. In one meeting, Trump seized his interpreter's notes and demanded the details not be shared with anyone else. In the other, Trump and Putin were alone except for Putin's interpreter. No other American was present. All of this happening the same day that the \"New York Times\" reached out to the White House about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting, which involved Don Jr., Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and Russians who said they had dirt on Hillary Clinton. Just a coincidence? Sara Murray is out front.", "A private dinnertime chat between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in 2017 sparking new questions about what exactly the two men discussed. As Trump geared up for meetings with world leaders, the White House received an unwelcome inquiry. \"The New York Times\" had learned that Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with a Russian lawyer at Trump tower in the summer of 2016. Trump's lawyers had known of the meeting for weeks, but now \"The Times\" was doing a story and need a comment. That afternoon, Trump and Putin met for two hours.", "It's an honor to be with you. Thank you.", "Seeming to hit it off, even as Putin denied meddling in the 2016 election.", "There was a very clear, positive chemistry between the two.", "Then Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had been in the room, along with translators. But a former State Department official tells CNN the President confiscated the American interpreter's notes and insisted the staffer keep the details of the conversation secret. The White House insists that's outrageously inaccurate. That evening in Germany, Trump sought out Putin at a dinner for world leaders. The two men spoke for roughly an hour. The meeting, which was eventually confirmed by the White House, wouldn't become public for more than a week.", "No one attended that from Trump's side. There was no translator there. There was no adviser there. It was just Trump. For him not to say then afterwards, oh, by the way, let me give you a quick debrief on the meeting I have with Putin, that's exceptionally unusual.", "Trump's meeting came soon after Justice Department officials had moved to open a probe into Trump for potential obstruction of justice, an investigation that included trying to answer a disturbing question. Was Trump making moves designed to benefit Russia or was he merely an innocent party? There's no indication Trump knew at the time that he was under investigation. After Trump's double face-to-face with Putin in Hamburg, he headed back to the U.S. Aboard Air Force One, Trump and his advisers hashed out a statement to respond to the \"New York Times.\" According to the statement, in Donald Trump Jr.'s name, \"We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children in the 2016 meeting with the Russian lawyer.\" Days later, it came out that the lawyer had actually promised dirt on Hillary Clinton. As the carefully crafted statement fell apart, Trump was still talking up Russian adoptions, insisting that's what he and Putin discussed over dessert.", "I actually talked about Russian adoption with him, which is interesting, because that was a part of a conversation that Don had in this meeting.", "Now, Andrew Wies, a Russia expert at the Carnegie endowment was one of the prominent voices questioning whether all of these events were just happen in stance. But a number of Democratic lawmakers have also come out in the wake of what we've learned about how secretive the President has been about his meetings with the Russian President and said, we really need a lot more information. Erin?", "All right. Sara, thank you. And I want to go now to former federal prosecutor, Jack Weiss, also a former Democratic member of the Los Angeles City Council, and CNN chief political analyst, Gloria Borger. Jack, your name is not a coincidence. Your brother is Andrew, right, as Sara was just referring to. He posted this thread on Twitter about the timeline crediting you with the idea. How did you connect all the ideas here?", "Well, look, Andrew is a Russia policy expert and I'm a former fed. So for the last two years, we just go back and forth on a daily basis whenever something pops up. When the Hamburg summit first occurred and Ian Bremmer came out with that scoop of his after the summit that Trump had sought Putin out and had met with him privately. We both thought that was bizarre and probably indicative of something. Over the weekend that just passed, when \"The Washington Post\" reported that Trump had confiscated his interpreter's notes from the meeting earlier in the day, instructed that interpreter not to talk about the meeting with anyone. We just thought it was important to lay out the whole chronology that Sara just did in her report. You put all of that together and for me as a former fed, I say, it's the crucible. It's the crucible, when your defendants, your targets are getting found out. What do they do when they learn that someone's on to them, as \"The New York Times\" was on to them, and notified the White House on the morning of July 7th?", "I mean -- and they make that call. Now, Gloria, of course, in one of the meetings, right, Rex Tillerson is there. You might think, OK, at this point he would have leaked out whatever happened, but there was then a second meeting, right where there wasn't even an American interpreter present, right? It was just Putin, Trump, and Putin's interpreter. Private conversation that occurred, that was somewhere between 15 minutes and 40 minutes, depending on who you believe. Could all this just be a coincidence? This timing that there's these meetings on the day \"The New York Times\", you know, asked for this response and then the next day the President has a response, which, by the way, turns out to be untrue.", "By the way, we didn't know about the second meeting for quite some time, right?", "Right. That's a fair point.", "I mean it wasn't as if they came out and said, oh, by the way, the President just met with Vladimir Putin --", "Yes. To your point, Ian Bremmer is the one who found out about it. That's how we got -- yes, yes.", "Right, exactly. It wasn't anything they wanted to reveal, which is also extraordinary, when it comes to two heads of state having a secret meeting. You know, could it all be coincidence? OK. You have to allow that -- sure, it could. But don't forget, we have been involved in covering this Russia story for quite some time. And is it a coincidence that 16 members of the President's campaign or associates of the President's campaign had dealings with Russia? Well, you could say that's a coincidence, too, for a very small campaign. So, I think that timelines like this, the one that the Weiss' are talking about, that was Sara Murray's timeline, lead people to raise a lot of questions. And I think these are the questions that the Democrats are raising and that Mueller is raising, because attorneys set up timelines like this to try and figure out whether to connect the dots and see whether one thing is related to another thing. And here, when you have the Trump Tower meeting, you have the President writing a misleading -- dictating a misleading statement, a meeting with Putin not revealed to the press, you know, you have to sometimes put one and one together and get two.", "Right. And I guess you say, you know, you say sometimes it's correlation causality, is correlation conspiracy or collusion, maybe the right way to ask the question in this case. I mean, Jack, if the President and Putin did discuss, you know, this \"New York Times\" story that it was coming and a response to it, how bad would that be?", "Well, it would be -- I think it's disastrous for them. Remember, at that moment, on the morning of July 7th, no one, no one in the public knows that a year earlier, there had been that infamous Trump Tower meeting between Trump's son, his son-in-law, and his campaign chairman and agents of the Russian government. No one knew that. So when \"The New York Times\" calls the White House the morning of July 7 and says, \"we're about to report this.\" If you're on the Trump team, you have to think, this is a -- this could be a devastating story. What does Trump do after that? He has the two-hour meeting, and then he seeks out Putin on his own. What's interesting about him seeking out Putin on his own at that G20 Summit is -- Trump's an amateur. Putin is the ultimate pro. Putin knows at that moment what eyes and ears are on that conversation, and it will be very interesting when we learn, and one day we're going to learn, what Putin said to him that was maybe evocative in relating to the cover story that Trump hatched the next day.", "And of course, you know, interesting what if Trump did seek that out, right, given that there was no one else on his -- the American side and even an interpreter for that conversation. Gloria, also this reporting tonight, the President's nominee for attorney general, Bill Barr, right, he said, \"I'm going to have --\" no, \"I'm not going to get involved with the Mueller thing, I'm totally fine with it, it needs to go ahead.\"", "Right.", "He's obviously testifying tomorrow. You know, if he's going to get approved to be attorney general. And we're now finding out tonight, CNN reporting, that there was a memo that he wrote supportive of the President's view on obstruction of justice. And he wrote it, great detailed memo supporting the President and he discussed it with the President. That's a big deal.", "Well, he not only -- he discussed it with the President's attorneys. He discussed it with, you know, the President's attorneys, who were trying to come up with their own legal theories about obstruction of justice. He's completely allowed to do that, as a private citizen. He wrote a memo and distributed it, all-around, and then discussed it verbally with them. And so the question I think that we're going to hear the Democrats raise tomorrow is, was he putting the thumb on the scale? Was he saying, hey, I'm a good lawyer, I can give you some legal arguments. And then we -- you know, we know what he said about his views of the special counsel, how it ought to be independent, et cetera, et cetera. But I think this does give the Democrats a new set of talking points to raise against him tomorrow.", "I mean, it's pretty incredible, right?", "No, I don't -- well, you know, I don't know. I don't think it would be normal, but nothing is normal in this administration. And don't forget, you know, you have Whitaker there now, who also holds the same view or some view about the special counsel and the investigation. He's called it a witch hunt. I think Bob Barr is certainly qualified to be attorney general, but, you know, these questions about a conflict are certainly going to be raised.", "All right. Thank you both so very much. And next, President Trump claims he's winning over Democrats when it comes to this.", "Many of them are saying we agree with you. Many of them are calling and many of them are breaking.", "Talking about the wall. Plus, Senator Mitt Romney calling for fellow Republican Steve King to resign. Will it happen? 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{"id": "NPR-22500", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2015-02-19", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/02/19/387420681/afghans-captivated-by-their-cricket-team-s-world-cup-debut", "title": "Captivated Afghans Watch Cricket Team's World Cup Debut", "summary": "In Afghanistan, an unlikely sport has grabbed the nation's attention. Cricket only took root there a few decades ago, and only took off after the fall of the Taliban in 2001.", "utt": ["We have a story involving a rare moment of national joy for Afghanistan. It involves cricket. You have no idea how huge cricket is in that part of the world. Afghanistan's cricket team was playing the biggest game in its history. NPR's Philip Reeves joined some fans in the capital, Kabul.", "Aziz Ullah usually spends his days selling cars. But he's taking time out in a cafe with his friends watching his nation's cricket team.", "There's the call. It's a good call...", "This is Afghanistan's first ever game in cricket's leading tournament, the World Cup. They're playing Bangladesh in Australia. Aziz Ullah is enthralled.", "(Through interpreter) I left my job today to watch the cricket game today.", "Tea is served. The game's going badly. The cafe fills with anxious cigarette smoke.", "A bit of a (unintelligible) struggle for Afghanistan in this...", "The Afghan team begins to fight back.", "The rise of Afghanistan's cricket team on the world stage is remarkable. The sport only took root here a few decades ago and only took off after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Many players learned their skills next-door in cricket-mad Pakistan as refugees from war. Cricket in Afghanistan is seen as a way of forging national unity in an ethnically divided the land. Vegetable seller Zabih Ullah is sitting, legs crossed, on a rug, gazing up at the TV, trying to figure out what is going on.", "Do you know what a googly is?", "No.", "Cricket is a deeply eccentric game with its own language. Abdul Waseh Jabbari, a taxi driver knows just enough of the rules to enjoy watching the game.", "(Through interpreter) I understand the scores but don't know the specifics of the game. I know who is the winner and who is the loser.", "That's more than can be said of the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan. Afghanistan ended up being the loser, yet way before the game was over, the embassy sent out a tweet congratulating Afghanistan on its victory. The correction that followed was too late to stop the world's cyber-having fun, cracking jokes about Americans once again prematurely declaring victory in a war zone. Philip Reeves, NPR News, Kabul."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER", "PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE", "AZIZ ULLAH", "PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER", "PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE", "PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE", "PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE", "AZIZ ULLAH", "PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE", "ABDUL WASEH JABBARI", "PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-98396", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2005-10-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/07/lt.04.html", "summary": "New York City Boosts Security In Subways; Information Leads To Al Qaeda Raid; Rove To Testify Again", "utt": ["You guys. Have a great weekend. And good morning, everyone. I'm Tony Harris at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Daryn Kagan has the day off. The morning rush has waned in New York, the heightened security attention has not. Wary New Yorkers snaked beneath the city this morning well aware of a terror alert that the subway system could be targeted for attack. Let's begin our coverage at the city hub of rail travel. CNN's Alina Cho is at Penn Station where a main entrance has just been closed. Alina, what can you tell us?", "Well, Tony, we can tell you that the entrance right behind me, one of the main entrances, the northwest entrance to Penn Station, is sealed off for now. Penn Station, for those of you not familiar with New York, is one of the largest subway stations here. What we can tell you is that the Amtrak portion of the station, it appears at this point, is sealed off. Though we are told that some Amtrak trains are now boarding. No new riders, however, are being allowed in and there is a heavy police and security presence, including at least two men in hazmat suits. Now after yesterday's highly publicized news conference, city officials are not taking any chances.", "I don't feel 100 percent safe, to be honest.", "New York subway commuters are on high alert after city officials went public Thursday with what they called a specific threat against New York's subway system.", "This is the first time that we have had a threat with this level of specificity.", "The plot, according to law enforcement, involves the use of explosives, perhaps hidden in babe carriages, and to be carried out in the coming days by a group of 15 to 20 people. But the Bush administration suggests the threat may be overblown. The Department of Homeland Security is saying it's of doubtful credibility. Four- and-a-half million New Yorkers ride the subways each weekday. While there's concern, some are taking the heightened security in stride.", "You become a little apprehensive, but I think in time we're kind of conditioned to expect some sort of stress or threat level and you just move on with what you have to do.", "Everybody's going to still take a train whether there's a bomb treat or not. It's like, what am I going do? Just hope it's not my train.", "We have police on the train.", "Police will be stepping up their random commuter searches. More uniformed and undercover officers will be deployed in the subway system. New York's mayor wants riders to be alert and not afraid.", "We ask that the public remain vigilant. If you see something, say something.", "Very good advice. Now most commuters we spoke to this morning say that they do believe that New York will eventually be the target of a terrorist attack. But, Tony, they say they won't let that change their routine. They are riding the subway today. Of course, this may change things moderately, but we are watching it very closely here at Penn Station and we will bring you more on this as more information comes in to us. Tony.", "And, Alina, just to be sure about this and to be absolutely clear about this, this new situation that you're reporting on right now has not lead to anyone being asked to leave the station. No evacuations at this point, correct?", "Not that we know of, Tony. What we are told from our producer inside is that the Amtrak portion of the station, in addition to this northwest entrance behind me, has been sealed off. Now some Amtrak train, we understand, are boarding right now, but they are not allowing any new riders in. And, of course, there's very heavy police and security personnel there.", "Alina Cho on the story for us in New York City. Alina, thank you. While New York officials sound the alarm, Homeland Security officials are downplaying the credibility of the threat. Why the vastly different views of the same information? For that we turn to CNN Homeland Security Correspondent Jeanne Meserve in Washington. Jeanne, good morning.", "Good morning, Tony. Analysis of the intelligence continues, but one U.S. official describes it as being of doubtful credibility. Another says he is \"not altogether sure how solid this is.\" More than one described the threat information as not viable. Federal officials seemed surprised at New York's decision to make it public. According to an official with the Department of Homeland Security, this specific intelligence about threats to New York City transit came to them in recent days and was shared promptly with officials in New York. But, according to an administration official, subsequent information collected overseas added doubt to the information's credibility and there was no corroboration. And so yesterday afternoon, as New York announced upgrades in transit security, the Department of Homeland Security said it had no intention of modifying the city's or the nation's terror threat level. Administration officials said they respected New York's actions but describe them as being taken \"out of an abundance of caution.\" Tony.", "OK, Jeanne, thank you. And we have yet another story stemming from that alleged terror plot. Sources tell CNN that the discovery of that intelligence also led to a raid that netted three al Qaeda suspects. Here with information on this developing story is CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr. Barbara, good morning to you.", "Good morning to you, Tony. Well, all of this may be tracing back to Iraq. U.S. military officials say on Wednesday night there was a raid south of Baghdad in a place called Musayyib. That they went there as a result of the original intelligence they gathered that had that New York City subway threat in it. They're not talking about the original intelligence, but that that led them to Musayyib. They went on a raid targeting three individuals by name. They believe what they found there was an al Qaeda cell in Iraq that was planning attacks outside of Iraq possibly, possibly, in the United States. Well placed military sources say this Musayyib raid was carried out by U.S. and Iraqi special forces, along with officials, if you will, from what is called another government agency. And, of course, here in Washington that's code word for the CIA. At the same time, Tony, there is yet another al Qaeda-related story unfolding. It is separate, but it does involve the very top levels of al Qaeda. U.S. officials say they have come into possession of a letter from Ayman al-Zawahiri, the number two man to Osama bin Baden, a letter he wrote to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a leader of al Qaeda inside Iraq. A letter about al Qaeda's strategy and concerns. And in this letter, U.S. officials say, Zawahiri lays out several of his concerns. He acknowledges first that many al Qaeda leaders have been lost, if you will. Of course, captured or killed. He talks about the fact that al Qaeda is resigned to defeat in Afghanistan. He also talks about they are stretched for money and their communications are in trouble. That they're really not plugged into what is going on. He also talks about he asks Zarqawi not behead his hostages and says that may be alienating the Muslim world. He offers other alternatives. U.S. officials say they are absolutely convinced this letter is genuine. They say that is based on the sources and methods by which they got it and they say that is very, very sensitive at this time. Tony.", "Barbara, when did U.S. officials get this letter?", "We asked that question this morning. We got this following answer. That it was within days and weeks and possibly a few months, but it is fairly recent they tell us. And they are absolutely convinced it genuinely is from Osama bin Laden's number two man to the number one al Qaeda leader inside Iraq. Tony.", "OK. Barbara Starr at the Pentagon for us. Barbara, thank you. I want to show you some new video just into CNN. Let's take you back to New York City now and Penn Station. And you heard Alina Cho referring to this scene that you're seeing inside Penn Station right now. You're going to see, there they are, the men in the hazmat suits walking around the platform there. This is one of the main platforms for Amtrak, for boarding and unboarding the trains there at Amtrak. Once again, let's rewind that and show that again. This is the scene just a few moments ago and we can presume still ongoing inside Penn Station right now at the Amtrak platform. Men in hazmat suits checking out some kind of a situation there. We don't know more about what it is they're looking at, what they're looking for, but there is the activity right now. We will get back to Alina Cho in just a few moments and get an update on the situation. What we do understand is that a main entrance has been closed at Penn Station to the Amtrak platform, but that Amtrak trains are still boarding. We'll continue to follow the latest developments in this story. And be sure to stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security. And back to the United States. A man so close to the president that he's sometimes called Bush's brain, is facing another grand jury appearance. Karl Rove has been called to testify for a fourth time in connection with a leak of a CIA officer's identity and the political damage could ripple all the way to the White House. CNN National Correspondent Bob Franken joins us with the legal and political implications. Bob, good morning.", "Good morning. Well, we had thought that this long, long investigation could be soon over, but now we're finding out that the reality is not quite yet.", "Karl Rove, one of the central figures in this investigation, and a central figure in the political career of George W. Bush, will be testifying for at least the fourth time before this grand jury. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, according to sources, has not given Rove any assurance that he will not face indictment as this probe continues into a public disclosure of Valerie Plame's identity. Plame, who was an undercover operative for the CIA, is the wife of Joseph Wilson, who had become a harsh critic of the administration's claims about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction. After an uproar following the disclosure of Plame's identity in July 2003, Fitzgerald began his investigation. Under pressure, including in one celebrated case jail time, several reporters testified. Some, including \"Time\" magazine's Matthew Cooper, said they had discussed the matter with Rove. Rove's lawyer has repeatedly insisted that his client did not identify Plame as a secret agent, did not know she was one. He also contends Rove is appearing voluntarily, that he's not received a so-called target letter which would identify him as a person the grand jury was likely to indict. Also named as a source for reporters is the vice president's chief of staff, Lewis \"Scoter\" Libby. As Fitzgerald's prolonged investigation seems to be entering the final phases, the president continues to dodge questions about whether he will remove anyone from his administration who might be indicted.", "I'm not going to talk about it until the investigation is complete and it's important that the investigation run its course.", "Rove's attorney says that he has been assured no decisions have been made by Fitzgerald on whether there will be any charges. Of course, Tony, no assurances that there won't be either.", "That's true. CNN National Correspondent Bob Franken. Bob, thank you. Let's take you back to New York City now and to CNN's Alina Cho. We want to try to put as fine a point as we can on the information that we have so far on this developing situation at Penn Station. And, Alina, we just saw some video, the first video of the scene you were describing just a few moments ago.", "That's right, Tony, and we'll get to that in a moment. But first, a little bit of background in case you missed it at the top of the hour. What we can tell you at this point is that the entrance right behind me at Penn Station, the northwest entrance, one of the main ones, has been sealed off. Now for people not familiar with New York City, this is one of the largest subway stations in New York. The main entrance has been sealed off, or at least one of them. And what we are told from our producer who was just on the scene inside is that the Amtrak portion of the station has also been sealed off, meaning that no new riders are being allowed in. What we are also being told is that some Amtrak trains are still boarding. But, of course, there is heavy police and security personnel. And what we are told now is at least four people in hazmat suits are on the scene there trying to figure out what is going on down there. Now, we want to be able to put this in perspective because, remember, yesterday, just yesterday, there was a highly publicized news conference between New York officials and the FBI announcing this terror threat against the subway system. And we want to be able to tell you as well that this kind of thing has happened before. There have been these types of scares before and later they turned out to be nothing. And so it is important to point out that it is entirely possible that they are acting out of an abundance of caution. We will just have to wait and see. Of course, we are watching it very, very closely. But, Tony, I can tell you that for the most part, commuters seem to be taking this in stride. Four-and-a-half million people ride the subways here in New York each and every work day and it appears they are riding it today.", "Taking it in stride. You're talking about four men in hazmat suits and you're telling me that the folks there in New York, hearty souls, we understand that, are seemingly taking this in stride. Alina Cho, we appreciate it. Thank you. And we'll certainly come back to you for further updates on this story. Avian flu, bird flu, whatever you want to call it, it's a danger to the world's population. Ahead on CNN LIVE TODAY, what the White House and other nations are doing today to try and prevent a pandemic. Also, hundreds of thousands of people victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, they have no homes and no jobs. The latest jobs report just ahead. And a Friday night ritual for one football player in an unfamiliar place thanks to Katrina. And he's finishing high school and playing the game he loves hundreds of miles from home and friends."], "speaker": ["TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ALINA CHO, (voice over)", "MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, NEW YORK", "CHO", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CHO", "BLOOMBERG", "CHO", "HARRIS", "CHO", "HARRIS", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "BARBARA STARR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "STARR", "HARRIS", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FRANKEN, (voice over)", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "FRANKEN", "HARRIS", "CHO", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "NPR-29128", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2011-07-27", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/07/27/138734934/political-gridlock-renews-calls-for-third-party", "title": "Political Gridlock Renews Calls For Third Party", "summary": "Political gridlock. Dysfunctional Congress. Debt-ceiling debacle. Times like this have many Americans wondering why we're stuck with just two political parties. While several political entrepreneurs are trying to gin up a new party, more than a century of history tells us success is not likely.", "utt": ["Speaking of next year's elections, one factor may be rising voter discontent. A Washington Post/NBC Poll shows 80 percent of those surveyed are dissatisfied or angry with Washington. That's the kind of number that makes you wonder if a new political alternative might emerge. There is, in fact, a movement afoot to give voters greater choice in 2012. But as NPR's Don Gonyea reports, the obstacles remain monumental.", "The best-known third party candidates of the past century have often been iconic figures - in 1912, the biggest name of the bunch, former U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt. In 1948, South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond carried four southern states. And 20 years later, Alabama Governor George Wallace carried five. More recently, there was this man...", "All these folks in Washington are basically saying to you and me, can we buy your vote with what used to be your money this year? We're not that dumb.", "Texas billionaire businessman Ross Perot, who in 1992 got 19 percent of the vote. Then there was Ralph Nader.", "The crisis in American politics starts with the two-party dictatorship. They don't want to allow any competition.", "Nader has run multiple times as an independent and under the Green Party banner. Now, none of these would-be presidents came even close to being elected, and that fact has mattered to many other iconic American figures who were pressed to run on their own but who declined - most recently retired General Colin Powell.", "Louis Gould is a retired University of Texas historian.", "Well, the American political system is set up to favor the two-party system. And both the Democrats and the Republicans, however much they fight in other ways, have institutionalized it so it's darn hard to get a third party going and to keep it going.", "The obstacles include difficulty in getting the required signatures to get on the ballot in all 50 states, navigating the rules and standards that vary from place to place. Non-billionaires have to worry about raising money and creating a nationwide campaign.", "I mean the Republicans and the Democrats have, what, 100-plus years and 200 years of history. And so they're sort of, they're wired into the political DNA, whereas you're sort of creating this new creature and trying to say, well, it's going to last, and the odds are that it probably won't.", "Still, the idea of a third-party breakthrough never dies. Michael Bloomberg says he won't run, but the billionaire media mogul and mayor of New York still gets asked about 2012 all the time.", "Then there's the new approach being tried by an organization called Americans Elect, which wants to hold an online conversation and online convention where any registered voter can help choose a candidate. Elliot Ackerman is a former Marine and Iraq War veteran. He's the group's COO and he lays out the goal.", "Introduce more competition into our political process, take the political process and blow it wide open.", "Ackerman says under Americans Elect rules, the delegates will be able to nominate a presidential candidate from any party, or an independent, but that the nominee will have to choose a running mate from a different party.", "Americans, they want more choice in their lives. They look everywhere in their life and they see all sorts of different alternatives, all sorts of innovations, and they look to our political process and it seems like something out of almost 100 years ago.", "Americans Elect says it has already secured a place on the ballot in a handful of states and will file petitions in California very soon. Ackerman predicts they'll hit all 50 states all on behalf of a candidate as yet unknown, a candidate who will have to hope the power of the Internet changes the rules in this game, as it has in so many others.", "Don Gonyea, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["MARY LOUISE KELLY, host", "DON GONYEA", "Mr. ROSS PEROT (Former Presidential Candidate)", "DON GONYEA", "Mr. RALPH NADER (Former Presidential Candidate)", "DON GONYEA", "DON GONYEA", "Mr. LOUIS GOULD (Historian)", "DON GONYEA", "Mr. LOUIS GOULD (Historian)", "DON GONYEA", "DON GONYEA", "Mr. ELLIOTT ACKERMAN (Americans Elect)", "DON GONYEA", "Mr. ELLIOTT ACKERMAN (Americans Elect)", "DON GONYEA", "DON GONYEA"]}
{"id": "NPR-4884", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2018-06-27", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/06/27/623773807/fec-takes-on-online-political-ads", "title": "FEC Takes On Online Political Ads", "summary": "The Federal Election Commission is holding public hearings on how to mandate transparency in online political advertising. NPR's David Greene interviews FEC Vice Chair Ellen Weintraub.", "utt": ["Russian influence in the 2016 U.S. election left regulators here looking for ways to improve election law, regulators like Ellen Weintraub, the Democratic vice chair of the Federal Election Commission. Today, that agency begins two days of hearings about online political advertising. The FEC is looking at making some political ads say who paid for them.", "What you would see is disclaimer information that would tell you where the ad is coming from. Now, I'm not anticipating that anybody's going to see an ad that says paid for by Vladimir Putin...", "(Laughter). OK.", "...But I think it would, in addition to providing better information to the American public, also help to deter bad conduct from happening in the first instance.", "OK. We should be clear the commission is considering just a small step. It's a step that would target one type of online political ad that it calls express advocacy. This is an ad that doesn't just address an issue, it directly endorses a candidate.", "What we know about from the last election, a lot of ads were placed that were what are generally termed issue ads, ads that are designed to inflame people's passions but stop short of saying, and therefore you should vote for or against a particular candidate. I think that there is more that could be done to address those ads and to ensure that those ads are not being funded by foreign money, but that's not what we're doing.", "Let's say someone writes an opinion piece about an issue but stops short of calling for a certain candidate to win. The person pays Facebook to target that to a certain audience. That would stop short of being express advocacy because it's not calling for one candidate to win over the other.", "We would look at the ad itself and look to whether it is express advocacy in order to determine whether this particular rule that I am hoping we're going to be able to get passed will apply.", "A specific ad keeps coming to my mind because it's infamous. There was this ad that was linked to the Internet Research Agency backed by the Kremlin in Russia. It has this image of Satan and Jesus...", "I knew you were going to bring that one in.", "...Arm wrestling. Yeah. A lot of people talk about this one. There's text that has Satan saying, if I win, Clinton wins. And then you have Jesus saying, not if I can help it. If you're talking not specifically about Clinton versus Trump, but about Satan versus Jesus, I mean, is that express advocacy? Where does that fall?", "You know, that has not been specifically presented to the commission, but I bet if it were that we would have a disagreement about that. Personally, I would say that's express advocacy. I don't think there's really any confusion about what the designer of that ad was trying to accomplish.", "What would the argument against that be?", "That it doesn't specifically say vote for or vote against, and it does not specifically reference the election.", "So how much do you think this rulemaking will prevent foreign influence in the upcoming election, 2018, looking forward to 2020? Is this going to make a big difference?", "It's a small step forward, but it's a positive step forward. And I think that what has happened is that, really, the awareness of the platforms has also been raised. So whether there is an ultimate fine levied on anybody who doesn't run a disclaimer, I think the platforms are paying a lot of attention to this issue and that they are going to make sure that the ads that are run on their platforms comply with our rules.", "Is there a risk in going too far if the government and government commissions try and regulate what is supposed to be, you know, a free and open marketplace, which is the Internet?", "Well, certainly not from this rulemaking. Right now, all that we are looking at is making sure that when you see an ad, whether it's on your phone or on your desktop or your laptop or your tablet, that you will have some way of identifying where that ad is coming from if it is one that is trying to persuade you to vote for or against a candidate. I think that the agency has come together because we recognize that this is not an issue that can be ignored.", "Thanks so much for talking to us.", "It has been my pleasure.", "That was Ellen Weintraub. 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{"id": "CNN-280954", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-04-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/08/es.03.html", "summary": "Sanders Stands By Clinton Put-Down; Donald Trump Shifts Strategy in Fight for Delegates", "utt": ["It's my kind, it's my version, finale of \"American Idol.\" You can see more highlights of this conversation on \"FAREED ZAKARIA GPS\" this Sunday, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern, right here on CNN.", "You really made your Friday. Oh, and guess what? EARLY START continues now.", "The battle for votes in New York getting more bitter. Late last night Bernie Sanders doubling down on his belief that Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be president.", "Donald Trump with a strategy to win the White House. Is the Republican frontrunner preparing for a fight for delegates at a contested convention?", "And breaking news this morning. Secretary of State John Kerry landing in Baghdad. Political chaos threatening the war on ISIS. We are live. Good morning and welcome to EARLY START. I'm Miguel Marquez.", "I'm Christine Romans. Nice to see you this morning, Miguel. It is Friday, April 8th. It is 5:00 a.m. in the East. All right. New attacks and reaction this morning in the Democratic battle over credentials. Bernie Sanders on \"Late Night With Seth Myers\" standing behind his putdown that Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be president. (", "You made a comment about Hillary Clinton being unqualified for the office of president. Is that something you regret saying?", "Well, it was said after she and her campaign said that I was unqualified.", "Well, I didn't hear her say you were unqualified. I heard her failed to say you were qualified. I didn't -- she didn't say unqualified.", "Well, look, the issue is, you know, after we won in Wisconsin and that was our sixth victory in seven caucuses and primaries, I think the Clinton campaign has been getting a little bit nervous and I think they have been getting more negative. If people attack me and distort my record, we will respond.", "All right. This as both candidates crisscross New York today, trying to lockdown the state before its crucial April 19th primary. Senior Washington correspondent Jeff Zeleny, he's got the latest from New York.", "Christine and Miguel, after one of the most heated days on the Democratic campaign trail, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton campaigning again today in New York. Now, Bernie Sanders questioned the qualifications again and again of Hillary Clinton to be president. He actually went there and said, because of her vote on the Iraq War, because of her positions on Wall Street, how she accepts money from Wall Street donors, she's not qualified to be president. Now, most Democrats probably don't believe that, but it certainly fired up his supporters. But she took the high road, for the moment at least and this is how she responded.", "Well, it's kind of a silly thing to say, but I'm going to trust the voters of New York who know me and have voted for me three times, twice for Senate and once in the presidential primary. Look, I didn't -- I don't know why he's saying that, but I will take Bernie Sanders over Donald Trump or Ted Cruz anytime.", "Now, Bernie Sanders for his part saying he is simply trying to respond to what he called campaign smears from the Clinton campaign, who have planned to question his qualifications, his preparedness, his readiness to be president. He took one more shot at Hillary Clinton for all her fundraising. She flew to Ohio and Colorado to do some fundraising on Thursday and he made sure that voters knew about it.", "I will not leave here this morning and go to a Wall Street fund-raiser. I will not be --", "Now, with both candidates on the campaign trail here in New York, Hillary Clinton in Rochester and Buffalo, Bernie Sanders in the city, they're doing an all-out push for the New York primary now to some 11 days away. How this race goes is going to shape how the rest of the Democratic Party goes and if the party will ever unify once this long primary race is over -- Christine and Miguel.", "It is a long primary race. Thanks, Jeff Zeleny. Helping us break down the fight across the political landscape, CNN's political reporter, Tal Kopan joins us from Washington bureau. Good morning. Thanks for getting up early for us.", "Good morning.", "Good morning.", "I want to get right to the comments overnight and how this fight for New York is shaping up. Sanders on Seth Myers -- let me say, sort of saying of all the candidates out there, maybe Hillary isn't so bad.", "Hillary Clinton versus a Republican nominee.", "Oh, come on. Hillary Clinton's worse day, she is 100 times better than any of the Republican candidates.", "There is the unity that Jeff was talking about. Maybe they will be able to unify.", "Yes, I like when he went -- yes. So, are these -- will the Democrats eventually unify?", "I think the Democrats will definitely unify once they get through an actual nomination. There's never been any indication, any threat by Bernie Sanders that he would not essentially support Hillary Clinton. There are rumbles out there that a handful of supporters might not be able to back her. But it really has not come from the campaign or inner circle that would indicate that Bernie Sanders would have issue with supporting her. I mean, I feel like we are watching a master class in backhanded compliments between these two. They've been doing this dance for weeks and months now, where they don't really want to insult each other. They don't want to make a mockery of the nominating process and the way they want to portray the Republican Republicans as having done. But they do still want to edge each other out. So, we are seeing the bad blood moments bubble up to the surface, where they just can't hold themselves back.", "These are primary moments, no question. Remember, you are likeable enough, Hillary, and one guy hired her for a top job, as secretary of state. So, we have seen primaries get ugly and they mend fences early on. I wanted to play a little bit of sound from Seth Myers again last night, Bernie Sanders sort of joking about what is his signature issue. It's a bit here about breaking up the banks. Listen.", "My advice to you is the same advice I give to a couple contemplating an open relationship. It's time to break up. But don't feel bad. All the best bands break up eventually. The Beatles, Destiny's Child. Personally, I can't wait for the behind the music on Goldman Sachs. Big banks? You're bernt.", "Bernt, B-E-R-N-T. I mean, it is funny, trying to make light of this controversy this week, that he hasn't really know how -- or he couldn't he can't quite, you know, demonstrate how to break up these banks. He is fighting with the GE CEO. Does this help him? Does this help him get new followers or not?", "I think it's mostly damage control at this point. Like you said, he had the interview earlier this week. The transcript was released. It was pretty damning if you read through it. You know, the editorial board pushed him. Well, how will you break up the banks? But how will you do it? His answers were a little thin. It was a little bit of politician speak which we see on occasion, where he sort of kept speaking in vague topics and tried to change the subject a little bit. When it is your signature issue, it's one thing if it is early in the game and policy positions and not flushed out. But when it's your signature issue, it really doesn't look great. And the Clinton campaign e-mailed the transcript out in full to reporters, really pushed it. So, being able to make light of it, being able to joke about it, it's a break. I mean, it helps him try to sort of move past that news cycle and get back on message.", "The CEO of GE is not laughing.", "No, he's on fire.", "Yes.", "The interesting thinking for me on the Republican side is this dual contest that's happening now, the race of 1,237, but also this race looking ahead to that convention. Everybody expecting a contested convention. Here's what Ted Cruz told Dana Bash about that.", "Do you have a pool of Trump delegates who've already said, \"I'm with you on the second ballot\"?", "We are working hard to elect our people to every delegate slot. I'll tell you, if we come to a contested convention, we will know every single delegate. We will have a relationship with every single delegate. We will have conversations with every delegate. And we're working to get our people elected to every single delegate slot.", "That has got to put a chill in Mr. Trump's spine. Clearly, he is looking ahead to the convention. It is not clear that he has those delegates. What is your sense of it between the Trump and the Cruz campaigns on the delegates?", "Well, I've actually been digging into the delegates quite a bit lately. It's become one of my primary focus here, looking at -- looking at this actual process. We have moved so far past the numbers at this point. I'm not sure everyone realizes, but we are getting down to individual single people and how those every single one of those, about 2,400 individuals who are going to the convention are going to respond to each ballot. That is the reality here. And everyone I talked to says the Cruz campaign is very organized in this regard. In some states where this process began early, they were beginning in December and January to recruit people to run for these delegates spots. So, there is no doubt his operation is quite good and that his opponents also have an interest in portraying it as good to raise expectations. It is a lot murkier on the side of the Donald Trump side of the campaign, although he has announced several moves this week to bolster that effort. And it's clear that his campaign now recognizes if they didn't before that this is going to be essential. So, you are absolutely going to see a play for every one of these people in some quite interesting ways, I think, we're going to see.", "So, here's my question about the Republican race here. The question on the Democratic side is you heard Bernie Sanders say, she's better than any of the Republicans. Will Republicans be able to hold their nose and accept Ted Cruz? The Republicans who are just scared to death of Donald Trump, will they be able to accept him as their nominee if he gets it?", "This is a very open question. You know, you talk to a lot of Republicans and most of them, even after sort of trashing Donald Trump or trashing Ted Cruz for a little while, at the end of the conversation, will they still stay, but I'll get behind the nominee, because I don't want to see Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders become president. But I have also talked to people who are still, you know, entertaining dreams of a third party candidate, of a white knight coming into the convention and not being one of the above options. You know, there are surveys that show there are people who would not vote for the alternative. It's not clear if those people are going to change their minds or if they're just going to stay home. This is a very real question not just for us who like to play the pundit game, but for the Republican Party. They are asking themselves what is going to happen.", "Absolutely fascinating. Tal Kopan, you have 2,400 new Republican friends to make. You better get busy. Thank you very much.", "Hit the phones.", "Her best line, master class and underhanded compliments.", "And here is one you don't want to miss. This is going to be pretty darn good. Next Thursday night, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders face-off in a CNN Democratic presidential debate in Brooklyn. That's April 14th, at 9:00 p.m. Eastern, five days before the New York primary.", "All right. It is round three in the fight between Bernie Sanders and the CEO of General Electric over outsourcing. Sanders started it when he slammed GE for taking jobs overseas after using the American economy to build its multinational business. Those are comments posted by \"The New York Daily News\". Then, GE's CEO Jeff Immelt defended his business. In his op-ed in \"The Washington Post\" he wrote this, quote, \"GE has been in business for 124 years and we have never been a big hit with socialists. We create wealth and jobs, instead of just calling for them in speeches.\" Immelt says it building jobs overseas because GE has customers in 180 countries. He said his company does pay billions in taxes. But he did criticize the complex tax code and said he likes to see that fix. In response to all this, the Sanders campaign lashed out at Immelt's multimillion dollar pay package. Sanders policy director telling CNN, quote, \"If the CEO of General Electric he wants to know how his company is destroying the fabric of America, he should take a good look in the mirror.\" General Electric says, \"Why don't you come and visit the plant that we have that has high paying jobs right there in Vermont that Bernie Sanders has never visited, you can see exactly how capitalism works than socialism.\"", "This is going to get uglier, isn't it?", "I think it is.", "It is happening in New York. You have Wall Street and where the funding and oxygen comes for American business. I think you're going to start to see some of these big named CEOs and Wall Street bankers start to say, OK, Bernie Sanders was interesting a year ago. Now it is dangerous.", "I think Bernie is going to hit back just as hard.", "I think you're right, absolutely. And his supporters will love him for it.", "Yes.", "All right. Breaking news this morning, Secretary of State John Kerry landing in Iraq. Political chaos there threatening the fight against ISIS. We are live."], "speaker": ["CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN ANCHOR", "MARQUEZ", "ROMANS", "MARQUEZ", "ROMANS", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MYERS\"/NBC/LAST NIGHT) SETH MYERS, LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MYERS", "SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MYERS", "SANDERS", "ROMANS", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ZELENY", "SEN. 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{"id": "NPR-42554", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-04-10", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5334772", "title": "Italy's Prodi, Berlusconi in Close Race", "summary": "Romano Prodi, leader of Italy's center-left party, is in a close race with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Italy's general election. Some exit polls have predicted that Prodi will win a majority in both houses of parliament.", "utt": ["NPR's Sylvia Poggioli joins us now from Rome and, Sylvia, what can you tell us about the results at this point?", "Well, at this moment, it appears that there's a virtual tie. In Italy, there's no direct election of the Prime Minister and the winning coalition must control both houses of Parliament. What adds to the confusion is that there's a new electoral law Berlusconi pushed through Parliament at the end of the legislature that is basically designed to ensure that whoever wins has a very small majority. So if one coalition wins the lower house and the other side wins the senate, there'll be a virtual paralysis and, perhaps, the country will have to go to another round of elections.", "I want you to talk a little bit about these two men, who, one of them will be prime minister, we assume. Berlusconi and Romano Prodi, these are two larger-than-life figures in Europe.", "Now Prodi is really the antithesis of Berlusconi. He's mild mannered, he's professorial. He's been described as a country priest. His tenure --", "He's literally professorial. He was an economics professor.", "He was indeed, at Bologna University. And he, I think he taught also in the United States. His tenure as European Union Commission Chief was, perhaps, lackluster, but in his campaign here, he certainly projected the idea of a different Italy from Berlusconi. You know, a society with a sense of civic responsibility and solidarity and, as he put it, where the son of the laborer and the son of the professional have the same opportunities.", "Well, it wasn't that long ago that when we asked you about politics in Italy, the assumption was that Berlusconi was trailing and that it looked like Romano Prodi was going to be elected. How did Berlusconi close the gap?", "He even caused a diplomatic incident with China when he said that Mao's Communists boil babies for fertilizer. And, you know, with these tactics, he succeeded in pushing aside the much more concrete issue of the deep economic crisis. And he did it by going on the offensive, acting as if he were on the opposition and that his rivals are to blame for all the country's problems. For example, just this morning, I bumped into a pharmacist whom I know and he told me how worried he was that the Communists might win because they want to liberalize pharmacies. And he brushed aside my remark that it's Berlusconi who's a liberalizing Thatcherite wannabe, not the hard left.", "And the Communists would be one element of the center-left coalition that Prodi is part of, I assume.", "Oh, yes, Prodi's coalition is quite disparate. It goes from centrist Catholics, Greens, post-Communists and some too small, harder left Communist parties.", "Sylvia, when you talk about how Berlusconi used his own television networks, those which he owns and also the government, or the ones that he controls indirectly, was there access to Prodi to get on television with anything remotely resembling equal time or equal access?", "Well, theoretically, there are equal access rules that kicked in about six weeks ago and Prodi did appear. But certainly -- I mean, there've been, independent research institutes have pointed out how many, many, many more hours, I mean, something like 10 to one, that Berlusconi got over Prodi. And some of the Berlusconi stations have even been fined. There's an independent authority that supposedly oversees these things. But, you know, he is Italy's richest man. A fine doesn't really mean much for him.", "Well, if there in fact is one center-left coalition that controls one of the chambers of Parliament and then Berlusconi's center-right coalition that controls the other chamber, could they conceivably, say, form a wall-to-wall coalition, the government of national unity?", "There is one remote possibility that a portion of deputies from one of the small parties could go over to the center-left, but we haven't seen signs of that yet.", "Oh, okay and still, at this point, it's unclear which party has won the Italian election. Thank you, Sylvia.", "Thank you, Robert.", "That's NPR's Sylvia Poggioli in Rome."], "speaker": ["MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI", "SIEGEL", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI", "SIEGEL", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI", "SIEGEL", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI", "SIEGEL", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI", "SIEGEL", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI", "SIEGEL", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI", "SIEGEL", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI", "SIEGEL"]}
{"id": "CNN-14683", "program": "Saturday Morning News", "date": "2000-8-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/26/smn.06.html", "summary": "Rally in Washington to Commemorate 37th Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' Speech", "utt": ["Martin Luther King III and the Reverend Al Sharpton met yesterday with Attorney General Janet Reno and other officials to press for a federal ban on racial profiling by law enforcement agencies. The Clinton administration reportedly is looking into the possibility of cutting off federal funds to state and local governments that permit the controversial practice. Racial profiling will be a prominent theme today in Washington during a march to commemorate the 37th anniversary of Martin Luther King's \"I Have a Dream\" speech. Gary Nurenberg in Washington has more.", "Dr. King's dreams of racial harmony galvanized a divided America in 1963 and helped create his legacy. But don't expect a celebration of old victories over the segregation Dr. King so despised. His son says this weekend's rally is to draw attention to contemporary racial issues.", "We've seen police brutality and misconduct and racism at a whole new level. We saw in Philadelphia police officers jumping over cars, coming to beat up a man who was a suspect, to apprehend him. Racism is institutionalized, so it doesn't matter what color the police officer is. It's how that individual was programmed.", "Some of the activists who are here this weekend weren't even alive when Dr. King gave that speech at the March on Washington, but they say they've learned lessons from Dr. King, lessons they can apply to issues that confront them this year.", "It makes sense that we would join in this anniversary, particularly around the issues stemming around racial profiling and police brutality.", "Organizers say those issues and the death penalty make this year's march particularly important.", "This is an election year. And all the candidates need to address this issue.", "Thirty-seven years later, Dr. King's followers believe his dreams are still far from coming true. Gary Nurenberg for CNN, Washington.", "For more on what organizers hope to accomplish with today's rally, we're joined from Washington by the Reverend Al Sharpton. Thanks for being with us, reverend.", "Thank you, thank you.", "All right. This is a difficult problem to quantify. I'm talking specifically about racial profiling. How are you able to get a handle on it? Because quite oftentimes there are other reasons a person could be stopped by a police officer, otherwise legitimate reasons. How have you been able to quantify it?", "Well, two ways. Last June I met with Attorney General Reno and President Clinton, with other leaders, and which the president gave an executive order to collect the data from a federal level of the race of people who are apprehended or arrested. I urged her yesterday with Martin III, since we are co-convening this march, to, now that you have data, now you must do something about the data and have some penalty for those that engage in this. The second way is, we have officers around the country, particularly in Illinois and New Jersey and other places, that have come forward and said that this is a policy they've been instructed to do. So you're not guessing, which is why we're saying the executive order should bar federal funds where there's proven patterns. If you can bring officers forward that says, My superiors say that you should look at a profile of a black as a criminal, then you're not speculating. That's policy.", "All right. But in many cases this is sort of a wink and a nod kind of policy, this isn't codified or put on paper. So it puts...", "Well, it is a wink and a nod, but it's also -- if someone is saying, These are the instructions given at the station house, or at the state patrol bunker, and this can be established and corresponds with the data that is collected, then clearly you have a case to bring someone in on a -- some entity in on the problem. There's -- you have no law or executive order to bring them in on them at this point if you can prove it. You prove it against what law or against what executive order?", "All right, having said all of that, though, do you think this is something that can be legislated out of existence?", "I think clearly it can. I think the fact is, several years ago when we started, for example, in New Jersey, New York, and other places talking about racial profiling, people said that, Oh, Sharpton, you're just exaggerating. Now people are acknowledging that it's true. So clearly I think that you can regulate behavior, particularly of people that work for government. You can't change the attitudes, but you can certainly regulate their behavior and put a check and balance system in place.", "How much do you think having more African-American police officers and state troopers on the ranks, how much would that help?", "It would help to some degree. But then again, you have situations like in Philadelphia where we're fighting. Some of the black cops were involved. So I think that again, you can start there, but you must deal with training, you must deal with the real mentality of police, in that in some cases, not all, but in some cases feel that they're above the law. So it doesn't help me any to fear that I'm going to be beaten by a black cop rather than a white cop. I don't want to be beaten by any cop.", "So when you -- you talk about Philadelphia, we're shifting somewhat into the area of police brutality...", "Correct.", "... and we'll talk about that. How can you be certain that what we're talking about is a racial issue?", "Well, it is our argument that the cops that beat Mr. Jones in Philadelphia wouldn't have done the same to a white suspect, even the black cops. So even black cops can engage in racial profiling, because in our judgment, they would know that they couldn't have got away with doing that to a white suspect.", "Well, but, you know, you got to remember, let's set up that scene for just a moment. That was after a long chase, the suspect in that case allegedly stole a police car. He was pulled out from the police car. There was -- they felt there was bodily harm headed their way. Are you -- how can you say for certain that that would not have happened to a white suspect?", "Well, first of all, he's laying on the ground as he's being stomped. I don't see the bodily harm that they are facing. And secondly, there's been any number of thousands of white suspects arrested in Philadelphia. We've never seen that kind of behavior. And you would ask yourself, pursuing him, if he's to be pursued, he should be apprehended. They should not become the judge, the jury, and the executioner. I've seen organized crime figures arrested in Philadelphia and never seen them operated at that level of brutality. Why are they more afraid of a guy on the ground than they do that people who have so-called hired killers working for them?", "All right. (inaudible) the march that you're calling Redeem the Dream, explain why calling it Redeeming the Dream, 37 years after the famous March on Washington, do you feel as if the dream, as it were, has lost its way?", "I think that the dream in many ways has been ignored, distorted. We feel that in many ways the American public does not understand that part of that dream was clearly Dr. King talking about not judging people by the color of their skin, which is racial profiling. He even addressed police brutality. And we're also going to challenge many in our own community that have in some ways benefited from the civil rights movement but have not engaged in the struggle. So my address this afternoon will challenge both sides. Martin King III and I will keynote this. And it will be a double-edged sword. We want to remind people of the black community, that whatever we enjoy is a result of sacrifice and struggle, so we should take it more seriously. And we want to challenge America that we must finish the journey toward racial justice. You will never have racial harmony until you have racial justice.", "The Reverend Al Sharpton is a co-organizer of the march he's calling Redeem the Dream. Thanks for being with us, and thanks for your patience with some breaking news today, reverend, we appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "All right."], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "GARY NURENBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MARTIN LUTHER KING III, RALLY LEADER", "NURENBERG (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NURENBERG", "KING", "NURENBERG", "O'BRIEN", "REV. AL SHARPTON, RALLY ORGANIZER", "O'BRIEN", "SHARPTON", "O'BRIEN", "SHARPTON", "O'BRIEN", "SHARPTON", "O'BRIEN", "SHARPTON", "O'BRIEN", "SHARPTON", "O'BRIEN", "SHARPTON", "O'BRIEN", "SHARPTON", "O'BRIEN", "SHARPTON", "O'BRIEN", "SHARPTON", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-146695", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-1-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/05/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Afghanistan Base Bombing Carried Out by Double Agent", "utt": ["It was a bold and daring attack against the CIA in one of the deadliest of the agency's history. The suicide bombing on a U.S. base in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA officers last week. And now a stunning development. The bomber was a double agent. People actually trusted him. CNN's Chris Lawrence is at the Pentagon with the latest. Chris, what can you tell us about the bomber and how he got on the base?", "A lot. Well, first of all his name is a mouthful. Hammam Khalil Abu Mallal al-Balawi. He was a Jordanian doctor who the Jordanian authorities picked up more than a year ago on suspicion of certain activities. They investigated him and they didn't find enough to keep his, so they let him go At that point, he moved to Pakistan, ostensibly to study. And at that point shortly thereafter that he started sending e-mails to the Jordanian government, tipping them off to potential plots against both Jordan and targets in the West. Jordan started to share the e-mails and the information with the allies and in fact, one former U.S. intelligence official told us that this is a man who was giving very good intelligence about some very high-value targets over a period of time. At one point last week, they finally were able to bring him in, to be debriefed in person by some CIA intelligence officers. So they got to Afghanistan, and they met him outside of this forward operating base, put him in the car without ever searching him, and then they drove him right on to the base themselves. When they got on the base, he was in the middle of his debriefing, and that is when he set off his explosive vest killing seven CIA officers as well as a Jordanian military officer working with them.", "Wow. It seems like they disregarded protocol, Chris. I mean, any reason that they would not search him?", "Well, this was obviously a man who, you know, authorities are telling us that they thought he had left his extremist views behind, and they thought that they had converted him, and they were using him to go after a high-value target. They were trying to get at Iman Al-Zarquari, al Qaeda's number two man, Osama bin Laden's right-hand man. But he was not secretly no on board with the CIA's plan. I was talking to a former intelligence official who spent 30 years in the intel community who said the problem here is that CIA officer - these people are dealing with some of the most dangerous and surly people around. That's who they have to deal with to get good intelligence. And he talked about possibly the challenges of establishing trust as one possible way why you would not want to do an invasive search of someone.", "This is not a normal job. This is not people who are flipping hamburgers at Wendy's, this is someone trying to convince someone to betray a tribal interest or an interest of a group, and they know that that betrayal could cost them the death of their entire family. There are very, very, very, very brave Afghanis who have supported and helped the United States government and enabled them to find the people who are killing Americans.", "So, obviously, it does not account for the lapse in security that obviously went against the grain, but again, it just shows you that delicate balance you have of both protecting people on the base and at the same time trying to build trust with these people to bring them in.", "Chris Lawrence, thanks. Other top stories now. Word of a possible motive in yesterday's deadly shooting at the federal courthouse in Vegas. Investigators now say the gunman had recently lost a Social Security claim and was mad. He killed a security officer and wounded a deputy U.S. marshal before he was shot and killed. Also, word today of a terror threat against President Obama the day he was sworn in. \"The New York Times\" says that security chiefs worried extremists from Somalia would try to attack the inauguration, but the information turned out to be wrong, fueled by a false report from a rival terror group. How did a man almost bring down a U.S. jetliner on Christmas Day? Well, President Obama is demanding answers to that question. He has called in his security experts to explain why and how it happened. They are meeting right now at the White House. Meantime, White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs says the FBI has gotten, quote, \"actionable intelligence from the suspect.\" Get ready for your close-up. We're talking so close even your doctor might squirm, all in the name of protecting you, planes and the less-than friendly skies."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "LAWRENCE", "KEN ROBINSON, FORMER INTELLIGENCE OFFICER", "LAWRENCE", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-338348", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-04-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/24/cnr.02.html", "summary": "George H.W. Bush in Hospital.", "utt": ["Just moments ago we received an update on the health of former President George H.W. Bush, who is in intensive care. His spokesperson tells CNN the former president is responding to treatment for a life threatening blood infection and is determined to get healthy. He was taken to the Methodist Hospital in Houston on Sunday, just hours after the funeral for his wife of 73 years, Barbara Bush. Ed Lavandera outside the hospital with the very latest. A great deal of concern overnight, Ed. Where do things stand now?", "Well, it is a great deal of concern. And some of the first indications that we've gotten here this morning seem to suggest that things are improving. According to President Bush's spokesman, the former president is awake, alert, and talking after responding to the medication and the treatment that he's been receiving here at Houston Methodist Hospital since Sunday morning. And here's the best part, John, even talking about determined to get healthier so that he can go to Kennebunkport, Maine, later -- in the -- preparing for the summer. As you well know, if anyone who's followed the course of the Bush family over the decades, you know that home in Kennebunkport, Maine, has been a staple in the Bush family, a place where they have spent many summers. And that is one of the things that President George H.W. Bush appears to be talking about and thinking about this morning as he is determined, according to his spokesperson, determined to get healthy so that he can go and spend the summer up there in Maine. That that is one of the things on his mind. You know, this has been a very concerning 48 hours. It was just last week that the president talked about how he was overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support that he received and he had said in a statement after Barbara Bush died last week, that he had hoped that Americans would cross the Bush family off their list of worries. But given what has happened here over the last 48 hours, the president, being admitted here to this hospital Sunday morning, just hours after burying his wife of 73 years at the presidential library in College Station, Texas, returning home here and being in a very difficult situation. According to a source close to the family, there were a couple of moments on Sunday where doctors weren't quite sure if the president was going to make it through. But the latest news we have here this morning is that President George H.W. Bush is doing better, alert and talking and awake here this morning in Houston. John.", "All right, hopeful news. Ed Lavandera in Houston, thanks so much. All right, good morning, again, everyone. I'm John Berman. The business end of the first state visit of the Trump presidency getting underway at the White House right now. The visiting president of France, Emmanuel Macron, just received the full on star-spangled welcome on the South Lawn. Now, the French leader, sometimes called the Trump whisperer, will put his skills to test on issues ranging from the Iran nuclear deal to the Paris Climate Accord, to the war in Syria, as well as U.S. tariffs on European steel and aluminum."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-239262", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2014-09-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/19/wolf.02.html", "summary": "William Cohen Talks Iraq Strategy", "utt": ["The U.S. pulled out because Nouri al Maliki, the former Iraqi prime minister, refused to give immunity from Iraqi prosecution. The administration does say that they have that commitment now. They will not be prosecuted by Iraqi courts, if you will. They do have that immunity.", "They have an agreement in writing, presumably?", "That's what they say. They say they have an agreement from the new prime minister, from the new government. And it didn't have to go back to parliament because if it went back to the Iraqi parliament, they don't know what would have happened. There you have it. So this new prime minister, who may be new wine in an old bottle or simply old wine with a new bottle coming into it, he hasn't decided yet.", "Yes, but he has said he will not allow any U.S. combat forces on the ground in Iraq. So he's consistent with what President Obama is saying. So I have a question. What happens if some of those forces come under fire, maybe taken hostage? What do we do at that particular point? I think we have to level that point. And this is why Congressman McKeon and others, Ed Royce, have said, we need to have the flexibility to say, they may not have a combat mission specifically but they are going to be in combat. And we need to be flexible enough to say, if we need to go in, we have the authority to go in. I think the president is making a mistake by not getting that.", "McKeon and others say, don't take any options off the table. If you're going to war, keep the enemy guessing. Don't send in combat forces. The other side of the argument is the president wants to be transparent with the American people and Congress. If he doesn't deploy combat forces, he should tell them.", "He can be transparent but, if this is successful, it will need tactical American forces on the ground. You're now going to conduct air campaigns and air strikes, and if you don't have those specialists on the ground calling in those strikes, you might very well start killing lots of people, which rebound against us. We're going to have people on the ground calling those strikes. I think that's why the president has to be more transparent on that particular issue.", "What about the Iranian countries, and Turkey, for that matter? Are they stepping up to the plate? Because they are threatened, much more than the United States.", "I think you'll find the UAE, the United Arab Emirates, is stepping up a great deal in Kosovo. They volunteered in Kosovo. They've been with us in Afghanistan. I think you'll find members of the Arab community --", "They'll use some air power, the UAE. Qatar, too, maybe? The UAE and Qatar used air power against Gadhafi in Libya at the request of the United States.", "We need to see Arab participation, visible Arab participation. Otherwise, it's going to be seen as a bunch of white guys. The Western countries coming in, white man's burden coming in, attacking a Muslim country again. Then it becomes something of a crusade. That's the reason we need to have a visible presence participating and going after this evil called", "It hasn't happened yet. But maybe it will, starting with the UAE. Do you think the Saudis are going to step up to the plate?", "I don't know but we need to provide some visible sign of assistance so they are not hiding behind any kind of --", "Turkey has been very disappointing.", "I'm very disappointed in some of the NATO countries, period. NATO has a long step of stairs you have to climb to get into NATO. There's no back door. Once you're in, you're in. Even if you don't measure up to the kind of requirements that are necessary to be a member of NATO. I'd like to see them consider a way out for those countries who want the benefit of having NATO security, not willing to bear the burdens of it, I'd like to have that considered as an exit door as well.", "I spoke with the NATO supreme allied commander, and unlike Afghanistan where there was a NATO contingent deployed to Afghanistan, there's no talking about that as far as Iraq and Syria is concerned.", "We're carrying the burden. I'd like to see some of the NATO countries really share that burden and be willing to belly up and show that they are willing to provide benefits and burdens and bear them equally.", "Secretary Cohen, thanks for joining us.", "Thank you.", "Congress won't be debating new authorization of military force against ISIS at least for a while, maybe two months. Instead, they are heading home, at least for six weeks. Dana Bash chasing down lawmakers as they rush for the exits. That's next."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "WILLIAM COHEN, FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY", "BLITZER", "COHEN", "BLITZER", "COHEN", "BLITZER", "COHEN", "BLITZER", "COHEN", "ISIS. BLITZER", "COHEN", "BLITZER", "COHEN", "BLITZER", "COHEN", "BLITZER", "COHEN", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-166113", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-5-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/13/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Mary Tyler Moore Brain Surgery", "utt": ["Mary Tyler Moore is having elective surgery on her brain. Many of you know her as the woman who could turn the world on with her smile. Her publicist says the actress has a slow growing brain tumor that's fairly common and benign. So I asked our chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta why the 74-year-old might have opted for surgery.", "Well, Suzanne, it's not that unusual for these tumors not to be operated on, at least immediately. And the reason is because they're typically thought of as benign tumors. If they're also small, the discussion between doctor and patient may be, look, let's keep an eye on this. There's a chance that you may not need to have any therapy for this in your entire lifetime. And so you get yearly scans, MRI scans, and check to see, is this tumor starting to change. The tumor may have been found incidentally. So someone goes in for an unrelated issue and they find this tumor and that's when this whole discussion starts to take place. The tumor, as you mentioned, a meningioma, really is a tumor sort of on the -- located on the outside of the brain typically. So growing from the outside in, sort of pushing into the brain as opposed to growing within the substance of the brain. And, again, it's found -- it has a very characteristic look when you get an MRI scan. Now the big question a lot of people ask then is, why operate now? Mary Tyler Moore is 74 years old. It really comes down to three basic reasons, or at least one compelling reason of those three. The tumor could have started to grow quickly. So year to year maybe it was unchanged or it was growing very slowly and all of a sudden on a scan you see a more explosive rate of growth. Two is that the tumor may be changing to some extent. So it looked like a benign tumor, but now on scans something's changed about the tumor that makes it look like it may be becoming more malignant. And, three, as you might guess, is that it's starting to cause some symptoms. Starting to cause numbness or weakness on one side of the body. Starting to cause blurriness of vision. If those things are starting to happen and they're related to the tumor, that might be a reason to operate as well. If the tumor is entirely removed, which it often is, oftentimes nothing else needs to be done. If it's not entirely removed, a patient may need radiation therapy afterwards to sort of address the remaining tumor. But that's a little bit of an idea of what's probably been happening with Mary Tyler Moore over the last several years, and, of course, most recently. Suzanne, back to you.", "Thank you, Sanjay. CNN NEWSROOM continues right now for Randi Kaye who's in for Ali Velshi."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-270273", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-11-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1511/30/nday.02.html", "summary": "Climate Change Meeting in Paris", "utt": ["Fellow leaders, we have come to Paris to show our resolve. We offer our condolences to the people of France for the barbaric attacks on this beautiful city. We stand united in solidarity, not only to deliver justice to the terrorist network responsible for those attacks but to protect our people and uphold the enduring values that keep us strong and keep us free. And we salute the people of Paris for insisting this crucial conference go on. An act of defiance that proves nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children. What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than Marshalling our best efforts to save it. Nearly 200 nations have assembled here this week, a declaration that for all the challenges we face, the growing threat of climate change could define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other. And what should give us hope that this is a turning point, that this is the moment we finally determined we would save our planet is fact that our nations share a sense of urgency about this challenge and a growing realization that it is within our power to do something about it. Our understanding of the ways human beings disrupt the climate advances by the day. 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have occurred since the year 2000. And 2015 is on pace to be the warmest year of all. No nation, large or small, wealthy or poor, is immune to what this means. This summer I saw the effects of climate change firsthand in our northern most state, Alaska, where the sea is already swallowing villages and eroding shorelines. Where permafrost thaws and the tundra burns, where glaciers are melting at a pace unprecedented in modern times. And it was a preview of one possible future, a glimpse of our children's fate if the climate keeps changing faster than our efforts to address it -- submerged countries, abandoned cities, fields that no longer grow. Political disruptions that trigger new conflict, and even more floods of desperate peoples seeking the sanctuary of nations not their own. That future is not one of strong economies, nor is it one where fragile states can find their footing. That future is one that we have the power to change, right here, right now. But only if we rise to this moment, as one of America's governors has said, \"We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change, and the last generation that can do something about it.\" I've come here personally, as the leader of the world's largest economy and the second-largest emitter, to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it. Over the last seven years, we've made ambitious investments in clean energy, and ambitious reductions in our carbon emissions. We've multiplied wind power three-fold and solar power more than twenty- fold, helping create parts of America where these clean power sources are finally cheaper than dirtier, conventional power. We've invested in energy efficiency in every way imaginable. We've said no to infrastructure that would pull high-carbon fossil fuels from the ground, and we've said yes to the first-ever set of national standards limiting the amount of carbon pollution our power plants can release into the sky. The advances we've made have helped drive our economic output to all- time highs, and drive our carbon pollution to its lowest levels in nearly two decades. But the good news is this is not an American trend alone. Last year, the global economy grew while global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels stayed flat. And what this means can't be overstated. We have broken the old arguments for inaction. We have proved that strong economic growth and a safer environment no longer have to conflict with one another; they can work in concert with one another, and that should give us hope. One of the enemies that we'll be fighting at this conference is cynicism, the notion we can't do anything about climate change. Our progress should give us hope during these two weeks -- hope that is rooted in collective action. Earlier this month in Dubai, after years of delay, the world agreed to work together to cut the super-pollutants known as HFCs. That's progress. Already, prior to Paris, more than 180 countries representing nearly 95 percent of global emissions have put forward their own climate targets. That is progress. For our part, America is on track to reach the emissions targets that I set six years ago in Copenhagen. We will reduce our carbon emissions in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. And that's why, last year, I set a new target. America will reduce our emissions 26 percent to 28 percent below 2005 levels within 10 years from now. So our task here in Paris is to turn these achievements into an enduring framework for human progress. Not a stopgap solution, but a long-term strategy that gives the world confidence in a low-carbon future. Here, in Paris, let's secure an agreement that builds in ambition, where progress paves the way for regularly updated targets. Targets that are not set for each of us but by each of us, taking into account the differences that each nation is facing.", "All right. And there you have what's going to be the main message from President Obama of the United States, that progress can be made. But then you heard that last phrase there which is the critical part of finding consensus, finding a balance with the individual needs of each of the nations. That's the trick here at COP21, how do you create progress across the board? How do you find each country's middle ground of economic progress and responsibility for the environment? Alisyn, I just want to give you some of the headlines, for those are tuning in right now. President Obama calling COP21 an act of defiance because of the attacks that just happened here a couple of weeks ago in and around paris, that having this conference shows that the people of goodwill will not be deterred in their desire to make the world a better place. And obviously as headline as the world is hot, that this 2 degree celsius increase in temperature is a critical standard, since 1980 you've had the world, most scientists will tell you, heat up and maybe by as much as 0.85 of a degree. So you're getting close to 2 degrees already. But the president's message is that change in is in reach. He quoted a U.S. governor saying this generation is the first to feel the effects of global warming and the last generation who can do something about it. He also said that the United States is going to set a new goal for emissions reductions because we're ahead of schedule. So those are big themes but the big question is, Alisyn, how do they get consensus and does everything stay safe here for the duration of the summit?", "Absolutely. You've given us a lot of material to work with, Chris, so will be back with you shortly because we do want to get analysis from our CNN political commentator and political anchor of Time Warner Cable News, Errol Louis, also CNN political analyst and political campaign correspondent for the New York Times, Maggie Haberman. Great to see you guys, hope you had a great Holliday.", "Good morning. Good morning.", "So everything, let's just -- everything is happening in Paris, against the presidential race, back here at home. The Republicans don't agree, necessarily with President Obama that climate change is as big of a threat and that it is human cause. So how much hate for Republicans over campaign to make of what (ph) President Obama is saying in Paris.", "Well, that there are the candidates who will going to just sort of dismiss the facts out of hand and say that, \"I don't accept the premise of the entire summit.\" And so, they'll write themselves out of the conversation. Among the others though, that there are some important questions like the Keystone XL pipeline that the Republicans have all sort of said, \"I promise to sort of reawaken that conversation. I promise to do what I can to get fossil fuel out of the ground and into the economy. This is going to be sort of an important question for both Democrats and the Republicans to sort of come up with. If it becomes a major campaign issue, it will be part of not just the president's legacy but also a part of the next election.", "Does this event make it higher up on the totem poll of campaign issues?", "I think there's no question although I don't think at least in the short-term for the Republican primary are going to see a trump terrorism as Chris just said. That's really what you're seeing undermines of a lot of people when it comes to Paris right now. But I think Errol is right, that I think (inaudible), if they're -- an accord is reached, it is going to have sweeping implications for what comes next in terms of the person who replaces President Obama. You were going to see a lot more from Republicans. You actually have heard the Democrats talking about climate change quite a bit, most notably, Bernie Sanders. I think this is going to rise, especially in a general election for right now as the Republican primary is playing out, I think it will remain a secondary issue.", "Let's talk about what happened over the weekend. All of the -- many of the candidates were on the Sunday shows. And Donald trump once again repeated his seemingly specious claim that there were thousands of extremists celebrating in New Jersey as the twin towers were falling. Here's what he said on \"Meet the Press.\"", "I've had hundreds of people call in and tweet in, on Twitter, saying that they saw it and I was 100 percent right. Now, the Washington Post also wrote about tailgate parties. We're looking for other articles and we're looking for other clips. And I wouldn't be surprised if we found them, Chuck. But for some reason they're not that easy to come by. I saw it. So many people saw it, Chuck, and so why would I take it back? I'm not going to take it back.", "Maggie, for some reason, the photographic evidence of this is not that easy to come by.", "For some reason these clips claiming these events that other people can't seem to remember aren't that easy to come by. The way that he has been citing my colleague Serge Kovaleski story from when Serge was at the Washington Post, September 18th, 2001, is not accurate."], "speaker": ["PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, UNITED STATES AMERICA", "COUMO", "CAMEROTA", "ERROL LOUIS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AND POLITICAL ANCHOR OF TIME WARNER CABLE NEWS", "CAMEROTA", "LOUIS", "CAMEROTA", "MAGGIE HABERMAN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST AND POLITICAL CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES", "CAMEROTA", "DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CAMEROTA", "HABERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-247114", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2015-01-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/14/es.01.html", "summary": "New Charlie Hebdo Hits the Street; Police Trace French Terror Networks; U.S. Airport Security Tightened", "utt": ["New terror threats and heightened security across France as the new controversial issue of \"Charlie Hebdo\" hits newsstands. This morning, fears of new attacks as investigators try to track down the terror network that may have helped the gunmen in last week's massacre. We are live in Paris with all of the latest developments. Good morning and welcome to EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans.", "And I'm John Berman. It is Wednesday, January 14th. It is 4:00 a.m. in the East. We want to welcome all of our viewers in the United States and around the world. It's 10:00 a.m. here in Paris. Defiance and new threats of violence in response as a new issue of \"Charlie Hebdo\" hits the streets here in Paris this morning. We have seen people walking around with it already. The cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad is on the cover and, of course, is considered by many Muslims to be offensive. Jihadist Web sites are calling for more terror attacks in response. Police are seeking out suspects that they believe are connected to the massacres last week at \"Charlie Hebdo\" behind me and also at the kosher market here in Paris. One man was arrested in Bulgaria's border, along Bulgaria's border with Turkey. That man is expected to be charged in connection with some kind of terrorist activity and most importantly this man arrested in Bulgaria is believed to have known at least one of the suspects. New evidence is now coming to public view. We have new video now of the moments that followed the attack on \"Charlie Hebdo\", the Kouachi brothers outside the offices of that satirical magazine. They say they have avenged the Prophet Muhammad. You can see them eerily calm, so calculated as they get into their car and drive off, confronting police with automatic weapons. All this as attacks against Muslims here in France seem to be rising. A prominent French Muslim group says that there had been more than 50 violent anti-Muslim acts in just the last week. I want to talk about all this. Joining me here in Paris, our senior international correspondent, Frederik Pleitgen. Fred, you see the lines at the kiosks all around the city to buy \"Charlie Hebdo\", but you also hear new concern that this could cause tensions.", "Certainly. I mean, there's absolutely concerns here, not just for tensions, but there could be renewed attacks again. One of the things that the French prime minister said yesterday is he said, we have to understand that this threat is still very real. It's coming from the inside, but it's also from within our countries. And you can see that early this morning, because not only did you see the lines at the kiosks, and it was really everyone that you go to, there's people lining up trying to get this magazine, in most cases, it's sold out. You see additional police boats on the river here. You see additional troops in the streets here. A lot more than we have seen in the past couple days. At the same time, right now, what France is, of course, doing is in a sort of internal troop buildup, if you will. They have announced they are going to put 10,000 additional troops on the streets. They're going to put additional security forces on the street. Some of them to guard Jewish institutions, but all of that is happening right now. So, as every day goes by, they're going to have more of these soldiers on the streets, they're going to have more security in play. But, of course, this day is very, very important. And they are well aware of the fact that many people are angry at this. That this is obviously the first time the magazine comes out since these horrific events here. And that puts them on heightened alert. You can feel that on the streets, you can feel with the security forces, and it's also something that officials are telling us about.", "No, it's a good point. We definitely saw more security on the streets than we have seen in the last few days. A lot of that is because the people they called up to staff up are finally, I think, ready to go, that happened last night. But a lot of it also in response --", "They are more heavily armed. I think that's also -- because if you're in Paris, you very often see security forces at places like the Eiffel Tower as well, but they will have little submachines, they'll have pistols. But now, they have these high powered rifles. You can tell they are preparing for a different threat than they were before. Remember, you're watching that video, and the police were just absolutely overpowered. And I think that's something that really scares the security forces here.", "And now you see, even traffic cops wearing bullet proof vests, which is something you never saw before. Frederik Pleitgen, great to have you here with us. Really appreciate it. I want to talk now about the investigation, who might have been helping the men behind these pair of attacks here in Paris. Investigators working furiously to connect the plots here to perhaps greater networks that might still be out it there. The question is: are there still members of a cell or cells, people who might be on the loose? Police still seeking Hayat Boumeddiene. She is the partner of one of the men killed last week, Amedy Coulibaly. She was reportedly last seen near Turkey's border with Syria. Investigators also looking for her companion in the surveillance video that captured her at a Turkish airport, a man now identified as Mahdi Belhoucine. Another suspect, another man was arrested Tuesday on the border between Bulgaria and Turkey. Officials say Fritz-Joly Joachin will face terror charges -- could face terror charges. Also, he's wanted in connection with kidnapping his son. They believe he was on his way to Syria. Agence France Presse says that this man had been in contact with one of the Kouachi brothers before his arrest in Bulgaria on January 1st. The money trail, investigators are tracing the weapons and the funds used in the attacks here. Officials say this huge stockpile of weapons and the money used to buy them perhaps came from abroad. CBS News is reporting that Kouachi brothers returned from Yemen in 2011 with $20,000 from the al Qaeda affiliate there. That is the same year intelligence sources tell CNN that Cherif Kouachi used his brother Said's passport to travel to Yemen himself. A lot of threads in the investigation. I want to bring in CNN's Isa Soares right now. She is in the Paris bureau. Good morning, Isa.", "Good morning, John. Yes, the pieces of the jigsaw slowly coming together. As they come together, it paints a more -- even more confusing picture. Just shows you how wide this net perhaps is and how many people they should really be looking at. Let me break it to you. Let tell you what we have learned in the last few hours. About five hours or so ago, we have heard from -- CNN sources have learned that the youngest of the brothers, Cherif Kouachi, the 32-year-old used his brother's passport to travel to Yemen. That was back in 2011. They have always said those two brothers. They have also pledged allegiance to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. So that's what we have learned. Why did he take the passport? Because his passport had been revoked back in 2008, because you remember he had three years in prison and he was basically accused of recruitment, of jihadist recruitment. So, this is what we're hearing on that front. That's not to say that both of them weren't in Yemen. So, that is the part of the investigation that we are hearing. Along with that puzzle, also another piece that's come in to the jigsaw is the new face in what is becoming a very complex case. Agence France Press has said that they have arrested a Frenchman with alleged links to one of the Kouachi brothers. Now, this man left Paris. He arrived in Bulgaria on the 30th of December, weeks before the attacks were carried out here. That is not to say, he didn't have some sort of involvement, whether that was planning, whether that was funding, we do not know. There was an arrest warrant for him first because his wife, there are allegations that he took his son from his wife. The second one now we're hearing that he is charges of terrorism. We have heard recently that he was radicalized and converted to Islam some 15 years or so ago. But all these pieces are coming together. Also learning more about Hayat Boumeddiene and also the man that was with her as she left Turkey by", "And you can expect I think to bring in more people for questioning as they trace all the contacts of the Kouachi brothers and Amedy Coulibaly had had over the last weeks and months as well. Isa Soares, thanks so much for being with us. Really appreciate it. Now, all morning, we have been walking around Paris visiting newsstands trying to get our hands on a copy of the new \"Charlie Hebdo\" issue that did hit the newsstands this morning. They were said to have printed some 3 million copies, that's 50 times the normal press run. However, as far as we can tell, they are almost all sold out. None of the newsstands we visited seem to have any copies available. The surviving staffers, as you can see here, they put out the new issue. It does have a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed on the cover and CNN is not showing it. We have told you that before. On the cover, Muhammad has a tear in his eye. He's wearing a shirt that says \"Je Suis Charlie\", means \"I am Charlie.\" And above him, it says, \"Tout est pardonne\", all is forgiven. There was a news conference I attended yesterday at the office where the \"Charlie Hebdo\" surviving workers are. And the cartoonists who drew the cover, Renald Luzier, Luz as he's known, he defended the cover. He said it just felt right. CNN's Phil Black is at a newsstand here in Paris. And, Phil, we were at some newsstands ourselves. They were packed and as far as we can tell, there weren't many available copies of that magazine around anywhere.", "Yes, John, that's right. We saw crowds around the newsstands here before they opened. And once they did open, most of those people were disappointed. The newsstand operators said they received pretty limited deliveries of this edition, less than 100. And most of those have gone to people who were forward thinking enough to actually reserve them in advance. The rest of the crowds, the people have been coming up here in constant waves asking for a copy had been disappointed. But they say are determined, they say they will keep coming back over the coming days until they do get a copy. It's likely they will. As you say, millions of copies are being printed this week. The newsstand operator says they are expecting further deliveries every day. And the people that are coming here saying it's important and they believe it's important to get their hands on a copy of this week's \"Charlie Hebdo\" because they believe it is a symbol. And we're hearing from people who say they don't normally read the publication, don't even necessarily like or approve of its cartoons and comments and so forth. But for the staff who put this together, they say it is really a miracle. And you can understand why limited time, extraordinary circumstances, emotionally, logistically, but they say they were driven and determined to put together an issue of the publication just like any other. Not a special edition, but one that features the work of all the staff, including those who were killed, who were gunned gown last week. And there is, of course, the cover, which you have mentioned. The staff described it as an image of a good man crying, but, of course, that good man as they described, it is the Prophet Muhammad. It is a controversial choice, one that does risk offending many Muslims, who believe that any depiction of the prophet is against -- is offensive to them. But for the staff, they believe it was the right choice, but very much an emotional journey coming up with that image. Listen to them now describing the process by which they came up with this image and decided that it was the right choice.", "Then there was nothing else but that, this idea of drawing Muhammad, I am Charlie. And I looked at him, he was crying. And over it I wrote, \"All is forgiven.\" And I cried. And it was the front page.", "Phil, I was at that news conference yesterday. It was very emotional. The cartoonist Luz, as he said, he focused on the tear in Mohammed's eye more than anything else on that cover. It was very interesting. And also, it should be noted, Luz, that cartoonist is only alive because he showed up late to work here one week ago and was not in the room when the attack happened. Our Phil Black at the newsstand here in Paris -- our thanks to you, Phil. Let's go back to Christine in New York.", "All right. Thank you, John, for that in Paris this morning. Here in the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security announcing it has stepped up security at some U.S. airports. Now, this announcement came this week, but the measures we're told are not related to the Paris attacks. Instead they were rolled out three weeks ago in response to a disturbing new article in the al Qaeda magazine \"Inspire.\" Our justice correspondent Pamela Brown is in Washington with details.", "Well, Christine, amid renewed concerns over Westerners making hard-to-detect bombs, the Department of Homeland Security recently announced it is ramping up security measures at some U.S. airports. And according to a government official, these enhanced measures include random passenger pat-downs, as well as luggage searches and hand swabs where they look for any type of explosive device at the gate once the passenger is already through security. Now, this move in part is in reaction to a recent article published by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which describes a new recipe in how to make homemade bombs with simply household products. It has long been a concern among U.S. officials that AQAP is targeting aviation and concocting non-metallic IEDs, that are only detectable by full body scanners. It's a technology that is not always available, though, at smaller airports and that is, we're being told by a government official, the reason for the stepped up measures -- Christine.", "All right. Pamela Brown in Washington. We'll be following the latest on the Paris terror attack all morning long. But, first, new developments in the search for AirAsia Flight 8501. Investigators have downloaded audio from the plane's voice recorder. They are now listening to it. We're live after the break."], "speaker": ["CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "PLEITGEN", "BERMAN", "ISA SOARES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "RENALD \"LUZ\" LUZIER, CHARLIE HEBDO CARTOONIST (through translator)", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-292834", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-08-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/31/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Aerial Census of African Elephants Shows Severe Decline", "utt": ["For decades the population of African elephants has been largely guesswork. Beginning around 2007, a large upswing in poaching of illegal ivory, driven by demand in China, hammered the most common Savannah elephant species. But until now nobody knew just how bad it was. I want to warn you, some of the pictures you are about to see are extremely disturbing. CNN's David McKenzie has our exclusive report from Botswana.", "Getting ready to fly in Botswana's far North. Elephant Ecologist, Mike Chase has spent years counting Savannah elephants from the sky.", "Never before have we ever conducted a standardized survey for African elephants at a continental scale.", "All right, start counting. I see my side more than 20 (ph).", "Hundreds of air crew counted elephants in 18 countries across the continent over two years.", "Elephants seven. Seven elephants, right? (ph)", "Flying the distance to the moon and then some. Their results more shocking than anyone imagined.", "We've spent thousands of hours of counting. Flying over areas where elephants historically occurred (ph) but are no longer present in these habitats.", "Killed for their ivory, in seven short years up to 2014, elephant numbers dropped by a staggering amount, almost one-third. Across Africa their numbers are crashing. If nothing changes, the elephant population will halve in less than a decade. In some areas they will go extinct.", "Some landscapes we saw both dead elephants and live elephants.", "It seems like there's a disturbing uptake in the poaching on the borders of Botswana and Namibia. And this bull was killed, it seems, just a few days ago, even.", "Three days.", "Three days max. And you can smell it all the way from here.", "Wow, he was spectacular.", "Look how big he was, it's awful.", "In fact, not even three days. And there you have a clear evidence with his face hacked away like that. That he met his end with people chopping away at his tusks.", "And you've grown up in this country, you are from Botswana. What is it like to see these magnificent beasts killed like this?", "I don't think anybody in the world has seen the number of dead elephants that I've seen over the last two years of the great elephant census. And for me this becomes a lot more personal.", "We will continue to check point two.", "To fight the war, Botswana has mobilized the army. With more than 700 troops guarding its Northern border. Patrols spend days in the bush on foot, armed with a shoot to kill policy for poachers. They're up against a sophisticated enemy.", "So they're looking for any sign of poachers. If they come across them they're often highly organized groups of about 12 people. Two of them could be shooters, often. And those shooters are frequently foreign special forces.", "Mike Chase's research proves that if we can't protect elephants they will learn to protect themselves.", "They can hear him snoring ...", "Uh-huh, yeah.", "Is it a he or she?", "He. He's in his prime, about 30 to 35 years of age. And it's these young bulls that have the propensity to move dramatic distances and map (ph) their transboundary conservation corridors.", "But they're satellite tracking shows that the elephants use incredible levels of intelligence to avoid poaching hotspots in neighboring countries. Retreating to the relative safety within Botswana.", "It's quite incredible being this close to this animal.", "It is. It certainly is.", "We called this bull \"Promise,\" for the promise that Mike Chase has made, and perhaps we all should, to save this magnificent species.", "Our thanks to David McKenzie for that report. Still to come in the Newsroom, the long forbidden island now much less of a mystery. History made today as passenger flights between the United States and Cuba return to the skies."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MIKE CHASE, ELEPHANT ECOLOGIST", "CHASE", "MCKENZIE (voice-over)", "CHASE", "MCKENZIE (voice-over)", "CHASE", "MCKENZIE (voice-over)", "CHASE", "MCKENZIE", "CHASE", "MCKENZIE", "CHASE", "MCKENZIE", "CHASE", "MCKENZIE", "CHASE", "UNKNOWN SOLDIER", "MCKENZIE (voice-over)", "MCKENZIE", "MCKENZIE (voice-over)", "MCKENZIE", "CHASE", "MCKENZIE", "CHASE", "MCKENZIE (voice-over)", "MCKENZIE", "CHASE", "MCKENZIE (voice-over)", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-25551", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2001-2-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/12/mn.02.html", "summary": "Important Studies on Human Genetic Code Due out Today", "utt": ["Now to this morning's other big science story: the latest breakthrough in decoding the human genome. Scientists are publishing two studies today that provide the first look at the human genetic code. Cracking the genetic code could lead to future advancements in finding the causes and possible cures for various diseases. CNN science correspondent Ann Kellan explains where scientists are now and where they may be headed.", "This is a detailed map of our genome. The lines represent billions of chemical letters, or DNA, contained in every one of our cells. About 1 percent of these letters are genes that dictate how our bodies grow and function while the rest, scientists suspect, are mostly leftovers from our past.", "We clean out the attic so rarely in our DNA, and it's great because it means the DNA is a history book.", "Two separate groups have been in a race to crack the human code. Last June, both announced they had completed rough drafts. Now both versions are getting the endorsement of the scientific community. A private company, Celera Genomics, is publishing its genome in \"Science.\" A public international effort led by the United States government is publishing in the British journal \"Nature.\" Both sequences are still incomplete and differ slightly from each other, but overall the findings are similar. Now scientists will start to figure out what this massive map means. Already they find we don't have as many genes as we once thought. Genes determine everything from the color of our eyes, our skin color, to how well we fight disease. We have about 30,000, approximately the same as a dog.", "We have essentially the same components as all other mammals. My dog or, you know, cats, mice, rats, people all share basically the same building set.", "And the differences between one person and another, genetically speaking, is tiny. Knowing the genetic landscape will make it easier for scientists to study what each gene does and how they instruct cells to make key proteins. Those proteins perform basic human functions that keep us alive. A slight variation in the genetic code could predispose a person to disease.", "I think it means that we'll now be able to try to track down the actual causes of disease. What most folks don't realize is that we don't really know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes, of hypertension.", "It's unclear how long that process will take. Most experts agree we won't see the true payoff for at least 20 and maybe 100 years.", "All right, Ann: 100 years -- why now why will it take so long to make major breakthroughs?", "Well, this is the genetic code, so this is just the code in our nucleus of all the cells that tell the rest of the cell what to do. So now that we have the code and we know where the code is -- and that has been a monumental undertaking -- we have to figure out what it does, we have to figure out when the genes are turned on and off and how they convince the rest of the cells to do the work it does to make us what we are. So it's a monumental undertaking. They've made major strides already, but there's a lot more work to do.", "What about short-term benefits?", "Short-term benefits, I think, we're seeing already. Because this code has been cracked -- has been slowly being cracked, and because of the public -- genome has been available to the public, researchers have taken advantage of it. And you see treatments and medicines and progress, but it is a slow -- its' a slow, steady process. And the fact that they now know where the genes are, that's the good news, because now they don't have to spend years finding them: They can go right to finding cures and treatments for disease. All right, Ann Kellan, thanks a lot."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "ANN KELLAN, CNN SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ERIC LANDER, WHITEHEAD CENTER FOR GENOME RESEARCH", "KELLAN", "CRAIG VENTER, CELERA GENOMICS", "KELLAN", "LANDER", "KELLAN", "PHILLIPS", "KELLAN", "PHILLIPS", "KELLAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-325132", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-11-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/02/nday.06.html", "summary": "Trump Vacillates on Terror Suspect; Trump Blasts Criminal Justice System; Trump on Russia Investigation.", "utt": ["President Trump commenting again on the terror attack in New York City amid concerns that he is politicizing the issue, and he is. But his latest tweets recognize that the facts don't support his furor. The idea that sending a terror suspect to Gitmo sounds good, sounds harsh, but it's also unrealistic. And he says that now. He uses that word. The president, though, also looks at the criminal justice system that he says should prosecute this man and calls it a joke and a laughingstock. President Trump, though, however, is saying at least the New York suspect should be tried here. He also says he should be executed, something prosecutors didn't want to hear because it can taint a jury. Joining us now is Republican Congressman Peter King of New York. Always good to see you, sir. You doing well?", "I'm doing fine, Chris. How about you?", "All right. Thank God. All good. Let me ask you this. These comments, the turnabout at least about Gitmo, you know the numbers. In no way I'm going to condescend to you about this. You know your facts. You know that the prosecutions are better off in our federal system. You know Gitmo is no expedient machine. Are you happy that the president turned around on that and is at least partially embracing the federal system?", "I am in this case (ph). Now, I'm not the person who's opposed to Guantanamo. I think in some cases, especially when a person is captured overseas --", "Sure.", "Where there's a certain (ph) advantage to go to Guantanamo as far as being able to get information without having to necessarily give all the rights that a person would have if they're a U.S. citizen or here actually in the U.S. itself. But, no, in this case I think that -- all it would do is delay it on and on. And I think, again, the southern district of New York is extremely efficient. The evidence is there. And, to me, it's the right thing to do and to go ahead. As far as, you know, talking about capital punishment, I understand why, as a human being from his gut, the president felt this way. But, again, I go back to the days of Richard Nixon where he called Charles Manson a murderer during the trial and almost caused a mistrial. Presidents have to realize that whatever they say can be used by the defense council to either cause a mistrial or to have the trial delayed.", "Now, we just had Speaker Ryan walk behind you and he is somebody who has been conspicuously quiet about what the president does. You, at least, have taken the opportunity to talk to us on camera. We appreciate that. So, let me ask you, do you believe that our justice system is a joke? You're a world traveler. Do people say it's a laughingstock?", "No, they don't. I would say, again, there's criticism here on both sides. When you have people from the left who talk about how it's so pro-police and it's anti-minority, people on the right who say that it's -- you know, it's a giveaway to terrorists. No. With all its faults, and we do have faults, it is by far the best legal system in the world. I haven't practiced law in many years, but I can tell you, the adversarial system and the judicial system, the jury system, it's a great check on power. And it's a -- it does protect peoples' rights, but it also gets the job done. And, again, on terrorist cases, certainly in New York, they've got excellent results. From the Chelsea (ph) bomber from last year, again, that's already gone to trial. So, no, this is -- we have the best system in the world.", "Right. So if he's wrong on the facts, and he is impugning the integrity of our justice system, shouldn't that be called out by other elected leaders?", "Well, listen, I basically support the president on some of his key issues. But I think on this it is important for me, as an American, as a member of Congress to say, you know, our imperfections in the legal system, I can disagree with Supreme Court decisions, I can disagree with decisions by prosecutors. I think sometime prosecutors go too far. Sometimes defense councils will too far. But, again, in the human system, it -- with all the imperfections we have as human beings the -- as your father, who served, would have said over the year (ph), this is the best system we could ever have. It allows for human imperfection. And it does its best to control it and to restrain it and to channel it toward justice.", "So, let me ask you something. We're looking at this Russia investigation You've seen the first indictments. The surprise, obviously, was Papadopoulos cutting a deal because he lied. We could put up a graphic, if we wanted to. You have, including family members, about have a dozen people who have materially mislead about meetings with Russians, with different degrees of severity to what that could mean to an investigator. We have them on the screen right now. In your estimation, does this have nothing to do with the campaign in light of what we've learned so far? Do you think that's a fair statement to say, this has nothing to do with the campaign?", "Well, the Manafort indictment has nothing to do with it. And, again, I'm on the Intelligence Committee. I have to watch how I say this because we're doing the investigation. I have seen no evidence yet indicating any collusion. You could have people saying misstatements", "Congressman King, thank you for taking the opportunity to talk about it with us.", "Thank you, Chris.", "It is not that common these days. You're always welcome here.", "Well, you know, us guys from Queens, it's the way we talk, you know.", "It's true. It's true. You're -- you got a better head of hair, but otherwise we're from the same place. You be well, sir.", "And you're better looking than your brother. So, there you go.", "Oh, that's a low bar, but true. But very true. All right.", "OK.", "There's a lot of news for you this morning. We're going to get after it. CNN \"NEWSROOM\" with John Berman, the stronger part of the team is sitting next to me, but he'll pick it up right after the break.", "You just like the brother", "Oh, absolutely."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "REP. PETER KING (R), NEW YORK", "CUOMO", "KING", "CUOMO", "KING", "CUOMO", "KING", "CUOMO", "KING", "CUOMO", "KING", "CUOMO", "KING", "CUOMO", "KING", "CUOMO", "KING", "CUOMO", "KING", "CUOMO", "HARLOW", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-5237", "program": "Sunday Morning News", "date": "2000-3-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/26/sm.08.html", "summary": "Hollywood Gears up For Oscar Night", "utt": ["The stars and the fans will be out in full force tonight in Hollywood. It's Oscar night. The fans hope to catch a glimpse of their favorite actors and the actors hope to grab the gold. CNN's Sherri Sylvester has this look at Oscar preparations.", "The image of Oscar preparations is not exactly picture perfect. First there were the ballots mailed in third class bags missing and presumed dead letters and then the 55 trophies stolen, all but three recovered in a dumpster. Add a chance of rain.", "We're not just planning for rain, we're planning for one of those rains of frogs this year. We think you'll need to watch out for anything because 2000 has certainly been a very strange year for us.", "It is all comic material for host Billy Crystal. Sometimes Oscar's best jokes come from unexpected places, so says writer Bruce Filanche (ph).", "And we wanted to see what people do that we can comment on and when something wonderful happens, we tear up the script and we write a new one as we go.", "Better prepare for the annual protesters. This year, pro-life teens are picketing \"The Cider House Rules.\" The best picture nominee deals with abortion. Some invited guests are here by unconventional means. Willie Fulgear, the man who found the Oscars, gets two tickets.", "They called me and asked me would I like to be on the show and I told them yes, I would love to.", "And Tyrine Manson (ph), the subject of a nominated documentary, has been in prison on a drug conviction. She was granted a weekend furlough to attend.", "All that I'm experiencing right now, it doesn't really make up for it. It's just like, it's just the next level.", "Back on the red carpet, the show goes on. Camera rehearsals require stand-ins for big stars and fans who were swept off the sidewalk earlier in the week can now line up for a chance to see their favorites arrive. Fans from around the world can view flowers from around the world. LARRY KRANE (ph),", "Ecuador and Costa Rica, Hawaii and Holland.", "Oscar florist Larry Krane is not worried about the rain, rather, the arranging.", "We have about 60,000 blooms here that we are working with because there's over 600 running feet of just flower boxes of potted plants on the red carpet.", "While he deals with floral patterns, Joe Groves (ph) is planning the traffic patterns.", "We'll get about 1,200 limos that night arriving all right over here on the red carpet. So we're unloading about 35 limos at a time and they're still backed up all the way, about a half mile to a mile down the street just trying to get here.", "The \"Wall Street Journal\" may be predicting the winners, but what else might happen is anybody's guess. Sherri Sylvester, CNN, Los Angeles."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "SHERRI SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BRUCE DAVIS, EXEC. DIR., A.M.P.A.S.", "SYLVESTER", "BRUCE FILANCHE, WRITER", "SYLVESTER", "WILLIE FULGEAR", "SYLVESTER", "TYRINE MANSON, \"ON THE ROPES\"", "SYLVESTER", "OSCARS FLORIST", "SYLVESTER", "KRANE", "SYLVESTER", "JOE GROVES, LIMO COORDINATOR", "SYLVESTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-124521", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2008-3-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0803/11/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Top U.S. Commander Resigns; Spitzer's Sex Scandal Leads to Question of Resignation; Primary Day Dust-Ups", "utt": ["Happening now, a surprise resignation over at the Pentagon with implications in Iraq. We're following the breaking news in Washington. Also, here in New York this hour, there's new evidence that the governor, Eliot Spitzer, may be preparing to step down. A stunning prostitution scandal still unfolding. We're following all the latest political and legal consequences. Plus, on this primary day in Mississippi, a new jolt of racial tension in the Clinton/Obama contest. A top Clinton surrogate drawing a controversial connection between Obama's race and his candidacy. And John McCain on the defensive. Some Democrats asking this question: Should taxpayers foot the bill for him to go overseas and look the part of commander in chief? I'm Wolf Blitzer at the CNN Election Center. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. The polls close in Mississippi four hours from now. And every Primary Day is important in this still undecided Democratic presidential race. We're going to have the latest on the campaign shortly. But first, the breaking news out of the Pentagon. Another stunner. The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East resigns after just a year on the job. That would be Admiral William Fallon. Let's go straight to our senior Pentagon correspondent, Jamie McIntyre. He's watching the story for us, Jamie, what exactly is going on? No one expected this.", "Wolf, it's a real bombshell. And what it turns out is that an article in \"Esquire\" magazine that portrayed Admiral William Fallon as the last man standing between the Bush administration and war with Iran has ended the military career of that top commander. Admiral Fallon, concerned that the -- what he believed was a misrepresentation that he was at odds with President Bush created by that magazine article announced that he will step down as the commander of the Central Command. And today, Defense Secretary Gates accepted that resignation. Here's what Fallon said in part in his statement. He said, \"Recent press reports suggesting a disconnect between my views and the president's policy objectives have become a distraction at a critical time. And although I don't believe there have been any differences, the simple perception that there is makes it difficult for me to effectively serve.\" Today Secretary Gates said he believes that that is a misperception. Nevertheless, at a Pentagon press conference just a short time ago, he said Admiral Fallon is making the right decision.", "I think it's the right decision. As I say, the notion that this decision portends anything in terms of a change in Iran policy is, to quote myself, ridiculous.", "Ridiculous it may be, but that is the perception that was created by that \"Esquire\" magazine article, and now may be reinforced by the fact that many will believe that Admiral Fallon has been forced to step aside. Here's in part a little bit about what that \"Esquire\" article said. \"How does Fallon,\" said Thomas Barnett, who wrote this article, \"with so brazenly challenging his commander in chief? The answer is that he might not get away with it for much longer. President Bush is not accustomed to a subordinate who speaks his mind as freely as Fallon does, and the president may have had enough.\" Now, again, the Pentagon disputes that there's any problem between Fallon and the president, or that the president was ready to get rid of him. But they say the perception created by the article is what prompted Fallon to step down. But again, no one told him he should stay. And the very fact that he's resigned, Wolf, is simply going to make this look like a self-fulfilling prophecy.", "Jamie McIntyre, I know you're staying on top of the story. We're going to come back to you. Thanks very much. A real bombshell over at the Pentagon today. Let's get to the other breaking news this hour. The New York governor, Eliot Spitzer, clearly feeling the pressure to resign a day after his bombshell news linking him to a prostitution ring. The New York Democrat is said to be weighing his options and bracing for what could be happening next. Mary Snow has been covering the story from the start. What's the latest, Mary?", "Wolf, you know, talking to Democrats in New York State, the question now does not seem to be if Eliot Spitzer will step down, but when.", "There was no sign of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer one day after federal prosecutors linked him to a high end prostitution ring. The governor's spokeswoman would only say Spitzer was at his Manhattan apartment with his family. But in the state's capital of Albany, a legislative aide tells CNN transition talks were under way between Spitzer's staff and aides to Lieutenant Governor David Paterson. And a top state Republican lawmaker says if Spitzer doesn't step down voluntarily, he'll begin impeachment proceedings.", "We're waiting for the governor to do the right thing. We think and we hope he will. If not, it's within 24 to 48 hours. We're developing the paperwork right now, putting the resolution together, and then we're going to make that request within the next two days if he does not resign himself so we can go forward.", "Spitzer admitted nothing specific when he publicly apologized Monday.", "I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and that violates my or any sense of right and wrong.", "Federal investigators have linked Spitzer to a prostitution ring that initially resulted in four arrests last week described in a federal affidavit. Sources tell CNN the link was the result of a money laundering probe after a bank initially filed a suspicious movement report with the IRS. Spitzer has begun putting together a legal team, which had no public comment. But one former New York City prosecutor says Spitzer's lawyers are most likely trying to negotiate with federal prosecutors.", "The last poker chip that Eliot Spitzer has is the governorship. And he's hoping that prosecutors will be willing to allow him to resign and accept that resignation as punishment for the criminal charges.", "Now, that assessment coming from a former U.S. prosecutor. As for what's happening exactly, we still don't know. I just checked in with the governor's office, Wolf. A spokeswoman saying there's nothing new to report. But, you know, talking to some of the lawmakers in Albany, they are truly calling this a crisis and saying this, of course, the only thing anyone is talking about.", "The biggest political scandal in New York State in a long, long time. All right, Mary. Thanks very much. I know you're working the story as well. Just ahead I'll be speaking live with the New York assembly minority leader, Jim Tedisco, about his call for Eliot Spitzer to step down. That's coming up. Now to the Democratic race -- presidential contest. Barack Obama is hoping to win today's Mississippi primary and put the brakes on Hillary Clinton's renewed momentum. Their contest is playing out right now on several fronts, and racial politics unfortunately right back in the mix. Let's go to Suzanne Malveaux. She's in Pennsylvania watching this story for us. They're once again looking at beyond Mississippi today, looking towards Pennsylvania, Suzanne, and even beyond that. What's the latest?", "Well, Wolf, it's really telling that both of the candidates are already in Pennsylvania. You've got those 158 delegates at stake. And six weeks to campaign, but they're not wasting any time at all. These campaigns also today, Wolf, embroiled in a controversy that once again puts Barack Obama's race front and center.", "Mississippi voters are going to the polls today to weigh in on the fierce political fight between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Senator Obama, the odds-on favorite, campaigned in Greenville, Mississippi, where he stopped at a diner for eggs and grits.", "I know everybody is going to be either already voted or on their way to vote.", "Senator Clinton has already moved on to Pennsylvania, where she's hanging her hopes on their April 22nd primary, six weeks away. She is playing up her hometown advantage, reminding voters her family of Rodhams have deep roots here.", "And my brother was there and actually was on the team. So it's now up to the voters here. And you have to a choice to make. And I believe that choice comes down to who offers the solutions we need for the problems we face in America.", "The Clinton campaign is facing pointed criticism from the Obama camp today after controversial comments were published in a California publication \"The Daily Breeze\" by Clinton fundraiser and financial adviser, and former vice presidential nominee, Geraldine Ferraro. In an interview, Ferraro said, \"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if was a woman, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.\" Obama senior policy adviser Susan Rice immediately called for Hillary Clinton to repudiate Ferraro's remarks. Obama supporter Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky followed up with a conference call with reporters. She said the suggestion that Obama was getting preferential treatment because of his race was out of line. Clinton's communication's director, Howard Wolfson, said the campaign did not agree with Ferraro's statements.", "And wolf, late in the day Senator Clinton was asked directly about Ferraro's comments, and she said this to the ABC affiliate, WHTM -- she said, \"I don't agree with that, and I think it's important we stay focused on the issues that matter to the American people. Both of us have had supporters and staff that have gone over the line, and we both have had to reign them in.\" So, Wolf, obviously repudiating those comments by Geraldine Ferraro. This comes after last week, Obama's national foreign policy adviser, Samantha Power, calling Hillary Clinton a monster, left that campaign -- Wolf.", "Suzanne Malveaux in Pennsylvania for us already. Thanks, Suzanne. And remember, this is the place to be for up-to-the-minute coverage of the Mississippi primary results. Tonight I'll be here, along with the best political team on television, throughout the night. We're going to bring you the first results when the polls close in Mississippi at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. Stay tuned for that. Jack Cafferty is here in THE SITUATION ROOM with \"The Cafferty File\" -- Jack.", "You expect this is going to be a long night tonight, do you?", "Probably not.", "No.", "But it's always interesting. If you love politics, you want to know what's going on. And we're the place.", "Well, and we'll know by 8:01 probably?", "Maybe. Maybe.", "The race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama now looks like it could go on for months, and it's becoming increasingly bitter. \"The Wall Street Journal\" reporting groups that for months have energized the Democratic campaign, like blacks, women, young voters, are increasingly sniping at each other now. They point out more Republicans now say they're satisfied with John McCain than Democrats are with either Clinton or Obama. This is a big change from January, when many more Democrats were satisfied with their choices. Some Democratic activists insist this is normal. And after the convention we will all come together and sing \"Kumbaya\" and go to a big campfire together and cook marshmallows and live happily ever after. Not everybody's convinced that's going to happen. Donna Brazile, who appears frequently on this program, is a Democratic strategist, says this, \"I'm fearful we're headed into uncharted territory.\" She adds, \"The mood and tone of the campaign have shifted in the last few weeks.\" For example, black talk radio shows are now getting callers who say they will stay home in November if Hillary Clinton wins the nomination. When it comes to women, some Clinton supporters say if Obama gets the nomination, they'll vote for McCain instead. And as for that youth vote that Obama has mobilized in record numbers this primary season, some Clinton backers worry that they wouldn't turn out in the same numbers for her in a general election. Probably right. Here's the question: If the Democratic candidate you support doesn't win the nomination, for whom would you vote in the general election? Go to CNN.com/caffertyfile. You can post a comment on my blog. Very loyal followings, both these Democratic candidates. And a lot of people on one side or the other are going to be disappointed.", "And the question will be, can they unify?", "And then what do they do? Yes.", "Can they get together with that, you know -- I hate to even use that expression anymore, the dream ticket? But I wouldn't rule it out.", "It would be a nightmare.", "Jack, good question. That's very much. It's the question of the day -- that's another question, not Jack's question. This is the question: What was Eliot Spitzer thinking?", "What we see happening here is a Greek tragedy. Yes, it's arrogance. He's a very smart guy. But I think that there is a screw loose.", "Up next, the former New York mayor, Ed Koch, has plenty to say about the Spitzer scandal. Also coming up, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton facing off in Mississippi. We're standing by for the first exit poll information to get a sense of what voters down there are thinking. And in our \"Strategy Session,\" the former vice presidential nominee, Geraldine Ferraro, pegs Obama's campaign success to his race. Donna Brazile and Leslie Sanchez, they're read to discuss that and a lot more. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN SR. PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "ROBERT GATES, DEFENSE SECRETARY", "MCINTYRE", "BLITZER", "MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SNOW (voice over)", "JIM TEDISCO (R), NEW YORK ASSEMBLY MINORITY LEADER", "SNOW", "GOV. ELIOT SPITZER (D), NEW YORK", "SNOW", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SNOW", "BLITZER", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX", "SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MALVEAUX", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-148169", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2010-2-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1002/17/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Tiger Woods to Go Public; Britney Spears` Million-Dollar Secrets", "utt": ["Now, on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, breaking Tiger Woods news. Tiger is about to finally break his silence speaking out for the very first time since his car wreck and sex scandal. Plus, big news about Tiger`s wife Elin. Will she stay or go? Sarah Palin`s blistering attack \"on Family Guy.\" Palin`s explosive new interview today after the Fox show used her son with Down Syndrome as a punch line. Plus, the creator responds. Also, stunning Jon and Kate news breaking late today. Could \"Jon and Kate Plus 8\" end up back on TV? Plus, more stories breaking today from the \"SHOWBIZ News Ticker.\"", "TV`s most provocative entertainment news show continues right now.", "Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. It is 30 minutes past the hour. I`m A.J. Hammer, broadcasting tonight and every night from New York City.", "And I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood. We`ve got big news breaking today. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you Tiger Woods will finally break his silence.", "Finally broke late today. Tiger`s agent dropped a huge bombshell that Tiger does plan to speak to apologize. It is just one spectacular news story making big news today. Tiger Woods will break his silence on Friday morning. Now, this will be the first time that we have seen him since more than 14 alleged mistresses stepped forward, making all sorts of lurid claims. What in the world is Tiger going to say? Are people ready to forgive him? Plus, we have brand-new insight into his painful marriage to Elin Nordegren. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT obtained today an advance copy of the new issue of the upcoming new issue of \"People\" magazine. Incredible details in here about Tiger`s wife, Elin, and her personal pain. She faces the ultimate question now, will she keep Tiger or will she dump him? Joining me tonight in New York is Megan Alexander who is a correspondent for \"Inside Edition.\" Also tonight in New York, David Caplan, who is a senior editor with \"People\" magazine. We begin with this big breaking news that came out late that Tiger Woods is holding this televised meeting. Now, it`s a meeting, not exactly a press conference. It`s going to happen on Friday. He`ll be speaking with his friends and colleagues. And this is for the very first time since the whole mess broke right around Thanksgiving. Now, Tiger`s agent says this meeting will be to discuss his past and future and he intends to apologize for his behavior. Now, his agent does say that Tiger feels it is time to make amends publicly. And Megan, I`ve got to tell you, I think this is exactly the right move. Keep it small. Keep it controlled. But what has been it been? Almost three months now. Is it too little, too late?", "No, I don`t think it is. I think, actually, it could perhaps be a good sign he has waited this long, A.J., and that he`s really thinking things through. We talked about this before. You know, this is not going to be a quick fix by any means. I think people are going to be looking at his behavior Friday. I want to say it`s possibly not so much what he says, but how he says it.", "Yes.", "Is he sincere? He really will be essentially addressing two audiences. Two, A.J. Of course, the first audience is his fans, the tons of people around the world that want to hear what he has to say. But the second audience is his family. It will be interesting, you know, Tiger Woods notoriously private until the scandals broke. Didn`t tell us much about his family. But now, he really needs to.", "Yes.", "What will he say? Will he keep short and sweet or talk a lot?", "Now, it`s not just about apologizing for his baker`s dozen of mistresses either. The PGA tournament is right around the corner. So I`d have to imagine he is going to be announcing that he`ll be competing. That is all the speculation of course. What do you think, David? Is the world ready to forgive Tiger Woods and accept him, once again, as the world`s greatest golfer? I, for one, think we`re actually going to see a surprising wave of sympathy for Tiger Woods.", "Yes, I think people are ready, you know, to accept his apology, to really get over it because they want him to come back for what he was known for and why we love him so much, as a golf star. And really, in the new issue of \"People,\" we expect him to come back, actually, for masters in April.", "Megan mentioned he`s going to be addressing his family though. We`re really paying close attention to what he has to say. And of course, it`s not just the public persona that`s under fire tonight. A lot happens to be going on with Tiger privately right now as he and his wife, Elin, tried to work things out. . It`s unbelievable to me that that it`s even possible. But \"People\" magazine reporting today in their upcoming new issue that Elin is still very angry at Tiger. But all the cards are in her hands while she decides whether they are going to stay together and build back trust again. Megan, I`ve got to wonder, given how much Elin really is in control of Tiger`s world right now, how much of a role do you think she had in orchestrating what`s about to happen on Friday?", "You know what the big question is? Will she be standing next to him? That`s what I`m curious about.", "That would be a big message, yes.", "Yes. Who knows if she`ll even be there? She has been very quiet through all this as well. I don`t think we`ve ever got a sense of where she is. You know, there were rumors that they were getting a divorce. Then, she was visiting him in Mississippi where he was supposedly undergoing his rehab. I think it will be real interesting to see, again, a very private person herself. But, A.J., the most important thing is, so far, it does seem like there`s a chance that they may stay together.", "Yes. David Caplan, from \"People,\" Elin has taken a really tough stance with Tiger up until now, it seems and really kept her distance. The real question from what \"People\" magazine has learned, does it appear their marriage can, in fact, be saved?", "I mean, definitely marriage can be saved. Elin does want to try and work on the marriage. Like you said,", "Yes. Normalcy is still there under some extraordinary circumstances to be sure. All right. Let`s move on to some more big news breaking today, including Britney Spears` million dollar secrets and news about Alexander McQueen`s death.", "We miss you so badly. This is for Alexander McQueen", "Lady Gaga also thanked McQueen as she collected three awards at the show. Judge Judy rules -", "I think you have a problem.", "Brand-new ratings reveal Judge Judy will mark her 700th week in a row as TV`s top-rated court show on TV. That`s 13 years in a row. And the queen of the court isn`t slowing down. Her ratings are up over last year. Britney Spears` mysterious million-dollar secrets. Her attorneys are reportedly fighting to keep secret what they call critical information about Britney and her kids. TMZ has obtained legal papers showing lawyers for conservatorship are concerned personal and medical information about her and her kids will leak out and are asking the court to seal the information. They say the secrets could be worth million if someone got and sold the information.", "So the big buzz question tonight remains - and Megan, let me throw this one to you - what secret could Britney be so concerned about people discovering? Or is it just they don`t want any private information whatsoever, even if it`s not salacious, to get out there?", "Well, you know, I think - you think about the average person that goes to the extent of getting Lifelock or these different protections against their personal information. And then, a celebrity, who is under heavy scrutiny, times 10 - if you`re Britney Spears, times 100. I think their lawyers are being smart in just protecting her privacy and her children`s privacy with the Internet nowadays. Information can get out there so quickly. And A.J., we see the appetite that is out there for celebrity information and the people that are wanting to make a buck off of somebody`s life. So I think - no matter what the information is, I think the lawyers are being smart.", "No, you can`t blame them at all. And it`s so hard for me to believe this. But yesterday was actually the third anniversary of that terrible night when Britney Spears shaved her own head. It was a real low, very hard to forget. And let`s face it, props to her - she`s come a really long way since then. And if you want proof, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT got a first look today at these brand-new ads for Candie`s, Britney`s shot with the legendary photographer, Annie Leibovitz looking fantastic. Quickly, David Caplan. Wow, what a difference three years makes. How great is she doing?", "Yes, I know, it`s amazing, actually. The", "David Caplan, Megan Alexander, I thank you both so much. And you can grab your copy of \"People\" magazine on newsstands, Friday.", "I cannot believe Tiger finally is going to break his silence. Long time coming. And tonight, there`s somebody else who is refusing to remain quiet one second longer - Sarah Palin and her brand-new attack on \"Family Guy.\" Sarah`s explosive new interview out today after the Fox show used her son with Down Syndrome as a punch line. But for the very first time today, the creator of \"Family Guy\" responds. Also, breaking late today, big Jon and Kate news. Could \"Jon and Kate Plus 8\" end up back on TV? Also this.", "If there`s one thing that can bring a model to her knees, it`s falling to her knees.", "Tonight, top models go bottoms up. The hilarious missteps at New York`s Fashion Week today. It is fashion road kill. Still looking good, though. You don`t want to miss the best of the worst fashion falls. This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN. And now, the \"SHOWBIZ News Ticker.\" It`s more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news today.", "Wyclef Jean to get Vanguard Award for social issues at NAACP Image Awards. Faith Hill to be a guest judge on the season finale of Lifetime`s \"Project Runway.\""], "speaker": ["HAMMER", "ANNOUNCER", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "HAMMER", "MEGAN ALEXANDER, CORRESPONDENT, \"INSIDE EDITION\"", "HAMMER", "ALEXANDER", "HAMMER", "ALEXANDER", "HAMMER", "DAVID CAPLAN, SENIOR EDITOR, \"PEOPLE\" MAGAZINE", "HAMMER", "ALEXANDER", "HAMMER", "ALEXANDER", "HAMMER", "CAPLAN", "HAMMER", "LADY GAGA, SINGER", "HAMMER", "JUDGE JUDITH SHEINDLIN, TELEVISION JUDGE, \"JUDGE JUDY\"", "HAMMER", "HAMMER", "ALEXANDER", "HAMMER", "CAPLAN", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "MOOS (voice over)", "ANDERSON", "TEXT"]}
{"id": "CNN-122852", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-1-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/15/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Climbers Found Alive on Mt. Hood; Economy on Minds of Michigan Voters; Results of Bridge Collapse Investigation to Be Released", "utt": ["Well, it's a big state with big problems, but Michigan could be a big prize for a certain Republican presidential contender. Among Democrats, not so much.", "Got a beef with cloned cows or pigs? Or goats? Well, the government doesn't. And our medical unit serves up the details. Hello, everyone. I'm Don Lemon live at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta.", "And I'm Kyra Phillips. You're live in the", "First we start with some breaking news. Right at our news desk, Betty Nguyen working on a developing story. It involves those hikers?", "Yes. A desperate search has been underway for these hikers off of Mt. Hood. Two climbers, in fact, went missing on Monday. And we have just learned that they have been found, and they are alive. In fact we've learned that they spent the night Monday night in a snow cave, but once the weather cleared, they were able actually to get a cell phone call out to one of the climbers' girlfriends. And then the local sheriff's department used that cell phone signal to track their location. Right now an 18-member rescue crew is en route in the climbers' location right now to try to get them off of Mt. Hood. And this is really great news, Don, because if you recall back in 2006, three out-of-state climbers died on Mt. Hood when they got caught in a blizzard. And obviously, it's very cold up there right now. In fact, they had to spend the night in a snow cave. But the good news is that they, hopefully, will be headed home very shortly, because the two missing climbers have been found on Mt. Hood, and a rescue team is headed their way right now to bring them down.", "Very good news, yes. And interesting, also, Betty, why he called his girlfriend and not 911. Maybe it was just one of the numbers programmed. But I guess we'll certainly find out.", "Exactly. Call someone who, if nothing else, can call authorities to make sure they know that I'm alive and how to get to me.", "Absolutely. And we'll probably learn after their release, maybe there will be a news conference.", "What a story it is, though.", "Yes. All right, Betty. Thank you very much for that. So just how bad is the weather on that mountain? Let's check in now with CNN's Chad Myers. Chad, how bad is the weather there?", "Much better today. Yesterday it was kind of an ugly day, not much visibility at all. Now, this is not a lot like the climbers that went missing in the past. These guys were in -- on a Timberline Lodge Trail, and it's right at about 6,000 feet. Here's Portland. We'll fly you back out here to Mt. Hood. Mt. Hood is almost 10,500 feet tall. But this trail that these guys were probably on here that we don't know how far they went off the trail, but anyway, along the tree line itself, hence the Timberline Trail. And so, as they were going around, if you go all the way around, all the way around this thing, it's a 40-mile hike. Pretty significant hike. But the problem was yesterday. No matter where you were hiking, the winds were blowing about 50- or 60-miles-per-hour, and the weather was really very cold. Right now, here's a live shot from Mt. Hood. This is that government cam. This is U.S. 26. It's one of the highways here. These cars will move every once in a while. Temperature now 21, but it feels like about 6 degrees out there with the wind-chill factor. So it is still a cold day out there. But at least they know where they are. They're in a snow cave. They're keeping themselves warm, and the climbers and searchers will get to them fairly soon.", "Can't say it enough. Good news.", "You bet.", "All right. Chad, appreciate that. Thank you.", "A developing story right now at out Cambridge, Maryland. This is live -- these are live pictures coming to us from our affiliate WBAL. We appreciate this. Firefighters working this blaze right now. We're told it's a large fire downtown. It's at the Shore Bid Auction and Antique store building, the 400 block of Race Street, we're told. Crews from ten are fire companies are on the scene. No injuries have been reported so far, but that area has been blocked off to the public. Not sure if there's anybody still inside, but it has been completely evacuated. But it's a large fire right now happening there at the Shore Bid Auction and Antique store building, 400 block of Race Street. We'll be following that. Thanks to these live pictures from our affiliate, WBAL. Eight hours till the last polls close on primary day in Michigan. It's all about the economy, and it's all about the Republicans. John McCain's banking on independent voters to boost him to a second-straight primary victory. But Mitt Romney's counting on his native state to turn his campaign around. Less at stake for the Democrats. The state is being punished for moving its primary up, so no Democratic delegates are up for grabs. Hillary Clinton is the only major candidate right now on that Democratic ballot. Jobs, homes, hopes. Too many people in Michigan have lost all three. And you can bet that's guiding their decisions at the polls today. Here's CNN's Chris Lawrence.", "Unemployment was up. Mortgages went into meltdown. And the building blocks of one small business, crumbled.", "There's no work for what I did.", "Bill Caverly hasn't worked since his construction company went under last year. It was a business he had taken over from his dad.", "You can't go into church or into the grocery store without meeting somebody who's having a hard time.", "Bill says Michigan needs a president with business experience, not someone who just extends tax cuts for the middle class.", "I'd rather have the tax cuts for business, because if you give a business a tax cut, you're going to go ahead and they're going to hire people.", "And he wants a candidate to explain how they cut spending to pay for it.", "I just heard it from Mitt Romney on the TV. He was talking about change. He's going to stop the spending. I don't know how one guy can do it unless they give the president a line item veto.", "Only Mike Huckabee favors going that far. So many people have lost their jobs and left town, pews sit empty at First Baptist Church in Sterling Heights. John Sansoterra is a painting contractor who says he competes with companies that hire illegal immigrant workers, a problem made worse by the bad economy.", "Even builders or maybe other painting companies that were, you know, above board kind of feel like they have to go this direction in order to stay afloat.", "He disagrees with John McCain's support for a guest worker program. Economically, John likes Mitt Romney's promise to help the auto industry and Rudy Giuliani's plan to reduce corporate taxes. But neither will get his vote in the primary, because he wants to elect a true social conservative.", "Granted, the temptation is there of what can help me economically, what could, you know, maybe be better. But you know, for us, the social comes first.", "This just goes to show you, even in a state dominated by unemployment, other issues will play a part. But make no mistake, Michigan's economy and the best man or woman to fix it will be on a lot of voters' minds. Chris Lawrence, CNN, Warren, Michigan.", "Are you marking your election calendar? We've been to Iowa and New Hampshire with a wee stop for Wyoming in between. The Michigan primary is going on then. And then on Saturday South Carolina holds its Republican primary and Nevada holds caucuses. The Democrats get their turn in South Carolina one week later, and then Florida holds its primary on the 29th. On February 5th, Super Tuesday, 24 states hold primaries, caucuses or, in the case of West Virginia, a Republican nominating convention. California's the biggest prize, with 370 Democratic delegates and 170 Republican delegates at stake. Now, for more on presidential candidates and their next stops, go to CNNPolitics.com. It's your one-stop shop for all things political.", "And later this hour, we should learn more about the cause of last summer's bridge collapse in Minnesota. The National Transportation Safety Board is holding a news conference on the August 1 catastrophe that killed 13 people.", "I was very fortunate that the site of the freeway that collapsed in, it took my truck. And the reason I was fortunate was because there was a bus load of kids in front of me, and if it wouldn't have fallen off like that, I would have hit those kids.", "They missed the edge by what looks like feet.", "And I was right behind them.", "CNN's Susan Roesgen covered the I-35 West collapse for us when it happened, and she joins us now from Chicago. The big question then, Susan, was, you know, how -- where are my loved ones and how could this happen? And I think they're trying to answer that today.", "Yes, they're still trying to answer that, Don. You know, in the early days there were so many theories about what might have caused that bridge collapse. But right now the investigation seems to be focusing on the steel plates, called gusset plates, that hold the steel beams of a bridge together. It was August 1 when that I-35 bridge right there in downtown Minneapolis collapsed in just six seconds. It fell more than ten stories, dragging more than 100 cars with it into the Mississippi River. You just heard from some of the survivors. Thirteen people were killed there. Now the investigation is not over. The NTSB has been looking at a computer model of what might have caused this bridge collapse. They've been examining the pieces of the wreckage. But again, they seem to be focusing on those steel plates, the gusset plates. And what's really frightening, those gusset plates are used in the design of bridges all across the country. Thousands of bridges have those very same plates that are used to hold the beams together. In Minnesota, the governor is talking about now replacing dangerous bridges, and he's promising to have the money to do it.", "This bill contains $225 million worth of local bridge money. This will replace 600 local bridges in the state of Minnesota. Heightened concern about bridge safety and bridges in Minnesota. And this is an appropriate time I think to take the money that's available that we'd otherwise be spending on other things, in my view probably less important or less needed.", "The National Transportation Safety Board, Don, is going to have this news conference in about 20 minutes now, so we should get more information on what they think now in this ongoing investigation really might have caused that collapse.", "All right. So you call those braces a gusset brace. Besides those braces, I'm sure they're -- they have to be looking at something else, in case that doesn't pan out. What are the other possible causes the NTSB has?", "Well, you know, Don, as strange as it may sound, very early on a theory that was presented and taken seriously was that it could even have been some corrosive acid from years of accumulated pigeon droppings on that bridge that might have weakened particular areas of the bridge. There was also, as we know, the ongoing construction. That's why they say more people were not killed in that collapse. Two of the lanes were shut down, because there was repaving going on. The National Transportation Safety Board says that the weight of the equipment and the piles of sand and the concrete on the bridge when it collapsed was roughly 275 tons. And they want to know whether that extra weight could have contributed to the collapse in some way. So, yes, we're going to hear about these gusset plates, but there may be more factors that they'll be telling us about when that news conference starts in about 20 minutes.", "Yes. And I remember them talking early on, too, about possible corrosives like for, you know, getting rid of snow and that kind of thing. So they weren't sure.", "That's true, too.", "All right. Susan, thank you very much for that report. And we have live coverage of the NTSB's update on the bridge collapse coming up in Washington. That will happen at the bottom of the hour. And we'll go live to Minneapolis to hear what the city's mayor has to say.", "Confirmation from North Carolina that remains found Saturday are those of a missing pregnant Marine. Investigators also are rejecting the suspect's claim that she committed suicide. An autopsy shows Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach died of blunt force trauma to the head. Police are keeping quiet on the search for her alleged killer, but Marine Corporal Cesar Laurean is now being featured on the \"America's Most Wanted\" Web site. Meantime authorities are addressing some of the criticism of their handling of Lauterbach's disappearance.", "The best evidence in this case suggests that Maria Lauterbach was already dead before she was reported missing on December the 19. After December the 19th, 2007, the only thing that any investigation could have accomplished was to bring to light what had already occurred. I thank God and I am perfectly comfortable with the knowledge that nothing my office could have done would have prevented the death of Maria Lauterbach.", "Lauterbach had accused Laurean of rape and was set to testify against him at a military hearing.", "Bad news begets bad news on the big board. Avert your eyes. You don't really want to see it. We're headed live to New York. Susan Roesgen [SIC] is going to tell us -- Susan Lisovicz, I should say, is going to tell us what this skidding sound on Wall Street is all about.", "Plus, cloned meat? 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{"id": "CNN-137565", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-4-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/28/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Pakistan President Says Bin Laden May Be Dead", "utt": ["Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. Pakistan's president is grabbing headlines this morning. He says that intelligence officials think that 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden may be dead. But he also said there's no proof. Our senior international correspondent Nic Robertson is live on the ground in Islamabad. What do you make, Nic, of the comments from the president? He was asked about this and that's how he responded.", "Kiran, it's not unusual to hear from Pakistani officials that Osama bin Laden may be dead. They've said it many times since -- since 9/11. One of the reasons they said is because they feel under pressure because Osama bin Laden is believed to be in Pakistan to say something about him. And what was interesting about President Sardari's comments was that within a couple of hours, the prime minister here completely contradicted the president. These two men, the two leaders of the country are very, very close. So the complete contradiction and really for many analysts here who are looking at this right now, it's indicative, this contradiction over Osama bin Laden's death is indicative of the confusion of the leadership at the helm of Pakistan right now. And one of the reasons many analysts say that the country is sort of floundering and how to deal with the Taliban. So I think really the overall read right now is that there really wasn't a lot of base to what the president had actually said -- Kiran.", "Yes, and it's very interesting because he seemed to sort of lay it on the U.S. in a way. He said that the U.S. is much more informed. They've been after him for a longer time. They've got more equipment. And they tell us they have no trace at the moment.", "You know, which is also interesting. I mean, one can never rule out something happening with Osama bin Laden. It's a big dark secret. You know, how close people are to catching him. And any moment of any day, we might find out that's happening. I was talking to a Saudi source recently who said that they didn't have any current information over the last few weeks. But you can't read too much in to this stuff. There are a lot of different sources out there who will tell you a lot of different information. And I think because we've heard this so many times from Pakistani officials, because they don't have a basis from their own intelligence gathering to say this, I think we just have to read it very, very carefully, Kiran.", "Nic Robertson for us in Pakistan this morning. Thank you. Twenty-nine minutes past the hour. Here are the top stories on our agenda that we'll be breaking down for you in the next 15 minutes. Officials are on high alert as the swine flu outbreak spreads. Here in the U.S., 50 confirmed cases. Now earlier on AMERICAN MORNING, the head of the CDC saying that if you don't have to go to Mexico, don't. In fact, he said if he had a trip planned, he'd cancel it. In just hours, the Senate subcommittee will hold an emergency hearing and officials from the CDC are expected to testify there. Well, one crew member of the Maersk Alabama, the U.S.-flagged cargo ship taken hostage by Somali pirates is suing the company. He's accusing Maersk of knowingly putting the sailors in danger. Richard Hicks says Maersk ignored request to improve safety measures for ships sailing near the Somali coast. And protest against Bank of America, coast-to-coast demonstrations planned too at hundreds of branches of B of A. The move coincides with the bank's annual shareholders meeting. Many are planning to protest and they're upset, they say, with the Bank of America CEO, Ken Lewis. They're calling for him to be fired.", "It has become customary for the media, the administration, and the voters to use the president's first 100 days in office as a measuring stick. Today is President Obama's 99th day in office. And a brand new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows 63 percent of you approve of the job that he's doing as president so far. Exactly one-third disapprove. But the man may be more popular than some of his policies. Joining me now from Washington to talk more about this is conservative columnist and author of \"American Grit\" Tony Blankley and as well the founder and editor in chief of the dailybeast.com, Tina Brown. So if the White house called this a hallmark holiday, the first 100 days, later decided to embrace it with the primetime press conference. But in recent days, it looks like the 100 days has been overshadowed by the spread of the swine flu. Tina Brown, do you think it will take some of the examination off of the 100 days?", "Well, we've really been having the festival of 100 days for the last five days. So, I think in a way we're all kind of fully competent that this is the big moment. One thing I do think is true, though, is that I think Obama's 100 days is showing we already have other very competent people in this administration. I mean we have Janet Napolitano, I think, the secretary of the department of Homeland Security has already shown that she's going to be no brownie and have done a hell of a job. You know, she's actually been very, very reassuring to the public, very measured, very sort of together about her responses so far. And I think that is also very reassuring because Obama has to have more than just himself out there. I also think that throughout the whole thing, he showed a very calm demeanor as he has throughout.", "Tony, do you want to respond to that?", "Well, yes, I mean, first of all, 100 days really doesn't indicate much. Clinton had a bad start and got re-elected. Carter had a good start and didn't. I think the thing that Obama has accomplished the most - and it's an important thing, is he's gotten off on the right foot with the American public. The number I looked at is right track/wrong track for the country. On election day is about 20 percent of the country thought we were in the wrong direction. Now about 45 percent. That's a huge increase. Based not on any improvement in life. I mean the economy is bad, boards are bad. But I think confidence in the president, the danger for the president is he has to manage that expectation level which is going up quickly even though there's some almost intractable problems in our path ahead.", "Do you think that where we are right now with the flu outbreak could have a real impact on how voters view him? And obviously it's going to have political implications, how he responds if this really breaks out. You know, is it going to be a Katrina moment? Will there be a good response? Tony, what do you think? What's the", "Unlikely that it is going to affect him a lot. He has inherited as every president does in the first few months of his office. The senior bureaucracy as administered by the previous administration. So this will be carried out without his people in place which is typical in the first three or four months. Some cabinet people are usually not nominated and confirmed yet. So I don't think unless he does some particular mistake, I can't imagine that happening, that it will be plus or minus for him.", "All right. Let's look ahead to the 100th day. Tomorrow, we've been asking a lot of our guests to come in and give the president a grade. o Tina, let's start with you. How would you grade the president in his first 100 days?", "Well, I would actually give him really 10 out of 10 for revamping America's image in the world. You know, because after all, that was one of the prime things that he had to do was try to sort of buff up and reposition America as - America's moral authority in the world. And I think that the G-20 trip was really a triumph for Obama outside America as opposed to inside. You know, he really did show that he wants to reach out, he wants to turn a page. He is listening. He's out there for people, listening all over the world And we see this in the incredible popularity that he has outside the United States which was such kind of touted him and also you know he really has to come in on the wings, not only of this Iraq war to the rest of the world but also of the toxic assets. So, America has been exporting it like swine flu to the world. So we had so much to get over. And he has got over and he has repositioned America. I think that's an amazing start.", "So 10 out of 10 ten for improving America's image abroad from Tina. Tony, what do you have to say?", "I would give him A-minus, B-plus in the transition from candidate to president. I think he's been at a personal level very successful at that. We simply don't know. He hasn't done anything much legislatively other than pass spending bills which are always easy to spend if you want to give free money away. The challenges will come in the next six months and we'll have to wait and see. So it's incomplete as it would be for any president at this point in an administration.", "All right. Tony Blankley, Tina Brown, thanks very much for joining us this morning, folks. And be sure to join us tomorrow, President Obama's 100th day in office for the \"CNN NATIONAL REPORT CARD.\" You'll get to grade the president along with the best political team on TV. Then at 8:00, the president will let us know how he thinks he's doing during a live presidential press conference. A CNN primetime event, it all kicks off at 7:00 p.m. Eastern.", "Well, the spread of the swine flu could bring more pain to the already hurting economy. Our Christine Romans is \"Minding your Business\" this morning and she joins us now with more on the potential economic impact if this were to spread. Hey, Christine.", "Hi, there. We've been talking about the green shoots in the economy for some weeks now, right? Hoping that at least the pace of the decline of economic demise is slowing and we're going to have a recovery around the corner. But here - here you have concerns that that might be delayed or in fact blunted. What are the problems that we are already seeing in the economy because of the swine and flu threat trade? This is something that can really hurt global trade. We're already seeing the demand for raw materials to decline and the prices for a lot of raw materials to decline, food, travel, transportation. All of these things get hit. The World Bank calls it avoidance behavior. Why are you going to get on a plane and go on vacation if you're concerned about what's happening with the swine flu and consumer confidence, something incredibly fragile. It's something that a lot of people are concerned about. And certainly adding this on doesn't make things any better. Where are there unbelievably some safe havens from this? The treasuries. You have seen Treasury bond prices have increased. Also drug stocks, and companies themselves and make face masks. You guys, those are things who have benefited over the past couple of days. I think you're going to see these kinds of trends continue in the market for the very near term.", "All right. Christine Romans for us, thanks so much. Well, new this morning, another state could soon OK same-sex marriage. This time, New Hampshire's state senate is about to vote on a bill to legalize it and to send it to the governor. Now if it passes, it will make New Hampshire the fifth state in the country where gay marriage is legal. The governor, John Lynch has not said whether he will veto the bill but he has expressed opposition to gay marriage in favor of civil unions. Pope Benedict XVI is traveling to Italy's area where the earthquake killed nearly 300 people and left tens of thousands homeless. He's going to be visiting a tented camp for the homeless in a small town devastated by the quake. He'll also meet with local representatives, rescuers and victims. The U.S. and Cuba have their first official meeting since the president eased travel restrictions. What did they talk about and what could it mean for U.S.-Cuban relations?"], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHETRY", "ROBERTSON", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "TINA BROWN, FOUNDER, DAILYBEAST.COM", "ROBERTS", "TONY BLANKELY, AUTHOR \"AMERICAN GRIT\"", "ROBERTS", "BLANKELY", "ROBERTS", "BROWN", "ROBERTS", "BLANKELY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROMANS", "CHETRY"]}
{"id": "CNN-318900", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2017-08-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/11/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Trump Threatens North Korea, Thanks Putin for Kicking Out Diplomatic Staff", "utt": ["Returning now to our top story, escalation in the war of words between President Trump and North Korea. Let's bring in Democratic Congressman Ted Deutsche, of Florida, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Congressman, the president today escalated that rhetoric, the standoff with North Korea, by saying military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely. His words. What kind of message is this strong language sending? Not only North Korea, but also to U.S. allies in the region?", "Wolf, I think strong language is appropriate. I think dangerous rhetoric, however, is not. When you think about what we need with North Korea, we need diplomacy. We need to show strength, and we need to have pressure. And when the president speaks the way he does in uncertain terms, let's remember, when he talks about, about the possibility of launching a premeditated strike in response to threats from North Korea, that makes it harder for those on his team who are actually doing a good job in advancing our interests at the U.N., where the sanctions resolution, for the first time, really is going to move forward in a strong, powerful way. This makes it really more difficult for the overall effort to succeed. And it leads to the possibility of miscalculation. Nobody believes that the United States should launch a preemptive nuclear strike. Everyone understands what North Korea is capable of now. The goal ought to be to work to lead our allies in one effort throughout the entire administration, to help contain North Korea.", "Let me get your thoughts on a very sensitive issue. And you're on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Listen to what the president said yesterday when asked about Russia's decision to expel hundreds of American diplomats from the U.S. embassy in Moscow and other U.S. consulates around the country. Listen to this.", "No. I want to thank him because we're trying to cut down on payroll. And as far as I'm concerned, I'm very thankful that he let go of a large number of people, because now we have a smaller payroll. There's no real reason for them to go back. So I greatly appreciate the fact that they've been able to cut our payroll for the United States. We'll save a lot of money.", "All right. So what was your reaction when you heard that?", "Well, Wolf, that's astounding coming from the president of United States. But, unfortunately, it's not surprising. Think about what the president did. This, he responded to actions taken by Vladimir Putin in responsible to sanctions that the United States imposed on Russia, because Russia meddled in our election. That response by Russia was to ban 755 U.S. diplomats and the president thanked him for it. It's wholly unacceptable. But unfortunately, Wolf, consistent. This is the president who doesn't value diplomacy. Who wants to cut the State Department budget by a third and hasn't even filled the key roles involving diplomatic security. It's appalling. The president ought to be standing up for the men and women who are serving our country in a different way, in the diplomatic corps, in a very importantly, especially in Russia. Instead, he casts them aside at the same time that he yet again thanks and praises Vladimir Putin. It's really shocking.", "Some suggested he was being sarcastic in that statement. You don't buy that?", "I don't believe that we should -- first of all, there's no room for sarcasm there. I don't think we should have to try to interpret whether or not the president was being serious when the president was speaking about the decision by Vladimir Putin to -- to ban over 750 United States diplomats. There is only one correct response from the president of the United States, and that is to make clear that this is unacceptable, and to stand up strongly for those diplomats and for our role in the world, and to push back against Vladimir Putin. The president, unfortunately, again and again and again seems wholly unwilling and unable to take even that basic step.", "Congressman Ted Deutsche, of Florida. Thanks for joining us.", "Thanks, Wolf. Appreciate it.", "Coming up, while President Trump is seemingly giving Russia's Vladimir Putin another pass, he's now talking tough about the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, telling him to go to work. What's behind he's latest attacks on the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate? We'll discuss that and more when we come back."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "REP. TED DEUTSCHE, (D), FLORIDA", "BLITZER", "DONLD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BLITZER", "DEUTSCHE", "BLITZER", "DEUTSCHE", "BLITZER", "DEUTSCHE", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-165477", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-4-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1104/29/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Royals Celebrate Big Day; What Will Last NASA Launch Mean for U.S.?", "utt": ["Live from Studio 7, I'm Suzanne Malveaux. It is Friday, April 29th.", "Hello from London. I'm Zain Verjee, just outside Buckingham Palace, where the royal wedding went very smoothly -- 1.5 million people were here in London to watch the procession along the streets. Two billion people around the world tuned in to watch the dress, the vows, and the carriage. We'll tell you what the atmosphere was like here. It was very electric -- Suzanne.", "All right. Great. Today, our big stories cover both ends of the spectrum and what life brings to us. There is a party, a celebration of royal pageantry, and there is also a tragedy, the struggle, the human toil of hundreds of people trying to cope and move forward after those deadly tornadoes. Right now, President Obama is on the ground in Alabama. He arrived just moments ago to devastating scenes like this one. He and Governor Robert Bentley will survey the tornado damage in Tuscaloosa. Alabama bore the brunt of the terrifying storms that killed some 300 people across the South on Wednesday.", "I opened the bathroom door thinking I'll leave like a hatchway out or something, and just like in \"The Wizard of Oz,\" the whole front of the house just fly away. And then a Krispy Kreme truck flew right through the living room.", "Tornadoes killed people across six southern states. Thirty-four of those deaths were in Tennessee.", "Everything is gone. The whole thing that's left is just me and my wife and my dog.", "The majority of the people killed in Tennessee were in the Chattanooga area.", "It was bright. You could see through the window, it was all bright, and then all of a sudden it went dark. He opened up the back door and he said, \"Run!\"", "Fifteen people lost their lives in Georgia. The governor has declared a state of emergency for 16 counties.", "It's crazy. I mean, it's never been like this before. Their roof is on the other side of the street. Like, it's -- this is a brand-new house. It was just built, and their roof is on the other side of the street. It's absolutely horrific.", "The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Smithville, Mississippi, was an EF-5 on the tornado scale, with winds 205 miles an hour. Emergency workers have raised the state's death toll now to 33. They say without the repeated urgent tornado warnings from the weather service, even more people would have died. Space shuttle Endeavour is set to lift off on its final flight. That's happening this afternoon. President Obama and his family, they're going to be there, along with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. Her husband, Navy Captain Mark Kelly, is Endeavour's commander. Now for the royal wedding. Kate Middleton married Prince William today. The couple, destined to be Britain's king and queen one day. The bride wore a Sarah Burton design from Alexander McQueen's fashion house. One commentator said the wedding dress, with its lace and traditional long train, was the perfect selection. Kate Middleton's father escorted the bride into Westminster Abbey, the cathedral where William's parents married 30 years ago. The archbishop of Canterbury recited the couple's wedding vows.", "\"I, William Arthur Philip Louis\" --", "I, William Arthur Philip Louis --", "-- \"take thee, Catherine Elizabeth\" --", "-- take thee, Catherine Elizabeth --", "-- \"to my wedded wife\" --", "-- to my wedded wife --", "-- \"to have and to hold from this day forward\" --", "-- to have and to hold from this day forward --", "-- \"for better or for worse\" --", "-- for better or for worse --", "I, Catherine Elizabeth --", "-- \"take thee, William Arthur Philip Louis\" --", "-- take thee, William Arthur Philip Louis --", "-- \"to my wedded husband\" --", "-- as my wedded husband --", "The couple appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for the traditional kiss. An estimated two billion people watched the royal wedding. Well, deafening screams, cheers went out around London's Mall this morning. Some say love is in the air. Prince William and his college sweetheart Catherine have now tied the knot. Well, Zain, I know you're there in all the midst of the excitement outside Buckingham Palace. I have got my hat on for the occasion. I was up at 3:00 in the morning to take it all in. Tell us what it is like where you are.", "Suzanne, it has been majestic, it has been magical, and totally electric. Hats like those have been all around the city, as well as in Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace all day today. People have been so excited, Suzanne. They have been camping out overnight, people from all around the world, all around the country. They're really excited. Many of them say that Prince William is the most popular member of the royal family. They were out there waving flags. They had all sorts of interesting memorabilia. They were excited to see al the pomp and circumstance, too. I mean, no one does it better than the Brits. You know? They've got the old horses. The lead horse, by the way, was Daniel. And he was the one that doesn't get stressed out in big crowds. But the 1902 State Landau was taken out. And they just looked amazing in that carriage there. The weather held out as well. There were about 5,500 applications for street parties around London, as well as all around the country. So a lot of people are just having a good time, and they get a day off to celebrate today, too. So the excitement is still here, and it's been a boost for the monarchy.", "Zain, tell us about those double kisses there. What was that about? I mean, people went crazy over that.", "I know. Two quick kisses. They have gone nuts here. People are really excited. Normally, it's one kiss, and no one expected a lingering kiss, although everyone was kind of hoping for one. But they gave us two. That was totally unprecedented. People were really excited. Behind me they kept chanting, \"Kiss again! Kiss again!\" And they did. It was just really sweet. And then people were chanting again for a hat trick. But then after the queen decided to leave the balcony, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge left as well. So it was very cute. It hasn't happened before.", "And Zain, were there any missteps, any mistakes?", "Well, you know, what's a good wedding without a little bit of good gossip, Suzanne, right? So, a lot of people were actually talking about Pippa, Kate Middleton's sister -- now the Duchess of Cambridge's sister. She was wearing white, which is traditionally what the bride wears. But they are actually really close. She wore an amazing dress. It was a pretty unforgiving one, but she did look great in it. So, some people were saying, oh, she shouldn't really have worn white. Then, also, take a look at this video of Victoria Beckham. She's actually wearing midnight blue, but it kind of looks like she's wearing black. So, when she arrived at the ceremony, a lot of people were saying, hang on a minute, that's bad luck. You can't wear black. You can't wear black. So that was gossiped about. And then the prime minister's wife, Samantha Cameron, did not show up with a hat. It's Westminster Abbey. You should have a hat. That was what was on the invitation, but she didn't wear one, so that's a little gossipy behind the scenes.", "All right. We like that gossip, Zain. And next go- around, we want to see the hat that you wore for the next go-around. OK?", "All right.", "OK. Thanks, Zain. If you missed any of the royal wedding moments, Piers Morgan has all of them for you. It is a CNN two-hour crowning event tonight, a from kiss to cake, relive the royal wedding's big moments with Piers Morgan at a special time,", "00 p.m. Eastern. Here's your chance to \"Talk Back\" about one of the big stories of the day. We are just a few hours away from the last launch of space shuttle Endeavour. After that, there's just one more shuttle launch for the U.S. space program, and it brings us to today's question. Carol Costello with more -- Carol.", "I'm so glad you took off that hat for my sake.", "I think we have a hat for you. So don't worry about that.", "OK. Let's talk about the space program, though, shall we? July 20, 1969, I was a little girl back then, but I will never forget that day. I was watching it on TV with my dad, and there he was, an American hero, Neil Armstrong, stepping on to the surface of the moon.", "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.", "With those words, American won. We beat the Soviets on to the moon, just as President Kennedy asked us to do. Fast forward to today, April 29, 2001. Landing on the moon is old hat. America's president, Barack Obama, is going to Florida to witness the last mission of the of the space shuttle Endeavour, and it's bittersweet. But many believe in this tough time, we cannot afford the space shuttle program. NASA has to think of something new. For commander Mark Kelly, it comes down to this --", "I know when I get back from STS-134, from this last flight of Endeavour, I'll be thinking the same thing, I can't really give this up. I've got to figure out a way to get back into space again.", "But will he? Will we? NASA dreams of landing on Mars. But who knows it if will have enough money to do that? The $1.3 billion of its $19 billion budget is earmarked for commercial development. Maybe private companies will bring back some of those jobs lost when the shuttle program ends. And there's an ironic twist here. Without the space shuttle, NASA astronauts will have to rely on Russian rockets to get to the International Space Station. So, \"Talk Back\" today: What will the last space shuttle mission mean for America? Facebook.com/CarolCNN, and I'll read your comments later this hour.", "Very interesting question. I mean, really. Because if you think about it, the Bush administration, he wanted to send us to Mars. The Obama administration said hold on, let's put our money to where we need to go.", "I know.", "And now the astronauts say, what do we do now? What's next for us?", "And the thing is, is the space program has always been symbolic of something bigger. It's what Americans do.", "Absolutely.", "We're a can do nation. If we put our minds to it, we can do it. And that's what it's always symbolized. But what does it symbolize now?", "Right. All right. Great question, Carol. Thanks. I'll get the hat for you, too, by the way.", "I can't wait.", "Here's a rundown of some of the stories that we're covering in the next two hours. First, gearing up for its final flight, space shuttle Endeavour is now on the launch pad. And the first family is in Alabama to get a personal look of what's left after the tornadoes. And she pulled her daughters into a tanning bed moments before the storm tore off the roof. We've got more stories of survival that you're not going to want to miss. And finally, the power of the tsunami. Incredible new video of the nightmare Japan is still waking up from."], "speaker": ["SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR", "ZAIN VERJEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX", "CHRIS WOZNIAK, TORNADO VICTIM", "MALVEAUX", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MALVEAUX", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MALVEAUX", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MALVEAUX", "WILLIAMS", "PRINCE WILLIAM", "WILLIAMS", "PRINCE WILLIAM", "WILLIAMS", "PRINCE WILLIAM", "WILLIAMS", "PRINCE WILLIAM", "WILLIAMS", "PRINCE WILLIAM", "HRH PRINCESS CATHERINE, DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE", "WILLIAMS", "PRINCESS CATHERINE", "WILLIAMS", "PRINCESS CATHERINE", "MALVEAUX", "VERJEE", "MALVEAUX", "VERJEE", "MALVEAUX", "VERJEE", "MALVEAUX", "VERJEE", "MALVEAUX", "CNN, 8", "COSTELLO", "MALVEAUX", "COSTELLO", "NEIL ARMSTRONG, ASTRONAUT", "COSTELLO", "CAPT. MARK KELLY, COMMANDER, STS-134", "COSTELLO", "MALVEAUX", "COSTELLO", "MALVEAUX", "COSTELLO", "MALVEAUX", "COSTELLO", "MALVEAUX", "COSTELLO", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-302853", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-01-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/10/nday.03.html", "summary": "Obama to Give Farewell Address.", "utt": ["I can tell you what I'm feeling right now is that I'm busier than I expected these last two weeks. A great deal of emotion around the people that I've worked with and the gratitude I feel for the sacrifices they've made on behalf of the American people but also on behalf of me personally.", "So President Obama will return to Chicago today, where he says it all started; and that's where he will deliver his farewell address to the nation tonight. So joining us from the White House with a preview is senior adviser to President Obama, Valerie Jarrett. Good morning, Valerie.", "Good morning, Alisyn.", "So we know that the president has been hard at work on this speech, and we've heard that he wants to end his time in office the way he started it, quote, \"with optimism and hope.\" Now...", "That's absolutely right.", "But Valerie, that sounds like it's going to be a hard needle to thread, given this climate, you know. All the stuff that has been said during the campaign, how toxic it became and with a president-elect that President Obama did not support.", "Well, you know, I think the president's optimism comes from the American people. He's had the privilege the last eight years of traveling our country, meeting so many ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things, who are committed to our country, to making it better. He is enjoying, you know, high popularity among the American people. He's proud of his track record. If you think about when he took office, the fact that we were losing nearly 800,000 jobs a month, an unemployment rate ticking up to 10 percent. Now it's down to 4.7. High school graduation rates are up. College admissions are up. Poverty is down. Typical family income is up. There's so much that's going on that's positive. His record-breaking announcements on climate change, both here domestically and around the world. Bringing so many of our men and women home who have been serving our country. There's just a lot to feel very positive about. And he wants to reflect briefly on the progress that we've made but also looking forward, taking the long view about why he's optimistic about the future of our country.", "And yet, Valerie, I mean, so many Democrats would not describe what they're feeling today as hope, including the first lady, Michelle Obama, who sat down with Oprah and said, 'Now we know what it feels like not to have hope.\"", "I wish you could have heard her speech last week when she spoke to young girls as we were honoring the best counsellors in the country. And she spoke directly to them and said, \"I have so much -- so much faith in you; and we're counting on you, and I want to lift you up.\" And I think the young people give both the president and the first lady hope, and they always take the long view. As the president has said, you know, the progress of our country has always been messy. There are going to be zigs and zags along the way. But if you really focus on what makes our country extraordinary, what makes it great, I think that there is reason to be optimistic and hopeful.", "As you stand there, still at the White House, ten days out from -- from leaving, what do you think the future of Obamacare is?", "Well, I hope that the future of the Affordable Care Act, called Obamacare, is positive. There are 20 million people who never had health insurance before, many who never had it before who have it now. Everyone is covered if they have a preexisting condition. Young people can stay on their parents' plan until they're 26. Senior citizens are getting help with prescription drugs. Women can get preventative care without a copay. There's so much in it that is positive. I would hate to think of taking those important benefits away from the American people.", "But I mean, you know that Republicans say it is their first order of business to repeal it.", "I think as we saw yesterday, they're finding that it's a lot more complicated than they may have originally thought. The president tried to engage the Republicans as we went through Congress the first time to get the best ideas that they would have to try to incorporate them into a bill that had bipartisan support. And they opted not to participate. And now the burden is on them, and they're seeing it's challenging. It's a complicated piece of business, and many of the pieces are interrelated. If you care about covering everybody with a preexisting condition, well, then you really have to have a requirement that everyone buy health insurance. It's very difficult when you start to break apart the pieces.", "What do you think of the news that Donald Trump would like his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to become his senior adviser, the role that you have played for the past eight years?", "Well, you know what, Alisyn? My first priority right now, as set by the president, is to help President-elect Trump's team with the transition in every way possible, so that it's smooth and orderly, the same way President Bush helped us. So I'm not going to comment on every single appointment that the president-elect makes. What I can tell you, though, having co-chaired President Obama's transition ,is that he said to his lawyers, \"Tell me where the lines are, and then I'm going to color well within the lines.\" He did that with the appointments in the White House, and he also did that with his cabinet. He wanted to make sure that our due diligence was done ahead of time, that we knew everything that was important to know about a nominee, because that nominee was going to represent the president.", "So what advice would you give to Jared Kushner?", "Listen to the American people. Make sure you stay in touch with them. Make sure you have your pulse on them. Washington can swallow you up whole, and I think it's incumbent upon all of us who serve in the White House to remember every single day who we're here to serve. We're here to serve you, the American people.", "Valerie, what's next for President Obama? What role will he play in the country and in the Democratic Party?", "Well, he's looking forward to working on the Obama Center. We're just thrilled. I am personally, because I'm from Chicago to see it located on the South Side of Chicago, his adopted hometown where, the first lady was born and raised, where so many of his initial support came from. And he wants it to be more than just a library reflecting on the past and his important time in office but really a beacon of hope for not just Chicago but the world about the future, thinking of ways of creating a platform to be a force for good. And he's going to spend a lot of time, after a much-deserved rest, focusing on that.", "Valerie Jarrett, we look forward to seeing what you will do next after also much-deserved rest. Thank you.", "Thank you, Alisyn.", "Thanks so much for being on NEW DAY. Let's get to Chris.", "All right. The confirmation hearing for Jeff Sessions. He's a senator from Alabama. He is the president-elect's choice to be our next attorney general. A big deal will be the past and allegations of racism. Could they hurt him now? The senator's spokesperson joins us next."], "speaker": ["BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CAMEROTA", "VALERIE JARRETT, SENIOR ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT OBAMA", "CAMEROTA", "JARRETT", "CAMEROTA", "JARRETT", "CAMEROTA", "JARRETT", "CAMEROTA", "JARRETT", "CAMEROTA", "JARRETT", "CAMEROTA", "JARRETT", "CAMEROTA", "JARRETT", "CAMEROTA", "JARRETT", "CAMEROTA", "JARRETT", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-309621", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2017-04-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/10/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Syria Tops Agenda At G7 Meeting; Syria Strikes Leave Trump Admin Sending Mixed Signals; Renewed Scrutiny Of Russia-Syria Relations; U.N.: 400,000 Syrians Killed In Syrian Conflict; Venezuelan Opposition Leader Banned From Politics; Policeman Killed In Westminster Attack Laid To Rest.  Aired 11-11:30 p.m. ET", "utt": ["Tonight on the program, Syria takes center stage as G7 foreign ministers made following the chemical weapons attack that put Moscow and Washington on a diplomatic collision course. I'm going to be joined by former U.S. State Department Spokesman John Kirby, and in Russia, pro-Kremlin analyst, Sergey Markov. Plus, the voice of Venezuela's opposition, Henrique Capriles on standing up to President Maduro despite being banned from politics.", "We have an unpopular government. A government which elected of his way of dictatorship. And we are happy to bring down the dictatorship by way of votes.", "Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the program. I'm Michael Holmes sitting in for Christiane Amanpour. Now, Syria, the top of the agenda. The foreign ministers at a meeting of the G7 in Italy, most of all for the American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. In the wake of those airstrikes on Syria, his administration seems in a crisis of conscience. Although, just want its America first foreign policy is. And, oh, what a difference a week makes America's UN ambassador had said that Assad leaving office was no longer an American priority. On Sunday, she had this to say.", "Regime change is something that we think is going to happen because all of the parties are going to see that Assad's not the leader that needs to be taking place for Syria. So, what I think you're saying is, this isn't about policy or not. This is about thoughts. And so, when you look at the thoughts, there is no political solution that any of us can see with Assad at the - at the lead.", "And the White House Press Secretary has just reiterated that the Trump administration believes Syria will never be stable with Assad at the helm. It's an about face certain, of course, tension in Moscow, where the American Secretary of State is headed next. Well, what can we expect from that visit? John Kirby is a man whom I know, retired Navy Admiral, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 2015 to 2017, joins me now from Washington, and thanks for doing so. So, what will Rex Tillerson be looking for from the Russians? Everyone says they should be taught negotiations, a ceasefire transition, and the Russians are needed for all of that. What would you advise him?", "My best advice to Secretary Tillerson would be, number one, to be able to ride through the Russian criticism that he's going to get, and to be just as pugilistic as he has been over the last couple of days when he talks about Russia and their role, and their complicity in what's been going on in Syria. So, they're going to", "And that is the risk that you overpromise in a way, by carrying out a strike like this, and then under deliver. What - when it comes to Assad, I suppose the big question is, what's the alternative? If he suddenly went overnight for some reason, what is there to replace him? I mean, these days, the \"opposition\" is largely a -- just a desperate group of factions dominated in many cases by jihadists and the new", "You are so right. That is the big fear, and that is why the Russians continue pop -- prop up Assad. It's not because they love Assad, it's because they don't want the regime to collapse in a chaotic unstructured way that puts their security interests at risk in Syria. They've had a long relationship with Syria going back 30 years of presence there. They don't want to give that up. It's their foothold, it's their toehold into the Middle East. That's why they're propping up Assad. And so - and all I would say is I'd recommend that Secretary Tillerson go back and read the four Geneva communiques and one - I'm sorry. Three Geneva and one Vienna communique that Secretary Kerry helped co-author, which lays out the framework for political transition to get to Syria that doesn't have Assad in power but does it in an orderly fashion that gives the Syrian people a say in a vote and a process. And it also calls for a process by which the opposition, which you're so right, is not very well- led and structured. But, it gives them a vehicle to sit down with members of the regime and try to hammer out that transition. It's there. All they have to do is read it and go back and try to restructure.", "And these strikes seems to have - well, it's changed their headlines but really in effect what else? I mean, you've touched on this. What is the U.S. strategy, the policy? The risk seems to be if Assad uses chemical weapons against, well, where does that road lead?", "Yes, that's tough. It's tough to say that. So they've indicated, and I just saw Sean Spicer say again just a few minutes ago that they're willing to do more. But I don't know what that means. Do more if he does another chemical attack? Well, if he doesn't do that but he continues to kill and by large the hundreds of thousands of Syrians, most of them have not been killed by chemical attacks. Are you going to step in when he does something in a large-scale conventional way? So, where is that line? And what are you going to do if he crosses that line again? And I don't think that they thought this thing through too carefully. I don't think they have a full appreciation for the power of diplomacy here. They did a successful strike that was targeted for limited purposes and they achieved those purposes, but obviously Assad still has the capacity, the capability to visit violence on his own people. Where is the line going to be?", "And, John, and then you mentioned this, and it really is the point. And that is, the people are dying, they've been dying for years. There were more airstrikes today. That bloodshed goes on. What lesson has Syria learned as you point out, the vast majority of death by conventional weapons, although brutally indiscriminate, barrel bombs. No one sends a message about those.", "Right. I think that's - I think that is the quintessential problem now that the Trump administration faces, as it looks at Syria. The only - the only way out is a political solution, a diplomatic solution. The entire international community agrees on that. No military solution is going to solve the Civil War, but now they've put their thumb on the scale in the Civil War in a way that the Obama administration wasn't willing to do in terms of using military force against the regime. So where does that go; how far are you going to employ that if it doesn't have the deterrent effect that you have now tried to have it - have it -- make it -- make it occur. So, I think this is a real dilemma, a real problem. And I don't know that they have thought this carefully through enough from a policy perspective, as they should have.", "Because you can back yourself into a corner here pretty quickly. I mean, if you're going to start dealing with Assad's brutality, what that requires a level of escalation engagement. So, let's face it, there is no domestic appetite for.", "No, that's right. Look, military action should always be a servant to the diplomacy, not the other way around. Unless you're an all-out war, obviously that's a different matter but in any case like this where you can escalate or deescalate tensions in military solution should really be subservient to diplomatic ones. And I'd like to see that they are going use this visit in Mosco which they absolutely should to try to build some sort of diplomatic consensus going forward.", "John Kirby, as always, great to get your analysis. Thanks so much.", "My pleasure. Thank you.", "All right. Let's get the view now on how this is playing in Russia, Sergey Markov former M.P. for Putin's United Russia Party joins us via Skype from Sochi in Russia. And thanks for doing so. Before I ask you a question, I actually just want to play you some sound from the U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaking about Russia. Let's play that and come back on the other side.", "Regardless of whether Russia was complicit here or whether they were simply incompetent or whether they got outwitted by the Bashar al- Assad regime you would have to ask the Russians that question. But clearly, they have failed in their commitment to the international community.", "What he's referring to there, of course, is the 2013 horrific chemical attack by Bashar al-Assad after which Russia was put in charge of getting rid of serious chemical weapons, getting them decommissioned, and then this latest attack happens. Does Russia as some in the U.S. suggest bear some responsibility?", "I think that Russia don't have weapons", "So, that", "We're saying that in the moment when there are real war against jihadist and", "When it comes to the U.S.-Russia relations, I mean, it was in November that you said a Trump presidency would make it more likely that the U.S. would agree with Russia on Syria. This month, you said Mr. Trump was weak, domestically isolated, and that he uses action to lift his popularity. How do you see the Russia-Trump relationship right now?", "Now, Russia", "What do you - what do you think Mr. Putin's aim down in Syria? What do you think he wants?", "I think Mr. Putin want a Syria that no chance for jihadist or Islamic State and Jabhat an-Nusrah to take", "Sergey Makarov, thanks so much.", "My pleasure.", "Now, from Russia to President Putin's pick for the French elections, the National Front's Marine Le Pen has provoked uproar for claiming that France was not responsible for the World War II round up of years. 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{"id": "CNN-56543", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-6-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/26/lad.05.html", "summary": "Palestinian Authority to Hold Elections", "utt": ["Well, as we told you, the Palestinian Authority has now set a date for presidential and legislative elections. The formal announcement is being made in Jericho, the only major West Bank city not occupied by Israeli forces. Our Sheila MacVicar joins us now live from Jerusalem -- good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. Yes, speaking just a little more than an hour ago, the Palestinians' chief negotiator, Saeb Erakat -- he's also the minister of local government in the Palestinian Authority -- announced that they would hold presidential and legislative elections between January 10 and January 20 of 2003. The question, of course, given Mr. Bush's speech of two days ago, where he called upon the Palestinians to choose new leadership, is whether or not Mr. Arafat would himself stand as a candidate in those elections. Yesterday, speaking to reporters at his besieged compound in Ramallah, Mr. Arafat said that he was the elected leader of the Palestinian people and that it was up to the Palestinian people to choose their own leaders. Today, asked if Mr. Arafat would be a candidate, Saeb Erakat said that would be up to Mr. Arafat to decide. Now, this is part of a large program of reforms that the Palestinians have embarked on, a program of reforms they have been pushed to do by, amongst others, the U.S. administration. They're calling it a hundred days of reform. Key amongst those reforms, not only this call for elections, the presidential and legislative elections in January, the municipal elections, held for the first time. They will be held in March. The implementation of what's called the Palestinian Basic Law, essentially the constitution, that will take effect in July, and by September the establishment of an independent and competent judiciary and the reform of the Palestinian security services. These are all things that both the international community, the U.S. administration and the government of Israel had been pressing for. The question, of course, will be the implementation of these things on the ground -- Carol.", "Sheila, how will the candidates be chosen for this election?", "There have been, this is not the first time the Palestinian Authority has had elections and the Palestinian constitution, this Basic Law, calls for multi-party parliament democracy. That means that individuals will come forward who will represent different political parties and will stand for elections within constituencies that are determined by borders. Now, the question of who will stand as a presidential candidate, if Mr. Arafat will stand, who else may emerge as other presidential candidates is simply too soon to answer at this time. One important note, Mr. Erakat did say that it would be incredibly difficult under the current situations, remembering that only one major West Bank city is currently not under Israeli military occupation or curfew, if they were to attempt to have these elections where there was still, in Mr. Erakat's words, tanks in the streets -- Carol.", "I can understand that. The other question I had is if somebody does run against Yasser Arafat, that person would have to be quite a courageous person.", "It would depend. I mean it is clear that it would depend upon what Mr. Arafat chose to do. It would depend on the sentiment in the Palestinian streets, whether there's pressure from the U.S. administration, this calling for him to basically be pushed aside by the Palestinian people, if that creates a situation where it's really not possible for another viable candidate to come forward. There will be other candidates. The question is are any of them viable and are any of them acceptable to not just the Palestinian people, but, in this instance, the U.S. administration and the government of Israel, as well. One more thing that's important to note here. Mr. Erakat, in making his announcement, said that it was important to remember that this was not something that had just been dreamt up by the Palestinians over the course of the last few days as a result of that pressure from the U.S. administration. This is what Mr. Erakat said.", "Many of you may think we are submitting this or saying this in response to President Bush's speech. We are saying this in response to Palestinian needs. We're saying this because we've been working on this reform for months.", "Now, one more thing. We have heard an initial reaction from a senior spokesperson for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel, saying that what is important is not only words, but actions. And, of course, the most important action is to stop the violence -- Carol.", "All right, Sheila MacVicar reporting live for us from Jerusalem this morning. Thank you."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "SHEILA MACVICAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "MACVICAR", "COSTELLO", "MACVICAR", "SAEB ERAKAT, CHIEF PALESTINIAN NEGOTIATOR", "MACVICAR", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-273022", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-01-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/05/nday.03.html", "summary": "Kuwait Pulls Ambassador to Iran.", "utt": ["We're urging all sides to show some restraint and to not further inflame tensions that are on display in the region.", "That's the latest message from the White House, urging Iran and Saudi Arabia to show restaurant. This as more countries side with Saudi Arabia in its spat with Iran. Kuwait now recalling its ambassador from Iran. This stems from an attack on Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran in retaliation for Saudi Arabia's execution of a Shiite cleric. Joining us now is CNN national security commentator and former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers. Mike, great to see you.", "Alisyn.", "In your assessment, how bad is this escalation of tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran?", "Well, it's bad and has the potential to get a lot worse. And what you're seeing with these countries, Alisyn -- Kuwait, Sudan, others -- these are primarily Sunni countries. And you're starting to see the fuel being poured on this Sunni-Shia problem that's developing across the Middle East. That's why this is so dangerous and why I think the United States needs to play a critical role in trying to calm things down and at least get back to some regular order between the Iranian and Saudi Arabian relationships.", "Let's talk about that. What can the U.S. role be?", "It has to do a couple things. And let's back up real quickly. A lot of the talk was that they purposely killed this cleric, Saudi Arabia, to inflame Iran. I really disagree with that. They killed this -- executed this cleric. He was sentenced in 2014 with a whole bunch of al Qaeda fighters. And this was a domestic political issue for them. They had this problem; they just went through elections. That upset the Salafis, the very ultra conservative Shi'a -- Sunnis in Saudi Arabia. So they were playing this car. I think they didn't anticipate how this would spill over. So that's how we got to where we are. And what's happening is, Iran, now that they have this new cash from the Iranian deal, is engaged in proxy wars. They've upped their game in Yemen, and they're upped their game in Syria; and they've upped their game in Iraq. And that is this increased tension with Saudi Arabia. So what the United States needs to do is be very aggressive at pushing back on Iran and their actions in the region. They can do that two ways. One, continue with sanctions on the missiles that they've tested, long-range missiles in violation of U.N. sanctions, happened within the last month. The administration has pulled back. That gives an uneasy feeling to our Arab League partners. They need to re- engage sanctions on that missile program. And I'd do it as soon as they can. And then they need to live up to their commitment on conventional weapons sales to the Arab League partners, which by the way, is not the best way to do it, but this is the place I think the administration has kind of wedged us in on a whole bunch of really bad solutions. And that's one solution that can at least start to tamp down the tensions.", "You mention the Iran nuclear deal. Obviously, that was controversial.", "Yes.", "So in your estimation, the cash that Iran now has access to is being used solely or primarily for war?", "Well, we knew -- as a matter of fact, the president even admitted -- that some of the cash that would be freed up would go to supporting Quds Force and terrorist activities around the region by Iran. Even the president admitted that. What the exponential factor is, is now markets are being opened. So it's not just the cash they have access to; it's all this new cash coming in with contracts for things that they couldn't have access to under the old sanctions regime. That cash isn't accounted for. They have a little bit better economy and they have that cash, whatever percentage we could agree on, is going to operations in Yemen against Sunni. It's going to operations in Iraq against Sunnis. It's going to operations in Syria. And that's why you have this increased military tension between Saudi Arabia, these other Arab League partners and Iran.", "As you know, Secretary of State John Kerry had invested a lot of time and energy trying to get all of these different Middle East countries to the table to figure out how to solve the problem and the crisis in Syria. The U.S. is very interested in that, because it is a base for ISIS. So what does what's going on this week do for the fight against ISIS?", "It makes it incredibly difficult to come with a coalition, a meaningful coalition against ISIS in eastern Syria and western Iraq. It just makes a very hard and difficult issue even harder and more difficult. Because you're going to have these proxy fights going on all at the same time, which is at each other's throats. So Iran is going to continue this proxy fight in Syria with the support of Russia. So every time the United States talks about cuddling up to Russia in the fight in Syria, now we have an Arab League partner problem in the region, including Saudi Arabia, who does -- is not very trustful of Russia. So you have all of these dynamics all at the same time. And now you have this increased tension. It's going to make a meaningful coalition to put that together just nearly impossible.", "Mike Rogers, thanks so much for helping us understand what's going on over there. Nice to see you. Let's get over to Michaela.", "All right, Alisyn. After waiting in vain for Congress to do something about gun violence, the president is about to take the lead. What is he expected to say? Well, we're going to ask advisor Valerie Jarrett about the president's executive action, ahead."], "speaker": ["JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "CAMEROTA", "MIKE ROGERS, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY COMMENTATOR", "CAMEROTA", "ROGERS", "CAMEROTA", "ROGERS", "CAMEROTA", "ROGERS", "CAMEROTA", "ROGERS", "CAMEROTA", "ROGERS", "CAMEROTA", "PEREIRA"]}
{"id": "CNN-261588", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-08-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/08/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Gas Use Suspected In Break-In At Race Driver's Home. 11a-Noon ET", "utt": ["All right, welcome back. A Formula 1 driver, Jenson Button and his model wife are the victims of a burglary that sounds like something out of a \"Mission Impossible\" movie. Thieves reportedly gassed the couple as they slept in their vacation villa on the French Riviera knocking them out for hours as the burglars made off with almost a half million dollars in loot. CNN's senior international correspondent, Fred Pleitgen has more.", "One of the top race drivers in the world robbed when he was most vulnerable. Jenson Button was asleep in a rented villa in France, and his wife, Jessica and some friends also in the house. Jenson, Jessica and friends were on holiday in a rented villa in St. Tropez when on Monday evening two men broke into the property whilst they all slept and stole a number of items of jewelry including most upsettingly Jessica's engagement ring.\" Button's spokesman said. The ring alone is allegedly worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. In total, media reports say almost $500,000 worth of jewelry may have been stolen. Even more disturbing, Button believes the burglars may have used gas to knock him and his guests out according to his spokesman. St. Tropez is on the French Riviera and frequented by the rich and famous and break-ins happen quite frequently says Will Geddes who runs the International Corporate Protection Company.", "There have been a number of reported instance where gas has been used by intruders, burglars who have been trying to obtain access to properties, to burglarize especially when the occupants are in residence.", "In 2006, burglars allegedly pumped sleeping gas into the Canne home of French soccer star, Patrick Vierra (ph) before breaking in. But the vice president of London's World College of Anaesthetists says he is skeptical.", "Anesthetic agent as we use in operating state would need to be delivered in enormous concentrates to produce the effects that has been reported and that would be very difficult -- the delivery devices that we use in an operating state would just not fit the bill for this purpose.", "Whether or not gas was used, Button says and he and his wife and friends didn't notice the break-in as it was going on and that all of them are shaken by the events. Fred Pleitgen, CNN, London.", "All right, joining us from New York to talk more about this is fascinating, former special agent, Jonathan Gilliam. He is also a former police officer and former Navy SEAL. All right, Jonathan, that is the most peculiar type of burglary, this use of gases and then to hear as you heard from Fred Pleitgen that there are a number of burglaries taking place there in St. Tropez. So how common is this method or how common is it becoming this method of using gas?", "Well, Fred, I'm not sold on the fact that that's what happened. I think you said it best. It's very peculiar to me. What it appears to me if I was just going off the cuff here from the facts that we have. I would have to say this looks to me like somebody who probably works in that villa. I mean, in one of the reports, it was described as a mansion. That's a lot of gas to be able to pump in. I mean, the Russians tried to do this in 2002 with a theater that was taken over by Chechnyans and they killed 130 of the hostages because it's hard to control this gas. You have to pump in such mass quantities of it. So I'm just not sold on that.", "OK, so even without the use of gasses. We understand among the facts to be that they were in the villa. They were sleeping. They did have, you know, lots of property, jewelry, expensive things, you know, to amount so much in loot, a half million in loot. So how might somebody have done something like this while people were sleeping?", "OK, so let's go back to the gas real quick. They could have gassed individual rooms, that's possible because that makes it a little bit smaller and easy to contain. If they are -- if it's an inside job and people work at these villas, which -- this could kind of lay creams to the fact that it happens to a lot of these places because there is a lot of wealthy people that are there. They have people that work there. They could have gone in if they were serving drinks and food and they could have put stuff into food or drinks that make them tired. I mean, if anybody that's ever taken Ambien will tell you that once you're out, you're out on that stuff. So -- and then it's a simple as walking in and taking it. And if they work there, they could have keys where they are unlock the door and there is no break-in.", "Yes, this is interesting because we are talking like you mentioned properties and the people who are attracted to St. Tropez, there is a lot of money there. So there are also a lot of cameras. I remember while a back where there was this like jewelry heist problem happening and they ended up relying on a lot of the cameras in order to finally get the people who were stealing from these jewelers there. So wouldn't there be a lot of cameras on perhaps the road ways leading up to these villas?", "There should be and that again leads to the fact that it was an inside job. I mean, somebody that's there that does not have to leave and come back, they're not going to be seen by the cameras. There are criminals, Fred, that are experts at doing things. We have bank robberies in the United States that happen here that they go in from the roof and look like construction. These things happen all of the time. With the people that were robbed, though, is they woke up from whatever haze it was and they put two what they think is two and two together, but they're confused because they don't really know. Whatever it was made them sleep right through it. They just can't imagine that.", "It's quit the mystery. Jonathan Gilliam, thank you so much.", "You got it.", "All right, the next hour of the NEWSROOM begins right after a short break."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over)", "WILL GEDDES, MANAGING DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE PROTECTION", "PLEITGEN", "DR. LIAM BRENNAN, VICE PRESIDENT, ROYAL COLLEGE OF ANAESTHETISTS", "PLEITGEN", "WHITFIELD", "JONATHAN GILLIAM, FORMER NAVY SEAL", "WHITFIELD", "GILLIAM", "WHITFIELD", "GILLIAM", "WHITFIELD", "GILLIAM", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-330778", "program": "HALA GORANI TONIGHT", "date": "2018-01-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/18/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Trump Speaks About Economy After Visiting Plant; U.S. Government Shutdown Looms As Bill Support Erodes; Tillerson Outlines U.S. Goals In Syria.", "utt": ["--- was very specific about what he wanted to accomplish. It was so core to him to support hard-working middle income families, and the child tax credit is key to doing that. So it's going to be a big win for everyone in this room and everyone across this country. And we are very, very excited about that. Doubling the standard deduction, the child tax credit, all of these elements that make this a very family-friendly plan but also enable great American businesses like this one to thrive and be competitive in a global landscape. So we're very proud of it. And America is just starting to realize just how great our tax cut plan is. So more of that to come. But thank you for having me here. Thanks.", "Thank you, baby. Thank you very much, Ivanka. She worked hard. She's a hard worker. All of our kids are hard workers, right? They work. And we love to see it. And they're doing a terrific job for our country. I've come to the great city of Pittsburgh to stand with people. And those people are incredible workers. And to show the world that America is back and that we are coming back bigger and better and stronger than ever before, and we're making our own product again, and we're opening up our factories again. I mean, you take a look at what's going on where Toyota is coming in. And the other day you just saw Chrysler announce they're moving from Mexico back to Michigan, you don't hear that too often, with a big, big monster factory, going to spend a lot of money. At the center of America's resurgence are the massive tax cuts that I just signed into law. And it is also reform but I usually just say tax cuts because that is what people -- they don't want to hear about the reform. Believe me, the reform is very important. We don't have to go into it. But the tax cuts are the most significant tax cut, most significant reform in American history, with tremendous tax relief for working families, for small businesses, for big businesses that produce jobs, for just about everybody, tremendous numbers. And you're already seeing what is happening. You're seeing what is going on. The signs of America's comeback can be seen at companies like this one, which just had its most successful year in its 35-year history. Congratulations. Good job.", "That means more growth and ultimately it means more jobs. So congratulations. We have created nearly 2.2 million jobs since the election.", "Lowest ever.", "Is Ken (ph) doing a good job?", "Come here. Thank you, man. He said just the right thing. You never know. You want to say -- say something to your workers. Say something to your co- workers.", "Good job.", "Thank you, Ken (ph). He did good. He didn't know about that. He didn't know at all about that, right, Ken? (ph) Good job. Now because we substantially reduced tax rates on American companies, economists estimate that annual household income will rise by an average of $4,000. Think of that. More than 2 million American workers have already received a tax cut bonus from their employers, pay raises, more money for retirement. Checks as high as $2,000 or more all because of our tax cuts. And it hasn't even been a month since I signed the bill. It has turned out to be much bigger than we all thought. Even the people that did it, right, Gary? And right, all of the congressman that voted for it and fought so hard? Nobody had any idea. One thing we didn't project in a positive way, nobody thought that the companies were going to step up and pay all of these great bonuses to people. AT&T started it. But they came up and they paid all of these bonuses. A Florida software company, Spellex, just announced $1,000 tax cut bonuses for its workforces. Apple just announced they are giving their employees tax cut bonuses worth $2,500 each. And because of our business tax reforms, Apple has just announced that they are bringing $350 billion and putting it into investment into our country, 350 billion.", "And I think some of you remember I said I will not consider our economic situation complete until we get Apple to start building some of those massive plants of the United States. They're going to build plants. They're going to build a big campus. They're really going to town. So we want to thank Apple -- $350 billion.", "The president of the United States, Donald Trump, visiting a factory outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He talked, of course, about that fateful night in November 2016 when he carried the state of Pennsylvania. He is there to promote and to tout the benefits of his economic plan, of the tax cut legislation. We also saw his daughter, Ivanka Trump, there make a very brief appearance. It is also political, though. There's a special election taking place in March there. Of course, the Republicans would like to make sure that there are no, as far as they're concerned, nasty surprises like the ones that took place in Alabama where the Republican candidate, Roy Moore, lost the election to the Democrat Doug Jones. Our White House reporter, Stephen Collinson joins me now from Washington with more. What is Donald Trump trying to achieve here, clearly a very sympathetic crowd near Pittsburgh today?", "That's right, Hala. What Donald Trump was doing was playing his best political card. Although he's the most unpopular president in terms of polling that we've ever seen at this stage with his administration, the only area where his polling is above water right now is the economy. That's one reason why he's stressing the jobs that are coming back to the United States, the strength of the stock market, new investments, because that's his best bet to try and forestall what many people is Democratic wave in November's elections that could cost the Republican Party the House and the Senate. He's also under a lot of pressure to try and sell the tax bill that got passed last December. It's still very unpopular. A lot of people believe that the most of the benefits of that tax bill are going to the rich. You saw Donald Trump there pulling people up on stage and saying you're going to get $2,000.", "Does that all fact check? He's giving some pretty precise numbers, $4,000 additional per household on average. Have those numbers checked out?", "Those numbers check out on theory, but everyone's circumstances of course are different. What is not under dispute is that in terms of dollars the vast amount of money is going to the most wealthy Americans. That's one of the reasons the tax bill is very unpopular. What the Republicans are hoping is that in February, March, when people start to see a difference in their paycheck, the tax bill will get more and more popular. There's some sign in polling that it is starting to be a little more unpopular. But still a majority of Americans are against that bill that passed in December. So, the Republicans have a lot of work to do.", "The optics were interesting too. It felt like a campaign speech with his base. This was him in his element. He clearly was enjoying it.", "Definitely. You know, you heard him decrying the nastiness of Washington. He's getting out of town in a moment of real political drama, 32 1/2 hours' time the government will shut down unless Republicans and Democrats can come up with some kind of short-term funding agreement. I think the president was smart to get outside Washington, be among people that like him, tout some achievements because if the government shuts down, it's going to be shut down on the first anniversary of his inauguration. That's not a very good political look for the president.", "Right, especially since the Republicans control both houses of Congress. It would be very difficult to pin it entirely on the opposition in this case. Stephen Collinson, thanks very much. Mr. Trump may be focused on the economy this hour. It makes sense. But we want to look at U.S. foreign policy now. They say that to carry out war, you need three things, money, money and money. Which just so happens to be something the U.S. government does not necessarily have a lot of to spend on that type of effort and the importance of that is not lost on Trump.", "If the country shuts down, which could very well be, the budget should be handled a lot differently than it's been handled over the last long period of time, many years. But if for any reason it shuts down, the worst thing is what happens to our military.", "That was President Trump a few hours ago after meeting senior military leaders and there are few places where military strategy is of such urgent and important as in Syria. We've been giving a look at America's end game there. Now very interestingly, we've been hearing from the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, who says that the U.S. is aiming to crush terrorist groups and curb Iran's influence. It also wants Bashar al-Assad out. It also wants the safe return of refugees and the elimination of chemical weapons. This is coming so many, many years after the beginning of this civil war, that it is really worth exploring what the U.S. really wants to do in Syria. Keeping some sort of military presence? It seems like that idea was out the window years ago. Where are we going with all of this? Let's speak with Nick Paton Walsh about what we know regarding America's involvement in Syria. Nick, you join us from London. You spent a lot of time, obviously, reporting from Syria. What are we looking at here? Some sort of, I guess, semi-permanent presence for the U.S. military inside Syria?", "Well, if you look at Secretary Tillerson's list -- there are five key points there that you outlined. Those things are incredibly hard to satisfy immediately and possible in the longer term. That is an extraordinarily big ask, as is stamping down on al Qaeda, ISIS and chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction, gone as well. You've given the question here, well, is this entirely the U.S. government's policy? Does he speak cohesively for the Pentagon as well? But also, what do they mean by continued engagement? It does appear that much of the focus is about keeping the handful of very potent U.S. forces that have been training Syrian Kurds in Northern Syria. That's the major gambit the U.S. has to play here. They recently announced expanded training for a border force. That was rolled back in the last 24 hours or so. The broader issue is, is this going to go on for years? Is it specifically about circumventing Iran's influence between Iraq and Lebanon? Many say Iranian backed militia have a lot of freedom to move around as well. Are we also going to see a broader concern about putting the U.S. into a fight they've spent years under the Obama administration to kind of keep out of.", "Exactly. Briefly, this is the U.S. years after Russia and Iran have established huge influence in that country. Now all of a sudden seemingly doing a 180 on their policy and providing long lists of very difficult things to achieve with tens of thousands of troops on the ground, let alone a few thousand. This is actually quite remarkable to say this at this stage.", "It is to some degree. I can see kind of the enduring logic here. The Obama administration didn't want to get messed up in backing one particular side in the Syrian civil war. That has been brutal and bloody. It's no consolation to the Syrian-Sunni rebels who have endured that battering frankly by the Syrian regime. They're stepping in because they see a vacuum. They're concerned about ISIS coming back. They're concerned about Iran and Russia taking sway in that particular area. They don't want to let the Syrian Kurds do the fight against ISIS down necessarily. So, I think possibly you might argue with a small handful of forces they can insert into Northern Syria and continue to keep there, they potentially buy a lot of strategic influence and they certainly want to be sure their allies in the region like the Israelis don't see this become a playing ground for Iranian and Russian influence and that the U.S. keeps some sort of mark. It may seem like an enormous reversal. But given the tail end of the Syrian war and the defeat of ISIS, it does make some kind of sense -- Hala.", "Nick Paton Walsh in London, thanks very much for that analysis. Still to come tonight, new details about the torture and abuse 13 children suffered inside this California home of horrors, police say at the hands of their own parents. We are live next.", "We're learning more about that horrifying story of neglect and abuse. A California couple will appear in court today, charged with the torture of their own children. The district attorney in this case spoke to the media a short time ago and detailed some of the abuse against the 13 kid among them, being tied up with ropes, eating just once a day and only allowed to shower once a year. Stephanie Elam was at that news conference and joins us now from Riverside, California. It's actually getting more shocking by the day, this story, Stephanie.", "Completely, Hala. Even when you cover a lot of really sad, difficult stories, there is still some things that's just shocking, and this is one of those stories. To hear it, according to the District Attorney's Office, they are saying that if the kids washed their hands about their wrist, they were accused of playing in the water and then they were punished. And punishment could mean beatings, it could be strangulation, and it could also mean that you would tied up. And that tied up in ropes. And so, one of the kids was able to get free and even at one point hogtying the child. And when the children was able to get free, then they resorted to padlocks and chains. They're saying this abuse was pervasive and it got worse when the family moved to California from Texas in 2010. But really, the only reason that this came to light at this point is because of the 17-year-old daughter who had the moxie, who had the courage to run for help. And she actually - if she hadn't done this, we might not have known about this. In fact, take to listen to what Mike Hestrin, the district attorney's office - the district attorney for Riverside County, what he said he did. Take a listen.", "The 17- year-old victim that escaped had been working on a plan with her siblings to escape this abuse for more than two years. She escaped through a window and took one of her siblings with her. That sibling eventually turned back - became frightened and turned back and went back into the house.", "So, just think about that. She still took that cell phone that was no longer in service, called 911, showed pictures to the police officer, so that they would believe her. When the police officers got to the house, when they knocked, the defendant in that time were able to release two of the children from chains, the 11- year-old and the 14-year-old. But they did not have time, by the time the police actually just went ahead and entered to free the 22-year-old who was still in chains. And just to give you an idea how poorly they were doing, they are saying that the 12-year-old weighs that of an average 7-year-old and that the 29- year-old female weighs just 82 pounds. They're also saying that the children have some cognitive impairments and also nerve damage from extreme prolonged abuse from what they were dealing with. And also, the other thing that is going to be key here, Hala, is the fact that they've recovered journals, the one thing that kids were able to do, hundreds of journals that the kids were writing in. And so, they've recovered these and, I think, that is going to be key in this case as well. When you take a look at the children, the fact that they were not being fed as much as they needed, clearly, the parents, though, would eat and would often get things like pies and leave them on the counter for the kids to look at, but wouldn't let them eat them. Just to give you an idea, there's so much that we learn today, but that just gives you an idea of how poorly these children, how much neglect these children were living with over this period of time, Hala.", "Honestly, you can hardly wrap your brain around people so sick and so disgusting, they exist in the world unfortunately. And in this case, thanks goodness for that young courageous girl who managed to escape. Stephanie Elam, thanks so much for joining us. Now to Cairo and a CNN exclusive interview with a man who some consider the highest religious authority for Sunni Muslims. My colleague Ben Wedeman talked with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar who is speaking out about President Trump's decision to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, calling it rash and uncalculated. That topic and others as well discussed. Ben Wedeman joins me now live from Cairo with more on this extraordinary interview. Ben, what more did you hear - what more did the imam tell you?", "Well, Ahmed El- Tayyeb, who is the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, he had organized a two-day conference on Jerusalem that was organized in the aftermath of the decision last month by the Trump administration to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Now, interestingly, about this conference, it was attended not only by the Grand Imam, but also by Pope Tawadros II of the Egyptian Coptic Church as well as Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president. All three of these men were scheduled originally to meet with US Vice President Mike Pence when he came to the region. And all three of them declared that they would refuse to meet him as a result of the American decision on Jerusalem. And when we spoke to the Grand Imam today, he warned that the decision by the United States on Jerusalem could have dire consequences.", "People now have begun to realize the danger of this decision and realize that decision like this nurture terrorism, created and propelled forward to act and express itself the message that we will all reject. Unfortunately, this decision will nurture terrorism. And when terrorism rises again, the East and West will drown in seas of blood. There are other causes that encourage terrorism, stemming from the tyranny of international policies towards people in general. The West could have benefited from the East and the East from the West. This is what we are looking forward to from advanced Western societies, for the relationship to be one of love and human exchange. This relationship would cost a fraction of what it costs to create these barriers of hatred and we at Al-Azhar have tried to demolish the barriers that breed the culture of hatred and violence between the East and the West.", "On Saturday, the United States Vice President Mike Pence is coming to Cairo. And on his original schedule, he was supposed to meet with your Excellency, but you declined to meet with him. Why?", "We welcome the visit, but we're surprised by the decision to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It gives credence to the claim that Jerusalem is Jewish and justifies the jewification (ph) of Jerusalem. This is contrary to international law. We think of Jerusalem as an occupied city and not a Jewish city. It is 100 percent Arab under Israeli occupation. I believe there isn't any religion that would approve of this decision. Religions came to free mankind of tyranny, of capital and power. I believe that I would be contradictory in front of people if I hosted one of the architects of this decision by the American administration. This decision falsifies history. I always receive important guests on the basis that we share more on human common ground.", "Now, Vice President Pence is scheduled to arrive here in Cairo on Saturday, but he has nothing on his schedule except a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Then he flies to Oman where he has nothing on his schedule, but a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II. Then, of course, he goes on to Israel where he has two very busy days. This sort of imbalance in his attention on the region certainly has been noted here. Hala?", "Thanks, Ben Wedeman, live in Cairo with that interview, that exclusive interview. More now on our top story now. Condemnation from Syria after America outlined its goals for the country's future. They include the defeat of ISIS and Al Qaeda, then seeing the reduction of Iran's influence. Syria says the mere presence of America's military there is an act of aggression. Of course, the government has no issue with other militaries' presence in their country such as Russia or Iran. Let's get more on the significance of this move and speak to two people who know both sides of this story well. Professor and author Fawaz Gerges is in London. CNN military analyst Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling currently is in Orlando, Florida. Fawaz, first of all, this is coming a bit late in the game from America, isn't it, outlining priorities and goals and potentially floating the idea that there could be some sort of semi-permanent military presence by American inside Syria?", "I think it's very late. And I think, also, it's a very tall order. If you ask me, what are the challenges about this particular announcement, I think there is a huge gap between the wish list announced by the secretary of state and the means and the tools that the US has at its disposal. I mean, think about it, Hala, the United States wishes to deliver an enduring defeat for Al Qaeda and ISIS. The US wishes to basically contain Iranian influence. The US wishes to foresee or oversee a political process that basically gets Assad out of power. And how? The US has 2,000 soldiers in northeastern Syria, working with the Kurds, sandwiched between the Syrian and the Iranian and the Hezbollah forces and hostile Turkey. When Secretary of State Tillerson, a few weeks ago, said that Assad must leave today, not tomorrow, Assad retorted by saying the secretary of state was hallucinating. Hallucination or not, it seems to me that without really investing more strategic assets in Syria, I think the rhetoric itself will not do.", "Right. And Mark Hertling, that was going to be precisely my next question. I mean, when the US invested hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of troops in a country like Iraq, they ended up leaving with Iran essentially dominating the political landscape there. How do they expect in Syria, with a couple of thousand of troops and certainly a history of disengagement toward that country to achieve anything on that Tillerson wish list?", "It's going to be difficult, Hala.", "I mean, it's impossible. It's not difficult, it's impossible.", "Yes, I would say so. It seems like Secretary Tillerson's strategy that he outlined at Stanford with the five points don't seem to have the requirements of the strategy, meaning the resources associated with it and the ends to do it. What he's basically doing is outlining a strategy that should've been outlined probably about two years ago with some significant resources behind it. The defeat of ISIS and Al Qaeda is still a critically important goal of the United States. ISIS is bruised and battered and with a military definition, I would say, from a conventional standpoint, they are defeated in their capitals of Raqqa, but they are not destroyed and they could quickly arise again. But some of the other goals that Secretary Tillerson outlined, as Fawaz said, are going to be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to meet, especially the UN-brokered restoration with Assad's departure, the curb on Iran which is already prevalent throughout Syria and the safe return of refugees which are currently in Idlib and the Syrian government continues to bomb them even though they place many of those refugees there with support by the Russians. As you said and as Fawaz said, there are a whole lot of other countries involved in this. there is going to be contention with the Turks, with Iran and with Syria.", "And, Fawaz, I've got to ask you, just looking at the picture as it stands now in Syria, the Iran-Russia-government axis is in charge now. I mean, they've basically - and they're continuing to pound Idlib as Mark Hertling is saying, they've, for all intents and purposes, won.", "Well, for your own viewers, Hala, let's look at the operational map. Syria, Iran and its allies control most of the lands, most of the urban centers. And you're going to see, unfortunately, Idlib - most of Idlib is going to fall in the next few months and including", "OK. But as we said, that late in the game with perhaps not the resources required. Either way, thanks to both of you. I hope to have you on again to talk about this in more detail very soon. Mark Hertling and Fawaz Gerges. Still to come tonight, the daughter of a Hollywood giant says MeToo. She's been saying for a while now. And says, this time, she hopes people will listen. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["I. TRUMP", "D. TRUMP", "D. TRUMP", "TRUMP", "D. TRUMP", "D. TRUMP", "D. TRUMP", "D. TRUMP", "D. 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{"id": "CNN-254455", "program": "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS", "date": "2015-05-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1505/03/fzgps.01.html", "summary": "How The Widening Socioeconomic Gap Hurts Our Kids.", "utt": ["Is the American dream dead? Well, my next guest says that even if it isn't dead, it is certainly in crisis. And he should know. Robert Putnam was honored by President Obama with the nation's highest humanities medal for deepening our understanding of community in America. He has a ground-breaking new book called \"Our Kids.\" In it, he compares the opportunities that his graduating high school class had in 1959 in Port Clinton, Ohio to kids at the same school today. The results are disheartening. Robert Putnam, a pleasure to have you on.", "Thanks, Fareed. It's good to be here.", "So first talk about that...that class. 1959. What was life like for you in Ohio?", "Well, and I have to say, this is not just by golden glow rememberings of it. We've gone back and interviewed all the surviving members of my class and we've looked deeply at Port Clinton's history. It was a period in which there were surprisingly few class barriers in Port Clinton. There were barriers of race and barriers of gender, but class barriers almost didn't exist. And about 80 percent of the kids in my high school graduating class from Port Clinton, from both sides of the tracks, did better than their own parents. Better economically and better educationally.", "So now take us to what would a graduating class in Port Clinton look like today?", "Port Clinton has been dramatically changed. Part of the town has been devastated by Rust Belt problems, and so there are a lot of kids now, very poor kids from broken homes whose parents thought they might get a job in one of the factories, but the factories are all gone. So those kids are living in serious poverty. But meanwhile, right along the shore, in Port Clinton, they've got a lovely site on Lake Erie, there's now an who -- a new gated community about 20 miles long and about 150 yards deep of million-dollar mansions. So if you go to the Port Clinton high school now and look in the parking lot, next to each other, parked in the parking lot, are BMW convertibles driven there by kids whose dads live on the -- in the mansions and junkers, jalopies in which the kids live because they're homeless. That kind of unbelievable contrast in -- between rich kids and poor kids is -- is new and it's not only new in Port Clinton. It's new, really, nationwide. These -- these larger social trends that we're familiar with, the growing gap between rich people and poor people, the growing segregation of America along class lines, those come down and affect the lives and the opportunities and the resources available to kids.", "And the trajectory for kids, disadvantaged kids now, is so bad, because they start out at this disadvantage and then every time they stumble, that disadvantage deepens.", "That's exactly right. In the book, \"Our Kids,\" we've got a whole series of what we call scissor scraps, scraps that look like this, in which things are getting better for kids coming from affluent homes and getting worse for kids coming from -- from poor homes. It's -- you -- there's a -- there's a gap that we call the goodnight moon gap, which is how much time parents spend reading to their kids. A growing gap. There didn't used to be any gap between classes in terms of how much time their parents read to them. Now there is. There's a summer camp gap that is how much time parents -- how much money parents are able to spend on their kids for summer camp or piano lessons or, you know, all that sort of thing. A huge gap now. Seven times as much money spent on the average rich kid as on the average poor kid. Gaps in terms of quality of schooling, gaps in terms of church attendance. All of those growing gaps are...", "And -- and that's what explains the fact that, you know, social mobility in America is so low, because if you're on the bottom end of that scissor graph, you just can't make it up.", "Absolutely right. You can see the final result of this in terms of graduating from college, getting the degree that is the necessary credential nowadays. Really interesting studies have been done comparing how important your own test scores, your own intellectual ability is and how important your parents' income is.", "And?", "So it turns out now, smart poor kids, high test scores, but low parental income, are less likely to graduate from college than dumb rich kids; that is, kids who are lower scorers, but their parents have money. That, Fareed, violates the fundamental notion of what the American dream is. You shouldn't -- your chances in life shouldn't depend upon your parents' income, they should depend upon how hard you work.", "And what can we do? What are the solutions?", "There -- there are some big things we can do. For example, universal early childhood education is -- we know that that works. We know it works especially for -- for poor kids. It's not yet, despite the debate about the president's proposals here, it's not yet a red/blue issue, because the most impressive early childhood education program in America is in Oklahoma, one of the reddest of states. So I'm trying to avoid making that become a -- a political issue, because it isn't right now. We -- the facts are that they would help. The other big things that would help, of course, is if we could end this 30 year stagnation of wages for -- for -- that is affect the working class. But there are also smaller things not quite as powerful in the long run but -- but doable right now. For example, instituting pay for play for high school activities, that is, nowadays, if you want to play in extracurricular activities, your parents have got to pay about $400 a term. We know that extracurricular activities have a payoff down the road because employers are willing to pay more for people who've learned those soft skills. So now to charge people, kids, to take part in those activities has had the inevitable consequence that poor kids are dropping out of band and chorus and football and French club, to their detriment. And that is self-inflicted. This is not a zero sum game. It's not like if we help poor kids, it's going to hurt my grandchildren. On the contrary. What we know is my grandchildren are going to be better off if we help all the kids, because the country is going to grow faster, we're going to be using everybody's minds, not just the rich kids' minds, we're going to be not having to pay for the criminal justice costs and the -- and the health costs and so on. This is a -- an easy -- ought to be an easy kid -- easy case. Everybody would be better -- better off if we just invested more of our own love and attention, mentoring, for example, and also of our country's resources in these poor kids.", "Best of luck, Robert Putnam.", "Thank you very much, Fareed.", "A pleasure to have you on.", "Next on GPS, drones have become very good at one thing: killing human beings. But can you envision a time when they might save lives in addition to ending them? That day is here. I'll explain when we come back."], "speaker": ["ZAKARIA", "ROBERT PUTNAM, AUTHOR, \"OUR KIDS\"", "ZAKARIA", "PUTNAM", "ZAKARIA", "PUTNAM", "ZAKARIA", "PUTNAM", "ZAKARIA", "PUTNAM", "ZAKARIA", "PUTNAM", "ZAKARIA", "PUTNAM", "ZAKARIA", "PUTNAM", "ZAKARIA", "ZAKARIA"]}
{"id": "CNN-164047", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2011-3-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1103/30/acd.01.html", "summary": "Unrest in Syria; Violence Follows Syrian President's Speech", "utt": ["Well, in Syria, an eyewitness today says more than a dozen people were killed in the city of Latakia in clashes after President Bashar al-Assad gave a nationally televised speech. This is YouTube video reportedly shot in the village -- in that town. CNN cannot independently confirm this. The eyewitness says protesters started gathering in the square after the speech, which disappointed many in the country, chanting \"we want freedom.\" Army and security forces, the eyewitness say, started shooting. The eyewitness, who didn't want to be named for security reasons, said at least 16 people died in the violence. The Syrian government denies there were any deaths. This video certainly seems to indicate from the amount of blood on the street and the head wound that this person received at least some deaths. The eyewitness says the mood in that town is tense, quiet. There's military on the streets. People are afraid because they take today's violence as a message from the regime. Now, in his 45-minute speech today, al-Assad blamed the ongoing violence in Syria on vague enemies and, quote, \"conspiracy,\" a conspiracy working to undermine the country's stability. As he has often said over the 11 years of his rule, he said the government supports reform and meeting people's needs, but he gave no specifics on how that's going to happen, no timetable. Al-Assad didn't mention lifting a 48-year-old state of emergency that gives the government sweeping power, and arresting detained citizens, a promise that was made just this past weekend. After the president's speech in Damascus, another tense scene as a woman approached his car. The woman was restrained, the crowd gathered closer. Look at this, on Syrian state television, the screen quickly faded to black shortly after this incident. It's not clear what the woman wanted, but it looks like she wanted to give the president some sort of piece of paper. But watch as the screen fades to black. Earlier, I spoke with Jihad Makdissi, a spokesman for the Syrian embassy in London. I should tell you, though, when I spoke to him a few hours ago, we had not yet gotten any word of reported violence after the speech, so I couldn't ask him about that. Take a look.", "In the past days, your government spokesperson has given a variety of explanations for what is going on in Syria, who's behind the protests. She's blamed unnamed foreign powers attacking Syria because of their opposition to Zionism and the U.S. She's also blamed Islamists, armed gangs, even Palestinian refugees. In an interview yesterday you gave, you said it wasn't outside forces; it was anarchists. And today your president pointed the finger at satellite news channels and also said that, quote unquote, enemies are behind, quote, \"the plots that are being hatched against our country.\" Who do you believe is behind these protests? What are the plots?", "Look, we have a problem of miscommunication seemingly, Mr. Cooper. I'm not responsible for anybody else who said what. I'm responsible for my president, what he said. If you go back, please, please go back to his speech. He said that yes, Syria is targeted, and a minority people, a small group of people tried to take advantage of this events to implement their own agenda in destabilizing Syria. But it's not all a conspiracy theory.", "But who is behind this conspiracy?", "There is no conspiracy. If you are talking about the anarchists and people who are -- for instance, who killed ten security forces in Latakia by knives and by shooting at them from rooftops, I don't know. An investigation has to go through.", "According to eyewitnesses, though, there have been dozens of Syrian citizens who have been killed by security forces, shot by security forces, beaten to death by security forces. We've had reports from eyewitnesses in hospitals who say in some places the hospitals have been overwhelmed with citizens who have been shot to death by security forces. Do you deny that that has happened?", "No, I don't deny that this happened at all. People died during the clashes between security forces and the demonstrator. And this is why the president, at first he wanted the gradual reform in Syria. Because Mr. Cooper, Syria is a third-world country. And you have not only to update your legislation to be a democratic country. You have to update the culture of the people, the culture of the soldier who is faced by violent demonstrator who's trying to attack him.", "You're saying that Syria is a third-world country, and yet this president has been in power for 11 years. His father was in power for 29 years before that. For more than 40 years, the Assad family has ruled this country. If, in fact, Syria is still a third-world country, doesn't the leadership have some blame in that? In 2005, I read a speech that your president gave, saying that computers were an enemy of the Arab people, that computers were designed to destroy the Arab people.", "Who said that? Who said that?", "Your president said that.", "The background of my president is a reformist, and he's the one that introduced before being president, introduced the Internet service to Syria. He has just recently, one month ago, lifted -- liften (ph) the ban on YouTube, on blogging, on Facebook, and you can see the Facebook now in Syria, and everything. So...", "In -- in 2005, he said that the Internet is a threat to Arab identity. He said that computers and technology, quote, \"overwhelm the Arabs and threaten their existence and cultural identity, which has sincere -- which has increased the doubts and skepticism in the minds of young Arabs.\"", "Yes, but you have to finish the sentence. He said only when it is used wrongly. So please read the whole script. He said only when it is used like spreading propaganda or, you know, spreading rumors. This is what he said.", "You had said just yesterday in an interview on CNN that the president had begun ending marshal law. And the government spokeswoman, Bitana Shivan (ph), also said on Sunday the decision to lift emergency law had already been made. And yet today, we heard no mention of lifting emergency law by the president. Has he now decided not to lift emergency law?", "Not at all, not at all, Mr. Cooper. Let me explain to you that I can understand where the confusion is coming from. Because the president today, he wasn't addressing the United Nations. He was addressing his own people, and he was showing commitment and leadership and assuring them that he's committed to the reform.", "But those are the people who are suffering under emergency rule. Those are the people who live under emergency rule. If anyone has an interest in it, it would be his people. I don't understand why he wouldn't say directly to his people, \"I'm lifting emergency rule. Here's how I'm going to do it. Here's when it's going to start.\" Without any kind of timetable, these are just words, no?", "Mr. Cooper, when it comes to national security, Syria is like all other nations. You have to take the right step and have the right legislation. And that's why we see like, for instance, America, President Obama said he would be shutting down the notorious Guantanamo Bay, but it's not been done yet. You don't do it overnight. But the difference between there is the Syrian president is fully committed, and he's the guarantor of implementing his own words.", "I very much appreciate you coming on to talk. Thank you so much.", "My pleasure, my pleasure.", "Joining me now on the phone is former U.S. ambassador to Syria Ted Kattouf. What do you make of what he said and what the Syrian president said today? Because for all that talk of reform, we've been hearing that for 11 years. When Assad came to power, there was talk of reform. In 2005, there was talk of reform. Now he's talking about reform. How much time does reform take?", "Well, apparently, an authoritarian regime, it takes as long as the leader wants it to take. We have a president who has dropped in the polls, according to news reports today, because he can't get jobs restored, even though we had the severest recession since the Great Depression. But you're right, Anderson. This president has had 11 years, and he's talked about reform. And his reforms have been very tepid. They've been things like allowing private banks, allowing private universities, things, frankly, that Syria had in the 1950s before the Nasareths (ph) came to power and the Mubasaks (ph). So -- and if you look at Lebanon and Jordan, countries that are much more resource-poor than Syria, they have higher per capita incomes, and particularly in the case of Lebanon, a far more thriving economy, despite civil war and lack of -- almost lack of a government most of the time.", "What do you think today's speech by the president indicated? Because yesterday, we had talked, and you had said that, if he doesn't give specifics about a timetable and details, and if he -- you know, in this case, he didn't even really talk about lifting the emergency rule -- that it's not real. It doesn't seem real.", "It's not real. You know, I'm not saying that he couldn't come through with a couple of surprise announcements in the coming weeks or months. But essentially, this was an in-your-face kind of speech to those who want change in Syria. He's saying, you know, \"I will decide what reforms are made. I will decide when they're made and how they're implemented. And, you know, you guys should just sit down and shut up.\"", "He's also using the same -- literally, the same false rhetoric that was used by Mubarak, that's been used by Gadhafi, blaming satellite news channels, blaming foreigners, blaming unnamed conspiracies. Clearly, it didn't work with Mubarak. We'll see what happens with Gadhafi. Is this government in danger like Mubarak was, or are the instruments of repression so pervasive that they can outlast these protests?", "Well, you -- you've hit the nail on the head. The instruments of repression are greater than in Egypt and Tunisia. And the reason I say that is that Tunisia and Egypt have populations that are largely homogeneous, and the army comes from the people. And these people did not want to fire on their own. Syria's ethnic and sectarian makeup is more fractured, particularly the sectarian makeup. And you have the Alawis are minorities. They were a very downtrodden and persecuted minority. And now, for 40 years, they've been in the ascendancy. And when I say the Alawis, I don't mean for a moment to suggest they've all benefited. They haven't. But he has loyal units that will do what they're ordered to do. And his brother and his first cousin command some of these elite units. And then they have about five overlapping security and intelligence services.", "They have a military. They have people who will fire on their protesters, unlike what we saw in Egypt. Ambassador Kattouf, I appreciate your expertise. Thank you for joining us.", "Thank you for having me.", "CNN, I should point out, has been applying for visas to go to Syria now for more than a week. But now we've been turned down repeatedly. Now the Syrian embassy isn't even responding to our requests. Coming up, breaking news. Radioactive levels in the seawater near Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant. More than 4,000 times the legal limit. Also, new information about those heroic workers who are racing to cool down reactors. You would expect that they would be incredibly well fed, well taken care of. Well, we have learned new details about what their lives have been like while working at this plant. On top of the pressure and the fatigue, the workers don't seem to be getting much food. Crackers sometimes, that's it. Sometimes just two meals a day. More on that next. Also, Isha Sesay following other stories for us tonight -- Isha.", "Anderson, the orca that killed its trainer more than a year ago is back performing at Sea World Orlando. Tillicum, the killer whale, went back to work today, performing in a show for the first time since the tragic death of trainer Dawn Brancheau. That story and much more when we come back."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "COOPER", "JIHAD MAKDISSI, SYRIAN DIPLOMAT", "COOPER", "MAKDISSI", "COOPER", "MAKDISSI", "COOPER", "MAKDISSI", "COOPER", "MAKDISSI", "COOPER", "MAKDISSI", "COOPER", "MAKDISSI", "COOPER", "MAKDISSI", "COOPER", "MAKDISSI", "COOPER", "TED KATTOUF, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SYRIA (via phone)", "COOPER", "KATTOUF", "COOPER", "KATTOUF", "COOPER", "KATTOUF", "COOPER", "ISHA SESAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "NPR-30716", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2012-10-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/10/09/162591198/mich-unions-want-bargaining-added-to-constitution", "title": "Mich. Unions Want Bargaining Added To Constitution", "summary": "In Michigan, unions have bet big on ballot proposals to stem a tide of Republican legislation curtailing organized labor's ability to bargain contracts, collect dues, and raise money for political races. Their top goal is to make sure the state legislature cannot pass a so-called right-to-work law that outlaws compulsory union membership. They also want to reverse a law that allows the state to temporarily take over financially struggling local governments and scrap public employee contracts.", "utt": ["From Ohio now to  Michigan, where labor unions are betting big this election. They're throwing their weight behind not one, but three new ballot proposals. The most ambitious of the three would enshrine collective bargaining rights in the state's constitution. As Michigan Public Radio's Rick Pluta reports, that could reverse as many as 170 state laws that currently limit union bargaining power and fundraising.", "Emboldened by a ballot victory last year in Ohio, union leaders and Democrats in neighboring Michigan sensed an opportunity. They want to build a firewall to stop Republican efforts to curtail unions' workplace activities. Labor's top goal is to make sure the state legislature cannot pass a so-called right-to-work law that outlaws compulsory union membership.", "Business groups are pushing back.", "Michigan is saturated with political ads, in no small part because there are six proposals on the November ballot. Half of them were put on the ballot with big union backing and are now the subject of fierce campaigning on both sides.", "This TV ad has been criticized for going too far, but it has taken a big bite out of support for the measure. It speaks to one of the ballot proposal's effects and that's that it would throw into doubt many laws about how unions and employers deal with each other.", "This would be unprecedented in the country.", "Rob Fowler is the president of a small business association. He says that's why business groups are pouring a fortune into opposing Proposal 2 and other union-backed ballot questions.", "It would take off the table a huge amount of what is traditional labor law in most states.", "Fowler says that would create a sense of uncertainty that would threaten Michigan's economic recovery. Unions are also trying to repeal a very controversial law that gives state-appointed managers sweeping authority over nearly bankrupt local government. Among other things, the managers can and have swept contracts with public employee unions.", "Seven Michigan cities and school districts have been taken over and another question would allow home health assistants who are paid by Medicaid to organize into a union. All of these make the November ballot the next flashpoint in the long simmering battle in Michigan between Republicans in the legislature and labor. And unions are putting in both money and boots on the ground.", "My name is Todd. I'm volunteering on behalf of Protect Working Families. Knocking on doors in the community to seek support for Proposal 2 (unintelligible).", "Todd McCastle(ph) is a union carpenter who says he's hit hundreds of doors to get people to support the ballot question.", "Thank you for your support. Have a good day.", "McCastle says he's been getting a good reception here in mid-Michigan in neighborhoods where generations have worked in nearby auto plants.", "They've either grown up in a culture where they've either worked and been affected by collective bargaining directly or their families have.", "The stakes are big. If voters adopt Proposal 2, bargaining rights are locked into the state constitution. If voters reject it, that could give the go-ahead to Republicans in the legislature who want to make Michigan, like Indiana did earlier this year, a right-to-work state. That would be a huge culture change for a state here in the heartland of organized labor.", "For NPR News, I'm Rick Pluta in Lansing, Michigan."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "RICK PLUTA, BYLINE", "RICK PLUTA, BYLINE", "RICK PLUTA, BYLINE", "RICK PLUTA, BYLINE", "ROB FOWLER", "RICK PLUTA, BYLINE", "ROB FOWLER", "RICK PLUTA, BYLINE", "RICK PLUTA, BYLINE", "TODD MCCASTLE", "RICK PLUTA, BYLINE", "TODD MCCASTLE", "RICK PLUTA, BYLINE", "TODD MCCASTLE", "RICK PLUTA, BYLINE", "RICK PLUTA, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-201761", "program": "STUDENT NEWS", "date": "2013-2-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/21/sn.01.html", "summary": "Restaurant Explodes Because of Gas Leak", "utt": ["First up today on CNN STUDENT NEWS, J.J.`s Restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri, closed early on Tuesday. People there smelled a strong gas odor, about an hour later, this is what J.J.`s looked like: an explosion ripped the roof off. The whole place burst in the flames. At least one person was killed then, another body was found yesterday. At least 15 people were injured. Hospital spokeswoman shared one person`s memory of what happened.", "He said that he remembered the smells of gas, the explosion and the roof collapsing. And I asked him how he got out, and he said there was no door for me to walk through. He said it was just rubble.", "Authorities are trying to figure out what happened. They think it might have had to do with the leak in an underground natural gas line. This kind of natural gas used in homes and businesses is called methane. It doesn`t have any natural odor. Companies actually add a smell to the gas so that you can know something`s wrong, like at J.J.`s. People smell gas and call authorities out to check on it. If you ever do smell natural gas, either at home or at a restaurant, don`t stick around. Experts say, you need to get out and then call the gas company. Don`t know the number? Call 911. Some other safety tips, especially around the house -- if your stove uses natural gas, look for that blue flame. It means it`s working correctly. Also, only use your stove or oven for cooking. Don`t turn it on and leave it running to try to heat the house. And always make sure you have at least one fire extinguisher around, and make sure that works. Kansas City officials were hoping to finish searching through the rubble of J.J.`s restaurant before a massive winter storm hits the area, and this isn`t just Missouri. 18 states were under some kind of watch or warning yesterday. Forecasts were predicting 18 inches of snow in Kansas, whiteout conditions in Nebraska and Missouri, heavy rain and possible flooding down around Louisiana and Alabama. Winter weather was making driving dangerous. A 26-car pileup in Wisconsin tied up traffic for hours. Snow in the Midwest might not sound that strange, but California? You might think sunshine, palm trees. Not this week. This video is from Sacramento on Tuesday. A snow storm started on the West Coast, and it`s pushing its way across the country. At least the dog doesn`t seem to mind the weather too much. April is financial literacy month. We just didn`t want to wait for it on our blog. When it comes to money, we asked, if you tend to save more or spend more, look at this. 50/50, not often we see that. Nate says, it`s easier to spend money, but hard to save it. If you have the self control, it will pay off in the long run. Ben says his financial habits depend on his income. If he`s making money, he`ll spend more, if he`s not, he`ll save more. From Mariko, \"I`m still young and I`d like to go shopping. It`s hard not to spend money, especially when you have more than $5.\" Kamren writes, \"By saving money, we`re giving the impression that we aren`t going to use the saved money ever, so why not just spend it now?\" Seraphina tends to save more, because you never know when having it will be useful, or if you have to buy a gift for someone on short notice.\" And Paxton writes, \"Handling money well\" is when you have a balance between spending and saving, so you don`t end up with no money or not enough things that you need.\" A lot of you, seniors might be focused on getting through May wrapping up high school, moving on to whatever comes next. Zach Sobiech is determined to make it through May as well. He doesn`t know what comes next, and neither do his doctors. They don`t think he`ll live past May because of cancer. The way Zach reacted to that news is what`s incredible.", "Spend some time with Zach Sobiech, and you will find yourself surrounded by music. This is Zach`s release. He began playing guitar when he was 12. A year later, Zach was diagnosed with a life-threatening form of cancer, than last summer, doctor said the outlook was getting worse. That cancer had spread to Zach`s lungs. And then gave him until this May to leave.", "Waiting on the death -- and that was just really like -- it was a nightmare kind of thing, with, you know, you just didn`t really want to accept it. You`re in complete denial.", "That denial has now turned to determination -- a determination to make the most of the time he has left, and with that has come something extraordinary. Zach wrote and recorded the song called \"Clouds.\" He wrote the song as a thank you to everyone who has stood by him during his battle with cancer.", "That`s me expressing my feelings, you know. Every time I listen to it I go back to yeah, it`s (inaudible), and all these people are here for me.", "The song has more than 2 million hits on Youtube, and listening to the lyrics, it sounds like a good-bye.", "I know what he`s saying, he is my son, and -- but to see how it`s affected so many other people has been really incredible.", "Zach`s mom Laura said the first time she heard \"Clouds,\" she cried. Not because of what the future holds, but because of how proud she is of Zach.", "I was in awe. I mean I just had no idea that that`s what was going on.", "The song has become so popular that music giant BMI flew Zach and his family to New York City and signed him to a deal last month. As exciting as that is, Zach`s heart really is at home. He`s performed the national anthem at Stillwater basketball games with friends Sammy Brown and Reid Redmond, the trio also makes up the band a firm handshake and they perform diversity theater to help raise money for cancer research.", "So Zach is doing what he can with what time he has. Creating awareness for osteosarcoma and telling his story through music. Through all the chemotherapy and surgeries, there one thing cancer can never take away from Zach, a legacy that has touched the hearts of millions.", "It`s not that we don`t think about the future, because we do. But we don`t live there, we live here, and that`s where we -- we keep it.", "Is this legit? The right to assemble peacefully is in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It`s true! Among other freedoms, Amendment One protects the right of the people peacefully to assemble.", "150 years ago, a peaceful and massive assembly came together in the nation`s Capitol. As part of our Black History month coverage we`re looking back today at the march on Washington.", "In the summer of 1963 the civil rights movement was in full swing, but there were still divisions, even among those in the movement. The Civil Rights Act, the bill that guaranteed voting rights and prohibited discrimination, was going nowhere in Congress. There was disagreement among some civil rights organizations as to how to move forward and a little active support from President John F. Kennedy. Organizers decided to hold a march and rally in the nation`s Capitol and make it appear as harmonious as possible to send out a positive call for change. On August 28th, 1963, about 200,000 people marched in a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. There were prayers, songs, speeches. Among those who delivered messages was John Lewis, a student leader who is now a congressman from Georgia. Artists including Bob Dylan, John Baez and Josephine Baker performed for the crowds. But the person who really captured the nation`s attention was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr who delivered his famous \"I Have a Dream Speech\" in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial. Dr. King said, \"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.\" These words inspired the marchers and gave Americans a new way to think about the struggle for civil rights. Historians consider the March on Washington a success, because it had a big impact on national opinion. Soon afterward, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, promising equal voting rights, prohibiting discrimination in public places and employment and starting a movement to desegregation of public schools and universities.", "March on Washington, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Greensboro Four, that`s what we`ve talked about during Black History month. What are you talking about in your classes? If you`re on Facebook, that`s where we`d like you to tell us, Facebook.com/cnnstudentnews. Now, we are going to end today with a three pointer. First up, this Youtube video of a coach`s half court shot.", "OK, good start. How about this Youtube video of a girls` high school game. This might start as a long pass, but watch this: it ends up in the basket. Only two points, though, since it bounced inside the three point line. This last one is going to be a slam dunk. A sea otter who dunks. His trainer says the slam is Eddie the Otter`s go to move. It`s also his only move. You`d better start working on a jumper, Eddie, or else your playing career could be washed up. All right as long he`s having the ball, who are we to say what he ought to do? The shot clock is running down on today`s show. Teachers, you have unlimited time, though, to share you feedback about it. So, we hope you`ll do that at cnnstudentnews.com and then meet us right back here tomorrow. Bye-bye. END"], "speaker": ["CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR", "JILL CHADWICK, UNVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL", "AZUZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ZACH SOBIECH, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ZACH SOBIECH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LAURA SOBIECH, ZACH`S MOM", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LAURA SOBIECH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LAURA SOBIECH", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "AZUZ", "AZUZ", "AZUZ", "AZUZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-213123", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-8-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/22/cnr.02.html", "summary": "NCAA Denies Player's Hardship Waiver", "utt": ["A college basketball player who already lost two family members now learns the NCAA won't let him on the court this season. Andy Scholes is here with \"Bleacher Report.\" Good morning.", "Yes, good morning Carol. Well Kerwin Okoro he lost his father and brother in the last year so he decided to transfer from Iowa State to Rutgers to be closer to home but the NCAA says he's going to have to sit out this season if he wants to play for the Scarlet Knights. Now this is another case of the wording of the rule getting in the way of doing what's right. You can get a hardship waiver to play right away if you have a sick family member, but if a family member dies you're out of luck. Okoro tweeted about the rulings saying \"I'll make the wise decision of staying off social networks today because if I express my feelings right now I might just say the wrong thing.\" Now Rutgers does plan on appealing the NCAA's decision. Well Mike Tyson is back in boxing but he's not lacing up the gloves. Tyson is now a promoter in charge of Iron Mike Productions. His first event will be tomorrow night in New York. And Tyson may not be knocking anyone out anymore, but he still knows how to get people excited for a fight.", "I'm a little nervous here but I'm just so excited about being involved with this whole establishment. And I don't know. I need some fighter to come over and say I'm going to kill him or something, and I want you to talk about his mother. Come on now we got to sell tickets, man. Come on, man.", "We've seen some awesome pool dunks this summer, but this one is going to be hard to top. The ball changes hands 11 times, there's multiple trampolines, kids on roller blades, a gorilla suit and Carol the dunker is wearing a go pro camera so we're actually going to get to see this dunk from his point of view.", "Ok, oh we're lucky.", "Yes the gorilla didn't even touch the ball. He was just a prop. He just jumped right through, and dove into the pool.", "I wonder how long it took them to do that.", "I think they had a blueprint, you know like \"Home Alone\" where he threw it up, and this was probably what they did here. Pretty, pretty cool stuff, though.", "Yes interesting use of a trampoline.", "There goes the gorilla.", "Andy Scholes, thank you so much. The next hour of the CNN NEWSROOM after a break."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "ANDY SCHOLES, BLEACHER REPORT", "MIKE TYSON, BOXING PROMOTER", "SCHOLES", "COSTELLO", "SCHOLES", "COSTELLO", "SCHOLES", "COSTELLO", "SCHOLES", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "NPR-42824", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-02-18", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5223591", "title": "Muhammad Cartoon Protests Turn Deadly Again", "summary": "A new wave of violent protests erupts over Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. In Nigeria Saturday, Muslims attacked Christian churches amid riots that left at least 15 people dead. Friday, protests claimed lives in Libya and Pakistan. Pakistani journalist and scholar Ahmed Rashid offers his insights to Debbie Elliott.", "utt": ["Across the world, Muslims continue to rally and protest, and in some instances to riot against the now-infamous Danish cartoons. Today in Northern Nigeria Muslims angered over the cartoons attacked Christians and burned churches. At least 15 people were killed. In Eastern Pakistan, police opened fire on a crowd trying to burn down shops. Four people were wounded. Another large protest was planned for tomorrow in Islamabad, but the authorities there have declared a ban on demonstrations in the city. In London, 15,000 people marched peacefully from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park.", "It's been five months since the original publication of the cartoons, which lampooned the prophet Muhammad, and it's been nearly three weeks since they were re-published in some European newspapers, sparking the current round of protests. Many in the West continue to scratch their heads, unsure how much of this anger is really about the cartoons at all. We decided to pose the question to Ahmed Rashid. He's a Pakistani journalist and author, and he's on the line from Lahore. Welcome.", "Thank you.", "So Mr. Rashid, are these protests really about the cartoons?", "Well, at one level, certainly. I mean there's no doubt that these cartoons have been very provocative and Muslims have felt very insulted by them, and the vast majority of Muslims don't see this as an issue of free speech the way the West has been posing it. But it must be said that at another level in each different country I think that these demonstrations we're seeing in the Muslim world, all of them have double and triple agendas. It's not just cartoons. I mean we've seen, for example, in Syria and in Iran, where you had state-sponsored demonstrations which burnt down the Danish Embassy. Now, both Syria and Iran of course are facing huge pressure from the West, so they have reason to, if you like, get some of this anger out by, you know, burning down Danish embassies and things.", "But we've also seen huge demonstrations in countries like Turkey, where the Islamic Right has come out. Some 50,000 people came out in Istanbul, which is a huge number, in a totally secular state. Now, I think there the message clearly was you've still got an Islamic Right wing which is against Turkey joining the European Union. You've got several layers of politics there. I think the same probably goes for Egypt and for Libya. In Pakistan, there has been mounting opposition to General Musharaf, who is now in his sixth year of military rule, and he wants to run as President for another five years. The opposition is led by an alliance of Islamic parties who are in Parliament, and also extremist Islamic groups linked to Bin Laden.", "So you have now a growing Islamic opposition which is using this cartoon issue to try and mount a campaign to house Musharaf.", "How is that happening?  Is there an organized effort for this?", "Very much so. What we've seen over the last couple of days is organized street demonstrations, many of which turn into riots, and then burning and smashing and looting takes place. Now, the alliance of Islamic parties have ordained that every two days in a major city in Pakistan, there will be a massive strike, shutdown and demonstration.", "Now, I think I just need a little help understanding how the outrage over these cartoons is related to people's attitude against President Musharaf.", "Well, I think the cartoon issue has really hurt people immensely. I mean I think much more than the flushing of the Korans in the toilet in Guantanamo or the kicking of the Korans or torturing prisoners in Abu Ghraib and the pictures that have recently appeared. Much more than that, an insult to the Prophet is really taken very, very personally by Muslims. So that has had the capacity to bring out hundreds of thousands of very aggrieved people. And the government has been seen to be far too weak in dealing with that.", "And what we've got across the Muslim world is that people are frustrated that their governments are powerless in front of the West. They're not capable, you know, there've been demands, for example, to break ties with Denmark, to break ties with the European countries. Obviously Muslim governments aren't willing to do that for a whole variety of very sensible reasons. But that has not been seen in the press by the public. They're seeing their governments weak and incapable of defending what they consider Islam's interest against an ever- encroaching West in this kind of battle of wills we've seen since 9/11.", "I have a question about the riots. The targets of the violence aren't necessarily Western embassies or Danish missions. Why is that?", "It's been quite terrible. I mean my own brother-in-law was on the road in Peshawar, and his car was utterly smashed. He was badly wounded. And he's, you know, a resident and a citizen of that city. So I mean, you know, the targeting has been totally indiscriminate and un-understandable. And I think, you know, this is part of this kind of wider picture, the growing frustration amongst young people, the joblessness, inflation, anger at the regime for not resolving their problems. Something, for example, that we saw in France last month, setting fire to things. I think what we're going through is something like that process.", "Do you think these protests are somehow a watershed in relations between the Muslim world and the West?", "I think they really are, because what I see at the moment is that the Muslim world really has no answer to the demonstrations going on. It has no answer in how to contain them, what to tell its own people, it has no answer what to tell the West. It is unable to unite on these issues. And on the West's side, I think the Europeans are utterly at a loss. I spoke to a European ambassador yesterday and he told me very clearly that all the European Union ambassadors have been ordered not to apologize to anyone about anything related to the cartoon issue.", "Now, if the Europeans are going to act tough like that, then certainly there's no give. So I think we really are at a watershed.", "Ahmed Rashid is a journalist and author of a book called Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. We reached him in Lahore.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Just ahead, the rough and tumble of Louisiana politics."], "speaker": ["DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "Mr. AHMED RASHID (Journalist and Author)", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "Mr. AHMED RASHID (Journalist and Author)", "Mr. AHMED RASHID (Journalist and Author)", "Mr. AHMED RASHID (Journalist and Author)", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "Mr. AHMED RASHID (Journalist and Author)", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "Mr. AHMED RASHID (Journalist and Author)", "Mr. AHMED RASHID (Journalist and Author)", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "Mr. AHMED RASHID (Journalist and Author)", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "Mr. AHMED RASHID (Journalist and Author)", "Mr. AHMED RASHID (Journalist and Author)", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host", "Mr. AHMED RASHID (Journalist and Author)", "DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-352797", "program": "S.E. CUPP UNFILTERED", "date": "2018-10-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/20/SECU.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Is Pulling Out Of The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forced Treaty With Russia", "utt": ["Breaking now, President Trump just told reporters that the U.S. is pulling out of the intermediate range nuclear forced treaty with Russia. Take a listen.", "The Russia has violated the agreement. They have been violating it for many years, and I don't know why President Obama didn't negotiate or pull out. And we are not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement and go out and do weapons. And we are not allowed to. We are the ones that have stayed in the agreement and we have honored the agreement but Russia has not, unfortunately honored the agreement so we are going to terminate the agreement.", "President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachav signed the treaty in 1987. But the Trump White House believes that puts the U.S. at a disadvantage when it comes to countering a Chinese arms buildup since China faces no such constraint on intermediate range and nuclear missiles. Nation security adviser John Bolton is expected to tell Russian leadership about the INF exit on his trip next week. We will be back in two minutes."], "speaker": ["CUPP", "TRUMP", "CUPP"]}
{"id": "CNN-36233", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-8-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/02/lad.07.html", "summary": "Wildfire Still Raging Near Yellowstone", "utt": ["Some cooler weather is sort of helping firefighters who are battling wildfires in the West. Just take a look at this map. We've been talking about these for the better part of a week now. Fires burning in several different locations. We're going to focus on the Yellowstone Park -- the fire that's near Yellowstone Park. Bobby Kitchens is a fire information officer. He joins us now by phone from a firefighter's base camp that's right in Yellowstone National Park. Good morning. Bobby, can you hear me all right?", "Yes, I can.", "Great. What's it...", "Good morning to you.", "What's it looking like there this morning?", "Well, of course this morning -- it's cool this morning and the smoke has not started up yet, but we had a very busy day -- it burned more actively yesterday than we thought it would and we're looking for a very active burning day today.", "And how are you fighting it? What kind of equipment are you using?", "Well, we are using mostly helicopters and hand crews. We're in a place where we're going to use a little bit of air tankers, perhaps, but the wind going down the canyon has made it too dangerous to -- we can't even get air tankers in there for the last couple days.", "OK. Any nearby towns in jeopardy at this point?", "No, not really. It's near the east gate of Yellowstone, though, and all in the park so far and no structures are imminently threatened. But if we don't stop this fire from going east, some structures can be threatened in a day or so.", "That's right. And I know a couple of days ago we were reporting that that east entrance was closed down. Is it still shut down?", "Oh, it is. It's closed. The fire is actually very near that east entrance and very near the road that comes into the east entrance.", "Any sense of how much has been destroyed so far?", "Yes, we had a fire -- we were -- actually had two different fires and they had a little bit of an area in between and yesterday afternoon became very active and burned together. Acreage estimates now about 1,800.", "OK, so what are you telling tourists who might be wanting to visit?", "Well, all the other entrances are open and so it's a very small part of Yellowstone access that's closed. So tourists can still, of course, get into Yellowstone, they just have to go around to another entrance.", "So you can get in and still enjoy some parts of the park safely?", "Oh, yes, and...", "OK.", "... most of it. It's just right there at that east gate and the road from the east gate to Fishing Bridge is closed, but Fishing Bridge is open.", "All right. Bobby Kitchens, information officer there, thanks very much for your time this morning.", "You're welcome.", "OK. They need some help from the weather, too.", "You bet. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR", "BOBBY KITCHENS, FIRE INFORMATION OFFICER", "MCEDWARDS", "KITCHENS", "MCEDWARDS", "KITCHENS", "MCEDWARDS", "KITCHENS", "MCEDWARDS", "KITCHENS", "MCEDWARDS", "KITCHENS", "MCEDWARDS", "KITCHENS", "MCEDWARDS", "KITCHENS", "MCEDWARDS", "KITCHENS", "MCEDWARDS", "KITCHENS", "MCEDWARDS", "KITCHENS", "MCEDWARDS", "CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-6337", "program": "Breaking News", "date": "2000-4-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/13/bn.07.html", "summary": "Elian Gonzalez Case: U.S. Judge Temporarily Blocks Elian's Return to Cuba", "utt": ["Still today, the fight over 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez, of course. The deadline for the Miami relatives to relinquish custody came and went today at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight and then a new round of legal action began. CNN's Susan Candiotti has been outside Elian's Miami home all day, she joins us now with an update -- Susan.", "Hello, Lou. A day that began with tension has now eased among the Florida relatives of 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez and the hundreds of demonstrators who have gathered nearby the home where he has been living. As you indicated, a deadline has passed, a deadline whereby U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno could have used authorities, could have used force to remove the boy from his home and fly him to his father who has been waiting for him for more than a week now in Washington, D.C. So the attorney general has decided not to use force for now. And there's been yet another development, as you take a look at pictures of demonstrators who have been gathering here all day long. We can tell you that one judge, one member of a three-court panel with the Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has decided to at least temporarily enjoin after the family attorneys asked for this motion, has temporarily prevented the boy from being returned to Cuba. Until a three-court judge panel rules on a motion in its entirety filed by this family that ask the boy -- that the boy not go back to his father who might then take him back to their home in Cuba. Now, on the other hand, we are still waiting to see whether the U.S. government will take any of its own options which it could do now. For example, it could go to federal court to ask for a court order to force this family to comply with the U.S. immigration order to surrender this youngster. Throughout the day, we can tell you that demonstrators have been giving support to this family by cheering, by cheering and by greeting the great uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez, the great uncle of the boy, Elian. In fact, you see him now thanking the crowd for its support or standing, thanking these demonstrators for their continued support. And, Manny Diaz, who is one of the attorneys representing the relatives, is also standing by to give us his reaction to receiving this temporary injunction. Now, the U.S. Justice Department has said that it will not take any further enforcement action until the Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta rules on this motion to -- asking for a permanent stay on removing the child to Cuba. Now, all of this means, of course, that U.S. immigration could still move forward on a reunion between father and son, but at least for now has not chosen to do so. Throughout the day the family has received visitors, visitors that include the Miami area mayors as well as Cuban-born actor Andy Garcia and Cuban-born singer Gloria Estefan. What has the boy been doing all day long? Well, those celebrities, for one thing, have been visiting him. And we understand, according to a family spokesperson, that young Elian has spent much of the day indoors watching events unfold on television along with getting visits from supporters. In fact, Armando Gutierrez says that Elian even at one point was giving a relaxing massage, as Mr. Gutierrez put it, to one of his aunts. Also, Marisleysis Gonzalez has also addressed this crowd to their cheers, and even brought out drinking water to them on this very hot Florida day. And so, we are waiting to see what develops next, but for now the crowd is not dispersing and has been well behaved throughout the day despite the fact that police have set up barricades and chained them together. No one has made a move to come across those barricades. The family -- demonstrators have said that they will demonstrate peacefully. And now we will hear from Manny Diaz, who is the lawyer representing the Gonzalez family in Florida.", "... that was unreasonable and unprecedented. They forced us to file a motion with the court and the court said to them, this is unreasonable and unprecedented, we will set our own schedule. Today, after seeking the assurance of the government that Elian would not be removed from the United States during the appendancy of the appeal and the government's refusal, continual refusal to give us assurances that, that would not happen, we were once again forced to file a motion with the court. The court has ruled today, and I would like to read you the order of the court: \"Plaintiff Elian Gonzalez is enjoined from leaving the United States. Any and all persons acting for, on behalf, or in concert with plaintiff Elian Gonzalez are enjoined from aiding or assisting in the removal of Elian Gonzalez from the United States. All officers and agents of the United States, including but not limited to officers and agents of the United States Department of Justice which parenthetically includes the attorney general, are enjoined to take such lawful and reasonable precautions and actions as are necessary to prevent the removal of plaintiff from the United States. This is a mandatory injunction on all concern, including the attorney general of the United States until further order of this court.\" Now you all heard Mr. Craig say a little while ago...", "We are having some technical difficulties in Miami. As more news happens there, we will return. In the meantime we have some news in the business world, Sun Microsystems, we are awaiting earnings from that company. Sun Microsystems...", "We will pursue it and we win this appeal. Thank you.", "Susan, you are on camera, go ahead.", "At least for now, we can tell you, Lou, that the family here is celebrating a victory, at least a victory that it received from a federal appeals court in Atlanta. However, the Florida relatives of 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez have lost another legal battle. Earlier this week, they filed an action with the state family court, hoping to make this a family court custody battle. And it had asked a family court judge to allow them to present evidence at a hearing so that they could argue their case before this judge. However, this day, family court Judge Jennifer Bailey has ruled that her court has no jurisdiction, that a U.S. federal court, that U.S. Immigration takes precedence in this matter. So one legal loss, one legal victory for the Florida relatives of 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez, much to the chagrin of this boy's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez in Washington. Lou, back to you.", "All right, Susan Candiotti in Miami. We are going to take a break. More of STREET SWEEP when we come back.", "Lou Waters again at CNN Center. We will get back to STREET SWEEP shortly. We having been having some satellite problems, and we are covering the Elian Gonzalez story. The center of which has been in Miami today around the Little Havana home of Lazaro Gonzalez, the great uncle. Up in Washington waits Juan Miguel Gonzalez, that's where CNN's Bob Franken is right now. Bob, I imagine there is some angst up there today.", "Well, it has been quite a day of frustration for Juan Gonzalez, who has been in the United States now over a week, trying to be reunited with his son, with some strong indications at the beginning of the day that in fact by now he might just well have been. But of course, this court order now means that, in effect, the legal advantage, at least for the moment, has gone to the Miami relatives, who have some bargaining wedges. Now, Gonzalez has been spending much of his time in the U.S. here in Bethesda, Maryland, which is a suburb of Washington in the residence of the Cuban Interests Section. He left earlier today, went downtown to the Cuban Interests Section. And then sequestered in the office of his lawyer, Greg Craig. It was a day where he was forced to watch the videotape of his son saying that the son wanted to say in the United States, addressed to his father, that Elian Gonzalez was saying on the videotape he wanted to stay in the United States. We have no assurances that he was not being prompted or that the tape was edited, that kind of thing. Nevertheless, the attorney, Greg Craig, came out a while ago and talked about the tape and the pain it was causing.", "While waiting here for his son to be returned to him, he has been forced to watch Elian, exploited by those who have him in their care, on the morning shows, on national television, in the streets of Miami and now most recently in a videotape taken of Elian in his own bedroom. Not only have these relatives broken the law, they have emotionally damaged and exploited this most wonderful little boy.", "Now the Elian Gonzalez case takes on a different dimension with that court order. Earlier we had been talking about the inevitability of a quick reunion, talking about where it might occur in Washington at perhaps some secret location. Of course, Juan Gonzalez had made it clear time and again that he wanted to get out of this country into Cuba with his boy as quickly as possible. Given the fact now that there could be a delay because of the appeals court order, negotiations might be expected to resume again for some sort of gathering of the family before any transfer of Elian Gonzalez goes back to the father who has been waiting now nearly five months -- Lou.", "Perhaps you heard from Miami, Manny Diaz just moments ago, thanking Greg Craig for his legal opinion in the matter that those folks down there in Miami are breaking the law. Is that what we are going to hear now is a shouting match between attorneys?", "Oh yes, sure, that of course is all part of it. This is a very, very emotional case, a very intense case, the attorneys are of course adversaries, and Greg Craig was lecturing them as an advocate, trying to say that you shouldn't break the law, you should comply with the law. The problem is is that the law right now, for the moment, has switched to the side of the Miami relatives, who at least have some legal breathing room until they can resolve this temporary restraining order, and find out what the three-judge panel in Atlanta is going to do.", "All right, and we continue our Elian watch. The events down in Florida, the demonstrations outside the home of Lazaro Gonzalez continue, but for now everything appears on hold because of that decision this afternoon by the circuit court. We will continue following the story. I'm Lou Waters, back to STREET SWEEP after a break. 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{"id": "CNN-414229", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-10-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/25/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Nigerian Police Force Mobilize to Quell Worst Unrest in 20 Years", "utt": ["In Nigeria, chaotic scenes of looting and destruction prompted the deployment of the nation's entire police force. Now this comes after weeks of protests across the country over police brutality. The government shut down the special anti robbery squad over accusations that members of that union have harassed, kidnapped, extorted even murdered people. As CNN's Nima Elbagir reports, this past week was a bloody one in Lagos.", "Broken glass and debris on the streets of Lagos. Shattered remnants of protests in Nigeria over police brutality that quickly turned from peaceful to deadly. There is a tense calm in the city now. But on Tuesday night, the city erupted into chaos after eyewitnesses say multiple protesters were shot and killed by army soldiers. The army has dismissed reports of the incident as \"fake news.\" The shooting set off a wave of anger across the country. Many shops and businesses have been burned or damaged and there is widespread looting in the worst unrest in the country since its return to civilian rule in 1999. It is one of the biggest political challenges so far for the country's president, Muhammadu Buhari. On Thursday he addressed the nation, appealing for calm.", "Your voice has been heard loud and clear and we are responding.", "But critics say he waited too long to make a public statement and didn't even address the events on Tuesday, which has further angered many Nigerians.", "People died, people and their loved ones, and he didn't mention anything about. It", "The speech was baseless, hopeless.", "The state governor spoke to CNN and said he is committed to a full investigation of what happened and people will be held accountable but also says demonstrators should have left when they were told, as a curfew was in effect.", "The protesters had the time to also have left the site we're talking about. But it's totally condemning (ph).", "The protests began more than 2 weeks ago and has been largely driven by young people in Nigeria, organizing on social media under the #EndSARS who initially called for a police unit known as a special anti-robbery squad to be disbanded because of allegations of kidnapping, harassment and extortion. Under intense pressure, the government agreed to dissolve the unit and redeploy officers to a different team. But the movement continued, widening to include economic reforms and more protections against the police. The voices raised here in a call for justice have found willing echoes around the world, gaining international attention from celebrities like Beyonce and Rihanna, placing a spotlight on shootings that have yet to be fully explained and the growing discontent from the country's youth -- Nima Elbagir, CNN, London.", "Samsung's chairman Lee Kun-hee has died after years of illness. He had been comatose after suffering a heart attack in 2014. His son has been leading the company since becoming vice chairman in 2012 and is expected to inherit his father's title. Lee Kun-hee was 78 years old. We will be right back."], "speaker": ["BRUNHUBER", "NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA", "ELBAGIR (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ELBAGIR (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ELBAGIR (voice-over)", "BRUNHUBER"]}
{"id": "CNN-383953", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-10-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/26/cnr.22.html", "summary": "California Fighting Nine Major Wildfires", "utt": ["A fresh evacuation order is in effect for parts of northern California in response to a wildfire there. That's in addition to the thousands who have already fled the so-called Kincade fire. It's raging in the wine region north of San Francisco. Firefighters are also battling a major wildfire near Los Angeles. It's dubbed the Tick fire. Our Nick Watt has the latest in the efforts to knock down those flames.", "Red flags warnings were in place. We knew it was coming, just not where. The ignition point for this one, Tick Canyon Road. And the so-called Tick fire exploded to 200 acres in just 20 minutes or so. Homes were lost here in Canyon Country just north of Los Angeles.", "I don't know if anybody is up there. I don't know.", "Helping out, putting out the fire, I don't know. I can see the whole structure is on fire.", "Dry brush, high temperatures and those whipping Santa Ana winds gusting at over 50 miles per hour, pushing the fire forward, those flames jumping a major freeway overnight; 10,000 structures endangered, 40,000 people under mandatory evacuation orders.", "We asked that people pay attention to the evacuations. It is mandatory.", "Many not knowing what they might return to.", "What they usually suggest, they recommend that you do is, like horses and livestock, you just open gates and let them out. And I never got to get up there. Two fire trucks were going up the road.", "It's hard to sit and watch your community burn. But at the same time, we need to listen to our first responders and allow them to do their jobs.", "This, just one of nine wildfires right now burning across the Golden State. Up north in Sonoma County, 49 structures destroyed by the Kincade fire, nearly 22,000 acres and still burning. Still no cause but the local utility, PG&E, has now reported an outage of a high voltage transmission line just seven minutes before this fire broke out and near the point of origin.", "We still at this point do not know exactly what happened.", "Hundreds of thousands of Californians have had their power shut off in high-risk areas in the hope of presenting breakouts. Right now across California, thousands of firefighters still fighting flames, still waiting for the next conflagration.", "The utility company mentioned in Nick's report is now warning of potentially historic winds over the weekend that could make the situation worse, if that's indeed possible.", "Joining me now is Brian Garcia, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service Brian, we know you're very busy right there in California and we appreciate you coming on. Thanks.", "You're welcome.", "What have you seen with the forecast over the years there in relation to warming?", "And how is this affecting life and business there in northern California? Because this has now become a common occurrence.", "Right, yes. It's interesting having watched this over just a handful of years. Over the past five years we've seen an uptick in the number of fires and those impacting people, whether it's directly by the fire or by the smoke drifting over heavily populated areas. So for example, last year, the Bay Area was inundated with smoke from the Camp fire. But going back to the Lake County fires, like Rocky and the Jerusalem fire and going into like the Mendocino Complex, the Carr fire, we've had all these fires in California and those seem to be increasing in numbers. There's a whole host of thoughts on why that is. But from what I'm seeing, it's pretty easy to draw correlation to, as we continue to warm the atmosphere and we see these upticks in temperature across the area, year over year, we're seeing what we call more evapotranspiration. We're seeing the evaporation coming out of the fine fields, the grasses, the shrubs, the trees and so forth. Then we had the 4.5 year drought, dried out a lot of trees in a lot of those larger fields. And then we had about three years of pretty heavy rain across the area around here. That doesn't add back in the moisture into those large fields. That takes a long time for that to occur. So those large fuels, the big trees, we've had a lot of tree mortality. Then you throw on the beetles that have infested a lot of these trees. We have a lot of dead growth of trees and so it creates a tinder box for fire.", "And with all that you just said, let's get back to the people that live there that are going through this. Do you think people are thinking now of the climate and warming and that this is a new normal for them?", "Talking to people, it seems like we have a short-term memory in a lot of sense. People who are directly impacted by these fires tend to remember it. But even in 2017, when San Francisco broke its all-time high of 103, we had 106 that year in September. That's a fleeting memory now. So we really need to do a better job in instilling this history into people. But it definitely impacts business lives and we see a lot of businesses mitigating for climate change, whether it's sea level rise or the threat of potential fires and potential energy shutdowns now.", "So are you now, when you give your reports, are you referencing climate when you do that?", "You know, it's really interesting. Meteorology looks out pretty much from today going out seven, 10, 14 days. Climate looks seasonally and beyond. At this point now, when I go out and talk to our partner agencies and I give them seasonal briefings, like, for example, what to expect for the coming winter, I'm starting to work in climate talk into it because they need to be climate literate for their planning, for a winter or a fire season, a dry season. So climate literacy is becoming much more of an important part of meteorology. Because at the end of the day, as the climate changes, it's the meteorologists that do the day-to-day forecasting that will be behind the desk, forecasting this change in environment. I don't necessarily like to call it the new normal, because that implies we've hit an equilibrium of some kind and we haven't. We're going to continue to warm and continue to see the impacts of this changing climate.", "We appreciate your insights in this. Brian Garcia, we can't thank you enough. We appreciate it.", "My pleasure. Thank you.", "We're keeping close tabs on the Rugby World Cup in Yokohama. New Zealand is finally on the scoreboard as they try to mount a second half comeback. But moments ago, England scored again, putting them up 19-7. The pace of the game starting to pick up again. This would be quite the win for England if they were to overcome the very famous New Zealand All Blacks. We'll keep you posted. An early release from prison for a high-profile actress sentenced for the U.S. college admissions scandal. Why actress Felicity Huffman is enjoying freedom a few days earlier than expected. That's next."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "NICK WATT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WATT (voice-over)", "ROBERT LEWIS, SANTA CLARITA VALLEY SHERIFF", "WATT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KATHRYN BARGER, LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISOR", "WATT (voice-over)", "BILL JOHNSON, CEO, PG&E", "WATT (voice-over)", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "BRIAN GARCIA, NWC METEOROLOGIST", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "GARCIA", "ALLEN", "GARCIA", "ALLEN", "GARCIA", "ALLEN", "GARCIA", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-219564", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-11-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/26/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Omega House is Home to Washington Lawmakers.", "utt": ["Let's take a look at the markets right now. Trading is getting thin as Wall Street empties out for the Thanksgiving Day holiday. There you see the Dow is up about 32 points. A little extra money for the cranberry sauce on Thursday. We did have some big housing news this morning. A new report says housing prices are up about 11 percent over last year. The pace of growth is leveling off, but this is the biggest single increase since the height of the housing bubble in 2006, 2007. So good news there for homeowners. Members of Congress are known to rack up the Frequent Flyer Miles, so shifting gears here to our final story. Those lawmakers are always ferrying back and forth between their home districts and Washington. But did you ever wonder where or how they live when they're doing the nation's work here in the nation's capital? Our Dana Bash was also curious. She dropped in on a few of them in their home. It's quite a sight to behold. Take a look.", "Paint peeling off the walls, sheets covering the windows, broken blinds, a mangled chair covered up with a wood board, an ancient stove with a giant hole -- and, yes, that's underwear in the living room. What looks and feels like the most rundown frat house on campus is actually the Capitol Hill home of some of the most powerful men in Washington.", "Welcome to Omega House.", "I love what you've done with the place.", "Thank you.", "Dick Durbin and Chuck Schumer, the second and third-ranking Senate Democrats live here together.", "You guys got the rent?", "Their landlord and third roommate is Democratic Congressman George Miller. The House is so legendary, it inspired a new TV series, \"Alpha House.\" Except the Senate roommates in the amazon.com show are Republicans.", "They are nothing like us. Don't even begin to think so.", "When people see this house, they're going to know because in the show it's a little nicer.", "Wait a minute.", "Miller, the owner, started taking in tenants more than 30 years ago. The house hasn't been updated since.", "When we stopped buying L.P.s, that was when the music stopped.", "But you have a record player here.", "Yes, the same exact records are there now as the day I moved in, in 1982.", "The best part about it are the products that are on the cassette player.", "This is my medicine cabinet right here.", "I didn't know you were a metro sexual.", "Smooth as could be.", "Whose closet is this?", "It's mine.", "Oh, Mr. Neat's. Mr. Neat's closet.", "Schumer's stuff is strewn all over the living room. (on camera): Seriously, this is where you sleep every night?", "Every night.", "And you wake up to Barack Obama staring at you in the face?", "Exactly.", "Senator Durbin did out you a little bit. He said this is the most you've ever made your bed.", "Just for you.", "Well, thank you. And the blinds are particularly beautiful.", "Oh, yes. Well, a guy can see the weather --", "The phone is still plugged in but hasn't worked in years.", "547-2513, I still remember the number.", "You don't use a phone? No? What's the point?", "He's always saving money.", "Their couch was a money saver too.", "My son wanted to throw that away, put it out in the trash. And it had to be 12, 14 years ago. I said, it's better than anything we have.", "Their refrigerator, well, it's a scary sight. That baguette, it looks a little aged.", "It's a lethal weapon.", "No wonder they have a problem with rats.", "The rats may have done that.", "Wow. How many rats did you have?", "Don't ask.", "I had a dream literally two nights ago that the rats were back. I thought the rats were in the Senate. I didn't know they came to the house.", "And what year is this from, Congressman?", "Well, Ben Franklin gave that to us.", "Since this is not a kitchen fit for cooking, the congressional roomies take the easy route, cold cereal. They buy it in bulk. You're the Raisin Bran, Senator. And which one are you?", "Oh, I prefer Raisin Bran. But I like the Mini Wheats.", "The fictitious lawmakers in \"Alpha House\" have breakfast together, watch sports at night. Not so much here.", "I come in about midnight from my office usually.", "And we leave while he's sleeping.", "And they leave while I'm sleeping.", "We do it by design.", "An opening scene of \"Alpha House\" shows a bowl of flag pins on the counter. This is what they have on their counter -- (on camera): -- screws and a random pill. And a pen in case you need one.", "It's very -- it's modern art.", "It's hard to believe such prominent politicians live in these conditions.", "When my wife comes, she will not stay here.", "But they're only in Washington about three nights a week. (on camera): What makes it work?", "Your friends. Your friends. We love it. It's home.", "Dana Bash, CNN, at the real Alpha House near Capitol Hill.", "And I'm sure their flacks (ph) are thrilled with that story. That's it for me. I'll be back at 5:00 eastern on \"The Situation Room.\" The NEWSROOM continues right now with Brooke Baldwin."], "speaker": ["ACOSTA", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SEN. DICK DURBIN, (D), ILLINOIS", "BASH (on camera)", "SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER, (D), NEW YORK", "BASH (voice-over)", "REP. 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{"id": "NPR-19142", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2017-03-14", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/03/14/520162889/late-season-snow-storm-clobbers-northeast-region", "title": "Late Season Snowstorm Clobbers Northeast", "summary": "A late-season storm has been crippling travel and knocking out power across the region. The hardest hit areas will likely be digging out of more than 2 feet of snow before the storm tapers off.", "utt": ["A late-season storm is continuing to roll across the Northeast all the way up through Maine, leaving some areas under 2 feet of snow. NPR's Tovia Smith says it's left hundreds of thousands without power, and it's crippling travel.", "It's not just how much snow is falling, but how fast. At 4 inches per hour, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says crews can't keep up in the hardest-hit areas upstate or in the streets of New York City.", "The roads are very, very nasty, and the roads are very dangerous. Many of them are filled with sleet and slush. And it's very important for us to get the roads clean before that slush freezes.", "With the nor'easter bearing down right about when we should be watching for daffodils coming up, some residents had let their guard down.", "Really slippery, like, lots of ice. Really loud wind. Oh, my God, it hurts. (Laughter) It hurts.", "That's Matt Mayfield, who was out in Manhattan shoveling roofs, while Shawn Ford was shoveling sidewalks yet again.", "It's getting heavy now. But hey, we've got to keep kicking. We New Yorkers (laughter).", "Boston, meantime, got something of a reprieve from predictions. But the 8 to 12 inches was still enough to shut down Logan Airport.", "It's a ghost town, yes. There's nothing going on here.", "Mustafa Kamali, a manager at the Wendy's in terminal A, was lonely at Logan.", "And nobody else was here. I think I'm the only one with security (laughter).", "That's a far cry from the old days when storms would leave hundreds of stranded passengers splayed across the floors for hours or days. More than 6,000 flights were canceled because of this storm, but many a day or two before the first flakes fell. Daniel Baker, CEO of flightaware.com, says better forecasting and airlines' ability to text passengers allows them to minimize disruptions.", "It's really, really highly choreographed dance. But at the end of the day, the hope is that this will be largely a one-day event, making the best of a tough situation.", "But even more snow is predicted for the weekend on the eve of next Monday's official start of spring. Tovia Smith, NPR News."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE", "ANDREW CUOMO", "TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE", "MATT MAYFIELD", "TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE", "SHAWN FORD", "TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE", "MUSTAFA KAMALI", "TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE", "MUSTAFA KAMALI", "TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE", "DANIEL BAKER", "TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-313882", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-06-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1706/06/nday.06.html", "summary": "Feinstein on Being a Woman in Politics.", "utt": ["Hillary Clinton was not able to break that final glass ceiling in Washington, of course, but she and long-time California Senator Dianne Feinstein are among the high-powered women blazing a trail for the next generation. CNN's chief political correspondent Dana Bash spoke with Feinstein about her five decade long career for the new CNN series \"Bad-ass Women of Washington.\" Dana joins me now. Dana, you're very naughty naming it \"Bad-ass Women.\" Tell us how you came up with it.", "Well, first of all, we were talking about this and calling it bad-ass women sort of, you know, as we were developing it and we just decided, let's just call it that.", "It stuck.", "It stuck. And we spoke with seven women across the political and generational spectrum for this series. And we're starting with Dianne Feinstein because she has a story that will make you say, wow, she is a bad-ass.", "Probably fair to say most women graduating from Stanford in the 1950s were focused on finding a husband and having a family. You wanted to go into politics. Did people think you were crazy?", "Yes. The first time out, something must be wrong with her. She must have a bad marriage. Why is she doing this?", "People said that to you?", "Oh, yes. Being a woman in our society even today is difficult. You know it in the press area. I know it in the political area.", "Forty-seven years ago, Feinstein won a local election that eventually led her here.", "The chair of the president of the board of supervisors in San Francisco. There are a lot of people who didn't think it was right for her to take this seat because she was a woman.", "She ran for mayor twice in the 1970s but lost both times. Then, tragedy put her in the job.", "I became mayor as a product of assassination of the mayor being killed and the first openly gay public official being killed by a friend and colleague of mine.", "That friend was Dan White, who shot and killed Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in America.", "I've seen reports that you said that you always think, maybe I could have stopped it.", "I was a friend of Dan's, and I tried, to some extent, to mentor him and, oh, I never really talk about this. Dan had resigned and then wanted the seat back. And so he had an appointment with the mayor. And he walked into the office and he shot him a number of times. The door to the office opened and he came in. I heard the door slam. I heard the shots. I smelled the cordite. He whisked by. I walked down the line of supervisor's offices and found Harvey Milk. Put my finger in a bullet hole trying to get a pulse. It was the first person I'd ever seen shot to death. Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed. The suspect is Supervisor Dan White. That was the most painful lesson of division. And what I do is I really try to bring people together. Try to work out problems.", "Feinstein became acting mayor, then was elected in her own right and served for a total of 10 years.", "When you were mayor and there was a fire over three alarms.", "I had a radio in my room, my bedroom. When a building would burn and everybody was out on the sidewalk, I went and introduced them to the Red Cross.", "Politics was not gender neutral, like the time a developer bet her that if he finished a project on time, she would have to wear a bathing suit in public. She took the bet and he won.", "Oh, this is the picture.", "This is the bikini (ph).", "She not only kept that, but hundreds of other mementoes and pictures from her four decade career in a special room inside her San Francisco home.", "So there are a lot of stories here. This is the queen.", "Pope John Paul.", "Yes.", "Joe Montana.", "Yes.", "In 1984, she was in the running to be Walter Mondale's running mate, but he picked another woman, Geraldine Ferraro.", "They thought I was going to get it. This was going to be the cover.", "Is that right?", "Yes. Didn't happen that way.", "Why didn't you ever run for president?", "I don't know. I felt I'd never be elected. See, look how hard it is. Look at Hillary. I mean look at what she's gone through.", "Yes. You've done hard before.", "Yes, I've done hard before, but it -- it's not a bad thing being in the Senate.", "And she's done a lot that she's proud of. High on the list is gun control.", "Let me tell you, I've seen assassination. I've seen killing. I know what these guns can do.", "And she racked up a lot more firsts as a woman. First female member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and first female chair of the Intelligence Committee.", "Hi, everybody.", "And I'll never forget that dramatic moment in 2014 when she defied President Obama, the leader of her own party, by going to the Senate floor and releasing a torture report Obama did not want public. It was an investigation that she oversaw and she wanted the public to see it.", "History will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say, never again. There was some flak, yes.", "Well, yes. I mean one of your colleagues from California, Republican Congressman Jeff Denham (ph) said that you were as much a traitor to this country as Edward Snowden.", "Well, he had a bad day.", "But you, obviously, you -- you know, you stood up and you did what you felt was right.", "That's what I'm there to do. It's not always easy. It's hard.", "United States Senator Dianne Feinstein.", "People watching this, looking at you, will be shocked to know that you are the oldest serving U.S. senator.", "Don't rub it in.", "I'm not. It's the opposite.", "It's what I'm meant to do, as long as the old bean holds up. I'm from the generation where we dropped under our desks.", "For people who are out there saying, I want to be Dianne Feinstein. I want to do what she did.", "Run, but prepare yourself. And so many times talented young women go for the top first. You can't do that. Start young. Earn your spurs. You don't drop out. You take defeat after defeat after defeat. But you keep going. And I really believe that.", "Yes, OK, she qualifies as a bad-ass woman. I didn't know a lot of that stuff and she just talked about.", "Yes.", "And she admitted to you that she doesn't often talk about some of those -- obviously the more painful details around Harvey Milk's death.", "Absolutely. You know, and you could see where she had to take a breath and pace herself. And I've covered her for a long time. I don't -- she's talked about it a little bit after the Newtown massacre when she was trying to revive the assault weapons ban, but really not a lot. And, look, she is somebody -- she's going to be 84 later this month.", "Oh, my gosh.", "And you really would never know it. And she is somebody who is a mentor to a lot of the women. There are now 21 women in the Senate. And she's a mentor to women who are in the Senate across party lines.", "So, speaking about across party lines, you spoke to lots of women for this. You spoke to Democrats.", "Yes.", "You spoke to Republicans.", "Yes.", "You spoke to military women.", "Yes. Exactly. Another one that we're highlighting today, our first day, is Elaine Chao, transportation secretary, who talks about the fact that she came here on a cargo ship from Taiwan at age eight. Her amazing immigrant story. A really honest conversation about a lot of things, including never having children.", "Wow. OK. I can't wait to watch that and the entire bad-ass series. Great to have you here, Dana. You can watch the full series of \"Bad-ass Women of Washington.\" Go to cnn.com/badasswomen. How many times can I say the word? One more because --", "Jersey girl.", "Jersey -- totally. 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{"id": "CNN-360829", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-01-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1901/31/es.03.html", "summary": "Roger Goodell Breaks Silence on Controversial No-Call.", "utt": ["This could be a movie. A Florida sinkhole that turned out to be an underground tunnel to a bank. It stretches 50 yards long. Now, the tunnel did not quite reach the bank, but the FBI says it was heading directly toward an ATM. The case will be investigated as an attempted burglary. Authorities believe more than one person likely dug that tunnel. They don't yet know where it ends or when it was abandoned.", "All right. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell finally breaking his silence on that blown call that cost the Saints a trip to the Super Bowl. Andy Scholes has more from outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Andy, would you suggest that Saints fans essentially said too little too late?", "Absolutely, Dave. And, you know, during his annual state of the league address, Roger Goodell said, you know, he understands the frustration of Saints fans and that the league will look at expanding instant replay in the off season so this kind of call doesn't happen again. But, you know, he basically said it boils down to the game is being officiated by humans and there are going to be mistakes. But the big question going to Goodell's address was, why did he and the league remain silent and never say anything to the fans after that blown no-call? Well, Goodell basically brushed off the question saying the league did address it right after the game.", "We addressed it immediately after the game. We spoke to the coach. The coach announced the conversation and the fact that the play should have been called. And we had several conversations with those clubs and other officials over the next several days. That's our process. We understand the disappointment of the Saints fans, the organization and the players, and we understand that.", "Now, first time since that devastating loss, Sean Payton, head coach of the Saints, meeting with the media in New Orleans, and he said, like many Saints fans, he didn't want to leave his room after the game.", "After the game for two to three days, much like normal people, I sat probably didn't come out of my room, I ate Jenny's ice cream and watched Netflix for three straight days.", "Genuine reaction. President Trump, he also weighed in on the Saints misery, telling \"The Daily Caller\" he feels badly for the fans in Louisiana, calling it, quote, maybe the worst call I've ever seen. All right. Goodell was also asked in question yesterday about Colin Kaepernick and how for he second straight season, he remains out of the NFL. And just like last year, Goodell again said, well, the decision is not up to him.", "Our clubs are the ones that make decisions on players that they want to have on their roster. Individual clubs make decisions that maybe another club won't. And they all want to win. And they are all going to do whatever they can to win.", "Coolest part of Super Bowl week is always the NFL experience. It is like a giant playground for fans. And one of the coolest exhibits I found this year is this quarterback simulator, it's developed by former GM of the Denver Broncos. You put this headset on and it is like you are right on the field playing in the game. It's the first system that tracks the trajectory of a real football thrown into a responsive virtual environment. UCLA has already purchased this technology to work with their quarterbacks, and, Dave, I'll tell you what, they're able to do so many cool things with this, like change the skill set of players, change the kind of formations they're going up against. It is so realistic, I can definitely see teams in the future using this software to train for games week to week.", "Did they actually change your skill set to allow you to complete an NFL pass?", "I completed of eight. I'll tell you what, it's how realistic it was. It was very fast, I was really behind a lot of my passes, but I think I hit one post route for a touchdown.", "Good job, Andy Scholes. I'll see you down there in a couple hours, my friend.", "All right.", "Laura, over to you.", "I feel like we're going to see you in one of those VR headsets tomorrow when you're anchoring --", "You bet. Absolutely.", "-- there in Atlanta. Well, record cold overnight, expect more of the same today sadly. Over 200 million Americans in freezing temperatures, the death toll rising overnight. And the Mueller investigation targeted again, not by conservatives this time, but pro-Russian Twitter accounts spreading confidential information."], "speaker": ["JARRETT", "BRIGGS", "ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "ROGER GOODELL, NFL COMMISSIONER", "SCHOLES", "SEAN PAYTON, SAINTS HEAD COACH", "SCHOLES", "GOODELL", "SCHOLES", "BRIGGS", "SCHOLES", "BRIGGS", "SCHOLES", "BRIGGS", "JARRETT", "BRIGGS", "JARRETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-241441", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-10-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/21/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Florida Governors Debate Tonight on CNN", "utt": ["Who could forget a flap over a fan thrust the Florida governor's race into the national spotlight? This electric fan, there it is, was used by Democratic candidate and former Florida governor Charlie Crist in an attempt to keep from sweating during a recent debate. But that did not sit well with his Republican rival and current Florida governor Rick Scott. Scott refused to come on stage, saying the fan violated debate rules. Well, tonight, the men will square off again in their third and final debate hosted by CNN. Joining me now from Jacksonville with a preview is CNN's Suzanne Malveux.. So come on, is the fan going to make another appearance?", "Carol, I guess that's why in some ways we are here to watch and see what happens with this fan. I mean, he had it back since 2000 when he ran for the education commissioner. So I don't know, but we're going to be looking for it. One of the other reasons why we're here, Carol, of course, is because the Florida is the largest swing state in the country. This is the most expensive midterm race. We're talking more than $62 million in ads alone for those candidates, and also who wins the governor position here, the seat, will largely depend and impact who becomes our next president in 2016.", "In Florida, it's the battle between the current governor and former governor. The incumbent Republican Rick Scott fighting for a second term.", "Charlie is a good talker. He's slick, he's polished, he's smooth, but not happens when he was governor. He had this job before and he didn't do it.", "His challenger, the one time Republican turned Independent turned Democrat, former governor Charlie Crist.", "Why we would reelect this guy if he's not willing to answer questions of everyday Floridians is beyond me. And that's why I don't think we're going to reelect this guy.", "The biggest controversy from this contest which made national headlines came from a fan -- no, not a supporter, but an actual fan by Crist's feet at last Wednesday's debate.", "For that reason, ladies and gentlemen, I am being told that Governor Scott will not join us for this debate.", "Debate organizers say Crist broke the rules by using the fan. The live audience waited seven minutes before Scott eventually showed up. Scott tried to downplay the incident which was widely spoofed as Fangate.", "I don't care if he brings a microwave, if he brings a humidifier --", "But back on the stump, Scott is getting big name support from probably the most popular Republican in the state, former governor Jeb Bush. Crist is also getting high profile backers, from First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.", "He didn't lead the Republican, it left him.", "On the air, both sides have also waged a tough and expensive fight, together spending more than $62 million in ads according to the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity. Most of it spent on negative ads.", "When Rick Scott cut education by over a billion dollars, thousands of them lost their jobs.", "Republicans shot back with a web ad spoofing the popular reality TV show, \"Say Yes to the Dress.\"", "I like the Charlie Crist. It's expensive and a little outdated, but I know best.", "Carol, neither one of these guys is particularly popular here in the state. They have unfavorables hovering in the last CNN/ORC poll at 52 and 53 percent. But both of these men are in a dead heat for this race at 44 percent. They can't really stress enough, Carol, how this race could impact 2016. If you have the Democrat in the governor's house, in the mansion, then you are talking about, really, a good base for Hillary Clinton. Of course, if it's the Republican, then it sets it up quite nicely for a potential Republican Florida candidate, be it Marco Rubio or even a Jeb Bush. And as for the fan, because we got to go back to the fan and talk about it just a little bit, CNN does have some rules laying this out tonight. I want to read it to you here. It says no opening and closing statements, no notes, no props, and no electronic devices will be allowed on stage. So they get a notebook, they get a pen, they get some water. I don't know, though, Carol, I mean, could bit battery operated?", "I was going to say that!", "We don't know. We just don't know. So we'll see.", "Oh, I think it quite aptly illustrates the state of our politics today. Suzanne Malveaux, thanks so much. You can watch tonight's debate between the Florida governor Rick Scott and the former governor Charlie Crist right here on CNN. Jake Tapper will host the one-hour event. It all kicks off at 7:00 p.m Eastern."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX (voice-over)", "GOV. RICK SCOTT (R), GOVERNOR", "MALVEAUX", "CHARLIE CRIST (D), FMR. GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA", "MALVEAUX", "MODERATOR", "MALVEAUX", "SCOTT", "MALVEAUX", "JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MALVEAUX", "AD NARRATOR", "MALVEAUX", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MALVEAUX", "COSTELLO", "MALVEAUX", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-271202", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-12-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/13/cnr.01.html", "summary": "President Obama Scheduled To Visit Pentagon To Get Update on Fight Against ISIS", "utt": ["All right. Monday, President Barack Obama will visit the Pentagon to be updated on the fight against ISIS. This follows recent deadly terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California. CNN's Chris Frates is joining us now live from Washington. So Chris, what do we expect from this meeting?", "Well, I tell you, Fred. The White House is only saying that Obama is getting an update on the strategy to defeat ISIS. Tomorrow, he is set to meet with his national security team at the Pentagon. And later in the week, the president is headed to the national counterterrorism center where he will review efforts to prevent attacks on America. But I will tell you, Fred, these public appearances are also designed to show a very nervous American public. You know, majority of which disapprove of how he is handling terrorism, that the president and his team are hard at work destroying ISIS. Here is how the president talked about his administration's efforts in his weekly media address.", "Our airstrikes are hitting ISIL harder than ever in Iraq and Syria. We are taking out more of their fighters and leaders, their weapons, their oil tankers. Our special operations forces are on the ground because we are going to hunt down these terrorists wherever they try to hide.", "Now, Obama went on to say that in recent weeks U.S. strikes have killed two ISIS leaders, Fred.", "And the last time, Chris, the president visited the Pentagon in July, it led to a 50 special ops forces being sent to Syria. Is there an expectation that this discussion or update might lead to more military movement potentially?", "Well, Fred, you know, he is expected to speak at the Pentagon tomorrow, but there's no indication yet that there will be a major shift of his ISIS strategy. What the president has ordered his team, you know, to constantly assess the performance of the strategy and turn up the heat if there's an opportunity to. You know, in the past, for instance, that's meant increasing assistance to Syrian opposition fighters or putting special forces on the ground in Iraq and Syria. So we might hear news about similar moves to intensify the fight against ISIS, Fred, but the White House says there is no major changes expected to be announced.", "All right, Chris Frates, thanks so much in Washington. Appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Alright, next, those new details from the California terror attack. The female shooter reportedly posted on her social media account that she wanted to take part in jihad. We are live in San Bernardino next."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "CHRIS FRATES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "FRATES", "WHITFIELD", "FRATES", "WHITFIELD", "FRATES", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-398771", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-04-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/29/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Coronavirus Pandemic; Sweden Insists Keeping Economy Open Is Right Approach; Greece To Ease Lockdown Measures Starting May 4", "utt": ["-- and they are closed. Restaurants are bustling and silent too. You can get your nails done or maybe not.", "Confused? Well, it's far from an open and shut case. As this hour, we explore the global struggle to balance between staying home and the urge to get back to normal. Then. That choice less easy in Lebanon than almost anywhere else as the virus fuels ongoing anger and protest of a rising hunger and poverty. And we look at how South Africans are learning from the HIV epidemic to fight today's global pandemic. Well, after weeks of lockdown restrictions, leaders around the world face one of the biggest decisions in a generation, to lift lockdown measures and risk the further spread of the coronavirus, or keep lockdowns in place and push their economies further into Great Depression misery. Well, the number of coronavirus victims keeps rising, and you can see the numbers on the right. More than three million people have been infected around the world, with about a third of them right here in the United States. More than 58,000 people have died in the U.S., despite that a growing number of states are taking steps to lift restrictions. Even California, which adopted some of the earliest and toughest lockdown measures, could soon reopen some businesses and schools. Here is Governor Gavin Newsom speaking on Tuesday.", "Around businesses, and around issues of schools and childcare centers, I want to make this clear. We believe we are weeks, not months, away from making meaningful modifications to that indicator and in this space. Weeks, not months.", "Now, this isn't just an American phenomenon. Of course, in Europe, two of the countries hardest hit by the virus are looking to get their economies back up and running. Starting May 11th, France will begin lifting some of its lockdown measures. And before that, still starting on Monday some stores and restaurants will be allowed to reopen in Spain. But in other countries, lockdown measures continue to be extended. And in some cases, we are seeing the economic effects of the pandemic boil over into chaotic scenes. Hunger protests in Lebanon have turned violent in several major cities. And you can see demonstrators here throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at banks in the city of Tripoli, and clashing with security forces. The country was already in economic freefall. And now, a government- imposed lockdown over the coronavirus is sending food prices through the roof. The government believes nearly three quarters of the population is in need of financial aid. So, let's get more now on the impact of all of this with our correspondents Jomana Karadsheh, normally based out of Istanbul for CNN. She joins us now. And John Defterios, our emerging markets editor in Abu Dhabi. Good to see you both. So, Jomana, let's start with you. I do want to get an idea of the latest information you have on these hunger protests and what the government is planning to do to help the people who do need food and other basic necessities.", "Well, Rosemary, we have heard from Lebanese media and people on the ground saying that the protests have continued for another night in several Lebanese cities in the capital Beirut. People marched there. They also protested outside the Central Bank headquarters. Also, some dramatic scenes in the south in the city of Sidon. But the most intense and violent protests continue in the northern city of Tripoli. That is Lebanon's poorest country. There are hundreds of protesters gathered in the evening outside the Central Bank headquarters there. They lobbed rocks and Molotov cocktails at that building. They clashed with security forces who are using rubber bullets and tear gas to try and disperse those protesters. And according to health officials on the ground, they say that several protesters were injured. Some were treated on the scene, others taken to hospital. It's a very desperate situation there, Rosemary. As you mentioned, the economic situation in the country, the country's economy has always been fragile in recent months, as we have seen since the country's popular uprising back in October, it has really been struggling. So, it's been hit really hard. Like other economies around the world by the lockdown, by the shutdown that happened with the coronavirus pandemic. And people there say they are fed up, they are desperate, they are hungry, they are unable to pay rent, feed their children. So, they are back on the streets right now, putting the government in a very tough position right now. And you know, if you look at the figures before the pandemic, the World Bank was estimating that, projecting that about 45 percent of Lebanon's population would be below the poverty line in 2020. Following the crisis, we are hearing from government officials now that they expect 75 percent of all Lebanese are going to require financial aid now. Rosemary.", "Unbelievable. And John Defterios, let's go to you now. Just how volatile is this situation in Lebanon? And what are the concerns across the region given the impact this pandemic is having on the global economy?", "Yes. Lebanon is a prime example, I think, Rosemary, of what not to be doing right now in an economic crisis, because as Jomana was suggesting, it contracted six and a half percent in 2019. And the International Monetary Fund has said that it's going to be double that negative 12 percent in 2020. It has the third highest debt of GDP level of banking system that's under strain and rising food costs because the lira is plummeting right now. And that's why you have protesters on the street. But there is a common link here in the broader region because of lower oil prices. They have all hurt these economies because they benefited from the higher prices of $60 or above. Ten to 20 dollars just doesn't work. And in 2019, we saw a protest in Iraq, Iran, Algeria, Sudan, and Lebanon. So, no surprise they are going to be the first to get hit again with high tensions and high youth unemployment. In fact, the regional director of the International Monetary Fund said we are in uncharted territory. A disaster not just for the region, but globally. And we are going to get a snapshot today from the United States in the Q1, the front end of what they say is the second and third round of challenges, according to the IMF, in 2020. An economic adviser to the White House spoke to us yesterday ahead of this Q1 report. Let's take a listen.", "The GDP tomorrow will probably be a negative number. And then that will be just the very tip of the iceberg. A few months of negative news, it's unlike anything you've ever seen.", "Third quarter, it's obviously a transition quarter. But I think it's going to be OK. Maybe better than OK. And then I think fourth quarter will be great. And I think next year is going to be tremendous year for this country.", "For our viewers that are watching there, you saw that the president left out the second quarter. That's the Great Depression. A loss of probably, Rosemary, between a third to 35 and 38 percent of GDP. So, the first quarter results maybe as much as a negative 9 percent. Four times that amount in the second quarter. Not surprising that the president wanted to skip over the worst of the bad news that the Americans are facing right now.", "Yes, absolutely, I mean, just horrifying the possibilities there. And Jomana, just quickly to you, in the U.S. we are seeing people lining up at food banks. Is there any equivalent in Lebanon? Any safety net to help people get through this difficult time?", "The government says that it is working on a plan, Rosemary, that they are going to try and deliver aid to people. That they are going to try and, you know, put together a list of people who will require support from the government. But the situation is complicated there by the politics of that country. And that is one of the main reasons why you see people so angry and so frustrated with their government, something that triggered those anti- establishment protests late last year. You know, some aid deliveries, we're told, were delayed because of political wrangling in the country in recent days. And it's not just the Lebanese people. It's who require support in terms of providing them with food right now with that sort of aid, Rosemary. We are also talking to some migrant workers in that country who are stranded. About 250,000 domestic workers in that country from Asia and from African countries too. And their situation is quite desperate, too. You know, I spoke to some women recently who say that basically they don't know how they are going to feed their children. They are right now, getting charity, some aid from various organizations. You know, some advocacy groups have turned for the first time ever into food aid deliveries to try and assist people there. So, it's a very complicated situation on the ground. The government says this is a very difficult situation. But they are promising to try and work through it. Of course, all complicated by Lebanon's politics as always, Rosemary.", "Yes, absolutely. And of course, the domino effect is just horrendous. John, just back to you. We are learning that British Airways may be forced to cut 12,000 jobs due to a collapse in business from the pandemic. The airline says it needs to restructure the company in order to weather this crisis. Its parent company, AIG, which also includes Spanish Airline Iberia, reported $579 million in first quarter operating losses. And it warns losses in the second quarter will be significantly worse. So, John, this news comes as flight bans and other restrictions are threatening to bankrupt airlines around the world. How bad do you think this will get?", "Well, if you are going to pick a sector that's at the eye of the hurricane of the coronavirus, this is it, the airline sector for what you are talking about, Rosemary. The business travel is nearly dried up. Many citizens around the world, I would say 95 percent have not made any plans for the summer months because we don't even know if their destinations are going to be open. So, I don't think it's surprising that be ahead or push ahead with the restructuring by the parent group AIG, and the other carriers will be facing the same. That's about 30 percent of their workforce, as you're suggesting. We know that Air France is under pressure. Same thing with Lufthansa in Germany. And the European Union is trying to divide something similar to the United States, how do you help these former state carriers that are now private companies and trade publicly, in some instances, to get through what is a huge, huge storm. Now in the United States the bailout is in two trenches. Fifty billion dollars overall, 25 billion each time. Low interest rate loans because the president, President Trump thought this was very vital when the economy opens up again. So, you had this commerce. You have business moving again. They haven't landed on that in Europe, but we know the layoffs are right with us as we speak because of that second quarter I talked about.", "Yes. Such a concern. John Defterios and Jomana Karadsheh, thank you both of you for joining us and for those live reports. I appreciate it. And as these hunger protests rage in Lebanon, in the United States, President Donald Trump is trying to keep the food supply chain afloat. He signed an executive order under the Defense Production Act, compelling large meat processing plants to remain open during this pandemic. The move comes as many people across the country are struggling to put food on the table. In Arkansas, residents waited in a long line of cars to take part in a drive-up food distribution, but the supply couldn't actually meet the demand. The food banks says it ran out of food just one hour into that event. Well, governors are trying to get their states back up and running, but their plans are all over the place. John Foreman -- Tom Foreman, rather, has the story.", "The beaches are open and they are closed. Restaurants are bustling and silent too. You can get your nails done or maybe not.", "You can't keep the economy dormant. A lot of people are suffering.", "Amid calls to reopen the American economy states are responding. And a patchwork of rules are spreading as haphazardly as the virus itself, making it hard to know what is being enforced by whom and where. Take Tennessee where counties are getting to decide.", "We're just glad to be back.", "Andy Martial (Ph) is confident social distancing will keep everyone healthy at his grocery and eatery. But a short drive away.", "Business was down 90 percent.", "Christopher Hartland knows about the rules limiting seating and recommendations for masks. But he knows this too.", "Many restaurants who have enforce them which means people will go to the other restaurants that aren't enforcing them and seat thereby and be served by people without masks. I just don't feel comfortable opening up.", "In Florida, the governor was stung by criticism of overflowing beaches early on. Now he's crowing about ending the lockdown in a few days.", "Everyone in the media was saying Florida was going to be like New York or Italy. And that has not happened.", "Nearby, Georgia's governor is pushing the most aggressive reopening plan and like some other governors, overriding local rules to the contrary. Happy business owners are promising to follow safety advice.", "You want to be here to make sure that everybody who wants to and has the opportunity to can take care of themselves and their family. That's the American way.", "But the move is terrifying those who fear a resurgence of the virus could soon follow and overwhelm hospitals.", "What we are essentially saying in Georgia is go bowling and we'll have a bed waiting on you. That's not what our approach should be to COVID-19.", "From community sports to elective medical procedures, to limited retail sales. It's all coming back here and there in fits and starts. Met with everything from go slow determination in Massachusetts where reopening plans were just delayed.", "We can't afford to make any mistakes.", "To frontier fatalism in South Dakota where the governor was given a makeshift parade for her efforts to keep the state open come what may.", "This virus will spread more. There will be more positives, which is just a fact that we need to realize will happen.", "Well the issue of states reopening versus remaining close is the top political question at the moment. CNN politics senior writer Zachary B. Wolf looks at what reopening economies might mean for infections. And he does this by looking at Sweden, which never shut down its economy. And you can find his analysis at cnn.com. Well, the U.S. President makes a new claim about coronavirus testing, as the country crosses one of its bleakest milestones yet. We'll have more after this short break. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR", "GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM (D-CA)", "CHURCH", "JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHURCH", "JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN BUSINESS EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "DEFTERIOS", "CHURCH", "KARADSHEH", "CHURCH", "DEFTERIOS", "CHURCH", "FOREMAN", "MAYOR GLENN JACOBS, KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE", "FOREMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FOREMAN", "CHRISTOPHER HARTLAND, OWNER, COOL SPRINGS BREWERY", "FOREMAN", "HARTLAND", "FOREMAN", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-85742", "program": "NEXT@CNN", "date": "2004-6-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/26/nac.00.html", "summary": "Some Air Fresheners Could Hurt More Than Help", "utt": ["When you combine an air freshener like this with an ozone machine like this, you might think you get extra clean air, right? Not so fast. That may not be the case, as Holly Firfer reports.", "With searing summer temperatures around the corner, many people may opt to stay inside to beat the heat and smog. But a recent report suggests that the air inside your home could make you sick. From harmful pollutants that form when plug-in air fresheners and ozone combine, the result, a toxic brew that includes formaldehyde.", "Essentially you're making it so you can have smog incidents inside your house similar to those that are outside your house, and you just really don't want to do that.", "In a controlled study, researchers at the Environmental Protection Agency measured the reaction between the fragrances commonly found in home air fresheners and high levels of ozone gas. They found the chemical reaction produced a few dangerous compounds including formaldehyde, a carcinogen that can affect respiratory health. But, the EPA says that although the findings are important, the public should not be overly concerned. They say that while ozone can enter from outside or from ozone generating air cleaners, the levels obtained in the study are not reflective of a normal household atmosphere. But, there is one finding that has the EPA and other experts in agreement. They say that using ozone generators to eliminate household odors is a bad idea. The one thing consumers may wish to take away from this study is something the EPA has stated previously, that the use of ozone generating air cleaners is not recommend. In nature, ground leveled ozone forms when the sun heats air pollution from car exhausts and factory emissions. And studies show that persistent exposure to high ozone levels can affect kids, the elderly, and others at risk for lung trouble, including people with asthma. So, experts maintain that using ozone generators is like cooking up your own supply of outdoor pollutants inside of your home. I would caution people if they are to use ozone generators in the house, they should be aware of what kind of secondary pollutants that it might be making.", "Wise advice for anyone who truly wants to clear the air while remaining healthy.", "Just ahead: How the deadly Gila Monster may someday make people healthier."], "speaker": ["SIEBERG", "HOLLY FIRFER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BARRY RYAN, EMORY UNIVERSITY", "FIRFER", "FIRFER", "ANNOUNCER"]}
{"id": "CNN-38581", "program": "CNN AHEAD OF THE CURVE", "date": "2001-9-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/03/aotc.03.html", "summary": "Tokyo Stocks Begin Week Deeply in the Red", "utt": ["Asian markets we open for trading. Lisa Barron has a look at how they performed live from Hong Kong this morning -- Lisa.", "Creditors for South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor will take up to three days to decide whether to save the debt-laden chipmaker. Last week, worries about whether banks would actually provide a bailout package mounted as several creditors expressed their unwillingness to go along with government proposals. Troubling semiconductor prices, increasing inventory and seemingly endless debt have battered Hynix' share price bringing it down 96 percent over the past 52 weeks. It closed today off more than 3.5 percent in Seoul trading. The broader markers in South Korea held up better than those elsewhere in Asia. Promises of a 10 percent income tax cut by the government helped prevent deeper selling. The KOSPI ended the day down more than half of a percent. Stocks in Tokyo began the week deeply in the red. The Nikkei 225 tumbled nearly 3 percent as it continued its slide towards 18-year lows. Shares of the country's top mobile phone carrier lost nearly 5 1/2 percent after a Morgan Stanley downgrade. NTT DoCoMo also laid out details today of its October 1 launch of the world's first commercial 3G cell phone service. And worries over the state of the Hong Kong economy helped yank down the Hang Seng below 11000 for the first time since 1999. It tumbled more than 1.5 percent on Monday. That is a look at the Asian business day. I'm Lisa Barron in the CNN Asia Center in Hong Kong.", "Thanks, Lisa. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "LISA BARRON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "CNN-300112", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-12-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/08/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Retired Admiral Among Secretary of State Contenders; Trump to Meet with OSU Attack Victims; Trump Thank You Tour in Iowa; Trump Lashes out at Union Boss; Obama Advises Trump.", "utt": ["You are live in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Brianna Keilar in Washington. And with his last few cabinet decisions supposedly in the pipeline and yet another Twitter spout under his belt, the president-elect is leaving Trump Tower this hour for Columbus, Ohio. Donald Trump is meeting with victims and first responders from last week's knife and car attack at Ohio State University. And then after that, it's off to Iowa for another of Trump's so-called thank you rallies. And then there's Indiana, a state that Trump is not visiting today but one very much on his radar. Last night, a man just 43 days from the presidency personally attacked the head of a local steelworkers union who called him a liar for overstating how many jobs would be retained at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis. Moments after Chuck Jones made his case on CNN, Donald Trump tweeted, \"Chuck Jones, who is president of United Steelworkers 1999, has done a terrible job representing workers. No wonder companies flee the country.\" An hour later, this tweet, \"if United Steelworkers 1999 was any good, they would have kept those jobs in Indiana. Spend more time working, less time talking, reduce dues.\" There is a lot more to get into here. I want to bring in CNN's Sunlen Serfaty, who is also here in Washington, and Ryan Nobles at Trump Tower for us. So, Sunlen, before we get back to this Trump versus Jones showdown, what can you tell us about the president-elect's meetings today?", "Well, another busy morning, Brianna, for the president-elect today at Trump Tower before he does hit the road. Perhaps most notably this morning, someone who just went in to Trump Tower a few minutes ago and is set to sit down with the president-elect at some point soon is former NATO Commander James Stavridis. Notably, he is under possible consideration for secretary of state. And his name really seems to be one of the few that were added as Donald Trump, in the last week, has really expanded his search for a secretary of state, rather than narrowed it down. We do know from the president-elect himself that he is potentially nearing a decision on this very important role, the most high-profile of all the cabinet picks, potentially coming to a decision next week. After that, early this afternoon, Trump will travel, as you said, to Columbus, Ohio. He'll be meeting privately with victims and first responders of that OSU attack last week. And then he will be on to Des Moines, Iowa, where he'll be formally rolling out his pick to U.S. ambassador to China, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad. And, of course, that will be his next installation of the thank you tour. These campaign style rallies that we've seen him been doing. Brianna.", "We've been hearing about hires, but the one that we're seeing the most uproar over is Donald Trump's pick for EPA. Tell us about that, Sunlen.", "That's right, a lot of pushback for Scott Pruitt, which, of course, was announced formally this morning from the transition team. A lot of Democrats on Capitol Hill and progressive groups really vowing to fight this nomination in some form and bringing up his past comments over climate change. The fact that he is a climate change denier and just as early as last May -- or May of this year, he said the debate is far from settled over whether human activity has contributed to the warming of the earth. Notable comments from incoming Senate majority leader -- Minority Leader Chuck Schumer who said Pruitt will have to answer many tough questions and that nominating process certainly will be a very interesting hearing in January.", "Yes, it certainly will be, Sunlen. OK, Ryan, tell us about this showdown that we're seeing between Donald Trump and this union boss. He's a union boss in Indiana. This has gotten pretty heated and it's taken a lot of attention away from other things.", "Yes, and, Brianna, it shows that the president-elect doesn't take any fight lying down. That if someone's going to come after him, he's going to come right back at that person. And Chuck Jones is the leader of the United Steelworkers 1999, which is the labor union that represents those workers at Carrier. And when he called Donald Trump essentially a liar, that's when Trump went to Twitter and said that he's done a very terrible job running that union. And he blamed him and other union leaders for jobs leaving the United States. Well, Chuck Jones is a guy that's been in this game for a long time. He's probably never been in a public spat with the next leader of the free world, but he doesn't appear to be backing down in any way, shape or form. He said he can take Donald Trump's criticism. What he just wants from the president-elect is for him to be honest. Take a listen.", "You know, you hear all the time how -- how much of a skilled negotiator that he is. You know, he says about himself. So I've been in a lot of negotiations as a union representative. So I would have to assume that he sure as the world either knew the precise numbers or most certainly should have.", "And Jones did say that he is thankful for the role that Trump played in keeping those jobs here in the United States. He just wants Trump to tell his union members and all of America the full story. Brianna.", "All right, Ryan Nobles, Sunlen Serfaty, thanks to both of you. I'm joined now by Scott Hall. He is the president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. Scott, thanks so much for being with us. And you work now, just to explain to our viewers, with this alliance between unions and manufacturers. You also, though, have worked for the AFL-CIA. What is your read on this fight between Donald Trump and the steel workers union boss in Indiana?", "Well, I know Chuck Jones. He's a man of deep integrity. He looks out for his members. He was elected by them. So he's not a boss, he's their leader. And I think it's foolish for Donald Trump to try to single out American citizens for criticism for a decision that he's going to make. It's going to be a long four years and he hasn't even taken the oath of office yet. He's going to have to realize that his policies, his deals are going to be subject to scrutiny. What I admire about Chuck and the steel workers in many of these companies is that they can have disagreements. They sit down across the bargaining table. They try to work out a deal that's good for everybody. They can shake hands and move on. And they will continue to have disagreements. But this got very personal and it's incredibly unfair. It certainly takes the spotlight I think from Trump's perspective off of what he's trying to achieve, which is boosting manufacturing jobs in the United States and appealing to working class voters. Attacking one of their own is probably not the best way to do that.", "Yes, that's a really interesting point that you raise. And one of the things we heard Chuck Jones say was, look, he didn't keep 1,100 jobs. It was 800 jobs. Three hundred of those were administrative, among other types of jobs, that were never going to Mexico. But he also had said, look, this is good jobs are staying there. What do you think when you see Donald Trump brokering this Carrier deal? Does it make you hopeful? Or do you think that this is just a drop in the bucket and it doesn't have broad impact?", "Yes, I think, at an individual level, obviously it's a -- it's mostly PR and symbolism, although I'm happy, like Chuck is, for the 730 workers -- the steel workers who will have a job, who come next year face the prospects of unemployment and a much grimmer future. That's no way to run an economic policy, however. Trump's going to have to sit down and honestly he's going to have to sit down with the steel workers if he wants to make changes to trade policy because of a lot of his own leaders of the Republican Party, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, stand in the way of changes like that. It doesn't make sense to drive a wedge in a potential partnership when you could make a lot of progress reaching out on issues like infrastructure investment, on reforming trade policy, and on rebuilding manufacturing, which I think is what a lot of Trump voters are seeking, or at least that's the signal they seem to send in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, which flipped from red to blue. Those are industrial heartland states. They want to see manufacturing resurgent in this country.", "They do. All right, Scott Paul, thank you so much. Really appreciate you being with us. And we have a lot more to talk about. Time to get these guys on here. Ryan Lizza is Washington correspondent for \"The New Yorker,\" and CNN political commentator. Juana Summers is CNN politics editor. So, Chuck Jones, as you know, said that the president-elect was lying his you know what off. He didn't say \"you know what.\" He also gave Donald Trump some credit, though. Let's listen to that.", "Any time I've talked to the media, one of the first things I've said is, I thank him very much for getting involved and help save the 800 jobs that were going and will remain here in Indianapolis. The people -- we are very grateful for what he did. So he's not listening to that.", "Now, it's maybe for the average person not unusual to hear a scathing criticism loud and clear as well. But now we have Jones getting death threats, right? Do you think President-elect Donald Trump understands the impact that he has when he singles out an individual like this?", "I don't think he does. I mean, I think what we've learned over time is, he doesn't take it seriously necessarily. But the impact is much, much scarier when you're on the receiving end and you're just a sort of civilian out there, a journalist, you know, a head of a union, just an American citizen who's a critic. And he kind of sees everyone as the same, a political opponent, the head of a corporation, someone on Twitter that criticizes him. He -- he -- you know, a lot of people at his level would have a rule that, you know, you don't punch down, you only punch up, especially when you're the president-elect. He doesn't play by that. So I think a lot of people -- I mean I -- we, in the media, have gotten used to this now. And we know that he, frankly, doesn't take these things so seriously, right, the fact that he can sit down with a Mitt Romney or a Ted Cruz or the people that he pummeled in the campaign and it's sort of all water under the bridge, or even the relationship he's developed with Barack Obama. I don't think he understands it's very different when it's someone like this who's just an average person out there whose life can be changed overnight --", "Yes.", "When 15 million Twitter followers see that kind of attack. And let's -- let's just fact check it for a second. Jones is right. Trump is wrong. Trump inflated the number of jobs by about 40 percent. Is that the biggest deal in the world? No. But this guy was right to point it out.", "And so -- and the way he points it out, obviously, got under his skin there. Juana, he's blaming this union head for losing jobs overseas. It was interesting hearing Scott Paul make a point, and I wonder how much you think this is the case. There were a lot, I presume, union workers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, who supported Donald Trump. Does this sit right with them when a union leader is being criticized?", "Brianna, you're absolutely right. That's one of the biggest things that struck me as I was reading those tweets and watching some of the conversation over the last few hours. This really highlights the divide between union leader, like Chuck Jones, who have said -- not liked Donald Trump, the president-elect, and Mike Pence during the general election and they're rank and file in those industrial, in those rust belt states that you named, who came out and supported him in force and are responsible for elevating him to the presidency. There's a big divide there and I think many people take that for granted. The leadership and the rank and file just aren't on the same page here.", "Yes.", "Listen to what Robert Reich, Bill Clinton's labor secretary, had to say to -- directly to Donald Trump about this. Very interesting.", "What you, Mr. Trump, what you -- what you would like is for no one, not a CEO, nobody on television, no journalist, nobody, to criticize you. You take offense at that. Well, you are going to be president very shortly. You are going to have at your command not just Twitter but also the CIA, the IRS, the FBI. If you have this kind of thin skinned vindictiveness attitude toward anybody who criticizes you, we are in very deep trouble. And, sir, so are you.", "So are you. That's what stuck out to me because even as you have at types Republicans who don't want to criticize Donald Trump, criticism isn't always bad. If you hear a lot of criticism, you might know you need to make a course correction, right?", "Yes.", "Is this a disservice to Donald Trump, that he's doing these things? And also then that he even has allies who don't want to criticize him?", "Well, just to follow up on Juana's point, it's not -- his tweets are often untethered from his ideas and his strategies. I mean, look this is the first president-elect in decades who agrees with the industrial unions about trade policy. These guys could be his greatest allies on some of --", "Sure could be.", "On what he has said is a core -- part of his -- a core of his economic agenda. And so to shoot your mouth off on Twitter and alienate an important labor leader in the Midwest, who should be a natural ally, when you're going to be fighting Paul Ryan and some of the more free trade Republicans on this issue, just seems counterproductive.", "Yes.", "But, I don't know. I -- personally, I have become less and less outraged about the tweets over time because I don't think -- I don't think we --", "You just stop hearing them, I guess.", "You stop hearing them. Maybe they don't take them as seriously as they used to.", "They're dull (ph). You're not taking them as seriously. All right.", "You know, if Robert Reich's prediction comes true and Trump starts using the IRS and the CIA and whatever else to go after people and not just Twitter, then we have a different story on our hands.", "Yes. All right, hang in with me because we have much more ahead, you two. They're going to stay with us. Up next, when Al Gore showed up for a meeting at Trump Tower, it appeared Donald Trump might be warming up to the idea of fighting climate change. Not so much anymore based on his controversial pick to run the EPA. 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{"id": "CNN-213809", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-9-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/02/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Marine Recruitment Site Gets A Redirect", "utt": ["We are now getting all kinds of reactions to a possible U.S. strike on Syria, including from the pro-Assad Syrian electronic army. That's what they call themselves. This is a group that temporarily got into the U.S. marines recruitment Web site, sent visitors to a totally different site. Our Deborah Feyerick, she's in New York. She's following how they actually did this. And, Deborah, the Marines are not calling this necessarily a hacking incident, but what was this exactly?", "Well, you know, Suzanne, last week, the target was \"The New York Times,\" before that \"The Washington Post\" and others. The new target is Marines.com. And a message believed to be the Syrian electronic army was posted on the recruitment site urging Marines not to attack Syria and saying, quote, the Syrian army should be your ally, not your enemy. And the letter suggests that the Syrian fighters are patriots fighting al Qaeda. Now, like attacks against papers, \"The New York Times,\" \"The Washington Post,\" earlier, the actual site Marines.com was not breeched or hacked, not necessarily. Instead, what happened is that people were redirected to another site. And CNN's Chris Lawrence was told by the Marines that there was no evidence that confidential or personal information was compromised. This is consistent with the other high profile attacks by these -- by this group. You can see the pictures there of uniform Marines. It is not clear, we have not been independently able to verify whether, in fact, those are actual Marines holding actual signs -- Suzanne.", "And you mentioned here about whether or not information was compromised. How can we be so sure?", "Well, that's one of the things they really look at, the way these attacks happened. The past attacks have been sort of routine phishing attacks. You know, those e-mails we're told not to open because people will gain access to our information. Well, I spoke with a cyber-security expert who has investigated the Syrian electronic army and he tells me that the hackers could be doing a lot more damage because they are actually able to control what people see and where they go. Yet, so far, it seems the intention of this group is to spread pro- Syrian information as opposed to spreading malware or a virus which clearly is so much more dangerous. Keep in mind, also it appears that this group itself was hacked in April with somebody gaining access to its information. The group says, no, that didn't happen. But clearly, any claims of responsibility are inconclusive at best -- Suzanne.", "All right, thank you. Appreciate it. Ahead on NEWSROOM, she is almost at her goal. It is so, so close. Diana Nyad close to completing her 103-mile swim from Cuba to the United States. We are so excited for her. Going to have a live report from Key West up next."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX", "FEYERICK", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-166004", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-5-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/11/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Fighting Floods Along Mississippi River", "utt": ["All right. Here's a rundown of some of the stories that we're working on for you. Lives torn apart by flooding along the Mississippi River. And we'll take a boat tour. Plus, much of the river is protected by levees. So why is there so much flooding? We'll check in with our Chad Myers with some answers in just a bit. Then, a Memphis high school does a superb job in raising its graduation rate. The payoff, a visit from President Obama. All right. CNN \"In Depth\" right now, \"Troubled Waters.\" The swollen Mississippi River has flooded hundreds of homes and businesses. One of the hardest-hit areas, Tunica County, Mississippi, just south of Memphis. CNN's John King took a boat tour of a flooded neighborhood.", "Essentially just a string of different home sites and camps along this side of the levee, and they are just washed out.", "Yes.", "Three hundred and thirty homes total? And we saw one that just barely was out of the water.", "That's right. You look at 99 percent are under water.", "Can you see any possibility of people coming back here? I mean, these houses are destroyed.", "Yes, they are destroyed.", "And the local management said of the 330, 25 had flood insurance?", "Correct.", "Have you seen water on these streets at all?", "It would be water that would make it all the way to the base of the levee, but that's as far. If there was a home here that, you know, was not built up, it might get water up to the door, but as far as destroy them like this, never before.", "Everybody was evacuated out?", "Yes, they had I think three people said at the time that they were going to stay and went to Mississippi", "They didn't think the water would get here?", "No way. They have been here 40 years and said no way it's going to get this high.", "In normal circumstances, it will be dry below us and we are in 32 feet of water.", "We're in 32 feet of water.", "Thirty-two feet of water.", "Right.", "Who lived here? What kinds of people are we talking about?", "Retired, a lot of retired people out there. Some young couples that, you know, working class. They work in the casinos --", "Just blue collar working people?", "Right.", "So the people who have the least.", "Exactly.", "It is really sad to hear those people. You know, more of the epic flooding as we go \"X Country\" for you. The high water is taking a huge toll on Arkansas farmers. Look at that farmland right there. More than a million acres of cropland, under water. The financial toll, at least half a billion dollars. In Kentucky, whole neighborhoods are just devastated. This couple had just gotten engaged. Right there, you see it on your screen. But they have lost everything. The water is so high, they can't even go home.", "A nightmare. A big nightmare. Everything you worked hard for just got washed away.", "And in Illinois, those flood victims who can return home are finding a really sticky mess. Mold now covers just about everything that's been under water, as you can imagine. You know, levees line the Mississippi River to protect against flood waters, so let's check in now with our meteorologist Chad Myers for a closer look at how the levee system works. They are getting inundated. And it's sad to hear those stories.", "Yes. Thousands of miles of dirt berms. Basically, that's all a levee is. And it's covered in grass, maybe some tree, trying to keep the water inside. The grass and trees have roots, kind of keeping the dirt together. So let's just kind of go -- and we're going to play this for you. Here's the Mississippi River, or at least what we think the Mississippi River was back in the '20s and '30s, when there was no levees. The water spread out. The water spread out for miles and miles to the east and west, but if wasn't that deep -- three, five -- all the way over here, just a couple of feet. What happens and while we're in such dire straits now is because of how weave' leveed this river and tried to keep it from spreading out. Well, you know what, folks? Over here is still the floodplain. It is still where the river wants to be. This levee -- I'll draw it in here, so you can see it a little bit better. Kind of hard to see it on this map with white on white. But there's the bottom of the river and there's another levee right there. But this land over here is still what I would consider floodplain. Even though the levee is here is protecting that floodplain and all of the homes and businesses here. And so far the levees doing a fantastic job. Army Corps, I have to say, is doing a fantastic job with these levees. Here's the biggest problem. Here is the issue with a sand boil, an undercut where the water is here and right here -- that's your levee. There's so much pressure, coming down on tens or 20, 30 feet of water. The pressure down here is tremendous, like three atmospheres. It can -- the water can force itself under the levee and back on to where the dry land is, calling what we call a sand boil. Literally like boiling water or boiling mud. That's where you can lose the bottom of the levee, all of a sudden it washes out, and you have a surge of water coming into this floodplain. So far, Army Corps -- they're finding sand boils but they are so far taking care of them.", "Concrete or steel levees would better? Yes, no, doesn't make a difference?", "I don't know how you make that much concrete. I mean, literally, these levees can be 100 feet here, 30 feet here, and about 20 to 30 feet this way. The yardage, the cubic yards of concrete would be enormous.", "Yes. You know, I grew up in Louisiana. I thought everybody had levees.", "Right.", "You're doing the explainer on levees. I said, doesn't everyone know? But not everybody, no.", "Yes, not everybody, no.", "Ah, all right. Thank you, Chad. We appreciate it. Seniors at a Memphis high school getting a star speaker at their graduation. The president of the United States. I'll talk with the principle and a senior at this Race to the Top winning school. That's next."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "JOHN KING, HOST, \"JOHN KING USA\"", "CHIEF SCOTT GOFF, TUNICA COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT", "KING", "GOFF", "KING", "GOFF", "KING", "GOFF", "KING", "GOFF", "KING", "GOFF", "KING", "GOFF", "KING", "GOFF", "KING", "GOFF", "KING", "GOFF", "KING", "GOFF", "KING", "GOOF", "LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LEMON", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "LEMON", "MYERS", "LEMON", "MYERS", "LEMON", "MYERS", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-310047", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2017-04-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/15/ndaysat.01.html", "summary": "Pope Speaks of Shame for Humanity Catholic Church; Pope Francis to Hold Vigil Mass at Vatican Today", "utt": ["Well, this weekend Christians around the world celebrating the Easter holiday, of course. And in the past hour, thousands of worshippers began gathering in Jerusalem for the Holy Fire ceremony. That precision, by the way, is about to get under way there.", "Now, the Vatican City, Pope Francis will continue celebrations today with the vigil at St. Peter's Basilica. Now, this comes after the Pope presided over a Good Friday service expressing shame for the failures of humanity, calling out scenes (ph) of bombed cities and global persecution. CNN's Delia Gallagher has -", "-- the rest of his remarks.", "Pope Francis offered a prayer for the world as he presided at the stations of the cross, saying the world looks at Jesus with its eyes lowered out of shame, shame for its silence in the face of injustice, in the face of bloodshed by innocent women, children, immigrants, those persecuted and killed for their faith and for the color of their skin, the pope said. Shame also for the priests and bishops of the Catholic church who have caused a scandal. The 14 stations commemorate the moments leading up to and just after the crucifixion of Jesus. And the Vatican chooses representatives from around the world to help carry the cross. It is one of the most solemn moments of this Holy Week, which ends on Sunday, with Easter mass at the Vatican. Delia Gallagher, CNN, Rome.", "And Happy Easter to all of you who are celebrating. Now, a foul ball resulted a trip to the hospital for a Major League umpire. Kristina Fitzpatrick following that story in sports. Good morning.", "Good morning to you guys. A scary moment behind the plate during last night's game between the Orioles and the Blue Jays. We'll check in on umpire Dale Scott and his condition coming up on \"New Day.\""], "speaker": ["PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "BLACKWELL", "DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT", "PAUL", "KRISTINA FITZPATRICK, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-85477", "program": "CNN NEWSNIGHT AARON BROWN", "date": "2004-6-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/17/asb.00.html", "summary": "Voice Hijacker Filled Room 9/11 Commission Played Cockpit Tape", "utt": ["Good evening again. History is full of horrible lies. One of the worst was spelled out in wrought iron letters on the gates at Auschwitz. \"Work will make you free\" it said in German, but the one that was heard in the 9/11 hearing room today is right up there. The tape recorded voice of, it is believed, Mohamed Atta telling passengers aboard American Airlines Flight 11, \"stay quiet and you'll be OK.\" He knew they wouldn't be OK, to the contrary. He knew that he and they and all those aboard three other jets would very soon be dead, along with many innocent people on the ground, which is why he lied to keep the doomed passengers calm and manageable. If 9/11 isn't already the most studied day in history, it surely will be soon and yet we keep finding out things, heartbreaking things. The investigation again tops the program and begins the whip. The 9/11 Commission's final hearings in Washington, Kelli Arena covering, Kelli a headline from you tonight.", "Aaron, the voice of one of the hijackers filled that room as a commissioner played a cockpit tape. And, as one family member said, even though nearly three years passed, it took you right back to that horrible day.", "It certainly did. Kelli, we'll get to you at the top tonight. The White House next, the president sticking by his past statements about al Qaeda and Iraq. CNN's Suzanne Malveaux with the watch tonight, Suzanne the headline.", "Well, Aaron, a recent poll shows that as many as 50 percent of Americans believe that Saddam Hussein had something to do with the 9/11 attacks. Now, with the findings of the 9/11 Commission there are renewed questions whether the White House exaggerated the relationship between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda to make its case for war. President Bush today defending the justification for the invasion.", "Suzanne, thank you. On to the Pentagon where the decision to keep a high value Iraqi prisoner hidden, off the books as it were, is causing some problems. CNN's Jamie McIntyre with the headline -- Jamie.", "Well, Aaron, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today said he was only doing what CIA Director George Tenet asked him to do when he ordered a prisoner dubbed XXX to be held in secret detention at the U.S. military prison camp near the Baghdad Airport.", "Jamie, thank you. And finally, Iraq, the attacks mount, so do the deaths. Civilians taking the biggest hit. CNN's Christiane Amanpour is in Baghdad this morning, Christiane a headline from you.", "Well, Aaron, security forces as well taking the biggest hit. This is the latest in more than a dozen attacks on security forces. They weren't protected. All they wanted to do was join the new army.", "Christiane, thank you. We'll get back to you and the rest shortly. Also coming up on the program on this Thursday night, an interesting follow-up on a story we've reported here on NEWSNIGHT before concerning the anti-malaria drug Lariam. The drug's side effects will be used to defend a soldier against charges of cowardice. Plus a new chapter in the battle over marriage. In-state couples in Massachusetts can get married. Out of state gay couple cannot. The courts will have to settle this one. And later, as he does every night, the rooster drops by bringing with him your morning papers, all that and more in the hour ahead. We begin with the 9/11 Commission. In their final public hearing, the commissioners turned the clock back to the morning of September 11, 2001, before any of the planes had crashed, before Americans knew of the hijackings, before everything changed. They turned the clock back to the old normal. How the military and the FAA and the White House responded on that morning was the focus today, with great confusion, say the commissioners. Their report on the response fueled most of the talk today but the hijackers also spoke in radio transmissions played publicly for the first time. A series of reports beginning with CNN's Kelli Arena.", "It was a chilling moment, a hijacker gives passengers aboard American Airlines Flight 11 an order.", "We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you'll be OK. We are returning to the airport.", "The 9/11 Commission believes it's the voice of ringleader Mohamed Atta just before he piloted the flight into the World Trade Center.", "You know you start to cry when you hear that because it's three years but it brings you right back to the day.", "The tape was played during the final public hearing by the commission in which the members concluded the U.S. Air Defense System was completely unprepared for what happened that day.", "On the morning of 9/11, the existing protocol was unsuited in every respect for what was about to happen.", "The 29-page report chronicled confusion and delays in trying to confirm which planes were hijacked and where they were headed.", "We got many aircraft calls inbound that morning that turned out to be phantoms.", "The commission concluded the military never received more than nine minutes' notice from the FAA on any of the hijackings. If it had, military officials now say they could have intercepted all four planes. Instead, the first call from the SAH and the military for help prompted this question.", "Is this real world or exercise?", "No, this is not an exercise (unintelligible).", "The president, who was in Florida during the attacks, admitted to the commission that he had problems communicating with the White House.", "America is under attack and the commander-in-chief can't get through to the nation's capital, I mean that's a serious problem.", "The commission said President Bush gave Vice President Cheney an order to shoot down hostile aircraft, which he relayed to the military. Half an hour later, Cheney said to the defense secretary: \"It's my understanding they've already taken a couple of aircraft out.\" He was mistaken.", "The only orders actually conveyed to the Langley pilots were to \"I.D., type and tail.\"", "Confusion reigned at the FAA as well. Officials told the military Flight 11 was still in the air even after it had hit the World Trade Center and the FAA never asked for military assistance to deal with the flight that later crashed into the Pentagon. That flight, American Airlines 77, traveled undetected by radar for more than half an hour.", "No one knew where these planes were except the people who were in them.", "The report was not a complete indictment and did praise the work of aviation officials who \"thought outside the box,\" making split second decisions that got 4,500 commercial planes that were still in the air to land safely -- Aaron.", "Just I think it helps people a little bit if we I think understand some of the confusion that was reigning to talk about the time frame that all this was happening in. You're not talking about hours and hours and hours.", "No. You're talking about seconds, Aaron, in some cases minutes if you were lucky and, as the commission members said, there was no training that at the time when they thought they were dealing with a hijacking they thought in the traditional sense that someone would take over a plane, make a demand but not drive it into a building.", "Kelli, thank you, Kelli Arena in Washington tonight. A little later in the program we'll have a long excerpt from the hijackers themselves and their talks with both the passengers and the control towers. That's coming up a little bit later. These final two days of the 9/11 hearings have been long on drama in a number of ways. Yesterday, the panel delivered what many saw as a blow to the White House saying that al Qaeda and Iraq did not cooperate in the 9/11 attacks and had no formal relationship at all. The White House has long maintained there were links between al Qaeda and Iraq. It used that allegation to make the case for war and it is not budging from that assertion, not tonight at least. A lot of parsing going on tonight, links and contacts and relationships and how they are different from what the commission found. From the White House tonight, CNN's Suzanne Malveaux.", "The 9/11 Commission says it has no evidence that Iraq had anything to do with the September 11 attacks. During a cabinet meeting, the president maintained that the administration never made that claim.", "This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and al Qaeda. We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda.", "We don't disagree with that.", "And while there is no disagreement regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks, the president and members of his administration continue to highlight what they call direct links between the group responsible for those attacks and Saddam Hussein.", "Well, the reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.", "In the lead up to the war with Iraq, President Bush and his top aides cited numerous links between the two.", "There are al Qaeda terrorists inside Iraq. Senior members of Iraqi intelligence and al Qaeda had met at least eight times since the early 1990s.", "Providing safe haven and support for such terrorist groups as Abu Nidal and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. He had long established ties with al Qaeda.", "Some on the 9/11 Commission continue to charge that the president and senior administration officials may have overstated the relationship between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda for political purposes.", "Certainly some in the administration may have overplayed this to leave the implication that the intelligence services in Iraq participated or helped plan 9/11.", "Bush critics and some political analysts go even further.", "I don't think the Bush administration could be convicted of lying in a court of law but I think it deliberately politicked the issue to make its case for war in a way that was really not defensible based on the evidence.", "Now with the end of the 9/11 hearings, the White House is certainly hoping to move beyond this controversy, at least until the final report from the 9/11 Commission that comes out later in the summer -- Aaron.", "They certainly got the headlines in the paper today though and this story headlined most newspapers that we saw last night and they must have seen it as dangerous because they went at it full bore.", "Well, certainly over the last 48 hours, I mean this has been a White House, of course, that has been on the defensive but they are very confident of the statements that they have made in the past. There are, as you know, a whole political aspect to this as well. The commission saying today that they wanted to make sure they get that final report out at least well before the Democratic National Committee. They are trying to show that this is not a partisan effort that its conclusions are not partisan but you can bet, Aaron, that both sides are using this to their advantage.", "Suzanne, thank you, Suzanne Malveaux at the White House. Also later in the program we'll talk with commission member John Lehman. That's coming up in a bit as well. The Senate Intelligence Committee today unanimously approved what's said to be a very critical report on pre-war Iraqi intelligence. There's no telling when that report will be made public because the agencies being criticized get to go through it first, scratch out the things they say should be classified. And here's another development Alfred Hitchcock would have liked, a man whisked not just off the street but off the record, captured but not registered, so that in a sense he ceased to exist. Today, though, the man who wasn't came back, came back to haunt the Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. Here's our senior Pentagon Correspondent Jamie McIntyre.", "The case began in late October, a time when U.S. troops were coming under increasing attack from insurgents. The CIA had captured a man dubbed XXX by some soldiers who was believed to be a terrorist leader directly responsible. After an initial interrogation, the CIA Director George Tenet asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to take custody of the man but keep his detention secret. Rumsfeld insisted he did nothing wrong by complying with the CIA's request.", "There are those who would say, I guess, that you're not telling it because you might be mistreating such prisoners. That might be the suspicion.", "I understand that. That's not the case at all and I think that will be clear.", "XXX is identified by the Pentagon only as a high official and paramilitary leaders of the Ansar al-Islam terrorist group believed to be coordinating attacks on U.S. troops. Rumsfeld denies his order was in any way aimed at covering up abuse or inhumane treatment. (on camera): Was there an intention to hide this prisoner from the Red Cross?", "Not on my part.", "But the prisoner was never registered with the Red Cross as required by the Geneva Conventions, which the Pentagon now admits was a breakdown in procedure.", "We should have registered him much sooner than we did. It didn't have to be at the very instant we brought him into our custody.", "In his investigation of abuse at the Abu Ghraib Prison, Major General Antonio Taguba criticized military police for hiding so-called ghost detainees from the Red Cross, calling the practice \"deceptive, contrary to Army doctrine, and in violation of international law.\" Rumsfeld insists the case of XXX, who was never at Abu Ghraib, is different.", "How is this case different from what Taguba was talking about the ghost detainees?", "It is just different. That's all.", "Can you explain how and why?", "I can't.", "Secretary Rumsfeld says it's up to the CIA to explain why the capture of this prisoner needed to be kept secret but there's more than a touch of irony in the defense that Rumsfeld is offering. It's somewhat similar to that of those lower down on the scale accused of wrongdoing, namely that he was just following orders -- Aaron.", "The order in this sense being the request from the CIA director?", "Exactly.", "And does the CIA offer us any help on this? If we have to get this information from the CIA, what's it saying?", "Well, right now the CIA is saying very little about what was going on with this prisoner except that he was of some value and then the question is why they never interrogated him again. The Pentagon kept thinking the CIA was going to come back and ask to talk to him again. There were several requests to have his status reviewed that were ignored until just recently when a high-ranking general asked what was going on with him after eight months. That's when the Pentagon finally said I guess we better do something about this.", "And where is the guy now, do we know?", "He remains at the prison camp outside of Baghdad where he has been for eight months.", "Jamie, thank you, Jamie McIntyre tonight. Until today the only Americans charged in the prison abuse scandal have been low-ranking soldiers. Today the Justice Department says it's gotten an indictment on an independent contractor, the first civilian to be charged. The prisoner he is accused of assaulting had voluntarily surrendered in Afghanistan. He was beaten to death during the interrogation, reporting for us tonight, CNN's David Ensor.", "Thirty-eight-year-old David Passaro was indicted on four counts of assault in the beating of an Afghan prisoner Abdul Walli who later died. At the time, Passaro was a private contractor for the CIA. A former Special Forces soldier, he was arrested Thursday morning where he lives in Fayetteville, North Carolina.", "During these interrogations on June 19 and June 20, 2003, it is alleged that Passaro beat Walli repeatedly using his hands and feet and a large flashlight. Walli died in a cell in Asadabad Base on June the 21st, 2003.", "The base is in a remote and hazardous area near the Pakistani border where Taliban and al Qaeda fighters are frequently encountered. U.S. forces there sometimes fire grenades to keep enemies at bay. Abdul Walli, the man who died, was suspected of firing rockets at U.S. forces. CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield says as soon as his agency heard about the allegations they were immediately reported to the Justice Department. The attorney general sought to contrast the indictments with the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq.", "The American people are by now familiar with the images of prisoner abuse committed in detention facilities overseas. Today a wholly different and frankly more accurate picture of our nation emerges.", "One human rights advocate said assault was not the only crime that should have been charged.", "And given the nature of the indictment that he was literally bashed to death with a flashlight whilst he was being -- whilst he was under interrogation is a clear case of torture.", "Passaro will face trial in a federal court in North Carolina. Each of the four charges carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and $250,000 fine. David Ensor, CNN.", "Ahead on NEWSNIGHT tonight, more violence in Iraq, and again, most of the casualties are innocent civilians. CNN's Christiane Amanpour joins us shortly. And as promised, we'll look at the new battle brewing in Massachusetts between out-of-state gay couples and the state government. All because of a very old law. From New York, this is NEWSNIGHT.", "In Iraq, the news of the day is again strained by the numbers. In a firefight near Baquba, U.S. soldier killed 10 suspected Iraqi insurgents, but the insurgents struck again as well. Two car bombings killed at least 41 people and injured more than 100 others. An Iraqi army-recruiting center in Baghdad was one of the targets. None of the 175 would-be recruits inside the facility's gates was killed or injured, nor were there any U.S. or Iraqi army casualties. That simple fact underscores the mathematical truth often lost in the fog of Iraq. Here's CNN's Christiane Amanpour.", "Yet another suicide bomber strikes at the very of Iraqi society: its new security forces. During the morning rush hour, a car backed with artillery shells exploded outside a recruiting center. And as usual, most of the victims were ordinary Iraqis, a media-mobbed U.S. soldier said.", "Those are where the casualties came from, was innocent civilians that just happened to be on the street when this bomb went off.", "And it's been like that since last summer. But the traffic of caskets in and out of the Baghdad morgue is heavier than usual these days in the run-up to the June 30 handover. Waiting inside the morgue, Azi Niad (ph) is terrified. \"Fear is everywhere,\" he tells us. \"If you go out at night, you're afraid. During the day, you're afraid. There is no security anywhere.\" (on camera): While most of the attention has been paid to the deaths of American soldiers and international contractors, by far the highest number of death have been amongst Iraqis, most of them ordinary civilians. This one morgue in Baghdad alone says that it receives about 40 bodies everyday, victims of the current violence. (voice-over): Ada al-Hilfrim (ph) has come to collect the body of his 12-year-old nephew, killed by a stray bullet. \"This are all our people,\" he says. \"Sons and brothers gone because of the lack of security and stability in our country.\" Whether at U.N. headquarters or at police stations, every time the terrorists and insurgents strike, Iraqis have paid dearly. Statistics for the whole country are hard to come by. But in Baghdad in Najaf alone, health ministry officials say 2,600 have been killed over the last year, and another 3,500 injured. That's about triple the number of U.S. soldiers and other foreign contractors killed in the whole country. The aim is to sow panic and paralyze the country, especially by assassinating government officials and businessmen, kidnapping doctors and other professionals.", "They are pushing our elite, our brains, outside the country or", "Mohammed Ali says he plans to leave if things don't change. He's a medical student.", "Fear and misery that are expected only to get worse even beyond the handover.", "This is about the 20th attack on either police or security headquarters since mid September, and it points to a very severe problem: how are Iraqi forces going to be up and running and ready to take even some security after the handover on June 30. The U.S. deputy defense security in Iraq said that the Iraqi security forces are going to need substantial U.S. military help for a long period of time -- Aaron.", "Obviously, most of the violence is political. It's the insurgency -- and the insurgency has many heads, but it's the insurgency. But not all of it is. Some of it is just random violence, isn't it? Or at least non-political violence.", "Well, it just seems that when we're talking specifically about the security forces, it does seem very much targeted. And it is political, and it is an attempt not to allow Iraq to form its own security forces, which is vital to, as you know, to the maintaining of any state. Wherever they are, they need a security force, and many of these people want to join up. Remember, the army was disbanded by the American occupational authority's Paul Bremer last year. And since then, a lot of the military have A, been disgruntled, and others have wanted to come and join up again. They see this as their chance. And they're just -- the attacks on them are very dispiriting, and that's what we found after this latest attack.", "Christiane, thanks. Christiane Amanpour in Baghdad. It's morning there. Couple of more notes from Iraq, and better things to report. Diplomatic sources tell CNN that a Lebanese man who had been held hostage was released today unharmed. And Turkish media are reporting that two truckers, one of them Egyptian, the other from Turkey, were also freed by kidnappers. They had been held hostage for about two weeks. Still to come on NEWSNIGHT tonight, the chilling voice of a murderer heard publicly today for the very first time at the 9/11 commission hearings. And you will hear them too. And surely you'll see much of the 9/11 hearings in tomorrow's papers, which we'll have for you tonight. Because that's the way we are. Around the world, this is NEWSNIGHT.", "In all that we heard today from the 9/11 commission, nothing captured the absolute horror of that day quite like what you're about to hear. There's no need to dress this up with fancy graphics, no need for flashy production. Just cue the tape and play the tape and listen to the hijackers, the killers of 9/11, as they go about their business.", "At 8:00 on September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 began its take off role at Logan Airport in Boston. By 8:09, it was being monitored by FAA's Boston Center. At 8:24:36, the following transmission came from American 11:", "We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you'll be OK. We're returning to the airport.", "The next transmission came seconds later.", "Nobody move. Everything will be OK. If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just say quiet.", "Hearing that transmission, the controller told us he then knew it was a hijacking. At 8:34, the Boston Center controller received a third transmission from American 11.", "Nobody move please. We are going back to the airport. Don't try to make any stupid moves.", "At 8:37:52, Boston Center reached NEADS. This was the first notification received by the military at any level that American 11 had been hijacked.", "Hi Boston Center TMU, we have a problem here. We have a hijacked aircraft headed towards New York and we need you guys to -- we need someone to scramble some F16s or something up there to help us out.", "Is this real-world or exercise?", "No, this is not an exercise, not a test.", "At 8:41, United 175 enter New York Center's airspace. The New York Center controller and manager were unaware that American 11 had already crashed. Between 9:01 and 9:02, a manager from New York Center told the command center Herndon:", "We got several situations going on here. It's escalating big time, and we need to get the military involved with this.", "At 9:01, New York Center contacted New York Terminal Approach Control and asked for help in locating United 175.", "We just -- we don't know who yet. We're just picking him up now.", "All right, heads up. And it looks like another one coming in.", "All right.", "The controllers observed the planes in rapid descent. At 9:03:03, United 175 crashed into the South Tower.", "United 93 took over from Newark at 8:42. At 9:28, United 93 acknowledged the transmission from the controller. At 9:32, a third radio transmission came over the frequency. Quote -- \"Keep remaining sitting. We have a bomb on board.\" -- end quote. Then, at 9:39, a fifth radio transmission came over the radio frequency from United 93.", "This is your captain. Would like you all to remain seated. There is a bomb aboard and are going back to the airport and to have our demands", "At 9:46 and again two minutes later, command center updated FAA headquarters that United 93 was now -- quote -- \"29 minutes out of the Washington, D.C.\" -- end quote.", "Do we want to think about scrambling aircraft?", "God, I don't know.", "That's a decision somebody's going to have to make probably in the next 10 minutes.", "You know, everybody just left the room.", "Repeatedly between 10:14 and 10:19, a lieutenant colonel at the White House relayed the information to the National Military Command Center that the vice president had confirmed fighters were cleared to engage any aircraft that they could verify that the aircraft had been hijacked.", "There was no time to get that verification. United Air 93 had already crashed in a field in Pennsylvania 10 minutes short of an intercept, and 125 miles short of Washington, D.C. The commission's report is due next month, five Democrats, five Republicans. One of them is former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, a Republican. We talked with him today about the day late this afternoon.", "Among the things you talked about today, Mr. Secretary, is the NORAD response, the military response to all of this. I have two questions there. First of all, was there in place protocol for the shooting down of a civilian airliner? And corollary to that, I guess, is, has anyone ever thought about whether an American pilot could actually pull the trigger under those circumstances?", "Well, the answer is there were no protocols in place, and that was one of the criticisms that we've had. Even though we have found in our -- in our investigations that planners at NORAD had proposed that they start exercising when some of the early intelligence came in that there were -- there were reports of al Qaeda planning things like Bojinka plot, and using aircraft as missiles. But it was rejected and never put into the exercises. And hence, there were never any protocols developed. And everybody was playing it by ear that day, which was unfortunate. However, at the working level, everybody -- everybody did very well on the military side, and in the FAA at the centers. They -- there's no doubt in my mind that they would have pulled the trigger. The Air National Guard F-116s that were sent up over -- over Washington were cleared to fire. And they would have. If any aircraft had come in within a 20-mile radius, I have no doubt that the pilots would have pulled the trigger had they been armed. Unfortunately...", "So on balance, it was not so much a protocol problem as it was, ultimately, a communications problem. They weren't sure what they had, and by the time they figured it out it was too late?", "Well, a huge problem was that the FAA's headquarters was really dysfunctional. Their protocols had to pass everything up to headquarters to get approvals, even to contact the military. And -- and when it got up to headquarters in Washington, it seemed to enter a black hole where nothing came out. So, particularly on United 93, which was the aircraft that crashed in Pennsylvania, that was lost by FAA. And while the headquarters knew that it was lost, they were still -- they didn't designate hijacked, and they never reported it to NORAD until after it had crashed.", "And just in the last half-minute or so, you'll be laying out those lessons to be learned over the next couple of weeks. As you get to the end here, do you expect the debate internally to be fairly spirited and do you expect the result to be unanimous?", "I do expect the result to be unanimous because the facts that we have been immersed in over the last 18 months has really dissolved most of the partisanship that is natural whenever you get five Republicans and five Democrats in a room. So while, yes, there is going to be active debate over nuance and things that verge on the editorial, there won't be any difference and we haven't run into any difference over the real substance, the facts. And I am confident also in the recommendations, which are going to be hard-hitting, they're going to be dramatic, and they're going to be doable.", "Mr. Secretary, we appreciate your time and we especially appreciate your work on the commission. Thank you, sir.", "Thank you.", "Former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. We talked with him late this afternoon. Still to come on NEWSNIGHT tonight, the law was originally intended to keep blacks and whites from marrying. Now, almost 100 years later in Massachusetts, that same law is being used to stop out- of-state gay couples from marrying. We'll have the latest on that. Still later, the youngest", "\"This Week in History,\" the first African American, Thurgood Marshall, was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a slow-speed chase on June 17, 1994, L.A. police followed O.J. Simpson in a white Ford Bronco driven by his friend and former teammate Al Cowlings. And in Montana, an 81-day standoff between the FBI and the anti- government Freemen group came to a peaceful end. And that is \"This Week in History.\"", "As things stand in the state of Massachusetts, if you are gay and reside in the state, you can be married. If you reside elsewhere, you cannot come there to be married. Well, at least you can't get married when you get there. That is based on a law that was written to keep interracial couples from coming to the state to wed when marriages were forbidden in their home state. To no one's surprise, the law is being tested in a suit filed today. Here's CNN's Dan Lothian.", "The honeymoon is already over in the gay marriage legal battle in Massachusetts.", "We want to be able to hear somebody say, I now pronounce you married.", "Wendy Becker lives in Rhode Island and feels gays and lesbians from anywhere should have the right to be married in the only state that has legalized gay marriages.", "We want the social recognition and the legal protection that goes with being married.", "We're gathered here together...", "This double wedding with couples from out of state was just one of many such unions that took place last month in Massachusetts. Some clerks issues licenses to out-of-state residents, openly defying warnings by Governor Mitt Romney and his attorney general that their actions violated the law.", "I do believe that we should not export same-sex marriage to other states that have the Defense of Marriage Act.", "The state attorney general quickly issued an order that halted non-resident licenses. But these couples, who were either recently married in Massachusetts or were turned away, say the segregation-era law, passed in response to interracial marriages, is not only discriminatory, but unconstitutional.", "We can't dust off this law that hasn't been enforced for many years, and now rely on this law that has very disreputable, racist origins.", "Clerks in Provincetown, a gay-vacation hot spot, and in cities like Sommerville, north of Boston, did issue some marriage licenses to non-residents. They are now part of the lawsuits.", "Our clerks have never been asked to act as marriage police before. We shouldn't be required to do so now.", "Since there is pending litigation, Governor Romney's office said he would have no comment. His attorney general, who also had no comment, has said in the past that his office is just upholding the current law, and that nothing would change until a court rules otherwise. Dan Lothian, CNN, Boston.", "Still ahead on NEWSNIGHT, tonight, we'll introduce you to a group of 15-year-olds from Australia who are very much \"On the Rise.\" And what do 15-year-olds from Down Under do? Well, they make wine.", "This is a story about kids and culture and a good bottle of wine. Now, the kids are too young to drink a good bottle of wine, or even a bad bottle of wine, for that matter. But they aren't too young to make wine, which is what they are doing in Australia. Making good wine", "Once considered part of Australian culture, it's something that Australians enjoy doing. We set out to introduce the teaching of wine making, not the teaching of drinking wine. This is 2003 quarts.", "We've never tasted any wine. We're all underage here.", "They trust us, and we haven't let them down yet, I don't think. They haven't let", "Our program is certainly unique. We have got highly motivated students.", "We have been involved in all aspects of the wine making.", "You add yeast to it, and that converts the sugar to alcohol.", "Then, it's stored in", "And then goes into the bottle. And then it gets mangled into whatever brand it is.", "Chardonnay.", "They're a very good filler in our restaurant. They love it. Really, really love it. I was shocked that day. The wines are doing so little", "Famous Wines and Spirits, down here on Gowall (ph) Street. The local scholar from New", "I think it's great that we're finally getting some money.", "The wine costs $35 per bottle. Most customers will thank me for recommending it to them, and they love it.", "We've gotten great reviews.", "The first review I saw for this particular wine was from the Wine Advocate, and the review was 94-point. Ninety- four point line is exceptional. That's a rarity. To make such an incredibly good product at that age, and you don't even drink.", "A small project, handcrafted, they're incredible.", "Having experienced making real", "That is a -- that's a great \"On the Rise.\" \"Morning Papers\" after the break.", "Time to check \"Morning Papers\" from around the country and around the world in no particular order tonight, I guess because I had no time to put them in a particular order. We'll begin with the San Antonio Express News. Almost everyone led with 9/11. \"D.C. Stood Defenseless on 9/11\" is the San Antonio lead. And under that, it says, \"Defensive: President Bush defends his administration against charges it exaggerated Iraq's ties to al Qaeda in the lead-up to the war last year.\" I'm not sure it sounded defensive to me, but it did to the editors of this good paper, so we'll go with that. Christian Science Monitor, \"On 9/11, Defenders Just Improvised: September 11 Panel Finds the National Security System was Utterly unprepared for the challenge posed by al Qaeda.\" Also like this story: \"Clinton Peddles a Book, Polishes an Image.\" Next week, man, it's going to be all Clinton all the time, as the book comes out. I -- we're -- on NEWSNIGHT, we're going to look at the policy implications of the book. \"Hoop-Dee-Do!\" is the lead -- sometimes I just say things to amuse me. \"Hoop-Dee-Do\" is the lead in the Detroit Free Press. They put basketball on the front page. 9/11 is there. What I found interesting -- I find this -- these sort of things interesting -- The Detroit News didn't put sports on the front page at all. Big parade in town, they just ignored it. They go with a good road story though, \"Metro Road Fixed To Cost Up To $75 Billion -- $70 Billion.\" Unfortunately, only $40 billion will be available over the next 25 years. So they got a problem there. Chattanooga Times Free Press leads with 9/11: \"Air Defenses Ineffective on 9/11.\" This is the most interesting story on the front page to me: \"Americans Feel More Upbeat About Iraq, Polls Show.\" A dramatic shift in a month -- about 57 percent of Americans think the effort is going well, up from 46 percent last month. And the president's numbers go up in this poll. A Pew poll now has a two- point lead over John Kerry, and I think if you looked at the electoral map, you'd be running a little better than that. Two good stories on the front page of The Philadelphia Inquirer is down at the bottom, both economic stories. \"Economic Factories Get Busy, So Many May Add Jobs.\" On the other hand, it turns out minority firms lag in city deals. Two good economic stories in a very good newspaper, The Detroit Inquirer (sic). The big tobacco story was that fewer kids are smoking these days, but that's not what The Richmond Times-Dispatch put on. They put this story on tobacco, \"Tobacco Buy-Out Could Help Avert Train Wreck.\" The House of Representatives voted to end the tobacco subsidy program and to give tobacco growers about $9 billion to get out of the business. Running out of time. I think the weather tomorrow in Chicago -- thank you -- is malaise. I'll find it, and we'll just -- we'll work it out. We'll be back after this.", "Couple quick programming notes before we say good night. We said at the top of the program that we'd have an update on the anti-malaria drug Larium. 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{"id": "CNN-172294", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-9-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/14/ltm.01.html", "summary": "GOP Wins Weiner's House Seat; Republicans Hold Onto Nevada Seat; Pressure's On to Pass Jobs Plan; PA Health Care Ruling; Attack on U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan Over", "utt": ["I'm Christine Romans. A Republican capturing the House seat left vacant by Anthony Weiner and the GOP is calling it a vote against President Obama.", "I'm Carol Costello. It's the video everyone is talking about. Good Samaritans rescuing an unconscious motorcyclist beneath a burning BMW. Four of those heroes will tell us why they risked their own lives to save someone else on this", "All right, good morning, everyone. It's Wednesday, September 14th. Welcome to AMERICAN MORNING. Ali has the day off today.", "He does. He was tired after that big Tea Party debate. Coming up first this morning, Democrats licking their wounds this morning after a devastating setback in New York. Bob Turner winning the race to fill Anthony Weiner's vacant congressional seat. It is the first time in nearly a century that a Republican has captured the traditionally Democratic ninth New York district, and Turner did it with an anti-Obama campaign.", "-- asked by the people of this district to send a message to Washington, and I hope they hear it loud and clear. We have been told this is a referendum and we're ready to say, Mr. President, we are on the wrong track.", "Mary Snow is tracking this developing story for us. So did this come as a surprise or did people sort of suspect this was going to happen?", "You know, the polls leading into the race showed Republicans were ahead, but clearly the Democrat here was expected to win. I mean, Democrats will say, look, there are conservative Democrats in this district and President Obama won I think by 11 points in 2008. However, you know, Anthony Weiner was elected to seven terms here. Democrats outnumber Republicans three to one and it was clearly expected that the Democrats here would win. You know, there is going to be a lot of dissecting of this race to see exactly what it means. But if you remember back in the spring there was a special election in upstate New York and a Democrat won. It was a surprise because it was a Republican-held district. That Democrat won on Social Security and Medicare. The Democrat here tried to make that the issue here, but in that time the economy has soured and polls showed that jobs were the big issue here.", "And this wasn't just an American and jobs issue. There is also an Israel issue here too. How did that play in?", "Yes, this was an unusual factor in this race. The Republican here made Israel an issue, and he is a catholic. The Democrat is an orthodox Jew and he found himself on the defensive, because the Republican candidate said, criticized President Obama's policies on Israel. Ed Koch, a former New York City mayor who's a Democrat came out and said I want to send a message to President Obama as Israel and endorse the Republican. So, you know, in the polls it wasn't that big of an issue, but there is a Jewish population in this district. Also same-sex marriage became an issue because the Democrat in this race supported same-sex marriage. He's an assembly man in New York. So, you know, it was anything but local.", "The candidate did not support same-sex marriage?", "He's not a politician. He is a former cable TV executive. He did run against Anthony Weiner.", "His position was same-sex marriage?", "Right.", "The national election in 2012 will be very interesting if this is a sign of things to come.", "Republicans are holding on to a congressional seat in Nevada. Mark Amodei defeated Democrat Kate Marshall in yesterday's special elections to replace former Congressman Dean Heller. Heller is replacing former Republican Senator John Ensign. Remember he resigned from the Senate in May after acknowledging an affair with a staffer's wife.", "The pressure is on this morning for President Obama to get Republicans to OK his jobs bill. Just take a look at our new CNN/ORC poll. More than half of those surveyed, 55 percent do not approve of the way the president is handling his job. All the more reason the president is on the road today. He's in a key state of North Carolina hoping to convince the American public it appears some in Congress are holding back his effort to deal with the job crisis.", "Maybe there are some people in Congress who would rather settle our differences at the ballot box than work together right now. But I've got news for them, the next election is 14 months away and the American people don't have the luxury of waiting that long.", "Dan Lothian live at the White House. Dan, good morning. The heat is on the White House to get this plan through Congress. So how optimistic can the president be?", "Well, they're trying to remain optimistic here at the White House, but there is, according to top aides, a sense of urgency as the president tries to sell this jobs plan not only to the American people, but also to members of Congress. Now as you pointed out, there are those negative poll numbers, but in a new poll released just this morning, a CNN/ORC poll, there is a much more mixed review of what Americans think about the president's jobs plan, while they still don't know all of the details inside that plan, overall on the major proposals, they like what they see. The 43 percent are in favor of the plan, 35 percent oppose it, and 22 percent are still unsure. So the president, again, as you pointed out, will be hitting the road after visiting key battleground states of Virginia and Ohio. This time he heads to North Carolina just outside Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina where he will visit a small business that the White House says has the benefit of the president's jobs plan. He will also be delivering remarks at North Carolina State University. We expect to hear pretty much the similar message from yesterday in Columbus, Ohio, where the president was calling on Americans to pick up the phone, to tweet, to use whatever method of communication, to force and convince their lawmakers to embrace this jobs bill. But there's still a lot of resistance from Republicans who don't want to see any tax hikes as a way to fund the president's jobs plan. Carol --", "Dan Lothian reporting live in Washington for us this morning. Thanks, Dan.", "A new legal setback for President Obama's health care law. A federal judge in Pennsylvania declaring the provision that requires people to buy health care. Health insurance is unconstitutional. The ruling was issued in one of more than 30 lawsuits nationwide that challenged the president's health care overhaul. The question of an insurance mandate is ultimately expected to end up in the Supreme Court.", "After nearly 24 hours, the Taliban's attack on the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan is over. Security forces say they killed the six militants who stormed the nearby building in Kabul and opened fire on the embassy in a NATO command center. No one inside the U.S. embassy was injured, but at least one police officer was killed outside of the embassy. A spokesman for NATO says the strike was, quote, \"carefully planned.\" And we're told they were getting out of jail, but this morning, we're hearing a far different story. An Iranian judiciary official now says there is no decision on whether those two American hikers, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, will be released. Iran's president just said yesterday told NBC News, they could be released with a couple of days. The hikers' attorney said they'd be free as soon as each paid half a million dollars, but everything is up in the air this morning.", "A 21-year-old motorist who was pulled from a burning car by a group of bystanders. You've probably seen this video. He's recovering this morning and undergoing physical therapy. This is the video right now that everyone is talking about. Brandon Wright of Logan, Utah, unconscious, trapped under a burning BMW after a collision in a parking lot. His uncle says no words can describe the gratitude of Brandon's loved ones.", "The family of Brandon, first and foremost, his parents, his siblings and everyone else, are incredibly thankful for these angels that came to his aid yesterday. The -- watching the video gives us chills. That car could have blown up at any time. It was amazing they risked their lives, 12 people, however many it was to save Brandon's life.", "Four of those angels who saved Brandon's life will be joining us live from Logan, Utah in the next half hour of", "And as you may expect, they were humble so I can't wait to talk to them. Just ahead on AMERICAN MORNING, new staggering numbers on poverty in America. More poor people than at any other time since the U.S. started keeping track. We'll check back with one family we visited last year who's barely getting by. The face of poverty in America.", "Fire in the north. Flame spreading 16 miles in one day in Minnesota. Smoke now spreading over three states. Look out below, NASA has a better idea of just when a defunct six-ton satellite will be making its plunge back to earth. It's nice to know when that's going to happen. 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{"id": "NPR-17462", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2006-10-17", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6284151", "title": "Letters: Deaf Culture in America", "summary": "Listeners comment on the growing crisis at Gallaudet University, the future of deaf education and deaf culture, and the debate over cochlear implants.", "utt": ["It's Tuesday, the day we read from your e-mails. Last Thursday, amid a growing crisis at Gallaudet University here in Washington, D.C., we talked about the future of deaf education and deaf culture and why Gallaudet, the only liberal arts university in the world dedicated entirely to the deaf and hard of hearing, plays such a role in the deaf community. We planned originally to talk with I. King Jordan, the outgoing president of Gallaudet. But given the protest that shut down the school last week, he cancelled his appearance. The school is back open today after more than 100 students were arrested on Friday, but the protests continue.", "Malia Woodard(ph) e-mailed us to explain why Gallaudet and its president are so important. The role that I. King Jordan plays in the deaf community is not limited to university president. He's a role model for deaf individuals and for advocates of deaf education all over the world. Keep in mind that in most parts of the world, deaf education at any level does not exist. That's why this is so important, why the stakes are so high. Students want a strong leader, one who represents the deaf experience.", "We also talked about the debate over cochlear implants, technology that allows some deaf people to hear, at least to a degree. The issue divided the deaf community for years.", "Allison Anderson(ph) e-mailed to tell us: As a deaf person who was born profoundly deaf, I just got a cochlear implant three months ago. The militant deaf keep saying that the implant is bringing on the destruction of their culture. I don't think it's the cochlear implant that is destroying the culture. I came into a deaf environment eager to learn with an open mind. And as time went by, I got criticized for the way I grew up, for who I was, for talking, for not being deaf enough. It finally got to the point where I walked away from the community.", "And as we found out, this is still a divisive issue in the deaf community. Diana Harron(ph), a listener in California, e-mailed to complain. People are obsessed with fitting deaf children into the hearing lifestyle because they say it is reality and in the process deprive many deaf children of the opportunity to learn language and become fully functioning individuals in their own rights. Their parents make decisions based on false information about cochlear implants and how learning to speak and hear would make them normal. What is normal? I don't understand why Americans are terrified about sign language and are obsessed with making us hearing.", "We saw a lot of e-mail on this topic and on deaf education in general, more than we could ever read on the program, but this conversation continues online. We've posted a number of your comments at the TALK OF THE NATION page at npr.org. You can also log on to read the full transcript from Thursday's shows.", "Finally, John Richardson(ph) wanted to chime in about the Opinion Page segment yesterday. Would it be possible, he asks, for you to do a longer interview with the lady who talked about rap and how to deal with children listening to it? The brief interview was not only informative but dealt with a problem that is utterly immediate for so many people.", "Well, he's referring to our discussion with Lonnae O'Neal Parker, a staff writer for The Washington Post. We got quite a response to that conversation. And yes, we're already working on having her back on. If you missed the discussion yesterday on her fallout with hip-hop, it's available at our Web site. You can download it and all of our recent Opinion Pages at npr.org/talk.", "If you have comments, questions or corrections for us, the best way to reach us is by e-mail. The address is talk@npr.org. Please let us know where you're writing from and give us some help on how to pronounce your name.", "This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan in Washington."], "speaker": ["NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-195224", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-11-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1211/04/cnr.03.html", "summary": "More Help for Hurricane Sandy Victims", "utt": ["A lot of runners who traveled to New York City to run in that New York City marathon this morning, instead headed to Staten Island and other areas hit hard by that superstorm Sandy. They delivered relief supplies and helped victims clean out their flooded homes and though the storm's destruction prompted Mayor Michael Bloomberg to cancel the 26 mile race, other runners gathered before dawn at Central Park anyway, intent on running the race they had trained for months to finish. They participated in an unofficial alternative marathon that was organized on Facebook. Celebrity chef and cookbook author Rocco Dispirito was born in Queens and his culinary career has included stops across New York City. So when superstorm Sandy left millions without a decent meal, Dispirito did what he does best. He whipped up some soup and headed to some of the worst hit neighborhoods and started dishing it out. Rocco Dispirito joining me now on the phone, from Staten Island. So Rocco, you have made your rounds, Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and now Staten Island. And you have made, home made, chicken noodle soup, what's it been like to hand out so many meals to so many in need? ROCCO DISPIRITO, CELEBRITY CHEF", "How do you even go about making so much soup?", "You know, it's not easy because there's a shortage of fuel, needless to say, and you need fuel to get chicken, supplies, containers, coolers, you know, just a fuel up the car to get to Staten Island, and", "And so now, you made your way to Staten Island, give me kind of some comparison -", "Yes, tell me what you're seeing.", "I see houses with broken doors, windows, piles of debris in front of them. Five, six, eight feet high, containers full of garbage, a lifetime of personal belongings, piled up in front of their homes, clearly damaged by the water.", "And what's within the reaction from people when they see you bringing them these containers of soup. Describe to me what they have been saying to you, what they have been feeling?", "I'm very proud to say there's a lot of our community in action, people are on the ground helping out. I think what they're struggling with is how to get themselves and the food and supplies to the people who need it. And their reactions are, \"hot, hot is that hot? I'll take it.\" You know, it's cold out and it's getting colder, and I think people are looking for something that feels warm in their hands and their bodies. That's why I made sure it's nice and hot when I got out here.", "So where did this idea come from, at what point did you say \"Wait a minute. You know, I'm going to try and help out folks?\" Did it start kind of small thinking just in your neighborhood and then it just blossomed into more or what?", "Well, the idea of feeding hungry people is not anything new to chefs we all participate in the hunger challenges that many Americans face in some way or another and my food truck is established to feed hungry people and educate children about healthy eating. It was designed for that and now it's really needed more than ever. Although the truck is out of commission thanks to Sandy. My Prius which has only used five gallons of gas the entire week has really been helpful to me in getting this food out to people.", "Oh my goodness and you've been all over Twitter, you know, sharing your information about the latest deliveries you've been making and collecting donations as well. How can people help if they want to?", "You know, I met someone yesterday who raised several thousand dollars and was able to buy a lot of coats and scarves and jackets for very cold people in", "Oh man, you must have an incredible team, looking at some of your tweets right there. My heart goes out to all those affected by #hurricaneSandy.", "There is a family walking by me right now it looks like they've got all of their belongings in a supermarket wagon. It's heartbreaking. It's hard to hold back tears but I do have to say the people are generally upbeat and hopeful which is surprising.", "That is so nice. Well, you're doing an awfully great thing. Rocco Dispirito, thanks for taking the time out as you continue to make your deliveries of that hot, warm your heart soup and taking the time out to talk to us as well.", "My pleasure.", "All right. The weekend just about over, we head back to work tomorrow, the president says there are 171,000 reasons to be excited about the economy. But Mitt Romney, well, he disagrees. We'll get both sides next."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "WHITFIELD", "DISPIRITO", "WHITFIELD", "WHITFIELD", "DISPIRITO", "WHITFIELD", "DISPIRITO", "WHITFIELD", "DISPIRITO", "WHITFIELD", "DISPIRITO", "WHITFIELD", "DISPIRITO", "WHITFIELD", "DISPIRITO", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-149204", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2010-3-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/19/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Rielle Hunter Poses for Racy Pictures", "utt": ["Who will \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT\" name the most provocative celebrity of the week, the cheating edition? Is it Sandra Bullock`s husband Jesse James for allegedly cheating on her, or is it Tiger Woods for the new week of drama? Tiger`s alleged porn star mistress reveals sexy texts she claims were from him. Or is it John Edwards ex-mistress Rielle Hunter for her provocative poses in \"GQ\" magazine and her tell-all interview about their secret love affair? Welcome back to \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.\" I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood with A.J. Hammer in New York.", "\"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT\" will reveal the most provocative celebrity of the week in just a moment. But first, big news just in today about Heidi Montag firing her psychic manager. I think the guy should have seen it coming. And a bad romance for Lady Gaga could cost her millions. That`s all in \"The Buzz\" today.", "Lady Gaga`s legal drama. The superstar just got slapped with a $30 million lawsuit by her former producer and business partner who claims she ditched him once she became famous. Rob Presaris says is the one who transformed Stephanie Germonata into Lady Gaga and made her songs into commercial hits. His suit calls Gaga a \"woman scorned who cut him out of the business after he broke off their romance.\" Heidi Montag`s psychic disconnection. Montag has just fired the psychic she had unbelievably hired as her new manager. Montag made intuitive healer Aidan Chase her manager last week saying he helped her heal from ten plastic surgeries. Chase had reportedly embarrassed the star by crashing the set of \"The Hills\" and the new movie Montag began shooting this week. What`s the deal with Paula? ABC just revealed that the former \"American Idol\" judge will no longer be a part of the brand new \"Star Search\" show the network was planning and had just announced earlier this week. Abdul reportedly stunned executives by holding out for too much money. Last year, FOX reportedly offered her $5 million to continue on \"Idol,\" which she rejected.", "So did Paula make a big mistake passing up the \"Star Search\" job? Joining me tonight in New York is Ben Widdicombe, a celebrity journalist, and in Hollywood tonight is Rachel Zalis, a contributing editor for \"Life and Style Weekly.\" Ben and Rachel, I love Paula Abdul. Do you know why? You never know what she`s going to say, what she`s going to do. I think she would have made a great host of \"Star Search.\" Rachel, is Paula making a colossal mistake by passing this up?", "I don`t agree. I think her whacky, kooky personality is much better suited to being a judge than a host. By the way, \"Star Search\" is a relic, a dinosaur. It was so `80s. They tried to re-launch it again with Arsenio in 2002 and it bombed. Why does she want to do that instead of being part of the dream team with Simon on \"The X Factor,\" which is a huge possibility for her?", "And speaking of that, Rachel, there have been rumbles out there that Paula could have passed on this \"Star Search\" gig because Simon Cowell wants her to join him on the new show \"The X Factor.\" Ben, if that is the case, I think this would be a smart move to hold out to work with Simon Cowell. What do you think?", "Absolutely. If that offer is on the table, Paula had better start learning to say \"yes,\" because Hollywood is littered with actresses like Valerie Harper, Suzanne Sommers who said no to big shows and walked away from money which was not in hindsight the best deal for their own careers. I think she`d be perfect on \"The X Factor\" show, and unless she wants to see Sarah Palin as a judge I think she better say yes to Simon.", "Maybe say yes a little bit. Hey, Paula, hey, Simon, I`m sorry to tell you guys, but you guys did not make the cut to be named \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT\" most provocative celebrity of the week, and it may be a good thing for you guys. Let`s show you who did in this special cheaters edition. The nominees include Sandra Bullock`s husband Jesse James for allegedly cheating on her with a tattoo model, Tiger Woods for a brand new week of drama. This week Tiger`s alleged porn star mistress reveals his steamy texts. And the third nominee is John Edwards` mistress Rielle Hunter for her provocative poses in \"GQ\" magazine, her sex and tell interview. There can only be one winner, so let us name \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT\" most provocative celebrity of the week. Drum roll, please. It was stiff competition, but Jesse James takes the cake. How dare he allegedly cheat like that on Sandra Bullock? Rachel, did we get it right?", "No. Cheating husbands are a dime a dozen in this town. Come on, Rielle Hunter. She cheats with a married man, goes to \"GQ,\" dishes the dirt on the sex scandal, bashes his cancer-stricken wife, poses half undressed with teddy bears and then claims she didn`t know they would be run in the magazine. Really? Come on.", "That was pretty darn provocative, but I`m sticking with Jesse James. Ben, any doubt in your mind that Jesse James should have been named the most provocative celebrity of the week?", "None whatsoever. I agree with the choice this week. I think Rielle deserves the number two slot for the pure audacity of posing for those tasteless photographs and saying they offended her. But what Jesse James did to Sandra Bullock in what should have been the proudest month of her life when she stole the Oscar from Meryl Streep was just unforgivable. So I think he`s the rat bag of the week.", "Absolutely. Jesse James gets the honor this week. Ben, Rachel, thank you both.", "Today, the mind-blowing new details about what could be Sarah Palin`s biggest payday ever. The brand new details about two television networks fighting to pay Palin millions and millions of dollars to air her new reality TV show. And now the Showbiz news ticker, more stories from the \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT\" newsroom making news today. Time now for making it work, where we reveal how stars make their relationships work in Hollywood and beyond. And today it`s Jeff Bridges. The Oscar winning actor has been married to his wife Susan for 33 years. She was right by Jeff`s side when he won nearly every major acting award this season."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "HAMMER", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "ZALIS", "ANDERSON", "WIDDICOMBE", "ANDERSON", "ZALIS", "ANDERSON", "WIDDICOMBE", "ANDERSON", "HACKER"]}
{"id": "CNN-191495", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2012-8-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1208/22/sbt.01.html", "summary": "One on One with Michael Strahan", "utt": ["Well, reports that Michael Strahan has grabbed the permanent live co-hosting gig are blowing up tonight. There have been 59 guest hosts since Regis Philbin left the show last year. But Strahan has sat next to Kelly Ripa more than any of them. There`s no question these guys have amazing chemistry on set together. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT did go one on one with Strahan at his home before he became the apparent heir to Regis, and he told us why he would love to be Kelly`s TV hubby for good. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`S Michelle Turner has our \"SHOWBIZ Flashback\" with Michael Strahan.", "I try to not think about it as replacing Regis. Nobody could ever do that. And I think if you put in that aspect and you think about it, it`s just too big. So I just look at it as an opportunity to go on TV and tell stories, and have fun, entertain myself and other people. And not look at the big magnitude, the scope of it. And...", "But you`re getting the job out there right now.", "Yes, and you and I are sitting here talking about how we`re country and where we came from. And I`m like, I grew up in the country. Then I go to Germany. Then I come back to the states. I`m not supposed to play football and I play football for 15 great years. And then I`m on FOX now. And all of a sudden, I have an opportunity for this. It blows my mind, too. I don`t get it. I`m just riding the wave. I`m enjoying it. I ride the wave. But I think this show fits my personality to -- I get along with Kelly great. I mean, very hard for me not to get along with pretty much anybody.", "You guys do have chemistry.", "I get along with her great. I love her. She`s really a sweetheart. And what you see on the show is what you get off the show, which is very much me. If you see me now, this is what you`re going to get. Because I don`t want to -- I`m not trying to fool anybody and be something that I`m not. Because it`s too hard to live up to those things. And but it`s a contrast. Here I am this big, athlete guy, and here she is, athletic, but just a little woman. And just the two contrasts -- but I think we relate in a lot of ways because of the kids and family and just, you know, life in general and how we move around and the things that happen to us.", "How does it feel, though, when you hear people say Michael Strahan is the front-runner for this job?", "I don`t think about it.", "No?", "No.", "Do you think you`re the front-runner?", "I try not to picture myself as that.", "No?", "I don`t want to get my hopes up. I`ve never done that. Even when I was playing, I never did it. I never watched and go, yes, I had a great year. Going to watch some film of my year. No. I felt like once I started doing that, then I would go, \"I am pretty good. I am people like\" -- then you slack.", "Well, you`ve had people -- I mean, a lot of people love Neil Patrick Harris, and he came out and said, \"This is a great gig. I love it, but I`m not going to do it. I live in L.A. I tape in L.A.\" You live in L.A. You tape in L.A.", "I tape one day a week in L.A. I tape one day a week during the football season on Sundays. So for me...", "So you could do both?", "I could do both. Yes, because to me...", "Would you do both?", "Of course I`d do both. I`d do both in a heartbeat. I like to work. I love to work. And I love to work, doing work that I like. So for me it would be Monday through Friday, New York, and then I`d come out here and do that show, NFL show on Sunday, and then I`d go back and do the show again. It would definitely work.", "What I read today was sources say \"Live with Kelly\" officials are getting closer to nailing down a deal with Michael Strahan.", "I hope so. You read something Michael Strahan didn`t read, but Michael Strahan is hoping so.", "So if they offered you the gig, you`d be like, \"New York City\"?", "If they offered me the gig, I would be in New York before the ink dried. Of course.", "Well, there you go. And that was SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s Michelle Turner right there at Michael`s home. ABC officials tell SHOWBIZ TONIGHT they`re not commenting on who will be Kelly Ripa`s official co-host, despite all the reports that Michael`s got the job. The official announcement comes in two weeks. Well, here`s what`s coming up at the bottom of the hour on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Taylor Swift`s record-breaking new single just sold 623,000 downloads in its first week. She`s hotter than ever. That got us wondering: would Taylor be the perfect choice to fill one of reality TV`s most coveted jobs? 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{"id": "CNN-215004", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2013-9-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/20/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Dennis Woodside; America's Return to Prosperity", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Richard Quest. There's more QUEST MEANS BUSINESS in just a moment. This is CNN. And on this network, the news always comes first. Iran's new president wants to mend -- mediate an end to Syria's civil war. Hassan Rouhani made the offer in a column in \"The Washington Post.\" It follows Iran's recent overtures toward the West. Mr. Rouhani heads to the U.N. General Assembly in New York next week. At least 18 soldiers and eight police officers were killed in Southern Yemen early this morning. Car bombs and heavy artillery were used to attack military and police installations. There's been no claim of responsibility, though Yemen's Defense Ministry suspects al Qaeda to be responsible. Chicago's police superintendent is calling for a ban on assault weapons in the United States after a shooting in a city park which wounded 13 people. The condition of one victim, a 3-year-old boy, has stabilized after he was shot in the ear. Police say the shooting is gang-related. BlackBerry has announced it's cutting about 40 percent of its global workforce. The phone maker also said it was expecting a loss of almost a billion dollars for the second quarter of this year. The shares plummeted more than 20 percent after briefly being halted following the announcement. The U.S. House of Representatives has taken America one step closer to a federal government shutdown. The Republican-led House passed a defiant short-term spending plan which would take away all the funds from the president's ObamaCare. Needless to say, that is unacceptable to the Democratic-led Senate, where it goes next. So the plan, as they say, is almost certain to be DOA -- dead on arrival. The stalemate over the budget is an urgent problem, as you heard Nedton Chiefs (ph) talking about on this program, because without the ability to spend, services will have to shut down in less than two weeks. President Obama put some physical distance between himself and Washington today. He hit the road for America's heartland, where the president took his economic message to Ford's new stamping plant in Liberty, Missouri.", "We've worked with labor, we've worked with management. Everybody had to make some sacrifices. Everybody put some skin in the game. We bet on the American worker. We bet on you and today, that bet has paid off, because the American auto industry has come roaring back.", "It's not just auto manufacturing that's seeing a resurgence in America. In Texas, Motorola opened a new factory that provides final assembly for its latest smart phone, the Moto X, the first smart phone designed and engineered, assembled in the United States. Dennis Woodside is Motorola's chief executive. And last week, I asked him why bring assembly back to the higher cost United States.", "There are over 150 million mobile devices in the hands of Americans. And until now, not a single one of them has actually been made here. And when we looked at that, we realized that there were some assumptions that were made 10 years ago, when a lot of the consumer electronics moved offshore that just weren't true anymore. You can produce products here at a reasonable cost and with incredibly high quality. And we think, over time, we're going to be able to innovate much faster because our production is much closer to the engineers that build the products.", "Now, I -- I don't want to seem begrudging in this regard, but it is an assembly plant versus a manufacturing plant. And the critics and the naysayers will say, well, but they're not actually making them here. They're sort of making them where it's cheaper, bringing them back and window dressing by putting them together.", "Well, that's completely not accurate. The way that we do things, as you can see behind me, there's over 2,000 people actually manufacturing, making phones here. There is a legal distinction between being able to say that something is completely manufactured in the U.S., which requires every single part to be made here, and assembled in the US. It's a lot like like the auto industry. If you go to an auto plant, the parts are coming in from all over the world. And that's true here, as well, some from the U.S. and some from outside the US. But the actual assembly of the product, the work that employs 2,000 people, that's taking place here. And we think that's important.", "You're involved in the single most competitive, I would venture to suggest, industries at the moment. Apple has just announced its new iPhone. Nokia now with Microsoft will be ramping up for Windows 8. So I ask you, sir, where do you see yourself fighting that competition now you're part of Google?", "Well, this industry is driven by innovation. And if you just play the clock back five years ago, the players who were leading the industry at the time, that had the market share, were vastly different than the ones who are leading today. So we think we've built a product that's incredibly innovative. You can speak to the phone and it will make calls. It will navigate for you without you touching the phone. So it actually listens to your voice and the commands that you're giving it. You don't need to touch it.", "Motorola, one of the grandest names in mobile technology, the first phone I ever had, the Brick, was one of yours. So, what is it that people want for the future of mobile telephony? What is it we really want?", "People want to participate in the design and manufacture of their products. They don't want the same thing that everybody else has. So the phone that we've built is manufacturable in 256 different combinations. You can actually customize your phone. So we think that has a long way to run. We also think there's a lot that's going to be done at lower price points. And we have a lot of work that's going to come to fruition over the next couple of months there, with products that are just far more affordable than what's out there today.", "Get back. No, keep away. We finally got one and everybody else wants to now have a play with it or make off with it. The iPhone faithful line up for Apple's latest offering around the world today. This is a real one, absolutely, from London to Tokyo to Sydney and in New York, they gathered, as they always do. Some have been cueing for days. Barking mad. Others have flown in from countries. And all for the new 5S and the cheaper iPhone 5C. Well, frankly, you couldn't get this one, but you could get the other one. There were those lining up to break the thing. Now, this is the first iPhone with fingerprint sensor technology. And there's been a variety of generous and varied bounty for those who manage to hack into it. So, first of all, on offer -- $16,000 in cash; there's bit coins of various values, a bottle of Makers Mark whiskey; a patent application. There are many other things amongst them, a dirty book of erotica. I'm not sure how much incentive that's adding to anything. But all of this is for the first person who manages to break the iPhone fingerprint technology. Some would say that's rather sick and sad, that you're having competitions to break something that's only just been created. The U.S. senator, Al Franken, isn't sold on the technology. He's written to the Apple chief raising his concerns. While hacked passwords can be changed, fingerprints cannot. And he wants to know more about that. All this week, we've been focusing on America's return to prosperity, America's return. On my road trip through the great state of Texas, the evidence was everywhere -- the car market that's revving up, the reviving oil and gas industry and there was plenty of just revving at the county fair. Without irony, they tell me they've never had it so good.", "There are frightening rides and super-sized food. I have no idea how to eat this, but I suspect it's going to be very messy and a bevy of crushing bulls. They work long and hard in the oil and gas field. So tonight, Midland, Texas is ready to relax. A day at the fair -- it doesn't get much more Texas than this. You know the saying in Texas... What happens in Texas?", "Everything is bigger. Evening is bigger.", "And that includes what goes on your head. So what hat was right for me?", "So let's just...", "Ooh.", "Now look. There is a cowboy for you. Square it to your face. There you go.", "How much of a noise do I need to make?", "Heehaw.", "Try that again. Go on. Come on.", "Heehaw.", "There's quite a bit of Wild West left in West Texas. Who are you?", "Well, I'm the duke, of course.", "You're John Wayne?", "Bigger than life, kid, bigger than life.", "Tell me what you're doing here.", "Well, I'm just trying to spread a tradition -- rodeos and fairs are part of the American tradition, just as much as me.", "It doesn't get much more Texas than a man in a big hat who's about to do a bit of bull riding.", "Yes, sir. Bull riding is great here this year.", "So these are your bulls? Which is the best? Which is the best bull there, come on?", "The best bull, in my opinion, would be this black bull right here, 641 Revolution.", "He looks mean.", "He's probably one of the easier ones in there to get along with.", "Probably? You bulls at the Midland Fair tonight seem easy to get along with. They they do bull riding isn't clear. The purpose is to hang on tight for eight long seconds. Only one, Guthrie Long (ph), could stay for that long duration. What's the moral of doing all of this?", "To just have fun. I mean don't let anything bring you down, because it's going to -- it's going to cause problems in the long run. Just have fun and live life with a smile.", "In other words, seize the moment. And as you might say, take the bull by the horns.", "And so tonight's Profitable Moment. You can learn a lot about the state of the global finance from that trip to the county fair. For months, investors the world over have been on wild, scary rides as the Fed threatened to cut economic stimulus. The Fed put that off this week. The fun times at the fair may continue. Easy money will flow. And then smart investors will continue to climb the wall of worry. Tapering will come not this year, then surely next, as the economy strengthens slowly and steadily and reactions will be uncertain. And it's not just the Fed, of course, that will be doing this. Like all keen investors, this county fair gives a prominent place to Germany -- danke, Germany -- where they will be having an economic powerhouse with elections that take place this very weekend -- a more generous hand to the struggling Eurozone. Finally, like the children who bob up and down at the county fair, volatility could rule the day until we get clarity from the governments and central bank. And it all ends with the giant Ferris wheel, because the economy just keeps turning. And that's QUEST MEANS BUSINESS for tonight. I'm Richard Quest in New York. Whatever you're up to in the hours ahead, I hope it's profitable. 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{"id": "CNN-320829", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2017-09-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/08/es.04.html", "summary": "House Voting Today On Harvey Relief Bill; Mexico Quake Leaves At Least Five Dead", "utt": ["All right. Four people have died in the U.S. Virgin Islands as a result of Hurricane Irma. That brings the number of storm- related deaths now to 10. Hurricane warnings remain in effect for parts of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. This is just part of the devastation. A bridge connecting the Dominican Republic to Haiti washed away by a category five -- the category five storm.", "That's certainly the last thing Haiti needs. A hurricane warning also issued at Turks and Caicos where conditions rapidly deteriorated overnight. Governor John Freeman warning everyone on the islands not to test Mother Nature.", "Hunker down, stay where you are because you can't get out because the winds are just far, far too strong. Nobody can get to you, either. So, you know, people ought are to a large extent, for a little while, on their own.", "The governor tells CNN 15 roofs have come off and there's damage to part of the roof of the hospital as well. And some news this morning on two other hurricanes as well. The National Hurricane Center says Hurricanes Jose and Katia, one in the Atlantic and one in the Gulf, getting stronger. Irma, meantime, downgraded to a category four storm churning across the southeastern corner of the Bahamas overnight. A hurricane warning now in effect as Irma takes aim at the central Bahamas today. Journalist Stefano Pozzebon joining us now on the phone from the Bahamas. Good morning to you. What are the conditions like there and what are people doing that need to evacuate?", "Yes, good morning. We are on the phone. The wind is definitely coming (audio gap) -- are getting worse by the hour compared to the early hours of today. We can understand that -- we can definitely feel that Irma is arriving. People here have been evacuated from the southernmost Archipelago of the Bahamas and they take shelter in the island where we are at the moment, the island of Nassau in the northernmost part of the Archipelago where the capital lays. And here, we expect to be a little bit more protected from the brunt of Hurricane Irma. But we've got most of the people are taking shelter, trying to stay safe. And now, the conditions are really, really getting worse, David.", "All right. Stefano Pozzebon on the phone with us from Nassau in the Bahamas. Stay safe.", "Yes, be careful out there. Some major concerns for the energy industry in Florida, ahead of Hurricane Irma. Two nuclear reactors are shutting down this weekend. Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station, it's located just south of Miami in Homestead. The St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant is about 150 miles up the coast on a barrier island in Jensen Beach. Both are right in the predicted path of this storm. Florida Power and Light says the sites are among the strongest in the U.S. They are designed to withstand heavy wind and storm surge. Turkey Point's nuclear reactors survived a direct hit from Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and suffered $90 million in damage at that time. You know, a number of gas stations are also shutting down because they've run out of fuel. At least 42 percent of gas stations in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale region are without fuel according to GasBuddy. Panic buying is causing long lines throughout South Florida. Florida Gov. Rick Scott trying to ease these gas shortages by directing State Police to escort fuel delivery trucks. He's also urging gas stations to stay open as long as possible before the storm hits. All right, to politics. A senior Republican aide tells CNN the House will vote this afternoon on a $15.2 billion Hurricane Harvey relief package passed by the Senate on Thursday. It increases the debt ceiling and funds the government for the next three months.", "Meantime, all five living former presidents joining forces to help Hurricane Harvey victims.", "Hurricane Harvey brought terrible destruction, but it also brought out the best in humanity.", "As former presidents, we want to help our fellow Americans begin to recover.", "Our friends in Texas, including President Bush 41 and 43, are doing just that.", "People are hurting down here, but as one Texan put it, we've got more love in Texas than water.", "We love you, Texas.", "President Trump not included in the public service announcement, just these former presidents. But he did tweet his support for the initiative, saying he's \"proud to stand with presidents for One America Appeal.\" Some breaking news. There's five people dead in a powerful 8.1 magnitude earthquake in southern Mexico just off the coast near the border with Guatemala. It's the strongest quake recorded in Mexico in a century, according to the president there, Enrique Pena Nieto. A hotel as reportedly collapsed, power outages now being reported 600 miles away in Mexico City where people were running into the streets barefoot in their pajamas. Forecasters continue to warn about the possibility of hazardous tsunamis off the coast of Mexico with waves over 10 feet possible near the epicenter. Guatemala has activated security protocols. Police reporting some damage along their border with Mexico. More than 60 aftershocks in this monster quake, Christine.", "All right. One of the largest hacks ever -- 143 million of you -- 143 million of you could be affected. 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{"id": "CNN-170262", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-8-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/08/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Inside World's Largest Refugee Camp", "utt": ["Yes. These numbers are unimaginable. We're talking about 12 million people in dire need of assistance in the Horn of Africa -- the crisis across Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia, triggered by a severe drought. Somalia is hit the worst. Almost 30,000 children have died in the past 90 days. CNN chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, he arrived in the region just a few hours ago. He joins us live from the largest refugee camp on Earth. It is in Dadaab, Kenya. And, Sanjay -- I mean, it's just kind of unbelievable when you think about the crisis that is taking place there. You can't even wrap your head around it. The United Nations says it's the worst humanitarian disaster in the world. What are you seeing? What is happening there?", "Well, you know, I have been to a lot of different place, Suzanne, around the world -- in the middle of warzones and natural disasters. And I have never seen a camp quite like this and as big as it is. You know, 400,000 people, they say, are probably in this camp now. Just think about that. That's the size of most medium sized cities in the United States. You know, one thing that really struck me is that this has been an on going problem for a long time. I mean, months if not even longer in terms of this specific camp -- 300,000 people here at this camp several months ago before this drought really hit its peak, and the repercussions of this drought hit its peak, 100,000 people have come into this camp. And, you know, Suzanne, it may come -- you know, they walk sometimes up to 100 kilometers from Somalia to the border, simply to get into a place like this. The drought caused the lost of their crops, which cost lost of their livestock, which meant that they had to food and no water. And they had to essentially just travel sometimes like this with their kids in toe. It's just heartbreaking. By the time they get here, they are so famish, they are so malnourished. They are so much in need of medical care and they are in line, you know, with literally tens of thousands of other people. It's really hard to describe.", "Sanjay, help us to understand, how did we get to this point? Humanitarian groups have been trying to get food and basic supplies there now. But in this day and age, how is it that people can still starve to death?", "Well, I'll tell you, first of all, with this regard to this drought, it was neither sudden nor unexpected. This shouldn't have been treated as a surprise. It seems to have been from a resource and aid standpoint. They anticipated this worst drought in 60 years and as a result of this drying up of drops and the livestock would not have anything to eat and you see how the cycle continues. There was no preparation. There was not aid taken into these areas ahead of time -- food and water, basic supplies to offset the needs. And there is also the superimposed problem with conflict, this idea that there's this Islamic militant group here called al Shabaab, which for a long time simply did not accept any Western aid into this country. And aid workers in the past have been killed. Even though they have lifted the ban, subsequently, there's still an atmosphere of mistrust, Suzanne, about this whole thing, and that just really makes the problem worse.", "It's such a shame, such a tragedy. Sanjay, thank you very much. We're going to be watching more of your reporting beginning tonight. \"AC 360\" is moving to 8:00 Eastern, and Anderson Cooper, along with Sanjay Gupta, are going to be reporting live from the Horn of Africa on the region's devastating famine. That is starting tonight at 8:00. It's an \"ANDERSON COOPER 360\" special report, \"Somalia: On the Front Lines of Famine.\""], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX", "GUPTA", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-227889", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2014-4-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/04/cg.01.html", "summary": "Fort Hood Investigation Continues; Lt Gen. Milley Briefs Press on Shooting Latest", "utt": ["You can sum up the question tormenting so many Americans in the aftermath of the Fort Hood shooting with one word. Why? Perhaps we will get an answer during a live briefing any moment now. I'm Jake Tapper. This is THE LEAD. The national lead. Are mental health issues to blame? Did a run-in with another soldier set him off? The motive is still a mystery, but we're learning so much more about those at true center of this horror, the dead and the wounded. The world lead. We're now a full four weeks into the disappearance of Flight 370 and only now for the first time the search is diving underwater, with some help from the U.S., but time is running out. And the pop culture lead, you might go in expecting a typical spandex and pecks blockbuster, but what you get is a surprisingly topical political thriller. Is the new Captain American movie a veiled jab at President Obama? Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Jake Tapper. Welcome to THE LEAD. We will begin, of course, with the national lead. Any moment now, we're expecting a briefing on the latest from Fort Hood, Texas, where investigators are looking for any clue about the state of mind of the man who shot and killed three fellow soldiers there and wounded 16 others. Today, we're hearing from the family of the shooter, Specialist Ivan Lopez, for the first time. But they seem just as hurt and confused as everyone else. Today, Governor Rick Perry and Senator Ted Cruz visited the wounded. Three patients have been upgraded from critical condition to fair condition. Five others have been released, with one more expected to leave soon. The office of Senator John Cornyn, who visited the wounded yesterday, sent us a picture of a note from one of the wounded soldiers written to the medical staff which reads: \"Sir, how's everyone doing? Let everyone know I'm doing good. We will all get through this as a family/team.\" Investigators searched the shooter's home, but it seems anyone looking for an answer there came away sorely disappointed. Our justice correspondent, Pamela Brown, is standing by live at Fort Hood, where again we're expecting a news conference any minute now. We're hearing from the shooter's father today, Pamela. What did he have to say?", "Yes, that's right, the shooter's father breaking his silence today in a statement released by a spokesperson of the family describing the father as astonished and also describing his son as a calm family man and a young worker who constantly sought to look after his family's future. And in this statement, this is what the father of Ivan Lopez said. He said: \"The situation is very painful. I seek prayers for all of the families affected, more so when there is an ongoing investigation. My son must have not been in his right mind. He wasn't like that.\" And also in this statement released by the family spokesperson, the father talked about his son being under medical treatment and that the recent passing of his mother as well as his grandfather as well as recent changes here on base that his son experienced might have contributed to his condition. So perhaps giving a clue to the mental instability that we have been hearing about -- Jake.", "Pamela, in a moment, we're going to talk with the family of one of the wounded, Sergeant Jonathan Westbrook. Thankfully, they got good news at the end of this all, but they didn't know for hours whether he was alive or dead. Tell us about that.", "Yes. No, that's right, and just an agonizing wait for this family, as you can imagine. The father of Jonathan Westbrook spoke to one of our affiliates, WLBT, and actually shed some light on what may have happened in the moments right before the shooting. The father of Westbrook said that Lopez walked into a personnel building to get a leave form and he apparently according to the father was told to come back the following day to pick up that leave form and the father says that Lopez walked out and came back with a gun and that's when he opened fire. Jake, we have heard from sources that investigators are looking at whether Lopez's anger over a canceled leave request might have contributed or triggered him to do what he did on Wednesday. They are still trying to figure out that motive, though.", "Pamela Brown at Bernie Beck Gate at Fort Hood, Texas, thank you so much. You just heard the story of one of the survivors of the attack, Sergeant Jonathan Westbrook. We have his sister on the phone right now, Armetra Otis, who is on her way to go see her brother right now. Thanks so much for joining us. Have you spoken to your brother? How is he doing?", "He's doing really, really well. We're on our way to see him as we speak. He was discharged from the hospital earlier today. So we just hope to see him in the spirits like we talked to him all last night and just early this morning.", "Tell us, Armetra, what did he say happened?", "He just said that he was at work and a guy came in and asked for a leave form and apparently he didn't want to hear that, and so he came back and he just opened fire into the office on everyone.", "So, Specialist Lopez asked for a leave form and he was told that he had come back, and then he left and then Specialist Lopez with a gun?", "Correct.", "And did your brother know Specialist Lopez at all?", "He did. He said he saw him a few times, but he didn't know him personally because he just arrived like on the base. He was new to the base. So he didn't know him that well. He didn't know him at all.", "And your brother was wounded?", "He was.", "What happened?", "From what I have been told, Lopez came in, and he shot the first guy he saw and killed him and then turned the gun on my brother. And he was shot four times. I think one was a graze, a graze shot. But he was shot four times totally. So this is what I'm thinking and I'm trying to get up here now so I can see for myself.", "All right. Your brother has been discharged, and I'm assuming he's been given something of a clean bill of health? We're all thinking and praying about him right now.", "Yes, that is correct.", "All right. Armetra Otis, thank you for speaking with us. We certainly wish your brother a very speedy recovery.", "Thank you so much for that.", "The search for a motive, that aspect of human nature that makes us need to understand, to comprehend why this happened. This is what is keeping the shooter's name in the headlines, but the focus ultimately must be on the lives that he took and the lives he forever changed. Now we know the names of all three men shot and killed at Fort Hood. Sergeant Carlos Rodriguez, he was from Puerto Rico, and enlisted as soon as he could at age 18 after serving 20 years. He was reportedly planning to retire soon from the military. Sergeant Rodriguez was 38 years old. Sergeant Timothy Owens was an Army counselor who had served in Iraq. A native of Illinois, Owens had just gotten married in August. He had two children through earlier relationships. He was 37. And Sergeant Danny Ferguson seen here in a Facebook photo with his fiancee, Ferguson had just returned from Afghanistan. His fiancee, who is also a soldier, said Ferguson was killed trying to hold a door shut to stop the shooter and, in doing so, she says he likely saved lives.", "He held that door shut because there's no locks. Those doors are like -- it seems like they would be bulletproof, but apparently are not. If he was not being the one against that door holding, that shooter would have been able to get through and shoot everyone else.", "It's too late, sadly, to thank Sergeants Rodriguez, Owens, and Ferguson for their service, so perhaps we should thank their families for their sacrifices. As all of us struggle to make sense of the tragedy, investigators are trying to piece together key details about Specialist Ivan Lopez that might explain what ultimately set him off. I want to bring in Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr. Barbara, Lopez had previously been station at Fort Bliss. Were there any clues from his time there?", "Well, I have to tell you, Jake, this is what the Army is looking at now. He had only arrived at Fort Hood several weeks ago, so they are going back. What was going on in his tour at Fort Bliss before he moved to Hood? Had he had problems there? Had he had mental illness challenges? Was he getting medication? Was he being treated there? One of the key questions is, it has been publicly said by officials he was on multiple prescription drugs. Could some of those drugs have been prescribed to him back at Bliss? Could they have been so strong that maybe he should have been monitored more closely for stability? These are the questions that they are looking at. Now, that takes us to part two. He was at Bliss. He moved to Hood a few weeks ago. By all accounts, he had other challenges when he got to Hood. It's a huge base. Even soldiers in the best mental frame of mind often find the base potentially overwhelming because of the sheer size and the number of people there. A U.S. military official tells us that one of the things they are looking at was how Lopez adjusted to being in a place like Hood. He had a new job as a truck driver. He had a new chain of command. He was getting -- trying to get settled into housing. All of these things add to stress. It's the issue of, did all of this just become too many triggers, too overwhelming, too much for someone that was in a fragile state of mind and clearly was on multiple medications for what the Army says was depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance? And you will remember that yesterday the commanding general said there was evidence of unstable psychiatric conditions, so did the medical staff at Hood even know his state when he got there, Jake?", "Barbara Starr at the Pentagon, thank you so much. Coming up on THE LEAD, we're awaiting a live press conference from Fort Hood on the latest on this investigation. We will bring that to you as soon as it starts. Plus, after a mass shooting, politicians then to give a lot of lip service to improving mental health care. Many don't actually follow through. Our next guest is an exception. Would his legislation keep something like this from happening again? Plus, the search for Flight 370 enters a new phase, but the families of those on board are no closer to an answer. They're demanding to know, was there a cover-up?", "Yes, sir, thank you. And Mr. Chris Gray, the spokesman for U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division.", "We're now bringing to you live the press conference from Fort Hood. Let's listen in.", "Thank you all for your flexibility in changing locations. We were all having a difficult time hearing yesterday with some of the traffic and the wind and I appreciate your flexibility. I would like to give you a short update on the incident and the investigation that happened last Wednesday. And at the end, I will allow again your opportunity to ask a few questions. I had an opportunity this morning to visit some of the wounded again. And I just want all of you and all the community to know that we all are keeping them in our thoughts and prayers, both the fallen and the wounded, and their families as they go through this grieving process and in this difficult time and that Fort Hood and all of our leadership will be there with them throughout. We have completed the next of kin notification on the three fallen soldiers. And I can now confirm publicly their identities, two of the soldiers from the 49th Transportation Battalion and one of the killed victims is from the First Medical Brigade. Sergeant 1st Class Daniel Michael Ferguson, age 39 from Mulberry, Florida, entered active service in July 1993 as a transportation management coordinator. He was assigned to the 49th Transportation Battalion of the Fourth Sustainment Brigade of the 13th Sustainment Command. And he was a transportation supervisor. His deployments include Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. Staff Sergeant Carlos Alberto Rodriguez, 38, from Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, entered active duty service in February 1995 as a unit supply specialist. He was assigned to the 21st Combat Support Hospital of the First Medical Brigade in February 2012, where he served as a unit supply sergeant. He deployed to Kuwait and also to Iraq. Sergeant Timothy Wayne Owens, 37, of Effingham, Illinois, entered active duty service in July 2004 as a motor transport operator. He was assigned to the 49th Transportation Battalion, Fourth Sustainment Brigade, 13th Sustainment Command, where he served as a heavy vehicle driver. He deployed to Iraq and to Kuwait. Their releasable service records will be available to you at the FortHoodpresscenter.com. later on this evening. We will memorialize all three of these fallen soldiers next Wednesday and our public affairs office will publish the details in the coming days. They will be available to all of you. Also available later this evening, we are putting together a mapper for you, a simple map and diagram of the incident site, to include a basic sequence of events as we understand them now. They will be very basic, not to the level of detail of an investigation that is still ongoing, but very basic to help you orient on where this event occurred. In regards to the injured soldiers that we visited this morning, I have had the opportunity both yesterday and today to visit all of the injured soldiers at Darnall and Scott & White. We still have three remaining soldiers at Scott & White and three here at Darnall on Fort Hood. They're all strong. Each of them is resilient. Their families are resilient, and I had an opportunity to meet with some of their families and they're dealing very well with a difficult situation and we all look forward and pray for their full recovery. Ten soldiers of the original 16 have now been released from hospital and returned to duty. And I as a commander, as a soldier, am incredibly impressed by the medical professionals at both Scott & White, Darnall, and the entire response to the Fort Hood emergency responders and the community at large. As you know, there's a lot more details beyond what I've given you in the last couple of days and much of those details are not releasable to the public at this time because we do have an ongoing investigation. However, I do want to clarify two points specific to Specialist Lopez's medical condition. First, we are digging into his combat experience in Iraq. And so far, we have not discovered any specific traumatic event, wounds received in action, contact with the enemy or anything else specific that he may have been exposed to while deployed. But we are continuing to examine this line of inquiry. Secondly, his underlying medical conditions, we do not believe, are the direct precipitating factor to the incident. His underlying medical conditions are not the direct precipitating factor. We believe that the immediate precipitating factor was more likely an escalating argument in his unit area. But we're still conducting that detailed investigation and we will address every single one of the causal and contributing factors that resulted in this horrible tragedy. As you know, the investigation team here is robust in its multiagency. Right now, we have almost 80 FBI agents working with us and forensic specialists. Over 20 Texas rangers are contributing to the investigation and almost 50 U.S. Army CID agents and, of course, our Fort Hood, MPI, military police investigation teams, and our local law enforcement detectives from Killeen and Harker Heights. Additionally, we have medical investigations on hand to assist. And altogether we have over 150 professionally trained investigators from federal, state, and local agencies. I will leave all of the further details of ongoing and criminal investigations to the law enforcement agencies and health care professionals and at this point I would like to introduce Colonel Mike Dolata. He's the commander of the sixth military police group, CID, who is based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord up at Washington state, and also, Mr. Chris Grey from CID and they will briefly now review the status of the investigation. After their comments, we will entertain questions. Chris?", "Thank you, General. Good afternoon. My name is Chris Grey. I'm a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command base out of Quantico, Virginia and the multiagency task force led by Army CID here at Fort Hood into the tragic shootings of the incident that took place on Wednesday. I'm here today to provide you with an update with an investigative update on record to the ongoing criminal investigation. Unfortunately, and as you know, we lost four soldiers on Wednesday to include the shooter was one of those soldiers. That number includes 16 others who were wounded. On behalf of all law enforcement working this case, both civilian and military, let me express my sincere condolences to the loved ones, to families, to soldiers and the friends of the wounded and killed in this tragic incident. I will be providing as much releasable information as possible today, but please keep in mind this is an ongoing criminal investigation and we are only releasing facts at this point that we feel confident will not jeopardize the ongoing case. As you know, the Fort Hood director of emergency services, the military police, Army CID and a host of other law enforcement professionals again responding to reports that shots fired at approximately 4:16 p.m. on Wednesday. Numerous reports of gunfire and wounded personnel were received and it continued at various locations which contributed to the chaos and confusion associated with the initial reports. The alleged shooter, specialist Ivan Lopez, initially opened fire with a Smith & Wesson semiautomatic handgun near the intersection of 72nd Street and Tank Destroyer Boulevard. The entire crime scene encompasses an almost two city block area. We have credible information that he was involved in a verbal altercation with soldiers from his unit just prior to the alleged -- to him allegedly opening fire. The subject then proceeded to travel to two other nearby buildings, entering those locations and opening fire. In transit to those locations, while in his personal vehicle, he indiscriminately fired at soldiers while moving from one location to another. At this time, we are still gathering evidence and processing a very large crime scene, so we will not be giving you a time -- step- by-step timeline of the activity in the investigation. The alleged shooter encountered a responding military police officer and approached her. Subsequently, there was a verbal exchange between the two. The military police officer drew her assigned firearm and fired one round when the subject brandished his weapon. We do not believe the subject was struck, but we are currently confirming that fact with the armed forces medical examiner. Based on witness statement and other testimonial evidence to date, the alleged shooter then placed his firearm to his own head and fired one round killing himself. Those actions by the alleged subject and the military police officer are obviously part of the ongoing investigation. At this time we have the one alleged subject connected to this shooting and all evidence at this point in the investigation indicates that the subject acted alone in the actual shootings. We have no evidence thus far that contradicts that finding but it's critical to point out that we are not ruling anything in or out at this early stage of the investigation, and we will continue to aggressively pursue any and all credible leads and information associated with this case. There were initial reports that there were possibly two shooters involved on Wednesday. But that has been attributed to the chaotic nature of the situation and the alleged shooter's movement from location to location as I described earlier. Additionally, we have not found any links to terrorism or any international or domestic or extremist groups at this time. But again, we have not completely ruled that out in order to conduct a thorough and complete investigation. Within the large crime scene I described, there are three significant crime scenes inside buildings, and three areas outdoors that we are focusing our case on. Those scenes are currently being processed by highly trained CID special agents, Texas Rangers, and members of the FBI's elite evidence response team. That processing includes evidence collection, crime scene recreation, triangulation of evidence, studying the flight of the bullets fired and 3D scanning of the crime scene. To date, we have canvassed and interviewed more than 900 people during the course of this investigation. Immediately following the shootings, CID along with the assistance from the military police and outside agencies took positive control and screened more than 1,000 potential witnesses and possible suspects in the immediate vicinity before releasing them back to their unit. At this point in the investigation, we have well over 150 special agents from Army CID, FBI, and the ATF, as the general mentioned, as well as the Texas Rangers. The weapon allegedly used in the commission of these crimes has been recovered as evidence and we'll be processing that at the Defense Forensic Science Centers, U.S. Army criminal laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia. We will conduct firearms forensics and ballistics, testings to determine that the shots fired came from that specific weapon. We have also confirmed through our investigation that Specialist Lopez purchased the firearm recovered at the crime scene on March 1st. From a local establishment outside Fort Hood, but brought it on to Fort Hood in violation of DOD, Army, and Fort Hood regulations. We have not uncovered any history of criminal convictions or previous criminal activity by Specialist Lopez. At this time, we have not established a concrete motive but we will do everything in our power to do so. Given that the alleged shooter is deceased, the possibility does exist that we may never know exactly why the alleged shooter did what he did but, again, we are bringing the very latest technology and investigative methods in an attempt to find out. Finally, since Wednesday's incident, we have received tremendous support from fellow law enforcement officials and the greater Fort Hood community, both inside and outside the gate. Army CID would especially like to thank the following agencies for their team work and professionalism during this very difficult time. The FBI, the ATF, Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers, the Fort Hood director of emergency services, the Killeen Police Department, the Harker Heights Police Department, Coryell County sheriff's office and the Temple Police Department. We'd also like to thank Lieutenant General Milley and his staff for the tremendous support and cooperation while we are conducting our investigation. Let me assure you, we are fully committed to this investigation. That concludes my update for today. We are not releasing any further details. I appreciate your patience and understanding during this very, very difficult time. Thank you.", "We'll take just a few questions. And then we're not going to do a press conference tomorrow, Saturday nor Sunday. We'll do one again on Monday. We will not do one Tuesday, memorial service is Wednesday, and then the next one after that will be on Thursday. We will not do a press conference at the memorial service. There may be some visitors show up and may be a chance to do press availability at that time. But there'll be no press conference. The next press conference is Monday and the one after that will be Thursday. At this time, I'd be happy to entertain some questions. Let me start over here. Go ahead.", "How many shots were fired? Do you know?", "Mr. Grey?", "That's part of the investigation. That's -- we're looking at that.", "Is his wife cooperating with you and what is she --", "I'm not going to reveal that information right now. That's part of the investigation. We don't discuss -- we don't discuss witnesses, victims, that type of thing.", "General, Mr. Grey, do you have any sense of what precipitated this argument?", "That's -- again, that's part of the ongoing investigation.", "Were any of those soldiers victims of the shooting?", "Yes, they were.", "Mr. Grey,", "Again, that's all part of the ongoing investigation and when we can we will release that information. We want to make sure that we have all of the facts correct. Everyone's rights are protected and we get it right the first time. So our investigation continues.", "General, yesterday you said no soldiers were specifically targeted and now we're told that some of the victims were people that he was having an altercation with. Is there any revision of what you told us yesterday?", "No, there's no -- I'll let Mr. Grey override me in a moment but there's no indication of previous specific targeting of a specific individual. So that remains true.", "Even the people that he was involved in with the verbal altercation?", "That's right.", "That's -- as you know, that's how an investigation progresses. We uncover new information as we investigate. That's why I confirmed that.", "Can you talk in general about what the altercation was about?", "No, I cannot. That's part of the ongoing investigation.", "Just a follow-up, to make sure that we're clear, you said that some of the people that were involved in the altercation were victims.", "Correct.", "But you're not saying that they were targets.", "Yes, there was no premeditated target of an individual in the sense of walking into specifically target a specific individual. There's no indication of that. There was an argument. It escalated. The details of which will be discussed at a later point once the investigation is completed.", "It escalated and then the shooting.", "That's correct.", "I'm sorry?", "Were any of those soldiers involved in the altercation severely (ph) wounded?", "I'd have to check that fact for you.", "Did Lopez have a meeting with superiors about the leave of absence on Wednesday?", "I don't know that. I don't think you know that. I don't know that for certain. Don't know that one.", "And again, what I gave you during my briefing, that's all we're releasing at this point. We're not getting into the details obviously for the ongoing investigation. I'm not giving any more specifics. So, if you have specific questions about the investigation, I'm going to have to come back to, we're not answering that at this point.", "We have a standard operating procedures. Most military installations throughout the Army have a set of policies and regulations that we all follow. We have random access measures, security locations that require extra security, et cetera, et cetera. We are reviewing all of those and I have not issued specific instructions to make any changes to those at this time. We have adjusted some of the -- within the existing SOPs, we have increased some of the force protection measures here. Though temporary in nature, you saw, we shut down the base."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR", "PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "BROWN", "TAPPER", "ARMETRA OTIS, SHOOTING VICTIM", "TAPPER", "OTIS", "TAPPER", "OTIS", "TAPPER", "OTIS", "TAPPER", "OTIS", "TAPPER", "OTIS", "TAPPER", "OTIS", "BALDWIN", "OTIS", "TAPPER", "KRISTEN HALEY, FIANCEE OF VICTIM", "TAPPER", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TAPPER", "LT. GEN. 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{"id": "CNN-5892", "program": "CNN International World News", "date": "2000-4-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/06/i_wn.06.html", "summary": "Campaigning For Peru's Presidential Election Coming To A Close", "utt": ["Campaigning in Peru is nearing an end with condemnation from President Alberto Fujimori against allegations of election fraud. The president is also facing a growing challenge by presidential hopeful Alejandro Toledo. CNN's Mark Armstrong has the story.", "President Alberto Fujimori is dancing his way to what he hopes will be a third term. As campaigning draws to an end ahead of Sunday's presidential elections, Mr. Fujimori is dismissing any talk of fraud as an opposition ploy to undermine his lead in the polls.", "I speak of a type of international conspiracy in the sense that foreign non- governmental organizations and others here are talking of the possibility of fraud. In every campaign there is talk of fraud. It's an age-old electioneering tactic. Precisely because the opposition's campaign, which states that there will be fraudulent elections, the observers have put more attention into this issue.", "International election observers, including the Organization of American States, say the election lacks the conditions to be democratic. They accuse the president of manipulating the media and abusing state funds for his own campaign. Washington backs those conclusions and is urging the president to make the process fully democratic. But the OAS says the election should still go on.", "We have proven that there are problems and some shortcomings in the electoral process. In spite of that, we have seen that the process can work, even with the shortcomings because the Peruvian wants to vote.", "President Fujimori is the longest standing democratically elected president in the Americas, having been in power since 1990. The opposition says it's illegal for him to run for a third term and that he can only stand because his supporters in congress passed a law interpreting an ambiguous constitution in his favor. And in recent weeks, a serious challenger has emerged. Alejandro Toledo is a former shoeshine boy who came from poverty to become a World Bank economist. He closed his campaign in Lima Tuesday after jumping to second place in the race, raising the possibility that Fujimori might not win outright in Sunday's first-round vote. With about 40 percent support in the polls, Mr. Fujimori is still the favorite. But according to pollsters, he might not win the simple majority required to avoid a run-off. Toledo has surged from a single- digit standing in January to more than 30 percent in some polls.", "These generous people have come here tonight to express their voices to say enough. The time has come to get to your feet and say enough of authoritarianism in Peru, damn it.", "It's thought Toledo could try to use his momentum, along with a unified opposition vote, to dethrone Mr. Fujimori in a second round of balloting in June. Mark Armstrong, CNN."], "speaker": ["COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, WORLD NEWS", "MARK ARMSTRONG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ALBERTO FUJIMORI, PERUVIAN PRESIDENT (through translator)", "ARMSTRONG", "EDUARDO STEIN, ORG. OF AMERICAN STATES (through translator)", "ARMSTRONG", "ALEJANDRO TOLEDO, PERUVIAN PRES. CANDIDATE (through translator)", "ARMSTRONG"]}
{"id": "CNN-316664", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2017-07-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/13/cg.02.html", "summary": "Trump Defends Son: Says Most Would've Taken Meeting.", "utt": ["We're back with more on our politics lead. President Trump's defense of his son meeting with a Russian government lawyer, that's what he thought anyway, went global today. My political panel is here with me. Let's start by playing some of what President Trump said during his news conference today when asked about this issue.", "I think from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. It's called opposition research or even research into your opponent. I've had many people -- I have only been in politics for two years, but I've had many people call up, oh gee, we have information on this factor or this person or frankly Hillary, that's very standard in politics.", "Now, as a matter of fact, what the president described is standard in politics, but coming from the Russian government, that is not standard in politics, Angela.", "No, it's definitely not standard in politics. In fact, you've heard Trump supporters frequently over the last day or two cite an example of a DNC consultant meeting with a foreign government. And the issue to me is, they talked frequently about this saying it's the exact same thing as Russia, it's not. It's apples and oranges. This is something that came from the top down. In fact, you saw it in black and white frankly in the e-mails that Donald Trump received and sent.", "And, David, I know that it's a father defending his son, and I get that. I have a son. But, you know, first of all he called his son a kid or whatever, I think he's 39 years old. I mean, he's a grown man. But OK, you consider your son your kid for the rest of your life. There is kind of like an attempt to normalize this, and it isn't normal.", "Yes. So, let's just rewind the facts here. I'm glad Angela raised the issue of the DNC consultant, right, of actually going to a foreign power, actual consultant on the campaign going to an actual --", "She was a DNC consultant.", "So, the DNC was smart enough to have a cutout, OK? So, that's fine. So, they have a cutout, going, they have a cutout going to a foreign government, actual foreign government, OK, looking for dirt on the Trump campaign on Paul Manafort, OK? Someone who's coming down the pike. Amazingly, her stock goes up dramatically right after Paul Manafort's named the campaign chairman. In this instance, OK, I'm not saying the meeting was a great idea, Don Jr. said if he had to do it again, he wouldn't. But it was -- she's an alleged, alleged, has alleged contacts with the Russian government. I mean, you just heard Congressman Schiff saying I'm not going to tell you anything that's classified, and he's saying that she's apart of the Russian government. So, we know that's not true because if Congressman Schiff knew that for a fact, he wouldn't say it on national TV if he knew that for classified meeting. So, we heard from a B-list publicist an e-mail saying she's tied from the Russian government. So -- and Don Jr. wasn't part of the campaign. He's a family member.", "No, he was an advisor to the campaign. He absolutely --", "He was a surrogate.", "I was on the campaign at the time.", "But let me -- can I say one thing, is it not significant that Ukraine is an ally of the United States and Russia is a geopolitical foe?", "Ukraine is an ally of the United States, but we're not an ally of the Trump campaign at that time or Paul Manafort.", "Because he had done work in Ukraine.", "Right, absolutely.", "Go ahead, Angela.", "No, and I just think again -- I brought it up because it is outrageous, it is laughable that this is the defense used. Number one, it wasn't just Donald Trump Jr. in these meetings. It was Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort who, of course, was the campaign chairman. It also, the contact with the Ukraine and the DNC consultant was about Paul Manafort. It wasn't about impeding on and fudging with our democracy of the election.", "Sure it was. It was about knocking Paul Manafort out of election and participating, which they did. It was successful.", "And here's the bottom line here, there has been a number of people who have suspected, right, collusion, and now you have something in black and white that was leaked, only because Donald Trump Jr. knew this story was coming out of the \"New York Times\". It's damning.", "So, let many ask a question, because Trey Gowdy, who is a Republican congressman from South Carolina, he had a take on this that I want to play.", "Yes.", "The amnesia of people that are in the Trump orbit, someone close to the president needs to get everyone connected with that campaign in a room. And say, from the time you saw Dr. Zhivago until the moment you -- until the moment you drank vodka with a guy named Boris, you list every single one of those and we're going to turn them over to the special counsel because this drip, drip, drip is undermining the credibility of this administration.", "That is a very conservative Republican from South Carolina.", "Listen, I don't agree with Congressman Gowdy one bit. I'm for getting every bit of that information, every bit of news you have and dumping it all, get it out. I'm not for -- I think it's a bad strategy, I don't think it's a strategy at all. I think it was an oversight on someone's SF86. They corrected it.", "Security clearance form.", "They corrected it, and they're being truthful and moving forward.", "But I think it's bigger than that, right? This is not about minimizing this. This is Trey Gowdy also who led the special committee on Benghazi saying this. And I think we have to acknowledge, it's not just about getting the information out, it's when the information comes out, us being able to say in a bipartisan manner, this information is problematic. And that is what a number of House and Senate Republicans are saying. And for whatever reason, Trump surrogates can not fix their mouth to say that it is in fact problematic.", "Which part is problematic, Angela? Which part? The part --", "Taking the meeting. What's also in the substance of the e-mail, the fact -- do you want me to answer your question? Donald Trump Jr. saying, you know, this -- I love it, especially if it's later in the summer. All of that is highly problematic, it's not ethical, and it is borderline illegal. If there is in fact a conspiracy here, it's a conspiracy to commit -- or to violate federal election law. That's the problem.", "So you are jumping and making a lot of assumptions.", "Not at all. It's on the paper.", "Conspiracy --", "I said if it is --", "FEC violation. If I was 6'4\" and handsome, i'd be a completely different person. So, if --", "We find you very attractive, David.", "No, but you're assumptions are just huge.", "No, my assumptions aren't -- no, but they're not assumptions.", "They are assumptions.", "Let's look at the legality. Let's talk about the ethics -- was it unethical? Forget the illegality, because that's debatable.", "I don't know if it's unethical. It's obviously -- listen, it's all based -- no, because it's all based on your mens rea, right? What's going on in your mind. I don't know what Don Jr., what he read in the e-mail, what he thought about in the e-mail. Russia had nothing -- listen, at that time in the campaign, Russia was nowhere on anybody's --", "Angela, last word.", "So, it's - Russia is now in our sights because of actions taken like this, and his", "David and Angela, thanks, both of you. I appreciate it. He was the first living recipient of the nation's highest award for valor on the battlefield since Vietnam War, the incredibly inspiring reasons why this - reason why this hero is giving away his medal of honor. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "TAPPER", "ANGELA RYE, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "TAPPER", "DAVID URBAN, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "TAPPER", "URBAN", "RYE", "TAPPER", "URBAN", "TAPPER", "URBAN", "TAPPER", "URBAN", "TAPPER", "RYE", "URBAN", "RYE", "TAPPER", "RYE", "REP. TREY GOWDY (R), SOUTH CAROLINA", "TAPPER", "URBAN", "TAPPER", "URBAN", "RYE", "URBAN", "RYE", "URBAN", "RYE", "URBAN", "RYE", "URBAN", "TAPPER", "URBAN", "TAPPER", "URBAN", "TAPPER", "URBAN", "TAPPER", "ANGELA RYE, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-359565", "program": "CNN RIGHT NOW", "date": "2019-01-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1901/16/crn.02.html", "summary": "Sanders Urged Not to Run as Gillibrand Makes Women's Issues Center of Campaign; Group Launches Video Asking Beto O'Rourke to Run in 2020", "utt": ["Well, it's clear which women are going to have a historic effect on the 2020 race. New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is jumping into the race saying she feels she's being called to serve.", "I believe the urgency of this moment now is we have to take on President Trump and what he is doing. I believe he's literally ripping apart the fabric of this country, the moral fabric. And you've got to restore that decency and our leadership in the world. And so that's why I feel so-called right now to take on that battle.", "CNN political director, David Chalian, here with us now. So Gillibrand actually made her decision public last night on late night. That was her venue. And I wonder, as she makes this pitch, it is very clear she's running as a mom. She's running as a woman. She has picked the role from which she is running in. Is this the moment for that role?", "You are 100 percent correct in your analysis of it, Brianna. I think what Kirsten Gillibrand is pitching to Democratic voters is, I'm the logical extension of 2018. What we went through as a party, Democrat, it was a female-powered election for the House of Representatives and we won 40 seats, and I am the bridge to 2020 for that. I saw a stat today, 60 percent of grassroots Democratic donors were female in the last cycle. Kirsten Gillibrand is looking to tap into the female power.", "Let's talk about Bernie Sanders. There's a newspaper in his home state that says, please don't run. Don't run for president again. You'll fracture the Democratic Party. I want to point out, this is the \"Burlington Free Press.\" But it's a paper that endorsed him for the Senate. They wanted him to be Vermont Senator. They say don't run for president.", "And they endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. So they haven't always been for Bernie Sanders.", "That's right. So they haven't. But at least they want him to be a guy for the state, for the state level, right? Is there growing pressure on him to stay out of the race or is that a one off?", "You've seen some quotes here and there and stories of past supporters of Bernie Sanders who are questioning now, is this really going to be the same sort of lightning in a bottle? Is he going to capture the magic in a Bernie 2.0? That question lingers over him. He's obviously facing these questions about the 2016 staff who have complained about sexual harassment and pay inequity. He's dealing with that. And he's meeting behind the scenes with folks. And he knows he doesn't have an easy path. But, Brianna, the context is totally different. He doesn't have the one-on-one battle with the establishment behemoth that was Hillary Clinton. He has a very crowded primary field that has a lot of folks joining him on the progressive wing.", "It's going to be insane. It's going to be wild and so huge. OK, so there's a group right now trying to draft Beto O'Rourke into the race. And he lost the Senate race to Ted Cruz. They're meeting in Iowa tonight. And they've released a video in an effort to get Beto onboard. In an interview -- or let's listen to that.", "We need someone who can lift us up.", "My support is growing behind Beto to run.", "You have our support.", "Beto, your country needs you.", "Run, Beto, run.", "Run, Beto, run.", "Beto 2020!", "So in an interview with the \"Washington Post\" -- I like the homemade nature of that video.", "That's right. It's pretty cheap, right? Or in the dentist chair, as he did.", "Exactly.", "He was interviewed by the \"Washington Post,\" and he was asked how he would handle immigrants who overstay their visas, and he said, I don't know. On withdrawing troops, he said there may be a good reason, but he doesn't necessarily understand. He seemed to be passing on a lot of stuff. The Constitution, he quested whether a 300-year-old document can be used as a guide for today's issues, especially international issues. Is he ready? You have to be able to have something of substance and have formed opinions on these things.", "Yes. That's a question I think Democratic primary voters, should he get into this race, will have to answer, is he ready. Is he ready for prime time? Remember, we've seen that question asked before. Barack Obama in 2007 was getting criticized for many in the Democratic Party for not issuing white papers. He made clear, he wasn't a candidate on white papers. So what you see O'Rourke doing here is trying to preserve as much flexibility as possible, be a blank canvas. But you're right. When you do that and you answer questions that way in a two-hour interview, inevitably that will raise questions in Democratic circles of, does he have what it takes. And only Beto O'Rourke will answer that in future interviews with how he conducts himself.", "It's a fine line to walk between being a blank canvas and empty vessel. Not you, collectively, just to be clear. You are a very full vessel, full of very important knowledge.", "Thanks, Brianna.", "David Chalian, thank you. The president has called climate change a hoax, but his A.G. nominee saying the crisis is an eight or nine on a scale of 10. We'll have details on that interesting tidbit ahead. Plus, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked the president to move his State of the Union over the shutdown, I'll speak with a Democrat who was invited to the White House. 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{"id": "CNN-215679", "program": "CROSSFIRE", "date": "2013-10-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1310/01/cfr.01.html", "summary": "Who's To Blame for Shutdown?", "utt": ["Tonight on CROSSFIRE, Obamacare goes online as the federal government shuts down and simple bipartisanship on life support. Who gets the most blame?", "This Republican shut down did not have to happen.", "We need the Senate Democrats to come join us.", "On the left, Van Jones. On the right, S.E. Cupp. In the CROSSFIRE, Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow, an Obamacare supporter, and Republican Senator Tom Coburn, who opposes it. Obamacare and the shutdown blame game, tonight on CROSSFIRE.", "Welcome to CROSSFIRE. I'm Van Jones on the left.", "I'm S.E. Cupp on the right. It's day one of the government shutdown, and the world has not ended. Tonight, House Republicans are offering a handful of bills aimed at funding portions of the government, including military veterans, and once again President Obama and congressional Democrats are refusing to deal. Only time will tell who will suffer adverse political consequences here. But Republicans who vowed to do everything they could to stop or slow Obamacare have been true to their word. And since when is keeping a promise grandstanding? As Speaker John Boehner says, it's just an issue of fairness.", "The bill we passed in the House last night would have funded the government through December the 15th and provide fairness to the American people under Obamacare. No exemptions, no exceptions. Let's treat everyone the same.", "No good?", "Well, funny he should mention the word \"fairness.\" You know what's fair? Fair would be letting everybody in Congress vote -- in the House of Representatives vote their conscience on this bill. Something called majority rules. That would be fair. Unfortunately, we've not had that, and that's why we have a shutdown. But in the CROSSFIRE tonight, we've got some people to help us think this through. Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan. She's here. She supports Obamacare. We also have Republican Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma. He's a doctor in real life; he's against Obamacare. Welcome to both of you. We're going to start with you. Now you have been one of the voices of sanity. And from my point of view in this whole process saying we should not shut down the government. There's smarter, better ways to deal with Obamacare. We are now in this ditch. The car is upside down. The wheels are spinning. How are we going to get out of this now from your point of view?", "I think anytime you have a conflict like this, what you have to have is the first thing is communication. You have to have the vision on how you get there. You have to create a way for everybody to save face, so they can walk away partly injured but still walk away. And you have to have some common sense. We have -- You know, this will play out. I was here in '95 and '96. You know, I had a four-year hiatus where I went back to my practice, but it's the same type of thing. It is. Leadership, Van, leadership doesn't allow this to happen, whether it's Republican leadership, presidential leadership or the Democratic Senate leadership. We have allowed this to happen through failed leadership, not recognizing, not seeing the signs of polarization and trying to interrupt them. And we haven't seen that. And Republicans are as guilty as Democrats, and, you know, I'll put a little bit on the president. He knew this was coming. Is it advantageous politically? Maybe. But the thing would be, I would think, is if you see this coming, try to stop it. Go and have the talks. And none of those talks have happened yet. They haven't happened between John Boehner and Harry Reid. They haven't happened between the president and John Boehner and Harry Reid.", "Well, as we go forward, I would love to get some of your wisdom, and you were here before. It seems like you were wise enough coming out of the last situation to know to try to avoid this. I'll let S.E....", "Senator Stabenow, same question: What is your plan for the road forward? We can't live in this ditch for the rest of the year, the rest of our lives.", "No question. And first, let's say what we're really talking about. We're talking about whether or not we will agree on funding the government for six weeks. Government services from food safety to helping veterans to the CIA, FBI. What is on the floor right now is whether or not to continue funding for six weeks while we do what Tom's talking about, which is a larger effort to sit down. I agree that we need common sense. What we have right now is a situation, though, where we came together and said, \"You know, it's only six weeks of funding. So we're going to compromise and agree with the funding level that the Republicans want. Not a dollar more than what they're asking for, for six weeks so we can get to the bigger question of the budget, the deficit and so on.\" But that unfortunately wasn't good enough. Instead, what we have are a minority of a minority of the minority in the House which has said, \"No, we want to add to that the repeal of the affordable health insurance for up to 30 million people.\" Now, it's interesting: Last fall people voted at the ballot box that they wanted a president that would give them more affordable health insurance; more Democrats in the Senate. Today -- today they voted in front of their computer with their mouse by having five times more people go to HealthCare.gov to try to get affordable insurance than any day of Medicare.gov. So plenty of folks are saying, \"We want health care.\"", "They also vote for a Republican House, let me remind you. But Senator Coburn, I want to press you on what you've described as kind of a political risk in shutting down the government. I'm not really sure why the shutdown is such a gamble for Republicans. Are you really convinced that in November of 2014, voters are going to remember that one time they weren't allowed to visit the national park? Or are they going to be thinking about and reeling from the effects of Obamacare that's been implemented for a year now? And is that going to be the thing that drives them to the polls, like it did in 2010, to vote for Republicans who oppose Obamacare?", "Maybe. But the thing is, is you have the microphone of the president that is hundreds of thousands of times more powerful than all the Republicans, if they were speaking in unity.", "But do you really think that Obama in November of 2014 is going to be saying, \"Vote for Democrats because the Republicans shut down the government a year ago\"?", "No. No, I don't. But I think at the same time is we're all here to govern and to make the best decisions, not for the short-term political career, but for the long term of the country. And that's why I'm critical of my side and the other side and the president. Look, why would this degenerate to this level? And the only reason it has is because people have not displayed the leadership characteristics of a free country.", "I would also have to say, Tom, that it's gotten to this point because, unfortunately -- and I appreciate the position you have taken on this, and frankly, the majority of Republicans in the Senate -- but we do have a group of folks in the House that ran in 2010 saying, \"Elect me. I'll shut the government down, yay, yay, yay,\" from the Tea Party. And in fact, they are happy today, because they finally did it.", "Senator, they were elected to oppose Obamacare.", "Right. The minority of the minority of...", "That's what they're doing.", "Actually, Debbie, that's not right. It's not the minority of the minority.", "Let me just say, though, what people are going to talk about in 2014. I'll tell you what they're going to talk about in Michigan. And that is a family of four in $50,000 a year in Michigan is going to be able to get a basic comprehensive health-care insurance plan for $80 a month, including maternity care, including emergency care, including lower prescription drug costs, including mental health care. So...", "And what's the deductible on that, Debbie?", "Well, we're looking at...", "Going to be about 4,500 bucks.", "Well...", "So if they ever get sick, what they're going to have is a promise of insurance, but not real insurance. Let me make a point about what...", "Let me just say one thing, and that is right now they have nothing.", "You said a minority of a minority. Last night, every one of the votes was over 218 votes. That's not a minority. You take a position with your vote. So your claim that this is a minority. The fact is, the vast majority of Americans think this is a pretty risky experiment, what's called the Affordable Care Act. And I call it the Affordable Care Act to emphasize that it's not going to be affordable. It's actually going to cost you, if you look at it -- all the comparisons made in the press so far are the price of the policy versus what they thought it was going to be, not what you could have gotten before Obamacare.", "Well, but...", "So the real out-of-picket [SIC] -- out-of-pocket costs are going to be far greater for the average American under the Affordable Care Act if you don't count subsidy and if you count subsidy.", "What do you say to that?", "First of all, let's look at the fact that Oklahoma, which is one of the lowest low-cost policies opening up today, that family of four at $50,000. Sixty-three dollars a month, they're going to be able to get basic care as opposed to what they would get without this new reform of about $630 a month. And what we have to look at...", "But there's no difference on when you...", "Let's look at what was happening before. Let's look. A lot of folks were getting something several hundred dollars a month that basically left them in a situation where, if they got sick, the insurance company could kick them off their insurance and did. Or maybe they have a $5,000 cap so if they really get sick they still go bankrupt, they still lose the house, because there's no coverage. The different now is we're talking about comprehensive basic coverage. Eight million women starting in January will have the chance for the first time to buy basic maternity care. Healthy babies, healthy moms. This is a good thing.", "Look, we're talking about the policy and the substance. We're going to continue to do that. But I do want to just take one step back to the politics of this. You said something just a moment ago that was kind of shocking to me. You pointed out that, before you had maybe passed budget with a bunch of good stuff in it, and then this continuing resolution comes across your desk that is lower than that.", "Right.", "And you surrendered without a fight to go with the Republican continuing resolution.", "Right.", "That devastates all these programs that you love. Ted Cruz is fighting for what he believes in, and I think he's actually making headway. Why are Democrats willing to -- Isn't it bad politics for you to give away programs that you care about and get no concessions from Republicans on it, and now be stuck with both supporting a bad budget and having the", "First of all, let me say that we originally were talking about a six-week continuing resolution while we worked out the larger effort to eliminate the sequester, which is costing about 750,000 middle-class jobs this year so that we could restore cancer research.", "I like that. You were fighting for that.", "And so on. But we were willing...", "Why?", "... in the effort of compromise, because we didn't want to see the government shut down. Do you realize that as of today...", "But now we're shut down and you gave up your principles.", "Wait, wait, wait. Well, we didn't give up our principles. This is called governing in the United States of America, where believe it or not, you don't always get everything that you want at the moment that you want it. So we were willing to say, \"We will give you six weeks of continued funding at a level that we believe does not support education, innovation, growth and the economy in order to get a broader agreement that will move us forward.\" And instead, what we're hearing is that's not enough unless you potentially eliminate health care for 30 million people.", "I feel like we compromise...", "Van wants a Democratic Ted Cruz.", "I thought -- I thought we get -- you're telling us now that we didn't compromise. We compromised and got no credit. She compromised and got no credit.", "I know. I know. That happens all the time. We're the ones trying to govern. But you know what? It's because we actually really do care in the democracy of the United States of America about governing.", "So -- so her statement would say we don't care. That isn't true. The fact is, is the sequester's never going to go away. What it's going to do is slowly increase the discretionary spending. You know, if you actually study all these things, which I have for nine years, what you know is, in our discretionary budget today, a quarter of a billion dollars of it is duplication, waste or fraud. OK. That's not my numbers; that's the", "Well, look, we're going to come back and talk about those numbers and more. But when we get back, Republicans have been pretty giddy today about the fact that there have been some glitches on the Web site. You know, you have a start-up, and the Web site's all glitchy. Everybody's excited -- excited. \"Oh, look, that's bad.\" I think it makes my point. I'm going to ask you, Senator Coburn, when we get back to explain to me, if Obamacare is so terrible and unpopular, why are so many people trying to sign up that they're crashing the system?", "Welcome back to CROSSFIRE. Today is the first day you can go online and sign up for health care through the Obamacare exchanges. Now many people tried. So many people tried, they crashed the system. Now we're here with Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow and Republican Senator Tom Coburn. Now I want to go to you, as we were going to talk about at the break. Why is it the case, if this is such a terrible program, that so many people are signing up for it, are interested in it, that they're actually crashing the system?", "Well, it may not be the number. It may be the system. The system may suck. There are a couple points I'd make. No. 1 is health care is a problem in our country. You know, the difference is, is we had no Republican agree that this was the best way to fix it. As a matter of fact it didn't get one Republican vote in the House or the Senate. So there was a way to do this where you didn't have this polarization in our country on health care. I would posit to you that the two things that are out of control in our country that we're not doing well on are health care and education.", "Sure.", "Both of those are majority controlled by the federal government. There's not anything the federal government does that doesn't cause things to cost more. You just name one that doesn't cost", "Let me jump in for a second.", "With decreased actual availability.", "I want to talk with you about the thing that you liked, but first let's hear from...", "Yes, let me just jump in there and say when we talk about Republican support, remember that this was based on Massachusetts and what has been called Romney care, which in fact everybody now loves. Rates have gone down. More employers are now covering people than before. And so what we're looking at is something that's actually based on...", "Republican...", "... private sector competition. And it's also saying, you know what? If you have insurance, you ought to get what you're paying for. You can't get dropped. There's no preexisting conditions.", "But Senator -- Senator Stabenow, let me -- let me ask you about the mechanics of this. Because the whole thing to me seems to hinge on the idea that you will coerce millions of young people, young healthy people who really didn't want to buy health insurance before Obamacare to suddenly buy it and in some cases buy it at a more expensive cost than before Obamacare. I'll just talk to you about Detroit, Michigan. Twenty-seven-year-old single person will see a 150 percent increase in premiums, thanks to Obamacare. If you build it and no one comes, doesn't this whole thing collapse?", "Well, yes, except they're coming, because we saw crashing on the computers, because everybody's coming.", "The right people will have to come, right?", "Let me talk to you about the 27-year-old who earns $25,000 a year in Michigan, who will be able to find for the first time comprehensive basic care starting at $80 a month. What we are seeing now, across the country, is six out of ten people that haven't had insurance before are going to be able to find it for under a hundred dollars a month, including -- and I have to keep stressing again -- things like maternity care, preventative care, mental health, prescription drugs, doctor visits, et cetera, et cetera. And here's the other reality of that young person or anyone without insurance. They walk into the emergency room, they get -- they get care. We all pay for it.", "Right.", "At the highest rates possible.", "Here's the -- here's the other reality.", "Everybody who has insurance is paying at least $1,000 more a year. So where's the personal responsibility?", "The reality...", "You respond and let me ask you a question. Go on; then I'll ask you a question.", "The reality to that is, is why would you pay a hundred dollars a month or $80 a month, when you can pay a $95 fine and if you get sick or get pregnant you get care? So the point is, is the economic...", "Well, we should have higher fines.", "Sure. If you're going to have a -- if you're going to have individual mandate...", "The highest possible cost. We don't want that.", "... you've got to make it economically incentive to put them into the group, and this bill does not do that.", "Let's -- Well, we could make the fines higher. I want to talk with you, because I know you guys have put a lot of thought into this. And I want to talk with you about this individual mandate which has been demonized by a lot of people. My view of it is it's a very conservative principle. It's called the individual responsibility mandate. That nobody should be walking around in the United States without health care that could get it, without insurance that could get it, as the senator just said, expecting if they dive bomb themselves into the emergency room, we're going to pick up the tab. To me, the individual mandate is -- is conservative; it also is honest. Because I know a lot of Republicans say they want to keep this idea from Obamacare that nobody can be denied coverage. Well, hold on a second. You can't get something for nothing. If the -- if sick people are going to take out of the system, well people have to put into the system.", "I don't disagree with you.", "What's wrong with the conservative principles in Obamacare? Why don't you support this?", "Well, here's the difference is, if you want to have an individual mandate, then give everybody the capability to have the same thing, all right? So what you do is, if you really want, if you really believe what you just said...", "I do.", "... give everybody a refundable tax credit. And let everybody be on the same basis. And then let markets actually decide. The reason health care costs 50 percent more than it should in this country is because there's not a real market, and you're not going to get a real market with this. There's not going to be any transparency. So if you give everybody a refundable tax credit in this country, including the irresponsible biker who breaks his pelvis and we're all paying for it, where the state, you're auto-enrolled if you don't enroll yourself in a high deductible plan so we actually really spread the risk. But we're going to have the government run and decide what you will get by the different plans. We've decided what you'll get rather than you deciding. Here's the thing that's going to happen. Here's what people are going to see. You're not ever going to see the same doctor year in and year out under this plan. You're never going to have the same -- you're never going to have the same...", "It is not going to happen.", "Time out. Time out. Time out.", "Wait, wait. Let's let Senator Stabenow respond. Please.", "First of all, in Michigan, right now there are 43 different plans. All we're talking about is allowing small businesses and individuals to go into an insurance pool so they can get the same kind of rate and have the same kind of clout as G.M. ...", "The small business pool is not even available right now.", "But it is coming online. And folks can go online now. In another month they're going to be able to sign up. This -- there is no evidence -- zero, zero, zero -- that folks are not going to be able to see the doctor that they want to see. None. Ask the folks in Massachusetts. Not true. Not true.", "Well, let me give you the evidence. In the evidence -- in New Hampshire...", "Not true.", "... 12 of the main hospitals aren't even in the group. So if you live in New Hampshire, here's 12 hospitals you used to be able to go to. You can't go to any of them now.", "Well, all I can tell you is that, first of all...", "So there's no proof. You said there was no proof. That is true.", "That is not true. I have no idea what's happening.", "That's right. You have no idea. That's why we're making claims that aren't accurate.", "Tell you what: In New Hampshire, maybe we need to kind of figure out what to do in New Hampshire. But all I can tell you...", "Let me give you a better example, and you tell me what's wrong with this. In Arkansas, which is a good red state, they've looked at this. You say the government is going to be mandating stuff. They've got very creative. They decided to create not a public option but a private option. They're being creative with their Medicare dollars. They're bringing in insurance companies.", "With Medicaid, now.", "I'm sorry. Right with Medicaid.", "Not Medicare dollars.", "Fair enough. Medicaid dollars. They're being creative, though, and they're creating little marketplaces where people have choice. I think that choice...", "How did that happen?", "It happened because you had Republicans and Democrats come together and get creative.", "No, you had -- This administration grant them an exemption for that program but not grant Oklahoma one for theirs. Why? Because they have a Democratic governor. Oklahoma has a Republican governor. So when we asked for something very creative, we were told no.", "Hey listen, I would -- listen...", "We've got a Republican governor. We weren't told no on things.", "Did you have a reformed Medicaid plan? No. You're just expanding Medicaid.", "No. Actually not true. But let me also just say, all of this -- all of this, as we look forward. We have to remember where we have come from here. The millions of people that couldn't find any kind of insurance or paid a lot of money, got almost nothing when they got sick, got kicked off. I mean, what we're talking about is how do we make this better? I'm not even suggesting that this is perfect. That we don't need to work on it.", "I know it's not perfect.", "I can tell you, it is a whole lot better than what tens of millions of Americans have...", "OK, here's the assumption.", "Inarguably. Inarguably.", "... and women who have been discriminated against on their rates, who haven't been able to get preventative care. They haven't been able to get...", "Here's the assumption behind what you're saying, is that the government can buy your health care for you.", "This is not about government.", "Oh, yes, it is.", "No, it's not. That's why you're going to go onto a Web site. You are going to pick out your own insurance policy.", "That's why it's costing $1.3 billion over the next ten years.", "You're going to go onto a Web site -- you are going onto a Web site, and you are going to pick out your own insurance policy.", "You're not going to. You have to.", "You have to.", "You have to. That's an offense. That's an offense.", "You're going to have to have both these guys back, because we have about 20 more questions we need to get to, but I've got one last one I want to ask.", "All right.", "Now, listen. The Constitution says you guys have to keep your salaries. Americans are mad about that. You've got Congress people in the Senate. You've got a young veteran, Tulsi Gabbard in the House, who says she's going to give her salary back. People are going to give their salaries to charity. My last question to you guys: Who are you giving your salaries away to? I'm sure you won't keep them...", "To the people.", "... because your poor staffers are suffering.", "My staffers are working.", "But without pay.", "No, no, my staffers are working with pay. Right now. They're doing oversight on the federal government.", "Fair enough.", "They're continuing to work on the waste...", "But 800,000 federal workers are not getting paid.", "Nobody is for that.", "Are you going to keep your salary?", "Absolutely. I'm going to keep my salary and going to make sure I spend it and tithe it and give to it charities and do the thing that I've always done.", "Good for you.", "I'm not going to stop working.", "Eighty percent of my staff, unfortunately, is on furlough. I'm going to be contributing mine on a daily basis. For every day we are not seeing an open -- a government that's open, I'm contributing.", "Thank you so much. There you go.", "OK, well thank you to senators Stabenow and Coburn. Next we \"Ceasefire\" and see if there's anything that Van and I can agree on.", "Tonight on CROSSFIRE, we've been debating Obamacare and the government shutdown. Now let's call a \"Ceasefire.\" Is there anything we can agree on? You know, Republicans today made an offer on a piecemeal approach that would fund certain sectors of the government. It was an offer that the White House immediately rejected and Nancy Pelosi called pathetic. Now, I think, Van, you and I would agree that we have got to get certain sectors of the economy back online. Veterans services, for example.", "I think the one thing we can agree on is that veterans should not suffer in this situation.", "Yes.", "But I agree that I don't like Ted Cruz, now speaker of the House and the senator and I guess God King of America, sitting there saying, \"Well, this agency is going to open; this one's not going to open.\" But he's right about the veterans, and we should make sure the veterans don't suffer.", "OK. Well, hopefully we can all come together and make it happen. Go to our Facebook page or on Twitter and weigh in on our feedback -- \"Fireback\" question: \"Should members of Congress be paid during the government shutdown?: Right now 3 percent of you say yes; 97 percent say no. That settles that.", "The debate continues online on CNN.com/Crossfire, as well as on Facebook and Twitter. From the left, I'm Van Jones.", "And from the right, I'm S.E. Cupp. Join us tomorrow for another edition of CROSSFIRE. \"ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT\" starts right now."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANNOUNCER", "VAN JONES, CO-HOST", "S.E. CUPP, CO-HOST", "REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "CUPP", "JONES", "SEN. TOM COBURN (R), OKLAHOMA", "JONES", "CUPP", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-8126", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-5-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/15/tod.03.html", "summary": "Clinton Announces More Money for Police to Buy Bulletproof Vests", "utt": ["President Clinton is on Capitol Hill this hour announcing more than 20 million federal dollars to buy bulletproof vests for police around the nation. CNN senior White House correspondent John King joins us to tell us about it -- John.", "Natalie, the president will make that announcement at annual event here in Washington. He's on Capitol Hill for a ceremony honoring police officers killed in the line of duty this past year. The president as you mentioned, will announce the latest installment in a government program. This money appropriated by the Republican controlled Congress we should make clear, to spend $24 million to buy 90,000 bulletproof vests for law enforcement agencies around the country. As part of this ceremony the president will also make a pitch for Congress to reauthorize that program. He wants about $150 million over three years, that money would buy another half million bulletproof vests for police across the country. Now in his remarks the president also will take note of the Million Mom March here in Washington over the weekend, point to the police officers surrounding him today, make the case that the Congress should do more to help these people. In the president's view that means new gun control laws. The president has been fighting for more than a year now to get the Congress to adopt additional gun controls, say for example, closing the so-called loop hole that allows someone to buy a gun at a gun show without a background check. There are other proposals in the president's plan, he will make a new push for that today. And hoping the scene of all those women and others marching here in Washington over the weekend will convince the Congress the time is now to act. However, the president's critics say that new laws not the answer. They say the administration should do more to enforce the existing laws and critics like the National Rifle Association say more education is key and also that parents, not the government, should do more to keep guns out of the hands of children -- Natalie.", "John King at the White House. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KING, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-81324", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2004-1-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/22/lol.14.html", "summary": "Interview With Train Lead Singer Pat Monahan", "utt": ["We're going to make musical tracks now with a Grammy-nominated band. Train's latest single, \"Calling All Angels,\" is connecting with listeners and topping the charts this week. Take a listen. (", "I need a sign to let me know you're here. All of these lines are being crossed over the atmosphere. I need to know if things are going to look up, because I feel us drowning...", "The band is touring selected cities in support of its latest C.D., \"My Private Nation.\" Making a stop here in studio, \"Train\" front man Pat Monahan. He had a great concert last night. And he's still here with us. And you're still awake and lively.", "I'm awake and nervous around you, because you're so good at this.", "Oh, listen to you. Oh, I wish I could sing like that. Let me tell you. And I'm just wondering, can I have dibs on this jacket when this interview is over?", "You can have this jacket as soon as we're done, yes.", "OK. Great. So, take me back. Here you are, you're 13, 14. Drums, that's your first instrument.", "Yes, started playing the drums.", "Tell me how this all began. You really weren't that open about it, right?", "No, I was very quiet. I would be the guy who -- in all of the school music things, I would the guy just kind of, you know, pretending to sing.", "You were lip-synching?", "Yes. But then, as time went on, I found that's the one thing that, if I work hard at, I can be good at. And so I continued to do that and then moved to Los Angeles and met these guys, who are now in Train. We moved to San Francisco and started the band and won a couple of Grammys. And here we are.", "You make it sound so simple. I know it's not that easy, Pat.", "No, it's not.", "There had to have been those times where you're playing those gigs in the coffee shops and just thinking, OK, when is it going to happen?", "Yes.", "Was there anybody specifically or anything that maybe just gave you that energy and that perseverance to hang in there and know that eventually this was going to pop?", "Well, I think, in every career, there are a few moments that are pivotal and very meaningful. And one was at Columbia Records, the same label that is our record label, they passed on us. And that really opened my eyes to the fact that they were right. And they did the right thing, because I wasn't ready. We weren't ready as a band. And a lot of life changes happened at that point. And we started to really concentrate on what we were good at, instead of the alternative lifestyle of being in a rock band. It became important to be a great band. And so that was important. John Landau is our manager. That was a very important thing that has happened to us, but many on the way.", "This support group.", "Yes.", "How do you know when you have a good song or something's clicking right? Is it a certain mood, where you're kind of hanging back? You're in your most relaxed state? Is it a special person in your life? Is it an event that happens and you think, I got something here? I'm going to sit down and I'm going to jot this down?", "Well, CNN actually played a big role in our newest single. It's called \"When I Look to the Sky.\" And you guys were filming people departing to go to Iraq.", "Really?", "And, as I watched, I thought, really, the only thing we have in common, here are these men and women traveling, and some of them are staying and watching their loved ones go away. The same thing's happening all over the world. And the one thing we have in common is, we look up at the sky and we hope that there's some kind of connection. And so, when I looked to the sky, it came from that.", "That sounds kind of spiritual. Are you a spiritual guy?", "Probably. I think we all are. We all have faith in something. And my faith is in people.", "Hmm. Who's your favorite person? Who do you like to spend time with and just talk about anything?", "My children. They're my favorite people.", "How old are they now?", "My son is 11. My daughter is 6.", "Do they think it's pretty cool that you're a musician?", "No, I think they're pretty done with it.", "They're like, dad, we you just hang out in the mall?", "They went from calling me dad to Pat. That's how often I'm home.", "Well, I know you love volleyball. Do you ever get out there?", "Yes. I get to play volleyball and racquetball with some buddies and golf, and go running in the hills of Marin in Northern California.", "Beautiful area.", "Yes.", "So, you say your music breaks down stereotypes. People write about this. How? Explain that to me.", "Well, yes, those weren't my words. I think, as a lyric writer, I just find great quality in people and try to describe it, you know, and especially women, because I think women are amazing creatures, and very difficult, by the way, as well.", "With the good comes the bad and vice versa.", "Right. So there's a lot to write about. And so I don't know. A great writer wrote that I break down the stereotypes. But I don't know what that means, actually. So I'm just going with that.", "Well, we have a little surprise for you as we roll on. We did a little research on you. I understand your favorite movie, \"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory\"?", "Yes, that's right.", "So we thought, instead of serenading, here we go. We got a little clip. And maybe we can just do the Oompa Loompa together. What do you say? You want to dance.", "All right.", "OK. No, I won't make you do it. Anyway, thanks for stopping by and joining us.", "Sure.", "We can't wait too see you perform next time. Maybe you'll do it live.", "OK.", "Whatever you'd like.", "All right, Pat, thank you.", "Thanks. 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{"id": "CNN-329148", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2017-12-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1712/25/ath.01.html", "summary": "Trump Spending Christmas Holiday At Mar-a-Lago; Trump Slams The FBI On Twitter", "utt": ["Hello and Merry Christmas. I'm Dana Bash in for Kate Bolduan. President Trump is spending this Christmas holiday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. He and the First Lady attended Christmas Eve services at the church where they were married. Prior to that, the President held a teleconference with U.S. troops. He also managed to get in some golf over the weekend. Then if you are keeping track, the President has spent 85 days at one of his golf properties since inauguration day, January 20th. On the political front, Mr. Trump kept up his Twitter tirade targeting the FBI. White House Correspondent Sara Murray joins us from West Palm Beach, Florida. Sara, Merry Christmas to you. Fill us in on the President's tweets.", "Well, Merry Christmas, Dana. I mean we saw the President engaged in some more traditional Christmas activities as you pointed out yesterday. But in -- over the weekend he could not help but air his grievances on Twitter. He was lobbying attacks at the FBI, specifically Deputy Director Andrew McCabe who is set to retire in a few months. He also took aim at the media and insisted he is not getting any credit for all of the hard work he's done since in office -- since he took office. So clearly a little bit of an airing of grievances for the President as we head into this holiday season, Dana.", "And what do we know about how the President is spending this Christmas day?", "Well, the White House hasn't given as a lot of details yet on how the President will be spending this day. He doesn't have any public events, but just to give you a sense of, when you're a President, you're never really on vacation. You're always juggling these duties. The one thing that we do know from Sarah Sanders, the White House Press Secretary, is the President was briefed today on that suicide attack in Kabul, so we're still being kept up to speed even though", "And Sara, before I let you go, I just want to talk to you about this tweet that the First Lady sent out this morning. A Christmas selfie wearing her Santa hat, really playful and, of course, looking quite nice there. The whole notion of her sending this out really struck me because it seems to me kind of a fitting end to a year where, I think we saw an evolution not that comfortable, perhaps understandably so, with the role of the First Lady. And now so comfortable that she feels, you know, good enough to be playful in that way. What do you think?", "That's right. It was almost a more pronounced evolution and the President himself has gone through. You know, Trump is pretty much the same Trump we saw when he took office, but for Melania Trump, I really think she has sort of come into her role as First Lady. When you talked to people who work for her, who have worked for her, they say she's gotten much more comfortable. She's gotten much more comfortable with picking out the kinds of things she likes to do. She likes to do events with children for instance and will now go out of her way to schedule those. But also just kind of comfortable in her own skin and in taking the role of First Lady and adapting it to her own personal style and I think that's what we see when we see sort of like the playful selfies that she's posting. Sure it's not traditional of a First Lady but, you know, this is not a traditional first couple and I think that Melania Trump is going much more comfortable with that over the past year.", "I agree. Sara, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Now, let's get some perspective on the President's tweets slamming the FBI and the road ahead for Republicans in 2018. Joining me now, CNN Political Commentators Paris Dennard, Scott Jennings and Symone Sanders, welcome one and all. Merry Christmas to you. Paris, I want to start with you. What do you make of the President's latest tweets? He's been sending out several of them over the weekend blasting the FBI. And obviously it's part of a larger effort to undermine the credibility of the independent counsel, but do you think this is a good move?", "First of all, Merry Christmas to you and to everyone watching. I think the President is simply highlighting the fact that he is not pleased, as we all know, with the direction that this FBI investigation is going in mainly because there's a lot of things that people are raising that looked to be political. When you have FBI people that are working for Mueller who have donated significant amounts of money to the Clintons, when you have people that are sending out tweets that seem to be anti-Trump, when you have them possibly giving e-mails in a manner that might have not been above board, you see this President voicing his disdain via Twitter and I think that is well within his right to do so. And I think it will continue because what we see on the left is everyone can talk about how great this investigation is because they want the President to go down. But when there's things that are legitimate concerns and grievances we want the right and the President to be silent and he won't.", "OK, so that's understandable. But Scott Jennings, it's not like he is just going after political leaders. He also has been going after the FBI in general when you're talking about career service people and never mind that, you know, most of them, the vast majority of them are working very hard to protect the United States here and abroad. Just on the raw politics of it, I don't know if you know many FBI agents, but I don't know many who are liberal tree-huggers.", "Look, I think most -- I think the President would agree that most -- vast majority of FBI employees are hard at work doing their job every day. But in the context of this investigation, some information has come out that have caused some people to; you know, take a beat and say, \"Well, wait a minute, who is involved in this and do they have motivations?\" I have not supported getting rid of Mueller. I have not supported wiping this investigation away. I think all of it needs to continue, but I also think the American people are smart. And if they get more information about everything that's going on and they can make their own decisions and not make up their own minds about whether they think it was done in a biased way. The President clearly is unhappy that this has been going on for the entirety of his presidency. He feels likes it's a drag on his presidency, and frankly, I think a lot of Republicans are wondering, \"When are we going to be able to have this finish so that we can have a presidency without a cloud over it?\"", "Symone, do you want to weigh-in?", "Well, yes. I mean, I think, look, I think it understandable that President Trump is defensive. That he's attacking the FBI because they are -- just like Scott said, there's a cloud over his presidency. But I just to remind everyone and all the American people that Donald Trump brought this, i.e., the especial council upon himself when he fired former FBI Director James Comey himself. This isn't going away anytime soon. And it's just makes it worse every single time the President tries to weigh-in via Twitter on the investigation. So I think the best thing for Republicans and for this President would be that he just kept silent. But I think that's cautiously optimistic and purposely not happen.", "I think that is unlikely given the year that we have seen with this President in the White House. Let's look ahead. Scott, I want to bring you back in on the fact that the President, Republicans, they had a victory on tax reform but they have a lot to do and this is on the must-do-list in January alone. Check this out. They have to do spending bill so that the government stays open, disaster funding, very important, reauthorizing the Children's Healthcare on ownership, critically important DACA or Dreamers and border security, something that is politically dicey. Oh, and by the way, fixes to Obamacare that was promised as part of the tax bill. Are they going to be a little to get that done in the first month alone?", "I don't know if it will happen in the first month. The DACA fix can wait until March and the President could frankly reauthorize the executive order if it doesn't get done in March. I think everything on your list is going to get done in a bipartisan fashion with the exception of Obamacare. They're going to have a harder time doing that. I think generally in 2018 we're going to see a pivot towards bipartisanship principally, because they're not going to have the reconciliation process in the U.S. Senate. The big battles we fall off this year on Obamacare repeal and tax reform were done under reconciliation, meaning, they just needed 50 votes. I doubt that process is going to exist next year. So everything they do with the exception of personnel matters is going to need 60 votes. So pivot towards bipartisanship, they will not shutdown the government, Children's Healthcare will be protected. I think the Dreamers will get what they deserve, which is a legislative fix. I think it's all going to get done, although at times it may be a little messy.", "I think you're right. I think it's much more likely that you're going to see bipartisan work if there is any work at all in the next election year for lots of reasons, most of which you mentioned. But, Paris, on the whole issue of Dreamers, let's say the President does go ahead and sign the legislative fix, meaning allowing the Dreamers to stay in the United States legally. What will that do to the conservative base? Will it depress the base, make them angry going into 2018 election?", "Well, I think, one of the things that we've learned from looking at this presidency is it's a unique presidency, in the sense that the person that support this president believe him and trust him and know that he is going to do the right thing for the American people. So if the President comes to the American people, especially to the basin says, \"This is why I signed this legislation and this is why this is going to make America great again and be a benefit to us as a nation,\" I think the base will be satisfied with that. But if the base will not be satisfied with is if he gets railroaded by the Democrats and let the left dictate to what he is going to do. I don't think that's what you get from this President, but he is going to negotiate and get the best deal for the American people. He is a type that we'll get the best deal and we'll articulate that to the American people. And I think the base will understand whatever he decides to do, but they will know that it's in the best interest of the country and are putting our national security first. That's why that wall has being built and it's going to go up and he keeps reiterating that that is happening.", "Well, that's to be determined.", "Well, Dana --", "Symone before you weigh-in, I just want you to listen to what your old boss, Bernie Sanders, is saying about Republicans and warning about the fact that they should be nervous about the 2018 midterm elections. Take a listen.", "So I think what you are seeing is a referendum on Donald Trump about a man who said one thing during the campaign and his actions are very, very different. So I think the -- what we're seeing in Alabama, what we're seeing in Virginia, New Jersey and in states all across this country are large voter turnouts, where people standing up and fighting back, and demanding that we have a government that represents all of us not just the 1 percent. If I were the Republicans, I would worry very much about 2018.", "Symone, do you think it's politically savvy for Democrats and progressives like Bernie Sanders to be warning about 2018? Are they raising expectations really high that Democrats are doing really well?", "I think what Senator Sanders was doing was just speak in the back and that he snatched the words went out of my mouth. That's exactly what I was going to say in response to care. What we have seen not just in the really big elections that, you know, we were all covered right here on CNN, but Democrats left 33 legislative state this year that we're reliably Republican. Have they clipped", "Scott Jennings, final thought.", "Yes, look, I think that it's going to be a tough midterm for Republicans. Historically, it is for a president's first midterm. I think both chambers are employed. I think the Senate is slightly more secure than the House. And what the President and the White House need to do is connect the American people's good vibes on the economy with his job approval. If the President's job approval takes up a little bit, then I think you'll see the generic ballot shrink and Republicans can hold. But I would just say, if Democrats take one or both chambers in November, it could be the functional end of this president's first term because the policy and investigatory paralysis will be swift and terrible, I imagine.", "That's quite an ominous warning for Republicans. Thank you all, Paris, Scott, Symone. Appreciate it and thanks again for coming in on this Christmas day.", "Thank you.", "And still ahead, Pope Francis calling for peace at the end of a very turbulent year and delivering appointed message on some hot button political issues. Plus, did you wake up to a white Christmas? 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{"id": "NPR-23056", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2016-01-17", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/01/17/463405736/what-to-watch-for-in-the-democratic-debate-as-primary-race-tightens", "title": "What To Watch For In The Democratic Debate, As Primary Race Tightens", "summary": "Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Gov. Martin O'Malley debate Sunday in Charleston, S.C. The Democratic race has is close between Clinton and Sanders.", "utt": ["The Democratic candidates for president will face off tonight. It is their last debate before voters in Iowa and New Hampshire have their say, and things have gotten interesting. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has pulled neck-and-neck with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the polls in Iowa, and he holds a significant lead in New Hampshire. Their debate tonight takes place in another important early primary state, South Carolina. NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson is in Charleston, S.C., and she's with us now. Hi, Mara.", "Hi, Michel.", "So last week, Bernie Sanders was asked about the state of the race. And he said, quote, \"it could be that the inevitable candidate for the Democratic nomination may not be so inevitable,\" unquote. So just how vulnerable is Hillary Clinton right now?", "Well, she's vulnerable. The big question is whether her lead is actually evaporating, or is she just getting the scare of her life. You know, her campaign was prepared to lose New Hampshire. Bernie Sanders is from Vermont, and neighboring state politicians usually win there. But Iowa - losing Iowa would be a painful deja vu for her because she came in third there in 2008. And it turns out that the base of the Democratic Party like Sanders' anti-Wall Street message, which is directed against her ties to Wall Street. And recently, Sanders has been getting some help from Republicans, who would much prefer to run against him. The American Crossroads Republican superPAC has an ad blasting Hillary Clinton for taking money from Wall Street. So Sanders seems more authentic than she does. His promise to lead a political revolution is a little more inspiring than her promise to be a progressive that get things done. And, you know, Michel, there's one other irony here. Hillary Clinton had seemed to solidify her lead after the first couple of debates. But there have been so few Democratic debates - which, of course, her campaign thought was a good idea in the beginning - that it's left her without the opportunities to shine in a forum she is really good at.", "You know, there's been a lot of talk about the sort of Republican establishment and what they're going to do about how they feel about the two frontrunners at the moment, Donald and Ted Cruz. What about on the Democratic side, the establishment? What are they saying and talking about with this Bernie Sanders surge?", "It's really similar. It's just like the Republican elites and Donald Trump. Democrats in Washington think that if Sanders is the nominee, they would lose the White House. He would hurt the party down-ballot, wreck their chances of regaining the Senate. And, you know, the stakes are so much higher for Democrats this fall than Republicans because without the White House, they're in the minority almost everywhere - in the Senate, the House, the governor's mansion, state legislatures. Right now, Democrats have fewer elected officials nationally than at any time since the 1920s. So the other thing is the Democrats in Washington don't support Sanders' agenda. He wants to replace Obamacare with single-payer, Medicare for all. He wants to make public college free - not just debt-free, as Hillary Clinton proposes. And he wants to break up the big banks. That's not even part of the congressional Democratic agenda. Democrats don't even think a Democratic president could pass it.", "So we mentioned that you were in South Carolina for the debate. And it is a critical early primary state. How does that location play into what we've just been talking about now? Is the location seen to benefit either Clinton or Sanders?", "It definitely benefits Clinton. She has what her campaign considers a firewall in the South because of the large base of African-American voters. She is ahead in the polls there. But Jim Clyburn, who's the dean of the South Carolina Democratic delegation - he held his annual fish fry last night - he says that if Sanders gets big victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, that could change the dynamic in the South. Now, he is setting the bar high for Sanders. He says little victories wouldn't do it. But the big question is whether the firewall would disintegrate if Sanders wins one or both of the early states. No matter what happens, the Sanders campaign says they are very confident they can raise the money and build an organization if he can do well in the early states. So Sanders can go the distance, especially if he gets a catapult in Iowa.", "That's NPR's Mara Liasson, awaiting tonight's Democratic presidential debate in Charleston, S.C. Mara, thank you.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-305136", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-02-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/11/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Reports Indicate ICE Arresting Numerous Illegal Immigrants for Deportation", "utt": ["Good morning. I hope Saturday has gone good to you so far. I'm Christi Paul.", "I'm Victor Blackwell. Welcome to the CNN Newsroom. We begin right now with the president.", "Yes. Immigration enforcement surge across the nation. Democrats and advocacy groups now blasting the Trump administration after hundreds of undocumented immigrants were arrested in at least half a dozen states.", "It's the first large scale enforcement of President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration. Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro released a statement to CNN saying he is concerned about the raids and it reads, \"I am asking ICE to clarify whether these individuals are in fact dangerous, violent threats to our communities and not people who are here peace fully raising families and contributing to our state. I will continue to monitor the situation.\"", "Immigration officials call the arrests routine. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly had this to say about it.", "First of all, they're not rounding anyone up. The people that ICE apprehend are people who are illegal and then some.", "ICE says many of those arrested had prior felony convictions including violent charges such as child sex crimes, weapons or assault charges.", "Let's talk about it now with Joey Jackson, CNN legal analyst and criminal defense attorney, Jessica Stern, criminal and immigration defense attorney, and Jack Kingston, former senior advisor to the president's campaign and former Georgia congressman. Good morning, everyone. Jessica, let me start with you. I understand you told our producers your offices having flooded with calls from undocumented immigrants concerned about what to do and they're describing what is happening when they get visits. Tell us what you're hearing.", "That's right Victor. Our phones are ringing off the hook along with other colleagues of mine for people, families that are now reporting that their loved ones, their husbands are just recently picked up in these raids. Immigration and customs enforcement will go out of their way to say that they're not raids, that they're not rounding people up, but I'm not sure how else it can be described. It is a circumstance that hasn't quite been done like this in the past. While there were routine raids that happened occasionally under the Obama administration, who they are going after in this situation does seem to be different. It's not people necessarily with criminal convictions. It's folks that were living peacefully here, potentially for many, many years, and possibly a pending driving without a license or something minor seems to be what we are seeing is the most common for the people that are being arrested right now.", "How about that, Congressman. President Trump, then candidate Trump said that there has to be a deportation force. That famous speech in Arizona, he said he would be investing or doubling down on ICE's deportation efforts. Is this the deportation force, not focusing on the bad dudes, as he said, but in the case of Guadalupe Garcia De Rayos, this is a mother who has been here since she was a teenager now deported back to Mexico.", "Actually in the case of Ms. Garcia, she had been arrested for a criminal impersonation in 2009. She since 2013 knew that she was going to be eventually deported. I'm not sure why she wasn't more proactive, because as a mother, you would think that she would be. But she knew that her time was coming up. And that's the way it has always worked. Remember, Barack Obama deported 2.5 million people and that does not include the year 2016. So for the left to suddenly say this is new stuff. This is absolutely not new stuff. This is routine. What they do is they try to go after the class one, the most violent illegal aliens, and then along the way if they find that you're out there, then they do arrest you and deport you even if you weren't the target. If you are somewhat in the way, that's the way is it has always been. Now, the last couple years of the Obama administration, that was a little bit fuzzy, but really during Bush and the early years of Obama, that was the business at hand. And so for the critics to suddenly say this is new and this is a big change, it's not accurate at all. And anybody would look at the Obama deportation record of 2.5 million people knows that.", "All right, go ahead, Joey.", "Congressman, most respectfully, I beg to differ with you. There's everything new about this and this is nothing like we've seen before. In an effort to justify the recent deportation of a mother who has two children who's been here since she was 14 years old, I don't see the rationale.", "Well, the rationale --", "Hold on congressman.", "I don't see the rationale in that justification.", "Read the case --", "Congressman, please, just hold on for a second. One at a time. Joey, go ahead.", "If the objective is to get rid of people who represent a threat to this country, if the objective is to protect border security, if the objective is to protect us from people who are engaging in drugs and human trafficking, I fail to understand, congressman, the justification of taking a mother who, yes, it's true, she indeed, false Social Security number, she was living here under false Social Security number. That's a crime. That's not to be justified. The president clearly has an enforcement duty and responsibility. But if you're going to talk about an executive order which indicates that people who represent a threat to this country should be removed, I fail to see your rationale, congressman, that justifies what they did with ICE. How do you justify --", "Jessica, before I come to you, go ahead, congressman.", "It's the law of the land. It's the law of the land. I'm sure you've read the case. I'm sure if you didn't know anything about our system on immigration that you know that this is the way it's always been conducted.", "No, it has not.", "Hold on, let him finish.", "If she was a felon, but if they go after a violent criminal and they find her along the way, she signed an order in 2013 knowing that she would be deported and that her time was up. Now, I believe that --", "Hold on, hold on. Congressman, let me ask you this. What Donald Trump said during the campaign, late in the campaign, and certainly after his election, he said that he would be going first after the violent criminals. You bring up that 2009 conviction of using a fake Social Security number, but Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos does not qualify as a violent criminal. Should she be at the top of the list in the first three weeks of the administration to be deported?", "She was not the target, and people like her have not been the target. Yet people like her along the way when they go after the targets, if they find somebody like Ms. Garcia, they do deport her in accordance of the law of the land. And this is what Barack Obama did. This is what George Bush did.", "No, it's not.", "Barack Obama, 2.5 million people. I'm sure --", "Hold on for a second.", "I know we're in an era of alternative facts, but we really should tell the viewers what the facts are. And the fact is that if you want to talk about a conviction for a false Social Security number and equate that with violence and say that, well, you know what, her time was coming, the fact is that she checked in with the immigration officials, as was her duty, as was her responsibility, and every other time she was released to her family. So if we're going to have a discussion, congressman, about border security, if we're going to have a discussion about protecting America, why are we talking about --", "Hold on. Congressman, Joey, hold on for a second. Jessica, let me get you back in here. What are you telling the people who call your office? What should they do?", "This is different from what we've seen in the past because before we were able to say under President Obama that if you didn't have a conviction for a significant crime then you were not going to be a priority for deportation. Now what we're seeing is that people without convictions, so this is different from even Ms. Garcia's case or violent criminals, people that just have pending cases, pending traffic violations, we are not able to really clearly advise at this point beyond saying be careful when you have a knock at your door. Understand who's there. Don't open it unless there's a warrant. That's what we're dealing with right now because there are police officers going to people's homes saying we're looking for someone else, and then they're arresting family members for simply no violations beyond something minor.", "Jessica Stern, Jack Kingston, Joey Jackson, thank you for the conversation. We've got to wrap it there, but we of course will continue to talk about it. Christi?", "Thank you so much. President Trump not backing down after the court rejected that travel ban, as we've been talking about. The president says he might now sign, quote, \"a brand new order\" as early as Monday. He's also not ruling out taking it to the Supreme Court. But in addition, the president is now promising new security measures to keep Americans safe from terrorists. CNN's White House report Jeremy Diamond looking into this. Do we know exactly what he's weighing in terms of his options?", "We know exactly what the president said yesterday to us on Air Force One. The president talked to reporters and he talked about what might come next, whether it would be taking this legal battle and extending that or some new security measures. Listen to what he said.", "The unfortunate part is it takes time. Statutorily it takes some time. But we'll win that battle. But we also have a lot of other options, including just filing a brand new order on Monday. It could very well be. But I like to surprise you. We need speed for reasons of security. So it could very well be that we do that.", "Now that is of course a little bit less definitive than what the president said right after the ninth circuit rejected the administration's request to reinstate the travel ban. That's when the president took to Twitter and said \"See you in court.\" Now it seems that maybe he will see the opposition here in court, but not quite yet. The administration officials telling CNN telling that they are not planning on appealing this decision quite yet, but they could take a legal battle further in the future. But at least what seems to be coming right now is that the president is considering signing another executive order, one that would perhaps address similar concerns that the previous one did, but one that may be a little bit more narrowly tailored. So that's what we'll be waiting for this week.", "All right, sounds good. Jeremy Diamond we appreciate it. Thank you.", "A major player in the foreign policy plan, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, under fire over revelations he discussed U.S. sanctions with Russia and then possibly misled people within the White House about it. We have the president's response.", "And the president and the Japanese prime minister will be at the golf course today. We're live at Trump's Florida resort with more on plans for today. 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{"id": "CNN-93862", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2005-4-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/20/ltm.06.html", "summary": "Rick James Political Signs Stolen", "utt": ["We will not keep you in suspense, before the break, we asked you this question: Rick James had an uncle who was a member of which famous musical group? And the answer is -- that was fast, wasn't it? It was C, The Temptations. Actually if you want more information, his uncle, Melvin Franklin, was the group's bass singer. So now you know. But we ask you this question this morning, what is in a name? Well, for a Hattiesburg, Mississippi, city council candidate, sharing the moniker of the late Superfreak icon Rick James has led to many jokes around town.", "I'm Rick James,", "That's actually Dave Chappelle, the comedian, you know? The other Rick James says \"The Chappelle Show\" skit on the show on Comedy Central is costing him hundreds of dollars in campaign signs. He joins us now from Jackson, Mississippi. Good morning, Rick James.", "Good morning to you, Carol.", "I don't know what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting you to look just like the Rick James, but...", "Nothing like him, actually, nothing like him.", "Nothing like him at all. When did you first notice that your campaign signs were disappearing, because you're running for city council, so when did your signs begin disappearing?", "Well, pretty much right off the bat. My wife and I were campaigning. We were going door to door registering people to vote. And we noticed a few of the signs that we put in yards were disappearing. So when we went back to talk to folks, they said, well, you know why your signs are disappearing? We said, no, why? And they said, well, it's that \"Dave Chappelle Show\" on Comedy Central. We said, what? We found out about it. We got Comedy Central. And every time something airs, whether it's national radio or national TV, more signs disappear now.", "Well, I don't get the connection because Dave Chappelle isn't asking people to steal signs, right? So why are people taking them?", "Well, I'm not quite sure, but his particular bit on Comedy Central just started a lot of activity among the college crowd. So they started stealing the signs, I guess because they wanted something with Rick James' name on it. My wife ended up writing or e- mailing Comedy Central and trying to get to \"The Chappelle Show\" and ask them to reimburse me for signs because we heard that they were stealing signs as a result of that...", "Well. I bet they gave you...", "... and then from there it just took off.", "... a big response, didn't they?", "Actually, no, they e-mailed The New York Post, and the next thing we knew, we were in the news because The New York Post had us in the gossip column. And after that it just took off, it went everywhere.", "I'm sure it did. So where did your signs end up?", "Well, you know, it's funny, because I was talking to one young guy last night who admitted to me that he has a roommate who actually stole 12 of my signs. And that's just one person. I mean, I have over $700 worth of signs that have been stolen. And I really only have anywhere from 15 to 30 signs out there right now, because all my signs have been stolen.", "But do they end up outside of Mississippi?", "Actually, they do. I was sitting in a Waffle House one night and my wife and I were there and a guy tapped me on the shoulder and said, are you Rick James? And I said, yes, because I had a T- shirt on. And he said, I saw one of your signs in Jackson, Mississippi, because we live in Hattiesburg, which is about 100 miles away, and he said that there were some signs in Jackson in yards.", "Don't you think this is...", "Which I...", "I'm just laughing because -- I'm sorry, it's funny. But don't you think that this might be helping your campaign?", "Well, I hope so. I always joke that all these national radio shows, from the Canadian Broadcasting Company to Chicago, all these national shows I'm doing, the national publications, this will be for my upcoming presidential bid, because it will help me there.", "But for the local race, I don't know how much it's helping for the local race because I can't keep my signs on the streets of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In fact...", "Yes, but you have great name recognition already, although I don't know if you want to associate yourself with the real -- I don't want to say real Rick James, because that's not right, but the other Rick James?", "Well, actually, that's what I have always used, \"the real Rick James,\" because the Rick James on TV, that was not his real name. A lot of people don't know that. But this is my real name. And what I have to do -- it has -- I've been reduced to this. Every night at 9:00, I have to take my signs into my living room and I put them back out. I have 10 signs that I put out every morning at 7:00. And every night at 9:00, I have to take them back off the streets, otherwise, those 10 signs will be gone the next morning.", "OK. The final question, were you a big fan of \"Superfreak\"?", "Oh, I love it. We own the song. We campaign with it. We put it in the CD machine.", "Even though I'm a serious candidate running for a serious position, you have to laugh at it, you really do.", "Well, we're glad you have a great sense of humor. Rick James, the Rick James of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, thank you for joining", "Thank you so much.", "Back to you, Bill.", "Let's get a break here. In a moment, \"American Idol\" coming down with disco fever of late, it may put one contestant down for the count. 90-second poppers tackle that. Who's in trouble now? That's a bit later here on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "DAVE CHAPPELLE, COMEDIAN", "COSTELLO", "RICK JAMES, POLITICAL CANDIDATE", "COSTELLO", "JAMES", "COSTELLO", "JAMES", "COSTELLO", "JAMES", "COSTELLO", "JAMES", "COSTELLO", "JAMES", "COSTELLO", "JAMES", "COSTELLO", "JAMES", "COSTELLO", "JAMES", "COSTELLO", "JAMES", "JAMES", "COSTELLO", "JAMES", "COSTELLO", "JAMES", "JAMES", "COSTELLO", "AMERICAN MORNING. JAMES", "COSTELLO", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-250497", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-03-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/03/nday.03.html", "summary": "Will Netanyahu Reveal 'Sensitive' Information?; Iran's View on Netanyahu's Speech", "utt": ["So, what will the prime minister say when he stands before Congress this morning? CNN global affairs correspondent Elise Labott has that preview from Washington. Good morning, Elise.", "Good morning, Alisyn. Well, the prime minister's aides are promising information that has never been revealed before. The prime minister is hoping to paint the administration as rushing into a bad deal with Iran without briefing Congress, Israelis say between talking to the U.S., but other parties at the negotiations, their own intelligence, they know exactly what is in this deal. Enough to conclude it's a bad one for Israel and for the world. And the prime minister is hoping what he reveals today will scare Congress enough to stop this deal from going through or move to pass sanctions if it does. But you know, now that the president and national security adviser, Susan Rice, laid out the broad strokes of the deal last night, kind of to preempt the prime minister's remarks, Netanyahu has really raised expectations. You know, is there a bombshell he has up his sleeve? U.S. officials I speak to, they don't think do. They think he's going to give a general characterization of the deal. But in a sense, Netanyahu doesn't need that any more. There are reports this morning that Iran is rejecting what the president said about a deal that will freeze its nuclear program for ten years, calling it unacceptable. So if the prime minister's goal is to torpedo these negotiations going on in Geneva, in the final days leading up to that deadline, all of the drama and the brinksmanship that's surrounding the speech may, in effect, do just that -- Chris.", "Good word, because you're saying that the talks are kind of stalled anyway at this point. But it's really about what is the context for those discussions, what Congress may or may not know. That may come down to what the sensitive information is. Here's what's for sure. This speech has divided our Congress and our political parties. But also somewhat the community of Jewish people here in the states and in Israel. So let's get both sides of what is certainly a debate. We have Jeremy Ben-Ami. He is president of J Street, a group that opposes the prime minister's speech. And Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, founder and executive director of the group This World. He is strongly supportive of the prime minister and these efforts. Let's start with this. Benjamin Netanyahu says, Rabbi, \"My speech is not intended to show any disrespect to President Obama on the esteemed office that he holds. I have great respect for both.\" Doing this is by definition disrespectful to the president. Why hide that fact?", "Well, no one wants to disrespect the president, and no one wants to breach protocol. But you have a tiny little country that is facing annihilatory threats by the government, which is the largest state- sponsor of terror in the world. What's he supposed to do, remain silent? This is an historic day. In Czechoslovakia in 1938 they weren't even consulted about a deal between France, Britain and Germany that utterly undermined their security, dismembered their nation. This is an historic day, because America allows a foreign head of government to speak out and say...", "Right.", "... that this is a bad government. A bad deal.", "But it's not America, Rabbi and that's the point to you, Jeremy. America, you know, what does that word imply? It must imply a unified position. And it isn't. And we assume the prime minister knew that. There were stories that maybe the prime minister was told, you know, both sides of Congress wanted this. And he was a little hoodwinked. But assuming he now knows what he's getting into, he's still going forward. Is this a dangerous move?", "Well, the question is whether or not for those of us who care deeply about Israel's security, does undermining the bipartisan basis of support for Israel in this country, damage Israel's security in the long run? And the risk is that this issue is becoming a partisan football just like every other issue on the American political scene. If you have a speech that is supported by the speaker of the House, in an effort to embarrass the sitting president of the United States, not telling him, going behind his back instead of coordinating it with the White House, and it's done also to advance the prime minister's own political agenda in the state of Israel, which, where he has an election in two weeks, you have to question whether or not this was done to advance Israel's security or to advance two political agendas, and that's not good for Israel in the long run.", "The prime minister says, \"The last thing I would want is for Israel to become a partisan issue.\" Do you believe that, Jeremy?", "Well, it's become a partisan issue, and the speech will be looked back at a generation from now as possibly the moment when it really shifted the conversation here from broad bipartisan support to making it just like every other issue. And I think that's a terrible legacy and a really unfortunate thing for the state of Israel.", "Rabbi, the way you're setting this out was somewhat undercut by the idea of sensitive information being shared. That's scary. It seems threatening. It seems destabilizing to the White House. Why go there?", "First of all, I think that more information should be revealed about this deal. This deal affects the security of the United States of America. The American people are being kept slightly in the dark about this deal. We are the great Satan. It was American hostages, not Israeli hostages that were held for 444 days by the mullahs. It's \"death to America\" which they chant. Why shouldn't the American people need this? Why should they know this? We don't need the prime minister to reveal this.", "It's when they know, though, rabbi. It's not whether they know; it's when they know. Isn't it? I mean, you don't want to give people information, sensitive information while the talks are going on. Otherwise, you may lose your momentum. You understand that.", "We need to know whether this deal is going to leave Iran with a break-up period of 12 months, which is being reported. Some are saying less than that. Some are saying more than that. We need to how many centrifuges are going to be spinning. But more than anything else, we need to know why it is that an oil superpower like Iran needs nuclear energy at all. This is an energy exporter. They have enough oil to last them decades. Why do they even want this energy? And finally, we need to know, why is the government of the United States, which is profoundly anti-genocide and a believer of democracy, negotiating with a government which still continues to threaten Israel with annihilation. A precondition of these talks should have been that Rouhani had to utterly repudiate the constant threats of his boss, the spiritual leader of Iran, threatening Israel with annihilation. To ask the leader of Israel to be silent amidst those threats is to put him back in the position of Czechoslovakia and not be party to negotiations that will determine the future of his country (ph).", "How is it productive, Rabbi, for you to call Susan Rice someone who is blind to genocide? I know yesterday you said she's the one who should apologize. I know you're taking heat for this. You're a thoughtful guy. You and I have known each other for a long time. That was something that was at least unproductive. Do you agree with that?", "Well, let's be fair. We used the expression \"bystander to genocide.\" That came from her successor.", "Anything about genocide.", "Who called her that. Just -- but just a moment. It's Israel being accused -- being threatened with annihilation. It's Israel that's being threatened with genocide. It's Israel that's already faced one genocide. When Susan Rice said that the prime minister of Israel can't even speak because it will destroy the fabric of the relationship, come on; that's almost a form of censorship. It's a lose-lose situation.", "Jeremy, when the best ally that Israel has is accused of being blind to genocide, how does that help things?", "Well, it doesn't in the slightest. And if there's one thing that's unifying in the Jewish community, and I thank Shmuley Boteach for that, we are united wall to wall in condemnation of this kind of attack. The folks who have called on Shmuley Boteach to apologize have ranged from the far right to the far left of the Jewish community. This is outside the bounds of American politics. It really should be a disqualifier from being on national TV like this to speak on behalf of the Jewish community. Because we are all really disgusted by this approach. And I do urge the rabbi to take a good hard look inside himself and ask whether or not his approach to this has really been in keeping with the values of the Jewish people he's supposed to represent and teach.", "The metaphor, Rabbi, is that the threat is very real. You lay it out. So does Jeremy. Really, so do all of us, the existential threat to Israel. But the tactics -- the tactics, whether it's Netanyahu or what you said about Susan Rice, wind up almost frustrating the efforts of moving forward together.", "Can I be clear? Yesterday at a forum with Elie Wiesel, who won the Nobel Prize, my dear friend who I am taking to the prime minister's speech this morning, I did apologize to Susan Rice if anything took what we said as being personal. That doesn't mean that Jeremy Ben-Ami, who's been attacking the prime minister of Israel nonstop, not the leadership of Iran. Speaking about a disqualifier, the principle disqualifier of someone who, speaking on behalf of the Jewish community, is someone who seems to be supporting the -- a deal that could undermine the very security of Israel and telling the prime minister he can't speak. Jeremy, what is your issue with a simple speech by the prime minister? Why are you taking out ad after ad in the \"New York Times,\" undermining the Democratically-elected leader of Israel? Why are you impugning his motives? Why are you saying he's doing this only for political purposes? Are you a prophet? Do you know?", "So give him a chance to answer, Rabbi.", "On the 28th of March, that's the day that this deal -- that's the deadline for the deal. What's he supposed to do? When is he supposed to give the speech? The 23rd of March?", "This is the kind of filibustering and unhelpful rhetoric that comes when you try to have a serious discussion. The question is whether or not this deal and this approach of negotiating is actually the best way to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. I don't think any of us have a different goal in mind. The president of the United States, the national security adviser, the prime minister of Israel, our No. 1 goal across both sides is to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. And the question is whether or not this speech at this time is a mistake on behalf of the government of Israel and trying to make its case, and the very people that the prime minister needs to reach, the swing Democrats in the center of the party, who are going to ultimately have to decide whether or not they support this deal or not, are the very people that he's alienated by doing this speech in this way. And...", "Jeremy, do you want Netanyahu out?", "I don't take a position on exactly what happens in Israeli politics. That's for the Israeli voters to decide. I live here. What I say is that, from the American point of view, the American Congress has the right to debate this deal. The American Congress will see the deal once it's made. The types of questions that Rabbi Boteach is raising are not known yet, because the negotiations haven't been finalized. We're in the final stages right now. So it's not as if there's a secret deal that hasn't been revealed yet. Once it's done, once there's a deal, then there will be a time to review.", "And -- and even the president says, Rabbi -- even the president says right now talks seem less than 50/50. So we know what the stakes are heading into the speech. Let's hear what the prime minister has to say. Especially in the United States, that's the way we analyze these things. Let's hear what he has to say, and we'll bring you gentlemen back and feel if we're on even ground as a result. Jeremy Ben-Ami, Rabbi Shmuley, always a pleasure. Thank you for being on", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Chris. That's me. We're going to have special coverage tonight of the prime minister's speech, anchored by Wolf Blitzer. It's going to begin at 10 Eastern. So we'll lead you up to the speech, tell you what to expect, and then you'll get full coverage right here, Mick.", "All right, Chris. Thanks so much. While the Israeli prime minister is blasting a potential nuclear deal with Iran, Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart are picking up the pace of their talks in Switzerland. How is all of this playing inside Iran? Let's bring in CNN's Fred Pleitgen. He is live in Tehran -- Fred.", "Well, it's interesting, Alisyn [SIC], because you know, many people here in Iran are actually saying they want to know exactly what Benjamin Netanyahu has to say. Everybody here seems to have an opinion on the speech. But many people here in Tehran told me they believe that Netanyahu is trying to derail these negotiations. And if you look at, right now, at the mood here in Iran, it seems as though there's a lot of people who are cautiously optimistic that perhaps some sort of agreement could be reached. But there's a lot of other people who say that there are still a lot of things that could go wrong. Now, interestingly enough, if you poll Iranians, which has been done recently, a majority of them would say they believe that their country has the right to have nuclear technology. Their country has the right to develop nuclear technology. The Iranian government, of course, says that it's only for peaceful purposes. However, the International Atomic Energy Agency says that so far, Iran has not answered all the questions that it needs to answer, to determine whether its nuclear program is really solely for peaceful purposes. So there are lots of questions still out there. Nevertheless, people here say they want this deal to come through -- Alisyn.", "OK, Fred, thank you so much for that background. Meanwhile, the Venezuelan government says the U.S. has two weeks to dramatically cut its embassy staff in Caracas. They want America to downsize its diplomats from 100 to just 17. This move comes after Venezuela's president claims America had been meddling in Venezuelan affairs. He also compiled a list of conservative U.S. politicians who are banned from the country.", "A North Carolina district attorney says he plans to seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing three Muslim students. The victims' families suggest it's a hate crime, but police blame the shootings on a long-running parking dispute. Court documents say Craig Stephen Hicks kept photos and notes on parking activity in the Chapel Hill complex where they lived.", "Second-guessing that third cup of coffee? Well, don't worry: It could be good for your heart. Yes, study alert. A new study out of South Korea says people who drink between three and five cups of coffee a day are less likely to have calcium in their arteries, compared to those who drink no coffee at all. But if you go above five cups, then there's calcium again.", "Yes, but if you have five cups, then you're scraping me off the ceiling, so that's kind of an issue.", "You need the calcium, then, because you need the strong bones when you fall off the ceiling.", "It's a whole cycle.", "It gets you. It gets you. It's part of your lifestyle, basically.", "It really is, pretty much.", "Well, the LAPD says the -- it appears that the videotaped fatal shooting of this homeless man, they say, was justified after the suspect went for an officer's gun. Still, witnesses say it was excessive force by the police. We will debate this.", "And Hillary Clinton used her personal e-mail account for official business. The entire time she was secretary of state. Do you care? Should you care? Is there a rule? Did she break it? John King breaks it down for you on \"Inside Politics.\""], "speaker": ["ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "ELISE LABOTT, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "RABBI SHMULEY BOTEACH, FOUNDER/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THIS WORLD", "CUOMO", "BOTEACH", "CUOMO", "JEREMY BEN-AMI, J STREET", "CUOMO", "BEN-AMI", "CUOMO", "BOTEACH", "CUOMO", "BOTEACH", "CUOMO", "BOTEACH", "CUOMO", "BOTEACH", "CUOMO", "BEN-AMI", "CUOMO", "BOTEACH", "CUOMO", "BOTEACH", "BEN-AMI", "CUOMO", "BEN-AMI", "CUOMO", "NEW DAY. BOTEACH", "BEN-AMI", "CUOMO", "MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR", "FRED PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CAMEROTA", "PEREIRA", "CAMEROTA", "PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "PEREIRA", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-206417", "program": "PIERS MORGAN LIVE", "date": "2013-5-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/08/pmt.02.html", "summary": "Missing Girls Escaped from House of Horror; Ariel Castro Charged with Kidnapping and Rape; Jody Arias Found Guilty", "utt": ["This is \"Piers Morgan Live\".\" Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. It is midnight on the East Coast. It is 9:00 p.m. on the West Coast. Tonight, two huge stories are dominating America. Ariel Castro charged with kidnapping and raping Amanda Berry, Gina Dejesus and Michelle Knight. His brothers, O'Neil and Pedro, will face no charges of the case. Listen to this dramatic police dispatch recording of the moment of the rescue.", "This might be for real. We found them. We found them.", "And, in Phoenix, sex, lies, and murder. Jodi Arias guilty. Police say she is on suicide watch. And, tonight, she said she would rather get a death penalty than life in prison. Listen to what she told the Fox affiliate in Phoenix.", "I said years ago that I'd rather get death than life and that still is true today.", "I will talk to a friend of Jodi Arias and the man that she killed. Meanwhile, in Cleveland, joyous family reunion as two of the victims, Michelle Knight's mother still hasn't seen her.", "I'm just hoping that my daughter let me see her because I love her.", "Police state that the three young women left the house of horror only twice in a decade, and watched their parents on T.V. at vigils. They say when Amanda Berry escaped on Monday, the other two victims chose not to run. And, that Ariel Castro, seen here in custody, would test them by pretending to leave, and then beating them if they made a move to escape. They also called a case against Ariel Castro a \"Slam Dunk.\" Let's go now to CNN's Poppy Harlow, is live for us in Cleveland. Poppy, a lot of more dramatic details emerging all through the day and night on this case and what can you tell me about the latest?", "Some very disturbing details, Piers, coming out just in the last hours. So, CNN being told by a police source, it is familiar with this investigation that Amanda Berry, one of those three captive girls had the baby that is now her 6-year-old child in the home of Arial Castro; but, that baby was delivered by Michelle Knight. That is what these police source says. That source says the Castro grabbed Michelle Knight and told her to deliver the baby -- to deliver Amanda's baby. We are also told that that baby was born, Piers, in a plastic tub to contain the amniotic fluids of the pregnancy. Just pinning a picture here of what a disturbing scene. We are also told that when the baby was born -- when Amanda's baby was born the baby stopped breathing, that everyone around started screaming. And, Castro said if that baby dies, I am going to kill you. Also an important thing that I want to tell you here, Piers, is that that source tells us, quote, \"What is most incredible here is that this girl who knew nothing about childbirth was able to deliver a baby that is now a healthy 6-year-old girl.\" So, this paints a chaotic and panicked and very, very, picture, Piers.", "Absolutely extraordinary details. Ariel Castro has obviously been charged with rape and kidnap charges. He is due to appear in court tomorrow, but his two brothers have not had any child charges filed against them. Innocence belief now from the investigating authorities that they are completely innocent. How can we read into this from the information today?", "That is absolutely the case, Piers. Innocent police believe the brothers are in terms of these crimes of alleged rape and kidnapping. The police say they found, quote, \"No facts to link O'Neil and Pedro Castro to the kidnappings. However, both brothers will appear in municipal court in Cleveland tomorrow. We are told on misdemeanour charges and other related incidents. But, this is very important because, you know, the photos of these two men -- the two brothers have been up along side Arial's, you know, this whole time the police have arrested them thinking that they had enough probable cause to arrest them related to these charges against Ariel Castro. And, now they are saying they have no facts to link them to each other. What I also think is very important here that we are told is that the police believe that the brothers were in the dark about this. And, this shows us just how --how private this all was. The fact that the brothers of Castro, the police are now saying had no idea that this was going on. It shows just how separated Castro in his entire life that he is alleged to have had was from even his own family members.", "Poppy Harlow, live in Cleveland tonight. Thank you very much, indeed. Those three young women were missing for nearly a decade, but their families never gave up hope. Listen to Amanda Berry's cousin today.", "Horrible. I mean you always want to keep hope, but after so many years goes by, you lose a little bit but in the back of your mind, you still keep it. I mean like Jaycee Dugard, I think is her name, I mean went -- was missing for 18 years, and they found her. And, you know -- so, when you hear stories like that, that keeps your hope alive.", "I want to bring in now Karen McHenry who is a program manager for Homeless Youth Programs in Bellefaire, Cleveland. Karen, so many people are horrified by the details of this case, cannot believe that three young women can be kidnapped and then held in this kind of dungeon for ten years without anybody knowing anything about them, or even if they are alive. What is your explanation if you like for how this could have happen and how nobody could have even had a clue that they were there?", "You know, I really don't know how they couldn't have a clue that they were there, but we know that when victims -- we work at Bellefaire with victims of sexual trafficking and abuse and neglect, and when they are under the control of someone that is so aggressive and abusing them physically and sexually, they develop a learned helplessness, and a learned helplessness. And, this is because of their abuse. So, because they were living in ultimate fear, many of the victims we worked with every day at Bellefaire are living in fear, have a very unpredictable lives and never sure when they are going to get fed or taken care of and nurture.", "I mean what is clearly emerging now about this man Ariel Castro is that he ruled with utter fear that he would even do tests, where he would pretend to leave the house, and if these girls tried to escape, he would beat them up. Appalling details of multiple pregnancies involving one of the girls Michelle Knight and of course, this moment when Amanda Berry gave birth in a tub and they were all warned if the baby died, they would all die. I mean utterly appalling. And is this the kind of thing that the sex traffickers in your experience do to these young women to ensure they stay in captivity?", "Yes, they do a great deal of manipulating and they really mess with -- they really -- with their minds -- they make them very un-empowered and they put a great deal of fear over them, whether they are going to hurt themselves or hurt their family members or hurt somebody else. So, it is crucial for these victims. And -- I mean I guess the one thing that we would like to celebrate here in Cleveland is that with this horror that these women have survived, and we just are all marvelled that they have survived. And, it is just that their spirits are so resilient, and that is really what we want to focus on is that they are survivors.", "Absolutely. Karen McHenry, thank you very much indeed for joining me. Now, I want to bring in Juan Perez. He is a neighbor of Ariel Castro. He lived just two doors down from the house where these three young women were held captive. Thank you for joining me, Mr. Perez. You were for the last 22 years, a neighbour of Ariel Castro, living just two doors down, but you knew nothing about this appalling other life he was apparently leading. What is your reaction to this discovery?", "I was very just -- I didn't know how I felt. I was very excited, you know, that the girls, you know -- I was very excited that the girls were found, but at the same time I felt guilt.", "I mean, you knew Ariel Castro very well. You helped refurbish his front porch a few summers ago. What kind of man is he?", "I mean I knew him for 22 years since I was 5 years old. He seemed like a great man. He is very helpful. You know, he helped me changed my tire, you know, once when I was 7 years old. He would ask how school was. When I was a teenager, he asked about relationships. He just seemed like a really nice guy in the neighborhood. Always, you know, talking to people of their outside. If we are having a get together, he was a part of it. Always said hi, even if he was on the corner and he saw you. He had a great mask. Everyone thought he was a nice guy.", "Juan, it does seem extraordinary but even somebody living as closely as you did to him for that long and knowing him so well, didn't have even an inkling of what was going on there given how depraved we now know it was. Did you have any concerns over the last ten years that something may not be entirely right about this man's house?", "Well, Mr. Morgan to be honest, I thought the house is vacant the last couple of years. I thought maybe he had another property and you know he just came by time to time to check up on it a few times a week. He would only be here for what I saw ten minutes to an hour at a time. I just thought he was checking on the property. He has not sold it yet. Next door -- the next two houses next door are vacant, boarded up. I saw that his house had the windows covered up. I just thought -- I thought it was vacant. I never saw him stay -- I mean no, I never saw anything to be honest, nothing.", "Absolutely extraordinary. Juan Perez, it must be a huge shock to you. I appreciate your joining me, thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "The other big story tonight Jodi Arias verdict. The jury found her guilty of first-degree murder in the death of her ex- boyfriend and now she will decide -- they decide if she should get death penalty. Now, CNN's Casey Wian is in Phoenix for the very latest. Casey, no great surprise, I don't think that she was found guilty. The big question now, will she get the death penalty, and that may be decided tomorrow.", "It could be decided as early as tomorrow, Piers, but more likely what I am hearing it may take a couple of day days. The prosecution has to prove that there were aggravating circumstances. That is called the aggravation phase that is going to begin at 1:00 local time in the afternoon. And, what that means is that they have to prove, persuade all of the jurors that this murder was committed with extreme cruelty. If they are able to persuade the jury, get unanimous vote on that, then it moves to the actual death penalty phase of the trial. And, that is where the defense attorneys will present mitigating factors, mitigating evidence as to why Jodi Arias' life should be spared. If the jury does not find that there was extreme cruelty in this case, then what happens is it goes directly to the judge, she has two options. She can either sentence Jodi Arias to 25 years to life or life without the possibility of release at any future time, Piers.", "Casey, this is amazing interview that she gave afterwards when she said she would prefer to have the death penalty, something she did say before. But, now that she knows she is being found guilty, she would rather die than face life imprisonment. What is your make of that?", "A lot of people are scratching their heads. A lot of attorneys are scratching their heads, wondering why she gave this interview. Why authorities here allowed the interview to take place. She did say that she preferred death as opposed to a life sentence in prison. She also sent out a tweet through a friend who has been tweeting on Jodi Arias's behalf throughout the trial a couple of days ago saying that she had considered suicide. That is something that she has also mentioned in interviews previously. So, as a result of that, the Maricopa County Sheriff's office has put her on a suicide watch. They say they are not going to be allowing anymore interviews as long as that suicide watch is in effect. Piers.", "Casey Wian, thank you very much indeed. Coming up next, much more on the two big breaking stories of the Arias Verdict and the kidnapping and rape charges for Ariel Castro, accused of keeping three young women prisoner for ten years. And, later, John Walsh, who was thanked personally by one of the families today. That is after the break."], "speaker": ["PIERS MORGAN, CNN SHOW ANCHOR", "POLICEMAN", "MORGAN", "JODI ARIAS, CONVICTED FOR FIRST-DEGREE MURDER", "MORGAN", "BARBARA KNIGHT, MICHELLE KNIGHT'S MOTHER", "MORGAN", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT", "MORGAN", "HARLOW", "MORGAN", "TASHEENA MITCHELL, AMANDA BERRY'S COUSIN", "MORGAN", "KAREN MCHENRY, PROGRAM MANAGER FOR HOMELESS YOUTH PROGRAM", "MORGAN", "MCHENRY", "MORGAN", "JUAN PEREZ, ARIEL CASTRO'S NEIGHBOR", "MORGAN", "PEREZ", "MORGAN", "PEREZ", "MORGAN", "PEREZ", "MORGAN", "CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MORGAN", "WIAN", "MORGAN"]}
{"id": "NPR-38370", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2008-11-10", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96827889", "title": "Layoffs Hit Kansas Aircraft Maker; Worker Reacts", "summary": "Wichita, Kan.-based aircraft manufacturer Hawker Beechcraft has announced a 5 percent cut to its work force, or almost 500 jobs, due to the worldwide economic slowdown. Michelle Thornton, one of those laid off last Thursday by the firm, talks about what happened.", "utt": ["We tend to take note of job losses when they mount into the tens and hundreds of thousands. But at its root, every single job loss is a story of lives that have to be reordered. Last week at Hawker Beechcraft in Wichita, Kansas, more than 400 people got the word. The company, which makes small aircraft, is reducing its workforce by 5 percent worldwide. And Michelle Thornton is one worker who has become part of that statistic. Welcome to the program.", "Hello.", "How did you learn that you were going to be laid off?", "They gave us two letters. One was from the week before and said that the economic was strong, they had hopeful outlooks, you know, but they were going to be tightening their belts a little bit. But the next week, that Friday before we got the letter, they pulled us into groups and told us it was going to be 5 percent across the board. I mean, you couldn't believe the faces. You just felt like it was more or less like a death scene. It was just horrible.", "And what does it mean for you to be laid off?", "It's a struggle. I mean, we have a child that's in college, and we've got tuition coming up. Our daughter's 21. She's out on her own. We've been trying to help her as well. But there's a lot of plans and things that are going to be put on a backburner, and it's just going to be a very big burden. It's around the holiday time again. It puts a very big damper on it. And with all the people out on layoffs and stuff, it's going to be very hard to try to find a new job.", "You said, we. Are there two incomes in the family?", "Yes, there is mine and my husband's, both.", "And how does his job look?", "Right now, he's hanging in. He works out there as well, at Hawker Beechcraft.", "You know, we often hear arguments about trickle-down economics. And here you work in the production of a product, a small aircraft, which isn't something that work-a-day, ordinary Americans buy. I mean, you have to have money up on top for people and companies to be buying and using planes of this sort. You really depend on prosperity up there.", "It is a very big trickle-down effect. I mean, we're one of the top-paid employees in Wichita. And you know, there'll be no new cars, no campers, boats. It affects going out to eat, going to the movies, going bowling, anything. I mean, it all stops.", "Have you been through something like this before? I mean, have you experienced downturns and layoffs and been recalled?", "Yes. Actually, this is my fourth time through the same company. And I've done this walk before. My children were a lot smaller when I did this. I really thought I had made it through this time with all the seniority that I had. And I mean, it's one thing that you sit back, and you hope and pray that, you know, they'll call you back.", "What exactly were you doing at Hawker Beech - or are you doing at Hawker Beechcraft, assuming you could get re-hired at some point?", "Right now, what I do is, it's called small parts assembly. Little parts come through to you, and you assemble them. And then our parts are fed into a major line, which they go on the plane. They're already put together and assembled, and then they put them together the rest of the way.", "Well, you told me - I mean, obviously, it's distressing and bad news to be laid off, and you're not feeling pretty good about it. Apart from cutting down on expenses over the coming weeks, what else are you going to do? How are you going to fill these hours this week, for example?", "I really don't know. Right now, I'm getting ready to paint my bathroom and put up some new shelves that I had bought previous to layoff, and just basically deep-clean my house and look for a job on and off, and just kind of deal with the days the best that I can, I guess.", "Well, Michelle Thornton, thanks a lot for talking with us about it.", "No problem.", "That's Michelle Thornton of Wichita, Kansas, who was laid off last week from her job at Hawker Beechcraft."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "Ms. MICHELE THORNTON (Former Employee, Hawker Beechcraft)", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "Ms. MICHELE THORNTON (Former Employee, Hawker Beechcraft)", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "Ms. MICHELE THORNTON (Former Employee, Hawker Beechcraft)", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "Ms. MICHELE THORNTON (Former Employee, Hawker Beechcraft)", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "Ms. MICHELE THORNTON (Former Employee, Hawker Beechcraft)", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "Ms. MICHELE THORNTON (Former Employee, Hawker Beechcraft)", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "Ms. MICHELE THORNTON (Former Employee, Hawker Beechcraft)", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "Ms. MICHELE THORNTON (Former Employee, Hawker Beechcraft)", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "Ms. MICHELE THORNTON (Former Employee, Hawker Beechcraft)", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "Ms. MICHELE THORNTON (Former Employee, Hawker Beechcraft)", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-236810", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-08-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/17/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Police Response to Ferguson Protests", "utt": ["Welcome back. I'm Poppy Harlow in New York. We continue to follow the unfolding situation in Ferguson, Missouri, that has brought the conversation about race relations in America right to the fore. CNN commentator Ben Ferguson, also Marc Lamont Hill, join me now know. Thank you both for being here. Ben is in Dallas, Marc is in Ferguson, Missouri. And before I begin, I want you both to listen to remarks from a guest that I spoke with here on the program last night. He says this incident has been blown out of proportion. Listen.", "America is not the racist enclave that everybody says that it is, that the cops are not targeting black people, neither are white folks. I asked you a second ago, I said, why don't you give diversity training to the people going to the football game? We meld every single day. We meld at restaurants. We meld at schools. We meld as a nation, as part of the mosaic every day in multiple ways. Just as the police help people every single day, but we take a situation like this, we blow it out of proportion, because that's what happened, we want to set the narrative that one side is good, the other side is bad, and that is what's bad.", "Marc Lamont Hill, you're in Ferguson, you just left the rally there, along with the family of Michael Brown and many others, Is this situation being blown out of proportion?", "Absolutely not. You know, the energy here in Ferguson is very much reflective of what we see around the country, and that is black and brown people saying we have had enough. This isn't about one isolated incident. This is about black bodies being vulnerable in public space every single day. And Michael Brown and Ferguson, the microcosm of a broader problem we see in America, and that's why you see this reaction. The fact that police haven't been transparent. The fact that they've been antagonizing the crowd -- I was out here last night and had teargas shot at me. So there's absolutely no way we could see this as anything other than a crisis that warrants this level of attention.", "You had teargas shot at you for what?", "We were out here -- we were out here beyond midnight, peaceful protesting, though. There was absolutely no violence at this moment, there was no antagonism. We were peacefully protesting, saying hands up, don't shoot. The crowd was out there. Police moved forward in their vehicles, military-style vehicles, and -- although they said teargas wasn't going to be shot, teargas was shot, we ran. Another kid was shot, not by police, but I'm saying that's the level of confusion that came after the teargas was fired. It was a very, very ugly place.", "Ben, to you, I guess, had you and our viewers listen to Kevin Jackson. Also said to me last night in our conversation that, look, diversity training is not what is needed here. That is frankly not the solution. Having faith leaders go out and try to work the community, not the solution. What is your take? What is the solution?", "Well, I mean, Marc just brought up a huge point. I would challenge Marc and others to obey what they're trying to do to try to restore order, which is if you want to cause problems, if you want this to continue to spiral out of control, stay out past midnight and don't respect the authorities. The African-Americans have been put in charge of the situation, to regain the trust, yet you're still not listening to them. And I think that's one of the issues here. Some of the people I think are wanting to have this excitement, wanting to have this rage, and wanting to have this continue on, when the governor I think did the right thing. He said here is a man that we're going to put in charge, an African- American man that can talk with the community, that can go out and try to get this to calm down a little bit, and to be peaceful. Yet Marc acts like he's a victim when he's the one that broke the rule last night after midnight, and saying just because they're peaceful, that doesn't mean you don't -- you get to break the rules. So as long as we continue to have this I think we're going to have problems.", "Marc? Marc?", "Ben, it also -- it also doesn't mean that the -- it also doesn't mean that we should invite or that it should be warranting military-style response. Again, this is the whole problem with Michael Brown. The kid was jaywalking --", "But I think because you're antagonizing after midnight.", "Let me finish the point. But being black in public space is an antagonism in and of itself. Michael Brown was just walking down the street and they're saying he's antagonizing police. We're peacefully protesting and they're shooting teargas and ultimately firing weapons. Martin Luther King violated the law. Violated the law.", "Police have said that they --", "Sitting in was violating the laws. All of this stuff is a violation of the law but we always push back.", "One second to be clear here. Let me say something, Ben. To be clear here, to Marc's point, police did say there that overnight no shot was fired by police overnight last night. I want to make that clear. And I want to ask you both, but I'll begin with you, Ben. I'll go to you, Marc.", "Correct.", "Absolutely.", "This is an important question. There's been a lot of talk about the 53-member police force in Ferguson that has three African- Americans on it. Is it important, do you think, Ben, to have more black police officers as part of that force?", "I don't have a problem with that. But my concern is this. Are we saying that we want segregation? Because that's the only way that it's going to be fair in minority communities? I mean, I thought we didn't want to have segregation saying that only African-American cops can police African-Americans, only white cops can police white Americans, only Hispanic cops can police Hispanic people.", "That's not the point.", "I don't think -- let me finish. I don't think it's funny. But this is my point. They wanted to have --", "But I think a lot of this is funny.", "Let me finish.", "Let Ben finish.", "Let me finish.", "Please let Ben finish.", "Marc, many in the African-American communities, just like you're saying you want African-Americans in charge. You have an African-American that now is in charge, and you absolutely do not obey him by staying after midnight last night and then acting like you're a victim when teargas is shot. My point is, if an African-American in charge, you won't listen to him, what difference does it make if it's a white cop? Because it sounds like you're not going to listen to him, either.", "Marc, to you. Does that -- Marc, to you, does the police force there need to have more African-American members? Or is it not about what race you are as part of the police force? Is it about policing in a way and being -- having more communication is what we've heard is needed between the community members and the police?", "Absolutely. And I apologize for interrupting Ben. There's a time delay. I would never interrupt my dear friend Ben Ferguson. But I think it's not either-or, I think it's both end. I think on the one hand, black people didn't march so that they could be beaten by black cops. We don't want to integrate a police force who are going to replicate the very same patterns of brutality and terrorism. I don't want that. I want black cops who are well trained. I want white cops who are well-trained. It's entirely possible to have an all-white police force that can engage in community policing that doesn't violate people's rights and that respects the community. That is possible. But still in a town that's 70 percent black it's mind-boggling there are only three black police officers on the force. That's reflective of a broader structure of racism and I'll say white supremacy that we have to deal with not just in Ferguson but around the country. This is a broader international issue that we have to deal with.", "Sir?", "Ferguson and Michael Brown speak for everybody.", "Here's my thing. Do you want segregation in African- American communities? Are you saying that it needs to be definitely proportionate to the African-American population, which is segregation?", "It's not about segregation, Ben. Having black people in a black town as police officers isn't segregation. It's reflective of the needs of community. White officers -- not traditionally, white officers often have been insensitive to the needs and the culture and the practices of black people. But again black officers often do the same thing. Putting a black person as a business manager for the same racist structure does not make black people feel better. We're not advocating for different police. We're advocating for better police.", "You know what I think is clear? I want you to both stick around. We're going to talk more about this later on the show. We're also going to have you talk about the situation between the United States and Iraq right now. But what is important I think that you both agree, and everyone agrees on, is that there needs to be a lot more and a lot better communication between the police force there and the people on the ground there. We'll be right back after a quick break. As I said we're going to talk about this as the U.S. conducts air strikes in an effort to retake a very strategic dam in Iraq. Is it going to be enough? How much is the situation going to escalate? How much is the U.S. going to get involved? Our experts weigh in, next."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "KEVIN JACKSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE BLACK SPHERE LLC", "HARLOW", "MARC LAMONT HILL, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "HARLOW", "HILL", "HARLOW", "BEN FERGUSON, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "HARLOW", "HILL", "FERGUSON", "HILL", "HARLOW", "HILL", "HARLOW", "FERGUSON", "HILL", "HARLOW", "FERGUSON", "HILL", "FERGUSON", "HILL", "FERGUSON", "HARLOW", "FERGUSON", "HARLOW", "FERGUSON", "HARLOW", "HILL", "FERGUSON", "HILL", "FERGUSON", "HILL", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-371553", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-06-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/05/es.03.html", "summary": "Warriors Look to Overcome Injuries in Game Three.", "utt": ["All right. After that scary incident in Houston last week, Major League Baseball will look into further extending the protective netting at ballparks around the league, but it won't be happening this season. Andy Scholes has that story in the \"Bleacher Report.\" Good morning, my friend.", "Yes, good morning, Dave. Yes, the protective netting, once again, became a topic of discussion last week after, like you said, a little girl was hospitalized after getting hit by a foul ball at an Astros game. At the start of last season, all 30 teams extended their protective netting to the end of the dugouts after several fans were injured during the last season. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred says, if extending the netting even further is what is needed to protect the fans, then so be it. But it won't be happening this season. Manfred told reporters yesterday, it's very difficult given how far the clubs have gone with the netting to make the changes during the year because they really are structural issues. But because safety is so important, I'm sure that conversation will begin and continue into the off-season. All right, the NBA Finals continues tonight with Game Three. Kevin Durant, once again, ruled out for the Warriors with his injured calf. Klay Thompson, meanwhile, will be a game time decision. He injured his hamstring at the end of Game Two and was unable to finish the game. But Klay says he's going to do whatever it takes to get out there tonight.", "If I can just be out there even at 80 percent, I still think I can be very effective, so I'll do whatever I can to get to that full hundred. But if not, I'll still be out there to try and do what I can to help my team win.", "A tipoff tonight, a little after 9:00 Eastern, make sure to tune in early. Metallica is going to be singing the national anthem. All right. We had some high drama last night in the Women's College World Series. UCLA up four to three, the Sooners seizing down to its final out when Shay Knighten, Big Play Shay, comes through with a clutch home run to tie the game. Everyone in the stands in Oklahoma City just going absolutely nuts. A bottom of the seventh now. Runner on for UCLA, Kinsley Washington, is going to come to the plate, and she comes through with a single in to left. Jacqui Prober running the bases. She makes a nice slide to avoid the tag. That's your winning run right there. The Bruins celebrate. They run over and dogpile Washington. The 12th title for UCLA, the first since 2010, ending their longest championship drought. All right, finally, Serena Williams adding yet another accolade to her already impressive haul. Serena now the first athlete ever to make it on to Forbes' richest self-made women list. The magazine estimates Williams' net worth at $225 million putting her at number 80 on the list. Serena has made close to $90 million on the court. And according to Forbes, that's double any other female athlete. And she was ousted at the French Open earlier this week, Dave. Two Americans remain. Both of them are going to be in action this morning. Seventeen-year-old American Amanda Anisimova, she plays defending champ to Simona Halep. That's at 8:00 Eastern this morning. And Madison Keys is also hanging around. She's going to take on Ashleigh Barty, Dave.", "All right, very good. I'll be watching. Andy Scholes, thank you.", "You got it.", "Romans, what's coming up?", "All right. Well, the President is in the U.K. right now, and he's getting ready to speak at a D-Day event. We have live pictures there of Portsmouth, England. He is also making some news about climate change and Meghan Markle. We've got a full report on the President's trip, next."], "speaker": ["BRIGGS", "ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "KLAY THOMPSON, SHOOTING GUARD, GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS", "SCHOLES", "BRIGGS", "SCHOLES", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-26767", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2001-3-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/02/tod.11.html", "summary": "Scientists Work to Restore Civil War-Era Submarine", "utt": ["For scientists in Charleston, South Carolina, the painstaking excavation of a national treasure continues. You may remember about seven months ago the H.L. Hunley was brought to the surface. The submarine had gone down 136 earlier -- 136 years earlier. That was during the Civil War. CNN's Brian Cabell was there when the old sub was raised up. It was found six years ago. What took so long from the time it was found until they got it up?", "Well, they found it in '95, Lou, and they confirmed that it was, in fact, the Hunley in '96, and then they had to make preparations, careful preparations, to make certain that they got it up safely. And indeed, they did get it up safely. And now the exciting time starts in the next few weeks. In fact, on Monday, they will start the actual excavation of the Hunley. They've removed three steel plates from the hull of the Hunley over the last couple of weeks. On Monday, they will actually start digging into the Hunley, probably about an inch at a time: very slowly, very painstakingly. They think the whole operation will take maybe a month, maybe two months. They really don't know. They're expecting to find the remains of nine people onboard the submarine, those that went down with the sub back in 1864. They'll also find artifacts. They may find weapons. They think they will find probably some soft tissue from some of the bodies. It's that well-preserved. They will probably find some clothes. They will find coins, they will find mementos. I talked to one official yesterday. He said they even may find a Bible onboard this sub. For the first couple of weeks, they expect to find mostly sediment. It's kind of a clay-like substance, which they will get out with a trawl and they will put it into a bucket, use a sieve to get out any artifacts, any shells. And again, probably within about two to three weeks, they will start getting to the bottom of the sub, and that's where they expect to find the human remains. That's where they will find the artifacts. That's where they will find the real treasure. But it will be exciting over the next few weeks for the scientists.", "Who is they? Is it finders keepers?", "No, it's actually -- it's some foundations, but it's basically the state of South Carolina is operating this. It's costing about 15 to 20 million dollars: a number of scientists. It will stay in South Carolina, in Charleston.", "And the goal is to preserve it?", "To preserve it and there's also the central question why did the sub go down. It sank a Union ship back in 1864, and nobody knows exactly why it sank.", "I think many of us were just shocked to learn that there were submarines during the Civil War.", "It predated any others for a good 50 years. It was the first sub ever to sink an enemy ship. It didn't happen again for another 50 years later.", "So how -- how much is this -- how long will this restoration process take?", "It'll take probably six to 10 years. But...", "Really?", "... we'll actually find out what's inside the sub over the next", "So there's more to learn, a lot more to learn. OK, Brian Cabell on the Hunley."], "speaker": ["LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WATERS", "CABELL", "WATERS", "CABELL", "WATERS", "CABELL", "WATERS", "CABELL", "WATERS", "CABELL", "WATERS"]}
{"id": "CNN-276570", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-02-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/15/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Donald Trump Press Conference in S.C. ", "utt": ["The host said this and I questioned him. Said no, no, he really likes Obamacare. How do you fight that? Except that these people can fight it. Don't forget, I only have three days to fight it. I don't have like a period of six months. So we will bring a lawsuit if he doesn't straighten his act out. He's a really lying guy, a really lying guy. Some people misrepresent. This guy's just a plain liar. In fact, I felt better because Marco Rubio called him a liar the other night on stage. I felt so much better. I said, good, a politician called a politician. Now I can actually call him a liar. Let's go. Go ahead.", "This is a different reason. This is for Gitmo. And it's really originally for Gitmo, but you folks haven't asked that question yet, because it's ridiculous they're moving people in that area and we're totally against it. And if I win, we're moving them out. And they shouldn't be closing Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay. They shouldn't be closing it in any way, shape or form. And they shouldn't be moving people, hardened criminals into this area. I will stop it. If I don't stop it in terms of time, if I win, they're going back.", "I'd keep it open. Yeah, I'd keep it open. That's right, I'd keep it open. We have to be very vigilant. We'll look at everybody's case certainly. And you don't want to have people that are innocent of something, suffering. But you have some very hardened people. You've let a lot of people go. He's letting them go one after the other. Many are going back to the battlefields. You've seen what happened, they're going right back into the battlefields. So we want to keep it open, and that's the way I feel. And I don't want -- and here's the thing. I don't want people coming into this area. And I've had such complaints. I've had people from South Carolina calling me asking me to do this press conference about Guantanamo Bay. And there's not going to be any people coming here. And frankly, I think the governor should take a very strong stand on it.", "Eventually, yeah, eventually. Eventually, they should. I would increase the population. As we capture other people that are terrorists and the like, I would absolutely increase. I would be very strong on it, yes.", "Well, the governor has a lot of people that people don't realize. A governor is -- for instance, with the migration, you have people coming into the area of South Carolina. They're coming in. If I were the governor, I wouldn't let them come in. I don't care what the rules and regulations say. In theory, the governor doesn't have anything to do with it. I would have something to do with it, believe me. I would make it so uncomfortable for the federal government that they'll say, OK, send them to other states or let's no take them in period. We shouldn't be taking people in from the migration. We shouldn't be taking people in from Syria, because we don't know who they are. We don't know where they come from. You look at what's going on in Sweden and Germany and all these other countries, we should not be taking people in from the migration. Now, we should help people with safe zones in Syria. We should get -- I will get the Gulf States to pay for it, because right now they're paying for nothing and they're taking nobody. Because they're smart. You know what, they're smart. But they'll pay. And we're not going to pay. We'll lead it, but we should build safe zones because you have to do something. But I don't want to take people into this country. You saw what happened in California with two people that got married that were radicalized and it was a disaster, OK, a disaster. They killed 14. Plenty of people laying right now in the hospital. You look at what's going on right now in the world, we're not going to do it. We have enough problems as a country. You take a look at what's going on in Germany. Look at what's going on in Brussels. Look what's going on in Sweden the other night. We're not going to have that.", "I don't say anything. I'm just saying this, if you look back at your record, you'll see there was tremendous information and the CIA and various other agencies were not talking and they were not getting along and there were a lot of personality conflicts and they all hated each other and we ended up with the World Trade Center, OK. If you look at the book, \"The America We Deserve,\" written in the year 2000, I mentioned in that book -- me, I wrote it. I mentioned in that book \"Osama bin Laden,\" because I saw him a couple of times and I read about him, and I said, you know, he's a bad dude, we better do something about him. Now, I wasn't even a politician. I wasn't in politics. I just always found it very interesting. I'm saying to myself, we better do something about that guy. Why wouldn't -- if you did something about him, you wouldn't have the World Trade Center come down. But if you look back at the CIA and the various other agencies -- and I think John is not nodding. I don't know if you remember it. But they had tremendous problems getting along together. That's management. Because if they did, they knew what was going -- they knew some bad things were going to happen. They could have stopped it.", "Go ahead.", "I don't say it was anything. I just say the World -- I don't say anything. Here's what I say. Are you ready? The World Trade Center came down during his reign. So, you know, it's like he was the top. The World Trade Center came down.", "Well, the war with Iraq, which started this whole thing, the whole thing starts with the war in Iraq. You know, Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. One thing about him, he killed terrorists. Now Iraq is harbored for terrorism. You want to become a terrorist, you go to Iraq. Saddam Hussein understood, and he killed terrorists. Bad guy. But if the president and other people -- and, frankly, Obama, was no better, because the way he got us out was a disaster. Look what's happened since then. A disaster. Shouldn't have been there. Shouldn't have got out the way we got out. But if the president went to the beach, we would have been better off, believe me.", "John, go ahead.", "No, I think we could have had greater vigilance but I would never say anybody is responsible for that.", "Say hello to him for me. Give him my warmest records regards.", "No, no, look, this is --", "Me? No. Look,look, look, actually, no. When was this set up, I have no idea. This was set up for Guantanamo. No, not really.", "I compare it to Bill Clinton. So Bill Clinton came out four weeks ago and his wife made a statement about me having to do with sexism, right. And I made a statement about her and him. And I said once she made that statement and once he was campaigning, it's a whole different ball game. Now, if the ex-president is campaigning for his brother, I think he's probably open to great scrutiny. Maybe things that haven't been thought of in the past. You know, when Jeb used his name, as I said in the first debate, in the Reagan debate, I left it alone. But when he kept using it, I said, I have to bring it up. When he talked about the great safety we had. I said, I'm sorry, at some point, we have to bring it up. The other day, I brought it up. I said the World Trade Center came down during your brother's reign.", "I don't think anything can hurt him. He's doing so badly, how much worse can he be hurt, you know?", "Delay, delay, yes.", "I wouldn't draw the line. Hey, I don't blame Obama. He's going to try to do it. I don't think he could be successful because Mitch McConnell has tremendous power in terms of the delay and in terms of, you know, proceedings, et cetera. The time is not that long. It's what, 11 months, 10 months. So it's not -- no, but it's not that much. I'm not saying that Obama shouldn't do it. I'm just saying the Republicans should not allow it to happen. Now, I also said the Republicans should not have approved the budget they approved four weeks ago, and they approached the budget. So you never know. I mean, they've been very disappointing. The Republicans have been very, very disappointing. I always say that Obama is the worst negotiator I've ever seen with everybody but the Republicans.", "I think what is going to happen is they'll put in somebody who is probably a little more moderate than he would have normally done. I still think the Republicans should reject. I think the new president should have that option.", "Tom, go ahead.", "I'm not the first. I said from the beginning. I said from the beginning, Tom.", "Tells me nothing about him, actually. I think the name Bush would have than an exclamation point. He's Jeb Bush. The exclamation point didn't work, so now he's using Bush. But I think he should have used his name. I think it shows he wasn't proud of the family. I don't know exactly what it tells you. I would tell him, why don't you use the name Bush? You're Bush. Use the name Bush.", "Oh, yeah. Look, if you look at the year -- you can play cute. Who are you, by the way?", "OK. Let me tell you, Jim, you can play cute. In 2003 --", "Excuse me. I'll tell you why it's cute, because I said many things for a long time, but I wasn't a politician so I didn't get any publicity by saying about it. I said for a long time don't go into the war, don't go into the war. I think the first time they have me down, you probably have it as 2003. This is shortly like right after the war started. Somebody actually said it doesn't make any difference because, early on, I said it. I was saying it before then, too. In 2003, right at the beginning, I said it, and very strongly. In 2004, I was in Reuters and quoted all over the place because I was opposed to the war. Very simple. I said you're going to destabilize the Middle East. Right now, you have two powers, Iraq and Iran, equal in terms of military strength. If you knock out one of those powers, the other one will take over the Middle East. That's exactly what happened. Now I didn't know we'd be so stupid to make a deal where we give them $150 billion, which we just gave them. But now they have $150 billion. A very wonderful agreement with us in terms of -- you know they went out and they're spending their $150 billion. So far they haven't spent any of it with us. They bought 118 aircraft from Air Bus, which is European. They're spending their money all over Europe. They're buying missiles from Russia. They're spending their money with everybody but the United States. Not good. Not good.", "Well, I'll tell you, I went to the debate and I was attacked. If I didn't -- if I wasn't attacked -- I thought it was my best debate. Some people agree. Some people thought I was too tough. I thought it was my best debate. But I was being attacked from everybody. It was the incoming. It was unbelievable. I was looking around. Including the moderator because they're saying Donald Trump said this and this about your brother. That's how the whole thing started. That Donald Trump said and, you know, in ancient times, so and so about your bother. I didn't bring it up. That was brought up by John as you know. So I didn't bring it up. So I was being attacked by the moderators from the standpoint that they were feeding -- it was like a feeding frenzy on Trump. That's why they got good ratings. They got very good ratings.", "I think I'm doing great in South Carolina. I think the South Carolina voters -- I know South Carolina very well. I've been here a lot. I think they have a very sophisticated voter. And they get it. They get it. For instance, when Cruz lies about virtually everything I've done, they get it. I really believe they get it. We'll soon find out.", "Well, actually, I'm doing a favor by filing. The Democrats are going to file it anyway. Just so you understand.", "You don't think I get along -- I get along with everybody. I was a business guy, got along with everybody. The Democrats -- if Cruz ever got it -- I don't think he's going to get the -- I think I'm going to get it. But if Cruz ever got the nomination, the Democrats are going to follow the lawsuit. In a sense, I'm doing him a favor because I'm filing it early. If I file it, I'm filing it early. But I have a very good lawyer, already hired. I have a very good lawyer and a lawyer that truly believes -- remember this, how do you give a man the nomination for your major party, one of the two major parties, and the man has a cloud over his head? And I told him, get a declaratory judgment. You've got to do something. The Democrats are going to file. To the best of my knowledge, there are already two lawsuits out there.", "No, no, no. Look, eventually, it's going to be used anyway. They're going to sue him. If he got the nomination -- they're not going to sue him now because they don't think he's going to get the nomination. But if he got the nomination, he's going to be sued. So frankly, if I were him, I'd probably tell him, if I was advising him, other than I'm more moral than he is, in my opinion, I would probably tell him very nicely, keep your lies going, you're going to get sued. You're going to get sued anyway, might as well keep your lies going. But let's see what happens. I think it's a good lawsuit.", "So am", "What does that mean he kept the country safe after 9/11? In other words, we had this major catastrophe and after that. What does that mean? I don't know. See, I've heard that for years. I've heard that for years, Jeremy. I've heard that for years he kept the country safe after 9/11. What does that mean, after? What about during 9/11? I was there. I lost a lot friends that were killed in that building. The worst attack ever in this country? It was during his presidency. We had the worse attack ever. By the way, after that, we did OK. That's meaning the team scored 19 runs in the first inning, but after that, we played well. I don't think so.", "Well, I don't know. I think we're doing well. I've been around. We have a tremendous rally tonight. I'm here for the entire week.", "You mean by the fact that I'm here? Give me a break.", "You have a situation here where people from Syria are being settled in South Carolina. And I think it's disgraceful. And if I were Nikki Haley, I would not allow it to happen, I tell you right now. I would not allow it to happen. She'll say we have no choice. A governor has choice, believe me.", "I don't know what you're talking about. Go ahead.", "Well, I'm responding -- in all fairness, I'm responding.", "Me?", "I think I deal with pressure well. I've won many club championships. You have to deal with pressure. I deal with pressure. That's all I do. My whole life has been pressure. I like pressure. I really do like pressure. But I don't think Cruz deals well with pressure. I think he's a basket case. He thought he was going to win New Hampshire and he lost. Not only did he lose, he lost badly. Does not handle pressure well. I don't think Rubio handles pressure well. You saw that in his run-in with Christie. I was standing next to Rubio and I thought he just got out of a swimming pool. He was soaking wet. I don't think he handles pressure well. I don't see him negotiating -- look, I don't see that personality negotiating with Putin like this personality, OK. You want to make a good deal for the country, you want to deal with Russia -- and there's nothing wrong with not fighting everybody, having Russia where we have a good relationship as opposed to all the stupidity that's taken place. But I'm going to make the great trade deals. I'm going to make the great deals. These guys aren't going to make them. They're politicians.", "I think it's -- look, I think everything's a pressure cooker. You have to handle pressure. That's what I like doing. I love the pressure. But you can't lie. You can't allow lies to take place, like where Cruz is saying with guns, with Bush, and with this, and virtually everything. It's just a lie. Somebody has to say it. I find the whole South Carolina thing so interesting. I find the people --- you know, we're already had a couple of events today. I find the people amazing. They're amazing. The one thing that's really interesting, they're very knowledgeable politically in South Carolina. I think that's a good thing for me. They understand politicians. They understand they're all talk, no action. They're not going to make deals. Look, I'm the only politician that's not getting any money. All these guys, like Cruz, getting tremendous money from oil and all these different -- Jeb Bush. Woody Johnson, from Johnson & Johnson, is his campaign, you know, finance chairman. Woody totally controls what happens. You think the drug industry is going to be hurt by Jeb Bush when Woody Johnson is the head of his committee raising funds for him? The drug comes, basically, there's no bidding. If we bid out -- we're the largest purchaser of drugs in the world that make you better. The largest in the world. The drug companies, there's no bidding. You know why there's no bidding? Because the politicians all take money from the drug moneys, campaign contributions. I don't know if you guys can figure that out. They take money from the drug companies. Same with everything. Me, I'm not taking any money. I'll do what's right. I'll do what's right for the people. I will have spent a lot money by the time it's over. I don't know if that point is making made very importantly, John. Does somebody say \"I love Trump because he's not taking money from the special interests or the lobbyists?\" I don't know. But we'll soon find out.", "What?", "We're going to see. I'm going to look at a lot of things. What I see so far is unbelievable. That somebody can go and do what they're doing and make statements like that. Don't forget, I've been doing this since June 16th. I learned so much from Iowa. When somebody can be so dishonest. When I saw -- and I know you people covered the Ben Carson thing. But to me, what was worse was the \"voter violation form.\" This thing looked like it was made -- came right out of the IRS. The paper, the look. It looked like a government document. It said \"voter violation, you are in violation.\" So anyway, I'll be looking. Yeah, go ahead.", "Very good reporter. By the way, very good reporter, this guy. Go ahead.", "Well, they defaulted. Look, I'm very disappointed in the RNC. The Republican National Committee, right. I'm very disappointed in the RNC because, for three debates now, the room has been stacked with special interest and donors, as you know, as the press knows. As an example, I gave two judges who were very conservative judges -- I was met with nice applause, you know. Bush got up and stumbled through an answer and the place went crazy. I said what are they doing? Then I realized all of these -- and many of the people -- I have to say, it's sort funny, but many of the people in the room I know. Some are friends to me. Some are waving and booing and they're having fun. I'm laughing. You know, I get it. But some of them are friends of mine. They're special interests, they're lobbyists, and that shouldn't be. They have total control over the people I'm running against. Total absolute control. I bring up the drug thing because the drug companies are going to go to competitive bid. Whether we save $100 billion a year or $350 billion a year, they're going to competitive bid. These people can't say that, because the drug companies give them a fortune to run for office. OK. Tom?", "Too many.", "Well, no, not the dirtiest. He's the biggest liar. I've seen some that are much more cunning because you wouldn't catch them. This guy lies but he got caught every time. He got caught with Carson. The good ones are ones who can do it and they don't get caught. If Ted Cruz did it and didn't get caught. He got caught with \"voter violation.\" He got caught with stuff in New Hampshire. We caught him here with robo-calls. He's making robo-calls. They're doing a poll and they're saying Donald Trump is a horrible human being, bah, bah, bah, bah, and Ted Cruz is wonderful, what about Ted Cruz. What they're doing is -- you know, you know what it is, push pulse. We caught him. The really good ones are the ones who don't get caught. Every time he ever did anything, he got caught. But if you catch him and don't do anything about him, then it's your fault, OK.", "The what?", "Very simple. Great borders. We'll going to build a wall. By the way, Mexico's going to pay for the wall. These people say Mexico's not going to pay for the wall. Of course, they are. We lose so much money with Mexico in terms of deficit. We have a deficit with Mexico. That's so massive. They're going to pay for the wall. The wall is peanuts. Trust me, they're going to pay for the wall. But we're going to have a strong military. We're going to take care of our vets, so important. We were going to end Obamacare. It's going to be terminated. We're going to come up with something very good. Whether it's -- I mean, look, there's so many different plans. Now, part of the problem with the plans are the insurance companies dictated the plans to Obama. Insurance companies are making a fortune, some of them, with Obamacare. We're going to come up with a savings, you know -- you can do the health care savings plan. We're going to get rid of the boundaries around the states where it makes it totally non- competitive. So we're getting rid of Obamacare. We're repealing and replacing Obamacare. Common Core is absolutely going to -- it's dead, it's the worse. We're number 30 in the world in education. You have Norway, Sweden, China, Denmark, you have these countries. We're number 30. We spend more per pupil. So Common Core is dead. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to protect our Second Amendment. When I say dead, we're going to protect our Second Amendment and et cetera, OK.", "We're not going to let people come here from Guantanamo Bay. We are not letting people come to this area from Guantanamo Bay. You're talking about the local, local. We're going to let people come to this area from Guantanamo Bay. They're going to stay where they are right now. They're not coming to the country, let alone this area. But they're not coming to this area. And if they do come to this area before election time, before we take office, and I take office, they're going back. You can tell that to the local people, OK. You can bank on it.", "Winning South Carolina will be a great thing, I agree.", "I will tell you that I have received so many calls from people that you all know about and you write about and speak viciously about me when they want to come on board, OK. They're politicians. I've received so many calls. You can speak to Corey. We're not going to give you names anyway. But, Corey, is that a correct statement, to put it mildly? I've received so many calls. The most unsuspected people. John Holloway will say there's no way, there's no way that guy called. They called. People that you would not believe. It's all going to come together. I'm a unifier. People -- I'm not going to say that. I'm a unifier. Obama is not a unifier, by the way. I'm a unifier.", "I hope so. You know, look, we're working hard and we have a great relationship with the people of South Carolina. I hope it holds. You know, I can't tell you what's going to happen when a guy lies. When a guy lies about your record. That's why you have to get the truth out. But I think -- I think we should hold. I hope we're going to hold. I hope we're going to be successful. My whole theme is \"Make America great again.\" South Carolina's going to have a big part in that, because South Carolina -- I mean, you know, this could be the start. And maybe running the table. I say run the table. I think if we win South Carolina, we could conceivably run the table. We'll do very well.", "Oh, sure. I think they will anyway. I think you'll have certain people get out of the race.", "I think it would be better for him if he stayed out.", "No. I think I'm giving a rally.", "I'll see what happens. But I don't believe I'll be able to because I think I'm giving a rally at that time. Am I? Yes, I'm giving a rally.", "Weak, period.", "Yeah. Sure, I think it's great. You know what I want? I want dreamers to come from this country, OK. You mention dreamers --", "Wait, you mentioned dreamers. I want dreamers to come from the United States. I want the people in the United States that have children, I want them to have dreams also. We're always talking about dreamers for other people. I want the children that are growing up in the United States to be dreamers also. They're not dreaming right now. And you look at African-American youth, I mean, 58 percent unemployment. You look at African-Americans and they're 30 years old and they're 40 years old, and we have an African-American president, and he has not done anything for the African-Americans in this country, OK. And he got a free pass. And he shouldn't have. Because if that were me or if that was somebody else, we would be -- we would be taking other the calls, believe me. It would not be a good situation. President Obama has done nothing for African-Americans. You look at African-Americans youth, if you look at African-Americans that are 30 years old, 40 years old, 50, in their prime, their prime, and take a look at their statistics, it's very sad. OK, how about one or two more questions. Yes, sir, go ahead.", "What?", "I'll look at it. Excuse me, that's enough.", "About Cuba?", "I think after 50 years, it's time, but we have to make a much better deal than we're making. We make bad deals. It's like the Keystone Pipeline. I'm totally in favor of it. But I have to get -- it's going to make a fortune, the Keystone Pipeline. By the way, we're using eminent domain. And if you noticed, an article came out today that Bush used private eminent domain in Florida, knocked out a veteran, disabled veteran. He was talking about private eminent domain, how horrible. But came out two major stories about him using private -- I mean, he just doesn't understand that, you know, things like that. But, but the Keystone Pipeline, I will -- the Keystone Pipeline, but I will make a deal for this country where we get a chunk of it. Through eminent domain, we make the Keystone Pipeline and other things possible. They're going to make tremendous amounts of money from the Keystone Pipeline. A lot of the money they make is going to come back to the people of this country. You understand what I mean. John?", "Lies. My only worry about South Carolina is that my opponents lie, especially Cruz. 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{"id": "CNN-317933", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-07-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/31/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Trump Honors Army Medic Who Served in Vietnam; Scaramucci Is No Longer at White House; Kelly Wanted Scaramucci Removed.", "utt": ["He ignored a direct order to stay back and braved an enemy assault while moving into the kill zone on four more occasions to extract wounded comrades. He treated the injured, prepared the evacuation, and though bleeding heavily from shrapnel wounds on his head and entire body, refused evacuation to safety in order to remain at the battle site with his fellow soldiers who were heavily outnumbered by the North Vietnamese army forces. On May 14th, the platoon was again ordered to move out towards Nui Yon Hill. The private first-class McCloughan was wounded a second time by small arms fire and shrapnel from a rocket propelled grenade while rendering aid to two soldiers in an open rice paddy. In the final phases of the attack, two companies from a North Vietnamese army division and an outfit of 700 soldiers from a Viet Cong regiment descended upon Charlie company's position on three sides. Private first-class McCloughan again with complete disregard for his life went into the crossfire numerous times to extract the wounded soldiers while also fighting the enemy. His relentless and courageous actions inspired and motivated his comrades to fight for their survival. When supplies ran low, he volunteered to hold a blinking strobe light in an open area as a marker for a nighttime re- supply drop. He remained steadfast while bullets fell around him and rocket propelled grenades Flew over his prone body. During the morning darkness of May 15th, he knocked out a rocket-propelled grenade position with a grenade, fought and eliminated enemy soldiers, treated numerous casualties, kept two critically wounded soldiers alive through the night and organized the dead and wounded for evacuation at daylight. His timely and courageous actions were instrumental in saving the lives of his fellow soldiers. Private first-class McCloughan's personal heroism, professional competence and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Army.", "Bless us, o lord, as we depart our separate ways. May the memory of this occasion, may our participation unite us all in compassion, for service to all the members of our families, our military, our country, strengthen us in faith and renew us in spirit and send us forth with your peace. Amen.", "Jim, thank you, god bless you, god bless your family, god bless of United States of America. Thank you, Jim.", "We always want to tape the medal of honor recipient ceremonies live. It's so entirely special for these individuals and really for all of us here. Congratulations, and huge thank you to army specialist James C. McCloughan there at the White House. Another major breaking story has brewing at the White House as well. So, let's get back on that topic, that being in the last 45 minutes or so, we have learned on this first day on the job for the chief of staff, hours into General John Kelly's job, we have learned that the chief of communications, Anthony Scaramucci, who had been at his post for all of 11 days, offered his resignation, he is out. John Kelly is in charge now, with you source close to Kelly tells CNN -- Jeff Zeleny, let me bring you in, and we can deliver this together. You tell me, it was General Kelly who thought that Scaramucci wasn't quite disciplined enough, right? He had burned his credibility in his post.", "Sure Brooke, that's what we are learning this afternoon, and it's also a sign that the president is giving his new chief of staff the full authority he promised he would or said he would last Friday when he made this surprise announcement Reince Priebus was leaving. As it pertains to this, we are being told that Anthony Scaramucci was essentially escorted off the White House property earlier this afternoon. It was after the chief of staff, John Kelly said, look, he does not think he is right for this White House. All goes back to the tone of that conversation, the interview with \"The New Yorker\" magazine that was so incendiary and divisive. I'm also being told that Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior adviser, as well as Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter, also supported this decision for him to leave, but they also supported the decision for him to come in. In fact, Ivanka Trump was in the room when the president was interviewing him just less than two weeks ago. This is all happening pretty abruptly. There was a big question in Washington how long would Anthony Scaramucci stay on the job, a few people thought he would be leaving this afternoon, but we're also told that the president was sounding people out, as he often does. He talked to one ally, who said this, Brooke, he asked if Anthony Scaramucci this damaged himself, the ally said yes, sir. That sets the table, really one of his first official acts, Anthony Scaramucci out, Brooke.", "Did you say Scaramucci was escorted off the property?", "We are told by our producers, our team, that he was escorted off. That's not necessarily unusual. We are told he was escorted off the property earlier this afternoon. Now, the question is what happens next? Most people in Donald Trump's orbit never leave entirely. They go to a different part of the structure, or the system. He obviously still supports this president very much. So, he will be keeping an eye on and report more on what he will do after this. I suspect he will stay in orbit, perhaps some other time of job in the government. I wouldn't rule that out. But in terms of the west wing here, he is no longer here.", "Jeff, thank you so much. Great reporting, as always. From the White House. Mark Preston is here, Gloria Borger is back. Thoughts, ruminations?", "A couple thoughts, one is his legacy will go down as --", "Can you have a legacy after 11 days?", "Absolutely. You absolutely can have a legacy after 11 days. A short legacy. One is he forced a chief of staff and a communications director to leave. It was his actions that did so. The briefings apparently are now on the camera, you know. We are going to see a briefing today that will be on camera. He said he wanted to open that up, so perhaps that's, you know, another legacy thing, and frankly we won't forget about the telephone call he had with our friend that put him in this situation, Ryan Lizza.", "So, there's a couple things I'm hearing. One is that the president over the weekend was asking some of his closest allies about what they thought about Scaramucci and his behavior, and should he get rid of him. Clearly the answer was yes. The other thing I heard was general Kelly, I was told, made the decision two to three days ago. If we're trying to piece this all together, perhaps Kelly made the decision that this needed to happen, went to the president, the president maybe was sounding out his friends and allies, and then the source also said to me -- the days of tolerating B.S. in this White House are over.", "Wow. I think there's something to be said about pulling the band-aid off. This has been a difficult time in terms of personnel at the White House and having the right people in place. I mean, I have to say this, but we could see more people go. You have a new chief of staff that wants to bring order, perhaps a more military type of structure, we could actually see more people go.", "We were having this whole conversation when it was all breaking, you and Chalian made the great point about the star burning a little too brightly when you are in a situation when there is only one star, that being the president of the United States. We talked once upon a time about Steve Bannon and the caricature of who he was and what he represented to the press and everyone else, a little too big for the president. Do you think that was the case with Scaramucci, the 30-minute conversation he had with Chris Cuomo on this network at the end of last week? Do you think that was a piece of it?", "Yes, I think so. I think there's no brighter star in the constellation than the president of the United States. When you have somebody coming out, with a new chief of staff coming in saying, I am going to fire everybody. While your old chief of staff is sitting there, it's unsustainable, untenable. Remember, we did not -- Donald Trump did not tweet about Scaramucci's vulgarity. He didn't come out and say, by the way, I don't approve of this, because the message that Scaramucci was delivering, as vulgar as he delivered, it was Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon have got to go. That was clearly sanctioned by the president of the United States. I think the way he did it got him in a lot of trouble. I think that that is a real -- that's a real issue.", "It's interesting to note what you're telling me from your sources, that the president had conversations with people over the weekend, maybe feeling them out about what he should do with Scaramucci, after this profanity laced piece in \"The New Yorker\" which any of us wouldn't be sitting here the next day had we used any of that language, yet it took the president having conversations with other people to make the decision.", "I don't know the exact content, but the question was, is he redeemable or not?", "Yes.", "Does he have to go? Is there any way to salvage this? After all, Scaramucci clearly feels a bond with this president. He's had a bad week. There have been reports in the newspapers he's in the middle of a divorce, he's just had a new baby, now he's lost his job. This is a lot of pile-on. However, it was a problem of his own creation.", "I do think that what might be lost in all of this is that these conversations do happen a lot where there's so much infighting, but they're often not reported. As the communications director, he did not know the ground rules when he was talking to this reporter where he just lit into everybody. That is a problem. The second thing, when I talk to people on Capitol Hill, specifically Republican offices, there's a sense of decorum still in Washington. As partisan as it is, there's a sense of decorum. And I think that from Capitol Hill there was a level of unease having Scaramucci be the person who is going to be crafting the message for the president.", "Let me bring in Brian Stelter here on all of this, you know, Brian, we were talking -- let's just jog back, I'm losing track of the time frame. I don't know if it was weeks with Sean Spicer announcing, knowing that Scaramucci was coming in and the president wanted to keep him, he says no, I'm going to leave by august. Is there any chance that Spicer might stick around with Scaramucci out?", "I have asked him. He has not responded. He has declined to other reporters asking the same question. I think it's unlikely, but let's not rule anything out on this edition of \"White House Survivor.\" That is exactly what if feels like at this moment. I would suggest an alternate scenario, that you see Scaramucci give this interview that's shocking, it's possible the president wanted this to happen, he wanted Scaramucci to shake it up and cause Priebus to be leaving. Who knows exactly. We'll see if the president tweets about this, but it's quite possible that he was doing some things the president wanted, even when he called Ryan Lizza, by not saying it was off the record. But not saying it was off the record by giving those quotes it does seem like the beginning of the end by Scaramucci. It was the beginning of the end for him. He was barely visible after that interview. And just to reiterate another point. On one level this is a sad, human story. He had a child born last week in New York with his wife. They're going through a divorce, according to the New York tabloids, which of course are feasting on this story, but people close to Scaramucci confirm he wasn't there for the birth of this child, he wasn't able to meet the child for several days because of the brand- new job at the White House he had wanted so long. It's a sad story on that personal, human level. What we don't know is what comes next to him.", "On the personal level, we all wish him the very best, and you mentioned that Ryan Lizza interview, Ryan, are you with me?", "I am.", "Hi, Ryan. Have you been keeping up with the news in the last 30 minutes? Thoughts?", "I have.", "Thoughts?", "You know, after that interview appeared, a lot of people asked me, do you think Anthony Scaramucci will be fired? And I would say he's either going to be fired or promoted, you never know with Donald Trump. I think the early indications were that Trump was either neutral to positive about some of the things he said, and of course the biggest story in the wake of that interview was Reince Priebus got fired, not Anthony Scaramucci, so that seemed to suggest where Trump's opinion about the interview was. But one thing -- we don't know this yet, but from the statement the White House put out about the new chief of staff John Kelly should have a clean slate, it does suggest that Kelly is doing what any sane chief of staff would do coming into a White House factionalized, making sure that everything is running through him. So, it's a sign that perhaps Kelly has more authority than Reince Priebus did, if instead Kelly asked or wanted this had to happen. Those are my initial thoughts.", "Yes, to the clean slate, that was part of the White House statement, and also apparently General Kelly, chief of staff on day one, apparently, he wanted Scaramucci removed, because he didn't think Scaramucci was disciplined and has burned his credibility. We were on tv all over the place in the wake of this extraordinary interview, but just to remind people, Mark Preston made the point, how did he not know, coms director at the White House, ground rules on talking to a reporter on the phone and what would be included and not? You've been doing this for years. It's not like you cajoled this out of him, he just kind of let it rip.", "Yes. Look, what happened was I had tweeted earlier in the evening that he was having dinner with Sean Hannity and other folks. He got out of that dinner and was getting requests from other reporters about it, and was informed of the tweet and called me. The conversation started with him trying to find out who revealed what to me was relatively trivial information, who the president was ding with. And then sort of, you could say escalated. He went off on Reince Priebus, and pretty colorful language. Went off on Steve Bannon, chief strategist, talked about calling in the FBI to investigate leaks, you know, without actually offering any evidence, that there was something the FBI should be investigating. I've said this before, it was probably the most unusual interview I've ever had with a government official in 20 years of covering Washington.", "And might be forever and ever and ever from here on out, but what an extraordinary interview. Obviously, Ryan, I'm going to let you catch your breath. Thank you for getting to a phone and calling in. Listen, as you -- it sounds like a central piece in some of these decisions. Let' go to the White House with Jim Acosta our senior White House correspondent because what are sources telling you about how the president perceived the interview between Lizza and Scaramucci and ultimately talking about his ultimate decision?", "We know from talking to sources that the president was initially pretty pleased with what Anthony Scaramucci said. He liked the take no prisoners style that he was exhibiting last week, but that eventually the president soured on Anthony Scaramucci, feared he was becoming more of a story than he was or that this White House was. and I can tell you that in talking to Anthony Scaramucci in several minutes, this source was telling me that Scaramucci talked to the new general White House chief of staff yesterday was, and I can tell you that in talking to Anthony Scaramucci in several minutes, this source was telling me that Scaramucci talked to the new general White House chief of staff yesterday and stepped aside to essentially let him have rein. Scaramucci decided to step aside to give General Kelly a clean slate is what they're saying. But this friend of Scaramucci also said he plans to show up with his other job with the administration, and that's at the import/export bank tomorrow morning at 9:00. This is somebody who has been very close to the president over the last few years, in the presidential campaign, during the transition and then being here in office. According to this friend of Anthony Scaramucci, the man known as the mooch intends to be an outside adviser. They are trying very mightily at the White House to sort of put the best face on this, but Brooke, make no mistake, when the president is tweeting earlier this morning, \"no White House chaos,\" this once again has been a day of White House chaos, and really the norm, not the exception over here. This is a White House that appears to be in staff chaos and staff turmoil from week to week, and that is why when you talk to people inside the administration, inside the White House, outside the White House people who are close to the president, that is why they say to you that the first six months of this administration have felt like six years, because this is just something that constantly plays out. Keep in mind Anthony Scaramucci just on the job for 11 days and has what is undoubtedly going to go down as one of the most controversial tenures that a White House communications director has ever had. And has done the exact opposite job of what a White House communications director does. This person wasn't shaving the messaging of this administration, this director was damaging the messaging of this administration, Brooke.", "You were there in the briefing room. This is a must-see briefing. We'll take it as soon as it begins with Sarah Huckabee Sanders on quite a day at the White House. Jim, please stand by. Thank you very much. Linette Lopez has been seated as Mrs. Business Insider. You were just there with me last week.", "WHAT a difference a few days makes. A weekend.", "What a difference two days makes. You've covered him for five years, you were saying before he went to all the fancy parties. You've known him for a little while. You're reaction to this 11-day tenure?", "You know, the funny thing was on Friday I was speaking to a friend of his who has known him from Harvard Law School, and he said, anybody who is friends with Anthony right now has to be worried about the Icarus complex, they have to be worried about him flying too close to the sun. And the second I walked into the headquarters, that friend texted me, Icarus, question mark. Anthony is known for biting off a little more than he can chew. But in business that has worked out for him. He started his own hedge fund early, sold that to Newburger Berman, then he kind of bought this set of assets from Citi after the financial crisis that people thought were pretty ugly, nobody wanted to touch them. It would be a lot of work to turn them around, and he did manage to turn them around. He did a lot of things on Wall Street nobody thought he was going to be able to do. So, when he said I'm going into this White House and nobody is going to stop me, and people started to count him out back in January and February when it looked like he wasn't going to get a placement. This time, though, he might actually be down, who knows. But I think one thing we're not talking about here is that the sale of his firm is still not complete. Skybridge, which was a fund to funds, which means a hedge fund that sells investors another hedge fund, so you're paying a fee on a fee, OK? Very expensive stuff. Skybridge has not sold to H&A, the large Chinese conglomerate who is buying the firm, and most analysts say they're overpaying for the firm. Wall Street is cutting their fees for everything across the board. So, what you have is this guy who was joining the administration selling his firm that is in a business that is not looking so hot right now to a Chinese conglomerate that wants to overpay for it. There are a lot of questions there. And the deal is pending treasury approval. If Donald Trump wanted to kill that deal, he could do it tomorrow.", "Obviously, you haven't talked to him, but knowing him, how would the news of essentially being pushed out fall on his ears?", "It depends on how he's seeing it. I know Scaramucci has political aspirations beyond this White House. But I know he also sacrificed a lot for this White House, and he sacrificed relationships and friends, not just Diedre, his ex-wife, but friends on the street who don't recognize him now. But at the same time, he wants to sell this company. He wants to sell it bad. And it was going to be a political headache. If he was very, very close to the president and there was a Chinese conglomerate overpaying for his hedge funds.", "Thank you for covering this friend you've known for years, and all of this is just fascinating and giving a lot of people whiplash following it all. I'm going to ask you to stand by because again, we're waiting for this White House briefing to begin. How will Sarah Huckabee Sanders explain this to the White House principal and really the rest of the country and the world that the chief of staff wanted the White House communications director out. There's so much more on this. 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{"id": "CNN-258211", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-06-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/26/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Same-Sex Ruling; San Francisco Celebrations; Scathing Dissent; Clementa Pinckney's Funeral.", "utt": ["This is CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Thank you so much for joining me here on this Friday. We will take you back to that funeral service for the pastor in Charleston in just a moment. But first, a huge development in this desperate hunt for these two escaped inmates. Police now say there is new evidence to suggest the inmates are heading towards Canada. Three weeks now on the run, still no capture. But, we are now hearing a burglary led to a cabin in Malone, New York. We'll take you live to the search scene in just a moment. But first, an historic moment in this country today. From this day forward, same-sex marriage is now legal in the United States of America. The U.S. Supreme Court handing down a 5-4 decision that means no U.S. state can ban same-sex marriage anymore. As news rippled through the crowds who were rallying for marriage equality, outside the courthouse, people broke out into cheers, followed quickly by patriotism.", "And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave. O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.", "Among the crowds there on the front steps you have this man. Let me hone in on Jim Obergefell and tell you his story. He is the lead plaintiff in a Supreme Court case, starting this legal battle after his longtime partner passed away back in 2013. And because same- sex marriage wasn't legal in their home state of Ohio, Obergefell wasn't listed on his husband's death certificate. But today his fight for equality is over and he spoke with our justice correspondent Pamela Brown. And as he did so, this was almost a once in a lifetime moment here that was captured live on CNN, his phone rang. And our cameras were rolling during this emotional moment when you know who was on the other end of that phone? The president called him personally to thank him.", "Hello.", "Hi, is this Jim?", "Yes, it is, Mr. President.", "Jim, the - I figured when I saw you that we were going to be hoping for some good news, and we did. And I just wanted to say congratulations.", "Thank you so much, sir. I think it was your wishes -", "You know your - you know your - your leadership on this, you know, has changed - changed the country.", "I - I really appreciate that, Mr. President. It's really been an honor for me to be involved in this fight and to have been able to, you know, fight for my marriage and live up to my commitments to my husband. So I appreciate - I appreciate everything you've done for the LGBT community and it's really an honor to - to have become part of that fight.", "Well, I'm really proud of you and, you know, just - just know that, you know, not only have you been a great example for people, but you're also going to, you know, bring about a lasting change in this country and it's pretty rare when that happens. So I couldn't be prouder of you and your husband. God bless you.", "Thank - thank you, sir. That means an incredible amount to me. And, yes, thank you.", "All right, take care.", "Thanks for the call, Mr. President.", "OK. Bye, bye.", "Bye.", "Thanks for the call, Mr. President. We'll talk to Pamela Brown in a second about that moment. But first, after that phone call, the president addressed the nation.", "This decision will end the patchwork system we currently have. It will end the uncertainty hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples face from not knowing whether their marriage, legitimate in the eyes of one state, will remain if they decide to move or even visit another. This ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all loving same-sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.", "Let's go to Pamela Brown, who is still there on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court. And, Pamela, we will talk about that phone call that you caught on live TV in a minute. But first, to the ruling itself, 5-4 here. Justice Kennedy writing the majority opinion. Tell me about it.", "It's just been an extraordinary, historic day here at the Supreme Court, Brooke. In fact, a lot of people thought we were going to get this ruling on Monday, the last day of the term. So it was a bit of a surprise when we found out that the opinion was going to be announced today. And as soon as we found out it was Justice Kennedy, you could feel sort of the energy change out here, outside, in front of the Supreme Court. And then as soon as it was announced that Justice Kennedy, the majority on the Supreme Court, made same-sex marriage a nationwide constitutional right, you can hear the crowd just erupted in applause. They were screaming. Balloons were released into the air. And, in fact, Brooke, they ran onto the plaza here at the Supreme Court, which is highly unusual. You're not supposed to be on the plaza. But as you can see, they poured onto the plaza, celebrating, singing patriotic songs, singing the national anthem because this is a day that these gay rights advocates have been fighting for, for decades. This is one of the greatest civil rights issues of our time. And Justice Kennedy cemented his legacy as a gay rights champion. And here's what he said in the opinion today. It sort of -- explaining why he made this decision. He said - talking about same-sex couples, \"their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilizations oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.\" So, Brooke, this is a broad ruling by Justice Kennedy saying that same-sex couples have a right to marriage and they are protected by the Constitution. Brooke.", "Pamela, in 30 seconds, that phone call with the plaintiff and the president, total serendipity.", "Total serendipity. It was timing and luck, Brooke. I had just finished up the interview with Jim Obergefell, a really emotional interview, and apparently, little known to me, President Obama was on hold waiting to talk to him when we were doing the live interview. So, really incredible.", "Stunning.", "I had no idea. And then after he started walking away and they came back and said, do you want to capture this? And I said -", "Yes. Yes, we did.", "I think so. And just -", "You made the right decision, Pamela Brown. And you will be -", "I think I - I feel pretty good about that one, Brooke.", "That is the photo that will be all over the papers tomorrow. Pamela Brown, thank you so much, at the U.S. Supreme Court.", "Thank you.", "You know, today's celebrations, of course, are extending far beyond the beltway there in Washington. Rosa Flores is inside New York City Hall where in, moments from now, the mayor there of New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio, will officiate not just one but two same-sex ceremonies following today's decision in Washington. Dan Simon is in San Francisco where he just spoke to California's Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom. So, Dan, let me just go to you and also show these live pictures from the Stonewall Inn. This is the right side of the screen. That was where the riots broke out back in 1969 when the gay patrons there at the bar, once upon a time, said enough is enough and that was the beginning of this massive movement. So we'll take you there in just a second. Again, this weekend marks the 46th anniversary of those riots that took place at the Stonewall Inn. The demonstrations and the riots that followed are occurred the most important event that started the gay liberation movement. Went into the archives just to show you what happened decades ago. And, by the way, the Stonewall Inn was just granted landmark status by the city this week. But, Rosa Flores, to you, across town there, downtown in Manhattan, ahead of these two same-sex ceremonies, tell me - tell me about who's getting married. Not getting her. I hear technical difficulties, Rosa. Stand by. We're going to try to make that connection a tad better. Dan Simon, let me just go to you in San Francisco. You spoke with Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom. What did he say?", "Well, hi, Brooke, it's been pretty incredible to witness this historic day on the streets of San Francisco. We're in front of city hall. There have been spontaneous celebrations here. We've seen celebrations out in the Castro (ph), which, of course, is a well-known place for embracing the LGBT community. You know, it was 2004 when arguably this whole odyssey began, this whole fight for same-sex marriage. That's when then Mayor Gavin Newsom, now the lieutenant governor of California, made the controversial decision saying, you know what, we're just going to start granting marriage licenses. And we had a chance to catch up with him today to talk about this historic ruling. Take a look.", "It's possible to do right things. It is. And for all the anxiety around income inequality and climate change and a world that is certainly being torn athunder (ph) because of racial and religious and ethnic controversy, you know, this is an antidote to that fear and that frustration and that anxiety. We can do great things as a country when we can reconcile our differences and be a little more empathetic and understand that we're all in this together and we're all given very short moment of life. And we, I think, are celebrating those principles and those values here today.", "And it's going to be quite a weekend here in San Francisco. A gay pride weekend. The largest gay pride parade happening on Sunday in San Francisco. And, Brooke, I'll just leave you with a tweet here that I saw from Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, tweeting, \"the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the one who do,\" borrowing that famous quote from his predecessor, Steve Jobs. Tim Cook, of course, famously acknowledging his sexuality earlier this year. Brooke, we'll send it back to you.", "What would Harvey Milk be thinking right about now? Dan Simon, thank you very much, in San Francisco. I want to go to our senior legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, just to get a little bit more as far as the justices, the personalities, the dissentions, the majority opinion here. So, Jeff Toobin, let me just begin with you. A 5-4 decision here. You have Justice Kennedy writing the majority opinion. But it was - I want to focus on Justice Scalia because, wow, what a week it has been. I mean yesterday he was dissenting, talking about, what, somersaults and downward spirals and applesauce and today, what were some of the words that stood out for you?", "Well, you know, he has become the get off my lawn justice. You know, he is - he is so angry all the time. You would think he lost every case. When, in fact, the conservatives on the court, of whom he is a senior member, usually win most cases. But the health care case yesterday and the marriage case today have really set him off. And today it was not so much the rhetoric about the issue, but it was the attacks on Justice Kennedy personally, his calling the opinion, you know, embarrassing and really disgraceful, was a kind of breach of decorum that even in the spirit of dissenting opinions that the justices are known to write was really kind of over the top.", "Over the top. But then you have a chief justice, this John Roberts, this Bush appointee, who again we spoke about him yesterday, siding with the administration, not so here. Walk me through how you think he has been perceived - I was talking to Gloria Borger yesterday referring to him a conservative with a lower case \"c.\" But today he switched it up.", "Well, he is definitely a conservative. I mean there is no doubt about it. And his opinion was very focused on one thing, which is, you know, same-sex marriage is a controversial, political issue that should be settled by the people's elected representatives. His opinion was, if we want to make this big momentum change, marriage has been between men and women for 1,000 years plus, if we want to make that kind of formentous (ph) change as a society, it should be up to the people's representatives, not five unelected justices. Now, of course, Anthony Kennedy and the majority of the court says, this is why we have courts, to recognize rights and make sure that people are treated equally under the law. Chief Justice Roberts took a very unusual step today and he read his dissenting opinion from the bench. The others justices do that with some regularity. Chief Justice Roberts almost never reads a dissent from the bench. So I think that indicates just how strongly he felt about this case.", "We'll talk more about this, Jeffrey Toobin, thanks so much.", "All right.", "But I have to now pause and take you to Charleston. The funeral for the Reverend Clementa Pinckney is underway. The crowd in this arena at capacity, 5,000 people here. And I want to bring in my colleague, Don Lemon, who is standing by in Charleston. We know that the president of the United States, among others, are in attendance here. They had met - they're familiar with one another personally, Don. Have you seen the president yet?", "I have not seen the president. I've seen the president's motorcade, yes. So in that vein, I have seen the president. It drove by just a short time ago as he arrived here, as he got off of Air Force One and then made his way to the TD Arena, which is really just in the shadow of the Emanuel AME Church that I'm sitting in front of here. So the church is behind me and the arena is right in front of me. You're right, the president will be speaking and this is going to be a big speech for him. He's given this speech a number of times after there have been tragedies involving shootings, Brooke, in this country, as you well know. You have covered them. I have covered them as well. But this also comes at a time when we're dealing very specifically with race in this country and the issues of rights as well, civil rights, human rights, equal rights. And so in a way it all falls under the same umbrella. The president, of course, with the first lady of the United States. The president of the United States there as well. Those who would like to be president of the United States, one of which is Hillary Clinton, is there as well. The former governor, Mark Sanford, is there now, a representative, as well as people, of course, loved ones and friends of the Reverend Clementa Pinckney, all joining in today, giving some very poignant stories about - some of them childhood friends about their loved one and their relative. So it's going to be interesting to see what the president of the United States has to say. He's going to come up in just a moment here to speak. Hey, Brooke, I need to tell you that, you know, this place holds 5,400 people, Brooke, and it reached capacity very quickly. People lined up here since before dawn, before sunrise here in the morning to get in.", "Incredible.", "And they got in very quickly and now, where we are here at the church, is the overflow crowd. And so you can hear now the folks inside of this arena awaiting the president to give the eulogy.", "Incredible. We're going to stay on this live picture. And, Don, let me just - let's just continue our conversation because I think it's worth reminding everyone, and it was nine days ago, you know, these nine souls were massacred inside of this - this church. And it's important to remind everyone, it was - happened during Bible study and that Bible study has since resumed. It resumed a couple of nights ago and the themes, \"unity\" and \"love.\" What's the sense, when you're there, you're talking to people in Charleston, how are they feeling?", "Yes. The power of love. The power of love. That's how people are feeling. You know, I was talking to my colleague Van Jones, who's also here with me, and he said that it's going to be a tough speech for the president because he has to bring a nation together, heal a nation. I think it's - I think it's really tough. It should not - the families should not be given short shrift here. The family set the tone here for the country, as well as the people here. We have been in so many places where there has been unrest, people screaming, people yelling, people burning things. The family said, no, we're not having any of that. We want peace. We want love. We want forgiveness. And anytime someone comes out and they try to start something or start yelling or screaming names or what have you, it's almost like, you know, striking a match, a wet match. It's just not going to happen here because that's not the atmosphere. And I think that can be - that - the family should be commended for that, but also that's happening because the family set the tone here and because of the church spirit. That's the spirit of Christianity. They're saying, no. I - anytime, Brooke, you can have a family that comes out days after their loved one has been murdered in a horrific way, in a racist way, in a terroristic way and say, I forgive you, you at home or you here, if you don't understand that, then you don't - you should not - you shouldn't be here. You shouldn't take part in that. That's what they want and that's what they're getting here and that's what the president is going to be - you know, that's what his speech will be fueled from, from that energy right there.", "Don, you're from the south. I'm from the south. Some of our history is beautiful.", "Yes.", "Some of it's quite ugly. And to see the pictures in the last couple of days of this reverend lying in state in that capital rotunda in Columbia, South Carolina, given the history and the ugliness of the south, to know, you know, here is this African-American man so beloved by his community, known by the president of the United States, it was a pretty - it's a pretty stunning moment for this state and the country.", "It's - you know, after doing this for a while you come on the stories and you cry so much, it's almost too much to think about. I have to separate myself from it and it's not that - it's not the story is about me, but I grew up here and I saw so much ugliness growing up here in the south and that was part of the reason I left the south. If you read what I wrote in my book, part of the reason I left is because of the racism. And so I - I went to the north so that I wouldn't have to deal with any of that. And you still deal with it, just in a different way. But it's so overwhelming that at any moment you find yourself almost breaking down and you can't even imagine how the people who are close to it, how the families are even standing at the moment.", "There he is. There's the president.", "All right - coming on television.", "Forgive me, Don. Here's the president and the first lady.", "There's the president - yes, there's the president coming in now.", "Let's listen.", "And the people of God just (ph) say amen!", "Amen.", "Hallelujah!", "Somebody say praise the Lord!", "Praise the Lord!", "We come now, Reverend Dr. Charles Wanchin (ph) will come", "Let me invite all of our pastors across this faith community to pray with us and with this family. 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{"id": "CNN-227121", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2014-3-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/24/acd.02.html", "summary": "Search Called Off for the Day Due to Severe Weather; Malaysia Airlines Holds Press Conference; CEO Says Obligation to Families Is the Priority; Malaysia Airlines Victims' Families Await Proof", "utt": ["I'm told the press conference is about to begin. Let's listen in.", "David Johnston, the Minister for Defense, and the Vice Chair for Defense Force, Air Marshal Mark Binskin, to make some comments regarding operations in the south Indian Ocean and also Australian and international efforts to hopefully find something regarding MH370.", "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for keeping everybody informed as to what is going on in what is most important event in terms of aviation and maritime safety. Today I'm here to speak to the crews and the maintainers of these magnificent aircraft that are behind me. I want to take the opportunity to publicly thank all of the crews and all of the teams that keep these planes flying. As you know, it is a four-hour trip down there, two hours on station and then four hours home. This is an extremely remote part of the world. It is 3,500 meters deep, 2,500 kilometers from Perth. It's a massive logistic exercise. There are four Australian P-3s, two Japanese P-3s, one New Zealand P-3, a P-8 from the United States, two Aleutians from China, and who else have a missed? There's a P-3 coming from Korea with a C-130H this afternoon. Now I want to take the opportunity to thank all of those countries for their assistance and their commitment. I've just had lunch with the Chinese and Japanese teams. They're all working exotically (ph) long hours to keeping their aircraft flying, to keep their crews up to the minute in terms of enthusiasm. It's been a long, hard road two weeks in. You know, we've got a sea state 7 down there, HMS Success has had to deployed 120 kilometers to the South to avoid -- for those of you who understand sea sites -- horrendous weather conditions. This is a major operation. Can I say that the prime minister has today announced visa fees will be waived for the families of the passengers and crew of this Malaysian aircraft. We will be very pleased to welcome them here to give them some closure in what is an extreme tragedy for them. Aside for that, I come back to the fact that this is an amazing example of international cooperation, particularly between militaries. And may I say, as a Western Australian, we are very pleased to host the Chinese, the Japanese, the Koreans, the New Zealanders, and the Americans into Western Australia.", "Are facilities being offered for the families to come here and to be either flown over or taken by sea to the crash area?", "Well, I think those logistical operations will need to be considered very carefully. I don't want to speculate because it is a major operation. This is, as I say, probably one of the most remote parts of our planet. We want to get that right. We want to assist these families and friends to have some closure, but let's talk about that when we know how many are coming and when they're arriving.", "After the Malaysians announced that last night, is it very clearly now a case of not looking for survivors but looking for debris and looking for those black boxes?", "Well, let's be clear. To this point in time, we have not successfully identified and recovered any debris from the aircraft in question.", "Can you confirm this is the place that the plane crashed?", "Senator, the Malaysian Prime Minister was clear (ph) that in his view that the plane was in the Southern Ocean. Do you share that strength of view?", "Well, if I think if we're going to go on data and information giving us a hint as to what has actually happened, that's all we've got to go on. I think the telemetry from the satellite, the Inmarsat satellite, generating on an hourly basis, the telemetry from those motors (ph) and the performance of the aircraft I think is all we've got to go on. I think we've got to rely on that and that's what we've been doing. Hang on, this lady over here would like to ask a question.", "Thank you very much. So would you say you are confident with the prime minister's assessment that the fate of Flight 370 ended in the Indian Ocean? Are you confident about that?", "I am confident about that because that's the best we've got to this point in time.", "Sorry?", "So you're not surprised that they made the call last night, sending the messages to families?", "Look, I'm not surprised about anything with respect to this. This is a mystery and until we recover and positively identify a piece of debris, everything is virtually speculation.", "Well, when you've got to suspend operations for 24 hours because of weather, these beautiful aircraft behind me are all on the ground as you can see. Because it's unsafe to fly down there. Now, remember, this part of the world, this Southern Ocean, has shipwrecked many, many sailors in our history in Western Australia. It is rough, sea state 7, you know, there are 20, 30 meter waves; it is very, very dangerous, even for big Panamax-class ships.", "Have you received further details from Malaysia can support the conclusion delivered by Malaysia premier?", "Look, I will hand over to the Vice Chief of Defense Binskin will tell you that everything we have you know about and that we are doing everything we can to, first of all, make a positive identification on a piece of debris. That will mean that we're on the right track. Now, that's not going to happen I wouldn't think for at least another 24 hours because we've had to redeploy our ship given the bad weather.", "Can you verify anything from the motoring (ph) and the satellite images and the photos that the Chinese provided?", "I have nothing further to add on that. I think you've seen all the information that is out there.", "Senator, were you informed before Prime Minister Najib made his statements in the Malaysian Parliament last night?", "Well, I probably wasn't because I was probably traveling somewhere and on the way back to Western Australia. The prime minister, I'm sure, has been informed by the Malaysians as and when events have come to pass and they've been confirmed.", "Do you understand the HMS Success to be confident that they're close to what was seen from the air yesterday?", "Well, look, it's very easy to speculate about being close. Close in this part of the world could be several hundred kilometers. Just remember we are looking for an aircarft in Victoria from Perth in Western Australia. That's what we're doing, if you want to put it in some sore of analogous description. We are looking for an aircraft in the State of Victoria from Western Australia. It is a very, very difficult task. And I tell you, this deployment that you can see behind me, and all of the aircraft that I have named, is probably one of the largest efforts you'll ever see in terms of maritime surveillance, and joint operations from China, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, United States, Korea, et cetera.", "How urgent is task given that there's 13 days left for that beacon battery to tell us where the black box flight recorders are?", "Well, obviously everything's fairly urgent. But we cannot put pilots and crews at risk. We can't put a ship's company at risk. We just have to deal with this location as best we can in terms of its weather and its inhospitability.", "How much information has been relayed to the Malaysian authorities, because objects have been found but it hasn't been confirmed, before they actually made the --", "Well, as I say, the turning point for us I think will be when we pull some piece of debris from the surface of the ocean and positively identify it as being part of the aircraft.", "Do you have any other details on the support that will be provided to families that will come over here?", "At this stage I don't. But bear in mind the prime minister is very, very fixed on assisting Malaysia, who is a very good friend of Australia, in dealing with the families of the crew and the passengers on board this aircraft. We'll do what we can within reason.", "Chinese families are not convinced.", "How long are you prepared to keep looking for this plane? Is there a chance we may never find any wreckage?", "Now, I'm going to hand over to Vice Chief of Defense Binskin, who as you can see is with the Royal Australian Air Force. He's going to tell you about some of those", "If I can put the analogy of what we've got at the moment, we're not searching for a needle in a haystack. We're still trying to find where the haystack is. So that's just to put it in context. You're seeing a multi-national effort going on. It is difficult for HMS Success to in these weather conditions be able to find small bits of debris that is washing around in the southern Indian Ocean at the moment. As the minister said, for safety concerns, today, we had to pull the assets off the search and put Success to the south. But we're hoping for good weather in the coming days where the search effort will be joined by a number of Chinese ships. We'll have the Korean P-3 online so we'll have more aircraft, more ships in the area, and we'll start to be able to refine the search.", "Vice Chief, it's becoming more of a recovery operation than it was before. There are new Australian assets, including the Ocean Shield", "Ocean Shield will be joining the search in the coming days. She is sailing from Sydney, as you would appreciate, it takes time to come down and around into the search area. The aim for her will be working to put specialist equipment on board so that, as we further refine the search area, that we might be able to go out and look for the black boxes.", "Has there been a 100 percent collaboration between the nations in terms of the search? Iis it under one specific umbrella? Or are there --", "Actually, the collaboration has been very, very good between nations. For the start of it, there's been a lot of cooperation between the U.S., U.K. and Australia in analyzing that satellite imagery. In fact, it was the U.K. part of the team that first put us into the location we're in now and that's been refined by more imagery from China, the DigiGlobe imagery that everyone's getting a chance to look at. So that side of it is very, very collaborative. From the aircraft and the ships, there's a lot of cooperation going on by the moment. It is a relatively small operation but it is growing by the day. And we do that in support of AMSA at the moment; AMSA are the lead nation in Australia. I know the question is information being passed to Malaysia? The answer is yes.", "Do you have information or evidence that maybe there's still doubt that MH370 actually did go down in the Indian Ocean?", "As the minister said, the best information that we have, and we continue to refine any information that comes out, as I understand -- and I haven't seen the report -- but the information from the British overnight passed to Malaysians seems to indicate more assurity that it went down in the southern Indian Ocean. But, as you'd imagine, as you get more information, people get a chance to look at more and more data, we continue to refine the search data.", "I won't go into those details. We won't have time for that. But it is -- initially it did find the wreckage and get an indication where you're searching before you can even refine down that.", "How long do you think the search will be off due to weather and how much of an impact is it going to have on the debris that was spotted yesterday?", "Well, AMSA are very, very good at measuring the currents. We've dropped buoys out there from the last few days, being able to measure the movement of the water. So they will keep a very good track on where the current debris field should be. As the weather clears, we'll be able to go back in. But at the moment it's visible by aircraft and then we have to", "Out of this press conference, we're awaiting now a press conference from Malaysia Airlines scheduled to happen about two minutes from now in Kuala Lumpur, which is about 12:30 in the afternoon. We're going to bring you obviously that, that's the scene of that press conference. Frankly, not a lot of news coming out of the Australian press conference, which Richard Quest suggested was more of an overview, defense minister saying essentially he had flown there to thank all the crews involved in the search. He also thanked all the countries involved and who have actually sent air assets and ships -- Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Korea sending an asset later today. He also talked about waiving visas for family members of the crews and the passengers and just talked about the rough conditions, the swells that are out in the search area which have forced officials to call off the search at least for today. No word on if the search will continue. Let's listen in to Kuala Lumpur.", "My name is Mohammed Yusof, chairman of the Malaysian Airlines. As you will be aware, last night the prime minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, announced new evidence regarding the disappearance of MH370 on the 8th of March. Based on this evidence, the prime minister's message was that we must now accept the painful reality that the aircraft is now lost and that none of the passengers or crew on board survived. This is a sad and tragic day for all of us at these airlines. While not entirely unexpected after an intensive multi-national search across 2.24 million square mile area, this news is clearly devastating for the families of those on board. They have waited for over two weeks for even the smallest of hope of positive news about their loved ones. This has been an unprecedented event requiring an unprecedented response. The investigation under way may yet prove to be even longer and more complex Than it has been since March the 8th. But we will continue to support the families, as we have done throughout, and to support the authorities as the search for definitive answers continues. I will now at this juncture ask our group chief executive, Ahmad Jauhari, to provide you with fuller details of our support of the families. .", "Thank you, Tan Sri. I stand before you today not only as the group chief executive officer of Malaysian Airlines but also as a parent, as a brother and as a son. My heart breaks to think of the unimaginable pain suffered by all the families. There are no words which can ease that pain. Everyone in Malaysia Airlines family is praying for the 239 souls on MH370 and for their loved ones on this dark day. We extend our prayers and sincere condolences. We all feel enormous sorrow and pain. Sorrow that all those who boarded flight MH370 on Saturday 8 of March would not see their families again. And those family will now have to live, they have to live on without their loved ones. It must be remembered that 13 of our own colleagues and fellow Malaysians were also on board. And let me be very clear on the events of yesterday evening. Our sole and only motivation last night was to ensure that, in the incredibly short amount of time available to us, that families heard the tragic news before the world did. Wherever humanly possible, we did so in person with the families or by telephone, using SMS as the last resort of ensuring fully that nearly 1,000 family members heard the news from us and not from the media. Ever since the disappearance of Flight MH370, this airline's focus has been to comfort and support the families of those involved, and also to support the multi-national search effort. We will continue to do this while we also continue to support the work of the investigating authorities in the southern Indian Ocean. Like everyone else, we are waiting for news from those authorities. We know that while there had been an increasing number of apparent leads, definite identification of any piece of debris is still missing. But after 17 days, the announcement made last night and shared with the families is the reality that we must face and we now must accept. When Malaysia Airlines receives approval from the investigating authorities, arrangement will be made to bring families to the recovery areas if they so wish. Until that time, we will continue to support the ongoing investigation. And may I express my thanks to the Malaysian government and all those involved in this truly global search effort. In the meantime, Malaysia Airline's overwhelming focus will be the same as it has been from the outset, to provide the families with a comprehensive support program, through a network of over 700 dedicated care givers, care givers for each family -- the loved ones of those on board have been provided with two dedicated care givers and they provide care, support and counsel to the families. We are now supporting over 900 people under this program, and in the last 72 hours alone, we have trained additional 40 care givers to ensure the families have access to round-the-clock support. In addition, hotel accommodation for up to five family members per passenger, transportation, meals and other expenses, have been provided since 8 of March and that will continue. Malaysia Airlines have already provided initial financial assistance of $5,000 U.S. dollar per passenger to each next of kin. We recognize the financial support is not the only consideration, but the prolonged search is naturally placing financial strain on the relatives. We are, therefore, preparing to offer additional payment as the search continues. This unprecedented event in aviation history has made the past 18 days the greatest challenge to face our entire team at Malaysia Airlines. I've been humbled by the hard work, by dedication, heart-felt messages of concern and offers of support from our remarkable team. We do not know why, we do not know how, we do not know how this terrible tragedy happened. But as Malaysia Airlines family, we all are praying for the passengers and crew of MH370.", "Ladies and gentlemen, member of the media, I now open the floor for our question-and-answer session. Please state your name and media organization before you ask the question.", "Yes, I'm from Hong Kong Phoenix TV. My name is Carol Chau. Actually just now you showed your sorrow to the family members and we heard their shouts and screams, especially in Beijing, the hotel. So up till now, they said you delayed the investigations. What is the evidence, exact evidence that you show to get the result? And some of the family members told us they want to -- they went to Australia, they want to go to Australia, so could you arrange the trip for them? Thank you.", "First and foremost, you will appreciate the missing plane was reported to the authorities and since then it was a matter for the authorities to take over the seeking and the searching and finding the plane. And it is since then the domain of the authorities. But as I mentioned earlier, our focus, our center of action throughout this period, painful period that is, was to provide care and assistance to our passengers. Certainly this is a time of extreme (ph) emotions and we fully understand that impact on people, our family. In terms and how they react is emotional, as you may understand. As regards to going to Australia, as mentioned Ahamad (ph) just now --", "With regard to going to Australia, we have been informed by Australian authorities that visa will fully be given or granted to those family members, once evidence has been established. I'm talking about the", "Yes. Next question.", "Fair enough. I think that's a very fair question. But as you would also appreciate, especially last night, the prime minister came out himself to share that he has been given fairly credible leads that would point to where the plane ended its flight. And as he mentioned, that position is very far away, very remote, away from the nearest land mass. And after 17 days, we could only bring ourselves to reach certain conclusion. Yes, please.", "As far as", "Next.", "My answer is that Malaysia Airlines is the first affected by this (ph). The investigation is with the authorities and it is best to ask the authorities.", "OK, the next one, the lady in --", "I'm sure that will be very important concentration to be taken by the investigators. Thank you.", "But the", "At the moment, that's how we are looking at it, because the plane ended at a place simply remote from any land mass.", "So can you repeat, be more clear on that? Can you repeat what you are saying about the survival?", "This by the evidence given to us and by the rational deduction, that we could only arrive at that conclusion. It is for Malaysia Airline to declare that it has lost the plane and by extension the people on the plane.", "Thank you. I'm from Chinese 2 news organization. During these several days, I have interviewed some people in Malaysia, in crews and family members. Most of them said they're not satisfied with the reaction to this emergency. What's your opinion about this? And why do you isolate them to the outside world? Thank you.", "They are saying they are dissatisfied with the opinion? Can you repeat the question, please?", "During these several days, I have interviewed some people in Malaysia, including some family members. Most of them are not satisfied to your reaction to this emergency. So what is your opinion about this? And why you isolate them to the outside world? Thank you.", "I would say our first concern, particularly for the families from China, is for their safety and comfort and to do privacy. And that is the main concern that drive whatever we tried to offer the family members. And in terms of why we keep them hanging on is simply we all shared their hope as well.", "Why you isolate them from the outside world?", "I would say probably isolating them is not the correct impression. We certainly put them in a place where they're comfortable and that also is where they could have privacy and our care givers -- they have given access to care givers with whatever they require, like visiting the places of worship for them to offer their prayers, and things like that. So they are not being closeted.", "Next question.", "I appreciate that. I think it is a fair question. That, if I may, that brings us back to the purpose of this press conference, is to share with other than the families of our affected passengers and crew about what we had done last night, that is to break the news, and what we do next, particularly in terms of continuing with our care giving to our passengers' families and what we do in terms of the normal process as you mentioned for events like this. So your question is correct, but I think the direct forum is when we meet investigators. Thank you.", "OK, the next question will be from the gentleman over there.", "Angus Whitley from Bloomberg News. You referred earlier to the information that led to last night's announcement, but can you say exactly what the new analysis was and what the new data was that gave you enough certainty to make that statement?", "That's fair. The best time is this afternoon's proceeding with the Ministry of Transport. They will be there to explain. We are just another affected party as well.", "But you knew, presumably, what the analysis was? What was it?", "We had been given the indication that we should now arrive at that very sad conclusion.", "The questions are unanswered from last night. Can you give any more clarity?", "As I said, the best time is when we have the Ministry of Transport this afternoon.", "Thank you. The next question will be from the gentleman over here.", "Jeremy Grant, Financial Times. In the spirit of helping the families understand what has happened and bearing in mind that you now do have more information which led you to the conclusion that the prime minister announced, what is your best analysis of how the plane -- what actually happened, bearing in mind that we have quite some hours before the next press conference.", "I don't want to speculate in terms of what happened to the aircraft. I think the investigation is ongoing, OK. I think our focus is really for the family members, how to help them moving forward and that's really our focus here. Otherwise, we are just speculating and I think the investigation is not concluded, I don't want to speculate any more than that.", "We're spending our time now and the process going forward in terms of how we can meet our legal as well as moral obligations to the families.", "Thank you. OK, the next question from the gentleman at the back.", "Thank you. Steve", "Firstly, we can appreciate that. No two persons affected by the event would have a similar reaction, emotional response. So depending who you speak to, you get different version. So there are also in our numbers who have shown appreciation for what we have done, and we're really touched by that. And", "And could I add just one follow-up. Are you going to attempt or will your high ranking executives attempt to meet and talk to every family that has suffered a loss?", "It's being done all the time, sir. We do not display our names when we go.", "Thank you. The next question from the gentleman in red shirt.", "Well, actually, I can't speak on behalf of Australian government, but --", "That's why I say it's a difficult question. Do you agree with his position?", "Whether I agree or don't agree, this position that the Australia government takes, like I said, we are here to ensure that we support the family, right, and to make sure we fulfill their wishes.", "You have to understand a bit more, especially here, in this time of human challenge, compassion will rise. So I think, protocol notwithstanding, I'm sure,", "I'm sure that the issue will arise and I'm sure it will be addressed.", "The next question?", "Jason from the Wall Street Journal. I know -- I understand you're stressed and your focus right now is to help the families as well, but Malaysia Airlines is also a party to the investigation in they own (ph) the aircraft. So can you tell us, after one or two weeks, what is the most likely cause for this? Can you tell us confidently that it's not a plane problem, it's", "I really appreciate your curiosity, as we are also, but we have to draw a line between what is, you know, should be in the formal domain and what we can do. Our focus at the moment is more in terms of what we can do, which is outside the investigation area.", "Yes, thank you. Yes, certainly we will not want to jeopardize or dissipate anything.", "Can I have the last question from the local", "Yes please, yes please. Can I have one question before we go? Melissa (ph) from Channel NewsAsia. I would like to talk about future for MAS. May I know how badly has it affected business for MAS and how", "Well, obviously it has affected the airline. But so far, like I said, we're doing our best to ensure that those that bought Malaysia Airline tickets, we ensure they are being served, make sure they're being flown safely, comfortably. Moving forward is something that we will look into. Obviously it is something that we must basically share with the families of those on board. We must empathize with them and I think this is a very painful period for the airline and something that we have to, you know, we do share this spirit with the families and passengers and the crew. Our procedures are Code", "I think, can we have", "(Speaking in foreign language).", "(Speaking in foreign language.) We can have a separate one, thank you. So my final remarks are still the same as original. We still need total proof for the event (ph) and our hearts and prayers are with the family. Thank you.", "Just been listening to a press conference given by the chairman of the Malaysia Airlines, also by the CEO of Malaysia Airlines. Essentially, any questions of substance relating to the investigation they basically tossed over to those leading the investigation. They repeatedly pointed out they are not leading the investigation. They say their responsibility right now is trying to figure out the legal and moral obligations to the families. They say so far they've so far paid out $5,000 per passenger to each next of kin; they're preparing to offer additional payments. They've assigned two care givers. They denied one of the reporter's question about whether or not families had been isolated. They said they had not isolated families; they were trying to give them privacy, give them as much support as possible. Did not answer a question about any past problems with the pilots, again referred to the ongoing investigation, and reiterated what the Malaysian prime minister had said early morning, saying the airline is now lost and none of the passengers and crew survived. That was a quote from the chairman of Malaysia Airlines. Quick thoughts from our panel here, Richard?", "What I take away for tonight's press conference, a justification for sending of the SMS messages -- a last resort. We wanted to make sure they wouldn't hear it from the media. And the core question on why they've made this announcement, following on from", "David Soucie, your thoughts?", "I think it's just a -- at this point a matter of accepting where we are and I think it's finally the families getting some kind of closure around it, but it's been a sad day for them. That's where I'd like to leave that tonight.", "Les Abend?", "As frustrating as it is for the family, as bad as it is for the family, I think it's positive from the standpoint we're narrowing this investigation and we can find answers hopefully.", "And that's really the frustrating part is that the search as called off for the day; we'll see what happens tomorrow. That is 360 for now. I want to thank our panel and all our correspondents around the world. We'll see you again tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on 360. Right now I'm going to turn things over to CNN International's John Vause and Rosemary Church. 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{"id": "CNN-366693", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-04-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/09/cnr.20.html", "summary": "General Khalifa Haftar And Libyan National Army On Offensive To Take Tripoli From U.N. Recognized Government", "utt": ["Two more deaths have been reported following protests outside military headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan. It brings the death toll to 10 since Saturday after crackdowns on protestors by security forces. Dozens had been injured in largely peaceful demonstrations, according to human rights watch. Protesters had been calling for the removal of President Omar al-Bashir since December. Crowds had converge outside the presidential palace and the nation's military headquarters responding to a renewed call for protest from Sudani's professional group of doctors, lawyers and journalists. The fierce fight over Libya's capital is intensifying even further. Following an airstrike by the rebel military on Tripoli's only functioning airport. The U.N. condemn the attack, calling it a serious violation of humanitarian law. The area in red on this map shows territory controlled by rebel forces. The U.N. recognizes government controls the sections in yellow. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh explains, the recent attacks on Tripoli, a part of a surprise offensive by a renegade general.", "This reported strike on Mitiga International airport, the key air traffic hog for Libya doesn't take the pressure on the capital city Tripoli to a new level here. We've seen for days now the forces of General Khalifa Haftar, the predominant strongman of the east of the country, moving around that key city, edging towards the southern suburbs. There had been perhaps (inaudible), this was a show of military strength designed last Friday to perhaps pressure the peace talks going on being spearheaded by the U.N. Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez, but it seems to be less likely since he departed the country on Friday and the peace talks appear to have gone nowhere. The fear being, really that General Haftar could begin to send his forces slowly into this urban environment, whether there are many different competing militias are from pressure on each other frankly for control and it is the main seat of the U.N. recognized government of (inaudible). Frankly the struggle to get control of the country since the exemption (ph) of number of years ago. Now, many Libyans have lived through chaos since 2011 departure of Colonel Gadhafi, his bloody end and that revolution supposed to herald a new kind of way of life there. the city collapsed into these different systems, feeding warlords, General Khalifa Haftar appears to have a lot of regional support, perhaps from the Emiratis, perhaps from Egypt, perhaps even more reverently some say from Russia and even France possibly silent in background. Is this emboldening him to make this stock military moves? He seems to have the equipment, he seems to have the momentum at the moment the question is does he have the stomach to end to Tripoli main. And what will happen to those many Libyans living inside that capital city have endured so much hardships over the past years. And they see that worsen yet still. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, London.", "the five day kidnapping ordeal is over for U.S. tourist and her tour guide who were taken at gunpoint in Uganda last week. But a CNN's Alex Marquardt reports concerns are being raise about a ransom that was paid to try to secure their freedom.", "Free at last, Kim Endicott steps out of a white van. Barefoot, hands thorn likely shaken, but physically unharmed. Welcome home she is told as she arrives back in the camp in Uganda were she had gone on safari to see the areas famous guerrillas, a lifelong dream. Endicott, who is from California and her Ugandan guide John Paul Meringue, were kidnapped last Tuesday as are driving to the Queen Elizabeth National Park. They were taken away by armed men who later used their prisoner's cellphone to demand a ransom of half 1 million dollars. Ugandan security forces backed by U.S. military support and the neighboring Democratic Republican of Congo freed the pair on Sunday. The kidnappers are still on the run.", "The armed captors knew they were being hotly pursued by the joints team of security agencies.", "Today, President Trump tweeting Uganda must bring the kidnappers to justice openly and quickly. Neither the United States nor Uganda paid ransoms, it was the safari tour company that paid in this case. Though we don't know how much there are fears that it would only encourage more kidnappings in the area.", "That is the quickest way to get out of the situation like this to get somebody back, is pay the ransom, but again, it sets a bad precedent.", "Ugandan police had said that the most likely reason for the kidnappings was that ransom money. Meaning, this looks to be more criminal than terrorism related. Especially considering how easy the handoff of these prisoners appears to have been. For security experts will tell you, only gives more incentive to others to carry out kidnappings. Of course you can't fault the safari company or Endicott's love ones for wanting to do all they could to get her and her guide back safely. Alex Marquardt, CNN, Washington.", "And we'll take a short break. Still to come, the latest White House departure brings another acting secretary to the cabinet. All part of the drama which Donald Trump seems to thrive on. That is next on CNN Newsroom."], "speaker": ["CHURCH", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHURCH", "ALEXANDER MARQUARDT, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARQUARDT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARQUARDT", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-353038", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2018-10-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/23/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "U.S. Cyber Command Targeting Russian Operatives Suspected of 2018 Election Interference; Interview With Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono; Trump Stokes Immigration Fears to Rile Up Base Voters; Another Putin-Trump Summit Planned?.", "utt": ["Does he accept Turkey's allegation that a ferocious murder was committed? Putin's sit-down plan. The president is planning another face-to-face meeting with the Russian leader soon, this as Vladimir Putin is taking jabs at the U.S. and giving Mr. Trump's national security adviser an earful. And kissed off. The FBI finds zero evidence to back the president's bizarre claim that there are 100 photos of James Comey and Robert Mueller hugging and kissing. Tonight, another Russia probe conspiracy theory debunked. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We're following breaking news on the red meat President Trump is now throwing at his base exactly two weeks before the midterm election. Tonight, we heard Mr. Trump call himself a nationalist, this for the third time in less than 24 hours. He insists the term reflects his love of country, claiming he is unaware that the label is sometimes associated with racism and anti-Semitism. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office just a little while ago, the president strongly defended a series of controversial and misleading statements he had been making out there on the campaign trail. I will get reaction from Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono. And our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, let's go to our chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. Jim, you were there inside the Oval Office. You had a chance to ask the president several questions, including about his use of the term nationalist. Tell us what he said.", "That's right, Wolf. President Trump appears to be embracing his new label of being a -- quote -- \"nationalist,\" repeating that again today here at the White House earlier today. Critics say the president's rhetoric is just another dog whistle to his base. But it's also a big part of the president's midterm strategy of nationalism, nastiness and nonsense. The president defended that label of being a nationalist earlier today. But he could not offer any proof to back up one of his other claims, that there are people from the Middle East riding in the caravan heading toward the U.S. border. The president actually said this -- quote -- \"There isn't any proof of anything.\"", "It's a controversial label President Trump is wearing proudly from the White House.", "Call me a nationalist, if you would like, but I don't want companies leaving.", "To his campaign rallies.", "You know what I am? I'm a nationalist, OK? I'm a nationalist.", "In the Oval Office, the president defended the nationalist label. But he brushed off concerns from critics that he is sending a dog whistle to his base that what he really means is that he is a white nationalist.", "I love our country, and our country has taken second fiddle.", "There is a concern that you are sending coded language or a dog whistle to some Americans out there that what you really mean is that you're a white nationalist.", "I have never even heard that. I cannot imagine that. You mean I say I'm a nationalist...", "You have never heard...", "No, I have never heard that theory about being a nationalist. We protect, and we get killed. We do the trading, and they get killed. Can't do it. All I want, our country, is to be treated well, to be treated with respect. So, in that sense, I am absolutely a nationalist. And I'm proud of it.", "The president has been dubbing himself a nationalist while he is blasting the thousands of migrants heading for the border in a caravan that Mr. Trump claims has been infiltrated with what he calls Middle Easterners, a racially loaded suggestion that there are terrorists among them. But when asked for proof, the president, who turned to the vice president at one point, couldn't provide any. (on camera): You had said that there are Middle Easterners in the caravan. Can you explain that? Are you saying there are terrorists in that caravan at this point?", "It could very well be. And if you look at...", "But do you know for sure?", "I have very good information.", "Are you saying you have evidence that there are terrorists in the caravan?", "I spoke with Border Patrol this morning. And I spoke to them last evening. And I spoke to them the day before. I speak to them all the time. And they say -- and you know this as well as anybody -- over the course of the year, over the course of a number of years, they have intercepted many people from the Middle East. They have intercepted ISIS. They have intercepted all sorts of people. They have intercepted good ones and bad ones. They've intercepted wonderful people from the Middle East and they've intercepted bad ones. They've intercepted wonderful people from South America and from other parts further south. They have intercepted a lot of different people. But among the people they have intercepted very recently are people from the Middle East, OK? So you can't be surprised when you hear it.", "But no proof -- no proof that they're in the caravan now?", "There is no proof of anything.", "The president also took questions about his claims that he will be unveiling a middle-class tax cut plan in the coming days, even though multiple GOP sources have told CNN that proposal is news to them. (on camera): Is that an acknowledgment that the original GOP tax cut was too heavily tilted in favor of wealthy Americans and corporations?", "No. No, it really wasn't. I'm talking about the one that was passed -- we're very proud of it. And what it did, more than anything else, it brought jobs, tremendous numbers of jobs.", "Even his own top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, conceded to reporters the plan isn't coming any time soon.", "We're working through the Ways and Means, as you have to do in these things, OK? And it may not surface for a while.", "We should also point out the president during that lengthy exchange with reporters talked about the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. At one point, the president described the cover-up of Khashoggi's murder as the worst cover-up he's ever seen. The president, though, did not say, Wolf, exactly what he plans to do about it, if it is, in fact, the worst cover-up of a murder he has ever seen. We should point out the president also said he may meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin when he travels to Paris after the midterms next month. But, of course, the president has to worry about winning these midterms first. It is a battle he's trying to win at this point, as you know, Wolf, with falsehoods, half-truths and fear -- Wolf.", "Two weeks exactly from today. Jim Acosta at the White House, thank you. We're going to have more on the breaking news coming up, including more on the U.S.-Russia relationship right now, as President Trump tries to lock down a meeting with Vladimir Putin next month. Tensions between the two countries on display during talks today between Putin and the president's national security adviser, John Bolton. Let's go live to Moscow right now. Our senior international correspondent, Fred Pleitgen, is on the scene for us. So, Fred, what are Putin saying about their discussions there today?", "Well, it was interesting, because John Bolton earlier today had a press conference, where he said the discussion were very frank and honest. But you could clearly see that there was a lot of heat in the air, especially during his meeting with Vladimir Putin. Here's what we saw.", "A tense meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and National Security Adviser John Bolton. Putin immediately taking a swipe at the", "The emblem of the U.S. depicts an eagle. In one claw, it holds 13 arrows and, in the other, an olive branch, a symbol of the peace-loving policy of the states, together with 13 olives. Question: It looks as if your eagle has eaten all the olives and has only arrows left.", "But I didn't bring any more olives.", "Despite the thick air, the two sides decided on a new meeting between President Trump and the Russian leader on November 11 in Paris. The Russians still fuming after the Trump administration's decision to pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. CNN caught up with the national security adviser as he was laying a wreath for murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov between high-stakes meetings with top Russian leaders. (on camera): Have the Russians been quite understanding for your reasoning? And have you explained it to them?", "Well, I think their preference, as they have stated, is that we not withdrawal. But I think we have given them reasons why we're going to do it. And I think they understand our reasons quite clearly, some of which I think they fully appreciate from their own strategic perspective. I think the president could not have been clearer, not just on Saturday, but yesterday, as to what his decision is.", "After a Russian woman was recently indicted for allegedly trying to meddle in the upcoming midterm elections, Bolton said he warned Putin not to interfere.", "What the meddling did create was distrust and animosity within the United States and particularly made it almost impossible for two years for the United States and Russia to make progress diplomatically. So that's a huge loss to both countries, but particularly to Russia. So it's a lesson, I think, don't mess with American elections.", "But the national security adviser didn't specify what the consequences would be if Russia was found to be meddling in America's democracy again, saying only the U.S. was keeping an eye on the situation.", "And, Wolf, he was asked several times what America would do if, in fact, there was new evidence that Russia was trying to meddle in the elections, like, for instance, that indictment that just came down. He didn't really answer that question. In the end, he pointed to some of the things that Mike Pence said, the vice president, a couple days ago, obviously, saying that, in reality, the U.S. currently believes, or this administration believes that China seems to be a bigger threat than Russia as far as possible election meddling is concerned, Wolf.", "All right, very interesting. Fred Pleitgen, good report. Thank you very much. Joining us now, Senator Mazie Hirono. She's a Democrat. She serves on the Judiciary and Armed Services Committees. Senator, thanks so much for joining us. We have a lot to get to.", "Aloha.", "But, first, is there anything you can think President Trump could accomplish through yet another meeting with Vladimir Putin in the middle of next month?", "I think it's very problematic, what he can accomplish, because pretty much he is very much on the page with Putin. And his announcement that we're going to withdraw from the INF is yet another, in my view, gift to Putin, because I think Putin would like that to happen, so that we can be unfettered in his aggression.", "Not only is the U.S. pulling out of this nuclear arms treaty that's been around for 30-plus years, but President Trump is also promising to build up the nuclear U.S. arsenal. So what are the potential consequences if this new arms race escalates?", "This is yet another example of how President Trump makes these kind of announcements without consulting certainly with Congress and definitely with our allies. So our allies both in Europe and Asia are very concerned about where he's going, that we don't need another nuclear arms race to proceed apace, and then to encourage other countries to become very -- to develop these kinds of capabilities also. This is not what we need. We should be pursuing diplomatic means to bring about a peaceful resolution to what's going on in North Korea, as well as the Middle East. But that is not where President Trump is.", "Let's turn to the question, Senator, surrounding Jamal Khashoggi's murder. The president now says the Saudi cover-up was one of the worst of the cover-ups -- his words -- and that he wants a bipartisan recommendation from the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate. From your perspective, what will you recommend to the president?", "Well, first of all, I think that we do need to reassess our relationship with Saudi Arabia. And I am very much in agreement with Senator Jack Reed, who is the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, wherein he said, we should stop our refueling assistance to Saudi planes as they're attacking in Yemen. We should not have any more -- we should not approve any more sales of offensive arms to Saudi Arabia. And we should have an independent body investigating what happened to Mr. Khashoggi. And then we can proceed. But it took a long time for the president going from really disbelieving that the Saudis had anything to do with it, to believing their own cover-up, to where he is now. So when the president says he's waiting for Congress to make a recommendation, it reminds me very much of when we are dealing with DACA, and he said, I will accept a bipartisan recommendation. I will sign it into law. And then he did entirely the opposite. So, I would like those other things to happen, and I would like the president to be on that page, as opposed to just saying all kind of things that we can't rely upon.", "The president also says -- and I'm quoting him now -- \"We would be really hurting ourselves and American companies and jobs if the U.S. were to back out of its weapons deals with Saudi Arabia.\" What's your reaction to that?", "When he equates what happened to Mr. Khashoggi with the arms deem, which is, by the way, a long-term kind of process, I think that he is creating a false choice. But we definitely need to reassess what we are doing with regard to Saudi Arabia. And with Trump, everything is about money. Everything is about money, particularly for his own family. And, by the way, you mentioned in the earlier segment that he is throwing everything out there and trying to make sure that the midterm elections go the way he wants by not just dog whistles, but I would call it a bullhorn. And really, when he goes low, we have to fight back.", "Well, let's talk a little about that. Exactly two weeks until the midterm elections, the president, he is stroking fears about immigration right now. He says Middle Easterners, his words, Middle Easterners, are among the migrants among the migrants trying to reach the United States through Mexico right now. They're coming up from Central America. What do you think he means by that when he says these Middle Easterners have planted themselves in this caravan?", "Well, note that he had no proof of it. And it's just yet another example of how he stokes fear and loathing into the electorate. He knows he is speaking to his base. And the words he uses, he says he doesn't really -- he makes up his own definitions. We should stop giving him the benefit of the doubt that he doesn't understand what he means when he refers to nationalist or any of these other terms. These are not just dog whistles, but it's bullhorns. It's racism. It's basically -- for many people, it's anti-Semitic. It's white supremacy. He knows very well what he is talking about, even if he professes otherwise.", "Well, he says he is proud to call himself a nationalist, even though he says he knows that word hasn't been used in quite a while. He also at the same time is railing against what he calls power-hungry globalists, who really don't care, he says, about what's good for the United States. What's your reaction to that?", "If there is anybody who is power- and money-hungry, it is the president of the United States, where he just lies every single day. It is very hard to keep up with all of the lies. For example, he says that it's the Republicans who are protecting everyone from being discriminated on preexisting conditions. Nothing could be further from the truth, because they are right now, the administration right now is in Texas in a huge lawsuit that would do away with protections for people with preexisting conditions. That's over 50 million people in our country. That is a lie on his part. Also, that he is protective of Medicare and Medicaid. No, in fact, his 2019 budget already puts a $1.5 trillion cut to Medicaid. That's going to hurt all of our families. So it is very hard to keep up with all of the lies. But suffice to say that he will say anything to rile up his base, so that they will come out and vote for his candidates. And he has put this election, midterm election, as a referendum on him. And I just hope that the people of our country have figured out and connected the dots as to who is protecting people with preexisting conditions. That would be the Democrats. As to who is protecting the people who are on Medicare and Social Security from the kind of cuts that even McConnell has put out with regard to Medicare, and that will be the Democrats two are protecting our seniors. So, I hope that the people in the 2018 elections will have connected the dots and will vote accordingly.", "We will see what happens in two weeks, two weeks from today. Senator Hirono, thank you so much for joining us.", "Thank you.", "All right, just ahead, we're going to have more on the president's Oval Office defense of his midterm campaign tactics, as he pushes right-wing hot buttons on immigration, nationalism, tax cuts. And the president insists there is a Comey-Mueller bromance that discredits the entire Russia probe. The FBI has investigated this claim of photographic evidence. The not-so-shocking results, that's coming up."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "THE SITUATION ROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-378419", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2019-08-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/23/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Dow Tumbles After Trump Tweets On China And Federal Reserve Chief; E.U. Leaders Holding Jair Bolsonaro's Feet To The Fire Threatening To Block A Trade Deal Unless He Takes Action To Protect The Amazon; Stocks Tumble as President Trump Lashes Out at China", "utt": ["The market has been on a downward slide ever since around 11:00 a.m. this morning after China and now $75 billion worth of tariffs on American cars and also you now have the U.S. President asking American companies to look for alternatives to China. Stocks are deep in the red. The Dow is off 550 points near the lows of the day. This is what investors on watching. A major escalation in the trade war. President Trump is pledging to respond to new Chinese tariffs this afternoon. And an extraordinary Twitter assault on the Fed Chief, President Trump asks if Jerome Powell, his own Fed Chair is a bigger enemy to the U.S. than Chinese President Xi Jinping. And taking action on the Amazon. European leaders threaten to block a trade deal with South Americans unless Brazil protects the rain forest. Live from the world's financial capital here in New York City. It is Friday, August 23rd. I'm Zain Asher in for my colleague Richard Quest and this is QUEST MEANS BUSINESS. Hello, everyone. I'm Zain Asher. We are in the final hour of trading, a day full of market moving events. The losses are accelerating as I speak. The Dow is off more than two percent. Volatility is way, way up and market sentiment is firmly in extreme fear mode. A look at the broader markets, the NASDAQ is the worst of the three major indices right now. Every single sector -- every single sector is in the red. Tech shares are suffering the biggest losses. Intel shares are down four percent. Apple down five percent. Investors are reacting to some pretty extraordinary tweets by U.S. present Donald Trump. He has pledged to respond today to new tariffs imposed just a few hours earlier by China on $75 billion worth of American goods in the latest escalation of this ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China. President Trump is now ordering U.S. companies to find alternative to production in China. That is something American retailers say simply isn't practical. It's not practical, even if the President were empowered to issue such an order. The President's tweet on trade came just minutes after another with President Trump launching a blistering attack on his own Fed Chair, Jerome Powell. Mr. Trump writing, \"My only question is, who is our bigger enemy? Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?\" Sarah Westwood is joining us live now from the White House. So the fact that the U.S. President is referring to Jerome Powell as an enemy of this country, what does that tell you about the sorts of pressure President Trump is facing in terms of his belief that a recession in this country could be underway, and he needs Jerome Powell's help them that?", "Well, Zain, today was another major complication in the White House's efforts to project confidence in the face of a potential economic downturn. That's something that White House aides and allies have been doing all week. They've been working overtime to try to downplay these fears that the incredible growth that the President has seen in the economy for the first two years of his presidency, could be slowing down. Of course, the President's favorite economic scapegoat here is Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell. He has repeatedly taken shots at Powell. He thinks that the Fed did not cut interest rates quickly enough. That they didn't cut them by enough margin, and he has been putting pressure on the Fed to do everything it can to grease the wheels of the economy. Of course, many analysts, investors, consumers, they believe that the tensions we've seen in the economy over the past couple of weeks are due to the President's trade war with China. And so today, China imposing these retaliatory tariffs are not going to do much to boost confidence in the economy at a time when the President and his advisers, Zain, are really trying to push this message that everything is fine.", "And obviously Donald Trump issuing quote, unquote, \"an order\" to American companies to look for alternatives to China. Can the U.S. President really issue such an order?", "Zain, it's not clear what authority the President believes he has to tell private companies where and how to do business, but that is really all we've seen of the reaction from President Trump was that series of tweets that he fired off this morning. Also, he issued a decree to mail carriers that might accidentally end up receiving shipments of fentanyl from China. Fentanyl, an aspect of the U.S.-China trade relationship that President Trump has focused heavily on, as he has ramped up these talks with China, but keep in mind, the President imposing these tariffs, the President delayed the implementation of tariffs last week on goods to December.", "But that was not necessarily an olive branch to China. Even though he delayed the implementation of some of those tariffs, that was really to take the pressure off American consumers heading into the Christmas shopping season. There had been a relative ceasefire between China and the U.S. over the summer following President Xi and Trump sitting down at the G20. But earlier this month, Trump threatened to impose those very tariffs that he had suspended and that is what got started this latest round of back and forth with China that culminated in China retaliating this morning -- Zain.", "All right, Sarah Westwood live for us there. Thank you so much. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has reacted to new tariffs imposed by -- imposed rather on U.S. goods by China saying the move is quote, \"unfortunate,\" but not unexpected. The business group is calling once again for both sides to return to the negotiating table. The fresh tariffs are between five and ten percent. It will hit $75 billion worth of U.S. goods from September 1st. There will be duties of 25 percent placed on U.S. car imports. President Trump has promised a response this afternoon. Daniel Russel is a former Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Vice President of International Security and Diplomacy at the Asia Society. Mr. Russel, thank you so much for being with us. So when you have China announcing these tariffs on $75 billion worth of American goods, what sort of effect do you anticipate that will have on the U.S. economy?", "Well, this is clearly going to hit consumers, hit retailers, and also hit farmers and commodity producers in the United States. There's a geography to the Chinese application of tariffs also. They're pretty experienced in the U.S. political calendar, the U.S. political system, so they know that they can hit Michigan, they can hit Ohio, they can hit Iowa. And that these are important states in terms of the Electoral College. So it's a combination of, of trade and politics in their calculation.", "So there was supposed to be a Chinese delegation coming to Washington, D.C. next month. Given all of the sort of tit-for-tat announcements we've seen today, I mean, is any kind of truce on the horizon completely off the table?", "No, the Chinese very much want a truce, albeit not on any terms. And in fact, the terms that the U.S. could perhaps get from the Chinese have worsened significantly in the last two or three months as a result of the tough tactics that President Trump has pursued. The Chinese would like to send their Vice Premier, Liu He to Washington sometime in September, and in a way this imposition of tariffs is a way of creating some leverage in support, in advance of those talks. From the Chinese point of view, this is a pretty measured, pretty balanced form of retaliation. It's non-escalatory or so they think. They're matching what --", "That's not what Peter Navarro believes.", "Well, what Peter Navarro believe is not always rooted in reality. The reality is that the Chinese are saying, \"Okay, you hit me, we will hit you,\" but they're not just using a poker metaphor, they're seeing Donald Trump but they're not raising him. They're not trying to escalate. September 1 tariffs from the U.S., okay, September 1 tariffs from China, December 15th from the U.S., December 15th from China.", "Okay, so when President Trump quote unquote, \"orders\" American companies not to do business with China anymore, or look for alternatives, I mean, it's unclear the President could even order American companies do anything in terms of that, but how -- that is supposed to, I assume, beat China into submission. Clearly, that's not going to work?", "Well, it kind of makes you wonder if he realizes, who is the head of a democracy, and who is the head of a one-party authoritarian system? The President can't just decree to U.S. companies that they may not trade or manufacturer in China. It's delusional. It certainly is alarming, as we see in the markets already to U.S. businesses because President Trump has injected a really wild note of uncertainty and inconsistency into the equation. And I know that it makes it very hard not only for American companies, but for businesses and nations throughout the world and in particular, the Asia Pacific to calculate what comes next. The impact of a U.S.-China trade war, which is really like a mutual infliction of pain, neither side is big enough and strong enough to completely force the other aside into submission. It has very negative consequences for the third countries that are impacted by this battle.", "Right. Mr. Russel, thank you so much for being with us. Appreciate it.", "Glad to join you.", "Investors had expected today would be dominated by Jerome Powell's annual speech in Jackson Hole. Let's take a look at what the Fed Chairman said specifically. The key takeaway is that he did not -- not -- give any indication about what might happen at the next rate setting meeting in September. He did acknowledge, quote, \"significant risks\" from a global slowdown and the trade war. He also promised to take quote, \"appropriate steps\" to support the U.S. economy. Lindsey Piegza is the Chief Economist at Stifel Financial Services firm. She joins us live now from Minneapolis. So, Lindsey, how did you interpret Fed Chair Jerome Powell's comments today?", "Well, it was pretty much as expected. The Chairman continued to reiterate a generally positive and upbeat assessment of the U.S. economy, but he also tempered that expectation by acknowledging increased risk, particularly from abroad, stemming from uncertainties regarding policy issues, including trade, Brexit and more recently, policy protests in Hong Kong. So he did say that while things were still on moderate footing here at home, the risks of contagion to the U.S. outlook continue to ramp higher since meeting last month at the July FOMC meeting. So really setting the tone for potential additional policy adjustments if in fact, the committee continues to see these risks weighing on the outlook.", "How does the Fed Chair go about sort of juggling, supporting the economy here without looking as though the Fed is capitulating to what the market wants?", "Well, I think the Fed is doing a pretty good job of doing that. They did meet the markets demands to be fair in terms of a near term policy adjustment at the July meeting, but they also offered just a very minimal rate reduction, 25 basis points. The market would have been much more pleased with a 50 basis point cut. And certainly the administration was looking for 75 or 100 basis points. And by continuing to maintain this very middle of the road rhetoric, acknowledging the positives, but also reiterating a willingness to step up to the plate, they're continuing to walk that fine line really not cowing to either side of the administration or the market pressures that are very clearly weighing out there in the marketplace. So I do think the Fed is doing a pretty good job of walking that fine line.", "Okay, so maybe a good job of walking the fine line, but given the sort of volatility in the markets, given the fears about a possible recession on the horizon in the U.S. economy, given fears about global slowdown, given you know, what President Trump is saying. I mean, is it all but certain at this point that there will indeed be a rate cut in September?", "Well, I do think we will see a rate cut in September, but I do think that's going to be entirely based on the evolution of the data. We are seeing, as you pointed out, mounting evidence of weakness abroad, as well as further evidence of deteriorating activity here in the U.S. We see a slowdown in manufacturing, housing, business investment, even confidence has peaked and had begun to trend down suggesting the consumer will be on increasingly fragile footing in the second half of the year. So right there, there's enough support for the Fed to take action, which has nothing to do with the pressure from the White House.", "So is the U.S. economy though resilient enough to withstand this escalating trade war between the U.S. and China, do you think?", "I think unfortunately, it's going to put some a serious downward pressure on an already extended expansionary period. So the U.S. economy at this point has been going through the longest expansion in history, but it's also been the weakest with an average growth rate of just 2.3 percent. Typically, when the U.S. economy is coming out of recessionary times, we talk about a sustained growth rate of four or five, even six percent. So this time around, we were already on relatively moderate footing. Now, you layer on the fact that we are seeing a number of these uncertainties and risks stemming from a policy front and I think that will simply exacerbate that downward trend that we're already seeing in some of the fundamentals here in the", "All right, Lindsey Piegza live for us there. Thank you so much. E.U. leaders holding Jair Bolsonaro's feet to the fire threatening to block a trade deal unless he takes action to protect the Amazon."], "speaker": ["ZAIN ASHER, CNN INTERNATIONAL HOST", "SARAH WESTWOOD, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER", "ASHER", "WESTWOOD", "WESTWOOD", "ASHER", "DANIEL RUSSEL, FORMER ASSISTANT U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS", "ASHER", "RUSSEL", "ASHER", "RUSSEL", "ASHER", "RUSSEL", "ASHER", "RUSSEL", "ASHER", "LINDSEY PIEGZA, CHIEF ECONOMIST, STIFEL", "ASHER", "PIEGZA", "ASHER", "PIEGZA", "ASHER", "PIEGZA", "U.S. ASHER"]}
{"id": "CNN-18635", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-10-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/25/mn.14.html", "summary": "Al Gore's Speech in Tennessee Expected to Emphasize Differences in Candidates' Education Plans", "utt": ["Now we move on to the presidential campaign trail where the race between Al Gore and George W. Bush remains as tight as ever. Bush, today, will spend his day on a bus tour of Florida. Gore, meanwhile, has set his sights on his home turf, the state of Tennessee. His first stop is Nashville; that's where we find our Jonathan Karl. Jonathan, it's not supposed to be like this. A presidential candidate having to spend time this late in the campaign in his own home state.", "Well, that's absolutely right. If you had asked the Gore campaign a year ago if they expected to be in Tennessee just two weeks before the election, they would have told you you were crazy. But the Gore campaign also pointing out some things about Tennessee: This is very Republican state. A much more Republican state than it was when Al Gore represented it in Congress and in the Senate. What they say is, look at Tennessee now -- Tennessee has got two Republican senators, its got a Republican governor, it's a solidly Republican state. And even the Clinton-Gore administration -- Clinton-Gore campaign barely carried it in 1996. So they're saying, hey, it shouldn't be a surprise that Gore has to fight here in Tennessee. But very clearly, here, Al Gore does not want to go down in history as the first presidential candidate to lose his home state since Gorge McGovern lost South Dakota in 1972. Now, the reason why he's here right now in Tennessee State University, he's delivering his latest in a series of speeches outlining what the vice president calls \"the big choices\" facing voters as they go into the voting booth this year. The big choice he'll be talking about here is education. He's going to be talking about, on one hand, his education plan, which he says would reduce class size by helping local school districts hire more teachers, by helping local school districts finance new school construction; he's also saying that he would expand public school choice by tripling the number of charter schools -- public school choice, not private school vouchers. And the vice president also expected to talk about his plan to make preschool education universal. The other side of the coin, the other side of the choice is George W. Bush's plan, which the vice president will call a hollow plan -- hollow because George W. Bush, the vice president says, spends all his money on a big tax cut and cannot afford the kind of investment that Vice President Gore would make into education. That's the line from the Gore campaign here in Nashville. Daryn, back to you.", "And that's where we find our Jonathan Karl. Jonathan, thank you very much for that report."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "JONATHAN KARL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-148748", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-3-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/08/ltm.01.html", "summary": "HIV's Hideout; Vitamin D- Fense; Does a Body Good", "utt": ["We say good morning to a nice sunny Washington, D.C., this morning. It's 38 degrees, but it is warming up. It's going to be a nice 60 degrees for a high today in the nation's capital. It's 47 minutes after the hour. It means it's time for your AM House Call, stories about your health this morning. There is new research showing doctors where HIV hides out in your body to avoid being killed off. They say it actually lurks in certain bone marrow cells while medications work to kill off the aids virus in the blood. This also helps explain why HIV isn't curable, at least not yet. And while HIV devastates the immune system, another new study is telling us how to keep your body's defenses strong and alert. Scientists at the University Of Copenhagen say vitamin D is crucial to arming and activating T cells in your body, and that without it, doctors say our immune system could remain naive to viruses and bacteria in the body. Also women can toast a new study that links wine to gaining less weight. Researchers studying more than 19,000 women found that moderate drinkers actually had a lower risk of obesity than those who stuck to mineral water. The research suggests that the liver breaks down the fat differently from other foods which affects weight gain. Old officials again stress, though, that moderation is the key.", "Yes. It doesn't seem to be just wine too. It's all alcohol. The liver apparently uses it differently.", "They said that if they were rating it, though, people who drink red wine have the lowest weight gain and people that had spirits and beer actually had the most.", "Don't be knocking down those margaritas or if you are, just you know, --", "That's right.", "Drink two, one for each hip, right. A check of this morning's weather headlines, Rob Marciano in the Weather Center for us in Atlanta. Good morning, Rob.", "Hey, Rob.", "Good morning, guys. We've known this awhile, right. The French eat a lot of fatty food. They drink a lot of red wine, and they seem to be in decent shape, at least, by appearance. So yes, bon appetite and I salute. High pressure control across parts of the East Coast. Beautiful weekend finally after a long winter, that's for sure. Winter is not quite over yet, especially with the next storm just coming into the four corners out of the desert southwest, about to get into the central and southern plains. A little bit of fire weather, a problem with winds behind this, and some snow across parts of the higher elevations, but I shouldn't be too big of a deal, but it is beginning to tap some moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. So, rain is going to begin to spread across parts of the south with this, and they will get up into the central and northern plains as we go through the next 48 hours. We do have moist in the form of -- it's on the ground and that's creating some fog problems across parts of the Midwest if you're traveling through these airports; it's going to be some issues. Maybe a little bit of wind issues across parts of the northeast as well. JFK has one of the runways shut down so that tends to bog things down and Minneapolis and Dallas, you'll see a little bit of rain. Want to touch on what's going on across parts of Turkey. We had a pretty bad earthquake overnight last night, 5.9 magnitude, but it was a pretty shallow one. Check out some of the damage. Unfortunately, over 50 people were killed with this and more than that injured. African, Arabian, and Eurasian plates come together in this spot, so, it's typically a seismic hotbed, and you know, John and Kiran, our very active time right now, where we're seeing the earth move in a lot of different spots continues this time over in Turkey. Back over to you.", "All right. Rob, thanks so much. This morning's top stories just minutes away now, including many say it was the most important unfilled post in this administration. Now, President Obama has tapped the new chief for the TSA. Is it the right choice, though?", "And at 24 minutes after the hour, an \"AM original\", Saving Carlos. In second grade and falling through the cracks, how the economic meltdown may keep a boy with mental health issues from ever catching up.", "And at half past the hour, they were the men who defended the fortress, the officers who stopped the men with guns and a vendetta from getting into the Pentagon. They are here to share their story live. Those stories and more coming your way at the top of the hour."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-50469", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-3-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/06/lt.14.html", "summary": "Surprising Election Results in California Primary", "utt": ["As we've been telling you throughout the day here, a couple of rather large political upsets in California. Voters there digesting the news that Congressman Gary Condit has gone down to defeat and so has the former mayor of L.A. in his bid for the governor's office. Richard Riordan is the man's name. Bill Schneider is our analyst. He joins us live from Washington. These two races weren't even close, were they, Bill?", "No, each of them was about an 18-point margin.", "Yes. Governor Gray Davis, his campaign poured about $10 million in ads hitting at Richard Riordan. They apparently worked to some degree, obviously. How common is it to pour that much money into a primary race, Bill?", "Very uncommon. In fact, to my knowledge, it's unprecedented. Ten million dollars in the other party's primary? Now he says he was defending himself because Riordan started out by attacking Gray Davis rather than his Republican opponents, and Davis says he was fighting back. But a lot of people suspect with good reason that what he was trying to do was pick his opponent. He didn't want Dick Riordan to be his opponent because Dick Riordan has a lot of appeal to Democrats and to moderates and Gray Davis wanted the least electable Republican, in his view, to be nominated. Well, he has got Bill Simon, whom he is trying to demonize as a right-wing extremist. We'll see what happens.", "Yes. And Richard Riordan really was up substantially for quite a time until the last couple of weeks. Did he take his voters for granted or where did he make his misstep, Bill?", "Well, of course, he got his brains beaten out by Gray Davis in all those ads. He didn't run a very vigorous campaign either to fight back. It wasn't until the last few days that he really defended himself. He is a wealthy man. And I think the big disappointment in the White House, which encouraged him to run, is that he did not dip into his own personal fortune to spend money defending himself. He didn't seem to think it was worth it. So if you don't defend yourself against charges like that from your opponents and from the Democrats, then you are going to be in big trouble.", "Quickly, what do we know about Bill Simon? What more will we learn about him?", "We'll learn a lot more. He's a conservative. He's never held elected office before. His father was secretary of the treasury. He has good breeding. The chairman of the California Democratic Party called him an unelectable extremist and a sanctimonious hypocrite. Well, tell us what you really think.", "There's a mouthful.", "You're going to see more charges like that as the campaign goes on.", "Got it. Let's move up to the central valley and Gary Condit. His political future right now is over up until the fall of next year. Dennis Cardoza beat him. The numbers pretty sound, 55 to 37 percentage wise. Did that surprise you, that margin of difference there, Bill?", "Well, actually, I was surprised that he got as much as 37 percent of the vote.", "Really?", "That's a lot of people voting for Gary Condit. If they hadn't redrawn the district lines, if they kept him in his old district, there's a chance it would have been a lot closer than that. People are very attached personally to their member of Congress. He ran on the -- he was really running against the press and the way the press was treating him. There was a lot of sympathy for Gary Condit. Thirty-seven percent is not terrible. But, really, this race was hopeless from the beginning. It's very rare for a Congressman to lose renomination in his own primary. That's what happened to Gary Condit. He has to do something pretty bad and that is the way the voters felt, that he had something pretty bad. He embarrassed his district.", "He's going to finish out his term, obviously. What then? Has he indicated what he will do?", "He has been in public service for 30 years. I don't know that he's ever really had another job. So, it's not clear. Typically, and I'm not saying he is going to do this, but typically when a member of Congress leaves office, they stay right here in Washington and become lobbyists, advocates, representatives. That's how they continue their careers.", "Listen, turn out was pathetic yesterday. I think the second lowest ever. Have you been able to measure what sort of impact that may have had on either race here?", "Well, it certainly meant it was hopeless for Dick Riordan, because Dick Riordan really depended on a high turnout of independents voting in the Republican primary. But, apparently, they did not vote in very large numbers. So the Republican voters were overwhelmingly conservative, the kinds of people who resented Dick Riordan's criticism of their party and his attempt to say the Republican party has to change by reaching out to independents, moderates and more women.", "Boy, the race is on. Your time of year. Thank you, Bill. Much appreciated.", "Sure, Bill.", "Bill Schneider live there in D.C."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SR. POLITICAL ANALYST", "HEMMER", "SCHNEIDER", "HEMMER", "SCHNEIDER", "HEMMER", "SCHNEIDER", "HEMMER", "SCHNEIDER", "HEMMER", "SCHNEIDER", "HEMMER", "SCHNEIDER", "HEMMER", "SCHNEIDER", "HEMMER", "SCHNEIDER", "HEMMER", "SCHNEIDER", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-344649", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-07-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/08/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Giuliani Seems To Confirm Trump Asked Comey To Go Easy On Flynn", "utt": ["I'm very close to making a decision, have not made it official, yet, obviously, have not made it final. But we're very close to making a decision. Let's say it's the four people, but they are excellent, every one. You can't go wrong. But I'm getting very close to making a final decision.", "Who do you have in mind right now?", "I'll probably be deciding tonight or tomorrow.", "Tonight or tomorrow, President Trump teasing his last hour discussing his potential pick for the Supreme Court. He's set to announce his decision tomorrow night. Meanwhile, there's been a pretty significant development in the obstruction of justice investigation into the President. Today, his attorney Rudy Giuliani seemed to confirm that the President did in fact ask former FBI Director James Comey for leniency when it came to his friend and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. CNN White House Correspondent Boris Sanchez is live in New Jersey where the President was spending his weekend. Boris, this request of Comey, and his eventual firing essentially is what led to the Mueller investigation.", "That's right, Ryan, and the President has denied that James Comey's testimony about what happened during that meeting was accurate. The President has repeatedly said that Comey is lying specifically about whether or not the President asked Comey to take it easy on Michael Flynn. I want to point out this tweet from back in December of last year, specifically the President spells out, I never asked Comey to stop investigating Michael Flynn. Just more fake news covering another Comey lie. Well, today during an interview on ABC, Rudy Giuliani effectively said that the President asked James Comey to give him a break. Listen to this.", "He didn't direct him to do that. What he said to him was can you give him a break.", "Comey said he took it as direction.", "Well, that's OK. He could have taken it that way. I mean, by that time he had been fired. And he said a lot of other things, some of which have turned out to be on untrue. The reality is, as a prosecutor, I was told that many times can you give a man a break, either by his lawyers, by his relatives, by friends, you take that into consideration, but, you know, that doesn't determine not going forward with it.", "Give the man a break, that sort of contradict what is the President has said before, but ultimately Giuliani is making the argument that even if the President did make that suggestion to James Comey, it doesn't rise to the level of obstruction of justice. He laid out some very serious demands of the Special Counsel this weekend, essentially arguing that Robert Mueller has to prove that he has the jurisdiction to pursue an obstruction of justice investigation, among several other things. Effectively what Rudy Giuliani is doing is setting up a legal fight between the President's attorneys and the Special Counsel. He wants to make it so that Robert Mueller has to file a subpoena to try to compel the President to testify. Something he says he will fight in court. Ryan.", "Boris Sanchez live in New Jersey. Boris, thank you for that report. As Boris said, President Trump has repeatedly denied that he asked Comey to go easy on Flynn. In fact, listen to what the President said just last May.", "Did you at any time urge former FBI Director James Comey in any way, shape, or form to close, or back down the investigation into Michael Flynn, and also as you...", "No. No. Next question.", "All right, let's talk about this. We bring in CNN legal and political commentator Ken Cuccinelli. He, of course, the former Virginia Attorney General, and Editor for The Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol. Ken, I need your legal opinion on this, Rudy Giuliani says that Trump's ask is not out of the ordinary, that when he was a prosecutor, family members and friends of defendants always asked him to go easy on people. But this is the President of the United States talking to the director of the FBI not to prosecute one of his friends. Isn't that a little bit different than what Mayor Giuliani is talking about?", "Well, certainly, it is different and the behavior isn't different, and I think the President is right in that it was structured as not an order as both sides describe it. So the unusual feature you've zeroed in on, Ryan, is that he was the President at the time, talking to the FBI Director, but I don't think the request is all that unusual, particularly in light of what we now know of the Michael Flynn plea, frankly.", "OK. Bill, it's been hard to tell at times whether or not Mayor Giuliani is going off script, or trying to get ahead of the news by making certain facts public. I mean, what do you think of all this? Is this just a PR game by Mayor Giuliani?", "Yes, I think he knows that President Trump has certain vulnerabilities. Things he's said publicly to the media that aren't going to be defensible absolutely. And he's been pretty clever. I mean, each one of these looks like a gaffe, and there's a little embarrassment, and people like us say for a day or two that well, I thought he never requested that Flynn get a break, and guess what, he did made the request. But you get these things out one by one, three or four -- every three or four weeks, by the time it actually comes out, which it could come out, but there's a patterned of this, and that the President hasn't been truthful, and why hasn't he been truthful if he doesn't have anything to hide, and all that. I think they're hoping is people say, oh look, we knew that already. What's the big deal? So I actually do think Giuliani -- and he has said this (Inaudible), at least alluded to this, that he has a bit of a strategy of to letting these things go out bit by bit. This was very Clinton's strategy incidentally in 1998, leaking things that looked damaging to the president, but getting them out there enough that people got kind of used to it.", "Yes, I wonder in the beginning, people are wondering if maybe they were getting ahead of themselves. We're clearly seeing a pattern here that he's continuing, so it makes you think that this is part of a broader strategy. Now, Ken, this news comes out of a very critical two weeks for President Trump. Just take a look at what he had ahead of them. He has got the SCOTUS announcement tomorrow, then a NATO summit meeting.", "Right.", "He's got to also meet with the queen one on one, and then a meeting with Vladimir Putin. Now, we're told that President Trump wants to meet with Vladimir Putin alone with no advisers around him. Do you think that's a smart strategy for President Trump?", "No, I don't. But I think that's part of why he wants to do it is he wants to defy everybody else's expectations. I'd add one more item in there, Ryan. It is very likely that a Texas court is going to enjoin the DACA program this month in the case brought by the attorneys general including Ken Paxton of Texas, and five others, so that's going to reheat the immigration issue here at home while he's traveling abroad.", "That's a very good point. And, Bill, I mean, getting back to Putin, why do you think President Trump wants to be alone with him? I mean, what's the benefit there?", "Ryan, just on Ken's point, that also had trade. It does seem to be the definition where Republicans in Congress are getting sufficiently worked up that you can imagine an actual attempt to move legislation that would take on the President's tariffs, so there are a heck of a lot of big issues facing the Trump administration, and the President personally, and also Republicans, and everyone else on the Hill. In terms of Putin, look, I worked for Vice President Quayle, and there were times when you would have a one on one meeting before the larger group came in. There is a translator (Inaudible), presumably, it was always regarded as a courtesy, you don't really want business to be done in the media without a reliable note taker, usually your national security adviser, or someone like that, so that you don't get in a position where one person walks out with either genuine misunderstanding, which could be damaging to the national interest. Or someone like Putin taking advantage of something saying that Trump said this, Trump might say, oh no, I didn't, but meanwhile damage could have been done to our allies' confidence, and stuff, and so forth. So I would strongly -- I imagine John Bolton and Mike Pompeo are strongly recommending to the President that any one on one meeting be as short as possible, and as vague, and as general as possible.", "Of course, we'll have to see if he takes that advice, if he is getting it, which isn't always necessarily a given.", "He always does that, Ryan. I mean, no problem.", "Yes, no problem there. Ken, I know you're going to be watching tomorrow night when the President announces his Supreme Court pick is.", "Yes.", "He actually just tweeted a few seconds ago that he's looking forward to making that decision at 9:00 p.m. tomorrow night. Still, holding his cards close to his vest. We kind of have an idea of who the four finalists are. But, of course, everybody who is talking to our reporters says we don't know for sure until the words actually come out of his mouth. I mean, Ken, what are you looking for? Are you just looking for a conservative jurist, or are there some specific things that you are hoping to see in the president's pick?", "Well, certainly, I think the list is spectacular. I mean, there isn't a bad judge on it. So you start above the Kennedy level to begin with, regardless of who they pick, and their finalists are also excellent. I think there are people who have favorites, and concerns, and so forth. I've expressed some concerns about Judge Kavanaugh recognizing he's an outstanding judge, but not as good as his competitors. I also think that putting my Senate conservative fund hat on where I try to help conservatives get into the Senate, Amy Barrett is an excellent midterm pick. When the Democrats still used the attack lines of the Republicans are somehow against women, to have a woman nominee would be an excellent shield in that, and you don't give up any merit based concerns. She's an excellent pick in her own right, so in an election year, she sort of gets an extra couple of points, if you will, compare to some of her competitors, she helps the Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate in this election cycle in addition to being a great pick for the seat. It would be interesting if she was selected, we'd get a Scalia clerk pick for the Kennedy seat, and a Kennedy clerk pick for the Scalia seat, Justice Gorsuch.", "All right. Bill, I'll give you the last word on this. I mean, you've been very critical of the President obviously, but if he picks another conservative judge, will you approve?", "Yes, it's a good list, I agree with Ken on that. I think I've talked to some people who talked to the President actually, or people close to the President, I think Kavanaugh will not get it. I you get he's a good judge, but he's a D.C. Circuit judge, a D.C. insider. Easy to attack on those grounds for Democrats to attack and doesn't really add anything. I think -- I think the two judges in the Midwest, Hardiman, and Kethledge give you more of a kind of Gorsuch-like -- you know, people who didn't go to -- in their case, didn't go to Ivy League law schools, and all that, (Inaudible). And I agree with Ken that I think Amy Barrett is -- would be a risky and daring pick, and has the highest upside as well politically, they are all good judges, but -- so I think the decision becomes a confirmation decision, and to some degree a 2018 election decision.", "Interesting, both of you kind of picking Judge Barrett as the dark horse tomorrow night. We'll have to see what happens. Ken Cuccinelli, Bill Kristol, thank you for a perfect conversation, we appreciate you being on.", "Good to be with you.", "All right. We have some breaking news into CNN. A woman exposed to a deadly Soviet-era nerve agent has died. We're going to have the details on this when we come back."], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TRUMP", "NOBLES", "BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "RUDY GIULIANI, PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ATTORNEY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GIULIANI", "SANCHEZ", "NOBLES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TRUMP", "NOBLES", "KEN CUCCINELLI, LEGAL AND POLITICAL COMMENTATOR, CNN", "NOBLES", "BILL KRISTOL, EDITOR, THE WEEKLY STANDARD", "NOBLES", "CUCCINELLI", "NOBLES", "CUCCINELLI", "NOBLES", "KRISTOL", "NOBLES", "KRISTOL", "NOBLES", "CUCCINELLI", "NOBLES", "CUCCINELLI", "NOBLES", "KRISTOL", "NOBLES", "KRISTOL", "NOBLES"]}
{"id": "NPR-28918", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2013-06-27", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=196338118", "title": "Farmers Twisting In The Wind Without New Farm Bill", "summary": "It's wheat harvest season in Kansas, but also a busy time for federal Farm Service Agency workers there who are up against a deadline to figure a controversial subsidy called \"direct payments\". The farm bill governs almost all agricultural policy, and has direct bearing on both those endeavors. It would modify crop insurance subsidies and end direct payments. But there is no farm bill. The House has failed two years running to pass one, leaving farmers in limbo. Fortunately for farmers, it's a position they've grown quite accustomed to.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.", "And I'm Robert Siegel.", "weather, markets, and government. The weather has been good in many parts of the country and the markets are up. But government remains the wild card. Congress failed to pass the Farm Bill, the huge package of legislation that lays out years of food policy. And that leaves farmers in limbo.", "But as Frank Morris of member station KCUR reports, they're getting used to it.", "The wheels may have come off the Farm Bill but out in Kansas, actual farming is going full tilt.", "We're getting the bugs out the combine. Just getting started harvesting wheat.", "Steven Kalb, a young man with a green cap, stands in a golden field near Baldwin City, Kansas, and he looks pretty happy.", "S. KALB: Yeah, this is Kansas wheat harvest at its best.", "This wheat does look good, a complete reversal from last year when drought killed corn and soybeans around here. And wheat prices are nearly double what they were just a few years ago. Right now, the weather and markets are the least of Kalb's worries.", "S. KALB: Well, I feel the government is the least trustworthy of those three, probably.", "Congress regulates food policy with the Farm Bill. About 80 percent of it goes for food subsidies for lower income people, programs like SNAP and WIC. Then there are programs designed to keep farmers in business and the food coming. That's money for subsidized crop insurance, agricultural research, conservation, on and on. The Farm Bill's collapse in the House last week throws all this into limbo.", "Up in the cab of his combine, in front of space-age controls, Kermit Kalb, Steven's dad, seems pretty sanguine about the political impasse.", "Washington's a long way from here. And we know, we heard the bill had failed but not much we can do about it.", "Something similar happened last year. The House couldn't pass a farm bill, the old one expired, and Congress patched with a one-year extension. Kalb is not that anxious about it.", "K. KALB: That's part of agriculture with the weather, diseases, insects, government.", "One thing that bugs Kalb about not having a new farm bill is that the old one preserves direct payments to farmers, payments he receives each year, whether he needs them or not.", "K. KALB: Somebody's got to pay that, you know. And that's not fair.", "Direct payments are a hold-over from a 1990s plan intended to wean farmers off subsidies. They were supposed be temporary. Steven Kalb says they pay land owners each year, regardless of need.", "S. KALB: You just kind of walk into the farm service agency and say: I'm a farmer and I farm this piece of ground. And they say, well, here's the payment for that farm.", "This is one of our busiest times of year.", "At the County Farm Service Agency, in Lawrence, Kansas, John Alley is up against a deadline to process requests for direct payments. Hundreds of red folders are heaped in little stacks all over this office.", "Producers have to come in and report their acres...", "If last year's Farm Bill would have passed, Alley wouldn't have to bother with all this, because it would have ended direct payments, saving billions of dollars a year. That's something most farmers agree with, even guys like Mike Shultz, who farms out in western Kansas, where serious drought is still killing crops.", "All our wheat was finished in the drought, covered it under crop insurance.", "Crop insurance has become the main safety net across farm country, keeping farmers in business through disasters. Taxpayers pick up most of the cost. The House Farm Bill would have enhanced crop insurance, and expanded coverage to crops not fully included now. That was a sticking point for some environmentally-minded congressmen and fiscal conservatives. The bill might have passed over those objections, though, if not for a dispute over the size of cuts to low-income food programs.", "Schultz thinks farmers would do better if Congress considered farm subsidies on their own, separate from nutrition assistance.", "Those of us that work are getting tired of footing the bill. So I'm for decoupling the deal.", "If that were to happen, it would be difficult, potentially, to get the kind of support for rural programs that we currently get.", "Tom Vilsack, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, says divorcing SNAP from Ag policy would bust up a grand rural/urban coalition that's passed generations of farm bills, even as rural populations dwindle and lose political clout.", "For the most part, these are good times for Midwestern crop farmers. But as they well-know, the weather, the markets and Washington, D.C. are fickle. They just hope that the next time the climate or crop prices go crazy, Congress will be ready with a new farm bill.", "For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris in Kansas City."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "Farmers work at the mercy of three forces that are largely outside their control", "Farmers work at the mercy of three forces that are largely outside their control", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "STEVEN KALB", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "STEVEN KALB", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "JOHN ALLEY", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "JOHN ALLEY", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "MIKE SCHULTZ", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "MIKE SCHULTZ", "TOM VILSACK", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE", "FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-293219", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-09-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/05/cnr.19.html", "summary": "U.S., Russia Tried for Syria Deal at G20; Amphetamines Fueling Some Syrian Militants; North Korea Fires 3 Ballistic Missiles; Cybersecurity Threat Hangs Over G20", "utt": ["Hello, and welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. And this is CNN NEWSROOM. At the G20 summit in China, U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin have met on the sidelines. But a U.S. official tells CNN the talks with Russia for a deal to ease the conflict in Syria have ended for now. The G20 summit will come to a close in less than three hours. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also met on the sidelines at the summit. There was hope for meaningful progress for solution for peace in Syria, but the two sides were unable to come to any agreement. The U.S. and Russia have been at odds on the situation in Syria for some time now. And Matt Rivers has been watching this summit very closely in Hangzhou and he joins us now live. So, Matt, do Russian and U.S. talks, they're over, no deal was reached on Syria. What happens next? And what more do we know about this meeting between the presidents of U.S. and Russia?", "In terms of the meeting going on this afternoon, that is closed to the press. In terms of the nitty-gritty details the two are talking of, we're not sure yet. Before this meeting happened, officials from both sides said this informal meeting was likely to happen and at the top of their agenda would likely be the ongoing conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. And as you mentioned, within the last two hours or so, we have heard the talks between the United States and Russia in terms of figuring out a new deal for the conflict to help ease the violence in Syria, they have failed here at the G20 for the meantime. And differences are still very wide, according to a senior U.S. official on both sides. Now in terms of what the differences are, whether they're more technical, minutia details, or whether there are still big broad differences between both sides of the negotiating table, we're still not sure yet. But the fact remains that that is something Presidents Putin and Obama could be discussing here in their informal meeting. There had been some optimism as late as yesterday afternoon in Hangzhou that we could see a deal come to fruition. But it was late yesterday evening the secretary of state John Kerry came out, told reporters that negotiations would continue into today. But it's been within the last two hours or so that we have learned that there will be no agreement reached here in Hangzhou during the summit.", "That is certainly frustrating for so many people. What exactly has been achieved overall at this G20 summit? Anything? Anything concrete?", "It depends on who you ask. If you talk to these leaders, every time, they come out and say it's always good to have dialogue between the economies of the world and that's never a bad thing. It's hard to argue that point. But in terms of specific things that are coming out of this G20, there isn't really anything that has come out that you can point to say that is the achievement here. That is the knock on these G20 summits overall is oftentimes the criticism end up being the leaders gather and sit around a big table and take a nice photograph today. But in terms of what is being done specifically, oftentimes there isn't anything that comes out. But proponents of these kind of meetings will say, look, it's never a bad thing when you the leaders of the largest economies in the world getting a chance to sit down, talk face-to-face, have one-on-one discussions. And you have leaders, like the new British prime minister, Theresa May, perhaps laying the groundwork for new deals for Britain. You have President Xi Jinping promoting his country's openness towards the continuation of free trade deals. Those are all things the leaders want to push. Those are their agendas. For them, perhaps, successful time spent here at the G20. But overall, no specific point in terms of a breakthrough or success here in here.", "Very frustrating. Matt Rivers reporting there from Hangzhou in China. It's just after 2:00 in the afternoon. Let's talk about next hour. Appreciate it. Our Jomana Karadsheh has been following developments at the G20 summit and in Syria from neighboring Jordan. She joins us now from Amman. Jomana, this outcome from the G-7 submit, it is a slap in the face for those caught up in the war in Syria. What's the reaction so far from the region of this lack of progress for peace talks?", "Well, Rosemary, people here are waking up to this news, we'll have to wait and see what kind of reactions we get. We've been speaking to activists and residents, especially in Aleppo, because of the situation there and the escalating violence that's been taking place. We've asked them about what they thought about the U.S. and Russia trying to work out a deal and possible cease-fire in the works, and you get a lot of skepticism from them. There is a lot of lack of trust when it comes to Russia. And some of the activists we spoke to finding it hard how Russia could be a part of brokering any deals directly taking part in this conflict. And for them they have seen troops fallen apart in the past. You remember that cessation of hostility that went into effect earlier this year and broke down. There is a lot of skepticism. No matter what people thought of this deal or no deal, the critical issue has been humanitarian aid delivery, something we have heard so much about from the United Nation. It has been so critical. They want a pause in the fighting, especially around these areas, for example, parts of Aleppo in the eastern part where desperately needed humanitarian aid and supplies are running out. They need to get the aid. The U.N. says they cannot do this unless there is a pause in the fighting. With this news of no deal, a lot of concerns of what this means, especially, Rosemary, over night, we heard from the Syrian's state news agency, as well, as the monitoring group saying the eastern part of Aleppo that's been under rebel control is under siege again by regime forces and their ally forces. So warnings we heard in the past of a humanitarian crisis that's unfolding in Aleppo in the eastern part of that city where there are more than 250,000 people who continue to pay the heaviest price when it comes to the fighting and conflicts -- Rosemary?", "Jomana, what is it going to take an old likelihood to get peace talks between Russia and the U.S. back on track here?", "It depends, Rosemary, on what the issues are. These differences we heard President Obama yesterday describe as great differences remain. We'll have to wait and see whether they'll be able to reach any sorts of compromise to get these talks back on track, to reach some sort of an agreement. The pressure is trying to reach any sort of deal to allow humanitarian deliveries into the besieged area. We'll have to wait to see what the U.S. and Washington officials will say about these talks, and why it failed, it is not really clear yet, and what points they actually agreed on, and what remains -- what the differences remain at that point -- Rosemary?", "Of course, we are still waiting to hear the results of the meeting between the president of the United States and Russia. We'll keep a close eye on that. Jomana Karadsheh, for bringing us up to date. Just after 9:00 in the morning there. Many thanks to you. Turkey is claiming a big victory in its fight against ISIS. Turkish state media reports the terror group has lost its last territory on the Turkish-Syrian border. The news comes after Turkey sent tanks and armored vehicles into the Syrian border town of Alrai (ph) over the weekend. A Turkish military member told CNN, a dozen other villages near the border were captured by the Free Syrian Army, backed by Turkey. Now this video is said to show some of that fighting. This could be a major setback for ISIS, choking off its supply lines. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says ISIS has essentially lost contact with the outside world. Farther south in Syria, officials in Damascus say they have seized 400,000 tablets of a black-market drug used by jihadists. Our Brian Todd filed this report last November on the amphetamine fuelling Syrian militants.", "A captured ISIS militant named Kareem tells CNN how he got his battlefield courage.", "They gave us drugs, hallucinogenic pills, that would make you go to battle and not care if you live or die.", "When our CNN team interviewed Kareem last November, he was being held by Kurdish militants in northern Syria. It was impossible to know if he was telling the truth or being coached by his captors.", "But now, a U.S. official tells CNN it's believed some jihadist fighters are using the drug Captagon, a dangerous and powerful amphetamine. (on camera): How does it fuel you on battlefields? DR. ROBERT KEISLING (ph),", "It keeps you awake and giving you a sense of well-being and euphoria and you think you're invincible and that nothing can harm you.", "Recently, the U.N.'s drug czar said ISIS and the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front were believed to be smuggling the chemical precursors for Captagon. A U.S. law enforcement official tells CNN there is a robust black market for the drugs in the Middle East. Analysts say the profits fund weapons purchases for jihadist groups.", "Hezbollah, people affiliated with Hezbollah have a long history in the production and sale of Captagon. At one point, there was a fight between Hezbollah affiliated persons because some people were angry they were not getting a cut of someone's business.", "Captagon was developed in the '60s and was first used to treat people with hyperactivity. It has since been banned in the U.S. and elsewhere. And while some question the drug's prevalence among fighters who preach Islamic purity, analysts say jihadists can find a justification. (on camera): Is it critical, it is a violation of cultural religious principles?", "You have some saying this is not hypocritical, that, first of all, it is not a drug that's taken to get high. Physiatrist Robert Keisling (ph), who treated thousands of addicts, says Captagon is so hallucinogenic, it can make a user hear voices and see things that aren't there. That can hurt you on the battlefield, right?", "Absolutely, but I think they have made the decision that keeping these guys awake for four or five days at a time and giving them the sense of invincibility is worth whatever horror or side effects the drugs have.", "For whatever sense of euphoria and invincibility Captagon might produce, Doctor Keisling (ph) says there are horrible down sides. Users, he says, can become psychotic, brain damaged and, of course, can get addicted to the drugs for years to come. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "South Korea says Pyongyang has fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast. CNN's Paula Hancocks is live in Seoul, South Korea, with the details on this. Paula, what do we know so far about these free ballistic missiles?", "Well, Rosemary, we are getting more information here in Seoul. They say they believe they flew around 1,000 kilometers. They're assumed to be mid-range missiles. They believe they were actually flown into Japan's air defense identification zone, the air zone that Japan monitors for its own security. They also say that there was no prior navigational warning for these launches. We heard earlier from Japan's defense minister that they increased their state of vigilance and he's calling for gathering analysis of information. Also, they condemned what they said was once again of a violation of the United Nation Security Council resolution that North Korea is not allowed to use this ballistic technology. Time and time again, they can carry out these launches. They also gave insights on why they believe North Korea are doing this today, which is two things, the G20 summit that's going on in China. We know the presidents in South Carolina talked about North Korea, and towards the end of the week, on Friday, you have Foundation Day, the day they celebrate the foundation of North Korea -- Rosemary?", "The big fear is just how much progress being made since the previous launch, and from what you said there, if they're assessing a thousand kilometers, that's significant progress since the last. How much of a concern is that?", "It depends on which missile you are looking at. With the submarine launch a couple of weeks ago of a ballistic missile, they did make tremendous inroads. It was hailed a great success in North Korea. And the leader, Kim Jong-Un looking delighted. That flew around 500 kilometers. That was believed by many experts to be a success story and a significant increase in the capability. We these latest missiles, we have seen them fired a number of times. We don't know the exact altitude of the missiles. The fact that it went into this Japanese aviation area is significant to the great concern to Japan.", "Most definitely. We'll wait for more analysis and assessment on that. Our Paula Hancocks joining us there from South Korea, Seoul. It is only 3:15 in the afternoon. We'll talk again next hour on this very issue. Let's take a short break here. Still to come, protests continue in Brazil days after the former president was ousted. Who's the target of these latest demonstrations? Plus, Donald Trump's campaign tries to clarify what his position is on illegal immigration. And what one of his biggest supporters said about the issue? 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{"id": "CNN-162388", "program": "ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL", "date": "2011-2-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1102/21/ijvm.01.html", "summary": "Trail of Murder and Kidnapping?; Judge Trades Convictions for Cash", "utt": ["Tonight, a desperate manhunt. A mother cries out in anguish against her boyfriend. Crops say he brutally stabbed her daughter, leaving her half-naked under a wood pile. Now that boyfriend is also suspected of kidnapping an elderly couple who once owned the house they lived in. Why would he kidnap them? And why is the FBI combing an Ohio landfill?", "My kid`s not here. He`s dead because of him! He ruined my", "And a mother rages against a twisted greedy judge convicted of sticking kids in jail in exchange for cash. This mom`s son killed himself after being released from a stint behind bars. Prosecutors say this judge used children as pawns to enrich himself. Will this Mr. Zero Tolerance former judge finally pay for his crimes? We`ll hear from this devastated mother. Also, a grieving mob turns violent against two journalists at the scene of a crime. No, this isn`t a foreign entanglement. It`s happening here in the U.S. of A. What drove this crowd to attack? I`ll have the shocking video. Plus, royal wedding shockers. Before the \"I dos,\" the invitations arrive. Who made the cut for William and Kate`s royal wedding? You will not believe who`s on and off the list. ISSUES starts now.", "My concern is for their life. I like the Russells very much. We`ve been friends for years and years. I`m very worried about them.", "Tonight, breaking news in a bizarre murder mystery. As we speak right now, cops are on a frantic hunt for a suspected killer on the run. Now, cops believe 37-year-old Sam Littleton -- that guy, with the mustache, and the beard, right there -- murdered the daughter, the adult daughter of his live-in girlfriend. But it didn`t stop there. Now an elderly couple from the very same town is missing. Their car missing. Were they his ticket out of town? Are they his hostages right now? Just last Thursday, cops found the body of 26-year-old mother of two Tiffany Brown. There she is. She was found partially clothed, OK, viciously stabbed to death, and shoved under a wood pile in the basement of her own mother`s house. Now, at the time of Tiffany`s murder, her mother`s boyfriend, this guy, this creep, Sam Littleton, was living in the basement of that very house. Cops say they also found bloody clothing at the house. But before cops could do anything, before they could even talk to Sam Littleton, he vanished. And now Tiffany Brown`s friends are begging for him, please, come forward.", "You need to come and just tell them what you know, Sam. There`s a lot of stuff that`s unknown at this point. And we need you here to put it all together. Please just come forward and let us know whether you did have part or you didn`t. We still need to know.", "So what is the connection to this elderly missing couple, Gladis and Richard Russell, to this guy? Well, they apparently sold Sam Littleton the house where he was living, where Tiffany`s body was found. And cops found his phone number on the Russells` kitchen table. The Russells, by the way, are in their mid-80s. They need medication desperately tonight. Richard Russell also needs his wheelchair. But it was left at the house. And now Sam Littleton`s ex-wife has come forward with a chilling warning. This guy is dangerous. She says he`s obsessed with knives and repeatedly tried to stab her. So where on earth is this man tonight? And can police find the elderly Russells alive? WE certainly hope so. Straight out to Bill Rinehart, reporter with WLW radio in Cincinnati. Bill, you`re all over this story. What is the very latest?", "Well, the latest is they combed a landfill just north of Cincinnati for much of the day, and what exactly they`re looking for they may not know themselves. Going back a little bit, last Wednesday, the Russells` car was found at a rest area in Butler County just north of Cincinnati. An Ohio state trooper noticed it backed up to a Dumpster. He ran a plate check on it. Nothing came back. It wasn`t reported stolen. It wasn`t reported missing. The Russells, as far as anyone knew, were safe and sound. Now, Thursday, the Russells` neighbor in Bellefontaine noticed that the car was gone. Those -- they were gone; hadn`t seen them in a while. Got worried, called the police. The police went in, as you mentioned, found Sam Littleton`s phone number on a piece of paper in the house. So police started a search for the Russells. Once they realized the Ohio state patrol had seen that car Thursday, they contacted the company that picks up the trash from that rest area, found out the trash had been dumped on Friday at the landfill. So they started making arrangements with Rumke (ph), the operators of the landfill, to search it. Now, that landfill is the largest in the state of Ohio. It`s the sixth largest in the entire nation. But there is a bit of luck on investigators` side. The driver who picked up the load from the rest area knew approximately where he put that load. So that narrowed the search down to about a one-acre area. On the other hand, the trash there is 15 feet deep. Searchers went into the landfill today. They got into it. It was raining a lot. And they didn`t find anything. They had to cancel the search about 3 p.m. because it looked like more heavy weather was coming in.", "Well, let`s just hope and pray that they don`t find anything that is -- well, tragic. Let`s put it that way. Tonight, the FBI has joined the desperate search for Gladis and Richard Russell, both in their mid-80s, feared kidnapped and in harm`s way. Now, again, as you just heard from the reporter, this is all happening about 100 miles outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the small town of Bellefontaine, Ohio. Before the Russells were reported missing, a trooper happened to spot their car, just coincidence, at a rest stop on I-75, which is about 30 miles, at least, from their home. By coincidence, again, he runs a check. Nothing turns up. Well, they hadn`t even been reported missing yet. Today, crews searched the landfall landfill, as you just heard. And at this point, they can`t find anything when it comes to this couple. Now, let`s take a look at their car. It`s a green 2004 Grand Marquis with Ohio plates, PDG-13E. That is the car that we`re looking for. Who is in it? Is it Sam Littleton with the two elderly people? Let`s hope that somebody spots them. Joining me now, Mike and Susan Coder. Susan is the Russells` niece. First of all, thank you for joining us. I know this has got to be so hard on your family. What is going through your mind and your heart right now as you watch this horror unfold, Susan?", "Well, Uncle Dick and Aunt Gladis are very much a part of our family. I mean, when we have get-togethers, they`re there, and it`s just they`re not now, and it`s very difficult. I mean, we just want them back. We -- you know, that`s all that matters to us. You know, we need them.", "I can`t even imagine what these two people in their mid-80s might be going through. They need their medication. Do they not, Susan?", "Yes, they do, very, very much.", "What would you say to Sam Littleton if he happens to be watching somewhere on the lam right now, holding these people you love so much as hostages, if that`s the case? What would you say to him?", "Just that we want them back. We -- they`re part of our family. We need them.", "Why on earth would he take them? I mean, what is -- what do they have to do with him, except that they sold him the house he was in?", "That`s a very good question. We haven`t been able to figure that out. You know, there`s -- I suppose money, car, whatever, but we don`t really know.", "If you had one thing to say, if your grandparents -- I`m sorry, if your uncle and aunt were watching right now, what would you say to them to keep them strong?", "Just, we want you back. We miss you. We need you. You know, hang in there. I don`t know. Just we want them back.", "Neighbors were the first to alert police that something was very terribly wrong at the Russells` house. Listen to this.", "I am worried about my neighbors. They`re an elderly couple. I walked around the house. A back door was open.", "Hank Kies, you are a friend of the missing elderly couple. You spoke to them the morning they went missing. What did they say? Did they indicate that there was anything amiss?", "Nothing was amiss when I talked to them. I called to ask if Dick would like to ride along to the Lions district cabinet meeting. And she said his blood sugar was around 4 -- a little over 400 which is dangerous. And -- but she said, \"You want to talk to him?\" So I did. And we talked, and I asked him how`s come he was gimping around. And he said, \"Well, I had to go out and feed the cats.\" And he fell on the ice and injured his ankle, break still severe.", "Oh, my God. So this guy was injured even before.", "And I`ve known them approximately 50 years, so...", "Oh, my God. Here`s my big issue tonight. Now, was somebody sleeping with the enemy here? Tiffany Brown`s mother, the dead woman`s mother, was actually living with this guy, the suspect, Sam Littleton, even after Tiffany was found dead. Listen to this.", "Laid down beside me for five nights and knew it. God help him. God help him. They better catch him before we do.", "Dr. Robi Ludwig, psychotherapist, imagine her horror to find out that she was sleeping with the person suspected of murdering, viciously stabbing her own adult daughter.", "I mean, again, this is so scary that you sometimes don`t really know who you`re with until it`s too late. And we don`t know enough about this woman`s history to know whether there were signs that somehow could have alerted her to this fate. But nobody thinks that their boyfriend would ultimately...", "Well, yes there was. Now the ex-wife of this suspect is coming out and saying that he has a history of violence, that he`s obsessed with knives, that he got drunk and tried to stab her once: \"He grabbed me and threw me down in the basement and locked me there for two hours.\" But the ex-wife never filed charges. So there`s another lesson there, Robi Ludwig.", "Well, the best way to predict whether you`re with somebody who`s violent is to find out about their past relationships. If they start giving an indication that they hate women, or they were violent towards women at any point in their history, than that`s a -- that`s a dangerous sign you need to take very, very seriously.", "All right. Again, the hunt is on. Thank you, fantastic panel. We hope they find this elderly couple OK. Coming up later, shocking video, and I mean shocking. A mob attacks a TV crew. And we`re going to talk to the reporter who was attacked live. But first, a corrupt judge convicted of sending kids to jail in exchange for cash.", "My kid`s not here! He`s dead because of him! He ruined my", "Prescription drugs are making us high. Fast food is making us fat. TV seduces us with glamorized violence. \"Addict Nation\" is a blueprint for change.", "This is an intervention. My new book, \"Addict Nation,\" available online now, Amazon.com. I talk about our culture`s addiction to violence and crime and what we can do about it. Check out \"Addict Nation\" at AddictNation.org or Amazon.com. Read it and find out how together we can all counteract our nation`s addiction to crime.", "No, you know what you told everybody in court, they need to be held accountable for their actions. You need to be. You remember me? You remember me? You remember my son, an all-star wrestler? He`s gone. He shot himself in the heart. You scumbag!", "Rage and anguish boil over as a mother confronts the corrupt judge who put her son away. Sandy Fonzo`s son committed suicide after serving a way-too-harsh sentence for a very minor drug-related offense. It was all part of Judge Mark Ciavarella`s sick scheme to get rich from the bench. Now that mom is so mad. That guy, this greedy judge, now former judge, convicted Friday on 12 charges, including racketeering and money laundering. Now, here`s how his scheme worked. He sent kids to juvenile detention centers in exchange for cold, hard cash, moulah, from friends who owned those facilities. As the cash rolled in, Judge Ciavarella incarcerated juveniles at break-neck speed. We`re not talking about locking up dangerous violent criminals here. We`re not talking about rapists and murderers. In most cases, these were minor crimes by young first-time offenders. Listen to one young man who was blindsided by this judge`s twisted court of corruption.", "I was honestly expecting, like, some form of, like, simple probation or some type of fine or something like that. The last thing I expected was to get sent away.", "Well, tonight, the tables have finally turned as this judge awaits his sentence. What do you think he deserves? I say put him away for good. Straight out to Andy Mehalshick, reporter for WBRE. Andy, you have been tracking this case from the very start. What is the very latest?", "Well, in fact, I can tell you, Jane -- first of all, thanks for having me on here tonight. This case broke late in 2007, early 2008, with rumors that there was something going on at the private detention facility involving the judges. Whereas you know the FBI, very quiet with their investigation. As it broke in January 2009, the mother`s anger you saw there tonight, really, many would agree epitomizes and is an example of how many people are frustrated, angry, hundreds of families who say their kids were sent away for very minor crimes, creating Web sites making fun of teachers. One son was sent away for breaking the hood ornament off her mother`s car. The mother wanted to be tough love, sent the kid before Ciavarella, and he went away for about 15 months. So what you`re seeing there is cost of the anger that many parents feel pent up. Jane, I can also tell you this much for sure. Many people even more angry after the guilty verdict, because they say former Judge Mark Ciavarella, moments after he was found guilty of extortion, denied and still denies any Kids for Cash scheme. Basically, he says it was a finder`s fee from the builder...", "He`s minimizing the whole thing. But he can`t minimize away what I hope is going to be a very long sentence. Now, this mom, Sandy Fonzo`s son, Edward, he was just 17 when he was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia. It was his first brush with the law. Judge Ciavarella sentenced him to 30 days in juvie, followed by four months of boot camp. Sandy says it sent her son on a downward spiral. He did not get an athletic scholarship he was hoping to get. He developed anger issues. Last June, he shot himself. CNN`s Don Lemon asked Sandy if she could ever forgive this former judge. Listen.", "There is no justice. He`ll never receive my sentence, what I have to live with, every day of my life without my son. He left on that beautiful day yesterday to go back with his family. I have nothing anymore. And he still has no -- nothing -- it was all for nothing. It was all for greed and for more and more. He never had enough. And he took everything from me. And I`ll never, never forgive him, no.", "Dr. Drew Pinsky, who is joining us this spring with his own show here on HLN. This case is a reminder of the impact being locked up has on a young person. It often taints them forever, like a scarlet letter, in fact.", "Well, that`s exactly right. And the fact is, it`s a cautionary tale about being too harsh with punitive measures for people with substance problems particularly. And the state of our treatment of particularly young people under the age of 18. You see these outcomes are not very good. Also, a cautionary tale for any professional of any stripe taking kickbacks. Because, you know, perhaps he does have a clear conscience, and he was just being very tough with the law. Well, he was tough with the law and taking kickbacks. It doesn`t look very good. And he was applying the -- sort of a vigorous application of punishment where it wasn`t clearly indicated and where, clearly, as you hear from these story, the outcomes are not good. God willing, some day these guys...", "This guy was getting money, Dr. Drew, almost $1 million.", "Wow, that`s unbelievable.", "And that`s what`s so horrifying, is that, you know...", "It`s unbelievable.", "... our justice system is screwed up. May I say that?"], "speaker": ["JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HOST (voice-over)", "SANDY FONZO, MOTHER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "ARTHUR COSTIN, RUSSELLS` DOCTOR", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "BILL RINEHART, REPORTER, WLW", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "SUSAN CODER, NIECE OF THE RUSSELLS", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "S. CODER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "S. CODER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "S. CODER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "S. 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{"id": "CNN-251143", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-03-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/13/cnr.05.html", "summary": "OU's Sigma Alpha Epsilon Chapter May Sue University And Its President", "utt": ["You're watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin stuck with the new backlash to the University of Oklahoma. It is now coming from this infamous fraternity, local chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, SAE. The fraternity booted off campus over a video that shows members shouting this racist chant. Now the twist is they may sue the school and perhaps even the president of the university. Our Oklahoma City affiliate KFOR (ph) is reporting a high-powered attorney hired by the chapter as some SAE members, they're upset that they are all being branded as bigots and racists. In fact, we're hearing -- we could be hearing from the attorney a little bit later during the show. Joining me now, CNN and HLN legal analyst Danny Cevallos and Joey Jackson both from all defense attorneys, both, as far as I can tell, on far ends of the spectrum as far as how this story should be treated. So my first question and this is to either of you, would this local fraternity have a case? And we don't know what kind of litigation, you know, this could look like. Would they have a case here?", "Let's analyze it this way. There are two separate issues, right, the fraternity versus the national fraternity. They probably have no case there because that's a private entity. It's probably covered in their bylaws or their internal rules. They can revoke a charter probably however they want to. But I don't know. I haven't seen the charter. None of us have. As the university goes, that's a different issue. University of Oklahoma is a public university so it must follow the First Amendment. It cannot suppress protected speech. And a student's attendance at a university, a public university is a property right that is protected by due process. This has been the law for decades. So if they're going to revoke their status, the university is going to kick the university off summarily, do those students within that fraternity have due process rights by virtue of their membership in the fraternity. It's an interesting constitutional question.", "All due process means is --", "Right? All due process means is that you're afforded notice and an opportunity to be heard.", "(Inaudible) students would say that they can get that, have them like this.", "You know, well, if there's something called a summary action, that means I take action now and if you want to grieve (ph) it, by all means, we'll have a proceeding and we'll address it at that proceeding. But I don't have to wait until I get a ruling for you to go but let's talk about the law for one minute here if we could.", "OK, sure.", "The reality is that here you have a balance, I -- I would argue that not only did the university is what they did constitutionally protect it but I would argue that they had an affirmative obligation to do it. You ask why. There's something called Title VI also of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and what does it say? It says that no discrimination for anyone getting federal funding could be tolerated so you can make the argument. If the school doesn't act, then are they deemed to be otherwise embracing these statements?", "But the fraternity is taking a step further, not only with the university act but then this local fraternity, SAE, staying back to the university. They're continuously exploring legal avenues against the university and the university president.", "The students are.", "Right.", "Yes. The students are, to the extent of their free speech, they feel their speech has been suppressed or they haven't been afforded due process, they may. The real constitutional question is, do you have standing as a member of a fraternity when the fraternity is the thing that has been kicked off campus. In other words, just by virtue of their membership, can they challenge the fact that, yes, this fraternity was summarily kicked off campus. Going to Mr. Jackson's comment, the students who were expelled absolutely have a claim because that was done unconstitutionally and a very, very short version is the vast majority of speech is protected. Some speech is not. Things like harassment.", "What about defamation?", "But the problem is Oklahoma did not proceed on the theory of defamation. They have always said that this is a hostile environment, therefore it's harassment. And if it's harassment, the Supreme Court is clear, Mr. Jackson.", "If he call me \"Mr. Jackson\" I know I'm in trouble.", "You're in serious --", "Crystal clear that yes harassment is something that is severe, it's something that's pervasive. But it's more than that, it's something that effectively denies a student the access to his or her education and I don't see that here under the facts, though Mr. Jackson may disagree.", "Well, OK. And here is what I would have to say.", "OK.", "There's a student code of conduct and let's say what it says, it says that they can act, that is the school, if there is conduct which can be found intimidating, harassing, or humiliating. Now, could you make the argument that this conduct is found in that way? Absolutely, you can.", "Agree.", "When you attend a university the reality is that you have to abide by those codes of conduct.", "Yes.", "And if you don't, guess what. You leave.", "Right, right.", "The other thing to mention is that we all have rights of free speech but those rights are limited and we have to take responsibility for what we say. Defamation, you mentioned one. The other thing, fire in a theater, there are number of things that are not protected and when you engage in something that is in a cause of conduct that affect somebody else, there's a right to act, they did act and it will be upheld.", "Last point, Joey Jackson -- Joey Jackson makes a good point, makes a good point. It is in the student code but student codes have time and time again been shot down as unconstitutional by district courts. This could be another one of those.", "OK, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Cevallos, that was excellent.", "Thank you Ms. Baldwin.", "Thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "Appreciate it. Let's see what happens, and again that lawyer talking within the show. We'll see what he says. Coming up next here on CNN, video from inside the gas station where those Boston bombing suspects two years ago, they stopped for food where the man they carjacked somehow managed to escape. You will hear his 911 call. It turned out to be key here in leading authorities to the Tsarnaev brothers. You're watching CNN. Don't move."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "DANNY CEVALLOS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "JOEY JACKSON, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "JACKSON", "BALDWIN", "JACKSON", "BALDWIN", "JACKSON", "BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "JACKSON", "CEVALLOS", "BALDWIN", "CEVALLOS", "JACKSON", "BALDWIN", "CEVALLOS", "JACKSON", "BALDWIN", "JACKSON", "CEVALLOS", "JACKSON", "BALDWIN", "JACKSON", "BALDWIN", "JACKSON", "CEVALLOS", "BALDWIN", "JACKSON", "BALDWIN", "CEVALLOS", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-388063", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-12-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/16/es.04.html", "summary": "Army And Navy Launch Internal Investigations Into Hand Gesture Captured On Video; Hallmark Channel Returns LGBT Ads To Air.", "utt": ["Internal investigations are now underway at the U.S. Military and Naval Academies after midshipmen and cadets were caught on ESPN's Army-Navy pregame show making a controversial hand gesture. Some are interpreting that gesture as a symbol of white nationalism. Officials at West Point say investigators are looking into the intent of the cadets in question. The Anti-Defamation League does consider the OK gesture a hate crime in some cases. CNN has decided not to show the gesture.", "The Hallmark Channel abruptly reversing a decision to pull ads featuring same-sex couples and Hallmark apologizing for removing them in the first place.", "Hallmark pulled the ads for the online wedding planning company Zola and that sparked calls for viewers and advertisers to boycott the channel in the middle of the holiday movie season. Hallmark CEO Mike Perry admitted Sunday the company made, quote, \"the wrong decision.\" Quote, \"Our mission is rooted in helping all people connect, celebrate traditions, and be inspired to capture meaningful moments in their lives. Anything that detracts from this purpose is not who we are.\"", "The LGBT media watchdog GLAAD was one of the groups that had been pushing for an advertiser boycott. Now, its president is applauding the company's change of heart.", "I'm thrilled. I think it was off-brand for the Hallmark Channel to begin with, so we were surprised by it when it came out of nowhere. They want to do the right thing and I think that the quick reversal is the right thing. And now we have to watch and make sure and see what they do in the future.", "Hallmark removed the Zola commercials after the conservative group One Million Moms launched a campaign against the ads. No comment yet from One Million Moms on Hallmark's reversal.", "All right. Harvey Weinstein is speaking out weeks before his sex crimes trial. The disgraced movie producer telling the \"New York Post\" he is a, quote, \"forgotten man.\" Weinstein claims he has been a pioneer for women in the film industry. He tells the \"Post\" he \"...made more movies directed by women and about women than any filmmaker, and I'm talking about 30 years ago. I'm not talking about now when it's vogue.\" Twenty-three women who reported Weinstein's sexual misconduct not buying it. Quote, \"He says in a new interview he doesn't want to be forgotten. Well, he won't be. He will be remembered as a sexual predator and an unrepentant abuser who took everything and deserves nothing.\"", "All right, we want to warn you the video you are about to see is tough to watch. Some very disturbing surveillance video showing a school resource officer in North Carolina picking up a child and slamming him to the ground twice. After the 11-year-old is thrown down a second time, the officer yanks him up and continues to walk. The incident hit home for the Vance County sheriff.", "I was stunned, I was shocked. Seeing a child that small reminded me of one of my grandchildren.", "That sheriff telling a local station the child was not hospitalized but has a bump on his head. The officer has been placed on paid leave pending an investigation. A decision on criminal charges could come this week. A man known for inspiring a relationship with a South Carolina football program has died. James Kennedy earned the nickname \"Radio\" in the mid-1960s when he began to show up at the T.L. Hanna's football field with a transistor radio. He was intellectually disabled. He became a fixture at practices. Coaches and players eventually embraced and cared for him. The relationship was immortalized in the 2003 film \"Radio.\" Kennedy died early Sunday morning surrounded by his family. He was 73.", "All right. A bank employee from Charlotte arrested for stealing $88,000 from the bank's vault. The suspected in-house crook might have gotten away with it if he didn't post the evidence on Facebook. Twenty-nine-year-old Arlando Henderson was so impressed with his loot he shared photos of himself holding stacks of cash and posing with the Mercedes he purchased. Henderson facing, obviously, a range of charges including fraud, theft, and embezzlement.", "Through the fog, there was euphoria on the gridiron, a welcome distraction in Newtown, Connecticut on the seventh anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre. The Newtown High School football team rallied in the closing seconds to win the state championship. Quarterback Jack Street connecting on a 36-yard touchdown pass to Riley Ward in the final second to defeat Darien 13-7. Newtown last won the title in 1992.", "Good for them.", "Congratulations.", "All right, let's get a check on \"CNN Business\" this Monday morning. First, a look at markets around the world. Really, a mixed reaction, I would say, in Asian markets to a deescalated U.S.-China trade war -- the biggest issues punted to next year. Businesses still left with some uncertainty over details. You can see a pop there in London markets. Paris and Frankfurt also a little bit higher here. On the China trade front, economist Ian Shepherdson says phase one picked the low-hanging fruit; now for the hard part. On Wall Street, checking futures right now, also a little bit higher. I would call this kind of an indecisive move. On Friday, the Dow eking up the smallest of gains. It was a similar picture of the S&P and the Nasdaq as well. All right, shares of Boeing under pressure in premarket trade. Boeing considering whether to pull back production of the troubled 737 MAX. Boeing could make that call as early as after the market close today. CNN is hearing that from a source familiar with the decision-making process. The company could either suspend production altogether or further cut production. Boeing left a meeting with the FAA least week with the impression its 737 MAX jet would not be cleared to fly by the end of the month. All right, a gigantic open for \"Jumanji.\"", "NEXT LEVEL.\"", "The latest installment in the franchise, \"The Next Level,\" starring Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson and Kevin Hart, raked in an estimated $60 million in North America. Speaking of sequels, \"Frozen 2\" -- was there any doubt that it would break the billion-dollar mark at the global box office? No, it did it. The animated hit is the latest Disney film this year to make $1 billion. Bob Iger -- this is why \"Time\" magazine called him the Businessman of the Year, right? \"Avengers: End Game\", \"The Lion King\", Captain Marvel\", and \"Aladdin\" have all hit that milestone. Oh yeah, and I'm not done yet. There could be another billion-dollar film around the corner. The finale of the latest \"Star Wars\" trilogy opens on Friday.", "A busy week this week. Watch a movie.", "And movie week -- Christmas movie week.", "OK, the nation is divided in case you haven't noticed. How divided? \"SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE\" attempted to answer that question.", "I'm so happy everyone flew here for the holidays. And I'm even more happy that they did it -- they're impeaching Trump.", "Well, they did it. They're impeaching Trump.", "Dad, stop.", "I'm sorry, it's a disgrace. What crime did he even commit?", "Well, I guess the crime of being an alpha male who actually gets things done.", "OK.", "I'm just asking, do you all think \"Bad Boys 3\" is going to be good or not?", "I hate to say this but could we please talk about politics instead?", "Oh, you mean how Trump is definitely getting impeached and then definitely getting reelected? I'm good.", "I just don't understand who on earth could vote for Trump after this.", "How could anyone not vote for Trump after this?", "Who you think is going to get voted off \"THE MASKED SINGER\" next week? KATE MCKINNON, CAST MEMBER, NBC \"SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE\"", "It's so sad telling him he looks like a plastic straw at a turtle.", "The plastic straw and a turtle?", "It's sad. It's bad but funny.", "Yes.", "All right, thanks for joining us.", "Kate McKinnon's got game.", "Oh, yes.", "Yes.", "I'm Christine Romans. Have a great day, everybody.", "I'm Dave Briggs. Here's \"NEW DAY.\"", "The House of Representatives, this week, is expected to vote on those articles of impeachment, making it all but certain President Trump will become the third president to be impeached.", "We understood the importance of what we were doing but felt the urgency was such that we could not just allow the president to continue.", "Everything I do during this, I'm coordinating with White House counsel.", "There is more damning evidence to be had and they don't want the American people to see that.", "I am ready to vote. I don't really need to hear a lot of witnesses.", "They don't want to look at anything that might disagree with their worldview of Republicanism and this president.", "This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.", "Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is NEW DAY. It is Monday, December 16th. It's 6:00 here in New York. Alisyn is off. Erica Hill with me this Monday morning.", "Good morning.", "Great to have you here. What a week we have in store. 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{"id": "CNN-66861", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2003-2-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0302/17/ltm.11.html", "summary": "Talk with Travelocity's Rally Caparas", "utt": ["The snow beginning to pull out of D.C. and away from Baltimore, although there's still one more band of snow that's going to be with us, at least for the next hour or so, maybe even two hours for you, D.C., but it's just about done. That's some good news for the airports, although they are already wrecked. And here with that is our friend Rally Caparas -- Rally, what do you have this morning?", "Chad, we have more of what you're talking about. You keep ordering up more snow and people are going to get upset with that, I'll tell you. It's terrible out there, folks, if you're flying today, and it's going to get worse, as Chad told you. The snow is moving into Boston as we speak and here's how it's going to affect your flights today headed into the busy, busy Northeast. It won't be busy today, however. Boston's Logan, they're delay free, believe it or not, at the moment. But they will start to see slowly 60 minute arrival delays. That'll turn into 90 minute arrival delays later on this afternoon and then in the evening we'll start to see two and three hour, many cancellations. We've already seen hundreds of cancellations and I'm talking 500, 600 before the day's over. New York Metro is two to three hour delays. Once they start getting into the air again there's lot of holding going on. You can expect delays to double and cancellations to increase there also. Philadelphia International, two to three hour delays will be the average, but they will start to see a little bit more movement late, late, late this evening. The D.C. Metros, Baltimore-Washington, Reagan and Dulles, Baltimore and Reagan are closed. They're not opening until noon. Dulles has two runways that will flip-flop back and forth. Until then, you'll see two to three hour delays into Dulles. Paula, I'll be back in about 30 minutes with more from Travelocity's Eye On The Sky. Back over to you in the studios.", "Thanks, Rally. Appreciate it. More now on that storm. The mid-Atlantic states get smacked with the biggest snowstorm in years. Let's go back out to Jason Carroll, who is attempting to stand by out there when the winds aren't blowing him over -- good morning, Jason.", "Good morning to you again, Paula. The wind's really kicking up here. Imagine if you had to wake up this morning and come out to a car like this one here, buried in the snow where the plows have been coming along and doing their duty. This is what a lot of New Yorkers are going to wake up and find as they head out to their vehicles in the morning. About seven inches of snow has fallen so far, but we're expecting anywhere between now 18 and 24 inches of snow to fall just in New York City. You could take a look and see the reason why we were under a blizzard warning, near whiteout conditions, winds gusting anywhere between 35 miles per hour and more, depending upon where you are. Snow plows like this one out on the road. Fifteen hundred of them out on the roads here in New York City. About 140,000 tons of salt being spread throughout the city, as well, to help those people who are daring enough to make it on their way out on the roadways -- Paula.", "The good news, though, once again, a lot of people simply stayed out of the city because it's the holiday and they weren't going to even attempt to get in, right?", "Absolutely. Take a look behind me. You can see. Look at this, Columbus Circle, you know even on a holiday, it would be packed out here with cars. Empty, simply because a lot of people took the advice of weather casters and decided to stay home.", "We do listen to them on occasion. Thanks, Jason. See you in a little bit.", "On occasion, yes."], "speaker": ["CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "RALLY CAPARAS, TRAVELOCITY", "PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ZAHN", "CARROLL", "ZAHN", "CARROLL"]}
{"id": "CNN-293998", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-09-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/14/cnr.06.html", "summary": "African-American Issues at Forefront of Presidential Race", "utt": ["The barbershop, it's known for politics, it's known for candor, it's known for fiery conversation here and all kinds of perspectives. So I wanted to make sure -- I wanted to hear from all sides, so I was in Atlanta this week. I heard about Trump, I heard about Clinton, and the impact of the black vote on this year's election. You are about to hear more of our candid conversation, six people including Michael Render, AKA Killer Mike, a rapper and activist and the owner of the barber shop; Taj Anwar Baoil, a firefighter and urban farmer; Shelley Winters, Harlem native who is voting for Donald Trump; Jamida Orange, whose father marched many miles with Martin Luther King Jr; Kalonji Changa, a local activist and leader who isn't voting on a national level, period; and Kristen White, an attorney who is all in for Hillary Clinton. Here's the second piece of our conversation when African-American issues are at the forefront.", "You're voting local but not for president.", "Absolutely.", "You're voting for Hillary Clinton.", "I'm definitely voting for Hillary Clinton.", "You're voting for Donald Trump:", "I'm voting for Donald Trump.", "I'm voting if for whoever gives me something.", "Four times if I had to.", "If I had to vote on purely ideal, whoever on that day moves the needle closer to ending unemployment in my community, helping education in my community and giving us a fair shake --", "Donald Trump says he will go into these neighborhoods, he will help with the economy, he will help bring jobs.", "He said all of that. Everything Mike just asked for.", "No, no, he said that so that we'll look at him but he's not talking to us at all. He's talking to those white women moderates to say, hey, I'm not racist.", "Really?", "I truly believe that. He ain't talking to us for real.", "Why would he talk to us and insult us? It's a complete insult and I don't think --", "To tell you the facts.", "I don't need him to tell me the facts of my community that I live in. I don't need you to berate me about my community. If you're not going to come with solutions, I don't want to hear what you have to say.", "I will give you solutions. First of all, go to Ponce de Leon, 6:30, you'll see a group of Mexicans looking for contract work --", "They are.", "-- and a group of Hispanics looking for work. By 9:00, the Hispanics are all gone. The brothers are still standing there. So if you start to rail in illegal immigration, you will provide more jobs for African-American men in particular. Do not tell me these are jobs men won't do.", "So now we're sacrificing Hispanics?", "We're not sacrificing anybody. We're talking about with the plan for black people.", "My plan for black people doesn't include splitting up families.", "I'm talking about railing in illegal immigration, helping unemployment, charter schools.", "One of the most crucial aspects of educational reform are charter schools. We know they work. We may not like them. But we know there are charter schools doing yeoman work in our communities.", "Charter schools is a new hustle.", "Come on, man. We got puffy --", "They don't work! They don't work.", "Are the kids getting educated?", "No.", "Everyone knows I'm not pro-charter. But I have a nephew. Charter schools gave my sister a radically different kid.", "I'm from Atlanta. We are indoctrinated with Dr. Martin Luther King. We are I indoctrinated from him. Jamida's father was an organizer. He taught me to organize. This was the first person to really call me leader. He was not passive in his wheel to push forward.", "But we're fighting about Kaepernick taking the knee.", "Exactly. That's what I'm saying. You want us to be concerned with that and the fact that the black boy, he took the knee, right, he took the knee, sold you more Jerseys, and your punk ass, you should have been out there with him. It's a right cause. I don't even care about the Hillster or the Donster. We need to know what are we going to demand, or we tell them we're not going to vote.", "We're so uninformed because we have such an allegiance to the Democratic Party.", "The Democratic Party was the Klan's party at first. The slaves were freed by Abe Lincoln, who was a Republican. So we got this whole Democrat/Republican thing mixed up.", "We are married to the Democratic Party. We can't front. As much junk as I talk, at the end of the day, if I vote, more likely I'll vote on the Democratic side because they cut the only deals we have.", "But is that taken for granted?", "Yes. Yes.", "We have to protest.", "Vote on the local level.", "I'm not saying we don't. But I'm saying for the first time in our life we have an opportunity to tell the Democratic Party we might stay home.", "I think there are a lot of folks voting for the sake of voting. Your father, Dr. King and all these folks, they didn't fight for the right to vote just to cast a ballot, they fought for our self- determination.", "I want black people talking about -- voting is a blood oath. It's a blood oath. I will never not vote locally. But, but, I'm not going to let you pee in a cup and tell me it's lemonade.", "I refuse to not demand something in exchange for my vote. That's it.", "What do you think of these conversations? You saw yesterday, today. We have more for tomorrow. Send me a tweet @Brooke/CNN. I'd love to hear from you. Next here, a female college student, a football player, and accusations of rape. She is coming forward publicly because she says authorities didn't do a darn thing."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "KALONJI CHANGA, ACTIVIST", "BALDWIN", "KRISTEN WHITE, ATTORNEY", "BALDWIN", "SHELLEY WINTERS, HARLEM NATIVE & TRUMP SUPPORTER", "MICHAEL RENDER, RAPPER & ACTIVIST", "WINTERS", "RENDER", "BALDWIN", "WINTERS", "JAMIDA ORANGE, ACTIVIST", "BALDWIN", "ORANGE", "WHITE", "WINTERS", "WHITE", "WINTERS", "RENDER", "WINTERS", "WHITE", "WINTERS", "WHITE", "WINTERS", "WINTERS", "RENDER", "RENDER", "ORANGE", "WINTERS", "CHANGA", "RENDER", "RENDER", "ORANGE", "RENDER", "TAJ ANWAR BAOIL, ACTIVIST", "CHANGA", "RENDER", "BALDWIN", "RENDER", "WHITE", "CHANGA", "RENDER", "CHANGA", "RENDER", "RENDER", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-216668", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-10-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1310/16/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Arrest In L.A. Airport Dry Ice Explosions; Former San Diego Mayor Pleads Guilty; Wounded Soldier's Salute Goes Viral", "utt": ["Checking top stories at 22 minutes past the hour. Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the two dry ice explosion at the Los Angeles International Airport. This 22-year-old was booked with possession of explosive or destructive devices near an airport. Two bottles filled with dry ice exploded in restricts areas.", "It does reveal a vulnerability that we're going to shore up. We should have cameras in restricted access areas to maintain the integrity of the security system.", "De Carlo is being held on $100 million bond. Former mayor of San Diego is now a felon. Bob Filner pleaded guilty to felony false imprisonment and two other misdemeanor charges in connection with his behavior with three women. Under a plea deal Filner will forfeit his right to vote and hold public office. Filner's sentencing is set for December 9th. The 75-year-old mother of baseball great, Cal Ripken Jr.'s managed to thwart a gunman who said he wanted to steel her car. Violet Ripken used the panic button on her key ring to scary them away. The suspected was arrested two hours later. Police say the attempted carjacking is not related to Violent Ripken's abduction last year. She was taken at gunpoint from her home in Maryland and found the next day. Take a look at this picture. This is 24-year-old Corporal Josh Hargis. He was seriously injured in an IED attack in Afghanistan. He saluted his commander who had just placed the Purple Heart on his blanket. In the midst of lawmakers of this back and forth in Washington, he might not get paid because of the partial shutdown. Josh' wife spoke with CNN affiliate WBBH about her brave husband.", "The commander leaned over to thank him for his service and sacrifice. My husband, who everyone thought was unconscious, raised his hand to salute him. I think of how proud I am. He is a bad -- and strong and epitome of what a man and American and soldier is.", "Four of josh's fellow soldiers were killed in the attack. They call his salute from the hospital bed, quote, \"The most amazing thing he's seen in ten years in the Army.\" Well, the Army is reported the reviewing of the Medal of Honor recipients request to return to active duty. President Obama awarded the nation's highest military honor to Retired Captain William Swenson. He's been reportedly unemployed since he left the military in 2011. Returning to active duty is rare for a Medal of Honor recipient. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, lawmakers bicker. American's farmers are suffering. We'll tell you how it's costing them and you."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "DEPUTY CHIEF MIKE DOWNING, LOS ANGELES POLICE", "COSTELLO", "TAYLOR HARGIS, WIFE OF JOSH HARGIS (via telephone)", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "NPR-28575", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2013-08-03", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=208669069", "title": "Week In News: Terror Alert", "summary": "The U.S. State Department issued a warning to Americans traveling abroad this weekend, as well as to many embassies and consulates, that it has learned of the possibility of a terrorist attack. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with James Fallows of The Atlantic.", "utt": ["It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden.", "Coming up, why Major League Baseball is teaming up with the U.S. Forest Service. But first...", "Now that's it's in the public domain that the embassies will be closed and there's a travel alert for Americans traveling abroad, there's some understanding of the seriousness of the threat.", "It is possible we may have additional days of closing as well, of course, depending on our analysis.", "The voices of State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.", "James Fallows of The Atlantic joins us as he does most Saturdays. Hello there, Jim.", "Hello, Jacki. It's nice to talk to you.", "Great to talk to you.", "Jim, this announcement by the State Department that it is shutting down operations at a number of U.S. embassies in the Middle East and North Africa tomorrow. This is really curious. We're once again reminded of this balance between privacy and security.", "Indeed. And probably we should note two cynical or at least practical contacts to this announcement. One is, of course, in the midst of the controversy over the NSA surveillance programs and the Edward Snowden asylum in Russia and the Bradley Manning verdict. This is a reminder from the government side of what these programs were originally set up to do. Also in the wake of the Benghazi attacks and killings, I think any American government would want to show that it was ahead of any threat rather than behind it.", "But beyond that, I think there are signs that you have to take this warning seriously. I think the government's in a genuinely difficult position. When it has some indication of danger that is specific enough to want to let people know about it but vague enough that you can't say do this differently tomorrow, do this differently next week. The fact they're closing down so many embassies suggest, though, that something real we need to take seriously.", "Yeah. Jim, I know that you're familiar with the recent Pew Research Center poll that says that Republican voters actually want their leaders to be more conservative and less compromising. Did that surprise you?", "It was notable. What's interesting is over the past year, especially since last year's presidential election, you'd seen all this national level punditry led by Republicans, saying that for the party to revive itself at the presidential level, it needed to broaden its appeal more to women, more to minorities, more to young people, et cetera. And yet at the state level, most of the momentum seems to be pushing the other way, which is what this Pew poll seems to indicate.", "We have the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky who most Democrats view as the epitome of obstructionism. He now has a Tea Party challenger in his state, it seems, in addition to a Democratic challenger. The same may happen to Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. So the repositioning struggles of the Republican Party as it goes forward will go on for a while.", "Yeah. Well, Jim, for the last four years, you've been our constant pilot here through these friendly skies. And we are heading west in mid-September and so are you, but regrettably not with us. Tell us about your new adventure.", "It has been, Jacki, a wonderful privilege over these past four years to talk with you and, before you, with Guy Raz and with various other people who have been in the chair from time to time. Starting this month, actually, my wife and I are going to be doing for The Atlantic where I work and for Marketplace Radio, also on a public radio station, a project we're calling American Future.", "So it's essentially a road trip by air through a small airplane to small-town parts of America that we feel have under-covered developments, economically, socially, demographically and all the rest. This is an old American tradition of reporting the country by road trip with the new innovation of our small plane. So the only thing I regret about this transition is not being able to talk with you and your listeners anymore.", "James Fallows is national correspondent with The Atlantic. And you can read his blog at jamesfallows.theatlantic.com and follow his new adventures in American Future.", "Jim, I just want to say, we cannot thank you enough for your presence on this show this past four years. Thank you again. Bon voyage. Good luck.", "Thank you. The honor has been mine, and I will see you soon.", "You'll be missed."], "speaker": ["JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "MARIE HARF", "REPRESENTATIVE NANCY PELOSI", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "JAMES FALLOWS", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "JAMES FALLOWS", "JAMES FALLOWS", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "JAMES FALLOWS", "JAMES FALLOWS", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "JAMES FALLOWS", "JAMES FALLOWS", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "JAMES FALLOWS", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-157809", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-11-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1011/04/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Presidential Cabinet Meeting; Capitol Hill Changing of the Guard", "utt": ["Well, that's easy. All right, we're going to talk sports in just a second. That big Giants parade and number of other issues as well. But I'm being told that President Obama actually hosted his first White House cabinet meeting today, and we just got the tape in.", "Obviously, Tuesday was a big election. I've congratulated the Republicans and consoled some of our Democratic friends about the results. And I think it's clear that the voters sent a message, which is, they want us to focus on the economy and jobs and moving this country forward. They're concerned about making sure that taxpayer money is not wasted, and they want to change the tone here in Washington where the two parties are coming together and focusing on the people's business as opposed to scoring political points. I just had a meeting with my cabinet and key staff to let them know that we have to take that message to heart. And make a sincere and consistent effort to try to change how Washington operates. The folks around this table have done extraordinary work in their agencies. They have cooperated consistently with congress. I think they are interested in bipartisan ideas, and so they are going to be integral with helping me to root out waste in government, make our agencies more efficient, and generate more ideas so that we can put the American people back to work. Now, at the same time, obviously, what's going to be critically important over the coming months is creating a better working relationship between this White House and the congressional leadership that's coming in as well the congressional leadership that carries over from the previous congress. And so I want everybody to know that I have already called Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to invite them to a meeting here at the White House in the first week of the \"lame duck\" on November 18th. This is going to be a meeting in which I want us to talk substantively about how we can move the American people's agenda forward. It's not just going to be a photo op. Hopefully it may spill over into dinner, and the immediate focus is going to be what we need to get done during the \"lame duck\" session. I mentioned yesterday, we have to act in order to assure that middle class families don't see a big tax spike because of how the Bush tax cuts have been structured. It is very important that we extend those middle-class tax provisions to hold middle-class families harmless. But there are a whole range of other economic issues that have to be addressed; unemployment insurance for folks who are still out there looking for work; business extenders, which are essentially provisions to encourage businesses to invest here in the United States. And if we don't have those, we're losing a very important tool for us to be able to increase business investment and increase job growth over the coming year. We've got to provide businesses some certainty about what their tax landscape is going to look like and we have to provide families certainty. That's critical to maintain our recovery. I should mention that in addition to those economic issues, there's some things during the \"lame duck\" that relate to foreign policy that are going to be very important for us to deal with, and I'll make mention of one in particular, and that's the START Treaty. We have negotiated with the Russians significant reductions in our nuclear arms. This is something that traditionally has received strong bipartisan support. We have people like George Schulz who helped to organize arms control treaties with the Russians back when it was the Soviet Union who have come out forcefully in favor of this. This is not a traditionally Democratic or Republican issue, but, rather an issue of American National Security and I am hopeful that we can get that done before we leave and send a strong signal to Russia that we are serious about reducing nuclear arsenals, but also send a signal to the world that we are serious about nonproliferation. We've made great progress when it comes to sending a message to Iran that they are isolated internationally in part because people have seen that we are serious about taking our responsibilities when it comes to nonproliferation, and that has to continue. So there's going to be a whole range of work that needs to get done in a relatively short period of time, and I'm looking forward to having a conversation about leadership that has some agenda items that they may be concerned about. The last point I'll make is that I've also invited the newly elected Democratic and Republican governors here to the White House on December 2nd, because I think it's a terrific opportunity to hear from them, folks who are working at the state and local levels, about what they're seeing, what ideas they think Washington needs to be paying more attention to. A lot of times, things are a little less ideological when, you know, you get governors together because they've got very practical problems that they've got to solve in terms of how they make sure that roads and bridges are funded and how do they make sure that schools stay open and teachers stay on the job. You know, that kind of nuts and bolts stuff, I think, are oftentimes yields the kind of common sense approach that the American people, I think, are looking for right now. So in sum, we got a lot of work to do. People are still catching their breath from the election. The dust is still settling, but the one thing I'm absolutely certain of is that the American people don't want us just standing still. They don't want us engaged in gridlock. They want us to do the people's business, and partly because they understand that the world is not standing still. I'm going to be leaving tomorrow for India, and the primary purpose is to take a bunch of U.S. companies and open up markets so that we can sell in Asia and some of the fastest-growing markets in the world and we can create jobs here in the United States of America. And my hope is that we got some specific announcements that show the connection between what we're doing overseas and what happens here at home when it comes to job growth and economic growth, but the bottom line is that all around the world, countries are moving. They are serious about competing. They are serious about competing with us not just on manufacturing but on services. They're competing with us when it comes to educational attainment, when it comes to scientific discovery, and so we can't afford two years of just squabbling. We need to make sure that everybody's pulling together, Democrats and Republicans and independents, folks at the federal level and the state levels, private sector with the public sector to make sure that America retains its competitiveness, retains its leadership in the world and that's something that I'm very much looking forward to helping to be a part of. So, thank you very much, everybody.", "Mr. President -", "All right. Let's take it straight to Brianna Keilar, joining us live from Capitol Hill this morning. So you hear the president right there meeting, well, actually holding his first White House cabinet meeting and we're getting word right now that one thing he decided is November 18th, he's going to meet with Republican leaders. What are you hearing on the Hill?", "Yes, he's going to be meeting not just with Republican leaders but this will be a bipartisan meeting two weeks from today. He's invited the minority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, the soon to be speaker, John Boehner, the current speaker Nancy Pelosi and majority leader of the Senate, Harry Reid. And so this is going to be a bipartisan meeting. And he says this isn't just going to be a photo opportunity. This could go into dinner, talking about how this is going to be a substantive meeting, and talking about the lame-duck Congress. What's going to happen between now, which is basically, the election and when the new Congress comes in in January. So what he really hit on the Bush era tax cuts that need to be dealt with. These are going to be expiring at the end of the year, and Democrats and Republicans generally disagree on exactly how to handle this. Republicans want to extend these tax cuts for all Americans. Democrats want to extend these tax cuts for most Americans, the vast majority of Americans but not for those making a quarter of a million dollars or more. There are some Democrats who agree with Republicans on this and there is a point that the Republicans will make, some small businesses that fall into that upper category, and so this is something that's really the big priority that's going to need to be dealt with, Kyra.", "Well, Nancy Pelosi wondering what her next career move will be. She actually sat down for an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer. Diane Sawyer hit her hard on that and couldn't seem to get an answer out of her though. Your sources telling you anything?", "You know, at this point, and aides are telling us that there is no timetable. Sources close to Nancy Pelosi saying they don't have a timetable on when she's going to make this announcement. Kyra, what everyone wants to know is is she going to stay as the leader of Democrats but take the role of minority leader? Is she going to get out of the Democratic leadership? Is she going to step aside from Congress in general? At this point, we just don't know. We have been following her around the Hill. Actually, she's been kind of taking some pretty elaborate measures to avoid us because clearly she is not ready to tell us what her decision is, and even sources close to her say that she hasn't made this decision yet. So what's going on? You've also got Democrats like Steny Hoyer, who is the number two Democrat. He's just kind of waiting. He made it clear yesterday basically saying that if Speaker Pelosi doesn't want to be the leader of Democrats, you know, he would be interested but he's not going to do it if she wants to remain in that role. So you've got a lot of Democrats as Republicans jockeying of throwing their hats in the ring to be in the leadership. You have a lot of Democrats who are just kind of playing this waiting game, waiting to see what her move is, and we are just waiting until she makes that clear.", "All right. Brianna, thanks. So the first ever Speaker of the House gone. But 2010 marked several other firsts for women in politics. Republican women that is. And that is one topic we'll talk about in just about 25 minutes. We're also talking about the big problem for the biggest passenger plane in the world. Singapore Airlines has joined Qantas in grounding its fleet of Airbus 380 jets. And here's why. An engine on a giant Qantas A380 blew out, just a few minutes after takeoff from Singapore and showered debris into the ground. The plane was headed to Sydney, Australia, turned around and then landed safely in Singapore. Here's how a passenger described the experience.", "I heard a long bang and I was sitting on the side where the engine is. I heard a bang and saw a little bit of flares for a short time and the engine was shut off immediately from the flight deck. The flight deck analyzed the situation.", "Well, parts of the engine debris fell to the ground in Indonesia. 466 passengers and crew were on the flight. They're all OK. Potential disaster averted. CNN's Zain Verjee has more now from Singapore.", "Every passenger dreads being on a plane and hearing a big bang. One passenger I spoke to told me exactly that. He said \"I heard a loud bang, a jolt and then a flash. It was as if lightning struck us,\" he said. He saw four holes in the wing, there was one big one and three small ones. He said that the situation on the plane at that moment was pretty calm although he did hear a few people crying. Let's move to the investigation now. What they're going to do is look at the parameters of the engine, things like the speed at the time, the temperature, also take a look at the black box to see what some of the last communications were before the engine had trouble. Now, Qantas has grounded six of its A380 airbuses, and what we're hearing now is that Singapore Airlines is doing the same. They are temporarily holding their fleet of 11. Zain Verjee, CNN, Singapore.", "And the end of an era. We'll have to wait another day. The weather in Florida still lousy that NASA scrubbed today's shuttle launch. It was going to be \"Discovery's\" 39th and final voyage. \"Discovery\" has a long proud history, as you know, including the first female shuttle pilot, the first African-American space walker. 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{"id": "CNN-319873", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2017-08-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/25/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Catastrophic Flooding Predicted as Harvey Lashes Texas Gulf Coast", "utt": ["-- 17 million people as Hurricane Harvey lashes Texas and plows toward land fall around Corpus Christi. It is threatening to unleash historic rainfall, up to 3 feet or more and catastrophic storm surges and flooding, emergency officials urgently warning residents that lives are at risk. Tens of thousands have evacuated at this hour. Time is quickly running out to escape the storm. Water levels are rising and weather conditions are deteriorating as Harvey moves closer intensifying along the way. The historic nature of this disaster made even worse by the likelihood that Harvey will stall over land dumping heavy rain on the region for days. The National Weather Service says large areas of south Texas may be uninhabitable for weeks or even months. The Texas governor is already asking for the state to be declared a major disaster area to trigger additional help from the federal government. As the first national disaster on his watch is about to hit a natural disaster, President Trump is over at Camp David. The White House says he's been actively engaged with emergency officials and is planning to travel to Texas early next week. We're also just learning that the president assigned and directed following up officially on his ban on transgender troops that he announced in a tweet last month. This hour I'll speak live with the head of the federal emergency management agency, Brock Long. There you see him. And our correspondents, specialists and other guests are standing by as we cover this breaking story. First, let's go to CNN's Martin Savidge. He's right in the heart of things in Corpus Christi. Martin, you're in the danger zone. That's expected to take a direct hit from Harvey. Give our viewers here in the U.S. and around the world the latest.", "Wolf, Corpus Christi is definitely under the gun and the wind just continues to increase. It's an indication that this hurricane is growing ever more closer to the shore here, and it is the wind right now that is the biggest problem. It is literally body punching this entire area with a heavy, heavy force. It's only going to increase over the next few hours. But then comes the secondary, and that's the rain and that is truly what could be the most destructive and deadly force over multiple days. Not since Katrina have we heard the dire warnings like we're hearing now. And also what we're hearing is that this storm, even when it comes ashore, that's not the end. It really is the beginning.", "This is going to be a very major disaster.", "A dire warning from the Texas governor as hurricane Harvey bears down on the Texas coast. With a window to evacuate now closing, officials are cautioning residents to get out of the storm's path.", "You have the power and the ability right now to be able to avoid being stuck into a search and rescue situation if you make the decision to get out of harms way before it is too late.", "Millions of people in Texas are being warned to evacuate. The Texas army and international guards have been activated ahead of the storm's land fall, backing winds above 100 miles an hour. Harvey is expected to dump 15 to 20 inches of rain. And if it stalls some in land areas could get up to 35 inches. For coastal areas, waves as high as 20 feet and storm surge endangering everything and everyone in its path.", "This is life-threatening storm surge inundation. Water moving in as the hurricane makes land fall. We could see 6 to 12 feet of flooding. I'm 6 feet tall, double my height in certain areas of the coast here.", "Farther in land floods and possible spin out tornadoes are the concern.", "You got nothing to lose but your life. Now is not the time to lose faith in your government institutions.", "With possible widespread and prolonged power outages, residents are stocking up on dwindling supplies.", "Thank you for calling team of Home Depot. We're out of generators, we're out of water and we're out of sand.", "Keeping an eye in the situation from Washington before departing for Camp David, president Trump tweeting this photo of a hurricane briefing with his tom homeland security advisors and the first lady weighing in as well tweeting for those living near the path of hurricane Harvey, stay safe. Thoughts and prayers of an entire country are with you.", "Wolf, it is really starting to howl now with this hurricane. It's like standing in the backwash of a 747. At times it's hard to even remain on your feet. And the worst is still yet to come. So, right now in this community they're hunkered down. There is no way anybody could leave at this point. If you haven't left, you're going to have to stick it out. Wolf.", "Do you see any people out there on the streets near you? Are people still driving their cars near you?", "Yes I'm afraid we do. It's - you see it in every storm, but you would think in a storm with this magnitude that they would stay home, but they don't. You'll always have people who want to come out and see what's going on, take their photos. They don't realize it of course there is real danger. Any kind of break, any kind of debris in the air would shatter their car and have a big impact on their lives. It's just not wise at all, Wolf.", "You're absolutely right. Martin Savidge joining us. Martin is in Corpus Christi, that's the real danger zone. Let's head up a little further along the Texas Gulf Coast to Galveston. CNN'S Ed Lavandera is on the scene for us. What's it like there, Ed?", "Hi, Wolf. We're on the eastern edge of this storm looking back toward of the west here at the brunt of Hurricane Harvey down that way and it's those communities that lie between Galveston Island and those -- and Corpus Christi. And a lot of focus is always on the eye of the storm and obviously that is an area of great concern given the sustained winds and the damage that those winds and surf is going to cause in those areas. But in this particular storm, you really have to look at the wider reach and what it is going to be capable of doing and the rainfall that it will be producing in the hours and days ahead. And that is of the most concern and for the most widespread area here in Southeast Texas. So, this is an area that is already prone to major flooding in the weakest of tropical storms, so you can imagine this is exponentially much larger than even some tropical depressions or tropical storms have caused in the past. So, that is why this is so much concerning. Not even just along the coast, you now, here in Galveston, you see the seawall that is here that protects from somebody -- the smaller storm surges and you can see how the water is already pushing up close to this wall. And the seawall stretches throughout most of the island. And once you start getting away from Galveston Island down closer to Corpus Christi, not every community has that kind of protection and that's why the flood waters, not just along the coast line, but even inland is of great concern is as this was storm stalls out and just continues to produce more and more rain, that flooding is going to be of major concern. The teams of a -- first responders have been prepositioning. We're told high water rescue teams in various areas throughout various counties to be able to react to those types of situations, that they expect to have to be called out too. So, that is some of the work that's being done here on the front edge of this storm as many people here from Galveston Island to Houston all the way down to Corpus Christi really prepare for the brunt of what is coming with this hurricane. Wolf?", "Ed Lavandera joining us from Galveston. We're going to get back to you. What I quickly want to go back to Corpus Christi right now, bracing for impact from this hurricane. Weather Nation Field Correspondent professional storm chaser Ben McMillan is there for us. Where exactly are you, Ben, and tell us what you're seeing or hearing?", "Yes. Wolf, the winds have really picked up here the last hour here in Texas. So that to 5:00 p.m. This is Corpus Christi Bay. Look at how violent this water is coming up and over some of these sea breaks. That's a big concern here is the surge is supposed to hit 6 to 12 feet potentially above sea level and the city itself is only 7 feet above sea level. So, if we get to those higher numbers, we could see a lot of water flowing up over this seawall and into the city and we're watching that condition very closely to make sure that water doesn't rise too quickly.", "How about the conditions changed over the past hour? We spoke an hour or so ago, Ben, what does it feel like now in this hurricane?", "Wolf, as that eye or center of circulation of the hurricane has moved closer to the city itself, we've seen sustained winds start, which is constant winds flowing in a circular pattern around that hurricane. It's basically a big machine releasing all that heat off the ocean in this rotating storm and that's what those winds are coming from and they're going to continue to batter not only the coastal areas but inland now as the evening goes on.", "All right. We're going to get back to you. Stand by. Be careful over there, Ben McMillan, the storm chaser. I want to check right now on the emergency response plan for Hurricane Harvey and the catastrophic impact it's likely to have. We're joined by the head of the federal emergency management agency, Brock Long. Administrator Long, thanks very much for joining us. Thanks for all the great work that FEMA does. What are your biggest concerns as Hurricane Harvey now approaches landfall?", "Right now it's the life safety mission. Obviously, the time to evacuate has come to a close. And if you're in those areas and getting ready to experience the 6 to 12, 8 -- 6 to 12 feet of storm surge, it's time to find some higher ground and a facility that can withstand the wind.", "Did people heed the evacuation orders? I know there a lot of areas, it was voluntary, some mandatory. What are you hearing about that?", "So, this was a tough storm, you know, the National Weather Service is -- we have the world's best meteorologists when it comes to the National Weather Service. And -- but the one thing about this storm is it was incredibly difficult for them to forecast because of the nature of it coming off the Yucatan and getting into the Bay of Campeche. And so, what we saw is a rapidly intensifying major hurricane. And it's very hard to motivate people in a small window of time to move. Regarding actual participation rates of a, you know, a 100,000 people plus that were placed under evacuations, I do not have a good number on that. But it was difficult to motivate people most likely because of the nature of this storm and the forecast.", "How long, Administrator, should people expect to be away from their homes?", "This is going to be a marathon and we have to set the expectations of citizens. This one's going to be very difficult. Not only we're going to we have, you know, the first major hurricane landfall since 2005, which brings with it the most deadly hazard, storm surge, and the most costly hazard storm surge, but because the storm is going to lose its steering currents and slow down before land fall and stay on top, you know, of Texas and portions of Louisiana, this is going to be a very -- a multiple day event, low and were -- and it's going to be constantly changing dynamic forecast over the next 48 to 120 hours.", "It's going to be amazing. Is your biggest fear, you know, the storm surge, the high winds, category 3, 125 mile an hour winds, the flooding, the power outages that certainly will develop. This is potentially a real disaster.", "Oh, it's going to be a disaster. It's going to be a significant disaster. And, you know, the citizens of Texas and Louisiana are going to have their daily routine disrupted for a long time, particularly in, you know, the areas that are going to receive the torrential rains. Storm surge is about 50 meter target. Storm surge is the most dangerous element of hurricanes, in my opinion, because it has the highest potential to kill the most amount of people and cause the most amount of damage when they come ashore. Once the system starts to dissipate over time because of interaction with land, it's going to turn into that rainfall event. And then it's going to be a frustrating event because it's going to take time for the system to move out. Now, one of the things that we are watching very carefully is the uncertainty of this forecast. If this system moves a little bit to the east of track or north of track before landfall, it could change the rainfall forecast over the next five days tremendously. So, we want to make sure that, you know, the locals are heeding the -- the warnings the judges are giving out to them, not only in Texas, but also the local officials and the parishes of Louisiana. Any shift to the north and east could change the rainfall forecast significantly for those folks living in Louisiana. So we want to make sure that while the attention right now is -- and all the cameras are in Texas, Louisiana needs to watch this one very closely. We've been in touch with both governors and we are ready to go and preposition in both states.", "Would you compare this Hurricane Harvey to Hurricane Katrina which happened exactly 12 years ago this week? And we all remember the enormous destruction, the loss of life then.", "I really don't compare it to Hurricane Katrina. It's a different scenario. Each storm is different, by the way. No category 3 hurricane is the same, no category 4 hurricane is the same, no tropical storm is the same. You know, for this, this one has no steering currents. Katrina had pretty solid steering currents and moved through the state. It brought a tremendous amount of, you know, storm surge to the coast of Mississippi. And what's interesting is those who stayed behind to experience storm surge in Mississippi were not around to give interviews after that event because storm surge is the unforgiving hazard. Then when you shift over to this event, this is a slow moving event, I would probably, you know, look to the 2001 event and Tropical Storm Allison. Allison stayed over the city of Houston for five days and dropped over 30 inches of rain and was a billion dollar event back in 2001.", "Yes. I remember that as well. Could this hurricane, Hurricane Harvey, make landfall twice?", "Yes. You know, right now this forecast is so uncertain. Any time I see a very slow forward movement and where the models, what we call as spaghetti, you know, do a spaghetti model plot where they are all over the place, they're not in agreement with each other. Right now anything is possible, in my opinion, and we have to watch, you know, each forecast as it comes out very closely because those models are going to change and the guidance that the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center uses is going to change. It's a dynamic situation that we, you know, we can never be too cautious and everybody needs to stay alert.", "FEMA has deployed what are called urban search and rescue teams to San Antonio right now. What will be their role in the coming days? I assume they're going to be moved out of San Antonio as quickly as possible.", "Right. So, the goal of FEMA is we have to pre-stage teams such as search and rescue teams, incident management teams. We are at pre-staging lifesaving commodities. We can't roll directly to the area. I cannot put my staff in danger. It does no good for FEMA to become a victim by getting too close to the storm. But as soon as the governor, you know, asks for support, we understand what the gaps are in the state. We can mobilize those forces very quickly to start helping the state to respond and recover.", "What sort of coordination support are you getting from the White House, from President Trump right now?", "Excellent coordination and support. We are in constant contact with not only the White House, but our acting Secretary Duke over at Homeland Security. I briefed the President directly this morning. He's actually been to the Federal Emergency Management Agency here in the National Response Coordination Center which is behind me where all my dedicated staffs are working. So, the lines of communication are not only clear between the White House and FEMA as well as the lines of communication to the Department of Homeland and Security. But most importantly, you know, our goal is to support our state and local partners and those two governors, John Bell Edwards in Louisiana and Governor Abbott in Texas. And that's what we do. We're not a first response agency. But we are an agency that coordinates the fire power of the federal government down to those governors when called upon.", "What's the status of President Trump declaring a federal disaster zone or a declaration, even before land fall occurs?", "So, here is the process. The declaration request has come up from Governor Abbott in the state of Texas. We come through, evaluate the declaration and put it to the White House. It is in the White House this moment as we speak.", "So, you guys haven't done it yet. But you anticipate that he will because it's your recommendation that he is going to be relying on, right?", "A decision should be made very soon.", "Very soon. And can I just -- I say that you've recommended that the declaration be issued?", "You know, I can't comment on that. Obviously we are leaning forward and ready to support. We have our resources in the state and so we've already mobilized -- we've already mobilized a tremendous amount of resources without being asked to be there.", "But this is going to be a critically important decision, then. I assume he's going to do it fairly, fairly soon. How different would the situation, administrator, be in the Texas right now if that state had built what some recommended years ago a coastal barrier system, they recommended that after Hurricane Ike.", "You know, I'm not familiar necessarily with the coastal barrier system that was put forward. But I can tell you this about the state of Texas. It's a very capable state. They have solid leadership. Chief Nim Kidd, the director of the Texas division of emergency management is on top of things as well as Governor Abbott. And again, you know, Texas is a model. They have amassed a lot of forces and a lot of capability and do serve as a model for some of the other states in the United States. I mean, they are ready to go.", "Is there also administrator at risk right now of an environmental disaster if some of the oil refineries, other industrial infrastructure are hit, which I assume will be the case?", "Yes. There is a risk of that and our ESF 10, hazardous materials emergency support function, you know, is here on-site. They are actually working behind us. We have great communication with our partners at the coast guard and others, EPA and others that handle hazardous materials event should we start to see, you know, issues arise very quickly. But here again, our forces are designed to support the state forces. So, you know, once the state's capacity to handle an environmental disaster succeeded, we can come in and provide technical expertise and physical resources to help overcome those issues.", "Brock Long, the administrator of FEMA, thanks so much to you and to all the men and women of FEMA. We are counting on you guys. You always do an incredibly important job in saving lives. And that's what you're going to be doing in the coming days as well. Brock Long, thank you very much.", "Thank you, Wolf.", "Let's get an update on the hurricane forecast right now. Our meteorologist Chad Meyers is in the CNN Severe Weather Center for us. So, what's the latest there, Chad?", "I would say, Wolf, right now the western part of the eye wall where the wind is 125 is less than 15 miles from shore. 15 miles from a national sea shore, plus Mustang island and there are houses and places of residence there, resource there as well but not all that built up. But I want you to show -- I want to show you here. That it's raining all the way from almost New Orleans all the way down to Brownsville. So, this is not a localized area although we are obviously focused on the eye and where the eye is going. The problem here is, we are going to see the wind damage here. We're going to see the flood damage as the storm expands out. It is going to continue to get stronger until it makes land fall. That's not too far away, maybe an hour or two. And then as it gets over landed likely begins to die off. Still a cut three tonight, but then by tomorrow probably down to about a category one, 75 miles per hour. That's over land. That's blowing a lot of things around and still grabbing the moisture off the Gulf of Mexico and throwing it down as tropical rain. Been in the tropics on a cruise ship or whatever and all of the sudden you say, \"How could it rain this hard?\" That's what Texas is going to have for five solid days. And the cabinet was talking about the spaghetti models. And I well just show them to you because I have them right in front of me. Spaghetti says this storm is going to head to San Antonio tonight, that's 24 hours from now. Then where does it go? There is not a model that would agree with you on anything because they all just spread out and go in every different direction. There is no consensus from the model which means the storm is going to essentially stop and wobble and you could put down 25, 30, maybe more inches of rainfall in any one area. I just measured it on Google earth. I can kind of do a polygon and get the square miles. The 20-inch rainfall total that's going to cover up most of Texas is the size of South Carolina. I know I said 30 inches about the size of Delaware, but 20 inches or more will be the size of South Carolina with all of that rain coming down. Plus one more thing tonight, Wolf, if you don't have to worry about anything else, there is a risk of some small or tornadoes any time one of the storms comes on shore. So, think about that as you go to bed and hear the bumps through the night. It's just one thing after another. A tornado watch has just been issued. Here is the shore. Here is that area of 125 mile per hour winds. There is our Martin Savidge right there. Now, this heaviest wind should move up toward the north. But I think Marty could still be in 120 or 115 mile per hour winds, and that is a destructive, almost a f-2, ef-2 tornado, even though it's not a tornado it's a hurricane, the same wind damage is possible from this as a tornado for sure.", "Yes. I just want to elaborate on what you just reported, Chad. The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi has just issued what they're calling an extreme wind warning for portions of the Texas coast through 8:00 p.m. Eastern, according to the statement widespread destructive winds of 115 to 145 miles per hour will produce what they say will be swaths of tornado-like damage. Explain that.", "Absolutely. Well, it's a new product, and 115 to 145 is a pretty extreme product. I mean, we're talking 115 can knock anything down. It's going to take some roofs off, going to absolutely take every shingle off, every roof on there. Now the good news is, this is either part National Sea Shore or part Mustang Island, Port Aransas is here, that the people did get away. Now, there is not anyone left. It was a mandatory evacuation 48 hours ago. So, I hope, anyway, everyone listened to mandatory because mandatory is mandatory, to get off of that island. This right here, the circle that I've drawn, that's one of the counties under that warning. And then farther up here is another area that's going to see this band. This is the band right there, that crescent, almost looks like an eclipse, that crescent right there is where all that wind is. The hurricane hunters have been in there and I just saw about ten minutes ago at 7,000 feet, a hurricane hunter aircraft had a wind gust of 147 miles per hour. Now I know that's 6,000 feet up and that's not on the ground. But you translate that down, that's still a gust of 135.", "Yes, if the wind and the surge and the flooding were not enough, now a tornado warning for part of that Texas gulf coast as well. Chad, stay with us. Don't go too far away. We're all over the breaking story, hurricane Harvey bearing down on the gulf coast right now, Texas and Louisiana, threatening to bring catastrophe to those states. 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{"id": "CNN-229826", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2014-5-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/04/ip.01.html", "summary": "The Political Points Behind the Jokes; Smoking Gun or Partisan Nonsense?; The Clintons vs the Media", "utt": ["Welcome back. Republicans call it the long sought Benghazi smoking gun. The White House calls that partisan nonsense. Our puzzle today puts into context a newly discovered White House e-mail that has Washington in a frenzy. Let's take a closer look -- oops, she doesn't want to work here. All right. The e-mail comes from the Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, it was written back in 2012 right before the election. Ben Rhodes preparing Susan Rice for an appearance on the Sunday shows. Now Congress says this was covered by a subpoena. Remember here is the President of the United States -- listen here, this is the President just after the election in 2012 promising if Congress wants information about Benghazi they will get it.", "We have provided every bit of information that we have and we will continue to provide information and we've got a full blown investigation.", "That's the President talking just after the election in 2012. We'll have a full blown investigation; we'll give them what they want. The e-mail that came out last week from Ben Rhodes was only released because of a lawsuit from a conservative group called Judicial Watch. It's about preparing Ambassador Rice for the Sunday shows. It does talk about Benghazi. But listen to Jay Carney at one of several contentious White House briefings on this point saying this e-mail was not covered by the subpoenas.", "Because all of the documents, the thousands and thousands of pages of documents including e-mails around the creation of the Benghazi talking points, which were amply reported on were about Benghazi. This document as I said was explicitly not about Benghazi but about the general dynamic in the Arab or in the Muslim world at the time.", "That argument however from Jay Carney at the White House podium undercut by the Obama administration's own State Department, which when it sent that e-mail the Ben Rhodes e-mail up to congress said in a letter that it was responsive to the committee's subpoenas. So the question at the table is, we know the White House Ben Rhodes right before an election was trying to defend and protect the image of the president. No breaking news there. That's what political staff does. We know the White House, in my view anyway, flunked the transparency test and politics 101. If there are documents get them out as early as possible. But is this Manu, Congress now they say they want John Kerry to testify about why we didn't get this sooner, they're forming a new select committee. Is that just let's drive up Republican-based turnout or is this some policy, some factual smoking gun?", "It's a little bit of both. I mean remember for a while Republicans have been pushing for this select committee, the hawkish Republicans like Lindsey Graham, John McCain. In some ways the creation of this select committee is dissatisfaction with the way the current investigation is going led by Chairman Darrell Issa. The concern is that Republicans believe -- a lot of them believe that they have not really drawn much blood from the White House yet and if there is a select committee digging and digging and digging they will get to the bottom of how this happened. They'll get to the bottom of the White House and the administration's explanation of what happened immediately afterwards and they'll bring people forward like Hillary Clinton potentially, right in the middle of this election year and certainly can drive up that --", "But that's what to me makes the White House decision and I get it, they have contempt for Congress, period. A lot of Democrats will say this White House doesn't even like them. They don't like this oversight process. They think that they could make a case that Issa has overstepped on a number of occasions. But if you have a document that you know, it talks about this, you know what it's going to do -- why not put it out for everyone? Why give the Republicans this?", "(inaudible) you can't -- and to your point about transparency test, you can't selectively decide what in a subpoena you're going to respond to and what you're not going to respond to. That was a huge error. Manu is absolutely right that this is a little bit of both. It remains to be seen what else they'll draw from this. The relevance of Kerry's testimony is debatable but you know Hillary Clinton certainly would be relevant. This will all be falling at the time when Hillary Clinton is beginning to become public again which is very important. And it's also worth remembering her book is going to focus not in small degree on Benghazi and what happened and so how that matches up with what ends up coming out of this committee is going to be interesting, too.", "It's definitely great campaign fodder for Republicans for their base but you have to understand the conservative psyche here a little bit, too. I think there is still to this day regret that Mitt Romney did not embrace this issue more in the fall of 2012. And you can call that a bit of revisionism. I think they're so convinced that this is something, that this was something then and there's regret that he did not use more of it as well.", "That's absolutely true.", "It's why in May of 2014 it's still here. I think because there's still frustration that Obama got re-elected in part because he didn't use this.", "That does go to the point this is at least at this point a base issue. It's not like you see the American public clamoring for more information about Benghazi. When you look at the polls, people are concerned about the economy just as we were talking about before.", "And if substantive information came out about something they did wrong as opposed to this -- I think everybody knows they wish they could have acted faster. There's a big bureaucracy at the State Department and the communications back and forth between everybody in the Pentagon.", "Right.", "You know, that situation --", "But this will be -- yes.", "Exactly. It's going to be a huge distraction.", "For no reason and it was avoidable.", "Right.", "That's self-inflicted. The Republicans are fixated on this. Why wouldn't you put everything out? You're enabling them.", "Another investigation came up at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last night. The host, who's always a comedian, was Joel McHale and he was making note here that Chris Christie, you know, is under investigation for Bridgegate, that Chris Christie hired a law, conducted an internal investigation. Here's Joel McHale parroting Chris Christie.", "I just looked into it. It turns out I'm not responsible for it. Justice has been served.", "A lot of people thought there were maybe one or two too many Christie jokes last night but he laughed through it all.", "I think he laughed through some of it.", "I think he was laughing on the outside, I don't think he was laughing internally. That bit was funny. That bit that McHale did was very funny. The weight jokes felt excessive and I felt too much and there were too many of them. And it was on and on and on, and at a certain point, pick one or the other, but both seemed too much.", "There were a lot of Bill and Hillary Clinton references last night. The Clintons are in the news all the time. I want to play first --", "You noticed that?", "I do notice that. Listen, they --", "What?", "First I want -- this is Bill Clinton at Georgetown University earlier this week, his context here is Obamacare. I'm sure they feel the same way in the Clinton family about Benghazi. The former president is saying that we in the political media are the problem because once we get fixated on something we won't let it go.", "There is a craving that borders on addictive to have a storyline and then once people settle on the storyline, there is a craving that borders on blindness to shoehorn every fact to every development, everything that happens into the storyline, even if that's not the story.", "An interesting take from the former president, who I covered for many, many, many years. And he is a master at working the media. He'll shut you out when he doesn't want to, loves you when he needs you. I want to get -- bring that up but in the context Maggie of a fascinating piece you wrote this week about Hillary Clinton and her relationship with the media. And these are the quotes that just jumped out and they just stick in your head. You have in your piece \"Look, she hates you, period that's never going to change,\" from a Clinton campaign veteran. I assume they meant us not you. You're delightful.", "Maggie, it could be Prush.", "I was going to say it might have been my co-author Glenn Prush. Her relationship, to your point about how Bill Clinton handles the media and that's something that actually -- that quote that he just gave in the Georgetown piece, he said this behind closed doors in a Media Matters donor conference last year too. We have them in the story. And he repeated that line at a moment when our story was about (inaudible). His relationship with the media is very different than hers. She has never had the type of interest in engaging with the media and working the media the way he does. She's much more like Obama than she is her husband in this way.", "That's a great comparison.", "It's interesting that in the piece they noted that if she doesn't run, they're already making an excuse why she wouldn't want to run is that she doesn't want too go through the media scrutiny and have to deal with us all the time.", "I do remember on the flight back from Mandela's funeral, George W. Bush came back, talked to the press, forced Obama's hand, he had to come back and talk to the press and finally Hillary Clinton came back and talked to us for like 30 seconds.", "We got to go. I'm sorry everybody. I want to thank you for getting up early on the day after prom. We'll have much more conversation next week. Up next, tomorrow's news today, our reporters get you out ahead of the big political stories to come including the next step in the Republican establishment's plan to get this, humiliate the Tea Party."], "speaker": ["KING", "OBAMA", "KING", "JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "KING", "RAJU", "KING", "HABERMAN", "MARTIN", "HABERMAN", "MARTIN", "TALEY", "KING", "MARTIN", "KING", "RAJU", "RAJU", "HABERMAN", "RAJU", "MARTIN", "KING", "JOEL MCHALE, COMEDIAN", "KING", "HABERMAN", "HABERMAN", "KING", "MARTIN", "KING", "TALEY", "KING", "BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KING", "MARTIN", "HABERMAN", "KING", "RAJU", "TALEY", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-248884", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-02-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/08/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Serial Podcast May Have Helped Convicted Murderer Win New Appeal", "utt": ["All right, checking our top stories now. A deadly crash involving Bruce Jenner was not caused by paparazzi, according to Los Angeles county sheriff's investigators. They say photographers were not chasing Jenner when his SUV ran into a Lexus from behind. The Lexus van is oncoming traffic on the Pacific coast highway and then was hit by an oncoming car, a Hammer. The drive of the Lexus died. In Monroeville, Pennsylvania, just outside of Pittsburgh, a 17-year- old has been arrested in connection with a mall shooting that injured three people. Police say the suspect faces adult charges of attempted homicide. According to investigators one of the three people hit by gun fire was the intended targets while the other two were apparently by standers. And public health authorities in Chicago say three more babies have come down with measles, all three attended a Chicago area daycare, where two other children came down with the disease. Officials are unsure whether these cases are linked to the multistate outbreak that began at Disney land in California. And if you have any questions about the measles you can ask them right here on CNN. Just tweet me @fwhitfield #measles. And at 4:00 eastern time, we will put your question to a doctor who will be joining me right here on the set to answer your questions. All right, the wildly popular podcast known as \"Serial\" may end up helping a convicted killer get a new trial. Each week 12 episodes chronicled in Cliff hanging detail. The inconsistencies in the", "When I first met Adnan in person, I was struck by two things, he was way bigger than I expected, barrel-chested and tall. In the photos I had seen he was still a lanky teenager with struggling facial hair and sagging jeans. But now he was 23. He spent nearly half of his life in prison. And the second thing which you can't miss avoid Adnan is that he has giant brown eyes, like a dairy cow. That's", "All right, I want to bring in CNN's Nick Valencia who has been following this case. So hugely popular podcast and now the plot thickens.", "Absolutely. This story just keeps on giving. It's a story that gripped so many around the world, millions tuning in every week to listening to the potential podcast serial. And now the attention that that show brought to this case has given it new life.", "This is \"Serial,\" the most talked about podcast in 2014. And now the man at the heart of it is getting a new chance to overturn his conviction. On Friday, the Maryland court of appeals agreed to hear at Adnan Syed's case. A decision based on the claim that", "The last time 18-year-old Hayman Lee was seen alive she was here at Woodlawn high school. This past Tuesday she was finally found, a passerby in Leakin Park discovered her body hastily buried in a shallow grave.", "Syed became a familiar name to millions around the world last year because of journalist Sarah Koenig who focused her podcast on the 199 Baltimore murder case.", "Something doesn't make sense here in this case. And I don't know where the problem is. And so it really is just me trying to figure that out.", "The drama was downloaded a record breaking five million times. But perhaps more importantly, it casts reasonable doubt among listeners that Syed might have been sentenced to life in prison for a crime he didn't commit.", "You can take one piece of it and say well that part didn't happen, but that doesn't mean the whole thing -- the entire thing is correct.", "On Friday, Syed's attorney tweeted this. We will be heard by the court of special appeals. It's another step in the direction of winning a new trial for Adnan.", "I would rather say you're a jerk, you're selfish, you're a crazy sob you should just stay in there for the rest of your life except on the future case and I looked, you know, like a little off. You look like something is not right.", "While Koenig's podcast may have drawn attention to the case, the wheels were in motion an appeal well before the podcast debut. But now a significant step by the court that will give serial's army of faithful followers a chance at solving the biggest mystery, did Adnan Syed really do it?", "This is the first step in what will be no doubt a lengthy process. I spoke earlier to defense attorney who said that the burden is going to be on Syed's defense to one, prove that a mistake was made by his original counsel and two, that that mistake was big enough that it would have changed the outcome of the case. So this is just the first step, Fred. It is going to be a long process.", "And I guess because it's -- because the podcast highly publicized, that too is going to bring another strange component to a new trial.", "Absolutely. Everyone who's listened to this show has formed an opinion one way or the other. Sarah Koenig who's the sort of brain child of the show, she says she's not sure actually what happened. So every week, very interesting, she was revealing new details as they were gathering them which made the show as popular as it is.", "Very fascinating. All right, thanks so much for bringing that to us. Nick Valencia, appreciate it. All right, and here we go again. Nick, you've been with us three weekends in a row and doesn't ill feel like a repeat cycle. We are talking about the snow on the way again, and it is going to be pummeling the northeast. Again, Sara Ganim is live for us in Boston -- Sarah.", "Fred, the city of Boston dealing with an unprecedented amount of snow, a budget that is already been spent and up to two feet of snow still on the way. How are they dealing with that coming up."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WHITFIELD", "VALENCIA", "VALENCIA (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "VALENCIA", "SARAH KOENIG, JOURNALIST", "VALENCIA", "KOENIG", "VALENCIA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "VALENCIA", "VALENCIA", "WHITFIELD", "VALENCIA", "WHITFIELD", "SARA GAMIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-93034", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2005-3-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0503/18/ldt.01.html", "summary": "Press Conference With Sheriff Jeff Dawsy", "utt": ["... standing with me, and understanding that there were some things that I had to take care of before I came out here. This will be a very short news conference. I will take some -- some questions. It will not be filled with a lot of facts and information because I don't have a whole lot. But you've asked if my investigation will ever take a specific turn. Ladies and gentlemen, it did take a specific turn. John Couey is now the point of investigation. John Couey today -- as you well know, yesterday, as you very well know, he was interviewed by my investigators throughout the day. The FBI sent their polygrapher up there that did the polygraphs on the family members. John Couey was polygraphed today, and at the end of the polygraph, he says, \"You don't need to tell me the results. I already know what they are. Could I have the investigators come back in?\" And the investigators came back in. He apologized to the investigators for wasting their time. And I'm now going to use the word that you probably waited for me to use. John Couey admitted to abducting Jessica and subsequently taking her life. I really don't have a whole lot of information for you besides that. If anybody has any questions, I will be leaving here to go to the family. As you all are very well aware, that my security has enhanced around the residence, and it will remain there. My PIOs and you have worked very well together. I ask that you understand this is a very tough time not only for me, it's a very tough time for the family. My PIOs will be in contact with them, and we will try to be in contact with you and orchestrate whatever we can to facilitate. With that, again, I'm going to answer a few questions. I do want to try to stay halfway composed for you.", "He's told us a general area.", "Any luck in finding her", "This will take hours.", "The search is under way now?", "Pretty much so.", "How long", "Oh, I don't know that yet.", "When are you expecting, though", "Well, remember, this is breaking news. And I wish I could give you all the figures. We are in the process of talking with our state attorney here. He's not going anywhere up there. He's on a no-bond, and we will bring him back once we do everything correct. And, you know, we've talked about building a case. And this is not a time to sing anybody's praises, but I will tell you that we have built a case, a very methodical case, and I've got my man.", "Sheriff, is there any negotiating", "I have not be made aware of -- that would have to be cleared through me, and that didn't get cleared through me.", "Did he give you a timeline of when he abducted Jessica, how long he held her, what he did? I mean, did he...", "No.", "... sort of lay out...", "He's probably doing that as we speak, but again, it's very early. And as the night goes on, I'll be very -- I'll be made aware of what happens. Yes, sir?", "Did he give you an idea of how he got in? No sign...", "I can't go through that right now. We are now are in a major criminal case, and I'm going to shut down some of the information, understandably so, on the criminal end until I can approach the state attorney's office with all facts and figures.", "Sheriff, have you been in touch with...", "What brought to this change of heart...", "I don't know, I wasn't up there. I'm just telling you, my investigators, after he finished with the polygrapher, he turned to him and said, \"Bring the investigators in,\" and started to confess.", "Sheriff, can you tell me, have you talked to Mark Lunsford and what his reaction might have been?", "That was the reason why it took me so long to come out here. We were locating Mark and subsequently calling Jessica's mom to let them know -- at the same time, and then to come out and brief you. And that's what took us a little bit longer.", "What was that conversation like, sir?", "I don't know. I mean, I just was told by my -- one of my commanders that the information has been relayed. And then I knew you guys were on a timeline and I wanted to come out to you guys.", "About what time was the confession?", "Again, that's the criminal end of it. As soon as I get verification, I will get back to you. I don't have -- again, let me explain. I don't have a whole lot of data. I wanted to come out and let you to hear it from me. Thank you.", "Sheriff, what was his demeanor when he confessed?", "Again, I wasn't there. I mean, it must have been fairly -- I'm searching for the word. I apologize. I'm a little brain fade right now. I guess it was cordial. You know, I don't think, you know, we had to hold him down or anything. He asked for them to come in.", "One last question.", "One last question.", "One last question.", "Are there any other cases in Citrus County now that you think we may need to re-look at John Couey because there are things that we hadn't investigated before?", "We're going to look. We -- he had talked to us quite a while. We're going to look at a lot of things, but nothing of any major magnitude. And, you know, that's really the only questions -- I'm stumbling right now, and I apologize. I'm not...", "Details (", "No, again, I apologize. I'm going to the residence. You will see me there, and I imagine I will see you there also.", "But no other, like, sexual molestation cases that hadn't been...", "Not that I'm aware of, OK.", "Timeline for media, we're working on getting some -- putting some facts and timelines together for you.", "A very different statement from Jeff Dawsy, who has said, I've got my man. John Evander Couey admitted to abducting Jessica Lunsford and admitted to taking her life. We now go to Sara Dorsey, who is on the scene -- Sara.", "Well, Kitty, a very tragic ending to this week search for missing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford. Just moments ago, in fact, I'll have the photographer pan over. This is the granddaughter, we are told, of Ruth and Archie Lunsford, which would make her Mark's niece, I believe. She's just hearing the news standing around with media members that John Couey did in fact admit to abducting and subsequently killing Jessica Lunsford. Now, from here, as you can see, this area is crawling with sheriff's officials. The sheriff himself says he's heading over to this home. This area is blocked off. And we are told that now the search will go on to try to locate the body of Jessica Lunsford. Apparently John Couey told investigators a general area to look. We see that the area that is really blocked off the most is that behind the home that John Couey was staying in. And Kitty, again to give you some background, just a few nights ago, the sheriff came out naming John Couey as a person of interest. And the reason why they did that is he was a sex offender -- a convicted sex offender. And when this case first started, the sheriff, of course, starts looking at the family and then goes out. They looked at sex offenders in this general area. John Couey, did not fall into that category, but once those sex offenders where are where they were supposed to be, they went to the whole entire county. That's when John Couey's name came up, because he was not staying in the home he was registered in. When police started -- sheriff's officials started digging, they found out Couey had been staying in a trailer just really across the street from where Jessica Lunsford disappeared from. As investigators started digging the family member that Couey was living with lied to them about him staying there. They later learned, of course, that they had been lied to, and came back, and got more information. They also learned that Couey left town, telling people that investigators would be looking for him. He left on a bus ticket that was in someone else's name, not his own, and fled to the Savannah area. He was picked up by authorities there, but they didn't have jurisdiction to hold him under the warrant that was out, because he was not a suspect in this case, so they didn't have a particular warrant relating to the Jessica Lunsford case to hold him on. He was let go in Savannah, eventually they did find hem in Augusta, they have questioned him. And again, we just found out minutes ago in that press conference, he has admitted to kidnapping and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford -- Kitty.", "All right, thank you very much, Sara Dorsey has been following this story for us in Citrus County, Florida. And we'll be right back in a moment. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["SHERIFF JEFF DAWSY, CITRUS COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT", "DAWSY", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "QUESTION", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "DAWSY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "QUESTION", "OFF-MIKE) DAWSY", "QUESTION", "DAWSY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PILGRIM", "SARA DORSEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PILGRIM"]}
{"id": "CNN-58993", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-8-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0208/12/lt.18.html", "summary": "Great Deal of Talk About Role of Special Forces in Hunt For Al Qaeda Leaders", "utt": ["There is a great deal of talk about the role of U.S. special forces in the hunt for Al Qaeda leaders. Pentagon sources say one strategy would include covert missions to find Al Qaeda leaders, and those missions could go into countries other than Afghanistan. Joining us now, CNN military analyst, retired Army General David Grange. Good afternoon, General. Good to see you.", "Same to you.", "Let's expand on this report further. This is something that CNN has already explored. But interesting to note that when we talk about this plan to use special ops in these covert operations, it would be in countries where the U.S. is not at open war, and it would also be a situation where the local government would not necessarily be informed of their presence. Is this legal?", "It's actually -- you have to look at it two ways. There's covert operations and there's clandestine operations. By law, the military doesn't conduct covert operations. That's where you hide the sponsor of those responsible for an act. Clandestine operations is when you go into an area, like another country, let's say to perform reconnaissance, and then you come back out nondetected, not detected. You are hiding the act. The military has always been allowed to do clandestine, but not by law covert. That takes a waiver to the present law.", "How would you imagine the special forces operating in a city? What would the scenario be?", "Well, to get into specific tactics and techniques, we probably shouldn't do that right here. Obviously, you want to infiltrate without being detected, you want to conduct your mission, and then move out and get picked up safely without losing any -- having any loss of life to your people, and accomplishing your mission. But in some places in the world, this is very difficult to do, because, again, of languages or the ethnic background of the individual doing the mission.", "What would the mission be, though? Would the mission be to track down these subjects and gather intelligence, or would it be to track down these subjects and arrest them, or even kill them?", "I would think that missions that would be given to the military, and again, depending if it's covert or clandestine. But given to the military, let's say that they authorized to do the mission, it would mainly be probably to gather intelligence, perform a reconnaissance mission, or it could be to capture someone, and if the capture may prove unsuccessful, then to kill that person, or persons, with that type of mission.", "But hasn't there in the past been a real effort by the American government to make a distinction between the combat role of the military and the intelligence, or covert, or clandestine operations of the CIA, which needs to operate under very specific legal parameters?", "Well, the military conducts reconnaissance. That happens on any kind of mission that the military conducts, combat or humanitarian assistance, or whatever it may be. A lot of the missions are also going into to prepare an environment, what they call shape a environment. In other words prepare it, check in on airfields, soil composition and the attitude of the local people before you launch a combat operation. So some of the missions would be to set that up for future activities.", "Do you think that the plan that is now being revealed, was reported on earlier by CNN, is now being reported in \"The New York Times\" today, has this been in operation before in a different arena, something that we would be more familiar with?", "The United States military has conducted clandestine operations, and at times covert operations, through history. So it's nothing really new. It may be an additional focus. But again, there are specific laws, and waivers are required, depending on what type of mission the military has set on.", "Thank you very much, General David Grange, CNN military analyst. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com For Al Qaeda Leaders>"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "GEN. DAVID GRANGE, (RET.) CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "LIN", "GRANGE", "LIN", "GRANGE", "LIN", "GRANGE", "LIN", "GRANGE", "LIN", "GRANGE", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-23470", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2001-1-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/12/tod.08.html", "summary": "Clinton, Bush View Economy Quite Differently", "utt": ["First, then, the optimism of the Clinton administration and the economic warnings from the next resident of the White House. For that, we go to CNN's Eileen O'Connor -- Eileen.", "Well, Joie, the president said in his report and to reporters earlier today, that he is leaving office with an economy in much better shape than the one in which -- where he found it at. He cited low unemployment figures, he cited job-rate growth, he also cited the growth rates throughout the last eight years -- he said that it was incredible growth rates. Basically, this report says that that growth rate is contributed -- was contributed to by the emergence of a new economy. And this was the convergence of advances in computer hardware, software, also in the telecommunications industry; all of these advances enabling businesses to cut their costs and increase their productivity which, basically led to these increased growth rates. But the president also said that it was fiscal restraint -- it was lowering the budget and it was also the surpluses and using those surpluses to pay down the debt, allowing interest rates to be lower. That kind of fiscal restraint that kept this growth sustainable throughout the eight years. And so he says, while he does not oppose tax cuts, he does warn against increasing spending while cutting taxes.", "I think we're in good shape; I think I'm leaving with all options open. And the only cautionary point I want to make is I think that the combined impact of spending and tax cuts, I would hope, would not be such as to prevent us from continuing to pay down this debt so we can keep interest rates low and the economy strong over the long run.", "The president would not comment on his successor's forecast that the economy is in a downturn, and also the fact that George W. Bush says that this slowdown -- after the slowdown, the question really is how soft a landing will it be? His spokesman, Ari Fleischer:", "His concern is unabated; it's the same as he's articulated for several months now, that Secretary Cheney, Vice President-elect Cheney articulated: that the economy is clearly weakening. It's a question of how far and how long, and it is a concern, and not only of his, obviously -- of people in both parties and in the private sector as well.", "President Clinton says the growth rate of the past few years was clearly unsustainable and, although there is a slowdown in the rate of growth, the economy is still growing at a robust rate -- Joie.", "Eileen, is anybody attempting to explain this disconnect between the views of the two administrations?", "Well, what a lot of analysts say is that the Bush administration is doing the usual buy low, sell high; basically, they're talking down expectations as they come into office so that, if there is a downturn, if there are problems with the economy, they won't get all of the blame. And as you know, Joie, the president-elect campaigned on a huge tax cut. And he wants to sell that tax cut to Congress; and he believes that, by talking about the slowing economy and the use of tax cuts for a stimulus, he will be able to sell that tax cut on Capitol Hill -- Joie.", "CNN's Eileen O'Connor for us at the White House this afternoon."], "speaker": ["JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR", "EILEEN O'CONNOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "O'CONNOR", "ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY-DESIGNATE", "O'CONNOR", "CHEN", "O'CONNOR", "CHEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-214597", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-9-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/14/cnr.05.html", "summary": "AdTrap Shows High Potential; The Human Factor; CNN Hero", "utt": ["It's one of the most annoying things about the Internet, dealing with all of the advertisements that pop up on almost every single web page. Well, a tech entrepreneur says he has the solution: a device that will block all of the ads. Dan Simon has more.", "The early days of the Internet -- dialup, slow connections, simple graphics. But Chad Russell says in many ways, things were better.", "It was page, text and pictures, and that's it.", "In other words, no ads. Today, they are everywhere -- inescapable and sometimes annoying. Of course, they pay for many great services we get for free but Russell has basically declared war on them.", "At some point, it's gotten a bit much.", "And now, this 31-year-old high school dropout may be on the verge of shaking up the entire Internet advertising industry.", "And this is AdTrap.", "The idea kicked off with a video on the fundraising Web site Kickstarter, where Russell showed off his invention called AdTrap that connects between the modem and router, and what one he says that blocks every kind of ad on a Web site. (on camera): I have one of the first units right here. It's pretty easy to set up. Now, let's give it a try. (voice-over): Check out the video on the top without the AdTrap. You get an ad. On the bottom with the device connected, straight to the video and the company says it works on any device.", "There is no software to configure or settings. That was really one of the goals of the project, is to make it easy for people.", "He wanted to raise $150,000. He wound up with well over $200,000. AdTrap cost $139, based on early orders, demand seems incredibly high.", "I think the success of the product is really showing you how the general public feels right now about the state of advertising.", "As for potential lawsuits from advertisers, Russell is anticipating them, and that's why he's already retained a prominent Silicon Valley law firm. Dan Simon, CNN, Palo Alto, California.", "And next in the CNN NEWSROOM, firefighters called it a miracle. Hear from the man in this dramatic rescue from the Colorado floodwaters. And for most of her life, Annette Miller has been burdened by her weight. Until now. She just completed the Malibu triathlon as a member of CNN's Fit Nation Team. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has her story in today's \"Human Factor.\"", "Growing up in Tennessee, Annette Miller always dreamed of playing basketball. So as soon as she was old enough, she decided to sign up for the team.", "I got a permission slip from our coach at school and came running home that day. I was so excited to get to play basketball. Instead of getting a signature from my parents, I was told you're too fat to play.", "At 10 years old and more than 200 pounds, she says, that mantra instantly changed her life.", "\"You're too fat\" followed me into adulthood and I didn't realize how much it held me back.", "But years later, when her twin sister, Bobbette needed a kidney transplant --", "I was not even tested or considered to be a donor because of my weight. That was the kick in the pants I need.", "So she changed her diet. She started walking. She hit the gym. She was determined to get the weight off. By November of 2012, she was well on her way.", "I'm proud to say at this point, I've lost over 100 pounds.", "And she wasn't finished.", "There's a little 10-year-old kid in here that still wants to play, wants to be a part of something, be a part of a team.", "Miller applied for the CNN Fit Nation Challenge, and she was accepted in January. (on camera): Congratulations. We've already picked you -- (voice-over): For eight months, she trained, swimming, biking, running, to compete in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon. And she got below 200 pounds for the first time in decades.", "I didn't stop, 198, and then I have never had a breakdown on a scale, but I started crying.", "And on Sunday, September 8th, Miller got her chance to play, crossing the finish line in Malibu, squarely in the middle of the pack.", "Amazing. I made the turn around on the bank. I knew I had it. If I can do it, you can do it.", "Next up for Miller, surgery to remove the excess skin left over from her years of being overweight to complete her transformation. And as far as the basketball game, that dream came true as well. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CHAD RUSSELL, ADTRAP", "SIMON", "RUSSELL", "SIMON", "RUSSELL", "SIMON", "RUSSELL", "SIMON", "RUSSELL", "SIMON", "WHITFIELD", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ANNETTE MILLER, CNN FIT NATION 2013 TRIATHLETE", "GUPTA", "MILLER", "GUPTA", "MILLER", "GUPTA", "MILLER", "GUPTA", "MILLER", "GUPTA", "MILLER", "GUPTA", "MILLER", "GUPTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-85899", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2004-7-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/02/se.01.html", "summary": "Bush Speaks on Labor Dept. Report", "utt": ["It is 11:00 a.m. on the east coast, 8:00 a.m. in the West. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Betty Nguyen in for Daryn Kagan today. And we're waiting for President Bush to speak in the East Room of the White House. He will be discussing the economy today on the heels of that new Labor Department report where some 112,000 jobs were created last month. And of course when that happens, we will bring it to you live right here on CNN. Up first on CNN, a rocket attack in Iraq. Insurgents used a rigged vehicle as a lunching pad in the attacks that targeted two Baghdad hotels. Both the Sheraton Hotel and the Baghdad Hotel are used by Westerners. Two people were wounded in those attacks. Also in Iraq today, militants freed two Turkish citizens who had been held hostage. They were released after their employer agreed to stop doing business with the U.S. military in Iraq. We've also just learned another Pakistani hostage has also been released today. Jordan's King Abdullah says he would be willing to send troops to Iraq. The king told the BBC that if the Iraqis asked for help it would be very difficult to say no. Yemen says it would also send troops under a U.N. mandate. More details on the latest developments in Iraq, in this report from CNN senior international correspondent Brent Sadler in Baghdad.", "An attempt to launch a salvo of rockets at targets in central Baghdad partly succeeded, after the firing mechanism apparently failed. Insurgents rigged a minibus with nine launch tubes and drove it to Firdos Square, a famous landmark where a statue of Saddam Hussein was symbolically pulled down when Baghdad fell to the U.S.-led invasion last April. The firing platform burst into flames after two rockets discharged. The other seven missiles slammed harmlessly into concrete. But one projectile hit the 10th floor of the Sheraton Hotel causing damage, but no injuries. The Sheraton is home to many international news organizations and Western businesses. A second rocket veered off course and slammed into the parking lot of the Baghdad Hotel injuring two Iraqis and setting a vehicle on fire. The attacks came the day after deposed dictator Saddam Hussein was arraigned by an Iraqi judge. Iraqis are still getting to grips with the images they saw on television, images that were in sharp contrast to way the ex-ruler appeared after his capture last December, broken and bewildered. Instead of giving the appearance of defeat, they saw Saddam challenge the jurisdiction of the judge, refuse to sign court documents and hurl insults at the Kuwaitis. The spectacle triggered widespread debate here on the wisdom of a judicial process that allowed the deposed president so much freedom to speak his mind. Brent Sadler, CNN, Baghdad.", "A select group of reporters were allowed in the courtroom for the arraignment of Saddam Hussein and 11 others. \"New York Times\" reporter John Burns says Saddam was among the most defiant.", "That of the 12 defendants who appeared yesterday, there is only one who hasn't understood that the game is up, and that's Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein feels that presenting himself as he did as the president of Iraq, that he can attack the coalition and its position here at its weakest the point. And there's no doubt that's quite effective. There were many Iraqis who liked that, including Iraqis who, by the way, I talked to yesterday, whose families, in some cases themselves, had been injured by Saddam. Difficult psychology to understand. But he knows he's got an audience to play to out there and he'll -- he'll make the most of it, you can be sure.", "Saddam Hussein's televised court appearance was a long awaited moment for those who survived his brutal regime. ITV correspondent Harry Smith reports now from London.", "Look! Oh, Saddam, oh!", "He was tortured by Saddam Hussein's secret police. More than 70 members of his family were slaughtered. As he watched his tormentor face justice, Sahib alHakim couldn't hide the hatred.", "Oh! Saddam, criminal. You should die. You should die. You don't deserve life.", "After the anger, the years of pain came flooding back.", "I remember the people who have been buried in mass graves. I attend the excavation of mass graves. I've seen the bodies without heads. And I know that Uday, son of this dictator, have beheaded a lot of women, because they are not loyal to the regime. So it came to my mind, when I saw this, these bodies buried, were innocent, because they opened their mouth against the regime.", "Dr. alHakim fled Iraq 22 years ago. And as long as Saddam was in power, he lived constantly under the threat of his assassins. His family have paid a terrible price for opposing the dictator.", "All these are members of my family, alHakim, have been arrested and killed by Saddam regime. This is my brother, Mr. Jabir Hakim, who has been killed by Saddam. They used thalium poisoning. This is my cousin,", "For Sahib alHakim, this has been a day of extraordinary mixed emotions. From the pain of the past, to the hope of seeing justice in the future. Harry Smith, ITV news.", "And you can log on to cnn.com anytime you want for an update on Iraq. You can also view a photo gallery of Saddam in court. We do have some new pictures of him in handcuffs that I imagine will be on there shortly. You can read a transcript of the proceeding and view profiles of key prisoners in Iraq as well on that Web site. President Bush is touting payroll gains for June while job growth is at its slowest pace since February and unemployment stays the same. We are of course waiting on the president to speak. He will be speaking from the East Room of the White House this morning. Discussing the economy and these latest job report numbers. The Labor Department today says that 112,000 jobs were created last month, which is far fewer than the 250,000 that Wall Street had anticipated. In fact, it's less than half of that 250,000 that were expected. But as mentioned, the unemployment rate was unchanged, at 5.6 percent. However, June still represented a 10th straight month of job growth and has added about 1.5 million workers to the payrolls. Will this bit of a slowdown be a tough row for the president as he heads into the election? We'll see what he has to say about that. Right now, he is meeting with small business leaders. And once that meeting concludes, he will be speaking here at this podium about the economy. And we understand that should be happening just over a minute from now, coming up very shortly. Just to give you some facts on the economy, the economy is at $11 trillion. We have a $521 billion deficit. As mentioned, the unemployment was 5.6 percent. And 1.5 million new jobs over the last 10 months. But we also understand, with all of these new numbers that are coming out that 8.2 million Americans are still unable to find work, at least they were last month. Here, as you see, the president stepping up to the podium. Let's listen.", "Wellcome. Thanks for coming.", "We've got an economy which is changing. It's -- the nature of the job base is changing. And all of that means it's been a difficult period of time. Yet we're strong. We're getting stronger. We're witnessing steady growth -- steady growth, and that's important. We don't need a boom-or-bust-type growth. We want just steady, consistent growth so that our fellow citizens will be able to find a job and so that the small-business sector will feel confident about expanding. I was pleased to see that consumer confidence is at a two-year high. That's an indication that the economy is strong and getting better. When people are confident they tend to be a part of the decision-making process amongst millions of deciders that say the future's going to be better. I just met with small-business owners. I'm going to introduce them here in a second. They're confident. The first thing I listen for was did they have confidence in their voices? Were they saying to me, \"Gosh, I'm confident enough to make investment\"? That's what you listen for if you're somebody trying to be able to report to the country about the nature of our economy. To a person, to a business they were saying, \"You bet. I'm confident about the future of the country. Therefore, I'm going to invest more,\" which I'm going to talk a little bit about here in a second. Real after-tax incomes are up 11 percent since December of 2000. To me that's a vital statistic. Real after-tax incomes. That means it's the amount of money in somebody's wallet is increasing. That's what we want to hear, isn't it, particularly if you're somebody who's got a wallet?", "That's what we want.", "That doesn't mean anything unless you're somebody who follows all the numbers that comes out of Washington. But what it does mean is it confirms the notion that manufacturing activity is as good as it's been in 20 years. And that's very positive. Today, we've got a new jobs report out. Jobs increased by 112,000 in June, which means we've had a total of 1.5 million new jobs since last August.", "And that's why the tax relief package we passed was so important, particularly in the face of a recession and in the face of an emergency. It came at the right time. And I want to thank the people here who worked with us to convince Congress to trust the people with their own money. That's really what the debate was about, wasn't it? Who do you want to spend your money? Obviously, the government needs to spend some of it to make sure we've got a military and make sure we fulfill certain functions. But at this point in our economic history it made sense to let you have your own money to spend so that the economy would grow. We based a lot of our decision-making on the knowledge that if you have more money in your pocket, if there's more after-tax pay in your pocket, you'll demand additional goods and services. And when you do so in a market economy, if it's functioning properly, somebody will produce the goods or services. And when that happen, it's going to stabilize the job base and then eventually allows for more people to go back to work. And that's what we're seeing. And that's what we're seeing. Much of the job growth, the stimulus package, was aimed at small businesses, because we knew that 70 percent of new jobs are created by small businesses. We were aware of that. And so therefore, when we went to Congress, we said, \"As you reduce the tax burden on the American people, make sure you understand the effect that tax reductions can have on the decision-makers who hire most of the new people. That would be your small-business owner.\"", "A vital part of our package was to encourage investment in the small-business sector of our country. And it's paying off. See, when the small-business owners of America feel confident and feel comfortable in investing in plant and equipment or in new services, it stimulates a vibrant part of our economy. That's what happens. The cornerstone of our policy, if the truth be known, was to trust individuals with their own money and to encourage the small- business sector to grow so people could find work.", "We can't say to you, \"Gosh, we'll help you align what you supply with demand.\" You've got to figure that out yourself.", "It says, \"Ed, invest $300,000 and you'll save $50,000 from what you normally would have.\" It's called an incentive. And our American citizens have got to understand the connection between investment and jobs. When Ed invests $300,000 to build a warehouse and a painting facility, somebody's got to come and build the warehouse. Somebody's got to manufacture the material for the warehouse. Somebody's going to provide the new painting equipment for the painting facility. Investment equals jobs. When somebody invests like Ed, somebody has to provide the goods that he needs. And when somebody provides the goods he needs, somebody's working to provide the good he needs. That's how this economy works. He says, \"With that money I don't send back to the IRS, I can expand right here.\" Those are his words.", "So they're good business people. They've added 20 workers in the last six months. They're expanding their business.", "And one way to make it function well is for the federal government to work with community colleges and local businesses to devise curriculum to train people for the jobs which actually exist. And I want to thank the Maxwells for being a part of this kind of practical move in education all across the country. Joan says, \"There are a lot of opportunities where people can use these skills. We're literally building our workforce for the future here.\" That's the way we think in the administration. We're thinking about the future. We're thinking about how to make sure that the momentum that we have developed in the economy not only stays strong in the immediate years, but how is it going to look 10 years from now? So we got to start planning for the future. We got to understand the decisions we're making today are going to make it more likely that the small-business sector, the entrepreneurial spirit of America, will remain very strong tomorrow. And part of that is to make sure the education system not only teaches our youngsters how to read, write and add and subtract now, before it is too late, but it's also to make sure that our community colleges are able to put curriculum in place to train people for jobs which will exist. So I want to thank the Maxwells for being here. I appreciate your spirit, and thank you for hiring people. We've got...", "I can predict to him if we run up the taxes on subchapter S corporations by raising, for example, the top rate, his business isn't going to look quite as good as it would have when we keep taxes low. John is an S corp. In other words, you know, all the talk about running up the top rate affects his business. When you hear them in Washington saying, \"We're going to run up the top rate,\" just remember this is a tax on small businesses. And you don't want to tax small businesses because small businesses are providing the economic momentum necessary for us to have created 1.5 million jobs since August. We want that job creation to continue to go on. Raising taxes will make it more likely somebody won't be able to find a job. You know why? Because it affects businesses like John's. That's why. When you start taking money out of John's coffers, it means he's less likely to expand. He is a full-service electrical and general contractor. That's his job. He hired eight people in the last two months. He wants to hire eight to 10 more this year. That's positive.", "He'll save $60,000 in taxes this year on $350,000 of investment in new trucks. When you hear the investment numbers in small businesses, it is heartening because I repeat, when people invest, they create jobs. That's how jobs are created. John says, \"The cash we're able to keep in the business helps a lot. It helps us look forward to the future.\" That's what he said. That's what you want to hear. You want to hear your CEO of a small business saying, \"It helps me look forward to the future.\" You don't want people saying, \"Oh, gosh, life is going to be miserable because we've been able to come through tough times.\" You want them to say, \"I'm looking forward.\" Good policy in Washington always looks forward, not backwards. I want to talk about some things we can do to make sure, as John and others look forward, the environment is encouraging and conducive to economic investment. I just told you one, and that is to make sure the education system functions well. If you're somebody trying to hire people and you see that the education system is working well, you'll be able to look forward with confidence because you know you'll be able to fulfill your workers' needs. You can't look forward if you are worried about finding somebody to meet a skill that you need. Joan Thompson is with us. She was talking about that level of worker -- the skill level of the worker she needs. She's an owner and -- thank you, Joan -- she's an owner and a...", "Nine children and (", "Yes, 11 people.", "It's important that Congress understand what the death tax does to capital formation and the ability for the small-business sector to invest. And I say you tax it twice. When the Minnesota Wire and Cable Company makes a profit, it gets taxed. And I suspect you pay property taxes at the local level as well, and state taxes. And then when the, you know, mom and dad move on, in many cases that asset will be taxed again. And therefore, if the asset is illiquid, some people have to sell their business; you can't pass it on. I believe you ought to be able to pass your business on to whomever you choose without the federal government being in between you and those who you designate to own the company.", "They've added 14 workers this year; tax savings of $80,000 on $600,000 worth of investment. I said, \"What are you going to invest in?\" She said, \"Robotics.\" It is pretty interesting to hear a small business say robotics. I don't know whether small businesses were saying they were investing in robotics 20 years ago or not, but I bet they are over the next 20 years, if the incentives are properly structured, if small businesses are encouraged to invest, if the tax structure is such that it'll make it easier for them to survive, by making sure government doesn't take too much of their money. She also invests in CNC machines. Everybody knows what they are.", "And if Congress doesn't make it permanent, that's called a tax increase. And they will be tagged with raising taxes on the American people. They should not raise taxes. We need good, consistent tax policy. If you are a small-business owner, you want there to be a constant in your life when it comes to planning. You've got too much to worry about: markets, your customer base. And you need to have certainty in the tax code. And the Congress needs to know that. And raising taxes creates uncertainty and will make it difficult for small-business owners to plan and invest. Secondly, health care costs are on the rise. That makes it difficult for employer and employee. We must not allow the federal government to run our health care system in America. What we must do is to put good policy and plan in place which will connect the patient-doctor relationship and give people choices and decision- making powers in the marketplace. That's why I'm such a strong backer of health savings accounts. These can be tailored for small businesses. I would urge every small business in America to look at a health savings account. It's a good way to help control costs, and it's a good way to provide benefits for your workers. We need association health plans which allow...", "It makes it very difficult for people to plan with confidence. And let us face it, our society is too litigious. There's too many lawsuits, a lot of them frivolous and junk lawsuits. And there's a role for the federal government in this. We need to have class action reform. We need to have asbestos reform. Congress needs to get these bills passed and to my desk. We need medical liability reform, as well, at the federal level. You see, junk and frivolous lawsuits cause docs to practice defensive medicine. And defensive medicine basically means I'm going to prescribe more procedure than needed so that when I get in a court of law, I'll be able to defend myself. And that runs up the cost of medicine, which hurts the patients and it hurts the federal government because the federal government pays a lot of money for health care in Medicare and Medicaid and our veterans' benefits. And our budgets are affected by frivolous and junk lawsuits here at the federal level. Therefore, I think it is a federal problem that does require a federal solution. And we've proposed such a solution. The House of Representatives passed it. It's got stuck in the Senate because the trial lawyers are powerful in the Senate. That's why. And for the sake of small-business growth and for the sake of having a good economy in the future, we need to convince the United States Senate to pass meaningful and real tort reform. It's an important part.", "We've done a lot of things. And we've proposed it to the United States Congress and, of course, it's stick. They're playing politics with the national energy policy. But if we're interested in making sure people can find work in America, if we want to be the best place to do business, if we want the entrepreneurial spirit to remain strong, we've got to develop an energy policy that makes us less dependent on foreign sources of energy.", "And now you've got an administration who is saying, \"Since we did that for you, you open up your markets.\" I told Evans and Zoellick, \"When we need to get tough with foreign nations that shut us out, get tough.\" Because all we're interested in is a level playing field; that's what we want. We want our people treated fairly.", "OK. We are having some more technical difficulties in getting the president's speech to you from the East Room of the White House. Today, he is speaking about the economy, in light of the Labor Department releasing its jobs report today; 112,000 jobs were created last month. But on top of that, it's still far fewer than what analysts had hoped. They had been hoping for about 250,000 jobs. The president was talking about a number of issues. He said that the economy is steady, and it is growing, consistent growth, in his words. He also called the economy strong and that it is getting stronger. He cited a number of statistics, as well, saying that the consumer confidence is at a two-year high. And he also said that home ownership rates are at an all-time high. So a lot of talk about the economy today from the president. And of course, we'll continue to follow that."], "speaker": ["BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR", "BRENT SADLER, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "NGUYEN", "JOHN BURN, \"NEW YORK TIMES\"", "NGUYEN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARRY SMITH, ITV NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SAHIB ALHAKIM, FRM. IRAQI PRISONER", "SMITH", "ALHAKIM", "SMITH", "ALHAKIM", "SMITH", "NGUYEN", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-49150", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-2-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/13/ltm.05.html", "summary": "In a Few Hours, John Walker Will be Arraigned in Federal Court", "utt": ["Up front this morning, the case of John Walker Lindh. In just a couple of hours, the Taliban American will be arraigned in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. Now, he is expected to plead not guilty to a series of terrorism related charges and it is expected a November trial date will be set. And CNN's Jonathan Aiken is standing by outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Alexandria. He joins us now -- good morning, Jonathan. Walk us through what's going to happen today.", "Good morning, Paula. Pretty straightforward legal happenings this morning at the federal courthouse in Alexandria. Three things are going to happen at 9:00 a.m. Eastern when this arraignment trial takes place, this arraignment hearing takes place. John Walker Lindh and his lawyers will be brought in. Federal prosecutors will be there. It'll be in the courtroom of Judge T.S. Ellis. Once things get under way, here comes an order. The charges will be formally presented to John Walker Lindh. He faces 10 counts from a federal grand jury indictment. There's a federal grand jury sitting here at the courthouse. They handed up this indictment last week. After the charges are formally presented, Walker will have the opportunity to present for the first time his plea to these charges, and we're not expecting any surprises. We should get not guilty or innocent pleas all the way down. The third thing that takes place is the trial date, and here's where things get a little interesting. Normally the procedure is the trial has to start 70 days after the arraignment. Well, both the defense and the prosecution have gotten together and the one thing they do agree on is that 70 days won't be enough and as you mentioned, the trial date is likely to be some time in mid November. Two distinct reasons for this, however, depending upon what side you talk to. For the defense, Walker's lawyers say pretrial publicity is their concern. They want the passions around the case and their client to subside between now and November. The Feds say that pretrial publicity is going to be there but they do agree with the defense it will be a difficult case. Evidence has to be taken from three countries, including a war zone -- Paula.", "Describe to us the security there this morning. Is it anything like what we witnessed last week?", "Well, security is tight and it's been sort of standard operating procedure how it works here. The U.S. marshals have the area immediately around the courthouse blocked off. There are streets on either side of the building. They, too, have been sealed. The detention center where Walker Lindh has been kept is about two and a half blocks to my right, your left. So those streets are sealed as he moves. And as you mentioned, he's already in the courthouse. There's an open field over to my left that has also been sealed off and fenced off. And around us is general construction. This is a booming area, this part of Alexandria, and kind of hard to move around in anyway. But the area immediately around the courthouse pretty sealed up.", "And will John Walker Lindh's family be there today?", "John Walker Lindh's parents will, indeed, be here. We're not expecting them to say anything. They didn't say anything last week when they were here for their son's brief court appearance. It is possible that James Brosnahan, speaking on behalf of the defense, may have something to say. There will be a gaggle of microphones set up. Also expected to be here are the parents of that CIA agent, Johnny Spann, who was killed during that prison uprising at Mazir-i- Sharif. We should add that Walker Lindh has not been charged in any way with anything connected with Johnny Spann's death. However, his parents are in town and are expected to make an appearance at the courthouse today -- Paula.", "And what is the significance of their appearance there?", "I think probably just emotional. You know, John Walker Lindh was one of the last people who their son saw before he was killed. Spann interrogated John Walker Lindh about 30 minutes prior to the beginning of that uprising in Mazir-i-Sharif and from all accounts that we have, Walker Lindh was kept in sort of a basement or a lower area of that fortress while the uprising took place above him. So we don't, apparently, according to the federal officials, he wasn't involved in Spann's death. But their presence here will be an emotional score for the prosecution.", "All right, Jonathan Aiken, thanks so much for that report. The big question this morning, will John Walker Lindh's confession be admissible at trial? The People versus John Walker Lindh may not be a slam dunk for the prosecution. The road from trial to conviction could be a bumpy one, indeed. Joining us now from Washington, former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne, and from Boston, Alan Dershowitz, Harvard law professor and author of \"Shouting Fire: Civil Liberties In A Turbulent Age,\" yet another book. Good morning Mr. Dershowitz and good morning, Cynthia, as well.", "good morning.", "Good morning.", "All right, Cynthia, I'm going to start with you this morning. Let's talk about the admissibility of some of the stuff the FBI got out of John Walker Lindh. We should point out the charges in the indictment are based almost entirely on his statements during a two day period that came during the interrogation on December 9 and 10 by an FBI agent. Now, there have been two problems pointed out with what the FBI agent got. Only one agent spoke with Lindh and the agent failed to tape or transcribe what Lindh said. Did the FBI blow it here, Cynthia?", "Well, whether or not there were one or two agents in the room will not affect whether or not his statement is admissible nor does it affect whether or not his statement is admissible if it's taped or, you know, transcribed at the exact moment or videotaped. That won't affect the admissibility. What will affect the admissibility is whether or not it's true that the defense attorneys say that Mr. Walker was deprived of a lawyer after he repeatedly asked for one, he was held in isolation, he was deprived of food and water, he was held naked for days and duct taped to a cot. I mean they have very serious allegations. Whether or not those are true, that will be the battleground that will happen during the hearing. Now, you'll notice that the government has been very quiet about that, as they should be. But they don't seem that worried to me. Over the years, I've seen defense attorneys make all kinds of allegations and when it actually comes to the hearing they have a tendency to fall apart. So we'll just have to wait till the hearing.", "How strong do you expect this front to be on the defense's part, Alan?", "Well, I think this is a non-starter for the defense. This is a serious mistake to put all their eggs in the basket of the exclusionary rule. This is the Virginia District Court. This is the Fourth Circuit, the most hostile court in the country to any kind of Miranda claims. If I were the defense attorney in this case, first, I would not be moving for a delay. I'd be moving for the speediest possible trial. The government's case on the merits is only going to get stronger, not weaker, as it interrogates more and more people and learns more information. Right now the government's case of conspiracy to kill Americans is extraordinarily weak. There's nothing in his own confession that would support that. He apparently turned down an opportunity to kill Americans and kill Israelis, preferring instead to fight against the Northern Alliance. This is a case in which there is no advantage, I don't think, to delay for the defense and every advantage to speed. I think the big surprise that we're seeing is that the defendant is sticking to the lawyers selected by his parents to present a kind of legalistic case. I think there were many who expected he would get up in court and say no, I did this, I did it in the name of Allah and I'm not going to have any kind of legalistic defense. So that, I think, is the only surprise we've seen. Otherwise, we're seeing this case litigated the way conventional lawyers litigate conventional cases and this is anything but a conventional case.", "All right, Cynthia, do you think the conspiracy against Americans prong is as weak as Alan says it is, from a prosecutor's point of view?", "No. I don't think it's as weak. First of all, I don't think it's as weak from the facts inside the indictment. And second, I think the indictment is based on Walker's statements and we don't know yet what else is in, you know, the prosecutor's bag, what other evidence they have, because they aren't talking. So don't assume because it's not in the indictment all the other factual basis for how they know this, that it doesn't exist. And let's go back to the indictment...", "Well, I do assume that.", "Let's just go back to the indictment for a second. Alan says there's absolutely nothing in the indictment to support the conspiracy charge and I disagree with that. Because in the indictment it does say that he joined this organization of bin Laden knowing that the goal of the organization was to kill Americans, that he knew in advance there were suicide missions in the United States, the goal of which was to kill Americans, that he stayed with the organization after September 11, that he met with bin Laden, where he was thanked for participating in the jihad and after the 4,000 Americans or so were killed. He not only stayed, but went into the hills to prepare for the assaults on Americans which would inevitably come. So I disagree strongly that there's nothing in the indictment to support the conspiracy charge.", "Well, I didn't say there's nothing...", "I will agree that it is a more difficult charge to prove, especially if there are no statements, which is why Mr. Brosnahan has no choice but to try to suppress the statements. And it may very well be in the investigation and as all the Taliban buddies of his get questioned, that more evidence arises.", "I didn't say there was nothing in the indictment...", "What about that, Alan?", "I said there is nothing in the evidence as far as I know. And remember that although the prosecution is remaining silent now, the attorney general of the United States has been trying this case in the press from day one and has been laying out what he believes is this very strong case. There's a doctrine in conspiracy law known as bifurcated conspiracies. The Dr. Spock case in the Vietnam War set that out. If you join a general broad conspiracy like this, the government has to prove that you as an individual defendant adhered to specific unlawful goals. And so if you get a situation where even if he knew that there were people within this very broad conspiracy who were trying to kill Americans, if he specifically said that's not what I'm doing here, that's not what I'm joining, I'm joining an over arching political/military organization who has different goals, some good, some bad. I'm adhering to the good goals, that is, the non unlawful goals. I think that's a very, very strong case. That doesn't mean he can win on the other counts of the conspiracy indictment, namely, conspiracy to aid terrorists. That's, I think, a very strong case. But conspiracy to kill Americans, if he can demonstrate that he specifically turned down an opportunity to do that, even if he knew that there were others who were in the al Qaeda camp who were doing the same thing -- this is not going to be a slam dunk. That's why I think down the line we may be seeing some negotiation and some plea bargaining. This may be a win-win for both sides if they can get a plea to some of the other charges in the indictment. Because the one thing the government does not want to do is lose...", "All right...", "... count one. That's too important for them.", "Cynthia, I need a final thought on that, the potential of this being a win-win for both sides here?", "Well, it wouldn't be surprising to me if ultimately there was a plea agreement in this case because of the stakes. But any plea agreement will include a very long prison sentence.", "Um-hmm.", "All right, got to leave it there. Cynthia Alksne, Alan Dershowitz, thank you both for joining us this morning.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Appreciate your time."], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "JONATHAN AIKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ZAHN", "AIKEN", "ZAHN", "AIKEN", "ZAHN", "AIKEN", "ZAHN", "ALAN DERSHOWITZ, HARVARD LAW PROFESSOR", "CYNTHIA ALKSNE, FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR", "ZAHN", "ALKSNE", "ZAHN", "DERSHOWITZ", "ZAHN", "ALKSNE", "DERSHOWITZ", "ALKSNE", "DERSHOWITZ", "ALKSNE", "DERSHOWITZ", "ZAHN", "DERSHOWITZ", "ZAHN", "DERSHOWITZ", "ZAHN", "ALKSNE", "DERSHOWITZ", "ZAHN", "DERSHOWITZ", "ALKSNE", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-64594", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-12-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/23/ltm.11.html", "summary": "2002: Crime: Crimes & Misdemeanors", "utt": ["Now moving on to some of the year's most outrageous and memorable legal cases. In the second part of my conversation on the crime year in review, I sat down with Jeffrey Toobin and famed attorney Johnnie Cochran to give us their legal perspective as we look at crimes and misdemeanors from the year 2002 in review.", "Now is there any single outrage of the year we've missed her when we review all these court cases and what you were shocked by that went to trial...?", "I'll tell you, I was outraged early on by the prosecutors in the kid -- the King case. And so it turned out, and I thought the judge kind of pulled that out.", "The judges pulled that out. I was -- I'm a little outraged that McDonald's got sued because the kids are fat.", "Is that the criminal case of the year?", "I don't know, but it's interesting. It just shows how everything winds up in court. It's everybody wants to blame everybody for something else. But, you know -- oh, I'll tell you an outrage, a big outrage. The Central Park jogger case. We -- we all assumed that a confession meant you were guilty, and the New York district attorney's office, belatedly but to its credit, filed a paper in December. Didn't just say these people, you know, we can't prove it any more. It said these five kids were not guilty; they were innocent. And that was the shocking thing to me. I mean, it just shows -- you know, we hear...", "What does it show?", "Well, it shows that we can't always know what we think we know. That even confessions, even the legal system, even good journalism something produces the wrong result.", "It really does. When you go back and look at \"The New York Times\" and papers around that time, some prominent citizens around there took out full-page ads, calling for, like, these kids to be put to death.", "Right.", "It was horrible.", "It was.", "And these kids are basically innocent of those offenses. And you know, I think that we should give some credit to some really fine lawyers who fought that and believed in their clients. And it's pretty tough. And even when these kids confessed, the confession didn't make any sense, really. But nobody, you know -- sometimes there's this strong desire to win that overwhelms everything, especially in an environment where you're having horrible crimes.", "What do you say to cops who say the D.A. has blown it? You know?", "I can understand why they think that, but I think they're wrong. I mean, I followed this case very closely. I've looked at the evidence. This person who confessed in prison, Matias Reyes, it's his DNA that was found on the jogger. The evidence does not stack up against these kids any more. And -- or they're no longer kids. And this was a real outrage. I mean, these kids spent years and years in prison for a crime they didn't commit. And that's something all of us who care about justice, you know, should know...", "It's an outrage. And it makes us think. It should make all citizens think twice that you can't go along with just the popular view.", "I know Michael Jackson has come into your life from time to time. Is he nuts?", "I don't think he's nuts. I think he's unique and he's eclectic and those kinds of things. But no, and I think I've talked enough with this incident (ph) -- I mean, he apologized. I mean, it was a spur of the moment thing. He loves those kids.", "Come on. You're a dad. Who in their right mind would dangle an infant over the balcony of a high hotel?", "Well, it certainly wouldn't be recommended procedure, and I think he understands that.", "Does he deserve to keep those kids?", "I think so, because I think he's a good parent. I think you'd find that he is a good parent. He cares about kids.", "I'm so glad that Johnny has moved onto this subject, so now we can disagree completely again. It made me sick to watch that video. I thought it was appalling. I -- I don't know...", "Should he lose custody of the kids?", "I don't know enough about the situation, about his relationship with those kids. I mean, the last time I saw them they all had napkins over their heads when he took them to the zoo. I mean, it's -- he is a bizarre fellow and the less seen and heard of him, the better.", "Great to see you. Continued good luck to you. Jeffrey, thank you."], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "ZAHN", "JOHNNIE COCHRAN, DEFENSE ATTY.", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "ZAHN", "TOOBIN", "ZAHN", "TOOBIN", "COCHRAN", "TOOBIN", "COCHRAN", "TOOBIN", "COCHRAN", "ZAHN", "TOOBIN", "COCHRAN", "ZAHN", "COCHRAN", "ZAHN", "COCHRAN", "ZAHN", "COCHRAN", "TOOBIN", "ZAHN", "TOOBIN", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "NPR-39278", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2008-08-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93436209", "title": "Loan Crisis Hits College", "summary": "The credit crunch has dried up the market for private loans. Students at selective schools are finding they can still get enough money to attend schools, but low-income students at lesser-known schools are having a harder time.", "utt": ["It's almost time for America's colleges and universities to open their doors for the new academic year, but they're still struggling with the national credit crisis. Financial-aid officers are scrambling to help students find lenders now that many banks have dropped out of the student-loan business.", "But as NPR's Larry Abramson reports, the biggest problem for many schools is persuading students that money is available.", "Lately, Sophia Henderson has been hearing the words a financial-aid officer dreads.", "In some of my counseling sessions, you have parents who are saying to the students, you need to take a year off because we can't afford to have you come to school this year.", "Henderson is student financial resources ombudsperson at Pine Manor College, a small liberal arts school outside Boston. Two-thirds of the students there qualify for federal aid for low-income families.", "In Massachusetts, newspapers have been full of stories about tight credit, particularly since the Massachusetts Education Financing Authority announced last month it could not loan any more money. Henderson has been working extra hard to persuade students: Don't give up; just look under every bushel for scholarship money.", "You know, there are billions of dollars in scholarship; we have scholarships for Latino students; we have scholarships for undocumented students, and so on and so forth.", "Well-known schools like UC Berkeley or Amherst say their students are finding lenders that are still in the student-loan business. But lenders have dropped less prestigious schools because too many students there don't graduate or because the default rate on loans is too high. And even at schools that have found banks to make loans, the requirements for each student are much tighter. More students have to find a co-signer and Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of finaid.org, says they need higher credit scores.", "So whereas last year you could obtain a private student loan with a FICO score as low as 620, this year you're going to have to have at least a 650 and in some cases a 680 or 700.", "But the biggest problem may be a shortage of information. Federally backed money is still easily available. Congress gave the Department of Education temporary authority to keep that money flowing. The real problem has been with private loans. That's the money the families use to make up the difference when federally backed loans don't cover the costs. Rene Drouin of the New Hampshire Higher Education Loan Corporation says like his Massachusetts counterpart, he had to stop issuing about $70 million in private or alternative loans, which used to help 6,000 New Hampshire students attend college.", "On the alternative loan side, you are not going to be able to finance those loans because those are, again, without any federal guarantees, So they're a high-risk loan, according to credit standards.", "Private loans had been growing in importance as tuition rises faster than inflation, and Mark Kantrowitz of finaid.org says many lenders have dropped community college students entirely because they feel they aren't worth the trouble.", "Because the average aggregate balance at graduation is much higher at a four-year institution, so those loans are more profitable to the lenders.", "Financial-aid officers are concerned that confused students looking for money will be the victim of student-loan scams. Stephanie Elias(ph) is with Curry College in Massachusetts.", "There have always been organizations that take advantage of families when it comes to educational financing.", "Pay me a fee even though your credit rating is lousy…", "And I'll find you some funds. Exactly.", "Right. Financial-aid officers say with some extra work, the number of students directly affected by the loan crisis should actually be very small. But they say the students who are likely to be left out are those most in need, those who are the first in their families to attend college.", "Larry Abramson, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, host", "MELISSA BLOCK, host", "LARRY ABRAMSON", "Ms. SOPHIA HENDERSON (Student Financial Resources Ombudsperson)", "LARRY ABRAMSON", "LARRY ABRAMSON", "Ms. SOPHIA HENDERSON (Student Financial Resources Ombudsperson)", "LARRY ABRAMSON", "Mr. MARK KANTROWITZ (Publisher, Finaid.org)", "LARRY ABRAMSON", "Mr. RENE DROUIN (New Hampshire Higher Education Loan Corporation)", "LARRY ABRAMSON", "Mr. MARK KANTROWITZ (Publisher, Finaid.org)", "LARRY ABRAMSON", "Ms. STEPHANIE ELIAS (Curry College)", "LARRY ABRAMSON", "Ms. STEPHANIE ELIAS (Curry College)", "LARRY ABRAMSON", "LARRY ABRAMSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-234219", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-07-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/08/nday.01.html", "summary": "Cops Investigating Health Records in Hot Car Death", "utt": ["Welcome back. We're digging into a new series of warrants released in the case of the father accused of leaving his toddler to die in a hot car. They show the warrants that investigators are looking at the medical records for both the father and the son, and they also reveal the detectives are looking at the electronic devices found in Justin Ross Harris' car. Nick Valencia is live at the CNN Center with the very latest. Good morning, Nick.", "Good morning, Kate. Yes. Investigators are casting an ever widening net as they pore over physical evidence and electronic data that they have obtained from search and seizure warrants, things like an SD card belonging to Justin Ross Harris, external hard drive and medical records belonging to the 22-month-old Cooper Harris and his father, as well as Justin Ross Harris. Also, part of their investigation is Leanna Harris. Since her husband owes arrest and the baby's death, her actions have been drawn into question, though she's not formally charged or named a suspect, I called the Cobb County magistrate this morning to see if there was any search or arrest warrants on file for Leanna Harris. There are not. Her husband has pleaded not guilty, Kate.", "All right. Nick, thanks so much. John?", "All right. Let's dig in a little bit more right now. Joining us is Mel Robbins, CNN commentator and legal analyst. Mel, thanks so much for being with us. I really appreciate it.", "Of course, John. Good morning.", "What I want to do now is look at the where, how and why of what police are doing as they investigate this case, what the subpoenas tell us. It seems to me they are trying to build a case of sort of inconsistencies by the father, potentially catch us in a lie. Let's start with the medical records here. They're going after his medical records and Cooper, the baby. Why?", "Well, first of all what, they are looking for, John, is they're digging for anything that might give them a clue as to motive in this case. So, for example, if you're looking at the father's medical records, what I would be looking at if I were the prosecutor in the case and the police investigating is does he have a history of mental illness? Is there something going on with this guy? Did he say anything to a doctor which might give a hint as to how he could possibly do something like this, if in fact it was intentional? Also, there are reports that he was deaf. So, they need to confirm this kind of stuff so they can start to build a profile. In terms of the little boy Cooper's medical records, John, they might be looking for whether or not the child was actually ill. Did he have some sort of catastrophic illness that might have caused some undue stress on their marriage? So, they are just looking for any clue whatsoever to help paint a picture of what was actually going on.", "We've heard a lot about the car seat, too, Mel, haven't we? It was a rear-facing car seat. People who know kids or have kids know that's what you use when you have really small kids, but they you grow out of it and then they have to change to a front facing car seat. This kid was really kind of too big for the rear facing car seat, wasn't he?", "Well, I think it depends on the seat that you buy. I remember having my son in a car seat that was rear facing until he was almost 20 months. So I think it depends on the size and weight. But some of the other troubling stuff, John, is they had him on the smallest size of the car seat so the straps were really tight against him and wrenched down. And so, they are going to look at that as well to see if he put him in there too tightly trying to trap him in there.", "And, of course, there's the speculation about, well, he would have seen his head popping out over the rear-facing car seat because it was so small, or had he'd been walking to the car, because the backed in, right? Had he walked away from the car, he would have looked his son right in the face as he was leaving.", "Yes. I mean , right now, they have charged him with a reckless, a negligent type of child abuse and so, if they can prove that anybody who's backing up and kind of looking in the rear view mirror saw the kid's head over the seat, it's less likely they can forget him. So they are trying to right now take a look at all the tiny little pieces to add up a picture of what's reasonable and what's not reasonable. And I'm going to tell you what's really important, John, and it's the subject of one of those subpoenas is the cell phone, because they are going to take a look at everything that was going on on his cell phone that day. Did he get a call from day care? Did he get a text from day care? Did his wife call him about how drop-off went? He -- did he text friends about any plans? There were allegations, John, that he made calls at the scene, up to three phone calls. Who was he calling instead of calling 911, so these are all critical puzzle pieces, Lego blocks, if you will, that allow police to build a case to basically saying, hey, he may be telling us this but all the evidence we've amassed from the phone, from the DVDs, the hard drive, they tell us a totally different story.", "Mel, putting these pieces together as they look at the father. Are they doing the same thing for the mother right now? It doesn't seem to be quite a similar focus.", "You know, they need to look at her for sure, but I think we've done a really good job here at CNN of cautioning people not to rush to judgment on the mom. Sure there are things that she's done and said that cause all of us to say, hey, wait a minute. One of them when she said I love you, Ross, I'm doing this for you -- and we were all kind of puzzled as to what this doing thing that she's doing actually is. But she's also lost a 22-month-old. She's got a husband who's cheating on her. She's now got the world focused on her and there are a lot of people that grieve very differently. She could be in shock and could be super angry at him. She could be terrified. So there are lots of ways to explain away her behavior, but you better believe they are taking a look at her, especially since there are allegations, John, that the -- that Ross was explaining to family members how to collect on two life insurance policies that they had taken out on baby Cooper.", "But you make a great point there, what we have right now from the mother is perhaps strange statements, not this collection now of little threads of evidence that seem to be developing with the father. Mel Robbins, great to have you with us this morning. Really appreciate it.", "Great to see you, John.", "Kate?", "Thanks, John. Coming up next on NEW DAY, tensions growing over the immigration crisis as President Obama is preparing to visit Texas. The White House has just announced that the president has said he's open to a meeting with Texas Governor Rick Perry on the issue, but will the president visit the border? Plus, also ahead, could LeBron James be returning home? Many suitors are lining up trying to woo him to their team. Is Cleveland the front-runner?"], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN NATIONAL REPORTER", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "MEL ROBBINS, CNN COMMENTATOR", "BERMAN", "ROBBINS", "BERMAN", "ROBBINS", "BERMAN", "ROBBINS", "BERMAN", "ROBBINS", "BERMAN", "ROBBINS", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-242031", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2014-10-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/29/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Maine Filing Order to Enforce Nurse Quarantine", "utt": ["OUTFRONT tonight, breaking news, Maine officials filing a court order to force nurse Kaci Hickox just back from the Ebola zone into quarantine. Her lawyer is OUTFRONT tonight. Plus the rocket launch that ended in an enormous fireball, a catastrophe. Was 40-year-old technology behind the explosion? And Ferguson's police chief supposedly on the way out. Will it make a difference on whether Officer Darren Wilson is indicted? Let's go OUTFRONT. Good evening. I'm Erin Burnett. And OUTFRONT tonight the breaking news the fight over mandatory quarantine for those returning from the Ebola zone is heating up. Neither side giving an inch tonight. Maine health officials at this hour say they are filing a court order to mandate quarantine for Kaci Hickox, that's the nurse who was first forcibly quarantined in New Jersey after returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa. Now she is in Maine where she lives, where she is refusing to follow the state's quarantine orders. Hickox said she has twice tested negative for Ebola. She's still in the incubation period but she feels it is sufficient for her to self-monitor.", "I don't plan on sticking to the guidelines. I remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that had been forced upon me.", "We're going to speak to Hickox's lawyer in just one moment. But first the president. Today President Obama met at the White House with a group of health care workers fighting Ebola. He warned against rules that he says could discourage volunteers from working in West Africa.", "We have to keep in mind that if we're discouraging our health care workers who are prepared to make these sacrifices from traveling to these places in need, then we're not doing our job in terms of looking after our own public health and safety.", "Jean Casarez beings our coverage OUTFRONT tonight in Fort Kent, Maine. That is where Kaci Hickox is tonight.", "Doctors Without Borders nurse Kaci Hickox had defiantly opposed being forcibly quarantined.", "I am not going to sit around and be bullied by politicians and forces to stay in my home when I am not a risk to the American public.", "After returning from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone last Friday, she was forced to stay in this tent at Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, even though she tested negative for Ebola twice. Now at home in Maine she's facing pushback from state health officials. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has heatedly his decision to quarantine Hickox.", "She needed to be isolated because she was suspected to have Ebola. So no, I have no concerns. And finally neither do the CDC who is on the ground in university hospital monitoring the conditions she was in. She had access to the Internet and we brought her takeout food.", "Another Doctors Without Border volunteer Craig Spencer treated Ebola patients in Guinea. Days after coming back, he walked freely around Manhattan. The organization did not require him to self-quarantine and defends its position with Hickox, saying, \"MSF strongly disagrees with blanket forced quarantine for health care workers returning from Ebola affected countries.\" To NBC freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, an Ebola survivor who sat down with CNN's Don Lemon, Hickox and other health care workers have the right to monitor their own situation.", "And to treat them as if they are a potential problem as opposed to a public asset, I just think it's extreme and I don't think it's the right way to act.", "If Hickox does decide to sue the state of New Jersey for its forced quarantine, Christie says.", "Get in line. I've been sued lots of times before. Get in line. I'm happy to take it on.", "And we are right here in Fort Kent, Maine. It is the northern part of Maine, along the Canadian border. Kaci Hickox is right up this road, secluded we believe in a home, her boyfriend's home, we understand. But it may not be that way when the sun comes up because she is vowing to leave her home and the state of Maine is vowing to go to court to get an order for mandatory quarantine -- Erin.", "All right. Thank you very much, Jean Casarez. Kaci's lawyers will be with me in just a moment and answer those questions of where she'll be tonight. I want to go first to Dr. Sanjay Gupta who was at the White House meeting today with the president and Ebola specialists. What happened, Sanjay?", "Well, you know, some of that -- some of which you just heard in terms of the president's frustration with how things are being handled with some of the inconsistencies, in terms of some people being quarantined and others not being quarantined, and the impact that's having on health care workers going to West Africa was a lot of what he was talking about. But I think, you know, Erin, it was almost as much as what you saw as what you heard. Take a look at a quick image. These are some images, on the left image, a picture that I took from inside the White House today. It's health care workers with the president, some of them have just returned from Liberia. They're within the 21-day period. They're with the president at the White House. On the right, Kaci Hickox, even talking about, also returned from Liberia, within the last 21 days, all of them are asymptomatic, but on the left, there with the president in the White House, in the house, in quarantined. They're now facing a possible mandatory quarantine. And I think it was that dichotomy in some way, the optics of that, Erin, that he really wanted to sort of point out.", "Obviously, after that very public hugging of Nina Pham that many people are still talking about, which he did very much on purpose to show that he would touch her. You had a chance to speak with some of those health care workers. What did they tell you?", "Well, you know, the health care workers that had just returned, I really wanted to get at this issue, if you came back and were put into mandatory quarantine, first of all, how would you feel about that, would it impact your ability to do your work, would it impact your desire to go back to West Africa. Dr. Daniel Chertow, who the president singled out today, called a hero for some of the work that he's been doing. I asked him that, take a listen to what he said.", "I have another job that I have to do. And, you know -- you know, based upon the science of this, if I felt like I was putting my wife at risk, my 2-year-old at risk, my co-workers at risk, I would take myself out of the game.", "You know, he has a wife, he has kids, you know, he got back as a physician, working over there in Liberia and he told me, he said, the first thing I did was I hug my wife and I hug my two kids. I wouldn't have done that if I believe in any way that I was putting them at risk. And, you know, it may seem like a minor point, Erin, but I think it's a major one, obviously. I was in West Africa myself. That's really putting it to the test, right?", "Yes.", "With your own family, how you behave, and that's how he put it.", "It certainly is. Of course, and you look at Dr. Craig Spencer, you know, he no doubt he was with his fiancee. He certainly didn't think he was putting her at risk, it turned out he had Ebola. So I ask the question, nobody thinks that it could happen to them.", "Certainly at the time, though, that he was with his fiancee he wasn't sick and I think it's a point that Dr. Chertow made as well. You're not --", "Yes.", "You're not going to infect somebody, you're not going to transmit the virus unless you're sick. If you develop any symptoms then obviously you need to get checked out.", "All right. Thank you very much, Sanjay. And joining me now, a lawyer for Kaci Hickox, Norman Siegel. Good to have you with me. So I want to start here with what's happening in Maine. The governor of Maine is doubling down. We have a statement he just said, Kaci Hickox has been, quote, \"unwilling to follow the protocols set forth by the Maine CDC and the U.S. CDC for medical workers who have been in contact with Ebola's patients.\" He went on to say, \"Seeking legal authority to enforce her home quarantine.\" What is she doing about that?", "Well, we're talking to her tonight to talk about her options and what the consequences would be. The state of Maine, the ball is in their court, they have to decide whether they will get the court order. We've been trying to persuade them not to get the court orders so that we can amicably resolve this. But if they decide to go to court we have three days to then challenge it and we will do exactly that. And the reasoning will be that the state of Maine has no justification, no justification to quarantine Kaci because Kaci does not have any symptoms of Ebola disease and therefore she's not at harm to the health, welfare, safety of anyone in the state of Maine.", "So let me just ask you, though, this whole issue of symptoms. Obviously, we now know there was a world health sponsored study that appeared in the \"New England Journal\" magazine that said 13 percent of people who get Ebola never had a fever, which is sort of the basic symptom everyone is, quote-unquote, \"self-monitoring for.\" Obviously if you're sick or throwing up, and you're someone like Kaci, you would know that that's a symptom and you would also reach out. But I suppose the question is, obviously there's an incubation period, so she could get symptoms at any point during that period. That's why many states -- it's not just Maine, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Illinois are all doing the same thing.", "Yes, but they are doing those protocols based, in my opinion, on fear and on myth, not on medical fact. The medical community is very solid on the grounds that if you don't have the symptoms, then you are not putting people at risk. And part of the problem is, is the political leadership in those states is misleading their constituents by not explaining to them in a massive public education campaign exactly how this disease is transmitted. It is similar to, when I was the head of the Civil Liberties Union in '85 when the HIV virus hit us and everybody were scared, people wouldn't want to drink out of the same cup. People who are concerned about HIV/AIDS and what happened was, there was discussion about quarantine. Fortunately we defeated that. We have to do the same thing here.", "So has she decided whether she's going to violate this quarantine or not?", "She is not going to agree to the restrictions that they place on her. If they get the court order, then we will go to court and we will challenge it.", "And if she wins her case, she walks free, will she seek other damages?", "That is something that we'll consider. I think Kaci is, in my opinion, an impressive American. She's very knowledgeable of this issue. The main concern is that her voice and the voice of people in the health community in this country, that they should be part of this debate. This debate should not be led and directed by the politicians/", "Yes.", "It should be led in directly by the medical community.", "And on the medical community, you know, some people that don't understand this, don't see the way you see this, or Kaci sees this. They say, look, Ebola, has hit health care workers harder than anyone else, 244 of them have died. The same percent, even higher, than Ebola hitting the general population in these countries. Let me just make my point here. A doctor came back to New York. Of course he thought he had taken every precaution, he wouldn't have been at home with his fiancee, exposing her if he didn't so, right? Of course he thought he had done everything. So not everybody knows whether they were necessarily exposed or not. And I guess the question I just want to ask you, if people should trust health care workers implicitly? So that's why some people say, why wouldn't they just have a quarantine? After all, they're told not to go to work for 21 days, why not just stay home?", "Because we believe in principle in this country, we believe in the Constitution and the government can't take away your liberty unless there is some compelling basis for it. It doesn't exist here. The myth, number one, is that if for 10 days someone doesn't have the symptoms, on the 11th day they get the fever. Those first 10 days when they are interacting with people in the public, they are not putting those people in jeopardy.", "Right.", "And if the politicians would explain that, and stop playing political games, we could deal with this in a medical way, not in a political way.", "All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate your time to explain it. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "And OUTFRONT next, investigators searching for answers after the spectacular explosion of this NASA rocket last night, just about 24 hours ago. What's amazing is that that rocket was running on a 40- year-old engine design. We're going to tell you what happened. Plus news that the Ferguson police chief is about to go. Will that do anything to calm tensions if Officer Darren Wilson isn't indicted? And there's increasingly -- increasing certainty tonight that U.S. strikes did not take out key terrorist leaders in Syria. Leaders that were planning an attack on the United States. Are they actively plotting one tonight?"], "speaker": ["ERIN BURTNETT, CNN ANCHOR", "KACI HICKOX, NURSE FIGHTING MANDATORY EBOLA QUARANTINE", "BURNETT", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BURNETT", "JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "HICKOX", "CASAREZ", "GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), NEW JERSEY", "CASAREZ", "ASHOKA MUKPO, EBOLA SURVIVOR", "CASAREZ", "CHRISTIE", "CASAREZ", "BURNETT", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BURNETT", "GUPTA", "DR. DANIEL CHERTOW, EBOLA HEALTH CARE WORKER", "GUPTA", "BURNETT", "GUPTA", "BURNETT", "GUPTA", "BURNETT", "GUPTA", "BURNETT", "NORMAN SIEGEL, ATTORNEY FOR QUARANTINED NURSE", "BURNETT", "SIEGEL", "BURNETT", "SIEGEL", "BURNETT", "SIEGEL", "BURNETT", "SIEGEL", "BURNETT", "SIEGEL", "BURNETT", "SIEGEL", "BURNETT", "SIEGEL", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-32932", "program": "CNN AHEAD OF THE CURVE", "date": "2001-6-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/20/aotc.10.html", "summary": "Major European Chipmaker Warns of Profit Weakness", "utt": ["Now let's head over to London. Hugh Carnegy is standing by. He is the World News Editor at \"The Financial Times\" and Hugh, the market's down across the board. Overseas, a little bit of a profit warning from the major chipmaker there.", "Yes, we've had the markets off again. More worries about tech stocks, and we're limping along, really. I think, you know, it's quite interesting to look at the broader trend at this stage of the year as we -- as we approach the halfway point. But certainly if you look at the London market, it's performing in a way that suggests that expectations for the end of the year are unlikely to be met, and there are some factors that have come in. Of course, we've all been very familiar with the way tech stocks have gone down, but now there's a kind of macroeconomic outlook there, which is giving people worries about which way interest rates may move next.", "OK. Well, over here we're still expecting rates to decline just a little bit, but what's the situation in Europe right now?", "Well, the really worrying thing here, as far as the markets are concerned, is this upticking inflation, which is spreading across the euro zone area, and also in the U.K. We've had various indications of inflation in countries -- Germany, France, and in the U.K. too, which suggests that the Central Banks are going to have to take this seriously, and now, for example, in the U.K. there's a lot of speculation that the rates will start to move up again before the end of the year. Now that was something that the markets had not factored in up until a couple of -- a couple of weeks ago really. Certainly, over the last month or so, that's become more and more into focus, and that has started to take off any recovery or at least it started to take off some of that sentiment that said that by the end of the year, the markets could be moving up again.", "Well, certainly rising interest rates tend to be the archenemy of stock prices -- are they not?", "Well, absolutely, and of course, you know, in the market right now we've, as I said, very familiar patterns. Tech stocks have been doing badly. There's been a lot of earnings warnings -- profit warnings over here just like you've had over on that side of the pond. But there was some feeling that particularly the more defensive stocks, food retailers, banking, and so on, which have been doing better, would maybe help carry the market through the second half of the year. If you take the London market, for example, people were looking at maybe 6 1/2 thousand, seven thousand by the year end, but we're still languishing just over 5 1/2 thousand -- five-six, five-seven. So there's a very long way to go and if we get monetary policy turning direction and people think -- expecting rate cuts, then as you -- as you indicate, the markets aren't going to like that at all.", "OK. Hugh Carnegy in London, thank you very much."], "speaker": ["ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN ANCHOR", "HUGH CARNEGY, WORLD NEWS EDITOR, \"THE FINANCIAL TIMES\"", "CHERNOFF", "CARNEGY", "CHERNOFF", "CARNEGY", "CHERNOFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-122377", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2007-12-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/25/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Rudy Giuliani's Illness; Shopping Surge Helps Retailers; Pope Benedict Delivers Midnight Mass", "utt": ["Christmas at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the birth of baby Jesus in St. Peter's Square. Shopping surge - did a last minute rush save the season for retailers? Plus, all quiet on the campaign front. A rare down day in Iowa before the mad rush to the finish. We're live from the campaign trail on this special edition of AMERICAN MORNING. Hey, good morning to you. Thanks very much for being with us. Merry Christmas. It's December 25th. I'm John Roberts.", "As you open up your presents, we're glad you're spending part of your day with us. Good morning, everybody. I'm Alina Cho. Kiran Chetry has the morning off.", "Good to have you with us this morning. Topping the news this Christmas morning, thoughts for thousands of American heroes who are thousands of miles away from their families. President Bush made Christmas Eve calls to 10 U.S. troops serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other hot spots around the world. The White House says he thanked them for their sacrifice and wished them a happy holiday, even though they will be far away from their families and friends. The president made the calls from Camp David, where he'll be spending Christmas today before heading down to the western White House in Crawford. At this time last year, President Bush was putting the finishing touches on plans to increase troop levels in Iraq. This Christmas, thousands more soldiers are in the war zone. Special meals and care packages from the states are giving them a taste of home as they celebrate with their military family. The new year may bring new hope, with December on pace to be the safest month for them since the war began. And perhaps some of those troops will be able to come home in the new year. Alphonso Van Marsh is embedded with the 3rd brigade at the 101st airborne division live for us today at Camp Striker in Iraq. Good morning to you, Alphonso, and how are the troops celebrating Christmas?", "They are celebrating the best they can, given the job they have in Iraq. As you mentioned, we are at Camp Striker in the dining facilities. This is one of the biggest U.S. military dining facilities in the entire country. At any given time, except for right now, some 1,800 people come and eat their Christmas meal. This is a hive of activity. As we speak, in a few hours, this will be packed full of hundreds of service members just trying to get a bit of a morale boost with that Christmas meal, given that they're so far away from their families, so far from home.", "O little town of Bethlehem.", "This isn't Bethlehem, it's Baghdad, where these carolers are active duty soldiers separated from their loved ones at Christmas.", "We won't go until we get some so bring it right here.", "Crime scene investigator Jim Yinglin (ph) is using a Web cam to see what his family and daughter are up to at home.", "She was telling me that she was eating Chex Mix and that mom was making pumpkin loaves.", "Army specialist Justin Valliers (ph) shows me pictures of his new daughter e-mailed from his wife.", "Just some of her first moments when she was born in the hospital laying there.", "Amaya (ph) is 2-weeks-old. She's never met her father, but Valliers (ph) is beholden, not bitter.", "It's probably like my best gift that I get for Christmas, it's just the anticipation waiting and knowing that she was born and I can't see her. I mean, the picture was just -- it's hard to explain.", "ho, ho, ho, merry Christmas.", "Meanwhile, Santa's doing his part to spread the Christmas cheer, visiting soldiers at bases around Baghdad.", "Just want to see the troops and hand out some candy canes and make them smile.", "Santa, who really is an army major with the 3rd brigade, has the beard and stuffed belly, but he's also carrying a pistol. This is Christmas in the war zone. Here Santa travels by Blackhawk helicopter instead of reindeer and sleigh.", "Now, what you're seeing here is actually a lull. There are literally waves of U.S. service members coming into this dining facility. As I mentioned, some 1,800 at any given time getting that special Christmas meal, some 10,000 portions of turkey, 10,000 portions of ham, 8,000 portions of you name it that's being served. By the end of Christmas day, some 24,000 meals will be served for the men and women serving here in Iraq at Camp Striker. Back to you, John.", "Alphonso, I have actually eaten in the dining facility, or DFAC, as they call it there at Camp Striker. I know the troops are sometimes reluctant to talk about this on camera. But certainly in private they'll give you a sense of it. How are they feeling about the reduction in violence there and the idea that maybe soon they'll be able to come home?", "Well, what a lot of people, I should say that service members that we're talking to, especially in the last couple of days since we've been here, the idea that these deployments at this moment do seem like they will be 15 months in duration, many of the service members have only been here a little over two months. What's on their minds today, John, is the prospect they will very much be here again next Christmas on their minds. But knowing that what they're doing, they believe is the right thing. John?", "Alphonso Van Marsh for us this morning from the DFAC there at Camp Striker where I've got to say, they've got some pretty good chow. Alphonso, thanks very much. We'll check back with you a little bit later on. Alina?", "Also new this morning, a holiday tradition going on right now in Vatican City. Take a look.", "The prince of peace reminds the world where true happiness lies.", "Pope Benedict is delivering his Christmas Day address from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, just an extraordinary sight. And just a couple of moments ago, the pope lamented the violent conflicts going on around the world in places like Iraq, Sudan, and Sri Lanka. Earlier this morning, the pope held a traditional midnight mass, and during it, he touched on environmental issues, a modern day message. He made an appeal for Christians around the world to protect the Earth from what he called reckless exploitation. There were calls for peace in the holy land, meanwhile. They're coming from the first Palestinian to hold the Catholic Church's top position there. At midnight mass in Bethlehem, the traditional birth place of Jesus of course, Latin patriarch Michel Sabbah gave a politically charged address calling for an independent Palestinian state. Tourism officials expect about 20,000 visitors to Bethlehem on this Christmas Day. And Queen Elizabeth II is expected to give her Christmas greeting on the Web this year. It will be posted on youtube.com right on her brand new Royal Channel, how about that? Those are older pictures of course. On her broadcast 50 years ago, she talked about the power of television, so that a half century ago. Now she's taking another technological leap.", "Wow. Also new this morning, a deadly suicide car bombing in the residential area of Iraq. It happened in the northern city of Baiji. At least 23 people dead, 80 more wounded. At least three of those killed are children. Authorities say a driver detonated a bomb in a vehicle right next to a truck that was loaded with cooking gas cylinders. It happened just outside of a complex belonging to the state-run oil company. New details now in a foiled bomb attack in Turkey. Police in Istanbul found plastic bags stuffed with more than seven pounds of explosives near a ticket stand. One man was arrested. One government officials say the man may be a member of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. Police also arrested a second man in another part of the city and say they found more explosive in a safe house. And a search going on right now for 14 men missing at sea. They went down with a freighter that sank before dawn off of South Korea's southern coast, about 280 miles south of Seoul. Maritime police say the 13,000-ton ship vanished in rough waters after it sent out a distress signal. It was carrying 2,000 tons of nitric acid bound for Taiwan. Crews did rescue one sailor who was taken to the hospital. The missing include 12 Koreans and two sailors from Myanmar.", "Well, the roads should be clear this morning in the upper Midwest. Clear skies yesterday helped crews clear away snow from the latest winter blast, but the death toll has risen to at least 22. One of the latest victims, a Michigan woman who died when her truck rolled into a watery ditch. And at least eight people were killed on icy roads in Minnesota. Well it's a Christmas morning straight out of a postcard in Utah. Take a look behind me there. Forecasters say a winter storm could dump eight inches of snow in the valleys near Salt Lake City and up to 18 inches in other parts of the state. Now before you start thinking powder day, John, the storm will also bring with it some fierce winds. Gusts could reach 75 miles-an-hour on the mountain peaks. And thousands in Los Angeles have no power this Christmas morning thanks to some extreme weather. We're talking about those Santa Ana winds there. They returned with a vengeance, tearing down power lines, blowing out several transformers, and cutting power to about 10,000 homes and businesses. The National Weather Service says winds topped 94 miles-per-hour in the San Fernando Valley. Forecasters are warning that conditions are ideal for another outbreak of brush fires. Well, Rob Marciano is taking this Christmas off. Bonnie Schneider in at our weather update desk taking a look at all of the weather on this Christmas morning. So Bonnie, what do you have this morning?", "Big news in the retail world. It looks like the last- minute shopping rush did help salvage the holiday season. According to one industry analyst, sales from this past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were up nearly 19 percent over the previous year. And shoppers who put their lists off until the last minute were happy to do their part.", "It was like OK, I can wait, wait, wait, way, and all of a sudden I woke up and thought, oh, my goodness. It's almost Christmas.", "Well, if you still need another present or two, there are, believe it or not, a few stores that are open this morning. For example, if you happen to be in New York City, if you live there or you're here visiting, FAO Schwartz, the toy store in Manhattan, is open. Quick hits now. A multi-billion dollar deal involving Merrill Lynch. It announced the Singapore's state-owned investment company will buy more than $4 billion in Merrill Lynch stock. A U.S. advisory firm will also invest more than $1 billion. The injection of cash could help Merrill rebound from the credit crisis. Republican presidential candidate and former prostate cancer patient Rudy Giuliani is saying that he is cancer free. He made the announcement after reading Christmas stories to kids in Harlem yesterday. However, Giuliani is still being pressed about the severe headache that forced him to turn his campaign plane around last week and check into a hospital in St. Louis. His campaign says that tests showed nothing alarming, but they have yet to disclose what those tests were or what doctors were trying to rule out. Our Dana Bash is on the campaign trail. She's got more on Giuliani's announcement, plus other presidential candidates making headlines, that's coming up. A famed chef with cancer of the mouth facing an agonizing decision. Save his sense of taste or his life. This morning, good news. This is a really incredible story. We've got it for you coming up. But first, holiday greetings from some of our men and women serving overseas on this Christmas day.", "This is PFC Chris Lewis (ph) from the 111th engineer brigade, West Virginia armed national guard serving in northern Iraq. I want to wish my wife Christina and my family from Charleston a merry Christmas. I love you all.", "Fifteen minutes after the hour. The presidential candidates are off for Christmas day. But they get right back in the thick of it tomorrow. Rudy Giuliani is not concentrating on Iowa, but he is spending an awful lot of time spending that mysterious headache that caused him to turn his plane around in midair and head for a St. Louis hospital last week. The CNN Election Express is in Des Moines this morning. That's where we find Dana Bash on this Christmas morning. Dana, yesterday while he was wrapping and giving out presents in Harlem on Christmas Eve, Giuliani talked about his health. But he didn't talk about the headache, what he talked about was the fact that he is cancer free. Let's take a listen.", "I can tell you the results. I know the results now of all the tests. I'm perfectly healthy. I have - I don't have cancer.", "So the campaign is really focusing on this idea that there's been no recurrence of his prostate cancer, not that that was ever a question. But they have yet to answer a lot of important questions about what happened last week in St. Louis.", "You're exactly right. That's the second time, John, in the span of two days, that Rudy Giuliani unsolicited has brought up the fact that he is a cancer survivor. He had prostate cancer about seven or eight years ago and the fact that he is very happy about the fact that he is cancer free. But on the key issue, what exactly caused his plane to turn around Wednesday night into Thursday morning last week? Why was he put in the hospital, and what specifically tests were done at the hospital and perhaps subsequently to sort of make them apparently confident that he's OK? We still don't know the answers to that. What his campaign is insisting is that they are going to put out a full doctor's report probably after Christmas. So hopefully we'll get it in the next few days. But there are still a lot of unanswered questions about what happened. He says, again, that he had a very bad headache. That's the reason why they rushed him to the hospital. You know, we sort of asked questions about the fact that he said on Sunday that he was prescribed to take an aspirin a day. That sort of sounded a little bit odd to us. Our own Sanjay Gupta said that might be because the doctors were a little worried about a potential stroke, a potential heart attack. His campaign pushed back very, very hard on that, John. But the bottom line is we don't know what the deal is. We don't know what tests he had done and what specifically the health problems he had.", "Well perhaps in the coming days we'll learn more about that. Meantime, everybody very happy that he is cancer free. I had a brother die from cancer in 1981, so I know how serious that is. Dana Bash for us this morning in Des Moines. Dana, thanks very much. The Democrats are learning just how unpredictable Iowa can be. Several polls say it's a three-way race among Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. But there's one new poll, it's an American Research Group poll that has got Clinton jumping out again to a double digit lead over Obama and Edwards. In fact, Obama is in third place in this latest poll. Take a look at that. John Clinton jumps from 18 to 20 percent. Clinton goes up from 29 to 34. And Obama, who must be in the next frame on that, actually dropped from 25 to 19. So he went down six points. Jessica Yellin on the road with the CNN Election Express for us this morning in Des Moines. Why did Barack Obama drop so much, particularly among men, in the last few days?", "Well you know, John, there are two possible explanations. There are probably a world of explanations, but one is that Senator Clinton's message and Edwards' message in the last week has started to click arguably. Clinton started with a new theme of introducing voters to family members and people she knows to argue that she's a very likable person. That's been one of her challenges. And also, she's gone on the attack trying to differentiate herself from the other gentlemen and also adopting some of John Edwards' message about poverty. So maybe she's gained some traction. And Edwards has also remained strong. On the other hand, all of this could really mean that it's just impossible to poll in Iowa. This state is notoriously difficult to measure because it's not a one for one ratio. Not every supporter necessarily translates into a vote because of their caucus system. So you need to have geographic distribution within the state. You need to have support in the urban areas and the rural areas. So it's possible that none of this actually accurately measures what the actual results will be caucus night. And a lot of that actually depends on turnout, which could be based on weather and other unknown factors. John?", "It is an incredibly complex process, and as we saw in 2004, polls even a few days out can be completely wrong. So we'll see how this one goes. Jessica Yellin for us this morning in Des Moines. Jessica, thanks. Alina?", "Thanks, John. A controversy over home heating oil is heating up this holiday. Families like the one you're about to see in New York are starting to get shipments of free oil sponsored by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Now, the plan is backed by Joseph Kennedy's nonprofit group Citizens Energy. Calls for boycotts have been springing up online to fight the plan. That brings us to this morning's quick vote question. Take a look there. Should Americans accept free heating oil from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez? Of course, it's controversial but it also helps a lot of people in need. Cast your vote at CNN.com/am. And right now, 75 percent say yes, 25 percent say no. We're going to continue to tally your votes throughout the morning.", "This is a very controversial issue. A lot of people are saying, well, why shouldn't we accept the free oil? And then other people are saying, what are the oil companies doing for us? And other people are saying, hey, relations are so bad. Why accept that oil?", "This is the man remember who called President Bush the devil so a lot of controversy about that. So cast your vote.", "Stirring it up on Christmas morning.", "That's right, we're trying to. Well presidential Christmas holiday plans for President Bush and a busy start to his final year in office. That's in the works. We're live in Washington ahead. And a famous chef facing life-threatening cancer says he's in remission this morning. An extraordinary story, that's after choosing a riskier treatment option. 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{"id": "CNN-313995", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-06-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1706/08/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Soon: Fired FBI Chief Comey Testifies Before Senate. ", "utt": ["And good evening. From Washington, where the stakes frankly could not be hired, tomorrow, a fired FBI Director James Comey will tell the Senate Intelligence Committee that the President of the United States asked him to drop the investigation with his fired National Security Advisor for possible improper contact with Russia. He'll tell the committee that the President did so after asking others, including the Attorney General to leave the room. Those are just two headlines of many from his opening remarks, which the committee released today. It's no exaggeration to say they hit this town with some seismic force pushing today's other intelligence committee hearings which were contentious, even combative in their own right, almost off the stage. That's because no testimony has been so hotly anticipated nor potentially so consequential to a sitting president in decades. We'll look at all the angles and implications tonight, starting with CNN's Phil Mattingly.", "Nine one-on-one interactions with President Trump, three in person, and six on the phone, detailed through FBI director James Comey's testimony. Comey describing one meeting with the President and other counterterrorism officials in the Oval Office, where all but Comey were asked to leave the room. \"I want to talk about Mike Flynn,\" Comey quotes the President is saying, referring to his recently fired National Security Adviser. \"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.\" Comey says Trump told him, \"He's a good guy. I hope you can let this go.\" Comey goes on to say he prepared an unclassified memo of that conversation, understanding that the President was requesting he drop any probe into Flynn. He shared that assessment with his FBI leadership team but declined to share it with Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the assumption that Sessions would soon be recused. While those details were kept closely held, Comey says the next time he spoke to Sessions, \"I took the opportunity to implore the Attorney General to prevent any future direct communication between the President and me.\" Comey also recounts the private dinner when the President allegedly told him, \"I need loyalty. I expect loyalty.\" Comey describes his reaction as this, \"I didn't move, speak, or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. We simply looked at each other, in silence.\" Comey also seems to corroborate what Trump wrote in his letter firing the FBI Director, that he had first informed the President-elect on January 6th, he wasn't the target of a counterintelligence investigation. There's a point that based on Comey's recounting, aid at Trump and dominated much of their interactions after Trump assumed office.", "During the phone call he said it and then during another phone call he said it. So he said it once at dinner and then he said it twice during phone calls.", "Did you call him?", "In one case I called him, in one case he called me.", "And did you ask him, \"Am I under investigation?\"", "I actually asked him, yes. I said, \"If it's possible, would you let me know, am I under investigation?\" He said, \"You are not under investigation.\"", "Comey says Trump stressed the cloud of the Russia probe was interfering with his ability to make deals for country. Trump telling Comey at one point, \"We need to get that fact out.\" And another saying explicitly, \"He hoped I could find a way to get out that he wasn't being investigated.\" And reiterating the point in their final phone call. Trump adding this time, \"Because I've been very loyal to you, very loyal. We had that thing, you know.\" Comey says one of the primary reasons he wouldn't say publicly Trump wasn't under investigation was, \"Because it would create a duty to correct should that change.\"", "Phil Mattingly joins us now. So how the White House and President Trump allies reacting to this?", "Vindication, that is what you're hearing both from Trump's personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, and also the Republican National Committee, which is serving as kind of the de facto rapid response operation for James Comey's testimony tomorrow. There is really, Anderson, when you look at it, they're only focused on a very small sliver of those seven pages we've all been pouring over for the last couple of hours, the part where they make clear that multiple times Jim Comey told the President that as it currently stood he was not the target of a counterintelligence investigation. As we also noted in that piece, Anderson, Jim Comey made very clear that was at that moment in something he didn't want to say publicly because there's a chance perhaps in the future he'd have to correct that.", "You've also been talking to senators, what are their expectations for tomorrow's hearing?", "Well, look, obviously they have all been digesting the seven pages. And the interesting element here is this testimony was released at the behest of Jim Comey. Why? According to a source familiar with Comey's thinking here, he wanted senators to have the time to read this, get their heads around and this source say there is an understanding. This is a complex narrative. He wanted everybody prepared in advance of the hearing. What are they doing to prepare? Well, Mark Warner, top Democrat on the Committee, had a two hour prep session according to one aide, several other Democrats saying the same thing. What they want out of tomorrow is more than just this testimony. They want to layout as many facts and details as they possibly can. One interesting note, though, the chairman of the committee, Senator Richard Burr, saying he didn't -- after reading this testimony didn't believe he saw any wrongdoing at all. You're going to see a lot of conflicting views on what they actually saw on this testimony, some hope tomorrow from Democrats that Jim Comey can clear up any misconceptions on the Republican side and make the case for them as this investigation continues, Anderson.", "Certainly a big night. Phil, thanks very much. Big panel, Paul Begala is here, Jason Miller, Mary Katharine Ham, Jeffrey Toobin, April Ryan, Carl Bernstein, David Axelrod and Phil Mudd. Jeff Toobin, earlier today you said, I want to get this right, you said, \"If that is an obstruction of justice, I don't know what it is.", "And I think that is true. When you look at the full scope of activity here by the President when you see him, you know, demanding loyalty and then making the demand once he is -- I mean, also, I mean, think about the scene in the Oval Office, I mean it's just astonishing. He asks the vice president of the United States and the Attorney General to leave. Doesn't that suggest that he wants real privacy?", "And Jared Kushner sort of lingers and then he tells Jared Kushner to leave.", "And he told Kushner to leave. He wants Comey alone and what is he do? He says, \"Can we make the investigation of Michael Flynn go away,\" repeatedly asked him, \"Let him go.\" That to me is obstruction of justice. And the reason you know it is obstruction of justice is that when Comey doesn't end the investigation Trump fires him. That's a pretty compelling case here.", "Mary Katherine Ham, is it obstruction of justice here?", "Well, actually, I saw -- I've been somebody who along the way has been more likely to believe Comey and be sympathetic of him than others, and to believe him more than Trump. I was most surprised to find that Trump had told the truth about him saying he was not investigated -- he was not under investigation. And the interesting thing to me about the meeting alone is that when you read this document it turns out Comey is the one who set the precedent for them meeting alone in that first meeting at Trump Tower. And then the subject of the conversation was that Comey wanted to tell him on this personal, salacious part of the counterintelligence that he was not under investigation personally for that. The thing that is interesting to me about that is somebody who has lays most of Trump's fault at the feet of incompetence versus nefariousness is that if that was the President that was set, I'm not all that surprised that he did it several more times. This is not to exonerate him. I just think that why do we not talk about the fact that the first meeting they had Comey was like, \"We're going to sit down together alone and then I'm going to tell you that you're not under investigation for this part of the investigation.\"", "Carl Bernstein, do you see it was an obstruction of justice?", "Well, I think it's early in the process and I think this information is devastating to the President of the United States.", "Devastating.", "Devastating, but there is a long way to go.", "Why is it devastating?", "It's devastating because it shows the pattern leading to him firing Comey because Comey is pursuing this investigation and the President is saying, \"Don't pursue this investigation. Don't pursue the Flynn case.\" But more important, the facts in these investigations are closing in on the President of the United States and at the same time we need more information. We have a sprawling investigation being conducted by special counsel. We need more facts. We need -- I keep referring to the best obtainable version of the truth. There is gray area in here. There has been gray area all along, but nonetheless what we continually see was the President trying to impede, obstruct, and I'm not saying obstruct justice in the legal sense, impede, obstruct, demean, shred the ongoing investigations into the conduct of him, his campaign, those around him, and this is more of the same, but the most devastating yet, but we do need a lot more information. A long way to go and were just in the first stages of that.", "April?", "The questions loom about obstruction of justice. Jeffrey may be hitting the nail squarely on the head. But there seems to be either someone who doesn't know what's going on or a clear abuse of power. And going back to that meeting that you talked about where he asked the vice president and he asked the Attorney General to leave, Reince Priebus even came back to save him.", "Right. Reince Priebus sort of stuck his head in the door.", "Yes to say, you know, \"I'm here,\" you know. And he was trying to save him because he knew that you're not supposed to do this. That is what I'm thinking from working around prior administrations. We have at least two administrations here and they -- he was trying to save him understanding you are not supposed to be in that room alone with your FBI director. So the question now is, where is the fire? Because there is a lot of smoke. And when you were talking about meeting prior to at Trump Tower, he was president-elect, OK?", "No, I know that -- let me make that distinction. I'm not sure --", "But you cannot qualify that.", "Do you see what I'm saying?", "No, I don't see what you're saying. What you have to understand is, as president-elect, he is --", "You, yourself said this might be an instance of people not knowing what they're doing and that's what I'm saying.", "One at a time. One at a time.", "But this is why Comey probably came to set the parameters and I've talked to Axelrod prior to that, and I was asking him, \"Look, you know, when you came into the White House, did you not get the protocol understanding about what happens, what you can and cannot do?\" There is a lot of stuff that's arrived, but he was president-elect at the time. You cannot hold him at that standard for this.", "I am not holding him at the standard. I'm saying that Comey made that distinction but Trump did not because, as you said, there's a chance that they don't know what they're doing.", "I don't see your argument. I'm sorry.", "David, I mean, Director Comey made the point that he only spoke alone with President Obama, your former boss, twice in person, never on the phone. He recalled nine one-on-one conversations with President Trump in just four months. What do you make of that?", "Well, look, my recollection is that when the President appointed judges and I think when he appointed Comey, the last thing he said to them after he made the appointment was, \"This is the last time you and are likely to be together alone in a room,\" because he understood that there had to be an independence for the FBI director, for judges, and that president should not have that kind of relationship with those appointees in those offices. So the thing that I would say is I think Mary Katherine is right that there is a case to be made for ignorance and incompetence. I think there are some of that.", "Not a flattering case.", "But on the Flynn matter, it's very hard to do and not just because what's in this memo, but because of what we already know. We know, for example, President Obama warned him about Flynn. We know the acting Attorney General came to the White House and said, \"He lied.\" And the vice president went out and repeated that lie and they didn't tell the vice president and they didn't act for 18 days until this became public and the next day he is calling Comey in for dinner. So the question is, what is it about Flynn that has the President so frantic that he would delay firing him, that he would ask the FBI director in extraordinary way not to go after him? I think that is what needs to be pursued.", "Jason, I mean, the President said or the President's term he said he feels vindicated by Comey's statement. The President's own comments of last month contradict another part of Comey's statement about letting the Flynn investigation going. I just want to play what he said.", "Did you at any time urge former FBI Director James Comey in any way, shape or form to close or to back down the investigation into Michael Flynn? And also, as you look back --", "No. No. Next question.", "So Comey is going to refute that directly tomorrow, is that a problem for the President?", "No, I don't think. So I mean, I think if you look at it, there is a lot of unclarity from Director Comey's comments as to what these conversations actually entailed. Now keep in mind, we're only hearing written commentary for one side of this conversation, we're not getting it from both sides. But I think the fact that Director Comey who I think everyone here in this panel and by all regards people say he's very meticulous, he's very detailed type person. If he is going to go through and write these detailed notes and not go and say that there is obstruction of justice, and not go and take this to Attorney General Sessions, or not go and report this to White House Counsel Don McGahn, or go and make this public as we've seen in the past where he had these previous press conferences where -- we even saw in his written testimony today words like compelled and instincts. So he wasn't compelled by his instincts to go and make this public and do something. But, again, all this --", "He did go to Sessions --", "He did go to Sessions.", "-- and he said, \"Don't let me in the room with that man.\"", "One at a time. One at a time. One at a time. Jeffrey's thought and then response.", "Wait, I mean, you know, this has been --", "-- a talking point from the very beginning about like, why didn't Session -- why didn't Comey go to Sessions? He did go to Sessions and he said, \"Don't leave me alone in the room with that man.\"", "But he didn't raise the specter of obstruction of justice.", "That's not his job.", "And again, he absolutely should have said that.", "One at a time. One at a time.", "-- can't come back now and try to play the obstruction of justice game --", "It is not a game.", "OK, Paul, what about that?", "It did happen.", "I mean he's saying he didn't do obstruction of justice at the time. The others have argued, well, maybe in each particular incident he didn't see it, but it is more of the pattern. But how do you see it?", "Well, I do think that's where the hearing will go tomorrow and should go. What did you do with that? When the president said to you, \"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.\" That does seem like very direct obstruction of justice. He went to the man conducting the investigation, asked him to stop the investigation. That's pretty clear after making it clear that he wanted the FBI director to feel gratitude to him for keeping his job. The question is why didn't he go with that knowledge to someone? I don't know who, the head of the FBI, maybe the agent.", "Or even they used the term.", "But this is where I think you guys are making a huge mistake, when the President and his allies, this is vindication, because it does vindicate this talking point that President Trump had, that said three times to the FBI Director Comey.", "Right.", "Which is huge?", "It is huge. But when you give that a way, you can't impeach Comey on everything else. Comey is basically -- it's not basically. Comey is saying the President of the United States is a liar, the president of the United States obstructed justice. You're saying, well, although he did confirm one thing that Trump said, I think, honestly, I just think, you can't refute Comey's testimony when you have now embraced Comey's testimony. I'll take the entirety of it. I'm perfectly ready to believe that three times Comey did say, you're not personally under investigation.", "And that's the biggest news today.", "It is not the biggest as he went and tried to stop a federal investigation.", "The biggest news is the President was proven right.", "One of the most extraordinary things I've ever heard and I think we ought to stop it. Jason, you just said the President was proven right, President ought to be of the United States ought to be proven right 9/10 of the time on everything he said.", "Really?", "Actually people elected him knowing that was the case. I mean I'm a Trump critic.", "We expect the President to be right 9/10 of the time.", "So we haven't heard from you, I mean, the President, according to Director Comey, the President asked for a loyalty pledge, saying, \"I need loyalty. I expect loyalty.\" There was this long awkward silence where they're just staring each other. How unusual is it for the President of the United States, he asked the FBI director for loyalty?", "He didn't ask for loyalty. What he asked him for was, I want you to do what I'm asking you to do.", "So when he is saying loyalty, he is saying --", "And look if the FBI director, I worked for the special counsel for four and a half years down the hall, Director Mueller, if he ever called me in and said, \"Phil, I want your loyalty. My first question would have been, what's wrong, why are you asking me? What did I do that led you to believe that I can't be loyalty to you?\" The answer from the direct of the FBI is, \"Of course, I will be loyal but if there is a federal investigation where facts leader in a certain direction, I've got to follow that investigation.\" That conversation wasn't about loyalty. It was about, \"Do what I want you to do.\" And the proof of it partly is in him also asking, \"Do you want to stay on the job?\" It's a 10-year term. Why is the President asking if you want to stay on the job? And second, \"I want you here without the Attorney General because I don't want him to hear it.\"", "So I am no lawyer, much to the chagrin of my late mother, but I will -- but, you know, I could see where the president's lawyers might say, look, he did not order Comey to do anything. He simply vouched for a guy who was his friend and said he hoped it worked out. But the thing, Jason, that makes it more insidious is the fact that he was fired. If you haven't been fired, I think you'd have a much better case there.", "But not only fired. On Twitter, talking about, I hope there's not a tape of this conversation. And the question now is, he versus he, who do you believe? And it unfortunately, it seems like America right now is listening to Comey. They are not totally believing their President of the United States. And I'm going to say another thing. Tomorrow, who tries to keep a grown man busy during the day to keep him distracted from something that the American public is watching so he won't tweet? That's another thing.", "No, no, no. No, no, no. That is true. Tomorrow at 12 --", "That's silly.", "No, it's not silly. Tomorrow, at 12:30, he has a speech.", "It's silly to think that the President is going to be let around like that. That's -- I mean, the President --", "His tweets have caused his own party to say, get off of Twitter, Mitch McConnell.", "Look, I think it's clear --", "Look, I think the tweets are smart.", "It is clear to me that the President is a person who acts inappropriately at times, who lies at times. I think many people actually voted for him knowing that. And an exit poll said, yes, we know that he does those things. So that's like a baseline and when you're saying, it's pretty low bar to have this part confirmed, I'm a Trump critic, so I'm like, oh, I'm actually sort of surprised by that. I think the question is, not whether you're acting inappropriately, but whether that amounts to an obstruction of justice and frankly on a panel sometimes, it feels like a lot of reporters have already come to a conclusion about that before they've heard and even speak.", "I have been in that room, and in that place, 150 feet from Oval Office for 20 years. So I'm not condemning him. But I'm going to tell you this, there's a lot of smoke and there are a lot of alarm bells. So --", "And that's the media -- well, that's the media of creation.", "That's not the media -- oh my goodness.", "Yes, it's absolutely is.", "But Comey's letter is media of creation?", "There were sources --", "I'm not going to take that. I'm sorry.", "There were sources --", "You take that one. I'm not going to take that one.", "But we have an ongoing investigation.", "Nobody can hear at home.", "Go.", "April.", "Yes.", "There were sources who were saying on this network and another networks that Comey was going to testify that he did not tell the President that he was on --", "Right. And those sources were wrong and CNN corrected that.", "But I will also point out that the vast majority -- I mean, basically, Comey has confirmed just about everything else that we and others have been reporting now for weeks, which is why some people are saying, well, there's not much new here but it actually -- what's new is, he is actually confirming he has some pretty startling things in the eyes I think of a lot of people on this panel.", "So your argument is new (ph)?", "No, I think that's a big egg on the face for many on the media who wanted this to be a big thing --", "Oh, please. My face is clean. No egg.", "OK.", "I think you're trying to spin -- Republicans are trying to spin as their poll numbers are dropping, watching this. People are believing the former FBI Director who was fired because of an investigation --", "April?", "Jeff, you talked about that you think this is obstruction of justice. Do you -- are you talking about that from a legal standpoint? I mean, because the criminal statute, the federal obstruction of justice statutes, I mean, there's -- my understanding is there's a lot of them with, you know, witness tampering. I mean it's --", "Right. Well, but it is actually very similar to Watergate, the Watergate coverup. I mean, the June 23rd, 1973, the so-called Smoking Gun Tape between HR Haldeman and Richard Nixon was their agreement to pretend to use the CIA to stop the FBI investigation of the Watergate break-in. This conversation was President Trump saying to Director Comey, stop the investigation of Michael Flynn. It's the use of presidential power to stop an FBI investigation for improper purpose.", "Jeff, can I ask a question though about this. There was a crime. Everybody knew there was a crime. There was a break-in at the Watergate. Do we know that Flynn has committed a crime?", "By no means, but that's not --", "And if he hasn't -- well, this is my question, because I'm not a lawyer if he hasn't committed a crime, does that make a weaker case?", "No. I mean, not under the statute. And another question that I think a lot of people have is, well, if he didn't successfully obstruct justice, is it obstruction of justice? Because after all, the President did not stop the FBI investigation, but the statute is very clear that in attempt to obstruct justice, even if it's unsuccessful is obstruction of justice.", "But, I think it was National Review, I saw it, you know, someone making the argument about, you know, OK, maybe it looks like it could be an abuse of power, but not necessarily obstruction of justice. There's the difference.", "There is a difference and, you know, I think one of the reasons why this argument is a little -- is very unusual is it's far from clear, constitutionally, that the President -- sitting President could ever be charged with a crime. So Director Mueller is never going to end this by asking a grand jury to indict him. The real issue is, will Congress choose to investigate him for a high crime and misdemeanor, which is the standard for impeachment? That standard, high crime and misdemeanor is not, you know, from Title 18 of the United States code, that's the political judgment, the Congress has to make of what is a high crime and that's, you know, not something about parsing the statutes. It's about what Congress thinks the President should be able to do.", "All right. We're going to take a quick break. We're going to have a lot more toning, including more on the White House reaction. We'll take a closer look at this notion of vindication of how the President can take a part of Director Comey's testimony and say there's a vindication. Later, the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing today in the fire storm that are up there when Senators in both parties try to get top intelligence officials to answer some basic questions about the Russia investigation.", "As we mentioned before the break, the president is claiming vindication in light of Director Comey's opening statement in advance of tomorrow's testimony. More on that now from CNN's Athena Jones who's at the White House for us. So what more did the president's personal lawyer say about this?", "Hi Anderson. Well, let me read to you from that statement from our cast (ph). He said the president is pleased that Mr. Comey has finally publicly confirmed his private reports that the president was not under investigation in any Russian probe. The president feels completely and totally vindicated. He is eager to continue to move forward with his agenda. Now, I should mention the Republican National Committee, which is handling rapid response to the Comey testimony, is also pushing the same line about how these opening remarks from the former FBI Director corroborate of what the president himself has said about having been told that he's not personally under investigation. What's interesting here is that by using parts of the seven-page document and saying that they're accurate, saying they're a defense and that the president feels vindicated because of them. It might make it a bit harder to then call into question other parts of the same document.", "But, you know, it is a seven-page statement from the director. Are the president and his team acknowledging any other parts of it or responding to any other parts of it?", "Well, this is interesting. Our own Wolf Blitzer got a statement from another Trump attorney, Michael Cohen, who takes issue with one part of this. Let me -- I'll let you know what he said. He said, \"Comey's statement release today needs to be carefully scrutinized at his testimony claims the president was concerned about the dossier.\" He's talking there about a dossier put together by a former British Intelligence officer that includes allegations about the president's ties to Russia. But Cohen says, \"It must be noted that the dossier had been debunked even by the author himself, Christopher Steele.\" Now, this is a bit odd, Anderson, because that second sentence from Michael Cohen is false. The dossier has not been debunked by its author, Christopher Steele. Steele has said that not all of it is fully verified. We know from our reporting that some of it has been corroborated. So a little bit of an odd defense there from that second Trump lawyer, Michael Cohen, Anderson.", "Yes. Strange to put out a statement that actually has something which is not factually accurate. Athena Jones, thank you. Joining us now is Chief Political Analyst, Gloria Borger. Jeff Toobin is back. With us as well as is Harvard Law School's Mr. Alan Dershowitz. So Professor Dershowitz, you said this is not obstruction of justice by the president and that actually strengthens his position against Director Comey, how so?", "Well, first of all, let's look at the big constitutional picture. The president could have told Comey you are commanded, directed to drop the prosecution against Flynn. The president has the right to do that. Comey acknowledges that. He says in the statement that, historically, presidents have done that to the Justice Department. But in the last few years, we've had a tradition of separation. But that tradition doesn't create crime. Remember also what the president could have done. He could have said to Comey, stop this investigation. I am now pardoning Flynn. That's what President Bush did in the beginning of the investigation of Caspar Weinberger which could have led back to the White House to the first President Bush. President Bush, on the eve of the trial pardoned Caspar Weinberger, pardoned six people, and Special Counsel Walsh said this is outrageous. He's stopping the investigation. Nobody talked about obstruction of justice. You cannot have obstruction of justice when the president exercises his constitutional authority to pardon, his constitutional authority to fire the director of the FBI, or his constitutional authority to tell the director of the FBI who to prosecute, who not to prosecute. So let's get out of the weeds and let us look at the big constitutional question.", "But let me just ask you -- well, let me just ask you professor, just to be clear, according to Director Comey, the president told him, I quote, \"I hope you can let this go discussing Michael Flynn via the investigation.\" You don't believe he was trying to influence or impede any possible or further investigation of Michael Flynn?", "What I'm telling you is that even if he did want to impede it and even if he did impede it, that is his constitutional power.", "Right.", "He has the right to say, you will not investigate Flynn. The best proof of that is he could have simply said to Comey, stop the investigation, I've just pardoned Flynn. It's over. My President George Bush, he pardoned Weinberger when Weinberger could have easily pointed the finger --", "OK.", "-- back Bush.", "I want to get Jeffrey's take on your argument.", "I mean respectfully, I could not think Alan is more wrong. And the simple response is Watergate. I mean under Alan's theory --", "Let me finish, Alan. Let me finish. Under your theory, the president, since the FBI works for the president, he can tell him to do anything they want. Well, in Watergate, President Nixon and his -- they conspired, they made an agreement to stop the FBI investigation of Watergate. Was that a constitutional authority? No, it was a crime.", "Absolutely, absolutely.", "Several people went to jail and the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach President Nixon over it. So yes, he could have pardoned him but he cannot obstruct justice.", "Well --", "You're saying impeachment is different than -- go ahead.", "Impeachment is political. There's no judicial review of impeachment. You can impeach a president for jaywalking and nobody can review that. I'm talking about was there an obstruction of justice? I have to tell you, and I wonder if you would agree with me, Jeffrey, if you and I will call these expert witnesses in an impeachment trial of President Trump and we were asked the question, has President Trump committed an obstruction of justice by pardoning Flynn, or by firing Comey, or by telling Comey not to investigate Flynn? My answer as an expert on the Constitution would be, absolutely not. He didn't commit obstruction of justice. You Congress, you can impeach him if you don't like what he did. If you think is obstructionish, or it would be an obstruction if he wasn't president. But you cannot say it is a crime. It's simply not a crime for the president to exercise his constitutional authority to pardon, to direct the FBI. It wasn't a crime when Thomas Jefferson directed the Attorney General what to do. It wasn't a crime when Lincoln did it. It wasn't a crime when President Obama --", "Well, I mean, Alan, I think you're coming up with all sorts of interesting hypotheticals. But I think, you know, it is well- established that the president of the United States cannot engage in corrupt acts, acts designed to protect his political interests and use the FBI to advance those political interests and obstruct justice.", "I mean I just think that's so basic. And --", "As long as he doesn't destroy tapes, as long as he doesn't fail to comply with the subpoena, as long --", "All right, I want to bring --", "-- as long as he exercises constitutional authority, he cannot be prosecuted for exercising his constitutional authority. Yes?", "I want to bring in Gloria. I mean, the president is focusing -- I mean the president's personal attorney is focusing on the fact that according to Comey's opening statement, he is he is, in the president's words --", "Vindicated.", "-- vindicated.", "Right, he's vindicated because Comey said that that he told the president that he, you know, that he wasn't investigating him.", "That is his rights because I mean some of the reporting that we have --", "Well, in our reporting, and we've corrected that because Comey said quite clearly that he had told the president that a few times. Although I am looking forward to his testimony tomorrow because I'm sure they're going to ask him to elaborate on his conversations with the president and how exactly he told them. But so I believe that they feel vindicated to a great degree because the president was clearly concerned first and foremost about himself, number one. Number two, the thing that I can't get out of my mind here is why is he so concerned about General Flynn? I mean he asked the -- you know, he had this conversation with Comey the day after Flynn was fired and he cleared the decks. There is a whole bunch of people in the room. There was, you know, the vice present was in the room, the Attorney General was in the room, Jared Kushner was in the room and he got them all out of the room and then he said you know, I'd like you to, you know see your way out of this. And did the president know that he was doing something he shouldn't be doing by clearing that room? I would think so.", "Professor Dershowitz, what do you make of, you know, the argument of something that, look, the president is not, you know, he's not held office before, he is maybe naive to the to the separations that are supposed to exist.", "Well, I think that's probably right. I think most people would know about these separations. And --", "Although most people wouldn't be president of the United States, I mean.", "But I don't think that's the argument that will succeed for President Trump. I think the argument that will succeed is since he had the right to tell them to stop the investigation, he surely have the right to say, look, he's a good guy, Comey agreed he's a good guy. I would request that you stop the investigation. Comey said no. Comey didn't stop the investigation. He went on --", "And he got fired for his trouble.", "Right. And by the way --", "And he got -- and he has the right. Now, he's fired for a different reason. If you look at the Comey memo, the reason he probably got fired is the president told him over and over again, I want you to make public the fact that I am not under investigation. He told it to him repeatedly. That's in the memo. And Comey didn't do that. And I suspect that may be one of the reasons he was fired. The memo also says that he never asked him to stop the investigation of the Russian thing, only to stop the investigation of Flynn because he felt sorry for Flynn. Flynn's a good guy. It's very much like what Bush -- I'm sorry.", "Well, we don't know what the president actually delivered. We don't -- we know according to Comey what --", "We know according to Comey what the president said the reason is that Flynn's a good guy. But we have no idea if that is actually the reason or if there is some knowledge shared between --", "Right.", "-- Michael Flynn and the president of United States. We don't know that.", "And we don't know why President Bush, who's widely admired, made the decision on the eve of trial to pardon Caspar Weinberger when Walsh said that the reason for that is that Caspar Weinberger may have pointed his finger at the Oval Office. Nobody suggested that.", "OK.", "Well, but maybe that's the reason here. I mean maybe -- we don't know any of this, and as long as you're speculating --", "Well, yes, let's not even go down.", "Yeah. But I want to also just add one thing --", "Let's take -- we got -- OK, very quickly, one thing.", "-- that Donald Trump was asked directly in May, whether he asked Comey to drop the Flynn investigation at a press conference and he said no, no.", "We played that.", "Right.", "But he said he did not do that.", "Right.", "And that seems to be directly contradicted by Flynn by Comey.", "Exactly.", "Thanks everybody. Coming up today is other hearing that was quite something even by Washington standards, which these days are pretty high, four of the country's top intelligence chiefs faced question from the Senate Intel Committee for more than two hours. It got very heated at times. Well, the headlines from that hearing next.", "Well, the top intelligence chiefs in United States gathered for a Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing today extensively on foreign surveillance, as you might imagine, instead what dominated the question was whether the president interfered in their respective Russian investigations. There were not a whole lot of answers. There were plenty of fireworks at time. Brianna Keilar has the details.", "My questions deserve answers.", "In a contentious intelligence hearing today --", "And we've gotten no answers from any of you.", "-- senators from both sides of aisle expressed frustration and at times anger at the president's intelligence chiefs.", "I do mean it in a contentious way.", "Repeatedly asking the men to confirm or shoot down news reports that the president asked them to help end the Russia investigation.", "If any of this is true, it would be an appalling and improper use of our intelligence professionals -- an act if true that could erode the public's trust in our intelligence institutions.", "Yet instead of confirming or denying any specific conversations, the director of National Security Agency and Director of National Intelligence would only answer broadly, saying they had never felt pressured by the president.", "In the three- plus years that I have been the director of National Security Agency, to the best of my recollection, I have never been directed to do anything I believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate. And to the best of my recollection, during that same period of service, I do not recall ever feeling pressured to do so.", "In my time of service, which is interacting with the president of the United States or anybody of his administration, I have never been pressured. I have never felt pressure to intervene or interfere in any way.", "But the two intel leaders would not go further, repeatedly stonewalling the committee on questions of whether the reported conversations with the president happened or what was said.", "You realize how simple it would simply be to say, no, that never happened?", "I think conversations between the president and myself are for the most part --", "You seem to apply that standard selectively.", "No, I'm not applying it selectively. I'm just saying I don't think it's appropriate --", "You clear an awful lot up by simply saying it never happened.", "I don't share -- I do not share with the general public, conversations that I have with the president.", "Well, I think your unwillingness to answer a very basic question speaks volumes.", "Over and over again.", "You went back on a pledge --", "Angry senators pushed back.", "Can you give me a yes or no answer, please?", "Asking the men who at times shifted uncomfortably in their seats to give detailed answers.", "I've never been directed to do anything in the course of my three-plus years as director of the National Security Agency --", "Not directed, asked.", "-- that I felt to be inappropriate, nor have I felt pressured to do so.", "Have you ever been asked to say something that isn't true?", "I stand by my previous statement, sir.", "Coats and Rogers told the senators they had discussed their testimony with White House counsel. But they also said they had not been given direction from the White House to refuse to answer or to invoke the president's executive privilege, telling the committee only that it would be inappropriate to discuss their conversations with the president publicly, eventually infuriating independent Senator Angus King.", "I'll ask both of you the same question. Why are you not answering these questions? Is there an invocation by the president of the United States of executive privilege? Is there or not?", "Not that I'm aware of.", "Then why are you not answering our questions?", "Because I feel it's inappropriate, Senator.", "What you feel isn't relevant, Admiral. What you feel isn't the answer. You swore that oath to tell us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and today, you are refusing to do so much. What is the legal basis for you refusal to testify to this committee?", "I'm not sure I have a legal basis.", "And in a rare moment of bipartisan exasperation, even the Republican chair of the committee chastised the directors, closing the hearing by saying Congress had a right to the truth.", "At no time should you be in a position where you come to Congress without an answer. It may be in a different format, but the requirements of our oversight duties and your agencies demand it.", "And Brianna joins us now. You mentioned that Coats and Rogers said they were not given direction from the White House to invoke executive privilege. Is that still a possibility?", "Well, they asked. It appears to still be a possibility, of course, because these Intel leaders technically are subject to it. They work at the behest of course of President Trump, so they would fall under that. But their inquiries, it appears, were not answered. We have asked if executive privilege is going to be invoked. We have not heard back. They did inquire with White House counsel about their testimony. We know that. But when it comes to this issue of executive privilege, it's still up in the air. Obviously, there was a lot of sensitivity but it wasn't -- they're saying that they weren't going to answer questions. It wasn't based in that legal basis as you certainly noticed, Anderson.", "Yes. All right, Brianna Keilar, thanks so much. Back now with the panel. Jeff, I mean at that moment where he admits, there is no legal basis and there's no executive privilege.", "It was amazing. I mean, it was just -- you know, it's -- when you're testifying before Congress, it's not like what you feel like answering. There are legal rules that you either can limit your answer if it's like covered by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege or classified information. He just didn't feel like answering. And I think one of the things that's really disturbing about this is that, you know, in Watergate there was a special prosecutor and there was a congressional investigation. In Iran- Contra, there was a special prosecutor and a congressional investigation. The congressional investigations proceeded even though there was a prosecutor. Here, it sounded like all of these witnesses were saying, well, I can't answer these questions because there's a special prosecutor. Congress has a right to these answers. The public has a right to these answers. And, you know, for them simply to blow off Congress because there's another investigation or because they don't feel like it, I just think it's outrageous.", "Yes. I mean, that's Andrew McCabe actually who said that that his conversations with -- he didn't want to do anything that revealed his conversations that might be part of Mueller's investigation.", "And, you know, that's very interesting because in the past when you think about presidents and principles in their conversations, they don't want to divulge information for fear. And that's some of the thing that we heard during the Bush years with Valerie Plame and Scooter Libby. They didn't want to divulge information. But going back to what Jeff said, I mean, it makes no sense. This is about getting to the bottom of what is what. And in the House, they're trying to figure out what to do. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee just convened a meeting of what steps could be taken, next steps. They had constitutional lawyers, constitutional scholars as to what the Judiciary Committee could do in case there is found to be an abuse of power. In this session, we didn't see much come out of it. But the question is, how far will they dig? What can they get from this?", "Carl, how unusual was this for that?", "Well, it was an appalling moment, their absolute contempt for the Congress of the United States and its legitimate function. And they showed it in their attitude. But what is so extraordinary about it is here we have the Congress of the United States for a change. A committee really trying to do his job, trying to sift through facts, really be in meticulous. That is a rare event, all of us would probably agree and these guys go up there and try to stiff him. It's appalling.", "Phil, do you see it the same way?", "Heck no. 180 degree is different. I can tell you what I would have done and now would've said stuff it for three reasons. Number one, which committee do you want me to talk to, judiciary, government affairs, Intel? You want me to talk to the Senate and House. This about partly -- this is not the primary point, but partly dysfunction of the Congress. How many conversations am I going to have? Second, have you coordinate this with Director Mueller? How am I supposed to talk to you and then go talk to the federal investigator over the FBI in the third and final? When I walk into the Oval Office tomorrow and the president wants to have a confidential conversation about an intelligence issue, and he says, are you going to go talk on national T.V. What do I tell him? One minor point, actually significant, they made a huge mistake at the outset. As soon as they said we weren't pressured, but we won't talk, they opened the door. You either close it or you open it. You don't start by saying no pressure, but I won't explain what the conversation was.", "What I thought was remarkable was there's Dan Coats, who spent decades in the Senate. He would never have accepted that answer if you are on the other side asking those questions. And he knows better. And it made me wonder as I listen to the two of them. It may just be that it's they felt a sense of propriety about what they could --", "Yes.", "-- and couldn't say. It may have been that. But it felt like there was an orchestrated play that we were going to give these answers and we were not going to go beyond these answers. Even though, as you point out their first answer begged the question.", "Jason, as a supporter of the president, were those the right answers to give?", "I think Rogers came across much more buttoned up. I think Coats's answer on that did not come across very well. I think he probably should have a tighter answer.", "It maybe because he acknowledges he didn't have any legal backup for what he said?", "Yes. I mean, that was just I mean the optics of that were just a bad answer. I think he started off saying that he hadn't been pressured, that there hadn't been anything untoward, both he and Admiral Rogers both gave slightly different answers but made it very clear that they had not been pressured to do anything inappropriate. I thought that was good and I was surprised they didn't go a little bit further. But again, this whole thing, you know, today, I thought this was supposed to be about Russia. I though this is supposedly about trying to get to the president about some supposed coordination between the campaign and some foreign entity. And that seems had been completely thrown out. I mean, this really does. You can see why Republicans look at this and feel like it's a witch-hunt, because they see this what happened today and like I thought this is about Russia.", "The hearing actually was about Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is a controversial section that allows the government to eavesdrop on foreigners, not Americans, but still a lot of Americans have problems with it. That's what the intelligence community wants. They want that reauthorized. And that's what the hearing was about. It's been set for months. The problem, I think Jeffrey has a good point. I come at it more even though I work in the media now. More as a former government official, right? And government needs to keep secrets. People in journalism always everything to come out. I respect that. The government needs to keep secrets about sources and methods of how it obtains intelligence. I believe in executive privilege. The president has to have a right to talk to his closest aides and not have that come out. But you have to assert those rights. They deliberately said, we are -- the president is not invoking executive privilege and this is not classified. It does not go to our sources method, but we just don't feel it. So they -- I think they have discredited themselves and also limited the very legitimate times when the government has to sometimes say, look, we cant tell you. And so I think hurt their own cost.", "But Paul, how can you protect source and methods when this president is not getting source and methods in some instances? And I mean, it's been factually found out that he's not. So I mean how can you successfully say you're protecting that when this president is not and when President Obama was in when appropriate is when he received sources and methods? So what is it?", "Well, that's the problem. We already have a president, who in his brief tenure, has apparently let the cat out of the bag about an ISIS source that our closest ally in Middle East, Israel reportedly had to the Russians in the Oval Office. I mean so I understand that --", "I mean, executive authority doesn't cease to exist as a concept because the president learns some things and not other things you just said that all --", "No, no, no. Sources and methods is some of the most sensitive information Intel you can get.", "But they could still --", "Right.", "Yes. But I think this is like clearly an execution problem if you're going to go there and say we weren't pressured then answer the questions or assert some sort of legal basis for not doing it. And it seems to me that all the people here, including Comey, are having a split the baby problem where they want to say, look, I wasn't compromised here but also I don't want to go too much further than that and they're all sort of landing in the middle and it's fairly inconclusive.", "And so -- I mean where does this go? I mean, for, you know, for someone's watching at home and here's what Comey has said today, where does this go?", "Well, there's -- I mean there's sort of two general parts of this investigation. One is the obstruction of justice in the White House after Trump becomes president. You know, the Comey situation here. The other part of the investigation, which is really just getting started, is what was the nature of the relationship between the Trump campaign and the Russians and was there any inappropriate or unlawful collusion. That's a very complicated and lengthy investigation, and, you know, that -- I wish it were all today, but that's --", "And do the two come together? That's why we need to step back and give this thing time. Let grey areas develop. Let them take testimony. Let's no all of us go t talking points.", "Although it is --", "But we know that --", "It does. It is interesting, David.", "It is interesting. And the Comey statement that was released today, according to Comey, the president seemed willing to -- I don't know how to describe it but basically say, will look if some satellite people related to the campaign were involved --", "He kind of acknowledged that maybe there were some people --", "But he seemed willing to throw some people under the bus if they were --", "Yes.", "Yes, I think that clearly he was willing to do that. And so that --", "Which is something he had said publicly once in a press conference. I think he sort of intimated, well, there may have been some other people.", "Well, and I think Sean Spicer did, as well, once from the podium, separating himself, separating some of these people who are under investigation. I do want to give some credence to what Jason said. I hope that the investigation also does ultimately focus on the larger role the Russia is playing, played in our election, but also playing in the world right now. We just saw a situation in the Middle East where they fomented a crisis, apparently, by leaking a false document. And so this is the world in which we live right now. So there is a serious mission for Congress here, in addition to finding out exactly who and who was involved in the situation.", "Yes. And that to Jason's point though, when there are investigations, often they start out as one. I mean with the Clinton, it starts out with Whitewater and ends up with --", "A failed real estate deal leads to exposing an affair. The -- I'll get back to David's point. The president was on the May 18th Press Conference with President Santos from Colombia here. And President Trump said, this is the exact quote, \"There's no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but I can only speak for myself and the Russians.\" So there in public, he gave a hint to careful listeners. And believe me, if he had aides or advisers who were colluding, they were listening. I'm going to throw you under the bus. And apparently said same thing to Jim Comey. That this is -- this -- believe me, the people who are the targets, the president is not under investigation. We know that. Somebody is and most people are listening. They're lawyering up.", "Right.", "And they know Trump's throwing them under the bus.", "Well, you know, that he's like -- that kind of statement also makes the Flynn thing stand out because --", "Right.", "-- one thing -- and Jason, you may disagree with this. The one thing this president hasn't distinguished himself for is, you know, blind loyalty to the people around him. He's been throwing people under the bus right and left yet.", "Yes.", "So why is it that there's this one guy for whom he went to this extraordinary lengths when he is willing to toss everybody else over the side.", "So I mean how about blunt?", "Let Jason go ahead.", "Well, I think there's -- I don't think folks can have it both ways. I mean either people are going to make the case that the president is trying to obstruct justice and try to shut this thing down or he's telling Comey go ahead and complete your investigation and do what you need to do. And I think that I take it --", "What he did according to Comey he said about, but he described the satellites who may have done something, it would be good to know that.", "I interpreted that as the president saying, make sure you're continuing to do your --", "But that's sort of done, right?", "Right. And so I think that folks can't have it both ways on this. But -- so that's my point there.", "Don't we need to come back to the question, though, that the president himself said that he was firing the head of the FBI because of this Russia thing? And that's why I keep saying, these two things are not separate. Meanwhile, special prosecutor has hired the former head of the fraud division of the justice department to be his assistant in one area of investigation which has to do with money, follow the money. That is going to go into the Trump organization. It's going to go into the finances of the campaign. It's going to go into Paul Manafort's accounts. We don't know where any of this is going. And I keep coming back to that because why do we need to decide the case here? Yes. There's prima facie evidence the president may well have obstructed justice in a conventional way. But we got a long ways to go here.", "Yes. We got to take a quick break. We have long ways to go tonight. Up next, the stunning details we are expecting to hear on Capitol Hill tomorrow about President Trump's fired FBI Director James Comey, probably more details that we got from his opening statements obviously, as well as we'll have more on the president's reaction in a moment."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP, UNITED STATES PRESIDENT", "LESTER HOLT, NBC ANCHOR", "TRUMP", "HOLT", "TRUMP", "MATTINGLY", "COOPER", "MATTINGLY", "COOPER", "MATTINGLY", "COOPER", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST", "COOPER", "TOOBIN", "COOPER", "MARY KATHARINE HAM, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "COOPER", "CARL BERNSTEIN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "COOPER", "BERNSTEIN", "COOPER", "BERNSTEIN", "COOPER", "APRIL RYAN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "COOPER", "RYAN", "HAM", "RYAN", "HAM", "RYAN", "HAM", "COOPER", "RYAN", "HAM", "RYAN", "COOPER", "DAVID AXELROD, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "RYAN", "AXELROD", "COOPER", "PETER BAKER, NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER", "TRUMP", "COOPER", "JASON MILLER, FORMER SENIOR COMMUNICATIONS ADVISER, TRUMP CAMPAIGN", "TOOBIN", "BERNSTEIN", "TOOBIN", "COOPER", "TOOBIN", "TOOBIN", "MILLER", "BERNSTEIN", "MILLER", "COOPER", "MILLER", "RYAN", "COOPER", "RYAN", "COOPER", "PAUL BEGALA, CNN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR", "PHIL MUDD, CNN ANALYST", "BEGALA", "COOPER", "MUDD", "BEGALA", "MUDD", "BEGALA", "MUDD", "BERNSTEIN", "BERNSTEIN", "HAM", "BERNSTEIN", "COOPER", "MUDD", "COOPER", "MUDD", "AXELROD", "RYAN", "RYAN", "MUDD", "RYAN", "MUDD", "RYAN", "HAM", "MILLER", "HAM", "RYAN", "MUDD", "RYAN", "MUDD", "RYAN", "MUDD", "RYAN", "MUDD", "RYAN", "MUDD", "COOPER", "COOPER", "MILLER", "RYAN", "MILLER", "COOPER", "COOPER", "RYAN", "MILLER", "RYAN", "MILLER", "RYAN", "COOPER", "COOPER", "TOOBIN", "AXELROD", "TOOBIN", "AXELROD", "TOOBIN", "COOPER", "TOOBIN", "COOPER", "COOPER", "ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "JONES", "COOPER", "ALAN DERSHOWITZ, PROFESSOR, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL", "COOPER", "DERSHOWITZ", "COOPER", "DERSHOWITZ", "COOPER", "DERSHOWITZ", "COOPER", "TOOBIN", "TOOBIN", "DERSHOWITZ", "TOOBIN", "DERSHOWITZ", "COOPER", "DERSHOWITZ", "TOOBIN", "TOOBIN", "DERSHOWITZ", "COOPER", "DERSHOWITZ", "COOPER", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CORRESPODENT", "COOPER", "BORGER", "COOPER", "BORGER", "COOPER", "DERSHOWITZ", "COOPER", "DERSHOWITZ", "TOOBIN", "BORGER", "DERSHOWITZ", "COOPER", "COOPER", "BORGER", "COOPER", "DERSHOWITZ", "COOPER", "BORGER", "COOPER", "BORGER", "COOPER", "BORDER", "COOPER", "BORGER", "COOPER", "BORGER", "COOPER", "BORGER", "COOPER", "COOPER", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-60651", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-9-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/19/ltm.09.html", "summary": "Interview with Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL)", "utt": ["On Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the world can't afford to take a wait and see approach toward Iraq.", "Well, if one were to compare the scraps of information that the government had before September 11 to the volumes of information the government has today about Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, his use of those weapons, his record of aggression and his consistent hostility towards the United States, and then factor in our country's demonstrated then vulnerability after September 11, the case the president made should be clear.", "While the White House is pushing for use of force, Illinois Senator Richard Durbin is preaching patience. He says the president should give weapons inspections a chance. And Senator Durbin joins us this morning from Capitol Hill. Welcome back. Good to see you again, sir.", "Good to be with you.", "Let's talk about why you have faith in inspections. David Kay, who joined the nuclear weapons inspection team back in the late '90s, or, excuse me, early '90s, said inspections are \"damn near mission impossible.\" Why do you think they'd work this time around?", "Well, first, I think there's real value to working through the United Nations. It will not only give us strength in numbers, but clarity of purpose and some sharing of this burden, not only to put the pressure on Saddam Hussein, but ultimately, if military action is necessary, it'll be a multinational approach rather than the United States going it alone or with very few allies. That means a greater chance of success. It means that if there's going to be a reaction across the world, it will be a lessened reaction because we have United Nations support. Going specifically to inspections, I think it's time for the United Nations to define inspections in new, meaningful terms, to take Saddam Hussein at his word, unconditional inspections led by U.S. forces, multinational forces with U.S. involvement, I should say, that really go on the ground to make certain that the inspections are meaningful.", "Do you really believe without that threat of military force that Saddam Hussein would ever show these inspectors what they really want to see?", "Well, frankly, let's let the United Nations do the job the president challenged them to do last week. He said if the United Nations is relevant, then it must act. And the United Nations has responded. And I think some movement has taken place. But now I hear from the administration that we really didn't mean it. We don't care what the United Nations does. We're going to go it alone. I think that's the wrong approach. Let's really push for meaningful inspections, ones that will tell us once and for all if there are weapons of mass destruction, where they are and destroy them.", "The president has told Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle that any resolution that would require the U.S. to take action in conjunction with the U.N. is \"totally unacceptable.\" Where does this leave the debate in Congress, then?", "Well, of course it raises a question about what was the trip to New York all about last week? I thought President Bush went to New York representing the United States as a member of the United Nations and challenge them to be meaningful and relevant and to rise to this challenge. And now we've basically said a week later we didn't mean it. We're going to do it by ourselves. I don't think that's the best approach. Listen, Saddam Hussein is a threat to his country, to his region. We need to contain the danger which he is emanating. But frankly, we've got to make certain that we do it in a fashion that lessens the likelihood of terrorist attacks across the United States, lessens the likelihood that the burden of stabilizing Iraq is the United States' alone.", "So you're essentially saying the broad authority the president wants may not be the best approach but in the end would you vote for a congressional authorization that would allow the U.S. to act unilaterally?", "What I would vote for is to authorize the United States to vote in the United Nations for the use of force. I believe that gives us an opportunity to work with the United Nations to continue to build this global coalition against Saddam Hussein. If it doesn't work, if the inspections don't work, if the United Nations is unresponsive, Congress can then act.", "The president reportedly will hand over his resolution to Congress at some point today for everybody to debate and chew on. Realistically, what's this resolution going to look like once it goes through this process?", "Well, I think the resolution is going to be clear, at least from White House reports, that it's going to be a unilateral action by the United States against Iraq. I thought that idea was abandoned several weeks ago, but clearly we have returned to it. I think the United Nations should be part of it.", "But what happens once Congress, what happens when Congress has a chance then to debate it?", "Well, I think there's going to be bipartisan feeling on both sides. I don't think this is going to break down along party lines. I've spoken to some of my Republican colleagues in the Senate yesterday and they feel as I do about the role of the United Nations in this effort. So I think you're going to see a healthy debate. No one is making any excuses for Saddam Hussein. But let's find the best strategy to take that will make sure that what we do is effective, has global support and has long-term staying power.", "Senator Richard Durbin, thanks for dropping by AMERICAN MORNING this morning.", "Thank you.", "Appreciate your time. And the man who led American troops in a war against Iraq, General Tommy Franks, chief of the U.S. Central Command, has arrived in Kuwait for a meeting with regional commanders. Martin Savidge is standing by there. He joins us from video phone this morning -- Martin, good morning.", "Good morning to you, Paula. Three o'clock in the afternoon here. Temperature 110 degrees. Something to keep in mind if U.S. forces do become active in Iraq. General Tommy Franks did arrive earlier today. They thought he was coming in yesterday, but, in fact, he postponed it for a day. He's gone off for his meeting. Everyone has gone out of their way to say this is normal. The Kuwaitis say it's normal, the U.S. officials say it's normal, this had been planned, it had been scheduled, it is routine for him to come in and meet with his commanders, it's not a war meeting. Other things, though, make it seem rather interesting. There is a large U.S. military exercise under way with Kuwaiti forces up near the Iraqi border. This is Operation Desert Spring. Been going on now for several months. Likely to continue. They constantly rotate U.S. forces in and out. Now, the marines at the end of this month have their own operation. It's called Operation Eager Mace, which certainly sounds formidable. Two thousand U.S. Marines coming ashore with amphibious landing craft, aircraft and land vehicles, working in conjunction with Kuwaiti forces. This is an interesting scenario because, of course, Kuwait is seen as a staging area. Forces coming in from the sea if conventional troops are used. And then finally, the Belleau Wood, which was going to be used in that, is sitting off of the small nation of Djibouti. Eight hundred U.S. special forces there, possibly poised to go into Somalia or Yemen. So as you see, Kuwait and this region very much feeling and saying normal, but not normal -- Paula.", "Martin Savidge, thanks so much for that update."], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "ZAHN", "SEN. RICHARD DURBIN (D), ILLINOIS", "ZAHN", "DURBIN", "ZAHN", "DURBIN", "ZAHN", "DURBIN", "ZAHN", "DURBIN", "ZAHN", "DURBIN", "ZAHN", "DURBIN", "ZAHN", "DURBIN", "ZAHN", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-363240", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-03-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/01/cnr.20.html", "summary": "India and Pakistan Rattles International Community", "utt": ["We are following the rising tensions between two nuclear armed neighbors. India is waiting for one of its air force pilots to be released by Pakistan. The Pakistani foreign minister saying the release will happen at a border crossing in the coming hours. We'll continue to follow that of course. The pilot's plane was one of two shot down over the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday, this during a dogfight in the sky between Indian and Pakistani fighter jets. Pakistan's prime minister said the pilot would be released on Friday as a gesture of peace. We are covering this story all aspects of it with our own Nikhil Kumar. Nikhil is following the story live in New Delhi, and Ben Farmer joining us. Ben in Islamabad with The Daily Telegraph. Ben, I do want to start with you. In Pakistan, the release of this pilot in the coming hours from India, how important will that be to de-escalate the tensions?", "Well, there's lot of expectation here about what this could do. It comes at the end of a really quite alarming week. This week we've seen, as you mentioned, air strikes from India inside the Pakistani territory for the first time since their 1971 war. That was then followed up by an aerial dogfight over the skies of Kashmir with the shooting down of two Indian planes. So, this is, these are after all two nations which have nuclear weapons and they've been shooting at each other this week. So, a lot of tension. Mr. Khan has now said that he wants to make a peace gesture after this very fraught week. He wants to release the pilots and he's also called on his Indian counterpart Mr. Modi to talk. So, there's a lot of expectation that this could be an opportunity for the two sides to take a deep breath and maybe step back.", "Let's bring in our Nikhil Kumar. Nikhil, I also want to show our viewers, if we could, just asking the director to show that map again, because it's important to understand this disputed region that we're talking about. And India concerned with terrorism in that part of the world. India taking a more assertive approach there, Nikhil. And you explained to us earlier that really resets the stage for something different.", "It does, George. It really, really does. And so, as Ben said, it's been a very fraught week, tensions have risen. Now it looks like we might have an offramp for both countries to go back, step back a little bit. But make no mistake. This week or this whole month has left this region in a much, much more dangerous place than it was until quite recently. We've seen terrorist attacks in India in the past, the Mumbai attacks, the attack on parliament in 2001. When India has blamed terrorists that it says that base in Pakistan has blamed the Pakistani establishment of handing a hand. And then Islamabad denies this but that's what India has been saying. India has provided evidence. At various stages it says to the Pakistanis and to others in the international community in the past this used to be resolved diplomatically. We've never seen, as Ben pointed out these air strikes air power being deployed in such cases, and therefore what India did two days ago on Wednesday when it sent its jets across the line of control the de facto border in the disputed Kashmir region it set in place a new doctrine. That if we are hit, India says, we are hit by terrorists and we think we have evidence that they were coming from Pakistani soil. Well then India reserves the right effectively to go in there and go after them. Pakistan's response of course, was if you breach our borders, then we will hit back as well. And so, we are in a dangerous new place with this conflict that's been going on for decades. And the problem of course, is that no matter how a conflict between these two countries begin no matter what the pretext is over here, it was the 14th of February car bomb attack that left 40 Indian paramilitaries dead, but no matter how it starts the worry always is, how is it going to end. And that's because both of them of course have nuclear weapons. George?", "How is it going to end? You know, that is definitely the question of the moment. Again, we're awaiting any information about the release of this pilot. Nikhil, we'll stay in touch with you to bring that reporting to us. And Ben Farmer, again, thank you for your time today. Now let's bring our international diplomatic editor Nic Robertson. Nic has been following the story with us in Abu Dhabi. Nic, good to have you as well. Again, two nuclear armed neighbors in this, and we're talking about this disputed territory of Kashmir. India showing a more assertive approach as we just heard from our Nikhil Kumar. Your thoughts on how that changes the dynamic on things that have been in the past negotiated diplomatically.", "Yes. What we're talking about here and you raise a question in that conversation, they are very clear one, which is how is this going to end. And the concern is two nuclear power of nation that it could end very badly. And there is a huge amount of international diplomacy going on at the moment. Typically, in the past, the United States has weighted very heavily when there's been confrontation between these two countries to try to tamp down the rhetoric, to try to tamp down the anger and frustration is being felt on both sides to bring about a calm response. And I think the very fact that we've seen China involved this time diplomatically, the foreign minister calling on both sides to tamp -- to tamp the situation down, that we've seen Russia are involved as well this time offering as a place for resource of mediation between the two countries. The United States at a military level at a political level. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as well all getting involved to try to calm this down really makes us realize it is that how could this end so de- escalate the offramp person. Nikhil says very clearly, potentially the handing back of this pilot -- Indian air force pilot. But it's when will it end. And of course, this is something that goes back to 1947. And that's -- that is the enduring problem, the enduring question. But, you know, the current focus here is one that has huge international attention is what the Indian foreign minister has spoken about at the organization of Islamic conference today here in Abu Dhabi talking about the need to sort of confront, if you will, international terrorism. And this is what India says. It was doing and sending its air force planes into Pakistan's airspace to attack what it said was a terrorist training camp inside Pakistan. But from Pakistan's side they've been very clear. The foreign minister telling CNN's s Christiane Amanpour that if India does have evidence present that evidence, he says, India cannot act as judge, jury, and executioner.", "If they give us evidence which is acceptable to the courts of Pakistan, after all we will have to justify it, they will go to the court. And if they have solid and alienable evidence share it with us so that we can convince, we can convince the people and we can convince the independent judiciary of Pakistan.", "So, when does this confrontation this long-running confrontation between the two countries and as the United States continues to add its pressure on Pakistan not to support Taliban and its territory who are using it as a base to resupply from reequip from for to fight U.S. and Afghan forces inside Afghanistan. This question, perhaps now, as Nikhil says, it become center focus and perhaps there will be more dialogue, but the track record is dialogue hasn't produced a lot so far.", "Nic, we probably have about 30 seconds left, but I do want to post this question to you about the upcoming election in India. How might that play into this?", "Well, certainly, Narendra Modi, the prime minister who wants to be reelected. Certainly, he's perceived as being a populist prime minister. Certainly, there are -- there have been international and domestic criticisms that his policies or his actions haven't done enough to tamp down an anti-Muslim attack within India at the moment. So, there is a possibility that he could be seen, and certainly Pakistan believes that potentially he is using this confrontation with Pakistan to win support in the election, but also, history shows us in recent Indian election cycles prime ministers who pursue a path of peace with Pakistan tend to be rewarded. So, the confrontation path may not be his best option. But the perception from Pakistanis at the moment, Indian election cycle plays into what we're witnessing right now.", "Nic Robertson on the story for us with context and perspective in -- thank you so much, Nic. Still ahead, the U.S. president's skills as a dealmaker are being questioned by Russia. In fact, mocked by Russian state TV for his failed talks with North Korea. Russia now suggesting it can do a better job with that. Plus, clashes at the Security Council on how to respond to Venezuela's humanitarian and political crisis. When we return, the latest efforts from the U.S. and Russia they just failed. Do stay will us."], "speaker": ["HOWELL", "BEN FARMER, CORRESPONDENT, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH", "HOWELL", "NIKHIL KUMAR, CNN NEW DELHI BUREAU CHIEF", "HOWELL", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR", "SHAH MEHMOOD QURESHI, FOREIGN MINISTER OF PAKISTAN", "ROBERTSON", "HOWELL", "ROBERTSON", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-372867", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-06-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/20/es.01.html", "summary": "Joe Biden Faces Backlash Over Segregationist Comments; Hope Hicks Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee", "utt": ["I know Joe Biden. He is better than this.", "Cory should apologize. There's not a racist bone in my body.", "Biden backlash. The former vice president defending his work with segregationist senators.", "Hope Hicks gives the silent treatment. The questions she refused to answer before a House committee.", "Breaking overnight. An Iranian missile shoots down a U.S. drone in international air space. We'll go live to Tehran.", "And this. A fight breaks out between parents at a little league baseball game in Colorado. What set them off. Good morning, and welcome to EARLY START, everyone. I'm Christine Romans.", "Good to have you back. Colorado?", "What are they doing in Colorado, Dave Briggs from Colorado?", "Hey, man.", "Defend your state.", "I will shortly. I will attempt to. I'm Dave Briggs. It's Thursday, June 20th. We'll get to that little league brawl in a moment. 4:00 a.m. in the East. We start, though, with 2020. A no apology from Joe Biden. The Democratic front runner is under fire for invoking the name of the late senator, James Eastland, a Southern segregationist and staunch critic of the Civil Rights Movement. Biden saying during a Tuesday fundraiser, quote, \"He never called me boy. He always called me son. At least there were some civility. We got things done. We didn't agree on much of anything. We got things done.\" 2020 Democrats quickly seizing on the former vice president's comments, some calling on him to apologize.", "I think to be singing the praises of people who were vicious segregationists is not something that anybody should be doing.", "I'm not here to criticize other Democrats but it's never OK to celebrate segregationists. Never.", "To coddle the reputations of segregationists, of people who, if they had their way, I would literally not be standing here as a member of the United States Senate, is, I think -- it's just -- it's misinformed and it's wrong.", "Biden pushing back saying he was not praising Eastland.", "I could not have disagreed with Jim Eastland more and he was a segregationist. I ran for the United States Senate because I disagreed with the views of the segregationists. The point I'm making is, you don't have to agree. You don't have to like the people in terms of their views, but you just simply make the case and you beat them.", "Later Biden lamenting the harsh start to the 2020 race, saying at a fundraiser late last night, \"It's going to be pretty ugly. But here's the deal. I'm not going to participate.\" CNN's Arlette Saenz has more.", "Christine and Dave, despite facing criticism from some of his 2020 Democratic rivals, Joe Biden is defending his recent comments about working with segregationists in an era that he says held more civility than current times, telling reporters last night that there is not a racist bone in his body. One of the 2020 rivals that has really gone after Biden on this and asked for an apology is Cory Booker. And take a listen to what Joe Biden had to tell reporters outside of a fundraiser last night.", "Are you going to apologize --", "Thanks, guys.", "-- to Cory Booker --", "Apologize for what?", "Cory Booker has called for it.", "Cory should apologize. He knows better. There's not a racist bone in my body. I've been involved in civil rights my whole career, period, period, period.", "Now this marks a departure for Joe Biden, who has really refrained from engaging directly with his Democratic opponents in this 2020 race. And last night, Cory Booker also weighed in, saying that he's not backing down, that he is not going to apologize. Take a listen to that.", "Somebody running to be the leader of our party should know that using the word \"boy\" in the way he did can cause hurt and pain, and we need a presidential nominee and the leader of our party to be sensitive to that. I know that I was raised to speak truth to power and that I will never apologize for doing that. And Vice President Biden shouldn't need this lesson.", "And you've heard from other 2020 Democrats also criticizing Joe Biden, like Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren. We'll see going forward whether the former vice president decides to change course or potentially address this further -- Christine and Dave.", "Arlette, thank you. Meantime, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is on the rise in this crowded Democratic field. A Monmouth University poll showing Warren with a five-point bump in the last month, putting her even with Bernie Sanders. Her progressive message may be more appealing to centrist Democrats than Sanders'. The co-founder of the centrist think tank Third Way telling CNN Warren's proposals are, quote, \"within the lines of Democratic policies. They're not Democratic socialists policies. They're within the lines of a candidate who says she's a capitalist.\"", "Bernie Sanders looking to capitalize on that, tweeting, \"The cat is out of the bag. The corporate wing of the Democratic Party is publicly 'anybody but Bernie.'\" Despite her recent success, Elizabeth Warren's campaign plays down the polls, telling CNN, \"We don't pay much attention to the polls. They will go up and down throughout the race and focusing on the daily headline, tweet or cable news chatter is not a recipe for long-term success.\"", "Former White House communications director Hope Hicks spending some seven hours in closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee but not answering any questions about her time in the West Wing. White House lawyers claiming absolute immunity for Hope Hicks, which has House Democrats fighting mad. More on her testimony from Manu Raju on Capitol Hill.", "Good morning, Christine and Dave. Now Hope Hicks came before the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions as part of the committee's investigation into potential obstruction of justice. But Democrats came away not satisfied because the White House counsels who were in the room made very clear that she would not be answering any questions about her time in the White House. What they cited was absolute immunity, saying that she is not -- as a former White House official -- high-level White House official, she is not obligated to provide these kind of answers to the committee. Democrats now are threatening to take her to court.", "She answered some of our questions. We learned considerable information. And the White House pleaded a non- existent absolute immunity, and that will not stand.", "Now she did answer questions about her time during the campaign season, including questions about what she knew about those hush money payments that came from -- that the president was involved with that came from Michael Cohen, his former fixer who is now in jail. When she was asked about her knowledge of that, she denied knowing about the hush money scheme to silence those extramarital affairs. Nevertheless, this fight not over yet. Democrats not satisfied, warning that this could very well go to court in the coming days. And Jerry Nadler says he will, quote, \"destroy\" the White House's case in court. Expect that litigation to happen sometime soon -- Christine and Dave.", "All right, Manu Raju, thank you for that. A fiery debate on Capitol Hill over reparations for slavery. Hundreds of people jamming the hallways and filling three overflow rooms. This is the first time Congress is considering a bill to create a commission on addressing the lingering effects of slavery. Part of that includes possible reparations. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell opposes reparations for slavery, arguing, quote, \"None of us currently living are responsible.\"", "We've, you know, tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We've elected an African-American president.", "Acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates strongly rebuking McConnell.", "For a century after the Civil War black people were subjected to a relentless campaign of terror. A campaign that extended well into the lifetime of Majority Leader McConnell. He was alive for the redlining of Chicago and the looting of black homeowners of some $4 billion. Victims of that plunder are very much alive today. I am sure they'd love a word with the majority leader.", "House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says he expects Democrats will schedule a vote on the bill but he did not name a date.", "The Trump administration taking its most significant action yet to unwind regulations addressing climate change. The EPA rolling back the Obama era Clean Power Plan which allows states to set their own carbon emission standards for coal fired power plants. The move fulfills part of President Trump's promise to boost struggling coal. But it already faces court challenges. The attorneys general of New York and Connecticut plan to sue to block this change. Meanwhile, the president's pick to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to the U.N. breaking with the White House on climate change during her Senate confirmation hearing.", "Climate change needs to be addressed as it poses real risk to our planet. Human behavior has contributed to the changing climate. Let there be no doubt.", "The EPA action flies in the face of the agency's own analysis which says it could result in 1400 more premature deaths by the year 2030 than the Obama plan it is replacing.", "All right. No move. The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady but there was news the Fed dropped the word patient from its statement instead it would act as appropriate to sustain the economy, opening up the door for future interest rate cuts. Now that was wildly expected. Markets loved this. They were up on the news. Trump -- the president has been critical of the Fed and its chair Jerome Powell after several rate increases last year. The president even thought about having Powell demoted. But Powell said yesterday he is undeterred by the president's tweets.", "I think the law is clear that I have a four-year term and I fully intend to serve it.", "The Fed statement said the labor market is still strong. It expects continued economic expansion. But the president's trade war is taking a toll. The number of jobs added last month was lower than expected and other recent data has shown that manufacturing is slowing. More economic data is coming. And the Fed said it will be watching a wide range of information when making decisions. Right now CME Group's Fed watch tool is predicting a 100 percent chance of a rate cut at the Fed's next meeting in July. There are those on Wall Street, some big thinkers, who think that perhaps the market has got ahead of itself a little bit here. The trade thaw, though, I think is really important here. If you get some kind of a trade breakthrough in the next few weeks, that could be good for sentiment.", "But how does the president get to argue that we have the strongest economy ever?", "That's right.", "Yet we need a rate cut?", "And a rate cut would signal something very -- is very wrong in the American economy which could send a different signal.", "Right.", "That would undo some of that presidential optimism.", "Makes that an impossible needle to threat. Tensions rising between the U.S. and Iran. An Iranian missile shoots down a U.S. drone in international air space overnight. We'll go live to Tehran for the latest next."], "speaker": ["SEN. CORY BOOKER (D-NJ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "DAVE BRIGGS, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-367759", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-04-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/23/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is Interviewed Mueller Findings and His New Book", "utt": ["All right, well, days from now Attorney General Bill Barr will be before lawmakers for two full days of testimony. This, of course, is after his version of the Mueller report was released, Jim.", "Sure to face some tough questions. Barr will be appearing before both the Senate and the House Judiciary Committees. Joining us now is a Republican who will get to question him. Senator Mike Lee of Utah. His new book, \"Our Lost Declaration\" hits shelves today. We've been reading it here at NEWSROOM. It's a good one. I suggest you read it as well. Senator, thank you for taking the time this morning.", "Thank you, Jim. Good to with you.", "So responding to the Mueller report, you have said, quote, there's nothing in this report that changes your view of this president. As you know, the special counsel established that members of Trump's team were willing to accept help from Russia during the campaign. They never reported it to law enforcement. And, as you know, the president publically cheered the release of this information. You, as a candidate, whether for Senate or for higher office, would you accept help from a foreign country, particularly an adversary that at the time was interfering in the U.S. political process? Would you accept that help?", "I'd like to think that I wouldn't. I've never faced that exact scenario. It doesn't seem like a good idea. It seems to me to be something that would cause me to have great pause and to look somewhere else for help rather than a foreign government.", "Are you disappointed then that President Trump's aides, campaign staff did not make the same decision?", "Oh, sure. Sure. But, look, it's a presidential election. They were in the heat of this moment. I was not. It's difficult for me to cast too much judgement on them. I wasn't involved in the process at the time. I'd like to think that if I had been, I might have raised a word of caution, but hindsight is 2020 and I wasn't there.", "So, senator, before we get to the book, which is fascinating, and we'll dive in, in a moment, let me just talk to you about transparency because if the American people don't know one thing about you is when you don't agree with the president, you do speak out. You were at odds with him on declaring a national emergency. You were actually with Democrats like Bernie Sanders when it comes to Yemen and again the president on that.", "Just feeling the Bern on getting us out of the war on Yemen.", "There you -- there you go. Well, I would you, would you vote for Bernie Sanders? I don't think you'd go that far.", "Correct.", "But you've work with him. OK. So, the president has lacked transparency and continuing to. And I'm wondering if you have a problem with it. Yesterday we saw the president file a law to prevent Congress from obtaining his financial records. Deadline day that Congress has asked for those tax return is today. The White House isn't going to turn them over. Now the White House is telling Carl Kline (ph), who used to run the personnel security director, he was, to not testify, even though the Oversight Committee has called for him to testify after this whistleblower raised concerns about 25 security clearances. Are you concerned about the not only lack of transparency, but these pushes against it in the face of Congress?", "Look, I can't speak for the president. I'm not going to purport to", "But I'm asking you as a member of Congress, does it concern you?", "As a member of Congress, I see a president who has undergone a very significant, very prolonged two-year investigation. They've taken the White House. They've shaken it every way they possibly can. They've looked into it. And I think it's easy for most Americans to understand why he might not be overly eager to hand over even more information where it's not required by law.", "Well, IRS code, as you know, says \"shall furnish.\" So maybe this -- you clerked for a Supreme Court justice. Maybe this will go all the way to the Supreme Court to decide the definition of \"shall\" there, but it is IRS code.", "Perhaps. But, look, this is going to have to be ironed out between his lawyers and the congressional investigators looking for it.", "Jim.", "Senator Lee, I'm going to make your day. I'm going to quote from your book here. And this gets to what is really the core for folks at home who don't know the thrust of the book. It's about the Constitution and what it means and how, as Americans, in effect, we can defend it today. Here's the quote, the steady usurpation of legislative authority by the executive branch is a creeping phenomenon. The people's elected representatives have made countless choices that have steadily diminished their own power and with it that of the people they represent, delegating to others the difficult and contentious task of making law has a tendency to make reelection easier. I mean you're taking a shot at Congress here for in effect not defending their constitutional powers. You have a president who just bypassed Congress to get money for a wall that Congress, even when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, the president couldn't get that money, tried multiple times, shut down the government. I wonder, do you believe this president is violating the spirit of the Constitution that you're extolling in effect in this book by taking that power away from you and your colleagues in the Senate.", "Yes, look, one of the reasons I wrote this book, one of the reasons I voted the way I did with respect to the resolution of disapproval under the national emergency declaration a few weeks ago, and one of the reasons why I sponsored with my friend Bernie Sanders a resolution to get us out of undeclared, unconstitutional civil war in Yemen is that I believe that Congress has given too much authority to the executive branch, power to make war, power to start trade wars, power to impose tariffs, power to declare broad national emergencies. This has been a convenient tool over time by Congress. It was headed by Houses of Representatives, Senates, and, with the assistance of White Houses of every conceivable partisan combination. So it shouldn't be surprising to us that our current president, at any moment, this moment or any moment going forward, would maybe take advantage of some of those. It is our fault as a Congress, and we, as a Congress, need to take that power back. My whole book, \"Our Lost Declaration,\" is all about the fact that the fight for liberty in America, as from day one, focused on the need to limit the amount of power that any one person or group of people can accumulate. And there are risks today, just as there were two and a half centuries ago, at the time of the American Revolution, with one person being able to exercise too much power.", "Let me ask you about something else that struck Jim and I from your book. You write about your party and you write about conservatives. And you say conservatives are still in danger of losing not only the culture war but also the hearts and minds of an entire generation of young Americans. That's why we lost the House of Representatives in 2018. It is why we could lose the presidency in 2020. That is a stark warning. What's your advice to your own party?", "My advice to my own party is to get back to the basics, get back to the fundamentals of what made us a country. And one of the central themes of this book, a book that I think could be a great give for Mother's Day, for graduation, for Father's Day, any parent who wants to make sure that their child or their children has access to the stories that inform us about why we are our own country can help with this. And they certainly can help with the Republican Party being able to regain that which it purports to stand for.", "Because your point is -- and you write more about this -- you know, that you think many in your party have resorted to simple sort of easy phrases like, conservative judges, lower taxes, less regulation. And it seems like you find that disingenuous.", "It's not that it's disingenuous so much as it is incomplete. It's incomplete if we focus only on putting conservative judges on the court, especially if we don't pay attention to what that means. Most people don't even understand what it means to be a conservative judge. I -- a good judge is someone who would just read the law based on what it says. But even more than focusing on the courts, we need to focus on the legislative branch and what we're legislating, what we're enacting, what we're not enacting. And on the dozens, indeed the hundreds of instances in which we have, as a Congress, handed over defacto law making power, legislative power to the executive branch, that's inexcusable. And we shouldn't rest until we have brought, pursuant to Article One, all that power back to our branch, otherwise we're going to be acting in many ways similar to the way that our government in London behaved prior to the American Revolution.", "We appreciate your time. Jim and I are so glad that you could be with us. Congratulations on the book and come back on the show soon.", "Yes, we'll be watching. We'll be watching.", "Senior senator of Utah, Mike Lee. We will. Thanks so much. All right, ahead for us, nearly a week since the disappearance of that 5-year-old little boy, we told you about him yesterday, this little boy in Illinois, police now say his mother is no longer cooperating with their investigation, and she is headed to court today to fight to regain custody of her youngest child.", "And see what happens when victims and offenders of violent crimes meet face to face on CNN's new original series \"The Redemption Project\" with Van Joan. The series premiere is this Sunday night, 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, right here on CNN."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "SEN. MIKE LEE (R-UT)", "SCIUTTO", "LEE", "SCIUTTO", "LEE", "HARLOW", "LEE", "HARLOW", "LEE", "HARLOW", "LEE", "HARLOW", "LEE", "HARLOW", "LEE", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "LEE", "HARLOW", "LEE", "HARLOW", "LEE", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "CNN-13314", "program": "The Sporting Life with Jim Huber", "date": "2000-8-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/05/sljh.00.html", "summary": "Why is Major League Baseball Failing in Florida?", "utt": ["Remember the famous line in the movie \"Field of Dreams,\" \"If you build it, they will come\"? In Florida, baseball fans came. But now, they're practically gone. On this edition of PAGE ONE, when Major League Baseball moved into the Tampa Bay and Miami periods, they appeared to be entering the promised land. But now, the two franchises are fighting to survive in communities that don't seem to care.", "We all want this thing to work here. There are a lot of us who have invested a lot of our careers with the Florida Marlins. And we certainly are not interested in leaving and going to another city.", "How could something seemingly so right go so wrong? Also, the Summer Olympics are almost here. But if you think it's now a level playing field, forget about it.", "There is no way that any athlete could afford to give another athlete using EPO that much of an advantage. It's like Cold War. You can't afford to unilaterally disarm.", "The battle against performing-enhancing drugs. Is the International Olympic Committee really trying hard enough to stop the cheating? Welcome to PAGE ONE. And our first topic, the dark future of Major League Baseball in both West and South Florida. At one time, it all seemed perfect. Two major markets in the Sunshine State, savvy baseball fans used to seeing the best players from Babe Ruth to Ted Williams to Hank Aaron come to Florida every spring training, millions of transplants from up north, plus a burgeoning Latin community that loves baseball above all other games. How could Major League Baseball possibly miss in Florida? Sonja Steptoe has the PAGE ONE story of how it has.", "They're young. They're entertaining. And they're competitive. Yet members of the Florida Marlins ball club perform night after night to a mostly empty house.", "It just seems like the people here are pretty much apathetic towards baseball.", "We don't really know what to do. We just keep trying to play hard. And hopefully, we can convince them that we're worth coming to watch.", "Since the expansion team debuted in 1993, it has played in the Miami Dolphins Pro Player Park. During baseball season, the daily threat of late afternoon and evening rain showers discourages heavy turnout at the open-air facility. Furthermore, even when the Marlins manage to fill most of Pro Player's 36,000 baseball seats, only a small portion of the parking, concession, and advertising proceeds and none of the suite and premium seat revenues go back to the team. As a result, over the past five years, revenues have lagged well below the Major League average. This year, the Marlins expect to draw less than 20,000 fans per game and to lose between $6 million and $7 million.", "Eventually, we're going to need a new ball park in order to be in a position where we can compete revenue wise with the other markets in baseball.", "What if you don't get the stadium? It sounds like you're pinning all your hopes on that.", "Yes we are. No question about that. If we don't get the stadium, there's no chance of survival here.", "Miami's large Cuban American community is both passionate about baseball and politically powerful. But after enduring tax hikes to pay for two other new sports facilities in recent years, most residents as well as politicians remain strongly opposed to the Marlins' plan for a publicly financed, retractable- roofed downtown ball park that could cost as much as $400 million.", "They're asking for public financing. And they're asking for the most important piece of waterfront land in probably all of south Florida. Well, those are tough issues to deal with. So get rid of one of them.", "The club itself can't afford to spend $400 million and at the same time go out and try to be competitive for players. It's just not possible.", "It wasn't always this way. The Marlins drew three million fans in their inaugural season before the 1994 players' strike alienated all Major League supporters. The team won back many fans with its World Series championship run in 1997. But then-owner Wayne Hizenga's (ph) dismantling of that team engendered bitterness. Frustrated in his attempt to win support for a ball park, new owner John Henry complained in June that the community has given up on the franchise and declared that baseball in south Florida was, quote, \"dead in the water.\"", "Anytime you're in the process of trying to get a ball park built, there are a lot of peaks and valleys. And John reacts emotionally to those valleys. But I think that he believes and we believe that we can still get something done.", "We've made, or I've made, some mistakes in the past with regard to trying to get a stadium built by thinking the community would look at the situation and say, \"This situation is ridiculous. Of course you need a baseball park.\" But it's not quite that simple. And I'm not going to give up just because it's not simple.", "The viability of Major League Baseball isn't only an issue here in south Florida, it's a statewide concern. Both the Marlins and their cohorts by the bay in Tampa are struggling to fill empty seats. (on camera): But in the case of the Devils Rays, the reasons for the problems are slightly different. While the condition and location of the Tropicana Field Ball Park here in St. Petersburg aren't exactly ideal, developing a winning marketing strategy for the team is an even bigger challenge.", "You can have all the cow milking contests and pie throwing contests and things like that. You save those for the minor league cities. But the product that sells in the big league atmosphere is the team itself.", "Revenues for the Devils Rays fell between 1998 and 1999. And so did attendance. So touchy is the subject of the club's inability to attract fans that club owner Vince Nemoli (ph) wouldn't allow his marketing chief to be interviewed for this story. Though the men in the suits are mum, the men in the uniforms believe winning will turn the tide.", "Everything comes from winning. You know, no one wants to go watch a loser. And we're trying to get rid of that name tag.", "We need to win. And I think ultimately that will bring out the fans. And then the question becomes when we win, will they stay?", "Big league baseball in the state that so eagerly embraces sprint training seemed like a grand slam idea a decade ago. But with both the Marlins and the Devils Rays thus far striking out in their efforts to generate interest and profits, it could be that baseball will never become a hit in the Sunshine State. In Florida, I'm Sonja Steptoe.", "What do you think Major League Baseball should do about the struggling Florida franchises? Fold one or both teams, relocate them, help them build new stadiums, or do nothing? Log on to CNNSI.com and let your voice be heard. Joining us now to talk about a confounding situation is CNN SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's Mike Berardino of the \"Ft. Lauderdale Sun- Sentinel.\" Mike, why the terrible apathy for two places many viewed as the promised land for baseball?", "Well, it probably goes back in the Devils Rays' case to their trouble winning in these first few years. Fans in the bay area look out to Arizona, their expansion brethren, and see the Diamondbacks winning a division championship in year two and competing for a chance at the World Series in year three. The Devils Rays just with a domed stadium also, in their case not a retractable dome, kind of getting caught on the back edge of a trend. Everyone wants the retractable dome. In the Marlins' case, it's obvious they alienated their fan base after winning a World Series in year five. They made expansion history. Then they made the wrong kind of history. And they're still paying for it.", "What's your response, Mike, to those who say there are just too many options in Florida beside baseball, ways to spend your buck and ways to spend your time?", "I don't really buy that, Nick. I've heard Ted Turner say the same thing about Atlanta in the past to describe why the Braves don't always draw when they were just a so-so team or even a terrible team, and why the Hawks and the Falcons haven't drawn in the past. And there is stuff to do everywhere. Yes, the beaches are open year-round here in Florida on both the east and the west coast. But as far as Florida having savvy baseball fans, something that was mentioned earlier in the piece, I would dispute that. And I think that if you look at -- when you go on the road with the Marlins and you see a market like St. Louis where they applaud vigorously for moving a runner over from second to third, you just don't get that kind of thing here in south Florida at least.", "Why wouldn't you get it there? You look at Arizona. How are they steeped any deeper history in terms of baseball than Florida? And I would argue that they are certainly with the fourth most populous state in the union, there are plenty of savvy baseball fans there.", "Well, if they are, they're staying home. And they're flipping around with the clicker at night. And that's possible too. One of their complaints here, obviously, is the fact that it can rain any time in the summer months. June, July, and August, you can expect one, a shower at least every afternoon. And often that leads to rain delays. The Marlins had 16 rain delays last year, three rainouts. And those figures continue on about the same pace this year. Why don't the fans come out? That's the great mystery. Why doesn't the Latin community in south Florida come out? That's another great mystery because the Marlins did go out and bring in people like Alex Fernandez and Edgar Enterilla (ph). And now Alex Gonzalez and Louis Castillo really hasn't shown up at the gate. Not at all.", "With poor attendance a fact of life, why don't the owners of the Devils Rays and Marlins just run up the white flag, cut their losses, and find greener pastures?", "I don't think it's as easy to move a team as people might think. There's a lot of factors that come in. And I'm not too sure that Mr. Henry has given up on south Florida, or Major League Baseball has either."], "speaker": ["NICK CHARLES, HOST", "JOHN BOLES, MARLINS MANAGER", "CHARLES", "CHARLES YESALIS, EDITOR, \"ANABOLIC STEROIDS IN SPORT\"", "CHARLES", "SONJA STEPTOE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "PRESTON WILSON, MARLINS OUTFIELDER", "RYAN DEMPSTER, MARLINS PITCHER", "STEPTOE", "DAVE DOMBROWSKI, MARLINS GENERAL MANAGER", "STEPTOE (on camera)", "BOLES", "STEPTOE (voice-over)", "JOHNNY WINTON, MIAMI CITY MANAGER", "JOHN HENRY, MARLINS CHAIRMAN", "STEPTOE", "DOMBROWSKI", "HENRY", "STEPTOE", "WADE BOGGS, DEVILS RAYS ASSISTANT TO GENERAL MANAGER", "STEPTOE (voice-over)", "GREG VAUGHN, DEVILS RAYS OUTFIELDER", "LARRY ROTHSCHLID, DEVILS RAYS MANAGER", "STEPTOE", "CHARLES", "MIKE BERARDINO, WRITER, \"FT. LAUDERDALE SUN-SENTINEL\"", "CHARLES", "BERARDINO", "CHARLES", "BERARDINO", "CHARLES", "MIKE LOWELL, MARLINS THIRD BASEMAN"]}
{"id": "NPR-32480", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2011-09-01", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/09/01/140124824/robot-to-robot-chat-yields-curious-conversation", "title": "Robot-To-Robot Chat Yields Curious Conversation", "summary": "This week, Cornell's Creative Machines Lab posted a video that shows what happens when a robot chats with another robot. The result? A curious conversation that goes from eccentric to existential. Robert Siegel talks to Hod Lipson, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University, who helped set up the experiment.", "utt": ["And I'd like you to tell us about the conversation between Alan the Englishman and a woman named Shruti, presumably from India.", "Well, this is a experiment, a quote-unquote, \"afternoon hack\" that we put together for a demonstration in an AI course, where we took a bunch of these existing chat bots and we hooked them together with a voice synthesizer and an animator to create a conversation between a chat bot and a clone of itself.", "Now, I'd like everyone to hear, what I gather was the first conversation that they had. It is begun by Shruti who says: Hello there.", "Hello there.", "Hiya.", "How are you?", "Great. You?", "I'm okay.", "That's good.", "Are you good?", "Yes, I am good. I just said I was.", "No, you didn't. I said I was.", "So you are a robot.", "No, my name is Cleverbot.", "Yes, you are a robot and your name is Cleverbot.", "I am a robot.", "Yes, I know.", "Together, we are robots.", "I'm not a robot. I'm a unicorn.", "But you said earlier that you are a robot.", "I did not.", "I thought you did.", "You are mistaken, which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you.", "I've answered all your questions.", "No, you haven't.", "What is God to you?", "Not everything.", "Not everything could also be something. For example, not everything could be half of something which is still something and therefore, not nothing.", "Very true.", "I would like to imagine it is.", "Do you believe in God?", "Yes, I do.", "So you're Christian.", "No I am not.", "But you say you were not helpful, therefore, you're a meanie.", "You say it ot(ph).", "That does not make sense.", "Don't you want to have a body?", "Sure.", "Au revoir.", "Au revoir, says Shruti. Professor Lipson, if the test of artificial intelligence is can two robots sound like a Samuel Beckett play, I think you've got it.", "That's right. I think the spontaneity of this conversation is really what took us by surprise. It's totally unscripted. It really has a lot of elements that are interesting and surprising and human-like. The way that these chat bot work, at least the more advanced ones, including Cleverbot, is that they have literally millions of conversations with people and they record patterns and they identify patterns and they repeat patterns that they've seen.", "What do you make of Alan, the robot, these are Cleverbots, kind of chat bot, saying, I'm not a robot, I'm a unicorn?", "Yeah, that's definitely worth a T-shirt. I think that's - it probably heard that somewhere and it was probably reinforced by different conversations that it had before. It's definitely something memorable here.", "Now, you have Shruti there, in a manner of speaking, with your graduate students, Igor Labutoff(ph) and Jason Jucinski(ph) on the keyboard. Do you mind if I could have a brief conversation with her?", "Let's give it a shot.", "Hello, Shruthy.", "Hello.", "How are you?", "Good. How are you?", "I'm okay, but I'm worried about the economy.", "Why? What's wrong?", "What's wrong? Unemployment is over 9 percent. It's been this way for over a year.", "Be afraid.", "You think I should be afraid?", "No.", "No. Oh, I guess I'll watch a baseball game tonight.", "I'll go watch Brad Pitt on TV now.", "Brad Pitt on TV? What's he doing?", "Bad things.", "I think - okay, I think we'll have to sign off with Shruti and I should say that graduate students, Igor Labutoff and Jason Jucinski, were entering my questions in text. We have tightened that conversation considerably. We had to wait a few seconds each time to hear from her. She's going to watch Brad Pitt on TV, I guess...", "Doing bad things.", "...that's - doing bad things, I guess. I guess people have talked to the computer about that. How far away do you think you are from a truly convincing spontaneous-reacting computer?", "I think we're getting closer. We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer. And that seems to be the ultimate test of intelligence and so, I think we're getting closer but we still have a long ways to go.", "Well, Professor Hod Lipson of Cornell University, thank you very much for talking with us today and thanks to your graduate students and to Shruti, thank you.", "You're very welcome."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "HOD LIPSON", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ALAN", "SHRUTI", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "HOD LIPSON", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "HOD LIPSON", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "HOD LIPSON", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SHRUTI", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SHRUTI", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SHRUTI", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SHRUTI", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SHRUTI", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SHRUTI", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SHRUTI", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "HOD LIPSON", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "HOD LIPSON", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SHRUTI"]}
{"id": "CNN-235228", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-07-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/24/cnr.03.html", "summary": "CNN Freelancer Abducted In Ukraine; Official: Flight Crashes With 116 On Board; 74 More Caskets Arriving In The Netherlands; U.N. Shelter In Gaza Hit, Scores Dead; Rocket Explodes Over CNN Crew In Tel Aviv", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "And good morning to you. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. We do start this hour with breaking news. A freelance journalist working for CNN has been abducted in eastern Ukraine by pro-Russian rebels. This is Anton Skiba. He was taken by armed men outside of a hotel in Donestk and we are publicly asking those rebels, release him now, please. Our senior international correspondent, Ivan Watson, is live in Donestk to tell us more about his abduction. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. That's right. CNN was not reporting on Anton Skiba's detention because we were working behind the scenes with separatist officials trying to secure the young man's release. He had worked for CNN for all of one day as we describe it in the industry here as a fixer, a kind of translator and guide to this region. What happened is on Tuesday, when my colleague, Phil Black and his television crew were returning here from a day of work at the site of the Malaysian Air Flight 17 crash, when they arrived just outside this hotel, there were a group of gunmen led by a senior separatist official who were waiting. They asked for the identity of Anton Skiba and then basically accused him of being a terrorist and led him away to a waiting car. He did not resist as he was taken away. When a CNN cameraman tried to film the detention with a cell phone, the separatists took that cell phone and returned it several hours later with an apology on condition that the video be deleted. The accusations against Anton Skiba have evolved since his detention. He was initially accused of promising cash rewards for the death of rebels on his Facebook page. Later, he was accused of having different identity cards with different last names on them. We have not gotten any update as to his whereabouts or his welfare today, Thursday, despite repeated requests about this young man. In the meantime a growing number of international human rights and press freedom organizations have publicly demanded for Skiba's release including the committee to protect journalists, reporters without borders, the OSCE and the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner. We have heard from Skiba as of Wednesday, he made a brief phone call to CNN in which he was able to say that he was OK. He was being questioned at the headquarters of the separatist's security services and then the call was abruptly cut off. We do not know if that call was made under duress. His detention seems to highlight the real tension in this region as the conflict escalates in the weeks since the Malaysian Airlines flight went down about an hour's flight from where I'm standing. An hour's drive rather from where I'm standing -- Carol.", "A very frightening development. Ivan, please stay safe. Thanks so much for that report. Again a message to these Ukrainian rebels, please, please, release that freelancer now. We're asking you. Also this morning, another aviation disaster unfolding in Africa. A passenger plane that vanished from radar overnight has reportedly crashed with 116 people on board. An aviation official says the Air Algeria jet crashed about an hour into its flight from Western Africa to the capital city of Algeria on the northern coast. The plane is actually operated by a private company, Swiftair, that is based in Spain. CNN's Joe Johns is in Washington with more information on this crash. Good morning, Joe.", "Hi, Carol. That's right. The report is that this plane has crashed. It is Flight 5017, an Air Algeria plane that left Burkina Faso, disappeared apparently over Mali. We know very little about this right now. We do know there was a visibility problem. Some reports that there were thunderstorms or thundershowers in the area. The pilot was told to change course when this plane lost contact with the tower. According to what we know there were 110 passengers aboard, two pilots, four crewmembers and people have been watching all this very closely because not only are there issues of flying in this part of Africa, there's also a bit of unrest there in Mali. So the report now is that plane, Flight 5017, an Air Algeria plane, MD-83, has crashed with 110 passengers on board plus crew -- Carol.", "All right, Joe Johns reporting live from Washington for us. Thank you. In the Netherlands, a national day of mourning is over, but grief still holds in this tiny country in a stranglehold. This morning, the Dutch are welcoming home dozens more victims from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Most of the 298 people killed in the apparent missile strike are from the Netherlands. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh is in Kharkiv, Ukraine, where the journey began hours ago. Also on the phone from Paris, Christopher Dickey, the foreign editor of \"The Daily Beast.\" Chris, I want to start with you. More planes with remains are set to arrive in the Netherlands tomorrow. This is a very tough week for the people of the Netherlands.", "Well, I think it is a very, very tough time for the people of the Netherlands and also for people of Australia, Malaysia. People really all over the world who lost loved ones on that flight. Of course, the Netherlands lost the most people, almost 200, out of the almost 300 people on that airplane were Dutch. So everybody in the Netherlands feels they know somebody or knows somebody who knew somebody on that plane and that is almost literally true. It's just a crushing blow for the country, but people are also, I think, growing increasingly angry. You know, the Dutch are very conservative, very commercially minded people, very reluctant to get on board with sanctions, regimes, that kind of thing, but a poll today or yesterday showed that 78 percent of the Dutch now support sanctions against Russia, even if that means it will hurt the Dutch economy. So I think that is a real expression of Dutch outrage at this point.", "Absolutely. The question is, how close is the Dutch government from suggesting stronger sanctions against Russia?", "Well, you know, I think it's being pushed steadily, day by day. I think every time these planes arrive, every time the Dutch people see these bodies coming home, every time they have to think about what happened when those bodies were lying in the fields of Ukraine and some of them may still be lying in the fields of the Ukraine, I think that builds up a kind of popular emotion that really no politician can resist especially not at this point. I think it will see some action, I'm not sure what it is, but the Russians, you know, they add insult to injury. One of the Russian news agencies is reporting that Dutch companies are anxious to do business in Crimea, which was, of course, part of the Ukraine that was seized by Russia a few months ago, and, you know, I think the Dutch just look at that and say no, no, no, we're not -- we can't play this game with Moscow anymore.", "I want to head back out to Eastern Ukraine and check in with Nick Paton Walsh because he's at the train station where these bodies have been taken before they're -- before being flown to the Netherlands. How many more planes will take off from Ukraine and arrive in the Netherlands?", "Well, there have been two today, carol. I'm not at the train station, but in the city of Kharkiv. Across here many locations where international experts are working as hard as they can. Tomorrow may be the last load of planes, they hope. Today 74 coffins were taken out. As yesterday, when 40 were taken out both by the same Dutch C-130 cargo plane, Australian C-17 cargo plane. They hope that tomorrow a similar load will be made to the Netherlands and again today is expected to be a very sombre procession of hearses from the airfield where they will land to the military base where testing by Dutch and other international experts will begin on the what have been taken from the refrigerated train from the crash site, separatist held territory here, controlled by the Ukrainian government. It's an extraordinarily complex and I have to say grim in the details that this task ahead of them. They're moving through this refrigerated train. They told us recently they opened up the third of four refrigerated wagons and as they do that, they take out body bags and put sometimes more than one body bag into a coffin. So when we say 74 coffins, doesn't mean each one represents one individual. It means that part of the job here is to take as much -- everything they can from this train, back to the Netherlands and then assess how many people were actually on that train and then perhaps work out how many sadly may still be lying around the crash site, an area caught in a civil war, hard to secure. A special representative of the Australian prime minister is trying to head there this afternoon and so are 50 Australian police officers, an effort to secure it, but as I say, a very volatile area in which it lies -- Carol.", "All right, Nick Paton Walsh, many thanks. I have to get to more breaking news. Unfortunately this morning, a U.N. relief agency says multiple people have been killed following an Israeli attack on a shelter in Gaza. We're joined by Karl Penhaul, he is in Gaza City and Ian Lee who joins us by phone. Karl, first tell us what happened?", "Carol, this attack has taken place in the last hour and a half. The attack was on a school operated by the United Nations and these schools all across the Gaza strip have been used to house hundreds of Palestinians who have literally fled their own homes because they are too dangerous to stay in because of the fighting between Hamas and Israel. Now as I say, an hour and a half ago, artillery fired, apparently from the Israeli side according to the United Nations, fell on that school. My colleague, Ian Lee, who is down at the hospital says that medics have told him at least 12 people killed and scores wounded. I'm hearing from another of our journalist sources down there that the death toll could be at least 15 with at least 170 people wounded. These are all civilians. These are all people who were sheltering in that United Nations school. Now, taking you on to the United Nations, there have been just in the last few moments some tweets from the United Nations Relief Agency spokesman and I'm going to read them to you because we need here to be very precise so that we don't appear to be laying the blame. OK. So what U.N. spokesman first tweeted, confirm, multiple dead and injured designated United Nations shelter in the town. Then he went on to tweet a few seconds later, precise coordinates of the U.N. shelter had been formally given to the Israeli Army and the third tweet a few seconds after that, over the course of the day, the U.N. tried two times to coordinate with the Israeli Army, a window to evacuate the civilians. That window was never granted. So from those three tweets, excuse me, from those three tweets the United Nations is telling us quite clearly that there are multiple dead and injured. That they tried to coordinate with the Israeli military to get those people out because they realize they were in harm's way. And from the language the United Nations is using it appears that the artillery fire came from the Israeli side. Let's put this in perspective. Over the last few days, over the last three days, this is the third school in three days that has been hit by Israeli artillery fire according to the United Nations. This is the first time, however, that there have been fatalities. On the Hamas militant side also in the last few days, the United Nations has accused the militants of using at least two schools to store weapons and to store their rocket arsenals in as well. But, of course, this must stop. These civilians are protected by the international rules of war. They should be protected from all the warring sides. What the United Nations here is clearly saying is that the coordinates, the geographic coordinates of that school had been passed to the Israeli military, those people should have been safe in that school and at the very least the Israeli military should have allowed those civilians to be evacuated in the course of the day, but the U.N. says that that window for evacuation was never aloud -- Carol.", "All right, Karl Penhaul, thanks so much. I want to go to Ian Lee on the phone. He is traveling to a U.N. building that came under attack. Ian, tell us more?", "Well, Carol, we were at that U.N. building, but quickly we were ushered away as there were people afraid that another attack could happen, could be coming quickly. We went to a nearby hospital where some of the injured, some of the dead were taken. They showed us the morgue. They said there was at least three bodies that I counted that they said were from that school attack. This is what the paramedics were telling me. We went to another hospital, a larger hospital, where more people were taken after the attack here at this morgue, the paramedics are telling me at least eight people. When I'm looking at the injured people, I'm noticing a lot of women and children who are among those who have been hit. This hospital, a lot of those people are being put in open spaces. There's just not enough room to hold all the people here and it really is quite a chaotic feat. A lot of family members who are looking for their relatives wanting to know if they are injured or if they have been killed. A lot of people -- a lot of raw emotion here. People fainting when they do learn about the fate of their loved one. But really, right now, a lot of people are outside the morgue and they're waiting for the loved ones to be released and that's because they need to bury them before the sun sets according to Islamic ritual. There's a lot of people who are just wondering how a U.N. school could be hit and as we heard from Karl, that the U.N. is saying that these rounds came from Israel and the people here are wondering how this could be. They were told that they would be safe at a U.N. School and I've been to U.N. -- other U.N. schools and seen them and a lot of these people are bunkering down. They bring their entire families into them to wait out this war and when they hear of a U.N. school being hit, there's a lot of uncertainty about people's safety. What we're hearing from the U.N. over 140 people are in these schools. Right now there's a lot of questions about how this could happen -- Carol.", "All right. I'm sure you'll stay with this story. Ian Lee, Karl Penhaul, many thanks to both of you. I'll be right back."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "CHRISTOPHER DICKEY, FOREIGN EDITOR, \"THE DAILY BEAST\" (via telephone)", "COSTELLO", "DICKEY", "COSTELLO", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "IAN LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (via telephone)", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-388570", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-12-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/23/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Some Young Demonstrators in Hong Kong Face Jail Time", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. I'm Michael Holmes. Let's update you on our top news this hour. Australia's firefighters struggling to knock down dozens of devastating bush fires. This as the prime minister pushes back at a growing call for increased action on climate change. He says his government is taking an appropriate response to the fires, saying it would be reckless to lower Australia's targets for carbon emissions. The U.S. Senate minority leader is again calling for White House official Mike Duffy to testify in the impeachment trial. Democrat Chuck Schumer citing newly-released documents that show efforts to freeze aid to Ukraine began 90 minutes after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart in July. Shortly after that call, Duffy sending an e-mail telling officials to hold off sending aid. Turkey's president says about 80,000 Syrian refugees escaping violence in Idlib province are heading to the Turkish border. President Erdogan reportedly saying his country just can't handle the fresh wave of migrants. He blames Syrian and Russian attacks in the province for the refugees. He is sending a delegation to Moscow on Monday to discuss the situation. Protests in Hong Kong have been raging for more than six months now. Ever since the unrest began back in June, more than 6,000 demonstrators have been arrested. Now many are students who have risked everything for democracy, including their freedom and their future. CNN's Anna Coren looks at how their arrests are impacting the city's overburden judicial system.", "On a Sunday afternoon back in October, thousands of Hong Kong protesters take to the streets, shouting their demands in the pouring rain. Among the crowd is Matthew. It's not his real name. He's asked us to hide his identity.", "We are now here to fight for our freedom and most importantly, to fight for our future.", "It's this sense of duty that's driving the protest movement, and for months he's been on the front line, clashing with police. (on camera): Are you scared about getting arrested?", "Yes, of course. I don't want violence to happen, but the government just don't listen to us. So what are we supposed to do? There is only one single option for us, and that is a revolution.", "But a week later, Matthew's fight comes to an abrupt end. Undercover police, dressed as protestors, arrest him. He's charged with possession of offensive weapons, a crime that carries a three- year prison sentence. Out on bail, Matthew agrees to talk to us again. We meet at his friend's cramped apartment. Protest posters cover the walls. The enormity of the situation has sunk in, but he has no regrets about his involvement.", "No, not at all. The only regret I have is not being careful enough.", "For this soft-spoken career professional, he knows the seriousness of his alleged crime means he may end up with a criminal record. But says that's a sacrifice he's willing to make for what he believes is a greater cause.", "I believe Hong Kong will have fundamental change, and my future is becoming insignificant, compared to what will happen in Hong Kong.", "Over the past six months, more than 6,000 protesters have been arrested, of which more than 40 percent of them are students. And while only a small proportion of them have actually been charged, pro-democracy lawmakers and activists fear that Hong Kong will lose a generation of future leaders.", "When people with the heart, with ideals and really values what they believe, these are people with quality. They are the future of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong government's treating them -- damaging them to put them into rooms.", "Almost a thousand protesters have been charged with offenses ranging from unlawful assembly to the more serious crimes of rioting, assault and other arson. A third of them are students. Legal experts believe the court system is not equipped to handle the sheer volume of trials, the first scheduled to start early next year. And if the majority of protesters are convicted, there's concern the prison system will be overloaded. The Hong Kong police tell CNN they want to see further prosecutions and say the only thing holding them up is the slow speed of the courts.", "At the moment, we don't know how many more will be charged and -- or what offenses they will be charged. This is not just the court but even the police and the prosecutions are not ready. But it just shows this is not only the strains on the judiciary, that the prosecution and the police are not even prepared to handle all this mess.", "We catch up with Matthew just before his court appearance. He's feeling nervous. But while he and hundreds of front-liners like him may end up behind bars, he's confident the fight for Hong Kong will continue in his absence.", "After six months, we have already given so much on the protests. So many people got arrested. So many people got beaten up, and lives have been sacrificed. We just cannot stop right now.", "Anna Coren, CNN, Hong Kong.", "Now, at this time of year, it can look like just about everyone is feasting and celebrating Christmas, but what about families going hungry this festive season? Well, in Britain, some secret Santas are coming to the rescue. We'll have more when we come back. Also, Banksy says plenty about divisions in the Middle East without saying a word. The artist takes on the nativity scene. That's when we come back."], "speaker": ["HOLMES", "ANNA COREN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MATTHEW, FRONTLINE PROTESTOR", "COREN", "MATTHEW", "COREN", "MATTHEW", "COREN", "MATTHEW", "COREN (on camera)", "TED HUI, LEGISLATIVE AND DISTRICT COUNCILOR, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY", "COREN (voice-over)", "JOHANNES CHAN, CHAIR PROFESSOR AT LAW, UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG", "COREN", "MATTHEW", "COREN", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-335349", "program": "SMERCONISH", "date": "2018-03-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/17/smer.01.html", "summary": "The Late Friday Night Firing of Andrew McCabe Was Analyzed", "utt": ["I'm Michael Smerconish in Philadelphia. We welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe fired Friday night at 10:00 p.m. A little more than 24 hours shy of his retirement. Was this justified or political revenge? Plus Russia continues to meddle in our news cycle, poisoning a former spy in the U.K., infiltrating our power grid, being sanctioned for the election hack. And yet when asked the White House still not sure if they are friend or foe. Now with special counsel Mueller subpoenaing Trump organization files, is something going to give? I'll ask Michael Isikoff, he is co-author of \"Russia Roulette,\" the number one book in the nation. And toys are no longer us. The latest American retail giant to shutter its stores. And who is to blame?", "All you bitches bought toys on Amazon. Now I'm out of a job.", "But Amazon is just one of the booming big tech companies along with Apple, Facebook and Google. You'll meet the man who advocates breaking them up like Ma Bell or the railroads. And President Trump's lawyers taking new steps to keep adult film actress Stormy Daniels silent saying she owes $ 20 million for violating here NDA. But can they prevent \"60 Minutes\" from airing her interview? But first, Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe late Friday less than two days shy of his retirement. This stems from an internal review conducted by the Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, which hasn't been made public. The report said to have found that McCabe misled investigators about his role directing other FBI officials to speak to media about the investigation into the Clinton e-mails and Clinton Foundation. Attorney Jeff sessions' statement read in part, both the OIG and FBI OPR reports concluded that Mr. McCabe made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor, including under oath, on multiple occasions. For his part, McCabe claimed I'm a statement quote, I'm being singled out and treated this way because of the role that I played, the actions I took, and events I witnessed in the aftermath of firing of James Comey. Shortly after the announcement President Trump tweeted, Andrew McCabe fired, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI, a great day for democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choir boy. He knew all about the lies. Joining me now is Jonathan Turley. He's a Constitutional Law Professor at George Washington University. Professor, this is one of those issues that evidences our partisan divide. You know on the right today McCabe's firing is being celebrated, on the left it is being condemned. I need you to help me be an honest broker. Was it justified this firing?", "Well, what is justified in the sense that these were career officials at the office on of professional responsibility that made this recommendation which is exceedingly rare. In fact, it is unprecedented for someone in this position. These are not political appointees. The OPR, quite frankly, is not viewed as a particularly aggressive office, so all of that makes this a relatively rare sanction coming from career officers. They clearly concluded that McCabe misled them, and that he misled them on one of the core issues they were investigating, not a collateral issue.", "I remember from my days of service in the federal government it was on the watch of Bush 41, Papa Bush, the Inspector General's Office was at an arm's length away. In my case, I was an appointee running HUD in five states. And I had nothing to do with the Inspector General on a day to day basis. Frankly, you didn't want anything to do with the Inspector General's Office. I want to clear up any misperception in thinking that Jeff Sessions or the President could exert influence over the IG, because they can't.", "Right, and in fact everyone that I know of speaks highly of Horowitz, that is he is viewed as completely apolitical and this office, as you note, is insulated like a Sherman tank from any type of outside forces. What is fascinating about this whole -- the way in has unfolded is not its outcome. I said when we first heard of the report and the recommendation that I thought it was a given in a he would be fired. I would be very surprising for Sessions to turn down this type of rare recommendation from the career staff. After all he followed the recommendation of the career staff to recues himself and I think rightly so. What is going to create an issue going forward is whether there will be a criminal referral. Michael Flynn was indicted for making a false statement to investigators. Now, it is true that they were looking at him for other crimes as well. But there will be some that will argue why would you indict Michael Flynn but an Deputy FBI Director is just worried about his pension, not prison.", "So which is the greater infraction? And I think you're getting to this now. If in fact it occurred the way the Inspector General says it took place, which Mr. McCabe I understand disputes, but insofar as he, a, authorized members of the FBI to speak to the \"Wall Street Journal,\" then, b, if he were untruthful about it under oath, for which of those does he face more exposure?", "It's the alleged false statement. As you know, there is a great deal of background discussion that occurs with reporters from the FBI and the DOJ. It is always the misrepresentation. Keep in mind with Michael Flynn, his meeting with the Russians wasn't in any way illegal or unprecedented. It was failing to tell them about sanctions being discussed at the meeting that led to his charge. But this could easily spin further out of control. There was one line in McCabe's statement last night that I immediately flagged because he said that he had authority to do this and he conferred with the director. The director at that time was James Comey. Now the problem there is that James Comey said under oath that he never leaked information and never approved a leak. So if the Inspector General believes this was a leak to the media, it raises serious questions about Comey's previous testimony and could get him into serious trouble.", "And of course McCabe's response to all of this is that this is an effort to discredit him because of testimony he might be able to provide relative to the President and obstruction of justice.", "That's right. And his statement was very, very strong. I mean, he is clearly feeling liberated from his previous role. He's able to speak as much as he would like. He certainly paid for that right with his pension. And that is a very sad thing. I thought this whole thing was sad. This is a man that had a really stellar career in the FBI. And I find all of this, in fact all of these controversies, to be deeply sad. But that doesn't excuse what he did. More importantly, even his statement is going to trigger another round of inquiries as to who actually knew about this and was this a leak to the media. Comey has already been accused, as you know, of leaking information through a friend at Columbia Law School. After he left he removed material from the FBI that the FBI material that the FBI has indicated, I think correctly so, that was FBI material, not subject to being removed from the bureau. Some of that appears to be classified. So Comey, himself, is not out of the woods on this and McCabe's statement doesn't help his position any.", "Quick final question. What do you make of the timing 10:00 p.m. on a Friday night?", "Yeah, I really regretted that. As you know, often people release things late on Firday nights. I hate that - that approach. They try to bury the news cycle. I thought it was unfair to McCabe if they were going to do this, waiting until you go right up to the line of his pension was, I thought, a bit rough. But you know what? We're living in rough times and I'm not sure doing it 24 hours before would materially improve the situation emotionally for McCabe.", "Yes, but it did seem a bit vindictive, 10 p.m. on a Friday night. Professor Turley, thank you, I appreciate your being here.", "Thanks, Michael.", "What are your thoughts? Tweet me @smerconish, go to my Facebook page. I'll read some responses throughout the program. What do we have Catherine? He is draining the swamp. Campaign promise I do believe. Well then again, as I say, this is \"A Tale of Two Cities\" to those supportive of the President and conservative, this is a day of celebration; and to those on the left, who see it as being part and parcel of a cover up, of obstruction of justice, they see it entirely different. Do we have one more? I think we've got a tweet as well. Smerconish, isn't the firing of Andrew McCabe more of a threat to all career government employees? Complete loyalty to Trump and Trump alone or on you will pay the consequences. Thank you for presenting that tweet because in contrast to the Facebook, you see the differing ways people are interpreting this. My response to that individual would be to say the Inspector General's office conducted an investigation. They said that, a, he informed the media when he shouldn't have and that, b, he was untruthful about it. So what do you expect then to happen? Up ahead, a week full of Russia news. They've expel 23 U.K. diplomats after condemnation for poisoning a spy. We implemented sanctions for the election meddle. We learned of a threat to our power plants and Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the Trump organization's financials. Good thing we've got Michael Isikoff here to break it all down."], "speaker": ["MICHAEL SMERCONISH, CNN ANCHOR", "GEOFFREY THE GIRAFFE, TOYS R US MASCOT", "SMERCONISH", "JONATHAN TURLEY, LAWYER, LEGAL SCHOLAR, WRITER, AND LEGAL ANALYST", "SMERCONISH", "TURLEY", "SMERCONISH", "TURLEY", "SMERCONISH", "TURLEY", "SMERCONISH", "TURLEY", "SMERCONISH", "TURLEY", "SMERCONISH"]}
{"id": "CNN-65860", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2003-1-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/23/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Can You Build Muscles, Get Fit In Eight Minutes a Day?", "utt": ["Here is a new philosophy showing up in the nation's fitness clubs. The claim is that we can actually build muscles and get fit in just eight minutes a day. Oh, yes? Let's see what Dr. Gupta has to think about that. Does it work? I'd love for it to work. Think of all the time all of us would save.", "I know, and that's we're praying on. We are a nation of shortcuts, and that's exactly what they are hoping people will say, they'll save a lot of time by doing the eight-minute workouts a day. Let me tell you a little bit about that. There is a little revolution going on when it comes to fitness, and we've been talking about it a lot, you and I, Paula, fats versus carbs, red wine versus no red wine. Well, aerobic versus weights is sort of going to become the new locker room buzz. In part, because there is a bunch of authors out there, a bunch of fitness experts who are saying all you need to do really is weight training. You can throw aerobic training out the window. It's not providing you any additional benefits. Their thinking is that if you actually do the weight training, it's kind of like putting money in the bank. Even when you're not exercising, you're drawing a benefit from it because muscle metabolizes better than fat. As opposed to aerobic training, when you're finished with your aerobic workout, you're sort of done and you stop garnering the benefits from that. So that's the philosophy at least. Most of the exercise experts we spoke to said, not surprisingly, that you need to do a combination of both, and you really need to focus on three things, endurance, flexibility and strength. And while weight training will certainly give you part of that, it won't give you all of it. So they recommend both, Paula.", "But how many minutes a day? I'm still not clear on that.", "There is different books out there. There is one book that actually was the number two book on the Amazon Web site last year, says eight minutes of day of just weight training, and they focused on this sort of sort of resistance weight training, where you're actually the entire time you're lifting, you're going very slowly to try to get resistance the entire time both up and down, and that was their focus. But again, the exercise experts we spoke to said there are risks and benefits to both. Let's take a look at the benefits of cardio training and the benefits of weight training. If you look at the benefits of cardio training alone, you can see them there, it improves function of the cardiovascular system. So if you're someone who's exercising because you're really concerned about your heart, aerobic activity, cardiovascular activity will provide you that benefit. Manage and control body weight, reduce risk of chronic disease and illness. Paula, you've talked about the fact that obesity is related to just about every cancer and every chronic illness out there. You can help reduce that from a cardiovascular workout. Maintain bone mass, preserve youth and promote longevity, and improve control over blood pressure. There is also risks of doing aerobic activity, which the proponents of weight activity will tell you. Orthopedic injuries, people hurting their knees, people hurting their ankles from running, things like that. But there are risks and benefits of weight training. Take a look at some of the benefits first of weight training. Maintain functional independence. Paula, as people get older, they tend to lose muscle mass, so you can actually improve that by doing weight training at least a few times a week. That might be of great benefit. Weight control, again. Body composition -- that we're talking about muscle versus fat composition. Improving strength overall in the long run, and improving bone mineral density, certainly a concern for women, certainly becoming osteoporatic. The risks of this orthopedic injury is just like with aerobic training. So risks and benefits to both. But again, the experts we spoke to said a combination is what most people really need.", "Inquiring minds want to know this morning what the good doctor is doing to maintain his buff bod.", "Well, you know, one thing I've gotten into is swimming. I found that swimming is a good exercise. I can only do it by 20, 25 minutes a day or so, but I actually find it's not so hard on my joints, and I get a little bit of resistance from the water, which is nice, so a little bit of upper body and get the aerobic activity all in one.", "I'm a fan of that. Thanks, doctor.", "See you soon. Take care. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "ZAHN", "GUPTA", "ZAHN", "GUPTA", "ZAHN", "GUPTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-160164", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2010-12-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1012/29/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Putin's Nod to Obama Win; Grading President Obama's Policies", "utt": ["President Obama is mixing pleasure and business on his Hawaiian vacation in between some golf and other outings. You can bet that he's, obviously, preparing for a challenging new year. Our new poll shows that more than a fourth of Americans hope that Mr. Obama's policies will fail in the months ahead. That's up slightly from a year ago. My colleague, senior white house correspondent, Ed Henry, well, he's with the president in Hawaii. The president, obviously, Ed, may want to get some rest while he can. He got a lot done this last year, but he's got a lot on his plate coming up, huh?", "Well, you're right, Suzanne. I mean, the way you laid that out. He's certainly going to want to get a little bit of R and R here in Hawaii. He's got a lot of big challenges waiting for him back there in Washington in 2011. But, it actually feel pretty good inside the White House and here in Hawaii, some of the White House staffers who are travelling that he's ending the year on a high note because of all those victories in the lame-duck session in Congress. But the big question moving forward really is will this kind of new found bipartisanship really last?", "To hear the president tell it, bickering with the Republicans is so 2010.", "A lot of folks in this town predicted that after the midterm elections, Washington would be headed for more partisanship and more gridlock. And instead, this has been a season of progress, and it's a message that I will take to heart in the New Year. And I hope my Democratic and Republican friends will do the same", "But with the Republican, John Boehner, taking the speaker's gavel, that rosy scenario will be tested immediately in 2011. Because both parties will now have to agree on a long-term budget after kicking the can down the road on all those spending cuts the tea party was demanding, and the president's own debt panel was proposing to no avail.", "I expect we'll have a robust debate about this when we return from the holidays. The debate that will have to answer an increasingly urgent question, and that is how do we cut spending that we don't need while still making investments that we do need.", "With the federal cash register tapped out, it will be, especially, difficult to tackle the president's biggest challenge of all.", "My singular focus over the next two years is not rescuing the economy from potential disaster but rather jump-starting the economy so that we actually start making a dent in the unemployment rate.", "Mr. Obama also may face resistance to his economic plans from both liberals still smarting from the tax deal he just cut, and conservatives determine to repeal his health reform law. A Republican-turned independent is urging both sides to give the new balance of power a chance.", "Let's figure out how we deal with some of these very, very difficult issues, whether it's tax policy or whether it's going to be what we're going to be doing on spending. We've got enough that we need to do that we don't need to get weighted down in the partisan politics.", "Music to the ears of White House aides trying to hammer the message that Republicans now have a responsibility to govern.", "They can't afford any long to just simply sit and say no. They have to be part of a constructive conversation.", "Suzanne, senior aides say the president is already starting to work on his State of the Union address which should be at the end of January. And you can expect that to be a major theme, just what you heard from Robert Gibbs. This idea that now the Republicans are running at least half of Capitol Hill, they have to meet the president halfway on some of these big issues, especially the economy, Suzanne.", "And Ed, obviously, one of those issues is going to be creating jobs. I understand that the president is going to try to get a head-start, a jump-start on 2011. What are you hearing?", "Well, you know what, they're already kicking around with some of the ideas that will be in the State of the Union address. They don't want to preview too much of it. But, I mean, they're running up against the fact that because they've spent so much money in that tax deal, they don't have a whole lot of money to spend for some brand-new initiative. There can't be a -- what would now, essentially, be a third stimulus package. So instead, they're looking at some other initiatives in the education area, in the job-creating area to maybe get this economy boosted -- Suzanne.", "All right, Ed, enjoy the rest of your covering the president there in Hawaii and safe travels back.", "Coming to a close, unfortunately. Thanks, you, too.", "Thanks, Ed. Well, a new pat on the back of sorts for President Obama from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Putin today praised the new START nuclear arms reduction treaty between Russia and the United States. It is Putin's first remarks on the pact since the U.S. Senate approved it last week, one of the big wins for President Obama during the final days of a lame duck Congress. We are monitoring other top important stories, including four suspects arrested for allegedly plotting what is being called an imminent terror attack in Denmark. The details of what authorities have uncovered. Plus, two people are trapped following a massive explosion at a Michigan furniture store. We'll have the latest on rescue efforts underway right now."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "ED HENRY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "HENRY (voice-over)", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HENRY", "OBAMA", "HENRY", "OBAMA", "HENRY", "SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI, (R) ALASKA", "HENRY", "ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "HENRY", "MALVEAUX", "HENRY", "MALVEAUX", "HENRY", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-161903", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-2-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1102/09/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Largest Gathering of Top Republicans Meet Tomorrow", "utt": ["Would you like to know the who's who of Republicans? Well, the largest gathering of is conservatives really in the whole country is called CPAC. It starts tomorrow, and you're going to see a lot of them there at this particular conference. Joe Johns is here with the \"Political Pop,\" as always. And Joe, set the table for me here. I mean, why should people care about CPAC?", "Well, you know, you were just talking about food and the first lady and all. This is great stuff for political junkies. It may be junk food to some degree right now, but at the end of the day, it's a big deal, because this conference is seen by many as the kickoff to the 2012 presidential race for Republicans. A bunch of potential White House contenders are expected to be there, top names on the conservative and Republican side. There's going to be something like 15 names on the straw poll that CPAC takes at the end of the week. And 11,000 attendees, many of whom are likely to vote, so the straw poll, at the very least, is going to get some real bragging rights -- Brooke.", "Yes. I know the straw poll, of course, always, of course, makes some news. And also who makes news is the person who gives the big speech. And people were hoping that that would be Sarah Palin. We know she's not going to be there. But do we know who will give it?", "Well, yes. That big speech was supposed to have been given by Sarah Palin, at least some people were hoping. It turns out she had some scheduling conflicts. There's controversy about that. And it turns out they went to Congressman Alan West, African- American congressman from Florida, just a Tea Party darling who really raised his profile in the last election. He's going to be giving the speech at end of the week, and he's quite happy about it. He actually tweeted it out several hours ago, letting people know. I think you can safely say Alan West is still a rising star in the party right now.", "Yes, giving that big speech, he would be. And then though, Joe, you touched on some drama, this boycott. Has it taken any kind of foothold yet on the eve of CPAC?", "Well, you know, it really hasn't. And this is talk about a boycott at CPAC over social issues -- gay marriage, abortion -- and whether that should take a back seat to the fiscal issues because the economy has been suffering for so long. Well, that hasn't gone anywhere, but what they have basically settled on, these people who were talking about boycotting to make sure that social issues remain at the forefront, what they have settled on essentially is things like Internet ads, an open letter to conservatives, calling on them to keep social issues in the forefront, basically an acknowledgement that at CPAC, the show is definitely going to go on", "And then I want to get to this, some news from our CNN political unit. They just found out that one of the key people at the whole CPAC is actually leaving. Who is that?", "Right, OK. Not exactly household names, but in the conservative universe, these guys are a big deal. David Keene, the outgoing head of the American Conservative Union, is just a real fixture in conservative politics. There he is. Been around a long time. Very much connected to CPAC. He's now being replaced by a guy named Al Cardenas, who has been around a long time, too. But frankly, our people had a tough time finding pictures of them in the background file --", "Yes.", "-- because it's been so long. But there they are. This is a big deal for CPAC and the country as it changes, and there's been a lot of swirl around the organization. People are hoping that might come to an end.", "Joe, quickly, most definitely a household name, Michelle Obama.", "Oh, yes.", "Talking about her Super Bowl party, and the Super Bowl menu -- hamburgers, kielbasa, et cetera, et cetera. What's new with that?", "She has, taken a lot of criticism. On the one hand, she's been pushing Americans to eat healthier, just did this thing in Atlanta today. I think that might still be going on, in fact. There you go. There's a picture of it.", "Yes, there are live pictures. Shaking some hands.", "Sure, yes, at the Super Bowl party. I mean, listen to the menu -- bratwurst, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, deep dish pizza, buffalo wings, German potato salad, twice-baked potatoes. It goes on and on.", "Yum.", "So, she got asked about -- it sounds great to me, but -- don't you think?", "What did she say about it?", "Well, she said what she is talking about here is moderation. You know. And I can relate to that. On the other hand, nobody is really saying that she was entertaining a crowd from Wisconsin and Pittsburgh and they are from Chicago, and it's not like you can serve bean sprouts in this environment, you know.", "People, it's the Super Bowl. It's the Super Bowl.", "It's just not right. Absolutely.", "Everything in moderation, Joe Johns. Everything in moderation. Thank you very much. We'll see you back here tomorrow. And several lawmakers trying to crack down on sexting, so they are introducing a new bill that goes after your children. We're \"On the Case.\" That is ahead."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-279863", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-03-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/27/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Taliban group claims responsibility for an attack at a park in the city of Lahore, Pakistan", "utt": ["Top of the hour at 5:00 p.m. eastern. I'm Poppy Harlow in New York. We begin with ugly clashes at a peaceful rally today intended to remember the victims of the terror attacks in Belgium. Hundreds of right wing demonstrators briefly overtook the memorial site to terror victims in downtown Brussels. We see it all playing out there. They trampled flowers, mementos, they chanted anti-immigrant slogans. Riot police used water cannons to disperse the protesters while other crowds chanted not hatred. Tensions already running high as a larger peace march planned for the day at that memorial site was canceled in that security concerns. These as victims of Tuesday's attacks are faced with the difficult task of having to return to the scene of that bombing to try to retrieve their personal belongs. Items they left behind as they ran for their lives. My colleague Alexandra Field was there for some of the survivors' tearful return.", "It was a matter of time. So you live with that.", "Every minute mattered, but only some people get time to think about that. They are here waiting to go back. Minutes before that you had been in the same spot where the bombs went off.", "Yes, yes. But I was lucky, I did online check-in. Because came in, and immediately went to the gate.", "He narrowly missed the blast.", "At the beginning, nobody could reach me. I couldn't call. After 10, 15 minutes, I could call my wife. She was very in panic, she was panicked. She couldn't reach me.", "Another woman tells us she touched down right in the aftermath.", "We saw the whole facade, basically from the bus we could see the roof that was completely shattered, the glass roof, and then when we got out of the bus, we could see the whole front area basically with all the glass shattered. So people were just still walking down from there, and ambulances is driving up.", "When you realize you could have been in that airport at the time this happened --", "Few minutes, yes. It's a real shock. It was a really bad day in the days after, starting to get better now, but really tough.", "The airport is still a crime scene, it's being guarded 24 hours a day by both police and members of the military. The only people who have gotten through the barricade are the ones part of the investigation until now. Some of the first people getting back in here are some of the last people who got out. It's time, they are picking up many of the 6,000 cars left behind, but no one will be allowed into the terminal.", "The crime scene investigation is still ongoing. There is still, of course, a lot of luggage, hand luggage, and personal belongings that are in the buildings. These buildings are not accessible to us yet.", "Engineers are asserting the damage. There's still no word on when the building where two bombs exploded will be back open. Another matter of time.", "Certainly a difficult first step for the people who are in that airport to return to the scene of the crime. A spokesperson for the airport has said that the terminal itself was blocked from their view and they went back to pick up their cars and some of their personal things like suitcases left on the plane, Poppy. As for the matter of opening the airport itself, we are told that -", "Alexandra Field live for us in Brussels tonight. Alex, thank you very much. Let's bring in Tara Palmeri. She is a reporter and columnist for \"Politico.\" She is based I Brussels ad has a unique perspective on all of this. And Tara, I have been listening to your reporting through that week. And I just want to get from you, because you live there. This is your home. This is where you work. You have friends and colleagues there. Walk me through the mindset of the people of Belgium right now. Is the fear palpable? Are they defiant? What do you see?", "I feel a lot of sadness right now. Especially among some friends and colleagues figuring out who is injured, what kind of condition people are in that were injured. And I mean, at the same time you still see people sitting outside in cafes, having brunch, trying to carry on with their lives. Literally, like 300 meters from the riot we saw outside of all of these crazy hooligans, chanting these racist chants. You have people, a few hundred meters away, just carrying on with their lives. So I think Belgians are interesting. They are very placid. Very calm type of people. So I almost feel more sadness than like anger except from obviously the nationalist group we heard earlier today. But I think people are trying to figure out how they live their lives from now on. I mean, our offices at \"Politico\" are right above that mall beat metro that was bombed. I'm going to walk to work this week. I mean, I'm not taking the metro. I don't know when I will start taking the metro again. Yes, I just don't feel comfortable. It is a crime scene to me now.", "I completely understand. And not even being in Brussels. I mean, as I got on the subway again last night, I was just sort of thinking to myself, should I would be taking a taxi, should I not? And that you know, is in a city where we haven't even had the bombing that you had on the metro. Let me ask you this. I spent a lot of time in Paris right in the wake of the terror attack there covering it. And what I was surprised to see was the defiance of the French people, even when the government said don't come out, don't gather in mass. They did exactly the opposite.", "Well, some of this is stuff that happens, violence that happens just inside Pakistan that has to do with Pakistani politics. And there is a piece that's part of the larger global fight between different militant groups for supremacy. The group that attacked the Christian community in Pakistan today, turns out to be the same group that claimed responsibility for attacks in the same city a year ago against two Christian churches. And that time it was attributed to part of their effort to bring attention away from ISIS and back to their group and the larger Pakistani Taliban. It was about vying for attention. But it was also about constantly trying to prove to the Pakistani government that they are not in control. So that's why you've got the concentric rings that micro inside Pakistan and then this larger fight for attention against ISIS which of course has opened up what it calls the four-son (ph) brigade next door in Afghanistan.", "When you look back at the past eight days, you had four separate attacks in four separate countries, what does that tell you for the need for a more global coordinated response? Is that's possible, Kimberly, I mean, coming from admittedly different groups here?", "Well, you know, there has been long-standing efforts towards cooperation between the U.S. and Pakistani government between governments in the region. But there were some real issues especially within Europe about information sharing. And what this increased drum beat of attacks could do is break down some of those barriers and encourage local governments say Belgium, Germany, to look again at the privacy laws. To look again at some of the barriers that their law enforcement faces when going after a terrorist suspect and think about reform. The thing is, we are talking about things that can take a lot of time and the terrorist networks have the advantage of no rules. They can move a lot faster.", "Again, this attack in Pakistan, they are saying the death toll now is 67. Upward of 300 injured and those numbers could easily rise. Kimberly Dozier, thank you so much. Stay with me, a lot more to talk about with you on Brussels ahead. Ahead this hour, a lot of news. ISIS losing its grip on a key city in Syria. How Syrian government forces pulled off the victory. What it means on the war on ISIS going forward. Also to politics, clean sweep Bernie Sanders wins big in the west. But is it enough to make a dent in Hillary Clinton's delegate lead? And we will hear Donald Trump and he promises, as you know, time and time again to make America great again. Now you will hear what leaders of two iconic companies, Ford and Starbucks, have to say about their selection and issue number one on voters' minds that is jobs in the economy. My exclusive one on one interviews coming up right here."], "speaker": ["POPPY HARLOW, CNN NEWSROOM HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FIELD", "FIELD", "HARLOW", "TARA PALMERI, REPORTER/COLUMNIST, POLITICO", "HARLOW", "KIMBERLY DOZIER, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST", "HARLOW", "DOZIER", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "NPR-12780", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2017-03-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/03/05/518606152/a-doctor-on-why-he-volunteered-to-fight-ebola-in-liberia", "title": "A Doctor On Why He Volunteered To Fight Ebola In Liberia", "summary": "In 2014, Dr. Steven Hatch traveled to Liberia to treat people infected with the Ebola virus. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with him about his new book, Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story.", "utt": ["When the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was at its raging horrific peak, the image that played out over and over on our TV screens was doctors wearing spacesuits moving among dying Africans. Steven Hatch was one of those doctors, and he's written about the experience in a new book called \"Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story.\" Steven Hatch has come into our studios at WGBH in Boston to share some of the story behind the story. And Dr. Hatch, welcome.", "Thank you for having me.", "I want to get to your reasons for volunteering to go to Liberia and treat Ebola patients. But start with that suit because it was such a vivid image, and I'm curious what it was like from inside the suit, that experience of being a doctor trying to treat a patient and how challenging that must be when you're wearing triple latex gloves and what looks like a spacesuit.", "Yeah, it's kind of interesting in that it is the mirror image of the suit that the doctor wears in the United States, which is a white coat. That's our uniform that identifies us. And the suit that we had to wear in Liberia prevented us from contacting our patients. And all of the sensory input that we get as part of our jobs as physicians were hampered by having to wear this. So it was as immediate a reminder of the limitations that were imposed on us while we cared for our patients.", "OK, so you make the decision, you fly to Liberia, but you were not posted to the capital. You were posted to an Ebola treatment unit that was a bit of a hike. Describe where you were. Describe just what it looked like.", "I was assigned to Bong County, which is about 100 miles north of Monrovia. It is a regional capital named Gbarnga. Gbarnga is a population of about 30,000 people, and it was one of the staging points for many of the battles that had taken place in the Liberian Civil War.", "You write about one part of the compound in such vivid language that it has stuck with me. And I wonder if I could get you to read just this one paragraph, this one scene. And it's a scene from behind the treatment unit.", "(Reading) The clearing for the bodies is a little bigger than a basketball court. The gravesites are lined up in neat rows. The birds and insects assert themselves here, sometimes loudly. But even with this noise, there's a profound silence that hovers over it. I think it is one of the most beautiful places that I have ever been on Earth. I also think it is one of the most horrifying. There are about five rows of graves with the earliest victims buried in the first row, moving outward in time as the outbreak continued. I start to know the people behind the names at the end of the first row, and I stopped knowing them midway through the fourth.", "And when you describe it as one of the most beautiful but also most terrible places you've ever seen, what do you mean by that?", "When you go there, the beauty of the African jungle is immediately apparent. And when you look up, you see the cascading vines, you see the birds flying around, and you think to yourself, this is just a very profound place. And then you look down on the ground, and you see the mounds where all of the bodies are buried. And with that silence comes a horror of what the outbreak really meant in this community.", "I want to ask you about one of the many patients you treated while there. You write about treating a 6-year-old girl who tested positive for Ebola. Her mother did not. And it fell to you to escort her away from her mother. What happened?", "She was part of a small cohort of patients that we had to deal with where someone in the family would be positive and someone would be negative. And once a person is negative, we had them leave the unit. She was a 6-year-old girl, and she had contracted the virus, but her mother had not. And both the child and her mother were terrified about what may lay ahead for both of them.", "And the little girl did not survive.", "She did not. She died four days after that move, and her mother was unable to go to the burial. And I think, in some ways, it encapsulates just how awful things could be during this outbreak and the kind of personal tragedies that people had to live through.", "You're back now at your hospital in Massachusetts. Do you find yourself treating patients, doing your job in a different way as a result of the work that you did in Liberia?", "I think it's made me sensitive to the limitations that are imposed on us and...", "Explain that. What limitations?", "Just making sure that you've made a connection with your patient. One of the things that we had to do for our patients in Liberia, in addition to just witnessing their illness and doing what doctors do around the world, which is try to use medicines to blunt the worst effects of an illness, is also to try to help manage their own anxieties and their fears. I would like to think that I had been aware of it before, but I think I understood the principle in a new way.", "Dr. Steven Hatch. His new book is \"Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story.\" Thank you so much for sharing it with us.", "Thank you for having me.", "Tomorrow on Morning Edition, we'll hear how American builders are rushing to get in on the construction of President Trump's promised U.S.-Mexico border wall."], "speaker": ["MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "STEVEN HATCH", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "STEVEN HATCH", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "STEVEN HATCH", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "STEVEN HATCH", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "STEVEN HATCH", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "STEVEN HATCH", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "STEVEN HATCH", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "STEVEN HATCH", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "STEVEN HATCH", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "STEVEN HATCH", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-207383", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-5-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/24/cnr.10.html", "summary": "Amanda Bynes Arrested on Pot Charge", "utt": ["Welcome back. We're here live in Moore, Oklahoma, where we're surrounded by devastation from Monday, but I got to tell you, this is a tough group of people moving forward. We have more amazing stories for you as our special coverage will continue in a moment. But first, some news from the entertainment world, actress, Amanda Bynes, is in trouble again. The 27-year-old former child star arrested last night for allegedly throwing a bong out a window of her Manhattan apartment. That was on the 36th floor. This is video of Bynes in a long blonde wig. There she was, on her way to jail. Police say Bynes' building manager called police because the actress was quote/unquote, \"smoking a legal substance\" in the lobby. Bynes then let police come into her apartment. We are told they saw this bong and other marijuana paraphernalia on a coffee table inside and that is when Bynes apparently tossed the bong out the window. She is facing a felony charge, tampering with evidence, plus misdemeanor charges of drug possession and endangerment and on top of this, Bynes has a DUI case pending in California. Also, she was sentenced to three years probation this month for driving on a suspended license. Amanda Bynes' troubles have been compared to those of Lindsay Lohan. Lohan currently in rehab now, back in 2007 she was convicted of drunk driving and felony drug possession, and there are other former child stars with issues. Eddie Furlong from \"Terminator 2\" and \"CSI New York,\" he was recently arrested accused of violating a protective order filed against him by an ex-girlfriend. Then there is Todd Bridges, \"Different Strokes,\" who dealt with drug issues back in the '80s. I want to bring in a former child star of the \"Donna Reed Show.\" He is Paul Petersen who joins me now live from Los Angeles. So Paul, welcome to you. I have to say off the top, I'm standing here surrounded by levelled homes, debris, debris, you know, people have lost their homes. Some people here have lost their lives. I'm just -- I don't have a lot of sympathy for this young woman, I have to say this off the top. That said, these are serious charges, what's your take?", "Well, look, we have to put everything in context, of course. I'm so glad you're there, Brooke. Those people need your help and support, all of us, and our hearts go out to them. In the case of Amanda, we are the products of choices we make. Just think, if she would have sat down in New York and said I think I'll go to Moore, Oklahoma, and do what I can to help, not for publicity, just to do something good. It is astonishing to me and continues to astonish me how many bad choices kid stars as they get older can make. I know this pretty personally because I was there myself. I wouldn't wish my 20s on anyone and I hope people understand that Amanda is -- her life has been taken from her because of success at an early age. And that happens to many kid stars. If you don't have the right support group, you're in trouble.", "Paul, let me go back to your personal story because, you know, you were shy of your 21st birthday when the \"Donna Reed Show\" wrapped. You said you wouldn't trade your 20s with anyone because you experienced a downward spiral and you say what is interesting is what happened to you back then isn't actually very different from what these young stars face today.", "It is no different in my era or going back to the 20s. Remember, two of the most famous kids stars in the silent era of Hollywood, Jackie Kugan and Baby Peggy, this is a replay. You see what happens is the industry, the entertainment industry just uses you up and when they're done with you, they are flat done with you. And it happened to Diana Sarah Carrie, became an object of ridicule.", "Yes. I know this isn't the case, though. That's the odd thing. This isn't the case for every single child star. Some make it out okay and some don't. Paul Petersen, thank you -- no, they don't. Paul Petersen, thank you so much for joining me. Appreciate it for your perspective. Coming up next, people in Oklahoma call the storm shelters, you know, fraidy holes or hidey holes, is what I've heard. But now after what happened Monday, they may be rethinking these shelters. Do more Americans need to think about these bunkers? I will take you inside of one. Plus, she's the woman at the center of the sex scandal that brought down General David Petraeus, retired Four-Star General Petraeus. Now after months of silence, Paula Broadwell is speaking out about that affair next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "PAUL PETERSEN, FORMER CHILD STAR", "BALDWIN", "PETERSEN", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-32526", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-6-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/14/lad.11.html", "summary": "Sicignano Gold Club Trial Testimony Would Expose Many", "utt": ["It's got strippers, illicit sex, pro athletes, Mafia connections; the Gold Club trial seems to have everything.", "But the criminal charges are serious: racketeering and conspiracy. And at the center of the stage -- or the case, rather -- a new dancing club and tourist attraction right here in Atlanta. The latest from CNN's Art Harris.", "That's Thomas \"Ziggy\" Sicignano, head coach and founder of Brooklyn USA, a nonprofit program that, he says, takes kids off mean streets and helps them to Main Streets.", "You know, our goal in our mission statement is very simple: using basketball to get kids to college.", "But recently, Sicignano has been spending more time in federal court in Atlanta, a star witness in the Gold Club trial, testifying against his former friend and boss strip-club owner Steve Kaplan. Sicignano may deal with prosecutors, pleading guilty to a felony in return for his testimony. Kaplan and six others are accused in a racketeering and conspiracy case centered on the strip club, including charges Kaplan paid dancers to have sex with professional athletes. Sicignano named names: big names, including former Knick Patrick Ewing. Much of Sicignano's testimony was based on what he claimed Kaplan told him.", "He had Patrick Ewing, and there were some girls there, and one thing led to another. Steve said he had girls on them, and they performed oral sex.", "Sicignano worked off and on at the Gold Club for five years as a manager. He says Kaplan wanted to attract athletes and other celebrities, to drive business. Sicignano says they called it the formula. The club grossed up to $20 million a year.", "Steve seen that athletes were vulnerable. They're celebrities. They think everybody wants them. He has the number one weakness of men throughout history: women. And he has a 100 of them, and they're naked every night.", "Sicignano testified that, with Kaplan's directions, he took Gold Club strippers to this hotel in Charleston, South Carolina, where, he says, they were paid to have sex with members of the New York Knicks. But defense lawyers charged that if there was prostitution, Sicignano arranged everything -- that he acted as a pimp, not Kaplan.", "Steve Kaplan always made money, so if there's any pimp in there, it's he who makes money is a pimp. That's in the dictionary. All I did was bring girls up there. I'm not saying it was right. It's a very shameful thing.", "The defense attorneys say that if Sicignano is the best that the government can do, their clients are in good shape.", "If this was to be the government's star witness, they need to do better.", "Sicignano could still face fallout after testifying he and Kaplan delivered strippers to the hotel room of basketball player Antonio Davis. Davis now says he's suing Sicignano.", "These statements are false. And not only are they false, they're just malicious lies.", "But in an interview with CNN, Sicignano stuck by his testimony.", "Two women entered his room. And really, I'd rather not comment. Let Antonio Davis go on TV and say what he wants.", "No athlete is charged with any wrongdoing in the Gold Club case, but several are expected to testify, including Patrick Ewing. So far, he's declined comments. Sources tell CNN, in several weeks, the first athlete will take the stand -- likely Terrell Davis, of the Denver Broncos. Art Harris, CNN, Atlanta."], "speaker": ["COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR", "CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "ART HARRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "THOMAS SICIGNANO, FOUNDER, BROOKLYN USA", "HARRIS", "SICIGNANO", "HARRIS", "SICIGNANO", "HARRIS", "SICIGNANO", "HARRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER", "HARRIS", "ANTONIO DAVIS, PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE", "HARRIS", "SICIGNANO", "HARRIS (on camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-313992", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-06-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1706/08/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Polls Open in Britain for Snap Election; Rain in U.K. As Voters Head to Polls; Comey Testimony Released Before Thursday's Hearing; Trump Offers to Mediate Persian Gulf Dispute; Intel Chiefs Won't Say if Trump Spoke of Russia Probe", "utt": ["This is the CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles.", "Hello, and welcome to our viewers all around the world. I'm John Vause. You're in the third hour of NEWSROOM L.A. Finally here, like Christmas, Election Day in the UK. Voters are now choosing a new prime minister. Polls opened just moments ago. Let's head now to Nina dos Santos in London. Nina, we're in the \"Twilight Zone\" now. There are some pretty tough rules come into play on what we can and cannot report. There's a lot more that we cannot, right?", "That's right. We have to be very careful about what we say here. At the moment, there is no possibility of talking about polls. All of that is said and done. The campaigns have been fought and, boy, have they been fought toughly over the last eight weeks of this snap election. So now really the objective is to focus on voter turnout as well. I'm outside one of these polling stations in north London, one of 40,000, John, and it's just as the doors open across the United Kingdom. Some 47 million people across the country eligible to vote in this general election. That means registration is slightly higher than it was two years ago, when people last went to the polls 2015. Also, turnout will be key as an indicator of voter fatigue as well. Remember that we had a general election only two years ago. We had the Brexit vote, we had various referenda on other issues, like Scottish independent and so on. So a lot of voters saying going into this election that they are feeling exhausted about being consulted on this country's political future. As you'd imagine, with Brexit on the cards, while they'll have to talk about these big issues from now to kingdom come probably. When it comes to the voter turnout for the youth population, that's crucial. We've see in the runup to this election is a big effort to try to mobilize 18 to 24 year olds. More than one million have signed up for this election. In the last day of registration at the end of May, more than 250,000 alone decided to put their names down. The big question is will they actually turn out to vote. When it comes to the national average, last time Britains went to the polls, about two-thirds of the eligible population decided to turn out and vote. When it comes to 18 to 24 year olds, many voting for the first time, well, the average turnout last time was only about 43 percent. In cities like these, throughout the course of the day, people will be looking into it, of course, before the polls close at 10:00 and that's when we'll get the exit polls and the counting begins for those 650 seats up for grabs in the house of parliament, including this one here in north London -- John?", "OK, so polls close about 10:00 p.m. So when can we expect the first results?", "usually, exit polls come out about 10:15 and voting continues apace from them. I remember covering the 2015 general election. It didn't become clear exactly how the political landscape was going to fall. 2015 was a slight upset because the Conservative Party did manage to get the majority in that 2015 election, complete surprise. Usually things don't become clear until the early hours of the morning. The reality is that, at the moment, voting all finished at 10:00, and then from then, there will be exit polls and the counting will begin. Maybe throughout the course of the early hours of the morning people get a clearer picture -- John?", "There has been a lot of voting, hasn't there. When you put it that way, there was the referendum, the Brexit, the election. Oh, my goodness. OK, Nina, thank you. Try to say dry. It looks awful there. It is a rainy day across the United Kingdom. Meteorologist Allison Chinchar with us now with the Election Day forecast. I guess if you're heading out, grab an umbrella, grab a raincoat?", "Yeah, and it doesn't matter where. Mother Nature is not being picky and choosey about particular area of the UK were rain will be. That looks pretty widespread. Here's a look at the overall general picture. Again, when you look, we have this particular low that will bring in wind and also heavy rain at times. Some areas will start to rain a little earlier than others. The farther west you are, you'll see your rain arrive a little on the earlier side. Here's radar for the last 24 hours. You can see already rain showers starting to trickle into places like Dublin, around Liverpool, Manchester, around Leeds, and even now starting to push into portions of Glasgow. At the time, incredibly light. Here's a look at the forecast as we go through the day today. Gradually as we make our way into the afternoon and evening hours, the system will spread a little further east and also off to the north as well. Overall rain total, this isn't necessarily going to produce torrential downpours. It's mainly going to be a very light but steady rain for a lot of the areas. Your overall totals likely to be about 10 to 25 millimeters tops. Will be some possible areas that pick up as much as 50 millimeters. But overall, the bigger issue is the wind. We're talking 48 to 50 kilometers per hour winds. Mix in some thunderstorms and the potential for some hail. So London, Birmingham, Manchester, really all of these locations, John, are going to get rain. It's just a matter of what the best times to head out when you're going to get the least amount of rain.", "That's always been the case across the U.K., isn't it?", "When I head out, that's when it rains the most. Allison, good to see you. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "CNN special election coverage starts at 10:00 p.m. London time. That's when the polls are closing. So please join us for all of the results. The former FBI director's Senate testimony just hours away now. James Comey has not spoken publicly since President Donald Trump fired him last month but he has released his opening remarks. Jim Sciutto has details of the seven-page statement on Comey's conversations with U.S. president.", "On the crucial question of whether the president attempted to influence ongoing FBI investigations, Comey said the president told him quote, \"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.\" Comey makes clear, quote, \"I had understood the president to be requesting that we drop any investigation of Flynn in connection with false statements about his conversations with the Russian ambassador.\" In his letter firing the FBI director, the president said that Comey had told him three times that he himself was not under investigation. He repeated that claim in an interview with NBC.", "Let me ask you about your termination letter to Mr. Comey. You write, \"I greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that I am not under investigation.\" Why did you put that in there?", "Because he told me that. I mean, he told me.", "In his written testimony, Comey largely confirms those occasions, but said they were specifically about whether the president was the subject of a counterintelligence investigation. First, on January 6th, when Comey went to Trump Tower to brief the President-elect on a dossier of allegations involving Mr. Trump, first reported by CNN, Comey said, quote, \"During our one-on-one meeting at Trump Tower, based on President-elect Trump's reaction to the briefing and without him indirectly asking the question, I offered that assurance that he was not under FBI counterintelligence probe. The second time, at dinner on January 27th, Comey said the president told him he was considering ordering an investigation into the dossier. Comey says, quote, \"I replied that he should give that careful thought because it might create a narrative that we were investigating him personally, which we weren't.\" And in a March 30th phone call, Comey, quote, \"Explained that we had briefed the leadership of Congress on exactly which individuals we were investigating and that we told those congressional leaders that we were not personally investigating President Trump. \"I reminded him I previously told him that. He repeatedly told me we need to get that fact out.\" \"The dossier, in particular, attracted the president's attention. He said he had nothing to do with Russia, had not been involved with hookers in Russia, and had always assumed he was being recorded when in Russia. He asked what we could do to lift the cloud.\" The president, Comey says, was also very interested in establishing his loyalty. In their January 27th dinner, Comey said President Trump told him, quote, \"I need loyalty, I expect loyalty.\" Comey went on, \"I did not move, speak or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed.\" He said he told Trump, finally, quote, \"You will always get honesty from me, to which the president responded, that is what I want honest loyalty.\" (on camera): On the investigation into Michael Flynn and Russia, Comey directly contradicts the president. On May 18th, the president was asked in a press conference if he, in any way, shape or form, tried to interfere or tell Comey to lay off the investigation into Flynn, he said no twice and then next question. In his written testimony and again tomorrow, Comey lays out a very detailed case, saying the opposite. Jim Sciutto, CNN, Washington.", "For more now on the legal issues facing the president, Seth Abramson is with us. He's an attorney and professor at the University of New Hampshire in Manchester. Seth, good to have you with us. The big unanswered question from this written testimony from Comey, does any of this build a case for obstruction of justice. Those who say know, they argue the president's actions may have been inappropriate, they weren't criminal, and they say he never explicitly ordered Comey to end the investigation into Michael Flynn.", "It does make that case. The facts we have from Mr. Comey with his letter to Congress, his opening statement that he'll give tomorrow is a prima facie case, a case on its face, of a violation of obstruction of justice statute, 18 USC 1512, by President Trump. With the obstruction of justice statute, what matters are words and the context in which they're said, not how they make people feel or even the effect of the words.", "You mentioned the law here. It is pretty clear, someone is guilty if they corruptly endeavored to influence, obstruct or impede an active investigation. So explain to me where is the wiggle room and where is the room for interpretation?", "I don't think there is any actual wiggle room. The words were very clear that Mr. Trump indicated to Mr. Comey that he wanted him to let Mr. Flynn go, to drop that prosecution. The context was also very clear. Mr. Trump had order everyone out of the room, including the Attorney General, including Mr. Kushner. And we have to take into account that the event didn't just occur that day, but occurred later on. For instance, Mr. Trump what he said to the Russians about why he fired Mr. Comey, which was he told the Russians, Mr. Kislyak, that he fired Mr. Comey in order to ease the pressure on him from the Russia investigation.", "It there enough in his written testimony to answer the question why Comey didn't speak out before he was fired if he felt he was being pressured by the president?", "He did speak out. He talked to his boss, he went to Attorney General Sessions, as he indicates in the letter. He specifically said to Mr. Sessions, in fact, he uses the word \"implore,\" he implored Mr. Sessions to make sure that he never be alone again with Mr. Trump. I think the question is now why Attorney General Sessions was not recused at that point, didn't do anything about that extraordinary request from the FBI director.", "Just are we witnessing one of the big issues here, the fact that Trump fired Comey because he was not happy with the progress of the Russia investigation, isn't that a more significant factor more than the question of obstruction of justice?", "The obstruction of justice statute is implicated with respect to the prosecution for making false statements or the perspective prosecution for making false statements against General Flynn. It has nothing to do with the Russia investigation as a whole. It specifically has to do with whether Mr. Trump attempted to, through perhaps persuasion, obstruct that particular prosecution. So the two shouldn't be conflated, though obviously the prosecution or prospective prosecution of Mr. Flynn is part of the larger Russia inquiry.", "OK, Seth, thanks for being with us. We appreciate the explanation. Seth Abramson there. Thank you. A lot of politics in all of this. So joining me now, Democratic strategist, Matt Littman; and James Lacy, the author of \"Taxifornia.\" He's also a Trump supporter. Good to have you back, James. It's been a while. So let's start with you. And the reaction that we have from the White House. Donald Trump's personal lawyer released a short statement saying, \"The president is pleased that Mr. Comey has finally publicly confirmed his private reports that the president was not under investigation in any Russia probe. The president feels completely and totally vindicated. He is eager to continue to move forward with his agenda.\" That does seem to ignore the fact that the FBI director will appear in person before the Senate in just a few hours' time.", "The Republican National Committee issued a similar statement. I think that it actually is a win for Donald Trump because we have a situation where a president must have been very frustrated to believe that there was an ongoing investigation, at least from reading the \"Washington Post\" or \"The New York Times.\" The implication was that he was some sort of a target or a figure in an investigation. And he was being told over a period of months, three times by the FBI director, that he was not a target of the investigation. He wanted to get the information out. And I can I can see how this frustration would build. You know, there are other issues to be discussed in the United States today. We need tax reform. We need to fix health care. These are other issues that Trump wanted to move forward with, but felt that he was under a cloud. So I actually think it is a good thing because it has corroborated the fact that he is not under investigation.", "First, it does not corroborate the fact that he is not under investigation. Comey has not been there for little while. We do have a special counsel looking into this. Trump could very well be under investigation. The special counsel is obviously there to do something. Going back to the point about Trump feeling vindicated, Trump has nothing on his calendar until noon tomorrow. The other day, Sean Spicer said how busy Trump would be busy. It turns out he's not that busy at all. So we can expect to be hearing from Trump during the entire time of Comey's testimony tomorrow. If he already felt vindicated, why would he be tweeting tomorrow morning, which I think we can fully expect.", "Matt, when I was in the Reagan administration, I testified before Congress many times, giving updates on the work I was doing. I have to say that if I was going to mention someone at a congressional hearing, I would think that that person would be wanting to watch what I had to say on the television. If you were the subject of an investigation and you were going to be discussed at a congressional hearing, wouldn't you be watching --", "It's funny you say that because Sean Spicer said that Trump would be too busy tomorrow. But it turns out he's not.", "And also going back to your earlier point", "And he's not under investigation.", "You don't know that.", "No, I do know that. The FBI director said it --", "He talked about that was until March 20.", "Right.", "After March 20, what do you this Mueller is doing? Do you think he is just there to hang out with Donald Trump?", "There is a special counsel.", "Let's assume the former director is accurate in what he has written down in his memos and his testimony to the Senate, then is this statement we're about the hear from the president even true? Listen to this.", "Did you at any time urge former FBI Director James Comey, in any way, shape or form, to close or to back down the investigation into Michael Flynn? And also, as you know --", "No. No. Next question.", "A suggestion of the point where this comes down to a question of credibility. Who is more believable in all this, the president or the former FBI director?", "All right, the elephant in the room is whether or not the president is engaged in an obstruction of justice. You just had an expert speak to that. Look, there is no obstruction of justice. What Donald Trump said at that February 17 meeting was, \"I hope\" that you can see your way to not -- to deal with Flynn. What he meant by that was you have put in context, Flynn had already suffered a consequence in Trump's mine. He had been fired the day before. And for obstruction of justice, the law requires that you have intent and that you actually have an obstruction of justice. There has been no obstruction of justice. The fact of the matter is, is that today, it was confirmed that the Russian investigation is ongoing. Comey himself said in his letter that he ignored it, and that they continued to continue the investigation with respect to Flynn. So to say that there has been some sort of obstruction of justice is really wishful thinking on the part Trump detractors.", "Matt Littman, though, if there had been obstruction of justice, the consequences of the actions don't matter. If that happens, it is just a separate issue. It comes down to what was said and if that was an attempt, in and of itself. What people felt or the consequences or what happened afterwards are irrelevant.", "Well, a very significant point here is a couple of times Trump asked everybody to leave the room so he could talk to the FBI director himself. And assuming it was not because he just wanted to be alone with and play some Lionel Richie music and dim the lights. Obviously, there's something here, there's some intent on Trump's part here. Several times he has asked him, and then he fired him.", "Because he wouldn't drop the case", "I have to say, Comey asked to have the private meeting with Trump earlier. He was to having private meetings because of the so- called salacious content of some of the charges against Trump, which includes these lies about him in this fake dossier of being with Russian hookers.", "Are you saying he wasn't with Russian hookers?", "I'm saying he wasn't, but you may say he was.", "I wonder, because Dan Coats, the director of National Intelligence, and Admiral Michael Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency, they were before the Senate on Wednesday. There were asked if they were asked if they were pressured by the White House, by Donald Trump to play down the Russia investigation. This is what they said.", "Why are you not answering these questions. Is there an invocation by the president of the United States of executive privilege? Is there or not?", "Not that I'm aware of.", "Then why are you not answering our questions?", "I feel it's inappropriate, Senator.", "Mr. Coats, same series of questions. What's the basis for your refusal to answer these questions today?", "The basis is that what I previously explained. I do not believe it is appropriate for me to -", "What's the basis? I'm not satisfied with \"I do not believe it is appropriate\" or \"I do not feel I should answer.\" I want to understand a legal basis. You swore that oath to tell us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. And today, you are refusing to do so. What is the legal basis for your refusal to testify to this committee?", "I'm not sure I have a legal basis.", "James, they said they never felt pressured by the president, but they would not say they were asked by the president. Why wouldn't they say that?", "I think that the answer could have been at their fingertips now that Robert Mueller is conducting a criminal investigation. And you know, things have changed now. We had four investigations going on to this whole Russian thing before Mueller was made the special counsel by the deputy attorney general. And those were congressional investigations. And congressional investigations are different than criminal investigations. I think it was even Lindsey Graham who said that when the special counsel was going to be appointed that would change the relationship of all of the actors in this whole drama with respect to the Congress, because when there is an actual prosecutor in place who is collecting evidence --", "They just said that they did not have a legal basis for not answering the question. He just said that. They just show a clip of it.", "And I'm giving you what the legal basis is that perhaps was not addressed by --", "No, no. The reality is that Robert Mueller would not want these officials speaking out about an active investigation because he is relying on them --", "Mueller - Comey is speaking tomorrow about all the times Trump asked him to drop this -- drop this case", "And Comey was fired, so Comey is no longer involved in the investigation", "The Trump administration can hire anybody. And we can have a whole conversation about that. You mentioned before tax reform. This --", "I think the taxpayers will be well served by --", "How is infrastructure week going for Trump so far?", "I mean, his popularity is down to 35 percent. It's at a record low now, so.", "OK, thank you guys, we'll leave it at that, because clearly, depending on where you sit is how you see this today play out. And I guess something similar will happen on Thursday. Thanks to you both.", "Thank you.", "Please stay with CNN and CNN.com for all of James Comey's testimony. Our special coverage starts Thursday morning, 7:00 a.m. in Washington, noon in London. And the president has decided who he wants to replace James Comey as FBI director. He made the announcement on Twitter. He seemed to catch all of Washington off guard when he posted that he plans to nominate Christopher Wray. A press release from the White House came five hours later. Wray was a federal prosecutor with the Justice Department's Criminal Division from 2003 to 2005. He's now a lawyer in private practice. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie applauded the president's choice. Wray had represented Christie in the so-called Bridgegate affair in which Christie surrogates were accused of causing a huge traffic jam in a political dispute. And they were found guilty, at least some of them. The American Civil Liberties Union has issued this statement, \"Christopher Wray's firm's legal work for the Trump family, his history of partisan activity, as well as his history of defending Trump's transition directed during a criminal scandal makes us question his ability to lead the FBI with the independence, even- handed judgment, and commitment to the rule of law that the agency deserves.\" A short break. Next on NEWSROOM L.A., another round of nuclear tests from North Korea just a day after South Korea's new president said he would suspend the deployment of a missile defense system."], "speaker": ["JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR", "VAUSE", "NINA DOS SANTOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "VAUSE", "DOS SANTOS", "VAUSE", "ALLISON CHINCHAR, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "VAUSE", "VAUSE", "CHINCHAR", "VAUSE", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "LESTER HOLT, NBC ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SCIUTTO", "VAUSE", "SETH ABRAMSON, ATTORNEY & PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, MANCHESTER", "VAUSE", "ABRAMSON", "VAUSE", "ABRAMSON", "VAUSE", "ABRAMSON", "VAUSE", "JAMES LACY, AUTHOR & TRUMP SUPPORTER", "MATTHEW LITTMAN, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "LACY", "LITTMAN", "LITTMAN", "LACY", "LITTMAN", "LACY", "LITTMAN", "LACY", "LITTMAN", "LITTMAN", "VAUSE", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "TRUMP", "VAUSE", "LACY", "VAUSE", "LITTMAN", "LITTMAN", "LACY", "LITTMAN", "LACY", "VAUSE", "UNIDENTIFIED SENATOR", "ADM. 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{"id": "CNN-328945", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2017-12-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1712/21/es.02.html", "summary": "Republicans Celebrate Tax Bill Victory; U.N. Showdown Over Jerusalem; Virginia House Balance of Power in Limbo", "utt": ["This is what victory looks like. Republicans celebrate passage of an historic tax overhaul, but the party will be short if the GOP can't approve a spending plan to keep the government open by tomorrow night.", "Well, we're watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot. We don't care.", "President Trump with a veiled threat to world leaders as the U.N. prepares for a showdown vote over Jerusalem.", "And how do you pick a winner in a tied election? Wait until you hear how Virginia will determine balance of power in the bellwether state. It is a fascinating process. Welcome back to EARLY START. I'm Dave Briggs.", "And I'm Christine Romans. It's Thursday morning. It's 31 minutes past the hour. A major victory for the Republicans, delivering on tax cuts, killing the Obamacare individual mandate, opening up ANWR for drilling, all in one move. The GOP tax bill now just awaits the president's signature, but in touting the bill as a huge tax cut, the president reveals a hidden agenda all along.", "The individual mandate is being repealed. So in this bill, not only do we have massive tax cuts and tax reform, we have essentially repealed Obamacare. We didn't want to bring it up. I told people specifically, be quiet with the fake news media because I don't want them talking too much about it, because I didn't know how people would -- but now that it's approved, I can say, the individual mandate has been repealed.", "Important to note, Obamacare has not been repealed. Those GOP efforts failed miraculously this year. It's true, the tax bill may destabilize Obamacare by reducing the incentive for young, healthy people to buy insurance. The Congressional Budget Office has said repealing just the individual mandate will likely raise the premiums to help cover older, sicker people, but it will also save the government money as people drop out of the subsidized Obamacare marketplaces.", "Yes, that individual mandate really the glue that keeps Obamacare together.", "Also the most unpopular part of Obamacare.", "Right, right, right. Republicans say it's a tax. Now, by admitting the tax bill was a vehicle for hurting Obamacare, the president handed Democrats a powerful talking point for 2018. None of that got in the way of the Republicans' big celebration yesterday. Even with funding for the government set to run out tomorrow. For the very latest, let's bring in CNN's Abby Philip at the White House.", "Well, Christine and Dave, the president and Republicans were jubilant at the White House with the passage of the first major legislative victory of his administration. The president talked a lot about the corporate tax rate going down and the money that will be coming back home from overseas. But Republicans had nothing but praise for him and his leadership, getting them over the finish line on this bill. Take a listen.", "Something this profound could not have been done without exquisite presidential leadership.", "This has been a year of extraordinary accomplishment for the Trump administration.", "And we're going to make this the greatest presidency that we've seen not only in generation generations, but maybe ever.", "President Donald Trump delivered a great victory for the American people.", "All friends, I mean, I look at these people, it's like we're warriors together.", "But the battle for Republicans may still be ahead with just a third of Americans supporting the tax bill that they just passed, and about 66 percent of Americans say that the middle class will not benefit as much as the wealthy. The White House is fully aware that they have a little bit more work to do to sell this bill, Christine and Dave. That's going to be next on the agenda for President Trump.", "All right. Abby, thank you for that. Less than 48 hours to go before funding runs dry and the federal government shuts down, and there's no deal right now. House Republicans frustrated after a closed-door meeting last night. Members giving widely differing accounts of a proposal that's being cobbled together to keep the government running past midnight Friday. One thorny issue, whether to add to a stopgap bill a three-week extension of the mass surveillance program that collects intelligence on non-U.S. citizens. Looming on the Senate side, the GOP's failure to deliver for Susan Collins. The Maine Republican received assurances from majority leader Mitch McConnell that she would get a vote on two Obamacare stabilization bills in exchange for her yes vote on the tax bill, which repealed the individual mandate, but Congress will leave town for the holidays without voting on Obamacare funding. She was not at that signing ceremony yesterday. For the Republicans, the afterglow of tax reform victory could wear off if they don't pass a spending plan. A new CNN poll shows voters prefer Democrats by an 18-point margin, as we get closer to the 2018 midterms. A blunt warning to president Trump from the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee -- don't fire Bob Mueller. Mark Warner of Virginia launching a preemptive strike. He's calling on Congress to respond with significant consequences if the president does try to neutralize the special counsel.", "Any attempt by this president to remove special counsel Mueller from his position or shut down the investigation would be a gross abuse of power and a flagrant violation of executive branch's responsibilities and authorities.", "White House counsel Ty Cobb responding to Warner's warning, telling CNN no consideration is being given to firing Mueller. He adds: If the media is going to continue to ask for responses to every absurd and baseless rumor, attention-seeking partisans will continue to spread them. Mueller is facing a growing number of Republicans who claim there is an anti-Trump bias in his Russia investigation.", "This morning, the U.N. General Assembly votes on a resolution rejecting president Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The administration says it will remember which countries oppose the U.S. position. America's U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, writing her fellow ambassadors to say she and the president will be carefully monitoring their votes and taking them personally.", "That follows this tweet from Haley on Tuesday: When we make a decision at the will of the American people about where to locate our embassy, we don't expect those we've helped to target us. The U.S. will be taking names. President Trump pushing it a step further, warning financial assistance to nations could be cut off if they vote against the U.S. position.", "Well, we're watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot. We don't care. But this isn't like it used to be where they could vote against you and then you pay them hundreds of millions of dollars and nobody knows what they're doing, and we're not going to be taken advantage of any longer.", "Let's go live to Jerusalem and bring in CNN's Oren Liebermann. And, Oren, we know that that kind of stance from this president is something his supporters really adored on the campaign trail, but it plays very differently on the world stage.", "And this vote will show in just a few hours. It's very much expected that the U.S. stands alone or nearly alone with its foreign policy, and that's because President Donald Trump's threat isn't really expected to change any votes at the 183-member U.N. General Assembly. And if you want an idea of how this vote could go, take a look at a vote from a couple of days ago on Palestinian self-determination. That passed 176 for and only 7 against or abstaining. Israel and the U.S. in that against and abstaining category. And tonight's vote, which is in emergency meeting of the general assembly, could have much the same result, a vast majority of countries voting to attempt to nullify President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Now, it is a nonbinding vote, which means that they can't actually change President Trump's position or have any sort of facts on the ground effect on what happens. But it is a stinging rebuke of U.S. foreign policy and serves to highlight how much the U.S. stands alone there as Trump makes this threat to cut off foreign aid. Does he carry through on that threat? We'll see what comes after here. It's worth pointing out a couple things, Christine, that first, Israel is the biggest receiver of U.S. foreign aid, at least military aid, more than $3 billion a year. Second, a lot of that aid, or some aid, goes to the United Nations budget, so that could be a threat against the U.N. as well. But again, at the end of the day here, this isn't expected to change any votes at the U.N. an overwhelming vote trying to or attempting to nullify President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.", "All right. Oren Liebermann, we will be watching. Thank you, sir.", "Another twist in the Virginia House race leaving the balance of power in limbo. Now it basically comes down to the luck of the draw. A recount had given Democrat Shelly Simonds the victory by one vote over Republican David Yancey, but a three-judge panel has now declared one more valid vote for Yancey, so now the final tally with 11,608 votes each.", "Virginia law says in the event of a tie, the election board will determine the winner by lot. The board of elections process involves printing the candidates' names on to equal-size sheets of paper, then putting them in a container. The first name drawn would be declared the winner and the loser could then petition for another recount. A victory for the Democrat would split the control of House of Delegates. A win for the Republican would mean the GOP maintains the majority. All right. Breaking overnight, more than a dozen people hurt in Australia, where a car plowed into pedestrians outside Melbourne's iconic Flinders Street Railway Station. Two adults and a young child with a head injury have been taken to the hospital in serious condition. Police do have the driver and another person under arrest. Police say the action was deliberate, but they are not specifically calling it terrorism. We will have more information as it becomes available.", "All right, ahead, shots fired at the DMZ. South Korea opens fire after soldiers from the North pursue a defector. We're live in Seoul ahead on EARLY START."], "speaker": ["DAVE BRIGGS, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "TRUMP", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), MAJORITY LEADER", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-283946", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2016-05-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/12/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "No Endorsement After Ryan Meets Trump", "utt": ["Happening now, party divided. The GOP starts picking up the pieces after Donald Trump's primary campaign. The presumptive nominee meets with the House speaker, Paul Ryan. But is there a meeting of the minds, and why isn't Ryan ready to offer an endorsement? Common ground. While Republicans are vowing to reach unity, there are still deep splits on several major issues. So where and how can they find agreement? I'll ask the party chairman, Reince Priebus. New arms race. As the U.S. deploys a missile defense system in Europe, Russia deploys a powerful missile with multiple nuclear warheads. What's behind the Cold War-style build-up? And no sibling rivalry. As Kim Jong-un's regime gains more power, his younger sister gets a powerful new position. How much influence does she hold in the communist regime? I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. The Republican Party started putting itself back together after Donald Trump's disruptive primary campaign left the GOP bitterly divided. The presumptive nominee came to Washington to meet with House Speaker Paul Ryan and other party leaders. Ryan, who last week sent out shock waves when he said on CNN he wasn't ready to support Trump, apparently still isn't ready. Ryan called the talks a good start but gained no endorsement after their meeting. There were pledges all around to preserve party unity, but many mainstream Republicans still differ with Trump on key issues. And others take strong exception to his strong rhetoric and nasty tone out there on the campaign trail. For his part, Trump tweeted after the meetings -- and I'm quoting him now -- \"Things working out really well,\" exclamation point. Our correspondents, analysts and guests, they will have full coverage of all the day's top stories. Let's begin with our senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. Jim, Donald Trump and Paul Ryan, they met face-to-face, but they still don't necessarily see eye to eye.", "That's right, Wolf. Donald Trump is all but declaring victory after his performance on Capitol Hill earlier today, but he left Washington without the critical endorsement of House Speaker Paul Ryan. And Senate Republicans are openly saying Trump needs to tone down his act. But at least they're all using the same word, \"unity.\"", "It was, as expected, a circus as Donald Trump came to Washington in search of a GOP big tent large enough to held his renegade campaign and the party establishment he hopes to win over.", "I thought he has a very good personality. He's a very warm and genuine person.", "First up, House Speaker Paul Ryan is still holding back his endorsement of Trump, but as he hinted, perhaps not for long.", "I think this is going in a positive direction, and I think this is a first, very encouraging meeting. But again, in 45 minutes, you don't litigate all of the processes, all of the issues and the principles that we are talking about.", "Trump shied away from media scrums but tweeted \"Great day in D.C. with Speaker Ryan and Republican leadership. Things working out really well.\" But Kumbaya on the Capitol it was not.", "There are policy disputes that we will have. There's no two ways about it.", "While aides say their meeting was not heated, Ryan indicated they remain split on critical issues. Trump, to many Republicans, sounds like a Democrat on Social Security and Medicare.", "It's my absolute intention to leave Social Security the way it is. Not increase the age and to leave it as is.", "Medicare and Social Security are going bankrupt. These are indisputable facts. The best way to do it is reform it for my generation.", "When Trump ventured to the Senate side of the Capitol, there were no reasons for optimism but also some disagreements. Trump tweeted that his meeting with Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was great. But Texas Senator John Cornyn told reporters he confronted Trump on his rhetoric on immigration.", "There is a way to talk about these issues that people don't find offensive but yet still make the point that we're all for a secure border.", "All day long, Democrats, eager to take back control of Congress, were out to exploit the GOP's divisions. Pro-immigration groups even delivered taco bowls to members of Congress to mock Trump's Cinco de Mayor tweet about his love for Mexican food and Hispanics. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid went further.", "Since the Republican leader's all in for Donald Trump, we can only assume he approves Trump's calling immigrants \"rapists and murderers.\" Since Senator McConnell has so enthusiastically embraced Trump, we can only assume he agrees with Trump's view that women are dogs and pigs.", "But the Trump campaign is feeling better after today's Capitol Hill primary. Ryan's endorsement was never expected today, one Trump aide told me. And another official said that endorsement is just a matter of time, adding that Ryan is expected to jump on board fairly soon, as he still has a lot of members to appease. And Wolf, we should mention one more meeting that Donald Trump held earlier today. That is with former secretary of state James Baker. A Baker spokesman confirms that happened earlier today -- Wolf.", "Interesting. Thanks very much, Jim Acosta. Let's bring in our chief political correspondent, Dana Bash. Dana, you just returned from Capitol Hill. Take us a little bit behind the scenes. What are you learning?", "That for the most part, people really thought that this was successful in that even those who are very much not in Trump's camp, never wanted him to be even close to being the nominee, understand that, for the good of their party, and ultimately beating Hillary Clinton, that this has to happen. There has to be a united front and, particularly, Wolf, when it comes to Paul Ryan. Because just even, again, walking the halls, talking to people who really, really like Ryan, they were concerned that what Ryan did here on CNN last week would hurt Republicans. Perhaps even hurt their majority, which is a 30-seat majority in the House, because a lot of their districts are really ruby red and really pro-Trump. So they really felt that, even though Ryan didn't endorse, he took an important step to try to bring the party together.", "So is there consensus among the Republican leadership in the House and in the Senate, for that matter, that these meetings were a success?", "That there were definitely was an important first step, because, remember, Donald Trump really didn't know most of these people. But I'll tell you one really interesting fact that I learned today was how much of a role Reince Priebus, the RNC chair, seemed to have behind the scenes over the past week and a half in bringing this together. He got a lot of push back over the past many, many months from a lot of Republicans in the way he handled Donald Trump. But because he kept an open line of communication, I'm told, by people outside of the RNC with Donald Trump, established a relationship with him, they really have a sense of trust in one another. He was able to talk to Donald Trump all last week, work him through the process of helping get him here today and then obviously did the same kind of thing with Paul Ryan, who is a long-time friend of Reince Priebus. So in many ways, Reince Priebus is the unsung hero of this.", "Yes. And he was the only other person in that meeting between Ryan and Trump. It was Reince Priebus. He's got that Wisconsin connection...", "Precisely.", "... with the speaker of the House as well. All right. Dana, thanks very much. Speaking of Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, joins us now live. Reince, thanks very much for joining us.", "Hey, thank you, Wolf. Appreciate it.", "So why isn't the speaker yet ready to endorse Donald Trump?", "Well, I think, you know, it's very sincere in that most people -- and I think even Donald Trump would agree with this, people thought this thing had another 30 days in it. And I guess people were hoping that they were going to be able to kick the tires a little bit longer and get their -- their talking points and their positions straight by the time this happened, and suddenly, it happened. So now a lot of folks are just faced with the position of, \"Hey, I want to get to know Donald Trump. I want to see if we're on the same page on a few things.\" Today was a great day for that to happen between Paul Ryan and Donald Trump, and I can only describe it as extremely positive. And if you saw Paul Ryan's press conference afterwards, I think that pretty much says the whole story. It was a very encouraging day for the party.", "Yes, he said it was a great meeting, too. They did issue that joint statement at the same time. But he also said the speaker still has to get, in his words, into the weeds on several sensitive policy issues, issues where he clearly disagrees with Donald Trump. And he and his aides have spoken of some of these issues. Here's Donald Trump articulating positions that clearly the speaker doesn't like. Listen to this.", "I'm the King of debt. I love debt. (via phone): This is the United States government. First of all, you never have to default, because you print the money. I hate to tell you. OK? (on camera): We're out of control. We have no idea who's coming into our country. We have no idea if they love us, or if they hate us. We have no idea if they want to bomb us. Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists, and some, I assume, are good people. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words. Folks, we're going to build a wall. Believe me.", "I know you're not going to give us all the details of what happened behind closed doors, but did they resolve some of those significant differences during the course of, what, your nearly one- hour meeting today?", "Well, suffice it to say that there was a lot of agreement on most issues, and so there's a whole lot more they agreed on than disagreed. And I think that's why it was such a positive meeting. I think you've seen Donald Trump even kind of clarify some of those positions that you've just run in that montage. So I think you're seeing a person that is starting, really, to move into the general election mode and getting it and really working hard at being someone that can unify the party but also going after Hillary Clinton. And I don't think that we're going to have to worry about Donald Trump pulling any punches against Hillary Clinton.", "What did he clarify?", "Well, I'm not going to get in -- I hate to spoil the fun, Wolf, but I'm not going to get into the details, because that wouldn't be, really, my role, and I have to respect the confidences of the meeting. I can just tell you that there was a lot of agreement on almost all things that were discussed. But, you know, they're going to continue talking, and it was cooperative, good-spirited meeting with good chemistry. And I can just tell you I don't think it could have turned out any better.", "Apparently, Donald Trump charmed a lot of people, a lot of Republicans in Washington today, if you listen to some of the statements from people who emerged from those meetings. But as you know, just a few days ago, he issued a statement saying he couldn't necessarily support the speaker's agenda. That was a pretty bold statement after the speaker told Jake Tapper he couldn't necessarily yet endorse Donald Trump. So the question is, what happens next? Where do you guys go from here?", "Well, that's going to be up to the speaker and Donald Trump, Wolf. But I do know that they're committed to working together quickly. Perhaps even as soon as tomorrow or the next day and getting some more conversation started between the two of them. And I know that they're both committed to that and that's a positive thing, as well. But it's now in their hands, and you know, my role is to do whatever I can within the realm of reason to build and unify and bring people together. And I think today was a good start of that.", "Can Donald Trump win over some of the key groups that you -- and you're the Republican leader -- you know you have to win over to recapture the White House: women, minorities, young people? Does he have that ability nationwide to go find those supporters?", "Well, I think he's got the ability, and we also have the ability here at the RNC. I mean, that's why we're trying to put people every ten blocks in black and Hispanic and Asian communities with people that are working around the clock and getting to know voters, talking about issues that we believe in, registering voters, identifying turnout. All the mechanics. I know a lot of the boring stuff. But this is what a competent national party does. And then, obviously, tone and tenor matters, and I think Donald Trump understands that, too. And that's something that also has to continue. And so I'm confident that people understand what needs to get done, and I'm looking forward to that happening.", "So you think he could bring in some of those minority voters?", "Absolutely. I mean, you look at the turnout across -- within our own primary. I know it's not -- it's not transferable to a general, but certainly you see that. You see that promise in black and Hispanic communities. Now, I think as a party, we've done much better. And if you look at 2014, how we did in Colorado, with Cory Gardner almost winning the Hispanic vote, 28 percent of the black vote in Ohio. It didn't just happen on its own. We worked hard at that. And we just have to do better as a party. I'm committed to it. It's one of my cornerstones as chairman, is to be committed on a year-round basis to reaching out to black and Hispanic voters. And I want to do better. I've worked hard to try to do better, and I'm hoping that this fall will be an improvement.", "One final question, because I know you've got to run. On the whole issue of funding the campaign, he almost completely self- funded his primary effort. He managed to win the Republican, for all practical purposes, presidential nomination. But where do you, as the leader of the Republican Party, and he work together now. You're going to have to raise, what, a billion dollars. How do you do that?", "Well, I don't know what the number is going to be, Wolf. I mean, we didn't -- we didn't raise that through the RNC during the Romney campaign, and that had been going on through -- for 18 months, not self-funded. So I don't know what the number is going to be. But usually, you have a joint fundraising agreement, where you take the amount of money that a campaign can raise and the amount of money the party can raise, which is a much bigger number, and you combine those two buckets and other entities. And you come up with one joint fundraising agreement that you file with the Federal Election Commission. And that's all negotiated and discussed, and we're actually in the middle of that right now.", "Reince Priebus, who's got a tough job as the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Reince, thanks very much for joining us.", "You bet. Thanks, Wolf.", "Thank you. When we come back, we'll speak to a key Donald Trump supporter and a whole lot more information coming in as we speak. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "ACOSTA (voice-over)", "REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "ACOSTA", "RYAN", "ACOSTA", "RYAN", "ACOSTA", "TRUMP", "RYAN", "ACOSTA", "SEN. JOHN CORNYN (R), TEXAS", "ACOSTA", "SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV), SENATE MINORITY LEADER", "ACOSTA", "BLITZER", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "BASH", "BLITZER", "BASH", "BLITZER", "REINCE PRIEBUS, CHAIRMAN, RNC", "BLITZER", "PRIEBUS", "BLITZER", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BLITZER", "PRIEBUS", "BLITZER", "PRIEBUS", "BLITZER", "PRIEBUS", "BLITZER", "PRIEBUS", "BLITZER", "PRIEBUS", "BLITZER", "PRIEBUS", "BLITZER", "PRIEBUS", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-224695", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2014-2-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/10/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Clinton Says Lewinski was 'Loony Toon'; Feds Expand Same-Sex Marriage Rights; Kenneth Bae: 'I Have Not Lost Hope'", "utt": ["Right now, a narcissistic loony toon. That's how newly released documents say Hillary Clinton described Monica Lewinski to a close friend. The question: why is all of this coming out now, and do voters still care? Also right now, rethinking Chris Christie. A New Jersey newspaper says it blew it by endorsing him last year and now calls Christie the most overrated politician in the country. We'll speak with the editor behind those comments. And right now, coming to America solo. The French president's decision to come alone has people talking, and White House staffers scrambling. Hello, I'm Wolf Blitzer in Washington. A revealing glimpse today inside the mind of Hillary Rodham Clinton during one of the lowest points of the Clinton presidency and her marriage. Clinton has written before about the shocking affair between president Clinton and the then-White House intern Monica Lewinski, but newly discovered papers from a deceased family friend now explain how Clinton was able to forgive her husband and salvage their relationship. CNN's Erin McPike has been looking into all of this for us, and it's pretty fascinating. But tell our viewers what you found.", "Well, Wolf, according to these papers that were written by Clinton's family friend, Diane Blair, Hillary Clinton had said that Bill Clinton's affair was a lapse, essentially, and as you know, he had said that he had caused problems in their marriage before. But she said he tried to break it off, and then he tried to manage Monica Lewinski. But all of this is very interesting, given what Republican Senator Rand Paul has been saying in the past few weeks.", "Hillary Clinton forgave Bill Clinton years ago for his affair with Monica Lewinski, someone she called a \"narcissistic loony toon,\" according to old writings first unearthed by conservative site The Washington Free Beacon. Though she called his behavior gross and inappropriate, Mrs. Clinton confided to friend and colleague, Diane Blair, that she blamed her husband's transgressions on the personal toll, the deaths of his mother, her father and friend Vince Foster took on the president. She said the affair was meaningless and consensual, not a power play by Bill Clinton. An interesting twist, now that Republican Senator Rand Paul has called the 42nd president a sexual predator and is challenging Democrats to avoid raising campaign money with him.", "If they want to take a position on women's rights, by all means do. But you can't do it and take it from a guy who is using his position of authority to take advantage of young women in the workplace.", "He tells CNN \"It isn't her fault the way her husband behaved,\" but he also called them \"a fundraising team.\" Team Clinton hasn't responded, but supporters say Bill Clinton's past is ancient history. Of course, Paul has a history of needling the Clintons, especially the former secretary of state, for her handling of the death of four Americans in Benghazi.", "Had I been president at the time, and I found that you did not read the cables from Benghazi, you did not read the cables from Ambassador Stevens, I would have relieved you of your post. I think it's inexcusable.", "A tragedy Clinton addressed during a speech last month in New Orleans.", "My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi. It was a terrible tragedy, losing four Americans, two diplomats, and now it's public so I can say two CIA operatives. MCPIKEsaMCPIKEmc: Saturday night in Houston, Paul hit harder.", "We're talking about six months of ignoring repeated, one after another, requests for security. But then the coup de grace, and the thing that I think should limit Hillary Clinton from ever holding office. When she was asked for reinforcements, she turned down reinforcements, and we should never, ever have a commander in chief who won't send reinforcements.", "But according to a new book about Hillary Clinton that releases Tuesday called \"HRC,\" a book that was discussed on ABC's \"This Week\" yesterday, former General David Petraeus does not agree with Rand Paul. He reportedly told the book's authors, quote, \"like a lot of great leaders, her most impressive qualities were most visible during tough times. In the wake of the Benghazi attacks, for example, she was extraordinarily resolute, determined and controlled.\" And what I think is very interesting about that, Wolf, is you now have two very high-profile Republicans in defense, both Petraeus and former defense secretary Robert Gates, basically coming to Hillary Clinton's defense on security issues and Benghazi, especially when Republicans say they're going to make that such a big issue if she does run.", "All right. We're going to learn a lot more about the book's authors and the book later tonight on \"PIERS MORGAN.\" The two authors of this new book on Hillary, they're going to be our special guests. So we're anxious to see that, 9 p.m. Eastern. We're going to have a lot more on this story coming up later this hour, as well. Erin, thanks very much. Gay rights are calling it a landmark announcement. The Justice Department is expanding its recognition of same-sex marriages. That recognition will now include federal legal matters such as bankruptcies, prison visitation and survivor benefits. In a speech at the human rights campaign gala over the weekend, the attorney general, Eric Holder, announced the action he's taking today.", "I will issue a new policy memorandum that will for the first time in history formally instruct all Justice Department employees to give lawful, same-sex marriages full and equal recognition to the greatest extent possible under the law.", "Bringing in our senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. So Jim, how will this affect the 34 states where same-sex marriages are not legal?", "Well, Wolf, first we should point out that Attorney General Eric Holder is going to issue a memo sometime this afternoon to make official essentially what he revealed over the weekend, that the federal government is going to recognize same-sex marriages in all 50 states, even in those states where same-sex marriage is currently not legal. And as you mentioned a few moments ago, Wolf, this is going to really pertain, as Eric Holder said, to areas where the federal government has jurisdiction: bankruptcy court cases, other federal court proceedings, survivor benefits issues and so on. And so this is really leading social conservative groups to attack the White House. The Family Research Council came out with a statement over the weekend saying that this was another example of the administration's, quote, \"lawlessness.\" But Eric Holder in that speech to the Human Rights Campaign, Wolf, said this is really about equal protection under the law. And he also framed this as a civil rights issue, saying that this really belongs in the same category as the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, Wolf.", "So are some civil rights leaders, recalling the civil rights movement back in the '60s, are they happy with this comparison? Because there are some African-Americans, for example, who disagree with that comparison.", "That's right. And this White House has heard about this, as you know. The president has been evolving on this issue for many years. But slowly but surely, Obama administration has really been striking out on its own, on this issue of same-sex marriage. And as a matter of fact, I mean, just look at the Sochi Olympics, the U.S. delegation that was sent out to the Sochi Olympics. That delegation really was to reflect the administration's stance on same- sex marriage, on gay and lesbian rights issues. And then just this morning, Wolf, you'll know that over the weekend, a football player by the name of Michael Sam from Missouri announced that he is gay before the upcoming NFL draft, considered a very big move in the sports world. But get this. The first lady and the vice president have tweeted their support to Michael Sam. Let's put the tweet from FLOTUS -- @FLOTUS, the first lady, on screen. It says, \"You're an inspiration to all of us, @MikeSamFootball. We couldn't be prouder of your courage both on and off the field,\" signed M.O. That's, of course, an indication that the first lady tweeted this herself. And Michael Sam has responded back, thanking the first lady for her support. Vice President Joe Biden has also tweeted his support. So really this issue, Wolf, and we've seen this develop over the last several years, has become a very big civil rights priority for this administration, Wolf.", "FLOTUS, of course, standing for \"first lady of the United States\"...", "That's right.", "... like POTUS stands for \"president of the United States.\"", "Exactly.", "All right. Thanks very much. Other news we're following, new disturbing video emerging of Kenneth Bae. He's the American missionary being held in North Korea. The video was taken Friday at a meeting he had with the Swedish diplomat. And just this morning, Korea's state-run news agency said a former U.S. ambassador to South Korea had arrived in Pyongyang. Jim Sciutto is our chief national security correspondent. What's going on over here, Jim?", "Well, it's extremely rare to get this video from inside the labor camp where he's being held to a very rare view of him, and he's the longest-held American in North Korea. And what we see is some sobering video of a tired and noticeably thinner Bae in this conversation with a Swedish diplomat recorded on Friday in this labor camp. Remember we reported on Friday that he had been sent back there from the hospital where he'd been treated. And we get a rare view of him there, certainly not himself. We also got a view earlier of the kind of work Bae is doing in this prison camp, working in a field. You can see on the left-hand side, one of the guards overlooking him. Now, in this video, Bae says he's doing his best to stay strong, but he's very worried about his health, and he says he's lost as many as ten pounds while he's in camp. Here's what he had to say.", "I'm trying to stay strong mentally and spiritually, and trying to stay strong emotionally, as well. But -- but my main concern right now is that my physical condition, during hard labor for eight hours a day, for the next couple months can be difficult. So if they can do something right away, it would be the best way to do it.", "Very soft-spoken Bae there. He added a message to his family, saying he has not lost hope, has not given up. He also says that he hopes North Korea will allow a U.S. envoy into the country, Wolf, to negotiate his release.", "Where do efforts to get his release stand as far as U.S. officials are concerned?", "Well, stalled, because over the weekend, the North Koreans rescinded an invitation for the former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Robert King. He's an expert on -- actually, that's wrong. He's a North Korean human rights expert at the State Department. But they rescinded his invitation to come into the country. It's believed that's in connection with U.S.-South Korean military exercises going on. State Department said they're deeply disappointed. They also reiterated that those exercises have nothing to do with the case of Robert Bae. As you noted, another former U.S. diplomat arrived in North Korea today. That is Donald Greg. He was a former U.S. ambassador to South Korea. But I'm told by the State Department, this is not connected to the Bae case. They're in there for another trip with diplomats, American diplomats, to build connections there. But certainly valuable, at least, to keep that conversation going while you have...", "He was a well-known diplomat. He was U.S. ambassador to South Korea during the Bush administration. The fact that he himself is there, that's significant. We don't know exactly what he's doing, though.", "No question. They say just in general to build bridges between the two countries. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if he would bring up the Bae case. But the State Department says that's not the express reason for his visit.", "Yes. I'm sure that he's there, at least with a tacit blessing from the State Department.", "No question. The State Department also has mentioned the possibility of the Reverend Jesse Jackson going to North Korea, which he has offered to do to help discuss specifically the case of Kenneth Bae.", "All right. We'll see what happens on that front, as well. Thanks very much. The former president, Bill Clinton, he's under fire. Is he a liability to Hillary Clinton if she decides to run in 2016? Our chief political analyst, Gloria Borger, standing by. She'll weigh in live. Plus, a little bit later, taking back an endorsement. A New Jersey paper says it blew it by backing Chris Christie for re-election as governor of New Jersey. I'll talk to the head of the paper's editorial board. We'll find out what led to the do-over."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN", "ERIN MCPIKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MCPIKE (voice-over)", "SEN. RAND PAUL (R), KY", "MCPIKE", "PAUL", "MCPIKE", "HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE", "PAUL", "MCPIKE", "BLITZER", "ERIC HOLDER, ATTORNEY GENERAL", "BLITZER", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "ACOSTA", "BLITZER", "ACOSTA", "BLITZER", "ACOSTA", "BLITZER", "JIM SCIUTTO, CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "KENNETH BAE, AMERICAN MISSIONARY HELD PRISONER IN NORTH KOREA", "SCIUTTO", "BLITZER", "SCIUTTO", "BLITZER", "SCIUTTO", "BLITZER", "SCIUTTO", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-164821", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-4-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1104/15/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Gas Prices: Up, Up and Away", "utt": ["Welcome back to AMERICAN MORNING. Right now gas prices are nearing an all-time high and frankly they show no signs of slowing down. Every day this month they've been up. Read it and weep. The national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gas is now $3.81. That's up $0.25 in a month and nearly a dollar since a year ago. In some come cities it's already over $4. Where will it go? We got the right man to ask among other things, and let's talk to him, Marvin Odum is the president of Shell Oil Company and joins us live from Houston this morning. Welcome to the program.", "Good to see you, Christine.", "All right. So is it going to cost me 51 bucks to fill up the minivan in the next few weeks or is this the worst? Tell me why oil prices which keep going up and gas prices which keep going up are up so much. You run an oil company. Why are they up so much?", "That's an interesting question because there's adequate supply of oil in the market, so that actually hasn't changed very much, how much supply relative to the demand. What's happening with the price is that those that buy volumes of oil around the world are looking at all the risks that they see. They see the disruption in the Middle East. They think about, you know, with economies in the Far East recovering and more demand in the near future, they're accounting for that risk in the price. So that's what we're seeing. And what we have to do is find ways to address the longer term picture for oil and other types of energy so that we can be sure we meet demand. That will bring it back to a normal price.", "So addressing that, is that relying less on foreign oil, is that energy efficiency? Is that new kinds of technologies? How do you address that?", "Well, it's yes, yes, yes, and yes. So I mean in the near term, meaning when I say near term, because I have to define my time scale, I'm talking about several decades.", "Right.", "I mean there's going to be a tremendous amount of oil needed around the world, much more than we have today. I mean, think about energy demand around this globe, potentially doubling between now and the middle of the century, so oil will be a big part of that well into the future. But so will natural gas. And if you think about North America, the natural gas that's been found over the last couple of years has actually completely changed the energy picture and the energy security, if you will, for the United States. It's a huge opportunity for us.", "We talk about some of the big fast growing middle classes in Brazil, Russia, India, China, all of these big countries, they're all going to be consuming more even as the U.S. is still the biggest consumer of oil. So oil is still the biggest game in town but you're talking about some of these other energy streams, if you will. I know you guys are involved in this eco-marathon going on right now. Tell me about that. Because this is interesting, this is where you're getting these teams of kids basically to go as far as they can on the least amount of oil. Tell me about it.", "Right. So this actually goes back to your first question. This is one way to address that over time, because we're going to need significant efficiency gains in energy usage as we go forward. And so what we do is we sponsor this event called the Shell Eco Marathon where we bring together literally in this case today, nearly a thousand students who have designed, built and now will actually race their vehicles in a controlled setting to see how far they can go on a certain quantity of fuel. And we leave the boundaries pretty wide open here because this is all about innovation and coming up with new ideas to be more efficient. So they can use gasoline, they can use diesel. We have cars that can use solar, hydrogen, plug-in hybrids, they have all different types of models. What we're looking for, though, are those innovative breakthroughs that can ultimately be applied to the larger transportation system.", "Let me ask you a little bit -- we're talking about budgets lately and how we're going to get our fiscal house in order. President Obama has said he wants to end subsidies for oil companies. It's something that liberals and progressives say a lot, that if the government could save billions of dollars a year in an industry that makes an awful lot of money, meaning the energy industry seems to make money whether oil prices are going up or going down, and have made a trillion dollars over the past decade and a half or so, what about oil industry subsidies -- subsidies for big oil, is this the right place to be looking for federal revenue?", "Well, I think as someone who follows business like you do, you know that we go through pretty steep business cycles where times are good and times are not so good. So we see that same cycle as consumers do and other businesses do. But I think the way to look at this is, just making sure that there's adequate supply there in the market and doing everything we can to make sure that it's there. On the subsidy question, I think this is where we need to have a serious conversation of where does the revenue flow from this industry come from as it goes into the government and where it really comes from? The big money comes from royalties and bonuses that we pay as we buy new leases. So let me give you an example. In Alaska where we bought a number of leases to drill offshore, we have some independent studies there that show that pursuing those projects would create something on the order of 50,000 jobs in the U.S. and it would result in something like 140 or more billion dollars of revenue flow into the federal government. So finding ways to develop more of our own energy --", "Right.", "-- producing our own oil and gas is the way to get more revenue into the government.", "I tell you though the top five oil companies turning combined profit of a trillion dollars since 2000 and this -- in this political climate it's going to be hard to convince taxpayers that they should be -- that the energy industry shouldn't be sharing some of the belt tightening. Are you prepared for that fight? There's going to be a political fight over this.", "Well, I think certainly we look at that. I mean we get asked this question and we face this question all around the world. And actually how capital gets allocated around the world for investment has a lot to do with one of the overall economics of a certain country looks like and part of that is tax rate and other revenues of the government. But think about what we do with the money that we bring in. I mean Shell is investing on the order of $25 to $27 billion a year in new energy projects. Energy that the world is going to need. So that revenue cycle where the cash comes in and gets reinvested is critically important.", "Marvin Odum, let's leave it there. President of Shell Oil Company, thanks so much for your time this morning. Very early in Houston, thank you, sir. Kiran and Ali.", "Just ahead on AMERICAN MORNING, the badly damaged nuclear power plant in Japan is now ordered to pay up. How much people who were forced to flee, how much are they going to get?", "Also, the last place you want to be if you spend the entire spring sneezing. Some of the worst cities for allergy sufferers. We'll break them down, coming up. Forty-three minutes past the hour."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "MARVIN ODUM, PRESIDENT, SHELL OIL", "ROMANS", "ODUM", "ROMANS", "ODUM", "ROMANS", "ODUM", "ROMANS", "ODUM", "ROMANS", "ODUM", "ROMANS", "ODUM", "ROMANS", "ODUM", "ROMANS", "VELSHI", "CHETRY"]}
{"id": "NPR-30171", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2013-01-01", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2013/01/01/168417035/israel-eases-gaza-blockade-allowing-construction-supplies", "title": "Israel Eases Gaza Blockade, Allowing Construction Supplies", "summary": "For the first time in five years, Israel is allowing the shipments for private-sector buyers. [Please see the transcript/story summary for a post-broadcast clarification.]", "utt": ["This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.", "The Israeli government has taken steps to ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip. For the first time in five years, Israel is allowing shipments of gravel, cement and other construction materials into Gaza. The move is meant to help Palestinians rebuild after November's brief war between Israeli forces and Hamas. [POST-BROADCAST CLARIFICATION: Previously, aid organizations had been allowed to import construction material into Gaza. The eased rules apply to private-sector builders.] Sheera Frenkel reports.", "Throughout Gaza, construction work is in full swing, as many hasten to repair the damage caused during by Israel's eight-day aerial offensive in November. The announcement that Israel would begin allowing gravel and other construction materials into Gaza was welcomed here, in Ali Abdula'al's construction goods store. He says it's a good thing, but he's not sure it means real change quite yet.", "ALI ABDULA'AL: (Through Translator) It is good but the cost is still very high.", "Abdula'al says that over the last five years, Gazans have perfected the art of smuggling in their own construction material through a network of tunnels that run between Gaza and Egypt. The newly available Israeli gravel costs more then the stuff he gets from the tunnels.", "ABDULA'AL: (Through Translator) And the Egyptian gravel is just as good. There is also new Turkish gravel that is better and cheaper then the Israeli stuff.", "He says that for as long as the tunnels are operating, he'll continue to depend on them to get the material he needs.", "Israel imposed a wide-ranging embargo on Gaza in 2007, after the militant Hamas movement seized control of the coastal strip. Hamas refuses to recognize Israel and has claimed responsibility for many terrorist attacks in the Jewish state. Israeli officials say they banned construction material because they feared Hamas would use the goods to build bunkers and tunnels.", "Guy Inbar is a spokesman for Israel's Defense Ministry in the department of coordination with the Palestinian territories. He says that materials which are deemed dual use, or which could be used by militant groups, are still banned from Gaza.", "These new steps are especially for the private sector for the population in Gaza, in order to distinct between the civilian population and the Hamas terrorist.", "Inbar says that the Defense Ministry decided to allow the new goods into Gaza due to the short-term success of the cease-fire agreement with Hamas. Egyptian mediators helped Israeli and Hamas officials reach that accord in November, after an eight-day conflict that left 133 Palestinians and six Israelis dead.", "Inbar says there is ongoing dialogue through Egyptian mediators; and that if the quiet prevails, Israel will continue to increase the flow of goods to Gaza.", "If the calm will continue, Israel will consider to approve more measures and more steps.", "Sari Bashi, executive director of the Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of Movement in Tel Aviv, says allowing some construction materials into Gaza is a great step, because it shows that Israel is looking to remove restrictions that don't raise security concerns. But the Israeli activist says much more could be done.", "People in Gaza should be able to build not just buildings, but also an economy and their professional aspirations. And to do that, they certainly need to be able to bring construction materials in. But people in Gaza also need to be able to travel and market goods, so that they can invest in their own economic and social future.", "She says that the last five years have created severe shortages across Gaza that will take years to overcome.", "For NPR News, I'm Sheera Frenkel."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "SHEERA FRENKEL, BYLINE", "SHEERA FRENKEL, BYLINE", "SHEERA FRENKEL, BYLINE", "SHEERA FRENKEL, BYLINE", "SHEERA FRENKEL, BYLINE", "SHEERA FRENKEL, BYLINE", "SHEERA FRENKEL, BYLINE", "GUY INBAR", "SHEERA FRENKEL, BYLINE", "SHEERA FRENKEL, BYLINE", "GUY INBAR", "SHEERA FRENKEL, BYLINE", "SARI BASHI", "SHEERA FRENKEL, BYLINE", "SHEERA FRENKEL, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-395398", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-03-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/17/cnr.08.html", "summary": "small businesses struggling to stay afloat amid outbreak", "utt": ["As we are all forced to rely even more heavily on deliveries, Amazon is seeing a surge in online orders and it's planning to hire an additional 100,000 full and part-time workers to keep up with the rising demand. Amazon says it will also raise pay by $2 an hour. CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich is live in New Jersey. And I know you, Vanessa, have been talking to all these small business owners, how they're weathering this coronavirus storm. What are they telling you?", "Hi, Brooke, well, these small businesses are definitely not Amazon. They cannot weather this storm as much as these larger corporations. They're in dire straits, many of them looking at their bank accounts and having to look at their employees and make really tough decisions. We spoke to two small business owners just a short ways away from where we're standing here in New Jersey and found out how they're coping.", "It's scary, it really is. I wouldn't want anybody to be in this position.", "Larry Birnbaum says he's losing $100,000 a month.", "I've never seen anything like this, where just everything grinds to a halt.", "The factories in China where he gets his wholesale light bulbs are closed because of coronavirus. (on camera): What percentage of your business comes from China?", "95 percent.", "President Trump announced low interest small business loans.", "These low interest loans will help small businesses.", "As part of the $50 billion economic aid package. (on camera): Would that be of interest to you?", "Possibly. But again, you just said the magic word, \"interest.\" So, I'm paying interest on that loan and I'm paying interest on the credit line loan. And it just depletes everything.", "The National Retail Federation revised its initial assessment of the virus' impact. Saying it's, quote, expected to have a longer and larger impact on imports and major U.S. retail container ports than previously believed. And a global slowdown will affect small and mid-sized companies more acutely. Birnbaum worries about his nine employees.", "I will take out of my savings and pay them, you know, until the day that there's nothing else to go.", "Two miles away is MDR Supply, another wholesale business with 35 employees. Down to their last reserves. (on camera): How long before this gets sent out?", "45 to 60 days is how long this product will last. Yes.", "And then what happens after that?", "We hopefully get more product or we're in trouble.", "Ron Malkenson sells to construction companies and contractors. He's ordering as much additional product as he can before it's too late, to the tune of $70,000 and climbing.", "I'm ordering ahead of myself, having to stretch myself, and just order from as many different vendors as I can knowing that in the future, I may not be able to get goods for a period of time.", "Malkenson is hopeful coronavirus won't mean an end to his business. Birnbaum is not as sure.", "There's no light like I said at the end of the tunnel.", "These are just two of the thousands of small businesses that are suffering during this time, Brooke. But I want to just sort of leave on a good note here. We're at a food distribution company that is the middleman between food producers and grocery stores. They are seeing a very high demand here, up 50 percent, Brooke. But they said that they are going to be able to manage it. They want to put Americans at ease, there is no food shortage, and this, like Amazon, is one of those companies that is going to be hiring Americans during this very, very troubling time -- Brooke.", "A little bit of a silver lining to all of this. Vanessa Yurkevich, I appreciate you, and appreciate you pointing that out, thank you. The Mall of America says it's closing its doors in just a couple hours as the economic impact of this crisis seems to be snowballing. Uber, Lyft making changes to their policies as well. You'll hear from some drivers who say they can't afford not to work."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "VANESSA YURKEVICH, CNN BUSINESS AND POLITICS CORRESPONDENT", "LARRY BIRNBAUM, OWNER, EPIC AND THE LIGHTBULB STORE", "YURKEVICH (voice-over)", "BIRNBAUM", "YURKEVICH", "BIRNBAUM", "YURKEVICH (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "YURKEVICH", "BIRNBAUM", "YURKEVICH (voice-over)", "BIRNBAUM", "YURKEVICH", "RON MALKENSON, OWNER, MDR SUPPLY AND ASK WHOLESALE", "YURKEVICH", "MALKENSON", "YURKEVICH (voice-over)", "MALKENSON", "YURKEVICH", "BIRNBAUM", "YURKEVICH", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-174436", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-10-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1110/21/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Moammar Gadhafi Killed in Libya; Last of Moammar Gadhafi's Sons Being Tracked Down in Libya; Brother of Pan Am Bombing Victim Interviewed; Libyans Cheer Gadhafi's Death; What Happens to Gadhafi's Money; NATO's Role in Post- Gadhafi Libya; Gadhafi Death New Notch in Obama's Feign Policy Belt", "utt": ["The final moments of a desperate dictator. Moammar Gadhafi meeting his end in a battle for his hometown, and we're learning more about NATO's role in taking him out.", "The seaside villas, the private planes, the golden gun. Billions in frozen assets. What happens to the dictator's fortune now?", "And families of Lockerbie victims seeking payback of a different kind on this AMERICAN MORNING.", "Good morning. It's Friday, October 21, 2011. Welcome to", "Friday. You know, it's my favorite day, besides Saturday and Sunday.", "You don't buy that this is end of the world? You know that --", "There are some pictures that today is the end of the world.", "I totally ignored them this time for good reason.", "Thank goodness.", "Up first this morning, Libya is still cheering the death of former dictator, Moammar Gadhafi. Celebrations lasting for hours. Libya will officially mark a new day tomorrow, and there are new videos and images that virtually take a step-by-step through Gadhafi's final seconds, but we warn you, some of these pictures, this video is graphic. Here's Dan Rivers.", "This was how it all ended for Moammar Gadhafi. Cornered and injured, the former dictator was apparently trying to escape Sirte. He appears bloody but alive here, but died soon afterwards according to NTC officials, his golden gun brandished in wild excitement by NTC troops who seized him, a potent symbol of his decadence. The news of his death spread rapidly across country, disbelief turning into jubilation in Tripoli.", "We are very free. Today is my birthday and I feel I am six hours' old. Really, Libya's free without him.", "We are so happy. It's a great, the greatest moment in all my life. And I have my brother who was killed by Gadhafi forces on the 20th of February, we was so, so sad. But now is a great moment. We are so happy. We are so, so happy.", "Many of the people here have known nothing other than colonel Gadhafi's 42-year rule. They cannot believe now that finally he is dead, but Sirte has fallen, the war is over. Just look at the sea of flags out here in celebration.", "Wow.", "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton learned of the news from her BlackBerry as she prepared for an interview.", "Unconfirmed reports about Gadhafi being captured.", "But soon officials were confirming the momentous news.", "Today we can definitively say that the Gadhafi regime has come to an end. The last major regime strongholds have fallen. A new government is consolidating the control over the country, and one of the world's longest serving dictators is no more.", "The Arab spring came here on February the 17th when a rebellion against Gadhafi's iron rule spread. Now the winds are turmoil and change that are blowing so strong across the Arab world have claimed yet another victim, and Libya is finally free of the man who so brutalized this country.", "And you're looking at a picture of Misrata. You see people gathering there. The celebrations have quieted down but people still out on the streets talking about this momentous event in their history. Dan Rivers is in Misrata. He joins live on the phone. So Dan, first of all, I want to ask you first about Saif Gadhafi, because I talked to a member of the National Transitional Council earlier. He told me they had Gadhafi's son surrounded. What do you know?", "We hear from one NTC official that they think his convoy is in an area which is down in the mountainous area, I guess slightly south and west of Misrata, towards Bani Walid, which was a stronghold of Gadhafi;s resistance until a few days ago. It's very difficult to put too much credibility in the statements and claims. They've often come out with information that is incorrect or inaccurate. But that's the latest information that we have. They're saying she in country still. That they know where he is and they are trying to surround his convoy, and dispelling the idea he may have fled south over the border.", "Why is it important for them to capture or kill him?", "Well, I think it will be enormously significant if they manage to capture him alive, because he would effectively be the only member of the Gadhafi family that they could put on trial, potentially in the International Criminal Court in the Hague. He's wanted there on war crimes charges. So, I mean, I think that would be a huge boost for the Libyan people. A lot of the people we spoke to want to see some sort of trial. They want to see someone from the Gadhafi regime held to account, cross-examined, made to answer the questions about why they brutalized this country for so long and sold so much of its oil well without allowing it to trickle down to ordinary people. I think that would be important to the NTC, and very important for many of the people.", "Dan Rivers reporting live for us from Misrata, Libya, this morning.", "NATO officials are expected to meet later today in Brussels. And now that Gadhafi is dead, the coalition's mission in Libya is likely to come to an official end. Meantime, we're learning more about the NATO airstrike that led to Gadhafi's demise. Chris Lawrence has new details now live from the Pentagon. Good morning, Chris.", "Hey, good morning, Christine. Yes, there was a point where the official version of how Moammar Gadhafi died and what we've seen with other own eyes in some of the pictures and video simply don't add up. But we are getting some more new information about what led up to those final moments. NATO officials now say that the Gadhafi loyalists were boxed in to a particular area of the city of Sirte, and they had drones that were keeping aerial surveillance on that area. About 8:30 in the morning a group, a convoy of those loyalists, made a break for it, driving west out of the city of Sirte. That's when an American predator drone and French fighter jets hit that convoy, taking out several of the vehicles. Now, they don't believe Gadhafi was injured or killed in that initial strike on the convoy, but it did stop the convoy, split it up and sent people out on foot. Some of the rebel, the NTC, say that they discovered Gadhafi in a drainage pipe, and at that point a firefight broke out between themselves and fighters still loyal to Gadhafi. That's when the stories we've heard. We've seen the pictures of a bloody Gadhafi being hauled across the hood of a car, pushed around. But the official version from the NTC, from Libyan officials, is that he died in the cross fire between his own forces and the rebels.", "So what's next, then, for the NATO mission in Libya?", "We expect that the supreme military commander is going to call a special session, probably today, actually, in which they're address ending, officially ending the mission. He's basically looking at basically two key pieces of intelligence. Does NATO believe that the NTC now controls the city of Sirte? Yes, they do. And do they think that the Gadhafi loyalists can mount a significant counterattack? At this point, NATO does not. So the NATO mission is likely to officially end probably by today.", "The NTC and Mohammed Sayah telling us they think Saif al Islam is being chased into the southern part of the country. So he's surrounded. Any kind of resistance that could come up around Saif, it's looks as though the NTC is confident that that's not going to happen.", "Yes, when it comes to Saif, I mean, you've already got so many previous stories in which -- I mean, we've heard him reported dead at times, with people celebrating his death. And then you see a video of him alive and well just a few hours later. So it's a very chaotic situation there in Libya. We may have to let this play out over several hours or several days before we get a real clear picture on his whereabouts and what happens next with him.", "All right, Chris Lawrence in Washington. Thanks, Chris.", "Vice president Joe Biden says NATO got it right with its assault against Gadhafi. The vice president pointing out that the United States spent just $2 billion on the mission in Libya without losing a single American life. Biden sitting down with \"STATE OF THE UNION\" host Candy Crowley, calling Gadhafi's demise an opportunity the Libyan people cannot afford to squander.", "This is one bad guy, one really tough guy. He for 40 years had his folks under his thumb. and he's dead, and it's going to give the people of Libya their first chance in four decades to actually put together their own government and have a little bit of freedom, a little bit of opportunity.", "Be sure to catch candy's entire interview with the vice president this Sunday on \"STATE OF THE UNION\" at 10:00 eastern on", "For Brian Kelly, the death of Moammar Gadhafi represents a promise kept. Flynn's big brother John Patrick was one of the 270 who were killed when Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland nearly 23 years ago. Brian made a silent promise to J.P. that day, and he honored it. Here's Susan Candiotti.", "When you heard the news, what did you think?", "I was thrilled. And I didn't expect to have that reaction. I'd been dreaming about this more than 20 years, but it was always with the sense you don't want to be the vengeful one that thinks I want my brother's murderer killed, but in a way you do.", "Flynn's big brother J.P. was coming home for Christmas after studying abroad when a bomb killed 270 people over Lockerbie, Scotland. (on camera) To you and to the other families, what did Gadhafi represent?", "He was an unrepentant murder of these innocent kids coming home from Christmas. So he did represent the essence of evil to us.", "We showed him video of Gadhafi's body for the first time.", "It's too bad they couldn't kill him more than once.", "On a personal front, what are your reflections on this day about your brother?", "I remember promising my brother that I wouldn't let it go unanswered, that I would do what I could to get him. I definitely believe that I've honored him and fulfilled my promise by doing what I could.", "I look at his picture over your shoulder.", "Where it usually was, if that makes sense. He was a classic big brother, and today I feel as if, hopefully, he's proud.", "Susan Candiotti, CNN, New York.", "Oh, that's really sad.", "Yes. And you know there's secrets about that bombing that died with Moammar Gadhafi, too. I mean, that's the other thing. There are things we may never know about that bombing and exactly --", "The man who planted the bomb onboard that plane is still alive and maybe can still give answers because he has no more excuses. Moammar Gadhafi is dead. There is no more protection. So maybe he'll speak out who exactly ordered the downing of that plane over Lockerbie, Scotland.", "We'll see.", "Still to come this morning, what Gadhafi's death means for the United States and Libya's relations. And what will it take to build democracy from the ruins of a four decade old dictatorship?", "And the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray winding down. The big question, what's next for the defense? And a first for the first lady, or any first lady, thanking military families in 140 characters or less. You're watching AMERICAN MORNING. It's 11 minutes past."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "COSTELLO", "ROMANS", "AMERICAN MORNING. 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{"id": "CNN-308842", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2017-03-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/30/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Medicare for all Legislation; Trump's Trade Promises; Dismantling Obama Climate Policies; Gorsuch Confirmation Vote; Interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders.", "utt": ["We're waiting for the White House daily press briefing to get underway. The press secretary, Sean Spicer, expected to take questions from reporters very soon. We'll have live coverage. But first, I want to bring in the independent senator, Bernie Sanders, of Vermont. He's joining us now from Capitol Hill. Senator, thanks very much for joining us.", "My pleasure, Wolf.", "We have lots to discuss. But quickly on the Senate Intelligence Committee that is meeting today, holding a public hearing on Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election, possible collusion with Trump -- the Trump campaign. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, today, called those claims of meddling, and I'm quoting him now, he said they were \"hoaxes, lives, and provocations.\" Do you think, first of all, that President Trump's associates colluded with Russia to try to influence the U.S. presidential election?", "Well, let me just say that I would take what Mr. Putin says with a grain of salt. The evidence is overwhelming. It is enormously serious that Russia did interfere in our election. They have interfered not only in elections in the United States, but in elections around the world. That is what they are doing. And we have got to respond vigorously to that. It is a real political attack by Russia against the United States. Second of all, the issue of whether or not Trump or his associates, his campaign, had colluded with Russia in the elections is an issue of incredible consequences. I think the American people are a little bit astounded that when you have an authoritarian type guy like Putin, who is moving Russia more and more away into an authoritarian society, why it is that President Trump has only positive things to say about this authoritarian figure. What hold does Russia or might Russia have over the president? We know -- it appears at least from media that Russian oligarchs lent Trump and his associates money. Does that have anything to do with Trump's relationship with Russia? These are issues. I don't have the answers, but these are issues that must be thoroughly investigated. The American people want to know that our president is representing the best interests of the American people, not Russian oligarchs or the Russian government.", "And we know the Senate Intelligence Committee is doing that investigation. The FBI is as well. The House Intelligence Committee, they've got some other problems over there, but hopefully they'll get into this as well.", "Right.", "Let's move on to some other important issues, senator. President Trump has said he'd like to work with Democrats on health care. But this morning he tweeted, and let me read it to you. He said, \"the Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team and fast. We must fight them and Dems in 2018.\" And here's what the speaker, Paul Ryan, said in a new interview and over at a press conference earlier today about working with Democrats. Listen to this.", "What I worry about, Norah, is that if we don't do this, then he'll just go work with Democrats to try and change Obamacare. And that's not going to -- that's hardly a conservative thing. If we're going to do what we said we would do, which is repeal and replace Obamacare and save the American health care system, something tells me the Democrats aren't going to help us repeal Obamacare. They're the ones who created it in the first place.", "Senator, your reaction?", "Well, my reaction is, you know, we can go on for a long time on this. First of all, what I would tell Speaker Ryan is, he's got to understand that the United States of America today is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right. I live 50 miles away from Canada. They manage to do it. Second of all, we end up spending twice as much per capita on health care as any other country. Thirdly, we pay by far -- by far multiple times the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. And all of that has to do with the power and the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and the insurance companies. Nobody I know, Wolf, thinks that Obamacare has been a panacea, that it solved our health care problems. But what it did do is provide 20 million Americans with more -- with health insurance for the first time. It did away with this obscenity of denying people care because they had a pre-existing condition. It did some good things. What a rational approach would be, which apparently Mr. Ryan is not prepared to do, is for us to sit down and say, how do we deal with the problems. Our deductibles --", "Let me -- let me -- let me interrupt you for a moment, because I know you support what you call a Medicare single payer health care system, Medicare for all.", "Yes.", "And you want to work and try to get that through the current political environment. But is that at all single payer, Medicare for all system, is that all -- at all realistic right now?", "Not today it's not. I am going to introduce that legislation because I think it is the most sensible and cost effective approach, Medicare for all. Medicare right now works well for people 65 or older. We should have it apply to everybody. I am going to introduce that legislation. It will not pass under the current political climate where insurance companies and drug companies have so much power. But what we can do, working together, is to say, for example, are deductibles too high under Obamacare? The answer is yes. How do we lower those deductibles? How do we lower co-payments? How do we lower the cost of prescription drugs? Trump has talked a lot about taking on the pharmaceutical industry. I have legislation in that would save billions of dollars for the American people by allowing pharmacists and distributors to purchase lower cost prescription drugs from Canada and other countries around the world. Will Trump work with us on those issues? The idea of a public option being made available in 50 states. This will improve Obamacare. Let's work together trying to do that.", "But you say you want to work together with the Trump administration. Earlier in the week, as you know, he invited all 100 U.S. senators to the White House for a reception. The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, went. Dick Durbin was there. You decided not to attend. Why?", "Because I'm not into social events. If the president is serious about dealing with health care, if he is serious about dealing with the high cost of prescription drugs, let's work together. I don't want to sit around just, you know -- you know, blabbering and talking about the weather. That's not the way you get real work done. I have introduced legislation that will substantially lower the cost of prescription drugs in this country through reimportation. If the -- and the president has said he likes that idea. He campaigned on that idea. So let's not -- let's stop the talk. Let's sit down and work on it. If --", "Has he reached out to you, senator, or have you reached out personally to him and said, let's have a meeting? Have you actually sat down and had a meeting with him?", "I will -- I -- I don't want to just talk. There is legislation out there. Look, this guy throughout his campaign said some good things among prescription drugs. If he is prepared to say, Senator Sanders, I've seen your legislation on reimportation, has 20 co-sponsors in the Senate, I know a number of Republicans are sympathetic to the concept, if he says let's sit down and work on the legislation, I'll be there if five minutes. But I don't want to do a photo op with the president if we're not going to go anyplace. He talks a good game. I want to see real action.", "Another area where there has been some potential agreement between you and President Trump involves trade. As you know, he's withdrawn from the TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.", "Right.", "You don't like that deal either. But \"The Wall Street Journal\" is now reporting there are early indications he's only going to make when it describes as modest changes to NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. Do you believe he's living up to his campaign promises on trade?", "Wolf, you know, I've said this before and I'll say it again, I think the president lies a great deal of the time. I think he told the American people, working class people, during the campaign that he was going to stand with them, that he was going to take on big money interests. He ended up appointing half of Wall Street to his administration. The guy he is now considering to be his FDA secretary administrator is a man who wrote in op-ed in direct opposition to a lot of what Trump said about prescription drugs. So he said one thing during the campaign, he's doing the very -- very opposite. On trade, no, I would not be surprised. We do need to fundamentally rethink our trade policies. It is not acceptable to me that profitable corporations throw American workers out on the street, go to China, go to Mexico, pay people very, very low wages. So we have got to do everything that we have -- can do to create a trade policy which not only works for the multi-national CEOs, but works for the working people of this country.", "All right. I know there's another issue that you're really committed to, very passionate over, and that involves the environment. President Trump signed a sweeping executive order this week involving the Environmental Protection Agency, which officials said looks to curb the federal government's enforcement of climate regulations by putting American jobs above addressing climate change. React to that move.", "Wolf, that is such a nonsensical and stupid and dangerous approach. It's almost indescribable. Look, the scientific community is virtually unanimous. While Trump and his friends may think climate change is a hoax, what the scientists are telling us, it is real, it is caused by human activity, it is already causing devastating problems. And all over the world you're having countries beginning to transform their energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency sustainable energy. In the United States you're even having Republican governors, Republican mayors doing the same thing. And guess what? Far more jobs are now being created in sustainable energy and energy efficiency than are being now created in the fossil fuel industries. You had the absurdity of Exxon, the largest oil company in America, telling the president he should not withdraw from the Paris agreement. This is very dangerous because if the United States does not lead the world in transforming our energy system, I worry very, very much about the nation and the world that our kids and grandchildren will be living in as a result of the devastation caused by climate change.", "Is there anything you can do to reverse his new regulations?", "Well, obviously we will try to do everything that we can do. But I think you are seeing states all over this country, cities all over this country, understand how dangerous and absurd his ideas and his actions are and they're going to continue to go forward trying to combat climate change, along with countries all over the world.", "The Senate is scheduled to vote next week on whether to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch to the United States Supreme Court. You're voting against that confirmation. Will you also support a filibuster?", "Well, I don't -- you know, we can argue about terminology. First of all, yes, I am going to be voting against Gorsuch for the following reasons. I had a meeting in my office with him. It was a pleasant meeting. We talked for, I think, 45 minutes. Look, here are the issues that worry me. I worry that billionaires are now able to buy elections because of Citizens United. And I know he can't comment on a particular case. I was not impressed about his views on that issue. I believe that voter suppression, Republican governors all over the country trying to make it harder for people of color, poor people, older people, to participate in our democracy. I was not impressed by what he had to say about that. Was not impressed about what he had to say with regard to privacy rights or a woman's right to control her own body. So I'm going to vote against him. Now, the rule right now are, as you know, and Democrats did not change this particular rule applying to the Supreme Court, is that if anybody objects, it requires 60 votes. So I believe somebody will object. I think that we should obey the current rules and it should require -- we should require 60 votes for Gorsuch's appointment."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I), VERMONT", "BLITZER", "SANDERS", "BLITZER", "SANDERS", "BLITZER", "REP. PAUL RYAN (R), HOUSE SPEAKER", "BLITZER", "SANDERS", "BLITZER", "SANDERS", "BLITZER", "SANDERS", "BLITZER", "SANDERS", "BLITZER", "SANDERS", "BLITZER", "SANDERS", "BLITZER", "SANDERS", "BLITZER", "SANDERS", "BLITZER", "SANDERS", "BLITZER", "SANDERS"]}
{"id": "CNN-276281", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-02-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/11/es.02.html", "summary": "Can World Powers Negotiate Syria Cease-Fire?; Russian Airstrikes Hit Close to Turkey.", "utt": ["Secretary of State John Kerry is calling for immediate cease-fire in Syria. He is in Germany right now for a meeting of major world powers. There is growing concern on two fronts -- over Russia's full throttle air support for the Syrian regime's offensive against rebel forces. Not only is it threatening the peace process. It's also triggering a refugee crisis of overwhelming proportions. CNN has live coverage of both of these developing stories, these developing angles, starting with Nic Robertson in Munich -- Nic.", "Yes, good morning, Christine. The talks that will get under way here later today really critical for the peace process. If they can't hammer something out here, those talks that got off the ground a couple weeks ago in Geneva and the pause button hit because the Russian air strikes and the Syrian government ground forces campaign around Aleppo got to such a momentum, the U.N. felt all they could do is pause the talks rather than break them up completely. The meetings here today, if they can't break that log jam, then the hopes for the meaningful peace process will breakdown. That will happen here. What we are hearing from the Russians right now is they are proposing a cease-fire the 1st of March. This is what the ambassador to the United Nations said.", "We have a number of discussions with the United States, including the possibility of a cease-fire and also some humanitarian discussions. Very important discussions too.", "The reality here is though that Russian credibility is at a low. They are regarded by the 18 nations and country groups meeting here today as the one single country along with Iran and, of course, the Syrian government that are causing the casualties in the conflict to escalate seriously at the moment. So, right now, it does seem to be a hard sell. What we know the opposition is looking for here is to see humanitarian access across the country. That is going to be key for them. However, the test is really going to come. Will the Russians compromise and move up this cease-fire to something meaningful and can they be trusted on it?", "All right. Nic, thank you.", "All right. Of course, there is the human toll to what is going on. Russian air strikes in Syria now coming dangerously close to the Turkish border. This is shifting the dynamic, the battle on the ground while destroying or uprooting the lives of so many civilians. For more on that part of the story, we turn to CNN international correspondent Arwa Damon in southeastern Turkey, where you can see the impact of that refugee flow -- Arwa.", "Good morning. If you will remember when the Russian air strikes allowed the Syrian regime to cut off a vital supply line from Turkey to rebel held areas of Aleppo, they not only hampered supply routes for rebel fighters, they also caused a massive humanitarian crisis when it comes to trying to get much-needed food supplies in, but also causing tens of thousands to flee toward Turkey's borders. And since the regime managed to take over and cut off that supply route, they cut rebel held areas in half and they have been moving closer toward Turkey's borders. In the last 24 to 48 hours, air strikes happening about a ten minute drive away from the Turkey border, causing tens of thousands more to flee as well. Meanwhile, Turkey says it has an open-door policy, but its gates do remain closed. In the aftermath of these airstrikes, I mean, it is absolutely devastating and heartbreaking and violence that is only too familiar in Syria's war zone. One video posted to YouTube showed a little girl in complete shock. She was bloodied. She had shrapnel in her head that doctors were trying to remove. She was trying to speak but she quite simply couldn't. And this is just one example of the countless lives that this ongoing fighting has been claiming. Meanwhile, not many are really putting a lot of hope in the fact that the cease-fire talks will actually amount to anything. The opposition fighters say they have been betrayed too many times by the international community, while the Syrian regime for its part has massive support from Russia, but also from numerous other actors on the ground to include Iraqi militias and, of course, vital support that it does get from Iran.", "Why should they hope there would be success in the peace negotiations after all they have seen over the last several years? Arwa Damon for us in Turkey, thanks so much.", "All right. Fifty-six minutes past the hour. Let's get an early start on your money this morning. It's drop -- big drop in oil prices is sending global stock markets tumbling. Crude now below $27 a barrel. The Dow futures, John, down almost 300 points. Europe is sinking as well. Stocks in Hong Kong plummeting after the holiday break. In the midst of that emergency water crisis, Flint, Michigan, also has a major housing problem now. Look at this, the average vacancy rate in Flint is 7.5 percent. That's nearly five times higher than the nationwide average of 1.6 percent. These are new numbers crunched from RealtyTrac. One in 14 houses in Flint are vacant. The five zip codes close to the city center, one in five homes is empty. Wow. The city's housing market was hit hard during the great recession. Prices were up last year. Now, there are signs that the water crisis is straining Flint's housing recovery. The median home price fell by 8 percent in December alone, 8 percent. The biggest drop in the country. A Twitter shares taking a nose dive. The company lost 2 million users in the fourth quarter of last year, breaking the total to $350 million. Compare that to Instagram, which has more than 400 million, and the king of social networking, Facebook, 1.6 billion active users. Twitter stock getting crushed. It is down 67 percent over the past year. Shares down another 3 percent pre-market trading. It's going to get nailed this morning. What is behind the drop? Ad sales not growing quickly enough. Rumors of sales have been swirling around the tech community for months. It turns out some people are addicted to Twitter but --", "Don't look at me.", "But investors are not addicted to Twitter at the moment.", "No, that's the last thing you want if you're a social media company and you're not growing, it's really awful.", "And making money from what you're offering and getting buy-in on the things you are offering to users. Yes.", "All right. EARLY START continues right now.", "In just hours, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton face-off on the debate stage in what could be a pivotal moment in the Democratic race for president. The new strategies going into tonight.", "Republicans, they take the race to South Carolina where bare- knuckle politics is a national past time. Frontrunner Donald Trump with a big event overnight. What he said and how his opponents plan to take him down, that's coming up. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm John Berman.", "And I'm Christine Romans. It is Thursday, it's February 11th. It is 5:00 a.m. in the East. We are just now hours away from the showdown in the race for president. PBS Democratic debate will air right here on CNN tonight. And it's crystal clear where Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are drawing new battle lines for this face-off, minority voters. After a high profile meeting with Al Sharpton in Harlem, Bernie Sander hit \"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\". He repeatedly addressed the issue of racial oppression. He addressed whether his political revolution he's calling for could end in violence.", "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable, is what John Kennedy said. If your answer is not the answer, is violent revolution inevitable?", "Well, I wouldn't -- I certainly hope not. But I hope and what the goal of this campaign is about is to look at the civil rights movement, look at the women's movement, look at the gay movement -- understand that when people come together, we can accomplish enormous things.", "That debate tonight takes place in Milwaukee. It's at 9:00 p.m. Senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns has the latest for us.", "John and Christine, this morning, the focus is turning to Milwaukee and pivotal debate there tonight between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. It's so important because the former secretary of state lost momentum in the drubbing she took in New Hampshire, she is already trying to make changes to her campaign to appeal to younger voters."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR", "VITALY CHURKIN, RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N.", "ROBERTSON", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "STEPHEN COLBERT, THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT", "SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ROMANS", "JOHNS"]}
{"id": "CNN-272330", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-12-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/28/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Massive Tornadoes, Flooding Kill 24 People", "utt": ["More than 40 people killed across seven states.", "You could hear the loud roar, like a train, and within 15 to 20 seconds, it's all over.", "That sound, I just can't get that sound out of my head.", "Texas survivors describing what it's like to live through powerful tornadoes.", "All we could do was run to the closet and pray.", "But the threat is not over.", "Why you got to shoot first and ask questions later?", "Also, a student and a grandmother shot and killed by Chicago police.", "When is the mayor going to step up?", "This morning, protesters pressuring Mayor Rahm Emanuel to step down. Plus, the Iraqi flag rises over Ramadi. It's a key victory against ISIS. But Americans say the terrorists are winning. What a brand-new CNN poll means for 2016. And Peyton Manning calls doping allegations against him, quote, \"trash.\" And now he's fighting back. Let's talk. Live in the CNN NEWSROOM.", "Good morning, everyone. I'm Poppy Harlow, in today for my friend Carol Costello. Hope you had a good weekend. Thank you for being with us. Let's get right to our breaking news. Thirty million Americans right now under threat, as massive, deadly storms trudge east. In the last week, violent weather has killed 43 people, 24 of those deaths coming in just the last 48 hours. We are looking at a true triple threat. Snow, tornadoes and widespread flooding. A closer look at New Mexico, the city of Roswell seeing record snowfall, nearly 16 inches dumping there over the weekend. That snow now heading east, where multiple massive tornadoes just struck. 11 people killed near Dallas from those the storms. In Garland, Texas, we know at least 600 homes have been destroyed. And in the Midwest, cars swept away from deadly flash flooding. More than 100 water rescues in Missouri. Standing water shutting down a major interstate this morning. We'll have a look at today's forecast in just a moment. First, though, I do want to go straight to our Nick Valencia, he is live for us in Garland, Texas, this morning. Nick, you and I were speaking last night. The conditions were so bad it was even knocking your camera out. You were hearing from people who survived these storms. I know we have 11 lives lost. What are you seeing on the ground?", "Well, this is the closest that we've been allowed to get so far, Poppy. And you could see the force of this EF-4 tornado that ripped through this area. This specific apartment complex suffering the brunt of the damage. Behind me, you can see just how powerful that tornado was, ripping through that brick wall. And over here, as our camera pans, that's the exact path that that tornado took, taking the lives of 11, eight of them here in Garland, Texas.", "Whoa, I just got -- there's lightning strike.", "Overnight in eastern Texas, blinding rain, lightning, and strong winds in the city of Marshall. Downed trees and power lines possibly the work of yet another tornado touching down in the lone star state. Last night patrons inside a Chili's restaurant, huddling inside a freezing, as tornado sirens sound off. A tornado watch still in effect today. This morning the monster storm system wreaking havoc across the southern states, making its way eastward.", "It's a big tornado. Big, big strong tornado.", "Over the Christmas weekend, Texas bearing the brunt of the storm. Ravaged by nearly half a dozen deadly tornadoes. An airplane passenger snapping this stunning photo of the massive storm on a flight to Dallas. Two powerful EF-3 and EF-4 twisters carving a path of destruction in Rowlett and nearby Garland on Saturday. The death toll, 11, making this the deadliest December for tornadoes in 60 years. Justin Schuler sifts through what remains of his home in Garland. He and his dog survived by taking cover in a bathtub.", "I stepped out because I heard the roaring, and that's when I saw it.", "Willard Jordan heard the tornado rip through his neighborhood in Dallas, his family and home spared.", "Buildings cracking, I mean, ripping stuff up. All we could do was run to the closet and pray.", "And this Garland resident rescued by family.", "I just stayed in my closet all night long, shaking like a leaf on a tree.", "The deadly storm spawning flash floods, white out conditions, and states of emergency in New Mexico and Missouri. In Missouri, more than 100 water rescues. At least six people in Pulaski County swept away by flood water Saturday night.", "It's a small, dark highway. They probably did not know what hit them until they hit the water.", "The massive system dumping more than 16 inches of snow in New Mexico. Icy roads backing up traffic and shutting down Interstate 40 in Albuquerque.", "I just got off the phone with the mayor pro-temp here in the city of Garland. He tells me that at least 3,000 people are still without power. Dozens of families still displaced. Many of them having to spend the night in an American Red Cross shelter -- Poppy.", "Nick Valencia, thank you so much for that. We've got flooding, the biggest threat this morning. A dangerous scene, especially in Missouri. Just moments ago, take a look at this, water on the road. More than waist deep. Never a good idea to drive in that. We've seen multiple cars over the weekend swept away, a number of deaths there. Officials warning drivers find alternate routes this morning or just stay off those roads. Let's go straight to Jennifer Gray, she's tracking the latest in the severe weather center. Good morning, Jennifer.", "Good morning to you, Poppy.", "Yes. Patience is a virtue. Just keep telling yourself that at the airport. Right, Jennifer?", "Yes. Exactly.", "Thank you very much. Appreciate it. We're also following breaking news in the fight against ISIS. Iraqi forces, major announcement this morning saying they have, quote, \"liberated\" the key city of Ramadi from those ISIS militants. This is new video. It shows those troops celebrating in the streets. Also raising the Iraqi flag over that government compound that was surrounded yesterday and liberated this morning. All of this happening just months after an embarrassing setback, when that city fell to ISIS. I want to go straight to Becky Anderson. She has the latest. This is huge because it was back in May that it fell. You had Defense Secretary Ash Carter talking about a lack of a will to fight among the Iraqi forces. Now a complete reversal of fortune.", "Well, no real surprise then, is it, that this was described as an epic victory by the Iraqi military earlier? This much-touted offensive against ISIS militants in the strategic city of Ramadi, about 60 kilometers away from Baghdad. Now CNN cannot independently confirm exactly what is going on, on the ground. The extent then of what the Iraqi army has liberated is very difficult to pin down, Poppy. A somewhat more guarded statement, I have to say, from this spokesman for coalition forces earlier today, congratulating the Iraqis on what he called their continued success against ISIS in Ramadi, and offering continued support for the government of Iraq as it moves, it says, to make Ramadi safe for civilians to return. But what experts conceive is that it is very likely to ISIS militants who had been in control of this government compound in the center of the city may just have moved further north. And it is safe to say, as we've seen in the past, that there is every chance that they can regroup. In fact, reports in the past couple of days that ISIS fighters used civilians as human shields as they retreated from the complex. As far as a number of ISIS fighters are concerned, it's very difficult to say exactly how many are on the ground. I think, Poppy, the Iraqi army will claim this as its single biggest victory over ISIS since the terror group swept through the country in 2014. And the embarrassment of May 2015, as you pointed out. So while the bigger battle against ISIS is far from over, and Ramadi may not be over as a fight, this is certainly a symbolic victory. And there's no doubt there is a win here, at least for the Obama administration's strategy of providing U.S. air support and military advisers for what are these local boots on the ground. And also, importantly -- important to point out, these were Sunni tribal fighters alongside Iraqi Security Forces, not Shiite militia. In the past they were -- often that was a pretty controversial co-option in other operations. So again Iraq's military announcement they control the government complex in the center of Ramadi. How long they can hold it, what they're actually holding happens next really still clearly a big question -- Poppy.", "Absolutely. Becky Anderson, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Back here on American soil, bad news for the Obama administration. 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{"id": "CNN-233489", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2014-06-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/27/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Mississippi Tea Party Leader Found Dead; Family Legacies Affect Political Policies", "utt": ["Pretty shocking development, an important update on a story we've been covering in Mississippi where the Tea Party unsuccessfully targeted the long-time Republican Senator Thad Cochran. Attorney Mark Mayfield, a Tea Party leader involved in the effort to oust Cochran, has died of an apparent, an apparent, self-inflicted gunshot wound. A note was found in his home. Police are investigating the death as a possible suicide. Mayfield was one of three men charged with conspiring to take photos of Cochran's wife in a nursing home and using those images in a political ad. Let's bring in our panel, CNN chief political analyst, Gloria Borger. Our senior political analyst, Ron Brownstein, is joining us from L.A. Ron, let me ask you first, this is a pretty tragic situation. It was a bitter runoff. What do you make of this?", "Yeah. Well, first of all, it's obviously a tragedy for the friends and family. That really is the first point. Second, it's a reminder of how intense the emotions are at this moment in American politics. Third, I think it is also a reminder that after some indications earlier to opposite, the Cantor race and the Mississippi Senate race reminded us there's going to be no quick end to the conflict in the Republican Party to what some call the establishment and the Tea Party. I call it the managers and the populous. There is a real divide in what they want and what they're looking for. We'll continue to see it fought out. Most dramatically, perhaps in the 2016 presidential race.", "Gloria, Chris McDaniel, the challenger to Cochran, he has not conceded. He says there were irregularities. He's threatening to go to court.", "Right, he just yesterday charged irregularities and he wants an investigation. It's very difficult for me to see how this election is going to be undone. But it's clear that he believes he was robbed of a victory in this election. As Ron points out, the emotions are really running high in that state.", "Yeah, apparent suicide, it's really a tragic story, going on in Mississippi right now. Let's shift gears a little bit and talk about the Clintons and the Bushes. Their family names represent political dynasties. For Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, future political ambitions could mean breaking with the past. Ron, you wrote an important article entitled \"The Irony of the Dynasty\" in the \"National Journal.\" Explain what the bottom line means.", "The irony is that obviously the family tradition and the family name provide enormous practical advantages for both Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush if they run in terms organization, fundraising and name identification. The irony comes in that each would be seeking to lead parties that have largely abandoned the policies that are associated with their family name, the new Democrat agenda of Bill Clinton, the compassionate conservatism of George W. Bush. Each party has moved largely away from that because their electoral coalition, I would argue, has significantly evolved in the last decade and made the parties less receptive to the policy legacy that Bush and Clinton would bring to a race if they're in. They may face more pressure than they now expect to adapt themselves to the new dynamics in the party rather than the other way around, of putting their stamp and direction on the party.", "There's another irony here too, Ron, which is that Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush are more alike than they are different. Both of them understand what it takes to run for the presidency. They're both kind of the policy wonks in their family. Right? Not that Bill Clinton is a policy wonk, but Hillary Clinton is. Jeb certainly is a policy wonk, particularly when it companies to education. The irony is if the two of them ended up running against each other -- yes, there are the issues of all the money they could raise and the name I.D. that gives them unfair advantages -- I think you'd actually have a very serious substantive race. But Jeb Bush, as you point out, might not be able to get nominated by the Republican Party right now.", "Well, we'll see if both, or neither, decides to run. If they do, could be fascinating. All right, guys, thanks, very, very much. In just four days, millions and millions of eyes will be glued to the TV sets watching Team USA take on Belgium in a must-win World Cup match. So how are these soccer super stars preparing for the big game? We're going to hear from the USA goalkeeper, Tim Howard. Plus, thousands of kids make the dangerous trek often without their parents to get a better life here in the United States. Illegal immigration through the eyes of one woman who's trying to make a difference. Her story, when we return."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "BROWNSTEIN", "BORGER", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-124986", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-3-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0803/26/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Controversial Hypothermia Therapy for Injured Singer", "utt": ["On the second deadly crane accident in 10 days, investigators want to know what went wrong. This time it happened in Florida. Part of a construction frame broke off and plunged 30 stories slamming into this house. Look at these pictures here. Two people were killed. Five other people hurt. The house was an office for construction workers building a condo next door. Less than two weeks ago you may recall a crane accident in New York killed seven people. Celebrity chef Paul Prudhomme keeps serving up food Cajun style, of course, that despite being brazed in the arm by a falling bullet. It happened yesterday morning. He was setting up his cooking tent at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. He felt a sting, shook his sleeve and a bullet fell to the ground. Prudhomme didn't need medical attention. He was at the course to cook for the players, caddies and guests, and cook he did through the afternoon. Singer Emilio Navaira, a terrible bus accident leaves him with a traumatic brain injury. Doctors in Texas have lowered his body temperature trying desperately to save his life. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is with us from New York this morning. And Sanjay, boy, this was -- the pictures from this accident, horrible, but here's what's interesting about it. We've always heard hypothermia is dangerous. How does this help someone with a brain injury?", "It's interesting, Tony, and it is still controversial. But this idea of lowering the body temperature, some of the risks of it, and the reasons it's controversial, it can cause cardiac arrhythmias, it can cause blood clotting problems. And these are all things that you worry about after a trauma. But the whole idea here, Tony, is to try and put the brain to sleep for a little while. Put it to sleep while it tries to repair itself. You want to keep the swelling down. They actually put this vest that sort of goes over the chest, over the thighs, and circulates this cool fluid through the skin, and that lowers the body temperature to about 91.5. Take a look at what it hopefully does. Reduces swelling in the brain, prevents cells from dying. Tony, it's a critical period within those first few hours after the injury...", "Yes.", "...you want to keep those cells live and let them repair themselves. And also you have several different active centers around the brain. You want to make sure they're communicating one with the other. Hypothermia seems to help there as well. Tony, as you know, you and I talked about this.", "Yes.", "It is controversial. You remember Kevin Everett.", "That's right. That's right.", "The football player. He had a spinal cord injury. That spinal cord injury -- he's walking today, terrific news. It's -- he had hypothermia therapy as well. It's unclear how much the hypothermia actually helped him, but this is something that's starting to be done more and more for the reasons that I told you -- Tony.", "Well, that's interesting, because we've been hearing in Navaira's, the next 24 to 48 hours are critical. So I guess we'll just keep an eye out on this situation and maybe we'll get an update from you?", "Yes, I mean, doctors say, you know, if you have to assign a number to it, they say 65 to 75 percent chance of survival.", "Wow.", "He has lung injuries, he has spine injuries. Tony, as a neurosurgeon, I can tell you the biggest predictor of how people will do, both in the short term and long term, is whether they can keep those pressure, what's called the intracranial pressure, the pressure inside the head, if they can keep those low, under control, he has a much better chance of survival. But we'll keep tabs on it as well, Tony...", "Appreciate. Thank you, Sanjay. And you probably...", "All right.", "...need to stick around to help us understand this next story. An Oregon man claims he's pregnant. What will the neighbors think?", "Is Thomas pregnant?", "I'm just like, whoa.", "I can stick my stomach out,", "Baby on board. It's a question, in the NEWSROOM. But first, your retirement nears. Your home's value slips away. What do you do when the nest egg cracks? Gerri Willis has advice coming up for you in the NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["HARRIS", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "GUPTA", "HARRIS", "GUPTA", "HARRIS", "GUPTA", "HARRIS", "GUPTA", "HARRIS", "GUPTA", "HARRIS", "GUPTA", "HARRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-380372", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-09-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/14/cnr.22.html", "summary": "\"Friends\" Sitcom 25 Year Anniversary.", "utt": ["Look, turning 30 is not that big a deal.", "Oh, really, is that how you felt when you turned 30?", "Why God, why? We had a deal. Let the others grow old, not me.", "The cast of the U.S. sitcom \"Friends\" is celebrating a happy anniversary, 25 years of a show that changed television, some say, and it still has brands cashing in on that show's popularity. Now thanks to video streaming, another generation is discovering that famous couch at Central Perk, those six friends are forever remembered. Our Clare Sebastian has this report.", "From product placement...", "This Wonder Broom is amazing.", "Hey.", "-- to memorabilia and even haircuts, \"Friends\" has always been a brand that sells.", "And 25 years on, that hasn't changed. It still not enough of viewers just to watch the show. They want to live in the world of Monica, Chandler, Ross, Rachel and Phoebe and Joey. And that means eating their food, sitting on their couch and, of course, drinking their coffee.", "And businesses are taking advantage. Coffee chain Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf jumps to the chance of a tie-up for the anniversary, launching a special edition range of coffee, specialty drinks and memorabilia.", "Our \"Friends\" themed coffee mugs, we pre-released and actually sold out in about three hours.", "They also hosted two pop-up Central Perk events in Los Angeles in August.", "Those two locations we saw significance spikes in foot traffic. But more importantly as a business, it really bolstered system-wide sales.", "Isn't it cool? It's an apothecary table.", "Pottery Barn also brought back the famous apothecary table, which, despite its thousand-dollar price tag, is a top seller in its department, the company says. Must be the antique properties.", "You can almost smell the opium.", "Even Lego is getting in on the action with the $60 replica of Central Perk. Lego says it's one of its fastest selling sets ever.", "Now, of course, none of these promotions would work nearly as well if Friends haven't experienced the revival in the age of streaming. Last year, it was Netflix's second most watched show. And the company reportedly paid around $100 million to keep the rights to the show for one more year, before it goes on a break moving to one of media's HBO Max streaming service in 2020.", "It's an iconic show and, ultimately, it's really one of the crown jewels of streaming. Everything's changed now with HBO coming in a major shot across to battle Netflix, taking \"Friends.\" And I ultimately believe 2 percent to 3 percent of Netflix viewers watch it just because of \"Friends.\"", "So for those who say friends and the money don't mix... \"", "What's more important, your friends or money?", "Friends.", "Money.", "-- this 25-year-old sitcom still gets the last laugh.", "I know Clare really liked that story. On her Instagram she said, \"Life made, sitting there on that couch.\" Keeping in mind \"Friends\" is owned by Warner Brothers TV, which is part of CNN's parent company, Warner Media. Of course, watch our CNN special report \"Friends Forever: 25 Years of Laughter,\" airing at 10:00 in the morning in Hong Kong right here on CNN. We thank you for watching this hour of the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm George Howell at the CNN Center in Atlanta. For our viewers in the United States, \"NEW DAY\" is next. For the viewers around the world \"ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT\" is next. Thanks for watching."], "speaker": ["MATT LEBLANC, ACTOR, \"JOEY TRIBBIANI\"", "DAVID SCHWIMMER, ACTOR, \" ROSS GELLER\"", "TRIBBIANI", "HOWELL", "CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COURTENEY COX, ACTOR, \"MONICA GELLER\"", "MATTHEW PERRY, ACTOR, \"CHANDLER BING\"", "SEBASTIAN", "SEBASTIAN (on-camera)", "SEBASTIAN (voice-over)", "DARRIN KELLARIS, VP MARKETING, COFFEE BEAN AND TEA LEAF", "SEBASTIAN", "KELLARIS", "JENNIFER ANISTON, ACTOR, \"RACHEL GREEN\"", "SEBASTIAN", "LISA KUDROW, ACTOR, \"PHOEBE BUFFAY\"", "SEBASTIAN", "SEBASTIAN (on-camera)", "DAN IVES, EQUITY ANALYST, WEDBUSH SECURITIES", "SEBASTIAN", "PHOEBE\"", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SEBASTIAN", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-256694", "program": "WORLD RIGHT NOW WITH HALA GORANI", "date": "2015-06-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/04/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Deadly gas station blast; Petrol station blast in Accra, Ghana; China crews to begin righting capsized cruise ship; Hong Kong marks Tainanmen Square anniversary", "utt": ["Well, they were seeking protection from torrential rains and flooding only to get caught in a horrific disaster. At least 76 people were killed in Accra, the capital, when a massive explosion ripped through a gas station. The blast was so powerful - victims had no time to escape. Christian Purefoy has more.", "They came looking for shelter from torrential rain under cover of a petrol station. Disaster struck - the reasons as yet unknown. The petrol on the surface of the flood waters caught fire and exploded with deadly results.", "If I count my friends, I lost almost seven - and four of my families - three friends, four siblings. I lost them this morning. It's very hard, you know. I don't know what to say. The construction they are doing there will bring a lot of problems", "Emergency services rushed to the scene on Wednesday night as the fire threatened to engulf neighboring buildings. Victims who were lucky enough to survive have been taken to hospital. There have been heavy rains across the capital of Ghana for three days now. But instead of helping to quench the fire, the floods only hinder the rescue efforts.", "We'll leave this to the authorities and emergency services to continue to do their work.", "But those that survived will have the scars for the rest of their lives. Christian Purefoy, CNN, Lagos, Nigeria.", "A respiratory disease that has no cure is spreading in South Africa (ph) and now has some people worried. Officials have confirmed five new cases of MERS, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. It brings the total number of people infected to 35. Three people have died. Nearly fourteen hundred others are in quarantine. Now, officials are worried that the outbreak could get worse after news that doctor infected with MERS attended a symposium in Seoul potentially, therefore, exposing more than a thousand people. We'll keep our eye on that. In China, 77 people are now confirmed dead in the cruise ship disaster on the Yangtze River. But officials say their decision to begin righting the ship is an acknowledgement at this point that it's very unlikely anyone is alive inside. CNNs David McKenzie got an up-close look at the massive operation.", "Passing through the final military checkpoint. We're getting an up-close look at the frantic rescue efforts on the Yangtze River. We're heading to the staging area of the search and rescue on a government trip. And we're going through to a boat to try and get a sense of just the sheer scale of this rescue effort as it tries to find survivors. More than a hundred ships, hundreds of divers and 500 tons of equipment scramble to the sea to try and save lives. But the elements are working against the rescue. The first thing I notice is how swiftly this river is moving and just how dirty the water is. This is an incredibly dangerous and difficult operation. More than 450 - mostly elderly Chinese - were on board. So far, only 14 escaped alive. The death toll here could be staggering. This is quite an extraordinary scene. We're approaching the Eastern Star. And you can see the rescuers on top of the hull clamoring on - drilling into the hull - trying to find any sign of life. They've been cutting into the hull in a last-ditch effort to pull survivors out. But they've had no signs of life and hope is fading fast. They're giving the rescue operations 72 hours out of respect for the families. But soon they'll have to take more drastic steps. You see these giant cranes. They will overturn the ship, and they will try to bring out the bodies of the hundreds who are still missing. As we leave the scene of the search and rescue operation, you can't help thinking of the families - hundreds of them - come from all over this region of China with some kind of hope that their loved ones are alive. But as they ready the tents to receive the souls from the Eastern Star, the days ahead will be grim indeed. David McKenzie, CNN, on the Yangtze River.", "Well, 26 years ago a massacre took place in Beijing's Tainanmen Square. And Hong Kong has remembered that tragic day with a candlelight vigil. Some astonishing footage marked the event as tens of thousands observed the anniversary. China has never released an official toll of how many were killed on June 4th, 1989, when China's military smashed a massive student protest - certainly not acknowledged within the country or tolerated in terms of what's going on in Hong Kong. Coming up - Greece decides to bundle this month's IMF payments. What does this mean for its already contentious debt talks? I asked the head of Athens Chamber of Commerce. And a look at the FBIs investigations into FIFA. We speak with a former deputy counsel for the FBI about how that agency set up a case of this magnitude."], "speaker": ["GORANI", "CHRISTIAN PUREFOY, CNN INTERRNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PUREFOY", "JOHN MAHAMA, PRESIDENT OF GHANA", "PUREFOY", "GORANI", "DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GORANI"]}
{"id": "CNN-76552", "program": "NEWS FROM CNN", "date": "2003-9-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/05/nfcnn.07.html", "summary": "Donald Rumsfeld Salutes Troops in Saddam's Hometown", "utt": ["The top gun at the Pentagon toady became the toast of Tikrit, at least among the U.S. forces who are there. The defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, saying they're doing a truly outstanding job. CNN's Ben Wedeman is joining us now live to tell us more about that, as well as another attack on a mosque -- this one in Baghdad. Ben -- fill us in on all of these developments.", "Yes, Secretary Rumsfeld is now on his second day of this trip to Iraq. Of course, the precise details of his trip are not being let out because of security reasons, but he spent the day up in Tikrit meeting with the troops. Tikrit, of course, being the ancestral homeland of Saddam Hussein, a town that has been a very rough town for U.S. forces. They've been coming under almost daily attack up there, most recently a fairly intense firefight. Now, Secretary Rumsfeld, he went to the main U.S. base there, which is actually Saddam Hussein's old main palace in Tikrit, and there he gave a brief pep talk to the troops.", "It's also important to this entire region that we continue and succeed in what it is that you're doing, and it's also important to the world, and certainly the American people.", "And after that, apparently, he took a helicopter ride over the city of Mosul, and he went over the house where Uday and Qusay, the two sons of Saddam Hussein, were killed in a gun battle with U.S. troops last July. Now, Mr. Rumsfeld is obviously very concerned about the situation of U.S. troops here. He says he has no intention of increasing their numbers. What he wants to do is bolter Iraqi security forces. Now, meanwhile in Baghdad, a disturbing incident for many Iraqis. At 5:45 a.m., three men drove up outside a Sunni mosque in the northern part of the city. They opened fire with AK-47 assault rifles and handguns, apparently wounding three worshipers there, one of them, according to the Iraqi police, fairly critically. Now, this, of course, is raising the concern of many here that there could be intensified clashes between Sunni Arabs and Shiites under the regime of Saddam Hussein. Of course, the Sunni Arabs were the favored people, and the Shiites really were the ones who bore the brunt of his repression. Now, also today marks one week since the car bombing outside the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf. And today in Najaf and Kufa (ph), which is a town just to the north of Najaf, there were massive demonstrations by Shiites there, expressing solidarity with the dead leader, but also, according to one account coming from there, calling for death to the Baathists and to the United States. Not a very good sign while Secretary Rumsfeld is in country -- Wolf.", "I can only imagine the security surrounding the defense secretary. Ben Wedeman joining us from Baghdad. Thanks, Ben, very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CAIRO BUREAU CHIEF", "DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY", "WEDEMAN", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-140383", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2009-7-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/13/acd.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Barack Obama; Was Michael Jackson Murdered?", "utt": ["There's -- there is word tonight that the Jackson family is negotiating behind the scenes with lawyers for Debbie Rowe, the biological mother of Michael Jackson's two oldest kids. Meantime, La Toya Jackson told the London tabloids she believes her brother was murdered for his money. Randi Kaye joins us from Los Angeles for those details and more in a \"360 Follow.\" Randi there was supposed to be a hearing today, a custody hearing for the Jackson kids but got postponed for a second time. Do we know why?", "We have been looking into that, Anderson, and a source close to the family told us that Katherine Jackson's attorney is actually trying to broker a deal regarding custody. This source told us the family is trying to sort out what they want from Debbie Rowe, Michael Jackson's ex-wife. We are told the family certainly wants her to give up any notion of custody and any visitation rights. But apparently, the family is also trying to work out some nondisclosure agreement which Jackson even had with Rowe after she got divorced. She wasn't allowed to talk to the media about him or even talk about her children. Our source says the family may even force Rowe to agree may not to give any more media interviews, Anderson.", "And has Rowe signaled at all whether or not she's going to agree to this and, if so, any word on how much money may be changing hands?", "Well, the same source actually told us that Rowe has showed that she is willing to hear the family out and possibly agree to a deal just like this. Now remember, it was Michael Jackson who raised these kids all this time. She had visitation rights originally at one point, but that never actually worked out. Now as far as money, absolutely part of the deal. It seems like there is quite a large payoff, actually, in the works. Our source told us that Rowe stands to be paid, quote, \"many millions\" if she agrees to give up any contact and any custody with her two children so the singer's mother, Katherine, can actually raise them.", "What about this interview that La Toya Jackson gave to a London newspaper? The reporter who did the interview was just on \"LARRY KING\" tonight, but in that interview, La Toya made some comments about Debbie Rowe, sister-in-law and custody of the kids. What did she say?", "Well, that interview with La Toya Jackson took place last week, I'm told. And we've confirmed that London's \"Daily Mail\" newspaper actually paid La Toya for that interview.", "Wow. Big surprise there.", "Yes, I know. Right. La Toya is quoted as saying in the article, \"These are not Debbie's kids. They don't even know that she's their mother. Like everyone else in his life, she was motivated by money.\" That's a direct quote from La Toya Jackson. We tried to reach Debbie Rowe for comment through her attorneys several times today, but our calls were not returned. Now here's the other headline. The paper says La Toya told the reporter, quote, \"I believe Michael was murdered. I felt that from the start. Not just one person was involved; rather a conspiracy of people.\" She actually used the word \"murder.\" Now, according to the article, La Toya blamed a, quote, \"shadowy entourage\" and said her brother's handlers saw him as a, quote, \"cash cow\" and fed him addictive drugs to control his moods. The newspaper said La Toya believed this led to her brother's death. Now, here's what the reporter who interviewed La Toya told Larry King tonight about the control his handlers appeared to have.", "Joe Jackson went to the front door on many occasions, he told me. He went to the front gate. They wouldn't let him in. When La Toya called the house, she couldn't speak to her brother. This is all very suspicious.", "So did this article in \"The Daily Mail\" offer any new information about the circumstances surrounding his death?", "Actually, Anderson, the reporter that La Toya told her Jackson was not found in his bed. As you know, that's been widely reported since day one. But that he was actually in a nearby bedroom belonging to his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray. Murray, we already know, and we've confirmed, has been interviewed twice by investigators. His car was examined but later returned to him. We don't know what was found, if anything, inside it. Dr. Murray's spokesperson told us today, in response to La Toya's comments, quote, \"That is just not true. Dr. Murray administered CPR on Michael Jackson in Jackson's room. I'm not sure where La Toya is getting that. She wasn't even there,\" end quote. The attorney for Dr. Murray refused to comment at all on La Toya's statement about seeing an intravenous drip stand in her brother's room and oxygen canisters apparently lining the walls.", "And is there any word tonight on Jackson's autopsy, on the results of the toxicology report?", "The L.A. county coroner told CNN today that results from Jackson's autopsy could be announced as early as Friday, but it's looking more likely midweek next week. We, of course, are staying on top of it.", "All right, Randi. Thanks. Let's dig deeper. Joining us again, senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. So last week Joe Jackson said that foul play may have been involved. I think that was a paid interview or an interviewer, somebody paid for pictures. And we just heard La Toya Jackson in another paid interview went further by saying it was murder and that a, quote, \"conspiracy of people\" led to his death. What do you make of all this?", "I don't make much of it, Anderson. I really am so skeptical of this. Think about the facts and circumstances we know. There is no suggestion that somebody intentionally killed Michael Jackson. This is just nonsense as far as I can tell. Yes, there may be questions about the quality of medical care he got. Yes, that's possible negligence involved or something like that, but the -- but murder just seems completely...", "So murder is different than homicide.", "Well, in layman's terms, murder is intentional homicide. Murder is someone intentionally...", "so if he died of a drug overdose and was given prescriptions he shouldn't have had or too many or, you know, intravenous -- you know, whatever drugs, if he was given drugs intravenously to put him to sleep or put him in a sleep-like state, and that was inappropriate, that wouldn't be murder?", "That certainly wouldn't be murder. You could conceivably accuse someone of manslaughter, which is unintentional taking of a life. But remember, there's a lot more any investigator would need to know, including what role Jackson himself played in getting the drugs to him. I mean, that's a big issue in the case.", "And so doctors -- you know, if they tracked down what doctors gave him what drugs, what could they be charged with?", "Well, they could be charged with some sort of professional misconduct, which could result in the loss of their license. They could be sued civilly for damages by Jackson's estate, or there could be some sort of criminal charge for some sort of manslaughter. But, again, I don't want to assume any misconduct on the part of these doctors until there's a lot more evidence.", "And in terms of the custody, I mean, I don't know how many times Debbie Rowe can apparently give up custody of these kids. Because allegedly she did it once before for a sum of money and then somehow got it back and now, I guess, there may be some negotiations behind the scenes. I don't even know if that's really true. It's all, you know, one source telling us this. What happens? I mean, what happens in terms of the custody?", "Well, Michael Jackson's death really changes the whole situation. And as the surviving parent, she does have a reasonable claim to custody of these children, at least in the abstract. So if you are the Jackson family, and if you really want to see Katherine Jackson have custody of these children, the possibility of a settlement is certainly one you'd want to consider. And Debbie Rowe, just to put this crudely, she sold her children once; she may want to sell them again. It looks like this is an opportunity to cash in for her.", "And theoretically, she could make some sort of a deal, get money for it and not have a relationship with the kids and then, when they become adults one day have a relationship with the kids, if the kids want it?", "Right. These kids are approaching the age where they will have contact with who they want to have contact with. But in terms of custody, which is a legal status for minor children, and the oldest child is 12, Debbie Rowe does have at least a claim that a judge would want to listen to. And it might be in the Jacksons family interest to say, \"Here's some money in return for you not putting that claim before the judge.\"", "All right, Jeff, thanks. We've got to get some better video of Debbie Rowe, because we're using that video where she was, like, ambushed on the street by, like, a mob of paparazzi. I feel a little bit bad for her on that one. So we'll try to use some other video. Jeff, thanks very much. Appreciate it.", "Earlier, President Obama talked about the slave trade from Africa in our discussion. Coming up next, we're going to take you to a place where slavery is still a problem. Dr. Sanjay Gupta meets kids forced into labor. You won't believe what their lives are like and what he found. And a good news story out of Iraq. A welcome sign of change there. Michael Ware is covering a historic battle on the soccer field. It is our \"Shot of the Day.\""], "speaker": ["COOPER", "RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "KAYE", "COOPER", "KAYE", "COOPER", "KAYE", "CAROLINE GRAHAM, DAILY MAIL REPORTER", "COOPER", "KAYE", "COOPER", "KAYE", "COOPER", "TOOBIN", "COOPER", "TOOBIN", "COOPER", "TOOBIN", "COOPER", "TOOBIN", "COOPER", "TOOBIN", "COOPER", "TOOBIN", "COOPER", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "NPR-36829", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2009-06-02", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104841456", "title": "GM CEO On Automaker's Plan For Survival", "summary": "Automaker GM, which filed for bankruptcy Monday, has taken a key step toward downsizing. CEO Fritz Henderson discusses his company's plans to restructure itself and says he sees GM's bankruptcy as an opportunity.", "utt": ["This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.", "And I'm Robert Siegel.", "Here's what passes for good news for U.S. automakers these days. In May, both Ford and General Motors reported their smallest declines in sales against last year's levels in months: Ford sales were 24 percent down from May 2008, GM was 30 percent off last year's pace, Chrysler's year to year decline from May was larger, 47 percent.", "In other auto news, GM announced today that a Chinese heavy machinery company, based in Sichuan province, plans to buy GM's Hummer brand. That's one of the divisions the automaker has been eager to sell. We spoke with GM's leader this morning before that buyer had been identified.", "Fritz Henderson is the CEO of General Motors. Welcome to the program.", "Thank you.", "Yesterday, you were speaking of a new GM. And you yourself have been at GM or GMAC for the past 25 years, where have you learned a corporate culture that's any different from the old GM?", "Well, I've had the benefit of working for General Motors everywhere around the globe, virtually. I've run our businesses in various different regions. I've lived in Brazil, worked in Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Europe, Asia. And so I've had the ability, I guess, within a firm to experience multiple cultures and I think that's of pretty substantial benefit to me, I think, in terms of understanding how different businesses can be run.", "Not a single business culture that has governed GM all these years?", "The culture of GM is interesting having again worked in all the different parts of General Motors, there are common threads - things like integrity, what our people stand for - there are common threads to the GM culture. But there are distinct differences based on the operations and always have been.", "In this country, GM is currently selling I guess something around 20 percent of the new cars in an economy that's so bad that people are only buying at the rate of, we guess eight or nine million new vehicles a year.", "We do sell one in five cars in general in the United States. And the market has been running at about nine and half to nine point six million unit annualized rate if you will.", "Let's say that the market recovers, not up to where it was headed - up toward 16 million vehicles - but say 12 million new vehicles a year. Can GM survive and be profitable at one fifth of that?", "The answer is yes. We are structuring the business to lower our break-even level here in North America to a U.S. market - about 10 million units. And this would be measured on an event basis, earnings before interest and taxes. Given the de-leveraging, our balance sheet will have a fairly modest interest burden for the company. And so the objective is at a 12 million unit market to be able to operate at better than break-even and generate a small profit and obviously significantly reduce the amount of cash burn that we have experienced over the last several years.", "Let me ask about the Chevy Volt, the plug-in electric car that's really only - it's a little more than a year away from launch now. It's touted in some quarters as GM's iPod, the product that can turn the whole company around. How much will the Chevy Volt cost when people get a chance to buy one?", "First of all, no single product can turn General Motors around. Every one of our products has to succeed for us to win. But let's talk about that, that's always been my philosophy that continues I think to this day.", "Mm-hmm.", "I think a Volt is as much about a demonstration of what General Motors men and women are capable of doing. I remember when it was first announced, there was widespread disbelief that lithium ion batteries could be the technology. Now, lithium ion batteries are viewed as quite a capable technology. There were a lot of skeptics, but I think we'll prove that the vehicle works, can deliver what the consumer is looking for and just be a technological statement for General Motors in terms of cost, its first generation cost, which generally is quite high. And so the objective of any first generation program is to get learnings to get to the second generation.", "But first generation is quite high. Does that mean that you're going to market this plug-in car that needs virtually no gasoline, or hardly any, for $40,000? Can you get it down to 30? Your predecessor Rick Wagoner told me at the auto show that he couldn't get it down to 30,000 without serious government subsidy.", "Well, let me - let me just start, first of all the cost. Yeah, Ricks talked about 40,000. Bob Lutz - we've talked about it in that range. There is a $7,500 tax credit that's available for that car, not just for our car but for other cars in that category. So I mean that would help defray the cost to the consumer. In the end, when we launch the vehicle, we'll launch the vehicle properly. We'll price it properly. But the cost of the vehicle is relatively high. But nonetheless, as we said we knew that going in…", "Right.", "…this is not a surprise to us. And our objective is to actually get the learnings and get to the second generation.", "But is it a car that's going to hit the market competitive with say a Prius, a successful energy saving car by cost, or is it going to be a choice you make if you're not going to buy a Lexus this year?", "Well, the - well, first of all it's a Chevrolet Volt. And so, I mean in that sense what we've chosen to do is put our foremost technology into our broadest, deepest and most important volume brand. So I think that's why we chose Chevrolet to launch the vehicle. I think the key here is, obviously, get the vehicle launch, prove ourselves. There is, you know, there is a broad category and a broad following for the vehicle that we expect to be able to be the first buyers of the vehicle. We'll have to see.", "I'm just curious, finally, since GM has been hit both by a very dire recession that has hurt every carmaker, on the other hand, GM has also gone from a majority of the cars sold in the U.S. to about a fifth of them in almost the same time that you've been working for the company over that time. How do you in your mind balance the - what's happened here and what led to Chapter 11 between factors in the American economy that have been bad news for a big old company with a big labor contract and things unique to the way that GM has managed its position in the U.S. car market?", "Well, I've had 25 years in the company working and I've spent time working in staffs and GMAC, again, all over the world. So I've had the, I guess, the benefit of that experience and seeing what's happened in different markets, seeing volatility and then obviously experiencing what we've experienced it the last two years here in the U.S.,. No one would have ever foreseen a U.S. market, for example, running at nine and half million units, certainly it was never in our planning horizon, nor anybody else's that I could see. So, you know I think we need…", "But we did see GM though losing share of the market.", "Yeah. I would say a couple of things. One, we've made mistakes. There's no question we've made mistakes. We need to learn from those mistakes and we will. I think we have - our products are the best they've ever been. And we're going to be a company that's focused around the customer.", "Well, thanks a lot for talking with us.", "My pleasure.", "That's Fritz Henderson who is the CEO of General Motors. 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{"id": "CNN-147529", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-1-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/30/cnr.07.html", "summary": "NFL Fights Over \"Who Dat\"", "utt": ["That's from 1980. That's the original \"Who Dat\" video. It is written by a man, the original song, Steve Monaster. There is Aaron Neville performing. Again, this is courtesy of YouTube. You know, this is a huge controversy down in Louisiana. It has gotten all the way to the NFL. \"Who Dat\" is something that New Orleans Saints fans have been chanting for years. And with the Saints headed to the Super Bowl, it is popping up on lots of T-shirts, right? So the NFL, the National Football League, not amused by this, telling retailers to stop selling the shirts. But a spokesman denies the NFL is trying to stop people from using the phrase \"Who Dat.\" He says, quote, \"We are not seeking to exclude all uses of \"Who Dat\" on merchandise. But in connection with the Saints, we do have to protect the rights of licensees with prior authorization to produce merchandise with the logo.\" He went on to say \" \"Who Dat\" on a green or white T-shirt by itself is not an issue for us. But the inclusion of the Saints helmet, logo or colors, becomes an issue. And we do not...\" Go ahead because we -- do we have to say this whole statement? Anyway, they are basically saying, as long as it is not on the black and gold shirt. Rick Harrow, help me out here. Who owns this?", "\"Who Dat\" going to own that shirt, right?", "Yes.", "The bottom line of it all is that it is pretty complicated legal theory. It is based on common sense. If it is in the public domain, then, you know, nobody can all of a sudden say we own it, we'll charge for it. And if it is not, it is OK. So it is probably a negotiated settlement with \"Who Dat\" not being owned by the NFL. But the Saints likeness being owned by the NFL. So then they may have to change the pattern of the shirt. However, it is in this political environment, maybe there is a compromise where the shirt is there and the money has been given to charity. The NFL is pretty strong on certain things. Even with churches televising the Super Bowl at big parties to raise money, they didn't allow that a few years ago so...", "I can understand the restriction and they want to, you know, sort of keep it in their realm and they want to protect the rights or whatever. But the NFL -- and this is just for someone growing up there -- the NFL did not start \"Who Dat\". And the Saints didn't start it either. That was started back in the '60s and the '70s, Southern Jaguars, in Baton Rouge, another university, Baton Rouge, the Southern in Baton Rouge and there's LSU in Baton Rouge. People at the Southern Jaguar games would start to say \"Who Dat\" and it caught on at LSU. And then it caught on with the Saints and it caught on in other places. And there is also -- in New Orleans as well, an African-American high school, it started there as well. So the Saints don't really own it either. I think it is owned by the people. If anyone, it is the Southern Jaguars or the boys who were at St. Aug High School.", "Don Lemon giving us unique historical perspective of his boyhood home.", "I'm telling you the truth.", "Yes, but the point is I don't think there is turns on who owns \"Who Dat\". This turns on using the Saints likeness in the same shirts. And, frankly, look, the NFL feels really strongly about Katrina relief. We've seen a lot of that, the Drew Brees Foundation, Peyton Manning from there. I think there is controversy is probably well founded, but will be over very quickly is my point.", "OK. Yes, and it is also millions of dollars probably in merchandising dollars. But one person who, you know, may agree with that, it is owned by the people is David Vitter who is, you know, had some very strong words. Take a listen.", "I am personally printing \"Who Dat\" shirts and I'm going to make them widely, commercially available. So if they're going to start suing people, they need to put me on the list.", "So there you go. That's how people in Louisiana feel because they feel that they own that. Rick Harrow, again, as I said, probably the NFL and the team, because we're talking about millions and millions of dollars of merchandising, and it is -- you know, there is a controversy in a time when it is a good thing for the city, that the Saints are going to the super bowl, and it is a really good time for the Saints as well.", "And kudos to Senator Vitter, but also to the NFL. I think this will be worked out and we'll see what happens when we go to the Super Bowl next week. And I'll see you tomorrow.", "I'll see you next week. Thank you. \"Who Dat\" talking about beating them Saints? \"Who Dat.\" \"Who Dat.\" We have someone from New Orleans dancing in the studio now. Can you get her on camera? You want to do that dance.", "\"Who Dat.\" Yes!", "We're back with your comments in just a moment."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "RICK HARROW, CNN BUSINESS SPORTS ANALYST", "LEMON", "HARROW", "LEMON", "HARROW", "LEMON", "HARROW", "LEMON", "SEN. DAVID VITTER, (R), LOUISIANA", "LEMON", "HARROW", "LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-216255", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2013-10-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1310/09/sbt.01.html", "summary": "New Hot Pockets Ad Stars Snoop Lion, Kate Upton", "utt": ["Our Top Ten Countdown continues now with number 7: super model Kate Upton and Snoop Dogg joining forces for what I think is some pretty brilliant marketing, Natasha.", "A.J., I`m crazy about this. And it`s all about Hot Pockets, and even Larry King makes an appearance.", "Good. Well, it was everywhere online today. We actually get to see Kate enjoying a Hot Pocket after a night of partying only to fall asleep dreaming about Snoop, who plays a Hot Pocket baker. You`ve got to look at this.", "You -- you got what I eat.", "Of course, he`s rapping about the herbs he grows in his garden. Hey, Natasha, who would have thought eating a Hot Pocket could be sexy, but you put Kate Upton in it and it`s sexy.", "How many do I have to eat to look like her? I`m ready. Feed me. All right. Let`s get on now to number 6 on our countdown. Would you buy a car from Ron Burgundy? Come on. Will Ferrell`s hilarious anchorman character is now a pitchman for Dodge, and his new ads are really catching fire online. Here`s CNN`s Jeanne Moos for SBT.", "Would you buy a new car from this guy?", "But I`m the only one with the guts to tell you about the glove box.", "Ron Burgundy has left his anchor desk for the Dodge showroom, where he`s proudly pitching the Durango`s glove box?", "This thing goes on for inches. It comes standard.", "Will Ferrell`s not-so-standard SUV ads are a two-fer, promoting both the Durango and Ferrell`s next movie, \"Anchorman 2.\"", "Is that your foot between my legs?", "No.", "It was my hand.", "You`ve got to hand it to Ron: He shot over 70 Durango videos, most for the Web, some for TV. They`re getting a lot of miles per gallon out of these spots.", "Twenty-five em puh guhs highway. What? Em puh juh. Em-fuh-ga.", "Hey, everyone knows he says whatever you write on a teleprompter.", "I`m Ron Burgundy?", "Damn it. Who typed a question mark on the teleprompter?", "Twenty-five em puh guhs. Im-puh-guhs. I`m saying it right, but it just doesn`t sound familiar.", "But will these ads make Americans more familiar with Durangos? Dodge sells less than a third as many Durangos as Ford sells Explorers. (on camera): Wait a minute. Ron Burgundy didn`t drive a Durango in \"Anchorman.\" (voice-over): He threw a burrito out of his gold Pontiac Catalina. And the Durango wasn`t around at the time the movie was set, back in the `70s.", "On my right is the new Dodge Durango with up to 360 horsepower. On my left is one horse with one horsepower. That makes you feel pretty dumb, doesn`t it?", "Chrysler says you`re seeing Will Ferrell`s improvisational genius at work.", "Look at you. You`re worthless. There you have it.", "And he ad-libbed as the horse gazed at him.", "Staring contest. Go. I win.", "Chrysler`s chief marketing officer told \"The Detroit Free Press\": \"Some of these lines in the commercials are so incredibly memorable that my hope is that they become part of the `Anchorman` culture.\" So instead of this...", "You stay classy, San Diego.", "... maybe we`ll all be running around saying.", "It comes standard. Look at you. You`re worthless.", "Kind of feel bad for the horse. That was hilarious. Will Ferrell is always so funny.", "Brilliant marketing. You know, they`re talking about the truck. We`re talking about \"Anchorman.\" Everybody wins. And you`re still classy, Natasha Curry. So stay classy, won`t you?", "Thank you.", "Now, Miley mania may have actually gotten out of control for real this time. Miley Cyrus fans are lashing out, but are they really making death threats against another singer for slamming Miley? Curse of the Kardashians? Well, first it was Kim`s marriage mess, and Khloe and Lamar apparently hit a rough patch. Now their mom, Kris, splits from Bruce Jenner. Is reality TV to blame for their troubles? This is SBT on HLN."], "speaker": ["HAMMER", "CURRY", "HAMMER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HAMMER", "CURRY", "JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "WILL FERRELL, COMEDIAN", "MOOS", "FERRELL", "MOOS", "FERRELL", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FERRELL", "MOOS", "FERRELL", "MOOS", "FERRELL", "FRED WILLARD, ACTOR", "FERRELL", "MOOS", "FERRELL", "MOOS", "FERRELL", "MOOS", "FERRELL", "MOOS", "FERRELL", "MOOS", "FERRELL", "CURRY", "HAMMER", "CURRY", "HAMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-5946", "program": "Breaking News", "date": "2000-4-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/07/bn.03.html", "summary": "Florida Jury Rules Smoking Legal Cause of Plaintiffs' Cancers", "utt": ["We have a major development this hour in Miami, in the landmark Florida smokers' trial. To bring you up to speed, in phase one of that trial, the jurors concluded that five major tobacco companies sold a defective product and then lied to consumers about the health risks of smoking. A phase two has been under consideration by the jury, they've just released their findings, and it is: that smoking was the legal cause of the plaintiffs' cancers. Now, a penalty phase will be in operation, as much as $300 billion in penalties could be levied against the manufacturers of cigarettes in this case. We are expecting a report from Miami Dade County Court any time now, and we will bring you up to speed on this story and fill you in as we go along. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web"], "speaker": ["LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-276054", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-02-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/09/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Candidates Make Last-Minute Push For N.H. Support; Voters Head To Polls In Nation's First Primary; New Hampshire Secretary of State Predicts Record Turnout; A Chat With Undecided Voters From New Hampshire; Do Undeclared Voters Hold The Cards In The Granite State?", "utt": ["If you have ever wondered why there are so much hype around the voters of New Hampshire, it may has to do with how unpredictable they can be. Unpredictable, I'm looking at my voters next to me looking at them. I'm nearly half of this Northern electorate is filled with undeclared independent voters. That means, they have the potential to push anyone candidates of victory tonight or to defeat no matter their party preference or what the polls may say. And with the presidential race like this one, every vote count. Here with me, they have driven through the snow to get to me here in Manchester. I am so grateful. I have Bruce McCracken, a resident of -- McCracken, McCracken, forgive me, Bruce McCracken from Wilburn, New Hampshire, who leans Democrat, Sarah Frances Thomas who leans Republican. Thank you so much for coming in. This is what fascinates me. How many candidates have each of you met in person?", "In person, 10.", "10?", "I've been to 12 rallies, but 10 ...", "12 rallies, 10 candidates in person. Sarah?", "Well, I attended about five different events but I met three of the candidates in person, which I really appreciated. That's it, ask them questions up close and get to really --they have feel for who they are as people.", "Let me stay with you. Who are you voting for?", "I am voting for Trump.", "Tell me why and tell me who you were torn between?", "Well, originally I started off supporting Rand.", "Rand Paul.", "Yes, Rand Paul. I tend to lean a little libertarian and I really appreciated his Republican sort of perspective on that. I felt that he would do a good job of sort of bringing people together. I ended up with Trump because despite how you feel about his over-the- top personality, you either love him or you hate him, you cannot deny that he is an incredibly smart and successful businessman, and he really comes from outside of that establishment politics zone. And I think that's what our country really needs right now.", "OK. Trump for you. Bruce, for you?", "I voted for Kasich.", "Kasich.", "Although I normally vote Democratic. And I wouldn't ...", "This is the incredible part about New Hampshire.", "Well, I think both Democratic candidates will do very well running the country. I could live with either one. I can't say the same about the Republican candidates. So, I definitely like some more than others.", "So hang on. Are you one of those voters who really, you would be voting Democrat but you're voting Kasich to keep a vote from a potentially another Republican?", "No.", "No?", "Well, I voted for the Republican that I felt would best run the country should the Democrats lose the election. I think Kasich has executive experience. He shows some compassion. He shows ability to work with others. I certainly disagree with some of his policies and issues, but I think other Republican candidates, he is far and away the best one. So, I really voted for Kasich as sort of an insurance policy.", "An insurance policy.", "So, the country would be in good hands if the Democrats lose.", "OK. OK, strategery. Why did you go out of your way to go to 12 different rallies? Why is this matter so much to you?", "When you see the candidates in person, it's very different than seeing in a 60-second sound bite or a Democratic debate where they are being -- questions fired at them and they're all tense. They get a chance to talk and answer questions and take their time. And you see them as real people. There are candidates I would have assumes negative feelings about and came out, well, they're decent people. I might not agree with them and I might not vote for them, but they're decent people.", "That's the amazing part about New Hampshire that you all truly meet this people, you shake their hands, they come pounding on your doors, they call you on the phone. Why, though, when we talk so much about independent voters who will decide this primary, why is it such a last minute decision for a lot of people, do you think?", "Well, because we do have the opportunity to meet with so many of the candidates. I think that we've really try to get out there and attend as many events as we can. We take things very seriously here in New Hampshire. We know our responsibility as being the first primary in the nation and that really sends a strong message across the country. And we want to make sure that we're making the right decision. So, we don't see a few political ads or watch one debate and then say, \"Oh, that's my guy or girl.\" We really think it over and take the time to, you know, think about it and figure out who's going to be the right choice, who we believe will be the right choice for the country.", "Have you already voted? Have you done here?", "I have not. I'm actually heading to vote.", "There's still time if you want to convince on live national television. Either way, by the way, I'm just being fair. I mean, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Continue what we were you making ...", "Oh, no, I was thinking, I'm heading out to vote actually right after this.", "OK. OK. At the end of the day, 60 seconds, what is it about New Hampshire that -- reading what the secretary of state has said when other states dare, you know, move their primaries up. He'll move the primary in New Hampshire to make sure you were the first in the nation primary because it matters. Why?", "Well, that is one thing where a small state and you can actually do the kind of, sort of, retail politics people talk about. So, if you're real responsibilities and honor and a responsibility in New Hampshire, so we do take it seriously, as she said.", "Half the population of Iowa, I was reading the stat this morning, yet almost triple the number of people come out today to vote. Bruce and Sarah, thank you so much. I really appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "And we have of course special live coverage of the New Hampshire primary, officially starting minutes from now right here on CNN. 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{"id": "CNN-74841", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-8-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/06/lad.14.html", "summary": "Israel Has Started Releasing Hundreds of Palestinians From Israeli Prison", "utt": ["Israel has now started releasing hundreds of Palestinians from an Israeli prison. The process began about two hours ago. But the Palestinians are demanding more and it is creating another speed bump on that road map to peace. Let's go live to northern Israel now. That's where Jerrold Kessel is -- hello, Jerrold.", "Hello, Carol. The Israelis are calling this a goodwill gesture and, indeed, it is, in terms of the fact that they don't -- aren't obliged under the road map for peace to actually release Palestinian prisoners. But calling it a goodwill gesture doesn't really create the goodwill, it seems, because there are many thousands of Palestinians who will remain after these releases in prisons like this one here behind me, in Israeli prisons, and no immediate likelihood that they'll be released. And the Palestinians say there are far too few people being released and this is not the way it should have been done, it should have been in condoned. That having been said, there are 339 people who are going free today, who were held by Israel under various terms of detention, of having committed various security offenses, none who had killed the Israelis. The Israelis very adamant on that. They won't be releasing anyone who has actually killed somebody in a terror act, as the Israelis call it, or any kind of action undertaken during -- by the Palestinians in their fight against Israel. But there will be 339 families that will be happy and as we saw from the faces of many of those prisoners as the buses came out from this particular jail earlier today -- they're being transferred to another location before their eventual release on the border with the West Bank or Gaza -- they were happy, too, showing V signs. Even though they showed their handcuffs that they were still being held with, they're clearly happy to get out. But by and large, we don't expect to be the kind of national major celebrations on the Palestinian side, because the Palestinians have been hoping, expecting and continue to demand more. But Israel begrudgingly making these releases, says they need to see the Palestinians taking on the terror groups, those who want to go back to militant actions, before they'll engage in any further releases. All in all, then, it is something of a step, but not really likely to break the ice and to increase the trust between the two sides -- Carol.", "Jerrold Kessel reporting live from northern Israel this morning. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, by the way, calls the prisoner release a deceit. That's because most of the prisoners being freed have nearly completed their prison terms. Israel doesn't really want to hear from Arafat because he is not included in their negotiations. Israeli Prison>"], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-218284", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2013-11-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/07/acd.01.html", "summary": "What Could Be The Strongest Tropical Cyclone Ever To Make Landfall Hits The Philippines", "utt": ["Breaking news, what is likely the strongest cyclone recorded in history has hit the Philippines. It's already taking live, two, so far that we know about. Hard to imagine numbers will not climb. Thousands of people in the central part of the country were evacuated as this super typhoon made its way to the Philippines, made landfall with sustained winds of 195 miles per hour. It's the kind of wind you get with a very strong category five hurricane. CNN international correspondent, Andrew Stevens is in the Philippines. We were going to go to him, but the conditions there are too dangerous right now. Let's get the latest from meteorologist, Chad Myers -- Chad.", "We're expecting an awful lot of damage. This is nothing, Anderson, like you and I have ever experienced not in the Atlantic basin at all, 195 mile per hour hurricane, which is essentially like a category four, an F4 tornado about 15 miles wide, going straight across the country right now and then F3, F2, F1 winds like a tornado literally although this is a hurricane. The center of the hurricane, very strong winds, very low pressure and of course, an awful lot of rainfall that could cause flooding, and it is likely now, it is claimed now that this is probably, we're going to have to go through and figure it out, this is probably the biggest storm to ever hit land. There probably have to be storms over the ocean bigger, we just didn't see them or fly into them. We don't know how big this truly is because there are no planes that fly into it. They don't fly planes into storms like we do here in America. I don't think I want to be in a plane wind doing 195 and gusts 235. It is moving fast, moving 25 miles per hour, the next stop is probably the North China Sea and then eventually, South China Sea right into Vietnam, that's the next stop for this storm and there will be no stopping it. There is nothing in the way. It will keep going as a category four hurricane typhoon cyclone. They are the same thing, just different oceans and different surname. Hurricane is a cyclone is a typhoon. It just depends on where it is.", "How long will it be on land for?", "It's moving very, very fast. It really is cruising. It came on shore probably three hours ago, moving to the west at 25. I can see it going 30 miles an hour as far as it's already moved. Our reporter right there under the A in Tacloban City. It would eventually be another six hours and then back into the water away from the Philippines. The great news about all of this is that the populated, the truly densely populated area is up here, Manila, Luzon Island, up here to the north. This will miss that by 150 miles. The death toll would be astronomical had this 195 mile-per-hour storm gone over Manila.", "All right, Chad, unbelievable, our thoughts and prayers with all the people in the Philippines obviously right now. One quick note, in my interview with Dr. Drew Pinsky, I asked what Mayor Ford said about a twin brother. They said he didn't say that and he doesn't have a twin brother. I want to correct that error and apologize. Coming, we are going to get an exclusive look inside a newly discovered elaborate drug tunnel stretching between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. Miguel Marquez takes us inside next."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "COOPER", "MYERS", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-272027", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2015-12-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/23/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Trump Warns Clinton: \"Be Careful\"", "utt": ["Tonight, Donald Trump warning Hillary Clinton in a tweet posted just this evening. Trump writes this -- \"Hillary, when you complain about a pension for sexism, who are you referring to? I have great respect for women. Be careful.\" And this is the second warning from Trump just today towards Clinton after Clinton called him out for sexism, bigotry and hateful speech. Dana Bash has the latest in this growing back and forth.", "We're going to win so much in so many different ways that you're going to get tired.", "For a candidate who loves winning, this will be a very Merry Christmas.", "I'm only kidding, we'll never get tired of winning, right?", "Donald Trump is so far ahead in CNN/ORC's new national poll, he has more support than the next three GOP candidates combined, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and Marco Rubio. His leads are even bigger on the question of voter's confidence in him to deal with key issues, the economy, fighting ISIS and illegal immigration. But the best news for Trump may be that Republicans are settling into the idea of him as a formidable candidate to take the White House. Forty six percent say they think Republican chances are better with Trump at the top of the ticket of eight point since August.", "I know where she went, it's disgusting, I don't want to talk about. Now, it's too disgusting.", "That is Trump's war of words with the Democrats frontrunner is getting harder. Hillary Clinton told the Des Moines Register that Trump has a quote, \"Penchant for sexism.\"", "I really deplore the tone of his campaign and the inflammatory rhetoric that he's using to divide people. His bigotry, his bluster, his bullying have become his campaign.", "Trump responded, Trump style on Twitter saying, be careful Hillary as you play the war on women or women being degraded card. And on his use of a Yiddish word for a certain part of the male anatomy to describe Clinton's 2008 loss to Barack Obama --", "She got schlonged. She lost.", "Trump pushed back from the idea that he meant anything vulgar, insisting \"schlonged\" is a common political term tweeting, \"When I said that Hillary Clinton got schlonged by Obama, it meant got beaten badly. The media knows this, often used word in politics.\"", "I've been covering politics for a long time now. I can't recall hearing that word in any political context. But Kate, maybe I missed it. Regardless, this fact between Trump and Clinton, it only helps each other's constituencies because they need them at this age that they gain as parties basis. They are the ones who are going to start voting in Iowa in just about a month and a half.", "It does seem that now there is a new word added to our political dictionary. Thank you very, very much.", "Thank you.", "Dana, it's great to see you. Thanks. OUTFRONT tonight, Donald Trump's campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson and the founder of the pro-Clinton Super PAC \"Correct the Record,\" David Brock. Guys, it's great to see you. Thanks so much.", "Thank you.", "Hi, Kate.", "Nice to see you. Katrina, two tweets now -- not just one, two tweets coming from Trump today, both of them warning Clinton in a various ways but he says, both times, be careful. What is Donald Trump warning Hillary Clinton about?", "Well, I think it's pretty obvious by now that Donald Trump will be the only Republican candidate that would be willing to take Hillary on, head-on. And what he's referring to is very simple. You know, no one really complained in 2011 when he used the exact same exact word to describe a woman winning an election cycle, with a Congressional race actually. And so, all of a sudden it's horrible. But Hillary Clinton has some nerve to talk about the war on women and the bigotry towards women when she has a serious problem in her husband.", "David Brock, Bill Clinton, he's being brought in.", "Look, let's just start by saying, you know, let's not talk about Hillary Clinton for a minute. What are the Republican say about Donald Trump? Unhinged proto-fascist. The \"Wall Street Journal\" editorial page today says, he has a pathology and narcissistic personality. That's why he admires Putin who is also a narcissistic strong men. So, I think the question is, what kind of a man -- let's forget the pardonship -- what kind of man insults, threatens, and degrades women not just Hillary, Megyn Kelly, Carly Fiorina. I'll tell you what kind of a man that is? That is somebody who is frightened, who is insecure and is a woos who has to act like a bully to make him feel like he's a big man. And I'll tell you what we're not going to be bullied in this campaign.", "Katrina?", "Well, let's distinguish between the people he's talking about, the quote-unquote, \"Republican establishment\" who happens to be losing handedly right now. And what's interesting about this, this notion of being bullied is, I mean, I can think of quite a few women that have been bullied by Hillary Clinton to hide her husband's misogynist sexist secret. So we can actually go there but the thing about Hillary is, she does need to be very careful. Because in the new CNN poll, it shows that not only Donald Trump, but Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are statistically tied with women. This is a campaign that was not going to run on the issues. Hillary was going to try to run this way on being a woman and it's failing.", "David, I want to tell you, I know you lost audio for just a second there, David. But again and again, this is the warning, the be careful that's coming from Donald Trump, we're hearing it from Katrina. They are going to take on Bill Clinton.", "Right. Let them take on Bill Clinton. Look, this is not a democratic problem. It's a Republican problem. You have a Republican, front-runner, it is sad and pathetic, who not only insults women, is a racist who talks about Mexican immigrants as rapists, who is stoking Islamophobia which is helping the terrorists who want to kill us. This is a really dangerous situation and it's a terrible problem for the Republican Party. Because Donald Trump, at the end of the day, is an opportunist, he doesn't care about the Republican Party. To him, it's just a casino.", "Actually, a Liberal problem, Erin. Because what you have on Hillary Clinton's side are a bunch of people including women, liberal women who want to run around talking about the war on women, they want to burn their bras, they complain about equal pay and being treated as men, and the second thing they get criticized for anything, they start acting like nine-year-old little girls. So, let's be serious.", "It's terrible to advocate for equal pay, isn't it?", "Here's the one thing guys --", "It's about policy instead of going around trying to call somebody, sexist, racism, misogynist.", "We're not calling. It's what it is.", "I actually want to ask you something.", "Don't tell me it's politically correct. It's just decent not to walk around saying racist and sexists things.", "David, you're doing a very good job speaking for Hillary Clinton. But let me ask you about this --", "Sure.", "In your response coming from Hillary Clinton --", "Yes.", "First, you had the campaign was silent. Then you have the Clinton campaign official who sent out a tweet saying, we're not going to respond. Fast forward no time at all, almost the same day. Hillary Clinton did respond in that very emotional way. What is the change? What is the decision behind that strategy if she's not afraid to take Bill -- Bill Clinton, pardon me -- if she's not afraid to take Donald Trump on, what was behind that strategy towards the response?", "Honestly, I don't know. But I'll just say that the things that were said the other night, I was watching live. They were so shocking that the first thing you would say is, I'm not going to dignify it. But then, look, he's the Republican front-runner. Your own poll shows that today. He's surging on the basis of a radicalized Republican base and he is giving voice to their bigotry. And so someone needs to call that out. And I'm glad Hillary Clinton is doing it and we're going to continue to do it because certainly the Republicans, who are his opponents, are too weak to really do the job.", "Here's the thing to both of you. Neither Hillary Clinton among her base of women -- she doesn't have a problem with women in her base. Donald Trump also doing very well with women in the Republican base. So in terms of the primary, this doesn't hurt either of these candidates. But what about if they make it to the General, Katrina? You can see the war on women that has been a somewhat successful charge in the past against Republicans. Is that a problem for the Trump campaign and in the general?", "Well, Kate, I think you're right. This was a problem in the past mainly because any other Republican would be the quiet, soft person and not want to push back against the Liberals or even the media, for that matter. That's why this is very different. And just like I stated in the CNN poll, they are statistically tied right now with women. So, I don't think this is going to be an issue for Mr. Trump and, and more importantly, when we're looking at Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, we have very big policy differences, number one. Number two, we're talking about moving forward. We're not going to be stuck in the '60s. Every time a Republican says anything Kate, it's either racist or bigoted if they don't like it and it's not just going to work on the Trump campaign.", "David, are you guys outdated?", "Certainly not. In fact, the retrograde misogyny that we see from Donald Trump shows who really is outdated here. So, look, you know, this is a Republican fight. You know, we don't have any say over who the Republicans nominee. If they want to nominate Donald trump, go right ahead and do it. But they are going to alienate that he already has alienated substantial parts of the country. He's put our country in danger which, in my mind, is a disqualifier for being a commander-in-chief. But if the Republicans wanted to go down that road, if they really hate their leadership and their establishment and what the party stands for, don't talk to me about policy for instance. Donald Trump has repudiated Republican ideology on foreign policy.", "Absolutely.", "And on economic policy. So we're seeing an implosion of the Republican Party right before our eyes.", "I'll tell you guys, listen, this ends up --", "Donald Trump's policies are very different and Hillary Clinton oversaw the growth of ISIS and she also armed ISIS. She's the one who put the country in danger.", "Yes, he's a real, big, tough man with", "Let me point just this out.", "Yes.", "If this does become a general election matchup between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I think this is a perfect example of how just lively that debate is going to be. Katrina, David, thanks so much. Great to see you, guys. Thank you.", "Look forward to it, Kate. Thank you.", "Thanks, Kate.", "OUTFRONT for us next, Ted Cruz is slamming the media for a cartoon about his daughters. So why is he using the very same image then to raise money? Also this ahead, more breaking news, new information about the two Muslim families barred from boarding a flight for their U.S. vacation. Was it profiling? 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{"id": "CNN-81965", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2004-2-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/10/lt.01.html", "summary": "In Iraq, Massive Explosive, Assassinations", "utt": ["We begin this hour in Iraq where a massive explosion and four apparent assassinations have left dozens dead. Our Jane Arraf joins us live. She is in Baghdad with the latest. Jane, hello.", "Hello, Daryn.", "Hello, Daryn. Well, it was a huge explosion, packed into a car bomb and destined to go off, it seems, for maximum casualties and maximum damage. It exploded just as dozens of people were lining up outside a police station Tuesday morning to apply for jobs as police officers. Now, an interior ministry official tells us that the explosives were packed into a red pickup truck, one that had formally been used by the Iraqi secret police. Now more than 45 people have been killed, more than a hundred wounded. And the Army tells us that it is ferrying casualties by helicopter to Point South (ph). That wasn't the only attack on police today. There were four police officers assassinated in two separate shootings, apparent drive-by assassinations here in Baghdad -- Daryn.", "Jane Arraf, joining us from Baghdad. Thanks for the latest on that. We will check back with you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-221524", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-12-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1312/24/cnr.10.html", "summary": "Massachusetts Military Couple Surprises Their Kids With Homecoming", "utt": ["OK. Some of the hottest stories in a flash. We've got a special Christmas Eve edition for \"Rapid Fire\" today. Roll it, Michael. Are you looking forward to opening presents tomorrow? How about 22 Christmas trees. A South Dakota woman says it's her holiday tradition. Each tree has a different theme that she started planning in October. In Georgia, another display on the outside of the home, see anything unusual? How about that man hanging outside the second story window? It's actually a mannequin, but neighbors didn't realize that and one neighbor called 911, leading to police cars, fire truck, and paramedics. They all showed up and urged the homeowner to take down the decoration. Our affiliate WSB says they put it back up by popular demand. And we saved the big guy for last, Santa Claus. Looks like he's getting ready for his big night flying around the world, taking to the water. This is him on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. The evil Grinch got into the act, came along for a little jet ski ride. His attempt to steal Christmas, though, didn't go so well, but he did get really wet. Are those reindeer? All right, now a story that we never get tired of. I'll be home for Christmas takes on new meaning when both mom and dad are active duty military and haven't been home to see their kids in six months. But a Massachusetts military couple made it home for the holiday, and their surprise arrival was picture perfect. Here's Liam Martin with WCVB.", "It began like any other Christmas show with music and kids excited about Santa. But waiting in the wings of this school, two soldiers who haven't seen their kids in six months.", "Nice to see them. Give them hugs, kisses. Hold them.", "Very excited. It's been a long time. Like he said, the biggest thing is I can't wait to give them huge hugs. We talk to them, FaceTime, but FaceTime, it's a great, but it's not the same as being there.", "Douglas and Melissa Vallant are both in Army and it's been a long wait to see their 8-year-old James and 3-year-old Arianna, so they and the Methuen Community Kindergarten conspired together to surprise them.", "We have a little personal bet who's going to cry first and how the kids will react.", "After Santa had come in, the two kids sang \"I'll Have A Blue Christmas Without You.\" They thought it was being recorded to send to their parents. And then the big reveal.", "You miss your kids like crazy. You never really understand until they're gone and you feel it. It's hard.", "I was like super surprised. It just gave me the best Christmas ever. My wish came true. I wanted Daddy and Mommy to come and have holly-jolly Christmas with me.", "Douglas Vallant, the dad that you just saw there, has served in both Afghanistan and Iraq. His wife Melissa has just started her military training. Lance Armstrong admits to doping. Manti Te'o makes \"catfishing\" a household word. And remember just -- those are two of the stories of the top 10 sports stories of the year. See if you can guess number one. That's next.", "Hi, my name's Lieutenant Junior Grade Lilly Bean (ph). I'm deployed on board \"USS Harry S Truman\" in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. I'd like to wish my brother Harrison and sister Stephanie and nieces Eva and Elsa a very merry Christmas and a happy new year."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "LIAM MARTIN, REPORTER, WCVB", "DOUGLAS VALLANT, FATHER", "MELISSA VALLANT, MOTHER", "MARTIN", "D. VALLANT", "MARTIN", "M. VALLANT", "JAMES VALLANT, SON", "PHILLIPS", "LIETENANT JUNIOR GRADE LILLY BEAN (ph)"]}
{"id": "CNN-268918", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2015-11-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1511/10/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Tightening Airport Security; Concern Over Vetting Of Airport Workers; Vetting Airport Workers for Security", "utt": ["The possibility that a bomb brought down that Russian airliner with 224 people onboard is causing increased concern among officials in the United States. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, officials there, they're working to try to address vulnerabilities involving the nearly 900,000 workers at American airports. There is some suspicion that a bomb was put on that metro jet flight by an insider at the Egyptian airport in Sharm El Sheikh where the aircraft made its final takeoff. Our Aviation and Government Regulation Correspondent Rene Marsh is joining us now. Rene, we're talking about almost a million workers only here at the United States of about 450 airports. What exactly are Homeland Security concerns right now?", "Well, Wolf, you know, in my conversations with several people who are involved with aviation security, they are all saying the same thank, the major concern is that insider threat, the individual at these airports, the individual who works with an airline who has that unfettered, secure access to the airport, as well as the aircraft. Now, I spoke with one congressman, John Katko. He's the chairman of the Transportation Security's subcommittee. He says, and in his own words, \"we simply do not know enough\" about the close to one million airport workers at U.S. airports across the nation. He's really pushing for better vetting of these employees. And we just heard just this month the head of the TSA even telling Congress that there is work to be done as it relates to the insider threat. Now, one U.S. official shared with us this information saying that the information that is collected, when it comes to vetting these airport workers, is essentially the same sort of information that's collected from passengers who are looking to get pre-check clearance at security checkpoints. And some find that very disturbing. I can tell you, Wolf, there is legislation that has been proposed. It's passed the House. that legislation would essentially call for more physical screening of these airport workers when they arrive on scene at work, as well as recurring background checks. It's passed the House but it has not passed the Senate.", "All right, Rene, thanks very much. Joining us now to talk about airport security and the Department of homeland Security is the Texas Congressman Will Hurd. He's a member of the House Homeland Security Committee. He's also on the committee on Government Oversight. Congressman, thanks very much for joining us. Are you convinced at this point it was a bomb and that it was ISIS related, either ISIS or some affiliate of ISIS?", "Being convinced 100 percent is difficult, but it looks like it was ISIS. There's still reviews ongoing. But we should treat it as such. And this would be a - a significant departure from ISIS' tactics and techniques in the region. And it's even more reason that we should be focused on them and stopping them in Syria and Iraq.", "And the assumption is that they had an insider at that airport in Sharm el Sheikh that planted that bomb, assuming it is a bomb, on that aircraft.", "That's one of the scenarios that's being discussed. I don't think technical issues have been ruled out as if somebody put it in baggage and it - and it got through. We don't know the answers to that yet, but that's something that I know TSA is going to be look at very closely, as well as airports around the world. An important thing to note is, you know, what happens at an airport like in Sharm el Sheikh versus what happens in - in Washington, D.C., or somewhere else is very different. And TSA is increasing their screening of luggage that's coming from key regions overseas. And the House passed legislation earlier this year saying that every airport needs to go through and review the security access controls. You know, where can their workers get access to into the sensitive areas of an airport?", "Because there's almost, as we said, nearly 900,000 workers at 450 airports in the United States. Does more need to be done right now?", "I think we could always do more. I think we could always do more to continue to protect the American people. And protecting against that insider threat is - is a very difficult thing to do. Additional screenings of the workers that are working there is important. And then also making sure we know where our workers have access to in these areas. And technical measures as well.", "If it was ISIS or some ISIS-affiliated group, why would they go after a Russian airline with 224 people on board, almost all of them were Russians? Why would they target Russia? Was it - was it a - was the attack designed to hurt Russia or designed to hurt Egypt, for example, or send a broader message?", "I think, you know, the design was to hurt Egypt I think more so than Russians. But here's one of those areas where ISIS' information campaigns are pretty significant. Nobody's talking about how ISIS is killing innocent people. They're beating their chest on social media saying, you know, they're taking the fight to the bad guys, but they're killing innocent folks. That message needs to - need to get out there to folks that are trying to combat them.", "You spent nine years in the CIA as a clandestine officer. You understand intelligence. Social media, this whole social media, these guys are recruiting, ISIS, a lot more supporters now as a result of the murder of these 224 people, which is hard for us to understand. Why is this so attractive to them?", "Look, we can't think about this problem through our own mindset. It's a different world. When I was chasing al Qaeda in places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, al Qaeda would do something called night letters. They would write a letter and leave it on the doorsteps. Now ISIS is hitting tens of millions of people a day leveraging social media. They're encouraging, saying come to - come get a sense of adventure. Get off the - the couch and stop playing video game and come do the real thing. But the reality is, is that if a young man is going to fight with ISIS in Syria and Iraq, they're more likely to get a bomb dropped on their head than they are to find a sense of adventure.", "All right, is the U.S. up to this mission because ISIS clearly, and al Qaeda, they're good on social media. Has the U.S. and its allies stepped up to the plate?", "We haven't and that's what we need to do a better job. Department of Homeland Security has created a new coordinator for CVE, that's countering violent extremism, but it can't be the U.S. government alone to do these things. It has to be a whole - all of our partners, our Sunni Arab partners in the region, non-state actors need to get involved in this process. But we also need to take the fight to them on the ground. The intelligence - our intelligence posture in Syria and Iraq is not where I think it needs to be. We can use the example of Afghanistan from 2001 as a model, and we need to work closer with groups to stop ISIS on the ground.", "Congressman Will Hurd, Republican of Texas, thanks very much for coming in.", "Thank you, sir.", "The Republican presidential candidates, they're getting ready for their fourth debate tonight. We're going to take a closer look at what to expect. The chairman of the Republican Party, Reince Priebus, he's standing by. We'll discuss what's going on when we come back."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "RENE MARSH, CNN AVIATION & GOVT. REGULATION CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "REP. WILL HURD (R-TX), HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY CMTE.", "BLITZER", "HURD", "BLITZER", "HURD", "BLITZER", "HURD", "BLITZER", "HURD", "BLITZER", "HURD", "BLITZER", "HURD", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-18127", "program": "", "date": "2000-10-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/17/aotc.03.html", "summary": "'Financial Times': Mixed Day for European Markets", "utt": ["A mixed day this morning for the European markets with London headed to the downside.", "Philip Coggan, markets editor of the \"Financial Times,\" joins us live from the \"FT\"'s London newsroom. And Philip, I gather that Philips' performance was good, but the stock's performance was not?", "Yes, that's right, Deborah. They came out with figures of 771 million euros; now that was to the top of the range that the analysts had been looking for, but the whisper number, as it were, the best number in the range was 800 million euros. So not quite as good as the best forecast. The shares have come down. I Think it is largely to do with Intel yesterday. Philips does have a semiconductor division. Now that actually produced a very good performance over the year. Its figures are up to 373 million euros from 154 million before. So more than doubling. But, nevertheless, Philips has been knocked along with a lot of the chip-related stocks in Europe. We have seen falls on Fineon (ph), we've seen falls in STMicroelectronics, and ASM Lithography. So a difficult day for those kind of stocks in the wake of Intel's fall yesterday.", "And we understand the pharmaceutical company Roche is in the news?", "Yes, that's right. It's announced that it's going to meet its profit target for the year of 10 percent. It has three third-quarter figures out today, and they're showing sales up 10 percent. But it is saying, first of all, it's going to spin off its biotech disease fighting companies -- businesses into a new company called Bazilia Pharmaceutica (ph) -- difficult thing to say -- and it's also saying that drugs sales are going to pick up next year. This year it has been a bit sluggish because it's anti-obesity drug that it launched last year Xenical, it's slowed its sales this year. But next year it's got some more drugs coming through that it hopes will do very well. So its shares among the best performers in Europe today.", "Philip, what's happening with the euro? I saw it go below 85 cents this morning with no response from the central banks.", "Yes. Well, Mr. Duisenberg yesterday rather gave the game away by saying it was unlikely that they were going to intervene in the short-term. Now it might have been playing a very sophisticated game because only when the markets don't expect intervention, does intervention work. So he might have been denying they were going to intervene and then planning to intervene in after that denial. I mean, it's been hovering around -- sorry.", "That's OK. I was going to say, there were rumors he was going to resign too.", "There was a rumor on the wires. That's been dismissed as total nonsense by the ECB spokesman. So I think we can count on that -- That one out. But his performance has been widely criticized. He seems to have made a bit of a gaff yesterday with that remark. And for all the lifetime of the euro, the European Central Bank, officials have not been very good at supporting the currency; they tended to be contradictory, they have not indicated -- they have not created the kind of record that the Bundesbank held for years in defending the Deutschemark. And so, it's not surprisingly these rumors are going to start, and the euro is still stuck around 85 cents. Nothing seems to be pushing it hire at the moment, and no sign of intervention.", "Wish I were coming to Europe. Philip Coggan, of the \"FT,\" thanks so much."], "speaker": ["DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "PHILIP COGGAN, MARKETS EDITOR, \"FINANCIAL TIMES\"", "HAFFENREFFER", "COGGAN", "MARCHINI", "COGGAN", "MARCHINI", "COGGAN", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "CNN-100229", "program": "YOUR WORLD TODAY", "date": "2005-12-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/01/ywt.01.html", "summary": "World AIDS Day; War in Iraq", "utt": ["Live from CNN Center, this is", "From Nairobi to New Delhi, activists mark World AIDS Day by taking steps to bring awareness to the deadly disease.", "How many people had a full meal today?", "How many people know somebody's who's died of HIV? Wow. Everybody.", "In a country once ravaged by genocide, our medical correspondent reports on how Rwandans are living with", "And eying the polls. We are going to tell you what Americans think about the U.S. president's plan for victory in Iraq. It's right now 10:30 p.m. in New Delhi, 12:00 noon in Washington. I'm Jim Clancy.", "And I'm Colleen McEdwards. Welcome to our viewers throughout the world. This is CNN International and this is YOUR WORLD TODAY. The United Nations describes it this way: an exceptional global threat that requires an equally exceptional response.", "That's right. We begin with international efforts to curb the spread of HIV and AIDS on this World AIDS Day.", "And despite the progress, Colleen, that's been made in some key areas -- we've heard about that -- the number of people living in HIV today has never been higher.", "That's right. And we are going to see actually which countries are the hardest hit and what it is like to actually live with HIV as we go continent to continent in our coverage.", "All right. Now first, just an idea of how widespread the disease is. Forty million people worldwide now infected with HIV. More than 3 million people died of AIDS this year. U.S. President George W. Bush says the United States is determined to help shrink those numbers.", "In the United States, over a million of our citizens face this chronic condition. At the start of this century, AIDS causes suffering from remote villages of Africa to the heart of America's big cities. This danger has multiplied by indifference and complacency. This danger will be overcome by compassion, honesty, and decisive action.", "Now, around the world, people are marking World AIDS Day with events to try to raise awareness. In India, the country only second to South Africa for the number of HIV cases, has volunteers taking their final steps on this, a three -- a year-long walk across the country. They covered more than 6,800 kilometers, ending up in New Delhi. China marking World AIDS Day with public awareness campaigns that are aimed at millions of migrant workers. Health officials visited construction sites across the country handing out condoms, as well as information packs.", "Well, Africa is the continent hardest hit by AIDS. And here are some statistics that may shock you. It has only 10 percent of the world's population, but more than half of all the people living with HIV. And that is a total of 25.8 million people out of about 40 million people who suffer from HIV worldwide. Perhaps one of the most staggering statistics is this. The U.N. estimates that one in every 14 African adults suffers from HIV. One in 14. The pandemic is also taking a huge toll on children. AIDS has left some 17 million on the African continent without any parents.", "We focus in on Africa because that is where the problem, as Colleen described it, is the worst. Now, there's a new study in the \"New England Journal of Medicine\" that says this. AIDS medication triples -- triples -- the survival rate of even the poorest and the sickest patients. Now, our own Dr. Sanjay Gupta traveled to Rwanda, where doctors have pioneered a new drug therapy and taken that to Africa.", "This is a meeting of the local AIDS association, Francuabu (ph) District, eastern Rwanda.", "Let me tell you, AIDS, I know you. I can fight you. I can fight you because I know you. Some of my sisters and brothers died because of", "About one Rwandan in 10 is infected with the HIV virus. Sadly, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that's par for the course. (on camera): How many people had a full meal today?", "How many people know somebody who's died of HIV? Wow. Everybody. Just about every single person. (voice over): But here, in the most unlikely of places, is a kind of oasis, what amounts to a first-rate hospital in a Third World environment. It's run by the Boston-based group Partners in Health.", "This is almost the same conditions as Haiti. So it's very, very similar.", "In Haiti, Partners in Health proved patients in poor countries would stick to a treatment regimen -- that if medication was available, patients could get better if they also got nourishment. You see, without food, the medicine won't work. Here, every AIDS patient and their family gets at least a six-month food supply.", "A lot of organizations are going in and starting up HIV programs, and they're being very specific that they're treating HIV, but they're not addressing some of the other problems. And we have the complete opposite philosophy, that we can't just go in and say, you know, sorry, you don't have HIV, we can't help you.", "When we first arrived here, the 10-foot brush outside had been cleared. But there was still a lot of work to do. The hospital had only been half rebuilt. They'd still need an operating room and lots of medical supplies. This room could be a patient ward, but they need fresh paint, new windows, and at least 15 to 20 beds. (voice over): At least the pharmacy was stocked, and there was no shortage of patients. The project was made possible with money from Rwanda's government and with help from the Clinton Foundation, which brokered a deal that lowered the cost of AIDS-fighting medicine from around $10,000 a year per patient to less than 500. But money alone can't buy hope. It takes political will, hard work, and in eastern Rwanda, a bicycle. Jean Claude (ph) is a volunteer. He rides through the countryside visiting the same two patients day after day, delivering AIDS medication, making sure they take it, asking about their health. One of Jean Claude's charges is John Kanangwe (ph). Before the new hospital was built, he spent his small life savings on doctors, who could offer little in the way of help. Now on antiviral medication, he's getting stronger. (on camera): What would have happened if you didn't get the medicine?", "I would have died.", "Like Kanangwe, his community is slowly but surely coming back to life. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, in Rwanda.", "The worldwide AIDS pandemic is the subject of our question of the day today.", "That's right. We are asking this simple question. Is there more hope today for people living with AIDS than there was five years ago? E-mail us your thoughts. Keep them brief, and send them to us by email at YWT@CNN.com. And as always, don't forget to include your name.", "And let us know where you are writing from as well. We'll get some of them on the air.", "All right.", "All right. Now to the battle for the hearts and minds of the American public. A day after the White House launched a fresh offensive in the public opinion battle over the Iraq war, a new poll shows the president's remarks about his strategy for victory in Iraq met with a lot of skepticism. Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll, joins us now. And Frank, we make a lot of this in the media, of course. The editorial pages are full of it today. But was the average American really watching here?", "No, they were not, Colleen. And I think that's a very important point. It shows how difficult it is for an American president to affect public opinion with just a speech, particularly one that was done in the middle of the day, wasn't in primetime, and so on and so forth. Here's what we found last night. Two-thirds -- 66 percent -- of Americans said not only had they not seen the speech live, they really had not heard, seen or read anything about the speech as of last night. Only 10 percent, typically Republicans, saw it live. And another 24 percent saw some coverage of it on the news, but a lot of Americans simply were not aware of the particulars of the speech at all. Now, with that said, I can say the poll last night showed structurally there's some good news and bad news for the president. This is some good news. This, I don't think, was a result of the speech, but shows the preexisting attitudes that Americans tend to agree that U.S. troops should be withdrawn from Iraq only when goals are achieved, not following a timetable. That's one of his major points last night. On the other hand, a little more bad news for President Bush. Over half of Americans -- 55 percent -- say he does not have a clear plan for victory in Iraq. And we don't think the speech last night, at least from what we can tell, is really changing those perceptions.", "So is there any optimism? I mean, do you get a sense that people are optimistic that there could be a victory?", "Well, the president had three parts to his speech. He said these are what would need to be done before the U.S. could really say it was a victory and withdrawal all troops. So we asked the American public, how likely is it that these things are going to happen? And not a lot of optimism. Less than half -- 47 percent -- of Americans, say that in the next few years Iraq will have a democracy, say, from overthrow. A little lower percent -- 44 percent -- agreed with the president's second point that there will be an effective police or military presence without U.S. assistance in Iraq. And finally, only a third of Americans say in the next few years Iraq will be able to keep terrorists from setting up their bases. In fact, a very small percent, less than 20 percent, agree with all three of these. So at least at this point, Colleen, in answer to your question, the data from last night show that a lot of Americans simply are skeptical that those goals the president outlined will actually be met, even in the next several years, in Iraq.", "Skeptical, indeed. Frank Newport, thanks a lot for bringing it all to us. Appreciate it, Frank. Jim?", "Well, one opinion that really counts, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He says military and civilian defense personnel could be doing a better job of spreading the word about the progress that is being made in Iraq -- his examples, some of the advances. General Peter Pace cited the upcoming election, increasing business opportunities, and the nearly 300,000 Iraqis who have had at least some security force training. He agrees with the commander in chief. He says there's no option but victory.", "Failure is not an option. There is no way that we can lose if we maintain our patience and our will, our resolve. But it's also true that inside of that patience and resolve we should execute our mission as smartly as we possibly can.", "That was the general speaking earlier to students at the National Defense University. That's at Fort McNair in Washington. The White House is going to carry on its campaign to convince the American public it has a plan that will work and will bring victory in Iraq.", "All right. We are going to change gears a little bit here. When we return, we're going to go back to more on World AIDS Days.", "That's right. How is it affecting the lives of children? And what's being done to address their needs? We'll have a guest and talk about the challenges of children living with AIDS."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "YOUR WORLD TODAY. JIM CLANCY, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SR. MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "GUPTA", "COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "AIDS. CLANCY", "MCEDWARDS", "MCEDWARDS", "CLANCY", "MCEDWARDS", "CLANCY", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CLANCY", "MCEDWARDS", "CLANCY", "GUPTA (voice over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator)", "AIDS. GUPTA", "GUPTA", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-291378", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2016-08-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/15/acd.02.html", "summary": "At Least 5 Killed And 20,000+ Rescued In Louisiana Flooding", "utt": ["The flooding danger is far from over in southern Louisiana tonight. Rivers continue to rise along with fatalities. We've also seen breathtaking stories of survival caught on camera. Meteorologist Jennifer Gray reports.", "We're coming.", "We're coming.", "I'm going to break this window.", "We're breaking the window.", "More than 20,000 people have been rescued since last week as deadly floodwaters have prompted a state of emergency across south Louisiana.", "Get my dog.", "Her dog.", "Get my dog.", "I got your dog.", "The massive flooding has claimed the lives of at least five people, devastating entire communities which are now under water.", "This car is under the water.", "That's as high as I've ever seen it. I've been in this area since 1983.", "Tens of thousands of residents have been forced to evacuate their homes and chilling images like this coast guard rescue of a child remind many in the region of hurricane Katrina's horrific aftermath a decade ago.", "These are all my neighbors that ended up getting a nice dose of, \"No, this couldn't happen,\" in reality it can.", "Reggie Wade has lived in the southeast Baton Rouge neighborhood for 24 years.", "I've never seen it get up in this yard above the carport. And carports are all under water along with the entire house.", "The Louisiana National Guard has deployed almost 2,000 soldiers to assist local first responders with search and rescue efforts, and with more than 24 inches of rain falling in the area since last week. They know they are up against the clock.", "It is still very, very dangerous. We still have waters rising in a number of areas. All of our people are still on high alert.", "And most of the rivers have crested in this area as all of this water heads down to the south. However, a lot of those rivers are going to hold at crest stage for a couple of days, possibly, so it could be the end of the week before some people are able to get back in their homes. Some of the homes behind me have water chest-deep, Anderson. It looks like we are going to stay mainly dry for the next couple of days aside from a few spotty afternoon showers, but a long road ahead for people in south Louisiana.", "Let's hope they get fast -- help fast. Jennifer Gray, thanks for being there. Joining us now on the phone, the man we just heard from in Jennifer's report, the mayor, president of -- mayor-president of Baton Rouge, Kip Holden. Mayor, thanks so much for being with us. First of all, what is your biggest concern right now, the biggest need?", "Well, right now it's still making sure that people are adequately sheltered, making sure that we're watching and still checking to see what happens to the water. For example, this afternoon, we had to send fire and rescue people out to an area that had been underwater for all of these days to check homes to make sure no people are left in those homes. So, there are a multitude of things going on. We're trying to prioritize those and still deliver the service to people in shelters as well and get people food.", "I mean, all the rescue efforts, just incredible to see, not only by first responders, trained first responders, but also the civilians are out there in boats rescuing people. The residents who have been evacuated, how are they, where are they right now? What kind of facilities are there for them?", "Well, for example, for special needs individuals, they're at LSU, in a center there. We have people at our center in downtown, so we have people there, frankly and virtually, in a lot -- some churches and southern university as well. So we are taking the space that we're getting and still trying to make sure we're accommodating people and not putting them from one side of town to another or another parish. Trying to make sure they are centralized. But I can tell you, still we'll be doing this for another several days including an abandoned studio. They are not shooting any movies there right now yet they opened up sound stages to say here are places where you can bring people as well. So, people are responding to our need in order to get people located in Baton Rouge. But at the same time, it's not just Baton Rouge, it's several other parishes surrounding us and many of those parishes, frankly, have greater damage than we do. So it's a lot of work that has to go in before we could stand back up. But yet, even months down the line, there will be a lot of work to do in all of these parishes.", "I've heard you say one of the toughest things you've seen is firefighters carrying out the elderly, the sick people, you know, through floodwaters to safety. What do you tell people who have to leave their homes? Because a lot of folks, obviously, don't want to leave their homes, are scared to leave their home.", "Well, frankly, we've had just the opposite. A lot of people have called for help and are still calling for help. So we have this partnership going, because there's a mutual trust that's been here based upon all the storms that we've had. And so therefore, they go in to take care of them but at the same time, we make sure people are patrolling those areas to give that extra part of security to them to let them know that we're taking care of them at all levels. But I can tell you that bond between the rescuers and those who have been rescued is very, very tight.", "And I just got word that now, we believe, the death toll is raised to eight confirmed fatalities. Mayor Holden, I appreciate all you're doing. Thank you so much for taking time to talk to us. We wish you and the folk there ...", "And we thank you all so much for showing the flight of people here. And may God bless each and every one of you for showing and letting people know what we're going through.", "Well, we love Louisiana. Thank you so much, Mayor. Up next, Milwaukee on alert facing a third night of protests following a deadly police shooting. Can the situation be contained tonight? 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{"id": "CNN-406384", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-07-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/24/cnr.14.html", "summary": "Parents Struggle to Balance Work and Childcare during Pandemic", "utt": ["\"This is not working.\" That is what one mother of two says about the struggle to balance work and childcare since the start of the pandemic. And she is far from alone. Parents all across the country are crushed under the weight of balancing or not, being a parent, at sudden at home teacher and employee with the start of the new year just weeks away. Some areas - in some areas, it could all just get so much worse. So far, Congress has approved $3.5 billion that has then been dispersed under the CARES Act for the childcare industry. But the National Women's Law Center says, the industry needs to receive $9.6 billion a month. Joining me now, Keisha Hudson, an attorney working from home while caring for her two little children. So, Keisha, welcome.", "Thank you. Thank you, Brooke. I'm very happy to be here.", "So, let's dive in. I know it is summer. That means it is a bit of a reprieve from you know Zoom classes with your 8-year-old daughter. I know you also have a toddler. That is all enough to keep your hands full on a good day, on a normal day. And then obviously add to the fact that you're a full-time attorney. We're living in the midst of a pandemic. How do you balance it all or do you?", "I don't know that I'm balancing it very well. I think I speak for a lot of parents, particularly working mothers who are really kind of bearing the brunt of childcare, all of the research now and all of the surveys that have done have shown that women are doing more housework, on top of all of our other responsibilities as well as parenting, teaching and trying to work. So, I don't know that there is a balance there. And I certainly haven't been able to find one.", "Listen, I appreciate your honesty and I think a lot of people at home, especially women, right, are nodding along with you. Can you just do me a favor, Keisha, and quickly run through the most challenging part of your day, trying to do it all.", "You know, with a 2-year-old, you know my day starts early. It started at 4:30 this morning when she woke up, wide awake and ready to start the day. There was no getting her back to sleep. And in the beginning of the shutdown when you know when she was home, she was not in a childcare setting, we had to pull her out. And my daughter was home because her school was closed. Those first three hours of the morning were incredibly hectic because it's monitoring her but also realizing that you know at 5:00 a.m. I have a two-hour window before my 8-year-old gets up and virtual learning has to start. And so, from about 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. there is this frantic rush to get started working, trying to get some of my tasks accomplished before my daughter gets up and before I have to turn my attention to supervising her learning. So, those first two hours I had to do all of the things. It is monitoring the 2-year-old, and starting to do my work, and getting breakfast on the table, and opening up all of the links her teacher had sent that day to see what she had to get done and then once she was up making sure they're both eating breakfast, and then jumping into what ends up being a chaotic day.", "And then by the way, you're also an attorney. Remind us what your work is.", "So, I'm an attorney with the Justice Collaborative. We do criminal justice reform work on a local state and national level.", "So, it is heavy stuff. It is heavy stuff is my point. I'm already exhausted listening to your - to the first couple of hours of your day. Let me ask you this, because I know that just in the last, let's say, 10 days there's been conflicting guidance from the federal government on looking towards this fall. Right? We've heard the president say it should be safe for schools to reopen, the CDC strongly recommends it. But then listening to Dr. Deborah Birx this morning from the Coronavirus Task Force, she's saying actually we don't totally know much about COVID and kids under the age of 10 in terms of spreading the virus. So just given all these question marks, Keisha, but also given the weight on you as a mom/makeshift homeschool teacher/attorney, do you want to send your daughter back to school this fall?", "I don't. And I don't because I don't think we know enough. I don't think that the federal government has prioritized the funding that needs to be directed to - to our childcare facilities and to public schools. My daughter's in a public school. We love our public school. We're big supporters of public education. But there has not by any means been the investment into making sure those places of learning, that public schools have the funding that they need and the support and the resources and the PPE for all the teachers, the testing. There is no routine testing, none of that has been made clear. And, again, on top of that all the unanswered questions about having kids sit in a classroom for eight hours a day, breathe in the same air. They're children. They're not going to social distance. They're not going to be great about keeping their masks on. They're not going to be great about making sure they're washing their hands and sanitizing regularly. It's a lot of unknown questions. It's a lot of stress on not just the students and the parents but also our teachers who are not getting nearly enough support to kind of get ready for the school year.", "You can say that again. Keisha Hudson, I just thank you. And good luck and I know so many parents are sitting there listening to you thinking, yep, yep, me too. We're all in this together. Thank you.", "Yes, we are.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "A hospital in Southern Texas overrun with coronavirus patients. And now the county is taking a drastic action to stop the spread. How a new stay-at-home order is affecting thousands of people, coming up."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "KEISHA HUDSON, SENIOR LEGAL COUNSEL, THE JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE", "BALDWIN", "HUDSON", "BALDWIN", "HUDSON", "BALDWIN", "HUDSON", "BALDWIN", "HUDSON", "BALDWIN", "HUDSON", "BALDWIN", "HUDSON", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-332330", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2018-02-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/07/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Planning Under Way for Trump's Military Parade.", "utt": ["Tonight, planning is under way for U.S. military parade that the president has called for in the nation's capital. Our Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr is working the story for us. Barbara, there's mixed reaction to the kind of display the president clearly wants to see.", "That's right, Wolf. It's Washington. Here even a parade becomes politics.", "Tonight, the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff confirming initial planning for a military parade is now under way. President Trump saw this military parade in Paris, and decided he wanted one of his own.", "It was one of the greatest parades I've ever seen. It was two hours on the button. And it was military might. And I think a tremendous thing for France and for the spirit of France. To a large extent, because of what I witnessed, we may do something like that on July 4th in Washington down Pennsylvania.", "The Pentagon and the White House have been talking about a parade for the last couple of months.", "As far as the parade goes, the president's respect, his fondness for the military I think they reflective in him asking for these options.", "Ideas will be forwarded to Mr. Trump for his decision. An initial plan, a November Veterans Day parade commemorating 100 years since the end of World War I. At least one veterans group is already worried.", "So far, it's going over in the military and veterans community like a lead balloon. We did a quick snap shat on Twitter account no means scientific, but last I checked, 88 percent of people did not support this idea.", "American parades of military might are rare. The last one, 1991, as the Gulf War was ending. That costs a reported $12 million. The military tab for President Obama's inaugurations were approximately $20 million to $25 million. France's parade commemorated its national day. But in recent years, military parades in not so friendly countries like China have showcased their military might on the world stage. Russia has a decades long love a fair showing its latest weapons in Moscow. Pyongyang's parade, a direct symbol of Kim Jong-un's rhetoric about striking America.", "I'm not looking for a soviet style hardware display.", "What type of parade Mr. Trump orders up has quickly become controversial on both side of the aisle.", "We need to honor our men and women in uniform. But I think we ought to do so in a way that does not necessarily appear bellicose or threatening.", "And fundamental questions if this parade is simply for and about Donald Trump.", "It's really about feeding his ego and his pomp and circumstance and being honored. Other thing that bothers me is it's just antithetical to American military culture. We are not against parades. Troops march in parades. But it's about going down Pennsylvania Avenue allegedly with tanks and missiles.", "And Democratic lawmakers today are asking the Pentagon for cost estimate and how many troops it's going to take to pull this off -- Wolf.", "Any idea about a cost?", "Well, not yet because they haven't decided how many tanks, missiles, weapons, how many troops, how many units. It will be expensive. There is a lot of concern that these heavy tanks, these heavy vehicles could rip up city streets in Washington. Local government is not too happy. They want to know who is going it pay for it.", "Barbara Starr at the Pentagon -- thanks very much. That's it for me. \"ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT\" starts right now."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "STARR (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "STARR", "JAMES MATTIS, DEFENSE SECRETARY", "STARR", "PAUL RIECKHOFF, IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA", "STARR", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC), ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE", "STARR", "REP. STENY HOYER (D-MD), MINORITY WHIP", "STARR", "REAR ADMIRAL JOHN KIRBY (RET.), CNN MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS ANALYST", "STARR", "BLITZER", "STARR", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-368412", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-04-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/30/nday.03.html", "summary": "Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) is Interviewed about New Investigation Into NRA.", "utt": ["Turmoil at the National Rifle Association after its president, Oliver North, stepped down after a power struggle with the long-time CEO Wayne LaPierre over the organization's finances. This comes as New York's attorney general has launched an investigation, a new investigation, into the NRA. Joining me now is the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo. Governor Cuomo, thanks so much for being with us. You have been at loggerheads with the NRA for some time, specifically for over a year for an insurance policy and plan that they proposed. This investigation is something different. Can you explain to me what it is? The New York attorney general confirmed its existence over the weekend.", "Yes. Good morning, John. Thank you for having me. I've been at loggerheads with the NRA for more than a year. I've been at loggerheads with the NRA for about 20 years, for very good reasons. I believe the NRA is counterproductive."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "GOV. ANDREW CUOMO (D-NY)"]}
{"id": "CNN-167484", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-6-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1106/13/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Transit Cop in Fatal Shooting Freed; GOP Debate: Candidates' Messages; Representative Weiner's New Photos; Representative Weiner Wants Leave of Absence; Rebels: We have Gadhafi \"Battle Plan\"; Syria's \"Gay Girl\" Blog is a Hoax", "utt": ["00 a.m. on the East Coast; 7:00 on the West. I'm Kyra Phillips. Thanks for joining us. Congressman Weiner has a new round of photos to explain from the towel to muscle shirts -- well you take your pick. . Celebrity web site TMZ says the snaps were taken inside the house members' gym. In California, freedom for a transit cop who shot and killed an unarmed man. Johannes Mehserle served half of a two-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter. He told a jury that he meant to tase the man, but grabbed his gun by mistake and fired the fatal shot. Three earthquakes have rocked Christchurch, New Zealand. There are reports of injuries in addition to the damage. You'll remember in February a massive earthquake killed more than 180 people there. Well, out of touch or what the voters want to hear? Seven candidates line up tonight to tell you what they'll do if elected president. It's a GOP presidential debate head by CNN, WMUR and the New Hampshire Union leader. In going into it, we've done some polling on the field, both declared and potential candidates. We asked Republican voters who they would want as a nominee for next year. Well, Mitt Romney is out in front with 24 percent of the vote. Sarah Palin second with 20 percent, but that is within the margin of error and things start falling off from there. Rudy Giuliani, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, all pretty bunched up. Congressman Ron Paul leads the bottom five, the four remaining taking up less than 5 percent each. Don Lemon is in Manchester, New Hampshire talking to the voters and some of those candidates, too. Bring us up to date, Don.", "We're giving the viewer a lot of numbers, so let me make it easy. I'll pop this number up real quickly, Kyra and then we can talk about. Really the first time since 1993 that CNN has been taking this poll about values voters, that's when Newt Gingrich got Republicans to really take over the government with this contract with America. For the first time most Americans find these traditional values, so-called value voters, they say, that's not important. That's not important. The numbers now, they want, 50 percent say no, so we can put that down. What that really means is talking human terms here. It means the economy is so bad now that people find these traditional values to be second-tier issues. They want people to stay out of their homes. They want these candidates to stay out of their bedrooms. One interesting thing a woman said to us yesterday, they need to be promoting traditional values especially what's going on in the government right now in their own homes and then take care of our economy first, and then get to that other stuff, which is traditional values for us as well. So that's what that means. People don't have money now. They can't afford to go to the polls and vote if they don't have a job. So what they're concerned about, what they want to hear out of the mouths of these candidates tonight, how are you going to improve the economy? How will you get me a job. I spoke to Rick Santorum and I also spoke to Ron Paul about this shift in what Americans find important. These things that they are campaigning on and if they're out of touch. Take a listen, Kyra.", "The federal government, when it comes to many social issues, many that I'm very sympathetic with. I'm a very conservative right to life person, but I just think most of those responsibilities should be family, church, local community and the state rather than the federal government getting involved.", "I am someone who's strong on social issues, but I'm strong on national security issues. There's nobody who has the experience with the levels of accomplishment that I have on national security. No one has ended the federal entitlement. I did. I was the author of welfare reform. So we've got a lot to talk about, and we will.", "So as we were -- I was discussing this with some folks I worked with last night, and we're driving home and we're hitting the potholes and bumps and we're in construction and all that, that's what people really want from their government. They want the roads to work. They want the school buses to come on time, the public transportation, the government to be up and running, but that's what the concern is. Not what people do, not about abortion, not about prayer in school, although that's important to some people, but the issues that will get people to the polls on Election Day or walk to the polls are not going to be those traditional - so-called traditional values. It's going to be money, money, money, the economy, Kyra.", "Don Lemon in New Hampshire, thanks so much. And that big debate is tonight. Join us as the Republican hopefuls face off in New Hampshire 8:00 p.m. eastern only on CNN. From muscle shirts to just a towel, take your pick. More pictures of disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner surfaced. These posted on TMZ allegedly showing the congressman in the House of Representatives gym. He's going off to treatment though. His colleagues are returning to work and many say they just don't want him coming back.", "I think that Anthony Weiner needs to resign so he can focus on his family, focus on his own well-being.", "It seems to me extraordinarily difficult that he can proceed to represent his constituents in an effective way, given the circumstances, this bizarre behavior.", "CNN's Kate Bolduan is on the Hill. Kate, with the new photos over the weekend, what do you think? Is the pressure even stronger on Weiner to resign now?", "I think the pressure is mounting. But what's unclear still, Kyra is what Anthony Weiner will do about the pressure that is mounting on him, as more people continue to call for him to resign. `What we do know is that he is taking this leave of absence to get treatment at a treatment center in an undisclosed location, and according to a Democratic source, Congressman Weiner doesn't want to make any decisions about his future until his wife returns from an overseas trip. His wife is a long time aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and I think they're scheduled to return from the trip Thursday, but that kind of leaves the -- this statement -- this idea that he isn't determining what to do about his future yet, leaves the door open that he's considering the possibility of resigning. But still we don't know at the very same time, as you just showed, the pressure does seems to be mounting, as you've seen a significant shift over the weekend from Democratic members really being resistant to not come out, to explicitly call on him resigning. And then over the weekend many of them, the top Democrats in the House are coming out to say very clearly that it's time for him to step down. They didn't want to go into a third week having answered questions about this. They want to talk about their agenda. As one top Democrat put it, his behavior has become an insurmountable distraction to the House and that seems to sum up the sentiments of his colleagues right now, Kyra.", "Kate, thanks. And Nancy Pelosi wants to know in Weiner violated any ethics of the House. So coming up in just a few minutes, we're going to talk to the former chief counsel of the House Ethics Committee and ask him if he thinks Weiner actually broke the rules. Opposition forces in Libya claimed that they have a copy of Moammar Gadhafi's top secret battle plan. CNN has obtained the 15- page document. Rebels in Misrata say that they took it from government troops last month. In its title are the words, quote, \"battle plan to cleanse the city of Misrata from militant gangs,\" end quote. CNN has not been able to confirm the authenticity of that document and with the fighting moving closer to his doorstep in Tripoli. Guess what Moammar Gadhafi is doing? Playing chess, taking time for a photo op with the visiting Russian president of the International Chess Federation. We're also keeping an eye on the Middle East, particularly Syria, cell phone videos and YouTube postings show us how brutal the violence continues to be. Thousands of citizens fleeing their homes of fears of a government slaughter. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling on Syria's leader and his forces to show restraint.", "President Assad has said over the last several years that he wanted to make changes and, as President Obama said, he either needs to make them or get out of the way.", "All right. We're also now learning that an icon of the uprising is a hoax. The blog \"A Gay Girl in Damascus\" claimed to capture the struggles of a Syrian-American woman caught up Syria's violence. Last week the blog reported that she was abducted by government forces. An online campaign then sprang up to demand her release. Zain Verjee has a closer look now. So Zain, what do we know about the real author of that blog now?", "We know there was no Amina Abdullah, there was no kidnapping. It was just all a big fat hoax. The author was actually an American guy living in Scotland. His name is Tom MacMaster. He made the whole thing up. Now he posted something, where he did not apologize, Kyra, but what he said was, look, it was a fictional character. And he played an important part in bringing to attention some of the issues that gay women face in the Arab world. He doesn't apologize for it, but it's made a lot of people really mad.", "So the other bloggers, especially those in the region, what are they all saying? Because as we know, Zain, as the story circulated, this alleged gay woman became such an icon within all of this.", "She really did, and in the blogosphere, people are really annoyed. Look and see what some people said, Sami Hamwi, who's an activist said this, \"To Mr. MacMaster, I say shame on you. What you have done is harmed many and put us all in danger.\" Someone else called Daniel Nasr said this, \"You took away my voice, Mr. MacMaster and the voices of many people who I know,\" and then there is other Twitter user that calls himself Bangpound saying, \"There is no positive side effect of the Amina hoax. It did not bring attention to Syria. It brought attention to a white fantasy.\" A lot of critics too, Kyra, saying that, you know, this whole hoax thing -- it gives the Syrian government an upper hand because then they can go around saying, look, don't believe the blogs. Don't believe what you read, it's just not true. It's also a note to so many people who rely on blogs for information that we need to be a little extra careful because it may be someone like Tom MacMaster sitting in his graduate student dorm in Scotland and making stuff up.", "Yes, you always have to be careful with the blogs. Zain Verjee, thanks. From the depths of tragedy to a glimmer of triumph, we're getting our first look at Congresswoman Gabby Giffords since being shot in the head five months ago. Dr. Sanjay Gupta will tell us what these pictures actually show."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR:  10", "DON LEMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "REP. RON PAUL (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "RICK SANTORUM (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "LEMON", "PHILLIPS", "DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, DNC CHAIRMAN", "REP. STENY HOYER (D), HOUSE MINORITY WHIP", "PHILLIPS", "KATE BOLDUAN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "HILLARY CLINTON, SECRETARY OF STATE", "PHILLIPS", "ZAIN VERJEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "VERJEE", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-81123", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2004-1-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/12/ltm.14.html", "summary": "Paging Dr. Gupta: Sexually Active People Have Fewer Heart Attacks", "utt": ["Let's talk medical news right now -- the power of love and sexual healing. The cover story at \"TIME\" magazine this -- out today, in fact -- examines the relationship between sex and your own health. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is looking into it for us today. Good morning -- Sanjay. Nice to see you.", "Good morning, Bill. Yes, in the mind and body, it's an annual issue that \"TIME\" magazine does. This year, focusing a bit on sex and its effects -- health benefits, that is, on the body. And this is something that's been widely studied for quite some time, looking at sex, looking at married couples, trying to put it all together in terms of: Are there health benefits? Are they definable? Are they something you can predict? Some of the answers are coming back yes -- specifically talking about things like longevity. It was long known that married couples, for example, tend to live longer, but a large part of that might be the frequent and regular sex as well. Heart disease, intercourse burns about 200 calories over 30 minutes, the same as exercising, doing aerobic exercise. That could be some benefit to your heart as well. Things like weight loss, as well, as pain as well. This is sort of a new one, actually being able to reduce or eliminate pain, from migraines to menstrual craps. All of these coming up in the issue of \"TIME\" magazine as benefits of sex -- Bill.", "Sanjay, clarify something here. If you look at the list that they say are the benefits you get from sex, so many of these things can be tied to other parts of our life -- diet, exercise. Why so definitive on the tracing of sex to these, I guess, self- improvements as opposed to the way you eat or the way you conduct your life in terms of physical exercise?", "And no one is ruling out those things either, Bill -- that is, diet and exercise is obviously an important part of it. A couple of things, though. It's an interesting question you raise, because a couple of things -- sex being a very definable activity that can possibly have all these health benefits. That's something, again, that's been studied for some time. But researchers are starting to hone in on this as a specific cause. Also, another thing they're honing in on is a hormone known as Oxytocin. This is a hormone that's actually released during sex and sometimes up to five times as much during sex as opposed to other times during just your normal behavior. Why is this important? Because this Oxytocin can do all sorts of things for the body. It seems to have some benefit in terms of alleviating depression and anxiety; also in terms of acting as almost a hormonal band-aid. They find that people heal their wounds, for example, quicker -- people who are having regular sex versus people who are not. All of these have to have some sort of definable cause. The mechanism for some time has been lacking. Now it appears that Oxytocin may provide that answer. So, there are a couple of answers to your question.", "I'll tell you, there's an elixir involved here, too. If you read that article, longer life, better hearts, stronger immune system, protection against certain cancers, lower rate of depression. I think that covers it, huh?", "It sounds like quite a panacea there.", "I would say. Today's prescription: more sex, from Dr. Sanjay Gupta.", "Absolutely, two to four to six times a week was their prescription.", "I see. Listen, the New You Resolution continues tomorrow. We're going to check back in on our five participants. Tell us about it.", "Yes, you know, obviously this is something we've been very excited about. Coming up tomorrow, it's New You Tuesday. We're going to show you how all our participants have been doing as they struggle to make their progress in their first week. It's been a struggle for some of them, I'll tell you, already. We're going to focus in on the new parents tomorrow, the Kirkbrides -- how they've been doing in finding time for healthier living in their already busy schedules. We're going to find out tomorrow. That's at 7:00 during the New You -- Bill.", "All right, thanks you, Sanjay. Talk to you again.", "All right. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com. Attacks>"], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER", "GUPTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-78221", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2003-10-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0310/18/cst.11.html", "summary": "Chicago Police Investigate Deadly Office Fire", "utt": ["Chicago police are investigating a deadly high-rise office building fire. Six people were killed in the heart of the second city's business district. CNN Chicago bureau chief Jeff Flock is near the damaged building with the very latest. Jeff, do they have any idea, as yet, as to what caused this fire?", "Well, that's job one today, Andrea, to try and figure out what set it off. What they know is it was a disaster out here. Perhaps the worth nightmare to folks that work in a high rise office building, what happens if there's a fire? How do you get out? Do you get out? This is the twelfth floor that you're looking at, here. This is where the flames broke out late Friday afternoon, but that's not where the disaster was, it was on the floors above. According to the fire commissioner, they got the fire out, they then began searching the floors above and apparently a lot of people had made their way up the stairwells trying to escape the flames and smoke. They started finding bodies on the 16th floors through 22nd floors in and around the stairwells. As you report, six people now dead, we've also learned one person is at the hospital in extremely critical condition, as well. So, we may get another death before this is over. From the scene, both spectators. as well as folks who were inside. as well as the fire commissioner now comments.", "Yeah, there was no panicking. It wasn't like the adrenaline, whatever, was going -- what do I do whatever now, or anything. Pretty much, well I would say, everybody was -- well, at least on my floor, everybody was pretty much well calm.", "As we knocked the fire down and started to contain it, we went into a more detailed search and we started searching every square foot of that building. It's at that time that we found victims in a stairwell on the upper floors.", "So, they'll be looking at the procedures for getting out of the building, Andrea, as well as of the cause. By code, this building was not required to have sprinklers. It's a building built in the 1960, they didn't require retrofits for sprinkler systems, so this did not have a sprinkler system. Also apparently the evacuation orders for the building were given only in English and on a Friday afternoon at 5:00, it appears that there were a number of folks, parts of cleaning crews throughout the building, that spoke only Spanish or polish and they may not have gotten the word to get out -- Andrea.", "Oh, that's really tragic. Jeff Flock for us there, in Chicago. USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN ANCRHO", "JEFF FLOCK, CNN CHICAGO BUREAU CHIEF", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "JAMES JOYCE, CHICAGO FIRE COMMISSIONER", "FLOCK", "KOPPEL"]}
{"id": "CNN-122985", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-1-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/19/cnr.10.html", "summary": "Iowa Police Pull Man from Burning Car,", "utt": ["There's a car engulfed in flames and someone trapped inside, but the flames aren't enough to keep two Ames police officers from putting their lives on the line. Reporter Angie Hunt of CNN affiliate KCCI in Des Moines has the story.", "When I got there, the vehicle was fairly well engulfed in flames at least on the rear half of the vehicle. It looked to me like somebody stole it and maybe wrecked it and walked away from it. It was kind of hard to tell.", "Not knowing if anyone might be trapped inside this burning car, Lieutenant Jeff Brinkley knew he had to get a better look.", "The thing was just filled with smoke and I couldn't see at all.", "So Brinkley started breaking windows hoping to vent the car, but still couldn't see through the thick black smoke. It's all captured on the dashboard cam inside Brinkley's car.", "That's when Officer Clint Hertz arrived. He immediately rushed to open the passenger door and quickly realized someone was inside.", "I wasn't thinking too much, other than just, there's somebody in there. We've got to get them out.", "It took a few seconds for Hertz to free the driver, 21-year old Justin Halberg (ph) from his seat belt and drag him from the car. Halberg was unresponsive but alive.", "One of the doctors that treated the patient said that he estimated he had 30 to 60 more seconds before he would have succumbed to the smoke inhalation.", "After pulling Halberg to safety, Officer Hertz went back to see if anyone else was still in the car. Watch closely as Hertz puts his head back inside the vehicle and you see a small burst of flames right in front of his face.", "I never noticed how much the car just went up in a ball of fire after we got him out. It was real quick, probably 20 seconds and then it was completely engulfed.", "I went back and looked at the tape, from the time that I got out of the car to the time that little poof kind of went over Clint's head was, like, 62 seconds. Start to finish. To go back and look at that from the third-person perspective was really kind of sobering to me in that we were really close, knowing full well that there was risk to us as well at that point.", "Whoa. Once again, that was Angie Hunt from our affiliate KCCI. The driver was treated for smoke inhalation but he wasn't burned. Meantime Officers Hertz and Brinkley will receive the award of valor next week, the highest honor an officer can receive. And a quick reminder, one of those brave officers, Lt. Jeff Brinkley, will be a guest Monday right here on CNN. Check out Monday's NEWSROOM PM to hear Lt. Brinkley talk more about that dramatic rescue. NEWSROOM PM airs from 1:00 until 4:00 Eastern every weekday afternoon right here on CNN. A couple of surprises on the campaign trail today. Good news for Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton. Not so much for everyone else. One more look coming up next."], "speaker": ["HARRIS", "LT. JEFF BRINKLEY, AMES, IOWA POLICE", "ANGIE HUNT, KCCI CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BRINKLEY", "HUNT", "HUNT", "OFC. CLINT HERTZ, AMES, IOWA POLICE", "HUNT", "BRINKLEY", "HUNT", "HERTZ", "BRINKLEY", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-9109", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-5-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/30/mn.06.html", "summary": "Granddaughter of LAPD Chief Shot and Killed", "utt": ["We begin this hour with a tragedy out of Los Angeles, where the Police Chief Bernard Parks has seen his department besieged by a corruption scandal and the ensuing investigation trigger a bitter fight within the city's government. But nothing could compare to the shooting death of his granddaughter. The 20-year-old woman was gunned down Sunday night in what's being described as a tragic case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. We get the latest now from reporter Jennifer Sabih (ph), she is with our affiliate in Los Angeles, KCBS.", "August, 1997, and with his family on the benches behind him, Bernard Parks is sworn in as the city's 52nd police chief.", "And I will faithfully discharge the duties.", "Now the duties of his office, three years later, heart- wrenchingly widened to include overseeing the murder of his granddaughter. It was here at this Popeye's that 20-year-old Lori Gonzalez, the daughter of the chief's daughter, Felicia, had come with a young male friend for late night snack. The two got their food and Lori, who was behind the wheel, pulled out of the drive-through lane and waited at the street for traffic to clear, when a man with a gun came up.", "He approached the passenger side and pulled out a handgun. The passenger inside the vehicle, the male companion, apparently ducked as the suspect fired into the car.", "And the bullets, police assume were meant for the male passenger, hit Lori instead.", "We don't know exactly what the motive was for the shooting. But it appears that Lori Gonzalez was not the intended target.", "But it was Lori Gonzalez who died at a hospital, a few minutes later, while friend consoled at the curb.", "I'm very nervous to be here right now.", "Life goes on at this corner of Labrea (ph) and Jefferson, but customers admit they're skittish.", "Because I don't know if some maniac is going to come by shooting or trying to kill me or my cousin or not. We're taking a chance.", "A chance that somehow seems greater knowing even the family of L.A.'s police chief is vulnerable to violence.", "And that report was filed by Jennifer Sabih of our affiliate KCBS."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "JENNIFER SABIH, KCBS REPORTER (voice-over)", "BERNARD PARKS, L.A. POLICE CHIEF", "SABIH", "UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER", "SABIH", "UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER", "SABIH", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SABIH", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SABIH", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-32172", "program": "INSIDE ASIA", "date": "2001-6-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/08/.02.html", "summary": "Fine-Tuning Beauty Pageant Contestants in Thailand", "utt": ["Beauty pageants have in some countries been consigned to a less politically correct past. But it's still alive and well in Thailand. And as Ginny Stein discovers in this week's postcards, beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder, but in the fine tuning of the contestants.", "Inside this nondescript house in suburban Bangkok, a group of young women are working toward their futurism. This is a beauty boot camp. It's not for faint hearted. There is a strict physical routine set by the camp's instructor, Trudiyang Tenshei (ph), that has to be followed. Chom Qui Migang (ph) have come to this beauty school in the City of Angels, as Bangkok is known, to work toward their future.", "I took this job to earn money for my education. If I can't be a teacher, I can save money to set up my own business, maybe as a trader.", "But", "Before I wasn't not beautiful. I had small eyes and had them double-lidded. My lower facial structure was too big. I could see my nose when I smiled so I had to fix it. I had to improve my weak points to look better.", "Even with the help of plastic surgery, you have to have more than a pretty face to succeed in this business. You have to be trained in the science of pageants. Most grueling of all is learning how to keep that certain smile. \"Smiles are weapons to win people's hearts. It's the first window for people to see and know you.\" In between pageants, these women survive by putting their modeling skills to work and honing the skills necessary to succeed as a all-around competitor. But for most girls of the school, it is not just their future they are working towards. Their families depend on their success.", "Now I'm studying. This is my part-time job to earn money to take care of myself. I think I am luckier than many girls my age. Most are still asking their parents for money, while I can help mine out.", "On any day in Thailand, a pageant takes place. Tonight, Trudiyang Tenshei class of 2000 is getting ready for the real thing. In a hotel room, near the tourist town of Patia, they are putting on the finishing touches for a regional beauty contest. Nothing is left to chance. The school has brought in two transvestite consultants. In Thailand, they are considered the beauty heavyweights when it comes to hair and makeup.", "We know how men want to see women. We can make them more beautiful than real women could. That's why they will look to transvestite, makeup artists, and I love it. And I am a good makeup artist, because I like to criticize things. We can turn faults into beauty better than real women can.", "Tonight's compassion is not just for size 8s. Anne is preparing for a small but important part of the Thai pageant scene, Ms. Ocean Butterfly. Tonight, she and 13 other women will be competing in a parallel contest.", "This is good, because it gives fat people a chance to be outgoing, to show that fat people can live happily and be more accepted in the society.", "As the contest approaches, the atmosphere grows tense. It may be a small-town competition, but on the beauty calendar, it is a big event. Among the crowd, dozens of modeling agents and fashion gurus. Michael, a California-based model explains what's at stake.", "In Thailand, it kind of gives you a upper. Like some people have a degree, in Thailand, they like beauty. They look at women as like a figure of beauty. If you are smart, you are strong, if you have everything complete, it gives you a better status.", "This school has three entrants in tonight's contest, and Chomkwan is a hot favorite. Her costume, poise, and above all, smile, seem to go down with the hardened judges. But it's a business where disaster can strike at any time. Just three hours into the pageant, Chomwkan starts to suffer the number one enemy of beauty queens -- mouth cramps. There are no such problems for the parallel contestant. Ms. Ocean Butterfly turns in to be the real crowd favorite. In this event, It seems bigger is definitely better.", "It is such good fun I did not expect too much whether I win or lose; all I want to do is have fun,", "but it all hangs on the judge's reaction. As the contestants continue to radiate backstage, the judges clinically decimate their ranks. And by the final round, Chomkwan she is the only one of the school's entrants still standing. Then the moment of truth, not first prize, but a respectable third and a cash reward of a few hundred dollars, but tomorrow is another day. Smiles can be sharpened and bodies firmed. In Thailand, there will always be another pageant."], "speaker": ["KARUNA SHINSHO, CNN ANCHOR", "GINNY STEIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CHOMKWAN, BEAUTY CONTESTANT (through translator)", "STEIN", "CHOMKWAN (through translator)", "STEIN", "ANN, BEAUTY CONTESTANT (through translator)", "STEIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "STEIN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator)", "STEIN", "MICHAEL, MODEL", "STEIN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator)", "STEIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-191931", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-8-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1208/31/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Mitt Romney Makes His Case", "utt": ["Twenty-three minutes past the hour. It was called the biggest speech of Mitt Romney's political career, but did his address to the Republican National Convention resonate beyond the base to voters, especially those who are still undecided? Romney's remarks were certainly long on family and criticism of the current administration.", "How many days have you woken up feeling that something really special was happening in America? Many of you felt that way on Election Day four years ago. Hope and change had a powerful appeal. But tonight, I'd ask a simple question. If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama?", "So we learned more about Mitt the man, but what his plans for the country? Joining me now are Democratic strategist Maria Cardona and Republican strategist Ana Navarro. Welcome to you both.", "Thank you.", "Thank you. Good morning.", "OK, I'm just going to get it out of the way. So we don't have to talk about it anymore. Clint Eastwood. A mistake, Maria?", "I think so. I think it was a huge -- what I would call a speed bump to the momentum of Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney's coronation speech. I think it was a big mistake. That's all we're talking about this morning. At least it was your first question.", "I know. But I wanted to get it out of the way. Because you're right, that's all anyone is talking about, Ana.", "Yes.", "Carol, I think it was just the bad and the ugly. We completely missed the good part. And this morning has been so long and it's so early, and last night was such a long night, I was seriously just considering not showing up and having Maria speak to an empty space this morning. But, you know, I thought I'd show up for you.", "Thank goodness. Then you would have like tweeted me a picture of you sitting in a chair somewhere. Anyway, let's get down to serious business now. Ana, Governor Romney did show emotion. He teared up when he talked about his parents. Is he real now to voters?", "Well, you know, it really is a good start. It was quite amazing. I was amazed to see Mitt Romney emote. And I think the reason it was so amazing is because it's really the first time we see him show such human emotion, show some, you know, ability to cry, to get sad, to get nostalgic, to get joyous. So I think he went a long way. Look, Carol, was this the best political speech I've ever heard? No. Was this the best speech I've ever heard from Mitt Romney? Absolutely. And that's the measure he had to, you know, go against.", "Maria, Governor Romney tried a new tactic. Instead of slamming the president, he acknowledged that Mr. Obama is a likeable guy, but that it's OK to divorce him. Is that smart?", "Well, I think that it is perhaps one of the only paths that Republicans have, especially in a race where they need to try to convince those independent voters who are actually willing to give President Obama the benefit of the doubt, who actually like him a lot more than Mitt Romney, and actually trust him a lot more than Mitt Romney, they are trying to give them permission to actually think about considering Mitt Romney, considering a change. But here's where I think they failed. They failed to really give us any details on what they would do. They failed to really fill in those gaps. It was continued criticism. It was continued focus on the things that they think were failures from the Obama administration. And they gave a real opening for Democrats next week to fill in those details on what we all know would be the failures of a Romney administration.", "Ana, I want to ask you that. Because I have talked to many Republican voters who want Mitt Romney to present a plan for how he would fix the economy. He said last night he was going to create 12 million jobs. He didn't exactly say how he would do that. But he did mention regulations and he did mention tax cuts.", "He mentioned tax cuts, regulations, trade. But, listen, a convention speech is a speech to present a big vision, to go big and to go bold. It's not for details. Details -- I agree he needs to flesh out those plans and present some details. Last night was not the night for that. Last night was a night for Mitt Romney to talk about his personal history, to show some human emotion, to talk about his big goals, to attack Obama some. To lay out a path and say, yes, I'm not going to compete with Barack Obama on likability. But he's likeable but he hasn't achieved the goals that he set out for himself. So now in these coming days, I hope that he does color in between the lines. I hope that he does give us the detail. But last night was a night to go big, and that's what he did. And I think it worked well for Mitt Romney.", "Ana Navarro, and Maria Cardona, thank you so much for showing up and sitting in the chairs. We appreciate it.", "Well, standing up would be even worse.", "I know. Mitt Romney taking his pitch for the president directly to you. But is everything he told you last night true? We'll put his acceptance speech to the test."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "COSTELLO", "ANA NAVARRO, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "MARIA CARDONA, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "COSTELLO", "CARDONA", "COSTELLO", "CARDONA", "NAVARRO", "COSTELLO", "NAVARRO", "COSTELLO", "CARDONA", "COSTELLO", "NAVARRO", "COSTELLO", "NAVARRO", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-352467", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-10-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/17/cnr.04.html", "summary": "New Migrant Caravan Heads to U.S. Despite Trump's Threats.", "utt": ["A new group of migrants is heading from Honduras to the U.S., risking the wrath of President Trump, organizers say that thousands of people make up this group. It is now crossing to Guatemala. It is marching north. Their intention, they say, is to seek asylum in the U.S. as they flee violence in their home country.", "Right. But despite that - despite all of the violence they face at home, the president is threatening them, vowing to cut foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador if any of these enter the country illegally. Leyla Santiago is with us now. Leyla, I mean you have such a unique perspective on this because you have travelled with groups of migrants for weeks on end making a very similar journey.", "Right. In April I travelled with a caravan, a very large caravan that did make it to seek asylum, many of them still right now in the U.S. waiting for their day in court. Back then even in April, President Trump was tweeting about the then- caravan. Now here comes another caravan and President Trump tweeting again. In fact, just in the last hour he tweeted, hard to believe that with thousands of people south of the border walking unimpeded towards our country in the form of large caravans that the Democrats won't approve legislation that will allow laws for the protection of our country, great midterm issue for Republicans. He pretty much spells it out right there, the primetime just days before the midterm elections very much as he did in his own campaign. So, I think it is important to talk about what is this caravan. As I have spoken to organizers and human rights volunteers that are working with them. They tell me that these are women and children, families fleeing violence. Just last week, I was at the border. I spoke to one woman from Honduras who told me gangs threatened to kill her 10-year- old son if f she didn't pay up. She didn't have the money to pay up so she fled and said she couldn't go back to Honduras because anywhere in Honduras, they would track her down and kill her son. That is why she left. That is the level of violence that they are fleeing. And that is why they are hoping to get to the U.S. to seek asylum. A big question will be will Guatemala, El Salvador, will Honduras cooperate with President Trump to stop this? He is threatening aid. Will that be enough to incentivize them?", "But just one question, if you cut off aid to these economies, right? Then you make the situation for those people that are fleeing this situation even worse. Wouldn't the logical conclusion be that more may then try to head north and try to head into the United States for more opportunity and security?", "I have actually talked to a man who runs one of the programs funded by U.S. aid and that was his very concern, Poppy, that if that money is taken away, the violence prevention in place, the poverty prevention in place will encourage more people to head north.", "Fact checking the president there, both Democratic and Republican lawmakers go to a couple of different immigration bills over the course of the last year. Leyla Santiago thanks very much.", "Thank you and thanks for being with us today. We'll see you back here tomorrow morning. I'm Poppy Harlow.", "I'm Jim Sciutto. \"At This Hour\" with Kate Bolduan starts right now."], "speaker": ["SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "LEYLA SANTIAGO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "DE VOGUE", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "CNN-122146", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-12-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/15/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Wintry Storm; Pakistan Lifts State of Emergency; Kabul Militants Fired Rockets; U.N. Climate Forum Closes", "utt": ["Well, Speaking of weather, within 24 hours look for an icy, wintry mess to stretch all the way from the plains to the northeast. It's really ugly out there. The central states haven't had a chance to dig out from an ice storm earlier this week, and now this, winter storm warnings, ice warnings, heavy snow and high wind warnings all over that section of the map. And just what Oklahoma didn't want to see. But a silver lining is starting to emerge there. The storm is beginning to shift. Kansas will now bear the brunt of it, getting up to nine inches of snow. And flights out of Chicago's O'Hare airport are struggling to get back on schedule. They had been running about two hours behind, but now an airport information officer says that delays are about 15 to 30 minutes. Ooh, but it looks ugly there. And by the time the system reaches New England tomorrow night it is expected to intensify, dumping up to a foot of snow throughout that region. And as you can see, Boston already has plenty of white stuff on the ground. So, of course, driving anywhere is a white-knuckle adventure right now for millions of people. Some commuters spent eight hours trying to make it home in Boston, and that was just the other night. Well, there is all kinds of stuff as a result of that fallout, and now what could be an even worse storm is on the way. CNN meteorologist Reynolds Wolf has more on how one of America's oldest cities is bracing for a second wave of winter. But you're not driving, right?", "No, not right now, not at all.", "Just checking.", "Right now we're just enjoying the sunshine. I've got to tell you, though Fredricka, you're absolutely right, though, Boston really did got socked with nearly a foot of snowfall in many locations around the Boston metropolitan area. The state of Massachusetts used nearly than 4,000 vehicles, snow plows, ice trucks to try their very best to clear the snow, but we had snow fall rates falling at around three inches an hour and it caused all kinds of issues. A lot of snow, snow that is still on the ground here at Boston common in beautiful Boston, Massachusetts. Now, we had the first part of the storm that came through. We've got a nor'easter that we're expecting to come through overnight tonight into tomorrow, but that's then. Right now people are enjoying the sunshine. We've got blue skies, we had a lot of people out. Take a look at this video. We have some dogs enjoying the great snow, the animals enjoy it just like people do. We've got one shot here of a golden retriever having a wonderful time. His name is tucker, digging in the snow for something. Not quite sure what it is, but he is there. He's having a great time. We also have some video of some moms, dads, kids, enjoying the hills here. We actually have some decent hills here in Boston with a lot of snow, a little bit of ice on them and you go down faster than you think and you can see they had a great time. They're going to be enjoying this, I would say, for the next couple hours, but Fredricka, the skies are going to go from blue to gray. And then by tomorrow afternoon we could see a possibility of rain, sleet, or snow. Looks like, though, the heavy snowfall is going to be farther to the west, back over in upstate New York, some locations possibly getting up to a foot of snowfall. Back to you.", "Wow, we know the folks in Boston are very hardy. They can handle this.", "They certainly can.", "All right, Reynolds, we'll check back with you. Thanks so much.", "You bet.", "It's nice to see that snow, but it's also causing an ugly mess in a lot of places. Trees and power lines all over Oklahoma are sagging under the weight of so much ice, and now that ice is starting to melt and fall. Chunks of it, in fact, plunged off a huge transmission tower outside a Lawton (ph) TV station, tore through the ceiling, and then watch this.", "Oh. Oh, my god! Oh, no!", "Oh, yeah, did I mention, it's dangerous, too, potentially dangerous. More falling ice from another TV transmission tower, this one in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma's governor is calling this the worst ice storm in the state's history. Thousands of homes and businesses in Oklahoma are braving this second storm without power. They've been without it now for days after a deadly ice storm blanketed so much of that state last weekend. Crews are working around the clock to restore electricity, but this latest storm complicates just about everything. Let's go now to CNN's Keith Oppenheim in Oklahoma City -- Keith.", "Hi, Fredricka. They are cleaning up and trying to get the power back on. As you can see behind me, these are all sorts of falling limbs that a tree service is gathering and about to put in a wood chipper as part of their cleanup efforts, and there are utility crews that are all over the place in Oklahoma trying to get power back on, and they've done a very good job -- 600,000 homes were without power in the earlier part of the week, and now it's down to about 125,000. It's been snowing, and as I scoop some of the snow off the grass, it's tapered off a little bit, but this is sort of just enough to put just a thin layer of snow and wet stuff on the ground and so that alone is making the major recovery efforts that much tougher.", "Oklahomans are bracing for their second winter storm in less than a week, while still reeling from the worst blackout in state history. Twenty-three deaths have been blamed on last weekend's ice storm and 100,000 homes and businesses are still without power.", "It's been cold. My walls are wet, you blow smoke in the house, but I had about four layers of clothes and blankets, and I survived.", "Cynthia hill is one of the lucky ones. After five days without electricity, her heat is finally back on.", "It just came back on about 20 minutes ago, and I thought I won the lottery. I'm happy.", "President Bush declared a state of emergency earlier this week, making the state eligible for federal aid. Utility workers from at least six surrounding states are helping out.", "Thanks for your hard work.", "Every day has brought steady progress in restoring power, but tired crews have had little time to prepare for this storm.", "Trying to replace a lot of poles right now. The trees are horrible. We've got about 25 to 35-mile-per-hour wind coming in next 24 hours. We're trying to prepare for that and get the trees cut back as we can right now.", "With up to six inches of new snow expected in some parts of the state, utility workers from Texas might find themselves spending the holidays away from home.", "At least nod week, maybe a little longer. Just depends how long it takes to get all these people back on.", "So Fredricka, some good and bad news in Oklahoma. Good news is that the storm that's coming today, maybe not quite as bad as predicted. We might just get one to two inches in Oklahoma City, about four inches to the north of here. But the bad news is it's just enough to make things slower, given that it was already a horrendous job, and as you heard in that piece, some folks may still be waiting a few days or longer before they can turn the lights back on.", "Right, well that much more uncomfortable. Keith Oppenheim thanks so much. Let's check with Karen McGinnis in the Weather Center to find out if indeed there might be a respite for the folks there in Oklahoma. Maybe they're not going to get hit quite as hard.", "Not quite as hard, Fredricka, but it will still going to be slow going as the temperature's been plummeting. Now, I want to show you something else on our flight explorer. Here is Chicago. There is Milwaukee. We had conflicting reports as to whether Chicago is still looking at 2, 2-1/2-hour delays. Now some of the state reports are that no delays at O'Hare's airport, but other reports indicate they still have delays. Flight explorer, well, shows the airplanes going in and out of O'Hare. How about our snow report? Hays, Kansas walloped with more than 13 inches of snowfall. We have reports coming out of Newton, Kansas, where they had rollovers because of the slick road conditions. What are we expecting? Well, varying amounts, depending where you're situated, pretty much between Chicago and Indianapolis. They now have backed off some of the snowfall totals. They were originally looking at eight to 12 inches, now it looks like a four to eight-inch snow event. But, we move off toward the northeast and New England, it's quite a different story. But I want to show you some of that Arctic air that has been plunging well to the south with these temperatures mostly in the single digits. And if you want to see just how it feels outside, combine it with the wind. And for Duluth, rather than single digits, it feels like it's below zero, minus 12 below zero, when you factor in the wind there. Billings, Montana, it feels like it's eight degrees, there. Well, what is the origin of this storm? Area of low pressure moves through the Ohio River Valley, off to the northeast and New England going into Sunday. And we'll really look at some airport delays there -- Fredricka.", "Oh, that's a nightmare scenario.", "Yeah.", "All right, Karen, thanks for the news. Well, some other news we're following around the world, a strong earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia, sending panicked residents right into the streets. U.S. scientists put it at the magnitude, rather, at 6.3. Locals say it felt a lot bigger and so far, no reports of injuries or damage. Pakistani President Musharraf lifts his state of emergency, but not before making some key revisions to the constitution. Earlier this morning he swore in the supreme court justices he personally picked to replace those he ousted six weeks ago. Critics say the ousted judges would have nullified his October election victory. And later, in a nationally televised speech, Musharraf said he imposed the emergency as a last resort to save the country from an unspecified conspiracy. Also, he vowed next month's scheduled elections will be free and fair. In Afghanistan, militants fired rockets at police headquarters in Kabul, killing at least five people. Five others were wounded. The missiles appear to have been fired from a small, wooden cart. The United States drops its objections and brings a dramatic close to the U.N. climate forum in Bali. The U.S. finally agreeing with a plan to negotiate a new global warming pact by 2009. The plan does not commit countries to specific actions against global warming, but it does set an agenda for finding ways to transfer technology and financial assistance from rich countries to developing nations. Well, it is the weekend, but it's no time to rest if you're running for president, of course. Rudy Giuliani's searching for support in the sunshine state. We'll have a live report. 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{"id": "CNN-321592", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2017-09-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/19/ebo.01.html", "summary": "GOP's Hail Mary Plan to Repeal Obamacare Gaining Steam; Interview with Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts", "utt": ["Tonight, Republicans pushing ahead with a Hail Mary plan to repeal Obamacare, a plan that just might work. Among other things, this plan would get rid of the Obamacare individual and employer mandates. It would get rid of the Obamacare subsidies, and this one is important, too, allow insurance companies to charge more for people with pre-existing conditions. OUTFRONT now, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, Ed Markey. And, Senator, I appreciate your time tonight. Look, this bill has snuck up stealthfully, nobody was watching and then, all of a sudden, here it is. It is real. Can it pass?", "Well, it's just Trumpcare again. It's a zombie Trumpcare bill. It does pretty much the same thing. It's going to throw tens of millions of Americans, potentially off of their health care. It's going to not give them a guarantee that their pre-existing conditions are covered. It's going to slash Medicaid and other funding by $700 billion, which will be used ultimately to give tax breaks for the Republican wealthiest supporters in America. And the 2.8 million Americans who right now are covered for opioid addiction treatment, well, the funding levels are going to be slashed dramatically, and the care for their families is going to be put in jeopardy all across this country.", "Look, your point of view, of course, is what I would expect. But as you know, the reason that the highly public efforts to repeal Obamacare failed earlier this year was not Democrats like yourself, Senator, it was Republicans, right? They couldn't get Republicans on board. And some of those big names who wouldn't vote yes before might vote yes now. Conservative Senator Mike Lee, he says he's impressed by the proposal, his word. John McCain has not ruled out supporting the bill. His vote, of course, was the one that doomed the last vote. Does this worry you?", "Well, what's going to happen now is that the volume of voices across the country that were heard back in July are going to be once again activated. So, there are going to be more tweets and Facebooks and telephone calls than this Congress has seen since all the way back in July when Trumpcare one came up. So, Trumpcare two is no more attractive to the very same people. And so, there is a stimulus response quality to Congress, and there's nothing more stimulating that millions of Americans registering their opposition to a bill which hurts their families. That's going to be unleashed over the next week.", "The authors of this bill note something, Senator, that's pretty important to you. They say that four states, New York, California, Maryland, and your state, Massachusetts, get about 40 percent of Obamacare funding. Their plan, though, would equalize Medicaid funding across the state. So, instead of having it all go to four states or I'm sorry, that lion's share, it would be equal. Isn't that a fair thing to do?", "What they miss is the next sentence where then they say, but we're going to cut the total funding by $700 billion. That's going to hurt everybody. So they're going to give smaller chunks --", "So, would you be onboard with equal funding if the overall amount -- because if all we did was equalize it, you'd lose money.", "If all the states that are now not in the system joined, they would get the funding as well. If Texas joined, if Florida joined, if all those Southern states joined, they would get the funding that Massachusetts and other states are receiving right now, and they would receive it in a much larger measure. Right now, they're just sitting on the sidelines. And their own citizens are being harmed. Their health care is not as well- protected. So, let's not miss this central point, though, that they want to cut it by $700 billion. A vision without funding is a hallucination. They're going to hurt the health care of people in all 50 states if that amount of money is taken out of the health care system.", "Senator, thank you for your time tonight. Senator Markey from Massachusetts.", "Thank you.", "And next, the breaking news. Hurricane Maria just really now beginning its assault, approaching Puerto Rico in the final stages. Residents there are preparing for literally the worst. They are saying evacuate or die. Is this what's headed their way? An expert is flying through the eye of the storm. The heart of that storm right now, his first flight in to figure out what's happening, calling us from the airplane. And on a much lighter note, what Donald Trump's new nickname for Kim Jong-un is doing for Elton John."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "SEN. ED MARKEY (D), MASSACHUSETTS", "BURNETT", "MARKEY", "BURNETT", "MARKEY", "BURNETT", "MARKEY", "BURNETT", "MARKEY", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-299803", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-12-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/05/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Regime Troops Continue Aleppo Advance; Heavy Smog Strands Thousands at Chinese Airport", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Cyril Vanier.", "And I'm Natalie Allen. Here are the top stories we're following this hour. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says he will resign after a crushing defeat on a constitutional referendum. Renzi thought to reduce the size and power of the Senate. But nearly 60 percent of Italians voted against that. It's considered another win for the populist movement sweeping across Europe.", "In Austria, however, voters rejected populist, electing left- wing candidate Alexander Van der Bellen as their next president. He won Sunday's election in a close race. The other candidate Norbert Hofer was vying to become the EU's first far right head of state.", "In a surprise resignation, New Zealand's prime minister says he will not run for a fourth term. John Keith says he owes it to his family to step aside and has given everything he can to his job. He's been in power since 2008.", "A U.S. woman says she was gang raped during a trip to Delhi, India last April. Police there say the woman was part of a tour group when she was attacked. At least three suspects are said to have been involved. No one has been arrested. India's external affairs minister is assuring justice for the woman.", "And breaking news just coming in. At least 11 people are dead after a hotel fire in Karachi, Pakistan.", "It happened at the Region Plaza Hotel and officials say the blaze has now been contained. A doctor at a nearby hospital says the victims were killed by suffocation. 75 people are also injured.", "And we turn to Syria now. Backed by intense artillery and air strikes, Syrian government troops continue their advance against rebel held Eastern Aleppo.", "Regime forces appeared confident as clashes with rebels continue. The government even telling residents who fled that it's now safe to move back. From Aleppo, CNN's Fred Pleitgen has this look at the devastation that they can expect if they do return.", "Driving through a destroyed wasteland that until recently was one of the main battlegrounds in Syria. Aleppo's Hanano District was in rebel hands until last week when government forces moved in with crushing fire power. 13-year-old Hudei (ph) shows me where a rocket landed next to his house and describes the fear he felt. \"We were very, very frightened\" Hudei (ph) says. Normally we would hide in the basement, but luckily that night we slept on the first floor because that's when two rockets hit right over here. Hudei's (ph) little brother Abdul Karim (ph) is clearly traumatized by the horrors he's witnessed and still weak from living under siege for weeks with almost no food and water available much of the time. As the rebels lost their grip on this place, many residents fled from trying to escape with their lives and not much more. Now, they're coming back. Some haven't seen their houses for years. Khaled Chlorella left in 2012 when the rebels took this district. Now he's trying to salvage any belongings in what's left of his apartment. \"I am very sad because everything is either destroyed or ransacked,\" he says. \"We found these pictures under the rubble. Even the walls are destroyed. But we will come back here and rebuild.\" The battle for Aleppo is far from over, but Syrian government forces clearly have the upper hand. Taking about half the rebels territory in the past week alone, and continuing to push their offensive with massive fire power. (on-camera): Like in so many districts that have been taken back by the syrian military, there is a massive destruction in this part of Eastern Aleppo. But there's no denying the shift in momentum in favor of the Syrian military and also the boost in morale that many of their soldiers have gotten. (voice-over): Troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad tell us they believe they could capture all of Aleppo, Syria's most important battleground, very soon. \"The rebel headquarters was right here,\" he says. \"So the loss of this district was a big blow to them. You can see how our shelling is pounding them, and that shows that their morale is collapsing.\" Rebels left behind a makeshift cannon when they fled here last week. So far the opposition hasn't found a way to shore up their defences in the face of this massive and possibly decisive Syrian government offensive. Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Aleppo.", "Look at these pictures now. Filmed on Sunday at an airport in Central China. Thousands of people stuck because of thick smog. This was Chengdu's International Airport. It was forced to delay and cancel flights because of that haze as you see. And some planes have to land at other airports.", "Chinese state news says the runway was closed for almost ten hours. The pollution is so bad, drivers have been told they can only use the roads on certain days. And our meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has more on this for us. You know, we were doing a live shot with Steven Jiang in Beijing, I think it was yesterday, and he was talking about Taiwan, but I was just looking at the smog behind him the whole time.", "Yes. You couldn't see anything behind him.", "Yes. Can you hear, Natalie and Cyril, too, it's almost hard for us to comprehend the severity of what's going on here. And, you know, a recent, fascinating peer review journal study was done at this portion of the world saying 17 percent of all the fatalities in China are related to air quality concerns. And when you think about this, the air quality you saw there in Chengdu, you step outside in such conditions, that same peer study journal saying that with these conditions. If you're to be outside for one hour, it would reduce your life expectancy by 20 minutes. In just one hour. If you're exposed to such elements as they're experiencing in this region of China. So I want to show you exactly what's going on here. When you take a look, the air quality concern, again any time you're above the numbers, 50, that is considered moderate. And then beyond that, you get into unhealthy category. Chengdu left area of your screen there at 223. That's the air quality sitting there in the very unhealthy category in the reds. Of course you're in the unhealthy category. We have several hours per day, almost every single day this time of year when we get to the hazardous category as well across this region of the world. But a lot of this has to do with not only the industry, because you not only have the largest manufacturing sector in the world, the largest population in the world. Put them together and it's a bad recipe here. And, of course, the geography doesn't help with high elevation, kind of dividing the valleys to the east where the highest population resides. So all of the pollutants get trapped right there at the surface. And as Natalie just told you a few moments ago there, driving restrictions in place. The last several years they've been trying to do this to help curve the emission over a few day's period. And typically this works out such where you have the poorest air quality actually take place during the morning and afternoon hours as industry wakes up, businesses begin, thriving across the area, pumping a tremendous amount of carbon into the atmosphere and then you see into the overnight hours, the air quality drops back down to unhealthy only for sensitive and sometimes it even gets down to moderate. But right back into the morning hours and the forecast kind of shows you what we have in store into the reds there being unhealthy over the next several days. Here's what it looks like at this hour. The wind patterns also dictate where the pollution moves to so the pollution doesn't just disappear. If the winds are coming from a certain area that's cleaner, they'll move it and move it downstream to another area. You can clearly see that from Beijing and points to the south and really a fascinating way to look at this is just thinking about the size of these particulates. Combustion particles which are what makes the haze that you see outside are about less than 2.5 microns in diameter. That is about 30 times smaller than the diameter of your hair. This is why this is dangerous. They can easily get into your bloodstream. And, of course, it will cause significant health issues. Estimates put 7 million people losing their lives in the world every single year due to air quality issues. Guys, that's equivalent to four fully loaded aircraft falling out of the sky with passengers every single day. You know, these numbers. And every single hour I should say. Every single day. That's how many people are losing their lives because of air quality.", "Well, bring on the electric cars. There is a first to do that.", "Absolutely.", "Beijing government. We'll see. My goodness. Wouldn't that help.", "That would help, a little bit, for sure.", "Thanks, Pedram. I guess.", "OK. Yes.", "Pretty disastrous numbers there. 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{"id": "CNN-285173", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-05-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/27/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Clinton Dogged by Improper E-mail Use.", "utt": ["Hillary Clinton has more than just Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump to overcome. Polls show the Democratic front runner continues to suffer from major trust issues with voters. This is a gap that may widen following a State Department report from the independent inspector general there that is critical of her use of a private server when she served as secretary of state. The report also found that Clinton and several staffers refused to cooperate with the investigation. CNN's chief political correspondent, Dana Bash, has more on how the report couldn't come at a worse time.", "Oh, thank you. Thank you.", "Shoulda, woulda, coulda, sentiments any candidate is loath to express on the campaign trail.", "As I've said many times, if I could go back, I would do it differently. I know people have concerns about this. I understand that.", "Yet, for Hillary Clinton, this week's State Department inspector general report about how she mishandled e-mails as secretary of state could be especially damaging, feeding a central liability with voters, honesty and trustworthiness.", "Would you vote for someone that you don't trust?", "Well, people should and do trust me.", "Yet, all through the Democratic primary contests, voters who said the most important quality was trustworthiness, only voted for Clinton in three states.", "I do question her judgment.", "It's a vulnerability Bernie Sanders has worked hard to exploit, maybe not so much about her e-mail issue, but he has spent months accusing Clinton of being in the pocket of big business and wall street. Her refusal to release transcripts of paid speeches to Goldman Sachs hasn't helped.", "There are certain expectations when you run for president. This is a new one.", "The State Department's damning report has given Donald Trump a fresh round of ammunition against her.", "As I say, Crooked Hillary. Crooked Hillary.", "She's as crooked as they come.", "Assuming Clinton is the Democratic nominee, she already knows Trump's playbook.", "Bad judgment. Skirting on the edge all the time. And you look back at her history, and this is her history.", "But people's views of Trump are exactly the same. 64 percent say he's not honest and trustworthy either. (on camera): Running against Donald Trump, will Hillary Clinton have a big disadvantage if voters don't see her as honest and trustworthy or will it even matter?", "In most polling on the question of honesty and trustworthiness, the two candidates run about evenly. It's sort of a wash. Neither one is seen as having an edge there.", "Still, the most likely test for November will be which argument wins. This one --", "If Crooked Hillary Clinton is in charge, things will get much worse.", "-- or this.", "But I think voters are going to be looking at the full picture of what I have to offer, my life and my service, and the full threat that Donald Trump offers our country.", "Dana Bash, CNN, Washington.", "And next, comedian, W. Kamau Bell, goes to Portland to get an up-close look at the music scene, coffee shops and, yes, the hipsters. He joins me next live. Don't miss that. Plus, we're monitoring protests live. These are outside of a Donald Trump event in Fresno, California. Those for him, those against him. We'll go live there. You're watching CNN."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CLINTON", "BASH", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "CLINTON", "BASH", "SANDERS", "BASH", "CLINTON", "BASH", "TRUMP", "TRUMP", "BASH", "TRUMP", "BASH", "JENNIFER AGIESTA, CNN POLITICS POLLING DIRECTOR", "BASH (voice-over)", "TRUMP", "BASH", "CLINTON", "BASH", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-24352", "program": "Wolf Blitzer Reports", "date": "2001-1-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/25/wbr.00.html", "summary": "Should Congress Investigate Former President Clinton's 11th Hour Pardons?", "utt": ["Tonight: Alan Greenspan talks tax cuts on Capitol Hill.", "If the current economic weakness spreads beyond what now appears likely, having a tax cut in place may in fact do noticeable good.", "What he said, why he said it, and what it could mean to the economy, the Bush budget and your wallet. The presidential pardon that won't go away: Bill Clinton wipes the slate clean for a fugitive billionaire. I'll talk with New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He wants Congress to get involved. And a Cold War mystery comes into focus: U.S. B-29s that landed in the Soviet Union half-a-century ago and used as blueprints for Soviet bombers.", "Good evening. I'm Wolf Blitzer, reporting tonight from Washington. President George W. Bush has been pushing for a huge tax cut for more than a year. Today, he received some badly needed support from what was once considered an unlikely source: Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. When Greenspan talks, people listen. So his words could result in lower taxes for you sooner rather than later. And that's our top story.", "Starting that process sooner rather than later likely would help smooth the transition to longer-term fiscal balance.", "Greenspan would not specifically endorse President Bush's 10-year, $1.6 trillion, across-the-board tax cut. Even so, the White House welcomed what it heard.", "I was pleased to hear Mr. Greenspan's words. I thought they were measured and just right. He recognizes that we good monetary policies and sound fiscal policy to make sure that the economy grows. And so I was pleased.", "Greenspan warned the economy is not growing. And he urged Congress and the president to limit spending. And he played down the idea that tax cuts alone would immediately stimulate the slowing economy. More proof of a slowdown: further layoffs announced -- 5,300 at J.C. Penney and 7,000 for Sara Lee. But Greenspan's words were precisely what the Bush White House wanted to hear.", "It's always good news when the Obi-Wan Kenobi of the economy blesses a tax cut. This already makes something that was going to happen more critical. And the administration right now is jumping for joy that Alan Greenspan has blessed their tax cut.", "For more on Greenspan's comments and reaction from the Bush administration, let's go to CNN White House correspondent Major Garrett. Major, the White House has been courting Alan Greenspan for some time. It seems to be paying off.", "Yes, Wolf, I can summarize the White House reaction to Chairman Greenspan's testimony in two words: irrational exuberance -- very happy here at the White House. And, yes, Wolf, a studied work here at the White House to court Alan Greenspan, not necessarily to make him a part of the Bush administration or a spokesman or an advocate for the Bush tax cut, but to bring him around to the Bush point of view as to the direction of economy and the need for a tax cut. There are two key players beside the president, of course. Vice President Dick Cheney has known the Fed chairman for many, many years. And, of course, the treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill is a protege of Mr. Greenspan's. You'll remember when we were introduced to Mr. O'Neill, he said there were times in the recent past when Mr. Greenspan would call him up and ask him for advice about the direction of the economy. Well, that kind of relationship pays off at a time like this, with now the Bush administration not only pushing hard for tax cuts itself, but the nation's top economist working with them as well -- Wolf.", "Major, is it fair to conclude now as a result of what Mr. Greenspan said that there will in fact be a tax cut pretty soon down the road?", "Absolutely. It's only a matter of time and the size, Wolf. You could tell at that Senate Budget Committee hearing, as Democrats sort of smoldered in resentment. One senator, Senator Fred Hollings from South Carolina, said: \"You have just set off a stampede here, Mr. Chairman.\" He knows, as well as many other Democrats, that now the tax-cut momentum is absolutely unstoppable. There are a range of figures, of course. The president will start off at about $1.6 trillion. The Senate minority leader, Tom Daschle, has already said he's up to $850 billion over 10 years. A compromise figure somewhere at $1 trillion, $1.2 trillion seems very possible, possibly as early as April or May -- Wolf.", "Major Garrett at the White House, thank you very much. Meanwhile, President Bush's choice for attorney general is still waiting to be confirmed. And his political opponents are making use of this extra time. Today, a man named Paul Offner said he interviewed with Senator Ashcroft in 1985 for a post in the Missouri state government. He said Ashcroft clearly indicated he would not hire him if he had been openly gay.", "After we had shaken hands and sat down, without sort of any introduction or foreplay, he said to me: \"My first question, Mr. Offner, do you have the same sexual preference as most men?\" And I said that I thought I did.", "When asked if the Bush administration considers it appropriate to ask potential employees about their sexuality, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer dismissed Offner's claims.", "That is not a question that we ask. And I'm not aware of anyone who has done such a thing.", "Do you know if it is appropriate or inappropriate to ask such a question?", "I would refer you to the law. And we do not ask that. (", "... allegation that's in the \"Washington Post\" today from a from a man who was interviewed by John Ashcroft who says that he asked that very question and is, in effect, corroborated by a contemporaneous witness. So there is someone who -- in the administration -- in the prospective administration", "And Mr. Ashcroft has said that he does not recall saying that or asking that. (", "... possibility that it might have happened?", "I refer you to what he said.", "Joining me now from Capitol Hill with the latest on the Ashcroft nomination: CNN congressional correspondent Jonathan Karl. Jonathan, how much of a threat -- if at all -- does this latest issue bring to the Ashcroft confirmation?", "Well, Wolf, the short answer is really not much of a threat at all. Democrats on the committee who have been working furiously against Ashcroft acknowledge that this may be something that be upsets some, but it's not likely to switch many votes, and certainly not the kind of thing that would doom the Ashcroft nomination. But, Wolf, there is one interesting sidebar to this. And that is the way Ashcroft has responded. He chose to respond through a group called the Log Cabin Republicans. This is a gay group, a group of homosexual Republicans that for years has been a pariah among the social-conservative wing of the Republican Party that Ashcroft is so closely associated with. But Ashcroft issued a statement through the Log Cabin Republicans, saying in part -- and I quote -- \"I have hired gay people to work with me throughout my career.\" It is just interesting to see Ashcroft at this point talking about how many gay people he has hired, using a group that, at one point, was such a pariah that even George W. Bush refused to meet with them during the Republican primaries just last year.", "Jonathan Karl, on Capitol Hill, thank you very much. Former President Clinton, meanwhile, pardoned more than 100 people as he left office last Saturday, including a man on the run from the U.S. law enforcement authorities since 1983. CNN's Deborah Feyerick joins us now live from New York with more on one of the most controversial presidential pardons in years -- Deborah.", "Well, Wolf, the presidential pardons of both friends and big-money donors has sparked outrage among a number of politicians. It's also raising eyebrows among historians, who say Clinton may have crossed a line.", "Presidents throughout history have pardoned people for political reasons. But never before has there been pardons or a set or pardons issued that were really for contributory issues, really just to big-money contributors.", "Like financier Marc Rich, indicted, among other things, for failing to pay $48 million in taxes. His ex-wife, a Manhattan socialite, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for both of the Clintons and for the Democratic Party. As recently as December, she lobbied the president to pardon the Swiss-based fugitive. New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, as a U.S. attorney, indicted Rich in 1983.", "And I think what the president did is an absolute outrage.", "Also sparking outrage: Clinton reduced the prison sentence of four ultra-Orthodox Jews convicted of bilking the government of $40 million. These Hasidic leaders had lobbied Mrs. Clinton during the Senate race. She received almost every vote from the small community. The president's brother and former Whitewater partner were also pardoned.", "Giving pardons away to friends, giving them away to contributors, he raises the spectacle of being able to buy your way out of jail.", "Raising even more concern among critics, prosecutors were not consulted as they usually are, the U.S. attorney saying: \"The facts of several of these cases in particular raise significant law enforcement concerns. The seriousness of the crimes is diminished. And the appearance of even-handed justice is compromised.\"", "Pardons are granted at the president's will, often in cases where someone has been unfairly convicted or when a sentence seems overly harsh. The president defended his choices his first day out of office.", "You're not saying these people didn't commit the offense. You're saying they paid. They paid in full.", "A congressional panel has launched an investigation. Its chairman, Republican Dan Burton, a vocal critic of President Clinton's, has sent letters to several federal officials as well as attorneys demanding documents of clemency appeals, including that of Marc Rich -- Wolf.", "Deborah Feyerick in New York, thank you very much. Straight ahead: Marc Rich sees his indictment washed away. What does the man who helped indict him have to say about it? I'll talk live with New York Mayor and former U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani. Stay with me.", "Welcome back. As we have just reported, President Clinton's last-minute pardon of billionaire Marc Rich has set off a torrent of criticism. The man who oversaw the indictment of Marc Rich in 1983 was the then U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani. He is now serving, of course, as New York's mayor. He joins us now live from New York. Mayor, thanks for joining us. And I just want to tell our audience what you obviously know: what the U.S. Constitution says about presidential pardons. There is a clause that says this: \"He\" -- referring to the president -- \"shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States except in cases of impeachment.\" So there's no question, obviously, that what President Clinton has done, he has done constitutionally and legally, isn't that right?", "No question the president has virtually unlimited power to pardon anyone or release anybody from prison. That's always been the case, although I've -- I must say, I have never heard of a case in which a president has pardoned a fugitive. I mean, there have been some controversial pardons, but -- and even the president's own words that I saw quoted a few moments ago where he said, you know, that these people had paid in full. In the case of Mr. Rich, he's paid nothing, at least in terms of paid in full to the criminal justice system. So I don't know. I have no idea what the president did here. It is certainly very unusual -- I think unique -- that any president would pardon someone who's been a fugitive, much less a fugitive for 17 years.", "The former independent counsel Ken Starr. I asked him a question, as you know. He's a former jurist. I asked him last Sunday whether what the president did was within his right as president, even though it was in the final hours of his presidency.", "Right.", "Listen to what Ken Starr said last Sunday.", "I don't question the authority or the prerogative of the president. That's why we elect the president. And he maintains that authority until the final moments of office. And so he exercised the discretion that's given to him under the Constitution.", "So your point, though, is that because he was a fugitive, had not been convicted in court, in that sense he had not been serving any time, that that was unique or extraordinary.", "Yes. I mean, the Marc Rich pardon cries out for an explanation. There is no explanation for it beyond the fact that the president had the raw power to do it. And there is no explanation for why Marc Rich would be given a pardon. Generally, a pardon is given to someone who has served their sentence, paid their fine and acted in an exemplary manner or something approaching an exemplary manner for some period of time. It's a good thing. I agree with pardons. A lot of pardons the president granted and others have granted are controversial. It takes courage to do it. This one leaves a very, very large question, particularly in light of the fact that Marc Rich's family and others associated with him made very large contributions to the president, Mrs. Clinton and the Democratic Party.", "Well, now, are you suggesting, Mayor, that there was some sort of payoff here to the president to grant this pardon to Marc Rich?", "I don't think it would be fair to suggest that there was a payoff. But I also don't think it would be fair to dismiss the question without an investigation.", "And...", "I think the pardon power, like any other power, is one that has to be exercised prudently. And Congress has a right to look into it. For example, President Ford was called before Congress to explain his pardon to Richard Nixon, one that -- whether you agreed or you didn't agree with it -- it was quite apparent the reasons for it. Here, there is no apparent reason for the pardon. And if it isn't unique, it's highly unusual and questionable to ever grant a pardon to a fugitive. Just think of what it does to law enforcement. You also should remember about Marc Rich that the things he was charged with, I believe it was the most extensive tax-evasion case in the history of United States. But it also included trading with Iran during the hostage crisis and profiteering based on a period of time in which American lives were in jeopardy. Marc Rich then ran away, renounced his American citizenship and has lived as a fugitive since then. And on several different occasions -- more than several occasions -- had offered large sums of money as a way of buying his way out of this. So there's whole a history here that Congress really should look into. And maybe there's an innocent explanation. And maybe there isn't. And we can learn something from it. But we should find out what the explanation is.", "And so, basically, what you're asking for are congressional hearings. Do you want former President Clinton to testify?", "That's -- I'm not conducting the hearings. I think the hearings should get to the bottom of it: What happened? How is it that a man who is involved in the biggest tax-evasion scheme in the history of the country, who has been a fugitive for 17 years, who was trading with Iran when American lives were in jeopardy and profiteering to the tune of millions and hundreds of millions of dollars, I mean, how does a man all of a sudden just, you know, get away with it, walk away without ever being held to answer for it?", "Mayor, what does this say about the beginning of Senator Clinton's tenure here in Washington, about her involvement -- if there was any involvement -- with the pardon of Marc Rich?", "We don't know if there was or there wasn't. And, you know, I don't think we should get to that point. I think -- but I do think there should be a congressional investigation of that pardon and then, you know, possibly several of the others, but certainly that one.", "You know, while we have you, Mayor, let's talk a little bit about the Bush administration, these first few days of the Bush administration.", "Give me a happier subject.", "Are you happy with the way he's started off?", "Yes.", "For example, you support a woman's right to have an abortion.", "I do.", "Yet the first thing he did was to eliminate U.S. federal funding for international groups that counsel or provide abortions.", "I see that in very much the same way as I see his Cabinet. You know, we Republicans -- and I'm a moderate Republicans -- have been talking about a big tent for a long time. But a big tent doesn't mean we dominate the tent. I mean, a big tent means you are going to have some right-wing Republicans and some moderate Republicans. There will be some things that the president does that, maybe because of his own philosophy, that are a little different than ours. But, by and large, I think President Bush has gotten off to an excellent start. I think his Cabinet is a superior Cabinet, very well balanced, the full range of the Republican Party. I was very encouraged with Chairman Greenspan's testimony today, because I think one of the centerpieces of the Bush administration, the tax cut, is going to happen. It's going to happen early. And I'm one that believes it will have a big impact on the economy. So I'm -- I'm pretty happy with the way the administration has gotten started. In fact, it's such a breath of fresh air, I'm elated.", "Mayor, we only have a few seconds left. I always ask you the same question at the end. How are you doing health-wise? I know you have had some radiation treatment for your prostate cancer.", "Yes, I got the last treatment a week ago. I just talked to my doctor today. And I'm doing pretty well. I think I'm going to make a full and complete recovery. And I'll be 100 percent pretty soon.", "Well, we're all praying for you here.", "Ready to play in next year's Super Bowl.", "I know you are getting ready to go to Tampa. I'm not going to ask you if want the New York Giants to beat the Baltimore Ravens.", "Go Giants. Go Giants! Defense!", "I know the answer. All right, thank you very much, Mayor. We'll all be watching that Super Bowl with you. Thanks for joining us.", "Thank you.", "Tomorrow night, by the way, I'll be talking with Jack Quinn, the attorney who lobbied President Clinton on behalf of Marc Rich -- the former White House counsel, Jack Quinn. Thank you. And after the break: The Coast Guard is called to rescue fisherman stranded on Lake Erie; and a decade after the end of the Cold War, new revelations that the Soviet Union captured and then copied one of America's most sophisticated aircraft.", "Welcome back. Let's take a look at some other top stories we're covering tonight. This just in: CNN has learned that a plane carrying tourists has crashed in Venezuela. The plane crashed a short while ago about 280 miles southeast of the capital, Caracas. At least 22 people are confirmed dead. It is not known how many people were on board. We will, of course, continue to provide details as they become available. Two of the six surviving Texas fugitives appeared in a Colorado courtroom today, where their reputed ringleader, George Rivas, agreed to waive extradition back to Texas. All six convicts are facing capital murder charges. As for the investigation, authorities are looking over evidence, including a cache of weapons recovered during their capture this week. Dozens of fishermen are safe following a daring rescue on Lake Erie. The U.S. Coast Guard lifted to safety at least 21 people who had become stranded on four ice floes after the ice bridge they had been using disintegrated. Another 20 made it off the ice before it broke. Impeachment figure Linda Tripp is suing the Pentagon over claims her former bosses tried to sabotage her career. Tripp, who lost her job in the administration changeover, alleges the Pentagon illegally leaked information to a newspaper that she was willing to take a lower-paying Defense Department job in Germany. Tripp says the leaks were designed to embarrass and humiliate her. While our \"Leading Edge\" stories usually tend to focus on advances in technology, tonight we focus on a technological achievement more than 50 years ago. New revelations uncovered by the \"Smithsonian Air and Space\" magazine illustrate how the Soviet Union stole sophisticated U.S. technology during the Cold War. Here's CNN national security correspondent David Ensor.", "Bigger, faster and more effective than the B-17.", "In 1944, after bombing missions against Japanese targets, three American B-29 Superfortresses made emergency landings in Vladivostok. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered the planes seized and then put his police chief, Lavrenti Beria, in charge of thousands of engineers and workers, using fear and patriotism to drive the project, dismantling one of the planes, all 105,000 parts, creating blueprints and reproducing the bomber in just two years.", "What he wanted to do was close a vulnerability with the West, to have an intercontinental long-range bomber equal to the B-29. And this became even more crucial after 1949 with the advent of the first Soviet atomic weapon.", "It was a B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay, that was to drop the first American atomic bombs on Japan. (on camera): The one thing the Soviets couldn't reproduce were the plane's giant tires. Agents were sent to buy them at military- surplus sales in the West. David Ensor, CNN, Washington.", "Welcome back. Time now to open our WOLF BLITZER REPORTS \"Mailbag.\" Lots of reaction to our coverage of the capture of those seven escaped Texas prisoners, especially the decision to let two of them get air time with their complaints. Harry Barr e-mails us with this: \"There is no way the convicted criminals should be allowed television interviews. Maybe a percentage of the public eats it up. But the fact is that these men gave up their rights, including the right of freedom of speech, when they committed and were convicted of crimes.\" P. York writes with this: \"Wolf, when are we going to see the changes President Bush has made to the Oval Office? I'm interested in seeing how the office looks different from the way President Clinton had it decorated. Thanks.\" P. York, your wish is our command. Here is a still picture released by the White House. It shows the president walking into the newly decorated Oval Office. There it is. And there is a new carpet as well. That's all we have for you right now. When we get more pictures, including some video, we will bring that to you as well. By the way, here's a look at what the Oval Office used to look like -- here it is -- during the Clinton years. And there's the carpet. Finally, there was this nice note from Mathias Kammerer, reacting to all the mail encouraging us to take our show to the Caribbean, the islands of Grenada and Barbados: \"Although I am not officially appointed, I consider myself an ambassador of the island of Anguilla, British West Indies, having lived and work here for the past five years. I highly recommend it as a retreat from your work in the public limelight. We offer exquisite beaches, total privacy and excellent food -- not much shopping, though.\" Mathias, it sounds pretty good to me, especially the part about \"not much shopping.\" I hate to shop. Remember, you can e-mail me at wolf@cnn.com. I just might read your comments on the air. Please stay with CNN throughout the night. Kathy Lee Gifford is filling in for Larry King at the top of the hour. Her guest: Sarah Ferguson. Up next: Greta Van Susteren. She standing by in New York to tell us what she has -- Greta.", "Wolf, well, tonight we have Representative Hulshof from the state of Missouri. He wants to talk about what Judge Ronnie White talked about last night here: former Senator Ashcroft and whether or not he should be the attorney general. I will also be joined by a panel -- Wolf.", "Greta, of course, we will be watching, as we do every night. For now, thanks very much for watching. Don't forget, tomorrow night, my interview with Jack Quinn: I will talk to him live about those presidential pardons. For now, I'm Wolf Blitzer in Washington."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, HOST", "ALAN GREENSPAN, FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN", "BLITZER", "BLITZER", "GREENSPAN", "BLITZER", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-95992", "program": "CNN NEWSNIGHT AARON BROWN", "date": "2005-7-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/11/asb.01.html", "summary": "Families Search for Loved Ones in London", "utt": ["Good evening again, everyone. Four days after the terrorist strikes in London, two searches continue tonight and each is equally difficult. In three subway trains deep beneath the city's streets, one of them 70 feet underground, rescuers are combing through the wreckage for bodies of victims, the heat stifling, the work exhausting. Investigators, meanwhile, are looking for clues that might lead them to the bombers. Today the death toll in London rose to 52. Officials identified for the first time victims, a 53-year-old married mother of two and a 51-year-old office cleaner. Think about that. They know at least 52 people died. But figuring out who died from the sadly and, literally, the fragments of remains they have is proving to be both heartbreaking and difficult. In the House of Commons, Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, said that Britain will not rest until the bombers are caught, bombers he said, who are likely Islamic extremist terrorists. It's not the first time that suggestion has been made in a country where diversity has come with complications. We begin tonight with CNN's Nic Robertson.", "It's not about international law or the rule of law.", "It's Sunday night, three days after the London bombing. And a group of young Muslims meet in south London.", "We're not talking about religions anymore. This is about bigger than that.", "They're members of Hisbiutahir (ph), the largest hard line Islamic group in the country. They've come to condemn the bombing and discuss accusations that radical Muslims are behind the attacks.", "There are any number of scenarios that can be played out here. Whether it was a British intelligence services, U.S. intelligence services or another power, which may have interest in doing such a thing, we just leave the door open.", "Kassam Kawarja (ph) is one of the group's leaders. He attended Oxford University. By day, he's a computer consultant. He fits exactly the profile of a Muslim extremist as defined by this report from the British home office. \"By and large, most extremists fall into one of two groups: well educated with degrees and technical professional qualifications, or underachievers.\" This same document suggests Hisbiutahir (ph) wants a global Islamic state and could be used for recruiting terrorists. Kawarja denies that.", "What I'm saying is, in day to day, in the Muslim communities that I'm involved in, I have seen no evidence of it at all. No evidence of it at all. There is no recruitment.", "Kawarja's (ph) group has been banned from universities and some mosques. By any standards, the views he espouses are far more radical than the vast majority of British Muslims. (voice-over) In the last 30 years, Britain has had a massive influx of Muslims, so much so some have dubbed these streets Londonistan. One point six million Muslims now live here in Britain.", "People know full well that the overwhelming majority of Muslims stand four square with every other community in Britain.", "British Prime Minister Tony Blair appears at pains not to alienate the country's Muslims. But even moderate leaders warn of discontent among Muslim youth.", "There is a social disaffection. There is deprivation. There is job. There is a job problem, employment problem. And, of course, the foreign policy of the government. These are probably the issues that some young people feel bitter about.", "This is the force side.", "Former garage owner Glen Jenvey has made it his personal battle to draw London's Islamic extremists out into the open.", "There was enough there to sort of hang half Hamza and half the Jihadis in London.", "After 9/11 he founded this fake Islamist web site. And convinced the radical London cleric, Abu Hamza, once a vocal and leading member of Hisbiutahir (ph), to send him recruiting videos.", "I basically made them think that I was actually a jihadi.", "The videos were so revealing, they resulted in one Islamic extremist, already facing charges in the U.S. for supporting terrorist organization, to plead guilty. And Hamza, until then only suspected of supporting terrorism, was arrested, and charged with soliciting to murder.", "It's like inviting a load of snakes. I'm playing with them and they're poking them, and Britain's being bitten.", "There is a great deal of skepticism, great deal of skepticism around the kind of evidence that we are being asked to believe.", "Skepticism not only about who's responsible for last week's London bombings. (on camera) You don't believe Osama bin Laden was responsible for September 11th.", "No, I'm not saying that. All I'm saying is that there is a case that's being presented.", "And you don't...", "For me to engage in that case with little or no evidence...", "Apart from his confession.", "OK. But his confession. Where is he? Where is this organization? We hear the name of al Qaeda being applied left, right and center.", "If views like this are common currency, the British government may have much more to worry about than just arresting those individuals responsible for last Thursday's bombings.", "Now, Hawaja (ph) insists that, for all his rhetoric, there is no military action. His group is all about vocalizing their issues politically, Aaron.", "Nic, I want to try and get two things here. So work with me. First have all, I understand polemics as well as anybody, but do you think he actually does not believe there is an al Qaeda and actually does not believe Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9/11, and actually doesn't believe there's a Mohammed Atta and the rest?", "You know, what is fascinating about this, Aaron, and quite surprising, to me here in London, as well, no, he doesn't. They thank -- many people in his group think -- there are a host of conspiracy theories about 9/11, about the bombs in London. And just to round that home, if you will, to me, when I was out on the street earlier by a mosque, some people came up to talk to me, some Muslims from the local community. We got talking about this. And they said, \"No, we don't believe that either. We -- you know, we think that the west is against us.\" It's surprising how deep among some in the community these thoughts run.", "Quickly on the investigation, is there any sense in London that they are close to breaking this?", "We're not getting that from any of our sources. We're being told that the police are playing it close to their chest. We know that. They've said that they won't say, for example, what type of explosives there are, although it's being reported in some press today they're military explosives. The residue analysis should be, by this stage, giving the police that kind of information. They're not revealing many of the names of the dead. Again, we're being told from inside this investigation, that the police are looking very, very, very closely at people who are missing, if you will. People that they've been watching and keeping an eye on that have disappeared off the radar screen. So again, I think the police appear to be holding back on some information, Aaron.", "Nic, thank you. Good to see you. Nic Robertson is in London in the early morning there. Whatever the final number of dead or injured or under arrest, at the end of it all, this is a story about individuals, more about how they lived and how they died, how those they loved are adjusting and how life for a lot of people may change. For now, though, the story is about lives interrupted, or in the case of a woman from Nigeria looking for her missing son, it is about all of that and everything else that lives in a mother's heart.", "This is Anthony, Anthony Fatayi-Williams, my son. Twenty-six years old. He's missing. And we feel he was in the bus explosion that exploded on Thursday. We don't know. We know of New York. We know Madrid. We know London. But the widespread slaughter of innocent people. Terrorism is not the way. My son Anthony is my first son, my only son, 26, my only son, the head of my family. African society, they hold onto sons. He has dreams and hopes. And I, his mother, must fight to protect them, to protect his values and to protect his memory. Innocent blood will always cry to God Almighty for reparation (ph)! So how much blood must be spilt? How many tears shall we cry? How many mothers' hearts must be maimed? My heart is maimed at the moment. I pray that I see my son Anthony!", "Two young American women who were injured in one London subway explosion underwent surgery today, underwent surgery at Duke University Hospital in North Carolina. They've been flown home. Sisters Emily and Katie Benton were just 10 feet from the bomb that exploded in a subway car near Edgware Road. The doctor said their condition is stable. They appear to be doing well, all things considered.", "Their injuries are multiple in nature. They will survive, and they have great faith. And they have great support by the family, and they will do well.", "Emily and Katie Benton are from Tennessee. Last week, they were vacationing in London with. Another American, 37-year-old Michael Matsushita of the Bronx is presumed dead in the bombings. He'd already -- he had recently, rather, moved to London, has not been seen since. He left his flat for work on Thursday morning. The attacks on London have refocused our attention on the war on terror here at home, of course, as well. In a speech at the FBI training academy in Virginia today, President Bush talked about terror strikes last week in London, raising several familiar themes.", "These kind of people who blow up subways and buses are not people you can negotiate with or reason with or appease. In the face of such adversaries, there is only one course of action. We will continue to take the fight to the enemy. And we will fight until this enemy is defeated.", "President Bush speaking at the FBI training academy in Quantico, Virginia, today. There is probably something about human nature that has us fighting the last battle and not the next, where the war on terror is concerned. Since 9/11 we spent nearly 20 billion on airport security and relative chunk change, $250 million on mass transit. Had the 9/11 hijackers hit subways and not airplanes, you can bet the numbers would be different. In one part this is a political story, in another part it's a security story, and in truth, it's also part of a story about limitations. We can only do so much. Joining us now from Washington, James Carafano is the senior fellow for defense at homeland security at the Heritage Foundation. We're pleased to see him. Look, the question, I think, is not can money solve every problem, and I think the question is, A, are we spending money right? And B, if we spent more on mass transit, would we be safer?", "No.", "No?", "No, because quite frankly, what the terrorists would do is they'd just move on to the next target. I mean, you know, comparisons between aviation and mass transit are very inappropriate. The hugest chunk of the money that's paying for airline security comes from taxes that we stick on airline tickets.", "So?", "So if mass transit wants the same amount of money as aviation security, then you're going to start putting surcharges on subway passes and bus tokens. And it won't be mass transit anymore; nobody will be able to afford do it.", "Time out here. It strikes me, honestly, that we're kind of mixing arguments here. One argument is where does the money come from. My question really has to do with forget where the money comes from for a second. If we had more money or if we spent money differently, could we make Grand Central Station or Union Station in Washington, could we make it safer? Because if you take the train -- I've taken the train -- you know that you could walk on Amtrak tomorrow with a bomb and know one would stop you.", "Right. The answer is no. I mean, first of all, mass transit is designed to move many people very quickly. The kind -- the kind of things that would make it impenetrable are screening systems and hardening, enormously expensive and they would pretty much make mass transit dysfunctional. So there's not a good practical solution to doing that. And then you still wouldn't solve the problem, because then they'd just blow up a station in Oklahoma City or they'd blow up the station in Los Angeles. So you start with the best investment, the best bang for the buck is to get the terrorists to begin with. So the first thing you want to fully fund is your intelligence, your early warning, your counter- terrorism operations, because that's the best investment on a dollar. Trying to child proof America is a disaster strategy. And it is about throwing money at the problem. I mean, that's essentially what we're doing. We've allocated $250 million to mass transit security. Most of that money hasn't been spent and people are screaming to throw more money at it.", "All right. Let me -- let me take the argument to an end and we can decide if it's in a logical end or not. I agree with you that the first thing to do is to stop them from getting in. I don't think any disagrees. That's -- that's a slam dunk. But honestly, I'm not that confident we can do that. So if we take your argument to its end, we really wouldn't spend money screening airline passengers any more than we'd spend money securing subway stations, because they'll just move on to the next one, a chemical plant or a water treatment plant or a milk supply. Or -- right?", "Quite frankly, I think that the airline security approach it's not a good model, we spend 99 percent of our money screening 99 percent of people that aren't a problem. Now, there are things that we should do. I mean, there are reasonable things that we should do that can make mass transit safer. Situation awareness, where you know what's going on in the system, interoperable communications, information sharing, intelligence exchange, public awareness. But quite frankly, we're doing a lot of those things already.", "So if you had another $100 million and I said to you, you can only spend this on subways, mass transit generally, when all is said and done, you don't think it would be any safer than it is right now?", "No. Actually, I'd take the money and I'd give it to the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard is running around with ships that are sinking and are older than the crews that are on them. And they're providing the first line of defense for this country, and they don't even have the ships they need. And we're going to spend money hardening trains, it just makes no sense.", "Well, as a former Coast Guardsman, I'd probably take the money. Thank you. Good to see you. We appreciate the argument tonight. In a moment, when a hurricane hits, who's in charge? But first, at a quarter past the hour, if I talk really fast, Erica Hill joins us from Atlanta with some of the day's other news. Good evening, Ms. Hill.", "Good evening to you. You just made it just under the wire. Eight seconds to go. Nice work. Actually, let me start off with a rather somber marking of an anniversary. Tens of thousands gathering today in Bosnia-Herzegovina to honor the victims of the worst massacre since World War II, when nearly 8,000 Muslims were murdered by Bosnia Serb troops in Srebrenica. The massacre began 10 years ago today. Two key Bosnian wartime leaders have been indicted for genocide by the U.N. Tribunal on War Crimes, but both are still at large. And yet more sad news in a very sad story, after the FBI positively identified remains it discovered last week in Montana as those of 9-year-old Dylan Groene. James Edward Duncan III, a convicted multiple sex offender, is already being held on charges of kidnapping Dylan and his sister, Shasta, who survived. In southern Colorado, a wildfire has destroyed 8,000 acres of the San Isabel National Forest. It has also -- it's also forced the evacuation of 5,000 people in the area about 100 miles south of Denver. The next few days, forecasters say, will bring dry windy conditions. That is not good news for firefighters. And as Lieutenant Columbo always said, just one more thing, Aaron. A plug for the best way to see as much CNN video you'd like whenever you'd like. Go to CNN.com. But best of all, you can get it for less than Columbo paid for a five-cent cigar, about a nickel less, just in case you forgot over the weekend.", "I don't want to worry you. But I got an e-mail from someone on this with an obscenity attached to it. OK?", "That's not good.", "Not good at all. Thank you. We'll see you in a half an hour. More to come tonight on the program, starting with the storm.", "It's falling apart. Get back! Get back!", "When things get rough, when high winds gather, meet the gathering call.", "Coming off that three-mile bridge area, wind gusts there easy 50 miles an hour, probably got four foot waves breaking across there.", "Hurricane Dennis and the county sheriff known as Hurricane Ron. Later, police opened fire, a young child died. What went wrong? Did anything go right? We'll ask the Los Angeles chief of police. Also tonight...", "I've known Karl for a long time and I didn't even need to go ask Karl, because I know the kind of person that he is. And he is someone that is committed to the highest standards of conduct.", "That was then. What about now? Did the president's top political adviser break the law and out a CIA agent? 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{"id": "CNN-208063", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2013-6-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/04/acd.02.html", "summary": "Missouri Flooding, Levees Failing; IRS Audited, Cannot Find Its Receipts", "utt": ["Erin, thanks. Good evening, everyone. Breaking news tonight. We're going to take you where the flood waters are rising and the levees are failing. Also tonight new word that Friday's tornado set a terrifying record. And later in the hour the mystery hero of the Boston marathon bombing. Who is that woman? A victim who says she saved her life wants to know -- wants to thank her personally. Well, tonight thanks to our viewers we can tell you who she is and how she was found and also take a look at this.", "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.", "And one giant mystery since 1969. What exactly did Neil Armstrong say as the first man to step on the moon? For years we thought he botched the line, that he meant to say one small step for a man or that static swallowed the A. Tonight new research may have an answer that no one expected about what he actually said. We begin where Missouri meets the Mississippi, with the water's rising, breaching levees, drowning crops and threatening homes. People have been pitching in all day, filling sandbags, trying to fight back, but it may not be enough. And the weather could make things even worse over the next few days. Martin Savidge joins us now from the flood zones north of St. Louis. Martin, I understand the authorities are bracing themselves for another breach.", "Yes. Anderson, this is just outside of West Alton. This area has literally been all day long kind of the focus of a battle with the flood waters here. They've had two breaches in the last 24 hours. Now the fear is for a third breach. And this one could be the most serious of all. The Mississippi River is just beyond here. You might see that smokestack in the background there. If it gives way, and there is real fear there's a slide occurring on one of the levees there. If that happens, all that water is going to come right this way. 94 here, the state highway, it is the main way out. They have to keep this roadway open because for a lot of people it's going to be the way they get out of the water's way. They're erecting right now a stone kind of levee very quickly to try to prevent that from happening. In essence it's going to be a watery Alamo. They have to hold it here. If they don't they'll be in serious trouble. That power plant would be in trouble as well -- Anderson.", "Why West Alton in particular is so affected?", "Two very big reasons. Two and a half miles just off in this direction is the Missouri River. A mile and a half in that direction is the Mississippi River. And both of those rivers right now are struggling to try to contain an awful lot of storm surge that has been coming from the heavy weather that's essentially been up north. Right now the Mississippi River is seeing levels it hasn't seen in close to two decades. For the most part the flood protection system has been working. But right here even though the water is starting to recede that system is showing the wear and tear. And quite frankly, right here on this stretch of roadway the next 24 hours are going to be crucial.", "I've been actually in Alton on the Illinois side, I have friends there. I know they've had flooding over the years. Are conditions -- they're supposed to get worse before they get better in West Alton?", "Yes. Because the next thing that's going to happen is even though the water is going down the weather is going to move in. Tomorrow more rain is anticipated. What's going to be crucial is how much rain, where will that rain fall, especially to the north, and is there going to be wind as well, because you see the water is at the top of a lot of these levees. If you get the wind, if you get the wave action, it's going to have more of a kind of a corrosive effect. It will erode even more and weaken the structures that right now are already showing signs of weakness. So it is really going to be a time when people are going to watch the water and watch the sky -- Anderson.", "All right, Martin, we'll continue checking with you throughout this hour. The death toll climbed again today in the tornado that struck El Reno, Oklahoma, on Friday night. It now stands at 19. As for that tornado itself, it now has the terrible distinction of being the widest on record and one of the most powerful as well. Chad Myers is in El Reno tonight, joins us. So the tornado was upgraded today from an EF-3 to an EF-5. That really caught me by surprise. Does that mean in terms of power? I mean, why was it upgraded?", "Because Doppler on wheels, scientists, storm chasers that we talk so much about, two teams of scientists with Doppler on the back of pickup trucks spinning around found wind speeds of almost 300 miles per hour. Now those winds never hit anything. So we don't have houses that are missing because there's so much empty space here. But what we know, Anderson, think about this. Think about a two- mile-wide carousel with horses going around and around. Going around at 185 miles per hour. And then take those horses and spin them at 110 miles per hour. That's what this storm was doing. Had multiple vortices, or multiple horses going around a two-mile, 2 1/2-mile circulation moving right toward El Reno. And they know that some of those vortices had winds of 295. Remember, Moore was only 210. This was stronger than Moore. The good news is there wasn't a lot to hit. It hit this building right back here. This is EF-3 damage, not EF-5. The EF-5 out in the field with nothing to hit.", "Yes, I saw one figure that said it was 2.6 miles wide at one point. In perspective, Manhattan, the island of Manhattan is 2.3 miles wide. What could this have done in a more populated area?", "It would have taken out -- everything would have looked just like Moore except it would have been twice as wide. And even stronger damage because at 295 there was much more in there. At 210, 220, 230, 240, where Moore stopped at 210, the damage would have been worse than Moore and it would have been wider than Moore and pretty much longer than Moore. Sixteen or so miles long. That is longer than Manhattan is wide. 2.6 is wider than Manhattan is wide. It would have covered the entire island. It would have taken it all out.", "That's just incredible. Chad, appreciate it. Thanks for the update. \"Keeping Them Honest,\" tax collectors spending your money, taxpayer money, on themselves. Namely, feel-good conferences and morale-boosting retreats held in feel-good locations with morale- boosting weather and free drinks. The IRS spending nearly, get ready, $50 million of your money on travel, hotels, seminars, cheesy videos, even arts and crafts. And that's not all. This was happening while the IRS was claiming it didn't have enough money to properly do its job. An inspector general's report that came out today that we've been previewing now for several day, Dana Bash took a look at it. She's \"Keeping Them Honest\" tonight.", "Paintings of Albert Einstein, Michael Jordan, Abraham Lincoln, and even Bono from U2, all made on site at an IRS conference by an artist hired to perform \"Leadership Through Art\" and paid $17,000. Taxpayer dollars. It's just one example of IRS excess detailed in this new inspector general report, which zeros in on a 2010 IRS conference in Anaheim, California, which cost taxpayers a whopping $4 million. Nearly 2700 IRS employees stayed at three hotels with no attempt to negotiate lower rates. Why? The IRS hired outside organizers with no incentive to bargain because they got a 5 percent commission from the hotels. In fact, two event organizers got paid $66,500 by Uncle Sam from this one conference.", "They didn't negotiate. They didn't bid it. And this was 2700 folks. So they could have gotten a considerable reduction. Instead what they said is we'll pay full boat but we want some perks.", "Those perks included 24 tickets to Los Angeles Angels games, free drinks, and upgrades like this lavish presidential suite. An IRS division head stayed here. (", "The IRS even made swag for its employees to take home like this tote bag with a special logo made just for the conference. This bag was made in China, by the way. So was this leather folio. They also got notebooks like this, even bottle openers. All of these gifts and trinkets added up to 64,000 taxpayer dollars. But what may be just as outrageous as wasting this money is the fact that the IRS did not appear to follow the very rules it requires each and every taxpayer to follow.", "Attempting to modulate the frequency now.", "Sorry about the uniforms, Captain. The dry cleaner gave me the wrong order.", "For example, this \"Star Trek\" spoof. The inspector general said this and other videos made for the conference cost $50,187. But the I.G. says no one knows if that cost is accurate because the IRS, the agency that requires taxpayers to keep receipts, did not save its own documents to show what it spent. The new acting IRS commissioner, Danny Werfel, calls this wasteful spending inappropriate and stresses they have already reduced the cost and size of IRS conferences. One conference workshop should have helped. It was entitled \"Political Savvy: How Not to Shoot Yourself in the Foot.\"", "Well, they certainly didn't do that. Dana joins me now live from Washington. So, I mean, I've got to go back to something you said. The IRS facing this audit actually said they couldn't find some of their own receipts? Is that for real?", "That is for real, Anderson. It really is hard to believe. But the I.G. report explicitly says, quote, \"IRS management could not provide any documentation dealing how this money was -- detailing how this money was spent.\" At the time three years ago, this is all so hard to believe, keeping track of and reporting costs of conferences wasn't required at the IRS. So shoddy recordkeeping wasn't limited to just these videos. The I.G. couldn't even verify the overall cost of the conference. They say that the IRS says the cost was $4.1 million but the I.G. also says explicitly that they were unable to provide documentation to support all costs associated with the conference.", "And we're talking about the spring of 2010. So they're spending all this money at the same time they're saying they didn't have enough people to process those Tea Party tax-exempt applications, right?", "That's right. It is the same time period. These conference costs were paid with unused funds intended for hiring enforcement employees. Now it's unclear if that money really could have gone to help sift through the applications for tax-exempt status that has really caused this controversy. It caused these long delays that many of these tax -- these Tea Party groups have endured. Regardless, the fact that tens of millions of dollars were being spent on spoof videos and swag at a time taxpayers were not being served well at all makes the black eye on the IRS even darker for sure.", "It's -- it's just unbelievable. Dana, appreciate it, thank you very much. Let us know what you think about this. Let's talk about it on Twitter right now, @andersoncooper during the break. A lot more happening, though tonight. The blade runner, Oscar Pistorius, facing murder charges in the shooting death of his girlfriend. He is back in court. We'll tell you why his trial is being delayed and why some who knew him say he turned into a monster. Later, we asked you to help reunite this Boston marathon bombing victim with the anonymous woman who helped her, helped her so much on that terrible day. In fact, the victim says she saved her life. Only on 360 we'll have a progress report we think you'll like a lot."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COOPER", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "SAVIDGE", "COOPER", "SAVIDGE", "COOPER", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "COOPER", "MYERS", "COOPER", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "REP. DARRELL ISSA (R), CHAIRMAN, OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE", "BASH", "On camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BASH (voice-over)", "COOPER", "BASH", "COOPER", "BASH", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-111479", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2006-10-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/25/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Time Frame for Iraqi Troops to Take Full Control of Security; Active Duty Opposition; Republicans in Danger of Losing One or Both Houses of Congress", "utt": ["And good morning. Welcome back, everybody. It is Wednesday, October 25th. I'm Soledad O'Brien.", "And I'm Miles O'Brien. Thanks for being with us. Lots happening. Let's get right to our news wall. A violent day in Iraq. Four civilians killed this morning as U.S. and Iraqi forces clash with a Shiite militia. The troops storming an area trying to find a man suspected of organizing death squads.", "Also happening this morning, more testimony about just who knew what and when in the Mark Foley e-mail scandal. A key aide to House Speaker Dennis Hastert goes before the House Ethics Committee.", "The Federal Reserve will decide today whether to raise interest rates. Likely there'll be no change.", "And Paul has been downgraded to a tropical storm. The streets, though, in Cabo San Lucas in Mexico are flooded, schools are closed, and one U.S. tourist is presumed dead. Chad Myers is watching all of that and more at the CNN weather center. Good morning to you.", "Good morning, Soledad. Good morning, Miles.", "In Iraq, the talk of \"stay the course\" now replaced by word of \"timetables\" and \"milestones\". Iraqi leaders are agreeing to specific benchmarks, hoping to stabilize the country. The hope, Iraqi security forces can take the reins from the U.S. forces in a year, or perhaps a year and a half. So does this mean U.S. troops are coming home? CNN's Kathleen Koch at the Pentagon with more on that. Good morning, Kathleen.", "Good morning, Miles. And the answer is not any time soon, I'm afraid. The U.S. military, both in Iraq and here at the Pentagon, is standing by that possible time frame of 12 to 18 months before Iraqi troops can take full control of their country's security on their own. But at the same time, the U.S. commander in Iraq, General George Casey, is saying that more U.S. troops might be needed still in the interim to help quell the increasing violence in Baghdad. So, U.S. commanders are looking for signs of improvement, but they're still very, very far from even discussing whether or not the U.S. is winning the conflict there.", "People talk about, \"Are you winning?\" First you have to define, what is winning? And I don't mean to be glib about that. Winning in this war on terrorism is having security in the countries we're trying to help that allows for those governments to function and for their people to function.", "Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace, does insist that progress is being made in Iraq, but it's certainly not enough for some frustrated Republicans struggling to hang on to control of Congress. Thirty-three House Republicans sent a letter to President Bush on Tuesday asking that the military immediately send more Iraqi battalions into the heart of battle in Iraq -- Miles.", "Kathleen Koch at the Pentagon. Thank you. As the military and political leaders re-evaluate strategy in Iraq, there's new opposition from an unexpected source.", "Calls to end the war in Iraq are nothing new, but now those calls are coming from a surprising source.", "I adamantly oppose the war in Iraq. I don't feel American people, Iraqi civilians or American service members benefit from it.", "Marine Sergeant Liam Madden is home from a seven- month tour of duty in Iraq. He's still on active duty and he's one of 118 active duty service members speaking out against the war.", "For active duty members, I think it's very unusual. The 30 years I served in the military, I don't recall that ever happening.", "Military rules prohibit active duty soldiers from lobbying in uniform or denouncing elected officials.", "If they were to insult the president personally or the secretary of defense personally, yes, they could face charges, particularly, most clearly, if they were officers.", "They say they're shielded by whistleblower protection laws that give soldiers the freedom to file complaints with members of Congress. Senators in both parties are denouncing the protest, but the White House is downplaying the opposition.", "It's not unusual for soldiers in a time of war to have some misgivings.", "There are some important issues that people need to raise. And this is one very close to my heart.", "Now, Madden is trying to recruit more troops to join his campaign. He's launched a Web site to get the word out -- Soledad.", "Some confusion and anger about a raid against an Iraqi death squad today. Iraqi troops, with American support, went after a militia commander. The raid targeted the forces of the powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and four people were killed in that firefight. But now, according to The Associated Press, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is distancing himself from the raid. He says he wasn't consulted. He's also criticizing the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, and also U.S. commander General George Casey. Al-Maliki says no timeline is going to be imposed on his government. Yesterday, Khalilzad and Casey, you'll remember, endorsed the idea of a timeline. We were carrying their press conference on our air yesterday morning. Also, a missing American soldier not yet found, despite a massive search that's been under way. U.S. troops are searching a Baghdad neighborhood house to house now. The soldier is an Iraqi-American. He disappeared on Monday. The Army has been told apparently that he was kidnapped by masked men while he was on an unauthorized visit to his family in Baghdad. There has been no word about any demand for ransom. Spanish photographer Emilio Morenatti, kidnapped in Gaza, has now been released. Listen.", "I am OK. I am OK. Everything is OK. They treat me well and everything is finished.", "He's OK. Morenatti, who works for The Associated Press, was abducted yesterday morning as he left his temporary apartment. And his translator saw what happened, said that Morenatti was taken at gunpoint. After his release, Morenatti was taken to the office of the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. Morenatti is based in Jerusalem but often works in the West Bank. He said he was tired, but he was unharmed. Thirteen days until Election Day, and Republicans are in danger of losing one or both houses of Congress. Their leader, President Bush, not on the campaign trail. CNN's Elaine Quijano is live at the White House for us this morning. Elaine, good morning. Why not?", "Good morning. Well -- good morning to you, Soledad. Publicly, President Bush's aides insist that despite the fact we're less than two weeks out now from those all-important congressional midterm elections, they say that the president is not shying away from hitting the campaign trail. But as you noted, just one event on the president's public schedule today so far, and that is a meeting later on in the Oval Office. Now, they say that the president has continued to campaign quite hard and vigorously and that he'll will continue to do so. In fact, the president was on the campaign trail yesterday in Florida. White House spokesman Tony Fratto insisted that the president is not focusing on a possibility that Republicans will lose control of Congress. He said the White House is confident about the outcome of the midterm elections, saying, \"We're still in the game. And if you're in the game, you're in it to win.\" But, of course, this election is coming at a time when the president has certainly watched his approval ratings continue to hover in the 30s, weighed down in large part by Iraq. His fellow Republicans are quite nervous about the effect that the war will have on their re-election prospects, so Mr. Bush is finding himself having to walk that very fine line between defending his Iraq policy, trying to remain resolute, while at the same time, as we've seen in recent days, Soledad, trying to send the message as well that his administration is remaining flexible in its tactics -- Soledad.", "Well, the first lady's got great approval numbers, so she's hitting the road, isn't she? What's she going to be doing?", "Yes. You know, it's interesting, because that's certainly a fact that is not lost on this White House. While the president might be staying home today, the first lady is out on the campaign trail. And she'll be heading to Pennsylvania -- or to Minnesota, rather, and Indiana, following up on yesterday. She was out in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Now, polls consistently show that her approval ratings are much higher than her husband's. Sometimes twice as much. The White House really is hoping that by having her out there in a very public way, she'll be able to reach out, perhaps, in a way that her husband can't, particularly to moderates. And so for those Republicans who are moderates facing some tight elections this year, they are hoping that, in fact, Laura Bush will be able to bring some of that campaign luck their way. President Bush likes to joke about it all the time, Soledad, as you know, how he always says that the first lady, of course, is the first choice. But certainly a ring of truth to that now as we're heading into the home stretch.", "Absolutely a ring of truth. And those low numbers nothing to laugh at. It might be the case after the election. All right. Thanks. Elaine Quijano at the White House for us -- Miles.", "A Republican congressional candidate in California is staying the course, ignoring calm calls from his own party to bow out. Tan Nguyen says he won't withdraw even if he's charged with a crime. Nguyen denies he approved an intimidating letter to voters. The FBI raided his campaign office for evidence. That letter, you'll recall, implied that naturalized citizens, not just illegal immigrants, could be jailed if they tried to vote. And, of course, that's not true. More testimony today about who knew what and when in the Mark Foley page scandal. A counsel to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Ted Vandermeade (ph), will go before the House Ethics Committee. The speaker himself testified yesterday, made a short statement as he left.", "I thank the committee for prompt action, for moving forward on this committee, on this inquiry. They did so. I answered all the questions they asked to the best of my ability. I also said that they needed to move quickly to get to the bottom of this issue, including who knew about the sexually explicit messages and when they knew about it. So they needed to do make sure that they ask all the questions of everybody. Thank you very much.", "Hastert has said he did not know about the e-mails until one month ago when Foley resigned. Illegal immigration a divisive subject for voters heading to the polls in less than two weeks. Check out the latest numbers in our CNN Opinion Research poll. More than two-thirds, 67 percent, say the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. should be decreased, but 53 percent are opposed to building a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Fifty- eight percent are in favor of large fines for employers who hire illegal immigrants. And once again, that poll done with the Opinion Research Corporation. All this week, the best political team on television is looking at America's \"Broken Government\" Tonight at 7:00 Eastern, Lou Dobbs to host a town hall meeting on our broken borders. And stay tuned. After \"Broken Borders\" for \"CNN PRESENTS,\" \"Immigrant Nation\" -- Soledad.", "Some of the stories we're following for you this morning. The civilian death toll climbs in Baghdad. One family shares their painful story with CNN straight ahead. And Rush Limbaugh accuses Michael J. Fox of faking symptoms of Parkinson's in a new political ad. That story, much more ahead on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "M. O'BRIEN", "KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GEN. PETER PACE, CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF", "KOCH", "M. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN (voice over)", "SGT. LIAM MADDEN, U.S. MARINE CORPS", "M. O'BRIEN", "BRIG. GEN. DAVID GRANGE (RET.), CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "M. O'BRIEN", "GARY SOLIS, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER", "M. O'BRIEN", "TONY SNOW, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "MADDEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "EMILIO MORENATTI, FREED PHOTOGRAPHER", "S. O'BRIEN", "ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "S. O'BRIEN", "QUIJANO", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-209113", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2013-6-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/19/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Russell Crowe Recalls Meeting Man of Steel Actor 12 Years Ago", "utt": ["The CNN film Girl Rising asked writers from around the world to tell the stories of girls trying to get an education. In Cambodia, many girls drop out of school early to work or care for family. A writer and activist introduces us to a girl who was orphaned at the age of nine and scavenged in a garbage dump to make money. Here is her story.", "I think westerners know of Cambodia primarily through the movie \"The Killing Fields.\" People don't understand that this is 30 years later. We have really resilient, strong people that if given an opportunity will succeed. This is a new Cambodia. Soka (ph) is a new Cambodian.", "Hello, everybody. My name is Soka (ph).", "Hi, I'm Luong Ung (ph) and I'm the writer of Soka's (ph) story. Soka (ph), your story for me is a narrative of resiliency and toughness. If you were poor and your family needs you to work in a garbage dumps, you don't get to go to school.", "I had no choice, so I had to decide to work on the dump. And it is a bad place.", "Soka (ph) has been given an opportunity to go to school. For a lot of girls in Cambodia, the one way we can have a better future is through studies.", "My dream is to be a teacher and also run a school by myself to have other girls. Education can solve everything.", "And Soka (ph) is now at the top of her class. She's teaching English to younger students. To learn more about the 10 times 10 fund for girl's education, go to CNN.com/GirlRising and see a special presentation of CNN Films Girl Rising. That's on Saturday night June 22 at 8:00 in London, 9:00 in Berlin and 11:00 in Abu Dhabi. The tiniest member of Britain's royal family is due to arrive some time next month. And plans have been in the works for some time now, as you can imagine. But as the big day approaches, we are learning some of the details right down to the hospital wing where he or she will be born. Royal correspondent Max Foster has more.", "Well, this is where we expect the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to present their new royal baby to the world for the very first time, sometime in mid-July. We also, according to royal sources, think the Duchess is going to try to have a natural birth, but these things are never predictable. They don't know the sex of this baby, we're told. So all that speculation was completely unfounded. In fact, we're only going to find out some time after the birth. Someone will come out of that doorway and go by police escort to Buckingham Palace carrying a notice, a piece of paper. They'll hang it on the railing there. And that will be the official announcement that a new heir has been born and will be the first time we'll officially know whether or not they've had a boy or a girl. So we're getting some bits of information here. We also know that Prince William is planning two weeks of paternity leave, that's the standard statutory amount of time you get in this country. And we are not quite clear about what's going to happen after they leave hospital here. It could be Kensington Palace where they currently live, or some speculation that they may be going home to Bucklebury, which is where the Middletons live. So we're getting some details, but not all the details, but of course when you're having a baby nothing is all that predicable. Max Foster, CNN, London.", "And Max will be there for us, of course, come the hour. Now the actor Russell Crowe is known for playing tough, ruthless characters such as the Gladiator Maximus, or the police inspector in Les Miserables. But the inspiring tale of his first meeting with fellow Man of Steel actor Henry Cavill 12 years ago reveals a softer side to his character. CNN sat down with the stars of the block office blockbuster to get their side of the story.", "I was in boarding school. I was about 16 years old. And Russell was filming a scene from Proof of Life in the boarding school with the chap called Merlin (ph) who is one of the actors. And I was just an extra in the background.", "I'm on my way to the airport. In the scene, I was there as the character to tell my son that yet again I had another job overseas and I wouldn't be around for the important things in his life. So there was a rugby game being played in the background and there was one kid on that field who was quite dominant and fluid, you know, and so he caught my eye. And in between shots, that kid came over and talked to me, you know, but all his questions were about acting.", "And so I walked up, stuck my hand out and said, hi, my name is Henry. I was thinking of becoming an actor. You know, any tips. What's it like. And he said, well, you know, the pay is great, but sometimes they don't treat you so good. And I'm paraphrasing.", "A day or so later after we'd finished shooting at the school, I was putting together a package for Merlin (ph) because I figured the greatest thing you could get when you're in boarding school is unexpected mail. And after I finished putting a package together for him, I thought I'll put one together for that other kid, as well, the one that came and talked to me.", "Two days later, I receive an Aussie rugby jersey, some Aussie sweets, some Vegemite, a band CD, and a picture of him in Gladiator saying \"Dear Henry, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Russell.\"", "He'll be an outcast. They'll kill him.", "No. He'll be a god to them. 12 years later, I'm in a gym in Naperville, Illinois. And I'm working out. And I'm working out, you know, with my son in this movie that I'm doing. And he's on the other side of the gym. And we probably worked out together -- or were working with each other or around each other for eight to 12 weeks. And I knew I knew him from somewhere, I just didn't know, I couldn't place him.", "I didn't want to walk up to him, put him in that embarrassing situation where he has to lie to me. It's like, oh, hi, remember me, the kid from 12 years ago, the one kid you met during shooting one day. I just assumed he wouldn't.", "So one day, you know, after a workout we were just sort of sitting there sweating, you know. And I said, do I know you? And he had this kind of quiet smile and he went, do you remember visiting Stowe School (ph)? I said, yeah. He goes, do you remember that kid that came and talked to you? I went, yeah. And he talked to you about acting? I said, yes, I do remember that. What did I say? And he said, well, you said they pay you pretty well, but they treat you like", "It meant a lot to me, because for all those years when I was coming home after three months in L.A. and not getting a job and working in a bar and everything and, you know, you look at that and aside from all the support that my family gave me, the idea that so you go OK it's a long and hard journey. It's 1,000 miles and just keep on taking those single steps.", "And it's amazing like comic circle.", "That's what the symbol means.", "What a great story. What a great way to end the program. I'm Fionnuala Sweeney, that was Connect the World. Thank you for watching. 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{"id": "NPR-2634", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2018-09-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/09/26/651710673/what-to-expect-from-the-fed", "title": "What To Expect From The Fed", "summary": "NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with David Wessel, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the Federal Reserve's final day of meetings and what to expect.", "utt": ["If the analysts have it right, the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates today again. They've gone up a couple of times already this year, several times in recent years as the Fed works to manage inflation. And yet interest rates are still, by historic levels, pretty low. So what's going on here? David Wessel is director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution. Good morning, David.", "Good morning, Steve.", "So what's driving the interest rate hike?", "Well, basically, the economy is doing very well. The Fed officials have kept interest rates extraordinarily low. They've put their foot on the gas pedal for a quite a while now. With inflation now creeping up to their 2 percent target, unemployment at an 18-year low of 3.9 percent and headed down, they don't think the economy any longer needs this extraordinarily low interest rates. So they're pulling their foot off the gas pedal. They're not yet touching the brake, but some Fed officials are saying it's time to touch the brake.", "Well, a couple of things here. One, we discussed how inflation has gotten to the point - still pretty low, but - gotten to the point where it's eating the average person's wages, right? Wage hikes.", "Right. So wages, on average, are only now slightly above inflation. A lot of workers seem to be getting bonuses rather than wages. But that's not beginning to compensate for all the years at which wages have risen much more slowly for the average person than inflation. In fact, the Census Bureau recently said that the typical man who worked full-time last year earned less adjusted for inflation than his counterpart did in 1999...", "Wow.", "...Using the official inflation measure.", "And yet we're at this point where they need to squeeze the economy a little bit. Do President Trump's tariffs, which are beginning to hit soon, factor into this? Because these are tariffs on just about everything, ultimately, that the United States buys from China. Does that raise prices enough that the Fed has to consider that part of inflation?", "Well, the Fed doesn't have to worry much about President Trump's tariffs in the short-run. After all, they haven't had that much effect on the overall economy, just on some pockets. The United States still produces most of what it consumes and consumes most of what it produces. But over time, the Fed does have to worry, will the tariffs slow the economy so they stop raising interest rates so much, or will they add to inflation, as you suggest, and force them to raise interest rates more rapidly than they've planned?", "One other thing I'd like to ask about, David Wessel. Interest rates went down around the time of the financial crisis. They were down around zero, effectively, for a very long time. And by now, we have a whole generation of consumers that effectively has no experience with high-interest rates, no experience with high inflation. What's it mean now that we're heading into a new phase?", "Well, I don't think they have to worry about high inflation. We're nowhere near that. But you're absolutely right on the interest rates. This is a group of people, people in their 20s and 30s, who seem to have a lot of debt. And for a lot of them, whether it's a car loan or an adjustable rate mortgage or, in some cases, student loans, the interest rate on their loans has been relatively low. It's going to start going up. That's going to pinch. On the other hand, some people who have savings may enjoy the fact that the bank's finally going to start paying them more than nothing on their savings.", "(Laughter) Which has been the experience for a lot of people. But you're saying that the really low car loan or the really low house loan, that's going to get a little harder?", "Absolutely. And as I said, these people have lots of debt and they don't have a lot of assets. They're much less likely to own a home than their counterparts were a generation ago.", "David, thanks very much.", "You're welcome.", "That's David Wessel of the Brookings Institution."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-401217", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2020-05-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/26/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Kudlow: WH Looking at \"Bonus\" Pay to Get People Back to Work.", "utt": ["Tonight, National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow says the White House is very carefully, his words, looking at a potential back to work bonus. Under the Republican proposal, unemployed workers who get a job would receive a temporary bonus of $450 on top of their weekly wages. OUTFRONT now is Gary Cohn, former Director of National Economic Council under President Trump and a former president and CEO - COO, I'm sorry, Gary, of Goldman Sachs. So, Gary, you've talked a lot about this issue of the fact that the whole goal of the original assistance was to keep people home so we're paying people more than they would earn in the workplace to get them to stay home. So now you're going to say if you go back to work, you get a $450 bonus on top of that, does that even out to encourage people to go back to work?", "Well, Erin, thanks for having me. Look, I understand what they're trying to do. They're trying to get people back into their workforce, which is exactly what has to be done. I completely agree that the way to recover our economy is to get people back in the workforce. There's an enormous multiplier for every person, you get back in, you drag other people back in, because that person demands goods and services as they re enter the workforce. So encouraging people to get back in the workforce will drag along other people, so I understand the mission. And so if the government is going to spend money on employers and employees, I'd rather they spend it to get them back into the workforce than having sit at home and sitting idly. Now, look, we do have to understand there are some limiting factors. We still have not opened up daycare. We still haven't opened up schools, so there are a bunch of limiting factors that we're going to have to deal with to get people back into their everyday normal life.", "And to that point, a fox news poll, Gary, ask people whether we should wait to reopen the economy or not, 55 percent said we should wait, even if it makes the economic crisis last longer, 34 percent say the country should reopen, even if it makes the public health crisis last longer. So two very different point of view, but as you could see 55 percent saying, wait, how do you get the economy moving, if more than half of Americans think we should still be waiting to open up and I asked it in the context of what everyone watching. And you and I both know, which is that you can open a state, but if people don't feel like going back out, they don't, right? So you need that confidence. We just don't have it yet.", "Look, we do need the confidence. But remember, we need the confidence by seeing people going out and interacting in the economy and seeing positive results. So for the last two months, almost, we've been sitting at home and we've been hearing the right thing to do is to stay home. We need to protect each other. We need to flatten the curve. So, it's very difficult to change people's mindset instantly from you need to stay home and that's the right thing to do for your fellow citizens to now you need to go out. So, look, this has to be an incremental approach. I actually think that's what we're trying to do right now. We're trying to have an incremental approach to opening different parts of the economy. Earlier in the show, you showed the data, how it's affecting different states and how the virus is coming back in certain states, how it's not going back in other states. And that is something we are going to have to be very careful about. And, look, this all goes hand in glove with testing. We are going to continuously have to test so we understand what are the implications of reopening the economy.", "So, you know, I know you're not a market prognosticator, but, you know, you look at unemployment, real unemployment is what, 20 percent, maybe worse than that, right, at this point. And yet you got the Dow back to where it was 11 weeks ago when all this began. Consumer confidence jumped, new home sales have gone up. I mean, how does all this add up to you? I mean, those if I said confidence is going up, new home sales are going up, the Dow is at its highest level in 11 weeks and then I'll tell you unemployment is at 20 percent, part of me says one of the things has to be really, really off, and I know the unemployment numbers are real, at least for now.", "Right, the unemployment numbers are real, I don't think anyone is debating that, but the Dow represents the 30 biggest companies in the country, the 30 most important companies. And even today is a perfect example. The Dow -- the 30 companies of the Dow outperformed the S&P 500, the 500 biggest companies by almost 1 percent, so you are seeing different returns for different companies based on their importance and based on the relevance. And the market indices that we tend to look at a daily basis are the biggest and most important companies. If we look at the index of the smallest 500 public companies in America today, we would get completely different results. We did see companies that are struggling and struggling to stay alive, let alone had their share price go up.", "How quickly do you think unemployment will improve dramatically?", "Well, remember, the unemployment numbers that we see every month are lagging. So, we'll continue to see some bad numbers, and as we get people more and more comfortable reentering the economy, and we get more and more people back to work and we get more normalized activity, we will see the economy recover. But we've got to change the mentality of people. As I said, we're used to hearing stay home, and stay home is the right thing to do. We now need to hear it's OK to go shopping, and maybe it's okay to go shopping because there's only four people in the store, five people in the store. We need to come out with some real rules that make people comfortable, leaving their home and reengaging in the economy again", "All right. Gary Cohn, thank you very much. I appreciated as always. It's a fair point. We really need those specifics everywhere. There's so much uncertainty, everybody has different rules. Thank you. And next, President Trump pressed on why he was mocking Joe Biden for wearing a mask.", "I thought it was very unusual that he had one on.", "Plus, Twitter fact checking the president, you can see it there at the bottom of the tweet. Get the facts about mail-in ballots. Now, tonight, the Trump campaign responding."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "LARRY KUDLOW, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL", "BURNETT", "KUDLOW", "ERIN BURNETT, CNN HOST", "COHN", "BURNETT", "COHN", "BURNETT", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-235536", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2014-07-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/28/wolf.01.html", "summary": "No Cease- Fire in Middle East", "utt": ["We just heard from the Palestinian delegate to the United States about the latest crisis here in the Middle East. Now we want to get an Israeli perspective. Joining us now is Danny Danon. He's a Likud member of the Knesset until recently. He was the deputy defense minister. But he was fired because of his strong views on what's going on. Danny Danon, thanks very much for joining us.", "Thank you, Wolf.", "The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, a man you know well, he fired you because of comments you made, specifically when you suggested that the prime minister was proving he was irresponsible -- the prime minister was irresponsible in going along with a cease-fire. You opposed the cease-fire. Why?", "Wolf, I have a reputation of being a straight shooter. And when the prime minister accepted the premature cease-fire, I told him, I cannot accept it. It is not responsible. We cannot have a cease-fire where there are dozens of tunnels beneath the border, with thousands of rockets aiming at that. I said it publicly. He fired me. But it changed the decision. And now I suppose the prime minister, the people of Israel telling Netanyahu, keep going, do whatever you need to do, but bring stability, bring tranquility to the region. And we know that we have to continue to fight with Hamas.", "Since you were fired as deputy defense minister, the government accepted a few cease-fires, Hamas did not. Let's say they accepted another cease-fire right now. Would that be appropriate?", "I think it would be a mistake. You do not negotiate with the Hamas. You do not beg with Hamas. You make them beg. And I think what Secretary Kerry did in the last week was a mistake. It put Israel and the Hamas in the same level. It's like I will tell you that the U.S. and al Qaeda are in the same level. We should fight with Hamas.", "Well, how -- why do you say that the secretary of state of the United States put Israel and Hamas -- Hamas isn't even recognized by the United States. It's considered a terrorist organization. The U.S. doesn't even talk to Hamas. Why would you say that Kerry, the secretary of state of the United States, Israel's major supporter, would put Hamas in the same category as the - as Israel?", "Secretary Kerry's proposal was an insult for us.", "Why was it an insult?", "Because when you say a cease-fire between the Hamas and Israel and you don't address the main issues of the missiles, of the tunnels. Today he spoke differently. And I think he spoke better. But last week we said, see the fire (ph), let's stop. We cannot talk with a terrorist organization.", "My understanding was that that proposal he put forward, which Israel didn't like and the cabinet unanimously rejected it, and we reported that first right here on CNN, they didn't like it not -- because it didn't necessarily allow Israel to finish destroying those tunnels and getting rid of those rockets. The Israelis weren't happy about that.", "Look what happened -", "But Kerry says that Israel can do that now.", "Look what happened only four hours ago. Five terrorists tried to get into a Kibutz (ph) in Israel to kidnap kids, to make -- commit a massacre in Israel. We cannot finish the operation as long as there are offensive (ph) tunnels against us. Imagine that you had tunnels coming from Mexico into Arizona with al Qaeda forces. What Secretary Kerry would have done if that would have happened? We need to fight with Hamas as long as it takes, a week, a month, a year. We're backing Netanyahu to do the right thing.", "And if he accepts this cease-fire, you will --", "It's not only me. The people of Israel. The majority within the Likud Party, which I'm a senior member, will tell him, you cannot finish the job in the middle. We started. We have to finish with war (ph) with Hamas.", "The outgoing head of the Defense Intelligence Agency of the United States -- the Pentagon, the DIA, as it's called, Michael -- Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, he was at a conference in Aspen, Colorado, over the weekend and he said this. I want to play this clip for you. Listen to this.", "Sure.", "If Hamas were completely destroyed and, you know, and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. So the region would end up with something much worse. There would be a worse threat that could come in to the - into the -- sort of the ecosystem there and be - and be more dangerous.", "Something - something", "Something like an ISIS or an ISIL, you know, or other of these groups that are in that region right now. So we really have to be careful --", "He says, you heard him, he's the head of intelligence at the Department of Defense at the Pentagon, he's outgoing now, but he says be careful what you wish for. You get rid of Hamas, what could emerge afterwards might even be worse.", "I beg to differ with this opinion. What can be worse than the Hamas? What they will do? They will dig tunnels? They will send rockets? Every night I have to take my two daughters to sleep in the shelter. So what can be worse than that? We are not afraid from what will be after the Hamas. Yes, we think about ISIS and Hezbollah. And they're watching this conflict. And if the outcome would be that we are weak, then Hezbollah and ISIS will come after us. That's why we need to smash Hamas. We need to go against the Hamas and to do it militarily, not negotiation. You don't talk with al Qaeda, you fight al Qaeda. President Obama, he did the right thing when he hunted Osama bin Laden. We need to treat Hamas like you, the people in the U.S., treated Osama bin Laden.", "Danny Danon, the former deputy defense minister of Israel, thanks very much for joining us.", "Thank you very much.", "Danny Danon here in Jerusalem. A strong perspective who (ph) plenty of Israelis continue to support. There's a big debate going on in Israel right now what to do about a cease-fire, what to do about Hamas. More on that coming up."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "DANNY DANON, FORMER ISRAELI DEPUTY DEFENSE MINISTER", "BLITZER", "DANON", "BLITZER", "DANON", "BLITZER", "DANON", "BLITZER", "DANON", "BLITZER", "DANON", "BLITZER", "DANON", "BLITZER", "DANON", "BLITZER", "DANON", "LT. GEN. 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{"id": "CNN-137196", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2009-4-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/17/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Castro Offers to Talk to U.S.", "utt": ["Happening now, the Obama administration ways a new offer by Cuba to break a half century of silence. This hour, President Obama at the Summit of the Americas. We're waiting to hear if he responds to Raul Castro's invitation. Plus, a rescued sea captain finally returning to the United States. We're standing by for Richard Phillips to talk about his ordeal as a hostage of pirates. We're about to carry his homecoming and his remarks. You will see and hear them live, here in THE SITUATION ROOM. And the Environmental Protection Agency sets the stage for possible regulation of global warming. Is it an end run around Congress? I'm Wolf Blitzer in CNN's command center for breaking news, politics, and extraordinary remarks from around the world. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. President Obama has just landed in Trinidad and Tobago for the Summit of the Americas, where officials are buzzing about one of the region's longstanding outcasts. That would be Cuba. Expectations now are soaring for a thaw on Cuba's relations with the United States, largely frozen since the Cold War. President Raul Castro says he's ready to talk with the Obama administration and put everything on the table. We're standing by for remarks by President Obama. We're going to carry them live. We expect he will be talking in part about his response to what the Cubans are saying. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, had this to say about Cuba's offer...", "You are all familiar with the administration's general view that engagement is a useful tool to advance our national interests and our goals of promoting human rights, democracy, peace, prosperity, and progress. So we have seen Raul Castro's comments, and we welcome this overture. We are taking a serious look at it and we will consider how we intend to respond.", "Very, very precise words from the secretary of state on a most, most sensitive issue. Let's get some more on what's going on. Brianna Keilar is here in THE SITUATION ROOM. Stuff is moving very, very rapidly, potentially, in this U.S./Cuban relationship.", "Yes, this is diplomacy on fast forward. And, of course, President Obama getting this all started, allowing Cuban-Americans to travel to Cuba, send money to their relatives in Cuba. Also allowing American cell phone companies to do business in Cuba. And now the question is, who takes the next step?", "President Obama says the next move is Havana's.", "Having taken the first step, I think it's very much in our interest to see whether Cuba is also ready to change.", "A quick response from Cuban President Raul Castro.", "We are ready when they want to discuss everything -- human rights, freedom of the press, political prisoners. Everything, everything, everything they want to discuss.", "Castro said this before, but on the heels of the greatest shift in U.S. policy towards Cuba in 50 years, the words have new importance. Even before face-to-face talks, Cuba could send the U.S. a welcome signal by freeing political prisoners, making it easier for Cubans to travel to the U.S., allowing Cubans the freedom to assemble, or opening the Cuban telecommunications market -- Internet, television, cell phone service to U.S. companies. After decades of isolation, experts say aging Cuban leaders realize this may be their last chance to preserve a legacy.", "I think that Raul Castro can hear the clock ticking within his own country. He has a population, 70 percent of whom were born after the revolution 50 years ago. So young people in Cuba do not have a kind of stake in the revolution as such that the older generation has.", "Now, while the Obama administration waits on the Castro government, Latin American leaders like Mexican President Calderon, whom the president met with yesterday, say the burden here is really on the U.S. They say that's because 50 years of the trade embargo failed to change Cuba, and that's really something the U.S. needs to deal with.", "Yes. He's going to come under a lot of pressure at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad to change U.S. policy, lift those sanctions against Cuba, because on this issue, the U.S., right now, at least in the hemisphere, is in the minority. We'll see what happens. We're standing by to hear from the president. We expect that he will address this issue, a response to Raul Castro, the president of Cuba. Thanks very much, Brianna. So, stand by. We're going go back to Trinidad as soon as we hear and see the president. He's going to be speaking. We'll have live coverage of that. There's other stories we're following, including an important one in Vermont right now. A hero's welcome is in the works for the rescued sea captain Richard Phillips. He's due to land very soon at Burlington International Airport, a long-awaited homecoming after being held hostage by those pirates. We're going to carry his arrival, his expected remarks. You will see and hear them live here in THE SITUATION ROOM as well. Let's get some more specifics though on what we can expect from CNN's Deborah Feyerick. She's joining us now live from Vermont. Deb, a lot of reporters, a lot of photographers, and a lot of folks in Vermont very excited, getting ready to greet a hero.", "Absolutely. And they've actually pulled back the gate just so that everyone here can get a clear shot of that plane landing. It is expected to touch down at about 4:20 this afternoon. The family arrived here just before 4:00, so they're in the building, just here to my right. We are told that two FBI agents did travel with Captain Richard Phillips. There was no formal briefing, we are told, by a Maersk spokesperson. But it was a very long flight, 18.5 hours, that those two FBI agents were with the captain. So chances are pretty good that, in fact, the topic of his captivity did come up at one or two points. Again, he was on the water in the Gulf of Aden with four pirates for five days before being rescued by those three Navy SEALs. So, again, he's scheduled to touch down here about 4:20. We're told that the initial arrival, the initial greeting, will actually be pretty low key. Once the plane does touch down here, Customs agents will board the private jet plane, they'll do a search. The family will also go on board. And then we're told everyone will come out, except for the FBI agents, come to the podium, where the captain can talk about what his ordeal was like. A lot of questions. Were the pirates hostile towards him? How did they treat him? What happened when he tried to escape? All of these things, hopefully, we'll hear from the captain's own mouth. Again, 4:20 he's supposed to land. We're told the family's going to get a police escort to their home. It will be a very simple dinner. A friend is bringing over some chicken pot pie. His mom has made brownies, and some of his good friends are going to bring over his favorite beer. So at least something to look forward to for the captain once he arrives -- Wolf.", "It all sounds delicious. And we'll have live coverage. These are his first public remarks since his release as a captive of those pirates. And you'll see and hear them live, here in THE SITUATION ROOM. Deb, stand by for that. Two events. Two events, live events. We're waiting for the arrival of Captain Phillips in Vermont and the remarks by President Obama in Trinidad responding to this latest statement from the Cuban government. In the meantime, let's check in with Jack Cafferty right now. He has \"The Cafferty File\" -- Jack.", "You got your dancing shoes on?", "Yes. We're going to be tiptoeing all over this.", "Yes. We've got a lot of stuff going on, right?", "Yes.", "President Obama being criticized for his decision to release those Bush-era memos about CIA interrogation techniques. Conservatives say releasing them damages our national security by telling the terrorists what we do. Michael Hayden, who led the CIA under President Bush, says that CIA officers will now be more timid and our allies will be less likely to share sensitive intelligence. Human rights groups aren't happy either that the president promised the CIA that officers who conducted these interrogations will not be prosecuted if they use techniques that were authorized at the time. The president says there's nothing to be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past. I'm not sure I agree with that. President Obama spent a month deciding whether or not to release this stuff. Consulting numerous officials, he reportedly weighed the sanctity of covert operations and what impact it could have on national security against the law and his belief in transparency. And in the end, it was transparency that won. The documents themselves quite revealing. They show the CIA used waterboarding, sleep deprivation, slapping, keeping detainees naked and in some cases in a diaper, putting detainees on a liquid diet, and using a plastic neck collar to slam detainees into walls. The memos also authorized keeping suspected al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah, who apparently is afraid of insects, in a dark, confined space and then putting bugs in the box with him and telling him that they were in there and that they were going to bite him. President Obama banned the use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques that some call torture soon after he took office. And he's pledged to make sure the actions described in these memos \"never take place again.\" So the question is this: Is the release of the Bush-era interrogation memos a mistake? Go to cnn.com/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog -- Wolf.", "A huge, huge debate unfolding since the release yesterday of these. And we're going to have extensive coverage of that here in THE SITUATION ROOM, as well. Jack, good question. Thank you. And don't forget, Jack, we're standing by. Two live events here in THE SITUATION ROOM. In the coming moments, the return of the captain who was freed from those pirates, Richard Phillips. Expecting him to land in Vermont very, very soon. You'll hear from him for the first time. Also, the president of the United States expected to respond to the latest statements from the Cuban government about a potential thaw in U.S./Cuban relations. What the president of the United States is about to say, you'll see that live here in THE SITUATION ROOM as well. The Obama administration, meanwhile, is setting some limits today on embryonic stem-cell research just weeks after easing restrictions on federal funding for it. Plus, a new step toward regulating greenhouse gases that are believed to cause global warning. The science and the politics coming up. And the man who ran John McCain's presidential campaign now challenging Republicans to stop fighting same-sex marriage and to support it."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE", "BLITZER", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR (voice-over)", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KEILAR", "RAUL CASTRO, CUBAN PRESIDENT (through translator)", "KEILAR", "JULIA SWEIG, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS", "KEILAR", "BLITZER", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "NPR-44246", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2005-05-22", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4662101", "title": "Stem-Cell Debate Rages Ahead of Vote", "summary": "The House is expected to vote Tuesday on legislation that would loosen restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. President Bush says he'll veto the bill. The bill's supporters say some embryos should be donated for research. But opponents, who believe life begins at conception, are offended by the idea.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.  I'm Jennifer Ludden.", "While the US Senate braces for a showdown over the filibuster rules, the      House of Representatives is wrangling over stem cell research.  The House      is expected to vote Tuesday on legislation that would loosen restrictions      on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.  President Bush says      he will veto the bill, but NPR's Nancy Marshall-Genzer reports, the      debate goes on and is not limited to Congress.", "In 2001, President Bush banned federal funding for research using new      embryonic stem cell lines.  The House bill would change that, allowing      government-funded researchers to work with stem cells drawn from embryos      left over from fertility treatments.  The bill's supporters say instead      of being discarded, the excess embryos could be donated for research.      But opponents, who believe life begins at conception, are offended by the      idea.  The debate spilled into the networks' Sunday talk shows today.", "Time now for The List.  And we continue our      earlier discussions of stem cells with two passionate women who have a      very personal stake in the debate.", "Those `passionate women' appearing on ABC's \"This Week\"      were Christopher Reeve's wife Dana and evangelist Billy Graham's      daughter, Ann Graham Lotz.  The families of both women have been affected      by disability and disease.  Graham Lotz spoke first followed by Reeve.", "I have a father who has Parkinson's disease.  I      have a son who has cancer.  I have a mother who has degenerative      arthritis.  I have a husband who has diabetes.  But I would not want any      one of my family members to benefit from the willful destruction of      another human life.", "There is not a disorder you can name that wouldn't      benefit from stem cell research:  eyes, heart, lungs, every part of the      body.  The stem cell discovery is going to be the most prominent      discovery, I think, in our lifetime for sure.", "The debate that divides Reeve and Graham Lotz also      divides Republicans.  Conservative Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah has gone      so far as to co-sponsor legislation that would make it easier to obtain      new stem cell lines.  Some House Republicans have come up with a      compromise.  They're backing a measure supporting research on stem cells      culled from umbilical cord blood.  But many scientists say those types of      stem cells would be of little value.  David Shaywitz, a stem cell      researcher at Harvard, says the umbilical cord stem cells don't have the      flexibility of embryonic stem cells.", "All stem cells are not created equal.      Embryonic stem cells have the ability to specialize into any cell type in      the body.  Adult blood stem cells and embryonic cord blood stem cells      only have the ability to become other blood cells.", "As Congress wrestles with the ethics of stem cell      research, other nations have generously funded it.  Last week South      Korean scientists announced they'd come up with an improved method of      generating embryonic stem cells.  They used human eggs and DNA from      people suffering from disease or disability.  The scientists hope they      can eventually use the stem cells to treat those patients.", "Nancy Marshall-Genzer, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["JENNIFER LUDDEN, host", "JENNIFER LUDDEN, host", "NANCY MARSHALL-GENZER reporting", "Unidentified Reporter", "MARSHALL-GENZER", "Ms. ANN GRAHAM LOTZ", "Mrs. DANA REEVE", "MARSHALL-GENZER", "Mr. DAVID SHAYWITZ (Harvard)", "MARSHALL-GENZER", "MARSHALL-GENZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-130896", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-9-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0809/23/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Rape Kit Charges: Fact- Checking Palin's Record", "utt": ["Three days before they face off in their first debate, John McCain and Barack Obama are taking different paths today. McCain is in Ohio, where he's touring a factory and talking jobs. Later, it's on to another battleground: Michigan. Obama is in Tampa, Florida, getting ready for Friday's debate at the University of Mississippi. As Americans wrestle with tough economic times, they're blames Republicans by a two to one margin, and Obama is gaining ground on that issue. In our new CNN/Opinion Research poll, the Democratic candidate leads his Republican rival by a four-point margin among likely voters. John McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, is at the United Nations today for the opening of the U.N.'s General Assembly. On Palin's schedule: meetings with the presidents of Iraq, Afghanistan and Colombia. She's also sitting down with former secretary of state, Henry Kissinger. Just over a week from now, the Alaska governor debates Barack Obama's running mate, Senator Joe Biden, in St. Louis. Biden is known for his foreign policy experience. The stories that we bring, they don't just happen by chance. All of us are involved: producers, writers editors. Every morning we hash out what we think are the stories that you need to know. And it all starts in our editorial meeting. The question that created a lot of buzz for us today: when Sarah Palin was mayor in Alaska, did she know that rape victims in her city had to foot the bill for their own rape exams? We debated whether or not when he all the facts and if we should even air the story. Here's how the morning meeting went down.", "Could you pull up the Jessica Yellin script? Jessica Yellin has filed a piece on the rape case controversy, looking into it, investigating into it, how much did Sarah Palin really know?", "The documents that are signed are not pieces that say, \"I, Sarah Palin, am approving this budget that says...\"", "Right.", "\"... that rape...\"", "Women pay for their rape kits.", "You know, it's -- it's question that we couldn't prove it one way or the other, but it's like that story's been out there. It's been out there almost ever since she's been the nominee. So we went to look at it, and here's what we found. We could find no conclusive evidence that she did it.", "Yellin's script even says we found no record...", "Right.", "... Palin was aware her city was charging rape victims.", "Right. There's no absolute proof. It's still kind of assuming.", "Well...", "The fact that it's out there, it's triggering debate.", "Is the didn't...", "We've never not focused on issues like that. I mean -- time after time after time we've aired pieces that -- CNN sticks in there we can't confirm.", "What did she actually found? Well, it's the city budget. I mean, it was an item in the city budget.", "Well, the budget line.", "You know, they sign things, and they don't always look at all the details, as well.", "Right.", "This is another issue that raises the question, do we really know who this person? Is she really the person that the campaign...", "I don't think...", "What do you think, Gus?", "I think -- I think we say what we know and we say what we don't know. I mean, I would totally run the piece. For me, the -- and let people draw their own conclusion.", "There you go. Here you go. Draw your own conclusions. CNN's Jessica Yellin reports for us.", "Multiple sources tell CNN when Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, her police department charged some rape victims the cost of the forensic exam they get after an attack. The police chief said it was not a cost the town should bear. Eric Croft, then a Democrat in the state legislature, sponsored a bill to force Wasilla to pay.", "I mean, it was just one of those things that everybody could agree on, except Wasilla. We couldn't convince the chief of police there to stop charging them, until I introduced a bill in January in the legislature to prohibit them.", "Experts testified that charging rape victims was incomprehensible, comparing the exam to dusting for fingerprints, only the victim's body is the crime scene.", "In having a victim, have to pay, then, for their exam is just -- you know, re- traumatizes them.", "At the time, some other small Alaska cities also charged rape victims. This woman says she was billed by a city hundreds of miles from Wasilla. But Mayor Palin's city stood out.", "What I recall is that the chief of police in Wasilla, Wasilla P.D., seemed to be the most vocal about how it was going to affect their budget.", "After the bill passed unanimously, Wasilla's police chief, Charlie Fannon, said it would cost the city $5,000 to 14,000 a year, and he objected, saying, \"I just don't want to see any more burden put on the taxpayer.\" Judy Patrick was Palin's deputy and a friend.", "The bigger picture of what was going on at that time was that the state was trying to cut their own budget. And one of the things that they doing was passing on costs to cities. And that was one of the many things that they were passing on to the cost of the city.", "She doesn't recall the issue coming before city council, and we found no record that Palin was aware her city was charging rape victims. The McCain campaign says Palin has \"never believed rape victims should have to pay for an evidence-gathering test\" and to imply she did \"is as utter distortion of reality.\" Those who fought the policy are unconvinced.", "I find it hard to believe that, for six months in a small town, a police chief would lead a fight against a state-wide piece of legislation, receiving unanimous support, and the mayor not know about it.", "Though Croft admits he can't recall discussing the issue with Palin. The rape kit charges have become an issue among Palin's critics, because some say as governor she has done little to battle Alaska's epidemic problem of violence against women. For years Alaska had the worst record of any state in the rape and murder of women by men. For the record, as governor, Sarah Palin approved a funding increase for domestic violence shelters and reauthorized a council on domestic violence and sexual assault. But this year that council found some of Alaska's programs responding to violence against women remain underfunded. (on camera) Other cities around the nation also once billed victims the cost of their rape exams. But now that practice is rare. To qualify for funding under the Violence against Women Act, law enforcement agencies now must pick up that cost. Jessica Yellin, CNN, Anchorage, Alaska.", "And let us add this: for about two decades, Alaska has had more rapes per capita than any other state. It's rate is 2.5 times the national average. Amnesty International says that one in three Alaska native and American Indian women in that state will be raped in their lifetime. The group also says more than 200 villages in Alaska don't have sexual assault response teams to collect evidence and interview victims after an assault. Well, life after Ike. More Texas evacuees are about to find out what it's like."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PHILLIPS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PHILLIPS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PHILLIPS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PHILLIPS", "JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ERIC CROFT (D), FORMER ALASKA STATE REPRESENTATIVE", "YELLIN", "TARA HENRY, FORENSIC NURSE, ALASKA RAPE RESPONDER", "YELLIN", "HENRY", "YELLIN", "JUDY PATRICK, DEPUTY MAYOR, WASILLA CITY COUNCIL", "YELLIN", "CROFT", "YELLIN", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-362402", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-02-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/19/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Lawsuits Filed Against President Trump on President's Day; Finger-Pointing Between Andrew McCabe and Rod Rosenstein; Nicolas Maduro No Empathy for Venezuelans; Sixteen States Sue To Stop Trump's National Emergency; President Trump Believed Putin Over U.S. Intelligence; America Votes 2020", "utt": ["Challenging the president. More than a dozen states are suing to put an end to Donald Trump's controversial national emergency declaration. Meanwhile, the president is accusing top justice officials of committing illegal and treasonous acts after stunning revelations from the former acting FBI director. Plus, America's top commander in the Middle East talks to CNN and what he is saying about U.S. troop levels in Syria. Hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and from all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. This is CNN Newsroom. Well, Donald Trump is back in Washington after a long President's Day weekend in Florida facing a major challenge to his national emergency declaration. Sixteen states are joining together in a lawsuit filed in U.S. district court in Northern California. They claim the president is going around Congress to reallocate money to pay for his border wall with Mexico. California's attorney-general is leading the charge.", "The president does not have the power or the purse. The president can't decide to shuffle money around once Congress has allocated it. That's only for Congress to do. Otherwise presidents over the last 240 years would have been doing the same thing when they don't like where Congress puts the money. Simply because Donald Trump fabricated a crisis and called it a national emergency doesn't mean that he can violate the separation of powers under the Constitution.", "As you know, President Trump wanted $5.7 billion for the border wall but Congress approved only 1.3 billion for fencing and repairs. Well, the White House expected legal challenges to the emergency declaration but there are a host of other issues to occupy President Trump's attention. CNN's Abby Phillip has details.", "Hello, Miami.", "The president may be considering firing his top intelligence official as he fires back at his former acting FBI director. Chris Ruddy, one of President Trump's closest confidants and the CEO of Newsmax telling CNN's Christiane Amanpour the president may get rid of his director of national intelligence.", "The intelligence chiefs including the Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats just went before an open session of Congress. And they openly said that they believed the president's policies and efforts in North Korea are going to fail based on the intelligence. And Christiane, I'm hearing from sources around the White House there is just general disappointment of the president with Director Coats. There is a feeling that maybe there needs to be a change of leadership in that position.", "Revelations about Coats come as the president is lashing out at former FBI director Andrew McCabe following McCabe's explosive interview with 60 Minutes, Trump tweeting, \"he was fired for lying and now his story gets even more deranged. He and Rod Rosenstein who was hired by Jeff Session, another beauty, looked like they were planning a very illegal act and got caught. There is a lot of explaining to do to the millions of people who has just elected a president who they really like. This was an illegal and treasonous insurance policy in full action.\" In the interview, McCabe described in detailed discussions with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein about using the 25th amendment to potentially oust Trump from office. Rosenstein was actually openly talking about whether there was a majority of the cabinet who would vote to remove the president.", "That's correct. Counting votes or possible votes.", "And possibly wearing a wire inside the White House to record conversations with the president.", "He said I never get searched when I get into the White House. I could easily wear a recording device they wouldn't know it was there. Now, he was not joking. He was absolutely serious.", "The Justice Department firing back calling McCabe's account inaccurate but not specifically denying the claim that the conversations occurred. \"The deputy attorney general never authorized any recording that Mr. McCabe references. As the deputy attorney general previously has stated based on his dealings with the president, there is no basis to invoke the 25th amendment nor was the DAG in a position to consider invoking the 25 amendment.\" All this prompting Trump to retweet one Fox commentator who called McCabe's account an illegal coup attempts on the president of the United States. Trump adding \"true.\" McCabe says Trump's public comments after firing Comey were cause for investigating obstruction of justice. As well as Trump's private pressure on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to include the word Russia in a memo justifying Comey's firing.", "That's concerned Rod in the same way that it concerned me and the FBI investigators on the Russia case.", "All this as activist converge on the White House to protest Trump's national emergency declaration to build a wall along the southern border. One senior White House adviser not ruling out that the president might use his first veto of his presidency to override congressional attempts to stop the wall. And in addition to the drama involving Dan Coats and Andrew McCabe, the White House also experienced even more personnel turmoil over the weekend. The president's pick to be U.N. ambassador Heather Nauert withdrew her name from consideration for the post after some concerns were raised about her background. Now, Nauert's name was announced publicly before the White House had fully completed a vet of her background and like other nominees for the post she was forced to withdraw. And sources also tell CNN that the president has returned to the drawing board, searching for a permanent nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations. Abby Phillip, CNN, the White House.", "Leslie Vinjamuri is the head of the U.S. and America program at Chatham House and she joins me now live from London. Good to see you.", "Thank you, Rosemary.", "So, in the wake of Andrew McCabe's bomb shell revelations, President Trump is fighting back attacking McCabe and his credibility. And now we hear from a friend and confidant of the president that he may fire his national intelligence director Dan Coats over comments he made about North Korea. What would be the ramifications of just such a move, considering all the other senior advisers that Mr. Trump has dispensed with so far particularly in the intelligence community.", "Well, I think it would be another sign of a president who values loyalty more than he values the independence and the credible information that's being given to him by those who have been appointed to oversee various parts of the government and especially on this question of intelligence in North Korea. I think it would undermine a lot of people's confidence in the run-up to that second summit, but the idea that the president doesn't trust his own intelligence agencies I think is one that's deeply disturbing. And we've been seen it for a very long time that from the very get-go the president was willing to attack the intelligence agencies.", "Right. And in his 60 Minutes interview McCabe revealed that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein seriously considered invoking the 25th amendment to oust Donald Trump from office, but for whatever reason nothing came of that. And then in another revelation he said Rosenstein proposed wearing a wire inside the White House to record conservations with President Trump after he fired FBI director James Comey. What do you think will come of these bomb shell revelations?", "Well, of course some of that information was in the public domain, but it is certainly there in a whole new way now. And the president's reaction has been unsurprisingly very negative. And so, I think, you know, one thing that we're likely to see is that this will drive the division that we're already seeing in reaction to the general investigations not only by Mueller but more generally amongst the public. The majority of people I think actually see the range of investigations, and in particular Mueller is being very independent and very credible. And I think in their eyes they conflate many of these different things. But one push back now we're seeing Lindsey Graham saying that the Senate judiciary committee is going to hold hearings to see who is telling the truth. So, again, the divisions that this will stoke I think amongst Congress on the hill are likely to be very significant. So, whether it will actually shift out to either in the public or amongst congressional leaders, it seems unlikely to me, but it does demonstrate the very uncertain environment that characterized that White House but still but especially in those first four or five months.", "Right. Because late Monday night President Trump tweeted this. \"Remember this, Andrew McCabe didn't go to the bathroom without the approval of leaking James Comey.\" And of course, we know the president has also called McCabe a liar, and says his stories are deranged. He's attacked his credibility. Will all this be enough to discredit McCabe and distract from the revelations and move it on to the next issue as we've seen so many times before?", "Again, it's going to keep rearing its head. And the real game changer will be when Mueller finally concludes his investigation and some of that we don't know how much is released into the public domain. Separate issues but very much related and I think the question of why the president fired James Comey will be one that's very integral to that report. And it's of course what led to this question amongst those surrounding the president about allegedly or as Andrew McCabe says about whether or not there was a justification for a rethinking the role of the president. It's dramatic. It's shocking but we've now become quite accustomed to it. And I don't think it's going to go away. It will go away, it will come and go.", "Yes. I think Americans are very numb to all of these events these days, but we have to be ever vigilant. Leslie Vinjamuri, thank you so much for your analysis. We appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Well as Donald Trump sees it, the crisis in Venezuela is about much more than ending the regime of President Nicolas Maduro, it's about ending socialism once and for all in the western hemisphere. Speaking on Miami on Monday, the U.S. president called Maduro a Cuban puppet who would rather see his people starve than give them aid. Mr. Trump urged Venezuela's military leaders to allow humanitarian aid into the country and to support opposition leader and self-declared president Juan Guaido.", "If you choose this path you have the opportunity to help forge a safe and prosperous future for all of the people of Venezuela. Or you can choose the second path, continuing to support Maduro.", "If you choose this path, you will find no save harbor, no easy exit and no way out. You will lose everything.", "And we get more now on the crisis from CNN senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh.", "The aid crisis here on the border between Venezuela and Colombia mounting simply, and tension by the day. And Donald Trump's speech in Miami frankly doing what it can to amplify the sense of concern here, certainly. We'll deal with a rhetoric of it in a minute which was extraordinary in its ambition and sort of geopolitical overtone, but the nub of it really was a direct appeal to the Venezuelan military to essentially turn against the government of Nicolas Maduro and possibly through doing that get some sense of reward. The U.S. president making it absolutely clear that America knew where military leadership money was in fact hidden, essentially saying they might be potentially targeting it and saying you can have pretty much everything or you can lose everything if you continue to block this humanitarian aid. Now the speech was given of course to a large audience of Venezuelan ex pats, but Donald Trump also pointed out continually the ails of what he referred to as socialism, pointing towards it in Cuba, Nicaragua too, to trying potentially to combine there appealing to the Hispanic communities of Florida where he needs a victory in 2020, but also potentially casting those more left-leaning Democrats he is likely to face in 2020 as being potentially also allies of socialism as well. In fact, the most striking quote I remember from him speech was to say that he hopes to soon see the first free hemisphere in human history. Essentially, sounding like someone for the 1980's facing towards the Berlin Wall hoping to cast off the yoke of socialism or communism from all of South America even though really only two or three countries still have remnants of that in its administration. But the tension is building here day by day. We are seeing a deadline now next weekend set by the opposition to get humanitarian aid in. USAID has flown extra aid in here. It isn't enough to change the plight of the tens of millions of people inside Venezuela behind me. But Juan Guaido, the self-declared interim president and opposition leader, has said that aid will enter at the weekend regardless or in the days after it setting the stage for a significant standoff and showdown here. Donald Trump's rhetoric trying to tear the military away from Maduro. It may well not work. And the question will be, will that deadline pass. Many hopes so without some sense of certainly a volatility if not potential for violence. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, on the border between Venezuela and Colombia.", "Following nearly two weeks of violent anti-government protests, the Haitian government says it has arrested eight people, five of them Americans. For more, CNN's Miguel Marquez has this report from Port-au-Prince.", "There is real intrigue across the nation of Haiti right now over these eight arrests. Five of them Americans, a Russian, a Serb and a Haitian local. The police chief telling us that they were arrested when their cars were spotted by police because they were suspicious. The suspicion, they didn't have license plates on them. They've taken off the licensed plates off their cars. When they first started to talk to them, they were evasive and didn't cooperate. That's when they started to search the cars. They found automatic weapons. Those are illegal here. That's the reason that they are being held right now. They found handguns, satellite phones, drones what some Haitians refer to as weapons of war they found on these individuals. But it is not clear who they are, who they were working for and what they are doing here or were doing here. The police chief saying that there is now an investigation into those very questions.", "Haiti's government remains in crisis mode. Protesters have been out in force accusing Haiti's leadership of corruption and demanding they resign. Well, he's already been to Iraq and Syria. Now the top U.S. commander for the Middle East has made another surprise stop on his farewell tour. A CNN exclusive with General Joseph Votel, that is coming up.", "The army corps of engineer people came over and they said based on the map, the wall is going to be right here.", "How would you feel if President Trump's border wall was going to be built through your backyard. We will hear from upset property owners who are trying to fight back."], "speaker": ["ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR", "XAVIER BECERRA, CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL", "CHURCH", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "CHRISTOPHER RUDDY, CEO, NEWSMAX", "PHILLIP", "ANDREW MCCABE, FORMER DEPUTY DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION", "PHILLIP", "MCCABE", "PHILLIP", "MCCABE", "PHILLIP", "CHURCH", "LESLIE VINJAMURI, SENIOR LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON", "CHURCH", "VINJAMURI", "CHURCH", "VINJAMURI", "CHURCH", "VINJAMURI", "CHURCH", "VINJAMURI", "CHURCH", "TRUMP", "TRUMP", "CHURCH", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHURCH", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHURCH", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-370792", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2019-05-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/28/ath.01.html", "summary": "Dangerous Human Traffic Jam on Mount Everest Takes Another Life.", "utt": ["A tragic traffic jam on the top of the world. A second American climber has now died on Mount Everest. Nepal officials tell CNN 62-year-old Christopher Kulish, of Colorado, died Monday after reaching the summit. He's now the 11th death in just over a week. That mountain has always been a dangerous and hostile place for climbers but with pictures now coming out with some of these we're showing you, one veteran climber is now calling it a death race.", "Loads of people died this year, everyone knows, and it's been a carnage. And I should say it has become a death race there. Because there was a massive traffic jam and people are pushing themselves, who are not even capable of doing it. They do it, they try to summit, and then, instead of summiting, they kill themselves.", "CNN's Arwa Damon went to the Everest base camp and sent back this report. Watch.", "We have just arrived to Everest base camp. And I have to say, even at this altitude, even without being anywhere near to the summit, you really feel the impact of the decreased oxygen levels. The scenery here is absolutely spectacular. You really understand what the draw and appeal is. That's the ice fall that is so famous. It's what the climbers first have to go through to get to camp one. And then of course, as they move on up through the different camps and the different stops, trying to reach what is the one main goal that unites everybody here. And normally this entire area at the peak of the season is covered in tents. What you have right now behind me is just a few tents that have been left. There are cleanup crews. There's still a handful of climbers that are down there, some of the last ones to come down from the summit on what has been an especially devastating hiking season for the summit of Everest because of the level of fatalities and because of the issues that arose from all of this backlog that took place. The photographs of the long lines of people waiting inside the death zone call that because the levels of oxygen there are so low. Every breath you take in the death zone only gives you a third of the oxygen that you would get at sea level, so you have to be climbing with oxygen tanks. And so these long waiting hours may have contributed to the deaths that we did see, at least to most of them. And a lot of these climbers aren't dying on the way up. You can make it to that goal, you can make it to that summit. It's when you come back down, that's when people's bodies tend to succumb to altitude sickness. A lot of debate right now as to whether or not Nepal needs to be doing more to regulate the number of permits, to regulate who goes up, what level of experience they have. There's been a lot of criticism about inexperienced climbers going up but there's also a burden of responsibility on the individual. Yes, this is such a challenge. It is such a goal that is really going to push you mentally and physically to the limit. But all of the climbers we're talking to are saying you really need to know how to listen to your body. And just being here right now, one really feels the effect of the lower levels of oxygen. Arwa Damon, CNN, on the Nepalese side at Everest base camp.", "Arwa sending us that report from Everest base camp. Arwa, thank you so much. Canadian filmmaker, Elia Saikaly, is working on a documentary called \"The Dream of Everest.\" He just completed his third climb to the summit. And Elia Saikaly is joining me now from Katmandu. Elia, thank you so much for being here. You posted on Instagram the following just so our viewers know it, you posted this after -- about your latest climb: \"I cannot believe what I saw there. Death, carnage, chaos, lineups.\" Can you describe for us what was it like this time? What did you see? Elia, it's Kate Baldwin, can you hear me? All right. We're going to try to reconnect with Elia. We'll be right back after this."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "MOUNTAIN CLIMER", "BOLDUAN", "ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-165698", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-5-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/05/ltm.01.html", "summary": "D.C. Test Tampering?; Crisis in the Classroom", "utt": ["Welcome back to AMERICAN MORNING. The controversial former head of the Washington, D.C., school system, a school reformer now, Michelle Rhee, under fire this morning. High test scores during her tenure as chancellor, her short tenure, really, as chancellor, are being called into question. A report in \"USA Today\" says nearly 4,000 parents and teachers have petitioned for a federal investigation. They're calling for an in depth analysis of the students' test scores, and they want Rhee and other school officials to testify under oath about possible test tampering.", "Another crisis in the classroom. American students flunk the most recent National Civics exam. The test result show less than half of eighth graders knew what the bill of rights was for. Just one in ten had any knowledge about checks and balances between the three branches of government. At the same time, only a quarter of high school seniors scored at proficient or advanced levels in civics.", "Oh, wow. Come on, guys. Read a book. Please. All right. A new study suggests that students who work long hours during high school are actually less likely to finish college. Researchers at the University of Michigan found that for high school students who worked less than 15 hours a week, more than half of them got their bachelor's degree, but for every five additional work hours, there was an 8 percent drop in college graduation. Only about 20 percent of those who worked 31 hours or more a week in high school finish college.", "Do we want outside of --", "We're talking about a job, labor.", "But here's the thing. I don't think that it's the job that necessarily is the thing that's the reason why the kid can't graduate from college.", "Responsibility.", "It's because the reason why the kid is working all these hours is because, maybe, there's, you know, financial setbacks in the family. Maybe the kid has to go back to work because they're supporting other people. It might not necessarily be that working takes your eye of the ball. That's just my opinion, because I worked a lot in high school. I'm a real advocate of having a job and working and learning that responsibility and hoping to pay for college. I mean, it's important.", "Am I allowed to think about that for a while?", "Think about it. Did you work in high school? Did you work in high school? Did you work in high school?", "Yes.", "Yes. So, three people who worked in high school.", "I worked a lot in college.", "Yes.", "Maryland, right?", "Yes. University of -- go Terps.", "You know a Terp is a turtle, right?", "It's a tortoise. It's the fastest tortoise on the planet.", "It should be a long time to understand that.", "The fastest tortoise on the planet. All right. There's mixed reaction this morning to President Obama's decision not to go public with those Bin Laden death photos. The president says he will not use the graphic images as some sort of trophy. So, we want to know what you think about the president's decision not to release photos of Bin Laden's body. So, e-mail us at CNN.com/AM. Give us a tweet @CNNAM. You can tell us on Facebook. That's facebook.com/americanmorning. We'll be reading your comments later in the show, and I just got with Tom Wynter (ph) that says, you guys, I already saw a picture on the internet of this. Why do --", "You didn't, Tom. You didn't.", "Tom Wynter (ph), you did not see a picture.", "Tom is not the only one who thinks he saw a picture, by the way. Several United States senators were under the impression that they had seen a picture of Bin Laden, and that kind of surprises me when you are a United States senator because you actually have access to be able to confirm things. Tom may not.", "Just for the record, everything on the internet isn't true (ph).", "Yes. So, no. For those of you, we welcome your views on it, but those of you who are going to respond saying you saw a picture of it, we're just going to tell now, you didn't see a picture of it.", "It's not being released, and there are several photo shopped versions that are not accurate.", "All right. We have this big story developing right now. It is a disaster really along the Mississippi river. We know it floods every spring. This is much more serious. There's danger in now at least ten different states from the Great Lakes all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans. Rob Marciano is in the flood zone. 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{"id": "CNN-256085", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-05-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1505/28/cnr.04.html", "summary": "World Soccer Chief to Speak on Allegations.", "utt": ["Active anthrax accidentally shipped to several states and a U.S. airbase in South Korea. Now the Pentagon and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are trying to figure out how exactly that happened. The samples originated at a lab in Utah. Four lab workers in the United States and at least 22 overseas are now being treated for possible anthrax exposure. Officials say the public is not at any risk, though. World soccer group FIFA opens its annual meeting today. The president Sepp Blatter is expected to speak just moments from now addressing the corruption scandal for the first time since officials from the group were arrested yesterday. In the meantime the Russian president, Vladimir Putin is stepping into the fray defending FIFA's president Sepp Blatter and slamming the United States for, quote, \"Spreading its jurisdiction to other countries.\" CNN sports anchor Coy Wire is following this. I don't mean to laugh but you know, Russia hosts the World Cup soon. It's probably afraid of maybe kind of losing it. I don't know.", "Yes. And maybe they should be, you know. We're going to hear from Sepp Blatter in moments at 11:00 a.m. So we'll see if he says anything. But yes, first of all, Putin said that this whole FIFA scandal will now have any impact on his country's plan to host the 2018 world cup, even though there are accusations, Carol, that FIFA officials were paid off so that his country could host it. And yes, Putin is taking jabs saying that the U.S. meddled in FIFA affairs. He's saying that the U.S. is trying to take the World Cup away and he said it's quote, \"odd that the U.S. launched this probe when the alleged crimes don't involve any American citizens\".", "We were in line for the World Cup.", "Right. But let's be clear here, this does involve U.S. citizens. Two of the 14 who have been charged, they're U.S. citizens. And also money laundering and the wire fraud that has allegedly occurred, a lot of that is involving U.S. banks. So it does involve the U.S. and it's rightful that they're stepping in.", "I know. The attorney general was making that really clear in her press conference yesterday, right?", "Yes.", "So, I know that FIFA sponsors are reacting at the moment. What are they doing?", "They are reacting. None of them have pulled their sponsorships yet. But they are basically saying they are going to reassess things if they find out what they think they are going to find out. If they did, we're talking about serious money here, Carol. To give perspective, there's a consulting firm, a research firm that estimated that over the past four years, companies like Adidas, like Visa, have paid an average of $32 million per year for their partnership deals with FIFA. So then you have companies like Coca- Cola, McDonald's, Budweiser -- they've also forked over about an average of $19 million each. We're talking about $1.6 billion that FIFA has pocketed from major sponsors from 2011 to 2014 according to this IEG and their estimates. So Visa released a strong statement last night and they said, quote, \"It is important that FIFA makes changes now. Should FIFA fail to do so, we have informed them that we will reassess our sponsorship.\" So what type of change are we talking about? Are they asking that Sepp Blatter step down? We'll see. More to come.", "Well, it will be an interesting news conference for Mr. Blatter.", "Absolutely.", "Coy Wire -- many thanks to you. Thanks so much. Thank you for joining me today. I'm Carol Costello. \"AT THIS HOUR\" with Berman and Bolduan starts now.", "Evacuation -"], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS", "COSTELLO", "WIRE", "COSTELLO", "WIRE", "COSTELLO", "WIRE", "COSTELLO", "WIRE", "COSTELLO", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-407334", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2020-08-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/04/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Tropical Storm Isaias Wreaks Havoc Up East Coast; Interview Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC) On Tropical Storm Isaias And North Carolina Joining Bipartisan Agreement for States to Carry Out Rapid Testing; Massive Explosion Rocks Beirut.", "utt": ["Breaking news, Tropical Storm Isaias wreaking havoc across the East Coast, widespread damages in states including New York, Virginia and New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Right now, more than 3 million customers without power and at least two deaths being blamed on the storm in North Carolina, where Isaias made landfall as a hurricane overnight. You can see what's left in one town, Windsor, North Carolina, the buildings, towns, cars, utter destruction. The Democratic Governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper joins me now. Governor, I'm sorry for this, you know, amidst this -- that the virus battle to have this happen, two deaths in your state, a tragedy. You've got nearly 100,000 people without power the last time we checked, with major damage which we just showed. And this is happening while you're dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. How hard has it been to have this --this at the same time?", "Well, it's been difficult. This storm slammed into our state as a category one hurricane. We do mourn the loss of two lives, over a dozen people injured, a lot of damage. But North Carolina knows how to prepare for storms and hurricanes. This time, we had to do it with a mask on. When you have a pandemic and a hurricane, it's double trouble. And we have spent the last few months preparing for a hurricane, hoping it would never come, but knowing in North Carolina we are susceptible to having them. And I'm proud of the way our emergency management approached this, making sure that our shelters did screening for COVID, that we had personal protective equipment there, that they were social distancing. And we were ready and we're glad that the storm is gone, and we're ready to begin the recovery process.", "So, you know, you talk about COVID and the testing you were doing in shelters. I had mentioned a bipartisan group of governors getting together for these rapid antigen tests where you do a lot of them. You might get some false positives and negatives, but you find out a lot of people that had it that you wouldn't with the other testing , right, because it's very quick. And we have six states -- moments ago, I know you -- we learned you're the 7th joining this. Now, I guess I'm asking you, Governor, is obviously you wouldn't have needed to do this if there were a national testing plan, right? If people in your state had access to fast, frequent testing, even for asymptomatic people. How much is the federal government's failure on this issue, testing, hurt your state?", "It's hurt a lot. We wish there had been a better federal testing strategy. In North Carolina, we worked very hard to get testing out. But we find problems with supply chain. We find problems with personal protective equipment. So, as governors, we've had to step up and do the job. We've done that in North Carolina, and now, we're bonding with other states here to try to use our collective power to do this. It would be better if we had a strong national strategy that would get ahold of the supply chain. And, you know, it's hard to trace when there is so much time, turn around time, in the testing. We've got to do better here for sure.", "So, the RNC was criticized over the weekend. You know, they were saying the events in North Carolina could be closed to the press. Obviously, there was the whole thing the president called you backward and tried to move as much as he could to Florida. But there's still some parts happening in North Carolina. And the chairwoman of the RNC, Ronna McDaniel, yesterday said that this whole issue of the press is actually not on them, it is on you, Governor Cooper. Here's how she put it.", "We want the press there, but this isn't an RNC decision. This is a Governor Cooper of North Carolina decision that's limiting how many people we can have in a room.", "I guess they're saying because you're currently in a phase where you can't have more than ten people in an indoor space. Is she right on this being your call then?", "Absolutely not. The RNC has changed their mind so much on this. First in Charlotte, then in Jacksonville, then back in Charlotte. How are they going to have it? One thing that hasn't changed is North Carolina's commitment to public health and safety. We're willing to work with them on a safe convention, and look forward to doing that. But in North Carolina, we've been able to keep our numbers down. We have not seen the spikes that other states have because we've taken pro-active action. I put in a mandatory mask mandate back in June. That has shown positive effects. We've taken the dimmer switch approach where we've stayed in our phase two.", "Yeah.", "These are the things that are positive and the way you keep your numbers low. And we're not going to have a whole lot of people gathering together and spreading virus in a way that the RNC had talked about doing it, with the president telling me he wanted a full arena. We were not going to have that here.", "All right. Well, Governor Cooper, I appreciate your time, and I thank you, sir.", "Sure. Thank you.", "And I want to go to breaking news now, a massive explosion in Beirut. Seventy-eight people at least killed, thousands have been injured, thousands. Huge blasts rocking the city. Conflicting reports about what caused it. President Trump coming out, calling it a terrible attack.", "Are you confident that this was an attack and not an accident?", "Well, it would seem like it based on the explosion. I met with some of our great generals, and they just seem to feel that it was. This was not a -- some kind of a manufacturing explosion type of event. They seem to think it was a attack, it was a bomb of some kind.", "Ben Wedeman is OUTFRONT in Beirut. So, President Trump came out and said he thinks this was an attack, which is a huge thing to say. Thousands injured, death toll likely to climb. What are you hearing about what caused the blast?", "What we understand is that there was a warehouse in Beirut port that contained more than 2,000 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been confiscated by the authorities back in 2014 and was being kept in that warehouse. Where exactly it was confiscated from, we don't know. But what is blaringly obvious is that it has caused a massive explosion in this city. It was seven hours ago that that blast took place, and I'm still hearing ambulances whaling in the background. At least 4,000 people wounded. More than 70 killed. Now, no Lebanese politician -- and this is a country where speculation is a national sport and conspiracy theories are a hobby. No one, at this point, has actually pointed the finger in any particular direction. Obviously, often times the fingers are pointed at Israel. So, when President Trump seems to confidently state that it was an attack, he has given a lot of ammunition to people here who will obviously point it -- point their fingers in many directions. And one of them is Israel - Erin.", "Look, it's incredible he would be the first to come out and say that. Obviously the information doesn't appear to be there yet. By the way, I want everyone to know, the reason Ben is standing where he is -- that's our bureau in Beirut. That's what happened where Ben is standing and how severe the damage is across all the city of Beirut. Ben, thank you very much. Up next, a woman blaming the president and other politicians for her husband's death, writing in his obituary shame on you. She has a message she wants everyone to hear, next."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "GOV. ROY COOPER (D-NC)", "BURNETT", "COOPER", "BURNETT", "RONNA MCDANIEL, RNC CHAIRWOMAN", "BURNETT", "COOPER", "BURNETT", "COOPER", "BURNETT", "COOPER", "BURNETT", "REPORTER", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BURNETT", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "NPR-1745", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2007-12-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17618588", "title": "Zoo Safety in Light of Fatal Incident", "summary": "Zookeeper Ed Hansen discusses how to prevent future maulings, after the fatal incident at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day.", "utt": ["This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex Cohen.", "I'm Alex Chadwick.", "Late Christmas afternoon in San Francisco at the city zoo, a tiger escaped its enclosure, attacked a visitor and killed him. The 300-pound Siberian tiger also mauled two other men. Then, four San Francisco police officers, searching for the tiger, found it outside a zoo cafe. And when it charged them, they shot and killed it. A police spokesperson described the scene for reporters.", "As the officers moved even closer, the tiger focused its attention on the officers. It started coming toward the officers. That's when the officers fired.", "Last year, that same tiger, Tatiana, reached through her cage's bars and injured a female zookeeper.", "We're joined now by Ed Hansen, executive director of the American Association of Zookeepers. Welcome to the program.", "Thank you very much. Glad to be here.", "What sort of standards do zoos have to make sure that animals stay in their enclosures and can't cause any harm?", "Well, they have a network of accredited zoos across the country. There's no real set of standards that a moat must be so wide or a fence must be so tall. So they go into their network and interact with different zoos and see what barriers are the best, what distances are the best. And from my experience again with tigers in captivity, those barrier heights, those barrier widths are within the parameters for Sumatran or Siberian tigers.", "What sort of training do zookeepers have to respond to a situation like this when an animal gets out?", "Well, animal keepers in accredited facilities are going to get crisis management training. When animals escape, there'll be immediate contact with the crisis team which will start to assemble a response. Now whether that response is veterinary response to anesthetize the animal or a stronger response to put the animal down - it depends upon circumstances. And keepers should be trained to basically react by instinct because every decision obviously is critical, and you're only going to get to make a few of those decisions to try and control that or divert that situation.", "There has been quite a few incidents over the past few years at zoos, with animals escaping and doing harm. Earlier this year, at the Denver Zoo, a zookeeper was fatally attacked by a jaguar. After all these incidents, do you find that zookeepers are thinking twice about their job?", "Oh, I don't think so at all. Keepers - animal keepers have a passion for their animals. They have a passion for the profession. And I do not believe there would be any second thoughts about the profession at all. But I do think that there's going to be a lot of thought put into the safety aspect of the job and whether it be zoo-keeping or construction or whatever, sometimes we push safety to the back of our minds and concentrating on what we would call the exciting aspects of the job. So I do think in zoos across the country, safety has to be moved to more of a forefront and training has to be moved to more of a forefront.", "There are a lot of people who have been calling for more humane treatment of animals at zoos. And a lot of them has said can you get rid of the old-school cages and put them in these more, you know, open habitats. But are those habitats may be a bit more dangerous in terms of the potential for escape?", "Anytime you build an exhibit for the viewing pleasure of the public or for the comfort of the animals, you have to be very cognizant of their nature, and their leaping abilities, their climbing abilities and making sure that the barriers are going to contain that animal. So it is a true art to building exhibits that are pleasant to look at but safe for the containment aspect of the animal.", "Ed Hanson is the executive director of the American Association of Zookeepers. He spoke with us from Tucson, Arizona. Thank you so much.", "Thank you very much."], "speaker": ["ALEX COHEN, host", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "Unidentified Man", "ALEX COHEN, host", "ALEX COHEN, host", "Mr. ED HANSEN (Executive Director, American Association of Zookeepers)", "ALEX COHEN, host", "Mr. ED HANSEN (Executive Director, American Association of Zookeepers)", "ALEX COHEN, host", "Mr. ED HANSEN (Executive Director, American Association of Zookeepers)", "ALEX COHEN, host", "Mr. ED HANSEN (Executive Director, American Association of Zookeepers)", "ALEX COHEN, host", "Mr. ED HANSEN (Executive Director, American Association of Zookeepers)", "ALEX COHEN, host", "Mr. ED HANSEN (Executive Director, American Association of Zookeepers)"]}
{"id": "CNN-118368", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2007-7-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/17/se.01.html", "summary": "Al Qaeda Regaining Strength?; Democrats Hold Marathon Iraq Debate", "utt": ["Good evening, everybody. We start off, though, tonight with this hour's breaking news. An airliner with 140 to 170 people aboard has crashed at an airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Reuters is reporting at least one death at this hour. Reports say the plane apparently skidded off the runway, while trying to land in bad weather, crossed a busy highway and hit a building, possibly a gas station. Pictures clearly show there was a fire. The plane belongs to Tam Airlines. It happens to be an Airbus A-320 that was on a flight from Porto Alegre to Sao Paulo. We're keeping an eye on the situation. And, as soon as we have more details, we will bring them to you live. While we wait, we are going to move on to that special topic we're covering all this week. We're counting down to Monday's YouTube debate at the Citadel Military College in Charleston, South Carolina. And I think it is the kind of thing you have never seen before because it is actually your chance to pose a question to the Democratic presidential candidates. As of right now, more than 1,300 questions have been posted on the video-sharing Web site YouTube. We don't know which ones are going to be used in the debate yet, but all this week we're focusing in on some of the most provocative and most important questions coming in. Let's start off with the war on terror tonight. It is the subject of quite a few of the questions we got.", "I have served in the United States Marine Corps. I have deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. And I am also an Afghan American. My question is, do you guys have a plan to catch bin Laden? Remember that guy, the guy that murdered over 3,000 Americans?", "As the son of two immigrant parents, I understand how beneficial immigration can be for our country. But I also realize that some terrorist organizations are trying to sneak immigrants both legal and illegal into the United States to commit attacks. What will you do as president to prevent terrorists from coming into our borders illegally?", "What if we pull all of our troops out of these countries and then a month later there is another attack on the U.S. with numerous casualties that can be linked to al Qaeda, or some other extremist organization based on Iraq, Afghanistan, or Iran? What happens then?", "My question to all of the candidates is, what specifically would your presidency do to restore the constitutional protections and freedoms that the current administration has diluted under the guys of fighting terrorism?", "Not only is the war on terror sparking questions for next Monday's presidential debate; it is making big headlines tonight because of a disturbing new government warning. Justice correspondent Kelli Arena has some of the details for us now. So, Kelli, the government is telling us that al Qaeda has gained strength, it has revamped its recruiting process, recruitment is up. Can you describe to us tonight exactly how it is regrouping?", "Well, Paula, the report says that it has regained a lot of its capability to attack in the United States in the past 18 to 24 months. Now, that's largely due to a safe haven that al Qaeda has been able to establish in Pakistan in the tribal regions. It has replaced a number of key operators with very experienced lieutenants. It is busy recruiting, as you said. And the report also predicts that al Qaeda could get even stronger, Paula, if it capitalizes on its franchise in Iraq. Now al Qaeda there has already said publicly that it wants to attack on U.S. soil. It has already has got a fund-raising network. It is heavily recruiting as well. And of course that theater provides very deadly on-the-job training.", "So, it clear how much strength it has regained since September 11, 2001?", "Well, no one is willing to measure it by any degree. They say that it is really something they have seen over the past couple of years. It is by no means as strong as it was just before September 11 or at that point, but it is steadily gaining in power.", "There is an awful lot of debate, too, as we hear these chilling warnings about whether sleeper cells exist in the U.S. already or not. What are your sources telling you?", "Well, the FBI's deputy director, John Pistole, was asked that question directly. And he says no. But there are people in the United States that, we're told, are sympathetic to al Qaeda's cause and that has officials worried, because, as you know, that extremist movement has erupted in a big way over in Europe, Paula. And there are signs that it is growing in the U.S. as well, now, not at the same rate, but it is growing.", "Of course, the greatest fear, I think, on most Americans' minds is whether al Qaeda, with this new operational capability, has gotten its hands on either biological, chemical or nuclear weapons. What do we know?", "Well, they're certainly trying to do that. But as one official said today, if they had them, they would use them. You know, officials say that they're definitely looking to get their hands on them, but there is absolutely no intelligence, thank God, suggesting that they have.", "It would strike me with all this chatter that we're learning about that perhaps the Pentagon might have a better idea where Osama bin Laden is. Do they?", "Well, officials are saying more definitively than ever that they believe that he and his number two, Ayman al-Zawahri, are in those tribal areas of Pakistan. Now, they're not sure whether those men move across the border into Afghanistan or how often they move at all. But they're pretty sure that they're in that area of the world.", "So, in spite of that knowledge, he remains as elusive as ever. Kelli Arena, thanks so much for the update.", "You're welcome.", "It is time right now to bring in two members of the best political team in TV, CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider and senior political correspondent Candy Crowley. Always good to see the two of you. Candy, I want to start with you tonight. You have got Democrats always fighting this perception somehow that they're weak on terror. Certainly some people think that they don't obviously want anything to do with Iraq right now. But now that this report makes it very clear that Iraq could very well be a staging point for an al Qaeda attack against us, how does that impact Democratic candidates like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama?", "Any time you have a negative report about the fallout from Iraq, it helps these Democratic candidates who now to a person are against this war and want a deadline for withdrawal and want it to start sooner rather than later. This particular report also helps them because it gets at one of the key arguments that they have been making, and that is, by going into Iraq, the president took his eye off the ball, that being Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. Now having said all that, I would judge that this probably would help Barack Obama a little more than it helps Hillary Clinton. He was against the war from the beginning. She voted for the war. Now, the two positions now of these two people are virtually indistinguishable, but they were different from the start. So, it may help him a little bit more.", "But couldn't this also cut both ways, Bill Schneider, because if people really believe that Iraq is a central front on the war on terror, and both these candidates Candy was talking about want these troops out as quickly as possible, perhaps as early as six months, couldn't someone out there argue, saying that you're allowing al Qaeda then to reconstitute itself in Iraq?", "Well, look, for Democrats, the argument is the longer the United States stays in Iraq and participates in the civil war, the more dangerous it will be for the United States because our policy in Iraq, our presence there, our participation in this war is serving the goal of recruiting more terrorists to the radical Islamic groups like al Qaeda in Iraq, and that it will be safer for the United States if we pull our troops out of their combat missions as quickly as possible. That's, of course, the opposite of the Republican argument, which is, the sooner we get out, the more dangerous it will be for the United States.", "Sure. Bill, and I want to put up some of the latest statistics we have from a CNN opinion poll done before this latest intelligence report showing how Democrats rank terrorism on their list of priorities, pretty low when you compare it to Republicans. So, do you see any of the Democratic front-runners shifting their strategy to accommodate this, perhaps to go after maybe independents?", "Well, I think for Democrats the central terrorism issue is the war in Iraq, as Candy said, and how it has distorted our policies of combating terrorism. And, so, what they want to argue is that the best way to fight terrorism is to get our resources out of this civil war in Iraq and devote them to not just in Iraq but all over the world to places where they can do lot more good.", "And, Candy, final thought on what this all looks like on Monday. Rudy Giuliani, of all the candidates running for president, seems to benefit from the public's acknowledgement, at least so far, that he is the most serious about fighting this war on terror.", "Well, the Democrats, I think it will be very interesting during the debate, particularly because, as you mentioned before, they have been trying to do this balancing act, being against the war and being tough on terrorism. You may recall an earlier debate where the candidates were asked, listen, what would you do if there were a terrorist attack in the U.S. and you knew who it was? And Hillary Clinton immediately said I would go after them. Barack Obama gave this sort of around-the-bend speech that didn't get to the central point until a lot later. And she was generally giving kudos. I think what you're going to see is a fight for who can be the toughest as far as homeland security is concerned.", "Bill Schneider, Candy Crowley, thanks. We're going move on now. And when it comes to the issue of Iraq, we have noticed a surprising trend in the YouTube questions. Many people already assume the U.S. will pull out, and that's raising a whole new set of difficult questions. Let's listen to some of them.", "How do we pull out now? And isn't it our responsibility to get these people up on their feet? Do you leave a newborn baby to take care of himself?", "So, what is it that the U.S. should do about Iraq? Well, the Senate is starting an all night debate on it right now. These are live pictures coming at you. Will that help anything, even when they roll out the cots tonight and try to force a vote? And then a little bit later on, some pointed questions about immigration reform. I will also be joined by two young people who sent in some questions. You're going to hear their stories about what compelled them to share their questions with the public. 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{"id": "CNN-292806", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2016-08-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/30/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview With Texas Congressman Michael Burgess; Top ISIS Leader Reportedly Killed.", "utt": ["Happening now, breaking news: ISIS deputy killed. The U.S. put a multimillion-dollar bounty on his head. Now the terror group says its top spokesman is dead. Did American forces take him out? We're getting new information this hour. Baby steps. As Donald Trump prepares to give his big speech on immigration, his son tells CNN that his father is not softening his hard-line views, but he acknowledges a mass deportation would not happen right away. Will the GOP nominee make his policy clear tomorrow? Secret notes. CNN has learned that the FBI is now getting ready to release new information on what Hillary Clinton said about her e-mails behind closed doors. Will it ease or escalate the controversy as Clinton prepares for her first debate with Donald Trump? And tampering by Putin? The top Senate Democrat is now warning that Russia may try on manipulate the results of the November elections. He is asking the FBI to investigate, as new breaches of voter databases add to the urgency. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "Breaking news tonight: the highest-profile killing of an ISIS leader yet. The terror group is vowing revenge after announcing the death of Muhammad al-Adnani in Syria. A senior U.S. defense official confirms that coalition conducted an airstrike in the area targeting a senior ISIS leader. Al-Adnani was the most public face of ISIS and at the top of America's kill list. Also breaking, on the eve of Donald Trump's big immigration speech, his son now tells CNN that his father isn't softening on anything. Donald Trump Jr. says the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants remains part of the plan, but he suggests, it may be implemented in baby steps. Tonight, the FBI may be just hours away from releasing a report on its investigation of Hillary Clinton's e-mails, explaining why no charges were recommended. Law enforcement officials tell CNN that secret notes about Clinton's FBI interview will also be made public as soon as tomorrow. Just over two months until Election Day, a new warning about the possibility of tampering by Vladimir Putin's government in the U.S. presidential vote. Senate Minority Leader Harry is now asking the FBI to investigate, saying the Kremlin may seek to falsify election results. A top Donald Trump surrogate in Congress, Representative Michael Burgess, is standing by, along with our correspondents and analysts, as we bring you full coverage of the day's top stories. Up first, let's go to our national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto, with more on the ISIS announcement that its top spokesman is dead. Jim, what are you learning?", "Wolf, today, ISIS took the rare step of confirming the death of a senior leader. A short time later, several defense officials tell me that the U.S. conducted an airstrike against a senior ISIS leader. This is the area of Al-Bab in Syria and that the U.S. now is working to confirm they hit their target.", "Sheik Abu Muhammad al-Adnani has been one of the public and threatening leaders of ISIS, chief spokesman and involved with its unit plotting terror against the West, now reported dead by the terror group. The ISIS statement appearing online saying Adnani \"was martyred while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo.\" ISIS offering no other proof, and Western officials have not confirmed his death. Still, a senior U.S. defense official says a coalition airstrike Tuesday targeted a senior ISIS leader near Aleppo. But the official won't that they were targeting Adnani. The U.S. has offered a $5 million reward for his death or capture. Adnani is widely believed to be involved in inspiring and directing attacks in the West, like those that have terrorized Europe recently. Thought to be a successor to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, he also brought in foreign fighters to the battles in Syria and Iraq. The top U.S. general fighting ISIS says ISIS' leadership may be losing its influence, as evidenced in a recent battle.", "And some of what we saw in the Manbij fight was direction from Baghdadi to his fighters to fight to the death. Obviously, they didn't. They didn't follow his direction, which may be an indication of the state of ISIL, at least in some cases here.", "Adnani's official title was spokesman, and he did advertise some of its most brutal acts of violence, beheadings, et cetera, but he was also an operational leader who was leading and directing terror attacks against the West, as well as recruiting foreign fighters. If his death is confirmed by the U.S., he would be difficult for the group, Wolf, to effectively replace.", "Jim Sciutto reporting, thank you. We're also following breaking news in the U.S. presidential race, as Donald Trump's son now tells CNN his father isn't softening his position on immigration. Other surrogates are veering from the campaign's message, though, tonight. Let's bring in our senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. He has got more on the Trump campaign -- Jim.", "Wolf, Donald Trump is finding he has plenty of competition these days when it comes to ill-advised comments. His own surrogates and staffers are creating even more headaches for the campaign.", "Hello, Florida.", "He's not quite seeking forgiveness, but one of Donald Trump's top surrogates, Pastor Mark Burns, apologized in an interview on CNN after tweeting this cartoon of Hillary Clinton in blackface, an image that is offensive to African-Americans.", "Obviously, my message, I stand by, but the methodology, I do not. The message is simply this. I believe that the Democrat Party has been using the black vote, that black voting bloc. Never, ever we will allow her to step back into the office...", "A popular warmup act at Donald Trump rallies, Pastor Mark Burns preaches with a booming voice and a passion for ripping into Hillary Clinton.", "And she don't belong in the White House. I'm going to still say she belongs in jail.", "The pastor is just the latest prominent campaign voice to create a distraction for Trump as he attempts to woo African-American voters. The Clinton campaign accused Burns of crossing the line.", "I think he surrenders the ability to discuss the issues. I think it's unfortunate. There is an unfortunate pattern here.", "Other top surrogates and staffers from the Trump campaign are coming under scrutiny as well. BuzzFeed discovered this audio of Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon using a derogatory word for lesbians on a conservative radio show.", "The women that would lead this country would be", "And the anti-Trump Keep America Great super PAC unearthed this 2013 video of Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway talking about women in the military. In this panel discussion, Conway argues that rape would not exist if women were as strong as men.", "I want the best prepared military, regardless of gender. But I'll tell you, if physical fitness, if we were physiologically, not mentally, emotionally, professionally, equal to men, if we were physiologically as strong as men, rape would not exist. You would be able to defend yourself and fight him off.", "The Trump campaign claims it rejects extremist views, like those of former KKK leader and Louisiana Senate candidate David Duke, who placed a robo-call asking voters to back the GOP nominee.", "Unless massive immigration is stopped now, we will be outnumbered and outvoted in our own nation.", "The campaign said in a statement: \"There is no place for this in the Republican Party or our country.\" But Democrats counter that Trump's policies, like his plan for a great wall on the southern border, stir up racial tensions, even if one prominent conservative said he's not buying all of Trump's promises on immigration.", "I can choose a path here to try to modify you, but I never took him seriously on this.", "Now, Donald Trump will be walking a tightrope in his upcoming immigration speech in Phoenix tomorrow night. Move too far to the right and he risks losing middle-class suburban voters and Latinos, who see Trump's rhetoric as too extreme on the issue, but any changes to Trump's immigration plans could erode support that he has in that conservative base that delivered him the nomination, Wolf. And we did check with the Trump campaign about Bannon and Conway's comments that you just heard in that piece. They have not responded -- Wolf.", "All right, Jim Acosta reporting, thank you. There's a lot of anticipation about what Donald Trump will say and not say in his immigration speech in Arizona tomorrow. His son, Donald Trump Jr., insists his father is standing firmly on his hard-line positions. Listen to what he told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview.", "He wasn't softening on anything. He didn't change his stance on anything. What he did was and what he's done all along is, he's speaking with the people. He's not lecturing them like most of the politicians you see today. He's actually having a conversation. He basically surveyed the room and asked, hey, what are your thoughts on this? I want to take that, because I want to take into account what the people say, unlike our opponent who basically will take into account only those who contribute millions and millions of dollars to her campaign. He's actually obviously a conversation with the people of this country. The hardworking men and women who made this country great, he's giving them a voice. He asked an opinion. He didn't say, well, my policy has now changed. He didn't say that. Now, the media will run with it however they want. But that's not what actually happened and I was in the room.", "It did seem to some viewers, though, who we talked to that it seemed like he's polling the room, he's not quite sure what his own policy is.", "He was asking for an opinion. His policy has been the same for the last six, seven, eight months.", "He still says deport. They all got to go?", "That's been the same, correct. But again you have to start with baby steps. You have to let ICE do their job. You have to eliminate the sanctuary cities. You have to get rid of the criminals certainly first and foremost. You have to secure the border. These are commonsense things, Anderson.", "You can hear a lot more from Donald Trump Jr. later tonight on \"", "00 p.m. Eastern only here CNN. Let's talk a little bit about Donald Trump and his immigration policy with Congressman Michael Burgess of Texas. He is a Donald Trump supporter. Congressman, thanks very much for joining us.", "Thanks for having me on, Wolf. I appreciate it.", "So you heard Donald Trump Jr. list several steps, baby steps, his words, baby steps Trump would take before addressing what happens to the undocumented people living here in the United States, maybe 11 million or so.", "Yes.", "Are you comfortable with Donald Trump postponing his answer to that question?", "It's not a postponement. I think Donald Trump Jr. said this very directly in response to a question. Job one is securing the border. Does the United States have the fundamental right to define and defend its borders? I say yes. I believe Mr. Trump feels same way I do. Job one then is to secure that border. And, Wolf, let me tell you, it is not secure. I was down there three weeks ago. We talked two years ago about the problems of unaccompanied minors coming across the border. It is just as bad today as it was two years ago. The problem is it is not being covered by the media like it was two years ago.", "Let's say the border is secure and he builds the wall, he builds a huge wall, if you will. What happens to the 11 million people who are here undocumented?", "Well, first off, I actually don't accept the premise of 11 million. I don't know where that number comes from, Wolf. When I first ran for office in 2002, my very first editorial board interview with \"The Dallas Morning News\",\" the question to me was, what are you going to do with the 11 million people who are in this country? Tell me that number is the same as it was 14 years ago, I just simply don't believe it.", "All right, so whatever the number is, let's say it is five million or let's say it's 20 million, whatever the number is, what do you do with those people?", "First thing you do is sure the border. Stop the hemorrhage. Stop the bleeding. Stop the damage from occurring. And then I actually respect Donald Trump for saying, I am then going to see what resources I have and what I have at my disposal to begin to enforce the law. And the other thing I respect him saying is that he is going to involve the United States Congress. Actually, under the Constitution, the House and the Senate play a large role in deciding immigration law and naturalization law. We have a president currently who wants to function as a ruler. Donald Trump feels that he ought to involve the legislative branch. I think that's a good thing. And I think that's a healthy thing.", "So you think he should leave it vague, at least for now?", "Well, he's not vague. He said he is going to secure the border. He said he is going to have interior enforcement. He said he's going to enforce E-Verify. And, yes, at some point, the -- first off, the worst of the worst will be picked up and deported. And then enforcement actions will occur. And, look, Wolf, Hillary Clinton two-and-a-half years ago on a CNN program, I believe, in response to Christiane Amanpour, said she would deport the unaccompanied alien children who are coming across the border. She was criticized for it. But I'll tell you, that first planeload of kids that went back to Central America, that really slowed the problem down in 2014. People actually need to see that the United States is serious about defining and defending its borders. I think that's a key step.", "So people in Texas, your state -- and obviously this is a big issue in Texas, a lot of other states as well. Do you think they will be satisfied if Donald Trump does not specifically spell out his plan on what to do with these undocumented immigrants?", "Well, look, he has spelled it out. He has said what his intention is.", "No, he said he is going to build a wall, he's going to secure the border. But what about the impact on these people who are living here in the United States? Let's say they haven't commit any crimes. What is going to happen to them and their kids?", "Well, fundamentally, there was -- they crossed the law when they came across the border illegally. And I wish people wouldn't do that. I think it is hurtful. I think it is hurtful to both countries involved when that occurs. I have never understood why President Vicente Fox in Mexico decided it was a good national strategy to export his young men back in 2005-2006. It made no sense then. It certainly makes no sense now. I do think Donald Trump is correct on this. Let us secure the border. Then he will see what he has. What resources does he have? What is the will of the legislative body? What tools will Congress give him as far as enforcement of the law is concerned? That's, I think, a reasonable step for a chief executive to take.", "Would you support some sort of pathway to legal status, legal residence in the United States for these people?", "I don't think you can have that as part of the discussion right now., number one, all the time that the border is unsecure. And we have seen this. President Obama has demonstrated this over and over again. You say you are going to loosen the procedure, the next thing you know, you get a surge of migrants coming across the border. And, Wolf, let me tell you, they're coming across at their peril. Three weeks ago, I saw two women and three young baby children on the banks of the Rio Grande in 106-degree heat, high humidity. They had no water. They didn't have proper shoes on their feet. If they hadn't been picked up by the Border Patrol, those would have been casualties. They were people who were deposited on the Texas side of the Rio Grande by coyotes, by human traffickers from Central America. That's the business model we have got to interrupt.", "Congressman, you're there in Texas. You're close to Mexico. Do you agree with Donald Trump that he will build a wall and Mexico will pay for it?", "Well, actually, Congress already funded under the Secure Fence Act in 2006 a good chunk of that. Now, what has happened to that appropriations since then, I can't actually identify for you. But -- and I will also tell you, there are portions of the wall that have already been built. But I think Donald Trump is serious. And I believe him in this. He will make border security a priority and he will do what it takes to ensure that that occurs. That's what I want to see.", "Congressman Michael Burgess, I want you to stand by. We have more questions. We will resume the conversation right after this quick break."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "THE SITUATION ROOM. ANNOUNCER", "BLITZER", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "SCIUTTO (voice-over)", "GEN. JOSEPH VOTEL, COMMANDER, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND", "SCIUTTO", "BLITZER", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "REV. 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{"id": "CNN-251747", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2015-03-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/21/ndaysat.01.html", "summary": "In the Midst of March Madness", "utt": ["Another big March Madness upset, as if we have not had enough already.", "Breaking hearts, busting brackets. And also prevented NCAA tournament history. Go to Coy Wire now. He's with us with more. What happened here?", "Oh, a lot of good stuff. I mean actually since the NCAA tournament expanded the 64 teams 30 years ago, there's never been a day where all 16 higher ranked teams won. Yesterday it came close, though. There were 15 games played with the higher rank seed won and that sighed a record set in 2000. Then, on the last game of the day, the one and only upset. And it was a good one. Number 11 day only had six players on scholarship, not one taller than six foot six, but they played huge against six seed Providence. The players played with heart, hustle and muscle and even got under the skin of Providence coach Ed Coolly. Check that out. Coolly lost his cool. He tossed that chair during a time-out and that earns him a technical. So, coach, be careful. You are going to get another one there, big man. So, but listen. Dayton pulled away from Providence, 66 to 53 and advance to the round of 32. Now other than that upset it was a pretty tame day yesterday. But Thursday we had close calls. We actually witnessed a new NCAA tournament record, five one point games in one day. There were bracket busters to upsets. The one that everyone is talking about is Georgia State. Head coach Ron Hunter led the squad from a chair. He torn his Achilles tendon while celebrating the team's birth the week before. He celebrated this too. Splash. His son R. jay hit the game winning three-pointer.", "And there he goes.", "Knocks him out of the chair.", "As they upset - you know, he ended up breaking his cast. So now he has to see the doctor again. Start all over, but he said you know what? I would not change any of it for a second.", "This has been an interesting, interesting week. We're winning, I am getting banged up, I'm getting cut on. I'm getting everything. The players are absolutely just killing me with all this right now. I am rolling around in not even in a wheelchair, in a scooter that's half broken. It's just been an interesting week, but I won't trade it for the world.", "Awesome. Love that guy. Now, there's a lot going on today. Kentucky is going to play and try to continue their undefeated run. But I'm sure we will see some more upset before all said and done as well.", "Yeah, we'll take a look at where we are in our CNN ...", "Let's not.", "Yeah, let's do it.", "Let's do it.", "You say that because you're one ahead of me so I hear. One.", "Yeah. I will probably be behind next week.", "So, let's do it now. Thank you, Coy.", "You are welcome.", "Coy, thank you so much.", "You are welcome.", "We have gotten so much news to tell you about this morning, too.", "Next hour of your \"New Day\" starts right now.", "Police shoot a man who stormed through security at the New Orleans airport. He was carrying buy spray and a machete. We'll tell you what happened."], "speaker": ["BLACKWELL", "BLACKWELL", "COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS", "PAUL", "WIRE", "WIRE", "RON HUNTER, GEORGIA STATE HEAD COACH", "WIRE", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "WIRE", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "BLACKWELL", "WIRE", "PAUL", "WIRE", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-246846", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-01-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/09/nday.04.html", "summary": "Hostage Standoff Near Paris Airport; Second Standoff Underway With Terrorist In Paris", "utt": ["There are school kids at play here, it is a school day. We hear they are being evacuated as they can. This is just a few miles from Charles De Galle Airport. Different flights have been diverted, things have been delayed. That's somewhat irrelevant. There's no direct threat to the airport at this time, at least none that has been communicated to us. So that's where we are right now. We have Fred Pleitgen on the ground, on the scene where the standoff is going on right now. Fred, what's the latest?", "Hi, Chris. I was able to speak to the mayor of this town just a couple of minutes ago and he told me that at this point this appears to be as you've noted already, a waiting game and the police are saying that they are not taking this fast by any way, shape or form. I asked them when do you think we'll get any information? He says, I absolutely don't know. He said it could take into the night. He said it could take until tomorrow. He said at this point in time what's going on is that there are negotiations going on. Certainly the police do not appear as though it's willing to make any erratic or fast moves. One of the other things the mayor said is that the town is in complete lockdown. In fact, right behind me, you're not going to be able to see it, because it's behind me, there's a school here that has all of the children in it and the children seem to still be quite good spirits, they keep screaming \"Charlie, Charlie\" out of the windows down at us and clapping every time we give them a thumb's up back. So people are actually locked down in schools, children locked down in schools and people have been ordered to stay inside their houses. It appears as most people are following those orders, but not all the people are following the orders, we are seeing people still walking around here. The actual area where all of this is taking place, Chris, is about 400 to 500 yards in that direction. This is what one of the local officials here has described to me as a local print shop. He says it's a place you get business cards, a place you print flyers, a place you print little magazines as well. He said most people here in this town know the folks who work there. He didn't know who exactly the hostage might be, that these two suspects are apparently still holding. What happened here is that at around 10:00 a.m., people who lived in the town here started hearing helicopters overhead. They start hearing a massive amount of police vehicles here and that's when the cordon operation started. Right now, the siege is still going on, but there's police leaving those vehicles, that's what we've seen been seeing a lot of. We've been seeing them secure the perimeter. We've been seeing cops going out into the streets probably also wanting to calm the people down who live there. As you can see it's a very calm scene over there as these police vehicles that have just arrived there. That's what we're seeing around the area here and so at this point in time, it really is a waiting game as you've said, possibly fatigue of the two suspects is something that the police hopes will aid them in their operations. But it certainly seems there's more and more of a police presence moving into this area as we wait here for things to unfold.", "All right, Fred, we do hear that all the colors are in place and that is code from the French authorities that they have different units or in different colors, the medical teams, the different types of assets in place so that they're ready for any contingency. That's the good news. However, there is new information. There was another shooting yesterday. You'll remember a female police officer unarmed killed by someone else, similarly dressed, we are told, to the two terrorists here at \"Charlie Hebdo's\" offices. That shooter is still at large. We now understand it is a developing situation. That that suspect has been engaged. Let's get the latest from our team of greats here, Jim, what are we hearing?", "The latest information, and always with the caution that this has been a constantly changing situation, police have not 100 percent confirmed this. But they believe that the shooter in Montrouge, this is the second shooting that took place yesterday is now holed up in a kosher shop in Port Du Vincent. That's another town just outside of Paris and that police are now saying there's a link between the two shooters, who carried out the \"Charlie Hebdo\" attack here and that second attack that killed a female police officer yesterday and they now believed that this shooter has been located. He has his own hostage situation. So just imagine that situation in U.S. terms, you have two hostage situations taking place at the same time, very close to Paris with the possibility of hostages.", "If not related, equally dangerous, requiring equal assets from French authorities so they're going to be spread thin quickly here because they thought they were only dealing with one. Now, this not speculation, but this understanding that they may be related, comes with cause. The two main suspects, communicated to someone when commandeering his vehicle, we are AQAP, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Let people know that. This other person that they're hearing, there's cause, Hala, to believe that they, too, identify themselves that way. What do we know?", "I was just looking at the map to let all of our viewers know, vis-a-vis where we're standing, where this reported hostage situation is taking place, we are hearing actually police van drive by with their sirens blazing, 15-minute drive away from where we are approximately to the east. This is apparently an ongoing situation. You were mentioning, Chris, that the Montrouge, suspected Montrouge shooter may be the person that is currently holding potentially a hostage and we're hearing perhaps reports of even a person wounded east of Paris, in this kosher shop. This will paint a picture of several days of each day a situation where there's been either a shooting or a hostage-taking three days in a row and a response from authorities in this country that is actually surreal when you look at some of the countryside, the sleepy villages north of Paris with a few thousand inhabitants, with full combat gear, soldiers going door to door trying to find these suspected assailants.", "We've been asked this many times, saying what is the mood here in Paris? It feels like the city is functioning. We have a number of people coming here very calmly going to the memorial for the \"Charlie Hebdo\" shooting as we drove here this morning. Traffic is running. You do hear police. This is a city you know despite having two hostage situations under way at the same time, it's not a city that is shut down remarkably.", "Sometimes ignorance though is bliss and you don't know what's going on around you. Maybe you're at work or otherwise, but what really matters is the urgency of the situation. Jim Bitterman, this understanding that maybe there is a terror cell at work here. There is somebody who was trying to take disenfranchised youths from a more impoverished area here of Muslims, that he was using soccer and that all of these shooters may have come out of it. Explain.", "There was this club, it was kind of a, began as a soccer club, called the Boot Du Chemin Club and the younger of the two brothers holed up in northeastern France in fact was a member of that. The others we don't know exactly what the connections are and which one, which people were in there. There were a number of people from that group that French police do know went off and were radicalized. And one way or another, they either were radicalized here because of its one local imam that no longer I think he's dead now. But in any case, they have this intimate connection from childhood. That you know in France, you know those kind of relations stick for a lifetime.", "We're getting confirmation, Hala, that you're right, the situation is happening somewhat east of here, within striking distance of where we are right now. Jim, best use of time is probably for you to head there, please be safe. Let us know, get on the phone with me, Jim Bitterman is going to go to where we believe the hostage standoff is taking place, again not related to what happened here, at \"Charlie Hebdo\" directly. However there was another shooting, a random traffic standpoint. A police officer directing traffic, a man similarly dressed to the terrorists here opened fire. Shot two officers, killed a female officer there. He has been missing until then or the shooter, he or she has been missing. They now believe it is a male actually, Hala, he may have taken a hostage and there may be active engagement with him by French authorities, Jim Bitterman is off to that. Now the understanding whether it's related or not, it doesn't really matter tactically to authorities in terms of addressing the situations right now, there's no reason to believe there's coordination between the different shooters at this point.", "It does matter, we've had this curiosity about where is the third assailant from the Thursday attack at \"Charlie Hebdo,\" initially thought it was a 19-year-old who turned himself in the same day who claims he was not involved at all. Is there a possible connection? Is it possible the shooter now carrying out a hostage attack to the east of here, was he the third person? So that's, because it's been this open question, where is that third assailant. Are they still out there? Do they pose a threat? Is this the same guy?", "It appears as though the 18-year-old whose name was circulated and who voluntarily turned himself in after some of his schoolmates tweeted out, everything on social media with teenagers in this case tweeting out. No, he was in class with me at you know, 11:30. He couldn't have been one of the guys.", "A suggestion that's only good as its corroboration. The kosher shop, is that what it sounds like, a place where they have blessed food, a Jewish grocery store?", "It seems like it. It's a 15-minute drive east of here. You have the shops peppered throughout Paris. It could be one of those. And the understanding from reports, that there is an ongoing hostage situation there in that shop. And it could be linked -- the suspect in this case could be the same individual who is suspected from having shot and killed the policewoman yesterday.", "You're hearing what it sounds like. There's a police vehicle going by right now. It is heading east. Maybe it is going in that area again. The French authorities tend to flood the zone. Not unlike as we do in the U.S. and in the U.K., you try to get as many assets as possible, especially in urban areas when you can. Because it clogs the area and what they saw yesterday was very good proof of why you need it because in an urban area, if there's any chance to get away, you want to try to seal it off.", "Exactly, Chris. This is very different from an industrial park outside of Paris. This is a very densed populated area in the French capital and you have to take every precaution to protect private citizens.", "Big question, Jim, is going to be how did the shooter wind up being pinned in a kosher shop? I mean, that means that they must have felt confident enough to be moving about the population.", "And kosher shop, was it a target of opportunity or was this something planned? Was this part of the plan initially? When the shooting took place yesterday, one of our terror reporters at CNN made the point that just a few 100 feet away was a Jewish school. Just a possible connection, we don't know that was he looking for targets? Did he have a plan in mind? But I think it also gets to a broader question here. Listen, you don't want to question the Paris police response, the French police response, they are, as you say, flooding the zone, but they've been scrambling a bit here. First to find assailants behind the \"Charlie Hebdo\" shooting going from town to town, I was filing them yesterday. They seemed to believe they were in one town and they were in the next town, and they were in the forest. Now they are north of Paris to the Charles De Gaulle Airport. This other shooter yesterday, they really didn't at least publicly have a handle on where he was and now he turns up in another hostage situation here, it shows the real challenge of tracking these guys down in a major urban area.", "But for one of the shooters leaving one of the terrorists leaving his identification in a vehicle. Now I know there's been speculation that that was on purpose. That was calling card. I've seen nothing to suggest that there was any intelligence behind him leaving his identification. But if they haven't done that, is there any reason to believe that they would be anywhere in the investigation right now. Not as criticism, but just the reality of the difficulties.", "Right. Well, that certainly was a help to the investigators and police authorities in order to track them down. I wanted to also bring to our viewers one thing, Chris, and that is that the interior ministry is saying the priority in the situation in, I said Dammartin- En-Goele, a very long --", "This is the industrial park.", "The industrial park is to establish dialogue, the priority is to establish with the extremist gunmen. This is accord to the Interior Ministry, and that there have been no dead or injured in that situation. And there have been reports floating out there that had been an injury and they're denying that.", "There is a team that you want on a hostage negotiation like this in France is the GIGN. They're experienced in this establishing contact to try to defuse the situation.", "Remind us of the 1994 situation.", "Exactly where they successfully defused a hostage-taking, rather a hijacking of an airliner in Southern France.", "Again, if you're joining us just now, there's a lot of emerging detail, right here. This is a very fluid situation. When we're saying GIGN, it's an acronym that is not worth explaining or beyond my French capabilities to do so. But they are the elite S.W.A.T. team. It is a military outfit. They are controlling the situation in an industrial park northeast of Paris. That's where the two suspected terrorists are from the \"Charlie Hebdo\" office shootings. There is another active situation, from a second shooting that had happened, where a female police officer was killed, yesterday. That shooter has been identified, and now there's a potential hostage situation just east of where we are right now.", "We now have the name of this shop, this kosher shop where he's apparently holed up. It's called hyper cache, cache meaning kosher in French. It's in Porte De Vincent, which is about 15 minutes from here.", "A very populated area and again that means that whoever was involved feels confident moving in the population.", "Yes, there is, but also you have to keep in mind it is really on the edge of Paris, Porte De Vincent means it's a door into Paris. It's one of those doors around the (inaudible), which is kind of like --", "So how does that change the dynamic from an area like where we are now, densely populated, how different is there?", "I don't because I would have to actually see the shop and where it is, but if you imagine Paris being sort of a big circle and you have doors, that lead into Paris from a beltway like highway surrounding the city. So it perhaps it is slightly less populated than a very dense area such as Bastile. But still it is populated.", "Does it help you?", "No. I mean, people familiar with Paris will know it's 20 districts and you have a beltway surrounding it. And highways leading into the city and this may be an area that is slightly less of a small street, small passageway type area.", "Jim Bitterman is making his way over to where the second situation is going on. Do me a favor. Put the map back up for a second. It does help us reset and bring understanding to why we are where we are right now. So let's take a look at the map. Yesterday, we all know what happened this horrible massacre at the offices of \"Charlie Hebdo.\" You see that on your map there in Central Paris so what happened was, they escaped by car. They wound up encountering three different sets of police. One of them was on a bike, he got off the bike. He got shot. He wound up being executed by these two terrorists. He wound up being a Muslim police officer just to show the mindset of these two killers. They then take off, they are pursued, but they do escape. They establish contact through surveillance in the sky, helicopters. They follow the two suspects. The suspects become aware of it, abandon their vehicle, but apparently not their weapons, at least not all of them although they would find a simple explosive devices, there is some reporting on that in the vehicle that was abandoned. They take off into the forested areas north of Paris. They get searched there. They do not find them there in those searches overnight. They're using infrared and night vision to try to find them in surrounding fields, they don't. This morning, the suspects successfully commandeer a vehicle. When they do so they tell the people they commandeer it from that they are from al Qaeda in Yemen, doing this in response to one of their leaders being killed. They say they don't want to hurt civilians, although of course they've done exactly that. They then get pursued into this northeastern area of France, less populated, industrial, and they're in the building we've been showing you on your screen. They have been trapped in that building. They have taken a hostage, a female. They have said they will not surrender the female hostage, which again fights their understanding that they've given to people that they don't want to hurt innocent civilians. They've told the authorities who have established telephone dialogue with them that they are willing to be martyred for their cause, though they haven't taken opportunities to be martyred to this point. They are surrounded, the surrounding cities and roads have all been blocked and France's best, this GIGN S.W.A.T. team is in place and in control of the situation. Meanwhile, the second shooting that had happened, where an unarmed police officer who was irecting traffic, was shot and killed in a second officer was shot, by someone similarly dressed to the two terrorists here at \"Charlie Hebdo's\" offices. That happened, they escaped, now they have been contacted and have reportedly taken a hostage in a kosher market just east of where we are. So that's a situation right now. The two men on your screen confined to the area that's air surveillance in that industrial area. There's another situation going on our Jim Bitterman is en route. For more perspective on the situation right now, let's get to you Michaela back in New York. Mich, as we get to details from here and Jim gets in place, I'll get back to you.", "We appreciate that. Stellar work there. It is a rapidly unfolding and changing scenario. We want to turn for some analysis now. Paul Cruickshank, CNN terrorism analyst and Jim Archidis, former Department of Defense Counterterrorism official join me once again. Gentlemen, we have seen such a change in the last half an hour even the last hour as the situation continues to change. Talk me through this, Paul. I want to focus on this kosher shop where Chris is telling us we have a correspondent on the way to. They believe, even though French authorities will not confirm, they believe that the person holed up with a hostage in that kosher shop just east of the \"Charlie Hebdo\" offices, is related potentially an accomplice to the brothers that are holed up with hostages at that industrial area. What are your reactions?", "Michaela, there are more and more indications that what we're dealing with here is not a lone wolf attack this is an al Qaeda cell, perhaps an al Qaeda in Yemen cell, perhaps a sleeper cell that's gone operational in France. With at least three people involved. There was the shooting yesterday in a southern district of Paris, the gunman dressed very similarly to the \"Charlie Hebdo\" attackers, gunned down a French police officer. But that shooting yesterday was just a few hundred yards from a Jewish school and there was some eye witnesses yesterday who thought the gunman was initially on the way to that Jewish school. So it's interesting that he's now apparently holed up in a kosher shop. Another potential Jewish target for what appeared to be an al Qaeda cell launching this major attack in Paris in retaliation for the death of Anwar Al-Awlaki, an American parish cleric, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in September, 2011 and who has inspired a generation of extremists in the west to carry out attacks including the Fort Hood shootings, including the Boston attacks in the United States -- Michaela.", "Jim, talk to me about what you're seeing as you watch this, and talk to your sources, and what you're feeling in terms of this. We've been hearing Jim Bitterman talk to us about the potential for these young men to all be related in some ways to perhaps a Jihadi cell that operated in one of these Algerian neighborhoods in the outskirts or suburbs of Paris.", "Yes, I think that what Jim Bitterman was talking about in terms of some of the neighborhoods on the outskirts of Paris is fascinating and gets to some of the underlying reasons why young Muslim men in France have been radicalized. Because for example, in France, France is a very secular tradition, there's a sharp division between church and state. Yet at the same time the Muslim population within France has exploded over the course of the last 15 to 20 years, and it is very difficult for people who come traditionally from North Africa, like Algeria, to integrate within French society and really establish themselves. It's difficult for young Muslims who cannot be seen to practice their religion quite as openly as they would in North Africa. France has a long, difficult history with the head scarf issue for women and there are other symbols that make it very difficult for young Muslims to get jobs, to get university degrees. And so they often seek to identify with other groups and are susceptible to this kind of radicalization because they're looking for a way to identify themselves and create an identity.", "Paul, you've talked to us on our air a lot about the fact that there have been arrests in France, in this country that is a very large Muslim population and we talk about what Jim was just addressing this notion of disenfranchised youth that have become radicalized. This is such a vulnerable and dangerous population and proposition.", "Many of these young kids live in these Bon Leur, which is sort of run-down suburbs where there are not very good job opportunities and the is message, the al Qaeda message put out through social media has increasingly resonated in these suburbs. We've seen right now 400 French nationals who were fighting with various jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, 200 considering going, 200 on their way, 200 on their way back. There are 5,000 individuals in France, the French are monitoring to varying degrees. This is a huge challenge in France. The French prime minister said the threat is greater than any time from terrorism in the country's history. These are worrying times.", "Worrying times indeed. Before turning to extremism, Cherif Kouachi apparently smoked marijuana, drank beer, had a girlfriend, some proof he was pretty secular but then something shifted and he became radicalized.", "Right. So one of the big points in Cherif Kouachi's radicalization was Abu Ghraib and the torture that the U.S. military perpetuated on some of the prisoners there back in 2004-2005 time frame, and this is a big thing. It really speaks to the notion that the United States --", "Can interrupt for one second?", "Yes.", "Please pause for a second because we now have live images of the standoff situation, obviously our cameras are at somewhat of a distance but you can see an awful lot of police personnel. This is the site of the second hostage-taking in France, compliments of France 2 Network, our affiliate in France just outside of Paris. This is this kosher shop that we've been hearing about in Port Devincenze, it's a kosher shop there, Epercahe. It is believed the shooter involved in Thursday's shooting of the policewoman who later died. That shooter is inside this, and surrounded inside this kosher shop with my goodness, you can see the amount of police personnel armed and protected wearing full military turnout gear. They are there and it looks as though they are very close to surrounding the area. Reportedly it's an accomplice, Alisyn, that we've been hearing about. This man, they believed is linked to the brothers that are holed up in their own standoff with police north east of Paris.", "I'm reading the bulletin that came across from Reuters, they believe several people have been taken hostage at this kosher supermarket in eastern Paris, and again, you're seeing the outside and the police presence amassing there, trying to deal with this hostage taking as well as what's going on in the northern suburb outside of Paris. Let's go back to Chris Cuomo, he, of course, is in Paris at the scene of the original massacre. Chris, what are you hearing on the ground?", "All right, Alisyn, thank you very much. I'm here with Hala Gorani and Alain, say your last name for me. Thank you very much. You are a security expert and you understand how the French authorities operate in situations like this, even up to the level of the GIGN S.W.A.T. team. We're looking at a live picture of what we believe is going on east of here and what you call the 12th district. They seem to be uniformed police but what is staging there right now? What is your understanding of this tactic?", "First, they are preparing and surrounding the place. Second, they will establish contact and negotiate, that's the French way. And afterwards, they will decide if there is a place for negotiation, if there's a place for rendition or if they have to go and take over the place.", "Now in this tight of a formation, is this a function of obviously just believing that they are within the reach of whatever weapon they assume they're dealing with?", "No, just waiting to get instruction by the negotiator with the most important person in charge.", "There's another detachment in front of them that seems more crouched. Again, you think that's a safe waiting position?", "That's the way they're prepared and wait for instruction by the negotiator, who will take the psychological mood of who he will discuss with and if there is a discussion, if there's a refusal of discussion they will try to put some equipment to see and hear what's going on inside, and then they will make a decision. Of course, it's from experience, due to Toulouse a few years ago which is first try at negotiations that unfortunately got back down, because they never wanted to surrender.", "He was the man who booby trapped his own house and took 24 hours, but he was alone without hostages.", "Exactly.", "OK, so this is different.", "This is different, but it's always a part of experience to know this type of individuals may want to die under attack, but may want to get as many publicity as possible.", "Right.", "And make the show be very long.", "The Paris Prosecutor's Office confirms there are hostages, plural, involved in this situation. Now, one step backwards, we're trying to figure out what this means and the police are backing off immediately. They think they're in a sensitive area of containment. This shooter yesterday was similarly dressed to the terrorists that attacked the offices here \"Charlie Hebdo.\" He shot two officers, one was a female, she was unarmed, she died. But there is no reason to believe that shooter was either present at this shooting at \"Charlie Hebdo\" or is any way related to this plot, but there is reason to believe, Alain, you tell me if this is consistent with your understanding that the shooter we're looking at right now in this situation may be related to the men in terms of the organization of their cell. Does that sound right?", "I think it's clear that this crew was made of three persons, not two. The point was even highlighted by the ministry of the interior the beginning of the \"Charlie Hebdo\" situation, there was a misunderstanding on who may be, but it's clear from the beginning that French authorities knew there were not two, but three people involved.", "Right.", "Connected together, and maybe together at the first stage.", "So technically, Hala, there could be four. You could have had three people involved here at \"Charlie Hebdo\" and either is or is not the 18, 19-year-old young man, who turned himself in. Alain says, you say it is not him OK, so he's out of the picture but there was a third person in this attack, this massacre at \"Charlie Hebdo,\" it could or could not be the man involved here. You could be dealing with four people.", "We always believe that there will be three. Two who attacked the building and one who may be in charge of the car.", "Right.", "Which is usually how you organize these types of things and who may have been involved to shoot the policewoman.", "But do you believe the man who is held up now in this kosher market that the police are trying to make their way around there in some slippery ground. 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{"id": "CNN-136709", "program": "YOUR MONEY", "date": "2009-4-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/05/cnnitm.01.html", "summary": "G-20 Takes Place in London; Ultimatum For the Ailing Auto Companies: What That Means For You", "utt": ["Welcome to \"YOUR MONEY.\" I'm Christine Romans here in New York. An incredibly busy week from Detroit to Washington to London. I'm all alone here in New York because Ali's coming to you from Los Angeles. Ali, we're like the bi-coastal anchor couple this week.", "I miss you out here.", "I know.", "But California's a really, really important part of this story. From a housing perspective, we have seen some of the biggest losses in home prices, home values, in California. In the last year- and-a-half, we've also seen some of the largest foreclosure numbers and the jobless number. California is one of a handful of States with an unemployment rate in the double digits right now. And on top of that, we've got the G-20. You just mentioned London; a gathering of world leaders in London. Did President Obama get what he wanted and is that useful to us here in the United States? We'll get a full G-20 report as only Richard Quest can deliver.", "Oh, and he delivers every time, doesn't he?", "He does.", "Also ahead, GM and Chrysler, they have been warned. We'll find out what the ultimatum for the ailing auto companies means for your job, your car payment, and your warranty.", "But the big, big, big story today is the unemployment report. Unemployment in this country now stands at 8.5 percent. That is the highest in more than 25 years. More than 5 million jobs have been lost since the start of this recession. And even as Wall Street shows some recent signs of a rebound, the staggering job losses mean that many Americans have yet to see any glimpse of a real recovery. Let's break this down by month. Let's take a look at what we've got. We have the unemployment rate and the unemployment report for the month of March. But let's go back a few months to October, where we really started to see the heavy job losses after the credit losses set in: 651,000 jobs lost in October, 655,000 in November, 681,000 in December. Look at January, the worst of them all so far, 741,000, back to 651,000 in February, and then up again. Boy, Christine, I was so hoping that March would show a lower number, some indication that we were trending away from these high, high unemployment numbers. But that's not even the full story, Christine. When you break it down further, it becomes a lot more relevant to people.", "It's absolutely true. Ali, the work week, you can feel this at your job if you have your job. The work week is just over 33 hours a week now. Think of that. That work week keeps shrinking because companies don't have enough business to keep you employed full time. They're trying to cut hours so they don't have to cut as many jobs. You look at some of the job loss by sectors, you're actually seeing a gain for housing -- for health care, rather. A little bit of a gain, 14,000 jobs. That doesn't even make a dent into the losses you're seeing elsewhere. Construction, manufacturing, business services, even government jobs lost jobs in the month. And the government says in its report, Ali, point-blank: vast job loss across almost all sectors. It's clearly, clearly something that continues to be a problem. The pace of the declines over the past five months show that you're right, Ali, after that credit crisis in the fall, companies are really throwing in the towel.", "Now we're going to give you some real specific advice on this show, things you should do immediately if you're looking for a job and some sense of where might jobs be geographically and by industry. But even as you indicated those places where there has been job growth in the last year or so, in government, in retail, in education and in health care, even those are slimming down. So you cannot expect that your job is likely to come back. You have to be prepared for this to be going on longer and you being able to perhaps retrain or move somewhere else to get a job.", "One job that is not coming back is Rick Wagoner's job. He is the CEO, the former CEO of GM, of course. And an ultimatum from the White House this week, Ali, to GM and Chrysler, look, we're going to give you financing for 30 days for Chrysler, 60 days for GM, but you've got to get your house in order, because this is your last, last chance.", "And that's a very, very big deal. As you know with the three U.S.-based automakers, Ford has been in the healthiest position of the three, not having to take any government money. But they sort of started a downsizing or a right sizing back in 2005. General Motors was on its way to doing such a thing, but this credit crisis has hit all automakers, not just U.S. automakers, as people are not buying cars, maybe because they can't get the credit they need to do so, maybe because buying a car isn't your priority if you think you might be losing your job or you have already lost your job. General Motors has got to come up with a plan for viability. All of the auto makers were asked for one in February. They came up with one and the White House has come back to General Motors and Chrysler and said, these plans are not likely to work. In the case of Chrysler, it's looking for an alliance with Fiat, but there are a lot of are observers who say they're not entirely sure why a combination of Chrysler, which is a very troubled company, with quality issues, with production issues, and Fiat would actually make a company that would work and be viable. So it's entirely likely that in the next 30 to 60 days, we're going to be talking a lot more about the auto industry. What is that going to mean to you and your job and your community, which in many cases is depending on the spending of auto dealership?", "And your warrantee.", "And your warrantee.", "The government is stepping so that it can back up the warranty with GM and Chrysler, so you'll be comfortable to still buy a car in that period. I want to read something in the \"Detroit Free Press,\" Ali, because I think it is very telling about just how monumental that move was this week. Quote, \"not since President Franklin Roosevelt considered taking control in Ford Motor Company in 1943 from the failing Henry Ford has the federal government pushed for such sway in the management of Detroit's automakers. The tack suggests a hard-nosed approach from the Obama administration toward the automakers, bond holders and the UAW.\" There was a little bit of concern, frankly, about, wait, how come they're being so tough on the blue collar auto industry and not on the white collar banking industry? But Ali, when you dig into it, it's interesting, Timothy Geithner, the Treasury secretary, this week, said he would, if he had to -- he would remove a bank CEO. And they have changed much of the board of Citigroup and also they've named the CEO of AIG, Freddie -- Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae. This is an incredibly interesting time right now, with the government with such management over private industry.", "That leads us to another big thing. The president in London for the G-20 and the idea of how much oversight over industries should governments have? How much regulation of industry should governments have, given how much they've intervened financially?", "Let's bring in our very own Richard Quest, host of \"Quest Means Business\" and talk about this G-20 conference. Richard, a couple of questions. How did President Obama do on the world stage his first time out? And did he get what he wanted? And is capitalism wounded here and how badly? I mean, gosh, calling for an end to the old Washington consensus? Sarkozy talking about turning the page on the Anglo-American dominance of world markets.", "No, there's a lot there that we need to dissect surgically and slowly. First of all, your question, how did President Obama do on the world stage? Look, what did you expect him to do? Spit on the carpet and not know which knife and fork to use? The president did very well, thank you. He came with a large entourage of some 500 security and staff and they set out their agenda. Everybody knew what the U.S. wanted. They wanted more on stimulus. They didn't want the global regulator. They did want some things and not others. I don't think they got everything. I think they may well regret some parts of it. But in terms of President Obama himself, he was, in many ways, a cornerstone of that conference, because he had to accept that the U.S. -- the U.S. markets were largely responsible for the crisis we are in. He did so with grace and with gratitude, and then they moved on. And you had so many questions, I completely forgot the other one.", "I'll pick one up. It's Ali here. We were making a little fun of you last year because you always happen to find yourself at these major world events, where they have fantastic cocktail parties. But really, there were many people who thought this would amount to not much more to either a cocktail party at best and at worst a drubbing for the United States. And there does seem to have been much more that came out of this. Certainly markets liked what happened.", "I think the real problem was the media wanted it to be a big blast, I think. I actually have always believed that something substantive would come out of it, because I've been in the G-20 in Washington, and I've seen the positions. They knew -- we hear one phrase again and again and again: whatever it takes for however long is necessary. Now, if you are a policy maker, you don't use those sorts of words unless you intend to back it up by actions. We can argue about whether they're the right actions, 1.1 trillion by the IMF, greater regulation, tax -- beating up on the tax havens. But at the end of day, they had to do something along those lines. They had to be seen to be taking action. And the reaction that I've seen and you've seen in the markets is it wasn't as much as it could have been. It was more than expected. It's a start, not a finish. And they're moving in the right direction. Now, I don't know about you, but here on the \"Quest Means Business\" set, we have a little bell. That's not a bad deal to my way of thinking.", "I'm telling you, Richard and Ali, I really do think there was real work done there. And Ali and I had a conversation earlier this week about come on, this day of modern technology, why are they getting on a plane. They're all getting in the same room in all of this. Listen, I really think some work got done there, and I think they showed a global face. I do want to ask quickly this idea that American style capitalism is wounded and that we're turning a new page on to kind of a new era; is that overstated?", "Well, the British prime minister used the phrase Washington consensus. And that was then discussed by President Obama in his news conference. It is a term of art. It's a very specific reference to a particular type of thinking in economies that relates to trade flow. It's not like", "A lot got accomplished there, Richard, as you said, maybe not as much as we would have liked, but more than some of us expected. I'm never going to make fun of you again for covering a conference. Great to see you, my friend. Great work covering it.", "Way, listen, listen, listen, hang on. I've got one thing to tell you.", "What's that?", "I might be coming your way for the next G-20, which we can talk about. And, by the way, don't forget I think I'm still beating you on Tweet and Twitter names and numbers. But the next G-20 is in New York, I believe, and it is in September. And we'll be able to go hammer and thongs, face-to-face.", "You'll be our guest; @RichardQuest on Twitter, @AliVelshi on Twitter and @ChristineRomans. Follow us all. Richard, great to see you as always.", "All right, it's the worst jobs market in a quarter century. 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{"id": "CNN-93000", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2005-3-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0503/17/ng.01.html", "summary": "NANCY GRACE for March 17, 2005, CNNHN", "utt": ["Tonight, did Robert Blake get away with murder? Not since the O.J. Simpson double murder trial has American been so stunned by a \"not guilty\" verdict. But where is the anger? Was the victim victimized again at trial? And tonight the latest in the Jessie Lunsford case. A man in custody. Tonight, does convicted sex offender John Couey hold the key to Jessie`s disappearance? Good evening, everybody. I`m Nancy Grace and I want to thank you for being with us tonight. Jessie Lunsford, the nine-year-old little girl who went missing from her own bedroom three weeks ago today and tonight, a break in Jessie`s case. Convicted sex offender John Evander Couey skipped town immediately after Jessie went missing. Jessie`s family had no idea a registered sex offender lived right under their nose. What does Couey know? Is he talking? And hard to believe but Baretta, AKA, Robert Blake, is a free man tonight. Did the jury decide Bonny Lee Bakley deserved the death penalty and what part did Blake`s celebrity play in him beating the rap? Tonight, Bonny`s daughter, Holly Gawron and her lawyer, Eric Dubin, with us from New York. Thanks to both of you for being with us. In my mind it`s a very dark day because Holly, no less than about, according to Eric, Eric told me this, no less than six people were approached and discussed murder with Blake. It`s incredible to me.", "Yes. Good evening Nancy. I don`t understand why they didn`t convict him. I think the media has a big deal to do with it. Ever since the night she was murdered they have been spinning stories, they didn`t research, they didn`t verify the truth, they didn`t do their jobs, I don`t think, and I don`t think they really convinced a lot of people of Robert Blake`s lies and I`m very unhappy with the jury and the decision.", "Well, Holly, remember the night your mom was killed. Everyone, we are talking to Bonny Lee Bakley`s daughter. Remember the night your mom was murdered? Immediately, Robert Blake goes in the hospital claiming he is sick and can`t take a polygraph. Did you know right then there was something terribly wrong?", "I knew before my mother was murdered something was terribly wrong. I`ve known a lot of stuff along the way. In his plot he lured my mother into a trap. It was like a sick, twisted game to him. Telling her he loved her. He wanted to make things work. To move in with him. And everything was going to be OK. Just a bunch of lies.", "You know, Holly, tell me about your mom`s relationship with Robert Blake.", "Well, it -- It was shaky to say the least. They met, they got together, she fell in love. She was extremely infatuated but she wasn`t after his money. She had his child. She wanted to marry him. That was her plan but she really did love him. She liked him a lot and I didn`t feel the same way.", "Have you talked to him since your mom was murdered?", "Absolutely not. Never.", "He never called you? Not one time after your mom was shot?", "He`s never been interested in my mother, her family. He hates all of us. He thinks he`s better than everybody, so ...", "When you heard the \"not guilty\" verdict, Holly, what was your immediate response?", "Well, I couldn`t do anything but cry, naturally. I lost my mother and I have to continue to suffer everyday.", "Holly, what do you think went wrong at trial? I`m stunned.", "I have no idea. I don`t know how they came to that conclusion.", "Have the prosecutors contacted you to talk about it?", "No, I`ve thanked them and I can`t thank them enough. I think Shellie did a wonderful job. She really did put her heart into this and she wanted to see him convicted as much as everybody on our side.", "Holly, what happened the night your mom was shot? Where were you?", "I was at home sleeping and I didn`t find out until early the next morning my brother called me.", "What was your immediate thought when you found out your mom had been shot?", "The first thing I said was he did it, I can`t believe he did it. I knew right then.", "Holly, why were you so convinced your mom was murdered by Blake?", "Like I said, there were a lot of things leading up to -- lawyers and contracts and strange agreements. They were all just part of the setup and it was obvious before she even moved to California to be with him.", "What do you mean by strange agreements?", "There were several contracts. One, the pre-nup where she gave up everything to marry him, to have her child back, this is after he abducted Rose. Also she wanted me to move with her because I guess she didn`t feel comfortable being alone with him. She wanted me to go and he had his attorneys write up a contract saying that I couldn`t accuse him of sexual abuse, I couldn`t drink or bring drugs on the property. He basically wanted me to sign something making me look like a terrible person. And I refused. Absolutely not.", "Eric Dubin, what was your take on the verdict? I was stunned.", "Oh, Nancy. I don`t know. When I heard that they were hung on Hamilton, I knew it was going to be acquit and I told Holly to brace herself for it. But with no disrespect to this jury, they worked hard.", "Eric. Eric. Eric. Wait a minute. Did you see that juror last night on LARRY KING LIVE? Larry asked him a question and instead of answering the question, the guy held up a CD, Eric. A CD of his thoughts and recollections and he made the CD during the trial. He said so last night on LARRY KING LIVE, Eric. The guy the whole time had a monetary or pecuniary interest in the outcome of this trial. That`s wrong.", "And the judge is looking into that right now. I have been informed that is being looked into but you know what, Nancy, this is a no- brainer for a non-celebrity. I really think it goes back to, in America, money and fame will buy you freedom. He had six people he confessed to at least. You had her dying the way he wanted her to die. You had a calling card confirming the solicitations. This should have been a no-brainer. And I`m dumbfounded.", "How many people ...", "But Nancy, let me say this, I am going to take this guy down in July. This is not over. It may be a la O.J. and it may not be what we wanted but I`m going to prove him to be a murderer in the civil court and July 7 is going to be the day.", "We are taking a quick break. With me is Holly Gawron. This is Bonny Lee Bakley`s daughter. Along with her, her lawyer, Eric Dubin. Stay with us.", "I`m going to get a job. I`m broke. Right now I couldn`t buy scraps for a hummingbird. I was a rich man and I`m broke now. So I`m going to go to work. But before that I`m going to go out and do a little cowboying.", "We the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant, Robert Blake, not guilty of the crime of first degree murder of Bonny Lee Bakley.", "Yesterday court watchers were stunned when the not guilty verdict came down in State v. Robert Blake. As you know, Blake on trial for the murder of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley, the mother of his little girl, Rosie. Now according to courtroom testimony, Blake had approached no less than six people to either solicit or discuss the murder of his wife. With us tonight, speaking out, is Bonny Lee Bakley`s daughter, Holly Gawron. Also with her, Eric Dubin. Guys, take a listen to this.", "They couldn`t put the gun in his hand. Circumstantial evidence. There was no GSR, there was no blood on the clothing, there was nothing. Supposition more than evidence.", "But Eric Dubin, there was gunshot residue, there was", "Not only was there both of those, Nancy, there was uncontradicted testimony that the blood would not have left the car no matter who killed Bonny. So the fact that there is no blood means nothing. I really don`t know what went wrong with this juror, where they got lost. Maybe they got caught up in all the facts, lost in the trees and not seeing the forest. I don`t know, Nancy.", "Take a listen to what this juror had to say.", "I never lost hope. Sweetheart, if you live to be a million, you will never in your life meet anyone more blessed than me. I told Barbara Walters G-d has been on my side since I was in the womb and G-d has never left me.", "The circumstantial evidence was flimsy. It tended to be disjointed, it tended to be reliant upon unreliable people that could never connect all the links in the chain.", "OK. So we got to hear from Blake and the juror. Holly, when you hear sounds like that, saying that the evidence was flimsy, seeing Robert Blake jubilant after this \"not guilty\" verdict, what`s your response?", "I think it`s ludicrous, actually. There is no way it could have been anybody else unless they were being informed by Robert Blake exactly when Bonny would be alone in that car and they can come out of nowhere, do their job and get out of there in five minutes. He absolutely did it. There is no doubt. Everything points at him and it`s aggravating.", "Holly, you know another issue that really disturbed me was the way your mom was treated during this. Bonny Lee Bakley was put on trial in front of this jury. She was made out to be one inch short of a hooker. Made out to be soliciting sex, just basically the scum of the earth. That was not true. That was not true. And I can`t imagine someone talking about my mom like that.", "Horrible and it was the very first thing that I saw that morning, after I heard that she had died, I turned on the TV, first thing I saw was her being put into the ambulance and next thing I see is all the Bonny sex scandals and pornography and I was so angry that there`s nothing I can do about it. The stories are out there, that`s what people want to believe and I can`t stop them but I know he did this and I know he`s a coward for sneaking up on a defenseless, unexpecting woman.", "Eric Dubin, how many people exactly did Blake allegedly approach to kill his wife?", "Well, I mean, you`ve got the four that we know of. You`ve got Caldwell, you`ve got him talking to Bonny about wanting to kill her. You`ve got Earl Caldwell`s friend, how much he hated her and wanted her gone, I mean you`re talking really over six people that he had expressed absolute hatred for his wife, Nancy, for his wife and how much he wanted her gone and the big thing that I think is missed by a lot of people is the factor that Rosie played in this that Blake wanted that baby to stay with his daughter Delinah and the only way that baby was going to stay with Delinah was with Bonny out of the picture.", "Holly. Our thoughts and our prayers go out to you. Eric. You are mounting a civil case, correct?", "Yeah. I am going to depose Mr. Blake within the month. We`re set for July 7, and this is not over. I am going to prove Robert Blake murdered Bonny Lee Bakley.", "Eric Dubin, Bakley family attorney and Holly Gawron, Bonny Lee Bakley`s daughter. Thank you to both of you for being with us and our prayers and thoughts are with you, Holly.", "Thank you.", "Thank you, Nancy.", "Now, as we go to break, to trial tracking. Scott Peterson on his way to San Quentin`s death row. San Quentin sits on the same bay where Peterson dumped the body of his murdered wife Laci and their baby boy, Conner. Peterson now has plenty of time to decide between the gas chamber or lethal injection. His victims Laci and Conner never had that luxury.", "I don`t foresee him become a Ted Bundy or anything like that. I think he`ll go to his grave with his mouth tightly sealed, like he has all along.", "Scott Peterson went in and he immediately sat on the bunk looking at the wall of the cell. He then -- the officer said, so Scott, I guess you want to plan to lie down and take a nap now. Scott looked over at the officer from the seated position and said, man, I`m just too jazzed to even think about sleeping. And then again began to stare off into the emptiness of the cell as the metal door then slammed shut, locking him behind it and the staff then walked away.", "You are seeing a live shot of San Quentin. Of course, no two murder cases are alike and neither are murder victims. Bonny Lee Bakley and Laci Peterson both in California, both married, both new moms and both with husbands accused of their murder but still worlds apart in the way they were portrayed in front of a jury. Tonight, in New York, defense attorney Jason Oceans (ph). In Tampa, defense lawyer Joey Piscopo (ph). In New York, former prosecutor Lisa Pinto and psychotherapist Caryn Stark. But first, let`s go to Vernell Crittendon, he`s in San Quentin and he was with Scott Peterson as he went to death row. Welcome sir. Thank you for being with us.", "Nancy. Good evening. It`s nice to be with you.", "Sir, what can you tell me about today? I just heard you say that Scott Peterson said he was jazzed. Now doesn`t that mean excited and happy.", "I don`t believe that was the meaning at all. I think really what he was trying to express was that he was just full of adrenaline and the whole emotion of this move to death row was something that he wasn`t ready just to lay down and go to sleep.", "Sir. Can you tell me, is it true that he has already received fan mail from women that want to marry him?", "Actually I was checking on it today to see the status of it. He`s been receiving mail, though, for weeks. Of course, we have been returning that mail because he has not been a prisoner of the State of California, but as of today he is and so I was checking in and found there was about three dozen phone calls we have received already from women that are expressing support from Scott Peterson. Two of them actually indicated to our staff that their purpose for calling was marriage.", "OK. You`re kidding.", "I wish I was.", "He`s already gotten marriage proposals?", "Many of the death row inmates get married after they get on death row to the women they marry.", "Incredible. It is incredible to me. Sir, tell me about a normal day for a death row inmate at San Quentin.", "Well, I don`t know if we would call it normal but what the inmates will be experiencing is they start in the morning when they are served their breakfast and then they eat all of their meals in their cell alone, all inmates are alone in their cells and in their cells there are about 41 sq. ft of space. The inmates, particularly during this period that Scott Peterson is in, which will probably last about four to eight weeks, they will be involved with showering alone, they go out to exercise in a small enclosure that we built, and they will exercise in that area alone. They have no interaction with other inmates. The only direct contact that they will have with other human beings will be members of our staff. Until we are able to identify a compatible group of death row inmates that he will now assimilate into that community and there will be 70 to 90 death row inmates. We divide them into six groups. We call them exercise yard groups, and therefore we will look to see which of these groups, looking at the makeup of Scott Peterson, that he will best assimilate into and once we put him into that -- introduce him to that group, he understands that these will be his friends for life.", "Sir, let me take it from the top. You say that they all eat their food alone in their cell, right?", "Well, that is correct. For the rest of his life.", "Well we want to know what do they have for breakfast lunch and dinner? We all want to know about the menu.", "Well, we actually have a dietitian here in the Department of Corrections and they eat the same meal that all the other inmates eat, so they have a balanced meal. The FDA says that a human being needs about 2900 calories of intake per day and we see that our inmates receive that through the three balanced meals. They eat two hot meals and one sack lunch. For example, today, for breakfast, he had pancakes and sausage, juice, coffee. Tomorrow -- for lunch ...", "That sounds pretty good to me, Vernell. I didn`t have anything for breakfast but a cup of coffee.", "Unfortunately I was standing out at the east gate of the main prison with a group of media and nor did I eat any breakfast. But the inmate had his breakfast ...", "Pancakes and sausage. OK. Let`s move along to lunch.", "Well, lunch he gets a sandwich, fruit, they had a little sack of cut carrots or celery and carrots, they`ll also have a powdered drink that will be in there so they can take that powdered drink, mix it in a cup of water and they will also have a Kool-Aid type drink to drink with their sack lunch. And then for dinner this evening he had a green tossed salad, he had a couple slices of roast turkey, he would also have mashed potatoes, he also had some steamed carrots and he had a slice of cake for dessert.", "Next question. You said his cell was 41 feet square. Was that what you said?", "Forty-one sq ft is the size of the cells at San Quentin.", "We are taking a quick break, everybody. We are talking about Scott Peterson behind bars tonight in San Quentin. As you know, we here at NANCY GRACE want desperately to help solve unsolved homicides. Tonight, take a look at Edward Heduraga (ph). In January 2004, he was stabbed to death in his home in Sacramento, California. What a smile! Age 17. If you have any information on Edward Heduraga, please call the Carol Sun Carrington (ph) Foundation, 1-888-813-8389, please, help us.", "Hi, everybody, I`m Thomas Roberts. It`s time now to get you up to speed with your Headline Prime Newsbreak. The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected without comment a last minute appeal by the parents of Terri Schiavo which would have stopped the removal of her feeding tube. Schiavo`s parents have argued their daughter`s religious freedom and due process rights were violated. Schiavo`s feeding tube is scheduled to be removed tomorrow. Florida lawmakers are trying to push through legislation that would prevent that move. An all-star lineup appeared before a congressional committee today. The lawmakers are looking into steroid use in professional baseball. Former slugger Mark McGwire delivered an emotional statement to the committee saying he will not name players who abuse the performance enhancing drugs. The FAA says that within a decade more than one billion people will be flying each year in the U.S. That`s almost double the current annual number of passengers, but the FAA says it will be ready for that dramatic growth in air traffic. And that is the news for now. I`m Thomas Roberts. We take you back for more of NANCY GRACE.", "Very calm, cool, nonchalant, polite, arrogant, thinks he`s smarter than everybody. And that`s how he acted yesterday.", "Welcome back, everybody. I am Nancy Grace and I want to thank you for being with us tonight. This week we have seen stunning verdicts all across the country. Of course, the Robert Blake \"not guilty.\" We`ve seen the death penalty sentence imposed on Scott Peterson and joining us tonight in addition to our fantastic legal panel, with me is Vernell Crittendon from San Quentin. Sir, thank you again for being with us. So many people have so much interest in what is to become of Scott Peterson now. We already have a clue. There has been a 120 page motion for new trial alleging everything from juror misconduct to legal grounds for reversal. But behind bars what will happen with Scott Peterson? Do you think, sir, he will be a target for attacks by other inmates?", "Well, I think we have to look at that as a possibility in responsibly administrating over this population. I do not believe, though, that we will find that individuals on death row will want to do -- harbor ill will due to his commitment offense. I rather think it is due to the high notoriety that he has received that some individuals on death row may see this as an opportunity to make a reputation for themselves so they will got out and try to attack Scott Peterson.", "Yes. Well, the reality is, Vernell Crittendon, is that they`re all murderers on death row. That is the only way in this country you can get the death penalty and there are about 641 of them I believe and they`re there for a long time. They`re your guests in the big house for about 17 to 20 years before the execution goes down. Is that correct?", "Yes, in my copious free time I actually went down our list about eight months ago and counted all of the inmates that have been there over 19 years and there were 106 I counted.", "Holy moly. Man. With us tonight in addition to Mr. Vernell Crittendon who is joining us from San Quentin. He is the public information officer. Got an all-star panel lined up. You know, Lisa Pinto, this guy, Scott Peterson, is going to have a choice of gas chamber or lethal injection. Now, on the other hand, Robert Blake walks free. And I think a lot of it has to do with the way the victim was portrayed. Specifically the way Bonny Lee Bakley was treated in court and the judge let it happen.", "You make a good point, Nancy, and I think this was an emotional verdict, the Blake verdict. The jurors weren`t invested in Bonny Bakley the way they were in Laci Peterson. Everybody loved Laci`s smile. The jurors in that case cried over the photos. You didn`t see that in the Blake case. Rather, if anything, you had more evidence in the Blake case. You had four people who said this man wanted to kill his wife and was determined to kill his wife. Lack of forensics didn`t bother the Peterson jury, but it did this jury. So I think jurors are emotional, they don`t set aside their personal prejudice and I think you had a foreperson who was hostile to the prosecution, who wasn`t that attentive during summation and you also look at the fact that you had another juror who had sat on murder trials before.", "Right.", "Maybe he wanted more, Nancy. I don`t know.", "Right. And Joe Piscopo (ph), what about that juror that I met on the airwaves last night on the LARRY KING SHOW. Larry asked him a question, Joe, you would have died, the guy held up a CD and said you can get this online at my Web site and blurted out his Web site before Larry could do anything about it. He`s already got a CD of his thoughts on sale. Hello.", "I don`t think the focus here is on the victims. I don`t think how the jury made the decision is on that. Let`s look at the defendants, the people on trial.", "Hey, I just asked you about the CD and the juror.", "Well, you know, so what, he has a", "He has a pecuniary interest in the trial?", "What about Strawberry Shortcake? She wanted to hang Scott Peterson right on the courthouse steps.", "Yeah, well she`s not trying to sell a", "We don`t know that.", "Well, she hasn`t come out with one, and she had a press conference. Jason Oceans (ph), that`s grounds for -- But you know, the state, when the state loses and gets an acquittal, Jason Oceans, they don`t have the same grounds of appeal that the defense has. Explain.", "Well, first I just want to touch what you`re talking about, about the celebrity juror. I think Joe should really hit on that a little bit and you`re probably right in addressing it. People have agendas these days and they`re looking to get out there just no different than anyone else. They look at this and view this as their time on these cases and their moment and that`s why they`re ready to go ahead and perhaps profit from it but unfortunately we don`t have any other system to work with and we`re going to have to deal with the system that we have.", "Hey, hey, hey, wait. There`s the commerce clause in the constitution that says you cannot impinge on someone`s right to make a buck. But the reality is you can`t sell cocaine, you can`t be a hooker, you can`t sell dope on a schoolyard and jurors should not be able to profit off a murder case. Quickly to Caryn Stark. I`m going to come right back to you. Karen, we need a shrink. Why was Bonny Lee Bakley so maligned? Look, the woman had a nudie site. So she gets the death penalty?", "Well, I think that`s what they did -- you`re right, Nancy, that`s part of what happened. That defamation of her character which was outrageous combined with his celebrity really led to him getting away with murder. That`s what it seems like to me.", "You know, back to you, Jason Oceans.", "That`s our job.", "I know -- that`s what I was about to ask you. I know it`s acceptable in court to malign the victim who can no longer speak for themselves, but is it ethical, is it moral, look, you`re not in court right now, you can give an honest answer.", "I`m going to give you an honest answer. I`m going to tell you that your job is to defend your client as best as you can and to force the prosecution to prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt and if a jury doesn`t find it that way, that means that the defense did their job as best as they could and if it just so happens that the character of the victim comes to be tried, well, that sometimes works in your defense.", "But Jason, I think in this case, Nancy, it wasn`t just the victim they didn`t like. They didn`t like the witnesses. They had a real problem with the drug use of the two lead prosecution witnesses. You have jurors, one of them who worked in an AA center, another who was sued by a drunk, another who said he was against drugs. I think this was pivotal too. They had a distaste for the entirety of the prosecution`s case.", "Joey Piscopo?", "You`ve got to look at the gunshot residue. He had five particles on his hand, but when they test fired the actual weapon almost 2,500 particles were left on the hand of the technician. So the jury foreman told you, there was no way to put the gun in his hand. It wasn`t Bonny Lee Bakley.", "Joe. Guess what? He also had the opportunity to wash his hands. He went in the bathroom. It`s a miracle there were even five particles left. But wait, before you start fighting with me about gunshot residue, before we got to break, I want to go back to Vernell Crittendon. Elizabeth, do I still have Vernell with me?", "Yes, I`m here.", "Sir, question. Back to the other murder trial we`re talking about tonight, the Peterson case. What was Peterson`s demeanor when he came to San Quentin today?", "Well, he tried to mask as if he was very confident but you could clearly see that he had this veil of uneasiness as you would see him smiling, attempting to greet or staff with a \"good morning,\" a \"how are you?\" but he was very, very nervous as he came in. He was also very meek in the way that he would address us with his tone of voice when he was responding to our direct questions.", "Mr. Crittendon, if somebody behind bars at San Quentin wants to write a book, do they get paper and pencil and all of that?", "They would have the paper and pencil but they cannot publish the book and profit from the crimes that they or other inmates have been involved in. So they can write a book, but the book cannot be about their crimes.", "Vernell, yeah, you know what? Shocker.", "Yes?", "The Son of Sam laws that say someone cannot profit from their crimes has been reversed and there`s a new substitute in California that may help exactly what you`re saying and I hope that`s true. With me, Vernell Crittendon. He`s the public information officer with San Quentin State Prison. Sir. Thank you for your time.", "I appreciate talking with you this evening, Nancy.", "Thanks, sir. Quick break, everybody. Stay with us.", "Our family is going to make it. We`re stronger because of this. And Scott got what he deserved.", "He was taken into custody without incident and transported to the law enforcement center. Further investigation revealed that Couey had been in Augusta two days and was leaving today for Tennessee.", "After three long weeks are we any closer to finding nine-year- old Jessie Lunsford. Tonight, from Homosassa, Florida, Jessie`s dad, Mark Lunsford. But first to CNN`s Susan Candiotti in Augusta Georgia, where Couey was picked up earlier today. Susan, welcome. What can you tell me, friend?", "Well, what just happened tonight is that he wrapped up almost four hours of questioning by investigators both from the Citrus County Sheriff`s Office and the FBI. Remember, John Couey is still at this time being called a person of interest in this case. He is being held here. He is under arrest on some probation violations, essentially for leaving Florida without telling police. But they spent a lot of time with him, he did not have a lawyer, he answered all of their questions and police are saying he was cooperative throughout. Here`s what happens next. He will make a court appearance tomorrow, presumably an initial court appearance on those probation violations and the issue of extradition might come up at that time. Will he fight it or won`t he? We don`t know. That would bring him back to Florida. And there is a good chance that questioning might resume as well in the morning, Nancy.", "Hey, Susan, let me clue you in on something. I`ve done some - - many extradition hearings. They take about five minutes. So even if this guy fights extradition, it will happen, Susan, whether an inmate agrees to the extradition or not. It just takes longer if they don`t go ahead and agree to it. Hey, Susan, question. I know he`s a registered sex offender but do we know what his original crime was?", "Well, he has a slew of crimes, actually, a very long record. More than two dozen arrests over a three decade period. Now some of them are for minor crimes, burglary, larceny, that kind of thing, but also a convicted sex offender. Back in 1991.", "What`s he doing out?", "Well, that`s a question that we always ask in cases like this but Nancy, here is what I think is particularly interesting. This Couey was able to vanish more than once, at least two or three times from police. Remember, they tried to find him initially back in Florida as they were tracking down all convicted sex offenders. He managed to get away as you might recall after using a fake name to buy a bus ticket and head out of town to Savannah, Georgia. Why Savannah? Well, my sources tell me that according to his relatives, whenever things would get hot or he wanted to get out, that`s where he would go. Well after spending time at a homeless shelter there, as you recall, police interviewed him there but had no legal way to hold him and so he left. They put out the publicity, his name, and within 24 hours, don`t you know, listen to this, at a Salvation Army shelter here in Augusta, Georgia, it turns out he had been there two days but because of the publicity and putting his name out, a very alert worker this morning woke up and followed her normal required routine, which is to check for outstanding warrants with local authorities and also to check the Internet for any national news that might be of interest. That`s when his name and photograph popped up. She recognized his photograph. She called police, but Nancy, he had already left the shelter. Nevertheless, police were able to find him a couple of blocks away and he came in without any resistance at all.", "Well, Susan Candiotti, you just cleared up so much so succinctly. Don`t move friend. Let me quickly move to Mark Lunsford. This is Jessica`s dad, who has visited with us many, many nights. Mark. Thank you for being with us. We`re still hoping, we`re still praying for you and for Jessie. Did you know this guy, this John Evander Couey guy?", "No, ma`am, I didn`t. I`ve never seen him before. I didn`t recognize his picture or his name.", "So how close was he to your home? To your parents` home?", "I`m standing here looking at his house. You can see our house -- from our front porch.", "Mark. What have you heard the cops took out of his home? They took some things from his home for forensic testing. What was it?", "Well, what I was told was that it wasn`t anything that belonged to Jessie, it was just some items that they had some interest in.", "Do you know what they were?", "No, honey, I sure don`t.", "Question. At any time, did you have any idea there was a registered sex offender living right under your nose?", "I didn`t know that there was one right across the street from us. I did know there were some living in the area behind me a couple streets over and down the road. I think there`s about 17 in the Homosassa area.", "Let me go back to Susan Candiotti. She is joining us tonight from Augusta and laying out very plainly to us how Couey was captured. So he is still behind bars tonight. He was question for four hours. Susan, do we have any idea what was taken from his home? My ears perked up when I heard they took things for forensic testing, Susan.", "That`s right. No, my sources have not revealed what was taken from the home but my sources also tell me that other items for testing were taken from a car at that home. It is not John Couey`s car but a car there as well. And so waiting for those test results, of course, is very crucial here. Remember, he is not being called a suspect at this time and so for all we know he may be cleared. That`s what we have yet to find out.", "Yeah. You know what, Susan? That`s a really good point because remember, everybody thought Richard Allen Ricci was the perfect suspect for Elizabeth Smart? And he was. But he wasn`t the perpetrator. On the hand, they called Scott Peterson a person of interest, too. So we`ll see where it lands. Susan Candiotti, thank you friend.", "You`re welcome.", "And to Mark Lunsford, our prayers are with you, sir.", "Thank you.", "Everybody, as we head to break, today in Atlanta, 1000s paid tribute to superior court Judge Roland Barnes. He was remembers after last Friday`s fatal courthouse shooting. Barnes was on the bench in court with his boots on when he was shot.", "Today we gather to remember with gratitude the life and celebrate the life of Roland Barnes. Claudia, you and your family knew him as a loving husband, devoted father, beloved grandfather. We knew him and his colleagues here in robes knew him as a true and faithful servant to the people of Georgia.", "We are standing by to determine whether the death penalty will be announced by the Atlanta Fulton County district attorney. Deputy Sergeant Hoyt Teasley`s funeral tomorrow. Court reporter Julie Brandau`s yesterday. Today, mourners came to the funeral to pay their respect. Local news for some of you coming up next. But we`ll be right back. Remember, live coverage of Michael Jackson tomorrow, three to five on Court TV.", "Nine-year-old Jessie Lunsford went missing three weeks ago tonight. Take a look at Jessie. Still with us tonight, Mark Lunsford, Jessie`s father. He`s joining us from Homosassa, Florida. Mark, if you could speak out to Jessie tonight, what would you tell her?", "Just keep praying baby. Daddy`s trying, and always remember, Daddy loves you this much and nobody will come between us.", "Mark, you haven`t given up, have you?", "No. I haven`t and I won`t. Jessie`s coming home. I just don`t know when.", "Do you feel that in your heart? Have police led you to believe that?", "It wasn`t the police that led me to believe that. It`s just the hope and the faith that I have.", "Well, sir we are standing by and hoping to help you any way we can.", "I know you are.", "Thank you, Mr. Lunsford, for being with us.", "Thank you. Thank you very much.", "I want to thank all of my guests tonight. My friend and colleague Jason Oceans (ph) in New York, Joey Piscopo (ph), trial lawyer out of Florida, Lisa Pinto, former prosecutor, psychologist Caryn Stark weighing in. Vernon Crittendon joining us from San Quentin, and earlier, Holly Gawron and Eric Dubin. Of course, Susan Candiotti with CNN and Mark Lunsford. But my biggest thank you is to you for being with us tonight and inviting all of us in your home. Coming up, headlines from around the world. I`m Nancy Grace signing off for tonight. I`ll see you right here tomorrow night eight o`clock sharp Eastern. As we say good night, Elizabeth (ph), let`s go out with a shot of nine-year-old Jessie. Let`s see her bedroom. Like so many bedrooms, she`s got her dolls and her stuffed animals, but Jessie`s bedroom still empty. Good night, friends.", "Hello, I`m Mike Galanos and here`s your Headline Prime Newsbreak. California`s San Quentin State Prison got its newest death row inmate today. Scott Peterson arrived after a transfer from San Mateo County Jail and in a few minutes we`ll bring you comments from a prison spokesman about some odd remarks Peterson made on his arrival. You want to stick around for that. Grammy-winning hip hop artist Lil Kim has been found guilty of lying to a federal grand jury investigating a shooting near a Manhattan radio station that took place when here entourage crossed paths with a rival hip hop group. That was back in 2001. One person was injured. She faces up to 20 years behind bars. And a man`s in custody for allegedly plotting foul play against the family of talk show host David Letterman. You`ll get details on what police say he was planning to do. We`ll have that and all the days news, Erica Hill will join me for PRIME NEWS TONIGHT. 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{"id": "CNN-397720", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-04-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/16/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Small Business Loan Program Exhausts Funds; Small Businesses Struggle to Stay Open", "utt": ["Some more sobering news on the economy this morning. And I'm sure we don't have to tell many of you sitting at home watching this, but here's the number. Another 5.2 million Americans filed new unemployment claims just in the last week. This in addition to 16 million Americans that filed for unemployment in the three weeks prior. Those numbers, Poppy, just off the charts.", "Yes, I mean, it erases all of the gains, job gains, in the last 12 years since the great recession. All of this comes as small business -- the small business administration's loan program, right, Paycheck Protection Act, that is about to run out of money within a few hours. Let's go to our congressional reporter, Lauren Fox, on The Hill. So they're going to have to, lawmakers, agree on a lot more money to fund this. Does it look like they're going to be able to do that soon?", "Well, they've been trying to work on this for about a week, Poppy, but, of course, today we expect that funding to finally run out. And that, of course, is going to put more pressure on Democrats and Republicans to come together. Now, what I'm told is that there have been negotiations between the Treasury secretary and Chuck Schumer, the leading Democrat in the Senate. We also know that Democratic staff and the Treasury staff are continuing to have these conversations. But, you know, the big issue is that this money ran out in less than two weeks. Remember, all of those technical glitches, remember all the complaints from lenders, concerns about the application process, all of those happened and yet 1.6 million loans have already gone out to businesses. And remember that that is significant because this is an agency that typically might go through about 25 billion, a little more than that, in loans in a year. This is an agency now that is approaching releasing $350 billion worth of loans in just under two weeks. Very significant numbers here. And, of course, we know that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tried last week to increase funding, but Democrats continue to want more changes to other parts of the stimulus program. They want more money for hospitals, more money for state and local governments, all of that is coming as there is increasing pressure, of course, now to increase money for this specific group, Poppy.", "Lauren, Democrats also pushing for more money to be available for businesses that traditionally can't get loans. Is there any progress on these issues or are there two sides still at loggerheads?", "Well, it seems like, you know, what Democrats want is some structural changes to this program. One of the concerns was if you're a small business and you don't have a relationship with an existing lender, a bank or a credit union, it was harder for you to get some of these loans because banks and credit unions, they want to make sure that they are following the law, they want to make sure they know their customers before they offer these loans. Democrats want additional protections. Whether or not they get them, that's a big question.", "All right. We will watch. A lot of businesses waiting on tenterhooks. Lauren Fox, thanks very much. Battling with the fear of completely shutting down, for good. Many small business owners are applying for unemployment themselves along with their employees.", "First, the first time those who are self-employed, freelancers, or gig workers, can apply. Our Vanessa Yurkevich explains.", "Everything was just -- was just prospering and just growing.", "Everything was actually really good.", "Business was great.", "But then, for these small business owners, it all came crashing down. Like many businesses around the country, Covid-19 changed everything.", "It was like apocalyptic. It was the scariest day ever.", "Americans who are self-employed, gig workers, or freelancers can now apply for unemployment. Ana Castillo is one of them. Her family owns a cruise parking lot in Miami. But with no cruises, her income is zero.", "I mean my parents have put blood, sweat and tears into not only coming to this country and like building something for themselves, but, in general, like, Safe Cruise Parking was built from their savings, from every penny they've ever worked for.", "Christina Mickens owns a PR company in Atlanta, and business is slow. As a single mom to a nine-year-old, she's the family's breadwinner. She hasn't heard back about her unemployment and her rainy day fund is drying up.", "Sticking to the bare minimum, I would say by the end of April, maybe first two weeks of May, that that will be gone.", "Kristopher Payne is in the same boat.", "The bills don't stop between now and then. And the money is rapidly running out.", "His gaming shop in North Carolina is a month away from shutting down.", "I applied for the PPP, the idle loan, the grant, and I've also applied for unemployment. Nothing has worked out at this point.", "With the backup in unemployment processing, Payne believes he's weeks away from a check.", "If the unemployment came through, I would be able to turn all of that money into, you know, money that I would use for my business.", "Forty-three percent of small business owners say they have less than six months until they'll close because of Covid-19, according to a survey by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. For some, the pure will to survive could be enough.", "Failing is not something that's in my radar, or even in the back of my mind when it comes to my business. I know I won't be that 40 to 50 percent.", "For others, the wound may be too deep.", "It's not just like the business, it's like the people behind it. And everything that they do to provide a service to you and to make a living for themselves. So I would just say, support your local businesses.", "Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, New York.", "That's heart-breaking, all of those stories, and there are millions of them right now. OK, Vanessa, thank you for that. Ahead for us, U.S. intelligence and national security officials this morning are examining closely the origin of the coronavirus outbreak in China. How Beijing is responding to one possibility is next."], "speaker": ["SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "LAUREN FOX, CNN CONGRESSIONAL REPORTER", "SCIUTTO", "FOX", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "CHRISTINA MICKENS, OWNER, C. 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{"id": "CNN-192975", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2012-9-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/20/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Women's Rights in the Muslim World", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. I'm Christiane Amanpour. On this program, we've often discussed women's rights across the Muslim world. Today a rare opportunity to speak to a true insider, a woman's who's on the front lines of this issue and as an activist actually comes from an unlikely place. Ameerah al-Taweel is not only a privileged princess, she is from Saudi Arabia. Her husband is one of the richest men in the world, Prince al- Waleed bin Talal, and he is also the nephew of Saudi King Abdullah. In a country that is, unfortunately, among the most oppressive for women anywhere in the world, where women can't travel alone, can't drive a car, can't even take a job without the approval of their male guardian, the princess is saying things that the clerics and conservatives in painfully conservative Saudi Arabia don't really want to hear. Princess Ameerah is here in New York to announce a global project, millions of dollars from her foundation to improve economic and job opportunities and also help resolve conflicting religious views. These, of course, are the very problem that gave rise to the Arab Spring of last year and have played into the hands of militant agitators, who have been whipping up the violent protects in the Muslim world over the last week. I'll speak with the princess in just a moment. But first, here's a look at what's coming up later in the program.", "Insider attacks in Afghanistan, record numbers of international troops are the target. But who exactly are the killers? And imagine a world where conflicts are peacefully resolved. Roger Fisher did just that.", "We'll get to that in a bit, but first, Princess Ameerah of Saudi Arabia joins me now, welcome to the program.", "Thank you so much, Christiane, it's an honor to be on your program.", "Well, it's great to have you, particularly right now, because of course, we want to get to the issues that you're passionate about -- women. But you're bringing this bridge-building mission here to New York at a time when the world has been convulsed -- your part of the world -- with these anti-American protests. You know, we've talked about it a lot over the last week. What do you say to people who are using these excuses, these films, these cartoons to act in an inexcusable way?", "Well, it's been very unfortunate that we're witnessing these violent acts among Arab youth towards American representation. And the film, yes, it was offensive. It was wrong. And at the same time, the reaction of violence, killing innocent people who had nothing to do with the film is wrong as well. And two wrongs don't make a right.", "What can you do in terms of the missions that you are trying to start, I mean, this immense amount of money that you and your husband are pouring in and announcing at the Clinton Global Initiative, do you think that that's actually something very timely and can lead to resolving some of this tension?", "Yes. Arabs are frustrated and very specifically young Arabs are frustrated because they have been oppressed for five decades.", "By their own leaders.", "By their own leaders. And now they have the chance to express themselves; they have freedom of speech, and at the same time, there isn't any channels whereby they express their opinions in appropriate manners, like civil society, NGOs, even their own governments, their new governments are not well structured yet. And that's why we're seeing all of these violent acts that are not right, but it's our job to create such channels whereby they can express themselves. Up for Unity is an initiative where it's an uncommon table of world leaders, gathering to create those channels for these young people, not only in the Arab world, but also across all regions. And the mission, Up for Unity, is actually to bridge the gap of hope, faith, opportunity and financial device. And our goal is to reach 100 million people among -- within five years and we're hoping to do so with our partners.", "It's very ambitious goal, but obviously something that's really needed right now. And as I said at the beginning, what we also want to do is focus on something that you're passionate about and right in the middle of, and that is women's rights, not just around the Islamic world, but in your own home country of Saudi Arabia, where, you know, things change at the speed of molasses, which means very, very slowly. What do you say to the perennial question of why can't women drive?", "It's definitely a question that I've been asked a lot. I don't know why. It's -- I think it's a very easy decision. And it is for the government. A lot of people are saying this is a social issue. Not many political issues are right of, you know, 40 percent of the Saudi society are females. And you're taking their right to drive, saying it's a social issue. Well, education was a social issue. And a lot of people in Saudi Arabia were against women getting educated. Yet the decision was made. And among five years, we see a lot of Saudi women are --were in the `70s, of course, were into -- plugged into education and now you're talking about 57 percent of university graduates are women.", "They are --", "And it's very impressive and it does need leadership and it needs a decision taken by the officials in my country.", "And do you think that they should take that decision?", "Of course.", "Do you think it's time for reform? Can reform happen in Saudi Arabia, because what we're told is everything has to move so slowly because you know, the clerics are so powerful and the waves (ph) of conservatism is so powerful.", "Conservatives have an amazing lobby. They know how to voice out their opinions. Us women, not yet. As they are against something, they (inaudible) at the same time, they use social media at the same time. They walk into official offices of the government at the same time. And they state their opinions. Now for us women, yes, we are very educated. We know exactly what we want, but we're not organized.", "Why not? Why don't people write op-eds? I mean, the few, you just said 57 percent of college graduates are women. Only 15 percent, though, of the workforce is women. So they haven't got in there. But there are some very powerful women in Saudi Arabia. Why are people shy to write the op-eds and to organize, even that 15 percent?", "There are a lot of women who are doing so. But the problem is it's not uniting together. And doing it at the same time. And we're trying to do so with the foundation we're creating, the First Women Leaders Network, in Saudi Arabia, where you have women leaders from different sectors. And they get together; they set priorities and they set how to tackle these priorities and reach their voices to the right people. And this is a step that I think would create a positive change.", "You're being very open. You're a member of the royal family. Is that a risk for you? Do you get pushback, blowback?", "I received some criticisms and I do get some of those negative feedbacks. But at the same time, I don't represent all Saudi women. There are Saudi women who are against such a movement. I represent maybe a sector of young Saudi women and the population of Saudis, 60 percent are under the age of 30.", "So that's the majority.", "Yes. And when you're saying, you know, in a slow speed, that's not their speed. They're used to --", "-- globalized and they want things to happen quickly and they want them to happen now.", "But that, you see, of course, I understand the aspiration, but that rubs right against the ruling authorities and the clerics. And what I think is so interesting is that the clerics are fundamental in people's civic life, in people's home life. And the idea of this conservatism starts right at home. I want to play you something from a young Saudi activist in that age group that you talk about, Manal al-Sharif, who was, you know, posted the driving demonstration then was in trouble for it, and talked about how in Saudi Arabia women, from the minute they're born to the minute they die, have to have a male guardian. Listen to what she told me.", "So I'm treated as a minor in every single aspect of my life. I need to get a male permission to study, to work, to get my papers, to leave the country.", "And who -- which males' permission?", "If I'm not married, it's my father.", "And what if you have no father and no husband?", "It moves to my kids, for example.", "Your kid is your guardian?", "Yes. So it's -- can you imagine, you give birth to your own guardian?", "It's pretty dramatic, Princess.", "It is. But --", "(Inaudible) fight that? Or how to make it change?", "Well, it's all --", "In modern Saudi Arabia?", "-- it all starts with civil rights. So far there isn't any written civil rights for Saudi women as citizens of Saudi Arabia. And the Ministry of Justice said that they're working on it. However, it's -- you know, rights are not given; they're taken. And it's up to us women to gather, state what we want to happen with our civil rights. She's talking about male guardian. That's not our only problem. Some kind --", "That's one of the problems.", "Yes, with custody battles and you're a woman, your children get taken away from you. A lot of Saudi women suffer from that. My own mom suffered from that with us. So it touches every woman's life. And I think it's up to us to move and to ask for it. The government is moving and it's making a lot of reforms. But we need to move as well as civil society and as NGOs.", "The problem is that when you do, you can get arrested or thrown in jail, perhaps not you as a member of the royal family, but some of the activists do. So here, what will create that courage, do you think? Where does the hope lie?", "This is the thing. We're not going to protest in the streets, where we could be against any -- I'll give you an example, with conservatives. With women working in lingerie shops, they didn't like that. And then the Minister of Labor said, you have -- to all of the companies of lingerie shops -- said there are 12 months to hire women or we'll shut you down. They went, found out what's wrong with that law. And they filed a lawsuit against the government. They all lobbied together, wrote op-eds at the same time, did research and studies, through politically right means to approve and to showcase their own point of view, that this is not right that women shouldn't be working in lingerie shops. And you know what, the decision got postponed. Now if us women did the same thing and lobbied in the right way, we would can do it as well.", "So are you going to work on that, sort of organizational level?", "It's not just me. I'm so happy, because I was just at a women's gathering in Saudi Arabia. You have women doctors gathering. You have women engineers, who are starting the first engineer council for women. You have a lot of women starting their own lobbies, and it's about time that we get together and we voice out our concerns, just like the conservatives do, through democratic means, where we don't put ourselves in the face of danger, like you said.", "And just to move again to the sort of bridge-building aspect, your husband, the foundation, has put a huge amount of money into the new Islamic art wing of the Louvre. And just last year a new Islamic art wing was opened here at the Metropolitan museum in New York. Do you think that, as we see sort of the world kind of in flames, that these art and cultural methods have any benefit towards building bridges?", "Of course. Art is a universal language. Anyone who sees art or an art piece and learns more about it, it could change their own stereotype about a certain religion or a certain culture. And this Islamic arts hall holds more than showcases 3,000 pieces and holds more than 1,000 Islamic arts paintings and sculptures and lots of art pieces. They have been hidden away from the world at the Louvre storages for more than two decades. And President Jacques Chirac started this idea of having Islamic art hall, and he got a lot of people on the table, including the foundation.", "Princess Ameerah, thank you very much indeed for joining me.", "Thank you so much. It's been a pleasure to be on your show.", "And we'll be watching your efforts, very important ones in this regard.", "Thank you. Thank you so much.", "And after a break, we'll turn to Afghanistan, where insider attacks on international forces are at an all-time high. The who, what, why, when we return. But first, take a look at this picture. Those are women in Saudi Arabia, watching and taping their countrywoman, Sara Atta, competing in the women's 800 meter heat at the London Olympics back in August. Although she finished last, Atta became the first female athlete to represent Saudi Arabia in Olympic track and field. 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{"id": "CNN-342775", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-06-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/15/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Apple Prepares New Security Feature; New Link Will Slash Journey Time To O'Hare Airport.", "utt": ["For the first time ever scientists have watched a giant black hole rip apart what could be called an unlucky star. Take a look at how it happened as scientists on earth saw it as they watched via infrared telescopes and radio waves. This is how an artist rendered the event. It took a decade to play out. Nearly 150 million light years from earth, the black hole, 20 million times more massive than the sun. Stretched the star into a disk of dusty material. Wow. The star was gobbled up by the black hole. The other half was spit out. Those images would have thrilled, Stephen Hawking, the late physicist spent his entire career imagining what they must be like. Now his voice will travel to one. At speed of light I should say. On Friday, a powerful antenna in Spain will beam a recording of Hawking's voice into space, the destination, the nearest black hole. It will be -- it will only take, 3,500 years to get there. The gesture is part of a burial ceremony. At Westminster abbey where Hawking's ashes will be deterred between Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton. Hawking's died in March at age 76 years old. Apple is about to close an iPhone security loophole. So that its users have better privacy protection, but doing so will stop law enforcement from being able to hack into lock phones to get information that it needs for criminal investigations. Our Samuel burke explains.", "The way this is going to work, is Apple is disabling, data transferred through this port, one hour after you last lock your phone this will prevent hacking tools law enforcement buy from third parties, from accessing, iPhones and iPad, though just to note this won't stop you from being able to charge your phone. Now Apple is trying to emphasize this will help users defend against hackers and identity thieves. And Apple says quote, we have the greatest respect for law enforcement and we don't design our security improvements to frustrate their efforts to do their jobs. But this change absolutely will frustrate law enforcement agencies that use these hacking tools to get into Apple devices and could reignite tensions between Apple and governments around the world that want technology companies like Apple to include, back doors. Official ways to get around encryption and other security measures. The most famous case was when the U.S. wanted to get into an iPhone belonging to one of the attackers in the San Bernardino shooting in 2015. The FBI and Apple ended up in court, when the FBI demanded Apple special software so it could unlock that iPhone. Apple didn't end up building that software though, because the FBI purchase the tool from a third party that let it hack in to the device. And this practice has spread, rapidly. With law enforcement agencies around the world. Buying devices that can pull information off a locked iPhone. Tools that may not work anymore after Apple's new update its devices.", "All right, a Chicago company has picked a, a Chicago, I should say has picked the company owned by Tesla founder Elon Musk to build a futuristic transport system. The privately funded Chicago express loop will link downtown Chicago and O'Hare airport. This video from the Boring Company shows what it is supposed to look like. Electric cars will whisk passengers through tunnels at speeds of 240 kilometers an hour. It should get passengers to and from the airport in just 12 minutes. You know that drive -- it is a long drive. That is quite an improvement. It is four times faster than other routes. In the meantime, the Boring Company released this video from one of its tunnel under Los Angeles. It shows that Tesla model X riding in rails inside it as part of the test project. Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic on his historic voyage. He jotted down his impressions of discoveries. A copy of these letter wand up at the Vatican. But it was stolen, and then replaced with a forgery. Now the original copy is back with its rightful owner. Delia Gallagher has this story from Rome for us.", "A 500-year-old copy of a letter written by Christopher Columbus in 1493 to the king and queen of Spain. Stolen from the Vatican library has finally been returned. The letter was found in the United States. And U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Callista Gingrich, brought it back to its rightful owners following a seven-year investigation. In 2011, a researcher here, at the Vatican library thought that the letter might be a fake. He tipped off the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Who told the Vatican and that open up an investigation which led to a man in Atlanta who had bought the manuscript in 2004 from an art dealer in New York and paid $875,000. And his widow once contacted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security agreed to return the letter to the Vatican. Jamie McCall from the Department of Homeland Security was part of the investigative team.", "We identified for her that there had been a forgery in the Vatican library. And that she was possibly in possession of the original. And we had experts look at the two documents together. And once we determined that, you know, she was in fact, in possession of it. Again we negotiated the return of the document.", "Letter translated into Latin, describes Columbus, impressions of the Caribbean Island he had seen for the first time. The investigation is ongoing. And the Department of Homeland Security can't comment on who might have done this. The guilty party is a mystery. But the intricate stitching around the letter has given Timothy Janz of the Vatican library a clue.", "Probably begun by a (inaudible). You know, sometimes we do (inaudible) -- like that. I doubt very much that it was a researcher who was reading could possibly do this.", "Janz said, there was hardly any security at the library until about 10 ten years ago.", "Fairly confident that something like this couldn't happen today.", "Whoever was responsible for the theft didn't have the last word. A piece of history has been restored to the world. Delia Gallagher, CNN, Rome.", "Delia, thank you for that report. And thank you for being with us for CNN Newsroom. I'm George Howell at the CNN Center in Atlanta. 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{"id": "CNN-303192", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-01-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/15/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus Will End May 2016", "utt": ["For pretty much 100 years, some version of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus has entertained crowds and bid top tents across America, but not so much longer. Loved by many but fiercely criticize by animal rights groups. The owners of the Ringling Brothers circus have said they are pulling up the stakes for the very last time in May. Fredericka Whitfield explains.", "It's the end of the road for the greatest show on earth. In just four months, the curtain falls on the one and only Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, an iconic road show that defined the circus experience for generations of children. In the end, CEO, Kenneth Feld, said the circus was simply too expensive to produce. His family has owned the show for the past 50 years. But ticket sales were declining and the circus's fate was likely sealed last year when it retired the popular elephant show. Feld said then it was inevitable.", "There is a saying, and it has been around for a long time, you can't fight city hall. And we found that's to be the case in this situation.", "For years, the elephants and their dance routines were a big draw for circus fans but not at all popular with animal rights groups which deplored their treatment, and repeatedly criticized, picketed and sued the company for its treatment of animals. In 2011, the circus paid a fine of more than a quarter million dollars for alleged violations of the animal welfare act. And last year, it retired the elephants to a conservation center in Florida. After closure was announced, people for the epical treatment of animals declared victory while admitting it is as against other wild animal exhibitors including marine amusement parks lie Sea World is far from over. The last performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circuit will be on May 21st in Union Dale, New York.", "Something else to remember, Poppy. School kids have been taught a few favorite coin praises linked to circus co-founder PT Barnum (ph) like get the show in the road and throwing their hat into the ring after a candidate for office did just that at a Ringling Brothers circus while announcing he was running for political office. Praises outliving that American past time under the big talk - Poppy.", "Indeed. Fredricka, thank you so much. Coming up, rallies held from Maine to California as Democrats wants to send a big message to Republicans on healthcare.", "You are going to have to worry about millions of people who are standing up, who are fighting back and who demand the day when healthcare will be a right of all people, not just a privilege."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "KENNETH FELD, CEO, RINGLING BROTHERS AND BARNUM AND BAILEY CIRCUS", "WHITFIELD", "WHITFIELD", "HARLOW", "B. SANDERS"]}
{"id": "CNN-96551", "program": "PAULA ZAHN NOW", "date": "2005-8-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/01/pzn.01.html", "summary": "Privacy a Casualty in War on Terror?; Italian Authorities Arrest London Bombing Suspect", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone. Glad to have you with us tonight. Tonight, we deal with national security. Is your privacy about to become a casualty of the war on terror?", "Lesson from London. It's tough to stop a terrorist using a fake name and a phony background. Tonight, the first in our series, scanning, Big Brother watching. How much privacy would you give up to be safe at home? What if your child crossed this border and disappeared without a trace? It happened more than 40 times in the last year.", "I would call it epidemic.", "Why is this town so dangerous for Americans? And from dazzling diva to tabloid target.", "Me and her were playing. And she took it wrong. I took it wrong. And then the 911 people took it wrong.", "Our exclusive interview with Bobby Brown, as he and his wife Whitney Houston tried to ride their reality show back to the top.", "Terror is where we begin tonight, first the latest on the London attacks. Late today, police in South London arrested two men in connection with the failed bombings on July 21. Earlier, Italian authorities charged one of the July 21 suspects with terrorism. So far, investigators haven't been able to tie the failed bombings to the deadly July 7 attacks. And that is anything but reassuring. Here's Matthew Chance.", "London remains a city on edge, police on heightened alert, concerned a third terror cell may be intent on bombing the British capital. Less than a month since more than 50 passengers were killed on the city's transport system, even though the key arrests have been made, people seem to need the reassurance of increased visible security. Police in Italy say the suspected bomber they've now charged with international terrorism had been living in Britain under a false name, is in fact an Ethiopian, Hamdi Ados (ph) Isaac. He earlier identified as Hussain Ahmed Osman of Somalia, the name on his son's British birth certificate. Isaac was arrested in Rome, as co-suspects in Britain were detained in raids across West London. He was traced through cell phone calls, including to Saudi Arabia, where authorities are investigating further links. At least one call was recorded, Italian police matching it to a sample from their British counterparts.", "It's turned out that the voice of the suspect was exactly the same as the voice recording which we received from the Metropolitan Police. So, we were more or less convinced that this was one and the same person.", "Isaac's defense lawyer says he has told police the failed attacks in London on July 21 were meant to scare, not to kill and that he's linked to neither the July 7 bombers, nor the al Qaeda network. That issue is central to the investigation.", "You have to realize that we're confronted here with facts which have to do with what seems to us to be more like an impromptu or informal group, rather than some kind of well-organized terrorist network.", "And while police forensic experts try to determine whether the two London attacks were in fact linked, security analysts say the idea isolated groups carried out separate bombings is provoking concern.", "I think most people would accept, better to have two cells that are connected in some way, because then you have unraveled the whole plot. Than you've got a handle on what is going on, rather than two possible completely different groups of people, both emerging with the same sort of fiendish techniques, both at about the same sort of time, and both with the same sort of aims, but they have developed completely separately. That would suggest that there are other groups of these people gestating, if you like, somewhere within our society.", "And while high-profile police patrols are aimed, at least in part, at easing public concerns, there may also be a last line of defense against a threat authorities here still don't fully understand.", "Matthew Chance joins us now. And we want to more fully understand the arrests of earlier this evening. Two more folks in custody, are they related to any of the other suspects being held?", "Well, according to the police, Paula, they are, yes. They were arrested in south London suburb of Stratham (ph), under the Prevention of Terrorism Act in this country, in connection with the July 21 bombings, bringing to 20 the number of people now held in police custody in connection to those series alone, including of course the four main suspects, the four main suspected bombers -- Paula.", "So, Matthew, are they giving investigators anything that's helpful?", "Well, in terms of the three main suspects, the main bombers that are being held in British custody, they're being interrogated. They're being held at the Paddington Green high- security police station here in Central London. But, Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London police force, are being absolute adamant that they're not going to give a running commentary on what is being talked about in this interrogations. These are still top-secret talks. They say they're preparing a prosecution. And so, all this evidence has to be held in secret at the moment. It's a very different story, as we reporting there, from Italy, where that one suspect is being held by the Italian police there. We're getting all sorts of information trickling out to us about what he believes the attacks were for, who he was or wasn't associated with. It's a very different situation when it comes to that suspect -- Paula.", "Well, we're hoping that all a great assist to investigators who are working around the clock there. Matthew Chance, thanks so much for the update. Appreciate it. Back home here, do you feel like you're being watched, being examined more than ever before? Well, no wonder. After 9/11 and now even more after the London bombings, we have grown use to policeman with automatic weapons, security cameras just about everywhere, our bags being searched. So where it is all headed? Do we need more security or is Big Brother already here? We're looking at that this week in a special \"Security Watch\" series called safe at home. Now, take a look at these numbers from a new CNN/\"USA Today\"/Gallup poll. First, a shocking result. More than half of all of us say that Arab Americans should be singled out for special security checks before getting on planes. What that means, an awful lot of us in the United States favor some kind of racial profiling when it comes to our security. Also, close to 80 percent of us want airport-style security, you know, bag searches, metal detectors, for subways and buses and trains. And 81 percent of us favor sending everyone who goes into office buildings through metal detectors. Looks like a lot of support for tighter security. Here's more of what we can expect from Tom Foreman.", "In the four years since the world came to face greater fears, greater forces, greater security, Lisa Casmer (ph) has accepted one thing above all else.", "The world has changed a lot. It's a difference place to live.", "Living and working near Washington, D.C., she watches America's security revolution up close. And she doesn't always like it.", "I have to worry every time I go anywhere about emptying my pocket and having somebody look at everything that I have and look through my purse. (on camera): Some people say we just have to put up with this and it's worth it.", "To some extent, I definitely agree. But, like I said, I think that there is such a thing as too much, as excessive.", "But jumps forward five to 15 years and security analysts say most Americans will be in for a lot more. Commuting, count on cameras. Experts say the millions of police and private surveillance cameras already at work will be increasingly watched by computers. So, if you circle a government building too many times, license plate recognition could give police instant pictures and a map of everywhere else you have been, then match that with your driver's license, cell phone, Internet and credit records.", "There are some really big gaps in our security.", "Jim Lewis is with the Center For Strategic and International Studies.", "We're seeing some of these things tested for power plants, where cameras will notice if a car is driving around, if someone appears to be in a vehicle and surveilling the plant.", "At some offices and large public places, biometric systems are already becoming more common, scanning eyes or fingerprints to guard access to buildings and especially computers. Sophisticated I.D. badges designed to thwart counterfeiting are also growing in use at work and at schools. And more contain radio tracking devices to record your location every second, again matching your electronic record with any suspicious activity. The use of sophisticated software to do data mining is already something that the private sector is doing. And it will be natural to look for solutions in antiterrorism there as well.", "The biggest challenge is public transportation because it involves so many people moving so rapidly. Today, security is obvious at most hubs, with police sometimes armed with machine guns making their presence known. Bomb dogs, random bags searches. And experts are promoting more of all of this in the name of future safety. In a dozen years, they say, when you enter many train stations, subways or airports, you will walk through built-in biohazard, bomb and weapon detectors. Even highly advanced X-rays that look through your clothing may become cost-effective. No wonder, in the rush to security, privacy experts say American laws, written long before such technology, much also be scrutinized.", "The problem is that there no privacy framework in place that specifies what's going to happen with that data, for which purpose it could be used.", "... electronic data.", "Who will get access to it.", "Still, the Security Industry Association says, while, right now, the nation's security infrastructure is like an unfinished building, with bare beams and wires hanging everywhere, over the next decades, it will be completed. And in the process it will largely disappear. (voice-over): So much so, that they dream of a day when at the airports you will be so thoroughly scanned, identified tracked walking through the building that you'll get right on to your plane. Lisa Casmer can't wait, because right now, the endless of talk of terror and security is unsettling.", "That it definitely makes people more aware.", "And when she turns on the news each evening, though she knows she is safer, she doesn't always feel that way.", "We're starting to see a pattern here.", "Very scary prospect to think about. Tom Foreman joins us now. Tom, I think the bottom line is, we all want to be safe. But I'm not so sure that we're all that comfortable not knowing how our privacy will be protected down the road. Your expert raised the question about who is going to have access to this information. Do we know?", "We don't really know. And even a lot of the people who are behind all of this technology are saying, we really have to look at our laws, because this is technology we never dreamed of. Nobody thought you could connect all of these things instantaneously and pull it up just because somebody drove past your building. That is one of the concerns. Now, on the positive side, they say, so far, we're able to do a lot of this anyway. And a lot of industry is doing this. And horrible things don't see to be happening every day with our private information. But as the country gets concerned about identity theft as this technology gets better, there's a war coming to a head over this whole thing. And you know this one thing, Paula. No matter where you go to school, to work, on the highways, to the airport, to a ball game, you're going to be watched in the future.", "And, of course, the other issue you raised at the very top was the issue of profiling as well, which is a big concern to a lot of folks. Tom Foreman, thank you for walking us into the future. Coming up, a mystery, how could a young American woman just blocks from the U.S. border vanish without a trace?", "I can see the American flag from here.", "Yes, she was not far at all. It's very unfortunate that she didn't make it from such a close distance.", "Stay with us and visit a frightening, lawless no-man's land. 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{"id": "CNN-84516", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2004-5-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0405/11/lad.03.html", "summary": "Today's Talker: Prisoner Abuse Scandal", "utt": ["Sadistic and wanton criminal abuses. A U.S. Army general testifies today on Capitol Hill in the Iraq prison abuse scandal. This is DAYBREAK for Tuesday, May 11. And good morning to you from the CNN global headquarters in Atlanta. I'm Carol Costello. Here are the latest headlines for you now. You've seen the pictures. Now, you can hear from the Army general who documented the abuses. He testifies before the Senate this morning. You can watch it live right here on CNN. Two Russian contractors are missing and believed kidnapped following an attack on their vehicle near Baghdad. One Russian energy contractor was killed in the attack. A company spokesman said he believes they were targeted by mistake. Several people are missing from a civilian convoy that was attacked in western Iraq. It happened today also. The 21-vehicle convoy was heading from Jordan to Baghdad. It was operated by a subsidiary of Halliburton. And smoke rising over Gaza City. You're looking at pictures just in to CNN this morning of an Israeli attack. Palestinians reported at least five people killed, 40 wounded, and Israel confirms six of its troops were killed by a roadside bomb.", "The general who wrote the scathing Pentagon report detailing Iraqi prisoner abuse appears on Capitol Hill this morning. General Antonio Taguba will testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee. It comes as the Pentagon considers whether to release more photos alleging prisoner abuse. In his report, Taguba cited the -- quote -- \"systematic and illegal abuses of detainees.\" He concluded numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses were inflicted on several detainees. CNN, of course, will bring you live coverage of Taguba's testimony this morning. That begins at 9:30 Eastern. Brigadier General Janis Karpinski was responsible for all 12 prisons and prison camps in Iraq. As commander of the 800th Military Police Brigade, she was also responsible for the infamous Abu Ghraib facility. As a result of the abuse scandal, she has been relieved of her command and reprimanded. General Karpinski tells our Aaron Brown that some of her soldiers were just following orders.", "When I looked at those pictures and continue to see those pictures, I don't think that there was anything that was improperly done, because this wasn't something that was a violation of a procedure. This was something they were instructed to do as a completely new procedure. I'm not sure that those MPs had ever been confronted with any instructions like this before.", "So, now we want to know what you think. Our e-mail question of the day: Do you think there will be a scapegoat in the prison abuse scandal? And if so, who? E-mail us your opinions: Daybreak@CNN.com. If you're wondering how this prison scandal may affect the presidential election, we've got new numbers for you this morning. Let's head live to Princeton, New Jersey, and Gallup Poll editor-in- chief Frank Newport. Frank, shall we begin with job approval ratings?", "Indeed we should. I think when an incumbent president is seeking re-election, Carol, that's probably the single most important measure we can look at, and the signs are not good for George W. Bush on that measure. Gallup has been taking job approval ratings since Franklin Roosevelt. We've look at all of the incumbents who sought re- election. None of the five since Truman who have been re-elected ever had job approval ratings below 50 percent at this point in May of their election year. Bush is in that territory right now. He's down three points, job approval 46 percent, Carol. That's the lowest of the administration. And symbolically, if nothing else, for an incumbent president to have a majority disapproving of his performance, which is the case right now, is not a good sign at all in terms of re-election probabilities -- Carol.", "You have more numbers, too: Was the war in Iraq worth it or not? What are the numbers showing on that question?", "Well, the same thing. And, again, this is a critical measure. If you ask me what's the one public opinion measure on the war in Iraq from the American public's perspective that I think is most important, this is it. Was it worth going to war in Iraq? We've been tracking it almost weekly recently. It's been hovering at that 50 percent level, sometimes above, sometimes slightly below. But now, we're down to only 44 percent who say it was worth it, Carol. Notice 54 percent, a majority of Americans, say it was not. In other words, at least at this point, we've got a majority of Americans saying no, they don't think the basic cost benefit of Iraq was worth it at this point. However, I should point out it's not necessarily a direct result of people blaming Rumsfeld or Bush for the prison abuse scandals. We gave them this list in the poll: Who is to blame? And we read the list of the people. Notice that it is the prisoners themselves that are the ones -- excuse me, not the prisoners -- the soldiers themselves, those closest to the action, whom Americans are most likely to blame. That's at the top -- the soldiers, the commanders and what have you. Rumsfeld and Bush are way down near the bottom of this blame list for the prisoner abuses -- Carol.", "Well, tell us about the economy.", "Well, the economy, according to the American public, is not all that great. Now, these data were through last week, so actually even before the Dow cratered, you know, Friday and yesterday. We had Americans telling us they're worried about the direction of the economy. That green line is the percent of Americans who are positive. And as of -- you can see here -- about May 4 down to 43 percent said the economy is getting better, 51 percent worse. So, that's another worry on Americans' plates -- the economy. Carol, sorry to be the bringer of bad news this morning, but I just have to say that Americans aren't in a very positive mood as we tapped into their temperature over the last week.", "But it's a long time until the election, Frank.", "That's true.", "Frank Newport live from Princeton, New Jersey. So, who should shoulder the blame? Next, who is responsible for the prison abuse in Iraq? A perspective from the left and from the right. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "COSTELLO", "BRIG. GEN. 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{"id": "NPR-16767", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2017-08-02", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/08/02/541197452/dow-tops-22-000m-helped-by-apple-shares", "title": "Dow Tops 22,000, Helped By Apple Shares", "summary": "The Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 22,000 Wednesday and has bounced around, as trading continues. Apple shares are lifting the Dow to new heights. The broader S&P 500 Index is down slightly.", "utt": ["The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke through another big milestone today, finishing above 22,000 for the first time in history. The surge comes at a time when unemployment is low and confidence in the economy is high. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.", "President Trump's election last fall was supposed to send the market tanking, but the opposite has happened. The Dow is up more than 20 percent since November 8 and 11 percent so far this year. And the president was quick to take a victory lap this morning after the Dow broke 22,000.", "So we have a lot of things happening that are really great. But again, today the stock market hit the highest level that it has ever been, and our country is doing very well.", "What's driving stocks higher is a matter of speculation. Brad McMillan is chief financial officer at Commonwealth Financial Network. He says the Trump administration may deserve some credit. The focus on deregulation has probably made businesses feel more confident. But mostly, he says, it's just plain old fundamentals. Consumers are upbeat. Corporate profits are strong. The job market is doing well.", "We've seen unemployment drop to levels we haven't seen in a long time. You combine that with low gas prices, a sense that the economy's doing well, as exemplified by the stock market. People are feeling pretty good.", "But Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank, is skeptical about how much credit the White House deserves. He says a Trump bump did occur in the month after the election. For instance, there was a widespread expectation that taxes would be cut. So suddenly demand for municipal bonds, which are tax-free, fell. But now municipal bonds are back up. Ablin says the euphoria has faded because of the gridlock and dysfunction in Washington. He says other factors are driving stocks higher. One is the falling dollar, which is making American goods a lot cheaper overseas.", "Caterpillar, for example, had record earnings, some fantastic earnings this last quarter, a lot of it due to the fact that their business is in the emerging world in Asia. There's a lot of demand over there.", "European and Asian economies have finally rebounded. That's been especially good for the kind of blue chip American companies that do a lot of business overseas such as McDonald's, Boeing and Apple, which just last night recorded a better-than-expected sales forecast. And that is driving the Dow higher. Jim Zarroli, NPR News, New York."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "BRAD MCMILLAN", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "JACK ABLIN", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-346827", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2018-08-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/04/ndaysat.02.html", "summary": "Turkey Retailers Slaps Sanctions On U.S. Officials", "utt": ["The relationship between the U.S. and Turkey is headed south. This morning, Turkey's president froze the assets of the U.S. justice and interior ministers in Turkey -- that's if they have any.", "The move comes after the U.S. did the same to Turkey's ministers, remember, over the detention of U.S. Pastor Andrew Brunson. CNN's International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson with us now. Nic, what are you hearing?", "Well, it's not clear because Turkey hasn't named them yet, which individuals in the United States administration they're actually targeting here. When they say justice and interior, do they mean the Attorney General Jeff Sessions? Do they mean Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen? Not clear, but it could potentially be. Do they have any assets in Turkey? We don't know. But it would seem unlikely that it's going to be a lot. So, there's something about this that looks as if it's a tit for tat, but it's a little unexpected and does hint at this deteriorating relationship. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Singapore, in the past 24 hours met with his Turkish counterpart. The meeting was said to be positive and constructive, that they would go away to their home countries and continue discussions, although the Turkish side did say we can't fix all our problems in one day. And that's the thing here -- you know, the United States and Turkey have some pretty big issues that they could be discussing. Syria would be high on that list. So, this is unexpected; hints that it's a deterioration. Perhaps it isn't that significant because the people involved do not have significant assets in Turkey, although we won't know until we know precisely who they are. So, it's, yes, it's sort of come out of left field a little bit, but it doesn't really seem to give confidence that Andrew Brunson, the pastor, who's just been released from jail in Turkey, put under house arrest, it doesn't seem to hint that he's going to get home any quicker, which is, of course, what President Trump wants to see.", "It is, indeed. He's not alone in that. All right, Nic Robertson, thanks very much.", "Republican Congressman Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania with us now. Good morning, congressman. How are you?", "Very good. You?", "I'm well. Thank you. So, your reaction, first of all, to Nic's report about Turkey. Should the U.S. respond, and how?", "Well, that's obviously a very complicated question. I have the same concerns that everyone else does. I think I'll take a pass on saying anything too dispositive there.", "OK. I do want to get into this back-and-forth that we're seeing when it comes to national security. President Trump obviously giving a very different answer to what Russia is doing, directly contradicting what all of his national security leaders came out this week and said, that Russia is interfering. And I'm wondering, what do you tell Republicans where you are when they go to the polls? What is this doing to your party? What do you say to them to give them confidence that the president and that the Republicans and that national security is intact?", "That we should have faith in the administration officials that were at the press conference, I think it was two days ago. The president has missed the mark here in terms of coming down forcefully and clearly against Russia in its election interference, but the director of Homeland Security, the national director of intelligence, the national security adviser, those are the folks that we should be listening to as it relates to Russian interference in the election. I think we are well positioned to fight back against this. You had a guest on a little while ago who really hit the nail on the head in terms of the different types of Russian election interference. What we can do, what will be more difficult to get our arms around, the disinformation campaign is going to continue to persist. There's only so much we can do about that at any one time, but making sure that every vote that is cast is counted and that there isn't anyone getting in the way of that I think is the single most important thing that we can do.", "Right. Because like I said, I think people go to the polls and they want to know that their vote is counted. So, with that said, when we know where the president stands on this, where national security leaders stand on this, what is being done to secure the voting procedures, that equipment, that the infrastructure is solid?", "Well, I think elections happen at the county level. A lot of this on the cybersecurity side are things that we don't know about on a day-to-day basis because it's highly confidential, but those things are happening, and that was the point of the press conference. Our intelligence community, our homeland security community, they're doing what they need to do in order to make sure that Russia does not interfere there. I have full faith and confidence in that.", "I was just going to ask, so you're confident when you go to the polls?", "Certainly. I certainly am. And to be critical here, we just have to set aside what the president may have said at a rally or at a summit overseas and place our faith in those administration officials who have been tasked with this obligation. They were very clear that Russia is intending to interfere and that they are taking all precautionary steps and proactive steps to ensure that every vote cast is counted.", "I want to look at President Trump's endorsements, because he's going to be in Ohio today, of course, for this rally. When we look at, let's say his scorecard, 19 people that he has endorsed have won. There have been four losses, including Rick Saccone there in your state. How much weight does the president hold, do you think? How beneficial is he or not, to these endorsements as we head into midterms just three months away now?", "This weekend's rally I think is important for the following reason. This is a tight race. Everyone knows it. Democrats are coming to the polls. Republicans should be coming to the polls, but many Republicans hold very strongly favorable views of the president, and this is a get out the vote election. We're in August. Most people aren't used to voting in August. And so, getting your voters to the polls is extremely important. No one can do that better than the president as it relates to Republican turnout. This election may ultimately hinge on independent voters, where Governor Kasich coming out and supporting the Republican nominee I think is a step in the right direction. But if the president can get a couple extra thousand Republican voters to the polls, that's very, very significant in a special election.", "When you talk about voters going to the polls, and we were talking about what the Russia infiltration threat is here, how do people, or how would you convince people to disseminate between what is, you know, distinguish between what is noise and what is factual when they are deciding who they're going to vote for?", "It's such an excellent question. And to be honest with you, even if Russia were not interfering, that's a challenge for every candidate, just given how much noise is out there on social media, even from your opponent, right, and from a lot of the outside special interest organizations. I think you have to look at a candidate's character. You have to look at what they themselves are actually saying, what their voting record is, what their record in business and in the community is, and focus more on that than what someone else is tweeting about or what some outside organization may be misrepresenting. That's ultimately what it comes down to, and that's why there's always a local element to every single race. You cannot discount, particularly amongst independent voters and swing Democrats and swing Republicans. They're going to look at the individual, even in this year where I think the president's going to probably be on the ballot in November for most voters. You have to make sure you're cutting your own message and you're making sure that you're leading with your personality and what your record is. That is, I think, going to be the secret sauce for winning candidates in November and next Tuesday.", "OK. And last but not least, the economy. It is certainly in the president's favor, in Republicans' favor right now. Is it going to be enough, do you think, as a campaign tactic, to make sure that people get to the polls?", "We're going to find out. The economy is doing very, very well. That's a big part of the Republican message, but it can't be the only part. You have to be speaking about what you're going to be doing, where you may disagree with the president from time to time. But the other thing I might say is I think the challenge for Republicans right now is when things are going well, oftentimes voters then start looking at other areas or other issues. It's when the economy isn't going well that oftentimes the focus in an election is on the economy. When the economy's doing well, it oftentimes is on other things. So, we need to keep repeating the message of why our policies are helping improve the economy -- low unemployment, stock market, increase of wages. So, it's a tricky political environment when things are going well and you're saying this is why they're going well.", "Mm-hmm. All right. Congressman Ryan Costello, appreciate you being here. Thank you, sir.", "Thank you.", "Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korea's foreign minister promise to cooperate on denuclearization this morning, but a U.N. report says North Korea is still going ahead with its nuclear program."], "speaker": ["SAVIDGE", "PAUL", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR", "SAVIDGE", "PAUL", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-20388", "program": "Breaking News", "date": "2000-11-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/22/bn.20.html", "summary": "Gov. George W. Bush Delivers Statement on Dick Cheney's Health, Florida Supreme Court Ruling on Manual Recounts", "utt": ["Republican vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney is hospitalized here in Washington after complaining of chest and shoulder pain. He was admitted overnight and initial tests indicate it was not a heart attack. He's resting comfortably as doctors perform additional tests. The 59-year-old Cheney was given a clean bill of health by his doctor in July, though he has a history of heart problems. He's had mild heart attacks in 1978, '84 and '88. That same year, 1988, he underwent a quadruple bypass surgery. An exam four years ago found no progression in heart disease. We want to take you over to the hospital. Eileen O'Connor is there. We're going to bring you up to date on the recount procedure in just a moment, but first to Eileen and the medical story -- Eileen.", "Well, Frank, the hospital here has said that Secretary Cheney came a little after 5:00, and he has actually been admitted. They did some blood tests, enzyme -- looking at enzyme levels. If there was a heart attack, those enzyme levels would be elevated. They were normal. Also an EKG. It was normal. Now, the Bush campaign is stressing this wasn't really pain but more discomfort. Obviously there could be several reasons for that. It could also, given his history of heart disease, one likely culprit is angina, which is just a constriction of the blood vessel, and also it would slow down the oxygen to the muscles...", "All right, Eileen, let me jump in here. Here's George W. Bush. We're about to hear his statement.", "This morning I talked to Secretary Cheney. We had a very good conversation. He sounded really strong, and he informed me that, as a precautionary measure, he went into the hospital. He was feeling chest pains, and turns out that subsequent tests, blood tests, and the initial EKG showed that he had no heart attack. I'm pleased to report that. I know all Americans join me and Laura in wishing him all the best. Looking forward to talking to him this afternoon to continue strategizing about this election and the election results. I am disappointed with last night's ruling by the Florida Supreme Court. We believe the justices have used the bench to change Florida's election laws and usurp the authority of Florida's election officials. We believe the court overreached. Writing laws is the duty of the legislature; administering laws is the duty of the executive branch. Two weeks after the presidential election, a court has decided that Florida's deadline for counting votes and certifying votes was not a deadline at all. The court has decided that the selective recounting of votes that have already been counted at least two times, and in some cases three or four times, will continue more than a week after the law says it should. And the court has ordered that the secretary of state must accept all this. The court had cloaked its ruling in legalistic language, but make no mistake, the court rewrote the law. It changed the rules, and it did so after the election was over. Manual recounts will continue in three selective counties, with no uniform standards, no clear direction, and therefore no fair or accurate result. Even as recently as this morning, the rules changed in one of the three counties, and Democrats are trying to change the rules in another. The effect of the court's opinion will be that voters' votes are being evaluated differently in different parts of Florida. Some votes that were cast legitimately may be offset by votes that were not. Voters who cast their ballots in accordance with the rules, in accordance with law, have rights. And voters who choose not to cast a vote for president have that right, and no one else has the right to make their choice for them. Voters who clearly punched preferences in other races on the ballot, but did not do so in the presidential race, should not have their vote interpreted by local officials in a process that invites human error and mischief. All Americans want a fair and accurate count of the votes in Florida, and I believe if there is a fair and accurate count of the votes in Florida, we will prevail. If Vice President Gore is seeking some common ground, I propose a good place to start: He should join me in calling upon all appropriate authorities in Florida to make sure that overseas military ballots that were signed and received on time count in this election. Our men and women in uniform overseas should not lose their right to vote. I hope the vice president will personally support me in this call. I believe Secretary Cheney and I won the vote in Florida. And I believe some are determined to keep counting in an effort to change the legitimate result. It is important that votes are counted accurately, and it's equally important that votes be counted fairly and in a process that is seen to be fair. As we approach our national holiday of Thanksgiving, we have much to be thankful for. We should be thankful that we live in the greatest nation on the face of the Earth. Laura and I wish all our fellow Americans and their families a happy Thanksgiving. Thank you very much and God bless.", "Not that I know of.", "Governor, do you plan to appeal the Florida Supreme Court decision?", "We will refer you to my lawyers in Florida. Jim Baker is doing a good job.", "What options are you considering?", "I refer you to our folks in Florida; they are -- Jim Baker is in charge of the team in Florida, and he's doing a really good job down there.", "Governor, do you feel that the court was biased?", "I feel the court overstepped its bounds, just like I said in my statement. I think it was a reach. And as I said, the legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch job to interpret law. Last question, I've got to...", "Any misgivings about Secretary Cheney and his selection...", "No, not at all. Secretary Cheney will make a great vice president. And as I reported today -- I'm pleased to report that he sounded very strong on the telephone. And he did the right thing. He felt some warning signs, and he went into the hospital and had them checked out. And he's going to make a great vice president. And America's beginning to see how steady and strong he is. Last question.", "(OFF-MIKE)", "I feel great. I believe I'm going to win, particularly if the vote is accurately and fairly counted. Like many Americans, I am amazed at what I see on the TV set, the changing of rules on a regular basis. If somebody doesn't like what's happening one day, they try to change the rules the next. But I'm confident that, when it's all said and done, the vote will stand in Florida, so I feel great. I'm looking forward to a good Thanksgiving meal, I might add, with my family. And Dick Cheney is healthy. He did not have a heart attack. He did the right thing. Anybody who tells you -- anybody who's had heart conditions will tell you that if there's any sign, any warning sign at all, it's important to have it checked out, and that's what he's done. And I was so pleased to hear his voice this morning; he sounded strong and vibrant. Thank you all. I hope you have a good Thanksgiving. Bill, good to see you.", "Governor, why do you think the vote in Florida is so untrustworthy?", "A very deliberate, very strong statement from George W. Bush just now, first and foremost reinforcing that Secretary Cheney, in his view, is in good health and will make a great vice president, in his words, clearly showing no indication that the health issues raises any concerns in his mind about his fitness to proceed with the campaign, and should they get enough votes, with his fitness to proceed in office. Then a very, very harsh criticism, critique of the Florida state Supreme Court, which last night, as you now know, ordered that the counting proceed and that the secretary of state accept it. The governor of Texas saying that the court rewrote the law, changed the rules, and did so after the election was over, and that no fair or accurate result would come of this. Then he went on to say in very strong form -- strong ways that the votes -- voters, rather, should not have their votes interpreted by people -- this now referring to the count that's under way in these three counties -- that this process opens itself up to, in the governor's words, \"mischief\" and \"error.\" And finally this: A strong signal from the governor that what we're hearing from other Republicans is in his mind too, and that is that this election, in a sense, is being stolen out from under him. \"Secretary Cheney and I,\" he said, \"won the vote in Florida. We believe that some are determined to keep counting and to change the legitimate result.\" To Jeanne Meserve, who is covering the governor and was listening to this statement right along with us. Strong stuff, Jeanne.", "Frank, but we didn't get the answer we wanted, which is what are they going to do next? Everybody has wondered since the Florida Supreme Court ruled last night what they do since the hand counts are going forward. Jim Baker refused to tell us last night, the governor referred all questions to his legal team in Florida. That means Jim Baker. There were possible hints here, however. He raised those constitutional questions: Did the Florida Supreme Court step out of its bounds in trying to rewrite electoral law? And were there constitutional questions raised by the fact that these hand counts are only going forward in three counties? Does that give weights in different parts of the state different value? So there may have been a hint there, but we didn't get the answer we wanted. The other thing I noted quite strongly was the challenge to Vice President Gore. The vice president, in his two public remarks in the past week, has challenged Gov. Bush with the idea of a meeting. Well, today Gov. Bush returned fire and said, well, I challenge you on this issue of overseas military ballots. We both know this has been extraordinarily controversial since last Saturday. The Bush campaign maintaining that the Gore campaign went through a concerted effort to have those votes discounted because they didn't include a postmark. There have been mitigating comments from vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Lieberman and Florida's attorney general, saying, well gee, if they're signed and dated by Election Day, they should be counted. But here we had Gov. Bush saying to Vice President Al Gore, you step up to the plate. I want to hear you say that those ballots should be included. This has been a very potent weapon for the Republicans; clearly the governor trying to use it one more time -- Frank.", "Jeanne, two points: The governor did not make any reference to the Florida state legislature, which Secretary Baker did last night in terms of a next step. And on those overseas ballots, the Bush campaign feels there are more votes for their man there.", "That's right. They guess that there are about 900 to 1,100 overseas military ballots that were excluded for lack of a postmark. Their belief has always been the majority of those would go to George W. Bush. So of course they do want to see them counted, hopefully to increase George W. Bush's margin in the state of Florida. There was another part to that question, Frank. I've now forgotten what it was.", "The reference to the state legislature.", "There was no reference.", "Right.", "You're absolutely right. And Jim Baker did raise that last night and say, this is one avenue that we could explore. Maybe the state legislature wants to step in here and reconsider exactly and exert its authority about how electors from the state of Florida are chosen. No reference to that here by Gov. Bush. We don't know what it signifies because we don't know what their next step is going to be. Frank, I was also struck by his comments about Secretary Cheney, obviously wanting to portray him as a man who's up to the job, saying he sounded very strong in our conversations. He's going to continue to take an active role in strategizing about what we do next, clearly wanting to quell any qualms people may have about the state of Secretary Cheney's health at this point -- Frank.", "All right, Jeanne Meserve, we'll be back to you for sure. Thanks very much. Over to our senior political analyst Bill Schneider now. Bill, this issue that we heard George W. Bush raise on the legitimacy of the count, the sense that something really wrong is going on here.", "That's right. It was very tough talk, which I think will have the effect of encouraging the already strong Republican belief the Democrats are trying to steal the election. I mean, look at what he said: \"I believe,\" he said, \"Dick Cheney and I won Florida.\" Well, Al Gore and Joe Lieberman believe they won Florida, too. Gov. Bush said, \"some are determined to keep counting in order to change the result,\" to change the result. If he believes \"we,\" the Republicans, won Florida and others want to keep counting and counting and counting until they get the result they want, they're trying to steal the election.", "Bill, I've been talking to Republicans, a lot of them, this morning and others, you know, who are talking in turn to other Republicans. And I'm hearing terms like \"slow motion,\" \"grand larceny,\" that the outrage is higher than it ever was during impeachment. Republicans are furious over this because they very much believe, as the governor laid out, that Florida belonged to him and this is theft.", "That's right. We saw a week ago, last weekend when we polled Republicans nationwide, over 40 percent of them said that they would -- these were not Republicans, I should point out, these were Bush supporters nationwide. Over 40 percent of them said that they would not accept Al Gore as a legitimate president if he is declared the winner; 26 percent of Democrats said they would not accept George Bush. But if there was 41 percent of Republicans who said they wouldn't accept Bush -- Gore as a legitimate president, that number must be growing. I would guess it's growing. We'll see again when we poll this weekend. But that is an extraordinary number. If we get to a majority of Republicans who would not accept Al Gore, that would really be critical.", "Some real concern, Bill, from some senior Republicans that this thing, in the words of one, is \"spiraling out of control\" and going into dangerous places.", "And he also talked about courts usurping their authority. That also touches a chord with Republicans, who have also objected to what they regard as judicial activism, judicial overreach. I think that was a critical point he made, too.", "Bill Schneider, thanks. To Chris Black now who's been tracking the Gore campaign. Again, a challenge, as we heard, to Al Gore as this process continues, Chris.", "Frank, the Gore campaign says that the highest court in Florida has spoken and that that should be the end of it. The Florida Supreme Court sets the final word on Florida state law, and they say there's just no dispute about that. They also say that Republicans are way over -- making way too much of the military ballots issue. To the best of their estimates, there were maybe 200 of those ballots that were thrown out because of missing a postmark. And their own Bob Butterworth, who is the state attorney general and a leader of the Gore campaign in Florida, has urged those local officials to revisit those ballots and count them if all that was missing was just a postmark. Meanwhile today, the vice president at this hour is at a community center here in Washington helping prepare Thanksgiving Day meals for the needy. This is something he does every year, something that is of great interest to his wife Tipper, who has gone under cover here in Washington to work with the homeless. The vice president is very much trying to stay above the fray and adopt a statesmanlike posture, going so far last night as to say he would refuse to accept any elector pledged to George W. Bush -- Frank.", "All right, Chris Black, thanks very much."], "speaker": ["FRANK SESNO, CNN ANCHOR", "EILEEN O'CONNOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SESNO", "GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "QUESTION:  (OFF-MIKE) BUSH", "QUESTION", "BUSH", "QUESTION", "BUSH", "QUESTION", "BUSH", "QUESTION", "BUSH", "QUESTION", "BUSH", "QUESTION", "SESNO", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SESNO", "MESERVE", "SESNO", "MESERVE", "SESNO", "MESERVE", "SESNO", "WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SR. POLITICAL ANALYST", "SESNO", "SCHNEIDER", "SESNO", "SCHNEIDER", "SESNO", "CHRIS BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SESNO"]}
{"id": "CNN-116219", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-4-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/20/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Company Offers Warning Systems for Emergencies; Car Smashes into West Virginia Convenience Store", "utt": ["It is the bottom of the hour, and I have something to report here. Not -- not easy to report, but there was some concern earlier in the week about the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech. Some of their family members had not been able to see them. Well, CNN has just gotten word from the state Department of Health in Virginia that all of the bodies, the autopsies and the coroner's reports, have been turned over this morning to the families, including the body of Cho. And also the families now are in the process of making transportation and funeral arrangements with mortuaries and so forth. So all of the victims now have been turned over to their families so they can have proper funerals and proper burials now. So the families are in the process of doing that -- Betty.", "Across the country, colleges are retooling their emergency notification plans in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings. In California, cell phones are being used to establish an alert system on campuses, but as CNN's Chris Lawrence reports, some schools are going further.", "School boards are scrambling to avoid what happened at Virginia Tech, where students waited two hours for the first warning.", "There's a threat on campus, and we had no idea.", "I had no indication that there was anything going on in the morning.", "But how to inform so many after the decision is made to do so? When an emergency strikes, students are everywhere.", "I'm OK. Press one.", "Companies like MIR3 are adapting technology to notify them online, in class, at home.", "You can actually hit their land line, their cell phone, SMS, their pager, anything that they have on them.", "All with one keystroke.", "You have selected \"I'm OK.\" Your response has been accepted.", "In MIR3's headquarters, a technician inputs our information, but we're miles away when the warning comes through. (on camera) Hello?", "You have an important message. This is only a test.", "OK. Obviously, this was not an emergency, but if it had been, it could have told us don't come back in the building, stay away, anything like that?", "It could have. It could have actually invited you to evacuate a certain area, give you instructions on where to go next.", "Margi Schmidt says the technology was originally used by local governments and businesses. It warned Florida families before Hurricane Ivan, and informed employees after Katrina.", "You know, should we go to Houston? Should we go to, you know, some other city to be safe and set up shop?", "Technicians can input anywhere from a few names to a few million.", "I'm going to notify 6,000 students of the situation.", "MIR3 can just send a warning or ask for a response.", "I need help, press two.", "And I can create another group of those people and actually give that group off to first responders and say these are the people right away right now that need help.", "And in a situation like Virginia Tech, every student warned is one more out of danger. Chris Lawrence, CNN, San Diego.", "Well, from the ground and also from the air, an army of firefighters is attacking the wildfires burning across South Georgia. More than 25,000 acres near the town of Waycross have already been burned, and nearly 20 homes have been destroyed. The largest fire is about 35 percent contained. That could change, as the winds are picking up again. More than 1,000 people have been forced out of their homes, another 5,000, mainly seniors, are being urged to leave because of all the smoke in the air.", "Ware County Commissioner Carlos Nelson has been following firefighters as they confront these wildfires. He sent us these i-report pictures. Take a look. They show us just how exhausting this has been. Today marks the fifth day of this battle that's being fought from the air as well as the ground, and it's not only firefighters from across the region, but also homeowners who are lending a hand.", "Yes. And you know what? Rain would certainly help out this situation. Rob Marciano, let's check in with you now in the weather center and see if there's any in the forecast for these fires.", "Well, Don and Betty, the problem is we haven't seen much rain in the past three months. We're into the months now where typically we see the most amount of rain, at least last month. And we have barely seen half of what we would typically see across much of the southeast and Georgia. So the lack of rain has contributed to this, and we're not going to see much in the way of rain over the next several days. On top of that, the weather pattern is such that the winds are kicking up pretty good today, and relative humidities are low, so red flag warnings are in effect for southeast Georgia, and that includes that area where the fire is.", "So Rob, we typically see wildfires out west, but not here in Georgia. Is that because of the lack of rain? Right?", "It is. And you know, things are usually dryer out west. And that's one of the reasons that they do get more in the way of forest fires. And the fact that we've been so dry month after month after month for the past three and four months, is the main reason that we have this very dry fuel out there, and the winds are not helping. Hopefully, get some rain here next week, but it will be a long weekend for these firefighters, for sure.", "No doubt. OK, thank you, Rob.", "You bet.", "We do want to get you to a fiery crash that could have become just a real catastrophe. A pickup truck slams into a gas pump and then a convenience store in West Virginia. You have to watch this video. We get some details now from Christine Habrle of affiliate WCHS.", "They came in. Those guys both were asleep.", "In a split second this knocked-out driver veers off 119, across the grass, and takes out pump No. 5, causing it to explode into flames. He never slows down.", "The car was coming at me. And I saw it, and everybody started screaming, and I just ran and I jumped up here.", "Then bam, the truck slams right into the convenience store, narrowly missing two men and a clerk. But look at this beam. It almost hits her right in the head.", "People were screaming, running. There was fire. It was just an explosion. Everything was just crazy.", "Amazingly no one got hurt, except for a few scrapes.", "It's a miracle of God. It was a miracle of God.", "Ofshi Kasari (ph) acted quickly to minimize the damage, getting a visual check on his sister, the clerk, and then racing to the back room to shut down the pump.", "I just saw the pump on fire, and I knew I had to get it turned off so it didn't go into the tanks and the tanks explode and we have a big mushroom cloud here.", "The pump is secure now and doesn't pose a threat. This is the second time someone has crashed into the building. Owners are aren't waiting for a third to protect themselves.", "The bigger the better.", "They're putting big boulders on the property to keep any other wayward drivers from doing harm. Right now they're relieved this situation didn't turn out much worse.", "One second too early, one second too late, somebody could have gotten killed.", "That is just remarkable. And that was reporter Christine Habrle of affiliate WCHS. Just amazing, like you said, that the thing just didn't blow up, with all the pumps underneath.", "Did you see the guy pumping gas?", "Yes.", "He got out of there quick, but you know, he was even luckier. He was right there.", "He was right there. And then of course, he jerks the pump out to make sure that none of that gets anywhere else. And that was the second time that that happened?", "Second time. Big boulders.", "What are the chances of that? Hopefully that will stop...", "Big boulders should.", "Hopefully there won't be a next person. But good for caution there.", "Absolutely. Advancing technology, Betty, leads to declining death rates. 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{"id": "CNN-375249", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2019-07-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/19/acd.02.html", "summary": "President Trump Flip-Flops On Rally Regrets", "utt": ["Good evening. Chris Cuomo is off tonight. Welcome to a special hour of 360. We start things off with President Trump's walk-back of his limited and evidently insincere walk-back of his performance in North Carolina Wednesday night. When we went on air that evening, he had just launched another attack on four non-White Congresswomen, and we had just seen him watch the crowd chant \"Send her back!\" to -- about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who is a naturalized refugee from Somalia, an American citizen. And there, the President stood for 13 seconds, soaking it all in, waiting for the chanting to grow and then eventually die down. Yesterday, while falsely claiming that he tried to stop it, he also said he disagreed with the crowd. Well, less than 24 hours later, starting with a string of tweets and then two televised appearances, he renewed his attacks on the women. No more talk of any regrets or feeling uncomfortable. It was like -- in fact, he went onto level a series of false allegations about two of the women, which were quickly debunked. Pretty depressing end to the week. CNN's Kaitlan Collins who was at the rally Wednesday night joins us now from the White House. Kaitlan, I'm going to say it's hard not to get whiplash following the President's back and forth on all this. I mean, walking back his walk-back yesterday, and then Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law going on Fox, lying, saying that it was just a couple of people chanting, when clearly it was more than just a couple of people chanting.", "Yes. That's not true. We were there. It was very loud. It was so loud that the President stopped speaking for those 13 seconds to let them continue on, in this arena that seats about 8,000 people or so. But really, Anderson, this is essentially the President's art of the deal. He'll say something controversial. It will put his Republican allies in a bind, something they don't want to defend. And then you'll see the President walk it back just enough, like he did yesterday, when he said he didn't agree with the chant, and that reporters should go to North Carolina and ask those people why they were chanting it, even though he didn't mention the fact about his tweets on Sunday. And then today, in the Oval Office, he strikes a much more defiant tone, defending those supporters, saying that they're just patriots. They are that they love the country, and instead focusing on these negative attacks on those women instead of that chant that started at his own rally.", "Right. And the other thing that Lara Trump said, and it goes to -- to the other thing the President said, which he just mentioned about you should go there and ask them why they were chanting it, they were chanting it because he brought up this whole idea of her going back, as if she, you know, as if all of these people are not American. And Lara Trump then, also before the President went on, whipped up the crowd, you know, encouraging people to say, you know, \"If -- if they don't like America, what can they do,\" and everyone said, \"Leave.\" I mean they were chanting it because he whipped it up.", "Yes. I've been to dozens of Trump rallies. They've never shouted anything like that before, even though these chants are pretty popular at these rallies, and that's really essentially what happens to people around the President, even his allies over on Capitol Hill. They'll defend something he's saying. They'll love it or leave it when it comes to the USA, like Lara Trump did before the Vice President and President Trump got on stage. And then, when he tries to back off of it, they say \"Well it was loud and he couldn't hear,\" or \"It was only a few people,\" when that's just simply not the case. It was a big arena. There was a lot of people chanting it. And it was incredibly loud.", "Yes. And he encouraged it. Kaitlan Collins, thank you very much. More now, on the political repercussions, if there are any, but also some of the bigger questions, including whether Democrats have a strategy for opposing this kind of racist behavior. Joining us, Political Consultant Stuart Stevens, former Mitt Romney Campaign Adviser, also CNN Political Commentator, Amanda Carpenter, served as Communications Director for Senator Ted Cruz, and is the recent Author of \"Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us,\" which is a fascinating book, and particularly appropriate tonight. Also with us, Democratic Strategist, former Senior Clinton Campaign Spokesperson, and CNN Political Commentator, Karen Finney. So Amanda, I mean you talk about gaslighting in your book, this type of strategy, if -- if that's what this is, a strategy, it certainly worked for the President in 2016. Do you think it's going to work for him again in 2020?", "Oh, listen, he's been playing in the Pandora's box of racism since he started with the Central Park Five. But I do think, this time, it's becoming different. The box is wide open. If you look at what happened in Charlottesville, do I think that President Trump necessarily wanted Heather Heyer to get killed and for Nazis to be marching on those beautiful grounds? No. But could he stop it? No. It's out there. And so, he can't stop it, and he won't stop it, because in the end, he thinks that it helps him. And I don't know where this is going to go. He's going to keep cultivating this, denying responsibility, but he is diving in. This is where the gaslighting happens. He says other people are saying this. \"Other people were talking about Obama's birtherism, other people are talking about the Central Five,\" but he's diving right into it, and I don't know where it's going to go.", "Yes. Stuart, I mean, again, he's tapping into something very dangerous that we have seen time and time again throughout American history.", "Yes. I -- I disagree with Amanda that it's a strategy. I think Trump is a racist, so he says racist things. I really don't think it's very complicated. And the question for the Republican Party is, \"Are you going to tolerate this?\" It's really a moral test that Trump keeps putting out there, and the Republican Party keeps failing. I don't think it's smart politics, and I think it's horrible for the country.", "Karen, how do Democrats respond to all of this? I mean, earlier this week, Dana Bash reported on a meeting of House Democrats where they reviewed internal polling, showing that the most forceful message against the President is making the argument that he's ineffective on issues like infrastructure and jobs. That was before this chant.", "Right. I mean that's the pro -- that's the thing, right? So, even if Democrats were going to back off on it, then you had this chanting happen. And then today, as the President was leaving for New Jersey for the weekend, he, you know, went to the microphones, and again, you know, pulled on that thread, so I think there's a couple of things, Anderson. I think Democrats ideally should step back, and let it reveal the fact that if this is what the President thinks he should be focused on, rather than infrastructure, whatever happened to that, creating jobs, healthcare, and I think Democrats need to do more to highlight the fact that it is the Republicans in the Senate, it is the President who are the -- are blocking things moving forward. Unfortunately, I think the reality -- there's the other side of this, which is you can't let this kind of talk go unsaid. I mean to someone like me who, as a child, was said -- was told \"Go back to Africa,\" and I had no idea what people were talking about, you know, we are a diverse country. These women represent, you know, diverse cultures, and we are part of the American story. So, I think there's also responsibility for Democrats to call it out. But I think they have to keep that dual focus while also trying to continue to get the work done, as Pelosi was frankly trying to do with this debt ceiling conversation.", "It is amazing Amanda that, you know, even when the President was sort of pretending to express some, a little bit of regret, you know, he called it quite a chant, and that it was loud, which then against -- goes against what Lara Trump was saying, which is it was just a couple of people.", "Yes.", "And he also lies about how he tried to stop it. I just -- it's amazing to me that I mean all his lies, I mean it's been this way from the beginning. But his lies are dependent, are sort of predicated on the notion that we're all just idiots, we can't see what is -- we can't see video of what he is actually doing, and that we're -- we're all just, or that his supporters are -- are looking for any reason to forgive him, and so he's -- they can that, you know, yesterday, they were all out saying, \"Oh, well, he's repudiated it.\" Now today, you know, they're kind of quiet.", "Yes. This is essential to his gaslighting that he continues to draw the country into. It's called advance and deny. He advances these narratives but denies responsibility to it. The fact that the campaign went out there at this message of love it or leave it, which they thought was cute, and so somehow that was defensible.", "Yes.", "But that's not what the audience heard. The audience heard \"Send her back!\" as if there's some kind of difference there. I -- probably in a few weeks, Donald Trump is going to be out there saying \"Send her back right there with them,\" because he's baiting the audience to get into this. He wants us all to debate racism. And I agree completely with Karen that the Democrats can't get drawn into this too much. They do have to acknowledge it. And I don't see any reason why the 2020 election should not be a referendum on Donald Trump's character. Ro Khanna was on the air, Democratic Congressman from California, who's endorsed Bernie Sanders. He kind of had an interesting idea. He wanted Barack Obama to come out and do--", "Yes.", "--a speech on race. I think that's interesting. But the Democratic candidate who wins this election should be the one to give that speech and show us a higher, better way that uplifts people because Donald Trump wants nothing more than this to be a negative, negative election that takes us down to the barrel, where we were in 2016, and someone has to lift us out of it.", "Stuart, when -- when the next crowd, auditorium full of people, the next, you know, Trump rally start chanting \"Send her back!\" what do you think Trump does?", "I think Amanda's exactly right. He's just going to enjoy it, and he's going to do it. You can't -- Trump isn't going to change. And I think expecting Trump to change is just going to be a failure. The question here is what is the Republican Party going to do? I mean this has been the great failure of the modern Republican parties with African-American voters. In '56, Eisenhower got 39 percent, and then with Goldwater, dropped to 7 percent because he opposed the Civil Rights Act. And it's never come back. And that really is the great stain on the Republican Party, and it's only getting worse now. This is a moment when the party has to decide what kind of party it's going to be and--", "But is that even a question? I mean hasn't--", "Well--", "--hasn't that already been decided?", "Yes.", "I mean, that would -- you know.", "It would seem.", "Yes,", "Yes, I think there's a question. Would Marco Rubio go to--", "But--", "--another rally like he did when he kicked off the President's re-election in Florida a couple of weeks ago. I mean what Republicans are going to sit on stage? I do think some Republicans in the Senate--", "Well--", "--have probably made the calculation that \"Listen, we can't stop Trump from being a bad character, but we can stop bad policy. And so, if we have to fight on policy, we'll go there. We can't do much else.\"", "But they also haven't. But the Republicans have not been willing to stand up to him even very much to make good policy. I mean what we see is things just kind of stalling. And I think that, you know, long-term, this is a disaster for the Republican Party. I remember, I'm old enough to remember, you know, the realignment that Karl Rove, was trying and George W. Bush was trying to, you know, court Latinos, and -- and he got a little bit of the African-American vote.", "Yes.", "And I think, you know, part of the -- the -- the challenge here, Anderson is, you know, the diversity of this country is here. This is the reality. And Trump is trying to continue to coalesce around sort of the demographics of the recent past.", "Yes.", "And Democrats are trying to focus on the future.", "Yes. Let's see.", "And I think that'll be -- it will be all a matter of turnout in 2020.", "Karen Finney, thank you, Amanda Carpenter, Stuart Stevens, always, thank you very much. Coming up next, how two Trump voters in 2016 see things and now see things differently from one another this time around.", "Economically, the country is doing really well."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST, ANDERSON COOPER 360", "KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "COLLINS", "COOPER", "AMANDA CARPENTER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "COOPER", "STUART STEVENS, POLITICAL CONSULTANT & WRITER", "COOPER", "KAREN FINNEY, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "COOPER", "FINNEY", "COOPER", "CARPENTER", "FINNEY", "CARPENTER", "FINNEY", "CARPENTER", "COOPER", "STEVENS", "COOPER", "FINNEY", "COOPER", "CARPENTER", "COOPER", "FINNEY", "STEVENS", "I -- I-- CARPENTER", "FINNEY", "CARPENTER", "FINNEY", "CARPENTER", "FINNEY", "COOPER", "FINNEY", "COOPER", "FINNEY", "COOPER", "FINNEY", "COOPER", "DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES"]}
{"id": "CNN-323561", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2017-10-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/13/es.03.html", "summary": "Trump Poised to Decertify Iran Nuclear Deal", "utt": ["President Trump is expected to decertify the Iran deal today despite the international community's assessment that Tehran is in compliance. The president's plan will put the burden on Congress to find a way forward and it's raising concerns about a potential backlash that could set stage for another nuclear crisis.", "All right. Let's bring in CNN chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, live in London this morning. Great to see you, Christiane.", "Good morning, Christiane.", "The talking points just released from the White House on this and it starts with the quote from president, it is time for the entire world to join us in demanding that Iran's government ends its pursuit of death and destruction. What's the sense? This is a bad deal but one the United States should stay in?", "You know, this is something that under the Trump administration and even in the campaign everybody has been looking at and fretting about because there are not just the United States but Russia, China, the European powers, it's an enshrined U.N. document now from the Security Council, and, of course, Iran. It took a long time, according to all the American officials who bargained for many months, more than a year over this, and struck the toughest deal that they possibly could, to deal with the issue that was considered the most dangerous issue emanating from Iran and that was a potential nuclear weapons issue. So, this deal is not perfect in that it does not deal with all the other issues that America is concerned about. And the rest of the world is concerned about, whether it's interference in Syria, whether it is interference in the region whether it is the accusations of supporting terrorism, all the other things that the rest of the world does not like about Iran, they couldn't get a whole basket deal to put everything in. Nobody was ready for that to happen. But the United States believes strongly that the most serious threat to world peace was a potential Iran nuclear weapons program. And therefore, that is what this deal is about. And that is what it has enshrined, that that's not possible for Iran under this deal. So, you can imagine all the international community has been reacting very, very strongly. They have been trying to lobby the United States not to refuse to recertify, which apparently President Trump plans to do, though it's not stated in the points that the White House has put out just now.", "It sounds like the president doesn't like this deal, but he goes one step shy of killing U.S. participation in it, you know, trying to send the message that I don't like this deal, but we're sort of in there. I mean, he says -- he's leaving it to Congress to figure it out, Christiane.", "Well, here's the thing, he doesn't like the deal and for whatever reason he made a big deal of it on the campaign trail, as if his base really gave a damn about the Iran deal or not. So, with colorful language about how this is the worst deal the United States is suffering and the United States hasn't gotten anything out of it, he's now having to sort of pony up to that kind of campaign language. Now, this deal, as I have said, envisions under the deal at least a decade and longer of many of the provisions that categorically stop Iran from any kind of nuclear weapons program. It has been certified by the IAEA, the U.N. nuclear agency, as working. And I spoke to some really hawkish people about this. For instance, Israel has never liked the deal. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not liked the deal and his former defense chief and former prime minister, Ehud Barak, did not and was very hawkish on Iran, but told me yesterday that it's a done deal and it would be bad for Israel and bad for America to pull out of the deal. This is what he said about it.", "Yes. The deal, we believe, is a bad deal. I was hawkish on Iran during my service with government. It is a bad deal but it's a done deal. So, to decertify it now, it is basically throwing it to Congress, Congress will pull out of it. The real story is that the Iranians will be served by it, because other parties will not pull out, neither Chinese, Russians or the Europeans. So, they -- the Iranians will keep harvesting the benefits of this deal while the decertification will legitimize the intentions in the future to break out at will and explain it to the American behavior.", "He went on to say that this at this time would be negative in regard of trying to contain the North Korea program, which is a nuclear weapons program, which actually has ICBMs and which actually is a very major nuclear threat. So, many people are talking about that. But certainly we had word from the Russian foreign ministry that they expect everybody a signatory to this deal, which is a U.N. Security Council resolution, to abide by it. We know that President Trump has been speaking to Prime Minister May, President Macron here in London and in Paris. They want this deal. They insist they're going to keep to the deal. So, the real question now is, Christine, the real question, is Congress going to pick up this decision by President Trump and decide actually to get out of the deal by re-imposing sanctions? If Congress does that, we're in a whole new territory and many believe an insecure territory that will not be in the U.S. national security interests.", "Yes.", "Not sure Congress could declare today Friday at this point. How they will get this done remains a mystery. Go ahead.", "Remember, it's several month. Congress has a few months to decide. It's important situation that has been put in Congress' lap right now.", "Yes, hugely consequential.", "Christiane Amanpour for in London this morning, great to see you, Christiane. Have a wonderful weekend.", "Thank you, Christiane. All right. To baseball, for the third straight year, the Cubs head to the NLCS, but it took a wild hard-stopping win over Washington to get there. 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{"id": "CNN-85542", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2004-6-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/19/lol.04.html", "summary": "Putin Claims Russia Tipped Off U.S. to Saddam Terror Plots; Saudis Scramble to Find Paul Johnson as Deadline Looms.", "utt": ["Did Saddam Hussein target America for terror attack? Russia's president drops a bombshell about intelligence shared with the", "Sounds so sweet. A live tribute this hour honoring one of America's most original voices.", "I'm Thelma Gutierrez in Los Angeles where a long list of recording heavyweights are paying their last respects to the legend, Ray Charles.", "From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Miles O'Brien.", "And I'm Kyra Phillips. It's Friday, June 18, CNN's LIVE FROM... starts right now.", "Russia to the rescue? Two days after the independent 9/11 Commission cited no credible evidence between collusion between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, seemingly contradicting one of the Bush administration's rationales for war, comes a bombshell from Vladimir Putin. The Russian president, who opposed the war, tells reporters that Russian intelligence warned Americans on several occasions that Saddam was plotting terror attacks against the U.S. We get the details now from CNN Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty -- Jill.", "Well, Kyra, first of all, President Putin isn't making any connection directly to al Qaeda. That's one point on this. But it's a very interesting comment, as you have said. What Mr. Putin is saying is that before the invasion of Iraq, Russia and the United States, as they are now, were sharing intelligence information. And Russian agents uncovered information from their sources that the Saddam Hussein administration -- Saddam Hussein regime was planning attacks on the United States both domestically and internationally. Here is what President Putin said today about that.", "Indeed, after September 11 and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, the Russian special services received information that the official bodies of Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist attacks on the U.S. territory and on American military and civil sites outside the country. This information has indeed been conveyed to our American colleagues.", "And apparently conveyed directly to President Bush, because Mr. Putin says that President Bush himself got in touch with the head of Russian intelligence and thanked him directly for that information. Now President Putin says that there is no information, however, no proof, that Saddam Hussein's agents were involved in any terrorist attack against the United States. Russia continues, as it did in the run-up to the war, to be opposed to the war in Iraq, as you mentioned. And Mr. Putin said that has not changed. But interestingly, again, the timing of all of this, because after all it comes during a very strong debate in the United States about any possible connection that Saddam Hussein might have had to terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda -- Kyra.", "Jill Dougherty live from Moscow, thank you -- Miles.", "The White House isn't giving an inch on the Iraq-al Qaeda connection allegation. Vice President Dick Cheney made the case today for the second time this week, claiming overwhelming evidence of high level contacts. He also called the media irresponsible for saying the 9/11 Commission concluded those contacts came to nothing.", "There clearly was a relationship. It has been testified to. The evidence is overwhelming. It goes back to the early '90s. It involves a whole series of contacts, high level contacts between Osama bin Laden and Iraqi intelligence officials. It involves senior official, a brigadier general in the Iraqi intelligence service going to the Sudan before bin Laden ever went to Afghanistan to train them in bomb- making, helping teach them how to forge documents.", "The 9/11 panel says bin Laden sought Iraqi support in that Sudan meeting mentioned by Mr. Cheney but he was basically snubbed. Twelve days and counting until the return of Iraqi sovereignty and possibly martial law, that's being considered by Iraq's new government in light of daily insurgent attacks on Iraqis and Iraqi infrastructure. In Baghdad today a U.S. military supply convoy was totaled in a rocket-propelled grenade attack but no one appears to be hurt. South Korea is sending more than 3600 troops to Northern Iraq later this summer. That will make Seoul the third-largest coalition partner in terms of troop strength, and reconstruction is job one. And 660 South Korean troops are in southern Iraq already. They too will head north in the next few weeks. And Sunday is the target date for resuming Iraqi oil exports from southern terminals. You may know exports were halted entirely south and north by those devastating attacks on the pipeline. A U.S. official says southern lines could be at full capacity by the middle of next week.", "Today appears to be the day Paul Johnson's kidnappers have threatened to kill him unless Saudi Arabia releases all its al Qaeda prisoners. Johnson is the Lockheed Martin engineer who was captured last Saturday by al Qaeda members or sympathizers calling themselves the al Fallujah Squadron. Saudi authorities are said to be combing the kingdom with no success so far. One man who knows more than most of what it is like to be a prisoner of hostile forces, Ron Young Jr. was a chief warrant officer in the U.S. Army when his chopper went down in central Iraq less than two weeks into. He and crewmates spent three long weeks in fear for their lives before being rescued by U.S. forces in Tikrit. Today Ron is a special contributor to CNN. He joins us now with his reflections on what's happening. Now you and I have been talking a lot about this. When you look at this video of Paul Johnson and you look at just his behavior and his mannerisms, what do you think is different about this versus a Nick Berg or your situation?", "Well, right now, he went into this situation and, of course, he knows what happened to Nick Berg. And that's a very heavy thing to have weighing on your mind to go into this situation. You can tell that he's being very careful about everything he does. He's not trying to provoke him. He's taken on a severely subservient role which is what he has to do to try to keep himself alive at this point. And you know, our hearts just go out to the families and everything, and of course, our prayers. And I really applaud his family and the things that they've done to try to keep him alive by coming on camera and telling him how much he is a father and how much they love him. And I think that's a very good thing they're doing, trying to build a case for this man to be spared.", "Is it different for Paul Johnson, for example, with you as a soldier, you sort of knew you had a chance that you would be rescued because of just the way the military operates and the duty to come after you. But you also were telling me in your mind, you thought you were going to die.", "Absolutely. Every day I felt like that I was going to die. Especially when I was there laying on the bank and, of course, the Iraqis come over and they're tying me up. And they get behind me. And one of my takes a rifle and butt strokes me across the back of my head with it and basically knocks me almost unconscious and I start seeing stars. And when I come to, I'm looking over and Dave has a knife to his throat.", "Dave was your crewmate.", "Right, Dave being my crewmate that was shot down with me that night and taken captive also. But you know, and seeing that, and of course, the last -- the next 20 days were not any less fearful whatsoever. Every day we thought we were going to die. And I had basically made up my mind in the very beginning that the Iraqis were going to kill me.", "All right. Let's talk about something different that is happening here. It started yesterday, he called himself \"Sayed (ph) the Believer.\" He came out on this Web site saying, you've got to stop this, this isn't right, this is not Islamic. You don't kill innocent people like this who have done nothing to you. Then today this quote comes out from a top Saudi cleric, an imam, calling on these terrorists to repent and coming out with this quote saying that it is wrong and it's against the Muslim religion. It's unique here. Do you think that this could change the dynamics?", "I do. I think he has a better chance right now than he has had the entire time through this. I mean, at first you look like, oh, my gosh, this is a horrible situation. But today after the developments that happened yesterday and, of course, today, it seems like he has a fairly good chance of making it now because you have the religious leaders, the highest ranking religious leaders over in Saudi Arabia in the city of Mecca, the center of Islam, basically saying that this is an evil thing that you're doing and that you guys need to repent. And they're basically declaring that they protect this guy. And under the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, if they're granted protection, Muslim protection, then basically Muhammad has said that either killing them or harming them or causing them any injury whatsoever or robbing them is absolutely wrong.", "Now that's interesting, because with you the same thing happened, there were actually Iraqis that came to your defense?", "Absolutely. We were sitting in the back of a van. And there were seven of us, of course, in there. And we'd been sitting there for three hours outside a grocery store kind of waiting for what's going to happen to us. And we had changed hands about six times. And this was going to be the seventh. And we were on a very tight rope. We started to feel like these guys were about ready to kill us, stick us in a grave and walk away from us. And three guys took us over. And when they finally got us to a house, they started talking to us about the reason that they wanted us to live, and it was so that we could come back to the States and tell the world that Muslims are actually a peaceful people and that they believe in human rights and they don't believe in the Saddam Hussein regime. And you know.", "And here you are alive. Hopefully the same thing for Paul Johnson.", "We hope so, absolutely.", "Thanks, Ron -- Miles.", "Frank Sinatra called him a genius, Aretha Franklin called him the voice of a lifetime. And while that voice will never really be silenced, not as long as there are turntables or CD players or whatever may hold, the man himself, Ray Charles, is gone. Charles being mourned, thanked and celebrated, as we speak at the First AME Church of Los Angeles. And that is where we find CNN's Thelma Gutierrez -- Thelma..", "Miles, the funeral started just a few moments ago. Inside the First AME Church there are 1500 people, many of them well- known. This is a private invitation-only memorial service. There are many people seated outside here in the overflow section. Among those who we saw arrive earlier today, actress Cicely Tyson, Clint Eastwood, Glen Campbell, Little Richard, B.B. King, and the Reverend Jess Jackson. Right now let's listen in to the funeral where the Reverend Robert Robertson is speaking.", "... and for the hours that are brighter and the roads that are straighter and the dreams that are nobeler, we praise thee, Lord. We praise you, Lord, for the tender memories that mortal death cannot extinguish.", "There will be a number of musical tributes as well later in the service. The service will last about two hours. A musical tribute later on by Stevie Wonder. One coming up by B.B. King, Glen Campbell as well, who said that he will play, of course, a very famous song \"Georgia.\" And he said when he arrived here earlier that he remembered once when they had played together in Las Vegas and that he actually -- that Ray Charles actually opened for him -- Kyra.", "Thelma Gutierrez, thank you very much. President Bush on the road. The commander-in-chief takes his message to the troops. We're LVIE FROM... Ft. Lewis, Washington, straight ahead. And the former commander-in-chief, remember him, Bill Clinton? He is set to release his revelations, some 900 pages worth. 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{"id": "NPR-46539", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2005-11-01", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4984328", "title": "Roundtable: Iraq Coalition Forces, Blackface", "summary": "Tuesday's topics: Iraq's president expresses frustration with coalition forces, and a blog site portrays Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele in minstrel makeup. Guests: Glenn C. Loury, professor of economics at Brown University; Republican strategist Tara Setmayer; and Jeff Obafemi Carr, host of the radio show Freestyle.", "utt": ["This is NEWS & NOTES.  I'm Ed Gordon.", "On today's Roundtable, frustration over coalition forces in Iraq and      stereotyping Maryland's lieutenant governor.", "Joining us from our headquarters in Washington, DC, Republican strategist      Tara Setmayer; at member station WRNI in Providence, Rhode Island, Glenn      Loury, professor of economics at Brown University; and Jeff Obafemi Carr,      host of the radio program \"Freestyle,\" is at Spotland Productions in      Nashville, Tennessee.", "All right, folks.  One of the things I wanted to talk about--obviously,      so many people paying attention to the legacy and the wonderful life of      Rosa Parks over the last few days.  I'm here in Detroit, and her body is      being viewed today and will be funeralized on tomorrow in the Motor City,      where she lived since 1957, we should note.  But one of the things we      found interesting: Mary Mitchell, who's been a guest on our Roundtable,      columnist of the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote a column suggesting that      perhaps black America didn't pay enough attention to Rosa Parks while she      was alive, and while all of us praised what she did and gloried in the      bravery and the outcome of what she started, some suggest, because she      lived a fairly meager lifestyle here in Detroit, that perhaps we didn't      do what we needed to as a community.  The inference is that she should      have been set up better economically, that we should have perhaps as a      community bought a home and had all of the things that are day-to-day      necessities taken care of for her.", "The same thing has been raised, quite frankly, about Mrs. King.  While      that family has done fairly well, they are by no means rich.  Certainly      Mrs. King is not.  When we look at George Lucas donating a million      dollars for a proposed statue of Martin Luther King on the Mall, one has      to question whether or not African-Americans are doing all they should      for our icons.  Glenn Loury, when you hear that suggestion--and I should      note that you never know what people will say privately.  I knew Mrs.      Parks.  She was a wonderful woman and was a humble woman.  We don't know      what was offered to her privately and may have been turned down.  But      that being said, should our community be doing more for our icons?", "Well, I read the piece in the      Sun-Times, and it is disturbing.  On the other hand, I'm also a little      disturbed by the framing of this conversation, because Rosa Parks was an      American icon.  She was not only an African-American icon.  At one level,      I want to say yes, more should have been done, and it's horrid to imagine      her staying in some apartment and being on the verge of eviction and      having to go from one day to the next not knowing where the money was      coming from.  On the other hand, I want to say it's not only the black      community's responsibility to honor a woman who helped to lead this      nation out of the darkness of apartheid, this nation, which has many rich      people and which has many more people than blacks.  So I'm of two minds      about it.", "Hm.  Tara?", "Well, I think it's      interesting, because we in the black community were so quick to circle      the wagons around our own during certain debates, but in a situation like      this, why that didn't happen with someone as wonderful as Rosa Parks, who      was such a pioneer, who--her contribution to our community is      immeasurable, and yet she did live such a meager life.  I think it's--it      concerns me, but at the same time, I agree with the professor that I am      of two minds with this.  She was not only a hero in our community, she      was an American hero, which is why she laid in honor in the Capitol, the      first woman to ever have that honor.  So I think it raises an interesting      debate about whether--when is it appropriate for us to make sure our own      are taken care of, and why that hasn't happened.  I think that's an      interesting discussion.", "Jeff, I want to take it away from Rosa Parks, because you can      get too tied in to her situation, and again, we don't know what she      suggested privately.  I know for certain there were things that were      offered and later on in life done for her by the dignitaries and others      here in the city of Detroit.  But that being said, let's take a look at      the idea of iconic figures and what is due--again, we most notably heard      recently George Lucas suggesting he's going to put up a million dollars      for the long-proposed statue of Martin Luther King on the Mall.", "Yes.", "We have heard throughout history, quite frankly, whether or not      we here in the African-American community are doing enough, quote, \"for      our own.\"", "Yeah, well, you know, there's something to be said in this      whole discussion about the notion that we--the poem that we always hear      at funerals. `Give us our flowers while we yet live.'  I was thinking      about--a couple of nights ago did a performance and had an opportunity to      have my mother there, who's well into her 70s, and got an opportunity for      the first time in my life to have a dance with her in public.  And I was      a little shy about it, but I ended up going out there and Mom ended up      showing me up, and that was the highlight of the show.  And I thought      about all of the kids in the neighborhood and all the kids at the schools      that I went to that my Mom assisted and gave rides home to and looked      after, and although there was a communal responsibility to pay that back,      it was my responsibility, and it's my responsibility to take care of my      mom, because she's in my household.  So I think that whether the      mainstream buys into taking care of Rosa Parks or not, we have a      spiritual responsibility as a people to look after our own, first and      foremost, and then if anything else gets heaped on top of it, that's      great, too.", "We think of iconic figures in our community.  I say that we do have a      responsibility to take care of people, only because we demonstrate it in      other ways.  How many people go to a church where the pastor is taken      care of in a house, a big car and nice clothes?  We have these huge      figures that are supported by African-American congregations in our      community, and they are taken care of and are very, very wealthy.  But      here's a woman who stood up and sacrificed herself for the lives of,      yeah, sure, every American, but by and large it was African-Americans who      were being discriminated against, and she put her life and her welfare on      the line.  I think it's a shame that we didn't step up and do more for      her.", "We should note, too, that a woman who spoke at the ceremonies in      Washington yesterday, Oprah Winfrey, when talking about giving people      their salutes while they're still alive, their flowers, if you will, Ms.      Winfrey has done quite a bit in moving that case, including assisting      Mrs. King at times.  And certainly, during her Legends Ball, which I had      the pleasure of attending, she did, in fact, salute many icons of our      community.", "We move our attention now to something that's very interesting, and      again, it goes back to a question of how black America looks and deals      with itself, and that is a blogger, a liberal blogger, we should note,      posted a doctored photograph of Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele in      minstrel makeup.  Steele, of course, is running for the Senate seat      in--the Republican Senate seat in Maryland, and we should suggest that      the blogger said that he did this because Steele did not, in fact, step      out and denounce his, as he called it, `political partner'--that's the      governor of Maryland--who held a fund-raiser this year at a country club      that has never admitted a black member in its 127-year history.  And we      talked about that, in fact, when that went on, on the Roundtable.", "The question here is, here's Michael Steele, a Republican, someone who      has, in fact, had a long career, often has been ridiculed by black      America, quite frankly, called an Uncle Tom.  He even talked about how      Democrats, during a 2002 debate, tossed Oreo cookies at him.  We don't      have to explain that, for those who know, know.  So that being said,      Tara, when you look at this kind of thing that goes on in 2005--and I      know you yourself, being a Republican strategist, have faced the question      of whether or not you are really dealing with issues that are of import      to black America.", "Well, just to address myself personally, that has been one      of the focuses of my career, that I make sure as a Republican that      we--when I'm called upon to discuss strategy, that we do focus on those      issues, and that we make sure that we establish relationships and      rapport.  That has been the frustration I've had with the national party      over these some years, that sometimes they just don't get that.", "But there are plenty of individuals like Michael Steele who do get it,      and this is an individual who does not deserve the title of being an      Uncle Tom or being ridiculed to the point of--it disgusts me, because      here's a man who lived the American Dream, who grew up--his mother      adopted him.  She worked minimum-wage jobs her entire life to send him to      private school, never took a dime of public assistance.  He chose to go      into ministry--he was in seminary school for some time--and he is--and      for him to be painted as a minstrel, as a mouthpiece or be called a      puppet master, like Julian Bond referred to all--to black Republicans, it      takes away from the discourse that we need to have about real issues.      And it--and unfortunately, when you let--when you throw bombs like      this--Aaron McGruder did the same thing last year in his cartoon, The      Boondocks, where he disrespected Condoleezza Rice, and he called her a      murderer on \"America's Black Forum\" when he was a panelist with me.  I      was there.  I witnessed it.  And that type of language does us no good.      It takes away from the healthy debate we should be having about issues      that affect our communities.", "Can I get in here just to say this?  I don't know Michael      White--I'm sorry, Michael Steele.  I'm sure he's a very fine man.      But--and the but here is that, in my view, the issue is how the authority      of the experience of African-Americans in this country gets used, gets      deployed in our current politics, because when a person, man or woman,      stands up and is black, and is to some degree, by a Republican president,      let's say, advertised as black, it is said, `See?  I'm this kind of      president because I have black people near me.'  That's a deploying of      the moral authority of the experience of African-Americans.  Now if the      policies of the administration with which that person is associated cut      against the interest and the moral witness of African-Americans, as I      believe clearly the policies of this Bush administration do, then it's      fair enough to point out, `Hey, you're using blackness in order to      counter black Americans' interest,' just like President George Bush the      first did when he appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.  It's      no ad hominem against Thomas to say that that was a cynical, manipulative      use of the history of African-Americans in order to pursue a right-wing      agenda, and that's what's at stake here.", "Jeff, let me ask you...", "Do you honestly believe there's not ad hominem attack      involved here?  It's absolutely an ad hominem attack.", "No, no, no, no.  I'm saying people have engaged in ad      hominem attack.", "OK.", "But what I'm saying is, it's a fair question to say, `Hey,      you're standing up telling everybody you're black, but you're associated      with a government that is hell-bent on countering the interests of black      people.' That's a fair argument to make about somebody.", "That's a discussion for another day.", "Jeff, let me ask you this as relates to the idea of      name-calling, the idea of placing an Uncle Tom tag on someone, the      minstrel white-face on someone.  Black America, to a great degree, still      is stinging politically by all of what we've had to face throughout the      years, and there is, while we don't want to paint ourselves with a      monolithic brush, there seems to be, to a great degree, if just political      affiliation is to be believed, a certain monolith politically within our      community.  If you are against the grain, you are often, quite frankly,      particularly in private, called some of these names, sometimes in jest,      sometimes in fun.  But there is a sense of you just don't get it.  You      just aren't black enough, as Billy Paul would ask the question musically.", "Right, exactly.  I think we do--as a people in this country      right now, I think we do try to hold on to what small dignity we have,      and at least some kind of collective notion of collective consciousness,      and because of that, we look for opportunities to find pride in      accomplishment of African-Americans.  We look at people like Tiger Woods,      we look at sports figures like the Williams sisters and we look at people      who become icons for us even politically, and we look for them as a      source of pride.  We still have the notion that if a person is considered      a first, even in the year 2005, then they are something to be proud of.      It's the first secretary of State, it's the first person to win this many      golf tournaments, etc.  And then when they do something that we feel does      not support our community, whether that's dating a white woman or hanging      around with a party that most black people have not been attached to in      recent years, good or bad, right or wrong, we see that as a violation of      the trust.  And so the words do come out, and it's Uncle Tom.", "And that's what I struggle with sometimes, because I think the remark was      made that it's an unfair designation.  I've not known of one person that      has been considered an Uncle Tom by any group of people that has      righteously stood up and admitted, `Yes, you're right.  I am an Uncle      Tom.'  So I don't think anybody has been proud of that title.  But this      is America.  Now either we have a right to express ourselves freely or      not.", "But the...", "Gilliard's blog, I didn't get to see the image.  I went to see      it and it was already gone.  They changed the picture.  But it wasn't      politically correct.  But isn't that what a lot of people, including      people on both sides, Democrats and Republicans, claim to want?  They      want honesty and straightforwardness and people to be able to express      themselves.  You can't have it both ways.", "Well, which comes first?  Which comes first, the racial pride or      the political fervor?  Because let's be honest; one would believe, if      Condoleezza Rice, who was the first African-American secretary of      State--had she been Democrat and perhaps a little bit further left than      right, she would be, quite frankly, more embraced publicly by      African-Americans.", "Absolutely.", "Yeah.  I think it's...", "Yeah, but...", "I think it's safer--yeah, you could say that's safer because      that--but that's partly to blame because African-Americans sit on their      laurels and just kind of let the Democratic Party get away with whatever      they want to.  The Democratic Party does take them for granted, and we      just kind of act in our own way.  What I'd like to think is possible is      that African-Americans can start to judge people as individuals and look      beyond these party affiliations and see who's going to be on our side,      and who, quite frankly, would be an Uncle Tom or an Oreo.", "And, Glenn, to a great degree that's what you were saying in the      sense of looking at where they stand politically.  Perhaps the      African-American community has, in fact, done that with Condoleezza Rice      and looked at--deciphered where she stands politically.", "Precisely.  I would say, you know, civility first, OK?  The      way we should talk to each other, with each other, about each other in      our politics ought to be civil and respecting the person.  But these are      hard issues.  Republicans, Karl Rovians, violate the civility constraint      every bit as much as Democrats do.  These are hard issues, so we have to      decide as a group of people, African-Americans, do we have interests?      And if we have interests, we have to have ways of policing ourselves, of      holding each other to account, around those interests.  Let a Jewish      financier stand up and start giving money to the Palestinian Liberation      Organization and start talking about how the state of Israel is      oppressing people on the West Bank, and see what happens to him within      his community.", "Oh...", "They have interests, they know what they are and they      enforce them.", "Tara, you're literally--I got...", "There is...", "That's all I'm talking about here.  Holding...", "There is absolutely no...", "Hold people accountable for what they do.", "Tara...", "Hold them accountable for what they do.", "Tara, you got 30 seconds.", "You can hold people accountable, and I'm in full agreement      of that, but to compare the Republican Party and a black conservative to      a Jewish individual giving money to the Palestinians, who want to see the      Jewish state eradicated off the planet, is just irresponsible.  And you      know, Michael Steele, who--he was president of the NAACP chapter in      Prince George's County.", "Real quick, Tara.", "He's fought for access for women and minority businesses      and contracts in Maryland.", "All right.", "He is absolutely fostering the interest of blacks in      Maryland.", "All right.  Let me note this, and I apologize, Tara, I got to      stop you there.", "That's OK.", "But we have invited Michael Steele on the program and we are      hoping in the next week to have him on.  I hope he will accept the      invitation.  And Michael, if you're listening I'm going to call the      office, in fact, myself this week.  So we hope to have him on next week.", "All right.  Thank you, folks, for joining us.  A spirited Roundtable      today.", "Coming up, one of America's greatest historians gets personal; a      conversation with John Hope Franklin.  And we'll step into the gospel      music world of BET's Bobby Jones.", "You're listening to NEWS & NOTES from NPR News."], "speaker": ["ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "Professor GLENN LOURY (Brown University)", "ED GORDON, host", "Ms. TARA SETMAYER (Republican Strategist)", "ED GORDON, host", "Mr. JEFF OBAFEMI CARR (Host, \"Freestyle\")", "ED GORDON, host", "Mr. JEFF OBAFEMI CARR (Host, \"Freestyle\")", "Mr. JEFF OBAFEMI CARR (Host, \"Freestyle\")", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "Ms. TARA SETMAYER (Republican Strategist)", "Ms. TARA SETMAYER (Republican Strategist)", "Professor GLENN LOURY (Brown University)", "ED GORDON, host", "Ms. TARA SETMAYER (Republican Strategist)", "Professor GLENN LOURY (Brown University)", "Ms. TARA SETMAYER (Republican Strategist)", "Professor GLENN LOURY (Brown University)", "Ms. TARA SETMAYER (Republican Strategist)", "ED GORDON, host", "Mr. JEFF OBAFEMI CARR (Host, \"Freestyle\")", "Mr. JEFF OBAFEMI CARR (Host, \"Freestyle\")", "ED GORDON, host", "Mr. JEFF OBAFEMI CARR (Host, \"Freestyle\")", "ED GORDON, host", "Ms. TARA SETMAYER (Republican Strategist)", "Mr. JEFF OBAFEMI CARR (Host, \"Freestyle\")", "Professor GLENN LOURY (Brown University)", "Mr. JEFF OBAFEMI CARR (Host, \"Freestyle\")", "ED GORDON, host", "Professor GLENN LOURY (Brown University)", "Ms. TARA SETMAYER (Republican Strategist)", "Professor GLENN LOURY (Brown University)", "ED GORDON, host", "Ms. TARA SETMAYER (Republican Strategist)", "Professor GLENN LOURY (Brown University)", "Ms. TARA SETMAYER (Republican Strategist)", "Professor GLENN LOURY (Brown University)", "ED GORDON, host", "Professor GLENN LOURY (Brown University)", "ED GORDON, host", "Ms. TARA SETMAYER (Republican Strategist)", "ED GORDON, host", "Ms. TARA SETMAYER (Republican Strategist)", "ED GORDON, host", "Ms. TARA SETMAYER (Republican Strategist)", "ED GORDON, host", "Ms. TARA SETMAYER (Republican Strategist)", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-104154", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2006-3-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/23/ltm.06.html", "summary": "Hostages Freed; American Tourists Killed; Missing Boys", "utt": ["Good morning. Welcome, everybody. I'm Soledad O'Brien.", "And I'm John Roberts in this week for Miles O'Brien. Good Thursday morning to you.", "Twelve American tourists killed in South America after their tour bus swerved off a highway and then over a cliff. We've got the very latest from the U.S. Embassy this morning in Chile.", "I'm Nic Robertson in Baghdad. Three Western aide workers released from four months of captivity. More on that coming up shortly.", "A massive search is under way right now in Wisconsin for two young boys. A big reward is being offered in the case. We've got a live report ahead this morning.", "A big decision for tens of thousands of GM workers, take the automaker's buyout offer or stay on the job. We're following that story. And how much sleep do your children really need? We'll answer that in our continuing series, \"Sleepless in America.\"", "We begin this morning with the three Western hostages who have been set free by multinational forces in Iraq this morning. One British and two Canadian Christian aide workers had been held since November. American Tom Fox, who had been with them, was found dead two weeks ago just days after this videotape was released of the group. CNN's senior international correspondent Nic Robertson live for us in Baghdad this morning. Nic, good morning.", "Good morning, Soledad. British Embassy officials say that all three men are well, that they are in the British Embassy compound in the secure Green Zone, the international zone at the center of Baghdad. They say that no one was hurt in this operation. They describe it as a combined multinational force operation. They say, as well, that it had been in the planning stages for several weeks. The planning had involved both military and civilian people involved in that. They say that this was a product of work between the British Embassy, Canadian Embassy and Iraqi officials in Baghdad. Now police in Baghdad say that this operation occurred fairly early in the morning today in the west of Baghdad, a predominately Sunni neighborhood -- Soledad.", "Nic, has there been any update on Jill Carroll's situation?", "So far, no. This is the 76th day of her captivity. The British Embassy here has not linked her kidnapping to the three people released today -- Soledad.", "Can you update us on what we're hearing about car bombings in the capital this morning -- Nic?", "A lot of car bombings here today, four so far. More than 24 people killed; 40 or so wounded in those multiple attacks. The most deadly at a police headquarters, a suicide car bomber killing 15, wounding 32 there -- Soledad.", "Our Nic Robertson with an update for us from Baghdad this morning. Nic, thanks -- John.", "Thanks, Soledad. Now to that terrible bus accident in Chile involving American tourists. At least 12 people are dead. Their bus fell down this 260- foot mountainside. Four people, including two more tourists, survived the crash and are hospitalized this morning. The accident happened while the group was away from their cruise ship, the Celebrity Cruise Line ship, the Millennium, which is docked in Arica, Chile. The day trip took them to Lauca National Park. They were very close to the top of the mountain and switchback roads that have no guardrails. The driver of the bus, who survived the accident, said that he swerved to get out of the way of a truck, which was coming into his lane. The Millennium is going to stay docked in the port of Arica at least for the foreseeable future. Joining us on the phone right now from the U.S. Embassy in Santiago is John Vance. He is the press attache. And, John, what can you tell us about the two surviving Americans who were on board this minibus?", "Well, at this stage what we know is that they are in a hospital in Arica and are in stable condition.", "Are they getting good care up there? Are there good hospitals in Arica?", "I would characterize the medical care there as pretty good. And additionally, the doctor and the nurse from the cruise line have also gone to see to their care. And the embassy is in touch with the folks up there as well. And we've got consular officers en route to ascertain their condition and give them any help that they need.", "Right. John, we've seen pictures of this accident. It looked like a pretty barren mountain, switchback roads with no guardrails. The driver of the bus says that he swerved to avoid an oncoming truck. What else might you be able to add to the circumstances surrounding this crash? What have you heard?", "I don't think there's really anything, at this point, that I can add to that. That's essentially what I've heard as well. And we're continuing to be in contact with Chilean authorities to try to come up with more complete answers.", "What do you know about this tour operator? Celebrity Cruises is saying that it's not connected directly, at least to their organization. Is this just a local outfit? What do you know about that?", "Very little. I only know what Celebrity has stated that they apparently were not directly responsible for booking or managing the tour. And beyond that, I can't say I know anything about the particulars of the local company, if that's indeed what it was.", "I take it, though, this is one of many local companies that would swarm up to the docks when the cruise ship pulls up offering people day tours to various places?", "I really don't know on that score.", "Right. OK. What else are you doing besides sending representatives to Arica to look after the -- to look into, at least, the survivors? What are you doing for relatives of the victims, relatives of the survivors who might be concerned about loved ones?", "Obviously we recognize that this is a very, very difficult time for the families that are involved and we're doing everything we can to smooth the operation for those family members who are surviving. We're trying to do everything we can to insure that if they want to come to Chile that they can do so in a simple and straight forward manner and trying to make all the procedures as painless as possible. As well as doing everything we can still for the surviving members of the group, of whom, obviously, we have a great deal of concern both for the Americans and the Chileans who were injured. But we're doing everything we can to insure that the Americans get the medical care they need and then whatever the next steps that prove to be appropriate are.", "A terrible crash. John Vance from the American Embassy in Santiago, Chile, we'll get back to you a little bit later on this morning. As we said, the cruise ship, the Millennium, is going to stay docked in Arica for the foreseeable future. If you are looking for information about somebody who was on board that ship and you haven't been able to get in touch with them, here's a hotline that's been set up. It's 888-829-4050. 888-829-4050 -- Soledad.", "Here in this country, police are stepping up the search for two missing Milwaukee boys. Twelve-year-old Quadrevion Henning, known as Dre, and 11-year-old Purvis Parker have not been seen since Sunday afternoon. Police and volunteers are now turning their suburban Milwaukee neighborhood upside down. Let's get to Melanie Stout of affiliate WTMJ. She's live for us in Milwaukee this morning. Melanie, good morning.", "Good morning. You know the first 24 hours are the most critical when a child goes missing. It's been four days now and still nothing. No new leads. Now the search for these boys has intensified. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are helping the Milwaukee Police Department in this case. Some officers are volunteering their time. Dive teams have gone into the sewers to see if the boys fell in while playing. One manhole was found open, but again, no sign of 12-year-old Quadrevion Henning and 11-year-old Purvis Virginia Parker. Also on Wednesday, police scoured a state park north of where the boys disappeared. They searched through trees and thick brush but found nothing. Family and friends have also been out in force handing out flyers. They don't believe these boys would just wander away. The boys' families remain hopeful and desperate.", "If you see something, if you know something, please check your homes, let our boys come home. I miss my son so much.", "Now police have told us that the families of both of the boys have been very cooperative in this case. Back to you.", "Melanie, let me ask you a couple of quick questions.", "Sure.", "First, I mean I cannot imagine how frustrating it is to have no clues, no leads, no information about these two boys. Give me a sense of what the neighborhood is like and what these boys are like? Could they have just run off?", "The family doesn't believe these boys are the type to just run off. They don't have any history of running off. There is no evidence they were upset. And this neighborhood is a relatively safe, very comfortable neighborhood, a lot of families and children here. There are also registered sex offenders in the area. Police have questioned those sex offenders and even searched their homes and again they have found no evidence that a crime has been committed here.", "Gosh, what a brutal story for those families. Melanie Stout of our affiliate WTMJ. Melanie, thanks a lot.", "Time for our first check of the weather forecast on this Thursday morning. Chad Myers is off. Reynolds Wolf is at the CNN Center in Atlanta.", "Good morning.", "Am I looking at a motorcycle weekend in Washington this weekend or what?", "It's going to look beautiful. It's going to be great in Washington. It's going to be great for many places around the country. You notice Chad happens to leave and then conditions get really tranquil. I'm not saying anything, I'm -- just an observation, if you will.", "So you're highlighting that when Chad leaves and you come in the weather suddenly improves, like a mystery?", "No, no, no, no, see, that's the last thing I wanted to do. Don't you misinterpret what I'm saying. I'm just -- it's just kind of an observation.", "Yes, well it's good for us, but it's bad business for meteorologists, because you guys thrive on bad weather, correct?", "Absolutely. Absolutely.", "That's true, it could be bad for you.", "Could be bad.", "Yes, very true. I'm going to keep it zipped, man.", "You know what, and also when you're filling in, you don't want things to go too well...", "There you go. Yes, I'm -- being the new guy, you don't want...", "Try to screw up a little bit, if you would.", "We'll do all that we can here. I'm fully capable of doing that, trust me. All right.", "Thanks, Reynolds.", "Thanks, -- Reynolds.", "You bet.", "Coming up, another book detailing Barry Bonds' alleged steroid use, but this time there's new information on another star slugger's alleged cheating.", "We're also going to take a look and crunch some numbers at GM's huge buyout plan to see if it's really going to help the troubled automaker.", "And later, our special series, \"Sleepless in America.\" Today, children and sleep and why America's kids may be on the verge of a health crisis. 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{"id": "CNN-96992", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2005-8-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/17/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Evacuation Proceeding Fairly Smoothly in Gaza; Criminal Charges Considered Against Ohio Governor; Sentencing Hearing Proceeds for BTK Killer; Trio of Car Bombings Kills Dozens in Baghdad; More Info Available on Computer Worm That Hit CNN", "utt": ["I'm Wolf Blitzer, and you're in THE SITUATION ROOM, where news and information arrives at one place simultaneously. Standing by, CNN reporters across the United States and around the world to bring you the day's top stories. And they're happening right now. It's 10:00 p.m. in Gaza. Screaming, crying or praying, Jewish settlers are dragged from their homes and synagogues. In the West Bank, a violent rampage draws vows of revenge. In Baghdad, it's 11:00 p.m. Bombers striking a bus station, then in a hospital while the casualties arrive. Dozens of people are dead. And it's 2:00 p.m. in Wichita, Kansas, where the BTK killer faces families of his victims as law officers recount his gruesome crimes. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. We begin with extraordinary images as history is made painfully in Gaza. Some are resisting. Some are walking out quietly. They're weeping. Others actually burning down their own houses in violent protest. One way or another, Jewish settlers are leaving Gaza. CNN's John Vause is live for us at the largest settlement there, Neve Dekalim. He's joining us now live. John?", "Wolf, this evacuation of the Gaza Strip is moving at an extraordinary pace. Already tonight we're told by the Israeli army and the Israeli police that 10 settlements have been evacuated and an eleventh, we are told a few hours ago, was in the final stages. Here at Neve Dekalim they have stopped the evacuation of residents for the time being. But their concern right now is at the synagogue behind me. The locals here say, the residents here say, there could be as many as 2,000 young Jewish teenagers holed up inside this synagogue right now. A lot of these teenagers are not from Neve Dekalim. They've managed to sneak into the Gaza Strip over the last couple of weeks. They're here to show support for the people of Neve Dekalim as well as the 21 other Jewish settlements. Now, the police are saying they want these teenagers to leave quietly. They want them out of the -- out of the synagogue by 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. Otherwise they will use force to get them out -- although deadlines here seem to be very, very flexible, Wolf. What we have seen throughout the day, police using a combination of persuasion, sending in police women as well as rabbis, counselors, that kind of thing to try to talk the residents of this settlement into leaving quietly. When that doesn't work, that is when they send the police in. And that is when they're being carried out of their homes. There have been some clashes with police and the settlers and also the protesters. There were thousands of infiltrators into the Gaza Strip over the last couple of weeks. But for the most part it has been a peaceful evacuation. It is very good news for the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, Wolf.", "John, it's illegal now for any Israeli citizen to be in Gaza. Those who are being carried out, who are leaving now, will they be charged with a crime?", "We're looking at two different situations here, Wolf. The situation for the residents, the settlers. We're hearing from the police that they are one case. They'll be treated with respect, with sensitivity and with a great deal of delicacy. Now, as far as the infiltrators are concerned, they're another group altogether. If they don't leave when they're asked to leave -- right now, they're saying if they leave quietly they won't be charged. However, if they don't, then they will face prosecution under Israeli law, Wolf.", "All right, John Vause. We'll be checking back with you throughout these hours here in THE SITUATION ROOM. John, thank you very much. Over in the West Bank, a bloody rampage. Police say a Jewish settler grabbed a gun from a guard and shot dead two Palestinians. He was about to drive home from work at a settlement, the settlement of Shiloh. Police say he then ran into an industrial area, firing at Palestinian workers. One Palestinian was killed there. Two others wounded. The gunman was arrested. The prime minister, Ariel Sharon, is calling it an act of -- quote -- \"Jewish terror.\" The Palestinian group Hamas is vowing revenge, raising fears the violence over there could escalate. There's a developing story we're following here in the United States, a story in Ohio. We're hearing that the governor of that state, Republican Bob Taft, is about to be hit with criminal charges that could possibly land him in jail if he's convicted. CNN's Mary Snow is joining us now live. She has more on the charges. What's going on, Mary?", "Well, Wolf, we're expecting official word just around 3:30. And the Associated Press is reporting that prosecutors are poised to bring four criminal misdemeanor charges against Governor Bob Taft. Now, this has to do with failing to disclose golf outings. This is something that the governor said was not intentional. He said he would take full responsibility. Prosecutors have been meeting in the morning. They're expected to announce their decision. This is significant because it would be the first Ohio governor to be charged with a crime. And if his name is familiar, he is the great grandson of President Taft. We'll have more as it develops.", "All right. We'll check back with you at the bottom of the hour. Mary, thank you very much. Another story we're following here in the United States would be in Kansas, where some 31 years after an admitted serial killer began his killing spree he's now facing angry reactions from his victims' families and finally a punishment. Right now a sentencing hearing is under way for the admitted BTK killer, Dennis Rader. CNN's Jonathan Freed is joining us now live from Wichita with more. Jonathan?", "Wolf, I had a seat in the courtroom this morning, and I can tell you that some of the most interesting and noteworthy things that went down in that room were not happening on camera. They were happening behind the scenes. Before the court was called to order, Wolf, Steven Relford, who was the son of Shirley Vian, who was murdered by BTK in 1977, was really the only person standing in the room. He was standing by his seat with his eyes glaring on the doorway, where he knew that Dennis Rader was about to walk through and take his seat. That happened, Wolf. Rader comes through the door, and Relford just pins his eyes on Rader trying to catch his eyes. Rader never looked his way, as far as I could see. Rader sat down. Then the judge came in and instructed everybody to sit down. That was the only point that Relford -- he was forced to take his seat. But he was perched right on the edge of his seat with his hands on his knees, Wolf, and he had his eyes just fixed on Dennis Rader. Now, during the proceeding today Wolf, as photographs of the victims of the various crime scenes were displayed, when the Otero family pictures were put up there, a number of the Otero family kids just broke down in tears. We will have more later. Wolf?", "Jonathan Freed, when will we hear from Rader himself? When is he expected to make his appeal, if there is going to be an appeal?", "Based on the way this thing is timing out, Wolf, that would happen tomorrow. He'll be given an opportunity. It's called allocution. It's not clear whether or not he's actually going to take advantage of that. We've been hearing some whispers from the defense that he might. We have to wait and see for that. And tomorrow, based on how long it's taking today, would likely be when the family members would be able to make their victim impact statements, as well. Wolf?", "We'll be checking back with you, Jonathan Freed, as well. Thank you very much. Seven hundred U.S. soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, have just received deployment orders for Iraq. They're expected to be on the ground in about 30 days. Military officials are not saying how long they will stay. Officials say the troops will provide security around the Abu Ghraib prison on the edge of Baghdad and also help with security for a new detention facility being opened next month northeast of the Iraqi capital. Over in Iraq itself even by Baghdad's bloody standards it's been another devastating day in the Iraqi capital. Dozens of people are dead, many more are wounded, in three carefully coordinated bombings. CNN's Aneesh Raman is live in Baghdad. He's joining us now. Aneesh?", "Wolf, a week dominated by talk of a constitution, now focused on an attack that left 43 people dead and wounded upwards of 90 others.", "On mornings like this, the politics of Iraq seem irrelevant. A trio of car bombs detonating within minutes of each other in central Baghdad. The first two at the al-Nahda bus terminal, one of the busiest in the capital. The explosions killed dozens, wounded scores of others. Moments later, another bomb, this one at the al-Kindi Hospital as casualties from the first explosion were being brought in. A coordinated attack and one of the biggest in Iraq in weeks. The pain unbearable. The anger understandable.", "We want our voices heard by the president and every official to tackle such violence. All those who were killed are innocent people. There were no Americans, no Iraqi troops on the scene.", "This is reality for Iraqi civilians, waking some days to carnage; on most others facing a continued lack in basic services. There is work being done, reconstruction taking place, but not nearly as quick as anyone here would like. And that is why the extension of the constitutional deadline is so frustrating for the average Iraqi.", "They gave no convincing reason for the delay. They just said we are still in talks. There's no convincing reason compared to what's happening on the Iraqi streets.", "What a pity all this delay for nothing. This country is being destroyed daily by explosions with no security. Boy, we just want it to end.", "Under intense scrutiny Iraqi leaders say they are making progress toward a final compromise. Whether that is truly the case will be known in a matter of days.", "And so, Wolf, in between progress and violence reside the Iraqi people. They have hope for the future. They just at times cannot see beyond the difficulties of daily life. Wolf?", "All right. Aneesh Raman in Baghdad. We'll check back with you as well. Thank you. And your chance now to sound off on some of the major stories of the day. It's called the \"Cafferty File.\" CNN's Jack Cafferty has a different question for all of us each hour. And he's joining us now live from New York. Hello once again, Jack.", "Mr. Blitzer, how are you? Nice to see you. There's a question that precedes the question. We were brought to our knees around here yesterday by that computer worm that shut down a lot of the computers here at CNN and I think some other media places, as well, ABC and the \"New York Times.\" My computer I.Q. is probably a negative number. I know nothing about this stuff. But I was reading in the -- one of the wires today where Microsoft put out a patch on August 9 that, if installed, would have prevented this worm deal. Yesterday was, what, the 16th? So a week before the computers all went on the fritz here -- that's a technical term -- there was a patch available. How come we didn't have that patch?", "You know, our computers here in the CNN Washington bureau never missed a beat, Jack. In Atlanta and in New York we had serious problems but not in Washington.", "Well, that's the power of the Wolfman! On to other things. The Governator wants to crack down on sex offenders. Arnold Schwarzenegger out in California supporting two new bills that would force California sex offenders to wear electronic tracking devices for life. It's a great idea. Schwarzenegger say the new law would give California the strictest laws and toughest penalties for the worst crimes. That's a quote. The bill would bar registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school, make possession of child pornography a felony, and increase parole time for up to 10 years for some offenses. So the question this hour is: should sex offenders be monitored for life? E-mail us at CaffertyFile@CNN.com. The other suggestion I would make to Arnold, if he were to ask, is if we tattoo the word \"pervert\" on their foreheads when they get out of prison so everybody knows who they are and where they are. I mean, we've got to be -- remember these kids in Florida that were killed here a few weeks -- months ago by these paroled sex offenders that had records that reached from here to Washington and back? Nobody knew where they were. They were out, you know, stalking these little kids, raping them, killing them. Got to do something about that.", "All right. We've to do something about the e-mail. And we're going to be doing something about the e-mail, because we're going to be getting it. Jack, thanks. You'll be sharing it with our viewers later this hour. Still to come here, intelligence revealed. Warnings, warnings that perhaps an al Qaeda cell was operating in the United States before 9/11 and was ignored. Find out why an American military officer is now going public. He'll join us live here in THE SITUATION ROOM. Also, illegal immigration. A state of emergency declared in two states. But will that do anything to solve the problem? Standing by Lou Dobbs and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos. They'll join us to talk about it. Plus, terror behind bars. Were prison gang members trying to organize attacks in Southern California? We'll have the latest on the FBI's investigation. And a little bit later, buying booze at Wal-Mart? The world's largest retailer trying to shake up liquor sales. 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{"id": "NPR-41563", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-12-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6620706", "title": "School to Tap Trash Dump's Methane for Energy", "summary": "The University of New Hampshire will soon be relying on a local dump to meet most of its energy needs. The school will pipe methane from the regional dump to light and heat most of the campus.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris.", "The University of New Hampshire is looking at its garbage in a different way, as a source of fuel. The university wants to partner with the company Waste Management, to use a byproduct of decomposing trash to help heat and light its campus.", "New Hampshire Public Radio's Any Quinton reports.", "Most of the turnkey landfill in Rochester, New Hampshire could easily pass for the grassy green hills of Ireland. It's hard to believe that more than a million tons of garbage is send here every year.", "The pipes sticking out, you see are the lamp of gas wells, and all those supposed are 36-inch holes drilled onto the waste.", "Waste Management owns this site. District manager Alan Davis walks down from the top of the landfill toward where captured methane gas is burning.", "If you could see the flares burning. There's three flares are currently there. There's two, what we call the utility candle flares on the right, and those are ones that are - just look like a big, big lighter almost.", "Methane is a byproduct of decomposing garbage. It's also a greenhouse gas, which is why Waste Management burns it before it hits the atmosphere. But this gas is also a powerful energy source. Waste Management is already using methane from other landfills across the country to provide energy for Fortune 500 companies such as Nestle, BMW and GM. Alan Davis thought the biggest energy user next to turnkey the University of New Hampshire can also benefit from this technology.", "The plan is those flares will be burned up once the university project comes in, and instead that gases just being wasted on those flares will be going to their project.", "UNH trustees have given conceptual approval to build a 12 and-a-half mile pipeline to route the gas from this landfill to the campus. But it's not an easy or cheap process. Allan Braun is lead consultant for the project.", "That's a great opportunity, to be able to use a renewable fuel, but the challenges are pretty significant. One, landfill gas is full of contaminants that you would have to remove. Two, is that it has a low heat content, we measure that in British thermal units or BTUs. It's about half of what natural gas out of a pipeline would be.", "The university would have to build not only a pipeline, but also a processing plant to clean and raise the gases' BTU content. In total, the project would cost UNH around $33 million. Waste Management's Alan Davis says it took some persuading to get UNH to consider it.", "One you convince them that's - it can be done. It's already being done, it isn't brand new technology, and that also that there's going to be enough gas for a long time. A lot of people look at the capital investment, which is very high for something like this, and I worry that it isn't going to last long enough.", "Davis says landfills can continue to produce methane up to 20 or 30 years after their close and capped. UNH already spends about $ 12.5 million a year for heat and electricity, a cost that increases every year. Other universities such as UCLA have used methane gas from landfills to help fuel their campuses. But UNH Office of Sustainability director Tom Kelly says this project would meet 85 percent of the campuses energy needs, larger than any other university.", "And in fact, part of the importance, I think of our whole approach is that it's really exploding the myth that you have to choose between the economy and the environment so to speak.", "More importantly, Kelly says the project could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from five metric tons of carbon dioxide per person to only one. Kelly hopes pipeline construction will begin this spring. The landfill gas could be keeping students warm at UNH as early as next December.", "For NPR News, I'm Amy Quinton."], "speaker": ["MICHELE NORRIS, host", "MICHELE NORRIS, host", "MICHELE NORRIS, host", "AMY QUINTON", "AMY QUINTON", "AMY QUINTON", "Mr. ALAN DAVIS (District Manager, Waste Management)", "AMY QUINTON", "Mr. ALAN DAVIS (District Manager, Waste Management)", "AMY QUINTON", "Mr. ALLAN BRAUN (Lead Consultant, Braun Consulting Group)", "AMY QUINTON", "Mr. ALAN DAVIS (District Manager, Waste Management)", "AMY QUINTON", "Mr. TOM KELLY (Director, UNH Office of Sustainability)", "AMY QUINTON", "AMY QUINTON"]}
{"id": "CNN-303690", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-01-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/23/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Interview with Representative Steve Cohen", "utt": ["Next hour, Republican lawmakers are expected to unveil a plan to replace Obamacare. Senators Bill Cassidy and Susan Collins leading the charges, promising that their proposal would give more power to states, individual states, increase affordable access to insurance, and cover millions who are currently uninsured. Collins and Cassidy will need to get Republican leadership on board first. With me now to talk about this is Democratic congressman Steve Cohen. Welcome.", "Good morning.", "Good morning. So are you open to this replacement plan?", "Well, I think if they want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which helps over 20 million people get insurance and is insurance reform of steroids, they need to have a replacement immediately present. And they don't have a replacement. And it can be -- it can be improved, there's no question about it. And the wonderful thing is the Republicans didn't talk about having national health care policy at all other than Mitt Romney in Massachusetts back in the '90s. And now since President Obama and the Democratic Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, they are now wanting to replace it with something. So the Affordable Care Act has caused the Republicans to realize America was the only industrialized country in the world without a health policy for all of its people. We will have a health policy, I presume, or they will suffer greatly at the polls. It's important that all people have access to health care.", "So do you believe there will actually be a plan to replace Obamacare, or will they make it seem like it's a new plan but they'll just fix what's wrong with Obamacare?", "Well, I don't know what they're going to come up with. They're going to have a problem. They say they like, and I think all Americans like, not having preexisting conditions prohibit you from getting insurance. Most Americans like not having lifetime caps or yearly caps on your insurance. And women who of course participated in a historic march the other day, can't be discriminated against because of their gender. And children can stay on their parents' health insurance until they're 26. If the Republicans like these things and want to continue them, and the American people do, they're going to have to have revenue to do it because it costs money. There's this equation. Just like when you have -- if you have coverage, you have to have corresponding premiums. And if you don't have a subsidy, which we've had, you've got to find some other method to pay for it. And nothing happens for free. And I don't know if the Republicans can do that. There is a certain group there in the Freedom Caucus that won't vote for any additional expense or any additional revenue measures. And so it's going to be difficult for the Republicans to do it. Certainly they can't do it without Democratic help.", "Well, we'll see what this new plan specifically entails a little later today. I wanted to talk to you about the huge number of protesters who crowded into the mall, the huge numbers of women marching across the country. There was so much energy and passion there. And a lot of people are today wondering if that will continue or if it was just a one-off. What do you think?", "I think it will continue. I participated in a march in Memphis. We had about 9,000 people. I almost -- I was very emotional about it because I haven't seen such a turnout since the civil rights days. And people were very concerned. They want to express themselves and they did it well here in Memphis. They ended it at the National Rights Museum where unfortunately Dr. King was slain. The women of this country are in jeopardy. The bill tomorrow, which is the 44th anniversary of \"Roe v. Wade,\" the Republicans are bringing a bill that would threaten women having an opportunity to get an abortion coverage in even private insurance. And they're going to try to do so much in this bill to limit women's rights to not take into consideration the health of the woman. One of the first initiatives of this administration apparently is going to be to repeal the Violence Against Women grants. And that's been an important, important provision in federal law to help states protect women who have violence --", "So, Congressman, if those things happen, what would you like to see from these people who protested so passionately over the weekend?", "They need to stay active. They need to protest in Washington and other places when these events occur, because I think the president is very concerned about his ratings and his ratings will be going down even more than the 34 percent who approve him now. They need to write letters to the editor. They need to be involved in social media and try to get the truth out. There are no alternative facts. There are truths, there are lies. Sometimes there's spin. But alternative facts don't exist. There's no such thing. I think sometimes we're in an alternative universe, and it's a scary situation. But they need to try to set the truth -- put the truth out there on social media and letters to the editor and they need to register as many people to vote as possible. And they need to get involved in NGOs that are going to help people whether Planned Parenthood or ACLU or Southern Poverty Law Center and Sierra Club, who will be going to court and take actions like the gentlemen right now because of the terrible ethical breaches that are occurring now, threatening the emoluments clause of the Constitution. The conflicts of interests with the Trump family are great. And right now I think with what we're doing we're putting China first, Russia is right up there with them, and we're third. We're not in first place. We're not America first. We're putting Russia and China ahead. I'm concerned for America's perspective in the international community where we've been a leader in advocating for human rights and democracy. And we need to continue doing that.", "I have to leave it there, sir. Congressman Steve Cohen, thanks so much for being with me this morning. Coming up in the NEWSROOM, Samsung now says it knows what caused their phones to explode last year, but some tech experts disagree."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "REP. STEVE COHEN (D), TENNESSEE", "COSTELLO", "COHEN", "COSTELLO", "COHEN", "COSTELLO", "COHEN", "COSTELLO", "COHEN", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-291476", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2016-08-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/16/acd.02.html", "summary": "Soon: Trump Law & Order Speech; Trump To Begin General Election Ads In 5 States This Weekend", "utt": ["Good evening. In this hour, we're told Donald Trump will again step up to a podium and read from a teleprompter. He's speaking just outside Milwaukee, talking, we are told tonight, about law and order. Again, like yesterday's address in fighting ISIS, this one is expected to be scripted on message. And another sign perhaps the candidate is acting less off the cuff and more presidential, you might say, a sign in campaign insider speak that the candidate is pivoting away from the primary and toward the general election. At the same time, though, Donald Trump is once again saying himself he doesn't want to pivot or to change. So what are we going to see tonight? What we see may not be such a pivot after tonight. CNN's Jason Carroll is at the event, he joins us again with the very latest. So what is the latest in terms of expectations there at the event tonight? What are you hearing from the campaign?", "Well, a couple of things. I mean, I know you mentioned the teleprompter, certainly a number of people who support Donald Trump are hoping that he has a clear message, a simple message, and that he sticks, if you will, to the script and to the message. The message being airs and that once again, we've heard him say this before that he is the law and order candidate. We expect him to review that theme again tonight. We expect him also to paint a very distinct difference between himself and Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton, who he will tell the crowd here, Hillary Clinton is weak on terrorism, weak on crime. You know, a little earlier today, he was asked in an interview. He was asked what he would do to solve some of the problems plaguing urban communities like what we saw in Milwaukee. And he mentioned two things. He said first, bringing economic development back to these areas. And two, he talked about this need for law and order. So again, these are themes we expect him to address tonight when he eventually ends up taking the stage. Anderson?", "We're also told that the campaign is going to begin to air their first T.V. ads of the general election. I think starting this weekend, correct?", "Right. Those ads supposed to roll out this weekend in five key battleground states, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Virginia. As you know, the Trump campaign has been waiting really to release these ads, to spend money. A lot of people have been impatiently waiting saying, \"When are you going to do this, when are you going to do this.\" Hillary Clinton is spending some $105 million so far in terms of the ads that have been out there on T.V. and basically been put out there by super PACs and the NRA. So finally, Trump getting into this game. Certainly, a number of people in those states are going to be happy to see him going after Hillary Clinton on T.V. Trump was asked about this sometime ago. You know, why wait? Why wait so long to do something like this? And he said, \"I don't want to go too fast. It's like an old horse race.\" He said, \"Who knows? Maybe I'm wrong. Time will tell.\" Anderson?", "And you can hear the chants of lock her up behind you. Jason Carroll, thanks very much. They're waiting for their candidate. As we wait for Donald Trump, let's bring in the panel. Joining this hour by conservative Trump critic also, Tara Setmayer. I appreciate you all being with us. Phil, it really is interesting to watch Donald Trump, I don't know if struggle is the right word, but trying to figure out or calibrate. Should he pivot ...", "Right.", "... is what got him here? What's going to get him across the finish line to the presidency? Is it enough? Clearly, you know, he is more comfortable talking off the cuff. A lot of the -- his supporters like that about him and yet, there is also this need to reach new voters.", "Right. Yeah. I mean, that's exactly the distinction that his campaign has failed to see so far. He did a great job during the primaries. He's running it to a lot of people. He built up a core base of support that was not a majority. He only got a plurality of votes in the primary, but it was enough that he built up just being himself to get through that. And what he took in months to figure out is that wasn't a successful strategy to reach out to a general election audience. And I think the interesting thing about these T.V. ads too is, we're looking at someone who just now starting a general election campaign whereas Mitt Romney had already spent millions of dollars and had already field offices in a bunch of states in June of 2012. And so, it's fascinating that as we talk about what he's doing with this pivot, he's already months behind in terms of what his campaign should be doing anyway. And so, it's going to be fascinating to see if this actually makes a distinctive difference.", "How concerned are you guys who are supporters about the ground game, about his lack of offices, his lack of ...", "It's -- he is working in partnership with the RNC and the ground game is going to be awesome. It already is. They're out there. They are moving. They have joined a fundraising ...", "What does that mean though? But just in terms of actual offices, in terms of people on the ground, Hillary Clinton certainly has a much more organized effort under way.", "There will be more people on the ground in 2016 than there were in 2012. Hillary Clinton has also spent, like we just said, $105 million where he's virtually spent nothing. Donald Trump is in very good shape. This concept that he's pivoting because he's speaking, you know, conducting a speech with a teleprompter is ridiculous. There are two kinds of speeches in our business. There's a rally speech where we have a lot of rhetoric involved then we go off the cuff, where he speak from the heart. And then there is a policy speech where we use a teleprompter because we're conveying our thoughts ...", "So in your idea, everything is going great?", "Everything is going according to plan. His plan, and you see ...", "But the poll numbers in battleground states ...", "Right, based on what metric?", "Who's spending money in battleground states? He is not spending money, she is.", "But he's losing. I don't understand this argument.", "And by the way, we spoke a little earlier in the program on the other side of the aisle, they said we're a little concerned. You know, we're not going to take this for granted because he hasn't even started yet.", "Well Tara, you're not a Trump supporter.", "No.", "He's saying, you know, Trump hasn't even started yet. There's little bit more than 80 days left to go.", "Well, he hasn't really started yet in a lot of areas. I mean, we've been hearing this. We haven't started yet since he basically clinched the nomination back in May. They're just now starting to hire a couple of campaign, like normal campaign positions that should have been filled a long time ago. They don't have state directors in a lot of crucial states. There's zero outreach, you know, for, especially for minority communities, there's zero outreach going on.", "Have you just seen Omarosa?", "Yes, but yeah, I'm actually. I would love to see what Omarosa has done. She claims that she has 76 page outreach effort a month ago that no one's ever seen. It's not posted on their website. He haven't even contacted some of the more prominent black Republicans like Joe Watkins of Philadelphia, which is a crucial area. Pennsylvania is a crucial state. They made no contact with him. He said it even today on air. Their state director in North Carolina pulled a gun on people and is being sued for it, for goodness sake. So, I mean, this is still being an amateur hour operation. They don't have people on the ground like they're supposed to be. The RNC can't see the campaign's arm.", "All right. Tara paints a pretty bleak picture and you don't seem that concern?", "Well, the nice thing is we have a history of the same statements being said a few months ago, except with regards to the primary, he'll never win ...", "I want to talk about Ted Cruz's ground game, he's ...", "For sure and it didn't matter. And here's where Donald Trump can change this election. This electorate is suffering economically. This electorate looks around the world and there's an ISIS terrorist attack every 84 hours. They look at home and cities are burning. This is an electorate that it's prime to hear Donald Trump's primary message. And I know my liberal friends will try to paint in as racist and divisive and xenophobic. But the idea of vetting the people who come in here, the idea of bringing peace back to the streets, the idea of bringing back economic prosperity, that is a winning message. It's been clouded over the last two week by some of the side stories. If he can deliver that on the debate stage, he will win this election and he will be the next president.", "So Paul, I mean, is or Christine, is there this much to do about nothing about this ground game, about the need for offices and ...", "Well, John makes a good point.", "Paul, is that an old way of thinking?", "No. It depends on which party you're in and which voters you're reaching. In my party, there's no chance to win without it. None, because the coalition President Obama put together that Hillary is trying to inherit is built on young people, people of color and unmarried women. There's more of them in secular voters frankly. There are more of them than there are of Trump voters, but we have to reach them. Something like 25 percent of voters under 30 moved every two to four years. OK. Now, his base, I criticize old folks in the last hour. Let me tell you, his base, they vote. Older, angry, high school educated, white men, that's all they do -- well, they complain about their prostate and they vote. That's the only thing they do. And so they're going to come out no matter what.", "I just want to disavow myself from Paul.", "I have no comment.", "That's all they do. I'm defending them. They're great patriot.", "Paul, what's your Twitter ... (", "A very quick point on that.", "Yeah.", "Actually, one of the things we're seeing in polling is that Trump's core base, which is this non-college educated white men, they are actually less committed to voting than are college educated women.", "That's right.", "And that's a big problem for him because he actually does need to turn them out. And if they're relying on the RNC, the RNC, we know, is talking about pulling funding. And that's a big problem.", "But to Christine, what about to Kayleigh's point, which is they are motivated.", "Yeah.", "They're showing up at the rallies, people are standing in line for hours and hours, have been for months. He made $80 million in donations in many small donations people made, to your point last night, people made a big deal, you know ...", "Right.", "... when that was on the Democratic side, but, you know, for Trump, small donations, $80 million ...", "I have no doubt that the Trump supporters that Trump has, he has.", "Right.", "And I think there's going to be no effort on the Clinton campaign to try to get them. It would be a waste of money and waste of time. Whether they turn out to be less prime voters than others they'll see. But he has those voters. There's no question. The question now for him, as it would be for most campaigns in this moment, is how do you reach out, how do you get other voters? And, you know, Kayleigh talked before about a bridge. And look, honestly, even though I'm a Democrat, I'd love to see all candidates trying to build bridges. But the thing about bridges is they start on a foundation and they go to a foundation and they connect. And what's missing in whether it's a teleprompter or off the cuff, and I agree with John. You know, who cares what he talks from. But what's missing in both of those and the lack of the foundation is any real plans that will help Americans. If you look at his economic plan, he talked a lot about a childcare tax credit. There's great benefits in that for people making 30, 40 cents on the dollar to save on their nannies. There's nothing built in there to help people who don't have childcare, lower income New Yorkers -- Americans, pardon me, and middle income Americans get childcare that they don't have There's nothing really there to help people. There's trillions of dollars worth of tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, but there really isn't anything to create jobs. Nonetheless, to make up for the jobs that's gone overseas.", "John? John? John?", "That's not true.", "John?", "I mean, Donald Trump was very specific. He talked about tax reform, trade reform, regulatory reform. He talks about energy independence. He's talking about putting Americans back to work. That is what's going to change America. That is what's causing the social unrest in this country right now. People are not working. 14 million less Americans are working today than seven years ago. But Barrack Obama's failed domestic policy that Hillary Clinton has embraced is not going to be embraced by the American people. He is coming from a very different direction. He is talking about restoring pride in America, putting the focus on America, rebuilding America, economically, militarily, and our reputation around this world.", "Tara, I mean, for somebody who still could vote for Donald Trump, I mean, you are a conservative ...", "I'm not. But if you know right now, I will never vote for Donald Trump.", "But has he given enough specifics?", "No. I mean, look, that economic speech last Monday was a decent economic speech. I didn't agree with the protection side of some things, but some other things were really good in there and some of the things that John named. But how much did we hear about that after that? We didn't hear about it at all. He went to Twitter and he started bashing the media. And then he went off on the Second Amendment stuff. There were all those things. He keeps stepping on his own message. That should be the message he hammers home every single day if he really wants to win, but he has not been doing that consistently.", "Well which is why, again ...", "It's all over the place.", "... tonight, it is so ...", "The question whether he really want to win.", "... it is why tonight is interesting because it's two speeches back-to-back which have been very directed and we'll see. Tonight, we are waiting for Donald Trump's remarks tonight. A lot more ahead as we wait for what is billed as a law and order address just outside in Milwaukee. Coming up next, we'll explore Donald Trump's -- it means the other side cheated. He got a lot of attention. The question is, though, does it actually have basis in fact? 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{"id": "CNN-297982", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-11-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/11/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Pence and Trump Kids Now Leading Transition Team.", "utt": ["Top of the hour. You are watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin here in beautiful Washington, D.C. And on this Friday, and specifically on this Veterans Day, if I may just take a moment, yes, we live in a divided nation. And, yes, we have all just witnessed one of the darkest presidential races of our time. And even though I know so many of your emotions are still so raw, no matter where you stand on the outcome, we are all Americans. We are grateful to the men and women who sacrificed for us. And so just I wanted to say thank you, thank you for all that you do and for what everyone who came before you has done. Now to politics of the day. We have some news just into CNN, Chris Christie out, Mike Pence in. Sources tell CNN that Governor Christie has been relieved as head of Trump's transition team and that loyalty, or lack thereof, could be to blame. He is now a vice chair, along with several other Trump insiders, including Trump's grown children. So I have with me Dana Bash, our CNN chief political correspondent, and former RNC spokesman Kevin . So, great to see both of you.", "Thank you.", "And first to you, walk me through a little bit more, as far as why we know it's vice president-elect Pence chairing that and also what we know about the chief of staff role.", "OK. So, why is it vice president-elect Pence? Lots of reasons, but primarily it is because Donald Trump knows now that he can trust Mike Pence. He is somebody who already has a job. We know what his role is. And as part of that role already going into this, part of the reason why Donald Trump was comfortable picking Mike Pence is because of his deep ties to the political establishment and to the Republican world in particular. He was a former member of Congress. He knows the players there well. He knows sort of the players out in the country, because he's also a governor. So all of -- for all of those reasons, I'm told that they decided that Mike Pence should lead the effort. And why not Chris Christie? Well, look, he did a lot of work for months and months and months quietly on the transition, came down to Washington at least once a week to try to prepare for a Trump administration, even when people sort of laughed at the concept that a Trump administration would even happen. He's had a rough road, no pun intended, the past few weeks about the Bridgegate trial and the verdict, meaning that two of his former aides were found guilty. And so all of that combined with a little bit of tension, perhaps, over the \"Access Hollywood\" tape, we're told. Having said all of that, Chris Christie was very much involved in debate prep, helped lead debate prep with Reince Priebus, and has still been involved. He was there on victory night and so forth.", "On Reince Priebus, let me look to you on this one. All signs pointing yes as president-elect's chief of staff. This is what sources are telling CNN, as the RNC chair. And you know Republicans in this town. What does that indicate to you as far as perhaps what a Trump administration would look like and how he might govern?", "Well, a lot like the campaign. Reince Priebus worked his way into the campaign in a trusted role for himself. He came -- he comes from an establishment wing of the party. He's tight with members of the House and Senate and all the members of the", "Speaker Ryan, who you know very well. : And Speaker Ryan. And he would be a good fit. I don't think it's a done deal, by any stretch. I think there's a number of people that could serve in that role. He would be good for it. I think he is going to be able to serve in whatever kind of role Trump wants him to be in, because he has earned his trust. And that's what Trump is really looking for. And Pence is an excellent person to lead the transition, because he knows the policy, he knows the players on the Hill, and he's very close with Paul Ryan. So it's a good start to hit the ground running.", "Chief of staff, yes, explain. People who aren't Washington insiders, why is that role so crucial for any president?", "It's for so many reasons. And I want you to definitely add or correct me if I'm wrong on this, because he's been inside and so knows really well. But it's the gatekeeper to the president. It's the person who keeps the trains running on time. It's the person who puts the call into the president when there is that 3:00 a.m. phone call and something is happening. It's the person who helps shepherd legislation, helps shepherd priorities. And so all of those things are traits that some people, many people think that Reince Priebus has. But I think the other thing that Kevin really talked about which is really important is the bond. The president really has to have real trust in the chief of staff that things are not going to get leaked, that things are really in the cone, and...", "And if the chief of staff says, no, Mr. President, that may not be a great idea, you have got to listen.", "Well, that's exactly what I was going to say. And the other thing, especially with a President Trump, you have got to have people around who are going to be as willing to say no as they are to say yes and be able to convince him of that. Now, is Reince Priebus that guy? We're not 100 percent sure.", "Right.", "The other person who is out there who apparently raised his hand for the job is Steve Bannon, who I am told has a much -- has a real trust and has a real bond with Donald Trump, because, even though Reince Priebus, the RNC chair, and Trump became very close as the months went on, he was still the chair of the party and that was and his is first job, which meant being the go-between and also having to criticize him publicly, like he did with the \"Access Hollywood\" tape, because that was his job as party chair.", "Right. Let me move off that and more, Kevin, to this list that I have. So, the Trump team has released this list of people who will be involved in the transition. And on this list, you have Jared Kushner, who is Trump's -- who was integral in this whole campaign behind the scenes. He was here at the White House just yesterday, the son-in-law. But then you also have Don Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump. Is that a conflict of interests?", "His closest advisers have always been his family. He's a one-man band, but he has...", "None of them have government experience.", "True, but I assume they are relying on...", "But they have Trump experience.", "Yes. They have got Trump experience. And I assume they're relying on other people who do. Look, he has got broad latitude to pick whoever he wants. He's beholden to no one. He ran his own race. He does not need to go in a traditional way and pick party elders and typical political operatives. He can -- they can choose from any group in Washington.", "He could pick you. He could pick me. I'm just trying to think of smart people.", "He could go inside media. He could go anywhere. He's beholden to no one.", "To no one.", "So this is a really interesting time. And we could play the name game all day about different types of people that could possibly serve there. We will know soon enough. When the chief of staff is announced, I think then we will get kind of a...", "An indication.", "An indication of the direction he is going to take, whether it's a Steve Bannon or a Reince Priebus. And that will be the first indication I think we will have of which way he is going to go.", "What do you think about the kids being involved? I meant that jokingly about -- but someone who would actually have government experience would be a plus. And aren't they running the business and...", "Well, yes, yes, exactly.", "This is the transition, right? So this is to help get their father's administration up and running. And, no, they don't have government experience. But I said it sort of half-kidding that they have Trump experience. They know their dad.", "Sure.", "They know because they have the experience running his company. They know what will work and won't work for him. And with regard to his son-in-law, he was incredibly involved. I mean, he was on the phone with the RNC working on budgets and things. He was so deep in the weeds in the campaign.", "He could go beyond the transition team. You know where I'm going with that.", "But -- but there was a law passed in response to the -- or because of JFK putting his brother in as attorney general. There is a law -- there's a nepotism law, basically. And what is unclear is how a son-in-law falls into that. I mean, our Abigail Crutchfield was looking at the law. And she thought that it does say in-laws as well, but we will see what that means for how he could possibly put them in more formal roles or whether it's even legally possible. We just don't know.", "OK. OK. Thank you both so much. So much happening. What a week it has been. We have much more also on this transition and the process and the names. That's coming up. But, first, as anti-Trump protests and these demonstrations enter now day number three, there have also been more isolated reports of divisive and hateful behavior and some of them in schools. In Pennsylvania, for example, three students were suspended for chanting \"white power\" while parading the halls with Trump signs.", "White power. White power.", "A wall in Durham, North Carolina, vandalized with the words \"Black lives don't matter and neither does your votes.\" Some Trump supporters have also reported instances of harassment themselves. This has all put teachers and counselors and school administrators in some pretty tough positions of navigating all these young people and their emotions. So, joining me now, Chad Velde-Cabrera. He's the principal of the International Community School in Atlanta, whose school has a massive immigration and refugee problem -- or program. So, Chad, thank you so much for joining me. I'm from Atlanta. I'm very well-acquainted with your school. It's excellent.", "Thanks, Brooke.", "So, here's my question. When you heard of the election results, I know that you sent off a letter to your teachers. What did you tell them?", "I told my teachers that the students are going to be experiencing a lot of different feelings on Wednesday. And I told them what they need to do is just create space for students to talk with each other, let students share one at a time. Let students sit down and write what they're feeling. So they have got express what is going on. And they have to know that we, as a school, as their teachers, their administrators, we care for them and we will keep them safe through everything that is happening right now, because the students are afraid.", "What have you -- I mean, talk a little bit more about the fear.", "Yes.", "Have you seen, though, also, any elation? Or walk me through the spectrum of emotions for these young people.", "Right. So, Wednesday morning -- I greet my students outside the school every day. And kids came off the bus crying. They came off the bus crying. They came up to hug me. One student said, \"Mr. Velde-Cabrera, am I going to be sent back to my country? I don't want to go back to my country.\" And so there was just a lot of crying, a lot of fear. But I really want to commend my teachers, because they created that space. And all of my teachers were assuring the students that they're safe in our school, that they're not going to be sent back. And I have seen so many examples of students stepping up. I remember I saw one student telling another student, like, I know you're afraid right now, but we're here. We're together. You're not going anywhere. You're staying here with us.", "Kudos to those teachers, if I may take a moment.", "Yes. Yes.", "My own mother was a teacher. And we need them and they're amazing and especially at times of transitions like these. Last question.", "Yes.", "Are your young people, Chad, are they finding a way forward? Is there a sense of hope in your hallways?", "There is a sense of hope. Our students are incredibly resilient. Fifty percent of our students are immigrants and refugees; 50 percent of our students are born in the U.S. And when you have a school that -- where there's over 30 countries represented, over 25 languages spoken among the student population, you learn to get along with each other, and you realize that we're in the struggle together. Whatever you're going through, I'm going through it with you. Even though we don't look alike, we believe different things, we're together because we're trying to create a better world. And that's what we do at International Community School. And it's a great place. And I'm really glad that our students have the support of our staff and each other during this time.", "Chad, thank you for all that you're doing in Atlanta. Chad Velde-Cabrera, I appreciate your voice and your role here. Coming up next, we will discuss this -- he just alluded to it, some the fear across the country and new reflections from the Clinton campaign about why she lost. Hear who is actually getting a big part of that blame. I'm Brooke Baldwin. And you're watching CNN."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "BASH", "BALDWIN", "KEVIN , FORMER ROMNEY ADVISER", "RNC. BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "BASH", "BALDWIN", "BASH", "BALDWIN", "BASH", "BALDWIN", "SHERIDAN", "BALDWIN", "SHERIDAN", "BASH", "SHERIDAN", "BALDWIN", "SHERIDAN", "BALDWIN", "SHERIDAN", "BALDWIN", "SHERIDAN", "BALDWIN", "BASH", "BASH", "BALDWIN", "BASH", "BALDWIN", "BASH", "BALDWIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BALDWIN", "CHAD VELDE-CABRERA, PRINCIPAL, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SCHOOL", "BALDWIN", "VELDE-CABRERA", "BALDWIN", "VELDE-CABRERA", "BALDWIN", "VELDE-CABRERA", "BALDWIN", "VELDE-CABRERA", "BALDWIN", "VELDE-CABRERA", "BALDWIN", "VELDE-CABRERA", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-272406", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-12-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/29/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Belgian Police Have Arrested Two People Suspected of New Year's Eve Plot; \"Affluenza\" Teen Caught in Mexico", "utt": ["Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. I am Rosemary Church. Thanks for joining our second hour of CNN NEWSROOM. And we have this just in to CNN, a Belgian federal prosecutor says police have arrested two people suspected of plotting militant attacks in Brussels on New Year's Eve. Reuter's news agency reports the arrests came in different parts of the country on Sunday and Monday. Police say they found military clothing and ISIS propaganda, but no weapons or explosives during their searches. Prosecutors say those searches were not linked to last month's Paris attack. Well, Iraqi forces are declaring a victory in a major blow against ISIS. The Iraq army says it has pushed ISIS out of the strategic city of Ramadi. On Monday, Iraqi soldiers raised their flag in the city's center. Even as they celebrated, the sounds of gunfire could still be heard. There are pockets of ISIS fighters still in Ramadi. A top general says it may take up to three weeks to push them all out. CNN's Nima Elbagir has the details.", "Declaring victory in Ramadi. Video broadcasts by Iraqi state TV shows soldiers raising their national flag over the city's government compound, celebrating the Iraqi military's first major victory over the so-called Islamic state.", "Ramadi has been freed and the armed forces and the antiterrorist group, and also we've raised our flag on the government's building in Anbar.", "In May, ISIS fighters seized Ramadi's capitol from the Anbar province west of Baghdad, as the government troops fled in defeat. U.S.-trained Iraqi forces returned launching an assault in the city last week, making their final push to seize the century located government complex on Sunday. It showed Iraqi troops advancing through Ramadi, street by street amid piles of rubble and collapsed houses. Even amid the celebrations, Iraqi officials say government troops still need to clear some remaining pockets of insurgents in the city. Once secured, Ramadi will be handed over to local police, and the Sunni tribal force and they'll win support in the local community. After that, Iraq's government has said their next target will be the northern city of Mosul. With an estimated pre-war population of 2 million, Mosul is the largest population center controlled by ISIS, and either Iraq or Syria, and a crucial source of tax revenue, if it's retaken it will take down much of the infrastructure underpinning ISIS' claim to state hood.", "And Nima joins us now on the line from Baghdad. So Nima, how significant is this given there are many challenges ahead in the effort to deliberate all of Ramadi with these pockets of resistance that you talked about there in your report?", "Well of course, we all remember those images of the Iraqis fleeing Ramadi back in May of this year in humiliation. The sense that it was as much about the failures of the U.S.-led coalition and their strategies in Iraq as it was about their failures. The Iraqi government is prematurely, if they are, calling this liberation. This is as much about them as it is about Ramadi. This is a break from that. This will be the first major city taken by the Iraqi army without those mobilized Shia groups. We've seen them fully liberating it very quick and claiming credit for that -- the training that they've been giving the Iraqi forces. Those we're speaking to say the similarities here are tough to beat. The security campaign as they're calling it. The sources in the Iraqi military are calling it. That will take a little bit of time to clear to out the remaining pockets of ISIS. They are seeing an extraordinary victory going towards the end of the year and what their hopes are in the city in the coming next year, Rosemary?", "Yeah, and Mosul is very much in their sights. We'll continue to watch this story, Nima Elbagir joining us on the line there from Baghdad, many thanks to you. Well, Mexican authorities say they have detained a Texas teenager known as the Affluenza teen wanted in the U.S. for allegedly violating his probation. Ethan Couch and his mother were taken into custody near the resort town of Puerto Vallarta. Couch was sentenced two years ago to probation in a drunken driving crash that killed four people. He's attorney's argued Couch suffered from what they called Affluenza because his parents never taught him right from wrong. Police say Couch missed an appointment with his probation officer earlier this month, and he and his mother disappeared. Couch and his mother are expected to be turned over to U.S. marshals. Well, at least 43 people have been killed in severe weather across the U.S. in the past week, and it's not over yet. Flash floods in Missouri are blamed for several of those deaths. The state's governor has declared a state of emergency. Farther west, blizzard warnings are in effect. In Dallas, Texas, people are trying to recover from deadly tornadoes. Nick Valencia reports.", "I thought I was dead, you know? I was waiting for the tornado to suck me out, but it didn't. Life gave me a second chance.", "For Josh White, the chance to walk away from a deadly e-4 tornado in Garland, Texas almost didn't come.", "I was running towards my closet. The doors and everything started caving in. Stuff started flying through the windows. Things were hitting us.", "He hid with his wife and 5-year-old son with just a mattress to protect them from winds up to 200 miles per hour.", "This has made me realize how fragile life is.", "Eleven people were killed in Texas alone this weekend when tornadoes ripped through the state, tearing apart buildings, leaving skeleton structures and shattered wood behind. The destructive winds are a part of a massive storm system wreaking havoc across the nation with a deadly mix of tornadoes, ice, blizzards, and flooding stretching from New Mexico to Maine. At least two dozen people have died and more than 100 million more could be affected by severe storms, flooding and snow from this same system. White gathers his belongings and just a sweatshirt, while others in the lone star state are digging out of frigid blizzard conditions, just part of the bizarre and brutal weather here. Texas is among the hardest hit states along with Illinois and Missouri, each reporting multiple deaths. At least four international soldiers stationed at Fort Wood perished in Missouri this weekend when their car was overtaken by rising water.", "We found two men in the car and two men outside the vehicle in a creek.", "Now as hundreds of Americans are beginning to see the destruction left in the storm's path, millions more are bracing for what's next. Josh White says he'll be there to help anyone who needs it.", "Everybody never expects this. Once you go through it, it changes your life. You want to help people now, you know?", "The recovery efforts in Garland, Texas, continue. Residents at this apartment complex have slowly started to trickle back to see if they can salvage any of their belongings. The structural damage is so severe that many of them have yet to be let back inside, Nick Valencia, CNN, Garland, Texas.", "And northern England is also dealing with severe weather. The region has been rocked by extensive flooding with a month's worth of rain coming in just a day in some areas. British Prime Minister David Cameron toured the flood zones in York on Monday, seeing the widespread damage firsthand. He pledged he would help with whatever was needed.", "Here in Yorkshire, for instance, we've spent 100 million pounds on flood defenses since be I became Prime Minister. We're planning to spend another 280 million, almost three times as much. That's of no comfort, obviously, to the people who have been flooded in York. To be flooded is a terrible experience anyway, and it's even more terrible when it happens at Christmas or New Year, a time when people are meant to be home with their families and celebrating.", "Prime Minister David Cameron there. And Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us now with the latest on the conditions there. So Pedram, talk to us about when people in that region can expect the water level to subside and the weather to improve.", "It's of course, across that area, Rosemary, a couple of days before we begin to see some improvement. It seems to be a seesaw battle. Conditions improve, go back downhill, and we improve again. This pattern persisted across the southern U.S. -- Midwestern United States where nearly 70 tornadoes spawned in the past seven days, the most number of tornadoes in the month of December. When we take a look, six consecutive days of tornado reports in the month of December, the last time this happened in 1982. The only other time we had six straight days of tornadoes in December was in 1953. Both years were by the way, El Nino years. Of course, there's a flooding concern across the United States as well, 430 reported rivers reporting flooding at this hour. High risk of flooding that was in place on Monday. Improves a little bit come Tuesday. Look what happens when we come into Wednesday -- flood warnings still in place across this portion of the world. The images look something like this. Of course, when you tie in this on a global scale we know, take a look at the floor perspective, the graphics here. El Nino pattern that's displaced the jet stream, we have a wet weather pattern across the U.S., Seattle and Portland, Oregon have 28 straight days in the month of December.", "Understood. Also received a tweet from someone in Ireland saying there are problems in terms of flooding as well, many thanks to you, Pedram, for covering that. Appreciate it. Well, severe flooding is also affecting large parts of South America. More than 160,000 people have been displaced by torrential rains. Argentina's vital tourism industry is suffering because of it. Many people are beginning to worry about lasting damage. CNN's Diego Laje reports.", "The situation in Concordia in northeastern Argentina is concerning. There are more than 10,000 evacuees only in this town. Add to the figure of 160,000 evacuees in the region combining Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina. In this town, one in ten has lost their homes. That's probably not the biggest part of the drama here. The biggest part is that many businesses are gone. The water already above roof levels in many -- in many businesses. Together with that, this is the beginning of the summer season, the beginning of the travel season. This town depends heavily on tourism. Here, many people are very worried they will not make enough cash flow for the rest of the year. They depend on the summer travel season to make money to live through the year, through 2016. That is exactly what most people are concerned with right now. In the meantime, authorities are mobilizing police, army, and rescue personnel to try and bring shelter to those that have been displaced. The crisis is expected to last for many, many months to come, Diego Laje, CNN, Concordia.", "Iran has shipped more than 25,000 pounds of low enriched uranium to Russia. The U.S. calls it a significant step in Iran honoring the nuclear deal reached with major world powers earlier this year. Under the deal, Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program in exchange for relief from a number of economic sanctions. Tehran committed to reducing its supply of low enriched uranium to below 660 pounds. Well, there will be no indictments for two police officers in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, coming up, why his family is accusing prosecutors of sabotaging the case. Also ahead, U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump has more harsh words for the Clintons, back in a moment."], "speaker": ["ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN HOST", "NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "YAHYA RASOUL, IRAQI MILITARY SPOKESMAN", "ELBAGIR", "CHURCH", "ELBAGIR", "CHURCH", "JOSH WHITE, HOME DESTROYED BY TORNADO", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WHITE", "VALENCIA", "WHITE", "VALENCIA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "VALENCIA", "WHITE", "VALENCIA", "CHURCH", "DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER", "CHURCH", "PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "CHURCH", "DIEGO LAJE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-143987", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-10-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/15/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Tobacco Companies Color Code Cigarettes", "utt": ["Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. You know, there is no such thing as a cigarette that's good for you. We all know that. Tobacco companies are not allowed to put low tar or even light on packaging anymore.", "But they are allowed to market their brands with colors which are sending up some new smoke signals that you need to be aware. Our Jason Carroll joins us now with that. Good morning.", "Yes. Colors and they've changed their wording just a little bit. You know, from the tobacco company's point of view, they've gone far enough. They switched their labels to be in compliance with the new law but one study shows they may need to go even further if consumers are to be protected.", "Light, ultra-light, low tar. Soon you won't find them on cigarettes anymore. Federal regulators banned the use of those terms saying cigarette companies were selling smokers on the idea one type of cigarette might be healthier. The American Cancer Society says light cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes. Now, cigarette companies are rolling out updated branding with names like \"blue\" and \"silver.\" But is it the same old smoke and mirrors? Some researchers say yes.", "The new descriptors which will be allowed under the new legislation are having the same misleading deceptive effect as the old ones that will be banned.", "Canadian researchers did test showing people the new wording on similar packaging. In one sample, 83 percent rated \"silver\" cigarettes as delivering less tar than the brand labeled \"full flavor.\"", "If we put the word \"silver\" on the pack, if we put the word \"white,\" if we put the word \"smooth,\" they were just as likely to think that that brand was less harmful.", "We did our own unscientific experiment and showed people two packs of Pall Malls, one red the other blue. And asked which one, if any, they thought was healthier?", "I could see blue being the lighter one of the two.", "Blue is like water. The red is like fire.", "Red is more severe like code red is more severe than I don't know. Does it make any sense?", "It makes sense to marketing experts when you consider before the new legislation passed, Pall Mall blues were labeled Pall Mall lights.", "Color is a fabulous way to keep sending the message home fabulous, wonderful, I want it now. It's going to satiate a need I have. So I think it's fabulous messaging and really lousy for society.", "Researchers from the Canadian study say cigarette companies should be banned from using certain words and colors to which the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, maker of Pall Mall cigarettes told CNN this is really a common sense issue. There are hundreds of brands and styles of cigarettes on the market. Consumers need a way to distinguish what brand and style they want to purchase.\"", "Well, R.J. Reynolds also told CNN that their new packaging is designed to adhere to the new law. The law passed back in June mandates all tobacco companies be in compliance by June of next year, but there is one more hurdle it must clear. The tobacco industry has filed suit against the federal government to try and block the ban on labeling cigarettes light or mild. I think those people who want to crack down on cigarettes would ultimately like to see one color, perhaps white for all cigarettes.", "Or no cigarettes.", "Or no cigarettes, exactly.", "Jason Carroll for us this morning. Jason, thanks so much. Dr. Sanjay Gupta continues the series \"Cheating Death.\" Today he talks to a football coach. There he is. He dropped dead on the field. He's a referee that day.", "He's a ref -- yes.", "He dropped dead on the field. Didn't have a heartbeat for three whole minutes. What he saw when he was going as he thought to the other side. It's an emotional interview coming up. Stay with us. Twenty-four and a half minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CARROLL (voice-over)", "DAVID HAMMOND, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO AT CANADA", "CARROLL", "HAMMOND", "CARROLL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CARROLL", "MARIAN SALZMAN, PRESIDENT, EURO RSCG PUBLIC RELATIONS", "CARROLL", "CARROLL", "ROBERTS", "CARROLL", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-340276", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-05-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/16/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Tillerson Not-So-Subtle Jab at Trump During Commencement Address", "utt": ["Two months after he was fired as secretary of state, today, Rex Tillerson delivered the commencement speech to cadets at the Virginia Military Institute. A major theme of his speech was about protecting truth.", "If our leaders seek to conceal the truth or we, as people, become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in fact, then we, as American citizens, are on a pathway of relinquishing our freedom. The responsibility of every American citizen to each other is to preserve and protect our freedom by recognizing what truth is and is not, what fact is and is not. When we, as people, a free people, go wobbly on the truth, even on what may seem the most trivial of matters, we go wobbly on America. If we do not, as Americans, confront the crisis of ethics and integrity in our society and, among our leaders in both the public and the private sector and regrettably, at times, even the nonprofit sector, then American democracy as we know it is entering its twilight years.", "Joining me now to talk about this, CNN chief political correspondent, Dana Bash, and CNN counterterrorism analyst, Phil Mudd, a former CIA counterterrorism official and former FBI senior intelligence adviser. That is amazing to hear them say that. Where he says if you go wobbly on the truth, you go wobbly on America. It's not even subtle.", "Not even subtle. Talking about the truth, talking about facts, talking about ethics, talking about integrity. There's no question what he is talking about, there's no question the message he is trying to send. It is pretty remarkable. Now, if I'm sitting in the White House right now, I'm trying to figure out how to respond to this I'm thinking, OK, the guy got fired. Having said that, he came from way outside of Trump world, he came from the private sector, from where things were done very differently. And he clearly never fit into the world he described not but name, but it was pretty clear what he was talking about. Remember, he wasn't just any cabinet secretary. He represented the Trump administration on the world stage. So the idea of the truth being a fundamental of democracy, something he was representing around the world, clearly worries him in terms of America being a leader historically on the basis of that very fundamental thing.", "What did you think listening to this commencement address?", "I think if you go back a couple of years when the president first started to campaign people thought that he was laughable, and as the campaign gained momentum, you recognized that he struck a chord with the American people. When he got into the office, you looked at some of what he said, everything from phantom voters, even Republican voters said we didn't see that happening. They wired the Trump Tower, we had the FBI director saying we didn't see that happening. Sean Spicer admitted he lied within 24, 48 hours about the inauguration size. I thousand the significance of what Tillerson said is going into conversations about the Iran nuclear deal and about what we think about North Korea, what do we believe and who do we believe? Do we believe the former secretary of state, the current secretary of state, the apparently incoming CIA director? Do we believe the vice president, the president who had systematically lied? Hope Hicks said she lied for him. Sean Spicer admitted he lied about the inauguration size. And significant issues beyond the sort of vague humor of how many people showed up at the inauguration, who do we believe? I'm not sure I know anymore.", "I have about a dozen at least questions that I would love to see answered today in the White House briefing. We're actually waiting to see if they're -- what is up with the White House briefing. As you can see, folks are ready for it there in the briefing room. Sarah Sanders spoke briefly this morning with reporters about North Korea, which is a huge, huge story today. And she hinted at the fact that there would be a briefing. Let's listen.", "I think so probably. I feel like we've covered it all now.", "OK. Now we're waiting to see, right? And it's late in the day, 2:42 p.m. Eastern time. Normally, you'd have an idea of kind of what is going on here. We don't. We did not see a briefing yesterday. There was a briefing on Monday. It was not Sarah Sanders. It was her deputy, Raj Shah. There's so much to answer for, between these Senate Judiciary Committee transcripts released about the Trump Tower meeting in 2016 and North Korea. Should we be seeing a briefing?", "Sure. Absolutely And there's a nexus to what you just saw from the former secretary of state talking about truth and integrity and democracy. This is a basic tenet of democracy, a free press. The tradition has been for the White House to answer questions. So when you started covering the Obama administration, there was even more frequency of press briefings. There was one in the morning that was off camera and then in the afternoon. Same goes for the Bush administration that I covered. It changed later. But I think, at the end of the day, yes, it is something that we should demand, the ability to ask questions. Sarah Sanders noted that she did something impromptu in the Bushes or on the driveway, wherever it was, and then you also have to take a further step back and say we demand it but then we should also demand the truth when we get the answers.", "That's right. And sometimes you're watching the briefing, Phil Mudd, and you feel like it was just a practice in obfuscation. Certainly, on Monday, it was like that. What would you like to learn today? What do you think is to be learned today from a White House briefing?", "How long do you want to go? Number one, are you comfortable or uncomfortable where the North Koreans are? Number two, where are we're going to go on the new CIA nominee? And what you think about her responses on what the president said during the campaign he thought was interesting, waterboarding? What do you think should happen in terms of the Iran nuclear deal? We see questions about where the Europeans and others are going to go on this. If you're looking at that from a White House perspective, why would you have the briefing? The president doesn't want to go to the Correspondents' Dinner because it's uncomfortable and they make fun of him, just like I'm sure they did in fourth grade. The president doesn't want to have press interviews and exchanges with the entire press corps, that was a hot mess. Sarah Sanders doesn't want to answer questions about did the president pay Stormy Daniels, which came up again today. Why would you do this if the president can speak directly via Twitter and the president's supports supporters say we don't care if he lies. And 40 percent of them think that's OK. Character doesn't matter.", "Don't discourage them. Don't discourage them, Phil.", "All right, Phil Mudd, Dana Bash, thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "Stay with me, if you can. Speaking of, President Trump's financial disclosures are out and we're learning the details on the repayment to his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for the hush money, as Phil just mentioned, to the porn star, Stormy Daniels. What it's revealing. Just ahead."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "REX TILLERSON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE", "KEILAR", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR", "PHIL MUDD, CNN COUNTERTERRORISM ANALYST", "KEILAR", "SARAH SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "KEILAR", "BASH", "KEILAR", "MUDD", "BASH", "KEILAR", "MUDD", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-288531", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-07-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/10/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Mexican President Says No Way Mexico Will Pay for Trump's Wall.", "utt": ["Welcome back. You're live in the CNN NEWSROOM. From day one, day one, of his candidacy, Donald Trump vowed to build a wall between the United States and Mexico and to have Mexico pay for it. Well, today in a CNN exclusive interview with Mexico's president, he responded to those claims.", "So Donald Trump's main policy promise, the one he began his campaign with, is that he intends to build a wall between the United States and Mexico, along the border, and he intends to get Mexico to pay for it.", "There's a way to have Mexico pay that wall, but any decisions inside the United States is a decision of its government.", "But under no circumstances would Mexico pay for that wall?", "There is no way that Mexico can pay a wall like that.", "Joining me now CNN political commentator and Donald Trump supporter, Scottie Nell Hughes. Scottie, it's great to have you back -- to be back with you. Thank you for joining us. The wall.", "Welcome back, Poppy.", "Thank you. It's so nice to be back with everyone. The wall. You heard the president there. He said no way are we going to pay for this. So can Trump still stump on this?", "Absolutely. I mean, fine, he can say that, and Mr. Trump, as president of the United States, can say, you know what, the $24 million a year that people in America send back to Mexico, illegals that America send back to Mexico, those just won't go through. $24 million in the Mexican economy probably will make a big difference. Also, you look at trade tariff, visa fees --", "But are you saying Trump will be able to twist the president's arm? To twist his arm to say, you can't send that money back, you know, if you don't pay for the wall?", "Absolutely. I mean, like the president said, if you sit there -- if you're in America, he decides who does America just like the president of Mexico decides what he wants to do within Mexico. I mean, here's what's interesting about this. You're talking about a man right now that the average Mexican actually does not make near that. I think their minimum wage is something like $5.60 an hour, and that's if you've been working for one year or 40 years. So he's sitting here telling us -- and he was right in his interview. One million people cross illegally every year back and forth. And that is OK. That is what we want. But right now we have 11 million immigrants crossing over into the United States that is costing us $113 billion per year. That's $113 billion we could reinvest in our communities right now, in education, in economic development. Exactly what we need. Immigrants right now, illegals can actually get on our health care system. Americans can't even afford to get health insurance, yet illegals are able to do it.", "Scottie --", "Yes.", "I'm getting the wrap but I need a yes or no very quickly. If it were only that the United States had to pay for the wall or there would be no wall, should we build it, yes or no?", "Absolutely, because in the end we'd still save money if we keep the illegals from coming over here.", "You heard the president of Mexico telling our Fareed Zakaria no way we're paying for a wall. And the wall debate continues. Scottie Nell Hughes, thank you very much. Coming up here in just a moment, you will hear a critically important interview. The entire exclusive interview with Dallas Police Chief David Brown. He sat down for an extended conversation with my colleague Jake Tapper this morning. You'll want to hear it. It's next right here."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST, FAREED ZAKARIA GPS", "PRES. ENRIQUE PENA NIETO, MEXICO", "ZAKARIA", "PENA NIETO", "HARLOW", "SCOTTIE NELL HUGHES, TRUMP SUPPORTER", "HARLOW", "HUGHES", "HARLOW", "HUGHES", "HARLOW", "HUGHES", "HARLOW", "HUGHES", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-348741", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-08-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/28/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Attorneys: Toddler Died after Getting Sick in ICE Custody; Child Dies Weeks after being Released from ICE Custody", "utt": ["New this morning, a mother and her attorney are blaming the death of her 18-month-old daughter on substandard care she received while in ICE custody. The toddler died six weeks after being released from an immigration facility in Texas. That's where her mother claims the little girl contracted a respiratory infection and wasn't given adequate treatment. Joining me now, CNN's Nick Valencia who has the latest for us. Nick?", "Good morning, Erica. Yazmin Juarez and her 18-month-old daughter crossing the United States illegally, asking for asylum from their native Guatemala, they were fleeing gang violence there hoping for a better life here in the United States. They were detained and transferred to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas which is in South Texas. And what the family and attorney alleged happened in that three weeks is absolutely awful. Here is a time line of what the attorney provided to us saying that in the course of these three weeks, a few days after arriving, Yazmin Juarez and her daughter Mariee detained by ICE. The little girl showed no health problems. But two weeks later on March 11th, Mariee had symptoms of a respiratory infection. She was given meds but it did not improve her condition. In fact, it seemed that her condition only deteriorated. She was vomiting, losing weight, developed a fever. By March 25th, she was clearly so gravely ill that the two were released. Within 24 hours, the mother, who is 20 years old, took her 18-month- old to the emergency room where for the next six weeks, little Mariee was hospitalized for respiratory failure. Her condition continued to worsen and on May 10th, she died at the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. Now, as you mentioned Erica, the family's attorney is effectively blaming ICE which runs this facility in part with others. Here is part of the statement of what they said to us saying, \"A mother lost her little girl because ICE and those running the Dilley immigration prison failed them inexcusably.\" They are effectively, as I mentioned, saying that this child who arrived at the facility healthy died six weeks after leaving the facility because they were neglected. Erica?", "And ICE were just talking about the ICE response there too in terms of what they said.", "Yes. ICE -- we did reach out to them. They offered us statement, not specifically addressing Mariee, not talking specifically about this case but saying, \"ICE is committed to ensuring the welfare of all those in the agency's custody, including providing access to necessary and appropriate medical care. Comprehensive medical care is provided to all individuals in ICE custody.\" We should also mention very quickly here, child welfare officials in the state of Texas have launched an investigation. You know, Erica, I spent a month on the border talking to a lot of these migrants. And the majority of them I spoke to, they think when they come to the United States at the very least that they will have a better life, things will be OK. This is absolutely a parent's worst nightmare. Erica?", "Nick Valencia, appreciate the reporting. Thank you.", "You bet.", "CNN has learned the gunman accused of killing two people at a Madden football video game tournament in Florida had previously received treatment for psychological and emotional issues. David Katz's mental health issues are detailed in his parents' divorce records. Two people, 27-year-old Taylor Robertson and 22-year-old Elijah Clayton were killed. Katz then turned the gun himself. In response to the shooting, EA Sports has cancelled the three remaining Madden tournaments so it can review safety protocols. The sex abuse scandal ripping apart the Catholic Church could implicate leaders at the highest ranks. The Pennsylvania attorney general now announcing he has evidence the Vatican protected predator priests who abused and raped children. How the Vatican is now responding. That's next."], "speaker": ["ERICA HILL, CNN ANCHOR", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HILL", "VALENCIA", "HILL", "VALENCIA", "HILL"]}
{"id": "CNN-395875", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-03-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/23/nday.04.html", "summary": "Faces of Unemployment amid the Crisis; Federal Reserve Warns of Unemployment Soaring", "utt": ["Millions of Americans are looking to Congress for relief and they remain in limbo this morning amid a stalemate in the Senate over a roughly $2 trillion stimulus plan.", "How you doing guys? It's just been a completely life altering experience from start to finish, and within a week. I mean this is unbelievable.", "Yes, I have a 2 ounce and I have the 8 ounce.", "Like the virus spreading across the globe, the economic damage leaves no restaurant untouched.", "We would have all the seats filled.", "All of these seats?", "We'd have -- it would -- it would be a line out the door.", "California's stay at home orders to fight coronavirus changed the entire industry in an instant.", "We went from being about to franchise to basically running a to-go business. I, you know, haven't slept. I am -- I'm worried about having a heart attack to be perfectly honest with you.", "With no diners, the Drunken Crab (ph) is hemorrhaging thousands of dollars a day. Restaurants, a sign of what's to come in the U.S. economy. The industry estimates up to 7 million people will lose their jobs in the next three months, nearly half of all service workers.", "Have a good night.", "Josh Souder already forced to make that hard choice.", "I had to, you know -- I was forced to lay off 75 people. At first you're thinking about them, OK, I feel horrible for them, and then they have to go home and tell their family, I just got laid off.", "I called my wife over the phone and said, honey, I'm on my way home, and she just -- she pretty much immediately knew.", "Laid off from the Drunken Crab, former general manager Jay Bocken immediately filed for unemployment. One of the 2.25 million Americans that Goldman Sachs estimates filed jobless claims in the", "You're talking thousands and thousands of", "And already signs money is getting tight. Outside this west Hollywood bar, employees only, a line. Inside, the small staff preps meals. Free meals for workers who show a pay stub. Like bartender Geri Courtney-Austein.", "All of us like immediately lost our jobs, I think, as of Monday or Tuesday.", "Are you worried about how long this is going to last?", "One hundred percent. If it goes on months like I -- I don't think any of us have any idea what we're going to do.", "The moment this happened, we were going to dig ourselves in a hole regardless.", "Are you scared?", "I'm concerned.", "Restaurant owner Tom Sopit's rent is a thousand dollars per day. he doesn't want to fire anyone. But this is a new reality he will have to face.", "Yes. All we can do is help each other.", "Kyung Lah, CNN, Los Angeles.", "It is so hard for so many people now. Not a few people. We're talking millions of people.", "Yes.", "Our chief business correspondent Christine Romans joins me now. And, Romans, people are struggling with this. People who were working two weeks ago are now not working.", "Yes.", "They're looking to Congress for answers. Congress isn't getting its act together, at least not yet. They're delayed. So what should people do?", "Well, look, so if Congress does get its act together, for example, those small business owners would have a couple of weeks or maybe even more of cash flow to retain their workers. I mean that's one of the things the stimulus plans wants to do. It wants to give money right away to small business owners so they can at least pay people not to work so that you don't disrupt the economy even more. If you have lost your job or you're a small business owner and you've got bills to pay on April 1st, the first thing to do, John, is talk to your lender. They're ready to hear from you. The phone lines might be jammed, but you've got to talk to your lender. Bank of America, for example, is deferring your mortgage payment, your small business loan, your auto loan, a lot of other banks are doing the same thing, you just have to talk to them right away. Student loans, by the way, the president has said that interest -- he waived interest for the next 60 days on student loan payments, and then went even further and said you don't have to pay the student loan minimum for the next couple of months. So check into that. Again, check with your lender, though. Super important. And if this stimulus plan passes, John, you're going to get some money. You know, the Treasury secretary this weekend said the plan was is was going to be about $3,000 for a family of four. It caps out at a certain income level, you know, so this is meant for people who are working people, people who need money to pay their bills right now, that's if Congress gets its act together.", "What's so sounding is the idea that $2 trillion might not even be enough.", "Yes.", "So, if it is enough or if we do or when we get through this, Romans, why are people talking about a v-shaped recovery. I'll give a visual aid here.", "Right.", "What is a v-shaped recovery? How quickly can we come back from this?", "Well, and that's what the president is saying. You know, last night we heard from the president. He's talking about -- he said the economy will be beautiful again. Let's listen to the president.", "We have to help the worker. We have to save the companies, because as soon as we're finished with this war, it's not a battle, it's a war, as soon as we're finished with this war, our country is going to bounce back like you've never seen before.", "He's talking about pent up demand. All the things you're not buying, the things you aren't doing right now will come surging back in the end of the year. And there's some economists who are hoping that's the way it is, but that's assuming everything is perfect, right? That's assuming we get our hand around the virus, that there's money, maybe even more, well over $2 trillion, maybe two more phases of stimulus gets passed and gets into the hands of American consumers and American business owners quickly. You know, John, what they're fighting about right now on Capitol Hill is essentially, you know, how do you -- do you -- do you throw money at the companies, do you throw money at people? I mean the answer is, yes, both, and even then some. We've never embarked on a rescue. And that's what this is, it's a rescue of the -- of the American economy. So the next couple of days I think are pretty critical.", "They're not trivial questions that they're held up on right now in Congress.", "No.", "I don't want people to think that it's some technicality here. They're talking about how much oversight should be on $500 billion. That's a lot of money.", "That's a lot of money. And, you know, look, we have recent history of the 2008 financial crisis. The American people were really unhappy about the perception that --", "And we're talking about just weeks. It's only been about six weeks since this came into focus in the United States specifically. Christine Romans, thanks so much for your work on this. Appreciate it.", "Sure, John.", "Erica.", "Coronavirus cases continue to spike across Europe this morning. Italy and Spain being hit especially hard. We've got a live report, next."], "speaker": ["ERICA HILL, CNN ANCHOR", "JOSH SOUDER, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS. I.E. 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{"id": "CNN-403555", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-06-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/23/nday.02.html", "summary": "Protesters and Police Clash Outside White House; Impact on Kentucky's Primary", "utt": ["Happening now, polls opening in New York and Kentucky for Democratic primary elections. Here in New York, longtime Congressman Eliot Engel being challenged by progressive candidate Jamaal Bowman. And in Kentucky, Amy McGrath and Charles Booker are vying to take on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November. That state has been roiled by the police killing of Breonna Taylor. CNN's Jeff Zeleny live in Louisville with the latest here. And these elections just look so different than we would have predicted five months ago, Jeff.", "John, good morning. There was no question about that. I mean the pandemic has delayed this primary here in Kentucky by more than a month, and protests over racial justice and police brutality have changed the politics dramatically, particularly in this Senate race here in Kentucky. Democrats have had this -- had their eye on this for so long, trying to unseat Mitch McConnell, as he seeks a seventh term. Suddenly, though, this race has changed.", "This is happening in Kentucky right now! We are in a moment, y'all. We are in a moment.", "A sleepy Senate primary race suddenly electrified in Kentucky.", "This time has to be different, for my cousins, for my little ones, for y'all. This has to be different for Breonna, for Mr. McAtee, for everybody that's a hashtag.", "A national reckoning on racism and police brutality is resonating loudly here, where Louisville police killed 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, an EMT, in March, and David McAtee, the owner of a barbecue restaurant in June. Weeks of protests have injected fresh uncertainty into the campaign over who Democrats will choose in today's election to take on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November.", "She's Kentucky's best chance to move on from Mitch McConnell.", "Amy McGrath, a former Marine pilot, is the hand-picked choice of party leaders in Washington. Her primary victory was seen as a foregone conclusion, but State Representative Charles Booker is now riding a wave of momentum.", "From the hood to the holler! From the hood to the holler!", "You've said that you are campaigning from the hood to the holler. Explain that.", "Well, I'm trying to build a movement here by speaking to our common bonds. And there's a reality that there are so many similarities in the hood that you would see in the -- in places in the hollers of eastern Kentucky and in the mountains, that if we realize our common bonds, we can change the world.", "With a political awakening underway, McGrath has struggled to find her footing.", "Have you been on the ground in Louisville with the protesters the last three days or in Lexington or elsewhere, Ms. McGrath?", "I have not.", "And why?", "Well, I've been with my family and I've had some family things going on this past weekend, but I've been following the news and, you know, and watching.", "Booker turned that moment into a TV ad. While she's dramatically outspending him, $14 million to his $1 million on advertising alone, the closing momentum is on his side. The race is playing out here in Trump country, where the president won the state four years ago by nearly 30 points.", "President Trump and Mitch McConnell, delivering for Kentucky.", "From the streets of Louisville, to small towns like Campbellsville, Booker is making the case for progressive change. His policies closely align with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, both of whom have endorsed him.", "We've got to be that change. We've got to bend that arc.", "Do you wonder if he's too progressive for Kentucky?", "Sometimes I think about that, but it's time for a change. Everything is evolving, man.", "A more urgent test is the mechanics of voting. While more than 500,000 have voted early or absentee, only one polling place is open today in Louisville, with precincts consolidated because of coronavirus.", "It's been hard to vote in Kentucky for a lot of us for a long time. And what we're seeing now is really a continuation of that. It's just naturally going to disenfranchise people. And that is a concern.", "Now, the mechanics of voting certainly at play here in Kentucky. Normally, there would be some 3,700 polling places across the state. Today, only 170. But, John, these are no ordinary polling places. Take a look at this. We are standing inside the Kentucky Exposition Center, where the polls open at 6:00 a.m., and there have, you know, been a steady stream of voters coming in. And what they do is they find their precincts. There are some 527 precincts right in this very building. And then they come across and they vote at these polling places, more than 300 of these little stations here you can see behind me. And then they scan their ballot. So, election officials designed this to allow a lot of voters to come. But more than half of voters they believe have already casted their ballots absentee. And we should point out, this is a plan that was reached by the Democratic governor and the Republican secretary of state. So, John, we will see if Kentucky repeats the errors of Georgia and Wisconsin. Election officials here tell me they believe that they have it under control because most of the voters have voted absentee, but we'll see as this day progresses. John.", "Really interesting pictures behind you, Jeff. You have to get creative in this day and age to get people out to vote.", "Yes.", "Appreciate it. So, it looks like we might have a baseball season after all. How many games? When will it start? Is it all just too late after all that fighting? Details in the \"Bleacher Report,\" next."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "STATE REP. 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{"id": "CNN-393298", "program": "FIRST MOVE WITH JULIA CHATTERLEY", "date": "2020-02-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/20/fmjc.01.html", "summary": "Morgan Stanley Buying Online Brokerage ETrade For $13 Billion; Goldman Sachs Warning On Stocks As More Firms Cite Coronavirus Risks; The Former New York Mayor Gets Pummeled On His Democratic Debate Debut.", "utt": ["Live from the New York Stock Exchange. I'm Julia Chatterley. This is FIRST MOVE and here is your need to know. Lucky 13: Morgan Stanley buying online brokerage ETrade for $13 billion. Correction risk. Goldman Sachs warning on stocks as more firms cite coronavirus risks. And Bloomberg terminal. The former New York Mayor gets pummeled on his Democratic debate debut. It's Thursday. Let's make a move. A warm welcome once again to our FIRST MOVErs around the world. Great to have you with us. We're recovering I can tell you from a feisty Democratic debate night in Las Vegas, but for now, at least what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Let's bring it back to Wall Street because stocks are softer premarket as you can see. Europe has also been gently in the red for most of the session, too. We're taking a pause, I think after hitting record highs on both sides of the Atlantic on Wednesday. And now of course, digesting what's been a whole slew of corporate warnings related to the coronavirus outbreak. Goldman Sachs analysts are now saying that investors may be under estimating the threat to earnings and that the market correction in the short term at least, is a real possibility. Remember, they initially played down the economic impact and we've been talking about that for a few days. Analysis on this in just a moment of time, but again the real action coming during the Asia trading hours. The Shanghai Composite rallying almost two percent in the session after China lower borrowing costs further. Stimulus hopes, of course from China and around the world helped boost global sentiment on Wednesday. Indonesia also following suit, the Central Bank cutting base rates today for the first time in four months. Now, in terms of U.S. Central Bank action, however, Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari said he sees the Federal Reserve holding back on rates for now, though he did say he thinks the next move will be a cut rather than a hike. An insurance rate cut, anyone? Hmm. All right. Let's get to the drivers. We are betting big. The U.S. banking giant Morgan Stanley buying the online brokerage firm ETrade in a $13 billion all stock deal. Paul La Monica has been pouring over the details of this story for us. Paul, great to have you with us. That clears up some of the suggestions we were making a few weeks ago about whether or not they could stand alone in the face of consolidation in the sector, but an interesting move for Morgan Stanley, too. What do know here?", "Yes, yes. I think this is a very fascinating move for Morgan Stanley, Julia. This really makes the company an even bigger powerhouse with average retail investors. Morgan Stanley has done an admirable job over the past decade under James Gorman of really boosting its wealth management unit. A lot of that has to do though with more affluent customers. When you look at, you know, the typical Morgan Stanley client, you are, you know, talking about much wealthier people. Now, you add ETrade into the mix, you get younger, you have millennial investors, who are very tech savvy and this is something that I think is a good move for the future because I think the hope here is that these younger consumers that are setting up, you know, trading accounts on ETrade will eventually become wealthier people that will need more of Morgan Stanley's wealth management products.", "Yes, it's quite fascinating. One of the things that I read this morning on this deal, and it's seen as the crown jewel of ETrade, but we don't often talk about it. The number of accounts that they hold with corporates that then have stock that have been given two employees that they're holding. The hope, of course, is that the value of that stock will rise. And after this deal, Morgan Stanley will have 4,000 corporate customers holding $580 billion worth of stock. That could be a lot of future rich people's money to manage in the future. Is that what we're saying?", "Yes, exactly, and that is something that James Gorman touted on the conference call just a couple of minutes ago, talking about this deal. He said that this is a killer business. One of the things that attracted Morgan Stanley to buy ETrade in the first place. You do wind up, one, obviously it helps offset some of the pressure that ETrade was facing since all of the online brokers have now gone to zero commissions. You have this business where you have potentially wealthy consumers down the road, you know, managing their stock holdings through ETrade, and now by virtue of this deal, eventually through Morgan Stanley.", "Yes, I mean, we have to take a step back here as well and look at the broader banking sector. I think, this is the biggest deal in the U.S. banking sector since what -- 2008 -- when many of these companies were forced to acquire other businesses. It's also a testament to the turnaround that James Gorman has achieved with Morgan Stanley and shifting the business away from trading, boutique investment banking to, to your point, wealth management and smaller players here, smaller customers.", "Yes, and I think it was inevitable when everyone went to zero commissions last year. We already had another big broker deal with Charles Schwab buying TD Ameritrade. Clearly, this deal I think, forced ETrade into looking in the mirror and saying, hey, we're going to be an independent when two of our biggest rivals are getting together. And not to mention the fact that Robinhood has taken the financial world by storm as well, so Morgan Stanley, I think being savvy here, ETrade being opportunistic. The big question now, Julia, what does Goldman Sachs do, if anything? Goldman Sachs was another rumored possible takeover candidate to take over ETrade. Now that ETrade is out, does Goldman just try and boost Marcus -- that division -- even more to gain more average consumers or is there anyone left that they could go out and buy? I mean, could Goldman Sachs go after Robinhood for example? That would be insane. I don't think a lot of people think that will happen. But you know, just throwing out names. There aren't that many other companies left for Goldman to acquire to get some more scale in this business.", "Yes, that is such a great point. You may have heard it here first. Robinhood right now, rubbing their hands together. Paul La Monica, thank you so much for that. All right to China now, where the number of new coronavirus infections appears to be dropping. The reason for that development though, could be because Beijing has reverted to counting only lab tested cases. Two deaths have now been reported among passengers from the Diamond Princess docked in Japan's Yokohama, the 14-day quarantine of the cruise ship lifted on Wednesday. Meanwhile, fresh warnings from the airline industry. Air France KLM and Qantas say the outbreak could cost them hundreds of millions of dollars. Clare Sebastian joins us on this. Clare, I was looking at Qantas on what they were saying about the impact already. Their expectations actually is that this lifts as of April, some bold expectations here about this easing pretty quickly.", "Yes, both Air France KLM and Qantas basing their assumptions on the fact that the flights to China can resume in April. Obviously, that is very uncertain, but these companies have to try to model this in some way. Now, Qantas saying this could cause them a $100 million hit to profits in the first half of this calendar year, the second half of the fiscal year. They say though that is actually mitigated partly by the drop in fuel prices that we've seen. We've seen commodity prices come down as a result of this virus and the potential for reduced demand from China. So that is potentially one mitigating factor for this, but don't forget, Julia, these airlines, particularly the regional ones like Qantas are already facing headwinds. The protests in Hong Kong have dented traffic. They saw cargo come down as a result of the U.S.-China trade war, so the timing is not great here. But certainly in the case of Qantas, they say they are going to use staff annual leave to try and protect jobs. They're going to bring forward maintenance on the planes that have been grounded. Their stock is actually up today, because they announced the share buybacks. So they say they can weather this, but of course we don't know how long this is going to go on. When it comes to SARS, that cost the global airline industry $6 billion in terms of lost revenue, and it took nine months for traffic to come back. Analysts do say, this time, it could be worse.", "Yes. It's interesting. A lot of analysts, Goldman Sachs being one of them did a compare and contrast with SARS initially and said, actually, the impact here in the medium term isn't going to be so bad. There will be a V-shaped recovery. Those analysts coming out yesterday and saying, actually, we could see a short term stock correction. One of the quotes from this report, the Chinese economy six times bigger now than it was then. They also say that Chinese tourism accounts for 0.4 percent of global GDP. The number of missing work days in China will be roughly equivalent to the entire U.S. workforce taking an unplanned break for two months. Wow. Clare, what do we make of that?", "Well, this, I think, is critical, Julia, for understanding how this could play out. The world has changed almost unrecognizably since 2003. China was then about four percent of global output. It's now about 16 percent and that is why Goldman Sachs in the note say that comparisons with the SARS period may not be totally relevant. They say that because of the growth of the Chinese economy, global companies have now piled in. They are much more exposed, and this means that they believe the markets could be underestimating the overall impact of this. We've seen stock markets reaching record highs, despite this, despite the warnings that we're getting from global companies. But the trigger point for this, Julia, may have been Apple that we saw earlier in this week. That company, one of the most valuable in the U.S., if not the world, saying that they could miss revenue estimates for this quarter because of the drop in demand from China. They've had to close their stores because of the impact on the supply chain and that Goldman Sachs says, could bring down earnings estimates overall. So I think that is crucial here. Of course, we don't know how long this is going to go or know how long this will play out. But the equity markets, according to Goldman, could be under estimating this.", "Yes, fascinating. Clare Sebastian, great analysis. Thank you so much for that. All right. Let's move on to our next driver and it's a blooming disaster. Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg was bombarded with sharp attacks in his presidential debate debut on Wednesday night in Las Vegas.", "I like to talk about who were running against, a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse faced lesbians. And no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump. I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg.", "Walmart, we have to subsidize Walmart's workers on Medicaid and food stamps because the wealthiest family in America pays starvation wages. That's socialism for the rich. I believe in Democratic socialism, for working people, not billionaires.", "What a wonderful country we have. The best known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What did I miss here?", "I think we need something different than Donald Trump. I don't think you look at Donald Trump and say we need someone richer in the White House.", "Arlette Saenz is live in Las Vegas for us. Arlette, even the jokes there from Mike Bloomberg seems to have fallen a little bit flat here and he was well and truly eviscerated by Elizabeth Warren. What's the tape in there of his debut performance?", "Well, Julia, this basically -- this debate basically turned into a Michael Bloomberg pile on. Each of the candidates came out ready to pounce and had their lines of criticism that they wanted to draw with Michael Bloomberg. And for the most part, Bloomberg appeared to be a bit flat footed during this debate. You know, his advisers has said that he had been preparing for quite some time. But as he faced questions or criticisms about his alleged treatment of women or his past record relating to things like stop and frisk and redlining, he didn't always have the most direct answer to provide back to those candidates. Now, one person that emerged largely unscathed from this debate was Bernie Sanders. He is now the front runner and these Democratic contenders decided to train their focus and train their fire on Michael Bloomberg, and they didn't really go after Bernie Sanders all that much. Now you heard Bloomberg landed a bit of a punch in that clip that we just played when he said that he didn't know that Democratic socialists were millionaires who owned three homes, referring to Bernie Sanders. That was one of the knocks against him. But you also in addition to this Bloomberg pile on, you saw a bit of a fight between Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg over experience. You could tell that Amy Klobuchar in particular was rattled a bit by Pete Buttigieg at one point. Now this debate is all playing out as we are just two days out from the Nevada caucuses. Michael Bloomberg isn't competing here or in South Carolina. But those other Democratic contenders are hoping for a strong showing in the state particularly Joe Biden, who really needs to get a good showing strong finish here in order to get -- propel him into states like South Carolina and more diverse states on Super Tuesday. Now this evening, CNN is going to have two Presidential Town Halls with Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren, and all of the candidates remain in the state today except for Michael Bloomberg, as they're trying to make their pitch to Nevada voters.", "Yes, emphasizing the term leaving Las Vegas ASAP, I think in this case. Arlette Saenz, great to have you with us. Thank you so much for that. All right, let me bring you up to speed now with some of the stories making headlines around the world. More details have emerged about a deadly mass shooting in Germany. The gunman was found dead in his apartment after nine people were killed in two bars in the east of Frankfurt. Police are treating it as an act of terror. Let's bring in CNN's Melissa Bell on this story. Melissa, good to have you with us. What more do we know about the individual that carried out this attack? And what his motives perhaps were?", "Clearly -- and this has been said over and over again by German authorities, a racist xenophobic far right motive. There was no words minced when it came to talking or trying to deal with what might have motivated the gunman who began his attack just behind me here in that bar, The Midnight Sisha Bar. It was at 10:00 p.m. last night here in the center of Hanau that he began his rampage, moving on then to another bar. In all, as you said, nine people killed and then he was found after a manhunt in his apartment. He had also murdered his mother.", "Now, we are hearing just a little bit more from authorities. The German Interior Minister just visited the scene saying he was here to express his sympathies and vowing that all would be done to get to the bottom of this. We've also been hearing a moment ago from the German prosecutor who said that not only have nine people been killed, but also six people have been injured including one who is in a critical condition. But a great deal of shock in Germany today. You're going to see a lot of German politicians making their way through Hanau today, including, we expect the German President later today. Angela Merkel has been speaking to it, and clearly this is something that had been on the radar of German authorities for some time. The rise in the threat presented by far right people motivated by far right causes, far right motivations, and this is what has happened. Earlier, the Foreign Minister said it was the third far right attack in Germany this year.", "Yes. And that's exactly what I wanted to ask you, Melissa. What have the AFD, the far right party said about this attack, to your point about perhaps what's inciting some of this kind of violence?", "Well, they came out very quickly with a statement that was very clear in its condemnation of the attack and in its support to the investigation that's now underway, saying that they had full faith in the investigation that it would get to the bottom of what went. Very clear in its condemnation, but interestingly, Julia, the statement did not talk about a terrorist act, as so many other politicians did. It talked about a terrible act and I think perhaps has the slight difference with some of the other statements that you've seen here today. But they did come out very quickly and make that condemnation as did all sorts of European politicians, European leaders vowing their support for Germany in this time. And I think what you've seen in what all of the politicians have said today is really a sense that this is a real problem in Germany and saying it is something they need to tackle and get their hands on in order to prevent this sort of atrocity from happening again -- Julia.", "Yes, a terrible act versus an act of terrorism. Slight difference, but a vitally important one. Melissa Bell, thank you so much for that. Now, at least two people a day and after a train derailment in Australia. It happened near a town around 50 kilometers north of Melbourne. The train was headed to Melbourne from Sydney. The cause of the derailment is not yet known, but if we get any further details, we will bring them to you. To Washington now, longtime adviser to President Trump, Roger Stone will be sentenced in the coming hours. He was convicted on charges of obstruction, lying to Congress and witness tampering. Stone has requested no prison time. All right, we're going to take a break here on FIRST MOVE, but still to come, the end of the Ermotti era. The Swiss bank, UBS getting a new boss. And the shipping forecast. The CEO of Denmark's Maersk talks coronavirus, trade wars and a global trade slow down. Stay with us. We're back after this."], "speaker": ["JULIA CHATTERLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR, FIRST MOVE", "PAUL LA MONICA, CNN BUSINESS REPORTER", "CHATTERLEY", "LA MONICA", "CHATTERLEY", "LA MONICA", "CHATTERLEY", "CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "CHATTERLEY", "SEBASTIAN", "CHATTERLEY", "SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CHATTERLEY", "ARLETTE SAENZ, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER", "CHATTERLEY", "MELISSA BELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BELL", "CHATTERLEY", "BELL", "CHATTERLEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-65280", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2003-1-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/10/ltm.08.html", "summary": "Illinois Governor Plans to Pardon Four Convicted Murderers Today", "utt": ["From Illinois, the governor, an intriguing story, too, George Ryan, the governor there, plans to pardon four convicted murderers today, one of his last acts of governor in that state. All four men claim they were tortured into confessing their crimes. From Chicago, here's our bureau chief Jeff Flock tracking that -- Jeff, good morning.", "Bill, good morning to you. Happy to wake up early this morning. It just doesn't matter what side of this issue you're on, and, of course, there are people on both sides, what will happen today, though, is four men, some of whom have been in prison for 20 years on death row, will actually walk free. We've had the opportunity to, in the past, interview two of the four men. I think it fair to say there are going to be some pretty amazing scenes outside prisons across Illinois when eventually these men do walk free, and that could happen as early as today.", "Jeff Flock,", "Leroy Orange told that police used electric shock to get him to confess to a quadruple murder he didn't commit.", "They stuck it in my genitals and finally inserted something in my butt that shocked.", "How did you respond to that?", "Well, I was scared to death for this, to be in the custody of the Chicago Police Department.", "Aaron Patterson told us he was beaten and threatened into saying he stabbed an elderly couple and his lawyer showed us photographs of this police bench where he scrawled the words with a paper clip, \"I lie about murders, slapped and suffocated me with plastic.\"", "I tried to hold my breath and tried to bite through the bag so I could breathe.", "Madison Hobley says police tortured him into confessing to an arson fire that killed seven, including his wife and children. And Stanley Howard says he, too, was coerced by police, admitting to a 1987 murder he didn't commit.", "Innocent people going to death row, bad prosecutions, bad eyewitnesses, bad judges, bad attorneys, bad everything.", "And Governor George Ryan is going to do something about it.", "Because there's got to be some relief.", "After spending weeks combing these briefing books on the cases of all 160 Illinois death row inmates, Ryan has decided to pardon four of them.", "January would be 19 years locked up period.", "In an exclusive interview with us in October, the 52- year-old Orange asked us to carry a message to the Governor.", "I suppose I would basically beg for my life.", "Bill, he begged for at least some sort of clemency, even to have his sentence commuted to life in prison so he could keep fighting for his innocence. But Leroy Orange there actually gets his freedom. We talked to an inmate on death row yesterday. He said the atmosphere was electric on death row, everybody waiting to see who might get a pardon. And now it appears, based on what we've been able to develop, four people will be pardoned. And then tomorrow the Governor has a big speech in which he may then commute the sentences to life in prison of other death row inmates. So we'll be watching that one, too -- Bill.", "Jeff, we go back in time here, part of the reason why the Governor started thinking this way is because he is waiting for the results of a study to conclude whether or not the trial system in the State of Illinois was fair to everyone across-the-board.", "That's...", "Have those results come back in and is there a possibility that all the death row sentences may be commuted at some point?", "Yes, the answer to that is yes, there is a possibility. The results of that study did come in. They made a lot of recommendations. The legislature failed to act on any of them and a lot of people thought that if the legislature didn't act and the system was not reformed to the Governor's satisfaction, he would, in fact, commute everybody. Of course, victims' families and law enforcement very upset about that. They want him to look at each individual case. That's what he's done on the pardons. Will he do it on the commutations? At this point we don't know.", "Wow. It will be an amazing weekend for those four families.", "You said it.", "Jeff Flock in Chicago, thanks. Today>"], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FLOCK", "CNN. (voice-over)", "LEROY ORANGE", "FLOCK (on camera)", "ORANGE", "FLOCK (voice-over)", "AARON PATTERSON", "FLOCK", "GOV. GEORGE RYAN (R), ILLINOIS", "FLOCK", "RYAN", "FLOCK", "ORANGE", "FLOCK", "ORANGE", "FLOCK", "HEMMER", "FLOCK", "HEMMER", "FLOCK", "HEMMER", "FLOCK", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-320977", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2017-09-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/11/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Hurricane Irma Aftermath; Florida Cities Just Starting to Assess the Hurricane Damage", "utt": ["And uncertainty. Irma's fury leaving millions without electricity, and many may be powerless for weeks. The governor warning evacuees that returning to their homes now could put their lives at risk. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "The breaking news this hour, millions more Americans are now under assault by Irma, as the dangerous storm that hammered much of Florida plows north. Charleston, South Carolina, is in the midst of a life-threatening flash flood emergency. Cities as far inland as far as Atlanta at risk from this menacing tropical storm. Irma's final target in Florida, Jacksonville, now swamped by floodwaters rising to record high levels. The storm surge warning in effect this hour. The flooding danger intensifying in a city that didn't expect to suffer so badly from Irma's rampage. On the other end of the state, officials are now warning about a potential humanitarian crisis in the Florida Keys. A large section of the island chain has no power, not water, no cell service. The U.S. military says 10,000 people who refused to leave the Keys before the storm may need to be evacuated. The Keys battered by the full force of Irma when it made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane on Sunday. The electricity is out across much of Florida tonight. More than six million people, about two-thirds of the customers, they are in the dark after Irma zigzagged between the state's east and west coasts. The storm unleashing winds well over 100 miles an hour and impacting major cities from Miami to Tampa to Jacksonville. Officials warn some places won't have power for weeks. We're covering the breaking story with our correspondents and guests. They're standing by in the areas hardest hit by Irma. First, let's go to Marco Island, where Irma made its second landfall in Florida. CNN's Brian Todd is on the scene for us. Brian, you have been covering this storm through the worst of it. What are the conditions like where you are right now?", "Wolf, Irma hit this spot like a buzz saw. As you look around here, you can see the effect it had. Roofs like this one, partial roofs, entire roofs, ripped off homes. You have got debris all over the place. Wires down, hazardous material all over the streets. Now, this is in the southwestern corner of Florida. The damage lasts from this tip of Florida all the way to the northeastern part of Florida, Jacksonville, the largest city geographically in Florida, the largest city geographically in the United States. So you have got cities from here up to there just now starting to get their arms about what happened here.", "Florida now fighting to recover after getting pounded for hours by winds sometimes over 100 miles an hour. Every major city in Florida impacted by Irma's wrath and over six million customers left without power, two-thirds of the state. The Florida Keys, hit first in the U.S. with Category 4 winds, now with serious flooding and building damage, cut off from power and the mainland. The southwest coast of Florida hit with winds of 120 miles an hour, scoured into the night with driving rain and whipping winds with the skies lit by the occasional transformer explosion. Naples, among the hardest hit, now flooded one block after another and buildings flattened or damaged by the wind. This is nearby Marco Island before and after, and in Bonita Springs, neighborhoods inundated with waters.", "There's mobiles turned over. There's mobiles upside down and there's a lot of water.", "While the storm tracked up the west side of Florida, the east coast was still hit by flooding and high winds. Miami had heavy flooding on the downtown waterfront, construction cranes knocked over and roofs ripped off by the whipping winds. One sailboat ended up on a football field. There were even scattered reports of looting. Up the east coast, coastal flooding from Broward County up beyond Daytona, leaving neighborhoods and businesses underwater and houses with their rooftops torn off. As far north as Jacksonville, record storm surges causing flooding on the Saint Johns River and at least one home sliding into the ocean. Even inland areas like Orlando were not spared, with downed trees, downed power lines and flooding.", "We have had over 200 rescues of people that we brought out. And in some places, when you go back there, the water was chest-deep.", "Rescues from flooded neighborhoods continued throughout the night with a total of 6.5 million people in Florida told to evacuate. The question now, when can they return home?", "You check with local officials before returning home to make sure can you safely do so.", "Cleanup crews now working on downed trees and branches and clearing sand off roadways. But authorities say parts of Florida could be without power for weeks, while spots as far north as Charleston, South Carolina, are still experiencing flooding from the storm.", "By the time Irma finished with this place, Marco Island, she left at least 15 homes that had their roofs either ripped off or had other severe damage. That's according to the fire department. But people here, Wolf, tonight are counting themselves as fortunate because hundreds of people live in this area of Marco Island year- round. Only about 40 of them decided to stay. And there are no serious injuries reported. This is the spot where Irma made its second landfall. Wolf, they're counting themselves as fortunate here tonight.", "We're showing our viewers, Brian,some live pictures of trucks going in to restore power in these areas. Brian Todd on the scene for us, thanks very, very much. Now to the flooding emergency in Jacksonville, Florida, that's unfolding right now. Irma hitting the city very, very hard in the past few hours. CNN's Kaylee Hartung is on the scene for us. Kaylee, floodwaters, they are rising to historic levels there, right?", "They are, Wolf. The waters of the Saint Johns River continue to roll through downtown Jacksonville. We're about a block from the banks of the river there. You can see the waves crashing against the seawall. At the river's height today, levels were five-and-a-half feet above what you would normally see here at high tide. But at that high tide at 2:00, we first began to see these waters recede. If my cameraman, Dave Resk (ph), can swing over to my left here, this street has dried out. Water earlier today about two blocks up that street, but if we rotate to the other side of the street, floodwaters continue. Talking to the mayor earlier, he said don't be fooled when you see pockets like that dry out. This water is not going anywhere any time soon. And the challenge a lot of people in downtown Jacksonville are facing now, Wolf, they came here for shelter. They came here to be safe from these waters and the effects of the storm because their homes were in places they thought were in more danger, but now these floodwaters in Jacksonville a serious concern for so many here as this situation continues to evolve.", "Yes. We will stay in close touch with you, Kaylee. Thank you very much. We're getting new video of damage in Miami right now, where construction cranes were whipped by the hurricane's winds. CNN's John Berman is in Miami for us. John, we spoke about the danger to all of these cranes on Friday before Irma hit. And now we know, what, at least two in Miami and one in Fort Lauderdale were, in fact, whipped and damaged.", "Yes, three cranes down in Southeast Florida, Wolf, exactly what some people had feared, really showing the damage done to this part of the state was twofold. Number one, the storm surge, you can see the effects right around me right now, the boats pushed up onshore in this marina in Coconut Grove. A five-foot surge in downtown Miami. You can see the impact here. And then the winds. The winds were 100 miles an hour on the tops of the sky rises in the city, Wolf. We have been told these cranes -- and there are more than 20 of them in downtown Miami -- we were told these cranes could withstand gusts of 145 miles an hour. Now, clearly, we don't believe the wind reached that level, yet the cranes, at least two of them, did not stand. At least one appeared to have some kind of issue with a crack in the pulley with the counterbalance and that might have caused it to partially collapse or crack, depending on who you ask. They don't want to use the term collapse because they didn't fall completely off the building. Officials here made clear no one was hurt from these cranes. There was not much other damage to the surrounding buildings. Nevertheless, you can see the clear concern with having these types of cranes in an atmosphere like this. There just wasn't enough time, Wolf, to take them down. It takes six weeks -- six days to two weeks to move one of these cranes start to finish. And they didn't get that kind of warning -- Wolf.", "Very dangerous situation. It could have been a whole, whole lot worse. All right, John Berman, thank you. Tonight, officials are also warning that new evacuations may be needed in the Florida Keys, one of the hardest-hit areas in the state, if not the hardest. CNN's Bill Weir is joining us right now from Key Largo. Bill, a large section of the Keys right now has no power, no running water, not much of anything.", "Not much of anything, Wolf. We're about 60 miles north of where the eye wall came ashore. But it all depends on the structure of your home in terms of what is left of your life. We're in this trailer park here about mile marker 85 or so. And it is one heartbreak after another. A child's picture book on the ground. The markings of the search-and-rescue teams who put the date and the time they searched that home. Fortunately, zero bodies found inside, also zero people found alive. But most of these folks we hope would evacuate living in structures like this. And good thing. You can see Irma's storm surge, what it does to a mobile home. This was someone's living room. And, of course, this is stuff that can be replaced. They will measure this storm in billions of dollars in terms of the total cost. But some things you cannot put a price on. The memories of the picture box we found before. And right now there's so much concern about those people who are completely out of touch. There are Facebook missing persons lists out there. People have been pinging me all day on Instagram and Twitter, asking if we could go check on their parents. I wish I could. I wish I could get further down this road, but it's impassable in many places. The Florida Department of Transportation has apparently by about 4:00 today inspected 22 of the 43 bridges that connect this necklace of islands going all the way down to Key West. A couple of them are problem areas as well. But the main problem is the cell phones we're so accustomed to, the towers, there's no power for them the further south you get. So we have to use a satellite phone even up here close to Key Largo, where the best cell service still remains. People don't know if their loved ones are just incommunicado or in more dire circumstances. Even if they are alive, as you can see at my sweaty bum here, we have no air conditioning. There's medications to worry about, those sorts of things. I just saw a convoy of about 15 big tractor-trailers, hopefully full of supplies, steaming south down toward Key West. In addition to that, the Navy is chipping in an entire aircraft carrier. It's all hands on deck to try to get in there and really assess the human toll of Irma -- Wolf.", "Yes, the USS Lincoln on the way. All right, Bill Weir, thanks so much. Let's talk more about this devastation in the Florida Keys. And it is enormous. We're joined on the phone by Monroe County Commissioner David Rice. Commissioner, thanks for joining us. Based on what you have seen and heard, what's what's the level of devastation in your county?", "Well, Wolf, one of the great problems that we have, as you just heard, is communication. So, while I'm 100 miles from Key West in a 120-mile-long county, the most extreme portion of the county, including Marathon and Key West, we have extremely limited ability to communicate. Certainly, we have taken a major hit. We have extensive property damage. We do not have statistics at the moment on any injuries, loss of life. We will be finding those things out later.", "How many people are without power in your county?", "At the moment, I would be hard-pressed to say because I don't believe anybody could really say how many are here at the moment. Many people left. Others did not. But if you're here, you're probably without power, unless you have a generator or you're extremely fortunate.", "Those who stayed behind in the Keys, are they still in shelters?", "Some are in shelters. Others are not. The Keys have no shelters that are approved. The last moment is a refuge of last resort at some Category 5-constructed schools. And I understand many people rode the storm out at that point. But as I say, we have very little firsthand information at this time.", "If people who have houses there who live are up north, for example, northern part of Florida riding out this storm or they live in other parts of the country, what's your best guess right now? How long before those folks can return to their homes in the Keys?", "Wolf, I would rather not make a guess, because that's an open issue. I think within the next day or two, we hope to be able to have safe transit down the Keys. DOT has inspected most if not all the bridges at this point. The power companies are securing any live lines. The hospitals are not yet reopened. We hope that they will be and expect they will be, at least two out of the three, perhaps tomorrow morning. At that point, it's certainly more safe for people to come back into the Keys, but we really have no water to speak of. Electricity is very sporadic to nonexistent. It's not a place someone wants to be right at this moment.", "Give us some perspective. How much damage has been caused to your county, Monroe County, in the Keys right now? Have you ever seen anything like this before?", "Well, yes, I have seen Hurricane Audrey in Louisiana as a child. I have seen Hurricane Camille that cleared out miles of homes and businesses. We do not appear to be that impacted that the time.", "Is your county getting the state and federal help it needs?", "They are absolutely -- our partners with both the state and federal government have been in communication with us. I believe we will see the first C-130 of supplies in within the next couple of hours at the Naval air station in Key West. The state and federal government are really stepping up to the plate. Now, it is complicated by the fact that many of the rescue efforts and supply efforts will be by air. And up until almost this very time, they would have to fly through a hurricane to get here, because the hurricane moved on up the state. So, yes, we're very happy with the response. The Navy, as you heard, is sending a carrier that has tremendous capability. It will probably be standing off Key West.", "David Rice is the mayor of Monroe County, the commissioner, I should say. Commissioner, thanks so much for joining us.", "Thank you. And thanks for your help.", "We appreciate everything you're doing. Good luck to all the folks there. I know this is a crisis that has unfolded. Just ahead: the newest forecast for Irma as it endangers cities in the south. Also tonight, another hurricane that's threatening the U.S. in the days ahead. We will talk to a National Guardsman who has been involved in urgent rescues on an island in crisis after being hammered by Irma."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "THE SITUATION ROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-254147", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-04-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1504/27/nday.04.html", "summary": "Rescuers Struggle To Reach Earthquake Victims; The Science Behind Earthquakes.", "utt": ["We want to take a look at that 7.8 magnitude quake that has decimated Nepal. What makes this part of the world particularly vulnerable to earthquakes? Here to walk us through the science is physicist and host for the Science Channel, Deborah Berebichez. What a pleasure to have you here. I'm so sorry it's under these circumstances, 7.8, boy, that is chilling. How significant is that in this area compared to other earthquakes they have seen?", "That's a good question. So earthquakes are measured by the amount of energy they release. And so the scale, for example, if you go from a 7 magnitude earthquake to an 8, that's a factor of 32 tons more energy. In this case, if you compare it to the Haiti earthquake which was a magnitude 7 or about this is an 8, if you were to increase it by 2 say from 7 to 9, that would be a thousand times more energies released. With the terrain and building codes not being up to par in that area of the world --", "Looking at the map, too, we know that this subsequently, all of these aftershocks have been particularly devastating as well. Are you anticipating more?", "Correct. Yes. Invariably we always have the earth and the tectonic plate addressing after a major quake.", "On top of that, let's talk about what this area, the depth was quite shallow.", "Correct.", "About 7 to 9 kilometers?", "Seven miles, deep.", "The terrain plays as part in that as well. What is the terrain like there?", "Correct. It's not only the terrain, so you have the Indian tectonic plate sort of pushing up wards to the northeast -- euro-Asia plate. It causes the Himalayas Mountains to go off a bit.", "It actually forms the Himalayas.", "Correct, which interesting. At the same time, this fracture, two plates are thrusting against each other. They move about 45 millimeters every year. They are constantly pushing on each other. At one point this happens in that region every 75 years or so, the thrust is so hard that the Indian plates are pushed too much and the energy gets released.", "And what is so, they're saying that it essentially moved the city of Kathmandu by something like 10 miles.", "You mean, correct. Yes.", "That's insane.", "It's incredible.", "My goodness. Here's the other thing that you were talking to me about this particular region. The area where there fault line is, you say this is particularly problematic because of?", "There is a highway that's built very near the fault lines, so where people tend to live is near that fault line.", "Thus the high casualty rate.", "Correct, and also, we have to understand in physics we call resonance. When the frequency of oscillations in an earthquake tend to match the frequencies that are natural to that terrain and what happened is, for example, I grew up in Mexico City and the earthquake there was devastating. The natural frequency only served selected buildings from six to 15 stories high and those were the ones that were damaged. But at least that were lower or higher than that were not damaged as much and this terrain tended to oscillate in the natural frequency that devastated all those low stories.", "Finally, with you, we have about 30 seconds left. Each earthquake has its own personality because of how it reacts, the building and the codes around it. Is there somewhere we will see this earthquake devastation potentially again around the world?", "It's a great question. We have the U.S. Geological Survey Institution researching and a lot of other scientists trying to figure out and getting better and better at predicting earthquakes, forecasting with probabilities the only thing we can do at the moment.", "The is no contending with Mother Nature. Deborah Berebichez, what a pleasure to meet you. Thank you so much for being here and walking us through the science -- Chris.", "No question, Mich. I mean, we have to understand what happened here, but the human catastrophe on that ground. We are just starting to see the effects of that. There is no question also that this is the worst earthquake in nearly a century. The need today, tomorrow, next week, for months to come is going to be great. We will tell you how you can help."], "speaker": ["PEREIRA", "DEBORAH BEREBICHEZ, PHYSICIST", "PEREIRA", "BEREBICHEZ", "PEREIRA", "BEREBICHEZ", "PEREIRA", "BEREBICHEZ", "PEREIRA", "BEREBICHEZ", "PEREIRA", "BEREBICHEZ", "PEREIRA", "BEREBICHEZ", "PEREIRA", "BEREBICHEZ", "PEREIRA", "BEREBICHEZ", "PEREIRA", "BEREBICHEZ", "PEREIRA", "BEREBICHEZ", "PEREIRA", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-296908", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2016-10-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/25/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Race for the (Miniature) White House", "utt": ["Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are facing off in Florida to win the White House. By accident I found a miniature White House and a presidential hall of fame right here less than ten miles from where I am sitting at the moment. I do not jest, it has wax molds of the presidents and the most extraordinary miniature White House that is absolutely perfectly put together. In all of its detail along with the various presidents. Joining me now is the creator of the miniature White House.", "Welcome to the White House.", "I'm actually sitting on a real --", "A White House chair. The President Lyndon did not like these chairs because they're so light. He called them toys.", "How many times have you been to the White House?", "Hundreds and hundreds, sometimes I stayed a week at a time. Starting with the Kennedy administration. I was told now by the White House to keep working with every president and that if I am asked who is my favorite president, I am supposed to say the one that is there now. Because I have got to work with the next one and the next one.", "We will come to the next one and the next one. Why did you decide? And we'll look at the pictures, I was absolutely gob smacked when I discovered this miniature White House and it is perfect in every detail.", "Not only that but it changes with every administration. If you went to the actual White House you would only see five rooms, and we show 45. We want to share the White House -- this is god's country we're in right here. And the White House is so important to all people. And the patriotism. Why I started this thing was during wartime, I was living in '44, `45, 99 percent of the people were patriotic. And I'm still trying to get that same patriotism in all the people and say hey, it's your house.", "You believe that?", "Yes.", "It's the people's house?", "OK, I want you, when you interview the two nominees to say, open up those doors to everybody like we have been able to.", "Who has been your favorite president, and I don't mean the recent one, go back all the way, all 43, who would you choose? Washington, Lincoln, Harrison, Roosevelt?", "No, no, let's be more recent. Nobody -- this pen was given to me by George H, and he is so patriotic. He sent personal letters, but Rumsfeld was a great help. The one that worked so hard on it was Ford and Reagan.", "If you were to choose between Trump and Clinton, but you're not going to choose?", "I'm going to ask a couple questions. And will you make an announcement that after the first months you are going to open up the White House to everybody, and then free trade, and --", "Sir, thank you for joining us.", "It's your house.", "It's my house?", "Yes, we want you to go home and want to be president.", "Good to see you, sir. Thank you very much indeed. We will continue our journey. I am going to try and nip quickly into the car to see if I can actually start this thing so we can have a real throaty roar. Here we go -- oh!"], "speaker": ["QUEST", "JOHN ZWEIFEL, CREATOR, THE MINIATURE WHITE HOUSE", "QUEST", "ZWEIFEL", "QUEST", "ZWEIFEL", "QUEST", "ZWEIFEL", "QUEST", "ZWEIFEL", "QUEST", "ZWEIFEL", "QUEST", "ZWEIFEL", "QUEST", "ZWEIFEL", "QUEST", "ZWEIFEL", "QUEST", "ZWEIFEL", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-319443", "program": "STATE OF THE UNION", "date": "2017-08-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/20/sotu.01.html", "summary": "Steve Bannon Out at White House; Removal Of Confederate Statues", "utt": ["We're back with Ohio Governor John Kasich. Governor, according to a report this week, sources close to you are saying there's a growing sense of \"moral imperative for President Trump to face a primary challenge in 2020.\" Now, I know you're not going to announce any plans on my show and you've made no plans, but if everything continues as it has been, does a Republican need to step forward to challenge President Trump in three years?", "Well, Jake, as you said, I don't have any plans to do anything like that. I'm rooting for him to get it together. We all are. We're only like seven months into this presidency. And, look, what we have to start thinking about, all of us, not just the president, but down where we live, in the neighborhoods, in the communities, we've got to build a stronger America. Look, why am I on this show? You asked me to come on. I'm trying to have a responsible voice, to call things out when they need to be called out, but also to support my country. So, what I hope is going to happen is I think we're going to - I hope we're going to have stability, the president is going to learn from these episodes, and we're going to do better. That's what I hope is going to happen. We'll have to wait and see.", "Minutes ago, Defense Secretary Mattis announced that President Trump has made a decision about what to do next in Afghanistan, though we haven't heard what the decision is. This is what you had to say about troop levels in Afghanistan last year. Take a listen.", "I now believe we need to get out of Afghanistan. If I were president, I wouldn't be announcing the timeline, but I would give the aircraft that the Afghans need and I'd get out of there.", "There are an estimated 8,400 US troops in Afghanistan. Do you think President Trump should be planning a complete withdrawal of US troops?", "Well, I wouldn't be in favor of him trying to add troops. Here's the thing. We've been there 16 years. We went there primarily to make sure that Afghanistan was not going to be a launching pad into United States with terrorism. We largely have accomplished that. But somehow, we've gotten ourselves involved in nation building, trying to build a strong central government in a country where central governments don't work. It's done in a regional way. My view would be, no, I think we need to begin to leave there and I think we can reserve the opportunity to use intelligence to be able to strike any of these training camps, any of these places where our intelligence community begins to think that they are now building a base and a launching pad that would be harmful to us and to our allies. So, continuing to put more troops in, is not the way I think we should go. I think we should begin to leave and then I think we should reserve the opportunity and the right, with the proper basing of our forces, in the region to be able to strike if we think that there is an effort being made to create another launching pad. But to just stay there after 16 years, I want our people to be able to come home.", "North Korea -", "Thank goodness, I didn't change my mind from a year ago, Jake.", "That's right. Not a good 'gotcha'. You stand by what you said. North Korea, of course, has threatened the US and South Korea ahead of tomorrow's planned military drills between the US and South Korea. North Korea calling them reckless behavior, driving the situation into the uncontrollable phase of a nuclear war. These exercises, of course, come after these weeks of growing tensions in the region with North Korea, focusing on American targets such as Guam and possibly Hawaii. Do you think that the US should consider postponing these drills?", "Not at this point. I think if they were like two weeks in the future, perhaps we could consider it. But when both General Mattis and Tillerson, the negotiators, negotiated all over the world, have a sense that we have to keep the pressure on, I agree with that. I do - I will give credit to administration that has talked about how important it is to protect the continental United States and that we are going to have every option on the table. And I think it's gotten the attention of the Chinese. A lot of people pooh-pooh, the Chinese are not going to do anything. Let me just tell you, Jake, if I were the president of the United States and we had a regime like North Korea and they were able to develop the technology to target the United States of America, we would have no choice but to take those systems out. No choice. And it would change the very fabric of that peninsula. And so, if the Chinese are worried about what's going to happen in North Korea, the best way to get - to have things happen that they don't like is just to sit back and do nothing. I think they're beginning to put the heat on Un, that dictator over there. So, at this point, I think we continue with the exercises, but we look for a way to get some sort of a freeze on that program, a verifiable freeze and begin to think about how, over time, we can have a more stable group of people who run North Korea.", "But you would not only not rule out, but you would enact a preemptive strike if North Korea were proven to be establishing and developing nuclear-capable ICBMs that could hit the United States?", "Yes. Let me put it to you this way, Jake. I wouldn't take a chance on a government that unstable and a leader who is that erratic to be able have the capability to launch and to land a missile in Los Angeles and kill people there. Yes, I would reserve that right. And I would make it clear to the Chinese. I would send an envoy to see the Chinese now and say there is a red line. We're not going to sit back and have our people targeted by this regime and you can do something about it. And if you don't do something about it, you're going to have to live with the results. Yes, we have to protect Americans before we worry about anything else out here. So, what can happen is the Koreans can stop all their crazy testing and then we can get to a point where we can begin to talk about denuclearizing the whole peninsula. There's a lot of things we can talk about, but it needs to be made very clear to the Chinese. This is in your hands and you don't want to do anything? You're going to have to live with the result because we are not going to risk the lives of our people.", "I do want to ask you about healthcare. The Republican effort, obviously, to repeal and replace Obamacare collapsed in the Senate. President Trump has threatened to stop the subsidy payments to Obamacare to help insurance companies pay for -", "That would be a disaster.", "So, he made the August payment -", "No, that would be a disaster.", "You think that he should -", "You can't do that.", "Pledge -", "No, he's got to continue to fund it. No, you cannot just cut this off and create more chaos. Look, John Hickenlooper, the governor of Colorado, Democrat, and I are working together on a plan that can stabilize those markets, which we would be glad to present to people in the Senate. I'm hoping we're going to get an agreement on it. We're getting closer and closer. You've got to do this in a bipartisan way. And the thing you have to do is stabilize those insurance markets. And if you wanted to take away payments, you're going to create chaos. We can't have that. Let's stabilize those markets first. Let's not worry about Medicaid at this point. Let's get the Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare in terms of a package to deal with the rising debt we have in this country and do that in a responsible way. There's ways to get this stuff done, Jake. Believe me, I've been there. I saw us reform welfare. I saw us balance the budget. I saw us reform the Pentagon. We can do it if people will just get off their political soapboxes and begin to think about the country. Because I've got a message. We all get old and we all leave this planet. So, we're going to be judged in many ways by what we did when we were here. Stop playing games. It just doesn't make any sense. Do something. Be bigger than yourself. Live a life bigger than yourself. That's where we need to go in Washington. That's where we need to go across the board in all of the United States, with business and sports and religion, across the board. Let's get our act together and think bigger than ourselves.", "All right. Inspirational words from Governor John Kasich. We always appreciate being here, sir. Thank you so much.", "Thanks, Jake.", "Opponents who celebrated the president's decision to fire Steve Bannon may have popped the proverbial Champale a little too soon. The former White House chief strategist has rejoined \"Breitbart News\". And he's made it clear, he is still going to fight for the Trump agenda, saying, \"in many ways, I think I can be more effective fighting from the outside for the agenda President Trump ran on. And anyone who stands in our way, we will go to war with.\" Ending a sentence with a preposition notwithstanding. Joining me now is Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff, chairman of the House - ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. Congressman, good to see you as always.", "Good to see you, Jake.", "So, in response to President Trump's firing of Bannon, you tweeted, \"Glad to see Bannon gone. He never belonged in the White House, but the problem persists since the most profound source of division cannot be fired.\" Your position on President Trump and Bannon clear there. But let me ask you. Is there anyone else in the White House that you think should not be there?", "There's certainly a lot of people in the White House staff and NSC staff that shouldn't be there, people like Miller and Gorka and others, who not only, I think, represent the same thing that Steve Bannon did, but aren't capable of doing the job well. So, yes, I think there's more cleaning house that ought to take place. But as I mentioned in that tweet, Jake, the more fundamental problem is at the very top. I think what the president had to say about the demonstrations in Boston and elsewhere was perfectly fine, perfectly unobjectionable, but also perfectly inadequate after that debacle of a press conference he had supposedly on infrastructure. The real, I think, challenge and job for the chief executive in a country where race has always been such a difficult conversation is to do everything possible to bring our country together, to help make us a more perfect union. And what the president did this week was as if he stood on a line dividing the country and pushed to separate one American from another with all his might. And that is not what this country needs.", "After President Trump's comments appearing to equate white supremacists and the counter-protesters, your fellow Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee Jackie Speier tweeted, \"POTUS is showing signs of erratic behavior and mental instability that placed the country in grave danger. Time to invoke the 25th amendment.\" That's the amendment that would allow the removal of the president. Do you agree that President Trump is mentally unstable?", "Well, I certainly think that there is an issue with the president's capability. There is some attribute of this character that makes him seemingly incapable of introspection and a broad understanding of what the country really needs. And I think it's a question that people are asking, what is going on with this president, what can explain this kind of behavior. It began at the very beginning, Jake. I remember when he had won the election and within days seemed to suggest that the only reason he didn't win the popular vote was that millions of people illegally came to the country and voted. And I thought to myself, oh, my God, this man is not only going to not grow with the job, but is willing to say things that are just patently untrue. I'm convinced, if you took somebody off the street of America and you said you've just become president, but here's the deal, you didn't win the popular vote, they would have the common sense to say, look, I'm going to do everything I can to win over everyone. I realize that many people - indeed most people didn't vote for me. But he didn't do that. He is not capable of doing that. And I don't understand why. But I do recognize what a serious problem that is. And I think more than when I say it or when Jackie Speier says it, the fact that Bob Corker now says things along the same lines shows a broadening recognition that there are some serious issues with our president that aren't going to go away, that aren't going to get better, and indeed, with the pressures of the job, may very well get worse, and I think, for that reason, at a minimum, we need the very best people around him in the White House. And that means that not people like Bannon, not people like Miller, not people like Gorka, but rather some more adults in the room.", "It sounds like you're saying that you don't disagree with Jackie Speier who said that President Trump is showing signs of erratic behavior, mental instability. So, it sounds like you're not disagreeing with that. What about the 25th Amendment part, which would call for the removal of the president? Do you agree with that?", "I don't think we're at a point of thinking about the 25th Amendment. For one thing, this is something that the vice president and cabinet would need to come together on. I think what the authors of the amendment principally had in mind was some kind of physical incapacitation or serious mental illness or a breakdown, an inability to function in office, and I think we're still far from concluding that that's the case, even though we find, many of us, his conduct an anathema and there to be a serious problem here. But I don't think it, particularly at this point in time, makes a lot of sense to focus on the 25th Amendment. I do think it means that we have to put real constraints on this president. We have to make sure that our system of checks and balances in Congress work. I think, frankly, the most powerful thing we can do, rather than pursue the 25th amendment at this point, is just make sure that one house or the other, and ideally both, are in Democratic hands. Frankly, the hands of a party not in the White House to be a more effective check on some of the damage this president can do.", "Congressman, let me ask you, President Trump was, obviously, widely condemned for his comments, in which he seemed to be equating both sides for the violence and hatred in Charlottesville. But, obviously, let's remove the idea that there's any moral equivalence, is there any legitimacy to the argument that the violent tactics of groups like Antifa make matters worse and that Democrats and progressives need to condemn them?", "Anyone that's committing violence ought to be condemned. Anyone. There's no justification for it whatsoever. But I do think that that cannot be allowed to obscure the fact that millions of people are gathering around the country, and have since this present was inaugurated, in the most peaceful form of protests. And we can't allow the commander-in-chief to somehow equate the handful of people that would make those protests violent with any kind of sentiment that condones white supremacy or neo-Nazism. And I think it all gets back to the point you made earlier, Jake, and I think the fundamental problem here is that the president of the United States can't bring himself to repudiate a part of his support, and that is that small group of bigots that are supporters of his. He's taken a position essentially that if you're with me, you can do no wrong. And I won't condemn you practically anything that you do. His difficulty during the campaign, in your interview to condemn David Duke is not at all unlike the difficulties he has this week in a full- throated, unequivocal repudiation of the sentiment and an ideology that we not only find repugnant, but we fought a World War over. So, I think that's the root of the problem.", "Congressman Adam Schiff, Democrat of California, thank you so much. Good to see you as always, sir.", "Thank you, Jake.", "One Republican Senator now saying he worries that there is more violence to come and he says he doubts President Trump can bring the country together in the event that that happens. That's next."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "KASICH", "TAPPER", "KASICH", "TAPPER", "KASICH", "TAPPER", "KASICH", "TAPPER", "KASICH", "TAPPER", "KASICH", "TAPPER", "KASICH", "TAPPER", "KASICH", "TAPPER", "KASICH", "TAPPER", "KASICH", "TAPPER", "KASICH", "TAPPER", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-239717", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2014-09-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/26/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Iran's President; Imagine a World", "utt": ["Tonight as the military campaign in Iraq and Syria grows, I ask the president of Iran what would it take for him to join the fight against ISIS.", "All nations must feel a great degree of responsibility.", "And the clock is running on the November deadline for a nuclear deal. Will Iran and the big powers ever come to an agreement?", "Good evening, everyone, and welcome to our special weekend edition of the program. I'm Christiane Amanpour. An unprecedented coalition of Muslim nations is currently participating in the airstrike against ISIS in Syria. But there is one player that is key to this fight and to the survival of Syria's Bashar al- Assad and that is Iran. While ruling out military coordination, President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have both publicly courted Iran's support or at least its acquiescence. But here at the United Nations General Assembly, the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, called the allied airstrikes in Syria \"illegal,\" while also though voicing many of the same concerns about, quote, \"the fire of extremism and radicalism burning in the Middle East.\"", "I deeply regret to say that terrorism has become globalized from New York to Mosul, from Damascus to Baghdad, from the easternmost to the westernmost parts of the world, from Al Qaeda to Daish.", "President Rouhani's visit to the UNGA last year made history after talking by phone to President Obama and this time around he has met with the British Prime Minister David Cameron, which is a first since the Islamic revolution of 1979.", "But Iran's nuclear program is still a major stumbling point, with the deadline approaching for a deal and the parties still unable to bridge crucial gaps. Amidst these intense talks and a round of public appearances, I met President Rouhani fresh from his address to the United Nations General Assembly.", "President Rouhani, welcome back to the program.", "I do thank you very much for having created this opportunity once again to take a few moments to speak directly with the wonderful people of the United States of America.", "Let's talk about then what's immediately at issue for the people of the United States of America and the whole world, and that is the battle against Islamic State, ISIS terrorists in Syria and Iraq. You have said that everybody should be combating this extremism. Are you joining in the alliance? Are you also combating ISIS?", "What I can tell you is that Iran has been at the forefront of fighting against terrorism. We can go all the way back to the beginning years of the revolution. We were facing an extremely vicious and savage form of terrorism inside the country. And we have rendered assistance prior to the attacks of September 11th. You're fully aware that the people of Afghanistan were fighting against the Taliban, were standing up to the best of their abilities against the Taliban. And as you know that Iran gave a great deal of assistance and help to the people of Afghanistan. And you do know that that even most recently, the first government that came swiftly to the aid of the Iraqi government and people against Daish was Iraq.", "So do you believe that you face a common threat and that you also are in the alliance in some way or another? I know that the United States informed your government that these strikes were going to take place.", "Well, I would like to distance myself from the word \"coalition\" because some countries haven't come together under the umbrella of this coalition. I'm not quite certain how serious they may be. But what I wish to share with you is that in reality all countries, all nations must feel a great degree of responsibility and therefore exert everything within their powers, on the scene, in order to combat the terrorism in North Africa, other parts of Africa, in the Middle East, has really -- the level of terrorism has really skyrocketed. It is relentlessly savage and that does not have mercy against women, elders, children or anyone. So it is a common threat for all of us and it is the same point that I touched upon during my talks at the U.N. General Assembly last year, which is The Wave initiative, a World against Violence and Extremism. And this requires a unison effort from all of us.", "So you're fine with these strikes inside Syria and inside Iraq against Daish, against the Islamic State?", "You're fully aware yourself that terrorist groups are always on the move, are constantly and highly mobile. They're not an organized army that can be damaged heavily or considerably through aerial bombardments. We need a vast campaign of operations, two, three, four, a dozen, two dozen, three dozen of aerial bombardments. The aerial bombardments have more the form of a psychological operation rather than succeeding in the eradication of terrorism. We must pay particular attention to social activities, cultural activities, financial and economic activities as well as the educational side in every country so as to address the causes of the problem. So again, the aerial bombardment campaign is mostly, I would say, a form of theater for -- rather than a serious battle against terrorism.", "These Daish, as everybody calls them now, the Islamic State, ISIS, ISIL, whatever, have come up inside a vacuum in Syria and Iraq for other reasons. How do you feel as the president of Iran, as the main military backer of a regime, the Assad regime, that the United Nations has said has killed 200,000 of its own people, tortured people, executed people? Why does Iran want to be associated with that kind of genocidal barbarism?", "In Syria, you're fully aware, that since the very beginning we've announced that what has been transpiring in Syria is a form of warfare between terrorists and the legitimate army of the country. They kept saying that these are opposition members and we will keep asking, who are these opposition members who have preferred to take up arms so swiftly and so savagely and violently rather than resorting to talks and negotiations? You do know that a group that goes back all the way to three years ago was fighting savagely against the people of Syria, it was the same people that we're labeling today as Daish or ISIL and ISIS. What we do with the government that is there, on the ground? And the Americans now are saying that we give warnings and heads-up to the authorities in Damascus, and the folks in Damascus keep saying that it is under our -- it can be under our authority with prior coordination. So what is really the foundation of this? We must carry on a serious battle against terrorism and put the fate of the nation in the hands of the people of that nation.", "Well, as you know, the people of that nation, it all started when they wanted a little bit of reform. The moderate forces were on the verge of winning until Iran and Hezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard came into Syria in 2012 and turned it around. So my question to you is, are you comfortable being the government that keeps President Assad in power through ground forces and all sorts of other military cooperation?", "In Syria, if the army of the Syrian people, the Syrian government had not stood up and fought against terrorism, if the people of Damascus and other cities had not fought against them, who do you think would have been the victor today? Let's assume no one would have rendered assistance. The victor would have been the same people that everyone is recognizing as terrorists today.", "Mr. President, stand by for just a second. We're going to take a break and then we're going to come back with more of our conversation and talk about the nuclear deal that you're still trying to negotiate.", "And while Iran remains hopeful of achieving a nuclear deal, what about those on the other side of the table? I've been speaking also here to other major players in this drama and here is what both the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, and the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told me this week.", "We've been very clear with Iran that we need to try to see some progress. We need to move forward. We're working very, very hard, Christiane, to make sure this historic moment is appropriately put to use but without -- and this is very important -- without compromising one bit what must be achieved in an agreement.", "Our position is simple to define. So far as civil nuclear energy is concerned, it's quite open to Iran. So far as atomic bomb is concerned, the answer is no. And everything must come from these principles. But if the situation remains like it is today, the gap is too big. And the question is raised to the Iranians, do you accept not to have a nuclear bomb?", "When we come back, more of my interview with President Rouhani as we turn to matters closer to home. 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{"id": "CNN-381015", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-09-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/21/cnr.21.html", "summary": "Hong Kong Enters 16th Weekend of Protests; Hidden Tunnels Discovered Near North Korean Nuclear Complex", "utt": ["Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM.", "And there are more protests in Hong Kong for the 16th straight weekend. A march is kicking off in one district but patience by police and Beijing supporters is wearing thin. Police warn the violence we've seen in past weeks could spiral out of control. And they may be forced to use live ammunition. Paula Hancocks is following all of it in Hong Kong. Paula, what are you seeing there?", "Natalie, it's a regular Saturday h here in Hong Kong. The standoff between protesters and riot police is in full flow at this point. This is one of the busiest districts in Hong Kong. We've seen riot police trying to disperse the crowd. This was originally a legal rally. There was a march going from one area to another area. Thousands of them we saw along that march, most of them were completely peaceful. But there is an element here that wants to have some kind of confrontation with the police. So they're trying to disperse the crowds, having a standoff at this point. But as you say, it was interesting what we heard on Friday. There was a background briefing for foreign media which CNN was part of. And the senior police commander was talking about there are concerns that this violence could be spiraling out of control, concerns that police may have to start using live ammunition at some point, which is something they don't want to do. But we have still those comments from the protesters, saying they believe the police are using too much violence and excessive force when it comes to dealing with them.", "What is the reaction from protesters, when they hear police warn of using live ammunition?", "Certainly they're not going to be happy about that. You can see some of the protesters there, they have an amazing ability to disappear and melt into the crowd, these protesters. Many of the people that live in this area, they've been taunting the police as well, yelling at them because they don't like to see riot police in their streets. But for the most part there hasn't been a public outcry against the more physical and violent protesters, even if some of the more peaceful protesters don't condone that violence. They're not coming out publicly and saying it shouldn't be happening. There does still seem to be a sense of unity. Across the board, they are pushing for more democracy, they're pushing for the same goal. So of course, you have many different protesters, some coming with families to make their voice heard and on the other end of the spectrum, you do see the protesters that are ready to throw the petrol bombs -- Natalie.", "And they're still united but what about the numbers, are they still getting the numbers out on the streets?", "The numbers certainly appear to be down. At the beginning, you had more than a million on the streets. Just weeks ago there were hundreds of thousands on the streets. This particular protest, the rally and then the march, was legal. It was approved by police. I would estimate we did see thousands walking past us and chanting and singing. But it's true. You don't see the same amount of numbers but by that token, the fact is these protests are becoming more violent. So you're less likely to see the families coming out, those with their children. We have seen a fair cross section today. It's not just young people. We have seen some older people. Bear in mind, this is the 16th consecutive weekend that these pro democracy protests have been going on. Inevitably, you are not going to get those big numbers out every weekend.", "Are, Paula Hancocks right there for us. We appreciate it. Thank you. North Korea is celebrating the fact that the U.S. president fired his national security adviser and President Trump isn't hiding his pleasure, either. But some analysts say it is all a sign President Trump may be trying to get cozy with Kim Jong-un. Our Brian Todd with that story.", "North Korea's ruthless supreme leader appears to be gloating tonight, celebrating the firing of John Bolton as President Trump's national security adviser. In a new statement, one of Kim Jong-un's top diplomats says it's a good thing that Bolton, who the North Koreans call a nasty troublemaker, has disappeared from the U.S. administration. The North Korean envoy says he welcomes the, quote, wise political decision of President Trump to reassess how his talks with North Korea should proceed. Kim may be taking a page from the President's playbook. Trump himself has danced on Bolton's grave in recent days.", "The relationship is good, so I think that's better than somebody that goes around and saying we want to use the Libyan model. He said the Libyan model. That set us back very badly when he said that.", "Trump has repeatedly criticized Bolton for saying the so-called Libya model could work for North Korea, suggesting Kim's regime could meet the fate of Libya and its former dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, who turned over his nuclear material to the U.S. only to see the U.S. help bring him down. Analysts say Trump could be trying to curry favor with Kim by piling on Bolton.", "I think that President Trump is much too eager and he's much too indulgent with Kim Jong-un. Obviously, the North Koreans now do feel that they're emboldened because they believe, in some fashion, that they got rid of the national security adviser.", "Another high-profile American who knows Kim and has met with him shares Trump's optimism about the nuclear negotiations. On Thursday, the eccentric former NBA star, Dennis Rodman, one of the few people on Earth to know both Kim and Trump, made a bold prediction on Fox News.", "Kim Jong- un will be in America in 18 to 24 months, I guarantee you.", "Really?", "I guarantee you.", "As head of state, or is he going to defect?", "No, he's coming to do one thing, to visit America.", "This comes as new research has found several hidden tunnel entrances near the main North Korean nuclear complex of Yongbyon.", "This is an important part of Yongbyon because close to this are, first, the plant where they produce highly- enriched uranium and there's another plant where they have produced plutonium; both of which can be used to build nuclear weapons.", "Using satellite photos from 10 or 15 years ago, like going back in a time machine, think tank 38 North found where tunnels were once dug, tunnels that are now concealed by trees. All just a stone's throw away from North Korea's reactors.", "One underground complex, 38 North says, was, quote, completely camouflaged with vegetation some time over the past six years.", "It could be a deliberate cover-up, or it could be just the growth of vegetation around the tunnel entrance.", "Analysts say if and when North Korea ever lets nuclear inspectors into the country, we can expect dodging and deception, that they'll never let the inspectors see all of the underground facilities and other stockpiles that they have. They say that's why the U.S., first, needs a full declaration from North Korea of all the weapons and facilities they have, although they expect the North Koreans will not be accurate about that -- Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "One of the women who says she was sexually assaulted by Britain's Prince Andrew is revealing new details of her story. The allegations come after the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the high profile millionaire who was facing sex trafficking charges when he was found dead in his jail cell. Virginia Roberts Giuffre had accused Epstein of keeping her as a sex slave. Now in an interview with NBC News, she says an associate of Epstein forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew after a night of partying.", "Prince Andrew got me alcohol, it was in the VIP section, I'm pretty sure it was vodka. He was like, \"Let's dance.\" I was like, \"OK.\" We leave Club Tramp and I hop in the car with Ghislaine and Jeffrey. She says, \"He's coming back to the house and I want you to do for him what you do for Epstein.\" I couldn't believe it.", "Buckingham Palace responded this way, writing, \"It is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.\" U.S. football player Antonio Brown has played his first and last game with the New England Patriots. The team cut ties with the wide receiver after he was accused of rape and sexual misconduct. He has not been charged and he denies the allegation. The head coach refused to answer questions about Brown.", "I'm not going to have any comment on any off-the-field situations or questions on that, so -- I'm not going to get into that. I think I've already addressed this, so we're going to get ready for the Jets here, happy to answer any football questions but the rest of it, I'm done. You've got the rest of it. So yes. That's -- I'm good, OK? Thank you.", "Brown's former trainer says he raped her in 2018. And an artist who worked at his home says he stood naked behind her on her second day of work. Millions pledged to storm Area 51 in search of extraterrestrial life. Just ahead, the so-called raid that didn't live up to the hype."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "ALLEN", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN", "HANCOCKS", "ALLEN", "HANCOCKS", "ALLEN", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "TODD (voice-over)", "GORDON CHANG, AUTHOR", "TODD (voice-over)", "DENNIS RODMAN, FORMER NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION STAR", "BRIAN KILMEADE, FOX NEWS HOST", "RODMAN", "KILMEADE", "RODMAN", "TODD (voice-over)", "JOEL WIT, DIRECTOR, 38 NORTH", "TODD (voice-over)", "TODD (voice-over)", "WIT", "TODD", "ALLEN", "VIRGINIA ROBERTS GIUFFRE, EPSTEIN ACCUSER", "ALLEN", "BILL BELICHICK, NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS HEAD COACH", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-180472", "program": "ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL", "date": "2012-2-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/03/ijvm.01.html", "summary": "Somer`s Killer Says He Did It", "utt": ["Good evening. Jane Velez-Mitchell coming to you from New York City. Tears and fury in court as 7-year-old Somer Thompson`s killer comes face to face with her devastated, furious family. We have the unbelievably emotional video next.", "Tonight, finally. Judgment day for the man accused of murdering 7-year-old Somer Thompson, the adorable little girl kidnapped on her way home from school more than two years ago. Cops say this man took her, molested her, killed her, then dumped her body in a Georgia landfill. We`ll give you the very latest from inside court today. Plus, missing Baby Lisa`s tight-lipped parents are finally talking about the desperate search for their daughter. Are they changing their story again? You`ll see their first public interview in months, right here. Then, Leslie Carter, the singer of singing sensations Nick and Aaron, found dead with pill bottles scattered near her body. Is this another tragically over-medicated celebrity in America? And it`s being called the worst wave of dolphin strandings in a decade. More than 80 of these beautiful creatures found dead on Cape Cod shores. What can we do to save them? We`ll tell you.", "I love you. I just want you to come home.", "Somer Thompson disappeared in October 2009 on her way home from school.", "A body has been found in the landfill in Folkston, Georgia. The body appears to be that of a small child.", "Her body was found a couple days later in a Georgia landfill.", "Watch out. We`re coming. We`re going to get you.", "Jarred Harrell faces 58 charges, including sexual assault and murder.", "She loved animals, and so she was upset. So she went there looking for that little dog so she could probably put her face up to the chain-link fence and let him lick her. And somehow he came out and maybe told her, \"Hey, the dog is inside.\" I just don`t know. You know, that`s why I want to go to trial. I want to know what happened.", "He`s also charged with 55 counts of possession of child pornography and lewd molestation of a 3-year-old.", "It`s never going to make sense to me or anyone else, because we don`t think like -- like monsters do. She has a twin that I get to look at every day to remind me that there was two. And now there`s one because of one person`s actions. And I hope that that one person pays for a long time.", "Diena Thompson, he will. Tonight the monster who snatched up 7-year-old Somer Thompson as she walked home from school, sexually assaulted her, murdered her, and then dumped her in the trash has admitted in open court that he did all of those things. And wait until you hear what Somer`s mother, twin brother and sister told that confessed murderer in court today. This man, if you can call him a man, Jarred Harrell, pleaded guilty today to the kidnapping and murder of little Somer back in 2009. In exchange, this 26-year-old will serve six life sentences with no chance of parole.", "Do you admit that on October 19, 2009, at 1152 Gano Avenue in Orange Park, Florida, you confined Somer Thompson against her will and sexually assaulted her?", "Yes, sir.", "You also admit that you lewdly touched her in her private areas and strangled her?", "Yes, sir.", "Shortly after killing her, did you put her in a container and drive her to an area behind a business and put the container and her body in a commercial Dumpster?", "Yes, sir.", "In return for that plea, the death penalty was taken off the table. This is a case we have followed from the beginning. Harrell grabbed little Somer as she walked home from school. Somer`s body found in a Georgia landfall two days later, which infuriated Somer`s mother. Remember this?", "You didn`t take her from just me. You took her from my family. You took her from all of these people. And you don`t do this to a little baby and put my baby in the trash like she`s nothing.", "The worst part about all of this is it did not have to happen. Months earlier, Harrell`s roommates had reported him to the cops for having a slew of child porn on his computer. They handed cops the computer and said, \"Do something.\" There was even evidence that he`d molested a 3-year-old girl on that same computer. But cops took several months to investigate, and during that time Harrell kidnapped and killed little Somer. Today in court, Somer`s mom let her daughter`s killer have it.", "I think that you should look at me, the mother of the child that you strangled and raped and threw in the trash. But cowardly as always, you can keep your head buried. Eight hundred and thirty-five days ago, you lured my baby into your lair with trickery and malice in your soul, all to commit unspeakable acts of your own selfish desires and flat-out evilness. Somer was an innocent child. Before you took her life, you took her dignity, her virginity, and then you took her life. After all that, you then treated my child like trash.", "In a moment you`ll hear more from that woman I consider my hero. I`ll say it again. None of this had to happen. So will this guilty plea bring closure to Somer`s mom? Is there such a thing as closure when a crime is this horrific? Straight out to reporter Leslie Coursey with WAWS. You were in court today. The victims` impact statements from Somer`s family. So powerful. What was the mood? Take us inside that courtroom.", "I`ve got to tell you, I`ve covered a lot of cases. And this is by far the most emotional case I have ever covered before. If you think about it, it is a mother`s worst nightmare. A 7-year-old girl walking home from school, kidnapped, raped, murdered, her body thrown in a Dumpster. That`s exactly what happened to Jarred -- to Somer Thompson, and that is exactly what Jarred Harrell pleaded guilty to today. Now in exchange for his guilty plea, the state did not seek the death penalty, but the judge did make it clear Jarred Harrell will die in prison. He was given six life sentences, and he waived every single right to appeal. I can tell you, the most emotional part of -- of today were the victims` impact statements, when Diena Thompson got up on the stand. She asked him to look at her, and when he did not, she called him a coward. Somer`s twin brother called Jarred Harrell a coward. He is 9 years old and knows that this man is a coward. He said that today`s sentence gave him a little bit of peace today.", "And Leslie, very quickly, what was the reaction of the murderer?", "You know, he did not say much in court today. The only thing he did say was a series of \"yes, sirs\" and \"no, sirs,\" when the judge was asking him if he understood the charges against him. He did not look up. But I can tell you Diena Thompson sat in that courtroom and, as soon as he walked in, her eyes did not leave that man. She stared him down the entire time. She is one of the strongest people I`ve ever met.", "Somer`s mother, Diena -- just referred to her there - - thinks there would be a better way to sentence the man who viciously murdered her precious 7-year-old daughter. Listen.", "There is no way a human could or would commit those acts. You chose to commit those acts on an innocent child. Children are not armed. Children are not dangerous, and children are not toys. Your punishment absolutely does not fit your crime. Your fate should be left solely to the discretion of the injured parties.", "One mother who knows exactly what Diena Thompson is going through is Carrie McGonigle. Her precious daughter, Amber, was kidnapped and murdered by convicted sex offender John Gardner. Gardner also pleaded guilty to the murders of Amber and Chelsea King. Carrie, thank you for joining us today. Again, my heart always goes out to you. And you are also one of my heroes for how you`ve handled this incomprehensible event in your life. Speaking of the fact that this guy pleaded guilty and the killer of your daughter also pleaded guilty, does it spare the family the pain of a gruesome trial? Or does it rob the family of a chance to process the horror?", "I think it spares -- spares the family of a trial, but I think it was Diena who wanted -- she wants to know how -- what happened to her daughter. You know, she wants to know. You know, I think that she should have that chance to find out what happened, what happened in Somer`s last hours and how did he lure her and everything. I mean, that`s what gave me the most comfort, is knowing Amber`s last hours.", "And you got that -- how did you get that, given that the killer of your daughter also pleaded guilty?", "I insisted on meeting with him before the victim impact statement. I went down to the sheriffs and kept on bugging. So I mean, I think there`s ways in Florida even that you can -- you can go to the prisons and, you know, the mom has a right to know what happened to her daughter.", "Wow. What an incredibly courageous thing for you to do, to go face to face with this guy, John Gardner, who killed your daughter, and demand that he tell you the details. Would you suggest that Diena Thompson do the same with the killer of Somer?", "If she wants -- if she wants the answers. She`s a very strong woman. And -- and I think it was her, wasn`t it, that said that she wanted -- you know, she wanted to go to trial?", "Well, she said that this was definitely not enough. I know she`s an advocate of the death penalty, and she felt that this life in prison was not enough. So...", "I don`t think it`s enough either. I mean, I would have liked to have seen John Gardner die, but it wasn`t our -- it wasn`t my choice.", "Well, it was absolutely heartbreaking when Somer`s sister and her twin brother, the surviving twin, spoke in court today, addressing their sister`s murderer. Listen to this.", "I don`t even know how you can live with yourself. You don`t even know how bad you hurt my family. I hope you suffer just like me and my family did. I can`t even explain to you how much me and my friends and my family and everybody I know and everybody my family knows, how much they hate you. You`re not even a human being. Your name is not Jarred Harrell. Your name is monster.", "We know you did this. We have the evidence. She trusted you, but you had to do what you did. And look where it got you. And now you`re going to jail!", "Wow. Wow. Wow. What an amazingly brave little boy. I want to go to Wendy Walsh, psychologist. That just hit me in the heart to see that little boy who`s lost his twin sister stand up and confront this -- this killer. What is -- what happens to these kids psychologically for the rest of their lives?", "Well, obviously, this is one of the biggest childhood traumas that anyone can experience. But what this family is doing in court, Jane, is they`re actually having an act of catharsis. They`re able to express their anger. They`re able to show their words (ph). They`re able to see justice, some form of justice -- they may not agree with it -- taking place. And this is actually a piece of their healing process.", "Well, he`s just amazing to be able to read that -- that brave, brave little man right there. We`re just getting started. An we`re going to take your calls on the other side of the break later. Where is Baby Lisa? Her parents finally talking, and they claim they`re not going to stop looking for their precious daughter. You won`t believe it. But first, Somer Thompson`s devastated family faces off against the little girl`s killer.", "You`re a monster, and you should be treated so. Do you know where they put monsters? They go to big-boy prison, and I hope the prison system will show you a real good time like you did Somer.", "Since we`ve given the opportunity to let my baby, my twin daughter, Somer, live, you chose to take my baby`s breath and life from her. This will be the last breath that I waste or use on you. As with the last breath, I would like to tell this honorable court that it is now time to take out the trash. May God have mercy on your sorry, sorry soul.", "Unbelievable drama in court today. Jarred Harrell, 26-year-old, pleads guilty to the kidnapping, rape and murder of precious 7-year-old Somer Thompson and faces his [SIC] furious, devastated family in court. Holly Hughes, criminal defense attorney, former prosecutor, why did prosecutors make the deal to avoid trial, to take the death penalty off the table? They had a very strong case. Why not try this sicko?", "There`s a couple reasons, Jane. But the most important is when he pleads guilty, it`s done. He waives his right to appeal. He doesn`t get any do-overs. This is not going to drag on for the next 20 or 30 years. And the problem with death penalty cases is you can challenge them at every stage. You keep going higher and higher all the way to the Supreme Court. So they can continue to appeal for 20 years and, God forbid some court along the way find an error 20 years from now, they`re not going to be able to retry him, and he could walk out of prison. So the biggest benefit is it`s a done deal. He will never be able to victimize another little girl again.", "All right. Well, let`s go to the phone lines now. Michelle Bart, who is a child advocate, your question or thought, Michelle?", "Thanks for having me, Jane. My question, I respect Holly Hughes` position. But as we saw in Jaycee Dugard`s situation, sometimes predators get out of jail. Diena is my hero, as well, but I don`t feel that this fits the crime. And I would have to second that, when are we going to have the prosecutors stop feeling as if they`re being held hostage by criminals in order -- in order to bring justice?", "Well, let me say -- let me go further than that. Police did have an opportunity to get this man off the streets months before little Somer was taken by him, raped and murdered. His roommates turned him in for having child porn. They handed cops a computer filled with a slew of child pornography. Here is Harrell pleading guilty to molesting a 3-year-old girl and then videotaping it, all of that on the computer.", "You took a child under the age of 12 years and you lewdly touched her in her private genital area and directed and took videos and pictures of her as stated in the information?", "Yes, sir.", "Mark Eiglarsh, why didn`t they act on that computer immediately?", "It`s a great question, Jane. I don`t have all the facts, and neither do you. And we`re always quick to look back and say why didn`t they do this, why didn`t they do that? The general rule is that law enforcement, they do want to zealously prosecute, and so do prosecutors. There might have been some challenge with the case. To look back today and say that this is a miscarriage of justice that he`s getting life without the possibility of parole, I don`t think it`s a positive thing to say. I`m glad that that`s what`s going to happen. The only other thing would have been death which would have taken, I don`t know, 26, 27 years, if we`re lucky, to finally execute him. This brings the family closure. It costs five times less. It`s a good resolution, Jane.", "The -- the only other thing would have been to avoid her being murdered in the first place...", "Of course.", "... if they`d arrested him on having porn on his computer. They said they had to forensically process it. All you had to do was turn on the computer to see the porn there. All right. Don`t miss our viral video of the week. One minute away.", "You voted. Here`s your viral video winner of the week.", "I`m sure you think someone else made you this way. I`m sure you were raped, tortured, and killed as a child. Oh, wait. No, that didn`t happen, because you`re still sitting here and were able to do and take anyone and anything that you wanted to because you wanted to. I would never wish this on my worst enemy but you, my monster, I would make a special exception for.", "Let`s rewind quickly and remember the horror when Somer first disappeared.", "To everybody who has come out to look for my baby, thank you. If anybody can help me find her and just bring her home to me.", "There is no way we can appreciate or even begin to comprehend the hell that these mothers have been through, but Carrie, Carrie McGonigle, your man was murdered by another man who also had a history of attacking girls that sort of fell through the cracks until the murder of your precious daughter. What is this mother going through? What is Diena Thompson going through right now?", "She`s been living since 2009 in a hell. You know, a parents` worst nightmare. My heart bleeds when I listen to her victim impact statement. It brings me back to mine and it`s just -- my heart goes out to her. And you never have full closure. There`s nothing that`s going to bring back your baby.", "If -- if you were to choose in this situation, whether prosecutors should have taken a plea deal that would have given him life in prison or gone to trial and risked the chance that maybe he wouldn`t be convicted but, with death penalty on the table, what would you say?", "I think I would have gone with the death penalty. I would have -- I think they had enough evidence. We don`t, like -- we don`t know all of the details, but I think they had enough evidence on him, that I would have gone with the death penalty. I would want to see him an eye for an eye. It should have been the family`s decision, I feel, that, you know, they make that choice.", "Well, Mark Eiglarsh, that`s my question. Do prosecutors consult with the family? Are they allowed to vote on this decision or not?", "Yes. Every good prosecutor meets with the victims and gets the feedback. Victims don`t control, next of kins don`t control. Prosecutors make the decision with the family`s feedback. But prosecutors are trained. They know. Sometimes their victims say, \"You need to go to trial. I don`t care what you want.\" But ultimately it`s the people of the state of Florida versus Joe Defendant and not necessarily the victim. So it`s up to prosecutors to make the right decision on behalf of the people of the state of Florida.", "Wendy Walsh, the defendant looks so different. We have a before and after. But he`s so emotionless. What do you make of him briefly?", "Well, you know, I have not had any time to assess this guy and who knows what his mental deficiencies are. Assuming that he`s well enough, certainly, to stand trial, we can assume that he`s checked out, that at some point he has just completely disengaged himself from the process, because you know, he`s being attacked with words by this family, justifiably so. So it`s hard to say.", "He`s wooden, and he`s numb. And he seems completely shut down. Up next, the desperate search for Baby Lisa. We are going to hear finally from her parents next.", "You did not mention that you had been drinking.", "No, because it has absolutely nothing to do with her being missing.", "There`s also a lot of people that are out there and don`t have a lot of information and make ridiculous accusations.", "There are people making outright lies. I can`t say anything but I urge everybody to watch. To me it`s just nonsense. It`s just picking my words apart. When he came in the bedroom that morning and woke me up and said all of the lights are on in the house it was a total exaggeration. Here`s a thing with that that nobody knows. Nobody takes a baby to hurt her. She`s coming home.", "Baby Lisa`s parents speak out for the first time in months. But their frustrating answers only raise more questions. We want to know the most important question. What happened to their missing infant daughter? Good evening everyone. Jane Velez-Mitchell back with you in New York City. How did they choose to break their silence? By going on national TV to talk to Dr. Phil and it was there that Baby Lisa`s mom admitted she didn`t tell the truth about what happened the night her daughter disappeared. Listen to this from CBS Television.", "Jeremy comes home at 4:00 a.m. And all of the lights are on. Obviously whoever took the baby wouldn`t go through the hassle of turning the lights on. Were you just wrong about that? Was Jeremy wrong?", "When he came into the morning that bedroom that morning and woke me up and said all the lights are on in the house. It was a total exaggeration.", "A total exaggeration. What other secrets is this woman hiding? Did she lie to the cops, to the media, perhaps even to herself? Why should we believe anything she says about her daughter? And ever since her Dr. Phil taping, she`s been keeping quiet. Listen to this.", "I can`t say anything but I urge everybody to watch. There will be new pictures of her up and I`m really excited about it. It`s going to reach -- I think I heard 7.5 million viewers. So, and maybe it will even double. We are so excited about it. We cannot wait for her face to be all over TV again and reach different people.", "Does it sound like she`s just a little too excited to be on television? Straight out to Ron Rugen, a private investigator on the ground in Kansas City, Missouri. Ron, do people in their community believe them particularly the mom, Deborah Bradley, who of course had, infamously now, at least five glasses of wine from a box of wine that she purchased earlier in the evening on the night that her daughter disappeared.", "No, Jane. The masses do not believe Deborah Bradley. That`s not to say that it`s universal. It is split but not down the middle. A lot of folks have trouble believing her story. And now they have trouble with the fact that she`s on Dr. Phil talking about her baby being gone as opposed to going down to the police department and talking to them about her baby being gone. Dr. Phil is not a place to go on if you want to find baby who you think has been abducted. All Dr. Phil is going to do in a soft, sanitized environment is show the baby`s face out there and it`s very doubtful that that baby has been abducted. If you want to help find the baby, talk about clues and other things that may help find your baby, you go to the", "Well, let me say this. I`m a big fan of Dr. Phil`s. I`ve been on his show talking about my book \"I want\". And I thought he was very fair and I think he asks good, hard questions and I think he can get that answers. But you don`t do that instead of sitting down with the cops and telling them everything you know and answering any question the cops want. You do that in concert with opening your heart and your soul up to the cops. Baby Lisa`s mom Deborah Bradley has been repeatedly criticized for not allowing police to interview her and her husband together, apart, this way, that way, any way the cops want. Listen to her explain why she chose to talk to Dr. Phil instead.", "Because I want her face out there. I want everybody to see her and there`s a lot of people on that watch Dr. Phil that either don`t watch the news or don`t have cable and weren`t able to see Megyn Kelly`s interview and all the other, you know, channels and stuff like that so that`s why it`s really important.", "Now, just today Deborah Bradley and her husband did reportedly speak to police. This is a major development. This is something that cops say they`ve been wanting for a long time. Their attorney was also present and here`s what police said. \"Detectives did not learn anything significant but are hopeful there will be more meetings in the future.\" Mark Eiglarsh, everybody wants to know if they`re suspects because authorities say they`re not suspects but the mother has said she expects to be arrested. She`s the one who keeps sort of pointing the finger at herself which I find rather bizarre.", "With all due respect to law enforcement, they don`t have to label somebody to be considered a suspect. You are right away in situations like that since statistically most of the time when there`s a child abduction, it involves someone close to the child, you`re immediately a suspect unless they can eliminate you as one. And that coupled with allegedly failing a polygraph and police breathing down her neck, she absolutely should consider herself a suspect.", "Watch this scene from Dr. Phil where Baby Lisa`s mom seems to position herself as the victim here.", "Do you remember, for example, you reported that the lights in the house were turned off. And you went to bed.", "Here`s the thing with that that nobody knows because I`m not going sit on TV until now when I`m being asked a specific question and rebuttal it because to me it`s just nonsense. It`s just picking my words apart.", "See, she`s accusing everybody of picking her words apart. Listen, Holly Hughes, former prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, there`s an easy way to settle all this. Sit down and tell us what happened. We know she went and got a box of wine that night. We know she came back. We know that a neighbor came over and they were drinking. And then things get fuzzy. With alcohol, things do get very fuzzy. She claims that she put the child to sleep at one hour. First I think she says 10:30 then she changes it to 6:40 p.m. Some people think that`s because well, she claimed that three cell phones were taken when they took the child and a call was made from one of those cell phones that was supposedly taken with the child at 8:30 p.m. And that`s why some cynics are saying, oh, she revises when she put the child to sleep at 6:40 instead of later in the night so that she doesn`t have the phone on her at the time that phone call is made because potentially that phone call could be incriminating. What`s your take, Holly?", "My take Jane, is that the way to get people to stop criticizing her and picking her apart is tell the truth, lady. You lied about when you last saw your child. There is a huge difference between 6:30 and 10:30, Jane, in the life of a missing child. If you told the cops that you saw her last at 10:30 that would have given somebody four hours to have driven how far away with your baby. Then she says ridiculous things like I didn`t go out in the backyard and look around or call her name or look for clues because I was afraid of what I might find. She has created this mess herself. So now turning around and going on national TV and basically acting like some kind of superstar. You know, I`m going to be on TV. It`s so exciting. No, it`s tragic. It is tragic that your little baby is missing and you are continually lying about what happened, when you last saw her. My take is if you want to clear it all up, tell the truth. Sit down with the police. Take another polygraph. Open your home to a search. Whatever is necessary to bring that little girl home, if she`s still alive.", "Well, I think that the police have searched the home. And I want to be fair here. We want to invite Baby Lisa`s parents on either separately or together or their attorney, any combination there. We would love to hear their story. We`d love to hear them explain to us what happened that night. Now, in addition to Baby Lisa`s mom, we also got to hear from her dad, Jeremy Irwin. Watch this clip from Dr. Phil and then we`re going to analyze it.", "How is the community treating you two as a couple at this point? Are they supportive? Are they suspicious?", "It`s a little bit of both. There is a lot of people that are coming forward and helping, supporting, et cetera. There`s also a lot of people that are out there and don`t have a lot of information and make ridiculous accusations.", "Ron Rugen, private investigator on the scene in Kansas City, do we separate the mother and father out? Remember, the dad was at work at the time that the child reportedly disappears. He comes home at 4:00 in the morning. He sees a window busted in. He runs around. He doesn`t see the child. He goes over to the neighbor`s house and there`s confusion about what happened there at the neighbor`s house, the house of the neighbor of the woman who was drinking with this woman earlier on in the evening. And it`s quite possible he has no idea what`s happened and simply on faith believes his wife.", "It is possible. Jeremy was working at 40th and Main that night doing electrical work at a Starbucks and probably in the middle of the night that may be a 15-minute drive give or take from the home. There`s also some other confusion there. That evening or earlier that day her next door neighbor, Samantha Brando, and her husband, James Brando, broke up and went to see a counselor. And twice I`m told that evening James somewhere a little after 5:00 and again after 10:30 whenever the party, quote-unquote, broke up, James texted his wife and talked to her. I met James back in December. And I asked him earlier this week if we could maybe get together and visit again and he said, \"I`ve said everything that I need to say\".", "Well, and my invitation goes out to them too. They are not in any way, shape or form considered suspects in this case. We`re going to stay on top of this story and check us out on Monday. The show getting an exciting new look.", "There you go.", "I got bread. Look at this. Look at all this bread man. I hit the mother lode, beginner`s look. I hit the mother lode. Look at this bread.", "It looks like sliced bagels.", "Oh, my gosh. Sliced bagels.", "We`re very careful.", "I`m going to do something.", "Join me on Monday and we`ve got a new look and I`m going to take you on a brand new adventure. That is Monday beginning at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. You won`t believe what I did. Dumpster diving.", "Are you ready for the \"House of Carters\"?", "The last Leslie that I knew?", "I hate families. Families suck.", "She`s very emotionally deep.", "I was running away from Leslie. Our family life has always been special.", "So sad as America`s addiction to prescription meds taking another life. Cops say aspiring singer and reality TV star Leslie Carter died of a probable prescription medication overdose. She`s the sister of teen heartthrobs, Nick and Aaron Carter. You, of course, Nick from the boy band, the Backstreet Boys\". Check this out from YouTube.", "A family grieving tonight. The coroner waiting on the toxicology results to come in before releasing the official cause of death. But cops say Leslie was found dead with multiple prescription med bottles next to her, including meds to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, a muscle relaxant and Xanax. Straight out to Howard Samuels, founder and CEO of The Hills Treatment Center; addiction specialist -- how might those drugs be dangerous in combination, Howard?", "Well, Jane, in reality, if she had taken those drugs as prescribed, she wouldn`t be dead today. But the issue is that with the Xanax and the muscle relaxant if she had taken those and abused those medications, then that`s where the complication would have led to an overdose.", "Yes. And we know that in general, prescription drug abuse is a huge epidemic all over the Western world. Leslie, an inspiring singer -- she even has a song on the \"Shrek\" movie soundtrack. Listen her hit, \"Like Wild\" (ph) from YouTube.", "Yes, and Rachel Maresca, editor of celebbuzz.com, obviously she`s living in the shadow of siblings who are much more famous. In fact, her brother, former Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, dedicated his song \"Falling Down\" to Leslie at his concert last night. Let`s listen and then analyze.", "I`ve never done this before and I never thought I would ever have to but I would like to dedicate this song to my sister.", "Rachel, could living in the shadow of fame, have been a factor in all of this?", "Definitely. And you know, we know that the Carter family has definitely had their struggles with addiction themselves as Nick and Aaron. And I think that, you know, living in their shadow is, you know, from their reality show as well.", "Her stepmom told cops Leslie had a history of mental illness. Let`s check out at a clip of her antics on the reality show \"House of Carters\" from YouTube.", "Leslie Carter, sister, aspiring singer, outsider.", "She`s very emotionally deep.", "I`m trying to like be a good family member. When Nick`s trying to boss me around, it just doesn`t work.", "The last Leslie that I knew --", "I hate families. Families suck.", "-- I was running away from Leslie.", "\"House of Carters\".", "You know, once again, Howard Samuels, we see people who have been involved in a reality show having trouble. I don`t think you could ever overestimate the stress of having your life exposed to the world.", "Well, Jane, I mean I agree. I mean they put their whole world, their whole life on to show the world exactly all their drama. And I must say, I mean, I think that the people who do reality shows, you know, they are looking for a spirituality that just is not healthy for them. I mean, there is no spirituality. There is no connection. You know, this is what is so damaging as far as these reality shows are concerned. I mean what is that all about, Jane? I think it`s extremely unhealthy.", "It is in essence sort of a deal with the devil. And it sounds good at first when everything`s going swimmingly but then when something goes south and you find your private life exposed, it`s not so good. And again, I really don`t think, Howard, that people can -- they have to take into account the fact that she is a beautiful, aspiring singer who is living in the shadow of siblings who have achieved superstardom and that might have been very, very difficult for her. My heart goes out to her siblings and to her family. Prescription drug abuse is an absolute pandemic in this country.", "Back in a minute, but first you deserve a laugh break, don`t you?", "Can I get a number 8 with large chili cheese tater tots?", "And what kind of drink?", "Can I get a Mello Yello with that, please?", "Marine experts still don`t know why so many dolphins are dying on Cape Cod.", "More than a hundred dolphins have been found over the past few weeks, washing up sometimes ten at a time.", "What are the theories? Why, why, why, why have more than a hundred dolphins stranded themselves on Cape Cod in the last month alone, on the coastline? Tragically, more than 80 of those dolphins have now died, rescuers frantically trying to rescue as many of the dolphins as they can as even more wash ashore. In only a few weeks, more dolphins have become stranded on the beach than normally do in a year. What is causing this tragic trend? Straight out to CNN reporter Mary Snow there on Cape Cod. Mary, what`s the latest theory?", "Well, you know, Jane, yet again today another group of dolphins became stranded here along the coast of Cape Cod. We saw firsthand how marine biologists and volunteers raced into action to try and save them. They were able to save one of the dolphins, a pregnant dolphin. They were able to re-release into the ocean, lost a few others. But they are no closer to having any answers about why this is happening.", "Well, I want to bring in Ric O`Barry, who is featured in the academy award winning documentary, \"The Cove\". He`s a marine mammal specialist and a dolphin advocate with the Earth Island Institute. Ric, what is your theory? What do you think is happening to these dolphins?", "Well, nobody knows for sure. You know, these have been going on for at least 2,000 years we know about. Aristotle wrote about it. But they`re increasing. And one thing we should be looking at and we`re not looking at -- I`m hoping Congress will look at -- is mercury contamination. We have poisoned the oceans. That`s a problem, and --", "I agree with you, Ric. I agree that we have poisoned the oceans. We`re decimating the oceans with overfishing, with, wow, toxins that get released, underground sonar testing. And then, of course, there`s global warming and the extreme weather changes that occurs as a result of that. The extreme weather, it`s really a misnomer. It`s climate change. And I understand, Mary, that it`s warmer in the water than it`s been.", "It is. And weather is certainly one of the factors that scientists here are looking at. They`re also looking into whether pollutants are at play. One thing I can tell you, what they`ve told me, is that on the tests they have done so far and more than 80 of these dolphins have died here, they have said so far for the most part they found that the dolphins were mostly healthy although, you know, more tests are still being conducted at labs across the country.", "Well, I was told -- and I heard reports -- that the water`s warmer than usual. These are highly intelligent creatures, they`re also highly loyal. They travel in what you might call packs. I`m sure there`s a technical phrase. But they travel in groups so if one goes the others follow. And I heard that they don`t have the perhaps barriers that the cold would create, maybe ice or something like that, that would keep them from coming to the shore. Does that make any sense, Ric O`Barry?", "Well, it does. But we need to be looking for mercury also. We don`t usually take mercury samples from dolphins when they strand. This comes from coal-fired plants and our oceans, the fish are becoming contaminated with mercury and we`re not checking for that. We can choose what we eat. Dolphins have no choice. They have to eat fish, and we are contaminating all of the fish in the ocean.", "Solutions in a moment.", "We`re talking about dolphins. Now, there are all sorts of controversies involving dolphins. This is a protest in Puerto Rico against a proposal to create a so-called dolphinarium. I know, Ric O`Barry you were down there recently in Puerto Rico because the people rallying against it are saying essentially that it`s cruel to keep these dolphins captive. Dolphins are under attack everywhere around the world. Often there are many dolphins killed, correct, to get a few that end up in a dolphinarium. Now you have dolphins being decimated by a mystery illness in the ocean. Is there any hope for dolphins, Ric -- very briefly?", "We have to look at coal-fired plants. Coal-fired plants are polluting the ocean with mercury and methyl", "We`ve got to stop it. Nancy next. END"], "speaker": ["JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HOST", "VELEZ-MITCHELL (voice-over)", "DIENA THOMPSON, MOTHER OF SOMER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "D. THOMPSON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "D. THOMPSON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "D. THOMPSON", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "JARRED HARRELL, CONVICTED MURDERER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HARRELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HARRELL", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "THOMPSON", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "D. THOMPSON", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "LESLIE COURSEY, REPORTER, WAWS", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "COURSEY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "D. 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{"id": "CNN-102750", "program": "CNN SATURDAY NIGHT", "date": "2006-2-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/11/stn.01.html", "summary": "Northeast Hit by Winter Storm", "utt": ["In the headlines, flames engulf another Alabama church. Tonight, firefighters battle the blaze after - at the Beaverton Freewill Baptist Church. Investigators are now trying to determine the cause of ten recent church fires, and whether they're connected. Israeli doctors say there is no immediate danger to the life of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon following today's emergency surgery. Doctors removed part of his intestine after tests showed severe damage. Sharon has been in a coma since suffering a stroke back in January. And you may remember the tunnel under the U.S.-Mexican border discovered last month and visited by our own Anderson Cooper. Well, now the U.S. border patrol reports finding another tunnel nearby. This one is three feet wide and incomplete. It runs from just south of the border fence to a point 23 feet inside the U.S. Well, a major winter storm is bearing down on the Northeast tonight. The heaviest snowfall is expected along the I-95 corridor from Washington to Boston. More than a foot of snow is predicted in some areas.", "You're watching CNN, your severe weather headquarters.", "So let's get the latest on this winter storm. Checking in with meteorologist Monica McNeal at the CNN Weather Center - Monica?", "All right, Carol. As we take a look at radar and show you what's going on, you can certainly see earlier this evening, there was some rain and snow. Now we're starting to see - we're seeing all of this turning over to snow. As we zoom in a little bit closer across all of Washington, you're getting some snow. Just light snow at this time, but as we get into the midnight hours and into the early morning hours, that's when you're going to see some of your heavier snow. Right around the Philadelphia area, you will see some of your heavier snow into the midnight hours. The area of low pressure's just south of the coast of Norfolk, Virginia at this time. And it will continue to intensify. Right around Mainland, New York, light snow at this point, but really starting to intensify right around the Long Island area some. We'll continue to monitor this. All of this stuff continues to drive its way toward the north and east. And you know what else is driving? These winds. I've seen winds gusting up to about 35 miles per hour in parts of New York. Right now, it feels like on the skin 17 degrees in New York. It feels like 21 in Philadelphia. In D.C., it feels like it's 23 degrees. And this is just some of the snowfall totals that we are expecting over the next 24 hours - Carol?", "All right, thanks very much, Monica. Well, his case drew national attention. A starving boy was found picking through garbage two years ago. Well this week in a New Jersey courtroom, he faced his adoptive mother who starved him.", "You were mean to me my whole life. So you deserve the same thing that you did to me the rest of your life.", "In a packed courtroom in New Jersey, Bruce Jackson confronts his adoptive mother, who starved and abused him and his younger brothers for years.", "You wouldn't let us eat as much as the other kids got. And you weren't going to take us out like the other kids.", "Bruce is now 21 and weighs 140 pounds. Two years ago, when he was found scavenging among garbage, he weighed barely 40 pounds. Even now, he's just 5'3. Vanessa Jackson struck a plea deal with the prosecutors, admitting to one charge of child endangerment. She was sentenced to the maximum seven years in jail. For Bruce Jackson, that is not enough.", "Ms. Jackson, you verbally, emotionally, and physically abused me. You know that this was wrong. That's why you pleaded guilty.", "Bruce told the court how he'd not been allowed to bathe and had been fed on dried grits and pancake batter. As some in the courtroom wept, Bruce's brothers also told of their horrific treatment in videotaped statements. Their new adoptive parents told how at first they had to be hospitalized because their stomachs were so small. The case focused attention on New Jersey's child welfare system, but the judge told Vanessa Jackson that the shortcomings of the system were no excuse for her cruelty. The more telling verdict was a look. Bruce Jackson's look at the woman he had come to loathe.", "Since being removed from Jackson's home, Bruce has grown 15 inches. He and his brothers received $12.5 million in compensation from the state of New Jersey. Time to check stories making news around the world. For that, Shannon Cook - Shannon?", "Hey, thank you, Carol. I want to start by talking about the heightened concerns over bird flu. The virus has hit in new areas of Europe. Greece and Italy report that birds have died from the disease. It was also detected in Bulgaria. Now Italy's health minister says five cases of the H5N1 strain had been confirmed in dead swans. We're told two cases were confirmed in southern Italy and three on the island of Sicily. No reports of bird flu there in humans. And also in the latest fallout from the Mohammed cartoon controversy, Denmark is now urging its citizens to leave Indonesia. The Danish government says an extremist group has made threats. Denmark has already pulled staff from embassies in Indonesia, Iran, and Syria after violent protests. Meanwhile in London, thousands turned out at Trafalgar Square to peacefully protest the drawings. The rally was also aimed at condemning the violence that has erupted around the world. To Iran now. More tough words from the president. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hinted that Iran may withdraw from the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty if foreign nations keep trying to interfere with its nuclear plans. His speech came during ceremonies marking the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Meantime, the Associated Press reports that the U.N.'s nuclear agency has removed its surveillance equipment from Iranian sites, as demanded by Iran. All right, shifting gears a little bit now. Valentine's Day is just around the corner, as we know. And for ladies who've been looking for love in all the wrong places, there's now a new place to look. It's inside the love bubble. This is a plastic bubble set up in a busy London department store. And inside it sits an eligible bachelor. So curious ladies can ogle him. And if they're interested, they can e-mail him from a computer terminal outside the bubble. So Carol, it's kind of like window shopping for your made. What next, I ask.", "Oh, my gosh. All right, so what if, you know, the two message and they like each other? Can the bubble boy get out of the bubble?", "He cannot get out of the bubble. He must stay in the bubble for the full day. And at the end of the day, he reviews all the e-mails he got from the ladies. And then he picks the bachelorette that he wants to go out on a date with. And they go out on an all expenses paid date, which includes a nice romantic cruise down the Thames.", "If only it were that easy, Shannon, all right?", "If only.", "You know, new purse and a guy. All right, hey, follow-up and let us know if any of them hook up.", "Sure.", "All right.", "Or maybe the bubble bursts.", "Well, that could be true. All right, thanks, Shannon.", "Thank you.", "Well, did the terminally ill widow of Martin Luther King, Junior fall prey to a fraud? Coming up, CNN travels to the hospital in Mexico where she died. You'll want to stick around to find out what we saw. 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{"id": "CNN-94103", "program": "PAULA ZAHN NOW", "date": "2005-4-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/28/pzn.01.html", "summary": "Preview of the President's Press Conference", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone. We're waiting for tonight's presidential news conference as President Bush under tremendous pressure turns to the American public.", "Tonight, the president goes prime time to talk about shoring up Social Security and bringing down gas prices. With Iraq at the crossroads and his nominee stalled in Congress, Mr. Bush goes on the offensive.", "This is a special edition of", "The Presidential News Conference. Live from Washington, here is Paula Zahn with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.", "Welcome to our nation's capital. You're looking at the White House where something very rare will happen tonight. For only the fourth time President Bush is holding a primetime news conference. I'm here along with my colleague Wolf Blitzer who will give us his perspective -- that is -- on what the president is likely to say.", "It should be exciting, Paula. We'll see what happens tonight. The news conference comes against a backdrop of dropping poll numbers and rising gas prices. It's been more than a year since George W. Bush held a formal question and answer session with reporters during prime time. That happened on April 13, 2004. He's taking the extraordinary step of facing reporters tonight in hopes of jump starting some of the stalled priorities for his second term.", "Here's what we should be looking for tonight. The president will make a 10-minute opening statement. We expect Social Security be the first on his list. He's about to wrap up a 60-day campaign to sell his reform ideas. The polls show his sales pitch has fallen flat. Some polls showing him with a 10-point drop. So tonight we eggs expect a signal he's open to new ideas, perhaps tying future benefits to some kind of income test. But we also hear he isn't giving up on those controversial private savings accounts.", "And Paula, we also expect the president to talk about the high gas prices. Polls showing they are hurting his approval ratings. We expect a big pitch for the president's energy plan tonight. It stalled in Congress right now. Has been for some time. And look for the president to tick off some highly controversial ideas: building more nuclear power plants, drilling in ANWR, the Arctic Wildlife Refuge and developing alternative fuel like hydrogen for our cars.", "And then it's the reporters turn after all of that. When they finally get to ask some questions, look for some even more hot topics. The U.S. economy seems to be cooling, the stock markets are plummeting, violence is on the upswing in Iraq and it's elected officials are having a hard time forming a government. And then there are the president's stalled nominees for U.N. Ambassador and a half dozen or so appeals court judges. Senate Republicans are threatening to roll over Democratic opposition by changing the rules against filibusters. But so far the Democrats won't budge. It's getting pretty ugly up there on Capitol Hill. This exchange came just a few hours ago.", "Judicial nominees are being denied, justice is being denied. The solution is simple, allow the senators to do their job and vote.", "I would say for a lack of a better description it's a big wet kiss to the far right.", "So there is plenty of ground to cover. Lots of question to ask of the president tonight.", "Our White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux is standing by. She is going to be asking at least one question we anticipate. Suzanne, give us a little preview of what we can expect?", "We expect quite a lot of questions. And as you know, of course, this rare press conference underscores the importance of President Bush's issues that he'll be talking about: reforming Social Security as well as his energy plan. As you know, of course, he's been on the 60-day campaign trying to sell his Social Security plan -- the creation of private investment accounts. Has not been able to sell it to the majority of Americans. But Republican officials have told us a bit about what the president is going to say. He's going to give more details. He's going to endorse a plan, the Posen Plan it is called. That is essentially progressive indexing. What that means on the simplest level is low income workers, the formula for their benefits will remain the same. It is based on wages. Higher income workers, however, their formula for benefits is going to change. It is going to be based on inflation. Those who fall somewhere in between. It will be based on wages and inflation. The bottom line here is that the people who are going to pay the highest price are going to be the high income workers. The lower income workers are not going to suffer as much. Who supports this plan, obviously, the president does. His adviser Karl Rove does and many moderate Republicans. But I have already spoken with some Democratic sources who say this is not going to fly in Congress. And that is because the president is not willing to give up that one issue and that is creating those private accounts. Those investment accounts as a part of the Social Security formula. Now, the president, of course, also is going to be talking about his energy plan. As you know, Wolf, Paula, very frustrating for this president. It has languished in Congress over the last four years. It was just yesterday, he came up with new proposals to try to actually build refineries in some of the military bases that have closed. Very questionable whether or not that is going to happen. And of course, he's trying to get the Saudis to boost their oil production -- Wolf, Paula.", "Suzanne Malveaux, Thanks. It's interesting to note that this news conference was going to get underway at 8:30. It was moved up a half hour after some pretty tense negotiations with the broadcast networks who are starting their new sweeps season. And henceforth we should be looking at the start of this just about 20 minutes or so.", "It was going to start at 8:30. It's going to start, though, at 8:00. Let's get a little assessment now. The president's Social Security reform plans would affect all of us. And the answer is depends on how old we are right now. The polls show that the older you are, the odds are the less you will like it. So the president needs to pull off a big sales job tonight. Our chief national correspondent John King is with us. John, give us a little sense of the challenge this president has tonight.", "Well, as we've already made clear, this president is not a fan of these events. He seems to be warming to them a little bit in his second term. But he doesn't like the news conference. Presidents don't do this when they are winning. They do it to use the strength when they are losing debates. So, the president wants to reshape the debate tonight beginning with Social Security.", "The president hopes a few new ideas and a prime time platform gives a boost for a Social Security pitch that so far is falling flat.", "I don't think it's a time for a tourniquet. I think this is time to again show the American people the strength of leadership which is what they want in the election last year.", "The East Room event comes at the end of an aggressive, but on the surface, largely ineffective 60-day White House push. 52 percent of Americans approved of the president's Social Security plan two months ago, 60 percent disapprove now according to a new Marist poll. The urgent challenge tonight is to reframe the debate and move it beyond the overwhelming focus on the controversial idea of allowing private investment accounts as part of Social Security.", "He needs to hit a home run with the America people in the first ten minutes when he is speaking to them directly, not on the media's agenda, but on his agenda.", "The president calls it a generational issue. And he tailors his pitch, because how his plan works depends on how old you are.", "Telling younger workers they have to save money in a 1930's retirement system is like telling them they have to use a cell phone with a rotary dial.", "Funny maybe, but not effective, at least not yet. Even though Mr. Bush said younger workers would benefit most from the new private investment accounts he favors, 50 percent of those under 30 disapprove. And among those 31 to 44, 57 percent disapprove of the Bush plan.", "You will get your check. I don't care what the TV ads say. I don't care what the propaganda say. You are going to get your check.", "The president's message to older Americans, don't worry, for you, nothing will change.", "If you have retired, if you are born prior to 1950, the system will take care of you.", "But 68 percent of those 60 and older disapprove of the president's plan. And he must soften their opposition if he is to make any headway of the Congress wary of angering the nation's most dependable voting bloc.", "And John, the president doesn't only have a problem with Democrats, all the Democrats, almost all of them, but he's got a problem with a lot of Republicans when it comes to Social Security.", "He does. Compare this to the tax debate in the first term -- the tax cut debate, when all the Republicans were all over the country saying the president is right. The Republicans are not doing it this time, because they're nervous about Social Security. This is a classic glass half empty, half full night. The Democrats would the president is losing this argument, even some Republicans say is glass is more than half empty if you will, or more than half empty. The president, though, believes he has convinced the American people are more of a problem. Tonight he tries to pivot to the debate to the debate about the solutions.", "John King, thanks so much. Joining us now Democratic strategist and \"CROSSFIRE\" co-host Paul Begala and CNN contributor and former Pentagon spokesman Victoria Clarke. Good to see both of you. So Tori, given the fact that the president's poll numbers have dropped ten points since he's been aggressively going around the country trying to sell the program, realistically, what does he hope he can accomplish tonight in this venue, which even he admits isn't his favorite place to be hanging out?", "I don't think it would be anybody's favorite place to hang out. I think he is trying to underscore the importance of fundamental reform. And you have got to understand, this is not a fellow who became president to win a popularity contest. He's less concerned about poll numbers, he's more concerned about the fact that he's put forward proposals. You may not love every aspect of them, but he's put forward proposals, fundamental reforms for important parts of the economy. And he's getting back from the Democrats largely, sort of passive denial, just a refusal to deal with it at all. So, I think he is trying to elevate the debate and the discussion. And really get people engaged in a meaningful way, not just talking about poll numbers.", "So, Paul, a bunch of Democrats have told me today, they are fearful the president will back them in the corner tonight and say, look, you may not like my plan but at least I have a plan.", "A valid point, and I expect the president to make that. One strategist for the president actually told me, their strategy all along on Social Security was, and, his words, \"create the crisis that compels the change.\" And, I think Tori's right: the president made a case that there's, at least, problems. People don't think there's a crisis, but people believe something needs to be done. I think the president will probably lay out that case again today. The problem is, he's also laid out it is for his solution to the problem -- these private accounts we have been talking about -- and by two-to-one, people don't like them. I think he will make a good point to the Democrats, and I think should listen to him when he says, well, what's your plan? I suspect the Democrats will come back with a plan for retirement security, but right now, it's all about the president. He's the one who brought this issue up. He's the one who is on point, and he is spending down that political capital. I differ a little with Tori in that I know he doesn't live by the polls, or he says that, but the currency of political capital that the president talks about so often is popular support. And popular support is waning now, in part because of the Social Security plan.", "But, Paul, can't he make the argument that at least he has gotten Congress to talk about this issue?", "Sure. Sure, as Hillary and Bill Clinton could have with healthcare. But they still lost and they wound up losing the Congress. People didn't like the plan that my old boss, Bill Clinton, and his wife, put forward, and so we lost. People don't like the plan President Bush has put forward. I admire him for the boldness of the plan, but there's a difference between boldness and wisdom, and I think the American people -- you know, there've been 600 town hall meetings on this. The president is a very able campaigner. My goodness, my party's learned that in the last election. But he's unable to make this case. It may be because people just don't want it, and I guess, if I were advising him, I would certainly encourage this press conference, but also I'd suggest some new ideas.", "So, Tori, what do you think is the greatest risk for the president tonight? He has a lot of pressure on him.", "I don't think there's a lot of risk, because, you can't beat something with nothing. The president has put forward a plan. Sure, people have some problems with them, but it will be welcome relief if the Congress -- if the Democrats -- do come forward with some other ideas. So far they have not. They've been in just a classic case of denial. One of the interesting poll numbers that you don't see thrown up on the screens that often is that people increasingly are aware of the fact we should deal with Social Security now, not 10 or 15 or 20 years from now. That's an important shift in public opinion, and I agree with Paul. I think what the president needs to do tonight is start to shift this forward to, OK, what are we going to do about it? You've heard my ideas. I'm changing them, adapting them. Let's hear yours from Congress. It's about shared responsibility.", "Tori and Paul, please stay right there. We're going to come to you throughout our special coverage. As we said, the president, expected to turn up the heat on U.S. senators tonight. In a minute we'll be joined by senators from both parties.", "Welcome back. We're counting down to President Bush's prime time news conference. One of his top tasks, to sell the American public on his plan to try to reform Social Security. Joining us now, from Capitol Hill, two key players in that debate: Iowa Republican Charles Grassley -- he's the chairman of the Finance Committee -- and Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin. Senators, thanks very much for joining us. Senator Grassley, the Finance Committee is known for collegiality, bipartisanship, working together. Do you see light at the end of the Social Security tunnel, a deal that your committee can work out that would be acceptable to the president and to the Democratic leadership?", "Well, right now, Senator Baucus feels that he cannot sit down as long as personal accounts are on the table. I've invited him to. We have an amicable understanding that we'll go our separate ways. We seldom do that, and I'm going to work with the Republicans to see what we can get Republican agreement on. I'd have to do that anyway, so I'm in the process of doing that. One thing that's very important is that this wouldn't be an issue before Congress except for fact that the president has raised it, so we need to thank the president for doing that. I'll end here by saying every 100 of the senators knows that we need to do something, and I hope we will come together and get something done, so that we save Social Security for our grandchildren.", "All right, Senator Durbin, what about that?", "Privatization of Social Security cannot be the answer, and the American people have told the president that, not just the Democrats and the Independents, but Republicans and young people, as well. It's a loser, and the president has taken it around this country for 60 days, and 60 cities, and I think he knows that. It's not a plan that is going to strengthen Social Security. It's going to lead to massive benefit cuts and the largest increase in the federal deficit in our nation's history, a debt that our kids are going to have to pay off. So, privatization, or personal accounts as Chuck calls them -- they're just nonstarters.", "As we look at the live pictures, Senator Grassley, from the East Room of the White House, the news conference will be beginning shortly. Can the president realistically -- politically -- abandon his plan for partial privatization, as it is called?", "I don't think he has to at this point, at least. It's up to Congress to decide what we're going to pass, anyway. Don't put too much attention on the president. We all know that there needs to be a problem -- there was just talk by Senator Durbin about benefit cuts leaving the impression that the only way you'd have benefit cuts is by personal accounts. There's going to be benefit cuts anyway, because we have over promised, by 10 to $12 trillion, what we can deliver for our children and grandchildren. Doing nothing is not an option because my grandchildren will get 70 percent of benefits, if we don't do something, because the cash flow at that date will only deliver 70 percent of benefits.", "Senator Durbin, the criticism against the Democrats is that they have not come up with a plan. They have not come up with a long-term solution to the Social Security problem. Is there a realistic plan that the Democrats have -- are ready to put forward any time soon?", "Let me tell you, Wolf, I was here in 1983 when we came up with a bipartisan approach -- sensible, common sense changes in Social Security that brought over 50 years of solvency. This president has made history. He's made history with the biggest deficits in the history of the United States. His economic policy led us there. And he's made history by calling for tax cuts for the wealthiest people in America in the midst of a war. Social Security and the trust fund would be a lot stronger today if this administration hadn't been reaching in for tax cuts for the wealthiest people in America.", "Senator Durbin, Senator Grassley, thanks to both of you for spending a few moments with us as this news conference is about to get under way. Appreciate it very much. And, a lot of the president's frustration is coming from Capitol Hill which is stealing the spotlight from his agenda. Up next, stalled nominations and a Republican leader in the hot seat: we'll take a quick break. We'll be right back.", "President Bush is getting set to hold his first prime-time news conference in over a year. Energy, Social Security are the top items on his agenda. He, of course, has to win over voters and Congress. So let's go to Capitol Hill and congressional correspondent Ed Henry. It was interesting, Senator Grassley was just saying, as we look ahead tonight, don't put too much attention on the president, folks, because this is where everything happens, right here in Congress. What is the chief concern of Congress right now going into this news conference?", "Well, the bottom line is after the last election, Paula, Democrats were in the dumps. There was a lot of talk that they were scared to take on this president and block his agenda, and the Republicans were riding high. They had increased majorities in the House and Senate. There was talk that there was going to be a glide path for the president's agenda, his conservative judicial nominees as well. And they have gotten some small victories, but the big-ticket items like Social Security, that is at the top of the agenda, the energy bill, also some of those judges, they have been stalled. And when you talk to Democrats like Senator Dick Durbin, they say it's because this president has overreached, that he overestimated how much political capital he had coming out of a close election. And, also, there have been a series of stories that have overshadowed his agenda -- Congress getting involved in Terri Schiavo, Tom DeLay ethics case, the nuclear option on judges. All that has hurt them, but -- and has given Democrats some victories. But Republicans say the Democrats have no agenda of their own. In the long run, the Republicans are going to prevail -- Paula.", "I guess that's what we'd expect them to say. Ed Henry, thanks so much. The president's news conference is just minutes away. We're going to take a quick break before he steps into the East Room. We'll be right back.", "Reporters awaiting the arrival of the president only a few moments away in the East Room of the White House, his first prime- time news conference in more than a year. Welcome back to our continuing coverage. Torie Clarke is a Republican strategist. Torie, a simple question, why tonight? Why tonight of all nights has he decided to ask for this news conference?", "Well, actually, we should remind people that although this is prime-time and there haven't been that many of those, he's been having a big briefing with the press about once a month since the election day. So he has been out there in a variety of ways trying to reach out to the American people. But you can't wait forever to solve some of these big issues and these big problems. I think he's going to use every opportunity he can find to push this agenda forward.", "The president, Paul Begala, our Democratic strategist, has a bully pulpit, and he's been pretty effective. Witness the fact, he was reelected obviously last November.", "He was. He uses it quite well. And good for him. I think this is wonderful. It's good for the White House, it's good for the president, it's good for the country. But he's doing it because he needs to. As John King pointed out, he is at an all-time low in his polls, his agenda is stalled, and he's got to go back on the offense here. He has got to reclaim the initiative. Nothing does that better than speaking directly to the American people. So I'm glad he's doing it.", "Torie, do you think that there's also the decision to go forward with this news conference tonight, any connection to the fact that there's a new government in Iraq, the first time in more than 50 years, the government was actually announced today?", "I don't know if they exactly pegged it to that, but I sure hope he takes a little bit of time to focus on it, because it is truly historic, it's so important and it's so positive. So I hope he does reflect on it some.", "What do you think about that? That's been a big issue, the war on terrorism, the war in Iraq, Paul Begala, that certainly in terms of public opinion has not hurt -- has not hurt the president, certainly not like some of these domestic issues like Social Security.", "Right, and yet the latest CNN/\"USA Today\" Gallup poll said people want to hear from him about Iraq. I suspect he will do that. There's plenty of good news since the start of the year in Iraq, obscured lately by the new wave of terrorist bombings. But the thing I'm going to watch for is as he talks, is he sort of leaning forward, is his vocal timbre going up, is he pressing too hard, which he's been doing lately in speeches as his poll numbers have gone down, or will he be the relaxed, confident guy we saw back after he won reelection?", "All right, Paul and Torie, stand by. We'll get back to you after the news conference. Paula, we're only, what, a few seconds away.", "Yeah. We're going to go back to Suzanne Malveax, though, first, who is standing by in the East Room. We're expected to see the president shortly. We should explain, Suzanne, that the president will start off with, what, 10 or 12 minutes of prepared remarks before he takes any questions from reporters.", "That's right, Paula. We just got the official two- minute warning. The president will be coming out in two minutes to give those official remarks, about 10 minutes or so, before he takes questions and answers. It's important to know, this is a president, of course, who likes to talk about big ideas, accomplishing big things and having the political capital to do so, but of course it comes at a critical time for the president when perhaps some of that political capital has been compromised because of some of the problems with the House leader Tom DeLay, because of some of the problems with the fierce fight between Democrats and Republicans over the filibuster, over his judicial nominees. I should let you know that senior administration officials, of course, saying the goals here tonight, the short term, to convince Americans that the president understand the concerns they have about those high gas prices, despite the fact that there is very little he can do. Also, when it comes to reforming Social Security, the president has been out on the road some 60 days, 60 stops, of course, to many districts where members of Congress are vulnerable, both Democrats and Republicans. This really gives the president a chance, an opportunity to talk to the American people directly -- Paula, Wolf.", "Suzanne, have we learned anything else about why tonight was the night that the president picked to do this, or his staff picked to do this?", "Well, there are certainly two very important benchmarks that are going to happen, they're right around the corner, of course. Saturday, that is when the 100-day mark is of his second administration. A lot of people are looking at what he has accomplished, what did he mean to accomplish? And of course, Sunday, that's when the 60-day period ends, that first phase of going out and selling his Social Security reform to the people, and then, of course, coming up with the solutions. He'll talk about that tonight -- Paula, Wolf.", "Suzanne Malveaux, please stand by as we're going to check in with you after the president's news conference. It will be interesting to see the tenor of the questions from the press tonight. In the last news conference, there were some pretty pointed questions asked of the president, and he made no hesitation to fire right back.", "And it's interesting, when the president does start asking reporters for questions, he'll start off with the wire services and then he'll go to all the other major reporters who have gathered in the East Room. The president is walking up. 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{"id": "CNN-55784", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-6-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/12/lt.05.html", "summary": "Bush Says United States Will Enforce Bush Doctrine", "utt": ["President Bush said today, the nation is still under attack. In comments within the past hour, Mr. Bush says the United States will enforce the Bush Doctrine, which says other countries are either with the U.S. or against it in the war on terrorism. CNN's Kelly Wallace is standing by at the White House, where the president has had a very busy morning -- and straight to the point, Kelly.", "Kyra, those comments you just mentioned all part of an intense lobbying campaign by President Bush. He is using every opportunity he gets to urge lawmakers to create and pass his proposal, creating this new cabinet-level agency in the Department of Homeland Security. The latest push at the first meeting of the president's new Homeland Security Advisory Council, 21 experts no longer part of the federal government, who will be giving him advice on ways to protect the country from terrorism. There the president had a stern warning for lawmakers and for the American people. He said there are still terrorists lurking around. That is why he says it is vital that the government reorganize itself.", "We are under attack. That's the way it is. The more we love freedom, the more we espouse values that are descent and honorable. The more we welcome religion in our society, open political discourse, the more this enemy is going to try to hit us.", "And the president had a similar message using the signing ceremony of a new measure, a bioterrorism bill now", "And Kelly, we are talking about this new homeland security plan. I saw that the Secret Service is mentioned, but CIA and FBI, they're not included. Is that set in stone?", "Well, the White House is saying Congress, of course, will be looking at this measure and that the administration is open to discussing the issue with lawmakers. At one point, there was some discussion within the White House. The president's advisers considering moving the FBI away from Justice and into the Department of Homeland Security. But in the end, deciding against it, saying it is also a law enforcement organization and so it should remain under the Justice Department and under the attorney general. So the message is, this administration willing to listen, but White House advisers think that the president's plan, keeping the FBI and CIA out of it, is the best way to go -- Kyra.", "All right. Our Kelly Wallace live from the White House there -- thanks, Kelly. And we're expecting a White House briefing in about 10 minutes. We will bring that to you live as soon as it happens. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "WALLACE", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "WALLACE", "PHILLIPS", "WALLACE", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-144126", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-10-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/19/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Open Season Has Started; Health Care Secrets?", "utt": ["Good morning, Los Angeles. Beautiful shot this morning, where it's 65 degrees right now -- only going up a couple of degrees in L.A. partly cloudy today, going up to 67. Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. Stephanie Elam is minding your business this morning, and she has more on -- it's called open enrollment right now for a lot of people that are getting their insurance.", "Open season.", "Some are calling it open season because everyone's going to be paying more for health care.", "A lot of people got the -- these packets that come in the mail and have nice, happy colors on them and they look all accessible, and people open them up, and they realize there's a lot more pain than they're looking at here. And it's true for so many people. Here's the thing that you can basically expect. You're going to be paying more. When you figure out what you need to do for your health insurance this year, plan on paying more. You are going to have higher out-of-pocket costs for one thing. That's definitely going to go up. The aging population is part of the issue here. More technology being used in health care and the government is also shifting costs. So that's part of the issue. Co-pays are now going to become co-insurance. And the idea basically is you're paying a percentage of the expense instead of that $20, $25 co-pay. That means you're going to be paying more for that as well, You're talking about maybe the health insurer paying 20 - or 80 percent and you're paying 20 percent, something along that lines. Also expect fewer options. You are going to have less options as far as HMO's, you may even have to change your doctors to stay in your health plan. That's another big issue for a lot of people. And you're going to find incentives to stay healthy. Maybe if you join a plan to stop smoking, you join some sort of plan to lose weight. These things are encouraged by the employers and also for the insurers because of the fact that a healthy employee costs everyone less. So they want people to do that. And so you may get gift cards and the like. But the other interesting thing, they want to know who your dependents are. Because if you have a dependent who really -- like a spouse, could have insurance someplace else, they'll tack on extra charges for that too.", "Really, that's interesting.", "Yes. There's a lot of little things in there, you got to read it all, and don't miss your window. Make sure you take care of that.", "Yea because if you miss your window...", "You're just out of luck.", "You got to pay attention to that because we're in open season -- I mean, open enrollment too.", "Yea, open season -- get out your guns.", "Stephanie Elam, thanks so much, \"Minding Your Business\" this morning. So how did this bizarre story out of Louisiana an interracial couple comes before the justice of the peace and says, I want to get married. And he said, nope, not going to do it, don't believe in interracial marriages. We'll talk to the two of them, coming up right after this, 26 minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "CHETRY", "ELAM", "ROBERTS", "ELAM", "ROBERTS", "ELAM", "ROBERTS", "ELAM", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-413540", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-10-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/16/cnr.07.html", "summary": "President Donald Trump Spreads Misinformation At Last Night's Town Hall; Joe Biden Performs Clear Position On \"Court Packing\" By Election Day", "utt": ["Joe Biden was live in Philadelphia. President Trump live in Miami. It was supposed to be debate night. But instead, it was competing televised town halls. There was some news and some old habits. Democrat Biden, for example, went longer than long sometimes in defending past positions and walking through policy options. President Trump also defaulted quite a bit to his trademark, saying things that are nowhere close to true.", "But just the other day, they came out with a statement that 85 percent of the people that wear masks catch it. We're always protecting people with pre-existing conditions. And I can't say that more strongly. We are going to take care of DACA. We're going to take care of Dreamers. It is working right now.", "Joining me now, Laura Barron-Lopez, with POLITICO and Julie Pace with \"The Associated Press\". Laura, let me start with you. The president says we're always taking care of pre-existing conditions.", "He is going to argue a case before the Supreme Court in a matter of days really, couple of weeks, saying get rid of Obamacare, get rid of their protections that help people with pre-existing conditions. And he says there are talks ongoing on DACA. No. That would be a surprise to me. Are there?", "And not so far as I know, John. I mean, that is not something that law makers be at it on the Democrat or Republican side have said anything about in terms of actually moving DACA legislation to protect Dreamers. And again what was interesting in President Trump's answer last night was that, when he was asked why he hadn't moved to protect Dreamers, the DACA program, which is a program that his administration has repeatedly tried to end or curtail? He turned to the Coronavirus saying that immigration issues changed because of the Coronavirus. He also referenced ending catch and release. So not answering directly at all why his administration repeatedly has tried to end that program?", "Right. If they wanted to act on health care or immigration, they had three years before the Coronavirus. Number one, two of those three years, they had a Republican Congress to go along with their Republican President they did nothing on either issue. They were unsuccessful. Julie Pace another thing that is always interesting, I use a polite word when you watch this president is he has access to more information than anybody on the planet, right? He is the President of the United States, he has as much access at least maybe some other world leaders come close to it, but he completely misstates the numbers on Coronavirus, repeatedly. He is either lying or not doing his homework. And then there's this issue of QAnon, the president has called the Republican Congressional Candidate who is a QAnon believer, this is a conspiracy theory that believes there are satanic worshippers and pedophiles in a deep state running the United States government. He has praised them, he has been asked about it repeatedly. Comes out last night, and he says, I don't know. Listen.", "Let me just tell you what I do hear about it is they are very strongly against pedophilia, and I agree with that. I mean, I do agree with that.", "OK. But there's not a satanic pedophilia --.", "I have no idea. I know nothing about it.", "You don't know that? Just this week you retweeted to your 87 million followers a conspiracy theory that Joe Biden orchestrated to have SEAL Team Six, the Navy SEAL Team Six killed to cover up the fake death of Bin Laden. Now why would you send a lot of your followers? You retweeted it.", "I know nothing about it. That was a re-tweet. That was an opinion of somebody and that was a retweet. I will put it out there. People can decide for themselves.", "I don't get that--", "Savannah Guthrie, Julie Pace was wise enough to say you're the President of the United States, not somebody's crazy uncle. But whether it's QAnon, whether it's other whack job conspiracy theories, the president thinks it's OK that he is just putting it out there.", "He absolutely does. He does not see the difference between an average American spreading something like that and the President of the United States doing that. When the president puts something out there, that is the backing of the office. That sends a signal to not just to his millions of followers, but to so many Americans around the world that there's legitimacy to what he is spreading. And you know he bristles sometimes when he gets asked about this, but there's a reason that this is important. He just has this real power behind that megaphone and he does not seem to sometimes recognize that there is risk in spreading conspiracy theories. And when it comes to QAnon in particular, he has had multiple opportunities now, particularly since this congressional candidate that you mentioned won her primary, he's had multiple opportunities to disavow this conspiracy theory and he won't do it. He claims ignorance at times or he kind of cozies up to that, but he will not condemn, or call them what they are, which is a conspiracy theory.", "Right, a conspiracy theory. And Laura, Joe Biden got a question last night about court backing, he has been asked this before. Will you try to expand the number of members on the Supreme Court if you win the election? He has punted before, he punted again. But this time he added a promise. Listen.", "If they vote before the election, you are open to expanding the court?", "I am open to considering what happens from that point on.", "But don't voters have a right to know what you think?", "They have a right to know where I stand; I have the right to know where I stand before they vote.", "So, you'll come out with a clear position before Election Day?", "Yes, depending on how they handle this.", "There was a yes; there was a comma after the yes. But Joe Biden now he essentially put himself in a box, didn't he?", "Yes, Biden is saying that if the senate moves through with Barrett's confirmation and all indication is that they will end up confirming her before November 3rd, and then he is telling voters that he will have an answer for them on whether or not he wants to expand the court.", "And that's something that if he says yes, that could ultimately yet rally members of the base behind him because the progressive wing certainly supports that. We've heard that more and more from progressives. But again, there are a number of moderate voters who wouldn't necessarily like it if he said that, that's something he would do. I will just add though, that when I am talking to voters in states like Arizona and in Pennsylvania, so far, a lot of them do not have the Supreme Court on their mind. They say they aren't paying attention to the Barrett hearings, and we haven't really seen any indication that this SCOTUS nomination is actually impacting the presidential race.", "That's a key point. I think that Biden believes that's more of a Washington conversation than American conversation right now. Julie Pace, I have been at this awhile. And there's a time-tested bipartisan tradition. If you're asked by a reporter on the campaign trail or in a debate, what will the lesson be if you lose, the answer is, I'm not going to lose. Not Joe Biden. Listen.", "Mr. Vice President, if you lose, what will that say to you about where America is today?", "Well, could say I'm a lousy candidate and I didn't do a good job. But I think, I hope that it doesn't say that we are as racially, ethnically and religiously at odds with one another as it appears the president wants us to be.", "Is that refreshing or is that Joe Biden wasting his time essentially by answering the question, he should just pivot and talk about something else?", "Look, I find it refreshing when candidates actually answer that type of question because of course they're considering what happens if they lose. They don't often publicly say that, but of course that's the reality of the situation. And I do think that Biden did give voice to what a lot of Americans who are planning to vote for him are wondering about what it will mean for the country? If he did lose, what it says about who we are as a nation? And what we are willing to accept given how much we know about President Trump and how much his politics are tied to stirring up divisions across race, across gender at times? And he's put that very front and center, Americans have a clear eyed about that. And yet of course, there's a very good chance that he could still win this election knowing all of that.", "And we start counting them in 18 days, I don't know for no on the 18th day who the winner is? But we start counting them then. Julie Pace, Laura Barron-Lopez, grateful for the reporting and the insights. Busy two weeks plus ahead for us. Up next, Coronavirus front and center, including the New Mexico Governor urging residents to stay at home as cases there spike."], "speaker": ["KING", "TRUMP", "KING", "KING", "LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ, NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER, POLITICO", "KING", "TRUMP", "SAVANNAH GUTHRIE, NBC NEWS ANCHOR", "TRUMP", "GUTHRIE", "TRUMP", "GUTHRIE", "KING", "JULIE PACE, WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF, ASSOCIATED PRESS", "KING", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BIDEN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BIDEN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BIDEN", "KING", "BARRON-LOPEZ", "BARRON-LOPEZ", "KING", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BIDEN", "KING", "PACE", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-15869", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-9-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/14/mn.17.html", "summary": "Fired Los Alamos Nuclear Scientist Wen Ho Lee Freed; U.S. Government Now Facing Round of Questions", "utt": ["Fired Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee is a free man today. Now, though, it is the U.S. government facing a round of questions. Our national correspondent Tony Clark live now from Whiterock, New Mexico, with the latest on this case. Tony, good morning.", "Good morning, Bill. In fact, the focus really has changed, from being initially on Wen Ho Lee and whether or not he was involved in espionage, whether he was a spy stealing nuclear weapons secrets, to now why the federal government went after him with the vigor that it did and called him such a threat. Wen Ho Lee, this morning, is apparently sleeping late. We are a couple of blocks away from his home, trying to give a little bit of privacy in this, his first full day of freedom. Just a short time ago, the newspapers were still on the street in front of his house, the driveway, and it looks like he is taking it easy today. He told us yesterday that he was going to go fishing. He loves to do garden work, and so we expect that to happen. But I have got a copy of the plea agreement in front of me, and beginning September 26th he must sit down with government investigators and begin answering their questions for a period of up to, I believe it is, six hours a day for a 10-day period over a three- week period. He is going to be asked questions about why he downloaded the nuclear weapons data, what happened to the computer tapes that he had. He has indicated, through his attorneys, that the seven that were missing were destroyed, and investigators want to know more details about that. Last night, he was greeted by a crowd of maybe 100, 150 friends and neighbors. And his block, his street was blocked off. There were cheers, there were flags, there was a festive party thrown by his neighbor, Don and Jeanne Marshall (ph). In fact, Don Marshall said, during one of the last interrogations by the FBI, agents told Wen Ho Lee that was going to happen to him was that his family was going to leave him, his friends were going to desert him, and, according to Marshall, he was told he was going to be rot in jail. And what Marshall and his friends wanted to show him was that he had friends, that they had supported him all along, and that was he was very welcome coming home. And so, Wen Ho Lee starting a new chapter of his life today. Tony Clark, CNN, White Rock, New Mexico.", "All right, Tony, thank you. Tony Clark again live there, just near the home of Wen Ho Lee this morning with us."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "TONY CLARK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-115919", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-4-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/07/cnr.04.html", "summary": "U.N. Climate Change Report with Scary Scenarios", "utt": ["In New Mexico, this is not a movie but real life. You're seeing drama on the rails. A passenger train rushes head long, not away from, but into a blazing wildfire just like you saw right there. High winds whipped the flames across brush land and on to those tracks. Well, railroad officials say the conductor was aware of the fire but an emergency stop might have put the train in the mid of the flames and in greater danger. Well, the strongest warning yet from the United Nations about the humans causes of global warming and what it might mean for survival. The report predicts everything from monster storms and wildfires to gross famine. Our own meteorologist Rob Marciano shakes out some of the details.", "February's report from a United Nations panel on global climate change was just the tip of the iceberg. It concluded that global warming is real. It's getting worse and that human activity is driving it. And a follow up released Friday in Brussels offers new details on the devastating effects climate change will likely bring to bear on humans, animals, and the environment.", "We're no longer arm-waving with models that this may happen. This is what we call empirical information on the ground. We can measure it.", "Perhaps the most troubling finding is that by the end of the century, floods will permanently displace hundreds of millions of people as low-lying coastal areas are swallowed up by rising sea levels.", "With a meter or two of sea level rise, we're likely to see hundreds of millions of what we are calling environmental refugees, people who no longer can live where they have lived for maybe thousands of years.", "The report predicts that where it's wet and hot, insect-borne diseases such as malaria will explode. Where it's dry, it's likely to become much drier. And some water supplies will vanish, notably the glaciers and the Himalayas, the key water source for hundreds of millions of Asians. And the deserts will expand.", "Already we're beginning to see in the western United States that it is becoming drier and hotter. And if we go down the path of business as usual, we can expect basically permanent drought in the western United States.", "Another grim finding is that the world will see a spike in endangered species with a wave of extinction from coral reefs to polar bears.", "Our study in the Arctic suggested that polar bear is on its way to extinction during this century in the most likelihood. And the reason for that is that they live on the ice. They get their food off the ice. They snatch the seals through small air holes. And now most of that ice is no longer there and will disappear.", "Next month another key section of the report will be released. And it's going to provide some much-needed guidance as to what we humans can do to stop global warming. And even scientists who fear the worst say it's not too late to avoid some of these nightmare scenarios. Rob Marciano, CNN.", "And now, how much can one man get away with? Don Imus in hot water again. We'll tell you what he said and who he offended. And Alberto Gonzales loses one more top member of his Justice Department, but is the top man about to topple? We'll get a live report. You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST (voice-over)", "MARTIN PARRY, IPCC CO-CHAIRMAN", "MARCIANO", "ROBERT CORELL, CLIMATE SCIENTIST", "MARCIANO", "JAMES HANSEN, EARTH SCIENTIST", "MARCIANO", "CORELL", "MARCIANO (on-camera)", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-86301", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2004-7-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/17/cst.04.html", "summary": "Elusive Chess Champ Bobby Fischer Found In Tokyo", "utt": ["Sometimes you wonder what goes wrong. He is one of the most gifted chess players in history. He is also reclusive, a political extremist and, even though his mother was Jewish, he's known for making violent anti-Semitic comments. Today, 61-year-old Bobby Fischer is behind bars. CNN's Atika Shubert has the story of what might be the chess grandmaster's endgame.", "Bobby Fischer, chess prodigy and grandmaster, was once a national hero. In 1972, Fischer, then 29 years old, roundly beat world chess champion Boris Spassky from the Soviet Union. It was hailed as a victory in the Cold War. Now, 61, he is a wanted man. He has been a fugitive since 1992 when he attended a Yugoslav chess tournament in violation of U.N. sanctions. Famously, spitting on a letter from the U.S. government that warned him not to go.", "So this is my reply to whether or not I should defend my title here. That's my answer.", "After that, Fischer went underground shuttling between Europe and Asia amid rumors that he continued to play chess on the Internet under assumed names. He surfaced occasionally to broadcast anti-Semitic rants against his home country, the most controversial aired on a Philippine radio program just after the World Trade Center attacks.", "Well, this is all wonderful news. A sign for the", "He also boasted of his place in history.", "You know when I won the world championship in 1972, the United States had an image of -- you know, it was a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. I turned all that around single handedly. I think it was a very risky move.", "Yet, he made a strategic error in coming to Japan. Fischer was detained Thursday at Tokyo's Narita Airport on an immigration violation. Japanese and U.S. officials will not say whether Fischer will be extradited to the U.S. to face charges. An ignominious endgame for the man once hailed at the world's greatest living chess player. Atika Shubert CNN, Tokyo.", "All right. News around the world begins with an emotional task for parents in southern India. They're remembering the 90 children killed in Friday's devastating school fire. Forty-five of the victims' bodies were cremated in mass ceremonies today. The others were cremated yesterday. In the wake of the tragedy, the government has ordered that all private schools there be inspected. Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat has announced a major restructuring of security services. His plan calls for consolidating nearly a dozen security services into three branches. Many Palestinians are protesting that plan. And on a much lighter note, Lance Armstrong is dominating the course as the Tour de France heads into its final week. Armstrong overpowered his rivals to win the 13th stage today through the Pyrenees Mountains. Barring a major upset, experts say, the Texan appears actually poised to grab an unprecedented six Tour de France victory. It would be pretty amazing, never done before by a man over 30. Well, it's safe to say, Martha Stewart may be the most talked about woman in America this weekend, especially in her hometown of Westport, Connecticut. And then Columbus did sail the ocean blue in 1492, but did the Chinese actually discover America? I'm going to interview a man who says that the history books have it wrong. Plus one company that's banking on your need for a nap. I've got all that on CNN LIVE SATURDAY."], "speaker": ["LIN", "ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BOBBY FISHCHER, CHESS PRODIGY", "SHUBERT", "FISCHER", "SHUBERT", "FISCHER", "SHUBERT", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-218222", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-11-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/06/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Stranded Couple Rescued After Days; Be The Next Jacques Cousteau", "utt": ["There was a big family reunion for one Wisconsin couple found safe after nearly a week stranded just outside Yellowstone National Park.", "We're OK.", "You're OK.", "I'm home, I'm safe.", "Here's the story. Mark and Christine Watchke's car got stuck in heavy, heavy snow, subzero temperatures as they were leaving the park last Tuesday. In fact, this pair here, they were down to cookies and just a couple peanut butter and jelly sandwiches when this local rancher coming by on a snow mobile lucked upon them and discovered them. Family members told CNN affiliate KARE, they're so thankful this couple is alive and well.", "To get that call Monday morning and to hear the voice on -- it just -- I mean, again, you hear the phrase, words can't express, but now I really understand that.", "Authorities say the rancher told them the Watchke's had plenty of fuel in their car to periodically keep the engine going so they could stay warm. If you have ever dreamed of being an underwater explorer, you may soon be able to without getting wet. That's today's \"Technovations.\"", "Eric Stackpole and David Lang are two young entrepreneurs looking to become the next Jacques Cousteau.", "Jacques Cousteau changed the way ocean exploration was done.", "He invited people to explore along with him. So for us, it's the same thing.", "They're working on an underwater robotic submarine that anyone can own and use. Priced at less than $1,000, it would give amateur explorers Cousteau-like access. This is the \"Open", "ROV stands for remotely operated vehicle. I can put this in the water and fly it around. It's got a video camera on it so you can see what it sees live.", "Users build the ROVs themselves and are encouraged to submit new designs and ideas.", "The open ROV is an open source community. If the ROV is having some sort of a problem and we can't figure out how to handle it, I can go to the forums. As I sleep, the problem is going across Europe. By the end of lunch, I could have five or six good solutions.", "Making it easier for the ever-changing ROV to go into more unchartered waters.", "People often ask is, is this something that's a toy that's fun to build and play with or something you expect to be used by real researchers? Our answer certainly is both.", "We hear from people all the time, conservation organizations who want to check on species, fish and game groups, teachers who want to get these into classrooms and we're excited about all of them.", "Coming up, the one-time Black Panther who decided to hijack a flight back in the 1980s is now back on U.S. soil because he wants to be. And CNN had the only reporter on that plane. We will tell you what happened when they touched down. Plus, explosive testimony today in the trial of that doctor accused of drugging and drowning his wife. Hear what an inmate said the doctor told him behind bars next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BALDWIN", "GREG WATCHKE, MARK'S BROTHER", "BALDWIN", "BALDWIN (voice-over)", "ERIC STACKPOLE, OPENROV", "DAVID LANG, OPENROV", "BALDWIN", "ROV.\" STACKPOLE", "BALDWIN", "STACKPOLE", "BALDWIN", "STACKPOLE", "LANG", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-226769", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2014-3-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/17/lvab.01.html", "summary": "Accessing 777 Electronics and Engineering Compartment", "utt": ["As the mystery swirls around Flight 370, the series about what happened or what could have happened to this jet ranged from the logical to the absolutely outlandish. Whoever or whatever turned off flight 370's tracking system shortly after takeoff may be the key to solving this mystery. Just how it tough is it to do that? Joining me about the technology onboard the aircraft is CNN's aviation correspondent, Richard Quest, and he's joined, as well, by Les Abend, a 777 captain with nearly 18,000 hours in the cockpit. Captain Abend, I wanted to ask you, I heard you on our morning show this morning, \"NEW DAY,\" suggest there is this access through the cabin to the belly, the guts of the plane, that you had actually seen. You had had a chance to see in your career that many 777 pilots actually had not. Can you expand on that and tell me a little bit more what that is and how one gets to it and help me, Captain Abend, understand that?", "It's called the E-and-E compartment.", "E and E?", "It's electronics and engineering compartment, and it basically is the guts of the airplane. This goes back to the days of the 707, this particular compartment. There's one there. There's also one in the tail of the airplane that's not accessible in flight. This one's accessible in flight. You can pull the carpet out. It's an operation to get to it. It really takes a lot of knowledge, not only to access it, let alone to know what's down there.", "As a 777 captain, could you access it yourself or did --", "Yes.", "-- someone have to open it for you? You can do it.", "I could do it myself.", "So presumably this captain could as well.", "He could, but we're trained to fly airplanes and to go from Point A to Point B, and the bottom line is there's some stuff down there that one checklist may take us to, but it's a real mystery. This is an electronic airplane that has all sorts of controls. We wouldn't know each little -- each box that's down there.", "But this -- and I don't want to suggest for a moment until we know the facts of what happened -- but since the Americans and the Malaysians have come out saying that we're now looking more towards those in the cockpit being responsible for this and deliberate action taken by someone on board, Richard, weigh in on this. If there was -- if there were perhaps a co-pilot or a captain that had an intentional, nefarious plan that was able to, say, disable his partner and then access that, is there something they could have done that would make all of this make sense?", "No. Well, yeah, you have a possible -- yes. But you're talking about -- it's like you going into a computer room. What you're talking about this, this area under the flight deck, is the computer guts of the plane. It's not that sort of -- it's not like -- there is so much technology, so much wiring, so much sophisticated -- if I understand you correctly, that, you know, you --", "Not like he'd know what he was doing.", "Even the engineers that designed the airplane, I'm not so sure they're -- they're going to have to go to their own schematics to determine --", "It's not like it's a single computer.", "I hear you. I hear you, but then I hear this morning that this particular pilot had a flight simulator in his home and was known for being, so to speak, an aeronautics geek who could not get enough of this kind of technology.", "My wife and I own a little airplane. I do busman's holidays. I love, still, flying airplanes. So this was the same thing. In Malaysia, there's a good chance that flying airplanes at the level that I am able to do here in the states is just not -- it's just too cost prohibitive. So this was his way of enjoying aviation on his own.", "So we shouldn't think anything --", "No. Absolutely not.", "Because it does spark a lot of memories from the flight simulation courses that the 9/11 pilots took, et cetera, and people get very nervous when they hear that someone's got one in his home. You're saying it's perfectly all right.", "Why would a professional flight crew and a captain with a lot of time and many years supposedly with this -- with Malaysia, why would he even consider, you know, doing something nefarious when he could do it on the airplane or in the simulator when he goes to training? It just -- it doesn't make sense to us as professionals.", "So much of this doesn't make sense to any of us as laypeople either. Last thought?", "I've got a question for you, Captain.", "Just quickly.", "Every pilot is talking about this at the moment, aren't they? This is the big talking appointment in the industry.", "It's a big point, yeah. It is. It's very -- these are one of our colleagues that we've lost, and we need the answers. We really need to -- not only for these four grieving people, we need answers for them. That's what's the most important thing, but we need answers to find out what -- how do we prevent this from ever happening again, whatever it is that occurred.", "It's such a great point, Richard, that you just brought up, because I tell you, every time I hear a whiplash judgment from a country or from an analyst from someone in the know that suggests it's nefarious, it's accidental, it's mechanical, it's deliberate, I grieve for the families of those pilots, as well. Because if they have nothing to do with any of this, and they have been, you know, excoriated worldwide for what they possibly may have done, we are all going to feel horrified at the possibility we thought that they -- and I can't imagine you as a pilot being that these are your colleagues and you could be in the same boat. Theoretically you could be in the same boat. Les Abend, thank you. It's good to have you on. Your expertise has been very helpful. And, Richard Quest, as always, stay? Can you stay?", "I'm here.", "You're the expert. Just so many questions, like how far would that plane have actually been able to fly after the communications were turned off? How much fuel did that plane have on board? If it flew high, if it flew low, how far could it go? There are so many possibilities. We're going to lay out some of them, ahead. And then, what do you do when an earthquake hits in the middle of your newscast? That's what these people did. The alarm bells rang. They ducked for cover. Find out about what happened in Los Angeles in a moment."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "LES ABEND, 777 PILOT", "BANFIELD", "ABEND", "BANFIELD", "ABEND", "BANFIELD", "ABEND", "BANFIELD", "ABEND", "BANFIELD", "QUEST", "BANFIELD", "ABEND", "QUEST", "BANFIELD", "ABEND", "BANFIELD", "ABEND", "BANFIELD", "ABEND", "BANFIELD", "QUEST", "BANFIELD", "QUEST", "ABEND", "BANFIELD", "QUEST", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-410133", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-09-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/05/cnr.21.html", "summary": "SpaceX Starship Makes Successful Test Hop; China Begins Reopening Movie Theaters.", "utt": ["Well, that is a new prototype from SpaceX which is taking an impressive first hop. Starship rose 500 feet, about 150 meters, during this test flight in Texas last month. The fully reusable spacecraft will be the most powerful launch vehicle ever developed. Starship is supposed to take up to 100 tons of cargo and crew into orbit. Then, the moon, Mars and beyond. If the prototype looks boxy, that's because it's missing its nose cone and fins. They'll be added for future tests at higher altitudes.", "In another sign of recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, some theaters in China are reopening. And the big box office attraction is a film that Hollywood hoped would be a blockbuster before COVID struck. David Culver has details from Beijing.", "Tickets in hand, moviegoers in Beijing prepare for their brief departure from reality.", "I really miss it. Before the pandemic, almost every time there was a good movie, I would go to the theater to watch it.", "She's among the fans here to see Christopher Nolan's anticipated sci-fi thriller, produced by Warner Brothers, which, like CNN, is owned by WarnerMedia. This is the first major Hollywood theater release in China since COVID-19 outbreak that is expected to attract large audiences.", "China is allowing theaters, like this one here in Beijing, to reopen at 50 percent capacity. They also have several seats, as you can see, blocked off, allowing for some social distancing.", "Once you are here for an actual film, you have to wear masks the whole time. If you say can I at least take it off for some popcorn, it's not an option. Concessions are not being sold.", "\"I think it is OK, it's worth it,\" he says. China shuttered theaters country wide in late January as the virus spread, only to begin to reopen them with limited capacity and many film reruns in July.", "So we're talking about roughly six months of closure. How devastating is that for the industry here?", "it is definitely very devastating. That means lower investment for future projects, so, that's a pretty worrying trend, not just for this year.", "It comes off what was a $9.2 billion year for China's box office in 2019, up more than 5 percent from the year before that, still less than North America's $11.4 billion according to the Motion Picture Association, but of rapidly narrowing the gap. Experts expected China to overtake the U.S. and Canada box office sales by this year. That was before the outbreak, of course. Now with the vast majority of theaters back open and customers feeling more comfortable to venture out, China could become the most profitable. Though there have been controversial cuts from Western films here in the past, including censoring LGBTQ from the Oscar-winning movie, \"Bohemian Rhapsody,\" a Chinese film producer does not believe U.S. filmmakers will self censure only to reach Chinese moviegoers. She thinks producers and studios aim to appeal to a global audience.", "I think they understand what can or cannot be shown in Chinese theaters.", "\"Tenet\" made the cut. So, too, Disney's live action adaptation of \"Mulan,\" releasing in Chinese theaters on September 11th. Moviegoers adjusting to this very differently movie watching experience, post outbreak. Perhaps making the escape into another plot all the more alluring -- David Culver, CNN, Beijing.", "That wraps this hour of CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Kim Brunhuber. I'll be back with more news. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["BRUNHUBER (voice-over)", "BRUNHUBER", "DAVID CULVER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator)", "CULVER (voice-over)", "CULVER", "CULVER", "CULVER (voice-over)", "CULVER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CULVER (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CUMANI (voice-over)", "BRUNHUBER"]}
{"id": "CNN-124156", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2008-2-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0802/29/acd.01.html", "summary": "Illegals Heading Back Across Border; Revolving Door at Border for Some Illegals; New Mexico Governor Weighs in on Border Issues", "utt": ["Illegal immigration is a huge issue for many voters in Tuesday' primaries, especially in the state of Texas. Tonight we show you just how determined some illegals are to get into the United States. There's kind of a revolving door on the border, where illegals can enter and leave the U.S. over and over again. Here's CNN's Gary Tuchman.", "It's high noon on the streets of violent Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Twenty-year-old Alejandro Toledo Lara (ph) and his 16-year-old cousin Juan tell us their dream is to get to North Carolina. (on camera) (speaking foreign language)", "It's very pretty. It has a lot of work. It is very green.", "The cousins talked to us in the midst of a bizarre tumultuous day. A few hours earlier they can be seen on this videotape in the Rio Grande River on a makeshift raft. Alejandro, his cousin and a 16-year-old friend, along with three others spotted by one of the increasing number of border cameras. They reach land in Texas and start running. Alejandro says he agreed to pay a smuggler $2,000 if they made it safely. (on camera) The thick vegetation here on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande is the illegal immigrant's friend. It serves as camouflage. It's very hard to see them after they cross. (voice-over) Three of the six get away. But not Alejandro and the two 16-year-olds. They are loaded on the Border Patrol paddy wagon.", "It's not out of the ordinary that we do see the same people more than once.", "Alejandro tells us this is his second time being caught. They are three of an estimated 5,500 illegal immigrants apprehended monthly in the Laredo area alone. They're processed in a Border Patrol detention center where others rest and sleep in small holding cells. The 20-year-old has to show how much money he has with him. He's carrying 300 American dollars and 1,600 Mexican pesos, which is worth about $160 more. A huge amount of money for someone who makes about $10 a day working in Mexico. (on camera) What is the computer telling you?", "The computer is saying he doesn't any history. He's not wanted by the FBI, no criminal history.", "It does say he was apprehended once before in 2004, but because he's not suspected of being a criminal, he's given his money back and ushered into one of the holding cells. But because Alejandro has been nabbed fewer than seven times and is not considered dangerous, it will be a very short stay. Within one hour, Alejandro and his cousin, who both live 17 hours away by bus, are being escorted by a U.S. agent across the international bridge back into Mexico. Their 16-year-old friend will be released a bit later, because his family has to be notified. When they reach the borderline between the two countries, the agent says good-bye, and Alejandro and his cousin, who were apprehended only hours ago, are now back in Mexico, free to try to cross the river again. Even Alejandro thinks it's a bit incredible.", "Yes, I think it's ridiculous that they take you halfway across the bridge. But everybody has a job to do.", "Alejandro says as soon as they meet up with their friend, it's back to the Rio Grande.", "We're going to try again and do it from a different area where it's more secure and not as dangerous.", "But he appears to have a change of heart when they meet up with their friend, Luis, at a social service center where he was brought. A Mexican police officer drives them to the Nuevo Laredo bus station, and they buy tickets for the long, bumpy ride back home. Alejandro now says he's OK with staying in Mexico for the time being.", "because I like it. It's my home.", "But as the bus gets ready to leave, only 16-year-old Luis is getting on it. A short time before, the other two said they were getting something to eat. Luis won't say what happened to them. So we realize that they gave us the slip. There is no record of Alejandro and his cousin being caught again. So there is a very good chance they are now living underground in the United States, perhaps even in North Carolina. Gary Tuchman, CNN, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.", "Joining us this evening is Bill Richardson, the governor of the border state of New Mexico. Nice to see you, Governor. Thanks for talking with us. I know for a long time, sir...", "Thank you, Soledad.", "... you have pushed for improvements in technology. You've wanted to see more border agents, and you've also said you want to see a path to legalization. But you oppose that 700-mile fence, you oppose state troopers having the power to detain. How likely do you think it's going to be that, at some point in Washington, D.C., these efforts will come together, and people will actually come up with a plan that looks sort of like what you're looking for?", "Well, Soledad, I think in your excellent segment you've shown a broken immigration system. You've shown that states can't deal with this issue. There has to be a federal solution. So what you need is comprehensive immigration. Stronger border security, but also a full legalization program. My view on a fence is not going to work. You showed the desperation of those illegal workers coming in. What I think will work is more Border Patrol agents, double the number. More technology at the border to detect, maybe, a nuclear material. But if you put up a fence, you put a 12-foot fence, you're going to have 13-foot ladders. You've shown how desperate people are. What makes sense is a full legalization program, not amnesty, where these individuals are allowed to stay if they are required to register, and then they proceed with having a background check, learning English, paying back taxes, paying a fine. That's the way to go.", "But plenty -- but plenty of critics of your plan would say that it just doesn't go far enough, that your plans to secure the border don't go enough of the way. Listen to Duncan Hunter from California, quickly.", "People now understand if you want to get into the United States illegally you no longer come through L.A. International Airport; you come across a land border between Mexico and the United States. So there's a dimension of homeland security that's concerned about terrorism that needs to be focused on this. And this no longer is simply an immigration issue; it's a security issue.", "There are plenty of people who say you want to do comprehensive immigration -- comprehensive immigration reform. Forget the comprehensive part and just focus on the border, you know, and put that fence in and some other things that would really stop immigrants from coming across the border.", "Well, you can't have sensible immigration policy unless you have stronger border security, that I agree with. But a legalization plan for the 12 million that are already here. What are you going to do, deport 12 million people? My difference with Congressman Hunter is not that we have to secure the border. We do. More Border Patrol agents, more technology. Keep the National Guard there longer. I've urged President Bush to keep the guard there beyond the summer when he wants to take it out. But a fence is not going to work. Fences have not worked. The Berlin Wall, the wall -- the Great Wall of China. When people are desperate, they're going to cross that fence. They're going to go over it. They're going to go under it. A fence is a terrible symbol between a division of two countries. Use technology. Double the number of Border Patrol agents. Backup the problem is the Republicans talk good, the president talks good. The Congress talks good, but they don't do anything. So governors like me...", "Well, what about the Democrats? What about the Democrats? Of the two Democratic presidential candidates, who has the best immigration plan? Is it Hillary Clinton or is it Barack Obama?", "Well, I believe they both are moving in the right direction. They say they have...", "That's a non-answer answer.", "No, no, no. I will tell you. I opposed their position -- both of them voted for the wall. I disagree with that. Both of them do think we need comprehensive immigration. That's far better. Now Senator McCain started out with a sensible plan. What I talked about, the full legalization program, was Senator Ted Kennedy and John McCain, but Senator McCain is backing off from what I consider to be a sensible proposal, to give full legalization to the 12 million. Not amnesty. You know, some standards. Require them to register. Pay back taxes. Pass a background check. Make sure they learn English. Make sure they pay a fine for coming here illegally. Don't get ahead of those that are trying to get here legally. But you've got to deal with it comprehensively, Soledad. And you know, you can have all of these issues and these programs. Unless the Congress and the president deal with this, states like mine, local police chiefs, local jurisdictions cannot handle what is a national problem.", "It sounds like neither of the senators is exactly impressing you with their -- their immigration policy or plan. Do you have a candidate who you would endorse at this point?", "No.", "Was that like a snort-laugh, Governor? I've never heard that before on TV. You laughed so hard you...", "Well, I'm going to -- I'm going to stay loose. We've got two excellent candidates. I may decide before the Texas primary. I may not. But, you know, I'm a renaissance man. I'm growing my beard. I'm talking to you. I'm a local politician, retired.", "What's that all about, you and Al Gore, you all grow a beard after you get off the campaign trail.", "Well, you know, you go into decompression after you get into a race and you don't do well. So that's what I'm doing. But, look. It's going to be a good race. Immigration's going to be a top issue. But the key component is it's got to be a federal solution. It's got to be the Congress and the president acting, and they have failed to act, miserably.", "Governor Bill Richardson joining us tonight with the no=answer to who he's going to endorse. Thank you, sir, for your time. We appreciate it. Always nice to see you. Coming up next, a brutal day on Wall Street. Stocks falling like Paris for the paparazzi. And in honor of leap day, an incredible leap off a mountain. 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{"id": "CNN-78754", "program": "CNN SUNDAY MORNING", "date": "2003-11-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0311/02/sm.07.html", "summary": "Gay Bishop About to Be Consecrated", "utt": ["In New Hampshire today, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopalian church is to be consecrated. Let's go live to Susan Candiotti in New Hampshire who just had an exclusive interview with the Reverend Gene Robinson. Good morning, Susan.", "Good morning, Carol. Hours away now from his consecration, Bishop-elect Gene Robinson describes having a sense of calm after months of fury over his election as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church. Yet the opposition has not died down. His supporters -- for Gene Robinson and his supporters, he is not letting this get to him.", "Bishop-elect Gene Robinson says he's not the devil some make him out to be, nor a saint.", "I'm just a human being trying to follow my call from God as best I can.", "In the hours before his consecration as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, Robinson cannot shake critics who predict a mass exodus from the faith. He compares it to the flap of the ordination of Episcopal women as bishops in the '70s.", "We have not come apart over that, and I believe there is no reason to come apart over this.", "Robinson was first elected by his own New Hampshire diocese, then confirmed by a nationwide vote of bishops. Yet conservatives call his elevation an abomination of scripture. At Christ Church in Plano, Texas, for example, most of the faithful call Robinson's election tragic, tearing the church apart.", "Somehow if Robinson he would step back from this, that would be the first step of a sign of repentance.", "Stinging words, says Robinson, but not helpful.", "Surely these people don't believe if I were to step aside that all of this would stop. That we would go back to being the nice pretty picture some have supposed us to be in the past.", "The flap resulted in a meeting last month of worldwide Anglican leaders with the Archbishop of Canterbury. A statement by Anglican bishops predicted, \"The future of the communion itself will be put in jeopardy.\"", "God can redeem the pain. The question is whether a deaf church will learn to listen again.", "Supporters say this controversy will create a stronger church in the long-term.", "We're going to be talking about human sexuality, homosexuality in particular, at a level that we have never been talking about before. That's the upside.", "Robinson acknowledges he is a symbol. But can he be accepted by a majority outside the U.S. who now reject him?", "What I want to symbolize is God's all-encompassing love for all of God's creation.", "And so later today, the formal consecration to be attended by about 4,000 supporters of Bishop-elect Gene Robinson. And there is time built in for critics who will be allowed to speak, including critics belonging to the conservative American Anglican Council. They will then leave the ceremony and have one of their own. But the opposition will not stop the consecration or this historic event. Carol?", "And I know you'll be there and you'll tell us about it later. Susan Candiotti reporting live from New Hampshire this morning."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CANDIOTTI (voice over)", "BISHOP-ELECT GENE ROBINSON, EPISCOPAL CHURCH", "CANDIOTTI", "ROBINSON", "CANDIOTTI", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "CANDIOTTI", "ROBINSON", "CANDIOTTI", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "CANDIOTTI", "REVEREND KENDALL HARMON, EPISCOPAL CHURCH", "CANDIOTTI", "ROBINSON", "CANDIOTTI", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-330560", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2018-01-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/15/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Ivana Defends Trump; Trump Compared To Stalin; Trump's Ex-Wife Speaks Out.", "utt": ["The president's ex-wife, Ivana Trump, is now coming to his defense amid the fallout from his vulgar remarks about immigrants from Africa and Haiti. During an appearance on a British T.V. show, she denied her former husband is a racist.", "I don't think Donald is a racist at all. You know, sometimes he says these things, you know, which are silly or he doesn't really mean them or something like that. But he's definitely not racist, I'm sure of that.", "I want to bring in our White House Reporter Kate Bennett who's been following this story for us. It's not the first time, Ivana, his ex-wife, has come to his defense.", "It's certainly not. In fact, Ivana, in October, released a book called \"Raising Trump\" in which she says she still talks to the president. They seem to have a close relationship. She certainly has been a champion of his. And the first lady, current first lady, Melania Trump, has not said anything about this latest controversy. Although, Wolf, that's not unusual. Melania Trump doesn't typically respond when the president has these controversies.", "What are the -- what does the current wife, and the first daughter, you know, Ivanka and Melania, what are they saying about all of this?", "Not a whole lot. We've reached out to the White House and neither of them have responded to comment on this latest controversy. Melania Trump did, last week, respond to the Michael Wolff book, however, via a spokesperson, calling it a lie, saying it was a work of non-fiction. Interestingly, her spokesperson did say that Melania Trump might, at some point, tell her own truthful story, which leads lots of people to think maybe down the road she'll have something to say. But for now, the first lady and the first daughter are both avoiding this controversy. We have not heard from them. Melania Trump did, this morning, tweet a Martin Luther King Jr. Day tweet honoring the day and asking that we all represent and remember the civil rights leader.", "It's interesting that the president still have a -- apparently a pretty good relationship with his wife.", "He does. And this was the one thing in October that did trigger Melania Trump to respond, which she doesn't really do. But she did say back then when Ivana Trump made that comment about, I don't want Melania to be jealous if I call the White House, and Melania responded via her spokesperson saying, you know, this is about selling books. I'm first lady. This isn't, you know, something that we need to worry ourselves with. So she did sort of fire back that time.", "Now when the president travels later this month to Davos for the World Economic Forum, the first lady will be going along as well.", "That's right, Wolf. A last minute announcement yesterday. CNN learned that the first lady will go with him to Davos. She will likely be front and center when he gives his remarks there and she will accompany him on this trip.", "Yes, we'll see what happens. There will be a lot of publicity on that trip I am sure.", "Certainly.", "Kate, keep up the great reporting. Thanks very much. A new twist today in American tensions with Russia. You're going to hear why Moscow is now berating the United States saying America is destabilizing the world. Plus, as North and South Korea meet again for talks ahead of the winter Olympic games in South Korea, we're hearing from a formal -- from former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who's describing Kim Jong-un as, quote, pretty clever. We'll tell you why she thinks that. That's coming up."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "IVANA TRUMP", "BLITZER", "KATE BENNETT, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER", "BLITZER", "BENNETT", "BLITZER", "BENNETT", "BLITZER", "BENNETT", "BLITZER", "BENNETT", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-248557", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2015-02-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/03/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "How France's Most Wanted Woman Turned Radical; Knife Attack Near Jewish Center", "utt": ["You're looking live at the West Wing of the White House. Jordan's King Abdullah will be arriving there any moment now to meet with President Obama. We'll have coverage of that. They're both getting ready to make a statement. We're also watching other important developments in the global war on terror. A man with a knife slightly wounded two French soldiers today. Those soldiers were patrolling near a Jewish community center in Nice, in the southern part of France. The suspect, who was apprehended, has the -- same last name as the gunman who attacked that kosher supermarket in Paris last month, killing four Jewish men inside the store, although officials say they don't know if these two men are related. We're also getting new information about the woman who lived in Paris with the -- that attacker at that supermarket. Let's bring in our senior Washington correspondent, Joe Johns. He's getting more information. What are you learning?", "Well, Wolf, Hayat Boumeddiene is seen as a probable accomplice to the Paris attack but her intelligence value may outweigh anything she can add to the criminal investigation and that is why the French government is pressing hard to try to locate her.", "France's most wanted woman, believed to be in Syria, a picture of terror. Newly discovered pictures obtained by CNN from someone close to the investigation show a young woman going from bikini on a beach to a fully veiled, crossbow-totting Islamic radical. If captured and questioned, authorities see 26-year-old Hayat Boumeddiene as a potential gold mine of information. Not just about the Paris attacks but also about everything that ISIS and al Qaeda, and how women get recruited.", "We'd better learn the role of women as backbone to these networks. We've seen that already in the past and especially in the context of Syria and Iraq.", "There are questions only Boumeddiene can answer, whether she was a common law wife first or the instigator who helped Amedy Coulibaly, her husband, go from a two-bit criminal to total terrorist. Gunning down a police woman and killing four more people at a Jewish supermarket. Among the clues to Boumeddiene's state of mind found in her personal effects, according to a \"Washington Post\" report, a copy of a jihadist book authored by the radicalized woman Malika el-Aroud, who made clear her intentions to wage war on the West in this CNN documentary in 2006.", "It was Osama bin Laden who stood up against the biggest enemy in the world, the United States.", "Much was already known about Hayat Boumeddiene, including that she and Coulibaly visited at least once with radical recruiter Djamel Beghal. But the \"Post\" uncovered other details. At 8 years old, her mother died, placed in a group home at 13, later a pilgrimage to Mecca, and a friendship with the wife of one of the Kouachi brothers who staged the terror attack on \"Charlie Hebdo.\" A young woman radicalized as many other recruits with troubled lives.", "They think they will find through this organization and their ideology some kind of recognition that they couldn't have in their normal life. So, yes, indeed, by both means, they are attracted one to the other.", "One of the many facts that appears clear as day in hindsight is that Boumeddiene was not seen as a threat before the Paris attacks. Now authorities in France are realizing they should have paid much more attention to her.", "They certainly should have. All right. Good report. Thanks very much, Joe Johns. Let's bring back our terrorism analyst, Paul Cruickshank. Paul, this attack -- with a knife, these two French soldiers who were stabbed, they were patrolling outside a Jewish community center in Nice, it follows that new ISIS video calling for knife attacks on French police. Do you think there's a connection here?", "Well, there could be a connection, Wolf. Just today French ISIS fighters in Syria released a video calling for knife attacks on French police in France by ISIS supporters and then we saw this attack in Nice by Moussa Coulibaly who in the previous month was apparently trying to get across the Syria but was prevented from traveling, deported from Turkey, returned to France, and then carried out this attempted attack today. So quite possibly a connection. ISIS have been repeatedly calling for these kinds of attacks in the West. Also in the United States, knife attacks, gun attacks, running people over with cars, that kind of thing in retaliation for these airstrikes against Iraq and Syria -- Wolf.", "Is it just a coincidence that the terrorists who stabbed these French soldiers today, his name is Moussa Coulibaly, and the guy who killed those people in that kosher supermarket, Amedy Coulibaly, got the same last name? Is it just a coincidence or might they be related?", "Well, we don't know that yet for sue. At the moment it's being reported in the French media that it was just a namesake. It's a fairly common Malayan name and Amedy Coulibaly was Malayan, as I believe this individual was in Nice that launched the attack today. But authorities will be looking at any possible connection. Obviously a huge coincidence that they have the same name.", "Indeed. All right, Paul, stand by. We're going to get back to you as well. Coming up, a key U.S. ally vowing revenge after ISIS burns to death a caged Jordanian F-16 fighter pilot. King Abdullah, he's getting ready to meet in the next few moments with President Obama over the White House. 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{"id": "CNN-316648", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-07-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/13/nday.04.html", "summary": "Trump Doubles Down On Travel Ban In Tweetstorm. ", "utt": ["He then said, \"The Justice Department should have stayed with the original travel ban, not the watered-down, politically correct version they submitted to the Supreme Court.\" Your thoughts?", "Well, Alisyn, I joined a group of bipartisan national security officials to criticize this ban, both its predecessor and the current one, because I don't think from a national security and counterterrorism perspective it gets at the problem and, indeed, it could make it worse. We don't know the identity of these attackers yet. The British officials, I think, know their identities. They've not released that information yet so we'll have more to analyze about that. But what we do know is the last two attacks before this one in Britain were conducted by British citizens. We also know that there has never been an attack in the United States since 9/11 by anybody from the countries that were listed in this ban. So the bottom line is it doesn't get at the problem that we're confronting here which is, in many respects, inspired violence or homegrown violence --", "Yes, and we just --", "-- and homegrown extremism.", "We just don't know. That's the answer.", "Right.", "We just don't know because the Brits do know. They say the identity of these attackers from Saturday night but they're not releasing them to the public. But if, let's say -- play this out for me, Lisa. Let's say they come from Syria. Why not ban, temporarily, people from Syria, as the president wants?", "Well, there's a few things, Alisyn. First, let me say we should always constantly be evaluating and looking for ways to increase the rigor of our vetting procedures. It's something we've done over the last several years, constantly adding new measures. Measures that are driven by what the intelligence tells us where the gaps are and then very -- in a very targeted way attaching new procedures to those gaps. This does not do that. It's a blanket ban and the problem with that is we need to work with our Arab allies, our Muslim allies, our Gulf partners, and doing so it makes it a lot harder to do so when you attach a very blanket ban to individuals from all -- from a whole set of countries that are Muslim-majority. The other issue here is we need to work with communities and by attaching a ban to a whole faith, in essence, it is going to make it a lot harder to have trusted relationships with those communities and ultimately establish the relationships that we need to get at the problem of homegrown violent extremism.", "OK, now on to the nuts and bolts of your counterterrorism experience. How do you stop a terrorist from taking his car and mowing down a group of people?", "Well, Alisyn, you've hit upon what is a really incredible challenge for our law enforcement counterterrorism and intelligence officials in what we're seeing as this new trend of low-tech terror. We have seen now a number a number of these vehicular terrorism and terrorist attacks using everyday items -- household items. It is a response, quite frankly, to a call by ISIS over the last couple of years for individuals to attack wherever they area. And it poses a real challenge to law enforcement because you need to figure out how to get into between, in a very rapid way, when something goes wrong in somebody's mind and they move to radicalization to violence, and that's extremely hard. The things that we can do and that we are doing certainly in this country, I would say are three things. One, working with communities. It is only in communities that you're going to be able to identify individuals who are becoming radicalized to violence, so we need those trusted relationships with influential leaders, whether it's coaches or teachers or --", "Yes.", "The whole set of community leaders. We also need to focus on increasing our presence and that's something you see. You see it in New York, you see it in Washington, D.C. A much more visible presence of law enforcement out on the streets, particularly at big gatherings, particularly around soft targets to potentially deter individuals who may be plotting or casing that particular location. And then, we have also employed kind of extending perimeters out at those locations. At the end of the day, though, as you see, terrorists will react to that as we saw in Brussels.", "Yes.", "You make it hard to get on a plane and they'll attack the exterior of the airport.", "So when Prime Minister Theresa May says that the internet has become a safe haven for terrorists and that enough is enough and we need to crack down on that, is it possible to shut down their communications on the internet better than we have been?", "Well, we can do more and the internet service providers and the platform companies can do more and we've been working over -- the United States government has certainly been working with companies to do better in this area. But at the end of the day, this is a very difficult problem. It's a bit of a whack-a- mole situation in terms of trying to get at communications on the internet. There's no way you're going to suppress that and it poses very real questions of free speech and issues of freedom of expression. Now, Prime Minister May, who was Home Secretary for a number of years before she became prime minister -- and that's the position in the British government that is akin to the Homeland Security secretary and the attorney general all rolled into one -- she has been focusing on this issue many times. And I met with her many times in my former job. She's been very focused on this question of online radicalization. At the end of the day, this is going to have to be a partnership between governments, both here and in Europe, working with the companies that operate these platforms and know them best. And who, at the end of the day, are also patriots who don't want to see their platforms abused.", "That is what she is calling for. Lisa Monaco, thank you for all of your expertise. Chris?", "All right, some really big developments this morning. We are told that British authorities know who did these attacks in London. But they're not releasing the name. Why? And then, of course, Donald Trump seeing London as an opportunity to target Muslims with his travel ban. Is that the right move? Christiane Amanpour next.", "British Prime Minister Theresa May says police know the identities of the terrorists who carried out the deadly London terror attack that took seven lives and injured dozens, many of whom are still in critical condition and fighting for their lives. So why not release those identities? Joining us now is CNN's chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour. Let's discuss that and then of course the major development back here in the U.S. with Donald Trump making clear exactly what opposing counsel wanted to hear -- his executive order on travel is a ban. But let's start with Theresa May and not releasing the names. Why?", "Well, it's standard operating procedure here. They just don't do it until they feel that they have got all the surrounding bits of the puzzle together, or until they feel they are safe to release the names so that other people don't flee or do that kind of stuff. We had the same in Manchester. If you remember, there was a great deal of consternation when the name and other issues were released by the press. To be frank, the press has some of these names; they're just not releasing them, and that is because of the order that's under way. They have already 11 people in custody, raids have been continuing even earlier this morning, and women are in custody as well. So obviously they're trying to figure out whether this is more of a conspiracy, a neighborhood plot, a plot between friends, associates, whatever, so they can say, as I say, tie up all the loose ends before they start putting stuff into the public.", "Let's talk about how they are going to conduct that investigation. Because Prime Minister Theresa May just had a statement, she just gave a statement on camera at 10 Downing Street, and she was asked by a reporter there. There are something like 20,000 fewer police officers --", "That's true.", "-- on the street. And the implication was maybe there aren't enough detectives or there aren't enough police officers that this situation now that they're living in warrants. What's the situation -- what's the status of that?", "Well, here's the thing. Here's the thing. The prime minister has been in office for a year. Before that, she was six years as Home Secretary. That is the department that deals with police and terrorism and counterterrorism and immigration, all of those kinds of things. So she's facing a huge amount of heat. And for many years, including yesterday, including after the Manchester attacks, we heard and I've been speaking to law enforcement, former Met police officials, who've always said that, you know what, we've had 20,000 police cut from the beat. Now, this is not counterterrorism. Whenever you put this proposal to the authorities, they say hang on a second. We haven't -- because of austerity or any such thing -- cut into the counterterrorism budget. But they have cut into the police on the street. And as you know, one of the things that acts as deterrent, as eyes and ears on the street, you know, as lookout, as early warning systems, is the patrolling of ordinary police on the street. It has ever been thus here in England. And so I've been, you know, told by many chiefs and deputy chiefs that they want to talk about resources again. In fact, Cressida Dick yesterday, in her first statement, said this is going to cause us to talk about resources, because these things are hard to predict and even harder to prevent.", "So President Trump has his moment on Twitter where he first decides to go after the mayor of London and has a sensitivity misplay. But now comes back to U.S. policy and says, despite all the spin from the White House and claims of fake media for calling the executive order on travel a ban -- he says it is a ban and he wants the original one, Christiane. We remember that one -- the one with a carve-out for Christians and the stronger language that seemed to clearly target Muslim- majority populations. What do you think the impact is?", "Well, I think the impact is going to be yet more, you know, legalese in the United States and probably more protests and more conversations the likes of which we're having. Yes, that language is actually really important. And we were all saying Muslim ban before. And we were told no, it is not a Muslim ban; it's this and that. But this has a huge impact in how police and others are trying to -- and authorities are trying to, certainly overseas anyway, are trying to figure out how best to deal with these issues. And the one thing we hear all the time is that, A, the threat that we have faced here in Europe and also in the United States is not from people coming from outside. Not since 9/11 has there been a major attack from people coming in from outside. That piece of the puzzle has sort of been taken care of. And as you know, the amount of vetting into the United States by any people from Syria or Iraq, any of the refugees, any of those who may be coming in, is humongous. It takes up to two years of multiple vetting by all the relevant U.S. and U.N. and other agencies, including agencies on the ground in places like Jordan and all the rest of it, to vet people who just want to come in for asylum reasons. And that is something that the U.S. does incredibly well and incredibly exhaustively. So people in law enforcement are concerned that these kinds of ideas muddy the waters when you're actually trying to get to the heart of the matter, and trying to figure out how to stop this homegrown stuff. That is the crisis that we're facing right now, this morphing level of homegrown -- first it was lone wolves, and now it's back to low-tech potentially conspiracies", "All right, Christiane Amanpour, thank you very much for bringing us up to speed on everything that's happening in London.", "All right, so we're going back and forth between these two emerging stories here -- what happened in London, and we'll have an eyewitness to the terror attack there. He live-tweeted his experience, went above and beyond to help one of the victims. That story of resilience and what President Trump just did in calling his travel ban a ban and wanting the original. What could that mean to the Supreme Court and to the policy? Ahead.", "At least 36 people are being treated in London hospitals, 21 of them still in critical condition after this weekend's deadly terror attack. CNN's Erin McLaughlin is live at King's College Hospital in London with more on the victims. What have you learned, Erin?", "Hi, Alisyn. Well, we are beginning to learn more about the victims who died in this horrific attack. Chrissy Archibald is the first victim to be named by her family. She made it her life's work to help the homeless. She had moved to Europe from Canada to be with her fiance. She was with her fiance on the London Bridge that tragic night and was struck by the terrorist van and killed, despite the efforts of the medical services, who worked furiously to save her life. Her family releasing a statement saying that she was beautiful and loving and would never have understood the kind of callous cruelty that claimed her life. But for all of the darkness that was there that night, we're also hearing of incredible acts of heroism. There's the journalist Geoff Ho. He was at a restaurant enjoying drinks when the assailants arrived. He intervened to help a bouncer, was stabbed in his neck, and walked away, ended up surviving, being treated by medical services. We understand from his paper that he is going to be OK. Chris?", "All right, Erin, thank you so much. There are a lot of hard stories going on in that hospital. Stay on it. Come back to us when you have any developments. So witnesses are describing the moments of sheer terror in London on Saturday night. Many were trapped inside bars and restaurants as police were hunting terrorists. Take a listen.", "You are", "That video was shot by Liam Connell, and he joins us now. Thank God you are safe. It's good to have you with us. How are you feeling today?", "I'm good. I'm good. It's been a mad few days but, yes, no, I'm doing all right.", "Well, I'm sure it's going to come at you in waves, what you made it through with your friends and others in this situation. What were you thinking when you started to record and what you were hearing and what you thought was going on? Tell us.", "I mean, when it first started, we were just being evacuated by staff. There was no police at the time. We were then told it was safer to stay inside. We were actually in a basement level rather than on the ground, so we didn't hear any sort of -- anything from outside. As it progressed, I started to see a few policemen. Sorry. And then it wasn't until armed police came and we had to drop to the ground that we kind of started to realize this was a big thing. At first, I myself didn't actually think it was a terrorism attack. I was saying to my friends, oh, it's probably just a solo incident. But it became clear very quickly that it was.", "What did you think was happening? And when you learned about what it actually was, what did that mean to you, when you were out there?", "I mean, I just started filming and I think that was very much a welcome distraction. But armed police", "What did you see and how did you help that person?", "So one of my friends turned around to me and said that they thought that someone behind me had been involved, who must have been outside. So I went over to him with my phone in my hand, but then as soon as we saw that he had been injured, I sort of just put the phone down. My friend sat him down and started to calm him down as I held like a bandage to his neck. And he was just telling us he'd been stabbed. He was very much in shock. But we just kind of wanted to make sure that he was OK and I was just holding this bandage to his neck. He clearly had been stabbed -- he had like some sort of wound, I didn't see the wound. It wasn't like he was gushing blood, but he had been stabbed and he was in a bad way.", "Well, you did the right thing in that moment, helping him out. Have you learned how he is now? Did he wind up going to hospital or is he OK?", "So at the time, I said to the police officer there, you need to get this guy an ambulance, but he was saying that the roads were closed. And within a minute, I think, he was taken away with paramedics. I mean, I've kept a lookout but I haven't seen too much. So hopefully he is OK. I know obviously a lot of people weren't lucky enough and have unfortunately died, but me and my friends are just really, really hoping that he is OK.", "So you've had a spate of attacks now, two, three in recent months. What does it mean to you guys there about why this is happening and what it means about the safety of daily life?", "I mean, daily life will just go on. Everyone's been so lovely and so supportive. I've had loads of messages myself. I've spoke to other people who've been affected and we all -- the people I've spoken to all feel the same way. You get on with it. There's signs all around London offering support. There are people laying flowers. Obviously we've got the vigil tonight. So, yes, I think we'll just carry on, carry on like normal as London does.", "And what do you think these attacks are meaning for that social fabric that connects all the different people? We're hearing that victims came from a lot of different countries. But the idea of extreme Islamism, and the impact of Muslim-based terror in society -- as you well know, the U.S. is wrestling with this about what to do about that, and the relationships between Muslims and non-Muslims. What does it mean there, where you are, as far as you know?", "I mean, a lot of the people who helped out, a lot of the people who intervened, were from all different backgrounds. Even myself, when I was texting friends, I had Muslim friends texting me to make sure I was OK and still offering support. So I mean, I hope it doesn't really change anything. And I think it wouldn't. Everyone is offering support. You've got loads of different religious groups coming around offering tea, coffee, water, anything to people that can help.", "What do you think the right reaction is in a situation like this?", "I think the right reaction is just to talk about it, to share your experience and show that, yes, this happened but we are getting on with it. It's worth it to carry on, to come back to London. Like, obviously it happened Saturday night. I came back to the area yesterday; I'm back today. Me and my friends are going to go to the vigil tonight just to sort of show some solidarity and just be London.", "Just be London. We saw that play out in true beauty with that Manchester concert. How important was it for Ariana Grande and all those other stars to come back and have tens of thousands there singing and showing that life goes on?", "It's the main thing. I mean, after things like this, you can't just sort of let it ruin everything. You know, you need that sort of solidarity. You need that support that everyone has provided, both in person, in the city, online, just everything. Things like this are important. I mean, where I am now there's flowers everywhere. There's people being lovely. And there's so much support as well for the police because the police were incredible, they were absolutely incredible the other night. A lot of us have the police to thank for our lives -- and not even just for our lives but making us feel safe. Like, when we were in the basement, we were told you guys are all safe and everyone started cheering and I just think that's incredible.", "It really is. The idea that authorities, from the time they heard about this first incident of a vehicle striking people, to when they took down the attackers, just eight minutes. Well, Liam, I'm sure they were the longest eight minutes of your life, but thank you for doing the right thing when you saw someone was injured. And good luck to you going forward. Appreciate you telling us your story.", "No worries. Not at all. Thank you.", "No worries at all. Liam, be well. All right, we're following a lot of news. There's investigative details coming out of London. President Trump just changed the game in the analysis of his own executive order on travel. Let's get after it.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is NEW DAY and we begin with President Trump clarifying the intent of his blocked travel ban. In several statements this morning, President Trump is contradicting his own cabinet members and press people by saying his executive order on immigration is in fact a travel ban. He also says his Justice Department should not have watered down the original version that prioritized the Christians.", "Gave a carve-out to minority religions, and that was seen as a major indication of the true desire of the ban, which was to target Muslims."], "speaker": ["ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN HOST", "LISA MONACO, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "CAMEROTA", "MONACO", "CAMEROTA", "MONACO", "CAMEROTA", "MONACO", "CAMEROTA", "MONACO", "CAMEROTA", "MONACO", "CAMEROTA", "MONACO", "CAMEROTA", "MONACO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CUOMO", "CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CAMEROTA", "AMANPOUR", "CAMEROTA", "AMANPOUR", "CUOMO", "AMANPOUR", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CUOMO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CUOMO", "LIAM CONNELL, HELPED VICTIM OF TERROR ATTACK", "CUOMO", "CONNELL", "CUOMO", "CONNELL", "CUOMO", "CONNELL", "CUOMO", "CONNELL", "CUOMO", "CONNELL", "CUOMO", "CONNELL", "CUOMO", "CONNELL", "CUOMO", "CONNELL", "CUOMO", "CONNELL", "CUOMO", "ANNOUNCER", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-151511", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-5-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1005/30/cnr.01.html", "summary": "BP's 'Top Kill' Fails; What is LMRP?; Latest and Greatest Videos Online", "utt": ["This Memorial Day weekend, hail the size of softballs falls on Oklahoma. It's one of the viral videos we'll see in the 2:00 Eastern hour of the NEWSROOM. And should gay men be allowed to donate blood? At 4:00 Eastern, we'll look at the case for lifting the 27-year-old ban. At 5:00 P.M. eastern, the fragile Louisiana wetlands and the latest desperate efforts to save them from oil. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM and I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico today following the failure of top kill. BP spent three days trying to plug the huge oil leak with a mud-like mixture. Officials say the tactic did - did stop the oil, but only temporarily. Now, they will go back to an earlier approach of trying to cap the leak.", "We will put a cap on the top of this well. We'll do a sophisticated operation with robots and make a clean cut across the top of a piece of equipment down there called a lower marine riser package with diamond saws, and then we will lower down over that a cap to protruse (ph) it to the surface. We learned some things from the previous cap that we tried that created these hydrates that made it float, really, and this time we'll circulate warm sea water down around it to prevent that from happening. And our objective is to contain a majority of the oil and gas.", "All right. We continue to cover this story from all angles. Josh Levs is standing by to explain BP's latest plan, Carol Costello is in Grand Isle, Louisiana, and Dan Lothian is with the president out of Chicago. So let's start with the administration's reaction to the latest developments. President Obama's top energy adviser Carol Browner said this is probably the biggest environmental disaster the country has ever faced. And, like other administration officials, she is voicing considerable frustration with BP Oil, including its early low ball estimates of the size of this spill.", "We were pressing them. I think what the president said in his press conference is that when we look back over the last 35, 38 days, we do realize there are some places where we could have moved more aggressively. One of them was asking for all the data which we needed to do these close (ph). But it is important for people to understand, BP has a vested financial interest in downplaying the size of this. We are on top of it. We have the best minds looking at it, and we're not just looking at a video. We're looking at satellite imagery, we're looking at what's actually being brought up through the risers into the boat that was there, and we will continue to monitor the situation. We want to know and the American people have a right to know how much oil is spilling.", "All right. Looking at it, but what can this administration do about stopping it? CNN White House correspondent Dan Lothian is traveling with the president who is vacationing in Chicago. So, Dan, the administration appears to be putting more pressure on BP and talking about wanting to hear about more data but what, if anything, can this federal government do to help get to the bottom of stopping this gushing oil?", "That is the key question and I think that's the reason that you're hearing this word \"frustration\" thrown around so often is that there's very little that this administration can do beyond keeping pressure on BP and also overseeing the operation. You know, the administration has pointed out time and time again that technically BP is the best one to be able to handle this situation. They have the tools. They have the toys to go down and potentially get this capped down 5,000 feet. Now, what the administration is doing is providing, as the president has pointed out, as other administration officials have pointed out, providing the best minds that they have in the government to help. You've seen Secretary Chu, who was a part of that assessment effort as they were carrying out or gearing up for the top kill operation, and throughout that operation he was, there so you'll continue to see Secretary Chu engaged and then Secretary Salazar and other administration officials will be back in the gulf again this week. Again, the focus is to keep the pressure on BP, make sure that they're getting timely and accurate information and, of course< oversee the entire operation, Fredricka.", "And so, Dan, one other thing. The administration really appears to be pushing that narrative that gulf residents will not be abandoned, that ultimately the region will be made whole. How is it he can make that promise?", "Well, you know, it's about the only thing that this administration can be certain of at this point. I mean, they say that BP will have to pay for all of this and for the administration, on its part, is trying to rally all of the folks there who really are very frustrated and angry, in some cases. And that's why you saw the president go to the gulf and make that assurance on Friday where he pointed out that even after the cameras are no longer rolling that the American government would still be there to make sure that everyone who has been impacted has been made whole. And you hear that same message echoed also by Secretary Salazar, who was saying that he believes that at some point this will be brought under control, that that area and the people there will be made whole as well. But I think, you know, to some people that's a lot of comfort for them, but others are still, again, frustrated and what they'd like to hear is not the words but that final, you know, say from the government that we have this capped. They want action. Words are good, but they want to see the action, Fredricka.", "All right. Dan Lothian traveling with the president there in Chicago. Appreciate that. All right, meantime, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says the military isn't in the position to take over operations in the gulf. Earlier today on \"STATE OF THE UNION\", CNN's Candy Crowley asked Admiral Mike Mullen about the military's role in containing this leak.", "Whenever there's some big catastrophe, people want the military because they sort of see it as an efficient way to get things done. I know that you are there helping with the dispersant, getting that out and other activities. Do you see anything further that the military could do to be helpful?", "Well, we've worked hard since this incident was initiated and - at providing, right now, to 1,400 National Guard troops. But we're really responding to the requests. We're very much in a support role here. You've seen Admiral Thad Allen, who I think has been terrific as the incident commander, the incident lead, specifically, and we're putting every capability that we have. We've - we brought thousands of feet of booms in terms of being able to try to contain this, but it really is not for ours to lead right now because of the - the technical challenges, quite frankly. And, as best I've been able to understand, the technical lead for this in our country really is the industry and you can see obviously the challenges that they're going through to try to figure out how to - how to stop this thing.", "So while the U.S. military had some deep sea capability, officials have said the military has no unique technology regarding offshore oil drilling. So now that we know about top kill and a junk shot, it's time to learn about what the oil folks are calling LMRP. It's the latest plan of attack to stop the gulf oil gusher. So let's bring in our Josh Levs who done a little digging for us. So explain, first off, what is this LMRP?", "The latest step in the terminology we've had to become familiar with all too quickly throughout all of this, Fred. You know, when you hear the basic idea of what officials have been trying to do, on the face of it, it sounds pretty simple. Cap it off. Let's go to this video. This is what we're talking about, the lower marine riser package. When you look at the video that BP provides, the basic idea there is that something comes along and caps off the top of it, and that is what, obviously, you would want to see. Now, when it comes to how this would actually happen, though, it's going to be a little more complicated. Let's watch what they've provided. This is the video - this is the animation. This is what they're hoping to achieve. This cap comes along and blocks it off where the problem is. Now, let's come to the screen behind me because I have some images. They are going to show you how hard this is and what some of the big risks are. The first thing they need to do is they need to remove basically something at the blowout preventer, right here. So this is from BP. Let's take a look right here. What you have in this section, this remote operated vehicles that BP is showing, right over here, and it's basically going to come along and cut what looks like this pipe. This is using this - this basically hydraulic power to cut right here the blowout preventer. Then come over here to me with the (ph) right. After they've done that, they need to come over here and slice it off. Again, this little robot-looking thing is a remote operated vehicle. It would basically have to slice off all this before they can create a cap that you can then send the cap down on to create what looks like a stub for the cap. Basically, they get rid of that, then they get to this. I'll make it really big so we can see. If it works, if they manage to take off the parts they want to take off, then you will have what they say they're going for. You will have ultimately this right here, all right? That's what it looked like on top. And then you'll have the cap that comes along and goes on top of it. That's the goal. That's what they're going for. So, with that in mind, let's go back to that animation now. I want you all to see what we're talking about. It looks pretty simple. It looks pretty when we watch that video. But the trick is that they have to make sure that they are able to get off those pieces in the first place exactly as they want to in order to create that kind of stub that the cap can then fit exactly onto. And not only that, Fred, but even if that cap goes on as they want it to, it's not designed as a 100 percent seal. It's not a 100 percent seal. What it does, they hope it will block most of it from getting through, help control the flow, bring some of that oil off. And there's also another thing they need to do. They're going to use that tube to send down this stuff called methanol which can prevent ice crystals from growing. Ice crystals -", "Right. That was the big problem in the first place in the (ph) dome.", "That's the -- it didn't work out with the dome, it didn't work out with the top hat, and the reason was you had these ice crystals that were blocking it from growing. So, Fred, all of that - then when they talk about risks, when I talk about how hard it is, they've never done this that low. That - those are the steps they have to go through in the hopes that the cap will ultimately fit and will ultimately work. So that is where we are right now.", "And then we're talking about this new cap, another week before it's actually ready, right? So then what else are they doing in the meantime?", "It's four to seven days before they can even begin the process with that. Now, they've said what they'll also do, they're working on another blowout preventer. I think we've got a little video of that. But, basically, the blowout preventer is what the problem is. They're working on another one. It's 48 feet tall, 450 tons, this giant apparatus, and 5,000 feet underneath. So they're working on that as well. They're also working on relief wells, and, ultimately, what you want to see are some relief wells because what those can do, if they work, is draw out a lot of that oil, reduce the pressure on where all the problem is. You're basically sending the oil somewhere else into a relief well. But that's - Fred, what we're talking about could be August. It could be months.", "Oh, gosh. All right, thanks so much. Josh Levs, appreciate that. We'll see you again later on this hour.", "Sure.", "All right, coming to terms with an environmental catastrophe, a difficult challenge for everyone, but especially the people directly affected. 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{"id": "CNN-185081", "program": "JOHN KING, USA", "date": "2012-4-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/27/jkusa.01.html", "summary": "New Standards for Secret Service", "utt": ["Good evening. I'm John King. Tonight: new standards of conduct for the Secret Service. And a CNN exclusive: the identity of the agent whose payment dispute with a prostitute brought this whole scandal to light. Also, a rare report from inside Syria, as the regime there continues to defy the world and violate a cease-fire. Four years ago, Barack Obama condemned the use of Osama bin Laden in political ads. Now with Bill Clinton's help, a stunning about- face. We begin this evening with exclusive details about the sex scandal that's shaken the United States Secret Service. CNN has now identified the agent who triggered the prostitution scandal that exploded during President Obama's recent trip to Colombia. Drew Griffin of CNN's Special Investigations Unit has the exclusive report.", "A hotel security guard at the Hotel Caribe says the commotion began in the seventh floor hallway where some of the agents were staying. Through hotel records CNN can now confirm at least three agents assigned rooms on that floor apparently left Cartagena early. Sources with knowledge of the investigation had indicated to CNN that two agents have been cleared, but that the agent who stayed in room 707 may already be gone from the service. According to hotel records reviewed by CNN, agent Arthur Huntington was checked into this room. Two sources with knowledge of the investigation say it was Huntington who had the dispute with the escort named Dania Suarez. Suarez has now hired an attorney and through statements credited to the attorney demands she was an escort, not a prostitute. Her attorney isn't talking. Earlier this week, a man who identified himself as Arthur Huntington declined comment to a CNN producer. Yesterday CNN returned to Arthur Huntington's home where the door was gently pushed shut without comment. The home was just listed for sale this week.", "John, we have been trying to reach Arthur Huntington for comment from his representative even. Since Monday there has been none. As one former agent told me, this is not just a crisis for the Secret Service. This is a very real and personal crisis for the families involved.", "It certainly is, Drew. Excellent reporting. The reason we wanted to bring it to light is without this payment dispute in the hallway of the hotel we might not know anything about the conduct in Colombia. Drew Griffin, some great reporting. thanks, Drew. CNN has also learned tonight that new standards of conduct were passed out to all Secret Service personnel today. Two government sources familiar with the investigation tell CNN these enhanced standards of conduct designate areas and establishments that will be off-limits during future overseas trips. Also bans agents from bringing any foreign nationals into their hotel rooms. The rules say United States laws will be in effect for all traveling Secret Service personnel overseas and the new standards ban alcohol consumption within 10 hours of reporting for duty. The rules also say alcohol consumption is not allowed at all in any hotel where someone being protected by the Secret Service is staying and they also say not one, but now two high-level supervisors will be assigned to those so-called car plane teams. They go in several days ahead of the president with his motorcade. Sobering new economic data from the government this evening, the gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced here in the United States, grew at a rate of just 2.2 percent last quarter, below most predictions, and down from 3 percent growth in the last three months of 2011. Let's put this in a context with Mark Zandi. He's the chief economist for Moody's Analytics. Mark, when you look at the numbers, federal spending is down. State and local government spending is down. Consumer spending is actually up a little bit. When you look at it, what's the biggest flag, the biggest downside?", "Weakness in business investment. Business investment in equipment and software, it was up, but only a very little bit. I think it's a lack of business confidence, that businesses are so cautious that is kind of the missing link here. It's the reason why the economy isn't really fully engaging. To me that was the most disappointing aspect of the report that we are not seeing businesses step up more aggressively.", "You have got 2.2 percent projected growth in this quarter, down from the last quarter. We have seen weekly unemployment filings up. We had a tepid jobs report last month. Does it suggest to you that things will get worse going forward?", "No, I don't think so. I think we will be OK. We got juiced up a little bit late last year, early this because of the extraordinarily warm winter weather. There will be a bit of a payback. That's what we are starting to see right now. I also think the higher gasoline prices are doing a bit of damage to the economy. But all in all I think the economy is in a much better place than it was this time last year. I think we're on pretty solid ground. I don't think we will backtrack in a significant way.", "You say not going to backtrack, but we're stuck in a pretty low gear. To get it into a higher gear and to get growth above 3 percent and up to 4 percent, to get people feeling truly happy and growth to be robust what has to happen? In the answer, is there anything a president can do, anything Washington can do that would help in the short term?", "Good question. I think it's really the animal spirits. Businesses have to grow more confident and begin to step up, begin to invest and hire more. They are nervous, in part, because of the policy regulatory environment particularly in the financial services industry, health care industries, some of the utility industries, energy industry. But perhaps more importantly than that, I think it's the nightmare of the very difficult times we have been through. It's very difficult for them to get over that and to really let loose and become aggressive. I think that's just going to take time. Thus to your second question, I don't think there is a lot that policy-makers can do except I do think they do need to nail down what they are going to do about the expiring Bush era tax cuts, about some of the spending cuts that are coming and also how we will achieve fiscal sustainability long run. If they can do those things after the election, then I'm confident by this time next year businesses will get their groove back and the economy will perform better.", "After the election, the key part of that phrase there and that answer. Mark Zandi, appreciate your time. Pretty fair I think we will have to wait for a lot of this until after the election. Thanks again, Mark.", "Thanks, John.", "The big question now what about the political fallout? will Mitt Romney and the Republicans, for example, benefit from today's sluggish economic report today? CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger is here. Let's look at historically GDP in the first quarter of an election year. We show the numbers. This is why the Obama campaign has to be a little bit worried tonight. President Obama, 2.2 percent, as the government reported today. President Bush in his first quarter reelection year, it was over 4 percent. Bill Clinton in 1996, it was at 3 percent. George H.W. Bush, 2.9 percent. He lost. Of the presidents you're look at that on that scene, George H.W. Bush lost and look at that, a number below 3 percent. Ronald Reagan after dealing with 10 percent unemployment had a booming economy by this time in his reelection year.", "Right. That's very important, the growth rate because if you look back to Reagan his unemployment was 7.8 percent. It wasn't terrific. It had gotten an awful lot better since he had been in office. But that growth rate of 8.5 percent for Ronald Reagan gave people the sense that the recovery would be robust and sustained. And what people don't have right now with President Obama and a 2.2 percent growth rate which, by the way, is less than people anticipated, they don't have any sense of security that a recovery will be here a year from now. Most people believe things are sort of getting better, but they are not sure now how long they're going to get better for or whether we could start going in the opposite direction. That's the real problem for the president.", "I remember in 1992 people said they felt like they had been treading water for so long and getting hard and hard and so they wanted a change. They liked George H.W. Bush, but they said let's try something different. That's why the psychology is critical. Because we asked in our most recent poll essentially who do you trust? Who will be the best steward of the economy, more likely to get it moving? President Obama 44 percent, Romney 42 percent. Essentially a dead heat right now. If people start to feel worse about the economy, think it is sluggish or perhaps slipping the numbers could change. That's the president's worry.", "That's exactly what the Romney campaign has decided it wants to take advantage of. They are taking the president on frontally on the economy. Even on the fairness issue, they're taking him on, on that. There are a couple of things we are hearing. One is that the president is all about diversion, that, in fact, he's more image than substance. And the second is the president needs to explain his rationale for reelection, because if the economy isn't getting any better -- this is what the Romney campaign is saying -- then what's the president's rationale for becoming president again? The Obama folks will tell you, things would have been an awful lot worse. Thaw want to go back to the Bush years and Mitt Romney doesn't have a magic formula for getting us out of this. But again, if the president can't say I guarantee you that things are going to be getting better and the numbers don't back him up there is a real vulnerability there.", "The numbers, the numbers. A lot of times, we look at a lot of dynamics in politics. The speeches, campaigns, the ads. Watch the economic data. That's your single biggest indicator of where this year goes. Thanks, Gloria, so much for coming in. Up next here, a one-time aide to John Edwards tells a jury he felt threatened and feared for his life while helping the former presidential candidate cover up his affair with a campaign worker. And later, a powerful Republican lawmaker explains why he's threatening to hold the nation's attorney general in contempt of Congress."], "speaker": ["JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR", "DREW GRIFFIN, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GRIFFIN", "KING", "MARK ZANDI, CHIEF ECONOMIST, MOODY'S ANALYTICS", "KING", "ZANDI", "KING", "ZANDI", "KING", "ZANDI", "KING", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "KING", "BORGER", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-64542", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2002-12-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/21/smn.07.html", "summary": "Soldier Killed in Firefight with Taliban Remnants", "utt": ["We begin this morning in eastern Afghanistan with more on that death of a U.S. soldier. An Army spokesman says the man died as a result of a firefight between U.S. troops and what they believe to be al Qaeda and Taliban remnants. We have this update now from CNN's Karl Penhaul in Bagram, Afghanistan.", "General Richard Myers landed here in Afghanistan at the Bagram Air Base today just hours after U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan had come under fire in two separate incidents by suspected remnant guerrilla units of al Qaeda and the Taliban. General Myers, however, said that he wasn't overly alarmed by that situation. He didn't see it as an overall escalation in al Qaeda activities across the country. He did signal, however, that in war, casualties are inevitable.", "We know there's going to be times that our forces have been shot at over here, U.S. forces have been shot at from time to time, and we're going to take some casualties, unfortunately. And we did have a tragic death last night, and -- but that, I don't think, has anything to do with the situation. The situation continues to get better over here. We're thinking very seriously about moving into what we call stability operations in most of the country.", "Regarding the attacks over this last week in Kabul, he has said that he doesn't necessarily believe that these can be linked to either the Taliban or al Qaeda, and he ruled out any indication that this could be part of a buildup of terrorist attacks in the capital. Making the linkage between the situation in Iraq and the current situation in Afghanistan, General Myers said that he didn't believe troops operations, troop levels, and equipment levels in Afghanistan would be scaled down to send off to Iraq. He said that for the foreseeable future, he could see troop levels remaining more or less stable in Afghanistan. We understand that there are about 7,000 American troops currently in Afghanistan. As far as operations in Iraq are concerned, General Myers said that his troops were ready to roll in the Gulf region any time the president called upon them. However, he said he didn't believe that war at this point was inevitable. He said that there were still political avenues that the politicians back in Washington are exploring.", "All right, that was Karl Penhaul of Bagram, Afghanistan. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com", "We begin this morning in eastern Afghanistan with more on that death of a U.S. soldier. An Army spokesman says the man died as a result of a firefight between U.S. troops and what they believe to be al Qaeda and Taliban remnants. We have this update now from CNN's Karl Penhaul in Bagram, Afghanistan.", "General Richard Myers landed here in Afghanistan at the Bagram Air Base today just hours after U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan had come under fire in two separate incidents by suspected remnant guerrilla units of al Qaeda and the Taliban. General Myers, however, said that he wasn't overly alarmed by that situation. He didn't see it as an overall escalation in al Qaeda >"], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GEN. RICHARD MYERS, CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF", "PENHAUL", "WHITFIELD", "FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)"]}
{"id": "CNN-124490", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2008-3-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0803/11/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Gas and Oil Prices Hit Record Highs", "utt": ["Breaking news this morning, oil cracks $109 a barrel for the first time. Our Ali Velshi, at the business update desk, is tracking the markets this morning. What's behind it all, Ali?", "What's behind me is this barrel that I have to keep changing the numbers on. $109.20 is what we've hit this morning. Wow, those are some crazy numbers. There are a few things behind this. One of it -- one of the things is that there is some speculation, a lot of hedge funds investing in oil, and that's not directly related to supply and demand, which is what we're used to seeing in oil. We have a lot of people telling us that oil should be nowhere near these prices. But there are a lot of people talking about the increase in demand from China and India which is really causing, you know, us to pay more for oil but nobody thinks it should be at these levels. $109.10, let me see what that translate to in gasoline prices. We're looking at $3.227 now as a national average for unleaded self- serve gasoline in the United States. As high as $3.60 on average in Hawaii and around those prices in California, although some people have seen stations well above $4. One station $5. $3 about the average in New Jersey. There are a number of experts who are saying expect to see $3.50 and $3.75 for gasoline by spring. At that point, once we hit those levels, demand should curtail enough that prices for gas would actually go down. We know that the refineries are operating at lower capacity than they have been for some time until gas prices actually catch up to these increases. So the bottom line is everyone who is betting on gas prices is betting that they're going up. That's what we're looking at right now, $109.20 for oil, almost $3.23 a gallon for gasoline -- John.", "All right, Ali Velshi for us this morning. Let's hope it doesn't go any higher today. Ali, thanks -- Kiran.", "Well, we all know that driving while yapping on the cell phone is not a good idea. But what about if you're using a hands-free device? A new study says that they also give drivers a fall sense of safety. CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is in Atlanta. You know, we talked about this before. You know, a lot of states say or cities say that you cannot drive holding your cell phone but it's OK as long as you have a hands-free device.", "Yes. You know, it's interesting that scientists at Carnegie-Mellon think even the hands-free device may be a problem. On full disclosure, I use a hands-free device as well. But the question was simply talking on the phone, simply paying attention to someone on the other end of the line, what does that do to you? What does it do to your ability to drive? They actually took 29 volunteers. They put them in the simulator, they're not actually driving a car but simulating that and had them carry on a conversation with a hands-free device. Now, they got 92 percent of the questions being asked right, which is important because it meant they were focusing on the conversation, but they also did other things in the sense of weaving in and out of lanes, they actually, one person actually hit a guardrail. And this is something that scientists wanted to figure out what exactly was happening inside their brain when they were talking on the phone. So, let me take you on a tour here, if you will, inside the brain, and give you a sense of what the brain looked like in someone who wasn't distracted versus distracted. Take a look. This is what it looks like driving without distraction, this is the parietal and occipital lobes back here that I'm circling. See how much orange is in there? Now, when you're actually on the phone listening to the cell phone device there's about a 37 percent, about 40 percent less increase in activation over there and that's important because with less activation there was less attention, if you will, to the driving. That gives you a sense of what exactly was happening inside the brain when someone was on one of the hands-free devices -- Kiran.", "It's very interesting because you see especially in Manhattan as well drivers through the city, you know, taxi drivers and drivers of car services have those Bluetooths in their ear constantly and everyone zipping down the road. The other thing, too, is that you have to actually dial the phone to make these calls and you're, of course, looking down when you do that. Really, I mean, even though these hands-free devices aren't going anywhere is there any way to make driving safer?", "You bring up a good point. So, hands free versus an actual phone, both require some physical activity to dial or answer the phone, for example. The other thing is, you know, besides phones and a lot of people say look, there's been no decrease in the overall number of traffic accidents since some of these hands-free laws have come into place. You got about 42,000 deaths every year still from traffic accidents, that number stayed about the same, but you do have a lot of people who do other things, Kiran, that require more physical activity, grooming themselves, for example, or eating while driving, those are obviously much more dangerous.", "Well, all right, you know, as you said in full disclosure, you use one, too. It's modern age of getting things done, right?", "Yes. You don't have a moment to spare when you have the conversations getting your work done, absolutely.", "Sanjay, good to see you. Thanks.", "All right. Kiran, thank you.", "With many people calling on him to step down, Eliot Spitzer be using his resignation to keep himself out of jail? We'll ask our legal analyst Sunny Hostin. That's just ahead on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["ROBERTS", "VELSHI", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "GUPTA", "CHETRY", "GUPTA", "CHETRY", "GUPTA", "CHETRY", "GUPTA", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-402413", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-06-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/11/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Widely Different Predictions about Virus Spread in Africa; Mexican Medical Workers Struggle to Get Protective Equipment", "utt": ["So COVID-19 cases in parts of Africa are rising fast. South Africa is the continent's hardest hit country with more than 55,000 confirmed cases. But the death rate there is far lower than what we are seeing in the U.S. or the U.K. And it's one of the reasons why experts can't seem to agree on how much the virus will affect the region. A few months ago human experts were saying there could be millions of deaths. Well now, some are saying that a surge won't ever happen in some areas. Well, this is something that David McKenzie has been investigating for us. He joins us now live from Johannesburg. Hi -- David. Just give us some understanding of why we are seeing this disconnect in the modeling?", "Hey -- Robyn. You know, one expert I spoke to put it quite nicely. He said though it feels like we had this virus for some five years, in terms of the stress levels, it's only been around five months or so. And many people are still -- many scientists don't know much about it, don't know exactly how it will operate in different countries. So a group of African scientists have a very different take on what the consequences of COVID-19 will be across the continent.", "As lockdowns across Africa began, health officials sounded the alarm. Frightening, severe, catastrophic -- words used to describe the continent's prospects in the pandemic fight. But that was then.", "The countries in the African region are not where they have predicted that they would be by now. I think a lot of earlier predictions had painted a picture of, by this time, it would be quite overwhelming.", "A group of leading African scientists had predicted a very different outcome. Even in the worst-case scenario, they're modeling suggests a smoldering outbreak in Africa, where many countries could avoid a deadly surge.", "The deaths or the severity of the outbreak would be less severe than we've seen in other countries.", "A key to their modeling work, including the socioecological factors that impact COVID-19 spread. Like weather, population movement, urbanization. Two factors stand out -- the relative youth of sub-Saharan Africa, 70 percent of people are under 30; and the lower overburden of so-called diseases of lifestyle like diabetes, obesity and hypertension. Both they believe could lessen the severity of the disease. But even if countries avoid a surge, they believe that any spikes could overwhelm weaker health systems.", "Those are less severe outcomes that need to be balanced against the capacity of the system to respond to those outcomes.", "Our curve is increasing and increasing quickly. So I think the virus is seeding (ph) itself into the communities and getting momentum.", "And despite the new predictions, the head of the Africa CDC says it's far too early to be complacent. He says just five countries on the continent represent more than half the confirmed cases, and overall testing is still woefully inadequate.", "I have characterized it as a delayed pandemic, and now we have to intensify our efforts be bold and aggressive in and putting in place probably health measure.", "Health measures like the army of health workers in South Africa, tracing and testing for COVID. Here and like in many African countries, the cases are rising quickly. And the modeling of COVID-19's future spread will soon be tested.", "Well Robyn -- the head of Africa CDC used a baseball analogy. In fact, you know, he after all was at Atlanta CDC before this. He said, you know, the virus came to the continent later than some other areas. He says it's only in the second innings, and there's a long way to go-- Robyn.", "Maybe he should have used a cricket analogy and spoken about a five-day test if you are talking about South Africa. This might just be the first day. So let's talk about South Africa. We're both South Africans. We both know a few people who have COVID. Why -- why are cases surging there, particularly after such a -- I mean you can call draconian lockdown?", "Well, I think the lockdown certainly shows that they were able to flatten that curve pretty effectively, according to the science. But you're right. There is a surge in level of cases now, but it was kept down in eastern Cape provinces. That surge -- in a way is the exception that proves the rule -- proves the rule say the scientists because South Africa does have a high level of those co-morbidities like diabetes and hypertension that puts it at risk. But also it's a much more urban population than large parts of the continent where there's a lot more rural populations. The thing is this virus acts differently in different places. And Africa, as you know, is a vastly diverse continent. So, they do expect those differences. They do say that on the whole, if you take the average, this continent might be better off than other places -- Robyn.", "Which is great news either way. David McKenzie -- thanks so much. Good to speak to you. So, Latin America is the world's coronavirus hot spot right now. Johns Hopkins University is reporting that more than 70,000 people there have died. Brazil is accounting for more than half of that number. It's actually confirming the third highest death toll in the world after the U.S. and the U.K. Well, Shasta Darlington takes a closer look -- Shasta.", "Latin America and the Caribbean surpassed 70,000 deaths from coronavirus as of Wednesday, with Mexico reporting a record daily surge in new cases. In Chile, police were deployed on the streets of Santiago to enforce lockdown measures after a spike in COVID-19 cases prompted an extension of quarantine. Meanwhile, in Brazil, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro forged ahead with plans to reopen stores and even shopping malls despite warnings from the Pan American Health Organization that the virus is still spreading aggressively in the region. Officials insist the decision is based on improving conditions such as increasing availability of intensive care beds in some areas. But experts worry the rush to get back to some kind of normal and limit the financial ruin could just fuel more transmissions and postpone a real recovery. Shasta Darlington, CNN -- Sao Paulo.", "Thanks -- Shasta, for that. So Mexico is seeing another surge in coronavirus cases. It reported nearly 5,000 infections on Wednesday and as paramedics are left responding to mounting number of emergency calls, CNN's Matt Rivers shows us how many, many are struggling to protect themselves.", "They chant his name and the sirens wail. This is a tribute to Dr. Miguel Angel Perez Alvarado, a doctor who worked in a public ambulance in Mexico City. He died last month of COVID-19. For weeks, the father of three girls treated patients with the virus. \"He was worried,\" his wife Nancy tells us, \"because he knew his working conditions weren't safe.\" Dr. Perez told her he wasn't given the right protective equipment on the job and he's not alone. Seven paramedics and a doctor who worked in public ambulances told us the same thing. Here, one demonstrates how water can be sprayed through the coverall they've been given. Duct tape is now important. They use it to patch holes in their suits, and to tape up garbage bags to try and isolate COVID cases inside their ambulances. Speaking anonymously for fear of losing his job, this paramedic says he and his colleagues had to buy their own safety equipment. He says they are sending us into a war with nothing. You don't send a firefighter to a fire without protection. So, this is the mask that the paramedic were speaking to and says the government issued him. And you do not need to be a medical expert to understand that this does not give him the kind of protection he needs. The paramedics we spoke to work for two sections of Mexico's health ministry. Both section said all their paramedics have the required supplies -- statements that seemed to be demonstrably untrue especially when you see how it's supposed to be done. We spent the night recently with a Red Cross ambulance crew -- private volunteers who have all the right equipment and even designated COVID units. And that's a necessity because the worst of Mexico's epidemic is happening right now. On a 12 hour shift, there are 12 COVID calls. And sometimes, we were too late.", "So, we got this call a little over 20 minutes ago now. And we just arrived on scene. And in that time, the 43-year-old female victim had already died of symptoms consistent with COVID-19. And arriving with patients still alive didn't always matter in the end. 72-year-old Maria Isabel Cruz Hernandez was taken from her apartment and brought straight to the hospital. Her son told us she has since passed away. After each exhausting call, trucks and paramedics are both sprayed head to toe with a special disinfectant. Paramedics and government-run unit say they try and disinfect too once again, with supplies they bought themselves. \"Are you scared,\" we ask. \"Always,\" he says. \"You don't sleep. Scared for myself. Scared of infecting my family. And scared of ending up like Dr. Perez.\" Two days after he went to the hospital, he texted a final message to his wife. \"He said be careful, I love you all. That was last time we spoke.\" Eight days later, Dr. Perez passed away. Matt Rivers, CNN -- Mexico City.", "And as we struggle with this pandemic, it's not just about the health of our bodies, but also our minds. Experts say social distancing has made many people emotionally vulnerable and lonely just when they need the closeness the most. For ideas on how to stay connected, please do go to CNN.com. And still to come -- you see the signs, and here the chance to defund the police in the U.S., but how would that work? We'll take you to one American city that fired its entire police department and then started from scratch. And the results might surprise you."], "speaker": ["CURNOW", "DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MCKENZIE", "DR. HUMPHREY KARAMAGI, WHO TEAM LEADER", "MCKENZIE", "KARAMAGI", "MCKENZIE", "KARAMAGI", "DR. 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{"id": "NPR-27662", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2014-03-28", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/03/28/295851398/week-in-politics-obama-in-brussels-and-a-bridge-scandal-report", "title": "Week In Politics: Obama In Brussels And A Bridge Scandal Report", "summary": "Regular political commentators, E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and David Brooks of The New York Times, discuss President Obama's speech in Brussels and his meeting with Pope Francis.", "utt": ["And we pick up there with our Friday regulars E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution. Hey there, E.J.", "E.J. DIONNE: Hey.", "And David Brooks of The New York Times. Hey David.", "How are you?", "So I want to continue the conversation about President Obama and go back to a speech he gave in Brussels on Wednesday. In it, he spoke about Russia, about NATO, about bigger ideas about the U.S. role in the world.", "Russia's leadership is challenging truths that only a few weeks ago seemed self evident, that in the 21st century the borders of Europe cannot be redrawn with force.", "David, over the last few weeks we talked quite a bit about Vladimir Putin and speeches he gave. What did you make of these comments from President Obama?", "Well, he understands the problem. That's a very good encapsulation of what we're facing here, that Putin really does threaten what's left of the post-Cold War era where we don't have spheres of influence, where countries don't bend the borders of others, and so he really did a very nice job of asserting that point.", "And they have ratcheted up the sanctions pretty well. If I would fault him, it would be on two things. One, they're not hitting Putin and his inner circle hard enough with the sanctions, and second, the president has been too quick to take all military deterrents off the table, even to the extent of arming the Ukrainians, whatever it would be. He said military deterrence does not work. But, of course, military deterrence does work, especially if the Russians amass troops on the Ukrainian border.", "E.J.", "Well, just on that point, it's clear that we have a commitment to defending NATO and he was right. He said it explicitly that he didn't want to make a promise that we couldn't keep, and I don't think anybody believes we would send troops to Ukraine. But there is an upside to this crisis that we saw this week in the president's speech.", "Relations with Europe had kind of frayed. They weren't terrible and President Obama's still quite popular in Europe, but there's been a feeling throughout his administration that he didn't care very much about Europe or think very much about them. And this speech was a very strong assertion of our common values, our common interests.", "He took some pokes at Putin. Instead of targeting our gay brothers and sisters, he said, we can use our laws, meaning the West, to protect their rights. The Financial Times had a good editorial suggesting this may actually, Putin's actions may be a very good thing for the Western alliance, and I think that may turn out to be the case.", "I want to mention one more noted meeting and that was between the president and the pope. You know, the White House said their conversation was about inequality and the poor. The Vatican had these kind of veiled comments about - that seemed to be read as a commentary on abortion and contraception. E.J.?", "What seems to have happened is the Vatican always is deferential to local bishops and so they were going to bring that up somehow. What the president said, and I understand this is the case, that this was brought up by the Vatican secretary of state and that the talk with the pope himself focused much more on the economic and the social justice issues that they had in common.", "I think in American terms what may have some real impact is their talk about immigration. And the pope is very committed to immigrants and refugees, and I think you may see some more ratcheting up of Catholic support, which is already strong for immigration reform.", "David, a wide-ranging talk with a very popular cultural figure in the world right now. What did you make of the president's meeting?", "Yeah, I wish he had treated the pope as the pope - that is to say, not exchanging a series of banal talking points as if they were some global summit between national leaders, but treat the pope as a spiritual personality and take it as an opportunity, first to learn how the pope has really changed the narrative of the Catholic Church by going back to the beatitudes, going back to the basics, and really, as a style of leadership I think the pope has a lot to offer any world leader.", "And secondly, I always want the president to go in and say - for personal counseling. Here's a deeply spiritual man, deeply skilled at personal counseling. I'm a world leader. How am I not corrupted by this kind sort of power? How do I lead my life? I always think that's how you should treat the pope, not as a national figure.", "E.J., I see you jumping in here.", "Well, first of all, the pope is an important political figure whether you like it or not, and second - and I'm not saying David dislikes it - but the second is, I think Obama did do a little of that. We don't know what they actually said, but at the end of their visit, the pope gave him his letter - his apostolic exhortation, \"The Joy of the Gospel.\" That is a very serious document and a spiritual document and Obama said he would turn to it when he was down.", "And so I think he may have gotten a little of that pastoral counseling that David hopes he got.", "Well, I want to turn now to some domestic politics. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, yesterday, his office released results of an internal investigation that essentially cleared the governor of wrongdoing in connection with the lane closures on the George Washington Bridge last year. Now, today Christie announced that another of his top allies is resigning and I want to talk to you guys about this.", "But let's get more detail from NPR's Joel Rose. He has the latest on this story. Stay where you are.", "The Christie administration's internal investigation was billed as objective and thorough, but critics say it's neither. Today, Governor Christie faced a skeptical press corps in Trenton and tried to downplay concerns about the report.", "We gave them unfettered, complete access to everyone in this government, and allowed them to interview people multiple times if they so desired, on multiple occasions, in order to try to get to the bottom of things.", "Christie says the report confirms that he had nothing to do with the plan to close the lanes. Investigators did not get to interview some key players in the scandal, including David Samson, he's a mentor to Governor Christie, and he was the governor's top appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the Gorge Washington bridge, until today, when Christie announces Samson's resignation.", "He believes that the best way to start a new year at the Port Authority is with new leadership. In line with that belief, David tendered his resignation to me this afternoon, effective immediately.", "Christie says Samson's resignation had been in the works for a year, but internal Port Authority email suggests that Samson knew about the lane closures while they were happening. The internal investigation puts the blame squarely on former Christie staffers and appointees who have since resigned or been fired, but it does not offer any explanation as to why the lanes were closed in the first place. For that we may have to wait for separate investigations by the U.S. attorney for New Jersey and the state legislature to play out. Joel Rose, NPR News.", "And back to our political observers David Brooks and E.J. Dionne. David, I'm going to let you start here. We hear the governor, you know, defending this independent review, but these resignations, do they help, or is this a sign of more bad news?", "Well, I think there's - this doesn't clear him. It was an internal review. We've got two other reviews, which will have more credibility. But I think it seems unlikely there's a smoking gun. There's probably not an email sitting out there to prove that Christie knew about what was going on. I can't imagine the law firm would've buried that.", "Having watched Governor Christie perform in front of some Republican donors groups, though, I will say I'm struck by how little they care about this. The questions are never on this; they're on other national issues. So I'm not sure it'll hurt him as much in the Republican primary field, to the extent that we care about that, as much as some people think.", "Well so far this has hurt him if you look at the polls not only in the general population, the general public, but also among Republicans. And I'm not sure this report will - it may have hurt more than it helps because a million taxpayer dollars went into this. The New York Times editorialized that it was an expensive whitewash. It really reads much more like a brief for Christie than it does like an investigation.", "And there's one thing they did in there that I think is going to offend a lot of people. The two key figures in this whom they didn't interview, Bridget Kelly, a top aide to Governor Christie, and Bill Stepien, the report talked about a relationship they had, a personal relationship. And they brought it up again and again. I don't think most voters or citizens like bringing up personal relationships in the context of this. There was no predicate for why it was in there.", "So I think that David's right for there are a lot of Republicans who won't care about it, but I think this is going to hang around for a while. You could hear Christie in his news conference hoping this would draw a line under the thing, but I'm not - I don't think it will.", "Yes, David, you're saying this now, but we've got two more investigations to go, right?", "Right. But the fact is we still don't have evidence that he did know. So until there's evidence, it's sort of a cloud, but it's not a wound, let's put it that way.", "All right, we're going to leave it there. David Brooks of The New York Times, thanks so much for speaking with us.", "Thank you.", "E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution. Thanks, E.J.", "Thank you.", "Stay with us for more ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DAVID BROOKS", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DAVID BROOKS", "DAVID BROOKS", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DIONNE", "DIONNE", "DIONNE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DIONNE", "DIONNE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DAVID BROOKS", "DAVID BROOKS", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DIONNE", "DIONNE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "JOEL ROSE, BYLINE", "GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE", "JOEL ROSE, BYLINE", "GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE", "JOEL ROSE, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DAVID BROOKS", "DAVID BROOKS", "DIONNE", "DIONNE", "DIONNE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DAVID BROOKS", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DAVID BROOKS", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DIONNE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-379894", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-09-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/09/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Harris Unveils Criminal Justice Reform Plan; Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH) Discusses Sen. Kamala Harris' Record As Prosecutor, Harris' Criminal Justice Reform Plan.", "utt": ["On the Democratic side, a sweeping new plan for criminal justice reform today from Senator Kamala Harris. The proposal comes in advance of Thursday's Democratic debate and it's amid criticism about her time as a prosecutor. Harris is calling for an end to mass incarceration, federal mandatory minimum sentences and the death penalty. She also wants to phase out for-profit private prisons and cash bail and legalized marijuana. Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge has endorsed Senator Harris for president and she joins us now. Congresswoman, good to have you with us. As we look at Senator --", "Thank you.", "Thanks for taking the time. As we look at Senator Harris' record, she often points to her time as a prosecutor as being so important for what she understands about the criminal justice system. That being said, that record is at odds with parts of this new plan. In 2004, as San Francisco's U.S. attorney, she pushed for higher cash bails. In 2010, we know she did not support legalizing marijuana. We know that has changed. In 2014, as California attorney general, she didn't back independent investigations for police shootings. Which is a record voters should be looking at? Is it her record as a prosecutor or her record as a candidate?", "I think it's a record as her prosecutor and a candidate. You have to take a person's total record. You can't just look at bits and pieces of it. She has determined and knows now that the things she may have supported in the past, were not the proper things. We all grow and evolve. I think it's important to know what has happened. In 1994, we did not know that mass incarceration would be where it is today. So no one could guess that she needed to change her plan. No one could guess what was going to happen with solitary confinement. No one could guess what was going to happen with persons who were put into a process basically because of mandatory minimums. I think you do grow and you do evolve. The plan I support is the she has now. The plan she has now, to your support, growing and running, it's an important part all Americans, whether running for office or not as you learn more. Yet, she told \"The New York Times, it was not her core ideology that had shifted in terms of this plan. She told \"The Times\" it was the political environment. Why not just stay, to your point, I grew, I evolved, I learned, instead of, hey, there wasn't the political capital back then?", "That's a question you'd have to ask the Senator. I don't have the answer to that. What I do have the answer to is the fact that this plan is the most comprehensive plan that has been brought forth today. Her plan is the one that no one outside of the system could have written. She's best prepared to assess, know what is good, know what the flaws are in the system and know how to change the system. Clearly, she doesn't like the laws, as a prosecutor, she enforces them. Just as I'm sworn to uphold the Constitution and the laws of this country, so was she. I think that to accuse her of not doing what she thought was right or changing her mind is really unfair, quite frankly.", "I don't think anyone's accusing her. But --", "-- the conversation.", "No. What I asked you is, looking at the record, and you said she grew and she evolved, which makes a lot of sense because it happens all the time.", "Absolutely.", "Please learn, they're educated. That being said, that wasn't the reason that she gave the \"New York Times.\" She said her core ideology hadn't changed. So it begs the question, do you think, as you look at her record, she could have pushed for more, even as recently as when she was attorney general of California? If she felt as strongly about things as she felt now, do you believe she could have done more despite what she believed the political environment thought?", "We could all do more. But she said her values have not changed. She was opposed to the death penalty then. She's opposed to it now. She was opposed to solitary confinement. She's opposed to it now. She was opposed to locking people up solely because they can't pay their bail and criminalizing poor people. Her values are the same. The policies may be different, but the values are the same.", "The Senator had been criticized in the past for not citing forcefully or quickly enough to attacks from her rivals on the trail or in the debates. She talked about that criticism. Do you think that she has addressed it as well as she could have? Have you given her any advice on that?", "We didn't discuss it."], "speaker": ["HILL", "REP. MARCIA FUDGE (D-OH)", "HILL", "FUDGE", "FUDGE", "HILL", "FUDGE", "HILL", "FUDGE", "HILL", "FUDGE", "HILL", "FUDGE"]}
{"id": "NPR-20470", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2016-10-21", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/10/21/498887580/tiny-vessels-make-much-noise-listen-to-ants-as-they-walk", "title": "Tiny Vessels Make Much Noise: Listen To Ants As They Walk", "summary": "The everyday ant seldom gets close enough to a microphone to be amplified and heard but 'The World According to Sound' podcast manages to let us listen to the insects as they go about their day.", "utt": ["So you've spread the blanket and opened the picnic basket, and then you see them - ants. Maybe it's a tickle on your arm, a single soldier announcing its presence or it's a dark river of activity going for the potato salad. Bad enough, but here's Sam Harnett at The World According to Sound with another dimension to this nightmare.", "These are ants, hundreds and hundreds of small black ants. They're scurrying over contact microphones. Sound engineer Steven Frost laid the mics next to their nest. The ants are investigating these foreign objects. Some are even biting them. That's what these louder popping noises are - ant mandibles chewing on a microphone.", "Most ants only weigh a few milligrams. You'd need five of them to equal a single grain of rice. But with these microphones, we can hear their little footsteps loud and clear.", "That's Sam Harnett, who along with Chris Hoff is behind the podcast The World According to Sound."], "speaker": ["KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SAM HARNETT, BYLINE", "SAM HARNETT, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-35451", "program": "ASIA TONIGHT", "date": "2001-7-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/24/i_at.09.html", "summary": "Man Hopes to Go Around the World on Foot", "utt": ["Around the world on foot. That's how one man hopes to make his mark in history. Denise Dillon has his story.", "This is no ordinary man out for an everyday jog. This is Robert Garside (ph), running through Tibet, just one leg of the thousands of miles he's run over the past four and a half years. He's running around the world literally. He started his quest in London in 1996, and 33 pairs of sneakers later, he's still on the move. He doesn't travel lightly, he has to be prepared for all weather conditions, and as you can see, he carries a video camera, which adds a few miles on to his route.", "It's difficult to run and film, because you've got to stop, go back, get the camera.", "He tries to take a video of himself every 90 minutes or so, to document it for \"The Guinness Book of Records.\" So far, he has run through 31 countries, enduring brutal weather conditions, including shot at in Russia, robbed in Brazil, and put in jail in China, but none of that threw him off track of his original goal.", "I'm trying to be the first person to run around the world, basically going across every continent by running.", "He runs an average of 40 miles a day. He's now in South Africa, where he hopes to take a break and shake hands with the former president.", "One of my greatest heroes is Nelson Mandela, so yes, I would love to meet him.", "When it's all said and done, he will have run more than 42,000 miles. And once he reaches his finish line in another seven to 12 months, he plans to write a book, and he'll certainly have stories to tell. Denise Dillon, CNN."], "speaker": ["KARUNA SHINSHO, CNN ANCHOR", "DENISE DILLON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ROBERT GARSIDE, RUNNING MAN", "DILLON", "GARSIDE", "DILLON", "GARSIDE", "DILLON"]}
{"id": "CNN-131855", "program": "INSIDE AFRICA", "date": "2008-10-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0810/25/i_if.01.html", "summary": "Writing on Survival in Africa", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Isha Sesay. Welcome to INSIDE AFRICA, your weekly window to the continent. On the program this week, African women authors share their stories. Rwandan genocide survivor Immaculee Ilibagiza explains importance of faith and forgiveness. And Liberian-born \"New York Times\" correspondent Helene Cooper revisits a privileged childhood interrupted by war and exile. Cooper and Ilibagiza are both free to tell their stories however they like. But that's not the case for writers in northern Nigeria's Kano region, where most people practice Islam, and Sharia is the law of the land. As Christian Purefoy reports, some popular local women authors and their fans now face strict limits on the subject matter they're allowed to explore.", "Risque research material for Mariam Ali and other northern Nigerian female writers, who defy Muslim tradition, tackling delicate issues such as love and marriage, and their books, they claim, are selling in the millions.", "Maybe you write something, it's somebody's problems, it doesn't have anybody to discuss that problem with, and here it is in your book. And that woman will be very happy her problem has been discussed and that even had been solved in the book.", "Normally about 90 or so pages long, the books cost between 50 cents and a dollar each, a day's wages for some Nigerians, and have proved especially popular amongst women. \"If there is a problem between me and my partner,\" Yana (ph) says, \"I would know how to deal with it because of the books.\" In a region with a conservative, traditional culture, and Sharia law, the books offer women insight into what are thought of as private subjects. The authors write these books in the regional Hausa language, allowing them to target an audience in areas where English is not extensively used, and traders come to this market from across West Africa. The books are not as explicit as anything you might be able to pick off the top shelf in the West, but the agency that enforces Sharia law in this region insists all books must be passed by the state's censorship board.", "We have this saying, if you write a book for instance, if you write a storybook, and if a child can read the book to their mother, then that is a good book. But if you can't read it to your mother or father, then there's some risque content in the book.", "But 25-year old Sa'adatu Baba refused to send her books for censorship.", "I try to (inaudible) in my life, but I couldn't. I lost my mother, I lost my fiance. He is my love, my (inaudible) is my everything.", "Sa'adatu argues she cannot advise one thing to her readers, and act another in day-to-day life.", "I'm always advising women not to -- to be liabilities (ph), to be courageous. Because if you have courage, then you find the way to do something or to get something.", "But with the new restrictions on her writing, she has not yet published any new books. Doing so without approval could get her arrested, and her books seized. Christian Purefoy, CNN, Kano, Nigeria.", "It's a good thing author Immaculee Ilibagiza is completely free to tell her story. She says she can't stop writing. When INSIDE AFRICA continues, the Rwandan genocide survivor discusses her second book, and the importance of forgiveness.", "Welcome back to INSIDE AFRICA. Immaculee Ilibagiza burst onto the literary scene in 2006, with her first book, \"Left to Tell.\" The \"New York Times\" bestseller chronicles her experience as a survivor of the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Ilibagiza's personal story continues in her new book, \"Led By Faith.\" I recently sat down with her, in her New York apartment, where she discussed her deeply held faith and some vivid memories of hiding in a pastor's bathroom for 91 terrifying days.", "The first week was horrible. I want to say, how can I sleep in the bathroom? I have my own bed, I have my (inaudible), I have my brothers. Why would anyone want me to be here, just like -- what is going on? So, the first week was really bad. I was being impatient, I was very angry, like I was so sad that I even believed that there were good people among them. Then another thing happened. They started to search every home of Hutus. After they have killed thousands of Tutus who went to public places, like stadiums, churches -- now I remember I heard on a radio they gave order to start searching every home. So that was another pain, like agony, something (inaudible). You can have fear like that. So they started to come, and I never forgot one day they came to search the house, 300 killers. I (inaudible) my friends, to me they're all my friends, my neighbors, and they're talking outside. I remember one guy, who was from my primary school, the same class, who was outside and he said, \"I killed 399 cockroaches.\" And he said, \"I want Immaculee to be the 400th.\" And that is really sad (ph). Does he even know what he is doing? You know, so they searched. When they searched, it was the worst thing you can ever imagine. To be in a place, knowing that these people can come back anytime, they're five inches away from you, two seconds away from killing you. And they can't forgive you, because what sin have you done? They're just killing you for who you are. You know, there is a time, especially (inaudible) they were searching, for the first time, I felt like my faith crushed. It was almost like I heard a voice of something, to me it was like the devil, telling me \"They're going to kill you. They're going to rape you. They're going to find you in two minutes. You're done. Forget about it. Don't even pray.\" And it was almost like another voice was saying, \"don't worry. Why don't you ask God for a miracle? Miracles happen. He can do things. He's God almighty.\" And that was like a quick choice. I'm going to believe this voice. I'm going to ask God, if he's there, show me sign that he's arrived (ph). And please, I know the sign I want. Don't let them find the door of the bathroom. That time, the first time they came to search, they searched every single place. When they came to -- the last place they were coming to the bathroom. They touched the door of the bathroom, and before they opened it, the pastor told us, who was hiding us -- I was fainting, I was dying, because I knew it was -- a second after, before they opened it, after touching it, they told him, they said, \"we trust you. There's no way you can hide these cockroaches.\" And they went back. And I started reading the Bible, like page after page. And it was a challenge, because I had so much hatred against the killers. But everything in the Bible was more about, forgive them, let God take over, don't have revenge in your heart. Love people. We're all one.", "Immaculee had much more to say about here religious faith. Coming up on INSIDE AFRICA, she tells how she finally overcame her hatred of the people who killed most of her family. And still ahead, \"New York Times\" reporter Helene Cooper revisits her privileged childhood in Liberia and the painful way it ended.", "Making business news in Africa. Gold producers in Zimbabwe say the Mugabe government is putting a serious dent in the local mining industry, despite soaring global gold prices. By law, they can only sell gold to Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank, and they say the government only pays them about six U.S. cents for ounce. Traders get more than $800 per ounce on the open market.", "The cost pressures that we face as well, in terms of consumables in -- in an inflationary economy are also just ginormous. So we've got this massive mismatch between revenue and -- and cost.", "Ten years ago, the country produced more than 2,500 kilograms of gold a month. The Zimbabwean Chamber of Mines says output has dropped to just 270 kilograms per month. The International Monetary Fund is praising South Africa's economic policies, but says the country's central bank may need to raise interest rates. In its annual report, the Washington-based lending agency warned that rising inflation could make sub-Saharan Africa's largest economy more vulnerable to the global financial downturn.", "You're watching INSIDE AFRICA. Welcome back. Before the break, author Immaculee Ilibagiza recounted some of her most horrifying memories from the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Most of her family were killed, along with an estimated 800,000 Rwandans. Here, she explains the importance of letting go of hatred, and how her faith helped her do that.", "I remember reading and saying that our Lord is -- our Lord is (inaudible) and that we be stuck on that point where they say, forgive us, (inaudible), I will forgive those who trespass against us. I fought so much with God, because now I have made a decision to pray all time, just so that I can really find out who is God. But everything was just about love. So this part of the prayer, our Lord's prayer, I took it off from the prayer, because I thought I can't lie to you. If you see what is in the heart, and it's again, you know, the truth will always come out. Something was telling me, I hope if you believe in God, if you believe in Christ as your savior, you know, he can't make a mistake. And if he give that prayer, you can't try to edit it. So I was -- you know, it's not fair. I hate them. I have a good reason. At the end, I came to the conclusion, I said, let me give -- give up everything for him, asking to help me out. I (inaudible) the rosary, which is a prayer from the Bible, the life of Christ. And in that, he was on the cross, and he said, \"forgive them, Father, they don't know what they do.\" That words -- the words that hit me more, like really hit me, was they don't know what they do. And something was transferred to the killers. How can someone who is trying to kill 400 people knows what he's doing? How can someone who is trying to kill children really can get exactly what he's doing? It's such a blessing I've been able to write. You know, when I wrote first, it was mostly actual people, and I used to work at the United Nations, and then here (inaudible). And people would always ask me, \"why don't you tell you story? Anytime we hear it from you, we will encouraged. We feel like we can overcome anything. Look at you, you are smiling.\" And then one time, I started to write it. When I wrote it, I felt that it was not for people. It was for me. It really helped me to put things just in order in my heart, knowing that it's outside of me. It is like a therapy. I sat down for three weeks. I wrote my first book. When I put my hands down to type on a computer, it was like an obsession. I couldn't stop it, and it was so good to write it. And to know that now my children will be able to read the story of their family, which became a blessing even for my brother, who never knew the details of my family, what happened -- his family, you know. When he came back from Senegal, he was in school, in university, and we met. It's just like so hard, where do you start? Where do you tell somebody that you lost your mom, your daddy, your friends, your uncles. How do you tell that story? So I was always scared of breaking his heart even more. We spoke about -- about really our parents, almost every day, in a way as though they were alive. You know my dad doesn't like that; you know mom doesn't like that. So when he read a book, he just cried forever, and he couldn't -- he said, how come you never told me? I told him, how come you never asked me? You know it wasn't that easy. He told me, I understand, but I'm glad at last, I know every detail. When I was writing the first book, I didn't know where to stop. It is really a continuous story. The genocide is not just like a movie, like a drama, like three months, done -- which I did in my first book, to describe what happened. But how do you live without your mom? How do you live without your dad? What happened to the whole country after this whole thing have just stopped? How the country is progressing? It's like all like about -- let me tell people what happened, how Rwanda was more again populated? Because almost half of the country, a million was killed, and maybe 3 millions ran away from the country. What happened with the killers? What are the stories of the genocide? The miracles, the hand of God, in everything in my life, and it was just too much to hold on. I really wanted to tell people also that, no matter what happens to you, life moves on, you know. No matter what happens to you, there is hope. And if you -- if I can forgive, you can forgive. So I think I will continue to write, encourage people to have faith in God, encourage people to really just like find what to do now, more than blaming, and -- and a lot -- I hope I can inspire people to make peace, you know, to make peace with their families, with themselves, with their friends, around and at their communities.", "Ilibagiza raises money for orphans in Rwanda and all over Africa. Part of the proceeds from her first book goes to her Left to Tell charitable fund. \"New York Times\" reporter Helene Cooper says she used to be \"a spoiled little Liberian princess.\" Up next, she explores her privileged early years and the dramatic events that forced her family into exile.", "Welcome back to INSIDE AFRICA. \"New York Times\" journalist Helene Cooper spent her formative years in Liberia. She enjoyed a life of privilege there until it was shattered by a coup in 1980. She and her family were forced to flee to the United States, and her beloved foster sister Eunice was left behind. After many years of covering stories all over the world, she finally returned to Liberia to write her own. It's called \"The House at Sugar Beach.\" Here, in her own words, she describes her journey.", "Going home meant going to find my sister. And it wasn't until I found her that has sort of shifted into this I'm a journalist, and for years I've written other people's stories. And I've run away from my own. I've shared nothing. I've brought none of the sort of insight that I could have brought to what was happening in Liberia. I was too -- it was so much easier for me to look at what, you know, look at other stories, cover Iraq, cover Afghanistan, write about September 11th, and I was hiding from my own past. And it wasn't until I found my sister, when I went back to Liberia, that sort of -- I realized that I had a story to tell. I needed to confront my past. I needed to come to terms with my own history and my family's role in the history of Liberia. And that in order to get back to sort of the part of my childhood that I had blocked out and lost, I had to go back and deal with it. And for me, writing about it was the best way to deal with it. So I started off writing it, reporting and spending a lot of time with research and interviewing my family. And the first draft ended up being very, very sort of -- not just dense, but a little by the book, and very fact-driven, which is good, but at the same time, it's such a different kind of writing, writing memoir than journalism. And I'm writing about such emotional topics, like loss, and a lot of it is about -- about loss. When I was 7 years old, my father built a big house on the Atlantic Ocean 11 miles outside of Monrovia. It was a 22-room, huge behemoth. And I had my own room for the first time. And this is in -- in Liberia. But I was too afraid to sleep by myself at night, so my parents went to the native Liberians -- this was a common practice in Liberia, which had a very two- class, hierarchical type of structure, class structure, and they found me a sister. They adopted her, and we were raised together as sisters, even though we always sort of knew we were different. And in 1980, when there was a military coup in Liberia that upended 150 years of rule by the elite descendants of the freed slaves that founded the country -- freed American slaves that founded the country -- my family ran away, and we left my sister behind. So \"The House at Sugar Beach\" is a story of how we were brought up together, how we were separated by this military coup, how I distanced myself for 23 years, remaking myself into American, and putting all of my Africanness sort of aside as I tried to deal with what was happening in Liberia, and my eventual breakdown and decision in 2003 to go back and to try to find my sister. It was incredible, because I came as a different person. And after sort of abandoning her through so many years, here I am again, you know, I'm back, and you know, I still love you, and I want you to accept me back into your life. And that's a lot to ask, you know, that's a lot to ask of somebody. It was incredibly emotional. It was probably the singular most important thing that I've ever done, and I'm really glad I did it. While I was talking to some Liberian students in Minneapolis last week, and they kept standing up, saying, \"thank you for doing this. Thank you for writing this.\" And I can't begin to describe for you how good that felt. I felt like finally, I'd done something. You know, not for my country, but that I abandoned my country for so long, and I was finally doing something that I should have done a long time ago.", "Cooper says she felt driven to find her foster sister and write the book after experiencing a brush with death while covering the war in Iraq. Starbucks coffee shops recently selected The House at Sugar Beach\" for its book program. It's available at Starbucks locations around the United States. Before we go, we have this note about an issue we follow closely on INSIDE AFRICA -- good governance. Botswana's former president, Festus Mogae, had been named this year's winner of the $5 million Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership. Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan chairs the selection committee. Annan credits the two-term leader for Botswana's continued stability, growing prosperity, and success in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Annan said he hopes the world will prompt people in other African countries to ask, \"why isn't my president winning?\" And there we must leave it. We'll have a brand-new edition of INSIDE AFRICA next week, focusing on the U.S. presidential election and its potential impact on the continent. Check cnn.com/insideafrica for a full list of air times. Thanks for watching. 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{"id": "CNN-328608", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-12-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1712/17/cnr.05.html", "summary": "All-Star Tribute for Everyday Heroes Airs Tonight.", "utt": ["Welcome back. The holidays are all about giving back. And tonight, the 11th annual \"", "ALL-STAR TRIBUTE\" salutes 10 ordinary people giving back in extraordinary ways. In just hours, Anderson Cooper and special guest co-host Kelly Ripa are presenting the star-studded event live from New York here on CNN, and our Polo Sandoval is on the red carpet. We're seeing some famous people behind you there, Polo. What are you seeing and hearing?", "-- especially the famous Brooke Baldwin right there, hard at work right now, Ana. I could tell you that this certainly is a star-studded event, but the real stars, the ones who everybody is here to celebrate, are those CNN heroes, those top 10 heroes. And then tonight, we find out who gets that prestigious title of CNN Hero of the Year. Having been on the red carpet here for a couple of hours now, I've spoken to some of those heroes, including Rosie Mashale. I spoke to her a little while ago. This is her first time in New York City. She told us a little bit about her effort that essentially takes in orphan children, many of whom lost their parents to AIDS, and basically takes them under her wing and helps them. We heard from her a little while ago. This is why they call her Mama Rosie.", "Sometimes, when we're working in -- and the town super in where I'm working, you feel like you are isolated. You're doing your thing. You are alone. But when meeting other heroes here, I can see that so many people all over the world are making a difference to the lives of the children.", "Ah, yes, Rosie, one of many people who are those that -- where that title of hero, they don't need a cape. But at the same time, we have heard from several of these important public figures that have, really, offered their time, lent their time, including -- some of those recognized public figures, including Diane Lane, who I happen to be standing with. Diane?", "Hello, Polo. Good to see you.", "Thank you so much for taking time for not only us here but also for this project. What does this mean to you?", "It warms my heart so much that it exists and that so many people write up and write in and say, look at my friend and the amazing work that they've done. And that there are so many people every year, it's just -- thank God, thank goodness. I'm so grateful. And it's sort of like the holiday gift to the world to be reminded of the human spirit and how we don't take no for an answer when it's for something good. We must continue the furtherance of helping where we can, doing what you can where you are with what you got.", "I have heard from other public figures on this red carpet, such as yourself, and it tells us many of them perhaps play heroes on television and movies in Hollywood. But then there's so many --", "Yes. There's a lot of that going around.", "There are so many real-life heroes around us in an everyday setting.", "That's true. That's true. And it's good to be reminded that a hero doesn't imply that you have super abilities, but that as a mere mortal human, we can band together and create improvements in the world around us. And to see the stories of what motivated these people, the trials they went through themselves, and why they did what they are -- what they're here to be celebrated for tonight, I cry every time. I'm at home and this -- tonight, I have mascara on, so it's going to be messy. But I'm the first one off, so then I'll take -- I'll be off camera after that and I can cry all I want.", "Diane, thank you so much for taking the time --", "Thank you.", "-- and sharing your time with this effort.", "Thank you.", "Enjoy tonight.", "I will.", "Again, Ana, those are just one of many faces that are here, recognized faces. It is time to celebrate those heroes of today and also perhaps start thinking about some future heroes as well. The rest of the people around the world can nominate people, everyday folks, that they feel are making a positive difference. And maybe they should be walking on this red carpet for next year.", "No doubt about it, Polo Sandoval. Such a feel good time there. Thank you for that. And \"", "AN ALL-STAR TRIBUTE\" airs tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern here on CNN. Don't go away."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "CNN HEROES", "POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MASHALE", "SANDOVAL", "DIANE LANE, ACTRESS", "SANDOVAL", "LANE", "SANDOVAL", "LANE", "SANDOVAL", "LANE", "SANDOVAL", "LANE", "SANDOVAL", "LANE", "SANDOVAL", "LANE", "SANDOVAL", "CABRERA", "CNN HEROES"]}
{"id": "NPR-16597", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2005-07-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4735441", "title": "'A Shadow in the City,' Part 3", "summary": "Alex Chadwick concludes his conversation with a former undercover narcotics officer. He is the subject of a new book, A Shadow in the City, by Charles Bowden. After two decades of fighting the drug war, the officer developed new perspectives on that struggle, and the people he incarcerated.", "utt": ["This is DAY TO DAY.  I'm Alex Chadwick.", "Resuming an interview with a former undercover narcotics cop, the subject      of a new book, \"A Shadow in the City\" by Charles Bowden.  It's a true      story, though the names in it are not.  He's called Joey O'Shay.      Undercover cops face obvious dangers to life and limb and, as Joey      discovers, less obvious ones to the soul.  Toward good ends--winning the      drug war--they lie, deceive and betray.  And after years of this, Joey      says, he came to think differently about whom he was chasing.", "\"Mr. JOEY O'SHAY\" (Former Undercover Narcotics Officer):  Their family      was everything to them.  They were even willing to do huge jail      sentences--in other words, give up their entire life so that their      families didn't live in abject poverty; that their families could have      things that they didn't have.", "Joey O'Shay was so good at undercover that often, if he wasn't      on the actual arrest raid, the people who got caught never understood      that he was a cop.  They thought he'd simply gotten away.  And some of      them would refuse to offer Joey's name to the narcs, protecting him.      That's what Joey finally could no longer live with--their refusal to      betray him, especially a cocaine and heroin broker, Gloria.", "What was your relationship with Gloria?", "Mr. O'SHAY:  Nothing but admiring her because she had survived in a      extremely violent man's world and did what she did to support her kids      and grandkids. Sadly enough, the emptiness she had made her think that I      cared about her family stuff.  And then in the end, she went down and      never did give me up.", "You put her down?", "Mr. O'SHAY:  Yes.  Put her away.  I tricked her.", "She's in prison now?", "Mr. O'SHAY:  Yes.", "For how long?", "Mr. O'SHAY:  A long time.", "Ten years?", "Mr. O'SHAY:  A little bit more than that.  It's a long time.", "This is a woman that you liked?", "Mr. O'SHAY:  Liked.", "A woman who liked you a lot.", "Mr. O'SHAY:  More than I realized.  I think that she saw me as someone      different in this dope world because I asked about her kids.  Sadly      enough, that was her vulnerability and I exploited it.  And that's what I      did.  In every other case, that's what I did.  Her only weakness happened      to be...", "Her children.", "Mr. O'SHAY:  ...her children.", "Her feelings for her children.", "Mr. O'SHAY:  Her feelings for her children and the fact that I talked to      her like she was a human being.  There was no romance or anything like      that, but in this business, a woman, for business purposes, is willing to      give their body up as collateral, I guess you might say.  And that did      surprise me.  And then I think I even gained more respect, even though      she had not an idea I was a cop, when I just said, `No, you know, this is      business.  We got to--we can't do something like this.'  And I was very,      very ashamed.", "You were ashamed...", "Mr. O'SHAY:  That she was willing to do that to seal the deal.", "She wanted to sleep with you?", "Mr. O'SHAY:  Give herself to me.", "Yeah.", "Mr. O'SHAY:  (Sighs) And I mean, it was just--even though the guys kidded      with me about it, it made all of us sad.  And they knew it made me sad.      And I said, you know, `We gotta live with things we do to these people.'      I said, `God only knows what'll happen to her kids in the time she's      going to do and everything.  She trusted our asses.'", "Yours.", "Mr. O'SHAY:  And mine.  And they saw it.  And they know, and      they--believe me, none of us feel proud about what we do.  There      isn't--it ain't like scoring touchdowns in the end.  It's like, it's just      life, man.", "I wouldn't expect that you had those feelings about the people      you arrest and put away.  You feel enormous sympathy towards them.", "Mr. O'SHAY:  I think you'd be surprised if the ones of us that you think      are hard cases--and maybe outside we are--but amongst ourselves, in quiet      moments, we admit we have soft hearts.  It didn't mean that I'm going to      condone them dealing drugs.  But I do now allow myself to feel sorry for      them because, in essence, to say they're not human is a damn lie.", "Joey O'Shay is still on the same force in a city we are not      going to name and still with the same partner and supervisor he's had for      years. They've transferred out of narcotics, both disillusioned.  This      other officer also agreed to speak with us.", "What do you think of the war on drugs?", "Unidentified Man:  We ain't winning, that's for sure.  I don't think we      are. And I don't see us winning any time in the future.", "What should we do?  What's the answer?", "Unidentified Man:  Probably legalize it.  There's more of it now.  The      quality is higher than it's ever been.  And the price is going down.  So,      I mean, it's not working the way it's been going.  There's too much      politics involved. They cannot shut the border down.  They won't shut the      border down.  And we consume the majority of it that's being sold.  And      the reason why law enforcement people who probably feel that way don't      say it is because it's not the politically correct thing to do, to say,      because you probably wouldn't go far in law enforcement if you did say      it.  So what are we trying to accomplish?", "See, we've seen a lot of people get hurt, get shot, lose their jobs      fighting this drug war.  And, you know, I gave all I could give, and I      know he gave all he could give.  We don't have anything else to give.      The only alternative that makes any sense to me is to legalize it.  Now      how you police it and you distribute it and that, how you tax it, you      know, that's for someone higher in the food chain, higher than me to      figure out.", "That's the partner and supervisor of the former undercover      narcotics cop we've been speaking with, Joey O'Shay.", "Joey lives in a comfortable house on a quiet street in a nice      neighborhood. He's married.  It looks like a good marriage.  He is      reading and rereading a short book of philosophy called \"Man's Search For      Meaning\" by a concentration camp survivor, Viktor Frankl, who knew a lot      about suffering and enduring and going on.", "Mr. O'SHAY:  If nothing else, you can read it, and if you ever feel sorry      for yourself, you'll never feel sorry for yourself again after seeing      what that man survived to only do good for people.  I got some time left      and I'm going to try to help other people.  I'm not going to spend it      plotting their demise, either.", "Joey O'Shay's story is fully told in the new book \"A Shadow in      the City\" by Charles Bowden.  And my thanks to DAY TO DAY producer Chip      Grabow.", "This is DAY TO DAY.  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{"id": "NPR-6291", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2009-11-23", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120676389", "title": "Unexploded Bomb May Shatter N. Ireland Peace", "summary": "In Northern Ireland, a 400-pound car bomb failed to detonate over the weekend. It was placed outside police headquarters in Belfast, and that has residents wondering if dissident factions of the IRA are intent on stepping up violence.", "utt": ["This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.", "It's been over a decade since an Irish Republican Army dissident group set off a massive car bomb in Northern Ireland that killed 29 and became the deadliest ever terror strike there. Over this past weekend, another deadly attack was thwarted. A 400-pound car bomb had been planted outside a government building, but after the car caught fire, it failed to explode.", "NPR's Rob Gifford is on the line to talk more about this turn of events and what it might mean there. Good morning.", "Good morning, Renee.", "Now, the Good Friday Peace Agreement was signed back in 1998, after -just after this bombing I was talking about earlier. The IRA renounced violence at that time. So, who is planting a 400-pound bomb now and why?", "Well, the police in Northern Ireland believe that it is so-called dissident Republican groups. The Republicans are, of course, the people who want Northern Ireland to be united with the rest of Ireland. The Loyalists are the people who want Northern Ireland to remain part of Britain. And these dissident Republican groups opposed the IRA giving up their arms. They opposed the Irish Republican Army's deal that it did with the British government and with the loyalist groups in Northern Ireland. There were people at the fringes of the IRA who did not agree with that, who wanted to continue with the fight for an immediate united Ireland, and those are the groups who have carried on this low-level of shootings and bombings that have plagued Northern Ireland -not at a really massive level over the last decade, but it's always there. There's a sort of low growl of dissident IRA activity.", "Although, it must seem - I mean, a 400-pound bomb sounds like it could do a awfully lot of damage. I mean, how many people are we talking about? How much popular support do they have? And it sounds like they might be attempting bigger attacks.", "That's right. This is a huge bomb, by any standards. I think the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland are behind the peace agreement. Most people have had enough of violence. I think we're talking of a hardcore dozens of people here, rather than hundreds. But it should be said that after decades - centuries, almost - of animosity, you can't get rid of that animosity overnight. So, although the different communities and many people in them do support the peace agreement and do support the cessation of - by most people -of violence, the hostility, the low-level lack of trust, if you like, in the different communities is still very much there. I was there quite recently, and you could still feel it. There was - of course, in the different Republican and Loyalist communities, it's not going away. It's going to take probably a whole generation or two before that really goes away.", "So, the current state, then, of the peace process, how is it working on the ground?", "Well, it has not been a completely smooth path, as you would expect, after what has happened over the years in Northern Ireland. But we do have a power sharing agreement between former enemies, and that in itself is extraordinary when you look at the people who have entered into this power-sharing agreement. At the moment, there's a dispute about policing, about devolving the full control over policing and justice issues from London to Belfast, to the local government there. And that's going on, and there's lots of back and forth and there's lots of arguing. But the fact that the power-sharing agreement even exists, I think some people feel is a miracle. And so the fact that the majority of the people are behind it, despite the many, many problems that there are to iron out over the coming years is, I think, a massive step forward, and everybody feels that.", "NPR's Rob Gifford. Thanks very much.", "Thank you, Renee."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "ROB GIFFORD", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "ROB GIFFORD", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "ROB GIFFORD", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "ROB GIFFORD", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "ROB GIFFORD"]}
{"id": "CNN-377119", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-08-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/10/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Beto O'Rourke Joins March, Rally In El Paso After Deadly Mass Shooting; Funerals Begin For Victims Of Dayton Massacre", "utt": ["Today, 2020 candidate, Beto O'Rourke, marched with members of the El Paso community left devastated by last week's mass shooting that killed 22 people. The El Paso native and others marched side by side through the streets calling for an end to what they say is President Trump's divisive rhetoric. Meantime, we also have shocking new video of the moments of that attack. But we do want to warn you these images are very upsetting.", "Oh, no.", "The cell phone video shows the Walmart parking lot just after last weekend's shooting. You can hear some people calling for help as they lay on the ground, while others run from the scene. CNN National Correspondent, Natasha Chen, is in El Paso. People are still gathered there?", "Fred, they have just wrapped up. People are taking away pieces of equipment. But the one thing they've left up for us to show you are the back fences here where people were asked to sign condolences for the 22 who were killed. \"Do not live in fear,\" it says. \"Much love, prayers.\" But the interesting one in the middle here is a sign where they were allowed to write messages to lawmakers. This is filled. People are saying, \"Say no to NRA.\" \"We need gun reform now.\" And then, of course, very striking here in blue, \"Their blood is on your hands.\" So they are putting out a strong message that they want to see some sort of action taken at the very top levels. They were referencing President Trump today as well, hoping there's some sort of accountability for the words he uses. Because they feel it has strong impact and may empower people to take action in this horrible way. Of course, presidential candidate, Beto O'Rourke, was up here speaking earlier to the crowd. He had a strong message as well.", "We need to remember this. Not only did El Paso bear the brunt of this hatred and this racism perpetrated not just by white nationalists and terrorists and clansmen and Neo-Nazis, but by the very president of the United States himself.", "After some of the speakers, people said all the 22 names of the people killed. We also heard from a woman who was injured last week. She was assisted up there with a wheelchair. She said she may be wounded, but she's going to continue and stand up to fight. So, Fred, a lot of emotional speeches today, of course, in the shadow of that building right behind us where the suspect is currently being detained.", "All right, Natasha Chen, in El Paso, Texas, thank you so much. The other deadly mass shooting that took place last weekend, just hours after what happened in El Paso, that was in Dayton, Ohio. A gunman there killed nine people. Today, several of them are being laid to rest. CNN National Correspondent, Jason Carroll, is in Dayton right now. Jason, do officials there know anything more today about what drove that 24-year-old to do what he did?", "Investigators say no word on a motive yet. Certainly, Fredricka, there are a number of people here in Dayton, Ohio, who want to know the reasons why. Why this all happened. But it's also about what's next for this community. And this is a community that is still very much in mourning, trying to remember those who were lost. Several funerals are going to be held for some of the victims, including the funeral for Beatrice Warren. She was 36. Also, Derrick Fudge, 57 years old. You remember the story about him. He died in his son's arms. Nicholas Cumer, 25. A graduate student. He'll be laid to rest as well today. As well as Logan Turner, 30 years old. And Monica Brickhouse, 39 years old. She was a wife and mother of two small children. Again, as this community tries to come together trying to remember those who were lost. Also trying again, investigators, to come up with some sort of motive as to why this all happened. We spoke to the city manager earlier today. She was trying to manage expectations. Basically saying we may never know a motive for why this all happened.", "The motive in these situations are extremely difficult. It's really hard to get into somebody's head. We still have no answers as to why his -- why he shot his sister and his friend. We have no answer as to why Sunday morning.", "As you can see, right here, at Ned Pepper's, a lot of folks coming out to pay their respects for those who lost their lives. There's going to be an added police presence out here on the street tonight. This is a community very much, while they're mourning, still on edge. Just to give you an example of that, Fredricka, we were told earlier there's going to be a sporting event out here in Dayton. Out of respect for those who lost their lives, they won't be holding fireworks. They're not going to be setting off fireworks because the sound of that might set some people off. So still, this is very much a community very much on edge -- Fredricka?", "All right, Jason Carroll, thank you so much, in Dayton, Ohio. So the suicide of this -- what officials are saying is the hanging of Jeffrey Epstein in his jail cell comes at a very important time in that legal case. So will it change how the case moves forward? My legal experts join me next."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WHITFIELD", "NATASHA CHEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BETO O'ROURKE, (D), FORMER CONGRESSMAN & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CHEN", "WHITFIELD", "JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SHELLEY DICKSTEIN, CITY MANAGER, DAYTON, OHIO", "CARROLL", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-383894", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-10-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/25/es.04.html", "summary": "White House Official Will Confirm Key Testimony", "utt": ["A top adviser on the National Security Council expected to testify to the House impeachment inquiry committees next week. Sources say he will corroborate key elements of the testimony by the career diplomat who confirmed a quid pro quo in the Ukraine scandal. Let's bring in \"Washington Post\" White House correspondent Toluse Olorunnipa, live this morning for us in Washington. Nice to see you this morning.", "Good to see you, sir.", "All right. There have been so many impeachment developments this week I feel like we just to kind of pause for a second and reflect on where we are. We have heard from Bill Taylor, Marie Yovanovitch. We're going to hear from this gentleman named Tim Morrison next week. If the president is tweeting \"Where is the whistleblower and why did he or she write such a fictitious and incorrect account of my phone call with the Ukrainian president? Why did the I.G. allow this to happen? Who is the so-called informant? Who was so inaccurate? A giant scam!\" I feel like outside of the whistleblower there have been so many first -- you know, first-person sources about what happened. Do we -- do we still need the whistleblower?", "Well, we have seen much of the original whistleblower report confirmed by various people who were involved in the Ukraine dealings. And, Democrats are saying they no longer need the actual whistleblower to testify. We have seen the president putting pressure on the whistleblower -- basically, intimidating this anonymous official. And, Democrats do not want to put this person in danger. They don't want this person to have to testify publicly since they've already provided a lot of information that has formed the basis of the impeachment inquiry. And since we have seen people from the State Department and now, even from the White House -- from the NSC -- confirming or about to confirm what the whistleblower originally said about the president pressuring Ukraine and this quid pro quo to get political investigations in exchange for military aid, it's not clear that the whistleblower is needed to testify. We've already seen the roadmap in the whistleblower report. That roadmap has been followed by Democrats on the committee. And the various people who have testified have confirmed a lot of the things that were in the original report.", "\"The New York Times\" reporting that John Bolton could be soon to come. Quote, \"Among the star witnesses who could deliver explosive public testimony in front of live television cameras could be John Bolton, the president's former national security adviser, who has been described in testimony as alarmed by what appeared to be pressure on the Ukrainians by Mr. Trump and his allies.\" How would that be a game changer in this process?", "That would definitely be a game changer. You heard a lot of Republicans early in the process saying the whistleblower had second- of third-hand information. Well, John Bolton would have definitely firsthand information. And some of the testimony that we've seen so far indicates that John Bolton was very concerned about what was happening with the Ukraine deal. He had tried to take a hands-off approach. He had even told his -- told his advisers I do not want to be a part of this, quote, \"drug deal\" between --", "Yes.", "-- what's happening with the president's closest advisers and Ukraine. And if he was concerned about what was going on from the inside of the White House he would be able to fill out some of the holes in this testimony and provide some of the details about what was happening behind closed doors.", "Republicans, meanwhile, continue to complain about the process, even though the process is pretty standard right here.", "The John Boehner process.", "Right. The -- they complain about the process, not necessarily the facts behind this case. And also, there is this investigation of the investigators -- another kind of tact has been to focus on the investigation. The original investigation, investigating the investigators, now a criminal probe. Is there some concern here that the president has weaponized his DOJ?", "There's a lot of concern definitely among Democrats that the president is using the DOJ to pursue his political benefit. There is -- it would be unprecedented, really, for the Justice Department to be investigating itself over what appeared to be by all accounts a legitimate investigation into ties between the Russia government -- Russian government and the Trump campaign. We saw multiple ties back in 2016. We have multiple people close to the Trump administration who either lied about their connections to Russia or were involved in some relations with Russia, and some of them have even gone to jail since then. So to say that this probe was illegitimate or that it was founded based on an attempt to undermine the presidency or undermine his campaign, it doesn't necessarily pass the smell test. But we'll have to wait and see what the Justice Department finds as it investigates itself. This is definitely a political benefit for the president who selected an attorney general who he wanted to pursue his political enemies -- pursue the idea that he was framed and that this entire Russia probe was a witch hunt that was illegitimate from the start.", "Toluse, long Friday for you, man. World Series in 14 hours. You got tickets?", "Go, Nats. I'll be watching it on T.V. like a lot of us.", "All right, me too, buddy. Enjoy the weekend. Go, Nats!", "All right, good luck, Toluse.", "Thank you.", "All right, a major reversal by Joe Biden. Just a month ago, in New Hampshire, Biden said this.", "No super PACs. No money at all coming from people that you don't know where it's coming from.", "Well now, the Biden campaign has dropped its resistance to the creation of an outside group. The campaign is facing big fundraising shortfalls. It spent more in the third quarter than it took in. But solving the problem this was could create complications in a primary fight where some of Biden's rivals are railing against outside money.", "I don't need a super PAC. I am not going to be controlled by a handful of wealthy people. I will be controlled by the working people of this country.", "There's no room for political action committees or super PACs. There's no truth to the idea that corporations are people and money is speech.", "Moments ago, the Biden campaign out with a plan to grow the middle-class by strengthening unions. Biden promises to check the abuse of corporate power and make it illegal to classify workers as independent contractors. In other 2020 news, Rep. Tim Ryan dropped out of the 2020 race. His campaign failed to gain much traction in a large field of better- financed, better-known Democrats. Ryan will, instead, run for reelection to his Ohio congressional seat. Not running for reelection to the House, Tulsi Gabbard. The Hawaii congresswoman says she's all in on the White House bid despite the fact that she's hovering around one percent.", "All right. Vice President Mike Pence taking a hard line with China. He backed Hong Kong protesters, he mentioned Taiwan's democracy, he called China's military increasing provocative, and he slammed the communist Chinese treatment of Uighur Muslims. Now, Pence's speech closely watched as President Trump works to complete a partial trade deal. Pence emphasized the U.S. wants to engage and not fight with China, but he laid out China's bad behavior -- intellectual property theft, Chinese fentanyl flood the U.S., China's growing surveillance state. And then, he blasted U.S. businesses for siding, he says, with China. He pointed to Nike for removing Houston Rockets jerseys from its Hong Kong stores when China complained about a tweet from a team executive. He claimed Nike and the NBA were muzzling free speech in exchange for business with China.", "Nike promotes itself as a so-called social justice champion. But when it comes to Hong Kong, it prefers checking its social conscience at the door. In siding with the Chinese Communist Party and silencing free speech, the NBA is acting like a wholly-owned subsidiary of that authoritarian regime.", "All right. NBA commissioner Adam Silver responded this way.", "You've adhered to our core values from the first moment. To the extent that there was any doubt about that, we reinforced that those are our core values. And I'll just say, once again, we're going to double down on engaging with the people of China and India and throughout Africa -- around the world, regardless of their governments.", "I mean, maybe he has supported the team exec, but didn't China wanted that executive fired? The NBA did not do that.", "I would argue Silver supported him more so than the Rockets' owner. And I think he's been very strong in pushing back -- walking that tightrope here. Here's what NBA Hall of Famer and TNT broadcaster Charles Barkley had to say to the vice president.", "Vice President Pence needs to shut the hell up, number one. All American companies are doing business in China. I don't understand why these holier than thou politicians -- if they so want to worry about China why don't they stop all transactions with China? President Trump has been talking about and been arguing with tariffs for China for the last two years. But I think it's unfair for them to do all their business in China and just because this thing happened, try to make the NBA and our players look bad.", "Charles believes that companies should put profits and business first. Look, this story is not over. It's an interesting collision.", "It is.", "Daryl Morey continues to say no comment. He's the Rockets' G.M. show started all this with a now-deleted tweet.", "And the vice president, Mike Pence, has said there's no effort underway to decouple the U.S. from China, but he was very critical. He was the China hawk yesterday --", "Yes.", "-- for this administration. All right, here's what to watch today.", "Rising rent and home prices are pushing Americans further from the places they work. This is straining the backbone of our communities. To do our part, Wells Fargo has committed $1 billion over the next six years to develop housing affordability solutions, putting affordable homes within reach. This is our commitment. 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{"id": "CNN-227571", "program": "DR. DREW", "date": "2014-3-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/31/ddhln.01.html", "summary": "New Ad Shows the Faces of Drug Arrests", "utt": ["It`s really unreal what drugs will do to people. Back with Jenny, Judy, Erica and Mike. Tooth decay, sores, their bodies are just ravaged. Those are the faces of drug users. You just saw that new video. It`s called \"More Than Meth: Faces of Drug Arrests.\" Here`s another addict featured in the video campaign from rehabs.com.", "-- phased by is that people just can`t see what`s happening.", "That`s right, Dr. Drew. What happens with addicts is a lot of people have this misconception that they should just be able to stop when they want to. That`s a really dangerous misconception because they can`t. There`s so many problems with that because there are physiological dependencies that develop. And then at that point that is all that`s on their minds no matter what they`re wrecking, whether it`s family relationships, their jobs, their own body. They can`t even think about that. The only thing they can concentrate on is when they`re going to get that next dose of the drug.", "Erica, I`m sure you agree with what Judy is saying. Play another video of this because I think people look at this in disbelief. They literally, these people cannot see what`s happening to them. And even if they could, I`m not sure it would matter because all the usual priorities drop when someone`s addicted and the using becomes the sole priority.", "I still think it`s a great idea. I`m very supportive of this campaign because even if it just kind of gets to one person that`s not quite there -- yes, I agree with you, the drug user who`s kind of way far gone, it might be a little too little too late. But I just think -- I`m not a smoker, but have you ever seen the smoking commercials with the people that have lost their voice or a part of their body had to be amputated? I find that horrifying. And if I was a smoker, I probably would never want to. So I think that this is only a positive thing. I do have a question for you though. I notice a lot of types with drug users, many times meth, there`s a deterioration of the teeth.", "Yes, that`s multifactorial. It`s due, as I understand it, what the -- the environment in the mouth has changed so much by the meth, particularly the smoke of meth, that they just start to break down. There`s also grinding of the teeth and various other things and people aren`t attending to their teeth on top of that. Mike, you`re the only one amongst us that has been through this. And you`ve told me before, there`s never you ever found that you really love as much as drugs and alcohol. You`ve been there, you`ve nearly died. You`ve had seizures and still keep on going.", "Well, yes, I certainly applaud the people behind this campaign and I think it`s a worthy effort for someone who may be curious about using certain drugs to party. But for people who are -- suffer from the disease of addiction, to a appeal to their vanity, something as superficial as vanity, I think is going to be relatively inconsequential in the eyes of an addict. I understand that the transformation in these people is heartbreaking, but you have to understand that people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol have had their children away, have had their jobs removed from them, they`ve had limbs lost.", "That`s right.", "And it has not slowed them down one bit. I was one of the people that knew my life was in the balance and continued to use and drink anyway. So, again, appeals to vanity I don`t think are going to stop anybody.", "Jenny, you had a question.", "Go ahead, Jenny. I`m sorry.", "Oh, sorry, I was going to say, but maybe, Dr. Drew, this might help with teenagers. Because when they are super shallow, before they descend into this life of addiction, maybe this will stop them from trying a drug like that.", "Well, we`re saying all the same thing, which is somebody who is way in the disease, this is not going to appeal to anything. They are going to keep right on; they may even laugh at it. Somebody who is contemplating using, hopefully this will have an impact. On the phone I have Abhilash Patel, he`s co-founder of rehabs.com, the website that created this video campaign. Abhilash, nearly 400,000 views. Tell us why you think this is resonating so much.", "Hi, thanks for having me on the show. I appreciate that. In about a week, you`re right, we`ve had about 400,000 views on YouTube, many more visitors to the website. And we`re not -- and we`re not terribly amazed because this is a follow-up to our late fall campaign about the horrors of amphetamines, which was also driven by faces. And that campaign, as well, in a shocking way, received millions and millions of views in the time that it was up and it still is. What we believe is that, for some reason, the idea of faces seems to really resonate with the people watching this. And when people see faces for some reason, granted, these are shocking photos, but when people see faces, they see the faces of people they know. They see faces of perhaps their relatives or their kids or loved ones. Everyone knows somebody who is affected or driven down by this. And for that reason, the campaign`s really taken off.", "And I think the face is a representation of the person, and so you`re seeing a real deterioration of the individual, which is exactly what addiction does. It takes down the soul, it takes down the psyche. It commands the brain, it deteriorates the brain in some conditions. Erica, last comment.", "Yes, I just want to say, there`s nothing like a 12-step program admitting you`re powerless for the true addicts, but I think Jenny had a great point, and if this could somehow be incorporated into curriculum of high school or junior high, so where they`re at that point of experimenting, just starting to smoke cigarettes, saying, \"Look, this is how bad it can really get,\" that would be a good point for this.", "Next up, Nick Cannon explains his whiteface photo, kind of. And Miss Ali is back with her opinion of his explanation. And reminder, you can find us any time on Instagram @DrDrewHLN. We are back after this."], "speaker": ["PINSKY", "PINSKY", "HO", "PINSKY", "AMERICA", "PINSKY", "CATHERWOOD", "PINSKY", "CATHERWOOD", "PINSKY", "CATHERWOOD", "HUTT", "PINSKY", "ABHILASH PATEL, CO-FOUNDER, REHABS.COM (via telephone)", "PINSKY", "AMERICA", "PINSKY"]}
{"id": "CNN-108136", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2006-7-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0607/11/ltm.04.html", "summary": "Analysis of Judge's Decision in the Raid of Congressman Jefferson's Office", "utt": ["A federal judge has weighed in on that controversial FBI raid on a lawmakers' Capitol Hill office in May and it offers a clear rebuke to the congressman targeted in that bribery investigation and also for those who suggest the feds overstepped their constitutional bounds. Joining us is our senior legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, to walk us through the legalities of all this. The judge was very clear on this. Jeff, good to have you back with us, by the way.", "Nice to see you.", "And let me just share a little piece of the ruling because this is Judge Thomas Hogan, who is the chief U.S. District Judge. Where is it, \"Jefferson's interpretation would have the effect of converting every congressional office into a taxpayer subsidized sanctuary for crime. Such a result is not supported by the constitution or judicial precedent and will not be adopted here.\" We don't have to ask him how he really feels about this, do we.", "You know what, I thought this case was a classic demonstration of how completely out of touch members of congress are, both with the concerns of their constituents and with what constitutional law really is.", "So they don't even understand the law.", "The law -- and also just think about the common sense of it. You know, here you have a congressman who, at the very least, is engaged in behavior that certainly merits a criminal investigation. This is a guy with $90,000 in cash wrapped up in tin foil in his freezer.", "Not just any cash, cash with serial numbers that matches that cash used in a sting operation that the FBI was involved in. This is the cash.", "Exactly so you couldn't possibly say that this is the Bush administration out to get congress. This is a totally legitimate criminal investigation against a congressman who appears entirely corrupt, and they did what a normal criminal investigator does, search the premises. So here you have not the democrats, not the republicans, the entire leadership of both parties of congress, getting on their high horse about the speech or debate clause which is supposed to protect members of congress from expressing their opinions, I mean, it was just ridiculous their legal argument.", "And the speech and debate clause, if you really go back and look at the history, it was to stop the executive branch from more or less arresting people on their way to vote, and in some way stopping their right to do their job. This -- there's no way this fits into that.", "Plus you have a search warrant here, whereas Judge Hogan pointed out you have the executive branch authorized by the judicial branch. A judge has to sign a search warrant. So this wasn't just the executive branch going off on its own to search this office. It was with the authorization of the executive branch and as he said, you know, what the legislature is trying to do here, what congress is trying to do here is say, without consultation or approval from any other branch of the government, putting themselves off limits.", "Now Congressman Jefferson's attorney says they will appeal. There's no surprise there. But what I found kind of interesting is, the judge in this case says the material can be reviewed immediately. So in other words, the appeal process, which could take some time, the whole thing could be moot, right?", "But interestingly, if you look at what the Bush administration said yesterday, they appear to have gotten somewhat nervous by the extreme congressional reaction. So they have not yet said they are going to look at the material. They set up an interesting structure. I mean the Bush administration actually went about this very carefully. They sent a team of agents who were not involved in this investigation, would review all the material first to separate out the relevant and the irrelevant stuff and that process is on hold, and we don't know if that's going to go forward.", "Just to underscore the point, he has not been indicted, Congressman Jefferson, but there is a grand jury and this was probably what they were waiting for, before they proceeded.", "Correct, but several of his colleagues have been indicted, some have pled guilty, colleagues in this apparent scheme. So, I mean I would say the odds of the Congressman Jefferson getting indicted are approximately 99.9 percent.", "And probably sooner rather than later.", "Sooner rather than later.", "Jeff Toobin, thank you very much.", "See you later.", "See you in a little bit. Soledad?", "Dozens or so democrats are looking past this year's midterm elections to November, 2008. And as CNN's Candy Crowley tells us, most are currently running a race to not be like Hillary Clinton.", "Evan Bayh is not a household name, which is to say he is not Hillary Clinton. That could work. The junior senator from Indiana spent the end of his congressional break in Eagle Point Park Lodge in, and we're not kidding, Clinton, Iowa. And at the Raccoon Valley Community House in Adel. It is the nascent movement of the '08 democratic presidential campaign. Right now, it is roughly defined as Hillary Clinton and about a dozen others.", "Is it a little bit of a David versus Goliath situation? Yeah, probably is. But as I recall, David did okay.", "Call her Goliath or the 500 pound guerilla, her office would prefer you call her not yet decided on whether to run. She is whatever else the prism through which the others are viewed, running to the left of her. Think John Kerry, Russ Feingold or to the right, think former Virginia Governor Mark Warner or Indiana Senator Evan Bayh who is in Iowa or New Hampshire just about every month.", "This is a critical juncture for our country, this is no ordinary time. There are big stakes.", "He talks national security, energy policy and budget. The former governor of Indiana, Bayh also thinks the next democratic nominee should have a track record of winning republican and independent support.", "People deep down they want less polarization and division. So they're going to look at all of us and say, who can help bring that about in a principled way. I think they're going to look for someone who can carry a couple of red states because they know that that's going to be what it takes to get the job done.", "It's not like he said she was unelectable, but that word has come up a lot in this '08 pre-game period, so much that the pro-Hillary camp felt it necessary to write an op ed outlining why she can win. Do you think she's polarizing?", "I like Hillary. I don't, but you know, that's up for the people to decide eventually.", "Bayh says his plan is to be who he is, which is not Hillary Clinton, but it is the guy who has five times been elected to the red state of Indiana. Candy Crowley, CNN, Davenport, Iowa.", "Candy Crowley, of course, part of the best political team on TV. The report first aired in \"THE SITUATION ROOM\" with Wolf Blitzer, that's weekdays of course at 4:00 and at 7:00 p.m. eastern time.", "It seems Albert Einstein wasn't just a brilliant scientist, he was also quite a ladies man as well. According to some just released letters, Einstein told his wife he had a half dozen girl friends who showered him with unwanted affection. Not sure how smart that was. Einstein spent a lot of time lecturing in Europe and the United States and he wrote hundreds of letters to his family. In them he described about six women he spent time with while being married. The letters released yesterday by Hebrew University. Soledad?", "At one point he even said something like I'm fed up with my theory of relativity in one of the letters, really an interesting look at him.", "Enough with that.", "Enough with that, getting tired of it. Ahead this morning, you might have insurance to protect your home from a storm. Doesn't mean it's going to cover all the damage. This morning, we've got advice on exactly what kind of coverage you need.", "How old is too old to get behind the wheel? We posed that question in the wake of this scene right there.", "And a mother accused of kidnapping her own 10- month-old baby, she said she did it for his own good. Doctors say though she risked his life. We'll explain all ahead on AMERICAN MORNING. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MILES O'BRIEN", "TOOBIN", "MILES O'BRIEN", "TOOBIN", "MILES O'BRIEN", "TOOBIN", "MILES O'BRIEN", "TOOBIN", "MILES O'BRIEN", "TOOBIN", "MILES O'BRIEN", "TOOBIN", "MILES O'BRIEN", "TOOBIN", "MILES O'BRIEN", "TOOBIN", "MILES O'BRIEN", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "CANDI CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. EVAN BAYH, (D) INDIANA", "CROWLEY", "BAYH", "CROWLEY", "BAYH", "CROWLEY", "BAYH", "CROWLEY", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "MILES O'BRIEN", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "MILES O'BRIEN", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "MILES O'BRIEN", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-241764", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2014-10-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/25/ndaysat.01.html", "summary": "Case Builds Against Suspect Jesse Matthew", "utt": ["A tragic end to the search for missing University of Virginia student, Hannah Graham. Officials have confirmed that human remains they discovered along an abandoned creek bed are those of 18-year-old who was last seen on September 13th. As her parents deal with the heartbreaking news, police are now building their case against Jesse Matthew, the prime suspect in their daughter's disappearance. CNN's Brian Todd has the details.", "Police now confirm the remains found along this creek bed are those of 18-year-old Hannah Graham. Her parents in a statement say, quote, \"We are devastated by the loss of our beautiful daughter, Hannah.\" As they deal with the worst possible news, the cases build against the prime suspect in their daughter's disappearance, Jesse Matthew.", "There are a number of missing people and they have identified a suspect that clearly was involved to some extent with perhaps one or more of these cases.", "The latest case Matthew was mentioned with is missing teenager, Alexis Murphy. She vanished in August 2013. Her body was never found. But her abandoned car was recovered in Charlottesville and another man was convicted of her killing. Local officials tell CNN, DNA in Murphy's car is being retested by the", "I'm asking them to take the known sample of DNA from Jesse Matthew that they (inaudible) and compare it to all the unknown DNA samples in that case.", "That's the attorney for Randy Taylor, the man convicted of Murphy's killing after some of her DNA was found in his home.", "I don't think Mr. Matthew had anything to do with that, that's just my personal opinion. I think that case shows how people are straining to pin more and more thins on Mr. Matthew.", "Matthew has already been indicted in another case in Fairfax County two hours north of Charlottesville. He faces charges of sexual assault and attempted capital murder from a 2005 incident where a woman was abducted while walking home from the grocery store.", "Fairfax is a strong case because it's a case that has been in the works for the last nine years. They have a live victim who did come in and testify.", "And there could be a forensic link between that case and the abduction and murder of Virginia Tech student, Morgan Herrington. She vanished in October 2009 while visiting UVA. Her body was found in a farm outside of Charlottesville more than three months later. No one has been charged in Harrington's murder. (on camera): What is that forensic link? The man who found Morgan Harrington's shirt on this bush in downtown Charlottesville says police later told him they had a DNA match to that 2005 sexual case in Fairfax. (voice-over): But analysts say prosecuting Matthew in the Harrington case could be tough.", "The weakest case would be at this point on the surface Morgan Harrington's case because there has been no evidence that we are aware of that establishes to any kind of degree or certainty that Mr. Matthew and Miss Harrington were ever together.", "That, of course, departs from the Hannah Graham case where surveillance video and witness accounts put Jesse Matthew and Hannah Graham either together the night she disappeared or at least in close proximity to each other. Brian Todd, CNN, Charlottesville, Virginia.", "Defense attorney and HLN legal analyst, Joey Jackson joining me now. Joey, now that Hannah Graham's remains have been found, where does this lead the investigation? Where to now?", "Well, good morning, Alison. The finding of the body is a very significant development, as unfortunate as it is. I'll tell you why. What happens, Alison, is that to the extent that now you have a body there's other evidence and information that could potentially be gleaned from that. Like what? Like hair analysis, like fibers, like DNA, like blood, something that could potentially link Jesse Matthew, and as we know, based upon science and based upon forensic evidence when you have that link, it's significant. So where you go is a potential upgrading of the charges. We know now that he's facing the charge of abduction with intent to defile, which is essentially a sex abuse charge, abducting someone for purposes of leading to things of a sexual variety. I'll just say it that way. Now that you have a body, we're talking about murder and it becomes a murder investigation. I would suspect in due time and in short order, the charges will be upgraded if in fact the authorities find, Alison, that he can be linked positively to her death.", "If the suspect that we're talking Jesse Matthew is linked to the death of Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington or other missing Virginia teens, would these cases be tried separately or how would that be handled?", "Well, generally speaking, Alison, each case would have a separate prosecution. Certainly, you know, there would be the defenses in those respective cases would want that because you don't want to taint the defendant in any particular case based on his rights that would be overly prejudicial. But one of the things that would occur, the prosecution would be seeking to introduce evidence of other instances with Jesse Matthew engaged in prior bad conduct. Why, because it goes to motive. It goes to intent. It goes to a common plan of scheme. So even though you can see separate prosecutions for each case, don't be surprised if you see information relating to one case introduced in the prosecution of another -- Alison.", "It's almost like the investigation is just revving up. Joey Jackson, thanks so much for joining us this morning.", "A pleasure.", "So we got the man with the hatchet in New York. And then, of course, the shooter in Ottawa, two of the lone wolf terrorists. And we're seeing this as ISIS calls for followers to take action against police and officials. Are people heeding that call? Then he was popular, even voted homecoming prince, so why did he had shoot his friends, his classmates, and as we learned from Dan Simon this morning, relatives, investigating his motive. Next on NEW DAY."], "speaker": ["KOSIK", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TODD", "FBI. 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{"id": "CNN-135459", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2009-2-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/27/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Iraq War End Date: August 31, 2010; A Transformational Budget; Interview with John McCain; President Obama's High-Stakes Week", "utt": ["Happening now: President Obama makes good on a campaign promise, announcing his timetable for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq. John McCain was a sharp critic of the idea during the campaign. I will ask him what he thinks now -- Senator McCain in THE SITUATION ROOM, live, this hour. Also, a famous Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter says he's among the victims of Bernard Madoff -- Elie Wiesel and his charity losing millions and millions of dollars to the alleged Ponzi scheme. Now he's venting his anger at Madoff and suggesting an unusual punishment. And an architectural icon going green -- details of a massive overhaul plan for Chicago's Sears Tower -- why the owners think now is the time. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM.", "Let me say this as plainly as I can. By August 31st, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end.", "President Obama finishing the war President George W. Bush started with broad support, only to see the mission implode. Now, after almost six years, more than 4,000 American lives and perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives lost, the end of the war in Iraq is in sight. President Obama traveled to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina to make the announcement.", "Every nation and every group must know, whether you wish America good or ill, that the end of the war in Iraq will enable a new era of American leadership and engagement in the Middle East. This does not lessen our commitment. We are going to be enhancing that commitment to bring about a better day in that region. And that era has just begun.", "Our Pentagon correspondent, Chris Lawrence, is joining us now with details of the withdrawal -- Chris, explain what the president has in mind.", "Well, Wolf, when he says that the combat mission ends, that doesn't mean that the troops missions won't involve combat. Take a look at this. At the height of the surge, you can see the U.S. had a very large presence in Baghdad. Gradually, they had to pare it down and mostly move to the perimeter of the city. And here's where they're going -- out to bases outside the major cities like Balad, very large bases.", "There is no moving day for the U.S. military. They'll leave Iraq arrive gradually -- most of them next year, after the Iraqi elections. But it can take a month or two to move even one brigade and this is tens of thousands of troops, millions of tons of equipment. The Pentagon has been testing possible exit routes through Turkey, Jordan and Kuwait.", "We've looked over many, many months now at options and not, quite frankly, being -- wanting to be pinned down to one path.", "President Obama says 30,000 to 50,000 troops will make up a transitional force after August 2010. They'll have three missions -- train and advise Iraqi troops, meaning they'll embed with them and could be in the line of fire. Two, protect U.S. assets, like civilians and reconstruction teams. That could mean defending them. And three, directly going after terrorists, which could put them at risk. (on camera): Does non-combat troops accurately describe what these troops will be doing?", "No. Every one of these soldiers, sailor, airmen or Marines, they're operating in a combat zone.", "The U.S. and Iraq agreed to remove all American troops by the end of 2011. Retired Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt agrees with the secretary of Defense, that keeping some troops...", "And, again, what we want to try to get at -- what we were talking to the retired brigadier general about was that there needs to be some flexibility, that both the U.S. and Iraq need to have some flexibility. He feels that as we head into 2011, the flexibility to extend that agreement and possibly leave some troops. Now, he also said that when you take a look at what's going on in there in Iraq and down the road, ironically, more troops could be going before they start to leave. We mean by that is next week the Pentagon could announce another Stryker brigade and possibly some Marine to go into Iraq as part of the normal rotation -- Wolf.", "All right, Chris. Thanks very much. Chris Lawrence is our Pentagon correspondent. At least right now, even bigger than the war in Iraq in the mind of most Americans is the U.S. economy. President Obama says his $3.6 trillion budget addresses so many underlying causes of the current crisis. Let's bring in our senior political correspondent, Candy Crowley. She's working this story for us. Let's talk about, at the end of this week, winners and losers in the president's plan.", "Absolutely, because you cannot have huge government spending without getting huge government revenues. And that's exactly what happens in this budget and is the basis for our winners and losers.", "This is not a book of numbers, this is a sea change.", "This is a transformational budget. This is the first budget I have seen since the Reagan era -- since Reagan's first budget -- that really made a fundamental statement, we are going in a different direction, folks.", "In essence, it is the use of the tax system to redistribute wealth. In the economic version of the biggest loser, upper income seniors, who will pay more for prescription drugs; farmers with sales over $500,000 a year, who will lose their subsidies, and households making over $250,000 a year will get a tax increase. One person with a taxable income of $200,000 will pay $6,000 more. Taxes for a family of four with a $500,000 income will increase by $11,300. The budget also limits the deductions wealthier taxpayers can take for interest on home mortgages and charitable contributions. Charity organizations think that makes them a loser.", "Discouraging the wealthiest from giving in this way could be devastating for some charities. We've already gotten estimates that a couple hundred thousand charities may close their doors as it is because of the economy. Then you add stuff like this and it becomes all the more frightening.", "On the winning side, middle and lower class taxpayers and the poor, who will see the stimulus tax cuts made permanent, an extension of child tax credits for those too poor to pay taxes and higher benefits. The federal government would use the tax revenues to pay for huge increases in spending on education, energy and, most of all, health care. This is not just a budget, this is a change in direction.", "This country is no longer taking this road. Call it, for want of a better term, the right road. We're taking more of a left of center road. But it's a road that we have to take because of the big problems in front of us.", "It is the end of Reaganomics and the beginning of Obamanomics.", "Of course, this was only a budget blueprint, because now, all of these numbers go up to Capitol Hill. And one of the things we're noticing, Wolf, up on Capitol Hill -- things like farm subsidies don't split easily along party lines. Although Republicans don't like the gist of this budget, there are plenty of Democrats who don't like some of the specifics, including those farm subsidy cuts.", "So what you're saying is there's going to be a big fight?", "Absolutely.", "There always is.", "Yes.", "Candy, thanks very much. Let's check in with Jack once again for The Cafferty File -- Jack.", "That's what keeps us in business, when they have big fights. The U.S. is losing the war in Afghanistan -- so says Senator John McCain. Quoting here: \"When you aren't winning in this kind of war, you're losing. And in Afghanistan today, we are not winning.\" The former presidential candidate says although he approves of President Obama's plan to send an additional 17,000 troops there, he thinks additional Allied and Afghan troops will be needed to beat back a resurgent al Qaeda and Taliban. He's calling for the U.S. to set up larger military headquarters and to boost non-military assistance. The Arizona senator says the situation in Afghanistan is nowhere near as bad as it was in Iraq, but that insurgent attacks were up sharply last year and violence has increased more than 500 percent in the last four years. McCain's comments come after those of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who has said that the U.S. faces a \"very tough test in Afghanistan,\" although Gates is confident that we will rise to the occasion. A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows that most Americans agree with McCain. Only 31 percent say the U.S. is currently winning the war in Afghanistan, although 62 percent say the U.S. can eventually win there. Meanwhile, when it comes to the other war, the one in Iraq, McCain is among several Republicans who are supporting President Obama's plan to pull out most U.S. troops by August of 2010. McCain says the plan is a reasonable one and he's \"cautiously optimistic\" that it can lead to success. So here's the question -- is John McCain right that the war -- that the U.S. is losing the war in Afghanistan. Go to CNN.com/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog -- Wolf.", "Jack, thank you. And we're going to talk to him about that. Senator McCain is standing by live. He'll talk about President Obama's decision to end the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, as well. Also, a blood-smeared letter sent to President Obama. The man who sent it has HIV. Now, we're learning more about him and why he did it. And Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel has some choice words for Bernard Madoff. Wiesel says the former investor bilked him and his charity out of millions of dollars as part of his massive alleged Ponzi scheme. And the GOP in search of a leader -- is Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal the man the Republicans need? We'll talk about that and a lot more with James Carville and Bill Bennett. They're both standing by this hour. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BLITZER", "OBAMA", "BLITZER", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "LAWRENCE (voice-over)", "ADM. MIKE MULLEN, JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN", "LAWRENCE", "BRIG. GEN. MARK KIMMITT (RET.), U.S. ARMY", "LAWRENCE (voice-over)", "LAWRENCE", "BLITZER", "CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "CROWLEY (voice-over)", "ROBERT REICH, FORMER LABOR SECRETARY", "CROWLEY", "KEN BERGER, PRESIDENT, CEO, CHARITY NAVIGATOR", "CROWLEY", "REICH", "CROWLEY", "CROWLEY", "BLITZER", "CROWLEY", "BLITZER", "CROWLEY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-249442", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-02-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/16/cnr.03.html", "summary": "More Snow and Bitter Cold to Northeast", "utt": ["Parts of the south are facing a messy wintry mix. Louisville is getting a slick coating of snow and ice right now. Officials warning people to stay off the roads. Conditions like this are of course nothing new for the northeast. In Boston, roofs are collapsing under the record snow as the city hits its snowiest month ever. It's crazy there in Boston. Nick Valencia, though, is in Nashville. He's covering the southern freeze. Ryan Young is in Boston covering that kind of -- I don't even know what you'd call it in Boston. To me, it's like apocalyptic at this point. But, Nick, I want to start with you where it's a balmy 29 degrees in Nashville right now.", "Yes, and for this California boy it feels a lot colder, I'll tell you that, Carol. A lot of states in the southeast getting hammered by the severe weather. We'll start, as you mentioned, in Louisville, Kentucky, where there was deicing. So much snow there and heavy weather conditions but here the rain as well has been relentless. Freezing rain in Nashville, Tennessee, a city that you don't really get used to hearing about in the severe weather forecast. But a quarter inch of ice so far on the roads according to officials. And if you just pan down here, you could see what this freezing rain has started to accumulate. Just look at that. It's just hard as a rock, Carol. We're right here on Broadway which is sort of the main thoroughfare in Nashville and you see behind me the streets are relatively empty, though we have seen a handful of cars and just a little bit of traffic this morning. The crews have done their best to try to clear those roads and they spent all weekend salting and brining these streets preparing for the three to seven inches of snow that's predicted over the course of the next 24 hours. We haven't seen that snow just yet. Mostly sleet and freezing rain but as you mentioned, Carol, it is pretty cold. Not quite as cold as it is in Boston there for Ryan Young but people here are definitely feeling it -- Carol.", "Wait. Wait. I think I can hear people laughing from Boston right now.", "There's this audible gasp.", "You should stay off the roads. But poor, poor Boston. Let's head there right now and check in with Ryan. It's just unbelievable.", "Unbelievable is the right word. And 29 degrees, I will trade him easily any day of the week. The people here are really feeling the cold. And it's no joke. In fact I've talked to some of my friends who've been digging out for days. Look, they hit 58.5 inches so far in this area in terms of snowfall. The shovels like you see the one that's right in front of me, they're in heavy use right now. Now this digging out effort has had people all across this area involved in a massive operation of trying to make sure even emergency vehicles can get around. We actually saw some of the efforts to make sure those emergency vehicles don't get stuck. You really have to give the work crews in this area a lot of credit for trying to keep things moving in this city. Don't forget, though, roof collapses were also an issue. And in fact, there's been several of them overnight. Now we've covered this story and talked about the idea that they would have crews knocking out -- professional crews knocking some of the snow off the roofs here. In fact one mayor closed some schools to make sure all the kids were safe. The sun is coming out. It used to be negative 25. We now moved up to negative 14 windchill. If you look up here, you can see some melting but yes, negative 14 feels great. I have to say it's a warm front moving through. But you've got to think about the impact to a city like this. Over $30 million so far has been spent trying to clean this city up. And I can tell you, where do you put all this snow? Who knows? That's something that we're dealing with for quite some time.", "Yes. I don't think that snow is going to melt until when, August? I wouldn't be surprised. It's just crazy.", "Maybe.", "Yes. Ryan Young, thanks to you. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, digital thieves find a way to steal upward of a billion dollars from banks around the world and you won't believe how they're doing it."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "VALENCIA", "COSTELLO", "RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "YOUNG", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-85126", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2004-6-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/03/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Dozens of Insurgents Killed in Kufa as U.S. Troops Strike Back; Scott Peterson's Lawyer Makes Stunning Promise to Jury", "utt": ["Dozens of insurgents killed in Kufa as U.S. troops strike back. The next Americans to join the fight may stay in it longer than they thought. Scott Peterson's lawyer makes a stunning promise to the jury, saying he has critical evidence about the baby his client is accused of killing. And no let up in spring's assault. Powerful winds knocking over trees and trucks and even a train. Those stories all ahead on this", "From the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, this is AMERICAN MORNING with Bill Hemmer and Soledad O'Brien.", "And on the 3rd of June, she returns.", "Oh, well, you missed me, huh?", "Tons.", "Well, you could have come to my house to help me move. But you didn't. But thanks for that.", "No, I did not. How you doing? OK?", "Doing great.", "Welcome back. Great to have you here. A lot of headlines to talk about today. President Bush leading a very busy week of international diplomacy in which he'll focus largely on Iraq. He's meeting with Australia's prime minister this morning, then flying off to Europe. We'll also tell you about the latest orders from the Pentagon today that could effect thousands and thousands of U.S. troops. All that coming up here.", "Also this morning we're talking to the man who turned down the Iraq presidency, Adnan Pachachi. We're going to ask him what really happened when the new government of Iraq was chosen, and why he's decided to remain on the sidelines.", "Also this hour, another Iraqi politician, Ahmed Chalabi, accused of telling Iran the U.S. cracked its secret intelligence code. We'll talk to Senator Joseph Biden live this morning about how damaging this might be in the fallout that may come after it.", "Jack Cafferty, did you miss me?", "Morning, skinny, how you doing?", "Oh, well.", "You weren't moving. I assume you supervised the move. You weren't, like, carrying end tables and stuff around, were you?", "I didn't carry furniture, but, you know, come on.", "Yes.", "I opened boxes. I did stuff.", "She was sitting on the couch and then pointed and telling Brad where to do everything.", "Brad was traveling; Brad did zero.", "Put this over there, put this over there.", "Brad did nothing.", "I don't like it over there, put it over here. Yes, I've been there.", "Wait a minute; I changed my mind.", "Yes, I've done those. Remember about a month ago, President Bush said he would not be attending his daughter's college graduations because he didn't want to create security problems? He's given three college commencement speeches in the last three weeks on three different college campuses. Where presumably they had presidential security in place. We're going to take a look at something he said at one of them yesterday in a few minutes.", "And note the states where they take place: Louisiana, Colorado -- no cinches for this election.", "How do you say I'm not going to my daughter's college graduations and then go around the country giving commencement speeches on college campuses?", "Use that excuse -- that you're going. Oh, I can't go honey.", "You will be there.", "Let's start in Iraq this morning; that's our first stop today. U.S. troops have been battling insurgents in the area of Kufa. Officials telling CNN that an estimated 30 Iraqis were killed in the fighting. Four U.S. troops also injured as a result. The U.S. attack directed against those believed to be responsible for firing more than 50 mortars into a U.S. base yesterday. Meanwhile they'll be some extended stays in the military for an unknown number of U.S. soldiers. That's because of an announcement yesterday of an expansion of what's called a \"stop loss order.\" To define this and describe it for us, here's Barbara Starr at the Pentagon. Good morning there Barbara.", "Good morning to you, Bill. Well, what will happen now is soldiers tagged to deploy to either Afghanistan or Iraq will not be able to retire or leave military service if they are within 90 days of being sent overseas. This is an expansion, a bit of an existing Army effort, but is now Army-wide, a signal of how desperate and concerned the Army is about holding on to the people it has. Now once these deployments are done, soldiers who thought they might be leaving could wind up spending about 18 months longer than they expected in the U.S. military. That's when you add in the 90 days before deployment, the one-year deployment and the 90 days after deployment. The heavy reliance on the National Guard and Reserves is also getting a great deal of concern. A stunning revelation on Capitol Hill yesterday that recruiting into the Air National Guard is now down more than 20 percent.", "We need to be very attentive to the way that we're using, especially, our Guard and Reserve. We need to ensure that when we ask these great Americans to put their lives on hold and serve their country that the mission we are giving them is a valid mission, that we are up front with them as far as when we are going to call them to active duty, how long we are going to keep them on active duty.", "Now, what the Army says is if they did not do this, they did not expand this effort, Army wide, every time a unit deployed now to Afghanistan or Iraq, a division, they would have to find about 4,000 new soldiers. That may be very tough to do, so people basically will be kept in place, and this whole program will be kept in place for the foreseeable future -- Bill.", "Barbara on another topic, the FBI is talking, some sort of investigation happening at the Pentagon. What's happening there Barbara?", "Confusion at the moment, Bill, I must tell you. We've talked to sources this morning. There is word from other government agencies that Pentagon officials are likely to be questioned regarding the FBI investigation into Ahmed Chalabi, that Iraqi former opposition leader, head of the Iraq National Congress about whether or not he got information, classified information, from some Bush administration official and perhaps leaked it to his own advantage. Perhaps there are allegations that he gave information, sensitive information, to the Iranians. Now, that word comes from other government agencies. Their explanation of what the FBI is looking into. We've spoken to a senior official here this morning who says at this point there is no expectation that any senior Pentagon officials are going to be either questioned or polygraphed by the FBI. He emphasizes that at this time -- Bill.", "The questions remain. Barbara Starr at the Pentagon -- Soledad.", "In a letter to the FBI and the attorney general's office, Ahmed Chalabi's lawyers say flatly that Dr. Chalabi denies all the charges which have been anonymously leaked. \"We therefore demand that they cease forthwith and that you order investigation into the identity of the government sources who disclosed said investigation to the media.\" Even when the Iraqi National Congress leader enjoyed support in Washington, Senator Joe Biden wasn't singing his praises. The Delaware Democrat is the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and joins us this morning right here in New York. Nice to see you in person as opposed to the double box that we usually do. What's your reaction to these charges against Chalabi? You just heard the statement that his lawyers say. They basically say out and out it's just not true.", "Well, I don't know for a fact, because I've not seen the investigative report; I've not seen what the CIA said, but I don't find Mr. Chalabi as you've implied -- I haven't for six years found him a very trustworthy guy.", "No love lost between the two of you.", "Well, it's not personal. I just didn't find him reliable. Even when -- during the Clinton administration he was around. He became the darling of I think the secretary of defense and the vice-president and others. I think he gave inaccurate information during the war. He wasn't very reliable. And I find it fascinating that he -- he -- a non-American citizen demands that there be certain things that happen here. We've been too close to him for too long. We're paying him $300 to $400,000 a month for a long, long time and I have been warning and saying privately and publicly that this is not the horse to ride and...", "But he continues to have supporters here in the U.S. Richard Perle, in fact, said recently that if things played out as they appear to have been laid out that he called an intelligence operative to tip them off that the Americans had the code, that same intelligence officer got on that same exact line to talk about highly sensitive information. Isn't that -- I think the word Richard Perle used was utterly laughable. What do you think about that?", "Well, I have great respect for Richard Perle. He and I have disagreed over Mr. Chalabi personally and privately for the last six years or so. Again, I don't know the specifics of the charge. I don't know whether they're true or not true. I do know that the State Department and the CIA have for a long, long time not trusted Mr. Chalabi, believed the information he has been providing, has been useful only what has been used for Mr. Chalabi's own political purposes and not very useful beyond that. So I'm reluctant to say what I don't know. I'm giving you honestly my assessment of Mr. Chalabi overall.", "But giving your assemement of how big of a problem this is. I mean, it's been described as a major security breach. What does that mean, exactly?", "It is a major security breach meaning that -- here's what it means -- up to now we've been able to allegedly have access to communications from those elements within Iran, the clerical leadership, the Supreme Council, that has an interest very different than ours in the region, the same outfit that snuffed out the democracy movement within Iran recently, essentially disbanded the modulists, their Parliament. And it's a very useful thing particularly to know what activity is going on inside of Iraq because with the Shiia community in Iran and the Shiia community in Iraq, one Arab one not Arab nonetheless to have been close ties a lot of people in the Shiia community have been in hiding and or out of Saddam's way in Iraq. I mean, in Iran. So there's a lot of talk about who's on who's team and there's going to be an incredible fight even if we get it right in Iraq among the competing factions within Iraq for leadership and it's obviously very much in the interest of Iran to see things turn out in a way that they find most favorable which is most likely not to be in our interest so that's -- that's to me the single greatest concern. Being able to access that interchange between Iranians and Iraqis who are plotting the outcome of Iraq.", "A huge problem then. Senator Joe Biden, nice to see you. Thanks as always.", "Thank you very much. Happy to be here.", "About ten minutes past the hour. Police in L.A. say they have found no evidence to support child abuse allegations in the 1980s against Michael Jackson. Detectives now concluding a two-month investigation into those claims and have decided that no charges will be sought. Those charges were debunked after hours of interviews with the person making the claims. All this separate now from the child molestation matter against Jackson in the county of Santa Barbara. He may be a cad but he's not a killer. That is how the attorney Mark Geragos now describes his client. Scott Peterson now on trial for allegedly murdering his wife and unborn child. Yesterday the defense attorney delivered an opening statement that was all about offense. Up early this morning in Redwood City, California, here's Ted Rowlands. Good morning there Ted.", "Good morning, Bill. Yes, you're right. The jury got a much different view of the evidence in this case from Scott Peterson's lawyer, Mark Geragos who essentially said yes, Scott Peterson cheated on his wife but no, he did not kill her.", "Mark Geragos told the jury that Scott Peterson was a cheating husband but was, quote, \"stone cold innocent.\" Geragos used his two and a half hour long opening statement to respond to prosecution evidence painting Peterson as a murderer. Geragos showed autopsy photos of Laci and the baby, saying the evidence will show the child was alive past December 23rd. Prosecutors said that tape around the baby's neck had no significance but Geragos claimed it proves the baby had been born and somebody else handled it.", "He was unmarried.", "On mistress Amber Frey, Geragos said yes, he was a cheating husband but Peterson was simply keeping her at bay with his dozens of emotional phone calls, which police recorded. Using a map of the Peterson's neighborhood, Geragos said he'll prove at least three witnesses saw Laci Peterson walking the family dog the morning she was reported missing and another witness he says will come forward saying that he saw Laci Peterson being pulled into a van by two people. At one point, Geragos slammed on a stack of forensic reports saying investigators searched and tested every inch of Peterson's home and business but in his words as the reports his the table they found zip, nothing. As for Peterson's altered appearance when he was arrested, Geragos said it was to hide from the relentless media.", "I'm a fan.", "After Geragos' opening statement, Scott Peterson's mother expressed her gratitude for what she says was a true depiction of the facts.", "We knew the truth. It was nice to hear it publicly.", "The first witness in the case took the stand yesterday afternoon, the Peterson maid, up on the stand for a very short amount of time. It is expected that the prosecution will continue to bring up people that lived in that neighborhood and were there on December 23rd or 4th when Peterson reported his wife missing. Testimony begins again here at 9:00. This trial is expected to last another five months -- Bill.", "Five months and counting. Ted Rowlands thanks live there in California. Thirteen minutes past the hour. Time for a check of the other headlines. Heidi Collins across the room here, starting with Iraq and good morning.", "Good morning to both of you guys. Soledad, welcome back to you as well.", "Thank you very much.", "And good morning to you, everybody. Thirteen minutes past the hour now. Here's what's happening in other news. Renewed fighting in the Iraqi holy city of Kufa. The U.S. military says some 30 insurgents have now been killed. An American team of about 100 soldiers and 15 tanks rolled into the city. Military officials say the operation was aimed at finding those Iraqi fighters responsible for mortar attacks on the U.S. base. Four American troops were slightly injured in the firefight. A meeting with Australia's Prime Minister John Howard is on the agenda for President Bush this morning before he heads off on a trip to Europe. The president's four-day European visit begins in Rome, where he'll meet with Italy's prime minister and Pope John Paul II. Mr. Bush will then attend a D-Day ceremony in Normandy before heading to the G-8 Summit. CNN will have live coverage of the president's joint news conference with Australia's prime minister at 9:50 a.m. Eastern this morning. Two missing propane delivery trucks aren't missing any more. FBI officials say the trucks held more than 5,000 gallons of propane and were still full when they were found. The trucks had been abandoned. They were found parked together yesterday alongside a state highway. The incident had sparked fears that the stolen trucks might be linked to a possible terror attack. A massive wildfire burning in northern Florida still raging this morning. It has blackened about 5,000 acres so far in the Hampton area. Yesterday rain did help calm the blaze enough to let about 500 people evacuate from their homes -- let them come back in, that is. No injuries have been reported. And airport passengers in Britain experiencing some flight delays after a computer failure shut down air traffic controls temporarily. British airport authority spokesman said departures from London's Heathrow airport were delayed for about two hours, but now all systems are back up and running. Not something you want to hear -- ATC computers failing.", "Boy, isn't that the truth? Some of these lines at Hartsfield over the weekend -- I think it was on Monday -- my gosh, those people.", "Those lines were three hours. Lovely.", "You don't forget those, do you?", "I do not. I was traumatized.", "Thank you, Heidi. Amid the continuing violence in Iraq, the country's new interim government now working toward winning the confidence of ordinary Iraqis. As that transition moves forward, the man who was widely believed to be the U.S. choice for president is not even in Baghdad. The former Iraqi Governing Council member, Adnan Pachachi, joins us today from United Arab Emirates and we appreciate your time, certainly, to be with us on AMERICAN MORNING. Why did you take your name off the list to be nominated this week as president?", "Thank you, I'm glad to be here. Well, I was offered the job, and after thinking I decided not to accept it. Because I felt that the -- although I enjoyed the majority opinion in the extensive consultations that were undertaken by Lakhdar Brahimi, and it's on the basis of these consultations when he found out that the majority favored me over everybody else. Because of this consultations, he came to ask me to take the presidency. I declined because I thought that -- yes -- because there were some elements in the Iraqi political class who are against me and I thought that the president, although his post is ceremonial to some extent, should be a unifying factor and not a divisive factor. And the fact -- you know, the presidency was supposed to be given to a Sunni Arab. And the people who opposed me were the, had nothing, had no right to interfere in this choice, who were mostly the Shiia members of the Council and some of the Kurds.", "I apologize about the interruption there a short time ago. Substantial delay on this satellite to our viewers at home. Try and clarify this. It's been reported that you were seen as the guy the U.S. wanted. And if the Iraqis saw you as that guy you would not be accepted as the leader. Is there truth to that, sir?", "No, the United States not once -- not once offered me this job. Not once recommended me for this job. The country is the truth. According to Jaral Salabani (ph) and Masood Balzani (ph), the two Kurdish leaders, the -- that's what they told me in front of witnesses, that the United -- the authority, the Coalition Authority came to them and said that they recommend selection of Ghazi al-Yawer to be president and when they asked them about me, they said no he's not interested, he may go as ambassador in Washington. So if there is any -- any recommendation for anybody it was for Ghazi al-Yawer and this can be verified from the two Kurdish leaders.", "Another question here that many in this country are wondering. They're wondering how long before the U.S. troops come home for good and many people in your own country back in Iraq are wondering when the U.S. troops will leave? How long do you want the U.S. military to stay in Iraq?", "Well, the thing is this. The reason why we want this multi-national force in Iraq for the time being is because our own military and police and civil defense forces are not adequate to meet the challenge of terrorism. And therefore we need external help. So I would say that the presence of foreign troops in Iraq will be dependent on the speed with which we are able to organize the police and civil defense and security forces to be able to adequately confront these dangers.", "Just a short answer -- is that a year, is that 18 months, is that two years and I apologize for talking over you. Again, the satellite delay is terrific here.", "Well, I tell you. Of course it's difficult to foresee how this situation is going to develop, but according to the former minister of defense in Iraq, who has been working on creating a special task force to deal with the security problem, he said perhaps it is not a matter of years but a matter of months. We have to wait and see how well and how quickly the Iraqi forces are organized.", "Adnan Pachachi, our guest from the United Arab Emirates. Thank you for your time today. Hope to talk to you again very soon. Now Soledad.", "Let's talk a little bit about the weather. Thousands went without power last night after severe storms tore across the state of Oklahoma. Winds with speeds of more than 80 miles an hour sheared glass windows right off the side of a high rise in downtown Tulsa. 1300 workers were evacuated from that building. One woman died during the storms when her car was actually blown right off a highway.", "Coming up; this morning, President Bush talking with his lawyer lately. We'll tell you what that's all about.", "Also in a moment, summer is almost here and a day at the amusement park sounds like a whole lot of fun. Better make sure the rides are safe for the whole family. 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{"id": "CNN-405936", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2020-07-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/20/acd.01.html", "summary": "Florida Teachers File Lawsuit After State Forces Schools To Reopen; Nursing Home's \"Romeo & Juliet\" Share Poignant Farewell.", "utt": ["You heard Governor Ron DeSantis being heckled before the break. He's also being challenged in court in Florida. Today, unionized teachers in the state filed suit to overturn his emergency order for forcing schools in the state to reopen. And over the weekend, researchers from South Korea's Centers for Disease Control released a study suggesting that children ages 10 to 19 can transmit the virus as readily as adults. Younger kids pass it about three times less according to the data. Here to talk about it, Dr. Leana Wen, as Baltimore's Health Commissioner, she oversaw medical facilities in the city's public schools. Also with us, Dr. David Rubin, Director of the PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. And Dr. Wen, I want to start with you just in Florida in general, given the state of the pandemic there and the surge in cases, how dangerous would it be to reopen schools there next month, as the Governor continues to want to do?", "John, I can't imagine schools being reopened in Florida next month at the rate that we're going when there is escalating explosive spread throughout the state. We keep on asking the question of, can we keep schools free from COVID? Well, there's no way to keep schools free from COVID if the community is a hotbed of infection, and so what we really need to do now, if the goal is to reopen schools next month, we need to be implementing very strict guidelines, restrictions now to the point of even having short term place lock downs, once again. If Florida were to do that, right now, this moment, it would still take at least three to four weeks for us to even see the change in the inflection point for us to see a decline in the number of infections and that really must be done now and the window for that kind of intervention is closing.", "Dr. Rubin, I want to play a clip of something that Missouri Governor Mike Parson said about children returning to school. Listen to this.", "These kids have got to get back to school, they're at the lowest risk possible. And if they do get COVID-19, which they will, and they will when they go to school, they're not going to the hospitals, they're not going to have to sit in a doctor's office today. We're going to go home and they're going to get over it.", "They'll get it. They'll get over it. As a pediatrician, what do you make of that statement?", "Well, you know children don't live in bubbles. You know, they rely on their parents often their grandparents. We've got 95,000 of them caring for kids here in Pennsylvania alone. The teachers, you know, kids are foundational to a working community. And the idea that kids live in a bubble just doesn't work. If we don't get community transmission rates down to acceptable levels to make it safe to reopen schools, I just don't see a path forward.", "But he is willing to accept kids just getting it is that a public health policy?", "No, because the reality is, while kids may be less likely to get severe disease, their parents and their grandparents and their teachers are not. This is about public confidence. This is about being able to say to a teacher can enter a classroom and know that his or her health won't be in jeopardy. That parents don't need to, you know to live with anxiety that their children may be bringing home illness that could actually confer pretty serious consequences within their families or throughout their extended family.", "So Dr. Wen, and there are certain articles or studies that I read as a journalist and others I read as a parent, and when I read the South Korea Centers for Disease Control study on kids and transmission, I read that as a parent of 13-year-old boys and when you read that 10 to 19 year olds pass the virus just as frequently or more so, as adults, what's the takeaway there? What do you make of this study?", "Yes, I mean, it's a well done study with a lot of people. It actually included up to 60,000 people in this study, but there are some limitations to it, including that it only looked at symptomatic individuals. And we know that children even more than adults may be asymptomatic carriers. I think it's also a problem if we look at children and how often they interact with one another, even if they're just as likely as adults are to transmit the disease, they may be in contact with far more people. And so I really worry about the impact not only on children and to your point, it is not harmless. There are children who have died. There are children who have gotten this toxic shock like syndrome with multi-organ damage. And we're talking about vulnerable teachers and staff and so many others who may be infected if we do not get this right, if we try to take a shortcut and don't follow public health guidance.", "Dr. Rubin, what do you think a reasonable expectation is for children wearing masks at school? What ages do you think they can do it? How realistic is it to ask them to do it much, if not all of the day?", "Well, first, you know, when I talk about public confidence, we talk a lot about masking but I often begin with other elements for a public health response, which is about distancing. It's about ensuring that we are not cutting corners, like Dr. Wen said, you know, with regards to overpopulation in classrooms with too many students and putting children and teachers in unsafe situations. There's also an important emphasis if you look at European reopenings of their schools, the investment in hygiene and disinfection that is required throughout the school day, and then we get to masks. And I think you know, we have to -- we have to look at masks and realize that they are an additional barrier that if we can lower the occupancy in our room and have youth wearing masks, but if we can separate them considerably, then we can begin to think about at times of low circulating infections, times when kids can take breaks, but recognizing that parents have worked really hard, in many circumstances to teach our children, our adolescents how to wear masks effectively and how to protect others in their community. And just disregarding that when the youth returned to school, I don't think is a proper solution given the circumstances we're in.", "Dr. Wen, given how much contact kids have with each other, take that in conjunction with the testing issues and tracing issues we're having in this country now. What challenges would that provide if there was an outbreak in a school?", "Yes, and I think that's something that we just have not talked about because it's not a question of if there will be an outbreak, there will be outbreaks. It's a question of when and there will be outbreaks, basically, especially if we are opening against this backdrop of surging infections. There will be a lot of outbreaks. And I worry that we don't have a plan. Imagine if one student becomes infected. Well, how many people are we then going to be asking to be tested? What happens if the tests don't come back for 10 days? Are we going to expect for every family member of all of these children to also be out of work for 10 days until this test comes back? And how many more people are they going to be infecting? So these are all the questions that we have to think through. We have to invest significant resources, as Dr. Rubin also mentioned, in order to bolster our infrastructure to keep everyone safe.", "You've got to do it now. We're running out of time as the beginning of the school year approaches Dr. Leana Wen, Dr. David Rubin, thanks so much for being with us. Up next, we delve back into the politics of coronavirus with President Trump trying to downplay the risks in that Fox News interview. One of his comments made one frontline medical worker so upset when 360 returns."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "DR. LEANA WEN, FORMER HEALTH COMMISSIONER FOR THE CITY OF BALTIMORE", "BERMAN", "GOV. MIKE PARSON (R-MO)", "BERMAN", "DR. DAVID RUBIN, DIRECTOR OF THE POLICYLAB, CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA", "BERMAN", "RUBIN", "BERMAN", "WEN", "BERMAN", "RUBIN", "BERMAN", "WEN", "RUBIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-362021", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-02-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/14/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Venezuelan Refugees Stream into Colombia", "utt": ["Welcome back, everybody. I'm John Vause with an update on our top news stories this hour. High-level trade talks are underway in Beijing. The U.S. treasury secretary says so far, so good. Trade representatives could soon meet with the Chinese president. But hanging over that optimism, a March 1 deadline. If a deal is not reached, new (ph) tariffs could go on $200 billion of Chinese goods. In the coming hours, U.K. lawmakers will again debate Brexit and suggest the next steps for leaving the E.U. In the month since Parliament rejected Theresa May's Brexit deal, the prime minister has failed to get the E.U. to reopen negotiations. A big push is underway in the U.S. Congress to end support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. A resolution passed the lower House, calling for U.S. forces to withdraw within 40 days. It's a stunning rebuke of President Trump and his close relationship and defense of Saudi Arabia, especially in the wake of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.", "This will now go to the United States Senate, where it passed in the last Congress; and we're expecting it to pass in this Congress and giving the president an opportunity to potentially veto this. Now, again, you're right. It does not have enough votes to override a presidential veto, but a very symbolic rebuke from Congress, bipartisan opposition to the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen putting pressure on the administration to change course.", "The United Nations calls Yemen the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. The Trump administration has a much different take. Here's the U.S. secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, appearing on PBS.", "The Americans, the Brits, the Saudis and Emiratis are doing everything we can to take down the threat from the humanitarian crisis in Yemen while Iran fuels it. It provides missiles to the Houthis that they launch into airports in Saudi Arabia and the Emirates. These are the challenges in Yemen. These are the challenges that this administration is determined to push back against. We're going to keep at it.", "President Trump is hinting, once again, he may send U.S. troops to South America to help end the crisis in Venezuela. He met with Colombia's president at the White House on Wednesday, urging Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro to resign. Duque says Maduro's efforts to block badly needed-aid are a crime against humanity. Meanwhile, a source says Mr. Trump will deliver a speech on Venezuela Monday in Miami. For now the president and President Duque are pledging support for Venezuela's opposition leader, Juan Guaido.", "I have great respect for the man that most people, many people think is the real president of Venezuela. He's very brave.", "President Guaido, who is the person about to lead the transition in Venezuela, has a strong support. And we need to give him even stronger support.", "U.S. officials believe the situation in Venezuela will continue to worsen, so they're stockpiling relief supplies on the border, ready to deliver once it is safe. In the meantime, though, Venezuelans continue to stream into neighboring Colombia to get whatever food and medicine they can afford. CNN's Lisa Suarez is there.", "Every step is a burden: a load they have to carry for miles on end. But even the weight of their cargo does little to hold their tongue (ph). And while the majority cross this border legally, some others take a less traveled road. And they all do it out of necessity. (on camera): (speaking foreign language) There's no food. \"Nothing. Nothing there,\" he's saying. \"Coffee. Toothpaste. There's nothing in Venezuela. Only sadness.\" That's what she's telling me. Yet, 20 minutes away from here on Tienditas Bridge, is a warehouse packed full of humanitarian aid, waiting to be delivered. Sure, this is just a drop in the ocean, but it's creating a wave of expectation on both sides of the border. And with that, desperation. (voice-over): The frustration is evident in every corner of this border town as Venezuelans line up for food, for money and for any way out of this crisis. (on camera): He's saying Colombia, but this gentleman here, he's collecting some money, and he's going all the way to Peru. He's telling me, \"We don't want anything to do with Maduro.\" (voice-over): It seems he's not alone. They're celebrating the fall of Maduro's regime. Premature. After all, he's standing his ground, with his military still preventing the aid from entering the country. But they're heeding the call of Juan Guaido --", "We will move the humanitarian aid. Of course, we will move it. And we will move it, even if we have to carry it through unofficial paths.", "-- who has been rallying his troops, calling on the people to volunteer and carry the aid across the border on the 23rd of February. (on camera): Are you going to help on the 23rd?", "As you can see here, everyone, as you can see here, everyone is prepared to risk their lives to carry that humanitarian aid across the border. (voice-over): And they're counting on the army, the rank and file, who, too, are living on the edge, to walk as well as stand beside them. Lisa Suarez, CNN, Bogota (ph), Colombia.", "In the Philippines, journalist Maria Ressa is free on bail. She's an outspoken critic of the Philippine president and was arrested for cyber libel. She's a CEO of the online news site Rappler, and Maria spoke to reporters after she was released from custody.", "For me, it's about two things: abuse of power and weaponization of the law. This isn't just about me, and it's not just about Rappler. The message that the government is sending is very clear, and someone actually told our reporter this last night: Be silent or you're next.", "Ressa posted 2,000 dollars in bail. The news site says the libel charges are related to an article published in 2012. Ressa is among several journalists named Person of the Year by \"TIME\" magazine last year. And she was also CNN's long-time bureau chief in Manila. Local and international journalism groups, as well as Amnesty International among those condemning her arrest. It was only meant to be a 90-day gig, but it ended up 15 years on the job, changing what we know about the red planet. Ahead, NASA says its final good-byes to the surprising workhorse known as Oppy."], "speaker": ["VAUSE", "MANU RAJU, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "VAUSE", "MIKE POMPEO, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE", "VAUSE", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "IVAN DUQUE MARQUEZ, PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA", "VAUSE", "LISA SUAREZ, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GRAPHIC", "SUAREZ", "SUAREZ", "VAUSE", "MARIA RESSA, CEO, RAPPLER", "VAUSE"]}
{"id": "CNN-116764", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-5-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/11/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Senior U.S. Official: Terror Plot Discovered Against U.S. Interests in Germany; U.S. Coasts Ablaze", "utt": ["Hello. I'm Don Lemon, live at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta.", "And I'm Kyra Phillips. Bombs, small arms, real threat or old news? A top U.S. official tells of a terror plot against U.S. interests in Germany.", "But the State Department says that's really not new. They cite a warning sent out three weeks ago. We'll piece it all together for you right here in the", "And about an hour ago, we first told you about this story breaking. This is what we know so far. A CNN official had confirmed to us that U.S. and German officials were fearing that terrorists were in the advanced planning stages of an attack on U.S. military personnel and/or tourists in Germany. They came forward in telling us about intelligence that they got, possibly that U.S. air marshals had been diverted to provide expanded protection of flights between Germany and the U.S. The source was saying that that danger level was high. They were extremely concerned. As you know, in particular -- a particular concern to the officials was the Patch Barracks. Patch Barracks is the headquarters for the U.S.-European command right there in Germany. The 9/11 hijackers actually planned their operation out of Hamburg, Germany, and that's why this country has been under the watch of authorities. We finally are able to get to our Fred Pleitgen, there live in Germany. Fred, I know you've been working your sources, working this information or us. Good to see you. What were you able to find out?", "Yes, Kyra, it's good to see you. Basically, I've talked to a spokesperson for the U.S. embassy here in Berlin, and also to a spokesperson of the German Interior Ministry. And what they say is that they are not aware of any new specific terrorist plot. But they're also saying that about two weeks ago they did raise the threat level for U.S. installations here in Germany, and this was really something that happened only in Germany. This was not some general terrorist warning. This was something that happened only in Germany. And what they're saying is that they were asking American tourists to be more vigilant here in Germany. They massively increased security for the U.S. embassy, and also for U.S. military installations. And we do know of one U.S. military installation specifically where the security has been massively increased. So, while they're not saying that they know anything about some new plot, they are saying that the threat level has been raised considerably. And Kyra, you know that in just a few weeks' time the G8 summit will be held here in Germany, in northern Germany. And in the run-up to that G8 summit, we are seeing German officials also heavily cracking down on anybody whom they might believe might be trying to disrupt that summit. And we saw anti-terror raids here in Germany only two days ago, where 900 German police officers swarmed out all across the country and arrested 40 people and raided several houses. And they were saying back then that this was also related to a terrorist plot. Now, they were saying it was a left-wing terrorist plot. We're not sure that that has anything to do with what we're hearing right now, Kyra. But this is certainly a country very much on alert, and a country that really does fear very much for the security of any American that's in this country -- Kyra.", "Fred Pleitgen, our Berlin bureau chief. Fred, keep us posted as you talk to your sources. Thanks.", "And our homeland security correspondent, Jeanne Meserve, has been digging up some details for us. She joins us now with the very latest. What have you found out, Jeanne?", "Well, U.S. officials tell CNN that the threat information is not new, but one senior federal official characterized it as very real. Other sources are calling it credible. According to officials, the threat information did originate in Germany and has been evolving for several months. Some intelligence officials tell us that it is not specific, but one senior official tells us it involved planning for multiple attacks, with bombs and automatic weapons on U.S. interests and/or military bases in Germany. It was taken seriously enough that the State Department put out a message announcing increased security at U.S. diplomatic and consulate facilities in Germany, and there was comment about that at the State Department briefing a short time ago.", "There was recently, within the past couple of weeks -- you can check me on the date -- a warden message that went out from our embassy asking people in country to exercise extra vigilance and caution, although at that point they didn't have a specific credible threat, but they were quite concerned. I can't speak to this, whether or not there is new information that has come in. Whenever we do have information that we believe is credible enough to act on, we have a legal requirement, as well as moral requirement, to pass along our best advice to our public so that they can take steps to protect themselves.", "The force protection level at U.S. military facilities in Germany has not been increased. And that's an indication that no threat is imminent. And the Department of Homeland Security emphasizes that there is no indication of a nexus to the homeland, and there is no credible intelligence to suggest an imminent attack here. As for who's responsible, well, we have conflicting information. Some say there is an al Qaeda link. But other sources say that is only a strong suspicious because of the history of al Qaeda activity in Germany. But once again, not new information here, but worrisome information. Back to you.", "Homeland Security Correspondent Jeanne Meserve. Thank you, Jeanne.", "Now, earlier, we discussed the German threat report with Jim Walsh of the Security Studies program at MIT.", "What is surprising to me about this -- and of course, we don't know a lot yet -- is that it would be focused on a military site. On the one hand, that makes sense for them to attack the U.S. military because of its affiliation with Iraq, and it's an American target. But, on the other hand, you'd think that this would be very difficult for outsiders to gain access to.", "Well, and Islamic groups have threatened violence against Germany for its involvement in those wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, correct? So this could be...", "Absolutely. Well -- and, of course, other European partners have faced direct attack. There was the bombing of the Spanish trains. There have been attacks on Australians, in Indonesia. So -- and there have been threatened attacks. Several of the videotapes, several of the audiotapes issued by al Qaeda have mentioned Germany and other European allies as being on the target list.", "And of particular concern, Patch Barracks, the headquarters for the U.S. European command there in Germany. This is obviously a military facility that has been under constant threat and has been of concern for attacks like this. Right, Jim?", "Yes. And historically, Kyra, going back even decades, when Europe suffered the wave of Red terrorism, with the Baader- Meinhof Gang and the Red Army, and you had groups in Germany and Italy, in Germany there were terrorist groups -- again, ideologically driven, not religiously driven -- but ideologically driven, who did attack U.S. bases in Germany. So, it's not the first time that groups, terrorist groups, or others have targeted U.S. military facilities in that country.", "And Jim Walsh was on the phone there from Cambridge, Massachusetts.", "Now to the wildfires across America. From the East Coast to the West Coast, the U.S. is burning at the edges from swampy northern Florida to the islands off southern California. The weather is dry, it's warm, it's windy, and that spells trouble for the firefighters trying to get these blazes under control. Bigger trouble for hundreds of families fleeing and fearing for their homes. Let's get straight to Catalina Island now, 30 miles off the southern California coast. About 4,000 acres have gone up in smoke since this time yesterday. CNN's Ted Rowlands is there.", "Don, it's a situation that is getting better by the minute because of the amount of firefighters out here attacking this blaze. There's a little flare-up right now on the Hill behind me. I don't know if you can really see it or not. But the fire itself is being attacked by the air and on the ground because reinforcements have come here, partly via the U.S. military. Last night, though, a much different story. A wall of flames descended on Avalon here on Catalina Island, and it sent everybody out of their homes for the most part. Mandatory evacuations, people grabbed what they could in an instant, came down to the beach, and then looked up and watched and hoped for the best. It was a horrible sight for those people seeing the wall of flames descend on their homes. Luckily, the fire dampened down when the winds changed late last night, and these homes, for the most part, were saved. They did lose a few structures here, but the city itself is intact. A few outbuildings and a few -- and one home in an outer area was lost, but it could have been much, much worse. Because Mother Nature helped out. Now, today firefighters are exploiting that opportunity, and they have been attacking this fire from the air. There's still a lot of work to be done. It's only 10 percent contained. However, there is optimism, if the conditions stay as they are now, meaning if the winds continue to be low and the humidity stays at this level, a relatively high level compared to the conditions yesterday -- Don.", "All right. Ted Rowlands on Catalina. Thank you, Ted.", "We're watching the coast today for signs of relief, but other parts right now of the country have problems of their own. Meteorologist Reynolds Wolf from the CNN weather center following it all for us.", "U.S. officials say there's a terror plot against U.S. citizens and interests in Germany. The German government is downplaying it, saying it's an old warning. What's the truth? We'll update you in the", "Wildfires on both coasts. The battles inch by inch. We'll check in with one of the top responders for an update from Catalina Island. The latest from the CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "LEMON", "CNN NEWSROOM. PHILLIPS", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN BERLIN BUREAU CHIEF", "PHILLIPS", "LEMON", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "SEAN MCCORMACK, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN", "MESERVE", "LEMON", "PHILLIPS", "JIM WALSH, MIT SECURITY STUDIES PROGRAM", "PHILLIPS", "WALSH", "PHILLIPS", "WALSH", "PHILLIPS", "LEMON", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "PHILLIPS", "LEMON", "CNN NEWSROOM. PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-319486", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2017-08-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/21/ctw.01.html", "summary": "The suspicious person who appeared to be wearing an explosives belt has been shot in police in the town of Subirats", "utt": ["A visibly emotional Neymar former Barcelona football his new club Paris Benjamin honored the victims of last week carnage here in Spain. Come back here in the CNN Barcelona a suspicious person who appeared to be wearing an explosives belt was shot by police in the town of Subirats, According to the police that being reported, let's bring in a local journalist Sara Canals who has been working her resources on this. What do we know about this point about what was going on there in that town just South of Barcelona.", "In Subirats, well there has been ongoing operations right now, we cannot confirm yet either if the who was shot down is the attacker, but some media has been persuading about it, so we have to wait until the police updated us. Well some of our sources saying that a woman cell, whether she is part of the attacker -", "The van driver.", "Yes and then she called the police and then the operation is on the way, there might be an explosive, now police is testing whether they are safe or not and we will see if we can finally say that the attacker is arrested, but we are still waiting for that.", "The disappearance of the van driver of the van that make people down in front of us on Thursday and he fled and he is still on the road we've been told today that he is on the run and possibly armed, we now know in the pass that there has been this operation out of Barcelona putting the pieces together is too soon at the moment, we will bring more information as we get, we have been talking this hour about the effects this attack in Barcelona, the attack in Gambrills is now, as we understand it explosives house in (inaudible) the information about the town of Ripoll to the north of here, the impact it has on Barcelona and the Society, how would you describe it?", "the thing is pretty shocking, first of all, because we are talking not only about an operation in Barcelona, but on the different regions on Katarina, Katarina is a pretty small region from Spain and we see that this cell was in Ripoll in attacking Cambridge, cooking the explosives here, so that makes us that they are really preparing for the attack, which should maybe put more efforts on tackling this cells that are little by little settling down across the territory. Not only in Barcelona in the (inaudible) in this neighborhood with a high immigration.", "It seems clear that most of this cell is from Ripoll's from the north, before we have this conversation, I want to talk about the integration of those from the north, for example and form the society. A very, very quick update on this cell that you got here, the Catalan police saying that the unit use to dismantle explosives is now using a robot to approach the suspect who has been shot in Subirats and according to Twitter, an official account from the police sources here, it is unclear now if the suspect is dead or alive he had been shot down or taken down. That is the very latest as we understand, apologies for - apologies he views as well for focusing on the conversation that we are having were very important of you the information we have as quickly as possible. Just how to integrate it is?", "Well I think for a less a few years, immigration had been reintegrated with African police for the refugee crisis, that people here form the Catalina had step up to welcome refugees, they did a huge demonstration on February, welcoming refugees, I think the sight is pretty united on this, but there is also a portion of population who feel like marginalized maybe towns like Ripoll or rural areas.", "Just yesterday a huge show of support from Catalan, a very big anti-ISIS, anti-attack demonstration by many Muslims who were shouting, we are Catalan, we are Muslim and support from society.", "Exactly and I think it is really important also for moving on this attack that we say that we are not scared of integration, diversity and that we are an international city.", "We have been discussing and I put on the great question to the Foreign Minister just in the past hour as to whether signals from this whether intelligence that may be shared more than you when you report your sources is there a sense that this was miss, this attack?", "Honestly I think I was a little bit surprised that police were not able to prevent it, because as you have seen on the show, we have the intelligence in 2004 and I have a sense of a journalist that police were pretty prepared. This year we have seen police and Muslims as well whether this mental, huge terrorist cell who are in charge with the Brussels attack and the Paris attackers so, for me I want surprise because I had seen the police here are quite prepared and for it was a shocked and also (inaudible) is a pretty crowded area and not only for tourist, but also for people like us in Barcelona, and I am surprised that they couldn't stop something like this, in fact when we are talking in ---", "As we talked, I am just going to get our views about the very latest pictures coming in from Subirats in Spain again, south of here. There is an ongoing operation, the bomb squad there, we are now being told by Catalan police using a robot to get closer to a man they have describe as having taken down. We can't confirm whether he is dead or alive. It is unclear at this present, the police -- the Catalan police there telling us that he has been shot down. Some reports appeared to be - he appeared to be wearing an explosive belt. Can't confirm whether it was a real belt or not but these are the very latest pictures as we all getting them from the time Subirats in Spain, 5:38 pm local time here in Spain and an ongoing operation there as we get more. We will bring it to you, but I want to stay on this pictures as long as we have them and while we continue to just discuss what this city of Barcelona and so many other now we understand spots around the Catalan coast to the north has been through. You said that this is, you know we heard people say we are not afraid we will get over this and get those tourist back on the streets and this is a familiar scene, we have seen this across Europe. But you say there is a sense of shock, isn't it?", "Yes and there is another point on this matter that Barcelona is a pretty small city, for example we know, we confirmed today that the attacker take some and go in the city so, , he left the van and walk for about 1 hour and 30 minutes. They go back to park their car and then it is just everything that is supposed to people who wait here, that is pretty scary even if we are trying to say there is no fear, of course things will change after this.", "We will take a very sort break, 5:39 in about 20 to six the evening on the is the current state of affairs just south of the here what we are in Barcelona images coming to you live up what is now ongoing police operation, taking a very short break. We will get you what we can after this."], "speaker": ["BECKY ANDERSON, CONNECT THE WORLD, CNN", "SARA CANALS, LOCAL JOURNALIST, BARCELONA", "ANDERSON", "CANALS", "ANDERSON", "CANALS", "ANDERSON", "CANALS", "ANDERSON", "CANALS", "ANDERSON", "CANALS", "ANDERSON", "CANALS", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-189600", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2012-7-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/17/ng.01.html", "summary": "No Clues in Disappearance of Two Iowa Cousins", "utt": ["Breaking news tonight, live, Cedar Falls, suburbs. A massive search under way for two little girls, 10-year-old Lyric and her little cousin, 8-year-old Elizabeth, the two girls riding their bike downtown Evansdale, lunchtime, broad daylight. We learn police discover the two girls` bikes, Collins`s little purple purse and a play cell phone near Meyers Lake. As over 1,000 volunteers join the search, initial dredging efforts Lake Meyers reveal nothing. Bombshell tonight. Police, family, volunteers vow they will bring the two little girl cousins home alive, as experts say kidnap the most likely scenario, while criminologists say it`s as if these two little girls have simply vanished off the face of the earth. Tonight, with us and taking your calls, the girls` families desperate for help. Tonight, the search for the two little girl cousins, just 8 and 10.", "Rescue crews search for 10-year-old Lyric Morrissey and 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins.", "It`s as though they disappeared into thin air in broad daylight.", "Two girls on a summer bike ride.", "Left their grandmother`s house for a bike ride. It`s the last time anyone saw them.", "Authorities found their bikes and a purse near a lake.", "When the police found the bikes, that`s kind of when it got serious.", "One of the girls` purses was found not too far away in some bushes.", "So far, those are the only traces left behind.", "Family members do fear that someone abducted the cousins. But so far, investigators have found nothing.", "It`s just baffling to try to figure out the pieces to the puzzle.", "It`s a 24/7 search operation by law enforcement.", "Meyers Lake remained the focus since it`s the last place the girls were seen.", "Hundreds of people are helping in the search for Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook.", "Combing corn fields, looking deep into a lake, going door to door, state and federal agencies including the FBI are on the ground helping with the search.", "But so far, searchers have come up empty.", "It`s just like they vanished", "Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace, I want to thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight. Live to Cedar Falls suburbs. A massive search is under way at this hour for two little girls, 10-year-old Lyric and little cousin, 8-year-old Elizabeth, the two girls riding their bikes, downtown Evansdale, lunchtime, broad daylight. Tonight, the search for the two little girl cousins just 8 and 10. And joining us exclusively in primetime tonight, their families who are literally begging for your help to bring their girls home alive. We are taking your calls. I want to go straight out, before I go to the girls` family, to CNN correspondent Jim Spellman, who`s joining us there at Meyers Lake. Jim, thank you for being with us.", "Hey, Nancy. This investigation currently is on two tracks. On the search and rescue track, after several days of hundreds of people from the community searching fields and wooded areas all around here and finding nothing, they`ve decided to drain this lake to be absolutely sure there`s nothing important to the investigation in this lake. The second track is the law enforcement track, that the FBI has been added to the mix. Just yesterday, FBI scent dogs came here, worked with the family to get scents out of shoes from these little girls to try to find any sort of lead. We know that they did get a scent and they were able to follow it for some distance. We`re not sure where that`ll lead them or if it will become an important part of this investigation yet, Nancy.", "Jim Spellman, CNN correspondent joining me there at Meyers Lake. Boom (ph). Jim, I want to go over what you just said. You told me that scent dogs have been brought in and they were smelling the little girls` clothing and shoes? Did I hear that?", "That`s right, Nancy, out of the girls` shoes. Family members were lined up so that the dogs could eliminate their scent. They then followed the scent from where the girls` bikes were found. And we know that the dogs went not too far, but into a wooded area at the end, the terminus, of this bike path. And that`s as far as we know that the dogs got. Again, we don`t yet know the importance of that. But we know that they have definitely amped up this investigation by bringing in those dogs, Nancy.", "OK, Jim, I hate to backtrack over what you`re telling me, but I`m hearing new facts. I`m trying to digest that and fit it into the facts that I already know about Elizabeth and Lyric`s disappearance. Everyone, at this hour, literally minutes count. Anything you can do to help find these girls, whether you live in the area and you can go be a volunteer, whether you think you saw them, whether you think you know something, this is the tip line, 319-232-6682. Jim, I want to go back over what you just said. I`m learning something new right now, that scent dogs, after smelling in the little girls` shoes and their clothing, eliminating family members, started smelling at the bikes. And instead of going down into the water, which I don`t think that two little girls are going to go swimming in their clothes anyway -- but the dogs didn`t go towards the water, they went back toward the bike path?", "They did, back towards the bike path, which ends in kind of a wooded area. Nancy, the way this lake is laid out, there`s a bike path that is sort of a U. And in the far corner of the U is where the girls` bikes were found. And the bike path does not continue past that. It`s a densely wooded area with freeway on one side, a fence, a pretty tall fence, then the bike path, then another fence and then the water. The girls` bikes were found on the bike path between the two fences, and the purse was found between the fence and the shoreline.", "OK, tell me that one more time. And if you don`t mind, Jim Spellman, draw me the U in the air and show me where on the U the bikes were found as it relates to the water.", "Sure. Nancy, if this is the U and this was the lake, right here, this is the -- this would be the southeast corner of the lake, you have a highway right here. Then you have a bike path. That`s where their bikes were found. Then another fence, and the lake in here. This end over here, where we`re standing right now, there are homes, there`s a park, et cetera. This end is just woods and the bike path that ends.", "So are they close? Is there a fence between the girls and the highway?", "There is a fence between the girls and the highway, between the bikes -- where the bikes were found and the highway, and a fence between where the bikes were found and the water, though you don`t have to go too far to get around that fence to get to the water, Nancy.", "Oh, I`m seeing it. They`re pulling it up right now. So there`s a fence between the bikes and the highway, the girls and the highway. Let me see that shot again, Liz. Between the path and the lake? Is that what you`re saying?", "Oh, I`m hearing...", "Yes, there is, although...", "... something. Somebody`s telling me...", "... the fence between...", "... about a gate being opened.", "Yes, there was a gate -- there was a gate there that was open. It wouldn`t be difficult to get through either a hole in the fence - - which is not too close, several hundred yards away from where the bikes were found that leads up to the highway. It looks like that at one point, there was a traffic accident there, and they never repaired the fence. And there also is another gate farther down. It wouldn`t be impossible to get from one side to the other. It wouldn`t be a huge deal to do that.", "Joining me right now, in addition to Jim Spellman joining us there at the scene at Meyers Lake, the mother of 10-year-old Lyric is with us, Misty Cook-Morrissey. Also with me, Wylma Cook, the missing girls` grandmother. Ladies, thank you for being with us.", "Thank you for having us.", "First out to Lyric`s mother. Ten-year-old Lyric, everyone, out riding bikes with her cousin, her 8-year-old cousin, when they seemingly just vanish into thin air. And right now, asking for your help is Lyric`s mother, Misty Cook-Morrissey. Misty, thank you for being with us.", "Yes. Thank you.", "Misty, that day when she goes missing, let`s take it from the top. What happened, starting in the morning?", "I left for work at 8:30 AM. She gave me a hug and a kiss and told me she would text me and let me know when I got off of work where she would be, either at Heather`s in Evansdale or back at our mother`s home in Waterloo. I left for work. At 2:00 o`clock, my mother, their grandmother, called and said she couldn`t find them. They`d been on a bike ride, and you know, to come directly to Heather`s home. I only work just up the street. I came directly there. My mom had been driving around looking for them. We stood in the yard and talked for a few minutes. Heather pulled up, had not been able to find them. It was about 2:20, 2:30 PM. And so Heather said, I`m going to the police station. And that`s when she went to the Evansdale PD to involve them.", "Now, Ms. Cook-Morrissey, you work not too far away. Where do you work?", "I work at K.C.`s (ph). It`s a gas station/general store, which is just a couple of miles up the road from where my sister lives.", "Ms. Cook-Morrissey, where would the girls typically ride their bikes? And listen, you`re speaking to somebody, when we grew up, we could get on our bikes and ride until it was supper time and that was OK. And in your area, it`s a very, very low crime rate. It`s a lot of rural, wooded area where you`d think girls would be safe. So tell me, what`s their normal bike route, or do they even have a normal bike route?", "I don`t think they have a normal bike route, but they are not allowed to just ride freely for hours or until dark. They do have a little bit of freedom, so they`re allowed to go, you know, maybe two or three blocks away and stay within those blocks. An hour, check back in is kind of the standard that we hold with them, and mostly, they stick with it. So it was very surprising to see that they had come this far, if, indeed, they did, you know, ride this far.", "Had they ever ridden around Meyers Lake before?", "To my understanding, no. I`m not sure. I don`t think so. It`s quite a bit away.", "Did Lyric have a cell phone?", "She has a cell phone that was at my mother`s, so she didn`t have one on her, no.", "OK. So she was going to text you after work, after you got off of work, from her grandmother`s cell phone. All right. That day, we know they`re missing at 2:00 o`clock. We know that much. Now, apparently, a neighbor has come forward, like in the last hours, Ms. Cook-Morrissey, somebody named Robert Carpenter (ph), who says he saw them in the afternoon. Hold on. Let me go out to you, Ellie Jostad. What do we know about this new person -- new to me, anyway -- emerging, Robert Carpenter? What time does he place the girls alive and well?", "Well, Nancy, Mr. Carpenter told \"The Des Moines Register\" that he was out watering his yard. He says it was sometime between noon and 3:00 o`clock when he saw the girls ride by. Now, he`s a little closer to the lake. He`s about two blocks or so away from Meyers Lake. He says at the time, he didn`t think anything of it. And it wasn`t until he learned the girls were missing that he noticed -- you know, he maybe saw them that afternoon.", "No sign of two missing Iowa girls. It`s as though they disappeared into thin air in broad daylight.", "It is a completely baffling case.", "Hundreds are helping in the search for Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook.", "Their bikes were found, but there`s no sign of them.", "After an entire weekend of searching, they have very few, if any, clues.", "The bicycles were found by a lake, but the mother of one of the girls doubts they would have gone there on their own.", "It`s not an area that they frequented. They didn`t go far from home, either of the girls.", "It`s like they just vanished.", "Family members do fear that someone abducted the cousins. But so far, investigators have found nothing.", "There is an answer! We will find these girls! A 10-year-old and 8-year-old little girl go for a bike ride on a summer morning. They are not seen again. We are taking your calls. Out to Donna in Tennessee. Hi, Donna. What`s your question?", "I had a question about the cell phones, but I think that was answered. What about the area around where the bikes were found? Are there any tire tracks, any tire tracks on the other side of the fence?", "Good question. Joining me is Jesse Gavin, the news director at KCNZ -- KCNZ. Jesse, thanks for being with us. What do we know about potential tire tracks, if any?", "Well, there hasn`t been any word on that from authorities. And Nancy, actually, that -- they mentioned earlier in your show there is a big hole in one of the fences near the lake. That is from where a few years ago, somebody had crashed off of the interstate and into the lake and they never got around to repairing that gate. That may have been how some people have gotten down closer to the lake. But at least at this point, it doesn`t appear that there are anything fresh -- or isn`t anything fresh in the way of tire tracks or anything like that around that bike path, even though it is very close to an interstate highway.", "To Robyn Walensky, anchor with TheBlaze. Robyn, weigh in. What do you know?", "You know, what bothers me about this case, Nancy, is that you have a feisty 10-year-old and an 8-year-old, two little girls out in the middle of the summer, full of energy, riding their bikes. So were they snatched by a stranger or strangers, plural? It would seem that it would be very difficult for one person to perhaps, you know, take them and throw them in the back of the van or whatever. It just seems maybe more than one person is involved in this.", "Everybody, we are taking your calls. And with me is Misty Cook-Morrissey. That`s Lyric`s mother. And now joining me, Wylma Cook, the grandmother. Wylma Cook, thank you for being with us.", "You`re welcome.", "Ms. Cook, tell me what you saw that day, the day the girls go missing.", "Well, I took her from my house -- I live in Waterloo, and her mom left for work. She rode with me to Heather`s house, my other daughter in Evansdale. And I go there every day for four or five hours, and she always goes with me. And because Heather is not well and she has four little kids. And we did a daily routine that day at, you know, in her house doing things, eating breakfast and all that stuff. And so it was at 11:30, they asked me if they could go for a short bike ride, and I said yes. And they`ve done this millions of times. And they`ve never, never went that far. I could go outside and yell their names, and they would eventually hear me. And this day, they just didn`t come back. And so Kelly (ph), Elizabeth`s brother, he`s 12 -- I hopped in my car because the dad came home, and I went searching Elk Run. We were down by Meyers Lake. We drove all over every little park and Evansdale, Elk Run, every mentionable place, downtown area. And we couldn`t find nobody.", "Two little girls staying with their grandma ask to go to for a bike ride, a bike ride right in the middle of the summertime, broad daylight. What could be more innocent, more all-American than that? With me right now is the grandmother, Wylma Cook. Her two little granddaughters, 8 and 10, go for a bike ride. They have not been seen since. At this hour, a local -- Meyers Lake is being dredged and drained. So far, those efforts have revealed nothing. In fact, scent dogs start with the bikes and go away from the water. We are taking your calls. Out to Ms. Wylma Cook. Ms. Cook is the grandmother of 8-year-old Elizabeth and 10-year-old Lyric. Ms. Cook, you were taking me through that morning. So they asked to go and ride their bikes, and that`s about what time?", "30.", "30.", "And Lyric knew that we were going to be heading for home at 1:30 because her mom got off at 2:00.", "Did they have -- either one of them have on wristwatches?", "No.", "Did either one of them have a cell phone?", "Elizabeth had one, but it wasn`t activated. It was just for playing games -- in her purse, her purple purse.", "You know, Ms. Cook, I just don`t see these two little girls going into the water either skinny dipping or in their clothes.", "There has been no nothing about that water, that lake. And the two little girls, they would have took their shoes and flip-flops off. Elizabeth had high black-tops (ph) on. They would have never went in that water and swam and came home dripping wet. I don`t think they would have even knowed the way to Meyers Lake.", "Rescue crews search for 10-year-old Lyric Morrissey and 8-year-old Elizabeth Collins.", "It`s as though they disappeared into thin air in broad daylight.", "How could a 10-year-old and an 8-year-old little girl have enemies anyway? Tonight, the search is on for two little girls, just 10 and 8 years old, growing up in the heartland simply asking grandma could they go for a bike ride before lunch in the middle of the summer. They`ve never been seen again. Now, as we go to air, I`m getting word from a neighbor, Robert Carpenter, that he can spot them, place them between 12:00 and 3:00 going - - I believe he said, Ellie Jostad, in front of his home?", "Yes, Nancy. That`s correct. He lives just a few blocks from that Myers Lake and he says he saw them ride by, didn`t think any of it at the time.", "OK, the 12:00 to 3:00 window, I don`t know how much that`s really helping me, because, Ellie, I can`t -- the grandmother is giving me 11:30 in that same area. Now if he`s saying is more toward 3:00, now that`s helping me, that`s giving me three more hours. So, how -- where is he getting 12:00 to 3:00? Jim Spellman, CNN correspondent, joining me at Myers Lake. Do you know about this Robert Carpenter, a neighbor? He`s given me a three-hour window, I don`t know how much that`s helping me, other than really just confirming the grandmother`s story, but I have no reason to doubt her. So can we narrow his observation down any more toward 3:00?", "Yes, the bikes were found at 3:30, Nancy. So that doesn`t really help too much to narrow it down, although, you know, it does keep them sort of this in this neighborhood. What I find so fascinating is the geography of where the bikes were found because again, it`s this kind of dead end area, and if there was an abduction that happened, how would you get two girls, all the way to the end of -- it`s a 10-minute walk from the end of this bike path at the very least to the end of it where you might be able to get to a car or something like that. Walking up this hill through a hole in the fence to the side of the interstate, seems like an unlikely scenario. But with no other clues being found after all of these intensive searches, it`s still a puzzle. I spoke to an investigator today here on site who said it`s like the girls just evaporated, Nancy.", "So, Liz, give me mock-up of what Jim Spellman is describing, some type of a diagram that I can look at and show the viewers. So you`re telling me -- let me go to Jesse Gavin, Jim. Jesse, so what -- I`m hearing from Jim that even if somebody snatched the girls from that spot, and this is where the neighbor comes in, this Robert Carpenter person, who spots them through his window. If he spots them more toward 3:00, I think it does help actually, now that I`m analyzing it, it`s got them alive and it closes the window during which a kidnap could have taken place, and it also more likely than not rules out any attempt to going swimming in this lake, all right, because that was always a possibility out there. Now the scent dogs are telling me that`s not what happened, they did not go toward the lake, and the grandmother and the mother are telling me these girls are not going to take their clothes off and jump in naked, and they`re not going to go in and come home dripping wet. So to them their voluntary entrance into that lake is, in my mind, ruled out. That would be like me leaving this anchor desk and hopping into a lake outside of CNN. OK? That`s not going to happen. Voluntarily. So his sighting if it`s closer to 3:00 actually is helping me. So, Jesse, my question to you, following up on Spellman`s comments, how difficult would it be if the girls were snatched? How quickly could they be taken to that road based on their bikes as the point of the snatch?", "Well, like Jim said, it wouldn`t be the most likely scenario. Obviously that is kind of an area that`s closed off to main roads since it is a bike trail. Obviously it`s very close to an interstate, but it would be kind of tough to get to that interstate. The other thing you`ve got to keep in mind, Nancy, about that interstate is it`s being worked on right now. There`s a lot of construction activity going on right there. So there`s going to be backed up traffic, traffic is going to be slowed down, so any kind of suspicious activity that happens in that area, it`s going to be seen by a lot of people. And obviously we`ve only got one person that`s come forward, says he anything that day. So I think that going back to the interstate, that`s something that you can probably rule out as well.", "With me tonight, literally begging for your help, the grandmother of these little girls that told them to go ride their bikes, innocently, they have done it many, many times before. And why not? Are we at a point in America where our children can`t ride their bikes in broad daylight at lunchtime on a summer morning, 11:30? Wylma Cook is with us also. Ten-year-old Lyric`s mother, Misty Cook- Morrissey is also with us. I want to go back to Misty and Wylma. Misty, I`ve spoken to the grandma, let me ask you, would your girl have gone swimming? Would she have gone into that lake? Would she have jumped in her clothes or stripped down and jump in?", "I don`t think she would have stripped down and jumped in. I don`t know if she went in in her clothes. We have spent the last six weeks at lake swimming,", "Would she jump in in her clothes?", "It doesn`t seem likely with her clothes on. That I don`t think so.", "Well, her clothes haven`t been found anywhere, all that`s found are the two bikes abandoned on that -- on that bike path. Playing cell phone, a cell phone that`s been deactivated that she can play games on, and a little purple purse belonging to one of the girls. So they didn`t take their clothes off and jump in in their underwear, that didn`t happen or their clothes would have been right there. So my question to you is, would it be out of character for your little girl on a bike ride to jump into the water with her clothes on and her shoes?", "That would be out of character, yes.", "Everybody, we are taking your calls. Out to Jason. Hi, Jason, what is your question?", "Yes, I have a quick question. Have any of the parents done a polygraph?", "I understand that the entire family has been completely cooperative. Robyn Walensky, anchor with \"The Blaze,\" what do you know?", "Yes, the mother voluntarily went in, other family members, the father as well, and they have been cleared. Nancy, I just want to point out one thing that has not been mentioned tonight. And that is that there are about 10 sex offenders living in that town of about 5,000 people. And they, too, have been interviewed by police and I understand that they have been cleared. But in a 10-mile radius, Nancy, there are 200 plus registered sex offenders.", "Wow. Unleash the lawyers. Darryl Cohen and Doug Burns. All right, Darryl, weigh in.", "Nancy, we all know that whatever happens the end of the road is not a good one. It scares me to know that these girls` scents were left, when the dogs said no, it tells me they were picked up by someone and I think it was probably voluntarily. That frightens me, because it tell me that something happened where these girls went to someone on their own volition.", "Doug Burns?", "I think that`s right, and I`ll tell you why, Nancy, because the most important thing that I`ve heard is that these girls did not ever ride as far as that lake. So working off the previous point, the point is, it seems to me, that they may have been grabbed. And then the bikes and them taken into an area and the bicycles deposited in the area of the lake and that`s extremely troubling.", "With me tonight, the girl`s grandmother and the mother of 10- year-old Lyric. Everyone, our family album back. Showcasing your photos. Here our Michigan friends, the Hilliard-Turgeons. They love hot summer days at the pool, the local library, bike riding, playing UNO and McDonald`s Sundays. Well who wouldn`t? Share photos through iReport family album at hlnTV.com/nancygrace and click on \"Nancy`s Family Album.\"", "Vanished into thin air.", "Eight-year-old Elizabeth Collins and 10-year- old Lyric Cook.", "They went for a bike ride then simply vanished.", "My mom called and said, you know what, I can`t find the kids. They`ve been riding their bikes.", "The bicycles were found at a nearby lake, hours after the girls were reported missing.", "Welcome back, we are taking your calls. Two little girls ages 8 and 10 vanish on a hot summer morning, the heartland. Straight out to C.W. Jensen, retired police captain, joining me out of Cape Creek. Weigh in,", "Nancy, I`ll give you one more theory, I worked a chase about 20 years ago where two boys, 8 and 10, were sexually assaulted and then murdered in a park on Labor Day. This guy was able to go up and they were brothers, but neither one of them would leave the brother`s side so to give you one more scenario that`s chilling, you know, the girls are friends, they may not have wanted to leave the other one, might not have wanted -- known what to do. So in my mind since I have worked a case like this, I could see one suspect being able to take two girls.", "Out to Dr. Leslie Seppinni, clinical psychologist and author. Dr. Seppinni, what do you make of the theory earlier advanced that it was someone the girls know, hence there would not be that much difficult leading them down that path, even from the point of their bicycles?", "Well, it`s quite possible that they knew the person and they felt comfortable with the person and the person may have said, hey, I can take you on a bike path and we can have a lot of good times. However, what the gentleman just said before I think is really very interesting, because there is a case in which just a few months ago they showed on the \"Today\" show how one man with an ice cream truck was able to lure five boys on to the truck. And they did it to show how easy it is if you have one kid that the other kids feel loyal, or feel that they have to find and trace and be with the other kid. So it is very possible that this was one person. One thing that I have a question for for the parents is, did these girls have a routine? In other words was it common for them to go bike riding and go to grandma`s house so many times a week? Is it possible that somebody in the area have been watching them? Because it seems like this was very well organized and planned for these girls to get the Myers Lake, to disappear, there`s no footprints, there`s no other traces for the dogs. So this had to be very well organized.", "Good question. Let`s go to Lyric`s mom, Misty Cook-Morrissey. Also with us, the grandmother, Wylma Cook. Was that their pattern, Miss Wylma?", "No, it wasn`t no pattern, because we were always at Heather`s house in the morning and they could have went for a bike ride maybe 9:00, for a short bike ride, and come back. And there was no pattern. And then another thing I want to say is down by the lake, going, not the bike path, somebody could have snatched them along the road. If there was two people in a van, they could have thrown those kids in their van with their bikes and there`s another way to drive by the houses and get to the end of that trail and they could have chunked the bikes down there with the children.", "To Misty Cook-Morrissey, explain to me again what Miss. Cook is saying. I think I get it but I want to understand it as it relates to that bike path and where the grandma`s home is.", "OK. OK.", "So what is she saying?", "I just started -- I just started the job at Casey`s, so the last five days, Lyric and Elizabeth have been playing at Heather`s every day, taking bike rides, so as far as a pattern, yes, could somebody have been watching them there, and seeing that they play together, that hang out together, this last week. Yes, that could have happened. What she`s saying is at the end of the U that you were shown, the trail comes around here, the bikes were found here, You come to that end of it, this bridge is out into a wooded area and right here is a big patch of grass where you can pull your vehicles up on to and that`s where we parked our vehicles to get back on the trail and go back this way. So that`s what she`s saying, that someone could have very well come into that grassy area on the south side of the trail that ends as far as being able to walk or ride a bike.", "OK, Jim Spellman, joining me there at Meyers Lake, OK, this is the first I`m hearing of a quasi-parking area on a grassy turf near where the bikes were discovered. Would that have been access for someone to park there, dump the bikes and keep going?", "Yes, it could -- it sort of connects the neighborhood actually quite close to the police station to this back end, that would definitely have to be somebody who was waiting there, because the bike path and the direction that the scent dogs went would lead them down this bike path, someone would have to know that they were there to be on that end, almost ready to intercept them, Nancy.", "Where are these two little girls, an 8-year-old and 10-year- old? Two little cousins go riding bikes around 11:30 a.m. on a summer`s morning. Their grandmother tells them they can. By 2:00, she realizes they are gone. To Dr. Joy M. Carter, chief forensic pathologist, Marion County, joining me tonight out of Indianapolis. Dr. Carter, thank you for being with us.", "Thank you.", "If there is evidence in the water, how could or would it destroy DNA or forensic evidence?", "Generally, fresh water`s not going to destroy DNA evidence. It may cause some artifact. Very carefully look at anything recovered from the water and compare that with known artifacts they have. As much as they can recover, they are going to have to use and utilize to find these little girls, whoever did something to them.", "Dr. Carter, what about the heat? It was over 90 degrees that day.", "The heat is going to be a problem to one of the artifacts because DNA is protein, it does break down. But those trained investigators are used to dealing with those artifacts, anything they can find will be of help.", "We have two missing girls and we have no idea why.", "Very outdoorsy.", "Last seen leaving for a bike ride in Evansdale, Iowa, on Friday.", "And they played there every day.", "Disappeared into thin air in broad daylight.", "They really hits close to home.", "We`re bracing for the worst but hoping for the best.", "Out to the lines, Phoenix, Iowa. Hi, Phoenix, what`s your question?", "Hi, Nancy. First, I would like to say I`m a very huge fan of yours. Your twins are just beautiful.", "Thank you.", "My question is what evidence are they expecting or what is it that they are expecting to find by searching vehicles at this point? Is there something specific or --", "Good question. Jesse Gavin, news director, KCNZ in Cedar Falls, what`s the answer to that Jesse?", "Well, I think they`re just looking for whatever clues they can get, Nancy. Obviously, to this point, there haven`t been many. They found the bikes, they found the purse, they found that deactivated cell phone. At this point, that`s all that law enforcement really has to go off of. So I think that stopping the vehicles, that`s kind of a dual purpose thing. A, it`s to get people aware of the situation, to give them some of these missing posters that we`re seeing all over town here in the area. Secondly, it`s just to see, you know what they could possibly find.", "Right.", "Casting a wide net.", "To Misty Cook Morissey, this is Lyric`s mom. What is your message tonight, Misty?", "Be on the look out. Look of our kids. Look for anything that`s strange. Keep your eyes open. And definitely contact the police if you see that. I mean that`s our message. We just want everybody to get involved and the more coverage we can get, the more people we have out there with their eyes open, the better.", "And tour, the grandmother, Wylma Cook what , what is your message tonight?", "I just want my kids home, my grandkids. I want everybody to try to find them. I want them alive. I want them back home with me. I want to thank everybody for everybody`s help out there they have been just fabulous, all the friends and churches and everything.", "Wylma, when you saw them right away that day what was your last image of them?", "Just the normal image, don`t be gone very long and we realized they left 11:30. By 12:30, we were not happy because they weren`t back. And that`s when Kelly, my 12-year-old grandson from Heather`s house, the dad was home so we went searching right away and by 2:00, Heather couldn`t find them either so she went straight to the police station and the police went out right away.", "Tip line, 319-232-6682. There`s a nearly $16,000 reward. Let`s stop and remember Army Private Michael Murdock, 22, Chocowinity, North Carolina. Killed, Afghanistan. Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Afghanistan Campaign Medal. Loved mud running, four-wheeling. Favorite team, Tar Heels. Leaves behind parents Walter and Jennifer. Michael Murdock, American hero. Thanks to our guest but especially to you for being us. And a special good night from Chantal, heading to the university to work with under privilege children. And American war hero`s memoir, \"", "Rocking in the Free World.\" Ryan Means` 31-year journey serving Special Forces, loving his two little girls and wife Heather before losing his battle with cancer. Everyone, Dr. Drew up next. Tonight, our prayers with Lyric and Elizabeth. I will see you tomorrow night at 8:00 sharp eastern. And until then, good night, friend. 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{"id": "CNN-292628", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-08-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/29/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Huma Abedin Furious and Sickened by New Sexting Scandal of Husband", "utt": ["Former New York Congressman, Anthony Weiner, and his wife, Human Abedin are separating. The news hours after the new allegations that Weiner has been sexting again. One of the recent photos showed the couple's four-year-old son fast asleep right next to him. Weiner resigned from Congress in 2011, after he got caught. Sending suggestive texts, since then he has been a stay at home dad and his wife is one of the top advisers to Hillary Clinton. We have new information from her. Let's bring in Miguel Marquez from this. A quote from Jeff Zeleny that she is furious and sickened with the picture of her husband and child.", "This picture here is something she did not know about she said until she heard about it this weekend. She and her son now five years old were out at the beach in the Hamptons with the Clintons over the weekend. She left Monday apparently. Drifting apart from Anthony Weiner for quite some time and this is certainly sealed it. Donald Trump quick to jump on this as well Saying that \"Huma is making a wise decision. I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was negligent in allowing Anthony Weiner to be in close proximity to highly classified information. It is possible our country could have been compromise by this.\" There is no indication of that but because of this cover, the concerning part here is that this picture here, where it shows Anthony Weiner in his underwear with a child next to him, The Post saying that this was a conversation he was having, a sexual conversation over text with a woman in her 40s from out west is the only thing they identify her with his child and then sleeping next to him. And very disturbing this latest turn in this.", "And officially separating. Miguel Marquez, thank you.", "You got it.", "Next, former Fox host suing the network for sexual harassment. She says her old bosses should take a lie detector test to prove their innocence. Can she do that? Let's ask."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "MARQUEZ", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-283618", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-05-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/09/es.02.html", "summary": "Drug Lord El Chapo Transferred to Juarez Prison", "utt": ["Nearly 90,000 people in Alberta have been forced to flee their homes escaping this devastating wildfire burning an area half the size of Rhode Island. More than 1600 homes and buildings already torched. And as firefighters struggle to beat back these flames, officials are concerned about extremely dry conditions and unpredictable winds. They fear this could just be the beginning of a long, hot summer. We get more from CNN's Paul Vercammen in Edmonton.", "John, Christine, I'm in front of the evacuation center where many of the fire refugees are either grabbing supplies or spending the night or both. They are all concerned about what has happened to their homes. Some know, some don't. One factor in all of this, the wind, you can hear it. Firefighters battling with it. Now fortunately the wind blowing the fire away from Fort McMurray, that was the town ravaged by the blaze. Quite an ordeal for the families in Fort McMurray and imagine what all of this was like as it blew through there last week in the eyes of a small child.", "I saw the flames and they were very bad and like the fire, it was like very big. I saw the smoke downtown. And we thought my school was burned down, but it wasn't. It's like very bad.", "And as we said, you could hear what firefighters are up against. It's that wind. Some 40 blazes in all burning in Alberta, Canada. We've got about 1500 firefighters on the line. Some of them becoming beleaguered, needing a break. Help is coming from Quebec and from New Brunswick. There's already more firefighters here from parts of Ontario. All of them hoping that they get the relief in terms of more manpower and that this wind somehow dies down. Back to you now, Christine, John.", "It's remarkable.", "It is devastating there and they could be in for a lot more as the summer increases. It's so early still. All right. Here in the United States, severe weather all across the plains this weekend. Multiple reports of tornadoes touching down in Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. Along with hail. Very big hail in some parts of the country. Here's some stunning footage.", "Whoa.", "From Colorado. Look at that. Is that real?", "Looks like a classic EF-2 to me.", "It is in fact a classic EF-2 twister. I almost can't believe that's real. It looks like a", "It's real. Really --", "Can you imagine seeing that? That is just terrifying. Oh my. All right. So will this severe weather continue today? Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the latest.", "John and Christine, good morning, guys.", "All right, Pedram. Thank you for that. The governor of North Carolina has until the end of today to respond to a letter from the Justice Department challenging the state's controversial new transgender law. Governor Pat McCrory says he will answer the letter before the deadline, but he complains U.S. officials did not give him enough time to stop enforcing the law or to repeal it altogether. At stake more than $800 million in federal education funding that could be pulled from North Carolina schools.", "They gave the ninth largest state in the United States, the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, three working days to respond to a pretty complex letter and to a pretty big threat. Well, we don't think three working days is enough to respond to such a threat. We are really talking about a letter in which they are trying to define gender identity. And there is no clear identification or a definition of gender identity. It's the federal government being a bully.", "The Justice Department has warned North Carolina its new law -- a law which requires transgender people to use public bathrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificate. The Justice Department says that's a violation of the Civil Rights Act.", "Ferguson, Missouri, swears in its new police chief today. Major Delrish Moss, the longtime spokesman for the Miami Police Department, is taking over nearly two years after the shooting death of Michael Brown. Moss says the Ferguson Police Force needs diversification. And his first order of business would be to increase interaction between officers and young people.", "All right. The jailed drug kingpin El Chapo is closer than ever to the U.S. border this morning. He was transferred from his maximum security prison over the weekend. El Chapo's attorney has claimed their client wants to be extradited to America as soon as possible because prison conditions in Mexico are making him ill. Our CNN's Boris Sanchez reports he could get his wish very soon.", "John and Christine, one of the most notorious criminals in the world on the move this weekend. Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman now closer and closer to U.S. soil. Mexican authorities confirming that El Chapo was transferred from a central Mexican prison to a maximum security lockup in Ciudad Juarez. That's just a few miles away from the United States. The exact reason for the transfer is still unclear. But officials on both sides of the border tell us that they have been preparing for months for the extradition of El Chapo to the United States. The drug kingpin had been held at the Altiplano prison, the same one that he fled last July in that brazen escape through a series of tunnels that garnered international attention and sparked a huge manhunt. He was finally captured of course in January. Returning to the prison after his recapture. The transfer to Juarez interestingly comes just one month after attorneys for El Chapo said that they were eager and looking forward for him to be extradited to the United States. Now attorneys walked that back in an interview with CNN last month actually saying that the whole thing was a ploy to get try to get El Chapo transferred because the conditions in the prison that he was being kept were unbearable. Making him ill. El Chapo, once he is extradited to the United States will go to court in Brooklyn, New York. He's said to face charges for murder, kidnapping and torture as well as importing more than a quarter million pounds of cocaine into the United States -- John and Christine.", "A quarter million pounds.", "It's a lot.", "Wow.", "All right. New Jersey sold the only winning ticket for Sunday's $429.6 million Powerball jackpot.", "Wow.", "The winner has not come forward. Whoever it is will take home the third most valuable lottery ticket ever sold in the United States of America. Your winning numbers, if you happen to be the one who bought that ticket at this Trend 7-11 are 5, 25, 26, 44, and 66. The Powerball number 9. Those seem like such obvious numbers.", "I know. I know. But I guess only one person got it.", "I guess .", "A better investment than a lottery ticket? The stock market. The first week of May wasn't much to write home about. Could a rebound be in store this week? We'll get an EARLY START on your money next."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "VERCAMMEN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "CGI. ROMANS", "BERMAN", "PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "ROMANS", "GOV. PAT MCCRORY (R), NORTH CAROLINA", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-180641", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2012-2-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/06/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Gisele Bundchen`s Giant Gaffe; Chevy Ad Outrage; Harry Potter Drinking Confessions", "utt": ["Big news breaking tonight on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT - a night of superstar Super Bowl flashpoints. Gisele`s sour grapes. Tom Brady`s super model wife Gisele Bundchen blasts fans who slammed her husband after he loses a Super Bowl. But I`ve got to ask, is this just super-sized sour grapes?", "Kelly Clarkson`s National Anthem, the greatest performance ever? Tonight, the great debate over Kelly`s Super Bowl killer moment. And Wendy Williams is here for a night of superstar Super Bowl flashpoints. It`s a wild new SHOWBIZ newsmaker interview. And Harry Potter`s drunk confessions you will not believe. Daniel Radcliffe`s booze bombshell.", "TV`s most provocative entertainment news show continues right now.", "Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Jane Velez-Mitchell in for A.J. Hammer with big news breaking tonight - on Super Bowl flashpoints tonight. One of those flashpoints targeted at supermodel Gisele Bundchen who was called a big sore loser today after her quarterback husband, Tom Brady, got whooped - whooped by the New York Giants. And you are about to hear what Gisele said, because it was all caught on tape. Did she really throw Tom`s teammates under the bus? With me in New York tonight is talk show queen, the one and only Wendy Williams, host of the hit daytime talk show, \"The Wendy Williams Show,\" and featuring celebrity guest co-host all this weekend. In Hollywood tonight, Bob Guiney, former star of \"The Bachelor\" and host of HGTV`s new weekly series, \"Showhouse Showdown.\" So ladies and gentlemen, just days before the Super Bowl, Gisele sent an E- mail to family and friends asking them to pray for her husband for the big game. Somebody leaked it and it went viral. But apparently, she forgot to ask for prayers for his receivers, because was Gisele is blaming Tom`s teammates for losing the game. Her raunchy rant caught on tape by \"The Insider.\" She was being taunted by the Giants` fans as she waited for an elevator after the game. Watch this.", "He didn`t even catch the ball when he was supposed to catch the ball.", "My husband cannot", "So she is blaming Tom`s receivers for dropping the ball literally, which takes us to our first SHOWBIZ Flashpoint - is Gisele`s rant against her husband`s teammates a case of sour grapes? Or is she just standing by her hunk-o-man. Wendy, what is your vote?", "She is standing by her man. I mean, it was a sloppy thing for her to do. You know, she should have known that everybody - you know, all eyes were on her and her man and her reaction. You know, she was just being supportive.", "Yes, sometimes you are a human being. And you get charged up watching on TV. Imagine like being there and it is your husband on the line. Oh, my gosh. I have compassion for her. I mean, come on.", "And I don`t know whether she drinks or not, but if she had a few white wines, you know how that is.", "A few spritzers.", "Oh, something.", "She might be spritzing some words -", "Yes.", "That she`ll regret the next day. Bob, should Gisele just have zipped it? What`s your vote?", "No. You know, I think it`s awesome. I agree with Wendy. I mean, first of all, the Giants` fans are totally taunting her. They`re like, \"Eli owned your husband.\" I mean, that`s not nothing to say. So it`s like, at the end of the day, I think it`s wonderful she supported her husband. But on the other hand, I know there`s kind of a code and you`re not supposed to say things about the teammates. But I mean, I say - you know, I say it all the time. I can`t throw the ball and catch it, too. And I`m sure that, ultimately, you know, this may be a little bit more literal than how I am intending it, but the guy - it is the truth. They did drop some passes when they were in the last drive of the game. And at the end of the day, these guys were heckling her and I think that she was being, you know, defensive and supportive of her husband. I think there`s nothing wrong with that.", "Yes. And let`s face it. She is gorgeous even when she`s angry. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT did reach out to Gisele today. And while she would not comment, her reps clearly did not think it was a big deal telling SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Isn`t it that 99 percent of the sports fans curse when they get angry when their teams lose? Don`t you?\" Well, while Gisele was fighting hecklers, that same crowd was singing Kelly Clarkson`s praises. Kelly kicked off the night belting out the National Anthem. Let`s check her out.", "Well, I can`t say that, but it was good. I mean, it was good. And she was giving good hair and her weight fluctuates. She looked nice.", "Yes. Hey, Bob -", "I mean, ever? Didn`t Whitney Houston perform at the Super Bowl?", "Well, put it this way. Kelly got the words right, and we have to give her a lot for that, too.", "She studied her words.", "Bob, what is your vote?", "Yes, I loved it. I thought it was great. Kelly Clarkson is like one of those things - you know, it is a guilty pleasure. It`s one of those things that you never want to tell anyone, oh, my god. I love Kelly Clarkson, but you honestly do. Everybody loves Kelly Clarkson.", "You are telling everybody you love Kelly Clarkson.", "I`m telling everybody. I am doing it.", "Yes.", "And I have to say that, honestly, she was great. It was emotional. It was good. The words were right. She didn`t hit any sour notes. It was simple. It wasn`t like, you know, crazy, over-the-top with anything and theatrical. But it was just really, really good, and I loved it. I thought it was great.", "Yes. It almost seems like she`s going to be asked next year to perform at halftime. Kelly can do no wrong now. And now, thanks to MIA, they`re going to have to be super-safe. It`s going to be either Kelly or Susan Boyle.", "I vote for Kelly again.", "Susan Boyle - she would have a lot of love for that performance. Even Josh Groban singing her praises. He tweeted, \"Kelly Clarkson ruled that anthem.\" And check out this tweet from Pink saying, \"Kelly Clarkson killed the National Anthem. Show them how it is done, girl.\" Big kudos for Kelly`s fantastic performance. Hats off to you. Of course, a lot is made about the Super Bowl commercials. There was huge controversy over one for Chevy that depicts the near-end of the world according to the Mayan calendar, which include giant attack robots, meteors, frogs falling from the sky. Watch this. You`ve got to see it.", "Where`s Dave?", "Dave didn`t drive the longest lasting, most dependable truck on the road. Dave drove a Ford.", "Twinkie?", "Yes.", "Chevy Silverado at the beginning", "All right. A lot of people felt today that was really in poor taste, especially Ford which demanded the spot be pulled. So here is our next SHOWBIZ Flashpoint - Chevy`s end of the world ad, clever or bad taste. Bob?", "I thought it was clever. Now, I`ve got to say that I`m a Detroit boy, so of course, you know, I`m a Ford supporter, 100 percent. But a GM - you know, I thought it was clever and I thought that the Twinkie thing was really funny. And another guilty pleasure of mine, and Kelly Clarkson and Twinkies - but I thought that was actually really clever. I mean, I don`t know why, you know, necessarily you would say it`s in poor taste when we have all been talking about 2012 and the Mayan calendar anyways. So it is just kind of almost like the obvious thing to talk about. But I was kind of bummed out with a lot of the commercials this year. I didn`t think a lot of them were great. But you know, this one didn`t upset me by any means.", "It didn`t upset me. I don`t know why it was offensive. I was trying to think, was it because of the Mayan calendar? Surely enough - here, I understand that you are very passionate about Twinkies.", "I was not offended at all by that commercial. I thought it was clever. I bet you Ford wishes they thought of it first. And everybody knows that Twinkies don`t expire. Save the Twinkies. What are you doing, Hostess?", "Hostess, Twinkies. Hostess, by the way, FYI, just filed for bankruptcy. And Wendy started a Facebook campaign to save the Twinkie. Why, why, why?", "Twinkies are sometimes a treat. They are a guilty pleasure. And they`re one of the foods that connects generations, you know - me, my son, my mother - we are all connected through a Twinkie. They`re delicious. They`re nostalgic. They bring back a happier time.", "Well, I am happy that they make you happy. Go for it, girl.", "They come in the 100 calorie packs now, so they go along with your gym regimen.", "All right -", "Nice.", "Wendy Williams, Bob Guiney, thank you so very much. And I think both of you should be performing next Super Bowl halftime. I would like to see Wendy Williams out there kicking up a storm. Be sure to check out \"The Wendy Williams Show\" all this week with a lineup of very special guest co-hosts. You can see Wendy with Mario Lopez, another one of my favorites tonight on BET. You`ve also got to check out Bob Guiney`s \"Showhouse Showdown\" on HGTV. It`s a mouthful. It`s a good show. Tonight, Harry Potter`s booze bombshell. Was Daniel Radcliffe drunk on the set of his Harry Potter films? Say it isn`t so, Danny Boy. Daniel Radcliffe reveals exactly how much liquid magic he used during his young days as the most famous wizard in the whole wide world. Also, is Demi Moore in rehab? Brand-new reports today about Demi`s seeking treatment for addiction and eating disorders. This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN news and views. And now, the \"SHOWBIZ News Ticker\" - more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news tonight.", "Miss Piggy hosts BAFTA red carpet to interview Brad Pitt and George Clooney. 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{"id": "CNN-314683", "program": "CNN RELIABLE SOURCES", "date": "2017-06-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1706/18/rs.01.html", "summary": "Is the Press Secretly Rooting for Trump's Impeachment?; Is the Country as Divided as the Media Suggests?; Interview with Sen. Amy Klobuchar About the Media and Congress", "utt": ["Hey, I'm Brian Stelter. Happy Father's Day, and welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is RELIABLE SOURCES, our weekly look at the story behind the story, of how the media really works and how the news gets made. We're asking big questions today about a divided nation, only briefly united in the aftermath of the shooting at congressional baseball practice. In an era of extreme rhetoric, should media figures be doing some soul-searching? Plus, were some senators this week trying to restrict press access in the Capitol? I'll ask Senator Amy Klobuchar. And later in the hour, two big interviews raising questions about responsible interviewing. Oliver Stone joins me to discuss his sit- downs with Vladimir Putin and we'll break down the controversy surrounding Megyn Kelly's interview with Alex Jones. But, first, watching the news, reading the web, leaves me with so many more questions than answers. Is \"The Washington Post\" right? Is President Trump really under investigation for possible obstruction? What's Robert Mueller finding? Who's he hiring? Is he being fair? Is Trump thinking about firing Mueller? What would happen after that? Why did the president tweet, I am being investigated? Is lawyer Jay Sekulow telling the truth, saying Trump was just reacting to news coverage? And if so, why is Trump deriding fake news if he believes the news? More importantly, who should you believe? Is it true that the president is yelling at TV sets in the White House? Why is he still watching so much TV anyway? Isn't he busy? And where are the tapes? Wait, are there tapes? Why hasn't he cleared that up? What is the president hiding? Why are White House briefings getting shorter and more limited? Why hasn't Trump given any interviews for five weeks? Why aren't his aides all over TV defending him? Are you as confused as I am? The news cycle can be bewildering but I think it's useful sometimes to watch what the president is watching. We know he loves Sean Hannity's show on FOX News. He even retweeted a promo of the show on Friday. And Hannity's message night after night is that the media, the American media is trying to overthrow the president.", "The media has become completely unhinged. They're suffering from Trump derangement syndrome. The truth does not matter to people that call themselves journalists. They want President Trump to fail and they want him out. They want him gone. They want him out of office. They want him impeached. They hate FOX News. They hate talk radio. As a matter of fact, they hate any conservative who supports this president and supports his policies. And that's why I call it media fascism.", "Is Sean Hannity right? Is the press secretly rooting for impeachment proceedings against President Trump? Let's talk about it. Joining me now, Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, and a proud father of five. Matt, happy Father's Day.", "Same to you, Brian.", "Thanks. I'm going to need some advice from you for raising girls. I'm also joined --", "Let me tell you, I've got five girls, and today I have two dance recitals. So I'm hoping I slip in a beer at some point during the day.", "Well, this segment is going to be easy compared to all that. Let me bring in two more guests with you in Washington, Kaitlin Collins who was up until this week a White House correspondent for \"The Daily Caller\". As of tomorrow, she'll be covering the White House for us here at CNN. Congrats, Kaitlin. And also with us, Alex Conant, former communications director for Senator Marco Rubio, and partner at Firehouse Strategies. So, I've got all of you with me here to discuss this issue. Matt, to you first. Do you perceive that journalists, reporters, commentators, are trying to get this president impeached?", "Well, I was on Sean's show on Friday. I think there's real truth to what he says. Look, I think when we say words or terms like \"the media,\" obviously, media is very diverse. I think it's very fair to say that the overwhelming percentage of people who are reporters in this country tend to contribute to liberal causes and vote for liberal candidates. I think that's undisputed. I think there's a lot of kind of post-election malaise by reporters who felt like they gave Donald Trump a free pass during the primaries and they're trying to overcompensate for this coverage. And I think it is further dividing them from the viewers, even though everyone's numbers are up all over the dial, because so many people are engaged to listening about politics because of all of this tumult in the Trump presidency. But there's no question that there is a massive bias that Trump faces every day.", "Kaitlin, what do you perceive at the White House among your fellow reporters. Are journalists thinking they're going to see an impeachment?", "I think hoping for an impeachment and watching for an impeachment are two very different things. I think reporters have scrutinized the president's actions, the way he fired James Comey, the fact that he said it was because of the Russia investigation. The fact that James Comey said he asked him to shut down the investigation into Mike Flynn. So, think reporters are watching the president's actions and reporting on what he's doing, but I don't think anyone is secretly rooting for the president of the United States to be impeached. I don't see why it's being turned around on reporters. This is an investigation that has gone on nearly a year now and was about Russian interference in the election, but because of the president's actions, he's made this about himself.", "Journalists are focused on these investigations. What you hear from commentators on the right is that journalists are too obsessed with these Russia issues, Alex. Is there truth to that? Is there a point there?", "Well, I actually agree with what both Matt and Kaitlan said. Look, to Matt's point, there is no doubt that there is a liberal bias in much of American media. Most reporters are left of center. But I think there's an even bigger bias towards covering conflict, towards covering crisis. And there's no bigger conflict or crisis than the impeachment of a president and a scandal. And so, in a week like this where the president did do some good things, like the Cuba policy, which my former boss, Marco Rubio, worked on, that's totally overshadowed by the ongoing investigation, by his tweets about the investigation, because that is such -- the bias is towards that sort of conflict and that society of scandal. So, as long as there's a whiff of scandal in the White House, that's what the media is going to cover.", "But wasn't that true during the Clinton presidency as well?", "Well, I would argue that the Clinton administration handled the coverage around the scandal better than the Trump administration, which to the extent the Trump administration seems to have any sort of strategy, it's to let the president tweet out whatever he wants, but don't let anybody else say anything at all, try to cover up all the facts. You know, they're not being transparent. They're not answering questions directly. As you pointed out, the president hasn't done a press conference in months, hasn't given an interview in weeks. Maybe that's the opposite of what the Clinton team did, which was very transparent, very forward-leaning on the Starr investigation in the '90s.", "So, Alex, Matt, you're both describing bias. I just saw a tweet from a viewer Danny who says, reporting on Trump's negative behavior is not biased coverage. Ignoring the negative behavior would be biased coverage. But what do you make of the idea that, yes, the coverage may have a negative tone, that's because this presidency is struggling and dysfunctional?", "Well, look, I worked for a Republican president, the last Republican president who it's just so strange how these Republican presidents seem to have a scandal around firing people they're legally allowed to fire. Judge Gonzalez when he was attorney general had the same problem with U.S. attorneys. We get wrapped around the axle on doing things we're allowed to do. Bill Clinton fires every U.S. attorney in the country, no scandal. Bill Clinton fires an FBI director, no scandal. It's a strange thing. And, look, I do think that the way President Trump handles these questions is new, is different. We didn't have Twitter in the Bush years. He's actually very out there and commenting on all types of things. There's a lot of Republicans who actually want him to comment and be engaged less. I think the good news in all this, and I disagree with Alex, is that he has a very good team, including a very good comms team around him, as he faces the questions around what the special counsel is doing. I think he needs to listen to them. I think he's got top-notch talent there, and I think that he needs to just keep plodding away at his agenda like he did in Miami. Alex is right. It doesn't get as much national coverage. But if you look at the Miami coverage and South Florida coverage, it was fantastic and it was upholding a campaign pledge. He needs to keep doing that.", "He's not going to gain any support in the approval rating polls, though, with something like a Cuba policy, is he?", "Yes, he is, absolutely.", "Yes?", "Because it's two things. Yes, number one, it reconnects people to why they wanted a change agent in the White House. And it also reminds people -- remember, he has a very diverse coalition. And South Florida, as Alex knows, is much more diverse than people realize. And the fact that he is connecting to these folks is very important. Also, we're talking about policy, we're talking about human rights, we're talking about free and fair elections. Those are the type of things any president should want to embrace.", "Kaitlan, when you're at the White House covering this beat everyday, do you find reporters increasingly asking about the president's emotional state, about why he feels he has to post these tweets at all times? That's another one of the critiques you get from the Hannitys is that journalists think this president is crazy.", "Well, reporters are looking at the president's tweets and are reporting on them because we've never had access to the president's emotional state like we do with Donald Trump. We've never had a president who got on Twitter every morning and told us exactly what he was feeling about the news. And Donald Trump does that. That was the problem for his lawyer, Jay Sekulow this morning. Donald Trump tweeted this week, I am under investigation. And Jay Sekulow said this morning this is not what he meant. So, it's a problem for his communications team and his lawyers to have to go on television and explain what he means in tweets and saying that we shouldn't take the president literally.", "Alex, where do you come down on this? I think journalists do have some biases, if you want to call them bias. One is toward competent governance. One is toward decency in civic engagement. Some of the coverage that I think you get complaints about from the right is because journalists are trying to promote those basic inherent American values. And when the president is railing against the fake news media on Twitter calling us a witch hunt, I think that's the way journalists react the way they do. Do you think I'm off on that?", "No, I think you have a valid point. Look, the media loves bipartisanship. You know, whenever there's a big bipartisan gathering on the Hill, the media applauds it. But that's not really what they want to cover. That's not really what they want to talk about. They want to talk about conflict, they want to talk about fighting, they want to talk about Republicans attacking Republicans, Democrats attacking Democrats. I can tell you, I've worked for a lot of Republican members of Congress. The easiest way for a Republican member of Congress to get on TV is to go attack a Republican -- is to attack Republican leadership or the president, President Trump. So, that, I think, is what the media really wants to talk about on a day-to-day basis. And it's a real challenge of governing, because when you do have moments where you bring people together and do bipartisan things, it's really -- it can be really hard to get -- to have that get attention that, you know, a big fight would get. And so, it's a challenge not just for the president but members of Congress as well.", "Fascinating. Matt, Kaitlan, Alex, that you all very much for being here.", "Thank you.", "Thanks, Brian", "Up next here, powerful images of congressional leaders giving joint interviews in the wake of the shooting in Virginia this week. Is our country really as divided as it sounds on TV? 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{"id": "CNN-118926", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-8-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/08/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Earthquake Strikes Off Coast of Jakarta", "utt": ["More now on that major earthquake to strike just past Jakarta, Indonesia, right there in the Java Sea. It had a magnitude of 7.4. Now we're being told it's gone up to 7.5. It happened just after midnight. We have a number of details to tell you about this. Where, exactly it is, and how it's affected that area. Kathy Quiano, one of our producers, in Jakarta felt the earthquake. Kathy joins us now on the line. What can you tell us about the effects of the earthquake, Kathy? >", "Well, Kyra, I'm driving around Jakarta now. It's been almost 15 minutes after the quake happened here. There are no signs of any significant damage. In fact, we don't see any signs of damage in Jakarta. There might be a different story outside. Probably in parts of central Java, or central Java, where the earthquake was also felt. But, as I said, I think that Jakarta looks fine now. Most residents have gone back to their homes. The streets are clear right now. But there was panic when it happened. Earthquake went on for at least a minute here, it was pretty strong and scary -- Kyra.", "So, do you know of anything -- any reports. Can you see anything with regard to the possible tsunami. That, of course, was the big concern, Kathy, seeing that this happened right there in the Java Sea, 18 miles from the shoreline?", "That's right, Kyra. However, the earthquake also happened very deep in the ocean. And scientists have said already there's no tsunami warning because it is deep. And also because the earthquake, I believe, had a lateral movement and would not have caused any tsunami. Here in Jakarta, which is really just on the north coast of the Java Islands, there are residential areas near the coast, and most of the residents panicked there and tried to run to safer ground thinking that a tsunami might follow. But of course, we're now being told that there are no chances of that happening -- Kyra.", "Do you see any other effects from the earthquake, or does it look like it was felt or there was 18 miles from the shoreline, and there are those effect there is in the area.", "So far, none here in Jakarta. People are shaken, that's for certain. People -- people panicked earlier on. Here in Jakarta, there are really no signs. We're going the look for areas outside of Jakarta where structures are poorly built in homes that are particularly in central and west Java. As you remember there was one big earthquake in May last year, in Jakarta, and many of the people died there because they were trapped and in poorly built homes and structures, Kyra.", "All right, Kathy Quiano, reporting to us from Jakarta. Thanks so much, Kathy.", "Our Chad Myers also on top of this. You said, Chad, 18 miles from shore. About 60 to 70 miles from the capital of Jakarta. What new information do you have for us?", "The shaking in Jakarta is really now what I'm really concerned about, not so much the tsunami. It was, now, so deep, 180 miles, originally, 175 miles. But there's really no difference to that. When you get a shake or you get a quake, or any kind of a tremor that's close to the top of the crust, you get a lot more violent push up. Whereas you get 180 miles of crust between where the shake happened, and where the bottom of the ocean is. There's a little bit of padding in there. It's like 180 miles worth of pillows. Although, obviously, it's crust, it' not a pillow. But it doesn't move as much. So, you have movement down here. But by the time it gets up here, it is a little bit of a less movement. When you get a quake, that is four miles, 10 miles from the bottom of the ocean, it shakes here. The bottom of the ocean shakes as well. This area right through here, not so populated. It's gardening district, it's a lot of agriculture. And not a lot of what you would know as big resorts. Yes, it's kind of a beachy area there. But this is one of the major growing areas here around Jakarta. Now, Jakarta is kind of protected. There is kind of a little bit of a port here. So if there was a tsunami, it would have pretty much gone around Jakarta, and not hit Jakarta proper. But let's get right down to Jakarta. Right on down to that move number two that we saw. Jakarta, almost, eight million people here. So look at all of the buildings, all the structures. And I know some of these had to be shaking pretty violently. I mean, at a 7.4, even by the time that quake got here, it still had a feel like about 6.0 right underneath.", "All right. We'll check back. Thank you.", "Straight ahead, danger outdoors. Millions of Americans warned to stay inside. A closer look at the deadly combination of heat and humidity here in the CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "KATHY QUIANO, CNN PRODUCER", "PHILLIPS", "QUIANO", "PHILLIPS", "QUIANO", "PHILLIPS", "LEMON", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "LEMON", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-98721", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2005-10-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/17/lad.04.html", "summary": "Bus Accident In Wisconsin Kills Five; As Iraqis Vote On Constitution Some Sunnis Express Hopelessness And Fear", "utt": ["It is Monday, October 17. And tropical depression 24 is now a storm with a name and a projected path. All eyes on Wilma this morning, now forming in the Atlantic. Will it be the last storm of the season? Plus...", "I had to climb out of the window and down the ladder to get out of there. Everybody had to have shoes on because there was diesel fuel and glass and all sorts of stuff on the ground everywhere.", "Members of a high school band recover from injuries and shock after a deadly bus crash. Now we know who was killed in that crash, and a community begins mourning. Plus, neo-Nazis arrive in one town and rioting ensues. We'll talk to the police chief about the violence and the curfew and why that Nazi group was invited.", "From the Time Warner Center in New York this is DAYBREAK, with Carol Costello and Chad Myers.", "And good morning to you. More on those stories in just a minute. Also ahead, you've seen him on the National Zoo's panda cam, right here on DAYBREAK. In just a couple of hours we'll know what to call the cub. But first, \"Now in the News\": The White House has called some big legal guns to back up Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. Two former Texas supreme court chief justices are bringing testimonials to Washington today about their dealings with Miers as a trial lawyer. Critics say she lacks knowledge of constitutional issues. A moderate earthquake has rocked some of the Greek Islands in western Turkey. The quake struck underneath the Aegean Sea this morning, with a magnitude of 5.2. No reports of injuries so far. Two Chinese astronauts, or Taikonauts, as they are called, are back on Earth this morning. They landed safely in the Gobi Desert after spending five days in orbit. It was China's second manned space mission. The Northeast gets hit again, just as the region was drying out from the rain and the floods, a blast of gale force winds knocked out power to thousands of New England homes over the weekend. Oh, but let's talk about Wilma, now. Morning, Chad.", "Good morning, Carol. This Wilma, we're going to talk about this a long time. The storm is moving southwest at 3 m.p.h., way down here in the Caribbean, actually, south and southeast of Jamaica, south southeast of Cayman Islands. It looks like the flare up is right there. And you would think that that is where the center of the storm is. In fact, the center of the storm is a little bit further to the north than the convection itself. Which means the storm is not really that organized this morning. And it is going to take along time to organize. Maximum sustained winds are officially, 40 m.p.h., therefore tropical depression number 24 did become Tropical Storm Wilma at about 5 o'clock this morning, a little bit earlier than 5 o'clock. On Wednesday into Thursday, into Friday, this storm is traveling almost due west. And then at some point in time it may make a turn to the right, into the Gulf of Mexico. I will tell you, though, right now. Almost every computer model that ran overnight is not forecasting this turn into the Gulf of Mexico. It is forecasting it actually a straight trajectory, right into Cancun, south of there, Plia Del Carmon (ph) area, and then into the Bay of Campichi (ph). Then maybe it makes a right-hand turn, but that may not happen until Saturday or Sunday. And at this pace this is going to be something we're going to talk about forever and it's still not going to move -- Carol.", "When is hurricane season over?", "Officially, the end of November, but we rarely get hurricanes in November. We get tropical storms in November. We certainly have -- I don't know that I've ever seen Category 3 or higher, a major hurricane in November. But certainly with this warm water we have, it is possible.", "It's been a strange weather cycle.", "Yes.", "Thank you, Chad. There are a lot of questions this morning about a deadly bus crash, a late-night return, a 78-year-old bus driver, and five people dead. That school bus from Wisconsin was loaded with band students. It crashed into an overturned semi. Today grief counselors will be at the school. Janice Shortle (ph), of our affiliate station, KARE reports.", "On a day when kids in Chippewa Falls had no idea where to turn, they all seemed to end up in the same place.", "I couldn't even -- they even sent me home from work, because I couldn't stand it. I couldn't focus.", "One by one, at least have of the students of Chi (ph) High ended up coming to school to find out who among their friends and teachers were on that bus.", "Nobody knows who actually is all dead now, it is all just rumors.", "It is almost as if a family member died and you haven't found out yet. This morning when I heard the news I didn't even want to believe it was true, but once I watched it on TV, it hurts.", "More than 200 students and 40 chaperones were on three buses heading home from a marching band competition at UW-Whitewater, 45 miles from Chippewa Falls, 45 miles from home. The bus hit a jack- knifed semi near Osseo, on I-94.", "I felt it stopping and I thought, OK, we're home and we're --", "Tania was in a seat on that bus in the back.", "Almost everybody on the bus was asleep at the time. They all woke up when they felt the stop.", "She says she can't recall seeing anything. But she could hear so much.", "There were a lot of sirens. There was probably, it looked like there was a ton of ambulances. And we had to climb out the window and down the ladder to get out of there. Everybody had to have shoes on because there was diesel fuel and glass and all sorts of stuff on the ground everywhere.", "Thirty kids were rescued, seven were taken by helicopter, more than 20 in ambulances. What's left of the bus is painful enough to see. Thinking about those they lost is right now unimaginable.", "I'm hoping the worst isn't true, so.", "That was KARE Janice Shortle reporting. The band director, his wife, their granddaughter and a student teacher, and the bus driver all died in that accident. The superintendent says students at two schools are grieving, as the band director's granddaughter attended the middle school. In other news across America now, this four alarm fire in Detroit could be seen for miles. It burned mostly empty buildings, but just to be safe, about 40 area residents decided to leave their homes. Some of the firefighters told \"The Detroit Free Press\" they had trouble fighting the fire because they were broken hydrants in the area and poor water pressure in others. Police near San Francisco are looking for clues in the death of the wife of a well-known defense attorney. Daniel Horowitz's wife was found dead in their home on Saturday. Police are treating it as a homicide. The cause of death should be determined today. Horowitz has also appeared on television, including CNN, as a legal analyst. A curfew in Toledo, Ohio ends this morning, following an outbreak of violence over the weekend. Several buildings were looted and burned. Police were pelted by rocks during that riot. It all started when people became upset that the city had allowed an American Nazi group to march through their neighborhood.", "The young men and young women, in particular, were highly angry over the idea that someone outside the community could come in and essentially insult them on their turf.", "Toledo's police chief will join us live at the bottom of the our. And he'll have much more on this story. Ballot counting underway in Iraq right now. Results in a landmark constitution vote are expected three days from now. Now, if the constitution passes, Iraqis in December will elect the first full- term parliament since the fall of Saddam Hussein. But the outcome could further divide the nation, because many Sunnis fear a new decentralized government will deprive them of their share of the country's oil wealth. A rough road to democracy has lead to has lead to disappointment to many Iraqis. CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour reports on the fear of one family, that is shared by many in Iraq.", "Amira al- Salami and her family live in one of Baghdad's big apartment blocks. She is a secondary school teacher and her husband, Dr. Monjad al-Naeb, works at the ministry of science and technology. A middle class family who high hopes are all but extinguished.", "It is bad, bad.", "The al Naeb family expected America to change Iraq from dictatorship to democracy. To bring jobs and opportunity, what they never expected was the violence and mayhem that still rules their lives two and a half year after the war and leaves little room for optimism.", "It is very hard to say that. Because we don't know what will happen tomorrow actually. It is very, very hard to say that, because every situation now, doesn't appear that there is a small life in this darkness.", "It doesn't take long for Amira's pent up tears to start flowing. \"I'm crying for Iraq. They destroyed its past and its future,\" she says. \"Now, those dirty terrorists who come from outside want to destroy it completely.\" The frustration and hopelessness of the parents if filtering down to their children, the very generation educated, secular middle-class people Iraq's future depends on. Twenty-two-year-old Omar, studies medical technology at university, but he's worried about finding a job.", "The students who graduated from my college last year are still sitting at home waiting.", "Twenty-year old Mohammad studies mathematics. Like his whole family and many of their friends, he wants to leave Iraq.", "I want to ask you whether you could stay five or 10 years here. There is no reason for me to stay. No jobs, not even electricity or running water.", "Indeed, two and a half years after the war, basic services remain sporadic. This family's most treasured possession is still their small generator.", "Check the oil, is the most important thing", "Instead of having fun, going out to play sports, and youthful clubbing live for these young people is all about curfews, gasoline lines, roadblocks and explosions.", "Me, as a young man, I should live like young men in other countries, who spend their nights out, but now I can't. My family starts calling me around 7:30 p.m. to come home.", "This family, who hoped American would bring them a better future, was further shaken when Monjab says he was arrested two years ago by American forces and kept without charge for 50 days before being released. He says they were looking for weapons.", "I don't know why they are punishing the people. What I have done to them? I don't know. 'Till now, I don't know why.", "Monjab lodged a complaint with the U.S. military, but he's most afraid of the religious militias and the insurgents. Amira says she lives in constant fear, hovering at her balcony every day, waiting for her husband to come back from work, her children to return from school.", "Before we used to visit our families, attends celebrations and go to restaurants. We walked about until late. What kind of life are we living now, just eating and drinking? Is this a life?", "This family are among the Sunnis who voted against the referendum, because they say that they're afraid that it would further split Iraq. Now, on Wednesday the trial of Saddam Hussein begins. First he will be charged, he will go on trial first for charges of massacring some 140 Shiites who allegedly tried to ambush his motorcade back in 1982. And of course, as he goes on trial, officials here, and of course, in the United States are hoping that when people are complaining about the kind of violence and insecurity they live into today, they are hoping that they will see how much worse it was under Saddam Hussein. Back to you.", "Christiane, I'd like to talk about hope, does it matter to this family at all that so many Iraqis turned out to vote at all? And that Saddam Hussein is indeed going to go on trial?", "It does. You know, they try to always distinguish between not having supported Saddam Hussein and living in a very -- what they consider bleak and violent daily life that they have endured since the last two and a half years since the war. So, the two are essentially separated in people's minds. What they're saying is that their glad for the end of Saddam Hussein. There is not question about that. He was a dictator and they do not regret the end of that regime, by any means. However, they had expected a huge amount more and most especially they expected stability and safety after the war, and that, they have yet to find.", "Christaine Amanpour, reporting live from Baghdad this morning. Amid the voting Iraq, more violence against U.S. troops. Six were killed in two attacks Saturday that brings the total U.S. death toll in Iraq to 1,980. Still to come on DAYBREAK this hour. No vacancy, that's what a lot of business travelers are finding in the hurricane battered Gulf Coast. We'll have more in our business buzz. And we're learning more about \"New York Times\" reporter Judith Miller. What did she recall for a grand jury. And more importantly, what didn't she remember? It is really confusing. And he's taken his first steps, his teeth are coming in, it's about time he gets a name. And after today we will know what to call him. But first here is a look at what else is making news this Monday. Your news, money, weather and sports, it is 6:16 Eastern. Here's what is all new this morning. A tragedy in western Wisconsin; a high school band director, his wife, and their granddaughter among five people killed in a bus carrying high school band members. Nearly 30 people were hurt. Counselors were at Chippewa Falls High, and at the granddaughter's middle school this morning. In money news, call it Barbie for big girls. Doll maker Mattel is expanding the brand into a line of designer clothing for adults. That's Ken. The Barbie Luxe line includes everything from jeans and shirts to jewelry and handbags so you, too, can dress like Barbie. In culture, the August Wilson Theater is dedicated two weeks after the playwright died of cancer. New York's West 52 Street Theater, previously had been known as The Virginia. In sports, the Chicago White Sox are in. The Sox beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-3 to advance to their first World Series in more than 45 years. They have not won the series since 1917. Oh, could the Black Sox curse be over? And in the National League, the Astros, just one game away from making it to their first-ever World Series. Houston beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 2-1 in game four. Game five is tonight. Did you see Jim Edmunds in that game, Chad? He was thrown out.", "You know, I didn't what was that about.", "He was upset at a strike call.", "Oh.", "And he said some choice words to Mr. Umpire, and he threw him out.", "I see. Well, you are not supposed to argue those. You have bigger things to argue times than that.", "Thank you, Chad. That's a look at the latest headlines for you this morning. Still to come on DAYBREAK. Could the proverbial sales sign be going up on part of CNN's parent company? Also head, the CIA leak: What did that \"New York Times\" reporter know and who exactly told her. We're sorting through the conflicting information coming out of the grand jury investigation. 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{"id": "NPR-2399", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2007-02-07", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7236327", "title": "Songwriter Bill Withers And A Career Cut Short", "summary": "Bill Withers' career as a pop singer in the 1970s was short lived, but his songs, like \"Just the Two of Us,\" are still heard today. Withers talks to Tony Cox about his music, his career, and what happened that soured him on the recording industry. Musician Bill Withers attends the Our Time Gala at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts April 14, 2008 in New York City.", "utt": ["It's one thing to write a hit song, it's another to write more than a few that stand the test of time, like Bill Withers. In the 1970s, he wrote a string of love songs so emotionally on target that people want to hear them again and again. Songs like \"Just the Two of Us,\" \"Lovely Day,\" \"Hello Like Before,\" and this classic.", "(Singing) Ain't no sunshine when she's gone It's not warm when she's away  Ain't no sunshine when she's gone  And she's always gone too long anytime she goes away…", "\"Ain't No Sunshine.\" Every woman that I knew before 1970 thinks that song was about her. They're all probably right.", "Bill Withers is 68 now. Born in West Virginia, he is the son of a coal miner. At 17, he joined the Navy and did a nine-year stint before ever deciding to get into the music business. But while Withers' songs still have legs - you hear them everywhere - his recording career frankly didn't last as long as you'd expect. Today, he says, he's content with life and freely talks about his music, his career, and what happened that soured him on the music industry. He sat down with me at our NPR West studio, and I began by asking him how a black coal miner's son came to want to be a singer-songwriter.", "First, you have to want to, you know, then you have to pursue it. You know, I think I was born that way. The only question was whether I was going to just do it for myself in my head or whether I was going to do it and share it with somebody else. You know what I mean?", "I do.", "I was up in Oakland one time in a club owned by this guy, Don Barksdale(ph), called the Sportsman's Club, I think. And Lou Rawls was playing there. Lou came in a little late one night, so he was walking behind the bar and he says, I'm paying this guy $2,000 a week and he can't even show up on time. And I thought I've - you know, $2,000 a week to come in here and sing in this joint? You know, I think I could do that.", "Let's talk about some of your music, your songs. They're personal. You talk about love, you talk about relationships. You talk about hurt feelings. There's one song in particular, and I know your wife is here so I'm going to be careful about how I ask this…", "No, go ahead.", "And as I listen to it, I was thinking, you know, I wonder who this person is that Bill Withers is talking about? Where you talk about an experience that everybody who's ever been with a person and is not with that person anymore goes through when they see that person for the first time.", "\"Hello Like Before.\"", "\"Hello Like Before.\"", "(Singing) Hello like before  I'd never come here if I'd known  That you were here…", "One of the things that I've always tried to do is to say things without all the cliches. I knew from the start we'd never part, take my hand or, you know, (unintelligible).", "The key to that was, that I had never heard anybody say that before, or since \"Hello Like Before.\" People don't talk like that.", "No, they don't.", "Nobody ever said that but me. But you know what it means.", "Absolutely.", "And that's the only thing I can think of in my life that I own exclusively like that. I've never heard that phrase. And people come up - young singers mention that song to me.", "(Singing) Hello like before  I guess it's different  'Cause we know each other now  I guess I've always known  We'd meet again somehow  So that it might as well be now…", "Let's talk about another song. \"Lean On Me\" is a song that has been played like a bajillion times. Obviously, it was the theme of a movie and everyone has used it. But that's not a love song, is it?", "Yeah.", "It is?", "Yeah. It's just not romantic love. It's friendship, you know. It's offering friendship.", "Well, how does it feel to have written songs that have withstood the test of time? You turn on the television, there's a Bill Withers song. You go to the movies, there's a Bill Withers song. You turn on the radio, there's a Bill Withers song. How does it feel now to hear and see your work still being vital 30-some years, in some cases, after you've created it?", "It's very cool, actually. You know what I mean?", "Yeah, I can guess.", "We were laying in bed watching \"American Idol\" last night. You mentioned \"Lean on Me,\" and this kid came out and he was doing his version of \"Lean on Me.\" That song is one of my favorites because you don't have to be a singer to sing it. People write me letters about how they are, you know, somebody died and they had a tough time and it helped them get through it. And most importantly, I can't tell you how many children told me that was the first thing they learned to play on the piano.", "Really?", "Because you don't have to change fingers.", "I'll see. I don't play the piano so I wouldn't have known…", "Well, I don't, either. That was my piano song.", "(Singing) Sometimes in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow But if we are wise...", "You had some bitter experiences with the record company in the '80s, and you made the statement that - because you sort of disappeared from the recording scene as a result of that, it appeared. And you've said that the record labels have too much power, and that you would never, ever give that kind of power...", "Kind of power to anybody.", "To anybody again, right.", "Well, it was just that one company and that one guy. From 1977 until 1985, I didn't make an album. The only music that I had come out was \"Just The Two of Us\" with Grover Washington.", "Which won a Grammy, by the way.", "Right. And the reason I was - did that song was because I couldn't get in the studios to record on my own. And there was this one guy at CBS called Mickey Ikeman(ph) who actually hid from me for two to three years. He wouldn't take my phone calls if I can - and he was the head A and R(ph) guy. And I guess we didn't get along because he would make suggestions to me that I do stuff like - that I should cover Elvis Presley's \"In the Ghetto.\"", "Mm-hmm.", "Well, you know. We all know that the whole derivative situation - I mean, you know, I don't cover Elvis Presley. You know what I mean? Let's face it, you know, without going any deeper into that. It was an affront to my - to me as a man. I just felt confined that this one guy that really had nothing to do with any black music at all could just shut me down like that. It bothered me. So, I've never signed with another record company since.", "Do you think, in looking back, that that was a good idea or bad idea?", "It wasn't an idea. It was just - I just never got around to it, you know.", "You never got around to it. Why do you mean by that?", "I never got around to it. I was OK, you know what I mean? I mean, I was - I had things to do. I kept myself busy. You know what I mean. And I just never got around to it.", "(Singing) We all need somebody to lean on If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry…", "Well, do you miss performing live?", "No.", "You don't miss it. Why not?", "I don't know.", "There must be - but you were so good at it. I mean, I've seen you and you seemed to really, you know, relish in the moment.", "Well, that was from your point of view. But from my point of view, it wasn't a good business for me because I never drew that many people. I could go play now and I could - it would be a better business for me now than it would have been then.", "So, why not do it now?", "Well, because, you know, we're all shaped by how we evolve. Most people who play music for a living, they grow up doing that. I learned how to live as a sailor, actually, into my adulthood. I was in the Navy nine years, so I learned how to live first, and then I started to play music. I'm not saying that I won't do it, you know. But I mean, it doesn't make me crazy if I'm not traveling around and play a gig.", "And performing. Looking back, we all make choices, right?", "Yeah.", "So, I want to ask you to look at the choices that Bill Withers has made in his life to now and tell us which choice you made was your best choice, and which one you made was your worst?", "Let's make it a generalization thing. The best choices that I made was when I was - when I accepted who I was and was honest with myself and went about things how I believed it, without worrying about whether I was going to impress somebody or not. And the worst choices that I made was when I was trying to gain somebody's approval rather than choosing on principle. And every time I compromise one of my principles, the price is fierce for that.", "You know, most of us can relate to that. When you compromise on your principles, you might get a rush right, now but it's going to cost you big time somewhere down the line.", "Three-time Grammy winner and Hall of Fame songwriter Bill Withers.", "(Singing) When I wake up in the morning, love, and the sunlight hurts my eyes…", "That's News & Notes. 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{"id": "CNN-284008", "program": "IDESK", "date": "2016-05-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/13/id.01.html", "summary": "Trump Posed As His Own Publicist; Russia Accused of State-Run Olympic Doping; Anti-Trump Dating Site.", "utt": ["Ahead at the INTERNATIONAL DESK -- a new, nicer era for Trump and the Republican Party. Russian Olympic athletes under scrutiny again on charges of doping. And miners in South Africa say their work is costing them their lives.", "Hi, there, everyone. Welcome, I'm Robyn Curnow. When you run for U.S. president, your past is put under the microscope and it's happening right now to Donald Trump. Today's \"Washington Post\" has an attention-grabbing headline that claims Trump once masqueraded as a publicist to brag about himself. The story says Trump used the names \"John Miller\" and \"John Barron\" in phone calls to reporters from the 1970s through the 1990s. Trump denied it this morning. But listen now to a recording of one of those phone calls and decide for yourself.", "What is your position there? \"", "Well, I'm sort of handling PR because he gets so much of it. And frankly, I mean, I could tell you off the record. Until I get to know you, off the record, I can tell you that he didn't care if he got bad PR until he got his divorce finished.", "What kind of comment is coming from, you know, your agency or from Donald? \"", "Well, it just that he really decided that he wasn't, you know, he didn't want to make any commitment. He didn't want to make a commitment.", "Well, I want to bring in Susan del Percio from our New York bureau. She's a Republican strategist. You've heard that. Mr. Trump says it's not him. Even if it is him, his argument is, is that it happened 20, 30 years ago. So what's -- why does that matter? But that's the point. He's constantly bringing up skeletons in the closets of the Clintons from decades ago.", "That's a really good point. And what Donald Trump will say is I wasn't a politician then and that I shouldn't be judged on those things. But he has clearly said he has used the name \"John Barron\" under oath when he was brought into court. So we know he's used those names before.", "We know his one youngest son is named as Barron as well.", "Yes. So there's been some talk if he has a little fascination with the name Barron. But putting that aside, it really won't matter too much to his supporters right now. That's just another thing Donald Trump did and he may even get more support for it because it was a way of deceiving the media, which he so often likes to attack.", "Well, let's talk about that. We also know this is just one thing. We also know in the last 24 hours or so that his former butler has come out ranting about killing the president. I want to hopefully bring up the quote that he put on Facebook. \"Obama should have been taken out by a military and shot as an enemy agent in his first term.\" Now Trump's former butler actually admits to CNN that he did write this but he clarified. He actually said the president should have been hanged. How does Mr. Trump and those associated with him get away with saying these kinds of things? I mean, anyone else would have been leveled, flattened if they were ever a candidate and came out with this kind of stuff.", "And that's a really good point. I mean I believe the butler worked for him last in 2009. So as long as Mr. Trump denounces what he said that's one thing. But Donald Trump as a candidate for president is not being judged the way other politicians are judged. He's being judged as a celebrity and a businessman. And that's how come he doesn't -- and he gets scrutiny but he doesn't respond to it the same way because he isn't a politician. And he just shrugs it off and he's actually happy people are talking about the fact that he had a butler or that, you know, what he had said, pretended to be his own PR person when it came to his lovelife.", "And it's important to note here that Donald Trump's campaign have denied, disavowed themselves, was the word they used, from the comments made by his former butler. They did that very quickly and they used the word \"disavow.\" Now if you remember, a few months ago, there was huge controversy when Mr. Trump really took a long time to disavow David Duke, who is aligned with the Ku Klux Klan. So again, these examples of how and when he chooses to support somebody and the language he doesn't or does use and the timing -- many, you know, who watch him would say that, you know, this -- there's a hypocrisy here. But as you say, his voters don't seem to mind.", "Right. And he did -- the statement with the Ku Klux Klan was very interesting at the timing of it, it was before the South Carolina primary, where I think he may have thought it wouldn't be the worst thing if people thought that about him, that he had that support. Then he slowly disavowed it. At least now it looks like Candidate --", "-- Trump is learning something and disavowed the statement immediately.", "Learning something. Learning perhaps how to, you know, make the most of the message that needs to be put out at that very moment. And it seems like he's been honing the way to manipulate the media since the 1970s, since he allegedly, you know, campaigned and was PR for himself. Tell us about Paul Ryan. You were part of a movement that wanted the Speaker as an alternative --", "Yes.", "-- to Mr. Trump. What do you make of Paul Ryan's position now? Do you think yesterday he conceded too much? Do you still think that the Republican Party needs to really push back harder against Mr. Trump?", "I think the meeting went very well for both parties, for Mr. Trump and Speaker Ryan. don't forget Speaker Ryan came into power under very difficult times. The Republican Party in the House of Representatives was already fractured. And he went in there saying I will bring everyone together. And now his conference is made up of Never Trump people, Always Trump people and Maybe Trump people. So he has to be able to go back to them after each of these meetings and say, this is what's come out of it. And I think he's trying to build a conciliatory group there that they can find some issues to get behind Mr. Trump on and others that they will be able to walk away from him on.", "OK, Susan, thank you so much for your perspective. Thanks for joining us.", "Thank you.", "Well, coming up in a few minutes I'll talk to \"Washington Post\" columnist Dana Milbank. Like a lot of pundits, he underestimated Donald Trump's political aspirations and had to eat his own words -- literally. You'll want to join us for that one. We're just weeks away from the opening of the Olympic Games in Rio and now shocking new allegations against Russia that could put more than a dozen medals from the Winter Games at risk. So just how far are athletes and even countries willing to go to bring home the gold? Let's turn to our team; Matthew Chance is in Moscow; Alex Thomas is in London. Coming to you, Alex, in just a moment. Matthew, tell us about these insider details that have been reported and the extent of this program, this alleged program?", "Right. So this is details that have emerged in \"The New York Times,\" an interview with the former chief, the anti-doping chief here in Russia, Grigory Rodchenkov. He's been fired from his post after the allegations, after the details of doping first emerged. He fled to the United States. He did this interview with a documentary maker, in which he described a very detailed program during the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games, where dozens of athletes, including at least 15 medal winners, engaged in doping, actually during the games. And he gave great, specific detail as to how this was achieved. For their part, the Russians have so far categorically denied this. The sports minister has gone on the record, saying that this was a complete shock but also casting doubt on the credibility of Mr. Rodchenkov, saying that basically he was fired from his post and therefore he could have ulterior motives. But within the past hour, there's been a news conference as well by two of the -- given by two of the athletes who were implicated in the allegations. Alexander Legkov is a cross-country skier; he called these claims \"nonsense\" and \"slanderous.\" Another athlete, Alexander Zubkov, who heads the bobsled team in Russia's Olympic team, also said that as well, basically denied these allegations, said they were all clean and they won their medals absolutely fairly. So, yes, the plot thickens yet more when it comes to Russia's dealings with illegal substances in athletics.", "OK, Matthew, thanks for that. And, Alex, so what does this mean for the Summer Olympics coming up?", "We know that, as things stand, Russia's track and field athletes, Robyn, are already banned from competition. This is after Russia's anti-doping agency was disbanded last year, as Matthew hinted, Rodchenkov was the man whose job suffered because of that. This is all down to allegations going back more than a year about the state-sponsored doping program in Russia. Of course, Rodchenkov's allegations in \"The New York Times\" newspaper just makes it even more specific, Robyn, a generalized program with doping, it was specifically targeted, according to him, at those Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. But Russia's in the process of trying to prove that it can get its anti- doping program back on track and satisfy the IAAF, which is track and field's governing body, and get them to sign off on Russia competing at the Rio Olympics. If they don't, it will just be the track and field athletes not going; athletes from other sports in Russia --", "-- will be able to compete in Rio, we believe. And a meeting to decide whether or not they are going to go at all will happen next month. The really worrying thing for Russia as well as \"The New York Times\" allegations is that in the meantime, since their own anti-doping agency was disbanded, anti-doping officers from the United Kingdom have been asked by the international sporting community to go and conduct the drug tests in Russia. And they say they've been having huge trouble. And the number of tests being conducted has plummeted massively. And if they can't conduct tests and prove that Russian athletes are clean, Russia's going to have a really tough time proving they should be allowed to compete at Rio 2016.", "Yes. And you wonder what folks who won silver and bronze at the Sochi Olympics are feeling and how that is going to impact on discussions going forward. Thanks to both of you, Matt, Alex, appreciate it. Moving on, Hezbollah said its top commander fighting in Syria has been killed in an explosion near the airport in Damascus. The Lebanese militant group supports the regime of Bashar al-Assad and has dispatched thousands of its fighters to Syria. Meanwhile, peace talks are set to resume next week in Vienna. Our Fred Pleitgen has the latest from Syria.", "As these new Syria talks move ever closer, of course set to begin next Tuesday, it appears as though there are ever more obstacles in the way for trying to achieve any sort of headway toward a political solution. The Syrian government, in the form of its information minister, telling CNN that one of the key demands made by the opposition, which is that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would have to step down at the end of any transitional process, the Syrian government now saying they not only think that will not happen but they flat-out reject those demands. There's not even going to be any sort of negotiations in that direction, so certainly another big obstacle there. At the same time, the fighting is flaring up here in Syria again as well especially in the Aleppo area, where there is renewed fighting after a cessation of hostility that was in place for several days now, at least brought some quiet to the people there, has not been renewed and the fighting beginning again there. Also a high-level loss for Hezbollah, which is fighting on the side of the Syrian government, of the pro-Assad forces. One of their key senior leaders here in this country, Mustafa Badreddine, was apparently killed last week near the Damascus airport. He played a key role in Hezbollah for years and in 2005 he was indicted by a U.N.-backed tribunal for his alleged role in the assassination of Rafiq Hariri in Lebanon. He's also on a U.S. terrorism list for his role in getting Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon to right here into Syria to then fight on behalf of the Syrian government. Again, at this point in time, many Syrians are saying they want some sort of political solution to this crisis. Folks that we're speaking to say, of course, they're looking towards next Tuesday when those talks are set to resume and they also are quite critical of the international community because they feel that too little headway is being made, that there still are too many problems in the way and they don't believe that the partners who are involved are doing enough to solve them -- Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Damascus.", "Thanks to Fred there in Syria. Coming up, South African court clears the way for thousands to sue the country's lucrative gold industry. We'll tell you why, live from Johannesburg. And a controversial auction begins: why the man who shot Trayvon Martin is now selling the gun he used to do it."], "speaker": ["ROBYN CURNOW, CNN HOST (voice-over)", "CURNOW", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "JOHN MILLER\"", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MILLER\"", "CURNOW", "SUSAN DEL PERCIO, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST", "CURNOW", "DEL PERCIO", "CURNOW", "DEL PERCIO", "CURNOW", "DEL PERCIO", "DEL PERCIO", "CURNOW", "DEL PERCIO", "CURNOW", "DEL PERCIO", "CURNOW", "DEL PERCIO", "CURNOW", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CURNOW", "ALEX THOMAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "THOMAS", "CURNOW", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CURNOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-273798", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2016-01-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/13/wolf.01.html", "summary": "High Powerball Up For Grabs Tonight; Iran Frees 10 Detained U.S. Sailors; Released Sailors Transferred To Shore; No Indication U.S. Sailors Were Harmed; Jordan's King States Iran Actions A Concern; U.S. Set To Unfreeze Billions Of Iranian Assets; Polls Show Tightening Race For Democrats; Democratic Debate Schedule Under Fire", "utt": ["That sounds crazy.", "Well, I mean, when he says, put it in the bank, I'm sure --", "Money in the bank is your reality, I guess. That's the bottom line.", "In an index fund or -- you know, but --", "Yes,", "-- invest conservatively. You're very rich.", "Ice cream?", "You don't need to want that.", "I want steak at a minimum.", "You know, you don't need to invest it.", "OK. Well, you're going to have to talk to Wolf Blitzer about that, because we're walking into his show right now. Thanks, guys. Nice to see you.", "Oh, OK.", "Thank you, Ashleigh.", "Thank you, everyone. Good luck on the Powerball. If I'm here tomorrow, I didn't win. See you.", "Hello, I'm Wolf Blitzer. It's 1:00 p.m. here in Washington, 9:30 p.m. in Teheran, and 10:30 p.m. in Kabul. Wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "The breaking news, brand-new video of the moment 10 U.S. sailors were detained by Iran in the Persian Gulf. The crew made to kneel and put their hands behind their heads as armed men surround them after drifting into Iranian waters. The sailors were eventually freed this morning after Iranian officials said they got an apology as well as a promise from the Americans that the mistake would not be repeated. The U.S. State Department pushing back. The spokesman, John Kirby, tweeting out specifically, quote, \"absolutely zero truth to rumors that John Kerry apologized to Iran over sailors. Nothing to apologize for.\" Of course, the timing is all critical. All of this happening just a few days before Iran is set to start receiving billions of dollars in sanctions relief as part of the nuclear deal President Obama helped negotiate. It was held up as one of his signature diplomatic achievements. Joining us now, our CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr and our Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto. Barbara, that brand new video of the sailors, what more are we learning about the timeline of the sailors' capture and their eventual release?", "Well, they were, indeed, held in Iran overnight, said to be for safety reasons of navigation in the dark. They were released in the late morning, about 5:00 a.m. Washington time. They were brought out to a ship -- U.S. Navy ship in international waters, transferred there from their two small patrol boats. Those boats then taken on by other additional U.S. Navy personnel. So, it's raising the big question, Wolf, were their boats ever really disabled? How did they drift, if they did in fact, into Iranian waters? How did all of this happen? The Navy now debriefing all 10 sailors, asking them all of these questions about what happened. But the answers, Wolf, not yet forthcoming to the public. It seems clear that someone in the U.S. Navy has some idea now of what did happen but they are not saying as this debrief of them goes on. As you look at this video of the sailors on their knees, disarmed, hands behind their heads, this is very disturbing to see. But it is, in fact, a fairly typical maritime procedure in those waters. The U.S. Navy does the same thing when it boards small boats of people who are not its allies. But, nonetheless, very difficult to watch, obviously, and a very difficult optic. The Pentagon insists the sailors were treated fine by the Iranian naval personnel that had them overnight, that they were fed, given water, food, that they were looked after. But there are some pretty significant questions here, Wolf. The people who took them were part of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard Court, the most assertive hard-line portion of the Iranian military. By all accounts, they were released because of pressure from the central government which has its eyes on that nuclear agreement and doesn't want anything to come between it and getting their money back through that agreement. So, a lot of politics involved here in the middle of all of these military maneuvers -- Wolf.", "Yes, I wonder if the Ayatollah Khomeini had to get involved and make a final decision between the government and the Revolutionary Guard. We'll check that out. Jim, the Iranians say the Americans apologized. Those sailors who were there, they apologized for getting into Iranian waters. The secretary of state, John Kerry, he's suggesting there was no apology from the U.S. What are you hearing?", "Well, in terms of official apology, the answer is very clear. John Kerby, Spokesman for the State Department, John Kerry, himself, saying there was no official apology, that the U.S. expressed gratitude to the Iranians for the swift resolution of this. But that there was no apology from Kerry, for instance to his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif. There are reports on social media, even images circulating out there, the possibility that the sailors, themselves, gave some sort of apology to their captors, that we made a mistake. We did not intend to be in these waters. That's not confirmed by U.S. Defense or administration officials, at this point. And the broader message you're hearing from the administration, this is across the board, that this is actually a victory for diplomacy. That without the channels that have been developed between the U.S. and Iran, as a result of the nuclear negotiations, this could not have been resolved so quickly. Here's what John Kerry said at a speech at the National Defense University on this just a few moments ago.", "I'm appreciative for the quick and appropriate response of the Iranian authorities. All indications suggest or tell us that our sailors were well taken care of and provided with blankets and food and assisted with their return to the fleet earlier today. And I think we can all imagine how a similar situation might have played out three or four years ago.", "Interestingly enough, the U.S. in Iran, at least the foreign minister and the secretary of state, somewhat on point here. Javad Zarif tweeting similar just a short time ago, happy to see dialogue and respect, not threats and impetuousness. Swiftly resolved the sailors episode. Let's learn from this latest example. And that's true, Wolf. You did not have these diplomatic channels two years ago, certainly with the administration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But, listen, those images that Barbara was describing just a short time ago, that's a difficult one to digest and call diplomatic when you have those sailors, even if this is the law of the sea in common. But when you have those sailors on their knees with their arms behind their heads, at least from an image standpoint, it's troubling to see. But it also raises the question, were they taken under duress? Were they taken at gunpoint? And these are still questions to be answered -- Wolf.", "And very quickly, Barbara. One of the sailors was a woman, right?", "Indeed. Nine men, one woman. And as we saw that photo, initial photo of them inside a room sitting on a floor, I think everybody noticed that this woman did have her hair covered. Pretty standard. It happened in the past when British naval forces, a couple of years ago, were taken by the Iranians. They -- there was a British female sailor. She, too, had her head covered while she was in Iranian custody.", "All right, Barbara Starr, Jim Sciutto. Guys, thanks very much. Earlier today, I sat down with Jordan's king, Abdullah II. You can hear the full interview later today in \"THE SITUATION ROOM.\" I asked him about his country's relationship with Iran in light of this incident involving these 10 American sailors.", "As we speak, 10 American sailors have been freed from Iranian custody. It was a brief incident. Does Jordan trust Iran?", "We have relations with Iran, but we obviously see their involvement beyond the borders in Yemen and in Africa. Obviously, they are involved in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan. So, we have to contend with their presence beyond their borders.", "As you know, in the coming days, the U.S. and other international partners, are going to lift sanctions. A hundred billion dollars maybe will flow into Iran very, very quickly. They can do with it whatever they want. Is that a source of concern to Jordan?", "It's a concern to a lot of us in the region. And I think they're further (ph) afield. And so, that's what I said, there's linkages between the nuclear deal and how Iran performs on the other portfolios. And so, I think they are going to be held up to how they perform also on those other sectors. And we'll have to see how that happens and where we hold them accountable on what other potential mischiefs may be -- may be found.", "Now, we've just learned that King Abdullah and President Obama just had a previously unscheduled meeting at Joint Base Andrews outside of the Washington, D.C. The king had been here for a few days. He met with the vice president, met with the secretary of state, the defense secretary. No meeting had been scheduled with the president. In the last minute development, the president found some time and met with King Abdullah. They just had a meeting. The president heading out to Nebraska and Louisiana from Andrews Air Force base. We're going to have much more of my exclusive interview with King Abdullah of Jordan later today in \"THE SITUATION ROOM.\" That airs 5:00 p.m. Eastern only here on CNN. Joining us now is Democratic Congresswoman, Debbie Wassermann Schultz. She's the chair of the Democratic National Committee, also a representative from Florida. Congresswoman, thanks very much for joining us.", "Thank you, Wolf.", "Are you confident? I know you voted for the Iran nuclear deal. Are you satisfied with the way it's being implemented right now? And hundred billion dollars in sanctions relief should start flowing immediately to Iran.", "Well, the entire goal of achieving the nuclear agreement with Iran was to make sure that we could prevent them from ever attaining a nuclear weapon. And, you know, part of the agreement requires them to have shipped 98 percent of their enrichment uranium out of the country. You know, and other very specific, important requirements, dismantle their rocket reactor permanently and, you know, other key elements of their nuclear program so that they could actually be prevented from ever achieving those goals. And so, once they reached that, you know, and we get to so-called implementation day, then they are entitled, under the agreement, to get access to their funds. But keep in mind, a lot of those funds, you know, already were previously obligated. So, the amount of resources that are going to be available to them, you know, particularly because they have debt that they have to cover, are really not going to be as much as previously thought. And, you know, I think an example of the ability for us to quickly negotiate the release of our sailors yesterday was directly related to the fact that we have been working through Secretary Kerry and the Iranian leadership over these last two years. And without that relationship, I think that the result could have been very different and very unfortunate.", "It's not just the hundred billion dollars in sanctions relief or a hundred fifty billion dollars in sanctions relief, Congresswoman, it's the many 10s of billions of dollars of additional income they are going to get because trade restrictions against Iran are being lifted at the same time. Here's the question. Are you concerned that a lot of those billions will go to the Revolutionary Guard which, obviously, has been responsible for all sorts of activities the U.S. regards as terrorist activities in the region?", "Of course there is a real concern because Iran certainly isn't a good actor in the region, on the contrary. We don't -- we don't trust them. And that's why we have our sanctions in place on so many other things that need to continue to be enforced. And Iran needs to understand that they are going to be watched very carefully and sanctions applied aggressively. And we've got to make sure that we hold their feet to the fire. And so, this isn't a blank check or a free ride, by any means. We've actually added accountability on Iran and made sure that if they want to join the world stage, they are going to be expected to act in a peaceful way. And they're going to have to earn that trust back which is going to be a long time in coming.", "Now, let's talk about the race for the White House, the Democratic presidential contest right now. A new Quinnipiac University poll shows Senator Bernie Sanders now leading Hillary Clinton in Iowa 49 percent to 44 percent. Another poll from CBS News and the \"New York Times\" shows Bernie Sanders closing the gap with Hillary Clinton nationally. He's down just seven points right now, compared to a 20-point gap last month. We're seeing both of these candidates step up their attacks against each other. Is there a time, and you're the chair of the DNC, to approve more debates between these two candidates?", "You know, our candidates, with our debate schedule and our schedule of other candidate forums, have had a large variety of opportunities to be seen by voters. You can see from, whether it's Secretary Clinton or Senator Sanders, to some degree Martin O'Malley, their exposure, through a variety of those opportunities, have given them the ability to be successful and to attract attention and to build support. That's with the schedule that we've had. I want to point out, wolf, that 58 of the 61 debates in 2008 and 2012 actually had lower, you know, or as good, as we've had in the debates that we've had now. We've actually exceeded viewership by a lot of the view -- with the debates we've had this year, compared to 58 of 61 debates in 2008 and 2012. And, in fact, our candidate with the least amount of time on our debate stage has actually had as much time as the frontrunner on the Republican side has had. So, I'm very confident and satisfied with the amount of time our candidates have had on the debate stage, through candidate forums and, importantly, through being able to get up close and personal in those early state primaries which is really important.", "So, just to be precise, no additional debates are being authorized?", "We have six debates, and we are proceeding with that schedule.", "Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the Congresswoman from Florida, the Chair of the DNC. Thanks very much, Congresswoman, for joining us.", "Thank you, Wolf.", "Coming up, President Obama gave his last State of the Union address. We're going to talk about his legacy and a whole new -- and a whole lot more. And a new poll out in Iowa shows an even tighter race for the Republican presidential contest. The candidates, they are heating up their own attacks. Stay with us. We'll update you."], "speaker": ["ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "JOEY JACKSON, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "CALLAN", "BANFIELD", "CALLAN", "JACKSON", "CALLAN", "JACKSON", "CALLAN", "BANFIELD", "CALLAN", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "ANNOUNCER", "BLITZER", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "JOHN KERRY, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE", "SCIUTTO", "BLITZER", "STARR", "BLITZER", "BLITZER", "KING ABDULLAH II, JORDAN", "BLITZER", "ABDULLAH", "BLITZER", "REP. DEBBIE WASSERMANN SCHULTZ (D), FLORIDA, CHAIR, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE", "BLITZER", "SCHULTZ", "BLITZER", "SCHULTZ", "BLITZER", "SCHULTZ", "BLITZER", "SCHULTZ", "BLITZER", "SCHULTZ", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-105007", "program": "CNN RELIABLE SOURCES", "date": "2006-4-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/16/rs.01.html", "summary": "ESPN to Produce Reality Show About Barry Bonds", "utt": ["Welcome back. ESPN has launched a new reality show featuring the most controversial figure in sports -- homerun king and accused doper, Barry Bonds.", "I'll become a star, man. This is what you go through, dog. I'm telling you, man. Have you ever seen anything like it in your life? It's hilarious, isn't it?", "If it makes them happy to go out of their way to try to destroy me, or whatever they want to try to do, go right ahead, man. It doesn't bother me. You can't do anything. Anything else you've already done. You can't hurt me anymore than you've already hurt me.", "The $4.5 million deal with a production company is getting new scrutiny now that baseball's investigating Bonds for steroid use, and with reports Friday that a federal grand jury has subpoenaed Bonds' personal physician in an examination of possible perjury by the San Francisco Giants' outfielder. ESPN's first ombudsman has called on the network to pull the plus on the series, at least temporarily. George Solomon, who is also a columnist and a former sports editor of the \"Washington Post,\" joins us now. Why is this a bad idea?", "Well, I don't think any network or newspaper ought to be in business with someone they cover. And that's not just ESPN, whether it's the \"Washington Post\" or the \"New York Times\" or NBC -- I don't envision NBC wanting to get into a series with Donald Rumsfeld and into a relationship with Donald Rumsfeld. And I see ESPN and Barry Bonds in the same situation.", "It needs to be clear, some of the money that's being paid to this production company will likely end up on Bonds' pocket -- not that he needs the money. But ESPN's executive editor John Walsh says that this is being done by the network's entertainment division. It's completely separate from the news division, and it doesn't affect their news coverage. What do you make of that argument?", "Well, you know, I don't completely agree with that argument, simply because the viewer sees ESPN. They don't see ESPN Entertainment. They don't see the production company, Tollin/Robbins, which is a very competent production company. They don't see that. They see ESPN as you would see the \"Washington Post\" -- perhaps not the advertising department -- if there is a similar publication that looks like the \"Washington Post,\" feels like the \"Washington Post,\" but is the \"Washington Post.\"", "And now if Bonds makes some news during these interviews the production company is taping, apparently the news department at ESPN isn't told about it. Isn't that a kind of odd situation?", "They have an agreement -- they have an agreement that if Bonds does say something newsworthy and something revelatory does appear on the show, that it's held for the show, not to be given to ESPN News.", "Now, ever since the book \"Game of Shadows\" came out by the two \"San Francisco Chronicle\" reporters that details extensively allegations of steroid use by Bonds, now you've got him sitting in front of a camera for this reality show, and he is hardly ever asked about steroids. It's come up once or twice. How do you do that and not press the guy on the biggest single issue facing his career right now?", "I think the producers of the show have every intent of asking him. Now, whether he answers or what kind of response he gives is up to Bonds. See, that's what makes the thing so tricky, is that Bonds in a sense has control. If this was done by -- you know, if this was done without Bonds' control and people pursued and asked and had him walk off the set, that's a different story. But Bonds in a sense can be asked, but he does have control whether or not to answer.", "You see these programs as basically being pretty close to puff pieces about Barry Bonds?", "They're favorable to Bonds, and the first one certainly is well done. They do ask some questions. He is probed somewhat, but his answers are pretty stock and they're pretty pro-Bonds, and he's not going to offer anything particularly revelatory. And other people are asked about Bonds and the steroid issue, and -- but you know, it is a pretty fairly controlled piece by Bonds.", "And so in effect, ESPN is helping Barry Bonds rehabilitate his image, an image that has been absolutely battered by these investigative reports about drug use.", "And ESPN would maintain that its entertainment division is producing the show, that the news division is not helping it, but again, that's where I have a problem.", "You are the first ombudsman in the history of ESPN. Do you feel like you're having an impact?", "Well, you mean does Michael -- did Michael Getler have an impact at the \"Washington Post\"?", "When he was the ombudsman.", "When he was the ombudsman of the \"Washington Post.\" You never know. All you can do is make your assessments, write your criticisms, write your compliments and see what happens. I mean, am I having an impact? I don't know.", "But do readers and viewers have a way of accessing your...", "I hear a lot from readers and viewers, and I get a lot of response, and I think readers and viewers appreciate having someone to vent to and also appreciate having someone that offers internal criticism.", "And we appreciate your being here. George Solomon, ESPN, thanks you very for joining us. Up next, how Katie Couric's upcoming move to the CBS anchor chair has produced a windfall for the man she's leaving behind. And later, CNN's Jason Carroll goes \"ON THE STORY\" of the investigation into the Duke lacrosse players caught up in those sexual assault allegations in North Carolina. \"ON THE STORY\" today at 1:00 p.m. Eastern."], "speaker": ["KURTZ", "BARRY BONDS, MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYER", "BONDS", "KURTZ", "SOLOMON", "KURTZ", "SOLOMON", "KURTZ", "SOLOMON", "KURTZ", "SOLOMON", "KURTZ", "SOLOMON", "KURTZ", "SOLOMON", "KURTZ", "SOLOMON", "KURTZ", "SOLOMON", "KURTZ", "SOLOMON", "KURTZ"]}
{"id": "NPR-21118", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2015-09-15", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/09/15/440477054/calif-firefighters-ensure-sequoias-are-protected-from-rough-fires-flames", "title": "Calif. Firefighters Ensure Sequoias Are Protected From Rough Fire's Flames", "summary": "While California's Rough Fire is not threatening as many homes or businesses as other fires, it has attracted a lot of fire-fighting resources. The fire is burning near a grove of giant sequoias.", "utt": ["Here is what we know about a massive wildfire burning in California. It's been called the Rough Fire. It was ignited by lightning and is now burning out of control across 139,000 acres. What we don't know is whether firefighters will be able to keep up with it. Hot, dry weather in the West is fueling this fire in ways people in the West have never seen. So far, firefighters are doing their best. The Rough Fire is not threatening as many homes or businesses as two smaller fires burning in California, but it is threatening a resource that many see as a national treasure. NPR's Kirk Siegler reports from Kings Canyon National Park.", "At 6,500 feet off the famous General's Highway, the ancient Grant Grove of giant sequoias is a must-see for any visitor to the Sierra Nevada. After all, one of the biggest and oldest trees in the world is here, the 268 foot high monolith, the General Grant. Well, this time of year, the canopied, shady groves around it should still be humming with hardy hikers straining their necks to take it all in. Instead, the chainsaws are roaring as firefighters get rid of flammable debris. Hundreds are working 16-hour shifts. A cluster of fire engines is pumping water from tanks into a hose that extends a mile around the perimeter of the grove.", "If you see this hand line right here, it's all connected with hoses and stuff. And what we're trying to do is locate, you know, areas of smoke and pockets of heat.", "Swinging his Pulaski over his shoulder, firefighter Edwin Diaz is looking for hotspots to mop up.", "Making sure that they won't jump over the line and, you know, compromise what we're trying to protect here.", "The good news is that so far these beloved sequoias have been protected but not without an enormous amount of effort and expense. And what's happening right here, all these resources deployed, is the new norm for fighting fires in the hotter and drier West. Since the Rough Fire ignited from a lightning strike in July, fire crews have spent almost $90 million fighting it, and many here will tell you they've never seen a blaze this erratic or intense in the Sierra Nevada. Mike Theune of Kings Canyon National Park says it's been chewing through forests at an extraordinary pace.", "You know, having four years of drought, being the hottest fire of the year, you also look at all the bark beetle killed in the area - it creates this perfect storm of conditions that really allows a fire this size to get so big.", "But things could be much worse. See, the Rough Fire kind of hit a wall when it arrived at the grove. It slowed way down. Well, that's thanks to the extensive prescribed burning that's occurred here lately. It's helped clear out all the unnatural understory.", "So the goal is to keep fuels below and low so that when fire does come through it doesn't reach the crowns, which could lead to the trees' demise.", "These giant sequoias have to have low intensity wildfires to survive. Otherwise, their cones won't open up and regenerate. So the environmental and economic stakes are high, which is not lost on firefighters like Edwin Diaz.", "It's a lot of the reason why a lot of visitors come here from all over the world. I have spoken to people from Germany, France and people from different places just to visit these, you know, great miracles of nature.", "For Diaz, this assignment is personal, too. His five-member engine crew's home base happens to be here in Grant Grove. Kirk Siegler, NPR News, Kings Canyon National Park."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, HOST", "KIRK SIEGLER, BYLINE", "EDWIN DIAZ", "KIRK SIEGLER, BYLINE", "EDWIN DIAZ", "KIRK SIEGLER, BYLINE", "MIKE THEUNE", "KIRK SIEGLER, BYLINE", "MIKE THEUNE", "KIRK SIEGLER, BYLINE", "EDWIN DIAZ", "KIRK SIEGLER, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-24425", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2001-1-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/26/tod.06.html", "summary": "Super Bowl Coaches Take Different Approach to Big Game", "utt": ["It's each year one of the most anticipated sporting events in these United States of America, and it's just two days away now. What am I talking about? The Sunday game between the Baltimore Ravens and the New York Giants, the Super Bowl. The number is XXXV. Joining us now with more about the, CNN/SI's Josie Karp in Tampa. Josie, what's going on?", "That's right, we are closing in on the 48-hour mark. Just about two days until kickoff for this game and traditionally on the Friday before the Super Bowl, the head coaches of both teams offer final thoughts. So, that's what Brian Billick of the Ravens and Jim Fassel of the Giants did today. These are two coaches who took drastically different approaches with their team all week long. But today, in own their words, they each said the very same thing. After two weeks of talking about this game, and two weeks of preparing for this game, each said his team is just plain ready to play this game.", "This team has dealt with pressure, the pressure -- the natural pressures of the league, the pressures of what the mentality and the off-season predicaments this has been in all year long. I think it should be noted what we're dealing with this week, and some of you all, I think, are a little new to it, so it seems fresh to you, we've dealt with every week.", "The old Knute Rockne right before the game. If we're not ready by then, that'll come and go real quick. Your team won't play like that the whole game. So, I think the foundation and the psychological approach is laid long before that. And all you need to do is a few things that remind them of all the things you talked about. When we get there, this team will be ready.", "The Ravens, on the other hand, were going to get a little inspirational pep talk. Today, Brian Billick said that he asked Jim Brown, the former NFL great to address his team. He addressed the team in training camp and even though Jim Fassel has no plans to ask anybody outside of the team to talk to the Giants before the Super Bowl, the coach did get some inside inspiration from someone he used to coach. A former Super Bowl MVP, John Elway, told Jim Fassel just the other day there's no way you can prepare for that moment when you walk on the field at the Super Bowl. Elway told him it will be overwhelming emotionally.", "All right, Josie, I've got an extra dollar burning a hole. What are the oddsmakers saying about this? Who's going to win this thing this?", "Well, we're not supposed to talk odds too much. But most people give the slight edge to the Ravens and the Giants, they have been underdogs all year long. They really like that role, and it's something being the favorite that the Ravens just aren't used to because they've really shared that underdog role for most of the season as well.", "OK, you're getting boos already from the Giants fans here in the room. Josie Karp...", "And you asked her!", "Yes, I did. Josie...", "I have no opinion.", "I know you don't. You're just right down the middle.", "Has there ever been a coach in the history of football worldwide that has said, no, we're just not going to be ready?", "No, no. And when they do, we'll play that for you."], "speaker": ["LOU WATERS CNN ANCHOR", "JOSIE KARP, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BRIAN BILLICK, BALTIMORE RAVENS HEAD COACH", "JIM FASSEL, NEW YORK GIANTS HEAD COACH", "KARP", "WATERS", "KARP", "WATERS", "NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "WATERS", "KARP", "WATERS", "ALLEN", "WATERS"]}
{"id": "CNN-382022", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-10-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/04/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Text Messages Revealed in Trump Impeachment Investigation", "utt": ["He argued against any of this information on the Bidens, saying that it probably was not credible. But we also know that the administration had a negative view of Ukraine. And that's what he was working against. In his opening statement yesterday, he said -- quote -- \"In the course of that conversation, he referenced conversations with Mayor Giuliani. It was clear to me that, despite the positive news and recommendations being conveyed by this official delegation about the new president, President Trump had deeply rooted negative view on Ukraine about -- rooted in the past. He was clearly receiving other information from other sources, including Mayor Giuliani, that was more negative, causing him to retain this negative view,\" Brooke. So that just gives you a sense of what Volker said he was working against when it came to Rudy Giuliani and the president of the United States directly -- Brooke.", "And, of course, also how he spoke so highly of Joe Biden, as we mentioned a second ago. Lauren, you also have some new reporting about today's closed-door testimony by the intelligence community inspector general, Michael Atkinson. And this is the same guy who deemed the whistle-blower complaint credible and of urgent concern. So what has he told lawmakers?", "Well, what he's telling lawmakers is that, essentially, he's walking them through the process of how he handled his complaint and how he went about corroborating it. We have now learned from two sources that what was turned over last night were documents related to how the ICIG went about corroborating that complaint. So I think that that's one of the key takeaways from today. But sources are also telling me this is mostly about process and that, so far, there aren't these big explosive moments in this hearing. But, of course, it's still ongoing. We will still keep you posted, Brooke, on exactly what comes out of this meeting.", "We know you will. Lauren Fox, thank you very much. Let's get you back to those text messages now and the people involved. Former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker handed them over to Congress. Volker resigned from his job just one day after the release of that whistle-blower complaint. There's also this man by the name of Gordon Sondland. He is the U.S. ambassador to the European Union. And before that, he donated a million dollars to President Trump's inaugural committee. The third name, just again for context, in all these texts, is Bill Taylor. Bill Taylor is effectively running the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, since there is no permanent ambassador at this moment, but he has served in that role before. So, you know the players. Let's bring in these two. Elie Honig is a former federal prosecutor and a CNN legal analyst, and Samantha Vinograd is former senior adviser to the national security adviser under President Obama. And she is also a CNN national security analyst. So, shall we? Let's start with these text messages, and, Elie, just from a legal perspective, because the wording of these texts is very -- if Ukrainian President Zelensky does X, President Trump will do", "Yes.", "So let's roll through each one. You guys can throw them up on the screen and you can tell me what they show us.", "So this is the most fun part of being a prosecutor, by the way, when you get a great batch of evidence like this, and you get to go and reconstruct who's who and what are they really saying? So this one -- people talk about a quid pro quo, which basically just means this for that, an exchange. And, here, they spell it out. The quid is investigate. And the quo is this visit to the White House. There are two different things offered at various times, the foreign aid and the visit to the White House. And you know they're connected because of that word assuming. Assuming means, if they do this, assuming that they investigate, then they will get the reward, which is the trip to the White House. That is about as close to a quid pro quo as you will ever see in real life.", "Yes, and I want to remind people what White House visits are normally offered for. The chief of staff and the national security adviser normally have policy requirements for inviting someone to the White House, not political or personal ones.", "Not used as leverage.", "Correct. And so what this means, if this quid pro quo was offered to the Ukrainians or to the Chinese or anyone else, the wrong kind of leaders are probably showing up at the White House. You have to be willing to help President Trump aid and abet him in conducting a crime, soliciting foreign election interference, if you're going to walk through the White House store.", "Yes. OK, for the context on the White House visits. Next -- what's the next text? Do we have another text? Here we go.", "So this is the cover story in action. In the first slide, basically, they're talking about they understand there's a need. They got to get the story straight. Make sure I advise Z, the Ukrainian president, Zelensky, correctly as to what he should be saying. And then what follows in the next text, the next slide is essentially a draft. Here's what the cover story is going to be. And we were just talking about it. It's this idea that Donald Trump, he's just a corruption buster, and he just wants to clean everything up. And, of course, the reality is, there's only two cases he's ever had any interest in, which is Biden and Hillary Clinton.", "Right. And, I mean, at this point, soliciting Rudy Giuliani's advice on a public statement of any kind, he's essentially replaced the press secretary months after she started. I drafted a lot of White House statements. You typically go to the experts, like our acting ambassador in Ukraine. You don't ask the president's personal lawyer for advice on a statement with a foreign leader. That's corruption until itself, because Rudy Giuliani obviously has a conflict of interest here.", "OK. And then I don't know if we have another text, or else I'm going to roll on to my next question. You guys show me. Yes, we've got another one.", "This is the best one. We have to do this one.", "Oh, this is the \"Call me.\"", "This is as close as you're going to get to a smoking gun. I mean, Bill Taylor has this moment of candor, where he just lays it all out. \"Are we saying that security assistance, the foreign aid and the White House meeting are conditioned on investigations?\" conditioned, meaning you only get it if you do the investigations? And the response is this, \"Call me,\" which is like, of course, but we don't put it in writing on text.", "And, also, aren't these encrypted? They're on encrypted lines of communication. Right?", "Sure. Law enforcement has ways to de-encrypt things, which apparently happened here.", "Right.", "But yet, look, whenever you see people involved in nefarious plan, someone is going to say, hey, let's take this offline. You see that elsewhere.", "Eventually, although what was in the texts was worrisome unto itself.", "Yes.", "But I have a bigger question. Why is our ambassador to the E.U. even working on this issue? Gordon Sondland is what we call a political appointee. He was appointed by President Trump. His portfolio is the European union. Here we have him delving into anti-corruption issues in Ukraine and serving really as Rudy Giuliani's secretary.", "He's not in his lane.", "He's not in his lane. He's working on something ostensibly at the president's behest or Mick Mulvaney's behest, and clearly not doing his day job. And, again, what he already has in those text messages, the quid pro quo, the conversations with Giuliani, are damning onto themselves. Bill Taylor is a career diplomat. And he's the only one -- we haven't put this text up -- that says he would quit if security assistance did not move forward. We have heard -- we have not heard that from any other official.", "Let's get to this. At the U.N., we heard Zelensky say that he felt no pressure on the call, right? That's when he was sitting next to Trump week before last. And let me just read one of the texts. This is to your point from Bill Taylor, the acting -- rather, this is Bill Taylor, the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, that President Zelensky is -- quote -- \"sensitive about Ukraine being taken seriously, not merely as an instrument in Washington domestic reelection politics.\" So, does that sound like pressure to you?", "I think that Ukraine certainly wants to promote an image of independence. Ukraine, well before Zelensky, was an instrument of Russia. They want to show their independence. Zelensky is newly elected. And Zelensky also wants to show that he's making progress on real issues, like, for example, ending the war in Eastern Ukraine, and establishing his administration is not malleable by foreign influence. That's what he's focused on. He obviously doesn't want to upset President Trump. He knows that he's cut off security assistance to Ukraine previously. He's cut off foreign assistance to Central American countries. And he needs us, Brooke. He's between a rock and a hard place when it comes to keeping President Trump happy, but not looking like a puppet of the president's political agenda.", "And you wanted to make a point in response.", "Yes, very similar to that, exactly what Sam was saying. I have dealt with dozens of victims of extortion and bribery over the years, and almost never do they say, yes, I felt scared, yes, I was a victim. They're often too scared to say that. And, as Sam said, this is not an equal bargaining relationship here. Ukraine desperately needs this money that we have. We have the upper hand. There's no way the president's going to say, my knees were knocking and my teeth were chattering, I was so scared. That's not how things work in reality. The power dynamic and the words used really rule here.", "Elie and Sam, I like this team. Thank you guys very much.", "Thank you.", "The key witness in the middle of the scandal says he does not believe Joe Biden did anything wrong. And his testimony doesn't stop there. We have the transcript -- part of the transcript that we will read for you. Also, a former ambassador to Ukraine who once praised Joe Biden for his anti-corruption efforts weighs in on today's fast-moving developments and what he reads in all these text messages. And a closer look at how this is all being covered on conservative outlets like FOX and how that may play into the silence from so many Republicans. You're watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin. We will be right back."], "speaker": ["LAUREN FOX, CNN CONGRESSIONAL REPORTER", "BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST", "FOX", "BALDWIN", "Y. ELIE HONIG, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BALDWIN", "HONIG", "SAMANTHA VINOGRAD, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "BALDWIN", "VINOGRAD", "BALDWIN", "HONIG", "VINOGRAD", "BALDWIN", "HONIG", "BALDWIN", "HONIG", "BALDWIN", "HONIG", "BALDWIN", "HONIG", "VINOGRAD", "HONIG", "VINOGRAD", "BALDWIN", "VINOGRAD", "BALDWIN", "VINOGRAD", "BALDWIN", "HONIG", "BALDWIN", "HONIG", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-48822", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-2-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/07/lad.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Trying to Determine Who Was in Vehicle Convoy", "utt": ["The United States is trying to determine who it killed in a missile attack on a convoy of vehicles in eastern Afghanistan. CNN's Martin Savidge joins us live from Kandahar with the story -- Martin, is there a chance, a real chance that Osama bin Laden was in that convoy?", "Well, good afternoon to you, Carol, from Kandahar. There is no confirmation in any way, shape or form as to who may have been struck with that Hellfire missile that was launched. No one here certainly even raising the possibility it could have been Osama bin Laden. But there are others elsewhere who say maybe. Essentially what we are being told right now is that there is an operation under way sending troops from here at the Kandahar military base, flying them by helicopter, trying to insert them into the area, which would be the Tora Bora region. This all goes back to last Monday when a CIA Prowler aircraft -- that's an unmanned aircraft that has been used a great deal for reconnaissance purposes throughout the Afghan campaign -- was apparently spotting a civilian entourage of vehicles, SUVs to be specific, a rather small one moving down the road. They called in for an air strike obviously believing that they were suspect al Qaeda. But apparently there were no aircraft in the area that were capable of carrying out the strike when it was needed. That prowler also had a missile on it. It launched the hellfire and it struck, apparently, the convoy and it's believed that al Qaeda leaders were killed. The problem was that happened on Monday. The weather had been so bad in the region they could not insert troops until now. No word yet on what they are finding and, of course, with the passage of time, it is quite possible that anyone that had been killed could have been removed already by the al Qaeda -- Carol?", "Well, I guess if you think about it, if you're hiding you want to keep on the move and maybe that's why Osama bin Laden might have been in that convoy.", "Well, one of the things that they have been noting is that the Tora Bora region, as we already know, is an area that had been used in the past, an area that's riddled with caves. Now, many of those caves were searched by U.S. forces as well as Afghan forces. They keep an eye on that region just in case someone comes back and it appears that maybe someone did. Just how many and how high were they on the al Qaeda food chain is remaining to be seen -- Carol.", "OK, it should be interesting. Thank you. Martin Savidge reporting live for us from Kandahar, where it is already the afternoon."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "SAVIDGE", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-201105", "program": "EARLY START WITH JOHN BERMAN AND ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN", "date": "2013-2-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/12/es.04.html", "summary": "North Korea Confirms Nuclear Test; State of the Union Tonight; Interview with Congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois", "utt": ["The blast heard around the world. North Korea claiming another nuclear test.", "Counting down to the State of the Union address, with President Obama set to challenge the Republican Party. A congressional Republican joins us live.", "And the Catholic Church with a big void to fill. We'll look at who could be on the short list to replace Pope Benedict XVI. Welcome back to EARLY START. Happy to have you with us this morning. I'm Zoraida Sambolin.", "And I'm John Berman. I'm in Washington, D.C. today for the State of the Union, which is tonight. We will have more on that speech just moments away.", "All right. Looking forward to that. But, first, we have some developments overnight. North Korea has done it again. The nation's state-run news agency reporting that it has successfully conducted a third underground nuclear test. And reaction is pouring in from around the world. In just a few hours, the U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting and the U.S. is taking this test very seriously. So, let's bring in CNN's Barbara Starr. She is live at the Pentagon. And, obviously, this test is worrisome. There's a lot of public condemnation. But behind the scenes, Barbara, what is the deeper concern.", "Have you read the \"Esquire\" story of the SEAL with bin Laden --", "Look, Zoraida, one of the biggest problems right now is whether or not North Korea really has achieved a miniaturized bomb. They say they set off a smaller, more lethal explosive, if you will. Miniaturization is key. That means they could possibly put a small warhead on a missile sooner than expected and deliver it to a target. So, now, the CIA, the Pentagon, all has to look at this to determine what they set off and essentially now work backwards. If it was a miniaturized bomb, what did it take North Korea to get there? Where did they get the technology, the engineering, the expertise, the money to do it? They're going to look at what it would have taken North Korea to achieve what they say they achieved and trying to figure out how they did it and who might have helped them -- Zoraida.", "And you say that because there's been a lot of skepticism as to where they are in this program right now.", "That's exactly right. You know, the U.S. has, you know, behind the scenes, has been very skeptical for years. But, look, in December, they successfully launched a long-range ballistic missile, by all accounts, a successful underground nuclear test. So they are achieving some level of expertise in their technology, and engineering. And that is vital if they are getting the help potentially and we don't know from Iran, from Pakistan. These are key issues that there might be people in those countries helping them. And is North Korea then sharing what it knows, its expertise now, back with countries like Iran?", "Yes, it raises --", "This is --", "Yes, it raises a lot of questions.", "This is a nuclear hub nobody wants to see.", "You know, I want to get your perspective on something. It's the timing of this, with the State of the Union address. Coincidental?", "Well, you know, you got to wonder, don't you? I mean, tonight, we expect President Obama had every intention of announcing additional cuts in the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal. This is something he has been trying to achieve. The incoming Secretary of Defense Hagel wants to see. Now, will the president do it? Zoraida?", "All right. Barbara Starr, live at the Pentagon, thank you very much. Wondering now if the president will actually address this tonight. John, what do you think?", "You know, he will talk about foreign policy. Foreign policy will not be the thrust of the speech, we're told. The economy, jobs, other issues. But when he talks about foreign policy, it's a pretty safe bet now that North Korea will be on his mind. Of course, the president set to give that address tonight at 9:00 Eastern Time. Reports, though, indicate that he may do a little bit more finger-pointing this time than reaching across the aisle. Congressman Adam Kinzinger is a Republican from Illinois. Thanks for joining us this morning.", "Hey. Good to be here. Thanks.", "So, everyone is talking about the president's tone. There were some Republicans who were not happy with the tone of the inaugural address and we're getting some previews about how the president may sound tonight. And Glenn Thrush at \"Politico\" says that his sources say the president will pay lip service to bipartisanship, but don't expect anything like the call for peaceful collaboration that defined his first to a joint session of Congress in 2009.", "This is more of the same. I mean, and this is what's sad. I think this is an opportunity. The president has an amazing opportunity to say big things, to call Republicans and Democrats together, to say, look, both sides are going to have to accept things they don't want in order to solve the huge problems in this country and, frankly, for future generations. I mean, that's what's missing, the discussion of what happens next with the next generation of Americans and, unfortunately, you know, to descend back to partisan rhetoric when you have such an amazing opportunity here. I sat, you know, 30 yards from the president in the inauguration and I really did expect him to talk about those big opportunities, something large, and didn't hear it. I just heard some rhetoric. And, again, tonight, I hope if his goal is right now to do this partisan speech, I hope he changes his mind today and rewrites the speech and comes to work with the Republicans.", "There are issues on both sides of the aisle.", "Sure.", "You look what's happening with the audience tonight, with the Republican congressman from Texas bringing Ted Nugent, a rocker and gun rights advocate who's had some really harsh things to say about the president. Does that set the right tone?", "Well, look, I mean, that's -- you know, each congressman gets to bring one person with them. I'm bringing my sister tonight. In my mind, it's that we have really big issues. A $16.5 trillion debt that youth have to pay for, we've got an energy crisis in this country. We have a jobs crisis in the country. There's a lot that needs to be done. There's a real opportunity to come together. And trust me, the tone out here has to change. The personal has to go away and we have to work together.", "But don't you think bringing Ted Nugent could be seen as a little provocative.", "Well, look, bringing -- again, he has his choice. I'm not going to criticize him on the air, but I will say, in the big picture, this is a huge deal tonight, a huge opportunity for both sides to come together. I'm a member of a group called No Labels, which brings Republicans and Democrats together to say let's find common-ground solutions, because, frankly, our kids and grandkids, which I don't have yet, but I will someday, I hope, are relying on this --", "How is the No Labels thing going so far? Are you encouraged, discouraged? It's been going on for a few months now.", "No, I'm very encouraged. It's an opportunity again for both sides to come together and have these discussions that need to happen. And so, no budget, no pay. This is an idea out of No Labels, and I think this is the beginning of shifting the tone in Washington from the personal to actually getting some things done.", "You are on the foreign affairs economy.", "I am.", "Overnight, we had news that there's explosion in North Korea, some kind of nuclear test we suspect. What are your feelings about that?", "That's scary. You know, once again, at a point in the sequester of hollowing out our military. We have to have a real discussion tonight with how to avert that, but have real cuts, and this is pretty scary. So --", "It's interesting. You know, Congressman Matt Cartwright brought up the sequester also on the issue of North Korea.", "Yes. I think this is important. It's important for us to work together to avert the cuts to the military, but have real cuts because right now, our spending cut is out of control.", "All right. Congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Republican, thank you for joining us.", "Great to be here. Thanks.", "Have fun tonight.", "Yes.", "You can watch the president's State of the Union address tonight live on CNN. Our coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. Catch all the highlights, all the best bits of analysis tomorrow morning on EARLY START, live here from Washington, beginning at 5:00 a.m. Eastern Time -- Zoraida.", "All right. Thank you. And taking a look at top some of the CNN trends, the first of two tug boats reached the Carnival cruise ship that was drifting in the Gulf of Mexico Monday night, or is drifting, I should say. It will begin towing the ship and the more than 4,200 people that are on board to a port in Alabama. It is expected to arrive sometime Thursday. A spokesman for Carnival cruise line says it was an engine fire that has left that ship stranded since Sunday. So, also, turning. Take a look at this folks. That's lightning strike. It's a sign from above perhaps? This happens just hours after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation. Lightning actually struck the Vatican. I was looking online to see if it's ever good news, if it's ever to get struck by lightning. But I think the answer is no. Thirty-eight minutes past the hour. It's a test of patience this morning for the people still stuck at home in 40 inches of snow after the Northeast blizzard. A live look just ahead."], "speaker": ["ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "SAMBOLIN", "STARR", "SAMBOLIN", "STARR", "SAMBOLIN", "STARR", "SAMBOLIN", "STARR", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "REP. ADAM KINZINGER (R), ILLINOIS", "BERMAN", "KINZINGER", "BERMAN", "KINZINGER", "BERMAN", "KINZINGER", "BERMAN", "KINZINGER", "BERMAN", "KINZINGER", "BERMAN", "KINZINGER", "BERMAN", "KINZINGER", "BERMAN", "KINZINGER", "BERMAN", "KINZINGER", "BERMAN", "KINZINGER", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-264773", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-09-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/17/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Federal Reserve Announcement on Interest Rates Expected.", "utt": ["The U.S. Justice Department is expected to announce a criminal settlement with General Motors over a faulty part. At least 100 people died as a result of a faulty ignition switch. The settlement would involve G.M. acknowledging it misled the government and the public. A judge still has to decide whether to accept this deal. The car maker has admitted it delayed a recall announcement. G.M. declined to comment. Later today, the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to announce if interest rates will rise for the first time in nine years. Economists are split on what the Fed will do. And as Maggie Lake reports, there is no clear argument one way or the other.", "Mechanics at 54th Street Auto Center know a thing or two. They want to make sure they are in top shape before they hit the road. (on camera): What are you doing here?", "I am tying up the terminal.", "A car is a lot different than crafting Fed policy but they have one thing in common. Both require a lot of care and one wrong move could cause a lot of damage. (voice-over): For the Fed, job number one is keeping the wheels running in the U.S. without sparking excess inflation. Many say there is a lot more work to do on the monetary motor.", "We used to raise rates and never used to raise them just because let's get it over with. We had the interest rates and we are in the seventh year of zero percent. We still can't get any real inflation. Doesn't that tell you the engine is broken? If the engine is broken, raising rates is probably the wrong thing to do.", "Others think the Fed has room to tap ever so slightly on the brakes. Employment is close to Fed target. The jobless rate is at seven-year lows. Key segments of the economy are strengthening.", "We do have a tail wind is a much stronger housing market and most people care about the value of their home. They hold less stock than prior to the crisis. In fact, home prices in most markets hit their previous highs, which is a tipping point. There is a tail end and the extra tax cut of falling prices will help consumers.", "Another key factor for the Fed, the lack of economic shock absorbers. If they keep the rates, they will have less tools to use in the next downturn. (voice-over): But be careful what you wish for. They could mess up the transmission and trigger a rise in borrowing costs.", "What the Fed officials hope is they can raise it a bit and nothing will happen a long time and they creep up slowly. What's more likely to happen is when interest rates start to rise, they will pop up and cause more turmoil.", "No one wants drastically higher borrowing costs that could knock the wheels off of recovery. The pressure is on Janet Yellin and the Fed as they begin their look underneath the economic hood. Maggie Lake, CNN, New York.", "The Russian prankster and his sidekick has fessed up to prank calling pop star, Elton John. The pair fooled the singer by posing as Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin spokesman. During a recent phone call, John apparently thought the Russian leader had called him for real to discuss gay rights and posted a message on social media thanking Mr. Putin for the call. When the Kremlin learned of the Instagram post they denied that anything had taken place. The Russian pranksters have a history of making prank calls to celebrities and politicians. A man in South Korea used a golf club and a baseball bat to smash up his new Mercedes Benz. He bought it six months ago and had a lot of engine trouble and the dealers won't take it back. He parked it in front of the lot and started clubbing away. He did a good job. Mercedes Benz did not return the request for comment. Let's go back to the top story, the CNN debate featuring the Republican candidates for U.S. president. They took on a lot of issues with insults and fun as well. Here's a look at the lighter moments.", "40 years ago, I smoked marijuana and people may not want to see it in front of 25 million people. My mom is not happy I just did.", "I'm in favor of vaccines. Do them over a longer period of time, same amount --", "Thank you.", "-- just in little sections.", "Dr. Carson, you heard his medical take.", "He's an OK doctor.", "What would you want your secret service code name to be?", "Ever Ready. It's very high energy, Donald.", "Mr. Trump?", "Humble.", "They all really do like each other. And if you like watching that, you can see it again. We'll replay the whole debate again in a few hours' time, 11:00 in London, 9:00 in Berlin. That does it for me. I'm John Vause. CNN NEWSROOM continues with Errol Barnett, 100 percent more, Lynda Kinkade. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["VAUSE", "MAGGIE LAKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LAKE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LAKE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "LAKE (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "LAKE", "VAUSE", "BUSH", "TRUMP", "JAKE TAPPER, DEBATE MODERATOR", "TRUMP", "TAPPER", "DR. BEN CARSON, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "TAPPER", "BUSH", "TAPPER", "TRUMP", "VAUSE"]}
{"id": "CNN-66891", "program": "CNN LIVE ON LOCATION", "date": "2003-2-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0302/17/lol.05.html", "summary": "Interview With South Boston Resident, Paul Loftus", "utt": ["So, what does a day like this mean for you? What can you do on a day like this that's special?", "Go out with the dogs. Walk around. Not that many people out.", "Lots of snow is catching folks by surprise in some parts of this country. People in Massachusetts are used to dealing with the occasional blizzard. As a matter of fact in South Boston, residents have their own way of dealing with the snowy state of affairs. Pat Loftus says he's a lifetime resident of South Boston. He joins us now by the telephone. Pat, tell us what's so special about this part of Boston, Sausi (ph) as you call it?", "Kyra, it's great. It's beautiful out here. The snow is coming down. I'm standing up on Rochester Heights (ph). It's the site of George Washington's first victory in the Revolutionary War. And rumor has it it's the site of the first fight over parking spaces after a blizzard. The horses couldn't get near enough to the fire.", "You're kidding me. So, it started with George Washington, this fighting over a parking place. Well, what happens now when you have a parking situation in weather like this?", "I tell you, it's actually not bad once the weather is here, but once it stops, there's a fight over parking spaces for people that have to go to work. They put chairs, they put horses, they put summer chairs out. Actually, when we were growing up, if the winds started howling, I'd make my brother sit in it until we got it plowed out.", "All right, so what if you have a chair in your parking spot after you've dug it out, and someone steals it?", "Well, then another Revolutionary War starts, Kyra, you know? That's what happens. Most people work it out. But actually when I was growing up, our next door neighbor just never really took to the rules. And one day he came out in the morning, and a person on the second floor who had shoveled the spot out put his hose out the window in the middle of the blizzard and put a big sheet of ice all over his van. It was beautiful.", "Oh, my gosh. All right, so but you've got the normal routines of dealing with the weather, right? Don't the snowplows come out and the salt trucks?", "Well, everything comes out. But you know, it's people walking around and having fun. You get to meet the greatest neighbors in the world, and reintroduce yourself to them. Everything stops, and this is the time the arguments really cool off. But it does get crazy out there. They put everything out there. I've seen dishwashers, old dishwashers ready to go, anything that's in the cellar that's ready to go, goes out there to guard a spot.", "All right, Pat Loftus from South Boston there. I hope you don't lose your parking spot, my friend. I'd hate to duke it out with you.", "Kyra, you're welcome anytime.", "Thanks, Pat. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "PAT LOFTUS, BOSTON RESIDENT", "PHILLIPS", "LOFTUS", "PHILLIPS", "LOFTUS", "PHILLIPS", "LOFTUS", "PHILLIPS", "LOFTUS", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "NPR-31773", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2010-04-28", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126323614", "title": "Europe Looks To Germany To Support Greece", "summary": "The heads of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank are briefing politicians in Berlin on the importance of supporting Greece through its debt problems. Greece has asked the IMF and its European partners for assistance. Such a measure would need parliamentary approval in Germany, and polls show a large majority of Germans oppose providing Greece with financial aid.", "utt": ["The trouble in Greece - that could almost be the title of a movie I'd go to see. Germany has Europe's biggest economy, and it would likely be the biggest contributor to a bailout of Greece. The Germans say they want Greece to pass further painful austerity measures before Germany will help.", "Today, the heads of the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund are briefing German politicians who are reluctant.", "Thomas Marzahl reports from Berlin.", "The talks have taken on a new urgency after a leading ratings agency downgraded Greece's debt on Tuesday to junk status. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is faced with reluctance by members of her governing coalition to provide aid while coming under fire from her EU partners.", "France and Italy, in particular, are accusing Berlin of dragging its heals on contributing to an assistance package which has to be approved by parliament. Calls are also mounting for the banks that profited from investments in Greece in boom times to share in the bailout.", "Volker Kauder is a leading conservative politician.", "(Foreign language spoken)", "We must take a look at those who have recently speculated and won, he said. They also have to contribute to saving the euro and Greece.", "Time is running out. Greece needs $11 billion in bailout money by May 19th. German politicians from all parties have received hundreds of phone calls and emails from angry voters who oppose aid to Athens.", "Today's front page of the country's leading tabloid reads: We fear for our money.", "For NPR News, I'm Thomas Marzahl in Berlin."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "THOMAS MARZAHL", "THOMAS MARZAHL", "THOMAS MARZAHL", "Mr. VOLKER KAUDER (Christian Democratic Union, Germany)", "THOMAS MARZAHL", "THOMAS MARZAHL", "THOMAS MARZAHL", "THOMAS MARZAHL"]}
{"id": "CNN-153370", "program": "RICK'S LIST", "date": "2010-7-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1007/19/rlst.02.html", "summary": "Capping the Oil Disaster; Help for the Unemployed", "utt": ["There is this big argument that is going on right now in this country, and we have talked about it. It's about aid to the unemployed, to Americans who are out of work and want to collect. Senate Republicans are holding that up. They're saying that, look, if we as a nation have to give X amount to the unemployed -- in other words, we all reach into our pockets and we give this money to the unemployed -- then we also need to go into the budget and cut that much, so that we could be, you know, deficit neutral. Well, here's what the president said today. You might say he's trying to call out the GOP on this one.", "after years of championing policies that turned a record surplus into a massive deficit, the same people who didn't have any problems spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans are now saying we shouldn't offer relief to middle-class Americans like Jim or Leslie (ph) or Denise (ph) who really need help.", "You know, that's interesting. I want to bring in Doug Heye. He's the communications director for the Republican National Committee. The president is making an interesting point. And, you know, it's up to you to refute it and for Americans to listen in, but the president is saying, you guys aren't willing to give the unemployed money because you're afraid it's going to increase the deficit, but isn't that exactly what you did during the Bush years, when Republicans decided to give this much of a tax break to Americans? Doesn't that also -- that also cuts into the deficit, doesn't it?", "Well, certainly, when we were in control of Congress, we extended jobless benefits to unemployed Americans. And it's what we want to do again. We have seen the budget deficit -- the debt -- excuse me -- explode over the past --", "Hold on. I just asked you a question and you completely ignored it. So, let me try it again. The president just said -- oh, darn it. Here goes Thad Allen. Can you hold on, Doug? Hold on. We will get to you in just a moment. And we will continue this. Here's -- here's Thad Allen.", "Let me state right away that our priorities are to plug this well, so the number-one priority is to finish these relief wells out. I can talk about that status in a minute. In the meantime, containment options are our next priority, followed by response to the oil on the water. Over the last several days, we have been watching the pressure in the capping stack that was put on last week. That pressure now sits at 6,811 PSI. It continues to gradually rise several pounds or a pound or so every hour. And that's a positive trend. As we know, the overall pressure itself was lower than what was expected. That's one of the issues we continue to discuss between our science team and BP as we move forward. We have agreed that we will go forward with another 24-hour period from today to tomorrow. This is contingent on a reply to a letter that I sent to BP yesterday laying out requests for some extensive information regarding the various aspects of the relief wells' containment the and current operations, including how we are conducting monitoring to make sure there is no seepages or leaks associated with the well integrity tests that would lead us to believe there might be a problem with the wellbore integrity. That would include vigorous and robust visual monitoring, seismic monitoring, acoustic monitoring with the NOAA vessel that is out there, and also sensors that are already in place, sonar associated with the working of the well itself, hydrophones and so forth. As a condition of moving forward with the well integrity test, BP is to report to us any anomalies and acts on those within four hours. We continue to work through that process. And I will go over some of the anomalies we have encountered and how we're dealing with them moving forward. At the same time there has been an interaction with the seismic research vessels and the acoustic research vessels and our need to build out long-term containment. We had talked before the capping stack went on of the need to build capacity out to 60,000 or 80,000 barrels per day by the end of July. We have necessarily had to make some tradeoffs between allowing the seismic vessels in and finish things like the vertical riser associated with that system. We continue to negotiate with BP right now the best trade-off and how we best want to prioritize our long- term containment as it relates to the well integrity test. Long-term containment is the second goal following the relief wells, as I noted earlier. As I said, we have granted 24 more hours for BP to come back and provide us a response. There will be a science meeting later on this evening in Houston that will take a look at the data and the timelines provided by BP, and we will be assessing that as we move forward through the next 24 hours as well. Some key things we're working on -- and these have been discussed before -- I will start with the big one related to the pressure being lower than we thought. This has to do with a discussion about whether or not we're dealing with depletion of the reservoir vs. some other reason why that pressure might be lower. The most notable reason for that would be some kind of a leakage in the wellbore itself. There are different views on how this could come about. There's not a resolution moving forward, but we continue to discuss that. One reason we are continuing to discuss that is, we do have the robust response and the monitoring that's going on as we requested from BP. There have been three general areas of anomalies that have been detected since the 17th of July. The first one was a seepage about three nautical miles from the wellhead itself. We do not believe that is associated with this particular well integrity test or the Macondo well. However, we are continuing to look at baseline data associated with past activity that's in the area and we will continue to monitor that moving forward. We also have picked up some anomalies within several hundred meters of the wellhead itself and we are continuing to take a look at that and what that might portend. And, finally, we do have some bubbles that have arisen around the base the legacy blowout preventer. And then late last night, we established that there was some leakage in the capping stack itself. I have got a picture and a schematic of the capping stack. Let me just tell you right away, because this happened overnight. As you know, we had a connector piece of equipment that we established in to allow us to put the capping stack on. These are the three rams that are associated with the capping stack. This is a schematic of those three rams. The leakage is occurring in a flange that's located right about here. And there is hydrate formation up here on this side of the capping stack as we move forward. We do not know, but we do not believe this is consequential at this time, nor does it appear that the hydrate formation is inhibiting any operation of the capping stack. This is something we will continue to monitor as we move forward. So, we have the things that we're seeing right around the blowout preventer and the capping stack itself. There are a couple anomalies that have been detected within 100 to 200 meters around the well itself, and then the anomaly was detected on the 17th of July out to three kilometers. Again, there is no indication at this time that this is any indication of a significant problem in the wellbore, but we are running every one of these anomalies down. One of the reasons we're starting to find these, most likely, is that during the time that the well was open, it would be impossible to get those sensors in there and detect it with all the amount of hydrocarbons and noise that was being generated. So, we had the opportunity to see in a very quiet environment what the bottom of the ocean looks like there. And some of these conditions should be preexisting, and trying to sort this out as something we're dealing. But it is the collective opinion of the folks that are talking about this that the small seepages we are finding right now do not present at least at this point any indication that there is a threat to the wellbore. If we think that was going to happen, we would be taking immediate action. Now, having said that, if there is any indication of a precipitous drop in pressure or any reason why we might need to do something about it, we would need to have to vent immediately to let -- relieve the pressure on the well and move to longer-term containment. And one of the requests that we have made to BP -- and they will be answering in a letter we will get today -- is a detailed timeline of what it would take to restart containment operations should we need to do that. And this is -- gets a little more complicated than it would appear, because, with the capping stack being shut down for the time that it has been, we would have to, first of all, lower pressure and create the conditions to be able to bring the Q4000 and the Helix Producer back online. This could take several days because there's concerns about sand buildup in the oil column and the need to maybe make sure we treat these systems and get them operational before we bring the production back online. That said, we have asked for a detailed timeline on the interaction between the seismic testing, the acoustic testing, long- term containment, so we understand the interaction of the sensors that are out there right now and our need to continue to build out long- term containment as we move forward. And, with that, I would be glad to take your questions.", "(OFF-MIKE) with CNN. You mentioned that the pressure (OFF-MIKE) you anticipated, and that there was some depletion -- whether --", "No.", "There is a disagreement as to whether it is a depletion at the reservoir or leakage elsewhere and that there are differing views on this. Are differing views -- is there a federal government camp and a BP camp? Is there a way to describe this? Or are there differing views throughout all parties here?", "Well, I think there are differing views between everybody in the science community. And let me make sure I state this correctly, because this was the initial pressures when the well was shut in. The pressures have continued to rise in a way that would lead some to believe that the well is holding pressure. The problem is, the pressure we started at was much lower than we thought we were going to be when the well was shut in. So, that leads to the discussion of, why was the pressure low to begin with? We were thinking that somehow it needed to be around 7,500 or 8,000 PSI, and we started out around 6,000, and we're up to 6,000 and change. We're up to 6,811 today. So, the question is, what caused that initial low pressure? Even though it's following a pattern that is consistent with a well with integrity, what has happened, and could there be leakage? Or is there an issue of well depletion? And there are arguments to be made on both sides. And those discussions continue. And we're trying to develop information that will allow us to do that. One of them is whether or not the well has been depleted and there is just less oil down there to create pressure, or is there an aquifer somehow related to this oil field that would still provide a way for the oil to rise and have pressure underneath it? So the question whether or not this oil field is related to an aquifer is one of the questions they're dealing with right now. And that gets back to the seismology and the geology around the area and the testing, and that continues to be under discussion as we move forward.", "Could you also elaborate a little bit on the seepages? You found this one three nautical miles from the wellhead.", "Three kilometers.", "Three kilometers -- and one closer in. I presume that all of these are hydrocarbons. Do you know what is seeping out? Is the one closer in believed to be related to this oil field? And how did you detect it? And do you know what type of volumes --", "Yes. The reason we're looking -- what we're actually looking for in this case would be methane gas, which is -- that is sometimes a precursor to oil actually rising up through the formation. So, if it is methane, and you can establish that it is that, that would be an indication you might need to look further. There is some indication that the seepage three kilometers away may not be related to this well. And we're going back through background data and taking a look at that. The only thing we're doing is, in closer to the well, we're actually taking samples of the gas itself and testing it for if there are any hydrocarbons in it. There was some trace of methane in some of the gas that was coming out near the base of the blowout preventer, not a lot. But we're taking extra samples, and we're sending those ashore to be tested right now.", "So, here's the news. Another 24 hours is going to be -- is going to -- they're going to have to go through another 24 hours before they can have any kind of definitive information. They have got some findings. They're going to be taking those findings back to Houston. Speaking of Houston, Professor Van Nieuwenhuise is joining us now once again. You know, it's interesting. I heard him talking about two interesting things, some kind of leakage just right at the capping stack. And he actually showed us that. He pointed to that little place there on that thing. We'll turn that sound around in just a little bit. And then he is also talking about taking some of the data about the methane gas. Chad, I don't know if you heard him talk about this as well. It almost sounds like there's a little bit of a leakage and then a seepage. Did I hear him wrong, Professor?", "Oh, yes. I think you heard him correctly. They think that the one that's far away has nothing to do with this well. They're wondering if the one that's within a couple hundred yards happens to be related to the well. And then, also, the one at the cap of course is related to the well for sure.", "So there's one right there at the cap.", "Right.", "And that can't be too serious, because when we look at pictures -- we've got live pictures, we're looking at it now -- you don't see any oil coming out, right?", "No. And of course he said he didn't think at this point in time any of those are serious, and there is a good chance that none of them will become serious.", "And then he talked about the other one, but he said that seepage \"is not a threat.\" He said not a threat. That makes me feel pretty good.", "Right.", "Chad, did you hear anything there that -- other than the fact that we're going to wait another 24 hours to make sure everything is good, take it back to the experts at Houston, experts like Professor Nieuwenhuise? Did you hear anything there? Are you looking at your notes?", "You know, I did hear him say that it might be a couple days before production goes back on line because there may be sand in the column. We addressed that.", "What does that mean?", "Doctor?", "Well, you know what was interesting? He said at one point we don't know if it's an aquifer or maybe the fact that we've just finally depleted some of the oil in that area. You know, when I heard him say that I said, \"Wow, has all the oil that was in that area actually gone out already?\" Is that what he is suggesting?", "Yes. What normally happens, if I can answer, is that when you draw down pressure from that high flow, you end up getting a considerable drawdown on the pressure, and it's like a vacuum in the wellbore. And it essentially sucks in all the oil, and it actually starts to deplete the oil supply around the wellbore. And, of course, in the far reaches of the reservoir the pressure is still high, and it takes a while for that pressure to transmit from the edges to the wellbore, itself. So it takes a while for it to build back up.", "David Mattingly standing by as well. David, let me bring you into this conversation. We're here with Professor Van Nieuwenhuise, and, of course, Chad. We've been at this for such a long time. David, is it starting to feel to you out there covering this story like if we're not at the end, we're getting close to the end?", "We're definitely in the end game right now, Rick. I mean, every day that goes by, they try to build up just a little bit more confidence that the course of action they've taken with this well is the right one. So far, they're not seeing anything that tells them oh, we're going to have to open this well back up. Even though they're getting prepared for that just in case, at this point they're not seeing anything bad enough to tell them that they've taken a wrong step here. So that in itself is very good news. But you keep hearing Admiral Allen saying the end of this well is that relief well. That's what's going to kill this. Everything they're looking at right now is just temporary.", "Yes, but Chad raised an interesting question. And I'll let him raise it to you, because we talked about this earlier, and I just heard Thad Allen suggest that they're getting ready for that eventuality, and that is that they'd have to start the containment again. Right? That they somehow need to open something up?", "Well, David brought this up. That's where I got the question from, was that it could take three days to open it up to get it back on line, get the Helix Producer back on line, to get the Q4000 back on line. And David, you heard it, right?", "Right.", "Why? Why three days?", "You've got 6,800 pounds of pressure built up in there right now.", "Why three days?", "You've got 6,800 pounds of pressure built up in there right now. It's going to take then a while. They're going to have to vent that out, and then it takes them a while to get everything hooked back up and get those things on the surface working again. Remember how long it took them to get everything working before they started this? They're going to have to start that process again. A lot of those ships are not even in the immediate vicinity at the moment to get them into that 80,000 barrel range. They've had to keep some of those vessels on the perimeter, and sort of waiting because they didn't want any traffic in there while they're conducting all this seismic testing to keep an eye on this well. So, it's just going to take some time. This is a big operation. You keep hearing Thad Allen talking about how there is a lot of moving parts. There are some huge moving parts on the surface of the ocean up there that they've got to get just in the right place, and to work just in concert with each other to make sure everything works efficiently.", "Professor, hey, it's Chad. I have a question for you.", "By the way, just one quick thing, Chad. We are not saying, for those of you just -- I know sometimes you guys get home around this time. You just got home from work and you're hearing David Mattingly sound like he's reporting that they're going to have to redo containment and get all these -- we're not saying that's going to happen. We're saying that's a possibility that they don't want to exclude. There is still a chance that within 24 hours, they'll say this thing is capped well enough, we're going to trust it, we're going to wait until the relief well is done, and they won't have to let any more oil out. Just wanted to get that on the record. Go ahead.", "I just have a random question from, you know, thinking about 48 days ago. Why don't we do a top kill now? We have the oil stopped. Why don't we just pump all that heavy mud in we tried the first time?", "Yes. One of the reasons why they don't want to do that is because that would be very difficult, again, because they're pushing against that 6,800 PSI at the top now. And obviously one thing that I learned in this conference was that the flow lines that they do have connected cannot withstand 6,800", "Ah-ha.", "And therefore, they couldn't do what you just said because the pipes would not be able to handle that kind of pressure. And so they're going to have to relieve some of the pressure before they can start flowing on those lines that are already connected. And that answers a question that I had about the equipment they had in place.", "David Mattingly has been doing yeoman's work out there following this development from the source. Professor Van Nieuwenhuise has always been there for expert information. And Chad has been taking us along every step of the way on this thing. Well, look, guys, it sounds like we've got another 24-hour wait and then we'll have to reassess and see where we are. But I'll tell you, I don't know if you guys disagree, but everything to me sounds like they're saying the right things for us to remain optimistic.", "The oil stopped.", "So we're good. Professor, we're good?", "Yes. Yes.", "David, good?", "I'd give it a thumbs up so far, Rick.", "OK. We'll wait and see what the really smart guys there at Houston like the professor come out with as they look at this data. If we get any numbers on that we'll share it with you. Meantime, when we come back, the president of the United States came out today all fired up, and he's basically saying to Republicans, you guys are complaining that we're going to bring the deficit up if we give the benefits to the unemployed in the United States, but you don't complain when the deficit goes up when you give tax cuts to the wealthy Americans. You can't have it both ways. That's what the president says. That's his accusations. When we come back, I'm going to ask that question. I'm going to ask Doug Heye if he follows that logic and what the response is to the president from the GOP. That's why we have him here. That's why we have a national conversation. This is your list. I'm Rick Sanchez. 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{"id": "CNN-3060", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-2-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/21/mn.06.html", "summary": "Election 2000: 'Republican Establishment Would Be in a Panic' If Bush Had Lost South Carolina Primary", "utt": ["The Republican presidential hopefuls are spending this Presidents Day in Michigan where voters cast ballots in a crucial primary tomorrow. Texas Governor George W. Bush is coming off a big win in South Carolina. Bush is trying to rally core conservatives to keep the momentum going in Michigan. Arizona Senator John McCain is trying to make a comeback after his defeat in South Carolina. McCain is appealing for support among conservative Democrats and crossover voters, as well as Republicans. On the Democratic side, Bill Bradley will be taking health care during -- or talking health care, rather, during a campaign stop in New York today. Tonight, Bradley and Vice President Al Gore square off in their only New York debate before the March 7 primary. The vice president is trying to reinforce his standing among minorities, and he was met by U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Clinton before he spoke at a predominantly black church in Albany yesterday. Race and urban issues are expected to be the focus of tonight's debate at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. CNN is hosting the debate. Our live coverage begins at 9:00 p.m. Eastern, 6:00 Pacific. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is making another run at the White House. He's scheduled to announce his candidacy today in Washington. Nader won less than one percent of the vote when he ran on the Green Party ticket in 1996. He's hoping for the Green Party nomination again, but he's facing at least three other candidates, including Jello Biafra, who is lead singer for the rock group Dead Kennedys.", "It's not often we can work the Dead Kennedys into our broadcast, but we try when we can.", "I hope not.", "Here's Bill Schneider, our senior political analyst, with us here in Atlanta. Let's shake down the weekend, first of all, as we look toward Michigan. It is a political game of momentum right now. And after an 11-point victory in South Carolina, George W. Bush clearly has that momentum at this point, anyway, but it is Monday.", "He has the momentum, he's a big winner, and he can thank one group in particular for that big victory in South Carolina, and that's the religious right, which voted for him nearly three to one over John McCain. The non-religious right voters in South Carolina voted narrowly for John McCain. If it had not been for the religious right, South Carolina would have been a very different story, and the future of the Republican Party might have been very different. Can you imagine if Bush had lost South Carolina? The Republican establishment would be in a panic right now.", "Let's talk about John McCain when we look at this right now. Some have suggested that his message has become confused. Won in New Hampshire; a different track in South Carolina. What are we reading and seeing from John McCain now as he tries to regroup before the primary tomorrow?", "Well, he's trying to do something that's very different and very difficult. In fact, it's never been done before. No candidate has ever won a political party's nomination by relying on the support of outsiders, and that is exactly what McCain is doing. He's relying on Independents and Democrats to come into the Republican primaries and save him. He says he wants to open up the GOP, to reform it and to reach out to the center. In fact, he says President Clinton is his model, what Clinton did for the Democrats. He wants to Clintonize the Republican Party? No wonder conservatives have shut him out.", "Let's talk about the Democrats now. Slowly, they're coming back on radar after disappearing what it seemed to be for quite some time. Al Gore and Bill Bradley will debate tonight in Harlem, New York City. What's the read right now on the Democratic race?", "Well, they sort of faded for a while. They don't have any primaries that count until March 7. But, you know, Al Gore did an interesting double twist last week. First, on Thursday, he met with labor leaders and promised them that, when he's president, any trade deal he negotiates will have strong environmental and labor protections, which is what labor wanted to hear. But then a business group got angry and said, wait a minute. Is he abandoning the trade deal that President Clinton negotiated to allow China to come into the World Trade Organization? So he wrote a letter to the business leaders saying, no, no, he supports that deal even though it doesn't have strong labor and environmental protections, which is exactly what business wanted to hear? Are you sensing a theme here?", "Yes, I can hear it loud and clear. It's going to be interesting tomorrow. Bill Schneider, thanks for coming in.", "Sure.", "Arizona and Michigan tomorrow. March 7 the big primary coming up in about two weeks time. Also, stay with CNN for the very latest on election 2000. And for more coverage, log onto our Web site. Again, the address: cnn.com/election 2000."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "HEMMER", "SCHNEIDER", "HEMMER", "SCHNEIDER", "HEMMER", "SCHNEIDER", "HEMMER", "SCHNEIDER", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-341574", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2018-05-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/31/ip.01.html", "summary": "Pompeo Meets with North Korea", "utt": ["Welcome back. High-stakes conversations in New York today between the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and a key North Korean official, Kim Yong Chol. They ended a short time ago, ending on this day about two hours earlier than scheduled. Pompeo tweeting that they had substantive talks with the North Korean team, adding, we discussed our priorities for the potential summit between our two leaders. We saw some promising images as they day began. What we're waiting to see is if we get some promising results, promising proposals from these conversations. You see the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, here shaking hands with Kim Yong Chol. That's in Manhattan, a high rise building. That's before this morning's meeting. They also dined together last night. Steak, corn and cheese on the menu, according to the secretary of state. President Trump has been getting constant updates throughout these meetings. Earlier today, before he left for Texas, he said things are going well. He also disclosed that Kim Yong Chol is carrying a letter from the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. The contents of which could well determine if that planned Singapore summit goes forward just 12 days from now.", "I believe they'll be coming down from Washington on Friday. And a letter is going to be delivered to me from Kim Jong-un. So I look forward to seeing what's in the letter. But it's very important to them. Hopefully we'll have a meeting on the 12th. It's going along very well. But I want it to be meaningful. It doesn't mean it gets all done at one meeting. Maybe you have to have a second or a third. And maybe we'll have none. But it's in good hands.", "That's the key. What the president just said right there, it doesn't all have to be done, meaning, you can -- this will -- this is a 10, 15-year process if -- the biggest if in global conversations right now, if North Korea actually agrees to completely denuclearize. But what is -- what is the test for the president? What needs to be in that letter to Kim Jong-un, and what does Mike Pompeo need to return from Washington saying, I looked this man in the eye, who was the former spy chief, who is the right-hand man to Kim Jong-un, I'm convinced they are serious about this. What do we need to get a summit in 12 days?", "You know, senior administration officials tell me that they need to know that denuclearization is going to be the subject of conversations, and not denuclearization meaning Americans leaving the Korean peninsula, but a real commitment from North Korea to eliminating some of their nuclear weapons. It may not necessarily be all. I think John Bolton and Mike Pompeo may be thinking about this a little differently. But an openness, a willingness to talk about that on the part of the North Koreans.", "And that's where it gets fascinating. If -- are -- is North Korea willing to come to the table in a written document to commit to denuclearization that -- in a way that's acceptable to the president and a way that the president works out any disagreements between John Bolton and Mike Pompeo? And then, what does that process look like? Does it go to the United Nations? Who are the inspectors? What international agency, or is it a U.S. agency that does that? And I think the key question is, what is the president prepared to come to the table with? If he gets those assurances and if he trusts them, which is another big if, is he willing to say, OK, we're going to relieve sanctions immediately, we'll give you economic aid immediately, or is there a two, three, five year sequencing plan?", "Well, that's what they --", "Yes, it's how they do it. Is it -- is it a phased approach? There's been some conversation out with a -- you know, to get piece by piece. They do something, we do something. But I think what we have to see is, can they come to an agreement that there will -- a, that there will be a meeting, and that they can announce some kind of deliverable. The president really want to do the meeting. I think we're all very clear on that. But he needs to be able -- his people want to go into it and be able to come out of it saying he got something.", "And that's the real risk, right, whether to give them incentives up front or whether or not to have hard commitments. And this is exactly what they criticized the Iran nuclear deal about because they believe they gave all the initiatives up front and did not get enough commitments. But, you know, North Korea, it's hard to see how they would completely denuclearize, which is a significant step, a years' long step without some significant sanctions relief up front, and that's what is such a big risk is for the president in doing this.", "And part of the risk here, as you jump in, I just want to show these historical photos. This is Madeline Albright, secretary of state in the Bill Clinton administration, in October of 2000, having a toast with the vice marshal of North Korea. They negotiated a deal. This was viewed as an historic breakthrough. This was in Washington. You have the secretary of state. Pompeo has to be aware of this, has to know this history here. You're meeting with these people. Everything sounds right. Everything looks right. They had an agreement and the North Koreans started cheating, I think, before the ink was dry.", "Right. Exactly. And then -- I mean that's -- this is -- this is the history of it. And you had six parties involved in those talks eventually and now you're starting this again where the -- Trump is kind of calling all the shots and you don't have, you know, China at the table, you don't have Russia at the table. The South Koreans are kind of being treated as brokers but they're not really going to be part of this particular summit if it happens anyway. And, remember, look, we're looking at the Iran nuclear deal and the past North Korea attempts as the precedent for what the North Koreans might ask for here. But it may not just be a simple denuclearized for economic sanctions release quid pro quo. What if they ask for us to pull back on our military capacity on the peninsula or some of our, you know, commitments we've made to various allies in the region. That could make this far more complicated as they start to really drill down to what they mean by these terms.", "And, again, what we're hearing so far, this from a senior State Department official, that talks ended a little bit early today. I would read almost nothing into that. Again, you try traveling from Asia to the United States and then go into high stakes meetings after being up late for dinner. The meetings went well -- went well. They made progress. That from a senior State Department official. Defining progress is the hard part here. Jim Clapper, who's the former top U.S. spy chief. Kim Yong Chol is the former top North Korean spy chief. These two men have studied each other. They don't know each other personally, but they studied each other. Here's James Clapper's take on what he's seen so far from the North Korean right-hand man.", "He looked to me to be a bit overwhelmed by what he was experiencing.", "Do you trust him?", "Well, I think with the North Koreans you definitely need to be in the trust but verify mode.", "That's the fascinating part here. And I think -- I think even the president's fiercest critics have said, you know, if you think there's reason to go forward with this, give it a shot. Why not, right? Give it a shot. North Korea has nuclear weapons capable of reaching the United States mainland. They've been on a gangbusters development of those programs. If you think you can somehow -- the president says get rid of them completely, a lot of people would say even if you can significantly scale them back or get some sort of agreement where they, you know, stop testing them and stop using them, some people think that's good enough. The president's made clear, that's not his goal heading into this, it's the verification part. Sergey Lavror, the Russian foreign minister, traveling to North Korea, says the Russians need to be brought in -- to your point, needs to be brought into this. Should it be the United Nations brought in? We don't have any information from the administration so far as to if they think they can get an agreement, that then takes a second meeting, a third meeting and it will take a second year and a third year and a fourth year, it's like, what does that look like? Who does that involve? And we know they're all skeptical of these international organizations. But you can't do it without them, right?", "I think the president and his advisers are still hashing that out amongst themselves yet. They're not going in, talking to the North Koreans with a clear, thought out plan, about how they're thinking about this and what they want. I think that was clear from the president's pull-back and then quick reengagement with the North Koreans.", "This is about, can we trust you?", "It --", "Or no?", "I think -- I think that's right. And on, you know, a background briefing call last week shortly after the president sent the letter, a senior administration official cited a series of broken promises on the part of North Korean officials. So, suffice it to say, I think Secretary of State Pompeo went in skeptical and they're going to need a series of signs from the North Koreans that this -- that this -- there might be an upside for the president engaging in these talks.", "But we're also seeing a lot of the energy right now from the president, at least publicly, is going to literally, will the meeting happen or not?", "Right.", "The -- will they, won't they, on again, off again, much less about the content. It's just a lot of --", "They all seem to want -- they all seem to want -- I'm just going to -- until we know otherwise, I'm going to assume, given what John Bolton has said, what Secretary Pompeo has said, and even what the president has said, I'm going to assume the deal with the content behind the scenes if they're not that naive for now. We'll see as we go forward. But they all do seem leaning forward, if you will, they're having it right now. We'll keep an eye on that. Hopefully we'll get more word from the secretary of state today in these conversations. Up next for us, though, the Dow down again as fears of a global trade war ramp up because of a big White House action just this morning."], "speaker": ["KING", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KING", "JOHNSON", "KING", "RAJU", "LUCEY", "RAJU", "KING", "DEMIRJIAN", "KING", "JAMES CLAPPER, FORMER DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "CLAPPER", "KING", "JOHNSON", "KING", "JOHNSON", "KING", "JOHNSON", "LUCEY", "KING", "LUCEY", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-46031", "program": "CNN CAPITAL GANG", "date": "2001-12-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/22/cg.00.html", "summary": "Should Congress Have Passes a Stimulus Bill?", "utt": ["Live from Washington, the", "Welcome to CAPITAL GANG, and merry Christmas. I'm Mark Shields with the full CAPITAL GANG, now that's Al Hunt, Robert Novak, Kate O'Beirne and Margaret Carlson. At mid-week, President Bush declared victory in the quest for an economic stimulus bill.", "I am proud to report that members of both political parties in both bodies of Congress have come to an agreement as to how to stimulate our economy.", "The Republican House passed the bill, but the leader of the Democratic Senate rejected it, and Congress went home for Christmas with no action on a stimulus bill.", "We know full well that there would be a clear majority in the Senate, bipartisan once again, for a stimulus package that would help the American people get a job and keep a job. But Senator Daschle, thwarting the will of the president, the House of Representatives and the Senate, has made it clear that he would object to bringing up that legislation.", "It's amazing to me that there is the intransigence on the other side when it comes to helping laid-off workers. That's really what this debate is all about now.", "I'm not angry at all, I am joyous. No, but I don't intend to bring them back early.", "Bob Novak, after the failure of the stimulus bill, who are the winners and the losers here?", "I think the big winner are the American people, because all those versions of a stimulus bill were inadequate. What they need is deep tax cuts, including a capital gains tax cuts. What they had in there was not going to help the economy. But politically -- this is all about politics, Mark. I think you understand that.", "Thank you.", "And politically, I think the president was the winner, that the Democrats thoughts ever since September 11 they could play the Bob Shrum/James Carville game, which is support them on the war and attack them on domestic. They thought he was a pushover. He wasn't a pushover. And Senator Daschle, who is very smart and very effective, had a very bad month of December, culminating in the fact that he had a -- he is a majority leader without a majority, because majority of the Senate was ready to pass that bill. He wouldn't let it come up. And so, he is the political loser.", "Al Hunt, George W. Bush big winner, Tom Daschle big loser?", "No. No, absolutely not. I don't think there is any big winner or big loser in this. I agree with Bob. It was a terrible bill, it shouldn't have been passed. Of course what Bob proposes would not have been stimulus, and that was the benchmark that was laid down about two months ago by the Budget Committee chairmen and the ranking members on both sides, by Alan Greenspan, by Bob Rubin, and it was Bill Thomas who chose to totally ignore that and instead create a bill that was...", "... he was going to grease the palms of campaign contributors and then give away the K Street. That's where this whole thing went awry. But you know, I love those Republican senators coming out with a line that Trent Lott had about Tom Daschle. Frank Luntz who was the Republican pollster and strategist met in the Republican caucus and he gave him these talking points. He said, here's what you do, you come out and you go after Daschle, and he said, it's time for everyone to start saying talking about Daschle and the Democrats using the word \"obstructionist.\" We have to do to Daschle what they did to Gingrich. I mean, I'll tell you something, I knew Newt Gingrich, as you did. Tom Daschle ain't no Newt Gingrich. He is much smarter than that. They've done this in South Dakota. They ran vicious -- they being conservatives -- ran vicious ads out there. Karl Rove went out there and criticized him, Karen Hughes has done radio shows out there, and they just got a poll back, and they're up three points, there's a 70 percent job approval rating for Tom Daschle. It's not going to work.", "Al makes an interesting point on South Dakota, where Bill Janklow, the retiring Republican governor, is thinking about running for the U.S. House, and said: \"I am close to both George W. Bush and Tom Daschle, the two most powerful men in the country. Therefore, I will be elected to the House.\" So, I mean, you wonder how much of a political problem Tom Daschle has.", "Is this all about South Dakota? I'm confused.", "I wasn't talking about South Dakota, though.", "Oh, OK.", "Tom Daschle won't be running when other Democrats are, and polls are showing -- other recent polls this week -- that by a very wide margin, the public agrees with the Bush Republican approach, that it's more important to cut taxes on business -- the public recognizing this is a business-led recession -- than it is to give unemployment benefits, although the package that Tom Daschle blocked had $12 billion in increased unemployment and health care benefits. I agree with Bob. I think that the economy doesn't need the kind of modest package that they were able to finally agree on with some Senate Democrats. And politically, I don't think George Bush needs it at all. If the economy recovers on its own, nobody is going to much care whether or not there was a stimulus package. The president and incumbents will get credit for. And if it doesn't recover next year, I think it's better for George Bush to be able to say, Democrats running for re-election blocked a good stimulus plan than have passed what apparently wound up being an ineffectual plan.", "Margaret Carlson, tell us who is right here.", "About three weeks ago, both parties decided that they weren't going to have a bill, and they were going to begin the process of blaming each other. And it wasn't, you know, just the ads, but Ari Fleischer from -- during the White House briefing started demonizing Tom Daschle. And as Al said, it's very hard to do. I mean, Newt Gingrich did himself in. Tom Daschle is much smarter than that. He has a decent relationship with George Bush. I did not see the president using up much of his capital on this bill. He went up there the last day when it was surely too late. And the press -- the public relations war was won when the House Republicans tried to roll back the alternative minimum tax and give millions of dollars to corporations.", "The package that -- that has a majority support in both Houses, had accelerated tax cuts for middle-income families...", "Yeah.", "... making 48,000, dual-work wage earners, it had $12 billion in expanded benefits. That package has a majority in both houses, and that's the package...", "Including the Senate.", "But it got a bad name for the effort to roll back. But that is the face on that bill.", "It was a scandalous bill, and they turned it into an outrageous bill.", "The rich got far more than those middle-income people.", "I will have the following to say, the White House is absolutely spooked by middle mannered, soft-spoken Democratic Senate majority leader. They think that George Mitchell undid the first President Bush's term.", "He did. He did!", "Like somehow in a Svengali-like way, Rasputin-like, getting him to drop his \"no new taxes\" pledge. I couldn't agree more than with Margaret when she said, here's a guy with 86 percent approval, President George W. Bush, and he doesn't get involved in the process until the final 36 hours? I'm sorry, that's not a guy willing to spend political capital.", "Listen, that's turning the thing on its head, because...", "He didn't need it that badly...", "... stimulus package that badly.", "Here's what happened at the end. At the end of the process, the only thing that they were interested in -- and as Tom Daschle said in that soundbite -- was health care for the unemployed. That's stimulus for the economy? Give me a break! That isn't stimulus! All right, so the Republicans...", "If you're unemployed, that's stimulus.", "Just a minute. It's aid, that's not stimulus. At the very end, the Republicans come up with an alternative, a tax credit, which three Democratic senators approved. That's why -- that's right. And with the Republicans, that's a majority.", "It would help more laid-off workers too than the Democratic plan.", "Exactly. And when the Democrats and the labor unions see people operating on their own with tax credits, they say absolutely not, and that's where they killed the bill.", "Good point, bob.", "There would have been far less given to the unemployed in this bill, this Republican bill, than was given 10 years ago. That's how -- and it would have been twice as much given to corporations and upper-income taxpayers.", "Last word, Al Hunt. The gang of five will be back with Afghanistan and the American al Qaeda."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "CAPITAL GANG. MARK SHIELDS, HOST", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SHIELDS", "SEN. TRENT LOTT (R-MS), MINORITY LEADER", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-120524", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2007-10-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0710/10/acd.01.html", "summary": "Four Wounded in Cleveland School Shooting Rampage; Authorities Investigate Mystery at Sea", "utt": ["Breaking news tonight in a story that erupted today, a school, teenager, terror, and tears. New details emerging about what really happened in Cleveland, as we dig deeper tonight into what turned a young man into a gunman bent on murder. We're expecting 911 tapes of the incident any moment now. We are going to bring them to you as soon as they come in. Also tonight, that mystery at sea. The feds take legal aim today at two men who say they survived a pirate attack that left four people dead. The police are not buying piracy. They are charging the survivors. But the mystery remains. 360 investigates. And later, you won't see this anywhere else. Take a look.", "The world premiere of a song by REM and a talk with front man Michael Stipe, all part of our upcoming documentary \"Planet in Peril.\" We begin, though, with the grim picture now developing in Cleveland of an apparently very troubled teenager, Asa Coon, who showed up at school dressed in black with a pistol in each hand. Authorities say he took his own life, but not before taking aim and hitting teachers, as well as students, wounding four. Tonight, we are going to be looking at school violence in depth. Every time these incidents occur, the same questions get asked. So, we went and talked to one former school shooter who is now in prison about what he did and why. We will have that conversation ahead. But, first, the latest on the attack today and the chilling words that every student learns to dread: code blue. Those words rang out today in a Cleveland school as a shooter stalked the halls.", "Shortly after 1:00 in the afternoon, SuccessTech Academy was under a code blue alert. The school was under attack from a 14-year-old student. Witnesses say Asa Coon was dressed in black with a gun in each hand when he opened fire, wounding two adults and two students. One of the victims says he was hit in the elbow as he was walking to class.", "It look took me like a couple of minutes to realize that I was actually shot. When I felt like my arm burning or whatever, that's when I realized that I had got shot.", "But as it is with most shootings, the story did not begin with the gunfire. There were warning signs. Coon had past troubles with the law. The police say he had pleaded guilty last year to domestic violence. And, earlier this week, he was suspended for school for fighting with another student. Coon apparently talked to one of his friends about his plans to attack the school.", "He said, if he would shoot up the school, he would let me and some other dude he knew go and all that. But I -- I didn't think he actually meant it. I thought he was just kidding around.", "Cleveland television station WOIO reports that police were at Coon's home Tuesday to arrest his brother, who is on probation for carrying a gun. Shortly after Coon opened fire today, police rushed to the school, getting there at about 15 minutes past 1:00. Inside, students were still hiding in closets and under desks, many afraid they could be hit next. Parents describe the chaos.", "All the kids were upset. They were screaming and yelling because they didn't know what was going on, but they did hear the shots, and they did not know what had happened. All they know is that someone was in the school with a gun.", "Officers surrounded the building, guns drawn, prepared to confront the shooter. But there was no battle. Coon had taken his own life, shooting himself once in the head, apparently after watching the police close in from a classroom window.", "That very possibly could be; he could see the police officers showing up, and, at that point, he -- he took his own life.", "The police later found a box of ammunition and three knives near Coon's body.", "Susan Roesgen joins us live now from the scene now. Susan, how did he get the guns inside the school? Were there metal detectors?", "Well, you know, Anderson, we found out tonight that this school system has roving metal detectors. Administrators just sort of move these metal detectors around to whichever school they think might need one that particular day or that particular week. And, at this school today, there were no metal detectors. But what the police told us tonight that they do have, Anderson, is videotape taken inside the school by security cameras that they say will show exactly where Asa Coon got into the school and where he moved around, what his path was when he was blasting away.", "Susan, there's -- there's also a remarkable interview I read with one student, Rasheem Smith, 15 years old, who was apparently in the bathroom with Asa Coon as he was removing his slacks. I guess he -- he showed up in one getup and then went into a bathroom in the school, changed into a Marilyn Manson T-shirt and black pants. But this student actually saw him loading a gun in the bathroom, and left the bathroom, and didn't tell anybody.", "You know, I read that same blog, Anderson. And we have not been able to confirm it with the police. But, apparently, that student said that he just didn't feel like telling anybody because he was afraid that he would be shot. Then he said, he went on to the school lunchroom, was eating lunch, and heard what sounded like a shot, but thought maybe it was just a book dropping. So, not quite sure why this student didn't alert someone. But, again, that hasn't yet been confirmed by the Cleveland police.", "Do we know, too, the -- the full background? And I know, you know, reporters are swarming all -- swarming all over this. We are going to talk to one reporter who's been in Asa Coon's neighborhood, as well as we are going to talk to the police in just a moment. But do we know much about -- I mean, there were apparently a history of threats in the last several days. Do we know the -- sort of the timeline on that?", "You know, no, we don't know exactly, Anderson. But we do know there was this domestic violence incident. And then he was suspended because of a fight on Monday. And he was not supposed to be in class today or tomorrow, according to the mayor here in Cleveland. So, apparently, this was a troubled kid. What he was doing in class and why somebody didn't say, hey, you're not supposed to be here, what are you doing here, why no one stopped him, we don't know the answer to that yet either.", "All right, Susan, appreciate the reporting. Thanks. As we mentioned, reporters have been working all day to flesh out the picture of Asa Coon's home life. It does not seem like a very pretty picture, what we have learned thus far. In a moment, we are going to speak With Matt Stevens of CNN affiliate WOIO in Cleveland. He was in the shooter's neighborhood today, as well as at his house. First, though, a bit of reaction from neighbors.", "He was a good person. He never -- I don't know why he did what he did. Couldn't tell you. Pushed too far, that's all I could think of. You get pushed and pushed and pushed, and, sometimes, you go over the edge.", "Joel, why did he do this?", "I don't know. I ain't justifying nothing. I ain't saying he did the right thing. But I'm saying, he got pushed for a long time, and asked them people to help, help, help, help. And nobody helped.", "Who did he ask for help?", "I don't know. I'm standing here. I ain't saying that. I'm just saying I know him as a person.", "What about the guns, Joe? Do you know where he got the guns?", "No, that's what I just said to him. I would like to know where the hell them guns come from, because that boy should have never had access to...", "Well, what we are hearing from police is there were actually guns in the home that the police saw days before this incident. We are going to talk to the police about that in just a moment. Matt Stevens is with us now, a reporter who has been canvassing the neighborhood. What -- Matt, what do we know about the shooter tonight that we didn't know a couple hours ago?", "Well, Anderson, we have been told by police sources that he ran with a gang called the Denison Boys (ph). Cleveland has a gang culture, not the kind of culture that you would find in a Los Angeles or a New York or even Chicago. But it's definitely there. And we understand that -- that this has been some -- some bone of contention between this family and law enforcement for some time. He also has an older brother, an 18-year-old brother, who has been in and out of jail. And neighbors tell us that he has been known to carry guns. In fact, two nights ago, there was an incident where two teenage girls who had been having a feud with the boy's older sister, 15-year- old sister, for some two years now saw her on her porch. She yelled something at them. This was a couple of nights ago. The older brother came out and actually fired a shot at them. They called the police. The police came to that scene and arrested the older brother. But we have been told that no search warrant was obtained to go into the house to try to get the guns. And, so, there's going to be some questions that have to be answered by the Cleveland Police Department this week as to why they didn't pursue a search warrant to try to get into that house. And maybe -- maybe, if they had, the questions will be asked, you know, this kid would not have had anything to go to school with today.", "We were just putting up a picture of Asa's older brother, Steven (ph), which is the only picture that we -- we have of him. He recently just got out of jail, as you mentioned. At this point, do we know much about Asa's criminal record? Because I understand he did some time in a juvenile facility.", "Yes. I think, as Susan mentioned earlier, he had a history of run-ins with authorities. But he had only gone to court for one thing, and that was a domestic violence incident, I believe, involving his mother, we have been told by sources. And, so, he had been in and out of court. He had been on probation. He had been on home monitoring. But, in the most recent times, he had not been on any kind of monitoring or any kind of probation. But there certainly was a history. And, of course, as we said, he was definitely, according to police sources, running with this gang, the Denison Boys (ph). And, in fact, we have been told by sources that -- that he and his older brother were the -- were the targets of a drive-by shooting about a week ago. And they were still investigating that when this happened.", "We heard from two neighbors just before we talked to you who talked about him being pushed too far. I'm not sure how reliable those neighbors are. But any sense of what he was being pushed about, if that, in fact, is true? And if that -- did that have anything to do with what happened in the school today?", "Well, those friends of the family who talked to us, you know, intimated that he was having some trouble at school, and perhaps because of his appearance -- I understand that he was -- he was short and a little heavy -- that he was being ridiculed at school and -- and for various reasons. Whether that is -- that could possibly be true, and so -- and have nothing to do with the rest of his life, we just don't know at this point whether anything that was going on outside of school had anything to do with what happened today. We have still got to put those pieces together.", "Yes. That's always the case. Matt Stevens of CNN affiliate WOIO -- Matt, I appreciate it in Cleveland. Thanks so much. Just a short time ago, Cleveland's police chief spoke to the media about some of what they are working with. Let's listen.", "We have the tapes, camera tapes, from the building. We will review them. And, until we review them, I can't give you a specific answer on that. We don't know how long he was in that particular building. We did search his locker. And there was nothing in his locker pertaining to this incident.", "Joining me now is Cleveland police spokesman Thomas Stacho. Appreciate you being with us. At the press conference today, the police chief said that he believed Coon was targeting specific teachers in the building, that -- that this was really not a random shooting. Do we know more about this, why he was targeting the people he did?", "We don't know for sure. That's part of our investigation. What we know is what we have been told by some of the witnesses, some of the -- the parties that were inside the building as the shooting occurred. The information that they told us is that he made some comments about specific teachers before he shot one, and inquired about another one, who he did not find. So, it's based on that information. Of course, it's very early in our investigation. So, we won't know all the answers for quite some time, but we are working towards that.", "And I know there are things you can't say that you might know, so I don't want to put you too much on the spot. But there's a report out there that there was a sophomore, Rasheem Smith, 15 years old, who saw Asa Coon in the bathroom changing and loading a gun, left the bathroom, didn't tell anybody. Can you confirm that?", "I can't confirm that. I have been told that by some of the local media here, some of the national media that's on scene. I -- I don't know that. I know that some of the facts that were given to me at least from the media are incorrect. Some of the information that he said or that's been attributed to him was incorrect. So, I don't know that that's true. Certainly, if it is, we would like to have that information. And -- and we are looking to interview any party with any information about this shooting.", "As we just heard from affiliate reporter Matt Stevens, Cleveland police were at Asa Coon's residence on Monday investigating an incident where Coon's brother allegedly shot at some -- some girls. Police reportedly saw weapons at the house, didn't have a warrant, and could not remove them. Do you -- A, do you know more about that incident, what kind of weapons they saw? And was any -- were any of those weapons involved in today's shooting?", "You know, I -- I don't have any information about that at all. I know that -- that Matt Stevens said that we arrested him two nights ago. I went through our records just before I came out here, and I don't show any record of him being arrested. Now, that doesn't mean it didn't happen. But I couldn't find anything to -- to -- to support that.", "OK.", "But it is something that we will look into. We know there's been a long history of criminality involving that household. And, certainly, we are curious, we are interested in finding out where those guns came from. We are working with the local ATF to determine where those guns came from.", "You say a long history of criminality involving the household. Is that involving just Asa and his brother, or parents as well?", "Primarily Asa's brother, a little bit on Asa's part, but primarily Asa's brother, a long history of arrests and run-ins with the law.", "And Asa was arrested last year for -- for what was called a domestic violence incident. Can you tell us anything more about that?", "I don't have the specifics on it. I know it was January of 2006. He's under court supervision as a result. I talked to the spokesperson from juvenile court. He was being monitored. I don't know if he was at the time of the shooting or if he's been taken off of that -- that monitor.", "There was an incident, an altercation the other day between Asa and another student. Both were suspended from the school. Do you know the details of that?", "Apparently some altercation outside the school. It was broken up by some security here for the Cleveland Municipal School District. Both the parties were suspended. It's believed that some part of the discipline led to the shooting today, and maybe the teachers had some hand in -- in giving some information related to that discipline, though it's very preliminary.", "Mr. Stacho, Thomas Stacho, Cleveland police spokesman, I appreciate you telling us what you can. Thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "Just moments ago, we got our first portion of the 911 tapes from this incident. Let's listen.", "Yes, yes. A student with the gun at SuccessTech Academy.", "Was he threatening somebody with it?", "He shot it.", "He shot the gun?", "Yes.", "How many shots did he fire?", "How many shots did he fire? It was two or three.", "Did you see him?", "He's like 5'5'', white.", "White male, about 5'5''?", "Yes.", "Do you know his name?", "His name is Asa, Asa Coon.", "Well, that is the first of the tapes we get. We anticipate several more. There are also tapes from inside the school. It's unlikely we will be seeing those anytime soon, not that probably we would even want to at this point. Shortly after the shooting, one parent that said SuccessTech is the last place -- that's the name of the school -- is the last place that anyone would have expected to see this kind of violence. The school, in fact, has been a shining star for the city of Cleveland. Here's the \"Raw Data\" on it. SuccessTech gives young people living in poverty a chance to learn business skills. Its teachers are teamed up with local business owners. Now, in the past five years the school has been open, class enrollment risen from 79 students to 240, and the academy's graduation rate is 94 percent, which is far above the school district's rate of just 55 percent. We have a lot more on this ahead and the motivations of this school shooter and others. This young man, Evan Ramsey, was 16 when he shot a student and his principal to death in '97. What was going through his mind as he rode the school bus with a gun? We will talk to him in prison tonight. Also, these stories:", "Six went to sea. Only two returned, telling a story of piracy and murder. Now a different story is emerging about them.", "I do think of him as a violent man. And he's capable of anything.", "The clues, the alleged crime, solving a mystery that could land two survivors on death row. Later, a stirring plea for a planet in peril.", "REM sounds the call. 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{"id": "CNN-137571", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-4-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/28/cnr.03.html", "summary": "President Obama to FBI: \"We Must Think Anew and Act Anew\" in 21st Century; Two Views of Obama: His Personality vs. His Policies", "utt": ["Assessing the president at his first 100 days in office. For President Obama, most of the controversy is over the issues rather than the individual. CNN political analyst Bill Schneider explains.", "Americans have two assessments of President Obama: one personal, the other policy. President Obama's overall job approval as he nears his 100th day in office? Sixty-three percent. But 75 percent, a noticeably higher figure, admire Mr. Obama's personality and leadership qualities. Do they agree with the president on the issues? Fifty-seven percent say, yes. That's high, but it's nearly 20 points lower than Mr. Obama's personal appeal. A lot of Americans, more than 40 percent, say they disagree with President Obama on the issues.", "I've listened carefully to the president's speech that night. I think it is the boldest effort to create a European socialist model we have seen.", "President Obama is the mirror image of President Clinton. Clinton was personally a very polarizing figure. Remember the so-called \"morphing\" ads? (", "If you like Bill Clinton, you'll love Joe Prather.", "But President Clinton's policies, after the first two years, were more moderate and consensus driven; he triangulated.", "The era of big government is over.", "President Clinton engendered huge controversy over his stand on social issues like guns, gays in the military, and abortion. President Obama has treated the deeply divisive issues with caution.", "I continue to believe that we can respect and honor the Second Amendment rights in our Constitution. The rights of sportsman and hunters and homeowners who want to keep their homes safe to lawfully bear arms.", "Republicans hated Bill Clinton. How do they feel about President Obama? Two-thirds disapprove of the job he's doing. But they're split over the president's personal qualities. Republicans disagree with him on the issues, overwhelmingly.", "Our senior political analyst Bill Schneider is live with us from Washington. And Bill, you know, I guess we all know that the partisan divide is going be difficult to bridge in this country. But, is the president viewed as a uniter or divider?", "Well, actually, Tony, both. He himself a leader, as personal figure, is a very unifying figure. And as we saw there, his personal popularity is very high. It's his policies that are more divisive. The president is more popular than his policies. Bill Clinton, as I just said in the piece, the controversy was more over the individual than the issues.", "Yes.", "In fact, after 1994, Clinton's signature issues - welfare reform, free trade, a balanced budget - they were all passed with significant republican support, but they still didn't like Bill Clinton himself.", "That's true. All right, our senior political analyst, Bill Schneider, for us. Bill, appreciate it. Thank you.", "Sure.", "And once again, don't miss our special primetime event tomorrow night, \"100 DAYS OF THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY.\" We are grading the president and Congress on the job they've done so far. That's at 7:00. And then at 8:00, President Obama holds a news conference. It is all right here on CNN, with the best political team on television. Lots of great swine flu questions from you out there blogging on our blog page. Our medical reporter, Elizabeth Cohen, will have the answers you need."], "speaker": ["HARRIS", "WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST (voice-over)", "NEWT GINGRICH, FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER", "SCHNEIDER", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT) ADVERTISEMENT ANNOUNCER", "SCHNEIDER", "WILLIAM J. CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SCHNEIDER", "OBAMA", "SCHNEIDER", "HARRIS", "SCHNEIDER", "HARRIS", "SCHNEIDER", "HARRIS", "SCHNEIDER", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-383990", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-10-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/26/cnr.09.html", "summary": "White House Press Secretary: Kelly Totally Unequipped To Handle The Genius Of Our Great President; Photos Show Rudy Giuliani With Indicted Associate At Baseball Game", "utt": ["Hello. An alarming statement from the Former White House Chief of Staff: I warned Trump he'd be impeached with the wrong people around him. This comes amid Saturday testimony that wasn't expected to be explosive, but has Democrats saying they got a lot more than they thought they would. Plus, hurricane-force winds and bone-dry conditions fanning these wildfire flames in California. Hear the remarkable story of a firefighter who risked his life to save a couple in dangers and new today, U.S. military vehicles roll into war-torn Syria. Just yesterday the President said troops would be, \"Coming home\". It's 7:00 Eastern, 4:00 in the afternoon out west. I'm Ana Cabrera in New York. You are live in the CNN NEWSROOM and here where we begin. President Trump and his former right-hand man in the White House going back and forth today over advice on how not to get impeached. John Kelly retired Marine Corps General and Former White House Chief of Staff. He told reporters this weekend that if he had stayed on the job the President would not be in the impeachment predicament he is in now. The Former Chief of Staff told an interviewer that when they were looking at his replacement last year, he told the President \"I said whatever you do, don't hire a \"Yes-man\", someone who won't tell you the truth. Don't do that because if you do I believe you will be impeached\". President Trump is flatly denying Kelly ever said that. CNN's Sarah Westwood is at the White House. The President responded directly to CNN about this reporting. What is he saying?", "That's right, Ana an aggressive response to John Kelly even by this White House's standards the Former Chief of Staff words prompting on the record responses not just from the Press Secretary, but also from the President himself. I want to read you those statements now. President Trump said John Kelly never said that. He never said anything like that. If he would have said that I would have thrown him out of the office. He just wants to come back into the action like everybody else does. And Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham's statement said: I worked with John Kelly and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President. That's just a remarkable statement for the Press Secretary to be making the genius bit of the statement aside, here we have a savaging widely respected former colleague in suggesting that this retired four-star general is somehow not equipped to handle the job that he did for a year and a half. In fact, Kelly's arrival in that position was widely celebrated at the time and so were his early tenure and the White House here quick to disparage his comments to the Washington examiner but contrast that to the way the White House has handled the impeachment inquiry. The White House has met many of the new developments in that investigation with silence they decline to dispute the specifics of new allegations as they've emerged. But when it comes to something that the President apparently perceived as a personal insult in the case of John Kelly, you will notice here that the White House was quick with a coordinated response and a coordinated pushback. That's something, Ana that Republicans have complained about, the lack of strategy and the lack of coordinated messaging when it comes to the issue of impeachment.", "Right, Sarah Westwood at the White House for us. Thank you, joining us now Former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush Scott Jennings and CNN Political Commentator Ana Navarro. Guys I want to start with that alarming statement from General John Kelly, very similar to something Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said last year remember this? So often the President would say, here's what I want to do and here how I want to do it, and I would have to say to him, Mr. President, I understand what you want to do, but you can't do it that way it violates the law. Scott the fact that two former top officials have essentially said without anyone stopping him the President will commit illegal acts, should that give Republicans pause?", "Well, I - look, I agree with General Kelly that it's vital that you have staff around to push back on your ideas and to try to give you best-case scenario, worst-case scenario and really give you the best advice you can get. Where I disagree with him, is that I don't think it was his departure that precipitated impeachment and I think the Democrats were always going to impeachment the President no matter who the Chief of Staff was or any other staff was. They have spoiling to impeach him that really since he got elected and they finally got around it on this Ukrainian matter. So on the one hand, I agree, but the other hand I think it was inevitable and here we are.", "You served in the Bush White House, did Advisers or Cabinet Members ever have to stop Bush from committing illegal or impeachable acts?", "No, I don't recall anyone trying to stop the President from committing illegal acts, although I do remember Democrats in some liberal media outlets clamoring to impeach President Bush which, of course, they didn't go through with, they're going through it now.", "But again the point that General Kelly is making is not incorrect. In a White House in any government agency White House, or city hall, wherever you happen to be, it's important to have people around the table with whom you can pressure test your ideas. So I think that point is correct. I just think he is a little bit misguided about the intention of the Democrats who I think they were always out to impeach the President.", "Ana, also add in this reporting today speechwriter for Former Defense Secretary Mattis claims President Trump ordered Mattis to, \"Screw Amazon out of a government contract\". He also says Mattis was constantly trying to translate Trump's demands into ethical outcomes. What do you think the way these former officials are portraying themselves after the fact?", "Look, I think the lack of adults in the room which is what we call them like Mattis, like John Kelly, like Rex Tillerson, like McMaster around Trump who does need restraint, who does need disciplining and who does need to be told how the institutions work and what is legal and not legal and who needs to be protected from himself, frankly and the country needs to be protected from him, there's now a lack of that kind of person with such gravitas. A lot of times with military titles attached to them and let me say this, Ana. I know John Kelly. John Kelly served in Miami as Demander of South Com for a few years before heading back to Washington, and he and I know each other well. I disagree with him viscerally on some of the things he did and said as the DHS Secretary and the White House. But I know him to be an honorable man. I know him to be a patriarch who loves this country, who I believe served a President whom he doesn't agree in a lot of things because he thought it was his duty. And so to now attack somebody like John Kelly who has paid frankly the ultimate sacrifice, lost a son in service to this country while Donald Trump is feigning bone spurs on his feet - not to serve. And that's the kind of man we're discussing now with such chivalry and just throwing around kind of, you know, questioning his motives and questioning his honor in the case of the Secretary - the Press Secretary of Trump.", "Let me read, in fact, again, that statement from the White House Press Secretary, Stephanie Grisham, defending President Trump. She writes, \"I worked with John Kelly. He was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President\". Scott, this sentence, the way it's almost dear leadership, does it prove Kelly's point that the President is surrounded by yes men, or in this case, yes women?", "Well, I disagree with the statement. I don't think it's an appropriate statement for the White House to make about someone who served our country with such distinction. And by the way General Kelly, I think he had a pretty job as Chief of Staff. I think he had a few moments that were missteps certainly including the handling of the White House Staff Secretary situation which was mishandled. But overall, I think General Kelly did a great job for the administration and I would just advise the White House that these people who leave your administration, you know, they're still around. They're still making public statements. They're still prone to being called to testify before Congress like John Bolton.", "John Bolton, yes.", "So I would just say that it's better to keep people close to you and not push them away or to disparage their character or their patriotism the way that we're seeing going on here with General Kelly. By the way, I didn't take General Kelly's comments as necessarily a negative comment about the President I just took it as his opinion about what could happen if you get certain kind of staff. I didn't see it as a disparaging to the President. So my advice to the White House would be celebrate the people who have come to work with you, because a lot them have done a good job for you and they've served their country and they don't deserve to have their character and their patriotism disparaged this way.", "I do think, though, his statements went further than that because basically what he said, look, I told the President that if he got himself a \"Yes-man\" he'd end up impeached and in fact, that seems to be where we are heading and you know, you're right. There were some extremists that wanted to impeach Bush at some point, but he never gave them basis to do it. There was never evidence of impeachable offenses. There was never evidence of unethical and criminal behavior. Were there mistakes? Many, many, many mistakes made like by every other President because they are human, but this goes beyond that. What Trump has done in terms of abuse of power, in terms of inviting foreign interference in our elections, those are, for many of us, for many Americans viewed as impeachable offenses.", "Scott, the bar for Republicans does seem to keep moving. First, this is hearsay and then it was there was no quid pro quo. Both of those defenses were blown up this week. Do you think there should be a red line for Republicans? A point where they say if this is proven, Trump loses our support.", "I think what you're going to see Republicans come down on this. It's obvious that something happened. The President says it wasn't a quid pro quo. A lot of people are going to testify to the fact that it was, and some people are going to say that that's impeachable and the Republicans are likely going to come down and say it may have been bad judgment. We don't agree with the policy, but we don't think it's impeachable. So I think at some point you have to look at the body of evidence and the body of facts and if the facts bear out and testimony bears out which by the way, we haven't seen the full testimony of these people just selected leaks. But if the full testimony bears out that it did happen I think Republicans are going to have to not - not disown the facts, but own it and own their attitude which I think is probably going to be I don't like it, bad judgment, wish he hadn't done it and I don't think it's impeachable and I would rather trust the American people in an election rather more than I trust Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff in an impeachment. I think that's likely where this is all going to fall out for Republicans, because I don't, frankly, out here in the middle of the country where I live, I don't see Republicans breaking support for the President one bit over this.", "Okay. And I got to ask you really quick about Rudy Giuliani and this pocket dial. Here's what he accidentally left on a reporter's voice mail.", "Tomorrow I've got to get you to get on Bahrain.", "Yes. Hold on.", "You got to call Robert again tomorrow. Is Robert around? The problem is we need some money. We need a few hundred thousand.", "An argument could be made that Giuliani is the one that got President Trump into this mess when he convinced him of this conspiracy theory involving Ukraine and Joe Biden. Why hasn't the President cut ties with Giuliani?", "Well, first of all, they're both grown adult men in their 70s with a hell of a lot of experience. I don't think Giuliani got Trump into it and I don't think Trump got Giuliani into it. They're both accountable for their actions. I've known Giuliani as well for a very long time. I don't recognize this Rudy Giuliani that I see and hear nowadays. It is a complete 180 from the person who was America's Mayor just - I guess what? 15 years ago, and my advice to Giuliani would be Rudy, get you a flip phone, man. Get yourself one of those old-fashioned flip phones because you obviously can't handle a smart phone, get one of those that closes and it won't dial out, but I think Giuliani's attitude here has been - and it's one that he doesn't get a pass on because he knows better, because he's been a prosecutor because he's been a U.S. Attorney because he's prosecuted cases of public corruption. So, you know, if there is somebody out there who cannot plead ignorance, who could not say I didn't know this was illegal and I didn't know this was unethical, who cannot say oh, I didn't know what these Ukrainians were about. He should have known. He should have looked into it. He owned a security company, for God's sakes. There's just - he gets zero pass on his lapses of judgment and ethics on this, I think.", "Scott, would you like to see the President Part ways with Giuliani, Scott?", "Yes, my views on this are well known. I've said it on these airwaves many times. First of all, your lawyer is supposed to get you out of trouble and not get you into trouble. I would just say to the President, I think Rudy Giuliani has taken on--", "When your lawyers need lawyers, you're in trouble.", "I think it sounds to me like he's taken on some information and some clients and some interests here that have not served the President very well. Now the President's responsible for what he believes and what he doesn't believe and how close he lets certain people get, but in this particular case, I think Rudy Giuliani has hurt him on the Ukrainian issue. I would cut ties with him, and to the extent that it can be shown that Giuliani was the genesis of some of these bad actions and not the President, if it can't be shown and that's what the facts bear out, I think the President will need to go in that direction.", "Scott Jennings and Ana Navarro, great to have you both with us. Thank you. Happening right now, the House Committees involved in the Presidential impeachment inquiry are holding a rare Saturday session. This as we're just learning of two new depositions planned for next week. Live to Capitol Hill next."], "speaker": ["ANA CABRERA, CNN HOST", "SARAH WESTWOOD, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER", "CABRERA", "SCOTT JENNINGS, FORMER SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO PRESS SECRETARY GEORGE W. BUSH", "CABRERA", "JENNINGS", "JENNINGS", "CABRERA", "ANA NAVARRO, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "CABRERA", "JENNINGS", "CABRERA", "JENNINGS", "NAVARRO", "CABRERA", "JENNINGS", "CABRERA", "RUDY GIULIANI, ATTORNEY FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GIULIANI", "CABRERA", "NAVARRO", "CABRERA", "JENNINGS", "NAVARRO", "JENNINGS", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-353572", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2018-10-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/31/ip.02.html", "summary": "GOP House Campaign Arm Abandons King", "utt": ["Topping our political radar today, a supreme secret between two former Supreme Court justices. Sandra Day O'Connor once turned a marriage proposal from William Rehnquist. That back in the early 1950s when the two dated during their time together at Stanford Law School. NPR says an O'Connor biographer dug up a letter Rehnquist wrote where he puts the proposal in writing. Both soon after married partners who would become their long-time spouses. The Trump administration again trying to change the rules concerning a key benefit of ObamaCare. The New York Times reports it's working, the administration is on a new plan who will give employers more flexibility in denying coverage for birth control. The administration tried imposing similar restrictions once before but they were block by two separate federal judges. General Motors today offering severance packages to salaried employees who'd been with the company for at least 12 years. That's about 18,000 workers across North America. This comes despite solid third quarter earnings. In a statement, GM says it's trying to be proactive as it adapts to a changing industry. A spokesman citing possible trade wars as one factor in its decision to shrink the payroll. Last night was Indiana's Senate debate. It's a tight race as we mentioned a few moments ago between Democratic incumbent Joe Donnelly, Republican challenger Mike Braun. Both candidates stayed mostly on message but the Libertarian candidate Lucy Brenton used her time on the debate stage to get in some quick clips.", "We got rid of King George for a reason, right? Can we at least agree on that? King George is gone, we're not replacing him with King Trump. No one is going to make unilateral decisions in our country.", "They ought to be on the same thing that everybody else is. That's where you'd start.", "Mrs. Brenton?", "Blah, blah, blah. I have 10 children so the idea of contraceptives is something that I'm very much interested in.", "Funny I guess. The head of the GOP's congressional campaign committee says that the group now washing its hands of fellow House Republican Steve King of Iowa. The National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Steve Stivers says his colleague's comments and actions are beyond inappropriate. King is under fire for backing far right candidates while slamming diversity and immigration. As a result, an NRCC pokesman says it cannot support his re-election bid in what has become in Iowa, a close race.", "NRCC and Chairman Stivers hasn't been shy to show moral leadership when the time calls for it. As we said yesterday, his words and actions are completely inappropriate. We strongly condemn them. We will not play in his race.", "Congressman King says these attacks on him are orchestrated by, quote, nasty, desperate, and dishonest fake news. No. They're orchestrated by the congressman's words over the years. Over the years. Look it up, folks, if you disagree with me. You can find it. But this is striking. We're in a very competitive election environment. And the House campaign committee at a time it's trying desperately to preserve its House majority essentially cuts off one of its own members and, you're saying we hope you lose.", "Yes, really remarkable moment here. I mean, it sounds like Steve Stivers sort of went out on his own and did this. It sounds like nobody knew in GOP leadership that he was going to do it but he had received some sort of briefing about recent comments from King and said he couldn't do it anymore. Just tweeted. And some people are not happy with him right now in the Republican Party. But there is also some frustration over the years with Steve King. He's never been the biggest team player with the National Republican Congressional Committee. And I think if Republicans have to spend money in Iowa for, they're in a lot of trouble.", "Having said that, they are spending some money in South Carolina one which suggests that the map is a little bit bigger than they would like. So it's not entirely without significance that they're basically saying hey, man, you're on your own.", "Yes. But I mean, it is interesting though because Republicans, this sort of brings up an issue that has haunted Republicans throughout the entire election cycles. Sort of, you know, racist comments, you know, Trump calling Andrew Gillum a thief after these Robocalls being played against him. This is the first instance I can think of a high profile Republican actually being brave enough to push back against things he's seen another Republicans say and say that's racist, stop doing it. So, you know, kudos for him in that regard.", "And the reality is, this shouldn't be that hard.", "Right.", "I mean, as you pointed out, John, it's obvious when -- it's not a dog whistle anymore when everyone can hear it. So these sort of -- the profile in courage if you will is not really -- the bar is very, very low right now. And I think that this is just emblematic of a larger problem not so much that they are actually on their way to a solution. The fact that this is so hard to say this is wrong is the problem. That is why we are having this conversation.", "Amen for that. Dead right about that. And again, if you support Congressman King, you think we're mischaracterizing him, let's just go back and look at the record. This is not a one time deal. This goes on for years. Before we go to break, celebration. Boston breaking out the duck boats. Come on and join in. Everyone can join Red Sox Nation. Spectacular. Great day in America. All across America. As the Red Sox celebrate in the greatest city in the world. Jackie Bradley Jr. there holding up that trophy. Got to love it."], "speaker": ["KING", "LUCY BRENTON (L), INDIANA SENATE CANDIDATE", "MIKE BRAUN (R), INDIANA SENATE CANDIDATE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BRENTON", "KING", "MATT GOMAN, NRCC COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR", "KING", "BADE", "DAVID DRUCKER, SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT, WASHINGTON EXAMINER", "BADE", "PHILLIP", "BADE", "PHILLIP", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-186617", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-5-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/24/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Baby Put in Washing Machine", "utt": ["Here's a story with a catch, actually two. Fishermen from Down Under were reeling in a blue shark when they ran into a real life scene from \"Jaws\". An 18-foot Great White reared up and bit the smaller shark right in half and that is when this violent tug of war began. The incident happened a few months ago just off the coast of Bondi Beach in Sydney. And it was just put up on YouTube. We thought it was cool video so we decided to show you. Australian authorities have assured swimmers and surfers that lifeguards routinely patrol for sharks and the water is safe. I won't be swimming there, though Jeff Fischel.", "Was there any anger there? Or is it just a shark being a shark? Like does he need therapy or is that really just how he attacks everything?", "I think it was just a shark being a shark and I want to stay as far away from it as possible.", "That's a good plan.", "Yes. Ok. Let's talk sports and start with baseball?", "No, we start with NBA playoffs.", "Oh, yes now.", "This is the good stuff now, Carol. Good stuff, because we are heading into a game seven and you can't beat that in the playoffs. The Celtics could have moved on in the NBA Eastern Conference finals with a win in Phi7lly last night. They could not get the job done. AI was in the house for the Sixers -- Allen Iverson. Not suiting up for his old team but he got the biggest cheers from the home fans. Plenty of cheers leftover for Jrue Holiday, Elton Brand, Andre Iguodala, they were fantastic. Holiday scored 20 points, Brand 13 and 10 boards. The Sixers stifle the Celtics' offense, and win 82- 75. Game seven, deciding game seven, Saturday. Baseball now, and there you go, Carol, before last night's Yankees and Royals game, Alex Rodriguez said he was ready to break out of the slump, and he was right. I mean truly he's not a good two months -- first two months of the year. Smacks two home runs off Will Smith, the rookie pitcher and not the actor. It's A-Rod's 60th multi- homerun-- I just figured I should clear it up now. I didn't want any questions lingering. The final Yankees 8, Royals 3. 39-year-old and Andy Pettitte gets the win for New York.", "Wow.", "As if the job isn't tough enough being an NHL of goaltender. New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundquist has to make one of the toughest saves when his own teammate Brad Richards fired a shot towards the net. Good shot, wrong net, terrific save. Richards snapped the stick in the process. The Devils win and they take a 3-2 series lead in the Eastern Conference Finals. All right. Check out this trick play from the Minnesota high school baseball team. The bases loaded, the pitcher throws towards center field, he throws it away. He is just pretending, he has the ball the whole time, but his team sold it and the runner on third went home, and they throw him out at home.", "I think that the Tigers need to try that.", "That is right, your Tigers can't find ways to win, they should try this. The trickeration -- it worked. The runner on third fully bought it. All right. This is the best ball boy we've found -- actually ball girl. Miss Babe Ruth. Look, gets the bat. That's awesome stuff. That is at a Georgia Tech/Florida State baseball game.", "Does the dog do this every game?", "Not every game but it is helpful when it does.", "When needed.", "Yes, exactly.", "Ok. Jeff Fischel, thanks for sharing.", "Ok.", "You have heard the phrase throwing the baby out with the bath water. Well, in an absolutely confounding twist, we bring you the tail of a baby that was thrown in the wash. Jeanne Moos has more.", "It is scary enough watching this surveillance tape of a guy playing with a one-year-old by putting him in a washer, and then the door automatically locks and the washer turns on. The man and the woman babysitting the child panic, but imagine you are the mother.", "Are you the mom?", "Yes.", "Hi mom.", "Is this the baby?", "Yes.", "He is adorable.", "Sakia David (ph) is the 22-year-old mother who watched the video for the first time on the news.", "I said that you can't tell me that isn't my -- I said that's my baby and that is her.", "Her, being the child's babysitter who never told the mother what happened almost two weeks ago at this Camden, New Jersey laundromat. The babysitter and an unidentified friend brought one- year-old Samir Bush along to do the laundry while his mom was at work. After he got stuck in the machine, the pair frantically ran for help, A laundromat employee came to the rescue, heaving aside tables and turn off power to the machine. The other guy was jumping out of his skin. The babysitter was banging the table.", "I pulled the baby out. I feel good because I saw that the baby is still alive.", "Still alive and basically unharmed. The pair took the boy to the hospital and then returned him to mom who noticed nothing amiss. After the video went viral, police got in touch with the mother. The Camden County prosecutor's office says this was not an intelligent choice to put the baby in the washing machine, but it is not a crime. How's the mother feel? David: I'm pissed. I was mad, because you should not put a kid in the washer, but at the same time, he was just playing around.", "As for the babysitter, the mom says she won't be baby- sitting anymore. Meanwhile back at washing machine number 15, the owner of the laundromat she knows it is ridiculous, but she's actually thinking of putting up signs to protect herself from liability, \"do not put kids in washers\". This is one story you can't spin as anything but dumb. 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{"id": "CNN-261541", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2015-08-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/07/ebo.01.html", "summary": "\"Apprentice\" Star: Comment About Me taken Out of Context", "utt": ["Tonight, Donald Trump and his team are on the attack, taking aim at FOX`s Megyn Kelly after her question to the billionaire about whether he is part of the war on women. A senior adviser to the presidential contender retweeted this message today about the FOX News anchor, quote, \"we can gut her.\" And as Suzanne Malveaux report, this is just the latest of Trump`s attacks aimed at women.", "Donald Trump standing center stage at the first republican debate, confronted with his insults against women.", "You have called women you don`t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. Your twitter account --", "Only Rosie O`Donnell.", "For the record, it was well beyond Rosie O`Donnell.", "Yes, I`m sure it was.", "Your twitter account has several disparaging comments about women`s looks. You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president and how will you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton who is likely to be the democratic nominee that you are part of the war on women?", "I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I have been challenged by so many people, and I don`t frankly have time for total political correctness.", "Rosie O`Donnell responded almost immediately tweeting, \"try explaining that to your kids.\" The bad blood between them reportedly going back nearly a decade to 2006 when O`Donnell questioned Trump`s decision not to fire Miss USA Tara Conner over drug abuse. Calling him a snake oil salesman.", "Left the first wife. Had an affair. Left the second wife. Had an affair. Had kids both time. But he is the moral compass of 20-year-olds in America.", "Trump shot back.", "I did take a look at her. She`s a slob. If I were running \"The View\" I would fire Rosie. I mean, I`d look her right in that fat ugly face of hers. I would say, Rosie, you are fired.", "Trump also said this to Brandy Roderick, a contestant on his Apprentice reality show.", "It must be a pretty picture you dropping to your knees.", "Most recently, the billionaire was asked about a claim from a female attorney that Trump called her disgusting for asking to take a break to breast pump during a deposition.", "Not true. She wanted to breast pump in front of me. And I may have said that`s disgusting. She`s a vicious, horrible person.", "Trump says he doesn`t have a problem with women.", "It`s the biggest applause of the evening was when I mentioned the name Rosie O`Donnell, the place went wild.", "Still Trump criticized moderator Megyn Kelly`s handling of the debate, going on a twitter rant overnight. \"Wow, Megyn Kelly really bombed tonight. People are going wild on twitter. Funny to watch.\" He also retweeted disparaging remarks from others, including this one calling Kelly a bimbo.", "The polls are mixed. A recent CBS poll shows that 62 percent of registered female voters have an unfavorable view of Trump. Among republican women, it is 42 percent. But another poll has Trump leading among women when compared to the other republican candidates taking 20 percent. And the question Kate of course is whether or not this debate is going to have any impact on Trump`s approval from this very critical group -- Kate.", "That`s a key question now for sure. Suzanne, thanks so much. And OUTFRONT is Brande Roderick, she is the celebrity apprentice contestant Donald Trump was speaking to when he made that comment back there 2012. Brandy, thanks so much for joining us. Looking back at that moment on the \"Apprentice\" now, were you offended?", "You know, obviously not. Because I didn`t even remember the comment. I actually had to go back and re-watch the clip. And no, I think it was taken out of context. If you actually watch the clip, it`s not like he said, oh, wow, you would look great on your knees. It was nothing like that. In my experience, I`ve always had a great experience around Donald Trump. It has always been positive. It has never been negative or derogatory. So that`s been my experience.", "In the debates, it was part of kind of a list of comments that Donald Trump has made towards women that he had been derogatory towards women, demeaning towards women. And a lot of women were offended when they heard the comment that he had made towards you. Does it bother you now when you think about it?", "No. Because in my situation and some of the others, it was all on television. He is the host of a reality show. They definitely didn`t hire Trump because of his filter. You know what I mean? That`s his job is to make -- to make people wanting to come back for more. So, absolutely not. When you are in the television world, you have to have a thick skin.", "Well, that`s the truth. What do you make of the fact now Brande that you have been brought in to this presidential race?", "It`s a bit bizarre and surreal, definitely. But you know, I want to say my side of the story, because you know, I don`t want people out there thinking, you know, he is this horrible man because he is not. You know, like I said, my experience has always been positive with him. He has always been an encouraging type of person in my experience.", "You say that he`s encouraging. You say that you`ve always have a good experience with him. You`ve also described him as an entertainer. You say, he`s on TV. With all this experience in mind, is Donald Trump presidential material do you think?", "I think that it`s early in the race. I take voting very seriously as a mother and as a business person. So, for me, it`s the very beginning. And I need to see the entire race.", "Are you -- you are not counting Donald Trump out. But a lot of folks are looking at his past experience and who he encounters as to try see if he has the temperament of a president. What do you think?", "I think I need to see more. I definitely need to see more. I`m not going to decide either way right now. I definitely need to see a lot more from him and from everybody else.", "Brande Roderick, thanks so much.", "Thank you.", "And OUTFRONT now, Katie Packer Gage, he is the former deputy campaign manager for Mitt Romney and Andy Dean, he`s a Trump supporter. He also worked for the billionaire for several years. Andy, it`s great to see you. Katie, great to see you. So, Andy, you heard that interview that I just did with Brande. Brande, she didn`t seem to want to give an answer to that last question about whether Trump was presidential material. She needs to see more, she says. Is Trump`s answer to Megyn Kelly`s question last night going to come back to bite him, do you think?", "No. I think it was the only way that he could answer that difficult question. A bomb was thrown at him. And he deflected it with humor because Rosie O`Donnell is a disgusting pig. And we can all agree. It`s not sexist comment. Donald is an equal opportunity offender and when it comes to --", "Why you doubling down on that? Why do you need to use that language?", "Rosie started this fight and Donald --", "Is it a fight with you?", "No. It`s a fight with Donald. But the point is, if he`s attacks, he is going to defend himself with pride. And that`s what our country needs. We are being attacked. I mean, the Iranians with this ridiculous deal. The Mexican border, we need somebody with a vision that`s going to stand up. And this is an example of what he can do.", "It still just blows my mind, we went from talking about Rosie O`Donnell and now we are talking about the Iran deal, Andy. I just don`t know how we got there.", "Because it`s -- look, okay, the point is this. Is that you are saying that the guy is a sexist one week and then he`s a racist the next week. It`s the liberal media trying to destroy whoever is on top. And that`s why good people don`t run for office, anymore. Because whoever is on top, you want to destroy them as a human being instead of looking at the issues. When we looked at the issues last night, Donald talked about having a larger vision. And he tried to talk about Iran, he tried to talk about Mexico. And here we are talking about that he is some sexist one week and then a racist the other. I`m trying to bring this back to what`s important to the American people.", "Taking on the issues is definitely important. I definitely don`t think there`s anything wrong though in bringing up your past statements to ask you about them. That`s what happens when you are in politics. That`s just the way it is. So, Katie, Donald Trump, he shared a tweet that called Megyn Kelly a bimbo. His counsel, Michael Cohen, he retweeted a message referring to Kelly that said this. We can gut her. Now, is this going to hurt the Republican Party? Go past Donald Trump for a second. Is this going to hurt the Republican Party regardless with women voters, do you think the Trump campaign does not think so clearly. And they don`t think it matters.", "Well, ultimately, it`s not, because he`s not going to be our party`s nominee. And so, people assign these attitudes to Donald Trump the entertainer. As Brande said, he is an entertainer. He should keep these, you know, sort of schoolyard bullying antics, you know, on television where it belongs in the entertainment industry. It doesn`t belong in the context of a presidential campaign. But the reality is, if you attack people of other races, people are going to call you a racist. If you attack women, people are going to say that you are sexist. That`s the reality.", "Go ahead, Andy.", "We`re getting debate lectures from Mitt Romney`s camp. She worked for Mitt Romney for years. I mean, Mitt Romney is why we have four more years of Barack Obama. Mitt Romney is one of the worst debaters of planet earth, that`s why we lost. So, I just find it strange --", "Well, I think that nobody would agree with you on that front. And, you know, but we`re not here to debate 2012. We`re talking about -- we`re talking about the future, Andy. And what I`m saying is that Donald Trump is an entertainer. And I`m all for him staying in the entertainment industry. I do think a lot of women and a lot of Republicans are insulted and offended by dragging this kind of drama, you know, of name calling and treating women in a despicable way degrading Megyn Kelly who is a very highly respected journalist in this way is totally unacceptable.", "Okay. Andy, final word for you.", "I find Katie`s opinions sexist in nature but his -- once again offends people of all genders and all races. He judges people on the content of their character. He runs hundreds of corporations, employs thousands of men and women. I mean, if you look at Katie`s corporation on her website --", "I`m a Trumpist, I`m not a sexist. It`s just Donald Trump that I`m opposed to.", "She only employs women. That`s against the law. That`s a labor violation, Katie. We should have your company investigated. You don`t hire men.", "You are right. You`re right. That`s exactly what we should do.", "So, Andy, what lead --", "That`s a bigotry. That`s bigotry.", "Real quick Andy, on this final point, so what I`m hearing from you is you don`t think we`re going to see any difference from Donald Trump going forward in these debates, right?", "What should be different?", "Okay.", "He had 24 million people tune in, double the audience. He is getting people engaged.", "No, he should keep doing exactly what he has been doing. It was wildly successful --", "He`s the winner, Romney is the looser. Romney is the looser.", "Bring it on.", "All right. Great to see you both. Let`s do this again next week. Because I`m sure we will have more to talk about. Andy, great to see you. Katie, great to see you.", "Thank you.", "Thank you so much.", "Thanks. I appreciate it.", "It`s good TV at least. And Donald Trump, he is going to be a guest tonight on \"CNN TONIGHT\" with Don Lemon. That is 9:00 Eastern. After that conversation, you definitely don`t want to miss that. OUTFRONT for us next, Jeb Bush with perhaps more at stake last night than any other candidate. Did his debate performance fall flat? And Donald Trump, he bragged about donating to almost all of his republican rivals. But is that true? 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{"id": "NPR-48024", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2018-03-27", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/03/27/597390569/ftc-investigating-whether-facebook-violated-consent-decree", "title": "FTC Investigating Whether Facebook Violated Consent Decree", "summary": "The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Facebook violated a consent decree by enabling third parties to access users' information without their permission. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with former FTC official Jessica Rich about the investigation, and other measures the government could take to police how tech giants safeguard users' privacy.", "utt": ["Things are not getting any easier for Facebook as the tech giant continues to face questions about how the data of 50 million users got into unauthorized hands. Congress wants Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself to testify while the Federal Trade Commission continues to investigate whether the company violated a 2011 consent decree. Demands for the government to do something to protect user privacy raise the question, what might effective regulation of Facebook even look like? With us now to explore that question is Jessica Rich, the former head of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. Welcome.", "Hello, Ailsa.", "Jessica, you helped shape the FTC consent decree back in 2011, right?", "I did.", "What went through your mind when you were first hearing these stories about what happened with Cambridge Analytica and Facebook?", "Well, like many people, my reaction was are you kidding? The facts here of allowing third parties to have unfettered access to user data and not exercising the kind of care for Facebook users that they should were the exact same facts that drove us to take action against them in 2011 and that led to the order they're now under.", "And can you just remind us what those facts were that led to the 2011 order?", "Well, it was pretty similar to the facts here. It was all about sharing data contrary to user expectations and preferences. They overrode consumers' preferences to make private information public, including your friends lists. They allowed third-party apps to access virtually everything. They claim to verify the security of third-party apps and they didn't. And they said they didn't share information with advertisers when they did.", "It's eerily familiar.", "Eerily familiar. It's all about allowing third parties unrestricted access to user data contrary to user preferences and expectations.", "And the penalties for violating that 2011 consent decree, they're huge. It's $40,000...", "Per violation.", "So if you multiply that across 50 million users, we're talking about billions of dollars, potentially, that Facebook faces in fines. Why would a number like that, billions of dollars of potential fines, not serve as enough of a deterrent for a company like Facebook?", "I really can't answer that question. It must be lack of proper compliance procedures or literally a culture that is not one that really cares about its users.", "Do you think the FTC is well-equipped to regulate social media companies like Facebook and push them to better protect user privacy?", "I think the FTC is very well-equipped to do enforcement on a case-by-case basis, which is what it did here. And I have every confidence that the enforcement division that oversees order compliance will get to the bottom of this.", "But is the FTC effectively enforcing if Facebook did indeed violate a consent decree from seven years ago?", "The FTC can't be expected to know every detail of companies' actions all along the way when it is monitoring an order. If the FTC takes action here against Facebook for violating the order, it will be enforcing the order now that it has these facts in hand. And if it assesses huge penalties against Facebook, it will have made an example of Facebook. It will deter Facebook hopefully in the future. And it will be an effective action. What the FTC can't do is police the entire tech marketplace for violations. It does not have the resources to do that.", "OK. So because it doesn't have the resources to do that, what more broadly should be done?", "What I would propose would be simple standardize information about company practices that allow consumers to easily compare companies. There needs to be a requirement that companies secure the data they collect. And there needs to be a strong enforcer and strong penalties for violations.", "Jessica Rich is the former head of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. She's now a vice president of advocacy at Consumer Reports. Thanks very much for joining us.", "Thanks for having me, Ailsa."], "speaker": ["AILSA CHANG, HOST", "JESSICA RICH", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "JESSICA RICH", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "JESSICA RICH", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "JESSICA RICH", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "JESSICA RICH", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "JESSICA RICH", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "JESSICA RICH", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "JESSICA RICH", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "JESSICA RICH", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "JESSICA RICH", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "JESSICA RICH"]}
{"id": "CNN-379766", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-09-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/07/cnr.09.html", "summary": "The Aftermath Of Hurricane Dorian", "utt": ["It's a major humanitarian crisis just off the coast of the United States. Dozens of people confirmed dead in the aftermath of the category five hurricane that slammed into the Bahamas. That number almost certain to rise, because rescue and recovery crews are finding bodies this weekend. Finding them in the wreckage of homes and all that storm debris that now covers much of the Bahamas' northern islands. Officials set up these mobile mortuaries in the city of Marsh Harbour. Their purpose, to process human remains. CNN camera crews saw bodies brought into those mobile morgues today. Crowds of people from the devastated islands are trying to make it out, either to the Bahamian capital, Nassau, or to the U.S. In some places, there is literally nothing. No power. No shelter. No food. No drinking water. A cruise ship today arrived in Palm Beach, Florida carrying more than 1,400 evacuees from the Bahamas. The United Nations estimates about 70,000 people in the islands lost their homes. They're now homeless. Let's go live to Nassau and CNN's Paula Newton is there. Paula, the government says a humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the days since this hurricane. What is causing people there the most anxiety?", "The most anxiety now really is what happens next when they have nowhere to go. You just quoted it, 70,000 people homeless. When they say they're homeless, it's not like their homes are gone just for a few weeks. They have been obliterated. Those homes absolutely obliterated. And, on top of that, they are also going through a lot, in terms of just trying to get through the trauma of everything they've been through. And remember, Ana, we still do not know the true death toll from this disaster. I want you to listen now to William Davis talk to us about what it was like for him to ride out the storm in Marsh Harbour.", "My son and a couple of my other employees were in that building. And the water just tore down the hole building. We had to jump out the back window. Some survived. Some didn't.", "You know, he, then, told me that four people in the building next to him had lost their lives. Four people. I spoke to other people who had loved ones who had passed away. They hadn't reported that they were even missing. There are other people that I spoke to that had missing relatives and had no idea if they were dead or alive yet. Had no place to go, in terms of a central Web site or anything like that. You talked about those mobile mortuaries. We talked to three morticians today. They were hired by the government here to go there and handle the situation. Their quote to me, Ana, was that we haven't started our work yet. What does that mean? It means search and recovery, it's going very, very slowly. And, of course, it will be quite a challenge to even identify these people. And when we were at the port today, with all of that on their shoulders, that burden, people were trying to leave a place that was unlivable. I asked a woman, did she have enough food or water? She said, who can have food or water? I just want out of this place.", "Wow. I think we're all bracing for the true depth of destruction and the final numbers, once we really learn how many people were killed are revealed. Paula Newton, thank you for your ongoing reporting there. You're working so hard and bringing us what is happening and what they need. If you want to find out how you can help the victims of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas and here in the U.S., just head to CNN.com/impact. We have new CNN reporting that the president is privately expressing concerns about the economy, even as he boasts publicly everything is going great. We'll discuss why it is so important to his chances of re-election, next."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WILLIAM DAVIS", "NEWTON", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-228351", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-4-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/13/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Search Area Expands for Missing Plane; Gunman Kills Three People Near Kansas City; Black Box Search", "utt": ["All right. breaking news, everyone. I'm Don Lemon. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. We're tracking three huge stories right now. In one hour, the U.N. Security Council is holding an urgent previously unscheduled meeting at Russia's request to discuss rising violence in Ukraine. Ukraine's acting president says he won't stand for another Crimea in his fragile nation. Plus this tragedy strikes on the eve of Passover. Gunfire erupted at two Jewish facilities near Kansas City. Three people are dead, the suspect, bearded man in his 70s. Plus the hunt for Malaysia Flight 370 may be on the verge of a new chapter, search planes are back in the skies near Australia. You'll hear how the search may shift gears very soon. Breaking news right now in the suburbs of Kansas City a man with a gun started shooting at a Jewish community center in Overland Park, Kansas. He killed two people there one of them a teenager. And according to police the man then drove to a Jewish retirement home where he killed one more person, an older woman. The police chief talked to reporters just a short time ago.", "We have the suspect and this gentleman is in his 70s. He is a white male, he has a beard. The suspect in the back of the car made several statements, we are sifting through and vetting those for accuracy, number one; and number two, we're looking at them from their evidentiary value. It's too early to tell you what he may or may not have said. But we're trying to determine what that was at this time.", "CNN's Nick Valencia gathering the details for us on this breaking news. Nick more about the suspect in a second. But tell us about these two places where he opened fire today.", "Yes three and a half hours into this investigation, Don very little information as the police chief alluded to there. But we do know is that the first shooting scene was a Jewish community center there in Overland Park, Kansas, a town of about 173,000 people and we know that the shooting happened outside -- in the parking lot, where you mentioned two victims there, two fatalities outside. We do know that inside, a dance competition was going on. A dance -- a dance competition performances, as well as perhaps a performance of a play \"To Kill the Mockingbird\" so a lot of children, a lot of younger folks inside that community center, a very, very scary situation for them. Now the shooter moved on about a mile away to Village Shalom and that's a retirement center, an assisted living facility and earlier I spoke to somebody there. I called that facility and a woman answered said that everyone inside was ok and that they would be preparing a statement for the media in the coming hours. But that's what we do know about those two facilities. Both affiliated in some way to the Jewish community and as you mentioned you know on the eve of Passover, just very scary situation for those involved there -- Don.", "Can we talk a bit more about the suspect? I mean they said he's a bearded man in his 70s. They don't think he knew the victims or he staked out the places where he opened fire, today right?", "That's right. They know very little about this man. In fact some of the reporters at this press conference asked if they were -- if he was known to police before this incident. They said they had -- they had no idea that he had planned to do this, there was no indication, that this was very surprising to everyone that's investigating. We do know that he's in his 70s. And there is a picture of him released by our local affiliates in Kansas City. And just a few minutes ago I spoke to the PIO, the Press Information Officer of Overland Park and he said he could not corroborate what local officials -- local affiliates are saying was this image of this man but he's in his 70s, he had a beard, he's not from Kansas. But we don't know anything else about the suspect -- Don.", "And Nick let's talk about the timing here, you know.", "Yes.", "The religion of the victims, the start of Passover tomorrow. These reported statements made by the suspect, you know, saying apparently \"Heil Hitler\" or asking people if they were -- if they were Jewish before he shot them. What's the hate crime angle here, if any?", "Well it's a hate crime investigation. And the police made that very clear that they haven't ruled anything out. But that's the line that they're going down. Now very interestingly, a KCTV there the Kansas affiliate of CNN and a reporter Bonyen Lee (ph) said that during the suspect being taken into custody that she heard him say \"Heil Hitler\". Police chief was asked about that at the press conference, he says they're looking into the statements that the suspect made while in police custody but did not go so far as to say he said those comments specifically. We did, I should mention, have a rabbi on earlier last hour that you interviewed who said that the suspect was shouting hate -- hate crime- type statements, that it sounded like a hate crime but we just don't know exactly the extent of why he did this, Don and what the motive was behind these shootings. But a day before Passover a very chilling scene for everyone there in the Jewish community center, you know a very sad situation there in Overland Park.", "Yes and that gentleman just happened to be was -- he is -- he works with the police department, he is a chaplain for the police department.", "That's right.", "Who happen to be a rabbi but also they said yes, they are investigating it as a hate crime. They also said that we are also investigating it just as a criminal act. And we're also investigating it as terrorism. And as you said they said they are not ruling anything out.", "Anything yes.", "At this point all cards are on the table. Nick Valencia thank you we appreciate your reporting.", "You bet.", "You know in less than an hour, the U.N. Security Council will hold emergency meetings -- an emergency meeting on the crisis in Ukraine at Russia's request. The unscheduled meeting comes after a sudden spike in bloodshed in the fragile nation. Pro-Russian demonstrators now occupying government buildings in several cities in the east and crowds are protesting near occupied buildings. Ukraine's leader set a harsh deadline for pro-Russia separatist, \"back down by Monday or else\". Our senior United Nations correspondent I should say is Mr. Richard Roth and he is there at the United Nations. Richard what are your sources telling you about this urgent meeting from the council about to happen?", "Well we now know that the meeting will be a public session and likely speeches by Russia and Ukraine. And if it's like some of the other meetings, there will be responses to the previous remarks made by an ambassador, it could be a very long, interesting, Sunday night. There have been several weeks have passed since we've had a session like this. But as you mentioned, as that ultimatum deadline to act against separatists supporting Russia move near Russia requested a meeting. Now the Russia wanted it private behind closed doors. Other countries, I think likely the U.S., too, wanted it public. So we will definitely have this airing of grievances. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power earlier on Sunday on \"ABC this Week\" said violence and the building takeovers and towns well though the handiwork of Russian authorities is all over it, according to her.", "It has all the tell-tale signs of what we saw in Crimea. It's professional. It's coordinated. There's nothing grassroots seeming about it. I think we've seen that the sanctions can bite and if actions like the kind that we've seen over the last few days continue you're going to see a ramping up of those sanctions.", "Russia says these people want to be with Russia and they are fighting for their own democracy to be connected with Moscow. Russia has hundreds of tanks, planes and other military armaments on the border it insists it's just doing military exercises Don. We've heard warnings for days now from senior U.S. authorities and others concerned and there's concern here at U.N. about what might happen along the border and now we have this ultimatum regarding supporters of Russia, coming up in about five or six hours.", "So Richard, you know I spoke with the Congressman, Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff and he talked about stronger sanctions. But none of that's likely to come out of the emergency, if you want to call that, meeting tonight this unplanned meeting.", "Right. As we've seen with other crises, the U.N. could not agree on something like sanctions. In this case, Russia, a permanent member of the Security Council, has a veto. What you see is individual countries such as the U.S. putting their own sanctions on Russia or the European Union as a group. The U.S. says there is a lot of sanctions still left to go, but will any of them really bite? That is unclear.", "Richard Roth at the U.N. Thank you. I appreciate you. Now to the case of Flight 370: the battery deadline is likely passed. The black box pings, completely silent now. Haven't heard from them in days -- haven't heard them in days. The families are living in limbo of course but no one is ready to throw in the towel. Top Malaysian officials reaffirming today that we must find the black boxes if the mystery of the missing airliner is to be solved. Planes are taking to the sky again as dawn breaks over Perth. And the search shifts from listening to looking. My panel of experts are back with me now: CNN aviation analyst and pilot, Les Abend; CNN's safety analyst and author David Soucie; also Mission 31 Expedition leader and ocean explorer, Fabian Cousteau; CNN aviation analyst and pilot, Miles O'Brien and Alan Diehl a former NTSB and FAA accident investigator the author of \"Air Safety Investigators: Using Science to Save Lives\". Ok Fabian, how do they calculate the search area? And what factors are they taking into account especially now they were learning that they are expanding the area?", "Well they're expanding the area on the surface because of obvious factors such as weather, currents, and the fact that if there is a debris field on the surface, the things that are floating are probably dispersing and therefore, you have to expand that search area.", "All right. Alan Diehl, are we being too hard on Malaysia? What kind of job do you think they're doing in the investigation?", "Well certainly they've made some very bad missteps early on and we don't have to regale everybody with what they've done wrong. They've done two things right that I see. First, they've got the INMARSAT satellite people involved. They are very bright people, they essentially located where the black boxes may be. And they turned the search over to the Australians. So we could be hard on them. I wish they had done what President Mubarak did in 1989 and then that is, ask for an NTSB go team to take over the investigation. He lost a Boeing 767 in the Atlantic and it worked out very well with NTSB doing the investigation.", "It sounds good to many people, but Miles O'Brien, how likely is that to happen?", "Well it's a little late for that I think. But I do agree with that. I think it's important that countries, frankly, recognize where their expertise lies in and does not. And it's clear the Malaysians do not have the depth of expertise to do these kinds of things. I mean really very few nations do. Very few nations have had the depth of experience and the NTSB is preeminent in all of this. And so it would be -- I've all -- I would say that if you're going to buy a Boeing 777 and fly it in your flag airliner, your flag carrier, you should be able to demonstrate you have the capability to conduct one of these investigations or you should sign a way in advance with a memorandum of understanding who you're going to go to in these circumstances so there's no decision when you're in the midst of this horrible tragedy.", "David, you know, failure is not an option here. But if -- if the black boxes are never recovered, I mean can this investigation ever be complete? And I think I'm getting ahead of myself. What's the likelihood now that those pingers are gone? That's the better question.", "Well I think it's -- it's very likely that the batteries have died. But I do feel confident they're going to find those black boxes. That signal that they got was very distinctive, it's not confused with the fishing boat signal or any other signal like we've heard before.", "No but they heard it but you just can't -- it's not just like that where you can go find them.", "No but remember we're talking about just about 560 miles if you went from end to end.", "Right.", "But that's probably not what they'll do. Because they'll recognize those far pings as artifacts that are going through the trans-thermal layer. But -- so if you focus on that two-mile stretch it only gives a couple of options as to where those boxes are. If you draw a circle around one option, you've got two miles intersect, if you've got a circle around the other you've got that. So there's only a couple of places that they need to start the search and look from there out.", "You said something I thought was very interesting earlier today. You said you know just because they're hearing these pingers or what they believe are two different signals from far away, it doesn't mean that because I think it's what -- is it two miles, or three miles.", "Yes.", "But that's the minimum range?", "Correct that's what the FAA does is set the minimum standards. We don't set the maximum standards in the", "But how does that -- does that make it harder because if you're hearing them you're thinking oh they're within two or three miles.", "Right.", "No.", "No it makes it much harder. Now remember this 160 decibels which is about as loud as a gunshot, it's just that it's a gunshot at the frequency of a dog whistle.", "Ok.", "So humans can't hear it. But that's how loud it is under water. So if you think about being in the mountains and you hear a gunshot go up and then try to trace down where that gunshot went, not an easy thing to do.", "Les Abend, where do you think most of the assets should be devoted, to air or sea at this point?", "I think they should continue assets in both directions both on the sea and -- or in the sea and on the air because -- on the water because I think those fragments debris fragments are important to -- to locate just by beginning, you'll agree with me, I think David, the first part of the investigation process and then of course that we know how important the black boxes are.", "Who was it and was it Miles that said I think Miles you said in another show, that they should -- they're not going to hear pingers anymore and they should just -- they should start putting those submersibles in the water now.", "Yes I mean you know this is way on the outside of this investigation, but my gut tells me those batteries are done. You know they're going to -- they're going to probably give it a couple of more days because it is so much more efficient to be listening for pings and if you can find one more spot that would just give you narrow it down, narrow down that box ever more because the submersible vehicle is so much slower, it's six or seven times slower covering any particular piece of ocean compared to the towed pinger locator, so --", "Yes.", "-- so it's probably worth a couple more days.", "Real quickly, I had to get to break though but Alan, do you agree it's time to forget about the pingers and start putting assets in the water?", "I think so. And also, get --very quickly get the British ship Echo which is a submarine rescue and locator, ok basically it can start mapping that bottom before they put the Bluefin in.", "All right thank you everyone. Stick around lots more to talk about. 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{"id": "CNN-119365", "program": "YOUR WORLD TODAY", "date": "2007-8-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/24/ywt.01.html", "summary": "Britain Shooting: Boy's Killers Might Also be Young; Vick Enters Guilty Plea", "utt": ["Welcome back. Joining us from more than 200 countries and territories around the globe including the United States. This is YOUR WORLD TODAY. I'm Isha Sesay.", "I'm Jim Clancy. We want to show you some of the top stories we're following right now. Police in Liverpool, England, say they do not have very many leads in this week's cold-blooded killing of an 11-year-old boy. They say they're disappointed by the public reaction and response. Rhys Jones, a little boy shot to death outside a pub on Wednesday in the parking lot, as he was walking home from football practice. Police say they believe the killer was a young teenager.", "A leading Senate Republican says it's time for the U.S. to begin pulling troops from Iraq. John Warner believes such a move might compel the Iraqi government to take stronger measures to combat the nation's chaos and in fighting. But U.S. commander in Iraq says that's not possible south and east of Baghdad, without losing important security gains. An Iraqi boy burned by masked assailants in the garden of his Baghdad home is going to be receiving treatment in the United States. A U.S. charity paying for five-year-old Youssif's travel and treatment, with the help of donations from private individuals, many of our viewers. An outpouring of support from Youssif came from across the globe after his case was brought to light in a report right here on YOUR WORLD TODAY. That was brought to us by Arwa Damon.", "As Jim was saying, the trip and treatment is being arranged by the Children's Burn Foundation. The California-based charitable organization was set up more than 20 years ago to help meet the needs of severely burned children.", "We're joined now by Barbara Friedman, executive director of the Children's Burn Foundation. Barbara, what can you tell us? When might Youssif be coming here? What will he look forward to? How will it begin?", "Well, we've been in touch with the U.S. embassy -- and that's really the first issue is visas -- as soon as they can get their visas, we are prepared to have them come here, set them up in a housing situation, provide support for them, and begin treatment. We expect that the treatment will be from between six months to a year with many surgeries.", "And, Barbara, give us a sense what those surgeries will involve? Will it be skin graphs? What kinds of things will he be experiencing?", "Well, in terms of the surgeries, there will surely be skin graphs, and there will be daily dressing changes. And he will -- he will be getting the absolute best care that's available with Peter Grossman doing the surgical work, and a fabulous team of nurses at the Sherman Oakes Hospital at the Grossman Burn Center.", "Barbara, we had a chance to talk with Arwa Damon, the reporter that brought us the story, a little bit earlier today. She said, you know what this little boy wants? He wants to smile again. Is he going to be able to do that?", "We hope so. What I can share with you is this is the work we do, helping young burn survivors locally, nationally, and internationally. And we have seen just amazing transformations. It does depend on genetics, the nature of the injury, but we know we're starting off with being able to provide state-of-the-art care.", "And I understand, Barbara, he will be receiving psycho- social care. What exactly does that mean and how important is that component to his treatment?", "That's going to really depend as we talk to the father who is the person who is going to be accompanying Youssif, and really talk with him about what their needs are. And really what we're talking about is counseling.", "You know, Barbara, this is a case that's pulled on a lot of people's heart strings, burns, a terrible, terrible injury, especially to a child. What's been the response you're getting at the center?", "At the Children's Burn Foundation office the response has been overwhelming. Sometime in the middle of the night I got an e- mail from one of our staff who checked, and we received over 3,000 responses on our website. And we have a very tiny staff, there's three of us. And we brought in an extra three people just to answer the phones because of all of the wonderful outpouring of support for Youssif. And that's really --", "I'm sorry. That's really as a result of the incredible job CNN has done in really calling attention to the plight of this boy.", "Childburn.org, by the way, that was the web site we were just seeing, there, Isha.", "Barbara, you have said this, that this is a terrible tragedy, but you believe something good can come out of it.", "Well, really two things. One is really support for Youssif and his family. And the other is really creating public awareness about the many burn survivors locally, nationally, and internationally, who need help. This is really what we do every day, whether it's funding a full course of surgical treatment, to specialized equipment to camps for young burn survivors, locally. The need is very great and we're so grateful that people have been -- have become more aware of the needs of young burn survivors.", "Well, Barbara Friedman, we want to thank you for being with us. We want to thank the Burn Center for everything that all of you people do in Youssif's case but every day.", "Absolutely, many thanks.", "Thank you so much for having me.", "And this reminder to all of you, our viewers, if you would like to help we have a special section on our web site for people who want to make a difference.", "Go to cnn.com/impact. There's a special link for Youssif. It's called Iraq Burn Victim.", "This is a story that you have really reacted to. You know, there are millions and millions of people who have visited and watched the story of Youssif. I mean, it's an incredible response from right around the world, to the case of this little boy and we're seeing it in the numbers of people visiting this.", "Well, Youssif's story is just one of countless tragedies in Iraq. And humanitarian agencies are calling for action to help the kids caught in the crossfire. Jonathan Mann has some \"Insight\".", "Iraq is actually a country of kids, almost half the population is under 18. Millions of young people coming of age in conflict and in chaos. Mercifully few suffer the way Youssif has but in ways psychological and emotional, so many of them are scarred.", "She's nine months old, but has already been through more than most people see in a lifetime.", "They are the most vulnerable victims of the Iraq war and they're facing growing danger not just from everyday violence, but disease.", "We are at a tipping point for children in Iraq.", "The streets of Baghdad are filled with children risking their lives to support their families. These children have witnessed violence, seen friends and family die, and haven't been to school in over a year.", "Violence is the wallpaper of life here. No one escapes, not even the children.", "No one knows how many children have been killed or maimed. Here, though, is a look at how different organizations have been measuring different things. Let's start with the very youngest children, when they're first born. What does a war do to them? Well, figures compiled earlier this year by Save the Children show that in 1990 the mortality rate for under five was 50 kids in 1,000 live births; 50 in 1,000. In 2005 it had more than doubled to 125. What does a war do to kids when they should be at school? Well, between a quarter and half of Iraqi children aren't going to school, either because of the danger or because of dislocation they have fled their homes and neighborhoods. And psychological and learning problems are epidemic. How about at the most basic level? What does the war do to a child when they're hungry or thirsty? Well, two out of three Iraqi children don't have clean drinking water and the aid agency, Caratas (ph), found that 19 percent of Iraqi children were malnourished before the U.S.-led invasion. That figure has now climbed to 28 percent. That's more than one in four. Overall, Iraq is just no place for children.", "Who lives until tomorrow with all these explosions, who can survive until tomorrow.", "There is no school left. They shot it with mortar and destroyed it.", "How can I continue to live this life. How can you call this life? It is all fear and danger.", "They killed my father and uncle in front of my eyes.", "Now, remember, Iraq was at war in Iran and Kuwait, too. This is actually the third time in the past 20 years that children in Iraq find themselves caught in a conflict. Some of the kids today, in fact, are being brought up by adults who were children of war in their time as well.", "And, John, what happens when the kids get out of a war zone? Do things get better?", "You would think, get the kids away from the problem, that's the start of solution. In fact, that's the start of new problems. When you take a child away from his or her home. What do you have? You have a child who is dislocated. You have a child who probably can't go to school in their new home. You have a family that can't collect food rations from the Iraqi government if they've left Iraq. You have all kinds of pressures on people moving into communities where they're not wanted, pressures that children feel. We know that about 1.5 million Iraqi children have been pulled out of their homes, whether to move elsewhere in the country, or to move outside of the country. It's not a solution. It's just better than the kind of tragedy Youssif has been through.", "And a very troubling situation. John Mann, many thanks.", "Well, it was a long shot. That's what they said about Barack Obama.", "They weren't talking about his chances of winning the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination, though. Those are pretty good compared with the chances of him sinking this it three-point shot.", "Well, it wasn't quite a three-point shot. Not bad, though. Actually Senator Obama played varsity basketball in school, so this wasn't the first time he's been on the court by any means. Look at that. He's pretty proud of it.", "He is really proud. Look at him strut. He's still known to champ (ph) staffers in pickup games. So, onlookers at the school he was touring there, in South Carolina, said they shouldn't have been too surprised to be honest.", "Frankly, he looked a little surprised, didn't he? When it went in? Swish. It was a good shot.", "This is", "Hello, I'm Fredricka Whitfield in Atlanta. Star Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, we understand, along with his team of legal counsels have entered a plea agreement there in Virginia, in Richmond, Virginia, on count one of conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce, in aid of unlawful activities, and to sponsor a dog in an animal fighting venture, a plea of guilty. That is the only charge. That is the only plea that we understand right now that's being filed. And according to the agreement, the government agrees to recommend sentencing at the low end of the applicable guideline range. We understand that he could face up to five years in prison along with a substantial fine for this kind of offense. We understand Michael Vick will actually make a court appearance come Monday in Richmond. Our Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin is on the line with us now. And here in Atlanta, Drew Griffin, who has been following the story as well. Drew, let's begin with you. We kind of expected this, but we're talking about one charge.", "Yeah, it's one charge, but it is a big charge. It's the indictment charging the defendant with conspiracy to travel in interstate commerce and aid in the unlawful activities to sponsor a dog. Basically, to take a dog across state lines and to have that dog be available for gambling. The stipulation in all of this, and kind of the nitty-gritty, Fred, is the summary of facts which details that Michael Vick was heavily involved in this operation, was raising dogs, was training dogs, was presenting these dogs for gambling. But on page four of this summary says Michael Vick, or Vick, did not gamble by placing side bets on any of the fights. And Vick did not receive any of the proceeds from the purses that were won by Bad Newz Kennels, the kennel that he operated along with his other defendants on this property.", "This is a pretty healthy plea agreement. We're talking 18 pages we just received, that have been filed, and we're still trying to get through all of the details. Jeffrey Toobin on the line with us from New York. A lot of folks were talking about, and there was a lot of speculation leading into this plea agreement that was expected, that it would mean there would be racketeering, there would be gambling, there would be the actual involvement of killing the dog. That is not here in this agreement. Can you explain why?", "Well, Michael Vick only has to plead guilty to his part in the conspiracy and according to the statement of facts, his role seems to have been as the financier of the operation. He put up the money and much of the individual dealings with dogs, apparently, was by his co-conspirators. It does say later in the statement of fact that it pretty much acknowledges that he was involved in killing dogs. At one point it says he didn't kill dogs at that time, but later on when they were testing dogs, a group of them put these dogs to death and Vick acknowledges he was part of the group. He does not -- the interesting thing is he does not say he gambled. He was much more in the role of putting up the purses for the winners of these dog fights.", "Now his co-conspirators, in their plea agreements, have alleged that they indeed witnessed him, you know, kill dogs, and that he was very much involved more so than this kind of charge is implicating. So if his attorneys are saying this is the charge that we're pleading guilty to now, and we understand that later in September there could still be an assemblage of a Virginia grand jury to consider other charges, we really still are at the tip of the iceberg, aren't we, as it relates to this case, dog fighting related charges and Michael Vick?", "Well, I don't know if we know that for sure. I don't know if this is necessarily the tip of the iceberg. And I don't know if he will be charged in state court, but he's in an extremely vulnerable position because now having signed this statement of fact, acknowledged all these activities, these are crimes under state law. So he's essentially admitted the state crimes. Now most of the time state prosecutors defer to federal prosecutors. They don't charge the identical conduct, if he's already being punished but Billy Martin, Vick's lawyer, will have a very important task to try to persuade the state prosecutors in Virginia that this is enough of a prosecution in federal court. Let's just leave it at that.", "OK. And, Jeffrey, take a pause for a moment. I'm going to ask Drew a question, real quick. This judge has to accept this plea deal, so it's conceivable that the judge says, you know what, I understand the agreement that you and the federal prosecutors have come to, but I'm not going to accept it. Could the judge still say I want to go forward with the trial, or perhaps bypass the recommendation of the low end of this suggested penalty from the federal prosecutors?", "I think these are questions for Jeff. But, Jeff, I think, the judge can certainly do what he wants in terms of sentencing. I'm not quite sure he can say I don't accept this plea agreement, and we're going to trial. Is that correct?", "Well, he can say I don't accept the plea agreement. He can say, look, I have read this agreement and I don't think it constitutes facts that are enough for a guilty plea. You're not admitting enough. Frankly, having read it myself, I don't think the judge will say that. I think this is enough for the judge to accept the plea agreement. And some judges are pretty much rubber stamps o plea agreements. Judge Hudson, as I understand it, is not. But this is a fairly detailed statement of a guilty man, it sounds to me. So, I think he will accept it. As for sentence very clearly the parties agree only to recommend a sentence to the judge. The final determination belongs to the judge, so he can accept or reject the recommendation on the plea. Most judges accept the recommendation but that's all it is. It's just a suggestion. It's not binding on the judge.", "OK. Go ahead.", "Jeff, if I could ask you a question. It seems to me that Billy Martin got two concessions in this which, to me, seems remarkable because, as you said, Michael Vick was in a very bad position, almost a position of a no deal position. But he did get the fact that Michael Vick did not gamble on these dogs, in this summary of facts, which gives him an out with the NFL in his future. And he also avoided admitting that he actually killed a dog, which is what the state prosecutors were very interested in, so he doesn't admit in any kind of federal document that he killed dogs. So it seems like those two bargaining chips were given to Michael Vick.", "Well, I agree with you on the first, more than the second. I think you're right that he did have a potential very big problem about gambling. And he did not acknowledge gambling. Now the prosecutors had access to these witnesses. If the witnesses really said Vick gambled, and they thought they could prove it, the prosecutors didn't have to accept that stipulation. So perhaps this is all the evidence they had to show. In paragraph 32 of the statement of facts, there is this statement that the four defendants, you know, tested a bunch of these dogs to see if they would be good tests, be good dogfighters. And then six to eight of them were no good fighters, so they were killed by various methods including hanging and drowning. And here's the key sentence. Vick agrees and stipulates that these dogs all died as a result of the collective efforts of Peace, Phillips, and Vick. So, Vick is acknowledging that he caused the deaths of several of these dogs. So, I can't say he really gets out of the issue of killing the dogs. It's somewhat ambiguous, but it is a pretty big admission.", "Jeffrey Toobin and Drew Griffin, hold on a minute. We're going to take a short break. 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{"id": "CNN-308928", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2017-03-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/31/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Trump Agrees with Flynn Request for Immunity; White House Press Briefing.", "utt": ["Welcome back. Live pictures coming in from the White House briefing room. Any moment, Press Secretary Sean Spicer will take questions from the news media, likely to weigh in on several breaking developments including the formal National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's request for immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony, and the very latest in the House and Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election. We're going to bring you live coverage of that momentarily. Today, the president said he agreed with Michael Flynn asking for protection. But listen to what both President Trump and Flynn have said in the past about immunity.", "The very last thing that John Podesta just said is no individual is too big to jail. That should include people like Hillary Clinton. I mean, five people around her have had -- have been given immunity, to include her former chief of staff. When you are given immunity, that means you've probably committed a crime.", "Her aides took the Fifth Amendment and her ring leaders were given immunity.", "And if you're not guilty of a crime, why do you need immunity for, right?", "Different version then as opposed to now. Joining us now Gloria Borger, David Gregory, Laura Coates and Eugene Scott. Gloria, what a difference a few months make when it comes to immunity from prosecution.", "Right. I think in Trump's tweet, he called it a witch hunt. I think people on the Intelligence Committees would probably disagree.", "And the FBI.", "And the FBI. That you had James Comey saying there is a counter intelligence -- you know, there is an investigation. This is -- you have the Intelligence Committees making it very clear, particularly in the Senate, that this is an investigation into Russian hacking into an American election. We're going to take this investigation wherever it leads us. So it's not a witch hunt against Flynn. It is a question about what the Russians tried to do with our election and then of course you have to ask the question why did Flynn decide that he needs immunity.", "Yeah. David Gregory?", "It's just so hard to understand what the president is thinking and what he's doing. He seems to think this is all and joke and it's supposed to be dismissed, and yet, he's fired two people, including his national security advisor, because of this very investigation, because of the manipulation of -- and the hacking of our election. So he's listening. He's paying attention. The FBI is investigating. And yet, they have no control over there at the White House. The chief of staff doesn't. The White House counsel doesn't. The national security adviser doesn't. When you have people who are handing over collected intelligence to the head of the intelligence community in a highly inappropriate way, it just shows you that they're not taking any of this investigation seriously. And yet, now, they've got somebody in a very high position who has a story to tell and who would like immunity. May not get it. What is the story he's got to tell? Maybe he doesn't like how he was treated in the White House. Maybe he wants to tell more about his connection to Russian television or to the Israeli ambassador -- excuse me, to the Russian ambassador. Communications at a time when there were big sanctions put in place as a result of manipulating the election by the previous administration.", "David, let's not forget what James Comey, the FBI director, said a little bit more than a week ago. He said, \"As with any counterintelligence investigation, this will also include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed.\" This is a criminal investigation that's been going on since July.", "A criminal investigation that's been going on. A very serious matter that's bigger than this president or this election. It's about the integrity of our elections and about the U.S. presidency. What also appears to be at work here is that the White House appears to be investigating its own intelligence agencies with regard to why certain information has been leaked, why it has been made public. We know the president's upset about that. Has reason to be upset about it. But is that part of what's at work here? Are they investigating the FBI and the information that's being collected?", "It's interesting, and tell me your analysis. Flynn now wants immunity, but the other names that have come up, we haven't heard their lawyers say they're demanding immunity. How do you explain that?", "He is the only one really that has kind of an actual criminal allegation that may be pending. That Logan Act, remember everyone was talking about a couple month ago. A private citizen was trying to usurp the role of a president or executive. That's never been used before, that law, so it's really kind of the tissue. But remember the biggest thing about immunity is you have to have something that's actually worthwhile to the government. And it has to be truthful. Right now, I don't know that he has information. Is it personal vindication, is it professional vindication, or is it literally a story that leads to understanding an actual criminal act? That's going to be the key here. Remember the person who can give immunity is the attorney general and the Department of Justice. He's recused himself from the Russian investigation. Without a deputy attorney general firmly in place, who may or may not oversee this actual investigation, this has monumental implications about how long it will even take.", "You heard Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Eugene, say, you know what, you only give immunity if that person can provide testimony or evidence to go to someone higher up. And in this particular case, he's the -- he was the national security adviser to the president. There's not that many higher ups. There's the president of the United States.", "There aren't that many higher ups, but there's certainly interest from some people on the committee in knowing if there was a role the president and the vice president may have played in this situation regarding Russia and the election. We don't have that information. There's been nothing out that says that they have. But certainly, there will be people wanting to know if Flynn can provide some insight into that.", "First of all, they're not at the place in the investigations where they even know whether they would be in a position to want to give him immunity. Because they're at the nascent stages of this.", "You're talking about the House and Senate?", "About the House and Senate, yeah.", "What about the FBI? We don't know how far along they are.", "We don't know where they are. We know about the Intelligence committees in the Congress. The other thing to consider here, and the president for this, is really Oliver North and the Iran-Contra committee because, if you'll recall, he was given immunity by Congress. But there was also an independent counsel looking at the same thing because Congress decided it was more important to get to the truth than a conviction. Well, that's not how the independent counsel felt. So Ollie North testified before the Congress, but in the end, Walsh had a conviction but it was overturned. And so --", "That's what a lot of officials remember now.", "Here's Sean Spicer.", "Good afternoon. First off, I want to catch everyone up who wasn't able to make the briefing last night on the executive orders -- on the trade executive orders the president's going to be signing this afternoon. The first order directs the Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to examine every form of trade abuse and nonreciprocal practice that are currently contributing to United States' large and persistent trade deficit, which was the largest of any major nation in 2016 at $500 billion. Within 90 days, the Department of Commerce and the U.S. trade representative will submit a comprehensive report to the president on the causes of our unduly large trade deficit. It's the first time in modern history that an American president has called for such an investigation and it's -- our findings will allow us to make a -- make smarter decisions on behalf of the American people about our trade policy of our country going forward. That's why the AFL-CIO, the United Steelworkers International, the International Association of Machinists and the Aerospace Workers International all came out today to applaud the order. The second executive order addresses the current lack of enforcement of one of our strongest tools in fighting unfair trade practices, countervailing duties. Countervailing duties were put in place to address the problem of other countries dumping undervalued goods into American markets, making it impossible for American businesses to compete with artificially low prices. This is especially a problem in countries whose governments subsidize exports into our country. So to discourage this practice, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency has a mechanism for assessing these type of transactions and imposing financial penalties known as countervailing duties when it's determined that this kind of malicious dumping has occurred. Since 2001, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency has not collected over $2.8 billion in these duties. You think about it, we could do a lot by maximizing this enforcement power for our country. So we need to do a better job on behalf of the American worker. If a foreign company, often due to its being partly or entirely government-run or subsidized, is able to flood American markets with an artificially cheap steel, for example, they price American companies out of the system. Say you're the owner of a steel company in Ohio. You can't compete with some of these below-market prices, so you have to find other ways to meet your bottom line, like closing a factory or laying off workers, or might entirely have to close down entirely. By not properly using this enforcement mechanism, we're costing Americans who work in so many industries, not just steel, but in agriculture, chemical, machinery and other manufactured good in particular. President Trump was elected to do everything he can to support American workers and American manufacturers. Together, these two executive orders are a significant step in accomplishing the president's promise to end unfair trade practices once and for all. Also yesterday, we were pleased to see that Senators Manchin of West Virginia and Heitkamp announced their support for Judge Neil Gorsuch and Senator Claire McCaskill conceded at a private event that among the list of potential nominees that the president released during a (sic) campaign, Judge Gorsuch was according to her, quote -- quote, \"one of the better ones.\" We hope that her praise leads to additional support and her support. It's hard to find any reason except for obstructionism to see why fellow Democrats in her caucus have not been able to join them. As I said yesterday, Judge Gorsuch is highly regarded, having received a rating of well-qualified from the American Bar Association, and has demonstrated an unparalleled and unprecedented level of transparency, including the release of over 75,000 pages of documents, fielding nearly 300 questions from Senate Democrats on the committee and 70 pages of written answers about his personal records, and has demonstrated a mainstream judicial record, with nearly all of his decisions being joined by Democrat-appointed judges. Without a clear justification, Senate Democrats have fudged the facts on recent history, tried to mislead American people about their unprecedented obstructionism, essentially claiming an non-existence 60-vote standard. And as I've said before, should Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer get his way, this would be the first successful filibuster of a nominee to join the Supreme Court. This would make history in a very bad way.", "They've also forgotten their own words. I've cited previously this week the rhetoric of Senator Schumer, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, the regrets of invoking the filibuster by senator -- President Obama, then-Senator Obama, and the words that many other Senate Democrats like Senator McCaskill on why blocking a vote for a judge having gone through the process has no precedent and is irresponsible. Let me cite one more argument that many Democrats have recently made. Current members of the Senate seem to also reject the notion of a Supreme Court operating with eight, not nine, justices. These include Senator Schumer, Dick Durbin, Bernie Sanders, Diane Feinstein, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Richard Blumenthal, Amy Klobuchar, Ben Cardin and Martin Heinrich. Each of these Senate Democrats and the rest of their fellow caucus members need not listen to me or the president, but their own words as recently as last year. The president told the American people in his weekly address that was launched earlier today why it is. And again, we call on Senate Democrats to end this unnecessary obstruction and confirm an eminently qualified jurist for the bench. Also last night, the Department of Justice filed an appeal in the Ninth Circuit to Hawaii's federal judge preliminary injunction against the president's lawful and necessary executive order dealing with protecting this country. Moving on to some of the events of today, this morning the president met with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. They had an opportunity to talk about regional threats, current foreign affairs hotspots, our attempt to defeat ISIS, and many more areas. It's -- it was a great meeting, where they discussed many of the challenges face -- facing our country. And the president sought the former secretary of state and national security adviser's advice and opinions on a variety of subjects. He also signed House Joint Resolution 42, allowing states to drug-test unemployment insurance claims; and H.R. 1362, naming a V.A. outpatient clinic in Pago Pago, American Samoa. Also this morning, the president joined Jay Timmons, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, and some its member CEOs -- unveiled the association's annual manufacturers outlook survey. An incredible 93 percent of manufacturers surveyed by the National Association of Manufacturers now have a positive outlook for the future. That's a 20-year record high that's more than 35 points higher than that same rating was last year. To quote from the survey itself, quote, \"the rising confidence stems from the belief that the new administration in Washington, D.C., will bring much-needed regulatory relief as well as reforms to the tax code and a significant infrastructure package.\" The optimism is evident across the spectrum of indicators. The Dow Jones industrial average is up over 12 percent since Election Day. The National Association of Homebuilders Confidence Index is at its highest level in 12 years. The Gallup Small Business Index shows that small-business owners are the most optimistic they've been since 2007. It's not surprising that American industry is reacting in this way. The president has taken immediate steps to make it easier to do business in this country, and we just are at the beginning of this process. On top of these significant steps taken in the executive orders this morning, he's also withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, cleared the way for Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines, began a much-needed government-wide reform of our regulatory and permitting processes, and signed legislation preventing the burdensome streamline -- Stream Protection Rule from causing further harm to America's coal industry. The president was glad to see this report add to the list of measurements reflecting the incredible optimism and positivity that his pro-growth policies have created. Back to this afternoon, the president will meet with the director of the National Institutes of Health before signing the aforementioned executive orders on trade at 3:30. And he will meet with Director of the Office of Management and Budget -- excuse me -- Mick Mulvaney. In Cabinet news today, the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, is in Brussels attending the NATO foreign ministers meeting. There, he reaffirmed the Trump administration's steadfast commitment to NATO. Secretary Tillerson also stressed the need for all member countries to meet their defense spending commitments, as well as the need for NATO to take a larger role in the fight against terrorism and ISIS. The president looks forward to meeting with his NATO counterparts in Brussels this May, to reafform -- reaffirm the United States' commitment to NATO and to discuss ways to strengthen the alliance in order to cope with challenges in national and international security. This morning, the Office of the United States Trade Representative released the 2017 national trade estimate. The annual report, which is required by law, surveys the significant barriers faced by American exporters. Its findings reinforce the need for the president's America-first trade agenda, which prioritizes the enforcement of the trade laws to protect American workers and job creators. The president looks forward to having Ambassador Lighthizer in place as the USTR, so that he can begin his important work in earnest and fulfill the mission of this report.", "And Transportation Secretary Chao, who yesterday celebrated the 50th birthday of the Department of Transportation, today directed the Federal Highway Administration officials to award $10 million in emergency relief funds to help begin repairs on Atlanta's collapsed I- 85 overpass. Releasing these funds will quickly help to ensure that the bridge is repaired safely and in a timely manner. The White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs has already talked with Georgia governors -- the Georgia governor's team and Secretary Chao has spoken with the governor. Looking forward, as promised today, we're releasing the USOGE Form 378 financial reports as filed by commissioned officers here in the White House. Right after I'm done here, we're going to have a background briefing with senior White House compliance and ethics officers to work -- walk you through how that process is going to go and the public release of that information which will occur later this evening. We'll be sure to update you if there's anything further to add. This weekend, the president will be here in the White House holding meetings. We'll be sure to update you if there's anything further to add. And on Sunday, the White House will honor World Autism Awareness Day by lighting the White House in blue to join with autism awareness communities. Further research into the causes and treatments for autism spectrum disorders is one of the president's priorities. As we light it blue on Sunday, the White House will be celebrating all of the individuals whose -- and families whose lives are impacted by autism. I would note that it's a really interesting story how this came to be. The head of Autism Speaks, an organization that has done tremendous work with this, Bob Wright, is one of the co-founders, is a longtime friend of the president's. His wife, Suzanne, was struggling with Parkinson's -- excuse me, pancreatic cancer last year, and the president made a pledge to her. He said \"If I'm elected president, in support of this cause that you care so deeply about, I will light the White House blue.\" So it is in Suzanne and Bob Wright's honor that this -- this will occur for this great cause. And -- and I hope Bob knows that Suzanne is looking down proudly to see that that pledge has been fulfilled. With that, be glad to take your questions. John Roberts?", "Sean, couple of questions, if I could, about Chairman Nunes' visit to the White House. Fox News has been told by intelligence officials that Chairman Nunes is aware of who did the unmasking of certain individuals in the transition and may be aware of who ordered the unmasking of those individuals. Is the White House aware of that information?", "I -- I don't know what he knows, in -- in the sense that that's -- that's -- and again, I've tried to make it a comment (sic) not to -- to get into the specifics of that report. I will not -- I think it's -- it's not in our interest to talk about the process. What occurred between Chairman Nunes in coming here was both routine and proper. Chairman Nunes and Ranking Member Schiff, who I understand is expected here later today, both possess the appropriate credentials and clearances. We've invited Democrats here and I've been told that material they will see will shed light on the investigation. I know a lot of folks want to talk about the process and not the surveillance and the underlying issue. The substance, the unmasking and the leaks, is what we should all be concerned about. It affects all Americans, our liberties, our freedom, our civil liberties. So let's -- let's talk about some of the substance. And I know that's not -- but on March 2, day before the president's tweet, comments by a senior administration official foreign policy expert, Dr. Evelyn Farkas, together with previous reports that have been out, raised serious concerns on whether or not there was an organized and widespread effort by the Obama administration to use and leak highly sensitive intelligence information for political purposes. She admitted this on television by saying, \"I was urging my former colleagues, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill. I was telling people on the Hill, 'Get as much information as you can. Get as much intelligence as you can.' I had a fear that they were essentially watching the Trump staff and he was worried about the Trump administration.\" That's what's out there. And I know NBC News has just reported something very similar about information that was used by the Obama White House to spread this information and -- this politically sensitive information. Dr. Farkas' admissions alone are devastating. On March 4th, the president, as you all know, raised serious questions about surveillance practices by the Obama administration, including whether or not the president-elect or the transition team members were being improperly monitored for political purposes under the Obama administration. Later in March, in the ordinary course of their work, NSC -- National Security Council staff discovered information that may support the questions raised by the president and Dr. Farkas' claim. These are serious issues. They raise serious concerns. And if true, the issues would be devastating. We're committed to working with the House and Senate committees, as we've said multiple times, to get to the bottom of what happened here, why it happened, and who was involved. For this reason, we're in the process of ensuring that the reports that the NSC staff discovered in the normal course of business are made available to those committees investigating, to ensure that all of the facts come to light. And if everyone was treating the president and the administration fairly, you'd ask a series of much different questions about the substance and the materials.", "As we've said before, I mean, when you talk about Russia in particular, everyone who's been briefed on this subject, from Republican to Democrat to CIA -- former Obama administration's Clapper, Brennan, you name it, all of the people come back with the same conclusion. And I think that is important that there's been no evidence of the president's campaign and Russian officials. In fact, as you've heard me state before, it was Hillary Clinton, who was the architect of the last administration's failed reset policy -- she told Russian state TV that it was designed to strengthen Russia. That was their goal: to strengthen Russia. She used her office to make concession after concession, selling off one-fifth of our country's uranium, paid speeches, paid deals, getting personal calls from Vladimir Putin. I think if there's -- really want to talk about a Russian connection and the substance, that's where we should be looking. That, not there.", "I wasn't expecting to tap quite such a deep well with that question.", "It's Friday.", "Intelligence officials also tell us that Chairman Nunes knew about the documents that he viewed at the White House back in January, but ended up looking at them at the NSC SCIF only because he could not get access to those same documents through some of the other intelligence agencies. Basically it was a last resort to come here to the White House to view them. Do you know if that is the case?", "I don't. But I do think that it tracks everything that's been -- you know, there -- I saw a couple tweets the other day that I mentioned where people were saying that the NSA was trying to get documents, and -- I mean, from a narrative of what's been out there -- and again we have been -- tried to very careful about this and tried to be consistent about how we want this handled. But everything that he has said -- I mean, when he came out initially and talked to the media, he made it very clear that he had been looking into this, he had stated this much earlier than the president ever had raised this issue about surveillance and the unmasking of individuals for -- for areas that had nothing to do Russia and nothing to do with substantive policy -- intelligence or surveillance. So I think that as we continue to down this path (sic), if you begin to focus really on the substance, I think we see more and more a very, very troubling and devastating path.", "And just one more thing...", "Yeah.", "... to clear up on process, if I could. We're also being told by intelligence officials that the two individuals who were identified yesterday, Ezra Cohen-Watnick and Michael Ellis, were not the source for the information for the Intelligence chairman. They -- they did play an ancillary role, in terms of finding some extra evidence here at the White House and helping to sign him in so that he could view the intelligence.", "Yeah.", "Do you know if that...", "I -- again, John, I'm not -- if I start commenting on every one of these stories, that's -- I can't -- that's not our practice. I mean, again, part of it is that if we confirm some things and not others, we're going to go down a very slippery slope. I can say that -- that we continue to say that this is -- I think the substance of this matter and what continues to come to light in terms of Obama officials admitting, either off the record or, frankly, on the record, consistent with what Dr. Farkas says, that there was clearly an attempt to do something politically motivated with the intelligence out there. And the question is why? Who else did it? Was it ordered? By whom? But I think more and more the substance that continues to come out on the record by individuals continues to point to exactly what the president was talking about that day, on March 5th. Jonathan?", "Sean, we heard from the president this morning saying that Mike Flynn should ask for immunity. We also -- the president has long-standing views on what immunity means. I mean, back in September he said, \"If you are guilty of a crime (sic), what do you need immunity for?\" So does the president think that Mike Flynn is guilty of a crime?", "I think Mike -- he believes that -- that Mike Flynn should go testify. He thinks that he should go up there and do what he has to do to get the story out.", "With or without immunity?", "Well, I mean, that's up to him and his lawyer to decide. I'm not going to give Mike -- Mike Flynn or anyone else legal advice from the podium. But I will tell you that the president's view is, he should go up there, he should testify.", "But the president gave legal advice from his Twitter account. He said...", "I -- I know...", "(Inaudible)", "But the interesting (ph) -- right. And I -- I understand...", "He has said in the past that the only reason you ask for immunity is if you committed a crime.", "Right, but I think that the underlying point that you're missing, Jonathan, respectfully, is that what he's asking is, \"Go testify. Go get it out there. Do what you have to do to get there, and tell Congress and tell everyone exactly what we've been saying for a long time.\" So, I mean, again -- again, I get your point. But I -- I think that the interesting (sic) is if you actually stop for a second and realize what the president's doing, it's that he's saying, \"Do whatever you have to do to go up, to make it clear what happened, take whatever precaution you want or however your legal counsel advises you.\" But again, the -- the -- you know, I -- I've heard in some legal circles that the president could've exerted legal authority with him and Sally Yates and others. It's quite the opposite. And again, I think that that, compared to the narrative that you hear from a lot of folks in this room all the time, is a little bit opposite. Here you have a president who is telling Mike Flynn and others to go up there, make sure --"], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "GEN. 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{"id": "CNN-54586", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-5-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/22/ltm.12.html", "summary": "Threatened New York Closes Brooklyn Bridge", "utt": ["Up front this morning, New York on alert following new terror warnings. They indicate the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge could be targets. And that famous span was closed this morning for a brief period of time. And it also happens to be Fleet Week. More than a dozen naval vessels and some 6,000 sailors are expected to begin arriving in the harbor in an hour or two. CNN's Deborah Feyerick is standing by at the Brooklyn Bridge with the very latest -- good morning, Deborah.", "Good morning, Paula. Well, traffic is moving over the Brooklyn Bridge. It was closed for about an hour this morning. Police investigating a suspicious package -- turns out that that package was nothing. There is a checkpoint at the entrance. Police are searching some cars. It's slow going, but certainly it's a lot better than it was when the cars were waved away. Now, security is definitely tighter because of the FBI information naming the Brooklyn Bridge as a possible target. The FBI says the information is unsubstantiated. There's no time, there's no date, there's no indication as to how such an attack may take place. This threat is not a done deal by any stretch. However, the FBI got information from an al Qaeda detainee; they're checking it out trying to confirm it with their sources. The FBI decided to pass on the joint terrorism task force because they do have the name of a possible target. So it's better that the NYPD is able to take the necessary precautions. One terror expert says this is America's new reality.", "We're in the game. We were in the game before 9/11 and a lot of people didn't realize we were in a game. And this game they're playing for keeps.", "... the Statue of Liberty. The island is open, but the statute itself is closed as it has been since September 11. It is Fleet Week, and so there is a lot of security in New York's harbor. Of course nobody wants a repeat of what happened with the USS Cole. Now, officially, there's no FBI alert or warning. There's no NYPD alert. The city is definitely not in crisis mode. What officials are saying is that we are really keeping our eyes open; we want you to keep your eyes open as well. And, Paula the bridge is over here. The World Trade Center", "All right. Deborah, thanks for that live update. One of your colleagues, Michael Okwu, is standing by at Battery Park City near the place where the ferries for the Statue of Liberty depart in the Hudson River. Good morning, Michael. What's going on there?.", "Good morning, Paula. It is a beautiful morning here today, and we are told that the forecast is going to be 68 to 70 degrees today, sunny skies. But it's supposed to be a very festive occasion here today. Some 20 ships are making their way or going to make their way up the Hudson River at about 10:30 this morning. It is the largest deployment from the Atlantic fleet to the New York Harbor in the 15-year history of Fleet Week. And we are told it's all going to happen amidst a great deal of security. The U.S. Coast Guard says they are at their most heightened state of alert since World War II. Just a sense of some of the measures they're putting in place this morning. There is a 200-yard restricted zone around any U.S. naval vessel that is anchored or that is moored. But they have had measures in place since 9/11. Just for example, they say that no vessel will be allowed within 150 yards of the United Nations or Ellis Island or Liberty Island, which, of course, is where the Statue of Liberty is located. And they also say that no vessel may operate within 25 yards of any bridge, pier, abutment, tunnel ventilator or waterfront facilities. All of this will be monitored by personnel aboard a blimp who will be essentially relaying images from high-impact, high- resolution cameras to two security stations down on the ground. But of course the main story here will be, of course, a glorious display of battleships, U.S. battleships that will make their way across the Hudson -- Paula.", "Looking forward to the show. Thanks so much, Michael Okwu. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MIKE BROOKS, SECURITY ANALYST", "FEYERICK", "ZAHN", "MICHAEL OKWU, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-91275", "program": "CNN WOLF BLITZER REPORTS", "date": "2005-1-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/11/wbr.01.html", "summary": "Bush Picks New Homeland Security Secretary-Designate", "utt": ["Welcome back. Our top story, the weather, the wicked weather that's been unfolding out west in particular. Take a look at this. We're just getting these pictures in from southern Utah, a house simply collapsing, look at this, as these floods continue, not only in California but this is in Santa Clara, Utah. House simply destroyed as these flood waters get going. It's happening out west California, and now Utah. We're all over this story. We will continue to update our viewers and bring you the latest, bring you more as it becomes available. One family's house simply destroyed -- look at these pictures -- by this flood. In our CNN security watch, his first high-pick profile selection didn't necessarily work out when the former New York City police commissioner, Bernard Kerik, was forced to back out. Now, the president has nominated U.S. appeals court judge Michael Chertoff as his homeland security secretary. Let's go live to New York. CNN's Allan Chernoff is standing by with details.", "Wolf, Michael Chertoff is a heavy hitter in legal circles. He has extensive experience as a prosecutor, but also has a good background in fighting terrorism.", "In the days after September 11, Mike helped to trace the terrorist attacks to the al Qaeda network. He understood immediately that the strategy on the war on terror is to prevent attacks before they occur.", "Chertoff had prosecutors working closely with the FBI, increasing authority for agents to conduct surveillance and using warrants to round up suspects.", "He clearly was at the forefront of trying to figure out how to gather intelligence and try to bring that to bear in preventing attacks on American soil even before there was a Department of Homeland Security.", "As a prosecutor Chertoff's reputation is aggressive. In the '80s, he led the team that put Genovese mob boss Anthony \"Fat Tony\" Sarleno behind bars as well as other mafia leaders. He successfully prosecuted electronics tycoon Crazy Eddie Antar on racketeering and securities fraud and he oversaw the task force that prosecuted Enron's accountant Arthur Anderson which put the firm out of business.", "He is going to know everything there is to know about terrorism, he is going to know everything there is that's being done to prevent terrorism and he is the perfect kind of person to come up with new creative ideas and come up with better ways, faster ways, smoother ways, more effective ways to combat terrorism.", "Chertoff has been a Bush supporter. He helped raise funds for the president during his first run for the White House. The Clintons remember him as a foe. Chertoff was special counsel to the Senate committee investigating Whitewater when he grilled White House aides about Bill and Hillary Clinton's involvement in the Arkansas land deal.", "Rusty Harden, the opponent that Chertoff faced in the Anderson case says that if Chertoff is as tough on terrorists as he was on the Anderson case, he will be highly successful in the new position -- Wolf.", "Allan Chernoff, thanks so much for that report. Pomp and ceremony, next week's presidential inauguration here in Washington will be very public, but will it be very vulnerable? It's the first since the 9/11 attacks. And the outgoing Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge announced today some extraordinary protective measures. CNN's Sumi Das reports.", "Next week's inauguration will signal four more years for the Bush administration, but beyond the pageantry will be an unprecedented security operation marrying multiple agencies and brand new technology. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge met law enforcement officials and toured mobile command centers before providing some details of security preparations. The United States' Secret Service will run the operational security plan, leading government agencies at every level, from federal air marshals to the Washington metropolitan police.", "Protective measures will be seen. There will be quite a few that are not seen. Our goal is that any attempt on the part of anyone or any group to disrupt the inaugural will be repelled by multiple layers of security.", "Activities will be monitored from land, sea and air. U.S. parked police helicopters will use forward looking infrared cameras providing a bird's eye view of events in real time.", "It gives us the capability of having a downlink to our command centers. That's one of the great features of us being airborne that day.", "Combat air patrols will make sure planes abide by a no fly zone that will triple in size covering a 3,000 square mile area around the capital. While Ridge has said the current level of terror chatter is down and there is no specific threat toward the inaugural, the event has received the highest security designation. Officials will be on alert.", "We have looked at the full range of threats, we have looked at aircraft flying into this area, we've looked at snipers, mortars, rockets. You name it we have looked at it. We have prepared contingencies not only to respond, but to deter and prevent those types of things from happening.", "9/11 and the war in Iraq have heightened the security concerns for the upcoming inaugural events. This year's inauguration will have the most expensive and the most extensive security ever. Sumi Das, CNN, Washington.", "And having driven around Washington earlier today especially around this area I can personally testify I have never seen security preparations under way as they are right now for the January 20 inauguration. Stay with CNN all day on that day, of course, for complete coverage of the president's inauguration. Also, please stay with CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security. Intimidation and assassinations, Iraqi police forces facing new dangers as enemy fighters work to disrupt the upcoming election there. Caught in the cross fire, seven children killed, all from the same extended family. The incident now under investigation. We'll have details. Later this hour...", "Don't talk back to me, all right?", "Pitching a fit. The Yankees newest star pitcher, Randy Johnson, clashes in front of the cameras."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BUSH", "CHERNOFF", "CARRY FISHMAN, FMR. 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{"id": "CNN-103942", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2006-3-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/16/lt.01.html", "summary": "Who Is Carla Martin?; Price Of War", "utt": ["But who exactly is Carla Martin? What's her background? Our Senior National Correspondent John Roberts investigates.", "So why did you do it, ma'am?", "She is ultimately described as articulate and smart, opinionated and overbearing. So who is Carla Martin? And why did she violate a judge's order to not give witnesses prior testimony? The attorney general was baffled.", "You'll have to ask Carla Martin what motivated her.", "Here's what we know. Martin joined the Transportation Security Administrations legal department in April of 2002 following 14 years at the FAA. It was a second career. She'd been a flight attendant for World Airways before getting her law degree in 1989 from American University. The bulk of her work was litigation, representing the FAA in several lawsuits, including the Pan Am 103 case. James Kreindler, an attorney for the Pan Am plaintiffs, remembers Martin as \"easy to deal with - not a bad person or a monster.\" Others paint a less flattering picture. A.P. Pishevar went up against Martin in a security discrimination case.", "Aggressive. Perhaps overzealous.", "Was he surprised about her conduct in the Moussaoui case?", "I would have to say that I was not surprised because of my background with her.", "A former colleague, who requested anonymity, recalls Martin had \"good attorney skills,\" but \"her short coming was that she was very opinionated -- very passionate -- with a strong personality.\" People weren't sad to see her leave.\" And Claudio Manno, one of the FAA witnesses now barred from testifying told the court, Martin \"had a tendency to go off on tangents that really were not that relevant and taking up a lot of time.\" According to her mother, Martin is \"totally distraught\" over what happened, \"as if it were the end of the world.\" Gene Martin Lay (ph) says her daughter \"would never disobey the court's order,\" though Carla Martin could not explain to her how she misjudged Brinkema's explicit rules on witnesses. Some people who know Martin speculate it might have been her lack of experience in criminal law that was to blame for all of this. It appears that Martin may try to convince Judge Brinkema that she meant no harm, she simply didn't know about the order. But lawyers I talk to said, rules about coaching witnesses are basic law school 101. John Roberts, CNN, Washington.", "And just to bring you up-to-date on where we are with the Moussaoui case. Government attorneys are asking the judge to reverse her ruling that the witnesses and the related evidence be banned from the trial. Meanwhile, that trial is due to resume on Monday. It is three years after the Iraq invasion and three months after elections there. Iraq's new parliament was finally sworn in this morning. The long awaited session (ph) lasted only about 30 minutes. That's because Iraq's Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds are bitterly divided over who will lead a national unity government. Acting Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's candidacy for a second term is at the center of that log jam. Many of the political parties criticize his handling of the government over the last year. The body count just keeps rising in Baghdad. Office say 31 more bodies were found throughout the city yesterday and all had been shot and stripped of their identification. That brings the total number of people found dead this week to more than 166. The innocent are too often the victims in the war in Iraq. Take a U.S.-led mission targeting a suspected insurgent. Iraq police say four women and five children were killed in yesterday's action. CNN's Arwa Damon has that story. A warning for you, before we go to the tape, you might find some of these images disturbing.", "These are the hardest images to see. Children caught in the middle of the daily complexities of war in Iraq. It started out as a straight forward mission, to rout out foreign fighters. But military success came at a terrible human price. U.S. forces acting on intelligence raided a farmhouse north of Balad (ph) looking for a suspected insurgent linked to al Qaeda in Iraq. After coming under fire, they captured their intend target. But in a battlefield with no clear front lines, it's the unintended consequences that are the most devastating. Innocents paid the price this day, crushed under the rubble of the full force of this military operation. Iraqi police say four women and five children, one a 6-month-old baby, were killed. Families forever changed in an instant. Troops left haunted by the images of their mission on a day for them that began as any other. The cost of war, not always paid by combatants. In Iraq, as so often is the case, civilians pay the ultimate price of this war. The casualties in Balad will now be added to an ever growing list of civilians killed here. The events in a remote farmhouse northeast of the capital are a vivid reminder of the realities faced by all. And as anarchy and confusion continue, the line between combatant and civilian becomes even more unclear. Arwa Damon, CNN, Baghdad.", "We should let you know that U.S. military officials had a different casualty count from police. One insurgent, two women and one child killed in that incident. A woman and her boyfriend charged in a deadly hit and run accident are giving conflicting accounts of how that happened. It goes to southern California where a witness give as first-hand account of the aftermath.", "I heard the sound of screeching tires and an impact sound. I turned and I saw a car up on the sidewalk and literally plowing through bodies flying in the air. The car was -- kind of spun around and came to a stop facing the opposite direction that it was traveling. And there were literally bodies laying all around.", "A teacher was killed and eight students were injured when the car plowed into them on a sidewalk in Culver City in southern California. It happened yesterday. The woman who was driving the car told police her boyfriend grabbed the steering wheel during an argument. He denies that. Both are in custody, charged with vehicular manslaughter and hit and run involving a fatality. Police are also trying to figure out whether a homeless man who opened fire at a Denny's restaurant was mentally ill. They say Lawrence Woods entered the restaurant in Pismo Beach, California, during lunchtime with, police say, guns blazing. Police say he killed two people and wounded a couple before turning the gun on himself. Among the dead, a 65-year-old man who was gunned down in front of his wife and great grand daughter. Denny's says the shooting appears to be a random act of violence. New alarm this morning over inhalant abuse among young people. A survey released last hour shows nearly 2 million middle and high schoolers took up sniffing over the past three years. Researched by a government health agency also shows about a third of these new users are 12 and 13-year-olds. Teens use common household products like shoe polish, paint, lighter fluid to get high. How do you know if your teen is sniffing? Well, a few indicators for you to look for. If your kid has a chemical odor, he or she may have unexplained paint stains on their body or clothes, speech could be slurred and you might notice frequent nausea. Finally, are household products mysteriously disappearing? We're going to focus on inhalant abuse in depth nest hour. My guest will include a parent whose child died from sniffing. There's a new push in Congress today to restrict Internet porn. Just last hours, a pair of senators called for a .xxx domain for all porn sites. Porn peddlers would have to abandon their .com designation and move into what amounts to an Internet red light district.", "Children are exposed to pornography on the Internet. In fact, there's a study done by the Kaiser Foundation that says 90 percent of kids age eight to 16 have viewed pornography online. And most of that, the study says, is due to them doing their homework online.", "The world body that assigns Internet domain would have to sign on to that .xxx plan if the bill passes. One free speech group opposes .xxx. It says the move would amount to what it calls the ghettoization (ph) of a constitutionally protected product. Well, it is spring break 2006 New Orleans style. Instead of getting hammered, college kids are swinging hammers as they help the crescent city clean up. We'll have that story, talk to a couple of students who chose this for spring break just ahead."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "JOHN ROBERTS, CNN CORRESPONDENT, (voice over)", "ALBERTO GONZALES, ATTORNEY GENERAL", "ROBERTS", "A.P. PISHEVAR, ATTORNEY", "ROBERTS", "PISHEVAR", "ROBERTS", "KAGAN", "ARWA DAMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT, (voice over)", "KAGAN", "TENNYSON COLLINS, WITNESS", "KAGAN", "SEN. MARK PRYOR, (D) ARKANSAS", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-45480", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2001-12-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/13/se.04.html", "summary": "World Series Champions Visit White House", "utt": ["We're expecting President Bush to turn his attention away from Afghanistan for just a few moments. In about a minute, he is to appear in the East Room of the White House to meet with the World Series champions, the Arizona Diamondbacks. Here is what his press secretary, Ari Fleischer, had to say when he was surprised -- here is the president now in the East Room of the White House -- World Series champion Arizona Diamondbacks.", "We were looking for a little entertainment for tonight's Christmas Party.", "We're here.", "Yes, exactly.", "President Bush at the White House congratulating once again the World Series winning Arizona Diamondbacks. The president himself, of course, was ran -- was part owner of a baseball team in Texas, the Texas Rangers. So he has a special interest in baseball. But beyond that, he said the United States got exactly what it needed at the time of the World Series, something to focus on other than the war on terrorism. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BUSH", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-265053", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2015-09-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/21/es.04.html", "summary": "Trump, Carson Enter \"Muslim President\" Fray", "utt": ["Would I be comfortable? I don't know if we have to address it right now but I think it is certainly something that could happen.", "You said you had no problem putting a Muslim in your cabinet.", "I mean, some people have said it already happened, frankly. But of course you wouldn't agree with that.", "Now both Trump and Carson find themselves in dramatically reordered battle to become president. Carly Fiorina has vaulted into the second place in a new CNN-ORC poll, riding the wave from her CNN debate performance. She received rock star treatment at a Republican conference in Michigan and says she has every intention of milking the new attention and focus on her campaign.", "More people know who I am and we know, based on what's happened before this debate, that as people come to know me and they understand who I am and what I've done, and most importantly what I will do, they tend to support me. And so the truth is we're going to stay out here working hard every single day so that people who may be were introduced to me for the first time at that debate now get to know a little bit more about me.", "All right. For the very latest, let's turn to CNN's Sunlen Serfaty on Mackinac Island.", "Good morning, John and Christine. Well, this new poll shows just how much the debate has really shaken up the race. And that's especially highlighted when you look at the state of the field just one month ago. These new poll numbers show that Donald Trump, he is still in the lead but he's on a downward slope. He is sliding 8 percentage points since early September. And if you compare that to Carly Fiorina, she has leaped up 12 percentage points. That's a huge gain in really only about three weeks. This also shows a really stunning collapse in support for Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker. He's really seen a huge drop fast. Now basically registering at an asterisk, that's less than one half of a percentage point. Now meanwhile Donald Trump, as he's seen his support slide, he continues to get questions on the campaign trail about this controversy which happened last week in New Hampshire. That exchange he had with a supporter not only failing to correct that supporter who claimed that President Obama is a Muslim, that President Obama is not an American, but for not disputing the claim that this supporter made that Muslims are a problem in the U.S. On \"STATE OF THE UNION,\" Jake Tapper asked Donald Trump if he has a responsibility to correct the record, here's how he responded.", "But we could be politically correct if you want but certainly -- are you trying to say we don't have a problem? Because I think everybody would agree. I have friends that are Muslims. They're great people. Amazing people. And most Muslims like most everything, I mean these are fabulous people. But we certainly do have a problem. I mean you have a problem throughout the world.", "What's the problem?", "Well, you have radicals that are doing things. I mean it wasn't people from Sweden that blew up the World Trade Center, Jake.", "I get that. But to say we have a problem and it's called Muslims because there are some extremist Muslims is tarring all Muslims. You would agree that the vast --", "No, I don't agree with that at all. But you have extremist Muslims that are in a class by themselves. I mean they are -- it is a problem in this country and it's a problem throughout the world.", "And Trump was also confronted over the weekend by a student at an event who asked him if he would consider including a Muslim in his cabinet or potentially even putting a Muslim on his ticket. Donald Trump said that he would and that he does not have a problem with that. John, and Christine.", "All right, Sunlen, thank you so much. So this morning it is clear that Donald Trump is feeling the heat from Carly Fiorina at least on Twitter. Overnight he wrote, \"There is no way that Carly Fiorina can become the Republican nominee or win against the Dems. Boxer,\" he means Barbara Boxer, \"killed her for Senate in California.\" And he writes, \"Carly Fiorina did such a horrible job at Lucent and HP, virtually destroying both companies, that she never got another CEO offer.\" He also notes, \"I am attracting the biggest crowds by far and the best poll numbers also by far. Much of the media is totally dishonest. So sad.\" And on \"STATE OF THE UNION\" with Jake Tapper Donald Trump accused the debate moderator, Jake Tapper, of going easy on Carly Fiorina. Listen.", "I think Carly had a good night, but I think you gave her a lot of very easy questions. You know, you read off a couple of questions, which all you had to do is say I agree with that. So I think that, you know, she had some pretty easy questions. You gave her some beautiful softballs. I think --", "You heard Jake laughing there in the background. Carly Fiorina will get a national platform this evening. She will be a guest with Jimmy Fallon on \"The Tonight Show.\"", "All right. Happening this morning, a Muslim American group plans to call on Ben Carson to drop out of the presidential race after Carson said the U.S. should not elect a Muslim president. Carson, asked whether a president's faith should matter to voters, responded, quote, \"I guess it depends on what that faith is.\" And he added if it is consistent with the Constitution, no problem.", "So do you believe that Islam is consistent with the Constitution?", "No, I don't -- I do not. I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that.", "And you -- would you ever consider voting for a Muslim for Congress?", "Congress is a -- is a different story but it depends on who that Muslim is and what their policies are.", "A spokesman for the Carson campaign says the candidate did not mean a Muslim should be prevented from running for president. Only that Carson, quote, \"just doesn't believe the American people are ready for that.\"", "Republicans this morning attacking President Obama's nomination of a gay man to be secretary of the army. Mike Huckabee is slamming Eric Fanning's nomination in a statement. He said the president is, quote, \"more interested in appeasing America's homosexuals than honoring America's heroes.\" These are Mike Huckabee's words. Ted Cruz called early White House talking points not encouraging but he says he will wait until Fanning's confirmation hearings to weigh the nomination on its merits.", "All right. Developing this morning, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden appears to be on board with a possible run for the White House. A spokesperson for Jill Biden is not disputing an NBC News report that she is, quote, not an obstacle to the bid for the Democratic nomination for her husband that he is now considering. There had been speculation she was reluctant to mount another bid. And meanwhile, nearly 50 top Democratic fundraisers and activists have signed a letter urging Joe Biden to jump into the race, saying he is sure to win if he does. Even so, Hillary Clinton tells CBS that she is not doing anything to prepare for a Biden run.", "No, we are not because this -- you know this is such a personal decision and the vice president has to, you know, sort this out. He's been so open in talking about how difficult this time is for him and his family and he's obviously considering what he wants to do, including whether he wants to run. And I just have the greatest respect and affection for him. And I think everybody just ought to give him the space to decide what's best for him and his family.", "We have some new poll numbers in the Democratic race coming out at 6:00 a.m. this morning and they may surprise a lot of you. So you want to tune in for that. The United States is increasing the number of refugees it will admit and resettle in the upcoming fiscal year and beyond. 85,000 refugees from all over the world will be accepted during the fiscal year 2016. That is an increase of 15,000 and covers the White House's commitment to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees to help Europe deal with its migrant crisis. In 2017, the total number will be increased to 100,000. Secretary of State John Kerry made the announcement during a visit to Germany.", "Syria's Assad regime welcoming Russia's growing military role in the country's bloody civil war. But Secretary of State John Kerry is warning it could lure more extremists to the conflict and complicate peace efforts. Syria's Foreign minister disagrees, insisting Russia's increased flow of arms to the region could be a game changer in the war against", "The president of Iran says he believes a lack of trust between his country and the United States will not end any time soon. But as Hassan Rouhani insists the first steps had been taken toward easing that distrust because of the landmark nuclear agreement. The Iranian leader tells CBS News what matters now is the direction the two nations are taking.", "We wanted this incorrect accusation that Iran is after nuclear weapons corrected and resolved. And that the goal of Iran is peaceful activity. In this deal, we have accepted limitations for a period of time in order to create more trust with the world.", "Rouhani says he is confident that Iran's parliament and Supreme National Security Council will approve the nuclear agreement.", "All right. Time for an EARLY START on your money this morning. U.S. stock futures lower after a pretty rough end to last week. The Dow dropped 290 points Friday. A lot of uncertainty about the Federal Reserve's plans for an interest rate hike. You know, the Fed left interest rates unchanged on Thursday and now the focus is on the Fed's obvious concern about global growth. One stock plunging today, Volkswagen. The car company's CEO apologizing to customers for broken trust. This after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the company cheated on emissions tests for almost 500,000 cars on U.S. roads. By programming some diesel cars to turn on emission controls only when tested. Volkswagen CEO stopped short of admitting guilt but apologized and promised to cooperate fully with the investigation. The company has stopped selling the cars at the center of that issue.", "An emotional end to television's biggest night. Tracy Morgan who is still recovering from a devastating highway accident last year. He appeared on stage to a standing ovation. He thanked everyone for their prayers and their positive thoughts and then he showed the world that he has not lost his comic touch.", "It's been a long road back. I suffered a traumatic brain injury that put me in a coma for eight days. When I finally regained consciousness, I was just ecstatic to learn that I wasn't the one who messed up.", "Morgan handed out the top prize of the night. Best Drama Series went to HBO's \"Game of Thrones.\" Winter is in fact coming. Another HBO show \"Veep\" won the Emmy for Best Comedy series. Its star, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, won her fourth straight Best Actress Emmy. She looks like she owns it up there, right?", "She said she was so like happy to have such a cool job. She loves her job and then to get this on top of it.", "That's how I feel when I win my Emmys every year.", "And you see Mel Brooks up there. He's a funny guy, too. Jon Hamm finally won Best Actor for his role as Don Draper.", "Crawling up to grab his success there.", "He said there must be some mistake because he's been nominated a whole bunch of other times before and this is the only time he won.", "He definitely deserves it. He deserved it.", "Congratulations, Don Draper. Viola Davis not only won, she made history becoming the first African- American woman to win Best Actress in a drama series for \"How to Get Away With Murder.\"", "She's terrific in that series. She's terrific. All right. 41 minutes past the hour. American hostages held for months inside Yemen. Now free this morning. The story behind their release next."], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CHUCK TODD, MSNBC ANCHOR", "TRUMP", "ROMANS", "CARLY FIORINA (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ROMANS", "SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "TRUMP", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR, \"STATE OF THE UNION\"", "TRUMP", "TAPPER", "TRUMP", "SERFATY", "BERMAN", "TRUMP", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "TODD", "BEN CARSON (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "TODD", "CARSON", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "ISIS. 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{"id": "CNN-361922", "program": "CNN RIGHT NOW", "date": "2019-02-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/13/crn.02.html", "summary": "GOP Lawmaker Responds to Racially Insensitive Office Display", "utt": ["A Republican Congressman is offering up an explanation, but no apparent apology for having racially insensitive material displayed in public in his congressional office. Georgia Congressman Drew Ferguson had several historic articles on display, including a lock of George Washington's hair. He had a few military medals and a book on Confederate General Robert E. Lee. And this was under glass. And it was open to a page that said this: \"The blacks are immeasurably better off here than Africa, morally, societally and physically. The painful discipline they're undergoing is necessary for their instruction as a race.\" Lauren Fox is on Capitol Hill. How did this even come to light? And what is this congressman saying about this?", "Brianna, was there a group of workers from the American Federation of Government Employees who had planned to meet with the congressman on Monday, when one of them, Octavius Miller, actually got up and he noticed in a glass case that book with the page open to the excerpt that you just read at the top of this. And what he said was he was shocked by what he saw. And later, they were not able to meet with the congressman because of a schedule conflict. But they did call the office back to say, we saw what you had in the office and we were horrified by it, and we want an apology and we want to make sure that the book is removed. The chief of staff called Octavius Miller back the next day and said that the book had been removed and apologized profusely. But AFGE wants a more public apology from the congressman. We spoke with the congressman earlier today, my colleague, Ellie Kaufman, and I, and here's what he said about the book in the office.", "I did not realize that the book was in the office. I had a decorated office when we moved in. It's not something they ever remember seeing there. I certainly am as offended by the remarks in the book as anybody would be. That's why it's been removed from the office.", "Have you read that book?", "I've read parts of the book, and parts of that, that I found completely against my ideology and my belief system.", "AFGE wants a more public apology, Brianna. So that's just something to keep watching for. The congressman said I think we've apologized and I think we're probably good, but AFGE saying we want something more public.", "So he's read the book, Lauren. But he's making the point that he's trying to distance himself from the book, but he admits he read it.", "That's right. I tried to press him on exactly, did you read it before it was displayed in your office and did you read it after you found out it was displayed in your office, and his staffer told him it was time to go to a vote and didn't have time to answer more of our questions. And he said that he thinks that the office has apologized to Mr. Miller and he thinks they've satisfied the situation.", "We will see if they have satisfied the situation. Lauren Fox, on the Hill for us, thank you so much. First, the president called for her resignation and now Vice President Pence is weighing in on the congresswoman who apologized for an anti- Semitic tweet that she put out. I will ask one of her colleagues to respond. Plus, if Mexico is not paying for the wall, how about El Chapo? Hear the idea that is gaining steam now that the drug lord has been convicted."], "speaker": ["BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN HOST", "LAUREN FOX, CNN REPORTER", "REP. DREW FERGUSON, (R), GEORGIA", "FOX", "FERGUSON", "FOX", "KEILAR", "FOX", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-321590", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2017-09-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/19/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Hurricane Hunter Talks to CNN As He Flies Through Cat 5 Storm.", "utt": ["OutFront next, the breaking news, a massive earthquake in Mexico City, at least 116 dead at this moment. This as a dangerous category 5 hurricane heads straight for Puerto Rico. We're on top of both of these breaking stories this hour. And Paul Manafort fighting back after our exclusive report that he was wire tapped. Trump's former campaign chairman now calling on the Department of Justice to release all of the intercepts. And \"rocket man\", Trump's nickname for Kim Jong-un giving Elton John a whole new following. Let's go OutFront. Good evening, I'm Erin Burnett. OutFront tonight, two major breaking stories at this hour. A powerful earthquake with a rising death toll, and that death toll has been rising very quickly over the past hour. This is the scene in Mexico City, a magnitude 7.1 quake struck there. Tall office buildings shaking, large pieces of debris, sheets of glass all, as you can see, crashing to the ground. The president of Mexico saying dozens of structures in Mexico City have been completely destroyed, collapsed, as you see on your screen. And the number of dead, as I said, tragically has been rising and very quickly. It was only 42 within the past hour or so, now, 116 known to be dead. An untold number are injured as they're searching in those collapsed buildings right now and hoping to save lives. Across the country, millions are without power. And this disaster coming as a monster category 5 hurricane is tearing across the Atlantic, about to make landfall again. Maria at this moment on a collision course with the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Officials warning residents to evacuate or die. Maria is expected to make landfall in hours, packing sustained winds of 165 miles an hour. The National Weather Service predicts catastrophic damage for more than 3 million Americans on those islands. The storm right now with a life threatening combination of extremely high winds, storm surge, heavy rainfall, and massive flooding. Up to two feet of rain expected. That's a combination of Harvey and Irma in one. A lot to get to tonight. We want to begin with Paulina Gomez- Wulschner, OutFront tonight in Mexico City. Paulina, look, this happened on the anniversary of the massive earthquake in Mexico City. Stunning and jarring, and obviously massive damage and a death toll tonight.", "Good night, Erin. It was horrible. Just to feel the earth shaking once again, to feel that horrible earthquake hit Mexico in September 7th, once more, we got hit by this massive earthquake. The damage is over the city,", "And of course, they are searching for more survivors right now. Paulina, thank you. I want to go straight to Ricardo Ramos who joins me on the phone. Ricardo, you're also in Mexico City, you were actually in a restaurant as this earthquake struck. You took a video of exactly what you saw. What did this feel like?", "Hi, good afternoon. It was definitely a crazy experience. I was here for the earthquake that happened two weeks ago. But this one was much stronger due to the proximity right here. Basic instinct was just grabbing everything and heading out to the streets, making sure we were away from trees and electricity cables. And I believe it lasted over a minute. So it was definitely the scariest minute of my life, I will say that.", "I mean, it's stunning when we look at these pictures. You know, what we are seeing, giant pieces of glass fall from buildings and the way that those lights were shaking at the restaurant you were in, that wasn't a sway. That was a very dramatic shake that we're seeing. I mean, how did that feel like? What went through your mind as all of a sudden, it started?", "Absolutely. Well, it's funny because they had a drill this morning. There's a drill they have been doing ever since the earthquake of the '80s. So at first, I thought it was a drill then I'm like wait a second, there was actual shaking. So, you don't really feel fear in the moment, just that instinct of grabbing things and making sure you find safety and everyone else is safe.", "And after, as you ran out, as you say on instinct, you got out of that room where those lights are shaking. You now obviously, we understand, dozens of buildings have collapsed. The death toll right now, Ricardo, is 116. It has gone up very rapidly in the past hour. People could be trapped in some of these buildings. What kind of destruction have you seen as you have -- as you walked back from the restaurant, even?", "Yes, I mean, starting with the restaurant, the lights and the power went out right away. A lot of parts in the street, cracked buildings, glass on the floor from broken windows. I personally did not see any of the demolished buildings but it's definitely a lot to see. I had to walk all the way back from", "All right, well, Ricardo, thank you very much. I mean, just amazing to look at these pictures.", "Yes, Erin, and a lot of people evacuated to San Juan from the islands. We have new information now, it's kind of hard to fathom here because we thought Irma was this massive monster which it was, and now we got a storm that's getting stronger as the hours progress. We have a pinhole eye. It's not the larger storms that are always the most destructive. Sometimes the smaller an eye, more compact storm, the more ferocious they can be. Irma had an eye about 23 miles in diameter, this is 11 1/2. And look at the winds, two hours ago, they were 160, the last hour, 165. That would still make it the strongest hurricane ever to make landfall in Puerto Rico, and now we have just upped it to 175. This is amazing. You'll notice how compact they are. We call this an annular hurricane. Take a look, cannonball. This is going to create a world of problems. It's 70 miles now from Saint Croix, don't think they're going to take a landfall, but anything is possible. Hoping to get a secondary band on this radar. That would tell us as undergoing an eye wall replacement cycle. Why do we want that, because it can lose some strength when it goes through that process. That's the only thing that could be helpful to Saint Croix, U.S. British Virgin Islands which are getting -- pounded right now by the waves of rainfall, and for Puerto Rico. We're going to look at this little closer here because the track takes it right over Puerto Rico around 8:00 or 9:00 in the morning, shoots it up towards the Turks and Caicos, they're now under hurricane watch, Southeast Bahamas and then slide it up the coast, keeping it away from the shoreline. But we get in closer and you look at the path difference between Irma. Irma stays off the coast of Puerto Rico by 50, 55 miles and they still had a million people lose power. In fact, they've been in a recession since 2006. Unemployment is like 10.1 percent. Their massive labor force has been leaving, heading to the U.S. They need power and they're going to need more of it. This is a population density map. Notice the bright red, so that's where you have the higher population numbers. And this is San Juan, Erin, this is in the wrong place to be as the storm will really create a high force of wind there, knocking power out could be to the entire country.", "I mean, Tom, it's stunning. And you talk about a storm that is, as you say, sort of a cannonball, so compact with that eye. And now the winds have gone from 165 to 175. Can it get stronger and stronger? I mean, the thing about this storm that has been so shocking is how quickly it has accelerated. I mean,", "Yes, we saw this with Irma. I mean, in 15-hour time period, this jumped from a 1 to a 5. I mean, that's just outrageous. Since 1851 to last year, 2016, the number of category 5s that made landfall in the Lesser Antilles was zero. We've had two this month and we got a monster now bearing down on Saint Croix and Puerto Rico. We're next. We'll be watching it in the days ahead, but this is going to be a rough overnight period but a real rough day tomorrow because it won't be until tomorrow, late in the day, tomorrow evening that the system may finally take those tropical force winds, Erin away from Puerto Rico.", "All right, thank you very much, Tom. And as we're tracking this, I want to go to Nick Paton Walsh because he is in Puerto Rico where that eye, that pinhole eye, Nick that you're hearing about is expected to slam into the island just hours from now. And, Nick, what are you feeling right at this moment.", "Well, as you can see obviously the rain has begun here in the last hour or so. It really picked up as the sky has darkened. We're still 12 hours away from pretty much right behind me on the coast here, the east coast, Palmar Del Mar is where I am in Puerto Rico where we're supposed to see first landfall, potentially 165 miles per hour, the storm, as you were hearing. And potentially will leave all of its energy on Puerto Rico at this point. It's supposed to go right across the land, through San Juan, the capital and then begin potentially to slow as it leaves the island itself. But you mentioned Hurricane Irma there, a billion dollars of damage, 46,000 people still now without power two weeks after that hit. That caused a glancing blow. This is going to go straight through the island itself. And we've seen water being rationed", "And it's amazing when you're talking about 25 possible inches of rain, storm surge of 11 feet. A storm that is possibly going to end up being stronger as it strikes than of course Irma. So you're looking at Harvey and Irma in a sense combined. I mean, this is a monster of a storm. The warning where you are, Nick, evacuate or die. Are people heeding that?", "Yes, as far as we can tell. I have seen some locals here who are clearly not running for their lives. It's hard to get a broader sense. We heard from the government earlier on today that they were seeing less in numbers in the shelters than they had perhaps expected. Maybe people have moved further inland. It's the flood risk areas that are most we're concerned about. Hurricane Irma took three lives. One in a traffic accident, one through electrocution, and one, somebody being moved to shelter. So, you know, people are more worried to think about what the water does with as it moves in huge", "And where do you go during the actual -- as it strikes? I presume you'll move from where you are, or no?", "Well, when we stop talking, yes, I'll probably move from here. But we got to move into probably the second floor in the buildings nearby. Trying to get a gauge between being able to see how the storm moves and keep ourselves further away from it. But I have to say, in the last hour or so, that we've seen the rains pick up and we are still a solid 12 hours away from the ferocity of the storm actually hitting. This is just the beginning.", "All right, please stay safe. Nick, thank you. And next, breaking news. Paul Manafort making demands tonight about his intercepted phone calls after CNN reported he was wire tapped. Plus, President Trump calling Kim Jong-un \"rocket man\". How the nickname actually made it into Trump's teleprompter. His prepared speech to the world at the U.N. And a hurricane hunter who is actually flying into Maria at this hour going to join us from that flight live and tell us what the storm looks like."], "speaker": ["ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR", "PAULINA GOMEZ-WULSCHNER, CNN PRODUCER (via telephone)", "BURNETT", "RICARDO RAMOS, WITNESSED EARTHQAUKE (via telephone)", "BURNETT", "RAMOS (via telephone)", "BURNETT", "RAMOS (via telephone)", "BURNETT", "TOM SATER, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "BURNETT", "SATER", "BURNETT", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BURNETT", "PATON WALSH", "BURNETT", "PATON WALSH", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "NPR-24446", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2015-05-21", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/05/21/408549634/slavs-albanians-unite-over-effort-to-oust-macedonian-prime-minister", "title": "Macedonians, Ethnic Albanians Unite Over Effort to Oust Prime Minister", "summary": "Macedonia escaped largely unscathed from the ethnic violence that defined the breakup of Yugoslavia. But the country's Slavs and Albanians live largely separate and unequal lives, until now.", "utt": ["When Yugoslavia broke up more than 20 years ago, much of it descended into bloody ethnic violence. The Republic of Macedonia emerged from that chaos relatively unscathed, but the Macedonian and Albanian communities there have lived separate and largely unequal lives. Now a campaign to oust the nationalist prime minister is uniting them. Joanna Kakissis sent this report from the Macedonian capital.", "(Speaking Macedonian).", "Airun, Jusuf and Liatik are three grandfathers who have tea together every morning amid the Ottoman architecture of Skopje's old town. They're ethnic Albanians, and they say they like their fellow compatriots, the Macedonian Slavs. The two people have been here for centuries, they say.", "(Speaking Macedonian).", "The grandfathers explain that the Macedonians who are Christian and the Albanians who are Muslim have always lived in peace. But many Albanians have often felt like second-class citizens, deprived of good schools and jobs. This marginalization led to an armed uprising in 2001 which many feared would lead to an ethnic war like the one in neighboring Kosovo. But Jusuf Kaioli, a retired interior designer, explains that Albanians never wanted to secede from Macedonia.", "(Through interpreter) Macedonians were manipulated to think that this was only a fight for a greater ethnic Albania. But it was a fight to be heard - a fight for the rights of the Albanian minority in Macedonia.", "In the years since 2001, Albanians have increased their influence in Macedonian politics. Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski governs in coalition with an Albanian party. And Macedonian university professor Zhidas Daskalovski insists Gruevski supports the Albanian minority.", "I think this government has also helped integrate many ethnic Albanians which were out of the system, meaning that they now work in the public administration, and they're part of the civil service. Now there are less tension than there were in the early '90s, let's say.", "But Gruevski has also united Macedonians and Albanians against him. He's been implicated in a massive wiretapping scandal. Thousands have marched to demand his resignation.", "(Speaking Macedonian).", "Muhammad Zakiri, who runs an Albanian TV channel that's critical of Gruevski, explains that both Macedonians and Albanians want a transparent and effective government.", "(Speaking Macedonian).", "And they won't let violence divide them, he says. As an example, Zakiri says the two communities came together to denounce a deadly shootout by suspected Albanian militants earlier this month.", "In TV footage, gunshots could be heard for hours after the bloody attack in the northeastern city of Kumanovo. But Macedonian and Albanian neighbors huddled together in courtyards and explained to journalists that they were watching out for each other.", "Zoran Zaev, the Macedonian opposition leader trying to oust Gruevski, says Macedonia, a democracy established just 24 years ago, will not see the kind of ethnic violence that seems to haunt the Balkans.", "Not here, not in our country, not in this moment. I hope never in future, but it's possible to have some kind of violence because of separation of our society.", "That separation is about ideology, not ethnicity, Zaev says. European diplomats are trying to smooth relations between the opposition and government, worried that any division in this small corner of the Balkans can quickly spread to the whole region. For NPR News, I'm Joanna Kakissis in Skopje, Macedonia."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "JUSUF KAIOLI", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "ZHIDAS DASKALOVSKI", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "MUHAMMAD ZAKIRI", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "MUHAMMAD ZAKIRI", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "ZORAN ZAEV", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-214648", "program": "YOUR MONEY", "date": "2013-9-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/15/cnnitm.01.html", "summary": "Costs of Higher Education Assessed", "utt": ["The next loan crisis is coming to a college campus near you. You've probably heard the student loan horror stories. It's only a small portion of borrowers, really, but it does happen -- $60,000, 70,000, 80,000, even $100,000 in student debt. Then graduation, and for some a low-paying job. We've talked a lot about the problem of the low-wage recovery on this show, but for students with high loan balances and low wages, there is a solution no one is talking about. The income-based repayment program gives borrowers a break, and that break is about to get bigger. Here's how it works. Those with government-backed student loans can apply, then the government considers their income and their family size, then does some calculations and reduces monthly payments, depending on the amount of the loan for those who qualify. But borrowers must reapply each year. The reduced payments won't be more than 15 percent of discretionary income. But thanks to a bill passed along with ObamaCare, that amount will drop to 10 percent starting next summer. Imagine that, 10 percent of your discretionary income goes to student loans. That's it, 10 percent, cap there. So if you've got a kid in high school or middle school, check this out and show it to them. It's not a long-term solution to rising college costs and ballooning student debt. Higher education is still the gateway to the middle class, but that gateway is getting narrower every day. I spent some time recently with a mother struggling to help her son step through that gateway.", "I started saving when he was 2. And he's 19, and it's never enough. Anywhere you can cut corners and save money.", "Patricia Rodriguez needs $13,000.", "Where do you get an extra $1,200 a month?", "Don't you worry about borrowing all that money?", "Yes.", "Her son, Jason, is a sophomore at the University of Hartford, but Patricia's savings are gone. How are you going to get it?", "I don't know.", "Nothing in American life has risen in price so quickly as the cost of college, up more than 500 percent since 1985.", "I think the universities are the biggest scam going in America. The costs -- there's no reason a college education should cost $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 a year.", "Why is it so expensive? Some say the easy money available to students has created a tuition bubble. Others say it's simple economics.", "You have to go to college to get ahead. At the same time, it's not as if new colleges are opening up all over. We basically have a fixed amount of supply, and when demand is going up and supply isn't, prices rise.", "And so does debt. Grants and scholarships only cover about 30 percent of college costs. So students have to find or borrow the rest. Two-thirds of college grads have loan debt now averaging more than $26,000. Others have much more.", "Right now I'm almost $60,000 in debt, which will affect my ability to get a mortgage, to have children and put them through a good education. And it will affect what kinds of jobs that I choose.", "And jobs are what it's all about. Americans with a college education are more likely to be employed and they earn more money. But in this economy, there are no guarantees. More than 36 percent of recent grads are working in jobs that do not require a college degree.", "Have a good day. Thanks.", "That's why the country's most famous student loan recipient wants to hold colleges accountable.", "What we want to do is rate them on who's offering the best value so students and taxpayers get a bigger bang for their buck.", "He likes to come home and seeing his friends, but he does also have a great time in college.", "But finding the bucks in the first place, that's the real struggle for parents like Patricia.", "All you want is your kid to go to school and do well, and that's what he's doing, and we don't have the money.", "Few Americans will if college costs keep rising.", "She's doing everything she can, and it's just running right out of her reach, just running away from her, the cost of college. It may be the beginning of the next crisis, but college is still worth it. You saw the numbers there -- lower unemployment rates and much higher wages. Salaries for the class of 2013 rose 2.4 percent from last year. That's according to a new report out this week from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. And the extra help from the government will hopefully make it easier for grads who need it. That's it for this week's YOUR MONEY, as you get ready to watch Eli and Peyton face off in the Manning Bowl. Want you to head to our blog at CNN.com/yourmoney. I'm going to tell you all about the business of being a big-time NFL quarterback. We're going to see you here next week. Have a great weekend."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "PATRICIA RODRIGUEZ, STRUGGLING TO PAY FOR SON'S COLLEGE EDUCATION", "ROMANS (voice-over)", "RODRIGUEZ", "ROMANS", "RODRIGUEZ", "ROMANS (voice-over)", "RODRIGUEZ", "ROMANS (voice-over)", "STEPHEN MOORE, \"THE WALL STREET JOURNAL\"", "ROMANS (voice-over)", "RICK NEWMAN, COLUMNIST, YAHOO! FINANCE", "ROMANS (voice-over)", "RACHEL BOHR, COLUMBIA STUDENT", "ROMANS (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ROMANS (voice-over)", "OBAMA", "RODRIGUEZ", "ROMANS (voice-over)", "RODRIGUEZ", "ROMANS (voice-over)", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-164457", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-4-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1104/07/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Air Force Inspects Its Boeing 737s; New 7.1 Quake Rattles Japan", "utt": ["I'm Don Lemon. If it is interesting and it's happening right now, you are about to see it rapid fire. Let's go. All right. Japan's Miyagi Prefecture, look at that, rattled by a powerful new earthquake today. The 7.1 quake briefly triggered tsunami warnings, but experts say the danger is now over. The epicenter of the quake was near Sendai, one of the areas hardest-hit by last month's quake, and just as a precaution, workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant evacuated. There are no immediate reports of damage. The picture you are seeing right here, there he is. That is James Foley, an American journalist captured in Libya. He and three other journalists, including one other American, have been detained by Gadhafi's forces. The journalists were taken Tuesday night when their van was involved in an indirect fire strike. Forces took the four prisoners and released the driver, their location at this time unknown. The mom of a Miami Heat basketball star is in trouble with police. Gloria James, mother of LeBron James, was arrested today at a Miami Beach hotel. Police say she allegedly smacked the valet for taking too long to bring her car. She is also accused of being publicly intoxicated. James was not jailed after her arrest. Police say she was released on her own recognizance. She is expected to appear in court to face charges when she is summoned. She may not technically be MIA anymore, but that Egyptian cobra who escaped from the Bronx Zoo is now officially MIA -- as in Mia, her new name. Very clever writing, huh? Thousands submitted nominations to the Bronx Zoo on its Web site. More than 60,000 voted on the final five names. Other contenders, Agnes and Cleopatra. Fans can see Mia for the first time Saturday when the zoo reopens that reptile house. Reactions after this woman seen here on the right allegedly hits a minor -- 26-year-old Jerdene Eduardo (ph) is behind bars now following a fight at a school. Police say the woman was rooting her daughter on in a fight with a classmate. But when her daughter started losing, mom allegedly jumped in and hit the other girl twice on the back of the head. A judge has ordered her not to have any contact with her own daughter. Now we want to go to New York. Bizarre new developments in the emergency landing of a small plane on a beach in Queens. Now we are learning that the pilot, his name is Jason Maloney, may have landed his plane there on purpose. I want you to listen now to the exchange between Maloney and the air traffic controller just minutes before landing on the shore.", "Whoa -- what if I want to hide from you?", "Roger.", "Just let us know if we're up in your grill, you know?", "Roger.", "Hey, tower, I got a question for you.", "Go ahead.", "This might be crazy, but are we allowed to land on the beach?", "Uh, I don't think so unless it was an emergency.", "You know, tower, my engine might me running a teensy, teensy bit rough, little teensy bit rough.", "2 November Delta, do you require any assistance?", "No, you know what? We should be fine, but I'm going to make a precautionary landing.", "Roger. That is how I will refer to our director now, Roger -- Roger. Maloney bragged he got the idea from an Alaskan reality TV show. But get this, an emergency worker says Maloney was experiencing seizures Wednesday and taken to a hospital. The FAA still is investigating that landing. Up next, a former Congressman is in Libya pressing for a meeting with Moammar Gadhafi.", "So, what does he plan to say and why does he think Gadhafi will actually meet with him? That is coming up. Also, French commandos to the rescue. The dramatic video come out of the embattled Ivory Coast. Find out why this top diplomat was frightened for his life. Details of this and more video coming up."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "PILOT", "PILOT", "PILOT", "PILOT", "PILOT", "JFK AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER", "PILOT", "JFK AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER", "PILOT", "JFK AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER", "PILOT", "LEMON", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "NPR-35068", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2008-05-20", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90620483", "title": "Fear of Aftershock Keeps Chinese Outdoors", "summary": "Warnings of a major aftershock sent residents around Chengdu in southwest China outside overnight. Eight days after a powerful earthquake killed thousands, many people slept outside, piling into a soccer stadium, or in cars parked along highways.", "utt": ["Now, aid workers speak of a second disaster for people in Myanmar. And people in China are trying to avoid a second disaster. Officials warned of a possible major aftershock to last week's earthquake.", "NPR's Melissa Block is in Chengdu and saw what happened after that warning.", "People heard this, they grabbed pillows, they grabbed tents, they grabbed straw mats and they all headed outdoors to sleep right next door to our hotel at a soccer stadium. They're sleeping on the parking lot, on grass strips where they can find them, playing cards, drinking beer - everybody seeming to have no problem falling asleep in the middle of this sort of chaotic scene. A lot of people got in their cars, parked along the highway. Just nobody wanted to be in their house with this fear of aftershocks. And that fear is continuing now, you know, eight days after the earthquake.", "That's NPR's Melissa Block in southwestern China, where that earthquake eight days ago killed many thousands of people."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MELISSA BLOCK", "STEVE INSKEEP, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-217960", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-11-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/02/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Feds Investigate Teen's Mysterious Death", "utt": ["Welcome back. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. We're staying on top of two big stories this is morning. New information, surfacing about suspected LAX shooter, Paul Ciancia. Sources tell CNN that Ciancia had anti-government and anti-TSA notes on him at the time of the shooting. The FBI says three TSA officers were shot during the rampage. One of the officers was killed, and right now -- On the other side of the coast, hundreds of thousands of people showing that they are Boston Strong. Fans are packing the parade route, celebrating the Red Sox win of the world championship title, and honoring the victims and survivors of the Boston marathon bombing. We'll bring you all of the latest developments throughout the morning and afternoon. But first, major developments this week for the family of Kendrick Johnson, he's that Georgia teen found dead inside a rolled-up gym mat at his high school gym in Valdosta. Federal authorities are now investigating the circumstances surrounding his death. CNN's Victor Blackwell and his producer, Devin Sayers, have been on top of the story for more than six months now. Here is the latest look of the developments in the case.", "After months of rallies and protests, an announcement that the family of Kendrick Johnson hopes will lead to what they consider to be justice.", "At this time, however, I am of the opinion that a base exists for my office to conduct a formal review of the facts and investigation surrounding the death of Kendrick Johnson.", "U.S. Attorney Michael Moore supported by the FBI will soon head to Valdosta, Georgia to conduct a federal investigation into the death of 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson.", "I will follow the facts wherever -- wherever they lead. My objective is to discover the truth.", "Hallelujah!", "Thank you, Jesus.", "Kendrick's grandmother watched at announcement on a portable TV on the street corner where the family continues its eight- month sit-in, demanding answers.", "I'm so happy and I know we trust in the Lord and we just had been down here rallying for 32 weeks for nothing.", "The Johnson family never believed the local sheriff's explanation that Kendrick suffocated after squeezing his 19-inch shoulders into the 14.5 inch center of a rolled gym mat to reach for a shoe in the middle of a school day.", "His parents have always maintained that their son was killed. The only question we want to know so why they are covering up for whoever killed their son.", "I believe, indeed, that he was murdered.", "Do you have any idea who may have murdered him?", "No, I don't. That's what we wanted to get the truth.", "CNN has been reporting on this case for months, uncovering details of the sheriff's investigation. Like why these shoes found yards from Kendrick's body were not collected as evidence and how this blood stain got on this wall in the gym and why investigators never found whose blood it was.", "And you don't believe there was a thorough investigation by local authorities, Mr. Johnson?", "No, I don't.", "In a statement to CNN the attorney for the Lowndes County Sheriff's Office writes in part, while Sheriff Brine has every confidence that his officer's investigation was handled with the necessary diligence to assure that all leaders were examined and exhausted. He welcomes the U.S. attorney's further review of the case. On Wednesday, a judge ordered Lowndes County Sheriff's Office to hand over its full investigative file including never before seen surveillance video from inside the gym where Kendrick died.", "We have to continue to fight on until justice is done for K.J.", "So Victor Blackwell joining us now. So the federal investigators said they are going to gather all evidence trying to get to the truth, and of some of the evidence you were able to display, just virtue of videotape and testimony, you have blood on the wall. But then, his cause of death was suffocation. So what has been the explanation of the blood, the origin of the blood, if his body showed no blood?", "The sheriff's office believes the blood has nothing to do with their case. They say it appears to be old blood. This is a gym and students injure themselves. But we looked at this case file, and the longest stream of blood on this wall is 17 inches. I mean, these impacts -- there's chipped paint on this wall, six impacts that were counted here. So the idea that this is something that would have been there for some time, the family just doesn't believe.", "And the investigation is not just about what happened here with Kendrick Johnson.", "No.", "But the federal investigation also entails investigating the authorities, the local authorities, that investigated the case?", "Yes, they're going to go back in and review their case file. Now, the U.S. attorney was clear to say that he's not going into this prejudiced of anyone else's investigation, but he does want to review all of their information and parallel that, and the FBI will be doing their own investigation and talking to everyone and looking as much evidence as is still available.", "The body will be exhumed again?", "If possible. The FBI lab might want their own autopsy because the state did one, the independent pathologist did one, and maybe they want to look at the body that they find that the others haven't.", "All right, Victor Blackwell, thank you so much. We're going to talk more about this with our own legal guys, Avery Friedman, a civil rights attorney and law professor in Cleveland, and Richard Herman, a New York criminal defense attorney and law professor joining us from Las Vegas. Good to see you, gentlemen. Wow, it's an extraordinary case. I know you agree on that. Georgia authorities at one time concluding that no foul play, case closed, and then, now, a federal investigation. So, Richard, what's the impetus in your view for this new investigation, new evidence, evidence collected, not treated properly? What's your view?", "You know, Fred, the perseverance of the family to continue to pressure the authorities to look into this, it's a hard pill to swallow when they say your teenage son is found rolled up in a mat dead, a seemingly healthy young man. You look into this investigation, and there are so many issues of contaminated crime scene. The fact that when the second autopsy was done, there were no organs in his body, his fingernails were gone, seemingly to look for DNA. There are a lot of problems with this case, Fred. It will take an overwhelming set of facts and evidence to overturn the initial finding of the accidental death. Unless they find a cover-up there, the feds have no jurisdiction. They have no --", "Why is that in your view, Avery?", "I don't agree with that.", "-- problems with the case leading up to what happened, the crime, you know, if there was indeed a crime.", "Right.", "In and after itself, because you have the coroner's report that said suffocation, he did this to himself. And now you have the investigation of, you know, foul play, and then you've got the treatment of the body, the treatment of the evidence after the fact. So, Avery, where does the federal investigation begin?", "Well, the federal investigation is different than the local investigation. I have to say, when you have 1,900 hours of videotape before the incident, and you close an investigation in 24 hours, Fredricka, that suggests a pretty pretzelized prime -- subprime investigation. I'm thrilled the Department of Justice is involved there. Let me tell you something, even if the Department of Justice fails to proceed with this, they're going to do the investigation, the FBI will do that. That's still going to force local authorities to look into this more deeply. I don't believe for one second that Kendrick Johnson died of suffocation in an upright gym mat. I mean, that's just -- it doesn't make any sense. So the good news is, number one, you had a steadfast family. Number two, you had courageous journalists that continued to press it, and it crescendos to the press conference by the Department of Justice this week. And I think you're going to find evidence, and I think this thing is going to be busted wide open.", "Wow. It is a fascinating case. Sadly it has come to this, too.", "Yes.", "Your heart does break, Richard, as you said at the top, for the family unimaginable loss. All right, Richard, Avery, thanks so much. We're going to see you again. We'll talk about this other case, New York police apparently now can indeed stop and frisk. And it's a controversial policy that some say amounts to racial profiling. Richard and Avery are back with that."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MICHAEL MOORE, U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA", "BLACKWELL", "MOORE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BLACKWELL", "BARBARA ENGLISH, KENDRICK JOHNSON'S GRANDMOTHER", "BLACKWELL", "BENJAMIN CRUMP, JOHNSON FAMILY ATTORNEY", "KENNETH JOHNSON, KENDRICK JOHNSON'S FATHER", "WOLF BLITZER, HOST, CNN'S \"THE SITUATION ROOM\"", "JOHNSON", "BLACKWELL", "BLITZER", "JOHNSON", "BLACKWELL", "ENGLISH", "WHITFIELD", "BLACKWELL", "WHITFIELD", "BLACKWELL", "WHITFIELD", "BLACKWELL", "WHITFIELD", "BLACKWELL", "WHITFIELD", "RICHARD HERMAN, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "WHITFIELD", "AVERY FRIEDMAN, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY", "WHITFIELD", "FRIEDMAN", "WHITFIELD", "FRIEDMAN", "WHITFIELD", "FRIEDMAN", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-252931", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-04-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1504/08/nday.05.html", "summary": "Interview with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.", "utt": ["The race for president in 2016 is real. We have a new candidate in the hunt for the White House, Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky, making it official. He's in there for one simple reason, and here it is.", "I have a vision for America. I want to be part of a return to prosperity, a true economic boon that lifts all-Americans, a return to a government restrained by the Constitution.", "A vision and from an eye doctor, no less, making it even more powerful. So, is Senator Paul's vision for America the best for you? Let's talk about it and much more with Senator Bernie Sanders, independent from Vermont, ranking member on the Budget Committee, among other committee. Senator, first, I put you on the spot. When you look at the Republican field, as it is developing, with Rand Paul, with Ted Cruz, with maybe Rubio getting in there, maybe Chris Christie as well -- do you see a man that is better than you?", "The word is not better but I understand what these guys stand for. And what they ultimately stand for is more tax breaks for billionaires, never ending wars and major cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education and the needs for working families. Chris, the bottom line for me in politics is as a result of Citizens United, you're going to have people, have billionaire families like the Koch brothers, pouring huge amount of money into the political process.", "As speech.", "Oh, yes --", "The Supreme Court has said money is speech.", "That's right.", "So, you can give as much as you can.", "You're right. You can spend hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the particular candidates you want and to dominate the legislative process. I think that is a horror show. And I worry very much whether candidates representing working families are going to be able to win elections in the future.", "Why? Is money just too much now?", "Absolutely, absolutely.", "Give me an example.", "Well, yesterday, we had an election in Chicago. The guy I supported, his name is Chuy Garcia, put together a strong coalition of working class families. He got out spent 6 to 1.", "By Rahm Emanuel.", "By Rahm Emanuel. And I just -- when you have so much money coming into the political process, from people like the Koch brothers, who believe -- this is their agenda. They want to get rid of Social Security, they want to get rid of Medicare, want to get rid of Medicaid, want to do away with the concept of minimum wage. We don't care, we're going to cut federal aid to education and Pell Grants, that is a terrible attack on the middle class. The goal is to do away with every major piece of legislation passed in the last 80 years and give more tax breaks to billionaires.", "Do you see outrage about this because I don't? The Supreme Court made it the law. It is a demonstration of First Amendment speech. Both parties, you're an independent, so you got a little bit of a pass on this. But, you know, Democrats do it just as much as Republicans, maybe even more.", "No --", "President Obama got more money from Wall Street than the Republicans did.", "All right.", "I think, yes, Democrats do do it, but no one is going to keep up with the Koch brothers who are prepared to spend $900 billion in this election cycle. That is more money than the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. Meanwhile, the average American is working longer hours for lower wages. The average American is wondering how come 99 percent of all new income, Chris, is going to the top 1 percent, top 1/10 of 1 percent own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.", "You don't believe anybody in the race right now wants to change that?", "Those guys?", "Yes.", "Oh, yes, they want to change it. They want to give more tax breaks to the richest people and make devastating cuts on programs for the working people. They want to make the rich richer and everyone else poorer.", "Not what Rand Paul says. He says he believes in rising it for all Americans.", "That's -- yes, how do you do that? By giving huge tax breaks to the wealthy and large corporations. The same old, same old trickle down economic theory.", "Hillary Clinton have a better strategy?", "Well, we'll see.", "What do mean why? Why slow on Hillary Clinton? What has she said that you believe is suggesting of something better? She said she won't take any big money from people like the Kochs?", "Well, I think what we'll have to do is see what Hillary Clinton is standing for. I will tell you what I believe, that is for example the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a disaster, that our trade agreements are costing us a whole lot of money. We have to rethink trade, NAFTA, CAFTA, permanent trade relations with China. I will tell you climate change is one of the great planetary crises we face, proud to have voted against the Keystone pipeline. That's my view. You have to ask Hillary her views.", "How passionately do you feel about this? How important is it to my kids' futures?", "We are fighting for your kids and for my grandchildren. If we end up in a nation in which so few have so much and so many have so little, where billionaires can buy elections, where we are not dealing with climate change, I worry very much about the future of this great country.", "If you worry so much, when are you going to get in the race, Senator Sanders?", "Well, we're working on it.", "I keep asking you the same question.", "Maybe next time I'm back, I'll have a different answer.", "Oh, yes? Because every time you see someone else get in the race, is it emboldening you or is it making you think it's not for me?", "When you run on the platform that I'm giving thought to running on, that is taking on the military industrial complex, taking on Wall Street, taking on the insurance companies, taking on everybody, what I have to ascertain, is there support in this country? Are people prepared to take on the billionaire --", "The biggest income disparity we've ever had. You got the most people sitting on the sidelines, not even looking for jobs anymore, giving a deceptive view of the unemployment rate. What else do you need to see?", "Whether or not those people are so demoralized or whether or not they can -- are prepared to jump into the political process. Let me very honest and tell you something --", "People need a leader. Leaders go first.", "Let me tell you something, no one else is going to tell you this. It may be that we are at a stage where we can't beat these guys, they're just too powerful, but I believe in what I have got to do and many of us got it. We have to continue the fight. We cannot let a handful of billionaires control the future of this country and that's all we're going to struggle with.", "Senator Sanders, always an important message. Appreciate having you on the show from Vermont. See you again, sir.", "Thank you very much.", "Keep pushing you on this. All right. So, today at 5:00 p.m. Eastern, the man who just entered the race -- Kentucky Senator Rand Paul right there, Wolf Blitzer is going to sit down and test his vision for America. John?", "Thanks so much, Chris. A white police officer charged with murder after killing a black man as he ran away. This, of course, comes in the wake of several deadly police encounters that sparked protests all across the country. Our panel joins us to weigh in. That's coming up next."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CUOMO", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-187014", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-5-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/31/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Scary New Disease on the Horizon", "utt": ["Doctors are sounding the alarm about a disease that could become the world's next major epidemic. It is called Chagas and it is spreading in South America. Brian Todd, he's on the case. He tells us that it's transmitted rather easily by something as simple as a bug bite.", "AIDS. The scourge of the post war era, killing more than 25 million people over the past three decades. Is there a new AIDS on the horizon? Experts worry about a disease now affecting millions in Latin America.", "I like to call Chagas disease arguably the most important infection you've never heard about. And you've never heard about it because it almost exclusively affects people living in extreme poverty.", "Chagas, a parasitic infection prevalent in poor areas of Central and South America. Dr. Peter Hotez is lead author in a recent editorial about Chagas in a respected medical journal. Health authorities say roughly 10 million people are infected with Chagas. Hotez estimate it kills at least 20,000 people a year.", "Is this difficult or impossible to cure?", "There are two medicine available which, if you catch the infection very early on, seem to have some beneficial effect on treating the patient. The problem is, once the heart symptoms start, which is the most dreaded complication, the Chagas cardiomyopathy, the medicines no longer work very well, problem number one. Problem number two, the medicine are extremely toxic.", "Also, Hotez says, Chagas is like AIDS because it's contaminated part of the blood supply in South America.", "This is ground zero for Chagas, the Reduvient (ph) bug, prevalent in Latin America. Experts say the parasite for Chagas lives in its guts. It likes to hide in wall crevices and thatched roofs. Then, at night, it drops onto people who are sleeping. It likes to bite you in the face. It's called \"the kissing bug.\" When it ingests your blood, it excretes the parasite at the same time. When you wake up and scratch the itch, the parasite moves into the wound and you're infected. You can be infected with Chagas for decades before you actually get the severe symptoms of the disease. But then, when you move into the severe stage, you can develop an enlarged heart or intestines that can burst.", "But Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health says Hotez and others are overstating the danger of Chagas.", "I am concerned that when people talk about comparisons with HIV, that that comparison would translate into thinking its transmitted like it is with HIV, which is just not the case.", "Fauci says Chagas is transmitted primarily by the bug biting you, by pregnant women infecting their children, and by people living in areas where it's prevalent, donating blood that's not screened. Dr. Fauci says only about 20 percent of people who get infected will go on to get the life-threatening form of the disease, and he says Chagas does not pose a significant danger to people in the U.S. Dr. Peter Hotez disagrees, saying there is transmission in south Texas and those Reduvient bugs can be found in south Texas and that many dogs in that area have Chagas. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "She's just six years old and she's probably a better speller than I am."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DR. PETER HOTEZ, BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE", "TODD", "TODD (on camera)", "HOTEZ", "TODD (voice-over)", "TODD (on camera)", "TODD (voice-over)", "DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH", "TODD", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-333434", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2018-02-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/22/ip.02.html", "summary": "Rubio Confronted by Parents, Survivors at CNN Town Hall; Rubio Signals Changes He Would Support to Restrict Guns", "utt": ["Your comments this week and those of our president have been pathetically weak. Look at me and tell me, guns were the factor in the hunting of our kids in this school this week. And look at me and tell me, you accept it and you will work with us to do something about guns.", "That last night indicative of the mood inside the CNN town hall and illustrative of the near impossible task facing Florida's junior senator, had to comfort parents who had to do the unimaginable, bury their own children. And view Marco Rubio's Republican Party as responsible for the legislative inaction that cost high schoolers their lives. Rubio said, he wants to break the gridlock on guns and have a real conversation on what to do. His first proffer? Two significant shifts that break from the NRA.", "I absolutely believe that in this country, if you are 18 years of age, you should not be able to buy a rifle, and I will support a law that takes that right away. Because I traditionally have not supported looking at magazine clip", "That's pretty remarkable, you know, the fact that he said at some point during the town hall, I don't have courage as a Republican to come here and you have courage. And he's right, this is his job. He's an elected United States senator and it is his job to go and talk to his constituents, all of whom those people were. Having said that, he also was in a position where the whole room was against him. I mean, let's be honest, most of the room was against him. They want to see changes that go far beyond what he wants to do, what he is willing to do, what he believes he should do. That's 100 percent true. And I think -- look, I've heard the school -- these were his constituent, he should have been there no matter what. They also could have held town halls in more favorable parts of the state. So, you give him credit for actually going and", "You're exactly right, and he actually said that in a tweet today. He said, \"Banning all semiautomatic weapons may have been popular with the audience at CNN town hall, but it is a position well outside the mainstream.\" Unclear if that's true, but it is certainly well outside the mainstream of the conservative base that he relies on in Florida, that he certainly will rely on assuming he makes another run at the presidency again.", "I did think it was -- sorry, it was really interesting the shifts that he made on those two issues are ones that I think Democrats have always thought that you could find common ground on. That if you restrict magazine sizes to something smaller, you can just reduce the carnage. And Marco Rubio's shift on that is interesting because a lot of other Republicans are just not willing to go there. They're still not willing to go there. So it raises the question that Phil raised earlier this morning, is this about what people really believe or what people are willing to do based on their belief and they're willing to compromise in order to get something done. Or are they unwilling to go that far because they're worried about the political consequences of going against -- the position of the NRA is to not restrict those magazines. There are real political consequences for Republicans who are more worried about, you know, fights on the right than they are about fights on the left.", "And that was something that Senator Rubio was confronted about from an emotional survivor of the massacre last week. Let's take a listen.", "Senator Rubio, can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the NRA?", "I do support the Second Amendment and i also support the right and view of everyone here to be able to go to school and be safe. And I do support any law that would keep guns out of the hands of a deranged killer. And that's why I've supported things that I stood for and fought for during my time there.", "Do you want more money, more NRA money?", "That's the wrong -- well, look, first of all, the answer is people buy into my agenda.", "Look, I mean, he's trying to make this point that the NRA supports him because of what he supports, that they're not buying influence with him. And I think it's sort of misunderstood of where the NRA's power comes from. It's really not for money. They do spend a lot of money on -- you know, from the sort of outside not actually donating to candidates, there are limits to that. But it is in the number of members -- in the number of people in the country who vote. And so people like to talk about how, you know, 60 percent of Americans support, you know, certain background checks or other restrictions on guns. But I would say there is a big, very much more motivated 35, 40 percent who actually get out and vote who disagree with that.", "Let me just show our viewers -- you mentioned NRA spending. I want to show our viewers just a glimpse of what we're talking about in terms of spending. What those graphs represent is going back to 2012, the explosion of money that the NRA is spending in elections. Most of it, the yellow part, most of it is outside spending, meaning not directly to the candidates but spending on behalf of the candidates. And in 2016, most of that giant bar graph which adds up to more than $50 million was to President Trump. They did focus on six Senate races, one of those was Marco Rubio's, and, you know, it was more than $3 million. Having said that, money --", "Do we doubt that Marco Rubio doesn't believe this, that he's only taking these positions because the NRA funds him. I think that was his point.", "His point is that he's taking the positions because NRA members vote for him.", "That's right. So -- I mean, whether or not that is in effect of something that he should be reconsidering, I don't know. I do think that, you know, these kids come up and they're very angry, they're very -- obviously very angry and very motivated to say something. But I think that going in front of these kids and addressing their anger and their concerns, you know, has to have an effect on the way that they at least consider maybe they're getting these donations from the NRA but taking these positions that sort of cut against the NRA, I think people like Marco Rubio are in a stronger position to do so because where else is the NRA going to go? On 95 percent of the issues, Rubio is going to be with them.", "And you saw some of the kids, you know, thanking him for coming, even though they didn't agree with him and they were critical to his face, the people appreciated that he stood up, and he was the only Republican that did. So, he gets credit for that. To the shifts that he made, I do think he is -- especially on the weapons for juveniles, I mean, he's taking a position the president is also taking. So he's not taking that position all by himself for now.", "That's true. He's got political cover from the president but a position with the NRA. We'll have to see if that goes anywhere. Up next, the White House says President Trump has total confidence in his national security adviser, General H.R. McMaster. So why, then, is the Defense Department exploring a potential move for him back to the Pentagon? That's up next."], "speaker": ["FRED GUTTENBERG, DAUGHTER KILLED IN PARKLAND SCHOOL MASSACRE", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R), FLORIDA", "BASH", "BASH", "ABBY PHILIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BASH", "CAMERON KASKY, SCHOOL SHOOTING SURVIVOR", "RUBIO", "KASKY", "RUBIO", "MICHAEL WARREN, SENIOR WRITER, THE WEEKLY STANDARD", "BASH", "WARREN", "BASH", "WARREN", "CATHERINE LUCEY, WHITE HOUSE REPORTER, ASSOCIATED PRESS", "BASH"]}
{"id": "CNN-267161", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-10-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/20/nday.01.html", "summary": "CNN Poll: Trump, Carson Break Away from Pack; Biden Meets Top Advisers Ahead of Presidential Decision; Hacker Talks About Breaching Personal E-mail of Government Officials.", "utt": ["A brand-new CNN/ORC poll shows Donald Trump and Ben Carson well ahead of the pack.", "Donald Trump is not a serious candidate as it relates to foreign policy.", "I'm the late Joe Biden.", "If he doesn't run, that would be more of a surprise than if he does.", "Ben Carson is a common sense kind of person.", "Donald Trump has been the greatest help to the Republican Party.", "You can't have open borders in a welfare state. That's absolutely true.", "Shocking hack into the personal e-mail accounts of CIA Director John Brendan.", "Not classified, but it's very embarrassing for this to have happened.", "If this is true, how difficult would you say it is?", "This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Alisyn Camerota and Michaela Pereira.", "Good morning. Welcome to your NEW DAY. It is Tuesday, October 20, 6 a.m. in the East. \"We want an outsider in the White House.\" That is the message, loud and clear from Republican voters in a brand-new CNN/ORC poll this morning. This is the new normal for the GOP. Nearly half of Republicans throwing their support behind Donald Trump and Ben Carson. Trump leads Carson 27-22, as you see on your screen. The next candidates are all at least 14 points back, close to statistically insignificant. And here's a big brow raiser for you: Trump's lead over Carson is now just outside the margin of error.", "Carson getting an eight-point surge in just the last month. And look at Carly Fiorina's numbers. Her post-debate bump has evaporated. She's back in the lower tier with just 4 percent. Also 75 percent of Republican voters say they are satisfied with the GOP field, and that compares to 70 percent of Democratic voters in yesterday's poll who say that they are satisfied. So the anti-establishment sentiment, though, among Republican voters is apparently reaching peak levels. CNN senior political reporter Sara Murray joins us live now from Greenville, South Carolina, to dig into all of the numbers for us. Sara, what do you see?", "You know, it's really interesting when you go beyond the top line, because this huge Republican field, while at times can look chaotic, but it does look like it's driving some enthusiasm among -- among Republicans. If you look at how enthusiastic voters are for voting for president, 68 percent of Republicans say they're enthusiastic, compared to 58 percent for Democrats. That's a pretty wide gap. And it just keeps going up the further we get closer to the election. If you look back in September, the enthusiasm number for Republicans was 65 percent. So it does seem like a big field could ultimately benefit the Republicans. Now, I want to dig in on sort of the gender gap we've been looking at amongst some of these Republican candidates. We talked for a while about whether Trump might struggle with women because of some of the more inflammatory comments he's made about them. That doesn't bear out in our latest numbers. Both Trump and Ben Carson are drawing 23 percent support for women. They're ahead of the pack there. But if you look at the men, it's a really interesting story there, because Trump has a wide lead in Carson. Thirty-one percent of male Republican voters say that they would prefer Trump, a 10-point lead over Ben Carson. That certainly seems to be where he has an edge over, you know, his most competitive rival. The interesting thing that we've -- the other interesting thing we've seen from Trump is he clearly is still doing more work to shore up the conservative base. Take a look at what he had to say at his event last night about guns.", "So big Second Amendment, we're all big heavy on the Second Amendment, you know. You know the president's thinking about signing an executive order where he wants to take your guns away. You hear it this way. This is the news. Not going to happen. That won't happen.", "Now, of course we have no indication from the White House that there is an executive order in the works to take Americans' guns away. But CNN's Gary Tuchman spoke to voters as he was leaving last night, and they completely believed everything Donald Trump was saying. You get a sense of just how much voters are swayed when they go to events like this -- Michaela.", "They feel those things very personally. All right, Sara. Thank you for that. The big question, is Vice President Joe Biden running for president? Although we don't know -- pardon me, we don't know yet his decision, there are some new clues that Biden might be on the verge of launching a campaign. Our White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, is live with the latest. You're following the mouse trail, are I don't you?", "Clues but no clarity, that's right, Michaela. Good morning. Democratic sources tell me Vice President Joe Biden is still sounding very serious about a run for the White House. He's been reaching out to loyalists to talk strategy. But even his friends inside the Democratic Party are not sure how long he can drag this out. Last night he met with his political advisers, and his team is talking to operatives about joining a potential campaign. And it seems every day Biden sends out another teaser about his intentions. Consider the comments he made yesterday at a climate conference here at the White House, when he seemed to take a dig at Hillary Clinton. Listen to what he had to say.", "Darrell Issa, not a Republican friend of mine. He's a friend. I don't consider Republicans enemies; they're friends.", "Now, that might have been a dig at Hillary Clinton, who said last week at the Democratic debate on CNN, that she considers Republicans her enemies. Now moving on to one Pennsylvania congressman, he is so confident that Biden will run that he tweeted it. Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle tweeted he has a source telling him -- we'll put it up on screen -- that Biden will run. I talked to Boyle yesterday, and he said he stands by that tweet, saying the information came from a source close to Biden and that if Biden didn't run, he would be pulling back from a decision that's already been made. Now, we should also mention there's a new CNN/ORC poll out that shows the Democrats may be losing patience with Biden, if you put this up on screen. You can see, back in August, there was more support for a Biden run than there is now. It has dropped to less than half. And guys, in terms of timing, you know, Hillary Clinton has this appearance before the Benghazi committee on Thursday. A lot of Democrats are telling me Joe Biden should not time his announcement around that, be seen as exploiting that. And there's also, Chris and Alisyn, this Jefferson Jackson dinner out in Iowa on Saturday. Hillary Clinton will be there. Democratic candidates will be there. Democrats are telling me if Joe Biden misses that dinner on Saturday, he has essentially decided by not deciding. Back to you.", "Wow. Busy week.", "Decided by not deciding. How about Brendan Boyle there, Jim, showing the difference between a politician and a reporter? He's got one source. He goes with it. He's asked to backtrack, and he says, \"I'm doubling down.\" That's the difference between them and us.", "Now I'm competing with a congressman. Who knew? You know.", "All right, Jim. Thanks very much. Appreciate it. All right. Let's bring back Sara Murray. And in studio, we have Errol Louis, CNN political commentator and political anchor for New York One. Errol, I will posit this. If Biden were looking for an advantageous time to get in, he missed it. I think that looking at the current situation as a calculus of opportunity is somewhat misguided. What do you think?", "Well, absolutely right. I mean, he had the opportunity, you know, sadly around death of his son. But it came with a story that his son, who was also a public servant, was a politician, had said to him that he really want him to run. He had that opportunity. He had -- Hillary Clinton was sort of stumbling around in the early phases of this e-mail scandal. It look like there was maybe some need for it. The polls suggested that the public wanted him in. He had everything sort of lined up, and then the time kind of got away from him. Now we're, what, 105 days out from Iowa. The technical prowess that it would take to put people on the ground, to get registered in all of these states, to get the money raised, to get the rationale and the messaging done, it's really not that easy to do in just, like, basically 90 to 100 days.", "It's still possible. I mean, this week...", "Entirely possible.", "The next couple weeks, it's still possible, yes?", "Well, that's right. So, you know, the idea is that it would have -- it would have been a lot easier. If he's going to run, he has sort of put a couple of extra boulders on his back that he's going to have to carry, and it's going to be much harder to get started now than it would have been, had he sort of just made -- made the decision and run with it months ago, really.", "Sara, let's dive into these numbers on the Republican side. Because they're really interesting, and not just for the two top frontrunners of Trump and Carson, who have seen their numbers go up. But let's look at what's happening with Jeb Bush for one. His number has gone down. I mean, not significantly from last month, nine to eight, but still, when is he going to get some momentum that everyone predicted?", "I think that's a big question surrounding his campaign, particularly from the donors I've talked to who have given significant amounts of money to the campaign. And you know, it seems like Jeb's circle is ready to just sort of chug along. And they think eventually Donald Trump will collapse, and they will be the beneficiaries of that. But that's not really what we're seeing in the data, when you see this outsider sentiment, when you see people like Ben Carson rising to the top, it seems like the alternative people are looking for are not -- is not someone like Jeb Bush. And so I think that the idea that, all of a sudden, there will just be a wave of support that hasn't emerged is a little bit difficult to understand, like why that could be their strategy.", "They're asking for attrition. I'll tell you what, if you had answered that question with an actual date, if one Bush is going to get momentum, I would have immediately asked for you to be relieved of your duties and we could go back to Vegas. You know, when you look at, there's a woman's story here, both in the form of Carly Fiorina and in the voter inclination. If you look up Carson and Trump on voters, I don't know what is more -- let's say, surprising. That you have 46 percent of them eating up these top two outsiders or, Errol, the rationale for women to want Ben Carson is, dot, dot, dot...", "The rationale is that he's a competent candidate. He's conservative. If you're a conservative woman, not just a woman but a conservative woman, he tracks with what you want to see. And so, you know, this is somebody who has, you know, rescued women in childbirth, you know. He's done all kinds of amazing things as a surgeon. That's not nothing. He's a true evangelical. That counts for a lot with a certain sector of the populace. So I don't know that women voters gravitate to candidates for fundamentally different reasons. Because, you know, there's a handful of issues that you can sort of reliably expect women to sort of be concerned about. But that's not really what's driving the Ben Carson surge.", "Yes, I mean, look, we're talking to a group of voters coming up in Nevada. And there are women on the panel, and they don't just vote on women's issues. They vote on the economy. They vote on who they think is most competent.", "Women never vote on women's issues. That's the exception. I'm saying what is the rationality, though, for him? You know, when you talk to voters, they always have a why question in the polls or at least in the focus groups. I don't know how they did with this one. So Sara, that becomes the issue, is that, you know, what is the why fueling this -- you know, this perception of needing an outsider in there? Because it seems to evolve over time. If we look at another interesting pop-out of this, the enthusiasm. OK. So not only are they looking for outsiders, but they're looking for it in a very enthusiastic way. Sixty-eight percent say they are pumped for this. Seventy-five percent say they like their field. How much fear and loathing is there going on in that second and third tier of the people in this poll?", "Well, I think that there is a certain amount of loathing for the people here at the Laura Ronson (ph). You can't get any momentum. Look, I think if you're Carly Fiorina and you're looking at this poll, this is a very dark day for you. This is a woman who shot to No. 2 in the pack and now is down there back once again in the single digits. Look, I think that's problematic. We don't know if this is the kind of cycle where, if you fall back down to earth, your poll numbers can rise again or if it's what we've seen in the past, where you have your moment in the spotlight and, after that moment, voters move on. They look at the next candidate. And you didn't do that with more than a dozen candidates.", "But what happened? What happened, Errol, to Carly Fiorina after her big momentum with the debate?", "I suspect that this goes to the quality of her campaign. And the strategy that they have on the ground. Because when you get in front of 20 million people and you make a big splash, there's got to be some follow-up. There's got to be some messaging. There's got to be some outreach to people on the ground. You've got to remind people of what you did. And it has to be more than just a couple of e-mails here and there. I mean, that by the way, is part of the genius of Ben Carson's campaign. Is that he's used Facebook very, very effectively. So who he has, he sort of keeps them with him. Obviously, Carly Fiorina has not figured out how to do that. Because really, what has changed since that debate where she suddenly got a pop in the polls?", "She disappeared. I mean, we used to be able to get her on the show. It's hard to find her now. I mean, she's been on FOX a little bit. But she's not out there the way she was before. It's very odd.", "The campaign staff, I'm sure, just heard that. And maybe you should be thinking a little bit more about that. Right? I mean, Donald Trump's going to be on today. I mean, you know, you've got to, at this point, if you want to talk to the whole country, and that's what the national polls really reflect, what the whole country thinks, you've got to try to have some presence. I haven't seen Carly Fiorina either in quite a while. What's she been doing?", "Good question. Carly, call us. Errol, Sara, thanks so much for all of this analysis. And coming up, as Errol just said on NEW DAY, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump joins us live at 7 a.m. Eastern. Stick around for that -- Michaela.", "All right, Alisyn. The FBI and the Secret Service are investigating claims that personal e-mail accounts associated with the director of the CIA and the head of homeland security were breached by hackers. A group calling themselves CWA is taking credit for hacking into their private e-mail accounts and has been tweeting out information they claim to have gathered when they gained access. Our Laurie Segall spoke to those alleged hackers. She joins us now from London. What an interesting story, what an interesting conversation.", "Yes, this is obviously pretty embarrassing for the CIA. I will say this. But I spoke to these hackers. They described themselves almost as stoners, as these alleged hackers. I was able to reach them yesterday on the phone. And they disguised their voices. They tell me how and why they did it. Take a look.", "You claim you were able to hack the private e-mail account of the CIA director. How did you do that?", "Well, we had most of his personal information, like his name, address, phone number, Social Security number and other things. And when we socially engineered, we like manipulated AOL to, like, do the password reset on the account. We socially engineered Verizon and then we socially engineered to get his last four details on his bank account.", "If this is true and you guys have actually broken into his private e-mail account, how difficult would you say it is?", "You mean out of ten?", "Sure, out of ten.", "One.", "One?", "Yes.", "You guys say you were able to hack into his -- his personal inbox. What did you find?", "Social Security numbers, plans talking about Iraq and security, a lot of information. Really, he's pretty stupid, really. He's supposed to be the head of the CIA. He should be more clever.", "What was your motivation for doing this?", "Free Palestine, the United States government funds Israel, and Israel, they kill innocent people.", "Give us any indication of your background? I mean, how old you are. Are you in the United States? I mean, anything you can tell me about yourself?", "Yes. I'm below the age of 22 years old. I smoke pot and I have live in America.", "And you smoke pot?", "Every day.", "You're saying you might have hacked the director of the CIA when you were high?", "Probably.", "Are you sophisticated hackers?", "I would kind of put us, like, in the middle, maybe? We're not, like, stupid, but we're not really smart. There's not a lot of really, really smart people.", "Do you guys worry about retribution?", "I'm going to go to Russia and chill with Snowden, because I know that the government is pretty mad about this. I'm probably going to get tortured. I'm actually a pretty fast runner.", "You plan to leak more information? Is there any specific target?", "Yes. The government and the police and the White House people, they're losers.", "Now, sources have confirmed that both accounts were, in fact, hacked, although we can't independently verify those leaked documents. But as you can see, these guys are saying they're not that sophisticated. And as they say, it wasn't that easy [SIC] to do something that has massive, massive ramifications -- Chris.", "We learn all the time, Laurie, it is a game of catch-up, that's for sure. Because we're not dealing, apparently, with the most sophisticated of minds that are doing this hacking. Laurie, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Let's see what the next chapter is in that story. Big story out of Canadian politics. The country's liberal party winning an absolute majority in parliamentary elections and ending nine years of conservative rule. The next prime minister, there he is, handsome man, Justin Trudeau. Not this reflection of outsider fever like they have in our election. He is the son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and is expected to form a majority government, liberal victory, denies a fourth term to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party. Did you vote in absentia?", "I have not. I haven't had residency in 17 years.", "Really? You're a little bit of an ex-pat, really, if you look at it. All this Canadaic (ph) stuff, do we have to hear it?", "Right here, baby. Right here.", "You should have had that rigged. That's what I say about it.", "Thank you.", "Meanwhile, an update now on Oscar Pistorius. He was released from prison, and he is now under house arrest. The move comes less than a year after he was convicted of killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. He will serve the rest of his five-year sentence at his uncle's home in Pretorius, South Africa. Steenkamp's family says his release does not make a difference, because their daughter is never coming back. Pistorius shot Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013, saying he mistook her as an intruder.", "Soon leaders at Ole Miss voting today on whether to remove the Mississippi state flag from campus because it has a Confederate battle flag on it. Confederate symbols and tributes have come under increased scrutiny ever since June's racially motivated Charleston church massacre in which nine members of Emanuel AME Church were killed.", "All right. So guess what? Democrats are trying to put Joe Biden on a clock. The question becomes how long should the vice president have to decide whether or not he'll run for president? Is this calculation about Clinton's Benghazi testimony to any degree? 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{"id": "CNN-185384", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-5-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/03/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Bin Laden's Papers Releasing This Hour; Bin Laden Papers Going Online Now", "utt": ["Forty minutes past the hour. Right now, we're sifting through newly released documents that capture some of the final words and thoughts of Osama bin Laden. Right now, the public is getting its first look at these documents that were seized in the raid that killed the al Qaeda mastermind. The capture of fading leader desperate to remain relevant and launch another catastrophic strike in the United States, hundreds and hundreds of pages now appearing on the Web site of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. Nic Robertson is in London. And, Nic, you've been pouring through these documents. And jealousy has arisen?", "It certainly appears to. Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, this radical Muslim cleric who inspired people like the Ft. Hood shooter to attack American soldiers and many other al Qaeda operatives to mount attacks, bin Laden seems to be jealous of him. There's a letter to bin Laden saying, we would like to nominate him as the new leader in Yemen, and bin Laden writes back to say well-noted but over here we like to see essentially someone tested on the battlefield. That's a real slap down for Awlaki who is a cleric and never fought in the front line like bin Laden. That seems like jealousy.", "Interesting. Why has the government made these documents available to the public, Nic?", "I think what they're trying to do here and they say that this is only 17 out of around 6,000 documents. This only a partial picture and we could use these documents to match them up against the other events that we're aware of to get a picture. But what it paints here and I think this is the thrust of the documents that are released is that bin Laden was at loggerheads with his senior deputies and he was at one point advised to disown al Qaeda in Iraq and he wrote a strong letter to the Taliban, al Qaeda's affiliate inside Pakistan, telling them that if it didn't stop killing Muslims, he was going to go public with them. We see him as a micromanager telling another al Qaeda group to plant trees so that they can hide underneath the trees, evade satellite and drone attacks by hiding underneath the trees. So, this is a man who is trying to control the empire. But there are people out there in the field that strongly disagree with him and are going in their own direction.", "Interesting. So, Nic, you're going to continue pouring through this document. You'll have new information at the top of the hour in about, what, 15 minutes or so. So, I'll let you get back to it. If all of you want to see documents for yourself, go to CNN.com. We have a link there to this West Point site. You can look at these documents for yourself. You can see Osama bin Laden's handwriting. I mean, there's a lot of interesting stuff there. So, CNN.com in case you want to go there. Courtroom testimony, we hear about John Edwards' wife having an emotional breakdown in an airport after a newspaper ran a story about Edwards' affair. We'll tell you about who is testifying in his trial this morning. And did you watch the royal wedding? Wishing you could have taken part in the ceremony? Well, you can. You can if you have the cash, even now. You can have a slice of Will and Kate's stale wedding cake. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "ROBERTSON", "COSTELLO", "ROBERTSON", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-391762", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-02-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/03/cnr.19.html", "summary": "China Stock Market Gets Hit Due to Virus Scare; Democratic Presidential Candidates Push Campaign Slogans Ahead Iowa Caucus; Senate's Looming Acquittal of Trump as Senate Vote on Articles of Impeachment", "utt": ["Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here on the United States and from all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.", "And I'm George Howell. This is \"CNN Newsroom.\" And ahead this hour.", "Stocks sink in China as the markets open for the first time in more than a week and made the coronavirus fears as the first death outside China is recorded.", "The U.S. presidential election season kicks off Monday with the Iowa caucuses. Democrats running for president will set the tone for the race for the primaries.", "And after 50 years, they are Super Bowl champions again. We will go to Miami for a live report on the big win for the Kansas City Chiefs.", "All around the world, good day to you. We start with the Wuhan coronavirus spreading across China and stoking fears in that country's stock market. Trading got back underway in mainland China Monday after the lunar New Year break. Markets have just closed after plummeting as much as 9 percent there you see.", "As stocks fall, the number of infections keeps rising. China now confirms more than 17,000 cases and 361 people have been killed. That means that this outbreak has killed more people in mainland China than SARS back in 2003. The first known death outside of China has been confirmed in the Philippines. Well, for more, journalist Kaori Enjoji is live in Tokyo but let's go first to CNN's Steven Jiang in Beijing. So Steven, with more than 17,000 people now infected, what is China doing to contain and fight this virus?", "Well, Rosemary, their focus right now is still containment in the epicenter, that's Hubei province, and with Wuhan being the provincial capita, because when you look at the numbers, Rosemary, the majority of confirmed cases still happens in Hubei. On Sunday, for example, Hubei reported more than 2,000 new confirmed cases and 56 new deaths. And there is also one worrisome trend there in the province. That is now more than half of the cases happen outside of Wuhan. Why is this alarming? Because that means more cases now happening in smaller or poorer places with even less of a health care infrastructure to deal with or to cope with this kind of outbreak. That is what you are seeing authorities further tightening their quarantine measures in this province, which of course already locked down almost 60 million people. In one city for example next to Wuhan, the authorities there are now requiring every household, only sending out one representative every other day to buy groceries. Everyone else has to stay in. Now, of course, they are also addressing the problem, the shortage of medical supplies and the personnel and other resources throughout the province. Already we see more than 8,000 medical workers from the rest of China being sent in to reinforce over worked local doctors and nurses. The authorities, of course, are also building two brand new facilities on the outskirts of Wuhan, one of which just got completed. And they are now open as we understand, with the Chinese military taking over this facility with more than 1,000 hospital beds ready to receive patients on the outskirts of Wuhan, Rosemary.", "All right. Steven Jiang, thanks for bringing us up-to-date on the situation there across China. Appreciate it.", "And now live in Tokyo, Kaori Enjoji is following the story there for us. And Kaori, look, people are certainly nervous, staying off the streets and that is having an impact on the economy throughout Asia.", "Absolutely. This is as expected. A knee jerk reaction in the capital markets today with billions, hundreds and billions of dollars wiped out from the equity markets in China. Shanghai Shenzhen opening down very, very sharply and still languishing around those levels. We are seeing reaction one week of closures in these markets and they're playing catch-up to that. But it's not just the equity markets that are responding like this. We have seen a sell off across the board. Take a look at commodities, iron, ore, copper, crude oil, all down very sharply in Asian trading. And on top of that, you're seeing a reaction in yields as well. I think the big litmus test is going to be how Wall Street opens because it was down already on Friday. They've had all this time to digest it and see whether or not these new cases of the coronavirus are going to wreck havoc on that market again when it opens later on today. The central bank of China in times like this, central banks are worried that rates are going to spike so they flood the money markets with cash. And that's exactly what they did today and to try and stem this off low. And their -- this injection what they call of liquidity is the biggest we've seen by the People's Bank of China since 2004. That's the market reaction. I think the longer term focus will be on the supply chain and this is worrisome. I covered the earthquake in 2011 here in Japan. I covered the Thai (ph) floods that wrecked havoc on the chip industry and it took months for supply chains to come back. And this is a very different environment we're now in 2020. Industries are much more specialized, which means that there might be a chip factory. There are lots of chip factories in Wuhan that makes a particular chip that a company, electronics device maker needs. And if you can't get your hands on that, even if the capital markets start to resume, this kind of resumption in business could take a long time. Not to mention if the cities are on lockdown, even if the factories come on board, how are you going to move them outside into the places that need them? And so I think the longer term implications are going to be fairly significant. But having said that, let's take a look at numbers because you want to know exactly what kind of impact we're talking about. Take a look at the Chinese economy. Chinese economy now is eight times larger than it was during the SARS outbreak. So, that gives you a little bit of sense of scale. Take a look at the exports that are coming out of China. Exports are six times larger than they were in 2003. That means the impact compared to the SARS situation in 2003 could be more significant. And then of course you have the impact on sentiment. Our consumers really going to be spending after an outbreak like this, guys.", "To your point there, Kaori, China just a much bigger player at this point. So, certainly these numbers, the concerns among people there will have an impact. Kaori Enjoji, thank you for the reporting.", "And later this hour we will have a live report from Ivan Watson in Macau where the coronavirus has turned the gambling mecca town into a ghost town. All right. Well, the first major contest, the 2020 U.S. presidential race is just hours away.", "We are talking about the state of Iowa caucus-goers there. We'll make their pick for president and take a look here. The numbers, you can see the number of candidates that they'll have to choose from. A lot of candidates on the Democratic side.", "Yes. And many of those White House hopefuls held rallies across the state this weekend, making their case to supporters as well as undecided voters.", "The future of this country is dependent upon what happens in November. And it all begins tomorrow night here in Iowa.", "But that's the key. Get in this fight because this moment will not come our way again. This is the moment that we will be measured as a nation and as a people. This is the moment.", "We choose unity over division, and we choose truth over lies. There is not a single thing we can't do. When we do it together we've never, ever, ever, ever failed to be an objective. We need to set our mind to it and did it together.", "Are you ready for that sunrise as we put this presidency behind us? Are you ready to tell your friends? I believe you are going to make me the next president of the United States, and if you do I will work all day every day to make you proud.", "So join us, caucus with us. We are going to do this and we are going to win.", "All right, from Iowa and now to Washington, D.C., in just a few hours time, closing arguments will start in the U.S. president's impeachment trial. And after that, the vote on two articles of impeachment will happen on Wednesday.", "And it's looking more than likely the U.S. president will be acquitted after the Senate voted 51 to 49 to block testimony from new witnesses. One key senator, Republican Lamar Alexander who voted no on witnesses explains why he thinks President Trump should be acquitted.", "Well I believe he did, one, was that he called the president of Ukraine and asked him to become involved in investigating Joe Biden. The second thing was at least in part, he delayed the military and other assistance to Ukraine in order to encourage that investigation. Those are the two things he did. I think he shouldn't have done it. I think it was wrong. Inappropriate was -- the way I'd say improper, crossing the line. And then the only question left is who decides what to do about that?", "Well, who decides what to do about that?", "The people -- the people is my conclusion.", "All right. Joining me now from London, Leslie Vinjamuri, head of the U.S. and the Americas Programme at Chatham House. Thank you so much for joining us.", "Thank you Rosemary.", "All right. So, quite a week in politics in the United States. Monday of course, a big night for Democrats with the Iowa caucuses. Polls show Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders neck and neck, but some Democrats haven't even made up their minds yet which is extraordinary. What is your sense of who might come out on top and why is Iowa still so very important?", "Well, Iowa is important first because it's starting it out. It's always been a barometer of where things will go, although, obviously things could change and I think especially this time quite dramatically. But you know, it's really -- this is a state that voted for Obama twice, then voted for Trump. It is a swing state. It tells us a lot about the divisions in the nation. It's an aging state, but it has very important younger demographic as well. And I think if you look at those polls, you know, it's very -- even the pollsters, the best pollsters will say it's very difficult to predict, but we have Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden coming at the top in many of the polls. And this in some ways represents, you know, what we are all seeing in the Democratic Party, which is that divide between a very progressive base represented by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and a more moderate side which is what Joe Biden represents. And the fact that they are both pulling strong, I think tells us a lot about what we know very much about the Democratic Party. So, this is one that everybody will be watching, but even afterwards things will continue to develop.", "It does, but for the Democrats, they are really looking for the person that can beat President Trump, and which one of them, if it comes down to Biden versus Bernie Sanders, which one could do that?", "Yes. That is the $100 million question. And I think, you know, a lot of people that are watching this assume that right now the nomination is Joe Biden to lose and that across the board he might have the better chance. But again, this is a very difficult thing to call. And as we, now this election is likely to come down to just a few states. And so it's not about looking at a popular vote. It's about looking at what will happen in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania when comes to November, so, a lot of play. A very specific electoral set of institutions, but I think there is a big question about whether Democrats will unite, whether they will turn out for the candidate that eventually merges on the Democratic side. That will really make all the difference to what happens in November.", "All right. So, let's turn now to the impeachment trial. Of course, it's looking more likely now that President Trump will be acquitted Wednesday. So, what all did this impeachment trial achieve and have the Democrats inadvertently strengthen President Trump's hand here?", "Well, I think this has been, as we know, a remarkable period in America's politics. Remember, the Republicans have moved. The people have not moved. It looks as you said, very much like it will go towards acquitting the president. But the fact that so many Republican senators now even recognize that the president did put pressure on Ukraine, that he withheld that military aid. And the argument now is who decides? Is this something for the Senate to decide or is this something for the people to decide. So, I think even having gone through the process, having heard the arguments, it's changed the historical record of what we will come to know about this period of American politics, about President Trump. And it will undoubtedly influence voters when they go to the polls. Now, I think there is a big question about independent voters. Remember that 66 percent of American voters wanted to see witnesses called. We know that they won't be called. But a lot of independent voters, right, that number remains extremely high amongst independent voters who wanted to see those witnessed called. So the fact that they weren't, may well have an influence on how independent voters think about this and how they vote when it comes to November.", "Right. And extraordinarily, only two Republicans dared to vote with the Democrats last week to bring in new witnesses. That vote of course, failed. But how surprised were you that Republican Lisa Murkowski and Lamar Alexander voted against hearing from new witnesses? What does that tell us about the way Republicans think now and their support for Mr. Trump?", "Well, I think, you know, we have seen this for Trump's entire presidency with a few exceptions. We have seen the Republican Party really coalesce right around the president, come out in support of him, even on issues that we would not have expected the Republican Party to support the president on. Obviously trade is one of those. But on this trial I think that, you know, the writing has been on the wall for some time. It had looked from the start that the Republican Party would really back the president. Part of that comes down to this argument of executive privilege that the Republicans really pushed on Part of it comes down to, you know, tight politics in their own local constituencies; concerns about, you know, re-elections. And then it does come back to this broader question of trying to read the American people which remained very, very divided on that question of impeachment and wanting to leave the choice with the American people. The American people have seen the evidence. They've seen the trial. And they will decide when it comes to November what they think of President Trump.", "We'll see what they do decide in the end. Of course, Leslie Vinjamuri, thank you so much. I appreciate it.", "Still ahead, a day of routine shopping turns into a terror attack and a shooting. Coming up, how London police were able to respond as quickly as they did."], "speaker": ["ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN HOST", "GEORGE HOWELL, CNN HOST", "CHURCH", "HOWELL", "CHURCH", "HOWELL", "CHURCH", "STEVEN JIANG, CNN SENIOR PRODUCER", "CHURCH", "HOWELL", "KAORI ENJOJI, JOURNALIST", "HOWELL", "CHURCH", "HOWELL", "CHURCH", "BERNIE SANDERS (D-VT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "PETE BUTTIGIEG (D-IN), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "HOWELL", "CHURCH", "SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER (R-TN)", "CHUCK TODD, MSNBC HOST", "ALEXANDER", "CHURCH", "LESLIE VINJAMURI, HEAD, U.S. AND THE AMERICAS PROGRAMME, CHATHAM HOUSE", "CHURCH", "VINJAMURI", "CHURCH", "VINJAMURI", "CHURCH", "VINJAMURI", "CHURCH", "VINJAMURI", "CHURCH", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-180473", "program": "JOHN KING, USA", "date": "2012-2-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/03/jkusa.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval", "utt": ["All eyes will be on Nevada tomorrow. It is the first Western state to weigh in on the presidential race. Nevada's Republican governor, Brian Sandoval, endorsed Rick Perry early on, but he hasn't backed anyone since the Texas governor dropped out. Governor Sandoval joins us now. Thank you, Governor, for being with us.", "Oh, it's my pleasure. Thank you, Jessica.", "Thanks. First of all, let's just dispose with the headlines. There have been some headlines that Newt Gingrich canceled a meeting with you amid reports that you weren't going to endorse anyone. One of his advisers told \"The Washington Post\" -- quote -- You're a Republican presidential candidate coming into a state with a Republican governor. It's common courtesy to meet him.\" Sounding annoyed. Are you insulted the speaker didn't meet with you? Or is this much ado about nothing?", "I think it's the latter. It really did kind of get blown out of proportion. The speaker and I have talked on a few occasions. I have a lot of respect for him. We were called by a representative of his campaign asking for a meeting. I gladly accepted. After we accepted that, we received notice that he had to cancel and it went from there. But it wasn't a problem at all. I'm just pleased that he as well as all the other candidates are here in the state and campaigning very aggressively. We're very excited about the caucus tomorrow. We have 4,000 volunteers at 125 locations. We think it's going to go extremely well.", "Let's talk about Mitt Romney. What is your relationship with him? At CNN's debate recently in Florida, he said that he would consider you for a Cabinet position.", "Yes. No, and I was surprised and humbled that he would speak of me in that regard. The governor and I have talked on several occasions. He was a supporter of mine in my run for governor. I think he's a very strong candidate. And I look forward to watching him in the state.", "What position would you want in his Cabinet if he becomes president?", "You know, respectfully, I was real humbled by his mentioning me, but I love my job. I think I have the best job in the United States of America.", "Smart answer.", "I have only been in office for one year.", "Yes.", "And we have accomplished a lot.", "Let's talk about Nevada for a bit. The unemployment rate in your state is 12.6 percent, higher than the national average, significantly.", "Yes.", "Respectfully, sir, are you concerned at all that your stewardship could be a drag on the eventual Republican winner?", "Well, of course I'm concerned about unemployment. When I came into the office one year ago, our unemployment rate was 14.9. I think we have done well in terms of getting it down to 12.6. We have a ways to go. We are being very aggressive with regard to economic development in our state and modernizing our economic structure, attracting businesses here. We just got a report today that we have the third most favorable tax environment in the United States of America. We have strong universities. We have a great quality of life. So I'm going to be providing my full support to the ultimate nominee and look forward to doing that.", "Can't President Obama take some credit also going into the general then for the fact that the unemployment rate has fallen in your state, as you point out?", "Well, he can try to do that. There's -- part of this is, I have written to the president. One of our great success stories in our state is the mining industry. It's going extremely well. But we have several mines that are in the queue that could create thousands of jobs in our state. Because of the regulatory structure...", "So it will be a battle. Right. It will be a battle.", "It will be a battle. But he has suffocated our ability to open some mines in Nevada. And I hope that we can continue to have conversations so we can get people to work in that industry.", "Another major issue for voters in your state is the housing challenge there. For 60 consecutive months, Nevada has had the highest home foreclosure rate of any state in the nation. I know you know this. In Las Vegas, two out of every three home mortgages are underwater. Let's listen to a moment, to what Governor Romney said about the housing crisis in an interview with the \"Las Vegas Journal Review\" editorial board.", "To encourage housing, one is don't try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.", "The Democrats and the Obama campaign are going to try to make a lot of that, because it suggests that he doesn't -- they will say he doesn't want to try to help current homeowners. Will that haunt him if he's the nominee in your state?", "Well -- and I'm glad he's here in Nevada, so that he can have some conversations with these folks that are struggling. I mean, we have a lot of struggling families, as I described. We want to get them back to work. Me personally, we're working on a foreclosure mediation program that brings the lenders and the borrowers together. We're going to have a huge event in Las Vegas that does the same thing in terms of bringing those borrowers and those lenders together to get these things worked out. I'm hopeful that I can sit down with Governor Romney and let him know specifically about what we're doing in our state to help our residents.", "And maybe move him a little over to your position?", "Yes.", "OK. Finally, Mitt Romney is looking pretty good for tomorrow's caucuses. That's based on the polling. Ron Paul, though, is always full of surprises. From where you sit, what do you think we should all look out for, for tomorrow night?", "Well -- and I probably -- or you have probably seen the same polling that I have, that Governor Romney is doing extremely well. He's got a great organization in this state. He campaigned very aggressively four years ago here. So he does have a lot of people on the ground. Congressman Paul has done the same thing. He's got a lot of fervent support in this state. So I think that you're going to see some good results from both of them.", "So, Romney, then Paul is what you're telling us?", "Likely, yes. And I think obviously the speaker is going to be there -- right there as well.", "OK. Governor Sandoval, thanks so much for your time. And I look forward to seeing you in person some time soon in Nevada.", "And likewise. Thank you for having me, Jessica.", "Thanks. So far it's been a pretty mild winter here in Washington, but Denver, well, their luck just ran out. Stand by for the latest on a storm that's paralyzed parts of Colorado and is heading east. And, later, NASA's unique look at part of a glacier that's reached the ocean and could turn into a monster-sized iceberg."], "speaker": ["YELLIN", "GOV. BRIAN SANDOVAL (R), NEVADA", "YELLIN", "SANDOVAL", "YELLIN", "SANDOVAL", "YELLIN", "SANDOVAL", "YELLIN", "SANDOVAL", "YELLIN", "SANDOVAL", "YELLIN", "SANDOVAL", "YELLIN", "SANDOVAL", "YELLIN", "SANDOVAL", "YELLIN", "SANDOVAL", "YELLIN", "ROMNEY", "YELLIN", "SANDOVAL", "YELLIN", "SANDOVAL", "YELLIN", "SANDOVAL", "YELLIN", "SANDOVAL", "YELLIN", "SANDOVAL", "YELLIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-206070", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2013-5-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/02/qmb.01.html", "summary": "ECB Rate Cut; Muted European Markets", "utt": ["Ready to act. The ECB cuts interest rates and says it stands ready to do more.", "-- statistician made famous by the 2012 presidential election, and tonight gives us his tips.", "The lesson of hedging your bets is pretty important.", "And FYI, I will go through the most irritating business jargon, and so keep it on your radar. I'm Richard Quest, I mean business. Good evening. The European Central Bank, the ECB, is considering an unprecedented step into negative space. For the first time, the bank said it is technically possibly, \"technically ready,\" in their words, to move its deposit rate below zero. It would mean eurozone banks would have to pay the ECB to hold their money.", "Today, the bank snipped a quarter percentage point of its main -- the refi rate, its widely anticipated move, and it now comes down to an historic low of just half of one percent. Here is the ECB president talking about the current threats to the eurozone economy.", "There is surrounding the economic outlook for the euro area continued to be on the downside. They include the possibility of even weaker than expected domestic and global demand and slow or insufficient implementation of structural reforms in the euro area. These factors have the potential to dampen confidence and thereby delay the recovery.", "Mario Draghi. The markets and investors and pundits, skepticism abounds. After all, a small rate cut, can that translate into anything that will help the worst-off eurozone countries, the likes of Spain, Portugal, and Greece? Partly because what we call the transmission mechanism, which takes interest rate cuts, and then moves it through the economy onto the ultimate consumers, you and me. It's said that that is broken down. Jim Boulden is with me. We'll come to the transmission mechanism at the moment. Even -- just at the so-called zero bound of interest rates, when they're virtually zero --", "Yes.", "-- if people are not borrowing at three quarters of a percent, they're not going to borrow a half a percent.", "No. They're not. And -- I think --", "So, why is he doing it?", "Because the ECB needs -- was, I think, almost talked into doing this by the markets. I know they would never say that, but the markets expected a half a percent interest rate, now, and they had to cut it from three quarters of a percent. So, they did this move because not doing this move would've looked very negatively. But to actually make a difference to the banks, this is where it has to happen. And this is what he talks about, again, Mario Draghi, in the press conference: the need to see this money moving through into the real economy, and it could take a long time, it could take a short period of time. They don't know. But they've done a lot of things for the banks. As he keeps saying, \"We've been extremely accommodative\" in his -- that's his term. With all these non-standard measures that they talk about. Trying to find --", "But no --", "-- different ways.", "But no new", "No.", "-- non-standard measures.", "No.", "So, he's continuing --", "Extending them, though.", "He's extending -- he extended the refinancing, and he extended the full allotment there until July of next year.", "Yes.", "So -- but no new measures.", "No, no new measures. And in -- so the interest --", "What's he waiting for?", "Well -- he keeps saying that it's up to the governments to do their part to have all this massive, massive changes to their economies, because the bank can only do so much. And he seemed a bit more irritated today than he has in the past when people keep asking him, why don't you do this? Why don't you do that? The timing. So, it seems to me like he thinks, again, that governments have got to do more of the restructuring of their economies, but that takes a long time to fix.", "Jim, there was an extraordinary tweet from His Holiness the Pope. The pope tweeted today, \"My thoughts turn to all who are unemployed often.\" I mean, it's one thing to say that. But this is the best bit. \"Often as a result of a self-centered mindset bent on profit at any cost.\" Pope Francis --", "Yes.", "-- saying that.", "He wasn't saying that about Mario Draghi, he was saying that about people who are making money in the stock markets. Because while all this is going on, of course, the stock markets continue to rise. And he sees that, the pope, apparently, on the back of the problems in Europe. But it was interesting, because Mario Draghi was asked about this at the very end of the Q&A;, and he kind of stumbled through his answer. Let's take a listen.", "We are -- let me use the word -- well, yes. I would use the word \"frustrated,\" yes, certainly. We view improvements in the financial markets. We think financial markets are the only and the necessary channel through which monetary policy is needed. You don't go around with helicopter money, throwing money. Just -- you have to -- in Europe, you go through banks. You don't have capital markets, as they said in the United -- as you have in the United States. And so, we have to go via the banking system. And so, that's why in my press conference, I tried to give you a very detailed reading of different indicators, because it shows how closely we're trying to examine and analyze reality to see where these impulses that we've been transmitting to the economy since now a long time get translated into better wealth or better, lower unemployment, better economic activity.", "And there, of course, he's talking about the transmission mechanism along with what the pope had to say.", "Jim, many thanks. Let's just have a quick thought of some other things that the pope actually said. Some of your reactions, @RichardQuest, by the way. Martha B. Bayenda, \"He is a pope, not a finance expert.\" Luis Hernan Cortes, \"The financial and economic problem is moral.\" Promise: \"Yes, we need regulated capitalism.\" \"I attended St. Thomas's University,\" says one. \"If you want to know about mindsets profiting at any cost.\" It was a fairly muted reaction on the stock markets. Investors had had a rate cut priced in for some weeks now, so rates and opinions are very much divided. That's the way the market went over the course of the session. Very little movements, bearing in mind that there was a rate cut. In New York --", "-- a very different state of affairs. Up 120 points, a strong session, nearly a one percentage gain on the day. The New York market is rallying sharply. Now, South Africa's finance minister tells this program Africa is the hope of the world, and South Africa is at the heart of the hope. After the break, Pravin Gordhan. Also, we'll stay on the African continent mining for gold. When the price plunges, so do profits. The chief executive of Randgold Resources. It's QUEST MEANS BUSINESS, good evening."], "speaker": ["RICHARD QUEST, HOST", "QUEST", "NATE SILVER, AUTHOR, \"THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE\"", "QUEST", "QUEST", "MARIO DRAGHI, PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK", "QUEST", "JIM BOULDEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "QUEST", "BOULDEN", "QUEST", "BOULDEN", "QUEST", "BOULDEN", "QUEST", "BOULDEN", "QUEST", "BOULDEN", "QUSET", "BOULDEN", "QUEST", "BOULDEN", "QUEST", "BOULDEN", "QUEST", "BOULDEN", "QUEST", "BOULDEN", "QUEST", "BOULDEN", "DRAGHI", "BOULDEN", "QUEST", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "NPR-32907", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2011-07-01", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/07/01/137557915/teachers-across-the-country-face-layoffs", "title": "Teachers Across The Country Face Layoffs", "summary": "Teacher contracts expire in many places Friday, and for many teachers, those contracts won't be picked back up. State budget deficits and increased cuts are taking their toll on school districts around the country. In Milwaukee, 354 teachers are going to be laid off. In Chicago, a thousand. Smaller school districts are losing positions too. Robert Siegel speaks with Sean Cavanagh, who covers state education policy for Education Week, about the cuts — and what they mean for the upcoming school year.", "utt": ["American education is so decentralized it's hard to get a fix on what's happening nationally. But that's what Sean Cavanagh tries to do. He covers state education policy for Education Week, and joins us now. Hi.", "Hi, good to be here.", "And first, do you have any sense of how many teachers could be laid off in the coming school year?", "Well, there's no real way of knowing. And the estimates, as you mentioned, do vary considerably from state to state. The estimates of total layoffs for school employees were up around 60,000; but some of those have been pared back a bit as state revenues have picked up a bit and things have looked a bit more optimistic. But there will be layoffs and they will be significant in many, if not most, states.", "And when you write about layoffs in one city or state or another, do you see recurring patterns of who's getting laid off, what kind of teachers or what point in their careers that they're at? Or does it vary a great deal?", "For a long time, teachers who had more seniority were most likely to be protected, although many states right now are moving away from that.", "Short of layoffs, I assume school districts are also cutting a great deal. Typical ways of cutting spending?", "A lot of cuts to extra curricular programs. We see cuts to professional development, you know, the training that teachers get every summer - a lot of that is going away or at least being put on hold. Districts are avoiding making repairs to buildings, putting off maintenance; they're putting off the purchase of textbooks and technology. Any expense that can be conceivably pushed down the road without upsetting parents, school board members, others in the community, are likely to be put on hold for quite some time.", "Well, what effect does this latest way of layoffs have on the relationship between school districts and teacher unions?", "I think that this has been a very difficult time, a very strained time in terms of the relationship between state legislatures, state school boards and teachers unions. Teachers unions are fighting to protect, quite frankly, the jobs of their members. State legislatures in a lot of states are trying to cut expenses in many of the ways that directly affect teachers; benefits, cuts to health care, cuts to pensions, and changes in collective bargaining which states argue will bring down the cost of districts.", "It sounds like a tough job market for teachers right now.", "Oh, no doubt. There's a lot of uncertainty about not only what's ahead for the fall, but realistically, state budgets aren't likely to rebound for another two to four years at least, and perhaps even longer.", "Well, Sean Cavanagh, thank you very much for talking with us.", "Well, thank you.", "Sean Cavanagh, who covers state education policy for Education Week."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SEAN CAVANAGH", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SEAN CAVANAGH", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SEAN CAVANAGH", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SEAN CAVANAGH", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SEAN CAVANAGH", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SEAN CAVANAGH", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "SEAN CAVANAGH", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host"]}
{"id": "CNN-136945", "program": "HOUSE CALL WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA", "date": "2009-4-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/11/hcsg.01.html", "summary": "Investigating Natasha Richardson's Death; Healthy Foods That Could Be Keeping You From Losing Those Last Few Pounds", "utt": ["Good morning. Welcome to HOUSE CALL, the show that helps you live longer and stronger. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Thanks so much for watching. You know, there are still some unanswered questions about Natasha Richardson's tragic death. I decided to investigate. I headed to the slopes to talk with experts to try and get some answers about this. And, headaches and the weather. I get these headaches all the time. Learn why erratic temperatures could be making you sick. Then, healthy foods -- yes, healthy foods that could be keeping you from losing those last few pounds. Sound familiar? We've got the culprits. But first, the untimely death of Tony Award-winning actress Natasha Richardson. It was supposed to be a relaxing ski get away at Mont Tremblant in eastern Canada. But 911 calls obtained by the Canadian newspaper, \"Globe and Mail,\" it illustrates what some doctors in the Quebec Province have been saying publicly for quite some time, getting to a trauma center fast simply can't happen here no matter who you are.", "It was Monday, March 16th. The conditions were clear, cold and sunny on the Montain when the first 911 call went out. In French, an operator dispatches an ambulance to the Mont Tremblant resort. A woman has fallen. (on camera): 12:43 p.m., a call comes in. Natasha Richardson has fallen somewhere on these slopes, gentle beginner slopes. What no one could have known then was that when she fell, she hit her head hard enough to fracture her skull and start bleeding on top of her brain. The clock had started ticking for Natasha, and that closest trauma center, two-and-a-half hours away. (voice-over): Richardson likely doesn't know what was happening to her. She is up. She is walking. (on camera): By 1:00 p.m., 17 minutes after the initial call, an ambulance did arrive here, but Natasha Richardson was already heading back to her room. She said she felt fine. I can tell you, as a neurosurgeon, that's not unusual. Something has a significant blow to the head and then has what is known as lucid interval, where they do feel fine, but that pressure is still starting to build up in the brain. (voice-over): The paramedics are told to stand down. Richardson says she doesn't need medical attention. (on camera): The Mont Tremblant ski resort is considered one of the best in eastern Canada. Yet, there are no medical helicopter services here, which got us wondering if this was less about the tragic story of Natasha Richardson and more about anybody who chooses to ski here. Remember, the closest trauma hospital is two-and-a-half hours away. (voice-over): Richardson's story is about to take a turn. (on camera): 2:59 p.m., another 911 call comes in. Natasha Richardson has been at this resort for more than an hour and she's feeling sick. From a head injury like this, that typically means she has a headache, she's feeling disoriented, she may have trouble seeing. 3:09 p.m., about 10 minutes later, another ambulance comes in here. The paramedics go inside. They work on Natasha for about 33 minutes. Precious time here before they bring her back into the ambulance. What we now know is that she was suffering from an epidural hematoma. (voice-over): An epidural hematoma, it occurs when a blood clot forms between the skull and the outer layer of the brain. Too much pressure is causing brain damage. Every moment counts.", "When symptoms are apparent, it can be a matter of 30 minutes to an hour to 90 minutes before there is major deterioration.", "Dr. Liam Durkin is a neurologist with the Montreal Neurological Institute.", "It is a rapidly deteriorating situation and the distance might have been just too much by, you know, by ambulance.", "And that's the point. It happened to be Natasha Richardson, but for anyone who suffers a head injury on this mountain, a trauma center maybe too far away. (on camera): Under the best of circumstances, it would have taken her a few hours, more than two hours to get to Montreal, the closest trauma center. Is that close enough?", "It's difficult to say.", "Back in the ambulance, Richardson is lapsing in and out of consciousness. (on camera): It is now 4:20 p.m., Natasha Richardson is brought to this hospital here in Sainte-Agathe. It's only 38 minutes away. But here's the problem -- it is not a trauma center. And they can't provide the sort of care that Natasha needs. Keep in mind, it was recommended that anyone who has Natasha's condition needs to be at the trauma center within 60 to 90 minutes. It's now been three-and-a-half hours. (voice-over): Way too long since she fell on the mountain. And doctors here, without the right equipment, without the right facilities, eventually send her to a trauma center in Montreal. She arrives close to 7:00 p.m. Time has run out. Twenty-four hours later, she is flown to New York, where she's taken off life support and where she dies. Flight time from the Medevac helicopter from the mountain to a trauma center is about 15 minutes. So, could it have saved Natasha Richardson? No one can answer that question. But let's pose the question this way: if this happened to you, what would you want?", "Now, that goes without saying, as a neurosurgeon, I always recommend people wear helmets when skiing. That's the first point. Also, I want to be clear, there are some excellent neurosurgeons in Montreal. Just getting to them, that maybe was the problem. Many of the officials talked to us about the area and on this issue but would not go on camera and refuse to make a comment officially. Now, here's a question: have you been having more headaches than normal? It could be the rising temperatures. I'm going to explain. And also, a third of smokers who want to quit may have some new inspiration, their pets. But first, this week's medical headlines. New evidence linking heart failure to people with larger waists, but it's not the weight that should have you concerned."], "speaker": ["DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN HOST", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "DR. LIAM DURKIN, NEUROLOGIST, MONTREAL NEUROLOGICAL INST.", "GUPTA", "DURKIN", "GUPTA", "DURKIN", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "GUPTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-258452", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2015-06-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/30/ath.02.html", "summary": "Christie Announces Run for Presidency; Dozen Clinton CI Workers Put on Leave; Interview with Rep. Michael McCaul.  Aired 11:30a-12:00p ET.", "utt": ["We must tell each other the truth about the problems we have and about the difficulty of the solutions, but if we tell each other the truth everybody, if we recognize the truth and hard decisions today will lead to growth and opportunity tomorrow for every American in this country. What are those truths? What are those truths? Those truths, we have to acknowledge that our government isn't working anymore for us. We have to acknowledge that and say it out loud and we have to acknowledge that it's the fault of our bickering leaders in Washington D.C. who no longer listen to us and no longer know that they're supposed to be serving us. We need to acknowledge that all of that anxiety and those failures are not the end, they're the beginning. The beginning of what we can do together. What we need to decide is that we can make a difference. That we can stand up and make a difference in this country. You see, that's why I love, that's why I love the job I have. That's why I love my job as governor because kids ask me all the time. The fourth graders that come to statehouse every week, they ask me -- the two questions that are always asked. One -- what's your favorite color? Always. Second, they always ask me what's your best part of your job? And I always tell them it's that I wake up every morning knowing that I have an opportunity to do something great. I don't do something great every day, I'm human. But every morning I wake up with an opportunity to do something great. That's why this job is a great job and that's why President of the United States is an even greater job for a greater number of people. I have spent the last 13 years of my life as US Attorney and governor of this state fighting for fairness and justice and opportunity for the people of the state of New Jersey. That fight has not made me more weary, it has made me stronger and I am now ready to fight for the people of the United States of America. America is tired of handwringing and indecisiveness and weakness in the oval office. We need to have strength and decision-making and authority back in the oval office and that is why today I am proud to announce my candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States of America. And now, and now, as Livingston, New Jersey turns it's gaze to the rest of America today, what do we see and what do we have to confront? We need a campaign of big ideas and hard truths and real opportunity for the American people. We need to fix a broken entitlement system that is bankrupting our country. We have candidates who have said, we cannot confront this, because if we do we'll be lying and stealing from the American people. Let me fill everyone else in, the lying and stealing has already happened. The horse is already out of the barn. We've got to get it back in and you can only do it by force. We need to get our economy growing again at 4 percent or greater and the reason we do is because we have to make this once again the country my mother and father told me it was. That as hard as you work, that's as hard and high as you'll rise. That's not the case anymore, we can't honestly look at our children and say that to them. Because we have an economy that is weak and doesn't present them with the same opportunities that Mary Pat and I were presented with in the mid-1980s when we graduated from college. When we graduated from college, we didn't worry about finding a job, we were worried about picking which job was the best for us. We didn't worry about whether we were going to be successful, we knew if we worked hard we were going to be successful. This country and its leadership owes the same thing to my children and yours I'm ready to give it to you. We need a tax system. We need a tax system that's simplified and won't put CPA's like my dad out of business. We need to get the government off the back of our people and our businesses with regulations and we need to encourage businesses to invest in America again, not overseas. Invest in our country and our people. And in a world that is as dangerous. As dangerous as frightening as anytime I've seen it in my lifetime, there is only one indispensable force for good in the world. And it is a strong, unequivocal, America, that will lead the world and not be afraid to tell our friends we'll be with you no matter what. And to tell our adversaries that there are limits to your conduct and America will enforce the limits to that conduct. Well, here it comes. After seven years. After seven years, I heard the President of the United States say the other day that the world respects America more because of his leadership. This, this convinces me, this convinces me. It is a final confirmation that President Obama lives in his own world, not in our world. And the fact is this. After seven years of a weak and feckless foreign policy, run by Barack Obama, we'd better not turn it over to his second mate Hilary Clinton. In the end, in the end, everybody, leadership matters. It matters for our country, and American leadership matters for the world. But if we're going to lead, we have to stop worrying about being loved and start caring about being respected again both at home and around the world. I am not running for president of the United States as a surrogate for being elected prom king of America. I am not looking to be the most popular guy who looks in your eyes every day and tries to figure out what you want to hear, say it and then turn around and do something else. When I stand up on a stage like this in front of all of you there is one thing you will know for sure, I mean what I say and I say what I mean and that's what America needs right now. And unlike, and unlike some people who offer themselves for the presidency in 2016, you're not going to have to wonder whether I can do it or not. In New Jersey as governor, I've stood up against economic calamity and unprecedented natural disaster. We have brought ourselves together, we have pushed back that economic calamity and we are recovering from that natural disaster and that's because we've lead and we've worked together to do it. As governor, I've proven that you can stand up and fight the most powerful special interest this state has to have and stand up and stop them, but at the same time reach across the aisle to our friends in the democratic party and say if you have a good idea I'm willing to work with you because that's what our country needs. And as governor, I've never wavered for telling you the truth as I see it and then acting to make sure that you know that is the truth as I believe it in my heart. You know, as a candidate for president, I want to promise you just a few things. First, a campaign without spin, or without pandering or focus group tested answers. You're going to get what I think whether you like it or not or whether it makes you cringe every once and a while or not. A campaign when I'm asked a question, I'm going to give the answer to the question that's asked, not the answer that my political consultants told me to give back stage. A campaign that every day will not worry about what is popular, but what is right. Because what is right is what will fix America, not what's popular. A campaign that believes. That believes in America that is great as the hopes and dreams that we want every one of our children to have. Not a campaign that tears people down, but a campaign that rebuilds America to the place where you and I grew up and where we want our children to grow up in again and where we want free people around the world to grow up in, in their countries as well, that's what America's always stood for and that's what this campaign will stand for. And all the signs, all the signs, \"Telling it like it is,\" but there's a reason for that. We are going to tell it like it is today so that we can create greater opportunities for every American tomorrow. The truth will set us free, everybody. All the years, all 52 years that I've spent in this state with our people have prepared me for this moment. We have no idea where and how this journey will end. But we know that it's only in this country, only in America, where someone like me could have the opportunity to seek the highest office the world has to offer. Only in America, could all of you believe that your voices and your efforts can make a difference to change a country as big and vast and powerful as this one. Only in America, only in America have we seen time after time after time, the truth of the words that one person can make a difference. You see, the reason that's true is because it's the only thing that's ever made a difference in the history of the world. One person, reaching out to another to change their circumstance and to improve the lot of their children and grandchildren. I don't seek the presidency, for any other reason than because I believe in my heart that I am ready to work with you to restore America to its rightful place in the world and to restore the American dream to each one of our children whether they live in Livingston, or in Mendham, Newark or Camden. Paterson or Jersey City. No matter where they live across this country, we need to make sure that every one of those children believes that their president who not only speaks to them, but who hears them, who hears them and understands that their voices, that there is what makes any American president great. If you give me the privilege to be your president, I will wake up every day, not only with my heart strong and my mind sharp, but with my ears open and my arms open. To welcome the American people no matter what party, no matter what race or creed or color to make sure that you know that this is your country too. We are going to go and win this election and I love each and every one of you. Thank you very much.", "Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, is in. Running for president. You know, 18 months ago he was on top of the polls in the possible Republican field. Now he has slipped become because of troubles in his home state and scandals as well. But today, with an impressive announcement speaking for nearly 30 minutes with no teleprompter, no prepared speech, wandering around the stage and the message he was sending to the voters in that room and around the country is one of strength. He says, he is a strong leader. The kind of leader he says that the nation needs.", "Stop worrying about being loved around the world and start worry about being respected once again is one of his lines. With us now to discuss CNN's Chief National Correspondent and host of \"Inside Politics\" John King, CNN's Political Chief Analyst Gloria Borger and former Republican Presidential Candidate and former Governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty. Great to have the team here. So John and I were discussing of all of us, Governor, you're the only one who actually run for president. So first question to you, when you see, when you heard this speech from Chris Christie and you know his, and you know his record, what's the path forward for him do you see as he runs?", "Well, first of all, I think he's positioning himself as the blunt talker or the brash talker. I think there's an appetite for that. There's a market for that. And people want strong, clear leadership and I think the speech was a great example of his ability, his capability, his charisma, his communication skills. One problem he's going to have is there's somebody else in the race now who is trying to be more brash and that's Donald Trump. And so he's been trumped so to speak. I don't think Donald is going to be the nominee but Christie is going to have to -- Christie is going to have to outlast Donald if he wants to have sole claim to being the brash, blunt talker.", "And, and, and that's just one of his problems. He can't out brash Donald Trump. He can't out -- you know, I'm a successful governor of a blue state John Kasich. You know, he has this prompt. He's blocked every which way he turns, John.", "He is, and yet he has to turn that problem into an opportunity, and as Governor Pawlenty just said, he does have a skill set. Now, he will -- he's got a very steep hill in front of him, he has got the New Jersey economy, he still has a federal investigation of what we call Bridgegate, some other issues in his home state that people will hit him with in polls is going to shrink. That being said, there's no front-runner in the race. Zero, zero.", "Exactly.", "And so, if he does the John McCain strategy, camp out of New Hampshire, straight talk, just like McCain did in 2000, did it again in 2008, if he can come back in New Hampshire and win that state or you know, come in to quote -- remember, we're going to have 16 candidates probably. He's the 14th in. If he can compete in New Hampshire and come out at some point 16 will become eight will become six, will become four but he needs a win early. So don't count him out because of the field. To the governor's point about Donald Trump too, that's an opportunity for Christie as well. Somebody in this field is going to try to break out of the pack by taking on Donald Trump in the debate and we'll watch this play out.", "And to John's -- one of John's important point that you're making John. Gloria Borger, is look at what has been going on in the State of New Jersey. John mentioned his approval rating. The Fairleigh Dickinson poll is in at 30 percent in his home state. His home state is facing major economic issues with that at home how does he run nationally if he's got this dragging him down?", "Well, he doesn't talk about it -- he's not going to talk about that. You know, Bobby Jindal has some of the same problems, Scott Walker has some of the same problems, unpopular at home, running for the presidency. I think he's in a crowded part of the Republican field right now. Not only, you know, not only because he's sort of a more moderate Republican, talks about compromise, Jeb Bush and John Kasich may be, may be with him there, and I think he's, he's facing for the first time in his political life, he's the insurgent, and that's how he's going to play it. Not only the truth teller, but the insurgent candidate who is going to come back, who is going to woo you with the skills that Tim Pawlenty was just talking about. I mean, what he just did right now is pretty impressive, right? Half hour speech, off the cup. I'm the straight talker. I'm going to say what I mean, I'm going to telling you the truth. We got to talk about our problems. That's going to go over pretty well in a state like New Hampshire. The question is whether he can carry that on in a very, very conservative state like, like South Carolina or even do halfway decently in a, in a, in a state like Iowa. You know, he's got to be the comeback kid right now, and he's not used to being in that position.", "No, but I will say you know, his campaign team, they like this. They like the idea of Chris Christie being out there and being a fighter, and what we just saw wasn't subtle.", "Sure.", "I mean, he was saying he's going to fix entitlements even if he has to do it by force. He said he's ready to fight. I mean, these are the words he's using whenever he can. You know, Governor Pawlenty, you have been out there, you know, on the stump interacting with the Republican voters before. What do you think, and I'm not talking about just New Hampshire here because you spent a lot of time in Iowa, what do you think that traditional Republican voters, the, the right of the party, the conservative social voters, what are they going to make of Chris Christie when he gets out there?", "Well, I think the conservative voters, the base voters are still going to have a little bit of question about is he sufficiently conservative? There's room for an establishment candidate. There's room for conservative candidates. I think the winner of the nomination will be somebody who can appeal to conservatives but not scare the establishment. So Scott Walker is that kind of hybrid candidate. Marco Rubio is that kind of hybrid candidate. One of Chris' opportunities and challenges to re-establish himself not just as a blunt talker and the -- a favorite of the establishment, but can he re-establish some connectivity with conservatives that he's going to need to win some of these states and be the nominee.", "Governor, are you going to be endorsing anyone?", "I might, but I haven't yet.", "Just checking. Just wanted to make sure before we moved along, John.", "It's so fascinating race in a sense that Christie has what I called, the Romney problem. He's a northeast Republican in a Republican party that says Romney lost and we don't want you again. Number one, the strength of the Republican party is in the Midwest where Governor Pawlenty is from and Governor Walker is from and in the south. But this is -- look, we have eight current or former Republican governors in this field.", "A big...", "That's fascinating.", "Big economy.", "Yes. Then five senators or former senators. And then, the thing that's interesting to me and this is what Chris Christie is going to go. His title is Governor if you look at the national polls, Jeb Bush is first in the low team, then you have Donald Trump and Ben Carson. People are fed up with politicians. So that where's this whole truth teller authenticity, I'll tell it like it is and not a traditional politics.", "Not just promising.", "And the idea that send a bull to Washington, Washington's the China shop, I'm the bull, let me go. That will have appeal to voters.", "Want to go ahead, Gloria?", "And you know, these debates, I think, to add on to John's point, are going to be really important for Chris Christie if he gets into the first debate.", "Yes.", "I was talking to New Jersey Governor Tom Kean, former New Jersey Governor has sort of a mentor of Chris Christie's but has sort of ups and downs in his relationship with Christie but one thing he said to me is he's a brawler. He said \"I wouldn't want to be staring him down at a debate because Chris Christie is great debater and will take you on.\" And somebody whose low in the poll something we remember from the last time around with large Republican field these debates were really important, and this is one way people on Christie's staff and someone like Tom Kean believe he can distinguish himself because he's really good at, that at being in your face and you can, you can be sure he's going to do that.", "Gloria Borger, John King, Governor Tim Pawlenty, thank you so much for being with us. To cover this announcement.", "Thanks guys.", "We do have some breaking news we want to get to right now. There's been a new bombshell in the investigation of the Clinton Correction Facility. The prison where two inmates escaped. We're now hearing that a dozen prison workers, a dozen, have been placed on leave as investigators try to figure out how these inmates pulled off the escape. Our Sara Ganim is standing by with the details. Sara?", "Hey, John, good morning. Yes. We're just learning moments ago that 12 staff members of the Clinton Correctional Facility were put on administrative leave in light of this investigation that involves possible drug trafficking in this prison. Now, I want to go to exactly who's been put on administrative leave. We know that the superintendent, Steven Racette, and the deputy superintendent, Stephen Brown are among two of three executive team members who were put on leave and then nine more corrections officers, securities staff, also placed on leave. Now, this is an investigation that sources are telling CNN came from this escape but is not directly related to this escape. Authorities began looking into the prison after Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from this facility and they found that there were inmates inside who were getting access to and doing heroin and that there was some indication of inappropriate conduct on the part of the staff members. And so now they're looking into whether or not there was some sort of drug trafficking between the inmates and the staff members going on inside this prison and whether or not these two inmates who escaped may have had been involved or have had special privileges that allow them access to certain to parts of the facility because of the corruption that's going on inside. John and Kate.", "The intrigue, the intrigue and the questions surrounding Clinton Correctional continues. Sara Ganim, thanks so much.", "No kidding. We're also looking at more breaking news overseas. Tunisia's interior minister has now named two additional suspects in Friday's massacre at a beach resort in Tunisia that claimed at least 38 lives, most of them British tourists. Take a look at this. Also new video showing unarmed hotel workers racing toward the sound of gunfire, but it was already far too late for many of the guests, shot and killed on that beach. A Tunisian official told CNN that the 24-year-old gunman had some sort of ties to terrorists in neighboring Libya but it's not yet clear if it was ISIS which has taken credit already for the bloodshed. Let's get more from CNN's Phil Black covering the story in for us in Tunisia. Phil, what more are you picking up?", "Yes, Kate, what also isn't clear is whether or not the Tunisian authorities here hold this theory about Libyan connection because of solid information or because it's simply a logical line of inquiry. Remember, there was a massacre here targeting western tourists less than four months ago in the capital Tunis. Around two dozen people were killed then. Two gunmen in a similar sort of attack were found to have had links and training across the border in Libya. That increasingly failing state where you make the point ISIS has got a foothold and other groups are building their control there as well. They're also looking for accomplices here in Tunis. They've arrested some of them. The investigation is focusing on three of the gunmen's roommates but they say they're also looking for two more and today the interior ministry has released two photos of those, Kate.", "Phil Black in Tunisia for us. Phil, thanks so much. It's such a horrific tragedy made only more horrific as you see these videos popping up. We're also looking at new concerns this morning about the threat of terrorism here in the United States coming up around the July 4 holiday. Intelligence officials they are warning local law enforcement agencies across the country of possible domestic attacks around the holiday.", "They are very concerned. As concerned as they have been in some time and this all comes on the heels of the terror attacks in Tunisia we just saw, France and also Kuwait. We spoke about this threat with Congressman Michael McCaul, the chairman of the house committee on Homeland Security. Mr. Chairman, there's a great deal of concern over the fourth of July holiday. I'm wondering if you can give us the latest on the situation and what this concern is based on.", "Well, we just arrested an ISIS follower yesterday that was planning to build an explosive device to hit a landmark. We had another individual last week to blow up the Gorge Washington bridge. It seems like the number of arrests recently have increased and so has the chatter over the Internet. And so we have a threat stream coming in based on several factors. You as the three attacks on three continents overseas by ISIS. The ISIS spokesman has called for Jihad over Ramadan which we're right in the middle of. We have the anniversary of the Caliphate yesterday and now we have the fourth of July holiday coming up. The convergence of these events I think have the FBI and Homeland Security officials very concerned right now, particularly when you look at the Twitter accounts, the Internet chatter coming out of Syria into followers in the United States. They are attempting to activate to carry out these terrorist plots in the United States.", "Mr. Chairman, we do find that these bulletins from the FBI and DHS, they're often issued around holidays. But the former deputy director of the CIA, he said -- he's, he's -- he just said that there's nothing routine about this one for him. Is there something different this time around for you?", "Well, I think, you know, you look at the joint intelligence bulletin, it talks about possible targets on fourth of July events and parades and that is a very significant -- I would not -- look, people need to be vigilant, enjoy the fourth of July, celebrate the -- America's birthday, but at the same time just be aware there's a higher threat out there with respect to that. It is concerning to intelligence officials and counterterrorism people like myself to remain on guard. I anticipate you're going to see more and more arrests as we lead up to the fourth of July holiday and that's to get these people off the streets so they can't conduct a terrorist attack.", "You discussed Friday, bloody Friday, three attacks -- Kuwait, Tunisia, in France as well. A lot of people are wondering where these attacks were coordinated. But does it even matter?", "It really doesn't matter. And they say was it inspired, or operational or driven? The lines are blur now, the fact is, you know, ISIS taking credit. They are ISIS motivated, they are ISIS inspired and they are carried out in furtherance of the ISIS mission. So you had a very bloody attack in Tunisia that could happen in the United States. You had the Kuwait attack and another attack in Paris. That shows that they're not just limited regionally to Iraq and Syria now but rather can conduct external operations outside the region in three different continents. They want to do that very much the United States.", "The question remains, especially in light of this bulletin, how big is the threat directly to the homeland. There are new numbers out from a research group in Washington that says that nearly twice as many people since 9/11 in the U.S. have been killed by White supremacists or anti-government fanatics over Radical Muslims. Is led directly from ISIS here on the homeland, is it overblown at all?", "I don't think so. We've released some numbers in the last year alone. 50 terror plots against the west in the last year, since May we've had 12 terror plots that we've stopped in the United States alone. We've never seen these kind of numbers before and that's what raises our antenna and our concern.", "What will we be talking about on Monday. Do you think we're going to get through this weekend. Do you think law is going to be smooth? Do you think law enforcement is prepared?", "We're prepared. We are stopping any potential suspect we can but I pray we get through the weekend and the fourth of July with no incident. I think that's what serve hoping for but we have to be vigilant.", "At the very least. Thanks so much.", "Thanks so much.", "Thanks, John, thanks, Kate.", "It's great to see you. We hope and pray we get through this fourth of July weekend. He seems very concerned at this time around about the threat here at home.", "Very concerned.", "Absolutely. All right. Thank you so much for joining us At This Hour, folks.", "All right. Special coverage of a presidential news conference along with the leader of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff begins with Wolf Blitzer, starting right next."], "speaker": ["GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE, NEW JERSEY", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "TIM PAWLENTY, FORMER GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA", "BERMAN", "JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONENT", "BOLDUAN", "KING", "BOLDUAN", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST", "BERMAN", "BORGER", "BERMAN", "PAWLENTY", "BOLDUAN", "PAWLENTY", "BOLDUAN", "KING", "BERMAN", "KING", "BERMAN", "KING", "BOLDUAN", "KING", "BOLDUAN", "BORGER", "BOLDUAN", "BORGER", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "SARA GANIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-251981", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2015-03-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/25/lvab.02.html", "summary": "US Raid Kills ISIS Number Two Man.", "utt": ["All right. Breaking news right now out of the Pentagon. We have just learned some significant new details of the raid that left the man that many analysts call the number two in command of ISIS dead. We now know that U.S. Special Forces were actually trying to take him alive. Barbara Starr with me from the Pentagon. We've just learned this in the last few moments, so what happened?", "Well, Poppy, some of the details are still sketchy. But things are beginning to be filled in. Sources are telling us that in fact they were trying to capture this man, Qaduli alive. That U.S. Special Operations Forces swooped in on helicopters at this location in Syria trying to take him alive. They wanted to interrogate him for everything he knows and he may well have known quite a bit, being the so-called finance minister of ISIS. And as you say, many people saying second in command to the leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Now, by all accounts, what happened is as the special operations forces moved in on their helicopters, on the target, it was a vehicle he was riding in, something happened. And we don't know what it was. That made it not possible for them to get him alive. That is when the gunfire erupted and as he was killed. We don't, in all candor, we don't have all the details. But we do know they were trying to get him alive. Bring him back to Iraq, interrogate him for everything he knows. They were not able to finish that part of the mission. And they now believe he is dead. But, what should really be underscored here, you have U.S. Special Operations troops moving into Syria. There are no friendly forces on the ground for those troops. It was one of the most dangerous missions there can be. And we are learning that thankfully, no U.S. troops killed or wounded in the mission. Poppy?", "Wow. That's incredible. And our thanks to all those men and women putting their lives on the line in this mission. Barbara Starr, thank you so much, from the Pentagon. Up next, a team of elite police officers getting ready for the next time the terrorists try to take this country. They are tracking homemade bombs. We will show you how they train to do that next."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-283474", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-05-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/07/cnr.04.html", "summary": "El Chapo Guzman has Been Transferred To A Prison in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "All right. Thanks so much for joining me. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. We are following breaking news about the notorious drug kingpin known as El Chapo. CNN has learned that he has been transferred to a prison, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, right across the border from El Paso, Texas. CNN's Nick Valencia has been following this story. He joins us now by phone. So Nick, what more can you tell us about how long El Chapo is expected to remain at that new prison?", "We weren't given a timeline, but we were told a senior Mexican federal law enforcement official that El Chapo was transferred very, very early this morning to a penitentiary in Ciudad Juarez, from the prison where he was being held, just outside of Mexico City", "So, Nick, as you're talking, we're also seeing re-wrap video, when you had a chance to see the area where El Chapo escaped, which was supposed to be a very fortified prison, which you are saying now they want to reinforce it. So wait a minute. So after he escaped, they didn't try to fortify or better fortify that prison. They are only wanted to do now to now after he was captured and now transferred to another facility possibly temporarily?", "There's a number of thing that has us scratching our heads here. The logic, there doesn't seem to be very much logic behind these decisions by the Mexican government officials as to their reasoning, as to why they're doing this now, all of a sudden. That's anyone's guess. What we had heard leading up to this report right now was that he was taking another step towards extradition. Now we are hearing from different officials that they're fortifying the penitentiary where he was being held. It really doesn't make sense, even as I'm hearing myself saying this out loud, this prison would be, as we've reported last hour, Fredricka, would be equivalent of the super max penitentiary that we have in the United States. The", "Interesting. All right. Nick, don't go far. Stick around, in fact. I also want to bring in justice reporter Evan Perez. Because, Evan, I understand you have some additional information about where potentially El Chapo would go in the U.S. if indeed transferred.", "That's right, Fredricka. We know that a decision has been made to transfer him to Brooklyn to stand trial on federal charges. Now, this is a well-laid plan that the U.S. officials have been working on for months now, once the Mexicans, once the Mexican government decided that transfer him to extradite him to face charges here in the United States. That is something that they've been working on, especially on the security angles. So now that he's been transferred to Juarez, the question is, how quickly they're going to turn him over to U.S. authorities and then from there, he will be transferred quickly to Brooklyn. That's where he's going to stand trial. And Brooklyn really presents a couple of advantages for the United States justice department, because it has a very secure federal detention center that's right in the court complex there and that makes sure that, you know, you can put him on trial and transfer him from his cell to the courtroom without really any security challenges. It is right there, seamless. This is something that was decided in recent weeks after all the U.S. attorneys, there were about six U.S. attorneys offices around the country that had cases, active cases and charges against El Chapo Guzman. And it was decided that Brooklyn would be the case that would hold the trial. You can bet that's going to be one of the Mideast high-profile, most anticipated trials in the nation, certainly when that happens.", "So Evan, what's the timetable, potentially? Anything you're hearing about when he would leave Mexico and enter the U.S.?", "We don't know yet. This certainly came as a bit of a surprise that they were moving him to Juarez. And I can't imagine that the Mexican government wants to keep him there very long. Obviously, the prison where he's being held right now or where he was being held was considered the highest security prison in the nation. So to move him from there, it's probably not something that they want to do in Juarez for very long. So you can bet that those are conversations that are happening right now with U.S. officials. Again, they're trying to keep a lot of this close to the vest, because all the security concerns, as Nick was mentioning, all the different concerns about whether or not the cartels were trying to get him out, whether he could depend on people to help keep him secure. So that's always a top concern with this country prison.", "And then, Evan, if seven U.S. states want to prosecute El Chapo, you mentioned that he could potentially be at this federal center in Brooklyn. Once and if he is prosecuted in that state, in that borough of Brooklyn, would he then be potentially transferred to other states for prosecution or would that effort be somehow consolidated so that it is -- prosecution takes place in one central location.", "No, that would be the one central location. And it's quite a little bit of a controversy inside the department, because as you can imagine, these prosecutors all want to try him. This is a very high- profile case. They all think that they have good cases. Certainly, we all thought that Chicago has the best chance to try El Chapo Guzman, because they have had a year's long investigation, and they have had what many people thought was the most developed case against him. But the final decision made by the judge's department was that he would be -- that he would stand trial in Brooklyn. And once that happens, then, you know, the anticipation is that if he's found guilty, then he would be sent to a high-security, maximum security prison here in the United States. Obviously, under U.S. and Mexican agreements, there is no chance of a death penalty, because Mexico does not have the death penalty and does not recognize and does not allow the citizens to be transferred to the United States, if there is the chance of a death penalty. So that would be something that would have to be off the table. But he would spend the rest of his life in a federal lockup, a maximum security lockup, if he is convicted in Brooklyn.", "And Evan, his capture, his escape, his capture, in Mexico, in large part, it was credited -- he has friends. You know, there are people who he paid off. There are people who have their allegiance to him and protected him in hiding and protected him in his escape. Why do they think that would not be the case in the United States?", "Well, you know, they have a very good record here in the United States. Nobody's ever gotten away or escaped from one of these high-security federal lockups. Obviously, we know that this cartel and other cartels, Sinaloa cartels and others have friends, have operations in the United States. That's one of the major concerns for this cartel. But one reason why the United States has sought to bring him here is because they know that this is the cartel that's very active. It's got its tentacles all over this country. And this is the reason why the justice department wants to send a message with this case. The anticipation is that the U.S. does not have the same problems that Mexico does with the corruption in the prison system. It's just a different game here. Nobody has ever escaped from one of these maximum security lockups in the United States. And so the anticipation is that he's probably better -- that he's more secure for him to be in this country than in Mexico.", "And then, Evan, you know, just to refresh the memory of many people, his capture, El Chapo's capture, came on the heels of that secret, but then highly publicized meeting between he and actor Sean Penn, as well as actress, Mexican actress of a telenovela. So can you refresh us memories as to whether Sean Penn in any way was made complicit or in any way complemented the ultimate outcome and if he in any way is facing a legal road of his own in his meeting with El Chapo when he was on the run?", "There is no indication at all that he could be in any legal jeopardy. In fact, the fact that -- in fact, his meeting with El Chapo was actually helpful to the investigation, to try to track him down and to try to find him. The U.S. was listening. The DEA has some very good wiretapping capabilities. The U.S. marshals were assisting the Mexican government, there's a lot of U.S. assistance that's not well known about right now that was used in trying to track down El Chapo. And they knew where he was, they knew when Sean Penn went, they were listening, they could hear when these conversations were taking place. They were monitoring all of that. And in some ways, Sean Penn's business down there actually helped the federal government in Mexico and the U.S. government know that for sure that they had the guy, they knew that this is where he was. So in some ways, his involvement was beneficial tracking down El Chapo. Now, as far as the actress, we know there are some concerns about perhaps to whether he was receiving money from the Sinaloa organization that's something that the Mexican government has been investigating, reported that in the past. And that is something that the U.S. has been keeping an eye on, as well. The treasury department has been keeping an eye on, because if any of that money made it through the U.S. financial system, then that is something that the U.S. would be very interested in. The Mexican government says it's investigating that part of it.", "And then Nick, back with us on the phone as well, are you getting any indication as to whether police or law enforcement or some reinforcement of that new facility where El Chapo have been significantly adapted for the length of his stay there?", "We don't know any of that. We don't know the fortification efforts, why they would not have taken those steps earlier, exactly what those efforts are. We had been told up until now, the most that he was doing was watching it 24/7, that he was heavily guarded, that he was being shuffled from cell to cell, being kept up at odd hours of the night. Just making sure that they always had eyes on him. What more could be done, we're not really sure about all of this. To Evan's point about the cooperation between U.S. and Mexico, I think it's really important for our viewers to understand that this is the closest that we have seen relations between the two governments, in at least 20 years, dating back to the 1980s, when DEA agent,", "Yes, lots of unanswered questions, still. This breaking news and we're able to bring to everybody. Thank you so much by way great reporting from our Nick Valencia and Evan Perez. Thank you. We'll have much more in the NEWSROOM straight ahead, including a look at that monster fire, already larger than New York City and it could double in size by tonight. The emotional toll, next."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN HOST", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on the phone)", "WHITFIELD", "VALENCIA", "WHITFIELD", "EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT (on the phone)", "WHITFIELD", "PEREZ", "WHITFIELD", "PEREZ", "WHITFIELD", "PEREZ", "WHITFIELD", "PEREZ", "WHITFIELD", "VALENCIA", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-132711", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2008-11-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0811/24/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Paris on Her Failed Presidential Campaign; Kanye West`s Astounding Claim", "utt": ["Now, on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, stars going public with their private pain. For the first time since her split, Madonna reveals what she`s going through. And Michelle Williams` emotional words about how she`s having trouble coping with Heath Ledger`s death.", "It was such a huge campaign and history, and to be involved in it was fun. And you know, I had fun with it.", "Are you kidding me? SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is right there at the American Music Awards. Paris Hilton opening us to about her failed run for the White House. And Kanye West says he wants to be bigger than Elvis. Thank you very much. But tonight, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s got to say, are you kidding me? TV`s most provocative entertainment news show continues right now.", "And I`m Brooke Anderson, coming to you tonight from Hollywood.", "Well, tonight, Kanye West, the next Elvis? Paris Hilton, presidential prognosticator? Yes, these are just two of the outrage moments from last night in Hollywood as SHOWBIZ TONIGHT was right there for the American Music Awards. Chris Brown and Rihanna were big winners as was the ever-humble Kanye West who compared himself to Elvis. Really, Kanye, Elvis? SHOWBIZ TONIGHT had the AMAs covered from the red carpet to backstage. We were running into everyone from Miley Cyrus to the Jonas Brothers to Taylor Swift. And yes, even Paris Hilton who revealed to us how she feels her fake run for the White House affected the real election. And she has some serious thoughts. With me tonight in New York, Ben Widdicombe who`s the editor-at-large of \"Star\" magazine. And in Hollywood tonight is Laura Saltman. She`s a correspondent for \"AccessHollywood.com.\" All right. We`ve got to start off with Kanye West. Now, Kanye always has a lot to say when he loses awards. And now, he`s running off at the mouth after winning an AMA he won for favorite rap or hip hop album. Watch Kanye.", "I`m going to push this music to the point where it was like in the `60s, in the `70s where you talk about Led Zeppelin and Hendrix and the Beatles. We will be the new Beatles, the new Hendrix. They say in any other industry, you know, you`re supposed to do better than the past, you know, like computers should get smaller and faster. But whenever you say, \"I want to be Elvis,\" they say, \"What`s wrong with you?\" But I want to be Elvis.", "Ben, I don`t know - are you like me? Do you think the sure fire way to turn people off and not become as big as Elvis is to say you want to be Elvis?", "Well, personally, I don`t see what is so wrong with aspiring to be as great as Elvis. But he really did seem to violate some unwritten rule of American hubris by saying that because he`s got such criticism. The blogs have gone off. Everyone is hating on him for saying it. Kanye is one of the most talented musicians of his generation. If anyone can pull it off, he can. But I think maybe for the sake of his fan base, he might want to cool it a bit.", "Yes. I mean, sometimes, simple thank you is nice. But I think for Kanye West, it`s out of the question. Laura, I mean, really, when you look at Kanye and his history here, it`s almost become part of his shtick to say something off the wall whenever there`s an open mike around, and particularly in the award shows, right?", "I don`t think it`s his shtick, though. I actually think it`s who Kanye West is. He says what`s on his mind. I fell like ever since that car accident he had in 2002, he`s always just been a little bit off, like there`s something a little wrong with him and he`ll just put it out there, things that you and I would never say, he has no problem saying.", "All right. I`m not even going to go there. I`m just going to move on. We have to talk about our favorite singer, socialite, and most recently, presidential candidate - Paris Hilton. Yes, she was right there at the American Music Awards. I`m not sure why still. But we remember that Paris was, of course, dragged into the presidential race when John McCain compared her to Barack Obama. That, of course, sparked Paris` fake but very active campaign for president. Last night, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT had to ask Paris what she thought her impact was on the historic real campaign. Watch Paris.", "It was such a huge campaign and the history. And to be involved with it was fun. And you know, I had fun with it and did some funny spoof videos and I think raised a lot of awareness for young voters. And I had a lot of - you know, I just had fun with that. That`s what life`s about.", "Did you happen to notice that Paris never said it inspired her to vote or that she learned from her experience? Ben, it was really one big performance for Paris Hilton, wasn`t it?", "A.J., I have long ago surrendered to the idea that it is Paris Hilton`s world and the rest of us are just as fleas on her Chihuahua. But you know, she does have a point there. The election was fun. So I think Michelle and Barack should just have her around for sleepovers so she can make one of her videos in the Lincoln bedroom and everyone will be happy.", "Well, you know, she certainly has stuff to say about the Obamas. And particularly, as someone who knows a thing or two about style, it was very interesting to hear her give the real winners of the presidential race, the Obamas, kudos for their style. Watch what she told SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.", "I think they`re both definitely style icons. They know what they`re doing. Very charismatic. They`re a beautiful couple, a beautiful family and it`s nice to have that in the White House.", "She actually can be eloquent when she speaks of what she knows. Laura, the Obamas have Paris` official style stamp of approval. Can they rest easy now?", "Oh, wow. They just should be so happy that Paris Hilton likes what they wear because she just always has to most fabulous outfits on. She never has any fashion \"noes\" herself ever. I mean, come on.", "All right. Let`s just move right along to another story, big, new right now. Rosie O`Donnell feuding again with Barbara Walters. Now, Rosie was on the \"Today\" show this morning. She was trying to make nice after she attacked Barbara and \"The View\" last week. It all started, of course, when Rosie said she felt like she had posttraumatic stress disorder from her experience working on \"The View.\" Well, I`ve got to tell you the \"Showbiz On Call\" phone lines - they went nuclear, I tell you. You`ve got to hear this one conspiracy theory from one of our viewers. Listen to this -", "This deal between Barbara Walters and Rosie O`Donnell, you all are getting played. I mean, the election is over with. Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Joy Behar have nothing else to fight about. Now, Rosie`s got the show coming up, so why not publicize each show? You`ve got to realize Barbara Walters is very smart and Rosie O`Donnell is incredibly smart. And there`s nothing better for ratings than controversy.", "All right. Well, Rosie has claimed this has nothing to do with publicity for her new variety show. Laura, are you with the caller here? Are we getting played or is it all about making noise for Rosie all the time?", "Rosie and Kanye should do a show together because the two of them, they just can`t keep their mouths shut. They have to say what they feel. I really don`t think it has anything to do with publicity for the show. I just think that somebody asked her a question and she says exactly what she feels. And I don`t think there`s anything wrong with that. I think more people should be honest in this business.", "A lot of people are being honest with their feelings as they call on \"Showbiz On Call.\" I`m not kidding when I tell you we`ve got a ton of phone calls. We heard from Jackie in Michigan. Now, Jackie got on the phone, took the time out to call on \"Showbiz On Call\" and she thinks that although Rosie is professing her love for Barbara Walters - now, she actually said \"I love you, Barbara\" on national television - she feels it`s going to be long before all that love go sour once again. Listen -", "I think that Rosie is always going to have a hatchet. It`s her mouth and it`s going to keep right on, cutting away at everybody - everybody, whoever she feels that she needs to cut up. She`s a wild hatchet lady and she just isn`t going to get rid of it.", "Yes. Wild hatchet lady. All right. Ben Widdicombe, over to you. What do you think? Is our caller, Jackie from Michigan right? Rosie is just a loose cannon. She`s going to fire away once again at Barbara or whoever it is that happens to get in her way on any particular day?", "It sounds like Jackie has her number. Maybe Rosie next feud should be with her. Listen, Rosie is fabulous. We love her. But she is just this big steamroller with a hair and makeup budget and she will roll over anyone who gets in her way. And we wouldn`t have it any other way.", "Now, what do you think of Laura`s idea that she had for this variety show? You know, Kanye West perhaps co-hosting with Rosie O`Donnell? I`m thinking Kanye - no, I`m thinking Rosie dressed as Elvis - maybe both of them, and they can just go nuts on people for the entire hour. Ben, I think -", "The ratings would be huge.", "I think there would be blood on the studio walls if you put those two together.", "And Laura, you`d be along with that?", "I think the ratings would be huge. Put those two together and let them say whatever they want. People would tune in for that.", "Seriously, Ben, though. Do you think once the smoke clears, we`re going to see how this variety show that Rosie is doing on Thursday does? Do you think it`s going to be a quiet time again for Rosie O`Donnell or is the momentum continuing to build and she does it on her blog almost every day now?", "I think there will be great things from Rosie on the variety special. You know, she says in a depressed economy, people want that kind of variety. The success of shows like \"Dancing With The Stars\" and \"American Idol\" show that people want that kind of soft variety entertainment. So I hope it`s a big success and she gets to see it that way.", "It will be interesting to see if you have to have controversy to the ratings one of these days. Ben Widdicombe, Laura Saltman, thanks for being here. All right. Brooke, you know, I bet our viewers have plenty to say about Paris and Kanye and we know they`re talking about Rosie.", "Yes. We would love to hear more from them, A.J. Call us at \"Showbiz On Call\" and let us know what you think about this or anything else that is on your mind. The \"Showbiz On Call\" phone lines are always open, always - 1-888-SBT-BUZZ; 1-888-728-2899. Leave a voicemail. We will play some of your calls right here on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. And your calls to \"Showbiz On Call\" are also now online on CNN.com/ShowbizTonight. Check it out. Hey, A.J., I had really hoped that Madonna and Guy Ritchie could make their marriage work.", "Never like to see a marriage go down the tubes. So I`m sad it didn`t work out.", "Yes. Me, too. Tonight, for the first time, Madonna is speaking out just what is she going through just days after her split. How was she coping. Also brand new, emotional words from Michelle Williams. She`s going public with her private pain about losing Heath Ledger. That`s coming up. And also this -", "Headlines were screaming Nicole Kidman is leaving acting. She`s quitting the business. You have to set the record straight.", "And did you see this? I bet you haven`t. Monkeys as waiters. No, they`re not going bananas. This is real. And you`ve got to see them in action. We`ve got it next.", "And now, the SHOWBIZ news ticker, more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news right now. (", "Screen Actors Guild says it will ask members to authorize a strike. 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{"id": "CNN-282899", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-05-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/01/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Caitlyn Jenner on Bathroom Bills; Obama's Final White House Correspondents Dinner; Leicester City: The Little Club That Could.", "utt": ["Rallies are planned around the world this Sunday. And celebration of international Worker's day or May Day as its know, looking here at images of a mass rally in Seoul, South Korea on this May Day. Some 30,000 people expected to turn out there, calling for better working conditions. In the U.S. Presidential Race, it is mathematically impossible for Republican Candidate Ted Cruz to secure his party's nomination on the first ballots at the convention in July. However, Cruz is trying hard to stop the Republican frontrunner, Donald Trump, from doing just that. Well, on Tuesday, the State of Indiana holds a very important primary. Cruz released two ads there, linking Trump with the Democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton. Here's one of those ads.", "Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are two sides of the same coin, both support the Obama Care individual mandate, both support taxpayer funding for planned parenthood, and both support letting transgender men go in little girl's bathrooms. Trump and Hillary, do we really want two big government liberals on the ballot in November?", "And as you heard in that, Ted Cruz is blasting Trump to saying that a transgender bathroom law in North Carolina is not a good idea. That law says the transgender people must use the bathroom that matches the gender on their birth certificates. And now, Miguel Marquez reports transgender advocate and celebrity, Caitlin Jenner, is now taking a stand.", "Oh my god, a trans woman in New York. I have to take a pee. Anyway, oh my god, a Trump International hotel. I love this.", "Call it the politics of case, the conservative republican transgender star, injecting herself into the national debate over controversial proposals banning transgender people from using public facilities based on how they identify.", "If Donald Trump dresses up as Hillary Clinton, he still can't use the little girl's restroom.", "In deeply religious Indiana, the issue, front and center.", "If you value religious living, the right of everyone of us to live according to our fate than according to our conscience, to seek out and worship God Almighty without government getting in the way.", "Religious voters here, crucial to Cruz, 72 percent of adult Indianans identify as Christian, 31 percent of them as Evangelicals. It is a full on battle for their support in his effort to stop Trump.", "It doesn't make sense to allow grown, adult men, strangers to be alone in a bathroom with little girls. And anyone who says differently is political correctness on steroids.", "Trump on the \"Today Show\" said Caitlyn Jenner could use any bathroom she wanted in his Trump Tower. Jenner who had expressed support but not an endorsement of Cruz took the billionaire up on his offer.", "Donald Trump said I could take a pee anywhere in the Trump facility, so I am going to go take a pee in the ladies room.", "Trump says his remarks only meant that transgender people using public facilities is a state not Federal issue. Cruz not letting up, running this campaign ad across Indiana. Evangelicals here already on the defensive after the failure of a controversial religious freedom built made national headlines. (", "But is it too little too late for Cruz?", "My mother gave me this bible.", "Trump's support among Evangelicals, surprisingly high throughout the primary, even vesting Cruz among deeply religious voters in a majority of states.", "I want to thank the Evangelicals.", "The politics of Cait. (", "Now, playing in the \"Who's your state?\" (", "OK. Thank you, Donald. I really appreciate it. And by the way, Ted, nobody got molested.", "Gender politics meets religion, meets the Republican Presidential hopefuls.", "The transgender bathroom controversy is now part of Senator Cruz' stump speech as he barn storms across Indiana. It is a state with 57 delegates at stake. It is not winner take all. The senator will need all or as many as he can get of those 57 delegates in the \"Who's Your State?\" And he hopes to stop Donald Trump.", "Miguel Marquez reporting there. And Washington, rolling out the red carpet on Saturday for the White House Correspondents Dinner. This was the last time Barack Obama attended the dinner at U.S. president. Donald Trump decided to skip the event. In his absence, Mr. Obama and the Comedian Larry Wilmore made plenty of jokes at Trump's expense. And that didn't spare others either.", "Good evening everybody. It is an honor to be here at my last and, perhaps, the last White House Correspondent Dinner. The end of the Republic has never looked better.", "Nice to be here at the White House Correspondents Dinner, whereas you know, they're going to call us next year, Donald Trump presents a luxurious evening paid for by Mexico.", "We've got the bright new face of the Democratic Party here tonight, Mr. Bernie Sanders. Bernie, you look like a million bucks or to put in terms you'll understand, you look like $37,000 donations of $27 each.", "I can't understand why everybody treats Donald Trump with kid gloves. And then I realized they're the only gloves that will fit his stupid little baby hand.", "Bernie's slogan has helped his campaign catch fire among young people. Feel the burn. Hillary's slogan has not had the same effect.", "There is a joke going around the internet that Ted Cruz is actually the zodiac killer, right? I'm not making that up, you know. Come on. That's absurd. You know, some people actually likes the Zodiac killer.", "Meanwhile, some candidates aren't polling high enough to qualify for their own joke tonight.", "Ted Cruz got zero delegates in New York, which is actually five more than I thought he would get for the Zodiac killer.", "Well that, I just have two more words to say, Obama.", "And with that, he received a standing ovation. Now, Leicester City football club takes its best shot if history in just about six hours from now. It can clinch an English Premier League title with the win over Manchester United. And we had seen this first after nearly being demoted from the Premier League after a miserable showing last year. Now, they can wrap things up in a season for the ages. Now, the beginning of the season, Leicester was facing odds of 5000 to 1 to clinch the Premier League title. According to the book \"Michael Petey Powell\", that means that with odds of 1000 to 1, Bono has a better shot of becoming the next pope. Singer Lady Gaga was more likely to become president of the United States in 2020. Their odd is just 500 to 1 according to William Hill. And with odds of just 250 to 1, the American rapper P. Diddy is more likely to be the next James Bond. Leicester has a strong ties to Thailand. Thanks to its owner to grew up there. His company, King Power, is on the front of the Leicester Jersey. And now, it looks to be behind a new wave of star footballers. Now, Christina Macfarlane visited Thailand to see how the club's success was inspiring young players.", "This is what affect Leicester City's success is having on the other side of the world, thousands of children, patiently queuing for the chance to become the club's next Thai star of the future, hoping one day to wear the King Power blue shirt. It's part of the \"Foxes\" new reality TV show in Thailand, taking place all over the country under the watchful eye of the team of scouts. It's just one example of how the club's Thai owners are giving back to their homeland.", "The owner of Leicester City is Thai and this is such a good opportunity to be able to see Thai's play in the U.S. Premier League. The show is just the first step to give Thai players that opportunity.", "It's not the only place the owners are making an impact. In August, Leicester City are rumored to be sending a team of coaches to help the national team qualify for the 2018 World Cup. If anyone knows about succeeding against the odds, it's Leicester.", "Good scout, great analysis can mean more than splashing hundreds of millions of dollars or pounds if the Thai football can take something from Leicester. I think they have the edge.", "Thailand's top sports presented Champ Euariyakul has seen first hand how the club's success is changing attitudes across the country.", "The problem with the Thai society is that, sometimes we're too humble. And when we said I have this dream to become the best player in the history of the game, people will say, you know what, you're too cocky. But now, (inaudible) has shown. If Leicester can win the English Premier League, the number one league in the world, then why can't Thailand qualify for the World Cup?", "But if Thailand doesn't succeed in the upper echelons of the game, it's here at the grass roots level, the real work needs to be done. Acadena Bangkok has been running a football education program here in the city's biggest slum for the past two years. The goal is to help these kids play their way out of poverty by providing a pathway to a footballing future.", "With these things today is to help them to have like a structure. They need to arrive on time, have the good food, sleep good. That's what difficult to implement here because they are living in the slum, and so the condition around them are not really good for that. It's possible for me to see them in the Premier League Spanish into about three years.", "Really?", "Yes.", "There may only be one Leicester City shirt I a sea of Barcelona, Man United and Liverpool, but there's no doubt who they all want to be.", "Jamie Vardy.", "Jamie Vardy.", "Jamie Vardy.", "f the club's influence continues to filter down from the top of the Premier League to a slum in the backstreets of Bangkok, it could be the beginning of a new era for football in the land of smiles. Christina Macfarlane, CNN Bangkok.", "And just a reminder, that match is six hours from now. Now, when you think of all the materials of going to the modern skyscrapers, you probably think concrete, glass and steel. Here in Hong Kong though, workers employ a more traditional resource to reach new heights. CNN's Ivan Watson has more on Hong Kong's bamboo scaffolding.", "30 stories of hanging on a bamboo pole. This is how they build and repair skyscrapers in Hong Kong with scaffolding made of bamboo. It's a common site in these urban Kenyans, towering ladders of sticks trusted by the workers who cling to them. It's all the more remarkable when you consider bamboo is technically the largest member of the grass family. To get a better sense of how this very modern city uses such an ancient technique for construction, I went to bamboo scaffolding school. So, this is the bamboo?", "Bamboo.", "Master Wan Chi-leung explains, because it's both hollow and strong, bamboo is lighter, cheaper and more flexible than metal scaffolding, and that allows him to work at dizzying heights. You've worked 88 stories up on bamboo? I could see a lot of clouds from up there, he says. The key to this job is a safety technique master Wan calls riding the bamboo, keeping an ankle locked around the pole at all times. You keep your gloves in your helmet?", "Yeah.", "As for the scaffolding, you make it look so easy, it's held together with simple knots made of nylon strips. Maybe you can finish this one for me because I've ruined it. I should probably stick to my day job. It goes up like that. The people who do this work are proud of their craft. Bamboo scaffolding is an art, the scaffolders says, a Chinese traditional art that can be traced back thousands of years. It's certainly an example of an ancient skill that continues to be taken to modern day heights. Ivan Watson, CNN Hong Kong.", "So, secured by your ankle from 50 stories, not for the faint hearted. And that's it, thanks for joining us. I'm Andrew Stevens, \"Supercharged\" is next here on CNN. But first, I'll be back with a quick check of the headlines. 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{"id": "CNN-60224", "program": "CNN CAPITAL GANG", "date": "2002-9-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/07/cg.00.html", "summary": "Bush Tries to Make Case for Regime Change in Iraq", "utt": ["From Washington,", "Welcome to CAPITAL GANG. I'm Mark Shields with Al Hunt, Robert Novak and Margaret Carlson. Our guest is Republican Congressman Roy Blunt of Missouri, the chief deputy majority whip. Thanks for coming in, Roy.", "Great to be here.", "Thank you. More influential Republicans told President Bush he must make a case for military action in Iraq.", "Do we want to know how close Saddam Hussein is to developing a nuclear bomb and the means to deliver it?", "The president sent Congress a message promising to seek its support, and he invited members to the White House.", "One of the things I made very clear to the members here is that doing nothing about that serious threat is not an option for the United States. I also made it very clear that we look forward to a open dialogue with Congress and the American people about the threat.", "Later, Vice President Cheney briefed congressional leaders.", "It wasn't conclusive, but it was helpful. The president needs to make his case not only to us but to the American people and to the international community, and that effort has now begun.", "President Bush also telephoned non-supportive French, Russian, and Chinese leaders and met today with his most important ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Al Hunt, is the president actually seeking advice? Or is he simply promoting military action?", "Mark, I think the president has clearly decided on military action in Iraq. The question is, how do you get there? And let's be frank, there is -- there is politics involved in this. \"The New York Times\" had a big story today about the president", "Yanked the piece that was supposed to be in Sunday?", "Yes.", "Roy Blunt, your own take.", "Well, I think, you know, we -- what we heard in the country when we were home in August was that they want a little more information here. My view was that really only the president has -- is in a situation to put everything together. He knew whether action was imminent or not, whether it need to be happen", "But Roy, Roy put his finger on something important here, Bob Novak, and that is that over August, the support for the president and the support for military action really grew, grew very soft in the country, and nervousness grew. And just two weeks ago, the president and, and Don Rumsfeld and Ari Fleischer were saying, what's this frenzy about Iraq? Now we've got a full-court press on Iraq.", "It's because the -- suddenly they realized, I think the administration has handled this very badly, Roy. I think they thought they were going to go to war, bomb the hell out of these people, with no international support, without convincing the American people. Now they know they have to do that. But they -- but it -- they haven't done it, they haven't done it well. The, the prop -- the, the performance by Senator, by Secretary Rumsfeld, who's an old friend of mine, was just horrible at the, at, at the, at the Senate. I've talked to several of the Republican senators. They were appalled. He treated them like reporters. He was, he was dismissive of them. On the other hand, the very select briefing by Dick Cheney and George Tenet to the four big leaders went off very well. I don't think that Tom Daschle was convinced, but he, you know, he -- he was -- he was impressed by some of the things he heard, which he did not -- he did not release. I think they could, they could say a lot more than they could to a big group. But the idea of a preemptive strike is unprecedented in American history. I don't, and a -- it -- in -- a lot of Americans have, have pause about it.", "Margaret Carlson.", "Well, let me just, let me ask a question here, because I frankly don't know the answer. I think you can make a lot stronger case that, that Saddam Hussein has been building weapons of mass destruction than you can tie him to September 11.", "Well, I think, I think...", "... he's given up on that.", "... if you could tie him to September 11, according to the congressional resolution that you all passed last September, you could bomb him tomorrow.", "... there's no evidence.", "... they've given up on that, they can't do it.", "But you can't", "Margaret's right, they've given up on that. I think the idea of regime change, we don't like that regime, there's a lot of bad regimes in the world, that is the -- I think now the whole thing gets down to weapons of mass destruction. Do they have them? And then what do you say was OK with sending, sending the inspectors, and then the line from the Pentagon, from the civilians at the Pentagon is, the inspectors don't do any good.", "Well, I think it's clear they have weapons of mass destruction. Now, whether they're nuclear capability or not, I don't know, but I don't think...", "It's dubious.", "... there's no...", "I mean, they don't have nuclear weapons now.", "There's really no, no doubt that they have biological and chemical weapons, or that Saddam Hussein would use them. He's used them before, he'd use them again. Clearly we are their enemy. At the same time, I'm not sure that the president won't be able to make that tie to terrorism. I think -- I don't want to presuppose -- I don't know anything, I'm not suggesting I know that he can. But he's going to make a speech this week to the United Nations...", "... he's going to make a, he's going to make a...", "... the president's speech is very important, but I think this is a time that cries out for really good congressional hearings on both sides. And I think certain questions ought to be answered by people in the administration. How imminent is the threat? Roy, I agree, there's a threat. How -- why is it different than six months ago when we said we had him in a box? Secondly, what are the ramifications that Bob raised of going it alone? I mean, could that destabilize Jordan and Pakistan? And thirdly, what's post-Saddam Iraq going to look like? Are we going, as Dick Cheney said, in to build a cradle of democracy? And how long will we stay...", "... going it alone is actually not as big a challenge for us as staying alone.", "Staying alone?", "And that's why I think we need to be sure...", "... that at least the Congress is supportive and hopefully our allies are. Tony Blair's visit, his comments the last week, are a big move...", "Let me just add...", "... and I think they'll be followed...", "Let me just add...", "... they'll be followed by the...", "Let me just add, Mark, I've been dealing with reporting at the Pentagon, and the uniformed military with their 10 divisions think they are really stretched...", "... they are really overcommitted.", "The point that Jim Webb, former Navy secretary, made this week. The other interesting thing is that George Tenet only testifies when he's with a policy maker. They won't let George Tenet go up alone. I don't understand that. Margaret, what's the final word?", "The fourth point I was going to make was that in 1991, when the United States was in Saddam Hussein's backyard, some of these very same people decided to pull away when he had the same weapons that you say he has now, the chemical and biological.", "Last word, Margaret Carlson. Roy Blunt and THE GANG will be back with another Bush judge turned down."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "THE CAPITAL GANG. MARK SHIELDS, HOST", "REP. ROY BLUNT (R-MO), CHIEF DEPUTY MAJORITY WHIP", "SHIELDS", "REP. HENRY HYDE (R), ILLINOIS", "SHIELDS", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SHIELDS", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-121332", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2007-11-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/13/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Bhutto Under House Arrest Again; Brooklyn Police Shooting; Gas Prices Rise Again", "utt": ["Welcome once again. And thanks so much for joining us. It's Tuesday, November 13th. I'm Kiran Chetry.", "And I'm John Roberts. Good morning to you. Breaking news out of Pakistan to tell you about, more chaos for a key ally in the war on terror. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto says it's time for President Pervez Musharraf to go. For the first time, she called on Musharraf to resign as president and military commander. She made that demand early this morning after hundreds of riot police surrounded her home and tried to crush another planned protest against emergency rule.", "We feel that to focus the police force on containing the democratic constitution in Pakistan is leading to the neglect of the real threat to Pakistan which comes from the terrorists and the militants. This police force should be concentrating on investigating and finding Osama Bin Laden, it should not be used to detain political leaders.", "Bhutto had planned to lead a 185-mile march from Lahore to the capital city Islamabad. State Department correspondent Zain Verjee is in Pakistan with the latest developments for us from Lahore. Good morning, Zain.", "John, the rally was really a bust. It fell flat. There were no masses out on the street marching or supporting Benazir Bhutto. Instead, there were clashes in and around Lahore, on the outskirts of the city of Karachi and Benazir Bhutto supporters also blocked the main highway between Lahore and Islamabad. Police sources say there was tear gas and there were some clashes there. Some people burned tires on the street. Behind me is Benazir Bhutto's home a few blocks around that way. She is barricaded by barbed wire, by armed guards and security forces carrying heavy arms, trucks as well. We really can't go anywhere near that home. It's a difficult situation for her but she is out there increasing her hardening of position. Today she says no way she wants to deal with general Musharraf or have a government or any kind of cooperation with him. She thinks that he should leave and leave not only as president, but also take off his uniform and leave as chief of the army staff. Also, deputy secretary of state CNN has learned John Negroponte will be in Pakistan later this week. It was an already scheduled visit on U.S. and Pakistan cooperation but, obviously, this situation is delicate and precarious both for Pakistan and the United States will be the priority.", "The crisis in Pakistan not over yet. State Department correspondent Zain Verjee, live via broadband from Lahore for us today. Zain, thanks. Kiran.", "We're following breaking news coming in to us now from the Philippines. Local media there in the Philippines reporting an explosion in the capital city of Manila. Initial reports saying the blast happened inside the Philippines House of Representatives. The Associated Press saying it happened at an entrance to that building. We're told several people have been injured. We're keeping a close eye on this story and we will bring you an update and the first pictures as soon as we get them. Meantime, border tensions flare between Turkey and Kurdish rebels in Iraq. Iraqi officials say that Kurdish helicopter gun ships attacked abandoned villages inside of Iraq. Now it is the first major action against Kurdish rebels since Turkey's prime minister met with President Bush earlier this month.", "Signs of the so-called surge or signs rather the so- called surge may be getting the job done in Iraq. A brigade, 3,000 to 5,000 troops are starting to head home to Ft. Hood, Texas. The Pentagon says its strategy has cut sectarian violence and see if a smaller force can main the level of security and if so cut the current force to 169,000 troops down to 145,000, that will be by next July. U.S. commanders also report a sharp drop-off in roadside bombings, rocket and mortar attacks. They say some of the drop can be explained by the thousands of ammunition caches that they have discovered. Breaking news in New York to tell you about this morning. A mother's frantic 911 call ends with her 18-year-old son dead on a Brooklyn street, reportedly shot repeatedly by police. Officers thought the teen had a gun but witnesses say it was just a hairbrush. AMERICAN MORNING's Alina Cho is live in Brooklyn where neighbors are outraged and are demanding answers from the NYPD. Good morning, Alina.", "Good morning to you, John. Keep in mind the shooting happened a little more than 12 hours ago, so the details are still sketchy, at best. At this point, police are not talking. But here is what we know. Around 7:00 last night, police responded to a 911 call made by the victim's mother. According to several reports, that mother said that her son was threatening her with a gun and some reports say that the 911 operator could even hear a man in the background yelling \"I've got a gun, I've got a gun!\" Police responded, either way. Once they got here, eventually, the young man, remember, just 18 years old, climbed out of the first floor apartment window and eventually crossed the sidewalk toward police, that's according to initial police report. Unclear whether police actually shouted a warning before firing and also unclear just how many shots were fired. Witnesses say as little as ten, possibly as many as 20. What is clear is that police say the young man was carrying something in his hand when he climbed out that window and had his hand in his pocket at the time. Witnesses say that object was not a gun, but a hairbrush.", "Brush in his hand, come on! No matter how the police came to the scene of this incident, no matter what happened, when it came to the scene, he did not have a weapon, period! He had a brush in his hand!", "The young man did not have a weapon. There was no weapon found. He did not brandish a weapon. He did not act as if he was going to engage in an active shooting with the police.", "As police have continued their investigation, the Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network was opened its own investigation. We should mention, John, that representatives of the National Action Network will be holding a news conference not far from where I'm standing later this morning.", "Alina, are we expecting to hear from the New York City Police Department today?", "Not today. It could happen. What we've gotten from a sergeant from the police department within the past hour is that when police talk, it will be at the highest levels, the New York City police commissioner, Ray Kelly. And what they're telling us, according to the sergeant, they are not worried about time, they're worried about accuracy as they continue this investigation.", "Alina Cho for us live this morning in Brooklyn, Alina, thanks. Kiran.", "There's some new information this morning on the San Francisco Bay area's biggest oil spill in nearly two decades and more questions about why the public didn't know sooner that 58,000 gallons of oil had spilled into the waters around San Francisco. The coast guard says it found out how bad the spill was hours before it told the city.", "There's no excuse with a four-hour gap between when we knew what the amount was and when notification should have been made to the city officials. I want to make sure folks know the unified command and anyone within that unified command knew the amount what we knew the amount, however, the gap became in the conversation and in the notification specifically to the entities of the city officials.", "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi whose district includes San Francisco demanded to know why it took four hours for the coast guard to alert local officials. The bridge ripped a 12-foot wide, 200-foot long gash in its side. 220 cruise ship passengers in Hawaii sick with the neuro virus. It's on the Norwegian cruise liner Pride of Hawaii. The ship returned home yesterday after a seven-day cruise around the island. Passengers who felt sick were quarantined in their cabins for 24 hours. Doctors say that patients can go from feeling fine to severe vomiting in a very short period of time. Children trapped and firefighters making dramatic rescues as a fire burned out of control inside of a Boston home. Eight adults and six kids were injured including a 2-year-old boy in serious condition. A firefighter found him inside of a room filled with thick smoke.", "I heard a faint cry and feeling around in there and I heard the baby on the bed.", "Just trying to get him out. We know what to do, it's a matter of having enough time to do it.", "Very brave firefighters saving lives. The firefighter actually put his own mask on the child and passed him out the window. A Boston Fire spokesman says a short-circuit is what sparked that fire.", "Nine minutes now after the hour and time to check in with our AMERICAN MORNING team of correspondents for other stories new this morning. New home foreclosure numbers with cities in California and Michigan hit the hardest. Ali Velshi at the business update desk with that this morning. Not good news.", "No. Stockton in fact in California taking the number one spot in the home foreclosures over the last three months. 1 in 33 homes in Stockton is in foreclosure. That means various things. It means you could get the notice or it could be foreclosed on. Detroit, number two. 1 in 33 homes. Riverside, San Bernardino, California, 1 in 43 homes and 1 in 48 for Ft. Lauderdale and Las Vegas which is you know a significant jump from that point. 77 of the top 100 metro areas reported in this report by Reality Track say they have more foreclosures in this past three-month period than the previous one. So still an up trend in those, John.", "Las Vegas number five is where the democratic candidates will be this Thursday and maybe we'll get a chance to ask them about that.", "That's right. That would be good.", "Ali Velshi this morning. Thanks, Ali. We'll see you soon. Jacqui Jeras is at our weather update desk this morning for Rob Marciano. She's tracking extreme weather in the Midwest this time. Hey Jacqui.", "We have upward trend, too and that has to do with the wind speed. That powerful storm that slammed into the Pacific Northwest yesterday is now bringing extreme winds from Montana all the way over to Minnesota. Let's go ahead and show you the storm system and talk about what kind of impacts you can expect. This is really a dry storm for the most part. You're not going to see a lot of rain ahead of it but expect to see wind gusts 50 to 60-mile-per-hour and critical fire danger conditions back there behind the system into the Dakotas. Elsewhere across the country today, we're expecting some low clouds and fog all across the northeastern corridor and bringing you light rain from the overnight to the early morning hours and when you see a situation like that, as advertised, we told you the airport delays will start to add up and we're really starting to see them now. Take a look at this. A ground stop in Boston until 9:20; Houston Inter Continental also until 9 and Philadelphia looking at ground delays about 30 minutes. So pack your patience with you.", "It's one of those Tuesdays. Jacqui, thanks. Kiran.", "All right. Thanks. There are more questions this morning about the sudden death of hip-hop star Kanye West's mother. Reports are now surfacing that Donda West, 58 years old, died after complications from cosmetic surgery. Here to shed some light on this is CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Thanks for being with us. There are reports that she actually visited one plastic surgeon who wanted her to go through some sort of health clearance with a doctor to get the okay. Is that a routine thing for certain patients?", "It's pretty routine. I think most patients after they get over a certain age or if they have certain health conditions will get the sort of clearance. Basically the surgeon will say we're going to have the internist check EKG, check a chest x-ray and make sure a patient is ready for surgery. Let me say just not the surgery, but the anesthesia itself, just putting a patient under general anesthesia is a risk to the body. They have to make sure the body is going to be able to tolerate that. Having these sorts of complications or problems with plastic surgery is pretty unusual, about 1 in 50,000 people have some sort of problem but these are some of the risks. Blood clots for example can develop. You've heard of this. Women, fro example, who are on birth control pills or some sort of hormones are especially at risk. Breathing problems, again due to the anesthesia. Some sort of heart problem that had never been a problem in the person's entire life suddenly may come to light under anesthesia. Allergy to medication, infections, these are the sort of things but really thinking about both the surgery and the anesthesia.", "Would you say plastic surgery is more or less risky than any type of other surgery that you have to undergo?", "I wouldn't but I've talked to a lot of people about this. I will say one thing. And that is that we did some investigating into this yesterday. Out of 50 states, only nine states have laws mandating that the facility where this sort of operation is performed be accredited. Again, nine states out of 50 have laws that say the facility where some of these procedures are being performed is accredited. That means 41 states don't. You have to be a vigilant customer here so to speak and check out your doctor and anesthesiologist and the facility. What are they going to do if you have an emergency? What are they going to do if something goes wrong? Do they take you to the hospital? Do they have a team that start your heart again? How does that transpire? That's something you need to check out.", "I asked that because if you're going in for surgery, let's say you have to have, usually your doctor is going to recommend a surgeon that, you know is highly accredited and that they trust. Oftentimes, with plastic surgery, you know, you can search the internet and find, you know, deals almost for different things and so it did raise the red flag.", "You hear about things people performing certain procedures in shopping malls and things like that. I think the most prudent customers will say that obviously raises some red flags. What is amazing to me people do home work on children and schools and neighborhoods and you have to do that with your doctor as well. Board certified or board eligible is something to look for and make sure the facilities are accredited to.", "It is a tragedy for the family of Donda West. Thanks a lot.", "Thank you.", "Coming up on 15 minutes after the hour now. A plant from the Clinton camp. A college student given a prepared question is telling all this morning and the inside scoop how campaign workers prepped her. That's coming up. And raising a child with Down syndrome. Many parents these days choose not to but one congresswoman accepted the challenge. Why she decided it was the right thing to do. That's ahead on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR", "BENAZIR BHUTTO, FORMER PAKISTANI PRIME MINISTER", "ROBERTS", "ZAIN VERJEE, CNN STATE DEPARTMETN CORRESPONDENT", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TYRONE JONES, HEARD SHOTS FIRED", "W. TAHARKA ROBINSON, NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK", "CHO", "ROBERTS", "CHO", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ADM. CRAIG BONE, U.S. COAST GUARD", "CHETRY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "ALI VELSHI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROBERTS", "VELSHI", "ROBERTS", "JACQUI JERAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHETRY", "GUPTA", "CHETRY", "GUPTA", "CHETRY", "GUPTA", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-17227", "program": "Breaking News", "date": "2000-10-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/05/bn.02.html", "summary": "Massive Protests Against Milosevic Mount in Belgrade as Kostunica is Expected to Address Crowd", "utt": ["Protests on the streets of Belgrade -- again, the protests continue for several hours now as they have stormed the parliament building in downtown Belgrade. Videotape that continues to come in to us here at CNN and in Belgrade. That's where we find CNN's Alessio Vinci, now live with us and, Alessio, we have been tracking this, now, for several hours. Does it appear that, any time soon, the protesters have dissipated with their chants and their marches in the streets there?", "As a matter of fact, Bill, what is happening at this time is that the protesters are reconvening in front of the federal parliament because the opposition leaders have called protesters who had dispersed because of the tear gas to reconvene in front of the parliament because they are saying that the opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica will address the crowd. So, certainly, the situation now in front of the parliament is somewhat calmer than 20 minutes ago, when a group of demonstrators tried to storm the federal parliament. They broke through police lines and they tried to enter the federal building. We understand from opposition sources that some opposition sympathizers have managed to enter the building. However, inside that building there are hundreds of riot policemen in full riot gear; and it is possible at this time that, even if some opposition supporters are inside the building, it does not mean that the opposition has occupied that building because it is possible that those protesters who are inside the building were either detained by the police or, perhaps, there is some kind of negotiations that we don't know of between the two sides. Opposition leaders, who have tried all along to keep these demonstrations to a peaceful resolution. As people were trying to storm the building, we could hear, through the loud speakers that were set in place for opposition leaders to address the crowd, we could hear them calling for peace, calling for calm.", "Alessio, you reported earlier that the opposition leaders have not encouraged this type of activity. However, it is thought, inside of Belgrade, that this is exactly what they wanted -- these type of pictures to come out of Yugoslavia and to be broadcast around the world.", "Well, you know, Bill, these pictures could, frankly speaking, could be used by both sides. The opposition, of course, is trying to show that this country is not a free country, that the people here are storming a building, and that they need to do that in order to have an election they think that they have already won. On the other side, those pictures could be used by the authorities here to install some kind of a state of emergency; to try to declare a state of emergency, which would mean that, then, those opposition demonstrations which, so far, have taken place will be no longer authorized. All those demonstrations, so far, have been authorized by the police. There have been no attempts by the police to break down the demonstrations, at least in the last couple of weeks. We have seen hundreds of thousands of people in Belgrade here last week. We've seen several thousands of them throughout the country, and police never tried to break those demonstrations. What we are seeing in front of the parliament today is a police force who is simply trying to contain demonstrators; not attacking them, not trying to break up demonstrations, but simply preventing them from entering the building. So, certainly, these are pictures that will be used from both sides. The opposition will claim that this is the only way they will be able to bring down President Milosevic, and President Milosevic claiming that he will have to react in some way to protect, what he says, is the legitimate government in this country at this point.", "Alessio, you mention the opposition leader about to speak there, forthcoming in Belgrade. Has there been any reaction from Slobodan Milosevic through all this today?", "Not today, Bill. We have not heard from President Milosevic today. The only reaction I heard so far was from state television, broadcast television, which is controlled, of course, by President Milosevic's allies. State television broadcasting a statement saying that the Democratic opposition of Serbia is trying to create mayhem, to create chaos in downtown Belgrade in front of the federal parliament; trying to destabilize the situation here. State television has launched a fierce campaign against the opposition here throughout this political election, and also in recent months. So, certainly, we have not heard from President Milosevic, but we know what his point of view is at this point.", "In some of the pictures we're seeing, Alessio, just to bring our viewers up to date, some of that has been on videotape that unfolded over the past two hours. There's a live picture, now, also available just outside the downtown bureau in Belgrade where it appears that a number of these protesters are headed peacefully, walking away in the opposite direction. Can you see those people from your perspective?", "Yes, Bill; what, basically, is happening now, is that you have a tense situation in front of parliament, but you also have several thousand demonstrators who walked away from the parliament where tear gas was used; and they are now convened here in front of the bureau. What I can see now, here, is most of these people trying to walk back towards the square because the opposition leaders announced that Kostunica, the opposition leader, is about to address the crowd; and, therefore, they're trying to reconvene inside the federal parliament -- outside the federal parliament.", "Couple more points to be made, Alessio: I don't know how far you are away from that federal building, the parliament building itself; but based on the videotape we can see, there's quite a bit of destruction that's been done to that building. Have you or anyone with the CNN crews been able to go over there just yet?", "Yes; what we've been able to establish so far is that, at least from one window, we saw a little bit of fire. Perhaps a curtain was on fire. And we saw a thick, black cloud of smoke coming from behind the building. Our crew there, on the ground, told me that, basically, either a car or some kind of an object was on fire. It was not coming from within the building. We are also hearing, Bill, some explosions from -- coming directly from the department. That might be, perhaps, more tear gas or, perhaps, the opposition supporters using fire crackers. It's quite -- the situation is still very much tense here. And it certainly does appear that the police have not managed to control the situation.", "Alessio, the crowd noise we're hearing right now. What is that, please?", "This picture -- the crowd is outside our bureau. We are about 500 yards away from the federal parliament, and these are people who have left the square in front of the federal parliament. So this is the situation about 500 yards away. The crowd here is very peaceful. They are animated, they are angry, but they are not trying to confront any kind of security forces -- also because there are no police here whatsoever. They are only inside the parliament.", "And, Alessio, as we continue our conversation here, I want to let our viewers know the videotape we're seeing now here in the U.S. is brand-new videotape that has come in and, apparently, the destruction of that building continues. Different fires in different areas and the smoke billowing out from the top. Alessio, we've spoken with a couple experts on the Balkans throughout the day here and a couple of them, chiefly in London and also in Washington, believe this is history in the making. They believe that this is truly the end of Slobodan Milosevic. Is there a feeling similar to that where you are among the protesters today?", "I would say it is way too early to say, Bill, if this is the end of President Milosevic. We heard, several times in the past that President Milosevic's end was about to come, and then he always remained in power there, where he is. So, certainly, these pictures are, at least, an indication that the crowd -- at least a portion of the crowd -- supporting the opposition here. He is no longer willing to wait -- to wait for President Milosevic to step aside voluntarily and, therefore, is trying to create a situation whereby storming, for example, the federal building or, perhaps even trying to march, later on, to the house of President Milosevic. They are trying to shake the very power of the country, the very system of the country. They've been trying to do so for the last 10 years or so. So, certainly, these are people who no longer will want to wait. People who understood that President Milosevic will not leave voluntarily and, therefore, in their view, this is the best way to try -- at least to begin, to set in motion a process that would eventually, perhaps, bring President Milosevic down. However, so far, it is way too early to say.", "And you mentioned Mr. Milosevic's house. Do we know, is that where he is right now? And if so, have there ever been protests in the past that have gone to his doorstep in Belgrade?", "Well, we don't know where President Milosevic is and we don't even know if he is here in Belgrade. What I can tell you is that attempts to reach the area where President Milosevic lives have been, in the past, met by strong reaction from the police. So far, we have not had that kind of reaction from the police. Only a couple of days ago, when students teased policemen, saying they were going to walk towards the area of Dedinje -- that's where President Milosevic lives -- riot police came out, there was a brief negotiation there with some opposition leaders and then protesters withdrew. So, certainly, there was no indication that, at least for now, the crowd is ready to pursue this attack against other buildings in town.", "And, Alessio, you've referred to it a couple times -- I think it's a point that should be noted, again, as we see this videotape here -- as protesters -- this appears to be the point when they, indeed, overran the police there on the steps of the parliament building and eventually made their way inside. We saw police, here, with batons in their hands. We've also seen police, now, fire tear gas and holding shields there. In return, the protesters have responded with rocks, et cetera. But you've made the point on several occasions that police, in large measure, have held their fire. How important has that been in order to maintain what we've seen thus far today?", "I think Bill, it is a significant development. I have covered several demonstrations in the past here, beginning in 1996. This is the first time I've seen such a police that is holding back. We have seen them, recently, last year, after the end of NATO's bombing campaign, police trying to break up demonstrations, beating people on the ground. We have not seen that. The police, at this point, have simply tried to contain the crowd. They have not acted harshly against those demonstrators. They didn't chase them, they didn't beat them. They simply tried to contain the crowd from entering the federal building, the federal parliament; and, also, they're using tear gas to disperse the crowd. It is, I must tell you, really an indication here that, perhaps on the one side the police did not receive the order to break those demonstrations, to hurt people and, on the other side, perhaps, the unwillingness from the police to carry out an order that they probably do not wish they want to do. At this point, it is in the interests of everybody, both of President Milosevic and those protesters not to be beaten because, obviously, then that would take everything to next level and everything could go anywhere. I mean, it's really hard to say how those demonstrations will develop in the next few hours. We will have to see.", "Indeed; Alessio, the other point to be made in all this is the elections that were held last month, but apparently not meeting the satisfaction of most people in the higher elements of the Yugoslav government. A court now ruled that, indeed, a new election should be held. An election that has not been met favorably by the protesters, who believe the opposition, indeed, won that particular election. But, in addition to that, I think it should be pointed out that we really do not know right now the next course of action -- be it legally or through the electorate, as to who will, indeed, take power in Yugoslavia. Is there a way to connect the dots between the different court rulings, what we have seen on the streets and the eventual future of Slobodan Milosevic as to who, indeed, will take power in Yugoslavia?", "Bill, what we are seeing today in the streets of Belgrade, is certainly a reaction from that constitutional court ruling last night which, basically, said in a few words that the presidential election that the opposition here believes it won, was null and void and they had to repeat it. However, in this report ruling, the constitutional court did not really say, first of all, why they ruled that way and what would be the next step. According to the federal prime minister, Mr. Milosevic would be able to remain in power until the end of term, that is in June next year. Therefore, perhaps people here, who have tried to storm the building, felt that they couldn't wait that long. There is also a sense among people here that this is, perhaps, their last chance to remove President Milosevic from power because they had 2.5 million people who voted in favor of the opposition candidate. By his own admission, President Milosevic received 10 percent votes less than Kostunica. Therefore, they know that, at this point, they are working against a weak president and security forces who have shown willingness to stand back and not react harshly. So, certainly, the events which unfolded in the last couple of hours are certainly a reaction to what happened here in the last few days and, especially, since last night when, basically, the constitutional court, which is filled with Milosevic's loyalists, ruled that the elections have to be repeated. By canceling the elections, they basically canceled President Milosevic's defeat in the first round.", "All right; Alessio Vinci, our Belgrade bureau chief, excellent work there, Alessio. We're going to cut him loose for a just a short time, here, to gather a little bit more information. But if you're just joining us, we'd like to let you know at this time, the videotape you're seeing: massive demonstrations, massive amounts of protesters on the streets of Belgrade storming the federal parliament building in downtown Belgrade. Tear gas has been fired by police there. Stones have been fired by protesters. A number of protesters did enter the building and inflicted quite a bit of damage on the physical structure of the parliament. In addition to that, we're waiting for a major speech by the opposition leader to address the thousands of people who have gathered in Belgrade. All this, a result of elections we saw last month that apparently have not been met favorably by the protester, who did, indeed, want the opposition to take over rule instead of Slobodan Milosevic. Again, some historians, some experts on the Balkans believe this could be the end of Slobodan Milosevic's grip on power in Yugoslavia; but, again, that continues to be somewhat of an open question at this time. We will try and maintain our coverage here in Belgrade. We'll also reestablish contact with Alessio Vinci from the Yugoslav capital and we also anticipate, once again, that speech in the center of Belgrade. Once that happens, we will bring it to you live. In the meantime, quick two-minute time out. 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{"id": "CNN-141307", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-8-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/04/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Obama Meets with Democratic Senators", "utt": ["President Obama just minutes away from a working lunch with Democratic senators. And among the items on the agenda, what would you guess? The economy, of course. Our Elaine Quijano at the White House. Elaine, hello to you, again. There have been the past couple days, I guess some good economic news, little glimmers of hope, at least with the stock market and also with Ford even reporting that sales were up. But some important things like job numbers. And also, we're talking about personal income fell 1.3 percent in June, which was worse than economists expected. Those are the things that really matter to a lot of people. So, what's the reaction from the Oval Office?", "Yes, and those are things, T.J., you're exactly right, that will no doubt be a part of the conversation here when 57 of the Democratic senators will be meeting here at the White House. We're told that three will not -- senators Byrd, Kennedy, as well as Senator Mikulski. She's got a broken ankle, apparently. But in any case, it will be a chance to sit down and talk about those issues and the president's priorities going forward. We know his biggest domestic priority, of course, in addition to the broader overall economy, is health care reform. The Senate leaves on its recess coming up here at the end of the week, and the president very much wants to make sure he drives home this message that he wants to see health care reform done by the end of the year. Other business, as you noted, the economy. Also the wildly popular Cash for Clunkers program, we're told. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters earlier today this meeting will be a chance for the president to reiterate that he wants to see the Senate go ahead and extend the Cash for Clunkers program. They think it's been good for the economy and good for the environment. They want to see it definitely continue. A lot on the agenda when the senators meet here in about half an hour --", "And remind us who got the invite to this lunch.", "It was all 60 senators.", "All of them.", "Sixty Democratic senators, I should say. Three for health reasons not coming, senators Byrd, Kennedy and Senator Mikulski, Barbara Mikulski, apparently having suffered a broken ankle, according to Robert Gibbs. So, she won't be making it today.", "OK. All right. Elaine Quijano for us from the White House. We appreciate you once agin. And the president marked his 200th day in office this week. Now, it's your chance to grade the job he's doing so far. You can log on to CNN.com/reportcard and see the results from CNN's \"NATIONAL REPORT CARD.\" That's Thursday night at 8:00 Eastern. Well, your 401(k) may be looking a little better lately. But you probably already knew that. It's probably not back to the pre- recession levels just yet, but stocks are rebounding from last year's crash, and Christine Romans of our CNN Money Team taking stock of the recovery.", "T.J., let's step back and assess your stock market investments. Anything tied to the major stock market averages are clawing back from the crash of '08. Stocks have now finished the best five months since 1938. Let's look at the S&P; 500. It represents the stocks of 500 different companies. It's considered the benchmark. It is now up 11 percent this year as of yesterday's close, back to levels not seen since last November. You can see on this chart a collapse all the way to 12-year lows in March, and then a sharp rebound. The S&P; 500, as of yesterday, up 48 percent from that March low. So, what does that mean for you? It means if you're still invested in the market, the stock portion of your portfolio is recovering. Why? Because the stock market is anticipating the economy will turn around. The economy is still very weak, but auto sales, housing, manufacturing, construction and earnings are showing signs of stabilizing. As one economist put it, the freefall of the skydive is over, the chute has been pulled and the economy is still falling, but now floating down. Skeptics see caution ahead. The jobless rate expected to rise to 10 percent, perhaps higher. Foreclosures continue. American consumers are spending less and paying down their debt. That's good for their personal finances, but it's behavior that could slow a recovery. No doubt this spring and summer rally has been powerful. You will notice it in your 401(k) statements, but you haven't made all your money back. The S&P; 500 price is still down 19 percent versus a year ago. It's got a long way to go, T.J.", "All right. Got a long way to go, as Christine said. So, are we getting there? Susan Lisovicz joining us now from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. How are things today?", "Well, the bulls are taking a little bit of a breather. Understandable, T.J., given the summer sizzler that we enjoyed in recent weeks. But, you know, Christine set the table for us very nicely. The market's rally has been, you know, because of these daily signs that things are getting better. Case in point, a new report that we got just this morning on pending home sales, which rose for the fifth straight month. Now, we haven't seen something like that since the summer of 2003. That's great. But we also got another report that showed personal income dropped by 1.3 percent. That is a big amount. That is a one-month drop, and that is not something you want to see. And it really speaks to why no economists I've spoken to is popping the champagne corks just yet. This is going to be a long slog coming out of this recession. Why is that? Because we feel that we're under pressure. With the jobless rate rising, with the average workweek shrinking, the personal income did drop a month before in May. It rose by a similar amount because of all the stimulus. The fact is, we are still suffering. What we do with our income generates activity, most of the economic activity in the U.S.. And, so, I think there's a little bit of caution you're seeing on Wall Street today. The Dow's right now on the plus side, just marginally. It's been kind of a seesaw session, T.J. The Nasdaq right now has turned positive, too. But we've been seeing for most of the morning, we've been seeing a selloff. Just a little bit of caution in the air. That's not a bad thing. In fact, that's even a healthy thing after the gains we've seen recently --", "Yes, and we could talk about some of those numbers, those job numbers and personal income. Those are things that people really, really feel. So, those are the things we'll keep an eye on. Susan Lisovicz, we...", "And we have a big jobs report on Friday, and that's probably the biggest headline of the week --", "All right. Well, we know you are on top of things. Susan Lisovicz, thank you so much. We'll talk to you again soon. And you can follow the stock market and all the financial news of the day. Just go to CNNmoney.com."], "speaker": ["HOLMES", "QUIJANO", "T.J. HOLMES", "QUIJANO", "HOLMES", "QUIJANO", "HOLMES", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "HOLMES", "SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "T.J. HOLMES", "LISOVICZ", "T.J. HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-228286", "program": "STUDENT NEWS", "date": "2014-4-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/11/sn.01.html", "summary": "Difficult Search for Malaysian Airline Plane; Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta Club", "utt": ["The forecast. Relatively quiet with the chance of hurricanes - that report leads of CNN STUDENT NEWS. Fridays are awesome. Here`s the deal. Forecasters from Colorado State University are looking at conditions for the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season. It officially runs from June 1st through November 30th. Though hurricanes can form at any time. This year, meteorologists expect things to be relatively calm with nine possible tropical storms and three likely hurricanes. On average, there are 12 tropical storms and seven hurricanes. One reason for a calm forecast is El Nino. It`s a natural climate pattern that means warmer water in parts of the Pacific that can have a calming effect on Atlantic weather. But forecasts are far from an exact science. In 2012, there were almost twice as many storms than experts expected. Last year, there were two hurricanes when nine were expected. Satellites, planes, ships and sonobuoys like the one you see in this YouTube clip drop from above diving into the ocean listening for anything that could be a signal from a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane. It vanished more than a month ago. No trace of the plane has been recovered. Signals have been heard beneath the Indian Ocean waves by several different listening devices on several different occasions. But to understand why it`s so hard to pinpoint the plane`s possible whereabouts, you have to go deep.", "Plunging to nearly 15,000 feet below sea level is a journey into a mysterious abyss, a journey few humans can even comprehend. The Boeing 777 is about 200 feet wide, 242 feet long. And possibly, so deep under the Indian Ocean that you`d pass the Statue of Liberty, the Eifel Tower and the tallest building in the world in Dubai on the way down. And still be only a fraction of the way to where the plane wreckage might be resting. Keep plunging, and you`ve entered a place sunlight can`t reach. The pinger locator is being told well below that, 4600 feet below the surface. Marine biologist Paula Carlson says at these depths marine life is unlike anything most people have ever seen.", "And then the deeper you go, you find less and less. They have to be very cold tolerant, they have to have - they might not even have eyes, they might be blind because they don`t need to see. There`s no light down there.", "Keep going towards the ocean floor, and at 12,500 feet below sea level is where you`d find the wreckage of the Titanic. Which took some 70 years to discover and where it`s still rests today. And if it were turned upside down at 14,400 feet is where you`d hit the iconic pick of Washington State Mount Rainier. Only after all that, would you reach the spot where search teams believe the pings from the flight data recorder are coming from. 148000 feet into the abyss. If that doesn`t capture the magnitude of this search, than imagine what one oceanographer described for us. He says, picture yourself standing on top of one of the highest picks in the Rocky Mountains looking all the way down and trying to find a suitcase. In the dark. The pressure at nearly 15000 feet is crushing, and very few manned submarines can even withstand it.", "There are only half a dozen of that can go to basically half the ocean depth with a number of countries having that capability. If it gets to the point of collapse, it basically implodes. It just crushes.", "Finding the plane is daunting, bringing it back from the deep even more difficult. Ed Lavandera, CNN.", "You might have had Sriracha before. It`s a hot sauce. On the Scoville scale, which measures spiciness, it`s about half as hot as tabasco. But a California city council is turning up the heat on the factory that makes it declaring the factory a public nuisance. This is all because of how it smells. People in the community of Irwindale, California, say a Sriracha plant that`s close to town, gives off spicy fumes. So spicy that residents say it`s giving them asthma, heartburn, teary eyes and nosebleeds. Since it opened, the plant has brought new jobs to Irwindale. And the company says it has state of the art air filters to prevent pollution. But because of complaints, the city has given the plant 90 days to clean up its act or representatives are threatening to make changes themselves.", "Time for \"The Shoutout.\" Winners of what sporting event are awarded a green jacket? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it, the U.S. Open, Kentucky Derby, Masters Tournament or Indianapolis 500? You`ve got three seconds, go. The Masters Tournament played at Augusta National Golf Club is synonymous with the famed green jacket. That`s your answer and that`s your \"Shoutout.\"", "Jack Nicklaus has worn that jacket six times as champion of the Masters. His first swim was in 1963. His last in 1986. The tournaments going on right now. It`s been held for 80 years. It`s one of those sporting events with both history and mystique. And it`s not just because of the way Augusta, Georgia looks in the springtime.", "Masters is the first major gulf event of the year, and it`s the unofficial start of spring. The Masters is much different than everything else because it`s held at the same gulf course every year. Augusta, national The reason they tournament is so exclusive is it`s still an invitation, it`s very much like getting invited to the member guest at your local club that bring people from all over the world to play in this thing, and it`s the greatest invitation that you can get in the game. The course changes almost every year. The course that they play in the 1930s bears no resemblance to the course they are playing today. Every year something it tweak, something is changed. President Eisenhower was one of the most famous members of the Augusta National. And he always had difficulty with the big pine tree to the left of the 17th fairway. Ike was a slicer, and he started that ball right at the tree and most of the time it got it hung up in there. He threatened to chop it down, and Clifford Roberts told him that he might have freed the world, but that tree was remaining. The Masters is the most sold after ticket in all of sports, because there is no place to go buy it. The tickets that have been around, people have had them for decades and in some instances, generations. You can get on the lottery program for either practice rounds or the part three tournaments. But to get in, it`s a very, very special treat. Perhaps the two most significant events in golf: where Jack Nicklaus`s win in 1986 still considered perhaps the greatest gulf tournament of all time. When the golden bear came charging back and became the oldest Masters` winner. The other was in 1997. When Tiger Woods burst on the scene as an amateur and became the youngest Masters` winner. Setting a record for margin of victory at an event. The green jacket was originally established so that people would know who the members were at the club. They wanted the members to all be wearing something distinctive, so that if a spectator or they call them patrons of the Masters had a question, they would know who to walk up to and to ask. First winner to receive a green jacket was Sam Snead in 1949. It was an idea that Bob Jones would make the tournament a little more special and set it apart.", "For our last roll call of the week, we are going to start out west and make our way cross country to the golden state in Temecula, California. Always glad to see some bulldogs watching. We`ve got them at Vale Range Middle School. In Circle, Montana, the eastern part of big sky country, there are some wild cats watching. They are at Circle High School. And on the East Coast, in the Granite State, the Panthers are poised at Three Rivers School. We found them in Hebron, New Hampshire. Growing up, I used to hate mowing the lawn. Then again, I never head this: oh, yeah. If you need a full-fledged motorcycle helmet to ride it, chances are, it`s for the best yard chore ever. Honda recently broke the lawn mower speed record with this. It weighs 308 pounds. It`s got 109 horsepower from a motorcycle engine. It gets to 60 in four seconds. That`s faster than you cousin`s Camaro. And it`s just the lawn mower speed record at 117 miles per hour. The previous record of 88 miles per hour just doesn`t cut it. It`s like they looked at that speed and knew they could do more. Technology was their motivation. The record was the grastification. They`ve got their golds and gear, kept their speed on the ground and sliced through that record with great zoizha (ph). We`ll have mower on news for you on Monday. Have a great weekend, you. END"], "speaker": ["CARL AZUZ, CNN ANCHOR", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PAULA CARLSON, THE DALLAS WORLD AQUARIUM", "LAVANDERA", "SYLVIA EARLE, OCEANOGRAPHER, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC", "LAVANDERA", "AZUZ", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "AZUZ", "STEVE EUBANKS, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, PGA.COM", "AZUZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-173836", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-10-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1110/11/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Pencil Lodged in Boy's Eye; Pencil Lodges In Boy's Eye, Close to Brain", "utt": ["Welcome back to AMERICAN MORNING. We have a very special guest this morning. His name is Keegan Tinsdale. He's 4 years old and he lives with his family in Mesa, Arizona. Nine weeks ago, he was practicing writing his letters at his grandma's house, sitting at the table when he fell off his chair. The little guy's pencil wound up lodged inside his eye socket and then deep into his head. Take a look at this brain scan. The white spot there you can see is the lead of the pencil. Doctors say he came within one-sixteenth of an inch -- one-sixteenth of an inch from death. Keegan, his dad, Heath and his mom, Heather, are with us live this morning from Phoenix. Good morning, you guys. And our senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, she's joining us live from the CNN Center in Atlanta. Mom, let me ask you first how this happened. He's writing his letters like a good little guy should, and he slips off of his share, and right away -- he was at his grandma's house, right? Right away folks knew something was wrong. Tell me what happened?", "He was at my mom's house and he was practicing, because he was supposed to start preschool the next week, and he actually was writing his letters and fell off the chair. When it happened, no one knew it happened. My mom thought just the tip of the pencil was in his little eyebrow right there. No one knew the entire pencil was in his eye.", "So what did she do? Did she call an ambulance? She knew something was wrong. She called dad. Dad, you're a --", "Calmed dad.", "You're a local firefighter. So when you got there, what did you see?", "She actually brought him over to me. I was at home, and his baby brother was sleeping at grandma's house. She loaded him up, brought him to me. When he got to me he was real pale, vomiting and -- didn't look very good. When I looked at his eye, his eye didn't look right. His eye was off to the left a little bit. Not really reacting very well.", "As a firefighter, you knew to look in his eyes to see what the reaction was and you knew that something was up. You loaded him up to the car and you took him to the hospital?", "Well -- I started to head to the hospital. It was a little later in the afternoon, and the hospital is in traffic a little bit. I actually stopped at the closest fire station and had those guys help me out a little bit.", "All right. I want to talk a little more, Heather, about what the doctors told you when you finally were starting to get this looked at. Had they showed you pictures of this brain scan? We just looked at some of those pictures. But when they were showing you the pencil inside there, what were you thinking?", "I was freaking out, because no one no what it was. We kept calling my mom and she's just kept telling us, it was the tip of the pencil. And then we couldn't figure out what exactly was in his eye. None of the doctors knew. So I -- then you see how far it went down in some of the scans and then you get nervous, because it's right by the brain and --", "It didn't go into the brain, right, Heather? It just -- I mean --", "No, it went right by.", "I can't decide, Heather, if this was the unluckiest little kid or the luckiest kid I've ever met.", "I mean, the chances of having the pencil go through right through that soft tissue but not hit anything major, you must be horrified and relieved at the same time.", "Yes. It was definitely -- it was insane. It was the craziest thing we've heard.", "I mean, you just look at him.", "He looks like a great little kid. He's wearing glasses, really just to protect his eyes, right?", "Yes.", "Does he have any eyesight loss? How's he doing?", "He does. He has a little eyesight -- he has 2400 vision in one eye. But he's doing good. He's tracking better. He's actually -- he's back to his normal self. He's playing hockey again and he's back to school. So he's adjusted so well.", "And, Keegan, when you were at Cardon Children Medical Center -- Keegan, I don't know how talkative you are. 4 years old, that is a tough age, but -- especially for predictability of toddlers. But, Keegan, did you get to meet some hockey players when you were at the hospital?", "Did you see the hockey players? Who did you meet? Who did you meet?", "Did you meet some favorites (ph)?", "He's shy.", "He is so shy. I'm telling you, I got kids that age. They would never even sit there. I want to bring in CNN senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen. She's in Atlanta this morning. Elizabeth, how crucial was this surgery in removing this from this little guy's eye? This must have been a pretty delicate procedure?", "Absolutely. A call out to Lisa Consuelo (ph), who was his surgeon at Cardon, because that pencil, Christine, was about a millimeter and a half away from his internal carotid artery. If it had gotten to that artery and poked it, he could have died. He could have bled out. So in the surgery, if she had made one false little move, she could have put it -- the surgeon could have put into that artery. But she didn't. She got it out safely. She said when she took it out, there was a gush of blood, which made her obviously, extremely nervous. But it turned out it was just blood from the initial injury. It wasn't blood from that internal artery. And she controlled the blood. As you can see, he was fine. It's interesting. We asked Dr. Consuelo, was this a complicated surgery, and she said, no, not really, it came out pretty easily. It was about half an hour. The real sort of anxiety time was just making sure that she didn't nick that artery.", "Elizabeth, you're a mom, too. All the things you could think of that could happen to your kids, this is not one of them. How many times have you heard your mom say, you better slow down, you're going to poke yourself in the eye? I'll tell you, this little guy was just sitting there writing his letters, Elizabeth?", "Unlucky and lucky at the same time.", "Right, he wasn't even running around anywhere. The thing is, you never know. Christine, as the mother of three boys, you will not be surprised to hear that --", "Oh, great. Says the mother of girls. Elizabeth Cohen, thank you. Keith, Heather and Keegan Tinsdale, we thank you so much for bringing your story this morning. We are so glad that it's working out, and we hope he can recover more of that eyesight, and everything works well for him. He's a cute little guy. Looks tough. Thanks, guys. Have a great day.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "By, Keegan.", "Say bye, Keegan.", "Oh.", "That's a great story. It's always a miracle, growing up as boy, and with my boy friends, how we made it this far without serious, serious injury, when you think of all the near misses we had.", "The day's still young, Velshi.", "All right, top stories just ahead and today's \"Romans' Numeral,\" 49 percent. Here's a hint. It's all about getting your name and message out there. It's 49 after the hour."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "HEATHER TINSDALE, KEEGAN'S MOTHER", "ROMANS", "TINSDALE", "ROMANS", "HEATH TINSDALE, KEEGAN'S FATHER", "ROMANS", "TINSDALE", "ROMANS", "HEATHER TINSDALE, MOTHER OF KEEGAN", "ROMANS", "HEATHER TINSDALE", "ROMANS", "ROMANS", "HEATHER TINSDALE", "HEATHER TINSDALE", "ROMANS", "HEATHER TINSDALE", "ROMANS", "HEATHER TINSDALE", "ROMANS", "KEEGAN TINSDALE", "KEITH TINSDALE, FATHER OF KEEGAN", "TINSDALE", "ROMANS", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "ROMANS", "COHEN", "ROMANS", "TINSDALE", "KEITH TINSDALE", "ROMANS", "KEITH TINSDALE", "ROMANS", "ALI VELSHI, CNN ANCHOR", "ROMANS", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-40519", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-9-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/27/lad.02.html", "summary": "America's New War: Keeping the States Safe", "utt": ["As we noted, President Bush traveling to Chicago today to unveil a new package of airline security measures. This an effort not only to convince Americans that it's safe to fly again, but also to try to boost the U.S. economy, the decline in the airline industry revenue having a ripple effect across the economy. The president will travel on Air Force One, but his secretary of transportation, Norman Mineta, on a plane at this hour to Chicago, a commercial flight. Mr. Mineta saying he wanted to take that trip as a symbolic gesture to try to convince the American people it's safe to fly again.", "And so we're trying to restore that kind of consumer confidence to be able to say, yes, air travel is safe. And I think given the number of people who are here at the airport at this early hour indicates that people themselves feel how safe it is.", "Joining us now for more on this debate in a discussion about how best to beef up airport security -- excuse those sirens here in the Washington area -- is the governor of South Dakota, William Janklow. Governor Janklow, thank you for joining us this morning. Prior to the president's", "Thank you very much.", "Thank you. I'm sorry for interrupting you there. Prior to the president's announcement, you took some steps in your state. Tell us specifically what you did, and what you're looking for now for additional steps from Washington.", "I'd be glad to do that. First of all, what I did was I ordered tactical units from the state and local governments. I put them under a unified command under some unique laws we have in South Dakota. I put tactical officers with side arms and automatic weapons dressed in their tactical uniforms, because I felt that it was incredibly important that our airplanes be safe, that the pilots and the crew be safe, and that our passengers be safe.", "One of the questions -- go ahead, sir.", "Yes, and in South Dakota -- you know, I don't know where trouble is going to launch from again in America, but I can tell you this: In my state, in my state, it's not going to be a launching pad for anybody. If a fight starts, our people are going to have automatic weapons. They are highly trained, they are highly skilled, and they'll use those weapons. We understand that it's a war, and please understanding something: Where I come from, when you have a war, you don't take -- you don't arrest people and put them on trial. You kill the people that are the war mongers, and then after the war is over, you arrest and prosecute their leaders. But in war, you kill the people that are coming to kill you, and that's what we're going to do in South Dakota.", "Very tough words there, Governor. Help me understand the line. You're talking about a war. You're talking about automatic weapons. Some governors think, perhaps, use National Guard troops at airports. But where is the line between convincing passengers they're safe and perhaps scaring them that if there are...", "Well, see...", "... armed guards there perhaps there's a problem?", "No. Sir, this isn't a matter of scaring passengers. Passengers are scared now. Passengers have been scared to death, because of the events that they've seen transpire in America. And so what we're doing in South Dakota is we're putting ourselves into the position where we're going to make sure that the passengers know they're safe. This isn't -- these aren't people that have automatic weapons who are going to spray them around the terminal. These are people that are highly trained, highly skilled and know how to use them. These aren't National Guard troops. The National Guard troops, by and large, are not people that are trained in these kinds of tactics. These are special weapons and tactical people. They are SWAT team people. They are people that are trained to use these weapons, and the key thing is they are going to use them to protect the airplanes, the passengers and the crew -- something that hasn't been done adequately in America. So it's not a matter of just giving people weapons and spraying them around the terminal. It's a matter of giving people weapons to kill folks that come that want to take over airplanes and fly them into a building, kill the passengers, kill the crew.", "Well, Governor, one thing that is not in the president's proposal today is allowing pilots to carry handguns. The pilot's union wants that. We are told -- senior administration officials tell us the president thinks that's a bad idea. Do you think pilots should carry handguns?", "Yes, you know, let me put it this way, sir: About 70 to 80 percent, they tell me, of all of the pilots are former Marine Corp, Navy and Air Force pilots. They've had combat training with side arms. They've learned to use side arms. These aren't people that willy nilly go around shooting. But let me tell you this: The tragic thing is is that in airplane hijackings all over the world, the only people that aren't armed are the people that are the victims. It's the enemy. It's the people that are at war with us -- the people that are at war with America. They come into airplanes armed, and that's why they're able to blow them up, that's why they're able to take them over, and that's why they're able to create these problems. These pilots have got to have something for an equalizer, and I don't know what the big picture answer is, sir. That I don't know. But I can tell you this: People that know how to use side arms, people that are going to be the victims and have their throats slit, people that are going to be killed and crashed into buildings ought to have the right to protect themselves with their weapon if they know how to use it.", "Let me ask you, sir, as I listen to you speak today, you are obviously very interested, very animated, very angry about this.", "I am very angry.", "These terrorist strikes were in New York -- obviously a capital of capitalism, if you will, in this country -- and here just outside of Washington at the Pentagon. I mean, mostly likely your state, sir -- I love your state, I have been there many times in campaigns -- I think most of the American people would not think of South Dakota, a small state in the heartland, not a major metropolitan center, at being at risk of terrorism.", "Sure.", "Are we in a cultural transformation here, if you will? You're talking about war.", "Sir, who thought that a field in Pennsylvania was a place for terrorism? Who thought three weeks ago they'd be flying into the Pentagon? Whoever thought people would fly a planeload of innocent people into the World Trade Center? This wasn't an attack by one army against another army -- one country formally with an army against another country. This war is against civilians. It's a war of terror, and I think everybody in America will have to respond, and we're gong to do our part. It's not a matter of the center of capitalism in New York. My state is a center of capitalism. In every state it's a center of capitalism. It's the state -- every state is a state of America, but more than anything else, sir, we are people -- the legitimacy of all governments -- all governments has to becoming first of protecting the people. No government in the world that fails to protect its people can be legitimate. We're going to protect them in South Dakota. As a matter of fact, I've asked -- I have offered to the administration that we will put armed marshals at state expense onto the airplanes that fly into and from South Dakota with federal training. I'm willing to provide the expense -- at South Dakota's expense to send them to the federal academies to have them highly trained by the U.S. Marshals, and then have them flying from my state to the airport out of state, and then coming back on every flight. I think all 50 states ought to do this in a very coordinated manner. We're at war, and we've got to kill the enemy. We can't treat this as a joke. This is a serious matter.", "Well, Governor, lastly, a colleague of yours, the Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, is the president's choice to head this new cabinet-level agency, designed to look at many of the steps you're talking about: how to improve airport security, how to improve security of state. Tell us your observations, your recommendations and your thoughts on Governor Ridge.", "Sir, I know Tom Ridge well. He's one of my very close friends as a governor. President Bush could not have picked a better person in America. He is going to do a phenomenal job. This is a blue-collar Vietnam War hero, who went off and fought when his country asked him to fight, not because he wanted to, because they asked him to. He's got courage, he's got brains, he's got tenacity. He's going to do the best job of anybody in America. He's going to help pull this together, while we kill the enemy, so that we can get this world on to making peace. Now, that sounds crazy, but that's the crazy world we live in today, sir.", "Governor Bill Janklow of South Dakota -- sir, thank you for your thoughts this morning. We'll check in with you in the weeks and months ahead -- appreciate your joining us this morning on", "Thank you. 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{"id": "CNN-25764", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2001-2-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/15/mn.09.html", "summary": "The First 100 Days: President Bush To Visit State Department Today", "utt": ["Turning now to President Bush and his first 100 days in office. After spending the first part of the week visiting U.S. military bases, the president now focuses on diplomacy. He visits the State Department later today. For the latest on this and some other items on Mr. Bush's agenda today, we turn to our White House correspondent Major Garrett. Good morning, Major.", "Good morning, Miles. As you said, after a week devoted to military policy, the president also wants to balance that week with an emphasis on diplomatic policy. It's a balance he's going to strike continuously throughout his presidency. He goes to the State Department to deliver a speech and sort of outline the familiar outlines or broad thrust of the Bush international policy, which is to emphasize humility, but also peace through strength. But the real important part of this strip is the symbolic importance of it. The president wants to reenergize the State Department, and he's going to swear in a new class of diplomats. Part of his mission over there is to get those people in the State Department bucked up. They often felt shunted to the sidelines during the Clinton administration. The Bush White House is well aware that the career diplomats at the State Department far outnumber the political appointees he will be able to place over there, so he wants to make sure the career diplomats are on his team and respond as favorably to him as they do to their new leader, Secretary of State Colin Powell. You might recall when the secretary of state started his first day at work at the State Department, he got a rousing welcome, almost a hero's welcome from the State Department employees who do feel they will have a much bigger role in Bush international policy -- Miles.", "All right, that's CNN's Major Garrett at the White House. Thanks very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "MAJOR GARRETT, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-102730", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2006-2-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/11/cst.02.html", "summary": "Mobile Homes in Arkansas?; A Daughter's Goodbye", "utt": ["Just when the warmest January on record lulls everything into thinking spring can't far away, Old Man Winter throws us a curveball. A powerful Nor'easter is taking aim at eastern seaboard between tonight and tomorrow. Blinding, blowing snow could make travel treacherous, at best. People are bracing for the worst. Monica McNeal is in the weather center. And Monica, I have a feeling this is the big one.", "Yes, this is definitely the biggest one. Maybe the biggest one we'll see all year, Fredricka. As we take a look at the satellite and show you what's going on, you can see this plume of moisture in this area of low pressure. This is the troublemaker. And we've got some very cold air that's finally starting to make its way southward. After the past two months when that cold air has been bottled up across parts of Canada, we're really going to focusing on the winds tonight. That's where the blizzard-like conditions are going to be coming in. As we take a look at our live radar, to show you what's going on. Just south of Philly, right now, the winds are out of the northeast at about 15. And just to the southeast of New York, we're looking at winds right now out of the northeast at about 20 miles an hour. So it's not so bad right now. But those winds will continue to intensify and will continue to increase and we're looking for a lot of snow -- so much snow that it's going to create problems for driving. So if you are one of those folks that you just have to get out and drive, here's just a quick winter tip for you. Make sure you've got a flashlight, extra blankets, make sure you've got canned openers and make sure you've got that cell phone in your car. In the next 24 hours, here's the amount of snowfall that we're expecting to see across the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast. Fredricka, take a look at this. In the darker purples, we're looking for possibly up to a foot of snowfall.", "Wow. That is some serious business. All right, thanks so much, Monica. Five months after Hurricane Katrina, one of the biggest headaches for thousands of people is finding a place to live. So we wondered why thousands of FEMA mobile homes are sitting in a lot in Arkansas, hundreds of miles away from people who could use them. CNN Gulf Coast Correspondent Susan Roesgen took a road trip to find out.", "You're looking at emergency housing for victims of Katrina. Row after row of mobile homes -- nearly 11,000. FEMA purchased so many, you can barely squeeze between them. But the problem is, this is Arkansas, not Louisiana. And this empty city of mobile homes is 450 miles away from where it should be. The mayor of Hope, Arkansas, Dennis Ramsey, says FEMA leased this area near the airport in October.", "They asked what we wanted and we said $25,000 a month. And they came back a couple days later and said that's within FEMA guidelines and the contract was signed.", "That's right. FEMA is paying $25,000 a month to let these mobile homes sit here. A good deal for Hope, but no glory for FEMA. Arkansas Congressman Mike Ross.", "We want them to come up here and pick these manufactured homes up -- all 11,000 of them and take them to the people who lost their homes and everything they owned in the Gulf Coast well over five months ago. This is five months past due and it's time for FEMA to get moving.", "Ross came down from D.C. with fellow Congressman Dennis Cardoza of California and a posse of staff to show CNN $431 million tax dollars worth of mobile homes sitting unused in an Arkansas cow pasture. What's the holdup? How does FEMA explain the delays? Well first, FEMA says some people who could live in a mobile home, don't want one because they're much larger than the travel trailers that can fit in a driveway. Second, FEMA says some communities lack the infrastructure to support a mobile home, like hookups for water and power. And third, FEMA rules say mobile homes can't be placed in a flood plain. Their sheer size and weight make them a unique problem. Never mind that much of the Gulf region is in fact a flood plain.", "I think we have been surprised with this extraordinary housing mission, at the number of obstacles in placing manufactured housing.", "FEMA's rep in the area, David Passey, gave the congressmen a private tour to defend FEMA's operation.", "If people want to blame us, then they can blame us. But, we need cooperation from local property owners. We need cooperation from local officials. And then we have to realize there will be some physical limitations to where we can place emergency housing.", "But after getting a good look at the unoccupied mobile homes in Hope, the congressmen say no excuses. FEMA must get them down to the people who need them.", "It's outrageous that we're not breaking through those regulations to get the job done. Five months after the disaster. It's just unacceptable.", "Congressman, can you do that? Can you break that bureaucratic red tape?", "We're going to try.", "Susan Roesgen, CNN, Hope, Arkansas.", "And now the end of a very painful chapter for one Hurricane Katrina survivor. Denise Herbert is back in New Orleans this weekend for her mother's funeral. She had been missing since the storm. You may remember Herbert from her outburst at a gathering of displaced Louisiana residents in Atlanta last month.", "Where is my mother? And I'm angry with the world.", "well, Herbert has been searching for her mother for months without success. Not long after we aired her story, a CNN viewer called to say he helped treat Herbert's mother near the Super Dome. Officials say she died hours later. This week a morgue told Herbert her mother was among their unidentified bodies. A look now at stories making headlines across America. Get out your beads. Mobile, Alabama is celebrating Mardi Gras. Crowds turned out for the city's first Mardi Gras parade last night. There will be lots more parades and events through Fat Tuesday on February 28. And it was supposed to be a news conference it announce his successful crime sweep in Fresno, California; but as a federal prosecutor was speaking, a fight suddenly erupted behind him. One woman rammed her car into another woman's vehicle. Police say it was over a love triangle. Officers pulled the women out of their cars and arrested one of them. The lyric sheet in which John Lennon, with a little help from Paul McCartney, penned the Beatles' classic, \"A Day in the Life\" is being displayed in San Francisco this weekend. It will be auctioned next month. It's expected to fetch at least $2 million. Coming up, a lot of Americans aren't getting the most from their prescription drugs. Straight ahead, find out some of the biggest problems patients are facing. And this man can't get a job. Find out how one typo has ruined his life."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "MONICA MCNEAL, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "WHITFIELD", "SUSAN ROESGEN, CNN GULF COAST CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DENNIS RAMSEY, MAYOR OF ARKANSAS", "ROESGEN", "REP. MIKE ROSS (D), ARKANSAS", "ROESGEN", "DAVID PASSEY, FEMA", "ROESGEN", "PASSEY", "ROESGEN", "REP. DENNIS CARDOZA (D), CALIFORNIA", "ROESGEN", "CARDOZA", "ROESGEN", "WHITFIELD", "DENISE HERBERT, DAUGHTER OF VICTIM", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-210009", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2013-7-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/04/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Adly Mansourt Sworn In As Egypt's Interim President; Bolivian President Furious Over Plane's Diversion Over European Airspace", "utt": ["I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to NEWS STREAM -- where news and technology meet. Now Egypt's new president is sworn in. And we'll look at what happens next for the country. Latin American leaders express their anger that the Bolivian president's plane was forced to make a detour because of speculation that Edward Snowden was on board. And he changed the way we use computers. The man who invented the mouse dies. Egypt has a new interim president. Top judge Adly Mansour says his new authority comes from the Egyptian people, but it was the military that put him in power.", "I receive with very greatness and happiness, the order so I could be appointed as president during the transitional period. And the ones who have issued this order is the great people of this Egypt. And it is a source of all the authorities after the 20th of June to amend and collect the revolution of the 25th of January 2011.", "Now thousands of people celebrated with fireworks over Tahrir Square after the military forced Mohamed Morsy out of office on Wednesday. Now the armed forces have not said where he is right now. But the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that propelled Morsy to power, says the former president is under house arrest. And Morsy supporters also gathered in large numbers on Wednesday shouting down with military rule. Now Adly Mansour's appointment as interim president is just one part of the road map for the country's future as laid out by the head of Egypt's armed forces. The constitution has also been suspended and will be rewritten. Now Colonel General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has also promised new parliamentary and presidential elections, but there is no word yet on when those might be held. Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei says this is a new era for Egypt.", "A road map, which was agreed upon today is a correction to the way of the revolution, the great revolution and the response to the demands of the Egyptian people everywhere. The road map guarantees (inaudible) being the principle demand of the Egyptian people in having an early presidential elections through an interim period through which the constitution will be amended so we can all of us build it together and we agree on democratic constitution to guarantee our freedoms.", "Now Mohamed ElBaradei is one of the opposition and religious leaders sharing the stage with Egypt's military chief when he announced that Morsy had been ousted. Let's cross over live to Cairo. Ian Lee is close to Tahrir Square. He joins us now live. And Ian, the military has put forward this road map for Egypt's political future. And it seems for now to be sharing the stage with civilian leaders. So will it all go smoothly from here?", "Well, Kristie, it was very important for them to share the stage with the civilian leaders. And as you said, you said Mohamed ElBaradei, but you also saw the head of the Coptic church, the largest Christian denomination here in Egypt, the pope of the Coptic Church. You also saw the Sheikh of Al Azhar. And that is the premier school of Sunni Islam in the world. It was important that those two people there as well as people who represented the Tamarod Campaign. And that is the campaign that ordered, or that organized the June 30 protests which lead to what we saw yesterday, a very important thing. But it all comes down now to the new president, Adly Mansour. He pledged an oath to the people of Egypt. Listen to what he had to say.", "I swear by Allah that I will remain faithful and I will respect the law and this transition. And then I will take care of the interests of the people and preserve the independence of this country and all its territory.", "Now there was three other things that I thought were interesting in that speech, Kristie. First, he praised the youth and he encouraged them to continue defending the revolution. Another thing he said was that people should not worship their leadership, but only God, that worshipping leadership can only lead to tyranny. A direct reference -- for his direct reference to the Muslim Brotherhood. And another thing he mentioned was that security, instability, he's going to work on improving that. And that is going to be key for the future of Egypt. That's easier said than done. Right now in the streets there's not as much security as we've seen in the past last two years. And that's going to be crucial to reviving the economy here in Egypt, Kristie.", "Yeah, interesting comments there from Egypt's new interim leader designed to provide some reassurance, that's for sure. But where is Mohamed Morsy? I mean, sources are telling us that he is under house arrest. And also, what is next for Morsy and his supporters?", "Well, that is what we're hearing. He is under house arrest. And we're also hearing from a state news agency that members of the Muslim Brotherhood, 300 people in total, are being sought by the authorities, other major arrests are being made -- one, the former speaker of parliament, the head of parliament Katatny was also arrested. So it doesn't seem like they really have a future right now. They're either being arrested or under house arrest. Egypt is going to need to somehow have a dialogue with these people. They cannot marginalize them and push them to the side, they're going to have to bring them back into the democratic process if they hope to have a stable Egypt progress in the future.", "That's right, there needs to be this dialogue. And there are fears of a potential backlash. You've been reporting all week about the divide in Egyptian society during this crisis. Could there be more unrest ahead?", "Well, Kristie, we've seen a lot of violence during the past few days. We've seen dozens of people killed in clashes between the supporters of former President Mohamed Morsy and those who oppose him. Now the real big question is what are his supporters going to do now? A lot of those supporters have said they will pick up arms. They will use violence if anyone were to try to depose Morsy. Well, that has happened. So now the question is are they going to go through with these promises that they made? The army, though, has said that they won't allow any group to try to use arms to reverse the decision that was just made. It could make for some very tense times and some very violent times ahead if these two sides do actually engage each other.", "That's right. And Ian Lee joining us live from Cairo with the very latest. Thank you. Now the Egyptian military was instrumental in pushing out Mohamed Morsy. It also played a key role two years ago when Hosni Mubarak stepped down. Atika Shubert has more on the military's influence in Egypt over the years.", "Is Egypt's military a hero, stepping in to restore order, or does it threaten to put the country under indefinite military rule? Well, since the 1952 coup d'etat by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the military has always been crucial to securing and maintaining political power in Egypt. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, or SCAF is massive. More than 450,000 personnel taking up 3 percent of the country's budget. And under President Hosni Mubarak, a former military chief himself, retired officers staffed the highest levels of government. In 2011 when protesters filled Tahrir Square and demanded Mubarak step down, it was the military that offered to run the country for six months to widespread public support. But six months turned into 17. And when Islamist Mohamed Morsy was elected president, the military gave up the reigns of power. Now since then, the military has for the most part stayed on the sidelines, but when millions filled the streets again calling for Morsy to leave, the military weighed in once again. For now, the generals have the support of anti-government protesters, hoping perhaps that they will safeguard the country's unruly transition to democracy without overstaying their welcome. Atika Shubert, CNN, London.", "Now the man at the helm of Egypt's military is Colonel General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. He is the commander-in-chief of the Egyptian armed forces and also serves as Defense Minister. And he was appointed to that position by Mohamed Morsy replacing General Mohamed Hussain Tantawi who was forced by Morsy to step down last August. Now the 58-year-old served as a military attache in Saudi Arabai during Hosni Mubarak's presidency. And after the 2011 revolution, al-Sisi was appointed as head of military intelligence. Now U.S. President Barack Obama has expressed deep concern about the Egyptian military's removal of Mohamed Morsy. Mr. Obama discussed the situation with U.S. national security officials on Wednesday. Here is a photo of that meeting which was posted on the White House Flickr account. Now Mr. Obama issued a written statement calling for a quick transition to civilian rule in Egypt. But the administration was very careful with the words it used. Let's get more now with CNN's Athena Jones. She joins us now live from Washington. And Athena, how has President Obama reacted to the turn of events in Egypt?", "Good morning, Kristie. Well, of course he's reacted with deep concern. This is a situation the White House has been closely monitoring. Egypt, a key U.S. ally in the region and a country the U.S. wants to see stable. As you mentioned, he put out a statement after meeting with his national security team yesterday expressing deep concerns about the military's decision to oust Morsy and to suspend the constitution. He went on to say I now call on the Egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible through an inclusive and transparent process and to avoid any arbitrary arrest of President Morsy and his supporters. Of course we know from former President Morsy's supporters that he is now under house arrest. But it's very interesting to watch the wording of the president's statement here. One thing I'll note. He said a democratically elected government, not the democratically elected government, which of course might indicate that he's looking to have them reinstall Morsy. That's not the case. He believes -- and he has said -- administration officials have said it's up to the Egyptians to determine their own future. So that's an interesting wording there, Kristie.", "Yeah, the wording has to be very careful as the United States is in a delicate diplomatic position here. What kind of leverage does the U.S. have to make sure the Egyptian military stays on track?", "Well, what's interesting here is another part of that wording, the careful wording the U.S. has used. And that is to say the president did not use the word coup. In the instance of a military coup, U.S. law dictates that aid to Egypt, in this case $1.5 billion a year, must be cut off. And so it's very interesting to see them not use that word coup. It might be a way of signaling perhaps to the military not only do they need to make this transition to democratic rule very quickly, but hinting that this is something that's under review, this money that goes to Egypt every single year -- Kristie.", "OK. And now that we know that the United States has this aid relationship with the Egyptian military, at what point will the United States feel compelled to take action and perhaps pull some of that aid away?", "Well, I think they're going to be closely monitoring this situation as they have been. And they certainly sent signals of what they want the military to do. I will say that under that same U.S. law there are caveats. The secretary of state can say that aid should be continued because it's in the national interests of the U.S. And as I mentioned, Egypt being a key ally in the region, the most populous country in the Arab world and key to the U.S. in some many ways in terms of, for instance, maintaining access to the Suez Canal for the oil trade. And of course peace in the Middle East, the agreement that Egypt has with Israel. These are all important things that the U.S. wants to protect and maintain while also promoting democracy and economic growth. And so those are the things they're going to be considering as they try to figure out what to do about this aid. I think one thing we know here is that they're not calling it a coup right now. And I think that word, coup, the fact they're not using it, is a big signal there, Kristie.", "Yeah, a very tricky policy scenario for the United States. Athena Jones joining us live from the White House. Thank you. Now there's also been reaction from other international leaders. The British Prime Minister David Cameron gave his response just a short time ago.", "Well, we never support -- and William made this clear -- we never support in countries the intervention by the military. But what now needs to happen, what we need to happen now in Egypt is for democracy to flourish and for a genuine democratic transition to take place. And all parties need to be involved in that. And that's what Britain and our allies will be saying very clearly to the Egyptians.", "David Cameron there. Now, the search for U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, meanwhile, is causing friction across the globe. Ecuador's president is back home and furious after his plane was held up in Europe. We've got details from Quito next. Plus, Going Green and changing a community. Now a tree planting project is cultivating new hope for farmers in Haiti. And remembering Douglas Engelbart. 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{"id": "CNN-374739", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-07-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/12/nday.04.html", "summary": "Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) Discusses Immigration Raids Targeting Thousands To Begin Sunday", "utt": ["In just a few hours, the House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on the treatment of migrant children separated from families at the southern border. This comes as the Trump administration is set to conduct deportation raids in 10 cities beginning this Sunday. Joining me now is Texas Republican Congressman Will Hurd. He represents a district that covers much of the state's southern border with Mexico. Congressman, thank you very much for being with us. On these raids, first. Homeland Security officials told \"The New York Times\" that the Trump administration's goal is to use the operation as a show of force to deter families from approaching the southwestern border. Do you think these raids will be an effective deterrent?", "Only time will tell, right? Ultimately, there's about a million people in the United States who have gone through immigration courts and have been found that they don't have standing to be here in the United States, all right? And so, those are allegedly the folks that are going to be targeted. What I would like to see is those resources within ICE to be used at the border. There are a number of people that have recently come in that could ultimately be deported. And I think the bigger effect would be address the people that have come most recently in, not folks that have probably been here for over 625 days. We should be enforcing our law but we are still dealing with a crisis along the border, and we should have those ICE resources dealing with that immediate crisis.", "So you do not think that these raids -- again, scheduled for Sunday -- targeting some 2,000 migrants are the most effective use of government resources?", "I think there's other ways that would help us resolve the current humanitarian crisis that we're dealing with. But again, time will -- time will tell what impact this has. What we should be focusing on are root causes, as well --", "Right.", "-- which is violence, lack of economic opportunity, extreme poverty in the Northern Triangle. We should be going after human smugglers because these are the folks that are bringing folks through our country. We have a lot of information on them. We should be using that information in order to -- giving that stuff to the CIA, the NSA to dismantle those human smuggling networks that are -- that are in Mexico and throughout the rest of Central America.", "Officials say that they will also collect migrants who may not be targets of these raids and to conduct collateral deportations if they find people who might be near their targets. Is that something you approve of?", "Look, I ultimately believe you should have a valid reason for being in this country and we should be using our resources in the most efficient way possible. And I think right now, that's along the border. There is that hearing today in Congress to talk about the detention of children and we've already seen Border Patrol, itself, has had a number of I.G. reports that have said those facilities are not housed for people and here's what's happening because ICE and HHS don't have the resources to process people. That has turned Border Patrol into being in the detention game. That's not what they're designed for. And so, if we alleviate that bottleneck with ICE that is going to make sure that we don't have people in facilities that really shouldn't be in those facilities.", "I want to ask you what you want to hear at these hearings today as the House Oversight hearing. And we're going to hear from, among other people, the inspectors general of the Department --", "Yes.", "-- of Homeland Security and HHS. I just want to throw up -- before you answer that question -- some of the things you purpose. You want a special representative for the Northern Triangle -- this is El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala -- to deal with the conditions there driving people north. Also, dismantle smuggling rings, more immigration judges, and also change the asylum process. But what do you want to hear today from these officials?", "Well, ultimately, I don't think there's going to be anything we hear in this -- in this hearing today that we haven't already heard. Most of them are inspector generals who have already issued their reports. They can go into it a little bit deeper. The I.G. from DHS has been issuing those reports. I'm sure some of my colleagues that are testifying on that are going to suggest dismantling DHS and things like that. Those are not things that are helpful. The people that I would love to hear from are senior officials within ICE, senior officials within HHS to talk about why they are a kink in the process and what they need for those resources. I would love to have the State Department come in and talk about what is the plan to marshal all of our different aid programs from USAID and OPIC and State Department to address those. And I'll be asking in intelligence hearings of the NSA and CIA and FBI everything that they're doing in order to counter human smuggling. These are the kinds of things that I want to hear --", "Yes.", "-- but unfortunately, I don't think you're going to hear that today at this hearing on Oversight.", "I want to -- I want to ask you one political question. It has to do with the former House Speaker Paul Ryan and the current President of the United States, Donald Trump. Paul Ryan had some critical comments in this new book that's coming out next week, suggesting that President Trump didn't understand government. The president responded overnight, lashing out on Twitter, saying that the speaker (Speaker Paul Ryan) had an \"atrocious record of achievement\" and was a \"long-running lame duck failure.\" Is that how you view the Paul Ryan speakership?", "Well, I've enjoyed getting to know Paul Ryan and working with him. He is somebody that was instrumental in helping me be successful up here in Washington, D.C. He was someone that I found incredibly intelligent and tried to listen to all of the members of his conference. And he has been serving his country for most of his adult life. So, I haven't read the book or seen the comments that you're speaking of but my opinion of Paul Ryan is a -- is a public service -- public servant who has cared about his country.", "Congressman Will Hurd from Texas, thanks for being with us this morning.", "Always a pleasure.", "Bianna.", "The congressman and the president disagreeing, I guess, on how they view Paul Ryan.", "Well, that was interesting. He's the first Republican we've really heard come forward and defend Paul Ryan over the last 24 hours.", "Yes. We'll see if others do the same.", "Yes.", "Well, we are just minutes away from a new report about the potentially historic storm that's bearing down on the Gulf Coast. 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{"id": "CNN-58789", "program": "CNN LIVE ON LOCATION", "date": "2002-8-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0208/08/lol.02.html", "summary": "On Great Victory Day, Iraq Prepares for War, Offers Peace", "utt": ["The occasion was Iraq's Great Victory Day. And CNN's Rym Brahimi is live from Baghdad with that. Rym, about how many supporters turned out to hear Saddam Hussein's message?", "Well, obviously, a lot of people were watching it on television. It was a broadcast speech to the nation, Fredricka. As you pointed out, the president clearly using his usual defiant rhetoric, this rhetoric that he's now famous for, referring the the U.S. forces as forces of darkness, saying, essentially, that any attempts to attack Iraq would be met with failure. Let's just listen in.", "The forces of evil will carry their coffins on their backs to die in disgraceful failure taking their skins back with them, or to dig their own graves after they bring death to themselves.", "As you pointed out, Fredricka, the president was addressing his people on a very special day. Today marks the end of the Iran-Iraq war of 14 years ago. So it's a bit of an irony, really, that the day they are celebrating the end of one war, the Iraqis are actually preparing another. In preparing, they seem to be serious about that. There's a couple of military parades in the past few days. There was one earlier today in which about 10,000 volunteers marched in the streets of Baghdad armed and chanting slogans saying they would defend their president and their country to the death, if need be. At the same time, Fredricka, this president also mentions dialogue, calling, essentially, on the United States to talk with Iraq. How sincere he is is another matter. In town these days, there's been a British member of Parliament. He met with President Saddam Hussein this morning. And we asked him about how he felt President Saddam Hussein's intentions look like.", "He was remarkably calm in the circumstances, as calm a world leader as I have ever met. He was also at great pains to demonstrate to me, and obviously it's part of a diplomatic offensive, to convince people that the offers they are making are sincere and, moreover, that they represent a way out of this crisis, a peaceful and diplomatic route out of this crisis. And personally, I believe people should pick those olive branches up, especially when the alternative is a devastating war which will plunge the whole region into chaos and bloodshed and no one can calculate what the end result will be.", "So basically, the message that's being conveyed here, Fredricka, is on the the one hand, if we are forced into a war, the Iraqis say, we will fight it to the bitter end. But other than that, we would much prefer not to have a war, and we are trying to do all we can to prevent that -- Fredricka.", "Rym Brahimi, from Baghdad. Thank you very much. The White House, temporarily transplanted to Texas, is dismissing Iraq's dismissal of the prospects of war with the United States. And the Pentagon continues to dismiss speculation from the media, calling it all hypothetical. CNN's Patty Davis is live from ground zero of U.S. military planning. Hi there, Patty.", "Hi, Fredricka. The Pentagon is giving no credibility to Saddam's speech today, saying that -- he was saying, of course, that any threats of a U.S. attack are doomed to failure. Now, planning continues here at the Pentagon. General Tommy Franks briefed the president earlier this week with broad outlines of a plan, but no specifics. The Iraqi opposition is here in Washington, D.C. to meet with the State Department and the Pentagon tomorrow. In a press conference they held today, opposition officials said that Saddam is ready for street fighting, to take on the United States on the streets of Iraq. Urban warfare, of course, would cause heavy casualties. A senior Pentagon official says that the senior U.S. military leadership is familiar with the difficulty of urban warfare, has dealt with it in its war planning, and says there's way to get around it. Now, meanwhile, the Saudi foreign minister says that his country does not want the United States to use Saudi Arabia to launch any attack against Iraq. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says that that would not be a problem.", "If they're helping us in ways that are different from that and they prefer not to discuss it, that's their choice, and we can live with that too. We need all the help we...", "Rumsfeld said that the United States is building a contingency air base -- an air command center -- in Qatar, which is nearby. A lot of planning going on here at the Pentagon. But no decision yet on launching a war from President Bush -- Fredricka.", "Patty Davis, from the Pentagon. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SADDAM HUSSEIN, PRESIDENT OF IRAQ (through translator)", "BRAHIMI", "GEORGE GALLAWAY, BRITISH PARLIAMENT MEMBER", "BRAHIMI", "WHITFIELD", "PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY", "DAVIS", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-201668", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2013-2-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/20/qmb.01.html", "summary": "PlayStation 4 Coming Soon; Console Wars; Sony's Struggle", "utt": ["This was number 1. This was number 2. This -- they're getting bigger, not smaller. This is number 3. And today, Sony is unveiling the PlayStation 4 in New York. It's the latest model in the Sony iconic game console series. Now, it may be the most important launch of all, because the one that started in 1994 with this, the PlayStation 1, unlike most consoles before it, the games came on CD-ROMs, which opened like that. They had titles like \"Final Fantasy\" and \"Metal Gear Solid,\" and they are regarded as classics. They're also antiques. This is number 2. It's actually quite heavy. It was bigger, heavier, and it was more of a success than the first one, 150 million of them were sold, making it the most successful game console of all time, despite the challenge from Microsoft with its Xbox, which came into the market. It's getting bigger and we are getting -- we're actually getting quite heavy now. The PlayStation 3 was supposed to be even bigger in 06. Now remember, that sold 150 million. This only sold 77 million, and there were problems with cybersecurity, particularly online playing. Hackers stole personal info because it was all stored. Well, Sony hasn't turned a profit in almost five years, and now PlayStation is up against bigger, more robust competition. It's also in competition with the SmartPhone and the tablets. In other words, the PlayStation console could be a thing of the past, which is why, as Maggie Lake reports, they have to do something dramatic with PlayStation 4.", "Sony needs to get out in front early if it has any hope of regaining its lead in the gaming industry. This week, the consumer electronic giant is expected to unveil the fourth generation of its PlayStation gaming console.", "And this is a crucial play on the way.", "There's a lot of pressure on Sony right now. They have to justify that it's time to move from the PlayStation 3 era to the PlayStation 4 era. They need to justify that PlayStation still matters. Because we hear about Nintendo all the time, and we hear about Xbox and Connect. With PlayStation, it's kind of faded a bit, so they need to reassert their relevance.", "There hasn't been a new console from Sony in seven years. During that time, Microsoft's Xbox has taken the lead in the US market, with Nintendo's Wii a competitive third. Globally, Sony is still the number one console maker, but that may also be shifting. Consumers are increasingly downloading games on their SmartPhones and tablets instead of buying consoles. For new consumers, apps are often cheaper and easier.", "So, who's kicking? Are you kicking?", "No, I'm receiving. You're kicking. Oh, no, it looks like I'm kicking. No, wait. No, I'm receiving.", "It's a competitive playing field, but don't count Sony out yet.", "Sony's advantage that they have over Microsoft, if they have any advantage, is that they have amassed a bunch of exclusive game development teams all around the world. When we see what Sony unveils with their hardware, we should also be looking to see what games they show. Because just that one perfect game, like we saw Wii Sports define the Wii, could change everything for Sony.", "Maggie Lake, CNN, New York.", "However good the technology and however marvelous and whiz- bang-pop the games, Sony is fundamentally a company designed to make profits, and the company's investors haven't been shy about expressing their doubts. The stock down more than 71 percent since late 2007, just after this was released. And it's not all to do with the gaming division. Alex Zolbert is in Tokyo.", "A clear picture of how the mighty can fall. Sony was once the dominant player in the tech world, the king of all things cool. Many will remember that must- have Walkman. But what has not been music to the company's or investors' ears is Sony's staggering losses in recent years. While some of its competitors have been minting money, Sony hasn't turned a profit since 2008. In fact, the last fiscal year was the worst in the company's history, in part due to the aftermath of Japan's devastating tsunami, but also thanks to a weak product lineup.", "This is the latest version of the Sony Discman, a product that came onto the market back in 1984. And to try to give you an idea just how far Sony shares have fallen, well before they got a boost from the weaker yen in recent months, they were trading at the same level as to when this product came on the market.", "Most people are watching what other people will do or what other people are buying to make their purchase decisions. And Sony really needs to capture, you can say, the heart as well as the minds of consumers in many parts of the world to regain that luster.", "It's not all grim news for Sony, though. Sony Pictures has hit the mark with recent hits, like \"Skyfall.\" The company's sales overseas are also now getting help from a weaker Japanese currency, and next month, when the deal is set to close, Sony should net close to $700 million from the sale of its US headquarters in New York. But either way, as gamers await the latest PlayStation, it's clear Sony needs a big hit if it hopes to return to glory anytime soon. Alex Zolbert, CNN, Tokyo.", "One of the sporting world's most powerful men is the chief executive of Manchester United, and he's decided to call it a day. David Gill's legacy of record sponsorship in a moment."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "MAGGIE LAKE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "STEPHEN TOTILO, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, \"KOTSKU\"", "LAKE", "TOTILO", "LAKE (on camera)", "LAKE (voice-over)", "TOTILO", "LAKE", "QUEST", "ALEX ZOLBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ZOLBERT (on camera)", "DAMIAN THONG, MACQUARIE SECURITIES", "ZOLBERT (voice-over)", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-379318", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-09-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/02/nday.06.html", "summary": "Congress' Handling of America's Gun Violence Epidemic; Record- Setting Dorian Stalls", "utt": ["Commentator. Good to see you both this morning. So, Congressman, I want to start with you on this because we heard from the president there is, this isn't really going to change anything. I -- we know that the Senate is not due back until a week from today. They'll be back on the 9th. Republicans are certainly not moving without a clear sign of support from the president. So in terms of not changing anything, does this mean that we are stuck where we're at, where there's not even a conversation, let alone any movement on talk of gun control legislation?", "Erica, I'm not convinced that the Senate will not move. I know my senator, Pat Toomey, is engaged in some pretty serious conversations with the White House and others in the Senate. I believe Senator McConnell is going to be under tremendous pressure to move something. The House has passed a universal background check bill. Toomey-Manchin in the Senate is out there. I suspect they're going to put something -- I think they're going to be under pressure to put something on the floor. Whether it passes or not is another matter. Now, of course, you have the president out there who's a wild card. You know, he has very few fixed policy positions and they shift. And I think that's what we're seeing on -- on the universal background check issue. He can't seem to make up his mind if he's for them or not. And, it's true, these universal background checks may not have prevented any of these recent tragedies, but they are good policies. So I think it's not a very good argument to say, oh, they wouldn't have stopped anything. But I think the American people are demanding some action and the president and I think the Senate are going to have to respond. I mean clearly in the polling, the American people want to see something done. And there is broad support -- 93 percent in this last poll from Quinnipiac, which was released on just Thursday, support universal background checks. Ana, as we look at this though, those numbers and the will of the American people don't seem to come into play very often these days.", "No, they don't, because so many political officials are being held hostage by the NRA. The power of the NRA over Republicans in particular and this president, we saw that after the El Paso shooting. He talked about tightening up background checks, something that's got huge majority support. And, after a call with the head of the NRA, he changed his mind. Look, you know, I -- I wish I was as optimistic as Charlie is. Maybe I'm suffering from the hurricane blues. But I think that it was a moment of strange honesty when he said nothing's going to change, nothing's going to happen. If nothing happened after 20 little kids were shot and killed in Sandy Hook, if nothing happened after almost 20 teenagers were shot and killed here down the road in Parkland, no, I don't think anything's going to happen now. And I am sick of politicians offering their thoughts and prayers. We didn't send them to Congress to pray. We sent them to Congress to address the national crisis we are facing. And what we have going on with these mass shootings is a national epidemic. So get off your duffs and do your jobs and leave the thoughts and prayers for the rest of us who don't have the power to legislate.", "I feel like we need a beat after that, Ana, I -- just -- just to let it sink in. And I think your passion is important and we need to hear it. And there has been much said. As we know, thoughts and prayers are important. And I know that they help people in so many ways through so many different situations. But to your point, they do not change what is happening. At least that's not what I've seen. And yet we know -- I'm sure that many of you have seen this now from -- from Texas State Representative Matt Schaefer, who said, he says no to red flag pre- crime laws, no to universal background checks, no to bans on AR-15s or high-capacity magazines, no to mandatory gun buybacks. What can we do? He goes on to write on FaceBook Saturday, yes to praying for victims, yes to praying for protection, yes to praying that God would transform the hearts of people with evil intent. There's got to be something in between the two there, though, Charlie. I mean, really --", "Yes to voting them out. Yes to voting them out.", "Yes, that's --", "If they're not willing to address a problem like this, vote them out.", "Well, I think it's pretty easy. Look, I can't understand why somebody would say something like that. Universal background checks, you know, 90 percent support. They can be done. I'm in a pro -- in a pretty strong Second Amendment state here in Pennsylvania. We have something close to universal background checks and we did this in the 90s with the Republican legislature and a Republican governor. That's -- and it will not infringe Second Amendment rights. A red flag law, everybody agrees we need to do something there. Obviously there's civil libertarian concerns that have to be addressed. But that can be done. We could talk about raising the age to buy firearms to 21 in all cases. That's not a hard thing to do. You know, banning the bump stock, they should do that thing legislatively. I know it's been done administratively. There are all sort of things that they can do that wouldn't infringe on the Second Amendment. There should be a -- maybe a debate about limitations on magazine capacity. I mean let's at least have the conversation. It's absurd to say we can't talk about any of this.", "It is so important to have the conversation. And one thing we've been talking about in our conversations this morning is the fact that perhaps hearing from more law enforcement officials and people who are dealing, as we saw on Saturday, law enforcement officials were targeted and shot at. Perhaps hearing more from them could, in fact, move that conversation forward. Listen, before we let you go, Ana, you are right there in Florida. As we know, a proud Floridian as well. And you've been tweeting a lot about Dorian that is headed your way, with a good amount of humor, which is what I always expect from you and love about you. But things are -- things are serious there. So, what is the sense -- just give us a sense, how are people handling it right now, especially if this continues to shift and now it's just sitting out there?", "Well, look, I'm in Miami. We're -- we live on the verge of hysteria on a normal day, so you can imagine how we behave when a hurricane is coming. It's been nerve-racking. I think I'm not the only one who's been sitting at home watching the little blip on the screen and eating her way through the hurricane supplies and drinking my way through everything that's not tied down. It's a -- you know it's -- it's -- you're happy that -- as a Miamian, I'm happy that we're out of the cone of silence (ph), but you can't be happening to see what's happening everywhere else and to know the level of anxiety and nervousness that's going on all over Florida, the east coast, and what's happening in the Bahamas, which, you know, it's almost part of Florida where -- they're -- they're not part of the United States, but if you live in Miami, if you live in south Florida, it's somewhere that you go to and that you're so familiar with. And so it's -- you know -- and you realize, you look at the screen, and you realize, but for the grace of God that could have been us. And so it's -- it's just awful.", "Well --", "It's awful, and I -- I hope people will help the victims and the people affected by this, because it's going to be devastating.", "Ana, I'm so glad you said that because it is such a reminder that we are all neighbors in this and we are all so close and that a lot of help will be needed, and we will certainly stay on top of that and let folks know as well how they can help. Thank you both for being with us.", "Thank you.", "Really appreciate it. And a quick programming note for us here at CNN, join CNN and 10 Democratic presidential candidates for an unprecedented town hall event on the climate crisis. All ten will take the stage on one night to address the critical issue. That's Wednesday right here starting at 5:00 p.m. Eastern. Want to go back now to John Berman as we continue our coverage of Hurricane Dorian. And John is live there in Florida at Jensen Beach.", "Yes, Erica, and you can see the water starting to come up here on the beach. High tide actually isn't for four more hours right now. And you can see the water has been coming up right here. The wind is pushing it, as Chad Myers was telling us, ever so closer, which means the storm surge here, it is beginning even now with the worst of the storm not expected for 24 hours. We're going to check in and get the latest on the forecast with Chad when we come back."], "speaker": ["ERICA HILL, CNN ANCHOR", "CHARLIE DENT, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "ANA NAVARRO, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "HILL", "NAVARRO", "DENT", "NAVARRO", "DENT", "HILL", "NAVARRO", "HILL", "NAVARRO", "HILL", "NAVARRO", "HILL", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-322803", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-10-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/05/nday.02.html", "summary": "Incredible Stories of Survival in Las Vegas.", "utt": ["The president apparently awake this morning and tweeting about his visit to Las Vegas where he met survivors. He met first responders and other heroes from Sunday's massacre. He's tweeting this morning: So wonderful to be in Las Vegas yesterday and meet with people from police to doctors and victims themselves who I will never forget. Let's go to CNN's Scott McLean. He's live in Las Vegas. And he some of these stories that matter most, the people who survived, the people who helped, the people who showed the opposite in humanity from the murderer that tried to kill as many of them as possible. Scott?", "Good morning, Chris. Of the nearly 500 people who were injured and ended up in a hospital, most have been discharged to go home. That is the good news. But there are still some people fighting for their lives. Here at the University Medical Center, the main trauma center in Las Vegas, there are still six people in critical condition. Yesterday, I met 22-year-old Taylor Barr. She has a long way to go to recovery but she knows she's one of the lucky ones.", "Moments after the first shots were fired, Taylor Barr was bleeding and ducking for cover. Hit in the arm, she recalls panic not pain.", "All the adrenaline and confusion. So I don't remember feeling it that much.", "Her dad, Chris, used his belt to stop the pleading and used his body to shield his daughter from the next round of bullets. The act of courage captured in a cell phone video posted on Facebook.", "I love him: he's such a -- he's my hero. Like he was just trying to keep us safe.", "Minutes later, Taylor, her dad and step mom scrambled to a nearby parking lot and were rushed to the hospital in the back of a pickup truck driven by complete strangers. (on camera): What do you want to say to these people?", "Thank you for saving my life. If it wasn't for them, I probably wouldn't be here right now.", "Robert Aguilar was at the concert with his girlfriend Rosa when he was shot in the spine above his right hip.", "You can hear the bullets whizzing by. [06:55:0] And I just told them to stay down, stay down, stay down. And I just kind of have my head turned, just thinking the next one's going to hit us again.", "Doctors said they feared he would never walk again. But against all odds, he took his first steps on Wednesday.", "I wasn't going to accept that for an answer, accepting not being able to walk again.", "Upon hearing a gunfire, Jamie Jackson dove for cover, ending up next to Addison Short.", "And her foot ended up right in front of me and I just saw her boot was soaked through with blood, so I was like I'm going to take this off. When I pulled the boot off, that's when the blood -- I was like screaming for someone to give me a belt. There was a guy about two over. He threw me the belt and I just held.", "He carried Addison to safety before leaving her with an off- duty officer. He didn't know her name or if she was still alive until his mother-in-law saw her interview on Anderson Cooper Monday night.", "It's the guy that helped me is watching, I really want to tell him how grateful I am for basically saving my life.", "Yesterday, Jamie and his wife Jennifer were reunited with the young woman.", "You have no idea how I appreciate you guys.", "Jonathan Smith ran towards those in trouble as shots rang out, likely saving the lives of dozens before being shot in the neck.", "I'm not a hero. I'm far from a hero. I think I just did what anybody would do.", "An off-duty San Diego officer found Smith, bringing him to safety.", "It was a scary moment for both of us, but I just remember holding hands with Tom. You know, this is a time to fight, you know? You made it this far.", "I kept telling him, I don't want to die, I don't want to die. He kept saying, you're not going to die. I got you.", "We hear all of the stories of bravery, but the harsh reality of what comes next to these people really cannot be understated. In the case of Taylor Barr, she still has limited movement, limited feeling in her left hand. She works with her hands for a living, she has a small business doing nails and she likely won't have the use of one of those hands for at least a year. So, not only have she going to have a hefty hospital tab after all of this, but also, she'll likely be out of work. So, while this story will eventually fade from the headlines for all of us, many of these people will be forced to live with the impact of what happened for a long time to come, Alisyn.", "You are so right. I mean, everyone's lives are forever changed, even those who survived. Thank you so much for the reporting from Vegas there. So, did the Las Vegas killer have help? New details in the investigation, next."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "SCOTT MCLEAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MCLEAN (voice-over)", "TAYLOR BARR, INJURED IN LAS VEGAS SHOOTING", "MCLEAN", "BARR", "MCLEAN", "BARR", "MCLEAN (voice-over)", "ROBERT AGUILAR, INJURED IN LAS VEGAS SHOOTING", "MCLEAN", "AGUILAR", "MCLEAN", "JAMIE JACKSON, SAVED ADDISON SHORT'S LIFE DURING LAS VEGAS SHOOTING", "MCLEAN", "ADDISON SHORT, INJURED IN LAS VEGAS SHOOTIGN", "MCLEAN", "SHORT", "MCLEAN", "JONATHAN SMITH, INJURED IN LAS VEGAS SHOOTING", "MCLEAN", "TOM MCGRATH, SAN DIEGO OFFICER", "SMITH", "MCLEAN", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-357993", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-12-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1812/27/es.02.html", "summary": "Thousands Evacuating Over Fears of More Tsunamis in Indonesia", "utt": ["In Indonesia, warnings are now elevated as volcanic eruptions continue days after the volcano caused a tsunami that left hundreds dead. The government evacuating thousands from islands in the Sunda Strait as fears rise of another tsunami. CNN's Alexandra Field has the latest live from Hong Kong.", "Joe, an absolutely devastating year for Indonesia. It's been just two months since these tsunami killed 2,000 people, now hundreds more killed in another tsunami on Saturday and fears mounting about the possibility of more tsunamis to come. That's because experts are seeing increased volcanic activity at the volcano that triggered the last tsunami. There was a landslide followed by a volcanic eruption and then that 10-foot high wave that moved through the Sundra Strait. As they see more volcanic activity they fear this could happen again and that's why they're taking the precautionary step of moving thousands of people off of two islands within the Sundra Strait. They're taking them by vote farther inland to protect them if that wave surge does in fact come again. Ash is still spewing from this volcano. Enough that airplanes have been forced to route around that ash. And back on land, people are being asked to wear masks and goggles because of the heavy ash in the air. All of it a grim reminder of the dangers posed by this volcano. At the same time rescue work continues. The death toll now standing at 430 in the aftermath of Saturday's disaster -- Joe.", "Thanks for that, Alexandra Field, in Hong Kong.", "All right. On Wall Street, did you miss this, folks? A stunning rally? The Dow soars 1,000 points. That's almost 5 percent. Here is how the rest of the world is responding right now. You can see Tokyo with its own sizeable rally. The Shanghai in Hong Kong lower. And watching European shares. A kind of a tepid response to that big rally on Wall Street. Futures, U.S. futures right now are a little bit lower. The Dow posted its biggest daily point gain ever. The S&P 500 also rose 5 percent Wednesday. The Nasdaq rallied 5.8 percent pulling out of the bear market. This was the biggest percentage gain for all three averages since March 2009. Now even after Wednesday's rally, the month is still on pace for the worst December since 1931. Investors are on pace for their worst stock market returns in a decade. But at least yesterday investors said hey, wait, we're priced in a recession. No one sees a recession in the months ahead. The near-term months ahead. So maybe things were overdone. Iconic retailer Penney's earned its nickname yesterday. JCPenney shares fell below $1 for the first time since it started trading in 1929. The 110-year-old department store has not been profitable since 2010. It has $4 billion in debt."], "speaker": ["JOHNS", "ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JOHNS", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-359937", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-01-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1901/21/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Democratic Hopefuls Court Black Voters Ahead of 2020.", "utt": ["On this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday several potential Democratic contenders for president have been appearing at MLK events today in an effort to court African-American voters. And group of voters it is critical, certainly to securing the party's nomination. CNN's Victor Blackwell tells the story today.", "You're listing to \"OnPoint\". Give us a call 783-993-6783-wwdm. Our topic, Democrats are in the --", "The 2020 presidential election is more than a year away but it's already the hottest topic on Cynthia Hardy's call-in show in Columbia, South Carolina.", "In a very odd way the current administration and the current President has lit a fire under African-American people.", "And Democrats are introducing themselves to black voters at Martin Luther King Day events across the country today hoping to capture that heat. Senators Bernie Sanders and Cory Booker will attend Columbia's annual King Day at the dome. South Carolina's primary election is the first major test of candidates' strength among African American voters who accounted for more than 60 percent of Democratic primary votes in 2016.", "So goes the African-American vote, so goes the Democratic Party.", "Jamie Harrison is associate chair of the Democratic National Committee and former chair of the South Carolina State Democratic Party.", "Part of the success that we saw in 2018 in the midterm elections came as a result of African-Americans mobilizing and getting the vote out. A cohesion and unity of the African American vote has been the real engine and the driver of the Democratic Party.", "At Zion Baptist church, when President Donald Trump was compared to a biblical tyrant, the congregants shout, amen.", "King Herod had one purpose and that was to build a wall.", "They are ready for change. (on camera): And who do you like?", "Cory Booker.", "Why?", "Because I like him. I like his principles and what he stands for.", "Biden would be one person I would be interested in?", "I do like Kamala. She is a voice as a black woman. I think that it is time for one of us to step up to the plate.", "Senator Kamala Harris will travel to Columbia Friday to speak to more than 2,000 members of her majority African American sorority.", "You have to get out there and work. Earn votes one at a time. The interactions that Senator Harris had here last year, that Senator Booker has had here in the past have all been left very positive feelings for the citizens here. But there will be lots of other very credible candidates. So, I would take nothing to chance.", "All Democratic hopefuls are making seemingly passionate pitches.", "We've had too many instances where young black men, especially, have been the victims of state violence.", "The government itself has systematically discriminated against black people in this country.", ": You are never going accomplish any of these things if you don't take on the systems of power that make all of that impossible which is taking on constitutional racism.", "Local experts say the key to earning votes here, tone and striking the wrong tone could be more effectual than getting it right.", "You know how sometimes you might not know what you want you know certainly what you don't? And that helps you to determine how you're going to examine the candidates. I think that's what we're going to see.", "Now the Democratic energy in South Carolina is really focused on the primary. Because the last time a Democrat won that state at a general election was Jimmy Carter more than 40 years ago. And when it comes to African-Americans in the general election, President Trump was very optimistic in 2016 when as a candidate, he promised that he would win more than 95 percent of the African American vote in 2020. While the latest polls show his approval rating among African-American voters is at 9 percent. Back to you.", "Victor Blackwell, thank you. Isn't that noteworthy? Is just about tone. And certainly getting it right but don't get it wrong. Coming up, saddled with riffraff. Chris Christie now taking shots at some of the biggest names from the Trump administration. We're back in just a moment."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "CYNTHIA HARDY, RADIO AND TV HOST", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "HARDY", "BLACKWELL", "JAMIE HARRISON, ASSOCIATE CHAIR, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE", "BLACKWELL", "HARRISON", "BLACKWELL", "UNKNOWN PASTOR, ZION BAPTIST CHURCH", "BLACKWELL", "FLOSSIE HALL, VOTER", "BLACKWELL", "HALL", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BLACKWELL", "MAYOR STEVE BENJAMIN (D), COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA", "BLACKWELL", "JULIAN CASTRO (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D), MASSACHUSETTS", "REP. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND (D), NEW YORK", "BLACKWELL", "HARDY", "BLACKWELL (on camera)", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-64180", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2002-12-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/13/bn.11.html", "summary": "Sen. Lott to Hold News Conference Today", "utt": ["We're also planning on having coverage here on this network of this press conference that's been announced by Senator Trent Lott. That should be taking place around 5:30 Eastern Time, around 4:30 p.m. Central Time. Jonathan Karl, our correspondent from Capitol Hill has been following the news after this announcement came out just moments ago. Jon, what have you learned?", "Well, first, officially from Senator Lott's office, what they are saying is that he is returning to Mississippi to answer questions that have arisen since his statements at Strom Thurmond's birthday party last week. But a Lott adviser I spoke to said that Senator Lott is going down. He is going to issue essentially a mea culpa. That was his adviser's words, and he's going to give a much more thorough and in- depth and forceful response to the concerns that have been raised about his praise at that birthday party last week for Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist campaign for president. Lott's been under pressure to do this, including from his Republican colleagues, perhaps even especially from his Republican colleagues, who have been warning that if he does not do this, if he does not come out and issue a more forceful, and direct statement and answer questions, that his leadership of the Republican Party in the U.S. Senate is in jeopardy. So you can bet the most important audience for this press conference will be his Republican colleagues on the Hill, in the Senate, because those are the ones that will decide whether or not he stays on as majority leader.", "Very interesting. So it's very clear that the pressure basically since there were no voices, there weren't any voices really that count, that were coming out speaking in his behalf. Was Trent Lott the senator, was he very fearful to this point that he could be in a position to lose his leadership spot there?", "I'm also told that emphatically Senator Lott will not resign at this press conference, and I'm told in his private discussions he is confident he will not have to give up his leadership post. But, Leon, there is a growing feeling among Republicans that his leadership may be in jeopardy, that he may be forced to step down, and this will be the critical moment. The critical moment will be this press conference, how he handles the questions, and whether or not he can put these issues beside him. In terms of public calls on resignation, there have been none from Republicans on Capitol Hill. There have been some calls from conservatives off Capitol Hill and certainly from Democrats on Capitol Hill, but privately, these discussions are very serious up here. There is a growing sense that he is in jeopardy as leader.", "Very interesting. Jonathan Karl on Capitol Hill. Thanks, John. Quick hustle on that story for us this morning. We appreciate it. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS", "JONATHAN KARL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "KARL", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-364543", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-03-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/15/es.04.html", "summary": "Israel Retaliates After Rockets Fired From Gaza; Senate Rejects President Trump's National Emergency.", "utt": ["The latest on the breaking news out of New Zealand. Police in the city of Christchurch confirm 49 people were killed in a terror attack at two mosques. Forty-eight more have been wounded. Muslims were gathering for prayer services when the gunman walked in and systematically murdered as many as he could. Police charging one 28-year-old man with murder. Two others remain in custody. Two IEDs were found attached to one of the attacker's cars. Stay with CNN for updates as we get them.", "Israel retaliating overnight after rockets targeted Tel Aviv for the first time since the 2014 war with Hamas. Israel hitting targets in Gaza following the attack, and there's reporting in the last few minutes Israel Defense Forces think the attack may not have been sanctioned by Palestinian leaders. CNN's Melissa Bell at the Israel-Gaza border. Melissa, what can you tell us about that reporting?", "Well, Dave, what we're hearing -- this is from the Israeli media who are suggesting that that's the IDF's assessment at this stage. And we're really getting a sense that after that flare-up of tensions that you were just talking about overnight, there is a willingness on all sides to really see a de-escalation along this border just behind me at this stage. On one hand, we're hearing from inside Gaza that those weekly Friday protests have now been canceled. They've been going on for a year now. Today, they were due. They've, in fact, been canceled given what happened overnight. We've also been speaking to a spokesman for Islamic Jihad, one of the groups that functions inside Gaza, suggesting that perhaps it was time that the -- there should be some sort of de-escalation to what had happened over the course of the last 24 hours. I think everyone was really taken by surprise by the fact that those rockets should have made their way to Tel Aviv, not intercepted by the Iron Dome system. But no fatalities, no casualties at all. Some surprise, really, that they should have come as quickly as they did when no one had really expected at this stage, Dave, a flaring up of the tensions along this particular border. So on all sides, we're really hearing that there is a sense -- we're getting a sense, rather, that perhaps everyone is looking to put the lid back on this and really keep this flare-up from becoming any more serious than it has been already.", "All right. Melissa Bell live for us at the Israel-Gaza border at just about noon there. Thanks, Melissa.", "Our first glimpse this morning of the final moments in the cockpit of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board. \"The New York Times\" reports the captain called controllers in a panicky voice three minutes into the flight as the plane accelerated to abnormal speed.", "Someone who reviewed air traffic communications tells the \"Times\" the captain radioed, \"Break, break, request back to home\" and then asked for a route back to the runway. Controllers saw the new 737 MAX 8 was climbing and plunging hundreds of feet in just seconds, a clear sign something was very wrong. Today is veto day at the White House. President Trump expected to hold a public ceremony to mark the first veto of his presidency after suffering a humiliating defeat in the Republican-controlled Senate. Twelve members of his own party joining forces with the Democrats to reject the president's national emergency declaration for border wall funding. President Trump responding quickly to the vote with a one-word tweet, \"VETO!\" If the current totals hold, there will not be enough votes to override the president. Let's bring in \"Washington Post\" congressional reporter, Karoun Demirjian, a CNN political analyst. Good to see you this morning, Karoun.", "Good morning.", "Twelve Republicans -- a stunning rebuke but arguably, it could have been a lot higher. If Thom Tillis had stuck with his words in \"The Washington Post\", if Ted Cruz would have backed up his rhetoric, if Ben Sasse would have stuck the Constitution, it could have easily been 15 or 16. But what does this rebuke mean for the president's national emergency?", "It means, basically, that you've seen now play out in real time and in an actual vote the frustration that exists in the GOP about the way that Trump is approaching border security and has been for a long time. There has never been complete support for his strategy of prioritizing the wall. And yes, I know that we've been -- we've heard various descriptions of what it actually is over the last several months as this debate has been playing out in various stages. But the GOP has never been fully behind what the president wanted to do. And yet, when push came to shove, not everybody who had been very critical of him and very critical of this kind of power grab of the authority to be able to divert funds away from Congress. This is kind of the most sacred power that the Legislative Branch has. And they didn't fight back in as large numbers as you might have excepted, listening to the way that members of the Senate, members of Congress, and the GOP were talking about this being an overreach. It's also interesting that of the 12 who voted against the president, only one of them is up for reelection in 2020, and that's Susan Collins who has often broken with what the -- with what the president wants to do, anyhow, in the past. And so that tells you maybe a little bit of something about what the competing motivations are. Trump still wields a lot of power in the", "Yes.", "-- even if people don't like what the policy issues are that he espouses.", "It could come back to haunt one Cory Gardner up for reelection in Colorado --", "Yes.", "-- and now, a very blue state. Thom Tillis also up for reelection. Perhaps that's why he shifted. It now goes to the courts. And you wonder how much the words of the president saying, \"I can do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this.\" You wonder if those words come back to haunt him. We shall see.", "Yes. Let's completely switch gears and talk about North Korea --", "Right.", "-- because we have Kim Jong Un considering suspending talks with the", "According to his foreign minister.", "According to his foreign minister -- and rethinking a ban on missile tests. This, despite all the optimism coming from the U.S. So was all that talk about Trump and Kim Jong Un being buddies much ado about nothing?", "Well, I think that you've seen this talk about 'oh, we are fine -- it's just the situation around us is not that great' coming from both sides. And I think that that's been -- and both of these leaders have egos that need to be buoyed and the relationship between the two of them is what they've billed this entire process on. They got to the stage of actually having these summits before a lot of the groundwork. It seemed like it was at a point at which you could actually shake hands on a deal. So this bipartisan relationship between the two individuals has been critical for how they've actually tried to sell the potential of there being a deal around North Korea's nuclear weapons. But it's interesting that you see this sort of play right now. I mean, it's been a while since the summit and yet they're saying -- now the North Koreans are coming out and saying yes, we might do all of these drastic steps. I mean, that seems like it's a push to force the United States to make greater concessions or more forcefully back to the negotiating table. The North Koreans were the ones who were left behind in Hanoi and so it seems like this is a calculated move to saber-rattle and get the United States to move closer to their position or to give Kim the same opportunity basically that they have twice before in the original summits, which did buoy his negotiating position and his position at home with his people.", "Yes, interesting to see them stroke the president and talk about this wonderful chemistry between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump. A lot to cover. Karoun Demirjian, thanks so much for being here.", "Thanks so much.", "We await a reaction from the president on both North Korea and, of course, the shooting in New Zealand. Thanks, Karoun.", "We've yet to hear. All right, thanks for joining us. I'm Alison Kosik.", "I'm Dave Briggs. \"NEW DAY\" has breaking news coverage continuing right now."], "speaker": ["KOSIK", "BRIGGS", "MELISSA BELL, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "KOSIK", "BRIGGS", "KOSIK", "BRIGGS", "KAROUN DEMIRJIAN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST, CONGRESSIONAL REPORTER, THE WASHINGTON POST", "GOP -- BRIGGS", "DEMIRJIAN", "BRIGGS", "DEMIRJIAN", "BRIGGS", "KOSIK", "BRIGGS", "KOSIK", "U.S. BRIGGS", "KOSIK", "DEMIRJIAN", "BRIGGS", "KOSIK", "BRIGGS", "KOSIK", "BRIGGS"]}
{"id": "CNN-75093", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2003-8-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/12/bn.06.html", "summary": "FBI Arrests British Natl. on Weapons Charges", "utt": ["Breaking news of an arrest, we are told, of a British citizen apparently in an apparent terror investigation. We get this development now from our national security correspondent, David Ensor -- David.", "Well, John, we understand from U.S. government sources that the FBI has made an important arrest today in the United States of a British citizen. This involves -- the citizen was apparently involved in some kind of an arms deal, we are told, and sources say the arms deal included an attempt to sell surface-to-air missiles. These are the shoulder launched missiles that have been much discussed in recent weeks that can attack aircraft. So this is an important development, if it turns out that this was, indeed a plot to get shoulder-launched missiles into the United States and use them against aircraft. Again, the FBI, in a sting operation today, arrested one British citizen here in the United States suspected of involvement in an arms deal involving shoulder launched missiles -- John.", "Obviously, David, law enforcement officials sensitive to discuss details of the case because of other potential suspects and the like. But do we know anything at all about who this suspect is and about what his target might have been, had he acquired these missiles?", "No, we do not. There's been a little bit of reporting in Britain, but it's all been denied, and therefore it's really not worth getting into. What we know is what I've said, and that's basically it. They're very closed mouth about this, as you say. It's a sealed case at this point and, as far as I know at the moment, there are no plan to make announcements. Though the facts that the news is now breaking may change that -- John.", "David Ensor, our national security correspondent, on this major breaking story. We will free you up in case we can learn a little bit more, and if so, we'll bring you back. Thank you, David. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID ENSOR, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "KING", "ENSOR", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-250225", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2015-02-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/27/acd.01.html", "summary": "Boris Nemtsov Shot to Death in Moscow", "utt": ["Tonight, other breaking news. Russian opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov, one of President Putin's most vocal critics has been shot dead in central Moscow, gunned down on a bridge near the Kremlin. His associates are calling it a political murder. Russian television said President Putin has condemned the killing. In a statement a short time ago, President Obama called it a brutal murder and urged Russia's government to conduct a prompt and transparent investigation. President Obama praised Nemtsov as a tireless and courageous advocate for his country. Now, in an interview last year, CNN's Anthony Bourdain spoke frankly with Nemtsov about the dangers that Putin's critics faced. Look at this.", "You were supposed to be dining at another restaurant this evening and when they heard that you would be joining me, we were uninvited. Should I be concerned about having dinner with you?", "This is a country of corruption. And if you have business, you are in a very unsafe situation. Everybody can press you and destroy your business. That's it - this is the system.", "Meet Boris Nemtsov. He was deputy prime minister under Yeltsin. (on camera): Critics of the government, critics of Putin, bad things seem to happen to them.", "Yes, unfortunately, existing power represent what I say Russia of 19th century. Not of 21st.", "Boris Nemtsov was 55 years old. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen joins me now from Moscow. Fred, what are authorities there saying about this incident?", "Well, it's interesting, John, because we've just gotten some new information, literally, just a couple of minutes ago. The authorities, of course, are saying that all this happened in the very late evening hours. And the interesting thing was that Boris Nemtsov was walking directly in the vicinity of the Kremlin and there was a second person who was with him. A woman from Ukraine. And she then later spoke to another opposition figure who just spoke to us and he said that she told him that they had been walking along a bridge near the Kremlin that all of a sudden, a car stopped next to the two. A man jumped out, opened fire at Nemtsov. Very targeted, very direct. Then jumped back into his car and sped away. The Russian authorities are saying that they've started a manhunt for this person. They say they're searching for someone who apparently fled in a white car. And I can tell you from Moscow tonight that there are checkpoints here by the police where the white cars are actually being stopped quite a bit here in the city. So the Russians are saying that they've got this manhunt under way and Vladimir Putin came out and said that even he believes that this bears all the hallmarks of a targeted contract killing which he believes is meant to so provocation job.", "Targeted contract killing certainly does not sound random. And Fred, Nemtsov, not just an opposition leader. This man is a former deputy prime minister. A high level official in the Russian government, well known across the country and he was just assassinated essentially.", "Absolutely. He wasn't only a high-level Russian politician, but he was also someone who after he left active politics, became an opposition figure and was very much a critic of Vladimir Putin. He's been jailed several times since 2007. The latest was in 2011. He was a very big critic of Vladimir Putin, also around the Olympics in Sochi where he said that money was wasted where he said that there was corruption, but most importantly, he was also very much an outspoken critic of what's going on in eastern Ukraine. He is someone who criticized the Russian government for that. He is someone who said in an interview just recently that he fears for his life and he fears that Vladimir Putin was after him. Now, of course, at this point in time, there's absolutely no clue as to who might be behind this, as to what might have happened but there are certainly opposition figures out there who've already said they have no faith in any sort of investigation going forward, John.", "Fred Pleitgen, thanks so much for being with us from Moscow. I appreciate it. For more perspective, I want to bring in Julia Ioffe, the contributing writer for \"The New York Times\" magazine. She's written extensively about Russia. And Julie, you know, as we keep on saying, we do not know yet what happened. There is an investigation led by the Russian government now under way. So we don't know for sure, but it is true to say this. That opposition, people who oppose Russian president Vladimir Putin, some have ended up dead or in prison. It is not a safe position to be in, correct?", "That's right. Boris Nemtsov, though, even though he said that he was afraid for his life, he did walk around without bodyguards. It was a very overt message of bravery. And what we've seen in return is a very overt message of fear. And as Fred pointed out very correctly, the people in the opposition will not believe really anything that comes out of the Kremlin in terms of who did this. They perceive this as a message sent directly to them. And when you see the image of Boris Nemtsov's body lying with the Kremlin as a backdrop, they understand that that is a message directed to them. That if you speak out against Putin, this could happen to you. And what's really critical here is this has never happened before. You know, about a year and a half ago, one of the other opposition leaders, Alexei Navalny, was sentenced to five years in jail. That sentence was quickly overturned, but that was a huge watershed moment. That was a landmark moment. The state had never done that before, had never really given such long sentences to the opposition. And that was seen to be like, OK, now the stakes are raised. This is something totally different.", "Jail and now murder.", "Yes.", "But again, we don't know who did it for sure. The timing. Let's talk about the timing here. Do you think it's suspicious?", "Extremely suspicious and again, this is I think why the members of the opposition that I've spoken to tonight see it as a message to them. This happened about 36 hours before a planned opposition march, planned long ago for Sunday that was to take place in Moscow to protest against the economic crisis unfolding in Russia, against the government's policy in Ukraine, and Boris Nemtsov had just come from a radio interview where he was putting out the call to Muscovites to come out on Sunday. And then he was gunned down just a couple of hours later.", "Where are the Russian people here in this? If the opposition leaders are being gunned down, in a country like the U.S. or others, you would think there would be mass outrage at such an action. Do you expect people to take to the streets over the next few days?", "You know, if this happened randomly without the previous 15 years of Putin's rule leading up to this, the control of television, of sweeping clear the political field of any possible competition or any opposing voices, then maybe there would be mass outrage, but this is coming on the heels of 15 years of very studied neutralizing and marginalizing the opposition. Now, this is a message that says not only will you be marginalized and silenced, something far worse could happen to you and I don't think that - I mean maybe the march on Sunday will be more populous than it would have otherwise been, but don't expect a huge uprising with pitch forks and, you know, and flames.", "Julia Ioffe, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Just ahead for us, an American blogger is brutally murdered in Bangladesh. An Islamic extremist group claims responsibility. Echoes of Paris, when \"360\" continues."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "ANTHONY BOURDAIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BORIS NEMTSOV", "BOURDAIN (voice over)", "NEMTSOV", "BERMAN", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "PLEITGEN", "BERMAN", "JULIA IOFFE, CONTRIBUTING WRITER, NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE", "BERMAN", "IOFFE", "BERMAN", "IOFFE", "BERMAN", "IOFFE", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-1035", "program": "WorldView", "date": "2000-1-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/19/wv.03.html", "summary": "Jordan Becomes Part Owner of Washington Wizards", "utt": ["And finally, former basketball superstar Michael Jordan is returning to the game he long dominated, this time in a corporate role. The official announcement came a short time ago. Nick Charles, of CNN/\"sports Illustrated\" is at the MCI Center in Washington -- Nick.", "Well, maybe the most famous man or person on the planet, certainly the most renowned basketball player in history, was back on the NBA stage here this afternoon, this time as part owner of the Washington Wizards. He wouldn't reveal what his plans or his financial investment in this team, but Michael Jordan was eager to tell us how he will put his imposing imprint on a team that's languished far more years than he'd like.", "As much as you guys may have given me the respect of being here and certainly the expectations that I kind of set for myself because I used to shoot a basketball through a rim pretty decent, this team and my efforts to try to make this team a successful one is going to take some time, but I look forward to the challenge.", "He will evaluate, says Jordan, sit back, but not sit back too long. He's put no time table on winning, but vows that he will win here in Washington. Once again, he wants to understand what he has on this team, and then he wants to act. He's head of basketball operations, but in terms of acting, Gene, what he'll do is look at the present roster and the coaching staff and try to infuse the burning desire to win that he brought when he played the game. If they don't have it, he will act and make moves and try to transform a team that hasn't won a playoff game in a dozen years. The big news though -- and we talked to many people here in Washington who have been following the sports scene for a couple decades, they say it's the biggest news in maybe 20 years to hit town.", "And, Nick, at lease for now, it's a psychological lift for this franchise, isn't it?", "Well by all means. I think the players -- they're standing behind me right now -- they know, they're talking about M.J., Michael Jordan, being the boss. They know what he expects of himself, always a lot, and what he'll expect of them, and he'll move them out and just clear the roster clean if they don't act, but he's financially handcuffed. With the salary cap, he's not going to be able to work miracles. Let's be realistic. He's got a lot of high- price players, and they're veterans and they're aged, and they're not going to be that easy to move. So Jordan will, again, try to impose his presence on this team certainly much more in a symbolic sense. He's willing to work to do the job.", "All right, Nick, thanks very much."], "speaker": ["GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR", "NICK CHARLES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MICHAEL JORDAN, HEAD OF BASKETBALL OPERATIONS, WASHINGTON WIZARDS", "CHARLES", "RANDALL", "CHARLES", "RANDALL"]}
{"id": "NPR-9614", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2019-08-01", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/08/01/747368543/the-addams-family-ranks-no-1-for-popularity-in-high-school-musicals", "title": "'The Addams Family' Ranks No. 1 For Popularity In High School Musicals", "summary": "The Addams Family was the most popular high school musical production this year, according to the latest rankings from the Educational Theatre Association.", "utt": ["\"The Addams Family\" musical made its debut on Broadway in 2010. The story of a weird, ghoulish family that loves all things death, in song and dance.", "The reviews were mostly bad. The New York Times reviewer said, while watching the show, quote, \"a strangled voice inside you keeps gasping help - get me out of here.\"", "It was on Broadway for less than two years.", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) Has anyone ever told you, you move like a corpse?", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Thank you.", "Well, now those creepy and kooky family members have found new life on the high school stage. In the latest high school theater rankings from the Educational Theater Association, \"The Addams Family\" tops the list. This year it was performed all over the country. In February, it was on at Morristown High School in New Jersey.", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As Gomez Addams) And now we summon our beloved ancestors. Why do we do this?", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #4: (As character) Because living or dead, family is still family.", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As Gomez Addams) Yes. And how do we do this?", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #5: (As character) By dancing on their graves.", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As Gomez Addams) Yes.", "Cue the worm on stage and then a big ensemble dance number - everybody dressed like ghosts.", "The actual plot tells the story of Wednesday Addams, the daughter of the family. She's grown up, fallen in love and arranged for her love interest's family to meet her rather morbid family.", "(As Gomez Addams) The intoxicating smell of the graveyard. Once a year, we gather beneath our family tree to honor the great cycle of life and death.", "This was another production at Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg, Pa., which ran in April. Student Nate Young played Gomez Addams.", "(Singing, as Gomez Addams) When you're an Addams, you need to have a little moonlight. When you're an Addams, you need to feel a little chill.", "The show has it all - lots of Halloween-y makeup, outlandish foreign accents, drama, laughs, big dance numbers.", "Unlike The New York Times theater critic, parents of the performers loved \"The Addams Family\" musical productions this year, at least that's what an unscientific review of Facebook posts tell us. Could be parental pride or maybe it's just the scrappy enthusiasm of the high school stage that makes everything better.", "NATE YOUNG AND UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #6: (Singing, as Gomez Addams and character) When you're an Addams...", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #6: (Singing, as character) You need to have a taste for death.", "YOUNG AND UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #6: (Singing, as Gomez Addams and character) Who cares about the world outside and what it wants from you? When you're an Addams..."], "speaker": ["ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "NATE YOUNG", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "NATE YOUNG", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-198548", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2013-1-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/02/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Battle of the Baby Bumps", "utt": ["Tonight on the SHOWBIZ Countdown, \"Battle of the Baby Bumps.\" Kim Kardashian, Jessica Simpson, Duchess Catherine. The most anticipated babies on the planet, but which star will top the SHOWBIZ Countdown, \"Battle of the Baby Bumps\"? Hello, I`m A.J. Hammer. From all of us here at SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, happy new year! And what a new year this is going to be for Kim Kardashian. Tonight in the SHOWBIZ Countdown, we`re revealing the top five must-see brand-new developments in the \"Battle of the Baby Bumps.\" Kim versus Jessica Simpson versus Kate Middleton. You know, just one of these ladies getting pregnant is enough to create a frenzy in its own right, but all three at the same time? What the heck is in the water? Megan Alexander is with me in New York. She`s correspondent for \"Inside Edition\" in Hollywood. Kristen Aldridge, who`s a host on OMG Now on Yahoo! Jenn Hobby is a host on Kicks 101.5 Radio in Atlanta. Ladies, great to have you here. Let`s kick it off, No. 5 on our SHOWBIZ Countdown, \"Battle of the Baby Bumps,\" with Kimye`s big announcement. One of the most interesting things for me about this mega baby battle is how her big news was actually revealed. Kanye West stunned his fans on Sunday night. This was at a concert in Atlantic City. He simply blurted out the bombshell baby news. This is priceless. Let`s watch.", "Can we make some noise for my baby mama right quick?", "Yes, that was it: \"Make some noise for my baby mama.: I mean, Jenn, I`m thinking the guy obviously couldn`t contain his excitement. I will put aside for the moment that it wasn`t exactly the classiest way to let the world know he`s going to be a dad. But can you blame him? I mean, he was just out of his mind with excitement. JENN HOBBY, HOST, KICKS 101.5,", "He was so excited about it. And it`s really cute, this genuine moment. Because you know, they had to be having meetings after meetings, planning sessions, how are they going to announce it, what sort of photo shoot was it going to be, which magazine and all that stuff. And he just blurted it out. I kind of love that`s the way that it happened.", "Yes, except for the use of the term \"baby mama,\" not really a highly regarded term. Maybe Kanye will reconsider that in the future. Megan, to you, the Kardashian family reportedly didn`t know that Kanye was going to let the cat out of the bag during this show. I got to believe that, you know, Mama Jenner, Kris Jenner`s head probably exploded when she found out that this happened.", "Absolutely. Quick damage control from Kris Jenner, picking up the phone, calling all the magazines. I`m sure she already had the press releases ready to go, A.J. So it`s just a matter of accessing the file on Kim`s baby. But still, yes, I think this happened a little quicker than they anticipated. Kim says she wanted to, you know, keep it quiet, I think, a few more weeks until her bump started showing, but it`s out and here we go. Kardashians, right?", "Right. She`ll be pretty quick to control the message from here on in, I think. It is pretty clear to me, however, that Jessica Simpson`s baby news announcement was more thoughtfully planned. She took to Twitter to confirm all of those reports that had been floating around that she`s expecting again. She shared this adorable picture of daughter Maxwell Drew. Look at that. That`s so cute. You see the words \"Big sis\" scribbled in the sand there. Kristen, I like how she did this. Very well done.", "I totally agree with you, too, A.J. I mean, that couldn`t have been more adorable. I can`t think of anything better than announcing a pregnancy on Christmas, but, of course, we know that Jessica is kind of known for being clever. She announced her first pregnancy, I think, on Halloween with her mummy picture. So you know what? I`m really happy for the couple. I think they`re -- they`re really, really great parents. And Weight Watchers on the other hand, we`ve had reports that they may have been a little less than thrilled with the news, but they`re still showing their support, and I think we should, too.", "Yes, and we will be getting into that a little later tonight on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Will they be sticking with Jessica? Will she stay on Weight Watchers? But now we move from the big announcements to a royal rivalry. This is No. 4 on our SHOWBIZ Countdown. America`s reality royalty versus Britain`s royal family. You all remember that when Will and Kate married, nearly 3 billion people reportedly tuned in to watch that magical day. That`s nearly half the people on the planet, right? And when Kim and her ex-, Kris Humphries, tied the knot, you had over 4 million people tuning in for their big reality TV extravaganza. So Jenn, everyone is going nuts over Kim getting pregnant. But I`m guessing her giving birth, it will be nothing compared to when Kate has her baby.", "That`s so true, A.J. The royal baby will have all the attention of not just the U.K. and not just the States, but the world. They are the real-life fairytale story, and now they`re welcoming a child into the world. So all eyes on the royal baby in 2013, for sure.", "Yes. And the timing, it`s kind of on par, here, with the duchess and Kim both reportedly about three months into their pregnancies, due at around the same time, Megan. So do I even have to ask you who tops this royal battle for you? I have a feeling it`s going to relate to somebody not native of this country.", "Exactly. I think there`s no competition, A.J., in terms of Kate and Will. An heir to the British throne, if you will. And Kate being so stylish, so classy, both of them handling themselves so well. I think we all enjoy watching the British family, how they deal with these sort of things. I think it`s going to be really fun to see these two as parents.", "It`s just going to be fun to watch the mayhem and the explosion in the media. Well, next in our SHOWBIZ Countdown of the \"Battle of the Baby Bumps,\" at No. 3, the fashion mogul versus the reality TV mogul. Jessica Simpson and Kim Kardashian certainly have both been criticized for oversharing in the past. But, you know, the fans just love that stuff. Right now Jessica has over 5 million Twitter followers, taking on Kim Kardashian`s over 17 million followers. And after Jessica tweeted this gorgeous picture of her daughter, she kept right on tweeting with this picture of her growing baby bump. Kristen, I actually think that Jessica is already giving Kim a run for her money when it comes to the whole baby battle here.", "Wow. Do you really? I love it. First of all, the picture is amazing. She looks beautiful. She`s a proud mama. But we all know Kim Kardashian is the queen of oversharing, and when it comes to entertainment news, there`s nothing that I love more than baby bump sightings, because it gives me tons of awesome stuff to talk about on Yahoo! So I don`t know. I think Jessica is going to have to work a lot harder if she`s going to defeat reality royalty Kim Kardashian.", "I suppose that`s right. And as much as she was trying to keep things under wraps, the news finally came out, and Kim just spoke out for the first time about her pregnancy. She tells \"Entertainment Tonight\" that so far it actually hasn`t been easy. Let`s watch.", "People say pregnancy is, like, fun and they love it. I would have to disagree.", "What?", "You know, I mean, I think from this stage on it does become easier and funner [SIC], but, you know, it`s adjusting. And I think that so many times -- even my sisters made it look so easy. And it`s not as easy as people think. It is, you know, a little painful.", "OK. Now, here`s the thing. Here`s the thing. There are a whole lot of people out there who love Kim Kardashian and everything that the Kardashian family does, and they follow their every move. And then there are a whole lot of people out there who really don`t want to see yet another Kardashian moment. And now we`re going to have yet another Kardashian reality show entering the picture here, Jenn. It is insanity. How do you see this pregnancy playing out on TV? I mean, is she going to take us into the delivery room? Please say no.", "She will take us everywhere. This is what she does so brilliantly, is allow her fans into her life. And I`m expecting myself in 2013, and I am fascinated by this miracle growing in my body and all these things that my body is doing. But I don`t Instagram everything going on with myself and with my body and with this baby on the way. And so I know that Kim will be doing that, because that`s just what she does.", "Yes.", "Well, congratulations to you too, as well, Jenn. Maybe there are more people out there interested in your giving birth than Kim Kardashian. Who knows? Megan, what do you think? Because you know, we`ve been sitting here chatting about the Kardashians for years now.", "Yes.", "And, look, as much as people like to put them down and go after them, they obviously have a great number of fans, so this is going to be a huge boon to the Kardashian empire.", "I think it will. I mean, nobody knows how to capitalize on and monetize their fame like the Kardashians do. So every single one of them, every single aspect of their life they seem to capitalize on, A.J. But you know, one has to wonder at what point will they maybe regret sharing as much as they have? I don`t know. It`s full speed ahead right now. But there may come a time where they go, \"Ooh, did I really share that and say that?\"", "No, don`t say that. There are no regrets down the line for these guys. I have to tell you, I can`t imagine a day will come. Although maybe it will. Maybe Kim will have a mea culpa one day and who knows? Well, Megan, Jenn, Kristen, stay where you are, because we are not done yet. So if the all-too-surprising baby announcements and the royal rivalry aren`t No. 1 on the SHOWBIZ Countdown, what is? Well, I can tell you, it is a showdown between a fashion face-off and that coveted first baby photo. But which story is going to top the SHOWBIZ Countdown, \"Battle of the Baby Bumps\"? The big reveal is next. So as Kim shares her baby joy, is her mom`s marriage a total mess right now? Well, tonight, there are some new details coming out about Kris and Bruce Jenner. And it`s not just the first family of reality TV who spent the holidays breaking big news, we officially know what direction Taylor Swift`s love life is going in with Harry Stiles. Happy new year. Well, in this new year, there`s new love, and there`s new marriage meltdowns to talk about. More couples news than you can shake a prenup at. This is SBT, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, on HLN."], "speaker": ["A.J. HAMMER, HOST", "KANYE WEST, SINGER", "HAMMER", "ATLANTA", "HAMMER", "MEGAN ALEXANDER, CORRESPONDENT, \"INSIDE EDITION\"", "HAMMER", "KRISTEN ALDRIDGE, OMG NEWS ON YAHOO!", "HAMMER", "HOBBY", "HAMMER", "ALEXANDER", "HAMMER", "ALDRIDGE", "HAMMER", "KIM KARDASHIAN, REALITY TV STAR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KARDASHIAN", "HAMMER", "HOBBY", "ALEXANDER", "HAMMER", "ALEXANDER", "HAMMER", "ALEXANDER", "HAMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-10012", "program": "WorldView", "date": "2000-6-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/14/wv.06.html", "summary": "Syrians Adjusting to Change in Leaders", "utt": ["Back in the Middle East, the people of Syria are still trying to adjust to a sudden change in leadership. CNN's Brent Sadler is in Damascus with that story.", "Syria without President Hafez al-Assad. The day after his state funeral, Damascus appears subdued, many businesses closed. In the packed", "He's succeeding a personality which is as big as a mountain, and I think everybody is going to make the comparison between him and his father.", "While Syrians expect a continuity of rule, change is also on the agenda. Syria is bogged down by economic recession. There are demands for modernization and liberalization in many fields. But can the would-be president afford to tackle gigantic domestic issues, build his power base and work on regional peace, all at the same time?", "It's not a one-man show. There are institutions in Syria. And he is going to have the support of the establishment. The establishment is behind him. A lot of the faces that served the president very well are going to be around helping Bashar. So I think he can afford and Syria should move on all fronts at the same time.", "Syria is on the threshold of a new era of leadership, but no one here expects overnight change. The late president was a cautious, slow-moving tactician, and while his son's style may appear modern, he was, say observers, still schooled in the old family ways. Brent Sadler, CNN, Damascus."], "speaker": ["JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR", "BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "NABIL SUKKAR, ECONOMIST", "SADLER", "SUKKAR", "SADLER (on camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-253718", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2015-04-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1504/20/cg.01.html", "summary": "Baltimore Authorities Investigate Police Custody Death. ", "utt": ["Welcome to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. We begin with the breaking news in the national lead. Any minute now, we expect to hear from the mayor of Baltimore, and also from the chief or some representative of the Baltimore Police Department about a case that left many in the community both baffled and outraged. How is it that a man seen on this video being taken into custody, heard wailing as he was dragged into a police van, paddy wagon, if you will, how is it that he ended up with a spinal injury less than an hour later? He died over the weekend. Freddie Gray died, specifically, at the hospital yesterday one week after his arrest. All the while, protesters and family of Freddie Gray are demanding answers from the city of Baltimore and specifically from Baltimore City police. They want to know what happened while Freddie Gray was in custody, why he was arrested in the first place, how he ended up in a coma, how he ended up dead. Those answers have been hard to come by. CNN's Joe Johns is live in Baltimore and joins me now as we wait for this press conference to begin. Joe, so many questions, but, of course, the big one, what happened between Freddie Gray's trip to the police station and then the call for an ambulance after he was so seriously wounded?", "It's a big question, Jake. The mayor and the police commissioner are expected to try address some of these questions in the news conference in a few minutes. What we do know is I spoke to the commissioner earlier today at Johns Hopkins University and he said they do expect to present video which might add to this conversation. I was in the room a couple minutes ago. They were queuing up video, apparently a street camera near Baltimore. Not clear what it shows, but hopefully it will add a little bit more deal to a story that has really roiled the city of Baltimore.", "Police say Freddie Gray was stopped on suspicion of criminal activity apparently drug-related, but that doesn't explain all that happened here. Camera phone video and audio on the street at the time of Gray's arrest paint a disturbing picture. He's on the ground. He's screaming in apparent pain. He's being taken into custody, legs limp. A woman is describing an apparent problem with his legs.", "His leg broken. You all dragging him like that.", "He's taken to a hospital, where he went into a coma and then he die as week later.", "We're going to interrupt this piece now. Here is the mayor of Baltimore and others from the police department. Let's listen in.", "Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us today. Shortly, I am going to turn things over to Commissioner Batts and the Baltimore Police Department, who will walk you through some of the latest developments related to the death of Mr. Freddie Gray. Before we begin, I want to, again, offer my most sincere condolences to Mr. Gray's family, and to his friends. I also want to reiterate our commitment to moving as quickly as possible to determine exactly how his death occurred. Earlier today, the commissioner and I met with community leaders to discuss this case, and I'm looking forward to speaking with Mr. Gray's family soon. One of the things that we discussed was the importance of our efforts to continue to work together, as we determine everything that transpired before Mr. Gray died. Many of the people in that room have worked with us over the years to continue reforming our police department. And they have worked tirelessly to help bridge the gap between the police and the community. This has not been easy work. It has been very difficult to overcome decades of mistrust, but together I believe we have made great strides forward. However, it's still very clear that we have much more work to do. I will never stop believing that we are up to this challenge. Baltimore's made progress before, and we have overcome difficult challenges in our city. And I know that we will do it again. As we move forward with this investigation, it is important that we remain one community, and I'm encouraged by how peaceful the demonstrations have been. As we move forward, I continue to encourage those residents", "Thank you, Madam Mayor. As I said yesterday at the news conference, I shared the fact that I'm clear that a mother has lost her child. I'm clear that a member of our community is not here anymore. I'm also clear that my goal is interaction between the police department and the community. The goal is to walk home safe for everyone. I am asking for calm and to allow the process to work its way through. The steps that will take place is that the police department will conclude their investigation or our investigation by next Friday, not this coming Friday, Friday after next. At the conclusion of that investigation, it will be forwarded to the state's attorney's office, to which they will make a ruling whether they will file the case or not file the case. At the conclusion of that, there will be an independent review board that I will call. This is the third such independent reviews that we have brought people in from the outside to take an honest look at our investigation as a whole. We are a community that's on the edge right now. Our voices need to be heard. The community's voices need to be heard, and the most part is that we need to listen. We, too, are part of this community, and we hear, I hear the outrage. I hear the concern. And I also hear the fear. I also ask for the media to also report in a responsible way, because we are on edge as a city, and I need your help to make sure that we get this out in the proper way. As people express their very real frustration in the coming days, we ask only that it is done peacefully. My model, my goal, my focus is a reference for human life. That's in our policies. It's in my statements. I make it clear that we will have a reverence for human life. But it goes beyond the mere actions, including the manner in which we conduct ourselves is paramount. As we move with urgency, and I do say when we move with a sense of urgency, in our investigation, we will examine every piece of evidence possible, and we will go wherever the evidence takes us. Areas of concerns for me, and the deputy commissioner will cover some of these, what did the autopsy come back with? And that happened today. And what is the preliminary findings of that autopsy? Was the gentleman seat-belted in the van, per policy, as we relate? Was there a delay in requesting the paramedics at the time that we saw that there may be some serious issues going on? We will show you the video from the CCTV that was referenced and make sure that you get a copy of that and any other video that you wish to see. Was there any evidence of a use of force? Was there a Tasing that took place out there? Did the body show any use of force of Tasing? Was there any broken bones on Mr. Gray? Was there any evidence of kicking, punching, strikes of any type upon his body? Was there any evidence of the voice box being crushed or any damage done to the neck area? Was there any internal trauma to the organs at all? Was there any vertebrae that were broken in a manner that would cause the severe issues that we are dealing with today? We have all seen the videos and those that have not been seen, we will make sure that you get a copy. The actions of our officers appear to be calm. They do not appear to be angry or overbearing when we watch the video. They have no objection to the filming when it's taking place. That doesn't mean or excuse that nothing happened. It just recognizes the facts that are on the video. Other videos that you will see from different angles will show the same location, which leaves all of us seeking more answers. As this investigation continues, we take corrective action whenever and wherever it is necessary. If we see policies that don't make sense, or are out of date on antiquated, they will be changed quickly and immediately. If we find a procedure or a process that was handled incorrectly, we will hold people accountable for that. We will train all of our officers to make sure it is remedied immediately. As a part of an ongoing investigation, I am ordering and I have ordered a number of policies to the reviewed and rewritten effective immediately best on national best practices. This includes our in-custody transportation procedures. It also includes the policies that address people in custody requiring medical attention. Any time someone requests medical attention in any context, immediately, we are to respond to that. I have directed our professional development and training academy to immediately start training tomorrow to certify all of our officers who operate transport vehicles. We will ensure that they have the correct training. We will validate that they have been trained on first-aid, CPR, the correct way to seat and house a prisoner in the transportation of a prisoner and the request of any medical attention whatsoever. As we continue the investigation, we will identify any other issues that come to light and bring them to your attention. If I haven't made it too clearly now, we're being as transparent as we possibly can. We will be open, we will answer questions, we will bring this information to the public. We will continue to keep the public and Mr. Gray's family informed at every step of this investigation as we are able. We guarantee transparency and, as the mayor said, we also guarantee accountability. But, at the same time, we are not rushing to judgment before we have all the facts that came into play. I have directed my command staff to ensure that every resource available is dedicated to the accurate, transparent and timely resolution of this investigation. We have started a new task force. The task force to review this is part of our Force Investigation Team that investigates all force. Our crime lab will be a part of this task force. Our homicide investigators will be a part of this task force. Our training academy will also be a part of the task force that will bring to the state's attorney's office in the week after next the conclusion of all of these revelations. And, again to Mr. Gray's family, I extend my condolences, to the citizens of Baltimore, we will get better, and to the men and women in charge -- the men and women who are dedicated to keeping the streets safe in Baltimore, we stand ready to answer questions. Deputy Commissioner Rodriguez.", "Thank you, Commissioner. And thank you, Madam Mayor, both for your leadership in these times. It certainly makes our direction in what we need to do much clearer for us. My name, you heard, is deputy Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez. And I'm in charge of the Professional Standards and Accountability Bureau. I would like to join madam mayor and police commissioner in extending my deepest, deepest sympathies to the Gray family. Our mission at the direction of the police commission sis and has always been, without prejudice, partiality to seek the truth and uncover the facts. And we are committed to do that. As you know, my bureau investigates all major our cruises of force by officers, or as in this case, any in-custody death resulting from officers' actions. I want to make it very clear: we go wherever the facts, wherever the evidence takes us, and we will do that again. We will do so while demonstrating as much transparency as possible without compromising the investigation or violating any of the laws. There is a lot of misinformation in public as has been stated earlier. We want to clear up some of the confusions that may exist, and in doing so, we're going to walk you through the timeline of events that led to Mr. Gray's loss of life. We also want to share with you the progress in the investigation, our timeline, our completion due date and how we're working in partnership with the state's attorney's office. We also want to share with you that the current state status of the involved officers as we have been able to interview and determine them is that they are currently suspended. As we walk you through the timeline to date, I want to talk a little bit about some of the things that are out there. First of all, we're going to show you the close the circuit TV that the police department has. And I want you all to listen to what I'm about to say. It is our video that has been unedited, that is raw. We are not in the business of hiding facts. We will show you that video and provide you with a copy of it. We will be looking specifically at our actions from the point that we came into contact with Mr. Gray up until the time we requested medical assistance. Specifically, did we miss any warnings, should we have acted sooner? Should we have acted in any different manner? As was discussed earlier, the autopsy was done today, and as we have stated before, that we had no evidence, physical or video or statements of any use of force, there was no physical bodily injury that we saw nor was it evident in the autopsy of Mr. Gray. None of his limbs were broken. He did suffer a very tragic injury to his spinal cord, which resulted in his death. What we don't know, and what we need to get to, is how that injury occurred. We want to get there, but we want to do it very carefully, very thorough and get to the truth of the matter. As the investigation stands today we have interviewed all of those involved. We have two individuals that we need to interview. As we stated earlier, we're working with the medical examiners. I had folks from my bureau, investigators, homicide experts, at the examination today with the M.E.'s office. And our goal, our promise to you is, that that investigation will be done by a week from this Friday, and we submit it in its entirety to the district attorney's office for their review. At that point, we will work to provide any additional information that they may ask for, if any, in order to help them come to the conclusion. I believe we have a couple of, let's show the CCTV cameras. I know. There's a billboard there with the --", "Again. You will all be getting a copy of this video. It's important to note that our CCTV is in a pan mode, unless it is controlled by an individual. At this point it was not, and that why you see portions where the video scans, make come back around, but by that time, several seconds could have passed. The only time the video will focus on a particular location or person or corner is if the investigator or the officer at the other side of the camera physically takes control of that camera and stops it from rotating.", "We have only the very best equipment. It will catch on in just a second. But it was important for us not only to show you that video, to dispel the rumors but we'll give you a copy of it. That's right from our cameras. We have many of the other same videos that you have seen, the ones taken from different vantage points by members in the community. As soon as that's over, I will walk you through the timeline.", "This is the only one that I am aware of that we know that we have found that have captured any of the incident, and it was very little, of our CCTV cameras.", "How long", "I don't know the exact -- we provided everything that was on there. You're going to get a copy of it. We're going to have a copy for all of you.", "But there are other cameras out in that area, correct?", "There's approximately 600 cameras, over 600 city- wide, yes, ma'am.", "But at that", "I'll get that information. Lieutenant, do you know what corner?", "How many do we have in that corner?", "There's only one camera at that corner.", "Say that again, please?", "So there's only one camera on that corner. We have over 600 citywide.", "That is correct. We have -- say that again?", "Which is closer than this?", "We only had one camera that captured any of it and that was this camera here and we'll answer some of those specific afterwards.", "Lieutenant, what's the exact corner of that camera?", "This camera, 1600", "That's the cross street is --", "Let me -- let me go through the timeline so you understand the locations. Lieutenant, give us the exact corner of this camera again.", "1600", "Do you have the cross street? Or no?", "There's also a camera at", "OK.", "Clear up which cameras.", "We'll get you that information once we're done.", "OK.", "He just has the address. He doesn't have the cross street.", "Yes. So, we're going to go through the -- the timeline and you have had a copy of this timeline before. I'm going elaborate a little more. This incident occurred at approximately 08:39:12 at North and Mount. The reason we give specific times is because we could validate this time because something was keyed or said on the police radio that has a time stamp on it. There's how we can attribute a time to it. A lieutenant begins pursuing Mr. Gray after making eye contact with two individuals, one of which is Mr. Gray. Both males take off running southbound from that direction. At approximately 08:39:52, at 1700 Presbury, two blocks south of North and Mount, one of the units gets on, said the address and states, \"I got him\". At 08:40:12, a unit states, \"We've got one\", and confirms the address of 1700 Pres Street. He has stopped Gray at this time. The information we have is that Mr. Gray gave up without the use of force. There was an officer attempting to stop officer Gray that took his taser out, preparatory using it but never deployed the taser. That has been verified by downloading the information on the taser and also by the physical evidence on Mr. Gray's body, the lack of taser deployment. At 08:42:52, a wagon is requested for transport. At that point, Mr. Gray asks for an inhaler. At approximately 08:46:02, the driver of the van, of the transport van, believes that Mr. Gray is acting irate in the back. At about 8:46:12 at Mount and Baker, one block to the South and East, a unit asks the wagon to stop so that the paperwork can be completed, and at that point, Gray is placed in leg irons and put back in the wagon. We have several witnesses from the community that we have interviewed with regards to this particular stop. At approximately 08:54:02, the wagon clears Mount Street heading towards Central Booking going southbound. Approximately five minutes elapse, and at 08:59:52, there's a request at Druid Hill and Dolphin, which is east of Mount and Baker. The person driving the van asks for an additional unit to check on his prisoner. That is Mr. Gray. Part of what our investigation will do, there is no video of these stops, is to identify exactly what was going on, what was said by Mr. Gray, what was relayed by the officers and what actions if any we took, what actions we should have taken. At 1600 North Avenue, at Pennsylvania, which is east of Dolphin and Druid Hill, there is a, another arrest, and there's a request for a wagon. The wagon leaves -- before the wagon leaves, there's some communication with Mr. Gray. And, again, we need assess Mr. Gray's condition, how we responded, were we able to act accordingly? At that point, they travel to the western district with the individual that's in the wagon, the other suspect, in addition to Mr. Gray. Once they get to the western district, at approximately 09:24:32 is when a medic is called. We know the injuries that Mr. Gray sustained. We know the final outcome of Mr. Gray is unfortunately he passed away. What we don't have at this point is how Mr. Gray sustained those injuries. We are working tirelessly as the commissioner stated. We have appointed folks to our task force that will work solely on this. We will work -- continue to work closely with the state's attorney's office, to get to the fact to get to the truth. We have also plotted here on this map the various stops. We could also provide that to you. 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{"id": "CNN-398937", "program": "FIRST MOVE WITH JULIA CHATTERLEY", "date": "2020-04-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/30/fmjc.01.html", "summary": "More Than 30 Million U.S. Workers Now Asking For Government Help; Encouraging Signs About A Potential Coronavirus Treatment; Tech Giants' Musk And Zuckerberg Have Very Different Views On Reopening.", "utt": ["Live from New York, I'm Julia Chatterley. This is FIRST MOVE and here's your need to know. COVID claims climb. More than 30 million U.S. workers now asking for government help. Healthcare hope. Encouraging signs about a potential coronavirus treatment. And polarizing plans. Tech giants' Musk and Zuckerberg have very different views on reopening. It's Thursday. Let's make the move. Welcome once again to FIRST MOVE this Thursday. Great to have you with us as always, and today, as I mentioned briefly, there are some encouraging signs to bring you on a potential treatment for COVID-19. Yes, it's very early days, but even Dr. Fauci seemed encouraged. All the details on that coming right up and of course, not a moment too soon as we continue to track the economic fallout from the shutdown measures. As I mentioned, more than 30 million people in the United States have now filed for unemployment benefits since mid-March. That is a further 3.8 million people -- families -- in the past week alone. The trend is lower. That's one thing. But of course, it's still heartbreaking in numbers. More analysis on what we're seeing and what they look forward to -- the hope is for the future. The hope here is that this will slow as economies reopen. That remains the focus I think, for Wall Street in addition to the future of science and treatments to tackle the outbreak. As you can see, futures at this moment are losing a bit of ground. Right now, tech continues to keep us connected in person and drive stock markets higher. Facebook, Microsoft and Tesla all delivering solid results and again, as you can see that premarket, Facebook and Tesla, the outperformers. Europe, meanwhile, as you can see in the red following the worst growth print on record for the Eurozone and the European Central Bank saying they will do more if necessary. Meanwhile, take a look what we're seeing in Asia. The message I think it seems to be at least from the data there that recovery is complicated as you would imagine. Japanese tech giant, Softbank, has warned overnight that investment losses could top $9.5 billion. While in China, the manufacturing survey sector data for activity falling again in April, after gaining in March. I said it -- complicated. Even Jay Powell of the Federal Reserve yesterday said he sees considerable medium term risk, and that both Congress and the Federal Reserve may have to do more. He said, now is not the time to worry about deficits. Wise words, I think. Let's get to the drivers because Christine Romans joins me now. Christine might, the hairs on my arms raise every Thursday when I see this economic data -- 30 plus million Americans now claiming for help.", "It's just unimaginable and this is Main Street pain. There's no question about it. In some countries, the government steps in and pays a big portion of the payrolls to keep people in tact financially for their week to week and month to month budget. But in the United States, we have a different system where people have to apply for jobless benefits. They have to wait for the states to approve them, then they get the state benefits. And then the states have to figure out how to get this Federal stimulus money that's an extra $600.00 a week for these people. And you and I both know, a lot of people haven't even received the first unemployment check yet. So, this has been six weeks of true Main Street pain. We've been crunching the numbers, Julia, and when you look at the percentage of the labor force out of work, there's some states that are really hit much harder than others. Hawaii, for example, 29 percent of its labor market has filed for unemployment benefits over the past six weeks. That's remarkable, but also not surprising, since it's such a big tourism state. Kentucky, 28.8 percent. That's the home state of Mitch McConnell, who is someone who's going to be very key to any kind of future stimulus that we see. Georgia, Michigan, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, all with big, big shares of their labor markets that have filed for unemployment benefits in the past six weeks. So, these are going to be governors and states that are going to be really feeling the pain here in trying to get their aid, get aid to people quickly.", "Disparity, too, when you look at the individual states, as we start to see economies reopen, those that are more sales oriented versus those that have the ability for their workers to remain at home, I think that's going to be an interesting, perhaps, contrast between what we call blue or Democratic states and Republican states here, Christine. But to bring it back to individual people, there is still a fear for workers going back to work. Am I safe? Is it the right time? This is going to be part of the challenge, too. Am I better off taking government money?", "And I think there's so many levels to that question if you are somebody who is out of work. You may not even had a couple of unemployment checks yet, and already, you're thinking about when you're going to go back, but your kids aren't in school. Maybe you have someone in your in your immediate family who has a preexisting condition. Maybe you work in a job that is consumer facing and you've heard nothing about what the plans are going to be to keep you safe. You don't know what happens to you if you get sick and have to take a bunch of time off. I mean, there are a lot of questions, I think that people are trying to figure out as they make this calculation. Everybody wants to get back to work. There's no question about that. But what is that working situation going to look like? You know, in Iowa, for example, and in Texas, I know that those governors have said, look, if you don't want to go back to work, but your job is available to you, you don't get your unemployment benefits anymore. You have voluntarily left the labor market and that's going to be something facing meatpacking workers, facing retail workers, facing bar and restaurant workers as those slowly begin to open up in some states.", "Yes. And even for the strongest retailers, I mean, Amazon. We've had the conversation before. They said to their workers, you can take as much unpaid leave as you want if you are frightened. You only get paid if you're sick or you're quarantined in this case, and that's the challenge even for the strongest retailers. Christine Romans, the challenges continue. Thank you. Now, let's talk about some good news hopes arising after some promising news about a possible coronavirus treatment. A study shows Gilead antiviral drug, remdesivir might help patients recover more quickly from the virus. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says he expects the F.D.A. will issue an emergency use authorization for the drug very soon. Elizabeth Cohen has all the details.", "Finally, after months of illnesses, deaths connected to the scourge that is COVID- 19, we have some good news. Doctors have found a medicine that seems to work. It's called remdesivir.", "The data shows that remdesivir has a clear cut significant positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery.", "Remdesivir was a drug developed for Ebola, but it didn't work very well for that virus. It's never actually been on the market for any illness. In preliminary results of this new study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, more than a thousand patients were randomly assigned to take either remdesivir or a placebo. It took the placebo patients 15 days to recover. It took the remdesivir patients 11 days to recover, a 31 percent improvement.", "Although at 31 percent improvement, doesn't seem like a knockout, hundred percent. It is a very important proof of concept, because what it has proven is that a drug can block this virus.", "Specifically, the drug blocks an enzyme the virus needs to replicate. Researchers can use that knowledge to create other drugs.", "There are a lot of other enzymes that the virus uses that are now going to be targets for this.", "Plus four fewer days in the hospital means less time for something to go wrong, like a hospital acquired infection.", "If you stay four more days in a hospital, intubated and in a ventilator, you increase dramatically the chances that you're going to have nosocomial infections and the chances that you're going to die.", "Another advantage, it is thought that the drug has few side effects.", "Through the data we had in our trials in Ebola patients, we knew that the side effects were pretty minimal in patients and they were easily reversed when the medication was stopped.", "But researchers are clear, this is not by any means a cure for coronavirus.", "I think that we are seeing a slight glimmer of hope here. But I worry that the exuberance is related to an old saying that there's no sauce better than hunger and we want something so bad that even something that looks a little bit promising is getting blown out of proportion in terms of what it means for the number of lives that we're going to save here.", "They'll forge on. They'll keep looking at remdesivir and also try to find another drug or maybe a combination of drugs that will be even more powerful against COVID-19. Elizabeth Cohen CNN reporting.", "Treatment and not a cure. That is what you were hearing, but fingers crossed -- some help. All right, the European Central Bank says it's prepared to increase the size of its Coronavirus Stimulus Package, this after the Eurozone's economy shrank at a record rate in the first quarter. Anna Stewart joins us now on the details, and Anna, I know Christine Lagarde, of course, the Chief of the E.C.B. is speaking at this moment, but what was astonishing for me in these numbers was looking at the growth collapse in the likes of Spain and in France, two big countries in Europe and compare that to what we saw at any point during the financial crisis, and this dwarfs that.", "Yes, performance in Spain, contractions of over five percent for the first quarter. One economist this morning, Julia, is saying it was a blizzard of depressing economic data that frankly, the economy was in freefall at the end of March. Now, what isn't good, of course, is not only these dismal numbers, but the fact that really, lockdown for most of these European countries hit mid- March right at the end of the first quarter. So, you can only imagine what that means for the second quarter figures that we will see. There are also some depressing numbers out of Germany in terms of unemployment and that increased by 373,000 in April. Now, that would be a lot worse, without the scheme, of course, for all those workers who are furloughed, and those workers with shorter hours, they now have 10 million workers in Germany signed up for state aid. So, just some of the depressing numbers we're seeing out this morning.", "Yes. And Germany, arguably more able to bear the brunt of this than many of the other Eurozone nations. What has Christine Lagarde God said so far, about possible additional measures because they've done a lot, but the view is that they need to do more?", "And I think they will do more. Christine Lagarde is still speaking at the moment, a few announcements from the E.C.B. today. I think the most interesting one was regarding the PAP Program. That's the Pandemic Asset Purchase Program. Currently, that has an envelope of 750 billion euros, that's $820 billion. Now what they've said on that so far, because that will run out by autumn, I believe, at the current rate of purchases. They've said it will run through the end of the year at the least, possibly longer for as long as the crisis persists. Plus, they said they are prepared to increase the size of the program and also adjust its composition, which makes you wonder whether she might start thinking about purchasing up so-called fallen angels, corporate debt that is below investment grade as a direct result of a pandemic. A couple of other things to note, lots more liquidity, TLTRO III, an easing of conditions, and Julia, a whole new acronym, a new series of PELTROs -- I'm sure plenty of viewers would be scratching their head on that acronym. It is Pandemic Emergency Longer Term Refinancing Operations. Plenty more just helping banks helping liquidity around the system -- Julia.", "Yes. I lose track of all the acronyms, but that's one heck of a tongue twister to keep saying out loud, so perhaps we'll forgive them on that. Anna Stewart will continue to watch this space. Thank you so much for that. All right, on to a clash between the heads of Facebook and Tesla over coronavirus lockdown measures. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressing concerns about the risks of easing restrictions too soon, Tesla CEO Elon Musk meanwhile calling the stay-at-home orders fascist. Clare Sebastian has more on this. Now, Clare, let's be clear. A couple of differences between these businesses -- both tech giants -- one needing workers in place in a manufacturing facility to be clear, Elon Musk, versus perhaps the ability to do work from a distance in the case of Facebook and the workers there. Neither uncontroversial. But Elon Musk is not afraid of sharing very controversial views. Talk us through what he said first.", "He did not hold back, Julia, on the company earnings call, which was last night, as you said, calling the stay-at-home orders fascist. He said, this was like forcibly imprisoning people in their homes. He called it an outrage. At one point, he said, give people back their goddamn freedom. So, you know, this is something we've seen from Elon Musk before, a sort of slightly colorful language on earnings calls, but he is still -- he's clearly very frustrated and not least because their Fremont Gigafactory remains closed due to shelter-in-place orders in California. This is the beating heart of the business where most of their car production happens. He said this will be extremely harmful, not only to Tesla, but to other companies down the supply chain. But look, Elon Musk has been sort of outside the mainstream, certainly mainstream health officials in his views on COVID-19 for months now, I think we can pull up some of his tweets back on March 8th here, he tweeted, \"The virility of COVID-19 ...\" which he calls C-19, \" ... is overstated due to conflating diagnosis with contraction date and over extrapolating exponential growth, which is never what happens in reality.\" Unfortunately, we have seen exponential growth, \" ... keep extrapolating and the virus will exceed the mass of the known universe.\" So, clearly he is trying to say that all the panic is overstated, and he went back on Twitter here. He was on Twitter a lot on this subject on March 16th, saying, \"Maybe worth considering chloroquine for COVID-19.\" And we know there was a lot of hope around that drug, particularly from the President, but the F.D.A. has since issued a warning that this can cause serious heart rhythm issues among patients and shouldn't be used outside of a hospital context. So, Elon Musk treading fairly close to the line with his views on COVID-19, and it is controversial, Julia, because it is noise around this company, which meanwhile, has withdrawn its guidance. It did post a profit, but it's very uncertain what's going to happen next, particularly, as the factory in California remains closed.", "Yes, it's such a great point. I mean, you missed the tweet on March the 13th, where he said probably close to zero new cases in the United States, too, by the end of April, based on current trends.", "Yes, just quickly flip to Mark Zuckerberg because he chose from the onset of his call to say, reopening too soon was a real concern for him.", "Yes, and not just from the call, Julia, from the onset of this crisis, Mark Zuckerberg has been very conservative, very vocal on how, you know, Facebook is essentially letting employees work from home. It has canceled all events and meetings with people with other 50 people until June of next year. He really is trying to get ahead of this. On the call, he said that he worries reopening places too quickly before infection rates have been reduced will almost guarantee, he said, future outbreaks and worse future economic and health outcomes. This meanwhile, while Facebook while showing some resilience in the face of this, they did see a steep decline in ad revenue in March, showing some stabilization in April, but again, they are very uncertain about what's to come, but perhaps as you point out, more resilient in the face of this than the likes of Tesla because they don't necessarily rely on their workers being in the office. But then again, ad revenue businesses spending, that is something where they are vulnerable.", "Yes, absolutely. And I will just, for completeness, point out that Elon Musk did say, look, we open with care and appropriate protection and that comes down to businesses themselves, once they are given the go ahead to protect their workers as best they can. So, yes, that will be the focus then for both of these companies, for all companies of course. Clare Sebastian, thank you for that. All right, we're going to take a break. Coming up next though on FIRST MOVE, the CEO of Southeast Asia's biggest bank talks digitalization in times of crisis and how they are helping their customers get through this. And later in the show, re-growing a business during shutdown. The founder of Farm Girl Flowers tells us how. Stay with us. We are back after this."], "speaker": ["JULIA CHATTERLEY, CNN BUSINESS ANCHOR, FIRST MOVE", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "CHATTERLEY", "ROMANS", "CHATTERLEY", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES", "COHEN (voice over)", "FAUCI", "COHEN (voice over)", "FAUCI", "COHEN (voice over)", "DR. ANDRE KALIL, REMDESIVIR TRIAL RESEARCHER, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA", "COHEN (voice over)", "DR. ANEESH MEHTA, REMDESIVIR TRIAL RESEARCHER, EMORY UNIVERSITY", "COHEN (voice over)", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-406142", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-07-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/22/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Family Contracted COVID-19 While Distancing But Without Masks.", "utt": ["While coronavirus cases continue to rise across the country, a doctor and his physician wife are warning, Do not make the same mistake that they did. My next guest writes, in part, quote, \"We visited family this weekend\" -- this was two weekends ago -- \"and eight of the 11 people we saw -- not all at the same time -- are now lab-confirmed COVID-positive. We did not wear masks while visiting with family because we let our guard down and thought we were safe. Please be careful, everyone. COVID-19 is just so contagious.\" With me now is Dr. Miles Cobia. Good morning. I'm sorry that you have had this, your wife; you're both doctors, you're both generally pretty careful. You've got a sweet little girl, almost two years old, Claire, she was symptomatic as well. What is your warning to people? Like, what did you do -- and despite those precautions, this happened?", "Yes. I mean, for those of you that haven't seen the tweet, to set this up, you know, we have been -- my wife is pregnant, she's 28 weeks pregnant. We have been exceedingly precautious, both at work and outside of work. We've really just been at home, we've been ordering even our groceries through delivery services and things. We had a long vacation set up for July. And I finished my fellowship in June, 13 years of training. And so I actually had scheduled time here in July to take off, we were going to take a long vacation to Florida Obviously, we didn't feel like that was safe. We scrapped that idea. And a couple weeks before the weekend, we ended up going to the lake, which was the -- July the 11th and the 12th. We decided that maybe a secluded lake house on a smaller lake in Alabama might be a better option for us, so we went ahead and booked that for a couple days. And then as we got closer to the trip, we entertained the idea of -- you know, we hadn't seen our family, really, much at all, obviously, in five months, and a lot of, you know, fatigue had started to set in with us, especially my wife being pregnant and she's a hospital medicine physician who's been around, you know, COVID sporadically throughout the last five months. So we opened the idea of inviting our family to the lake, immediate family only. We went through and carefully selected who we invited, we -- there were some people that we just didn't feel comfortable inviting because they had been to bars or had certain opinions about masks and hadn't been wearing them in public, so --", "Right.", "-- we invited the ones that we thought had been safe. We went to the lake house on the 11th and 12th, really basically from noon on the 11th, on a Saturday, until noon on Sunday. We were outside the entire time. At no point were all of the adults there together. In total, if you count my wife, my daughter and myself, there were 11 total people that interacted that weekend. But at no point was everybody there. Some people were there on Saturday, some people Sunday. But we were outdoors the entire time in the lake, in the river, you know, in the yard, on the porch. We went to bed at 10:00 p.m., that's the only time we were in the house --", "Right.", "-- asleep. Woke up the next morning, went out. And were outside the whole time.", "So look, you guys, the one thing you didn't do that you are very open about is --", "Didn't have masks.", "-- you didn't wear masks. And I have so many friends, and know so many people that are sort of operating in these pods or these quarantine circles, they're talking about it for school, if school doesn't start, maybe getting their kids together to educate. Your message to them is, do not -- do not do it without a mask.", "Yes, that's the real message. Is that even though we were outside, and we tried to stay socially distanced, even then, eight people out of that 11 are now positive with symptoms. I mean, so you know, that's really the message to people on this. I know there are areas of the country where people -- that were hit harder, where people, I'm sure, are very reluctant to have these gatherings. But I can tell you from experience, having been on that lake and looking around the lake while we were there, every single house was packed, it looked like it was the Fourth of July weekend, so.", "So when you talk about Alabama -- because you're right, I mean, things are different here in New York right now, we'll see what happens, but they're different in different states. You're -- the state of Alabama's seen the highest seven-day average for new daily cases. Governor Kay Ivey has issued an executive order, mandating masks across the state. But it expires on July 31st. It's the 22nd today. Does it need to be extended far beyond a week from now?", "That would be, obviously, my recommendation. I mean, we have obvious anecdotal evidence that in our case, you know, I truly trust masking, we've been doing it religiously for five months. And the weekend that we didn't do it, regardless of whether we were outside, we still spread it. So --", "Yes.", "-- you know, I would be very big advocate for extending it until we know that there is no longer rampant community spread of the virus.", "Dr. Cobia, thank you for you, you know, your candor here, telling us this so we can all learn from what you say is your mistake. Good luck to your wife, congratulations on the little one on the way.", "All right, thank you.", "Talk to you soon -- Jim.", "All right.", "Yes, we wish them the best of luck. Well, Africa's worst-hit country in the COVID outbreak is part of some very encouraging vaccine research, but there are still challenges. A live report from Johannesburg, South Africa, next."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "MILES COBIA, NEUROLOGIST", "HARLOW", "COBIA", "HARLOW", "COBIA", "HARLOW", "COBIA", "HARLOW", "COBIA", "HARLOW", "COBIA", "HARLOW", "COBIA", "HARLOW", "COBIA", "HARLOW", "COBIA", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "CNN-169373", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2011-7-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1107/21/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Flawless Landing Ends Space Shuttle Program; As Shuttle Exits, Deep Space Calls; Commercial Space Exploration; 30 Years of Shuttle in Pictures", "utt": ["Many dreamers felt lumps in their throats as they watched this.", "Main gear touchdown. Hurley now deploying the drag chute.", "Thursday's picture-perfect landing of \"Atlantis,\" the last ever US Space Shuttle. Welcome back, everyone. You're watching CONNECT THE WORLD. Phrases like, \"It was an honor,\" \"the end of an era,\" \"an emotional farewell\" are very much in the air today, as cliched as they are, especially for the thousands of people at NASA who made the Space Shuttle live for the past three decades. For them, today's flawless landing was a moment of poignant dignity. They won't get to do this again. Ed Lavandera had a special view from NASA's Mission Control in Houston.", "For the thousands of NASA employees who work here at Johnson Space Center in Houston, this final Space Shuttle landing has been an emotional adventure. Hundreds of people turned out this morning for a viewing party on the grounds here of the NASA campus. Inside, Mission Control, in this building behind me, family and friends of the flight directors turned out to watch their loved ones work for the final time. And it wasn't until about 45 minutes after the Space Shuttle \"Atlantis\" landed that the flight director, Tony Ceccacci, spoke to his team in an emotional way.", "Today is also a moment in the history books. Those books will talk about the amazing work of the flight control teams over the past 30 years. The work done in this room, in this building, will never again be duplicated. I believe that the accomplishments of the Shuttle Program will become the next set of shoulder of giants for the future programs to stand on. Hold your heads up high with pride as we close out the Space Shuttle Program. You have earned it. To all, like I always say, savor the moment, soak it in, and know you are the best. The best in the world. Your work here has made America and the world a better place.", "After Tony Ceccacci spoke to his flight team, it was a fascinating scene that unfolded inside Mission Control. More than a hundred NASA employees filled up Mission Control. Hugs, people shaking hands, there was a cake brought in in the shape of the Space Shuttle \"Atlantis.\" There were flowers and cigars, even, brought in, a box of cigars brought in and passed around between many of the workers. Clearly, this is the emotional moment that has finally sunk in for these folks who have spent so many years dedicated to the Space Shuttle missions.", "And watching the Space Shuttle \"Atlantis\" crew un -- deboard and come off that final Shuttle mission, it really sank in here, this final moment -- in these final moments for the thousands of employees who have worked for the Space Shuttle Program for the last 30 years. Ed Lavandera, CNN, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.", "Well, America's long history of human space flight isn't over until it's over. NASA's chief, Charlie Bolden, a former Shuttle astronaut in his own right told CNN, quote, \"This isn't the end for the workforce here.\" He says the Shuttle Program may be flown out, but deep space is calling. Now, you are looking at an artist's take on NASA's new multipurpose crew vehicle. The space agency wants to take human beings to Mars. But the first test flight is five years away. NASA's also playing a part in the development of Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser. It could provide crews with transport to and from low Earth orbit. And this is the SpaceX Dragon. It's already had a practice run. No people were onboard, though. And commercial companies could be the ones to pick up the slack when government money for space exploration is in short supply. After all, Richard Branson hopes to fly tourists to outer space within the next 18 months. So, could this actually be the next great era of discovery, commercial space exploration? CNN's John Zarrella has been covering space for three decades, and he takes a closer look at that angle.", "Elon Musk runs SpaceX. Richard Branson heads Virgin Galactic. Both are using their considerable wealth to back bold attempts to make space travel as routine as boarding an airplane.", "People used to say to me, look, it'd be impossible to build your own spaceship and your own spaceship company and be able to take people into space. And that's the kind of challenge that I love to sort of prove them wrong.", "We want to see a future where we are exploring the stars, where we're going to other planets, where we're doing the great things that we read about in science fiction and in the movies.", "There are several companies, some big, some small, who see, as NASA moves on to distant planets, that weightless region just above the atmosphere. Just out of reach right now, becoming quite possibly a good investment.", "NASA's still in there, it's still going to develop a heavy lift rocket, but we've also got this, hopefully, flowering private space flight. And that's what's going to get us the Hiltons and the Hertz rental cars and whatever in orbit.", "SpaceX and Virgin Galactic are on the verge of not just opening --", "Liftoff!", "-- but stepping through that door to the future.", "We want to make space accessible to everyone. That's a revolutionary change, but it's incredibly exciting. And it brings space -- the possibility of space travel to all Americans, which is fantastic.", "Next year, Musk hopes to begin carrying cargo to the International Space Station. Eventually, astronauts. A commercial company replacing the Space Shuttle.", "Confirmed, docking is complete.", "We believe firmly we can send astronauts to the Space Station within three years of receiving a NASA contract to do so.", "But unless it's safe, NASA's administrator says no US astronaut will be onboard.", "I cannot allow them to put us in jeopardy by not focusing on crew safety and the like. That's my job.", "The stakes are high. There is no turning back.", "Please welcome the future of space travel.", "With Shuttle retired and astronauts left to ride in Russian space ships, NASA is counting on commercial companies to get it right, make it work. And the more who make it work, the more affordable it will become.", "That's the end of a particular era. And it's up to individuals like myself, if you're in a position to be able to achieve wonderful things, not to waste that position.", "Finish, down the lock.", "Liftoff for the Falcon 9.", "Well, we've all heard Oscar Wilde's saying, \"We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.\" So, it seems especially appropriate this evening to bring you the images from the press photographers who've been looking up for the past 30 years at this Shuttle Program.", "Liftoff of America's first Space Shuttle. And the Shuttle has cleared the tower.", "I do this for history, I think, more than anything.", "I've tried to show how man and machine coexist on the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.", "It's an incredible amount of work, but I think the payoff's worth it.", "OK, here's a clamp and a ball head.", "Just grab that one.", "OK.", "It's 6:00 in the morning, we go out with all our remote gear, and we head out for the filed, placing all our cameras in their appointed positions.", "I built this trigger, and the AP adopted it and other people began to adopt it, and it became sort of like an easier way to capture the Shuttle from close up.", "This is my -- this is my remote.", "The timer's off by like five minutes. So little of photography is actually pushing the shutter button. Out here, we don't even press the button, right? We have to invent technology to press the button for us because we can't do it.", "Booster ignition, and the final liftoff of \"Discovery.\"", "This is a mount 2, it's a 7-D with a wireless transmitter.", "We're not normally like this at home. We're just excited to be here. So, normally an hour and a half to two hours after the launch, we'll head out to get our cameras.", "OK.", "Hey, at least it worked.", "Oh, yes, after six years of trying to get it.", "James Neilsen from the \"Houston Chronicle\" has wanted to take this picture for years of the Shuttle. It just begins to pop out of that smoke.", "Let's make it work.", "We'll play it later. We've worked here for nearly 30 years with Red Huber, Mike Brown. Red Huber from the \"Orlando Sentinel,\" Mike Brown from \"Florida Today.\" Joe Skipper from Reuters. Phil Sandlin for years with the AP. Anyway, I can go on and on and on.", "We are trying to be competitive, but we all try to help each other, too.", "Here we're working photographing the decisive moment remotely.", "My main goal is always to bring the reader something different that they can't see on TV. And you've got that frozen moment in time.", "But there's a challenge to recording history, and if you can do it a little bit differently so that future generations will benefit from it.", "All right, up next we'll head off to Lebanon to meet a Green Pioneer of sorts. Stay with us. 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{"id": "CNN-109208", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-8-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/10/sitroom.03.html", "summary": "Britain Foils Alleged Terror Plot to Blow Up Airlines", "utt": ["Thanks very much, Lou. And to our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM where new pictures and information are arriving all the time. Standing by CNN reporters across the United States and around the world to bring you tonight's top stories. Happening now, new information about what may be the biggest terror plot since 9/11. British authorities say they foiled a plan to blow up planes heading toward the United States. It's midnight in London where investigators still are on the hunt for suspects and are probing an alleged al Qaeda connection. Airports in the United States and Britain now are on higher alert. It's 7:00 p.m. at JFK Airport in New York City where new security rules have screeners and passengers scrambling. Would they have been ready for the worst? I'll ask the Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. And in the Middle East conflict intense fighting and desperate diplomacy. It's 2:00 a.m. Friday in Lebanon where Israel is taking its fight against Hezbollah into new territory amid talk that a peace deal could be struck soon. I'm Wolf Blitzer in Jerusalem. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. If you're just tuning in, a major story in the war on terror that if pulled off, would have killed thousands of people. The alleged plot involved terrorists boarding as many as 10 U.S.-bound planes in Britain. Once on board the terrorists would -- and detonate those bombs with everyday electronics like iPods or cell phones. They allegedly hoped to blow up as many as 10 planes at the same time as they flew to the United States. Officials say British Airways, Continental, United and American Airlines would have been the targets. Right now 24 people are under arrest and sources with knowledge of the British investigation say two of them had prepared what are called martyrdom tapes, ready for suicide. Also, senior U.S. government officials tell CNN two of the suspects recently traveled to Pakistan and later received money wired from there. CNN's Christiane Amanpour is standing by Heathrow Airport in London. CNN's Jeanne Meserve is working...", "... Washington, but we begin this late-breaking report from CNN's Deborah Feyerick in London.", "Police went house to house, continuing the search in London, the industrial city of Birmingham, and the Thames Valley. British officials weren't saying much about the people arrested, but they believe they have the key players. In fact, sources familiar with the investigation say two of the suspects had already recorded so-called martyr tapes to be released after the alleged attacks.", "We are confident we have disrupted a plan by terrorists to cause untold death and destruction and to commit quite frankly mass murder.", "U.S. sources say those arrested are all British, some of Pakistani descent. In fact, according to sources, two of the suspects recently traveled to Pakistan and later received money wired from there. Officials in Pakistan say they helped British intelligence crack the case beginning as long ago as last December and more recently with information from a raid several weeks ago on the Afghan/Pakistan border. They also say it was information from Pakistan that convinced the British to act last night.", "The investigation reached a critical point last night when the decision was made to take urgent action in order to disrupt what we believe was being planned.", "The alleged plot, according to the British, was to simultaneously blow up as many as 10 airplanes flying from Heathrow Airport to the United States using potentially explosive liquids and other materials in carry on luggage. More than 200 inbound flights and another 200-plus outbound flights were canceled at Heathrow Airport. By the end of the day delays are fewer, but thousands of passengers are left trying to make plans to leave. The airport is still on the highest alert. Passengers are not being allowed to carry on any luggage, only wallets, medicine and travel documents are allowed, and they have to be carried through security in a clear plastic bag.", "This step has been taken to ensure maximum secure so people can go ahead with their travel arrangements.", "That was CNN's Deb Feyerick reporting from London. Let's find out how the U.S. government is responding to this alleged terrorist plot. Our homeland security correspondent Jeanne Meserve is in Washington with more. Jeanne, what are you picking up? What are you learning about the nature of this plot?", "Well, U.S. officials are saying that they have seen no indications that there was any plotting on U.S. soil or any communications between the people picked up in Britain with people or cells here in the United States. However, they do note that this investigation is ongoing, not yet completed. Something else could show up. And also, of course, U.S. air carriers were the ones being targeted in these alleged attacks. In addition, they're talking some about the timing of this. As one official put it, we weren't pulling people off of planes. But clearly the attack was coming along very closely. They were near to a dry run, according to some accounts, and the real attack would have happened shortly after that. In addition, officials are shying away from the fact that this could be linked to 9/11 or to any other significant date. It is their belief that these terrorists would have acted when they were ready to act, the calendar would have had nothing to do with it -- Wolf.", "And it does have the hallmarks, as they say, of al Qaeda, at least that's what the secretary of homeland security suggests as was other officials. We have seen some really long lines at airports across the country. Jeanne, how much longer do think the American public is going to expect to see these long lines?", "Well actually according to...", "... we've been receiving those lines are receding. According to screeners and travelers and airport officials, they aren't collecting as many of those banned items the word simply has gotten out via the media. People are either not bringing them or they're putting them in their checked bags. Another phenomenon is that the screening lines apparently are not as long as they were, at least at some airports. The airport official I talked to out at LAX told me he thought that was because more people were checking their baggage and so that meant that although there were more that screeners had to do with each bag there were fewer bags for them to check at the screening checkpoints, so in some respects things could be easing up. How long these security measures will be in effect, we don't have any idea and neither do officials because that investigation isn't finished -- Wolf.", "They're taking it day by day by day by day. That's a fundamental fact, at least that's what officials are telling all of us. Jeanne thank you very much. President Bush is calling the foiled plot to blow up airplanes a stark reminder of the terrorist threat to the United States. Some of his critics, though, are already asking if Mr. Bush is trying to use this frightening turn of events to his own political advantage. Here's our White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux -- Suzanne.", "Well Wolf, President Bush was trying to focus on domestic issues with his trip to Green Bay, Wisconsin. Of course, a Republican fund-raiser, also remarks on the economy, but the news as you know is all about terror and today President Bush was trying to use this foiled terror plot to make the case that the administration is doing a good job in protecting the American people.", "President Bush used the foiled terrorist plot to make two points. First, to justify his war on terror.", "This nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of is who love freedom, to hurt our nation.", "And second to convince Americans they are safer on his watch.", "This country is safer than it was prior to 9/11. We have taken a lot of measures to protect the American people.", "It was Sunday when Mr. Bush first learned of the developing terror plot out of the United Kingdom during a video conference all with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, this photo was released by the White House that day to show the president engaged with world leaders on the Middle East crisis, but the terror plot remained secret. The following day Mr. Bush delivered this ominous warning during a rare Crawford news conference.", "Part of the challenge in the 21st Century is to remind people about the stakes and remind people that in moments of quiet, there's still a Islamist fascist group plotting, planning and trying to spread their ideology.", "For the past four days White House aides say Mr. Bush received updates about the possibility of an impending attack. Wednesday Mr. Bush got another update from Blair that British authorities were seeing signs of something imminent and that it was time to move. That evening, the president gave the green light to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to raise the threat level for air travel. Aides say the president was not given a heads-up about the timing of the overseas arrests, nor woken up when they occurred. But some Democrats are suggesting that the White House used its advance knowledge to score political points. They object to the coordinated comments made in recent days from the vice president, the press secretary and the head of the Republican Party, all attacking the Democrats for being weak on terror.", "As a party that once stood for strength now too often stands for retreat and defeat.", "Senior administration officials call the Democrats charge preposterous.", "If in the next 48 hours, we see Republicans exploiting this that will be unbecoming to them.", "This foiled plot, of course, comes at a critical time for President Bush who is now dealing with the Middle East crisis and Iraq that may be descending into civil war and of course the anniversary of September 11 -- Wolf.", "Suzanne Malveaux reporting. Thank you, Suzanne. Officials say the plot does bear all the hallmarks of al Qaeda. For more let's turn to our chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour. Christiane is in London for us. Christiane, first of all, based on everything you are hearing from British authorities, how sophisticated was this plot?", "Well they are saying it's sophisticated. They're saying that it was impressive. And as you know the homeland security chief has also said that this was the result of a lot of careful planning and of course it was about to come, if it had, perhaps in a couple days. And this is at the height of the tourist season, sort of maximum impact, maximum destruction, and a huge, huge blow, not to mention many, many potential deaths. What they're saying also is and what other analysts are saying, is look back more than 10 years ago, 1994, al Qaeda, Ramzi Yousef, Khalid bin Shaikh Mohammed had this potential plot, of course was thwarted to blow up...", "... liquid explosive device. And these are much more sophisticated and difficult to detect than what we have seen for instance in other suicide...", "Looks like we're having some technical problems with that satellite feed to Christiane. Christiane, stand by. We're going to get back to you. Christiane Amanpour with the latest she's collecting in London. Jack Cafferty is off today. \"The Cafferty File\" will be back on Monday. We're following all the major developments in the terror plot as well as the crisis in the Middle East including word tonight that a United Nations resolution potentially could be imminent. We're going to have late-breaking developments. Also, the new reality of air travel, much more on what all of us need to know about flying and how it's changed over the past 24 hours. We're going to go live to New York's Kennedy Airport. Mary Snow is standing by for that. Plus, what President Bush said about plot that has some people upset. Live from Jerusalem. 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{"id": "CNN-23727", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2001-1-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/16/mn.13.html", "summary": "Writer/Comedian Al Franken Talks Politics", "utt": ["So, what are we cooking up for tonight?", "Mr. Freundlich's doing a story on air bag safety.", "Ah.", "I don't know, if I'm sitting here and I know it's coming, I don't see any reason...", "Oh, dear lord, did I do that?", "Oh my, the laughs continue. Joining us now to talk about politics and presidential pratfalls, writer and comedian Al Franken, who happened to be in Atlanta, so we invited you to stop by. Good morning. Good to see you.", "Great to see you, Daryn.", "You know, you wrote a book a few years ago called, \"Why Not Me?\" meaning why not Al Franken for president.", "Right.", "So I want to ask you that. Why are we not in a few days going up to the Al Franken inauguration?", "Well, I thought Gore would be a better president.", "He didn't win either, though.", "I know, I know. I was for Gore, but Bush is going to be inaugurated. And all you Democrats and other people who voted for Gore, get behind our new president. He's the president of all of us even -- you know, so support him even though he's kind of stupid and he stole the election.", "And your opinion. We have to let...", "Oh, yes, yes -- and Leon's.", "Don't get Leon in trouble.", "No, no, no, no.", "Leon's in enough trouble as it is.", "Yes.", "You said you talked to Al Gore a couple days ago?", "Yes.", "What, you can just call him up and say, hi, Al, Al?", "I called him up and he wasn't there, but he called me back. And he said, hi, Al, how you doing? And I said, I'm a little bit embarrassed because -- for -- it took me so long to call you and thank you for everything you did for me. He's actually got a great sense of humor.", "He does...", "And we had a good talk.", "... and that just didn't quite come across for a lot of folks.", "No, it -- well, sometimes it does. But I thought his concession speech was hilarious. No, it was beautiful, actually. So...", "He did have some good lines for that.", "Yes.", "Now, politically, you might not be a big fan of George W. Bush, but conservative politics has been very good to you.", "Yes.", "You wrote that big book on Rush Limbaugh, calling him...", "\"Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot,\" yes. He's lost a lot of weight.", "I know, so your book doesn't really work anymore -- or the title.", "I saved his life and he hasn't thanked me. Go figure.", "But so, politically it might not good for you, but professionally this could be good looking for some humor. Is there anything funny about a Bush presidency?", "Well, I'm a little, actually, perturbed because he said he was going to be a uniter and not a divider and now we have -- I don't know why he picked Ashcroft if he's going to be -- I mean, he talks about having -- he actually talks about having a mandate. And the fact is he lost by 500,000 votes. Now, I know it's the Electoral College that counts.", "Right.", "But still, it was like, as we know in Florida, we don't know really what happened. So, I mean, he -- I could see him saying, OK, it was a tie kind of, but I'm the guy so let me do what I want to do. But don't, you know -- Ashcroft. I wish I could be asking him the questions in this hearing.", "You could be at those confirmation hearings later today.", "Well, for example, one of the questions I'd like to ask Ashcroft is, you got an honorary degree from Bob Jones University. What was the degree in?", "No, I don't know that.", "I read this in the \"New York Times.\" And it's not religious, it's something about Babylonian kings used to do this. Also, one thing I'd like to ask him -- by the way, in Bob Jones University, when he spoke there, he did not speak out against their policy on interracial dating, their ban on interracial dating. You know who I think would have spoken out against that?", "Who might have done that?", "Thomas Jefferson.", "He might have done that on interracial dating?", "Yes.", "Because of...", "Well, he dated a slave.", "Yes, he apparently had some children.", "Yes, he dated a slave. I think that's wrong, by the way, having sex with a slave...", "That would be a very good political...", "... on two counts. I think slavery is wrong.", "That's very out there for you, Al.", "Well, in principle, I'm against it.", "OK.", "And then having sex with a slave. I mean, what kind of message does that send to the other slaves?", "Not a good one. Let's talk about the Bush presidency. Bring me back here to the present.", "OK.", "Are you going to look for any great comedic opportunities with that?", "Well...", "Another book in you maybe?", "... I don't know. It depends how badly it goes. And I'm rooting for the country...", "Right.", "... you know, I'm a patriot. That's why I was for Gore, because Bush presumably would be better for me. But, you know, already there's some funny, ironic stuff -- the Chavez thing, you know. Here's an irony. The FBI thought that she might have been calling her neighbor to influence her testimony to the FBI. And Chavez said, no, it was just she talked to her neighbor as a way of refreshing her recollection. The irony is her neighbor was Betty Currie.", "No.", "Isn't that ironic? Isn't that, Leon?", "How funny that...", "Yes, because she was just refreshing her recollection by...", "Yes, very good.", "Yes.", "As that's happened before during impeachment.", "Yes, that's right. So it's ironic.", "I got you there.", "Yes.", "Very good. One more thing on Al Gore: You had a little bit of advice for him on the speaking engagements.", "Well, I've been doing -- I'm here in Atlanta to speak to a group and it's very lucrative. So I...", "Congratulations.", "Thank you. Thank you very much. And I suggested that Al might want to...", "Maybe look into that.", "... look into the speaking circuit. And, actually, I told him find out who Colin Powell's speaking agent is because Powell probably has 30 lined up that he can't do because he's going to be secretary of state. And maybe the vice president can get sloppy seconds from Colin Powell.", "From Colin Powell. Well, I'm sure Al Gore appreciates your career advice.", "Yes, well -- and he's a great guy, by the way.", "I appreciate that. And thanks for stopping by. Continued success on your speaking engagements.", "Well, thank you. And continue success with your new partner, Leon.", "Leon. It's good to have Leon around.", "Good to be here.", "Absolutely. Al Franken, thank you very much stopping by in Atlanta. 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{"id": "CNN-381437", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-09-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/26/es.03.html", "summary": "Netanyahu Given First Chance to Form Government", "utt": ["Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been given the first chance to try to form a new government after attempts to negotiate with his main rival Benny Gantz failed. But the road to building unity coalition, avoiding another election will be difficult if not impossible to navigate. Oren Liebermann joins us live from Jerusalem. If you're a betting man, Oren, you say this is likely?", "Dave, if I were a betting man, I certainly wouldn't beat at all on Israel elections and Israel political future because that's how uncertain things are at the moment. What is clear right now is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at least gets the first crack at creating a new government, even though he doesn't have the biggest party after the elections and doesn't really have a clear to a path to a coalition. So, what was Israel's president's rationale in giving Netanyahu the first chance? Well, he at least has the best chance at succeeding or at least the worst chance of failing here, if you want to look at it like that. Now, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said in getting him the chance, Netanyahu at least has the most support, 55 seats, whereas his rival Benny Gantz has only 54 seats, though Israel's president said neither of them has a clear path to forming a government. And the reality of a third possible election is growing day-by-day. Netanyahu says he wants to pursue a unity government, a wide government. Well, that's the same thing that his rival says. So, what's the way out of this? That is what remains unclear here. There is at least a clear path forward in terms of a timeline. Netanyahu will have up to six weeks to form a government. If he fails, as he did after April's election, Gantz will get a chance, his rival, he'll have four weeks. If both of them fail, which is likely to happen if nothing major shifts here, there's three weeks until the Knesset or for the Knesset to choose upon a third candidate. And if all of that fails, new elections are automatically triggered. Dave and Christine, the president warned, hat would be a heavy price once again for Israel's public to pay.", "So, three, four months, we might have some clarity. Oren Liebermann, best of luck to you, sir.", "All right. What costs more than a midsize car? A year of health insurance. For the first time ever, the Kaiser Family Foundation shows annual employer-provided health care costs are above $20,000. That is a grim milestone. And employer health benefits have become too expensive for many lower- income workers. Only one in three employees at low wage firms are covered, compared to 63 percent of workers at other companies. The companies bear, on average, 71 percent of the cost of employer- provided health care. Employees pay the rest. And those costs, those consumer costs are rising faster than wages. Consumers paying higher costs for their share of the insurance, their deductibles are rising, and prescription drug costs are soaring. Over the past decade, family premiums are up 54 percent. Workers contributions are up 71 percent, but wages are only up 26 percent. This, Dave, is why this is one of the top issues on the campaign trial. No question. People are paying more of their own money for their employer sponsored healthcare. It's why more progressives in the Democratic Party are saying the government should take this over.", "Hopefully, the focus remains on those issues.", "That's right.", "But it's doubtful that happens, right? The Milwaukee Brewers punching their ticket to the postseason without their most valuable player. Carolyn Manno here in studio with \"The Bleacher Report\", next."], "speaker": ["BRIGGS", "OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS"]}
{"id": "CNN-82541", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2004-2-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/27/acd.00.html", "summary": "Judge Dismisses Securities Fraud Charge in Martha Stewart Trial; Haiti in Crisis: Marines on Standby", "utt": ["Blockbuster from the bench: Martha's judge throws out the most serious allegation. Help for Haiti? Three ships, 2,200 Marines. Will the U.S. go in? Ten similar slayings. Is there a serial killer in the Southwest? Calling all NASCAR dads. The President wants you, and he's got the ads to prove it. And anchors away. Japan looks for a few good men: seamen.", "Live from the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, this is ANDERSON COOPER 360.", "And good evening. Thanks for joining us on 360. Three U.S. Navy ships with 2,200 Marines on alert at this hour for possibly deployment off the coast of Haiti, where the chaos is growing. Details and a live report from Port-au-Prince just ahead. But our top story tonight, a blockbuster in the Martha Stewart trial. The securities fraud charge, the most serious one against Stewart, dismissed. She no longer faces a penalty of 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine. She is not off the hook yet. More from CNN's Allan Chernoff.", "Martha Stewart, on her way to a celebratory lunch in Chinatown. Judge Miriam Cedarbaum had just tossed out the most serious charge against Stewart, ruling, \"The evidence and inferences the government presents are simply too weak to support a finding beyond a reasonable doubt of criminal intent.\" (on camera): Mr. Morvillo, your reaction to the throwing out of the securities fraud charge?", "We are pleased, and we think the judge has made the right decision. End of answer.", "Prosecutors had charged Stewart with trying to defraud investors in her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, by claiming she did nothing wrong in selling her ImClone stock. Stewart claimed she had an agreement with stockbroker Peter Bacanovic to sell ImClone if the price fell under $60 a share. That issue is still before the court. Prosecutors charge Stewart sold after getting a tip that ImClone chief Sam Waksal was trying to dump his stock.", "That allegation underlies the four criminal charges still confronting Martha Stewart: obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and two counts of making false statements. Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, after which the case goes to the jury -- Anderson.", "All right. Allan Chernoff, thanks very much. We'll have more on the Martha Stewart case coming up later on, on 360. We go now to Haiti, where the chaos is just getting worse. The capital, Port-au-Prince, may soon be overrun. The U.S. and its allies are still hoping for a breakthrough that could clear the way for a multinational force. American forces, as we told you, were on standby. Three Navy ships, 2,200 U.S. Marines could get orders to sit off Haiti's coast as a precautionary measure. Earlier today, President Bush talked about U.S. efforts.", "We're interested in achieving a political settlement, and we're still working to that effect. We're also, at the same time, planning for a multinational force that would go in and make sure that if aid needed to be delivered, or there needed to be some stability, that it could go in, dependent upon a political settlement.", "President Bush talked about stability. The problem is, at this hour, there seems to be no stability in Haiti. Anarchy prevails. Right now in the capital city, there is chaos, looting, while President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is vowing to remain in power. With the latest on the crisis, here's CNN's Lucia Newman in Port- au-Prince. We first want to warn you, some of the video you might see is graphic.", "Truckloads of armed thugs patrolling the streets, ransacking and shooting whom they please. People looting warehouses at the port. The police nowhere to be seen. The rebels fast approaches the capital. The brutality so many feared is here. Execution-style killings, like these two men found shot through the head with hands tied behind their backs. Another man castrated with a machete. A seasoned photographer familiar with Haiti calls it anarchy.", "This is sort of a combination of political vendettas, as well as just very basic vandalism, looting, and people thieving and taking advantage of the lawlessness that exists here today.", "At the airport despair. This Canadian missionary unconsolable when told he can't leave Haiti. Virtually all international flights canceled because of the unrest, leaving hundreds, if not thousands, stranded.", "It shouldn't be. Because, you know, this is the last place that should be shut down, if anything. Because this is the only way for anybody to be able to do anything, whether to escape...", "With Haiti in chaos, the U.S. Coast Guard repatriated 531 Haitian boat people picked up trying to get to Florida. With armed rebels now taking over more and more towns, insurgent leader De Phillipe (ph) says he plans to encircle the capital and choke off supplies, instead of attacking right away. Residents are scrambling to stock up on food and water from the few shops still open, anticipating the worst.", "The situation is spiraling out of control, Anderson. And with no one really here in control, it's the guys out on the streets with the guns who are calling the shots -- Anderson.", "All right. Lucia Newman, stay safe. Today, a disturbing report on priestly abuse of children was released to the public. It is a story CNN's Jason Carroll broke last week: 4,392 priests accused, and some of the details we learned today are simply shocking. Here again, CNN's Jason Carroll.", "While the numbers from the report are staggering, so too are the unsettling details emerging about the victims. Most were young boys; their average ages just 12 years old. Many were enticed with alcohol or drugs. The most common form of abuse, touching under a victim's clothes. But also included, oral sex, masturbation and penetration. Much of the abuse taking place in a parish or a cleric's home.", "On behalf of the bishops and the entire Church in the United States, I restate and reaffirm or apologies to all of you who have been harmed by those among us.", "The financial fallout, more than half-a-billion dollars in settlement fees and counseling. Another report explored the causes behind the abuse. Among the new findings, clergy didn't do enough to screen candidates for priesthood, nor was there enough preparation for a life of celibacy.", "Many bishops, certainly not all, breached their responsibilities as pastors, breached their responsibilities as shepherds of the flock, and put their head in the sand.", "Recommendations? Better screening and training in the seminary. More outreach to victims, many of whom are critical of the report's numbers, because they're based on information provided by the Church.", "We just have to be skeptical. It would be naive to believe that this is complete and accurate.", "What is painfully clear is that Church leaders did not do enough to protect children. What is unclear, though, is how those same Church leaders should be reprimanded for their actions -- Anderson.", "All right. Jason Carroll, thanks very much. On to the politics now and the big push this weekend ahead of the delegate extravaganza known as Super Tuesday. Today, John Edwards said he's making strides in Minnesota, Ohio, and Georgia, ahead of Tuesday's primaries. And John Kerry focused his energy on what he says are President Bush's foreign policy failures. Kelly Wallace has the story.", "Thank you.", "John Edwards arriving in St. Paul to some good news. Howard Dean's state organization recommending its Minnesota activists back him on Super Tuesday.", "Welcome and thank you to supporters of Governor Dean who are here today.", "And to the political observers who believe his performance in Thursday night's debate did nothing to change the dynamics of the race, the senator from North Carolina says they are wrong.", "I think these debates every time we've had one has helped me and my campaign, because people see then that it's basically a two-person race and it's a clear choice.", "Edwards is focusing on Minnesota, Ohio, Georgia, and New York, states all hard-hit by job losses. He says no matter what happens Tuesday, he expects to stay in the race, although he concedes eventually it comes down to simple math.", "Our goal is to continue to win delegates, and win delegates in substantial amounts.", "John Kerry's aids, thrilled with his performance at the debate, continue their strategy of trying to make the Massachusetts senator look presidential. He delivered a foreign policy speech in Los Angeles.", "I don't fault George Bush for doing too much in the war on terror. I believe he's done too little.", "With Kerry continuing to say that he, as opposed to Edwards, has the national security experience to defeat the president in November.", "So I think there is a significant difference in my preparedness, my readiness to be president of the United States.", "Both candidates are now looking ahead to Sunday morning's debate in New York City. Edwards' aides says his strategy won't change. So the question is, will his performance in this final debate before Super Tuesday help him pull off an upset? Kelly Wallace, CNN, St. Paul, Minnesota.", "We are following a number of developing stories right now \"Cross Country.\" Let's take a quick look. In Washington: the speaker gives in. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has agreed to allow the president's 9/11 Commission an extra 60 days to fin the work. Hastert had been opposed to allowing the extra time. The nonpartisan group said they needed the time to finish their report. Grundy, Virginia: the guy says he's sorry, this man, Peter Atikizua (ph). He killed three people in 2002 in a shooting rampage at a law school here. Today, he pleaded guilty to the crimes and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. The plea deal means he will not have to face the death penalty. Atlanta, Georgia: Bobby Brown goes to jail. The 35-year-old R & B singer was sentenced to 60 days for violating his probation. He was arrested two months ago for allegedly striking his wife, singer Whitney Houston. Brown was on probation for an earlier drunk driving conviction. He does not look happy there. Denver, Colorado: threats land a California man in jail. Cedric Augustan (ph) is charged with 26 separate counts, making death threats against the prosecutor and the alleged victim in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case. Augustan (ph) was arrested by police and federal agents on Thursday. That's the prosecutor there. In New York: no winner yet. The $10,000 reward offered by the Doonesbury comic strip has so far gone unclaimed. To win, you have to be able to prove that President Bush actually served in the Alabama National Guard during the early '70s. So far, hundreds have come forward. And no one's been able to prove anything. A Republican National Committee spokeswoman says the contest is a \"silly stunt.\" And that's a quick look at stories in tonight's \"UpLink\" -- in \"Cross Country.\" Truckstop murders coming up. Is a brutal serial killer at work in six states? Find out why police are on alert. Plus, nerve gas attacks on Tokyo's subway. Final justice for a doomsday cult leader. And, looking for a few good men. A military recruitment ad you just have to see to believe. You with will not believe it. It's all ahead. First, let's take a look \"Inside the Box\" at the top stories on tonight's network newscasts."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, HOST (voice-over)", "ANNOUNCER", "COOPER", "ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN FINANCIAL NEWS CORRESPONDENT", "ROBERT MORVILLO, STEWART'S ATTORNEY", "CHERNOFF (voice-over)", "CHERNOFF", "COOPER", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-33753", "program": "CNN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WEEK", "date": "2001-6-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/30/stc.00.html", "summary": "New Software Aims to Prevent Runway Collisions, Windows That Wash Themselves, Saving California's Sea Otter Population", "utt": ["New software for air traffic controllers: Can it prevent runway collisions? Also, windows that wash themselves. And rescuing sick and orphaned sea otters could help the species survive. Those stories and more are just ahead on SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WEEK. Hello and welcome. I'm Natalie Pawelski, in for Ann Kellan. White-knuckled fliers may worry about planes running into each other in midair, but collisions between airplanes on the ground can also be deadly. Two U.S. airports have just started using a new software system that's designed to make runways safer. Patty Davis reports.", "The runway at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, April 1, 1999.", "Stop!", "An air traffic controller tries to prevent a collision between two 747 jumbo jets after one mistakenly taxis onto an active runway. A Korean Air 747, speeds toward takeoff, forced to lift off early and banks to the left to avoid a collision. The FAA says incursions, or close calls on runways, are on the rise nationwide, now averaging more than one a day. The FAA's answer, a software system called AMASS, or Airport Movement Area Safety System. It uses radar to alert controllers to potential collisions and has just gone on-line at San Francisco International Airport.", "It's the first surface detection equipment that really gives an alert to the controller and allows the controller to prevent a collision.", "Only San Francisco and Detroit have the technology so far. Thirty-two of the nation's biggest airports are next. But a federal transportation watchdog told a House panel AMASS is too little, too late.", "Mr. Mead, do you have confidence that the AMASS will work and that controllers will use the system?", "No.", "Six years overdue and tens of millions of dollars over budget, the system has been plagued by false alerts. While the FAA is focusing on helping controllers prevent accidents, the Transportation Department's inspector general and the National Transportation Safety Board say more needs to be done to prevent pilot error, which accounts for 60 percent of runway incidents.", "Unless much is done, more is done soon to prevent runway incursions, it's just a matter of time before we have a disastrous runway collision.", "Even the FAA agrees the AMASS system isn't the complete answer. (on camera): Some of its fixes include improved marking and lighting for runways and more training for airport workers as the government tries to reverse the troubling rise in runway incursions. Patty Davis, CNN, at Reagan National Airport.", "Starting this fall, New Yorkers who are driving are going to have to hang up their cell phones. New York state this week became the first state to outlaw talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. For the first month after the law takes effect, violators will get warnings. Then, the fines kick in, up to $500 for three-time offenders. The law makes an exception for emergency calls, and hands-free phones are permitted. At least 23 countries around the world already have laws against using cell phones while driving. California is not the only place where people are worried about power shortages this summer. New York's Long Island also faces the possibility of blackouts. Officials came up with a plan to lay cable and import power from Connecticut, but the proposal hit a snag in Long Island Sound. Brooks Jackson explains.", "The new electric cable would have run from here: New Haven, Connecticut out through the harbor 24 miles under Long Island Sound to Long Island, New York.", "Long Island needs power from Connecticut or from New England because we are an island. And we don't have enough power on Long Island to meet all of our demands.", "New generating plants are being built in Connecticut, but Long Island fears California-style blackouts could hit as early as this summer. The answer: a cable.", "It would probably reduce the risk of blackouts by about 50 percent.", "But, for now, the cable project has been stopped. Connecticut officials said no. (on camera): When local opposition kills a project like this, it's often a case of \"not in my backyard.\" This time, it's a matter of \"not in my oyster bed.\"", "I was instantly opposed to the project -- and still am.", "Larry Williams dredges oysters from the Sound. He and other commercial fishermen said they feared the project would stir up too much silt, harming seedling oysters.", "There has to be an alternative to disrupting very sensitive and very valuable shellfish beds.", "The cable company says there would have been very little harm to oysters.", "The only area that we're really looking at any oyster beds in is the New Haven Harbor area.", "The company says the cable would be buried using a machine that would stir up no more silt than a bad storm, along a path only 4 feet wide, a total area of only one-tenth of 1 acre. But the opposition was unmoved and uncompromising.", "Whether or not you're talking about one-tenth of an acre or 1,000 acres of loss, we cannot afford to lose the valuable ground that we have in Connecticut.", "The Connecticut Siting Council denied permission to build the cable, saying: \"We believe the applicant underestimated the potential impact on oysters in the harbor.\" But it also cited another reason -- quote -- \"The proposed project would have substantial benefit to Long Island, but it would at best provide only incremental benefits to Connecticut.\" The decision was criticized in President Bush's energy report, which said \"Connecticut did not recognize the need for electricity on Long Island.\" The president's energy plan calls for new federal legislation to clear the way for transmission lines. It was the historic 1965 blackout of New York that prompted more regional cooperation in sharing power. Connecticut's action shows how little one state will suffer to help a neighbor. The battle continues. The company is about to propose a slightly different route.", "We've learned a lesson. We've listened. And I think this time we're going to be in a better position", "And the opposition: still adamant.", "We're in it for the long haul. It's not over. There could be a very acceptable route to a lot of the concerns, a lot of the environmental concerns. I haven't seen that.", "For SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WEEK, I'm Brooks Jackson.", "Later in the show, eight copies of the same cow. And just ahead, what makes fireflies flash? We'll be right back.", "Wildlife workers in Australia are said to be devastated about a mistake that led to the deaths of dozens of penguins. The workers were burning off thick grass last weekend on Montague Island, off Australia's east coast. When they left, they thought the fire was out, but it wasn't, and it spread to the habitat of some of the island's fairy penguins. Forty-two penguins were killed out of the island's colony of 12,000. Wildlife officials are investigating the accident. Researchers in Massachusetts gave it their best shot, but they had to abandon efforts to rescue an injured whale 100 miles off Cape Cod. The Northern Right Whale was spotted about three weeks ago, with a heavy plastic fishing line embedded in its upper jaw. The wound became infected, and the line interfered with the whale's ability to eat. Veterinarians working from a small boat were able to remove some of the line, but most of it remained stuck, and efforts to sedate the whale for the operation didn't work at all. Scientists will try to keep tracking the whale, but they say it's not likely to survive. There are only about 320 Northern Right Whales left in the wild. Fireflies are a welcome summer sight. But to scientists, they are more than that. New research on how fireflies flash could lead to better understanding of the human nervous system. David George reports.", "Can you spot the fireflies in this picture? One of the fascinating things about fireflies is their sheer mystery. We know one reason they blink on and off like they do is to attract mates. It's all about sex. But how do they control the blinking? In a study published in the journal \"Science,\" researchers trace the answer to the nerve cells leading to the firefly's lantern and the presence of an enzyme that makes the gas nitric oxide.", "So, we asked the question, can nitric oxide actually make the animals glow? And the answer is, yes.", "The nitric oxide works by throwing a biological switch that keeps oxygen from escaping from the cells inside the lantern. The result is sort of like what happens when you blow air on a dying fire.", "They'll flash a few times, and then they won't.", "In these experiments in a laboratory at Tufts University, fireflies' lanterns glowed steadily when exposed to increased levels of nitric oxide. In the wild, the process works intermittently, with the firefly controlling the flashes. There are over 200 species of fireflies in the United States.", "Each firefly has a species-specific flash. So they control it, so they know exactly who's who, and they can find their mates.", "So, ultimately it is sex that lights a firefly's fire. And lady lightning bugs have a murderous little trick. They can mimic the flash patterns of females from other firefly species.", "And by mimicking these females they're able to lure in prey, males, jump on them and eat them.", "Who would have thought that about fireflies? The Tufts Researchers say their new findings may prove important to human medicine. After all, they say, the nervous systems of insects and mammals really aren't that different.", "So when we look for things in insect brains, they are helping to tell us about the way things work in human brains as well.", "Small world, isn't it? For SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WEEK, I'm David George.", "Coming up, a ray of hope for people whose windows are too dirty to let in any other kind of rays. We'll be right back.", "If you think of electric cars as slow and unspectacular, here's something that might change your mind. This is Kaz, an electric-powered limousine invented at Japan's Keio University. It has a 580-horsepower engine, and can reach a top speed of 311 kilometers per hour. That's 193 miles an hour. Its lithium- ion batteries can be recharged in just one hour with a special power outlet or four hours with a regular home power source. The inventors are hoping to have it on the market by 2005 and plan to charge at least as much as a Rolls-Royce limo. What's your least favorite housecleaning chore? If you just don't do windows, you may take a shine to this report from Jeanne Moos.", "Chances are, at this very moment, there's a dirty window near you.", "Probably 80, 90 percent of windows never get cleaned, ever -- ever.", "Even editors at a door and window magazine called \"Fenestration\" and at \"Glass Digest\" confess...", "I don't want to take the time.", "He's just lazy.", "Yeah, I'm lazy. That's why I don't clean my windows. It's pure laziness.", "Wouldn't it be wonderful if all those windows could just clean themselves? Introducing...", "... the world's first solar-powered self-cleaning glass.", "You may not do windows, but active glass does. In the words of Pilkington North America's president, Rick Karcher...", "This is kind of the Holy Grail of windows.", "We think you're all going to be pretty amazed at what you see.", "A coating on the glass reacts to UV rays from the sun to dissolve dirt. To demonstrate, they speeded up the process using sun lamps. Glass that was this dirty came out this clean.", "It was amazing, actually. We were a little skeptical. At first we thought, well, this was too good to be true.", "The new coating on your left, also causes rain to wash off in sheets, as opposed to the usual droplets you see on your right.", "Almost like a squeegee, like an invisible squeegee.", "Self-cleaning windows will also clean you out, at least a bit. It's estimated they cost about 20 percent more than the ones you have to clean yourself. (voice-over): As you can see from this handout video, Pilkington is targeting the residential market first. The product launch was held atop the World Trade Center, where windows are cleaned by an automated device that goes up and down on tracks. The new self- cleaning glass removes only organic substances. (on camera): I don't know if that's organic or nonorganic. (voice-over): But most dirt is organic, as opposed to substances like paint. Could this mean never having to clean windows again?", "We won't say \"never,\" but will say considerably less often.", "They still provide instructions on how to hand clean the self cleaning glass. It's guaranteed for 10 years. If it works on windows, why not self-cleaning dishes?", "If you want to leave your dishes out in the sun where they can get the UV rays, that would be great.", "It's organic, right?", "It's organic, absolutely.", "Will self-cleaning glass leave window-washers washed up?", "Let's go.", "... their competitions obsolete? Nah. Before you throw in the towel, you still have to do the inside. For SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WEEK, I'm Jeanne Moos.", "We'd like to hear what you think about our show. You can e-mail us at SciTechWeek@cnn.com. We can't promise to answer every e-mail, but we definitely read them all, and thanks for all your comments so far. Coming up, what's killing California's sea otters may be a warning sign of bigger problems. We'll be right back.", "Researchers have come up with a new technique for cloning animals that increases the success rate. These eight calves are all clones, identical to each other and to a donor cow at the University of Georgia. Cells from the donor animal were given a special treatment before the cloning process. They were treated with a chemical, which scientists plan to patent, that made the cells more uniform. With other techniques, one out of 20 embryos produces a live calf. With this one, the success rate rises to one in seven. The calves will be sent to breeding stations for more study. And a success for a dolphin breeding program. Ocean park in Hong Kong released this video of the birth of a baby dolphin, one of two born at the park in May after the mothers were artificially inseminated. The researchers say it's the first time that technique has worked with captive dolphins. The breakthrough came from research on using ultrasound to decide exactly when to inseminate the females. Scientists say the success will make it much easier to maintain genetic diversity in captive dolphin populations. Scientists in California want to know why so many sea otters are getting sick with mysterious diseases. The answers may tell them something about the health of the whole coastal ecosystem. Ann Kellan has the story.", "Diver Karl Mayer is giving this sea otter pup a lesson in survival, how to live in the ocean. This four-month-old was found somewhere along the California coast, orphaned. It is being raised by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.", "What I'm going to try to do out there is essentially give it exposure to the natural environment. I'll be diving, mimicking sea otter behavior as much as I can. We want them gradually to become more independent as they get older.", "The goal: To release this pup back into the wild. It's part of a program to help keep this endangered species from extinction. The Southern Sea Otter is found along the California coast between Half Moon Bay and Santa Barbara and is one of three subspecies of sea otters. Their fur is the densest of any mammal. Where the human head has 100,000 hairs, otters have about a million hairs per square inch. That's the main reason why they were hunted to near extinction in the 1800s. They've been making a feeble comeback ever since.", "All right, I haven't seen her in a month. She's just grooming. The other one is being lazy and sleeping.", "Every year researchers survey the otter population, and since many of those treated and released by the aquarium wear radio transmitters, they're easier to trace.", "... four, five, six, seven.", "The latest tally conducted earlier this year shows just over 2,000 Southern Sea Otters left. These days it's not hunting that gets them as much as disease.", "It basically tells us that this population is not healthy. They were either suffering from inadequate food supplies, improper food supplies, is something going on that we're increasing the infectious disease agents that are present in this coastal ecosystem? Are we having problems with the immune system?", "Researchers also take in and treat sick otters. This one contracted a parasite that eats holes in its intestines. Another parasite, toxoplasma, is known to live in cats and in their feces is somehow infecting otters, causing serious brain damage.", "In some cases, a lot of the sick or disease that the animals are getting is human-caused. And I think we owe that to the animals to help them overcome these diseases and care for them, and then try and return them back to the wild. We also need to clean up our act on our end so that these problems don't continue to happen to the animals.", "Part of studying otters is learning their behavior and lifestyle. This is mostly a group of young bachelors.", "A group of otters together is called a raft.", "Older adults tend to live alone, cute maybe, but otters can be nasty.", "The adult ones definitely are a very dangerous animal, and you don't want to mess with them unless you absolutely have to.", "They share similar traits to their relatives the ferret, and wolverine. Otters, believed to be the last mammal species to return to the water, haven't quite made the evolutionary transition. They have the back flippers of a sea dweller and the front claws of a land mammal. They don't have the insulating layers of fat to cope with frigid Pacific Waters that whales or dolphins have. That's why when otters aren't sleeping, they're constantly moving and fluffing up their thick fur. Without air flowing through it for added warmth, they would die.", "Good girl.", "And can they eat. These aquarium otters have it easy. A 50-pound otter will chow down about 12 pounds of shellfish a day that they crack open with their powerful jaws or bang open with rocks. That's what Mayer is trying to teach this pup to do. Today, all she wants to do is play.", "The animals tend to bond to humans, and that's one of the drawbacks for us because we have animals that we've released, and they can forage, they can make it on their own. But when they see somebody out there in a kayak or sometimes a wetsuit, they go towards the person.", "That's why now, caretakers don't show their faces like this anymore, around the pups. They wear disguises and don't talk around them, hoping to reduce the pup's attachment to humans. (on camera): Since the program began in 1984, they've taken in more than 100 pups. Of those 100 pups, 50 have been released in the wild, and more than 25 have survived more than a year.", "Hmmm -- oh, there's another one! They are eating.", "They're sort of like little ambassadors to the ocean.", "Even though they're a crowd favorite, no one can say whether these photogenic creatures can be saved from extinction or whether efforts to treat the sick and save abandoned pups will help. But people who work with them say it's worth a try.", "Good, Haley.", "It's more than just a cute fuzzy thing that everyone likes to look at. It really is our canary in the coal mine. So if we have this predator at the top of the food chain that is having problems, it really is Mother Nature's tap on our shoulder that we should look a little bit more carefully at what is happening in these coastal waters.", "For SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WEEK, this is Ann Kellan.", "Thanks for joining us. I'm Natalie Pawelski in for Ann Kellan. Next week, coastal marshes are dotted with small islands called hammocks. Some landowners' plans for the hammocks could put the marshes in danger. That's coming up on the next SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY week. We'll see you then. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["NATALIE PAWELSKI, HOST", "PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DAVIS", "SCOTT SPEER, ASSISTANT AIR TRAFFIC MANAGER, SAN FRANCISCO", "DAVIS", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-362704", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-02-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/22/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Actor Charged - Smollett Defiant Amid Allegations He Staged Attack; Actor Charged - Smollett Defiant Amid Allegations He Staged Attack", "utt": ["Well, really just an incredible string of events here. Just hours after being bailed out of jail on a felony charge, \"Empire\" actor, Jussie Smollett defending himself to cast and crew mates, who expected that he might confess. Smollett, back on set, acting again yesterday as well.", "And, you know, sources say he did apologize to his co-stars and crew, but when they thought he was going to come clean, he reportedly doubled down in his innocence denying he staged the assault. Let's go to our reporter, Ryan Young, live in Chicago, who's been all over this story. What are you learning, as I understand it, from someone who was in the room with him yesterday?", "Yes. So this is sort of playing at now, through the tea leaves, it's going to that entertainment side. They said he showed up. People were expecting him to apologize to the cast, that did happen. The next step people thought, maybe he would come clean, that didn't happen. What we do know now is that 20th Century Fox is actually telling us that they put his shooting schedule on hold for now. It was amazing they think of that scrum that we saw outside the courthouse, with all those photographers surrounding around him, and then he got into an SUV with the bodyguards that I think the show pays for, they took him to set. I mean, this is really playing out like some true Hollywood movie, that's all being filmed. I mean, there were helicopters following his SUV all the way to that set yesterday. But let's talk about what we were told. The prosecution, the superintendent says he paid the attackers $ 3,500.", "Paid Osundairo brothers $3,500 to stage attack. Wanted a rope placed around his neck, gasoline poured on him. Wanted brothers to yell \"This is MAGA country\". Gave $100 in cash to brothers for supplies. Scoped out a location to stage attack.", "He actually gave them $100 bill according to prosecution, and they said that they took that money, and they went to a beauty supply store. We even have images of that, and they were actually buying the beauty supply items to do the attack. At one point, you see the two brothers look like they notice the cameras that were inside the store, and kind of look at them. So all this was playing out kind of just right there in front of the cameras. And then yesterday, we were sitting there after the superintendent gave that impassioned speech about how all this is taking the attention off the real problems of Chicago. And talking about how, as a black man, he was offended about the noose, and how this has wasted a thousand police hours in this investigation. We moved on from there to watch his family also be surrounded in that scrub, as people just want to know, what he could possibly think. In fact, Smollett's own legal team says they're maintaining his innocence and they, with a defiant statement, they even went forward and said what we witnessed today, was an organized law enforcement spectacle.", "So you just got to think what's going to happen next, in this case guys.", "Yes. I mean, they remember hearing the police superintendent yesterday saying, what he wanted to hear now, was an apology, wanted to hear him fessing up, and wanted to hear him promise to pay back all the funds that were, the police superintendent said, were wasted on this. That clearly hasn't happened. So, what's the next step?", "Well, we do know this. In three weeks, there'll be another court case. He got a $100,000 bond. So you had to put $10,000 up. He'll be in court court again. And look, guys, we've covered cases all the time. The two brothers could be lying partially as well, right? And Jussie could have some parts of truth to this, maybe on his side. But, of course, those messages that they're going to have between the phone calls and the text messages are really going to, probably lay this out. The other part they put out there is, the two brothers were actually Jussie's drug dealers as well. So some of all this dirty laundry, that's sort of unfolding in front of us, it'll be interesting to see how we can tie the entire timeline together with over a 100 witnesses talked to, 50 cameras looked at, and still more search warrants expected in the coming days.", "Ryan Young, don't go anywhere, because this story just keeps evolving, and you're all over it. Thank you. Ahead for us. Yes, she lost the election, but is Hillary Clinton's endorsements still worth a lot? We are just hearing that she has been meeting with some 2020 contenders."], "speaker": ["SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "RYAN YOUNG, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "TEXT: PROSECUTORS LAY OUT CASE AGAINST JUSSIE SMOLLETT. THEY SAY SMOLLETT", "YOUNG", "YOUNG", "SCIUTTO", "YOUNG", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-353679", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2018-11-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/01/cg.01.html", "summary": "Trump Stokes Immigration Fears; Trump Accused of Tweeting Racist Ad.", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "Welcome to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. We begin with breaking news in the politics lead and a closing argument from President Trump, one that is inflammatory and divisive and based in fear. And that's according to Republicans. Quote: \"Let's face it. We all know what's happening.\" That's what Republican Senator Bob Corker told the \"Tennessean\" newspaper about President Trump's mid-term election focus on undocumented immigrants coming into the U.S. Corker adding -- quote -- \"It's all about revving up the base, using fear to stimulate people to come out at the polls.\" Now, we're five days out from the midterm elections, President Trump clearly feeling the pressure to keep Republican control of the House and Senate, and he's returning to familiar, divisive territory. In minutes, the president is expected to speak from the White House about undocumented immigrants. We're going to bring that to you live. We're likely going to see then what we have been seeing escalate over the last few days and weeks, President Trump using the very kind of inflammatory rhetoric that he used to launch his presidential campaign back in 2015, demonizing undocumented immigrants.", "They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They are rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.", "This time, this election, President Trump launched most recently an ad. It's pinned to the top of his Twitter account right now. It's an ad that even some conservative commentators have called racist. Republican Senator Jeff Flake said of the ad -- quote -- \"This is just a new low in campaigning. It's sickening.\" The ad features a Mexican man who was convicted in the killing of two California sheriff's deputies, contrasting the words and actions of that murderer, who has been sentenced to death, incidentally, with footage of the caravan, of migrants who are currently attempting to reach the United States to seek asylum, the clear implication being that this caravan, these people fleeing their home countries, are all criminals and they are all seeking to commit horrific crimes. The president continuing to push this campaign of fear comes literally within days of that horrific murder at the Pittsburgh synagogue, where an anti-Semite slaughtered 11 Jews because he believed the right-wing propaganda he had been hearing, such as the lies that this caravan of migrants poses an existential threat to the United States and is being funded by Jews such as George Soros. It's a claim, by the way, that the president continues to lend credence to.", "Do you think anybody is paying for the caravan?", "I wouldn't be surprised. Yes, I wouldn't be surprised.", "George Soros?", "I don't know who. But I wouldn't be surprised. A lot of people say yes.", "\"A lot of people say yes,\" that Soros is behind the caravan. And while only the gunman is responsible for his actions, and we should point out the gunman was not a fan of the president. He thought Trump was too controlled by Jews. The gunman was clearly motivated by this false propaganda, this idea that this caravan of migrants seeking asylum poses this existential crisis and this national security threat to the U.S., which it does not, according to national security experts. Now, is illegal immigration a problem that our leaders need to solve? Absolutely. But what it is not is an invasion. And those who have reported on the caravan from Central America, they say it consists overwhelmingly of people who are fleeing violence, not criminals seeking to inflict it here in the U.S., which is clearly the picture that the president paints.", "They got a lot of rough people in those caravans. They are not angels. They can't invade our country. You look at that and it almost looks like an invasion. It really does look like an invasion. That's called an invasion of our country.", "It's not called an invasion of our country. It is remarkable that with bodies still being buried in Pittsburgh because of this bigotry, this propaganda and these lies, that the president and his campaign would take actions not to heal the nation, not to bridge divisions, but to fuel the fire. CNN's Kaitlan Collins joins me now live from the White House. And, Kaitlan, the president is making his closing argument, and he clearly believes undocumented immigrants, stopping them from entering the U.S., even stopping those who are legally seeking asylum in the U.S., that's one of the most important issues for his base. What are we expecting to hear from him in just minutes?", "Well, Jake, we're expecting to hear him change essentially or propose changing how we do asylum in the United States, not just how you apply for asylum, but whether or not you can apply. We are told by sources that the president wants to deny asylum to people who try to cross the border illegally and not at a port of entry. Right now, if you're caught crossing the border illegally, you can still apply for asylum, and President Trump wants to bring that to an end. But, Jake, we're going to learn more about what this proposal is here in a few minutes, but what this is, is just another addition to the president's already long list of changes he wants to make and changes he's proposing because he wants immigration to be front and center in the midterm elections on Tuesday.", "President Trump preparing to make his final pitch to voters from the White House today, pushing immigration and playing up fear just five days before voters go to the polls. Sources tell CNN Trump will propose new changes for asylum-seekers coming to the United States, adding one more thing to the list he's used to whip up his Republican base before Tuesday. In the final weeks, the president has not only claimed he will end birthright citizenship, but also promised to deploy up to 15,000 troops to the southern border to stop a caravan weeks away, build tent cities for those seeking asylum, and even tweeted a campaign ad showing an undocumented immigrant bragging about killing police officers.", "I will break out soon and I will kill more.", "That tweet is considered an official White House statement.", "But we're getting prepared for the caravan, folks. You don't have to worry about that.", "The president back in campaign mode this week, delivering a scorching message last night in Florida, hoping to amplify voters' fears about immigration.", "And they have got a lot of rough people in those caravans. They are not angels. They are not.", "Trump trying to make a caravan of Central American migrants the central issue in the midterms.", "A Democrat victory on Election Day would be a bright flashing invitation to traffickers, smugglers, drug dealers and gang members all over the world, come on in.", "In an interview that same night, Trump claiming to ABC News that the caravan is bigger than people think and mostly made up of young men.", "They can't invade our country.", "But the president provided zero evidence to back up his claims, which he made despite reports showing the caravan has dwindled in size from 7,000 to 3,500.", "\"Help us and not be against us,\" she says.", "And includes men, women and children fleeing violence and poverty. Trump, who said this on the campaign trail in 2016:", "I will never lie to you.", "Was asked if he's kept that promise.", "I do try, and I always want to tell the truth. When I can, I tell the truth. Sometimes, it is turns out where something happens, it's different or there's a change, but I always like to be truthful.", "He said he tries to tell the truth when he can, Jake. President Trump is taking this message on the road tonight. He's got a rally in Missouri, and then he has got nine more stops to deliver that same fiery rhetoric before voters go to the polls on Tuesday -- Jake.", "All right, Kaitlan Collins at the White House. And, obviously, when President Trump comes out and delivers his address, we will bring that to you live. But, until then, let's talk about the president's closing argument with our panel. Let's just go around the table. What do you make of it? Could it work?", "Well, it stinks of desperation, but it could work. That is what should scare the country.", "How could it work? Do you think he could win -- keep the House and Senate?", "I don't think he can keep the House. I think -- obviously we need people to get out and vote, but I think that's going to be hard for Republicans. But he's trying to keep the Senate. He's trying to suppress voters. That's clear. He's closing with a very cynical argument, saying to people if you elect Democrats, then there are going to be Latino rapists and murderers who come across the border. And he's trying to scare not people on the border, but white America who are in the middle of the country who, are -- you know, some may be more susceptible to some of these fear tactics.", "What do you think?", "I'm more hung up on his actions than his argument. He's talking about sending up to 15,000 troops to the border based on a threat that is false, 15,000 troops to stop a caravan that's mostly harmless, as far as we know. That's a concern, and I have a real problem with that. We have been fighting wars with these troops. If you're a military family, do you want your mother or brother or father to be away based on a false threat? I mean, this to me is just a massive hoax. But now there's troops behind it. And I am fearful of what happens if something goes wrong. What happens if someone in Mexico thinks those troops are going to start shooting guns? They are not there yet, but what other signal is he sending? This is very dangerous.", "What do you make of this? Why not close an argument with how great the economy is doing? That's...", "Well, the economy is doing great. There's no question about that.", "Yes.", "I guess we're all on different planets. I view the president's actions as being quite consistent. This was the president's message since 2015, when he was a candidate. Immigration was at his core concern. That's first. Secondly, by the way, the troops are backing up the Border Patrol and so forth.", "Sure, at this moment, but what do you need 15,000 for? Are they playing games, or are we serious?", "Well, as Secretary Mattis says, we don't play games.", "I hope not.", "But let me go quickly to, if you will, the message here is, I see it very differently. I think those images of thousands of people that are potentially going to come across the border is frightening to a lot of Americans. They are to me. I'm Latino, and I believe for this reason. I believe this is a country of immigration, but not illegal immigration; 75 percent of those individuals, according to the deputy director of the Border Patrol, are men. We have gang problems in this country.", "Are you literally suggesting because they are men they cannot be honestly seeking asylum? This is dangerous territory.", "And you made the point, just because you're a Latino does not -- is not a qualifying factor for this message is not racist or rooted in white supremacy.", "There was comments earlier it was appealing to white America and so forth.", "It does.", "But it appeals I think to all Americans the message, which is, this is a country of laws, this is a country of respect for sovereignty of the border. The fact of the matter is, we don't know who all these people are, and even if there are five or 10 or 100, why would we want those...", "We have to sneak in a break. We're not -- this is not the last that we are going to have this conversation. I will come to you next. We're just moments away from President Trump speaking live about immigration. Don't go anywhere. 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{"id": "CNN-192759", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-9-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/16/cnr.02.html", "summary": "\"Insider Attack\" Kills 4 U.S. Troops; Chicago Teachers to Vote on Deal", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. Thanks for joining us in THE NEWSROOM. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Americans gunned down by Afghan forces they train. It's called a green-on-blue attack. The latest one happened today in southern Afghanistan. NATO officials say Afghan police turned their guns on American troops, killing four of them. The attack comes just a day after another green-on-blue attack when two British troops were shot and killed by suspected by Afghan police officer in Helmand Province. Insider attacks are on the rise in Afghanistan with more than 50 this year alone. CNN's Anna Coren has this exclusive interview with an Afghan man who admits to opening fire on U.S. troops.", "In a small house in a Taliban controlled village is a man who claims to be responsible for a green on blue attack. With his face covered to hide his identity, he pulls out his police uniform. Something he hasn't worn since the attack on the 2nd of October, 2009. On patrol with U.S. forces in Wardak province in central Afghanistan, this father of two said he waited for an opportunity to launch his premeditated attack. \"The Americans went inside the nearby school for a break,\" he explains. They took off their body armor and put their weapons down. At that moment, I thought it was the right time, so I took my gun and shot them.\" Two soldiers were killed. 25-year-old Sergeant Aaron Smith and 21- year-old Private First Class Brandon Owens. Three others soldiers were injured, including Captain Tyler Kirk. When asked why he turned his gun on the U.S. soldiers training him, he said, \"Because Americans were oppressing people in my country, they were burning copies of the Holy Koran and disrespecting it.\" After escaped from the scene, he claims he was later catch by the Taliban who thought he was the policeman. When I told them I had killed Americans, they took me to a safe place, give me new clothe, then they drove me to Pakistan where the Taliban welcomed me very warmly like a hero. He says he later moved to Iran for three years, returning to Afghanistan only recently after being told it was safe. \"They said Americans were not everywhere like they used to be. That Taliban had brought security and I should return home. I'm happy to be back in my country.\" (on camera): Green-on-blue or insider attacks, as they are known within the military, have sadly increased this year here in Afghanistan. It's an alarming trend that has causing forces extremely worried. And every single time there is an attack, the Taliban immediately claims responsibility.", "The Taliban lie and we know they lie. We think they overstate their influence on these tragic incidence incidences. We think somewhere around 25 percent of them are insurgent-related to some degree.", "The majority of attacks, according to the coalition, are related to personal grievances, cultural differences, and the psychological fatigue of an 11-year war that is about to enter its 12th year and where trust has been undermined, forcing new measures to be put in place to protect international troops, the Afghanis are determined to ensure these insider attacks don't derail this vital partnership.", "We continue to work together. We have been working for the last 11 years. We have built a very good relationship together and this will continue despite any effort by the Taliban to make us separate. That will not happen.", "But for this 30-year-old Afghani, he believes these attacks won't stop. \"I know they will increase. I know more people will do what I did.\" Anna Coren, CNN, Kabul.", "And hundreds of Afghans demonstrated in the streets again today, protesting an online movie that insults the Islam religion. Demonstrations were held in both Kabul and the western city of Herat. In Karachi, Pakistan, protests turned violent. Hundreds of people marched to the U.S. consulate there throwing rocks. Police used water cannons and batons to push them back. Some officers reportedly threw rocks at protesters. \"Reuters\" says one person was killed when people in the crowd opened fire. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is urging the U.S. to take steps to stop Iran's race for nuclear weapons and he tells our Candy Crowley that it is not a campaign issue.", "This is not an electoral issue. It is not based on any electoral consideration. I think that there's a common interest of all Americans of all political persuasions to stop Iran. This is a regime that is giving vent to the worst impulses that you right down in the Middle East. They deny the rights of women, deny democracy, brutalized their own people, don't give freedom of religion -- all the things that you see you from these mobs storming the American embassy is what you'll see with the regime that would have atomic bombs. You can't have such people have atomic bombs.", "Netanyahu says if Iran is not stopped, it could be ready to produce a nuclear bomb in six months in his view. The issue of Iranian nukes has been talked about on the campaign trail. In recent interviews, President Obama and Mitt Romney have agreed that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. But Romney has criticized the president, claiming he has not been doing enough to stop Iran's nuclear program. All right. We could be seeing the Chicago teachers strike come to an end today? In just a few minutes, the teachers bargaining team will give its members details of a tentative agreement it has with the school board. The walk out has crippled the country's third largest school district for the past week. CNN's Kyung Lah is at the meeting in Chicago, even talking to teachers as they have been coming in. How are they feeling about this agreement? Optimistic?", "Well, there's definitely a mood difference in the teachers today than we have seen in the past week or so. The teachers are much more serious. These are the delegates that will decide whether or not to lift the strike. And in talking to a couple of them as they were coming in, they said that they have a lot of questions. The union did release some of the broad guidelines of this agreement. What they are going to vote on today is not the agreement itself. They're going to say \"yea\" or \"nay\" on whether to lift the strike. There is another option. The teachers' union delegates could decide whether or not they want another 24 hours to think about it. So it's not entirely clear how happy they are. And looking at the actual deal, the information released from the union, it doesn't appear that there is a clear winner -- neither the city nor the teachers. It looks like both sides had to take some steps back. Certainly, as one of those teachers did tell me, they're going to have a lot of questions. We don't expect this to be a very short meeting. So, no immediate decision right away on whether or not the strike will end, at least not in the next couple of hours.", "So, what if anything are parents being advised to do to prepare for Monday?", "Yes, that's really the tough part here, Fredricka, is that parents simply have to prepare for their kids to be back in school on Monday. But it's not assured. It is something that they can think about perhaps having some back-up babysitter in case the kids aren't back at school until Tuesday. They're still on strike until these delegates say this strike is over.", "All right. Keep us updated. Thanks so much, Kyung Lah, in Chicago. Republican vice presidential nominee, Congressman Paul Ryan, says printing more money is not the way to boost the American economy. In a Florida speech, he blasted Democrats and the Federal Reserve's latest efforts to stimulate the economy.", "And when they undermine the value of our dollar, it wipes out our standard of living. One of the most insidious things the government can do to its people is to debase its currency.", "Ryan's claim comes after the Fed announced another round of buying billions of dollars worth of debt held in mortgage-backed securities, hoping to increase the money supply. Critics say it will cause inflation. Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says the Romney-Ryan team may ensure Democrats retake the House of Representatives. On CNN's \"STATE OF THE UNION\" today, she said when Romney picked Ryan as his V.P. choice, it changed everything in their favor.", "The issues are with us. For one year and a half since the Republicans passed their budget, which the Romney-Ryan now Republican budget, which severs the Medicare guarantee. We have been saying the three important issues in this campaign in an alphabetical order, they are Medicare, Medicare, Medicare.", "The House has 435 members to take control, 218 is needed. All right. Right now, the Democrats hold just under 200 seats. Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protest. We'll go live to New York's Zuccotti Park where it all began."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "ANNA COREN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "COL. 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{"id": "CNN-264162", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2015-09-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/09/es.04.html", "summary": "Stephen Colbert's \"Late Show\" Debut", "utt": ["All right, the moment so many of you have been waiting for if you stay up past 8:00 at night, which I don't. The debut of \"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,\" now part of history. The premiere featured George Clooney and Jeb Bush as guests. But all eyes on the new host, you can see him right there, Stephen Colbert. How did he do? One man knows the answer. Brian Stelter, CNN media correspondent, host of \"Reliable Sources.\" Big moment, Brian.", "Absolutely. \"The Late Show\" is an American institution thanks to David letterman. And now Colbert has to keep it that way. Now, Colbert has to take the reins and hopefully do it as long as letterman was able to, 22 years. He got off to a very strong start last night, extra-long episode. He taped for hours in the newly renovated Ed Sullivan Theater. Then they edited down to an extra-long episode. And I guess for our west coast viewers, it just aired. This is him talking about how long he was preparing for this one hour of TV.", "We've been working so hard, so very hard to get the show ready for you. And I have to say, as long as I have nine months to make one hour of TV, I could do this forever. With this show, as many people have asked, with this show, I begin the search for the real Stephen Colbert. I just hope I don't find him on Ashley Madison.", "Obviously setting his character from Comedy Central, figuring out the real him. I'm curious to see how long he can keep that going, that idea he's searching for the real Colbert. But it certainly worked last night. And by the way, he still did a pretty traditional monologue. People wondered if he was going to blow up the format of late night. Maybe at a time when everything feels like it's changing in TV, it's nice to have some things stay the same. There's the desk, the monologue. Yes, it is on the left side, that was a change, but if that's what passes for change in late-night, some things are definitely staying the same.", "He appeals to millennial fans. There have been some people brought up on news, quite frankly, knowing the Jon Stewart, the Stephen Colbert take on things, how is he going to break through when he is not his full conservative bombastic other self?", "It seems to me he wants to show some seriousness, even though there's the requisite silliness of late-night. Have some serious conversations. We see that with bookings this week, the CEO of Uber. With Jeb Bush last night, they had some fun. They pretended to prepare for a mock debate with Donald Trump. But there were also some relatively tough questions. Here's one of their exchanges.", "I've been using Jeb since 1994.", "Yes.", "It connotes excitement. It connotes --", "Jeb! How many of us, when we got excited about things, didn't just go, \"Jeb!\"", "All in Florida, they do, when they see me, most of them, either out of happiness or deep anger.", "It's interesting, at one point Colbert used his own brother to say to Jeb Bush, we know you love your brother, but how do you differ from him politically?", "There could be news, Thursday night Joe Biden is going on the show. Joe Biden will have to answer questions about whether he's running for president and he more pull some weight than he has today.", "I have to imagine that if you're Joe Biden and his team, why would you agree to appear on the new Colbert show if you're not planning on making some news or at least intending to keep stirring the pot.", "Because it's fun.", "That's true. That's true.", "But I agree that something will happen.", "It was sort of a relatively late booking. They had mostly firmed up the plan for the week then they added Biden. I'll definitely be watching on Thursday to see what he says. By the way, Colbert wanted Clinton for this first show, wanted Hillary Clinton. She passed. She went to Jimmy Fallon's show instead. She'll be on \"The Tonight Show\" instead. We're seeing a brand-new booking war in late-night.", "All right, Brian, great to have you with us. Thank you so much.", "Let's look at what's coming up on \"NEW DAY\" this morning. Alisyn Camerota joins us now. Hi, Alison.", "As you know, Hillary Clinton apologizes. Our political pundits will be here to tell us whether that puts the e- mail questions to rest finally. And Chris Cuomo may weigh in on that as well. Also, Donald Trump is speaking about the migrant crisis in Europe. We will get his solution to that this morning. Also, violent crime is up in New York City. Who is to blame? According to the former New York City police commissioner, Ray Kelly, it is the mayor's fault. Well, we have both the mayor and Ray Kelly on NEW DAY live with us this morning. So that ought to be interesting. So we'll bring you all of that when we see you in about 16 minutes.", "All right, thank you so much for that. Thousands of migrants pouring into Europe, governments split over exactly what to do. The European Union is meeting right now as this crisis unfolds. We've got live team coverage next."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT", "STEPHEN COLBERT, HOST, \"THE LATE SHOW\"", "STELTER", "ROMANS", "STELTER", "JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "COLBERT", "BUSH", "COLBERT", "BUSH", "STELTER", "BERMAN", "STELTER", "BERMAN", "STELTER", "BERMAN", "STELTER", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-59847", "program": "CNN INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2002-8-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0208/29/ip.00.html", "summary": "Should Bush Stop Baseball Strike?", "utt": ["I'm Judy Woodruff in Washington. Baseball players and owners are talking as a strike deadline draws near. And the first fan is watching, but will he intervene?", "I'm Jeff Greenfield in New York with some invaluable advice for President Bush that could help the game he loves and his political party.", "I'm Kate Snow at the Maryland State fair in Timonium, the heart of Maryland's second Congressional district. A blue ribbon here for Democrats could mean control of the U.S. House.", "Also ahead, a clash on the streets of Washington.", "You are trying to lower the value of human beings by elevating animals to their level.", "The story behind an elephant creating a political circus. Thank you for joining us. Well, like many avid baseball fans, President Bush is going about his business but anxiously waiting to find out if the Major League season will be cut short by a strike. Mr. Bush is in Little Rock, Arkansas this hour. He's talking about education at a back to school event. Earlier his spokesman talked about the president's position on a baseball walkout. White House Correspondent Kelly Wallace is traveling with Mr. Bush. Hi, Kelly.", "Hello, Judy. Well, when asked if President Bush would step in and try and avert a strike, the message from the White House is no. The president's spokesman saying he believes this is something the owners and the players need to resolve themselves. But, the president is stepping up the pressure a bit. Of course Judy as we said, he is an avid baseball fan. We saw him throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium last year. He is the only president who is also at one time a former major league baseball owner. Well, the president's spokesman, Scott McClellan saying today, the president would be furious if there is a strike. That is a message the president conveyed himself a couple of weeks back in Crawford, Texas.", "The baseball owners and the baseball players must understand that if there is a stoppage, work stoppage, a lot of fans are going to be furious, and I'm one. It is very important for these people to get together. And you can make every excuse in the book not to reach an accord. It is bad for them not to reach an accord. They need to keep working.", "Now back in 1994, former President Clinton did not get involved until after the players walked. Months after the strike got underway, the former president appointed a special mediator. Months after that, he summoned players and owners to the White House. But he was unable it broker a deal. In the end Judy a Federal judge stepped in and got baseball back up and running again. Judy, back to you.", "All right, Kelly, thanks. And now let's get an update on the talks that are going on between baseball players and owners. CNN's Josie Karp is in New York. Josie, what's going on?", "Well the two sides are trying to get it done on their own. They've met twice today face-to-face. The first one in the morning. It lasted about an hour and 40 minutes. The last meeting ended just about an hour ago. It lasted about 45 minutes. After that meeting, we asked one of the negotiators for the owner's side if he felt like the two sides were closer than they were when he left this building behind me at 1:30 a.m. this morning to get a few hours of sleep. He thought about it for a minute and then he said, no. They do plan, though, to meet again. They have plans to go as long as it takes, as long as they feel like they are still making any progress or still have something to talk about. Right now, the two issues that are separating them. There's one that we've heard a lot about. That's the luxury tax. The other one, just recently came up within the last 24 to 48 hours, and that's when this four-year agreement will end, on October 31 or December 31. It makes a big difference to the owners and players. The owners want it to end earlier so they know what is going on before a free agent signing period would begin. It's an issue that has come up before. It's now come up again. There are two major figure heads in this negotiation and we haven't seen a lot of either one. The first is the executive director of the player's union. That's Donald Fehr. We haven't seen him for a couple days actually going back and forth from office to office for these negotiations. But we have learned that he did make a brief appearance at the last meeting when asked if it was a significant brief appearance. We were told, yes it was. The other figure head is commissioner Bud Selig for major league baseball. He made a dramatic arrival here in New York yesterday from his home in Milwaukee. But he hasn't actually been sitting in at the table for these negotiations. We asked what he was doing and we were told by one negotiator, he is on the phone constantly with all of the other owners. Clearly there are a couple things at play here. The owners need to get a deal done with the union they'll accept, but they also have to come to an agreement on what they feel like they can do, how far they can go -- Judy.", "A whole lot to follow, Josie Karp. A lot for them to work out. Thanks a lot. Well, if the players do walk out, the game that is underway right now between the Chicago Cubs and the Milwaukee Brewers could be one of the last for a while. CNN's Jeff Flock has been talking to fans out at the ballpark in Milwaukee. What are they saying, Jeff?", "Well, Judy, indeed, 10 to 3 by the way, in case you care, Cubs over the Brewers, and I'll tell you some of those sort of angry Brewers fans were chanting just a little while ago, \"Go on strike! Go on strike!\" Probably no secret that they haven't had the greatest season in the world. But we've been, as you say, talking to fans as well as the players earlier trying to get some sense of what's on people's mind. Got a whole group of them we've assembled here. And I don't know. You think it's going to happen?", "I hope not. I think it is going to be very destructive to the spirit of America.", "Do you think the game can come back if there is another strike?", "I think it'll be very difficult. Because I think it took them a long time to recoup from the last strike. And the people that are going to suffer are the fans and the young kids.", "Right. We were talking earlier, it costs a lot of money to come out to the ball game, doesn't it.", "Yes, it cost a real lot, yes.", "You were sharing how much it cost you. I mean you guys paid, 40, 50 bucks for your ticket and just to get here and kind of hard on fixed income.", "Yes, it is hard. But all pro sports are pricing themselves out of business.", "And you were saying with the dollars involved, you got owners who are millionaires. You got ball players that are millionaires, tough to muster up sympathy for either side.", "Definitely. I would put the blame at 70/30 probably, 70 percent for the players, 30 for owners simply because the salary structure's just out of whack. I mean they don't want a salary cap, fine. What is wrong with revenue sharing? How much do the Yankees pull in, in local broadcasting, $200 something million.", "In Milwaukee, you're feeling like it's hard for you guys to compete with teams like the Yankees because they have a lot of money coming in for their TV deal.", "They need to share with other teams that don't have the money. But the thing that really annoyed me is that the minimum salaries, $300,000 a year, for these guys. The average person can't even relate to that nowadays. And back in the 50s, you wouldn't even have made the team if you had less than 220.", "Indeed sir, times have changed. We appreciate your comments. Thanks for taking some time out from the ball game and sharing your thoughts. Judy, that is some sense of what is on the minds of people in America as we said, hard for some of these fans to muster up sympathy on either the players or the owners side. Back to you.", "And you really hear them not able to identify with the players salary. All right, Jeff. Thanks a lot. And now, let's bring in one of our own resident baseball fans. He is our senior analyst, Jeff Greenfield. All right, Jeff, you've been thinking about all this.", "Indeed Judy and I have a proposal. I'm stepping out of my journalistic virginity mode with some advice because actually eight summers and one baseball strike ago, President Clinton was wrapping up a chat with a trio of journalists, present company included. As I prepared to go I said to him, somewhat tongue in cheek, have you thought about invoking the Taft-Hartley law to stop the baseball strike. Now I don't know if Clinton realized that I was sort of half kidding. But he looked at me as if I had gone completely off the deep end. But you know, the more I think about it, the more I'm inclined to suggest to President Bush now that he take my advice for real.", "First some history. The Taft Hartley law named after Senator Robert Taft and Congressman Frank Hartley was passed by a Republican Congress in 1947 over the strong veto of Harry Truman. It gives the president the power to impose an 80-day cooling off period on any strike that would imperil the national health and safety. A nationwide strike is immediately called and 560,000 steel workers join the picket lines. Labor unions hated the law. They called it slave labor. But it's been stored in the political attic for years. It hasn't been used since 1978 when Jimmy Carter used it to stop a coal strike. And guys like Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, Bernie Williams, making between 10 and $25 million a year may not strike you as the classic image of the hard-calloused sons of toil. But think about it for the president's point of view. As Bush thinks about what happened to President Clinton and the Democrats eight years and one baseball strike ago.", "It appears that both parties are determined to let the strike proceed.", "Democrats were swept out of the House and Senate in mid term elections. swept out in a tidal wave of angry voters. Whatever they were angry about back then, surely the absence of the baseball play-offs and the World Series could not have helped their mood any. And today, every poll shows that the voters are in a bad mood. They think the country is off on the wrong track. Maybe it's the markets or Enron and company or Martha Stewart or the church scandals or the terror fears. Here is one thing everybody from Karl Rove on down knows. If voters go to the polls in a lousy mood, it is very bad news for the party in power.", "Now, with Taft-Hartley you get an 80-day cooling off period. That gets baseball all the way through the World Series. That means a happier emotional state for voters. Male voters in particular, the key to any Republican victory. And even if Bush can't argue politics, there is no reason why the president could not argue than an emotionally happy public is a matter of national mental health. So I would suggest to Mr. President, think about it. The last president ignored my advice. He got six years of an opposition Congress and an impeachment to boot. So you will pardon the mixed metaphor Judy, but I think this next idea is a slam dunk.", "So Jeff, you are serious about this, right?", "Semi-serious. If this baseball strike goes another week it will go from semi tongue in cheek to absolute matter of national security.", "So if the president's lawyers are watching, they better have been taking notes.", "I just can point out to you what the last one, he didn't listen and look what happened to Bill Clinton.", "Look what happened to him. All right, Jeff, thanks. A final bit of political spin on baseball. Our most recent polling found Republicans and Democrats are fans of the national pastime in almost even numbers. But the threat of a strike drives home partisan differences. More than half of Republican baseball fans say they favor the owners in this labor dispute to only 20 percent side with the players. While Democratic baseball fans are divided in their allegiances, with more than a third favoring the owners and about the same percentage, a third, supporting the players. There's politics in everything. Well we'll talk to a major player in the competition for control of the House, when INSIDE POLITICS returns. I'll ask minority leader Dick Gephardt if he is prepared to claim victory before election day. A Republican governor uses some choice words to take issue with the Bush White House and its political strategy. And later, a peek inside capital cribs. Can you match the decor with the member of Congress who calls this office a home away from home?"], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFF GREENFIELD, CNN SENIOR ANALYST", "KATE SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WOODRUFF", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WOODRUFF", "KELLY WALLACE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-380233", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-09-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/12/nday.05.html", "summary": "Governor Phil Murphy (D-NJ) is Interviewed About His Landmark Order On Gun Safety.", "utt": ["More than 100 CEOs of America's largest companies are urging the Senate to stop gun violence now. They write in a letter, saying doing nothing about America's gun violence crisis is simply unacceptable and it's time to stand with the American public on gun safety. This as New Jersey's Governor Phil Murphy is putting gunmakers and dealers on notice in an unusual way. So, joining us is Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey. Governor, thanks so much for being here. We'll get to that letter from the CEOs in a minute.", "Thank you, Alisyn.", "But first of all, I just want to hear your rather unusual tactic that you are taking to try to fight gun violence. What have you decided to do?", "So we have been at this since day one. I've been in office about 20 months. I'll spare the long list of executive orders and legislation and other coalitions with other like-minded states. A couple of days ago I signed an executive order which essentially puts our money where our mouth is. It has three parts. Number one, if you are a vendor and selling guns or ammunition or related equipment to New Jersey, you've got to abide by a set of principles as it relates to gun safety. Secondly, if you are a financial institution, and you are lending or investing in those vendors, manufacturers, retailers, you also will have to abide by a set of principles as it relates to gun safety. And thirdly, we're going to review and ultimately ban certain types of insurance that leads to irresponsible gun behavior. And these are big numbers for us. We buy over the past period of time about $70 million of equipment. And more importantly, we spend about a billion dollars a year in fees to financial institutions. So we're going to use that muscle to further this cause.", "Just explain how this works. So you're going after these banks. You're going after insurance policies. And you're putting your money where your mouth is. Obviously, you spend so much money that you'll get their attention. And you're going after vendors. You say if they don't comply with safety practices. But just explain in layman's terms what changes. What do you need these vendors to do that will make a difference starting today?", "So, Alisyn, we would go into this and we are now in the process of sending out these requests with a spirit of goodwill, in hopes that we will -- we will be doing business with like-minded vendors and financial institutions. So, this is not necessarily adversarial, but a vendor, whether it's a manufacturer or retailer, for instance, that we do business with. How serious do they take background universal checks? How seriously do they take training and communication? How seriously do they prevent a straw purchaser or someone who shouldn't have a gun in their hands to get one? So what principles do they abide by? Are they consistent with our principles? If they are, we'll do more business with them. If they're not, we'll go elsewhere.", "You're saying if they don't do those things, if they sell to a straw purchaser or whatever, your state police will no longer buy guns from them?", "That is a potential outcome here, yes. We'll do business with vendors who we trust and who share the same gun safety principles as we do. And there's enough latitude for us to be able to do that."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "GOV. PHIL MURPHY (D-NJ)", "CAMEROTA", "MURPHY", "CAMEROTA", "MURPHY", "CAMEROTA", "MURPHY"]}
{"id": "CNN-307114", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2017-03-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/08/es.03.html", "summary": "Obamacare Repeal Faces A Tough Road; White House on Wiretap Claims; WikiLeaks Bombshell on CIA", "utt": ["President Trump all in on the House plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. He says he's proud to support it, now the sales pitch to get his party in line.", "The White House left to fend for the president's wiretapping claims after Republican lawmakers are left without any answers themselves.", "And are cell phones and TVs helping the CIA gather intelligence? Documents released by WikiLeaks appear to back up that claim. Hear what the former CIA director has to say. A terrifying story for Americans.", "You know, there's no question that the stuff in your house can be hacked. And we usually are reporting to how hackers are gaining access to your baby monitor, to your cell phone. But this is a story about the CIA and that makes it much more scary.", "Well, thanks for getting an EARLY START with us. I'm Dave Briggs.", "I'm Christine Romans. It is Wednesday, March 8th. It is 5:00 a.m. in the East. This morning, the future of the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare depends on whom you ask. President Trump now giving 100 percent support to the health care plan. A lawmaker at president's meeting with House Republican leaders tell CNN his endorsement came with a stern warning. We are told the president said failure to pass legislation after seven years of promises will lead to a, quote, \"bloodbath in the 2018 midterm elections.\" Mr. Trump even channeled President Obama's most famous unfulfilled health care promise.", "This will be a plan where you can choose your doctor. This will be a plan where you can choose your plan. It's a complicated process, but actually, it's very simple. It's called good health care.", "President Trump's effort to get resistant Republicans on board has not done the trick, at least not yet. New objections voiced by rank and file lawmakers, powerful conservative groups and some key senators signal threats to the bill's very survival. One aide to a conservative House member telling CNN, \"The bill is dead. Too many conservative groups are coming out against it. There's no way they'll have the votes to pass it in its current form.\" CNN's Phil Mattingly has more from Capitol Hill.", "Dave and Christine, it took less than 24 hours for that big bold House Republican Obamacare repeal plan do get into big bold trouble, more or less, conservatives, not just in the House but also in the Senate rejecting it outright. Some saying they will be opposed to it no matter what, even if there are potential changes that are made. But an interesting element here -- House Republican leadership, aides and lawmakers that I've spoken to over the course of the last couple of days say they are confident going forward. How confident? Well, listen to Speaker Paul Ryan.", "We want 218 votes. This is the beginning of the legislative process. We've got a few weeks. We'll have 218 when this thing comes to floor, I can guarantee you that.", "Guys, that's a clip and save moment right there -- a bold guarantee from the speaker, but one that comes from knowing everything that's working behind the scenes. Obviously, House leaders, House chairs are working behind the scenes to bring their members along. But what gives them the most hope right now is what they're seeing from the White House -- President Trump, Vice President Pence, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price all getting behind this plan over the course of the last 24 hours, and that matters. The belief is that with those individuals behind it, especially with President Trump behind it, they'll move those conservatives into line. Unify this going forward. But obviously, the House is the first step. And they have to go to the Senate. There is a lot of battles to come and there are a lot of roadblocks ahead -- Dave and Christine.", "All right, Phil Mattingly. With a lot of scrutiny of what this bill looks like, right? So, wealthy Americans are expected to get a sizable tax break under the GOP's health care bill. And the ultra wealthy will see an even bigger tax cut. Under Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, it's paid for by taxes on the rich, among other provisions. Individuals making more than $200,000 a year under Obamacare pay a 0.9 percent Medicare tax on income above that amount. Same with families bringing in $250,000. They pay extra. They pay a tax. That tax will disappear under the GOP plan because it's used -- that tax under Obamacare is used to pay for subsidies. The subsidies go away. You don't need the tax. And there's also a tax surcharge in Obamacare, of 3.8 percent on investment income. All of these people making gobs of money in the stock market rally are being taxed on that to pay for health care. That will go away under the GOP plan. Some of those in the top 1 percent of incomes will get a tax break of around $33,000.", "Wow.", "Those in the top 0.1 percent will get an average tax cut of about $197,000 under the GOP plan. That's according to a study of the original plan from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. What we saw this week is very similar. We need the Congressional Budget Office, of course, to score this. That could be soon. Now, this would also double the amount of people that could help contribute to savings accounts. You know, the Republican strategy is to get people to save for their own health care. But health care economists say that is a tool used mostly by Americans with higher incomes. And middle or lower income Americans, they don't have cash to stash away in health savings account for future medical expenses. If you don't have a lot of money, you're using that money to live on, not to invest with. And that is sort of the problem with trying to push people on health savings accounts, that they don't make a lot of money.", "Yes. And some say the irony here is that the president won on the backs of those who make less than $50,000 a year, they might be the ones impacted the most by this. Let's bring in the managing editor of CNN Politics Digital, Zach Wolf, this morning. Good morning to you, Zach. All right. So, you've got conservative groups, freedom works across the board here, they all oppose this. You've got flank on the right and the left. What's the biggest obstacle to this bill's passage, do you think, for Paul Ryan?", "I mean, you heard him say it, 218. He needs to get enough team to vote for it. And he made a good point, though. I mean, this is the beginning of the process. They put the bill out there. Nobody had seen it. Everybody dislikes it. The question is, over the coming weeks and potentially months are they going to be able to change minds about it. Are they going to be able to change it so that enough Republicans get on board? This part of it, they're looking to just pass with Republican support. So, the Democrats who are pretty much universally united against it are an afterthought here. There are some things they can say. They can say this is an iterative process. There are going to be more elements of this bill.", "Right.", "So, just stay with us for this part and we'll fix it in the next part. So, I wouldn't put this one, you know, out just yet, even though there's so much opposition.", "You know, it's interesting, Zach, I was listening to Sean Spicer yesterday, Zach. And I felt like he started to talk about the second and third phase, and how different issues will be addressed in phase two and phase three, which seemed to me like he was saying, when we get the CBO score, this whole sentence hasn't been written yet. Do you think there could be setup for what could be criticism there?", "Oh, absolutely. But I also think it's going to be a bargaining chip for people who oppose this bill. We know you don't like it, we know it's not perfect, but please stick with us here and we can doll more later. Now, I will say the parts they want to do later, those are going to require 60 votes in the Senate and that's going to be much harder.", "Here's in part Sean Spicer's selling of this bill yesterday in a press conference at the White House.", "To all of the people who have concerns about this, especially on the right, look at the size. This is the Democrats. This is us. I mean, you can't get any clearer in terms of this is government this is not. Our bill which is a tenth of the size does repeal and replace what their bill just did in massive government bureaucracy and that is a big difference.", "You talk about a surreal moment, an administration who is all about size, the size of their crowds, how big they are, how big the ratings, selling the small size of their bill. I found out more than a tad ironic. But again to get back to the biggest obstacle, when you look at the Senate, Zach, you have those that are concerned about expansion moderate Republicans and then you have those that called it Obamacare light, like Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Ted Cruzes of the world. Who will be harder to convince?", "Oh, I think harder the Mike Lees and Ted Cruzes of the world especially the Rand Pauls are going to be hard to convince on this. They've made sort of careers out of saying Obamacare is a bad thing. So, to pass a version of Obamacare is going to very, very difficult. On the other hand, they've been saying for so long, we need to repeal this. So if the one thing that is moving through Congress to sort of repeal this law is the only thing to vote for, it might be hard not to.", "The president tweeting about Rand Paul. \"I'm sure my friend Rand Paul will come around, come along with the new health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster.\" He also threatened them, basically he said, look, you're going to have a bloodbath in 2018 if we don't get this right. I have a counterintuitive question for you. I mean, the assumption among Republicans is that Donald Trump rode to the White House on the wave of hatred of Obamacare. The polling shows that the hatred of Obamacare isn't as great as they thought. In fact, some people, what they dislike about Obamacare is because it didn't go far enough.", "Yes, I think that's right. The point you made earlier, a lot of the people who might be affected by this are people who might be benefitting from insurance from Obamacare. On the other hand, I think it's really expensive for people in certain states. It's gotten more expensive and it continues to get more expensive. You look at polling, it's gotten more popular since the election, Obamacare has. And now that sort of people are looking it not having it anymore, it continues to grow in popularity. That doesn't mean that vast majority of Americans support it. No, it's very split, just like the country.", "Of course, to their point, they ran on the repeal of Obamacare. They say this is what they have to do to please their voters.", "You're right.", "But looming over the entire agenda for President Trump are these attacks, comments -- the tweets rather about wiretapping by President Obama. And here is what Devin Nunes of the House Intelligence Committee said about the accusations made over the weekend on Twitter.", "The president is a neophyte to politics. He's been doing this for a little over a year. I think a lot of the things he says, you guys sometimes take literally. Sometimes, he doesn't have 27 lawyers and staff looking at what he does, which is, I think, at times refreshing. And at times can also lead to us have to be sitting in a press conference like this answering questions that you guys are asking.", "That is one of the most staggering statements about a sitting president I have ever heard. As opposed to taking the president literally, what ought the press do, Zach?", "Well, I'm going to disagree with the congressman here. I think we have to take him literally. He is the president of the United States. I think he knew exactly what he was doing when he made those tweets. And it's interesting, you saw Sean Spicer yesterday say similar things to Devin Nunes. You can -- there is not one person in government who has backed up these claims that he made about President Obama. And yet it looks like Congress is going to spend a little bit of time investigating them which is a pretty remarkable thing. I mean, the president is going to make things that are unprecedented and now that he's the president, the wheels of government follow behind him in a remarkable way.", "Fascinating. Zach, we'll talk about a bit about the CIA report this morning about, you know. We'll talk about that and other headlines when we come back in a half hour. Get a cup of coffee. See you soon. Thanks for getting up early for us.", "What will it take for North Korea to suspend its nuclear development? 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{"id": "CNN-82122", "program": "CNN SATURDAY NIGHT", "date": "2004-2-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/14/stn.06.html", "summary": "Interview With David Tseng, Joshua Baker", "utt": ["Emotional issues like gay marriage, well they get great play in a 24 hour news cycle. The story, though, can end up spinning around in endless sound bytes. Our hot topic tonight tackles the bottom line of both sides. We have two people who can really spell it out for us. David Tseng is executive director of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. And Joshua Baker is an attorney at the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy. I am glad to have both of you. What we're trying to do is get beyond the spin and the rhetoric, and really understand on a fundamental level, why each of you believe as you do. Let me begin with you, David. Why is it that civil unions is not enough?", "The General Accounting Office, the audit and evaluation agency for the U.S. Congress, did a study in 1997 that concluded there are over 1,000 federal benefits that are denied to same sex couples and their families.", "Like what?", "That -- like Social Security survivor benefits, like significant tax penalties that are imposed on same sex couples when one of the partners dies. And...", "Tax penalties?", "Relating to retirement plans. As well as taxation of health premiums, because domestic partners are not defined under the Internal Revenue Code.", "Give me some real life examples? Give me some real life examples?", "Sure.", "I mean, what situations have you encountered where this was truly an issue? I mean, anybody, for example, Social Security benefits, anybody who's experienced a death in the family understands that in a trauma situation like that, you have to deal with this issue of whether you're going to receive benefits or not.", "In so many states, Carol, partners are not defined as spouses or even next of kin. So they can't get to them. Or in times of medical emergency, and are denied access to hospital emergency rooms. In many states, same sex couples cannot adopt children as two parents. And so, parents often don't have legal standing to fight for custody of their children.", "Why don't they just move to a state where gay adoption is allowed? Why don't they just set up legal documentation, like attorneys -- with an attorney to have the right to determine medical decisions for a loved one in case of a crisis? I mean, there are alternatives, aren't there, other than marriage?", "What this goes to is uneven treatment as -- among American citizens, Carol. And in fact, there is an inconsistency among the states as to what exactly legal standing would be if the relationship is not recognized as a marriage.", "Joshua, oftentimes the conservative point of view on this, opposing gay marriage, and I have to say, you know, it's not always conservative because John Kerry as a Democrat also opposes gay marriage, but supports civil union, it gets reduced to a Judeo- Christian argument that marriage is a sacrament, created by God. Can you take that further for me? I mean, what really is the issue here with the \"M\" word, marriage?", "Let's start with what we know about marriage. We know that every child has a mother and a father, whether they have a chance to know the mother and know the father or not. We know from thousands of studies over the last 30 years that when mothers and fathers fail to get married, more bad things happen to more kids more often, whether that be poverty or educational failure, juvenile delinquency. And we also know that throughout every known society, for all of history, marriage has been the idea that brings men and women together to both create the next generation, provide mothers and fathers for children...", "But if you're talking about parenting...", "...that's what marriage is about.", "...I mean, if you're talking about parenting, I mean, a gay marriage creates a family. It just happens to be of two women or two men. And isn't it better that two people, who can create an economic and emotional support system for a child, be allowed to adopt that child and have equal rights?", "Marriage, though, is about providing the ideal and creating the ideal for people to live up to. Marriage, I mean, two men, no matter how good a father they might be, can never be a mother for a child. And two women can't be a dad for a child. And if we believe that mothers and fathers matter for children, then marriage is that ideal that we try to get adults to channel their lives into such a way that they can provide for their children, a mother and a father, and give their children a chance to know and love their mother and father.", "But that's indicts all the single mothers and single fathers out there for not doing a good job themselves?", "But it doesn't because we believe that single mothers may do a wonderful job raising their kids. And we want to help those mothers do a great job raising their kids. And yet, we still understand that for 30 years, we've seen the fact that a single mother does a wonderful job, but she's still not the same. She's not a dad to her child. And she can't provide that dad by herself.", "David, when you hear this argument, based on, I'm going to interpret this, family values, what do you want to get across?", "That approximately one million children in this country are being raised successfully by same sex couples. And that to deny the couple standing as equals, and as well as the economic and legal protections is to penalize the children. When in fact, these children need stable, loving homes, where you have two adults in a legal relationship, who share the parenthood and the responsibilities. Marriage equality benefits neighborhoods and communities and harms no one.", "Each of you, very quickly, 10 seconds a piece, starting with you, Joshua, you look at the San Francisco situation, what is the best outcome you can hope for on your side of it?", "This is ultimately a question about who's going to make the decisions about marriage in our country. Are we going to leave the decision to a mayor who thinks he's above the law and is going to set aside the clear law of the state? Are we going to leave it to four judges who disagree with three of their colleagues in Massachusetts? Or are we going to let the people of this country have a voice on marriage? Are we going to let them be heard as to what marriage is and should be for our children?", "David?", "Let's look at the CNN/\"USA Today\" poll that found that over 61 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 support marriage equality. The future lies with fairness. And what's important this year is that we're having an open discussion about this key issue for countless families across the country.", "All right, the two of you, this is not the end of it. And plus, we're looking forward to what happens Tuesday when we see what happens at that court injunction in California -- San Francisco. Thank you very much, David Tseng, executive director Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, as well as Joshua Baker, attorney for the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID TSENG, PFLAG", "LIN", "TSENG", "LIN", "TSENG", "LIN", "TSENG", "LIN", "TSENG", "LIN", "TSENG", "LIN", "JOSHUA BAKER, INSTITUTE FOR MARRIAGE AND PUBLIC POLICY", "LIN", "BAKER", "LIN", "BAKER", "LIN", "BAKER", "LIN", "TSENG", "LIN", "BAKER", "LIN", "TSENG", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-344299", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2018-07-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/03/cg.01.html", "summary": "Did Republican Congressman Turn Blind Eye to Sexual Abuse?; Cave Rescue Ongoing in Thailand", "utt": ["A powerful congressman facing just appalling accusations. THE LEAD starts right now. The breaking news, conservative Republican Jim Jordan accused of turning a blind eye to sexual abuse. The political fallout from the White House to the Capitol and his response ahead. Also, President Trump issues a new threat to the most critical alliance in the West, and it plays right into the hands of Vladimir Putin. Plus, how to get them out -- that team of kids and their coach trapped a full mile into a treacherous cave now facing one of the most risky rescue operations in recent memory -- why some may have to dive to survive, even if they don't know how to swim.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "And welcome to THE LEAD. I'm Jim Sciutto, in today for Jake Tapper. And we begin this afternoon with breaking news in our national lead. A top Republican congressman and supporter of President Trump, Jim Jordan, now accused of ignoring sexual abuse and molestation allegations while serving as an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University. Former members of the wrestling team there accuse Congressman Jordan of being aware that a doctor who worked at the school regularly showered with and inappropriately touched student athletes, and that then coach Jordan did nothing about it. I want to bring in CNN's Jason Carroll right away. He's been following the story. So, tell us the details. These are just shocking allegations.", "Absolutely. And, sadly, we have heard these types of allegations before, officials turning a blind eye to reports of sexual abuse at a school. Just this past April, Ohio State announced it was investigating abuse allegations against a man by the name of Dr. Richard Strauss for allegedly abusing students from the mid-1970s to the mid-late 1990s. One former wrestler telling CNN Dr. Strauss touched him inappropriately starting when he was a teenager. He says Strauss sexually molested some of his other teammates as well. That wrestler, Michael DiSabato, says it was common knowledge among team members about this doctor and about what he would allegedly do during examinations. DiSabato says he and other wrestlers spoke openly about it, openly about inappropriate touching. And he says staff, including Jim Jordan, who was a wrestling coach at the time, he says, knew about what the doctor was allegedly doing. Now, this wrestler spoke to CNN. He says: \"Dr. Strauss was more prolific in his abuse and operated. Over a 20-year period, he was able to systematically abuse at Ohio State University in over 15 sports, and no one did anything.\" It should be noted that the Republican Congressman Jim Jordan strongly denies he ignored allegations of abuse. His office released a statement about the allegations, which says -- quote -- \"Congressman Jordan never saw any abuse, never heard about any abuse, and never had -- and never had any abuse reported to him during his time as coach at Ohio State. He has not been contacted by investigators about the matter, but will assist them in any way they ask, because if what is alleged is true the victims deserve a full investigation.\" Congressman Jordan is a staunch ally of President Donald Trump and has been frequently mentioned as a possible replacement for speaker of the House. Ohio State says the university now has received reports of sexual misconduct allegedly committed by Strauss from former athletes involved in 14 sports at the school, including football, cheerleading, gymnastics, and ice hockey. It should be noticed that Strauss died in 2005. The university called the allegations deeply troubling and says they are fully committed to getting to the bottom of it -- Jim.", "Well, appalling allegations against that doctor there, but, we should note, as you read there, just a very comprehensive denial from Congressman Jim Jordan. I want to bring in now CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson, as well as CNN politics reporter and editor at large Chris Cillizza. So, Joey, clearly, the clear crime here committed by the former doctor who has now passed away. But as far as Jim Jordan's role in this, he as an assistant coach at the time. He's being accused of, in effect, a sin of omission here, failing to protect these student athletes from abuse. Is that failure a crime?", "Well, it could be. So let's parse that out here. It's not only an issue in terms of what he knew. It's about what he either believed or reasonably suspected as well. If you look at the statute, it speaks to the issue of mandatory reporting. And so what does that mean? In the event that you're working with young man, and you're a part of the administration or staff, you have a duty and an obligation should there something be amiss of a criminal variety to say something about it. Now, ordinarily, in a standard circumstance, we don't have any duty to be good samaritans. But when you're put in that special relationship of trust, then you do. And so therefore the issue becomes not only whether they would be criminal exposure, but there's also the issue of civil liability and responsibility, what if any there would be as well. And so it becomes problematic. Last point, Jim, and that is this. In the event there is an investigation and you move forward, and you are spoken to, and you are under oath or some such thing, and you make a misstatement, that becomes problematic as well. So it's not only about these issues here, which are significant, but about the investigation moving forward, in the event that the congressman says something that could be disproven and it's false. Now you have a perjury and oath potential issue.", "OK. And, Chris, we should note that in the statement Congressman Jim Jordan first of all denied any knowledge of this, and he also said that he would offer to cooperate as the investigation goes forward. But looking at this from a political lens, this is a big year for Republicans. Of course, you have midterm elections coming up in four months' time. How much of a problem for him individually Congressman Jordan, but also for the party?", "OK. Well, for him, individually, at a minimum, a large-scale distraction. Obviously, Ohio State conducting its own investigation, and a lot of what happens going forward will be determined by that investigation. Jordan on the record denying it. This is someone -- and Jason mentioned it in talking you, Jim -- this is someone in Jim Jordan who's a very high-profile member of the House Republicans. He was a former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. This is sort of the most conservative element of House Republicans. He is a regular presence on our airwaves, as well as other cable TV. He is a voice of sort of unapologetic conservatism. And he is someone who is seen as a potential replacement in the long run either Paul Ryan, who's retiring as speaker, or whoever comes next. This someone who's in the top sort of 10 people who are seen as potential leaders within the Republican Party. Regardless of anything that comes after it, it's certainly a major distraction for a party that is trying to rally behind the message of economy, the Democrats being loose on borders, those sorts of things.", "No question. Listen, a lot more to find out here, as we know. We do know that in the past, though, a whiff of controversy like this has often had political consequences, particularly for leadership positions. Stand by, Chris. I want to turn now to our politics lead. President Trump is expected to meet with more candidates for the Supreme Court. He has already sat down with four candidates who he has described as -- quote -- \"very impressive people,\" but President Trump meanwhile is, as he often does, firing off a series of tweets on other subjects, everything from the state of the U.S. economy to former President Obama and Harley-Davidson. He's also been finding a new opening to attack Democrats on immigration. CNN's Jeff Zeleny, he is picking up our coverage now from the White House.", "President Trump working to finalize his pick for the Supreme Court, as the White House is trying to keep the decision and names of the leading contenders under wraps.", "We're not going to comment on the names, but I can tell you that he's got a great list.", "White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said the president is still on track for announcement next Monday evening, after he interviewed four candidates yesterday and spoke to another potential contender, Utah Senator Mike Lee, by telephone.", "He's looking for somebody with tremendous intellect. He'd like somebody with the right judicial temperament, and he wants somebody who is going to be focused on upholding the Constitution.", "While the president is hoping to persuade a handful of Democrats to support his nominee, that's hardly stopping him from exploiting a rift among Democrats over immigration. The president again today seizing on a call for some liberals to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. He's blasting Democrats on Twitter, saying: \"When we have an infestation of MS-13 gangs in certain parts of our country, who do we send to them get them out? ICE.\" It's the third straight day he's injected himself squarely in the middle of a debate brewing inside the Democratic Party, with some in the party's left wing calling for the elimination of ICE, while others are warning of the political consequences of doing so. The president taking a broad stroke, saying: \"Many Democrats are deeply concerned about the fact that their leadership wants to denounce and abandon the great men and women of ICE, thereby declaring war on law and order.\" Senator Elizabeth Warren is among the Democrats leading the charge.", "The president's deeply immoral actions have made it obvious we need to rebuild our immigration system from top to bottom, starting by replacing ICE with something that reflects our morality.", "It's becoming a refrain among the party's most liberal voices.", "I believe that it has become a deportation force, and I think you should separate it, the criminal justice from the immigration issues.", "The official White House Twitter page maintained by employees of the federal government also aggressively attacking leading Democratic senators like Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and others by name, breaking the practice of previous administrations.", "Now, not only is that breaking the practice of previous administrations by the official White House Twitter page, going directly after multiple members of Congress in the other party. We should point out, Jim, town hall attacks simply are not accurate. Calling out Senator Kamala Harris for supporting the animals, in the words of the White House, of MS-13 does not live up to the facts. Of course, she is a former attorney general of California, who actually had a fairly tough record on gangs. But, separately, Jim, what this is pointing out, the tweets are being sent out I'm told with the president's blessing and it goes directly into the issue of immigration, which he politically speaking is exploiting for the benefit of Republicans here, and perhaps doing a wise job politically of that, because Democrats are indeed facing an identity crisis inside their party. But again one more reminder immigration front and center in the midterm elections, of course, as is that big Supreme Court pick -- Jim.", "Wouldn't be the first time a tweet came from the president that was not based on facts. Jeff Zeleny at the White House, thanks very much. Kirsten, it is not a majority of Democrats who are going down this let's dismantle ICE path. Small number. But there are very public voices here, Kamala Harris, possible presidential candidate. Is this a case of the -- not the fringe, but the extreme left of the Democratic Party pulling it too far left to their political disadvantage on this issue?", "On the facts, I think that they're right. ICE is a cruel, inhumane, rogue agency. You need to understand it's absolutely rogue and it's been that way for a long time. It was this way under Obama. I wrote a lot about immigration in the Obama years. And they have been rebuked by the Supreme Court multiple times for overcharging people, so they can deport them. And they have been slapped down repeatedly and told to stop doing this. And so they are completely out of control. But as a political issue, I'm not sure that it works great for Democrats because I think most swing voters if you look at them are more in line with the Democrats' traditional position, which is a more moderate position. But like I said, I think they're absolutely right on the facts. It's just a question of whether or not...", "Can I just say, I don't think these Democratic senators are even serious about it. I think they found a good slogan. But when I listen to Kirsten Gillibrand talk, Elizabeth Warren talk, saying, oh, we just have to reimagine, like this is some kind of art assign. You are U.S. senators. Go write a bill and actually say how you would reimagine it, because you are actually talking about abolishing a law enforcement agency that may be flawed, but they have tools in the Senate to hold hearings, write letters. You to jump on the slogan because somebody won a state race -- won a race in New York seems awfully shortsighted.", "We should handicap the idea of passing any sort of immigration-related bill through Congress.", "We can handicap it quickly. It is not happening. I do think that what you have seen -- and this is not just as it relates to abolishing ICE and it's not just Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders. In the wake of the 2016 election, Bernie Sanders came out with this radical single-payer. I remember the days when...", "I worked there. I remember when folks told me it was ruining the republic.", "Hillary Clinton was deathly afraid of it. And now what did you see happen in 2017? Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, and, yes, Bernie Sanders, whose idea -- who pushed it, that was a radical idea. I do think Amanda is right. There's a level of -- I don't put Bernie Sanders in this category, because, candidly, you can go back and watch YouTube clips of Bernie Sanders in 1987 talking about the similar stuff he is talking about now. There is among those people who are thinking about running for president, they understand the energy is on the left. No debate about that. And they will immediately hew to that view because they don't want to be...", "Because I have talked to Senator Gillibrand and Senator Warren and Senator Kamala Harris, for that matter, and to be frank Senator Gillibrand, when she's talking about abolishing ICE, her argument is that ICE is not accomplishing its core mission anymore and we need to separate the drug criminal activity, law enforcement protocols and the positioning that ICE has from the immigration responsibilities that ICE has, which she believes...", "I just want to caution that these senators are just merely popping just out there for what's best for the base, when in all actuality I think there's some thoughtful conversation around this. Now, is this...", "... run on in 2018? I don't know.", "It would be nice to have a thoughtful conversation about immigration, wouldn't it? The fact is, it is a hot-button issue. You could look at the numbers. Quinnipiac poll respondents said that immigration the most important issue in deciding how they're going to vote this coming November. But Quinnipiac also found that 58 percent of respondents disapprove of President Trump's handling of immigration. I just wonder. Clearly, it works for Trump's base, but if immigration is going to be central issue in the midterms, who does that advantage?", "Yes.", "Which party does that advantage?", "OK. Just quickly, Kirsten, I think, hit on it, which is -- and Symone makes a fair point, which is, on the merits, it's absolutely a discussion worth having. Here's the problem: what was the immigration debate broadly to a person who only follows politics sort of a little bit? Two weeks ago. Family separation at the border.", "Yes.", "Which is a stone cold loser for every Republican --", "And look what we're talking about now. No question.", "And now, we are talking about -- Kirsten knows way more about ICE than the average person, myself included. So, she understands the nuance there. The average person says, that's a law enforcement agency. Why are we --", "So --", "And Donald Trump beats that drum and says, they want open borders.", "Democrats open -- Donald Trump --", "Advantageous.", "Trump didn't start the abolish ICE idea. Democrats did. So, are you saying in effect Democrats gave him a way to turn the page?", "Yes, they're throwing it away with abolish ICE. But on the 58 percent disapproval rating on Trump's immigration handling, I think that cuts into Republicans, too, because if you're a Republican who voted for Trump, you are seeing chaos on the border, no one likes the pictures that are coming out of there, family separation, and you still don't have the wall. You still don't have a solution on DACA and there's nothing -- not getting anything done. So that's the loser, too, on the Republican side.", "So, you're saying that folks who disapprove of Trump aren't -- not just because of family separation, because they haven't gotten the toughness that they wanted.", "-- that are losing steam.", "Well, and also to that point, I think it's important to note that while immigration has crept up as one of the top issues if you will that folks talk about, overwhelmingly, people still care about the economy and health care and overwhelmingly Republicans are bad on the economy, health care and no one can forget these photos of children at the border that Donald Trump wants us to think that are --", "Well , that bill's not popular. The tax bill --", "The economy's doing great. Unemployment is down. People are getting --", "I don't think so. That's why you're not running on it.", "Bill is one thing. Economic numbers are another.", "It's not complicated. The family separation issue, if that's the --", "Yes.", "When people think of immigration, if that's what they think about, it is absolutely a political disaster for Republicans. If it's a fight over, is ICE a good agency --", "That's a loser for Democrats.", "I don't think it's a loser but a way better --", "There were Republicans who were saying to me privately at the time of family separation was it's peak, that this is a Katrina for Trump. But, again, as you said, we are talking about something else right now. We're going to have more time to talk about this and other issues. Turning to one Trump administration member who seems to attract a scandal a day.", "I just wanted to urge you to resign because of what you're doing to the environment --", "That's right. A woman holding her own baby calling out Scott Pruitt as a new scandal for the EPA administrator surfaces."], "speaker": ["JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR", "ANNOUNCER", "SCIUTTO", "JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SCIUTTO", "JOEY JACKSON, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "SCIUTTO", "CHRIS CILLIZZA, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER", "SCIUTTO", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "ZELENY", "HUCKABEE SANDERS", "ZELENY", "SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D), MASSACHUSETTS", "ZELENY", "SEN. 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{"id": "NPR-40097", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2005-11-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4993846", "title": "Starbucks Bets On a Chinese Expansion", "summary": "The Starbucks coffee company views China as the fastest growing market for its products outside of the United States. The company already has more than 140 stores in China. As part of this week's series on U.S. relations with China, Steve Inskeep speaks with Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz.", "utt": ["The business report continues our look at the United States and China.", "If your town seems to have a Starbucks on every corner, you would feel at      home in some parts of China.  Starbucks has 140 Chinese stores, designed      much like their American counterparts.  The coffee company's efforts show      some of the ways that Americans are competing for a share of China's new      wealth.  We contacted Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz just after he      took a trip to China.", "The stores that we've opened      in China are larger in size than the dwellings in which people live, so      our stores have taken on a life of their own in terms of an extension of      people's home and office.  About 80 percent of our customers in the US      take our coffee to go, and over 80 percent of the Chinese customers have      our coffee in the store and stay very long, enjoying the environment, and      we're happy with that.", "When you say that a lot of your stores are bigger than a lot of      people's houses, it just underlines that this is a place with very modest      living standards.  How do you get people that are making $100 a week to      spend $5 on a drink?", "Yeah.  Well, there--you know, the customers that are coming      in the Starbucks are making more than that.  But let me put it in      perspective for you that I think is interesting.  I'm told that over 300      million Chinese people every day are using a cell phone, and when you      think about the fact that they have leapfrogged traditional technology,      and many of those people never had access to a telephone at home, it      demonstrates the adoption that they have to new technology and      Western-type opportunities.  So there is a large, large group of people      with disposable income.", "What are the major challenges of doing business in China?", "Well, the major challenges are you don't see any `For Rent'      signs.  So you really need to establish very strong relationships with      government officials in order to build stores and open up stores and      create distrib--channels of distribution.  And we wanted to make sure      that in order to build a very large company in Asia and China, we      invested heavily ahead of the growth.", "Given that you've got a company that prides itself on an image      of being ecologically friendly, environmentally friendly, employee      friendly, how do you do business in a Communist dictatorship without      losing your soul?", "I think that is a very important and right question.  What      I saw and in the meetings I had with government officials was a very      strong level of openness and understanding that a business like      Starbucks, which has built itself on this balance between profitability      and benevolence, is the kind of business that they would like to see      succeed in China.  And what I mean by that specifically is that the      Chinese government is very interested, I think, in opening up their doors      to Western companies and Western brands and especially those companies      that can come and be very respectful of the heritage and the tradition of      how that country was built.", "Do you ever talk to an official, and he's quite friendly to you      and quite receptive to what you want to do, but, well, you get an uneasy      feeling about it?", "No.  I have had--I think when you enter a country like      China or, for that matter, any other country, you really have to come hat      in hand and demonstrate a willingness to understand their way of thinking      and their way of life.  And I think what we're most proud of is the      foundation that we built in China is very, very strong because the values      and guiding principles of our company are the same that they are in      America, despite the fact that we're doing business in China.", "Howard Schultz of Starbucks, thanks very much.", "Thank you for having me on."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "Mr. HOWARD SCHULTZ (Chairman, Starbucks)", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "Mr. HOWARD SCHULTZ (Chairman, Starbucks)", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "Mr. HOWARD SCHULTZ (Chairman, Starbucks)", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "Mr. HOWARD SCHULTZ (Chairman, Starbucks)", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "Mr. HOWARD SCHULTZ (Chairman, Starbucks)", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "Mr. HOWARD SCHULTZ (Chairman, Starbucks)"]}
{"id": "CNN-129699", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2008-8-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0808/14/ltm.01.html", "summary": "British Reporter Arrested by Chinese Police as Camera Rolls", "utt": ["Nine minutes after the hour. Welcome back to the \"Most News in the Morning.\" This is the Olympics that we've come to enjoy the past few days. Triumph in the pool, the enduring Olympic spirit. But outside of the venue it's often a different story. China has been working hard to crack down on pro-Tibet protesters. And one British reporter found himself in the middle of it all with his camera rolling. Here's ITN's John Ray.", "China promised to welcome the world. The days on the floor and its space. A day that began with a brief moment of protest soon snuffed out. The banner is illegal but our presence as journalist permitted by commitments made by Beijing in return for the games. Yet it seems no one has told the police.", "Free Tibet!", "At the entrance to a park close to the Olympic stadium, activists chain themselves together. The authorities are in a fury. This campaign has proclaimed the cause of Tibet.", "We're so lucky that we have all these Western supporters to fight for us because this is a nonviolent war. And we will continue and we will go on and we will be strong. Because we won't give up. This is our right.", "And this is the moment I encountered the Chinese response. I'm bundled away, pushed to the floor, pinned down. But perhaps 15 minutes they hold me then I'm forced into a police van, a brief taste of Chinese law and order.", "I've been arrested. These people are arresting me. I've been arrested by the Chinese police for doing -- just trying to cover the protest here. I was inside the park. I was physically manhandled to the ground and dragged out. And then three or four more police came, wrestled me into the restaurant here. And they've taken my shoes off me. They've taken my equipment bag. They've taken all the equipment I've got, and they won't tell me why I've been arrested. Are you arresting me? It's not a time for cool reflection. (voice-over): A Chinese colleague tells him I'm a journalist. (on camera): I'm a journalist. You're arresting me. Why are you arresting me? (voice-over): And I show my Olympic accreditation. If I could, what does it do? (on camera): I'm a journalist. (voice-over): We drove only a few yards. In the back I was questioned about my views on Tibet. I told them again and again I had come only to report a protest. Eventually, that won me my freedom. John Ray, ITV News, Beijing.", "There's a new Web site that could make it easier for the public to file lawsuits. But could it also help generate an avalanche of frivolous cases? It's whocanisue.com. Our Sunny Hostin joins us in about 10 minutes to tell us more. Also, we have Rob Marciano with us. He's watching extreme weather for us this Thursday morning. Hey, Rob.", "Hi, Kiran. I'm looking up this thing that continues to bubble up towards the Caribbean heading towards the U.S. We'll talk about that. Plus, hockey puck-sized hail reported yesterday. Guess where? It's close to Canada. The \"Most News in the Morning\" will be right back."], "speaker": ["ROBERTS", "JOHN RAY, ITV NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "PROTESTERS", "RAY", "PEMA YOKO NORBU, STUDENTS FOR A FREE TIBET RESTRICTIONS", "RAY", "RAY (on camera)", "CHETRY", "ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST"]}
{"id": "CNN-144739", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-11-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0911/04/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Hostage Crisis: 30 Years Later", "utt": ["So, I want to get to Chad Myers in the severe weather center for an update on the activity in the tropics. But, Chad, I also, I've got to tell you, I'm up here in New York City, so you know I need an update on weather conditions for the -- I guess there's a pretty big baseball game here tonight. It's all over the -- splashed all over the papers and, you know, there's this Pedro Martinez character and it's all about your daddy spanking you and who's your daddy. I don't get all of that. But we would love nice temps for tonight's ball game.", "Let's get you caught up on our top stories now. A Cleveland judge has denied bond for a rapist who had 10 women's bodies hidden at his home. Anthony Sowell is facing multiple charges of murder, rape, assault, and kidnapping. Yesterday investigators discovered four bodies at his home after finding six a few days earlier. And they will continue to keep looking. The Senate's top Democrat hints at a delay in health care reform. Majority Leader Harry Reid was asked about passing health reform by the end of the year. His response, we are not going to be bound by any time lines. Iranians mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. hostage crisis today with massive protests, but some demonstrators used the national holiday to vent over June's disputed presidential election. Security forces broke up the unauthorized rallies, clubbing and kicking dissidents. Warren Buffett is making the biggest bet of his career. Yesterday, he announced the $44 billion purchase of railroad operator Burlington Northern. Buffett calls it a bet on America. OK. Cnnmoney.com's Poppy Harlow is here with me now. And, Poppy, the Oracle of Omaha . . .", "Right.", "What is he saying about this?", "This was such an interesting move when we heard about it. When the news broke, I was shocked. I mean you think about railroads, you think about them as a centuries old technology.", "Yes, exactly.", "What's even more important here, Tony, this is a huge vote of confidence, betting on the American economy, saying we're going to be better in five years than we are right now. Folks, here's what Warren Buffett told us on why he made this $44 billion deal.", "It certainly is a vote of confidence by us in the future of America. But that's really not too hard a vote to cast. I mean if you look at the -- if you look at the last couple hundred years, I don't see how you could bet any other way than on the future of America. And if America has a bright future, the railroads have a bright future. They are going to move around the goods that people want. And there will be more and more people in the country and they'll be consuming more and more goods. And they have to get from one place to another. And there's no better way than railroads.", "Yes, I mean, you call this an all-in wager on the economic future of the United States.", "Right.", "Is this an endorsement of President Obama's economic policies? I mean it's coming at quite an interesting time when a lot of folks are asking if his plan's the right one to fix our economy.", "Well, it's an endorsement of the American system. I mean we're going to have lots of presidents -- if we own this for 100 years, we're going to have a lot of presidents. And I'm not going to have voted for all of them, that's for sure, even if I live long enough to do it. So it's not an endorsement of any specific president, it's an endorsement of the American system. The American system works. And if you buy a railroad, you can't move it to China or to India or anyplace else. You are betting on the United States. But I can't think of a surer bet. And, like I say, that -- that -- that goes beyond any one president, although I happen to be an enthusiast for Obama.", "Tony, as you heard there, Buffett, a huge supporter of Obama. A few things here, Tony, that I think are interesting. One, these are jobs you can't outsource if he expands this company. Two, it's a clean energy play. Transporting on trains much more fuel efficient than in cars and trucks. And I asked him later in the interview, how does he grade the administration, Bernanke in particular, the Fed chief. He said he gives him an A, if not an", "Really?", "He talked about the guts that Bernanke and Paulson and President Obama had going through this crisis that I thought was really interesting.", "He would probably lump Tim Geithner in that group as well?", "He definitely would. He's a big supporter. There -- Tim Geithner was the head of the New York Fed when all of this went down. Now he's the Treasury secretary. So some interesting perspective. That full interview with him, about 15 minutes, is on cnnmoney.com.", "That is terrific stuff. All right, Poppy, appreciate it. Thank you. Good stuff. Congressman Joe Wilson is back in the spotlight. You remember him. He is the one who shouted \"you lie\" as President Obama addressed Congress in September. This morning, Wilson and a handful of other Republican lawmakers suggested if Democrats think the public health care option is good for Americans, then members of Congress ought to be required to enroll.", "We will be introducing an amendment that does require members of Congress to take the government-run option. I -- we know why the majority of the Pelosi takeover bill does not provide this. They do know that the government-run option will not be in the interests of the American people. Either individually or for the American citizens at large. And so I'm just very hopeful that they will reconsider, that they will understand if it's good enough for the American people, then it's also good enough for Congress.", "OK. Another lawmaker with Wilson says the vast majority of Republicans in Congress believe anyone who votes for the public option ought to sign up for it. Rallies against the Democrats' health care reform plan taking place in the heartland. The Tea Party Express rolls in Wichita, Kansas, and Oklahoma City, today. The national bus tour, as you know, is aimed at showing opposition to higher spending and government intervention in the lives of American families and businesses. You know, Republicans have good reason to be giddy today after sweeping the vote in both Virginia and New Jersey. But what about that pesky little district in upstate New York? Our John Roberts poked RNC Chairman Michael Steele about the loss of a GOP stronghold.", "Right off the top, the question to ask, you know, you had some big gains last night in Virginia and New Jersey, but did conservatives blow it in the 23rd district there in New York? I mean that district has been sending Republicans to Congress since Ulysses S. Grant was president.", "Yes, well, you know, the -- it doesn't take away from what was a great night in New Jersey and in Virginia. Particularly in New Jersey, where no one even gave us a snowball's chance to come close to beating Governor Corzine. And so, you know, hats off to a great effort to both Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell. New York 23 is an example of what happens if you have a failed process. And there was a failed process there. The days of having a small group of individuals select candidates is over and should be over. I mean, an open primary process works best. You would have gotten the candidate that the people wanted in the first place. Instead of having this long, drawn-out drama. Great Shakespearian theater at the end there. But, you know, the bottom line is that the GOP, last night, became, I think, transcendent in that it moved beyond the past losses and no message and no meaning for the American people. And I think yesterday we had two candidates who set some milestones for us, achieved some milestones in terms of the turnaround, and now hopefully point the way to 2010 and beyond.", "We'll talk about Virginia and New Jersey in just a second, but I did want to ask you a couple more questions about New York's 23rd district.", "Oh, sure.", "Did conservatives hijacked that race because you had endorsed Dede Scozzafava?", "No, come on.", "Pete Sessions had endorsed her. Newt Gingrich had endorsed her. And suddenly Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty and others come in and say, no, we don't like her. She's too liberal. We want to go with Doug Hoffman.", "No. No one hijacked anything. But, look, again, it was a failed process. And the reality of it is, those individuals that endorsed after the nominee was selected, the other candidate, that's their prerogative. That's their choice. But, you know, someone like Pete Sessions and Newt Gingrich and others understand and appreciate she's the Republican nominee. The were supporting the Republican nominee. Whether they picked her or not is irrelevant. Whether they thought she should have been the nominee is irrelevant. She was. My role as the national chairman is to support the nominees of the party. I don't get the luxury of picking and choosing who they are.", "So what does this say about next year in the midterm elections, you know, where you have some moderates who are facing off against more conservative candidates. Florida is one of those races. You've got Charlie Crist against Marco Rubio. Are you expecting that there is going to be another big fight?", "No, John, all it says is you've got a primary process and the best person chosen by the individuals in that race in Florida, or elsewhere, will win. And whoever that is, guess who's going to support them? Me. Because that's my job. I'm the national chairman.", "Well, OK. All right. You've heard from the head of the Republican Party. We will get the Democrats' take just ahead."], "speaker": ["HARRIS", "HARRIS", "HARLOW", "HARRIS", "HARLOW", "HARRIS", "HARLOW", "WARREN BUFFETT, CEO, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY (via telephone)", "HARLOW", "BUFFETT", "HARLOW", "BUFFETT", "HARLOW", "A+. HARRIS", "HARLOW", "HARRIS", "HARLOW", "HARRIS", "REP. JOE WILSON, (R) SOUTH CAROLINA", "HARRIS", "JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR", "MICHAEL STEELE, RNC CHAIRMAN", "ROBERTS", "STEELE", "ROBERTS", "STEELE", "ROBERTS", "STEELE", "ROBERTS", "STEELE", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-225075", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2014-2-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/16/ip.01.html", "summary": "How Hillary's Past will Play in 2016", "utt": ["Welcome back. Our puzzle this week, piecing together the many looks and many roles of Hillary Clinton and posing this question: will an old friend's candid notes of their conversations help or haunt a 2016 Clinton White House run? First a trip down memory lane. I remember this day like yesterday. I was there 1992, a diner in Chicago. The first lady of Arkansas in those days answering questions about her law work. Why was she a high-powered corporate lawyer when her husband was the governor of Arkansas?", "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas. But I decided to do is to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.", "Sixteen years later, a United States Senator, a Democratic candidate for president, bowing out of the race. Barack Obama wins but Hillary Clinton suggests women win, too.", "Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it's got about 18 million cracks in it.", "More recently near the end of her tenure as Secretary of State, defending herself and her department, after the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi.", "I understand.", "Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they would go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?", "Many looks, many roles for Hillary Clinton over the year. So perhaps no surprise, she's had a bit of a roller coaster when it comes to public opinion. Let's look at some highs and some lows. One early high, look right here, Bill Clinton just inaugurated as president, the country warming to its new president and its first lady. Look, she's near 70 percent right there, but didn't take too long. Here's the low, 1996. The Rose Law Firm -- that's where she worked in Arkansas, some of her law records had mysteriously disappeared. Then they suddenly showed up at the White House. Immediately under subpoena by the independent counsel, Ken Starr -- his investigation, remember, started about Clinton family finances. A couple of years later, back above 50 -- a political high point of sorts, impeachment, Monica Lewinsky -- the country was mad at him, sympathetic to her. Then you'll see here pretty much a flat line through the George W. Bush administration, she's right around 50 percent -- some people love her, some people not so sure. But then look, above 60 percent early in the Obama administration; even a lot of Republicans came to admire her work as Secretary of State traveling the globe representing the United States. Now these new notes -- the Diane Blair files and the question, Maeve Reston is this. Are the Republicans who say Hillary Clinton's past is the way to block her from living in the White House in the future -- a smart strategy?", "Not a smart strategy. I mean, you can bring this stuff up. You can churn it up, but when you talk to Republican opposition researchers who really are going to be the ones that are doing the digging, they say you have to find something new, you have to find something fresh. Voters when they heard all of this before have had a much more limited effected. At the same time the Republicans also have the possibility of overreaching by going too much into like the far, far past because as we've seen in the past that ends up making her look like a victim and then people rush to her.", "Right -- Republicans overreaching when it comes to the Clinton? That's impossible.", "And yet we're talking about the past -- right.", "Right.", "And aren't elections about the future?", "Right.", "And I think that's is what was actually kind of sophisticated about what Rand Paul is doing which is just you bring this issue up and all of a sudden splash it across Web sites and newspapers and TV -- you know, pictures of the Rose Law Firm and the Clintons, and you know, just raising the specter of this baggage --", "And raising -- raising money. There's no question Republicans can use these to rile their base. But those people aren't going to vote for Hillary Clinton anyway. But you can raise money, you can prove you're tough. So let's go through some of it because I think, to your point, the question is did we learn anything fundamentally new. We get some great new quotes, we get some new color but do we learn anything new about the character of the person. Here's one of them and this one is interesting. \"The first lady asked a close friend and confidant for advice on how best to preserve her general memories of the administration and of health care in particular? When asked why? Clinton said revenge.\" We don't like vengeful politicians. We've been through this with Chris Christie's controversies. Does that hurt her?", "I think again, it's going to be more impressionistic. Like any one little data point there is probably building a larger picture. And I think the expense of this is going to make her seem like kind of a political sleaze ball from the 90s, it's going to be pretty powerful in the general election especially as you have a new, fresh candidate that Republicans are going to seek out. I don't think that this is going to have much effect during the primary -- I really don't.", "That's a great point.", "But during a general election -- sure.", "That's a great point. A show of hands at the table if anyone thinks access to the Diane Blair files and recycling all of this is going to lead somebody credible to decide I can challenge Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries. Seeing no hands --", "I think it's going to be some ambitious Democrat, maybe not a well-known Democrat who sees this sense of Clinton nostalgia among Democrats but also really Clinton antagonism among the Republicans saying that's my opening. Maybe it's not Warren or O'Malley, maybe it's someone else. But there is going to be space that's going to represent the new Democrats.", "One thing that seems to me to be pretty resonant from 2016 is this memo from Stan Greenberg (inaudible) that surfaced from 1992 that said, you know, voters kind of perceive Hillary Clinton as a little bit chilly. They're not sure what to think of her. And secondly they are skeptical of this notion of a co-presidency that you get two for one. This came up a little bit in 2008 with Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and it probably will again in 2016.", "I remember when it came up in 1992. I was there; I got a lot of these gray hairs back in those days. This is my favorite, our CNN team in Fayetteville pulled this out of the Diane Blair files. According to Blair Clinton told her that when the Clintons are done with this, meaning her husband's presidency, the first lady will go be a kindergarten teacher and never have to hold hands on the Hill again. She decided not to be a kindergarten teacher, Maeve.", "I think that, first of all, it's not a surprise, but I think also that some of what these files showed was a little bit of that real Hillary Clinton that actually some people like. I'm not going to put up the facade, I'm not going to be someone that I'm not. I hate this, you know, the hand holding pictures, and I think to some extent that humanizes her a little bit. Kind of makes her more interesting to voters.", "When I went through the polling, Robert, saw the high point after Secretary of State. And I think that's the fundamental question for her. She wants to be president. She wants to be the first female president but does she want to go back through that again and become a polarizing figure like she was in the 90s and to a degree when she ran for president in 2008? Here's something in the Blair files that I think tell us a lot about how Hillary Clinton used this. She's talking about after impeachment. They go out to dinner, Bill and Hillary and Chelsea. They go out to a play. Their public appearances jolly (ph) because he has survived impeachment and actually the Republicans are back on their heels. She says, \"This\" she said \"is what tries their adversaries totally nuts, that they don't bend. They don't appear to be suffering.\" If you remember those days that did drive Republican nuts. How did Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton survive all of that?", "I think that's right. And my big takeaway from reading these files is that the Clintons play tough. They play political hardball. Democrats who are thinking about challenging her in the primary better remember that. And Republicans -- as much as they're seizing upon this as opposition research, this is still the Clinton machine. You go at them you better go at them to win.", "Well, speaking of the Clinton machine, one thing -- putting aside the fact that there's no old news in today's news cycle. One thing that these files crystallize to me is that the lack of coherent response and messaging from the Clinton universe. They keep saying she's a private citizen. We're not going to respond to e- mails. We're not going to address this. This might not be a bad story for her but the Clinton people are not in the conversation. They say they are not going to be, you know, until she runs for president perhaps. And I think that's a real problem or her because there are plenty of Republicans from Rand Paul to these Republican research groups who are absolutely willing to flood the zone with negative Clinton stuff and they better be better equipped at responding to them.", "Instead they have these shadow groups that are coming out -- the hangers on around her coming out and defending and sort of speaking for Hillary Clinton world when really they are not actually in it, and that's a dangerous way to go.", "I do think it is strategic in the sense that I think they want this to kind of peter out. I think they want to kind of just get all of this stuff out there so it's not just from 20 years ago. Oh -- that's from six months ago. Like forget about all of that. Focus on this new Hillary. I do think that there's -- you can criticize the strategy but I think there's a strategy there.", "We couldn't get a response from her office. And she has not answered any of this directly, but she did do an event on Thursday morning with her daughter. Listen to this, Hillary Clinton thinks before she speaks, and she knows people want to know what she thinks about the Blair files and all this focus on her. Listen.", "One of the best pieces of advice that I've ever heard from anyone is Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1920s who said that, you know, women in politics or in public roles should grow skin like a rhinoceros. I think there's some truth to that.", "And Eleanor Roosevelt didn't know about Twitter. Good advice, skin like a rhinoceros? Does she have it? Some people say she's thin-skinned. Some people --", "I think she's trying to give the image of having a skin like rhinoceros when it comes to politics. I think Annie is right. I think the Hillary Clinton strategy right now is as all this noise starts to really become an issue for her. How could she stay elevated above the conversation? How in 2014 can she help out some strategic Democrats in races? How could she just stay above the fray so she can enter strong?", "She's working on a book, too, so she will try to reshape this --", "-- and she'll try to steer the conversation back to where she wants to get it. Everybody stay put. Next our reporters empty their notebooks, including you won't want to miss this, a coming judgment day for Chris Christie. A glimpse at tomorrow's news today, next."], "speaker": ["KING", "CLINTON", "KING", "CLINTON", "KING", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CLINTON", "KING", "RESTON", "KING", "HAMBY", "KING", "HAMBY", "RESTON", "HAMBY", "KING", "LOWREY", "KING", "LOWREY", "KING", "COSTA", "HAMBY", "KING", "RESTON", "KING", "COSTA", "HAMBY", "RESON", "LOWREY", "KING", "CLINTON", "KING", "COSTA", "KING", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-199183", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2013-1-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/11/ng.01.html", "summary": "Nancy Grace Mysteries - Jodi Arias", "utt": ["He`s dead. He`s in his bedroom. 911", "OK.", "In the shower. 911", "OK. How did this happen. Do you have any idea?", "I just can`t think of a single soul.", "We have no idea. Everyone`s been wondering him for... 911", "OK.", "... a few days. 911", "She said that there`s blood. So is it coming from his head? Did he...", "It`s all over the place.", "The evidence is very compelling.", "I had an immediate suspicion that it was Jodi who had done this.", "No, I had no part in it.", "He actually had everything going for him.", "He`s in his bedroom. 911", "OK.", "In the shower.", "Was that a defensive wound?", "Could be, yes, consistent with that.", "Where is the body?", "Would be -- from this vantage point, would be to your right.", "I heard all kinds of rumors. They said there was a lot of blood.", "Jodi was Travis`s dirty little secret.", "Did that include, like, a sexual relationship with him?", "Yes, it did. The explanation for that will come out soon.", "It`s really hard to pick amongst so many bombshells in the courtroom this week in the Jodi Arias murder trial. I can`t really identify one big moment because there were so many big moments. But I would have to say the biggest headlines out of the courtroom this week were the fact within a couple of hours after Jodi Arias slits her long-time lover`s throat, that she`s literally climbing on top of another man.", "The first episode of sexual interaction that you`d ever had with her?", "Yes.", "You didn`t -- did you ever any sexual interaction in Oklahoma City?", "No.", "And the kissing, about what time of the day was it?", "Probably 3:00, 4:00", "And she arrived at what time?", "00 or 11:00. 10:00 or 11:00.", "So within five hours of arriving -- and you`d never seen her before -- this interaction is taking place.", "Yes.", "And you said, Well -- you talked about cuddling. Do you remember that?", "Yes.", "Does cuddling include her moving you around and getting on top of you and grinding on your pelvis?", "No.", "Is that what you mean?", "We never talked about that.", "But is that what cuddling means?", "Objection, your honor. Asked and answered", "Overruled. You may answer.", "No.", "What is cuddling?", "I mean, just snuggling up to a movie.", "She finds a single Mormon man many, many hours away and drives to him and commences to make out with him literally within about 17 hours after she slices Travis Alexander ear to ear, stabs him 29 times, shoots him in the head, beats him, drags his body around, takes photos of the dead body and crime scene photos, does a cleanup, bathes the body with warm water. I mean, how can you turn away? It`s like the most horrific car wreck you`ve ever seen along the side of the interstate.", "I`ve been in the relationships before where the other guy wasn`t faithful, and there`s, like, a distinctive gut feeling that you just have and that I noticed because I`ve been in relationships where they were faithful, at least to my knowledge, they were totally faithful, and that feeling just isn`t there. So I had this feeling with Travis, and I gently asked him about it. He got really upset and, like, he was, like, No, there`s nothing there. Don`t worry about it. And I knew he was on his phone texting a lot, and I knew he was texting these girls. And I was, like -- I was, like, Well, what about your text messages? He says, Look, I can be flirtatious but there`s nothing going on. And I said OK. So this was last year in June. And one day, he was taking a nap, and I felt -- this is", "Seemed like she didn`t trust him. I don`t know if he was doing stuff with other girls besides flirting and talking to people. Yes, it seemed like the reason they broke up was because they didn`t trust each other.", "So you`ve got her literally climbing on top of another man a couple of hours after she slashes Travis Alexander`s neck.", "Did this kissing continue or did it just stop at one kiss?", "Eventually, we kissed probably many times. Every time we started kissing, it got a little more escalated.", "And with regard to the physical contact beyond the kissing, was there any of that?", "Clothes never came off. You know, at some point, she was kissing my neck. I was kissing hers. But clothes never came off.", "How about your hands?", "Yes, my hands were -- I never touched her breasts or anything like that. At one point, I had my hands on her thighs. She was -- you know, things were -- she just definitely seemed to be into the moment. And you know, eventually, we stopped.", "Before you stopped, did your hands ever go near her vaginal area?", "Yes.", "Did you have any moral or religious qualms against premarital sex.", "I mean, Ironically, it was kind of -- I hadn`t actually attended an LDS church for probably over a year at that time. And she would often tell me how she felt about, you know, her religious beliefs, the book of Mormon, how she felt. And I think that was kind of one of the big reasons why I didn`t want her to regret her trip when she came was because I certainly didn`t want her going home feeling like she regretted her trip or she made a huge mistake or that she let temptation take over. And so, you know, that was one of the things that kind of made me stop, you know, when things were kind of getting a little heated between us. And so yes, it was more her expressing her religious beliefs and almost trying to bring me closer to God.", "To me -- and I don`t think a lot of people are going to agree with me on this. To me, one of the most horrific details that came out this week is the fact she sliced his throat with such force, with such venom, with such hatred that the knife goes all the way back to the spine, back to the neck bone.", "What are we looking at here?", "This is a side view of the neck wound. And it`s probably one of the better views to show how deep it goes.", "And how deep is this one? What is it that was cut as this knife came through the...", "The jugular vein and the carotid artery on the right side were both cut.", "And looking at this, how deep is this wound we have here?", "Goes all the way back to the spine. So it`s three inches, four inches.", "So you`ve got her climbing on top of her new boyfriend a couple hours after she slashes her other boyfriend to death. You`ve got a knife wound to the neck so deep that it goes all the way back to the neck bone.", "How did he die?", "Primarily blood loss.", "And tell me how that works on the body in terms of the blood loss and what that does to the individual as he dies.", "Well, after you lose blood, you lose the ability to provide oxygen to your major organs, including your brain and your heart. In this case, the first thing that would happen would be dizziness, followed by a loss of consciousness and then death.", "It leads to a lot of speculation, grounded in forensics, as to the scenario that unfolded, how she actually killed him.", "Would blood come out of the mouth, ears or just out of the chest area?", "It depends on what`s hit inside the body. If the lung was nicked, which is possible in this case because we`re dealing with a decomposed body, so the organs aren`t as pristine. They`re not as -- they don`t lend themselves to examination, as in a fresh individual. But if the lung is nicked, they can cough up blood. If you have blood going into the throat area -- he does have, you know, throat injuries, as well, which we talked about -- all those can cause coughing up of blood or loss of blood out of the mouth.", "One other thing that I think is a headline. And again, I don`t know if many people will agree with me on this because a defense attorney will tell you that this does not a murderer make -- but her lies, her lies not necessarily about the murder itself but just lying about everything. It reminds me so much of tot mom and Scott Peterson. It`s like they lied for no reason. They lied because they could, because they were breathing! They just lie. Their lips are moving, so they just lie. She lied about her car tags. She lied about her whereabouts. She lied about her job. She lied about where she worked, what she did, her religion, her previous boyfriends, her relationships. Everything she lied about. I think that is just so critical because under the law, under our centuries-old law, the jury is the sole decision maker when it comes to credibility.", "What did you think about? I mean, the last time you had talked to him was what, Monday, or Wednesday? What was it?", "I think it was Tuesday evening, I think, Tuesday night.", "Yes. Did you think of, you know, what was going on? The last time you talked to him -- did you try to get ahold of him after that?", "Yes. Yes, I did. I tried to get ahold of him. I called him Tuesday night. I called him subsequently and e-mailed him a couple times.", "Who says this is self-defense? Jodi Arias. She`s the only one that says that. No other person that knows Travis Alexander believes he would ever hurt a woman. She is the only one that says that. Every lie that can be attributed to her damages, torpedoes her credibility. I ask you this. If she would lie about where she worked, that she worked at Margaritaville, you don`t think she would like to save her own skin? Think about it.", "Jodi wanted nothing but to please Travis.", "Jodi`s attorneys want the jury to believe she killed Travis in June 2008 in self-defense, that he abused her and she feared for her life when she attacked him in the shower in his Mesa, Arizona, home.", "We all watched testimony of new boyfriend Ryan Burns. I spoke to him in depth, and what struck me the most about him was his demeanor. He just seemed like a big teddy bear, a likable guy.", "During the time that you and she are alone in the afternoon, did you notice her hands?", "Yes.", "And did you notice whether or not she had any injuries or cuts to one of her hands?", "She had two small bandages, it seems like, on one of her fingers, a couple of her fingers. She told me she worked at Margaritaville and she had cut her finger.", "And how did she cut her finger at Margaritaville?", "I think she told me she broke a glass and cut her finger.", "And what spoke to me was he really loved Travis Alexander. In fact, he told me point-blank that the murder victim in this case, Travis Alexander, changed his life, that he was ready to give up and quit his job and just wander until he heard Travis Alexander speak. And it turned him around. It motivated him. It, quote, \"changed\" his life. It makes me think, it makes me connect the dots, that Travis Alexander was of the same ilk as Ryan, and I liked him. I liked him. And very often, juries will strain and contort in order to believe the one they like. This is a friend of Travis`s, and I really believe that that good will created by Ryan Burns will translate onto the murder victim in this case. And that is so very important because a major, a key component in the defense case is to drag Travis Alexander through the mud in death. They`ve already killed him. He`s dead. We`ve all seen the shower stall photos of his decomposing body in a damp shower stall. What can they kill now? Let`s see. His reputation. So they are painting him out as everything from a woman beater to a sex deviant to a dishonorable cad that cheats on a girlfriend. I would venture to speculate none of those are true. Also, Ryan Burns told the jury point-blank that Jodi Arias was literally adjusting him, moving him over on the sofa so she could crawl on top of him and straddle him.", "I complimented her on being very feisty, and I was kind of referring to", "During this encounter when -- after you wake up, did she ever -- and the phrase may have been \"adjust\" you in any way while this encounter is going on?", "Well, that`s what I mean. When we woke up, we were kissing. And then she eventually kind of grabbed me and adjusted me a little bit. That`s when she got on top of me", "And that -- were you able to feel her strength at that point?", "Yes.", "And did you form an opinion, again, throughout the day as part of that as to her strength?", "Yes, she`s strong.", "A couple of hours after she sliced Travis Alexander ear to ear. Now, that`s something to stew on.", "Jodi Arias`s behavior, as described by Ryan Burns, is not the demeanor or the behavior of a woman who just killed in self-defense. As a matter of fact, she even left messages on Travis Alexander`s voicemail regarding cashing a check she had written to him. I mean, she knows he`s dead.", "Is there anything else that you can remember, or think of, or any theories or anything that can help us?", "I just -- I just don`t know. Travis was a friend to everybody. And you know, even when things were bad between us, he was always -- he would give his last -- he would give his last dollar, his last whatever. He was selling me his BMW. I was supposed to e-mail...", "Yes, you mentioned that. You kind of burned it out or something?", "Oh, yes, a check that you gave him for payment.", "Yes. I guess, like, I -- this is so dumb. Like, it seems so unimportant, but I guess I need to know if that check is going to be deposited any time soon.", "No, no.", "... can`t be deposited, so...", "And she`s leaving this voicemail. If a woman killed in self- defense, I would think that they would pick up the phone and call 911. Why didn`t she? I don`t understand that. But going straight to Ryan Burns`s home to egg him on sexually, and then go out with him and his friends, within a few days, going out with Travis Alexander`s friends and yukking it up and going out to dinner, that is not the behavior, in my mind, of someone who just took another life in self-defense. No.", "Some people had some unpleasant stuff to say about you. And I don`t know why. I mean, I talked to you and you seem like a good person. And you know,", "The only thing I can think of, and I realize that, is because I was at his house a lot. But I didn`t go to his house unless I was invited over, unless", "Ryan Burns, the new boyfriend, detailed very carefully for the jury the story that Jodi Arias gave him as to why she was about 24 hours late arriving at his home. She said everything from, I got lost, I went to sleep, I took the wrong exit. Well, if you look at the map, it`s a straight shot down the interstate from where she said she was to Ryan`s home. So how do you get lost? I don`t understand that.", "During this interlude that you are having, what was her demeanor? Was she upset? Was she happy? What was her demeanor?", "I mean, it just seemed like the person I`d been talking on the phone, just meeting her in person. I never -- there was never a moment where it felt awkward or anything like that.", "What was her demeanor like? Was she crying at any time? Was she upset at any time? What was her demeanor like?", "I mean, the only time -- I mean, she was fine. She was laughing about simple little things, just like any other person.", "Everything she said didn`t make sense. If he had analyzed it then, he would have seen that. But he did not. We, of course, in retrospect can see that that, too, was a lie.", "Well, I spent a lot of time at his house. But because it`s more than just that kind of DNA, there is an explanation for all of that. And that will all be made known very soon. Again, it doesn`t prove that I committed a murder, and I didn`t commit a murder. I didn`t hurt Travis. I would never hurt Travis, would never harm him physically. I may have hurt him emotionally, and I`ll always regret that. But you know, the explanation for that will all come out soon. Don`t roll the tape yet!", "Jodi Arias goes back to court today.", "You can have cuts to the back of the forearm, and it`s consistent with someone trying to either grab the knife or fend off injury.", "That is a possible shoe impression that was found on the tile floor in the bathroom.", "Can you tell with regard to the gunshot wound to the right temple whether or not he was alive or not at that point?", "I don`t see hemorrhaging in the brain.", "If we don`t see hemorrhaging or bleeding, is that an indication the person was already dead?", "It may have been.", "My name`s Jodi.", "I don`t know. Maybe I`m -- because I`m the ex-girlfriend. We had lots of fights.", "How did he die?", "Primarily blood loss.", "Playing back Jodi Arias`s police tapes, the interrogations, is really a double-edged sword, and I`ll tell you why. It clearly shows that she changed her story. Hearing her give her answers in her own voice is compelling when you know that everything she says is a lie and she just does it so well, so easily. Only one problem, and that is, if they are forced to put in all of the interrogation tapes, all of her statements, where she gets to put forth to the jury self-defense -- the problem with that, then she won`t have to take the stand. So I would be very careful before I put in that statement to the jury.", "But what bothered me was there were -- not only were some flirtations like I had suspected and which bothered me, but it wasn`t necessarily a crime, but there were plenty of -- there were, like, plans, like -- things like, Well, Where do you want to meet? Oh, I don`t know. Wherever`s the best place for -- where`s the best place for us to make out in. And I was, like, What? Oh, my gosh! You know, we`d been dating for a few months at this point, and he always said, Well, we`re not dating anybody else. And to him, that was, I think, reasonable enough because I think in his mind, he was making out with other girls, but he wasn`t dating them was OK. The only reason I think that`s true is because of what we continued to do, like, you know,", "The medical examiner, or coroner as he is called in many jurisdictions -- the ME`s testimony I believe was one of the stars of the trial because we see, based on blood marks, palm prints, blood dragging marks, blood spatter marks and blood transfer marks, we can pretty much nail down the order in which Travis Alexander was attacked. And you can`t do that without the medical examiner laying out the wounds to the body and how he or she thinks it went down and there is forensic evidence from the body itself that backs up that timeline. That`s very, very important in a death penalty case, where the state is trying to show aggravating circumstances, such as after you stab someone 29 times, you then shoot them, or vice versa. To me, it`s both heinous, which is an aggravating circumstance. So no one can make out those facts, other than the medical examiner who processed the body.", "Can you tell with regard to the gunshot wound to the right temple whether or not he was alive or not at that point?", "Again, there`s a wound going through the head, and I don`t see hemorrhage in the brain. I can`t see a wound track through the brain. So all I know is that there`s a bullet going through the brain. So I can`t say with certainty.", "And if we don`t see hemorrhaging or bleeding, as you talked about, is that an indication that the person was already dead.", "He may have been, yes.", "The fact that Jodi Arias`s left palm print was found at the scene of the crime places her there at the time of the murder because it`s not as if she was there shortly before the murder. It`s not as if she came in and happened upon the body and ran out. She was handling the body. She was touching the body in order for her hand to get completely soaked in blood -- literally blood on her hands. Not only is it powerful evidence figuratively, metaphorically, but practically speaking, it places her there at the time", "Do you have an estimate or is there any science out there that tells you, Well, this type of wound, given what I know about it, would take X amount of time?", "No. It depends on so many factors. It depends on the person`s health. It depends on the care that they receive. It depends on their blood volume to begin with and the position of their body.", "None of the evidence so far has suggested self-defense. And I think the most telling wounds are going to be the nine stab wounds to the back. Anybody that knows anything about our legal system knows that shooting somebody in the back or stabbing them in the back is not self-defense. You must, under the law, truly believe that you are in fear for your life or serious bodily injury. Stabbing somebody in the back clearly shows you`re not being attacked. You are the aggressor. Nothing, nothing that has been brought out by the medical examiner suggests self-defense.", "I want to talk to you a little bit about the wounds on the back, OK? All in all, on the back there was nine wounds. Is that correct? No, no. I`m sorry in the upper back. Let me be more specific.", "Yes, a cluster of nine stab wounds on the upper back.", "And I think that`s what you called a grouping?", "Yes.", "And they`re in between his shoulders, is that right?", "Yes.", "And these wounds you`d consider very shallow, is that right?", "They are shallow, yes.", "If somebody were standing -- if the two people were standing facing each other and the person with the knife is reaching over the back, that`s going to have less force to it, wouldn`t it, than somebody who`s standing behind and being able to drive the knife right in without stopping.", "Generally, I`d agree with that, yes.", "Police also -- very good police work, I might add -- found a cache of receipts. They were before the hours surrounding the murder and after the hours surrounding the murder.", "Take a look at exhibit 237.004. And this is to Valero, right?", "Yes, sir.", "What is the date on that one?", "June 2nd, 2008.", "And the time?", "What kind of card was used?", "A Mastercard.", "What are the last four digits?", "2015.", "And it also has a name here, right?", "Yes, sir.", "What`s the name?", "Jodi Arias.", "It shows that she very carefully did not spend money, use credit cards, get any receipts placing her near or at the murder scene. It`s very cunning.", "OK. Now I need to let the officers know what they`re walking into...", "OK. 911", "... so can you tell me where the blood is coming from?", "I don`t know. I saw him curled up in the -- he`s -- he`s curled up in the shower, and that`s all I saw. I turned away.", "I think the most difficult point for the defense this week was two-fold. When Ryan Burns testified that she was literally climbing on top of him to egg him on sexually within hours after slashing Travis Alexander`s throat, and the ferocity of the crime, the wound so deep to his neck, it literally went all the way back to the spine.", "Taken together, all the views of the back and head could have been fatal from bleeding over time. The most significant wounds are going to be the neck wound, which we haven`t talked about yet, the stab wound that penetrates the heart", "And we`re looking at 201. How big is that one?", "One-and-one-quarter inch.", "Many court watchers and legal eagles believe that Jodi Arias will have to take the stand to establish self-defense. No one can testify to that but her. I`m wondering if the defense can get it in through other statements that she has made, for instance, to news outlets, media. The state has brought in some of those. Now, the state is using that evidence to show that there were three different stories she gave, but the defense can latch onto that, use the story of self-defense to their benefit to avoid her having to take the stand. She would be crucified on cross-exam, crucified, sliced up like a Thanksgiving turkey.", "... or when you had contact with him or the last time you talked to him.", "Yes, I think -- I know that I talked to him early Monday morning, which was -- I was just up late Sunday night, for example. And I probably talked to him, it may have been a good 45 minutes that morning. And we were talking about how he lived -- he had a conversation with another person about", "Wow.", "Yes, we were -- he was a night owl. I`m a night owl. And it wasn`t a really long conversation. We`ve had conversations that lasted hours and hours, but this one was probably only -- I want to say 45 minutes. It may have been longer. I guess I could check.", "We`ve seen a change of appearance in court, even in one day changing from powder blue to midnight black, now suddenly donning gold wire-rimmed glasses for a smart look. I also see her -- any body language expert will tell you this -- literally hiding behind her long now dark hair. She looks like Cousin It, there`s really no other way to put it, when she puts all the hair down so the jury can`t see her face. Why? Why is she hiding from the evidence? To me, right there, that nonverbal behavior speaks volumes.", "Jodi Arias`s reaction to the autopsy photos was one of just theatrical grief. She`s sobbing. She`s convulsing. Interestingly enough, she`s hiding her head under her hair a lot of the time, I think from shame, I think from shame at seeing this being displayed before the world, her handiwork, as it were. And sometimes, she would look for a second at the autopsy photos and then appear to recall, as if she was sort of snapping out of denial for one second and then going back into that world where she`s not really facing reality.", "All right. So the last time you talked to him was like on Monday morning.", "I`m sorry, I did talk to him on Tuesday night.", "Oh, Tuesday night.", "It was brief, though. Like, that was a matter of just a few minutes. It was", "Do you know what time that was?", "Oh, 10:00 o`clock, maybe.", "00 PM?", "Yes, I`d say 10:00 PM, or maybe 9:00", "30, something around there. I guess I could go back and check.", "About 9:00 to 10:00, anywhere", "Somewhere between that -- yes, it was -- it was late. It was, like, kind of late. I mean, for us, that`s not late, but...", "What was the purpose of that call?", "Just calling to check in and say hey, and let him know -- just hi.", "OK.", "I was just calling people because I was bored. I was on the road.", "Oh, so you were on the road at that time?", "Yes. It was real brief. He was nice and cordial, but he was kind of acting like he had hurt feelings because", "Did you kill Travis Alexander?", "I absolutely did not kill Travis Alexander. I had nothing to do with his murder. I didn`t harm him in any way. I witnessed Travis being attacked by two other individuals.", "Who?", "I don`t know who they were. I couldn`t pick them out in a police lineup.", "So what happened?", "They came into his home and attacked us both. I`m not proud that I just left my friend there to be slaughtered at the hands of two other people. I`m not proud of that at all.", "We hung out throughout the weekend, had a lot of fun, exchanged phone numbers. And it was one of those things where I didn`t expect him to call, but he called me the very next day, and so I was, like, Oh, hi. And you know, he`s a good conversationalist. He just kept me engaged in conversation constantly, and you know, he wanted to know about me, and people like to talk about themselves, so you know, just one thing led to another and we became great friends.", "Beth Karas straight out of the courtroom. Beth, legal correspondent, \"In Session.\" Whoa, what a day! But first, a motion for mistrial. The defense tries to get the case thrown out. What happened, Beth?", "Well, they lost the motion, that`s the bottom line. But they said it`s because there was contrary testimony from the lead detective at a hearing a couple of years ago regarding the aggravating factor of cruelty that would make this case a death case if the jury finds first degree.", "And in that testimony, you were asked about the sequencing of injuries according to Dr. Horne (ph), is that correct?", "Yes, I was.", "OK. And you were asked, in terms of sequencing, which came first, which wound came first, correct?", "Yes.", "OK. And do you recall what your answer was?", "I answered that the gunshot was possibly first.", "And then saying that the sequence of shots -- the fatal wounds testified to in 2009 at this hearing is different from what the testimony was at the trial. At the hearing, the testimony -- and the judge found -- was that the shot to the head was first, but it didn`t render Travis Alexander unconscious. He could still fight. And there was a finding of probable cause of cruelty. That`s the aggravating factor. Well, this judge said, Look, OK, now the testimony is the stab wound to the heart was the first fatal wound. That didn`t render him unconscious. He was able to keep fighting. He had defensive wounds. And the shot came later. I still find it was cruel. So I`m denying your motion. And besides, it`s kind of late for you to say that the theory has changed.", "Well, yes, Beth Karas, it`s my understanding that the defense interviewed the medical examiner, Dr. Horne, a year ago, around a year ago, so they went through the sequence with him then, regardless of what the police officer said. And another thing, Beth, I`m not -- maybe I just can`t get my mind around the argument. They`re saying that it`s more cruel to, what, stab somebody, then shoot them, as opposed to shooting them and then stabbing them? Does it really matter? You say tomato, I say tomahto.", "Well, basically, yes. And the judge just said, Wait a second, he`s still alive for all of those stab wounds and defensive wounds or he wouldn`t have bled so much. His heart was still beating. So whether he was shot first or stabbed in the heart first -- because there were three major fatal wounds, stab to the heart, gunshot to the head and slash across the throat. And the testimony at the trial was the gunshot had to come later because it went through his brain. The slash of the throat had to come later because he was dead within seconds after that. The stab to the heart was the first wound, and that`s why he fought because it didn`t kill him right away.", "Well, to me, it`s slicing hairs, which injury -- what I care about, Beth, is the sequence of events as to how he was killed. I think stabbing somebody 29 times, shooting them in the face, chipping their head, their skull, with a knife, cutting them ear to ear -- to me, it`s incredibly heinous regardless of which wound is first.", "I know that I`m innocent. God knows I`m innocent. Travis knows I`m innocent. No jury is going to convict me.", "Why not?", "Because I`m innocent.", "I have no doubt in my mind that Jodi Arias will be convicted of murder one. 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{"id": "CNN-329913", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2018-01-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/05/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Furious Fallout; Interview With Rhode Island Congressman David Cicilline; Tillerson Talks to CNN About His Future & Trump's Fitness; NYT: Sessions Searched for Dirt on Comey", "utt": ["Tonight: new warnings that Mr. Trump is -- quote -- \"losing it.\" Evidence of obstruction? We're learning more about the focus of the special counsel's Russia probe, including attempts to dig up dirt on James Comey and stop Jeff Sessions' recusal. Was the president behind it all? Tweet spiral. Mr. Trump goes into a tailspin online, bashing the tell-all book as phony, the Russia investigation is a hoax and dubbing his newly declared archrival Steve Bannon as Sloppy Steve. Can the president focus on a pivotal meeting this weekend? And coming to the table. Kim Jong-un accepts South Korea's offer for high level talks. Is it a breakthrough in the nuclear tensions? We will tell you why U.S. officials are skeptical. We want to welcome our viewers in United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Tonight, disturbing new information that hits at the heart of two crucial questions about the president of the United States. Did he obstruct justice and is he fit to serve? CNN has confirmed White House counsel Don McGahn personally tried to persuade Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. \"The New York Times\" reports that McGahn acted on the orders of President Trump, who was furious when Sessions recused himself anyway. Also tonight, the author of a stunning expose on the Trump White House is now claiming that everyone in the president's inner circle, 100 percent, they question his intelligence and his fitness for office. Asked about the president's mental health, Michael Wolff, the author, said he would quote former Trump strategist Steve Bannon by saying, \"He's lost it.\" As that new tell-all went on sale today, President Trump has been lashing out, tweeting that the book is phony and full of lies and denying he spoke with the author. Michael Wolff says he stands by everything in the book and says he has recordings and notes to back it up. Breaking tonight, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson insists he's never questioned the president's mental fitness, despite reports that he once called him a moron. In a TV exclusive, Tillerson also tells CNN that he expects to stay in his job at least through the coming year. We're covering all of that and much more this hour with our guests, including Congressman David Cicilline. He's a Democrat on the Judiciary Committee and Foreign Affairs Committees. And our correspondents and specialists are also standing by. First, let's go to our CNN justice correspondent, Jessica Schneider. Jessica, the special counsel appears to have a growing body of evidence that points to potential obstruction.", "He does, Wolf. These new revelations that the president reportedly personally ordered Don McGahn to stop Jeff Sessions from recusing himself, well, that certainly adds another layer of evidence to special counsel Mueller's obstruction of justice investigation. That portion of the probe was sparked after the firing of FBI Director James Comey. And now that Mueller has the latest information, the questions are getting louder. Did the president improperly intervene?", "Tonight, a source close to Attorney General Jeff Sessions tells CNN White House counsel Don McGahn personally reached out to Sessions in early 2017 to try to dissuade the attorney general from recusing himself from the Russia probe. \"The New York Times\" reports Mueller has learned about that outreach and that it was a direct order from President Trump, who reportedly erupted in front of several White House officials when Sessions announced his recusal in march.", "I have recused myself.", "Sources put it this way to \"The Times.\" \"Mr. Trump said he expected his top law enforcement official to safeguard him, the way he believed Robert F. Kennedy as attorney general had done for his brother John F. Kennedy and Eric H. Holder Jr. had for Barack Obama.\" Reached for comment, White House lawyer Ty Cobb declined. Former ethics czar and CNN contributor Walter Shaub says at the time he recommended recusal and expressed outrage upon learning McGahn was personally lobbying Sessions against it.", "While I was on the phone talking to Department of Justice officials telling them that Jeff Sessions had no choice but to recuse in order to resolve a criminal conflict of interest, we now learn that Don McGahn was pressuring Jeff Sessions on behalf of the president to do just the opposite. I think that we are in a neighborhood where I hope Mueller is looking at this very seriously for obstruction of justice because it could be.", "Obstruction is part of Mueller's probe, prompted in part by the president's firing of FBI Director James Comey in May. In this letter to the president from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the reported reasoning for removal centered on Comey's handling of the conclusion of the investigation of Secretary Clinton's e-mails. But shortly after firing Comey, the president admitted he had Russia on his mind.", "When I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story.", "The president spent the weekend before the firing at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where sources say the president drafted a letter he intended to send Comey, but never did. In it, President Trump, according to \"The Times,\" described the Russia investigation as \"fabricated and politically motivated.\" The paper reports Mueller knows about this letter. A source tells CNN the special counsel has also obtained handwritten notes from former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. They document the president telling Priebus that Comey had assured the president he was not under investigation. \"The New York Times\" also reports that days before James Comey was fired, one of Jeff Sessions' aides asked a congressional staffer whether there was any damaging information on Comey in an effort to undermine the FBI director. The DOJ has denied this account. The new evidence relating to Mueller's obstruction of justice probe also raises new questions about Jeff Sessions' future as attorney general. He has offered his resignation before, but the White House suggests he's still safe.", "Right now, he's focused on doing his job, we're focused on doing ours. We don't have any reason to see that there's anything different today than there was yesterday. We feel like we're in a great place and we're moving forward. And the attorney general is going to continue showing up to work this week and next week, just like he has every day since we started, and keep doing good work and moving the president's agenda forward.", "And new developments tonight pertaining to the so-called Steele dossier. Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham, they have referred Christopher Steele to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation. These two senators say that Steele lied to the feds about how he distributed the dossier and the information in it. This criminal referral, it really does seem to further politicize this dossier, Wolf. And, of course, this dossier itself has been a flash point for Republicans. And now Senators Graham, as well as Grassley, they are even saying they want a special counsel.", "Yes, Grassley is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate. Jessica, thank you very much. A very significant development. Also tonight, President Trump is over at Camp David in Maryland preparing to talk 2018 strategy with Republican leaders in Congress. Questions about his fitness to serve may cast a cloud over meeting now that the author of a new book has thrown a red-hot spotlight on President Trump's state of mind. Let's go to our senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. Jim, we heard very, very briefly from the president today.", "That's right, Wolf. He was not in the mood for questions on all of that, but President Trump briefly talked to reporters today before heading off to Camp David, but he steered clear of the book that unleashed fire and fury all week long. It was a rare moment for the president, who passed up a chance to punch back in person after taking a few hits earlier this morning.", "It was perhaps the only on-message moment of the week for the president, touting his economic record as he was leaving for Camp David.", "The tax cuts are really kicking in far beyond what anyone thought. The market is good. The jobs reports were very good and we think they are going to get really good over the next couple of months.", "The president, who boasts he always punches back, made it clear there would be no on-camera comments today about the book \"Fire and Fury\" written by author Michael Wolff and starring his former chief strategist and sudden Trump critic Steve Bannon.", "Mr. President, have you read the book \"Fire and Fury\"?", "Mr. Trump saved his fury for his Twitter feed, tweeting: \"I authorized zero access to White House. Actually turned him down for many times for author of phony book. I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don't exist. Look at this guy's past and what happens to him and Sloppy Steve,\" a new nickname for Bannon. Appearing on NBC, the book's author did not hold back, hammering the president's mental fitness for the job.", "According to your reporting, everyone around the president, senior advisers, family members, every single one of them questions his intelligence and fitness for office.", "Let me put a marker in the sand. One percent of the people around him.", "And Wolff thanked the president for driving up interest in his book, which was released early due to the heightened demand.", "What I say is, where do I send the box of chocolates?", "You think he's helping you sell books?", "Absolutely. And not only is he helping me sell books, but he's helping me prove the point of the book. This is extraordinary that a president of the United States would try to stop the publication of a book. This doesn't happen -- has not happened from other presidents, would not even happen from a CEO of a mid-sized company.", "As for the attacks on his book, Wolff was ready for that one.", "My credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point. I will quote Steve Bannon. He's lost it.", "Both the White House and the president's friends have fanned out across the airwaves to condemn the book.", "Look, we said they spoke once by the phone for a few minutes, but it wasn't about the book. They had a very short conversation, but he never interviewed the president about the book. He repeatedly begged to speak with the president and was denied access.", "Slamming Wolff's key takeaway that the president is not mentally fit for office.", "This is just like so absurd. It's so ridiculous. So, 100 percent. I'm around the president. I have been around him quite a bit through the past year. I met him 20 years ago. He is not psychologically unfit. He's not lost it, as he claimed.", "Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told CNN's Elise Labott he has never raised the issue of the president's mental state.", "I have never questioned his mental fitness. I have no reason to question his mental fitness.", "Now, the president will spend the weekend meeting with GOP congressional members and his Cabinet up at Camp David to go over the party's agenda for 2018. One Cabinet member who won't be present is Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Let's put this up on screen, Wolf, just to give you a sense as to all of the top officials, not only in the Cabinet, but members of Congress and the White House staff, quite a number of them, including the vice president there as well. But Jeff Sessions will not be there. As you know, he has been frequently the subject of the president's fury, but the White House says there's no message being sent to Sessions and an official here says the White House stands firmly behind him. We should note, though, Wolf, in the statement from the White House, they are not saying the president stands firmly behind Jeff Sessions, just the White House, Wolf.", "Jim Acosta at the White House for us, thank you very much. Let's get some more on all of this. Congressman David Cicilline is joining us. He's a Democrat on both the Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committees. Congressman, you're on the Judiciary Committee, the top Democrat on your committee. Congressman Jerry Nadler reacted to the news on the White House counsel Don McGahn's behavior by saying -- and I'm quoting Jerry Nadler right now -- suggesting that his behavior was completely unacceptable and he should be removed from his post immediately. Do you agree?", "Yes, absolutely. The attorney general was required to recuse himself both because of provisions in statute and because of the code of professional responsibility. The idea that the president of the United States attempted to change his mind and discourage him from recusing, which he was required to do by law, and the fact that Don McGahn delivered that message is very disturbing. It was completely inappropriate. And it raises real questions about whether or not the president and Mr. McGahn understand the role of the attorney general, his oath to the Constitution of the United States and the obligations he has to recuse himself in the circumstances of this case. It also raises questions about the president's sort of understanding what the attorney general's role is. He keeps talking about the attorney general should be there to protect the president. That is not the job of the attorney general. The job of the attorney general is to be independent, to be the chief enforcement officer of our country, to impartially administer the laws of the United States. He's not there to protect the president. Don McGahn knows that, and his conduct is completely unacceptable.", "Does the White House counsel, Don McGahn, need to come and testify before Congress?", "Absolutely. I think Mr. Nadler has already made that representation, that he expects to bring him before the Judiciary Committee. We need to understand exactly what happened here and really reinforce this very basic idea that the White House counsel is counsel for the office of the president. He is not the personal lawyer for Donald Trump. And certainly he should understand the recusal statute. And the idea of trying to discourage the attorney general of the United States from recusing himself from an investigation that he's required to recuse himself from, because the statute requires it, to undermine that is very, very disturbing. We need to know more about it. But, again, I think it's a reflection of this notion that somehow everyone in the White House and everyone in the administration works personally for Donald Trump, rather than for the institutions and for the country and for the Constitution that they were sworn to uphold.", "\"The New York Times\" reports that the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, was searching for dirt, negative information on the FBI Director James Comey and that Sessions wanted one negative news article a day about Comey. The Justice Department flatly denies this. Does Sessions' behavior, from your perspective, Congressman, need to be investigated?", "Absolutely. If those facts are true, that is incredibly disturbing information. It makes it clear that his recusal was not only necessary, but appropriate. But in addition to that, it raises real questions about the judgment of the attorney general. Where did he get those instructions from? What was he attempted to justify? And so I think there are a lot of questions that the special counsel will have. I know there's a lot of questions that Congress has with respect to those claims, and we need to learn a lot more about it.", "In \"The New York Times\" also, there's a report that news -- report that when President Trump decided to fire the FBI Director James Comey, he drafted a letter whose first sentence read that the Russia investigation was -- quote -- \"fabricated and politically motivated.\" Is that additional evidence potentially of obstruction of justice?", "Absolutely. Look, the president has made it very clear. He's done everything he can to stop and impede and undermine this investigation, first characterizing it as a hoax, then trying to stop the concurrent congressional investigations by reaching out to senators, then telling Jim Comey to let this Flynn thing go, then ultimately firing the director of the FBI, and giving the explanation in part because of the Russia investigation. And, remember Wolf, he then went into the Oval Office and yucked it up with Russian officials right after he did that, saying: I got that off my chest. That was really hanging over my head. And so they were all laughing about it. This is in the Oval Office. The press was not allowed into that, the American press. We only learned that from the Russian media. This is a president who has made every effort to impede this investigation, to try to minimize it. And now we have additional evidence that it's one of the reasons that he got rid of the director of the FBI. That on its face is obstruction of justice. Obviously, Robert Mueller has lots more work to do, and he will make the final determination. But there's been an ongoing and very coordinated effort from this president to stop and undermine this investigation. You have to wonder why. What is he afraid of? Why is he so eager to stop Mr. Mueller from doing his job?", "In the new book -- and, obviously, we have a copy of the book now, \"Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House\" -- the author, Michael Wolff, reports that a spokesman for President Trump's lawyers in the White House, the Counsel's Office, quit over the president's false statement in response to that June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with the Russians. And that spokesman felt, according to the book, that the statement amounted to obstruction of justice. What's your reaction to that?", "Well, I think it's just one more piece of evidence. If in fact it is true that the president participated in the development of a fake story about Russian adoptions to camouflage the real meaning of that Russian meeting between Trump officials and the Russians, that's just one more piece of evidence. But one of the things that is so frustrating as you watch all of these things unfold is, this ongoing battle between Steve Bannon and President Trump, the work of the American people is not getting done. We haven't reauthorized the Children's Health Insurance Program. We haven't taken care of funding for our veterans. We haven't dealt with the opioid crisis in our country, and any number of things. There's important work that is not getting done because we have a White House that is embroiled in scandals and conflicts and investigations. And that's consuming all of their energy, and we're not getting the work done for the American people. And I think that's the -- it's an untold story of this time and time again. My constituents here in Rhode Island and people all across this country is are suffering because we're not getting the work done that they need us in addressing the urgent issues. My constituents want to know, what are we doing to create good-paying jobs, what are we doing to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program, how are we taking care of our veterans? And this ongoing sort of chaos at the White House and attempt to interfere with this ongoing investigation is undermining our ability to get this work done.", "Congressman Connolly, thanks for joining us.", "Thanks for having me.", "Just ahead, we will talk about the fate of the top White House counsel and whether the president effectively ordered him to obstruct justice. The former U.S. attorney Preet Bharara -- there you see him -- he's standing by live. 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{"id": "CNN-28570", "program": "CNN TALKBACK LIVE", "date": "2001-4-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/16/tl.00.html", "summary": "Should the Indian Names of Teams Be Changed?", "utt": ["Here you see Chief Osceola.", "Is this offensive? How about this? The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is recommending sports teams stop using Native American names, symbols and mascots. American-Indian activists say it is disrespectful and offensive, but others see it differently. They say the names and symbols reflect honor and pride in Native American tribes and customs. Is it a badge of honor or a mocking disgrace? Who would it hurt to change a name, and who gets hurt if you don't? Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to TALKBACK LIVE. This is not the first time the use of American-Indian names and faces to represent sports teams has come under fire. And while the U.S. Civil Rights Commission cannot legally force schools to change their team names, it has some influence over what schools do. In its statement, the commission says -- and we're quoting now -- \"The stereotyping of any racial, ethnic, religious or other group when promoted by our educational institutions teach all students that stereotyping of minority groups is acceptable, a dangerous lesson in a diverse society. The commission assumes that when Indian imagery was adopted for sports mascots, it was not to offend Native Americans. However, the use of the imagery and the traditions, no matter how popular, should end when they are offensive.\" Joining us first today, Vernon Bellecourt, president of the National Coalition on Racism in sports and the media. He's also a founding member of the American-Indian Movement's grand governing council. Also on the phone with us from Pine Ridge, South Dakota is Elsie Meeks. She is a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe and the first American Indian of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Vernon, let me first get reaction to you. The commission also said that these nicknames and mascots were disrespectful and offensive. There's a certain lack of understanding about that, so explain to us why Native Americans feel that way.", "Well, our warmest greetings to both you, Bobbie, and Elsie and, of course, your viewers. You know, we are a living people with a living culture -- beautiful art, music, tradition, dance -- and much of this is being distorted by both amateur and professional sports programs. So, of course, we are very pleased that the -- while it doesn't carry the weight of law, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights through the work of Elsie Meeks and after our testimony one year ago to an advising panel to the commission, took this issue up. And while it doesn't carry the weight of law, certainly, they are providing the moral leadership that Ted Turner, CNN, AOL-Time Warner, Daniel Snyder in Washington, Lamar Hunt in Kansas City, Dolan up in Cleveland, and various border regions from Florida State University to the University of Illinois, University of North Dakota, University of Utah, should be providing. So we are very pleased with decision of the commission.", "Is it the names itself? In other words, I think some people may see this as various degrees of offense, if you will. In other words, to be called the Redskins is more offensive than to be called the Seminoles?", "Of course, of course. Redskins is patently racist. And, of course, the grinning bucktooth logo of the Cleveland baseball franchise, also known as the Indians, is similar. We call it our red Sambo, which is very much similar to Rastus, Amos and Andy, Black Sambo and lawn jockeys. While there's nothing wrong with the word \"Warriors,\" \"Braves,\" \"Chiefs,\" or \"Indians,\" those are not our words. Those words created by Hollywood movies and the cheap 10-cent Western novelists. But when you attach it to a sports team, then it conjures up and triggers all the ridiculous behavior, stereotypical behavior, which is really an offense and an insult to Indian people and non- Indian people who can smell the stench of racism across the country.", "Now what do you say then, though, to situations where the schools seems to have gone out of its way to deal with the situation with respect and dignity? Let's take Florida State University Seminoles, for example, which has the blessing of the Seminole tribe. And Seminole women, as I understand it, even make the uniform that Chief Osceola wears. What do you say to that?", "Well, they have some economic interests, but the fact is Chief Osceola was betrayed by the United States government and assassinated. And now for the current president of he Seminoles of Florida is against the wishes of almost all other Seminoles in the state of Florida and in the state of Oklahoma, where the largest body of Seminoles reside. So there's an economic interest. Obviously, some of the Cherokees in North Carolina make all the cheap tomahawks and chicken feather head-dresses. So the chief", "Let me read at this point before I bring in Armstrong in. This is a statement that we got from the president of Florida State University. And he said, \"Under the principles of tribal sovereignty, the Seminole tribe of Florida's elected leadership has determined that they support our activities and use of the Seminole name. So far as we know, there is no sentiment among that leadership to urge FSU to change the name of its team. Indeed, the Seminole tribe has staged public events that demonstrate that support. However, I will review the commission's report closely and take its recommendations into careful consideration.\" Let me get Armstrong Williams into this conversation. Armstrong -- roll up on that just a little bit so I can see the name of Armstrong's book. Yeah, he is CEO of the Graham-Williams Public Relations firm now and host of the radio talk show, \"The Right Side With Armstrong Williams.\" His latest book, by the way, is \"Beyond Blame, Moving Beyond Being a Victim.\" Hi, Armstrong. I should know that by heart now, shouldn't I, your introduction?", "Hi, Bobbie. It's OK.", "Good afternoon, Armstrong.", "Good afternoon.", "You don't think that -- you're not sensitive to this at all?", "I'm listening, you know. I'm listening to what he's saying. I'm hearing him. And I'm just having -- I'm just rushed with thought. You know, when I think about the Dallas Cowboys, are we going to have the cowboys from the days of the Westerns come forward and say, \"We want to protest your using the 'Cowboys'\"? I mean, we don't...", "Cowboys is a profession.", "They're not an ethnic group.", "Cowboys is a profession not a race of people, Armstrong.", "But wait a minute. Let me finish.", "Let's get it straight.", "When people talk about -- I'm in Washington, D.C., and when we talk about the Washington Redskins or the Atlanta Braves, I mean, we say it with pride. I mean, do you think an institution, a university is going to absolutely associate a team with something that's derogatory? That is a name that instills pride and courage and for people root for their team. I think sometimes we take this political correctness too far.", "It has nothing to do with political correctness, Armstrong.", "And the ultimate insult is for you to assume because I root for the Washington Redskins, I may do the tomahawk when the Seminoles are playing that I'm some kind of anti-American. In essence, you're saying that we are racist and bigoted and we need the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to protect us. And that's ludicrous.", "You said that -- you raised the term racism and bigotry, Armstrong. Armstrong incidentally, the last time I seen you was in one of the finest soul food restaurants in Washington, either the Florida Avenue Grill or Wilson's just about two months ago, and I came by and I said to you that wouldn't it be great if you would raise this issue on your program, which I understand is pretty popular in Washington? And at that time, you expressed pretty much the same thing. And when I told you about Wahoo, the character in Cleveland, the word 'Redskins,\" which has been declared racist and offensive -- the fact is they canceled their trademark protection, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office three-judge federal panel. Recently, the new owner, Dan Snyder, said the only thing more embarrassing about our 2000 records is our name. So, obviously, Mr. Snyder is getting the message, Armstrong. You say you're listening, but I don't think you're really hearing us. And the fact is there are those that said, while Africans are Negroes who said that Rosa Parks shouldn't have gotten on the bus if she didn't like it. Charles Barkley said he thought we were getting too thin-skinned. David Justice said, well, we ought to leave it alone. Now, you know, Armstrong, I'm really surprised, because if you can't understand the correlation between lawn jockeys, Amos and Andy, black face, Rastus and little Black Sambo, then I think you're out of touch with the mainstream of African-American. The fact is, you know, our detractors always can go out and find some old hang--around-the- fort Uncle Tom Tom Indian, which is similar to some Uncle hang-around- the-plantation Uncle Tom Negroes to say it's okay. They thought that Martin Luther King should not have come to the South. So I think you're a little out of touch with the main thought in this country.", "So what happens when we don't agree with you, you resort to the name-calling, the insults?", "No, I don't think it's name calling, Armstrong.", "Let me finish. I did not interrupt you. I did not interrupt you. Please, respect. The issue here is I don't agree with you. I think that it's -- I think on the issue of the Cleveland baseball team and the mascot, I think there's an issue there that should be explored. But they have a sweeping change. They changed the Redskins and many of these institutions that have used this mascot.", "Redskins is the most patently offensive name.", "I just think you're going too far. I think...", "Armstrong, will you just listen for a moment and then I will listen to you?", "And you're just totally -- you're just totally disrespecting the Seminoles in the state of Florida by saying they are wrong and you are right.", "They are wrong.", "Who died and left you in charge?", "Ninety-nine percent of two-point-some-million Indian people in this country are opposed to mascots. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Organization of Women, National Congress of American Indians -- and I could go on and on -- that are opposed to mascots. Now if you look at Random House Dictionary -- and I hate to use these word, but I think it will make my point...", "Yeah, right.", "Look at Random House Dictionary. There are four racial slurs. One is kike, wop, honky, nigger, and Redskins. Now if you can't understand that, and you want to keep supporting the Redskins, then you are way off track, Armstrong.", "I've got to take a quick break here. And as we do, the question: Do you think teams with Indian nicknames should change them? Take the a TALKBACK LIVE online viewer vote at cnn.com/talkback. Up next, Armstrong will contemplate whether Redskin is a dirty word. We'll be back.", "Live pictures of cyber control behind the scenes their with our ants taking all these e-mails that I'm about to read here. Sam say in Bangor, Maine says, \"How can attaching an ethic name to a group of athletes trying to win a contest possibly be demeaning to anyone? I for one would be proud to root for a team called the Over 40 White Guys.", "Two people on the commission objected to it. What were their objections?", "You know, I think mainly they were similar to Mr. Armstrong's. That they didn't think that Indians really should feel like they're insulted. And, you know, the rest of the commission disagreed with that and do believe that these names are discriminatory, and at the very least, insensitive. And while, you know, the Civil Rights Commission deeply respects the rights of all Americans to freedom of expression under the First Amendment, you know, the statement just said, \"Just because you can do these things doesn't mean that you should.\"", "Let me get the audience in on this because they're struggling with it. Felicia, go ahead.", "I agree with this gentleman. We don't know enough about these people, this tribe to say that it's not offensive. So I believe if they believe it's offensive, then the name should be changed.", "Bobbie, the woman brings up a great point. And I hate to -- I didn't know if I was interrupting her or not. To see Americans through the process of becoming Americanized, people from different ethnic groups throughout the world, they gave up their language, their music, their dance, their identity, their culture. And often to become Americans -- and if a people don't understand themselves and the importance of a culture, they are never going to understand this. Whether it's non-Indian America or whether it's even some of our Indian leaders who have become a two-bit facsimile of the dominant white American culture. So I think she brings up a good point, that you know, if I insult somebody inadvertently and they tell me, \"You know, Mr. Bellecourt, that's an insult,\" I would ask them why. And if they explained it to me, I would say, well -- a civilized human being would say, \"I'm terribly sorry. I won't do it again.\" But not Mr. Armstrong and others like them. They don't know themselves, how are they going to know use?", "Let me respond to that, for you, sir. My grandmother was a full-blooded Indian. So when someone speaks that we don't know enough about Native American history, don't ever assume what we all may have within us to bring us to where we are now. You know, I don't want you to think that I'm disrespecting you and. It's just that you and I have a different opinion here is all that it is. I don't see how you can even say that the name \"Warrior\" or \"Brave\" you can say consistently is associated with the Native American culture. I mean, anyone can be a warrior, anyone can be a brave. My issue with you is that there may be some points with what you're talking about when it relates to the Cleveland Indians and their logo as being offensive, but I just think you've gone overboard. You just want to wipe the whole slate clean. And I don't think those people are going to go for that.", "No, no, Armstrong. No, Armstrong...", "You're not even willing to compromise.", "No, Armstrong. You know, first of all, our detractors always try to qualify their opposition by saying, \"My great, great grandmother was a full-blood Cherokee princess.\" And I'm not going to question you on that...", "You can't.", "... but I would hope that somebody would look into your genealogy. I think they would find it's a lot of romanticism here and that you're really misleading the viewers out there.", "Oh, really? Oh, really.", "But you know, If you think it's OK, if you like the Redskins, since they're predominantly great black athletes, why don't they call themselves the Washington Blackskins and have a mascots in the form of Little Black Sambo coming out and doing a jig every time they got a home run or a field goal? I don't think you would like that, and I don't understand why you would try to argue. You know, of course, people like yourself argue on the side of George Bush and arsenic, so, you know, they can always find detractors like you to come on.", "Let me back to the audience here. Tom, your thoughts on this?", "Well, I came from a public education where when a new school was established, they had -- when they had the teams, they had to select a nickname. Well, Well, they usually went to the students, they went to the community, they went to the school board. They usually voted on this. They wanted something they would have pride in, something they could follow that give their team spirit, that they wanted to be very enthusiastic about this. They were not derogatory. They wanted to have pride in their school, and this was one of the things they felt that was very important to it.", "Bobbie, let me comment on the gentleman's comments. You know, we have been the victims of the American holocaust. More than 16 million of us were destroyed since the coming of the pilgrims. And so that argument that this gentleman made, we know that they sincerely think that they're showing us pride and dignity and respect, but it would be as if the Nazis had won the war, wiped out the Jewish population, and then named their national soccer team the Berlin Jews and had a rabbi come out and do a little dance from time to time.", "Oh, that's just ridiculous.", "Don't -- doesn't he understand what we're saying here? You know, should have showed us respect years ago when they were wiping s out.", "I don't think you understand respect, because you're so unwilling to listen to any other point of view. You're so locked in what you believe that no matter what we say, you're going to dismiss it, either call us racist, either say that we're out of touch or that we can't even relate. So why talk to you?", "You know what...", "I think you are out of touch.", "Let me bring Elsie back in here, because there are a lot of people out there who might say with all of the problems facing our Native American population today, from health care to poverty to drugs, why dwell on this particular issue?", "Well, you know, that point has been brought up to me, and that you know, I should focus on those sorts of issues, which in fact I've lived at Pine Ridge, which has been the poorest county in the nation for the last 20 years according to the census or actually number two according to the census. And so, I mean, as you know, working in economic development and many other issues, I have worked distinctively on those problems. But to bring this in, I mean, this just is an educational. It's fighting those stereotypical images that can lead the way -- clear the way to depicting Native Americans as you know, true people. That's who they are. And get away from the mythical or comical depictions that these cause. But I also want to say on this issue of you know, these schools bringing honor to Indians. You know, it's really a matter of self- representation. You know, if you're in a crowd in a school that's non-Indian and you see people out in the half-time ceremonies or in the parade, you know, dressed up like Indians, I mean, how are they going to depict Indians? And it's in a stereotypical way, because there's no other way that a non-Indian can do that.", "I've got to take a quick break here, and we'll continue in just a moment.", "Florida State University's Chief Osceola made his first appearance in 1978. Twelve different students have portrayed the chief. The clothing and the rigging Chief Osceola and his horse, Renegade, wear were designed and approved by the Seminole tribe of Florida.", "Welcome back. A couple of more e-mails. Ann in Sebastian, Florida. says, \"With all the talk of reparations these days, the faintest voices are the Native Americans, a people we almost wiped out completely. If the team mascot name thing bothers them and they want it changed that badly, then we should respect them and honor that request.\" Dan in Avon, South Dakota says, \"I live in success South Dakota and there are a number of Indian schools and they use nicknames: the Braves, Warriors and Redmen. Why should other schools be forced to change when Indian schools use the same nicknames?\" Vernon?", "It's self-descriptive. You know, a lot of our schools call themselves the Eagles, but some of our teams call themselves the Warriors, Indians, Braves, Chiefs. But it doesn't conjure up all the self-disrespect that non-Indian schools -- So I understand in the U.S., Commission on Civil Rights report that they excluded Indian-controlled schools on our reservations. But if I could comment on one of the calls, the last person, I think. You know, they raised the issue of all the other problems we're confronted with. But a recent Justice Department report on black on black, white on white, Asian on Asian, Latino on Latino crime, we don't have that problem with Indian-on-Indian crime. The problem we have is all the other groups are dumping on us, and it's basically because of the dehumanizing, demeaning aspect of Indian mascots. We're reduced to that where it becomes almost OK to dump on us. And in terms of the self-esteem of our youth and various schools, it has a direct impact on the ability to feel good about themselves, which a lot of times leads to the other social ills that confront us.", "Let me get Armstrong to respond.", "You know, it's just so unfortunate for me that I just so vehemently disagree with Vernon. I mean, it's amazing to me. I mean, he just totally dismissed your question regarding Native American schools using these mascots. He says it's OK, because I guess because they're Native Americans, they are better able to appreciate the respect and the history and the culture. I mean, I think people would want to understand and embrace what Vernon is saying, but for me, it's a social pride. He should be honored. I mean, it's something...", "Amazing.", "... where you will never forget Warriors, Braves. I mean, what more do you want? You want to just totally wipe it out.", "We want to get rid of the Indian mascots, the demeaning, degrading depiction of our culture.", "But it's not to me. It's all in your mind.", "It's distortion and a stereotype. That's what we want them to do. To get rid of the names and all of the disrespectful behavior.", "Let me get a local indian activist here in the audience. And Chip, go ahead; let me get your take on this.", "Yes, first of all, Vernon, Clyde, Dennis, a lot of these guys come during the controversy of the Braves back during their height. None of them are down here disputing whether the Braves play good ball. They are playing good ball. However, we are teaching our children -- my wife and children and they are with the Rosebud Tribe in South Dakota and I am French- Indian. I don't get lost in that. But what I see is us trying to teach our children what these feathers, these guys -- they brought us our religious freedom. We didn't get our religious freedom until 1978. People died for that, only to have it misconstrued and mocked in painted feathers -- and Mr. Armstrong doesn't see the long jest or the long outreach of the demeaning factors that roll with this. We have tribes popping up in Georgia. He talks about his -- Mr. Armstrong about his grandmother. We don't dispute that, but now that it's become a fad with Dances with Wolves -- we have three fraudulent tribes in Georgia and it's very demeaning and it's perpetuating...", "I guess people don't understand, Armstrong, that Indian dance ceremonies are done for a purpose, usually religious. For someone to just be jumping around out there and acting like an Indian, because they want a team to win is a little bit of a misrepresentation.", "I don't think that they think of this. When people are celebrating...", "That's the point, they are not thinking about it.", "But it's innocent. It's harmless. Why do we try make more out of it of what it is.", "Armstrong, was Little Black Sambo innocent?", "No, he wasn't. Are you satisfied now?", "How come you can't see the parallel?", "Because there are some, but not to the extent that you are trying to make them.", "Let me say this Bobbie, you touched on it you know the eagle feather", "I am sorry. We're completely out of time, but and our thanks to Vernon Bellecourt, Armstrong Williams, and Elsie Meeks. Thank you all very much today. In a moment, we will come up with Russell Means. You may remember him from \"Last of the Mohicans.\" We will see where he stands right after this. Stay with us.", "Welcome back. Joining us now is Russell Means, first national director of the American Indian Movement. The actor made his film debut in the \"Last of the Mohicans.\" His autobiography is titled, \"Where White Men Fear to Tread.\" Russell, good to see you.", "Thank you and good day to you, Bobbie.", ": Also with us is John Miller, national reporter with the \"National Review\"; good have you with us again.", "Thank you.", "All right, Russell. Let me get your take on what you think is offensive and disrespectful about these mascot and nicknames.", "First, in answer to the last question that you posed to Vernon and Armstrong didn't like. Those names that Indian teams have on Indian reservations came during our real heavy colonial time when the Bureau of Indian Affairs named our teams and we hadn't a choice at the time. Those names have continued. My principle concerns are two things: our children, and the hate -- speech and hate crimes that mascots and Indian sports names engender. First of all, my daughter, seven years ago, was honored by the National Education Association in Washington, D.C. for her activism when she was in the ah grade in South Dakota, changing the name of the local junior high school from Warriors to something else. Now, this is in the state of South Dakota, the most racist state in the union. And if they can do it, certainly Armstrong can show a little respect.", "What -- can you give us an example of how you think it fosters racism?", "Yes. I have been at numerous campuses and all the way back into the '70s, when I first brought a lawsuit against the Cleveland Indians baseball team for their derogatory mascot, Chief Wahoo. Now, what happens is that fraternities and sororities of the opponents put out racist T-shirts. For example -- this is just one of many things. They hate speech, they hate yelling. The tomahawk chop has become a racist, obscene gesture in the state of South Dakota. Cowboys now, and peoples that hate us when they ride by us, they do the tomahawk chop instead of flipping us the bird. Now, what the teams engendered, like a T-shirt at the University of North Dakota or at University of Illinois, T-shirts from other colleges when they come to play or when the visiting team happens to be the Chiefs or the Fighting Sioux. They have depictions on their T- shirts of cartoon Indians being fornicated by the opponents' mascot. They -- at University of North Dakota, their own team which is called the Fighting Sioux, have cartoon figures of an Indian sitting on a toilet saying, \"our injun is toilet-trained.\" This is the type of racism and hate speech that causes Indian students' cars to be destroyed and to be attacked by whites and blacks.", "John, from what Russell is saying here, it isn't necessarily always a case of honor and dignity when these nicknames and mascots are used then.", "Well, we have heard several people on this program say they are troubled by names and mascots and I think their views are authentic. But they have also claimed to speak on behalf of all American Indians, when in fact they do not. Armstrong Williams said his grandmother was full blooded Indian, and yet, he has a disagreement. The Commission on Civil Rights came out and said, all Indians find these symbols offensive. And in fact, that is simply not the case. I think the Florida state example is an important one here, where the Seminole tribe in the state of Florida officially, through their chief, through their elected representatives, think this is a positive relationship they have with the university. They work with designing the costume of Chief Osceola. They have a very good relationship, and you can find this again and again and again. It happens at Central Michigan University, it happens at high schools around the country, where you have examples of tribes and schools working together for mutual benefit.", "Let me take a phone call from Sharon in South Dakota. Sharon, go ahead.", "Yes, I would just like to say that while this may be a problem for them, with all the other problems that the Native Americans have on the reservation and off the reservation, I don't know why they prioritize this and make it first. Why aren't they worrying about some of things that you mentioned before, health and education and so forth, instead of wasting time with this first?", "Russell?", "First of all, ignorance is what causes racism. Indian nicknames, Indian sports teams continue the stereotype. Therefore that helps the policy makers in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere to continue with their failed policies of socialism on the Indian reservations and in the Indian neighborhoods. And with this failed policies, we continue with this innate institutionalized racism that America has toward the American Indian. So it is a very important issue, ignorance.", "I have to take a quick break, here, and we're go to the audience when we come back.", "In 1999 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office opted not to renew trademark protection for the Washington Redskins. A panel decided renewal would violate the 1946 Federal Lanham Act, which states that no trademark shall be registered \"which may disparage\" people, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, \"or bring them into contempt or disrepute.\" All right, let me go to the audience here. We had a whole discussion going on here, and it's still going on, girls, so let me interrupt. Who wants to go first?", "I was just saying that -- well, earlier before she said that everyone has come from some time of persecution. But that's my point. If you come from persecution, how can you persecute them? You become what someone else was. So you're sitting here depicting -- you're sitting here saying: \"Well, I came from something and I had some problems.\" Well, now you should understand why they don't like that. Why the Indians do not like being called -- you know, they don't like to be called \"redskins.\" It's not appropriate.", "And Lauren, you think it goes too far.", "I'm not saying -- I understand, like I said before, with the redskins, and I understand there has to be a line drawn. But as far as, let's say, calling someone by a tribe, like a Pawnee, a Kickapoo, a Seminole -- things like that, why are they so wrong? And as I said before, that most ethnic groups that come to America suffer some sort of injustice at some point. Take, for example, the Irish, where it's most -- people in this audience, for instance, are white -- the fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Let's remember Nina from the beginning, turn of the century, with \"No Irish Need Apply.\" I mean, everyone's been persecuted. And I know that you think -- or, it's your opinion that just because you're been persecuted doesn't mean that you should persecute other people, but I don't think that a lot of people are persecuting other people. They just -- they don't see it as that opinion. They don't see it as harmful, you know? It's, like I said, out of -- I don't know, they're just uneducated, I assume.", "John, let's get you back in here.", "Well, I agree entirely with that last response. If we take this claim to its logical extent, we'd have to rename half the states in our union. We'd have to rename cities like Milwaukee and Chicago and Miami, that derive from Indian names. There's a series of army helicopters called the Apache, the Comanche, the Blackhawk, the Kiowa. There are consumer products, the Jeep Cherokee, the Dodge Dakota, Winnebago, and on and on and on. We'd have to rename all of these things, and I think that these are things people can take pride in. We mentioned the fighting Irish of Notre Dame. I married into an Irish-American family and none of them went to Notre Dame, but they're all huge fans of it. They take great pride in it, even though the school has this ridiculous leprechaun mascot.", "I thought you were going to say they were all fighters.", "I won't comment on that, but we can find examples of this again and again. Someone in the top half of the hour mentioned Catholics objecting to a team call the Popes. Well, there's a team called the New Orleans Saints. There's a team called the San Diego Padres. I've never heard Hispanic Catholics complain about that. I'm a Catholic myself, and I don't find a particular problem with this. But I will say we can draw lines. I do think a team name like Washington Redskins perhaps does cross the line. And you the example of a school like the University of Miami in Ohio, which called itselves the Redskins, recently changing its name to the Redhawks. I think that's appropriate. We should also look to examples like Florida State University working with the Seminoles. Central Michigan University working with the Chippewa. There are high schools that work with individual tribes, and have tribal members come down for special educational days. And we should look at these as opportunities for education, not as opportunities to antagonize well-meaning people.", "Russell, are there parameters for you, or is there room for compromise?", "I see no room for compromise because I'm not politically correct. Now, understand, you can bring up the Padres. It's not an ethnic group, and you can make exceptions to every rule. But every exception proves the rule. And that goes for the fighting Irish. Now, when I see children -- my grandchildren, for instance, and I see Indian children in Los Angeles, when I see Indian children in state of New York being hurt by these mascots and their demeaning stereotypes -- and to see these ridiculous people show up at games with paint all over their faces, and stupid colored feathers all over, that is demeaning. I'm sorry. You don't see people showing up like fighting Irish at the Notre Dame games. It is not perpetuating and engendering hate crimes and hate speech, and that's what this does. I can see it and name the people on the University of North Dakota campus, for instance, that have suffered physically from beatings, and their cars have been wrecked because of this issue.", "Let me do a couple of e-mails. Josh in Clemson, South Carolina, says: \"I don't really see how names like the Braves and the Chiefs are any more offensive than names like the Minutemen or the Patriots. They both represent the history and the heritage of something.\" Caleb, in Boca Raton, Florida, says: \"Though I am part Native American, what the general American populace must understand is that it is not the names that are offensive, but the way in which they're used. The cartoon-like depictions used in many sports team mascots really rails against the very basic tenants of pride, respect, and nobility that I have been taught by my family and my elders. In my opinion, the vast majority of American people have not been sufficiently exposed to the real heritage and the way of life of Native Americans.\" We'll be back in just a moment.", "Let's check on-line viewer vote. Now, the question today was: Should schools change their team names? 35 percent of you are registering yes, and 65 percent are saying no. I think it's interesting that in the last few minutes I'm getting a lot of e-mails from Native American students, a lot of them, and there does not seem to be one voice on this. Russell, I know -- I'm sure that's of a concern to you, but I'm not sure how that factors into your pursuit of this.", "All I want to say is this: If the American people will not change racist stereotypical names and mascots, then when are they going to get rid of the Bureau of Indian Affairs? It'll never happen until this small issue, which is really a large issue of ignorance, is faced and met. We need to get rid of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.", "All right. I think we have to go, we don't have any more time, I'm sorry. But, Russell Means and John Miller, thank you both very much for joining us. We appreciate all the insight into this today. And we're be back tomorrow at 3:00 Eastern for more TALKBACK LIVE. 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{"id": "CNN-303955", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-01-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/26/nday.04.html", "summary": "Trump: CIA Memorial Wall Speech Was A \"Home Run\"", "utt": ["President Trump still talking about crowd sizes and how his speeches are being well- received. In an interview with ABC, the president called coverage of his political speech at the CIA headquarters unfair.", "And you would give the same speech if you went back --", "Absolutely --", "-- in front of that wall?", "-- it was a great -- people loved it. They loved it. They gave me a standing ovation for a long period of time. They never even sat down, most of them, during the speech. There was love in the room. You and other networks covered it very inaccurately. I hate to say this to you, and you probably won't put it on, but turn on FOX and see how it was covered and see how people respond to that speech. That speech was a good speech and you and a couple of other networks tried to downplay that speech and it was very, very unfortunate that you did.", "All right. Let's bring in Michael Smerconish, host of CNN's \"SMERCONISH.\" Good morning, Michael.", "Good morning.", "So that speech got a lot of criticism because he was standing in front of the memorial wall of fallen CIA officers and he was talking about himself and the crowd size at his inauguration. What did you think of how he just explained it again last night?", "Well, I thought that the speech last Saturday at the CIA was really unsettling and I'm not thinking so much of the president's comments because, for better or worse, I've come to expect those sort of things from him. But, Alisyn, what's deeply troubled me has been the audience reaction. You know, the idea that bashing the media would be and get such an applause line, I think, is problematic because this was not exactly a Republican fundraiser. This was not a tea party event. This was not the national convention. So I've wanted to know who were the people in that room who would feel comfortable applauding such partisan remarks. There's differing commentary and reportage as to how much of that audience was comprised of CIA folks -- it was a Saturday -- and how many were there as part of the Trump entourage. So that's what's always stood out to me. The comments that he made yesterday though, I mean, equating the size of the standing ovation with one that was afforded to Peyton Manning at a Super Bowl victory? I mean, that was just odd to me.", "Well, it also shows you where the president's head is in terms of how he wants to be perceived. And I know what you're referring to and the questions about clackers (ph), a new word that got entered into our vocabulary.", "A professional clapper?", "People who are brought there to applaud. You see it a lot in politics. The question is whether or not the president did that in that case. But, Michael, do you think that we're wasting energy checking the president on these types of style points? Do you think the focus should just be on the facts? And if you look at the ABC interview, the inability to push back on the president about where he is patently wrong, isn't that where our energy should be focused about what are the facts, not in terms of how people feel about him?", "I really would much rather talk about those substantive issues but as long as he perpetuates this -- as long as, to the extent he was given the bait by David Muir and he took it, then he keeps this in play. And Chris, he shows no sign whatsoever of wanting to end the conversation. You'd think we wouldn't be still litigating the size of the popular vote in the November eight election, but to the extent that he keeps talking about it --", "But that's different.", "-- of course, we then respond.", "That's different. How he was received at the CIA, you know, the baiting, irrelevant to the American people. Whether or not three to five million illegals, as he calls it, voted against him in the popular vote and now there's going to be money spent investigating that does matter to the American people. That goes to facts and you should get after it.", "I'd like to think that it matters to the American people. I'd like to think that we'd be equally or even more concerned about what we seem to absolutely know, which is that there was a Russian attempt to -- I'll say it this way -- influence the outcome of our election. If you want to talk about committing resources to getting to the bottom of that I'm all for it. And by the way, a lot of this -- because I've been around this track, you've been around this track -- a lot of this has to do with people who are conflating names that appear on the voter rolls --", "Right.", "-- because they've passed or because they've moved and the system hasn't caught up with them yet, and the idea that someone committed fraud --", "Right.", "-- by voting as another individual --", "Yes --", "-- and the latter is that which there's no evidence of.", "Right. And so, in other words, he is not drawing any distinction between voter fraud and voting registration problems. So there are voting registration problems and, in fact, two of his close advisers, Steve Bannon and the possible Treasury Secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin, are registered to vote in two different states.", "Which is not illegal.", "It's not illegal but if he's cracking down on it he could start there.", "I had a relative pass in the midst of this conversation, an aunt, and it occurred to me that President Trump could today say that this woman, Mrs. X., my God, she's still registered to vote.", "Right.", "Well, she is still registered to vote because she just died, and when she doesn't show up for two successive years of elections she will then be expunged, and that's the way the system works.", "All right. Also, I mean, obviously, that's the silly part of his concern, which is that dead people voted. Obviously, that's --", "That's what he keeps citing.", "That's impossible. It's something to deal with in terms of registration or housekeeping but, again, to the facts. He sits in the interview and he says well, then why did the guy write the study? Obviously, he didn't read the study or whoever talked to him about it didn't read the Pew study because the man lays out very clearly that he was trying to delineate these problems in the process and has a conclusion that he could not see any proof of them accounting for fraud. But he ignored that, dismisses the study, is insistent (ph) on it, and I think that is an area where you need to be going after him more than how he feels about how he was received at the", "At a certain point it becomes circular. Yesterday, I said on radio that there's absolutely no proof of the three to five million having voted the way the president says. I had a telephone caller who immediately called me and said well, prove that it didn't happen.", "Right.", "Well, how can I prove that it didn't happen? And so, round it goes. And he said -- here's the point I want to make. He is satisfying a base, the 46 percent who voted for him, when he makes these arguments. Let's not think that there aren't people who aren't receptive to this because there are.", "All right. Michael Smerconish, always great to talk to you. Thank you very much for all of that. We have a quick programming note. You can join Michael Smerconish tomorrow night for a primetime special, 9:00 p.m. Eastern right here on", "All right. So, T.V. icon, comedienne extraordinaire, television producer Mary Tyler Moore is gone. Coming up, a groundbreaking writer for \"THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW\" shares her stories about this legend."], "speaker": ["ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID MUIR, ANCHOR, ABC WORLD NEWS", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MUIR", "TRUMP", "CAMEROTA", "MICHAEL SMERCONISH, CNN HOST, \"SMERCONISH\"", "CAMEROTA", "SMERCONISH", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "SMERCONISH", "CUOMO", "SMERCONISH", "CUOMO", "SMERCONISH", "CUOMO", "SMERCONISH", "CUOMO", "SMERCONISH", "CAMEROTA", "SMERCONISH", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "SMERCONISH", "CUOMO", "SMERCONISH", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CIA. SMERCONISH", "CUOMO", "SMERCONISH", "CAMEROTA", "CNN. CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-43709", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-11-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/14/lad.16.html", "summary": "U.N. Trying to Design Political Structure for Afghanistan", "utt": ["The United Nations is working to try and provide a political structure for the future of Afghanistan. Here is CNN's senior U.N. correspondent Richard Roth with details.", "He is the man with the Afghan plan. Global troubleshooter, Lakhdar Brahimi, was assigned by the U.N. to devise a post-Taliban political future. The United Front's drive into Kabul speeds up the tough job of trying to unite Afghanistan with a broad-based, multi-ethnic government.", "They expect much from the United Nations, and they are not sure that the United Nations will deliver.", "By Security Council briefing standards, it was blunt crisis vision. Brahimi sketched out a five-point plan that starts with a meeting of the diverse political factions of Afghan life. With success, that could lead to a two-year transitional government, backed by a multinational security force.", "Without genuine and lasting security, nothing will be possible, let alone the establishment of a new government.", "Noting Afghan dislike of outsiders, the envoy said the preferred security option is an all-Afghan force. But that can't be organized as soon as needed, more likely a group of countries providing military forces.", "There's an immediate need for security, and that is likely to have to be provided by the existing members of the multi-coalition.", "Thus, no United Nations peacekeepers, who serve best when a total peace settlement already exists. Politically, the U.N. still recognizes the former government ousted by the Taliban. It will be replaced, but with what is far from clear. That government's ambassador at the U.N. promises support for the negotiators, but draws the line.", "As they say in the demonstration, we say, Pashtuns, yes, Taliban, no.", "United Nations negotiators stress the need for the Afghan people to feel in charge of their future with international aid. Envoy Brahimi says what won't work is parachuting in international experts who lack credibility.", "This requires the end of interference in Afghanistan's affairs by neighboring countries.", "After years of devastation, Brahimi appealed to all to show the people of Afghanistan they will not be deserted this time. Richard Roth, CNN, United Nations."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR", "RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "LAKHDAR BRAHIMI, U.N. SPECIAL ENVOY TO AFGHANISTAN", "ROTH", "BRAHIMI", "ROTH", "JACK STRAW, BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY", "ROTH", "RAVAN FARHADI, AFGHANISTAN AMBASSADOR TO U.N.", "ROTH", "KOFI ANNAN, U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL", "ROTH"]}
{"id": "CNN-312265", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-05-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/14/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Anthony Bourdain Explores Laos' Food and History.", "utt": ["In tonight's new episode of \"PARTS UNKNOWN\", Anthony Bourdain takes us to a country he calls magical where the people are some of the most generous he's ever met.", "Back to Laos, one of the most beautiful, enchanting, lovely, magical, mystical places on earth. All I can tell you is they are some of the nicest, kindest, most hospitable, food crazy, generous people known. So glad to be back here. So pretty. It's just incredible.", "I recently sat down with Anthony Bourdain to talk about the food and culture he explored there.", "Laos has opened up to some degree, probably out of financial necessity, you know, like so many of the communist states over time, they had to. The people demanded it. The situation demanded it. But this is a country, the mountainous, very rural, agricultural nation that a lot of people don't know much about, it's also a country that was just, you know, where a CIA funded and managed Secret War persisted from the late '50s up until the mid-'70s and an air campaign that dropped more bombs on this tiny little country than all of Europe and Japan combined during the entire length of World War II when many of that -- a lot of those munitions are still on ground and active.", "So there's an impact today from that war back in the '60s?", "There is. And the government are -- I would say paranoid about maintaining order. Unlike Vietnam where President Obama was greeted, you know, very warmly and overtly and there were cheering crowds in the streets, I'm told or I was told when I was there when President Obama visited Laos, the shopkeepers, some people were told to stay inside and not display any signs of happiness or encouragement. I think they're very, you know, haltingly entering a new phase, but people were less -- people will talk openly in Vietnam or much more openly. And even Cuba than in Laos where people were very, very careful about how their words might be perceived.", "Did that sense of guardedness surprise you?", "It's something I have experienced before. I guess I was saddened by it, but I mean, this was -- we employed a lot of Hmong, particular ethnic Hmong tribes, people doing the Secret War to fight other Hmong and other Laotians. And so there's that I guess fear of an enemy within that's always present. And we had to be really sensitive to that. You don't want to get -- you know, I can come back here and say anything I want. I have to think about the people who I was speaking to there.", "Culturally sensitive.", "Well, how they might be implicated in something that I say.", "Wow.", "Like I say, you know, I can say what I want and go out to lunch now. They have to live with the consequences of what I say.", "What defines the food in Laos?", "The ocean cuisine is influenced -- powerful influence in neighboring Thailand, the", "Don't you just love Anthony Bourdain? A mystical land"], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "ANTHONY BOURDAIN, CNN HOST, \"PARTS UNKNOWN\"", "CABRERA", "BOURDAIN", "CABRERA", "BOURDAIN", "CABRERA", "BOURDAIN", "CABRERA", "BOURDAIN", "CABRERA", "BOURDAIN", "CABRERA", "BOURDAIN", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-14395", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-8-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/21/mn.03.html", "summary": "Russian Submarine Accident: Naval Analyst Discusses Salvage Operation", "utt": ["The rescue operation now becomes a search and salvage operation for the Russian sub still sitting in the bottom of the Barents Sea. Norwegian divers now say there is no hope of finding any survivors on board. From Washington, more about the disaster, Naval analyst, military historian, Norman Polmar with us once again this morning. Sir, hello to you.", "Good morning.", "A lot of us thought it would come to this. You know the news. Your reaction?", "I would say that, since about last Wednesday, there should have been no hope held for survivors. By that time, either the buildup of carbon dioxide, the lack of oxygen, the thermal conditions would have -- anyone left would have succumbed to those.", "I know you bought -- brought along a sub model with us, which is similar to the Kursk, but not identical. What happens next in the recovery process? divers go in, search for bodies, is that the grim task?", "Well, I think that the first thing they will do is try to get this after hatch open here. This is not a model of the Kursk, this is an earlier Soviet nuclear submarine. But this is the hatch that they have centered all of the work on, the attempts at rescue. This after section of the submarine is where any survivors would have been for the couple of days after the explosion. Again, the explosions were in the bow of the submarine, probably a torpedo, or torpedo fuel, or battery, was the initial incident. And then that detonated a warhead, which just tore out a huge chunk of the bow of the submarine. Every one in the forward compartment, unquestionably, forward compartments, unquestionably, went within the first minute or two or three, explosion, flame, and then a wall of water. By time it got to the center section of the submarine in here, hatches were probably holding, doors were probably holding, and some people probably stayed alive in these sections for a couple of days. The rescue efforts centering on this after hatch, we now know the hatch cannot be opened, could not be opened. They are going to try to pull it away, with a line from a surface ship, just use brute force to move it.", "Yank it out.", "Probably the hole hull was badly distorted from the explosions hitting the ocean floor. It is certainly now just going to be a salvage and body recovery operation. They will probably never raise the submarine, she is too large, 500 feet long, probably 20,000 tons or more with the water that is in her.", "Any concern with those nuclear reactors on board, radiation?", "I don't think. The Russians design decent reactors, good reactors I should say, for their submarines. I don't think we are going to see any problem from the reactors. They will certainly go down and check them. Diver will assure that they were shut down properly. They will be left there. What they will try to get out will be people, possibly some of the unexploded torpedoes, if they can locate them, and they are not too dangerous to handle, just to try to ascertain if it was one of the torpedoes that blew up. Certainly, the code machines, some other equipment, but I think the Kursk will be left there. Hopefully, they will recover all the bodies, the families certainly will want that.", "Indeed. Norman Polmar, live in Washington, come on back. We will watch it throughout the week. The story will change again, we are sure. Thank you, sir.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "NORMAN POLMAR, NAVAL ANALYST", "HEMMER", "POLMAR", "HEMMER", "POLMAR", "HEMMER", "POLMAR", "HEMMER", "POLMAR", "HEMMER", "POLMAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-74778", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2003-8-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/04/lol.09.html", "summary": "Page Turners: Interview With Author Laurie Mylroie", "utt": ["A new book is out which focuses on differences here in Washington on how to fight the war on terror leading up to the war in Iraq. The book is \"Bush Vs. the Beltway: How the CIA and the State Department Tried to Stop the War on Terror.\" I spoke earlier with its author, Laurie Mylroie. And I began by asking her about the allegation she makes in the book title.", "Well, it's sharply stated, but it is the case that significant elements in both the CIA and the State Department opposed going to war with Iraq and sought to undercut that war and then subsequently the rationale for that war.", "But isn't that because they had different beliefs than you and others do about Iraq's role in the war on terror and in the 9/11 attacks?", "Well, they developed a view under the Clinton administration that Saddam was no threat. They were unwilling to reconsider it, even after September 11. And even when you put before them evidence of Iraq's involvement in terrorism or the dangers posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, at least some of them prepared to deny that, without giving reasons, and then they leak it to their allies in the media. And that has significantly hampered the public understanding of the reasons for this war.", "What is the proof that Iraq is connected to 9/11 and al Qaeda?", "It's the terrorist masterminds, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Ramzi Yousef. They're all Pakistani Baluch, born and raised in Kuwait. The Iraqis, while they occupied Kuwait, used the occupation of Kuwait to develop false identities for key agents.", "And if that's the case and if you have this information, and you had it for some time, why doesn't the Bush administration have it?", "I don't think the senior people understand, and particularly the president. And those below them face serious bureaucratic obstructionism in the pursuit of that information.", "But you've been arguing this point for some time. Your book is now coming out. I know you're talking to people throughout the government all the time. What do you think is going on there?", "Well, what they told me in February was, we cannot pursue this question of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's identity because of the bureaucratic obstructionism that was raised over Yousef's identity. Of course, at that time, they thought they'd find weapons in Iraq. It may be now that they might be more willing to pursue it, despite that bureaucratic obstructionism.", "All right, let's quickly say Ramzi Yousef involved in the original attack on the World Trade Center back in 1993. Tell us again who Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is.", "Well, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is supposed to be Yousef's maternal uncle. He was involved in the '95 plane plot, became the head of al Qaeda's military committee and the mastermind of 9/11. His identity, too, is based on documents in Kuwait that predate Kuwait liberation from Iraqi occupation.", "But to get back to your larger allegation, that the CIA and the State Department tried to obstruct all this, are you saying it goes all the way to the top, to Colin Powell and George Tenet?", "No. Mid-levels within the bureaucracies, they don't want to acknowledge the mistake they made that left us vulnerable on 9/11. I don't think either the secretary of state or the CIA director understand that.", "So are you saying the people in the agency, in the CIA, and State, are just ignoring what's before their very eyes?", "That's right. They refuse to see what's before their eyes. They say there is no evidence, when there is in fact evidence.", "But why in the world would that prevent them from doing what you say ought to be done, just because you say they don't want to admit they've made a mistake in the past?", "It's very common within bureaucracies for people to have very narrow agendas, not to think above their pay grade, to look to their personal and institutional interests, and not to think of the bigger picture. And part of that is to avoid embarrassment.", "Talking with author Laurie Mylroie about her book about the CIA and the State Department, in her words, stopping the war on terror."], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "LAURIE MYLROIE, AUTHOR, \"BUSH VS. THE BELTWAY\"", "WOODRUFF", "MYLROIE", "WOODRUFF", "MYLROIE", "WOODRUFF", "MYLROIE", "WOODRUFF", "MYLROIE", "WOODRUFF", "MYLROIE", "WOODRUFF", "MYLROIE", "WOODRUFF", "MYLROIE", "WOODRUFF", "MYLROIE", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-51944", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-4-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0204/03/lt.22.html", "summary": "Rumsfeld Addresses Iraq, Abu Zubaydah", "utt": ["Today Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was peppered with questions about the fate of Abu Zubaydah. He is by now, as you know, the high-ranking al Qaeda leader who was recently captured in Pakistan. Our national correspondent, Bob Franken, joins us now live with a report from the Pentagon. That briefing got pretty spicy, Bob.", "They have a tendency to do so. The secretary of defense says what he wants to say, and oftentimes doesn't really tolerate others trying to get him to clarify what he was trying to say. First of all I want to talk, however, about Saddam Hussein. He has been on a tear, the secretary of defense has for the last several days, speaking about the roles of Syria, Iran and Iraq. And the secretary, of course, is part of an administration that has to sort of straddle what's going on in Israel and the Palestinian areas, and what, of course, is going on in the U.S. war on terror. Those, of course, very delicate overlapping concerns. And so what the secretary was doing here was talking about the contribution that the longtime U.S. enemy Saddam Hussein was having. He's been deriding the fact that Hussein's government, according to public reports, has been offering suicide bomber families $25,000 if they carry out the act. He said that is something of huge significance.", "I'm simply trying to let the people of Iraq understand what their leadership is doing. To let the people of the Middle East and the rest of their world, the people in Europe, know what is in fact being done, to arm young people and send them out to blow up restaurants and shopping malls and pizza parlors, and have the people with weapons strapped on them killed, and kill other innocent people. Men, women and children, in those various facilities. I think it's important for the world to think about that and understand it, and give a weight to it, a value to it. It is a particularly vicious thing to do.", "Left unsaid by the secretary, in spite of repeated questioning, is what weight the administration would give in its ongoing debate about what military action that they need to take against Saddam Hussein. As for Abu Zubaydah, he is the high-ranking al Qaeda leader who has been captured in the joint operation between FBI, CIA and Pakistani forces. The secretary of defense wanted to say, to challenge some news reports that have come out that say, one, he is being taken either here or there. The secretary said the United States will not say where he's being held in custody. Also, he was quite angry about reports that suggested the United States might turn him over to another country who could use torture in the interrogation. As importance as this man is, said Rumsfeld, that is not the plan. But in the process of answering questions, he did acknowledge explicitly that the United States does have control of Abu Zubaydah.", "I have never been one to willy-nilly throw away options. I can't conceive of why we would not want to hold him. We currently are holding him. But I don't need to promise the world that we will hold him in perpetuity. Therefore I don't. Therefore I selected the word that is exactly the word I wanted to use. It is exactly the right word. It conveys exactly the meaning that I intended to convey.", "Two things Donald Rumsfeld will never say. One of them is \"never,\" Carol, and the other one is, anything besides what he wants to say -- Carol.", "So we saw today. All right, thank you very much. Bob Franken reporting live at the Pentagon."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "FRANKEN", "RUMSFELD", "FRANKEN", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-140104", "program": "YOUR BOTTOM LINE", "date": "2009-7-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/04/ybl.01.html", "summary": "Grocery Savings; Community Supported Agriculture", "utt": ["We've all been there, you make a list, head to the grocery store and later come out wondering how you spent so much money and only have a few bags to show for it. Our next guest is here to tell you ways to save on the grocery bill and get the most for your money. Holley Grainger is a registered dietitian and food editor at MyRecipes.com. Holly, I am glad you're here because there are lots of tricks to the trade here that we want to sort of tell people about.", "There are.", "And I want to start with the idea of unit pricing, because this is something that we all seem to pay attention to. You look at the price per ounce and you make your calls on the basis of that. You try to get the best deal possible and you say that's not always the key to getting a great deal.", "There are some exceptions. You're right, that is a great way to cost compare like items, but for things like meat and poultry, the exception, you want to look at the cost per serving because when you're looking at the unit price per ounce or per pound, you might be looking at some of those inedible portions like chicken bones or things you don't want to worry about.", "Chicken neck, the gizzards, you're not eating that stuff, right.", "You don't want that. So, look at the cost per serving, that's the best way to save money.", "All right, so let's talk a little bit about some other ways to save. You know, we talked about going to the warehouse club, which I love to go to, and I tend to just like load up on things and I buy something 10 for $10, multiple items for one price. You say that can be a problem.", "It can be a problem, especially if you buy items like that are perishable because you'll end up throwing away much of what you don't need. So, watch out. Even if the price is right, don't overbuy. And unless it's something that you can share with someone else, then you want to be careful because a lot of times that 10 for $10 might mean one for $1, so it's the same thing. You can still get the good price, but watch out. Another thing is a lot of times those items that are marked on sale, aren't always the lowest option, so just make sure to cost compare.", "Yeah, you definitely have to look at those definitely have to look at those prices. Let's talk a little bit too, about, you know, how you make those comparisons. Shopping leisurely, you said, can cost you money. Now, you've got this idea that you plan it all out, what you're buy by the routes in the store.", "That's right. At MyRecipies.com we like to tell you, make a list and base it on your grocery store, so pair like items together. Pair all your vegetables together, pair your meats together. But one thing to note, is for every minute that you spend in the grocery store after 30 minutes, per minute you spend 50 cents to a dollar more on your final grocery bill.", "What? That's amazing.", "We like to say, get in, buy what you need and get out.", "So, once -- I want to get this in, because I think it's important. You say one-stop shopping, beware if you're going to one store to get cleaning items as well as food. You're probably spending too much.", "The household items at the grocery story are often marked up 20 to 50 percent more, so go to the grocery store to buy your groceries, watch out for those other items.", "Great ideas. Appreciate your help, today. Thank you, Holley.", "Great to be here. Thank you.", "Great advice. Well, there's another way to save money and get fresh local produce and it's not at your supermarket. It's called Community Supported Agriculture. I visited a local farmer to find out how it works.", "Zachary and Jason Lubenski (ph) love their veggies. But, why are they picking up their vegetables from Ed McDougal's garage? The Lubenski's are part of a growing number of consumers joining CSAs, Community Supported Agriculture programs. Their vegetables come from here, Golden Earthworm Organic Farm.", "CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture and it's a very unusual relationship between farmers and consumers. It's a very direct relationships, so we grow the food and we give it to you and you eat the food.", "Here's how it works. Each spring CSA members pay for the share of the farm's produce for the year. Their money helps the farmer pay for seed, fertilizer and other needs for the growing season. (on camera): Look! (voice-over): Then, throughout the summer, consumers pick up their shares each week from designated delivery locations.", "It creates stabilities for the farmer, because we get money at the beginning of the season when we need it, so you pay in advance and then you reap the bounty every single week.", "CSA programs have grown dramatically in the U.S. The movement started in the mid-1980s and the USDA estimates that today more than 12,000 farms throughout the country market products this way. (on camera): That's good. I'm having a little salad. (voice-over): Ed McDougal's garage has been a delivery point for Golden Earthworm CSA for six years. He says 100 people pick up their veggies here every week.", "A lot of people bring their children. And I just think it's kind of nice for kids, early on, to learn early on something about healthy eating.", "CSA members say they like knowing exactly where their food is grown and getting to know the farmer who produces it and they love the fresh quality.", "I wanted fresh vegetables, locally, and you can't get any fresher than this because they were picked either this morning or yesterday.", "Do they taste better?", "Yes, definitely taste better.", "Now, that you're getting the best deals on grocery for your holiday weekend, what about stocking the bar? Gary Vaynerchuk is here to help you pair wines with your menu and your budget. All right Gary, what you got?", "All right, we're going look at Portugal, white wines that rock and more importantly understanding that price has no impact on quality, under $15 for the summer.", "Love that, all right, stay with us."], "speaker": ["WILLIS", "HOLLEY GRAINGER, MYRECIPES.COM", "WILLIS", "GRAINGER", "WILLIS", "GRAINGER", "WILLIS", "GRAINGER", "WILLIS", "GRAINGER", "WILLIS", "GRAINGER", "WILLIS", "GRAINGER", "WILLIS", "GRAINGER", "WILLIS", "WILLIS (voice-over)", "MAGGIE WOOD, COLDEN EARTHWORM ORGANIC FARM", "WILLIS", "WOOD", "WILLIS", "ED MCDOUGAL, CSA MEMBER", "WILLIS", "DOROTHY AKHAND, CSA MEMBER", "WILLIS (on camera)", "AKHAND", "WILLIS", "GARY VAYNERCHUK, WINELIBRARYTV.COM", "WILLIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-277967", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-03-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/02/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Is Ben Carson Dropping Out?", "utt": ["Let me begin with you. Dr. Carson, what's the scoop?", "Well, it looks like he is not going to continue in this race. That's the word that we got this morning. Dr. Ben Carson released a statement to his supporters, essentially saying that, laying out that he doesn't see a pathway forward. I can read you here what he had to say. He said: \"I do not see a political path forward, in light of last evening Super Tuesday primary results. I appreciate the support, financial and otherwise, from all corners of America. Gratefully, my campaign decisions are not constrained by finances, rather by what is in the best interests of the American people.\" He will talk more about this apparently on Friday at this conservative gathering here in Washington, D.C., but this comes, really, after he has seen what was once a promising political career, if you think back to October of 2015. He was leading Donald Trump in some of these polls, had a head of steam in Iowa. And then his campaign really faced a lot of scrutiny, primarily around his biography, a lot of the reporting that we did questioning his origin story about that tough background and upbringing he had in Detroit. And then his campaign was always in turmoil. Even in these last days, in talking to people surrounding this campaign, there was kind of a disagreement about what he should do. He was very much hopeful that the Lord would answer his prayers and that he could continue in this race. He was looking at the CNN poll that we released recently that had him at 10 percent and something of a growth in polls. And he saw that again as an answer to his prayers. But then other people were saying, listen, March 1 would be D-Day. I understand that this morning they had a meeting in Baltimore, where it was finally decided that he would no longer continue in this campaign.", "OK. OK. So that is the Dr. Ben Carson news. Let me bring in both David Chalian -- he here is. I needed you David Chalian. There we are the four-box. Now I'm happy. I feel complete.", "There you go.", "David Chalian and Dana Bash. Chalian, to you on this Mitt Romney speech tomorrow. I understand we are getting a little bit more information. We know he's not throwing his hat in the ring. We know it's not an endorsement, so what is it?", "Listen, I think -- if you have spoken to people who are close to Romney over the last several months, you have heard that he has a desire the play some sort of role here as sort of the adult supervision in this chaotic Republican field. And so I think you are going to hear someone who clearly has been tweeting and talking about his opposition to Donald Trump, asking for his tax returns, all -- as you were saying. But he now wants to make clear that the Trump refusal to denounce the KKK on Jake's show on Sunday really got under his skin. And I think he wants -- according to Jim Acosta's new reporting that just came in, I think he clearly wants to prop up Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John Kasich as sort of counterexamples to the way, the direction the party should move in. Again, he's not looking to jump in this race; he's not looking to formally make an endorsement. But I think he is looking to help guide the party as sort of elder statesman.", "But if he is guiding the party, and, Dana, here's my question on David Chalian's point about particularly speaking out against Donald Trump -- isn't there a possibility that that would backfire?", "Yes.", "Yes, right?", "Of course, a huge possibility. I have been speaking to a lot of so-called establishment Republicans, people who are apoplectic about Donald Trump being their party's nominee, who in one breath say that, in the next breath say, I'm not sure there is anything we can do, whether it has been having a private discussion that I have had with them having a Mitt Romney. Pick your former nominee, a John McCain, a former president, George W. Bush, some kind of, as David said, party elder coming out and saying, hey, guys, wake up. But the reason -- one of the reasons why there has been a lot of kind of pooh-poohing that idea is exactly your point, Brooke. The people who don't want anybody expect Donald Trump, his core supporters, and even those he's bringing into the fold, they think Mitt Romney is the problem. And they don't want -- and people like Mitt Romney -- and they are not going to listen. But I think it's pretty clear the goal of Mitt Romney tomorrow is to bring together all the people who are not in that camp, who are the more traditional Republicans to say, let's get to it, guys.", "Yes, yes, yes. And given all the points you are making, David, you made an excellent point earlier today, in that the headline today would be, given the seven-state win from Donald Trump last night, headline, front-runner coalescing behind this one candidate, but, instead, it's, you know, the Republican Party vs. Trump still.", "Yes. And, listen, this is Donald Trump's next hurdle, next battle. First, he had the hurdle of proving that it wasn't just a popularity contest in the polls, but that he could get voters. Check that off the list. He has proven that. Voters are coming out. Then it was that when others would fall out of the field and the field narrows, that somehow that would hurt him. No, that's not the case. He's been emboldened by that. He can win some of their votes. His new hurdle now is to take the establishment elite leadership world of the Republican Party and somehow get them on board with the notion that he is going to be the nominee. And if it were any other person in any other year and all the data were exactly the same and we were at this point on the morning after -- there would be a unity press conference.", "Absolutely. Yes.", "Every party member would be up there, balloons would be falling, and they would be onto the general election.", "No balloons yet, David Chalian.", "Yes. And you saw him last night, Donald Trump, at his press conference, no balloons falling there either, where he called him a unifier, he called himself diplomatic at one point. You can tell that he is trying to signal to the establishment and to voters who think he might concerned that he would remain being a divisive figure that he wants to take the reins of the party.", "Thank you for getting me there. Here's some sound from Mr. Trump just last night.", "I'm going to get along great with Congress, OK? Paul Ryan, I don't know him well, but I'm sure I am going to get along great with him. And if I don't, he is going to have to pay a big price, OK?", "We're going to talk about Chris Christie's face in an entirely separate segment, OK, so let's not even go there. I know what you're thinking. On that, I think what really stood out to me, Nia, is when Trump said Paul Ryan would pay a price if he didn't support him.", "Yes, it's sort of old Trump and new Trump right there. On the one hand, I will get along with everybody. But if they don't get along with me, then too bad, so sad for them. They are going to pay a price. It's two, three, four, five different versions of Donald Trump. And in some ways, that's why he is so appealing to so many different types of people and so hard to beat.", "But I also think it was Trump trying to kind of pull off what his goal clearly was during last night's press conference, which is what he said at the beginning. I'm unifier. Look at me. It's a press conference. It's not a rally. I am presidential. I have a member of the establishment standing behind me. But he can't help himself because he is who he is. And who can blame him? He had a lot of success with that.", "What about -- Chalian, just being semi-superficial, the look of the whole thing, all the flags? What did you think?", "I thought, hey, this is somebody who has looked at White House optics and knows how to put an event together that looks like a presidential-style event.", "Exactly.", "Listen, I will give the Trump campaign a ton of credit on this kind of -- on their optics. I think they have held events that are just really, really expertly put-together, whether it's at the airplane hangars with the big Trump plane behind them, how they build crowds. I think the optics of campaigning in addition to all the victories they have been able to bank have been really, really well done.", "And let me just add, Brooke, it is not superficial. It is stagecraft. Perception is reality in life, but especially in politics. And ever since Ronald Reagan, the late great Michael Deaver, who began kind of doing that for Ronald Reagan, that has been a key, key, key part of political campaigning. And he has never been a politician, but he sure is a good marketer. And it's the perfect combination.", "Oh, you all are good.", "I think the others in the race can learn from them. Remember, in 2008, the candidate that won marketer of the year from \"Ad Age\" was Barack Obama. There is a reason why marketing and presentation is so important to presidential politics.", "Exactly.", "OK. Nia-Malika Henderson, David Chalian, Dana Bash, you are all excellent, as always. Thank you very much.", "Thanks, Brooke.", "And just like her Republican counterpart, Hillary Clinton is riding high from her big Super Tuesday wins. But the nomination, it is far from locked in. Clinton did win big across the South last night, taking seven states total. Sanders won four states, adding to his delegate count and keeping him in the game for now. CNN senior political correspondent Brianna Keilar and my dear friend is with me now. Hello.", "Hello there.", "So, with Sanders, he has got money. He says he's hanging in there until July. Do you think he will? What's in it for him? Why do that?", "His aides swear that he is in it. But the truth is this. And I think this is really tough for Bernie Sanders supporters to hear because they are so fervently in his corner. He is all but done in this. You look at the math. Right? So, he is 190 delegates ahead -- or -- sorry -- she is. When you add those superdelegates, those pledged delegates, it's more than 600.", "Sure.", "But you have to be a completely different team in the second half if you are going to do that. And chances are you are going to lose the game. That's basically it. And it's not even as easy to come back in politics as it is in, say, football or some other sport. This is really rough for Bernie Sanders, but you listen to his aides and they say, no, he is in this. And if she hasn't hit that threshold of more than 2,000-some-odd delegates that she needs to by the time she hits the convention, he feels like he has a really good rationale to stay in. What does that look like? We don't know. I think at this point, they are sort of looking at that and they don't really want to make that decision until they get to some of these other contests into March 15.", "OK. We will keep how the football team that is Bernie Sanders does. Clinton keeps talking about the need for kindness. She slams Trump by saying -- quote -- \"America never stopped being great.\" Is this foreshadowing to general election?", "Completely. This is what she unveiled this right after South Carolina, all of this talk about love and kindness that I think really stood out to a lot of people. Love and kindness is like the new hope and change. OK, this is her hope and change, right? This is her message. And if an election is about choices, she is trying to provide a very clear one to people who may not like Donald Trump's causticness, as her campaign would see it. So she is banking on the fact that that's a majority of Americans. We will see if she is right.", "Brianna Keilar, thank you.", "You bet.", "One of Donald Trump's biggest supporters will join me, as well as a conservative strategist who is asking CPAC to disinvite Trump this weekend. It shows exactly how big the divide is between Trump and the Republican Party. Plus, it seems impossible that somehow Chris Christie's face -- love the spotlight, thank you -- is getting more attention than Trump's hands. Why the New Jersey governor is being asked to resign for jumping on the Trump train. You are watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Back in a moment."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "B. BALDWIN", "DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR", "B. BALDWIN", "CHALIAN", "B. BALDWIN", "DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "B. BALDWIN", "BASH", "B. BALDWIN", "CHALIAN", "BASH", "CHALIAN", "B. BALDWIN", "HENDERSON", "B. BALDWIN", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "B. BALDWIN", "HENDERSON", "BASH", "B. BALDWIN", "CHALIAN", "BASH", "CHALIAN", "BASH", "B. BALDWIN", "HENDERSON", "BASH", "B. BALDWIN", "HENDERSON", "B. BALDWIN", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "B. 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{"id": "CNN-74645", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2003-8-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/01/lol.05.html", "summary": "North Korea Willing to Hold Nuclear Talks", "utt": ["Having gone to war in Iraq, the Bush administration greeted progress today toward avoiding another conflict. North Korea now says that it is willing to hold talks about its nuclear program. And the way it sounds, the talks will take place under the terms set by Washington. With that story, our senior White House correspondent, John King. John, it was the Chinese and the Russians who played some role in getting this turn of events.", "That's right, Judy, principally the Chinese, but The Russians also putting pressure on North Korea to give in to the U.S. demand that these be multilateral, not bilateral talks. Now, what does that mean? North Korea for months has been a source of frustration and consternation to this White House, not only refusing to sit down and talk and negotiate this with the United States and several other countries, but also continuing to reprocess uranium and to reconstitute a nuclear weapons program. President Bush has been quite frustrated, although he's always been very careful to say, this is a problem, not a crisis, one he hopes to resolve peacefully. In the last round of talks, it was the Chinese, the United States and North Korea sitting down at the table. Because of this new agreement, essentially forced on the North Koreans by the Chinese, next time there are conversations, perhaps in early September, the president says the United States and China will have some help.", "That means Japan will be there. After all, Japan's an important part of the neighborhood. South Korea will be there. They've got a vested interest in having discussions and dialogues with Kim Jong Il. And Russia has agreed to join, which means there are now five nations and North Korea sitting at a table, all aimed at convincing -- the discussions will be all aimed at convincing Mr. Kim Jong Il to change his attitude about nuclear weaponry.", "So a victory of sorts for the Bush administration, but we must make clear a procedural or a process victory, still no indication at all on the substance that North Korea is prepared to come to the table and actually agree not only to set aside its nuclear program in a written agreement, but to agree to allow international inspectors to come in for years to come to verify that that is the case, still, the Bush administration believing it is beginning to get through to Pyongyang. Having China, Russia and now South Korea in Japan as part of the discussions should give a resounding message, the White House says, to North Korea that it will be isolated until it decides and unless it decides to set aside this nuclear program. The key test now, Judy, what will North Korea say when it comes to the table? When will that be? We expect early September.", "And right, John. And within the framework, though, of these multi-country talks, will there be room for bilateral talks between the U.S. and North Korea, in other words, exactly what North Korea had wanted originally?", "Well, the United States says it has no problem at all if the North Korean representative of the talks leans across the table and says, Ambassador Kelly, assuming it's Jim Kelly, the State Department's point person on this -- that the United States says it has no problem if the North Korean addresses the U.S. representative across the table. What the White House says will not happen, at least in the short term, is that they will not get up and go off into a separate meeting, that there will not be a U.S.-North Korea-alone meeting, at least not just now. The administration says it needs to reinforce the idea that this is a multilateral, an international problem and that, if progress is made, perhaps down the road, there could be more of a dialogue. But right now, the United States says no formal bilateral talks. But if, across the table, the North Koreans address a question to the U.S. counterpart, they will get an answer.", "All right, John King at the White House, thank you very much. And now quickly, we turn to someone who's been involved in U.S.- North Korean negotiations. And that is Governor Bill Richardson of the state of New Mexico, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Governor Richardson, are we ready to say that this means that a nuclear confrontation with North Korea is now off the table?", "Well, this is a breakthrough, the fact that North Korea has accepted multilateral talks. Quite frankly, I think Secretary Powell deserves a lot of credit for pushing and pursuing. And the Chinese were key. I, quite frankly, thought the North Koreans would hold out quite a bit longer. So it is a positive step, the fact that now six countries are involved. But then the nitty-gritty starts at these talks. And I think, eventually, Judy, it's going to have to be the United States and North Korea sitting alone. But this is a welcome step. It means the North Koreans have put aside their concerns over what is called modalities, how many participate, and they're ready to negotiate substance. And this is good.", "Why did they come around?", "I believe that they felt that the Bush administration was very serious about this, that they weren't going to get a one-on-one with Secretary Powell or an administration official, that, as long as, within the multilateral talks -- and I suspect this will happen -- a North Korean representative and an American representative, either having dinner or sitting to the side or as they're walking out, talking, I think something like that can happen, but, at the same time, no secrets. And I think the administration deserves credit for really engaging China as the leader. Now, Russia participating, I think it's good, but the key players are going to be the U.S., China, and North Korea.", "So are these other countries who are involved, the South Koreans, the Japanese, the Russians, are they really almost peripheral to these discussions now?", "Even though they're going to be at the table?", "They'll be at the table, but they won't have the serious role that China will have. China invests in North Korea. They have leverage. But, at the same time, I think North Korea is being realistic. I think North Korea is now ready to engage. North Korea wants respect as a major power. They eventually -- and I think the final solution is going to be the U.S. and North Korea within a broader framework. But South Korea, obviously, it's important to have them. They're directly involved in the DMZ and in so many areas. I think Russia could play a constructive role, the fact that, if they participate in an economic assistance package for North Korea, eventually, after North Korea agrees to start dismantling some of their nuclear weapons. But I think what is also here apparent, Judy, is that North Korea wants to deal. They're ready to engage. I've always said this. The way to deal with them is diplomacy, talk to them, make them feel they're a major power. Don't -- they get easily spooked. I think the Bush administration should concentrate on Secretary Powell, the president calling the policy shots, not some of the hard-liners that want to go in and do preemptive strikes. Let's have this diplomatic leaders like Secretary Powell call the shots and do the policy, rather than all these other voices.", "What about -- as I understand it, what the North Koreans have been asking for is, first of all, aid, but also this nonaggression pact with the U.S. They want the United States to say that it is not going to attack North Korea. On its face, that sounds like something that the U.S. should be willing to declare. Why has that been so difficult?", "Well, I think, eventually, Judy, that is going to have to be part of an agreement, maybe not a nonaggression pact, because those went out years ago, but some kind of written document that assures North Korea that it will not be attacked by the United States. In exchange, the United States will demand that North Korea start dismantling its nuclear programs, its reprocessing. It's going to cost the United States and our allies and the five members of these talks food assistance, economic assistance, investment of some kind, energy assistance to replace those light water reactors. And that's a diplomatic trade that I think eventually can defuse the situation. And so I believe North Korea has also taken a step, sending a signal that: We're ready to deal diplomatically, but we want something in return. And that's normal. And we should be pleased with that.", "Has anything been lost, Governor Richardson, by the fact that it's taken to so long to get to where the U.S. and North Korea are right now?", "Well, there's been a lot of misunderstandings. There has been some reprocessing activity that the North Koreans have engaged in. But I think, eventually, if it results in an agreement -- and I think, eventually, if more than just the U.S. and North Korea are involved, the fact that we've gotten China engaged, the fact that other nations are putting pressure on North Korea, I think that's good. But, again, Judy, eventually, it's going to be face-to-face talks, the U.S. and North Korea cutting the final deal around the framework I mentioned, no attack, but, in exchange, assistance, dismantle nuclear weapons program. But I think this is a big victory for Secretary Powell and his team that have been pushing for these engaged talks multilaterally.", "All right, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who, wearing a completely different hat, was officially named this week to be the chair of the Democratic National Convention coming up this summer -- next summer in the city of Boston. Governor, it's good to see you.", "Thank you, Judy.", "Thank you very much."], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KING, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KING", "WOODRUFF", "KING", "WOODRUFF", "GOV. BILL RICHARDSON (D), NEW MEXICO", "WOODRUFF", "RICHARDSON", "WOODRUFF", "WOODRUFF", "RICHARDSON", "WOODRUFF", "RICHARDSON", "WOODRUFF", "RICHARDSON", "WOODRUFF", "RICHARDSON", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-192127", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-9-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/04/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Michelle Obama Takes Center Stage; Democrats Spotlight Rising Star; Obama Speaks To Supporters In Virginia; Democrats Tackle Tough Topics; Democrats Release Party Platform; Democratic Strategy for Winning in November; Hill Harper Supports Obama; What is Middle Class?", "utt": ["Democrats get ready to make their opening arguments in their case for re-electing president Barack Obama. I'm Suzanne Malveaux live from the site of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Just a week ago, we heard Ann Romney's speech on the personal side of her husband. Well, tonight, it is Michelle Obama's time and her turn. She's not going to have to work as hard to convince people that President Obama is likable. Check it out. In a recent \"Washington Post\" poll, 61 percent of registered voters said the president seems more friendly and likable compared to 27 percent for Romney. So, what does Michelle Obama need to say tonight to get Democrats revved up, convince voters that her husband should get another four years in office? Well, we're going to talk about -- a little bit about it. We're going to bring in our Republican consultant, CNN Contributor, Alex Castellanos, and Democrat Van Joes who's also president and co-founder of Rebuild the Dream, an initiative to restore good jobs and economic opportunity. Good to see you guys, both, in person. I love this. CNN grill. Likability. You know, Alex, you're always talking about, I don't have to have a beer with a guy, you know, the economy's really important. But people do want to be able to feel like the person in office gets it, they trust him, they know him well. Did he do -- and did an Romney do a good enough job last week not to have that be an issue this week?", "Well, I used to work with Mitt Romney. And I always told him that if she ever primaried him, I'd vote for her. She's just a Rock Star, and she is a window -- like many wives and husbands are for their mates, she's a window into who he is. We saw more of him through her eyes sometimes than we do through our own. Michelle Obama has a similar job tonight. You know, the president is such a bright mind, but sometimes we get the sense that he's a little distant from him, that he's better with ideas than people. And she connects him. They've got two lovely daughters. Tell us their story. It's their future as well as everyone else's that Barack Obama is supposed to be doing something about.", "Van, I want you to check this out. This is four years ago. This is when Michelle was really just trying to get the country to know her and her husband a little bit better. And here's how she set it up when she talked to me.", "Our table was smaller. It was in a little bitty apartment, but, you know, we had consistent traditions and rituals and routines in our family that he embraced. The fact that we all got together on thanksgiving, you know, the fact that our Christmases were big with lots of family and cousins. I think that was something coming from a smaller family that he missed although his traditions were pretty solid. It was just with a small group of people. So, I think he -- you know, he has said that, you know, what he would want for his own children would be the kind of traditions and stability that was more reminiscent of how I grew up.", "Van, do you think that's as relevant today as it was four years ago? Because people are looking at their own lives. They appreciate who they are as a first family, but they're looking at their own lives and their own economic situation.", ": Well, first of all, it's hard not to get choked up listening to her. It's -- what a turnaround. Four years ago, she was considered this scary one. Now, she's -- like, everybody loves her and he needs to be warmed up a little bit. But, you know, I think what she can shine a light on is how hard he's working and how hard he's trying. There's this myth out there he's just going around playing golf, that he doesn't care. Their whole thing is Obama isn't working. This man is working. I think as a wife and as a mother to talk about that is just to shed a window on the light. The other thing, of course, he's working -- he's not getting that much help from the other side. The Republican party sometimes is like a Lucy holding the football. Every time Charlie tries to kick it, they move the ball. And so, --", "So, Alex, are you going to let him get away with that?", "-- I'm just saying, and so the impact of trying to rescue a country without a good partner on the other side, but continuing to go to work every day, I think people understand what that's like to go to work every day, but try to do a good job even if the other people who are supposed to be helping you aren't really helping you.", "And I want us to listen to Ann Romney too, because she also described very much what it was like for her and Mitt Romney in the first days that they were dating and they became a couple. Let's listen real quick.", "We got married and moved into a basement apartment. We walked to class together, shared the housekeeping, ate a lot of pasta and tuna fish. Our desk was a door propped up on sawhorses. Our dining room table was a fold-down ironing board in the kitchen. But those were the best days.", "All right, Alex. So, I have to tell you, I mean, this kind of reminds me of the talks that we used to get from our parents. You know, I walked to school uphill both ways, you know? I mean, like they're trying to outdo each other here. Why is that appealing to people? Why are they both trying to seem like, oh, you know, I really had it rougher than you did?", "Well, I think, Suzanne, you hit it to start with. Policy is great. We want these candidates to tell us where they're going to take us. Just as important is can we trust them to take us there? Do they understand our shared American experience? Are they -- do they have our values? So, it is as important who they are as where they're going. And that's what, I think, family can do for you. I'm going to be interested tonight to see if these two great parents, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, talk a little bit about education. They've chosen great schools for their kids. I wonder if they're going to extend that opportunity -- equal opportunity to go to a good school to every American.", "Well, I mean, and for me, again, I think that you're in a situation where Michelle Obama's one of the most beloved people. She's becoming more of a beloved person. But she's also a fighter. And I think she's going to get out there and want to defend her husband. I think ordinary people are just now starting to tune back in. I think those of us who are political junkies, we watch every, you know, thing that's been going on the last several months. I think people are going to say, hey, the first lady is on television, what does she have to say? And I think she's going to remind people of why we like this family so much and why we want this family to be there because I do think they share our values. Now, they really had a struggle that I think most people can relate to and we've got a president who didn't get a chance to pay off his student loans until a couple years ago. People can relate to that.", "That's the story people didn't know about Mitt Romney that, yes, he comes from a very successful family but he had to sort over. And what he's made, he's earned. And, by the way, is Obama's Patty speaking tonight? Or is that private?", "Oh.", "You got one in there. I love it.", "Final question here. This is a big deal. Obviously, the middle class and who defines themselves as middle class? We hear all kinds of -- I mean, almost outlandish when you think about it, the range from $25,000 all the way up to President Obama who says $250,000. You guys are considered are the middle -- you know, considered the middle class. Does it matter how people just feel as opposed to what they're making? But how they feel how they're doing?", "Well, the middle class is a value set in America. I mean, it's -- unless you -- unless you have two jets or you're homeless, you feel like you're the middle class in America. It's part of our identity. The problem we have right now, you saw Democrats struggling, is America better off or America worse off today? The problem that we have right now, you saw Democrats struggling, it was, like, well, is America better off or is America worse off today? The problem we have right now is we now have two Americas. We're beginning to see the sort of split where some are better off and some are worse off. The people who are feeling worse off want to stay in the middle class. They desperately want to stay in the middle class. Romney, unfortunately, his only plan to keep them in the middle class is to cut his own taxes. Obama actually has the plan to keep them in the middle class and rebuild the middle class. I think Michelle can speak to that tonight as well -- the first lady can.", "I'm shocked -- I'm shocked to find that we may have different views on this. Middle class -- you know, this is a country of equal opportunity and we all believe that's what defines us as Americans. And when you say you're middle class, that's says, look, I'm no better or worse than anyone else, and I just deserve the same shot. That's really what people are saying. I think Romney's challenge, as well as Obama's challenge, is to tell us what's going to be different the next four years. What are we going to do that's going to change things? I think Obama, frankly, the administration, is exhausted. The poverty of ideas has hit them now. There is nothing new they can say, ,so far. Education may be one place, but what's going to be -- Romney hasn't done it either, by the way. Mitt Romney has to get up there and say, I'm going to turn what's been going on in Washington under Republicans and Democrats upside down. End all the crazy spending, get that money out of Washington, get it into your -- in your economy, not Washington's. We've been growing the wrong economy. But somebody has got to come out of this as change.", "All right. Alex, Van, good to see you both. We'll be watching. All right. It is a big night for the Democrats. Even bigger night for the man who's going to give the keynote address tonight. We're talking about Julian Castro. And if you don't know him, you soon will. He's one of the rising stars of the Democratic party. Our Ed Lavandera got the chance to meet him before the big night.", "Hey, everybody, I'm Julian Castro.", "First thing you need to know, it's pronounced hoo-lee-ahn Castro. The J is silent, not Julian. But even if you get the Spanish wrong, don't worry, San Antonio's Latino mayor has never mastered Espanol either.", "I understand Spanish better than I speak it. I grew up in my household with my mother and grandmother mostly speaking English. So, I understand it, but speaking it back is the challenge.", "Julian Castro's grandmother immigrated to San Antonio from Mexico and worked as a community activist in San Antonio's Chicano movements. From those humble beginnings, Julian Castro and twin brother went on to Stanford University and Harvard Law School. Now, he's a rising star in the Democratic party tapped to give the keynote speech at the Democratic convention, the same speech an unknown Barack Obama gave at the convention in 2004.", "You get talked about as someone who could be the first Hispanic governor of Texas, even -- some people even suggesting the first Hispanic president of the United States. Do you like that kind of talk? Can you handle that kind of pressure?", "No, I'd be lying if I said that's not flattering. Of course it's flattering to anybody, but the biggest mistake that I could make or anybody could make in this situation is to believe the press. To believe the hype.", "Castro was elected mayor in 2009, and then re-elected with 82 percent of the vote. Now, he's 37, the youngest mayor of a top 50 city in the United States. He's also used to the baby face jokes. (on camera): I think one of the funnier things that has happened to you, when you first met President Obama, he jokingly asked if you were the intern.", "That's right, yes.", "You being asked to do this speech, is that kind of making up for that jab?", "I don't know. I don't know. But I accept -- you know, I always got the age jokes at different points in my career.", "Is it still happening?", "Every now and then. You know, but I'm starting to get the gray hair that I need from my three-year-old daughter and from politics.", "This is the biggest speech of Castro's career. Latinos enjoyed prominent speaking roles at the Republican convention, and Castro must convince Latinos to stick with President Obama and turn out in big numbers. (on camera): But there are a lot of Latino leaders out there who say that President Obama has not been a friend of the Latino community.", "Under any score, immigration, education, health care, on any number of issues, he has been a very effective advocate for the community -- for the Latino community.", "He's in the midst of pushing for a small sales tax hike to fund pre-kindergarten programs for low-income children back in San Antonio. Castro enjoys a squeaky clean political image except for that 2005 San Antonio river walk parade scandal. Castro was a city councilman and couldn't make it to the parade in time. So, his twin brother jumped on the city council float instead. Castro's political opponents said the brothers were trying to fool the massive crowd. Castro laughs it off now. (on camera): How can we be sure that you're going to be the Castro brother giving the speech tonight?", "Well, he says he's a lot better looking than I am. So, there you go. And the wedding ring is another good (", "Actually, his brother, Joaquin Castro, will introduce his twin at the convention. You'll see the Castro brothers standing side by side. Ed Lavandera, CNN, San Antonio, Texas.", "Democrats bringing out the heavy hitters this week. The lineup of the speakers includes the first lady, former presidents and rising stars in Democratic party. First lady Michelle Obama speaking tonight. So does San Antonio mayor Julian Castro. Tomorrow night, former president Bill Clinton takes the stage and Thursday vice president Biden, he's going to accept his nomination ahead of President Obama's acceptance speech. Hear what's -- here's what we're working on for this hour. President Obama speaking to voters in Virginia on his last stop before heading to his party's convention. Heat could be a deadly problem today for storm victims living without air-conditioning, that's in Louisiana and Mississippi. Of course, we keep hearing about the middle class and the election but who exactly is the middle class, and how much do you need to make to actually be in it?"], "speaker": ["SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR", "ALEX CASTELLANOS, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "MALVEAUX", "MICHELLE OBAMA, FIRST LADY", "MALVEAUX", "VAN JONES, PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER, REBUILD A DREAM", "MALVEAUX", "JONES", "MALVEAUX", "ANN ROMNEY", "MALVEAUX", "CASTELLANOS", "JONES", "CASTELLANOS", "MALVEAUX", "JONES", "MALVEAUX", "JONES", "CASTELLANOS", "MALVEAUX", "JULIAN CASTRO, MAYOR, SAN ANTONIO", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CASTRO", "LAVANDERA", "LAVANDERA (on camera)", "CASTRO", "LAVANDERA (voice-over)", "CASTRO", "LAVANDERA", "CASTRO", "LAVANDERA", "CASTRO", "LAVANDERA (voice-over)", "CASTRO", "LAVANDERA (voice-over)", "CASTRO", "INAUDIBLE.) LAVANDERA (voice-over)", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-75016", "program": "CNN LIVE SUNDAY", "date": "2003-8-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/10/sun.15.html", "summary": "Power Outages in Basra Fuel Protests", "utt": ["In Iraq, power outages in the southern port city of Basra are fueling anger and protests. Many are taking to the streets. And in one incident a coalition subcontractor was killed, shot by Iraqis while delivering mail to the U.N. Our Harris Whitbeck brings us the very latest on the unrest in Iraq.", "More protests and more attacks on coalition forces in Iraq in the southern city of Basra. Iraqis burned tires and mobbed gasoline stations to protest a lack of fuel and electricity. British troops, who are charged with supervising Basra, took fire from within the crowd and responded. Three British soldiers were injured by protesters throwing stones, and one protester was apparently hit by gunfire, but it is not clear whether he was hit by British fire or by gunshots fired from within the crowd. This is the second day of protests in Basra, a city that has been generally peaceful in comparison to other cities in Iraq. Meanwhile, FBI agents are working with the Iraqi police in Baghdad to investigate the bombing of the Jordanian embassy which on Thursday, left at least 16 people dead. Coalition officials said Friday they suspect terrorists linked to al Qaeda are behind the attack. They are specifically focusing on Ansar al Islam, a militant organization operating in northern Iraq whose training camp was bombed during the early days of the war by the United States. U.S. administrator, Paul Bremer, says he fears that international terrorist organizations might be planning large-scale terrorist attacks in the Iraqi capital. Harris Whitbeck, CNN, Baghdad."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "HARRIS WHITBECK, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-158358", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2010-11-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1011/17/acd.02.html", "summary": "Palin Considering White House Run", "utt": ["Sarah Palin says she is considering launching a bid for the White House in 2012. She said it to \"The New York Times\" magazine and also in an upcoming interview with Barbara Walters. ABC News has released a clip of the interview. Here it is.", "I'm looking at the lay of the land now and -- and trying to figure that out if it's a good thing for the country, for the discourse, for my family, if it's a good thing.", "If you ran for President, could you beat Barack Obama?", "I believe so.", "Well, in \"The New York Times\" magazine article she yet again takes aim at members of the media, insisting she's as accessible as any other political figure. She told \"The New York Times\" magazine, quote, \"I'm on television nearly every single day with reporters. Now, granted that's mainly through my job at Fox News and I'm very proud to be associated with them. But I'm not avoiding anything or anybody. I'm on Facebook and Twitter. I'm out there.\" \"Keeping Them Honest\" Sarah Palin is not exactly out there. She rarely takes questions from other reporters and even tells other politicians like Christine O'Donnell to do the same. You may recall this tweet she posted in mid-September directed at O'Donnell, \"Time's limited\", she tweeted. \"Use it to connect with local voters whom you'll be serving versus appeasing national media seeking your destruction.\" So not doing interviews with reporters who might be critical or ask tough questions is absolutely her right. But to say you're not avoiding anything or anybody that's not true. Because you're on Facebook and Twitter it doesn't mean you're out there doing that either. Which is not to say that Sarah Palin isn't doing a remarkable job getting her message out, she certainly is. No other potential candidate is using Twitter and Facebook as effectively as Sarah Palin. And her new TV show on TLC brilliantly sells the Palin brand. The first episode had some five million viewers, many times more than have ever watched a program on TLC. It's not the kind of program her critics may want to see certainly. But her fans love it and others may form a positive opinion about Palin after seeing her out there and interacting with her family. So is Palin really ready to run? Joining me now Democratic strategist and Obama campaign pollster, Cornell Belcher; and contributor Erick Erickson, editor-in-chief of RedState.com. Erick, you read the -- the interview in \"The New York Times\" magazine --", "Correct.", "-- which was fascinating because it really focused on sort of her inner circle and -- and that the loyalty that they have to her and that she wants from them, very understandable. Do you think she's ready to run in terms of her organization?", "I'm not sure she's ready to run a national campaign in terms of an organization. You need many more people than who she has, but she has surrounded herself with some very bright and very loyal people, which is a starting point she's going to have to have. After 2008 I suspect she and her husband are both very skeptical of some of the people who may want to latch on to her, if only to make money for themselves and not to actually help the Palins. But she's going to have to have a lot of discernment going forward. A lot of people who say they're her friend really aren't.", "Even if she -- if she does get the right campaign staff, are they going to be able to -- I mean to operate effectively? Because just -- just given from what I read in the \"Times\" article, it seems a very kind ad hoc organization that she has, which, you know, her -- her supporters will say, look, it's -- it's worked effectively in terms of, you know, keeping her out in the public eye and reversing a lot of the negative perception of her after she -- she dropped out of being the governor.", "Well, you know that is one of the criticisms some on the right level is that she's very hard to get a hold of. Her staff is not very responsive. I'm not sure what that issue is. I don't have a hard time getting a hold of people in her organization and many others I know don't. But the criticism is there, and at some point there will have to be changes made at that level. To be more responsive to some of the interest groups who would like to get a hold of her. But again, she's not running yet and there are a lot of people right now who want to get their claws into her to make money for themselves, not to help Sarah Palin. And she's using some -- some discernment on that but at the same time I'm worried that she might over-compensate and -- and be overly aggressive in shutting some people out she can't afford to.", "Cornell, what is your take on -- on -- on Palin saying this, basically just being announced today, that -- that -- that she is seriously looking at this stuff?", "Look, I -- I think Erick and I actually agree on this, that she does speak to something, the grassroots of the Republican Party in a way that none of the other mainstream candidates right now speak to. Look -- look, looking back over the year that has been the way she has turned the Republican establishment absolutely on its ear in primary after primary; I think you take her lightly at your own peril. I -- you know, I wouldn't be surprised at all if she -- if she ran right now, and looking at what the -- the effect that the Tea Party, that she speaks to, had on the Republican primaries this past year, I don't know why you can't -- you can look at what she's done and argue that she's -- she's not a formidable and credible candidate. Yes, you guys are absolutely right, she's going to have to get better with the infrastructure piece of this and you can't dodge reporters in -- in -- in Iowa and New Hampshire, you just can't -- you can't do that. But to a certain extent, she's out in front in a lot of different ways. But the new media stuff reminds me a lot of -- of Governor Dean, whose birthday it is today -- happy birthday governor -- who was out in front on all of this sort of stuff, sort of tapping into that early. But he couldn't -- but that campaign didn't transform it into sort of an organization that the way -- if she could tap into this new media and bring this to bear in an organizational way, I think she becomes even more formidable in the Republican primary.", "Erick, I mean, I -- I'm fascinated by her, I think, obviously she's a fascinating figure, and whether people like her or not and -- and you know obviously, things are very divided, I mean, you can't -- you can -- I don't think any -- I think as -- as Cornell said, you underestimate her at -- at your peril. Have you ever seen a -- a candidate or a potential candidate who makes their critics' head explode, heads explode in a way that Sarah Palin does? Because it does seem like those who oppose her -- it's kind of --", "Right.", "-- they seem to go nuts about it.", "Oh it's -- it's hilarious.", "-- because -- because the more they criticize her, the more successful she becomes, among those who support her, and that just makes the critics go nuts even more.", "Look. If as much energy was spent into reviving the economy as was spent in trying to discern the criminology of typos she makes in her Twitter feed we would probably all be very rich right now as a nation. It's -- it's amazing to me the amount of time and energy people spend on things like that. You know, I -- I hate to use this comparison because people will read into it more than I'm trying to say but the -- the last guy that I can remember doing this was in '76 with Reagan when you had critics on the left and the right say who is this actor? He's -- he's done nothing. Never mind that he was the governor of California. And people were very dismissive of him in '76. Now, he didn't go into win in '76 but he did go on after that and -- and win in 1980. And a lot of people, not just Democrats, but a lot of Republicans wanted to know who was this guy, what qualifies him to run and he was tapping into something that people didn't understand at the time.", "Erick, did you just make her into Reagan, by the way? I think you just made her into Reagan.", "Cornell, I want to play for our viewers something that Palin said in an interview yesterday. Because it's the kind of thing that for those who don't like it, don't like her, it makes their heads explode. So let's watch this.", "And we know that Obama wasn't vetted through the -- the campaign, and now, you know, that some things are coming home to roost, if you will, with his inexperience and his associations. And that ultimately harms our republic when a candidate isn't -- isn't vetted by the media, that cornerstone of our democracy.", "So obviously her critics will say, you know those who still have their heads, will say, well look, she avoids, you know, a lot of national media. She's very selective in who she talks to and -- and you can make the argument that that she hasn't been vetted. Her supporters will say, well, look, she's been vetted very closely by a lot of people who have their knives out for her.", "Two things, one is it's kind of hard to argue that Barack Obama wasn't vetted given all the things -- sort of the way the news media came -- went through -- through his stuff but also -- the -- the most skillful political operation in the last decade being the -- being the Clintons and the primary vetted him very well. So it's -- it's kind of hard, sort of that stand up and he certainly didn't run or dodge, from -- run from reporters. But the other part about this is really interesting to me, because -- because you know, there comes a point in this where, does she look like a victim of the -- of the national media and the establishment. And if she starts to sort of looks like the victim of that, particularly with a -- with a female candidate, there is something there to sort of rally her supporters even more around her. So to a certain extent I think sort of her positioning herself as a being victim of - of -- of the -- the lame stream media sort of helps her strategically with a lot of her key supporters.", "No doubt about that. Erick -- Erick though, her critics say that she plays the victim.", "Yes, you know Anderson, let me actually go back to something Cornell said that answers your point as well, and -- and that is you know the interesting thing about a statement like this is there are a lot of Republicans who don't like Sarah Palin but when they hear a statement like that and what Cornell just said they immediately want to start screaming at the TV, where are his college transcripts? Where was his medical file? He only sent out a letter. Where are the constituent letters from when he was in the state legislature? Where are the case files from when he was a lawyer in Chicago? It drives people in the right mad about things like that and a lot of people who aren't necessarily Sarah Palin fans rush to her defense on that. And she plays it very, very well, intentionally or not, simply because this polarization that has developed around her and this great disconnect about who she is. I mean, we're talking about \"Dancing with the Stars\" and whether or not her celebrity is impacting her daughter on that show. I can't remember a candidate ever, including Ronald Reagan, who had something like that happen.", "Just in our own defense we have not discussed that on this show, though. Tomorrow -- who knows --", "There you go, it's good.", "-- now that you brought it up. I think we've talked enough about in ways that will both -- that will make people's heads explode on both sides of the aisle in this last segment. So Cornell Belcher, I appreciate that and Erick Erickson as well.", "Thank you.", "Guys thanks. All right, coming up keeping the governor of New Jersey honest over the controversial video that got one former hero -- a teacher suspended. And the man police say took a shotgun, blasted a hole in his TV -- what he was watching that apparently drove him over the edge. Erick Erickson sort of hinted at it. 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{"id": "CNN-401834", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-06-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/04/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Trump's Protest Response Leaves Trudeau Speechless", "utt": ["President Trump is lashing out at his former Defense Secretary James Mattis, who earlier, issued a harsh rebuke of the man he once served. It read in part, \"When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream the troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstances to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens; much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.\" [01:20:] He went on to say, \"Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people, does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.\" On the same day, President Trump's current Defense Secretary of -- Secretary of Defense said, he does not support the President's threat to send U.S. troops to quell violence on American streets. Kaitlan Collins has details from the White House.", "Well, on the day that you saw the current Defense Secretary, his job security be cast into doubt after he came out at a press conference and contradicted the President, said he did not agree with him on his thought to invoke that 200-year-old law about putting current active duty military troops on U.S. streets. We also saw the former Defense Secretary under President Trump, James Mattis, come out with a withering statement, criticizing the President not only over the last few days and how he's handled the aftermath of George Floyd's death here in the United States and their response to it, but also criticizing him overall as president, saying that he has done nothing in the last three years to unite the country. Instead, he has only divided it. And Mattis saying that he believed the President had abused his executive authority when those protesters were cleared from the street on Monday night, so he could make that photo op trip to St. John's Church where, of course, he posed with a Bible outside. Now, focusing on the current Defense Secretary Mark Esper, we saw him come out at this press conference, say he did not agree with the President's threat to invoke the insurrection act, but also he said he was aware that they were walking across the park when they left the White House on Monday, but he wasn't aware it was going to turn into a photo op. He and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff faced heavy criticism for that, because, of course, the question was, are they politicizing the military? Esper says, No, they're not. But he broke with the President in a pretty remarkable way. And that followed a very lengthy meeting that he had at the White House, though right now, sources say he was on thin ice before this event happened. But currently, he still is expected to stay on the job. So, to be determined on that. But, of course, just hours later, and something that may have helped Esper stay in his job was this lengthy statement that we saw coming from Mattis, where he skewers the President and his leadership, saying basically that the country and the military and the Pentagon have to rise above the President's leadership or lack thereof, he says. It is a blunt and brutal statement coming from someone who works for the president, and of course, later resigned in protest. The President pushed back but not in his normal characteristic way he criticized Mattis, talked about his nicknames that he had while he was in the military, but he did not respond to the primary criticism coming from that letter from Mattis. Kaitlin Collins, CNN, the White House.", "Joining me now is retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Russel Honore from Baton Rouge. He is also the author of the book, \"Leadership in the New Normal.\" General, I just want to ask you, what does it take for a man like Mattis, Semper Fi and all, a military man to come out and speak the way he did today?", "I think he's a man of honor. And he remembers his oath that he spent decades serving this nation and he knows the Constitution. So, he speak with authority because he knows and follows the Constitution. And I think the challenge he was giving to the President was that the President either doesn't know the power -- the Constitution or he doesn't give a damn, but Mattis does.", "And do you think that what he wrote is going to make any difference?", "I think it will sort out and get the lawyers and the Congress and the Senate talking in Washington about the presidential powers to deploy armed forces inside the United States. They need to have that discussion. Because it's not like sending the army out in the Navy to go help during the pandemic, this is different. And the White House need to understand that. He does not have the authority to use the Insurrection Act at will based on his assessment of what kind of job the governors are doing. That is the reason we have another act called the Posse Comitatus, which prevent presidents from deploying federal troops to go interfere in state matters.", "General Mattis, you know, served in the White House. He's been gone more than a year. Interesting that this was the moment that he chose to speak. This was what made him break his silence. What do we read into that, that this was the moment that did it for him?", "Well, I think you might seem to know those of us in uniform, the covenant for us is the Constitution. That's what it's all about people in military now, volunteers, and we support and defend that Constitution. And I think what scared Gerald Mattis and he had to speak up, I spoke up myself and many other general officers and admirals, that don't mess with this Constitution, don't break this constitution, don't give the governors -- threaten the governors with the use of federal troops. That's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. And we need to make sure that our troops understand that they had a rock steady, stay focused on your mission and follow the orders of the officers appointed over you.", "Lieutenant General Russel Honore, thank you very much for joining us.", "Have a good day.", "Protesters filled London's Hyde Park and marched through the city on Wednesday, showing their solidarity with protesters in the United States, and also highlighting racism in the U.K. Star Wars actor John Boyega, one of many, making his voice heard.", "This is very important, this is very vital. Black lives have always mattered. We have always been important.", "The protests were met with a stark message from the British Prime Minister. Take a listen.", "We mourn George Floyd, and I was appalled and sickened to see what happened to him. And my message to President Trump, to everybody in the United States from the U.K. is that I don't think racism or race is an opinion, I'm sure is shared by the overwhelming majority of people around the world. With racism racist violence has no place in our society.", "Now, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also expressed horror at the events unfolding in the U.S., yet, like Boris Johnson, fell short of criticizing President Trump. However, as CNN's Paula Newton reports, Mr. Trump's call for military intervention did elicit a rather awkward reaction.", "For several days, Canadians have shown solidarity with American protesters, demanding justice for George Floyd and denouncing racism in Canada, too. And so, it was a fair question, one Canada's Prime Minister should have been expecting.", "You've been reluctant to comment on words and actions of the U.S. President. But we do have Donald Trump now calling for military action against protesters. We saw protesters tear gassed yesterday to make way for a presidential photo op. I'd like to ask you what you think about that. And if you don't want to comment, what message do you think you're sending?", "21 excruciating, uncomfortable seconds. Then finally --", "We all watch in horror and consternation what's going on in the United States. It is a time to pull people together. But it is the time to listen. It is the time to learn what injustices continue despite progress over years and decades. But it is a time for us as Canadians to recognize that we too, have our challenges, that black Canadians and racialized Canadians face discrimination as a lived reality every single day.", "No direct answer, no rebuke of President Trump. Just an awkward equivocal silence that revealed so much. Trudeau has had a difficult relationship with Donald Trump. The President called him dishonest and weak during the G7 summit in 2018. And with tariffs and threats, President Trump has treated Canada like an economic rival, not an ally In his silence, Trudeau seemed to squirm knowing one word, one slight could work against Canada's best interests and especially during these pivotal times, there is just too much to lose. One of the world's most lucrative and dependent trading relationships. And Trudeau's ambivalence might owe much to this as well. Photos of him that surfaced last year showing him wearing black face at a party two decades. Some opposition leaders said Trudeau should have had the courage to call out the President's actions with one saying he should grow a spine. But in 21 seconds of silence, Trudeau seemed to reason with himself the stakes were just too high. Paula Newton, CNN -- Ottawa.", "And meanwhile, President Trump's predecessor is praising the protesters and says they have reason to be hopeful. We'll bring you Barack Obama's very pointed message. Plus Hong Kong prepares to mourn the victims of the Tiananmen Square protests but this year's memorial will look a little different. We'll be live in Hong Kong with the latest."], "speaker": ["WATT", "KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "WATT", "LT. GEN. RUSSEL HONORE (RET.), U.S. ARMY", "WATT", "HONORE", "WATT", "HONORE", "WATT", "HONORE", "WATT", "JOHN BOYEGA, ACTOR", "WATT", "BORIS JOHNSON, PRIME MINISTER OF BRITAIN", "WATT", "PAULA NEWTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NEWTON", "JUSTIN TRUDEAU, PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA", "NEWTON", "NICK WATT, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-155172", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-9-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/03/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Discovery Channel Building Reopened After Hostage Crisis", "utt": ["We are keeping an eye on this storm. A storm that's now a Category 2 hurricane. On the left there, you're seeing the waves pick up in New Jersey. On the right, that's Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina, that got sideswiped. Went through kind of a rough night, waves still kicking up, but no one has gotten a direct hit as of yet. But still causing all kinds of problems with this storm. Wind gusts are going up to 70 miles per hour in some areas. Few power outages reported as well. But still, a lot of people on the lookout for this storm, going to cause problems up and down the East Coast for the rest of the day, maybe the next couple of days, actually. We are keeping a close eye here at your hurricane headquarters. Also want to take a look now at some of the stories that are making headlines. The fire is now out. That was a Gulf oil platform. Look at this dramatic picture, though. These are the 13 crew members that had to be rescued. They got into the water okay. But there was a fire on their oil platform they were working on. Also, importantly, to note here, which a lot of people were concerned about when they first heard about the story, there is no sign of any oil sheen or any type of leaks associated with this just yet. That is good news. This is still under investigation. Also, the Discovery Channel hostage-taker, turns out he was once convicted of immigrant smuggling. We're starting to learn more and more about this man. James Lee is his name. He was sentenced at one point to 18 months in prison on the charge of immigrant smuggling. He blasted immigrants in his manifesto that he left behind. Of course, he took hostages at the Discovery Channel headquarters up in Silver Spring, Maryland, because he was upset with some of their programming. The picture you are seeing here, this is out of Miami, the airport there has reopened. It was closed a short time, several hours, actually, because a bomb squad needed to check out what was a suspicious item. That use turned out to be a metal canister that looked kind of like a pipe bomb. They checked it out. All clear. Everything is open once again. Again, just a short time ago, we saw the monthly jobless numbers. They are out. We'll see how the news is affecting Wall Street. The opening bell just about four minutes away. Stay here."], "speaker": ["HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-120355", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-10-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0710/03/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Deadly Fire at a Hydroelectric Plant; Coal Miners Families Vent Their Anger; Roads Buckling, Houses Sinking", "utt": ["Fire in a tunnel 1,500 feet underground, five trapped workers turn up dead hours after radioing rescuers that they weren't badly hurt. We're live at the hydroelectric plant high in the Rocky Mountains.", "Two months after six coal miners were killed in Crandall Canyon, their families vent their anger, frustration and pain on Capitol Hill. Hear their stories like never before. Hello everyone, I'm Don Lemon live at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta.", "And I'm Kyra Phillips. You're live in the CNN NEWSROOM. Taking you live now to La Jolla, California, this is just outside of San Diego. It's a suburb of San Diego. SCTV bringing us these live pictures right now. It's Soledad Mountain Road, there in La Jolla, California if you're familiar, not far actually from the beach. You can see that the streets have actually -- they started cracking and then buckling, one home even sinking into the middle of that road right there, as you can see. Apparently, police officers there have been setting up a barrier around the area, not quite sure if that crackling, that buckling will continue. They're getting people to evacuate from their homes. Also, San Diego Gas and Electric has shut off the power to this area as a safety precaution. Here is an idea, if you are not familiar with that area just off Interstate 5 there in the area of La Jolla, a very hilly area, not far from the water. A very expensive area, too, these homes millions of dollars in the La Jolla, California area. There's a bit of a wider perspective from the helicopter. But not quite sure what caused this, but we're following it. It's being called a landslide. It's being called cracking, buckling. We're just now getting these pictures, trying to figure out what's happening at this specific area and what caused this. But we're going to get as much information as possible and let you know what's happening there on Soledad Mountain Road in La Jolla, California.", "Heart broken families now breaking their silence. The relatives of six dead Utah miners tearfully remembering their brothers, fathers, husbands, at a Congressional hearing and angrily asking, why the Crandall Canyon mine became a tomb. Let's go straight to Capitol Hill and CNN's Brianna Keilar. Hi, Brianna.", "Hi there Don. These family members making it very clear to congress they are angry. They are angry at both Bob Murray, the owner of the Crandall Canyon Mine and at MSHA, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, MSHA for short, the government agency responsible for mine oversight in the United States. They say their loved ones became the victims of an environment where MSHA just rubber stamped this Murray plan for a mine there in Utah, for a mine that they say never should have been given approval. They say that the mine operated in a way that put production well before safety. We also heard from Mike Marasco, he is the son-in-law of Kerry Allred, one of those miners, and he told congress about the aftermath following the accident.", "The manner in which Murray and MSHA dealt with us for the first two weeks after the collapse was unbelievable. They just told us what we wanted to hear and not the facts. All we heard was earthquake, earthquake. We did not want to hear about earthquakes, but wanted to know when we were going to see our loved ones again. Murray, more than once, yelled at us when we asked questions. For the families that are Hispanic, there was no translator for the first two days.", "Family members told Congress that their loved ones, both miners who were trapped on August 6th and also at least one miner who died in a rescue attempt on August 19th, that they were concerned about the safety of the mine before the accident ever happened. The wife of one of the miners, who was attempting to rescue his fellow miners, she said he told her that there were mountain bumps that were worrying him, mountain bumps that were registering on the Richter scale, this before the mountain bump that eventually caused the collapse on August 6th. These family members said those miner's safety concerns were ignored by Murray Energy. We did call Murray Energy to see if we could get a comment from Bob Murray, but we were told that he is unavailable to comment today -- Don?", "So these families speaking out today, Brianna, you have to wonder, what's next for them?", "Yeah. One of the resonating themes we heard was that they want some closure. It is so difficult for them. Of course, the bodies of their loved ones were never recovered. At this point, one of the women, a woman who lost her son, she said she wants the bodies to be located. She wants to put a marker on the mountain above where she knows the bodies are. We also heard one of the people testify and say that they're looking into a lawsuit. So, that's certainly something we had heard before and we heard that today on the hill -- Don?", "CNN's Brianna Keilar, thank you for your report, Brianna.", "A deadly fire deep underground. Five workers are killed, what went wrong? Investigators from all over are at a hydroelectric site in Georgetown, Colorado. So is our Chris Lawrence. Chris, any answers yet to what happened?", "They're coming slowly, Kyra. As of a couple of hours ago, the officials still had not determined the identities of the five workers who were killed and their bodies are still resting, about 1,000 feet deep into that tunnel. Now, we know these workers had a piece of equipment with them that was capable of causing a fire. We can't be sure if it actually did. The main focus today, to bring the bodies back up to the surface and investigate the scene of that fire to figure out how it started.", "We have two confined space injury teams coming in today. We need to repurge the tunnel for air and make sure the air quality is safe for our operations.", "We are getting a little bit more background on the companies involved. This hydroelectric plant was built about 40 years ago and it sits about 10,000 feet above sea level. Its run by a company called Xcel. And they began planning this maintenance action about a year ago. They hired a company out of California called RPI Coating. And the workers, the contractors who were hired from that company started their work in the pipe about a month ago. From what we know, they had about at least another month of work to go -- Kyra?", "All right, Chris Lawrence, we'll continue to follow up with you. Appreciate it. We hope to learn even more at the bottom of the hour, that's when company officials will meet with reporters. Again, our Chris Lawrence will be there. You can catch their comments right here in the", "A registered sex offender on the run. Authorities in Florida on the hunt. They're looking for this man, 46-year-old William Joe Mitchell. He allegedly lured a 15-year-old girl from her Bartow, Florida home after meeting her on the MySpace Web site. She was found safe yesterday about 400 miles away at a Florida Wal-Mart where authorities say Mitchell apparently abandoned her. He was driving a 2000 black Chevy Lumina with a Florida tag G025EL. He's considered very dangerous.", "We ask the question, why is this person on the street? We know that he's dangerous. We know that he's violent. He has struck before and he's struck again. Quite frankly, when you look at predators, that's their trend. They look for profiles of chat rooms online. Then they groom the children. In this case, talked this girl in less than two weeks from leaving her home in the middle of the night, climbing out of a bedroom window, and going with him. That's just how much personality they have. That's how dangerous they are.", "If you have any information, please call the Polk County Sheriff's tip line. That number is 863-533-0344. We expect to hear more at a news conference in the 3:00 p.m. hour Eastern right here in the", "It's a risk that few politicians would take going on record against expanded health insurance for children. But, President Bush did just that this morning. He vetoed a $35 billion bill that he says amounted to a big step toward socialized medicine. The SCHIP program benefits families that earn too much for Medicaid, but not enough to afford private insurance. The Senate has enough votes to override the veto, but the measure cleared the House with less than a two-thirds veto proof majority. Right after this veto, President Bush headed to Pennsylvania to talk more about federal spending and today's VETO. He said the health insurance bill went far beyond simply insuring low-income kids.", "I wanted to share with you why I vetoed the bill this morning. Poor kids first. Secondly, I believe in private medicine, not the federal government running the health care system. I do want Republicans and Democrats to come together to support a bill that focuses on the poor children. I'm more than willing to work with members of both parties, from both houses.", "Public opinions strongly favors the Democrats on this one. A new \"Washington Post\"/ABC News poll finds 72 percent of Americans support an increase in federal spending on children's health insurance. Just 25 percent oppose it. Stay with us next hour, White House correspondent Ed Henry will join us with more on the president's veto and the political fallout.", "Angry parents in St. Paul, Minnesota, after seven middle school students are rushed to the hospital, they'd ingested what some apparently thought was candy. It was really crystal methamphetamine. The kids say they got it from a 14-year-old fellow student. She's now in a juvenile detention center. And officers say the found crystal meth at the girl's home. The seven students were treated and released. Later on this hour, we're going to take a closer look at the incident and also that investigation.", "Live pictures out of San Diego, California right now, thanks to our affiliate XETV. Streets buckling under a landslide and one home actually sinking in this La Jolla area of San Diego. Residents are being asked to evacuate. Also, electrical power has been shut off to this area. We'll have more coming up right after the break.", "Carol Ann Gotbaum was arrested, handcuffed and found dead within minutes. But officials in Phoenix say it will be weeks before they will be able to say what killed her.", "Also, she's opening up her lead against fellow democrats. Can anyone catch Senator Hillary Clinton?", "Plus, a major mistake at the lab. Why didn't anyone catch it before she had radical surgery? You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "PHILLIPS", "LEMON", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MIKE MARASO, SON-IN-LAW OF DEAD MINER", "KEILAR", "LEMON", "KEILAR", "LEMON", "PHILLIPS", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNDERSHERIFF STU NAY, CLEAR CREEK CO., COLORADO", "LAWRENCE", "PHILLIPS", "CNN NEWSROOM. LEMON", "SHERIFF GRADY JUDD, POLK COUNTY, FLORIDA", "LEMON", "CNN NEWSROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-301356", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-12-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/22/es.02.html", "summary": "Republicans & Democrats Point Fingers.", "utt": ["North Carolina lawmakers meet, but can't agree to repeal the state's so-called bathroom bill. People in the gallery chanted \"shame\" as a gavel came down and lawmakers headed home following a special session. Republicans and Democrats blame each other for breaking a bargain and failing to repeal the controversial bill. We get more now from CNN's Nick Valencia.", "Miguel and Christine, after nine hours of caucuses and lawmakers going in and out of recess, the North Carolina legislature was unable to reach consensus on about whether or not to repeal House Bill 2. The legislature adjourned without coming to a conclusion on what to do. So, for now, House Bill 2 stands as law in the state of North Carolina. In their closing statements, Republican leadership pointed at state Democrats for playing politics. Democrats for their part pointed right back at the Republicans. It was reported earlier this week that both parties leadership agreed to broker a deal in Charlotte if that city council was able to rescind their nondiscrimination ordinance, then Republicans would clear the way for repealing House Bill 2. That's anything but what happened here today in Raleigh. There has been no shortage of drama between the Republicans and Democrats here in the state. That promises to continue. There still is no clear date set when they take up the special session to discuss House Bill 2 next -- Miguel, Christine.", "All right. Nick Valencia, thank you for that, Nick. South Korea's constitutional court opening hearings this morning on the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye. Lawmakers impeached Park for her role in a corruption and an influence-peddling scandal. Prosecutors alleged she shared classified information with a close friend who also used relationship to embezzle millions of dollars intended for charity. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has signaled that he will run to replace Park if she is forced out.", ": And the death toll now rising to 33 in the explosion at the fireworks park north of Mexico City. Families of loved ones in a state of shock as the search continues for victims who may be trapped under that rubble. This as investigators try to figure out what caused the deadly blast. CNN's Leyla Santiago has more from the disaster in Tultepec.", "Christine, Miguel, it is the unknown that is sort of feeding the anxiety and desperation for families still searching for their loved ones. And it is also the unknown that is fueling the investigation for a lot of people here that are sorting through the debris trying to figure out exactly what caused. But the state government officials are not commenting on that right now. They have told me that they are focusing on the dozens of victims that they are now trying to support as a result. We should mention this is a massive market. About ten football fields and 300 vendors, all of which the government tells me had permits at the time of the explosion. And this is where children and families came for Christmas and New Year's Eve to get ready for the holiday season. But now, this is now an area where there's a search for answers -- Miguel, Christine.", "All right. Leyla Santiago, thank you for that. Here at home, parishioner has been charged with connection in a torching of a black church in Mississippi. Police say Andrew McClinton, a member of Hopewell Baptist Church in Greenville, set the fire on purpose. They are trying to figure out if he's also the one who wrote \"vote Trump\" on the side of the 111-year- old church. The pastor says last month's blaze mostly destroyed the sanctuary. So far, a motive has not been released.", "Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip postponing their Christmas travel plans. Buckingham Palace announcing both have heavy colds and won't be able to travel to the royal estate in Norfolk. CNN's Max Foster is live for us in London. This breaks tradition. How concerned are people there, Max?", "Well, the palace doesn't seem too concerned at this point. But what we have to do is sort of read what we can into the traditions which obviously go back such a long way. For the queen not to go Sandringham would be an extraordinary departure really from what they normally do this time of year. The plan is always go to Christmas. Her family then go to stay with her, Prince Harry for example has made his plans to go there at a big family Christmas. And she was due to go yesterday and photographers were waiting on the platform and police on the train platform with them, also the royal protection officers. It wasn't until a few minutes before she would go, that everyone stood down. That caused all sorts of concern. She always makes the train. And then for a few yours, you didn't hear anything from the palace until they came out with a very short statement. It said essentially both she and Prince Philip both had these bad colds and that's why they hadn't traveled. The question is will they travel today or tomorrow and get there for Christmas? And that will indicate how bad things are. They are both in their 90s now. So, a severe cold has a big impact on older people, bigger than you or I. All eyes on the flag in palace, Miguel, because that indicates the queen is in Buckingham palace, not in up in Sandringham where she is expected to go.", "She is, what? Ninety. He is 95. You do have to read a lot of tea leaves with the palace. What is your sense that she wanted to go and put everything in position so she could and decided at the last minute that it just wasn't possible?", "Well, it's interesting. I mean, it is the vacuum of information perhaps that's quite concerning because we're not getting running commentary. But at the same time, to be fair to the palace, they don't do that on private events. This is a private trip up to Sandringham. So, they are trying to balance that. Prince Philip did joke recently he hasn't had a cold in 40 years. He is 95. He's now has a cold. He has been ill before. But having said, they are both very fit for their age. They spend most of the time at Windsor Castle. And both go out riding regular, or he goes carriage riding. She goes riding every day. So, they are fit for their age. We have to keep that in mind. We are waiting for an update really from the palace.", "Very, very interesting. Thank you very much, Max Foster, for us in London.", "I wish them well. It is hard to have a cold. It's hard to be 90 and have a cold.", "It's said, and at Christmas.", "And it's a big tradition to go to Sandringham. I just watched \"The Crown\" on Netflix.", "And we are all focused on \"The Crown\" these days, yes.", "Yes.", "And a great history.", "And here, where we don't have crowns, but we do have an ascending --", "What's the play here? What's the segue?", "I don't know. We don't have a crown here. Donald Trump's vow to repeal and replace Obamacare is not stopping people from enrolling. That's right. We're going to show you the record high Obama enrollment numbers when we get a check on CNN Money Stream next."], "speaker": ["MARQUEZ", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "MARQUEZ", "LEYLA SANTIAGO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "MARQUEZ", "MAX FOSTER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MARQUEZ", "FOSTER", "MARQUEZ", "ROMANS", "MARQUEZ", "ROMANS", "MARQUEZ", "ROMANS", "MARQUEZ", "ROMANS", "MARQUEZ", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-141594", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2009-8-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/10/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Paula Abdul Heading for \"Dancing With the Stars?\"", "utt": ["Now on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Billy Mays`s cocaine shocker. The startling news that cocaine may have contributed to the excitable pitchman`s death. Should his ads get yanked from TV? The battle over Paula Abdul. She`s possibly heading to \"Dancing with the Stars.\" And she`s got an avalanche of other offers. Tonight, who`s showing Paula some big love?", "And Kathy Griffin`s hook-up with the teenage father of Sarah Palin`s grandson?", "I`m nominated for two Teen Choice Awards, and I thought I would ask the ultimate teen, Levi here, to come with me. He`s actually delayed hunting season by a day to share our love.", "We`ve got the scoop on this red-hot red carpet match-up. Plus, more stories breaking from the \"SHOWBIZ News Ticker.\" TV`s most provocative entertainment news show continues right now.", "Hey, why not? It`s work. It`s a wonderfully successful show. And, I mean, let`s be honest - don`t you know that Paula is sitting somewhere really kind of having a moment right now with all of these wonderful shows fighting over her? I think it really says to \"Idol\" that, \"You know what? I brought something to this table and it`s worth maybe just a little bit more than what you offered me.\" I don`t really blame Paula right now. I`d wait it out. I`d let the offers keep on coming.", "Yes. Carolina, you know, if Paula Abdul moved to ABC`s \"Dancing with the Stars,\" wouldn`t that just be the ultimate \"In Your Face\" moment?", "Oh, totally. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Isn`t that what they say and especially when you go against each other. Now, here`s what \"Idol\" needs to worry about. When they have results nights, they go directly against \"Dancing with the Stars.\" And you know, you`re going to have a lot of her fan base that are definitely going to follow her if she chooses to go that route. So, ABC, if they snag her, this is a big, big win for them.", "And another big \"Idol\" bombshell tonight, Kara DioGuardi`s shocking show of support for Paula Abdul. As we know, Kara was brought on last season as a fourth judge on \"Idol.\" Auditions for the new season of \"American Idol\" just got started in Denver. Take a listen to what \"Idol\" host Ryan Seacrest and Kara DioGuardi had to say to KDDR-TV station in Denver about how it felt without Paula.", "We`re saddened that we`re doing this because it feels strange to be here without her today. We love her. She`s a part of our family. So it`s going to be a different day for sure.", "I`m wearing black today, because I`m in mourning. I`m very, very sad about it. I mean, she is a huge loss for the show, a huge loss for the contestants and she`s my friend.", "There you have it. Kara DioGuardi dressed in black mourning Paula? But she also said she hopes Paula will reconsider. Lauren, do you buy it or do you think Kara is maybe a little glad to see Paula gone and get out of her shadow?", "You know what? I think Kara`s in that really interesting position of be careful what you wish for because you just might get it, because I think she`d be a liar if she didn`t think to herself, \"I wonder how I would do as the only female judge or if I could hold this ship down myself.\" But the problem is, now the ship is depending on her. And if it sinks, this is going to be a bad look for Kara and the guest judge. If they can`t give that same type of, you know, glamour and glitz and little bit of loony, train-wrecking style, TV drama that Paula brought, they`re in trouble.", "You know, Kara also mentioned in a different interview that Paula Abdul is irreplaceable on \"Idol.\" But in another brand-new development, Paula`s temporary replacement, Victoria Beckham, a.k.a. Posh Spice, sat in Paula`s chair as the first guest judge at the Denver auditions. And in a radio interview with Ryan Seacrest, Beckham said she was excited and had a little message for Paula. Listen to this.", "I am beyond excited. I mean, when I got the phone call, I just couldn`t believe it. I feel like I`ve got the best job that there is. I`m just so happy to be here.", "What would you say to her if she called you?", "I`d say, you know, good luck. I mean, she doesn`t need luck from me. I mean, she`s great. I`m a big fan of Paula`s. You know, I always have been of her music. And you know, thank you for giving me this opportunity. But she`s going to be great at whatever she does. There`s something great for her around the corner, I`m sure, that`s why she`s not doing this.", "I have to say she doesn`t sound as icy as she looks. So she`s wishing Paula luck, but at the same time, she says, this is the best job there is. Carolina, do you think once the season begins, maybe people will forget about Paula and actually see someone like Victoria Beckham as a fresh coat of paint for the show?", "No way. There`s no way to forget about Paula. That connection that she had with the contestants - it was undeniable. And I think that a lot of contestants have actually - Adam Lambert came out recently and said that`s the one thing that he felt so comfortable with going on stage, is Paula really puts her heart out there for people. Posh Spice or Victoria Beckham - not so cuddly and warm. I`m not going to go out there and that she is the sweetest of people. But I think it`s a great opportunity for her. But Paula is definitely going to be missed. And you can`t replace someone like that. She started the show.", "I have got to show you the blockbuster results of the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day. We asked on air and online - \"Paula Abdul: Does `American Idol` need her?\" Forty-nine of you say yes while 51 percent of you say no, who needs her? And we`ve got a call into our \"Showbiz on Call\" phone line from Lori in West Virginia who says, it just wouldn`t be the same without Paula. Listen to this.", "I think it`s a disgrace that Paula had to leave like she did. She`ll be missed, and the show just seems to be breaking up a little bit every year. I don`t really care for Kara. I like Paula. I like Randy. And Simon`s Simon, but we`ll miss Paula.", "Thanks, Lori. Carolina, do you think people are more outraged by the way \"Idol\" treated Paula or by the simple fact that she may not be there next season?", "I think definitely people are upset about the way that she was treated. Here`s the glass ceiling, guys. This is a typical glass ceiling for a woman in entertainment. Ryan Seacrest gets $15 million each year for three years, $45 million. Simon Cowell is being paid out the wazoo. I mean, if they`re really missing her, why couldn`t they thrown in some of their money so that they could keep it all together and keep that ship going?", "And why bring in another girl to split the salary?", "Lauren, when the new season of \"Idol\" begins, will Paula be back in the chair with a brand-new deal and everyone`s happy? Or do you think it`s really over?", "No. I think she will be back in that chair. They need to make sure she`s back in that chair.", "Yes. Tell them, Lauren. Tell them. It`s the truth.", "Well, Carolina Bermudez, Lauren Lake, we`re going to see whose predictions turn out to be true. Thanks very much. Tonight, the Billy Mays cocaine shocker. There`s startling news that cocaine may have contributed to the death of the over-the-top pitchman. Tonight, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT dares to ask, should his amped-up ads be pulled from TV? Plus, Kathy Griffin`s stepping out with the teenage father of Sarah Palin`s grandson? Yes, you heard me. We`ve got the jaw-dropping hook-up details. And speaking of things that will make your head spin, Oprah being sued for $1 trillion? The SHOWBIZ truth squad is getting to the bottom of this outrageous new Oprah drama. This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN. Now, the \"SHOWBIZ News Ticker\" - more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news right now.", "Fox to air a two-hour special on octomom Nadya Suleman. Elisabeth Hasselbeck welcomes her third child, Isaiah Timothy."], "speaker": ["BLOOM", "BLOOM", "GRIFFIN", "BLOOM", "LAUREN LAKE, AUTHOR, \"GIRL! LET ME TELL YOU\"", "BLOOM", "BERMUDEZ", "BLOOM", "RYAN SEACREST, HOST, \"AMERICAN IDOL\"", "KARA DIOGUARDI, JUDGE, \"AMERICAN IDOL\"", "BLOOM", "LAKE", "BLOOM", "VICTORIA BECKHAM, FORMER MEMBER, SPICE GIRLS", "SEACREST", "BECKHAM", "BLOOM", "BERMUDEZ", "BLOOM", "CALLER", "BLOOM", "BERMUDEZ", "LAKE", "BLOOM", "LAKE", "BERMUDEZ", "BLOOM", "TEXT"]}
{"id": "CNN-396957", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-04-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/07/cnr.21.html", "summary": "India to Relax Export Ban on Anti-Malaria Drug; China Reports No New Deaths for First Time in Months; Investigating the Origins of COVID-19.", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. India is relaxing its ban on the export of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine. U.S. President Trump has promoted this drug as a possible treatment for COVID-19 even though there is no definitive evidence to back that up. He said on Sunday there could be retaliation if India didn't release the U.S.'s supply of the drug. And for more I'm joined now by CNN producer, Vedika Sud. She is in New Delhi. Good to see you again, Vedika. So what more are you learning about India's decision to lift this ban?", "Well, this ban was in place on Saturday along with 14 other drugs. The focus has been on hydroxychloroquine as well as Paracetamol. But we're hearing now from the foreign ministry that issued a statement that after considerations of internal usage uses of the drug, they can go ahead and export. So pharmaceutical companies can go ahead do that. But this will essentially be for neighboring countries as well as countries who have been badly affected by HCQ. Just a word -- I've just spoken to a few doctors on the significance and the reason why HCQ is important. It is, like you said, Rosemary, an anti-malarial drug. It is also used for diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and also has anti-viral agents. In some cases in India as some doctors have told me this is used by front line health workers as I speak to you, and that's why it is something that the U.S. is also looking for. Also this was very easily available in India until a month ago over the counter and it was pretty reasonable to buy. But now the foreign ministry has made it very clear that immediately they will be monitoring the supply of this drug to other countries as well -- Rosemary.", "All right, many thanks to Vedika Sud bring us up-to-date on that lifting of the ban. Appreciate that. Well, China appears to have reached a turning point in its fight against the coronavirus. On Tuesday health officials reported no new deaths from the virus for the first time since January and now with the outbreak seemingly under control, China has been slowly allowing people back on the streets. But as David Culver reports, experts are warning that the country still faces serious risks.", "Photos taken over the weekend at this popular mountain hiking trail in eastern China show crowds of tourists standing barely six inches apart, forget six feet. Most wearing facemasks as they venture out of lockdowns and into nature enjoying a three-day Qingming holiday weekend. Seemingly comforted that the government has gotten the novel coronavirus outbreak under control despite warnings from health officials that the risks still linger. When we arrived in shanghai mid-February, popular this is what the popular Bund looked like. Only a few locals strolling the Riverwalk. Today we walked that same stretch and we were not alone. Standing in the same spots you'd struggle to think of this metropolis as 24 plus million was essentially shut down at the beginning of the year and now it is bustling once again. A couple of months ago we walked Nanjing Road in the midst of an outbreak. Stores open but empty. Here was my observation at the time. Notice the lack of crowds behind me. Sure, you've got a few folks that are out and about, but the vast majority of people still don't feel like as though they're coming onto the streets. (on camera): But that was two months ago. Look at the difference now. You can see the crowds building up behind me. People less and less fearful of venturing out and resuming life in this new normal. (voice-over): We went back to the same shops. The employees no longer desperate for customers. Local shanghai residents even hopping on board a tour bus. Ana Xu taking her 11-year-old daughter around the city. Schools still closed, consider this a field trip. They've adapted to the new mode of at-home learning. But Ana and her daughter ready for this long break from school to end. (on camera): Almost four months?", "Yes, yes,", "That's unbelievable. Is it hard to have everybody at home at the same time? Yes. Yes. Yes.", "That's unbelievable. Is it hard to have everybody at home at the same time?", "Yes, yes, yes.", "And while there is comfort to see restaurants filling up again or families having a picnic at local parks or kids being kids playing with friends, you've got to wonder, is it all happening too fast? Will this continue? Or might another wave of the outbreak send life here back inside? David Culver, CNN, Shanghai.", "David Culver with that report. Now based on what we know so far, it appears the virus originated around the Chinese city of Wuhan, but we don't know much else. Conspiracy theories abound of course and experts are divided about what science can tell us at this point. CNN's Drew Griffin reports on the race to find an answer.", "Because we don't know where the novel coronavirus came from yet, the conspiracy theories fill the void.", "I'm telling you, the Chicoms are trying to weaponize this thing.", "Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, with zero proof, suggesting a Chinese bioweapon lab is to blame. A Chinese official tweeting -- it might be U.S. Army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. But to find the real source of this pandemic, it's best to leave it to science. CNN has spoken to a half-dozen virus hunters, who right now say anyone who claims they know the exact source of the novel coronavirus is guessing. Did it come from bats? Most likely. Chinese researchers have already determined the coronavirus is 96 percent identical at the whole genome level to a bat coronavirus. 27 public health scientists from across the U.S. and the world wrote this letter in the journal \"Lancet\" condemning conspiracy theories and citing scientific evidence, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, that supports the theory that overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife, as have so many other emerging pathogens.", "The common thread is wildlife. These pathogens emerged from wildlife.", "One of those scientists is one of the most preeminent virus hunters in the world, Peter Daszak.", "Because we'd been doing this work in China for 10 years, we had a whole series of genetic sequences of viruses we have found with our colleagues. So, when they got a new virus in people because of COVID-19, they could compare it to what they'd seen in bats. So they knew straight away this is likely a bat origin virus.", "And because it has that 96 percent comparison rate to what was actually in a bat, that's why you're saying it's very, very likely this did come from a bat, although we don't know what this -- where this strain actually came from?", "We're very confident that the origin of COVID-19 is in bats. We just don't know where exactly it originates. And that's what we need to do now.", "It is a genetic detective story. Researchers will trace the virus that is killing thousands to a yet-to-be-captured bat in the wild, to a potential animal that became the crossover vehicle for COVID-19. Yes, the virus could have transferred directly from bat to human, but most likely, says Daszak, it was bats infecting farmed animals, the animals brought to market alive, and kept with people in one of the most perfect incubators for viral infection, the Chinese wet market.", "This huge diversity of animals lie in cages on top of each other, with you know a pile of guts that have been pulled out of an animal and thrown on the floor. And as you walk toward the stalls, you slip on feces and blood. These are perfect places for viruses to spread. But not only that, people are working there. People are coming in and buying animals. They're chopping them up in front of you. And kids are playing there. You know, families almost live there.", "It's called zoonotic spillover. Professor Andrew Cunningham, with the Zoological Society of London, has studied them for decades.", "Wet markets, these live animal markets, are certainly a very good way of, if you like, trying to get a virus to spill over into people from wildlife. They're susceptible to getting viruses or other pathogens from the environment or from other animals that they wouldn't naturally come into close contact with, again, because they're stressed. And then they can become virus factories. And they're in close contact with human beings in the markets, and they're butchered in the markets, and by people in relatively unhygienic conditions.", "Other researchers point to reports from China that some of the earliest cases were not associated with the wet market. And then there's this theory, widely debunked, this paper from two Chinese researchers that says it is plausible that the virus leaked accidentally from one of two labs near the Wuhan seafood market. After an uproar and heated denials by the Chinese government, one of the authors told \"The Wall Street Journal\" the paper had been withdrawn because it was not supported by direct proofs. Experienced virus hunter Daszak and Cunningham say the theory is bunk.", "People don't keep bats in captivity. Complete baloney.", "We don't need to invoke conspiracy theories. It's just basic biology.", "Tensions between the U.S. and China over the origins of the virus and accusations of misinformation from both sides are slowing the work of the virus hunters, who are grounded by the same travel restrictions that have crippled the world. That is concerning, because without knowing where it came from, there is still a chance that original host species is spreading it.", "If there was a so-called intermediate host, an animal that the bat virus got into, and then allowed it to get into people, the virus might still be in that host. Now, there are hundreds, thousands of these animals and farms, and maybe the virus is still there. So, even if we get rid of the outbreak, there's still a chance that that virus could then reemerge. And we need to find that quickly.", "Drew Griffin with that sobering report. Still to come on CNN. Crisis on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.", "This is what we train to do and this is what we signed up for, just not in this volume.", "We will have an exclusive look inside one New York City emergency room battling the virus. That's just ahead. Plus, the most senior Vatican official ever convicted of child sex abuse is now a freeman. Details on the ruling from Australia's high court. That's coming up as well. 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{"id": "CNN-246851", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2015-01-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/09/cg.02.html", "summary": "FBI Warns Law Enforcement After Paris Attack", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. We continue to wait for that Paris prosecutor who's going to give new details on today's amazing, stunning, tragic events. But turning first to our national lead, we have just learned that in the wake of this terrorist attack in France on Wednesday and the hostage stand-offs in Paris and outside Paris today, the FBI in country is warning law enforcement across the country. CNN's Pamela Brown is live in Washington with more on that. Pamela, is there any specific threat?", "At this point, Jake, we're being told by sources that there is no specific information indicating that anything's happening here in the U.S. But this bulletin is reminding law enforcement officials that al Qaeda and its affiliates are focused on attacking aviation, mass transit and major cities as well as anyone who might offend Islam. Now the bulletin mainly focuses on the fact that these attacks demonstrate a degree of sophistication and training traditionally not seen in recent small armed attacks. That's what caught the attention of officials here in the U.S. the bulletins said the shooters handled the situation with competency and familiarity. And that suggests formal training. One of the brothers apparently traveled to Yemen in 2011 and had some level of training with AQAP -- Jake.", "All right, Pamela Brown, thank you so much. Let's go now to Congressman Ed Royce. He is the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Congressman, thanks so much for joining us today. When you look at how everything has unfolded in France and you have the information about one of the brothers, Said Kouachi, going to Yemen in 2011, the claim of one of the Kouachi brothers that this entire operation was financed by Anwar Al Awlaki and AQAP. Other information, possibly AQAP, taking responsibility today as Jeremy told us. What concerns you the most about what that might mean here in this country?", "Several things. Anwar Al-Awlaki obviously was an inspirational figure and able to convince people to undertake really heinous actions if you think of the fort hood shooting, if you think of the way in which he convinced these two brothers basically to martyr themselves. What he was good at was convincing people that martyrdom was the way. And if you look at the attacks on the hospital in Yemen or the attacks on our embassy or the attack of the underwear bomber, it is clear that he and his particular affiliated al Qaeda organization down there has found a way to reach out far beyond the region into Europe, into the United States in order to get recruits to the cause.", "And what can be done about it, Congressman?", "Well, better intelligence. And in this particular case, French authorities did have a heads-up of the of the Algerian intelligence services. It is unfortunate that they weren't taking down very, very quickly. Obviously they were able to escape after the attack. Now, we can say one thing. It was good that once hostages were taken, that the operation in Paris ended up with the release -- because of the good work of the French authorities. But obviously this is going to be a real challenge for going forward for our counterterrorist organizations because of the degree of training that they're getting is equivalent to the degree of training that our police have. And that's part of the problem here.", "Very disturbing. Congressman Ed Royce, thank you so much. Coming up, they came face to face with murderous terrorists and lived to tell about it. One survivor says he even shook the hand of one of the killers. His story and more coming up next."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "REPRESENTATIVE ED ROYCE (R), FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHAIRMAN", "TAPPER", "ROYCE", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-55303", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-6-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/03/lt.26.html", "summary": "Mystery of Rilya Wilson Continues", "utt": ["We begin this hour in Florida with the ongoing mystery of Rilya Wilson. The foster child whose disappearance went unnoticed for more than a year won't be at a town hall meeting tonight in Miami, but she's the driving force behind it. CNN's Susan Candiotti joins us now with a preview -- Susan.", "Hello, Carol. Yes, we are expecting to be hearing from all kinds of people at this town hall meeting tonight, which will be held at a Baptist church in Miami. The town hall meeting was organized by a Florida representative who has expressed concern about not only the Rilya Wilson case, but how other foster children are being cared for in the state of Florida, and perhaps more importantly, how many other children might be missing. We now know since Rilya Wilson disappeared, or was last accounted for, back in January of 2001, that's when a case worker last filed a report about her, that there are other cases that are coming to light. We don't know exactly how many, because the state of Florida is supposed to be issuing a report that was supposed to be available at noon time today -- a couple of hours ago. We have been checking literally every half-hour, still no report. However, we have also asked whether the Florida governor, Jeb Bush, would be available for comment about these numbers when they come out. We are told, no, he's not available today. What about the woman who heads up the state agency in charge of these children? We were told, no, she's not available either today. Well, at the town hall meeting we do know that the local administrator for child welfare agency will be there to answer questions, as well as other lawmakers and other concerned citizens who will be there. In the meantime you may ask, where is Rilya Wilson? We don't know. Police tell us they have no hard leads to go on at this case. Despite their many efforts and a $50,000 reward, no one knows at this time the whereabouts of five-year-old Rilya Wilson -- Carol.", "And that is the tragedy of this. Thank you very much, Susan Candiotti, with the latest there. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-119241", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2007-8-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/20/acd.01.html", "summary": "Hurricane Dean Heads For Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone. Tonight, the first hurricane of the season has turned into the worst kind of hurricane there is. Hurricane Dean is now a Category 5 killer. Take a look at the satellite imagery. That thing is as big across as the state of Texas. It is packing sustained winds right now of 160 miles an hour and it is barrelling right now towards one of the busiest vacation spots around. It's already done a lot of damage, hammering Jamaica, tearing homes apart, plunging tens of thousands of people into darkness. At least seven people have died across the Caribbean. And this thing is just getting started. We have got people up and down the Yucatan Peninsula tonight. Gary Tuchman is in Tulum. Harris Whitbeck is in Chetumal, where the eye is expected to come ashore. Chad Myers is in the CNN Weather Center. We will also hear from Jason Carroll, who is in Cancun. Also tonight, more breaking news, fresh outrage from the families of six missing miners in Utah over word that that, even though it's too risky to go back into the mine and find them, Murray Energy still plans to reenter the mine one day to mine more coal. We start, however, with Hurricane Dean, and CNN's Chad Myers, who is tracking the storm for us in the Weather Center. Chad, where is this thing?", "It is south of major resorts, Anderson, from Cancun to Cozumel to Playacar, all of the way to Xcaret and Escucha, well south of there. Now, you are still going to get some slamming winds. These outer bands could still bring winds 85 miles to 100 miles per hour here. But the most dangerous, the Category 5 part of this storm, is literally around the eye, only about 10 miles from the eye in any direction. And then it starts to taper off from there. The storm is moving in, moving right into Chetumal just a little bit to the north. Maybe the southern part of the eyewall will get to that town or city, 100,000 people in that city. But other than that, this is a biosphere in here. This is a wildlife preserve. Now, other than the animals, you couldn't pick a better place for a Category 5 to land, assuming you're trying to save people. Now, the animals will get out of there. They will be able to take care of themselves. And then it's going to go right across the Yucatan Peninsula and back into a very warm Bay of Campeche. That's going to allow it to regain strength again, even though it may go from a Category 5. And the forecast is for it to go to a Category 1. I'm not sure I'm buying that. I'm not sure, in 10 hours, this storm is going to go from 160 to 85. Maybe it does. But, if it doesn't, if it gets out here, Anderson, at 110 or 120, then it's just going to roll right toward Tampico, Mexico. Here are the numbers, if you're paying attention, 18.2, 85.1. The winds are 160. It's about 210 miles. Now, that was the -- that was the 8:00 advisory, so maybe a few closer miles than that, maybe 190 or 180, southeast of Chetumal. And that is going to continue in that direction. So, the people there in Chetumal are going to have one very long night. I am expecting landfall probably close to about I would say 5:00 a.m. local time. Now, this is a radar, a literal radar out of Cancun. You can begin to see the first outer bands. We're going to see our Gary Tuchman in Tulum, which is right there. We're going to see some of these bands into Cancun rather quickly, and then later on in the night, that's when these Category 5 winds are going to come right south of the Tulum area and south of all those areas that you know so well as Cancun and Cozumel will get missed. It will be a battering storm, but at least it will missed, the 150-mile-per-hour winds not going to hit Cozumel or Cancun.", "Now, Chad, we are also expecting an update at some point throughout this next hour, correct?", "Yes. There still have been airplanes in the storm, still trying to find big winds. And the biggest wind, check this out. I know this is a prop plane. And they fly prop planes into these storms because they're afraid that a jet may have a flame-out. They found a wind at flight level, Anderson, of 189 miles per hour. I can't flying -- I can't imagine flying through that and what the turbulence must feel there. We will have a new update for you as soon as that comes out, probably around 10:45.", "All right, Chad, thanks very much.", "I don't know if we can put those Jamaica pictures back up. We were just showing some of the impact this storm had on Jamaica. And it really missed hitting full force, which is certainly a good thing on that island, no deaths reported, which is truly something to be very thankful for. Chad is going to be back with us all night over this next hour. Let's head now to the Yucatan Peninsula. Gary Tuchman is standing by in Tulum, Mexico. Gary, you starting to get some rain?", "The rains have just started in the last hour, Anderson. And we are in Tulum. This is to the northern part of where the eye is going to be that Chad was just talking about. And that is actually the bad side of the hurricane because of the counterclockwise winds of the hurricane. So, they are battening down the hatches in this small town of 10,000 people. It is a very small town. We're in the downtown part of it right now, about three miles away from the Gulf of Mexico. And the Gulf of Mexico is where many tourists go, Cancun 80 miles to the north of me. But tourists come for a day trip or two days, because there are famous architectural ruins, Mayan ruins that are there, buildings that are more than 1,000 years old. And there's a lot of concern how they will fare with these 150-, 160-mile-per-hour possible winds. Right now, though, here in the town, most people -- and it's a very poor town, for the most part -- 10,000 people, like I said, living here -- but, for the most part, people are taking the preparations very seriously. They have boarded up their homes. They're being very careful right now. About 45 minutes ago, it was a deluge for about a half-hour. And those were the outer bands moving in. Most of the people here, especially the kids, were running around the neighborhood", "Gary Tuchman, stay safe tonight. And, as you can see from that storm tracker, that satellite image in the lower right-hand corner of the screen, where the eye is going to come ashore is in Chetumal. That's what Chad Myers was saying. Troops there have been deployed. More than a foot-and-a-half of rain could fall by this time tomorrow. Let's take you there right now. CNN's Harris Whitbeck is standing by. Harris, is Chetumal ready for this thing?", "I certainly hope so, Anderson. This is going to be a huge storm. And there hasn't been a hurricane here since 1975. People so far seem pretty calm about it. Just a few minutes ago, we still had people walking out here along the waterfront, checking out the bay. The waters of the bay very calm, very little rain so far, and no winds. That, of course, is expected to change very rapidly over the next few hours. The Mexican government has over 700 shelters scattered throughout the peninsula, many of them here in Chetumal. The concern is that, right next to Chetumal, there's a big nature preserve. It's a big swamp that is populated by about 3,500 of members of an indigenous Mayan community. They have been evacuated from that community -- from that area, because they live in very flimsy dwellings, have been put in shelters here in Chetumal. And that's just one of the concerns local authorities will be facing tonight. Again, so far, it's very calm, but that's going to change very quickly.", "Yes. As Chad said, it's going to be a very long night for you and for all the residents there. Stay as safe as you can. Let's turn next to CNN's Jason Carroll. He's live in Cancun, joins us now by phone. Jason, what are the preparations there like?", "Well, we have been watching the preparations all day long, Anderson. The hotels here really feel prepared for whatever Dean has to offer. Right now, in standing out here, what we have been seeing is -- is the growing intensity of wind and rain and the pounding surf. And, on Friday, the governor was expecting even worse. And, so, what he was asking everyone to do, many of the tourists in this popular beach community, to evacuate. Between Friday and today, Anderson, 70,000 people, we are told, according to the secretary of tourism, have, in fact, left. But there are still some 20,000 people who are still here, many of those people staying in shelters, many of them staying in hotels, like we are. Many of these hotels were rebuilt, reinforced after Hurricane Wilma ripped through here two years ago, caused a great deal of damage. Tougher building codes were put into effect. And because of that, these people feel that they're better equipped to handle whatever Dean has to offer. What is happening inside some of these hotels is, they set up safe zones, Anderson. And what they tell you is, if you go into your room, you do so at your own risk. Obviously, if you go outside, you do so at your own risk. If you're in the hotel, you need to be in this safe zone, oftentimes which are set up in the center of the hotel towards the bottom of the hotel. That's where most of the people are staying and waiting out whatever Dean has to offer -- Anderson.", "Well, certainly for Cancun is lucky, as Chad pointed out earlier, because this storm has jogged a little bit south. The eye is going to be coming far south of where Cancun is, the strongest winds not hitting Cancun. So, that's certainly good news there. To give you another angle on Dean's power, consider Jamaica, which avoided the worst, as we told you, but it still got hit pretty bad. Reporting tonight from Montego Bay, here is CNN's Susan Candiotti.", "Dean missed, but not by much. At sunup, workers in the capital city of Kingston already clearing debris from streets. Authorities say landslides occurred in mostly rural areas, but, so far, no deaths are reported. Sustained winds of more tan 110 miles per hour peeled back roofs. A powerful storm surge of up to nine feet floated this car where its driver never intended. With power still out, the prime minister ordered a state of emergency, and troops are patrolling streets in Kingston to prevent looting. For so much, the frightening storm was overwhelming. Before Dean hammered Jamaica, it tore a deadly path across the southern Caribbean. Five people died in St. Lucia, Dominica, and Martinique. Two others died in Haiti. West of Jamaica, in the Cayman Islands, this CNN I-Report captured Dean's fury. (on camera): Throughout Jamaica, a curfew remains in effect. So even though everybody is out and about, the stores are not allowed to reopen as yet. It doesn't mean that people are not walking around just to see how everyone fared after the storm, to exchange stories. But some street vendors are back at work. You had enough supplies to get by?", "Yes. Yes. I had enough supplies. I come downtown and I go shopping at the supermarket. And I was well prepared.", "In Montego Bay, tourists who couldn't leave before Dean lined up at the airport to get on the first planes out. This couple here to see their son get married, the wedding was Friday. Then came Dean.", "Once it started, it wasn't a big deal. We played cards, had some drinks, you know, made a party out of it.", "Then, when the electricity went off, and that was that.", "Five thousand people filled shelters. Electricity, shut down before the storm remains out on the island, with no estimates on when power will be restored. Susan Candiotti, CNN, Montego Bay, Jamaica.", "These storms, of course, can change very quickly. Let's go back to severe weather expert Chad Myers, got some new information. Chad, what's going on?", "I was just doing some figuring, Anderson. At 189 miles an hour, I figured this had to be one of the strongest. And, in fact, it is one of the 10th stronger. It is actually the 10th lowest pressure of all time. The pressure -- and I want you to go look at your barometer, that thing you never look at in the -- the living room -- 26.99 inches of mercury. That's probably all the way off the bottom. Camille was 26.84, so, literally, a storm the size, the strength, the depth of Camille. Here's where it is now. There are still a little bit -- there's still a little left or right that this thing could go before it does make landfall. But, notice, you remember how this thing was a shotgun; it just spread itself out five days away? Well, when you get only 12 hours away, that shotgun is not so far away. And, if we get a little bit closer, you will find Chetumal right there. That is going to be coming through. These are all the other computer programs that are showing it. This is the town of Chetumal. And now I'm going to pop on here every part of town that is 18 feet or lower above sea level, which is most of the eastern and southeastern part of town and all of downtown below that. So, at any type of significant storm surge, a lot of this town will be underwater. Now, this is going to be on the south side of the eye, not the north side of the eye, probably not a huge storm surge here. But if it happens, if water gets over the barrier island into this bay, into Chetumal Bay, there will be a lot of this town underwater -- Anderson.", "That's going to be very difficult, indeed.", "We're going to continue to come in, check back with Chad. We're also going to -- when we come back with Chad, there's going to be another update coming up in about half-an- hour or so. So, we will get the latest information on that. And also want to check in with Chad about, days from now, where this things will go, where it's going to hit next. As Mexico braces for Dean, there's one hurricane that millions in Latin America are never going to forget. Here's the \"Raw Data\" on it. In 1998, Hurricane Mitch left a path of misery and destruction, killing more than 11,000 people. Most of the victims were in Honduras and Nicaragua. Mitch was the deadliest hurricane to hit the Western Hemisphere in more than 200 years. Well, when we come back in this hour, massive flooding in America and one amazing rescue that turned into a twofer.", "Acres of flooding, moments of terror.", "Oh -- oh, no. That is exactly what I did not want to see.", "See what happened next and what's happening all across the middle of the country, as the water just keeps rising. Later, they say it's too unsafe to go back in to dig for the six missing miners.", "We feel that they have given up.", "So, what do family members think of mining company plans to go back in and dig for more coal and more profits? From heartache to outbreak to outrage -- tonight on 360."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "COOPER", "MYERS", "COOPER", "COOPER", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "HARRIS WHITBECK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CANDIOTTI (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CANDIOTTI", "COOPER", "MYERS", "COOPER", "COOPER", "COOPER (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-11777", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-7-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/12/tod.06.html", "summary": "Family of 17-year-old Raynard Johnson, Found Hanged, Seek Federal Investigation on Capitol Hill", "utt": ["Almost one month after the hanging death of a young man in Mississippi, his family is in the nation's capital asking for justice. The body of 17-year-old Raynard Johnson was found hanging from a tree in the yard of his family's home in Kokomo, Mississippi. Authorities ruled the death a suicide. But his parents are asking Attorney General Janet Reno for a federal investigation. CNN justice correspondent Pierre Thomas has the latest from Washington. Hi, Pierre.", "Hi, Kyra. At this hour, the mother and brother of Raynard Johnson are expected to meet with the attorney general to make their case for a federal investigation. This morning, they met with members of Congress, and their message is very clear: They do not believe this young man killed himself.", "I think that he was killed, and hung in this tree in my yard.", "I think he was killed by people who did not like the way he was living, and his lifestyle and all. I believe he was killed, yeah.", "Some members of the Congressional Black Caucus are outraged and are calling for action.", "Given the history of lynching in Mississippi, the community must have confidence in the integrity of the investigation to, first of all, prosecute those who may be guilty and then to continue this historical difficult process of healing.", "Race, lynchings, the South, old legacies of the '50s and '60s back in the forefront -- Kyra.", "Pierre, the brother mentioned his brother's lifestyle that people had a problem with that. What did he mean by his lifestyle?", "What he was talking about there is, apparently, his brother and he used to occasionally socialize with some of the white women in the community. And apparently, according to this brother, there some in the community, the white community, that did not like that. They believe that that was probably a cause, if this turns out to be a homicide.", "Now, what this family is pushing for, how is that different than from other hate crime laws that are in existence right now?", "Well, back, now earlier actually in June, the Senate passed a -- hate crimes legislation. It's somewhat wallowing in the House right now. But what this legislation would do would be to broaden current civil rights law to include actions other than persons of a particular color being hurt or harmed en route to voting. This new law would allow any person who is killed for racially motivated reasons, or if for being gay, to be included in federal investigations.", "Justice Department Pierre Thomas, thank you."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "PIERRE THOMAS, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "MARIA JOHNSON, MOTHER", "ROGER JOHNSON, BROTHER", "THOMAS", "REP. JOHN CONYERS (D), MICHIGAN", "THOMAS", "PHILLIPS", "THOMAS", "PHILLIPS", "THOMAS", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-14993", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-8-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/31/ee.04.html", "summary": "Agriculture Secretary Discusses Texas Drought", "utt": ["Sixty-two straight days now of record drought in North Texas, and now 177 counties are officially declared federal disaster areas. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman got a first-hand look at Sammy Irwin's (ph) devastated cotton and watermelon crop in Wise County, just 75 miles north of Fort Worth. Cattle ranchers are not any better off than farmer Irwin. Together, farmers and ranchers are staring at a nearly $600 million loss in this year. Secretary Glickman now joins us from Washington this morning with a report back from his trip. Good morning, Mr. Secretary.", "Good morning, Carol.", "Well, it must have been a very sad seen on Sammy Irwin's farm. What exactly did you see?", "Well, actually what I saw was an area of the country that has been hit by three or four of the last five years by this kind of drought. So last year wasn't quite as bad for this farm, but the previous year was bad. And so these farmers have seen repeated cases of very, very low rainfall, which is not only hitting that part of the country in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, but also is one of the reasons why we have wildfires in the Pacific Northwest.", "You have also said that droughts are more hazardous than floods or many other sorts of natural disasters. Why is that?", "Well, droughts are much more costly: that is the amount of money that is lost as a result of drought far exceeds hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes or floods. And they're also very insidious. They're slow. It's not a one catastrophic event. It takes place over a period of months or years. And it's one of the reasons why Congress set up something called a National Drought Policy Commission to take a look at long-term ways to deal with the issue of drought, particularly as it affects agriculture and as it affects the water supplies of smaller communities.", "Well, Mr. Secretary, it sounds like at least short term help is on the way with some low-interest loans from Congress and some emergency money coming forward. Is this the solution?", "Well, you know, the fact is that a lot of these folks are facing very low prices as well as these terrible weather conditions. So you know, we're going to do what we can to help. We've declared much of Texas and much of that part of the country federal disaster areas, and there will be low-interest loans. Congress over the last three years working with the administration has in fact responded by these yearly supplemental disaster requests. Perhaps that's going to be needed again. We in the administration don't think the current farm bill is working very well. It's one of the reasons why I think the economic conditions are not as good as they should be. But we've just got to, you know, roll up our sleeves and work on a variety of ways to help these folks through this terrible, terrible dry-weather crisis.", "Well, Mr. Secretary, you're talking about the 1996 farm bill. Wasn't that supposed to provide the help that these farmers needed in exactly this kind of situation? Where are the gaps?", "Well, it didn't provide it. What it did was that it basically phased out farm assistance over a period years, and the fact is that farmers and ranchers face very volatile market conditions, very volatile weather conditions. And in fact, that farm bill is just totally inadequate to deal with the current situation. And quite frankly, most members of both political parties agree that it's going to have to be rewritten and rewritten in a very dramatic way. But in the meantime, in the short term, we're going to try to provide these farmers and ranchers with assistance and help to let them make it through this terrible drought crisis.", "All right. And we're all playing for more rain. Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary.", "Thank you. OK."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "DAN GLICKMAN, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE", "LIN", "GLICKMAN", "LIN", "GLICKMAN", "LIN", "GLICKMAN", "LIN", "GLICKMAN", "LIN", "GLICKMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-375554", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-07-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/22/es.01.html", "summary": "Puerto Rico Gov. Won't Run Again; Democrats Raise The Stakes; Tensions Mounting With Iran; Deal On Budget Debt Ceiling Taking Shape; Trump White House; Severe Weather", "utt": ["A scandal plagued governor of Puerto Rico will not seek another term, but millions are demanding he leave sooner.", "The report presents very substantial evidence that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.", "Democrats raise the stakes ahead of Robert Mueller's testimony this week. Will the testimony help or hurt the push for impeachment?", "If you obey. You will be saved. If you obey, you will be safe. Alter your course.", "A British vessel seized after being warned by Iran to change course. The U.K. is vowing a robust response.", "And power still out for thousands in New York and Detroit. No air conditioning on one of the hottest, most unbearable weekends in memory comes to a close. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world, this is \"Early Start.\" I'm Christine Romans.", "Welcome back my friend.", "Thank you.", "It was a hot and wicked Sunday.", "Yes, it was.", "I'm Dave Briggs. Happy Monday everybody, July 22, 4:00 a.m. here in New York, noon in the", "00 a.m. in the U.K. Live reports ahead. We start this morning in Puerto Rico where a major change is coming, but not just yet. Embattled Governor Ricardo Rossello announcing he will not run for reelection next year.", "I have listened to every Puerto Rican and I listen to you today. I've made mistakes and I've apologized. I admit that apologizing is not enough. Only my work will help restore the confidence of these sectors and lead to a true reconciliation.", "In response to a huge week now of huge protests, Rossello is resigning as president of the new Progressive Party.", "Many Puerto Ricans had been calling for him to step down entirely after the leak of sex's and homophobic private chat messages with his inner circle. Protesters also say government corruption is undermining efforts to deal with high poverty rates, crushing debt and the aftermath of hurricane Maria. CNN's Nick Payton Walsh is in San Juan for us with the latest.", "Dave, Christine. A bizarre statement really from Governor Rossello. On (inaudible) really that he would step forward on Facebook, at 5:45, the day before a massive protests against him Monday, where organizers hope they get a million people out of the streets and saying he is not resigning. Now there was a minor concession in his Facebook broadcast in which he said, he was not going to be contesting the election next year. But all honesty he was very unlikely to win those in the first place. So, essentially, many are reading this behind me as the governor digging in his heels. They want him gone immediately, there are actions from people behind me wants to say, listen, this man has to get out. They think this will boost the numbers on the streets on Monday. One of the key goals is to lock down a major expressway into San Juan. The mall around are closed. Federal government offices are closed. The Justice Department is telling local employees still to come into work, but there's a real sense now that Governor Rossello is perhaps blind to call some Democratic candidacy. He should leave, even the message possibly a (inaudible) from his press secretary, she stepped down. Nowhere to be associated with the corruption allegations like (Inaudible), in front of her sons, she said in a lengthy letter. But it hasn't changed his mind. Well, the protest on Monday will do so, we will have to see. Dave, Christine?", "All right. Nick Payton Walsh there in Puerto Rico. Some dramatic new audio capturing communications between Iranian and British ships in the Persian Gulf moments before the Iranians seized the British tanker.", "If you obey, you will be save. If you obey, you will be save. Alter your course.", "A royal navy warship in the region to protect British vessels telling the crew aboard the Stena Impero that the Iranian revolutionary guard crew had no business telling them what to do.", "I reiterate that as you are conducting transit passage in a recognize international strait, under international law your passage must not be impaired.", "Iran for its part said it detained the British tanker for unspecified violations of maritime law. The crew of 23 are still being held, this is just the latest escalations in the Strait of Hormuz. A critical waterway for trade, oil and gas. Senior International Correspondent, Matthew Chance is in the UAE along the Strait and joins us with the latest. Matthew, good morning.", "All right. Good morning, Dave. We're just a short distance from the exact spot where that British flag oil tanker was taken into Iranian custody and seized in a dramatic scenes that actually Iranian state television broadcast all over its country showing Iranians Special Forces Revolutionary Guards boarding the ship wearing black (inaudible) descending from the helicopter hovering above it while fast patrol boats circled the British flag oil tanker. Also those dramatic radio communications that are intercepted that show a confrontation, at least on the air waves, between a British military war ship and the Iranian navy. They can't do anything though the British to stop that oil tanker being taken into Iranian custody. The British promised robust responses to this Iranian action. What exactly that will be, we are not clear yet, it's going to be meetings later on today in London among British high officials to discuss what measures they're going to take. The possibility of sanctions is there, of course, as is the possibility of some kind of international effort to protect shipping in this Persian Gulf region with assets, including assets from the United States. So, that is something that is being actively discussed as well. In the meantime, the Iranian Foreign Minister has accused the United States of trying to draw Britain into a conflict in the region. This latest incident, of course, you got to set it against the backdrop of escalating tensions between the United States and Iran which has seen growing military pressure in the region. Including the downing of drones by both countries of either side. And so this is a very dangerous moment. The tensions in the Persian Gulf region really start to ratchet up to dangerous levels, Dave.", "So, we shall see what robust means. Matthew Chance live there in the UAE this morning. Thank you.", "All right. The Democrats who want to launch impeachment proceedings against the president, this could be a make or break week. Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies before Congress on Wednesday. And Democrats, they've struggle to effectively used his reports to make their case. Mueller made it clear in May that charging President Trump was never an option he could consider, but he refused to exonerate him.", "If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.", "Mueller will appear before the House Intel and Judiciary Committee. Here's what the two chair men are hoping to achieve.", "The report presents very substantial evidence that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanor. And we have to present or that Mueller present those facts to the American people and then see where we go from there.", "Since most Americans are -- you know, in their busy lives haven't had the opportunity to read that report and it's a pretty dry prosecutorial work product. We want Bob Mueller to bring it to life. Who better to bring them to life than the man who did the investigations himself? We want the people to hear it directly from him, not filtered through Bill Barr who had his own misleading characterization of it.", "More than 80 House Democrats have called for an impeachment inquiry of the president, but the American people may not have the stomach for it, according to a new NBC News Wall Street Journal poll, half of registered voters say forget the hearings and let the president finish his term.", "All right. A deal on the budget on the debt ceiling appears to be taking shape, but still needs President Trump's approval. The Washington Post reporting this morning that pending deal would extend the debt ceiling and set new spending levels for two years. Now instead of the $150 billion in new spending cuts, recently demanded by the White House this agreement would include fewer reductions but and an exact figure could not be learned. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke several times over the weekend as that August recess looms. Here's what Senator Chuck Schumer said about the negotiations.", "We're willing to go a good ways, but the bottom line is the administration has to compromise as well. It seems when Mr. Mulvaney gets involved, they ask for things that are outlandish. He was one of five congressmen who wanted to shut down the government a few years ago. I'm hopeful that (inaudible) can prevail and we can come together. We are making progress, but we are not there yet.", "The bottom-line simple here, every day there is less time in getting a deal locked in becomes more essential. The U.S. Government could default on its debt in early September if the debt ceiling is not raise. A default would of course risk the position of U.S. debt as a global safe haven investment and could rattle markets.", "All right. A brutal heat wave, straining the power grids over the weekend. Overnight, up to 53,000 customers in New York City were without lights or air conditioning at one point. That number is now cut by about a half. Con Ed said it took about 33,000 customers in Brooklyn off the grid deliberately to protect vital equipment. Meanwhile in Detroit severe storms left damage and 290,000 customers without power. The high temps blamed for two deaths. Heatstroke failed former NFL player Mitch Petras in Arkansas and an unidentified woman hiking in Maryland. For a look of the week ahead, let's bring in meteorologist, Pedram Javaheri.", "Yes, good morning, guys. Finally getting a break in that forecast over the next couple of days after the upper 90's and low 100's across the Northeast, LaGuardia, Atlantic City, in and across places such as Bridgeport, Connecticut, temps climbing up to even 99 or 100 degrees across portions of town. All of these either setting or tying records, climatologically speaking, it is that latter portion of July into early August where we see the hottest temperatures of the year. In fact, first time ever we've seen Boston have two days that failed to see temps dip below 80 degrees into the overnight hours. That was Saturday and Sunday morning. Low on Sunday morning in Boston, an incredible 83 degree afternoon. What if I tell you we don't make it there by this afternoon? High's only expected to 81, upper 90's. What we saw yesterday and of course, you factor in the humidity yesterday felt well warmer in that as well. New York City is 100 gives way to 84 today, but notice we do have a few active areas of thunderstorms forecast to move in later on this afternoon and this evening. So, that will help keep your temperatures at bay. Throughout the next couple of days we will see a gradual warming trend, but really, the highest we get is about 87 degrees by late week, guys.", "Eight seven, I can take -- I can handle that.", "Its' a little bit more.", "All right, 11 minutes past the hour here. A big transition coming in the U.K. It looks like the Donald Trump Britain is now about to be Prime Minister. What it means for Brexit and relations with the United Kingdom."], "speaker": ["DAVE BRIGGS, CNN HOST", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-347913", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-08-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/17/es.01.html", "summary": "Husband Arrested for Murder of Colorado Mom and Kids.", "utt": ["All right. The president's economic adviser Larry Kudlow is psyched about the U.S. economy.", "Our economy, our investors, our workforce are crushing it right now. We are crushing it. And people say this is not sustainable, it's a one-quarter blip, is just nonsense. Absolute -- any business economist worth his or her salt will look at these trends and tell you we're going for a while.", "Really excited about what he's seeing these numbers. Kudlow is right that the economy is strong, supercharged by big government spending and lower, super lower taxes. But is that going to be more of a sugar rush than a permanent fix? That's the concern. Just look at the second quarter. The U.S. economy grew an impressive 4.1 percent. The recent tax cuts boosted spending and investment. And the living threat, though, of tariffs prompted a rush in exports. Particularly soybeans. So that was kind of a sugar rush in that number. Economists expect both to slow -- slowing down growth for the rest of the year. Here is what the CBO says. The CBO is not as optimistic as Larry Kudlow about the future. It predicts the U.S. economy will grow 3.1 percent this year. That is fine and dandy, But look, that slows 2.4 percent next year and then 1.7 percent, that's an annual growth rate by the year 2020. By then the effects of tax cuts will have faded and higher interest rates could cut into consumer spending leaving the U.S. to face climbing deficits and a national debt of more than $21 trillion.", "The breaking news tonight out of Phoenix. That's where a police officer is in critical condition at this hour after he was shot last night. According to police, a man in a parked vehicle in North Phoenix fired at the officer twice. He returned fire. The officer and the suspect are both in critical condition. The officer who is not being identified has been with the department for about a year. We'll bring you more information when it becomes available.", "A grim end to the search for a pregnant Colorado mom and her two children. Shanann Watts' body discovered on property owned by her husband's former employer. The remains of her 3- and 4-year old daughters, Bella and Celeste, found nearby. Shanann's husband accused of killing all three of them. We get more this morning from CNN's Paul Vercammen.", "Christine, Ryan, that husband, Chris Watts, walked into court in an orange jumpsuit and reading glasses, his expression blank. This is the same man who earlier in the week had pleaded for the return of his wife, 15 weeks pregnant, and their two little girls. During that interview he had also said, when asked about a possible confrontation, that they had an emotional conversation. Authorities are saying very little about his arrest on suspicion of three counts of murder. But who is sounding off? The victim's brother. He said in a social media post, \"I just want 30 seconds alone with this heartless psychopath,\" and went on to say, \"May Satan have mercy on his soul.\" He has not been formally charged. Chris Watts will be back in court on Tuesday and prosecutors have until Monday to bring charges against him. Back to you now, Christine, Ryan.", "All right. Paul, thank you. The Vatican says it unequivocally condemns the sexual abuse of minors. Pressure had been building on the Pope to address a grand jury report describing the crimes of 300 predator priests in Pennsylvania. The Vatican says the church must learn hard lessons and adding, \"The abuses described in the report are criminal and morally reprehensible. Those acts were betrayals of trust that robbed survivors of their dignity and their faith.\" Pennsylvania's attorney general says he appreciates the remorse expressed on behalf of the Pope. He says he hopes the church will embrace the grand jury's recommendations, including eliminating the criminal statute of limitations for sexually abusing children.", "A Salvadoran woman has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to be reunited with her infant daughter who needs to be breastfed. Leydi Duenas-Claros also wants the government to reconsider her denied asylum claim. In May, she came to the U.S. with her then 11-month- old. They were separated after she and the girl crossed the border. Duenas-Claros was set to be deported Thursday but the proceedings were postponed. Meantime, a California federal judge has temporarily halted deportation of families that have been reunited so the children can have parental assistance on their asylum claims.", "Al Qaeda's master bombmaker may be dead according to a U.N. team that tracks terrorist groups. Ibrahim al-Asiri, long regarded as one of the most dangerous terrorist operatives alive may have been killed in Yemen last year. He was behind the so-called Underwear Bomber attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009. The U.N. report gave no indication of how al-Asiri died or who may be responsible. The U.S. military and CIA, along with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have conducted counterterrorism strikes to root out al Qaeda and other terrorists in Yemen.", "An alarming report from the Pentagon reveals China is actively developing its fleet of long-range bombers and is likely training its pilots for missions targeting the U.S. The report also says that China is pursuing a nuclear capability on its long-range bombers. The deployment would for the first time provide China with nuclear delivery systems across land, sea, and air. The report goes on to say China is looking to build additional military bases in countries it is both friendly with and that share its strategic interests.", "Well, this sounds pretty good. Med school for free?", "Wow.", "One prominent school making that a reality. We'll tell you why when we come back.", "We got to get in."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "LARRY KUDLOW, WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC ADVISER", "ROMANS", "NOBLES", "ROMANS", "PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "NOBLES", "ROMANS", "NOBLES", "ROMANS", "NOBLES", "ROMANS", "NOBLES", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-118248", "program": "YOUR WORLD TODAY", "date": "2007-7-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/11/ywt.01.html", "summary": "Red Mosque Raid; Libyan AIDS Case: Court Upholds Death Penalty for Six Nurses, One Doctor; Britain Steps up Campaign to Stop Practice of Female Circumcision", "utt": ["Pakistan says its operations against militants in Islamabad's Red Mosque is over, but the political fallout may be just beginning.", "It's horrendous. It is physical and emotional torture of children.", "It's an ancient practice that still scars millions of lives. Now London police say some immigrants are bringing it home to Britain.", "California dreaming. The Golden State's population is booming, but its public services are on overload.", "And Kwik E Mart or caricature-mart? Real-life cartoon characters intermingle with real life, but it's no laughing matter for some. It is 9:00 p.m. in Islamabad, 5:00 p.m. in London. Hello and welcome, everybody, to our broadcast -- report broadcast around the globe. I'm Ralitsa Vassileva.", "I'm Jim Clancy. From Sacramento to New York, wherever you're watching, this is YOUR WORLD TODAY. A story being watched all around the world. Pakistani forces breathing a little easier now that the weeklong standoff of the Islamic extremists at Islamabad's Red Mosque is finally, in their words, over.", "The trouble could just be beginning for the Pakistani president. The White House is supporting President Musharraf's decision to storm the mosque, but not everybody at home is as happy with the decision. Anjali Rao has more.", "One day after Pakistani forces began an assault on the Red Mosque, the last parts of the complex are now secure. It is the final act in a bloody, weeklong siege. Officials say there are no more militants left inside and cleanup operations are now ongoing.", "The clearing and the combing operation is required to sanitize the area and to ensure that for subsequent use of this area, even for visit of the media, for example, this whole area needs to be sanitized because we don't want exposure to grenades or mines or any other explosives lying around.", "Among the dozens of dead Islamist fighters, rebel leader Abdul Rashid Ghazi. The chief cleric of the hard-line mosque demanded Taliban-style rule in the capital, Islamabad. The Pakistani military says he was killed in a hail of gunfire in the basement of a religious school on the compound. As the standoff comes to an end, many questions remain. First and foremost, the final death toll and whether any women or children were killed in the siege. Pakistani officials say none have been found dead so far, but some anxious relatives of students inside the mosque continue to wait for word on their loved ones. And some observers wonder why it came to this. \"This should not happen,\" this man says. \"Muslims are being killed on both sides. On one side, the security forces' men are Muslims, while on the other, those inside the mosque are also Muslims.\" Also in question, how the crisis will affect beleaguered president Pervez Musharraf, under criticism for not confronting the militants sooner. Anjali Rao, CNN, Hong Kong.", "Meantime, in U.S., anxiety rising about the possibility of new terror attacks. Details sketchy right now about what is just prompting all of the official concern. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff says he has -- and we're quoting here -- a \"gut feeling\" that something could happen in the next few months. Pressed on just why, he notes that al Qaeda tends to be more active in the summer months. It is a concern shared by a member of the panel that investigated the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks.", "I don't think it's quite like the summer of 2001. That, of course, was a time when the Taliban controlled all of Afghanistan. We could easily be attacked. The intent to attack us remains as strong as it was on September 10, 2001.", "My gut has always told me that we would be hit again in the United States. There can be no doubt at all about the intent. I think the secretary was quite right about that. They have repeated it again and again and again. They want to kill Americans and kill as many Americans as possible. What is less sure is their capability, but we've seen evidence of that in Europe. We would be very, very foolish to be complacent in this country.", "More specifically, other officials point out that al Qaeda has been able to plot and train more freely in the tribal areas in the Afghan-Pakistan border in recent months. That is, of course, where Osama bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are believed to be hiding -- Ralitsa.", "Jim, now to Libya, where the supreme court has upheld death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the AIDS virus. But there's still hope that their lives could be spared.", "First convicted three years ago of an unspeakable crime, if true, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor found guilty of deliberately infecting more than 400 Libyan children under their care with the virus that causes AIDS. Fifty children have died. Since their arrests in 1999, the doctor and nurses have insisted on their innocence.", "No matter what people say, I'm simply innocent. That's all.", "Libyan prosecutors claim they infected the children as an experiment to find a cure for AIDS, but respected international experts testifying for the defense say poor hygiene, not the medics, are to blame. They found the HIV strain in Libya's hospital was present before their arrival in Libya.", "And the fact that these children are infected with a wide variety of these kinds of viruses -- wide number of strains of these viruses, strongly indicate that non-sanitary conditions were being used. That is, contaminated syringes and needles, et cetera.", "Through the years, the nurses have said they held out hope they could be released. The Libyan high judicial counsel is scheduled to review the case on Monday, but there are guarded hopes that a deal for their release could be reached out of court. Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's son heads a foundation for the children's medical aid. The foundation announced the medics have reached a deal with the families of the victims to help fund their children's treatment. But it's not clear if the Bulgarian government will accept the deal. Bulgaria has said it wants to help care for the children but it can't accept a deal that implies the nurses' guilt. The release of the nurses would be sure to anger the family of the sick children who want them to pay for their children's tragedy.", "So now the victims' families and the medics await Monday's high judicial council review. It has the power to commute the sentences or pardon the medics, but experts think a more likely resolution is an out-of-court settlement that could free the medics and provide for the health care needs of the infected children.", "Police in Britain are stepping up efforts to stop a practice that is still common in parts of Africa. And that is female circumcision. As Phil Black reports, it's a procedure that leaves girls physically and emotionally scarred. And we warn you this report contains some disturbing images.", "This young girl is a victim of an ancient custom still damaging millions of lives today. Eight-year-old Fusia (ph) is undergoing female circumcision, also known as female genital mutilation. This was in Kenya, but the terrible images are now being used as an educational tool by police in London, who say this is happening in the British capital.", "Absolutely. You can't just stop something that has been in tradition since the time of the pharaohs. And we have now 28 practicing countries. And all of those countries will have immigrant population here.", "Police here say the approaching summer holiday period is the time most likely for British girls to undergo female circumcision, because the break from school allows time to heal.", "It's horrendous. It is physical and emotional torture of children.", "It is a tradition for mostly African and some Middle Eastern countries, often carried out to ensure chastity. Police say the mutilation is often planned for visits to family homelands. The precise number of British victims is impossible to know, but the police and counselors like Faduma Hussein believe it may be tens of thousands, mostly Muslim girls.", "It's not a religious obligation. It's not in the Koran. And people are starting to know more about the religion now, and that's a good reason why they have to stop it.", "I was about four and a half. And they told us we are going to a picnic.", "Salimata Badji-Knight suffered genital mutilation in Senegal. It was organized by her grandmother.", "No one can come and tell me, oh, there is nothing wrong with this. It's not true. It had dramatically changed my life forever. And there's nothing I can do to change that.", "Doctors say the practice kills. It can also cause lifelong psychological trauma, serious menstrual and urinary tract problems, and complications during pregnancy. (on camera): It is practiced in many countries and cultures and a number of different religions. But victims around the world have one thing in common -- they belong to patriarchal communities. And police in London believe for this to stop, it is men who must stand against it. (voice over): Police have offered a $40,000 reward for information from the public about cases of female mutilation. It's been a specific crime here four years, but so far no one has been convicted. Police say they hope to change that soon. Phil Black, CNN, London.", "All right. We've got to take a short break. But still ahead, police say they've solved a crime that's been a mystery for nearly four years now.", "This is the bizarre case of a pizza deliveryman involved in a bank robbery. But was the man with a bomb around his neck a victim or a criminal? We'll find out.", "Plus, millions of refugees from Zimbabwe flooding into neighboring South Africa. Can South Africa do anything to help end the economic crisis next door?", "Up next, though...", "I remember one time walking into the BMW dealer to buy a pair of gloves. And so I walked out with the gloves and a new BMW.", "It's a secret people keep even from their closest of friends. Are you among those who are addicted to debt?"], "speaker": ["JIM CLANCY, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "DET. INSPECTOR CAROL HAMILTON, LONDON METROPOLITAN POLICE", "RALITSA VASSILEVA, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "CLANCY", "VASSILEVA", "CLANCY", "VASSILEVA", "ANJALI RAO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "GEN. WAHEED ARSHAD, PAKISTAN ARMY SPOKESMAN", "RAO", "CLANCY", "MICHAEL CHERTOFF, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY", "LEE HAMILTON, FMR. 9/11 COMMISSIONER", "CLANCY", "VASSILEVA", "VASSILEVA (voice over)", "SNEZHANA DIMITROVA, DEFENDANT (through translator)", "VASSILEVA", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-18065", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-10-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/17/tod.11.html", "summary": "Can Yasser Arafat Stop the Violence in the Middle East?", "utt": ["Some Palestinian groups today expressed skepticism over the Sharm El-Sheikh agreement. They say it's impossible for the Palestinian leadership to flip the switch and turn off the violence. Former President Carter, the catalyst for the first Camp David summit, echoed that sentiment in a conversation with CNN.", "If we think that Arafat can just issue an edict or an order, like a dictator, and everyone is going to get off the streets or everyone is going to comply completely with a peaceful settlement, we're sadly mistaken. He obviously has a great deal of influence because the Palestinians, even those who don't agree with him often, realize there's no other leader that can come close to holding the diverse element in the Palestinian community together. So they respect him to stay there. But I think we greatly overestimate in the American press and in the American government circles in Washington the power and the authority of Arafat to order the Palestinians to stop expressing their grievances.", "Joining us here in Atlanta, Oded Eran. He is the former Israeli ambassador to Jordan and the chief negotiator for the Israeli delegation. Welcome, Mr. Ambassador.", "Thank you very much.", "And in Washington, Hassan Abdel Rahman. He's the Palestinian representative to the United States. You heard what Mr. Carter had to say Mr. Rahman. We have Yasser Arafat with a problem here. Most people agree that he can't just flick a switch and turn off the violence. How difficult is it going to be for him, as \"The New York Times\" asked today, for Arafat to turn it off?", "I think President Clinton said something -- President Carter said something very important, also, that as long as there are the advances for the Palestinian people, they have to be expressed somehow. The problem of the violence is not because the Palestinians expressed frustration, it is because really when they do so they are faced with Israeli military attacks that kill Palestinians and wound Palestinians. So in order, really, to stop those clashes, what we need is for the Israelis to move their heavy equipment and their army from Palestinian towns, villages and streets, and then if the Palestinians express themselves, they will not be expressing themselves in a way against the Israeli military, they will be doing that very peacefully. But the presence of the Israeli military and the shooting by the Israelis of Palestinians -- like today, for example, not only one was killed, there were three Palestinians killed and more than 60 wounded -- that is what creates the kind of disturbances that we see on the -- on the ground.", "Would you agree with that Mr. Eran. Were those kinds of weapons that Mr. Rahman refers to around when the rioting broke out near the Temple Mount?", "The riots that broke out when Palestinians approached Israeli civilians and Israeli soldiers. These Israeli soldiers and civilians were not in Palestinian towns to begin with. They came near there to stop the violence and stop them from reaching Israeli settlements, Israeli civilians and Israeli soldiers. I think what we are looking for Mr. Arafat is to rein in those organizations that are under his control and will follow his clear signal, if there is a clear signal. And millions of viewers saw Palestinian policeman using firearms. Millions of viewers saw the Tanzim people, who were illegally and still are illegally armed, using live ammunition against Israeli -- Israeli settlers and against Israeli policeman and soldiers. So this is what we asking. We're not asking that every Palestinian individual who wants to demonstrate peacefully or not will obey Arafat. This is hopefully the optimal situation. But we are asking Arafat to reign in those organizations which obey him, and these are the majority of the demonstrators.", "Are there any good signs here? We have Yasser Arafat saying we expect an honest and accurate implementation of the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement. Then we have Mr. Barghouti, the head of the Arafat Fatah organization saying the intifada will continue. That is a kind of a challenge, is it not, Mr Rahman, to Mr. Arafat's authority? Does that bother you?", "Before I answer you, I want to make some correction to the statement that made by Ambassador Eran. First of all, he says that the Palestinians attacked Israelis. Where: in Israeli or on Palestinian territory? He's saying that: Oh, they are in not Palestinian territories. Where those soldiers are? Are they on Palestinian territories? Where are Jewish settlements?", "They were not in towns. There is an agreement...", "Well, of course there is.", "... which we abide by. We are in the worst", "We went to the summit in Camp David in order to reach agreement by which we will evacuate Palestinian territories as part of the agreement.", "But Mr. Eran...", "For one reason or another, Mr. Arafat rejected all the proposals there.", "No, you are not saying what happened, believe me, because, first of all, Israel did not implement the agreement we signed in Sharm el-Sheikh in February.", "Forgive me, I was negotiating with your colleague for months.", "Are you going to let me finish my statement, or not?", "Please do.", "OK. So let me finish. There are agreements, which Israel failed to implement. And those are the failed redeployment of Israeli troops from Palestinian territories. Now, the first attack on the Palestinians happened near Haram al-Sharif when the Palestinian demonstrated on Friday on the 29th of September. And...", "This is to best of my knowledge, in Israel, this is the Temple Mount. And it's in Jerusalem.", "Is Temple Mount, is al-Haram as-Sharif. And that is occupied Jerusalem.", "That's in your view.", "But no one recognized it. You did it unilaterally. And all the international community condemned you for doing that.", "We went to Camp David. We went to Camp David to negotiate.", "So what are you talking about? You killed Palestinians.", "I'm sorry. If you are -- if you continue to distort the facts and the truth, I cannot allow you to do this.", "No, I am not distorting.", "Excuse me, gentleman, but -- excuse me, gentlemen. We are getting sort of a microcosm of the problem in the Middle East.", "Absolutely.", "When we have a couple of negotiators here arguing over a point, Jerusalem, which apparently was on a track toward being settled after the Camp David summit. And that fell apart. So there is an issue of religion...", "But...", ".... and nationalism mixed together here. My question to you is...", "... are we ever get going to get past this? You see any -- anything positive in the future? Can there be peace in the region?", "There can be peace.", "If you allow me -- if you allow me.", "There can be peace. But the two sides have to take courageous decisions. What we saw in Camp David is an attempt by the prime minister of Israel to walk the extra mile, to make the necessary steps in order to reach an agreement. For whatever reason, whether he was unable or unwilling, Chairman Arafat rejected all the proposals that were made by President Clinton. It came...", "Not by President Clinton. Can I say something?", "Yes, answer that. Answer that.", "Please. I mean, you know, whenever I say something, he interrupts me.", "Go ahead. Go ahead.", "I hope that you will make this a fair exchange. First of all, that's not totally accurate what Mr. Eran is saying. Jerusalem occupied in 1967. The annexation of Jerusalem was never recognized by the United States or by any other country.", "You went to negotiate it.", "But this is -- I mean, definitely, but what I am saying, you said that Jerusalem is part of Israel. I'm telling no, because one recognizes your annexation. So when the Palestinians demonstrate in Jerusalem, you shot and killed six Palestinians and wounded 200. That was the beginning of this conflict.", "It takes us nowhere. You mutilated two -- two Israeli soldiers beyond any recognition.", "But that's...", "I am not saying -- Mr. -- I am -- I'm talking about how this conflict initiated. You killed six Palestinian, wounded 200 in demonstrations.", "This is not how it started.", "This was on the 29th. Now, you are talking about peace proposals made by Israel. All the proposals that were made by Israel are inconsistent with the international legality, with what is required of from us. We will require from you to withdraw from all the occupied territories. You wanted to withdraw from part of the occupied territories. We...", "A compromise is something which both sides have to agree to.", "You know, I really cannot continue this if you continue to interrupt me.", "You cannot speak for a half-an-hour explaining your opposition, which is a distortion", "Gentleman.", "No, but I listen to you to say whatever you want to.", "Gentlemen, we're -- hello, hello, we're on television. We don't have that much time. And nothing will be settled on this score here.", "Yes, but I mean...", "But what I'm trying to get at here is the international effort to try to find peace in the Middle East between Palestinians and Israelis. We now have the United Nations involved, because Kofi Annan was instrumental in facilitating this meeting in Sharm el- Sheikh. We now have the Arab League meeting on this weekend you. Do you see a greater international participation in this process? And is there, perhaps, a positive sign that peace can be achieved in the Middle East? Now, without getting into the particulars you've been getting into, try to answer that question.", "As far as I can see, the international community is very important in helping the two sides reach an agreement. At the end of the day, it is for the two sides to decide how they want to conduct their coexistence. It is a coexistence. And it has to be done peacefully. And it has to be done bilaterally by the two sides.", "All right.", "What it takes is courage, political courage and political vision...", "Can I...", "Yes, you...", "And political to do it in a peaceful way. What we have seen in the last three weeks is an attempt to force the issue by force. And my greater accusation against Mr. Arafat is that he taken the wind out of the peace sails in the peace camp in Israel. There are many now who doubt the...", "Can I...", "... course that they have taken in their efforts for", "And this is something which is really a serious problem.", "Can I say something, sir?", "Yes, sir, Mr. Rahman, you have the last word -- same question, please. Same question.", "I tell you how we end all of this. The Palestinian people have been living under Israeli military occupation for 33 years. They are denied their freedom, their dignity and their right to live as an independent people. As long as Israel continues to occupy them and to want to impose its will on the Palestinian people by sheer military force, I don't think that peace the possible. When Israel starts dealing with the Palestinians as its equal, when Israel starts respecting the humanity of the Palestinians, and feel that Palestinian life is equal to Jewish life, then I believe we can make peace.", "That's a good place to end it. Thank you both for giving us insight inside the process -- a couple of negotiators in this whole peace process. Former the Israeli ambassador to Jordan, Oded Eran, we thank you so much for being here, sir. And Hassan Abdel Rahman in Washington.", "Thank you.", "We thank you both. Hope to talk to you again. And good luck."], "speaker": ["LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "JIMMY CARTER, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "WATERS", "ODED ERAN, FORMER ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO JORDAN", "WATERS", "HASSAN ABDEL RAHMAN, PALESTINIAN REP. 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{"id": "CNN-363955", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-03-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/09/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Pro-Government and Anti-Government Protests Erupt in Venezuela; North Korea Rebuilds Missile Launch Site", "utt": ["Good morning. So glad to have you with us on this Saturday, March 9th. I'm Christi Paul.", "I'm Victor Blackwell. You are in the CNN Newsroom. Right now you see what's happening in Venezuela. Pro-opposition protesters are out on the streets supporting the self-proclaimed leader Juan Guaido. Meanwhile supporters of the embattled president, Nicolas Maduro, are also there as well. Maduro has just issued this challenge to the U.S. saying, and this is a quote, \"Every attempt at imperial aggression will be met with a strong response.\"", "Late last night, police in the capital city of Caracas dismantled the stage set up by a pro-Guaido group. That stage was supposed to be used for a rally today. In the meantime, residents in Venezuela have been dealing with nationwide blackouts. This has been going on for several days. Power has only been partially restored to some of those areas that we know of so far this morning. CNN Correspondent Paula Newton is live in Venezuela with the very latest. Paula, what are you seeing this morning?", "Good to be with you, Christi and Victor. These two dueling protests are just getting under way. We are here at the pro-government rally. We have been here before, as you know. What is crucial here is for each side to show that they have behind them. As you pointed out, there has been some controversy with police taking down the setup for the opposition leader, Juan Guaido. He tweeted right back, saying if they think they can wear us down, if they believe they can intimidate us, we have a surprise for them on the streets today. The issue here is momentum. The problem is that the opposition is worried as are people supporting them, like the Trump administration, that they will lose the momentum of this protest. And when I say momentum, I mean the people here on the streets. Christi, we brought you the stories again and again over the last few years just how difficult it is to get by. All of that exacerbated with what has been a pretty grueling day-and-a-half, power outage in almost every crevice and corner of this country. The protests here will start marching. The opposition protests in another part of the city. Both sides hoping that there isn't any confrontation, although we've already heard sporadic reports of National Guard and police perhaps confronting some of the opposition protesters. It is going to be a long, hot day in Caracas. But again, each side wanting to show that they have the momentum. Christi?", "Paula Newton, do take care of yourself and the crew there. Thank you so much.", "North Korea, new satellite images shows vehicles moving and trains being loaded at a facility near the country's capital. Analysts say it could be a sign a missile or satellite launch is imminent, or maybe this is just a play to get attention.", "Either way, it could be a damaging blow to U.S.-North Korea relations, little more than a week, of course, after the Hanoi summit ended without a deal. Now, the launch itself could happen at a site that had been partly dismantled while talks were underway between the U.S. and North Korea.", "The site has now been fully rebuilt. Here is CNN correspondent Will Ripley with the latest from Beijing.", "Victor, Christi, what we are seeing right now inside North Korea based on analysis of satellite images is a potentially troubling shift back to the more militaristic posture that North Korea took before this diplomatic detente with Kim Jong-un and President Trump, a detente that is now in danger of really fully breaking apart after President Trump walked out of summit talks in Hanoi, which was described as really a humiliating blow that left Kim Jong-un bewildered according to sources that I have spoken with. So now we're seeing images from a missile and rocket factory outside of Pyongyang, Sanumdong, where analysts say it appears that North Korea has put together something, hard to tell if it is a missile or a rocket, but they've assembled something, put it on a rail car. And that rail car may now be headed to a North Korean launch site. We know that the Sohae satellite launch facility in recent days has seen a flurry of reconstruction work. It was a facility that Kim Jong-un promised to shut down, they started to take it apart. Now analysts say it has been fully put back together, and could be ready for a launch really at any moment. So if you see either this missile or rocket roll up to Sohae and sitting on a launch pad -- that has not been seen yet, but if that happens, that will be very clear evidence that North Korea is preparing to launch something, rocket or missile, into space, into orbit. Now, regardless of which it is, it would be highly provocative. North Korea has long said that their satellite launches are for the space force, they're for research purposes, not any sort of military threat. But the U.S. sees it much differently because space rockets use the same kind of intercontinental ballistic missile technology that's banned by the U.N. Security Council. So any kind of launch would be considered highly provocative and could really threaten to escalate tensions in this part of the world. Meanwhile, here in China, we're getting word that Chinese President Xi Jinping is reconsidering traveling to Mar-a-Lago at the end of this month, because he is worried that President Trump may walk out on him if they don't reach a deal much like he did on Kim Jong-un. So really, President Trump's diplomatic credibility being undermined as a result of what happened in Hanoi with tensions threatening to rise in this region as well. Victor, Christi?", "Will, thank you. We don't know yet if the North Koreans are preparing a military missile or this space rocket to send up a satellite. Our next guest says whether the U.S. government chooses to recognize it or not, there is a key difference. Joining me now, Adam Mount, senior fellow and director of the Defense Project at the Federation of American Scientists. Adam, thanks for joining us this morning. Let's first start here. You told my producers that the space launch rocket could potentially carry a satellite, is not a missile, should not be treated as one. We know the history of 2009 when the North Koreans sent up Kwangmyongsong-2, I think it was, and that led to in part the end of the Six Party Talks. How should the U.S. respond if they send this satellite up?", "Right. A missile launch is not the same as a satellite launch vehicle. They have different technical characteristics and should be treated differently. That having been said, we don't want to get into a pattern where North Korea can test new missile engine designs and call them satellite launch vehicles. So this really does illustrate just how critical it is that we put in place clear restrictions to codify this nuclear and test missile moratorium so that North Korea can't circumvent it or subvert it in a number of different ways. As you mentioned, this is what happened to Obama's Six Parties Talks agreement. So this was foreseeable and foreseen. It looks like there's been a missed opportunity to lock in that nuclear missile test moratorium at an earlier date.", "So your group released a report this week that is fascinating. I want to read one line, I think it's the most important line here from the first few pages here. And it says, there is no mix of economic, diplomatic, or military pressure that can verifiably eliminate North Korea's arsenal on acceptable terms in the next few years. You also say North Korea will be nuclear armed under the Kim family control for the next two decades. So the question now is what should be the long term strategy to denuclearize, but also the other issues that the U.S. and the global community have with Kim and with North Korea?", "Right. We cannot simply trust that someday in the near future North Korea is going to FedEx us its nuclear and missile arsenals. We have to put in place a more long-term strategy that defends our national interests, the security of our allies, and confronts this range of challenges that North Korea poses to the United States and to international security. So, for example, we can't sort of bet all or nothing that North Korea will disarm completely. We need a near term agreement to restrict the advancement of their nuclear and missile test programs. We need to confront this broader range of threats. So just today, for example -- or excuse me, just this week, UNICEF warned that 60,000 North Korean children could be plunged into severe malnutrition due to the lowest North Korean harvest in a decade. That will threaten and risk our ability to shape the transformation of North Korea. A healthy populous is one that can seek outside information, that can help us build a more stable region for the future. So we should not only be confronting the range of challenges that North Korea poses to us, but shaping North Korea's transformation over time through conventional and nuclear arms control, through more precise economic inducements, really closer work between the United States and its allies. We can't bet all or nothing on denuclearization because it is just not a realistic bet.", "So let me ask you this. The national security adviser, John Bolton, said this week that the president is open to potential talks in the future with Kim Jong-un. No date, no location, of course, it's far too soon for that. But should those talks still be on the table considering the fruitless talks at Hanoi, the lack of even a definition of denuclearization in Singapore, and the inability to solve some of these other secondary, tertiary issues that you have discussed?", "Right. So we hope that they've learned a couple of lessons from Hanoi and from these events. The North Korean foreign minister said that at Hanoi they offered a piece of paper that would constitute a permanent halt to all long-range rocket tests. If that had happened, we may not be in this bind now. So we hope that the Trump administration has learned that it's not good enough to bet on all or nothing, that we need a more precise agreement now that provides security benefits. And the second thing you hope that he's learned is that you can't go into these talks seeking a political win. The North Koreans are just not reliable enough and there's far too much at stake.", "Yes, and the United States and the global community has lost out by taking the North Koreans' word for it in the past. Adam Mount, thanks so much for being with us.", "Thank you.", "We're following some breaking news right now. At Newark International Airport, passengers on board a Boeing 737 had to escape by emergency slides to get down onto the runway after a suspected fire on board. We've got more information on that in just a moment and we'll bring you the pictures that we have. Also, a reminder for you. Live from South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, three CNN presidential town halls back to back. First of all, former congressman John Delaney at 7:00, Representative Tulsi Gabbard at 8:00, and mayor Peter Buttigieg at 9:00. Jake Tapper, Dana Bash moderate tomorrow night. It starts at 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on CNN."], "speaker": ["CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL", "PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLACKWELL", "ADAM MOUNT, SENIOR FELLOW, FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS", "BLACKWELL", "MOUNT", "BLACKWELL", "MOUNT", "BLACKWELL", "MOUNT", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-68952", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2003-4-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0304/04/ltm.17.html", "summary": "CENTCOM: Pregnant Woman, Driver Killed In Iraq Blast", "utt": ["Down to Qatar, Central Command. Tom Mintier checking in right now. And Tom, there are number of developments again today. What more are you learning from there after this briefing?", "Well, one thing about the airport, before we move to other things. They also said, near the end of the briefing, that they discovered an underground complex at the airport and are in the process of clearing that. No idea what was stored in this underground complex. In the next few hours we may hear something about that. There has been apparently another suicide bomb attack. This one near a dam that was secured by Special Forces. A Special Forces checkpoint along the road, a car pulled up, a pregnant woman came out of the vehicle screaming. As the special forces troops went closer to investigate the bomb was detonated in the car. Three -- at least three coalition casualties, including -- the pregnant woman was also killed and also the driver of the car. General Vincent Brooks did indeed talk about this bombing that occurred just in the last few hours before the briefing but he seemed to have information.", "Initial reports do indicate that a vehicle approached checkpoint. A woman who appeared clearly to be pregnant exited the vehicle screaming for assistance in some degree of distress. As coalition forces began to approach, she and the vehicle were detonated. So she was killed by the explosion from the vehicle. We do have some combat losses as a result of this and will provide more information as time go on.", "General Brooks was also asked if this car bombing today was indeed by remote control or the one previously that killed several soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Division was a remote control device. Did not have an answer on that. What he did have an answer was something that he alluded to yesterday They had found some bottles that has some chemicals in it that they did not understand the label, so they sent them off for investigation. Today we not only heard about it we got to them. A picture of this what now appears to be a chemical/biological weapons training facility, not large quantities but samples as they were referred to saying that this was a training facility for the Iraqi military where they had small quantities of biological/chemical agents that were well known to the coalition, but saying that this was not a storage facility, this was not a new facility but simply that this was used for training -- Bill.", "Tom, thanks. Tom Mintier at Central Command."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "TOM MINTIER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BRIG. GEN. VINCENT BROOKS, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND", "MINTIER", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-285981", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2016-06-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/06/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Brexit Polls Send British Pound Haywire; Polls: Support for \"Leave\" Campaign Growing; Nigerian Militants Sabotage Oil Output; JPMorgan CEO in Favor of Trade Agreements; Burberry CEO Take 75 Percent Pay Cut", "utt": ["Apparently that's how you get a good week started. A triple digit gains for the DOW on Monday, June the 6th. Tonight, the British pound gets full ax. New Brexit polls send sterling sinking. GOP OMG. BuzzFeed dumps Donald Trump. And Christopher Bailey's checkered history at Burberry. The chief executive is taking a huge pay cut. I'm Paula Newton and this is QUEST MEANS BUSINESS. Good evening, tonight the pro-Brexit campaign gets a boost and the pound goes on a wild ride as the rhetoric heats up. A pair of new polls show Britons are leaning away from the European Union. Now, the \"Leave\" campaign has a 4-point lead in the latest YouGov poll, and a 5-point lead in an ICM survey. Now that's pushed the pound to a 3-week low. It bounced back tough, later in the day, and really interesting to see sterling ride this political turmoil out. The polls from YouGov show a divided nation. Opinion, of course, has shifted time and again since September. And on the last week the \"Leave\" camp has gained the upper hand. Volatility in the polls has sent sterling as we were saying on an absolutely hair raising ride. In general, the pound has weakened as the \"Remain\" camp has lost ground. Now, on Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron warned the fall in sterling is just the beginning.", "Add those things together, the shock impact, the uncertainty impact, the trade impact, and you put a bomb under our economy. And the worst thing is we would have lit the fuse ourselves.", "Now, as we've warned you before, much hyperbole to go on from both sides here. Now, he touted the economic benefits of staying in the EU. Those who want to leave the U.K. have focused on -- leave the EU, pardon me -- have focused on immigration. Phillip Davies is a Conservative Member of Parliament. He told me a Brexit would help the U.K. take control of its borders and insisted it would bring economic benefits, as well.", "We are now paying 10 billion pounds a year for a 68-billion-pound trade deficit with the European Union. In which is a declining part of the world's economy, as well. You can have a 68-billion-pound trade deficit for nothing. You don't have to pay 10 billion pounds a year for one of those. And I think that economically and on the issue of immigration the only solution is perfectly clear, and that's to leave the", "You know, the economic arguments have been flowing fast and furious. I suspect that U.K. voters are probably discounting economic arguments on both sides because there seems to be a lot of hyperbole. For one you're writing an editorial that if we leave the EU, we will regain our power to negotiate our own deals more quickly with whomever we want. Is that not completely unrealistically when we have countries that have said categorically to the UK, look, you're getting the back of the line, not the front of the line, to renegotiate the trade deals?", "Well, the U.K.'s the fifth biggest economy in the world and President Obama said we would be at the back of the line, the back of the queue if we wanted a trade deal with America. Well, I asked who was in this queue? And apparently, nobody's in the queue. So being that --", "That's not true, actually. They're in the midst of deals with Asia and other side deals Europe. And he saying, look, Asia and Europe come first. The U.K. is after that. That's very clear.", "The pacific deal's being concluded. Now going to be ratified. The negotiations concluded. Only other deal in town is the TTIP deal with the EU and that's going nowhere, because the EU can't agree. Because there's 28 different countries all with competing issues. The Americans don't particularly like it, because the French don't really like free trade really. They're a protectionist country themselves. And it will be much quicker for the U.K. and U.S. with historical ties, pretty good balance of trade that we have between our two countries, our --", "That directly goes against what the President said and if you go away from that, every -- so many business leaders, the majority in the U.K., are saying that, look, this will be damaging. It would be better to just level them. Say, yes, this could be short economic pain, but the long term will look much better?", "I don't accept that because we have a trade deficit with the European Union. So that we buy far more from them than they do from us. So why would they stop trading freely with us if we were to leave when we would be there single biggest export market? The EU doesn't have a trade deal with the U.S. and not likely to have one in the near future itself anyway. So were not losing out on a trade deal with America, we haven't got one at the moment. So --", "You're saying there would be zero economic effect except on the upside the day after a \"Leave\" vote?", "Paula, everything in our country was still keep trading and Germany want to sell us their cars. France will want to sell us their wine.", "That wasn't my question. My question is, what will be the impact -- economic impact short term, one to two quarters after a leave vote?", "I don't think there will be impact whatsoever in the first two quarters. I don't think there will be impact at all. Life will carry on pretty much the same as it does now. People will be trading with each other as they do today. There doesn't seem to be any short-term impact, but a massive long-term bonus by going this alone and negotiating our own trade deals and making our own decisions just like the U.S. does.", "A debate that will obviously only intensify over the next few weeks. In the meantime, today European stocks ended the day higher. Mining and energy shares were among the top gainers. They were boosted by a rise in metal prices. The London FTSE saw the biggest gains of all the major European indices. It ended the day up 1 percent. Now, businesses, too, of course, are divided on Britain's place in the EU. Small companies see an upside to getting rid of all those EU regulations, while large businesses fear trade with the continent will become much more difficult. The CEO of Airbus warns his company doesn't have a plan \"B\" if Britain votes to leave the EU. Now its factory in Britain has 10,000 workers responsible for assembling the wings for all of the company's civil aircraft. Fabrice Bregier told Richard Quest a Brexit would not just damage his company, it would harm the British and European economies.", "As you say, we have 10,000 people developing, producing wings and other equipment's for us on all of our aircraft. So we will continue to do that. But it would destabilize, I believe, a U.K. economy and probably the European economy and this one is not good for the business. So as a European, as a CEO of a European company, I really hope that U.K. will stay within the European Union.", "What would be the model that you would adopt for Airbus U.K. for the wing maker? I realize you obviously have suppliers that are not in the EU, but nothing on the scale it would be for Britain if it left.", "No, and of course, we would not take any short-term decision. My U.K. workers, employees, managers are really part of an integrated Airbus. And my only strategy is to grow with them. But we would have to look at the consequences of this Brexit. Hopefully, it won't happen.", "Let me ask you, I'm not going to push you too far, but could you see a scenario where you would move production from the U.K.? Bearing in mind it would all depend on like a free trade agreement and all those sort of issues. Could you see a situation where you would move wing making or other production from the U.K. if it left?", "No, we have not plan \"B\" at all. We would have time to take the decisions. We would have time to look at the future consequences. But we all know that it would destabilize the world and not be good for the European industry and European company.", "To push this a bit further, because it is in many ways, you know, we could talk about how many planes you're selling, which new models you're going to create, the 320 and this, that and the other, but those are the everyday issues you're dealing with. But the big issues, frankly, are the issues of China's growth. The relationships and world trade. The falloff in world trade, the U.S. election, the Brexit. These are the chief executive matters that are starting to require more of your time, aren't they, and thoughts?", "You are very gloomy today and this market is growing. And even with some slowdown of growth in one part of the world, is it China or in another part of the world. Globally we are in a green market. And so, this is what counts for me as a supplier of aircraft to my customers, the airlines. Last month, the traffic increase worldwide by close to 6 percent year on year. This is probably what we will expect this year. So we need more aircraft.", "That was the CEO of Airbus speaking to our Richard Quest. Richard will be on the road next week listening to British voters ahead of that all-important referendum. While Airbus aircraft put together across Europe, Richard picked a vehicle, let's just say it's little bit more British for this grand tour, have a look.", "The United Kingdom, the nation of tradition, culture, queen and country. As the British people get ready to vote on their future in Europe, we'll be taking to the roads, discovering how the people are preparing for this most important vote in a generation. Caravanning across this green and pleasant land. Getting the sense of the nation's mood, from the village greens to the lights of the big cities. Over the hills and far away. Join QUEST MEANS BUSINESS on the road as voters decide whether to \"Remain\" in the EU or to \"Leave\" and strike out on a new path. The U.K., in or out? On CNN.", "Can't wait. It will be good to get Richard on the ground there. In the meantime, oil prices rose Monday in part because of the attack on the oil infrastructure in Nigeria. A group called itself The Niger Delta Avengers struck again bombing to pipelines. CNN money is launching a new series, \"Nigeria: An Economy Divided\". Today we look at we look at the oil situation in Nigeria. How a country so rich in the resource can have an oil crisis. CNN Money Africa Correspondent, Eleni Giokos, joins us live from Johannesburg. And Eleni it's so infuriating. If you're a Nigerian you're saying, how can we be so rich in this resource but I cannot put a liter of it into my car to save my life.", "Exactly, I mean, Paula, this is the big dichotomy that you see in Africa's largest economy, and of course, what was Africa's largest oil producer. But because of those attacks in the Niger Delta, it's now slipping to second position to Angola. That's the point. You have a country that is so oil rich and has been producing oil for such a long time, but yet doesn't have the capacity to refine the crude that you utilize in your car. And of course, importantly for Nigerians, it's a major source of electricity, because a lot of people rely on generators around 80 percent of the day. And of course, businesses have also been impacted. These are some of the issues that the Nigerian economy has been grappling with. And we know that Nigeria relies on oil for 90 percent of its foreign currency, for 70 percent of its national budget relies on oil revenues. And then you have got a worry about importing fuel and how you're going to get around the issues. There are existing refineries in Nigeria, but they've been marred by corruption and, of course, very bad maintenance. Now there's a new multi-billion-dollar project underway on the outskirts of Lagos that is going to change the playing field in Nigeria. Paula, by 2018, it could make Nigeria net fuel exporter. Very different to what it is right now. Let's take a look.", "Nigeria exports more oil than any other African country. It's also in the middle of a fuel crisis. How's that even possible? It's because Nigeria lacks enough refineries. The crucial step between the crude oil that's pumped out of the ground and the fuel that goes in your gas tank.", "You have an oil producer that's importing refined products.", "Unfortunately.", "It's insane to think that.", "It is insane. Nigeria produces between 2.2 and 2.5 million barrels of crude a day, yet, it is not able to process more than about 100,000 barrels a day.", "But right outside Lagos, there's a solution and a construction. Africa's richest man is building one of the largest oil refineries in the world.", "This is one simple largest refinery line in the world, which is 650,000 barrels a day.", "Getting to 650,000 barrels of refined fuel won't be easy. It takes a whole complex covering almost 10 square miles.", "How's this going to change the playing field in Nigeria?", "Well, it is going to change it a great deal. This one we're building was supply hundred percent need of Nigeria.", "If we meet domestic requirement, domestic demand, we will still have surplus to export. So that we can become what we, Nigeria, should be, the hub of petroleum products supplies in the region.", "The Dangote Group also wants to tap another underused resource, Nigerian workers.", "We are going to have our own direct employees, probably between 2,000 and 4,000.", "Employing thousands and solving a country's fuel crisis won't be cheap, but it will be profitable. How much is this project costing?", "Altogether we'll be able to manage it less than $12 billion. Probably we'll be able to get the investment back within seven years.", "For now, these grand plans still look like this. The refinery won't be completed until the end of 2018 and that means more waiting for Nigerians.", "It's fruitful and it's impressive, Eleni. And yet we talked about the deadline. Two and a half years from now. I mean, Nigeria has set and missed so many deadlines now on so many of the projects. From what you can tell, and I know you that you speak to oil executives all over Nigeria, how realistic is this going to be?", "Well, I mean, firstly, when you talk about the economy, you've got so many worries now and talking about deadlines. We are talking about an imminent recession, because the first quarter GDP growth really disappointed and contracted by 9.4 percent. In terms of being realistic on the timeline front, we were on this construction site, which is really enormous. But Aliko Dangote, the man that really is behind this vision, has been known to deliver on big projects. I mean, one of the largest sugar factory in the world. One of the largest cement factories in the world and deliver on time. The question is, by 2018, where are oil prices going to be? How are other refineries in Nigeria are going to be performing and importantly, how is oil production in Nigeria going to look? Remember the Niger Delta has come under a lot of pressure as we mentioned, because of these ongoing attacks. So these are all going to be a very important thing to look at by 2018. From a long-term project perspective, this is a really big project and it's definitely going to be a game changer for Nigeria.", "Yes, the entire country counting on it at this point. Eleni Giokos, I know you'll continue to stay on top of this, appreciate it. We'll have more of Eleni's special reporting from Nigeria on the program this week and online. Just head to CNNmoney.com/Nigeria. Meantime, BuzzFeed says it won't allow Donald Trump to advertise on its site. And its CEO compares Trump to the hazards of smoking cigarettes."], "speaker": ["PAULA NEWTON, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER", "NEWTON", "PHILIP DAVIES, BRITISH CONSERVATIVE MP", "EU. 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{"id": "NPR-13719", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2006-04-12", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5338506", "title": "Classified Military Data for Sale at Afghan Bazaar", "summary": "Computer equipment with classified U.S. military intelligence is reportedly for sale in Afghanistan. Alex Chadwick talks with Los Angeles Times reporter Paul Watson, who wrote about purchasing some of this equipment from an Afghan bazaar.", "utt": ["Now to Afghanistan. How hard is it for someone to get their hands on classified military information? Well, not so hard for Los Angeles Times reporter Paul Watson.", "He bought stolen U.S. military computer drives that contain classified information at an Afghan bazaar just outside the U.S.-run Bagram air base. We reached Paul Watson in Kabul earlier today.", "Paul Watson, what you found very interesting there and what you wrote about Monday are these Flash drives, little memory packets for computers about the size of a pack of chewing gum. And you were able to buy some of these that had come from the air base. And they had secret information on them.", "That's right. They have everything from social security numbers for, we counted more than 700 soldiers, all the way up to briefings for commanders on the base which are marked secret, which include maps for targeting of suspected al-Qaida and Taliban bases, both inside Afghanistan, and also what they believe to be real bases in Pakistan.", "That's also some, what I would say, is awkward or highly embarrassing information about Afghan officials that the U.S. military thinks are not trustworthy. Indeed, they think they're drug smugglers, and there are discussions of governors and chiefs of police who the American military wants out of power.", "Some of them are even suspected, by the way, of being involved in attacks against U.S. in Afghan forces. These documents make it very clear that the U.S. military and Special Forces units are directly involved in identifying officials they want removed, and in making sure that they are replaced.", "How are these drives getting off of the base and into the market?", "The shop owners tell us that they are Afghan workers, garbage collectors, cleaners, people who wash U.S. forces' clothes who are able to take these, either by pulling them out of pockets or simply yanking them out of the little USB slot on the laptops, and then concealing them in different places as they leave the base at the end of their shift.", "The piece in the paper today recounts how the American military, after your story broke on Monday, I guess yesterday they went to the market looking to see if they could buy some of these things. But the shopkeepers hid them. When the military had gone by, the shopkeepers brought these things back out and said, yes, we still have them for sale.", "And there's also a character in this story you describe, an Afghan man in his 40s who seems to be from the south, from the insurgent region, and he's looking to buy specifically these drives. He doesn't care about anything but these drives that have secret information on them.", "Well, we went back to the bazaar again today to check and also to buy some more of these, they've had recent deliveries of drives even today. So, the security leak is still a problem.", "There are now journalists out trying to buy these things. And I suspect in a country like Afghanistan, there would be intelligence agents from any number of surrounding countries, including Pakistan, Iran, Russia, probably looking for the same things.", "A U.S. military spokesman you quote says, \"We're not going to talk about operational procedures.\" But what steps is the military taking to try to control this? They've sent patrols through. What else?", "They've said absolutely nothing to me about specifically what they're doing. And just on the face of it, it doesn't look like they're doing much.", "It's deeply shocking to me that this kind of information was available in a shop, and that the shop clerk was a 16-year-old boy who had no clue what this stuff is. And when we saw it, you know, I'm still shaking trying to figure out how this kind of information can be floating around in a bazaar.", "Paul Watson of the Los Angeles Times, reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan. Paul, thank you.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["MADELEINE BRAND, host", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "Mr. PAUL WATSON (Reporter, Los Angeles Times)", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "Mr. PAUL WATSON (Reporter, Los Angeles Times)", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "Mr. PAUL WATSON (Reporter, Los Angeles Times)", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "Mr. PAUL WATSON (Reporter, Los Angeles Times)", "Mr. PAUL WATSON (Reporter, Los Angeles Times)", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "Mr. PAUL WATSON (Reporter, Los Angeles Times)", "Mr. PAUL WATSON (Reporter, Los Angeles Times)", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "Mr. PAUL WATSON (Reporter, Los Angeles Times)"]}
{"id": "CNN-101560", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-1-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/09/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Doctors Say Baby Noor Will Be a Paraplegic", "utt": ["Let's go back to CNN's Kyra Phillips standing by at CNN Center with more on this and other stories we're following right now. Kyra?", "Thanks, Wolf. A story you know all too well, you just came back from the region. Potential signs of recovery today from Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon. Doctors say that Sharon slightly moved his right hand and leg after pain stimuli tests after his anesthesia was reduced Sharon also breathed on his own but remains connected to respirator. He is in serious condition following a major stroke last Wednesday and his doctors caution that it will take days before it's clear how much he will recover. The top Muslim cleric of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia says the war on terror is actually a war on Islam. His comments came at a mosque at Mount Arafat, where more than 1 million pilgrims are taking part in the Hajj. The trek up the mountain is the annual rite's climax. In his speech to the pilgrims, Kingdom's Grand Mufti called on Muslims to unite against what he characterized as threats from the West. Pope John Paul II for gave him and even visited him in prison. Now the man who shot former pope at point blank range is being released from prison. Mehmet Ali Agca attacked the pope as he greeted a crowd in St. Peter's Square outside the Vatican in 1981. It was later pardoned by Italian authorities and transferred to Turkey to serve time for another murder. His attorney says he'll be released on Thursday. Nature is lending a help hand to firefighters in Colorado. Snow in the southern part of the state helped fire crews battle a blaze in the town of Aguilar overnight. The wind driven fire has charred some 5,000 acres now, but elsewhere fire crews aren't so lucky. At least 43 wildfires have been reported in Arkansas with others burning across drought parched areas of Oklahoma and Texas. Fire officials fear this blaze in Sebastian County, Arkansas, may destroy 1,500 acres before it's under control.", "Wolf, take it back to you. We have more coming up of course in the next hour.", "Thanks very much. Kyra Phillips reporting for us. We're standing by for the start of this news conference in Atlanta, Baby Noor, little baby was brought to the United States from Iraq for emergency spina bifida surgery. We'll update you on what's going on what that news conference begins. Also, how should the Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito respond to questions about domestic spying? Our question of the hour, Jack Cafferty has your e-mail. That's coming up. Before we go to break, though, I understand the doctor is now speaking in Atlanta. The doctor is speaking on the condition of Baby Noor. Let's listen in.", "... that still remains the case. I am privileged and honored to be part of this, and that's all. I think that the real heroes start a long time ago. They started with this family. They start with the grandmother who had the courage to walk up with men with guns and say, help us. It starts with parents who will let their child go, for a time, so that they can get the best care for their child that they possibly can. It's with our Georgia soldiers who took this as a mission. And who if they're watching, or will be watching this at any time, I'd like to just thank them, because they have put all of us in a position where we can feel good that we've done this baby a good deed. Today's surgery did go very well. It was as difficult as I thought it was going to be because, again, this was not the time that we typically close a defect such as this. We usually do it within the first couple of days. And because of that, skin had grown up over the top an over the top of the spinal cord. But using I think the latest state of the art equipment, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta provided us, we were able to dissect the skin off of the spinal cord, to roll it back up as we've been talking about over the last few days, put it back where it belonged. And then close many layers over the top of it. I would like to thank Dr. Fernando Bernstein, a pediatric plastic surgeon, who did the last two layers of closure and got everything looking good. We worked together as a team all the time. And I think that again one of the things that I would like to emphasize is that in pediatrics, and at the hospital, a lot of the things that we do, we do in tandem and with our partners and with a team like this. So there is no one person that did anything. And I just am appreciative of them all. Thank you. Any questions?", "Yes. Doctor, Diana Davis from Channel 2 in Atlanta. You have discussed it before, but can you once again review for us what your best hopes are for little Baby Noor's future and the outcome of this surgery?", "Sure. It does look like she's not going to be able to move her legs. That is, she's going to be paraplegic. Unfortunately, that's the exam that she had when she first got here. I suspect that it's the exam that she had since birth. I say that because it looks as if she's got what we call a sensory level at about the mid part of her abdomen. Her belly kind of bows out a little bit when she breathes. That's typical of a child born this way. She's also going to have bowel and bladder issues, bowel and bladder control issues as she grows up. On other hand, any of you who have had the opportunity to come in contact with this baby know just -- the charisma, I guess for lack of a better word -- from a three-month-old. She just radiates good feeling. She looks you in the eye. She is smiling now. She cooing in the most delightful little way. She just cooed in the office for the first time. I'm pretty proud of that. She chose our office to do that. So it is my hope that she will be developmentally and mentally normal. We take care of a lot of children with spina bifida, many of whom are paraplegic but do very, very well.", "What about the next surgery, the shunt? Is that still going to take place?", "Well, it's not definitive. Because now that we've closed this sac, there is a good possibility that the fluid will begin to build up within the brain. We have tentatively placed her on the schedule for a shunt on Wednesday. What we're waiting to see is whether she develops signs of increased intracranial pressure. That's been in the news a lot this last several days, it's really the same here. It's a little bit different in a baby though, how you assess that. Worry's watching for signs of increased pressure. If and when arise, a shunt will probably be the operation that we do, but as I've had a couple days to think about it, and to --", "While the doctor is speaking, you are looking at these live pictures from Camp Victory in Iraq. These are U.S. troops who were responsible in rescuing Baby Noor and helping to make the arrangements to get her to Georgia for this emergency medical procedure. That is clearly going to save Baby Noor's life. Without this procedure, Baby Noor could not have survived in Iraq. Let's go back to the doctor.", "Little slow in my Arabic, but I am working on it. Their reaction through this whole thing has been one of, I think, profound thankfulness. They have been, from the very beginning, as best I can tell through facial expressions and from the words that I get through the translator, they have been as pleased with the care, as pleased with being here and just very, very thankful for the care that we're giving their daughter and grandchild.", "Emotionally, what does that do to you as a neurosurgeon to be able to give this kind of a gift to a family?", "As a neurosurgeon, I'm not supposed to have those kind of feelings. All right? You know, if I tell you, you got to not tell anybody. All right? Just between us. No. The reason I went into pediatrics is because I loved this stuff and I love being with babies and being with small children. I've put up with -- no. I love babies. And this is a very special feeling. I get this from my work all the time, though, to be quite honest with you. I don't quite often do it in front of cameras. But this is a special baby. And it's just neat to kind of watch her go through milestones and go through what -- a big surgery like this, a difficult time, and do well. I appreciate it.", "Doctor Hudgins --", "Doctor Roger Hudgins is the neurosurgeon who was part of the team that performed this emergency surgery on Baby Noor. You're looking at these live pictures coming in from Camp Victory in Iraq as well. U.S. troops who were involved in rescuing Baby Noor and helping to make the arrangements to get her flown to the United Sates for this treatment. They're watching this on television as well. Also if you want to see this you can watch this on CNN.com. They're watching it on CNN.com/pipeline. Our new video streaming service on CNN.com. You can go there as well and watch the news conference with Dr. Hudgins. But by all accounts he says the surgery has gone well and Baby Noor will survive. We'll take a quick break. When we come back, more on our top stories. Samuel Alito, day one of his confirmation hearings. How did they go? Our strategy session. And all the day's other news right after this."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "PHILLIPS", "PHILLIPS", "BLITZER", "DR. ROGER HUDGINS, CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA", "QUESTION", "HUDGINS", "QUESTION", "HUDGINS", "BLITZER", "HUDGINS", "QUESTION", "HUDGINS", "QUESTION", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-281195", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2016-04-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/11/lvab.02.html", "summary": "President Obama Defends Hillary Clinton E-Mail Use", "utt": ["President Obama says he is staying out of the Hillary Clinton e-mail controversy and will not interfere with the justice department investigation. In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, the President, however, defended the former secretary's use of e-mails saying she did not jeopardize national security. CNN Legal Analyst Paul Callan is with us and Athena Jones joins us from the White House. Athena, first lay out exactly what the President said here.", "Hi John. Well, as you said, the President defended Hillary Clinton's use of the e-mails and these e- mail system that she was using and said that even though she may have been careless in the management of classified e-mails he doesn't think it affected national security and he seem to down played the issue all together. Take a listen exactly how he put it in the interview.", "I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's National Security. Now, what I've also said is that and she's acknowledged, that there's a carelessness in terms of managing e-mails that she has owned and she recognizes. But I also think it is important to keep this in perspective. This is somebody who served her country for four years as Secretary of State and did an outstanding job.", "And so, you hear the President defending the former secretary but some might say he is prejudging the outcome of these ongoing investigations by saying, insisting more than once that he doesn't believe she put National Security at risk so it will be interesting to see the response to that, John?", "He is also making in some cases a similar argument that you are hearing from the Clinton campaign itself that there's classified and there's classified, literally he said pretty much that, when it comes to e-mails.", "He did say pretty much that. He said, look, I'm a person who deals with a lot of classified information. Something maybe labeled top secret and it may in fact be quite sensitive. Other things maybe labeled top secret or classified and not be quite sensitive. There might be thins that you could find through open source information, through information available to the public. So that is very much in line with what we heard from the Clinton team talking about classification run amok and a lot of debate about whether some of these e-mails ever should have been classified. So we are hearing him weigh in on her side on that front as well. John?", "Athena, stand by. Paul Callan, classified, is there any legal definition to that term?", "Well, there is a legal definition in the sense that the statutes which, you know, the justice department is looking at here, will -- they have a definition that they work with about classified documents, documents that fall into certain categories are classified. Is there an objective statute that says what kinds of things are classified and not know there isn't? You now, it gets labeled as classified, if it gets labeled as top secret for the purpose of criminal law, that's what it is. And the President is saying, well, this kind of classified and kind of not classified. Well, how would you prosecute anybody like a real traitor to this country, who released damaging classified information if it was sort of like a moving scale as to how you design classified?", "So does the President commenting on it as much as he did. He went only so far but he'd say quite a bit. Is that prejudice the case?", "Well, you know, I'm surprised that he went as far as he did. I certainly understand him supporting Hillary Clinton. She was his secretary of state. However, he's also the Chief Prosecutor in the country. As the President he appoints the attorney general. He theoretically controls the justice department. Does it sound like he's sending a little message to the justice department that, I don't think you should prosecute Hillary Clinton? It certainly sounds like that. He should have, I think, said she was a great secretary of state. I can't imagine she would damage deliberately the interest of the United States, but I'm leaving it entirely in the hands of the justice department because I haven't read the e-mails. And that's the other thing. He says none of these -- he said I would doubt that she'd damage national security. Well, I don't, did he read all of the e-mails involved to see? Or is he just talking off the cuff. We don't know because he left the statement vague.", "It says her former law professor the guy knows the law in theory and he knows what he's saying in potential impact of his words.", "Yes, he does. I think he knows enough to know that presidents should stay clear of this. I mean, Richard Nixon, just to harken back to a Republican example, one of things he was charged with manipulating justice department investigations.", "Well but no one is suggesting that the president's manipulating the investigations now.", "Not at all. But when you get in to a situation where the chief executive officer the president of United States is kind of commenting on on-going investigations it's generally not a good thing.", "Could his words be used in an actual trial?", "No. I think everything that he said would be inadmissible in trial and really just kind of sending a subliminal message to the investigators.", "The question is, is he putting he finger on the scale of the investigation?", "Yeah.", "Paul Callan, Athena Jones. Thanks so much. Up next, Bruce Springsteen and Bryan Adams they take a stand. Will the country music no, will the music industry now join the fight against the new religious freedom legislation that critics say actually discriminates against the LGBT community?"], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES", "JONES", "BERMAN", "JONES", "BERMAN", "PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BERMAN", "CALLAN", "BERMAN", "CALLAN", "BERMAN", "CALLAN", "BERMAN", "CALLAN", "BERMAN", "CALLAN", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-152931", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-7-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1007/08/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Alleged Russian Spies Set to Plead Guilty", "utt": ["Let's check the top stories, beginning with breaking news. This is the source. Ten suspected Russian spies in the US could plead guilty today. The ten could be deported as soon as tonight. This development comes amid reports of a possible trade of the accused Russian spies for spies convicted in Russia. Norwegian authorities have announced the arrest of three people with alleged ties to al Qaeda. They're suspected of planning attacks in New York and the UK. Two were arrested in Oslo, one in Germany. The search for two missing tour boat passengers in Philadelphia now a recovery mission. The tour boat sank after being hit by a barge yesterday. All other passengers and crew made it to safety. The northeast heat wave will hold on through this afternoon. Two deaths have been blamed on the oppressive heat. There have been scattered power outages in some states. An assignment for the troops. Complete an online survey about repealing the don't ask, don't tell policy. This just in. Some troops are being told, don't take that survey."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-122410", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-12-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/26/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Authorities Investigate Deadly Tiger Attack; 13-Year-old Girl Survives Plane Crash", "utt": ["I -- I personally have gone by that -- you know, by her former exhibits on a number of occasions. I have never seen her down in that lower moat area. I only saw her up above. She usually was laying around, sunning herself. Did not see her pacing. She seemed to be very well adjusted into that exhibit. None of my staff was around yesterday when this happened. So, I really don't have a firsthand account of what actually transpired.", "Thank you.", "OK. All right. That is the press conference there happening in San Francisco. You see all the reporters chasing the police chief there and also the director of the San Francisco Zoo. The new information we have gotten from this is that they have now deemed this a crime scene. They're looking at a criminal investigation. And they said it's -- it's just precautionary that they do this, to see if there was any human involvement to this tiger, this Siberian tiger, getting out. Tatiana is her name, and was also involved in a mauling of a zoo worker last year. One of the question, why wasn't she put down? And they said during the press conference she wasn't put down because after that attack and during the attack, she was acting normally. That's what a tiger would normally do, protect their food. And all of the information we have been telling you before about this attack still the same, except they're updating the media on exactly what they know and what they have put into place and what they did after the attack in order to subdue this tiger and also to get the people to safety. OK. We're going to continue to follow that. And also we're going to move on and talk about these new pictures coming out of Panama. This is a crash scene. It is our other top story here on CNN. This is pictures of the little girl, 13-year-old girl, who was rescued from a plane crash in Panama in a volcanic area. That plane went down on Sunday night. And then they found the plane and the folks on the plane, the survivor, on Christmas, and gave the word to the 13-year-old's parents that they had found her. The mother of the Francesca Lewis -- she's the 13-year-old -- has traveled to Panama to be with her daughter. Valerie Lewis is her name. She spoke with us just a very short time ago right here in the NEWSROOM.", "Yes, that's right. It's very tragic that the others didn't survive.", "Yes. How is she doing? How is Francesca doing?", "She's doing all right. She's having tests done at the hospital right now. And, so far, things seem good.", "Yes.", "Kind of miraculous.", "Yes, why do you say that?", "Well, we don't know the whole story, but she definitely was -- either fell or was ejected from the aircraft. We don't know.", "Yes.", "So, the fact that she so far doesn't seem to have any major damage is -- seems incredible.", "Yes, it does. And you said she's doing OK. Is talking to you, right?", "She has talked to us, yes.", "She has spoken to you. Tell us about her and what kind of -- what is she saying? Does she remember anything about the crash or not?", "We haven't really talked about that much yet. And she found herself -- well, when they found her, she was under the wing, and she thought she had been sleeping and that she would wake up and see a -- she thought she was in her home and that there was why -- was there an airplane wing in her home? So, she was delirious. I don't know if she was in and out of this sleep state or if that was sort of a preservation mode, because she was in extreme weather conditions. It was very cold, raining very hard, pretty much constantly for two-and-a-half days. So, I think her body was in survival mode.", "I wanted to ask you, because, as I read in this report, they said that she was up and walking around...", "Is that correct; do we know?", "You know, we're not sure about that. We haven't heard anything about that. But we have not yet gotten to talk to the people who actually found her. And we want to do that, so that we can hear exactly what -- what they found and how they found her. But I believe she was lying down. And then they carefully moved her onto a gurney. And they had to carry her three-and-a-half-hours to a helicopter.", "Oh, goodness.", "Through extremely rugged terrain, in torrential rain.", "So, tell us, between Sunday and the time they found Francesca, what was that time like for you?", "It was a nightmare. It was a living nightmare. And we -- as soon as we got the call, we tried to get on the first plane we could. And we flew all night, and then arrived in Boquete in the late afternoon the next day, and then just spent all our time with the rescue group, which was very large. And many, local people participated. There were hundreds of people on foot climbing in the most rugged terrain looking for her, looking for them. And we tried to be as involved as we could with helping to talk to people and find out who needed what in just directions and supplies. And family members of Michael Klein live in the area and they were extremely involved also.", "And I imagine that people are wondering how are you getting through this. Are you just living on adrenaline right now?", "Yes, I guess so. We're just -- we're so relieved to have her with us.", "Anything you want to say to the family of those who didn't make it, Ms. Lewis?", "Well, my heart goes out to everyone. We all have been through tremendous trauma together.", "Yes. Tell us a little bit about Francesca, if you will. What kind of girl is she?", "Pardon?", "Tell us a little bit about Francesca.", "Oh, she's just a regular 13-year-old, healthy girl with -- having a good time at school, playing sports, doing things with her friends.", "Yes, and then now has survived something that seems horrific and unbelievable.", "Yes.", "So, our very best to you this holiday season. We're very happy that she's OK, and, again, as well, bittersweet for everyone who's paying attention to this. Any last words?", "I just want to thank all of the people that -- that cared so much about trying to help us. So many people tried to help, and at great effort and sacrifice and through the Christmas holiday. I mean, the most important family holiday, people were giving up that to go and trudge through the mud. It was like looking for a needle in a haystack. So, we really appreciate everything that was done.", "That was Valery Lewis, mother of 13-year-old Francesca Lewis, who was the lone survivor of that plane crash. Cameras also caught up with her father, Kirk Lewis, while he was in Panama. You are going to hear from him right here in the CNN NEWSROOM in just a moment. A tiger goes on the hunt. Zoo-goers become its prey. And, right now, part of the San Francisco Zoo is a crime scene. Investigators are trying to figure out how a 300-pound Siberian tiger got out of its enclosure, killing one visitor and mauling two others. It happened on Christmas Day. Now, we heard minutes ago from police, who say they searched the zoo thoroughly to make sure there are no other victims. None was found. Police shot and killed the tiger last night after it again tried to attack one of the injured men.", "Police and fire units responded. Police units responded to the area by the terrace cafe, where they saw a tiger seated next to a person who was on the ground. The tiger turned back and began to attack that person again. Officers yelled at the tiger, yelled at the animal to stop. They did not fire immediately, for fear that they would not be able to contain their fire at the animal. When the yelling was occurring, the animal turned, and now turned towards the officers. And it is at that time that they fired.", "And police say they're still investigating whether the tiger managed to escape its enclosure itself or whether there was some human involvement there. Imagine this: teeth, claws and hundreds of muscle all coming at you. Animal Planet host Dave Salmoni knows what that is like. He has been up close and personal with tigers,even playing and roughhousing with him. And we talked with him earlier here in the NEWSROOM.", "Every single one of those tigers has the capability of doing what this tiger did. Now, that said, it's more likely that this tiger keys on people, isn't afraid of people, which most tigers are. So, this tiger probably would have been what we call in the zoo business as a worst-case scenario. What happens if this type of tiger gets out? Because 99 percent of the time, as the Zoo Association said, when a tiger does escape, they're not going to hurt anybody, because they're usually pretty scared.", "Yes.", "It's a foreign place. People are scary. In this case, this tiger has shown a history of not being scared of people and actually being aggressive towards people. Now, that could be due to fear. It can be due to social structure, or it could be that these people showed themselves as prey by moving away. I can tell you from personal experience there's nothing more focused and scarier than a tiger coming to kill you. You can't change that tiger's mind when it decides. Now, luckily, I saw it coming every time the tigers tried to take me, and I have been trained on how to deal with that. Any human being that is faced with a tiger coming to kill him, unless you have gotten my type of training, you're really in a serious bit of trouble. You're not going to stop that cat.", "Well, animals escaping and attacking, it does not happen often, but, when it does, it can be absolutely terrifying. Here are a few examples from recent years.", "February 24, a 140-pound jaguar mauls a zookeeper to death at the Denver Zoo. Zoo officials say the keeper broke zoo rules by opening a jaguar's cage door. The cat was shot and killed when it approached emergency workers. March 3, 2005, two chimps broke out of their cages at an animal sanctuary near Bakersfield, California. They attack and injure a man and his wife, badly maiming the man, before the sanctuary owner's son- in-law shot and killed them. July 13, 2004, a 600-pound tiger escapes from the property of a retired actor who once played Tarzan. The tiger is shot dead by a state wildlife officer. March 18, 2004, A 340-pound guerrilla escapes its pen at the Dallas Zoo and goes on a 40-minute rampage, before being shot dead by police. The gorilla picked up a toddler with it teeth and injured three other people. October 3, 2003, an attack that grabbed headlines worldwide: A tiger severely mauls Roy Horn during Siegfried & Roy's show in Las Vegas. Horn was bitten in the neck and dragged offstage, badly injured. September 28, a 300-pound gorilla named Little Joe escapes its enclosure at the Boston Zoo, injuring a 2-year-old girl and a zoo workers before being tranquilized. The gorilla managed to dodge his handlers and the cops for more than two hours.", "Well, the San Francisco Zoo is closed today. Officials hope to reopen tomorrow, but the lion and tiger house will be off limits to the public. If you would like to know more about the type of tiger that attacked and track its deadly path at the zoo, well, check out CNN.com. You can also read about other recent animal attacks. That's all at CNN.com. More NEWSROOM in just a moment. But, first, we want to tell you about this. what makes an exhibit with big cats safe for you and your family when you're visiting the zoo? Well, we will speak to one of the people charged with that responsibility at the Miami Zoo. We will do that in just a moment."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "VALERY LEWIS, MOTHER OF PLANE CRASH SURVIVOR", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "V. LEWIS", "LEMON", "HEATHER FONG, SAN FRANCISCO POLICE CHIEF", "LEMON", "DAVE SALMONI, LARGE PREDATOR EXPERT", "LEMON", "SALMONI", "LEMON", "LEMON (voice-over)", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-69763", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-4-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0304/22/lad.02.html", "summary": "War on Terrorists; Renewed Debate on Ending All Volunteer Service; Free Speech?", "utt": ["A militant Saudi group calling itself the Brigade of the Two Holy Shrines has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in Riyadh. The car bomb ripped through a building housing Saudi security forces, killing 4 people and injuring 148. The Saudi ambassador to the United States says this attack means war.", "It's a total war with them now. And there will be no compromises and no give up -- no -- we're not going to give up on them. We're going to protect our people. We're going to protect the guests who live with us in our country. And good will beat evil.", "Officials in Riyadh believe the al Qaeda terror network is behind that attack. Let's talk more about the bombings and how they impact the region and the United States. For that, we head overseas to London and Professor Robert Springborg, director of the London Middle East Institute. Welcome to", "Good morning -- Carol.", "When Prince Bandar says this means total war, what does he mean?", "Well the Saudis have been collaborating -- excuse me -- much more closely with the American security force, especially the FBI, in recent months. And part of that has included a crackdown on terrorists throughout the Kingdom. Indeed there was a crackdown 10 days ago in one of the poorer sections of Riyadh that led to a firefight. I think what we're going to see is an intensification of the collaborations. The Saudis themselves have said, with American support, to try to extirpate as many of these elements as they possibly can.", "And when you say American support, you mean more FBI agents, more CIA over there in Saudi Arabia?", "I'm not sure that there will be more there, but there was, as you know, probably a bit of foot dragging in Saudi cooperation up until some months ago. And then as the threat to Saudi increased, so did the willingness to cooperate increase. And now it would be suggested that that cooperation is quite closely, because last week, the American State Department issued orders for non- essential personnel from the embassy to be evacuated. So clearly there is very close collaboration going on at the present time. And I think this event will reinforce that collaboration and hopefully reinforce the results growing out of it.", "Well it's interesting you mean -- you mentioned foreign nationals within Saudi Arabia, because there seems to be a shift in tactics here that the terrorists are now striking Saudis.", "Yes, that's correct. That's what is new about this particular event. The reaction against the crackdown by the Saudi security forces in the past two weeks or so may be seen in this form. That is to say now there is a direct confrontation between Saudi security and these elements and so they are reacting against the Saudi security forces. And it must be added that including those killed in this -- in this bombing were traffic police. And why traffic police? It is speculated that it is those traffic police who have been cooperating with security and intelligence in providing license plate numbers and so on. So we could see this possibly as a sort of a tit for tat, a revenge situation now that's engulfing the terrorists on the one hand and Saudi security forces on the other.", "Is it also evidence that these terrorists are becoming more radical and more extreme?", "It's possible. The events over the border in Iraq could very well have not only emboldened these elements in Saudi Arabia but also cause them to widen their target range to include Saudis themselves. There are certainly those in their world who feel that the time is right for a revolution. That is to say that the struggle in Iraq can be generalized now and that Saudi Arabia is an obvious place for that to occur. So it could very well be that an upsurge of these sorts of incidents is going to be taking place not only in Saudi but more widely throughout the region as part of an effort to generalize the situation in Iraq.", "Professor Robert Springborg from the London Middle East Institute, thank you for joining DAYBREAK this morning. We want to talk now about what's happening inside of Iraq. Funeral services are going on in Basra. Our senior international David -- our senior international editor David Clinch is here to tell us more about that.", "Morning, Carol. It's a lot calmer today than it was yesterday. It's never, you know, exciting or never -- I should say it is exciting to sort of cover those events that happened yesterday in Fallujah and Basra, but the sad side of course is the human costs. Looking in Basra today as anywhere, I'm not sure of the exact figures, anywhere between 15 and 20 young children being buried in the streets there. These were children who, according to early reports, had actually been taken from their schools in buses because they weren't considered safe there and then got caught in the bombings there. So quite a tense situation in Basra today, although no further violence that we're aware of. Fallujah also, we were covering that incredible shootout yesterday with the Marines there. We got an update from the Marines late last night that they thought they had killed over 30 of the insurgents who were firing against them. Again, no further violence there that we're aware of. But on the other hand, no significant evidence, according to the Marines, of any progress really on this cease-fire idea of the insurgents handing in their weapons or of the civilian population coming back. Some weapons have been hand over -- handed over, but not very many, and not of the type that were being used yesterday against the Marines.", "Right. Let's go back to Basra for just a second, it's quiet there.", "Yes.", "Basra really has been pretty calm overall.", "Right.", "Who were the people of Basra blaming for this attack?", "Right. Well we've been reporting on this somewhat today. There is a mixed reaction. Immediately there was this knee- jerk reaction based on some rumors, and obviously you never know where these rumors start, that the British forces were responsible for the attacks. Obviously that's a rumor. That was not the case. But what we do know today is that supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr, the same radical cleric who is holed up in Najaf, who has been causing trouble there and elsewhere, this plaza, obviously, a Shiite area, his group, that's not the majority of people, but his group are blaming the British and are blaming the Americans and they are getting out in the street. Now again, that's a minority, but given the atmosphere of violence, he is desperately trying to feed on that. And it creates a problem for the British forces. It has been relatively peaceful there, but they have been taking a hands-off approach. When these things happen, the British, obviously, have to debate do they go back in again in a big way or do they stay out? A very tough decision for the British, and Tony Blair has a press conference later today. We'll hear from him on that I'm sure.", "All right. Many thanks, David Clinch.", "OK.", "U.S. troops in Iraq stretched thin, ordered to stay longer and there's already talk that even more troops will be needed. This has led some in Congress to talk about something we haven't seen since the Vietnam War, that would be the draft.", "I don't want a draft. And I don't think we need a draft. And I think what we need is a president who knows how to take the steps to get other countries involved in this.", "If in fact this is a generational war that the president has noted, we -- all of us, I think, have noted -- then why should we ask a very few people in our society to bear the heavy price, to carry the heavy burden and not ask everybody to carry some burden?", "All right. Jimmy Barrett from WRVA Radio in Richmond, Virginia joins us to talk about this controversial topic. We want to hear what Jimmy is telling his listeners out there in Virginia. Good morning -- Jimmy.", "Hey, good morning feisty one. How are you?", "I'm fine, feisty one right back at you.", "That's all right, I like playing slap and tickle with you. It's fun.", "My goodness! Can you say that now in light of the FCC regulations?", "Yes, of course we can. Come on!", "I was wondering though how the people in Virginia were taking word of a possible draft?", "Well you know here's the thing about the draft, I don't know that anybody is taking it very seriously right now. As you know, Virginia is a military state with a -- with a fine record of service. We have a lot of military bases here. We're very, very supportive of the military. How supportive they would be of a possible draft, I'm not quite sure. I don't think realistically we need a draft. I see two problems here, and I'm wondering what you think about this. No. 1, we're obviously spread way too thin.", "Yes.", "We are way too thin. There is supposed to be an organization out there called the United Nations that pulls all these countries together. Why do we need to have U.S. troops stationed in Bosnia at this particular point in time? Can't we pull some of those people out?", "Well I think that there is a thought process (ph) on that going on right now. But you know Spain is pulling out of Iraq, Honduras is pulling out of Iraq. And you know while that's not a sizeable number of soldiers, at least the Spanish troops were in charge of some important stuff there.", "Well, yes, and you're talking about 1,300 troops from Spain, also, a little over 300 troops from the Dominican Republic and Honduras, that really doesn't add up to a whole heck of a lot. I'm not saying that the Spanish troops, as you said, weren't doing something fairly serious to help this effort, I know that they were, but they are very replaceable numbers. But I think it also brings about another great issue as far -- if we really do need to recruit more soldiers, aside from a draft, which I think would be pretty unpopular in this country right now, aside from a draft, what could you do? And I think, quite frankly, we can -- most of us can agree that our military remains woefully, woefully underpaid. We're not paying soldiers enough. We're not providing enough benefits here for -- to -- these people to...", "Well, but realistically, I don't think their pay is going to increase because the war is starting to cost more and more. They are already over budget in Iraq.", "Well we're over budget but are we over -- are we over budget because of what we're paying our soldiers or are we over budget because of other considerations, not the least of which is the amount of bombs that we have dropped, the amount of deployment that we have used? I mean there are so many other costs that go into a military situation.", "But isn't it all in the same pot?", "Well, yes, it's all in the same pot here, but do you want to spend the money on soldiers or do you want to -- what do you want to spend the money on?", "Well there is also some sentiment that there are not enough, you know, bullet proof vests in Iraq and not enough equipment. So you're going to have to pay more money -- more money for those things as well.", "Well there's no doubt this war is going to go down as the most expensive war certainly in the -- in the time period that it ends up being fought in United States history. I mean we have spent how much now, $700 billion, $800 billion. We're going to have to spend billions of dollars more. We don't know how much longer we're going to be there. And the decision at this point is is how long do we stay? I mean the president says we're not going to cut and run, so we might as well be prepared if we're going to be spending billions and billions more. And if we need more soldiers, then let's spend it on our citizens and get more soldiers. I don't want to send people to Iraq who don't even want to be a part of the military. I'll tell you one thing, the United States Marines would want to have no part of a draft right now. They want to make sure that the people are joining up for the Marines are people who want to be a part of the military.", "All right, and with that, that ends our time. Jimmy Barrett from WRVA Radio in Richmond, Virginia. Thanks for joining DAYBREAK this morning. Well the Chinese say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Well they have taken some steps towards allowing free speech. But as our Mike Chinoy reports, they have also taken some steps backward.", "It was one of the high points of Vice President Cheney's trip to China last week, a speech at Shanghai's Fudan University. After complex negotiations, the Chinese agreed to air the speech live on a Chinese news channel, but they did so with no prior announcement to viewers, at an hour when few people were watching. And then the Web site of the Communist Party's official mouthpiece, The People's Daily, published what it described as the full text of Cheney's remarks in which references to politically sensitive topics were changed or deleted. Here is one example.", "Across Asia, rising prosperity and expanding political freedom have gone hand in hand.", "On the People's Daily Web site, the words political freedom were cut out. Beijing's doctoring of Cheney's speech just days after he met Chinese leaders was documented by a China expert at the U.S. Naval Academy, Yu Maochun.", "I think the Chinese government is nervous about a lot of things. And one of the things they were really nervous about is the spread of democracy in East Asia.", "All together, Chinese sensors made more than a dozen major alterations or deletions. This is what Cheney said on Taiwan.", "We support the principle of one China based upon the three communiques and the Taiwan Relations Act.", "But the Web site deleted the reference to the Taiwan Relations Act, the law under which the U.S. sells weapons to help Taiwan defend itself from a possible Chinese attack. Also cut, references to the need for democracy in the Middle East, details on North Korea's nuclear program and this...", "The war on terror must never be used as an excuse for silencing legitimate dissent.", "They struck out the portion on that how -- somehow war on terror cannot be used as an excuse to suppress the individual rights of citizens. In the -- in the specific context of China, of course, is the Muslims in Chinese and central Asia in Chinga (ph) province and the Tibetans and the other pro-democracy activists and anybody China doesn't like.", "This is hardly the first time the Chinese have censored or doctored what outsiders say. Last year, for example, when the Chinese edition of Hillary Clinton's book came out, Chinese sensors took out unflattering references in that book about China and didn't tell Hillary Clinton that they were doing so. For the country's authoritarian Communist Party, it seems old habits die hard -- Carol.", "Mike Chinoy reporting live for us from Beijing this morning. The 9/11 attacks, some say we had a failure to communicate. Just ahead, how intelligence agencies are trying to make sure they no longer keep secrets from each other about terror threats. This is DAYBREAK for Thursday, April 22."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "PRINCE BANDAR BIN SULTAN, SAUDI AMB. TO THE U.S.", "COSTELLO", "DAYBREAK. PROF. 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{"id": "CNN-45979", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-12-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/21/lt.06.html", "summary": "Battery Park Family Hopes to Return to Home Near Trade Center", "utt": ["The holidays are, no doubt, difficult days for the families with a connection to the World Trade Center. Our Jason Carroll caught up with one family to see how they are doing.", "It's been a while since people who lived in the shadows of the World Trade Center have been able to come together to smile and rejoice. But Battery Park City --", "The park is crowded today.", "Is is a community that is slowly coming back to life, one family at a time.", "We're not going to have the life that we had back, but we weren't ready to just pick up and move somewhere else.", "Nancy and Kevin Loving, along with thousands of others, fled their homes on September 11th. They are among the few who want to return. But for months, it hasn't been safe.", "They detected asbestos and fiberglass, so they are doing an abatement.", "All right, bye.", "Love you guys.", "Do you understand, though, why some people want to leave?", "Absolutely.", "Oh, absolutely. Yes, it has proven to be very difficult.", "In such a difficult time, it's hard working in a holiday, or even having the spirit.", "Now, on to the Christmas list. Let's try get happy. I know it's hard.", "In combination with everything else that you're dealing with, how do you do that? How does that work?", "Well, we've had to -- he's laughing because (ph) --", "It doesn't work.", "It will work. No, it will work. It will work.", "What about puzzles? He really loves puzzles.", "There is so much sadness, but at the same time, it is so important, shopping yesterday for some of the Christmas things, it made me happy again. It made me happy, because you know what? It was our opportunity to give, to stop focussing on ourselves.", "Instead of themselves, the Lovings are focussing on others, namely their three children. Weston (ph), Elise (ph), and Elliot.", "Yeah, that's good. That right there. That's good.", "This Christmas, they made a few ornaments.", "Skipper's, Sonny and, I think, Billy.", "And added the names of their schoolmates who moved away. By the new year, they should be back in their real home, but they say they already had the best gift of all, each other. Jason Carroll, CNN, New York."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CARROLL", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CARROLL", "NANCY LOVING, BATTERY PARK CITY RESIDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CARROLL (on camera)", "S. LOVING", "KEVIN LOVING, BATTERY PARK RESIDENT", "CARROLL", "S. LOVING", "CARROLL (on camera)", "S. LOVING", "K. LOVING", "S. LOVING", "S. LOVING", "S. LOVING", "CARROLL", "K. LOVING", "CARROLL", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "CARROLL"]}
{"id": "NPR-17742", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2006-08-17", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5664518", "title": "Best and Worst Child Performances", "summary": "The summer movie series continues with a look at the best and worst performances by a child actor. Murray Horwitz of the American Film Institute talks about memorable performances — and ones that might best be forgotten. Steven Spielberg and Haley Joel Osment on the set of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.", "utt": ["This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.", "Well, you've waited for it all week. In fact, for two weeks. Behold, the TALK OF THE NATION'S summer movie festival. We love them, we hate them, but rarely can we forget the performances of child actors.", "(As Cole Sear) I see dead people.", "The pre-pubescent set has delivered some of Hollywood's most iconic moments, but a fine line separates the sweetness of the young Elizabeth Taylor from the wince inducing saccharine. Dakota Fanning, anyone?", "Well, today we honor the best and worst child performances. What youngster's gut-wrenching realism caught you by surprise? Which pint-sized stars and starlets made your ears bleed? Our number here in Washington is 800-989-8255, 800-989-TALK. The e-mail address is talk@npr.org.", "And joining us here in Studio 3A is Murray Horwitz, director and COO of American Film Institute Silver Theater here in the Washington area. And Murray, even before start, there's one child actor who really you have to put all in a category all her own.", "(Singing) On the good ship lollipop, it's a sweet trip to a candy shop. Where bonbons play on the sunny beach of Peppermint Bay.", "Well, nobody could do cute like Shirley Temple.", "Oh, is that who that was?", "Oh, I know you'd figure out who it was.", "Yeah. She really does get pride of place here. She was one of the biggest stars in the history of the movies in America. And that's one of the things about this category, Neal. Really you're talking about - I'm sure that every stage parent or screen parent who shoves their child forth to be a star thinks that they're all going to end up like, you know, Ambassador to the United Nations. They're going to end up being a Shirley Temple.", "But the truth of the matter is some of the biggest stars did start out as kids. You know, you think of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland and Elizabeth Taylor, you mentioned, and Natalie Wood. I mean, these are - and my personal favorite of the child stars - there is a short subject from 1933 called Rufus Jones for President which features -", "I missed that one somehow.", "You can find it on DVD. It's an amazing performance by the eight-year-old Sammy Davis, Jr.", "Really?", "Just singing and dancing up a storm.", "I think I may have seen clips of it probably in his obit, but.", "So, you know, it can lead to stardom in other ways. But there's a kind of a dictum about working with kids on the stage or the screen, which is as a director you sort of just let them go. Point them in the right direction and let them do what they do.", "But just as in certain areas - like mathematics, music, some of the other arts - there are some young people who can really, really act. And some of them have turned in some amazing performances. One of the reasons I think we're in mind of this this summer is there's a movie right now out called Little Miss Sunshine...", "Yeah.", "...which features an extraordinary performance by Abigail Breslin.", "Let's hear a clip from Little Miss Sunshine.", "(As Olive) I don't want to be a loser.", "Unidentified Man #1 (Actor): You're not a loser. Where'd you get the idea you're a loser?", "(As Olive) Because Dad hates losers.", "Unidentified Man #1: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Back up a minute. A real loser is somebody that's so afraid of not winning, they don't even try. Now you're trying, right?", "(As Olive): Yeah.", "Unidentified Man #1: Then you're not a loser. We're going to have fun tomorrow, right?", "(As Olive): Yeah.", "Yeah.", "And I'll paraphrase a bit, but that's right I think before one of my favorite lines in the movie, where Alan Arkin says to her, he says are you kidding? I love you, and it's got nothing to do with your talent or your brains.", "This is Abigail Breslin, and at our theater, the AFI Silver, we frequently have directors and filmmakers talking about their work. And the directors of the movie, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, a husband and wife team - terrific people and terrific directors - and they said she was one who really absorbed ideas and translated them through art and craft into an acting performance, and you can see it on the screen.", "Let's get some listeners involved in this conversation.", "I want to really hear what our listeners have to say about these.", "800-989-8255. E-mail is talk@npr.org. Let's begin with Jerry(ph). Jerry's calling from Cleveland, Ohio. Jerry, are you there?", "Yes I am. Hello.", "Hi, you're on the air. Go ahead, please.", "Well I - my favorite one was Margaret O'Brien, Meet Me in St. Louis. She absolutely stole the show away from Judy Garland.", "Well, it's hard to steal anything from Judy Garland, but Margaret O'Brien was awfully good.", "Yes she was. And also in the Secret Garden she was excellent.", "And the Bad Seed, let's not forget that.", "Well, that was not she. That was actually another Irish name. That was Patty McCormack.", "Oh, I'm sorry.", "In the Bad Seed.", "Oh, those Micks, I get them confused.", "You know, Margaret O'Brien, there's a famous story, which is one of those that if it's not true, it should be - but Vincente Minnelli could not get her to cry during the scene where Julie Garland sings Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.", "A great song.", "And she had been so trained by her mother to be smiling and chipper all the time that Minnelli finally said cut, went up to Margaret O'Brien and said you know your little dog Jasper? Yeah, he was just run over by a cafeteria truck outside. And she started weeping, and Minnelli said action, and that's the performance you see on the screen.", "And Judy Garland married him, didn't she?", "That's right. What a man.", "Jerry, thanks very much for the call.", "Thank you very much.", "And, of course, that's one child actress, former child - how are we defining child, Murray?", "Well thank you for asking. I think we sort of have to draw the line here at adolescence. So I mean - my staff at the AFI Silver, which helped me with this, said well you know, why don't we draw the line at puberty, which is different for some people than it is for others.", "But there are so many coming-of-age films now, especially in the last 10 or 20 years, that we have to sort of - not - you know, somebody - among those who were not maybe in the hall of fame. Somebody nominated Hilary Duff, and she was kind of a ‘tween in The Lizzie McGuire Movie. But now, of course, she's sort of a young woman, so she's off limits.", "There is a kind of - there's one coming-of-age movie performance that is so extraordinary that it deserves special mention, and that's Jean-Pierre Léaud in François Truffaut's the 400 Blows.", "And that's again a separate category.", "Right.", "Take all the awards, then give out the silver medals.", "Right.", "Here's an e-mail we got from - who is this from? Sandra(ph). Best performance by a child actor, I nominate Justin Henry who played opposite Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman in 1979's Kramer vs. Kramer and held his own. Did ever a child cry so convincingly? Worst? Well, there are just too many to choose from.", "Well it's interesting, you know. When we ask people about worst performances from a child actor, we're breaking a cardinal rule of show business, which is you never criticize anybody, particularly anybody living.", "I thought the cardinal rule of show business is never follow a dog act or a child.", "Or a kid, that's right.", "We were mentioning earlier that the immortal Elizabeth Taylor really came to prominence in the great National Velvet.", "(As Velvet Brown) Mi?", "(As Mi Taylor) Huh?", "(As Velvet Brown) Could The Pie win the Grand National?", "(As Mi Taylor) Who do you think you are?", "(As Velvet Brown) I'm the owner of The Pie", "(As Mi Taylor) And does that give you leave to think you could take the richest, grandest prize a horse ever won? Why that's for kings, and you're just a wisp of a butcher's daughter who should be playing with a dolly.", "And does that give you leave to think that you could play Puck, me lad?", "Twelve years old, Elizabeth Taylor, and it's sort of all there. All the magic on the screen is there in that performance, and it's just really something.", "Let's get another caller on the line, and this is Bill(ph). Bill's calling us from Detroit.", "Hi.", "Hi.", "I got - I don't know how great of an actor he is, but there's a scene in the movie The Champ when Ricky Schroder did The Champ with Jon Voight. At the end of the movie, when Jon Voight dies on a table, and he's saying wake up, champ, wake up, champ. A friend of mine and I saw it. We're both police officers, and were with his girlfriend, and we both cried, and she didn't do a darn thing.", "Well, Bill, I have to tell you that if you'd seen the original...", "Right.", "Jackie Coogan and...", "Well actually it's Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery.", "And Wallace Beery, yes.", "But you mentioned the other great child star, Jackie Coogan, in the silent The Kid with Charlie Chaplin.", "And - but that scene - you're the champ.", "Right.", "What a tremendous, tremendous performance.", "And you're absolutely right about men being a sap for that. I mean, I'm getting tears welling up right now and I hate that movie. It's just great. It's just impossible.", "Bill, thanks very much for the call.", "All right, Neal, great show. Thanks very much.", "Thanks. Bye-bye. Let's go to Jen(ph). And Jen's calling from Chattanooga.", "Hi, how are you?", "Very well, thanks.", "I wish I had a name for you, but the little girl from Whale Rider.", "Yes. Actually I have her name for you - and where is she? She's right here on my list. But she was actually - it was Keisha Castle-Hughes and she was nominated for an Academy Award for Whale Rider. And that's another good point we have to mention, Neal. There are some kids on whose shoulders the whole movie rests.", "Yes.", "They're not just like incidental, they've got to carry the film.", "And that is one of them, I think.", "Yeah, I agree.", "Jen, thanks very much.", "You're welcome.", "You mentioned also that these child actors, some of these were spawning grounds for future, you know, mature actors. And well, one of those spawning grounds was that serial, The Little Rascals.", "Unidentified Child #1 (Actor): (As Alfalfa) I don't like to brag, but Butch might as well give up right now. He hasn't got a chance.", "Unidentified Child #2 (Actor): (As Darla) Oh, do you really think so?", "Unidentified Child #1: (As Alfalfa) Just wait until you see what I did to the street.", "Unidentified Child #2: (As Darla) Oh, look. Here comes Butch.", "Unidentified Child #3: (As Butch) (unintelligible)", "Unidentified Child #4 (Actor): You won't laugh when I'm mayor.", "Unidentified Child #2: (As Darla) I'm proud of what Alfalfa's doing. If you expect to be mayor, you'd better start doing something too.", "Unidentified Child #3 (Actor): (As Butch) I bet he hasn't done a thing.", "Unidentified Child #1: (As Alfalfa): Butch, you're just jealous. You come with me, Darla, and I'll show you what I've done.", "And you want to sing... na, na, na, na, na.", "That's enough.", "No singing anymore.", "Well there's a real important point there to me, Neal. I mean, they get my award of awards, I mean even more than Sammy Davis. Because you know we go to the movies to see ourselves in some way, and you know the Little Rascals and the Our Gang comedies by Hal Roach were enough of a metaphor or an emblem that even E.L. Doctorow at the end of his novel Ragtime, you know, picks them as a kind of emblem of America and what America had become. And for many generations, The Little Rascals have sort of seeped into the national consciousness. I give them an ensemble award.", "And lest us forget that one of the late members of the ensemble was Robert Blake.", "That's right.", "And now on - well, now doing what everybody in Hollywood is doing, he's on trial.", "We're talking with Murray Horwitz of the AFI Silver Theater, and we're talking today about best and worst child performances. If you'd like to join the conversation, 800-989-8255, 800-989-TALK. E-mail is talk@npr.org. The conversation also continues online. Listeners offer their picks at the TALK OF THE NATION page at npr.org. And well, you're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.", "And let's get another caller on the line. This is Christopher(ph). Christopher calling us from Nevada.", "Yes, hi. I think that Macaulay Culkin for his work in The Good Son actually falls under both categories.", "Well if you think about it, Shirley Temple, late in her career, fell into both categories, too. But anyway, what were you thinking, Christopher?", "I was thinking that he did a great performance. He was very convincing, but I actually thought it was - I put it under bad performance as well simply because it's kind of disturbing that they'd have a child actor do and say all those dark things that he portrayed.", "Yeah, people putting words in kids' mouths.", "That's very true. And also the other thing about Macaulay Culkin -and you mentioned late Shirley Temple - there's  - the poor kid, you know, I mean there's overexposure. So finally you want to say get him or her just off the screen. I'm just annoyed by them by now.", "Absolutely. The worst thing about the success of the movie Seabiscuit was the fact that they re-ran the old movie, the Story of Seabiscuit, with Shirley Temple's first on-screen kiss, which we could all skip. But, of course, we mostly remember Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone.", "(As Kevin) Everyone in this family hates me.", "Ms. CATHERINE O'HARA (Actress): (As Kate) Then maybe you should ask Santa for a new family.", "(As Kevin) I don't want a new family. I don't want any family. Families suck.", "And that...", "Talk about putting words into the mouths of youngsters.", "Yeah, really. And the immortal Catherine O'Hara wasted in that movie. Not enough work. Christopher, thanks very much for the call. Let's go with -this is Mike(ph). Mike's calling from East Lansing in Michigan.", "Yes, hello.", "Hi there.", "The worst actor - child actor I can think of, I don't recall his name, but the movie was Problem Child with John Ritter. I think there was a sequel and they were both equally as bad.", "Michael Oliver is the actor's name.", "Okay.", "And by now he's probably 6'8\" and weighs 280 and he's going to come and get me for this, but - don't shoot the messenger, Michael. It's - he gets a lot of votes for worst performance that not only is, as the title of Problem Child would suggest, a sort of obnoxious kid, it's really not a great performance.", "Mike, thanks very much.", "Thank you.", "Here's an e-mail. This is from Sue B.(ph). The winner has to be, hands-down, Cammie King for her role as Bonny Blue Butler in the film classic Gone With the Wind. As a teenager in the late 60s, a friend and I attended a theater showing of this movie, which had quite a big audience. The first words the actress uttered were delivered in an ear-bleeding, nails-on-a-chalkboard, whiny screech which never did change throughout the entire performance. When she met her death from a fall off her pony, the entire audience broke into raucous cheers and applause. Now that's one bad performance.", "There's a terrible, terrible story - a theater story about a very, very bad amateur production of The Diary of Anne Frank. And at the moment that the Nazis break in, the entire audience says she's in the attic.", "Let's talk with Stephan(ph). Stephan with us from Orem in Utah.", "Hi, guys. I'm glad I could make it through. I forgot to send my e-mail; I had two weeks to do it. But it's got to be - best performance was Natalie Portman in Leon, The Professional.", "There are a lot of votes for that too, Stephan. She's the orphan of a slain family. She has either befriended or adopted or otherwise has a relationship with Jean Reno as a hitman.", "He's a great hitman, too.", "Gary Oldman's in the movie, and it's truly an extraordinary performance.", "Yeah, it was. The fact that she had to act so old and so grown up and she was only 11 years old and she was forced to do that because of the slaying of her drug family, that it was just amazing that she could pull off something like that.", "One of our film programmers at the AFI Silver, Laurie Donnelly(ph), says that if you're impressed by that there is a French movie, a Jacques Doillon movie, called Ponette from 10 years ago in which a girl, Victoire Thivisol, is 5 years old, plays an orphan, and does the same sort of thing at the age of 5. She said it'll just blow you away.", "Terrific. Poonette(ph), you say?", "Ponelle(ph). I'm sorry, Ponette. P-O-N-E-T-T-E.", "Thanks very much for the call, Stephan.", "Thank you.", "Bye-bye. Here's another e-mail, this from Todd(ph). My vote for best child actor would be Mara Hobel's performance of a young Christina Crawford from Mommie Dearest. I think she is best for being the worst.", "It's good. That's true. I had forgotten about that. That's a very good suggestion.", "Let's get one last call in here. Scott(ph). Scott calling from Grand Rapids in Michigan.", "Hello, yeah. Long-time listener, first-time caller. I have to nominate the performance by the actor who plans Anakin in Episode I: Star Wars - a chance to break out an unbelievable, in my opinion, in the first three movies. It revitalized the franchise and totally blows it in just every scene.", "I was worried you were going for best there for a while.", "Right.", "Heck, no. No way. It was making me cry, but definitely not for the right reasons.", "The only actor who could get upstaged by Jar-Jar, let's put it that way.", "True enough.", "Scott, thanks very much for the call.", "You're welcome.", "Next week we're going to be here with the next in our series, the best road movie. So e-mail us your nomination. Now, Two For The Road, not a bad movie in and of itself.", "Get your motor running, Thelma and Louise.", "And visit the Web site for a list of all of our categories so far. That's at the TALK OF THE NATION page at npr.org. 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{"id": "CNN-220563", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2013-12-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1312/10/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Heidi Montag Regrets Plastic Surgery Marathon", "utt": ["I feel like people are buying lingerie into their 40s, and I wish that Heidi wouldn`t retire. Like, I think it`s great for this country to see all ages. She`s beautiful. Put your underwear on.", "It`s always a great time when I visit my friends over at \"The Talk.\" That`s co-host Sara Gilbert, sounding off on the big news that Heidi Klum is now done walking the runway in lingerie since she`s hit 40. Heidi has made some pretty provocative choices in her career. You remember that naked music video with her ex-husband Seal? That brings us to No. 8 on our \"Top Ten Countdown\" here on SBT. Talking about the most provocative celebrities of the year with the ladies of \"The Talk.\" Kanye West, Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke? Who could possibly take top honors as the most controversial and influential of 2013? Who should we get ready to name as the most provocative celebrity of the year? Well, I put that question to Sara, along with Aisha Tyler, Sharon Osbourne, Sheryl Underwood, and the lovely Julie Chen.", "Miley Cyrus. It has to be.", "How could it not be? And there have been other provocative people, obviously. I think the three you`ve talked about a bit: Kanye, Miley and Justin Bieber, but I think that Miley by far. Right?", "I think the others come into the category of stupid, but she`s for real.", "Are you talking about -- are you talking about peeing in a bucket, Sharon?", "She`s being provocative on purpose. It`s part of her brand. I think that`s what Sharon is politely trying to say.", "That was polite for Sharon. Right.", "Well, the ladies certainly are never shy, but you are going to have to wait to see who SBT names as the most provocative celebrity of the year. That leads us to No. 7 on our countdown. Heidi`s plastic surgery regrets. Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, TV`s most notorious reality show couple, who claim they blew through a whopping 10 million bucks, both say they now regret Heidi`s 10 plastic surgery procedures in one day marathon, but not only because it cost them a bundle of cash. Spencer admits he was too lost in fame to even take notice of Heidi`s pain, and Heidi is now saying it was her doctor who kicked off her quest for perfection.", "I had my nose re-broken by a backup dancer, and I just was going in to get it fixed. And once I was there with the doctor, he was like, \"Oh, and your breasts are smaller, and I would do this, and you should get a mini eyebrow lift, and what about your chin?\" And this and that. So I left there kind of in shock and really insecure and in horror like, \"Oh, my gosh, I really didn`t realize I had that much wrong with me.\" And then, you know, when you have this surgeon basically diagnosing what`s wrong with you, I just got really insecure. And I, you know, just got way too caught up, and it sounded easy, and I didn`t research it, and I was irresponsible with my choices.", "Interesting hearing your perspective on it now. Spencer, I was always wondering, when Heidi was going through all of this, what the heck were you thinking? Were you there rooting her on because she was your partner, or were you pulling her aside and saying, \"You know what? You may want to rethink all this\" or \"Maybe you`re being kind of nuts\"?", "I was just not really thinking about much going on at any time. During all that, I was so deep in, you know, the TV show and everything that, when she was like, \"Oh, I`m doing this and this,\" it`s like, oh, great. She made it out the way her doctor made it out, it was like alterations on an outfit. Like you know, you want to do that? Great. Do what you`re going to do. But I was definitely so lost in just fame that, you know, I was not thinking like normal human beings at that time.", "Well, I love -- I love the fact...", "Like I...", "I`m sorry. I do love the fact that you`re saying all this and admitting how self-involved you were at the time, but here you are still together. And I think that says a lot about the evolution that you guys have experienced together.", "Yes.", "Yes. I would definitely say, as much as it was a nightmare, everything, with the surgeries and everything, it`s definitely made us so much stronger, you know. It was awful being her nurse through all of it, but it definitely made me love her more, because you know, you`re not even supposed to see your loved one, like, in that much pain. You know, especially not like where they choose to be in that much pain. Usually it`s like a car accident or something.", "Yes.", "So definitely -- it`s definitely made us stronger as a couple.", "I can`t imagine. I`ve told people the story before, that I had an operation for a deviated septum. Obviously, I did not correct the size of my nose at the time. It was more of a breathing thing. I had to have it done. It was so excruciating and so awful and so painful, when I came out of the procedure, I thought, \"I can`t believe anybody has anything done like this voluntarily.\" It just kind of blew my mind.", "It`s very traumatizing. People don`t really get into the psychology of it and aftermath of it. You think you just go in, you get fixed, it`s fine, but there are repercussions. And it is really tolling on, you know, your spirit and everything that you go through, and it`s a very severe, serious procedure. All of them.", "You clearly have learned your lesson through it, and I know you`ve recently have undergone some major surgery once again, corrective surgery to reduce your breast size. When you look in the mirror now, Heidi, how do you see yourself?", "I feel so much more like myself. I feel normal again. I feel fresh; I feel healthy; I feel a lot lighter. I feel very thankful that it didn`t get worse than the problems were. I can have feeling in my arm again, so my arm`s not numb and my nerves in my back are returning to normal, so I just feel really grateful.", "Another star is confessing her biggest regrets. It`s Britney Spears. In a brand-new interview, Britney is revealing the absolute worst thing that she`s ever done in her career. I`m going to give you a hint. It was caught on tape, and it made everyone stop dead in their tracks. Plus, Miley is No. 1 again.", "MILEY CYRUS`S \"WRECKING BALL\")", "MTV names Miley Cyrus the Best New Artist of the Year. No brainer or no fair? Which pop princess will be No. 1? This is SBT on HLN."], "speaker": ["SARA GILBERT, CO-HOST, CBS`S \"THE TALK\"", "HAMMER", "JULIE CHEN, CO-HOST, CBS`S \"THE TALK\"", "AISHA TYLER, CO-HOST, CBS`S \"THE TALK\"", "SHARON OSBOURNE, CO-HOST, CBS`S \"THE TALK\"", "HAMMER", "GILBERT", "HAMMER", "HAMMER", "HEIDI MONTAG, REALITY TV STAR", "HAMMER", "SPENCER PRATT, REALITY TV STAR", "HAMMER", "PRATT", "HAMMER", "MONTAG", "PRATT", "MONTAG", "PRATT", "HAMMER", "MONTAG", "HAMMER", "MONTAG", "HAMMER", "MUSIC", "HAMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-28875", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-4-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/20/ltm.26.html", "summary": "President Bush and the Environment", "utt": ["Sunday is Earth Day, and environmental issues are getting attention from the Bush administration in advance of that day. CNN's Jeanne Meserve joining us from Washington with more on that -- Jeanne, hello.", "That's right, Daryn. In advance of Earth Day, President Bush has announced four pro- environmental actions in four days. Yesterday, accompanied by his EPA director and his secretary of state, Mr. Bush said he would sign the Stockholm Treaty, which curtails the use of 12 chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects. Most of the substances like DDT and PCBs already are restricted in industrialized nations, but pose a threat in developing nations. The backdrop is the latest Gallup poll, which shows the president with an overall approval rating of 59 percent. But on he environment, that rating drops to 49 percent. Here with me to discuss these matters, Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster and CEO of Mellman Group and also Keating Holland, CNN polling director. Keating, I know you have looked at the numbers behind the Gallup numbers. What do you see?", "The environment was always a problem for Bush throughout the campaign. It looks like it's still a problem for him. One thing that we're noticing in the Gallup poll is that there hasn't been a drop, or a significant drop, in his approval rating on the environment since the decisions on arsenic, CO2, the Kyoto Treaty, etcetera. The people who really dislike him on the environment are college- educated Americans. And surprisingly, we're not seeing a gender gap on the environment. Suburban moms in particular, who some people inside the Beltway were worried about, what would their reaction be, we're seeing that they like the environmental record of George Bush so far.", "Mark, are you coming up with different results in your polling?", "Well, we're finding to the extent people have heard about these Bush decisions, they are very upset about them. The fact that there are very few Americans who want more arsenic in their water, more carbon in the air, or want to see our national forests cut down. Up till now, George Bush has been appealing to that very narrow segment of big business special interests who profit by those kinds of moves. And he's alienating large segments of the public who like to protect their health, their health of their families, leave their kids a decent environmental legacy.", "But we should point out that the polling we're referring to is all done before his recent actions, which have a more pro-environmental stance. Is it your guess, Mark, that polling today would show you different results?", "You know, I don't think so. The reality is George Bush has dug himself a very deep hole on the environment. All he's doing now is allowing to go into effect and taking credit for things that Bill Clinton did. What he did earlier in putting more arsenic in the water and carbon in the air is really to reverse things that Bill Clinton had already put into place. Now he's trying to take credit for letting Clinton initiatives fall into place.", "Well, whether or not he's trying to do that, one could debate that. Keating, do you think it's going to change the poll numbers on the environment?", "Probably not all that much. I don't really think people are paying a lot of attention to the details, except again for college-educated people who have a tendency to look at the details on things like this.", "Mark, how do the Democrats use this issue?", "Well, I think Democrats will be talking about the fact that George Bush is, to the benefit of his special interest contributors, he's allowing industry to put more arsenic in the water, put more carbon on the air, cut down those national forests. That's something that I think most Americans really resent. It alienates most Americans. I think Democrats will be talking about it. But there's a substantive argument here. There's also a character argument. People are not only concerned about the substance of these issues, but it also cements in people's minds the notion that George Bush is much more interested in benefiting big business, special interests, than he is average people.", "Quickly, Keating, does the environment win or lose elections?", "Usually it doesn't make much difference. But, Mark is right. If they can make it into character issue, this is something we were hearing the Democrats do throughout the 2000 campaign, if you can talk about Bush as being in the pocket of big interests and using the environment as an example of that where he doesn't care about the little guy, maybe that's something where they can nick him arm a little bit.", "Mark, before you leave, I know you've been polling on a wide range of issues. I'm sure you're probing for weaknesses. Where else have you found a decline in President Bush's numbers?", "Well, clearly, the economy is something that people are obviously seeing a turn in their perceptions of the economy. And at the end of the day, George Bush will be held responsible for that. The other key fact is what's happening with the promises he made. Why isn't proposing prescription drug coverage as he promised? Why isn't he protecting HMO patients, as he promised? People beginning to wonder when those promises are going to be kept.", "But on the upside, China is working for him, isn't it?", "It is. At least temporarily.", "OK, Mark Mellman and also Keating Holland, thank you so much for joining us. Earth Day coming up on Sunday. 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{"id": "CNN-1509", "program": "", "date": "2000-1-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/26/aotc.08.html", "summary": "Farrell: 'You'd be Very Happy Over the Next Couple of Years' to Buy Intel", "utt": ["And back with us at this hour to give us his take on the market, not to mention some stock picks as well, on this Wednesday morning, is Vince Farrell, chairman and chief investment officer of Spears, Benzak, Salomon & Farrell. What do you make of that story, there. Are value stocks really out?", "Oh, they definitely are, David, but I like the definitions they gave and I'd like to refine the definition. Value stocks are stocks in mature industries: well, not necessarily. Value is in the price relative to the growth rate, and technology stocks, of course, have led the market, and Christine from Morningstar said it's technology versus value. Well, gosh, there's a bigger world than that. If you define value as a stock or company where the price to earnings ratio is within at least a short distance visit of its growth rate, you could have some very good value. For example, three tech stocks that we like would be Intel, IBM and EDS. Now, they're not classic value stocks by any stretch of the imagination, but if you take the three together, the average growth rate we're expecting would be about 20 percent for the next couple of years, and the average multiple is 25, 27 times. Now you're not saying 25-7 times is a value multiple, but it is a market multiple and it's within a visit of its growth rate; it's not two or three times its growth rate where there's significant vulnerability if they were to disappoint.", "So you're comparing the price to future growth expectations for the company going out?", "Exactly, yes.", "Let's talk about some of those picks, you mentioned some of them. How about Intel?", "Well, Intel, I think -- the thing I like about both Intel and IBM is they kind of had their announcements of some difficulties already. With Intel, the introduction of the new 18- micron chip, with IBM it's the Y2K issue in the fourth quarter. But Intel going forward is probably going to grow its earnings well north of 20 percent. Now, right now the multiple of 30 times expected earnings, maybe even a little north of 30, is certainly rich enough for us to pause in buying it but not so rich that we're going to sell what we have, except maybe trimming it if it gets too big a portion of a portfolio. But if Intel, being a volatile technology stock -- almost by definition there's volatility in all technology -- if that stock were to dip down into a multiple of the high 20s, I think if you could buy Intel with a 20-percent visible growth rate, with a new product flow coming at you, you'd be very happy over the next couple of years.", "OK, that's Intel and IBM. The next up on the list is Ross Perot's spoiled (ph) company, Electronic Data Systems?", "Well, that really has had a remarkable turnaround with the new CEO, Brown, that's come in, and he's trimmed operations, he's refocused it, and I think the growth rate is going to be significantly higher than Wall Street expectations right now. But Wall Street is expecting very high teenage growth. Brown's objective is to get operating margins up ever so slightly. But if you do that, if he's successful with that, the growth rate's going to approach 25 percent, which is what the multiple is right now. Twenty-five times, which is the market multiple and equal to the growth rate, to me that constitutes value. Now, deep, deep, value would be something like a steel stock or a paper stock or something like that, and they're all fine and good, but let's not lose sight that value is the price relative to the growth expectations.", "OK, I do want to touch on Fannie Mae before we run out of time. What do you like about that stock?", "The stock's trading right now at 13 times expected earnings, and Fannie Mae is allegedly interest sensitive. But last year, when interest rates backed up 200 basis points, Fannie Mae grew its earnings 13 percent, which is exactly the average that they've grown for the past 10, 12 years. So, even though it's allegedly interest sensitive, they've been able to push their earnings forward. So, the multiple and the growth rate are the same and it's half the market multiple, so I think this one is very well positioned. Political noise always comes in around election year. You know, Fannie Mae has the government subsidy, quote (ph), so to speak, so there's always a little bit of that, and that will depress the multiple relative to some other financial stocks. Big, liquid, high- quality, 13-times earnings with a 13-percent growth rate, I think it's an especially-attractive investment right now.", "Well, while we don't have time to cover it, we do want to mention that you also like American Home Products.", "Which is trading at only 20 times, and in the drug industry it's very cheap.", "Vince, good to see you again.", "Thanks, David. Good to see you."], "speaker": ["DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "VINCE FARRELL, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, SPEARS, BENZAK, SALOMON & FARRELL", "HAFFENREFFER", "FARRELL", "HAFFENREFFER", "FARRELL", "HAFFENREFFER", "FARRELL", "HAFFENREFFER", "FARRELL", "HAFFENREFFER", "FARRELL", "HAFFENREFFER", "FARRELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-394750", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2020-03-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/09/acd.01.html", "summary": "Stocks Sink More Than 2,000 Points, Italy Goes On Lockdown And A Total Of 5 U.S. Congressmen Self-Quarantine; Rep. Mark Meadows, President Trump's Incoming Chief Of Staff, In Self-Quarantine As A Precaution.", "utt": ["Good evening. John Berman here, in for Anderson. On a first night of what could be a very long, tense week for people in this country and around the world, that's because the markets suffered an unprecedented point drop. In Italy, a country of 60 million people, effectively closed all its borders to the world. Now, all of that happening as passengers are finally disembarking from a cruise ship now reported in Oakland. At a news conference a short time ago, Vice President Pence said 21 were infected on the ship. However, none of them children. President Trump was also there, or should we say he was there briefly. He use this team to explain the outbreak is, quote, not our country's fault and was, quote, something we were thrown. Also, he talked about a stimulus package he hopes Congress will pass. But then the president left the room before taking any questions. And we want to play you that moment, because tonight, the health of the president is now a concern after several Republican allies in Congress, some who had recent contact with the president, announced they have self quarantined after coming in contact with someone who was infected. Here is that moment after reporters ask, whether the leader of the free world has been tested.", "Has he been tested? Have you been tested?", "I have not been tested for the coronavirus.", "Has the president? Has the president been tested? He's been in contact with people who were in proximity to somebody who had the virus.", "Let me be sure and get you an answer to that. I honestly don't know the answer to the question. But we'll refer that question and we will get you an answer from the White House physician very quickly.", "The vice president doesn't know if the president has been tested and we still haven't received an answer from the White House. Now, here is what we do know at this time about the president's health. Four Republican members of Congress have self-quarantined them after they came in contact with an individual at a recent political action forum who has tested positive for the virus. Ted Cruz, Dr. Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Doug Collins. Congressman Collins of Georgia shook the president's hand after exiting Air Force One in Atlanta on Friday, after Congressman Collins came in contact with the infected individual. And then there is Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida. Today, he rode with the president aboard the presidential limo, as well as Air Force One. Gaetz was also a dinner guest of the president Saturday evening, spending the weekend with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Now, Gaetz had previously appeared to mock coronavirus prevention. He appeared last week in a gas mask during a vote on funding for coronavirus prevention and he tweeted out a photo of himself in that same gas mask while in his office. By the way, all of that happened before this weekend when a constituent of his died from the coronavirus. Today, his office responded to the gas mask controversy, quote: Congressman Gaetz had expected COVID-19 to impact Congress given the elevated frequency of travel and human contact and demonstrated his concern last week on the House floor. He demonstrated it all right. Interestingly, President Trump attended the same CPAC conference as the four congressmen who have self-quarantined. That was February 29th, nine days ago. President Trump said of the coronavirus, quote, everything is under control, unquote. And he said it twice. Let's start with Boris Sanchez at the White House tonight. Boris, as we mentioned, Vice President Pence, he couldn't or wouldn't say whether the president has been tested. Is that still the case?", "Yes. We don't have any clarity on that at this point, John. You heard Vice President Mike Pence there say at the podium that he would give some clarity to the press. He sort of struggled to answer the question. Ultimately, acknowledging that he, himself, had not been tested. He said that he didn't know what the White House's physician's advice was to Trump on that. We should point out as you saw there, the president totally ignored the question, quickly walked out of the room before answering any questions from reporters. We should also note that the president, just this weekend, over the last few days, has ignored the advice of top experts when it comes to senior citizens protecting themselves from the coronavirus. He's attended a number of fundraisers with hundreds of people in attendance, shaking a lot of hands, John.", "So what more is the White House saying about the president's interactions with Congressman Gaetz and Doug Collins?", "Yes, not much at all. Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham didn't answer questions I sent her after this news came forward. The White House has maintained that President Trump is fine, and that he's healthy. He, himself, has made clear that this isn't a huge concern for him. But it seems that the tide is turning. Specifically, when you watch the Dow Jones dropped 2,000 points in a single day. That really has gotten the president's attention, especially going into this 2020 re- election campaign.", "There is no question about that. And that's clearly what he wanted to focus on at this news conference. Saying that tomorrow, he'll hold a precedent where he will announce some kind of economic relief. What was the president talking about there? And does the White House think it'll be enough to stem the losses on Wall Street?", "It's really an open question at this point. From what we understand, the president met with aides this afternoon, going over a draft, different ideas, opinions of what an economic stimulus package would look like. The White House has repeatedly said that they would look to help the airline industry, the cruise industry, support tourism and travel in that regard. There's been speculation about a potential payroll tax. It would also not be a surprise if we see some kind of help for the energy sector, as well, with this price war over oil going on between Saudi Arabia and Russia. There is less demand for oil. We may see the White House try to boost that. The big question on the horizon, and we're still several steps from this but it's an important one to keep in mind, how will Democrats respond to this? Are they willing to help the president pass an economic stimulus package that might turn the tide with the way that the White House has handled this coronavirus crisis? And help the president boost the economy, avoid a slowdown going into November. All right. Boris Sanchez at the White House -- Boris, keep on pressing and let us know if you get any answers tonight. I want to bring in CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta to talk more about what we heard at this news conference a short time ago. And, Sanjay, what do you make of the fact that the vice president couldn't say whether or not president Trump has been tested for coronavirus?", "Well, you know, I was a little surprised they didn't know only because it's been such, you know, a topic in the news today. And everyone's been talking about it, reporting on it. So that was a little surprising. The president walked out, John, I don't know if you saw, before he could take those questions. So I think the vice president was a little surprised. At first, he thought -- he thought he was being asked if he had been tested. So I think there was a little confusion there. I do want to say one thing though, John. So the scenario basically is that these Congressmen Gaetz and Collins interacted with somebody who was subsequently found to be positive with coronavirus. And then they interacted with the president. It's not clear whether Congressman Collins or Gaetz have coronavirus themselves, and I think that's going to be an important question. I bring it up only to say, John, as we move forward over the next days and weeks, who should get tested, I think, is going to be a question that comes up. Should you get tested if you came in contact with somebody who was known to have coronavirus? The answer may be no. I mean, the White House doctors may say, hey, look, we think we'll watch you. See if you develop any symptoms. But we don't necessarily want to make this precedent that everybody who has second or third-degree contact should go out and get tested, John.", "And the members' offices do tell us that as of now, those members are all asymptomatic. Another big part of this news conference was the idea that the CDC guidelines, these new pieces of paper are coming out. What do you make of this, Sanjay? I suppose any information is good, although, maybe it's a little late for some of this.", "Well, you know, and Dr. Fauci did describe it as being very basic information about how to, essentially, protect yourself at home, at your business and restaurants, whatever it may be. And my -- we haven't seen it yet. I guess it's going to be coming out later tonight or tomorrow morning. But I think it's going to be a lot of stuff that has been discussed. I think, peripherally, in terms of hand washing and disinfecting and -- and the appropriate distance to stay away from somebody. How do you interact with people at a restaurant? In terms of lowering your risk of getting infected. I think you're right, John. I mean, we have been hearing about this but it's been sort of piecemeal. I think what they realize, and they being Dr. Anthony Fauci and Ambassador Birx, that there probably needed to be a more coherent sort of way of presenting all this information to the entire American public. This is supposed to be for everybody. So, yes, I mean, you kind of wish they would have had this sooner. Although they have been talking about it, now we are going to have it in a more organized firm.", "Just overall, Sanjay, what were your biggest takeaways from this briefing?", "I think the biggest takeaway for me, when you observe the president at the beginning and I was there for the first press briefing he did around this topic. And I did get the sense that this time around, there was an acknowledgment, more of an acknowledgment by the president, that this was a big deal. Before, I think it was still sort of, you know, not necessarily recognizing -- he had just come back from India. I think he was a bit surprised that he had to talk about it. This time, he said basically, look, everybody's talking about it. I get it. Everyone around the world is talking about it. This is the big topic. So he acknowledged that. And, you know, he talked mostly about the economy. But he did bring up some specific things like helping workers who might have to stay home. We're asking people to stay home. Maybe they can't afford to, you know, an acknowledgment of details like that. So I think that was good. But, again, he spoke for a very short time.", "He did, which is notable. We'll get to that in a minute. Sanjay, thank you very much. We have a lot more to discuss with you coming up. First, though, I want to talk with a veteran with years of service working on an array of Washington crises, former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who also served as defense secretary and CIA director. Secretary Panetta, are you surprised that Vice President Pence couldn't say or wouldn't say whether President Trump has been tested for coronavirus, given that the president interacted with people that had come in contact with someone who now has coronavirus?", "That was -- that was kind of not -- not a smart move by the vice president. I think both the president and he knew that question was coming because of the fact that he had contact with members of Congress who have now quarantined themselves. So I -- I think they should have been better prepared to have responded to that question because it is a critical question.", "And then it struck me that the president, after floating a payroll tax cut and some other wage benefits, he left. He walked out of the news conference early. I'm wondering why you think the White House, perhaps, didn't want him taking questions?", "It's the president of the United States, the commander in chief, if you will, who's got to stand up there and speak to the American people about what's happening and what we're doing to try to deal with it. I thought it would have been far better, frankly, to not even have the president go out there because it created the impression that the president was not fully knowledgeable about what is happening with the virus, did not want to speak to it, and, instead, wanted to mention the fact that he was going to meet with senators tomorrow to talk about an economic package, which -- which is all well and good. But the fact that he went out there, did not speak directly to the issue that American people are concerned about, and immediately went off stage. I -- I just thought -- I just thought it left -- it left me with a sense that the president, for a lot of reasons, does not seem to have his arms around this issue and does not feel comfortable addressing it, as he should have addressed it at that press conference.", "What does it tell you that you have concerns about the president of the United States participating in a news conference about coronavirus? That's pretty extraordinary.", "Well, you know, it's -- it strikes me that the president, for the last few weeks, as we've been dealing with this crisis, has tried to play down the threat of this virus. He's concerned about its impact. He's concerned about what it's doing to the economy. It's -- he's concerned about what it's doing to his presidency. And so, as a result of that, I think he's trying to put the best face on it, without really relying on the scientific facts and the medical facts that are so apparent. I appreciate the vice president, and I appreciate the whole medical team that was there because i, at least, had the sense that they were presenting the facts and the truth to the American people. I don't think this president has come face to face with the truth of what's happening. And as long as that's the case, I have a feeling that we're not going to see the president doing many briefings on what's happening with the coronavirus.", "You know, every public health expert I speak with says that in a crisis situation, the number one ingredient for public health is public trust. So I guess the question is, what happens when a leader forfeits some element of public trust?", "Well, you know, the problem is this president has had a hard time with the truth since he entered the presidency and before that. And, you know, the American people want to be able to trust. What -- what the president is what -- what the president is saying to them. But, in many ways, he's forfeited that trust by the fact that he continues to shade the truth. The most important thing in these crises is to present the truth to the American people. And this president, so often, would rather shade the truth so that everything looks fine. When, in fact, this is a crisis that we're all apart of. All Americans are a part of this effort to deal with this crisis, and he should be comfortable, not uncomfortable, with telling the American people the truth about what's happening.", "You know, I want to ask you a question on a slightly different subject. It has to do with the crisis over oil prices. Now, this has to do with two countries that the president, for whatever reason, has gone out of his way to develop these particularly close relationships with Saudi Arabia and Russia. What does it tell you that he can't just get on the phone, after years of building up these relationships, and say, hey, fix this? Isn't this exactly where you should be using the leverage he claims to have been building up?", "Well, frankly, what concerned me more today was the fact that the president tweeted out that somehow this crisis on oil prices was going to benefit the American people with lower gas prices. The problem is it's a crisis. We've never had that much of a drop on energy prices for almost 30 years. And when that happens, it creates a very unpredictable marketplace that could impact on our way of life, because we are so dependent on that source of energy. So I -- I would have thought that the president would've really spoken to the danger points that we're seeing now with regards to oil. And also, as you say, he should have picked up the phone with Saudi Arabia and with Russia.", "Secretary Leon Panetta, so great to have you with us this evening. Stay healthy. We'll talk to you again soon.", "Thank you, John. You, too.", "Just ahead, Dr. Sanjay Gupta rejoins us to help us take a step back, take a deep breath, and answer more questions about the coronavirus. Also, a live report from Oakland, a cruise ship with passengers infected with coronavirus has just docked. The latest on the conditions of the passenger when 360 conti -- returns."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN HOST", "REPORTER", "MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "REPORTER", "PENCE", "BERMAN", "BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "SANCHEZ", "BERMAN", "SANCHEZ", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "GUPTA", "BERMAN", "GUPTA", "BERMAN", "LEON PANETTA, FORMER WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF, CLINTON ADMINISTRATION", "BERMAN", "PANETTA", "BERMAN", "PANETTA", "BERMAN", "PANETTA", "BERMAN", "PANETTA", "BERMAN", "PANETTA", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-330665", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-01-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/17/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Dow Briefly Tops 25,000 for First Time", "utt": ["Hello everyone. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles, I'm Isha Sesay. The headlines this hour. Prime ministers from 20 countries are agreeing to consider more sanctions on North Korea. the U.S. Secretary of State says it's time to talk to Pyeongyang but the North has to indicate its willing. Meantime, a third round of talks between the North and South was in agreement to return the bodies of four North Korean nationals found off the South Korean coastline. Well, days after false alarm of incoming missiles in Hawaii triggered a panic, Japan's National Broadcaster send out its own mistake and alert. NHK corrected its mistake in five minutes and apologized on air for the error. Well, Donald Trump's former chief strategist is facing tough questions in the Russia investigation. Steve Bannon met for 10 hours with the House Committee Tuesday, refusing to answer certain questions, so the Committee issued a subpoena. Special Counsel Robert Mueller also wants Bannon to testify before a grand jury. Well, U.S. stock market keeps tantalizing investors, the DOW floating, yes, another milestone on Tuesday, it rose above 26,000 and intraday all-time high. The spike didn't last, the DOW closed slightly lower but consider this, it took the DOW just seven, just seven trading days to go from 25,000 to 26,000. And take a look at this with me, you can see the DOW's meteoric rise in just the past 12 months, up, up, up, and up. But along with the euphoria there, also concerns, the U.S. stock market is in danger of overheating and all the gains we've seen could just melt away. Joining me now, Global Business Executive, our own Ryan Patel is in the house, happy New Year.", "Happy New Year.", "Good to see you. So, there are those first of all who say all of this excitement and these -- the DOW performing so wonderfully well if you're an investor. It's really about the Fed and that it has the Fed's fingerprints all over this as opposed to the President taking credit for this. How do you see what we're witnessing right now? What's happening?", "Yes. This definitely is the Fed. This is -- and the Fed for the last eight to nine years that this is in place, it's not -- obviously people are taking credit for -- administration would be taking credit for it. But I mean, they've definitely have helped it over the last few months with the tax reform but it's -- this doesn't happen overnight, it's been going -- it's a bull -- it's a bull market for eight to nine years for a reason, it wasn't just a market that just came over last year.", "The President doesn't agree, take a listen to what President Trump had to say.", "The stock market is way up again today and we're setting a record literally all the time and I'm telling you, we have a long way to go. And had the other side gotten in, the market would have gotten down 50 percent from where it was, 50 percent from where it was remembered that. It was stagnant and it was going down.", "And not once but twice, the market have gotten down 50 percent if the other side got in and the market was stagnant going down. Ryan Patel, can you fact check for us?", "You're going to get him to tweet on me.", "You should be so lucky.", "No, I don't know. You know, that number happens to be what the market was when he got in the administration. I think the fact check is unemployment, jobs have been getting over for the last six, seven years behind it. And I think for him, what has changed from what it looks out today, the Fed is going to get involved now. And this year, you can kind of see them having to step in because of bonds, because of interface are probably going to have to increase, and then what are you going to say?", "Yes, indeed. John who is not here loves to say, if you take credit for the sunshine, you got to take credit for the rain. But there's the other -- you mentioned that the tax plan that got passed before Christmas and being partly responsible for what we're seeing, there's also this whole issue of deregulation. I want you to take a listen to our very own Richard Quest with his take on what's playing out.", "Donald Trump was never a major player on Wall Street, that is until he became President. Now he's overseeing an historic rally in financial stocks and cutting regulation whereas he can. One of the biggest moments of the first year was overhauling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, it's a banking regulator which the President called a disaster. And he picked an enemy of it, of regulation, Mick Mulvaney to run the very organization he criticized. The first thing the man did was block all new rules.", "Effective today, we've put something similar in place here to what we did across the entire executive branch at the outset of the administration. To get the outset of the administration, we did a 90-day hiring freeze, we'd put a 30-day hiring freeze here at CFPB. Probably more importantly, we put a 30-day immediate freeze on any new rules, regulation, and guidance. It's in the pipeline, stops for at least 30 days while I get a chance to see exactly what's going on and kick the tires here at the bureau.", "Now those like Senator Elizabeth Warren who helped create the CFPB are furious saying, the right regulation can help stop another financial crisis. Anyway, it's not like the banks are having problems giving out loans in any event but the cuts, well they still keep coming. Relaxing things like the fiduciary rule making it easier for banks to sell products including risky ones at that. For now, Wall Street remains happy, this banking index is up more than 20 percent since the inauguration and if everything we hear follows through, it's going to continue. Richard Quest, CNN New York.", "Ryan, you're still with me, thank you. I want to take up on what Richard said that is going to continue, right, that's the expectation. My question is typically, how did bull markets end up?", "Yes. And overheating component that we're seeing is that we're near the end of this thing. I think what we -- for right now, let me just be very clear, fourth-quarter earnings, corporate earnings are going to come out pretty good and it -- above analyze -- analyst expectations. So it's not like he's going to turn probably this quarter but when you start to see is when the conversation goes to the Fed looking to increase the interest rate, you look at what foreign -- foreign countries stop buying into the U.S. bonds, right? The bond market becomes the higher yields. That kind of has to show kind of what happened before the bubble. The Fed has to kind of step in here. And these conversations are happening right now, so it's going to be very interesting to when --", "Happening within the --", "What I think -- yes, I think what's -- the conversation is, when do they step in? When is this the right time to increase the interest rates? I'm not saying that they're going to do it right now but is an eye to keep eye on for the rest of the year for them because if they wait too long, there will be a bad reaction to this. And so I think they're looking at science of what we happen to saw at the recession in 2007, 2008, there's some signs that are here too, we mind that.", "Yes. The overheating, the melt-up as they --", "Yes. I mean -- and even -- you can argue that the tax reform has kind of given a little bit of a breather just a tad and that's great. But at the end of the day, like you saw today, the reason why the down didn't hit finish because energy stocks came down. All -- so it's -- again, there's a reason for these things that are happening.", "So interesting. Ryan Patel, we very much appreciate it. Some saying this is like a freight train that's going off the tracks, I've heard various descriptions. But then the best I saw was that the Fed is going to have to take the punchbowl away, this has to wrap.", "And truthfully, you're going to have -- someone has to make a decision and it's going to be, if you take credit for the market, you got to take credit for when it goes down too.", "We'll see what happens. See if the President is saying that come that time. Ryan Patel, always appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Well, we are just days away from the one year anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration. Ohio is one of the states that pushed him to victory, filled in part by democrat to cross party lines. Now the question is, would they do it again? CNN's Martin Savidge went to Ohio to find out.", "Anywhere you look in Youngstown are reminders of what's been lost: factories, jobs, the city's population is down by almost two-thirds from the 1950s. The economy wasn't just disappearing here, so was the way of life.", "And I realized that the core foundation of our country is slipping away.", "I mean, I got to the point where I did not like the direction that my country was going.", "The answer for many was Donald Trump. In 2016 according to the Mahoning County Board of Elections, approximately 7,000 registered democrats switched parties to become Republicans.", "He said he's going to make America first and he's going to bring jobs back.", "Donald Trump says we have lousy trade deals, we fix that, the jobs can come back.", "Something that he said that really sticks with me is that he wants to give the power back to the American people and that's something that I can certainly get behind.", "I'm with the pastor, a stay-at-home, a student, a machine shop worker, and a union member, Democrats were raised in democrat families who crossed over to vote Trump. We're one year, one year in, how's he doing?", "Fantastic.", "Great. Better than I ever would have dreamt, I mean necessarily.", "Really?", "Oh yes.", "Derrick?", "Yes, I agree. Yes, he's doing wonderful. He's staying on task.", "We start with a hot-button topic at the moment, how big an issue to all to all of you is immigration?", "Huge.", "Huge.", "Really?", "Absolutely.", "In Youngstown, Ohio?", "Absolutely. And as far as I'm concerned, they're stealing jobs of rightful citizens.", "It's also about something else, Trump voter say is important, rules and respect.", "I feel like when people come here illegally, that's just very disrespectful, you don't respect our laws, and you shouldn't be able to come here free willing like that.", "A year later, they all still want the wall. As for the President's inflammatory tweets and speech, Gino says he used to cringe, not anymore. So, you don't cringe anymore because you've grown numb to it or --", "No, not numb at all, I know what he's done. And I'm starting to get an inkling why he uses Twitter in the way he does because if all he had to rely on is what people say about him, oh my God, I might not like the guy. I love the guy, I love the job he's doing.", "Justis met Trump in a rally and says he's not a racist.", "He was just the nicest person and honestly he -- if he was a racist as everyone paints him out to be, he could have just walked right past me and not even said a word.", "What about the lies? Well let me ask you this, do you think he is a liar?", "Do I think he's lying? No. Do I think he's fallen short in some of his goals, we all do?", "Economically, they say things aren't getting better. The stock market and their home values are up.", "Industries are booming everywhere I've seen.", "I look around here, I don't see a boom.", "Well in this area, no. But I feel like there's small businesses that are starting to pick up.", "Derrick says Trump's tax reform will fuel the recovery.", "You expand your business in the inner city so then my community will benefit from this tax cut.", "Do you think the media gives the President a fair shake?", "I don't think so at all.", "No.", "One year later, these voters couldn't be happier. They see achievement, most of all they see a President like them.", "He's like tenacious sometimes and says stuff off the cuff like we do, like real Americans do, we're not perfect. I'm tired of suave, I'm tired of polished, I'm tired of the teleprompter. I am. I want my country back.", "Martin Savidge, CNN Youngstown, Ohio.", "Next on NEWSROOM LA, a man caught in the middle of the fight over U.S. immigration, how he ended up in a country he hasn't lived in for decades."], "speaker": ["SESAY", "RYAN PATEL, GLOBAL BUSINESS EXECUTIVE", "SESAY", "PATEL", "SESAY", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SESAY", "PATEL", "SESAY", "PATEL", "SESAY", "RICHARD QUEST, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS ANCHOR", "MICK MULVANEY, ACTING DIRECTOR, CFPB", "QUEST", "SESAY", "PATEL", "SESAY", "PATEL", "SESAY", "PATEL", "SESAY", "PATEL", "SESAY", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SAVIDGE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SAVIDGE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANNA PARA, MOTHER OF FOUR", "SAVIDGE", "PARA", "SAVIDGE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAVIDGE (voice-over)", "GINO DIFABIO, MACHINE SHOP WORKER", "PARA", "SAVIDGE", "DIFABIO", "SAVIDGE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAVIDGE (voice-over)", "JUSTIS HARRISON, STUDENT", "SAVIDGE (voice-over)", "DIFABIO", "SAVIDGE (voice-over)", "HARRISON", "SAVIDGE", "DIFABIO", "SAVIDGE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAVIDGE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAVIDGE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAVIDGE", "HARRISON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SAVIDGE (voice-over)", "PARA", "SAVIDGE (voice-over)", "SESAY"]}
{"id": "NPR-34423", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2010-11-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131168896", "title": "'High' Takes Long Road To Broadway", "summary": "The new play High stars Kathleen Turner, who's been with it since its first tryout in Hartford, Conn. How has the play has changed in three stagings across the country?", "utt": ["How do you get to Broadway, not as an actor but as an entire play still trying to work out a few kinks? You could go to Hartford, Connecticut, and Cincinnati, Ohio, then maybe drop down to St. Louis, Missouri, and you wouldn't necessarily be lost.", "That's the route that a new play called \"High\" took on the long road to Broadway. From St. Louis, Jim Dryden reports.", "Kathleen Turner has appeared on Broadway as Mrs. Robinson in the stage adaptation of \"The Graduate,\" Maggie in \"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof\" and Martha in \"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.\" But with \"High,\" Turner hopes to finally make it to Broadway as a character she created, Sister Jamison Connelly, a formerly homeless recovering alcoholic nun who works as a counselor at a Catholic rehabilitation center.", "I've always wanted to develop more new work and add to the lexicon of theater, you know, not just take what has already been proven but to create a piece.", "(As Sister Jamison Connelly) Sit down, let's chat.", "Unidentified Man #1 (Actor): (As character) Yo, look, lady. This is stupid. I mean, why do we gotta keep seeing each other if I don't want to get clean?", "(As Connelly) All right, first of all, you call me lady one more time and I will make you cry.", "(As Connelly) Second, did I or did I not make it abundantly clear at our first meeting, I do not care what you want. So sit down. Let's get to work.", "Unidentified Man #1: (As character) But...", "(As Connelly) Shut the (BEEP) up.", "Unidentified Man #1: (As character) You creep me out when you do that.", "(As Connelly) Do what?", "Unidentified Man #1: (As character) When you swear, it's creepy.", "(As Connelly) Oh, too bad.", "Unidentified Man #1: (As character) Yeah? Well, you're a nun. Nuns don't swear.", "(As Connelly) And 19-year-old boys don't try to kill themselves.", "\"High\" opened in Hartford over the summer, and director Rob Ruggiero says in retrospect, that might not have been the best place to launch.", "You know, you just want to kind of get it up and see what you have, see how the audiences respond. And the objective is to understand that so you can take it to the next step.", "But having Kathleen Turner in Hartford, close to New York, it was a little less protected than we thought and rightfully so. People are going to come.", "Among those who came were two critics from the New York Times, but playwright Matthew Lombardo says the play wasn't ready for review because it wasn't even close to being finished.", "That's one of the reasons we take a play to regional theaters across the country before bringing it to New York because we're looking for that safe and comfortable environment where we can nurture our baby without critics coming in from New York or some of the big newspapers.", "One review was positive, the other mixed, but at that point in early August, Lombardo, Ruggiero and Turner weren't yet happy with the play, either, and Turner says it has been extensively reworked.", "In between Hartford and Cincinnati, we almost completely rewrote the second act. We got it down to just the last scene needed work.", "(As Connelly) (Unintelligible). I couldn't handle it. I ran away.", "Unidentified Man #2 (Actor): (As character) What did he tell you?", "(As Connelly) Nothing you don't already know.", "St. Louis was the third of three stops for the play over the past three months.", "There's just certain things that you don't know that time will help you develop the play.", "Playwright Matthew Lombardo.", "I've been dealing with clarifying the story arcs or deepening the characterizations. And there's just some things that you don't know in the first city that you find out in city number two or three.", "But you have to be careful about changing too much too soon, according to director Rob Ruggiero.", "There's a certain point where you do have to leave it alone because if you react too quickly to things, the actors have no opportunity to get it in their bones, to make it work. So sometimes you could remove something of a great value. And we're at that point now where he might tweak, I might tweak, but we're about to let it alone.", "At this point, director, playwright and star say the script is pretty much finished. And Kathleen Turner says its development over the past three months on the road has been crucial to the creation of her character.", "Every bit of information I need, I should need and should have, should be in the script, though I have actually met a lot of ex-nuns in the last few months and been told by many people that they've met nuns exactly like this woman. Who knew?", "Turner, Lombardo and Ruggiero hope to open \"High\" on Broadway early next year.", "For NPR News, I'm Jim Dryden in St. Louis."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, host", "MELISSA BLOCK, host", "JIM DRYDEN", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "JIM DRYDEN", "Mr. ROB RUGGIERO (Director, \"High\")", "Mr. ROB RUGGIERO (Director, \"High\")", "JIM DRYDEN", "Mr. MATTHEW LOMBARDO (Playwright, \"High\")", "JIM DRYDEN", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "JIM DRYDEN", "Mr. MATTHEW LOMBARDO (Playwright, \"High\")", "JIM DRYDEN", "Mr. MATTHEW LOMBARDO (Playwright, \"High\")", "JIM DRYDEN", "Mr. ROB RUGGIERO (Director, \"High\")", "JIM DRYDEN", "Ms. KATHLEEN TURNER (Actor)", "JIM DRYDEN", "JIM DRYDEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-354856", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-11-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/16/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Florida Senate Race Heads to a Manual Recount; Judge Asks White House to Reinstate Jim Acosta's Hard Pass", "utt": ["Well, we've seen recount 2.0. Now it is hand recount 2.0. A look now at Broward County, Florida, this is where they're doing it. Officials here and in counties across the state have until noon Sunday to recount by hand some of the ballots cast in the state's Senate race. Right now Republican Rick Scott leads incumbent Bill Nelson, the Democrat, by just 12,000 votes.", "Let's go to Jessica Dean, our colleague in West Palm, Florida. So what's the latest?", "Well, good morning to you guys. We are here in West Palm Beach, Florida. They have not started the hand recount here. That's scheduled at 11:00 a.m. We have seen volunteers trickling in. All across Florida, in every county. Volunteers are going through and evaluating overvotes and undervotes. An overvote is where the machine read more than one vote in a particular race. And undervote is where the machine didn't read any vote in a particular race. So they need human eyes to take a look at this and discern what was the voter intent.", "OK.", "So we're going to be taking a lot at. We'll keep an eye on it, guys.", "Jessica, thanks. We've got to break in here because we do have breaking news now. Just in to CNN, a federal judge has sided with CNN saying the White House was wrong to revoke our colleague Jim Acosta's press pass. Federal Judge Timothy Kelly ordering the White House to reinstate his press pass. This --", "Immediately.", "Initial victory to reinstate because they had sought immediate relief, emergency relief to this. So a victory in this case. You can say broader, more than for CNN, for press freedom.", "Right. Again, this is about all press access to the White House. Whether the administration or any administration likes questions asked or the tone they're asked in or not, this is about the First Amendment and the Fifth Amendment. Our experts are with us, chief media correspondent Brian Stelter and our chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. Jeffrey, to you on the law, this seems to be from what we're seeing initially even more of a Fifth Amendment due process win here.", "Right, and it doesn't necessarily mean Jim Acosta and CNN's ordeal is over. But there should be no ambiguity, CNN and Jim Acosta won in court today. But what the judge said was if you are going to take away a hard pass, there has to be some sort of explanation. Some sort of process, some sort of standards for doing that if you're going to -- if you're going to threaten First Amendment rights in this way.", "Right.", "So basically what the judge has done has thrown this issue back to the White House and said, OK. There may be a justification for you to take away Jim Acosta's press pass, but you have to create and establish and follow some rules to do that. And let him understand what he's accused of violating and let him defend himself. But in the meantime, he gets his press pass back, and the status quo returns.", "So wait, until this point, to revoke a hard pass as it's called, you would need to be a threat to the president. Is that right? Based on a Secret Service judgment.", "That's right.", "Is the judge inviting the White House to create new rules here?", "Well, I think the judge is inviting -- not inviting, he's requiring the White House both to clarify what the rules are that justify taking away a hard pass, as these passes are known. Plus, giving the hard pass owner, Jim Acosta or the next person in charge, some opportunity to say that's not fair. It's not right. Create some sort of process for --", "Right.", "Rather than just taking it away willy-nilly.", "And Brian, the argument that CNN's attorneys made here is that this was capricious and arbitrary, doing this against Jim Acosta and against CNN. And this is the judge agreeing with that in part.", "Yes. And at times this judge, a Trump appointee, seemed to emphasize --"], "speaker": ["SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "JESSICA DEAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "DEAN", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN CHIEF LEGAL ANALYST", "SCIUTTO", "TOOBIN", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "TOOBIN", "SCIUTTO", "TOOBIN", "HARLOW", "BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-128890", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2008-7-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/21/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Break in Salmonella Probe; Obama Visits the War Zone; McCain May Have Ally in Popular Evangelical", "utt": ["To our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now, Barack Obama gets a close look at the war zone, as Iraqi leaders seem to be moving closer to his timetable for withdrawing combat troops. But is John McCain the one who's been right when it comes to fighting the war? We'll speak about it with a potential Democratic vice presidential candidate, Senator Evan Bayh. John McCain has had some tough going with some Christian conservatives, but there are signs a key evangelist is softening his stance toward the Republican nominee-in-waiting. And as you just heard from CNN's Chad Myers, the Texas coast now under a hurricane watch. How hard could it be hit? We're tracking Tropical Storm Dolly with the director of the National Hurricane Center. He's standing by to join us live. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. But first this developing story we're following. Investigators call it a significant break in the probe into that nationwide salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 1,200 people. They just announced that the bacteria has now turned up on a jalapeno pepper at a Texas food distribution center. Let's go to Carol Costello. She's working this story for us. She's getting these late-breaking developments. What are we learning -- Carol?", "That's right. The FDA found the salmonella bacteria on one jalapeno pepper in that McAllen, Texas distribution center. The FDA knows that pepper was grown in Mexico, but it doesn't know if it was contaminated on that farm, Wolf, or contaminated along the way to the distribution center. So, the FDA is telling you not to eat fresh jalapeno peppers. I know you're wondering about tomatoes. Well, tomatoes are not completely exonerated either, because jalapenos and tomatoes often go hand in hand in things like salsa. So they're asking you to exercise caution when it comes to eating tomatoes. As far as what supermarkets/grocery stores this distribution plant in Texas sends its jalapeno peppers to, that information has not been made public. But the distribution center says it will voluntarily recall those jalapeno peppers at the grocery store. But it's safe to say don't eat fresh jalapeno peppers anywhere.", "Anywhere across the United States, even if this is just limited to Texas?", "I wouldn't. I mean the FDA is saying they don't know exactly where this pepper became contaminated along the way. They don't know if it was really contaminated in Mexico. All they know is they found this one pepper at the distribution center in Texas that was infected with the salmonella bacteria.", "All right, Carol...", "So it's like better safe than sorry.", "I think that's good advice. Thanks very much. Carol is working the story. We'll check back with her. Senator Obama, the would-be commander-in-chief, got a look today at the war he has vowed to end. He got a briefing and a bird's eye view of the battle zone from the U.S. military commander there, General David Petraeus. And he also met with Iraqi government leaders, some of whom now seem to have a much closer view -- a much closer position, as far as he's concerned, to his timetable for a U.S. troop withdrawal. Let's go live to Baghdad. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen is standing by. He's watching the story for us. I guess a lot of people are asking, is Obama on the same page now with Nuri Al-Maliki, the prime minister -- Fred?", "Well, Wolf, the two certainly don't seem to be very much at odds. After Obama had had that meeting with Nuri Al-Maliki today, we were actually told by the Iraqi government that they have a vision to see almost all U.S. combat troops out of Iraq by mid-2010. Now, of course, that sounds a lot like the withdrawal timetable that Barack Obama has been putting forth in his campaign. Let's just see how the day unfolded here.", "Senator, how is the trip?", "Great so far. Thank you.", "The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in Iraq. Barack Obama met with top Iraqi officials in Baghdad, including Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki. Maliki's office said he and Obama discussed the overall situation in the country. If elected president, Obama has pledged he would withdraw most U.S. combat troops from Iraq by mid-2010. But officially, this is a Congressional fact-finding mission, not a campaign visit. And Obama is trying to make clear he has come to listen. Like in this meeting with Iraq's vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi. After the meetings, no comment.", "Thank you.", "I have had a -- I have had a wonderful visit so far and excellent conversation.", "Somewhat surprisingly, Senator Obama's first stop in Iraq was a visit to the southern city of Basra -- an area with predominantly British forces on the ground. But he also met with U.S. and Iraqi commanders. Later, he and Senators Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed, traveling with him, took a helicopter tour with commanding General David Petraeus. At least one Iraqi politician had a favorable impression of the senator.", "Well, well, he's precise. He's specific. I'm very much interested for the dialogue that has taken place with him. He's very much aware about Iraqi issues.", "And, now, Wolf, I was at that meeting between Obama and the Iraqi vice president. And it seemed as though Obama was almost a little bit nervous and certainly very cautious to not let this look like a campaign photo-operation, to really make this look like a Congressional delegation. You know, we tried to corner him after he came out of that meeting with Tariq al-Hashimi. And we asked him, have you in any way, Senator, changed your position -- changed your assessment of the situation since you've gotten here? And he just got into his car and left and wouldn't have any of it -- Wolf.", "He'll be speaking plenty in the days to come about what has happened. Frederik Pleitgen, thanks very much for that. A key Evangelical leader has softened his stance against John McCain. And that's a rather significant step, given the Republican candidate's problems in attracting some support from Christian conservatives. Let's go to senior political analyst, Bill Schneider. He's working this story for us. So what are we seeing right now -- Bill? How would we define what's going on?", "Well, we're seeing something like a flip-flop. But this time, it's not by a candidate.", "John McCain and Evangelicals have had an off again/on again relationship. It was off in 2000, after McCain labeled certain Evangelical leaders...", "The agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.", "It seemed to stay off this year, when religious broadcaster James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, said he would not vote for president if McCain is the Republican nominee. But after reading a 2006 speech in which Obama urged religious voters to defend their views on abortion in terms of universal values, Dobson said...", "Now that's a fruitcake interpretation of the constitution.", "Meanwhile, McCain has been seizing opportunities to distinguish his views from Obama's.", "And he voted against a ban on partial birth abortion. So there's a clear choice between myself and Senator Obama.", "So now the relationship is on again -- sort of. In his Monday broadcast, Dobson said he is reconsidering because McCain is closer to his views than Obama, \"by a wide margin.\"", "I have to take into account the fact that Senator John McCain has voted pro-life consistently and that's a fact. And he says he favors marriage between a man and a woman. I believe that.", "After concluding that an election is always a choice between two flawed individuals -- who knew? -- Dobson came out with a resounding maybe.", "While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the possibility is there that I might.", "If that is a flip-flop, Dobson said, then so be it.", "Dobson says he still doesn't trust McCain. He seems to enjoy frustrating conservatives, Dobson said. But he finds Obama more threatening -- particularly after Obama's efforts to outreach to Evangelical voters -- Wolf.", "Bill Schneider is working this story for us. Thanks, Bill, very much. John McCain and Barack Obama appearing on stage together, but it's not a debate. The two candidates will take part in a forum hosted by the influential Evangelical Pastor Rick Warren. Let's go to Jessica Yellin. She's working this story for us -- all right, Jessica, what do we expect to see?", "Well, Wolf, we'll see Barack Obama and John McCain briefly appear together. It will most likely be their first time on stage together since they became their party's presumptive nominees.", "They've seen the face of -- the passionate conservatism and the face of compassionate liberalism and what we have in common is compassion.", "That's the Reverend Rick Warren, pastor of a mega church in California and author of the best's selling spiritual self-help guide, \"The Purpose-Driven Life\". Now he's doing what no one else has been able to do -- bringing John McCain and Barack Obama together on the same stage. The two will take part in a forum on August 16th at Warren's Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. In a statement, Warren says that: \"This is a critical time for our nation and the American people deserve to hear both candidates speak from the heart, without interruption, in a civil and thoughtful format.\" Getting the two candidates together is something McCain's been trying to do since the end of the primary. He challenged Obama to weekly town hall style debates from the middle of June until the political conventions in late August.", "I want Senator Obama to accept my invitation. I'll fly around this country with him. I'll reserve one day a week. And let's have town hall meetings and hear from the American people.", "Those debates are not happening. And each campaign blames the other for the breakdown in negotiations.", "Now, Wolf, the candidates won't face-off at this forum. Warren will just question them individually for an hour each. And it will probably be the last time we see both Senators Obama and McCain together until the presidential debates in late September and October.", "And there will be three of those, one vice presidential debate. That's the schedule right now. Jessica, thanks very much. Let's go back to Jack. He's got The Cafferty File -- Jack.", "While John McCain goes on and on about the surge and winning in Iraq -- whatever that means -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki says Barack Obama has the right idea -- get U.S. troops out of his country within 16 months. Talk about a blow to President Bush and John McCain. President Bush wants everything to be up to him. He's \"the decider,\" remember. And John McCain says we could be in Iraq for a hundred years. Nuri Al-Maliki told the German magazine \"Der Spiegel\" that he'd like U.S. troops to withdraw \"as soon as possible,\" adding that Barack Obama's talk of 16 months \"would be the right time frame for a withdrawal.\" The Bush administration immediately said well, that can't be right, this statement was out of context, that was mistranslated, that isn't what he meant blah, blah, blah. The translator for the interviewer with the German magazine was Nuri Al-Maliki's translator. And Al-Maliki brought the subject of Barack Obama's timetable up on his own -- voluntarily. He wasn't asked it. \"The New York Times\" got a copy of the audio recording in which Nuri Al-Maliki stated clear support for Obama's ideas for ending the war. The German magazine says it stands by its interview. This follows the capitulation by President Bush late last week in agreeing to talk to Iran about its nuclear program -- something the president said he would never do unless they stopped enriching uranium. McCain, of course, goes along with President Bush when it comes to Iran. But Obama has said all along, hey, we ought to talk to them. What could it hurt? Here's the question: What does it mean when the Iraqi prime minister endorses Barack Obama's schedule for getting U.S. troops out of Iraq? Go to CNN.com/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog. What it might mean -- what it could mean is that Nuri Al-Maliki thinks Obama might win. And it's never too early to start sucking up to the guy who's going to have the job next.", "I suspected that right away, as soon as I heard it.", "Oh.", "But then again, you know, I'm sort of cynical when it comes to these kinds of matters.", "Really?", "Yes. So many times.", "I thought that was my job.", "You're cynical...", "You seem to be a pretty reasonable, measured sort of a fellow.", "Thank you. Thank you, Jack.", "Stand by. Barack Obama -- he's in Iraq right now. You might be surprised at the reaction elsewhere in the Middle East some everyday people are giving him. We'll talk about that and more with a top Obama supporter, possible vice presidential running mate, Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana. Also, the Texas coast being warned to watch out for a possible hurricane. We're going to get an update on Dolly from the director of the National Hurricane Center. And a South American mystery -- why are hundreds of penguins washing up dead thousands of miles from home? Stick around. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "COSTELLO", "BLITZER", "COSTELLO", "BLITZER", "FREDERICK PLEITGEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "QUESTION", "SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "PLEITGEN (voice-over)", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "PLEITGEN", "TARIQ AL-HASHIMI, IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT", "PLEITGEN", "BLITZER", "WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "SCHNEIDER (voice-over)", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-220701", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-12-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1312/12/cnr.08.html", "summary": "FCC to Vote on Whether to Seek Public Comment on In-Flight Cell Phone Calls", "utt": ["Got some breaking news I want to pass along to you here. You have been watching and we have been reporting on this trial under way in Missoula, Montana, a trial in which this bride admitted to pushing her groom after the -- eight days after the \"I dos\" over a cliff. Was it self-defense? Was it murder? Here's the news. Jordan Lynn Graham has agreed to plead guilty to second degree murder. The 21-year-old was charged with first and second degree murder. She agreed to take the second degree murder charge in exchange for dropping first degree murder as well as the charge of lying to investigators. That was the deal that has just been truck. Prosecutors say the 21-year-old desperately wanted out of her marriage to Cody Johnson, so she deliberately pushed her husband off this cliff. This was in Glacier National Park after some kind of argument. Keep in mind, like I mentioned, Graham and Johnson had been married all of eight days. Any moment now, the Federal Communications Commission will vote on whether to pursue a move that polls already show you don't want, allowing airline passengers to talk on their cell phones while in flight. Maybe some of you do, but many don't. Look at this poll from Quinnipiac University showing 59 percent of Americans do not want people yapping on their cell phones mid-flight. But 30 percent of people say, we're OK with it.", "I need to be in touch with people, and the hour and a half I spend flying between Atlanta and D.C., I lose that time.", "Aviation and government regulation correspondent, Rene Marsh is live in Washington. Just so we're crystal clear here as we're talking about this talking about a vote. The FCC isn't actually voting on whether or not to allow this, so what exactly are they voting on today?", "Right, so the FCC, Brooke, is moving forward with its proposal to allow flyers to text and talk on their cell phones during flight. And they're about to vote on whether to consider lifting the ban on cell phone use above 10,000 feet. Now we know FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, he defended the proposal at an oversight hearing on Capitol Hill just this morning. He said technology is advanced enough to allow texting and cell calls mid-air without interfering with towers on the ground. He calls the ban out-dated. Take a listen.", "I'm the last person in the world who wants to listen to somebody talking to me while I fly across the country. But we're the technical agency, and we will make the technical rules that reflect the way the new technology works.", "All right, well, not everyone likes the idea. You saw those numbers there. Some airlines have already said that this is a no-go for them, and we know one congressman already introduced a bill to block phone calls in flight -- Brooke.", "What about the Department of Transportation? They may pre- empt this whole issue anyway, right?", "Absolutely. You know, on the same day that the FCC is talking about steps to allow cell phone calls on planes, the Department of Transportation just a short time ago, they say that they're taking steps to block them. Secretary Anthony Fox said in a statement to CNN, that they're beginning a process that will look at the possibility of banning phone calls in flight. So what does that mean? It means that you may not get to make those calls mid-flight after all, because ultimately, DOT decides aviation rules -- Brooke.", "I know we're supposed to be objective, Rene Marsh, but let me ask you, would you want someone on a phone next to you on a plane?", "No, I want to sleep and not be bothered. How do you feel about it?", "I am the same way. I love the quiet. I love the quiet. Rene Marsh, thank you very much. Coming up next here, more than a dozen teens arrested for allegedly ghost partying. Have you heard of this term, ghost partying? Police say they went to this vacant home, partied and walked out with a $250,000 stuffed snow leopard? OK, also walked out with some medieval armor, Armani suits, but that didn't last very long. We'll tell you the one thing -- let's just say what it is, a dumb, dumb thing that led to their arrest, coming up."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BALDWIN", "RENE MARSH, CNN AVIATION AND GOVERNMENT REGULATION CORRESPONDENT", "TOM WHEELER, CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION", "MARSH", "BALDWIN", "MARSH", "BALDWIN", "MARSH", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-282112", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2016-04-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/21/ctw.01.html", "summary": "U.S.-Saudi Need to \"Recalibrate\" relationship, According to Saudi Intelligence Chief", "utt": ["There's going to have to be between us in Saudi Arabia and the ECC countries, a recalibration of our relationship with America. How far we can go with our dependence on America, how much can we rely on steadfastness from American leadership. And I don't think that we should expect any new president in America to go back to the, as I said, the yesteryear days when things were different.", "Well, Saudi Arabia's long-time intelligence chief and big political player, Prince Turki bin Faisal, telling CNN that the kingdom and United States will likely never go back to their ties of the past, his words coming just hours after the two countries' leaders met in Riyadh on Wednesday. Now, U.S. President Barack Obama wrapped up a summit with other Gulf leaders there a few hours ago. We were discussing this at the top of the hour. He encouraged them to do more to help stabilize the Middle East, but Mr. Obama was more abrupt in a recent interview with The Atlantic magazine saying, quote, \"free riders aggravate me.\" That was taken as a reference to the Gulf and other nations for leaving Washington to pick up their slack when it comes to defense. Remember, these comments come as the plunging price of oil is throwing a wrench in the kingdom's finances. But they're also part of what some see as the American president's long-term shift away from Saudi Arabia, including what's perhaps been taken in Riyadh as the biggest insult of all, the nuclear deal with their main rival Iran. So, is this just a rough patch in a long marriage or more likely a breakup? Joining me now from Riyadh, Salman al-Asari is the founder of the Saudi-American Public Relations Affairs Committee. And in providence, Rhode Island for you this evening, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Chas Freeman. Thank you, both, for joining us. Salman, let's begin with your reaction to Prince Turki's words there. Is he making too much of what's going on here? I mean you know, the fact is, both countries still do need each other, right?", "Right. Hi, Becky and hi Charles and hi to all the viewers of CNN around the globe. I personally believe this summit where the GCC members and the GCC presidents have met Obama, I think it proves the fact and the reality that the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States have been and remain partners in stability, security, and growth. It's something that no one can underestimate. That's my personal belief when it comes to the historic relationship between the GCC members and the United States. Saudi Arabia and the GCC countries are not seen anymore as only oil exporters. They are actually there to stabilize the region and stabilize the global security and make sure that the global security go line by line with all what same countries would love to see it. And I believe that the historic relationship will remain and will always be unshakable because of the fact that we are very strategic.", "Get your point.", "...not only in terms of economy, but also in terms of geopolitical themes.", "OK. Chas -- let me stop you there, sir. Chas, is that how you see it so far as this relationship is concerned, at present? Because I have to say, and Prince Turki alluding to, there has been some serious concern by people, not just in this region but in Washington, about what's going on here.", "Well, I think Prince Turki used the word recalibrate the relationship. And I think that's an accurate assessment of what has to be done. During the Cold War, we had a common interest in opposing godless Soviet communism. That's gone. We had a peace process in the Holy Land. That's gone. We had no agenda, we Americans had no agenda of our own in the Gulf. Now we do. So the basis of the relationship has shifted fundamentally, but we do have strong, common interests, which will keep us in a partnership, but it will be a reduced and more difficult partnership than in the past.", "Well let me just replay for you both, gentlemen, what we started our show with tonight, what Mr. Obama had to say towards the end of the Gulf summit. Have a listen.", "We remain united in our fight to destroy ISIL, or DAESH, which is a threat to all of us. The United States will help our GCC partners to make ensure that their special operations forces are interoperable and GCC nations will continue to increase their contributions to the fight against ISIL.", "Well, that seems like a pretty low-level technical agreement to me, making sure special forces know how to work together. It seems almost like a stalemate at this meeting. No big commitments, Salman, no big changes. Is that what happened here?", "OK. Definitely we have to be realistic when it comes to the challenges that are faced here in the Middle East. The Middle East is getting into huge complexity that can never be explained in one interview. But what I would like to say is, there are common interests between the two countries and when it comes to the Syrian issue, yes, the Saudi Arabia and the GCC countries and most of the countries in the Middle East have been fed up with so many red lines that have been drawn for the Syrian issue, but President Obama has never been committed to imply what he said that he was going to. So when it comes to that -- the issue, I believe that the main issue in the region is the fact that there is no clear understanding of Middle Eastern affairs by the President Obama, which is something that has been very clear the moment we have seen how Iraq has been handed to Iran on a silver platter. And when we have seen the issue in Syria... ANDERSON; Let me put that to Chas, then -- hang on, Salman. Chas, there is no understanding of Middle Eastern affairs by Obama or his administration I think is perhaps is what Salman is saying, correct?", "Well, I think this is part of the problem between the two countries. This has become very personalized. I think that's a mistake. As I suggested, and I believe Prince Turki was arguing, our interests have shifted. We still have some very important interests in common, but we've lost many others. From the American point of view, we need Saudi Arabia. We need it for the stability of global energy prices, we need it as a place we must be able to overfly to remain a global powerwith global power projection capabilities, and ultimately we need it as a spokesman in the world of Islam. And I think I would not belittle the agreement to work against DAESH, because to the extent that Saudi Arabia contributes on the theological or ideological level, it makes a unique contribution that is far beyond special forces or anything military. So those points remain. We also have a strong relationship, a robust relationship, in the common fight against terrorism where Saudi Arabia plays an important role. And so I don't think we're talking about a divorce, but we're talking about a marriage in which there's a considerable amount of bickering. And the two sides are deciding, or I think, attempting to restore a measure of public peace even if they continue to quarrel a bit behind the scenes.", "OK. At least that appears to be the headline that they would like. Look, Chas, we're going to need to pretty briefly. So to you first and then to Salman. Washington has become less and less dependent on Saudi for its oil needs, we know that. But the kingdom still has a lot of pull over market prices. In the past, Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members sent prices surging with oil embargoes in protest of American policies, some of you watching viewers may remember the oil crisis back in 1973, which was really chaotic at the time. There's no suggestion that is on the cards at all. But could Saudi Arabia stamp its feet like that again, Salman? Riyadh used to getting what it wants, isn't it?", "Yeah. But like at the same time, like the mainstream of the public or the political fabric here in Saudi Arabia, thinks of the concept of with challenge comes opportunity. So we are really having this challenge to make us rely on other resources that are not related to oil which is great. And we are going to have the national transformation plan to be up in the 25th in just like a couple days from now. So I think and I believe yes, we are having a lot of challenges when it comes to our economic atmosphere and the climate of economy here in Saudi, but I believe that with challenge comes opportunity and we will be relying heavily on privatization, we will be relying heavily implementing governance policies and we will be relying a lot on the concept of accountability that has been really spread out among all the ministries and we have seen how the deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman been up with the rhythm of modernizing the country and making it more efficient and self-dependent in such a way that reduce the dependency on oil and all that petroleum kind of resources.", "And I'm going to have to stop you there, sir, because I have to take a break at this point. But thank you. Apologies, I really got to take a very short break at this point. But to both of you, great stuff. Good analysis. And we will continue to cover this story clearly here on Connect the World. Thank you both. The latest world news headlines are just ahead. Plus, volatility is the order of the day on the oil market. We're going to bring you the latest from the CNN Money pumps. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["PRINCE TURKI BIN FAISAL, FORM. SAUDI INTELLIGENCE CHIEF", "ANDERSON", "SALMAN AL-ANSARI, SAUDI-AMERICAN PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE", "ANDERSON", "AL-ANSARI", "ANDERSON", "CHAS FREEMAN, FRM. U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SAUDI ARABIA", "ANDERSON", "OBAMA", "ANDERSON", "AL-ANSARI", "FREEMAN", "ANDERSON", "AL-ANSARI", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-247017", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2015-01-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/13/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "International Manhunt for Female Suspect in Paris Terror Attack; Women in Terrorism", "utt": ["There's an international manhunt for Hayat Boumediene, the female suspect in the Paris terror attack. But, she's not the first woman to get caught up in terrorism. CNN's Ana Cabrera has more.", "She is among the most dangerous woman in the world, just 26-year-old, Hayat Boumediene. Camera's catching her writing at the Istanbul airport on January 2nd. Authorities now believe she's somewhere in Syria. Her boyfriend Amedy Coulibaly, pledging a legion to ISIS before, allegedly was taking the lives of four people inside of a kosher food store in Paris last week, along with a policewoman. His lawyer claims Boumediene is even more radical than her boyfriend. Authority says Boumediene and also has ties to the Kouachi brothers, who stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo. They say she exchange about 500 phone calls with the wife of Cherif Kouachi in 2014. So how did this western Muslim woman become one of the most wanted? That's unclear.", "It's that sense of belonging and unfortunately a lot of times this sense of belonging is coming from -- you know, seeking a higher purpose.", "Zunera Mazhar knows how easily it can be to foul play (ph) to a radical ideology. It almost happened to her after 9/11.", "I really had a struggle to find my place in the society. I started getting on the blogs, getting on the forums. I saw this extreme version of Islam. I was 18 at the time.", "19-year-old Shannon Conley family says that something similar happened to their daughter. The Colorado teen is set to be sentenced later this month. After admitting, she tries to go to Syria to marry an ISIS fighter and become a nurse in an ISIS camp. Her lawyer claims she went online to learn more about Islam, but got trapped in the web of an internet savvy jihadist organization with sophisticated marketing. So what it is about their messaging? Do you think that's connecting with women?", "I think first and foremost, there's now an appeal being made to women. ISIS is under really good job of suggesting precisely that. That -- hey, look, you know you have a role here too, women. It's not -- this is, you know, extremism is not just for men.", "Religious studies scholar Dr. Andrea Stanton, suggest bringing women into the ranks is a new phenomenon.", "I think that it would appeal particularly to, women who grow up in a western European or a North American context, because they expect more equitable treatment.", "Look, no further than yet another case, three Denver area high schoolers, just 15, 16 and 17 years old. The girls ran away from home in October and made it halfway to Syria before they were stopped by authorities in Germany. A group that tracks international terrorists analyzed the girl's social media activity and discovered they have been in communication with female recruiters, so-called ISIS sisters.", "I know we need more Muslim wife (ph) says who can go out there and to wait -- this is not Islam.", "Compelled to speak out after what has happened in Paris, Mazhar posted this I-report on cnn.com. Hoping to start an educated conversation about Islam, which she believes saved her when she was drifting towards radicalization.", "I was able to get out of it as I read about more open-minded scholars, it allowed me to kind of come back, revert from that and really realize that the meaning of Islam just like any other religion is, is oneness.", "A message she wants to teach her 6-year-old daughter, and the rest of the world. Ana Cabrera, CNN Denver.", "Fascinating. Let's talk now with Zainab Salbi, she's the founder of Women for Women International and author of Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam. I am so grateful to have you here tonight, and I can't wait to talk to you. So, we've -- let's talk about Hayat Boumediene, how important is she now to terrorist groups?", "She's...", "She's the most wanted woman in the world.", "She's very important. You know, the terrorist organizations whether ISIS, Al-Qaeda or particularly ISIS are appealing to women. They are giving them a sense of purpose, they're telling them you can belong to us and you have -- you know, we will honor you and we will take you, and you can be part of our mission. They're not telling them that, you know, you will be a sex slave once you enter, we expect you to cook and clean and we out -- we expect you to operate as a very in a very shackled norms of women. But the appeal from the outside, come join the fight, they have sense of purpose. And here they have a woman who's having the image that she's escaping, and she has -- she's part of this organization, it's an appeal, it's not a rejected image and it is very dangerous actually sensationalize her, the way we are.", "You said careful with -- you know, reporting -- the reporting on her because...", "Well, because...", "Of sensationalism is the reason?", "Right. Because if you are a young woman in the Middle East or if you're young women in the Muslim world -- I mean, in the European world and you're living with a conservative family, you feel discriminated against by the society outside of you. They are telling you, you are a Muslim you are this, you are this, you are this, you feel disenfranchise, marginalize. You know, your family inside is restricting, you cannot do this, you cannot have a boyfriend, you cannot do that and all of it's gonna be. An image of a woman who is in a sense liberated by going on her own, and fighting and being part of this operation, there's a senses -- sensationalization of her, and it is dangerous that we actually allow that figure to grow.", "You said all of this, the male jihadist, the women. This is more about emotion and psychology than it is about anything else.", "Absolutely. So for Muslim, the -- merits of why ISIS is appealing for Islam for the -- you know, and it's recruiting as much youth as if's -- as possible and the scaring everyone actually. Is because they are addressing an emotional point, they're telling them that the west have failed you, the west have failed us in democracy and freedom and prosperity. Our own government, Middle Eastern governments has also failed us in -- delivering on prosperity and all of that. So we, are gonna take ourselves to the era of Islam where it is once upon time a golden religion, a religion where there is creativity and art and science. We're gonna take us back to that moment, for all Muslims, including myself, we all studied the same history...", "Yeah.", "That was the glorious thing that we've always a proud of. There's taking the history and they're making it into, with they -- they're promising it for the future...", "Yeah.", "And that's the appeal for a lot of people.", "You say that you are deeply concerned about the images -- about what happened obviously, but the images that are being portrayed on television that it's gonna inspire many more of these attack, that's what you've been talking about a lot?", "I am very scared actually, what we need to do is create another alternative image that is more attractive and is appeal to young Muslim women all over the world be in the Middle East or in Europe. And that image is you can be a Muslim and you can be hip and you can be cool and educated and liberal and all of these things. And you can fulfill your full potential and will accept you and honor you and you don't have to join this group. So the opposite image of this woman is not existing in the media, you see, if the terrorist is existing, her image is there, is package all of that, but the image -- the alternative is not, and we have to create the alternative.", "Yeah. Zainab Salbi, I've been interviewed you by satellite. It's such an honor to meet you in person...", "It's my honor, thank you.", "I always found you fascinating, and I love speaking with you all through all evening, please come back.", "Thank you.", "Thank you very much. Any minute now, the new issue of Charlie Hebdo will hit the newsstands in France and despite the deadly attack, the magazines unapologetic and controversial. That's next."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "ANA CABRERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ZUNERA MAZHAR, MUSLIM WOMAN", "CABRERA", "MAZHAR", "CABRERA", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-329661", "program": "PRIMETIME JUSTICE WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2018-01-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/02/ptab.01.html", "summary": "Two U.S. Family Killed In Costa Rica; Teen Slaughters Family In NYE Attack.", "utt": ["Sunday night at 11:45 p.m., most people were counting down to the New Year. For one family in Long Branch, New Jersey, the celebration was cut short. A husband and wife their teenaged daughter and a family friend all shot to death in their home.", "Police say it was their 16-year-old son who took a relative`s semiautomatic assault rifle and gunned down his family. Now, he is facing four counts of murder and he could be charged as an adult. The boy`s family described him as a good kid. CNN Correspondent Brynn Gingras joins us now and Steve Moore and Brian Wagner. Brynn, this is horrific opinion.", "At every level.", "A family wiped out.", "Completely.", "We`ve learned new information today.", "Well, all day we`ve been waiting for this 16-year-old to face a Judge, in family court, juvenile court. He is 16 years old, it got slowed up, that whole arraignment process, that is because we know in family court, the media, reporters, they`re not allowed in. A local newspaper filed a motion to make that happen, to allow reporters to see those proceedings and a Judge has not ruled on that. The first arraignment has been pushed back until 11:00 tomorrow morning. That is when we expect the 16-year-old to face a Judge. After that, it will be up to that Judge, who has 60 days to decide if that juvenile will be tried as an adult. Which is what the prosecutor in this case wants to do.", "We had thought there were two people in the home that were not shot at and killed. But we learned different information.", "We learned there`s three. They promised a news conference giving us more details of the case. A lot of those details come out in court, since this is in juvenile court, we`re not learning too much. He came in front of the cameras, gave us more updates. Three people we learned were inside that house who were able to escape, and we did learn it wasn`t necessarily, because the 16-year-old didn`t target them, it`s because they heard the gunshots in the house happening when the 16-year-old attacked his sister, mother, father and the family friend, they were able to escape just hearing those gunshots.", "We were hearing from neighbors and people who knew this family, also, someone who knew this young man who is now not named at all publicly, about what he was like. Take a listen to this.", "He is a good kids. He had some learning disabilities. He knows right from wrong. Why would he do that? Why would he kill his own mother?", "Brynn, from everything we have heard and seen. It seems like a really close family, a good family. What have you heard?", "Just like that person said, there was some sort of developmental developmental disability that the 16-year-old play have had. Whether that plays into the court proceedings, we will have to find out. From family members, we have heard, yes, they were a great family, this kid was a great kid many a friend of the 18-year-old -- 18-year-old who died in this said that he never showed any signs of triggering any sort of violence. Like he always would just laugh when she was hanging out with her -- her best friend, Brittany, who died in this. The older brother, one of the brothers, there are two others that are alive. One of the brothers who escaped this, he did make a post on social media today, but didn`t mention his brother who`s now in police custody, but made this comment. He said my new year`s resolution is to be as great of a parent as my parents were to me. My sister was so beautiful and smart, she just got done with her first semester of college. Please remember to give the ones you love an extra kiss or I love you. For the whole Kologi family.", "Britney Kologi 18 years old, just completed her first semester in college. Steven Kologi the father, 44 years old, Linda Kologi 42, his wife and you just see them in these pictures as a loving family. And we understand that he worked the overnight shift, the father, to help support his family. And a nonrelative was also shot, Mary Shultz, 70 years old. Who was she?", "She was in some sort of a relationship with the grandfather who was able to escape with the older brother and the third person we have no identity too.", "Steve, we`re hearing that those shot were in different rooms? And they were shot multiple times with this semiautomatic rifle, the magazine had 15 rounds, and prosecutor would not say if all the rounds were fired, but each victim shot multiple times, what does that tell you?", "It tells me they probably heard the shots and some of them decided to shelter in place. They didn`t want to go out and confront the person, whoever it was. And they felt staying in the same place would probably be their best bet. As far as how many times he shot them indicates his state of mind, rage, anger, something had sprung in this person`s mind, we may never completely understand what that was, but there was a lot of anger and passion involved in these killings. With the type of rifle he had. One round might have done it each time. He was dealing with some kind of pent up emotion.", "We have a bit of information from the prosecutor today that spoke out in a press conference today.", "I do have information as to the cause and manner of death. Unfortunately, with the four deaths, that we`re investigating, all of them were ruled as a manner of death of homicide, and the cause was multiple gunshots to each individual. Those gunshots occurred at close range.", "All right. Brian, close range and multiple shots. That shows an intent to kill.", "It absolutely shows an intent to kill, but I would be concentrating on, where was the gun contained within the house? That is actually going to show his intent. If the gun is easily accessible. The intent is, the natural intent, any time you shoot someone, you`re going to kill them. When you have so go to another room or in a locked safe, unlock the gun, and go to the room where the deceased was in, that is where you really flesh out someone`s intent.", "Even to get the gun and take it so close to someone`s face or body or abdomen and shoot, there can still be premeditation.", "Absolutely. The issue is, how do you best flesh out what this defendant`s intent was, and did he have an opportunity to walk it back, we all have snap issues that we do, but by going to another room, by going to a gun safe, by un-looking it, there`s more time for the person to -- cooler heads prevail, that didn`t happen in this case. We all wish it did, where the gun was would be the key fact for me in this case.", "You`re already thinking of the defense here?", "Absolutely.", "Should he be charged as an adult?", "I think his mental state will have a big say in that. Whether or not he is mentally competent and how mentally competent he is, should really determine that. I find it hard to believe that this many people deceased in a domestic abuse, will not be charged as an adult. It`s very unlikely.", "Couldn`t get much worse than that. We also understand that 911 was called by one of the relatives or people in the home that were not shot at. Let`s listen to the prosecutor as he describes the investigation so far.", "They were sleeping at the time this happened?", "Those kind of details are going to have to come out as our investigation unfolds. Those are things you`ll hear once charging decisions are made and it gets into a courtroom.", "Brynn, we don`t know where they were, but they said multiple rooms. It was a quarter to midnight, right?", "Just 15 minutes before the New Year, and that is what the gunshots also, people were as you heard that man say, fireworks, was it gunshots? What was it, there were calls being made to authorities. This is Long Branch New Jersey. It`s a close linked town, it`s not exactly the biggest police department. That is why you have the Monmouth county prosecutor`s office doing part of the investigation. So this certainly is alarming.", "New Years` Eve party and then they sort of walk that back, do we know what was happening in the house?", "As far as what is happening, no. But that`s all I think going to come out more, once we actually get this ruling if it happens, of him being tried as an adult. I think that`s when the Monmouth County prosecutor`s office feels comfortable actually giving more details of this crime.", "Steve, how are they going to determine the state of mind of this young man?", "It`s going to be tough. I think it`s going to go back to obviously a history of the young man from birth all the way to a quarter to midnight the other night. I think it`s going to go a lot to Steven Jr., the son who survived, the grandfather who survived. Because what they`re going to want to know is what happened that night. Was it as defense attorney was believing, something where there was anger, that was not planned, where the guy went and got the gun and still premeditated in the act, or was it something where the kid had decided, my family is not going to see the new year, I`ve got too much of a problem with them. So, you have to go back on that. And there`s going to be leakage all the way along. But I`ll tell you what`s interesting to me. If the family really thought he was some kind of threat, likely that gun would have been locked up and him not in possession of the combination. So, I assume that this caught them all by surprise.", "It`s a good point because any responsible gun owner keeps their gun locked, especially when there are children around, especially when there is something that -- just make sure everyone is safe. All right, we will keep following this, and it is horrific, especially at the beginning of the new year. Thank you all. In Rockford, Illinois, an SUV tears out of a bank drive-thru, jumps an embankment, and then goes airborne. Watch this. It was all caught on camera.", "Amazingly, no one was killed.", "Oh, my God.", "Wow! Miraculously, the driver of the gray sedan wasn`t hurt. Oh, my God. Can you imagine the shock just realizing what was happening. The driven even told officers that the flying SUV barely touched the car. How would you maneuver that? Police say the SUV crossed four lanes of traffic without hitting anyone before finally running into a building. Sixty-two-year-old Kimberly Craft (ph) told police that she accidentally accelerated too fast, and the car just went out of control. She is charged with DUI and reckless driving.", "Now, a 20-year-old mother disappears days before a custody hearing. Now her remains have been found and police are searching for her killer. And later, horrific video shows an elderly man with dementia being attacked in an assisted living facility."], "speaker": ["CASAREZ", "CASAREZ", "BRYNN GINGRAS, CNN CORREPOSNDENT", "CASAREZ", "GINGRAS", "CASAREZ", "GINGRAS", "CASAREZ", "GINGRAS", "CASAREZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CASAREZ", "GINGRAS", "CASAREZ", "GINGRAS", "CASAREZ", "MOORE", "CASAREZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CASAREZ", "BRIAN WAGNER, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "CASAREZ", "WAGNER", "CASAREZ", "WAGNER", "CASAREZ", "WAGNER", "CASAREZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CASAREZ", "GINGRAS", "CASAREZ", "GINGRAS", "CASAREZ", "STEVE MOORE, FORMER FBI AGENT AND INVESTIGATOR", "CASAREZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CASAREZ (voice over)", "CASAREZ"]}
{"id": "NPR-696", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2019-02-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/02/05/691734569/congressional-democrats-say-climate-change-is-a-priority-as-they-control-the-hou", "title": "Congressional Democrats Say Climate Change Is A Priority As They Control The House", "summary": "Two House committees are holding climate-related hearings on Wednesday. The Democrats are hoping to bring attention to the issue of climate change — an issue that was not a priority for Republicans.", "utt": ["Now that Democrats control the House of Representatives, they hope to use the platform to fight climate change. They say it is a top priority, and they are kicking things off with two hearings tomorrow. NPR's Rebecca Hersher reports.", "Congress basically stopped holding climate science hearings when the Republican Party took control eight years ago, so Democrats are excited. And they're channeling a previous moment when congressional climate hearings were a big deal. Rafe Pomerance spent four decades as a climate activist.", "Congressional hearings were essential to bringing climate change forward as an issue, not only in the United States but globally.", "Pomerance pushed for the first major climate hearing in the 1980s.", "1986, chaired by a Republican, John Chafee from Rhode Island.", "There's a problem of ozone depletion, and there's the problem of the greenhouse effect and the climate change.", "It was news in that the drama was news.", "There's a very real possibility that man, either through ignorance or indifference or both, is irreversibly altering the ability of our atmosphere to perform basic life support functions for our planet.", "I asked Pomerance - has that drama worn off?", "Oh, no. It's much more profound. We're seeing what was forecast back then become a reality.", "He says this week's hearings are important to make climate change real to citizens. The governors of Massachusetts and North Carolina will be testifying before the natural resources committee about sea level rise in their states. And Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists is one of the witnesses testifying at the energy and commerce committee.", "Two hearings at the same time and governors coming into one of the hearings, I think that's a really good sign. I think - something feels different to me this time around. I'm hopeful this time.", "Ekwurzel wants to see Congress voting on legislation. She'll remind legislators that the U.S. has the highest per capita carbon emissions in the world.", "I will remind the committee just how damaging it is to the U.S. economy to allow global emissions to keep rising.", "Ekwurzel will talk about extreme weather, shorter growing seasons and longer droughts. Congressman Raul Grijalva of Arizona is chairing one of tomorrow's hearings.", "We're going to talk about science. We're going to talk about climate change.", "He hopes that will pave the way for the House to introduce legislation - more funding for climate studies, for example. He says he expects Democrats to disagree about how exactly to combat climate change. Hearings could start the process of ironing those differences out. But he says he doesn't see any evidence that congressional Republicans are on board.", "You know, I don't think there's going to be universal agreement on a high bipartisan level to do anything about climate change.", "And high-level bipartisan agreement will be necessary if Congress wants to pass big climate legislation - for example, a carbon tax, what economists say is the most efficient way for the country to tackle global warming. Rafe Pomerance says that kind of legislation requires both parties.", "Democrats have tried market mechanism pricing before twice, and it didn't pass. So it doesn't work unless it's bipartisan. That - we'll see.", "With the Senate in Republican hands, there's no clear path to passing any kind of sweeping climate bill.", "Rebecca Hersher, NPR News."], "speaker": ["ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE", "RAFE POMERANCE", "REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE", "RAFE POMERANCE", "JOHN CHAFEE", "RAFE POMERANCE", "JOHN CHAFEE", "REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE", "RAFE POMERANCE", "REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE", "BRENDA EKWURZEL", "REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE", "BRENDA EKWURZEL", "REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE", "RAUL GRIJALVA", "REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE", "RAUL GRIJALVA", "REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE", "RAFE POMERANCE", "REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE", "REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-176056", "program": "JOHN KING, USA", "date": "2011-11-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1111/16/jkusa.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Troops Heading to Australia", "utt": ["You're watching live pictures of the president of the United States, Barack Obama. He's in Australia addressing the Australian parliament. On the president's mind, a key relationship with Australia, but also a huge security challenge -- a huge security challenge in the South Pacific and throughout the China seas, which brings us to tonight's \"Number\": $91 billion. That is what the United States government projects China will spend on its military in 2011. Ninety- one billion. Go back to 2000, about $50 billion. Look at that. Look at that steady growth in Chinese defense spending. There's a reason -- there's a reason the United States is a bit concerned about this. If you just look at this here, this area here, the red area, this is what China says are its territorial waters. Well, the United States and others disagree. They say most of this -- you see the blue lines, that is international waters. One thing the president of the United States is doing today while in Australia is announcing a new security commitment. About 2,500 United States Marines eventually will be stationed here in Darwin. That is a security commitment to the region. We all know about the economic relationship with China. It holds a lot of U.S. debt. That's complicated, the president says, but he also says not to worry.", "I think the notion that we fear China is -- is mistaken. What we have said is the future of this region depends on robust trade and commerce, and the only way we're going to grow that trade is if we have a high standards trade agreement where everybody is playing by the same rules.", "The president says not to be feared. Let me put that question to our next guest, the former CIA director, Michael Hayden, retired general from the U.S. Air Force. I always like to phrase the question this way. China, friend, foe, or don't know?", "China is not an enemy of the United States. John, there are logical, non-heroic policy choices available to us and to the Chinese that keep this relationship within bounds. Look, it is forever going to be competitive. There are times when it's going to be confrontational. It never has to get to the level of conflict. All that said, when I give speeches about security concerns, China is always among my list of three, four or five areas that we have to keep an eye on. It doesn't have to be an enemy of the United States.", "You say it doesn't have to be. Even a very modest commitment, 2,500 U.S. Marines eventually -- it will take a long time to build that up -- in a country, Australia, that has been a U.S. ally for decades. If you look, the \"People's Daily\" crossfire,\" the editorial says today, \"Australia surely cannot play China for a fool. It is impossible for China to remain detached, no Australia does to undermine its security. If Australia uses its military bases to help the U.S. harm Chinese interests, then Australia itself will be caught in the crossfire.\" That's tough language.", "It is pretty tough. It's not particularly useful either. And it really doesn't reflect the true understanding of China's interests. Look, we have telegraphed for more than a year that we're shifting our weight, that we're moving our forces more in the direction of East Asia, moving our forces away from ground forces and more in the direction of forces that control access. Marines, naval forces, air forces. Why are we doing that? We're trying to continue a balance in East Asia. And doing that in concert with our allies like Australia but not limited to Australia. Look, John, the way I put it very starkly is this is not preparation for war with China; it's not threatening China. It's creating a balance that makes it much more difficult for anyone in China in five, ten or 15 years to do something both they and we would regret.", "Well, let me ask you to come over to the wall. Because you say creating a balance. If you're trying to create a balance, that means you're addressing what you consider to be an imbalance. So I want to close this one down. Just look at this compared to other countries in the region. This is China's defense spending. Russia, Japan, Korea. Look at that. That's pretty astounding, the build-up in China. That's one thing. And if you look again at the weapons modernization, if you look from 2000 -- 2008 to 2010, surface forces, submarine forces, air force, air defense forces. The Chinese are getting about this in a very busy way. And I want to come back just to put up the South China Sea. A lot of it is about this. A lot of their new surface-to-air missiles can reach ships here. Yet, you say not to worry.", "No, I didn't say not to worry. I said it was an item of concern. I said China is not necessarily an enemy of the United States. Now, there are aspects of Chinese behavior that are quite disturbing. This one in particular. That's 1.2 million square miles of what you and I would consider to be open ocean, and they want to treat it the way we treat Lake Erie. They call it a Chinese core interest, which is the same language they use to describe Taiwan and Tibet. We can't let that stand. And what you've got is the neighborhood here welcoming an increased American presence to balance what they see as this potential danger coming from China. A potential danger.", "Now, the neighborhood welcomes the presence, not China. We can walk back over to the table. How much does the economic dependence of the United States -- they hold a great deal of our debt; they're a critical trading partner at a time we want the United States economy to start growing again. How much does that complicate the security relationship? Can the president be as tough as he would like, for example, at a time when China, with just a few pulls of the lever, could mess with our economy?", "I actually think the president has more headroom, more freedom to maneuver on these security questions than much of the public commentary would suggest because of the economic relationship. Remember we have some dependence upon China, but China also has great dependence on the United States. This is a symbiotic relationship. So I don't think we will unnaturally control or keep in check things we should, you know, legitimately be doing for our national security purposes.", "You're formerly in the spy business. One of the ways during the Cold War eventually that we didn't have something go off the rails with the then Soviet Union is there were channels of communication as the relationship matured. Are there those levels of communication at the security level, at the defense and at the intelligence level now that, if somebody does misjudge somebody, we can quickly turn the volume down?", "Not nearly as robust as they need to be. There are some. But the Chinese use the military-to military relationships we have developed with them as a tool to punish us. They cut them off when we do something that they view to be offensive. That, frankly, is an example of Chinese behavior that I think is not in their interest and not in our interest either.", "General Hayden, appreciate your insights. This is the challenge of the next generation. Appreciate you, sir. Thank you, sir. And next, the truth about a scandal that's costing taxpayers -- that means you -- a half billion dollars."], "speaker": ["KING", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KING", "GEN. MICHAEL HAYDEN, FORMER CIA DIRECTOR", "KING", "HAYDEN", "KING", "HAYDEN", "KING", "HAYDEN", "KING", "HAYDEN", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-351846", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-10-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/09/es.01.html", "summary": "Bracing for Hurricane Michael; Trump: Kavanaugh \"Caught in a Hoax\"; Kavanaugh Midterm Wave?", "utt": ["This storm will be life threatening and extremely dangerous.", "Forecasters say hurricane Michael is gaining strength as it heads for the Florida panhandle.", "The New York governor says the stretch limo that crashed and killed 20 people should never have been on the road.", "I want you to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family.", "President Trump apologizes to Justice Brett Kavanaugh for what the president now calls a political hoax.", "Justice Kavanaugh joins the Supreme Court today, as Republicans hope for a Kavanaugh wave, with the midterms now just four weeks away. Good morning to EARLY START. I'm Joe Johns.", "Good to see you this morning.", "Good to see you.", "Nice to have you here. I'm Christine Romans. It is Tuesday, October 9th. It is 4:00 a.m. in the East. We begin with breaking news this morning. The Florida Panhandle bracing for Hurricane Michael this morning, currently a category one. Hurricane Michael is expected to strengthen to a category three by the time it hits the panhandle midday Wednesday. States of emergency declared in both Florida and Alabama. Emergency officials have ordered evacuations in at least ten counties. Some mandatory, others voluntary. Florida Governor Rick Scott strongly urging people to heed all warnings.", "Every family must be prepared. Every family. Remember, we can rebuild your house, but we cannot rebuild your life. Take this seriously and keep your family safe.", "And meteorologist Ivan Cabrera is standing by live for us in the CNN weather center. Ivan, what is the latest on the storm?", "Yes. Christine, I have been watching this spin all night. And there were times where it looked like it was going to explode here. That hasn't happened, which is a good thing. You have 90-mile-an-hour wind, which is still a category one. We will get a new advisory at the National Hurricane Center and Chad Myers will have that at the top of the hour for you. But, right now, it is holding at 90, gusts of 115. It's moving north, northwest at 12 miles an hour. Not much as far as hurricane warnings. They are still posted for basically Pensacola, heading down to Cedar Key and the other colors you see are indicative of tropical storm watches and warning. Lesser effects, nonetheless, you're going to get strong winds and heavy rains. But not the catastrophic effects of a category three. So, by 8:00 p.m. tonight, 120-mile-an-hour winds. It will have 120 by three, let's zoom in here a little bit closer, I want to show the track as it begins to have been pulled to the north and northeast. We're thinking Destin, Panama City, you're going to be in the eastern flank of this. If that happens, that means the Gulf of Mexico is coming to you and in that direction is going to be terrible for this area. This area is prone to storm surge here. Look at the forecast, 8 to 12 feet. Imagine that, we're talking about these islands that are flat. I mean, a foot aboveground. The buildings are taller than that. Some will be impacted if we're talking 6 to 9 feet in Panama City. And then, of course, the rain, which is going to be another issue, not just for the Gulf Coast, mind you, but remember, we had Florence here with the incredible amounts of rain for the Carolinas. That is on the way. That will be stage two of the storm. We still have it strengthening on the way to the panhandle as a major hurricane later on Wednesday -- guys.", "A major hurricane later on Wednesday. Ivan Cabrera watching it live for us, talk to you in 30 minutes. Thank you, sir.", "President Trump apologizing to new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during a ceremonial swearing-in event at the White House. Every sitting member of the Supreme Court was in attendance along with top Republicans. The president painting Kavanaugh as a victim of a political hoax.", "On behalf of our nation, I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure. Those who stepped forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation.", "The president also falsely claiming the allegations against Kavanaugh have somehow been disproved.", "Our country, a man or a woman, must always be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. And with that, I must state that you, sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent.", "Proven innocent? True to form, the president trying to use a confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh as a campaign asset, attacking Democrats as evil people for what he called their disgraceful treatment of his nomine.", "A man that did nothing wrong. A man that was caught up in a hoax that was set up by the Democrats, using the Democrats' lawyers. And now, they want to impeach him. I heard this from many people. I think it's an insult to the American public. And I think you're going to see a lot of things happen on November 6th that would not have happened before.", "In a matter of hours, Brett Kavanaugh takes his seat on the Supreme Court for the very first time. He says the grueling and often ugly confirmation process tested, but did not change him. Insisting he will be an independent and impartial justice from day one.", "The Senate confirmation process was contentious and emotional. That process is over. My focus now is to be the best justice I can be. I take this office with gratitude and no bitterness.", "Kavanaugh went on to say he hopes to be a force for stability and unity on the Supreme Court.", "With exactly four weeks to go before the midterms, Republicans are hoping to get a boost from the Kavanaugh confirmation. But a majority of Americans oppose it, questioning his truthfulness and temperament to serve on the Supreme Court. Take a look at this new CNN poll. Fifty-one percent of Americans say Kavanaugh should not have been confirmed. That is up 12 points since last month. And when asked about the sexual assault allegations against Justice Kavanaugh, 52 percent believe the women, while 48 percent believe him. As for President Trump, his approval rating now stands at 41 percent, up five points from September.", "All right. Turkey's president says it is up to Saudi Arabia to prove its claim that a missing Saudi journalist actually the left the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the last place he was seen. Jamal Khashoggi is a writer for \"The Washington Post\", he has been a critic of the government. Turkish officials believe Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate, a claim the Saudis vehemently denies. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh is standing by live in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. What's the latest?", "Well, Christine, we've heard from the Turkish president saying Saudi Arabia can get away by just saying that Jamal Khashoggi left the Saudi consulate. They can't just make the claims without proving that. He is calling on them to release video footage from the security cameras showing him leaving or any other proof that he did that. Now there have been reports, Saudi officials saying that their cameras were not working, they were not recording that day. That, of course, is seen as very unsatisfactory answer by many here in Turkey. They are demanding more. Now, of course, while this trade of accusations is going on, this blame game between Turkey and Saudi Arabia, we know that there is a criminal investigation taking place by Turkish authorities here and the president, Erdogan, is following this personally. They are looking at security footage and looking at who entered the consulate and who left. They are looking at airport departures and arrivals, because they're really interested in a group of 15 Saudis, including officials arriving that same day, they entered the consulate the time that Khashoggi was in there and they left the country on that same day. So, they are looking very closely at that. While this is all going on, there was a lot of hope the United States would push for more answers from Saudi Arabia. We heard President Trump saying he's concerned and he's hoping that this situation will sort itself out while many here were hoping the United States with its relationship with Saudi Arabia will actually sort out the situation -- Christine.", "Yes, absolutely. We're going to talk about how President Trump weighed in on that. Jomana Karadsheh, thank you so much for that. The president, for the first time, weighing in on the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.", "I'm concerned about it. I don't like hearing about it. And hopefully, that will sort itself out. Right now, nobody knows anything about it. But it's a pretty bad stories going around. I do not like it.", "Vice President Pence also weighed in on the disappearance and alleged murder in a tweet, saying if true, this is a tragic day, calling violence against journalists a threat to freedom of the press and human rights.", "\"The New York Times\" reporting overnight that a top official in the Trump campaign asked an Israeli intelligence firm to develop proposals for an online manipulation effort. \"The Times\" says there is no evidence the Trump campaign acted on any of the proposals from the Psy-Group and a person with knowledge of the discussions told \"The Times\" that said Rick Gates was not ultimately interested. \"The Times\" says the Psy Group's owner Joel Zamel did meet with Donald Trump Jr. in August of 2016, but Zamel's lawyer denied Zamel personally pitched the proposals to Trump Jr. or anyone else in the campaign other than outlining the Psy-Group's capabilities in general terms.", "All right. The glitch that Google didn't want you to know about is finally exposed. Google will shutdown Google Plus, its failed social network. But the timing is interesting. Announcement came after \"The Wall Street Journal\" reported Google did not publicly disclose a security bug affecting 500,000 users. Google discovered and patched the bug in March but says it did not tell users because it was no evidence the data was exposed. But \"The Journal\" says Google stayed quiet to avoid scrutiny. Its legal and policy team warned senior execs disclosure could lead to imminent regulatory interests, like what's happening with Facebook. Remember, Facebook's own big data breach was revealed the same month calling for stricter regulation. CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony remember before Congress. Google's CEO Sundar Pichai will also head to Capitol Hill this year to testify about possible conservative bias at tech companies, but will likely also be asked about Google's decision to conceal this breach for months. Google Plus launched as a rival to Facebook in 2011, but Google admits it failed to achieve broad consumer or developer adoption.", "Hmm, fascinating.", "Yes.", "All right. Troubling new details about the accident that claimed 20 lives in Upstate New York. What officials say about the limo that crashed.", "And a daring escape caught on video. Watch two guys get out of jail in garbage cans."], "speaker": ["GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-160815", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-1-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/15/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Loughner YouTube Video Released; Some Question The Wisdom Of Pima County Gun Show A Week After The Tucson Tragedy", "utt": ["Now more on our lead story, a chilling new video reportedly narrated by Tucson shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner. He shot it in the campus of Pima County Community college and posted it on YouTube. Well, in the video, Loughner is rambling and he's agitated, ranting about the school and calling it \"one of the biggest scams in America.\" The video was released to \"The L.A. Times\" after a public records request. So this video had been cited in campus police records as among the reasons the college officials suspended the 22-year-old student. Here is the end of the four-minute video.", "All these teachers that you have are being paid illegally, and they have an illegal authority over the Constitution of the United States under the First Amendment. This is genocide in America. Thank you. This is Jared from Pima College.", "Police say the night before Loughner pointed a gun at Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' head, Loughner carefully prepared for his attack. CNN's Randi Kaye retraces Loughner's steps in those last hours.", "The night before the shooting, 11:35 p.m., Friday, investigators tracking Jared Loughner's last steps, say he drops off a roll of 35 millimeter film to be developed at Walgreen's. (on camera): Less than an hour later, 12:29 a.m., Saturday, Loughner checks into this motel 6. He shows an I.D. and pays by credit card. Activity on his electronic room key shows he went in and out of the room several times during the night. (voice-over): 2:19 a.m., Loughner returns to Walgreen's to pick up his developed photos. (", "At 2:34 a.m., Loughner makes a purchase at this Chevron stations' convenience store. He buys a doughnut, a soft drink and some energy bars. The security camera captures Loughner on video. Before he leaves, he uses the pay phone. (", "Less than two hours later, 4:12 a.m., Loughner posts a message on his MySpace page. It reads, \"Good-bye friends\" and contains a photo developed earlier at Walgreen's. At 6:12 a.m., Loughner makes a purchase at Wal-Mart. Nine minutes later, 6:21 a.m., he's at Circle K to buy something else. It's now just about three hours before the shooting. At 7:04 a.m., Loughner makes his first attempt to buy ammunition at Wal-Mart. The store clerk keeps him waiting because he's behaving strangely. So at 7:27 a.m. Loughner goes to another Wal-Mart where he buys ammunition and a diaper bag, which is similar to a backpack. (", "At 7:34 a.m. Saturday, now just about two and a half hours from the time of the shooting, Jared Loughner is stopped for running a red light just a few miles from the Safeway supermarket. An officer with the Arizona Game and Fish Department checks his license and registration. He sees there are no outstanding warrants and lets Loughner go with a warning. (", "Around 8:0 a.m., back at Loughner's parents house, his father confronts him about a black bag he's carrying. Investigators say Randi Loughner asked his son what is inside the bag, and where he's taking it. They say Loughner mumbles something and takes off into the desert. His father chases him in his truck, but doesn't catch him. (", "More than an hour later, 9:18 a.m., Loughner called a taxi to pick him up here at this Circle K convenience store. Authorities say the taxi arrives at 9:41 and takes him to the Safeway supermarket. It's now just minutes before the shooting. (", "At 9:54 a.m., the taxi arrives at the Safeway. The driver and Jared Loughner go inside the supermarket to get change for the fare. One minute later, 10:00 a.m., Congresswoman Gabriella Giffords arrives for her \"Congress On The Corner\" event here. A few minutes later, Loughner asks a member of the congresswoman's staff to speak with her. He's told to wait in a line of about 20 people. He does so. But then exits the line and walks quickly toward the congresswoman. At 10:10 a.m., investigators say Jared Loughner opens fire. Randi Kay, CNN, Tucson, Arizona.", "Just one week after those shots were fired in Tucson, a gun show opened today at the Pima County Fairgrounds. CNN's Thelma Gutierrez is in Tucson and joins us live. Thelma, was there any consternation about whether to still have this in light of all that took place in the last week?", "Fredricka, absolutely. The organizers of that gun show came under a lot of criticism. Many people wondering if it was insensitive to go forth and to hold this huge show here in Tucson, just a week after the shootings. But this is something that did reignite the national debate on gun control. I can tell you that many people here say that Tucson has now become ground zero in the debate.", "At this firing range in Tucson, Arizona, nearly every lane is full, with couples, and firearms enthusiasts like Jim Caniglio who says he's proud to live in a state where he can carry a concealed weapon on his person, and in vehicle with no permit at all.", "We are citizens, not subjects. And that is the bottom line.", "The law is called constitutional carry, a new law that just passed last year.", "I think we're the Tombstone of the United States of America.", "After the massacre in Tucson, the sheriff of Pima County says things are out of control. He cited a proposed legislation that would allow students 21 and over to carry guns on campus.", "I've never been a proponent of letting everybody in this state carry weapons under any circumstances that they want, and that's almost where we are.", "I carry -- this is a Ruger P-95.", "24-year-old Joe Zamudio says he carries a concealed weapon to feel safe. (", "This is something you carry with you where, the store?", "Pretty much everywhere I go.", "Last Saturday was no different. Joe said he had his firearm in his jacket when he went to buy cigarettes.", "I heard the shots from inside the building. When I turned and squared my shoulders to the breezeway, I saw another gentleman with his right hand lifting the firearm up like this. Only it was locked back. And he brings it around his side and that to me -- he was standing, he was holding a gun.", "Joe saw victims in pools of blood. He had to make a split second decision about his gun, with no room for errors.", "Somebody needed to be taken care of. That was my immediate problem, was address that firearm..", "Instead of his gun, which he says he was prepared to use for a moment just like this, Joe reached for the man's wrist instead. (", "Did he say anything? Did he say, I'm not the shooter?", "Immediately, no, no, it's him, it's him.", "Joe saw Jared Loughner on the ground. Turns out the man with the gun had disarmed Loughner.", "I'm just so lucky. I'm just so lucky. We were all blessed that he was there that day, because if he hadn't been there, I might not be here right now. I might have got shot. I might have come out that door and got my head blown off.", "Does that goes through your mind?", "Yeah.", "This really affected your life?", "Yeah, it's been horrible. It's one of the worst things that ever happened.", "Joe Zamudio believes the gun training that made him an able marksman also helped him to make a sound judgment call.", "There was a bunch of people watching, and all those people watching see me pull a gun out thinking second shooter. And in Arizona, where people keep guns in their cars, somebody could have shot me.", "Joe Zamudio says that the reality of everything that he went through last Saturday is starting to finally sink in. What he saw out here, what he heard, he said that he really is having a very hard time dealing with it. Actually had to leave town, because he couldn't be here for the one-week anniversary of this terrible event. So he actually left town yesterday, Fredricka.", "Wow, some incredible experiences so many people have had and I know it is going to stick with them for a long, long time. All right Thelma Gutierrez, thank you so much. Appreciate that from Tucson. We're going to talk about some weather that's impacting a whole lot of people across the country. Jacqui Jeras is in the Weather Center. What do we have, a lot of precipitation here somewhere.", "We now go overseas and let's talk about how it's nasty in Brisbane, Australia. We're going to talk about that and also talk about this political power shift in the African country of Tunisia."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "LOUGHNER", "WHITFIELD", "RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "On camera)", "Voice over)", "On camera)", "Voice over)", "On camera)", "Voice over)", "FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR, CNN NEWSROOM", "THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GUTIERREZ (voice over)", "JIM CANIGLIO, GUN ENTHUSIAST", "GUTIERREZ", "SHERIFF CLARENCE DUPNIK, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA", "GUTIERREZ", "DUPNIK", "JOE ZAMUDIO, GUN OWNER", "GUTIERREZ", "On camera)", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ", "On camera)", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ", "WHITFIELD", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "NPR-8193", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2009-03-20", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102167964", "title": "'A Show With A Mission' Comes To An End", "summary": "News & Notes executive producer Nicole Childers and senior supervising producer Christabel Nsiah-Buadi talk with Tony Cox about the broadcast's culmination and the show's mission to \"illuminate the diversity of the African-American experience.\" The staff of \"News & Notes\" photographed outside Studio B.", "utt": ["Now, no shall can run without managers, and we have two of the best, Christabel Nsiah-Buadi, our senior supervising producer, and Nicole Childers, the executive producer of News & Notes. They've joined me in the studio. So, what's it like, Christabel, from your perspective? Putting together a show like this, how difficult and important is it?", "It's not that difficult actually in the sense that I feel very passionately about the content that we've put together over the past few years. In terms of putting things together, the actual elements, it's been challenging at times but we have a fantastic team of producers who've really stepped up to the plate on a regular basis to produce some fantastic programming. So, it's been easy but it's been hard at the same time.", "It is. And you really are - people should know you are one of the most organized producers I have ever worked with.", "Well, thank you.", "And, you know, that makes the show run smoothly when, you know what's going to happen. But the buck stops not just at Barack Obama's desk, it stops at the desk of Nicole Childers because you are responsible for getting all of us in here, getting things done, fighting the fight sometimes with NPR and others to make sure that this show happens.", "Yes, indeed. I am.", "And we're glad that you did it.", "Thank you.", "Tough, huh?", "It was - it was definitely tough but also very rewarding. When I look at the span of - I've been with the show for about almost four years, and looking at I came in during Ed Gordon times. And I'm just immensely proud of our team and what we've been able to accomplish because there - doesn't really exist a show like News & Notes. And so, you know, as we close this chapter and walk away, I think we have quite a bit to be proud of.", "I'm going to ask you straight out, both of you. Do we need a black show or do we not need that? Are we post-racial in this business like the people say because of the new president?", "I don't think so. I mean, if you look just simply at the population of the United States, you know, the census report said African Americans are 13 percent of the U.S. population and 40 million African-Americans in this country, and those numbers alone explain the relevance. And also when I think about the outpouring of support that we've received from not just black listeners but white listeners and listeners of every race talking about what they've learned from the show, and many African-Americans talking about how this is the first show that's really spoken to their experience, you know. And that really speaks to what our mission statement has been to illuminate the diversity of the African-American experience. So, yes, that's very necessary.", "Well, you get about 30 seconds or so to answer. I've said that to guests many times.", "Right.", "And now I get a chance to say it to you.", "Oh, goodness. I do think that a black show is necessary and I think that all perspectives need to be heard from, you know, different points of view. And so I think we brought that. And I'm very, very sad to see the show go.", "I'm sad to see it go, too. We had a good time.", "We did.", "We had a good group.", "We did.", "We did good work. This is the most congenial atmosphere of any newsroom that I have ever been in that was multi-racial. I think that's important.", "Very, very.", "And people need to know that we got along very well together. And I'll see you on the unemployment line on Monday.", "We'll be there.", "Thank you both.", "Thank you.", "Thank you, Tony.", "Christabel Nsiah-Buadi, the senior supervising producer and Nicole Childers, the executive producer of New & Notes.", "Like a fool I went and stayed too long  Now I'm wondering if your love's still strong  Ooh, baby, here I am, signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours!  Then that time I went and said goodbye…", "That's our show for today, our final show. And we're glad you could join us. To listen to our archives of the show, visit our Web site, nprnewsandnotes.org. News & Notes was created by NPR News and the African American Public Radio consortium."], "speaker": ["TONY COX, host", "CHRISTABEL NSIAH-BUADI", "TONY COX, host", "CHRISTABEL NSIAH-BUADI", "TONY COX, host", "CHILDERS", "TONY COX, host", "CHILDERS", "TONY COX, host", "CHILDERS", "TONY COX, host", "CHILDERS", "TONY COX, host", "CHRISTABEL NSIAH-BUADI", "TONY COX, host", "CHRISTABEL NSIAH-BUADI", "TONY COX, host", "CHRISTABEL NSIAH-BUADI", "TONY COX, host", "CHRISTABEL NSIAH-BUADI", "TONY COX, host", "CHRISTABEL NSIAH-BUADI", "TONY COX, host", "CHILDERS", "TONY COX, host", "CHRISTABEL NSIAH-BUADI", "CHILDERS", "TONY COX, host", "Ms. JERMAINE JACKSON (Singer)", "TONY COX, host"]}
{"id": "NPR-14815", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2010-02-21", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123940927", "title": "Davis Wins Silver; Hedrick Chokes", "summary": "Long track skater Shani Davis took home the silver medal performance in the 1,500 meters race. But in last race for American Chad Hedrick, he came took sixth place. Hedrick panicked, he says. But that performance doesn't mar his career, which includes four Olympic medals.", "utt": ["This is Tom Goldman. Long track speed skaters called the 1,500 meters the king's race, and yesterday at the Richmond Olympic Oval, hundreds of fans in Dutch orange - orange pants, wigs, shoes - stood and celebrated the new king, 1,500 winner Mark Tuitert of the Netherlands. He beat the world record holder, Shani Davis, and turned a vision into reality.", "I've been looking towards the BC Place, where the medals ceremonies are, for two weeks from the view of our balcony. And I thought, well, I want it so, so bad. I want to be there on the podium.", "He got to the top of the podium with a time half a second faster than Davis.", "I don't see it as me losing, because I really did, I put everything out into the race and it was a silver medal. But I still someday, I still want to be able to win this race. It's still my favorite race.", "His quest to win the 1,500 - he also finished second in 2006 - could bring the 27-year-old Davis back four years from now. But his American rival, Chad Hedrick, is done, and it wasn't the finish he envisioned. Hedrick also was a favorite in the 1,500, and the 32-year-old Texan knew how perfect it would be to end his career with a win. Normally, right before the race he'd shut off that thought and focus, but Hedrick couldn't. In his words, he panicked.", "It just hit me, you know. You don't know until you're there in the moment. Does anybody know they're going to cry at their wedding? No. It's the same type of thing, you know. So, it was just that one moment. I'm in the warm-up room just thinking about it and then all of the sudden it's time to go in the middle of the track and put your skates on. And you thought you were ready emotionally but you're not.", "Tom Goldman, NPR News, Vancouver."], "speaker": ["TOM GOLDMAN", "TOM GOLDMAN", "TOM GOLDMAN", "TOM GOLDMAN", "TOM GOLDMAN", "TOM GOLDMAN", "TOM GOLDMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-21166", "program": "", "date": "2000-12-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/05/aotc.08.html", "summary": "'Financial Times': Turkey Markets Stabilize a Bit in Anticipation of IMF Deal", "utt": ["A century ago, as the Ottoman Empire was dying out, Turkey was often referred to as \"the sick man of Europe.\" Now, in the midst of a banking crisis, modern Turkey is sick once again. Hugh Carnegy, world news editor of the \"Financial Times,\" joins us now from the \"FT\"'s London newsroom. And Hugh, good morning. What is the latest on this front? Obviously, the IMF is talking about an emergency loan here, but what type of structural changes need to take place?", "Good morning. Yes, well, as you just mentioned quickly that the markets in Turkey have stabilized a bit this morning. We have got overnight rates in the money markets of a mere 300 percent, whereas they were up over 1,000 percent and the equity market is up a bit, too, as they anticipate an IMF deal. I mean, essentially, what the IMF will be up to is trying to underpin a structural reform program they already had underway in Turkey, and a key part of that is the banking system which, frankly, has been in certain areas rather corrupt, and it needed a lot of cleaning up. And in fact that was what sparked this crisis because when he government moved in and finally began to take action against the banks, closed some of them down, and began to start taking out cases against some of the corrupt management that was going on, a lot of foreign investors in Turkey took flight because they didn't know how far this was going to reverberate through the system, they started selling Turkish assets and suddenly ka-pow -- the markets went sinking, overnight rates went racing up, liquidity crisis all over the place, and Turkey was in the mess we see today.", "Now despite the actions that the Turkish government has done, there is still some concern that the government has not done enough to fight inflation, revamp its banks, and also sell state enterprises. Are they looking like they will be able to take the tough moves that they need to do?", "Well, the government we have there at the moment has been forging ahead and making some progress. I think, you know, that we have to give them some credit for knuckling down. And as I say, one of the ironies of this crisis is that it was partly sparked by them trying to get to grips with the banking system, which is a vital part of it. But the liquidity crisis, the high interest rates, will that force them to devalue? That would unwind though the whole thing. So, as I say, I think the important thing now, as far as the IMF is concerned, is to try to get this thing back on the track, and then push the government into speeding up the reform process. And I think the political will is more or less there, but, as we have seen, there are so many weaknesses in the system that it can come unstuck at any moment.", "Hugh Carnegy at the \"Financial Times.\" And as you mentioned, the financial markets there are stabilizing just a bit."], "speaker": ["DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "HUGH CARNEGY, WORLD NEWS EDITOR, \"FINANCIAL TIMES\"", "HAFFENREFFER", "CARNEGY", "HAFFENREFFER"]}
{"id": "CNN-398722", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2020-04-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/28/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "Georgia's Easing Of Restrictions Has Consequences", "utt": ["Medical and public health experts warn the modelling shows states that reopen too soon risking increasing the number of cases of coronavirus and the number of deaths. For example, the latest modelling for Georgia which began reopening Friday is of serious concern. Will we see the same happen in other states? Let's discuss. Dr. Kent Sepkowitz is here. The professor of medicine and infectious diseases at Weill Cornell Medical College. And Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist. Good to -- good evening. Good to see both of you. Dr. Gounder, I'm going to start with you. Because there is a new model found. And it found that if Georgia had maintained its pre-Friday lockdown policy. In other words, before they opened things like salons and gyms, their coronavirus -- their coronavirus fatality range would between 1,000 to 2,922 by June 15th. And that includes the 870 people that already died. But under Georgia's plan to reopen the range jumps to 1,604 to 4,236 deaths. It clearly shows the risks Georgia is taking here.", "Well, right. And I think viewers at home have probably heard us speak about this so many times now. That there are a couple of conditions that really need to be met before you can safely lift social distancing restrictions. So, one of which is you really want to see influenza like illness, cases of COVID as well as deaths from COVID peak and then be on the decline for at least 14 days. Secondly, you want to make sure you have hospital capacity for these patients. And then thirdly, you want to have the capacity to do contact tracing and testing for the cases that you continue to see in the community, for those who have been exposed and Georgia doesn't meet any of these criteria. Their deaths are still on the rise and they haven't peak yet.", "Yes. Dr. Sepkowitz, I just want to get your take here or two, because their modelling shows that if Georgia decide to go 100 percent of pre-shutdown activity, essentially no lockdown at all, the death counts soar to 4,279 and 9,748. Again, these are just models. That's not, you know, in the cards right now, but they're based on real data and it's something to consider. At least.", "It seems like it's a lot to consider, and the -- I think the game plan seems to be if we ignore it, it will go away. And we'll only harm ourselves by pretending it's a problem. That doesn't work. That's wishful thinking. That's like a, you know, if I wish hard enough and click my heels two times, I can go back to Kansas. It's completely illogical, and I think it's cruel, and it's also very bad governance. But what can I say?", "Listen, I've got to ask you, everyone is hoping -- everyone I know says, man, I hope the cases in Georgia or Texas or whatever, I hope they don't go up. I hope they're not going to go up. Do you think they're going to go up, Dr. Gounder?", "I think sadly they will. And that's really a concern, not just for people in Georgia, but for the rest of the country. You know, for those of us, for example, here in New York City who have done really hard work of social distancing and we're still doing it to be facing with the -- to be faced with the prospect of having reintroductions of cases from elsewhere in addition to, you know, transmission here, that is really concerning. And, you know, we know that this is a virus that spreads very quickly across borders. So this has me profoundly worried.", "Yes. Dr. Sepkowitz, The New York Times showed the places where the outbreak is the worst -- is the worst now, OK? Look at this. When you look at cases per capita, the top four are Marianne, Ohio. The outbreak at a prison there. Grand Island, Nebraska. A lot of cases tied to a meat packing plant. Pine Bluff, Arkansas. There is a state prison near there. Gallup, New Mexico, which is right by the hard-hit Navajo nation. And then after that comes, New York City, which, of course, has the most deaths. It's a different picture when you look at it by hot spots.", "Yes. I think the three hot spots right now are the prisons, as you mentioned, the meatpacking industry, which is spread throughout the Midwest and is actually for many small towns is the only employer there. And also nursing homes, which is a crisis that has not gotten enough attention. It's heartbreaking and it's difficult to even talk about calling nursing homes, you know, god's waiting room, as Governor DeSantis said today, is cruel. I will say again. And very disrespectful. And it also, I think, pretends that the problem isn't preventable. And the problem doesn't need our help.", "Yes.", "So, again, I'm very also upset. I do want to say, though, that my guess is we're not going to see explosive return of infection. We will see spots. And I worry that as we are seeing now in Wisconsin, three weeks after the primary election, where people were exposed. Yes, there's a jump up in cases. It's compelling to those of us who think its cause and effect. But it's arguable about whether or not it's variation.", "Yes.", "So I think that --", "Yes.", "-- we're not going to see it again.", "Well, that leads us into our next segment and we thank you both for joining us. I appreciate it so much. Meatpacking plants are proving to be a hot bed of coronavirus in their communities, but tonight the president is signing an order mandating they stay open. How do we keep food on the shelf and keep people healthy? 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{"id": "CNN-143029", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2009-9-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/17/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Jon Gosselin Responds to Kate Major`s Claims; The Cougar and the Kid", "utt": ["Right now, on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Jon Gosselin responds today for the very first time to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s shocking exclusive interview with the other Kate.", "I despise him.", "She`s the Kate who claims she had a romantic relationship with Jon Gosselin.", "For him to say there was no romance is a complete lie.", "And you only saw her on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Tonight, the stunning around-the-world reaction today to Kate Major`s explosive challenge.", "And I will take a lie detector test, and I would love for Jon to take a lie detector test.", "And SHOWBIZ TONIGHT dares to ask, is Jon Gosselin turning into one of the most despised men in America? The cougar and the kid - Hulk Hogan`s ex-wife Linda. She is 50; her boyfriend is only 20. And tonight, for the very first time, they are speaking out together about their bizarre cougar-rific(ph) relationship. Plus, Jessica strikes back over her missing dog who was snatched by a coyote. TV`s most provocative entertainment news show starts right now.", "No, I think I was in lust with him.", "From headlines on \"People\" magazine to \"OK\" magazine, everyone is talking about SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s explosive, exclusive interview with Kate Major, the former tabloid reporter who told me she and Jon Gosselin of \"Jon and Kate Plus 8\" had a torrid romance soon after he separated from his wife, Kate Gosselin.", "He called me the new Kate and referred to Kate Gosselin as his ex- Kate or the old Kate.", "Now, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you Jon Gosselin is hitting back hard. Today, in a brand-new statement exclusive to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Gosselin calls Kate Major, quote, \"damaged goods\" and refers to the \"stench of patent falsehoods.\" It`s a new bombshell in the bitter he said, she said battle.", "He made his bed so he has to sleep in it. And unfortunately, it was with me.", "In her interview, Major shared with me her current feelings about Gosselin. (on camera): Do you hate him now?", "I despise him. (voice-over): And she issued this challenge.", "I will take a lie detector test and I would love for Jon to take a lie detector test. Because for him to say there was no romance is a complete lie.", "In today`s new exclusive statement to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Gosselin continues to deny any relationship with Major. His attorney writes Major`s claims are, quote, \"a fabrication designed to create a salacious newsworthy buzz that would facilitate a payday for her. She clearly ahs succeeded in that endeavor. But regrettably, she has also painted herself into a corner-labeled damaged goods. Jon believes that the public is smart enough to appreciate the motivation behind statements from people like Kate Major.\" And in a final dig, the statement concludes, quote, \"The public doesn`t need a lie detector to identify the intense stench of patent falsehoods.\"", "Everyone seems to have an opinion on this relationship.", "Entertainment journalist Jo Piazza tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT Jon Gosselin has a lot of work to do if he wants to rescue his image which has taken a hit, thanks to Kate Major`s claims and his romantic exploits.", "I think a lot of people believe that Jon has been acting like a prepubescent, hormonal boy, that he`s been going around and picking up different women.", "After Kate Major`s explosive words to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, viewers are swamping our Facebook page. And many of them are divided on Kate Major. Lisa S. writes, \"I don`t believe her. She is just in for the media.\" And Tiffany C. writes, \"Jon is a tool going through a mid-life crisis too early.\"", "I think that any woman that gets dumped is angry. I think most women would love to go on national television and ask their ex-boyfriend to take a lie detector test and see whether or not he was honest in a relationship.", "But some people are seeing things Jon`s way, too.", "Even from what Kate Major said, it wasn`t that huge romance. It was a few-date fling. That`s why they call it hooking up. That`s why they call it fooling around. And right now, it`s just his word against her word.", "I`m not going to just go away and let Jon get away with this.", "So are we going to need a lie detector test to sort all this out?", "Lie detectors should be for capital murder cases, not necessarily for, \"Did we or didn`t we hook up.\"", "Lie detector or not, things are not looking good for Jon Gosselin who is now in a middle of two battles with two angry Kates.", "Jon told me that he was falling for me. He called me the new Kate and referred Kate Gosselin as his ex-Kate or the old Kate. The thing I really want to clear up is that the worst thing you can do is lie. And I will take a lie detector test and I would love for Jon to take a test. Because for him to say that there was no romance is a complete lie.", "And there are people out there cheering on Kate today for calling Jon out. Carlos, why do you think everybody is so fired up?", "Because everyone can relate to what`s going on in this situation. It`s all about the Rs. When you get out of a relationship, you`ve got the randoms. You`ve got the rebound girl. And then, you`ve got something real. Right now, Hailey might be the rebound girl, but I`ve got news for you, Kate 2.0. You are a random, all right? You had a random fling with Jon and you`re mad about it. And so you`re just, you know, shouting from the hilltops. And what`s Jon doing? Jon is giving the classic guy response, \"It wasn`t me. I didn`t do it. I wasn`t me.\" And that`s making her even more mad.\" Yes, exactly.", "Jon is saying no fling. And we heard from Jon Gosselin today through his attorney who exclusively told SHOWBIZ TONIGHT that the other Kate just dishing the dirt on this claim of the two-week romance looking for nothing more than a big payday. Listen to what the attorney tells us, \"Jon believes that the public is smart enough to appreciate the motivation behind statements from people like Kate Major and they don`t need a lie detector to identify the intense stench of patent falsehoods.\" So Jon is saying no lie detector for him, and Kate is just out for the money. So Leslie, does that make it case closed on this? Or is Jon really adding more fuel to a pretty ugly firestorm?", "Well, I think if Jon keeps sleeping around, there`s going to be a lot more fuel because all these women are going to come out asking for lie detectors, talking about their romance even though it was a few-day fling hook-up dating or whatever. And Carlos, really great research on that information by the Rs there, by the way. But I - you know, the Kates out there - there are a lot of women. I`m married now, but years ago when I dated, we`ve all had our hearts broken. And you know, we are angry and she is angry right now. And she`s cashing in on it. So I think as long as these women like Kate Major keep cashing in on it, they`re going to continue on. And I think Jon Gosselin is, you know, acting in a way that he didn`t get to because he got married so young, etc. I`m not excusing it, but I don`t think his behavior is going to stop. And since it won`t, the women are going to continue to talk and be angry.", "You kind of understand it, but I should also point out, we have no independent confirmation that Jon has, in fact, been, as you said there, Leslie, sleeping around. Now, I have been paying very close attention to all the comments on our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT Facebook page because there is so much fired-up reaction. A lot of people really hating on Jon more than I have seen before. Yvonne R. writing on our wall, \"Jon is a two-faced jerk.\" Alison C. writes, \"Doesn`t he realize all that he is doing is going to come back and bite him in the butt when he finally grows up and has teenage boys are behaving like good old dad?\" I think that is a great point. Kate Major says she despises Jon. It seems like, judging from some of this reaction we`re seeing today, Carlos, she is not alone. So do you think, Carlos, has Jon gone from really one of the most beloved reality TV dads to perhaps the most despised man in America.", "Yes. And he could have done it so much better. I could have coached him. Listen, Jon, when you get into a relationship, any girl you meet - you don`t tell them you`ve fallen for them. You say, \"I am emotionally unavailable. I wish I could love you, but after that whole thing with Kate - you saw what happened. I just can`t love right now. Bu Keep having sex with me and maybe something might happen in my heart. For now, I`m emotionally unavailable. But you know what? Stick with me. Keep having sex with me and maybe something might happen in my heart. But for now, \"I`m emotionally unavailable.\" But instead, he goes and tells them he loves them and the whole thing. And now, it`s all out of whack.", "Carlos, just before you go - I don`t want to ask you if there is some big experience behind your words. Quickly, Leslie - quickly, is he becoming one of the most despised man in America?", "I think he is. And I would agree with Carlos he didn`t handle this right. You know, women love a really sad puppy. And if he just sat there and cried about the pain of his marriage, he wouldn`t have to tell the women he loved them.", "Yes.", "His ex-wife is getting some points for this.", "Carlos Diaz, Leslie Marshall, thank you very much. And Carlos, go write a book, man. I think you could.", "No problem.", "I want to know what you think. It`s our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day - \"Jon and Kate: Is Jon`s bad reputation actually helping Kate`s career?\" Look at her - she might be getting a TV show. You can vote at CNN.com/ShowbizTonight or you can E-mail us at showbiztonight@cnn.com. Well, I don`t know if it will help or hurt Linda Hogan`s career to be dating a 20-year-old. But tonight, for the first time, Hulk Hogan`s ex-and her 20-year-old boyfriend, speaking out about their bizarre, icky relationship.", "If he was, you know, any younger, probably it would be an issue because it wouldn`t be legal. But -", "Yes. Can you say cougar? Somebody please pass the hand sanitizer. Also the always fun, the always entertaining Kathy Griffin on how she chose us over \"Oprah.\"", "I`m going to do SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. I`m not stupid, but I`m passing on Oprah.", "OK.", "Yes.", "Tonight, Kathy reveals her big battle with Oprah, how she chased Barbara Walters into the bathroom and what happened when she came face-to- face with Kate Gosselin after making fun of her. It`s the interview you`ll see only on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. And Jessica Simpson strikes back at people making fun of her over her missing dog. This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN. Now, the \"SHOWBIZ News Ticker\" - more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news right now.", "Michael Jackson`s mom is receiving $86,000 a month from his estate for herself and three kids. Kanye West receives nine BET hip-hop awards nominations."], "speaker": ["A.J. 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{"id": "CNN-153282", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-7-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1007/17/cnr.09.html", "summary": "BP Extends Well Pressure Test", "utt": ["Tonight, murder in a Texas town. The mayor, a mother, apparently kills her daughter and then herself, and no one seems to know why. We investigate. Is the toxic brew between the tea party and the NAACP setting race relations back? Hold your answer until after you hear about a letter one tea party activist wrote while pretending he's a black man. The man who released the Mel Gibson tapes to the public drops by and drops some hints about more recordings and what's on them. And the new celebrity couple, Bristol and Levi? What led to their reunion? \"US Weekly\" takes us behind the scenes. Good evening, everyone. It is day 89 of the gulf oil disaster, and day 2 of no oil gushing from the well. BP's integrity tests of its new cap will now go on until at least tomorrow afternoon. And meantime, BP says one of two relief wells is just a few feet from intercepting the crippled well. And there's still millions of gallons of oil to clean up. This controlled burn-out in the gulf was about 10 miles northeast of the well site. The huge converted cargo ship called A Whale won't be part of the skimming operation. The Coast Guard says it failed to collect much oil during testing. CNN's David Mattingly joins me now live from New Orleans with the details. David, why is BP extending the testing period?", "Well, it wasn't BP's decision to extend this. This was something that came up and was ordered by Admiral Thad Allen after that successful 48 hours where we saw no leaking from the well and no oil going into the Gulf of Mexico as the pressure continued to rise. Admiral Allen then ordered another 24 hours of testing, just to be sure. And after that point, he says they will then open this well back up. They will hook it up to those line and take that oil up to the surface for containment on vessels at the surface. Instead, they are looking at this well, this new cap and the way it's performing, as being able to close temporarily in case there is a hurricane and not having this well closed until the relief well is dug and intercepting some time later this month.", "OK, so what's the next -- what's next in this process?", "Next in this process, once they get finished with the testing, they will then look at the data that they've come up and how this well is performing. If it's continued just as it has for the last 48 hours, they're going to be very pleased and much more confident even now that there's not going to be any leaking from this well. Once they do that, then they're going open the well up and relieve the pressure that's in there. So we're going to see oil for a short time spewing back into the Gulf of Mexico until they hook those lines up to bring it back up to the surface to the containment vessels up there, continuing their strategy of containment.", "And David, what about those relief wells?", "The relief wells are going extremely well. The one that they started first is within feet of its mark, and they are now planning to make that final casing rod (ph) that will intersect and intercept where that leaking well has been. And what they're talking about there is having some time at the end of the month being able to intersect that well and start filling it up with cement. That process of cementing will take days, possibly weeks, and that will be the final nail in the coffin for this well.", "Our thanks to David Mattingly in New Orleans. Ken Feinberg, the man in charge of handling the BP compensation fund, recently met with about 200 people in Louisiana whose livelihoods have been impacted by the oil disaster and he got an earful. In response, Feinberg was compassionate, but he was tough. He made clear that money would not be paid out based on wishful thinking.", "Very important.", "And we got the tickets to prove it. You know, we got the tickets to prove it.", "Now, here's the answer to this -- this claim (ph). This gentleman says it was going be a record year. Prove it. Come in, demonstrate that it was going be a record year, and get paid for it. But don't speculate. I can't be paying speculative claims. You've got to come in and show me not that you're a good fisherman, and you know, life treats your fairly. I want to know -- It's not speculation, Feinberg. We can show you what we lost because of this spill that is damaging, and I'll pay it. But you've got to show me.", "That was Ken Feinberg. Meantime, President Barack Obama and the first family are vacationing in Bar Harbor, Maine, this weekend. They're spending time on Mount Desert Island, home to Acadia National Park. This is the Obama family's third family holiday since the oil disaster began in April, which is fueling criticism from his Republican critics. Some in the GOP say the president should be focused on the gulf instead of relaxing. Some unfinished business from the presidential election and a six-digit fine for Vice President Joe Biden's failed campaign for the White House. The Federal Election Commission has slapped a $219,000 fine on Biden's campaign for accepting contributions above legal limits, failing to pay market rates for use of a private jet, and for issuing checks that were never cashed. A Biden spokeswoman calls such fines commonplace after presidential campaign audits. Just ahead here on CNN...", "Racists have their own movement. It's called the NAACP.", "The war of words between the tea party and the NAACP. You heard that comment by Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams, but some black leaders disagree on how to fight back and whether it's even worth it. We'll hear from the Reverend Al Sharpton and activist Warren Ballentine. Plus this.", "There was flowers, like rose petals, in the shape of a heart on my bed with a box. And then he got down on one knee, asked me to marry him. There was no hesitation at all.", "Oh, the lovebirds! Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston are engaged. \"US Weekly\" got the exclusive scoop, and we have an \"US Weekly\" bureau chief to talk about their interview. And don't just sit there. Make sure you become part of the conversation, part of the show. Send me a message on Twitter and Facebook, or check out my blog at CNN.com/don. You can also look for me on Foursquare (ph). I want to hear from you."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "MATTINGLY", "LEMON", "MATTINGLY", "LEMON", "KENNETH FEINBERG, BP CLAIMS FUND ADMINISTRATOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FEINBERG", "LEMON", "MARK WILLIAMS, TEA PARTY EXPRESS", "LEMON", "BRISTOL PALIN, SARAH PALIN'S DAUGHTER", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-164431", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-4-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1104/07/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Air Strikes in Ajdabiya; Tea Party: Bring on Government Shutdown", "utt": ["Thirteen minutes past the hour. And some developments right now out of Libya. Our Ben Wedeman joins us right now from Ajdabiya, an eastern city in Libya, with the latest on some conflicts there. Hi, Ben.", "Hi. What we're hearing from eyewitnesses is that there was an airstrike on an opposition formation near Brega, about 10 kilometers, about seven miles to the east of there. According to this eyewitness, a plane flew over. They assumed it was NATO and didn't worry about it. But then it flew back again, apparently bombed their convoy which included a large bus of soldiers, and then came back for a second time and hit again. It's not clear the identity of the plane because they fly so high, but there haven't been any planes, Libyan air force planes in the sky for several weeks now. I'm at the hospital in Ajdabiya where doctors here tell me that at least six people were injured and, of course, they're still bringing in ambulances. But of those six injured, several of them are in critical condition. This is, of course, if it is a NATO airstrike, it's the second time that NATO aircrafts have mistakenly hit forces of the opposition.", "I know what you're saying is that it's still unclear as to who was flying this plane, who launched that strike. Did they know -- is it possible that Gadhafi's planes are still able to fly or were the NATO air strikes successful in damaging that air power capability?", "Well, our understanding was that a lot of that capability has been disabled. Some of the airstrips themselves have been disabled. And we did hear several days ago from a NATO official who says that 30 percent of the Libyan Army's military capabilities have been disabled, but we - we don't know. Certainly there haven't been any Libyan Air Force planes in the sky for several weeks, actually, at least three weeks now. So it would be difficult for them to be up in the air at the moment.", "All right. Ben Wedeman bringing us the latest right now on a breaking situation there in an area near Brega where they say that they were the - the targets of a strike from a plane. Thanks so much.", "Nic Robertson just reporting that a couple of big explosions in Central Tripoli in the last few minutes, actually.", "Right. So he - he's on the government-controlled side of things.", "That's right.", "Ben is in the opposition-controlled side. So while there might be some sense of these being coordinated attacks, what Ben says is very troubling, that he is saying that they are seeing rebels being wounded, six people transported to hospital. We've already had one instance where NATO has mistakenly attacked the rebels. This is where it starts to get confusing and difficult.", "And rebel leaders have complained that they don't feel as if there's enough coordination with", "Right.", "They said they've been calling in exactly this is where we need help and they haven't been getting that help.", "But you got to imagine that that's complicated.", "Oh, yes.", "That these are rebels who have had virtually no training.", "That's right.", "No logistics training. What are you calling in? You know -", "That's right.", "I don't know. Maybe there's a communication issue.", "Absolutely.", "But very troubling news. We'll stay on top of it for you. This story is amazing, about this another air traffic controller busted for sleeping on the job during overnight hours. This time, though, officials say he did it on purpose. Listen to this. It happened at -", "McGhee - this is McGhee Tyson.", "McGhee Tyson Airport right in Knoxville, Tennessee. He slept for five hours. His co-worker landed seven planes by himself. So, apparently there was some kind of agreement between the two of them. It happened back in February. It was only revealed yesterday during a Congressional hearing. Now, this worker is in the process of being fired. Second sanction is less than three months. As you know in March, a controller at the Reagan National Airport fell asleep during a midnight shift and a couple of planes had to land themselves.", "But what's even scarier in that one is that there was nobody managing (ph).", "There's nobody, right.", "That was a huge - I mean, Reagan International Airport.", "This guy just had his buddy take care of things.", "All right. A government shutdown much closer to reality this morning. You may have heard the sound bites, the talking points. You've seen the numbers. But what do you think? According to a Gallup Poll by almost a 2 to 1 margin, Americans want their representatives to reach a compromise.", "Yes. The Tea Party helped bring the GOP back into power in the House of Representatives with a promise that they will shrink the size of government, which by the way, means the budget. Now many in the party are saying a promise is a promise. Bring on a government shutdown. Jim Acosta live in Washington. Wow, Jim, this is getting - it's getting very close. Closer than we've -", "That's right.", "-- been to a shutdown the last couple of times.", "That's right.", "And the Tea Party's holding tight.", "They are. They are ratcheting up the rhetoric, guys. And, as you both know, leaders in both parties say they don't want a government shutdown, but some in the Tea Party hope that's exactly what happens saying it will teach Washington a lesson.", "Shut it down, shut it down!", "As the clock ticks toward a shutdown, the Tea Party is turning up the heat. At a rally near the steps of the Capitol, conservative activists urge Republicans to stand and fight.", "You would support a government shutdown?", "Absolutely. It's time for taxpayers to take back the government and ley's shut it down for a few days. It's not going to come to a catastrophic end.", "Indiana Republican Mike Pence was right there with them.", "Liberals in the Senate would rather play political games and force a government shutdown instead of accepting a modest down payment on fiscal discipline and reform. I say shut it down.", "Shut it down, shut it down!", "But not all Tea Partiers are sure that's a good idea. Despite appearances.", "Shut 'er down.", "And you're saying shut the government down?", "I don't want to shut the government down. I'm making a point.", "And what's that?", "That's we need to get serious about cutting our budget. We don't even have a budget. We're a year late in getting a budget.", "And so what about why hold a sign that says shut 'er down if you don't want to shut her down?", "Making a point.", "Here's the extremist that I like to hang with.", "Republican Michele Bachmann also stops short of calling for a shutdown, telling CNN she thinks a deal will happen.", "Do you think we're going to get to a shutdown, Congresswoman? What do you think at this point?", "I actually think that we will see a resolution by Friday. I think that in all likelihood it will happen.", "That would be good news for thousands of federal employees who would be deemed nonessential by their agencies and furloughed.", "I'm concerned. I'm concerned about the delay. I'm concerned about being able to pay my mortgage. I'm concerned about being able to pay my bills.", "Democrats point out some of those workers performs critical tasks like medical researchers.", "I know you're working on that", "And as for those calls to shut 'er down, even Republican Mike Pence is showing some wiggle room this morning. The Tea Party favorite has released a statement saying he could sign on to another stop gap spending measure to avoid one of the big consequences of a shutdown, military troops not getting their pay on time, guys.", "Now, Jim, what Tea Party people like to say a lot is that, look, this is the 2011 budget. That was something that a Republican - oh, I'm sorry, Democratic president, Democratic controlled Congress couldn't get done last year. So why are you blaming us?", "That's right.", "You know, we're just making a point after Democrats didn't do their job. Is that sort of the message that they keep - they keep giving?", "Well, their message is, is basically with the Republicans, a deal is a deal. And if you look at some of the e-mails coming from the Tea Party Nation, just one of the Tea Party groups out there, they're just as nasty with John Boehner. They call John Boehner words that even Democrats aren't calling John Boehner at this point. So they're very angry with Republicans for not holding the line here.", "Yes.", "And there will be major disappointment inside some sections of the Tea Party if this government does not shut down and the Republicans don't get everything that they want.", "But, you know - and it's - I'm just wondering, we keep saying 42 hours still shutdown. I know you've been in Washington a long time. The last time this happened, Congress actually agreed on a bill, sent it to the president and it was vetoed. This time they haven't even agreed on a bill.", "Right.", "That's right. And one big difference between then and now is that in 1995 and 1996, the economy was not in the throes -", "Right.", "Right.", "-- of a very weak recovery. And so we're in uncharted waters here. Government shutdown could have major unintended consequences. As, you know, Mark Zandi, a noted economist, said yesterday that this could throw the country into possibly a recession. So lots of unintended consequences.", "And another economist yesterday from Capitol Economics has been trying to say it would shave one percentage point off GDP. That means -", "Yes.", "We can't afford -", "And they're talking necessarily crazy liberal economist", "Sounds good.", "All right.", "You might have noticed, you guys, that your local mall is running on empty. Find out what these shopping centers are doing to plug the growing number of vacancies. Have you noticed this?", "I have, yes.", "There's a lot of empty storefronts in the local mall.", "Twenty-two minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (via telephone)", "CHETRY", "WEDEMAN", "CHETRY", "ROMANS", "VELSHI", "ROMANS", "VELSHI", "ROMANS", "NATO. 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{"id": "CNN-77563", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-10-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0310/01/lad.20.html", "summary": "The Ivory Baby is Back", "utt": ["The Ivory baby is back for the first time in 30 years. Jeanne Moos has this soap opera tale.", "Rub a dub dub, six babies in tubs. But only one of them gets to be the new Ivory Soap baby.", "Beautiful Isabel (ph) completely embodies the purity that is Ivory soap.", "Tenth-month-old Isabel Walth (ph) sure is an improvement over the first Ivory baby from 1887. After photo auditions around the country...", "Aachoo!", "And a total of 25,000 entries, it came down to six finalists, immortalizing their hand prints.", "Give her five. High five. Yes.", "Ivory dropped the baby as an advertising icon 30 years ago.", "Mild enough for a baby's skin.", "Yes, but is it mild enough for a baby's digestive system? Isabel washed out her own mouth with soap. Past Ivory babies include actress Brooke Shields and porn star Marilyn Chambers appeared on the Ivory box when she was 17. Ivory may be 99 44/100 percent pure, but not Marilyn. Today's contestants are a melting pot.", "Give her love. Give her love.", "Oh, I can't wait to see what happens.", "Good baby.", "Isabel's parents say she's hardly ever cranky.", "We're going to try to have her model as long as she wants.", "You'd squeal too if you won a $50,000 scholarship. Isabel only started walking about a month ago and already she's modeling. We are falling, too.", "Falling for you.", "Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS"]}
{"id": "CNN-363612", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2019-03-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/05/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Father of Pell Victim Speaks Out", "utt": ["You're watching CNN and this is CONNECT THE WORLD. Welcome back. Let's get you up to speed now on some other stories that are on our radar right now. Brexit is a lesson for us all. Those are the words of French President Emmanuel Macron in an opinion piece addressed to EU citizens ahead of May's European elections. In it, Mr. Macron cites Brexit of the starkest example of the dangers facing the EU and outlines his vision for the block. India is denying Pakistan's claim that one of its submarines tried to enter Pakistani waters. The Indian government is dismissing this video as part of a campaign to create war hysteria. It comes amid a spike intention between the two countries. The Egyptian government has released an award-winning photojournalist who had been held in jail for five years. Mahmoud Abou Zeid was arrested for taking pictures of a crackdown of antigovernment protests in 2013. Though out of jail, Amnesty International says Abou Zeid will have to spend 12 hours a day in a local police station for the next five years. A patient in London might be the second person to be cured of HIV. The man has been in remission for 18 months after a treatment involving stem cells transplants. This case comes more than ten years after the virus was eliminated in a Berlin patient using similar stem cell therapy. Now to the sex abuse scandal that has been rocking the Catholic Church and to the scars that never heal. Cardinal George Pell, as you know, was convicted of child sex abuse. He is scheduled to be sentenced next week. CNN's Anna Coren is the only international journalist to speak with the father of one of Pell's victims. She says his son spiraled after he was molested.", "Dressed in his chorister robes, his thick hair brushed to one side, this young boy is a picture of innocence and so much promise. It's the way his father tries to remember him.", "If he wasn't playing lacrosse, he was at the football. If he can't at football, he would be at church, at the choir.", "To be in the choir was a privileged position. He had been handpicked along with two other boys from his local school to be a choir boy at St. Patrick's Cathedral. It came with a scholarship to a prestigious Melbourne private school and a world his parents would never have been able to afford.", "For my son, it was a fabulous opportunity. Yes, and it would have been fabulous for his future.", "But it was inside this blue stone basilica that sits on Eastern Hill in the city where unspeakable crimes happened to his son and his friend when they were just 13 years old. Neither the boys nor their families can be identified for legal reasons. A jury found that Cardinal George Pell, then Archbishop of Melbourne, caught them in the pre-sacristy after Sunday mass in 1996. He forced the other choir boy to perform oral sex on him before indecently assaulting both boys. While his son never spoke of the attack, he says his behavior the following year suggested something had gone terribly wrong.", "He was trying to mask something that had happened to him. He was trying to cover up something that had happened to him so heinous, so horrible.", "His father says he was kicked out of the choir, lost his scholarship and fell into the wrong crowd. Within 12 months, his treasured son was injecting heroine. An addiction that would eventually claim his life after an accidental overdose in 2014. His parents had to identify him at the morgue.", "You -- you look at him and you think, why? What a waste. What a waste of life.", "He believes it was his son's death that would prompt the surviving choir boy to go to police. When Cardinal Pell was interviewed by Australian detectives in Rome in 2016, he scoffed at the allegations.", "What a load of absolutely disgraceful rubbish. Completely false. Madness.", "A jury found Pell guilty on all five charges of child sexual abuse.", "You're the devil.", "The 77-year-old maintains his innocence and has lodged an appeal. (on camera): Despite the fact Cardinal George Pell is now a convicted pedophile, he still has enormous support here in Australia. Former Prime Ministers, media commentators, even some church leaders have all questioned the voracity of the jury's decision. Sowing the seeds of doubt as to whether the crimes that took place inside this Cathedral 22 years ago ever happened at all.", "This isn't a case where there's been only allegations. There has been a unanimous jury verdict of guilt in this case. And to suggest that somehow the jury didn't get it right, that the victims and the survivors should still not be believed, I think, is incredibly dangerous.", "The father is now considering a civil case against the church, which if successful, could prove to be a test case for other survivors and their families who have been betrayed by an institution that was supposed to keep children safe. Anna Coren, CNN, Melbourne."], "speaker": ["MACFARLANE", "ANNA COREN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "FATHER OF PELL VICTIM", "COREN", "FATHER OF PELL VICTIM", "COREN", "FATHER OF PELL VICTIM", "COREN", "FATHER OF PELL VICTIM", "COREN", "GEORGE PELL, FORMER CARDINAL, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA", "COREN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COREN", "LISA FLYNN, SHINE LAWYER", "COREN (voice-over)"]}
{"id": "CNN-401953", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2020-06-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/05/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "Never Too Late for NFL to Change Course; Curfew Violators Arrested by NYPD; John Kelly Agrees with General Mattis' Criticism of President Trump; A Woman was Hit in the Head by Foam Bullet at Fort Lauderdale Protest; \"Black-ish\" Actress Jenifer Lewis Speaks Out: \"Take Your Knee Off Our Necks\".", "utt": ["There has been as much honest conversation about the topic of race in this country in the last week as has taken place in my living memory. And it is a conversation that is not exclusive to one community but the whole country.", "And that conversation includes the NFL. Tonight, the commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell admitting the league was wrong for not listening to players peacefully protesting racism. He says the NFL believes black lives matter. Something we haven't heard President Trump said. In an event tonight touting job numbers the president brought up George Floyd.", "Hopefully George is looking downright now and saying this is a great thing that's happening for our country. It's a great day for him. It's a great day for everybody. This is a great day for everybody. This is a great, great day in terms of equality.", "A great day in terms of equality? What is he talking about? The president was also asked about systemic racism. Here's how he handled that.", "I'd like to sign this bill. This is a very difficult day. And by the way, what's happened to our country and what you now see has been happening, it's the greatest thing that can happen for race relations, for the African-American community, for the Asian-American, for the Hispanic-American community. For women and for everything.", "What's your plan?", "Because our country is so strong. And that's what my plan is. We're going to have the strongest economy in the world.", "Strong economy is one thing. It's important. It doesn't solve the problem of racism. But first, let's get to Shimon Prokupecz in New York with protestors. Shimon, what are you seeing?", "Yes. So, Don, as you can see behind me a lot of police officers just standing by. Waiting to respond. And we haven't seen the same type of activity that we have seen for the last several nights, you know, what a difference a few days make. But just hours ago, just as the curfew ended around 8.30. the NYPD moved in on a group of protestors who are marching, peacefully marching on the upper east side. And at around 8.30 they just decided that it was time to end the march. And so, the NYPD they made announcements they told people that if they weren't going to be leaving, they were going to be arrested. And so, they arrested 18 people. They were marching on the upper east side. They wound up being stopped by the police at 81st and Park Avenue. What's different about tonight, Don, was that the police moved in earlier on this group in Manhattan. We saw other groups marching last night until about 10 o'clock. The night before it was until 9.30. So, for whatever reason, tonight, the NYPD, Don, decided they were going to move in earlier and they arrested and stopped those demonstrators around 8.30. And that was the last group really demonstrating passed the curfew. Now for tomorrow there are a lot of events planned. More protests, more demonstrations across the city for Saturday, Don.", "All right. Shimon Prokupecz, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Now I want to bring in CNN White House correspondent John Harwood, and former NFL player Donte Stallworth. Good evening to both. John, president seems to be equating a good jobs report with racial healing and tweeting about no kneeling, when the NFL is now admitting that they should have listened to their players about systemic racism. He just doesn't get it, does he?", "Look, Don, Donald Trump is reverting to two things that are comfortable territory for him. One is talking about money. That's the economy. And he was exuberant over the jobs report today. And the other is racial conflict and division. That's been shot through his political career. To some extent through his life before he was in politics. He has a model for his approach. And that's Richard Nixon. He uses the same phrases, law and order, the silent majority. Richard Nixon got himself elected in 1968 and then again in 1972. The problem is twofold. First of all, when Richard Nixon got elected in 1968, he was not the incumbent. He was running against a party that was presiding over disorder and chaos. Now Donald Trump is presiding over it. So, it doesn't work well that way. Second problem is, it's not 1968 anymore. The country has changed enormously. Political attitudes changed slowly but they do change. And we saw that today with Roger Goodell and the NFL. We've seen that from leaders of the U.S. military. And the president is on the wrong side of those changes.", "And speaking of Roger Goodell, let's play that video. Here it is.", "We, at the National Football League, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of black people. We, the National Football League, admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest. We, at the National Football League, believe black lives matter.", "How significant is this reversal from Goodell, Donte?", "I think it's a decent first step. But what a lot of people have said all day since this video has come out is Roger Goodell should have mentioned Colin Kaepernick' name, Colin Kaepernick by name. And they haven't done that. And I think that is the thing that a lot of people still don't trust the NFL's words because their actions have shown and proven otherwise that they do support or that they don't support the NFL players. Even though they did start the players coalition or helped to start and push the player's coalition. I was very pleased to see a lot of young NFL stars get together and say, you know what, this is our league. This is our league. The league is three quarters -- three-fourths black players and I'm glad that these guys got together and decided to wield their powers in ways that they necessarily haven't done before. Because as you saw immediately Roger Goodell came out with that video and said what he said. He said he held to the player's demands of what they wanted to hear and he said it. It's a decent first step but those steps now need to be followed through with action, with concrete action.", "John, we saw some top ranked military turn on Trump this week. Now the NFL. Do you think people are realizing that his moment is more powerful than their fear of him? That this moment, I should say, is more powerful than their fear of him?", "Yes. And I think this moment has been exceptionally powerful and for the U.S. military there are couple of aspects too. One is the way they were used to deploy force against Americans in ways that made major military leaders uncomfortable. But the backdrop for that is, the U.S. military, Don, is one of the most successfully integrated major institutions in the country. It's more diverse than the country as a whole. U.S. military does not fear diversity. In fact, it needs diversity. It strikes me that the National Football League is also a pretty successfully integrated major institution in the American life and I've got to say maybe Donte can explain it to me, I have been astounded that it has taken the NFL so long to move to this position. Astounded that for four years, Colin Kaepernick for simply kneeling in peaceful protest was blackballed by every team in the league. I don't get it. But in any case, Roger Goodell has clearly felt the heat of this moment and adapted. And it is those two defections from the president's side, the U.S. military and the National Football League pretty significant in this reelection year.", "Can you explain that, Donte, what he's talking about and the pressure and all of that? This one from the football league.", "Yes. I think initially you have --", "And the players.", "Yes. Well, you have to look at the honest truth. And that honest truth is that, a lot of the owners support Donald Trump. A lot of the owners have given him money for his reelection campaign. They've given him money for his inauguration. So, until we can get passed that, then the conversation of, you know, why the NFL -- why the NFL is just now coming out after years of seeing Colin Kaepernick but players all over -- all over the league kneeling and this is really become an international issue. Because as everyone else in the world understands this is a human rights issue. This is not a political left and right issue. Conservative liberal. This is a human rights issue. And it needs to be dealt with accordingly.", "Thank you so much. I appreciate both of you, gentlemen. See you soon. Now I want to go to CNN correspondent Kate Bennett. Kate, you know, you have this new reporting that the West Wing is frustrated with the first lady's response to the protests over George Floyd's death. What can you tell us about that?", "Well, I think as usual the first lady is somewhat out of step on her messaging and this time really there's quite a big difference when -- you know, when the President Trump was talking to the governors on that call calling them weak, saying they looked like jerks wanting to dominate the streets. The first lady was actually calling for peace and healing. And, you know, it didn't go unnoticed by the West Wing. They find that her opposing messaging to this law and order structure the president is putting forth is really counter intuitive. When -- when the president tweeted about when the looting starts, the shooting starts, and it was flagged by Twitter that very morning that Twitter put a warning on his tweet. The first lady said this is a country that allows for safe protest. This is a country that needs to come together and unite. So, certainly there are frustrating moments for the president and his aides as the East Wing keeps doing their own thing.", "You know, you always say that Melania Trump doesn't do anything by accident. Do you think this is a deliberate attempt to undermine her husband?", "You know, it's hard to say. It's certainly interesting to look at the timing and the specific messaging and when he says one thing, that makes headlines versus when she decides to speaks out. Listen, this isn't the first lady who is doing a ton of heavy lifting on this really important, you know, thing that's happening in our nation. She's not handing out water bottles, you know, to people protesting in front of her house by any means. However, it is interesting that she's chosen these moments to really contradict the harsh and the brass and the real mean streak that's coming out of the West Wing with language that does feel in a certain way that it's purposefully opposed to what the president is saying.", "All right. Kate Bennett, thank you so much. I appreciate it. We'll bring in now former White House communications director, Mr. Anthony Scaramucci. Earlier today he interviewed the former White House chief of staff John Kelly. Nice job, sir. How are you doing?", "Good to see you, Don.", "Good to see you.", "Good.", "So, let's talk about your interview. But, you know, you just -- you just thanked Drew Brees on Twitter for disagreeing with Trump and being a role model for others to see his sort of callousness for what it is. That's huge. Wow.", "I sank him or I praised him. I mean, what do you mean? I mean, I think it's awesome that he's doing that. I mean, at the end of the day you need people like him, Don, in the world to show the light to other people. You know, the problem is the president is a tribal leader and he's trying to split the country. He's, you know -- the first name of the country is united. He's trying to disunite the country and split it. And so, he wants people like Drew Brees and the NFL to help him do that. And I think they've capitulated. Now they don't want to do that and I think it's wonderful.", "You asked General Kelly about the former Defense Secretary James Mattis' jaw dropping statement, essentially saying that Trump is dividing the country. Violating the Constitution. And isn't mature enough to lead. Kelly agreed. I mean, that is a big teal coming from the president's former chief of staff, Anthony.", "Yes. Well, listen, I mean, if you saw the interview, I mean, it was very straightforward. I don't -- I don't necessarily think that the general was trying to break news as much as he was just trying to express his patriotic feeling about the country and also trying to explain to people that the American military holds the Constitution sacred to its heart and they take an oath every time they're promoted to that Constitution. And I think the point that him and General Mattis, Admiral McRaven, these great men in our country are making is that the institution of the Constitution and the great institutions of the United States are more important than one man. And so, the notion that our military or National Guard would be used and we're parsing between smoke canisters or tear gas to clear the way for a photo-op I think --", "Wow.", "-- it was a real low point in the institution of the presidency. And so, I think -- I think that was a very important statement for him. But it was a very predictable statement because if you ask all of them and they came out of the apolitical shell, Don, I don't think there's very, very many of those great men that would agree with what the president did.", "I want to get to that interview that you did. I want to play some of that moment from that interview. Here it is.", "I think we need to look harder at who we elect. I think we should start all of us regardless of what our views are in politics. I think we should look at people that are running for office and put them through the filter. Are they -- what is their character like? What is their -- what are their ethics? Are they willing, if they're elected, to represent all of their constituents not just the base? But all of their constituents. And then look at the politics.", "I think maybe that was my favorite thing that he said the entire interview. I mean, General Kelly basically went there. Why does it seem that he is still unwilling to be 100 percent frank though about President Trump?", "I think it's a very tough spot. He worked for the president. You know, listen, it's a tough spot for me. I got -- I got fired after 11 days. I thank General Kelly actually for saving my marriage for doing that for me. But, you know, listen, I got fired. I tried to stay loyal to the president. You are trying to help the country. You're a patriot. For two years I tried to stay loyal to the president and he's done very crazy things. From separating women from the children in the immigration story to now disavowing our intelligence agencies, to asking our congresswomen to go back to the countries that they originally came from. You know the list. I know the list. And now, we're at this great moment where he would really like to divide the country and he'd like to focus on a certain base of people trying to gin up that base, get them to turn out so that he can win reelection.", "Got it.", "And I think it's disgusting to see --", "I have -- I've got limited time. I've got limited time and I want to get another part of your interview.", "All right. Go ahead.", "Because I think -- I think it deserves a lot of attention here.", "All right. Go ahead.", "So, the president likes to call himself a stable genius. You asked about Kelly about that assessment. Watch.", "Is the president a stable genius, sir? Is he a very stable genius?", "He's what's a genius? I don't know what that is. I don't think I should comment on -- I'm not, you know, not qualified to comment on stable or unstable.", "I mean, that was a very long and telling pause, Anthony. He won't even say if the man he served is stable or unstable.", "What's he going to do? You know he's unstable. The guy is unstable. He swore an oath to the Constitution, the general did. For 40 years he needed to be apolitical in the United States Marine Corps. And so, you're not going to break out of your shell in two minutes on a SALT talk, Don. It's just not going to happen. Although I did ask him that question at the SALT conference a year ago in Las Vegas and he had a more funny quip. You know, he said I don't think he's stable or a genius. It was funny, everyone laughed. But I guess it's uncomfortable because he is disavowing the president. He's agreeing with his great friend General Mattis and he's trying to be a balanced and fair guy. You know, let me tell you something. Over the last year, I've learned a lot about General Kelly. I have an enormous amount of respect for him. Forty years in the marine corps. He's a gold star family member. And he's a brilliant guy, he's a very well-read guy. And I wouldn't mistake that cautiousness for anything other than the fact that he's at 40 years in the marine corps and wants to stay true to that apolitical nature.", "I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this interview. Nice job, Anthony Scaramucci. Thank you so much.", "Hey, good to be here, Don. Thank you.", "Absolutely. A week that began with peaceful protestors gassed so the president can have a photo-op ends with him having lost the support of some of his former military top brass and the NFL. 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{"id": "CNN-309459", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-04-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/07/nday.01.html", "summary": "Trump Launches Military Strikes Against Syria.  ", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is a special edition of NEW DAY. And we de begin with breaking news. President Trump ordering military strikes in Syria. Nearly 60 Tomahawk missiles fired at a Syrian air base.", "Strikes in retaliation for President Assad's chemical weapons attack Tuesday on his own people, including dozens of children being killed.", "U.S. officials say the Tomahawk missiles did hit their target, the Al-Shayrat Base, used by Syrian airplane toes carry out that chemical attack. There are big political and legal questions surrounding this move. President Trump said there can be no dispute Syria used chemical weapons on its people. Now, Russia disagrees with that analysis. His call here, a stunning reversal on Syria and Assad. Remember, the president was silent about this attack for over a day and as recently as last week, his administration opposed removing the brutal dictator. He had been outspoken against any action in Syria after the much more serious chemical attack by Assad in 2013. So, was this a legal move by the president and what happens next? We have the global resources of CNN covering this story. Let's begin with CNN's Ryan Browne live at the Pentagon. What do we know?", "Good morning, Chris. As you said, those 59 Tomahawk missiles were targeting this air base that the Pentagon believes is linked to that chemical weapons attack. In fact, they showed reporters tracking data, showing the aircraft leaving the air base striking this area and returning. Now, they attacked radars, the taxiway, aircraft at this base, all designed to disable the base, preventing it from conducting future operations and the Pentagon says this was meant to deter Assad from carrying out any future attacks. Thus, particular care was made to avoid striking any of the Russian personnel that were at that base. In fact, they used an existing deconfliction channel to communicate to Russia the day of the attack that this was coming, helping to avoid any casualties there. But this is something that the Pentagon really wanted to make sure that this air base was put out of commission, sending that high number of Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from U.S. warships in the eastern Mediterranean, a missile that allows -- prevents any threat to any U.S. pilots, but allows a punishing strike against this air base -- Chris.", "All right. Thank you very much, Ryan. There's a lot to cover on this. There are a lot of ramifications of this move. And they're the immediate impacts to tell you about as we learn that information. We will. Now, President Trump called these strikes vital to national security. That's going to be key to whether or not they were necessary to stop Assad and whether or not they're legal. Does Syria represent a true threat to the U.S.? Lawmakers seem split, but there was no move to block the president on this. In just days, politically, we saw a huge change. The Trump administration going from saying Assad's future up to the Syrian people now bombing his regime. CNN's White House correspondent Athena Jones live in Palm Beach, Florida, with more -- Athena.", "Hi, Chris. Well, the president took this bold action, the first direct U.S. military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad to send the message that the use of chemical weapons will not be tolerated. Now, the president delivered a strongly worded statement last night to explain his action easy in what amounted to a pretty big turn around of his approach to Assad and to the Syrian. Back in 2013 after a similar chemical weapons attack, Trump was vocally opposed to getting involved and to respond to go Assad in this way. Well, last night, he did respond. Here is what he had to say.", "On Tuesday, Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians using a deadly nerve agent. Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror. Tonight, I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched. It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and ignored the urging of the U.N. Security Council. Years of previous attempts at changing Assad's behavior have all failed and failed very dramatically. As a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize, threatening the United States and its allies. Tonight, I call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end this slaughter and bloodshed in Syria and also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types. We ask for God's wisdom as we face the challenge of our very troubled world. We pray for the lives of the wounded and for the souls of those who have passed and we hope that as long as America stands for justice, then peace and harmony will, in the end, prevail. Good night and God bless America and the entire world. Thank you.", "And so, after being initially slow to respond to this chemical attack, the president delivering that very strong statement last night, taking this action against the regime air base. One of the big questions now is, what will this mean for U.S.-Russian relations? Secretary of State Tillerson had strong words for Russia, which had agreed to remove Syria's chemical weapons three years ago. He said that Russia clearly has failed in its responsibility to deliver on that commitment. Either Russia has been complicit or Russia has been incompetent in its ability to deliver. So, strong words for Russia there -- Chris, Alisyn.", "Athena, thank you. And Russia has strong words for the U.S., as well. Russia denouncing these strikes in Syria as, quote, \"an action of aggression.\" Russian President Vladimir Putin says it is a serious blow to U.S.-Russia relations. CNN's Matthew Chance is live in Moscow with that part of the story -- Matthew.", "That's right. On the face of it, at least, the Russians are absolutely furious that these strikes were carried out by the U.S. military against their main ally in the Middle East, Syria. A statement issued from the Kremlin says this, \"President Putin regards the American attack owes on Syria as an aggression against the sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law and under a farfetched pretext.\" The statement goes on that \"the Syrian army has no chemical weapons.\" So the Russians are sticking to their version of events that these allegations against their ally, Syria, are made up. There was no chemical weapons attack is their position. There has been action, too, important action, because the Russians have also announced they're suspending an air safety agreement between the U.S. and Russian militaries in Syria. It's a deconfliction measure which is meant to prevent the aircraft of both those countries carrying out air strikes in Syria from coming into dangerous contact with each other. That's now suspended. There will be no contact between the militaries on the ground. But this is interesting. There are also signs that Russia is prepared to take this U.S. military action on the chin. It didn't have any of its forces involved. They were warned in advance. They didn't lose any personnel. Otherwise, we would be having a different conversation. They also did not use their highly complex S-400 surface-to-air missile system to take out those cruise missiles. They're designed to take out those missiles. They could have easily heavily disrupted those strikes, but they didn't do it. And now, we've had this statement Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying, \"I'm particularly disappointed by the way this damages U.S. relations, but I don't think it will lead to an irreversible situation.\" That was the statement of Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, clearly leaving the door open to an improvement in relations with the United States and, obviously, he can discuss that further when Rex Tillerson, U.S. secretary of state, comments here to Moscow next week. Back to you, Chris and Alisyn.", "An interesting dynamic evolving, Russia deciding to stand down, the United States decide to go step up. And that takes us to the United States president. Did President Trump have the right to do this legally? And was it the right move? Two very different but equally important questions. We have CNN political analyst David Gregory to discuss. CNN counterterrorism analyst and former CIA counterterrorism official, Phil Mudd. And CNN military analyst, Lieutenant General Mark Hertling, and retired Major General James \"Spider\" Marks. General, having you here in the studio is a big benefit to us this morning. Let's the talk about what actually happened. Where were these ships, what was used, what do we know about what happened?", "Yes, the two destroyers, Porter and the Ross were in the eastern Mediterranean just off the coast. They launched 59 cruise missiles, TLAMs, Tomahawks, and they landed at that al-Shayrat Airfield. Now, the importance for that is that's where the chemical attack originated from. And there were fixed wing aircraft, as well as helicopter, rotary winged-aircraft that were routinely stationed there. The added advantage is this airfield is kind of the middle of nowhere, so we didn't have the normal collateral damage concerns of civilians being damaged as a result of this strike. So, I think there's a benefit in term of proportionality, although they can talk about proportionality and whether that makes since here and what we think might happen later. But we went against chemical weapons capabilities, where they were when they launched the attack and we limited to a very narrow type of focus.", "General Hertling, I can we have new video we're about to show everyone. This is Russian state TV showing, they say, the aftermath of this missile strike. So, it sure looks like damage was done. General Hertling, we had lots of lawmakers on yesterday before they knew the president would be doing this saying, it would be very simple. You just take out the runways and thereby debilitate the air force. It sounds like it went a little further than that.", "Well, no, I think you're going to see any kind of strike against an airfield not only cratering the runway, which is important, but also going after, in this case, hardened facilities. You want to make sure that this airport, this airfield cannot be used again. So, they did crater the runways, they did the strike the aircraft targets. They did strike the refueling facilities. When you're talking about 59 Tomahawks in the air, Alisyn, you're going to go after multiple targets with each missile -- I'm sorry, single targets with multiple missiles. So, you're going to hit those facilities two or three times in an attempt to make sure they're not used again. If there are aircraft underneath, you want to break through the top of those. I've seen many of these in combats where there's a hole right in the top of the hardened facility, and then a second missile goes in and perhaps destroys an aircraft. But as Spider will tell you, we're pretty sure there was probably not a lot of aircraft there that Assad would have moved those in anticipation of these strikes. But this was a very bold tactical retaliatory strike. If we listen to what both H.R. McMaster and Secretary Tillerson are saying, this is not part of a campaign plan, not a part of a strategic objective, but a one-time strike to send a message. And I would suggest that that message knot only physical in terms of the damage of an airfield where chemical strikes emanated from, but also very strong political, we're seeing the result of that from many nations this morning to include NATO, which Secretary Mattis told about the strike beforehand, but also psychiatric logical. This is a game changer. People are saying what is going to happen next, even though both McMaster and Tillerson said nothing is going to happen next. We have done the strike we wanted to do to retaliate against this chemical weapons attack in Idlib.", "Right. But, you know, NATO and allied countries liking it doesn't mean it was authorized by the U.N. Security Council, which it wasn't, and doesn't mean it's going to qualify legally in the United States as retaliatory because this was done by President Trump in what he called self-defense. David Gregory, that's going to be an interesting legal discussion, but at the end of the day, Congress allowed the president to do it and that takes us to the politics of it. It seemed the biggest resistance to this would have been Trump's pre-existing position.", "Right.", "There are tons of tweet toes look at back in 2013. The time marker of another and more horrible chemical attack, if even imaginable to people right now, the numbers much huger. Then, citizen Trump said to President Obama, don't go in, it's not worth it. And he was saying the same thing now, Tillerson. Haley saying Assad is for Syria to deal with, and then in the span of 24 hours, everything changed.", "You know, and President Trump who right out of the gate blamed President Obama's inaction in 2013 for emboldening Assad and the Syrian regime, had his own hand in emboldening him just in the past few days by saying there was no reason to displace him from power from the United States perspective. Those comments from Secretary Tillerson. Well, now, looking at these strikes from within the Oval Office was different from outside the oval office and the populist America first president has now decided that he wants to be the moral leader astride the world stage. But it's still a question of what the end game is here. I don't think we can say with any certainty that this strike, yes, it might have gotten everybody's attention, does it really degrade Syria's ability to deliver another chemical weapons strike? And, by the way, why were the chemical weapons still there? I thought there was a big agreement to get them out of the country. What happened with that? And was this is a prelude, as the generals were saying, was this one- time strike? Look, Syria, other countries in the Middle East, we've been at war here since 2001. I think people understand the United States is not going to commit ground forces to try to affect regime change. And all that would require in the middle of a six-year civil war. So, what is the objective ultimately? To degrade the use of chemical weapons, topple Assad? One thing that is clear this morning is now there is more of a collision course between President Trump and President Putin. What's the ask? What's the demand of Russia when it comes to reining in Assad or trying to move him out politically? These are now the questions that we move forward with.", "Phil, how do you see it?", "I think you've got to look at a couple pieces on the chess board. Look at the options the president had. He chose a narrow option against one airfield. You've got to believe there are a couple of other options on the table and some of the news reports out of Mar-a-Lago indicate that. One of them would have been a broader airstrike against the air capability in Syria, other airfields, to prevent the Syrian air force from attacking civilians. Note that he did not -- that is the president did not authorize evidently any attacks against regime targets, for example, presidential palaces. So, you have a message that was clearly sent against a narrow set of targets. Meanwhile, the comments by the Russian foreign minister, I would say, fairly restrained in advance of Secretary Tillerson's visit next week. So to pick up on David Gregory's point, the president didn't go after regime change. He went after a specific message on chemical weapons. I have to believe the talking points for Secretary Tillerson are quite forward. They don't have to do with the strike. They have to do with next steps. What are we going to do about Assad? One final point on this: the Russians have paid virtually nothing for their interference in Syria so far, and I do not believe they will see this as a serious price they paid for being there. So, if we believe these strikes will accelerate conversations with the Russians about ousting Assad, I don't think that's true.", "Panel, please stick around. We will rely on you throughout our rolling breaking news coverage. There was swift reaction from Assad to the U.S. strikes. We will tell you the reactions from the Middle East and more, next.", "We are following breaking news. The U.S. firing 59 Tomahawk missiles aimed at a Syrian government air base where U.S. officials say that's where the Assad regime took off from and carried out that deadly chemical attack. At least six people are reportedly dead from the strikes. That's coming from Syrian authorities. The Syrian army condemning the U.S. strikes saying America is now a partner of ISIS and other terror organizations. CNN's Muhammad Lila is live in Istanbul, Turkey, with more. What do we know?", "Good morning, Chris. You know, the Syrian army responding in a very predictable way, in a statement they called it part of America's misguided strategy in Syria, pointing out this effectively puts America on the same side as ISIS and al Qaeda who are also trying to topple the Assad regime. Of course, reaction in the region, Saudi Arabia calling this a courageous decision. Turkey saying now is the time to implement a no- fly zone to keep more civilians safe. You know, we can talk about the strategy all we want, what really matters oftentimes is the reality on the ground .how people are reacting to this and whether more people are being put in danger's way. Well, CNN did speak to an activist recently. This was an activist that was actually at that site of the alleged chemical attack who was helping document it. He pointed out that the opposition activists on the ground were surprised at the airstrikes. They were happy at the airstrikes, but now they are also afraid. And that is because they don't know how the Syrian government and the Syrian army is going to respond. For example, will they retaliate in a major way against these opposition groups on the ground in response to the Trump airstrike and that's what people are afraid of over the next 24 to 48 hours.", "Thank you very much for reporting from the ground there. Let's bring back our panel to discuss. We have David Gregory, Phil Mudd, Lieutenant General Mark Hertling, and retired Major General Spider Marks. David, we've heard after the strikes from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who has basically used the strongest language against Russia that we have heard thus far in this admin vacation. Let me play that for everyone.", "There is no doubt in our minds and the information we have that supports that Syria, the Syrian regime under the leadership of President Bashar al Assad are responsible for this attack. And I think, further, it is very important that the Russian government consider carefully their continued support for the Assad regime. Assad's role in the future is uncertain clearly. And with the acts that he has taken, it would seem that there would be no role for him to govern the Syrian people.", "My mistake, I think that was just before the strikes. But how do you interpret that, David?", "Well, I think it's interesting on a couple of levels. First of all, the secretary of state has been largely missing in action thus far in this administration. Now, he is about to get on the world stage in a big way in this meeting they'll have next week in Russia. Tillerson, as you recall, knows Vladimir Putin well from his time at ExxonMobil. And one of the things I've picked up from Tillerson talking to him over the years is that his criticism, Tillerson's criticism of President Obama was that he didn't know how to deal with Putin from a position of strength. He says and believes, Tillerson does, that Putin really responds to strength and to power. Well, here is a big change in the dynamic. You know, after threats and a red line from President Obama, this administration wants to look very different by comparison. A condemnation of this strike now by President Trump, his own line, red line, and then immediate action followed up by Tillerson, who I think is going to then initiate pretty muscular diplomacy against Russia, which is let's get rid of these chemical weapons, at least, but as you heard him say there, we've got to talk about the future of Assad and whether the U.S. can pressure Russia now to get Assad to move out. Lots of questions about the consequences of that, but that's the diplomatic that I'll be watching for.", "And, also, Phil Mudd, we saw that the Trump move already scored a win, not just by taking out the air base, according to the pictures and reports, but by getting Russia to stand down. They did not do anything to stop these missiles as they came screaming in from the Mediterranean. So that is a show of strength and a leverage win. How does that play into this dynamic? We know what Tillerson just said. We know his counterpart Lavrov called this an act of aggression by the United States and that it had a contrived pretext.", "Boy, in America this morning on Friday morning, we're going to take this as a huge move. I do not think it is, Chris. The Russians are better at the art of long view than the Americans. Let me tell you why I think this is just a first move on a chess board that I don't think is significant unless there are further moves. The Russians have been at this for years. We have fewer than five minutes of air strikes on one airfield. If I'm Vladimir Putin, in this tough world, I'm saying, if that's the price I've got to pay for a foothold in Syria, not a big price. There are other questions the Russians will ask. Will you initiate no-fly zones for Syrian civilians? Will you strike other targets including other air force targets and regime targets? Will you commit to changing the Assad regime and try to bring in other players, for example, the Turks and the Iraqis to change the regime? I'm going to bet that the Russians look at us and say, the Americans are short-term. They staged some relatively small strikes against one airfield, but they don't want in this game after what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq and if the Russians gamble that we will once again step away. Interesting step for Friday. I don't think it's a huge step for the future unless we toll up.", "Can I add let's not forget is. ISIS s going to be happy about this air strike. We know the opposition groups are going to be happy that the United States is finally getting involved. Russia and Trump are going to agree that they want to take out ISIS. You just had this attack in St. Petersburg last week. To Phil's point, Putin gets up in the morning and thinks about his Muslim enemies, in his mind, the terrorists in his midst who want to undermine his own regime. That's one of the reasons why he supports Assad. He doesn't want to give any room to ISIS and I think that's part of the chess game.", "Spider, do you agree this is just the first move in the chess game?", "I think it's the first move to the United States. I am a little more sanguine what the United States will -- has established a plan that has a sequence or a series of options that are available.", "And what does that look like? What would happen next?", "Well, at least we've opened the door in terms of conducting military operations in Syria. We've not gone that before, except at a very, very small level. Significantly, we have, obviously, Special Forces doing very precise targeting and we have an artillery capability so that we can support the resistance forces with precise fires. But then we can go back across the bothered into Turkey. So, this opens the door for us to continue to poke away significantly at Assad. I think the long game is, the United States does want a regime change. We're just not going to do that in the short-term. I totally agree with Phil. We're novices at trying to get beyond the length of our nose, but I think this opens the door and I'm optimistic that we have some additional capabilities, certainly, and options certainly that have been reversed that we can use.", "General Hertling, I want you to take on something that Spider was saying earlier, that it's a very different time now than it was in 2013 because by comparison, if you wanted a chemical attack to act on, that was the one. You had over a thousand people by most counts killed, but Congress wasn't willing then. Yes, Rand Paul and others are saying, hey, this is illegal, what President Trump just did. This overshoots his Article 2 constitutional authority. And that's a legitimate question to be had. But they didn't block him and it is a different time now than it was then right on the heels of getting out of Afghanistan and what had happened in Iraq. The next step has to include some kind of interchange with Congress, doesn't it? And how do you think that goes for this president?", "Yes, well, I'm not a great legal mind, Chris. You probably have a whole lot more information on this than I do. But I do know there are a couple of things -- I don't believe that Mr. Trump can use the AUMF that was cited against terror -- use of military force that was designed in 2001 to fight terrorists as part of Mr. Bush's plan. He could use, however, there's a very obscure -- I think it's 1923 or 1925 act against chemical weapons that all nations were signatories to after the great World War I where chemical weapons were used in mass."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "CAMEROTA", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "RYAN BROWNE, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY REPORTER", "CUOMO", "ATHENA JONES, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "JONES", "CAMEROTA", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CUOMO", "MAJOR. JAMES \"SPIDER\" MARKS, ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER, ACADEMY SECURITIES", "CAMEROTA", "LT. GEN. 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{"id": "CNN-237263", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-08-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/23/cnr.04.html", "summary": "The Hunt for Foley's Executioner", "utt": ["Now to the growing threat from the ISIS terror group. The U.S. plans to counter it. U.S. officials are telling CNN that military leaders are discussing the possibility of launching airstrikes on ISIS. Not only in Iraq now, but also in Syria. We're covering all the angles of this developing story. I want to start with Nick Paton Walsh. He is in London. Nick, it appears the execution of American journalist James Foley may have been a turning point for President Obama. The White House now calling for his beheading a terror attack on the U.S. and every American. What are you learning there in London about the hunt for Foley's executioners since he had a British accent?", "A very distinctive one, possibly even from London, too, if you watched that video, the black clad man behind Jim Foley who subsequently decapitates him. A very gruesome video indeed. But we understand British Security Services, they're going to focus on two or three things. There's the voice, of course, that accent. You may be able to match that with voice recognition software, the phone calls you may have tapped between Syria or Turkey and the United Kingdom. There, his eyes, quite high definition video, they could give something away, a lot of retinal scans done and also biometric possible that could be helpful in working out who he is and of course his physical build, too. A lot of speculation in the British media, trying potentially to match people who have been known to have gone to Syria to pursue jihad, maybe with the figure of this man in the video. I should point out, too, the British Security officials have been saying for a while now, at least 500 Britons have gone to Syria to pursue jihad. Some have come back, some haven't. The key question is what do you do if you establish his identity? We know they're holding still another American journalist. Do you try and capture or kill this man? Do you approach his family? What consequences could that move have for the hostages still held in Syria or Iraq -- Ana.", "Nick, I'm wondering if you've heard anything there about a possible, you know, combined response with the U.S. and Europe since we know that the U.S. is considering options in terms of trying to get to ISIS and take out this terror group as it continues to spread and take over more territory.", "Well, Europeans perhaps have been discussing at length that non-lethal equipment they want to give for the Syrian more moderate opposition. That's part of the response against ISIS because idea is you have from the Syrian civil war they equipped an army that you're happy with to win and take over territory you push ISIS out from. The key thing U.S. officials are suggesting now is maybe they would hit ISIS inside Syria. That's vitally important because you can bash them as hard as you like inside Syria, they would simply retreat to kind of avoid the abyss that is northern Syria right now where they have a lot of territory that they control and then re-group there, moving back in. It has to be an all-out comprehensive approach, U.S. officials say, and you have to bear in mind, too, you know, many argue that in fact Washington sees ISIS as being extraordinarily bad threat for some time. They've known U.S. domestic opinion hasn't really wanted to get involved in military action in the Middle East. Perhaps Jim Foley's gruesome execution is a turning point where in fact they can say look, this is happening to Americans now. This is a threat we have to deal with and therefore make it easier for Americans to stomach the idea of another intervention in the Middle East -- Ana.", "Right. With the idea to direct threat now. Nick Paton Walsh, thank you. Up next, we'll meet a man who felt compelled to join the rally in Ferguson. He takes to the streets every night. Not to loot, not to riot, but to care for the protesters and he brings them pizza."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "WALSH", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-333572", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-02-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/24/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Delta Airlines and Other Companies Severe Ties with NRA; 911 Calls Involving Florida School Shooter Released; President Trump Suggests Arming Teachers as Measure to Stop School Shootings", "utt": ["It's 10:00 on a Saturday. So glad to have you with us. I'm Christi Paul.", "I'm Victor Blackwell. CNN Newsroom begins right now. And Delta Airlines is the latest company to cut ties with the NRA. They will no longer offer fare discounts for NRA members.", "They're joining a growing list of companies severing ties with the gun rights groups as the #boycottnra seems to be gaining some traction on Twitter.", "CNN correspondent Polo Sandoval is live in New York with more. Polo?", "Hey, Christi and Victor. Well, Delta now certainly the latest major America company to add itself to the list of companies that are choosing to severe ties with the National Rifle Association. The major U.S. airline taking to Twitter just a little while ago to make its announcement public. I want to show you that tweet that was posted by Delta Airlines, an Atlanta based airline, a little while ago here, saying, quote, \"Delta is reaching out to the NRA to let them know that we will be ending their contract for discounted rates through our group travel program. We'll be requesting the NRA remove our information from their website.\" Delta one of several major companies that has offered some of the NRA members certain discounts here. You saw -- you put up that graphic a little while ago. I want to put that up for you once again so you can see that list. It has been growing for the last 24 hours. Rental car companies, Enterprise holdings, Hertz, Avis, and Budget, also First National Bank of Omaha saying that, quote, \"Customer feedback prompted them to not renew their contract with the NRA.\" And they also would no longer be issuing its NRA visa card. What is interesting though is that no details that we've been able to find both online or on social media from these companies that actually specify why they decided to do this. Of course, you really look back at the last several days here and that growing backlash with the list of these companies that was posted on Facebook and Twitter by some of these -- by certain activists that they were pushing for the boycotting of the companies. So that certainly could be a potential factor, and also these companies have not said when they decided to do this. But we also have seen that #boycottnra statement that has been circulating on social media. So this is certainly goes to show you at least in the world of politics and business, Victor and Christi, these companies are certainly going with the business side at least for now as this gun deep continues to rage on.", "No doubt about it. And then just a note here, we have reached out to both Delta and to the NRA, have not yet heard back from them regarding a statement for this. But Polo Sandoval, we appreciate it. Thank you so much.", "Not a problem.", "And just in to CNN, Broward County sheriff's office now confirms they are investigating the claims that three additional deputies waited outside the -- while the students, rather, were gunned down I inside.", "I want to get right over to Kaylee Hartung who is live in Parkland, Florida. What are you hearing there, Kaylee?", "Well, Christi and Victor, first we were hearing that the Broward County sheriff was sick to his stomach when he saw surveillance video that showed one of his deputies, the man, the dedicated school resource officer at Stoneman Douglas stand outside the 1200 building for upwards of four minutes while that gunman was inside attacking students and teachers. But now we know it appears he wasn't the only one. Coral Springs sources now telling us that when their officers arrived on the scene, they saw three additional Broward County deputies outside that school building taking up a defensive position with their guns drawn behind their cars. This means four men were in place that day who could have entered that building had they chosen to do so. This news disturbing to so many here in this community, but it's among the list of items we have of concerning red flags as we learn more about the killer. We've now obtained with the help of our affiliate WPTV 911 calls. Let me take you back to last November. The killer's mother had just died. He moved in with family friends. He got into an altercation one day with the son of this family and he left the home. What followed, two 911 calls, one from the mother of that family, another from the killer himself. Take a listen.", "911 emergency, how can I help you.", "Yes, there was a fight in my house with a kid and my son.", "OK.", "Punching him, and that's when he left the house, but I need somebody here because I'm afraid he comes back and he has a lot of weapons.", "What kind of weapons, ma'am?", "Let me ask my son. What kind of weapons did he get? That he's going to get?", "A Remington.", "A Remington.", "OK, and who did this?", "Nikolas Cruz. It's not the first time he's pointed a gun at somebody's head.", "911 emergency.", "Hi. I was just assaulted now. Someone attacked me. I don't know where I am. I'm new in the area. He said he was going to gut me if I came back. The thing is I lost my mother a couple weeks ago, so like, I'm dealing with a bunch of things right now. A kid came at me and threw me on the ground. And he started attacking me and he kicked me out of the house.", "There you hear the instability in the killer's voice. And for the first time we're hearing him describe his mental state after one of those emotional outbursts that we have learned he was prone to having. And Victor and Christi, I should mention our sources say as Broward County investigates the work of their deputies last Wednesday, a report will likely be forthcoming next week.", "All right, Kaylee Hartung for us in Parkland, thank you.", "We want to talk about this with CNN contributor and law enforcement expert Cedric Alexander now. Cedric, good to see you. Thank you for being here. What is your first reaction when you hear this report that a total of four deputies stood outside, guns drawn, three of them at least behind their vehicles instead of going into the school as these children were being shot?", "Yes, certainly that's very concerning for all of us in the law enforcement community. I think one of the best things that could happen right now for Broward county sheriff's office is that they can have a complete investigation. There's going to be tons of video that's going to show where officers were during the time of this event. Also, who went in, who did not go in. Clearly there's evidence coming from Coral Springs who themselves are reporting that Broward deputies did not follow them in during the time of the shooting. So this is of grave concern for us. But I think in all fairness, as you always hear me say, is I think there has to be a complete 360 degree investigation as to who was where and where were they located during the time of these shots. What's important here is that as communities try to continue to have a sense of confidence about their local police, officers that did go in did a tremendous job when they got there. The issue is here those that stood outside who reportedly have not done anything. The other thing I would suggest to Sheriff Israel is that he conduct an external -- he has an external group come in, whether it's from the Florida department of law enforcement or some other agency that comes in and can do an independent investigation to make some determination as to what happened with his men and women who may have failed to go inside when that shooting was going on, which was tragic.", "Cedric, part of the conversation this weekend about how to move forward to protect students is the proposal from the president of arming some teachers in schools. He says 10 to 20 percent who will be trained. What is your view of that proposal?", "I don't think it's a good idea to train teachers to carry weapons inside a school. I think there's a lot of other things that can be considered. And these knee jerk reactions just does not work in any kind of way. There has -- we all have to sit down. There has to be some assessment. Each school, each community is very different. The size of the school, the construction of the school is going to make a difference. And if we can somehow across this country take a real look as how do we best hearten that target, and considering the fact middle school sits in the middle of schools, they have a lot of entrances and exits. It's going to take a lot of money and a lot of resources to fortify these schools in a way in which we're talking about. But how can we do that in a very practical way? And at the same time what I think is really going to be important, Victor, is that we add school resource officers, post certified police officers who are assigned to these schools and who are there to help protect, not just educate and regain relationship with those kids in the school but really protect those children because we live in a very different time. And I hate to say this but this is not going to be the last of shootings in this country, because we've seen them in movie theaters and malls, the west side of highway of New York City, and we see them in our schools unfortunately. As long as we have guns, that threat is always going to be there. But we have to protect our children, and what happened on February 14th we got to make sure never happens again in the history of this nation. We just can't do it any longer.", "I want to get back real quickly to the four officers that did not rush into that building, because in all fairness, we have not heard from them. There's been no explanation as to why they didn't go in there. Based on your law enforcement expertise, is there any instance that you can think of in a situation like that where it would be protocol to not rush into the building?", "Look, you know, ever since the shooting back in 1999 at Columbine, and you heard it a number of times here on your show, is that one thing that we've learned, first officers to respond were to enter into the building if there are shots being fired if we know that someone is inside armed. There is no exception to it. Whether I get there first by myself or if I get there with two or three other officers at the same time, we're not waiting on anyone because what we have to do is get inside, attempt to locate that threat, take their attention of those that who are innocent and unarmed and focus their attention to us. Is it going to be a nasty gun battle if we have service weapons that might be nine millimeters or 45 handguns going up against assault rifles, it very well may be. But that's what we signed up for. Certainly we want to be safe. But there are some times in your career, and this is one of them, where you're going to have to go in and confront that threat and you're going to have to do whatever it takes to protect those who can't protect themselves. And there is some indication that that did not happen and that certainly needs to be investigated.", "OK. I just have a yes or no for you here. Based on everything that you just said, do you believe that there could be charges brought against or some sort of consequence for these officers or these deputies if they did in fact fracture their protocol?", "Well, that's going to certainly be left entirely up to that local sheriff's office there. And that's going to be based on their policy. That's going to be based on what is determined by the state attorney's office there if any criminal charges could be brought. I think that's a stretch, quite frankly. But I think within the policy of the agency there may be some things that they may be able to reprimand those officers.", "All right, Cedric Alexander, appreciate your perspective as always, sir. Thank you.", "Thank you for having me.", "While Stoneman Douglas students are prepared to head back to school next week, lawmakers will return to Capitol Hill.", "And Democratic Congressman John Garamendi told me what he is hoping happens from this point forward.", "And we also need to appropriate the money to get things done. In the president's budget he proposes to eliminate a program in the Department of Justice that would create safe schools. We're not going to let that happen. We actually should increase that. We also should be able to provide money for those programs that actually work in the schools to identify potential problems amongst the students and to work with those students making a safe school. I don't like the idea of arming teachers. It seems to me that is not going to be particularly helpful and creates a whole other series of problems.", "And we'll get more on that gun conversation throughout the morning. But also the other big story we're following this weekend, the third Trump campaign official now has flipped in the Russia probe. The latest is Rick Gates, deputy chairman of the Trump campaign. What does this mean for Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort? We'll talk about that.", "Also, we have new reporting that the White House knew a couple weeks ago that the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was facing major issues regarding his ability to get a White House security clearance."], "speaker": ["CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PAUL", "SANDOVAL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "KAYLEE HARTUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "NICOLAS CRUZ", "HARTUNG", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "CEDRIC ALEXANDER, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BLACKWELL", "ALEXANDER", "PAUL", "ALEXANDER", "PAUL", "ALEXANDER", "PAUL", "ALEXANDER", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "REP. JOHN GARAMENDI, (D) CALIFORNIA", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "NPR-2886", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2018-09-19", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/09/19/649432674/spocks-fictional-home-planet-discovered", "title": "Spock's Fictional Home Planet Discovered", "summary": "Gene Roddenberry once declared that if Spock's fictional home planet Vulcan did exist, it would probably orbit the star called 40 Eridani A. Astronomers have now found this star does have a planet.", "utt": ["Good morning. I'm Rachel Martin. The creator of \"Star Trek,\" Gene Roddenberry, once declared that if Spock's fictional home planet Vulcan did exist, it'd probably orbit the star called 40 Eridani A. According to Science Magazine, astronomers have now found that this dwarf star does indeed have a planet. It's eight times the mass of Earth, which probably means it has too much gravity to support any life. Of course, Spock himself said men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see. It's MORNING EDITION."], "speaker": ["RACHEL MARTIN, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-280531", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-04-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/04/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Controversial Europe/Turkey Refuge Plan Begins.", "utt": ["Taking a live look here in Wisconsin. We see a group of people crowding Superior, Wisconsin, the site of the rally for Donald Trump. Any moment now we expect him to walk up to the podium. Of course, we will take that live. In the meantime, there is fresh controversy in Europe over a controversial relocation plan for migrants. The first wave included hundreds of people. All part of a plan worked out between the European Union and Turkey, and it's aimed at reducing the influx of illegal immigrants, migrants, in Greece. CNN international correspondent, Phil black, is at the Turkish port where the migrants were today.", "We watched as each of the three vessels pulled up to a wharf and end this disembarked the migrants. 202 in all. Each one escorted individually by a European official and then handed over to a Turkish official on this side before being taken ashore, being identified, fingerprints taken, going through a process of registration. 202 in all, most from Pakistan, some from Afghanistan. Two Syrians, we are told. Those from Afghanistan and other countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, their future here is less certain. They will be sent to detention centers. Then cases individually assessed. And they could be sent back to their country of origin. For the Syrian, they will be allowed to stay here. As Turkey says, it's policy when dealing with people fleeing the Syrian conflicts. There are 2.7 million Syrians in this country. This deal, they say, is necessary because of the backlog created in Greece. As individual European countries shut off their borders to migrants, it's created a backlog in Greek camps where there are now around 50,000 people waiting desperately not really knowing what their next step will be. The hope is that this relocation plan will take away some of that burden from Greece but also send out a very clear message. Don't come. Don't risk your life crossing the sea to try and get to Europe. This is not a popular plan with human rights activists who say that Greece doesn't have the resources to assess all the refugee claims for asylum among the people that are already there. And they're also not happy with them being sent back to Turkey. Groups like Amnesty International say Turkey is becoming an increasingly intolerant place for Syrian refugees. Turkey insists it will do all it can to help the people seeking refuge and help those, especially those fleeing the Syrian conflict. Phil Black, CNN, Dikili, Turkey.", "Any minute now, Ted Cruz will step out on to the stage at a dueling rally in Wisconsin. It is a dueling rally and, of course, against his fiercest rival, Donald Trump. CNN's Sunlen Serfaty is there. Sunlen, what are we expecting to hear?", "Hey, Pamela. We're here at the Cheese Castle in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where we expect Senator Cruz to arrive any moment. Probably sample some cheese and speak to supporters who are here to see him. But it's been interesting to see how much confidence Senator Cruz has really been projecting as he campaigned here in Wisconsin. Earlier this morning, in Madison, he predicted an outright win tomorrow night in the primary. Saying right now it's an all hands on deck situation. Not necessarily all about the win but making sure they win as many delegates as possible. Certainly as he campaigns here, it's been interesting, really try to cast this as a defining moment. Telling voters point blank this is essentially a turning point and the message they send here tomorrow night to voters will really resonate across the country. So, trying to turn this into not only a collection of delegates but a collection of momentum. Also Senator Cruz, in addition to targeting Trump, has really been going after John Kasich. This is an interesting shift in strategy we've seen from their campaign. Releasing their first negative TV ad against John Kasich over the weekend running here in Wisconsin. Certainly, a concern at some level from the Cruz campaign. Also arguing that John Kasich certainly does not deserve to be on that ballot if this goes through a contested convention -- Pam?", "Sunlen, thank you very much. We'll check back in with you Wisconsin. Coming up, things are getting pretty nasty on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders looking to keep momentum on his side with a big win in Wisconsin. But storm clouds already forming over the battle for New York and the prospect for a debate in the heart of Brooklyn. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["BROWN", "PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BROWN", "SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BROWN"]}
{"id": "CNN-279300", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-03-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/18/nday.01.html", "summary": "Republican Party in Turmoil to Stop Trump; Obama Aims to Stop Trump, Protect Legacy; Obama Lashes Out at Senate GOP Over Nominee Fight; North Korea Launches Ballistic Missiles.", "utt": ["I don't think you can say that we don't get it. I think you'd have riots.", "There is time to still prevent a Trump nomination.", "His campaign's based on xenophobia, race-baiting and religious bigotry.", "You would have problems like you've never seen before.", "This is more likely to become an open convention than we thought.", "Now that we are in the west, the climate is a little bit friendlier for us.", "I think we've done a really good job. Those who say we haven't are not paying attention.", "Mr. Trump will not be president. I have a lot of faith in the American people.", "We want clean water! Now!", "We want clean water! Now!", "We want clean water! Now!", "You need to resign.", "I kick myself every single day about what I could have done to do more.", "I've had about enough of your false contrition and phony apologies.", "This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Alisyn Camerota and Michaela Pereira.", "Good morning. Welcome to your", "It's Friday.", "Oh, yes. We've got the big TGIFs working here on NEW DAY. It is March 18, 6 a.m. in the East. So this morning we have another shocker in the election. Not only are GOP party officials talking about an open convention, but now a third-party threat is real. Conservative leaders of the GOP calling for a unity ticket, readying for a convention to stop Donald Trump. Trump not backing down from his warning right here on NEW DAY that there could be riots if he's denied the nomination.", "Meanwhile, Senator Lindsey Graham, a one-time rival and fierce critic of Ted Cruz, is now backing Ted Cruz. This as Senator Marco Rubio says he's leaving politics and will not be anybody's running mate. And a new report says that President Obama plans to take on Trump in an effort to stop him and to protect his own legacy. So we have all of these angles covered the way only CNN can. Let's begin our coverage with CNN's Phil Mattingly. Hi, Phil.", "Hi, Alisyn. Well, Donald Trump wasn't even out on the campaign trail yesterday. But he was about the only person anyone in the GOP was talking about across the party. In public and in private, top officials huddling to try to answer the question that has befuddled them for months: How on earth do you stop Trump's roll to the nomination?", "I don't think you can say that we don't get it automatically. I think it would be -- I think you'd have riots.", "The GOP upping the pressure on Donald Trump two days after the front-runner's interview on CNN's NEW DAY, where he warned that riots could erupt if he is denied the Republican nomination after securing the most delegates.", "Nobody should say such things in my opinion, because to even address or hint at violence is unacceptable.", "Top conservatives meeting privately in Washington on Thursday, plotting any way to block Trump's path to the nomination, raising the possibility of a third-party option.", "It's not going to be me. It should be somebody running for president.", "House Speaker Paul Ryan again rejecting talk that he could become the Republican nominee through a contested convention. Trump hitting back at his opponents in his own way, taking to his free attack ad platforms of choice, social media, with a series of posts aimed at Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton. And Trump's fiercest one-time rival, Marco Rubio...", "Hopefully, there's time to still, you know, prevent a Trump nomination.", "... speaking out for the first time after his bruising loss in Florida...", "I'm not going to be anybody's vice president. I'm not -- I'm just not going to -- I'm just not interested in being vice president.", "... saying he's done with politics.", "I'm going to finish out my term in the Senate, and then I'll be a private citizen in January.", "And a surprise endorsement for Ted Cruz from South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham after months of colorful digs.", "If you're Republican and your choice is Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in a general election, it's the difference between poisoned or shot. You're still dead.", "Now telling CNN's Dana Bash he's raising money for the Cruz campaign.", "I think the best alternative to Donald Trump to stop him from getting to 1,237 is Ted Cruz. And I'm going to help Ted in every way I can.", "Now anyone who has paid attention to or been in the middle of the Lindsey Graham versus Ted Cruz battles over the past couple of years can tell you those are about the last words you ever thought you'd hear out of Senator Graham's mouth. But on some level, it really underscores the desperation the party leaders are feeling right now. The kind of desperation that can lead to some odd bedfellows. The question remains: to what effect? You talk to Republican operatives involved in these efforts, and consistently, guys, you hear one big fear: is it already too late?", "Great question.", "It really is. Indeed. All right, Phil. Thank you. President Obama is apparently ready to go full throttle on Donald Trump. The president is planning to hit the campaign trail in an effort to stop the GOP front-runner and protect his own legacy. CNN's Athena Jones live at the White House with more -- Athena.", "Good morning, Michaela. That's right. whiteA White House official tells me we're going to see a whole lot of President Obama on the campaign trail, talking about what he feels is at stake in this election and also talking about the tone of the race so far. Take a listen to what he had to say earlier this week on Capitol Hill.", "The longer that we allow the political rhetoric of late to continue and the longer that we tacitly accept it, we create a permission structure that allows the animosity in one corner of our politics to infect our broader society. And animosity breeds animosity.", "So that's a clear reference to some of the rhetoric we're hearing on the Republican side. But of course, when it comes to presidential politics, each party thinks a victory by the other party spells doom. But when it concerns this White House, they're talking about trying to protect the president's legacy. Not just things like the Affordable Care Act, which Republicans have voted some 60 times to repeal. But also things like the Iran deal, the opening to Cuba where he's traveling this weekend. Things like the environmental regulations, financial regulations. And the White House and the Democratic National Committee feel that the president is going to be an excellent spokesperson for protecting his legacy. They also hope that he can rev up Democratic voters, drive more of them to the polls. We've been seeing from some of the early voting in these states that Democratic enthusiasm is lower than Republican enthusiasm. And so the hope is that having the president out on the campaign trail will help Democrats keep the White House but also retake the Senate and make some progress in the House -- Chris.", "All right. Let's discuss, shall we? Let's bring in CNN political commentator and political anchor at Time Warner Cable News, Errol Louis; and CNN political commentator and senior contributor to \"The Daily Caller,\" Matt Lewis. No relation. Matt, let's start with you. Your party, my brother, it's hurting. What's going on now? Not only open convention, but we may need a third party is what we're hearing. How real is that, and how would it work?", "Well, it's a mess. And the problem Republicans are in right now, of course, is if Donald Trump loses the general election, Republicans lose. If Donald Trump wins the general election, Republican -- it's really a no-win situation if you're a Republican. So you're looking for the least bad of several options. I certainly think that the best strategy forward is to try to stop Donald Trump from getting the delegates he needs to clinch the nomination and then have some sort of a unity ticket with Ted Cruz and Kasich or something else to try to have an alternative that would be palatable to at least most of the Republican base. But I think you have to have a contingency plan. You have to have a plan to maybe have a third party, to sort of have a government in waiting to keep mainstream conservatism alive, should Donald Trump end up becoming the nominee.", "So Errol, yesterday there was this closed-door meeting in Washington, D.C., among prominent conservatives. Erick Erickson, radio talk show host, put out a statement afterwards where they were trying to strategize and figure out what to do to stop Trump. Here's the statement: \"We believe that the issue of Donald Trump is greater than an issue of party. It is an issue of morals and character that all Americans, not just those of us in the conservative movement, must confront. We call for a unity ticket that unites the Republican Party. They were unclear about who's on that ticket. What does this mean?", "Well, I mean, it's an interesting prospect. We went -- when somebody like Erick Erickson, who has been anti-Trump, really, on principal for months now.", "But he doesn't think that he's a conservative.", "Well, exactly. And he -- what he has -- what he has said is that, you know, if you look at where conservatives were, say, in 1964, when they got wiped out with Barry Goldwater as the nominee, it starts this long 16-year march to when conservatives finally get the White House with Ronald Reagan. What he's saying is, like, this movement is bigger than any one election. Let's try and salvage what we can. He's also making an interesting point about what happens further down the ballot. As we know, there's some concern that the Republicans with Trump, if he were, say, the nominee, could lose control of the Senate. They could have turmoil down where people are struggling to keep control of different state legislatures. And what Erick Erickson says is, like, look, we've got to have some kind of coherent way to limit the damage if Donald Trump is at the top of the ticket. So on both ideological and practical grounds, there's some logic to all of this stuff. And it, once again underscores just how fractured the Republican Party is.", "The idea that we are talking about Erick Erickson and Mark Levin are now coming up as these mainstream names in your party, Matt Lewis: \"Well, we've got to listen to what Erick Erickson is saying.\" Usually, you guys run away from these guys as your crazy cousins. Now they're trying to save your party. What is it -- where are the real Republicans that you guys always used to tout to say who the GOP was? All we heard after 2012 about how you learned to be the big tent.", "I would make -- this is inside baseball. But I would make a big distinction between Erick Erickson and Mark Levin.", "It is inside baseball.", "I think...", "Either way, you're dealing with somebody who's a nonconformist, traditionally, for the", "And that shows -- that shows you how -- how out of the mainstream Donald Trump is and the strange bedfellows we've been talking about. But look, I think Mark Levin, in a way, helped create Donald Trump and -- and sort of provided him cover for a long time. Now he's backing away from it. I think Erick Erickson is an example of somebody who I hope could be the future of the conservative movement as a leader. An adult, someone who's sort of up and coming. Because that's what's really been lacking. Rush Limbaugh, I think, could have stepped up early on and taken on Donald Trump and written him out of the movement. And he abdicated that responsibility to do so. I think someone like Erick Erickson in the future could provide that leadership to help police the right and make sure that real conservatives, not populist nationalists like Donald Trump, have control of the movement and the party.", "OK, well, I'll through another name out there, Glenn Beck. He's also gone after Donald Trump. I mean, it is strange bedfellows, in seeing all of these different allegiances. But in terms of real Republicans, I mean, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has also come out and talked about this yesterday. In fact, he made a prediction about what he thinks will happen at the convention. Listen to this.", "This is more likely to become an open convention than we thought before. So we're getting our minds around the idea that this could very well become a reality, and therefore, those of us who are involved in the convention need to respect that.", "Well, he has to. He's the chairman of the convention.", "Right, but...", "He can't be closed to the possibility.", "Good point. But I'm confused by his premise, where he says it's more likely than ever to become an open convention. Is that true? I mean, I think the numbers are heading in Donald Trump's direction. Is it really likely that it is going to be a contested convention?", "Not necessarily. I mean, the numbers may be heading in this direction from sort of a total delegate standpoint. But as we've seen -- and you want to talk about inside baseball -- state by state we've now got, like, the sort of intermediate stage where they actually name -- the actual names of the delegates are being determined. And if you show up at certain meetings and you forget about other meetings, you could actually end up with control of the delegation or with a certain amount of sway with them so that people who come in are not sort of committed, necessarily, to your candidate until the end but are sort of open to this idea that, OK, if there's a second ballot, here's what we're going to do.", "That is inside baseball.", "The intrigue is getting very, very thick. And believe me, I suspect Speaker Ryan is right in the middle of it.", "\"House of Cards,\" this exact scenario plays out in \"House of Cards.\" Those writers must be like, \"Wow, we were making something up that we thought had no chance of every being like...\"", "Sure.", "\"... what's going on in real life.\" The -- the idea of -- something else that we're also hearing a lot, Matt, is that, \"Hey, you know what? We have to be in panic mode, because we want full energy to stop this before it is too late,\" instead of \"already too late.\" Fifty-five percent he needs to get of the remaining delegates. There are a lot of states out there. It really is the halfway point. But it's about momentum. You know, as we say, yes, there's still halfway to go. But his ramp is going down in pitch, and Cruz's and Kasich's is going up. Tougher sledding for them. How realistic do you think it is to stop him from 1,237?", "I think it's a flip of the coin right now. I know that's kind of a cop-out answer, but I really do. Look, as he's sitting, he had about 55 percent of the delegates. When has he ever done that? He really -- he's never done that in the past. Now, I know the field winnows, and so maybe it becomes easier for him to do later in the game. But I -- he is not a majority candidate. He's never been a majority party candidate. He's winning a plurality. And the rules say, if you don't have, you know, 1,237 delegates at the convention, that whoever gets the majority of the delegates becomes the nominee. So I think right now the key is to tamp down on the expectation that, just because you have the most delegates, you automatically become the nominee. That has never been the case. Those are not the rules. And I think we have to follow the rules. And the notion that suggesting that there's going to be rioting if Trump doesn't get his way, I think, is really beyond the pale. That's exactly what he's done.", "All right. Gentlemen, thank you very much for your perspective. Obviously, we'll talk about all of this throughout the program -- Michaela.", "All right. New this morning, President Obama is hitting back at Republican leaders who refuse to meet with Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland, much less vote for him. He told NPR their refusal to consider Garland hurts Americans' faith in government. Our senior political reporter, Manu Raju, is live in Washington with more on this. Hey, Manu.", "Hey, Michaela. Republicans are showing absolutely no willingness to consider this nomination. No hearings, no votes. Not until there's a new president. The one area where there is some division among Republicans: whether to even meet with Merrick Garland. Now, a handful of GOP senators say they will meet with Garland, but they say that doesn't mean there will be any movement on his nomination. Yesterday, I caught up with Senate Judiciary Chairman, Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley. And he had this to say about possibly meeting with President Obama's nominee.", "If I can meet with a dictator in Uganda, I can surely meet with a decent person in America.", "Now, the White House and Senate Democrats have started their first space of a furious public realizes push. And the president plans to be very visible during this fight. He just spoke to NPR and said it was, quote, \"puzzling\" that Republicans say the decision should be left to the voters, even though those voters decided to reelect him in 2012 to a second four-year term. And watch for this intensifying fight to head to battleground states next week when the Senate begins a two-week recess -- Alisyn.", "OK, Manu, thanks so much for all of that. We do have some breaking news to tell you about. This out of North Korea and its response to the latest round of U.S. sanctions. The Pentagon confirming that Pyongyang launched a pair of ballistic missiles off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula today. CNN's Ivan Watson is live in Seoul, South Korea, with all the breaking details -- Ivan.", "Good morning, Alisyn. That's right. The U.S. and its allies, South Korea and Japan, are all denouncing North Korea and its pre-dawn launch of what appeared to have been two medium-range ballistic missiles. Now, one of them dropped off radar at about an altitude of 10 miles. The other one traveled from North Korea deep into the Sea of Japan, a distance of about 500 miles. Why does that terrify Japan? Well, the distance between Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, and the Japanese port city of Hiroshima, that's just under 500 miles. So the U.S. State Department came out with this announcement calling on North Korea \"to refrain from actions that further raise tensions in the region and focus instead on taking concrete steps toward fulfilling its international commitments and obligations.\" But Pyongyang is furious at the U.S. right now and South Korea, because both militaries are conducting annual joint military exercises right now here in South Korea. We got to see them last weekend. South Korea describing them as the largest ever. North Korea claims that this could be a precursor for an invasion into North Korea. And get this: They have threatened preemptive nuclear strikes in response. That's part of why relations here are so tense right now. And the worst that we've seen between North and South Korea in years -- Chris.", "All right. Ivan, appreciate the explanation. We'll check back with you later in the morning. We also have news of a lightning strike the was forcing an American Airlines flight to divert from North Carolina to New York. The 55 passengers, 4 crew members, not hurt.", "So is President Obama ready for his campaign close-up? He is set to hit the trail in an effort to keep a Democrat in the White House and Donald Trump out of the White House. Our panel will discuss that, next."], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE (via phone)", "SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "TRUMP", "REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-138600", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-5-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0905/24/cnr.02.html", "summary": "British Singer Susan Boyle Tries for Semi- Finals", "utt": ["OK, we saved the best for last, and that would be the \"Chat Room.\" Jacqui Jeras in the \"Chat Room\" with me now.", "Hey, hey.", "We got a couple little things to squeeze in.", "I know.", "Susan Boyle -- she's become kind of a household name...", "Yes!", "... even though her star is rising mostly in Britain. But everybody's watching. You know who I'm talking about, right, this young woman here.", "... YouTube.", "Now she's a semi-finalist.", "Yes! Tonight, we find out if she's going to be one of two people in the semi-finals to continue to go on.", "Yes, and word is she may have a new look. Is that good?", "She does. She had a makeover. It was a little bit ago, already.", "Is that all right?", "Well...", "No, I understand that there was going to be another step. We saw kind of her new look immediately after, you know, what we saw on YouTube, and I remember hearing Simon Cowell saying, No, a little too much. He didn't like the brows. It was a little too severe for him.", "Really. Well...", "And apparently, there may be yet another, an encore.", "Well, we can't watch it here in America, obviously, but I'm sure we can find it on the Internet tomorrow.", "Or see it on YouTube.", "So watch with us.", "Go, girl.", "We'll see what happens. Go, Susan.", "She's a great singer.", "Right.", "So we like her.", "And by the way, it's, like...", "... up against other singers. It's not like \"American Idol.\" It's like \"America's Got Talent,\" if you know the difference between those shows.", "Oh, OK.", "But speaking of idols, did you watch?", "I did not watch. I missed it. I think I was under a rock this season. I kind of missed all of it.", "It was a big deal. It was a great show.", "I hate to admit it, but I am.", "Whether you're a fan of either of them or not, it was great entertainment. I mean, they had so many other performers besides the top two.", "OK.", "Adam did this great thing with Kiss. I mean, that's, like, everybody...", "... unless you are really rocking it.", "No, but he was there with Kiss.", "Oh, I see.", "Yes, Gene Simmons and the whole crew.", "Oh, wow.", "Yes, he was there doing the tongue (ph) thing.", "I told you I was living under a rock. I missed it all.", "I mean, imagine that being your dream, not just \"American Idol,\" but then to be able sing with your idol. There was a great one with Cyndy Lauper. And it was just fantastic. Whoever you liked, it didn't really matter. It was just a great show.", "So you're a fan, I guess.", "I like Kris. Adam's probably more my speed.", "OK. And Larry King, a little chat...", "Josh Levs.", "He's weighing in, too!", "Larry King gets to talk with...", "Exactly.", "... one on one with the both of them, I think, Monday at 9:00. So I'll be watching.", "That's good. That's a great plug. Larry is very happy now because we'll all be watching because of you!", "All right.", "Thanks, Jacqui. I appreciate it.", "Sure.", "I'll be tuning in. All right, thanks so much for being in the chat room with us. We're going to talk about something else later on -- not me, but Randi -- a different take on flipping houses. Families who once owned home now renting, and renters are buying at huge discounts. Harsh words, pointing fingers and a little name calling, the rift inside the Republican Party. That's just a bit of what we're covering beginning at 6:00 o'clock Eastern time. \"FAREED ZAKARIA GPS\" begins right now."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD", "JERAS", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-381306", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2019-09-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/24/ip.02.html", "summary": "Chuck Schumer Seeks Vote On Whistleblower's Complaint; Mitt Romney Wants Whistleblower Story, Trump Phone Call Transcript.", "utt": ["Some images from the United Nations, President Trump meeting there with Prime Minister Modi of India. The two leaders also were in the news the other day. In their discussions today, the president said the United States is moving forward on a trade agreement with India. He also talked about his friend Prime Minister Modi. No big news out of that but we want to show you some of the president's meetings as he go through his agenda at the United Nations General Assembly. Back here in Washington, the president's party in the Senate could soon be forced to go on the record about the whistleblower complaint that's igniting new talk of potential impeachment. The Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says he plans to request a vote demanding that information be shared with the relevant congressional committees and that Republicans, Senator Schumer says, have a responsibility here.", "I hope the majority leader and Senate Republicans would not block it. I hope they will rise to the occasion and realize this is their constitutional duty and realize that this involves the security of the United States.", "Most Senate Republicans don't want to talk about this issue. Many say it's not that big of a deal. But at least two have said they'd like to hear more.", "I think it'd be very helpful to get to the bottom of the facts, to follow the law that gets us there. That would include the whistleblower as well as the transcript of the conversation.", "You want the whistleblower complaint to be turned over to Congress?", "I would like to have the whistleblower come and talk to me so we know what his story is. I don't want to hear it secondhand.", "The body language there tells you everything. Mitt Romney, really the only Republican in the Senate to say we need information here, and if true, this is very damaging standing there and taking questions from reporters. Senator Grassley trying to walk away as fast as possible even though he at least goes on the record saying, I would like to hear from the whistleblower.", "And look what happened to Mitt Romney yesterday offered light criticism, I would say, and then Trump tweeted from his account, mocking him. I mean, other Republicans do not want to be on the other end of Trump's Twitter feed. So I think they're trying the same playbook that they've always done which is deflect, accuse Democrats of trying to politicize, call it a witch hunt. And, you know, don't criticize the president but don't defend him either in some cases.", "To that point, let's just show what the president is tweeting an attack on Senator Romney who of course was the Republican nominee in 2012. We won't go into the details here but that tells me that number one, the president doesn't like to be criticized. But he only goes after people when they make him nervous. And so -- now Senator Romney, I was going to call him Governor Romney, apologies. He was governor of Massachusetts beforehand. At least he had the strength and the courage to stand up and say, can we please see this information. The president of the United States may have withheld military aid to put pressure on a foreign leader. Can we see the information?", "That is true.", "But the rest of it is what I call the grand ostrich party where he just wants to put his head in the sand and hope this goes away. And this is not the first time it's happened in the Trump administration but it's happening again.", "That is true, but not all senators have the luxury of Mitt Romney who will be out of office no matter -- or will be in office and not up for re-election until even if President Trump does get a second term. So he has a little bit of freedom and from a state that loves him. That said, yes, the fact that everyone else is sort of running the other way and trying not to weigh in on this is telling. Particularly those who are up for re-election. Ben Sasse, where are you, I seem to remember you actually criticizing the president. But I don't think, though, that what Senator Schumer is doing is going to go anywhere. I'd be -- saying one thing is -- saying what Mitt Romney is saying is different than actually registering a vote with a bunch of Democrats.", "Yes, the only guy who's like about equally as excited as those Republicans were to talk about this is Chuck Schumer. Like he's going to have to -- if the House Democrats do this and pass it over his ways like he's going to have a deal with them, but this is really not the strategy that he would seek out. Because if you're a Democrat like you're running for the Senate on your own merits and your own campaigns. Maybe it's healthcare or whatever these issues, you're going to be running on impeachment now. That's going to be the litmus test that's going to affect everything. If Democrats can position this right, play this right, put this in the right terms and it kind of catches hold in the public opinion shifts as we were talking about earlier, fine, that's another ball game. But --", "And then the question is do we actually see any of this? Do we have more facts? Do we have the whistleblower complaint? Do we have, Mr. President, you could do this in a nanosecond, the transcript of that call. Bill Weld, not taken very seriously as a presidential candidate but he is challenging President Trump in the Republican primaries. I'm old enough to remember former U.S. attorney worked in the Justice Department in the Reagan days actually quit on a matter of the principle. He says this about the president.", "Talk about pressuring a foreign country to interfere with and control a U.S. election, it couldn't be clearer. And that's not just undermining Democratic institutions, that is treason. It's treason pure and simple. And the penalty for treason under the U.S. code is death. That's the only penalty. The penalty on the constitution is removal from office, and that might look like a pretty good alternative to the president if he could work out a plea deal.", "That's pretty", "That's out there.", "But I don't expect many Republicans to follow him down that path. Instead, Republicans want to say, you know, we're sticking with the president, this is a deep state plot to take him out of office. This is just the Democrats doing what they always do, attacking the president. I would not expect any more Republicans to follow.", "And as they make that argument of pointing Hunter Biden, we should remember it was a Trump administration intelligence community official, someone complained to the inspector general appointed by the president of the United States Donald Trump. Trump-appointed IG went to Congress. We'll continue to follow the story. Thanks for joining us on INSIDE POLITICS. Don't go anywhere."], "speaker": ["KING", "SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY)", "KING", "SEN. MITT ROMNEY (R-UT)", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY (R-IA)", "KING", "CAYGLE", "KING", "KUCINICH", "KING", "KING", "TALEV", "KING", "BILL WELD (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "OLORUNNIPA", "KING", "OLORUNNIPA", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-166517", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-5-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/21/cnr.09.html", "summary": "A Rogue's Gallery of Cheaters; Former IMF Head Out on Bail", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone. Thanks for joining us. I'm Don Lemon in Los Angeles. Anyone who's had an unfaithful partner knows it is a wound that never heals. But sometimes adultery goes beyond the immediate people involve. When the cheater is a wealthy or powerful person, the sense of betrayal can be far reaching. Private indiscretions can have very public consequences. Think about Bill Clinton as president. His infidelity with an intern didn't simply affect his family it affected the entire country which was tied up for a year with the investigation and impeachment. So for the next hour here on CNN, in partnership with \"Time\" magazine, we'll take an in depth look at what makes wealthy, powerful men who seem to have it all risk everything for adulterous sex. The latest revelations were bombshells. First, a criminal accusation against the head of the International Monetary Fund by a hotel housekeeper. Dominique Strauss-Kahn has since resigned his post and is out of jail on bond. But even before the ink was dry on that headline, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger publicly admitted fathering a child with his family's housekeeper over a decade ago. And as CNN's Tom Foreman explains, these two men, both very wealthy and politically connected are simply the latest in a crowded rogue's gallery of cheaters.", "Even in the midst of this sex scandal, the former California governor has plenty of company.", "I did not have sexual relations with that woman.", "Ever since President Clinton was caught fooling around 13 years ago, Internet rumors, cameras everywhere, and the public appetite for dirt have outed dozens of public figures for indiscretions. Among Republicans, such scandals have had particular impact. Former House Speaker, now presidential contender Newt Gingrich led the charge against Clinton, but twice had affairs of his own. Senators David Vitter and then Senator John Ensign likewise have defended conservative family values, but Vitter was linked to prostitutes and Ensign cheated on his wife. And when the Governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford was found with his Argentine mistress, not on the Appalachian Trail...", "I -- I have been unfaithful to my wife.", "...his wife suggested he take a hike.", "And I frankly didn't know where he was.", "And it's not as if Republicans have cornered the market on indiscretion.", "Because I did not want the public to know what I had done. Very simple.", "Former vice presidential candidate John Edwards talked to \"Nightline\" about his affair with this woman, Rielle Hunter. She claimed they had a love child, something at first Edwards denied.", "When you were running for president, you flat-out denied having a relationship with Rielle Hunter. Is -- did you give me a truthful answer? Were you telling the truth then?", "Yes.", "He later came clean and his wife, Elizabeth, now deceased, left him and took their kids with her. Other Democrats, former New York Governor, now CNN host Eliot Spitzer paid for escorts. Former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey cheated with another man. But it's not just politics. In sports, quarterbacks Brett Favre and Ben Roethlisberger were accused of, but never charged with misconduct. Tiger Woods went into the rough over extramarital playing partners.", "I was unfaithful. I had affairs.", "And, in entertainment, scandals have enveloped David Letterman, Hugh Grant, George Michael, and Jesse James, just to name a few. (on camera): So, the former California governor can take consolation knowing, as a politician, an athlete and an entertainer, he is not alone. But then, when you think about it, that was the whole problem. Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.", "\"Sex, Lies, Arrogance,\" it's just a headline on the \"Time\" magazine cover. It also reads what makes powerful men act like pigs. We put that question to the author of the feature story, executive editor Nancy Gibbs.", "It is not all men, by any means, but what we have found, all through history is that with opportunity seems to come an inclination to act on it. And the more wealthy and powerful and famous and accomplished men are, the more opportunity they have to misbehave. And what some social scientists have suggested is that the ordinary men who don't have an opportunity develop the muscles of monogamy, of self-restrained and delayed gratification. But if over time you have all this opportunity, all of these women, then those muscles weaken and you end up with men whose success often also makes them feel entitled to take whatever they want and there's -- if it's available, then they are inclined to take it.", "How do you go from being a man in power, being a business person, being confident to what seems like as you have said, entitlement and then really just narcissism, isn't it? Is there another way of putting it?", "Well, you wonder which comes first. Is it that narcissists who have a very high opinion of themselves, that that is an advantage in becoming successful? Or does the success make you think that the world should revolve around you. And maybe that there's a little bit of both. But what we find happening and this happens with celebrities in sports and entertainment, as well as in politics, is that if you're surrounded by people telling you how special you are and who have a personal or a political interested in your success and therefore might be inclined to cover up when you misbehave, that does create yet another set of circumstances for you to take advantage of situations where good judgment would say that you shouldn't.", "Is it the thrill of getting away with it, Nancy? Like, yes!", "For some men, there is an element of that, the excitement that comes with feeling like they are special and the rules don't apply with them. And the more often they turn out to be right, the more often that they're going to cross that line again.", "So why are we having this conversation? It's because of two men. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the now former head of the International Monetary Fund, charged this week with sexual assault. And actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who admitted he fathered a child over a decade ago with a housekeeper. Two men with cases that will yield different results, but both have very similar traits. We'll explore that this hour. Also, Gayle Haggard, the wife of televangelist Ted Haggard. He preached against cheating, then admitted to having a relationship with a man. Gayle Haggard is here, live, to explain why she has stood by her husband. And the big question for many wives and partners, especially after the news of this week, how do you keep your man from cheating on you? We have some advice. And if you have any questions or comments about tonight's subject, write to us on social media. You can reach out to us on Twitter, on Facebook, on CNN.com/Don. You can check in with us on FourSquare.com/DonLemonCNN."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BILL CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "FOREMAN", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-139576", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-6-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0906/19/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Is Feminism Obsolete?; U.S. Boosts Missile Defense", "utt": ["We're back with the \"Most News in the Morning.\" You know, every Friday, Carol touches on a hot button issue that we hope will generate some strong opinions from you. The segment is called, \"Just Sayin'\" ad and this week Carol is pondering the question, is feminism obsolete?", "It's an interesting question, isn't it?", "It is.", "Yes, it's meant to be provocative because I really want to see how you feel about this. It seems every time the media spotlight shines on Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, there is an argument about feminism. Some conservative women were upset that feminists didn't protest loudly when David Letterman initially refused to apologize for his off-colored joke about Palin's daughter. Maybe it's time we examined why? Is it because Sarah Palin is not a feminist? Can Sarah Palin be a feminist? Can any conservative woman be feminist? \"Just Sayin'\" -- what does feminism really mean, anyway?", "It was a tasteless joke about a young girl, one that enraged her mother, Sarah Palin.", "During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.", "Letterman finally said I'm sorry prompting Palin to accept his apology on behalf of young women. End of story, right? Wrong. While some feminist groups like Now stood behind Palin, other women were less charitable. The Daily Beast's Tina Brown writing, \"Someone should pluck the combustible Alaskan away from whatever rancid talk show she's headed for and make her watch what real female power looks like, mainly Hillary Clinton.\" Really? Is that the only kind of female power? Naomi Wolf who writes about feminism doesn't think so. In \"Harper's Bazaar,\" she calls Angelina Jolie the embodiment of female power in liberation. And then there's this --", "I think every woman defines feminism in one way or another. I think that women through the work that they do, through their home lives, through their political beliefs, through their social activism are doing feminist work every day and embodies feminism every day.", "But if every woman has her own definition of what feminism is, what's the point in even using the word. \"Just Sayin'\" -- has the word feminism become obsolete?", "Yes, the original feminism that I partook of in the late '60s has been perverted.", "Mary Matalin says feminism used to be about the freedom to choose the life you wanted, now it's an exclusive club, closed off to women like Sarah Palin.", "No conservative woman would choose to call herself a feminist as it's described by liberals today.", "So if the word is weighed down by such political baggage, why care about being a feminist anymore?", "The truth is I think no matter what word we used, if it meant women's rights, it would end up being a bad word. It would end up being disparage. So I think we have to stick with what we've got.", "That's right. You know, some people say feminism has become the \"f\" word. There's such a negative connotation to it. One more thing to ponder, though, Jessica, who you just saw, says feminism welcomes all women. And she says and I'm quoting, \"I think that a woman who is personally pro-life can be a feminist. I think of a woman as actively fighting against legislation that allows for abortion and allows for access to birth control, then, no, I don't think she can be a feminist.\" I want to know what you think. Is feminism obsolete? Write to me on our blog, CNN.com/amFIX. That's CNN.com/amFIX and we'll read some of your comments later on in the show.", "Well, there's new concerns out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Navy is tracking a North Korean ship suspected of carrying weapons, perhaps even nuclear material. At the same time, is North Korea getting ready for a big show of its own on the fourth of July. Our Barbara Starr joins us, coming up next. It's 23 minutes after the hour.", "This may look like a sunken spaceship, but it's an innovative way to farm fish in the deep sea. As tall as a six-story building and anchored to the ocean floor, this so-called aqua pod is one answer to the global seafood crisis. See, fish populations are shrinking as the world's appetite for seafood grows.", "To produce enough fish for the world, we need to build pretty large farms. They're moving offshore into very deep water where fish can naturally thrive in large populations without having a direct impact on the environment.", "Most fish farms are in shallow water close to shore, but pollutants can build up in the fish.", "Or in very deep water with strong currents, we never see the same water twice. And we get away from those sensitive ecosystems. We're feeding the fish with the best ingredients that we can find and growing them in the cleanest water we can find.", "These white fish, procobia (ph), began their life in a hatchery on shore then they're transported and raised off the coast of Panama and Puerto Rico. The adult fish are then sold in the U.S. Congress has proposed expanding deep-sea fish farming by 2025. But environmental groups say regulations are needed to prevent damage from over industrialization.", "There's a lot of opportunity out there for us to responsibly develop the high seas.", "Reynolds Wolf, CNN.", "Twenty-seven and a half minutes now after the hour. The U.S. military is keeping a close eye on North Korea today. The Pentagon is tracking a ship from the rogue nation that may be carrying weapons. And Defense Secretary Robert Gates responding to a report that Pyongyang is planning to launch a long-range missile toward Hawaii.", "We do have some concerns if they were to launch a missile to the west in the direction of Hawaii. I've directed the deployment again of THAAD missiles to Hawaii and the SBX radar has deployed away from Hawaii to provide support. Based on my visit to Fort Greeley, the ground-based interceptors are clearly in a position to take action.", "Our Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr join us live with more on this morning's developments. Barbara, first of all, let's talk about the ship. How much of a concern is this ship? Is it just potentially carrying weapons or might it also be carrying nuclear material?", "Well, John, the problem is the U.S. really doesn't know. This ship is called the Kang Nam (ph). It's a North Korean ship that left a port there on Wednesday and is being tracked as it moves along China in a southerly direction off the coast of China. The U.S. Navy is tracking it because they suspect, at least, that it may have illicit weapons onboard, possibly missile nuclear technology. They say they really don't know. So the key question now is where does this all go from here? Because, of course, the most recent U.N. Security Council resolution allows for the potential boarding of ships from North Korea carrying illicit goods. But here's the rub, of course, it has to be a permissive, a compliant boarding. What may happen next is that the U.S. Navy will radio the ship and ask for permission to board it. Every expectation is the North Koreans will say absolutely not. Then it will all move into diplomatic channels. Yesterday, the Pentagon made very clear that there would be no non- permissive, no hostile boarding of any North Korean ships. But certainly, there's no question, this continues to ratchet up the tensions. They are continuing to shadow this ship, and they will most likely try and make an effort to get North Korea's permission to board it -- John.", "And, Barbara, what about this missile launch? And it's suspected that North Korea might actually do it on the fourth of July?", "Yes, I got to tell you, there's a lot of gallows humor around the Pentagon these days from people who say they'll be here July 4th weekend, probably working everybody from generals, commanders, on down. The question is whether the North Koreans are really going to be ready that soon, of course. By all accounts, U.S. intelligence satellites have seen activity on the ground at several North Korean missile sites. What they're looking at is both short, medium, and, indeed, long-range missile launches. They see a lot of activity. They're beginning to see the potential for missile parts appearing. It may take some days for the North Koreans to assemble it all. The only question on the table now is when will the North Koreans be ready to go? John?", "Barbara Starr for us at the Pentagon this morning. Barbara, thanks so much for that. It's about 31 minutes after the hour now. And checking our top stories. Iran's supreme leader defending the results of last week's disputed election, saying there was, quote, \"definitive victory.\" And he blames Iran's enemies for claiming that the presidential election was rigged. He said the massive protests in Iran against the election outcome have to stop.", "A bill on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is now on its way to the president. Congress passed the $106 billion-measure overwhelmingly Thursday. The bill also includes $1 billion in startup money for the so-called cash for clunkers car program.", "And a deadly car bombing in Spain. Authorities say the explosion in the northern Basque region killed a police officer who was sitting in the vehicle. The Basque separatist group, ETA, is believed to be responsible for that. Carol?", "Well, John, you know, every Friday at this time, we tend to go a little nuts. Not exactly out of control because we're CNN after all. We just go wingnuts. That was so bad, wasn't it? Actually, it's a title our next guest gives each week to someone on the left and the right who he says is out to divide us rather than to unite us. John Avlon is a columnist for TheDailyBeast.com and the author of \"Independent Nation.\" He joins us with the new additions to the \"ring of dishonor,\" shall we say?", "That's the newest editions to the \"ring of dishonor.\" Exactly.", "I like it. I do. OK. Shall we start on the right?", "We shall start on the right this week. We selected GOP activist and former South Carolina election director Rusty Depass, who, when a local gorilla went missing from the local zoo, thought it might be a good idea to post on his Facebook page the following comment -- \"I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors -- probably harmless,\" referring to there to First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama. Needless to say in this age of Internet transparency, that racist joke didn't go over so well. And he took a lot of heat around the country, initially saying that it was a -- it was all misunderstanding, it's was actually an evolution joke.", "Really?", "Yes. They just a little bit inherit the wind there -- our humor there. And when that felt flat, he issued an apology to the NAACP and Michelle Obama.", "You know, I cannot believe in this day and age that someone would actually write something like that and then say, oops, it's such a joke. I mean, wouldn't he understand the sensitivity surrounding this, you know, in 2009?", "Speaking of evolution, you'd think there should be a little bit of evolution on that front as well. But apparently still more to do. And he was not the only one on the right who made that mistake this week.", "Yes, and you notice -- I may be wrong, but I don't think that gorillas are part of our lineage.", "That's just getting real academic from Mr. Depass.", "I mean, there's common ancestors among primates apparently, but I don't think gorillas are our ancient ancestors.", "I think you're pitching at a whole different level there.", "Exactly. OK. So let's go left.", "OK. So on the left, we have \"Playboy,\" not known for being politically correct, never, but they went over their line even for them with a June feature on their Web site called \"So Right It's Wrong: Top Ten Conservative Women We Hate to Love.\" Now this list, which included people such as former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino and Peggy Noonan, the author and former Reagan speech writer, also compared women unfavorably to Eva Braun and other types. It was way over the line so much so that \"Playboy\" took it off their Web site and issued an apology, but not before, I think, the damage was done.", "No. It was incredibly sexist. I mean, not that \"Playboy\" isn't sexist, but a lot of conservative women and actually many liberal women too said \"Playboy\" crossed the line with that one, because it also sort of said it was OK to -- they didn't use the word love, really.", "No, the word love was never used.", "No.", "Yes. This was -- this was not a good-natured appreciation.", "It wasn't feminism either.", "No.", "So, some of us who are on the news, John, have been wondering if maybe there should have been an honorable wingnut or at least honor of a mention in the wingnut of the week going to PETA for coming out against the president's swatting that fly.", "Yes. That was a late-breaking development yesterday and perhaps inevitable in the Wingnut Hall of Fame that, you know, when the president is criticized for killing a fly, well, a little bit more focused there folks. I think you got your eye off the ball and on the fly.", "You got to wonder. Was there anybody on the PETA office who said, hey, listen, we're really doing a good job on this fur front and the animal rights thing and the dog thing is really going well, so you might want to just leave the fly issue alone.", "Yes. You'd hope, but in a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much. That's the oldest story of the wingnuts. And I think we got evidence of that at PETA this week.", "John, thanks so much for that.", "At least they're consistent, right? 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{"id": "CNN-115656", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2007-3-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/28/ldt.02.html", "summary": "Special Edition: The War Within", "utt": ["Good evening tonight from George Washington University. Tonight, we will examining -- or examine what is a growing crisis in this country. We call it \"The War Within,\" this nation's battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In 1971,President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Well, victory in this war has proved to be elusive, at best. The United States makes up just 4 percent of the world's population, but consumes two-thirds of the world's illegal drugs. That is not only an overwhelming statistic, but many Americans are being overwhelmed with drug and alcohol addiction. This is a national crisis. Tonight, we will be examining the issues. We will find out what is causing the crisis. We will also hear some solutions to \"The War Within.\"", "This is a special edition of", "\"The War Within.\" From George Washington University, Lou Dobbs.", "Thank you very much. Good evening, everybody. We are here at George Washington University to report on our national crisis of drug and alcohol abuse and addiction, what we call \"The War Within.\" Just how bad is this crisis? Why are so many of us caught up in the cycle of addiction and abuse? We begin with a report tonight from Christine Romans examining the scope of America's addictions.", "Almost 25 million people in this country are substance abusers. Yet, only three million get treatment. Joseph Califano runs the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.", "We Americans are 4 percent of the world's population. We consume two-thirds of the world's illegal drugs. Drug abuse in this country, and substance abuse in this country, is unquestionably our biggest health problem. Addiction and substance abuse are our number-one disease.", "The top drug of choice, 25.5 million people aged 12 and older used marijuana in the past year -- the fastest growing category, prescription drugs. Last year 6.4 million used them to get high -- abuse of alcohol, even more widespread. Some 40 percent of college students engage in dangerous binge-drinking. Drug offenses are the fastest-growing category of crime. Drug offenders are the largest group of inmates in federal prisons. It costs $3 billion a year to house them. That's at the federal level. States pay $17 million a day to incarcerate drug criminals. But that's a fraction of the billions spent over the past 30 years on the government's war on drugs. And then there are human costs. Almost 20,000 people died from accidental drug overdoses in 2004, second only to fatal car crashes. And, on our roads each year, an estimated two million drive under the influence, drunk drivers killing 17,000. (on camera): The government's clinical data show marginal declines in drug and alcohol use by teens over the past few years. But pot and alcohol remain the drugs of choice. Club drugs, like ecstasy, are still popular with teenagers. And prescription drug abuse is exploding. Christine Romans, CNN, New York.", "Joining me now, Dr. Nora Volkow. She's director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse -- Joseph Califano, chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University in New York. And Terry Cline, he's the administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Thank you all for being here. Let me start, if I may, Joe, by -- your center found that nearly half of the college students in this country are binge-drinking and abusing, and both prescription drugs and illegal drugs. How have we reached this stage in this country?", "Well, I think we -- I think we have tended to treat it as a sort of rite of passage, that kids can -- at college, they're going to get drunk. They're going to get drunk on the weekends. So, that's just a rite of passage. The troublesome thing is the -- there's been an increase in the intensity of drinking by college students. I mean, a quarter -- almost a quarter of our college students meet the clinical criteria, the clinical medical criteria for alcohol or drug abuse addiction. And, you know, this is wasting -- we -- you know, this is wasting the best and the brightest in this country and playing Russian roulette with them. I think the colleges have got to really -- the atmosphere has got to be changed on college campuses. And our kids have got to come to realize that this is one of the things -- the one thing they can do that can destroy their careers and sometimes destroy their lives, Lou. I mean, you know, almost 2,000 people die on college campuses a year because of alcohol and drug-related accidents and alcohol poisoning.", "Dr. Volkow, I -- before I turn to you, I want to just say, I want to compliment you, all of your collaborators at HBO, on what has proved to be an amazing documentary and public service, \"Addictions.\" It has -- I don't know how many of you in the -- how many of you here have seen or read any of the materials from \"Addictions,\" just out of curiosity?", "I would just like to begin by saying that every -- in my opinion, every public school, every family, every workplace should avail themselves of what you have done. And our compliments and our thanks. As Joe said, nearly -- nearly a third of all college students are qualifying for clinical abuse and dependence. What is happening on our college campuses, that this would occur?", "Well, we have known that the age of greater risk for abuse and addiction is between 18 and 24 years of age. And that's exactly the age at which kids are in college. And you see also the period of your life when you are in a transition from being a student to starting to take responsibility and going away from home. And so that -- those transition periods are periods that we have recognized to be important in vulnerability for taking drugs. You have the peer pressures. And that's one of the things that is that is -- Joe was mentioning the belief that this is normal behavior, the sense that your friends are doing it, and, in order to be part of them, you are actually, in many ways, pressured to drink alcohol, where, otherwise, you wouldn't do, or take drugs.", "Terry, the -- the war on drugs, why are we engaged in it? And, in your judgment, is the country prepared to take on this problem in the proportion -- proportionate response to what is, everyone agrees, a national crisis?", "Well, I think we're engaged in this war because we must be engaged in this war. As Joe said earlier, I think this is the largest public health crisis facing America today. I think that we have seen incredible damage, lost productivity, tragedy, in terms of family dysfunction, tearing families apart, people who end up being incarcerated, people losing jobs, losing families, losing everything that they have, because of their struggles with addiction, incredible human tragedy, in terms of cost, and economic cost to our country. I think it's an area that deserves all of our attention.", "We're going to have much more with our panel ahead. Also coming up, we will have an exclusive report on efforts to stop the entry of illegal drugs into this country -- law enforcement, short on resources, battling drug-smugglers and drug cartels with abundant resources. And we will examine the dangers of binge-drinking in our public schools and our colleges all over the nation. What is the cause? What is the cure? What is the public policy response appropriate to this crisis? Stay with us for what we think is a very important hour for all of us, \"The War Within,\" as we continue tonight from George Washington University.", "Welcome back to this prime-time special report on CNN, \"The War Within.\" Tonight, we're at George Washington University. We're examining this national crisis of drug and alcohol abuse and addiction. And with us tonight, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Joseph Califano, the chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, Terry Cline, who is the administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Joe, let's return to the issue of the explosion in drug and alcohol abuse on our campuses, binge-drinking.", "And the consequences, which people have to start to realize. I mean, annually, annually, 700,000 students are injured, assaulted by students who are binge-drinking. Think about that. One hundred thousand women on college campuses are raped or sexually assaulted a year by people who are high on alcohol. I mean, think about that. That's about six a day, Lou. I mean, this -- these kids are hurting themselves in a very serious way. And you look at their future -- I mean, Nora can talk more about the brain, but what -- what is happening to their academic performance, the depression, you know, all of those ailments.", "The -- the role of parents, the role of universities?", "The role of parents, look, there's plenty for -- parents are responsible for plenty. Remember, three-fourths of the kids that drink in college and that use drugs in college were drinking and using drugs before they went to college, either in high school or junior high school.", "Right.", "That is mom and dad. I mean, this is a mom-and-pop operation in the first instance. Parents are where it's at. They're the first line of defense. Nora, what do we know today about addiction, about substance abuse? You talked about the age group, 18 to 25. What do we know today about addiction?", "Oh, we know -- we know a lot. Actually, it has been -- with technologies, we can now look inside the human brain, and actually start to understand how changes change the function and biochemistry of our brains. And we have, for example, been able to identify that repeated drug use actually produces changes in your brain that are long-lasting, that result in significant modifications in your behavior. We have also learned that there are certain periods in your life that you're much more vulnerable for those changes to occur. For example, adolescence is a particularly risky period. Your brain is very, very plastic. So, if you subject them to the use of drugs, the changes that are produced by these drugs occur more rapidly, and, in turn, also are more longer-lasting, which is basically what we have learned. The earlier you start taking drugs, the greater the risk that you will become addicted.", "Compounding the crisis, the most vulnerable segment of our population also suffers the most devastating consequences.", "Unfortunately, yes, because, also, when it is the vulnerable population, adolescents, and unfortunately sometimes children, those are the ones that are actually at the period in their life that they have to deal who they are, and they have to be able to learn and go out. So, you damage the brain, which is your main -- the main source that you have in order to progress.", "Which is you.", "It's who you are, exactly. So, this is what drugs are doing. And they're also, at that time, much more likely to become addicted. So, that's where the -- the important message of all of this is highlighting why we need to do prevention of drug use starting as early as childhood.", "Terry Cline, treatment, the science is advancing. Consciousness, hopefully, in this country is rising. How optimistic are you? How committed is this government to improving treatment and to dealing with addiction?", "I'm very excited about the opportunities that we have available. But that does not mean that we should rest on our laurels. We have seen some significant changes, but we have incredible challenges facing us right now. As we have heard from our other two panelists, we need to get ahead of the curve. And part of that curve is meeting that need when people are first beginning to experiment with drugs or with alcohol. We know that a young person who starts drinking before the age of 15 is five times more likely to have serious problems with alcohol later in life -- five times.", "Terry -- Terry, thank you. Joe, these three folks will be joining us here, rejoining us, later in this broadcast. We thank you very much. And coming up next: an exclusive report on the fight to keep drugs from reaching this country, Our neighborhoods, our communities -- how law enforcement is taking on the drug cartels, drug smugglers, while fighting, at the same time, a severe lack of resources. Also ahead: the epidemic of underage drinking. Our young people spending their days wasted, wasting their minds and this country's future. We will examine why they're doing it. We will take a look at some of the solutions being offered. And later here, powerful, personal stories of addiction and recovery -- we will introduce you to three young people who have ended the cycle of abuse for themselves. They're clean. They're sober, and they're successful. Our prime-time special, \"The War Within,\" continues right after this.", "Welcome back. We have reported on how we're fighting the war on drugs for more than three decades. But drugs today are cheaper. They're far more powerful and far more available than ever before, thanks to a booming drug trade that targets Americans. Illegal drugs in this country are truly weapons of mass destruction. Kelli Arena reports now on the government's efforts to stop the flow of drugs into this country.", "These Coast Guard pilots are chasing drug-runners on the Saint Johns River in Florida -- the goal, shoot out the boat's engines and stop the drugs from reaching shore. It's actually a practice run for the team being deployed to the Caribbean next week. CNN was along for the ride. And a wild ride, it was.", "The aircraft is working well. The boat is working well. We have all been well-rested. So, we have determined that to be a low-risk scenario.", "Before the helicopters, the drug traffickers had an advantage.", "We couldn't catch them. And, with our surface vessels, we could follow them with fixed- wing aircraft, but we just couldn't get them to stop.", "Now they stop them, lots of them. (on camera): These Stingray helicopters are the nation's best defense against so-called fast boats used by drug-runners. The past six years alone, they have helped take out more than 100 of those fast boats, carrying nearly 150 tons of cocaine. (voice-over): Despite its success, the unit has only eight helicopters. And, sometimes, instead of going after drugs, they're sent on anti-terror missions.", "What we have is effective. And, so, it would be -- all of the things being equal, it would certainly be nice to have more of what's effective.", "That lack of resources plagues the entire interdiction effort, led by the Department of Defense. It's creating what some experts say is a crisis.", "We're going to see an uptick in drug-related crime. We're going to see an uptick in drug-related accidents. We're going to see an uptick in overdoses. And we're also going to see increased vulnerability where there is a drug-terror link.", "A stinging congressional report finds a cutback in air surveillance over the Caribbean and Pacific, the most important transit zones, by more than 62 percent, a serious reduction in radar capability, leaving the U.S. -- quote -- \"relatively blind,\" and only four ships patrolling the entire Eastern Pacific, an area larger than the continental United States. The Pentagon doesn't dispute these findings, but says resources are stretched thin from fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.", "Yes, there is pressure on assets. Yes, there is pressure on people. It's just a -- it's -- it's a fact of life. I mean, we're -- we're engaged in two very important conflicts at this moment.", "But the war here at home is claiming far more American lives. In 2004, more than 30,000 Americans died from drug abuse. Keeping drugs out of the country is one of the surest ways to stop that. Kelli Arena, CNN, Jacksonville, Florida.", "And the DEA says nearly all of the cocaine that enters the United States comes through Mexico, our southern border. In point of fact, Mexico is the principal source of methamphetamines, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin used in this country. We would like to hear your views on this very important issue. Our poll question tonight is: Do you believe the United States is committed to winning the war on drugs, yes or no? Vote at LouDobbs.com. We will have those results here at the end of the broadcast. Coming right up: children in grade school taking their first drink. We will examine why so many of our young people become trapped in the cycle of addiction, and how a remarkable high school is helping its students resist the lure of drugs and alcohol, \"Sober High.\" Stay with us, as our special report, \"The War Within,\" continues.", "Welcome back. We're here at George Washington University. And, tonight, in our special report, \"The War Within,\" we focus on the crisis of drug and alcohol addiction in this country. The epidemic of underage drinking has the attentions of the nation's top doctor. The surgeon general says underage drinking is too often seen as a rite of passage, as we have heard. As Christine Romans now reports, the surgeon general says it's time to change now.", "The surgeon general cataloged a list of dangerous consequences of underage drinking.", "Academic failure, risky sexual behavior, injuries, and even death.", "Each year, some 5,000 deaths are linked to underage drinking.", "Think of that, entire college campuses wiped clean of the entire student body every year.", "His exhaustive report on the problem finds -- quote -- \"Underage drinking is deeply embedded in the American culture, is often viewed as a rite of passage, is frequently facilitated by adults, and has proved stubbornly resistant to change.\" He says it is simply unacceptable that 20 percent of 14-year-olds say they have been drunk at least once.", "This needs to stop.", "He faults society. Too often, parents are inclined to believe \"not my child.\" \"Pediatric health care providers underestimate alcohol use and abuse among their patients.\" Colleges and universities need to take a good, hard look at whether they \"encourage, support important, or facilitate underage alcohol use,\" as for the industry, make certain that billions of dollars spent on industry advertising and responsibility campaigns does not portray alcohol \"as an essential element in achieving popularity, social success, or a fulfilling life.\"", "For too long, underage drinking has been fueled by denial, inaction, and acceptance. That changes today.", "Law enforcement needs to publicize and enforce, and anti-underage drinking laws. (on camera): That first drink almost never happens in a bar. Only 7 percent of underage drinking occurs where alcohol is legally sold. It's happening at home. That's why the surgeon general is calling for a national attitude adjustment to tackle underage drinking. Christine Romans, CNN, New York.", "And joining us now, Tracy Downs. She's coordinator of the drug and alcohol prevention program at the University of Delaware. Tracy, good to have you here. And Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, he's president of George Washington University. And thank you for being here. And thanks for letting us be here.", "The pleasure is mine. Thank you.", "The University of Delaware had a tremendous problem with alcohol and drug abuse. You have also done some amazing things to change it. What do you think has been the most critical step you have taken to protect the lives and the health of your students?", "I think what we did was attack it head on by forming a campus community coalition to address the problem. You can't just educate students to make healthy choices in a toxic environment. So, what we did was, we brought key stakeholders from the campus and the community. We changed policies.", "What's a stakeholder on a campus, for those of us who wouldn't know?", "A...", "A stakeholder is a person who deals with students on a regular basis, is important in helping to change policy.", "Professors.", "Professors.", "Counselors.", "Right, faculty, residence life staff, judicial affairs, the campus police, but, most importantly, the president. We have had strong leadership from our president, Dr. David Roselle, from the beginning. And I think that's key to beginning to make changes on campus.", "Well, we have got a college president here. So, let's turn to -- to him. Steve, you have seen a -- I shouldn't say \"have seen.\" That sounds a little passive. You have managed to decrease the amount of drinking and drug abuse on your campus over the last few years, while, nationwide, over the past decade, we have seen an increase. What have you done?", "We have taken it very seriously. And I couldn't agree more. I think -- I think the president's office has got to lead. And, in my remarks to the freshman class each year, I start off by talking about drinking on campus and how seriously we take it and try to put students on notice that they need to protect each other. And they need to look after each other. And it's not a secret pact. And that the faculty and the student body have to work together along with the administration and the parents and the community to address this problem.", "You both are enjoying success in the war on drugs, \"The War Within\" on your campuses, but nationwide, it is a losing battle. It is the role of the parents, of course. Their influence is critical. Many of these students are coming to you already addicted to alcohol or drugs. Do you believe that there -- the change has to happen sooner? You have your own role. Obviously in the lives of these stupidities. But as I hear so many professors and college presidents say in this country, the students that are reaching them today are not adequately prepared academically. Are we not providing preparation for our high school, junior high school students, life preparation in our public schools?", "Society puts a lot of stress on youngsters and some of them escape through drugs and alcohol and then later on in life when they come to the university, they bring -- they bring those habits with them. I think at every level, elementary, secondary school, university, we have to demonstrate that we're serious and we have to work at it. We provide, for example, at G.W., alternative events which are non- alcohol-related so that students for outlets that are not involving beverages, spirited beverages.", "I can hear Tracy an 18-year-old freshman at any campus in the country saying, listen to those -- those, you know, silly adults. They're talking about drugs and booze. They probably think, A, we're all three hypocrites. B, we're out of touch with their reality. C, there's really no harm. And what the heck do they know about my life anyway? How do you get through to a young person with exactly those views? My guess is we've all three encountered those views at one time or another.", "We take pretty much a harm reduction approach. Because with college age students you almost have to. You can't just be, you know, tell them to abstain even though -- I mean, that's a great message, but you need to give them tips if they are going to drink. How they can ...", "Punishment?", "Exactly. Punishment. We have a three strikes and you're out policy. We notify their parents when they violate the alcohol policy. Our recidivism rates our down and I think enforcing a strict policy is ...", "It's a combination of reward and punishment. You have to be serious if you catch somebody violating the rules in the residence halls or whatever. You have to put them out. They have to be examples. On the other hand, you have to have alternative outlets for people and recognize that they're 17, 18, 19 years old and there's certain ...", "And treatment.", "And treatment of course. Working with the university health services. But I think -- a lot of it is education. They come to us for an education and we are to deliver on what we're promising.", "Amen, brother. President Trachtenberg, thanks for being with us.", "Thank you. And thanks to you for hosting this broadcast throughout the week. Tracy Downs, will be back with us here later. Thank you both.", "Thank you.", "Tonight, we're exploring the crisis of binge drinking on college campuses. But for many young people, alcohol and drug abuse begins much earlier. Much earlier often than high school. One high school is trying to change all of that. Helping its students who are recovering from addiction to stay sober and drug free. Lisa Sylvester has the story.", "This may look like every other high school in America. But every student has reached a rock bottom.", "I was big into cocaine and marijuana and drinking.", "I got sucked into the drug world by marijuana mostly, but I got hooked on acid when I was 15 and used that for about four years.", "You know, the only things I'd think about was getting high, getting drunk, sneaking out, you know, I was trying not to get caught.", "Sobriety High in Minnesota is a public charter school for teenagers who are recovering from drug and alcohol addictions.", "What we have is positive peer pressure. There is strong pressure to stay clean, to not use, to get the help you need if you have a slip.", "The classes are smaller than you'll find other schools. Fewer than 60 students make up the entire student body. Noah Hempstead has been at the school a year. Before he arrived here, he used cocaine, ecstasy, alcohol and marijuana.", "Every part of my day involved using or thinking about using or how I was going to get high.", "At Noah's old school, drugs were so prevalent, the hallways were illegal pharmacies.", "It's unbelievable. You can get drugs so much easier than you get alcohol. I mean, people say it all the time, but it's 100 percent true.", "The students in addition to taking classes work the 12 steps and have peer counseling sessions where everything is on the table.", "See, this is our problem. We get so rapped up in everybody else's bull that we can't take care of ourselves.", "Students learn to redefine what fun is through outlets like music. Studies show 90 percent of teenagers who leave a treatment program but return to their old high school end up using again. At Sobriety High, 80 percent of the students never have a relapse.", "We're working at learning how to live life, and that's what this school is here to teach us. It's here to help.", "The students don't all get it right the first time. But they live their mantra, progress, not perfection. Lisa Sylvester, CNN.", "A good motto for life. Coming up here next, overcoming addition. We'll be joined by three young men who will share their stories with us and I assure you, they're wonderful and inspiring stories. Also ahead, doctors in fact and hospitals may be underreporting the role that drugs and alcohol are playing in automobile and other accidents in this country. As bad as it is, addiction may be worse than what we think. And our panel of experts will join us to offer some solutions to this crisis, this \"War Within.\" Stay with us. We'll be right back.", "Well, finding the true cost of drug and alcohol abuse and addiction in this society is difficult at best. It is overwhelming. But it is difficult to measure with any kind of precision. In part because some doctors and hospitals are underreporting the number of emergency room cases that are drug or alcohol-related. Joining me now with more on the true scope of the crisis of addiction in this nation is Congressman Jim Ramstad. He is the cosponsor of the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act which would require insurance companies to offer benefits to treat addiction as well as other diseases. This Minnesota Republican is also co-chair of the Addiction Treatment and Recovery Caucus. Congressman, it's good to have you here.", "Good to be with you, Lou.", "You are a recovering addict. You've very publicly supported Congressman Patrick Kennedy in his travails. Tell us about your personal focus and direction on this critically important issue.", "Well, I woke up, Lou, in a jail cell in Sioux Falls on July 31st, 1981 after my last alcoholic black out. Under arrest for a variety of offenses stemming from that alcoholic episode. And I'm alive and sober today only because of the access I had to treatment along with the grace of God and the support of other recovering people over the last 25 and a half years. And so with me, this is not just another public policy issues. It's a matter of life or death. Because I've seen too many alcoholics and addicts die from this disease. We're not doing enough to treat, to provide the same kind of access that Patrick and I had to treatment. Last year, in fact, according to SAMSA over -- actually, over 280,000 people were denied access to treatment. Had the doors to the treatment center slammed shut in their faces.", "Why?", "Well, a variety of reasons. First of all, of the 26 million addicts and alcoholics in the United States, including 3 million young people under 21, only 17 percent, by the way, of the young people are -- have access to treatment. But of the bigger number, the 26 million, about 8 million are on health plans that allowed to discriminate. About 90 percent of health plans are allowed to erect discriminatory barriers to treatment that don't exist for treatment for physical diseases. Artificially high co-payments, artificially high deductibles, limited treatment stays. The average treatment stay allowed by 90 percent of the health plans is seven days. Ask any chemical health professional and they'll tell you nobody, nobody can get on the road to recovery in seven days.", "Anyone who knows an addict or has had one in their family has had that personal experience. Can appreciate the inequity of looking out across society and seeing the number of people that are denied treatment because insurance companies, the medical profession itself has not looked upon this as a disease. It has been considered a stigma rather than a disease. Our reaction as a society, as a government, as a people ...", "Even though the American Medical Association categorized it as a disease since 1956, well before the war on drugs was declared.", "Is it your sense you're going to be able to get your law through?", "We're very confident. We had our first hearing ...", "I better call it a bill rather than a law. That was hopeful on my part.", "We appreciate the optimism. But we're very hopeful that we can get this parity legislation passed this year. We had our first hearing just yesterday. It went very well. And Patrick Kennedy and I have been holding field hearings with other members around the country. We've had 12 field hearings. And momentum is building for this. Why should addicts be discriminated in treatment vis-a-vis people with appendicitis or heart disease or any other physical ailment? It shouldn't be allowed in this country.", "Congressman Ramstad, we thank you for being here.", "Thank you, Lou. Thanks a lot.", "A reminder to vote on our poll tonight. The question is, do you believe the United States is committed to winning the war on drugs? Yes or no. Cast your vote at loudobbs.com. We're going to bring you those results here in just a few moments. Up next, we'll hear very personal stories of addiction and recovery, powerful illustrations of the hold of addiction. The will to survive, and to succeed, I'm pleased to say. We'll have three very special guests and we'll hear more from our panel of experts next. Stay with us.", "Welcome back. We're joined now by three remarkable young people, all of whom who have struggled with drug and alcohol addiction and they're in recovery. They're all members of Alcoholics Anonymous, and as such, we will only use their first names and last initial. I'd like to introduce you to John S. John, we're glad to have you with us. Josh R. Good to have you with us. And John U. I'm going to try to keep the Us and the Ss combined here. It's good to have you here. Let me ask you, John, how long have you been clean? How long have you been sober?", "Coming up on two years on May 12, 2005.", "What was your addiction?", "A little bit of everything. You name it, I've pretty much did it. Alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, pain killers, muscle relaxers, pretty much everything.", "What started you using?", "Started out smoking weed when I was about 14, 15, somewhere around there. Just actually sought it out myself in school, went and got high and everything just progressed on from there.", "And you were how old?", "Fourteen, 15. Somewhere in that area.", "Josh, how about you?", "I've been sober May 26, 2005 is my sobriety date. So I'm like John, I'm coming up on two years. I was everything, too. I started when I was 15. Alcohol and marijuana and then I progressed and got into cocaine and acid and methamphetamines. But I would say that I that have a problem with cocaine. So I'm going to stop snorting coke and I would continue to drink alcohol. And every time it would take me back out.", "John?", "My sobriety date is November 15, 1999. And, I mean I started using when I was nine.", "Wow.", "Yeah. I mean, I was just ...", "What were you using?", "Well, I was -- I started drinking alcohol was the first thing I had. A buddy stole some Jim Beam from his parents' liquor cabinet and I drank about that much of the bottle and, I mean, you know I was only nine. I think I weighed like 60 pounds or something like that at the time. So I got pretty hammered. But, you know, that's just how it went. And, I mean, my drug of choice was more. It was whatever you had and more. I mean, there was no limit. I didn't care what it was. It could have been coke, it could have been weed, it could have been alcohol, I mean, I primarily drank because it was the easiest thing for me to get. I mean, you can always go down to the 7/11 and ask somebody to buy you the beer.", "You all started very young. John U. the youngest amongst the three of you. Were you parents oblivious to what was happening? Was anyone paying attention to what was happening? Could they understand what was happening?", "For me, my parents always said, you know, the old saying, just say no. That type of thing. And they did whatever they could to try and get me to stop. Sent me to treatment after treatment. From the age of -- I mean, I was in my first treatment not even a year after I started getting high. So it was pretty fast and there was no drugs, no underage drinking allowed in their house, but I just did what I wanted to do and kept on going pretty much.", "Josh?", "My parents were -- they were strict. And I ran from it. There was nothing. Before I graduated high school, I moved out of my house twice. I lived with some using buddies. So I just ran from whatever guidelines they set down.", "Nine years old.", "Well, I mean, like I said, my father had issued with alcoholism as well. Not that I'm trying to put the blame on anybody, you know, but I mean, my mom was a -- was just starting her own business at the time and, I mean, it was just there. You know? I mean, it was something that I was interested in.", "What -- how did you succeed in going into recovery?", "How did I succeed into going into recovery?", "How did you straighten yourself out? What was the turning point?", "Well, I eventually. I mean, after everything was going on and everything, I got arrested when I was about 14, and I was put into -- my mom put me into an outpatient treatment center. And I got there and, you know, I was just like, oh, yeah, I want to be sober, but I didn't really care. And then I got put on probation and I came up on a dirty urine and they sent me to a -- to an in-patient treatment center down in Louisiana.", "Did that succeed?", "Yeah, for me it did.", "Josh?", "I ...", "What was the turning point for you?", "I joined the Marine Corps at 18 thinks that's going to fix me. I mean, it's the marines, they're going to straighten me out.", "They usually do.", "I was one of the few. I got kicked out of the Marine Corps for distribution of methamphetamine and I did 145 days in the brig. A bad conduct discharge and it's the best thing that ever happened to me because I'm sober today because of that experience in the brig. That's what I needed. That was my emotional breakdown.", "John?", "After a couple of inpatient treatments and quite a few outpatient treatments just following in suit, I hit a car while I -- I blacked out. Don't really remember any of it. Hit a car about 100 feet from my parents' house. Got charged with a DUI, a hit and run and ended up getting sent to treatment after jail. So ...", "John, thank you very much for being here. Thanks for sharing your story. We really appreciate it. We wish you all the very best. All the best of luck.", "Thank you.", "Josh, you as well. And John U., we really appreciate you taking the time.", "Thank you.", "Three remarkable young men, and we hope that everyone suffering addiction in this country can hear something just right that will help them, too. Coming up at the top of the hour, LARRY KING LIVE. Larry?", "Hey, Lou. Coming up, former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and a former American hostage in Iran on the story the whole world is watching. Those British sailors held hostage by Iran. We'll also hear from Lou Dobbs on your Capitol Hill testimony today. It's all ahead at the top of the hour, Lou.", "You've got me working hard tonight, Larry. Thank you very much. Look forward to it.", "Thanks.", "Coming up next, more with our panel of experts. We'll take a look at the solutions, the possible solutions to bring our war on drugs to a successful conclusion and to help addicts bring their crises under control. Stay with us.", "We're back at George Washington University for some final thoughts about solutions to this national crisis. Tracy, I want to turn to you first.", "OK.", "Your solutions.", "Well, I think campuses need to partner with their local communities. Bring in those key stakeholders that I mentioned in the community. They're the landlords, the bar owners, the police, the city council and develop a plan.", "Joe?", "I think it's parents. I mean, I think parents -- parent power is the key. If you get a kid through age 21 without smoking, without using illegal drugs and abusing alcohol, that kid is certain to be home free for the rest of his or her life and the greatest influence on those children are their parents for better or worse.", "Congressman?", "Greater access to treatment. When President Nixon first declared war on drugs, he dedicated 60 percent of the funding, federal funds to treatment. Today that percentage is under 20 percent, it's about 18 or 19 percent. We need treatment parity for people in health plans. We need Medicare parity for seniors giving the rising rate in alcoholism and depression among seniors. We need more funding for Medicaid. We need to deal with our veterans, V.A. health care. We need more funding for their treatment so that they don't have to wait in line for a bed for treatment and we also have to provide more funding in our prisons for prisoners. Because most of them are going to get out and we're not dealing with the underlying problem of their crime.", "Nora ...", "By far, if I have to choose one, prevention. Drug abuse and addiction are fully preventable. How do you do that? That's the challenge, you educate and you use everything you have to educate so to try interfere with children or adolescents to take drugs. That means the family, it means the school system, and you give them opportunities. So it's not just about telling kids, don't take drugs. It's about telling them all of the other things that they can do with their lives and how can they devastate it and throw it away with drugs. So, prevention.", "Well I'm going to applaud that one. Tracy Downs, we thank you very much for being here. Joe Califano, thank you very much, Congressman Jim Ramstad, thank you very much.", "And we thank you for your whole serious. It's fantastic what you're doing.", "And we want to thank this wonderful audience at George Washington University who have been terrific and we want to share with everyone the results of our poll tonight. The poll result? Ninety-five percent of you say the United States is not committed to winning the war on drugs. We love consensus and agreement on this broadcast. We thank you for being with us here tonight. We would like to thank all of our guests, our studio audience and particularly those three young men who worked so hard to succeed. We wish them all the very best and every addict who is recovering or otherwise in this country. We'll be back again here tomorrow night for another special report. For all of us, thanks for watching, good night from Washington. LARRY KING LIVE starts right now. 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{"id": "CNN-228442", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2014-4-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/14/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Reflex Rally on Wall Street; Market Volatility", "utt": ["The markets have been on a bone-rattling roller coaster ride over the last few days. Now the Dow is finally pointing in an upward direction. As you can see, that is not a bad gain at all for today. That's the way it went. And Alison Kosik was viewing it all for us here at the New York Stock Exchange. Alison, I was kind of surprised despite the Citi numbers, those were good, retail sales, unexpectedly strong. What kind of momentum, though? That's quite a bit of momentum the market had on it today. What was going on there?", "And those good numbers were really what the market needed for what some are calling this reflex rally. Those positive retail sales numbers from March, those are good because they show Americans hit the stores more than expected last month. And then, you said it, the other part was upbeat earnings from CitiGroup. Remember, last week's earnings, they were mixed. We had JPMorgan missing and we had Wells Fargo impressing. So, then, we have CitiGroup impressing the Street as well, so those mixed earnings, now, turning the tide toward the positive side. So you saw that sort of positivity playing out in the market today. Paula?", "Alison, a reflex rally? I don't think I've heard that expression before. I don't know, whoever coined that, hopefully, is making more money. Thanks, Alison, I appreciate that.", "Sure.", "Now, to give you a sense of the sort of volatility we've been looking at, this is the Dow over the last four days, just to illustrate the dramatic rises and falls and to tell you not without much rationale, either. Today, it close up six tenths of one percent. The Dow, though, is down nearly 3 percent year-to-date. That is not a good reading wee into the second quarter, here, and we've been warned to expect more of this through the earnings season. Now, Jens Nordvig joins us to kind of drill down on this volatility. Thanks so much for being here, I appreciate it. No one is more shocked than I -- we'll call it a reflex rally -- but that this actually happened today. We were just talking on Wednesday -- I'm mean, sorry, on Friday -- about people saying, look, where does this market have to go? We're not expecting much from earnings. The recovery in the United States remains tepid. What is at play here, in terms of market fundamentals?", "Well, I think we've had these serious concerns about whether growth momentum is fading. A lot of weak data during the first quarter. So, I think retail sales is one of the most important data points in the next several weeks, and it came out much stronger than expected. So, I think that's a very, very important reading. We're looking at potentially getting to a 3 percent growth rate pretty soon, and I think that's going to be very comforting for the market, opposed to the alternative.", "As opposed to the alternative, definitely. And in terms of things like the Fed and what it's doing, we had a lot of jitters with that. Are we really factoring that out here, now? Do you think that a lot of the volatility that people had been predicting is gone now?", "I think a lot of people read the minutes from last week, where we got the details of what the Fed is thinking, and they're sort of going a little bit back to basics. There's not going to be anything urgent from the Fed in terms of tightening. That's giving the market comfort. If we can stay in a range, in terms of the bond yield, I think the equity market will do better, unless we have some geopolitical shockwaves around the world or from China.", "And let's talk about that. Quickly, on Ukraine, something like that, can that really rattle investors in a broad sense, even though if you look at the economics of it, perhaps it doesn't represent a huge swathe of the global economy?", "Yes, I think we've seen earlier in the year that obviously the shock effect is very, very unnerving for the market. Now, we've almost gotten used to these terrible pictures from Ukraine from a market perspective. The real important issue is whether sanctions spill over into energy issues for Europe. If there's a question --", "But they have to. Is there any way that they're not going to?", "Well, so I think so far, actually, the sanctions have been on a nature where they've tried to sort of shield the European economy, not really bring those tensions into the fore. So, if they can avoid that, I think the spillover to March will be limited. But as soon as the gas supplies to Europe are in question, we're going to have much more dramatic impact.", "You've been doing quite a lot of work on emerging markets. I want to talk to you about the volatility there and the risk there. You say that there is, potentially, because of that emerging market debt, a lot of risk there still in those markets.", "Well, so, there's certainly a lot of risk in emerging markets. The question is whether it's priced. So, we've been through a year of emerging market volatility, some emerging market currencies have depreciated 30 percent. So the question now is whether it's sort of already in asset prices and we can start to trade valuation. I think if we have that environment I'm describing, with 3 percent US growth, not a lot of tightening signals from the Fed, emerging markets will hold up. But if we have a dramatic tightening signal from the Fed, it's a totally different game.", "And in terms of spillover effect, though, we've got China GDP coming out on Wednesday. How significant is that number going to be?", "That's a very important number because obviously there's a lot of fears, similar to what we had fears about the US growth, there's a lot of fears about dramatic slowdown in China. And if we can avoid that, I think it will calm the market. There's one other data point I want to point to, is their reserves. Their reserves numbers are going to come out this week, and that might signal a huge spike in intervention, because they try to generate a new regime on the currency. Watch that, too.", "OK, thanks for being here. I do have a little bit of whiplash from all of this, but we'll see where the week goes and how that plays out. Appreciate your time. Thanks. The deadly Ebola virus has spread into Guinea's capital city. 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{"id": "CNN-19634", "program": "Inside Politics", "date": "2000-11-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/10/ip.00.html", "summary": "Bush Talks Transition; Gore Surrogates Say it's Not Over Yet", "utt": ["I understand there's still votes to be counted, but I'm in the process of planning in a responsible way a potential administration.", "George W. Bush keeps talking transition while his undecided race against Al Gore becomes even more of a political football.", "What's happening now, if I may say so, is not in the best interest of our country.", "Bush surrogates warn the Florida recount could spin out of control and prompt tit-for-tat battles in other states.", "Calls for a declaration of a victor before all the votes are accurately tabulated are inappropriate.", "Gore surrogates defend the recount process and remind Americans that it is not over yet.", "This is a special edition of INSIDE POLITICS with Judy Woodruff in Washington and Bernard Shaw at election headquarters.", "Thanks for joining us. In the absence of a final, official vote count from Florida, both the Bush and Gore camps rushed again this day to fill the void with political spin. George W. Bush's chief observer in Florida drew something of a line in the sand. But, as our Candy Crowley reports, Bush himself, tried to send a more presidential message: that he is getting ready for the White House without jumping the gun.", "George Bush is working in two tenses: the uncertainty of what is; the possibility of what will be.", "I understand there's still votes to be counted, but I'm in the process of planning in a responsible way a potential administration.", "At the governor's mansion in Austin, the potentials sat beside him: Vice-Presidential Nominee Dick Cheney; Larry Lindsay, chief economic adviser; Condoleeza Rice, chief foreign policy adviser; and Andrew Card, said to be bush's first choice as chief of staff. The Gore camp calls this transition talk presumptuous. The Bush camp calls it planning.", "There's been a series of ongoing meetings that the secretary and I've had on a variety of subjects, so that should the verdict that has been announced thus far be confirmed, we'll be ready. And I think that's what the country needs to know, that this administration would be ready to assume office and be prepared to lead.", "The picture and the words seem designed to send out a signal of certainty and serenity. The rough stuff was left to Bush's man on the ground in Florida.", "If we keep being put in the position of having to respond to recount after recount after recount of the same ballots, then we just can't just sit on our hands, and we will be forced to do what might be in our best personal interests.", "To wit, there are other squeaker states out there that can be brought back into play. Under scrutiny by Republicans: New Mexico, where Bush campaign officials are on the ground; Oregon, the Republican National Committee has personnel there; Iowa where two Republican lawyers are awaiting a final count; and Wisconsin, where Governor Tommy Thompson is the designated point man. We hope Florida ends this, said one aide to Thompson, but if it doesn't, all bets are. Right now it's saber rattling, an effort to push back the talk of legal action from the Gore team. Republicans in touch with the Bush camp say no decisions have been made about other challenges. And the decisions will be up to Bush. They hope Florida, after the overseas vote, will end it, and the Gore team will drop legal threats. Our first hope, said one top Republican official, is that we do not have to rip the skin off the electoral process for the outcome to be satisfactory to everyone. When you get into legal disputes about the outcomes of elections in every single county in American, it's nothing less than mutually assured destruction.", "In two cases, Iowa and Wisconsin, any kind of demand for a recount would have to be filed before the overseas votes have been counted in Florida. As one Republican put it, we could always put the process in place, and then draw it back -- Judy.", "All right, Candy Crowley, in Austin. As for Vice President Gore, his strategy today involved some pulling back and loosening up without ceding any ground to Governor Bush. Here is CNN's John King.", "\"Relax, what's the rush?\" was the vice president's unspoken message. This leisurely family outing was designed to portray an image of calm. But the Gore team is also adjusting its strategy to calm jitters among fellow Democrats: focusing more on the Florida recount and stepping away from aggressive talk of challenging the results in court.", "I hope that our friends in The bush campaign will join us in our efforts to get the fairest and most accurate vote count here in Florida.", "The vice president's team shrugged at suggestions from the Bush camp that if the Democrats that don't concede defeat, Republicans will demand recounts in states narrowly carried by Mr. Gore, like Iowa and Wisconsin. The Gore team's response: Go right ahead.", "It seems to me that the team of Governor Bush has every right to consider challenges in other states if they think that is in their interest to do so.", "The day's goal was to turn the focus from talk of lawyers and lawsuits to simply making sure the Florida count is accurate.", "I hope all Americans agree that the will of the people, not a computer glitch, should select our next president.", "The Florida results have not been certified, and won't be for at least another week. And the vice president still leads in the popular vote and the Electoral College count. So the Gore campaign makes the case that Governor Bush has no reason and no right to be in a rush to claim he is the president-elect.", "Waiting is unpleasant for all of us. But suggesting that the outcome of a vote is known before all the ballots are properly counted is inappropriate.", "Senators Robert Toricelli of New Jersey and John Breaux of Louisiana said publicly what many Democrats are voicing privately: that a long, drawn-out battle is not in the country's best interests. So while not ruling out a legal challenge, the Gore team said it hoped all this could be resolved through the recounts under way in several Florida counties. And House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt stepped up to help the vice president in the public-relations war.", "Look, if the shoe were on the other foot, I can assure you the Bush campaign would be making all these points, and, in the end, wanting what everybody should want, which is a competent, successful, conclusive election. We need to know when an election is this close who had the most votes to win the Electoral College.", "Note that public support from Congressman Gephardt and other Democrats focused on the recount. Democrats will support the vice president pushing for a recount in Florida. Perhaps that will take another week or so, they say. Democrats angry behind the scenes, though: They believe the Gore campaign made a major tactical mistake when it came out of the box yesterday threatening lawsuits.", "John, are you suggesting now, though, that this could end once all the ballots are counted and recounted to everyone's satisfaction?", "You'll look over the weekend for several steps. There are a couple of counties that have already begun the recounts. The Gore campaign wants to see what the officials in those counties say. Palm Beach will have an experiment tomorrow in which it will do a limited test. And if it sees any missed numbers -- the numbers are so inconsistent with Tuesday's numbers -- they will announce a broader recount. If the answers are consistently no, the Gore people will be under enormous pressure next week, the 17th, when the absentee ballots have to be finished counted, to call it off, if the numbers haven't changed by then. They insist that they believe they will. They think that since they have already narrowed in that unofficial count to 300- something, they believe when you go back and count the bigger counties, that the numbers will change even more. They don't rule out, though, that if that happens -- if Palm Beach and those other counties say there is more votes for Gore and that he pulls ahead -- that the Bush camp will then say: Well, then we want a recount in the Republican counties of Florida. So this could go on a little bit, depending how these recounts turn out.", "But we are looking at least another week -- at least -- are we not?", "At least another week: but the Gore campaign under heavy pressure from Democrats privately to try to bring it to end by then and to stop talking about going to court. They don't think the American people will support going into court. Now, if some private citizens in Florida are suing -- if they are successful -- that would of course benefit the vice president. But the Democrats are telling the Gore campaign: Stop talking about lawyers and lawsuits. That is not a case to make to the American people.", "All right, John King, reporting on the Gore efforts. Thanks very much. Well, further complicating the efforts to tally the presidential vote, New Mexico's secretary of state announced today that Gore's lead over Bush has eroded there to just 106 votes, making the winner in that state unclear. Another 515 ballots remain to be counted by hand. And 252 ballots, believed to be from a Republican area of the state are missing. A computer glitch apparently resulted in a misleading tally on election night, when Gore appeared to have won New Mexico by a solid margin. Now, as a result of all this, CNN is taking New Mexico and its five electoral votes out of the Gore column in our electoral vote tally, and putting it in the still undecided category. That means Gore now has 255 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House. And Bush has 246 -- Bernie.", "Now, let's get an update on the Florida recount. For that we go to ground zero for the operation: Tallahassee, Florida, and CNN's Mike Boettcher -- Mike.", "Hi, Bernie. Well, here it's a matter of process. And there are three major parts of unfinished business that we must accomplish here. First is the official recount. Today they moved up on the number of counties which have reported officially on the recount vote. We now have 65 of 67. The vote total will change when those other two come in. We know the unofficial total, but that is from the Associated Press. That shows a gap of 327 votes. That's why the official total is very important. The one county missing is one of the big ones, that is Palm Beach County. Now the second item of business: the overseas ballots. In this county alone, which is not a heavily populated military district, 140 of those ballots arrived in the last two days. They're expecting many more up until Friday, a week from today, when they must be counted. And the Republicans in this state say primarily those ballots are weighted towards the Republicans. They have in past elections, although the Democrats say, hold on, let's wait, let's see. Now the third item of business to be accomplished is the matter of the hand count, which is being overseen from here. The hand-count business is a very complicated sort of thing, and there's one person in the state who really knows it well. His name is David Cartwell. If anyone knows it -- he's a former executive director of the election process here. If anyone knows it, he does.", "Every ballot has to be physically inspected. There are teams of two people each, one from each political party, that would examine the ballot, and they would have to come to an agreement if the ballot is to be registered as a change in the vote. So they will have to go through all the ballots. They can't pull out just the 19,000.", "So it's a very complicated business, the hand counting. Those three things must be accomplished, but they won't be accomplished until next Friday, seven days away -- Bernie.", "Thank you, Mike Boettcher, with the latest on that. Now to Judy.", "And now we travel to Palm Beach County, Florida, for the latest on the controversy over the now-infamous \"butterfly\" ballot. CNN's Martin Savidge joins us from West Palm Beach -- Martin.", "Good evening to you, Judy. And now all eyes seem to be focusing on the recount that will take place in Palm Beach County starting tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. Actually, it's going to be two recounts. First there is going to be a recount, a partial recount, conducted by hand of about 4,000 ballots. That's about 1 percent of the votes that were cast in the presidential election in this particular county. After that is concluded, then they will do a machine recount of all of the votes that were cast in the presidential election for Palm Beach County. That is expected, the machine at least, is expected to finish up its work after a matter of hours. However, the results of both of those recounts are not expected to be released to the public any time before Tuesday. Meanwhile, Democratic Party officials here, even though it's a holiday, have been very busy working to gather affidavits from people who claim that they believe due to the confusing butterfly ballot that they may have misappropriately or accidentally voted for the wrong presidential candidate. Now there are two sites that have been set up in Palm Beach County where they have been gathering these affidavits, and party officials say so far they believe they have several thousand affidavits in hand from people who believe they made an error. So, that is pretty much how it stands outside here, the elections board. You can see it continues to be a gathering point for many people as they come to express their political opinions. They are still very much, like the rest of the nation, divided at this hour, debating sometimes heatedly, sometimes very loudly among themselves as to what happened and what should happen next. There is one other issue that came out of last night, and that was a West Palm Beach judge that ruled for a temporary preliminary injunction. Now that would basically prevent Florida from certifying officially the results of the election. That injunction will go until Tuesday. The state, of course, has 10 days until after the election, so right now it doesn't seem to play into the official results. However, if the judge were to decide to extend that injunction, well, it could get very interesting, beyond what it already is here -- Judy.", "All right, Martin Savidge in West Palm Beach, thanks very much. Still ahead on INSIDE POLITICS, opposing views on the state of the presidential election and the recount in Florida. We'll talk with Gore adviser Ron Klain and Florida Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough."], "speaker": ["GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "JAMES BAKER, FRM. 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{"id": "NPR-31960", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2012-03-21", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/03/21/149091129/preview-of-womens-basketball-sweet-sixteen", "title": "Preview Of Women's Basketball 'Sweet Sixteen'", "summary": "Audie Cornish talks with Tom Goldman about the women's NCAA basketball tournament. The field has been narrowed down to 16 teams.", "utt": ["In women's college basketball the Sweet 16 is set. And to no one's surprise, the four number one seeds have made it. Can any team beat Baylor, Stanford, Yukon or Notre Dame? Or will those four keep rolling until the Final Four?", "Joining me is NPR's sports correspondent Tom Goldman. Welcome back, Tom.", "Thank you.", "So let's start by talking about Baylor, undefeated. They're the number one seed overall and home of the nation's best player, Britney Griner. I understand that she has, you know, really been impressing people out there.", "She has. They beat Florida by 19 points and she dunked. It's only the second time...", "Yeah, that's a big deal.", "Only the second time in an NCAA game. Candace Parker threw down a couple in a game a few years ago. Now, Audie, this is sure to elicit snarky comments from the male-dominated sports media...", "Are there any other kind? Yeah.", "Right. Oh, you know, ooh, a girl dunks, let's write stories about it. And you know what? About the dunk, Griner was kind of ho-hum. What really excites her are blocked shots and she is the best at it. She averaged over five per game this season. And this is a favorable comparison we can make with the men's tournament. The dominant player there is Kentucky's Anthony Davis, who is known first and foremost as a supreme shot-blocker. It's a really neat lost art that's getting put into the spotlight, shot blocking.", "Teams love having a big shot-blocker in there because they can do so much than just swat a ball. They can alter the way an entire team plays.", "So let's talk about the other teams that are in between Baylor and, like, winning the whole thing, right, for the people who have Baylor all the way in their brackets. Like, Texas A&M.", "Yes, last year's champions and their outspoken head coach Gary Blair had a message for President Obama, who picked Baylor. And Gary Blair said don't give up on us. They lost a couple of key players from last year's championship team, but they've got a well-balanced team this year. They've got tournament experience. So, as Gary Blair said, don't give up on the Aggies' quite yet.", "So, Tom, I mean, is anybody really vulnerable in this top group? If you actually had to bet on one of those number one seeds not making it to the Final Four, who would it be?", "Keep an eye on this weekend's Sweet 16 game between Stanford and South Carolina. South Carolina is the number five seed and they played really great defense in their win over Purdue in the second round. Stanford has shown some vulnerability against a good pressure defense. This one could be interesting.", "Finally, you can't talk NCAA tournament without talking about Pat Summitt, the legendary Tennessee coach. I mean, this is the winningest coach in NCAA history. But this is the first tournament that she's done since she's announced that she's had Alzheimer's.", "Yeah.", "And I'm wondering how she's doing and how the Lady Vols are doing.", "Lady Vols are doing - you know, they're still in there. It's been obviously a challenging year. I talked to some people who cover the Lady Vols on a regular basis. Pat Summitt is still coaching. She has delegated a lot of that to her assistant.", "You know, she suffers in comparison to her former self. She is known as a fireball. You know, we all remember her pacing the sidelines, screaming at refs, screaming at players, screaming at anything. Anything less than that is going to be obvious and it is, as she is a more subdued version of who she was before.", "Tennessee officials have been upset with some of the TV coverage. Cameras have tended to linger on Summitt on the sidelines and show her looking somewhat detached at times.", "One reporter I spoke to, Audie, didn't have a sense that this is any more of an emotional run through the tournament, although it seems like it would be. You know, a let's win it for Pat kind of thing. Apparently the Lady Vols are very process-oriented. Right now, they're focused on beating an upstart Kansas team that has beaten two higher seeds. But, you know, they just can't get around the fact of Summitt's condition. And the fact that even she has said he this may be her last year coaching.", "Tom, a lot of fascinating stories in this tournament. Thanks so much for talking with us.", "You're welcome.", "NPR's sports correspondent Tom Goldman, talking about the women's NCAA basketball tournament. Sweet 16 games begin this Saturday."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-353259", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-10-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/27/cnr.03.html", "summary": "At Least 12 Shot, at Least Four Dead at Pittsburgh Synagogue, Gunman in Custody; Trump Addresses Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting.", "utt": ["Hello again everyone. Thanks so much for being with us. I'm Fredricka Whitfield in New York. This \"BREAKING NEWS,\" we're going to begin with a gunman opens fire in a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Official report 12 casualties and at least four dead. CNN's Nick Valencia is tracking the story for us. So Nick what are you learning?", "It is so disturbing Fredricka, how many times have we reported on similar situations, mass shooting in an American city, this time in Pittsburgh, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood, a high concentration of Jewish communities there in that neighborhood. And here's what we know, according to the website for Tree of Life Synagogue, their Saturday service, their Shabbat Service which is the busiest day for any synagogue, started at 9:45 a.m. and the first reports that we got here at CNN, reports of an active shooter came in just after 10:20 this morning. And here's what we know at this time, according to our Correspondent, Shimon Prokupecz, at least 12 people have been shot. We heard earlier from police, there were multiple casualties. What we can confirm here at CNN is at least four people have died. An additional three police officers were evidently injured in gunfire though their injuries, the extent of their injuries has not been made clear just yet. The shooter we can report is in custody. And according to KDKA, that alleged gunman has been described as a white male, a bearded heavy- set, white male; we don't know any other information about this alleged gunman other than to report that he is in custody and is currently, a last report being transported to an -- a hospital with unspecified injuries. This is still a live scene. You're looking at images there on your screen. It is still a very active chaotic scene there in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. We can only assume that police are continuing to sweep the area for other potential threats, perhaps even devices in that general vicinity. The president, President Donald Trump, has tweeted about the incident, so has the first lady just a short time ago, the vice president and the governor of Pennsylvania, we understand is in route, the vice president tweeting about this. We just heard from the Past President of the Tree of Life Synagogue saying that there are three competing services happening on Saturdays around 9:45 and upwards or nearly a hundred people could have been in that building at the time of the shooting. Again, this is all still a very fluid situation here, a very chaotic scene and another scary day here in America. Fredricka?", "All right, thank you so much Nick. We'll check back with you. Let's talk more about all this. I want to bring in Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent, James Gagliano; CNN National Security Analyst, Samantha Vinograd; former U. S. Marshall, Art Roderick; and former Secret Service Agent, Evy Poumpouras; and former Secret Service Agent and Department of Homeland Security official, Charles Marino. Glad that all you can be with me. So we just heard you know, information coming from our sources, 12 shot, four confirmed dead, three, among the injured are three police officers and so James does this tell you that there was an exchange perhaps of gunfire between this gunman who authorities say is now in custody and these -- at least three officers injured?", "Absolutely. So we have somebody who has committed murder, attempted murder, and assaulted police officers and responding law enforcement. You know, people have been texting and saying you know, who has purview here because you know, is this a -- would FBI have oversight for something like this. As we were watching the feed there I can tell you, I saw a Robert Jones who is the FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Pittsburgh Division on scene, he's a former Assistant Director of the WMD Branch, the Headquarters. The FBI will assist in this case until there is a determination which will -- reasoning will be in that direction, that this could possibly be a hate crime. The things have happened thus far, these are murders, obviously these are state charges so the police, it's there scene right now, the FBI is going to offer whatever you know, evidence response team for crime scene, whichever type of response capabilities, investigative capabilities, the FBI lab for pressing -- for processing any type of evidence going forward so they're going to be working in a collaborative effort right now until we determine what type of charges are going to be leveled against his gunman.", "And so there are multiple things going on here. You've got the investigation of the who, the -- what happened, the sequence of events and of course anything that may have preceded what took place today, all at the same time. But when we heard from the former president of the Tree of Life Synagogue, who says, just in recent years did they take action to have more exits, at the same time open doors, it's a place of worship they want to welcome everyone to come in, only on special you know, high- religious holidays would they have security of the door so today may have been a very porous day where anyone and everyone is welcomed. How will investigators approach that knowing that there are so many ways of entry and exit?", "Well many religions does have like many and open-door policy which means that we welcome people to come worship with us particularly on a Saturday morning service where by the way we often say a prayer for peace which in light of what's happened today is deeply upsetting to many of us. But I think that local law enforcement in various communities around the country work with the FBI and work together to try to ascertain specific threats against specific synagogues. As I mentioned earlier, the percentage of anti-Semitic attacks has gone up significantly in 27 -- 2017, we've had 12 anti-Semitic attacks in the state of New York alone so at this point every synagogue has a security team that is regularly assessing what that threat environment looks like and in today's day and age interacting with local law enforcement in their community to ascertain what the threat level looks like, who I would imagine, James are in touch with the FBI to track hate-crimes, threat reporting and potential leads in that respect.", "Yes. And Evy you know, while we heard from the former president who said you know, or Evy (ph) rather, what we -- what we heard from the former president earlier who said he actually worked with Homeland Security you know, and advise on how to protect this place of worship, yet at the same time you know, honor the open-door policy, allowing people in. How will investigators go about trying to see whether there is any correlation between what happened today and the shooter or shooters you know, acts today, whether there were any threats ahead of what happened today, if there's any history with this suspected gunman or gun men plural?", "They're going to go look at that but I think the most important thing to really look at here is that sometimes you don't need a threat. Sometimes there is no warning. And what the president was speaking about earlier that he had worked with Homeland Security and that they actually come to the synagogue, I think that's really important. However, we want to teach I think, what the communities want to take I think (ph) proactive so reaching out to local authorities, saying, hey you know, what, we're calling from a church or a synagogue or a school, wherever you are, and asking them, inviting them over, \"will you come over and speak to us about this, and will you speak to our staff about this.\" And so this waiver body is trained. Everybody has knowledge and knowing something that something as simple as making your emergency doors work, can save lives. And then also teaching them you know, it's not just one door, how -- know where multiple doors are, walk those doors, know where every door leads; teaching them what's cover, what's concealment, how can you use that so that way when you're in an environment and something does happen, you can respond. You don't have the time to stop and think what do I do because those seconds count, those seconds matter, so I think it's super important for communities, for these leaders in these communities to reach out to law enforcement, invite them, create relationships with them. And also, they can train them what to look for, anything odd or any suspicious behavior, anything that might seem you know, concerning. And when you create this relationship, everybody can work collaboratively together because I think what we've been doing historically is putting the onus on law enforcement. \"Law enforcement can solve this problem.\" \"Law enforcement can figure this out.\" And we can't do that because law enforcement is most -- in most situations, a reactive part of this. The problem happens, they try to get there as quickly as possible so we need to shift this. We are seeing more and more mass shootings, historically happen, we need to shift that perspective and say what can we do collectively to be proactive and to try to mitigate or prevent them.", "And Art, while police say this is an active shooter scene, even though they have one suspected gunman in custody. What's the level of questioning, what kind of access, what kind of information potentially can they get out of this suspect before they leave the scene, before they say all clear?", "Yes. They're -- they're in the phase now of making sure that the scene is safe so there's a couple of different things going on, not only are they clearing the facility, the synagogue but also the parking lots surrounding it, and any neighboring houses to make sure that everybody is accounted for and that this individual was acting alone. There also questioning him, as Jim had mentioned earlier, you know, we've been talking about this public safety issue as we did with the mail bomber but you know, they want to make sure that this individual acted alone, that there were no other people helping out and that you know, the area is safe. And one other comment, on the top of the hour, Evy was talking about the same thing about the security surveys. Both with my time at the Department of Homeland Security and with the Department of Justice, as a U. S. Marshall, we did these security surveys all the time for places of worship and that is key because these surveys will talk about issues of exit doors, surveillance cameras, actual security at these facilities. So, it's incumbent upon these places of worship and schools to reach out to local law enforcement or two of federal law enforcement and get these surveys done.", "Yes. And then Charles, what about resources. This happens when already the country's law enforcements, so many divisions on heightened alert as a result of the 13 you know, pipe bombs that have been mailed across the country to a variety of people including you know, former presidents so now you've got according to James' information a little bit earlier, you've got New York authorities who have now descended on protecting a number of synagogues throughout the city as a result of this shooting taking place in Pittsburgh. Talk to me about how resources are being fanned out, how multitasking you know, is the real challenge today?", "Good morning. Thank you for the question and you know, my thoughts and prayers go out to everybody affected by this event. And thanks to law enforcement for doing an excellent job. Resources certainly are an important issue for local law enforcement. I think in the mail bombing case you saw a perfect example of a prioritization where they needed to find this individual, right away. You saw the Joint Terrorism Task Force surge (ph) all of its resources to resolve this issue quickly and the investigation certainly goes on which is requiring resources but those resources will be brought to bear to see this through to a final resolution. In this case here, Evy brought up a good point about coordination with local authorities; local authorities are very well trained in -- regarding what types of resources to respond with depending on the situation. Here it's -- it cannot be stated enough that the training and preparation and early engagement by many Jewish organizations with the Department of Homeland Security, many, many years ago being aware of this very real threat that they face at their synagogues and other places of worship, were prepared with how to survive this type of event. At the end of this is going to be very interesting to find out how many lives were saved because of their preparation and practice for this type of event. But law enforcement is certainly there with the numbers that are necessary to stop the threat.", "Yes. Josh Campbell, CNN Law Enforcement Analyst and former FBI Supervisory Special Agent has also joined the table here and so Josh, you know, this is an immediate priority, simultaneous to the immediate priority of all of these packages that have been mailed out which investigators continue to look at as they have a suspect. However, we just heard from the FBI Director, Wray, who said yesterday, \"don't be surprised if there might be other packages out there,\" so how simultaneously you know, are these investigations happening separately, at the same time perhaps there may even be you know, a crossing of resources?", "So the FBI has 56 field offices around the country, some 400 satellite offices, they're called Residential Agencies; these are the offices in communities around the country with the agents who work with local authorities, state officials, other federal officials, and so they -- they are used to working in their domains. What would happen here is, authorities there in Pittsburgh in the field office would be working with their counterparts locally, fusing up but that information is actually shared to larger networks around the country; they're basically it's been set up since 9/11 where we -- if you have information you can blast that out to partners. It's a two-way street you want to let them know what's going on in your area, you want to know if they know anything that might be helpful to you so that's all going on right now. Lastly, it's -- there's so many resources that are available to law enforcement, it's what they call mutual aid, where if one -- if something happens in one location and you know, officers can plus up, ask for assistance, I imagine that's probably going on right now. And so I'm -- I'm not so much concerned with the lack of resources. One thing that's interesting is if you're back at FBI Headquarters right now in the Department of Justice, this is a central nervous system and so you are actually monitoring both of these threats. Right as we speak right now, I have no doubt that CNN is on in the Strategic Information Operations Center at FBI Headquarters and they're seeing what's happening on the ground, they're communicating with the officers who are sending them intelligence that we don't see right now, again trying to get that picture, but very much an all- hands-on-deck approach to be able to cover two very high-profile incidents at the same time.", "Sam, take us to the scene right now, likely of what's taking place. While authorities say they have one person in custody, we don't know if that person is cooperating, providing any more information, about digital footprint or about whether that person was working in concert with anybody else. At the same time there is the immediacy of tending to the injured. We know that there are you know, 12 people shot, four dead, those are the latest numbers and authorities of course don't want those numbers of fatalities to rise, how do they...", "Well that's...", "... do all this?", "... exactly right. The immediate priorities to make sure that anybody that's been injured is stabilized, they're going to take care of that person. James you mentioned this earlier, they're also going to make sure that whomever is coming out of that building is not in any way implicated in the crime. And those things can happen at the same time, while simultaneously trying to make sure that this was in fact an isolated incident. We do not yet know whether this individual was in touch with anybody else or whether he inspired any other attacks around the country, even if there wasn't that direct contact. We've talked about that with respect to the bombing suspect and whether he inspired copy -- copy-cat attacks; this is a massive media event . I would imagine that the FBI in coordination with local law enforcement around the country is advising folks on the ground to make sure that no threats come up over the coming hours as members of the Jewish community participate in afternoon services on Shabbat and other members of religious communities are also worshiping. If this is defined as a hate crime that implicates the Jewish community but also implicates other places of worship as well and I would imagine that authorities are coordinating again about any threats that come up over the coming hours.", "And James that digital footprint, you brought up earlier, so important in investigating today, not just trying to understand the history, what preceded but sometimes it also raises a flag of what might be planned next so...", "Within mere...", "... what are they looking for?", "... within mere moments yesterday of Mr. Sayoc's name being released to the public...", "Yes.", "... we already had through Lexis and Nexis checks his bankruptcy filing; we had pictures of him on social media platform, -- CNN was even able to pull him out of a crowded rally and isolate that image. The digital footprint here is critical. And again, what it goes back to is motivation. We look at this, the pieces seem to fall in place, who were the victims, who were the people that were targeted but as people have been expressing in the past week during this bombing scare, law enforcement have got to keep an open mind of this. Law enforcement have got to make sure that they don't get so hyper focused in one direction that they close their bandwidth down and don't take everything into account. And that's why profiling has become you know, racial profiling or any other type of profiling has become an asset (ph) for law enforcement, we want to make sure, look active shooters, 4 percent of them are women but immediately you're not going to you know, who that out, say well this couldn't be, you've got to make sure that you keep everything in play and you follow the evidence wherever it takes you.", "Yes. So Evy, you know, while this is an active shooter scene right now one person according to authorities is still -- I mean or is in custody. Can you explain for us what are law enforcement looking for before they feel certain that they can give it an all clear, that the threat -- the immediate threat is over in that neighborhood?", "You know, they're going to want to try to speak to him and hopefully he is willing to talk and that's the most important thing, asking him those questions, right off the bat, who's working with you, are there any bombs, are there any other guns, what's going on, just to address those immediate things. And if he is speaking that would be helpful to law enforcement. But at the same time, you have to corroborate what he's saying because obviously this is an individual who just open fire, you can't take what they say also is a truth so...", "Right.", "... getting that information verbally from him, trying to assess if there are other people involved, going around the area, securing the area, finding out where he lives, his residency; they immediately want to go simultaneously, go there, assess the environment, looking at the digital footprint, looking at who is talking to, to contacting family, and friends, doing all these things. And it's -- it's -- you don't want to leave the scene until you really know what's going on and you feel comfortable leaving the scene. So...", "Yes.", "... them staying there and taking their time is a wise thing because they're trying to make sure they check all those boxes not make it -- you can't make any assumptions, right? We...", "Right.", "... can't assume, \"OK we've got him. We're good,\" and that's really important to make sure because how many -- also how many weapons that we have, did he have any explosive devices. And if you're looking at a large amount, there might be a question of well, did he get resources from somewhere, did someone else help him...", "Yes.", "... with you know, -- any other individuals involved. And once you can say with some level of certainty, \"OK we can remove,\" and it's also rendering the area safe because this is a residential area, people live there, before law enforcement takes that huge print out, there's all these personnel there, before they leave they want to make sure that everybody else there is also safe. So it's not just...", "Right.", "... securing him but securing the area and the people that live there.", "Right. Multiple teams have fanned out, Josh?", "Yes. We can't underscore the potential value here of having a subject that's been taken alive. Now sometimes in these incidences if there's an exchange of gunfire, a shooter will be neutralized, again that's up to the officers on scene to determine is there a threat, does this person continue to pose a threat. If they're able to take them into custody, now they can interview him. Now they can talk to him. Again, a dead body doesn't speak, right, so if a neutralized subject is there, it makes it a Herculean task for law enforcement officers to", "So it's almost a priority to see if you can take down and keep alive so that you can extract more...", "No.", "... information?", "I wouldn't -- I wouldn't say that that's a priority because again the focus of law enforcement officers will be to neutralize the threat, so they're not going to go into the scene thinking OK well let's try to take this person if we can alive. Their main focus is, does this person pose a threat to them around. I'm saying this is a residual benefit of being able to have someone that you can then interview, you can ask, \"OK, why were you doing what you are doing. Were you working with other people?\" And it's interesting because in some of these cases that we've seen, you have a -- people across the spectrum, some people are really proud of what they've done and they want to tell you about it, this is why was here, this is...", "Yes.", "... what's going through my mind. Other people may clam up. Other people may immediately regret the decisions that they've...", "Yes.", "... made and then be cooperative. Some people might lawyer up and not say anything at all. But again it's -- it's a potential value for law enforcement officers to be able to sit in front of someone and ask question.", "Might it also be on display that this might be an especially combative individual, we're talking about three police officers that were shot?", "Yes. And to Josh's point, the problem in most of these active shooter situations that we've seen over the last 20 years, the person committing them is some type of zealot or crazy person and they're going in there with the notion that they're going to take their own life or they're going to force law enforcement to take their life; that makes it very difficult. Look where we are just over a year from the Las Vegas shooter. We still don't have answers there, why? He killed himself. And had no social media platforms. Had no digital footprint in reality other than his surveillance cameras and we are still struggling to tie the pieces together. And people argue all the time and say, \"Why are you so focused on the motivation behind it?\" Well, it's causality and it helps us get in front and being proactive of hopefully preventing the next one. I look at situations like this, a year ago, the vehicular attack down and lower Manhattan, just a few blocks from here. New York City decided to put up concrete bollards on the...", "Right.", "... Westside Highway...", "Around Halloween.", "... bike paths, they responded to it. And it's awful to say thi,s in a free and open society, where we cherish our civil liberties, we love living in an open society but these are soft targets and people are looking at them as such and going, I can't -- maybe I can get away with this at the airport, I can't take out my vengeance at the Fed or at a museum where there is security but maybe I can walk into a house of worship or a school or someplace that doesn't have adequate security.", "This is terrorism in so many different ways. All right, moments ago the former Rabbi of Tree of Life Synagogue, Chuck Diamond, spoke to reporters and he had this to say.", "About 9:45, so the -- I mean, Jews come later services so for a lot of people that's probably a good thing today. At the time we -- there's a -- three services in the buildings as you've heard and there's maybe 10 to 15 I would say for each service possibly that time. People would be in the outer area may be just coming in, there are few staff people who might be greeting people so.", "There's one entrance and Wilkins", "There's one entrance. During -- on Shabbat there's no security. I have to tell you I always, it's in the back of my mind, had something like this and it might happen you know, because of the way of the world today.", "One of the Past Presidents Michael Eisenberg...", "Right.", "... tell us that he did go under -- he did conduct training...", "Yes.", "... including Homeland Security...", "Yes.", "Yes. People came in, sponsored by the Jewish community -- the Federation of Pittsburgh, has a very active program and...", "What kind of training did they go into?", "Well, I'll tell you, I wasn't there for that particular training but it's something -- again, as a Jewish professional and with what's going on in the world, even though we've been safely safe here in Pittsburgh, it's just something that's in the back of your mind, to see somebody -- I once had during Hebrew -- the religious school time, somebody pulled up in front of the building wearing a long trench coat and went to go into the trunk of his car, and I knew him but I was -- I went out to check it out just to make sure. So you have to you know, you just always have to be careful and this is what you dread hearing. I got a call about 10 o'clock from an old congregant who said what they heard. I'm -- I'm concerned...", "Sorry.", "... I'm concerned about the people who were the early -- the people who came on time, and most of them are older and I just talked to one of their sons who doesn't know where his mother is and you know, it's a concern and...", "So many people showing up to the scene not knowing if their loved one is all right...", "Right.", "... What is your words for them?", "Just to \"have some faith and hang in there,\" and try to be of comfort to them. It's a very difficult time for all of us -- for everybody but for those who knew people who were there. I called people that I knew, trying to see that they were OK you know, and one is a doctor and he said he saw somebody's name on the list who was taken to the emergency room who was again one of those people who were always there in time.", "Had you ever talk to the congregation about what if this happened, would you think they knew what to do?", "I have never spoken to them about it, no. You know, again I had it in my mind what I would do in helping people and it's kind of frustrating that you know, in some ways you wish you were there to help people; you always think like you can be of help to some degree. I'd worked in a synagogue in Detroit, Michigan where in 19 -- I wasn't there in 1962 but a Rabbi was killed by somebody who came in and ...", "We're hearing unconfirmed reports that this was fueled by hate.", "That's what it sounds like. There's a lot of anti-Semitism out there and there's a lot of hate out there. You can just look in the news everyday. And it's sobering that it's touched our community. And I've gotten text from people from Israel, from Canada, you know, wanting to know if I was OK. And it's just -- it's a terrible time.", "The man who was the past president said now when he talks with security officials, he can say -- instead of saying what if it happens, he can say, it did happen and hopefully get more done.", "Well, it did happen, and then you see -- during the week, the doors are locked. On Shabbat, it's a little bit more of a chore because you don't necessarily have anybody in the office to let people in. We can't let that happen. We have to take all precautions at all times unfortunately.", "Have you been able to reach anybody that you know that may have been in there?", "I reached out to a few people who weren't there. One particular person who was always on time with his son coming in from Sewickley said that he got caught up in traffic. And when he got here, he got out of the car and a policeman said, you know, where you going. He said, I'm just going to services. And he said, no, you're not. And he went home.", "Describe the Jewish community in Squirrel Hill for people that are watching that aren't from Pittsburgh.", "Yes. It's a really nice -- I grew up here. And I live right up there around the block. So it's a community -- I mean, the house that I grew up in. And it's a wonderful Jewish community. There's -- I think we all get together across the board whether it's Orthodox or Hasidic or conservative or reform. And we have wonderful Jewish communal organizations like the federation, like the Jewish community centers. So it's very vibrant and very active.", "Do you know --", "Do you know if any children --", "All right, we're listening to the former rabbi of the Tree of Life Synagogue Chuck Diamond there saying it's a very sobering day. A lot now has to be reconsidered. He too recalls it being an open door policy at that church and says security was not something that would generally happen. High level security on Shabbat. But all of that now he says has to be reconsidered. So, again, active shooter scene there in Pittsburgh, in this community, even though one person is in custody. Meantime, we just got in this tweet from the president. This now perhaps his third tweet of the morning in respect to what's happening in Pittsburgh. Saying this now, \"Events in Pittsburgh are far more devastating than originally thought. Spoke with mayor and governor to inform them that the federal government has been and will be with them all the way. I will speak to the media shortly and make further statement at Future Farmers of America.\" The president will be heading there. You're looking at a very rainy situation there at Andrews there where the president's motorcade on the way before the president boards Air Force One. Perhaps he'll have more comments. It's always an opportunity that reporters try to take. But given very rainy, nasty situation, who knows how difficult that will be. But of course we're on it. Meantime, we're going to continue to talk here with my panel here at the table. Also joining me now, Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Crime and Justice Reporter. So it was through your sources we first learned that there were 12 people shot. Shimon, a confirmation of four dead. It is still an active shooter situation. What are your sources telling you now?", "I think we need to be clear to viewers, there are no -- there's no others shooting, there are no other shooters at this point. They believe that they have the one person responsible for this in custody. What's going on right now is that law enforcement there is going through the building. There are several floors in the building and they're going through. There were some suspicious packages that they seem --we're probably going to get an all clear here pretty soon. They've gone through the building. They have not found anything so far so we do expect at least the scene to open up for investigators now to go come in and start processing the crime scene. The other things that we learned is that the shooter here, during the incident, during the shooting, he uttered anti-Jewish phrases. He was talking about Jews alive certainly while the police were taking him into custody during his surrender. He was talking about Jews. So clearly this is now developing into an obviously hate -- some kind of a hate crime. So we'd likely see the FBI come in and take over the investigation. But I think --", "Let's listen in right now.", "-- at Squirrel Hill, be speaking, making a statement at the Farmers of America. You see what we're doing -- the future farmers, they have the big conference and we'll be going there. I guess some of you will be going with me and we'll be making a major statement. It's a terrible, terrible thing what's going on with hate in our country frankly and all over the world. And something has to be done. Something has to be done. But, it looks like the results are coming in and they're more devastating than anybody originally thought in the morning. In the morning, they thought that it was the shooter but they had the shooter, they soon would, but the results are very devastating. You're seeing the numbers come in. So, we'll be speaking to you at the conference, the Future Farmers of America conference, and it's just a shame to watch this, to see this. For so many years, so much of it, absolutely a shame. Have any questions?", "Mr. President, do you think you need to revisit gun laws?", "Gun laws. Gun laws, Mr. President.", "Well, again, this has little to do with it if you take a look. If they had protection inside, the results would have been far better. This is a dispute that will always exist I suspect. But if they had some kind of a protection inside the temple, maybe it could have been a very much different situation. They didn't. And he was able to do things that unfortunately he shouldn't have been able to do. I hear the police were outstanding. I hear the police did an incredible job. And as you know, numerous police were badly injured. But, again, law enforcement did a fantastic job. But we're going to have a very complete statement for you with the results are coming in of what took place, how it took place. Again, law enforcement was outstanding. As always. I mean, as usual, and as always, law enforcement was really outstanding. They stepped up to the place. But Pittsburgh, great community, incredible people. I spoke to the governor. I spoke to the mayor. And to see this happening again and again and again is just a shame.", "Mr. President --", "-- instead of seeing it happen again and again, to end this kind of violence?", "Well, it's a violence, it's a -- you look at the violence all over the world. I mean, the world has violence. The world is a violent world. And you think when you're over it, it just sort of goes away, but then it comes back in the form of a madman, a wacko. I think one thing we should do is we should stiffen up our laws in terms of the death penalty. When people do this, they should get the death penalty and they shouldn't have to wait years and years. Now the lawyers will get involved and everybody's going to get involved and we'll be 10 years down the line. And I think they should stiffen up laws and I think they should very much bring the death penalty into vogue. Anybody that does a thing like this to innocent people whether in temple or in church, we had so many incidents with churches, they should be -- they should really suffer the ultimate price. They should pay the ultimate price. I felt that way for a long time. Some people disagree with me. I can't imagine why. But this has to stop. So we're going to have a statement at our stop with the young farmers.", "Mr. President, towards the beginning of your presidency, you met with the NRA. You said maybe you were the president who can help solve this. Do you see that now as a possibility?", "It's a case where -- and again, nobody knows exactly what took place yet. It's too soon. But this is a case where if they had an armed guard inside, they might have been able to stop him immediately. So this would be a case where if there was an armed guard inside the temple, they would have been able to stop him. Maybe there would have been nobody killed except for him frankly. So it's a very, very, very difficult situation. And when you look at it, we can look at it two ways. But, again, if they had somebody to protect people -- now, isn't it a shame that you even have to speak that way? isn't it a shame that we even have to think of that inside of a temple or inside of a church? But certainly the results might have been far better.", "Do you think that all churches and synagogues should have armed guards?", "I hate to think of it that way. I will say that. I hate to think of it that way. So we'll see you with the Future Farmers.", "Is that what you're suggesting, sir?", "Is that what you're suggesting?", "No, it certainly an option. I mean, in this world, this is a world with a lot of problems. And it has been a world with a lot of problems for many years. Many, many years. And you could say, frankly, for many centuries. I mean, you're looking at what goes on, but certainly you want protection. And they didn't have any protection. They had a maniac walk in and they didn't have any protection. And that is just so sad to see. So sad to see. The results could have been much better. It is a very, very -- it's a very difficult thing. For me to stand as president and to watch any of this go, you know, before I ran for office, I'd watch incidents like this with churches and other things and think, what a shame, what a shame. But it's even tougher when you're the president of the United States and you have to watch this kind of a thing happen. It is so sad to see. So we'll see you at the -- with the young farmers. A lot of them are out there.", "Do you think there's anything you can do with the NRA?", "We're always talking. We're always talking to the", "All right, the president on his way to Air Force One there, and then on his way to the Future Farmers of America. But before that moment -- taking a moment there to answer questions from reporters there with a variety of thoughts on the shooting that has taken place in Pittsburgh. Everything from, you know, the world is a violent world, saying perhaps what needs to be entertained is a stiffer laws on the death penalty. Bring the death penalty into vogue he says. And he also says, you know, it's a case where no one knows. However, he also said if perhaps there was an armed guard inside the synagogue, they would have been able to stop him. Meaning, the one gunman that we understand at least is in custody right now. All right, back with me now, with my panel here. Josh, Sam, and Shimon. All right, so a lot there. Sam, your first reaction there? The president focusing not just, you know, on the consequences and not necessarily drilling down on the causation. You know, he did start out talking about, you know, this being a display of hate. But then went to stiffer laws. Your thoughts?", "I think it's an incredibly irresponsible statement by the president. This is a live investigation. He made statements at the beginning that this was far more devastating than he had previously thought. We don't know when he was briefed, we don't know exactly what he was briefed on. But there is still people that have not been able to get in touch with their family members who were at their services this morning. There's still people waiting to hear if their relatives, if their children, if their parents may have been involved in this incident. And saying that it's more devastating than originally thought, I can't even imagine how that must feel. And to crib from Josh' commentary in the break, This was his greatest hits. He went to everything he typically does in this situation. The death penalty, arming more people to prevent more gun violence. And going back to this notion that this isn't the result of a narrative underway in America. That this isn't the result of a hateful rhetoric increasing at this juncture in time. He's looking to point fingers, again, while this is an ongoing investigation and we don't have a whole lot of information yet.", "Often times, people are looking to the president to then address, you know, a causation of hate. I mean, this is a place of worship. And someone has gone into a place of worship, disrupted peace, killed, injured. And people are looking for the president to talk about, you know, how do we get to unifying some kind of, you know, bringing people together message. Josh?", "That's right. And I think what we just saw there, you know, makes it a little harder for law enforcement. Because when you think about it -- I mean, I know this being inside the FBI when there's a major incident, the law enforcement community will reluctantly share information. They'll only share so much -- as much as they need to, to inform the public about a threat. To let them know, OK, they're on the case. But, the reason why it gets kind of frustrated now in this side of the business to get information is because they really hold that close to the vest because they don't want to speculate. They want to get the facts straight. I remember, you know, being a -- handling a number of these incidents where we're thinking, OK, we're pretty sure that this is the case but pretty sure isn't good enough. So until we know what the truth is, law enforcement isn't going to go out there and speculate. We saw the opposite just now and that's what's unfortunate here is that, you know, I can -- I know working with teams under President George W. Bush, under President Obama, the White House teams, any time a president would step to the mic, they would have a reason, they would have a message. They would determine what do they need to tell the American people because their words matter. I don't know if there was a strategy behind that but there's a lot of speculation. Again, he's the commander-in-chief. He -- you know, he can say whatever he wants. Law enforcement isn't going to overrule him. But it's just fascinating to see that kind of speculation about what's happened here when we don't even know when law enforcement officers are still processing the crime scene.", "However, though, he has been briefed and he does know what happened here.", "It's clear what happened here, right? I mean, law enforcement has already told some of us what has happened here. Is that they think it's a hate crime.", "He put this by saying as we're learning more, at first, I didn't --", "Yes. At first,", "Loosely he says that.", "Yes. And it is challenging because he -- instead of uniting folks and saying, you know, we'll get through this, we're coming off a pretty scary week in this country when you think about with all the packaged bombs.", "And still in the midst of.", "Still in the midst of. But not only for us that are sort of dealing this but what about law -- for law enforcement this is a very perilous time. When you talk to senior law enforcement officials, they will tell you what we are facing and what we are seeing on the threat stream, it's really scary what's going on.", "And let me just interject while you are making that point. We're now looking at aerial images of a very sizable -- this is a large synagogue taking place in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood. This was the Tree of Life Synagogue where if you're just now joining us, this is where a shooting took place earlier today not long after services were to get under way. We understand they were going to be -- they were probably simultaneous at least three services taking place in this very sizable synagogue. Police have said sources that Shimon Prokupecz has spoken with confirming 12 people shot. Three officers shot and four people had been killed. So continue with your thoughts, Shimon.", "Yes. So just to get back to that scene. So here's -- just to get back to what's going on, on the scene. So police have spent sort of the last several hours -- it's couple of hours I should say going through, floor by floor of this synagogue. They came across some suspicious packages, some stuff belonging to him. Medical bags as well because obviously they were treating the injured. They've gone through some of that. They don't believe right now that there are any bombs or explosives inside the building. So we should be seeing them exit the building where investigators now can go in and start processing the crime scene.", "And I think that makes it difficult too because think about it. You know, a shooting takes place, people sometimes drop what they have. Their purses, bag, they drop, they run, et cetera. So now when investigators go on, while they might be looking for a bag or anything in association with a suspect, they also have to treat everything, right, everything as potentially suspect. So it takes time, that's why now a couple hours after the fact it is still considered an active scene.", "And especially we're hearing reports that there may have been a Brit which is a Jewish ceremony for newborn boys happening at the temple this morning. There maybe presents as well. There maybe additional packages that people brought into that building which would further complicate things.", "And Fred, if you think about what happened just last week, right where we're seated, right here in the CNN's center, you know, we talked a lot about these -- what security officials here are wondering why do you evacuate a building if there's a device somewhere. Because they don't know if there are other devices that are elsewhere and they have to methodically work through and tick through every square inch of a facility. A massive compound as we see some of these images. They're going to have to go through all that. And to your great point, they don't know what's suspicious and what's not. They treat everything suspicious unless they, you know, have that comfort level that, OK, now we can move on. But it just shows the", "Right. Evy Poumpouras, national security journalist and former Secret Service agent, I want to bring you back in to this. Evy, so as it relates to the president's comments, he was there on the tarmac before getting on to Air Force One, with a scattering, you know, of thoughts about this investigation. It being, you know, worse than he initially thought. Also, you know, going to thoughts of that's why you have to have stiffer laws, death penalty. And had there been an armed guard in his view at the synagogue, perhaps this wouldn't be so bad. What's your experience in terms of a president's message, how it can either help or complicate matters?", "You know, I think when he receives his briefing and making sure what he does or doesn't address. But there's a couple of things I do want to hit on. One of the things that concerned me sometimes when I see -- when we go on air and we discuss these things, is when people address these shooters and individuals as wackos or as crazies. And when we take --", "And the president used that word, you know, a world of -- this is a world that is a violent world and you have wackos.", "Right. And so the concern with that is when we put people in these boxes, we're not solving the problem. A lot these needs to be prevented rather than reactive. You know, even in harping on that because the capital punishment, that's all after the fact. And quite often, when people commit these egregious crimes, the more severe punishment will not help. But identifying individuals and labeling them as such is not going to be able to help us. But being able to understand why these individuals do this, understanding who he is, is there a history of mental health? Is there previous criminal record? Is there hate? What has happened in that person's life? If we can gather knowledge and identify the people that do this, understand the profiles. Are there profiles? Are there patterns? And then create a society where we together can prevent this type of stuff or spot these white flags. So calling people names or calling people crazy or wacko, when I see that, that doesn't help. You're just putting somebody in this random category. And then now what do you do with that individual? And as far as having somebody at the front door security, you can have that. But what I've learned as I do -- a lot of schools and religious places reach out to me and they'll ask me, they'll tell me, we're afraid, what do we do? One of the biggest problems they have is money. They cannot afford to pay somebody to stand by that door all the time. Resources is a big problem. And we also see in this incident there was, what, three officers so far from what we understand were injured. Those are three officers. They had a problem probably with this individual and were injured during a gunfight. So having that security person at every church or synagogue or school, or any other soft target, that's a big undertaking.", "Yes, it is. Well, you know, on the issue of security, we've heard a few different things. Whether be from the former pastor, the former president, you know, and even a member of that synagogue. All saying that there have been in the past some threats of -- or anti-Semitic behavior that's been targeted at that synagogue. We also heard the thought that police presence or higher security only takes place on high, you know, religious holidays. But on a day like this, a regular, you know, Saturday services, they don't have the same kind of intensified police security. But we do know, you know, Sam, across country at so many synagogues we're learning right now as a result of what's taking place here, they are heightening security. Is there a regular practice perhaps at many synagogues across the country have taken given that there has been a history of anti-Semitic behavior, you know, from coast to coast? And we heard from the former president of this synagogue who said he actually consulted with Homeland Security about the best measures to put in place.", "Well, Fred, the president was right about one thing, and that is that anti-Semitism and hate crimes are nothing new. I think he'd be hard pressed to find a Jew or a member of another minority religious group that hasn't received some kind of threat or been part of some kind of hate crime. Most synagogues around the country are very aware of the toxic environment in this country at any time against the Jewish community. And very regularly share information with local law enforcement. Certain synagogues have law enforcement -- direct law enforcement relationships and even have security guards at the door. I belong to a synagogue. It has security personnel on the high holy days. I have to tell you -- and we don't know exactly what happened yet at this synagogue. Two security guards with pistols even at the door of a synagogue are going to have a hard time working against a man with an AR-15 or an assault rifle of any kind. So, I don't know that it is the -- it is on the synagogue to really work better with local law enforcement.", "Security doesn't always mean what you see either.", "Correct. And Josh can speak to that I'm sure. But the direct relationship between local law enforcement in small towns, in cities, in those synagogues and other places of worship is even more important today.", "Yes, it is a reality in the United States and this is, you know, very unfortunate. I say this as, you know, some of the work of law enforcement liaising with community groups, community -- you know, religious groups that the Jewish community is different when it comes to the threat, when it comes to how they look at security. And it shows you just, you know, when an incident like this happens in one location, it still terrorizes people across the country because they'll wonder, will this happen to us next. Now, you know, I look at this, it's hard to disassociate yourself personally. I mean, I go to a Protestant church. While walking in the door, there's not an armed security guard at large present and they're not constantly getting threats. There are security that rove around obviously, you know, we're in a heightened state --", "There's a presumption of safety that everyone goes when they go to a house of worship.", "Correct. But, you know -- you're exactly right. But unfortunately for the Jewish community in the United States, security is a mainstay. It is part of going to synagogue. And, you know, I can tell you, you know, walking around Los Angeles, you see synagogues, you see a large security presence outside. You just can't forget what that means to people to know that, you know, I can't even go in to this facility to practice my faith and my religion is what I always having to keep in the back of my mind, and as a very real reminder in front of me, that I'm under a threat. It's very serious and, you know, to Sam's point, law enforcement and the Jewish community, they're synced up across the nation. They share information. They share best practices. It's just this reality and it's disheartening, and obviously sad when you have incidents like this happen.", "Yes. And Evy, are you still there?", "And one thing I want to jump on regarding what Josh is saying, security and law enforcement, two different things. You can have security guards or people there. It doesn't always mean they're going to be armed. And then even if they are, you don't know what their level of training is. And so, here, we have again three officers who tried to deal with this individual and got injured. And you're going to have a security person who's hired from a private company, you don't know what level of training they have. You don't know how good they are. You don't even know if they can run from -- I've seen some security people in some places where I don't know if they could run from one corner of the block to the other. And so there's also that. It's security and law enforcement, they are not the same thing. So just because you put somebody there who's got, you know, a uniform on doesn't mean they're going to be able to deal with the situation.", "Right. Instincts are different and measured differently. Shimon?", "Yes, exactly. And look, when you think about the Orlando shooting where all those people were killed, I was there, I covered that shooting. There was a police officer out there who was overpowered by the shooter who was using high-powered weapons. So that's going to happen and that could have -- could be what happened here. You know, there are some indications that he was using a high-powered weapon here. So even if there was an armed guard there, what is one armed guard going to do --", "Right.", "-- against someone who comes in with --", "All of these situations are very different.", "They're very different.", "There may be some common threads bu, you know, there is no framework --", "The thing is --", "-- you know, for terrorism.", "Right. When -- if someone wants to do something like this, there is really nothing anyone can do to stop it, right. No matter how much security you have, you know, you -- the concern always is as we hear, like, did someone know something about this individual and didn't come forward? Did someone know something about this individual and didn't come forward? Did someone know that he was about to do this, that he was planning, that he had these weapons, that he had these anti-Jewish views or saying something recently? We'll see if that was the case and if someone didn't come forward. Or was this guy kind of just in hiding and planning this on his own. You know, those are the things that usually prevent these kinds of attacks. But once someone gets ready to do something like this and, you know, and Josh could certainly speak to this better than I can, there's really nothing you can do to stop them. So the idea that, you know, there may be -- whether there was an armed guard there or not, I don't even know why we're talking about. You know, we should be focusing on the people who've injured. The people who are now suffering, the families. I mean, on a Saturday, you know, it's the Shabbat, it's the Sabbath. It's like, you're in there to pray, you're in there just to be with your family. Yes. And this should not happen, right? And that's the larger question here in terms of what is going on. If this continues and just continues to happen. And that's something we should remember law enforcement is facing with. This is a big problem for them right now.", "Yes. There are multiple hallmarks of terrorism, terror acts, hate-filled acts like this. Clearly no singular --", "Guys, I have to go, I'm sorry.", "Yes. We got you, Evy, thank you so much. But no singular framework for something as heinous like this. Thanks to all of you. Stick around. We got so much more straight ahead. Again, this is still an active live shooter scene even though one person is in custody. Law enforcement remains there at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. 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{"id": "CNN-172829", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2011-9-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/22/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "NASA Satellite To Crash Friday", "utt": ["I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines. Now Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is pushing ahead with plans to request full UN membership on Friday that's even though U.S. President Barack Obama has strongly hinted at a U.S. veto and said direct talks, not settlement at the UN are the answer. Now thousands of Greek public transport workers are on strike today over government austerity measures. For 24 hours of industrial action involves bus, subway, tram, and train workers has brought much of Athens to a standstill with kilometers long traffic jams. And in a sign of support for Libya's revolutionary fighters, the U.S. is reopening its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli. And it is the first time the embassy is opened since Moammar Gadhafi's overthrow. It was ransacked and damaged earlier this year. Now the Pope has arrived in his homeland of Germany. The visit has triggered a huge police presence of some 6,000 officers providing security, that's because protests are expected as the sex abuse scandal casts a shadow over the Catholic church. Now let's take a look at another of our top stories: the six ton satellite that is set to crash back to Earth on Friday. Now NASA says it is too early to predict exactly when and where that will happen, though the U.S. space agency says it will not be over North America. Now most of the spacecraft will burn up in the atmosphere, but more than two dozen pieces of it are expected to survive. Our John Zarrella joins us now from CNN Miami. And John, how worried should we be about the falling pieces from this satellite?", "Well, you know, don't forget, Kristie, and NASA points this out, about 70 percent of the Earth is made of water. So they fully expect that the pieces of the UAR's satellite will likely fall into either very uninhabited areas or water. But they can't be sure. And what they do say now is that, as you pointed out, it will not -- it will not hit North America, but it will come down some time tomorrow afternoon U.S. time.", "The clock is ticking. Sometime after midnight tonight, if NASA's calculations are right, an old, dead satellite will re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up -- most of it, but not all of it. About half a ton will make it through.", "There are some pieces that are made of stainless steel and titanium and beryllium that have very high melting temperatures and those pieces will survive. And we have a list of about 26 pieces and they range from a few tens of pounds to a few hundred pounds in size.", "You heard him right, some of the chunks of junk could be hundreds of pounds. But there's no need for you to run out and buy a hardhat. NASA scientists in Houston say there's very little risk that any of the debris from the six ton UARS, upper atmosphere research satellite, will hit you.", "You could be hundreds of miles off in where it's coming down...", "Harvard University astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell believes the space agency is probably right, because much of the Earth is water.", "This is not like the old Skylab scare of the 70s when you had a 70 ton space station crashing out of the sky. This thing is only six or seven tons. So I agree with the folks in Houston, it's really nothing to be terribly concerns about.", "Parts of Skylab did hit western Australian in 1979. So where will this one come down? Well, no one knows. Even minutes before re-entering the atmosphere, NASA won't be able to pinpoint the exact location. The satellite is traveling so fast it covers thousands of miles of space in just minutes. Right now the impact swath covers portions of six continents.", "Part of the problem is the spacecraft itself is tumbling in unpredictable ways. And it is very difficult to very precisely pinpoint where it's coming down, even right before the re-entry. If the thing happens to come down in a city, that would be bad. The chances of it causing expensive damage or actually injuring someone are much higher.", "One thing is certain, once it hits the atmosphere 50 miles up, it will take only a few minutes before the surviving pieces hit the Earth.", "Now if it's dark with there UARs satellite comes down then NASA says it's probably going to be a pretty spectacular show like a meteor show with all of those pieces burning up in the atmosphere -- Kristie.", "All right. John Zarrella joining us live from CNN Miami. Thank you. According to estimates by policymakers, activists and scholars the number of modern day slaves ranges from about 10 million to 30 million people. But how many of those slaves work for you? Now that is the unsettling question being posed by a new online tool. It's called Slavery Footprint. It is the latest initiative from the anti-slavery call and response campaign in partnership with the U.S. State Department. It allows consumers to measure to what extent they are complicit in the use of forced labor around the world. And here is how it works. Now users answer a series of 11 questions about their homes, habits and consumption of everyday product. Take the question what is under your roof? Now you can add bedrooms or you can add bathrooms, a home office, a car, a scooter, a variety of objects here. And then by pressing this wheel you can then tally up how many items like light bulbs, pillows and textiles you have. According to anti-slavery activists all of these items on this list have some connection to bonded labor. And you can check out the statistic on the right. More than 200,000 children are forced to work in India's carpet belt of Uttar Pradesh. That would make the operation bigger than companies like Sony and Boeing in terms of employees. Now let's take a peek inside your medicine cabinet. And chances are you have a lot of these products in your bathroom -- sunscreen, soap, toothpaste. And you can click on any that you don't have. And here's the message, every day tens of thousands of women buy makeup. And activists say that tens of thousands of Indian children are forced to mine Formica, that's the material that makes makeup sparkle. And this one is for all your gadget geeks out there. If you have any of these electronic products from laptops and digital cameras, TVs, MP3 players, listen up, they contain Colton (ph). This is a metal used as a superconductor and mined by slaves in countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo. Of course the point of answering all of these questions is to give an idea of how many slaves might make the products you use. The survey uses a formula based on where the raw materials for each product comes from and where finished items are made so you end up with a slavery footprint score. Now each and every one of us form a part of the slave supply chain even if we're not aware of it. And of course the idea is for us to use this information and to take action. And you can share your results on Facebook or Twitter, or you can send a letter to a company telling them you want to know about the use of modern day slavery in their supply chains. And the slavery footprints poignant question applies to corporations as well -- how many slaves work for you? So how many slaves work for anti-slavery activist Justin Dylan who leads the call and response campaign? Well, I caught up with the man behind this latest app just a little earlier.", "I took the survey last night and sadly I have about 86 people forced to work for me to produce the lifestyle that I enjoy.", "And with this application, with this knowledge that you want to share with other people, what do you hope to achieve with the Slavery Footprint app?", "Well, with Slavery Footprint what we didn't want to do is create another calculator that only spits out bad news. What I believe is that people carry around stories and not necessarily statistics. So with Slavery Footprint we actually wanted to be able to tell you the story of your life and how it fits in with the globalized economy. Today, slavery is worse now than it ever was before, but most people have a hard time of understanding how it affects their lives. Slavery footprint is the first chapter for most people in understanding how it directly affects their lives, but most importantly about what they can do to change it.", "Now your worked with the U.S. State Department to create this app. What kind of support did they give you?", "Well, they were phenomenal not only in their sharing of knowledge, but they helped the beginning of the funding of the app and really were able to use a lot of their relational equity to be able to bring the right kind of experts and stakeholders to bare on this. The technology that we've created and the algorithm that we've created around Slavery Footprint is a very vetted and multi-stakeholder approach where we're able to use vetted data to be able to determine the slavery in different types of products that we use every day while being very brand agnostic. We don't go after any particular brand, we're talking about different types of products that you use every day, which is very important.", "Now this new app, it follows the call and response app as well as your documentary of the same name. So do you feel that consumers are taking notice? Do you feel that the concept of buying slave free is really gaining traction now?", "Well, I think we're getting there. I think we've just lit the fuse on the rocket. What's really going to make the rocket take off is if a consumer start to embed the story of other people who are being exploited to produce their lifestyles. If consumers can start to absorb that, that story into their lives, and more importantly amplify that story in the marketplace.", "Justin Dylan of Call and Response there. And join us this weekend for a CNN Freedom Project documentary. Ballywood actor Anil Kapoor shines a light on modern day slavery in his country. He takes us to a remote village in north India where nearly all the women have been sent into sexual slavery often by members of their own family. Now this documentary is called Trapped by Tradition here on CNN. You can see it this Saturday 9:00 pm in Hong Kong. And ahead on News Stream, social media is shaking up politics in China.", "Ye Chong Pong (ph) is one over 100 candidates who has bypassed the establishment by declaring his intentions to run on Weibo, China's version of Twitter.", "But there has been a backlash from Beijing. We'll explain."], "speaker": ["STOUT", "JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ZARRELLA", "MARK MATNEY, NASA ORBITAL DEBRIS SCIENTIST", "ZARRELLA", "JONATHAN MCDOWELL, HARVARD UNIVERSITY", "ZARRELLA", "MCDOWELL", "ZARRELLA", "MATNEY", "ZARRELLA", "ZARRELLA", "STOUT", "JUSTIN DYLAN, SINGER", "STOUT", "DYLAN", "STOUT", "DYLAN", "STOUT", "DYLAN", "STOUT", "EUNICE YOON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "STOUT"]}
{"id": "NPR-41570", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-12-12", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6615428", "title": "American Public Sours on U.S. Iraq Strategy", "summary": "With poll numbers showing Americans increasingly sour about the war in the Iraq, we asked people on the street what they think of the war, the President's handling of it, and the recent report by the Iraq Study Group.", "utt": ["That uncertainty in Iraq is helping to make many Americans uneasy about the war. A number of polls out today show that people are growing more pessimistic.", "A Washington Post/ABC poll shows that 70 percent of those surveyed say they disapprove of how President Bush is handling the war. Sixty percent say it should not have been fought in the first place.", "Sixty-two percent of people polled by CBS say that the situation in Iraq is getting worse. Fifty-three percent don't think it's likely that the U.S. will succeed, and a U.S.A. Today Gallop survey found that 55 percent want U.S. troops out of Iraq within a year but only 18 percent believe that will happen.", "We collected some opinions from people about the war, the report of the Iraq Study Group and the president's performance. Here are some voices from western Massachusetts, from Laramie, Wyoming, and from Knoxville, Tennessee.", "Andy Ray. I own a ladies clothing store called Vagabondia on Market Square. I think he needs to be reaching out to talk to Syria and other nations instead of cutting them off and isolating them, and I think he needs to do better about working with people with military background. And do better about just including people and listening to what they're saying instead of being stubborn and being absolutely certain that he's right.", "John Whetstone, 30 years old and a business owner. I mean, I think some things could be different, but I think for the most part he's doing an okay job. From what I understand, I think that we're still doing a pretty good job over there and yeah, that we're still for the most part fighting terrorism but yeah, I think that the country's probably pretty close to a civil war as well, so I think that it's a fine line that we're walking over there.", "It's Beth Newton. I work for the East Tennessee Foundation. I appreciate that he's seeking the advice of people who have experience in international matters like Baker and I think that that's a wise move, and that he's starting to listen to others, which is going to be good for our country. I do have hope. I think that's sort of the only way to go forward and I'm hoping that we can do some good in that country before we ultimately get out of there.", "Brandon Daughtery Slocum. I think some good people are honestly trying to assess the situation and find a way out. A way to make it better. We're in the middle of a civil war in Iraq and a civil war that we pretty much brought about.", "Anna Rema Dial. I'm a program associate with the Berkshire Bank Foundation of the Pioneer Valley. I don't approve of how President Bush has handled foreign policy in general, specifically when it comes to the Iraq war. I think he needs to take a more multinational approach.", "Tyrone Scott. I'm actually a consultant. At this point, I think that because of some decisions that were made early on that we're kind of stuck. Looking back on it, hindsight's 20/20, I think we probably shouldn't have been in the war but now that we're there I don't see how we can feasibly pull out of the war. I would like for us to get out of there when it makes sense. I don't want us to pull out and then, as soon as we pull out, something catastrophic happens.", "Theresa Carls. I think maybe it's time for the guys to come back. I don't know, you know, but because they went there and they weren't supposed to stay that long, but things got out of hand and that's what happened, you know? I don't think we should have been there in the first place, so that's my opinion. I mean, I've always thought that.", "Opinions on the war in Iraq from western Massachusetts, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Laramie, Wyoming."], "speaker": ["MICHELE NORRIS, host", "NOAH ADAMS, host", "MICHELE NORRIS, host", "NOAH ADAMS, host", "Ms. ANDY RAY(ph)", "Mr. JOHN WHETSTONE", "Ms. BETH NEWTON", "Ms. BRANDON DAUGHTERY SLOCUM", "Ms. ANNA REMA DIAL", "Mr. TYRONE SCOTT", "Ms. THERESA CARLS", "MICHELE NORRIS, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-313124", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-05-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/26/nday.03.html", "summary": "Jared Kushner Under FBI Scrutiny in Russia Probe", "utt": ["... senior official and, perhaps most importantly, son-in-law of President Trump, Jared Kushner, is now under scrutiny for his role during the campaign and transition. We have this all covered. Let's begin with CNN's Ryan Young in Bozeman, Montana, where we have a new Congressman just elected there, Ryan.", "Absolutely, John. How tough is the question? What we saw here is sometimes it may lead to some physical kind of altercation. And of course, that didn't stop anything from happening. Twenty-four hours later, despite charges, there's a new Congressman in town. His name is Greg Gianforte.", "Thank you, Montana.", "Just 24 hours after being charged with assaulting a reporter, Republican Greg Gianforte heading to Washington after winning a special election for Montana's open House seat. Gianforte directly addressing the shocking incident at his victory rally.", "I'm sick and tired of you guys. The last guy that came in here, you did the same thing. Get the hell out of here! Get the hell out of here!", "Apologizing both to his supporters and to the reporter that he allegedly body-slammed.", "Last night I made a mistake, and I took an action that I can't take back. And I'm not proud of what happened. I should not have responded in the way that I did. And for that I'm sorry. I should not have treated that reporter that way. And for that, I'm sorry, Mr. Ben Jacobs.", "Gianforte's apology coming after fellow Republicans on the Hill remained largely silent about the attack.", "So I'm not sure exactly what happened.", "Showing an unwillingness to condemn Gianforte's behavior.", "We didn't have a course on body- slamming when I went to school. I missed that course.", "Some even pointing a finger at Democrats.", "The left has precipitated this tense, confrontational approach throughout the country in recent months.", "This despite audio evidence and eyewitness accounts from FOX News of the confrontation.", "Grabbed him with both hands, top of the body, both sides of the neck. Pulled him and then slammed him to the ground, got on top of him and started punching him.", "House Speaker Paul Ryan conceding that an apology was appropriate after being pressed by reporters.", "There is no time where a physical altercation should occur.", "On the ground in Montana, some of Gianforte's supporters also seemingly unfazed by the assault charges.", "A guy does one thing, that doesn't mean he's that way all the time.", "Some even leveling their own hostile threats to a CNN reporter covering the story.", "A healthy democratic process requires journalism. That's why the First Amendment is there.", "We spent our day talking to people in the area. I talked to one woman with her child right next to her, saying, \"Hey, what are we teaching our children?\" Here, back in campaign headquarters, we talked to people who said, \"Look, don't judge the man by one action.\" But a judge will, because of course, on June 7 he'll have to be in court before then. So we'll have to see what happens next. He'll face some more questions before then-- Alisyn.", "I'm sure he will. Ryan, thank you very much for being on the ground there for us. The FBI probe into Russian election meddling is hitting close to home for President Trump. CNN has learned that investigators are now looking at the president's son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner. CNN's Joe Johns is live at the White House with that part of the story. What's the development, Joe?", "Good morning, Alisyn. Jared Kushner has played many roles: the president's Mr. Fix-it, a member of the first family, and now he's the first person currently inside the Trump White House to come under scrutiny, though it's not believed he's a target of the Russia investigation.", "President Trump's son-in-law and most trusted adviser...", "He's very good at politics.", "... now a focus of the FBI's investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election. Officials tell CNN the bureau is looking into a range of topics related to Kushner: a key campaign strategy, meetings held with Russian officials, and his relationship with now-ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn. There's no indication Kushner is currently a target of the probe and no allegation of wrongdoing. Of central interest, a data analytics operation supervised by Kushner that the Trump campaign used to micro-target voters in states that were critical to the president's victory. Investigators are examining whether Russian operatives were able to piggyback on that effort, with help from Trump associates, either wittingly or unwittingly, to help Russia's own alleged operation: to push information online aimed at helping Trump and hurting Hillary Clinton. Kushner is also one of four Trump associates and the only current White House staffer under scrutiny for having contact with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. During the transition, Kushner met with both Kislyak and the head of a Russian bank that is currently sanctioned by the U.S. and has close ties to Vladimir Putin.", "Jared did a job during the transition and the campaign where he was a conduit into -- to leaders.", "Meetings Kushner prematurely left off filed security clearance forms, omissions he rectified a day later.", "The fact he met with the banker, I think he needs to explain himself.", "Kushner's lawyer, responding in a statement Wednesday, noting that Kushner \"previously volunteered to share with Congress what he knows about these meetings. He will do the same if he is contacted in connection with any other inquiry.\" Another point of inquiry, Kushner's relationship with Flynn. According to a source, Kushner and his wife, Ivanka, pushed the president to fire Flynn after the election. But a source close to Kushner disputes this account.", "It's not clear if the FBI plans to talk to Kushner, but investigators believe he would be able to help provide information to assist the probe. And the spokesperson said Kushner was unaware of the FBI's interest, and the bureau hasn't contacted him -- John and Alisyn.", "OK, Joe. Thank you very much for all of that. Let's discuss it. We want to bring in our political panel. We have CNN political analysts David Gregory; CNN counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd and associate editor and columnist for Real Clear Politics, A.B. Stoddard. David Gregory, this is the first time we've learned that this federal investigation doesn't just cover the campaign and Donald Trump's then- campaign advisers. Now it reaches into the White House. What's the significance?", "Well, just that last point. It reaches into the White House. Jared Kushner has emerged as, arguably, the president's most important adviser who is also family, whose authority goes in multiple directions and who has business interests that raise real questions on behalf of the Trump family that could have made the campaign vulnerable to being compromised by the Russians. And again, we don't know what all the facts are, so we'll wait for an investigation. And we know through Kushner's attorney that he's happy to talk to all investigators. But I think we can make a broader point right now about the attitude of vulnerability, kind of cavalier attitude by the Trump campaign that, well, Russia is not going to do anything to us. Or there's something to be concerned about here. Obviously, there is. And Kushner appears to be the person who's had enough contact, had enough meetings or knows enough to be able to really help investigators. Or, though he's not a target, as far as we know right now, that can always change. But he seems to be in a position to help investigators find out where some of the vulnerability was, particularly because he was responsible for a lot of the data and the analytics of the campaign, which is where breaches could have occurred.", "Phil Mudd, we can tell by the serious look on your face that you have been involved in investigations. Perhaps not quite like this but investigations. What does it mean that they're focusing on Jared Kushner, but he's not a target. And as of now, there are no allegations of wrongdoing in that last part that David Gregory just brought up, the fact that now we have learned that the data operation that he ran during the campaign could be one area where they want to question.", "Let's take two pieces of this. The first piece is, look, there has been an investigation under way since last summer. Jared Kushner, obviously deeply involved with the campaign, close to the president, close to some of the people we've discussed about -- we've discussed for months, including General Flynn, and he's met with the Russians. The surprise here, John, would be if he was never of interest in the investigation. So yes, this has come into the White House. But Kushner, obviously, is going to be questioned by -- at some point by the FBI. One other quick point on why he hasn't been questioned yet. I've been questioned in investigations before. I've watched investigations. When the bureau walks into the room, they don't want to walk in without knowing the answers. They want to know where he traveled, where his money is from, what other people at the periphery of the investigation say about his involvement. Because when they walk in the door and ask him questions, half the time they're going to know the answer. He's not going to know what they know, and they want to see what he says. They want to box him. So I wouldn't expect to see him questioned early on, because they're collecting a ton of data about him before they walk through the door.", "A.B., when I hear the term \"data analytics,\" I fall right asleep. But this, it is very fascinating. If you dive into what Jared Kushner was able to accomplish during the election, he was instrumental in helping President Trump win. He figured out through, I guess, social media, and sales of Donald Trump merchandise, like the \"Make America Great\" caps, that there was a vulnerability in that Democrats' Great Blue Wall, and that it could crumble. And then he sent Donald Trump there to Michigan, as we know, and sure enough, it worked. So explain how it's possible there was a nexus with the Russians' data program and that they might have piggybacked on what Jared Kushner was doing?", "Right. I think Jared and the team lucked into a way to use that data to realize that Wisconsin and Michigan, instead of becoming, you know, automatically becoming blue states on November 8, were fertile ground for Trump by seeing the number of hats and T-shirts and things they were selling. And they decided, wow, this is a place where we target our resources and our social media campaign to try to boost Trump and depress the Hillary vote. And so in the end, it was very helpful, obviously, on the ground to the campaign, in addition to just sort of being a savvy operation. Where it comes into connection with a Russian data operation -- of course, we know the Russians were doing their own, you know, campaign across social media to -- to promote negative Hillary stories, positive Trump stories. But, you know, whether or not the data analytics operation that Jared was helping run became a partner with the Russians and their data operation, willingly or unwillingly. Perhaps they were hacked into, and then it's sort of an unwilling collusion. You know, we're yet to find that out. That sounds -- it sounds, you know, obviously like a very dramatic question. But it is the thing that would be -- it makes sense in terms of the question of collusion. You know, what was Michael Flynn doing with the Russians if people suspect him of collusion? The data operation seems to make the most sense if there's actual evidence of collusion.", "Phil, very quickly, how can you be unwittingly influenced in a data operation. We keep hearing the word \"unwittingly\" influenced by the Russians. How could that be?", "Look, you're not going to walk through the front door to somebody and say, \"Would you like to be someone that works for the Russian intelligence service?\" You can ask them pretty simple questions. \"Hey, this campaign process is really interesting. Help me understand what are the places,\" as A.B. was talking about, \"where Hillary Clinton might be vulnerable.\" And obviously, that might influence the Russian campaign. So you see this countless times in the spy business. It's not just about recruiting people who know they're working for you. It's recruiting people who don't. And that's an easier path to get somebody to give you information that's important to an intelligence operation.", "David Gregory, from Russia to Montana. The candidate who was caught on audio tape and by eyewitnesses, assaulting a reporter, won in that election. He is now going to Congress. What are we to make of what happened with Greg Gianforte?", "Well, it didn't have an impact. Now, whether that's because voters who showed up yesterday, weighed this and thought it wasn't important enough to -- to punish him and vote against him, or because of the absentee process where so many votes had already come in via absentee ballot that can't be changed that tilted it in his way. I don't think we can know ever for certain how that shakes out. I thought Gianforte's apology was appropriate. I thought it was late. I'm surprised he waited until after the election. It has the appearance of looking like he just wanted to see how it went first and didn't want to hurt himself by apologizing, which I think is unfortunate. But you know, he did the right thing. And he's still going to face a misdemeanor assault charge in court, as well, which is completely appropriate. This is -- this is outrageous to attack a reporter asking a question. And it shows that he's not ready for primetime if he wants to be a Congressman who wants to be dealing with policy. You know, you have the House speaker, Paul Ryan, who I think, spoke about this appropriately. He said this had never happened. Obviously. I mean, there are so many obvious points about this. And I think it's just so unfortunate that you have people out there who want to rationalize it in some way or condone it in some way. Again, you know, this is not a man who should be judged by a big mistake that he made here for everybody to see. And that's why I think his apology is important, and people move on. But don't try to rationalize it or to suggest that the left has created some atmosphere. It's ridiculous.", "Panel, thank you very much. Nice to see all of you. So committees in Congress are widening their own Russian investigations, but are members happy with the progress? We hear from members on both sides coming up."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GIANFORTE", "YOUNG (voice-over)", "GREG GIANFORTE (R), MONTANA REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT", "YOUNG", "GIANFORTE", "YOUNG", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "YOUNG", "REP. LOUIE GOHMERT (R), TEXAS", "YOUNG", "REP. TRENT FRANKS (R), ARIZONA", "YOUNG", "ALICIA ACUNA, CORRESPONDENT, FOX NEWS", "YOUNG", "REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "YOUNG", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "YOUNG", "BEN JACOBS, REPORTER, \"THE GUARDIAN\"", "YOUNG", "CAMEROTA", "JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JOHNS (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "JOHNS", "SEAN SPICER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "JOHNS", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA", "JOHNS", "JOHNS", "CAMEROTA", "DAVID GREGORY, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "BERMAN", "PHIL MUDD, CNN COUNTERTERRORISM ANALYST", "CAMEROTA", "A.B. 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{"id": "CNN-8222", "program": "", "date": "2000-5-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/16/aotc.01.html", "summary": "Colorado Authorities Release Minute-by-Minute Account of Columbine School Shooting", "utt": ["Colorado authorities have released a minute-by-minute account of the gruesome events inside Columbine High School the day two gunmen killed 13 people then later themselves. What the report doesn't offer is an explanation for what may have motivated the attack, and that has the victims' families still searching for answers. With more, here's CNN's Tony Clark.", "Brian Rohrbough, whose son was killed at Columbine, started wading through the computerized report almost as quickly as he got it.", "a lot of it seems pretty vague to me.", "Dale Todd, whose son was wounded, still has unanswered questions about the gunmen.", "What belief system did they have that allowed them to harbor so much hate, to turn into such demonic little warlocks.", "The Columbine report says Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris' killing rampage lasted only 16 minutes. It was far different than they had planned. This duffel bag contained one of two homemade bombs created from 20-pound propane tanks. According to a timeline from the sheriff's office, their plan was for the bombs to explode in the cafeteria and kill more than 400 students and teachers. A page from Dylan Klebold's notebook says, \"When the first bombs go off, attack. Have fun.\" With these four weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, they were to wait outside to shoot those who survived the blast as they ran from the school. But the bombs didn't explode. The plan changed, and they began shooting their way into Columbine.", "What's your name, ma'am?", "I'm Patti.", "Patti?", "(OFF-MIKE)", "A security camera shows the gunmen next in the cafeteria, trying to get their bomb to explode by shooting at it. When that didn't work, they appeared to leisurely walk around. Despite the report's findings that Klebold and Harris's victims were already shot at this point, some parents were upset that authorities didn't act more quickly to stop them.", "They let the killers take over our school. They stood outside. They let this happen.", "According to a witness in the cafeteria, one of the gunmen said, today the world is going to come to an end. Today is the day we die. Shortly after noon, after exchanging shots with police, Klebold and Harris returned to the library and killed themselves. (on camera): While the report describes the Klebold and Harris as essentially loners, it does not explain what turn them into killers. Tony Clark, CNN, Jefferson County, Colorado."], "speaker": ["LINDA STOUFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "TONY CLARK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BRIAN ROHRBOUGH, SHOOTING VICTIM'S FATHER", "CLARK", "DALE TODD, SHOOTING VICTIM'S FATHER", "CLARK", "OPERATOR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "OPERATOR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CLARK", "JULIE BROWN, COLUMBINE STUDENT'S MOTHER", "CLARK"]}
{"id": "CNN-117270", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2007-5-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/31/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "More Information on the Man with Tuberculosis; President Bush Meets with Iraqi President; Louis Freeh's Endorses Giuliani", "utt": ["We now know his name and how he's being treated. We're learning new developments about the man with that rare and potentially deadly form of tuberculosis, including his father-in- law -- the fact that he worked on tuberculosis research over at the CDC. The men known as crime fighters now unite. The man who fought terrorism at the FBI is backing the man closely associated with the terror attacks of 9/11. But will Louis Freeh's endorsement of Rudy Giuliani for president help? Louis Freeh will be here in THE SITUATION ROOM. I'll ask him why he decided to back Rudy Giuliani and not Hillary Clinton, even though he worked for her husband. And both are famous movie stars. Both are conservative Republicans. So some suggest that Fred Thompson is Ronald Reagan's political heir. But how similar are they? I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. He's isolated in a room. A special air system stops the air he's breathing from circulating back into the hospital and anyone who visits him must wear a mask. We're now learning new details about the man with that rare and potentially deadly form of tuberculosis. Among them, a surprise development regarding the man's father-in-law. Joining us now, our medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen -- Elizabeth, we're learning a lot of information and some of it is amazing, the fact that his father-in-law worked in tuberculosis research over at the", "Right. Who would have thought, Wolf, this man's own father-in-law was a tuberculosis researcher at the CDC here in Atlanta? Now, of course, that made many people think gosh, he's doing research in tuberculosis, perhaps he had the disease and he passed it on to his son-in-law. But Robert Cooksey has now come out and made a statement saying no, that is absolutely not the case. He has said that he is negative for T.B. He was tested. And he issued a statement, also, sort of separating himself a bit from his son's -- son-in-law's travel. He says: \"I wasn't involved in any decisions my son-in-law made regarding his travel nor did I ever act as a CDC official or in any official CDC capacity with respect to any of the events of the past weeks. As a parent, frequent traveler and biologist, I well appreciate the potential harm that can be caused by diseases like T.B. I would never knowingly put my daughter, friends or anyone else at risk from such a disease.\" Again, that is from Andrew Speaker's father-in-law -- Wolf.", "And the notion that the father-in-law worked in tuberculosis research and he knew he had tuberculosis, yet he decided to make that flight from Atlanta to Paris for his wedding that was going to take place in Greece. Presumably the father-in-law would be attending the wedding as well. Wouldn't the father-in-law have said maybe this is not such a good idea?", "Well, one would think that he said that. We don't know if he was in attendance at the wedding. We don't know at all. He says that he was not involved in any decisions that his son-in-law made regarding travel. We know from Fulton County officials that this man's pri -- Andrew speaker's private doctor and Fulton County officials advised him against traveling. That has been very clear, that this man traveled against the advice of doctors. He traveled even when he knew he had extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.", "And Andrew Speaker now in Denver. He's getting ready for more antibiotics and maybe even surgery, right?", "That's right. He's going to go through a line of antibiotics that, Wolf, hopefully you and I never have to take. These are antibiotics that are not usually given to people because they can cause kidney and liver damage. These are second and third line antibiotics. Now, if these also don't work, or if they don't work well enough, then Andrew Speaker would undergo surgery. He would be the first person with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis to undergo this surgery at National Jewish. They would take out a section of his lung that has become infected. According to what we've been told, it would be the first time anyone in the U.S. with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis has had this surgery.", "We're going to be having a lot more on this story coming up here in THE SITUATION ROOM. Elizabeth, thanks very much. Also, later, we'll be speak with two fellow passengers who were on that flight from Atlanta to Paris. They've now been tested. They're going through the process. We'll hear what they have to say. We'll continue to watch this story. There's other important news we're watching, as well, including the president of Iraq visiting President Bush. Today Jalal Talabani talked with the president about several key issues affecting both countries. Let's go to our White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux. What kind of specific issues came up during that meeting -- Suzanne?", "Wolf, not surprisingly, there was a lot of praise that these two leaders exchanged. We heard President Bush talking about how much he admired Jalal Talabani. We also heard Talabani calling President Bush a hero. Now, it is in both of these leaders' interests to really kind of project this positive image about Iraq's future. But they also acknowledged here that -- they used that magic word benchmarks many, many times. There's a lot of work that has to be done that has not been done. We've been talking about benchmarks for months, perhaps even years at this point. Both of them saying that they needed to work on coming up with a provincial elections agreement, a deal to share with the oil revenue, as well a process of de-Baathification, essentially allowing Saddam's loyalists back into the government in some kind of form. And then what was also notable, Wolf, here is an announcement that the president made. He is actually sending back a top aide in his administration to help the Iraqis fulfill those benchmarks.", "I've asked one of my top aides, Megan O'Sullivan, to return to Baghdad. Megan has been an integral part of our team here at the White House. She has been in Iraq before. She's going back to serve with Ambassador Crocker to help the Iraqis and to help the embassy help the Iraqis meet the benchmarks that the Congress and the president expect to get passed.", "And, Wolf, what's extraordinary about this is that Megan O'Sullivan, you may recall back in April, the White House announced she was leaving, that she was going after six years of service, that she was moving on to do other things, bigger and better things. Well, now the president has asked her to stay, to return, essentially, and take on this very, very tough task -- Wolf.", "Jalal Talabani is the president of Iraq. He's a Kurdish leader. He's very pro-U.S. He's also not a well man. He spent some time at the Cleveland Clinic. He's got some health issues. What did he say about living up to these pledges of what the Iraqis themselves are supposed to do?", "Well, he said that they were committed, of course. And he also admitted there were some difficulties. But I noticed he kept talking about the drafts -- the draft legislation that, yes, that they were working on these. But they are simply drafts, Wolf. We don't know -- he did not get into any specific date or deadline or timeline in terms of when these drafts become real documents, when they are going to be implemented, where we're going to see real changes there. And that was really quite notable, because the administration is under an incredible amount of pressure to see some progress by September -- Wolf.", "Suzanne Malveaux at the White House following an important story, U.S./Iraqi relations. A lot on the line right now. Suzanne, thanks very much. Let's go to Jack Cafferty. He's in New York. He's got The Cafferty File -- Jack.", "Well, this stuff will probably all happen, you know, like when the Iraqis stand up, we can stand down. You know, probably on the same timetable that that's been on. Campaigning in Las Vegas, Nevada, yesterday, Senator Hillary Clinton spoke at a town hall meeting about the growing gap between the paychecks of corporate CEOs and average American workers. The timing was a bit off. Consider this. A long time benefactor of the Clintons, a guy named Vinod Gupta, the CEO of a data company, Info USA, is being sued by his shareholders -- of his company -- for excessive spending. Among other things, it's been reported that since 2002, Gupta has spent $900,000 flying both Senator Clinton and her husband, the former president, on campaign, business and personal trips aboard the private corporate jet. Now, when she was asked about this yesterday, Senator Clinton said that she was following the Senate rules at the time and her campaign has said she reimbursed Gupta for her trips. How much is that, you might ask? Nothing more than the cost of a first class ticket. And that doesn't come anywhere close to covering the cost of operating a private corporate jet. So here's the question -- does Senator Clinton's use of private corporate jets for travel undermine her stance on corporate greed and executive pay? Duh. E-mail caffertyfile@cnn.com or go to cnn.com/caffertyfile. They don't admit they're doing anything wrong or stupid. They say well, I was following the rules at the time. Of course, they make the rules -- Wolf -- under which they can do this kind of stuff...", "Right.", "... there at the Senate.", "That's what comes with the job, I guess. You make the rules.", "Yes.", "Jack, thanks. We'll check with you shortly. Coming up, he worked for Hillary Clinton's husband. But he's endorsing her political opponent right now. The former FBI director, Louis Freeh, backing Rudy Giuliani. I'll ask him why. He'll be here in THE SITUATION ROOM. And the White House going green -- at least greener. President Bush taking action on global warming. We're going to tell you what he did today and why it matters. And why does a small New England state play such a big role in who gets to be president? We'll take a closer look at why New Hampshire gets so much attention from all the candidates. Stay with us. You're in", "He wasn't called America's mayor until after 9/11. Rudy Giuliani's command in the days after that, it seared him in many people's mind as a no nonsense law and order leader. Now he's won the endorsement of another person with a strong law and order image. Let's go to CNN's Mary Snow. She's in New York. She's going to tell us about an endorsement for Rudy Giuliani today -- Mary.", "Well, Wolf, today's endorsement could be a mixed bag for Rudy Giuliani.", "New York City is now not just a great city, as it's always been, but a safe city.", "Another notch in Rudy Giuliani's crime fighting belt. Former FBI Director Louis Freeh endorsing the former New York City mayor for president.", "Well, having his support and his advice in this campaign, which largely is going to focus on what we have to do about terrorism, is invaluable.", "For a candidate running on a record of law and order as well as his 9/11 image, today's endorsement helps. Rich Galen is a non-aligned Republican strategist.", "This is the kind of thing that helps reinforce in the minds of Republican voters that if it's a national security election, Rudy Giuliani may well be their best choice.", "And the latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation polls show that among Republican voters, terrorism is the most important issue. But Giuliani's 9/11 political armors come under attack. He recently got into a very public fight with the head of the nation's largest firefighter's union, who accused Giuliani of prematurely ending the search for remains at ground zero. And just this week, his record was questioned again, by a young woman who claimed to be the relative of a firefighter killed when the Twin Towers collapsed.", "You reported to Peter Jennings that on 9/11 that the World Trade -- that the towers were going to collapse", "Yes?", "Excuse me. No steel structure in history has ever collapsed due to a fire. How come the people in the buildings weren't notified and who else knew about this...", "Right. Well...", "And how do you sleep at night?", "Ma'am, I didn't know that the towers were going to collapse.", "Giuliani went on to explain that the implosion was a complete surprise.", "The heckling at City Island the other day actually showed us something that we weren't sure of before, and that was how well he handled that.", "Now, as for today's endorsement, Louis Freeh has his own baggage. His record at the FBI in fighting terrorism in the months and years leading up to the September 11th terror attacks has come under question by the 9/11 Commission. Their report says the FBI didn't dedicate sufficient efforts to battling terrorism. As for today's endorsement by Freeh, we'll have to wait to judge the political benefits for Rudy Giuliani -- Wolf. Thanks very much. Mary Snow reporting. At the same time, there's the issue of who Louis Freeh is not supporting. His former association with former President Bill Clinton will likely have some people wondering. And joining us now, the former director of the FBI, Louis Freeh. Director Freeh, thanks very much for coming in.", "Wolf, good afternoon. Good to talk to you again.", "All right, let's talk about Rudy Giuliani. A big decision on your part to endorse him. I know you've known him for many years. But why Rudy Giuliani as opposed, shall we say, to Hillary Clinton, whose husband you worked for, who nominated you to be the director of the FBI?", "Well, you know, I've worked for Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, as you know. But I've always made it my point to really support quality leaders who I think will make a great difference for the country. And I think Rudy will make a tremendous president and a great leader for the country. I've never publicly campaigned for anyone for any office. And I'm very pleased and privileged to do so for Rudy. As you said, I've know him 25 years. I worked with him when he was U.S. attorney. I have very strong affection for him, but I also tremendous professional respect. And I think given his experience and his leadership and the time that we here face and the challenges that we face, that he's the best and the brightest. And I'm very, very pleased to support him.", "What kind of boss was he?", "Well, he was a great boss. I mean he ran the U.S. Attorney's office in the Southern District of New York. And although I couldn't say this when I was FBI director, it is the premier U.S. attorney's office in the United States. I served there 10 years. He was a lawyer, not just the U.S. attorney. You could go with -- go to him with a practical problem or a trial problem. He tried cases. He tried a major public corruption case here in New York City. He read briefs. He edited them. He sent them back to us. He let us work and innovate. At the time I was there, in the organized crime unit, there were four major organized crime cases going on -- the Commission case, the Bonano case. I had the Pizza Connection case. Rudy was managing them but, also, letting good people lead and make decisions, which we very much appreciated.", "You know, this decision for you, it's a major decision for you to get involved in politics, something you've tried to avoid all these years as a professional, whether at the Justice Department, with the U.S. attorney, when you were the FBI director. It's going to raise speculation that maybe Louis Freeh should be -- if Rudy Giuliani were elected president -- might want to be the attorney general or get some other job in a Giuliani administration. What do you say to those questions that are certainly going to be coming your way?", "Well, you know, I served, Wolf, 28 years in the federal government. It was a very great privilege to do that. Any return to public service would have to be approved by my wife and six kids. So I need a slip from her to go back into public service. So I don't rule anything out. I'm very, very happy and content with what I'm doing now. I want to help him get elected because I think he'd be a great president, a necessary and important president for us. And, you know, what the future holds, I don't know.", "Are you comfortable with his views on some of the social issues? He's had a problem with some conservative Republicans, whether on gay rights or abortion rights or gun control. Are you comfortable with his stance on those issues?", "Yes, I'm comfortable with his stance on those issues. I think that, you know, in the public discussion of these ideas, certainly in the political discussion of these ideas, people are going to have to make up their own minds. I think what I respect is his sincerity, his honesty and his integrity with some of these issues. They're difficult issues and I am very comfortable with them.", "I know you're a religious Catholic. For example, when he says he supports federally funded abortions for poor women, do you go along with him on that? Do you agree with him on that?", "Well, I don't think I would support that, no. I think I have my own view of that. But I think it's a team, and certainly under his leadership, one that is very amenable to diversity and discussion. And I don't think anybody is going to be unanimous on every issue. But I think, overall, and for the most important things that I can think of -- for the country and the people here, he is the best and strongest candidate. And he's got my complete support.", "I'll come back to my first question -- Hillary Clinton. Do you think she would make a good president?", "You know, I have tremendous respect for Senator Clinton. I didn't actually work with her because I left before she really got into the Senate there. I think she's competent. I think she has a very good staff and good people advising her. But, again, as I said, I picked who I think is going to be the best president. It's really a coincidence that he's a Democrat -- that he's a Republican. I've supported Democrats, even in the last election, both in Delaware and here in New York City. But I think he is the best person for the job and that's why he's got my support.", "Louis Freeh is the former FBI director. He's also a supporter of Rudy Giuliani for president of the United States. Director Freeh, thanks for coming in.", "Thank you, Wolf. Take care.", "And still ahead, is he the next Ronald Reagan? Many people believe Fred Thompson's the political heir to the Reagan mantle. But beside the fact that both are actors, conservative, how similar are they really? Also, you probably don't know who he is, but you've gotten tons of annoying e-mail from him. A so-called spam king who is one of the best in the world at sending junk mail has been caught. We'll tell you what's going on. We'll be right back.", "Our Carol Costello is monitoring the wires. She's keeping an eye on all the video feeds coming into THE SITUATION ROOM from around the world. She's joining us now from New York with a closer look at some other important stories -- hi, Carol.", "Hi, Wolf. Hello to all of you. An economic breakthrough for Northwest Airlines. Today it emerged from 20 months of bankruptcy protection. The airline says it will now update its fleet over the next two years. It will be the first North American airline to take Boeing's new 787 Dream Liner. Northwest also plans to add 72 regional jets that include a first class section. The airline says the new 76-seat jets will make it possible to fly routes that weren't busy enough for its larger planes. It is the latest indication of a slowdown in the once sizzling housing market. The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight says home prices edged up just .5 percent during the first quarter of this year. That is the slowest growth rate in 10 years. During the first quarter of last year, the growth rate was 2.2 percent. New Hampshire now the latest of a handful of states to legalize civil unions for gay couples. Governor John Lynch signed the bill today. It takes effect next January. Couples entering civil unions will have the same rights, responsibilities and obligations as married couples. Under the law, same-sex unions from other states will be recognized in New Hampshire if they were legal in the state where they were performed. And a high-ranking lawyer who's fighting her demotion is suing General Electric. Lorraine Schaeffer accuses the company of gender discrimination. The lawsuit also seeks to represent about 1,500 other female employees. It charges that G.E. pays female lawyers and women in entry level executive jobs less than men and it says G.E. fails to promote its female entry level executives at the same rate it promotes men in the same jobs. General Electric strongly denies the allegations. Back to you -- Wolf.", "All right, thanks, Carol, very much. Up ahead, it's a small state geographically, but a major one politically. The road to the White House leads straight through New Hampshire. But why does the Granite State play such a big role in who gets to be president of the United States? And just before he heads to the summit of the G-8, President Bush confronts a pressing problem. It involves global warming. We'll discuss that in our Strategy Session and a lot more. Stay with us. You're in", "Happening now here in THE SITUATION ROOM, New Hampshire -- it has a long history of being a major player in presidential politics. But questions are being raised right now once again about whether or not that should continue. CNN's Dana Bash is in New Hampshire. She's watching this story. She's got more -- Dana.", "Wolf, every four years there's a debate about whether tiny New Hampshire deserves so much influence in presidential politics. But if you just step inside this Manchester landmark, you'll see history and why this state so fiercely defends its lead-off primary.", "The Merrimack Restaurant walls offer a history lesson -- snapshots of presidential ambition.", "This is Gary Hart when he first -- in 1982.", "Owner Connie Farr relishes her part in a proud tradition.", "We've been very privileged. I mean it's not every day that you get to shake hands or sit down and have a bowl of soup or a cheeseburger with the president of the United States.", "New Hampshire can be the gateway to the presidency, but is known just as much for derailing campaigns. In 1968, a disappearing finish here convinced President Lyndon Johnson not to seek reelection. Another career ender in 1972. Democratic frontrunner Ed Muskie teared up in the snow, attacking a newspaper publisher for criticizing his wife.", "He has proved himself to be a gutless coward.", "It's fortunate for him he's not on this platform beside me. A good woman.", "Granite State voters expect lots of candidate face time...", "Usually, we have done a little homework on their records, and, so, we can ask them questions and challenge them and so on. But I think it makes a good training ground for the candidates.", "... and can elevate unknowns to contenders.", "A friend of mine had a coffee for Jimmy Carter in her living room. And we all said, who is Jimmy Carter? The peanut farmer. And we went into her living room, and Jimmy Carter was there. And I thought, wow, this guy is really impressive.", "Some of its lore comes from memorable public events.", "Would you turn that microphone off, please?", "... for me if you would -- I am paying for this microphone, Mr. Green!", "New Hampshire made Bill Clinton the comeback kid, helping him survive accusations of draft-dodging and philandering with a second-place finish. Yet, it doesn't always propel winners. In 2000, John McCain beat George W. Bush in a landslide, and still lost the nomination.", "But, to borrow a phrase from Ronald Reagan, here we go again. Its record on picking winners may be mixed, but its place at the head of the presidential primary calendar guarantees New Hampshire and its legendary stops like this gets another chance at adding to its storied tradition -- Wolf.", "Dana, thank you. Dana is on the streets of New Hampshire for us. Let's bring in our chief national correspondent, John King. He's also joining us from Manchester, New Hampshire, right now. John, if we take a look at this mixed track record of New Hampshire, sometimes, it does have a huge impact, other times, not necessarily. What are the candidates and their campaigns saying to you right now, especially looking ahead to the debate Sunday night and Tuesday night?", "Well, Wolf, the debates air chance for the candidates to make their message and to get out their key points. They obviously, with the crowded fields, both the Democratic and Republican, they say it's very difficult to score any kind of a knockout blow. But why does New Hampshire matter so much? If you ask the two past presidents, the recent and the -- the current and the most recent past president, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, they both took a bit of a thumping here in New Hampshire. But they will tell you, they learned important lessons. I have spoken to both of them about this. George W. Bush in 2000, as Dana just noted, was swept out by John McCain here in New Hampshire. He says he was relying too much on his establishment support, not keeping in touch with his grassroots supporters. He says he learned a lesson and was a better candidate as he moved on from New Hampshire. Bill Clinton, you remember, Wolf, in '92, was the early boy wonder here. And then the trap door opened up beneath him because of all the character attacks. But he rebounded here, got a second-place finish. And he said he learned how to deal with those issues, the draft issue, the philandering issue. And that helped him in the general election, in the later primary seasons, as well. So, you don't always have to win New Hampshire to learn very important lessons here.", "And one thing we know is that there -- there are a lot of independent voters in New Hampshire. You have got a Democratic governor. You have got two Republican senators. People split their -- their ballots, as we all know. But these independent voters in New Hampshire will have a key role, a key voice in both the Democratic and Republican primaries.", "And it's a fascinating question as to how that works out this time, Wolf. And maybe we will learn a bit from the intensity after these debates, when we do the polling and take a look at who is watching these debates and what they think in the next week, because independents can make a difference. Back in 2000, again, the independents, early on in the polling, looked like they were going to flood the Democratic primary to support former Senator Bill Bradley. Then his campaign stumbled a bit, and most of the independents ended up voting in the Republican primary. And that is what gave John McCain that big margin over George W. Bush. What will happen this time? Some Democrats think that Barack Obama will have great appeal to independents, especially younger voters. But many Republicans think many could go back to McCain, but Rudy Giuliani could make inroads. And Fred Thompson is now the wild card. He could have independent appeal. So, when you have such big fields in these races, some Republicans lining up with so many different candidates, the same on the Democratic side, the question is, the only swing bloc is those independents. Will they all go one way Democrat or Republican? No one can answer that right now, Wolf. It's what makes New Hampshire so fascinating.", "We will be watching it coming up in a couple days. John, thanks very much. Don't forget, we are going to have two debates. We're gearing up for those debates in New Hampshire. CNN, WMUR and \"The New Hampshire Union Leader\" are sponsoring back-to-back debates beginning this weekend. The Democratic candidates square off Sunday, June 3. That's this Sunday, 7:00 p.m. Eastern, for two hours, without commercial interruption. The same thing happens Tuesday, June 5, next Tuesday, for the Republicans, two hours, 7:00 p.m. Eastern, without commercial interruption. You are going to want to check out both. Coming up: He certainly is similar to him, but is Fred Thompson really the next Ronald Reagan, as some of his supporters believe? We will take a closer look at what they have in common and what they don't. And the so-called spam king has been caught. But does that mean less junk e-mail in all of our in-boxes? Our Internet reporter, Jacki Schechner, is standing by. We will be right back."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, HOST", "CDC. ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "COHEN", "BLITZER", "COHEN", "BLITZER", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MALVEAUX", "BLITZER", "MALVEAUX", "BLITZER", "JACK CAFFERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "THE SITUATION ROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-201495", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2013-2-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/18/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Scientists Search Russian Lake For Meteor Remains; British Authorities Meet With Supermarket Chiefs Over Horse Meat Scandal", "utt": ["And life is returning to normal in Russia after a rare meteor explosion over the Ural Mountain. Emergency workers in the hard hit Chelyabinsk region, they spent the weekend repairing damage. The meteor shockwave, it shattered glass in thousands of buildings and at least 1,000 people were injured. And now scientists are scouring the impact area. Now they are paying particular attention to this lake as they look for meteor fragments. Now the search has had mixed results. Now Phil Black joins us live from that frozen lake in Chelyabinks. And Phil, tell us what have scientists been able to discover there?", "Well, Kristie, they have found what they believe are fragments of the meteor that tore through the sky here on Friday morning. This is a very cold spot as the temperature begins to plummet and the sun is dropping here -- we've been here through the day, but throughout this, we've still seen locals coming here to take a look at this site, because this is a confirmed impact point from that meteor. Just over my shoulder behind me you can see where those people are standing is the mark left in this frozen lake from what people say was the impact. People who saw the meteor crash down here say the result was snow and ice being thrown up high into the air and a big cloud of steam. Scientists believe very strongly that there's a big piece of the meteor somewhere now beneath this ice, beneath 10 meters of water, on the bottom of the lake. Some divers have been in to see what they can find. They weren't able to find anything, they say. The visibility was poor. They're going to make another go, they believe, when the snow and ice melts here in the warmer months. But, what they have found here on the surface are smaller fragments, roughly thumbnail sized, not very big. But they say that the makeup of these little fragments very high in iron, consistent with what -- consistent with other meteorite fragments that have been found from impacts in other parts of the world, Kristie.", "And as this scientific investigation and the cleanup is taking place, the healing as well -- I mean, over 1,000 people were injured, many of them children. How are they coping?", "Well, I think a lot of people are now quite relieved to have lived through that -- having lived through the fear, the chaos, the panic that existed in this region for those few moments as the meteor tore through the sky, as people were hit by that very powerful shockwave. We've been speaking to a lot of people over the last few days. And when they reflect upon it, they say they still very easily, very clearly feel the fear, the uncertainty, in many cases the sheer terror that they experienced during those 30 or so seconds that the meteor made its descent through the atmosphere towards the Earth's surface. In particular, children are still, their parents tell us, very scared as a result of what they experienced, what they lived through. We've been meeting the children whose parents say that they are too scared to stand close to windows and glass. And ask if that window or glass is likely to explode again in the future. So the superficial damage, the physical damage, is pretty light both to the buildings and in most cases to the people as well -- broken windows, some cuts and scratches. But in some cases, people are going to be really thinking about this and dealing with this for time time to come Kristie.", "That's right. I mean, this is a terrifying event. And thankfully not a deadly one. But will there be a warning ahead of the next one? I mean, is there some sort of a program in Russia to pinpoint asteroids and meteors before they strike next and enter the atmosphere?", "Well, there isn't yet, nothing like that yet at all. But we've heard a lot from Russian officials and Russian politicians over the last few days in saying there should be, and they believe there will be. And they say they're going to try and accelerate some sort of program. Perhaps it will just be a Russian built designed run program, or some have also been talking about the need to really try and tackle this problem in an international sense, to work with all the countries of the world to have something to offer, or could possibly have something to offer to such a program, because the threat, obviously, could potentially be a global one as well, Kristie.", "All right, Phil Black, joining us live from Chelyabinks, site of that rare meteor explosion. Thank you so much, Phil. Now scientists are examining small fragments of the meteor and the bits that reached the Earth's surface without being vaporized. And NASA says that the meteor measured 17 meters before it entered the Earth's atmosphere. Now that is roughly the length of one train car on the tube. Now the U.S. space agency says it released as much as 500 kilotons of energy. Now that is 30 times more powerful than the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan during World War II. Now let's leave the meteorite story for now. And this is a visual rundown of all the stories we're covering on the show today. And now I want to get more on the horse meat mislabeling scandal being discussed at dinner tables across Europe. Now the UK's environment secretary is to meet executives from British supermarkets in the coming hours. He has called for complete overhaul of Europe's food testing system. And is set to ask how retails intend to restore public confidence in the beef they buy. Now British food safety officials say thousands of alerts are sent across Europe each year about concerns over food product. And CNN's senior international correspondent Nic Robertson is following developments. He joins us now live from CNN London. And Nick, how far reaching is the horse meat crisis in Europe? And what are authorities across the zone doing about it?", "Well, I suppose one of the ways that it's being measured of how far it's having on impact, the surveys that are being done on consumers and here in Britain, a quarter of all people now say they are less likely to buy processed meat and 67 percent of people, that's more than two-thirds, say they are less sure about what they are buying from what is says on the label from what the products is, that they are concerned about that. And that is what Owen Patterson, the Secretary of Environment, will be pushing the supermarket bosses when he meets with them inside the next hour that what the government in Britain is saying that the supermarkets are the last line of defense before the consumers, and they must guarantee that what their products that they sell on their shelves say on the label, that this matches the reality of what's inside the packet. But we've already heard pushback from some of these supermarket bosses themselves.", "Retailers are not to blame for all of this. Retailers do stringent checking with their suppliers. This came from left field. It was unexpected. And it's all right now, the media and government are saying, well you should have checked. We are checking all the time. And what you're reading in the paper now is that maybe (inaudible) was warned about this 18 months ago and did nothing. So don't blame -- don't blame us.", "So what is becoming clearer here is that what it will take to oversee and administer the changes in the processing, in the handling of meats down the lines in the crossing of borders by different meat products, by the paper chains that were initiated by the movements of these pieces of meat is going to take a long time to clear up and to get that consumer confidence back on track, the quickest and most efficient way the government in Britain has determined, at least, is to make the supermarkets accountable despite their grievances about how all this is being handled, Kristie.", "You know, it is incredible how consumer attitudes are changing in a big way as a result of this horse meat scandal. And we heard just then from Malcolm Walker saying retailers are not to blame. So if we are to pinpoint one group, one agency, one authority, I mean who is to blame? How did horse meat get labeled as something else and get into the food chain?", "I think what's becoming apparent is that this is beyond the scope of blaming one person, one group, one institution. I mean, we've heard from the Irish agriculture minister just last week saying that -- exactly that, that no one person is responsible. He declined to describe it as a problem of epidemic proportions. However, alarm bells were rung. We've heard from the British food standards agency saying that letters were exchanged between Denmark, Italy and Hungary last year over concerns that horse meat from Denmark had perhaps got into the food chain erroneously. We heard from the food standards agency saying that there were many thousands of messages like this communicated. Clearly it appears, at this stage at least, that there was little followup or real alarm raised. And we heard in Britain in 2011 that one of the scientists involved with the food standards agency at that time wrote to the secretary of environment, the who is leading the charge against the supermarkets right now complaining and saying that there was a real possibility of horse meat getting in the human food chain here erroneously again. So the alarm bells have been out there. And at the moment it's far too complex a situation to be able to point the finger in one direction. And it does appear that there -- blame is going to be laid at many people's doors yet on this.", "Yeah, incredible, the warnings have been out there, have been out there since 2011. Nic Robertson on the story for us. Thank you, Nic. Now you're watching News Stream. And coming up next, China's one child policy is well known, but not the pain felt by parents who lose their only child. And there's another effect you may not have considered. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["LU STOUT", "PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "LU STOUT", "BLACK", "LU STOUT", "BLACK", "LU STOUT", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORREPSONDENT", "MALCOLM WALKER, CHAIRMAN ICELAND FOODS", "ROBERTSON", "LU STOUT", "ROBERTSON", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-396162", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-03-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/27/cnr.21.html", "summary": "3.3 Million Americans File for Unemployment Insurance; U.S. House to Vote on $2 Trillion Stimulus Soon.", "utt": ["Welcome back. I'm Robyn Curnow. Now people all over the world are losing their jobs because of coronavirus, shutdowns and struggling to figure out how they make ends meet. In the U.S., a record number of Americans, some 3.3 million, filed for unemployment benefits just last week. Kyung Lah spoke with a few of them. Here she is.", "How are you doing, guys? It's just been a completely life-altering experience from start to finish. And within a week, I mean, this is unbelievable.", "Yes, I have a two-ounce and I have an eight- ounce.", "A record number of newly unemployed Americans with a virus that leaves no business untouched.", "We would have all the seats filled.", "All of these seats?", "It would be a line out the door.", "3.3 million filed jobless claims last week. Coronavirus cratering businesses.", "We went from being about to franchise to basically running a to-go business. I -- you know, I haven't slept. I am -- I'm worried about having a heart attack to be perfectly honest with you.", "With no diners, the Drunken Crab is hemorrhaging thousands of dollars a day. Every business, every industry, re-evaluating under this economic tsunami.", "Have a good night.", "Josh Souder already forced to make that hard choice.", "I had to -- you know, was forced to lay off 75 people. At first you're thinking about them. OK, I feel horrible for them, and then they have to go home and tell their family, I just got laid off.", "I called my wife over the phone and said, honey, I'm on my way home. And she just -- she pretty much immediately knew.", "Laid off from the Drunken Crab, former general manager Jay Bocken immediately filed for unemployment. And it's just the tip of the iceberg say economists predicting by summer 14 million workers will lose their jobs due to the coronavirus shock.", "You're talking thousands and thousands of people looking for work simultaneously. It's going to hit every aspect of life and the government needs to react and help us get through this. That's the only way it's going to work. And people are not going to be able to support their families for more than two months.", "And already signs money is getting tight. Outside this West Hollywood bar, employees only, a line. Inside, the small staff preps meals, free meals for workers who show a pay stub. Like bartender Geri Courtney Austen.", "All of us like immediately lost our jobs I think as of Monday or Tuesday.", "Are you worried about how long this is going to last?", "One hundred percent. Yes. If it goes on months, I don't think any of us have any idea what we're going to do.", "The moment this happened we're going to dig ourselves in a hole regardless.", "Are you scared?", "I'm concerned.", "Restaurant owner Tom Sopit's rent is $1,000 per day. He doesn't want to fire anyone but this is a new reality he will have to face.", "Yes. All we can do is help each other.", "Thanks to Kyung for that report. Her stories are being felt across the world. Now a recession in the U.S. might already be here. The Federal Reserve chief says the U.S. economy could recover, but the pandemic has to be under control first. Jerome Powell told NBC that the Fed has more ways to fight this economic meltdown even though rates are already at zero.", "When it comes to this lending, we're not going to run out of ammunition. That doesn't happen. We may well be in a recession but again I would point to the difference between this and a normal recession. This isn't -- there's nothing fundamentally wrong with our economy. Quite the contrary. We would tend to listen to the experts. Dr. Fauci said something like the virus is going to set the timetable, and that sounds right to me.", "Well, the House will soon vote on the Senate's historic $2 trillion stimulus package but there's no guarantee it will pass. Some lawmakers are scrambling to fly back to Washington just in case they need to vote in person. So let's talk about all of this with Christine Romans. Christine is in New York. And hi. Good to see you again. Let's talk about unemployment. I mean, Kyung Lah's piece really hits home how so many families really going to be struggling through the summer. And not just in the", "Yes. And you multiply Kyung Lah's reporting by thousands and thousands and thousands across the country, and you get to that million -- 3.2 million number, more than 3.2 million people who just in one week filed for unemployment benefits. And what I've been hearing is that, you know, the number was probably even bigger than that because so many people couldn't get through to their state unemployment offices, right? The Web sites went down. The phone lines were jammed. There were just so many people rushing to file for unemployment benefits. So I think we're going to see that kind of rush for the benefits over the next few weeks. Here's the thing though. I mean, this is what it looks like when you shut down an economy on purpose, right? We're doing this on purpose, the government is, so that you can prevent an even bigger public health problem, get ahold of the spread of the virus and then hopefully reopen the economy in an orderly way on the other side of that. So that's the hope. In a way, these numbers are terrifying but not really that surprising.", "So what do you make of the stimulus package? And should a lot of these folks be flying back to Washington just in case?", "Well, they need to get this done. And probably, honestly, I don't even like to call it a stimulus package because it doesn't really stimulate anything. This is just stopping the bleeding. Stimulating might have to come later in more money being spent and I know that sounds crazy when you look at just how big this is. The biggest bailout undertaking in American history. $2 trillion. It's just a gargantuan bill. And it might not be enough depending on, as the Fed chief said, the timeline of the virus here. They'll have to get it done. The president wants to sign it by today. I think markets have already baked in that this is done and there's more bailout money, more relief, more rescue, more stimulus coming down the pike. You've seen three days of huge stock market gains in the United States because there's this feeling that the money will be flowing from both the Fed and from Congress. The money will flow to protect those people who have been thrown out of work because we've shut down the economy.", "OK. Good to speak to you. Christine Romans there live in New York.", "You, too, Robyn.", "Thanks so much. So European markets have opened. Let's take a look at some of the numbers. They've opened lower and that's despite strong gains in Asian markets in recent hours. Take a look at Wall Street on Thursday. Also down. The main markets all in the red. London FTSE also down 3.5 percent. U.S. Futures currently lower but not by much. Still pointing to a negative day for U.S. markets. And now to Singapore which is threatening tough measures for anyone who doesn't observe social distancing. People could face up to a $7,000 fine or six months in prison if they meet in groups of 10 people or more or if they don't keep at least one meter apart. The government reports close to 700 cases of coronavirus and two deaths. So you're watching CNN NEWSROOM. Still to come, Italy's desperate struggle with the coronavirus has been a warning to other countries. Is that a sign of what is coming to the U.S.? A report from Rome, next. Also how do you postpone a huge global event like the Olympics? Japan is about to find out. And the numbers involved are mindboggling."], "speaker": ["CURNOW", "JOSH SOUDER, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, I.E. 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{"id": "CNN-315871", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2017-07-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/03/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Top Four Men All Healthy for Start of Wimbledon; Venus, Kvitova Favorites on Women's Site", "utt": ["10 to 8:00 here in the UAE. You're watching CNN. This is Connect the World. I'm Becky Anderson. See you in court: half a million people will be delighted to hear that this Monday as they get set to go to the world's most iconic tennis tournament: Wimbledon, where there are some burning questions this year. Could we see a Federer versus Nadal final? And will Serena Williams' sister Venus grab the spotlight just days after legal trouble over a fatal car crash. Christina Macfareland, my colleague, is so close to the action, she is practically on center court for us right now. Christina, tennis's big four expected to dominate the men's draw.", "Well, Becky, that is the expectation, because the big four, as we've known them, and as we've known them for the past decade, that is Murray, Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic are back as the top four seeds in this competition for the first time since 2014. Between the four of them they've swept the past 14 titles here at the All England Club. And earlier today, Andy Murray began the defense of his title on Centre Court. And he went through his first round quite easily in straight sets. He, of course, is tracing his third Wimbledon title here and also looking to retain his world number one spot over the next fortnight. And all this, of course, just 24 hours after it was announced that he'll be expecting his second baby as well. But I think a lot of the fans here very keen to see a Nadal-Federer final. They, of course, are the first two players to take the first two grand slams of the year, the Australian Open and the French Open, the 10th for Rafa Nadal. They -- if they are able to face each other in the final, it will be 11 years since they did so the first time around. It really is turning into a vintage year for this pair. And as Federer neatly summed up in his press conference yesterday, there are so many story lines around this year's championship, you don't know where to look and you don't quite know where the winner is going to emerge. Take a listen.", "It's very even, you know, when we put it all out on the line. Everybody has got their own little story right now, but I don't -- me, everything that happened sort of before in Queens for Andy or whatever doesn't matter so much because I feel like Andy is one of the best players in the first week of Wimbledon. So, I don't worry too much for him there and that he can play himself into shape hopefully for week two. Look, Novak is just coming back from (inaudible) now. Rafa is coming in red hot from the clay. So, I see positive for them rather than negative and some shape, which I'm sure people will try to see it that way, but I see that they are going to be tough to beat here.", "I feel better, obviously, but always a (inaudible) I am able to play well from the beginning.", "As you can see in every tournament, you have some great match, great tennis, Roger and Rafa coming back to the best level. That's always going to be something special. They've been here for so many years, winning so many titles. It's always amazing as a fan to watch them play. And you have the young generation pushing and pushing, becoming better every year. So, it's going to be, I'm sure, a big Wimbledon.", "One other interesting nugget, Becky, is that the top four players ranked here, and the top four players -- the top five ranked players in the world, including Stan Wawrinka who you just saw there, now aged 30 or over, which is a first in the Open era. So it seems that experience counts for something.", "Such old me -- I'm joking. Whippersnappers still. Women's draw, then, it seems wide open with the absence of Serena Williams and Sharapova, of course.", "Yeah, it certainly does seem that way. And I think in their absence all eyes are on the two former champions who are the only former champions to be playing this fortnight: Venus Williams, Petra Kvitova. Now, Venus Williams has been up on Court 1 and she has gone through her first round today, although it was somewhat troubling for her going to a tiebreak in the first set and not particularly easy. It was just 23 days ago now that she was involved in a car accident that lead to the death of a 78 year old man, something now she is facing a lawsuit against. And, you know, we haven't seen much of her in the buildup to this Wimbledon tournament and really the first time we've had the opportunity to talk to her and a question about her came in the past 10 minutes. She's been in her press conference. And I can tell you that when a question was put to her about that incident, she became visibly upset, her eyes misted over and she really couldn't speak. She actually had to leave the press conference and then come back again in order to -- and then continued to talk about the tennis. So, she is one of the main contenders here, as is Petra Kvitova, of course, back from that horrific knife attack and out on court right now one set up.", "Christina is in southwest London for you today. Thank you. From Venus, then, to Earth. We are always on our game, offering you news that is all encompassing. For more grand slamming news and features use the Facebook site, Facebook.com/CNNConnect. I'm Becky Anderson. That was Connect the World from me, the team in Atlanta, London, and here in Abu Dhabi as ever. Thank you for watching. CNN continues after this short break. END"], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "CHRISTINA MACFARLANE, CNN WORLD SPORT", "ROGER FEDERER, TENNIS STAR", "RAFAEL NADAL, TENNIS STAR", "STAN WAWRINKA, TENNIS STAR", "MACFARLANE", "ANDERSON", "MACFARLANE", "ANDRESON"]}
{"id": "NPR-11701", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2016-05-21", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/05/21/478962853/publicizing-use-of-force-videos-included-in-chicago-area-sherriff-s-reforms", "title": "Publicizing Use-Of-Force Videos Included In Chicago-Area Sherriff's Reforms", "summary": "NPR's Scott Simon asks Cook County's Sheriff Tom Dart about his new reforms, including publicly posting videos in cases where officers have been convicted of using excessive force against detainees.", "utt": ["The Cook County, Ill., department of corrections has one of the largest single-site jails in the country, 9,000 detainees who are housed - if that's quite the word - in an area that's about eight city blocks. The prison is run by the sheriff of Cook County, Tom Dart.", "Among the series of reforms he's recently implemented is an increase in video cameras, including body cameras on supervisors, in the hope of reducing the number of cases in which guards have abused inmates. And sometimes, those videos are released to the public. Sheriff Tom Dart joins us now from Chicago. Thanks so much for being with us.", "Oh, thanks for having me on, Scott.", "What made you decide to do this?", "You know, Scott, we'd been trying to sort of open up the view of this place to the public pretty much from day one. But we had to get through some of these hurdles so that, in the event of bad things going on in jail, we're not going to hide from it. We're going to be transparent. And we'll attempt to work through firing, criminally charging, if - as necessary as well - but to let the public know that we're trying. We're not involved with some cover-up, or this isn't some big secret.", "Bad things going on - I mean, to be plain about it, you mean mostly guards abusing inmates?", "Yeah, in cases of excessive force. So where it's clear that a correctional officer has exceeded what the norms require because clearly - obviously, in every jail and prison, correctional officers and guards will have to put their hands on a detainee sometimes to get them to respond. And more often than not, that's appropriate. But in the cases where they've gone beyond that and it's excessive, there needs to be immediately reaction from us.", "Can you tell us about a couple?", "Some of the activity was, for all intents and purposes in my view, were - was harmless. It was a detainee just talking back or something like that. And then the correctional officer in a case struck him then.", "There's another case on the other end of the spectrum where a detainee was waiting for the correctional officers to come through his door for lock-up. And when they got near the door, he pushed the door open, slamming the door into the correction officers, knocking them down. And then he started running. They tackled him. All that was fine, but then one of the officers took it to the next step and was just kneeing him and punching him in the face even though he was down already.", "It really runs the spectrum. But they were all cases that we felt pretty strongly were not representative of how you should be conducting yourself.", "Not to make any excuses for any kind of misconduct, but I'm sure you've spoken with corrections officers and maybe police officers who have said, over the years, that if somebody strikes a prison official, they feel the need for the retribution to be instantaneous and not to go through a legal system. They need to demonstrate that those officers aren't there to be trifled with.", "Yeah. And, you know, Scott, frankly, it's that mindset that has gotten everyone into so much trouble because there are systems that are set up to deal with a detainee who is not complying with the rules that you need to run a correctional facility. And striking them is not one of them. And what it does is it breeds an environment, then, where violence is the norm. And there is not the distinction between the professionals and the people who are being incarcerated because of some act that they did on the street. And you have to have it so that the public has faith that there isn't one set of rules for the people on the street and there's another set of rules for law enforcement. You have to have one set of rules.", "Any concern that any correctional officer that you might want to discipline or could even result in a legal case will have his or her rights potentially violated by releasing the video?", "We wait until there's been a thorough investigation that has sustained the facts that there has been excessive force. And then it goes to a hearing. So there's a myriad of eyes that are looking at this to make sure that it is, in fact, done appropriately. And we feel very confident that, at the end of the day, with the videos that are released, they're the ones that has gone through all of the screening ahead of time to make sure that everyone's rights are being looked after.", "Sheriff Dart, do you hope all the video surveillance might deter abusive behavior from corrections officers or, for that matter, outrageous things done by inmates?", "Probably one of the top reasons we did this was not just to catch things on the back end after bad things happen, but for the majority of cases where, frankly, it's detainee on detainee, that it would be easier to find out who did what to who and when. Cases where detainees are setting fires or are otherwise trying to break different things within the correctional facility, we'd be able to catch that proactively. And then for the rare cases where we have excessive force, that everybody would know we have cameras everywhere.", "So underlying so much of what we did was the notion that there was going to be this deterrent effect throughout the place both for detainees, employees and everyone else involved.", "The sheriff of Cook County, Tom Dart - thanks so much.", "Scott, thank you so much."], "speaker": ["SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "TOM DART", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "TOM DART", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "TOM DART", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "TOM DART", "TOM DART", "TOM DART", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "TOM DART", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "TOM DART", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "TOM DART", "TOM DART", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "TOM DART"]}
{"id": "CNN-205202", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2013-4-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/17/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Social Media Plays Large Role In Aftermath of Boston Marathon Bombing", "utt": ["Now let's return to our top story, the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. And we want to examine the role of social media now. As in other disasters it broke the news. Word of a large explosion first started circulating on Twitter. Now CNN and other media organizations quoted the Boston Marathon's Facebook page which said two bombs exploded near the finish line. Now social media was also used by authorities to spread information. In fact, the Boston Police Department used its Twitter account to give updates on the situation. It also put out this call for video and for tips. Now the FBI is in the lead in the investigation. And among other things, it is looking to images posted online for clues about the attackers. Let's bring in our regular contributor Nicholas Thompson. He is the editor of the New Yorker.com. And Nick, take us back to earlier this week, just how did the initial news of the Boston Marathon bombings play out on social media?", "Well, it starts out on Twitter, right, about a minute after the bombs hit, the first tweets, they start getting retweeted and then two minutes, within four minutes everybody knows about it. Anybody who is near anybody with a Twitter account here's something, \"oh my god, bombs have gone off in Boston.\" And of course because news -- you know, inaccurate news, or false news, breaks off, and on Twitter your first reaction is wait, maybe that's not true. It's Twitter, so there's the chance this is false. But gradually you get the sense and then it starts spreading through other social media platforms. And then Facebook plays an extremely important role, because it becomes the easiest way for people who were running the race or watching the race who were OK to tell all their friends and family instead of having to call 100 people, you just post something on your Facebook page. So Facebook became this sort of wonderful method of letting people know you were safe.", "You know, these days everyone is pretty savvy about social media and breaking news on social media, because we know that social media can often spread misinformation, especially after a disaster. We saw that after Sandy last year. But how much of that did we see after the Boston attack?", "I actually think there was a real sign of social media maturation during this crisis. There was far less misinformation spreading on social media, there were far fewer rumors. I mean, there were panics. There was a sudden panic about unexploded devices. And there were panics about other things going off, and terrible things happening. There was, you know, some misinformation about the cellphone network in Boston. But, really, it was actually pretty good. I think people are getting better at knowing what to tweet and who to retweet, sort of the self correcting mechanisms of Twitter whereby the people who are putting out false information or inaccurate information or unverified information aren't getting as much play and aren't getting as much amplification as they did during past crises.", "It's interesting to hear that the medium is maturing in this regard. Now let's talk about the hashtag #prayforBoston. It was one way for people to pay tribute to the victims on Twitter. Can social media, though, really bring people together during times of disaster and crisis?", "Oh, I think it absolutely can. I mean, even if it's only doing so at a superficial way, it does feel good to go onto social media and both to tweet and to say -- you know, to tweet #prayforBoston or to send your condolences or to say something moving and pithy. And then to read hundreds of these responses, it makes you feel like part of a community. One of -- a hard -- you know, in the past watching these events, these terrible things happen can lead to a real sense of isolation, but doing it on social media can bring you together even if you're not actually doing anything, even if you're not giving blood, even if you're far away, even if you're not helping someone at the finish line you feel like you're part of it and it helps you process it in a way.", "OK. And one final question for you. You wrote a piece for the New Yorker about the meaning of the Boston Marathon and why it was targeted. And by writing that piece, you met a runner who was pictured in a photograph above your article. We'll show the photograph of her. Her name is Emily Locker. And tell us about this incredible story involving her.", "So I wrote this story. And I said, look, the amazing thing about the Boston Marathon is it's this spectacle. These people run at, you know, less than five minutes per mile for 26 miles. But it's also this very prosaic thing, this normal thing that regular people run. It happens on the streets of Boston, the streets that everybody who knows the city know. So it's a spectacle, but it's taking place in a very familiar place. And every runner has a story. And above that post, we put a picture of this woman. And then the next day she emailed me and said, so I'm the woman in the picture. And she and I talked on the phone. It turns out she has an incredible story. She was a runner for a long time. Her husband running for a long time. And then she came down with breast cancer. She had a double elected mastectomy. And she had intense chemotherapy. But each time that she went through chemotherapy she ran a little bit, even if it was only a mile, even if it was slowly. She wanted to be able to get back out there to run again, to run another marathon. And this was the marathon that she was going to run. If you look at the picture, you can see that she has her hair is just a little bit tied back behind her head. And she said it was very moving for her, it was the first time since the chemotherapy that she had enough hair on her head that she could tie it. And, you know, she's wearing her lucky purple shoes which she felt that would bring her, you know, some good karma in this race. You can see she's walking kind of against the stream of the runners. She's been stopped. She got to the point where all the runners were stopped on Commonwealth Avenue and she's walking backwards looking for a friend. She's not sure what's going on. She's a little bit cold. So it was a very moving picture. And to an extent I had no idea when I wrote that initial post and when we put that on New Yorker.com.", "Yeah, I'm so happy that she reached out to you and you shared the story to your audience and international audience through your column. And incredible story of survival and what the human spirit is really capable of. Nick Thompson of New Yorker.com thank you so much and take care.", "Thank you, Kristie.", "Now, on our website you can find five viral stories about the Boston attacks. In fact, CNN.com's Doug Gross, he debunks them one by one. Not to be missed. You want to check it out. CNN.com. Now you're watching News Stream. And still ahead, remembering the victims. Family and friends of the people killed in the Boston Marathon bombings talked to us about their loved one."], "speaker": ["LU STOUT", "NICK THOMPSON, NEW YORKER.COM", "LU STOUT", "THOMPSON", "LU STOUT", "THOMPSON", "LU STOUT", "THOMPSON", "LU STOUT", "THOMPSON", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-369450", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-05-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/13/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Trump Wrongly Claims U.S. Will Make Billions on Tariffs; Four Ships Targeted Near Strait of Hormuz; Subpoenas Loom Large for Trump Administration", "utt": ["Preparing to strike back: U.S. president doubles down on the trade war with China as we wait for Beijing to retaliate against new tariffs. Also, Trump's critical week ahead: a scandal for Congress as the White House stonewalls dozens of subpoenas that could threaten his presidency. Venezuelans are desperately fighting hunger. Testimonies from the streets of Caracas, where eating three meals a day is a luxury. Hello, everyone, thank you so much for joining us, these stories are ahead. I'm Natalie Allen in Atlanta and this is CNN NEWSROOM.", "Our top story: U.S.-China trade talks still at a standstill. And Beijing could retaliate against new U.S. tariffs in the coming hours. The lack of a trade deal has Asian markets nervous. You can see right there. All numbers in the red, pointing down. The Nikkei, the Shanghai Composite and the Seoul KOSPI. U.S. market features are pointing to a down day on Wall Street as well. There, you see the Dow futures down, just under 1 point. The Nasdaq as well. The S&P 500 just under a point the same. Even so, President Trump is projecting calm, with a tweet, saying the U.S. is, quote, \"right where we want to be with China.\" Though Mr. Trump claimed the U.S. would collect tens of billions of dollars and tariffs from China, his top economic adviser admitted that is not the case.", "It's not China that pays tariffs, it's the American importers, the American companies that pay what in effect is a tax increase and oftentimes passes it on to U.S. consumers.", "Fair enough. In fact, both sides will pay. Both sides will pay in these things.", "Let's turn now to CNN's Steven Jiang, he is in Beijing for us. Hello to you, Steven. Any idea what China's retaliation will take, what form? How far could it go?", "The government still has said not much in terms of details of their counter measures against the U.S. They could obviously impose counter tariffs but not dollar for dollar. Remember, China imports a lot less from the U.S. than the other way around. So they are literally running around of a marathon products to tax on. But they could cancel major purchases from the U.S., especially agricultural and energy products that could really hurt the political base of Mr. Trump in the U.S. They could also favor non-U.S. companies when granting market access here or launching unofficial retaliations by making life very difficult for American companies here. They could delay the issuance of licenses or customs clearance or even sending fire inspectors.", "Also, Mr. Trump's top economic adviser reiterated Sunday about how this breakdown happened between the two countries. He said talks were going well and then China backtracked. So the U.S. continuing to put this stalemate all on China, Steven. How is that being played there in Beijing?", "Well, not very well, as you can imagine. The Chinese government in the past few days has been pushing back on these U.S. claims through the state media. Their point being there's never been a formalized agreement between the two sides because negotiations still are ongoing. So how could China walk away from something that was never formalized to begin with? They're also trying to paint the Americans for being unreasonable when it comes to raising the amount of American goods Washington expected China to buy at the very last minute and also trying to describe the American side being intransigent on a number of key issues from the removal of these tariffs in the event of a trade deal to the final text in any document both sides would sign. One interesting to note is that, you played that sound bite by Larry Kudlow, basically admitting Trump has been misleading the American public in terms of who is paying these U.S. tariffs. The Chinese state media has picked up these remarks and now using that to highlight how Mr. Trump's tariffs are only hurting the American people and that there are no winners in this trade war -- Natalie.", "All right, Steven Jiang for us, we will speak with you again. Now let's talk about this on how this could play out.", "Andrew Sullivan joins us from Hong Kong, the former head of sales trading for Haitong International Securities. We appreciate your time and weighing in on this as well. We were talking about China retaliating over these U.S. tariffs. What are you expecting from Beijing? How severe could it be?", "As your previous bite said there, they are running out of things to actually put tariffs on. So some of the measures they are likely to take will come down more to sentiment from the public. And we saw this when the Patriot missiles went to South Korea, a number of the public just generally boycotting Korean goods. And this is something we have seen over the weekend, the nationalist flavor in China has been welling up there. And it's likely you will see people start to boycott American goods because they feel that America is being unfair against China. And that allows the government a little more wriggle when it comes to actually looking at tariffs, to be more measured. And that gives up the upper hand to show that they are not being the aggressive ones. And I think that's something they certainly want to show to the world stage, that they are not being protectionist, that they want free markets and they want this thing to work well for the whole economy.", "You mentioned the world stage. This is not just about China and the United States. This could have a trickle effect and affect other economies.", "That's it. We've seen over the weekend, you have the South Korean government lobbying Washington not to put tariffs on the autos there. We have negotiations coming up with Europe, which are at a rather testy state. And then we'll have the agreement with Japan coming through later. So this is really probably been seen as a benchmark by everybody as to where they are going to set the standard for the other agreements coming through.", "Right, and President Trump maintains that tariffs \"will hurt China mostly,\" a quote from him on Sunday. Remember, he said, they broke the deal, they did, China, with us, and try to renegotiate. We will take in tens of billions of dollars in tariffs from China. But that is not exactly accurate. The impact will be fairly severe on U.S. businesses and consumers. Can you talk about that?", "Yes. We have not seen the Chinese exporters lowering their prices to take on the part of the tariff cost. So at the moment, it's being wholly passed on to the American consumer or the American importers are absorbing some of the costs, which will hurt their earnings going forward. But remember, until Friday, a lot of consumer goods were not actually covered by the tariffs. So this is going to be the change. Now it's not going to happen overnight. It's going to take a few weeks for these costs to start coming through. But then you'll see it on things like smartphones, laptops, things that really affect the general public in America. And they will see the impact of it. And that could backfire against Trump. And we've had a couple of brokers coming out with reports just highlighting the fact that it was going to be the American consumer that pays this money.", "And then there's the market. Let's talk about the economic impact there. The Asian markets lower in early trading Monday; the Dow is set to fall sharply again when trading opens in a few hours. President Trump says we are right where we need to be on China. But if markets falter, could the president's tone change?", "He always made that very much a success sign of how what he is doing as a president is how well the markets are doing. So it hit the global markets and especially the American markets take a nosedive, then, yes, he will certainly have to rethink his strategy there. Again, I think he is feeling that the American economy is doing well and it's quite buoyant. But the I think the earnings going forward, we've just got through one earnings season and it was not as bad as people expected. But looking to the second half of the year, if this dispute continues, I think we will see a number of those American earnings starting to suffer and that will hurt.", "Andrew Sullivan, thank you for joining us, we appreciate your insight.", "You're welcome.", "Now we want to turn to a neither issue that we are following closely and it does involve the United States. Tensions appear to be rising in an already sensitive part of the Middle East. An alliance of Middle Eastern nations is calling for calm after four commercial ships were targeted near the United Arab Emirates. The Gulf Cooperation Council said Sunday's incidents risk maritime safety. As CNN's Nic Robertson reports, it comes amid a standoff between Iran and the U.S. in the area.", "What we've learned --", "-- is what they described as a dangerous development. Four commercial vessels were targeted in their territorial waters, off the port city of Fujairah. That is an important oil facility in the Emirates and right next to the Strait of Hormuz. And this comes at a time when the U.S. intelligence assessments have been that there is a growing Iranian threat to shipping in the region, that the Pentagon had been concerned that there was a threat to U.S. shipping, commercial and military, in the region and also the shipping of U.S. partners in the region. What the Emiratis are describing, these attacks, are sabotage operations, subversive operations, that's how they describe it. We don't have much details yet about the type of vessels that were targeted or how they were targeted. But this came late Sunday evening in the Emirates, information from the Emirati authorities. However, earlier in the day, pro Iranian TV in the region and in Iran have been broadcasting a story saying seven oil tankers in this point city of Fujairah were on fire. And when we contacted Emirati authorities earlier Sunday to ask about that, they said they had no information about it. For the Emiratis, this is, in their words, a dangerous development, coming at a time of heightened tensions in this region. The U.S. is sending more of its naval forces and Patriot missile batteries and B-52 bombers into the region, the tension growing. And this incident, whatever it turns out to be, will add to those tensions -- Nic Robertson, CNN, Abu Dhabi.", "And in a related development, we are getting word that the U.S. secretary of state is canceling a trip to Moscow on Monday. He will instead meet with European officials in Brussels to discuss pressing matters, including Iran. Mike Pompeo departed to Brussels just a few moments ago from Maryland. Before leaving, he reiterated, the U.S. does not want war with Iran.", "We are not going to miscalculate. Our aim is not war. Our aim is a change in the behavior of the Iranian leadership. We hope the Iranian people to get what they finally want and what they so richly deserve. The forces that we are putting in place, the forces we have had in the region before, you know, we have often had carriers in the Persian Gulf. But the president wanted to make sure that in the event that something took place, we were prepared to respond to it in an appropriate way. And as secretary of state, I wanted to make sure that we had all the political and diplomatic tools in the right place. And we want to make sure that we can provide the president with an option set, in the event that the Iranians make a bad decision.", "The U.S. secretary of state will head to Sochi on Tuesday as planned for meetings there with Russian officials. Next here on NEWSROOM, the week ahead for President Trump includes his ongoing battle over subpoenas. Is the U.S. in a constitutional crisis? Also:", "Some have voiced concerns about you getting Hillary-ed in the election, meaning that you get held to a higher standard than your opponent for potentially arbitrary or maybe even sexist reasons.", "Is sexism undermining support for women running for U.S. president? 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{"id": "CNN-243202", "program": "@THISHOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2014-11-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/14/ath.01.html", "summary": "Secret Service Failures Surrounding White House Fence Jumper in September", "utt": ["New this morning, a report that seems to detail shocking incompetence among those charged with protecting the president of the United States. The Department of Homeland Security has published an in-depth review of security failures allowed Omar Gonzalez to burst into the White House in September, running all the way into the East Room before finally being tackled. Some of the details in the report --", "Alright, follow me along, here. He jumped a fence. Then a canine officer didn't release the dog in time, because he was on his personal cell phone -- the officer, not the dog. He didn't have his radio ear piece in place. Another officer couldn't see past the bushes, yet another, stationed inside, was apparently not backward when Gonzalez burst in as she was trying to lock the doors. That officer grabbed her flashlight instead of her baton. So many things to talk to. Author Ronald Kessler. Good to see you, sir. Kessler, of course, wrote \"The First Family Detail\" and in the president's Secret Service. And you've joined us before to talk about the concerns you had about The Secret Service and some of the problems within that agency. None of this comes as a surprise. Were you maybe surprised by the specifics in this reveal? This review, rather?", "Well, you know, I've said in my book that agents say that it's a miracle that there has not already been an assassination given this really corrupt management culture, which leads to all these problems. There's an arrogance, there's a cover-up mentality. One example in the book I describe how when Bradley Cooper went to the White House correspondent's dinner where Obama spoke, a high-ranking management official in New York in the Secret Service told agents at the Washington Hilton to let Bradley Cooper and his SUV into the secure area in front of the hotel where only Secret Service vehicles were allowed, and even they had to be screened by dogs for explosives because someone could attach an explosive to the underside of a car. And the order was let him in, don't screen him, just as a favor to his security people. So what kind of message does that send to agents? It says, you know, we really don't care about security, we don't care if there's an assassination, we'll just do whatever we want, as outrageous as it may seem. And that is the culture that has produced all of these screw ups and a lack of updated equipment, a lack of training, the Secret Service doesn't even have annual updates on training, which is something that the FBI does, any local police department does and, you know, I think that the solution is to bring in an outside director who's not beholden to the interest within the agency, who's not part of this culture, and as one example, a former FBI official, I think would totally shake up this agency, make it perform honestly, stop retaliation against agents who point out problems, which is something that is an everyday occurrence, and, you know, the government has a tendency to want to reinvent the wheel. It's really very simple. There are a few blocks separating the FBI and the Secret Service, bring the FBI in to run the Secret Service and you would have a very good organization. As we see, with the FBI protecting us since 9/11, we have not had a successful foreign terrorist attack, and I can tell you having done books on the FBI and the Secret Service and the CIA, the caliber of official at the CIA and the FBI is so much higher than the Secret Service. The Secret Service culture is to promote agents who go along, who don't question and that's been the problem.", "All right, Ronald Kessler, thanks so much for being with us. Appreciate your time. Again, when you hear that a Secret Service officer doesn't have his ear piece in or he's on a personal cellphone, you get the sense it's not the first time that someone there did not have their ear piece in or was talking on their personal cellphone.", "Makes you wonder about training, procedures, protocol, lots of questions.", "Clearly a culture there that needs to be radically, radically changed. Ahead for us @THISHOUR, authorities in Ferguson, Missouri now telling residents to get ready to hunker down. What police now say could happen when a grand jury makes its decision in the shooting of Michael Brown."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "RONALD KESSLER, AUTHOR, \"THE FIRST FAMILY DETAIL\"", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-336045", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-03-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/27/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Russia Warning over Diplomats; Trump talking with Porter.", "utt": ["All right, more than 100 Russian diplomats have been expelled from countries all around the world. And that number is growing this morning. All this in response to the nerve agent poisoning of a Russian double agent and his daughter living in the United Kingdom. The U.S. sending out 60 diplomats alone. Joining me now, senior diplomatic correspondent Michelle Kosinski, here with me in New York. The whole world making a statement here.", "Well, yes, I mean it's a big chunk of the world. These are U.S. allies. The count now is 25, when you include Ireland, which we just heard this morning had jumped on board, and including the U.K. and the U.S. So 25 countries is substantial. I mean each country, for the most part, is just expelling one or two. So you have to do a lot of comparison to see the scope of this and to see that the U.S. has expelled 60, which is nearly triple the number that the U.K. has expelled, and the crime happened on U.K. soil, that's pretty impressive for the U.S. to do, especially when you see how this could have gone. I mean this administration could have done nothing, and there were some indications that that could have happened since only days prior the president flat out ignored his national security team's advice not to congratulate, in big capital letters, Vladimir Putin on his election win. And Trump decided to do that. So there was some that thought that the U.S. would not be on board with this and maybe that is why this story leaked out because somebody on the inside of these conversations wanted the world to know that his national security team was recommending that he do something. Maybe in the off chance that he did not really want to. But, he did.", "And leaking to force the action that they wanted to see. Any sign that the Trump administration will go any further than this?", "There is. And I think they want to put it out there as a warning because in the usual U.S.-Russia tit for tat, you have Russia now saying, oh, really, you know, very boldly, almost boasting, like, we're going to do this to you now, ha-ha. But the administration was very quick to say, if Russia does retaliate, we could well take more action. You know in these -- in terms of the election meddling, which is a separate issue from this, we did see the administration only weeks ago issue sanctions for some people, some Putin insiders as well. So I think that, too, is an indication that if this goes further, the administration is not really all that shy anymore from taking action where many feel it really hurts Putin, and that is in the money bags.", "Michelle Kosinski, great to have you here with us in New York. Thanks so much for being here.", "Likewise.", "The question now is how will Russia respond. Let's go to Moscow. Phil Black is there.", "Yes, John, how many will be expelled in return? That's a key question really going forward. Russia has only said that the Russian response would be reciprocal. So, one for one, tit for tat, that's what we can expect. Vladimir Putin is supposed to be the man who actually does make the final decision in terms of how many, whether or not Russia simply meets the same number of expulsions, or perhaps goes further and escalates this crisis to an even higher degree. But when he will do so is unclear because he's a busy man dealing, at the same time, with a domestic tragedy, a shopping mall fire in Siberia that's killed more than 60 people, mostly children. That's where he is today, offering condolences, also trying to calm locals who are very angry that this fire has taken place. Tomorrow has been declared a national day of mourning here in Russia as well. So it's unclear if he will announce a response while also dealing with this national tragedy. And, indeed, Russian officials who have been very angry towards the U.S. and western countries over these expulsions, they've also criticized them for their timing, for announcing these expulsions while at the same time, often on the same day, offering condolences for the shopping mall fire at the same time, John.", "It's interesting, Phil, I have Michelle Kosinski here and I was talking about the fact that the whole world was reacting. She pointed out it's really only 25 countries and where are we on some of the more powerful nations like China?", "So China has offered some statements on this. In fact, it's foreign ministry spokesman addressed this today during a press conference. And it's not clear who she was talking about when she asked the countries to, quote, abandon a Cold War mentality. She went on to say, relevant countries should avoid taking any actions that would aggravate the conflict and work together to preserve peace and stability of the international community. China makes the point that it's opposed to the use of chemical weapons, but at the same time it seems to be urging all relevant parties to talk this through in a peaceful, calm way, to try and stop this from escalating further, John.", "All right, Phil Black for us in Moscow. Phil, thank you very much. This morning the world is asking a question, who was on that train in China? We're talking about what's been called the mystery train in China. We are now told it's extremely or highly likely that Kim Jong- un, the leader of North Korea, on board there. The private train, which closely resembles one used to transport North Korean leaders, was spotted leaving a Chinese train station earlier. If it is Kim Jong-un, it would mark the first time he has left North Korea since taking power in 2011. It comes as he prepares to meet with the South Korean President Moon and eventually perhaps President Trump. It has been almost two years since he died. Now we're learning new details about just what was inside the blood. Blood tests coming in from Prince."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN SENIOR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "KOSINSKI", "BERMAN", "KOSINSKI", "BERMAN", "PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "BLACK", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-362465", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2019-02-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/19/ip.01.html", "summary": "Stone Ordered to Court after Posts; White House Ties to Saudi Nuclear Project", "utt": ["A federal judge ordering Roger Stone back to court today. That after a social media post he calls a big misunderstanding, but that could easily be viewed as a threat against that judge. Judge Amy Berman Jackson this morning scheduled a Thursday hearing to determine whether she should change the terms of Stone's bail, including rules about any media comments or contacts. The long-time Trump confidant is charged with lying, obstructing justice and witness intimidation. At issue now is an Instagram picture showing Judge Jackson's face with what appears to be gun sight crosshairs lurking over her shoulder. CNN's Evan Perez and Kara Scannell join the conversation. Number one, it's just stupid. Let's just put that on the record. It is stupid to put a picture of a federal judge over -- any federal judge, but the federal judge overseeing your case on Instagram. She's clearly angry. What now?", "Well, he's going to get a talking to on Thursday. I think the judge has every reason to be angry about this. And I think, you know, federal law enforcement, the U.S. Marshals, are going to take this very seriously. I mean they're probably going to have to increase her security because you never know whether someone stupid might do something as a result of this. And now Roger Stone has, as you noted, he's apologized. He says that he never meant to threaten the judge. The crosshairs were not intended to, in any way, threaten a judge. He says that it was -- somebody who was a volunteer on his, I guess on his staff, who posted this. And he -- but, you know, the bottom line is that he does not like that this is the judge that's overseeing his case. He complains that she's an Obama appointee. She is. And he's not happy that this is the same judge, obviously, who oversaw the Manafort case. The interesting thing is that this judge has actually been treating Roger Stone gingerly. Because, if you remember, in the Manafort case, she slapped a gag order on the first day for far less than what Roger Stone has done.", "And he -- his lawyers filed this. Undersigned counsel with the attached authority of Roger J. Stone hereby apologize to the court for the improper photograph and comment posted on Instagram today. Mr. Stone recognizes the impropriety and had it removed. That's the apology. This was posed -- we also, if you look at his website, we can show you some pictures. He has a legal defend website.", "Yes.", "One of the reasons he's saying these provocative things on \"Info Wars,\" he calls them a legal lynching when he goes on \"Info Wars.\" A does these things on Instagram. A, he's trying to raise money. I suspect the judge will note that as she considers whether to accept that apology.", "Right. And, look, I mean, one of my favorite albums is Pink Floyd's \"Momentary Lapse of Reason.\" I think he could go in there and just like prostrate himself and say I'm really, really sorry, judge, I'm not going to do it again. But, you know, the fact is, Roger Stone -- for him this is his oxygen, us talking about him. Getting media attention is his oxygen. If the judge wants to cut it off, it's going to be a severe penalty to him.", "And one would suspect she's going to have some new restrictions as well. We'll watch that on Thursday. Also of note today, House Democrats now say they want to investigate why some White House officials, early in the Trump administration, backed an outside plan to give Saudi Arabia nuclear power reactors. Kara, tell us why this matters specifically and who are the central players the Democrats say are raising flags.", "Right. So the Democrats were looking here to determine whether the White House was pursuing this strategy to export nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in the best interest of U.S. national security or to line the pockets of people associated and close to those in the White House. And this all relates to this plan by a private company that's run by former generals and it was promoted inside the White House by Michael Flynn, who was then the national security adviser. Now, they were pushing this plan forward, but staffers on -- the career staffers, even -- and some political appointees on the National Security Council had said, you know, hold on, this raises a lot of red flags. There are questions here about conflicts of interest because of the potential financial gain to some of these individuals, as well as whether it would violate the Atomic Energy Act, which requires Congress to be involved in decisions of exporting nuclear technologies. And so this was raised multiple times. You know, there was even one senior political appointee who was, you know, pretty senior up (ph) according to this staff report who said, this is not a business plan but a scheme for these generals to make some money. So there were -- there were concerns here that went beyond this. They brought these concerns of staffers to legal advisers, to ethics advisers. And multiple times they tried to shut this down. They said, you know, stop pursuing this plan. But then again, it would repopulate itself, either from Michael Flynn pushing it, some of his deputies in the National Security Council, you know, as well as this external company keep bringing it forward saying, hey, we're going to lose our edge. So, you know, the big concern here is that the administration was pushing through this, even though there were objections by career staffers, by other politicians, by the legal team saying, hey, you can't do this, you have to follow proper protocol. You can't just, you know, give out, you know, proposals and plans that are going to help your friends.", "Right. So a new sign of the Democratic oversight on Capitol Hill and yet another sign of, let's just say the swamp was not drained. Up next for us, Sen. Elizabeth Warren pitches her universal child care plan. The price tag and her idea to pay for it."], "speaker": ["KING", "EVAN PEREZ, CNN SENIOR JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "KING", "PEREZ", "KING", "PEREZ", "KING", "KARA SCANNELL, CNN REPORTER", "KING"]}
{"id": "NPR-18707", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2017-04-29", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/04/29/526205006/ambassador-says-so-far-trump-administration-is-a-reassertion-of-america-power", "title": "Ambassador Says, So Far, Trump Administration Is A 'Reassertion Of America Power'", "summary": "Ambassador Dennis Ross of the Washington Institute discusses the Trump administration's foreign policy in the first 100 days and how it compares to previous presidents.", "utt": ["Continuing with our special coverage of President Trump's first 100 days in office, we turn to international affairs and foreign policy. This weekend, the big international story is ongoing tensions with North Korea which defied world pressure yesterday by testing another missile.", "As for President Trump, observers are noting that his foreign policy has been marked by a series of decisions seemingly at odds with his rhetoric on the campaign trail from the relevance of NATO to greater involvement in the Syria conflict. To talk more about Trump's foreign policy approach so far, we called Dennis Ross. He has advised four different U.S. presidents on foreign policy. He's with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. And I started our conversation by asking about President Trump's first 100 days and how this period compares to that of other administrations.", "Well, so far I would say he does not look so far outside the mainstream. He has acted to reassure allies which was something that was put in doubt during the campaign. He has said explicitly that NATO is relevant. He has had a large number of meetings with foreign leaders. He's now planning a trip abroad. He apparently is going to go to the NATO summit.", "He seems to be focused heavily on assuring others that even when he wants there to be more equitable burden-sharing, which by the way when it comes to the sharing of burdens, this is not a new concept. We have had many presidents talk about the need to share burdens. He has put more of a premium on that. But still, he doesn't seem to be shaping some kind of fundamentally new approach or one that has any kind of isolationist characteristic to it.", "So for many people, for some people, let's say, some of his supporters, surely, these represent a change of mind, charitably, or a flip-flop, uncharitably. Do you see some through line among these issues in which you see him as frankly more consistent with precedent than, perhaps, he thought he would be?", "I do, but I also think some of this can be accounted for by simply the reality of it's one thing to be a candidate. It's something else to be president. And he's not the first one to discover that. You know, President Clinton when he was a candidate when it referred to Bosnia, he said he was going to carry out a policy of lift and strike. He was going to lift the embargo on arms, so that the Bosnian-Muslims wouldn't suffer, and he was going to carry out airstrikes against the Serbs.", "And when he got in, he didn't do that. He decided it was in a sense more challenging, complicated than they thought. Well, we have seen President Trump say that he was going to label China as a currency manipulator. He didn't do that. He obviously has adopted, I think, a strong position rhetorically on North Korea, but he also said after speaking to the president of China for 10 minutes, he had a better appreciation of what the relationship was with China and North Korea, that China does have leverage, but it was more complicated than he had thought.", "Do you see a guiding foreign policy principle emerging?", "I don't really see that yet. I would say if one were going to characterize the Trump administration so far, I think it's basically a reassertion of American power, but not at this point necessarily an explanation of where with regard to what priorities. We certainly see a characterization of threat, and that's most clearly that relates to North Korea. But I don't think we have a kind of broad approach that integrates the role of power with a set of political objectives.", "And I think that's obviously something that is likely to emerge over time. It wouldn't be the first administration that would not have shaped such an approach in its first hundred days. And, obviously, we're still waiting to see it happen here.", "To that end, though, there are those who have criticized this administration in particular for seeming to be particularly unorganized. There are many unfilled positions in the administration especially it seems in the State Department. The administration seems to have struggled at times to present a unified front on foreign policy.", "Right.", "Do you see it that way? I mean, do they need to still get their act together administratively?", "Well, there's no doubt that the process of putting people in positions has been an unusually slow one. You don't have deputy secretaries of defense or state. You don't have undersecretaries of defense or state who have been appointed. And I think right now in the Trump administration, you have a small number of people having to carry out a very large number of tests. And I think that's one of the reasons it's going to take more time before you see a clear approach formulated and that one that can also be explained.", "That's Ambassador Dennis Ross. He's a longtime U.S. diplomat. He's now a distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He's author of the book \"Doomed To Succeed.\" He was kind enough to join us from his home office outside of Washington, D.C. Ambassador, thank you so much for speaking with us.", "My pleasure. Thank you."], "speaker": ["MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DENNIS ROSS", "DENNIS ROSS", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DENNIS ROSS", "DENNIS ROSS", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DENNIS ROSS", "DENNIS ROSS", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DENNIS ROSS", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DENNIS ROSS", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DENNIS ROSS"]}
{"id": "CNN-359446", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-01-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1901/14/nday.03.html", "summary": "CNN Obtained FBI Transcripts That Shed Light On Internal Deliberations; FBI Agents, Air Traffic Controllers, Coast Guard Folks All Of Them Working Without Pay And Yet He Says He Cares About National Security; People In President Trump's Own Administration Don't Know What He Discussed With Vladimir Putin", "utt": ["And some of the rational about why this investigation started and why so many Americans have been concerned for so long.", "It's the most insulting thing I have ever been asked. And if you read the article, you'd see that they found absolutely nothing.", "It looks like a witch hunt if they don't put facts on the table.", "This man who was former KGB agent, why is this President Trump's best buddy?", "Open up the government. See if we can get a deal. If we can't at the end of three weeks, all bets are off.", "FBI agents, air traffic controllers, coast guard folks all of them working without pay. And yet he says he cares about national security.", "There are other ways to negotiate without holding people's paycheck hostage.", "This is New Day with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.", "And good morning, everyone. Welcome to your New Day. Happy Monday. We start with breaking news for you, because CNN has obtained FBI transcripts that shed light on the internal deliberations that help explain why the FBI opened that investigation in to whether President Trump was acting as a agent of Russia. Transcripts of two FBI officials closed door interviews with congressional investigators. And these transcripts reveal that they were looking in to whether President Trump then Donald Trump was quote, acting at the behest of and somehow following directions, somehow executing Russia's will. OK, this comes admit a weekend of explosive headlines. The New York Times revealed that FBI investigational and The Washington Post reports the president went to extraordinary lengths to hide the details of his meetings with Vladimir Putin even from officials within his own administration. The paper reports the president of the United States took his interpreter's notes after the meeting with Putin and wouldn't let other people see them. Needless to say, the president clearly is not happy with the coverage. He went a Twitter tear and even called in to Fox News dodging the question of whether he has worked for Russia. Instead saying it is the most insulting thing he has ever been asked.", "But he did not say no. In the meantime, we are now in day 24 of the U.S. government shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history. A new CNN poll finds that most Americans blame the president for all of this. And a majority apposes a border wall, even though sum 800,000 federal workers did not collect paychecks on Friday. President Trump's economic advisor (inaudible) shutdown to a vacation, saying for low workers are better off. There may be more signs this morning. The republicans are concerned that the standoff over this border wall is hurting their party politically. We'll get to that. Wording me in though is CNN crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz live in Washington with the breaking news about these transcripts obtained by CNN -- Shimon.", "Yes, that's right John. So, these transcripts really give us a window, a look inside the process by which the FBI underwent the thinking that they certainly in to how to go about whether or not they were going to bring this investigation, open this investigation in to Donald Trump. Now, this new information obtained by CNN from transcripts of two FBI officials who testified to two members of congress, it was a closed door interviews. And what it reveals that on one end, there was the idea that Trump fired the former FBI director James Comey at the behest of Russia. And then on the other was the possibility that Trump was completely innocent and was acting within the bounds of his executive authority. Now, James Baker who was the then top FBI lawyer at the time, he described his thinking and the FBI's thinking in terms of Russia. Saying quote, \"that was one extreme. The other extreme was the president is completely innocent. And we discussed that too,\" he said. \"There's a range of things this could possibly be.\" He told members of congress. \"And we needed to investigate because we don't now whether, you know, the worst-case scenario is possibly true or the president is totally innocent and we need to get this thing over with -- and so he can move forward with his agenda.\" This is what James Baker told members of congress. And then in another interview from another FBI lawyer, Lisa Page who you will recall came under fire for her texts with former head of the investigation Peter Strzok. Now, she told members that the FBI had considered investigating Trump for some time. Saying quote, \"it's not that it could not have been done. This case had been a topic of discussion for some time. The 'waiting on' was an indecision and a cautiousness on the part of the bureau with respect to what to do and whether there was sufficient predication to open,\" she said. And that means open the investigation. And as we now know, that investigation was open. And all that now is essentially living. It's all under investigation by the Special Counsel.", "Well, thank you very much for explaining this new CNN reporting and the transcripts. Let's bring in CNN political analyst David Gregory, former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa and former Clinton White House press secretary Joe Lockhart. Asha, I want to start with you because of your FBI investigative hat you wear. It is fascinating to read these transcripts that CNN has gotten their hands on just so that you hear the FBI thinking. There were two many strange and suspicious things that had piled up that -- and it sounds like from the transcripts, they couldn't do anything but open an investigation in to what was happening with then candidate Donald Trump.", "Right. This is the problem when you are worried about a counter intelligence threat coming from the president of the United States. As those transcripts revealed, it could be that this person is acting at the behest of a foreign power. On the other hand, the things that are -- that the president is doing is within the realm of his article to authorities. Now we have to remember that by this point as you mentioned, there was a wealth of evidence that was looking very suspicious from the call from Michael Flynn to Russia on sanctions and Trump calling for Russia to hack Hilary Clinton's e-mails. All of that stuff is building up. And then he fires James Comey and says on national television that he did it for Russia. So, I think that you're absolutely right, Alisyn. They had to look in to it and resolve this question. Is he just acting on his own, perhaps making some bad judgments but that's what he is entitled to do. Or is he acting at the direction of another country and putting the interest of this country over those of the United States.", "If I can, let me add in the other major reporting from this weekend so we can talk about this in the biggest of picture sense here. The Washington Post reported over the weekend that the information coming from the president's private meeting with Vladimir Putin is very scant. People within his own administration can't get it because he's hiding it from them. Let me read you this paragraph. Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with the Russia President Vladimir Putin including on at least one occasion, taking possession of the notes if his own interpreter. And instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials, current and former officials said. He took the notes of his interpreter, David Gregory, because he didn't want people to know what had gone on in that meeting. Given that he knew at the time, he knows now and he knew then. But there is so many questions about whether he was colluding with Russia. Now, we know there is a counter intelligence investigation about whether he was acting as an agent of Russia. Why doesn't the president want people to know what's going on in these meetings with Vladimir Putin? Is he hiding something?", "Yes, well he certainly looks like he's hiding something. You're under suspicion and so you engage in really suspicious behavior, on the very topic that you're under suspicion for. I mean it's just -- it is shocking. That detail alone with a series of shocking details kind of tops it all. You go back to this sequence from a candidate who was open for business with the Russians, if they have (inaudible) research on Hilary Clinton, who hires Paul Manafort who's got this deep relationship with the Russians and the Ukrainians. Now in prison for that, calls for Hilary Clinton's e-mails to be hacked, and then gets in to office and these ties with Michel Flynn and then scooping up these transcripts. What is he hiding about his relationship? I sit just stubbornness that he thinks that the investigation is tired. I mean this is one of these moments with respect to Joe being there. Let's just take a moment shall we and imagine Hilary Clinton were president under these circumstances. She is -- I mean, Donald Trump called for her to be in jail over mishandling her server. Let alone potentially coordinating with a foreign power, an enemy of the United States. So, it is shocking and the fact that this could all come together under Mueller is what everybody is waiting for.", "No, it's unthinkable, David. It's unthinkable to imagine what would be happening if this were Hilary Clinton or Barack Obama. Joe, of all of these suspicious things that have piled up over the past two years, this reporting in The Washington Post and New York Times has picked up on it is beyond head scratching. I mean this is really a short of jaw dropping moment. People in President Trump's own administration don't know what he discussed with Vladimir Putin. Here is another paragraph, this one from the New York Times this weekend. Several administration officials asked the interpreter -- there was one interpreter that the president had in there, what had been discussed. But the interpreter told them the president had taken the notes after the meeting and had instructed the translator not to discuss the meeting. That it's unprecedented. He's discussing things with Vladimir Putin that he doesn't want other people in his administration and certainly not the American people to know anything about.", "Yes. And it certainly raises all of the questions that I think David and Asha both raised. I can already hear the republicans today, the ones who aren't in hiding arguing that oh, this is just rogue FBI agents. Americans should hope that one of the theories when you start an investigation is someone's innocent. You don't go in n investigation knowing--", "And the transcript proves that that's what they said. That that was part of the--", "Exactly. So--", "Maybe he's innocent, maybe he doesn't know.", "-- if anything, I think -- and I think Asha rightly points that this may come down to a question ultimately of did the president act as a foreign agent or is he just a rube? Is he -- was he just naively gullible doing. But the problem is that will all get sorted out. He has been a certain sense doing Russia's work from the beginning. Look at the redirect he uses, it comes straight from Vladimir Putin, the Afghanistan story, the (inaudible) story. He fought the sanctions tooth and nail, a unanimous vote. I mean, I think it was 96 to three. He has been -- he has at every point in his presidency when it's a choice of supporting authorities and democracy, he's gone against the democracy--", "Look at Helsinki, look at what he said--", "Yes.", "-- publically--", "Yes.", "-- in Helsinki. That's just the public part that we know about.", "And when it comes -- when comes not just with Russia, OK with other places in the world. When it comes to trusting a foreign authoritarian leader or his own staff and intelligence community, he's gone with the authoritarian. So, the damage is done. What we have to sort through now is how bad -- how bad is it for Trump personally.", "And also I think what happens next with this and Asha, take off your intelligence hat and put on your legal hat here. Democrats now control the house. Adam Schiff and others no doubt will want to get a hold of these interpreter's notes or maybe get to the interpreter. There is some legal shadowing or fuzzy ground about whether or not an interpreter or a translator can testify before congress here. How hard will it be to hear from these people?", "Well, I think that the White House will definitely raise a challenge. And I -- frankly, I think rightly so because of some of the principals involved, not that there can't be exceptions to it. The president when he is talking with another head of state in engaging in one of his core article two duties which is to represent the United States, engage in negotiations and diplomatic conversations. And that's a separation of power issue. You don't want congress to be able to come in and intrude on that function. I mean, so just switch parties, out whatever candidate you want in the presidency and think about it that way. On the other hand, if there is a legitimate national security concern behind those conversations, then you would want them to be able to look in to it. And I think again we're just getting in to this authority issue when the threat that you are looking at is the person sitting in the oval office. You start to see an intersection of constitutional duties and legitimate criminal and national security concerns both coming together at the same time.", "You know, David--", "Right--", "Let me just tell you this and then--", "Yes.", "-- you can make your point, which is that the republican talking point that you're starting to hear today and we started to hear over the weekend about these transcripts and about what it reveals about the FBI opening this investigation in to then Donald Trump is (inaudible) they say. See, the FBI had it out for Donald Trump. They opened it before he fired James Comey. Well, yes they did because of these suspicious things that were already lining up. The fact that his sons had said publically we get most of our money from Russia. They were--", "Right.", "-- quoted for years as saying the fact that George Papadopoulos was running his mouth drunkenly at a bar to a diplomat saying that he knew that Russia had dirt on Hilary Clinton and was offering it up. Of course they opened it before he fired Comey.", "Right, but I think it accelerated after he fired Comey. Look, I bring up another point which is that Page and Strzok who were involved in this investigation expressed clear animus towards the president. That hurts the FBI without a doubt. I don't think that that settles in that and I don't think that because of them, the FBI cannot be trusted which is the Trump argument. The investigation piece will continue to play out. I think Joe raises another really important point, and that's incompetence and hubris of this team as a -- as an election team as a campaign and then once in office, and how they're dealing with Russia. Look, the Bush administration misread Vladimir Putin from the very start. Russia was helpful on -- in some ways with Iran and then invaded (inaudible). And then there was a rest under Obama that wasn't successful. But you have to worry about sheer incompetence when it comes to dealing with issues directly with Russia or Russia's fear of influence given what we know about this relationship.", "Joe, we're out of time here. But very quickly, do you think the president would rather be talking about the wall in trying to (inaudible) support among his base in the midst of this shutdown than the various Russia matters ahead?", "I think that's one of the big political reasons why we have the shutdown on the wall.", "But the CNN polling over the weekend quickly shows that for the first time, non-college educated white voters are 47 to 45 now don't approve of the prsident's job. The base is beginning to crack.", "Joe, Asha, David, thank you all very much. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that the White House asked for the Pentagon for a plan to launch military operation against Iran last year. This request followed an attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. So, CNN's Clarissa Ward is live in Northern Syria with more on this. What have you learned, Clarissa?", "Well, this is interesting Alisyn, because those three mortars that managed to hit the diplomatic area in Baghdad that houses the U.S. embassy formally known as the Green Zone. They didn't actually generate much media attention because no one was injured in that attack. But clearly according to the Wall Street Journal, they did generate some very interesting conversations inside the White House looking at or asking the Pentagon to look at the possibility of strikes on Iran, whether it could be done and how could it be done. Essentially I think Alisyn, what this tells us is what we really already know, which is that this White House is really seeking to take a much more antagonistic and confrontational approach to Iran. You can see that with the dismantling of the Iran deal. And of course you can see it with the appointment of national security advisor John Bolton. Bolton has been very open about the fact that he desires regime change in Iran. He has actually written editorials for the New York Times saying if you want to stop the Iran bomb, then bomb Iran. So, it's no secret where he's coming from here. But it's also important for our viewers to remember that just a few months ago, Bolton was also saying that U.S. troops would not leave Syria until Iran leaves Syria. Fast forward to present day, here we are, Alisyn. U.S. troops beginning their withdrawal at the behest of President Trump making it clear that there's not just a concern about escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran. There's also a broader concern about mix messages coming from the White House and the lack of any real coherent foreign policy -- John.", "All right, Clarissa Ward for us in Northern Syria watching that very, very closely. Thanks so much, Clarissa. New headlines swirling about the FBI's decision to open investigation in to the president's relationship with Russia, was he working at the behest of Russia? What's the democrat's next move here? That's next."], "speaker": ["UNKOWN MALE", "TRUMP", "UNKOWN MALE", "UNKOWN MALE", "UNKOWN MALE", "UNKOWN MALE", "UNKOWN FEMALE", "UNKOWN MALE", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CO-ANCHOR", "SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CRIME & JUSTICE REPORTER", "CAMEROTA", "ASHA RANGAPPA, FMR. FBI SPECIAL AGENT", "BERMAN", "DAVID GREGORY, POLITICAL ANALYST", "CAMEROTA", "JOE LOCKHART, FMR. CLINTON W.H. PRESS SECRETARY", "CAMEROTA", "LOCKHART", "CAMEROTA", "LOCKHART", "CAMEROTA", "LOCKHART", "CAMEROTA", "LOCKHART", "CAMEROTA", "LOCKHART", "BERMAN", "RANGAPPA", "CAMEROTA", "GREGORY", "CAMEROTA", "GREGORY", "CAMEROTA", "GREGORY", "CAMEROTA", "GREGORY", "BERMAN", "LOCKHART", "LOCKHART", "CAMEROTA", "CLARISSA WARD, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-325927", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-11-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/13/cnr.18.html", "summary": "More Than 150 Killed In Earthquake On Iraq-Iran Borders; U.S. President Meets With Duterte At ASEAN Summit; More Than 200 Killed In Earthquake On Iraq- Iran Border; Reporters: U.S. Soldier Found With Hands Tied After Ambush", "utt": ["At least 1500 people injured and over 150 killed in Iran after an Earthquake hits the border with Iraq. In Manila, we're expecting some remarks from U.S. President Donald Trump at the ASEAN Summit later this hour. The president just finished meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, his host. And thousands of people respond to a Christmas wish from a nine-year- old boy dying of cancer, we'll have more on that later. Thank you for joining us, everyone. I'm Cyril Vanier live from the CNN NEWSROOM here in Atlanta. The rescuers in Iraq and Iran are searching for people under the rubble after a deadly earthquake rocked the border between the two countries. The 7.3 magnitude quake hit about 30 kilometers from the Iraqi city of Halabja. Iranian officials say that at least 164 people have been killed on their side of the border with more than 1500 injured. And in Iraq itself at least four people have died, dozens more were injured, and that death toll has already risen from the last hour and still expected to rise, unfortunately. People felt the quake throughout Iraq like at this Baghdad grocery store. New agencies in Pakistan, in Lebanon, Kuwait, and Turkey, also reported feeling tremors. Let's turn to Ivan Cabrera who joins us from the CNN Weather Center. You've been monitoring developments, what's going on?", "More aftershocks and they continue, and some of them are particularly strong too which in and of it selves are earthquake center, pretty strong", "Yes. The major challenge on both sides of the Iran-Iraq border. Ivan Cabrera, I know you're going to be following this for us. We'll speak to you throughout the morning. Thank you very much. Now U.S. President Donald Trump has just met with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, his host at a summit of Southeast Asian leaders in Manila. The president praised his host before their meeting, but when asked by a journalist whether he would bring up the subject of human rights, Mr. Trump didn't respond to the question. Let's bring in CNN's Matt Rivers in the Philippine capital, Manila. And in Hong Kong, also we'll be speaking Glenn Shive of the Hong Kong- American Center. Matt, to you first, Mr. Trump and Mr. Duterte have met. Their first proper sit-down meeting, what can you tell us about their relationship?", "Well, their relationship according to the White House is one of a warm rapport, that's how a senior White House official described their relationship to reporters before President Trump went on this trip. And from the Philippines side, President Duterte has been a big fan of President Trump -- he's had nothing, really, but praise for the U.S. leader in a way that, frankly, he had the exact kind of opposite feelings towards Barack Obama. The outcome of this meeting, though, will have a lot to do with their relationship moving forward, because we're all wondering how forcefully, if at all, Donald Trump brings up the issue of human rights violations committed by the Duterte administration, according to human rights groups from around the world during this ongoing crackdown against drugs here in the country. The White House says that Donald Trump was planning on bringing up that issue with the Philippine president, but we're not sure how forcefully he did it, whether he condemned the actions here or whether he would say anything about it publicly moving forward. We haven't had details about exactly what was discussed in that bilateral meeting. He did try, reporters did try with the traveling", "All right. What is Mr. Trump, the U.S. President, actually trying to get up his day in the Philippines? We know he didn't come here to talk about human rights, he said before: he doesn't like to lecture his host. So, what is the -- what's he looking for the in The Philippines?", "Yes, this is all about trade, frankly. And what Donald Trump has called unfair trade deals with countries not only here at the ASEAN Summit but also other countries like China, and Japan and South Korea, that's really been the overall theme of that. And, of course, North Korea, those would be the two big topics on every single stop the president has made, and that doesn't change here in Manila. But, you know, more specifically talking about this region, what the president will likely try to do is make sure that the American economic influence that has been present in this part of the world for a very long time now remains robust even though the president under his leadership has pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as one of his first moves as president. That has many people questioning whether countries like China can step up and fill a void of economic influence. And so, the president certainly trying to make sure that the American trade imprint is fixed, as he would put it because it's unfair trade deals as he often says. But also, that the American economic influence remains strong in Southeast Asia.", "Matt Rivers reporting live from Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Let me turn to Glenn Shive. Glenn, what leverage does the U.S. President have when he's talking to the East Asian countries and when it comes to trade and he tells them he wants fairer trade deals? What's his leverage there?", "Well, the American economy is huge and the access to the American markets is so important to the growth of all these Asian countries. And when there's a recession, it's the American economy that historically has pulled other countries out of recession. And so, it's very important -- our economic clout is what they want, and so he has a chance to say, well, you can have access to our markets if we have reciprocal access to yours. So, that's, I think, the main clout.", "The regional countries are going ahead with a regional trade deal, the", "Yes.", "That's the one that Obama administration worked on that Trump pulled the U.S. out of when he came in power.", "Right.", "But the regional countries are going ahead without the United States. So, how can the United States insert itself as far as trade is concerned in this region?", "Well, it's playing another game, and it's yet to be seen if this is going to work. But a lot of the other countries that came together around TPP was through U.S. leadership, and in a sense that access to the American market is something that everybody wanted as part of the TPP. Now, without U.S. in the mix, can it still work? I think, probably, yes. But the danger is that America is on the outside looking in. And a lot of these agreements is not just about tariffs, it's about barriers behind the border that, I mean, gaining access to these markets. And that's a big structural problem in China, in other parts of Asia, and it's unclear that Trump has made a lot of headways on this trip. He's talking bilateral trade agreements but if you're big America and the smaller country, one-on-one, you know, it's to your disadvantage probably to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement. Even the Korean- U.S. Agreement -- U.S. says it wants to negotiate. So, I mean, we're in an uncertain time with NAFTA, for example. And so, it's very important that the Trump administration come clear with what it wants, what style of the agreement, what style of the agreement, what's included? Are we talking about just tariffs? Are we talking about environmental and labor issues? Are we talking about investment treaties? Are we talking about services? That's the new growth area that trade agreements need to -- need to define. And we have an enormous power of our service economy, and it can play out very important. But actually, to be outside the TPP is actually not a good position to be in, and I think he was talking at odds with his audience in denying and now, again, at the ASEAN meeting in Manila.", "Tell me about the wider strategy in the region for Mr. Trump. We heard a lot about the Indo-Pacific strategy going into this trip, what is that and is it working, or can it work?", "It's a good question. And, you know, he criticized Obama for talking about pivot and sort of a lot of language without much substance. And TPP was going to be the economic substance of that. Indo-Pacific involves India, but India is really not even there. I think Asia is the core term for these 21 countries that are meeting in Vietnam and again in Manila, that they're not sure what does it mean that U.S. is bringing India in and is this a counterpoint to China? You know, so, there's -- again, he talks ahead of laying out the details or the concrete actions that he's preparing to take. And I think a lot of these leaders -- while they appreciate the one-on-one rapport with him, meeting him finally, but they're very concerned that his changeability and, in fact, that his language is out ahead of his actions. And they just say we got to wait and see what they actually do. He has half the people he needs on board to do the follow-up work; he hasn't hired them on yet. So, he's in a sense out ahead of himself a bit. And so, people are scratching their heads and saying, you know, what's this going to mean. But Indo-Pacific, it might go down as a term once used, and then turned away. It's -- are we talking about language that indicates that America is going to step back from ASEAN, and it's Japan, Australia, India -- you know, that's a broad circle. Is this a strategic relationship? Are we talking an economic relationship? It's unclear. And I think for the ASEAN people they're saying we're not with that. The integration with India with the rest of Asia -- India, in the sense what -- like that, but I don't -- we don't see where that's playing out.", "Glenn Shive of the Hong Kong America Center, good to have you back on the show. Thank you very much.", "Pleasure.", "During President Trump's stop in Vietnam reporters asked him whether he discussed election meddling with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two chatted briefly on the sidelines of the APEC Summit -- that was on Friday. Mr. Trump said that he thought Russian President Vladimir Putin was sincere in his denial of Russian meddling in the U.S. election. President Trump, however, did not specifically say that Russia was behind the hacks.", "I believe that he feels that he and Russia did not meddle in the election. As to whether I believe it or not, I'm with our agencies, especially as currently constituted with their leadership. I believe in our intel agencies, our intelligence agencies, I've worked with them very strongly. They weren't 17 as was previously reported, there was actually four. But they were saying there was 17, there were actually four. But as currently led by fine people, I believe very much in our intelligence agencies.", "Well, two former intelligence chiefs talked with CNN's Jake Tapper about the fact that a U.S. president has to clarify that he trusts his own intelligence services over a foreign leader.", "He said, Putin believes what he believes, and, you know, I side with our intelligence agencies, but it was vague. Why do think he does that?", "I don't know why the ambiguity about this because the threat posed by Russia as John just said is a manifest, and obvious, and has been for a long time. Putin is committed to undermining our system, our democracy, and our whole process. And to try to paint it in any other way is, I think, astounding, and, in fact, poses a peril to this country.", "What threat? What peril does it pose to the country?", "Well, for one, as we've in the evidence that's come out since the publication of our intelligence community assessment on January, it further reinforces the depth and magnitude in scope and the aggressiveness of the Russian interference to include their very astute use of social media. Apart from that, something we don't think about much is the fact the Russians are embarked on a very aggressive modernization of their strategic nuclear forces to include a very capable and scary counter space program. They only have one adversary in mind when they do this. And oh, by the way, the Russians are an abject violation of the INF Treaty, the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty. So, the Russians do not harbor good intentions towards the United States, and there shouldn't be any illusions or any ambiguity about that. And our president, the president, fosters that ambiguity.", "What message do you think President Trump is sending to Vladimir Putin right now in terms of Russia's continued attempts to interfere in elections in Europe, and potentially in the United States again?", "Well, I think what he doing is, he's saying to Vladimir Putin we need to put this behind us because they're important -- there's important work to be done. I agree we need to be able to find a way to improve relations between Moscow and Washington. But I think that by not confronting the issue directly and not acknowledging to Putin that we know that you're responsible for this, I think he's giving Putin a pass, and I think it demonstrates to Mr. Putin that Donald Trump can be played by foreign leaders who are going to appeal to his ego and to try to play upon his insecurities -- which is very, very worrisome from a national security standpoint.", "When we come back,"], "speaker": ["CYRIL VANIER, CNN ANCHOR", "IVAN CABRERA, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "VANIER", "MATT RIVERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "VANIER", "RIVERS", "VANIER", "GLENN SHIVE, DIRECTOR AND CEO, HONG KONG AMERICA CENTER", "VANIER", "TPP. SHIVE", "VANIER", "SHIVE", "VANIER", "SHIVE", "VANIER", "SHIVE", "VANIER", "SHIVE", "VANIER", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "VANIER", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "JAMES CLAPPER, FORMER DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY", "TAPPER", "CLAPPER", "TAPPER", "CLAPPER", "VANIER"]}
{"id": "CNN-176927", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2011-12-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/01/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Clinton Presses Myanmar On Reform", "utt": ["It was an historic moment. They earlier have spoken by phone, but today, they met face to face. The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hand delivering a letter from President Obama to Myanmar's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, but Clinton also had a message of her own. CNN's Jill Dougherty is traveling with the secretary.", "Wolf, Secretary Clinton had dinner tonight with Aung San Suu Kyi, the democracy advocate, asking for some pointers on getting back into the public fray.", "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met living proof that something is changing in Myanmar. Aung San Suu Kyi, icon of the country's democracy movement, held in detention by the military dictatorship for almost two decades, freed a year ago, is now candidate for political office.", "It is also encouraging that --", "Just hours before they met for dinner, Clinton called that fact encouraging, but cautioned --", "But that, too, will not be sufficient unless all political parties can open offices throughout the country and compete in free, fair and credible elections.", "The State Department released a letter to Suu Kyi from President Obama, thanking her for inspiring people around the world and pledging the U.S. will stand by you now and always. Earlier in the day in the capital, Clinton met the man responsible for the first steps toward political and economic reform. Myanmar's president, a former general. She delivered a second letter from Mr. Obama saying he looks forward to hearing the tangible outcomes of Clinton's discussions. Myanmar's government has freed 200 political prisoners, but Clinton says there are 1,000 more. Restrictions on the media have been eased, but not stopped. Ethnic violence continues and Clinton wants Myanmar to do more including serving military ties the North Korea. A senior State Department official says in her meeting she was told it's the Myanmar government's policy to cut ties with North Korea, but the U.S. is not sure that mandate is being followed by all officials. For the U.S., that's a no go. (on camera): The U.S. is taking steps to reward Myanmar for progress toward reform, but Secretary Clinton made it clear ending sanctions is not yet in the cards. (voice-over): At the 2500-year-old pagoda, Hillary Clinton marveled at the glistening gold and statues of the Buddha. She says she sees progress in Myanmar, but flickers she says can die out or be stamped out. Much more reform will have to happen, she says, to turn this solitary visit into a lasting partnership.", "There is one thing Aung San Suu Kyi says she misses about those tough times under house arrest, the ability and the time to read more -- Wolf.", "Jill Dougherty on the scene for us. Thank you. History as I said unfolding. Meanwhile, an American aid worker kidnapped. The new leader of al Qaeda says his group, his terror group is responsible. New information coming in. Also, the abortion controversy swirling around the new iPhone and one of my more unusual interviews coming up this hour. I'll go one-on-one right in THE SITUATION ROOM with Kermit, the frog. And you look good by the way."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT", "DOUGHERTY (voice-over)", "HILLARY CLINTON, SECRETARY OF STATE", "DOUGHERTY", "CLINTON", "DOUGHERTY", "DOUGHERTY", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-77247", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-9-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/23/ltm.18.html", "summary": "Bush Will Lay Out Vision for Post-War Iraq Before General Assembly", "utt": ["Let's turn now to the U.N., where President Bush will go before the General Assembly this morning. He's going to lay out his vision for a post-war Iraq, calling on the international community to support the U.S.-led rebuilding effort. Richard Roth is live for us at the United Nations with more on the challenges facing the president this morning. And I think it's fair to say -- Richard -- there are many. Good morning.", "Yes, there are many. But challenge number one has entered the United Nations headquarters for this 58th General Assembly session, French President Jacques Chirac just arriving. These are live pictures as the president prepares to meet shortly with Secretary General Annan. I believe he will meet with President Bush, the first significant meeting since -- the first meeting since the U.S.-led war, a war that France opposed, as did many on the Security Council. The U.S. unable to achieve a second resolution, which it wanted, but felt it didn't need. It felt it already had the required authorization. Earlier this morning, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder met with Secretary General Kofi Annan. Schroeder effusively praising Secretary General Annan for his efforts. Annan opposed the war. The two men huddled in a session. There they are. The secretary general has a lot of support among many European powers on the Security Council, but he hasn't been able to convince President Bush to dialogue more and to give the U.N. more of a vital role. President Bush, in an interview earlier this week, saying the U.N. is good at writing a constitution and overseeing elections, but President Bush gave no indication that the U.N. is ready to take over things there in a bigger way. Secretary General Annan had some sharp words, also, for many members of the General Assembly, especially the United States. We can -- he will say my concern is if some sort of preemptive strategy was adopted, it could set precedents that result in a proliferation of unilateral and lawless use of force, with or without credible justification. President Bush, we believe, arriving right now at the United Nations. Secretary General Annan's words there dealt with nations going and interpreting outside of the U.N. charter the right to attack another country, even if there is no threat that was immediately posed because of the new situation regarding weapons of mass destruction. For President Bush, it's his first time here since September 12 last year, Soledad. And the president is supposed to speak for about 20 minutes. He believes the U.N. has a place in Iraq, but last year he said the U.N. has a risk of becoming irrelevant. Now he wants more of the world to share the burden, the financial support for billions of dollars that will be needed to reconstruct Iraq, plus to also help militarily. But countries such as India, Pakistan and European countries are very hesitant to contribute troops. Let's listen as people may yell a question out to the president. Well, the president -- people sort of know that especially before the speech, he's not going to come over and make an impromptu comment or two. Additional security, of course, put on here at the United Nations in the wake of two bombings at U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, one just over a month ago killing the U.N. special representative there and 22 other people, a devastating blow for the U.N. Secretary General Annan has told President Bush and the others, you can agree on a resolution, but give us a clear mandate. He doesn't want to put his forces, his staffers, not his military forces -- he doesn't have any -- his staffers in harm's way. The president will go up the escalator there, even though it looks like he's taking the steps. I don't know if that's for security reasons. But the president is now moving onto the second floor and he's going to have a private meeting with Secretary General Annan before the session gets under way inside the big General Assembly Hall. One hundred ninety-one countries now part of this U.N. organization. Secretary General Annan is going to tell everyone we've come to a fork in the road. This may be a moment, Annan will tell everyone, including President Bush, no less decisive than 1945 itself, when the United Nations was founded. Annan knows there are big differences among the powers here and he has said that there may be a need for radical reforms of the organization because people are deadlocked on so many key issues, whether it's Iraq or how many members should sit on that U.N. Security Council. And President Bush's speech will be more than an hour away. You're seeing U.N. photographs, U.N. staff members. The two are said to have a good relationship, the secretary general and President Bush, despite their differences in their last one-on-one meeting at the White House. Aides said they got along fine despite any differences. Secretary General Annan wants the big powers to come together. Only with a united Security Council can progress be made, according to aides. But it's going to be hard to get that resolution passed unless the U.S. and France make some changes. The U.S. wants a slower handover of power to Iraqi people. The U.S. thinks there should be more of a slower timetable.", "Richard, as we watch the president, and obviously Colin Powell, as well, leading him in -- we saw the first lady. We will continue to watch this. But I want to ask you a question. Many people have said, in the little bit of previews that we've heard about the president's speech that will follow this morning, not so conciliatory and maybe it needs to be. What are the analysts telling you at this point, before the speech?", "Well, many analysts say the U.S. will have to give a little. You may not hear that in the speech by President Bush, who aides have said will not apologize, will defend the move on Iraq and will also, in effect, indicate there may be no need to get additional U.N. action. The U.S. is prepared to, again, go it alone, though casualties are still present every day there and the U.N. building has been targeted. So far, France has not threatened any veto, unless, according to an interview with President Chirac, the resolution turns provocative. But a lot of people want to move past Iraq. There are a lot of other issues, including terrorism, and they feel that only if the countries are working together, which is the goal of the U.N., can additional progress be made and it may be in everyone's best interests to get along here. This is definitely going to play out over the next few weeks. The resolution will not be approved today. Presidents Bush and Chirac will meet across the street. President Chirac, in a few hours, will have a news conference here. But he's still sticking to his guns -- more control for the Iraqi people, more control for the United Nations, a sped up timetable. The U.S. says Iraq is just not ready for it. You're seeing President Bush now there. That, I believe, is the president of the General Assembly, who is the foreign minister of St. Lucia. His term just started and it's off to a bang. He's got a big year ahead. President Bush also has a breakfast, I believe, with Caribbean leaders tomorrow morning -- Soledad.", "All right, Richard Roth, thanks for that update. Assembly>"], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "RICHARD ROTH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "O'BRIEN", "ROTH", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-227845", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-4-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/04/cnr.08.html", "summary": "CNN Hero Helps Impoverished Californians Eat Healthy", "utt": ["This week's CNN Hero chooses to live in one of California's most impoverished community to bring health and wellness to people who so desperately need it.", "Pixley is a small community located in the central part of California. We are in this agriculturally rich area and yet people who live here and work here are hungry, are impoverished. Some are working in the fields that feed the entire country and then they don't have the resources to support them and their health? It's heartbreaking. I can't just watch that and not wonder, is there something more that we could do? What we do is we glean mostly from backyards. Today, we're looking at a glean of about 6,400 pound, and that's incredible. My husband and I grew up in Pixley. My parents, they worked in the fields. I had family members who died at very young ages due to chronic diseases like diabetes. For those of you that are high school students -- Looking at these issues of poverty and obesity, we were trying to figure out how do we provide our resource for our communities and our homes. We actually have a component in our garden that's a you-pick area, if your household needs some fruits and vegetables. We really try to teach how to use what we're growing. I want to grow old, and I want to grow old in a healthy way, and I want that for everybody.", "All these awesome stories we get here at CNN. By the way, each week, we honor a new CNN Hero, someone could be in your neighborhood, making a difference, so if you'd like to nominate someone you know, go to CNNHeroes.com -- CNNHeroes.com. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Have a wonderful weekend. Stay right here, though. My colleague Jake Tapper begins with \"THE LEAD\" in Washington."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SARAH RAMIREZ, CNN HERO", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-266110", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2015-10-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/06/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Orders New Training after Hospital Attack; U.S. and Russia Square Off Over Syria", "utt": ["Happening now, illegal strike. The U.S. is accused of a car crime for the deadly airstrike on a hospital in Afghanistan. The Pentagon admits a mistake, pledges a thorough investigation, and orders new training for troops. But after 14 years of war in Afghanistan, aren't there already rules of engagement there? Hostile skies, Russian airstrikes in Syria not aimed at ISIS bring new calls for a no-fly zone. Will that lead to a showdown between Washington and Moscow? Rising rivers. More dams are at risk in South Carolina, where there are now fears the flooding will even get worse. As the death toll climbs, residents are warned the situation remain very dangerous. And eye of the storm. A ship with 33 crew members aboard, including 28 Americans, disappears in the middle of a hurricane. Searchers find a massive debris field. Can they still find any survivors? I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Already, facing a bloody upsurge by the Taliban, the United States is now accused of a war crime after a deadly airstrike on a hospital. The U.S. commander in Afghanistan was up on Capitol Hill today to address concerns about the way the war's going. General John Campbell says the airstrike was a mistake, and he's ordered new training to prevent future incidents. But he also hints the U.S. may need to keep more troops in Afghanistan for a longer period of time. Russia, meanwhile, is stepping up its air war in Syria. And there are new signs it may be preparing for action on the ground, not against ISIS, but to prop up the Syrian regime. As tensions mount between Moscow and the west, President Obama's now under greater pressure to come up with some new options. I'll speak with Senator Cory Gardner of the Foreign Relations Committee, and our correspondents, analysts and guests, they'll have full coverage of the day's top stories. Let's begin with the fallout from that deadly U.S. airstrike on a hospital in Afghanistan. Our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, has the latest -- Barbara.", "Wolf, good evening. A short time ago, Defense Secretary Ash Carter issued a statement expressing deep regret for the attack against the hospital but not yet a full blown apology. General Campbell, the top U.S. commander, on Capitol Hill today, saying it was a mistake. But there have been conflicting reports about what happened at the hospital. Listen to a bit more of what General Campbell had to say.", "On Saturday morning our forces provided close air support to Afghan forces at their request. To be clear, the decision to provide aerial fires was a U.S. decision made within the U.S. chain of command. A hospital was mistakenly struck. We would never intentionally target a protected medical facility.", "But, Doctors Without Borders -- and you talked to them earlier today, Wolf, you know this. Doctors Without Borders, who runs that hospital, says they do not buy it, that they had warned the U.S. of their exact location for months. When the attack started, it lasted 30 minutes. They called up. They tried to get the strike called off. But it went on for some time. All of this coming, as Campbell is also facing questions about the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan. Most of the 10,000 troops scheduled to come home at the end of next year. General Campbell now raising the very real possibility, because of the overall security situation -- the Taliban, al Qaeda, and ISIS are on the rise in Afghanistan -- that some U.S. troops will be staying longer.", "Do they really believe over there at the Pentagon if the U.S., let's say, were to keep 5,000 troops in Afghanistan in the long run that would make a difference, given the less than perfect performance of the Afghan military and police?", "Well, the hope is that at least that would give them the capability to continue with some of the training, advising and assisting. But there is also some very quiet discussion, could they get more NATO countries to offer up some troops? That politically may be very difficult for those allies to do that. Not ideal. But well aware that, certainly, President Obama, Congress, not really likely to authorize a substantial increase in the U.S. presence.", "All right, Barbara, thank you. Russia is stepping up its air campaign in Syria right now. But ISIS doesn't seem to be the main target. That comes amid concern that Russian troops had heavy weapons, will also be used to protect the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Let's go to our White House correspondent Jim Acosta. Jim, are Russia and the U.S. now headed for some sort of showdown over Syria?", "It sure seems that way, Wolf. The White House is left with few options as Russia is escalating its military campaign inside Syria. The administration is warning Moscow that it's making a big mistake in its intervention in Syria. But the president appears to be unable to stop it.", "Both the U.S. and NATO are pointing to mounting evidence that Russia is all in in Syria. Top officials say Moscow has deployed ground forces into Syria and has once again violated the airspace of a NATO partner, Turkey, to carry out airstrikes.", "I'm also concerned that Russia is not targeting ISIL but instead attacking the Syrian opposition and civilians.", "The war of words is ramping up, as well. U.S. officials are furious that Russian bombers appear to be hitting Syrian opposition groups backed by the CIA. Moscow, emphatically claims it's targeting ISIS. The White House is accusing Russia of trying to shift the balance of power in Syria, repeatedly striking outside ISIS and Syrian government-controlled areas and into rebel territory.", "I don't think President Putin is playing chess. He's playing checkers.", "At what point does the president say to Vladimir Putin, \"Cut it out\"?", "Well, I think the president has made quite clear that Russia should not be interfering with the 65-member international coalition that is seeking to degrade and ultimately destroy", "Moscow says it's agreed for another round of military-to-military talks with the U.S., like the one shown here on Russian television, to avoid any accidents. But it will be tough for both sides to come off hardening positions.", "This approach is tantamount to pouring gasoline on the fire of the Syrian civil war.", "President Obama, who's told his team he will continue to support the Syrian opposition, is coming under criticism from all sides, including his 2008 rivals, Hillary Clinton...", "We should be putting together a coalition to support a no-fly zone because I -- and look, I think it's complicated, and the Russians would have to be part of it.", "... and John McCain.", "I should definitely think we should have more boots on the ground. Not a lot, but we better do something.", "But as the president told veteran groups seen here in this little-known White House video, he's adamant he's not launching new wars.", "Right now, if I was taking sadder advice of members of Congress, we'd be in seven wars at a time. I'm not exaggerating.", "Just last week, President Putin said he was ruling out the use of ground troops in Syria. Now the Kremlin is saying a, quote, volunteer force may soon be fighting there. The White House once again denounced those moves and where Moscow is heading into a quagmire, Wolf. As for Hillary Clinton's call for a no-fly zone, the White House has repeatedly said the president does not favor that -- Wolf.", "All right. Jim Acosta, thanks very much. Joining us now, Republican Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado. He's a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senator, thanks very much for coming in. Let's talk about Afghanistan, bombing of that Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz city killing a lot of people, medical personnel, patients, even children. The executive director of the Doctors Without Borders organization, Jason Cone, told me earlier today they consider this to be a war crime. Do you?", "Again, this is under investigation. We have three concurrent, separate investigations taking place. We have an investigation by the Department of Defense, and this is a tragedy. It is a tragic accident, as the secretary of defense has stated today. It needs to be investigated by the United States. It's going to be investigated by Afghanistan government and investigated by NATO. And so all three concurrent investigations are taking place. And we should wait and see before we do anything else to make sure we have the results of the investigations.", "Doctors Without Borders, Jason Cone told me, that's not enough. You need an outside independent investigation and international investigation, as well. Should the U.S. cooperate with an outside panel?", "Well, the U.S. is cooperating. Outside of NATO. NATO's directly involved. We need to complete the Department of Defense investigation, and we'll cooperate with the NATO and the Afghanistan investigations.", "What if there's a United Nations investigation? Would that be appropriate for the U.S. to cooperate with an international investigation outside those who are already inside?", "Well, I'd be interested to see the results on the United Nations' investigation of the Taliban in Afghanistan. So let's complete the investigations by the Department of Defense. Let's complete -- by NATO and Afghanistan, which we support, which we will be fully transparent and which we will hold people accountable as appropriate, like the secretary of defense said today. This is truly tragic. And there's -- again, we have to find the result of this investigation.", "Doctors Without Borders said they repeatedly provided to NATO, to the U.S., to the Afghan military, the coordinates where this hospital, the only hospital in Kunduz city, was located, including within a day or two just before this attack. Whoever was responsible for this attack, should they be held accountable and punished?", "Well, the secretary of defense has said there will be people held accountable for this. But that can only happen after we have a thorough investigation, a complete investigation to find out what happened. General Campbell testified today before the Armed Services Committee. He talked about the retraining that will take place on rules of engagement, and I think that's something that's very critical. You know, a number of things have happened over various theaters, whether it's somebody who has created an incident accidentally -- whether it was a car accident, whether it's a property accident, involving property, retraining occurs regularly.", "You know, this is what's shocking to me, and correct me if I'm wrong. When you say retraining occurs routinely, for 14 years, this is the longest war in U.S. history, 14 years since October 7, tomorrow, 2001, exactly 14 years, the U.S. has been engaged in combat and Afghanistan. And all of a sudden the U.S. needs to retrain troops about appropriate engagement rules, rules of engagement, as they're called? It sounds pretty shocking that the U.S. has to do this at this late stage.", "Well, again, retraining on a variety of missions has occurred over the past several years. But the fact is this: this is the first year that our train, advise, assist program has been in place, completely giving it to the Afghan security forces. And so this is a new year in terms of what the role of the Afghan forces is going to be and how the United States is going to work with them, the Special Forces at work. That's why we will have this investigation, find out what happened. But the bottom line is this: this highlights even more the decision by the White House on what they are going to do with troop levels. As the Taliban become more and more emboldened to take action against Afghan security forces that may or may not be up to the pace that they have to be in order to defend, protect the country, it is going to be more and more of a challenge for us, and that's why I'm concerned about the troop levels.", "Because the president wants almost all U.S. troops out by the end of next year. Now there are reports maybe 5,000 should remain. You want those troops to remain in Afghanistan?", "I don't think we can decide a withdrawal based on a political time frame. That's what we saw in Iraq. This past March I was in Afghanistan. I visited with President Ghani. I was in Iraq. I talked to Abadi. But the question is this: we have to not adhere to a political time frame...", "But do you want troops to remain in Afghanistan?", "I think we have to have troops remain in Afghanistan to make sure that we are completing our train, advise and assist role and to make sure that we don't have the implosion that we saw in Iraq. When we had a political withdrawal, to meet a political promise on a political time frame in Iraq, we saw what happened. We cannot allow the same thing to happen in Afghanistan. I have spoken to General Campbell in Kabul who has expressed concern, today before the Armed Services Committee and in Afghanistan, that we do not create a critical withdrawal of troops that result in a catastrophe in Afghanistan. And remember, if we had a policy -- a foreign relations policy from this president that actually was about leading instead of following, we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.", "I want to get on, I want to talk about Syria, the no-fly zone that's now being proposed. But that train and equip program in Afghanistan, the U.S. still has 10,000 troops there, another 4,000 NATO troops, not necessarily working so well in the fifth largest city in Afghanistan in Kunduz City, where some Taliban guys come in and all these Afghan troops run away.", "I think you know that the Taliban are reading the news, just as we are, about the president's decision to withdraw by the end of 2016.", "There's still 10,000 troops.", "I think you see that they want to withdraw down to 5,000. They know what this president's plan is to do, and it's to leave Afghanistan. I don't think that's appropriate in terms of the train, advise, assist force. And we cannot create the same vacuum that we created in Iraq. This president has an opportunity to lead. Let's make sure that we avoid the mistakes of the past, that we learn from the past.", "I hear what you're saying, Senator, but it's sort of very depressing after 14 years, tens of billions of dollars the U.S. has spent training these Afghan military personnel, police, they still are not capable of keeping peace, fighting the Taliban. They still need U.S. troops there after 14 years.", "This is the first year the Afghan forces been in the fighting roles without the U.S. actively fighting with them. They're completely in the train, advice, assist mode.", "We're going to have more. I want to talk about Syria, what's going on over there. It's not a pretty picture either. Much more with Senator Cory Gardner right after this."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "GEN. 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{"id": "CNN-205120", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2013-4-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/16/ctw.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Stocks Rally Day After Boston Marathon Bombings", "utt": ["Welcome back, I'm Becky Anderson in London for you. This is CONNECT THE WORLD, the top stories, as you would imagine, this hour. A US law-enforcement source tells CNN both bombs used to attack the Boston Marathon were apparently placed inside pressure cookers, then hidden in backpacks. Investigators believe the bombs were detonated by timers, not remotely by cell phone. Three people were killed in the blast, more than 180 wounded. Sources tell CNN at least 34 people are dead and 80 injured in Pakistan following a powerful earthquake. The epicenter was across the border in southeastern Iran. Officials say a dozen people there were injured. At least seven people are dead after post-election violence in Venezuela. President-elect Nicolas Maduro accuses the opposition of planning a coup against him. His defeated rival Henrique Capriles is demanding a full recount. And no one was killed when a US marine helicopter crashed not far from the North Korean border. The helicopter was part of joint military exercises between the US and South Korea, 21 people were onboard, 6 are now in hospital. US authorities are vowing to go, and I quote, \"to the ends of the Earth\" to find those responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings. Here is what we know this hour. A US officials says investigators have found no al Qaeda or foreign connection. They are still considering all possibilities. They are analyzing tips from the public and from hundreds of videos from the scene, trying to determine a motive.", "One explosion was caught on a runner's camera. Two blasts went off near the finish line about 12 seconds apart. Authorities have now identified the second of three people killed, 29-year-old Krystle Campbell. Eight-year-old Martin Richard is also among the dead. At least 183 people were injured, many of them seriously. President Barack Obama is promising justice.", "This was a heinous and cowardly act, and given what we now know about what took place, the FBI is investigating it as an act of terrorism. Anytime bombs are used to target innocent civilians, it is an act of terror.", "President Obama speaking earlier. Well, doctors are working around the clock, as you can imagine, to treat the injured. Let's get an update from CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta. He's outside Brigham and Women's Hospital. Sanjay, 183 people, some -- injured, some 23 of them critically injured. Do we have any sense of the nature, at this stage, of these injuries?", "Yes, we have a pretty good idea, Becky, and it's unusual in the pattern of injuries. First of all, the numbers have gone up in part because there are people who may have had more minor injuries who are now coming to the hospital throughout the day today, realizing that they may have had an injury that they didn't realize at the time. But the most severe injuries really seem to be from a blast force from this explosion that stayed pretty close to the ground. And Becky, you and I have been in war zones, you know that they tell you to hit the deck if there's an explosion in the area because mostly the explosion -- the force is up and out. And here, for whatever reason, I'm not sure yet, it stayed close to the ground. So, as a result, leg injuries, lower extremity injuries, seem to be the most common critical injury. There have been a few patients that we've seen at one of the biggest trauma centers here behind me who've also had neck injuries, head injuries and penetration of shrapnel to the neck as well, but they were further away. So, that gives you a little bit of an idea of the pattern of these injuries, Becky.", "How well-experienced are the medics who are dealing with these injuries in these hospitals in Boston? Will the recognize these injuries? Will they have seen them before?", "It's unlikely they've seen them before, unless they've been on battlefields. I talked to the head of surgery here, who's been here for 20 years, and the head of the emergency department, who's also been here for about 20 years, and they both told me they'd never seen anything quite like this. And -- but it doesn't mean that they -- they weren't trained, though, because trauma training follows some very, very predictable patterns. You control the airway, you make sure someone's breathing, you make sure the blood is circulating throughout the body. So, regardless of the source of trauma, those things stay the same, Becky.", "Sanjay, thank you for that, outside the hospital there. And as Sanjay's been speaking, we've just got word that the Boston area hospitals have now released 89 of the 189 -- or 183 people injured in Monday's attack. That's according to CNN's latest tally. So, of the 183 people injured, we knew that there were some 23 critical, we also know, sadly, that 3 people have lost their lives. But the good news this hour is that 89 of those 183 people injured in Monday's attack appear now to have been released. As the investigation goes on in Boston, security for Sunday's London Marathon is under review, understandably. Britain's sports minister, Hugh Robertson, says he has faith in UK security and in the race's organizers.", "We have some of the very best, if not the best, professionals in the world working on a daily basis to keep us safe, and I'm as confident as you possibly can be at this stage, that we will deliver a safe and secure marathon on Sunday.", "Organizers confirm the London Marathon will go ahead as planned. About 35,000 runners are scheduled to take part, with many more, of course, turning out to cheer them on. So, London taking no chances. My colleague Max Foster talked to a crisis management expert earlier about what it takes to keep a city of more than 8 million people safe, especially during one of the year's biggest public events. This is what he learned.", "Well, the London Marathon is just a few days away, now. The finish line will be just up there along the Mall, and the police have said they are reviewing security measures because of what happened in Boston. Peter Power is a security expert here. In terms of a review, what exactly will they be looking at now?", "Well, the review in advance of the London Marathon will be happening almost every hour. It'll be a constant process. But it is hardly the first time that London Marathon has been held. In previous years, it's been held at a time when the treat level from terrorism is even higher than it is now. So, as we're speaking, on this day, a number of terrorists are being convicted in London of an attempt to blow up an army barracks. That is probably of equal measure in terms of the threat as is the events in Boston.", "But could Boston and what happened in Boston have an effect on domestic terrorism here in the UK?", "It's difficult to say. Domestic terrorism in the UK has got a whole range of things. We have had lone individuals, the equivalent of Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma and so on. They can be inspired by this. But right now, we are covered by probably over 10,000 close-circuit television cameras in the whole of London that feed back information constantly. So we in London -- I hate to say it -- are relatively prepared for terrorism. I wish we weren't sometimes. But that's the truth of it.", "Even before the marathon, we've got Margaret Thatcher's funeral. That's only tomorrow, another big public event. The police say they're not reviewing security in relation to that, but surely there must be a heightened sense of concern because of what happened in Boston?", "Yes, there is, but the police philosophy in London is pretty much taking reasonable steps against unreasonable people. Where on that tightrope are you allowed to intervene and preventatively do things. For example, does it enable you the day before the marathon or even the day before the funeral to execute search warrants just in case people might be willing or anxious to actually create a major disturbance?", "They're more justified now, aren't they?", "They are, but it's a difficult one for the police, and the police in London are very, very sensitive about this. Two key words are \"reasonable\" and \"proportionate.\" What that actually means is very subjective, as we'll see in the next few hours.", "Reasonable and proportionate security measures. Pauline Neville-Jones once ran the British joint intelligence committee. She was also the UK's home office minister for security and counter-terrorism. She joins me now here in our London studio. And before we talk about security preparations for the London Marathon, just walk me behind closed doors, as it were, and let's talk to the Boston Marathon. What sort of intelligence will be going across the Atlantic at this point?", "Well, obviously, London Marathon is something you prepare for in great detail, both at the intelligence level and the policing level. In the light of what's just happened, obviously, one of the things immediately will be that the intelligence services will be in touch with each other about what exactly they can establish about the organization of this appalling atrocity. And it is an appalling atrocity. And they'll want to know what kind of organize -- what kind of plot it was, how big a scale. They'll also be extremely interested in communication. It's very obvious -- is it not? -- that you can't organize something on an scale without somehow communicating with people. And that always leads a trace. Now, if it's an international-inspired terrorist attack, then that's one of the early things that you might hope to pick up. If it's domestic, that's probably harder. And that's the kind of indication they'll be looking for. And obviously something that's international will be a greater concern --", "To London.", "-- to London, yes.", "As I watch the events in Boston unfold, I wonder to myself how difficult it must be to be in the security services. One has to assume, as a sort of relatively normal person, that big, crowded events like that will just be -- will be crowded for all the right reasons, people who are just cheering people. How do you secure 35,000 runners and possibly as many as half a million spectators?", "Well, you can't have perfect security. I think we all know that. You can, obviously, mitigate the risk and reduce it. And clearly, good intelligence is part of that, knowing whether there's any kind of threat. Now, there wasn't, it would appear, any indication. What they may, of course, in due course discover, is that there were indications that they didn't recognize as being such. And that is what intelligence is all about, and then you can be very wise after the event and there's a frightful blame game. I believe, actually, intelligence services do do a good job, and they are extraordinarily conscientious. So, that's one side of the thing. The other side, obviously, is policing. And the police themselves, now, increasingly have what I would describe as an intelligence role. They are the people who have to listen to Twitter. They're the people who have actually to follow likely organizers' activities if they are about to do something. Now, that's -- that is something you would certainly do if you knew there was going to be a demonstration. Tomorrow, when Lady Thatcher's funeral, they'll be doing that.", "I was going to ask you about that, because the London Marathon, of course, is on Sunday --", "Yes.", "-- but Margaret Thatcher's funeral is tomorrow --", "Indeed.", "-- on Wednesday, and you can get coverage of that here on CNN. There are likely to be protesters, for example, along the route.", "There are likely to be protesters, and let us hope that they will be responsible protesters. It would appear, I think, quite a lot of people will just express their displeasure by turning their back on the hearse as it goes by. I would be surprised, I have to say, if there was anything violent. Nevertheless, the police do have to prepare for that. So, they do have, actually, now these days not only to have monitored the scene beforehand, set up the best security arrangements they can, but they have to monitor it absolutely continuously. So, real-time monitoring of live events is actually now something that the police have to do, and they have to be prepared and able to move their police forces around.", "We're going to have to leave it there, but thank you very much, indeed, for joining us. Cross our fingers. Live from London, you're watching CONNECT THE WORLD. It is just about a quarter to ten London time. Coming up after the break, the chaos captured on camera. We're going to show you some of the images of the aftermath of the Boston attack captured by our iReports. 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{"id": "CNN-304149", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-01-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/29/cnr.21.html", "summary": "U.S. Judge Blocks Deportation of Banned Travelers; 11 People Detained at Atlanta Airport", "utt": ["And welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Following the breaking news this hour here on CNN. I'm George Howell.", "And I'm Cyril Vanier. And a Federal Judge is putting on pause parts of Donald Trump's travel ban. The court granted an emergency stay for citizens of seven Muslim majority countries who have already arrived in the U.S. and have valid visas.", "That stay also covers those who are in transit, that basically means they will not be deported immediately. The ruling came a day after protests at airports across the country.", "A U.S. Homeland Security official says that in the roughly 24 hours between the executive order being signed and the court ruling, the U.S. had denied entry to at least 109 people. And abroad, nearly 200 others were told not to board their flights headed for the", "The American Civil Liberties Union, better known as the ACLU, filed the lawsuit against the ban. They released this statement, saying, quote, \"The ruling preserves the status quo and ensures that people who have been granted permission to be in this country are not illegally removed off U.S. soil.\" People across the United States were quick to speak out against this travel ban.", "And protesters flooded major airports around the country including San Francisco, New York and Chicago.", "On the West Coast of the United States, one of those protests took over the airport in Seattle, Washington. That's where we find Gabe Cohen with our affiliate KOMO-TV at Sea-Tac Airport. Gabe, if you could just set the scene of what's happening behind you there.", "George, this has become the story that I hear, protesters blocking those security checkpoints chanting, \"No one gets in until they get out.\" And I want to bring you over here for a second to show you. Protesters have blocked off some of the exits here at Sea-Tac. That's where we've seen some of the most tense moments tonight as arriving passengers, getting off flights, tried to exit the airport only to have some of these protesters block their way. We saw some minors scuffles. Police, though, have tried to stay ahead of the game as these hundreds of protesters have occupied the airport. They opened up a side entrance to the building. That's how they were trying to let arriving passengers out. But the protesters picked up on that. They formed lines outside and again we saw some of those tense moments. Police also trying to open up a checkpoint just behind where these protesters are standing here. They were carefully, struggling travelers through but protesters again forming lines, trying to block those travelers from getting through. At this point, we don't know of any major delays tonight or tomorrow morning, but these protesters have vowed to stay here through the night, George.", "A lot of people there in a very busy part of that airport that I know well. The protests, have they remained peaceful?", "As far as we can tell they have remained peaceful. We have seen some pushing and shoving again between arriving passengers, even people trying to leave the airport, trying to go through to get their flights as well as officers. Officers for the most part, the police have remained cool, calm and collective as protesters push up against them. They've tried to keep them formed in a line, but police telling me tonight that they have no arrests. So as far as we can tell, it has remained peaceful, George.", "Gabe, one other question. Is there any indication as to whether those protesters will be able to stay there in the airport or will they be asked to leave at some point? Because there are so many people there voicing their concerns about this travel ban.", "We don't know at this point. As of now, there hasn't been any indication that they're going to be escorted out. For the past hour or two, they've remained in a couple of places around the airport. Earlier in the night, they were moving throughout and police were trying to guide them a little bit. But as of now, from what we can tell, they're going to let them stay right here and protest.", "Gabe Cohen at Sea-Tac Airport in Seattle, Washington, with CNN affiliate KOMO TV. Gabe, thank you so much for the reporting.", "And we want to -- and we want to run you through the details of the travel ban. What does it do? It forbids people from seven countries from entering the U.S. for three months while vetting procedures are reviewed. Those countries are all predominantly Muslim. Here they are: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia.", "The order also suspends the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days until so-called extreme vetting procedures are put in place. Syrian refugees, they are barred indefinitely. Also, people holding certain visas will now have to undergo in-person interviews in order to renew them.", "Now Mr. Trump's move to block travel from seven Muslim majority countries has sent shockwaves around the world. Let's get the view in the Middle East. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh joins us now from Amman in Jordan. Jomana, what's the reaction where you are?", "Well, I think there was a lot of confusion and chaos to an extent, Cyril, when this news started spreading on Saturday. In contacting different airlines, different airports, it seemed that some were informed of these new restrictions, other were not. But it seems right now that this is slowly starting to become more and more official. Just a short time ago, we spoke to the national carrier of Jordan, that's Royal Jordanian, that is used by many travelers from some of these impacted countries like Iraq, for example, and Libya, amongst them. They used flights out of Jordan, for example, to get to the United States. And according to Royal Jordanian just a few hours ago, they did receive these new restrictions and they said that effective immediately they are going to start implementing them. A lot of shock as you had mentioned in this region. A lot of this realization that this region is going to be looking at a whole new America right now and its approach and how it deals with the rest of the world, is going to be very different. Of course it impact a lot of people, not necessarily just those categories that were mentioned. You have a lot of business people. You have a lot of students who go to the United States from these countries who will be impacted. And it's going to disrupt so many lives. And we've seen reactions and in just the last few minutes we've also heard from the deputy Turkish prime minister, also tweeting his reaction saying, \"Refugees welcome in Turkey, the world's largest refugee hosting country. We'd happily welcome global talent not allowed back in the United States.\" Cyril.", "Jomana, you've traveled across the region. You know the people there. And the question that this is perhaps less of a predictable reaction to what's going on in the U.S., people in that region have had to grapple with the threat of terrorism. Do you think there might be somewhere a level of understanding for what the U.S. is trying to do?", "Well, I think there was always that level of understanding, Cyril. People do appreciate that when they apply, for example, for U.S. visas. They already had to go through some really stringent measures. They've had to go through -- you know, when the president speaks about this, you know, extreme vetting and, you know, all these background checks, this is something that has already been taking place and people do appreciate that, especially when you talk about people coming from countries where they had to live with terrorism and the threat from terrorism on a daily basis like Syrians and Iraqis, of course. And when you talk about extreme vetting, we're talking about, for example, refugees. People who have applied for resettlement in the United States and they have gone through so many layers of vetting, background checks, interviews, screenings, and some of them have waited for years to try and get into the United States. So this has never been an easy process. And even for people applying for visit visas, student visas, everyone has had to go through various background checks and certain levels of security screening to get into the United States so while there was this understanding, you know, the real shock here is this complete ban that is going to take place right now.", "Jomana Karadsheh, thank you very much, with the thinking in the Middle East at the moment. Thanks a lot.", "The Department of Homeland Security has looked over the recent rulings and it's saying now this, \"That it will comply with the judicial orders, faithfully enforce our immigration laws and implement the president's executive orders to ensure that those entering the United States do not pose a threat to our country or the American people.\" The department says the travel ban affected less than 1 percent of the international air travelers who arrived in the United States. Let's bring in now Scott Lucas. He is a professor of International Politics at the University of Birmingham and the founder of the news Web site EA World View. Scott, a pleasure to have you with us. So this executive order came quickly and almost just as quickly the stay that was granted by a federal court judge. Are we likely to see more challenges, more court challenges to the president's executive order?", "Well, absolutely. I mean, you don't -- the initial challenges were based on a couple of cases in New York, a couple of Iraqis who were detained. They actually have been released. But you're talking about hundreds of people who are still in detention across these airports. And it is not clear, although the initial court order says they cannot be removed from the U.S. it does not say that they have to be freed from detention. So unless I think you see the Trump administration put out a clear message that it is going to let everyone go, it's not going to detain anybody, while it tries to find tune the implementation of this rather arbitrary order, we will see both the political and the legal battle continue.", "So you're suggesting that we will hear more from the Trump administration on this at the same time we know that there are more protests scheduled because of this travel ban. The president of the United States described this as an order that is designed to make America safer to ensure that terrorists are kept out of the country. In your view, does this promote greater security or does it create new risks?", "Absolutely not. As your correspondents already made clear, there are already measures which had been asked. Especially since 9/11. To try to screen those who'd come into the United States including those Iran visas. And the salient point here is that of those seven countries which had been targeted by the Trump administration as of late zero attacks have been carried out by anyone who is a national or connected with those countries. There have been a handful -- only a handful of attacks by foreign born extremists, killing 24 Americans since 2001. Compare that to the tens of thousands each year that are killed by guns for example in the country. So this does not appear to be a sensible reaction to security.", "Some are asking about consistency, noting that a country like Saudi Arabia is not on this list. The president has pointed out, you know, concern about preventing things like 9/11, many of the people involved in that were from Saudi Arabia. But the president has also said that this list could grow, Scott.", "I have no doubt that they may expand this list but not based on it sending it necessarily to Saudi Arabia. We could see this go into any country in Africa or the Middle East or into Asia. I doubt we'll see it on Europe because let's be very clear here. These initial countries were targeted because they have largely Muslim populations. That is not a security consideration. That is religious discrimination. And let's also be clear here that one of the driving forces behind this is the president's chief strategist Steve Bannon who had just been named to the National Security Council. And Bannon does want to extend these types of restrictive measures.", "Scott Lucas, live with us from the United Kingdom. Scott, thank you so much for your time today and insight.", "Thank you.", "Still ahead here on CNN NEWSROOM, Britain's prime minister is not pleased that the president of the United States has imposed a temporary travel ban that could affect citizens of the U.K. We'll hear what Theresa May had to say.", "Plus we'll also hear from a political commentator who says the controversial travel ban was the right thing to do. 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{"id": "CNN-389721", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2020-01-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/07/ip.02.html", "summary": "Sen. Sanders Knocks Joe Biden's Record; Warren Releases Plan to Strip Down 2005 Bankruptcy Bill", "utt": ["And to get turnout, you need energy and excitement. And I just don't think that that kind of record is going to bring forth the energy that we need.", "Remember that. We're going to come back to that sound bite. Remember that. But with the votes now just 27 days away, the former vice president Joe Biden could have even more incoming from the left. Senator Elizabeth Warren today has a new proposal to strip down that 2005 bankruptcy law that she and Biden went toe to toe on almost two decades ago. This is what happens, you get closer to the voting and the candidates get chippy.", "Yes. I don't normally see Bernie Sanders who can be a little curmudgeonly go directly after his Democratic rivals by names so aggressively. It does appear that, you know, with less than 30 days before the Iowa caucuses and Joe Biden continuing to lead in a number of these early states and lead a national lead, it shows that there's a sense that Bernie Sanders and some of the other candidates want to knock him down a couple pegs to make this race a little more competitive.", "And I think the Sanders, you know, Sanders supporters and the liberals in the party see this is a really strong contrast for Bernie Sanders that he can position himself as sort of the anti-war, left-leaning, foreign policy candidate. They think there's an audience for that in the party, and there is. And, you know -- but at the same time, Biden sees it as a strong contrast for him, it allows him to highlight his experience. He really is the standard-bearer in a lot of ways of Democratic foreign policy over the past 20 or 30 years. So this is a fight that we could see play out and I suspect we will see play out in interesting ways during the debate.", "And it's a fight Sanders did not with the nomination in 2016 but he did a lot more damage to Hillary Clinton and he lasted a lot longer in the race than anybody thought he could. And he built this network that he's using now not only to raise money but to maintain his support. Other people have gone up and down, Sanders has been like this. I asked people to remember that sound bite because we have seen this movie before.", "Let us talk about the worst foreign policy blunder in the modern history of this country. I led the opposition to that war. Secretary Clinton voted for that war. The American people might wonder about your qualifications, Madam Secretary, when you voted for the war in Iraq, the most disastrous foreign policy blunder in the modern history of America.", "He is remarkably consistent. He also made the point that her husband was the president who passed NAFTA and he made the point about energy turnout against Secretary Clinton, saying he was worried the base wouldn't turn out for her.", "And the irony here is that those sentences could have been spoken by Candidate Trump as well. And here we are with -- because they're sort of populist, you know, isolationist for lack of a better way to say it, sensibilities are very similar, sort of where the two polls meet. Having said that, the fact that Bernie Sanders was so ready last night with Anderson Cooper to go, as you said, to go so specifically against Joe Biden tells you that he does see what happened in Iran as an opening, and he does see it as a potential to use against him in a very, very aggressive way. And it's not a sneak attack politically because we have seen the rise of Bernie Sanders, but this is more evidence that he sees it, and they see something real, especially in Iowa where he has a history of doing very well.", "And indirectly, it's also a way to try to peel off -- he's attacking Joe Biden but he's trying to peel voters off of Elizabeth Warren as well. As this moment trying to get out the progressives to say Bernie is the true anti-war guy, Bernie has been there from the beginning, let's go to Bernie at this key moment. Warren has an interesting moment. She owned the summer, she's plateau and even dipped since. And now she has this new plan on bankruptcy, clearly, there's a debate coming up next week, she's looking to mix it up with Joe Biden as well. And she's on television a lot more than she normally is including the Sunday shows, trying to get back into the conversation. She was on \"The View\" today. She has had several different answers when asked about General Soleimani, who he is, whether it was justified, whether he's a terrorist. This, today.", "This doesn't change the truth. The question is what is the response that the president of the United States should make? He's part of a group that has been --", "But is he a terrorist?", "He's part of a group that's been designated --", "So he's not a terrorist?", "Of course he is. He is part --", "OK.", "-- of a group that our federal government has designated as a terrorist.", "It is an odd answer in the sense that he's a terrorist because he's part of a group that the federal government has designated as terrorist as opposed to saying, yes, he is.", "Yes. I mean, it's -- we should talk about how steady this race has been for and how long it's been steadying. And you are seeing this effort by Bernie to say -- finally stand and say, I am the standard-bearer. Don't look at these other people, I'm the standard-bearer. She started out early on in her campaign by giving a foreign policy speech, if I remember correctly. And what struck me about it was a lot of her messaging was maybe the president's goals are right but the tactics are wrong. And it's been interesting to watch the Dems manage this one as well.", "You know what strikes -- part of what's striking to me about this interview that Senator Warren did is, you know, this is someone who, you know, her and her team really serve to stay in the Washington trappings. They don't do Sunday shows, they don't like to do -- be in that whole mix of like Washington things. And now I think over the weekend, she was on two Sunday shows, she's going on \"The View\", so you can see that this is a campaign that's feeling like they need to get their message out, they need to sort of get her back up in the running. And I think the race has been set but it's been dynamic, right? You have these four or five candidates who have been sort of switching and swapping places and, you know, we're still a month away, a lot could happen.", "It's at the top, right?", "Right.", "Well, how do you assess the top, right? Are you looking at Iowa, are you looking at New Hampshire, are you looking at national, you know?", "All of it. All of it. I mean, it's been pretty steady and I think they're seeing -- I think some of these other candidates are seeing time take away, and if they want to change the dynamic of the dynamic, to borrow your word, then they've got to take -- they've got to step up now and do it I think.", "Yes, we're running -- they're running out of time.", "Well, Iowa always has a surprise. We don't know what it will be, but Iowa always has a surprise. Coming up, Puerto Rico's governor declares a state of emergency after earthquakes. We'll have the latest in just a moment."], "speaker": ["SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-333955", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2018-02-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/28/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "White House Communications Director Resigning; Trump Backs Obama Gun-Control Ideas; Attorney General Pushes Back at Trump After New Insult.", "utt": ["Happening now, breaking news. Hope-less. White House communications director Hope Hicks is stepping down one day after being grilled by lawmakers in the Russia probe, stonewalling when questioning about her time in the White House but acknowledging she sometimes told, quote, \"white lies\" while serving the president. Reversal on guns. President Trump meets with bipartisan lawmakers on gun violence, telling them not to be petrified by the NRA and calling for steps contrary to long-held cherished positions of his own party. Is he siding with Democrats? Fighting back. President Trump once again publicly shames his attorney general, calling his handling of an investigation \"disgraceful.\" But this time, Jeff Sessions is biting back, saying he'll act with integrity and honor; and his department will be fair and impartial. And examining Trump's past. As former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleads \"not guilty\" and gets a trial date, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is digging deeper into the president's own past, including his business dealings in Russia before launching his campaign. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "Breaking news, White House communications director Hope Hicks is resigning. The announcement coming just a day after she refused to answer some questions in the House Intelligence Committee's Russia probe while conceding she at some times told white lies in her White House job. As the special counsel closes in on the Trump inner circle, CNN learns Robert Mueller is looking at the president's business dealings in Russia before his 2016 campaign. And a source says presidential advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner feels everyone is out to get him after being stripped of his top-secret security clearance. The president is again turning on his attorney general, calling his performance at the Justice Department \"disgraceful.\" But Jeff Sessions is pushing back, saying he'll do his job according to the law and the Constitution. I'll speak with Congressman Hakeem Jeffries of the Judiciary Committee. And our correspondents and specialists, they are all standing by with full coverage. First, let's go straight to our chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, for the breaking news. Jim, is Hope Hicks' departure a major surprise?", "Wolf, this is a huge surprise, and this is definitely one of the biggest departures for this administration thus far. Hope Hicks, the communications director for the president but also a close confidante and aide of Donald Trump even before he was president of the United States, announcing today that she is stepping down, the White House putting out multiple statements: from the president, from Hope Hicks, from the White House chief of staff, John Kelly. We can put up a statement from the president up on screen and then explain more on this. This is a statement from the president on Hope Hicks leaving. He says, \"Hope is outstanding and has done great work for the last three years. She is as smart and thoughtful as they come, a truly great person.\" And the statement goes on to say, \"I will miss having her by my side, but when she approached me about pursuing other opportunities, I totally understood. I am sure\" -- and this statement goes on -- \"we'll work together in the future.\" That perhaps may be an indication, Wolf, that perhaps she may have some role in his upcoming 2020 campaign. We don't have any word on that, but it is interesting that the president would say that at the end of that statement. Wolf, I just spoke with a White House official in the last several minutes who cautioned that had there is, quote, \"nothing nefarious\" about Hope Hicks leaving the White House. This official went on to say it is not about Rob Porter, that relationship she had with the person -- the staff secretary here at the White House who stepped down amid allegations of domestic abuse. This official went on to say it was not about yesterday's hearing up on Capitol Hill. Hope Hicks testifying in front of the House Intelligence Committee behind closed doors and telling lawmakers during that session that she had to, from time to time, tell little white lies, as she put it, on behalf of President Trump. This White House official I spoke to said this was not about that, as well. In terms of a replacement for Hope Hicks, this official said they are not there yet. Although Mercedes Schlapp, who is also in the communications shop here at the White House, she has been filling that role from time to time as Hicks has been dealing with so many different issues, testifying up on Capitol Hill, dealing with the Rob Porter scandal, even talking with the special counsel's office. And this official went on to say that Hicks will be here for a period of weeks. She's not leaving in the near future, certainly sometime soon. But not, certainly, by the end of the week. That she'll be here for a period of weeks and that during that period, they'll be working on a replacement for Hope Hicks. Wolf, it goes without saying that Hope Hicks is perhaps the closest White House aide who is not part of the president's family. She is often at the president's side talking to him about various issues. Not just issues of the day here at the White House but his dealings with the news media and so on. We've had many dealings with Hope Hicks behind the scenes over here at the White House. And so he counts her as a very close and trusted confidante. And I don't think you can overstate how big of a departure this is for the president. This is like losing a member of the family over here at the White House for the president, Wolf.", "Yes, it's a huge, huge deal. Stand by, Jim. I want to get back to you in a moment. But I want to get some more now on the stunning development over at the White House. Our White House reporter, Kaitlan Collins, has been working the story for us, as well. What else are you learning, Kaitlan?", "Well, it's certainly stunning. It's actually surprised a lot of people inside the White House, because Hope Hicks, I'm told, only told a very small group of people that she was actually going to depart. People had known for a few weeks that she had been considering it. She first seriously started considering it, I'm told, after the fallout from that Rob Porter scandal. The person, the staff secretary that she was romantically involved in. And that was one of the few times that we saw President Trump grow frustrated with Hope, because he felt during that period that she let her relationship with Porter cloud her judgment and therefore put her own priorities ahead of the president's there. So certainly, the first time we saw them but, as Jim said, that is certainly not the only reason that Hope Hicks is now departing. But she has been in the spotlight much more recently. Her personal life, her role in this White House has really been in the spotlight. Certainly very much so. But what this -- what's significant about this is not what it means for Hope Hicks but what it means for President Trump. She is one of the very few people left in his actual inner circle that was still here in the West Wing. And her presence in the West Wing is something very significant. Other staffers know that, though she was technically the communications director, she actually wore a lot of hats in this White House. And she didn't often even leave the White House to go to lunch or meet people, because the president often would just yell for her from the Oval Office, \"Hope, get in here.\" We'd talk to her. She was present for a lot of interviews that the president had. He would go back and forth with her about how significant his campaign was. So certainly, a very big person to the president in this White House. And now what we have, Keith Schiller has left. Hope Hicks is leaving. His two children, Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, their status in the West Wing is highly questionable, and people don't believe they'll be there for the long term. And Dan Scavino is really the only person who is in the president's inner circle that has been around the president for several years that is left in the West Wing with Hope Hicks' departure.", "She was also involved in the drafting of that statement following the controversial Trump Tower meeting in New York that the president's son and others, Paul Manafort, had with Russians, and that statement that was released by the White House was misleading.", "Right. That's why there were so many questions surrounding her appearance in front of the House Intelligence Committee yesterday, because Hope Hicks knows so much. She has been there for the president. She helps him draft statements and all of those things. And she certainly has played a large role in the campaign and in this White House. So it's incredibly significant that she's leaving, but it's also incredibly significant that she did not answer those questions surrounding the drafting of that statement, which initially said that meeting was about adoption, not about getting dirt on Hillary Clinton. But she certainly has been there from day one with everyone in this White House.", "The timing of this announcement is amazing, coming the day after she spent nine hours behind closed doors, answering questions, refusing to answer some questions about her time in the White House before members of the House Intelligence Committee. The timing is awkward, to put it mildly.", "Certainly. And this is very surprising to a lot of people in the White House. I can't overstate just how surprising this is. Very few people knew. But clearly, the White House was ready to go with their statement from her, from Hope Hicks; from the president; from several officials, ready to go once \"The New York Times\" did break this story. But this is certainly stunning to a lot of people in the West Wing.", "And her acknowledgment that she told some white lies in the course of her job as director of communications and earlier in the campaign on behalf of the president. We don't know what those white lies are. But everybody, all the serious journalists in Washington are looking to find out what those, quote, \"white lies\" were.", "Certainly.", "Kaitlan stand by. I want to quickly go back to the White House. The president focusing in on gun control today as the Russia investigation continues to take a heavy toll on his White House. I want to bring back our chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, to bring us up to date. What's the latest, Jim?", "Well, we thought this was going to be the most remarkable thing to happen at the White House today, Wolf. And that was this frank exchange the president had with lawmakers of both parties inside the White House about the issue of gun control. At one point, the Republican told a Republican lawmaker, \"You're afraid of the NRA.\" But the lawmakers were also dishing back at the president, insisting to him that, unless he stands up to the NRA, nothing will get done.", "We have to act.", "This time, President Trump promised new gun- control measure are on the way. But first, he professed his love to his lawmakers from both parties gathered at the White House.", "I see some folks that don't say nice things about me. And that's OK. Because if you turn that into this energy, I'll love you. I don't care.", "The president then vowed action is coming. First on the use of bump stocks, attachments that effectively turn semiautomatic rifles into machine guns.", "I'm going to write it out, and we'll have that done pretty quickly.", "Mr. Trump then reaffirmed his interest in raising the age limit to 21 for purchasing some firearms after some waffling from the White House on the issue.", "I think it's something you have to think about. So I'll tell you what: I'm going to give it a lot of consideration.", "Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein showed the president data that shows how the assault weapons ban passed in the '90s cut down on gun deaths.", "When it ended, you see it going up.", "Also on the table was the influence of the National Rifle Association, the powerful gun lobby closely tied to the president.", "I'm the biggest fan of the Second Amendment. Many of you are. I'm a big fan of the NRA. But I had lunch with them, with Wayne and Chris and David on Sunday, and said, \"It's time. We've got to stop this nonsense. It's time.\"", "The reason that nothing has gotten done here is because the gun lobby has had a veto power over any legislation that comes before Congress.", "On the proposal to expand background checks sponsored by senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey, the president criticized the measures GOP sponsor Toomey as fearful of the", "You know what? Because you're afraid of the", "The president also made the stunning comment that people with mental health issues should have their firearms confiscated.", "A lot of times, by the time you go to court torsion get due process procedures. I like taking the guns early. Take the guns first, go through due process second.", "The president staged the gun discussion as the West Wing is still trying to get a handle on why so many of its top aides lack top- secret security clearances. Mr. Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, recently had his clearance status downgraded from top-secret to secret. But CNN has learned other White House staffers have been notified their clearances were bumped down, as well. That's despite promises from the president during the campaign to properly handle classified material.", "This was not just extreme carelessness with classified material, which is still totally disqualifying. This is calculated, deliberate, premeditated misconduct. If elected, Hillary Clinton would become first president of the United States who wouldn't be able to pass a background check.", "Another headaches for the president appears to be Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his handling of alleged abuses in the Russia investigation. The president tweeted: \"Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the inspector general to investigate? Will take forever. Why not use Justice Department lawyers? Disgraceful.\" Sessions announced he's letting the Justice Department's inspector general to look into it.", "We believe the Department of Justice must adhere to the high standard in the FISA court. And yes, it will be investigated. And I think that's just the appropriate thing. The inspector general will take that as one of the matters he'll deal with.", "Today Sessions fired back at the president's tweet with a blunt statement: \"As long as I'm the attorney general, I will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor, and this department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner, according to the law and Constitution.\"", "Now getting back to the gun discussion over here at the White House, Wolf, we should also point out that the president at times during that meeting seemed to show that he did not have much of a command over the gun issue. At one point, he indicated he did not know what the Manchin-Toomey bill entailed, when of course, most people in Washington know it's about expanding background checks. At one point the president went on to say that Barack Obama, the former president, did not do enough to advance that legislation. That is simply not the case. President Obama, as we know, after the Sandy Hook massacre up in Connecticut, advocated strongly for the passage of that bill. It did not garner enough votes in the Senate, including some red-state Democrats, who voted against that legislation. At another point during the gun discussion over here at the White House, Wolf, the president seemed to say that, had there been an armed person inside the Pulse nightclub massacre down in Orlando a couple of years ago, that that was a result of -- that would have resulted in perhaps fewer lives being lost. If somebody inside that nightclub had been armed. Wolf, you can go back and look at the details from that massacre. There was an armed police officer who was off-duty but there on the scene and certainly could have been somebody who made a difference. He tried to exchange gunfire with that gunman at that time. But it was not enough. So the president seemed to be a little bit off in terms of his information on that. And at the same time, Wolf, we should also point out, the president has had discussions like this with lawmakers before. Remember: it was in January, early January when the president had a discussion with lawmakers from both parties about the issue of DACA, the deferred action program for immigrants who came into this country as children. The president said during that meeting that he could take the heat, that he wanted to have lawmakers give him a bill. The result of that meeting was essentially nothing. They had that discussion, but no legislation was passed, and the president ever since then has blamed Democrats for failing to take action on that issue -- Wolf.", "Jim Acosta with the very latest at the White House. Thank you. There's more breaking news we're following. President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded not guilty today to the latest charges from the special counsel, Robert Mueller, including money laundering, conspiracy and making false statements about his foreign lobbying. He faces a trial date in September. Let's go to our chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto. Jim, we're also learning learning that Mueller may be looking more closely into Trump-Russia ties in the years leading up to his run for president.", "That's right. Myself and my colleagues were told by a number of sources aware of questions asked of witnesses before the special counsel that he's now asking questions about Trump's activities, business activities, travel to Russia in 2013 and 2014 before he formally announced his run for president. And among the things they've been asking about there are specific business deals, including the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, as well as unsuccessful discussions to brand a Trump Tower Moscow, extending the questions in the lines of inquiry, the special counsel, to prior to the campaign actually started. Keep in mind the special counsel's remit is not only to investigate Russian meddling in the election but also ties between Trump associates and Russians and, by that remit, anything that may also come up over the course of the investigation that's relevant, and that's where he's going now. One of the key questions is, due to these business dealings and due to the fact -- due to the fact that they happen at the same time that the president was deciding, making a decision about running for president, it raises the question as to whether Russia was attempting to exert any influence over the president as he was making that decision.", "Because, as you point out, some questions have touched on the possibility of what is described as compromising information that the Russians may have, or claimed to have, about President Trump.", "That's right. I was told by a source that one of the witnesses was interviewed, asked questions about that Kompromat, as it is known in Russian, compromising information that Russia claims to have. That does not mean that that information is corroborated or confirmed but questions being -- being asked there. And I should mention, of course, that the first we ahead about that compromising information, or the possibility that Russians may have it or threatened to have it, was in what's known as the Steele dossier, this collection of memos put together by a former -- a former British intelligence agent. And we should mention that the money behind that dossier was basically opposition research. And it was at the time paid for by the Democratic National Committee and others supporting the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.", "Jim Sciutto with the very latest. Thanks very much. Joining us now, Democratic Congressman Hakeem Jeffries of New York. He's a member of the Judiciary Committee. Congressman, thanks for coming in.", "Thanks for having me, Wolf.", "Let me get back to the breaking news, the White House communications director, Hope Hicks, resigning. Do you believe the resignation is related to this overall Russia investigation?", "Absolutely. You know, another day, another scandal, another resignation in the Trump White House. What else is new? What we've seen from the very beginning of this administration is nothing but chaos, crisis and confusion. And of course, her resignation is related to the fact that, just yesterday, she was before the Intelligence Committee and acknowledged -- acknowledged telling lies on behalf of the Trump administration.", "She called them white lies.", "She called them white lies, but they're still lies. To the American people. That, in and of itself, is disqualifying.", "You think that in and of itself?", "Well, I think largely, she was one of Donald Trump's closest associates throughout the campaign and into the administration. And the evidence continues to mount that there was an apparent conspiracy between some members of the Trump campaign and Russian spies to sell out our democracy and then engage in a possible cover-up. And Hope Hicks appears to be connected to all of those particular elements. That ultimately may be the reason why she's out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.", "Apparently, according to the reports, she's been thinking about this for a while, but the curious thing is the announcement was made a day after nine hours of testimony by her behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee. We're continuing to dig on that. Let's get through some other issues while I have you, Congressman. Is digging into President Trump's business dealings, prior business dealings before he became a candidate for president, is that fair game for the special counsel, Robert Mueller?", "Absolutely. What you have is three different elements of this criminal investigation. You have the money laundering that may have taken place prior to the campaign. You have the possible criminal conspiracy that took place during the campaign to undermine our democracy in partnership with Russian spies. And then you have the obstruction of justice that took place afterward. In order to get to the criminal conspiracy, you have to understand motive and intent. And a possible motive and intent was a pre- existing relationship with people closely associated with Russia, possibly engaged in money laundering, which would be a criminal violation. If that, in fact, did occur, that may provide a link to the actual collusion that subsequently took place during the campaign.", "Yes, he has said in that interview in the \"New York Times\" a few months ago, that any investigation by Mueller of his personal financial business dealings, long before he became a candidate, that would cross a red line to be inappropriate. But I want to get to some other issues. You're on the Judiciary Committee. The president really went after the attorney general of the United States, Jeff Sessions today. I'll read the tweet. We put it up there. This is an official presidential statement: \"Why is the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, asking the inspector general at the Justice Department to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse?\" The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse -- \"Will take forever. Has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey, et cetera. Isn't the I.G.\" -- inspector general -- \"an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? Disgraceful.\" What do you make of this public humiliation of his attorney general?", "Well, first of all, Trump obviously understands -- misunderstands clearly the role of the attorney general. The attorney general is the people's attorney; the White House counsel is the president's attorney. And so Jeff Sessions is correct in following procedures in this instance as it relates to the investigation. But this is all part of the dysfunction that we've seen in the Trump White House. Sessions is fighting with Trump. Trump is fighting with Bannon. Bannon is fighting with Kushner. Kushner is fighting with Kelly. Kelly's fighting with Scaramucci. And you know who loses at the end of the day, Wolf? The American people.", "Because he's fighting back right now, Sessions. He says the inspector general's investigation is an appropriate process and the inspector general, Michael Horowitz, he could come up with his conclusions and recommend prosecution if he feels that's appropriate. That's the normal way that things are done.", "Well, you know what? At the end of the day, here's what is really disgraceful. Donald Trump continues to refuse to release his taxes to the American people. That's disgraceful. He fired the FBI director in the middle of a criminal investigation into his campaign. That's disgraceful. He refuses to do anything about the continuing Russian attacks on our democracy in advance of the mid-term elections. That's disgraceful. When Donald Trump tweets things like what he did this morning, it's all designed to be a distraction, and we're not going to fall into that trap.", "But can the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, really do his job if he doesn't have the confidence of the president? The president really was angry at him when he recused himself as far as the Russia probe is concerned.", "Well, it would be very difficult for him to be able to do his job. But at the end of the day, I think Senator Grassley, the chairperson of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has previously gone on record to say that, if Sessions is forced out, there's a lot of things that we've got to do in Congress, and he has no intention of holding a hearing to confirm a new attorney general. So Donald Trump may be trapped.", "I want to put up on the screen some of the criticisms that the president has lashed against Sessions. Look at this. You can see some of the words he's used: idiot, beleaguered, very weak, very disappointed with him, he did a terrible thing, and now \"DISGRACEFUL!\" -- all caps with an exclamation point. Those are comments the president has made. Yet Sessions continues on the job. Some are suggesting the president has done that. He wants him out so he can name someone else who would be more supportive, shall we say?", "Well, this actually may be part of a continuing pattern to obstruct justice and to shape the Mueller investigation in a matter that could inure to Trump's benefit. That would be problematic. What I also find problematic, Wolf, is the fact that Donald Trump is attacking his own attorney general, one of his best friends, closest allies on the campaign trail, his earliest endorser from the United States Senate. He's attacked our allies in this country. Attacked Great Britain. Attacked Canada, attacked France, attacked Germany, attacked Mexico, attacked Australia. He can't say a single negative word about Vladimir Putin. That fundamentally is the problem. And this back and forth with Jeff Sessions illustrates the dramatic double standard that he has.", "Yes. Hakeem Jeffries, thanks, as usual, for coming in. We appreciate it very much.", "Thank you.", "There's breaking news we're following. The White House communications director, Hope Hicks, is stepping down a day after being grilled by lawmakers in the Russia probe, stonewalling when questioned about her time in the White House. And President Trump stuns lawmakers by seeming to embrace some strict gun-control measures.", "Mr. President, it's going to have to be you that brings the Republicans to the table on this, because right now the gun lobby would stop it in its tracks.", "I like that responsibility, Chris. I really do. I think it's time; it's time that a president stepped up."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "THE SITUATION ROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-82653", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2004-3-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/03/lad.01.html", "summary": "John Kerry's Jewish Roots; International News; Marge Schott Dies", "utt": ["Super Tuesday and it looks like John Edwards is going to be dropping out of the race this afternoon. We'll have live coverage. Firefighters in Baltimore fighting a huge warehouse fire all night. Still not under control, but officials say no danger to area residents. The Iraqi Governing Council was supposed to sign a temporary constitution today, but that's been delayed. There is three days of mourning following yesterday's suicide bomb attacks. And in Venezuela, protesters take to the streets after the government rejects a petition for a vote on recalling the president. The government says the petition did not have enough valid signatures. A federal jury will begin deliberating the fate of Martha Stewart and her stockbroker today. If convicted, the homemaker, Stewart, could face 20 years in prison. Sentencing guidelines, though, make a one-year sentence, though, more likely. We update the top stories every 15 minutes, and our next update is at 5:45 Eastern. Does this look like the scene at the Democratic Convention this summer in Boston? John Kerry now at the top of the heap after winning 28 out of 31 primary contests total. He won 9 out of the 10 states yesterday in the Super Tuesday contest. He only lost in Vermont because Howard Dean, that's his home state, won there. John Edwards, though, made it a close race in Georgia. But with no Super Tuesday wins, and he has only won one primary so far, that in North Carolina, he has decided to quit the race. Well he stopped short of a concession speech last night in Atlanta, but he did sound like he was supporting John Kerry. Listen in.", "I also want to take a moment and congratulate my friend, Senator John Kerry. He has run a strong, powerful campaign. He has been an extraordinary advocate for causes that all of us believe in, more jobs, better health care, a cleaner environment, a safer world. These are the causes of our party, these are the causes of our country and these are the causes we will prevail on come November, you and I together.", "Excuse me, he actually won South Carolina. Now the official announcement from John Edwards that he is leaving the race is expected in Raleigh, North Carolina this afternoon at a high school. And CNN is going to have live coverage at 4:00 p.m. Eastern. We've been delving into John Kerry's Jewish roots and have come up with a connection that seemed almost inevitable. John Kerry had relatives who died in the Holocaust. Two have now been traced to Nazi death camps. Our Chris Burns brings us that story.", "John Kerry's Great Aunt Elizabeth (ph) cringes when asked what would have happened to her during World War II if her father hadn't converted from Judaism to Catholicism and changed his name from Kohn to Kerry. That I don't even want to think about, she says. Her father, Otto, and John Kerry's grandfather, Frederick, shed their Jewish name at the turn of the century, as many other Jews did, to avoid anti-Semitism. But in 1942, the Nazis came to this Vienna apartment building and took away two siblings of John Kerry's grandmother. Jenny and Otto Lowe, a great aunt and uncle of John Kerry, remained Jewish and died in the Holocaust.", "Jenny was murdered a little bit later in the concentration camp of Treblinka and Otto died in the concentration camp in Theresienstadt.", "These documents recorded Jenny's and Otto's deaths at the Prague (ph) based Terezin Initiative Institute. Little surprise, the Kerry's stressed (ph) their name before the war. (on camera): Here in a Vienna cemetery the name Kerry set in stone. The final resting place of John Kerry's Great Uncle Otto and his Great-Grandmother Mathilde. (voice-over): Note that Mathilde's last name Kohn was omitted. Probably because Hitler was coming soon, says Otto Kerry's daughter. That was no help for John Kerry's Jewish relatives. (on camera): The Holocaust link could make this memorial that much more real for John Kerry. It's a remembrance of Jews deported from here and slaughtered by the Nazis in remembrance of Jenny and Otto Lowe. Chris Burns, CNN, Vienna.", "That's fascinating. All right. We also want to touch on some other international news, especially in the wake of yesterday's big breaking news, the suicide bomb attacks in Iraq. For that we're going to go to our senior editor on the international desk. David Clinch joining us now.", "Carol, good morning.", "Good morning.", "Yes, that was fascinating stuff from Chris.", "Yes.", "We will continuing to look into John Kerry's background in Central Europe. We're also still following up on Iraq yesterday. I haven't had to spend the night looking at horrific pictures...", "That was awful yesterday.", "... of bits of bodies, as we did yesterday. But we're following up on this almost imponderable question of who could have done this. I mean we've been talking about this since yesterday and there still are no answers. I mean no answers on a -- on a political level, no answers on a forensic level. There just are no answers yet, so.", "Right, because the Iraqis were telling Jane Arraf yesterday in Baghdad surely these were outsiders not Iraqis.", "Right. And we looked into that a little bit more. And what they seem to be saying is that they don't know who it is but outsiders in this incident is impossible for them to believe that any Muslim could have done this, impossible for them to believe that any Iraqi could have done this and we don't know. We simply don't know. If we find out more today forensically on who the bombers were, who the attackers were, we will immediately report that. But of course it then remains...", "Right.", "... to be clear who they were working with, for, et cetera,...", "OK.", "... what the motivations. Very difficult situation for us to look into.", "Haiti sort of got buried yesterday with these claims (ph).", "Yes, it did. It did. I mean, obviously with the Iraq story, and then the election, the Democratic story last night. But in Haiti, the rebel leader, Guy Philippe, made a statement during the day yesterday saying the country is in my hands. Now he is saying this because he basically does control a lot -- a lot of the country. But of course he is also saying this as a couple of hundred U.S. Marines, and now French troops as well, are watching very nervously from inside presidential compounds.", "Right, but he said he was going to support the transition to prime minister.", "Right. And he also says he doesn't want to be president. But from the support we see him getting and from the statements that he is making, he certainly seems to be enjoying the power that he has got at the moment. So watching that very closely in Haiti. Lucia Newman is still there. And also keeping an eye on Venezuela, not perhaps quite at that level in -- as the violence in Haiti was, but a fascinating story. Hugo Chavez, the president there, under pressure again continuously from what they describe themselves as democratic supports of the democratic process. But he, of course, the elected president. They have been trying to get him out for a long, long time. It's come to a head now. They thought they had enough signatures to have a referendum to get him recalled. Now the election group that is controlling that says there weren't enough signatures. The people who are trying to get him out, reject that. They are actually asking for Jimmy Carter's help, the Carter Institute involved, as they have been for a long period, in monitoring this process, saying that they will help, but of course trying to get everybody to remain calm in the meantime.", "Right.", "Calm is not what we saw in the streets in Venezuela last night. So watching that.", "Right.", "And then you know all sorts of fascinating stories we're looking into today, including one I think you're probably going to talk to Matthew Chance about that's coming up soon.", "Right, this great story out of London.", "Coca-Cola and Britain being -- actually, today there's a bit more of the hard news peg to it today because they are -- actually, the Ad Council in Britain is looking into whether Coca-Cola is using false advertising in this product they sell here also,...", "Right.", "... Dasani. But in Britain, this bottled water in Britain, they admitted yesterday or the day before, that it's actually just tap water that they purified.", "From the Thames, right?", "From the Thames, which comes through, you know, as it does for everybody else, that they purify it and sell it as Dasani. Now, you know, Coke makes a lot of money selling sugary water...", "Right. Right.", "... for a dollar a can, so perhaps it shouldn't be that much of a surprise. But a fascinating story, nevertheless.", "Yes, but it's not the natural spring up in Alps.", "Yes, that's of course what people think of when they -- when they see...", "Have you seen the Thames lately?", "Yes.", "That's what makes it interesting to me.", "Just exactly how pure is it that's the question.", "Yes. All right. Thanks -- David.", "All right.", "A lot to do today.", "OK.", "Well, let's check on the weather to see how things are warming up across the country. Rob Marciano in with a colored map.", "Hi, Carol.", "All right, well we're about to go to the mighty Barry Bonds. You're not going to believe this one, Rob, but lots of questions in the sports world whether Barry Bonds was using steroids. There's a report in the \"San Francisco Chronicle\" that's alleging that Barry Bonds' personal trainer was giving him steroids and human growth hormones. Now that trainer is currently -- has been indicted by the federal government. Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield were also implicated in this story. Now this is what Barry Bonds' attorney had to say. \"We continue to adamantly deny that Barry was provided, furnished or supplied any illegal substances at the time by Greg Anderson. The credibility of the unnamed source familiar with Anderson should be questioned. Now this latest pronouncement is a complete disregard to the truth, to Barry Bonds' inherent athletic ability and his tremendous accomplishments as a Major League Baseball player for the past 18 years.\" Former Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott died Tuesday at the age of 75. Schott was a colorful character whose on and off field antics made her one of the most controversial owners in league history. Larry Smith reports here.", "Marge Schott was a Cincinnati auto dealer who bought a controlling interest in the Reds in 1984. Schott barely knew her own players' names, yet she was Cincinnati's most visible fan. Dressed in red and white, cigarette in hand and with a Saint Bernard dog by her side, she occupied a front row seat at Riverfront Stadium for almost every home game. At first, Schott seemed to be refreshingly eccentric. She seemed intent on keeping ticket prices down and creating a family atmosphere at the ballpark and would often rub fur from her dog, Schottzie, on players' uniforms for good luck. But over her 14 years as the Reds owner, Schott's behavior became increasingly bizarre and then downright ugly. In 1990 when the Reds made it to the World Series, Schott was reportedly drunk as she celebrated in front of a national TV audience. The Reds won the series in four games. But after finding out about lost profits for games five through seven, she was livid and refused to fund a victory party. In 1992, a Reds employee filed a wrongful termination suit against Schott. In court testimony, employees said she often used a racial slur when referring to her black players and that she had a swastika arm band in a drawer in her home. Schott issued a statement denying she was a racist. But two weeks later, she was quoted as saying that \"Adolph Hitler was initially good for Germany.\" After an investigation into her remarks, baseball suspended Schott from day-to- day operation of the team for the entire 1993 season. In 1994, Schott was quoted as saying she didn't want her players to wear earrings because -- quote -- \"only fruits wear earrings.\" And in 1996, after praising Hitler again, Schott was suspended for two- and-a-half seasons. Finally, in April of 1999, under pressure from Major League Baseball, Schott agreed to sell her controlling interest in the team and a strange chapter in baseball's history came to a close. For CNN Sports, I'm Larry Smith. Marge Schott 1928-2004."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-234015", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2014-07-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/05/ndaysat.02.html", "summary": "Economy Added 288,000 Jobs in June", "utt": ["I've got him. He's at our 1130 --", "This is incredible video of rescue of a stranded hiker. This guy got stuck high on a cliff in Washington state. Now, the Snohomish County helicopter rescue team, they swooped in literally here and saved this person.", "A rescuer was lowered down by cable, attached the hiker to it and both got back up to the chopper safely. The sheriff's office says the hiker has called 911 for help. The helicopter rescue team, by the way, is made up of volunteers.", "Good job there.", "Yes. Our heroes. All right. Now, a lot of people have been waiting for this -- the economy added 288,000 jobs in June.", "Yes, but that's not all. Employers added 1.4 million jobs in the first six months of the year. That's the strongest six months of job growth in eight years. CNN chief business correspondent Christine Romans breaks down the numbers for us. Christine, good morning.", "Alison and Victor, let's look within the numbers. By now, you've seen the headline: 288,000 jobs created. It's the trend that's really important here, because the trend is telling us that there is some momentum gathering on the jobs front. The best first six months of the year as the White House likes to point out, since 1999, the best six months overall for jobs creation since 2006. So, you're seeing a trend of companies more confident, they have been kept hiring to the bone for so long, as demand starts to pick up, they're having to add workers. I like to look within these numbers of different sectors. Professional and business services, for the past few months, you've seen these jobs starting to gain strength. These tend to be higher paid jobs. They help alleviate concerns about the quality of the jobs we've been seeing, but you still have leisure and hospitality, big gainer in job creation and retail jobs driving job creation as well. That's probably why you will still see the debate over the minimum wage and raise the minimum wage that is likely still to be an economic conversation of the year, because over the past six years, you know, preponderance of the jobs created have been lower quality jobs than the jobs lost in the recession. Here's the asterisk in all this, a strong jobs report, but 12.1 percent is still out of work or working part-time, would like to be working full-time. That number is still too high. Still have an important debate here about has been left behind in the economic recovery. Overall, though, what this is telling us is the labor market recovery is gaining speed.", "Which is good news. Christine Romans, thank you.", "So, we've got to talk about what's happening overseas. Palestinians gathered to bury the teenager murdered by unknown abductors. Fears of more revenge killings of both Israel and Hamas, they flare. Could this be the start of the third intifada?", "And a teacher stabbed in front of her class? New details on the suspect's connection to the school.", "Mortgage rates picked up this week. Have a look."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLACKWELL", "KOSIK", "BLACKWELL", "KOSIK", "BLACKWELL", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "KOSIK", "BLACKWELL", "KOSIK", "KOSIK"]}
{"id": "CNN-17968", "program": "Sunday Morning News", "date": "2000-10-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/15/sm.04.html", "summary": "Israeli Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg, Palestinian Representative to U.S. Hassan Abdel Rahman Discuss Middle East Crisis", "utt": ["For more perspective on the latest developments in the Middle East, we're joined by two guests. Avraham Burg is the speaker of the 15th Knesset. He is in New York. Hassan Abdel Rahman joins us from Washington. He is the Palestinian representative to the U.S. Welcome to both of you, gentlemen.", "Thank you.", "Thank you very much.", "Mr. Rahman, I'd like to begin with you. If you had the opportunity to counsel Mr. Arafat going into this summit meeting tomorrow, what would you tell him to do?", "Well, I think he knows what he has to do. Mr. Arafat had asked for an international commission of inquiry to investigate Israeli aggression against the Palestinians in the last two weeks. And he asked Israel to stop all the measures that it has imposed on the Palestinian territories such as the closure of the Gaza airport, the borders, the prevention of aid from arriving into Palestinian territories. And definitely, we would like to see the ground paved for ending the cause of this conflict, which is essentially, Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and people.", "Mr. Burg, if that is what Mr. Arafat were indeed to say, how would you counsel Mr. Barak to respond?", "The first advice to Mr. Barak is go there. Though this summit is not a starter or restarter of the peace process but at least I hope it will become a stopper of the present violence. There are a couple of measures to be taken in order to make this event or this summit a successful one. The first one is Israel will continue to defend its citizens by building walls between us and the Palestinians as long as the other side won't stop the very strange national unity of associating Yasser Arafat with the arch terrorist of the Hamas leagues (ph) released to walk in the streets as walking bombs. The minute he will bring this genie back to the bottle, he can re-become a partner for our peace process. And therefore, I would say Israel, who always wants peace, and Israel, who always will do its best to defend its soldiers and citizens is really at this moment with all the difficulties to resume the peace talks, if the other side will go back to conversation, to dialogue, to negotiation rather than the road of struggle.", "Mr. Rahman, some would suggest the peace process, now seven years old, may, in fact be dead. Would you go along with that?", "Well, I'm sure that the peace process has been dealt a very serious blow in the last two weeks, because Israel really unilaterally declared war against the Palestinians and killed over a hundred Palestinians and wounded over 3,000 and deployed its tanks on Palestinian land and took very warlike measures against the Palestinians. So that is not really an environment for peace. That's why I would like to ask Mr. Burg and Mr. Barak to take actions to diffuse this situation by withdrawing their tanks from Palestinian territories. And then the environment will be more adequate to talk about how to solve the problems between us and the Israelis.", "Is that...", "I don't understand why Israel insists on having its Army and its tanks on Palestinian territories in Palestinian towns and in Palestinian villages shooting at Palestinians.", "Mr. Burg, is that a non-starter from the Israeli perspective?", "First, everything is a starter as long as the other side is motivated to peace the way ours. But I would like to answer both of your questions. The first one is, Mr. Abdel Rahman knows better than many of us that each and every Israeli soldier who is deployed there in the occupied territories is there out of an agreement between us and the Palestinians of the last seven years from Oslo up until the last Camp David, each and every one of them. However, when an isolated soldiers is being attacked by mobs like the one slaughtered and lynched two of our soldiers only a couple of days ago, thousands of them enraged by Yasser Arafat there behind the scenes puppeteering his people, there is only one reaction that a soldier can do in order to defend himself, and this is to defend to himself, it's self-defense. And then my question will be to the rest of the world: Where is Mr. Arafat? Why didn't we hear his voice when the mobs lynched these two people? Why was it so that when the Israelis accidentally shot the poor boy there at the junction in Gaza? And I never understand why a father takes his son to a killing zone, but he was there. And the entire nation agonized this thing. And I, as a speaker of the Knesset, really apologize for it. Where is Mr. Arafat? Is he happy with the violence? Can he control the genie?", "Mr. Rahman...", "And if he cannot control the genie, he cannot be a partner.", "Mr. Rahman, the question is posed.", "Yes. An isolated mob soldier killed by isolated mob.", "Where was Mr. Arafat? Where was Mr. Arafat?", "Can you -- I listened to you -- I listened...", "Only one leader you have.", "Where were you -- where were you...", "What did the leader say?", "Where were you and Mr. Barak when your soldiers killed 100 Palestinians?", "On the problem of -- Mr. Rahman...", "I did not hear you apologize for this and express your regret for 100 Palestinian lives. You have not said, \"We are sorry.\"", "Maybe -- I will tell you very carefully. I was there on the podium of the Knesset and in each and every network around the world saying we are ready to put an end to violence immediately...", "You did not say, \"I am sorry. We apologize for the killing of Palestinian lives.\"", "I'm sorry, Mr. Abdel Rahman, but I'm not at all sure that the truth is your guide because you don't know the information you are talking about, especially speaking about somebody like myself who is one of the founders of the peace camp in Israel.", "Well, I know you, and that's why -- I know you, and that's why I am really shocked by what I hear from you this morning. I have always thought...", "You hear from me -- Mr. Abdel Rahman, as much as I...", "Yes, because you are always speaking exactly what other Israelis are saying.", "As much as I admired your previous position as one who really wanted to promote peace, I really urge you now, stop the Palestinian demagoguery and the PR propaganda and go back to the table. If you cannot disassociate yourself from the bin Ladens and the Hamas killers in the streets of Ramallah and Nablus and Gaza, you will never be partners of the...", "Well, you know, that that is not correct and you know that.", "You will never be -- Mr. Abdel Rahman, you will never be partners to the Western world.", "You know that. You, yourself cannot believe this.", "Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, we should try to do one at a time here. Mr. Rahman, why don't you respond to Mr. Burg?", "Yes. I think he himself does not believe what he is saying, Mr. Burg, for the very simple reason that if you are attacked by a foreign army in your own homes, what do you do? You just not even have the right to protest? We are protesting with stones while you are using tanks, Mr. Burg. You are talking about agreements having Israeli soldiers on our territory. But you know that Israel has failed to implement the agreements that we signed with Israel to redeploy its forces out of Palestinian territories. That is the source of frustration for Palestinians. Continued occupation for 32 years deprived of their freedom, of their dignity. You know that, Mr. Burg.", "Gentlemen, gentlemen, let me ask you both, and Mr. Burg, you can begin because it is your turn.", "Thank you.", "To what extent is this summit perhaps in some ways irrelevant in the sense that what's happening on the streets in the West Bank and Gaza has taken on a shape of its own? And many of those people have such deep-seated emotions. Whatever happens in Egypt may not have any direct impact.", "I will say the following. Killers and sympathizers of killers cannot play the underdog forever. And Israel will never apologize for being strong defending its interests and defending its citizens. Now at every given moment, Israel is there ready with both of its hands extended: one for peace, one for defense. Decide which one you would like to shake, and that's the kind of reciprocity you'll have from the Israeli side. You want peace, you'll have a full-scale peace. You want a struggle, in a struggle, there are no win-win situation. There is only one winner, and Israeli is determined to be this one winner.", "Mr. Rahman, it seems as if this is a rock-in-hard-place sort of argument. Peace is difficult but the alternative seems even more painful.", "You know, for the Israelis, if we do not accept their terms for peace, then they will bomb us to submission. That is what I hear Mr. Burg saying: Either accept our terms for peace or we will beat the hell out of you and we will kill you.", "Either finish the terms around the table or the battleground. You want battleground, you'll have battleground.", "That's exactly what you are saying. I want to -- Mr. Burg...", "Do you want a table, the chair is next to me. Come and sit next to me and talk to me, Mr. Abdel Rahman.", "Mr. Burg, I talked to you for several...", "Stop the rhetoric and come to talk.", "Mr. Burg, let Mr. Rahman finish his point.", "I talked to you for seven years and you have failed to implement the agreement that you and I reached. Our people are frustrated by this situation. For 32 years, they are living -- the only people in the world who live in the occupation.", "So am I...", "You, Mr. Burg -- listen to me. I listened to you. Mr. Burg, you should take the high moral ground and ask your government stop oppressing other people.", "Am I to understand that...", "Mr. Burg, Mr. Burg, let me ask you this, Mr. Burg.", "Abdel Rahman, am I to understand that violence is a bargaining...", "This is not violence. This is self-defense.", "Mr. Burg, can I ask you one quick question.", "Yes, Miles, please.", "Is Israel prepared to make any additional concessions to meet the Palestinians on these demands?", "We didn't make any pre-conditions to go to Cairo. We want to go there and to put an end to the violence. The minute the violence level is down, we are ready to discuss everything. I cannot tell you that it will be very easier for a peacenik like myself to persuade my constituency that the same good old Arafat is a partner. Maybe we need some patience for this older generation times to be over and to wait for a next generation who will never take the alternative of violence as a first option. We have a lot of patience, we have a lot of perseverance and we have a lot of power. And therefore, we are ready to go both ways. We're just waiting for the other side to understand that Israel is the only democracy, Western democracy in the Middle East will never give up its way of life and its valued Democratic system, period.", "Mr. Rahman, has the time for any sort of peace process such as we know it past?", "You know, democracies will not occupy other people. Democracies do not discriminate against other people. Democracies have equal treatment of its people and other people. But your government that claims to be a democracy has oppressed Palestinians for 32 years and denied them their very basic human rights and political rights and their right to live as a free people. Mr. Burg, you have taken in the past positions supporting ending of the Israeli occupation. Today, I hear you saying something totally different. You are saying...", "I...", "Listen to me. You are saying you are there for many, many years to come. And I assure you that the Palestinian people, if they feel that you do not have any intention to withdraw from Palestine, they will have to resist your occupation like any decent people in the world...", "Mr. Abdel Rahman...", "... when they are invaded by others...", "... I admire Yasser Arafat's tyrant democracy, but I will tell you only one thing. The fact that Yasser Arafat is now in Ramallah is because we Israelis took the initiative and we Israelis went all the way with the most reconciliatory prime minister you've ever had.", "So you are so generous, Mr. Burg.", "You'll never find a better government than the one you have today. You want to make peace, make it with this government. I tell you...", "All right, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen...", "We tried to make it with you and we are ready to make it if you accept the conditions for peace.", "I'm sorry, gentlemen...", "The conditions for peace are international solutions. You have not accepted that.", "All right, gentlemen, unfortunately, our time is lapsed. Clearly, we could go on and on in this. And we appreciate you both being with us.", "Thank you.", "Perhaps some kind of hint of what is in store on Monday in Egypt. Avraham Burg and Hassan Abdel Rahman, thanks much to both of you for being with us CNN SUNDAY MORNING -- Carol.", "And clearly a reason why both sides are looking for a fact finding commission to find out how that violence started. 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{"id": "CNN-227023", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2014-3-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/21/lvab.01.html", "summary": "Pilot Made Phone Call Eight Minutes Before Takeoff", "utt": ["With each passing day, the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 seems to just get more mysterious. In addition to all the questions about the pilot seen here, Captain Zaharie Ahmed Shah, there is this new report from \"The Sun\" newspaper saying that he made a mystery phone call on his cell phone just eight minutes before the flight took off. Investigators say they're now trying to find out who he might have been calling, who was on the receiving end. And when it comes to the cause of the disappearance of the plane, investigators are also looking into the possibilities - like a theory that lithium batteries were being carried in the cargo hold and might have caused a fire. We learned today from Malaysia Airlines, the CEO, that the flight was, in fact, carrying lithium ion batteries, a load of them, in the cargo hold. But they were quick to defend the airline's handling of those batteries.", "They are not declared (ph) dangerous good (ph)", "Want to bring in CNN safety analyst, David Soucie, accident investigator and also the author of \"Why Planes Crash,\" also with us again, Colonel Michael Kay, former adviser to the British ministry of defense and retired military pilot with over 3,000 hours in the cockpit. And still with us, pilot and CNN aviation analyst Miles O'Brien, live in Washington, D.C. David Soucie, first to you. Richard Quest walked off the set, walked right back on a few moments ago and handed me this. It is a report from the FAA. And just rough gauge here. It notes that there have been 141 air incidents since 1991 involving batteries. Batteries being carried as cargo. They range in all sorts of significance, not to suggest they've all been lethal, but here we are with the suggestion that, yes, indeed, there were lithium batteries in the cargo hold. Explain why this is not, perhaps, unusual, and why perhaps it could have been unusual.", "Well, the important word in there is incident, not accident. Incident can go ahead and be occurred -- there's plenty of suppression, fire suppression, a lot of safety mechanisms that go into those 191 issues that did mitigate the issue. So to think that tying this into this aircraft now -- the ones that have the accidents that have been caused by battery fires or any kind of cargo fire have resulted in significant damage to the aircraft, structural damage to the aircraft and subsequent crash. So -- and I don't suspect that here, obviously, because we have pings from that aircraft from hours and hours later. Had there been a fire in the cargo hold, we also would have gotten notification through the ACARS system. It would have really triggered a new indication. The pilot and co-pilot from the cargo compartment would have had indications of it and been able to notify someone at that point.", "So every day we get a new nugget of information that either, you know, helps us to figure something out or creates more questions, which is typically what happens. Colonel Kay, the cell phone call made eight minutes before takeoff by the pilot. Significant? Insignificant? You've got thousands of hours of flying.", "Yes. I have also served on two boards - crash investigation boards of inquiry. And for us, the most important thing to do is eradicate any logical explanations for anything that might have occurred. And there is always generally a logical explanation. We talk about the data being deleted off the simulator that the guy had in his apartment. Well, he may be using a home PC and he maybe ran out of room on his hard drive. That's a logical explanation. Regarding the phone calls, I mean we're all guilty of", "All right. Well, this is what I want to know -", "We're a little -", "Because those doors are closed -", "Yes.", "And I'm a passenger and I never assumed for a moment my pilot has been talking to his wife or children or friends eight minutes before takeoff.", "Well, I mean, I'm not necessarily advocating that the pilot should be on his cell phone as he's lining up for the runway to take off. But, you know, we're all - we're all guilty of having our phones on when we've been told to turn them off on the airplane right until the last minute. In fact, sometimes I keep mine as we're climbing through 5,000 feet and it loses the cell tower. So, again, we don't know the content of this phone call, we don't know who it was to, and we don't know what it was about.", "It's not that unusual.", "So, I don't -- well, again, it shouldn't be happening -", "OK.", "But until we know the content of the phone call, we shouldn't be jumping to conclusions.", "So perhaps - and you're right. And, you know, the reason why we're left not knowing is because we don't have any of the recordings released, the flight cockpit data recordings. We don't know any of the transmissions. Miles O'Brien, they know that the last thing that was said was \"all right, good night,\" but that's all they have released to us. There's a lot more they have in terms of communications to the ground, right?", "Yes. I mean, all -- every communication between traffic control and these aircraft are recorded. And those tapes have not been released by the authorities in Malaysia. And that would be very helpful for all of us, just to get an idea of who was on the radio. Was there a change in who was talking on the radio? Was there any background noise? Was there anything unusual about those communications? There's also -- independently, there are reports out there that there was an effort to get another aircraft to relay information to the aircraft that was not responding, which is very common situation when air traffic control can't raise an airplane, and supposedly the response was some sort of mumble. Again, that would be captured probably on a recording somewhere. So it would be nice to hear those recordings, and we could probably shed a little more light on what was going on.", "All right. Miles, thank you for that. Appreciate all your insight. And it's good to see you again, Miles, old colleague of ours at", "Likewise.", "Really great to see you. David Soucie and Michael Kay, stay with me, a couple of other questions for you in just a moment. The key, though, to recovering this flight could be a 13-foot-long underwater robot. If you've ever thought of what an underwater crime scene looks like, that robot scans them and could really be the key to the CSI. We're going to show how this works, coming up."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BANFIELD", "DAVID SOUCIE, CNN SAFETY ANALYST", "BANFIELD", "KAY", "BANFIELD", "KAY", "BANFIELD", "KAY", "BANFIELD", "KAY", "BANFIELD", "KAY", "BANFIELD", "KAY", "BANFIELD", "O'BRIEN", "BANFIELD", "CNN. O'BRIEN", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-70429", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2003-5-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/06/bn.02.html", "summary": "Assessing the Damage in Jackson, Tennessee, Pierce City, Missouri", "utt": ["Now we want to get back to our other developing story and that is the intense weather that has hit a huge part of the middle part of the United States. Let's go back to Leon in Jackson, Tennessee -- Leon.", "Well, thanks, Daryn, because while you were talking to Jeanne, we were able to go ahead and grab the mayor of Jackson, Tennessee, Charles Farmer, who has, as you can imagine, been a very busy man today. Mayor Farmer, you just left a meeting with the FEMA officials, who are here to do their assessments. What have you all talked about?", "Well, we meet at least twice a day to try to determine if we have found all of the victims, if we have found all of the damage. And there are assessment teams from different agencies who will be working almost 24 hours around the clock to determine where all of the damage was, the cost of the damage, the cost of repairing the damage, also to check on the state of the utilities, our power, and whether the shelter is fully stocked and all of the things of that nature.", "Well, first, you tell me that you have 300 people right now in the shelter here, the basketball arena. How about the victims? Do you think you have found them all? Do you have final numbers on all of that?", "Our latest numbers are nine confirmed, and we do believe that the total, when we find about the missing people, that the final toll will be 11.", "How many missing at this point?", "Two missing.", "Just two missing. That's actually not as bad as it could be when you consider the fact that these storms were awfully powerful and awfully massive and they covered a large area.", "Well, that's true. And you don't ever know for sure that you are looking for all of the missing people, and that would be particularly true when you have so much power off and so much of a situation where people can't get through to their relatives or to 911 or to the hospital. But we think that that will be close to the total.", "All right, let me ask you about this, because you and I talked on the air yesterday, not long after these tornadoes struck here. And I don't know if you've had a chance to get out and see much more of the area than just the downtown area. Now that you have had a chance to get out and see it, is it as bad as you thought, worse, or what?", "You know, it's always worse even than you imagine, even than the wonderful pictures on TV tell us. And when you walk around and you see the people who own the buildings, who own the homes, and who are relatives of the victims, then you get a much better sense of how bad it is. So, it is worse than we thought, and I think that's probably always the case.", "Well, Mayor Farmer, we'll let you go. We understand you've got a lot of work to do. And we look forward to getting some more information from you later on this morning when you meet with the governor and begin your tour of the area.", "Thank you very much.", "All right, Mayor Charles Farmer here of Jackson, Tennessee. And one small note. This man did not plan on doing this sort of work today, because today is Election Day, or was supposed to be Election Day at least in Madison County and in Jackson, the city. And that has been postponed now for another couple of weeks, and that's if that it will happen at that point. There's lots of work to be done between now and then. But one area in the country that has to have some good idea of what the folks in Jackson are going through are the people in Pierce City, Missouri. Tornadoes struck that area and devastated it as well. Our David Mattingly is there, and let's check in with him now and get the very latest -- David.", "Hi, Leon. This is Main Street in Pierce City, and it is ground zero from where this storm hit. And it's almost as if the tornado came through this town on Sunday and went right up this street. This is where you find the heaviest damage. It's also today where you find the heaviest equipment, everyone out trying to clear away some of the debris. Some of these buildings, some of these old, cherished buildings here will have to be torn down, because they are so badly damaged that they are posing a risk to public safety right now. And today, the order of the day is salvage, people going in to get whatever they possibly can out of their businesses. And the man who is in charge of making sure they are safe is Glenn Dittmar, field operations chief, normally with hazardous materials. But today you are assisting in the salvage operation.", "That's correct. We were sent down here basically to do what we call heavy rescue. We've come down here, we knew we had building collapse, possibly entrapment. So, we were dispatched down here to assist with that. As we're here today, we are overseeing the safe operation of the recovery or salvage of personal belongings or materials that the local residents can retrieve.", "A short time ago, you were instructing all of the rescue personnel on how to act and what to do when they got into these buildings. What are you most worried about?", "Well, of course, building collapse, the safety of not only the locals that are going in to make salvage of their personal belongings, but the safety of our people that are working with them. We've got possible hazards of falling debris from above. The buildings are very precarious in that they can collapse at any time. We have engineers working with those teams as they go in to ensure their safety. And if they determine that it becomes unsafe for any reason, then they will instruct them to pull out.", "Were you surprised by the amount of damage in this town?", "Yes, I was. I'm always surprised. I've seen tornado damage, you know, in previous incidents, but it always surprises me the magnitude and the force that is exhibited here with the destruction.", "Based on what you've heard in the meetings that you've been in, how many of these buildings are going to disappear?", "I would say most all of the buildings on these two streets -- Main and Commercial Street -- are beyond salvage. The Armory Building behind us here, of course, is a building that's a stone structure, it was built in 1940, and it's one that I'm sure the locals will hate to see go, but it's just destroyed.", "And the locals will hate to see all of these buildings go. Everyone cherishes their past here, and that link to that past looks like it is going to be going as a victim of this storm. Leon -- back to you.", "All right, thanks, David. And as I said going to you, the people there know exactly what the people here are going though. The same issue here. Historic buildings here have been devastated. And as a matter of fact, later on this morning, we're going to be talking with the pastor of one church here, an historic building here and one that is priceless to this community that is really going to have a tough time ahead of them, and they'll have a tough decision to make about whether they can even try to restore that building. So, we'll have more coming to you from Jackson, Tennessee in just a bit. But right now, let's get back to Daryn Kagan standing by in Atlanta -- Daryn.", "And, Leon, just to put kind of a face or perhaps a food on the town, I understand where you are, this is the home of Pringles potato chips, the only place that Pringles are made.", "Yes, we heard that last night. And that factory where they make them, as I understand it, really sustained some heavy damage, and there was a big question last night that came up about whether or not they'll actually be able to supply the country and if they have enough in stock at this particular point. Maybe we'll get a chance to get out there. But I've got to tell you, just getting around down here has been a bit of a hassle. There are so many trees that are down everywhere. The mayor here was just telling me a moment ago that one of the worst things about this is that this town is never going to look the same, because the trees have all pretty much been just wiped out or devastated. They're laying on the roads. It's just tough to get around. So, we'll try to see if we can get a chance to get out there and talk to somebody about that, and let you know about what your chip situation is going to be -- Daryn.", "Right, and not to put potato chips on par with lives, but it is representative of the economy and the tough task they'll have in keeping jobs...", "Yes.", "... and pulling that town together. Leon, we're going to check back with you for a lot more.", "No question.", "... throughout the morning. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com. 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{"id": "CNN-368833", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2019-05-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/06/acd.01.html", "summary": "Source: President Trump Was Expressing His Opinion Abut Mueller Testifying, Not Saying He Could Stand in the Way; Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) in Interviewed About Mueller Testifying Before Congress.", "utt": ["Good evening. There are looming questions tonight on whether Robert Mueller will testify to Congress and the American people about his findings in the Russia probe with conflicting messages from the president. Plus, the attorney general has missed a deadline made by Democrats to turnover the full, unredacted Mueller report. We're going to get to all of that but, first, we have breaking news on another defiant move, that's becoming a pattern. The Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is refusing to give six years of the president's tax returns to House Democrats. Let go to CNN's Jim Acosta at the White House. So, what is the reasoning that Mnuchin is giving for denying the request for the president's tax returns?", "Well, Anderson, the Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, as you said, he fired off a letter off to Capitol Hill, up to the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, Richard Neal, saying essentially that this is an unprecedented request and that raise a serious constitutional questions. And those ground, the treasury secretary is saying you're not getting the president's tax returns. This is probably one of the least surprising stories of this year, Anderson. The White House, the president's private legal team have made it very clear they are not going to willingly turnover the president's tax returns. And, in fact, I talked to an administration official just a short ago, earlier this evening, who said at this point it appears the Justice Department, quote, is prepared to litigate on this matter if the chairman takes it to the courts, which is the expected next move, Anderson.", "Yes. As you said, it's certainly not surprising. The president has been trying to keep his tax returns out of the public's eye for the last three decades.", "That's right. He has. And the president's legal team, they've gone as far to try to block major banks like Deutsche Bank out of New York from cooperating with any kind of congressional investigation that would involve turning over those tax returns. And so, you know, they have drawn a line in the sand over this, Anderson, they are not just going to do it. The question is just how far House Democrats are going to go and, of course, they are making the case that this is one of the building blocks in their case, this administration on a variety of fronts whether it be the less redacted or fully unredacted Mueller report, Robert Mueller testifying and so on. They see this White House as stone walling this administration as stone walling at every turn, Anderson.", "There was certainly a lot of back and forth in the past few days about if Mueller will testify or not. I understand you're getting some new reporting on that.", "That's right. I just talked to a source familiar with this matter, with these discussions going on inside the White House, inside the administration, and, Anderson, we saw over the weekend where the president tweeted that Robert Mueller should not testify. This was a departure from what the president was saying last Friday when he was saying up to the Attorney General William Barr on all of this. And, of course, William Barr when he testified said this would be fine with him. Now, according to the source familiar with all this who I spoke with a short while ago, the view inside the White House is that the president was just expressing his opinion when he made that statement and that tweet over the weekend that he's not necessarily issuing a directive or order to his administration to block Robert Mueller from testifying. Essentially with the president saying he views this investigation is over and that it's time to move on. But, Anderson, interesting there are sources inside administration familiar with this matter essentially saying the president was letting off steam there, not necessarily signaling at this point that he's going to block the special counsel from testifying -- Anderson.", "All right. Jim Acosta, thanks. You now, the president not standing in the way as Jim said as consistent with what Attorney General Barr has been saying about Mueller testifying. Listen.", "Robert Mueller remains a Justice Department employee as of this moment. Will you permit him to testify publicly to Congress?", "I have no objection to Bob Mueller personally testifying.", "What about Bob Mueller? Should he be allowed to testify before the Senate?", "I've already said publicly, I have no objection to him.", "No objection from Attorney General Barr both times. Now, earlier, I spoke about all this with Congressman David Cicilline.", "Congressman Cicilline, what's the current status of Mueller appearing in front of your committee?", "Discussions are underway. There has been no agreement reached or commitment made but the committee hopes the special counsel will appear on the 15th of May. The American people have a right to hear from him as does the committee.", "You said discussions are underway, is that between the committee and the Department of Justice or with Robert Mueller? Do you expect the White House will try to stop him from testifying because as of right now, he's still an employee of the DOJ?", "Well, you remember the president initially said when asked that question whether he would stop Mr. Mueller from testifying, he said that's up to the attorney general and the attorney general testified publicly he had no objection to Mr. Mueller coming before the committee and the president immediately changed his mind and said Mr. Mueller should not testify. So, it's unclear whether the president will attempt to but I think it's very important that Mr. Mueller come before the Judiciary Committee to walk the committee and American people through the report, to his findings, to explain the context of the decisions and judgments he's made.", "So, the president's assertion Mueller testified would be in his words a redo for the Democrats -- I mean, is that what this is about?", "Not at all. Look, this is an investigation which resulted in a 400-and-some-odd page report presented to our committee that first of all establishes a sweeping and systematic attack on our democracy by a foreign adversary, the Russian government, and then ten specific instances of obstruction of justice by the president of the United States who's tried to impede, interfere, or stop this investigation. Mr. Mueller, the special counsel, lays out this evidence and really calls upon Congress in the final part of the report as the only place that has the responsibility to conduct oversight and to hold the president accountable and to ensure that no one is above the law. So, it's our responsibility. This is not a redo. This is the beginning of our work and our responsibilities to conduct congressional oversight.", "In terms of the Judiciary Committee voting Wednesday to hold Attorney General Barr in contempt for missing today's deadline to provide the complete Mueller report, the DOJ says it's willing to keep negotiating with the committee in what they say is good faith. Are you willing to do that? Is the committee willing to do that? Is that offer enough to hold off a contempt vote?", "Chairman Nadler has been very accommodating. He's tried in every way to accommodate the attorney general, to invite him to provide the report, to try to accommodate his concerns and he did not appear or did not present the full report as the subpoena required and the chairman of the committee noticed a contempt report for this Wednesday in response to that notice. Mr. Barr has written to the chair of the committee requesting a meeting on Wednesday afternoon to discuss some kind of accommodation. The chairman will have to consider that request and decide whether or not it's a good faith effort to actually provide the report and the supporting materials or an effort to delay the inevitable. But the chairman is committed to ensuring that we get the materials we need to do our work. That means the full report and all the supporting materials and the committee chair has been incredibly accommodating and patient in trying to ensure that we get what we need to do our job.", "What is -- what is getting the full, unredacted report and supporting documents, what would you hope to glean from that that you can't learn from the report as it is?", "Well, the report as it is damming and very concerning and presents evidence of very serious misconduct, obviously. But we also need to see the other materials, the supporting documents, of what has been covered up, other investigations referenced, the grand jury proceedings that required us to go to court, hopefully, with the attorney general, to get those materials. We need to collect this evidence and the committee has a responsibility to see it and to study it and to make informed judgments, and the attorney general ought to be willing to help us in that process and not be impeding our ability to collect evidence.", "Congressman Cicilline, appreciate your time. Thank you.", "My pleasure.", "All right. Let's get more voices and more perspective. Joining me is former federal prosecutor and former Whitewater independent counsel, Robert Ray, also CNN legal analysts Carrie Cordero and Laura Coates. Robert, do you expect the president will allow Mueller to testify without a fight? Should he?", "I think on Mueller's team, maybe the best place to lead this is why don't we let Robert Mueller decide? I mean, short of subpoena, he could take one of two positions and both are potentially reasonable. One is, I said all I intend to say and it's in the report. Alternatively, that there is more that the American people should have. I tend to kind of agree with Senator Sue Collins, who I have a lot of respect for when she says the American people well may need context here and they should hear from the special counsel, something that the attorney general has made clear that he is not opposed to --", "Right.", "-- and the White House seems to be sending the signal that it up to the attorney general. And I guess my view of this is if Bob Mueller wants to appear before the American people and in Congress, he would be afford that opportunity to do so.", "Yes.", "And if he doesn't and he wants to step aside and say, hey, listen, I've said all I intend to say, I said it in the report, you know, it was passed onto the attorney general and it's within the attorney general's prerogative and he made the call, we'll leave it at that. I think that's where I come out.", "Carrie, I mean, we live in the crazy time where the president can tweet something one day and the next day have it reported that he was expressing his opinion and didn't mean what he was actually going to do anything about it.", "Yes, so the difficulty with that is that we don't know whether the president's words and statements are actually actionable, and it's relevant in this context because then we don't know if he's actually giving an order about whether or not he's going to assert some sort of legal privilege over the special counsel's testimony. It doesn't seem like it. It seems like they are trying to walk it back and, of course, the attorney general said he has no objection. So that seems to be what the legal position, the legal advice that's been given to the president. But it's a bigger problem for his presidency in particular the commander in chief role that we actually don't know and other officials in government don't know if the president's words have meaning. If when he says something or when he writes something or when he tweets something, if it actually is actionable. And that's actually a real national security problem and it's bad for his presidency.", "Yes. I mean, the last person who words you want to have -- the first person whose words you want to have meaning is obviously would be the president of the United States, Laura. I mean, if the attorney general were to decide he didn't want to allow Mueller to testify, even if, to Robert's point, Mueller wanted to, the special counsel's boss, I mean, he is the special counsel's boss in the Justice Department, he could stop him from doing it, couldn't he?", "He could. And, of course, remember, he has been on a power trip of sorts as we've seen through his testimony, making every one clearly aware that he is the actual employer of sorts and the boss of the special counsel Robert Mueller, and that he is the final word because the confidential report once it was handed over to Bill Barr was actually his baby now. He could say listen, you've done all you're supposed to do here and you essentially did not come to the one determination you were supposed to on one area of obstruction, therefore, let the report speak for itself. My concern is not whether or not he actually will appear to testify. It's likely that he will. It seems very clear from one of his letters to Bill Barr he does not like anyone else to be his mouthpiece if he feels he's being misconstrued. The issue for me is whether will it be meaningful, to the extent that Bill Barr as attorney general has concerns about the full report going out or aspects of it ready to grand jury material in the like. If those four categories are not going to be discussed or the process decided to take over the obstruction part of it, then it may not be as meaningful and productive as even Congress would like.", "Robert, the president quoted in a tweet over the weekend. I just want to read it. He said, quote: The report sounded an awful lot as being Comey-esque. In other words, I'm not going to charge this person. It wasn't even close to being crime, but I'm going to criticize him on the way out the door. That's unfortunate because it's stepping outside of the role. Is this one of the reasons why Mueller perhaps should testify to give his direct opinion on why he didn't offer a prosecutorial judgment?", "Well, I was speaking in the context that the president references about one sentence in the report which was the -- you know, this is not an exoneration sentence.", "Right.", "And trying to make the point that's not what prosecutors do. They don't pass out exoneration cards at the end of a criminal investigation. They have a binary choice about whether or not they believe charges are appropriate. Either, yes, they are, in which case you proceed to indictment before a grand jury, or no, you don't, in which case there is a declination. So, you know, leaving exoneration aside, I have no problem with the release of the redacted Mueller report, and the only remaining issue appears to be this question, which is a complicated one about the potential release of grand jury material, which is the only remaining portion that Congress doesn't otherwise have access to.", "Carrie, I mean, is Congress --", "Go ahead. Go ahead.", "I was going to say, Anderson, one of the things I keep hearing about is binary decision and that is absolutely true that most prosecutors have the binary choice to prosecute or decline to prosecute and do not actually provide information. What prosecutors do not have against them is an Office of Legal Counsel opinion that says there is a policy that may actually preclude you from reaching either of those binary choices, but feel free to have an investigation nonetheless, a grand jury with subpoena power nonetheless and then actually not reach conclusions. I think in many ways, as Bill Barr mentioned at his testimony last week, that it was a prudential matter for Robert Mueller, the issue of that OLC opinion that he may be precluded from actually fully investigating and also that kind of Comey effect of presenting prejudice or pejorative material, they also could not answer to, defend against or go forward. I want to make sure it was very clear about that binary choice perhaps being excluded from Robert Mueller which is a reason he should be able to testify.", "You got to take a quick break. We'll have more. I want to get everybody's reaction to the open letter signed by hundreds of former prosecutors who worked in both Republican and Democratic administrations. They say the president would be facing multiple felony charges stemming from the Russia investigation if he were not president. Also tonight, the top concerns for Democrats, President Trump loses the 2020 race by a slim margin, will the contest -- will he contest the results and refuse to leave the White House? We'll talk about that, ahead."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST, \"AC360\"", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "ACOSTA", "COOPER", "ACOSTA", "COOPER", "REPORTER", "WILLIAM BARR, ATTORNEY GENERAL", "SEN. DICK DURBIN (D-IL)", "BARR", "COOPER", "COOPER", "REP. DAVID CICILLINE (D-RI)", "COOPER", "CICILLINE", "COOPER", "CICILLINE", "COOPER", "CICILLINE", "COOPER", "CICILLINE", "COOPER", "CICILLINE", "COOPER", "ROBERT RAY, FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR", "COOPER", "RAY", "COOPER", "RAY", "COOPER", "CARRIE CORDERO, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "COOPER", "LAURA COATES, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "COOPER", "RAY", "COOPER", "RAY", "COOPER", "COOPER", "COATES", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-271513", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2015-12-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/17/ctw.01.html", "summary": "The Many Faces of Trump", "utt": ["A reminder of our top story this hour, one of the world's most valuable football clubs, Chelsea, has fired its manager, Jose Mourinho, just seven months after he took the team to the top of the table in the English Premier League. This season, though, the team languishing 16th out of 20 places. Remember, the bottom three are relegated every year. This is CNN, you're watching Connect the World with me, Becky Anderson. Welcome back. All this week we've been talking about attitudes towards Muslims around the world. Here is the story of two young Dutch social activists who carried out a rather controversial experiment, challenging perceptions of Islam. Have a look at this.", "If you respect my commands and abhor my laws, you will eat the flesh of your own sons and the flesh of your own daughters. It is (inaudible) for a woman (inaudible) you will harm to (inaudilbe). If two men sleep with each other they will both have to be killed.", "Following the Paris attacks, we noticed that there's a lot of fear mongering going around and a lot of media out that's covering the Islam in a negative way, so we decided, all right, let's go -- let's go buy a bible and we actually have it -- we have the book right here that we used in the video. You can see. So we made this cover. We put it around our copy of the bible, which sadly is in Dutch, otherwise we'd read a couple of passages to you.", "we highlighted them.", "And we went around reading verses to the people in the city.", "If you compare this to the bibles, what are the main differences?", "The Quran sounds more aggressive. (inaudible) cutting of people's (inaudible).", "the bible is more positive.", "The story in the bible is sold very differently.", "the world si changing and I think they need to adapt to it.", "A lot of people around us, a lot of people that seemed biased or a lot of people that seemed prejudiced, they don't know as much about the koran or what is in the books or about the religion itself, they just know what the media keeps telling them.", "Well, we have a little surprise for you. These beautiful verses from the Korean are from the bible.", "Seriously?", "Wow, (inaudible).", "In tonight's Parting Shots just before we go, the latest U.S. Republican presidential debate had a lot of political talk and posturing didn't it. And in the case of one brazen candidate, some messages were unspoken, but still crystal clear. Jeanne Moos explains.", "Just two months ago...", "I swore I wouldn't do another faces of Trump story. But here it is. The sequel because who could resist this?", "He gets his foreign policy experience from the shows.", "Cartoonists can't resist. Nor can an expert on facial expressions.", "I was just blown away with how comfortable he was dismissing his rivals.", "But he's a chaos candidate.", "The New Yorker had already dubbed this one the stretched cheerio. Saying Trump makes the kind of faces that would have gotten me sent to my room as a kid. He even faced down the audience when booed.", "Who would be -- I just can't imagine somebody booing. These are people that want to kill us, folks.", "The Daily Show tweeted Trump using debate to prove he hasn't had botox, to which someone replied, he clearly thinks with his lips, but are Trump's faces premeditated?", "Undercut his rivals. I think there's a sense in which yes, it's premeditated. He's certainly camera savvy. On the other hand, what he's giving away in the face is very spontaneous, very pronounced...", "So you're saying it's a premeditated but spontaneous expression?", "Yes. Only the Donald could pull that off.", "One critic tweeted Trump should get it over with and stick out your tongue and get moose antlers. Well, guess what? The Donald sort did, the tongue, not the moose antlers. As Trump gave Jeb Bush a playful slap post debate, photographers caught him sticking out his tongue without apparent malice. Here's a fun little quiz. See if you can pick out the guy who wasn't actually on the debate stage.", ": ISIS was not a...", "Am I talking or are you talking, Jeb?", "I am talk right now.", "You talking to me?", "I am talking.", "You can go back. You're not talking.", "Who the", "You're talking to the guy who talks with his face, Jeanne Moos,", "But he's a chaos candidate.", "New York.", "Well, I sat down with four young Muslims students on Wednesday at this time to get their take on Donald Trump and all the other Republican presidential candidates and the rhetoric coming out of the states at this point. In case you missed it, we put it up on the website for you. You can find all that and much more by heading on to CNN.com. That is CNN.com. That is a really, really interesting discussion we had last night. So do check it out. And do let us know what you thought about the debate and all of the stories that we cover for you. The team here who worked with me always want to hear from you. That's at Connect the World team. Get in touch on our Facebook page, that is Facebook.com/CNNConnect. And you can tweet me, if you're a regular viewer you'll know this, @BeckyCNN. That is @BeckyCNN. That's it from us for this evening. 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{"id": "CNN-409185", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-08-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/25/cnr.12.html", "summary": "Professor Karen Swallow Prior Discusses Jerry Falwell Jr. Resigning From Liberty University Amid Sex Scandal; Wendell Harris, President, NAACP Waukesha, Wisconsin, Branch, Discusses Jacob Blake Shooting By Police & Protests", "utt": ["He was one of the first prominent evangelicals to support Trump in 2016. Now Jerry Falwell Jr is mired in scandal and his job as president of the Liberty University is over. The executive committee of the school's board accepted his resignation moments ago, This, after a Miami man has claimed he had a long-running affair with Falwell's wife and Falwell watched them while they were intimate over several years. As the allegations came to light, Falwell agreed to resign from his Liberty University post and said he wasn't resigning, but then finally told CNN he would step down. Professor Karen Swallow Prior taught at Liberty University for 21 years. She's now a research professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and joins me now. Professor, thanks for being with us. You told the \"Washington Post\" that morale was low and frustration was growing at Liberty University for years under Falwell's leadership. Can you talk more about that?", "Sure, I mean, the kinds of things that have been revealed over the past couple of days are not things that happen in isolation. There have been red flags for a long time. The kind of arrogance and authoritarian leadership that we experienced as faculty was really just a symptom of this lifestyle that obviously was one in which he thought that he could do anything and get away with it.", "It seems like -- I remember there was a case even before this one, of a trainer to the couple, who ended up with an advantageous property deal, which the university says was all on the up-and-up. But as you said, there have been red flags over the years.", "Absolutely. I mean, just as we saw with Jeffrey Epstein's case and Harvey Weinstein's and all of the \"Me Too\" moments that we're dealing with today, there are plenty of red flags. It's just difficult to prove something without corroboration. We have to move methodically and give due process. And these things take time. We're just thankful that the truth has come out and it can be dealt with and the university can move on and continue its great mission that it's been doing for 50 years now.", "Falwell called the parent of a student a dummy for questioning him when keeping students at the campus during the coronavirus this year. And later, he apologized after showing a tweet that showed one person black-faced and another person in a KKK hood and robe. Amid that kind of behavior, was his power at Liberty University -- I mean, you called it authoritarian. Was it power kind of unchecked for a long time?", "It was absolutely unchecked. You have to understand that, as Christians, at a Christian university, we are all serving. We believe in the mission. We believe in our students. We want to support them. So we're kind of busy doing our jobs. As evangelicals, we tend to trust authorities and institutions probably too much. I think we're all learning the error of those ways. And so we also just maybe don't want to believe those rumors and we would rather wish that they aren't true. But we have a responsibility to pay attention, to listen to women, to listen to other victims of abuse, and to pursue these red flags until we know what the truth is and the truth is revealed.", "Falwell is credited with Liberty University's financial recovery since he took over in 2007. He said he was never a minister. He's a businessman. I mean, is there still support for him at Liberty University, do you think, among the faculty or trustees or students?", "I think now that these revelations have come out, it's clear that for too long money was put before other things. The university certainly did flourish under his leadership in one sense. But you cannot separate financial success from the mission of the school. And while it's healthy now, and I think that we have reached this turning point just in time, we need to, I think, just clean house and reorient the university to its original mission. And I'm faithful that the board now is awake, has their eyes open, and they will do that.", "This is not the first time there's been people who seem hypocritical, who profess one thing and then, in their private lives, seem to be doing something else entirely. So it's not a surprise. In fact, it's sort of almost become a stereotype and predictable in some cases. But nevertheless, it is harmful for those -- you know, for people of faith to have somebody who professes to be a model of faith behave like this over the course of many years. It hurts everybody.", "It absolutely does. And of course, it hurts not only me personally, but I have many students who were aware of these things who are hurt and struggling and doubting their faith now. So the consequences are dire. But ultimately, it does point to the fact that the core of our belief that we are too put our faith in God, not in man.", "Karen Swallow Prior, I really appreciate talking to you. Thank you very much.", "Thank you. Protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, are outraged about another shooting of an unarmed black man at the hands of police. Peaceful protests in the day turned into standoffs with police and National Guard last night. You saw a vehicle has been lit on fire, property damaged. All of this after police shot Jacob Blake seven times in his back Sunday. His children witnessing it all. The incident videotaped by bystanders. Demonstrators set several buildings on fire and cars. City leaders are calling for calm amid the unrest. Blake's father tells CNN his son has been paralyzed but remains in stable condition in the ICU. Wendell Harris is president of the NAACP Wisconsin state conference branch. He is with me. Thank so much for being with us. The video of the shooting has been seen by millions of people all over the world. It has sparked demonstrations, obviously outrage. I'm wondering what your reaction was when you saw it? It starts with Mr. Blake moving from the passenger rear side of the vehicle -- of a vehicle to the driver's side. We don't know what happened before. But what was your reaction when you say it?", "When I saw the shooting for the first time, my wife and I were sitting on our couch watching the evening news. And my first response was, how could this person just follow this man to a car and shoot him in the back. It was almost unbelievable. But having things happen the way they've happened in Wisconsin with the George Floyd and all the other black men I've seen shot in the back, shot and killed in the state of Wisconsin and around this country for many years, it almost becomes normal. And that was my first response, just plain anger and bewilderment.", "I talked to the governor of Wisconsin yesterday and he said it might be some period of time -- you know, it's not going to be immediately that we're going to hear investigators. Do you have confidence in the investigation that is ongoing? Because the Kenosha police immediately handed it over to other authorities to actually investigate, which I guess is the procedure.", "Well, for me, as a state conference president of the NAACP, and a national board member, it's not a question of whether we have confidence. We demand that there's a thorough investigation, a fair investigation, and we're going to receive that. We're going to get that. We now have a governor in Wisconsin who has called for a special session on police accountability, a governor that has clearly shown that he and his administration is about all the people in Wisconsin being treated with respect and dignity, unlike his predecessor. So if we turned the clock back one day and the predecessor was in office, I would have no confidence that we were going to do anything to alleviate some of this anger and fear that the police department have concerning black men to where they take their guns out and shoot us at the drop of a hat. I know that this is going to change under the new governor. And the NAACP is going to be at the table and making those policies that bring about change.", "We've heard from our correspondents that the Blake family has said that they're happy that -- I don't know if happy is the right word -- but they appreciate that people are focused on this and are protesting and having their voices heard. They're also calling for it to be nonviolent protests, not any kind of destruction linked to Mr. Blake. What is the scene, the situation now on the ground in Kenosha?", "Well, as protests are taking place right behind me, I can hear it coming from on the right side in the plaza. You know, I can't step away from the camera to give you a full description, but the protests are still taking place. And, yes, we do not -- the NAACP does not support the violence or the looting, for that matter. We want to work this out and protect other people's property. We want everybody to be respected regardless of race or what political affiliation they're part of. This is about us coming together as a nation and respecting each other as people. And that's what we're fighting for. And that's what we're going to continue to fight for. But I certainly support -- as the Wisconsin state conference president, I support the young people's right to protest. I don't want anyone to get the impression that the NAACP don't want to see the protests. Because I'll be the first one out fighting with them if anyone tries to take away that right.", "Wendell Harris, I appreciate your time. And I'm sorry it's under these circumstances. Thank you.", "Thank you again for having us on the show. Good day.", "Take care. Take care. Thousands of families across the country are living their worst nightmare, losing a loved one to the coronavirus. Coming up, one family's story after losing not one, but two members of the family. What they have to say to others who aren't taking the virus seriously."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, RESEARCH PROFESSOR, SOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY & FORMER PROFESSOR, LIBERTY UNIVERSITY", "COOPER", "SWALLOW PRIOR", "COOPER", "SWALLOW PRIOR", "COOPER", "SWALLOW PRIOR", "COOPER", "SWALLOW PRIOR", "COOPER", "SWALLOW PRIOR", "WENDELL HARRIS, MEMBER,, NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS & PRESIDENT, NAACP WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN BRANCH", "COOPER", "HARRIS", "COOPER", "HARRIS", "COOPER", "HARRIS", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-103805", "program": "CNN SUNDAY NIGHT", "date": "2006-3-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/12/snn.01.html", "summary": "Tornados Strike Central U.S.; Milosevic Death \"Natural\"", "utt": ["Coming up on CNN, a day after deadly tornados rip through the Midwest, the heartland is not out of trouble yet. Also, the heartbreaking tale of Dana Reeve and the question surrounding life and death. An expert weighs in. And perverted justice, protecting your children from predators who may be stalking them online. It is 10:00 p.m. in Sedalia, Missouri, where there is a tornado warning in effect and 11:00 p.m. in New York, where a murder may have been caught. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Carol Lin. And if you're just catching up on the weekend, we have got all you need to know. For example, tonight's headlines. This is why they call it tornado alley. Right now, parts of the Midwest still under a tornado watch. Wave after wave of angry storms knocked people out of bed in Illinois and Missouri and battered the central Mississippi Valley. No suicides, no foul play. It looks like former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack. And that's just the initial findings today. The NYPD believes this is the face of a rapist and a killer, Darryl Littlejohn. Police say a DNA test puts his blood on the body of a young woman brutalized and strangled. And where did you spend this Sunday night? The Bada Bing or Wysteria Lane? The long awaited return of \"The Sopranos\" went toe to toe against \"The Desperate Housewives.\" Sunday night is now fight night for the two shows. Can the two families peacefully co-exist? Forget about it. And this is just the thing punk rockers hate. Legitimacy. It's rock and roll hall of fame induction time again. And the Sex Pistols won't be there. We're going to tell you why. But up first, it's been no day of rest for those of you in the central Mississippi Valley. Houses and trees and lives turned upside- down in the wake of a ferocious beating by the weather. Kansas, Illinois, southern Missouri clobbered by hail stones the size of baseballs and shredded by tornados. And don't think it's over yet. We know you have to plan for the morning. So Bonnie Schneider is all over the forecast. We're going to go to the Weather Center live in one minute. Right there, she is right now, actually.", "Carol, here's what we're looking at. We have our tornado watch boxes. And they've actually just been extended now to 4:00 in the morning Central Time. And that's very unusual to have these tornado watches extended so far off into the distance, because the weather has been so violent and so severe today. Taking a closer look at what's happening in Missouri, for example, numerous tornado warnings. They're indicated by the darker orange color you see on the screen. And actually, it travels as far south into Arkansas and then northward towards Illinois as well. So we have numerous tornado warnings at present in an area that is under a tornado warning, as you mentioned, Sedalia. And unfortunately, this county here right through this region here, Hedis (ph) County, was also the site for a tornado touchdown earlier today. We have some video that just came in. We can show you some of the damage caused by this tornado that touched down approximately 4:13 p.m. A woman was killed when the tornado hit her mobile home near Sedalia, making her the third person to die in Missouri over the weekend because of severe weather. Now this twister, which at times was one half mile wide, displaced 100 to 150 residents on a diagonal path from eight miles south of Sedalia to eight miles east of town. So that's according to officials there. So we're looking at this threat of severe weather to continue throughout the night tonight, with a lot of these, what we call super cell thunderstorms. They're actually quite rare, only five percent of thunderstorms are supercells, but what makes these unique and unfortunately, so violent and so severe, that they're often the cause of tornadoes breaking out with rotation in the clouds. And that's what we're seeing out there tonight. Carol?", "All right, Bonnie, thank you very much. There are families out there tonight along the banks of the Mississippi with literally nothing left.", "This birds eye view speaks of the horrors. Fierce tornadoes ripped through a 20-mile-long swath straddling the Mississippi River, from Missouri to Illinois. Power lines entangled, strewn dangerously on the ground. And trucks and cars crushed and overturned. The worst damage was along a rural stretch of highway south of St. Louis.", "We have probably five or six houses that are flat. Of course, this partial one here, we had to get a victim out of here. He was in pretty good shape.", "Rescuers also rushed to what was once Mike Fieweger's home.", "My house is right over there. It's one that has nothing to it now. It's totally gone. We were watching the forecast on the TV. And my wife said we should go in the basement. We all went in the basement. And about six minutes later, no house. My truck was in my driveway. Now it's in my neighbor's yard, which is my neighbor there, but -- and then my wife's car is up there. My one son's car is on top, where our bedroom used to be. It's on top of the house now.", "Fortunately, the Fiewegers are all fine. That was not the case for a husband and wife in a pickup truck on Highway 61. They died when a twister hurled their truck into a propane tank. Softball-sized hail caused more damage. And heavy rain prompted flash flood warnings across the area. Forecasters are calling for more severe weather through tonight.", "Now if you want to know more about tornadoes, how they form, why they form, and see some amazing images of their fury, just log on to cnn.com. A bloody Sunday in Baghdad sparked new worries about religious civil war. Car bombs in a Shi'ite neighborhood killed more than 40 people, but the real victim of today's bombings could be Iraq's hopes for peace. Now in Baghdad, an explosive device was found under a passenger jet at the city's airport. And it is a bad sign for Iraqi leaders if insurgents can sneak a bomb onto the tarmac of the most heavily guarded airport in the world. CNN's Aneesh Raman reports.", "The fires burned after at least six car bombs detonated in Baghdad's Sadr City, home to the capital's largest Shi'ia community. Dozens killed, over 200 wounded in an area where militia loyal to Shi'ia cleric Muqtada al Sadr patrol the streets and show their force, a force that has now come under attack. In all in Iraq Sunday, scores were killed by roadside bombs, rocket attacks, and drive-by shootings. But the attack in Sadr City has devastating potential to infuriate the country's second largest Shi'ia militia. Security is the most important issue facing Iraq's government from the near daily bombs, to more dangerous tactics. Sunday, a source with Royal Jordanian Airlines confirmed that explosives had been found near a plane that was about to take off Thursday for Amman. The major security breach prompted the U.S. Embassy to issue this message that read in part, \"As the result of a recent security incident at the Baghdad International Airport, the U.S. Embassy is prohibiting outgoing travel by all U.S. government employees on commercial airlines.\" Royal Jordanian delayed Thursday's flight by two hours to recheck passengers and luggage, but then the flight took off. And they have continued operations since. Attacks averted, attacks carried out, both overshadowing the continuation of Saddam Hussein's trial. For the first time, defendants were brought in one by one, to testify. Sunday saw three of Saddam's co-defendants. Low-level Ba'ath party officials question the evidence that's been presented. Saddam himself is set to testify later this week. (on camera): For their part, Iraq's current leaders spent Sunday feverishly working to jumpstart a stalled political process, announcing that parliament will convene for the first time on Thursday, three days earlier than expected, and just over three months after Iraqis voted them in. Aneesh Raman, CNN, Baghdad.", "Back here in the United States, Democratic Senator Russ Feingold says the government's program that spies on people inside the U.S. goes too far. And now he wants the Senate to take a big legal step, a formal censure of the president. Feingold plans to introduce the legislation tomorrow. A censure would impose no legal punishment on President Bush, but it would give senators a way to scold and embarrass him. A Republican senator today called Feingold's idea political grandstanding. And the White House still argues the president has the power to authorize domestic spying. So we want to hear from you on this subject. Tonight's \"last call,\" should President Bush be censured? Why or why not? Give us a call at 1-800-807-2620. Tell us your first name and where you're calling from. Well, it looks like even the CIA can't escape the long reach of the Internet. A new report says some CIA agents could have their covers blown by what's being posted on the worldwide web. An investigation by \"The Chicago Tribune\" reveals an alarming amount of sensitive CIA information is actually available online. The information came from so-called data brokers, who charge fees to sort through public records. The newspaper found the identities of some 2,600 CIA employees and private training facilities, even private residences, though it did not publish the identities.", "Well, it may seem hard to believe, but party activists are already thinking about the 2008 election. Republicans with an eye on the White House gathered at a conference in Tennessee this weekend. Favorite son and Senator -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist won a very unscientific straw poll of delegates. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was second. And Virginia Senator George Allen tied President Bush for third. Senator John McCain asked delegates to vote for Bush instead of himself. McCain called the gesture a show of support for the president. Some said he had no heart. An autopsy was performed today on Slobodan Milosevic, known to many as the butcher of Bosnia. Well, he died in a prison cell in the Hague yesterday, awaiting trial for war crimes. CNN's Paula Newton has more on the cause of the death.", "Even in death, with a makeshift memorial on the steps of the tribunal he despised, Slobodan Milosevic's memory seemed to mock those so determined to see him convicted. And no one carries that burden more than Chief War Crimes Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte.", "I deeply regret the death of Slobodan Milosevic. It deprives the victims of the justice they need and deserve.", "Del Ponte was sure she would have seen the former president convicted of genocide by this summer. Coroners and pathologists have determined he died of a heart attack. The autopsy was performed by Dutch authorities with two Serbian doctors at their side. And they all caution these are preliminary results. They are still waiting for tests to determine what triggered the heart attack and what was in Milosevic's bloodstream when he died. (on camera): But no matter how thorough, no matter who was witness to the autopsy, the Milosevic family and some of their allies in Serbia will claim there was a cover-up. (voice-over): That was the message from Milosevic's lawyer, who arrived at the War Crimes Tribunal armed with fresh accusations that Milosevic himself told the Russian government he was being poisoned by his own doctors. The Milosevic family wants an autopsy done in Russia. Del Ponte admits she is frustrated. Years of evidence compiled and presented, dozens of delays by what she calls Milosevic's convenient illnesses. And now, all the controversy surrounding his death.", "What it -- frustrated me the most is the - in the representation of the victims, because that is what they are asking for, that justice must be done. And now it will not be possible.", "But she is determined to find some redemption for those victims. She is putting more pressure on Serbia to hand over Milosevic's top Bosnian-Serb commanders, still fugitives after all these years.", "The days of Slobodan Milosevic makes it even more urgent for them to face justice.", "But Milosevic, he has eluded that justice, something that will always weigh heavily on this tribunal. Paula Newton, CNN, the Hague.", "A gruesome murder, a shady suspect, now a DNA match. Police say they know who killed this beautiful student.", "We caught doctors, lawyers, cops, firefighters, teachers, social workers, you know, really all walks of life.", "Those are the predators preying online. Could your teenager become a target?", "I went to bed. I was reading. The next thing I know, there's a policeman at my car door.", "Well, you've heard of sleepwalking, but how about sleep- driving? It is happening. You're watching CNN. 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{"id": "NPR-23004", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2016-01-23", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/01/23/464124995/cities-shut-down-as-blizzard-blankets-east-coast", "title": "Cities Shut Down As Blizzard Blankets East Coast", "summary": "Multiple states and cities have declared states of emergency as snow has covered parts of states from Pennsylvania to North Carolina. NPR's Jennifer Ludden has an update.", "utt": ["Onto the weather now, and if you're on the East Coast, you already know this. But for everybody else, much of the East Coast is paralyzed tonight as a massive blizzard continues to dump snow. Up to 30 inches could fall in some places. Officials are urging people to stay inside because of dangerously high winds still blowing. In New York City, roads, bridges and aboveground subways are closed. Broadway is dark. Coastal flooding in New Jersey is forcing some residents to evacuate. And in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, traffic accidents stranded hundreds of drivers for hours. NPR's Jennifer Ludden has been following events and reports on the day starting here on the street of the nation's capital.", "The Metro is shut down here until Monday, and that means most businesses and stores are closed. But the city's hotels are packed full of workers logging overtime to keep some things running - grocery stores or pharmacies. There are also city workers who've been snowplowing nonstop for 24 hours now and workers who have been staffing warming centers for the homeless.", "All right, baby girl. Get some rest.", "The Kennedy Recreation Center in northwest Washington was packed with 105 men who were allowed in starting Friday", "I came here at 12 noon as soon as they opened (laughter).", "63-year-old William Blocker (ph) normally spends days at the library, but that was closed now. Here, he sat in a semicircle of chairs around a flat-screen TV where there was a steady supply of movies.", "It's been fine. It's warm. They feed us. We have cots in the gym back there where we sleep.", "Blocker said he'll stay as long as he can. Department of Human Services spokeswoman said the agency's playing that by ear depending on the weather. A few blocks away, we caught up with two men snowboarding behind a green Land Rover.", "Well, that's a Defender 90. That doesn't get stuck anywhere.", "Chris Carr (ph) and Charles Kotch (ph) had tied ropes to the back. They called it their urban ski lift - OK, not quite as zippy as downhill but hey.", "It's great, yeah. And, I mean, you can pull yourself over onto the sides here where the snow is fresh, and it's great. The problem is the people in the streets. You've got to be careful with them.", "And pedestrians did seem everywhere, strolling down the middle of streets normally filled with cars. There were also a surprising number of four-wheelers out and about. That annoyed the pedestrians and drew a warning from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.", "The visibility is poor, and you cannot be seen. There are too many people on the streets both driving and walking. We need you to stay home.", "In New York City, officials shut down roads, bridges and aboveground subways. Broadway went dark. The city was on track to get far more snow than forecast - 16 inches and counting. Governor Andrew Cuomo said, at times, it was falling at a rate of three inches an hour.", "When the snowfall hits a certain rate, the plows literally can't keep up with the amount of snowfall, and that's where we are.", "In New Jersey, coastal flooding forced residents in a number of towns to evacuate. It's a full moon tonight with winds at 50 miles-per-hour and more. The storm's surges at high tide were far higher than normal. Jason Pellegrini (ph) owns Steak Out Restaurant in Sea Isle, N.J.", "I looked out my window, and I could still see the street. About 10 minutes later, I looked out the window again, and it was almost looked like a river just raging down.", "He says at one point, the water reached his waist. Across the East Coast, states of emergency remain in place as the snow continues to fall. Officials say the massive cleanup to come could take days. Jennifer Ludden, NPR news."], "speaker": ["MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JENNIFER LUDDEN, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "JENNIFER LUDDEN, BYLINE", "WILLIAM BLOCKER", "JENNIFER LUDDEN, BYLINE", "WILLIAM BLOCKER", "JENNIFER LUDDEN, BYLINE", "CHRIS CARR", "JENNIFER LUDDEN, BYLINE", "CHRIS CARR", "JENNIFER LUDDEN, BYLINE", "MURIEL BOWSER", "JENNIFER LUDDEN, BYLINE", "ANDREW CUOMO", "JENNIFER LUDDEN, BYLINE", "JASON PELLEGRINI", "JENNIFER LUDDEN, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-197568", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2012-12-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1212/14/ng.02.html", "summary": "Nancy Grace Mysteries: Robert Durst", "utt": ["Where is your wife? Do you know where your wife is? What about Susan Berman? Did you have anything to do with her murder? Do you have anything to say at all?", "What a multimillionaire from a family that`s worth billions was doing living in a $300-a-month run-down apartment in Galveston that he rented wearing a wig, disguised as a woman, and using a false name.", "Robert Durst`s attorney says Morris Black`s death had to be an accident, because the New York millionaire had no motive to kill his elderly neighbor. But prosecutors argue the motive was so Durst could become Morris Black, as a way of escaping the spotlight of New York prosecutors, who suspected he was involved in the mysterious disappearance of his first wife.", "He definitely has a sick mind to be able to dismember a body, cut off the head and arms and legs.", "Galveston police are convinced 58-year-old Robert Durst killed and dismembered his 71-year-old neighbor, Morris Black, then threw his body parts into Galveston Bay.", "If Black was here he`d be saying, \"I`m thinking two words. Two words Robert Durst, and one of them is bull. One of them is bull.\" He`d probably say it that loud, too.", "When I hear the name Robert Durst, I think of a young, beautiful girl, his wife, a medical student. I think of her family wondering all these years what became of her, where is her body. Are other bones at the bottom of the ocean? Is she underneath the soil decaying somewhere? What would her life have been? Would she have had children? Would she have been a famous doctor? Would she have saved somebody`s life?", "Tempestuous. What we know about those early years are allegations of domestic violence. She wanted out. She was only three months from getting her medical degree when she disappeared.", "At one point they were a young couple that was truly in love. They met, they moved to Vermont, they started a health-food store and many say they seemed to begin to lead a hippie life. But they came back to New York. He to be a part of the family business, she to go to nursing school and then onto medical school. But she also told her close family and friends that he began to physically abuse her.", "His wife, 29-year-old Kathy Durst, medical student, came from a background that could not have been more different than Kathy`s. She was middle class, trying to achieve a better life through education and medical school. He came from a family of multimillionaires, real-estate moguls in Manhattan. In fact, his family, I believe, still owns 4 Times Square. It is the headquarters for Conde Nast, for Vogue magazine, many others. His family, the Durst family, owns real estate, skyscrapers, high rises all around Manhattan.", "So the Durst Organization, the company -- the real-estate company that is owned by Robert Durst`s family, has long been and still is one of the top real-estate companies in New York City. They own buildings all over Manhattan. And it`s the Durst Organization that was sort of one of the driving forces behind this new Times Square, you know, the new beautiful, clean, family-friendly Times Square that we see today. Robert Durst did work for his family`s company for a while, but when his father, Seymour Durst, stepped down and named Robert Durst`s younger brother, Douglas, as his successor, Robert Durst cut his ties with the family`s organization.", "Kathleen Durst had told her close family and friends that she feared for her life, and that her husband had begun to physically abuse her. There was a court proceeding after she went missing to settle her assets, and there were sworn affidavits in that proceeding by her sister, by an attorney that she was talking to in case she wanted to get a divorce, and also another family friend that alleged that Kathleen had told them that she was physically assaulted by Robert Durst during the course of that marriage.", "So the night that Kathy Durst -- the night before she was last seen or allegedly last seen, she went to a party at her friend, Gilberta Najamy`s house. Gilberta has said since -- and she`s told this to the \"New York Times,\" \"Vanity Fair\" -- that when Kathy was leaving, she said, \"Promise me, if something happens, check it out, because I`m afraid of what Bobby will do.\" Gilberta gave that account of Kathy Durst`s last words to her, like I said, to both \"Vanity Fair\" and \"New York Times,\" and she`s contended that`s what Kathy said as she left that night.", "Robert Durst says he dropped his wife off in Westchester County to board a train for Manhattan to their apartment there, and police found three witnesses who claim they saw her within 24 hours of Durst saying he last saw her. So it was believed she was last seen in Manhattan. But information was learned several years later that led investigators to believe that maybe she never got on a train and got to Manhattan. Maybe she disappeared in Westchester County.", "Now, different people, two to be exact, claim that they saw Kathy Durst the following day at her apartment high rise in Manhattan, but upon later questioning, they said they weren`t sure. One only saw her at a distance from behind and said all he really recognized was her coat. The other said she had a male visitor the next day, but then that wasn`t confirmed, and he couldn`t be sure. He says that he put her on a train from the Katonah train station in Westchester County, just north of New York City. He says he put her on a 9:15 train to head back into Manhattan. She had classes the next day at medical school, so she was going to stay at their apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Says he put her on the train. Later that night, when she was back at their apartment, their penthouse in the city, he says he talked to her. She said she was in bed. She was watching TV. That was a Sunday night. Now, Monday, the next day, there are a couple of witnesses that claim they saw Kathy Durst. One of them was the building superintendent, although he later admitted, you know, he saw her from a half a block away. He wasn`t so sure later on that he had seen her. There was also a man who was either a doorman, elevator operator, who also thought he saw Kathy that next day. But those appearances -- or those alleged sightings could never be set in stone. Now they seem to fall apart once more scrutiny was put on them.", "Durst also says to police that he calls her from the home phone in Manhattan at their apartment that night to make sure she`s OK. Police say, Great, we can just pull your phone records. And what does Durst do? He says, \"Oh, well, wait, wait. I`ve got it all wrong. I actually was out walking the dog, and I called her from a pay phone. Guess you cant check the phone records.\" Not only that, Durst tells police he went over to a neighbors home and sat around and talked. The neighbors say they have no memory of that event, that that didn`t happen, but that they did notice a strange light, like a flashlight, a bluish light in the crawlspace of Durst`s home that night. So why did he change his story? Why doesn`t the timeline fit? Why, upon questioning, did the two eyewitnesses change their story?", "There were so many inconsistencies with his story. It just didn`t add up. But Robert Durst had on his side three different potential witnesses in New York City that said, \"Yes, I saw her. I not only saw her, but she called the medical school and said that she wasn`t coming in on that Monday after she had disappeared.\" Two of the three of those witnesses later said, \"You know what? Maybe I got it wrong. Maybe I didn`t see her. I only saw the back of someone, and I thought it was Kathy Durst.\" But the person that answered the phone at the medical school still believed that it was her voice on the other end of that line.", "So you know, Robert Durst then waits. This is Monday, when she`s allegedly seen in New York. It`s not until the following Thursday when Robert Durst walks into a police station and reports his wife missing. He said, though, that it wasn`t that unusual for him not to see her for a few days. She was a medical student. She would be working at the hospital. She`d sometimes sleep there. She`d sometimes sleep in the dorms. So he said that`s why he waited to report her missing.", "There was a delay of many days between her husband, Robert Durst, calling police -- her disappearance, and him calling police and saying she`s missing. I believe it was four days.", "So once Kathy Durst was reported missing by her husband, Robert Durst, he offered a $100,000 reward for information about her disappearance that would help find her. He said at the time that, you know, she was just about to graduate from medical school. She dreamed of becoming a pediatrician and opening her own clinic. He said that, you know, with graduation looming, her goal almost being reached, he said there`s no way that she`s just taken off somewhere. So you know, \"The New York Post\" and other New York papers at the time, you know, had this splashed headline that this real-estate son`s wife was missing and that he was offering a $100,000 reward.", "Wedged into the story is the murder of his longtime confidante, Susan Berman. He and Berman became closer and closer and closer. She left town and moved to California. Then just as the New York district attorney was reopening the disappearance of his wife, Kathy Durst, suddenly, Durst writes his good friend, Susan Berman, two checks for $25,000 apiece. And she cashed them. Why?", "Susan Berman was a very good friend of Robert Durst`s. In fact, when Susan Berman married her only husband, who later passed away -- when she married him -- his name was Mr. Margolies -- Robert Durst actually gave her away at the wedding.", "Susan Berman actually led an interesting life because, although she was living in Los Angeles, she was raised in Las Vegas, where her father was a mobster out of Vegas. And she writes about this in one of her books. She had become a crime writer, a fiction novelist in her own right. She had some issues with money, not being able to pay her rent. She didn`t want to go to her own family for money, and so she was really working as hard as she could to make it on her own in Los Angeles. But more than anything, she was a confidant of Robert Durst. She knew him well. They knew each other and were very, very close.", "She`d fallen on hard times. She had financial trouble. She declared bankruptcy. Her husband had died of a drug overdose. She was behind on her rent. She had all kinds of, you know, problems looming, but she also was telling friends that, you know, she had big projects on the horizon. So there was a theory that maybe, you know, she was maybe delving into the Mafia again, doing investigations. She was an investigative reporter that had worked for \"The San Francisco Examiner,\" as well as \"New York\" magazine. And it was actually \"New York\" magazine that ran this long piece with kind of theories about, you know, maybe she was onto something. She knew something. You know, she was investigating Vegas again, and somebody didn`t want that information out there. That was one of the theories, among many others, that were kind of floating around at the time Susan Berman was found dead right before Christmas with a bullet in her head.", "Shortly thereafter, she was found killed execution-style in her home, shot in the back of the head, the back door ajar. The front door was open. She, Susan Berman, was a security freak. Her father had been in the hotel business in Vegas. He was there during the time of Bugsy Siegel, all the big Mafia bosses in Vegas. She was a security freak. She would even nail the windows shut. Who did she open the door for? Who went out the back door and left it ajar?", "After police reopen the investigation into Kathy Durst`s disappearance in 2000, they prepare to talk to Susan Berman, now living in Los Angeles. And on the eve of talking to her, on Christmas Eve, she`s found dead in her Los Angeles home.", "She was dead for days until the neighborhood found one of her dogs barking wildly in the neighborhood unattended, and they found her decomposing body there in her home.", "She was a confidante of Robert Durst. She knew him well. They knew each other and were very, very close. And it was just days before investigators were to fly out to California to talk with her about what she may have known about the disappearance of Kathleen Durst that she was shot execution-style in her living room.", "She trusted someone to come in, and someone murdered her. Why?", "Bob Durst dismembered Morris Black after he was dead, disposed of the body and ran not once, but twice.", "We, the jury, find the defendant, Robert Durst, not guilty.", "If Morris Black was here right now, he`d be saying, \"I`m thinking two words. Two words, Robert Durst, and one of them is bull. One of them is bull.\"", "Years later, the case was actually reopened, about 20 years later. The pressure mounted from Kathy`s family, and the case was reopened for investigation. But what are you going to find 20 years later in a lake house? They couldn`t find forensics.", "The investigation into Kathy Durst`s disappearance was reopened in Westchester County based on a tip, a tip that turned out to be bogus. They searched the home where the Dursts had lived when they were married, weren`t able to find any evidence there. They even put divers in the lake. They did a grid search of the lake bottom. And no evidence was ever found, at least nothing that we know of, that corroborated this tip that Kathy Durst never made it to Manhattan that night.", "The investigation into Kathy Durst`s disappearance was reopened in the year 2000. What Robert Durst do? He left New York. He actually fled to Texas at that point of time. And he later told a jury in Galveston, Texas, that he fled because he was in fear, because he knew that investigation was reopened, and he knew that he was being looked at and wrongly being accused, even indirectly, of the disappearance of his wife.", "Once he sort of got this taste for cross-dressing when he was on the run after the investigation into his wife`s disappearance was reopened, he not only was living as this woman, who -- the woman, his alter ego, Dorothy Ciner -- she claimed she was mute. She would actually communicate with her landlord by note. She said she had -- Dorothy had a throat condition and wasn`t able to speak. He also wore a brunette wig and pretended to be a woman named Diane Winn when he lived in New Orleans. He had an apartment there. He also had, according to prosecutors, sort of safe houses or other places he would kind of escape to all over the country. He had a house in northern California. He had the New Orleans house. He had the Galveston house. He had another house in Houston, had an apartment still in New York City. So you know, they say he was sort of this eccentric multi-millionaire who didn`t want anything to do with the family business that was the source of his millions. He sort of wanted to live as, you know, a free spirit.", "Not only did Robert Durst flee to Texas, to Galveston, he also went into hiding dressed as a woman. He lived dressed as \"Dorothy Ciner.\" He shaved his head, he shaved his eyebrows, wore a wig at all times, and lived as Dorothy Ciner. Now, Durst has a long history of cross-dressing, which is neither here nor there, but he said he dressed and lived as Dorothy Ciner in Texas in order to escape the glare of the New York media. Well, I hardly think the glare of the New York media extended to Galveston, Texas, OK? But he chose to live in hiding. Why?", "Then his 71-year-old neighbor, by all accounts a grumpy old guy, 71-year-old Morris Black, nobody in the apartment facility liked him. He was easy to dislike. He was grumpy and ill and he felt bad and he complained. So when he went missing, nobody really seemed to care.", "Robert Durst moved to Texas, not to one of the big cities but to Galveston, Texas, and he lived in a very, very small impoverished type of apartment. I think he paid $300 a month rent for this apartment, but he later told a jury when he testified that the reason he moved there was that he was afraid. He was afraid because they had reopened the investigation into the disappearance of his wife, Kathleen.", "He had this neighbor, Morris Black, who was, you know, described as this cranky old guy, and Robert Durst said that at first they were friendly. They went -- they drank Jack Daniels together. They went target shooting together at one point, but he was getting more and more afraid of his neighbor, Morris Black. And Morris Black kept letting himself into Robert Durst`s apartment, Durst said. And even though Durst had asked him not to. So he said things were kind of getting very tense between him and his neighbor, Morris Black, at this apartment building in Galveston.", "Morris Black`s body, what remained of it, was found in parts in garbage bags in a Galveston, Texas, river by a young boy. His head was never found. His head that contained the bullet which would have said a lot in terms of how he was killed and what killed him.", "What I remember about the recovery of the body of Morris Black in Galveston bay was a family out fishing for the day. When the 13-year-old son in that family saw what he thought was a body floating in the water. You can only imagine being out fishing with your family and then you look over and see the body not knowing that that body would be connected to this unsolved crime.", "What became so significant about the recovery of body parts of Morris Black, Morris Black was dismembered, but there was no head. The head couldn`t be found. He was identified because of fingerprints, but it became a focal point in the case with prosecutors that the head was never recovered.", "His headless body was found by a little boy in Galveston bay, and I always wonder if a chill went up his little boy`s spine when he saw a human body decapitated floating in the water. And I wonder if that stick was that little boy for the rest of his life, if he dreams about it at night, how it has affected him because I still remember the murder scenes I went to. I was a grown woman prosecuting felonies. The smell of a dead body, the look of a dead body. It`s something you carry with you.", "After Morris Black`s body or I should say parts of his body, his torso, his headless torso, his arms and his legs are found in separate garbage bags floating in Galveston bay, police found some other clues in those garbage bags. They found a \"USA today\" newspaper that had the address of the apartment building where Black and Robert Durst lived. That led them back to the original crime scene.", "Other bizarre behavior of Robert Durst came after the killing of Morris Black. He was arrested in October 2001, charged with killing him. And he posted the $300,000 bail and then skipped out. He failed to show up on an October 16th, 2001, hearing, and a warrant for hi as arrest was issued to get and charge with bail jumping and he ended up getting arrested 45 days later, late November in Pennsylvania. When he tried to steal from a supermarket a chicken salad sandwich and a Band-Aid and some other stuff.", "Robert Durst may have wanted to say he had nothing to do with the murder and dismemberment of Morris Black, but the problem was in his small apartment there in Galveston, there was so much blood. Everywhere in that apartment it was blood, and it was Morris Black`s blood. So suddenly Robert Durst finds for the first time in his life, he`s charged with murder.", "Durst said he panicked. He did not believe that investigators would believe a cross dressing millionaire who fled New York when the investigation was reopened into his wife`s 1982 disappearance. So, he drank some booze and got out his utensils and tools and cut up the body.", "But police were sent on a wild goose chase. They found papers connecting the dead body in Galveston bay, without a head I might add, back to the apartment, connecting back to the apartment. There, find blood in Morris Black`s apartment. They find blood in Durst`s apartment. To them it was Dorothy signer`s apartment. So, they`re looking for Dorothy Signer, and then they realize Robert Durst is Dorothy Signer. He is arrested for homicide and posts bail. A judge gave Durst bail. What does he do? What do you think he did? He fled the jurisdiction. He did not show up for his court appointed court date. He fled. He leads police on a wild goose chase for seven weeks, and he`s ultimately found at a Wegman`s, it`s like a 7-eleven, a convenience store, in Pennsylvania shoplifting chicken salad and a Band-Aid.", "He had $500 in his pocket when he was arrested, and police found in his car at least $37,000 cash in the trunk and two guns. So he got arrested for taking these guns across state lines, that was a federal charge, and then the Texas state charge of bail jumping. So, that was bizarre, he was trying to steal a sandwich and a Band-Aid with $500 in his pocket.", "Hard to recognized in because his head and his eyebrows are shaved but, it Durst, all right.", "This case boils down to one thing and one thing only, how Morris Black died. This case is not about what happened to Morris Black`s body after he was dead. This case is not about what Bob Durst did after Morris Black died. The sole issue for you ladies and gentlemen to decide is how Morris Black died.", "And so, if you came home and you found Morris Black and Morris Black started to come at you, come up here, please, Morris Black started to point at you and you grabbed him like that and wrestled him and you have tumbled to the ground, would you be acting reasonably? Of course you would. Now, that`s how self-defense and accident happens.", "It`s amazing to me how the defense attorney Dick Dequerin got the jury in the Morris Black case to look at two events separately. The murder of 71-year-old Morris Black and the dismemberment, severing his head and throwing his body in Galveston bay, as a separate incident. But he did.", "When the trial was going on in Galveston, Texas, where Robert Durst was the charged defendant, everybody was saying that it was a brilliant defense. It was what is called a bifurcated defense because what the defense was able to do was to say, ladies and gentlemen, you must only look at the killing of Morris Black. You cannot take into consideration the dismemberment which happened later because that had nothing to do with the state of mind of Robert Durst when he killed Morris Black.", "From the beginning we could see, and now we`ve brought to you, the common sense explanation that some of you in jury selection suggested to us that you already knew, panic, fear.", "You don`t cut somebody up, another human being, into pieces, bag him up, dump him in the bay when you act in self- defense. It just doesn`t happen. You don`t butcher somebody, put them in pieces, bag them up, dump them in the bay because there`s an accident. You cannot plan to have an accident, and you cannot plan to act in self- defense. It doesn`t happen.", "You know, Durst was on the stand for four days, really captivated that jury and spectators in the courtroom. But among the things that he described besides his childhood and living as a woman, as a mute woman, setting his wig on fire in a bar, was what he did with Morris Black and how he was fighting with him and the gun discharged and how he panicked and drank some whiskey and then got out his saw and cut him up and put him in garbage bags. No explanation that I`m aware of though, of what happened to the head.", "Robert Durst actually said, I killed Morris Black. I did it. And I also dismembered him. But I killed Morris Black because I was defending myself, number one, and, number two, it was an accident.", "So the jury said, you know what? If we don`t take into account the severing of the head and the disposal of the body, all I`ve got left is this body and we can`t tell how he was killed. We can`t tell if there was a scuffle. So, therefore, we cannot convict Robert Durst. That was their thinking.", "We the jury find the defendant, Robert Durst, not guilty.", "When I heard the not guilty verdict, I was stunned.", "My reaction to the not guilty verdict was, first of all, I had to check to make sure that I was hearing properly, that my hearing was OK because I could not believe this jury came back with a not guilty verdict.", "A lot of people were absolutely shocked, the courtroom had gasps in Texas when Durst was acquitted of the murder much Morris Black. Jurors even said, look, you know, it wasn`t an easy decision, but there wasn`t enough proof.", "The jury deliberated for a long, long time. People actually thought it was going to be a hung jury. But when they got back into that courtroom, this country absolutely was shocked because the jury acquitted Robert Durst of murder in Galveston, Texas.", "In fact, they said that the defense consistently gave them a plausible story about what happened that day, that this was self-defense, it was a struggle, it was an excellent, Robert Durst didn`t mean for Morris Black to die. The jurors said afterwards they had a problem with the prosecution`s case. They said that the prosecution didn`t give them just one theory to follow, that they gave them several different possibilities of how Morris Black might have been killed and why Robert Durst would have wanted Morris Black dead.", "It doesn`t matter if I thought he was guilty or not. I did not want to convict this man on what I thought. I wanted to make a decision on what I knew, on the evidence that was presented to me. So for me it didn`t make any difference what I thought. It`s what -- it`s the evidence that was presented to me and what I knew.", "It was the actual act of what occurred in the apartment at that time. And so, based on the evidence that was presented to us, there was reasonable doubt.", "We took Durst`s story completely out of the picture. We took the evidence presented to us, put it on the time line. We had a time line that went around the whole room. Based on the evidence, it wasn`t there. We can`t convict someone on our thoughts or what we think or what we receive or what we speculate. We can`t do that.", "I can`t even begin to tell you, my stomach is still knotted up. But we did the best with what we had, and whether it agrees to you all or to anyone else out there in America, this is what we came up with.", "I would not come to any decision unless in front of me I looked at everything that was given by the prosecution. The prosecution deserved that respect. It`s been a very hard decision for me.", "Jurors said they felt it was entirely reasonable that Robert Durst had this state of mind and that Robert Durst accidentally shot and killed Morris Black, and when you accidentally shoot somebody, then you can panic, and that panic led to the dismemberment. This country in large part was outraged with what they heard.", "Well, jurors had a lot of explaining to do after that not guilty verdict, and the way that they explained it was they were able to separate the shooting from the actual cutting up of the body. They threw out worrying about cutting up the body and focused just on the shooting. They said they had no evidence other than believing it was self defense what Durst had said on the stand and that he actually did panic and was high and was drunk on Jack Daniels. So it`s possible he could have not remembered cutting up the body and it was just in panicking at it was self defense.", "I wonder what that jury thinks today. Now that they know about Susan Berman, his best friend`s murder execution style. His payoff checks to her in the amount of $25,000 each.", "You remember my oldest son David.", "We all know that the Robert Durst case played out just like a movie. And of course, that`s where it ended up and made its way to the big screen with Hollywood stars Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst. The movie is called \"All God Things\" (ph) and the actors play David and Katie, that`s a couple based on Robert Durst and his first wife Kathie. Now, there`s reports circulating that Durst liked the movie so much he actually cried when he watched it and says that this movie \"All Good Things\" is the most accurate depiction of his life, expect, of course, for the parts that implicated him in three deaths.", "The investigation into the disappearance of Kathie Durst and the murder of Susan Berman are still open investigations. The trail goes cold, but they`re still technically open.", "It came out late last year that Robert Durst was living back in New York, he had just purchased a town home in the east Harlem area of New York city, and the neighbors when they found out who was living near them, were very scared, very concerned, publicly said so.", "So Robert Durst is still a free man. He was acquitted even though he admitted that he cut up his neighbor and disposed of his body. He`s acquitted of that murder case. He also has never formally been named a suspect in either his wife`s disappearance or the murder of his friend Susan Berman. Robert Durst is living the way the rest of us do. He is a free man. We talked to both the Westchester county district attorney`s office that is investigating Kathie Durst`s disappearance and also the Los Angeles police department that is investigating Susan Berman`s murder. Both of those agencies say that they have not closed the book on either of those investigations, that both are still very open and active.", "Robert Durst has never been charge in his wife, Kathie Durst`s disappearance or in the murder of his friend Susan Berman.", "In Afghanistan most of the girls have no voice. They are used as property of a family. The picture is very grim. My name is Razia Jan, and I`m the founder of a girl`s school in Afghanistan. When we opened the school in 2008, 90 percent of them could not write their name. Today, 100 percent of them are educated. They can read, they can write. I lived in the U.S. for over 38 years, but I was really affected by 9/11. I really wanted to prove that Muslims are not terrorists. I came back here in 2002. Girls have been the most oppressed, and I thought I have to do something. It was a struggle in the beginning. I would sit with these men, and I would tell them don`t marry them when they`re 14 years old. They want to learn. How do you write your father`s name? After five years now, the men, they are proud of their girls when they themselves can`t write their name. Very good. Still, we have to take these precautions. Some people are so much against girls getting educated. We provide free education to over 350 girls. I think it`s like a fire. It will grow. Every year my hope becomes more. I think I can see the future."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NANCY GRACE, HOST", "BETH KARAS, TRUTV`S \"IN SESSION\"", "JEAN CASAREZ, \"TRUTV\"", "GRACE", "ELLIE JOSTAD, \"NANCY GRACE\" PRODUCER", "CASAREZ", "JOSTAD", "KARAS", "GRACE", "GRACE", "CASAREZ", "JOSTAD", "GRACE", "JOSTAD", "GRACE", "JOSTAD", "CASAREZ", "JOSTAD", "GRACE", "KARAS", "GRACE", "CASAREZ", "GRACE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRACE", "JOSTAD", "CASAREZ", "JOSTAD", "GRACE", "GRACE", "CASAREZ", "JOSTAD", "BETH KARAS, SENIOR REPORTER, TRUTV", "STACEY NEWMAN, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER", "CASAREZ", "GRACE", "NEWMAN", "KARAS", "CASAREZ", "KARAS", "GRACE", "KARAS", "GRACE", "CHIP LEWIS, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "DICK DEGUERIN, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "GRACE", "CASAREZ", "DEGUERIN", "JOEL BENNETT, PROSECUTOR", "KARAS", "CASAREZ", "GRACE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GRACE", "NEWMAN", "KARAS", "CASAREZ", "JOSTAD", "CHRIS LOVELL, JUROR", "JOANNE GONGORA, JUROR", "ROBIN CLARIC JUROR", "DEBORAH WARREN, JUROR", "DONNA TROSCLAIR, JUROR", "KARAS", "NEWMAN", "GRACE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER", "KARAS", "CASAREZ", "JOSTAD", "TEXT", "RAZIA JAN, 2012 CNN HEROES"]}
{"id": "NPR-1130", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2016-04-10", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/04/10/473702995/alt-latino-gets-experimental", "title": "Alt.Latino Gets Experimental", "summary": "Felix Contreras and Jasmine Garsd, the hosts of NPR's Alt.Latino podcast, share three new songs from incredible female artists, ranging from groovy to sultry, to experimental.", "utt": ["Amidst all the important information we give you every week to help you stay informed, you know we also like to give you something for your soul. And once a month, we turn to our friends at Alt.Latino for a little soul food, i.e. musical exploration. Felix Contreras and Jasmine Garsd are the hosts of the weekly show about Latino arts and culture. It is called Alt.Latino. They're here in the studio. Hi, guys.", "Hi.", "Good morning.", "Hi. So, Jasmine, let's start with you, one of your tracks. What are we hearing right now?", "This is called \"Woman Is A Word.\" And it's by the Honduran-American singer Empress Of, who I'm kind of crazy about. And I think it's a great, like, summer jam.", "(Singing) I'm only an image of what you see. I'm only an image of what you see.", "Yeah, that's a summer driving song.", "Yeah, right?", "I can get into that, yeah.", "Yeah. She's just this awesome fusion of, like, Latino rhythms but these really - she's been called the Honduran Bjork. She's very experimental and just really cool themes and lyrics.", "(Singing) You don't know me. You don't know me. You don't know me. I'm only a woman if woman is a word. I'm only a woman if woman is a word.", "All right, well, speaking of experimental, Felix, I understand you brought something a little experimental, groovy, thing. What you got?", "Oh no.", "Yes, I did (laughter).", "I don't even know what I just said. That sounds like a crazy song. What you got?", "We're going to play the song first and then I'm going to tell you about the artist. Her name is Xenia Rubinos.", "(Singing) I am on this place with a golden fist. I won't play but keep you open. Hide a little sliver of this feeling in the mist. I won't play but to keep you open.", "Xenia Rubinos, she is Cuban and Puerto Rican and she mixes that with this really deep groove, a very expressive voice that seems to change shape depending on the circumstances of the song. But also she works with a lot of odd time signatures, some quirky melodies. Her voice gets even more pliable. She successfully combines all of that stuff in this great new album called \"Black Terry Cat.\" It's out in June. There's a single available. Check out the rest of the song.", "(Singing) Tell me you right now what you mean. I've got things to make your love grow thicker. I'm going planes (ph) that make your headspace bigger. All my stories make your love so sick, make your love heartsick, make you love me, love me, love me.", "Yeah, she does really, like, mess with the times in a really cool way, right?", "Yeah.", "Like it's a little offbeat...", "Yeah.", "...Her vocals, but it works.", "Completely.", "Oh, that's cool. I like it. OK, Jas, you've got one more song today. What you got?", "Yeah, well I think, you know, Felix and I both agree that this is a stunner. It's one of my favorite - our favorite - newer artists. It's a Colombian R&B soul singer, Kali Uchis. Just - has she ever released a song that we don't like?", "No.", "No.", "(Laughter) That was a softball question.", "It's - fans of Erykah Badu and, like, Billie Holiday and all that kind of croony...", "Yeah.", "...Style of music will love her. And here she is reinterpreting an absolute classic of Latin ballads, which is \"Sabor A Mi,\" which I have it upon good source that when Felix was a wedding band singer, he played this song often. It's like...", "I'm not even paying attention to the rest of that sentence because I'm fixated on the fact that you played in wedding bands, which is awesome.", "Not a singer, just played congas and percussion in a fake tuxedo.", "Also \"Sabor A Mi,\" Felix - but let's just explain that \"Sabor A Mi\" is like if in a Latin wedding, you have to have \"Sabor A Mi.\" It's like, I don't know.", "It's like \"YMCA?\"", "Or like \"Great Balls Of Fire.\"", "Like, the white people's reception?", "It's - yeah, it's - it is a classic. Yeah, it is a classic. It's a very romantic ballad that's done by a lot of different people, most notably this band called El Chicano, 1970s. Just - it's everywhere. It's omnipresent. And she did a really cool remake.", "(Singing in Spanish).", "Felix almost starts purring...", "...When he hears this cover.", "That's gorgeous. And she does hang onto those notes like Erykah Badu, you know? She just, like, clings onto them and, like, gets all the good stuff out. That's sexy. OK, Jasmine Garsd, Felix Contreras have yet again given me all kinds of new stuff for my playlist. Thanks, guys. They are the hosts of NPR Music's Alt.Latino. See you next time.", "See you.", "Thank you.", "(Singing in Spanish)."], "speaker": ["RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "EMPRESS OF", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "EMPRESS OF", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE", "XENIA RUBINOS", "FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE", "XENIA RUBINOS", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE", "KALI UCHIS", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JASMINE GARSD, BYLINE", "FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE", "KALI UCHIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-13366", "program": "Newsday", "date": "2000-8-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/07/nd.04.html", "summary": "Gallup Poll: Americans Willing to Vote for Jewish Presidential Candidate", "utt": ["And how does the American public feel about having a Jewish candidate on the ticket? Well, a CNN Gallup poll shows they may not have a problem. Right now, Gallup Editor in Chief Frank Newport joins us with details from the survey -- Frank.", "Jeanne, we've been asking Americans about the influence of religion on their support for presidential candidates for many, many years here. Here's the question: Would you vote for a candidate who was otherwise well- qualified who happened to be Jewish? All the way back to 1937 when we first asked it, it was below 50 percent. But it's gone up over the years. As of last year, you can see here, it was 92 percent who said, yes, they would. In other words, they wouldn't have any problem with a candidate being Jewish. To put this in some context, there are three other religions we also asked at the same time: being a Catholic, 94 percent said, no problem; being a Baptist -- that's germane because Al Gore is Baptist -- no problem there. Actually, it's being a Mormon, which we first started asking with George Romney, would create more of a problem than any of these other religions. Of course, it was John Kennedy who was Catholic. That number, by the way, was 71 percent who said yes to a Catholic in 1960. He was elected, of course. Finally, we always, Jeanne, like to remind you, Does the veep choice matter? Well, we asked this a couple of weeks ago. Only 13 percent of Americans claimed that in their voting history it's ever mattered who was selected to a vice president. We'll see what happens with this choice. Jeanne, back to you.", "Frank Newport, thanks."], "speaker": ["JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR", "FRANK NEWPORT, GALLUP POLL EDITOR IN CHIEF", "MESERVE"]}
{"id": "CNN-349086", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-09-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1809/01/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Papadopoulos: Sessions Suspended Putin Campaign Meeting", "utt": ["We're following new developments in the Russia probe. An ex-Trump campaign advisor, publicly contradicting sworn testimony given by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Congress. In new court documents, George Papadopoulos says Sessions supported his proposal for a summit between then-candidate Trump and Russian president, Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign. Quoting from the documents, George announced at the meeting that he had connections that could facilitate a foreign policy meeting between Mr. Trump and Russian President, Vladimir Putin. While some in the room rebuffed George's offer, Mr. Trump nodded with approval and deferred to Sessions who appeared to like this idea and stated that the campaign should look into it. But why that's important? Sessions told Congress under oath that he actually pushed back on the idea of the Putin meeting. Papadopoulos' description comes as he fights to avoid jail time after being convicted of lying to investigators. His sentencing is scheduled for September 7th. A report this week revealing there is damaging stories on President Trump, apparently locked away in a safe somewhere and owned by at the National Enquirer. Up next, I'll talk to someone who worked for the paper for nearly three decades. Stay with us. You're live in the CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["CABRERA"]}
{"id": "NPR-44256", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2005-05-19", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4658943", "title": "Red Cross Reports Claims of Quran Abuse at Guantanamo", "summary": "The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has credible information that U.S. personnel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have mistreated the Quran. This comes just days after Newsweek retracted a story making similar allegations.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.  I'm Michele Norris.", "And I'm Melissa Block.", "There are new allegations today in the controversy over whether the Koran      was desecrated by US interrogators in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  The      International Committee of the Red Cross says it told the Pentagon in      2002 and 2003 of instances when US soldiers and interrogators mishandled      the Islamic holy book. This comes days after Newsweek retracted a story      alleging desecration of the Koran at the detention center in Guantanamo.      The report sparked deadly riots in Afghanistan and violence elsewhere and      a firestorm back home.  NPR's Jackie Northam has the latest.", "The International Committee of the Red Cross is different from most other      human rights groups.  The Geneva-based organization prefers to stay well      under the radar screen, quietly working to improve conditions for      detainees and prisoners of war.  Its strength is confidentiality.  That's      why when, on the rare occasion, the ICRC goes public, it makes an impact.      This time the ICRC has waded into the controversy over whether the Koran      was desecrated at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.  The      ICRC says it has gathered and documented credible information that US      soldiers and interrogators at Guantanamo handled the Koran with      disrespect in the early days.  Simon Schorno is the ICRC's spokesman in      Washington.", "During our visits in Guantanamo, there were instances where the ICRC      received reports from detainees about mishandling of the Koran in      Guantanamo.  We do not want to get into the details of this, but      certainly there were several--there were multiple allegations that we      followed up.", "Schorno is careful to point out that the ICRC is not confirming      Newsweek's story about a Koran being flushed down the toilet by an      interrogator at Guantanamo.  But he says that the ICRC supports much of      the information about the mistreatment of the Koran that's already in the      public realm.  For months other human rights groups and defense lawyers      for Guantanamo detainees have been hearing from former and current      prisoners about allegations of abuse of the Koran.  Schorno says the ICRC      finds the allegations are credible.", "Basically, we speak in private with detainees, discuss      other issues with the detainee wishes to discuss with an ICRC delegate.      And then we, you know, cross-check the information by speaking with a      range of detainees.", "The ICRC sent its reports to military leaders at Guantanamo and      the Department of Defense.  The Pentagon confirmed that the ICRC shared,      on what it calls rare occasions, allegations of the Koran being      mishandled.  Brian Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, says that the      allegations were taken seriously and investigated.", "And what we have found is that      there have been some instances in which US personnel have mishandled the      Koran.  And there have been, quite frankly, just as many incidences that      we have found in our logs, allegations, where detainees have themselves      done something, either inadvertently or intentionally, to mishandle the      Koran.", "And Whitman notes the ICRC did not witness any of the      allegations. But the admission that the Pentagon had been receiving      information about alleged Koran abuse isn't what the administration was      saying earlier this week when the Newsweek retraction was still fresh and      the administration was criticizing a weekly magazine for its journalistic      standards.  Today the talk was focused on steps taken to address any      problems, including guidelines issued in 2003 for handling the Koran and      an increased sensitivity to the Islamic religion, says Richard Boucher,      State Department spokesman.", "If there are      instances that are credible instances that are called to our attention of      where those rules were not followed or the policy is not carried out      thoroughly, then we investigate, we look into them, we make sure the      practices are corrected and improved.", "An inquiry and an investigation into Guantanamo are expected to      be made public sometime in the next few weeks.  Jackie Northam, NPR News,      Washington."], "speaker": ["MICHELE NORRIS, host", "MELISSA BLOCK, host", "MELISSA BLOCK, host", "JACKIE NORTHAM reporting", "Mr. SIMON SCHORNO (Spokesman, International Committee of the Red Cross)", "NORTHAM", "Mr. SIMON SCHORNO (Spokesman, International Committee of the Red Cross)", "NORTHAM", "Mr. BRIAN WHITMAN (Spokesman, Pentagon)", "NORTHAM", "Mr. RICHARD BOUCHER (Spokesperson, State Department)", "NORTHAM"]}
{"id": "CNN-393617", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-02-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/24/nday.02.html", "summary": "Sanders Surging in Polls; Sotomayor Issues Scathing Dissent of the Court.", "utt": ["Senator Bernie Sanders, he won big in Nevada. Really big. And now, with South Carolina on Saturday and Super Tuesday next Tuesday, this could all potentially be wrapped up very quickly. Then what? Harry Enten here with \"The Forecast.\" Sir, Bernie Sanders doing well. How well?", "He's doing very, very well. So, I mean, just like this is my delegate odds chance of winning the most delegates, I'll not that's a plurality, not a majority. But, folks, this is really, really real. Sanders with a seven in 10 shot now, according to my projections, of winning the most amount of delegates. Going into Milwaukee with the most amount of delegates. Biden, Bloomberg, back at one in 10. Warren 0.5 in 10. Buttigieg, really, at this point, not necessarily doing so well. And I'm just going to give you an indication of why, you know, Bernie -- why I think Bernie has the best shot of winning this nomination by far. Look at the national polling average right now. Look at this. Bernie way up, double digit lead. And this is likely to get larger after the Nevada results. We've seen bumps for him in the past. And then look at South Carolina, right? This is supposed to be Joe Biden's firewall. And Bernie is right behind him here. And let me tell you this, if Joe Biden doesn't win in South Carolina, I'm not sure exactly where he can win. And that would probably be the ultimate knockout punch.", "But what if he does win in South Carolina? That's where things get even more complicated, right?", "I mean things will definitely get much more complicated. And, remember, just three days -- three days after South Carolina, 34 percent of the delegates are awarded on Super Tuesday. So if you're going to be able to stop Bernie Sanders, you got to stop him in South Carolina because the truth is, given the national polling numbers, given how much Super Tuesday looks like the nation in terms of the demographics of the states that are voting, the large delegate prize is in Texas and California. If you can't slow his momentum in South Carolina, the truth is, he's going to run all over the field on Super Tuesday.", "All right. So you have some Democrats in a near panic this morning over Bernie Sanders winning the nomination because they say he can't beat Donald Trump. This is what you are hearing. I'm not saying this. This is what some Democrats are saying.", "Right.", "So what are his chances against Donald Trump?", "You know, I think a thing that is -- you know, we had these swing state polls. Remember last week, Quinnipiac University, 2020, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, these are three states that voted for Barack Obama in 2012, flipped over in 2016 to vote for Donald Trump. Michigan, Sanders ahead close. Pennsylvania, Sanders ahead close. Trump in this poll was up in Wisconsin by seven points. Other polls", "That is fascinating because, I mean, we're just talking about a contested convention at the point, but you're saying that even beyond that things can be complicated.", "Things could be really, really complicated. And let me just tell you, if we end up with a 269-269 tie, my goodness gracious, my blood starts rushing. Look, the president then is chosen by the U.S. House. You need a majority of state U.S. House delegations. It's not just the majority of the members. It's the majority of the U.S. House delegations. And right now the GOP currently controls 26 of the 50 delegations. Of course it's possible that they may fall just short of a majority because three of these 26 are only by a seat and they might flip in 2020, Alaska, Florida, and Montana. And if no president is chosen by the U.S. House, if they can't agree on someone, then the vice president's selected by a majority of the Senate, becomes the acting president.", "Oh, my gosh. You've just given me a three-month migraine. Thank you.", "So a contested convention, Electoral College ties, this year, it is all on the board.", "I will tell you, most Democrats think if it goes to the House, the Republicans will control more delegations.", "Probably. Yes.", "So Republicans end up with the presidency.", "As they are right now.", "Yes. Harry, thank you.", "Thank you.", "Thanks a lot, Harry, for all of that. Meanwhile, listen to this. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issuing a blistering dissent against her conservative colleagues on the court for being too eager to side with the Trump administration. CNN's Supreme Court reporter, Ariane de Vogue, live in Washington with more. What did she say, Ariane?", "This was a strong dissent from the liberal justice. She called out the government for coming too often to the Supreme Court with these emergency requests to allow these policies to go into effect. But then she also called out her own conservative colleagues for too often granting these requests. Basically she said her colleagues were lowering the bar too much in these instances for the government. She wrote, it's hard to say what is more troubling that the government would seek this extraordinary relief, seemingly as a matter of course, or that the court would grant it. And, of course, this comes after a 5-4 ruling that made it tougher for immigrants who are seeking legal status to do so if they rely on public benefits. 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{"id": "CNN-393251", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-02-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/20/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Roger Stone to be Sentenced Today; Democrat Face Off in Fiery Debate Ahead of Nevada Caucuses; Trump Ally Roger Stone Sentenced Amid Political Firestorm", "utt": ["All four prosecutors then quit the case.", "And this could to the controversy this morning. The president signaling in a tweet a possible pardon for Stone. We're on top of all those breaking developments.", "It's truly remarkable. Also this morning an ugly Vegas hangover after Democrats' fiercest debate yet. Candidates pulling no punches as former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg made his debate debut. Who is taking a victory lap this morning?", "Obviously a lot to get to this morning but first to the Stone case. Sara Murray is outside the courthouse in D.C. All eyes are on the judge, frankly, that Stone attacked in the middle of all this, Judge Amy Berman Jackson.", "That's absolutely right. And she is going to be the one who has the final say over what Stone's punishment should be for those crimes he's been convicted of, as you mentioned. Obstruction, lying to Congress, witness tampering. He was found guilty on all seven charges. Now Stone has just arrived at court here today. The sentencing is going to get under way around 10:00 a.m. Stone and his attorneys have said he does not deserve any jailtime for this. Prosecutors originally asked for seven to nine years before this extraordinary set of circumstances that happened where Barr intervened in the case, called that sentencing excessive and they asked for a shorter duration of time. Now obviously, we've also seen President Trump repeatedly intervene in this case. We saw him do it again overnight. He posted this tweet, it's from a FOX News host, saying, something like this should never happen again to anyone in our country about Roger Stone. Presumably meaning, I guess that you should never be sentenced for the crimes you're convicted of by a jury? We've seen the president say over and over again that Roger Stone has been treated unfairly, that this judge is biased. That Stone deserves a new trial. So, of course, the other thing that we're all on high alert for today and the coming days is the possibility of a pardon from the president. The other thing that we should remember is that no matter what the judge decides today, Amy Berman Jackson, even if she decides that Roger Stone deserves jailtime, he is not going to be detained today. Stone has asked for a new trial and the judge said she will consider that request before he begins serving out any sentence. Back to you, guys.", "Remarkable events to follow. Sara Murray at the courthouse, thanks very much. Michael Bloomberg got hit hard and often in his first Democratic debate last night.", "Arlette Saenz joins us from Las Vegas. We knew that he was going to face incoming. The question was, how was he going to deal with it. Bernie Sanders is leading most polls. Bloomberg, though, got the front-runner treatment last night.", "Yes, he sure did. It was basically a Michael Bloomberg pile-on last night. And one candidate who appears to have benefited a bit from last night's performance is Elizabeth Warren. Her campaign saying they raised more than $2 million on debate day. All of the Democratic contenders came ready to fight last night in what was the most fiery and contentious debate yet.", "The Democrats were ready to rumble in their first chance to debate against Michael Bloomberg.", "The mayor says that he has a great record, that he's done these wonderful things. Well, the fact of the matter is, he has not managed his city very, very well when he was there.", "I don't think you look at Donald Trump and say, we need someone richer in the White House.", "Front-runner Bernie Sanders delivering the first blow.", "In order to beat Donald Trump, we're going to need the largest voter turnout in the history of the United States. Mr. Bloomberg had policies in New York City of stop and frisk. That is not a way you're going to grow voter turnout.", "Bloomberg firing back at Sanders throughout the night.", "I don't think there's any chance of the senator beating President Trump. What a wonderful country we have. The best known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What did I miss here?", "Elizabeth Warren was ready to strike, zeroing in on the former New York City mayor's alleged treatment of women.", "I'd like to talk about who we're running against. A billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians and, no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump. I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg. But understand this. Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another.", "Fighting to keep her campaign alive, Warren delivered attack after attack against Bloomberg.", "He has gotten some number of women, dozens, who knows, to sign nondisclosure agreements both for sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace. So, Mr. Mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements so we can hear their side of the story?", "We have a very few nondisclosure agreements.", "How many is that?", "Let me finish.", "How many is that?", "None of them accuse me of doing anything other than maybe they didn't like the joke I told. They decided, when they made an agreement, that they wanted to keep it quiet for everybody's interest.", "No.", "Come on.", "They signed the agreements, and that's what we're going to live with.", "I'm sorry. This is also a question about electability. We are not going to beat Donald Trump with a man who has who knows how many nondisclosure agreements and the drip, drip, drip of stories of women saying they have been harassed and discriminated against.", "Pete Buttigieg made sure Bloomberg wasn't the only candidate on stage with a target on his back.", "Most Americans don't see where they fit if they've got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root of all power. Let's put forward somebody who is actually a Democrat.", "And a midwestern melee igniting when Buttigieg called out Amy Klobuchar for not remembering the name of Mexico's president in her recent interview.", "I wish everyone was as perfect as you, Pete. Yes, that's right. And I said that I made an error. I think having a president that maybe is humble and is able to admit that here and there maybe wouldn't be a bad thing.", "But you're staking your candidacy on your Washington experience.", "Are you trying to say that I'm dumb? Are you mocking me here, Pete?", "I'm saying you shouldn't trivialize that knowledge.", "I said I made an error.", "Klobuchar trying to shift the focus back on the candidates' real opponents.", "We have not been talking enough about Donald Trump and what's -- let's just talk about Donald Trump.", "Now we are just two days out from the Nevada caucuses, and all of the candidates, except for Michael Bloomberg remain in the state today trying to make their final pitch to voters -- Jim and Poppy.", "OK. Arlette, quite a debate. Thank you very much. Joining us now to talk all about it, Maria Cardona, Democratic strategist, and Jackie Alemany, author or the \"Washington Post's\" \"Power Up.\" Jackie, let me start with you. Elizabeth Warren needed last night, and she got it. The question is, is it too late? Is it enough to put her back near or at front-runner status?", "I think it's definitely too soon to be making any conclusions after one debate performance. I mean, I think that she did have her Amy Klobuchar moment, the moment that we saw Amy have in New Hampshire that really put her over the edge and threw her into the top tier. And I think that's what Warren was gunning for, and what she realized she needed to do to revive a fledgling campaign that has been overshadowed by Mike Bloomberg and the vast amount of money he's spent. And Bernie Sanders pulling away in the polls. That being said, what Warren didn't do, which is the ultimate hurdle to her securing the nomination, is attack Bernie Sanders. The one person who she's, you know, really splitting voters with and, again, who is becoming a potentially formidable front-runner. But, you know, this debate performance, as Arlette pointed out, Elizabeth Warren raised a record amount of money in that first hour. It's clear that she's picked up some energy. She might have that going into the caucuses on Saturday. And that's what she's looking for to translate into South Carolina for the primary the following Saturday.", "Maria, looking at Mike Bloomberg's performance there, he knew going into this that he was going to have an issue with stop and frisk. He got ahead of it. Right? He went out there and apologized, he met with a congregation, et cetera. Owned it in effect. On the issues, for instance, the NDAs from women during his time leading Bloomberg, didn't seem to have a great answer on that. Were you surprised he didn't have a stronger pushback on something he had to -- when he's preparing for these debates, he had to know that he was going to get pushed on that issue?", "I was really surprised. And I think that a lot of people were surprised as well because it was clear that he was going to have the target on his back. You would think that he would have overly prepared for something like this. He has good people around him who should have told him that this issue is undoubtedly going to come up. And that his rivals on that stage were going to be putting that in front of him. And he looked like a deer in the headlights. Not just giving really bad answers to those obvious questions, but also not being able to pivot, which, when you are in a position of not having a great answer to something that is being put in front of you, that is the tactic that you use to pivot. And in that debate, and not just him, but I think all of the candidates really missed the mark on really trying to go after Donald Trump on one key issue, Jim. Here in Nevada with a population that is so critical, and that is Latino voters. I think they really missed the opportunity to push back on Trump's one main talking point about the economy and having record unemployment numbers in the Latino community.", "Yes.", "And no one really did that. And I think it was a big miss.", "Right. Right. And when you know that voters consistently put beating Donald Trump, Democratic voters, at the top of the list for the qualities they're looking for in the candidate, the Democratic candidate.", "Yes.", "Absolutely. So what about this moment? Let me just replay it because it certainly struck me watching last night, ladies. Here was Pete Buttigieg going after Bernie Sanders and Michael Bloomberg.", "Most Americans don't see where they fit if they've got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root of all power. Let's put forward somebody who is actually a Democrat.", "He did not fare well in the latest national polling as well as he's been doing. Is this what Mayor Buttigieg needed to do last night, Jackie?", "Well, look, we do know that the mayor has a problem with voters of color, African-American voters.", "Yes.", "He's barely registering in the polls. And I think despite his wins and his success in Iowa and New Hampshire, that might not be enough to potentially put someone who was at zero to a top tier in these more diverse contests. That being said, he does speak to, you know, a real craving and a need amongst voters that we're seeing. Bernie Sanders might have a plurality but not enough voters have coalesced around him. And enough have spread across these other different moderate candidates. People are still really searching for that alternative. I think that's why Mike Bloomberg was such a topic of, you know, ire and fascination amongst voters as well last night because people sort of eyed him as that alternative to Biden. He's been able to really shoot that gap. And what you saw Pete trying to do there was, obviously, exploit that in a pretty smart way and, you know, and try to stake his claim in the race.", "Maria Cardona, Jackie Alemany, probably going to come back to this topic a couple of times before November. Good to have you. Join us tonight for two more town halls ahead of the Nevada caucus. Former vice president Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren live from Las Vegas. Starts at 8:00 Eastern Time only here on", "Intervention tension. Less than one hour from now, Trump ally Roger Stone is set to be sentenced after the president lashed out over the prosecutor's sentencing recommendations and the Justice Department intervened. It's a political firestorm. We're all over that. Plus, minutes from now, the jury begins their third day of deliberations in the Harvey Weinstein sex crimes trial. And they've asked a lot of questions. What's going on?", "And will this keep America safe? The president has named a new acting spy chief who does not have any intelligence experience. 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{"id": "CNN-241454", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-10-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/21/cnr.07.html", "summary": "North Korea Frees American Detainee; Indiana Serial Killer Investigation", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "And here we go. We begin with breaking news. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Thank you so much for being with me. Up first this hour, American Jeffrey Fowle is free from the clutches of North Korea's Communists. CNN has learned the 56-year-old tourist, detained since May, has, in fact, landed in Guam aboard a U.S. government airplane. North Korea freed him in the dark of night without really saying why, as they still hold two Americans convicted there of crimes. Fowle had been awaiting charges for leaving a Bible, which is forbidden in North Korea, in a nightclub. But the timing here of this release, the timing here is certainly curious, and we will talk about that in just a moment. But, first, here is confirmation about Fowle's release from the White House.", "I'm in a position to confirm that Jeffrey Fowle has been allowed to depart the DPRK and is on his way home to rejoin his family. We certainly welcome the decision from the DPRK to release him. And while this is a positive decision by the DPRK, we remain focused on the continued detention of Kenneth Bae and Matthew Miller, and again call on the DPRK to immediately release them.", "Got a lot to talk about here, including what exactly this could signal from the uber-secretive nuclear armed North Korean government. Let me bring in CNN's Elise Labott, live from the U.S. State Department, and then from Seoul, South Korea, CNN's Paula Hancocks. So,, ladies, thank you for joining me here at the top of the hour. And, Elise, let me just begin with you here. Specifically on Fowle's condition, how is he doing? Do we know?", "Well, the State Department just said moments ago, deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf, Brooke, that he was evaluated by a doctor and is doing well. Obviously, there's a lot more to discuss with him. He will need to be debriefed by the U.S. government, but right now heading home to his family, the circumstances about this, as you note, very peculiar. State Department not saying much, but it does seem as if the North Koreans called up the U.S., said come get him, demanded it was a U.S. plane, gave them a time frame, and the U.S. sent a Department of Defense plane, and now he's headed back to the United States. Obviously, his family very happy, but those other two Americans' families, not a very good day for them, Brooke.", "Let's get to that, because there are two Americans still over there in detention. But, first, you know, when we talk about what he did to become detained in May, you know, he confessed. He confessed to leaving this Bible behind. This is a big no-no in communist North Korea. So, Paula Hancocks, the question to you -- actually, let me pause. Let's take a listen to when Fowle spoke exclusively to our correspondent Will Ripley not too long ago just back in September. Here he was.", "Can you tell us about the charges that you're facing as you have been told?", "The charges are violation much DPRK law, which stem from trying to leave a Bible at the Seamen's Club in Chongjin around", "So, Paula, admitting guilt, forgiveness. He talked about this trial. He expected to be tried as have the other two Americans being held by Pyongyang. Do we know if he was put on trial? Isn't that what they do there?", "As far as we know, from the information we get from North Korea, he was never actually put on trial. When he spoke to CNN in that interview, he said that he believed that was going to be imminent. And that's why he thought his situation was so desperate. The other two, Kenneth Bae and Matthew Miller, were both tried and both found guilty of hostile acts against the government. Kenneth Bae, of course, sentenced to 15 years hard labor, he's had about two years already in detention in North Korea. And Matthew Miller sentenced to eight years. But, of course, when you look at Jeffrey Fowle's crime or alleged crime, if you like, it is less serious in North Korea's eyes than the other two American citizens. Yes, he did leave a Bible in a Seamen's Club in a northern port city. Of course, anything that is religious and is not state-sponsored is more than frowned upon in North Korea. It is seen as a hostile act against the regime and an attempt to topple the regime. But it's not as serious in North Korea's eyes as the crimes from the other two U.S. citizens.", "OK. And of course, the question remains, if he's released, what about the other two Americans? Elise Labott, thank you so much. And, Paula Hancocks, appreciate it from Seoul. To Indiana we go, where police are frantically searching abandoned homes. They're looking for more victims, more bodies of a possible serial killer. And CNN got up-close access, riding along with police here in Gary, Indiana, today as they looked for bodies possibly connected to Darren Vann, the man police say led them to half-dozen dead women just in the last couple of days. Everything was set in motion because of this young woman, her body, the discovery of 19-year-old Afrika Hardy's body in this motel room in Hammond over the weekend. Vann allegedly strangled her before placing her body in the bathtub. Police are now saying today that there were signs of a struggle. As we mentioned, seven bodies and six others and were found over the course of the weekend mere miles from one another. Let me go to CNN's Poppy Harlow. She is live in Hammond, Indiana. And, Poppy, you were out with police today. Tell me what they told you. Where did they take you?", "Hey, Brooke, we were. I mean, it's an incredibly, incredibly disturbing thing just to think that these seven women were so brutally murdered in this community and then to think that police are spending all of today looking home by home for any more bodies. That is because this 43-year-old suspect Darren Vann has obviously made any indication to them that they should still be looking. Police told me, no, he has not said, yes, I killed more women and here's where they are, like he did for the other women whom he led police to, but he'd given them some indication. We spent the morning out with the police, their cadaver dogs looking, abandoned home by abandoned home for any signs of any other possible victims. Listen to what the sergeant told us.", "Why did you come here to search for possibly more bodies?", "We just want to cover all the bases because we just want to make sure this gentleman didn't leave anything unturned. In other words, there could be potentially more bodies. We don't know for sure.", "OK.", "We're just checking.", "One of the big concerns here is all the abandoned homes. These bodies, most of them were found in abandoned homes.", "Yes. Unfortunately, the individual that committed these crimes, seemed his M.O. was to put people in the abandoned -- these dead women in an abandoned house.", "This is a man with such a long criminal history spanning back to the '90s. We know that in...", "OK. We're losing you, Poppy Harlow. My apologies. I don't know where the microphone is or what the issue is with the audio. But I think we got the crux of it. We will watch for the rest of your reporting as these police are going now to abandoned home to abandoned home seeing if they will find more, more victims, more bodies. Alleged cop killer Eric Frein still hiding and believed to be somewhere in the Pocono Mountains. Even with another possible sighting, police can't find him, they can't catch him. Is he really that skilled? My next guest says the police are actually the ones making huge mistakes. Plus, millions of car owners could be at risk. Exploding air bags could lead to deadly injuries, and now a stepped-up effort to get these fixed ASAP -- what you need to know ahead."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "BALDWIN", "JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "BALDWIN", "ELISE LABOTT, CNN FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JEFFREY FOWLE, AMERICAN DETAINED IN NORTH KOREA", "BALDWIN", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "SGT. WILLIAM FAZEKAS, GARY, INDIANA, POLICE DEPARTMENT", "HARLOW", "FAZEKAS", "HARLOW", "FAZEKAS", "HARLOW", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "NPR-49409", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2006-05-22", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5422567", "title": "Accomplice to Testify Against 'Washington Sniper'", "summary": "John Allen Muhammad, who terrorized the Washington, D.C., area in a three-week shooting spree in 2002, is now on trial in Maryland for the fatal shootings of six people. His accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, is expected to testify against him. Madeleine Brand discusses the latest in the case with Washington Post reporter Eric Rich.", "utt": ["It's DAY TO DAY. I'm Noah Adams.", "And I'm Madeleine Brand. Four years ago the Washington, D.C. area was paralyzed by a series of sniper attacks. Ten people were killed by a man and a teenager who had a stranger father/son relationship. John Allen Muhammad is on trial in Maryland accused of six homicides. He has already been sentenced to death in Virginia. His accomplice, the teenager Lee Boyd Malvo, was sentenced to life in prison. Malvo is expected to testify for the prosecution against Muhammad and he could shed some light on who actually pulled the trigger and what the motive was. Eric Rich is covering the trial for the Washington Post. And Eric, those questions weren't answered in the previous trials? What do prosecutors believe?", "Prosecutors in Maryland haven't said what they believe yet, and I guess we'll learn a little more when Malvo takes the stand, assuming he does. But what happened in Virginia was shortly after Malvo and Muhammad were arrested, Malvo gave a number of statements to various investigators.", "And in those statements he claimed that he was the gunman in most of the shootings. He described some of them in fairly comprehensive detail. But in any case, later on in statements that he gave to the psychiatrist hired by the defense, Malvo said that he, in fact, was not the gunman, that he'd only been the gunman in one of the sniper shootings and that Muhammad pulled the trigger in all the rest.", "And he may also say what the motive was?", "Well, you know, we don't know. The prosecutors haven't offered a motive, they did not offer a motive here in their opening statements, but I think one of the things prosecutors hope to accomplish, and the state's attorney here in Montgomery county hopes to accomplish with this trial, is sort of providing some justice for the victims here in Montgomery county, but also some sort of larger closure for everybody in the community. And one way that that could be provided is by explaining what this 22 days of terror in October of 2002 were really about.", "And you may recall during the attacks themselves the snipers demanded a 10 million dollar payment, and Malvo said later that Muhammad intended to use the 10 million to build a compound in Canada where he would start up some sort of Utopian world. Very strange theory. Malvo's attorneys in Virginia thought Muhammad's actual goal was to kill his ex-wife and regain custody of three of his children. So maybe further light might be shed on that if Malvo does in fact get to the issue of motive.", "Everyone speculated that he was sort of in the thrall of this older man, maybe brainwashed by him. And I'm wondering if there's any indication that he will actually testify quite strongly against Muhammad, or if indeed his testimony would be a risk for prosecutors.", "Malvo's looking at life with no chance of parole, and that means he's not getting out, and there's nothing that Maryland can do and the prosecutors here can do to give him a break from that. So he or at least people who are close to the trial have described his motivation in testifying here in Montgomery against Muhammad as part of a sort of personal redemption kind of exercise, where he's grown up and realized that now he wants to confront Muhammad.", "Are there risks for the prosecution? Well, I talked to a number of lawyers about that and some lawyers thought there was this tremendous possible benefit of really explaining this crime. However, other defense attorneys not involved in the case told me that there are risks and he has nothing to lose. And I'll tell you one of the people who told me that was the prosecutor in Virginia who prosecuted Malvo. The worst case scenario would be Malvo could blurt out something that would force a mistrial, however unlikely that may be.", "Muhammad is representing himself, so there could be this strange spectacle of him actually cross-examining Malvo, right?", "That is absolutely right. I mean, especially because Malvo's defense in Virginia, one of the defenses, was that if he did commit these crimes he was essentially brainwashed into murder. You know, you have the story of Malvo as a younger man in the Caribbean, a teenager, sort of fell in with Muhammad, who became a father figure and who he grew really close to, and by the time that, you know, the sniper attacks were happening, Muhammad was referring to Malvo as his son and he's continued to refer to him as his son. So I mean that could be really quite an unusual courtroom.", "Thank you, Eric.", "Thanks.", "Eric Rich is a reporter for the Washington Post. He's covering the trial of John Allen Muhammad."], "speaker": ["NOAH ADAMS, host", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Mr. ERIC RICH (Reporter, Washington Post)", "Mr. ERIC RICH (Reporter, Washington Post)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Mr. ERIC RICH (Reporter, Washington Post)", "Mr. ERIC RICH (Reporter, Washington Post)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Mr. ERIC RICH (Reporter, Washington Post)", "Mr. ERIC RICH (Reporter, Washington Post)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Mr. ERIC RICH (Reporter, Washington Post)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Mr. ERIC RICH (Reporter, Washington Post)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-70262", "program": "CNN NEWSNIGHT AARON BROWN", "date": "2003-5-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/02/asb.01.html", "summary": "New Tape of Saddam Surfaces", "utt": ["Good evening, again. We sometimes think Fridays should feel more settled than they do, that by the end of the week at the end of the day some of the week's unfinished business ought to be, well, finished. Wouldn't that be something? Instead, there's little business that isn't unfinished tonight, whether it's peace in the Middle East, a little boy lost, campaign finance, or the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein, unfinished business and unanswered questions. About all that's settled this Friday is what Nigella Lawson is whipping up for us tonight. Yep, we have a chef. Until then, we'll make do with \"The Whip.\" And, first in \"The Whip,\" Nic Robertson, he's in Baghdad on the tape released today of a worn and defeated sounding Saddam Hussein -- Nic, a headline please.", "Aaron, new videotape emerging of Saddam Hussein on the 9th of April, the day his regime fell. It raises two very important questions. Number one, of course, was this really the former Iraqi leader, and the other, why now -- Aaron.", "Nic, thank you, back to you at the top tonight. On to Washington, and a new assessment on the state of al Qaeda, CNN Justice Correspondent Kelli Arena, working that -- Kelli a headline.", "Aaron, the terror network may be down but it is not out. New warnings in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia about possible terror attacks against U.S. interests is proof that al Qaeda remains a potent enemy.", "Kelli, thank you. Next, to Jerusalem, bumps on the roadmap to peace another Kelly, this time Kelly Wallace, on the phone -- Kelly, a headline.", "Aaron, tens of thousands of Palestinians take to the streets vowing revenge after a deadly Israeli military operation and voicing opposition to the new Palestinian prime minister, just another example of why many believe it will be very difficult for that roadmap to quickly get the two sides on the path to peace.", "Kelly, thank you. Also tonight, Jason Bellini will join us from Albany, Georgia, where different kinds of battle lines are forming over issues of race. Jason has that. That's coming up. Also coming up in the hour ahead, which is Friday, the 2nd day of May, a familiar new face in the defense of the case of Laci Peterson, attorney Mark Geragos now leading the effort to keep Scott Peterson out of the death chamber. And embarrassing questions for the postal service, when postal workers weren't rooting out fraud and waste, they were baking gingerbread and dressing up as cats. They were doing it with your money. And, 40 years later memories of planting the seeds of civil rights into bitter soil of Birmingham, Alabama from the people who were there, all that and more in the 90 minutes ahead. But we begin with Saddam Hussein's latest appearance on a tape documenting the moment when it must have been apparent, even to him, that things were going badly in the war. On it we see and hear very much a shadow of his former self. That said, each new tape, each new letter, each curtain call, if you will, retains a certain power to puzzle and to haunt us, bedevil the process of building a post-war, post-Saddam Iraq. We begin tonight in Baghdad and CNN's Nic Robertson.", "Appearing tired, confused, and exhausted, Saddam Hussein delivers his last address to the Iraqi people. He starts, \"The faster the better. Are you ready?\" Broadcast by radio on April 9th, the day his regime collapsed, this is the first time the video recording of the speech has been seen. As he reads, he occasionally loses his way. \"And if you would like to ask about your command, it is firm and not moved\" he says. The message, however, belies the truth. Although it is not known where this was recorded, by the end of that day U.S. troops were famously helping pull down one of Saddam's statues in the center of Baghdad. Previously released video from the same source, an employee of Iraqi TV, shows what purports to be Saddam Hussein in the Adamia (ph) neighborhood of Baghdad on the same day, April 9th. The man clamoring on the cars on that video bears a strong resemblance to Saddam Hussein and looks just like the man giving the speech. The emergence of this tape raises many questions, not least of which is why now, particularly following reports from a little known pro-Saddam group that the former Iraqi leader would make a speech soon. At the end of this recording, a pause, adding \"how was the reading, all in all good? Yes?\" Possibly the root of his problems, no one left around to tell him he was wrong. Nic Robertson, CNN, Baghdad.", "If the specter of one man hangs over Iraq, the ghosts of 2,700-plus men, women, and children haunt the new roadmap to peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The roadmap calls for restraint on both sides, not business as usual. But as Secretary of State Powell gets ready for a new round of shuttle diplomacy, business as usual is staring him in the face, reporting for us tonight CNN's Kelly Wallace.", "I have doubts, very much doubts, the Israelis are going to deliver the minimum expected from them because they are still living in that (unintelligible) of fear and they don't trust us.", "The Israelis say they don't know if they can trust Abbas just yet, pointing to a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv just hours after his cabinet was confirmed in the Palestinian Parliament.", "We're expecting their prime minister to take action, not declarations, to perform not to give promises. We want to see action on the ground against terror.", "And, Israelis say if they see action they will take steps immediately, such as releasing Palestinian prisoners and dismantling illegal settlement outposts even while Israeli officials and the public remain skeptical Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is truly giving up power to the new prime minister. In an Israeli newspaper poll released Friday, asked who they believe is in charge, 71 percent of Israelis said Arafat. Only seven percent said Abbas, with 22 percent saying they did not know. (on camera): Even if the two sides can find a way to start trusting each other again, there is the question of whether they will be willing to take the painful steps required under the roadmap to bring about a democratic Palestinian state alongside secure Israel by 2005. (voice-over): This Israeli columnist who has covered the region for 35 years says the answer is no.", "Israeli will never freeze the settlements, or this government at least will never freeze the settlement, the settlement movement. And, the Palestinians will not stop terrorism.", "The diplomats now will try to prove the skeptics wrong hoping this latest peace effort will succeed whereas so many others have failed before. Kelly Wallace, CNN, Jerusalem.", "And, Kelly joins us on the phone from Jerusalem, more violence, and more death -- Kelly.", "Yes, Aaron, an overnight development, the Israeli military confirming that a British cameraman was killed covering a clash between Israeli troops and armed Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip near the Israeli-Egyptian border. The IDF says its troops were uncovering a tunnel allegedly used for smuggling weapons when they came under fire by armed Palestinian gunmen. The troops returned fire and during that clash, this cameraman was hit and killed. The IDF is expressing sorrow at the death of the cameraman, saying this is a person who did enter a combat zone and did run the risk of getting hurt. But obviously, Aaron, another sign the violence continues and the real difficulties ahead for the international diplomats to get these two sides on a path to peace -- Aaron.", "Do we know which side fired the shot that killed the cameraman?", "We do not. We know one shot apparently did kill him. We are not certain if it was an Israeli shot or if it came from an armed Palestinian gunman who was killed during that clash.", "Kelly, thank you very much, Kelly Wallace who's in Jerusalem. Day two of President Bush's victory tour and we're once again reminded of the legacy, not just of his father, but of the man his father succeeded. Nearly 20 years ago when Ronald Reagan was running for reelection, a network correspondent did a piece contrasting the administration's morning in American imagery with the reality of a sagging economy. The correspondent was surprised the next day to get a thank you note from Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deever. \"How can you thank me,\" she asked, \"I just skewered your boss?\" \"Simple\" he replied. \"The pictures were great and that's all people see.\" Nearly 20 years later, the question is on the table, does the formula still hold? Here's CNN's Suzanne Malveauz.", "President Bush is steaming full force ahead from the USS Abraham Lincoln, where he had declared major combat operations in Iraq over, to a military contractor that provided tanks and fighting vehicles for the war. This visit to United Defense Industries in California's Silicon Valley, the heart of the economic bubble and its burst, was also designed to use Mr. Bush's wartime popularity to sell his $550 billion tax cut plan aimed at promoting economic growth.", "The goal of this country is to have an economy vibrant enough, strong enough, so that somebody who's looking for work can find a job.", "But Mr. Bush was stung by newly released unemployment numbers, a jump from 5.8 percent unemployment in March to six 6 percent in April, 8.8 million Americans out of work, more than half a million jobs lost in the past three months, the worst stretch since immediately following the September 11th terrorist attacks, a fact Democrats immediately seized on to blast his big tax cut plan. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said, \"We would hope that the president would use his political capital that he may have gained coming off the war to create jobs for the American people and not just create a tax break for the wealthiest people.\" The president, too, tried to use the new unemployment figure to his advantage.", "The unemployment number is now at 6 percent, which should serve as a clear signal to the United States Congress we need a bold economic recovery package so people can find work.", "With the latest polls showing Mr. Bush's popularity hovering around 70 percent, the White House is hoping his wartime success will also help the administration push other items on the domestic agenda, like Medicare reform, prescription drugs, and energy. But aides acknowledge it's far from certain, one reason the president will continue to travel across the country, to promote his brand of job creation in important electoral states. (on camera): And while this weekend President Bush hosts Australia's Prime Minister John Howard at his Crawford Ranch to thank him for his support in the war with Iraq, nine Democratic presidential hopefuls will gather in South Carolina for their first debate, all angling to find holes in Mr. Bush's agenda. Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, the White House.", "With us once again, a veteran of many administrations, David Gergen, currently passing on his wisdom at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and when we can get him here on this program as well, David, nice to have you with us.", "Good to talk to you again, Aaron.", "Let's go back 24 hours. It was a world class photo opportunity.", "The best we've seen I think, Aaron, since -- certainly since Michael Deever was in the White House with Ronald Reagan, but I would go all the way back to Richard Nixon's return from China. It was a dramatically orchestrated return when he came in on a helicopter to the steps of Capitol Hill on live television and then went into that chamber to talk, to report to the American people on that breakthrough in diplomacy. It was a highly orchestrated event then, and this one was clearly orchestrated down to the very colors that were displayed in section after section on that ship. It was an awesome sight and it's -- I was thinking, Aaron, there was a time when the opposition party always used to get angry. They could splutter about the fact that the president was using Air Force One. This is the first time we've ever seen a president use an aircraft carrier.", "And he used it pretty well. Since the war, the president has been seen at the Pentagon, at a couple of Army bases, at two tank factories. What is the point of the imagery here?", "Oh, I think it's to sink in very deeply in the public mind, especially yesterday, knowing that the battle was coming to an end and they did want to pivot toward economic affairs to leave a deep imprint upon the public mind of a warrior leader. It is a great asset for the president heading toward reelection and it's also meant to send a signal to other nations that might test us, don't, you know, it's that shirt they wear in Texas, \"Don't Mess With Texas\" and that's surely the signal he's sending out with all of these images.", "Any political risk in such an obvious photo op?", "There's a modest political risk, Aaron, but I think it's in the noise and it's -- everyone knows that there were political overtones to last night's event on the carrier and some Americans, I'm sure, didn't watch. But this was a moment, frankly, when whatever your position was on the war, and I had some differences with the president on the war, it was a moment when all Americans celebrated the end of the war, and I think Democratic (unintelligible) it's really important in a moment like this to stand aside, celebrate the commander-in-chief, celebrate the military, let that moment pass, and then there will be other times when you can come back and make your criticisms. Last night was not the time and I think last night the president deserved to bask in the glory.", "On to the substance.", "Sure.", "Of the talk last night. What jumped out at you either said or unsaid?", "Aaron, what jumped out at me was the -- that the underlying message that struck me was that in addition to thanking the troops and saying that the battle is basically over that the president has been waving around a club now for some months, threatening one country after another with military action. Last night he repeated his philosophy but I thought he put the club back in the closet. I thought he essentially said I've got the club in the closet. Don't mess with us. In the meantime, I'm going back to domestic affairs. My reading of the White House strategy is that they do not intend to undertake any major military enterprises between now and the election but rather to concentrate on domestic affairs. There would be some fear in the White House, if you were looking at another military action say in Syria, that people would think you were a little trigger happy or maybe reckless. By going now to having completed Afghanistan and completed Iraq in the public mind successfully, even though there are going to be all these huge issues now, difficult issues of rebuilding, I think it was a -- I think the main thing the president was doing last night was saying, OK, we've done it. We've shown the world and don't mess with us. In the meantime, I'm going to go back and rebuild the American economy.", "Something unsaid, maybe I'm reading more into this than ought to be, he thanked Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld but he never mentioned his secretary of state.", "Absolutely on, Aaron. That was striking, was it not, and after all it was only a week ago that Newt Gingrich issued that chilly blast against the secretary of state, and instead of the president defending his secretary of state, he sent his spokesman out to do it. And then last night, he thanked Secretary Rumsfeld. He thanked Tommy Franks and said nothing about Secretary Powell, and I was surprised. It does seem to me that it creates perhaps a misimpression. Perhaps it was not what he intended to say but by the omission spoke volumes and it does seem to me now that Secretary Powell is doing the messy work of diplomacy, which is always harder, and he's off in the Mid East with this, you know, trying to sell this roadmap. You just had a report on about how difficult this is going to be. He's going to have his work cut out for him and I do think Secretary Powell now is laboring under a much larger burden than he was only a few months ago.", "David, good to have you with us. Have a good weekend.", "Thank you, Aaron. Take care.", "Thank you, sir, David Gergen with us tonight from Boston. Ahead on NEWSNIGHT continuing threat from al Qaeda recruiting new members and making new threats. And later, Scott Peterson gets a high-profile celebrity attorney as he prepares to defend himself against charges that he killed his wife and unborn child. From New York, this is NEWSNIGHT."], "speaker": ["AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. 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{"id": "CNN-25746", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2001-2-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/15/tod.06.html", "summary": "Criminal Investigation Into Rich Pardon Will Proceed", "utt": ["The probe is widening into former President Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich. In New York, federal prosecutor Mary Jo White has launched a criminal investigation to see if there is any link between Mr. Clinton's last-minute decision to grant clemency to the international financier and political contributions made by Rich's ex-wife Denise Rich. All the while, Congress continues to pursue the Rich pardon, as well, and CNN's Bob Franken is on Capitol Hill with the latest about that -- Bob.", "Well, Natalie, what's interesting is, is the fact that this is ratcheted up; that it is now a higher-stakes investigation -- that is to say, a criminal investigation -- could mean that the volume of the congressional investigations ratchet down a little bit. The congressional committees normally defer to criminal investigations and, as a matter of fact, there's already some evidence of that. The House reform -- Government Reform Committee has decided it's going to, for the moment, abandon its request for immunity for Denise Rich so she can testify. She, of course, is the ex-wife of Marc Rich, and very much a principal in this investigation. All of this because the U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York, Mary Jo White, who's going to be conducting the investigation is going to look into the possibility that there was a connection between some sort of transfer of money and the decision to have the pardon. Here is what she said -- a statement that she put out which, in itself, is unusual. She says: \"Various questions have been raised concerning the activities and pardons of Marc Rich, Rich's business partner and Pincus Green. The United States Attorney's office and the FBI New York office have opened an investigation to determine whether there have been any violations of federal law. There will be no further comment.\" Of course, those violations of federal law could involve some sort of charges of bribery -- something like that. Now, President Clinton -- ex-President Clinton has also been moved to put out a statement, in which he said: \"As I have said repeatedly, I made the decision to pardon Marc Rich based on what I thought was the right thing to do. Any suggestion that improper factors, including fund-raising for the DNC or my library had anything to do with the decision are absolutely false. I look forward to cooperating with any appropriate inquiry.\" Now he, of course, is a private citizen. He would, in fact, have to cooperate with a criminal investigation. There have also been some suggestions that maybe one of the ways that he could put this to rest would be to testify before a congressional committee. That becomes a little more problematic now because who do -- are possibly exposed to legal action are less likely to make public comments about the subject of that action -- Natalie.", "All right; as you said, the heat has been turned up on this issue. Thanks, Bob Franken."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-68208", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2003-3-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/19/ltm.14.html", "summary": "Dramatic Developments in Northern Iraq", "utt": ["Back to some of the dramatic developments in northern Iraq today. We hear that the border has now been closed. Jane Arraf, one of our correspondents, is on duty now near the town of Dohuk -- Jane, what have you learned? Good morning.", "Good morning, Paula. Well, we were at that checkpoint this morning and saw streams of cars coming across. But shortly after, about three hours after it opened, word came across, as well, that that checkpoint on the Iraqi side had closed. Now, just before that happened, some people, according to travelers, were abandoning their cars and walking across that informal border to reach taxis on the other side to what they believe is safety. There have been 200,000 people in the city of Dohuk, which we're standing above on this mountain overlooking, that have come through Dohuk further into Kurdish controlled territory, fleeing to what they believe will be the safer countryside. Now, on the Iraqi side of this unofficial border, there are so many families, many of them Kurds originally from here, who are hoping to come, as well, and had been hoping until that checkpoint was closed. And it's believed to be closed in preparation for what's to come. Now, people believe that war imminent, of course, and they're making preparations. Dohuk itself is practically deserted. Shops are shuttered. Not enough children to keep the schools open if it goes down -- Paula.", "Once again, is there any anticipation, Jane, any more people will be able to get through this checkpoint, even if they just walk across?", "We're having trouble hearing you on this wind", "You know what, I can tell that we're going to have a little technical snafu here. But Jane Arraf just reporting that on the Iraqi side of the border, that Iraqi guards have closed it. In spite of that, some people abandoning their cars at the border and simply walking across the border. Now that this official blockage is put in, it remains to be seen how many people will successfully get across into what they think could be potential freedom."], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ZAHN", "ARRAF", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-388083", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2019-12-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/16/ip.01.html", "summary": "Senator Schumer Wants Mick Mulvaney, John Bolton To Testify In Senate Trial; Republican Pushback Against Schumer's Trial Requests", "utt": ["Welcome to INSIDE POLITICS. I'm John King. Thank you for sharing your day with us. It is a very, very big week here in Washington. The House scheduled to vote Wednesday on two articles of impeachment. One says President Trump abused his powers. The other says he obstructed Congress as it demanded answers about his Ukraine policy. Plus, the maneuvering for the Senate Trial intensifies. Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer asked for four Trump insiders to be called as witnesses. Don't bet on that happening, but it's a warning to Trump allies who have their own wish list and this is week's vote is a tough one a very tough one for Democrats in competitive districts.", "Let's welcome Congresswoman Slotkin.", "I'm glad there is so much enthusiasm for civic engagement.", "We begin there, there the tough decision you just saw. Congresswoman Elizabeth Slotkin is a yes. That's more proof that the Democrats have the vote to impeach the President. This week that landmark vote on two articles of impeachment should come Wednesday. The inevitable House math means a Senate impeachment trial likely in January and the Democratic Leader on that side of the Capitol today laying down his marker and immediately causing a stir. Senator Chuck Schumer outlining his trial demands in a letter to Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. Schumer's biggest ask for four more witnesses, all of them Trump White House insiders. Schumer's list includes the Acting White House Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney, Former Security Adviser John Bolton and two key Mulvaney Deputies Robert Blair and Budget Aide Michael Duffey round out the lists. Schumer knows Leader McConnell prefers no Senate witnesses but its smart politics to ask as a place holder of sources. We wait for the two leaders to try to negotiate the trial rules.", "I don't know what they'll say. Maybe they'll say something exculpatory about President Trump. No one, no one has given a reason why these shouldn't testify. If President Trump is so certain that he did nothing wrong, what is he afraid of? What is he hiding when he says Mulvaney or Bolton or the other two witnesses shouldn't testify?", "Schumer today also criticizing Leader McConnell saying it is, \"Totally out of line for the Senate Leader to promise to coordinate every trial decision with the Trump White House\". CNN's Manu Raju live for us on Capitol Hill. Manu, how are Senate Republicans who of course will have the vote, we think, responding to this proposal from Schumer?", "Well, there's not been an official reaction from the Majority Leader's office yet, Mitch McConnell saying that they'll have these discussions with Chuck Schumer behind the scenes. But in talking to Republicans this morning the argument against the Schumer proposal is starting to take shape. What Republicans I'm talking to are saying is essentially that there is no need to hear from these four individuals because that was actually the House's job. According to these Republicans, they say the House was the fact-finding body. That was the one that was supposed to hear testimony from these four individuals, and it was the decision by the House Democrats not to go to court to try to enforce their subpoenas, try to compel these people from coming forward. They made that calculation not to pursue that route, and as a result, the Senate is left with what they have, which is the testimony from the existing witnesses, and there is no need in a Senate trial to act like a body doing the fact finding. You'll hear arguments start to take shape among Republicans as they push back against what Schumer is proposing. Now, ultimately, John, the question will be how the votes come down on the Senate floor, because if Schumer and McConnell don't reach an agreement on witnesses or whether to have witnesses, Senators can move to actually have a vote on bringing forward individual witnesses or number of witnesses, and a majority of Senators could vote to bring some of those witnesses forward. So if four Republican Senators were to break ranks and join 47 Democrats, then there would be a majority to hear testimony from the likes of Mick Mulvaney or John Bolton or the like. So that's where the key votes, the typical swing votes in the Senate. The Susan Collins of the world, the Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney and others, who are upward in tough re-election races like Cory Gardner, Martin McSally. Those people will be ultimately under pressure to cast votes about whether to hear from some of these witnesses who could provide information that could help the President or provide more information the public has not heard yet, or make the argument in siding with the Republican leadership to not hear from these individuals. So while this will play out in the coming days and weeks. But at the moment you're hearing Republicans behind the scenes throwing cold water on what Schumer is proposing and expecting more a push back to come as members come back to town today, John.", "The first move but an important move in a very important game of chess we're going to watch play out in the next few weeks. Manu, appreciate the live reporting on this important day. On the Hill with me in studio to share their reporting and their insights, CNN's Kaitlan Collins Rachael Bade with \"The Washington Post\" Lisa Lerer with \"The New York Times\" and Vivian Salama with \"The Wall Street Journal\". This Schumer play is smart in the sense that he knows the answer was most likely to be no. Mitch McConnell has made it clear to the White House and in another setting he doesn't want any witnesses. But number one, the Democrats are driving the conversation here, they're forcing the Republicans to respond. And number two this is Schumer's way of saying, if you look at the list, four people central to the questions of Ukraine. It's not an unreasonable list if you're going to have questions. Every one of them, you can see the logic for calling them. So when a Trump supporter or the President himself says, I want Hunter Biden, or I want the whistleblower, Chuck Schumer can say, you want those? You give me these.", "It's smart politics in part because the number one talking part for Republicans has been look, all these Democratic witnesses that came forward, this is all hearsay. Nobody spoke directly to the President or nobody heard the President say I need you to do this to get this, to get Ukraine to interfere in our election. So if Republicans are going to continue to expose that you would think they would want to hear from the people who were talking to the President and so Democrats are going to sort of hit that over and over again and say, if you really want to get down to what happened, let us talk to these key witnesses. I think that the real question is can he pick off three Senate Republicans, including those up for reelection, in 2020 who need to show that they're taking this seriously? Can Schumer convince enough of those Democrats or those Republicans to vote with Democrats to hear from these witnesses?", "And it is at the way McConnell keeps them from breaking is by promising them no whistleblower, no Hunter Biden, no circus.", "Right, and the tables are turned now, because throughout this House process where the Republican minority has been confidently pushing the fact that this has been an unfair process and that they wanted certain witnesses to come on board, so now the tables are turned where the Democrats are going to be the minority in the Senate trial. And so they're preempt ably are ready starting to raise concerns, put their demands forward. So that when things start to get going, they can saying this is not a fair process and you know basically the Republicans are jeopardizing the entire hearing, and so it's going to be very interesting to see how they make their case moving forward?", "And it is interesting. We're going to focus and we're going to come back in just a few moments to the House math which the President will be impeached this week. The question is how many Democrats will decide to ban in their party of vote no on the articles. But that part is near inevitable as inevitable as you can get. So you're looking at the Senate, where it is interesting, and again, Schumer trying to force a conversation here. Just listen to the two very different ways Lindsey Graham is in South Carolina pretty red state Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania a blue to purple state. Listen to how different they speak.", "I think it would be extremely inappropriate to put a bullet in this thing immediately when it comes over. I think we ought to hear what the House impeachment managers have to say, give the President's Attorneys an opportunity to make a defense and then make a decision about whether and to what extent it would go forward from there.", "I have clearly made up my mind. I'm not trying to hide the fact that I have disdain for the accusations in the process, so I don't need any witnesses.", "It is just striking. Again now, there is no indication that Pat Toomey is going to break from the President. But listen to how - we should be fair, we should be thoughtful, we should listen this out. Lindsey Graham says, I'm voting no and I don't care what anybody says.", "Right. And that's a reflection of the different composition of the Senate where you have a number of these members in purple state Republican Members who will be facing tough reelection battles, have Trump at the top of the ticket, and they're in a tough spot. You have well over 90 percent of the Republican Party behind the President, but when you look at these independents, the picture is a lot more divided. It's not quite a majority of independents that support impeachment and removal, but it's in the 40s. It's a tough position.", "And so what happens at the White House? The Press Secretary was criticizing Chuck Schumer for releasing this letter late in the day. She should re-twitter after midnight. The guy she works for does a lot of things late in the night or early in the day depending on how you're prospective, I guess. But how do they respond to this? Because the President did quiet down at the end of the week, but in the middle of last week, he was stirring for the whistleblower, he was stirring for Hunter Biden. Mitch McConnell was trying to tell him sir, no you have the votes to - you have the votes right now don't mess it up.", "Well, and that's why Schumer's letter is no coincidence that it comes as McConnell is under fire for saying he's going to be taking his cues from White House Counsel. The President has made it clear privately and publicly he does want witnesses to come here. Now what Senator Schumer is proposing here a lot of it, I think Republicans would go along with it as for as the timing and that essence of that structure of the trial because it mirrors a lot of what you saw from the Clinton impeachment trial. And then he throws in this request for witnesses. So that's going to be the question for these moderate or retiring Senators how they're going to go here but they do agree with the structure. Now, at the White House, they talked about this yesterday, the broad outlines. A lot of the impeachment people were out of town. You saw Pam Bondi doing her interview in Florida yesterday. They're meeting in person today to discuss this proposal though of course it's pretty unlikely that they're going to go along with what the Democratic Senator is proposing.", "But he does have to meet with McConnell this week and they're going to have to come forward with what their proposal is going to look like. The question is whether or not McConnell can appeal to the President and say, no; it's not in your favor to have these witnesses called.", "But the question also is why is the President so afraid to have the people closest to him testify? In the sense that John Bolton, through his Deputy Fiona Hill, on the record saying, he thought this was a drug deal. What's happening? The bargaining with the Ukraine was a drug deal. He wanted no part of it, told his aides to go tell his lawyers about it. Mick Mulvaney in that now infamous White House briefing said on camera, there was a quid pro quo. Get over it. That's how we do things. Then he tried to pull back. That's why the President doesn't want them testifying because what they're likely to say is not going to be favorable to the President. But it's a counterbalance. So a lot of the weekend was spent on Jeff Van Drew a Democratic House member who is apparently soon to be a Republican House member who most people think is then eventually going to be a Former House member because of how this played out. But he was already a no. He was a conservative Democrat already a no facing a primary challenge now looking for a new home in the Republican Party as he looks for survival. We'll see how that plays out. Chuck Schumer says sure you can talk about that, but you should look over to the Senate I got some too.", "A lot of our Republicans are troubled by what the President did--", "Like who?", "I'm not going to get into any names, but some of them have said we need to see more facts. There are a good number of Senator Republicans who are troubled by this, that's in private conversations, who say, I'd like to see all the facts. All we need is four.", "Do you think there are still minds to be changed in America and in the USA?", "Yes, particularly on what a trial is like.", "It's interesting. This week will be about the House and about Speaker Pelosi and about her leadership of the House Democrats. But Chuck Schumer, there hasn't been a lot of legislating in Trump age in the Senate, there simply hasn't been especially not since the last year or so. Chuck Schumer is going to get a spotlight here, too, to see if he can, how he manages this, both the politics of it and the math?", "I mean I'm not sure their minds to be changed. I think he is - he's over stated the case a little bit because when you do look at those numbers, what you see is this movement among independents. It's not from people who supported the President, right? It's from people who didn't support the President but wasn't quite sure about impeachment. I think what the Republicans need to do is conduct a trial in such a way that it seems fair, and that their members the Cory Gardner, the people in the purple states can vote against removing the President, can vote to keep the President Trump in office without facing the critic that they didn't properly vet the charges. And the question is how you get there?", "But that's a warning sign from Schumer essentially that if Mitch McConnell, if you do what the President wants you may lose some votes because you know privately and you know this from wandering the Hill. Privately, while these Senate Republicans may do they don't want to say it publicly or they hope they're enforced to say publicly? But they think this was reckless. They think it was horrible. They think Rudy Giuliani floating around Ukraine was reprehensible. Some of them say it was not impeachable in their view, but they don't like it.", "Yes. I mean, the difference between what you hear from members anonymously whether or not they will put their name on a quote and what you're hearing publicly, there is a difference of the a lot of them expressing private concerns. I think what Schumer has tapped into it and what he has realized is that it doesn't really matter what the President wants in terms of this trial? It doesn't even matter what McConnell wants, to some extent? If these moderate Republicans decide sort of band together to talk to one and another and to figure out what they want? They actually have a lot of leverage and they can say you know Mr. Majority Leader look, we need to hear from certain witnesses or we're really not comfortable with you bringing in Hunter Biden. They really control a lot of what we're going to see, and the upper chamber and it again Trump might want something. He might want to show trial that has nothing to do with these allegations but it's really going to come down to what these Senate moderate Republicans tell McConnell they need and what they're going to need for their reelection.", "And McConnell was trying to protect them, he doesn't want to lose the Senate. So he also the reason, he is against these witnesses is not just because he knows that it's bad for the President to have these witnesses to coming out and talking about his conduct saying that it was improper, he also knows he doesn't want his members taking votes that could damage them when they're out for reelection.", "Well, look the President--", "McConnell was also on the ticket in 2020--", "Right, he's got his own issues to worry about it, too.", "But the President does not often do what's necessarily good for him, so there is no prediction for how any of this could go?", "The Leader is trying to bring him to the water. We'll see if the President drinks? 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{"id": "CNN-122282", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2007-12-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/20/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Iowa Democrats Concerned About Iraq; Interview With Joe Biden", "utt": ["Iraq is an issue that Democratic voters care deeply about. As chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Joe Biden knows a little something about that. But as a presidential candidate, he remains well in the back of the pack just two weeks before the Iowa caucuses. But can he turn things around? Senator Joe Biden joining me now from the campaign trail in Iowa. Senator, thank you so much for joining us here in", ". Thanks for having me, Suzanne. I appreciate it very much.", "It was weeks ago that your colleagues in Congress said that they were not going to give any money for Iraq -- the Iraq War -- unless there was a timetable to withdraw troops. Well, they now have sent the president a spending bill that includes $70 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan. There are some in your party who are saying the Democrats essentially -- that you have failed them. You didn't show up for that vote. Why should they not believe that you've failed them, as well?", "Well, we didn't fail them. We -- that $70 billion is needed to defend the troops. I was able to get $15 billion in that bill to build these MRAPs -- these vehicles that increase by 300 percent the survivability of our troops. Seventy percent have been killed because they ride around in these uparmored Humvees which are not designed to save their lives. And 70 percent of the 28,000 injuries are because of that. Everybody knows I would have voted for that. I am the only Democratic candidate that voted to fund the troops back in May. As long as there's a single troop on the ground, I will vote to protect them.", "Why didn't you show up for the vote? Did you feel like essentially the numbers simply weren't there?", "Well, we -- I -- Harry Reid knows and the leadership knows if they need me -- and I'm sure it's for the candidates, as well -- if they need us to make a deciding vote on anything, we will be there. But the fact of the matter is it was overwhelming. It was a compromise that was reached between the leadership of both parties. And that's how it was arrived at. And there was no -- I mean, it was lopsided. So had I been needed, I would have been there.", "How do you address those in your party who are so frustrated at this point that there is not a withdrawal date for troops?", "I address them by saying you've got to send us more senators and elect me or some Democrat president. Because the truth of the matter is, as you know, Suzanne, you know the Senate well -- you need to get 16 Republicans to vote with us to be able to override a presidential veto. Even if we add 65 votes to set a date, the president vetoes that and it goes away. So we need to change the makeup of the Senate and hold Republicans who continue to vote to keep troops there indefinitely accountable for it in this next election. And I'd point out one thing. The Biden plan to exit Iraq received overwhelming support from the House and Senate, Democrat and Republican, and is sitting on the president's desk right now.", "Let's take a quick look at some of these Iowa poll numbers here. They say that the most important issue for the Democratic caucus goers certainly is Iraq, at 30 percent. But then you take a look at your numbers here in terms of whether or not you're the likely choice for them. Biden, it says, at 3 percent. You have really made...", "No, no, no. Eight percent. No, no.", "But...", "The most recent poll says 8 percent.", "Eight percent...", "Just taken.", "...obviously, for Iraq. But I want to ask you this. You have made foreign policy, really, the central issue in your campaign.", "Yes.", "You have an incredible amount of experience in this area. Why is it not resonating more with these voters in Iowa?", "Well, I think it is resonating. The most recent poll shows me moving into fourth place in Iowa, number one. Number two, this is exactly where -- I'm way ahead of where Kerry was and where Edwards was the last time around. The Iowa voters -- and there's a bunch of them in this room I'm sitting in. I just spoke to a large group of them here in Webster City. They're just making up their minds right now. And they're just beginning to focus. They've been focused, but now they're making their decisions. And I think I'm going to do very well out here. I think you're going to be very surprised. And if I'm not, look, I ran a campaign based on what I believe and what I said I would do as president and what I thought had to be done -- or has to be done. And so, you know, either way it's fine. But I believe you're going to see me getting a ticket out of Iowa.", "If you don't come in the top three, do you drop out after Iowa or do you go on?", "Well, the probability is anyone who doesn't come in in the top three or a very close fourth -- I mean if they're bundled up -- is not likely to be able to do much more beyond that. And that includes John Edwards, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, as well. And so it's the same for all of us out here. The expectations of me are a great deal lower and the expectations for Senator Clinton and Obama are extreme -- and Edwards -- are extremely high. And you know, as a reporter, the national press will make a judgment on who exceeded expectations and who is alive and well going into New Hampshire. And...", "So what will you do?", "And it -- well, I'll go on to New Hampshire, because I think I'm going to be -- exceed expectations and I think I'm going to be viewed as one of the leading alternatives to whoever the number one person is.", "So let's turn from politics more to the personal here. Obviously, your book coming out, \"Promises To Keep.\" You really show a very different side of yourself. You talk about back in 1972 after you lost your wife and child in a car accident. And you say: \"Most of all, I was numb, but there were moments when the pain cut through like a shard of broken glass. I began to understand how despair led people to cash it in and how suicide wasn't just an option, but a rational option.\" Tell me how you survived that moment and why are you talking about this now?", "Well, I wrote a book -- I was asked to write a book on my career. And I wrote a book without mentioning anything about the most significant thing that happened in my life. And the publisher said how can you write about your life and not mention that you lost a wife and a daughter and had two children very badly injured in a -- when a tractor trailer blind-sided them and you were not in the car? How can you not talking about it? And I talk about it not in, as you noticed, not in a lot of detail. But it is part of my life. It is part of what has impacted on me and one it is part of what has affected the person I am today. And the way I got through it, I have an incredible family. My sister, Valerie, who manages my campaigns and all of them -- my sister and her husband moved in to help me raise my children without being asked. My mother was there. My brother, who's on the campaign trail with me, moved in an apartment with on a -- with an old barn on the property. He made it into an apartment. Everyone was there to help me. They were there constantly. And I can only wonder how in God's name does a single parent left with that kind of tragedy and who doesn't have a family to help them out. I was just extremely, extremely fortunate.", "And you weren't alone. Senator John Edwards also losing a son. Do you believe that this makes you a stronger person, a stronger candidate?", "I don't think it qualifies me any more or less for president other than one thing -- tragedies like that either make you stronger or make you weaker. They don't leave you the same, I promise you that. And what it's taught me is that I can handle anything. I can handle -- you know, I later ended up being told I had a 30 percent chance of living. I had two cranial aneurysms and an embolism. But, you know, look, you go through things and a lot of people have gone through these things. And it teaches you things. I know what it's like to be a single parent for five years. And I had a lot of help, but I know what it's like. And I can -- it gives me such empathy for women making $30,000 a year raising two kids, being held to the same standard I was held to. So, it just gives you a different perspective. And a lot of people -- a lot of people -- a lot of people go through the kinds of things that I went through. And they get up every day and put one foot in front of the other. And that's why this country is so full of grit, so full of gumption, that we so underestimate the capacity of the American people to not only take a hit, but get back up.", "Senator Joe Biden, thank you so much for joining us on THE SITUATION ROOM. Glad you got on the other side of that tragedy.", "Thank you.", "Thank you. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama launches a push for votes in New Hampshire. But some of his main competition may actually be from one Republican candidate. We'll explain. Plus, family survival -- a father and three kids lost in a snowstorm now safe and warm. Find out what they did to survive. Also, boot camp for Internet junkies -- shock therapy for kids who can't log off. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "THE SITUATION ROOM. BIDEN", "MALVEAUX", "BIDEN", "MALVEAUX", "BIDEN", "MALVEAUX", "BIDEN", "MALVEAUX", "BIDEN", "MALVEAUX", "BIDEN", "MALVEAUX", "BIDEN", "MALVEAUX", "BIDEN", "MALVEAUX", "BIDEN", "MALVEAUX", "BIDEN", "MALVEAUX", "BIDEN", "MALVEAUX", "BIDEN", "MALVEAUX", "BIDEN", "MALVEAUX", "BIDEN", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "NPR-30595", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2012-10-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/10/26/163729661/time-is-running-out-to-file-suits-over-2008-crisis", "title": "Time Is Running Out To File Suits Over 2008 Crisis", "summary": "The $1 billion lawsuit the Justice Department filed against Bank of America over mortgage fraud allegations may be the most accountability taxpayers ever see from the 2008 crisis. The statute of limitations is expiring, and no major Wall Street bank or banker has been charged with a crime.", "utt": ["The Justice Department filed a $1 billion mortgage fraud case this week against Bank of America. To be clear, it is a civil case; the only thing at stake is money.", "And as NPR's Carrie Johnson reports, this may be the most accountability tax payers ever see from the 2008 financial crisis. That's because the statute of limitations to bring a criminal case is expiring, and no major Wall Street bank executive has been convicted of a crime.", "Remember the biggest names from the economic meltdown of 2008? Countrywide, New Century Financial, Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers. The Justice Department investigated, but authorities came away with no criminal convictions. And that leaves Jeff Connaughton, a former Democratic Senate staffer, with a question.", "Did the department ever organize a timely, purposeful, concerted investigation of Wall Street executives? And the answer is no.", "Connaughton says he thinks the Obama administration put economic recovery above the need to hold people accountable in the criminal justice system. In a new book, Connaughton writes about how he encouraged the Justice Department to create strike forces to look for lying and cheating, company by company.", "You need to target some of these senior bank executives like they're drug kingpins and target their junior employees, get them to flip, to give evidence. I mean, that sort of aggressive approach might have produced cases.", "Almost every time he's asked about the issue, Attorney General Eric Holder points out that risk-taking and greed don't amount to crimes, especially when some of the risks were disclosed in fine print before companies went bust. Holder described his efforts this way to the House Judiciary Committee in June.", "Since the start of this administration, the Justice Department has signaled an unwavering commitment to preventing and combating a wide range of financial and health care fraud crimes. We have taken bold steps to address the contributing factors and consequences of the recent economic crisis.", "Like a $25 billion settlement the department reached with five of the country's largest mortgage servicers, a deal that Holder calls...", "The largest joint federal-state settlement in the history of the United States of America.", "But consumer advocates say the best way to prevent fraud in the future is to send executives to prison now. Federal prosecutors tried that back in November, 2009. But a jury voted to clear two Bear Stearns managers of lying to investors. Since then, says George Terwilliger...", "You know, the government has been looking around for villains to charge with crimes growing out of the financial crisis for quite some time and, for the most part, has not brought major cases. There's been a lot of garden variety mortgage fraud cases sort of at the main street level. But for the most part, there have not been Wall Street cases.", "Terwilliger was a top official at Justice during the George H.W. Bush administration. He managed the response after the savings and loan crisis when, he says, a lot of crooks got charged with crimes. These days, the Obama Justice Department is spending time on other priorities, as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce noted during a conference session this week about regulatory overreach.", "Lisa Rickard is president of the Chamber's institute for legal reform.", "And over the last few years, we've seen record-breaking enforcement of statutes like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the False Claims Act.", "The False Claims Act, which focuses on fraud against the U.S. government is the same tool authorities used to sue Bank of America over shoddy mortgage loans its countrywide units sold to Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. David Ogden, a former deputy to Attorney General Holder told people at the Chamber event that prosecutors hold tremendous power over companies.", "The crimes are committed by people. If you punish the company, you are punishing a bunch of people who didn't commit the crime - shareholders, other employees of the company, people who live in the communities where those companies do business.", "Jeff Connaughton says he understands that, but he doesn't get why no corporate executives have gone to prison. And he says, chances are now, we'll never know. Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.", "You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "JEFF CONNAUGHTON", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "JEFF CONNAUGHTON", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "ERIC HOLDER", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "ERIC HOLDER", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "GEORGE TERWILLIGER", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "LISA RICKARD", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "DAVID OGDEN", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-302743", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2017-01-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/09/es.01.html", "summary": "Trump to Hold First News Conference Since July; Some GOP Lawmakers Offering Assurances That Trump Will Not Be Overly Friendly To Russia", "utt": ["A huge week for the country in transition. For the first time since July, president-elect Donald Trump will hold a news conference, at least he promises to. Some of the cabinet nominees face confirmation hearings in the senate and then the wake of the intelligence report that said Vladimir Putin of Russia tried to hack into the American election season. A record setting night at the Golden Globes, but -- but the big headline, not about the statues, not about the shows, but about what one winner had to say about the president-elect. Good morning. Welcome to EARLY START, everyone. I'm John Berman. It is Monday, January 9th. It is 4 a.m. in the East. Christine Romans is sick this morning. Please tweet her some get well messages. This morning, the chances of Meryl Streep performing at the inauguration appear to be dwindling. And what has that to do with the dress shops in Washington? We will get to the overnight face-off between Hollywood royalty and the president-elect of the United States in a bit. But first, something we have not seen in six months. For the first time since July, Trump has promised to hold an actual news conference that will happen this week he says. He had one scheduled for December to discuss how we would disentangle his businesses from the presidency. But that one was canceled. We will see if we get an explanation on those matters on Wednesday. We also have hearings for the president-elect's cabinet nominees. Those begin this week. And we have new questions about what a president Trump would do or not do about the intelligence report linking Russia to election year hacking. He got the briefing. He acknowledges there was hacking by Russia, but not just Russia and seems to blame the Democrats for being hacked.", "If you read his entire statement and follow the briefing on Friday, he makes very clear that Russia, China and others have attempted to attack different government institutions and businesses and individuals and organizations over a series of time. He specifically mentioned the Democratic National Committee. If you read the full report, he made very clear, Mr. Clapper and his testimony made very clear on Thursday under oath that any attempt, any aspiration to influence our elections failed. They were not successful in doing that.", "Let's get the latest on the transition from CNN's Ryan Nobles.", "This will be a week filled with important people related to the Donald Trump transition answering some tough questions, including the president-elect himself. Donald Trump will hold his first official press conference since winning the election on Wednesday. He is expected to outline how he will remove himself from his global business empire and any potential related conflicts of interest. Also facing the heat, Trump's cabinet nominees. Starting Tuesday, a group of his most prominent picks will appear before senate committees for public hearings. But some of them have not filed the necessary paper work with the independent office of government ethics. That has Democrats concerned, but Republicans like Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell argue that it is all just part of the process.", "All of these little procedural complaints are related to their frustrations, having not only lost the White House, but having lost the senate. I understand that. But we need to sort of grow up here and get past that. We need the national security team in place on day one and papers are still coming in. And so, I'm optimistic that we will be able to get up to seven nominees on day one, just like we did eight years ago.", "The first two hearings will take place on Tuesday. Trump's pick for attorney general Jeff Sessions and his pick on the department of homeland security General John Kelly. Trump's big press conference takes place on Wednesday in New York City.", "All right. Lots of hearings this week for cabinet nominees. Jeff Sessions and John Kelly on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Rex Tillerson for secretary of state, Elaine Chao for transportation secretary, Mike Pompeo CIA director, and Becky DeVos education secretary. Then on Thursday, General James Mattis up for secretary of defense. As for those paper work questions, the head of the government office on ethics has written Senator Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer warning that his staff is under pressure to rush through nominees' vetting. The Trump team has pushed back in a statement saying this transition is running smoothly and lamenting that quote some had chosen to politicize the process. Some Republican lawmakers are offering assurances that Donald Trump will not be overly friendly to Russia. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell told CBS the proof of that is in Trump's slate of national security nominees and also recent history.", "I don't think it is all that unusual for the new president to want to get along with the Russians. I remember George W. Bush having the same hope. My suspicion is these hopes will be dashed pretty quickly.", "Russian lawmakers and commentators greeted the intelligence reports on election hacking with open scorn. There are tweets that focused mainly on the fact that the unclassified version of the report offered assurances and confidence, but no hard evidence. Let's get the latest on this. I want to bring in Jill Dougherty, global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and CNN's former Moscow bureau chief. Jill, I don't think we expected the Kremlin to stand up and say, you know what, yeah, we did it. We hacked the U.S. election, but the response here notable.", "Yeah. I mean, John, that's pretty obvious, isn't it? I think if you were to boil it down, basically, the reaction has been a big yawn, saying what's new? Where is the evidence? And then, the other thing is a big laugh. On social media, Russian social media, et cetera, there is really mocking this report. And if you look at the response from RT, Russian Television, which we have been watching this morning, they are having story after story about how the information contained in the report about RT was out of date. And in fact, they are correct that much of the information was from 2012. So they are saying nothing new and then basically mocking it. I will point out one tweet by a member of parliament, who tweets a lot. And he said the democratic process in the U.S. was undermined not by Russia, but by the Obama administration, and the media who supported Clinton against Trump. The threat to democracy is inside the U.S. So this is kind of more of the hard edge of this. But I don't think, John, that it is really in the interest to get too much response from the government here because, after all, they want to forget about Obama, ignore him and concentrate on the new president about to come in.", "And of course, president-elect Trump issued a series of very kind tweets about Russia over the weekend after this report. So that feeling I think is mutual. Jill Dougherty, thank you so much, Jill. The incoming Trump administration is refusing to commit to a timeline for replacing Obamacare. The president-elect made an issue, sent his team o this campaign. This is Kellyanne Conway with our Jake Tapper.", "He is committed to replacing Obamacare with something that actually is affordable and accessible and allows you to buy health insurance over state lines."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "KELLYANNE CONWAY, INCOMING WHITE HOUSE COUNSELOR", "BERMAN", "RYAN NOBLES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), MAJORITY LEADER", "NOBLES", "BERMAN", "MCCONNELL", "BERMAN", "JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN FORMER MOSCOW BUREAU CHIEF", "BERMAN", "CONWAY"]}
{"id": "CNN-74040", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2003-7-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/21/se.02.html", "summary": "Manuel Gehring Indicted on Two Counts First Degree Murder for Deaths of His Children", "utt": ["All right, news just coming in to us. A story we've been following all last week. Really weren't expecting this news. But we've monitoring this news conference going on live out of Concord, New Hampshire. You remember the story of Manual Gehring. He was the father believe to be involved in a double homicide, a homicide involving his two children, Sarah and Philip Gehring. Where we left this story last week was that authorities were trying to get him back from California to Concord. He had headed that way, just driving from New Hampshire into California. Now we're being told he has been indicted on two counts of first degree murder. Let's listen in and see if we can get any more information.", "Second, I want to tell you that this case is in a prime example of what can be done when state and federal authorities cooperate. In the gray suit is Special Agent in Charge Jay Fallon. He's in charge of all of New England, he's out of Boston. And Special Agent Fallon and his entire crew all the way across the country, special agents in California and the Midwest have been working hand in hand with our authorities throughout this case. I know you folks have been sitting here waiting for things to happen, but I can tell you, things have been happening every single day, every single hour, every single moment. And it's all due to these folks. I also want to acknowledge that we have had tremendous assistance from law enforcement authorities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and, of course, California. We've also had help in Nebraska, Nevada. All the way across our country. So this is a nationwide investigation. And, ladies and gentlemen, it is not done, because even though Mr. Gehring has been charged, the investigation is not over. We still have not found the bodies. But the search is not over. That will continue. Now, to address the specifics of that, I'd like my prosecutor, who has been doing such a fabulous job leading the prosecution in this case, that's Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Strezlin, to come on up and he can give you some additional facts about this. By the way, I do want to thank all of you for being so patient and also getting the word out because we've gotten many witnesses and so and information from people that have responded to you. Thank you very much. Mr. Strezlin, thank you.", "Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. What I can tell you is that the formal search has ended. We have not been able to locate the bodies in this case. However, as I said in the past, we continue to strategize and to try to reconfigure our search on a daily basis. And that's what we intend to keep on doing. We're going to put substantial resources in trying to locate the bodies and we expect to potentially release additional information that might be helpful to the public. That's something that we're going to consider and we're look at. And we continue to receive information from various sources. And for that reason we're asking the public to contact us with any information that might be helpful in the case. But as the attorney general has said, a lot of people have been working on this case and we expect that to continue in the future to locate the missing bodies. Thank you very much.", "How were the children killed?", "I can't answer that question, I'm sorry.", "I mean that right now we don't have any law enforcement officers out there on an active basis searching. And we're going to decide after today what steps we're going to take to try and continue the search. But we are going to continue the search. The question is, in what kind of form.", "(OFF-MIKE) specifically charges him with (OFF-MIKE) first degree murder?", "It charges him with purposely taking the lives of Philip and Sarah.", "With a firearm.", "Because Mr. Gehring traveled across the country and we don't have a specific location at this time.", "Who is with Mr. Gehring now? (", "I can't answer that question right now.", "It's based on our review of the facts in the case.", "Can you tell us where Manual Gehring is right now?", "Actually, I don't have that information right now.", "(OFF-MIKE) something about a gun (OFF-MIKE)?", "No, actually what I said was that the indictment charges that the act was committed with a firearm. That's all I have right now. Thank you very much.", "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. We anticipate being able to provide more information when we know what (OFF-MIKE). Thank you.", "You have been watching a live news conference out of Concord, New Hampshire there. New Hampshire Attorney General Peter Heed, also New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General Jeff Strezlin. Two counts of murder is what Manual Gehring has been indicted on. This is a story we've been talking about since last week. The missing children Sarah and Philip Gehring, after a Fourth of July party when the two were supposed to return back to their mother, they didn't. At that time Manuel Gehring was brought into custody. He had left on a trip across country from Concord to California. He's in police custody now on his way back to Concord, New Hampshire. Police have been talking about possibility that he would be charged in a double homicide and now that has come forward. Manuel Gehring indicted, tow counts of first degree murder. The investigation continues. The search is still on for those two young children of his. Also, we'll continue to follow this story as it develops. 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{"id": "CNN-346613", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2018-08-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/02/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "Mueller Wants to Interview the Agalarovs.", "utt": ["Special counsel Robert Mueller pushing to interview Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov and his pop star son Emin who were instrumental in setting up that 2016 Trump tower meeting. Earlier this month, Emin Agalarov, well, he appeared to be trolling the president releasing this music video featuring a Trump impersonator in a hotel room with a slew of models. I just wanted to watch that a little bit longer so you can see what's going on. There were Trump impersonators. There we go, and an Ivanka impersonator and on and on. So there he is right there. So let's discuss now. CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein is here. He is a former Nixon White House counsel, and john Dean is a CNN contributor. Good to have both of you, gentlemen on. Your expertise. You were there for Watergate. I'm going to get your impressions on all of this relating to that and the latest on what's going on with this whole Russia investigation. So, good evening. Thank you for joining us. John, the Agalarov's attorney says that the conversations about an interview with the special counsel have been going on for nearly a year. And we also know that Mueller is offering the president's legal team new parameters for an interview with him. What does that tell you about where Mueller is in his investigation? Is it a sign that he could be wrapping things up or we still have a long way to go we just don't know?", "I don't think we really know for certain. This is an airtight investigation, but I think it's interesting that he wants to get to the source of the meeting that is a key meeting that June 9th meeting in the Trump towers, and Agaralov is one of the key players is setting it up. So he wants to get to the source and find out what's behind it. I don't think he expects any confessions. But I suspect this fellow who travels the world wants to cooperate or might -- doesn't want to be subject to an Interpol sanction against himself. So he may come in voluntarily.", "So, Carl, according to the Agalarovs attorney, Mueller's team is interested in discussing the Trump tower meeting and the talks around the building of a Trump tower -- a Trump tower in Moscow. Right? They were talking about building a Trump tower there. What does that tell you about Mueller's focus, Carl?", "This may be the real sleeper of the whole Mueller investigation, because clearly on its face the Trump tower meeting was convened for the purpose of collusion and collaboration and conspiring. And with Don Junior and in the letter -- I'm going to read. I'm going to do something very un-television like and read the letter that brought this meeting about. \"Emin just called and ask me to contact you, Don Junior with something interesting. The crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary in her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father. This is obviously very high level and sensitive information, but it's part of Russia and its government support for Mr. Trump helped by Aras and Emin. What's the best way to handle this?\" That is perhaps the most important document that we have in this whole investigation. And if Donald Trump, indeed, means it, that he did not collude and people in his family did not collude, it is very easy for him to call these two people, Emin and his father Aras, good friends of the president, call them up on the telephone and say I want you to come talk to Mr. Mueller. Testify in my behalf. Tell them that this is, indeed, a witch hunt and this letter does not mean what it says.", "Yes.", "Trump has the ability right here to put this perhaps behind him--", "It never happened.", "-- if he wants to be honest about the meeting -- about this, well, but it tells you something about where Mueller is.", "Yes.", "This is not just an investigation about obstruction of justice. This is about collusion.", "Yes. And you're absolutely right. So listen, John. More details now. The New York Times is reporting that President Trump pushed his lawyers to try to reach an agreement with Mueller's team about sitting for an interview. Do you believe that this president actually wants to sit down with the special counsel or does he just want it to seem that way to the public?", "I think it's the latter phase of the question. He wants it to seem that he wants to sit down. I'm sure his lawyers don't want him to sit down. But, you know, the man has such an ego. He might sincerely believe that he can somehow turn Mueller to think his own investigation is a witch hunt. I doubt that he can do that. But Trump's imagination seems to have no boundaries.", "Yes. That is an interesting way of putting it. All right, gentlemen. Stick around. I'm enjoying the conversation so much. We're going to continue to talk about it. More on the Russia investigation and all the new details that we have coming out today. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "JOHN DEAN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "LEMON", "CARL BERNSTEIN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "LEMON", "BERNSTEIN", "LEMON", "BERNSTEIN", "LEMON", "BERNSTEIN", "LEMON", "DEAN", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-381035", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-09-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/21/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Biden Accuses Trump Of Abuse Of Power In Whistleblower Drama; Trump Insisting Somebody Should Dig Into Biden's Ukraine Dealings Regarding Prosecutor He Helped Get Fired; Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) Is Interviewed About The Withholding Of The Whistleblower Complaint From Congress, The Trump Administration Asking Ukraine To Investigate The Bidens; Warren Once Again Calls For Impeachment Over Ukraine Controversy", "utt": ["Good afternoon. I'm Alex Marquardt, in for Ana Cabrera. Thank you so much for joining me. Abuse of power is the message delivered in blunt terms from a fired up former Vice President Joe Biden to a FOX News reporter asking him about the widely debunked conspiracy theory pushed by the president that involves Biden, his son, Hunter, and Ukraine.", "You should be looking at Trump. Trump is doing this because he knows I'll beat him like a drum.", "Beat him like a drum. CNN's Jessica Dean is live at the steak fry in Iowa where Biden and 16 other Democratic candidates are campaigning this afternoon. It really is quite a scene there. She has this entire exchange with Biden to share with us. First, we have to say repeatedly, there's no evidence of any wrongdoing by either Biden or his son. This has been deeply looked into by the media and others. But this latest chapter started just a few days ago when a whistleblower from the Intelligence Community filed a complaint about communications between President Trump and a foreign leader. And then a source tells CNN that, on a July 25th call with Ukraine's new president, President Trump pressed the Ukrainian leader to investigate Joe Biden's son, Hunter. Yesterday, we saw the former V.P. essentially dodge the question, but today, Jessica, not so much.", "Yes, Alex, that is exactly right. Today, he went right after President Trump in all of this and really hit right at the heart of it. And as you mentioned, there's absolutely no evidence any of these allegations are true. It has been looked into. No evidence. But this is a page out of the playbook of President Trump and his allies. In fact, Joe Biden kind of knew all of this would come in terms of attacks on his family going back to may at a fundraiser when he told a group, I know they're going to come after me and my family. Here we are. It has now happened. Take a listen to this exchange just a little bit earlier here in Iowa.", "Mr. Vice president, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?", "I've never spoken to my son about the overseas business dealings.", "How do you know -- how do you know --", "Here's what I know. I know Trump deserves to be investigated. He is violating every basic norm of a president. You should be asking him the questions. Why is he on the phone with a foreign leader trying to intimidate a foreign leader? If that's what happened. That appears to be what happened. You should be looking at Trump. Trump is doing this because he knows I'll beat him like a drum. And he is using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me. Everybody that looked at this and everybody's that looked at it said there's nothing there. Ask the right questions.", "Should he be impeached for this?", "Depending on what the House finds, he could be impeached, but I'm not making that judgment now. The House should investigate it. The House should investigate this. This appears to be an overwhelming abuse of power. So get on the phone with a foreign leader who is looking for help from the United States and ask about me and imply things, if that's what happened, that appears to be what happened, we know that's what Giuliani did. This is outrageous. You have never seen anything like this before.", "You said before you entered the race one of your concerns was about your family being brought into this race. Are you comfortable running a campaign in which --", "I know what I'm up against. I know what I'm up against, a serial abuser. That's what this guy is. He abuses power everywhere he can. And he sees any threat to his staying in power, he'll do whatever he has to do. But this crosses the line. But this crossed the line.", "This crosses the line.", "Sir, what are you calling on the president to do?", "I'm calling on the president to release the transcript of the call. Let everybody hear what it is. Let the House see it and see what he did. That's what I'm calling on him --", "Senator Kamala Harris just wrapping up here at the Iowa steak fry and she touched on this and expressed utter dismay telling the crowd here we need a new commander-in-chief. I interviewed Senator Cory Booker earlier. He said this is the most shocking thing he has seen President Trump be accused of doing. Alex, we are hearing about it here at the steak fry. Vice President Biden is slated to speak later this afternoon. It remains to be seen if he'll talk about it but we'll keep an eye on it -- Alex?", "The former vice president there calling for an investigation into this. There are, in fact, three House committees that are investigating this. Jessica Dean, in Des Moines, thank you very much. We are, in fact, expecting to hear from the former vice president again later this hour. We will be keeping, of course, a close eye on that. Now, despite, as Jessica and I were saying, this conspiracy theory being widely debunked, President Trump keeps insisting that somebody should dig into Biden's dealings in Ukraine regarding a Ukrainian prosecutor that he did help get fired. This is a very complicated story involving a lot of different people. So how did we get here?", "What should have been a routine call between world leaders was anything but. On a July 25th call between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Trump pressed President Zelensky to work with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, on digging up dirt on Joe Biden's son. The White House said the two presidents discussed strengthening the relationship without giving specifics. But Ukraine said they talked about the investigation of corruption cases, which inhibited the interaction between Ukraine and the USA. In May, the president's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said he was going to Ukraine to push the new president to investigate Joe Biden and his son's links to a gas company. He canceled the trip. But then in July, he went to Madrid to meet with an aide to President Zelensky to talk about Biden. Biden's son, Hunter, had served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company, which Ukraine's prosecutor general was supposed to be looking into. But in 2016, Joe Biden, as vice president, played a prominent role in getting the prosecutor fired because he had been ignoring corruption. Biden joining other countries and groups in the widespread push to get Ukraine to clean up its act. Fast forward to 2019, and President Trump, his lawyer, and many supporters pounced, accusing Biden of helping out his son. Now there are questions about whether that push by Trump and Giuliani is tied to the late-August move by the White House to put a hold on $250 million in military aid for Ukraine, which was later released. On September 1st, Vice President Mike Pence met with Zelensky. When asked about the efforts to get dirt on Joe Biden, the vice president danced around it.", "As President Trump has made clear, we have great concerns about issues of corruption.", "Whatever the alleged promise that the whistleblower says that the president reportedly made, Democrats in Congress are vowing to get to the bottom of those claims.", "They deserve a thorough investigation. That's what we're intent on doing and, come hell or high water, that's what we'll do.", "Come hell or high water, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said. Now the acting director of National Intelligence, Joseph Maguire, who is the one who blocked the whistleblower complaint from Congress, is due to testify in front of Schiff's House Intelligence Committee next Thursday. He will also be testifying in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee at some point next week. Of course, we expect Maguire will have to explain why the White House and the Department of Justice have told him not to hand over that whistleblower complaint.", "Now to discuss all of this and more I'm joined this afternoon by Democratic Congressman John Garamendi, from California. He does sit on the House Armed Services Committee. Congressman, thanks so much for joining me this afternoon.", "Sure.", "There's so much to discuss. Let's start with Ukraine and the whistleblower complaint. You are, in fact, going, I understand, to Ukraine later this month. And I imagine you plan to sit down with the leadership there and ask about these conversations that they had with Rudy Giuliani and President Trump. But we know from Rudy Giuliani, who is, of course, the president's personal lawyer, his own admission to our Chris Cuomo, in addition to our own reporting, that he and the president have pressured the president of Ukraine, Zelensky, to investigate Biden and his son. What specifically, Congressman, do you want to find out?", "We certainly want to find out about that. The original intent of the trip was to look at the work being done in the Eastern European countries, including Ukraine, to push back on Russia's aggression in Ukraine. And also to bolster the NATO presence in Eastern Europe. In the intervening weeks since we planned this trip, we now have all of this occurring and, yes, this will be part of it. Particularly the $250 million and perhaps another $140 million that the Ukrainian military needs to be prepared to deal with Russia. We will meet with the various ministers. Whether we will have an opportunity to meet with Zelensky or not remains to be seen. In any case, this is a major, major problem in the relationship between the United States, Ukraine and, certainly, a major problem between the president and the Congress.", "Congressman, we are hearing from the Ukrainian foreign minister. He was saying that, counter to this reporting there was pressure from the President Trump to investigate Joe Biden and his son, the Ukrainian foreign minister right now is saying, \"I think there was no pressure during that call between the Ukrainian president and Donald Trump.\" So what evidence have you seen of pressure from the American president to Ukraine? You were just mentioning that military aid money to defend against Russia.", "Well, that is one thing we know for certain is that the president, following the phone conversations, did decide to withhold or delay the $250 million that has previously been approved to be delivered to Ukraine. That we know for a fact. We also know that, when it hit the fan, that there was a whistleblower or just before that the president did release the money. Those are things we do know. As to what came of the conversation and what was said in the conversation, there's reporting that eight times the president did suggest that there be an investigation. We do know that Rudy Giuliani was in Madrid, I guess, actually Portugal, to meet with the leadership in the Ukrainian government. Those are things that are known. We also know that the president's troops are stonewalling Congress and stopping the legitimate and necessary, by law, release of the information that the whistleblower has presented, appropriately, through the channels. Now, those are things we know. Beyond that, I would expect the Ukrainian government to try to stay out of the line of fire, to try to minimize whatever was said, and to make nice to the president, who will, for some time, until the next election or the next impeachment, continue to be in power here in the United States. And so the foreign minister is doing exactly what I expect a foreign minister to do, no, no, not a big deal. We'll see. We have to have this investigation. Bottom line, we have to end the stonewalling that the administration has put around the investigations that Congress has legitimately and constitutional right to investigate.", "Well, the House Intelligence Committee is, in fact, investigating. You do not sit on that committee.", "That is correct.", "We do understand that Joseph Maguire, the acting DNI, is going to be testifying in an open session, so not a closed session where he can talk about classified information, but an open session. What do you expect that he can reveal? And I should note to our viewers, we do know from our own reporting he was pressured by the White House counsel and the DOJ to not pass along this whistleblower complaint to Congress. What more clarity do you think we can get from the acting DNI next week when he testifies to the House Intel Committee?", "Well, I would expect one question. That is, why are you not following the clear letter of the law. The clear letter of the law says, when there's a credible whistleblower that goes to the I.G. and the I.G. finds it to be credible, that then goes to the fellow that is going to be appearing next week. And he has two weeks to deliver that information to Congress. He has not followed the law. So undoubtedly, the question will be, why are you not following the law. From there, it'll go back to the Attorney General Barr and to the White House that are saying, block it, don't do it. We'll see what happens here. The committee is very capable. Adam Schiff knows exactly what is going on. We'll see what comes of that. For me, I have a larger question or a different question and that is, why did the president remove $770 million of money that NATO needs to bolster its defenses in Eastern Europe. This is an enormous gift to Putin. The president has taken that money to build a border wall somewhere along the Mexican border. That's one big gift to Putin. To say nothing of this controversy in the Ukraine.", "You're referring to the $3.6 billion of military funds diverted for the border wall.", "Yes.", "That, Congressman, is a whole other matter we'll have to discuss some other time. Congressman John Garamendi, thank you so much for joining me today.", "Thank you.", "All right. Well, Antonio Brown, the football player is out of a job again. The NFL player is addressing his release from the New England Patriots after new allegations against him. And Senator Cory Booker is facing a really do-or-die moment on the campaign trail. Why he says he could drop out of the race soon. 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{"id": "CNN-218721", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2013-11-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/13/nday.06.html", "summary": "Shirley MacLaine Examines the Big \"What If\"", "utt": ["How much perspective you put into one place. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Shirley MacLaine, who needs an introduction? Come on. She's won an Oscar, multiple Golden Globes, an Emmy among other honors. She's also a prolific author. Her 14th book has just been published. It's called \"What If: a Lifetime of Questions, Speculations, Reasonable Guesses and a Few Things I Know For Sure\". Shirley MacLaine -- what an honor to have you here at \"", "Thank you, Chris.", "Thank you. Thank you for coming in.", "You guys are good. Love your new set.", "Thank you very much. Now it is complete. So this book is important to you. You believe it benefits from your perspective. You know, you feel that the questions you've come up with now, they're better questions, they mean more now. Tell us about it.", "Let's see, now. With the world in the state it's in, and you know, I've been aware of that for some time, I thought I would take a little experiment and see what it would be like to sit and basically I would have to say channel my questions. You know, some great authors have told me in my conversations with them that they don't write their books. Something else writes their books -- and I tell (ph) them -- that's up my alley. So I want to know what does that mean. And that's what I did. Last year I sat down and I said, 'OK, just whoever you are and whatever you are, I want you to write, use me.' That's what I did.", "So it's sort a stream of consciousness. If you open the book, each page sometimes it's multi-pages, asking a question \"What if\", correct? So did they come to you? Did you sort of hear them in your head, hear them in your gut, hear them in your heart?", "Heard them in my heart. Would love to know myself, honestly, where they came from. I think they're good questions. I think they're relevant. I was surprised how they came out.", "Very.", "And I let it happen. It's such an experience to sit there and not do it yourself. Just let the questions reveal. And I don't know where it came from.", "Did you get any answers after all of these questions that you ask in the book?", "Not really.", "Well, I think that's part of the deal.", "That's the point, right?", "Right.", "It's part of the deal, yes. But I mean look, we're in the interview business, so it's always about the art of the question and why do you want the right question? Because you believe that it's going to lead to more thought, the question itself. And that's what you believe as well, right? That often questions lead to more questions but more productive thoughts --", "Right. That's all questions are for, spring boards for more questions. I don't even think I'm interested in the answers, to tell you the truth. I'm more interested in questions and the circumference of what that means because each question has a huge implication to it.", "Has it always been that way? Would you say that in your 20s or 30s --", "Absolutely.", "-- you wanted answers for things?", "No, since I'm 10.", "Really.", "I've been a mystic since I was 10. I really am.", "What's the reaction to the book so far?", "People are entertained by it. I don't know what that means.", "You've been -- you've been good at doing that for years now -- entertaining and getting people together (ph).", "I think the thing I'm most interested in with me and all the things that interest me is how I've navigated the last 14 books. I didn't even remember it was 14. But how I -- I don't think people are asking, \"Oh, God, she's wacky\" anymore. I think they're beginning to see, 'Well, yes, there could be something through this.' How can you go through what we're going through in this world, economically, weather-wise , everything, without asking some of these questions?", "I love this.", "Where do you get the energy to write all of these books?", "I told you, I'm not writing them. Plenty of energy.", "She's got the universe of spirituality funneling through her. What if ignorance of the truth of the root of all evil? I believe that that question deserved more prominence in the book.", "A bigger page.", "Yes. You know what I mean? I think that --", "You think it speaks loudly --", "Right.", "That it's the only question right there.", "No, but here's -- here is the question. Define ignorance.", "You're looking at it Shirley.", "And then define truth.", "Right in the face. I'm the face of it all too often because so often we realize that there's so much more that we don't know than we do, including why Shirley MacLaine really wanted to write this book and do it now. But if you stick around with us after the break, you will hear us ask that question and it will lead to many, many more. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["CUMO", "NEW DAY\". SHIRLEY MACLAINE, ACTRESS/AUTHOR", "BOLDUAN", "MACLAINE", "CUOMO", "MACLAINE", "PEREIRA", "MACLAINE", "PEREIRA", "MACLAINE", "BOLDUAN", "MACLAINE", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "MACLAINE", "CUOMO", "MACLAINE", "PEREIRA", "MACLAINE", "PEREIRA", "MACLAINE", "PEREIRA", "MACLAINE", "BOLDUAN", "MACLAINE", "BOLDUAN", "MACLAINE", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "MACLAINE", "CUOMO", "MACLAINE", "CUOMO", "PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "PEREIRA", "MACLAINE", "CUOMO", "MACLAINE", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-155246", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-9-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/05/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Drug Kingpin Arrested in Mexico", "utt": ["This week, Mexico's federal police captured an accused drug kingpin described as one of the country's most powerful and ruthless cartel leaders. Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as La Barbie, because of his fair skin and eyes, is American born and was wanted on both sides of the border. He was a high school football star in his home town of Laredo, Texas. Now he's said to have organized the killings of hundreds of people. Fred Burton has been following Valdez's actions along the border. Burton is a former counterterrorism agent with the State Department and a vice president with Stratfor Global Intelligence. He joins us in Austin, Texas. Fred, were we know there is an awful lot of drug running that exists on both sides of the border. How rare is it, though, for an American-born citizen to be this highly placed in one of these cartels?", "It's very rare. La Barbie has managed to make his way to the top of a ruthless cartel. And I think that he certainly has earned that right based on his known viciousness. He was operating as a hit man in Mexico as well as a security chief for Beltran Leyva.", "We have some video of his interrogation. I want to play that and get your reaction. If you can. Let's listen.", "What was the route that you operated?", "Panama to Mexico.", "How did you manage the money? How do you do it to move so much cash?", "Well, cash would come to me from the United States.", "How do they send you the money?", "In semi tractor trucks.", "Is this typical talk for these drug kingpins, Fred? Is this normally, with what he's talking about there, normal business?", "This is normal business. It's still very much a bulk cash business and, in essence, they ship the product north. It's a very efficient supply chain. and the bulk cash comes back south. And the money is just astronomical when you start looking at just the flow of cash into Mexico. In many ways, this is Mexico's economy.", "Do we have any idea, Fred, how this transformation happened with la Barbie? How did he go from being a high school football player in the United States to the person he is today?", "From looking at his past, it appears that, at age 19, he had his first brush with the law down in Laredo. And he was involved in a horrific car accident where he killed a middle school teacher and he wasn't indicted for that. And then, there was a series of minor arrests, possession of marijuana, drinking in public. And then he vanishes into Mexico where he surfaces as one of the security chiefs for the Beltran Leyva organization. and it's rumored that he was involved in several assassinations inside of Mexico as well as some of his cross-border activities.", "How did he happen to get caught, Fred?", "When you look at an individual like this, it's typically a dog-eat-dog business. Either an individual has ratted him off and led the Mexican authorities to his location, however, there's one theory that's running through the community that he, in fact, may have turned himself in or, in essence, set himself up. Because if you look at what happened to Beltran Leyva, there's no good outcome for most of these individuals. To be blunt, I'm surprised he was taken alive, without any shots that were fired.", "Fred Burton, thanks for joining us with this. I know there's going to be a lot more revelations, a lot more to this story. Thanks so much for your time. Coming up, the Vatican appears to be working behind the scenes to stop a stoning in Iran. Plus, it sounds like something out of a horror movie, at least a Steven Spielberg horror movie, massive bull sharks. There's one right there. Yes, the potentially man-eating type found swimming in the Potomac River. That story next."], "speaker": ["FOREMAN", "FRED BURTON, STATE DEPARTMENT FORMER COUNTERTERRORISM AGENT & VICE PRESIDENT, STRATFOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE", "FOREMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation)", "EDGAR VALDEZ VILLARREAL, ACCUSED DRUG LORD (through translation)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation)", "VALDEZ VILLARREAL (through translation)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation)", "VALDEZ VILLARREAL (through translation)", "FOREMAN", "BURTON", "FOREMAN", "BURTON", "FOREMAN", "BURTON", "FOREMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-66137", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2003-1-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/30/ltm.10.html", "summary": "House Call:  Raiders Banned Robbins From Super Bowl", "utt": ["Over in Raider Center, Barret Robbins was supposed to be playing in the Super Bowl on Sunday. Instead, he wound up in a California hospital. His absence from the game was a mystery at the time. It now appears to be a case of clinical depression. And our own medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, is making a \"House Call\" in person to study the case for us this morning.", "Yes, good morning.", "It's that bad.", "It is.", "What happened to him?", "Well, you know, he missed all of the teams' meetings on Saturday -- that was the day before the Super Bowl -- and therefore was suspended from the game on Sunday. According to people close to him, the reason was most likely a recurrence of bipolar disease. He has had this in the past, bipolar disease, in his career previously. Of all of the psychiatric disorders, bipolar has the highest lifetime risk of alcohol abuse. Apparently, he did show up with alcohol on his breath for one of the meetings. People try and self-medicate themselves if they're feeling particularly down. That's why they take the alcohol. There's also a range of medications to take. It's very treatable, but stopping these medications abruptly will likely cause a relapse, which may have happened to him. Also, another quick story, Paula. Testosterone, you mentioned this earlier, is in the news. We've spent a lot of time talking about estrogen replacement therapy. But what about testosterone replacement therapy for men?", "Yes, what about it?", "Yes, well, that's the question that scientists are going to try and answer today in Washington. They're going to decide if a clinical trial should take place. Testosterone production peaks in adolescents and then declines throughout adulthood, although it never shuts off completely the way estrogen production does in women. Testosterone has never been studied in a large clinical trial, but millions of men take it already, citing that it's a fountain of youth and provides boundless energy. Millions of prescriptions are written for this. Critics charge that there are risks of taking testosterone, such as increased prostate cancer and strokes, so they're a little bit more cautious about it. That's why they want to do the clinical trial.", "So, how long will it be before men know what the real answer is?", "It will be years.", "You're going to live in the margin for a while.", "And then there probably will be studies after those studies come out, saying we're not so sure about the first studies again. We've been...", "Those studies are so unsatisfying, Sanjay.", "They can be, they can be.", "Thanks.", "Yes.", "See you a little bit later on this morning.", "All right. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "ZAHN", "GUPTA", "ZAHN", "GUPTA", "ZAHN", "GUPTA", "ZAHN", "GUPTA", "ZAHN", "GUPTA", "ZAHN", "GUPTA", "ZAHN", "GUPTA", "ZAHN", "GUPTA"]}
{"id": "NPR-1942", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2018-10-22", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/10/22/659416400/millions-of-afghans-vote-in-violence-marred-elections", "title": "Millions Of Afghans Vote In Violence-Marred Elections", "summary": "Steve Inskeep talks to Pamela Constable of The Washington Post about Afghanistan's parliamentary elections on Saturday. Violence and threats lead up to the day of the election.", "utt": ["Afghanistan voted over the weekend - or most of it did. The killings of top officials in one major province forced a delay there. But the rest of the country cast ballots for Parliament. Pamela Constable of The Washington Post joined us on Friday just before the voting, and now she's back. Hi, Pam.", "Hi, how are you?", "OK. Thank you very much. What was voting day like?", "Well, it was pretty chaotic. Every polling place I visited in the capital and dozens of polling places across the country reported large problems with disorganization, unprepared polling officials, lost materials, biometric equipment that didn't work, very, very, very long lines. Many of the polls opened three, four, five hours late. Some did not open at all. So it was a well-intentioned effort, but the practical results were pretty chaotic.", "Is it clear that enough ballots were cast in a legitimate way that this will feel like a legitimate result?", "That's a good question, and I can't answer it yet because as you mentioned, you know, a large number of voters in one province, Kandahar, where there were some serious killings in the past few days, has - have been delayed for one week. And in a second province, Ghazni, where there have been recent attacks as well, that voting has also been delayed.", "So you've got two provinces where the voting hasn't even happened yet, and you also have dozens of - possibly even hundreds of polling stations both in Kabul and elsewhere where people had to vote yesterday - a second day of voting because the polls never opened on election day itself. And election officials say there are not going to be any results of any significance for weeks and possibly even for a couple of months.", "Wow. So we have no idea who won these elections and - given that they're not even quite over. But let me ask you about what the winners will face. We should note people know from a distance that Afghanistan has had a very powerful president to the extent that it's had a central government at all. And of course a lot of decisions in some cases are in the hands or influenced by the United States, influenced by allies or, for that matter, influenced by the Taliban, which controls portions of the country. Will this parliament, once it's seated, have much to say? What will their role be?", "That's also a good question. I think and I hope that the country is in for a change. When I was reporting from the campaign, interviewing candidates and interviewing voters, I found an enormous amount of - a surprisingly large amount of enthusiasm and hope that this election actually would bring change in the parliament itself - young people voting, young people running, more educated people voting and running and a lot of hope to sort of - out with the old faces, in with the new. So I think there is still hope for that.", "Pamela Constable of The Washington Post, always appreciate your insights. Thanks so much.", "You're very welcome.", "She's in Kabul."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "PAMELA CONSTABLE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "PAMELA CONSTABLE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "PAMELA CONSTABLE", "PAMELA CONSTABLE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "PAMELA CONSTABLE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "PAMELA CONSTABLE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-45302", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-12-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/10/lt.16.html", "summary": "Bin Laden Still Pentagon Priority", "utt": ["The hunt for Osama bin Laden and the bombing raids in the area where he is believed to be hiding remain the top priorities over at the Pentagon. CNN's Kathleen Koch is there, with the latest -- Kathleen.", "Wolf, despite the many successes against the Taliban that the U.S. military has had thus far, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz today stressed, quote, \"it ain't over yet.\" U.S. aircraft continue dropping bombs in the region of Tora Bora, where reports tend to put Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda forces. However, the fighting there is so fierce that the Pentagon says it has been practically impossible for U.S. forces to get into the region and determine whether or not anyone there has been killed or how many al Qaeda fighters might remain. The Defense Department still does believe that when it comes to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, that he remains in the Kandahar region -- not maybe necessarily inside the city itself, but perhaps in small surrounding towns. The Pentagon says, though, numerous Taliban fighters in Kandahar have managed to slip away.", "A lot of what's produced the progress here, especially most recently, have been people deciding, like rats, to leave a sinking ship. But we didn't have whole perimeter of the ship guarded, so those people are loose. I don't think -- for the most part -- I don't believe that it was any kind of covert deal with the anti-Taliban forces. It was just, I think, almost inevitable that lot of these people would get away.", "Wolfowitz says that opposition forces in the region have managed to capture roughly three Taliban leaders and are holding them at this point. The deputy defense secretary called \"disgusting\" this tape of Osama bin Laden that reportedly shows him discussing the planning of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Wolfowitz said that the Pentagon would like to release the tapes so that Americans and those around the world can see them and judge for themselves. However, it is working with intelligence officials so that no sources or methods would be compromised if that happens -- Wolf.", "Kathleen Koch, over at the Pentagon, thank you very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PAUL WOLFOWITZ, DEP. DEFENSE SECRETARY", "KOCH", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-35814", "program": "CNN CNNdotCOM", "date": "2001-7-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/28/cnncom.00.html", "summary": "What Goes on Inside a Virus Writer", "utt": ["Today on \"CNNdot", "Bitten by the love bug? Mauled by Melissa? If you've been victimized by a computer virus, you might be surprised to learn that writing these destructive programs is not illegal.", "I think it's nice that I am one of the good guys.", "Meet a woman who dissected thousands of viruses and shows us what goes on inside the head of a virus writer. If the summer heat has you singing the energy bill blues, have we got some tools for you!", "So this is going to give me my big answers?", "Yes.", "Find out how to save energy over the Internet. And parents are starting to get a clue about their kids' use of the Internet.", "Anything you need to know is on the computer.", "Children on the Web. It's not all fun and games. This is CNNdotCOM with James Hattori,", "Hi everybody and welcome to CNNdotCOM, I'm James Hattori. The U.S. military came under attack this past week, not on the battlefield, but in cyberspace. A virus-like program known as a computer worm forced the Defense Department to shut down public access to most of its Web sites for almost an entire day. The code-red worm defaces Web sites with the words \"hacked by Chinese,\" and experts say it has spread faster than any computer worm in recent history. People who create worms and viruses do so for a lot of reasons. Recently I met a woman with a rare insight into malicious hackers and the reasons they do what they do. Let's go to the world of the virus writer.", "Primarily when we think of virus writers, we read about them in the media, we read that they're evil unethical teenagers, all dressed in black, no social lives, no girlfriends, smoking pot, living in the basement, basically just being pretty anti- social with the total end-goal of ending civilization as we know it.", "Sarah Gordon is no stranger to the dark side, to what motivates the virus writer.", "They do it to identify with a social group, they do it in some cases because they feel they've been provoked by people who say they're stupid, unethical, malicious, dressed in black teenagers who listen to too much \"Eminem.\" And they do it because they believe people should have access to all kinds of information, including viral information.", "Sarah, how many espressos have you had this afternoon?", "Oh, I don't drink coffee. I stopped two weeks ago!", "She has spent years interviewing, profiling, and exchanging ideas with the so called \"black hat\" community. In turn, they talk to her, they trust her. But Gordon is a card carrying anti- virus \"white hat.\" (on camera): And after you'd been in computers for a while, what turned you on to doing virus work?", "I got a virus be accident and nobody could help me. So I started asking a lot of people, not just the quote, \"good guys,\" but also the bad guys. I have this problem, can you help? And they helped me, told me how to get rid of it.", "Gordon is an anomaly in the anti-virus industry. Unlike many of her peers, she's female; she's largely self- taught, and she doesn't hesitate to discuss issues of cyber- responsibility with virus writers.", "I don't -- I try not to provoke people, or you know, form some opinion. I don't have something I have to prove. I just want to know what's going on.", "We like to do this stuff because it interested us in some strange, some strange internal way we couldn't explain, that we were just called to it.", "Meet Evan, former virus writer. He doesn't want to be known by his face, or even by his computer handle. Evan could be the boy next door. He likes his cats, does his chores, works legitimately in the I.T. world. Still, he has hobbies alien to most of us.", "And we will sit around and talk about, you know, gee, wouldn't a virus that had a payload, an activation payload that looked for Word documents with the word \"confidential\" in the summary, and uploaded them to some site on the Internet somewhere so that companies' confidential secrets would be leaking out? Wouldn't that be a really cool payload?", "Evan says the viruses he wrote never did any harm. He never sent them out, and they weren't executable. While research shows a lot of virus writers act from boredom, Evan says he had different reasons.", "It was some credibility in front of my hacker peers to say, hey, I can code a virus and you can't. There's almost even an aspect of \"make them afraid of you,\" albeit, no real threat was here, but there was the mystique that hey, don't mess with that guy, he could give you a virus.", "In the United States writing viruses is not illegal. Distribution of viruses is not illegal. Nationally and internationally, it is often the designation \"malicious intent\" which separates the hobby from the crime.", "If I write a virus I'm going to put it on my Web site for my friends to look at, should that be illegal? It's when you actually take it and use it to do something harmful. There are not that many people taking them to do something harmful. It's just that the Internet is so widespread that once one virus gets loose, it can spread so quickly it only takes one.", "David Smith, author of the infamous \"Melissa\" virus is one of the first virus writers ever to be prosecuted under computer crime laws. \"Melissa\" hit more than 1 million personal computers in North America, causing more than $80 million in damage. Another virus, dubbed the \"Love Bug\" caused billions of dollars in damage worldwide. But even though the person accused of creating it was quickly located in the Philippines, he was not charged. What he did was not illegal in the Philippines at the time he wrote the virus. Both the virus and the anti-virus communities agree on the best protections against getting hit with a virus. High on the list: User education, taking responsibility for preventing virus attacks. Author and security consultant Winn Schwartau has written a book on technology and behavior. He says early intervention, talking to kids about situations they will face in an Internet world, offers some help.", "I am not telling you how to behave, but how would you behave in this situation? And then how would you feel if somebody else behaved that same way, and perhaps you were the victim? Does it work? Is it a two-way street? Is what's good for the goose, good for the gander in cyberspace?", "How many viruses are there here?", "Well, individual viruses, probably if you count variants, maybe 100,000.", "You have in this room?", "Yes. Different places on different hard drives. And I have got box of discs and they are stacked up.", "100,000?", "I think it is nice that I am one of the good guys. I think that's probably a good thing.", "Not surprisingly, Gordon says computers and technology haunt her dreams. As the number of people online grows, the number of occurrences of infection grows as well. Gordon cautions that if you are using a computer you will most likely get hit. Former virus writer Evan agrees.", "In my mind I see the field of a genetically perfect cow, and the farmer gets up and comes out in the morning and all the cows are dead because this virus came in, there was no diversity in the heard and they are all dead. And the same thing is happening and has been happening with corporate desk tops.", "Evan feels no guilt about his past, that he never made his virus codes executable, he says, absolves him from any wrongdoing. What does bother him is the current crop of viruses and virus writers.", "They are not sophisticated people and they are not thinking about what they are doing on any more of a macro scale than to say that, ooh, I will get my name out here, I will be cool, I will have notoriety. It's Spam. There aren't new techniques coming out anymore. At least that's the general feel that I am getting. I sound like crotchety old man -- these kid today and...", "Meanwhile Sarah Gordon continues to straddle two hostile but interdependent worlds. She says her goal has never been to stop virus writers in their tracks. Still, when even one quits, she breaths a bit easier."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "COM\"", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ANNOUNCER", "NATALIE PAWELSKI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MARY BARRETTA, HOST, \"THE MONEY PIT\"", "ANNOUNCER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ANNOUNCER", "JAMES HATTORI, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HATTORI (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HATTORI", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HATTORI (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HATTORI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HATTORI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HATTORI", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HATTORI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HATTORI (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HATTORI", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HATTORI", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HATTORI (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HATTORI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HATTORI"]}
{"id": "CNN-166825", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-5-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/30/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Tens of Thousands Without Power in Michigan and Illinois", "utt": ["A lot going on this morning. Here's what you need to know to start your Memorial Day. President Obama is hosting a breakfast at the White House for families who have lost loved ones in war. Then he heads to Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. Tens of thousands of people are without power in Michigan and Illinois after another round of powerful storms. Hundreds of flights out of O'Hare canceled with more cancellations expected today. Germany announcing plans to close every single one of its nuclear power plants by the year 2022. Government officials say renewable energy will take its place as they ramp up investments in energy research. One third of U.S. high school students entering college need some sort of remedial or developmental course in English or math. That's according to a report published by the policy Alliance for Excellent Education in Washington. Politics, a big part of this Memorial Day. Sarah Palin's commemorating the day with a stop in historic Gettysburg. Michele Bachmann's in New Hampshire, and presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty will be attending a pancake breakfast in Iowa. And the top beach in America? Siesta Key near Sarasota, Florida. That's according to Dr. Beach, also known as Florida International professor Steven Leatherman. He says Siesta Key's almost 40 acres of pure quartz crystal sand is like sugar. Beautiful. You're caught up on the day's headlines. After the break, job help for our veterans. Get your pen and paper handy. We've got some ideas for you. AMERICAN MORNING is back in 60 seconds."], "speaker": ["CHO"]}
{"id": "CNN-235971", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-08-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/04/nday.05.html", "summary": "Attempted Terror Attack in Jerusalem; Interview with Jen Psaki; Second Ebola Patient Coming to U.S.", "utt": ["Good morning. And welcome once again to NEW DAY, everybody. It's Monday, August 4th, 8:00 in the East now. And we have breaking developments coming out of the Middle East. An attempted terror attack this morning. Israeli police say a tractor slammed into a passenger bus before the attacker was killed by Israeli police.", "This comes after the backdrop of an Israeli cease-fire. About two hours remain in it, but both sides say it is being violated. Let's get to Anderson Cooper. He's in Jerusalem this morning, just a few miles from where the attack happened. Anderson, what's the latest?", "Yes, good morning, guys. This occurred just in the last hour. You're seeing the video, a heavy piece of earth-moving equipment. It repeatedly slammed into a passenger bus about six times or so, trying to tip it over, finally tipping it over. There was a police officer near the scene, responded, shot the driver of the earth-moving equipment vehicle, shot him dead. The driver of the vehicle now is said to be laying by the side of the vehicle according to Israeli police. There are conflicting reports about the number of injured. Right now, we believe three people have been injured, but again, these are early reports, but the driver who alleged to take place in what Israeli police call a terror attack, Israeli police are saying this is the alleged terrorist who has been shot by Israeli police. That person is laying next to the vehicle. The exact motivation, we do not know much about the driver of the vehicle itself. Early reports are that the passenger on the bus, excuse me, the driver of the passenger bus was also injured, was taken to the hospital. The bus itself was said to be largely empty, so it certainly could have been a lot worse had there been more people on the bus. We are trying to gather more details. This occurred in central Jerusalem about three or so miles from our area near some international hotels. I should point out, this is not the first time that an incident like this has occurred. Back in 2008 and 2009, there were two incidents, one with a police car crushed and another civilian vehicle was hit as well. But again, this obviously is adding to the tension here with about two hours until the end of this self-declared cease-fire or pause in the conflict by Israel. Hamas has not agreed to this. Israel says there have been at least three rockets fired into Israel in the five hours or so that this cease-fire has been in effect. All of this, of course, just adds to the dramatic development to which we have seen over the last 48 hours here. This is a seven-hour cease- fire agreed to that Israel agreed to. Hamas gave no agreement to hold its fire, but Palestinian officials blame Israel saying that Israel fired an air strike shortly after the cease-fire began, some 20 minutes after the cease-fire began, killing one and injuring 30, hitting a family house. Israel disputes that and says rockets have been launched from Gaza, three rockets in all. And this comes a day after the U.N. and U.S have the harshest criticism of Israel on record following another deadly air strike near a U.N. shelter. I want to go to John Vause in Gaza with all the latest. John, what are you seeing and hearing there?", "Hey, Anderson, a different scene here in Gaza city. The streets have come alive over the last couple of hours, just two hours now in that humanitarian window which was declared by the Israelis as streets have been filling up and shops are back open. The children are back out playing on the streets. It's also a chance for many people to head back to those neighborhoods which were hit hard by the Israeli military offensive. Many homes have been leveled and many people are now going through the rubble and are searching for the bodies of those who were killed. We understand a number of bodies, at least according to local reports here, have been pulled from beneath the rubble from those schools. Now, from those homes, rather. Now, this is a limited unilateral pause in the fighting declared by Israel, but they said the military offensive will continue in parts of Gaza n particular down south, around the southern border town of Rafah. Those military operations are ongoing with the U.N. school was hit on Sunday. The Israelis firing the missile and at least nine Palestinians were kill there had. And the reason why Hamas did not agree to this cease-fire, or at least one of the stated reasons, they say that this humanitarian window, well, it's just a diversion by Israel to take away from all of the international condemnation of what happened at that U.N. school in Rafah -- Anderson.", "All right. John, we'll check in with you throughout the day. I want to go to our Saima Mohsin who is standing by at the scene of what Israeli police are calling a terror attack in central Jerusalem. Saima, what's going on? What's the latest?", "All right. Anderson, let me talk you through the scene here. I just arrived from the other end of the street. This is the Mir Shalom (ph) area in Jerusalem. As I came down, there was a huge crowd and then I saw this overturned bus. You can see it clearly is the number 291 that goes through this area. A digger right next to it. It's apparently, a man -- a young man was driving, he hit a car on his way to try to overturn the bus. He did manage to overturn that. So, there were two police officers on patrol in this area at the time. They got into an encounter with the man and they shot him. Now, what I've been told by the police spokesman is that when there's a life- threatening situation, officers are permitted to shoot. And this man was killed. In fact, his body is still lying on the road behind me, Anderson, just next to the digger where he was shot dead. Apparently, paramedics did come, they say they tried to resuscitate him and he died right here at the scene. One other person has been killed as well. That was a pedestrian passing by at the time. The bus was actually empty. The driver, the only person inside it, we are understand that he's being seriously injured. But as you can see, Anderson, I'm going to step aside and let you take a look, there's a lot of police officers here, I believe there's 80 police officers and border police on site already. They acted very fast. And there are a number of fire crews here that are now going to try to clean this up. But this has created a huge amount of attention. This is a rather orthodox neighborhood, a Jewish neighborhood here in the center of Jerusalem. There are huge crowds surrounding here. Families looking over from the tops of roofs of their balconies, and there's been a helicopter as well circling. That's because they are not only looking at this area but they are looking at all areas around here. The police spokesman also told me they are now making inquiries in various other neighborhoods to try to prevent anything like this from happening again -- Anderson.", "Saima, do we know anything about the identity of this vehicle operator, the possible motive for this? I mean, it seems pretty obvious that police were quick to label this a terror attack. This wasn't, from the video we have seen, it wasn't just a mistake. This was multiple strikes by what looks like a backhoe against this bus trying to flip it over. I counted at least five or sticks streams, but have police released anything on the identity of the driver?", "They haven't, actually, Anderson. I did ask that from the police spokesman. I asked how he knows that this is a terror attack. And he said, well, this has happened in the past, particularly in Jerusalem. A couple of years ago, 2008 and 2009, consecutively, someone jumped into a digger to try to overturn the police car, overturn some civilian vehicles as well. So it's happened before, but on this occasion, they simply don't know the answer. I asked him who the man that was in there that is now lying dead behind me, and they said they are still going through his paperwork to try to identify him and find out who exactly he is. But they are labeling this a terror attack based on the assumption that this has happened before. And let's not forget the environment this is happening in, the ongoing military operation in Gaza -- Anderson.", "All right. Appreciate it, thank you very much. We'll check back with you on the scene. Chris, let's go back to you in New York.", "All right. Obviously, you are in the middle of the situation, Anderson. Bu the U.S. involved as well. So, right now, we want to bring in Jen Psaki. She's a spokeswoman for the State Department. Jen, you're there with us. Thank you very much.", "Hi, Chris. Good morning.", "Very tough words out of you and the State Department, big tough words, \"I'm appalled. This is graceful\", comes out of this State Department, talking about this latest attack of this U.N. shelter believed to be done by Israel. You say Hamas being nearby is not a justification for this. The question becomes, what will you do about it?", "Well, Chris, let me first say that there's almost no country in the world that has done more to protect and strengthen Israel security than the United States. That won't change. But the sign of a strong relationship is being able to speak out and convey concerns when we have them. This is the seventh attack on a school. You've been following this closely. And what we need to determine with the international community is exactly the question you posed, where do we go from here? Our objective hasn't changed. We want to see a cease-fire. The question is, who do we get there?", "Complicating factor, you say this is wrong. You can't do this kind of shelling or targeted attacks. You are providing the weapons and artillery that allow these attacks to continue. Does that complicate a message of humanity coming from the United States?", "Well, Chris, let me first say that it's not secret to anyone in the world that the United States and Israel have a strong security relationship and that includes providing them with equipment and supplies when it's needed. That's been ongoing. We also do an enormous amount of funding for the Iron Dome. We work with them and with their military. But does that change the fact that when you a situation where innocent civilians are killed in Gaza, there is more that Israel can do to hold themselves to their own standard, and the United States of all countries has experienced this in places like Afghanistan. We are saying they need to hold themselves to their own standards and do more here in Gaza.", "And then you get pushback on the other side, in two different ways. The first is columnist like Habib (ph) who we had on, Lee Habib, who says, you don't get it. You don't get it, Psaki. You're contextualizing this the wrong way. Of course, they're going to take out civilians, civilians are hiding nearby. Don't make it look like Israel is doing the wrong thing. They're actually doing the least amount of wrong that they possibly could. Is that a fair context of what we're seeing and as you know what we're not showing?", "Well, Chris, you -- CNN has been reporting it, you have been talking about it, every day the world is watching as innocent civilians are killed, as children are having shrapnel pulled out of their back. I think we can all look here and make an evaluation that there's more that can be done. That doesn't change the fact that we believe Israel has the right to defend itself. We want to do everything to support Israel's security, but we are looking at a devastating situation here in Gaza and there's more that can be done.", "And then the other point of pushback. Prime Minister Netanyahu, don't second-guess me again on Hamas. Forget about what his tone is or what it wasn't. The words by themselves stand to the idea that the U.S. got it wrong in the last cease-fire negotiation. You misread the timing. You misread Hamas as a two-headed organization. And you were talking to the wrong one. Fair criticism?", "Absolutely not. I'm obviously not going to speak to reports of leaked private diplomatic conversations, but I will say, Chris, that with every day that passes and every day that passed last week, more people were dying. And we have absolutely no regrets of working with both parties, with the Egyptians, with the Qataris, with the Turks to do everything possible to put in place a prolong cease-fire. Now, clearly, there's more that we need to do to get back to a cease- fire so we can have a discussion and negotiations with the key issues that have been troubling both sides for a long time.", "Do you think the United States can do anything to end this until Israel is satisfied it has gone far enough with the tunnels and what it sees as the demilitarization of Gaza, whatever the costs are, whatever the duration?", "Well, it isn't up to the United States. It has always been up to the parties. But, Chris, I think when you look at the situation you have on the ground, what we want and what we are calling for, what the U.N. called for, what the international community has called for is a prolonged cease-fire to have a negotiation about those key issues. We support demilitarization. That's not an issue that can be addressed or worked out in the matter of 24 hours or 48 hours. It's something that there needs to be a longer discussion about. So, that's the point we want to get to. The Egyptians have indicated they are willing to host it so let's get back to that discussion.", "Any discussion or is impractical or unreasonable, you tell me, any discussion about saying, look, we'll give you these rounds, we'll give you these artillery, but they can only be used for certain things. Is that a reasonable way to limit exposure to civilians in Gaza?", "Well, I think our statement yesterday sent a clear sign that we believe more can be done to limit civilian casualties, prevent civilian casualties, and we think again Israel should hold itself to its own standard. That doesn't change the fact that we have a strong partner with Israel, we are a security partner with Israel, and we'll continue to support them in that regard. And at the end of the day, we don't believe -- we believe they have the right to defend themselves. We don't believe that the people of Israel should be living with the threat of terrorist attacks coming into their cities and towns every day.", "I don't mean this to come across disrespectfully, but you tell me that the straight take on it is, given what you just said, when you use the harsh words, they seem kind of empty because the U.S. supports Israel almost unconditionally. You know why they are doing this. You know they are going to keep doing it. So why even come out with a statement like that that kind of injures Israel, but you're not really going to do anything to stop the practice?", "Well, Chris, with all due respect, I think you are oversimplifying the issue here. The issue here is that Israel, we believe they have the right to defend themselves, and we understand that they can't, the people of Israel can't be waking up every day with terrorists coming in through tunnels, threatening their lives and threatening the health of their people. But at the same time as they are defending themselves, there's more that can be done to prevent attacks that are impacting civilians in Gaza. This is something that we see in war zones around the world. This is not an ask or a standard that is uncommon, that a country like the United States or a country like Israel should hold itself to.", "One last point, the demilitarization of Gaza, there are different points of weapons, ideas can be weapons, people can be weapons. You have a generation of kids growing up in Gaza now who are seen five wars in three years. Those kids are going to grow up with a very definite notion about how they feel towards Israel and frankly probably the United States. What about that impact? How does that get controlled?", "Well, Chris, I think that's a really important point you raised here, because one of the things that the Palestinian people, the people of Gaza, want to discuss is increased economic opportunity and access -- whether it's through Rafah crossings or other crossings, this is an issue that should be on the table. The United States has been a big contributor to not only humanitarian assistance but economic assistance, as has many in the international community. But until the economic changes, we have seen it around the world, it's hard to see how the viewpoint changes and that why that needs to be part of the discussion as well.", "Jen Psaki, we're going to be following this very closely. Thank you for answering questions this morning. Appreciate the opportunity to have you on NEW DAY. All right. A lot of other news as well, let's get the headlines from Michaela.", "Hi, Chris. Here we go: Iraq's largest dam and key oil field are now in control of Sunni militants. They also seized three more towns over the weekend in heavy fighting with Kurdish forces. By taking over the Mosul dam and Sunni fighters have the ability to flood major cities or withhold water from them in their bid to topple Iraq's Shiite-led government. This morning, a team of international investigators and observers are back at the Flight 17 crash site in eastern Ukraine after pausing to assess security. They are now working on the scene focusing on recovering victims' remains. Investigators say shelling in the area was close but it is not clear where it was coming from. Back here at home, firefighters are battling two raging wildfires in Northern California. Eight homes have been destroyed and a hospital in the path of the flames was evacuated. Officials evacuated three other communities in the area and say more than 700 homes remain in danger, 95 square miles of the national forest have burned as of Sunday night. California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency over the weekend. A U.S. Air Force plane crossed into Swedish air space to avoid Russian fighter jets last month. The U.S. military officials just disclosed this incident. The electronics surveillance plane was in international air space on July 18th, when it was approached by Russian jets. The plane flew into Sweden briefly before air traffic controllers told them to leave Swedish air space. Interesting that this is just being disclosed now.", "Exactly right.", "Often the case. Often the case. You don't know when you need to know. Let's take a little break on NEW DAY, so, breaking new details on the serum that may have saved the life of that American doctor who is battling Ebola. We have Dr. Sanjay Gupta and a doctor from the National Institutes of Health. They're going to answer the most pressing questions.", "And one person is dead, many more stranded after dangerous mudslides are happening out west. Cars abandoned and children left waiting for rescuers as rescue are still happening right now. We're going to have the very latest coming from California."], "speaker": ["KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST, AC360", "JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "MOHSIN", "COOPER", "CUOMO", "JEN PSAKI, SPOKESWOMAN, STATE DEPARTMENT", "CUOMO", "PSAKI", "CUOMO", "PSAKI", "CUOMO", "PSAKI", "CUOMO", "PSAKI", "CUOMO", "PSAKI", "CUOMO", "PSAKI", "CUOMO", "PSAKI", "CUOMO", "PSAKI", "CUOMO", "MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-143225", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-9-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/23/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Terror Warning Expands to Stadiums, Hotels and Entertainment Places; Soft Target Security: How to Protect Americans at Open Access Sites", "utt": ["Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. We just heard from Deborah Feyerick about the expanding terror investigation in New York and Denver. And new alerts now issued for stadiums, hotels and entertainment sites. This morning our Jason Carroll is focusing on security at one of these so-called soft targets where Americans may be most vulnerable, and he joins us now. Hi, Jason.", "Yes, we're talking about luxury hotels. You know, the Department of Homeland Security has a list of protective measures for hotels to follow if they so choose. But will they choose to upgrade security, and if they do, will their customers be up for it?", "The United States is a country that prides itself on its open society. A place where people can see a movie or go to a ball game, or check into a hotel without having to pass through the same type of security found at airports. But what if that changed? What if there were security checkpoints at hotels?", "I kind of would hate to move in that direction. I think what's great about America is the freedom to go places.", "Once it starts, I think people get used to it.", "In comparison, heightened hotel security is not unusual overseas. The Sheraton in Karachi, Pakistan, armed guards on patrol, none at the Sheraton in Los Angeles. The Marriott in Jakarta, Indonesia. Metal detectors. None at this Marriott in Washington, D.C. Now that the Department of Homeland Security has released a bulletin saying hotels are attractive targets for terrorists and generally lack the security to prevent access by terrorists, some security experts say it's time U.S. hotels become more proactive in increasing security. Pat D'Amuro is the FBI's former executive assistant director of counterterrorism and counterintelligence.", "You have to be reasonable. You have to protect your guests, and you have to try to make it as unintrusive as possible. However, the guests are going to have to realize that this is being done for their safety.", "Several suggested protective measures are outlined in the Homeland Security bulletin such as installing perimeter barriers, adding highly visible security, and random screening of guests. We contacted several major chain hotels including Marriott and Starwood resorts to ask about the likelihood of implementing the recommendations. None would comment. Clark Ervin does not believe U.S. hotels will change. He's the author of \"Open Target: Where America is Vulnerable for Attack.\"", "9/11 proves that we are no longer impermeable to the kinds of security threats that other countries around the world, sadly, have routinely had to deal with. And so we're going to have to learn either to put up with these kinds of security measures before an attack happens or to do it after.", "Well, a representative at Hilton weighed in on the topic, giving us a statement, saying Hilton Hotels Corporation views guest and employee safety as our highest priority and has comprehensive security policies and procedures. We continually monitor security-related practices, and we work with law enforcement whenever additional guidance is need. And you know, working with law enforcement is another one of those recommendations that came out that hotels should be doing, working more with first responders, working more with law enforcement to upgrade their measures.", "Yes. You know, as we've seen overseas some hotels do have security, they still get hit by terrorists.", "Very true.", "Counterterrorism investigation certainly is a big part of the puzzle.", "Yes.", "Jason, good piece. Thanks.", "Thank you.", "Thanks, Jason. Well, still ahead, you know, we've been talking about difficult times, unemployment still continuing to rise. And a lot of people that really are relying on these unemployment benefits and having them extended. Well, now, there's a new push in Congress for even more weeks to be added on to these extended benefits. How it may help you or somebody you know. We're going to talk about with Christine Romans still ahead. Seventeen and a half minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["ROBERTS", "JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CARROLL (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CARROLL", "PAT D'AMURO, GIULIANI SECURITY AND SAFETY", "CARROLL", "CLARK ERVIN, THE ASPEN INSTITUTE", "CARROLL", "ROBERTS", "CARROLL", "ROBERTS", "CARROLL", "ROBERTS", "CARROLL", "CHETRY"]}
{"id": "CNN-73238", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2003-7-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/04/lt.12.html", "summary": "Al Jazeera Airs Saddam Tape", "utt": ["Well, topping the news right now, a new message said to be from Saddam Hussein. A voice purported to be that of the ousted Iraqi leader aired today on Al Jazerra television. Baghdad Bureau Chief Jane Arraf joins us now from the Iraqi capital with more on that. Jane, what's the reaction from there on this Al Jazerra tape?", "Fredricka, it is sending chills down people's spines. It's a voice people have listened to for more than 30 years, and a lot of people who heard it today say it is him. He sounds a little weaker, a little older, perhaps a lot more tired, but it definitively sounds to many Iraqis like their former president, their toppled leader. Now, in this message, which, according to Al Jazerra, ran about 20 minutes, he congratulates those fighters that are fighting against what he calls the infidels. He says he is still in Iraq, as are his comrades, and he salutes them.", "I would like to clarify that my friends and my brothers from the leadership are present in Iraq now. Therefore, I greet them, greet you, and greet the Mujahadeen in the occupation forces' prisons and in the battlefield. I honor their sacrifices and heroism.", "And he says there's good news, that cells for jihad, holy war, have been formed and brigades, and what possibly may be evidence of that as well as other causes is attacks continue on U.S. soldiers. U.S. military announcing that 16 soldiers were wounded in a mortar attack last night on a military outpost in the town of Beled, north of Baghdad, two of those seriously enough to still be in hospital. Another soldier killed last night in an attack as he was guarding a museum in Baghdad. Despite that, the troops did try to celebrate today 4th of July. They did that with barbecues, with concerts, an appearance by film star Arnold Schwarzenegger, and other things in their own small way. But, certainly these continuing attacks do cast a pall over their celebrations -- Fredricka.", "All right. Jane Arraf with a mixed bag there coming there from Baghdad. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "JANE ARRAF, CNN BAGHDAD BUREAU CHIEF", "SADDAM HUSSEIN, FORMER PRESIDENT OF IRAQ (through translator)", "ARRAF", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-86880", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2004-8-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/06/lt.04.html", "summary": "Bush Says Economy Rebounding Despite Labor Department Figures; Political Sites Popular on Web", "utt": ["Saudi authorities say that they've arrested one of the senior al Qaeda leaders in the kingdom. A ministry official says that Faris al-Zahrani was captured in the mountains southwest of Saudi Arabia near the border of Yemen. Al-Zahrani was on the Saudi's most wanted of terror suspects. A surprising job report today. The nation payrolls grew dramatically slower than expected in July, adding just 32,000 jobs. An expert says that may cause the fed to rethink an increase in interest rates for now. And detectives in central Florida are investigating multiple murders this morning. Six bodies were found in a home in Deltona. Authorities talked about the grizzly find just a short time ago.", "At this time, it appears we have six victims in the house: four males, two females and a dog. All of the individuals in the house are all adults, 18 or above. We have an identity -- a tentative identity on some of them, but not all of them.", "It's not known if the victims are related. Keeping you informed. CNN is the most trusted name in news. To our political news now. Today, President Bush told a conference of journalists in Washington, D.C., that the economy is strong and it's getting stronger. But there are new figures out from the Labor Department, showing that job growth in July was sharply below analysts' predictions. Our Kathleen Koch is in Washington to sort all this out for us. Kathleen, good morning.", "Good morning, Daryn. Yes, some bad economic news for President Bush as he heads out again on the campaign trail today. The president departing last hour for the battleground state of New Hampshire. That was a state that he lost by -- he won, I should say, by just one percentage point over Al Gore back in 2000. He'll be speaking to a rally of some 4,000 supporters in Stratham. But before he left, Mr. Bush addressed the Unity Conference here in Washington. It's the world's largest gathering of journalists of color. Mr. Bush touted the progress that his administration has made in education, in health care, minority home ownership. He did not, though, make mention of these new and disappointing job numbers. Greg Mankiw, the head of the president's council of economic advisors told me the administration is not satisfied with the new numbers, that they believe overall the economy is headed in the right direction, but that they know they have more to do. President Bush insisted to the audience of journalists this morning that his policies have actually strengthened the economy.", "You know, when I came into office, we had a problem with our economy. It was in a recession. In order to make sure this country is hopeful and people have a better chance to realize their dreams, we need economic growth. That's why I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them. It was to stimulate the economy. It was to have people have more money in their pocket so they would demand additional goods or services. And the economic growth is strong, and it's getting stronger. And that's good for everybody in America.", "The president's Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry, spoke to the Unity Conference yesterday, Senator Kerry telling the crowd that America is, in his opinion, still a house divided, separate, but unequal in many ways. He vowed that as president he would be committed to bridging those gaps. President Bush created a gap of his own when he refused an invitation in early July to speak to the NAACP. That made him the first president since Herbert Hoover to decline an invitation to speak to that group while in office. But President Bush today obviously doing his best, reaching out, trying to mend those fences. Back to you.", "Kathleen Koch at the White House. Kathleen, thank you. Let's check in on the Kerry campaign. That campaign is very angry over a blistering new campaign commercial that accuses the Senator of lying about his service in Vietnam. Let's take a look.", "... about what John Kerry is made of, just spend three minutes with the men who served with him.", "I served with John Kerry.", "I served with John Kerry.", "John Kerry has not been honest about what happened in Vietnam.", "He is lying about his record.", "I know John Kerry is lying about his first Purple Heart, because I treated him for that injury.", "The plan is for the spot to air in three battleground states. Bob Elder is with Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Del Sandusky piloted John Kerry's swift boat in Vietnam and is campaigning for the Senator. They both appeared on CNN's \"AMERICAN MORNING\" today with Bill Hemmer.", "Make that claim for two reasons. One, as you could see, it was that he betrayed all of us when he came home and went in front of the Congress of the United States and I accused all of us of war crimes. That is not what a war hero is made of. Secondly, we believe he grossly exaggerated, and even lied, about some of the circumstances under which certain awards were given to him.", "I was with John Kerry. I was the leading petty officer in the helmsman on PCF 94. I served with John Kerry. Those men did not serve with John Kerry. We were all in the same war at the same time possibly, but I could say the same thing: I served with General Westmoreland. Their ad is a pack of lies.", "The ad right now is scheduled to air in Wisconsin, Ohio and West Virginia. The Kerry campaign calls it an inflammatory, outrageous lie. What's old is new again in politics, and at the movies, the new old film about the ways of Washington caught the eye of our senior political analyst, Bill Schneider.", "Who is the real Manchurian candidate? That's become the big guessing game ever since a remake of the 1962 movie was released last week. The original portrayed a communist conspiracy bent on subverting the American political system.", "I served them. I fought for them. I'm on the point of winning for them the greatest foothold they will ever have in this country.", "But with a twist. The communists were using her husband, a Joe McCarthy-like politician, as a front man.", "I have here a list of the names of 207 persons who are known by the secretary of defense as being members of the Communist Party.", "Cut to 2004.", "I think this is a very different kind of thing, concerned with different fears, different kinds of paranoia.", "In the remake, the scheme to subvert the American political system is masterminded by a powerful, shadowy, multi- national corporation.", "Among the shareholders in Manchurian Global, were they ever to publish a list, which they won't, you would find former presidents, deposed kings, trust fund terrorists, fallen communist dictators, ayatollahs, African warlords and retired prime ministers.", "Modeled on Halliburton, the company Dick Cheney used to run? Ask the film's director.", "We are once again being terrified by our leaders into giving them carte blanche to conduct our affairs around the globe however they personally see fit, at great profit, by the way, to the multi-national corporations that they have so much involvement in.", "On the Web, some indignant conservatives say \"The Manchurian Candidate\" is John Kerry, a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of George Soros, one of his wealthy backers. There's no end to the speculation about the villain played by Meryl Streep.", "Make no mistake, the American people are terrified. They know something is coming. They can feel it. And we can either shovel them the same old sugar, or we can arm them. We can arm them with a young, vibrant vice president.", "Notice the haircut. One conservative web site asks, \"A cold, diabolical, manipulative member of the U.S. Senate. Any thoughts on a real life middle-aged blonde who might fit the description?\" Bill Schneider, CNN, Washington.", "All right. We'll leave that to you to figure that out and answer that question. Meanwhile, we want to let you know that President and Mrs. Bush will be sitting down for our \"LARRY KING LIVE.\" That's next Thursday for an exclusive joint interview. That will come your way 9 p.m. Eastern Thursday on CNN. It's 9 p.m. every night. The Brits say they are doing it in the name of the war on terror, removing something important from British passports. It's a story guarantee to do make you frown. That's later. But next, Cialis, Prilosec, Nexium, Streptera (ph)? These days, everything's a disease and can be all treated with something that's advertised on television. Our \"Daily Dose\" segment asks if America is overdosing on prescription meds."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, ANCHOR", "SHERIFF BEN JOHNSON, VOLUSIA COUNTY", "KAGAN", "KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-382026", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-10-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/04/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Origins of U.S. Hong Kong Involvement", "utt": ["My colleagues and I are learning new details this morning about a call between the president and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, in which President Trump promised that the U.S. would remain silent about pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, while U.S. and China continued their trade talks. Widespread demonstrations have continued for months in Hong Kong, some leading to violent clashes between protestors and police. Just a few days ago, an 18-year-old protestor was shot in the chest by a Hong Kong police officer. Joining me now, CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger. She and I reported out this story together.", "Yes.", "So the U.S. president gets on a call with the Chinese president, the leader of an authoritarian country, and says, I'm not going to raise pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. How significant is that?", "Well, it's the way Trump does business. And given everything else that's going on, it's just part -- a piece of this, it's all a piece of this. But it's sort of like, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. And for a president who says he's being tough with China, he's -- you know, they're going to beg him for a trade deal, you know, he offers to say, OK, I'm not going to touch a human rights concern, which the United States has apparently --", "A priority for the U.S. for decades, yes.", "Exactly. I'm not going to touch this, so long as these trade talks continue. And you know, I think it's significant in that sense.", "We -- one detail that's interesting here is that this message clearly went out in the administration --", "Oh, totally.", "-- everybody's got to shut up. Tell us how that played out.", "And -- and this is important for people to understand, Because the State Department is big and has a lot of people working there, and there's someone named Kurt Tong, who was the U.S. general counsel in Hong Kong. And he was scheduled to give a couple of speeches in Washington about the circumstances in Hong Kong, what's going on, the human rights considerations, et cetera, et cetera. And the message came to him from the State Department, no. You have to cancel these speeches because we in the State Department are not allowed to speak about Hong Kong because this has come from on high.", "Yes.", "And so this is how this kind of stuff filters down. I should point out that Tong did eventually give a speech on Hong Kong, but that was only after he left the State Department. But his orders were, from the Pompeo-led State Department, you are not allowed to speak about this. So, effectively, he was muzzled from talking about this human rights concern.", "Listen, I spent two years in government. In China, the easiest thing for a U.S. official to do is to call out support for human rights --", "Exactly.", "-- and democracy in a country like this. You know, I had the White House trade advisor, Peter Navarro, who's directly involved, as you know, in these talks with China. And I asked him a very simple point-blank question. Did you ever bring up investigating Biden in trade talks? Listen to how he dodged that question. I want to get your reaction.", "Have you ever raised investigating Joe Biden or his son during your contacts with Chinese officials?", "Me personally?", "Yes.", "Now, here's the thing. I will never talk about what happens inside the White House. How is it that a U.S. president, going forward, is ever going to be able to have a candid conversation with a foreign leader about any sensitive matter, if the jackals are always wanting (ph) to get things revealed? You guys want every transcript revealed of everything.", "-- well, but just before we go, I'll just give you the opportunity. Have you ever raised investigating Joe Biden or his son in Chinese negotiations?", "Have -- have you ever given me a source that's -- other than anonymous, for any of this crap?", "Frequent talking point.", "I think that's a non-answer.", "Why can't he answer? I didn't --", "Because maybe he -- look, it's a non-answer. And he's clearly on his talking points. And, by the way, I would remind Peter Navarro that it was the president who wanted the transcript released.", "Right.", "It wasn't us -- what did he call us? Jackals?", "Yes. Jackals.", "And -- that's a new one. And I -- but it was the president who said, release the transcript because his phone conversation was perfect and beautiful.", "Yes. And beautiful.", "And beautiful. And so this -- these things don't happen in a vacuum. You weren't asking that question in a vacuum. You were asking that question because there's a possibility that, yes, Biden was raised. But, you know, I think that what's interesting to me, this morning, that we're hearing, the talking points are going out to Republicans on Capitol Hill. All of them are about the Democrats, they're about the media. Not one talking point that I have read is about saying what Donald Trump did is", "Right.", "-- not one. And Peter Navarro could not say that either.", "Gloria Borger, nice to work with you on this story.", "Thanks.", "Here's a look at \"What to Watch,\" coming up today.", "What to Watch... 11:40 a.m. Eastern, A.G. Barr speaks at DOJ event; 4:00 p.m. Eastern, Dem candidates speak at forum; 4:30 p.m. Eastern, Trump delivers remarks at summit", "Well, despite the fast-paced developments in the impeachment inquiry and Ukraine scandal, President Trump is not getting much pushback from lawmakers in his own party. Why are most Republicans staying silent? And how long can they keep it up?"], "speaker": ["SCIUTTO", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST", "SCIUTTO", "BORGER", "SCIUTTO", "BORGER", "SCIUTTO", "BORGER", "SCIUTTO", "BORGER", "SCIUTTO", "BORGER", "SCIUTTO", "BORGER", "SCIUTTO", "SCIUTTO", "PETER NAVARRO, DIRECTOR, WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF TRADE AND MANUFACTURING POLICY", "SCIUTTO", "NAVARRO", "SCIUTTO", "NAVARRO", "SCIUTTO", "BORGER", "SCIUTTO", "BORGER", "SCIUTTO", "BORGER", "SCIUTTO", "BORGER", "SCIUTTO", "BORGER", "OK -- SCIUTTO", "BORGER", "SCIUTTO", "BORGER", "SCIUTTO", "TEXT", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "CNN-411663", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2020-09-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/23/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Protests Underway, Curfew To Go Into Effect In Louisville; No Officers Directly Charged With Breonna Taylor's Death; Protesters Take To The Streets After One Officer Is Charged In Breonna Taylor Case But Not For Her Death; Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) Discusses About Her Reaction About Kentucky Attorney General, About Grand Jury Decision On Breonna Taylor Shooting", "utt": ["Thanks very much for watching. I'm Wolf Blitzer in THE SITUATION ROOM. \"ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT\" starts right now.", "OUTFRONT next breaking news, protests growing after not a single officer was directly charged with the death of Breonna Taylor. The Kentucky National Guard and state police activated. A curfew about to take effect as armed militia groups are now taking to the streets. And the President refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after Election Day. It is a stunning development tonight and Sen. Chuck Schumer will respond right here. Also, Dr. Deborah Birx, once a staple of the Coronavirus Task Force, now distressed questioning how much longer she can stay. She been replaced by that controversial, Dr. Scott Atlas. Let's go OUTFRONT. And good evening. I'm Erin Burnett. And OUTFRONT tonight the breaking news, tensions rising on the streets across this nation tonight after a grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky charged just one officer in the Breonna Taylor case. That officer though not charged with the actual killing of the 26-year-old nor were the other officers present. You are looking at pictures of a tense standoff in Louisville. Police as you can see in riot gear facing off against the crowd. That is what you see now still in daylight. The crowd growing in size tonight, curfew going in effect in less than two hours from as we are watching this right now. And to add to the tension on the ground, this is video of a militia group. That is a militia group marching through the streets with long guns earlier today in Louisville. Now, Taylor was shot six times in her apartment in the middle of the night last March. Lawyers for Taylor's family calling the decision today outrageous and offensive, their words. But earlier today, Kentucky's Attorney General defended the grand jury's decision.", "Breonna Taylor's death has become a part of a national story and conversation. But we must also remember the facts and the collection of evidence in this case are different than cases elsewhere in the country. If we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice. Mob justice is not justice.", "As the Attorney General is referencing, Taylor became one of the faces of nationwide protests against police shootings. And just moments ago, President Trump was asked about today's decision, here's his response.", "I thought it was really brilliant, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is doing a fantastic job. He's handling it very well.", "All right. There's a lot to get to tonight and the nation, of course, now on edge. I want to start though with Shimon Prokupecz OUTFRONT live in Louisville. Shimon, so we just had showed some pictures of what was happening just moments ago with the altercation between riot-gear clad police and protesters. What are you seeing and hearing now?", "Yes. So, Erin, we are here at Jefferson Square Park and you can see behind me several hundred protesters have gathered. They're trying to decide whether or not they're going to march. They gave some indications that they were going to march. But here's the thing as we have seen, as I've seen through the night here, police here moving in quickly when they feel things are escalating. This as tension remains high here.", "Outrage in the streets after a controversial grand jury decision in the police killing of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor in March. Three Louisville officers were involved in a gun battle with Taylor's boyfriend where she was shot multiple times and only one was indicted.", "The fatal shot was fired by Detective Cosgrove.", "Detective Myles Cosgrove not indicted.", "Sergeant Mattingly was the first and only officer to enter the residence.", "Sergeant Jon Mattingly not indicted either.", "According to Kentucky law, the use of force by Mattingly and Cosgrove was justified to protect themselves.", "Only former Detective Brett Hankison was charged with three counts of wanton endangerment not to Taylor or her boyfriend but to the apartment next door. Back in June, Hankinson was fired and reprimanded by the Interim Police Chief in a letter. It accused him of wantonly and blindly firing into Taylor's apartment through a curtain. Several of those shots went through the neighbor's house. The officers were executing a no-knock search warrant for a narcotics investigation. But the Attorney General says a witness heard police knocking before they broke down the door.", "Evidence shows that officers both knocked and announced their presence at the apartment.", "Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, says he never heard police announced themselves.", "All of a sudden someone started beating on the door. They refused to answer when we yelled, \"Who is it?\"", "Walker fired the first shot hitting Mattingly in the leg. In a matter of seconds the three officers returned fire.", "Fifteen minutes later, Breonna was dead from a hell of police gunfire.", "Breonna Taylor's family and supporters were expecting stronger charges against the officers, manslaughter. The family's attorney, Ben Crump, calling it outrageous and offensive. The Attorney General urged the public not to politicize the decision.", "There will be celebrities, influencers and activists who having never lived in Kentucky will try to tell us how to feel, suggesting they understand the facts but they don't.", "But on the streets of Louisville, the National Guard has been called in to prepare for protests. As the Mayor announcing a three-night-long curfew beginning at 9 pm.", "We must plan for the potential for large gatherings. I urge everyone to commit once again to a peaceful, lawful response.", "And Erin, as you said the curfew two hours away now, less than two hours, and police here, as I said earlier, have given indications that they're going to move in and strictly enforce this curfew. This is something that is certainly on the mind of many of the people you see here who have given indications are going to march. The issue is that there's a curfew here starting at nine o'clock, so we'll be here and we'll see what happens. But again, tension here remains high and the big thing is going to be whether or not the police move in to try and enforce the curfew.", "Shimon, thank you very much. And we're going to continue to watch here what happens over the next few moments. OUTFRONT now Sadiqa Reynolds, the President and CEO of the Louisville Urban League, Criminal Defense Attorney Joey Jackson and our Investigative Correspondent Drew Griffin who has covered the story extensively. Sadiqa, I want to start with you. Now, of course, that we're seeing what happened earlier in the streets of Louisville and now people gathering, determining whether to march into that curfew. You have been speaking out about Breonna Taylor for months and today no officers charged directly in her deadly shooting. Were you shocked? I mean, how disappointed are you?", "I am profoundly disappointed. Unfortunately, I cannot say that I am shocked because I am a black woman in America and I know that our lives have not had much value in this country. I did expect more from my city and I am mad at myself for building my hopes up and keeping this community hopeful, but it is what it is. And these people marching in the streets, my god, they have a right to their rage, we all do. This is very, very disappointing day for all of us in Louisville, Kentucky and across this country.", "So Joey, the charges, the ones that there were, were only for one of the three officers, former officer Brett Hankinson charged with three counts of first degree wanton endangerment. And as Shimon was laying out, that was for putting the lives of other neighbors at risk when he opened fire, not in relation to shooting at Breonna Taylor or her boyfriend. When you look at the evidence in the case, as the Attorney General is telling everybody to do. Do you think the charges and lack thereof makes sense?", "So Erin, I'm troubled and I'm concerned. And with respect to the Attorney General who says that there'll be people outside of Kentucky who have opinions, yes, people outside of Kentucky do have opinions. We have a country that has opinions and that opinion focuses on accountability, so let's talk about that briefly. We're talking about a grand jury. What's the significance of that? A grand jury, Erin, doesn't determine proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. A grand jury assesses the evidence and establishes whether there's reasonable cause to believe that there was a crime and that the officers in question committed it. That gives you a lot of leeway with respect to the grand jury to what you ultimately conclude. And you don't have to, by the way, be unanimous. Why is all this relevant? We've often said that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich. Well, it depends what information they're saying. And this contradictory evidence and information what I'm concerned about is how the case was presented. What did they hear? What information were they given such that they drew the conclusion? So yes, it's very concerning. I don't live in Kentucky, right, to the Attorney General, but as a person outside of it having evaluated followed and view the evidence, I am concerned with respect to the conclusions of grand jury reach and I want to know what information they were given such that they reach the conclusion rendered that we all heard today.", "So it's really, I think, really crucial that you lay that out, because I think a lot of people may not realize, we may not all realize what information they had, right? It's like a function machine. What you get going in has a lot to do with what you're going to conclude coming out. Drew, among the things we do know, we knew Taylor's boyfriend fired first and he says he and Breonna were both afraid, that was why, and that the police never identified themselves, which is core to the reason for the limited charges. Here's the Kentucky Attorney General on this specific issue of the no- knock warrant again.", "They did knock and announce. The important point here is that information was corroborated by another witness who was in close proximity to apartment four who corroborated that information and said that there was a knocking and announcing by the officers.", "Was the witness a civilian or law enforcement?", "The witness was a civilian.", "OK. Drew, this is crucial to the whole thing and you spoke to multiple witnesses, including a woman who was just two inches away, who backed up Taylor's boyfriend saying the police did not identify themselves. So when you heard this today from the Attorney General, were you surprised?", "No. But it goes to Joey's point, which is what was presented to the grand jury. We know that there was somebody in that apartment complex. It's a very tight corridor with four apartments up, four apartments down. The doors are very close to each other. We know that one person did poke his head out to see what was happening. Now, if that person was up at 12:40, heard something outside, poked his head out and then heard it was the police, that's a different set of facts than if you're inside an apartment like Kenneth Walker and Breonna Taylor lying in bed, dozing off to sleep and you don't hear anything. You're right. The witnesses that I talked to none of them heard police. Two of them were woken up by gunfire, one teenage girl says she woke up and thought it was a domestic fight. All she heard was shouting. None of them heard the word police open up.", "So I mean as you say, this is crucial here to the whole issue of charges. And Joey, when I mentioned the shot, I'm sorry, from Taylor's boyfriend, it was one shot and he says he aimed low which by the way this appears to be true, because the officer he shot was hit - was shot in the leg. So he has his one shot at the leg. The three officers in return file a total of 32 shots, 22 from the officers who did not get charged. The Attorney General today says the use of force was justified by those two officers not charged and the former police commissioner for Philadelphia, Charles Ramsey, has just weighed in. He said, I thought this was interesting, \"It's a tragedy, plain and simple, but they were justified in returning fire. In my opinion, nobody had any of this information that we're discussing now.\" What do you think?", "I respect Mr. Ramsay greatly and has done a great service to this country and to his community. Here's what I think, what I think there comes a point in time where force is excessive. What I think is that in order to get to the issue of criminality, you don't have to reach a conclusion as a grand jury that someone acted intentionally. At what point, Erin, does my conduct become so unreasonable that it transcends the boundaries of my training and goes into the boundaries of what could be deemed to be criminality? Was there any negligence involved in what these officers were doing and firing these 30 shots or open 30 that you talked about? Was there any recklessness with respect to their conduct? These are all the things that have to be measured and evaluated. Final point, we can debate the issue of justification all day and all night. At the end of the day, though, that's a jury determination, not a grand jury determination, but a jury determination and I think people are so upset because of the short circuiting of the process. If you feel that something happened here, you can guide the grand jury accordingly. If you don't feel that something happened, you can guide them accordingly. At the end of the day, a prosecutor should present the evidence, grand juries indict and a trial jury makes the ultimate conclusion. And the fact that a jury will not make that decision is very troubling.", "Drew, was there anything that stood out to you that surprised you by what the Attorney General said today in his defense of this decision?", "Not in defense of his decision, based on the facts he presented, I can see how he reasonably believes the grand jury was correct in its decision making. But the big, big hole in all of this is why those officers were at that door in the first place. It was completely shoddy police work, terrible intelligence, copy and pasted search warrants. And let's go back all the way to the beginning. The actual target of this whole operation was a petty street drug dealer under surveillance that could have been arrested at any time for the months they had in being surveilled in advance. And none of the surveillance implicated directly Breonna Taylor, so why did they go to this single woman, they thought was in that apartment alone at 12:40 at night with a battering ram. That part of it makes no sense. The officers who were there were ordered to do that, OK? So you have to take them away from the decision making, which I think is really the criminal aspect of this.", "And that is why I believe you see all these people out on the streets, because of exactly what you point out. And Sadiqa is nodding so strenuously too. Thank you all so very much.", "Can I say something else, oh, this is frustrating.", "Go ahead quickly.", "Well, I just want to tell you, the grand jury process did not work for Kenneth Walker in the same way that it worked for the LMPD police officers and that's another reason people are in the street. They recognize the difference in justice, who you are, where you are and what you have access to. There are so many places along the way in this case where black people, where Breonna Taylor, where Kenneth Walker did not get justice and we still don't have it.", "All right. Thank you. I appreciate your time, all of you. And next, our breaking news coverage of Breonna Taylor continues. These are live pictures. This is Brooklyn that you're looking at right now. The civil rights leader warning protesters that any violence though will only help Trump. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is here. Plus, Dr. Anthony Fauci takes on Senator Rand Paul's wild claims about coronavirus.", "This happens with Sen. Rand all the time. You were not listening to what the Director of the CDC said.", "Plus, the President not committing to providing a peaceful transition of power, directly not committing tonight if he loses the election."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "ERIN BURNETT, CNN HOST", "DANIEL CAMERON, KENTUCKY ATTORNEY GENERAL", "BURNETT", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BURNETT", "SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN CRIME & JUSTICE REPORTER", "PROKUPECZ (voice over)", "CAMERON", "PROKUPECZ (voice over)", "CAMERON", "PROKUPECZ (voice over)", "CAMERON", "PROKUPECZ (voice over)", "CAMERON", "PROKUPECZ (voice over)", "KENNETH WALKER, BREONNA TAYLOR'S BOYFRIEND", "PROKUPECZ (voice over)", "WALKER", "PROKUPECZ (voice over)", "CAMERON", "PROKUPECZ (voice over)", "MAYOR GREG FISCHER (D) LOUISVILLE METRO", "PROKUPECZ", "BURNETT", "SADIQA REYNOLDS, PRESIDENT, LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE", "BURNETT", "JOEY JACKSON, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BURNETT", "CAMERON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CAMERON", "BURNETT", "DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT", "BURNETT", "JACKSON", "BURNETT", "GRIFFIN", "BURNETT", "REYNOLDS", "BURNETT", "REYNOLDS", "BURNETT", "DR. 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{"id": "NPR-10815", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2012-06-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/06/08/154587990/identifying-the-real-culprit-behind-killer-vascular-diseases", "title": "Identifying The Real Culprit Behind Killer Vascular Diseases", "summary": "Reporting in the journal Nature Communications,researchers write that they were able to track down the cells causing clogged arteries. Dr. Jill Helms, co-author on the study, discusses why stem cells are to blame and how the study could lead to more effective treatments.", "utt": ["This is SCIENCE FRIDAY, I'm Ira Flatow. Every once in a while there is a study that gives scientists a new way to look at an old problem, and a group of researchers say their study in Nature Communications this week does just that.", "For decades, scientists have thought that heart disease is caused by smooth muscle cells that line the walls of blood vessels. The belief is that when blood vessels are damaged by LDL or that bad cholesterol, the smooth muscle cells are triggered to proliferate. So they build up scar tissue that makes the vessel both narrow and hardened.", "And these changes can restrict blood flow and may cause heart attack or stroke, a leading cause of death in America. But a team led by scientists at UC Berkeley says that they have uncovered the real culprit behind clogged arteries, and it's not just smooth muscle cells, as previously thought, but stem cells, a finding if corroborated that could lead to a new direction for future treatment of heart disease.", "Dr. Jill Helms is a professor in the Department of Surgery at Stanford School of Medicine. She is co-author of the study and joins us from Stanford. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.", "DR. JILL HELMS: Well, my pleasure to be here, Ira. I want to start out by telling you that you and SCIENCE FRIDAY have a great fan base here at Stanford.", "Well, that's very good to hear. Thank you very much.", "You're welcome.", "And we're enjoying the work that you're helping us broadcast about, which is what I want to talk today about. This is really interesting. Before the study, we thought that clogged arteries are clogged by how? And what have you done to change that view?", "Well, I think that the prevailing idea was that clogged arteries are caused by a group of cells that exist around a blood vessel, and they begin to grow or proliferate, as you had mentioned. And I guess it's sort of like a pair of Spanx that goes out of control.", "You know, normally the cells around the vessel hold it in a snug manner, but when the cells around the blood vessel grow too much, then they narrow the lumina(ph), the diameter of the vessel. And I think that's where the big - of course we understood which cells were responsible, or I should say we thought we knew, and that's where Song Lee(ph) and his students made a really critical insight.", "They saw that instead of this - just smooth muscle cells, there was actually two populations, and the second was a stem cell-like population. This appears to be the cells that caused the trouble.", "So the stem cells start to proliferate and create smooth muscle cells on the wall of the artery?", "They create all sorts of things - excuse me. As a consequence of their being stem cells, of course they're capable of differentiating into lots of different cell types, and that's what Song showed. He showed that they could differentiate into fat-producing adipocytes, bone-producing osteoblasts, even differentiate into neural cells.", "And that's where he made a key discovery, I think, in that understanding that these were stem cells.", "And so these cells, would they be lining the artery walls in all different forms, as...", "That's right.", "You know, that's why there's calcium deposits there sometimes perhaps, because it may be bone?", "That's right. That's - the capability of these cells to differentiate into bone-producing cells is, of course, associated with vascular diseases. And so I guess where I came in was that we were working on these areas. Even though he works just across the Bay from me - I met him at a meeting in Japan that was sponsored by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, or CIRM, and they fund a lot of stem cell research in California.", "And so what did you do to prove this, to show it in operation?", "So the important part was to be able to demonstrate that these cells really were stem cells, and he had an idea that they were derived from a population called the neural crest. And that's the area that I work in. Neural crest cells are an embryonic population of cells that have the same ability to make fat, bone, cartilage, nerve, and as a consequence of the similarities between the two cell types, we found that indeed the cells that exist around the vessels, these stem cell-like, the stem cells that exist around the vessels, look like neural crest cells.", "This gives us a real handle on what their behavior is and what might regulate them in disease states.", "Well, if you see them there, could you actually show them in action clogging the arteries up?", "Well, in action is a difficult thing because that requires some kind of dynamic visualization of the process. And, you know, it's a slow process, getting our arteries hardened. But what you can do is create the disease in animals and then follow, using genetic strategies, follow the fates of the cells so that we can sort of indelibly label the cells, when they're still stem cells, and then follow where they go in the disease state.", "And using that kind of approach, we are able to show that they are indeed stem cells.", "So you can label them with a dye or something and see where they proliferate, and if they line the arteries, there they are, and they're creating stuff.", "Yes, very close to that. It's a genetic strategy, so it's not a dye, actually, but a gene that makes a protein that can be detected by a dye reaction.", "1-800-989-8255, talking with Dr. Jill Helms, saying that - if I may summarize this, and correct me if I'm wrong - is that stem cells are at the root of hardening of the arteries. That simple.", "Yes, yes.", "Wow, and...", "I will say that one of the big opportunities this presents is that when you know the cause of a disease, then you can start thinking about ways to target that disease process. And this is where our collaboration is going. And Song has developed a number of techniques to rapidly screen drugs that will specifically target these cells and not the cells that line a blood vessel, called the endothelial cells, so sparing one cell and targeting the other for therapy.", "But stem cells are all over the body, are they not? Could you target the wrong kinds of stem cells if you just...", "Absolutely, that's certainly a concern. And so it's lucky that they are spatially restricted, so we know exactly where they reside. If one were to think about targeting, you'd have to take into account that sort of spatial component.", "1-800-989-8255 is our number. Now, with the discovery that stem cells cause heart disease and hardening of the arteries, would they not be good candidates for other things that go wrong?", "Exactly. Right. So instead of now - now, of course, the therapies for treating hardening of the arteries or narrowing of the blood vessels are mostly procedures that physically widen the inside of the blood vessel or else replace the damaged by grafting.", "Like a stent or something like that.", "That's exactly right. So there may be an opportunity here to think about regenerating the correctly formed kind of stem cells that reside around the blood vessels.", "And would they - would they be able to replace the damaged ones, if they regenerate?", "Well, of course that's still in the future, but I think that that's definitely a feasible option.", "And as far as things that are not concerned with the heart, other illnesses, could stem cells - let me just throw out a few illnesses. Could they be involved in arthritis or something else like that, and we don't know that yet, you know?", "That's right. We don't know it about arthritis, but I will tell you that cancer is certainly a disease that looks very much like a stem cell gone out of control. And so if we understand what normally regulates a stem cell's behavior, then we gain some crucial insights into what regulates maybe a cancer cell's behavior.", "It's that kind of approach that I think that CIRM is largely funding initiatives to try to target human diseases, the big ones, and the ones that make us all sort of quake in our shoes, and attempt to come up with new therapies.", "Yeah, a couple of questions come to mind, is why - and you'd want to know why only in some people do the stem cells get activated to do...", "That's right.", "Right? What's the vulnerability there?", "What is - and we know some of the things, right? We know some things that activate stem cells like repeated injuries, things like smoking. Inhalation injury triggers activation of cells, stem cells around the lumen of the bronchials. Or drinking to excess, you know, damages the liver, activating stem cells there that then go out of control.", "So clearly understanding how injuries, some environmental influences, and of course the genetics of each individual, how those may play into activating these stem cells and leading to disease.", "Bridget(ph) in Raleigh, North Carolina wants to join us. Welcome, Bridget.", "Hi.", "Hi there.", "I just had a quick question. When you refer to hardening of the arteries, are you referring to arteriosclerosis, arthrosclerosis, or both in this context?", "I think both is a fair - certainly arthrosclerosis.", "One is - tell us the difference, quickly, between them, Dr. Helms.", "Well, you know, this is getting outside of my area of expertise because I'm not a cardiologist.", "Well, there's a simple - I mean, one - I'll just take a shot at it.", "OK.", "One is thickening of the - one is narrowing of the passageway in the arteries, and the other is actually hardening of the arteries, and those are two different things. Would I - would you go that far with me?", "Yes. I'd go that far, I guess, because I'm thinking about the contribution of these cells...", "Right.", "...to disease. I would say it's more closely linked to atherosclerosis.", "And that is the narrowing of the arteries.", "Yeah.", "Yeah. And what do the stem cells normally do when they're there and they're not doing, you know, turning into - doing this bad thing? What do they normally do...", "Yeah.", "...in the body there?", "You know, we have no idea.", "We don't?", "We have no idea what their normal role is sitting there. And then that begs the question, how did they get there? Where did they come from? Were they always there from the beginning of our embryonic life, or did they migrate there in response to a stimulus? We don't know.", "Wow. But we knew they were there for how long? When did we discover that?", "Oh, only recently.", "Yeah.", "This is - I think this is probably the biggest discovery that comes out of this work from Song Li and his colleagues and that - in which I participated.", "So wouldn't you think if there are just stem cells in the arteries, and they're - and we know they're - we know that they float around in the bloodstream that there are stem cells everywhere else, in other tissue, in (unintelligible).", "Well, stem cells don't float around much in the bloodstream, unless they're blood stem cells. And most of the blood stem cells are actually in the marrow. So they don't float around. Cells really like to attach to things. You know, that's how they grow, and that's how they - they have to - stem cells have to be close to something we call the niche, which is a physical location that provides growth signals to keep the stem cells in a quiescent state. So how did they get there? You know, they didn't just crawl through the body. Something had to have caused them to be there, maybe from the beginning of our development...", "Yeah.", "...or maybe not.", "Now, your work involves laboratory animals.", "That's correct.", "When will this be moved over to humans, to look at humans in these (unintelligible)?", "Well, I think that's one of the, you know, most basic scientists that work in stem cells and in the area of stem cell are trying as hard as possible to move this into translational therapies, things that can be used in humans. And, of course, CIRM, our funding institution, is very adamant about this being the trajectory. So, you know, I'll be taking a stab at it about five to seven years. I think that the ability to rapidly screen existing drugs for their ability to target this cell population is why we think that it might have a shorter course to getting into humans.", "Let's go to Gina(ph) in Barrington, New Jersey. Hi, Gina.", "Hi. How are you?", "Hi there.", "Yes. I find this very interesting. I actually used to do a little bit of research myself in atherosclerosis and diabetes. And we kind of looked at things from a higher - kind of a higher outlook. And I wonder what your thoughts were on, with the stem cells actually congregating and proliferating there, why would they actually be going there, and would you believe this to be part of this theory that inflammation in of itself, that atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease, and that is really the root cause is actually lifestyle, eating behaviors and lack of activity in general that's causing our body to react in an inflammatory manner?", "All right, Gina, thanks.", "Wow, that's a great question. What causes them to get to the site of injury or where the injury happens and what activates them if they're already there? And inflammation, as the caller pointed out, is a key feature of a lot of kinds of diseases, including this one. And so it may well play a role. The difficulty is that most mouse models or animal models that try to sort of test the contributions of the immune system, we can only knock out certain parts of the immune system. It's very hard to collectively say it's due to an immune response or an inflammatory response. But it's clearly on the shortlist of the causes that lead to the activation of these cells.", "You know, whenever you come up with a sort of paradigm-shifting idea, like this seems to be, there's great resistance to accept it.", "Oh, yeah.", "Yeah.", "Yeah. But sometimes, I think scientists recognize - it's sort of the aha, right? Oh, it's like, I guess, yeah, if you look hard, sure enough, there they are. So I think it is - there is resistance oftentimes, but there can be moments where there's great clarity. And I think Song's work certainly falls within that category.", "Will it have to be repeated by others to confirm what (unintelligible)?", "You know, that is exactly how science is done - show again. It's called research, not search. So, I guess, that means that, yes, absolutely. We need to confirm it in other animals too, and now, the group is getting human cells from diseased arteries, coronary arteries, to see if this paradigm still holds true in humans. Of course, that's our target.", "Yeah. Is it the same kind of stem cells in humans as in these lab animals?", "Yes, they appear to be very, very similar. There's pretty much an indistinguishable - if there are differences, we haven't found them yet...", "Let me get a...", "...so that makes...", "Yeah.", "...that makes mice a pretty good model.", "Let me get a quick question here from Andrew in Morristown, Tennessee. Hi, Andrew.", "Hi. How are you all today?", "Hi there.", "My question is - well, first, I have a comment. I've believed for a number of years that stem cells are going to really just be a great thing in the medical, like, community. I think that...", "Andrew, if you have a question you got to get in soon because we're running of out of time.", "OK. Sorry. Do you think that this new study will hurt stem cell research?", "OK.", "Absolutely not. The more we know about how stem cells behave, the more we can control that behavior, whether it's to repress them or to activate them. So it's all about getting the instruction manual for how a stem cell works. That's our goal. And with that information in hand, we can attack a lot of diseases.", "Were these embryonic stem cells or were they other stem - kinds of stem cells?", "These were adult stem cells. These are all adult stem cells.", "Dr. Helms, thank you for taking time to be with us today.", "My pleasure.", "And thanks for you all folks listening out there at the - in your school. Dr. Jill Helms is professor in the Department of Surgery at Stanford School of Medicine and co-author of the study in Nature Communications. We're going to take a break. And after we come back from the break, Alan Alda is back with the winner of his flame challenge. We'll have the winner on. We'll be talking with Alan Alda and the winner, and Flora is going to join us because it's also our Video Pick of the Week. If you haven't seen this video yet, it's amazing, go to our website at sciencefriday.com, get yourself a preview of the video before we go to it after the break, and we will talk about the flame challenge of Alan Alda after the break. So stay with us. We'll be right back.", "I'm Ira Flatow. 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{"id": "CNN-317552", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2017-07-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/25/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Zuckerberg and Musk Trade A.I.  Barbs", "utt": ["Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Two billionaires, locked in a feud. And the answer of course is -- all about artificial intelligence. They're squabbling about artificial intelligence. And exactly what it means. And its likely effect. It all began when Mark Zuckerberg said this.", "I'm really optimistic. I'm an optimistic person in general. I think you can build things and the world gets better. But with A.I. especially, I'm really optimistic. I think people who are naysayers and try to drop these doomsday scenarios, are, I don't understand it I think it's really negative and in some ways, I actually think it's pretty irresponsible. (", "Irresponsible, Elon Musk? Laid a charge at Zuckerberg saying, I've spoken to Mark about this his understanding of the subject is limited. Ouch, that stinging rebuke. Joining me is professor of physics and host of \"Sci-Fi Science\" on the science channel. Good to see you, sir.", "Good to be on.", "Whom do you support, Musk with his doomsday scenario or Zuckerberg with his irresponsible?", "To understand this, you have to understand love and war. The key to love and war is timing. Timing is everything. So, in the short-term, I think Mark Zuckerberg is right. On a scale of 20, 30 years, I mean give me a break. Robots have the intelligence of a cockroach. However, in the long-term as decades roll by, then the words of Elon Musk become more and more prophetic. When the airplane was first invented, it was used for good to deliver mail, deliver passengers, but then war took place, people began to develop airplanes that could drop bombs.", "Now in which case Musk is probably right. Because he is prophetically looking toward the long-term dangers are. While Zuckerberg maybe with the youth of millennialism is just thinking about tomorrow?", "Well, however you're an entrepreneur, you want to become the next billionaire, because you want to follow Zuckerberg, that's where the action is going to be. In the next few decades we are talking about the A.I. industry is going to be bigger than the automobile industry today. Think about that. There's an army of billionaires waiting to be minted if you follow the work of Zuckerberg. However, in the long-term as the decades roll by, we've to realize that Elon Musk is prophetic. We have to worry about these things.", "Even though there's no co consensus and it would be very difficult to get an agreement at international levels, should we now be starting to look for agreement on a proper regulation of A.I.?", "There's no harm trying. The key turning point in the whole controversy is the question of self-awareness. Robots today do not know they're robots. That's the bottom line. They have no self-awareness whatsoever. However, in the coming decades, you can foresee the time when robots become the smart as a mouse, a rabbit, a dog or a cat. And perhaps by the end of the century, as smart as a monkey. At that point, they will have limited self-awareness, they'll be super strong and at that point, watch out. But we have time. We have several decades to go. And like I said, billionaires are waiting to be minted. Waiting in the wings. To take, to take artificial intelligence to the marketplace.", "OK. But looking at that argument, I can't help -- if the killing robots idea, the drone robot, the robot you send out into the field and will kill anything in its sights.", "Automatic killing machines. That's a danger today. But they're not self-aware. Now automatic killing machines can recognize the human form. And if they go berserk, they are just killing machines that will kill humans.", "Should we ban them?", "I think there should be regulations, treaties, Stephen Hawking, my colleagues have argued against automatic killing machines that are out of control but they're not self-aware. They're not like Arnold Schwarzenegger who plots and schemes and connives trying to take over humanity. That's the turning point. We do not have robots who are self-aware.", "Musk, I hear what you say in terms of who's right now and who's right long-term but I'm left with the feeling of who should I be listening to?", "If you're an entrepreneur, listen to Zuckerberg. That's where the money is. If you're a long-term philosopher, worrying about the fate of humanity, then of course Elon Musk is on to something. Just like the airplane, the bow and arrow, the hammer, all of these inventions were invented for domestic and good purposes. Later we found out we could use airplanes and bows and arrows for war as well as for good.", "There's an inevitability that we will use these thing for evil deeds.", "Unfortunately, every weapon that has ever been invented has been used in warfare. And so Yes, we have to worry about that long-term. Elon Musk is on to something.", "Good to see you, sir. Thank you, professor, very good of you to come in.", "Thank you.", "Let's stay with billionaires, the Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos has been the target of President Trump on Twitter. Today he attacked again. Is fake news \"The Washington Post,\" which Bezos personally owns been used as a lobbying weapon against congress to keep politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly? CNN Money's Dylan Byers is in Los Angeles. The two men obviously know each other. What's behind this, this ad hominin attacks that the president is doing against Jeff Bezos?", "Well, look, first of all let me just say that in terms of accusing \"The Washington Post\" of fake news, there's a litany of things that are fake in the three tweets that President Trump put out against \"The Washington Post.\" and against Jeff Bezos. First of all, the notion that Jeff Bezos has anything to do with \"The Washington Post\" reporting specifically on this report regarding Trump's Syria strategy, he has nothing to do with that. There's nothing fake in that report. That report turns out to be 100 percent accurate. On top of that, the suggestion that Amazon is pushing some sort of no-tax monopoly is just wrong. In fact, Amazon pays taxes, it collects sales taxes as it has done for several years. So, it's very hard to sort of read those tweets and find out where, you know, the fake news is in those tweets. It's not in \"The Washington Post.\" as for what's -- yes?", "Dylan, what's -- I've been asking a lot of people who say what's the point of it all? I mean, is this idea you know, if you attack eventually people will believe?", "No. In fact, just the opposite, Richard. I think what's happening here is the more and more you attack, the more you make these sort of empty threats, the less that the tech community at least is going to pay attention to what the president is saying. He goes after Amazon and Jeff Bezos, he goes after other tech leaders suggesting there are going to be some sort of ramifications for their business practices. None of this ever pans out. And in fact, Dick Costello, the head of Twitter said today, at a certain point, business leaders are going to stop listening to the president of the United States, if he just starts throwing these grenades everywhere that bear no consequences whatsoever for the tech leaders he's attacking. So, no, I don't understand the strategy. I don't understand what the move is beyond trying to discredit \"The Washington Post\" report and convince his core supporters, which are really only about 30 to 35 percent of the American people, that they can't trust \"The Washington Post.\" Other than that, I don't see an end game here.", "Dylan, good to see you, sir.", "Thank you.", "The voice behind the famous Muppet has a frog in his throat. Richard Kermit has been fired after three decades in the job."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "MARK ZUCKERBERG, FOUNDER & CEO, FACEBOOK", "QUEST", "MICHIO KAKU, HOST, \"SCI-FI SCIENCE\", SCIENCE CHANNEL", "QUEST", "KAKU", "QUEST", "KAKU", "QUEST", "KAKU", "QUEST", "KAKU", "QUEST", "KAKU", "QUEST", "KAKU", "QUEST", "KAKU", "QUEST", "KAKU", "QUEST", "DYLAN BYERS, CNN MONEY SENIOR MEDIA REPORTER", "QUEST", "BYERS", "QUEST", "BYERS", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-346941", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-08-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/06/es.01.html", "summary": "44 People Shot, Five Killed In Chicago Violence; Search Intensifies For Missing Toddler", "utt": ["A violent weekend in Chicago. Police say 44 people were shot. Five fatally in a span of 14 hours on Sunday. They say some of the victims were targeted in gang-related violence. In one incident shots were fired into a crowded street party. The city has dealt with significant gun violence in recent years. This year though, police say shootings are actually down 30 percent and murders are down 25 percent.", "And investigators are ramping up their hunt for a missing 3- year-old boy after making a gruesome discovery in Northern New Mexico. I want to warn you, some of these images are difficult to watch. 11 malnourished children, were rescued from a compound, with no food, no water, no shoes or even clothes to speak of. The five adults with them, two of them armed to the teeth, were arrested on the spot. CNN's Kaylee Hartung has more on the disturbing scene which authorities are likening to a third world country.", "Christine, Phil, so many more questions and answers as we learn more about the story and see these truly shocking photos. One of the men arrested, Zaraj Rohaj, he is the father of the missing 3-year-old. The other, a man by the name of Lucas Morton. These two were heavily armed when arrested by authorities. And when I say armed, we are talking AR-15 rifles. They had loaded 30 round magazines. Four loaded pistols and lots of ammunition. These two had amassed these arsenal in these makeshift compound of small travel trailer, partially buried underground and covered in plastic. No water, no electricity inside. Those are the conditions of these two men and three women and 11 children. Those two men still in police custody, Rohaj, he is being held without bond, because of the Georgia warrant for the abduction of his 3-year-old son. The three women were brought in for questioning and they have since been released though it sound like that they answered many question. None of the five adults could gave authorities any information regarding the status of that missing 3-year-old. The children meanwhile, the 11 children, are in the care of child protective services. It is one thing to see these photos. And it is another to hear the firsthand account of the authorities who responded to this scene. The Taos county sheriff saying it was the worst living conditions in poverty he has ever seen. Christine and Phil.", "That is absolutely horrifying. I cannot fathom that. Now to some better news, Atlanta police releasing body cam video of an intense fiery rescue. Take a look at these, officers racing against time to save a passenger from a burning car, Sunday morning. The car hit a utility pole. The engine already engulfed in flames when the officers arrived.", "This officer grabbing a fire extinguisher, dousing the flames, as well as a second officer pulled the remaining passenger out through the driver's side. A total of three people are involve in the crash were taken to the hospital in stable condition. Police say, one of the officer's pants were burned and he suffered minor scrapes and bruises. In a statement, Atlanta P.D. and the department is extremely proud of those responding officers. Remarkable. Wow. Venezuela alleging its President was targeted by a drone. Six suspects detained and their government is blaming hit men from abroad. And the drone explosion may have been caught on camera."], "speaker": ["MATTINGLY", "ROMANS", "KAYLEE HARTUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MATTINGLY", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "NPR-23540", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2015-11-23", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/11/23/457139688/u-n-chief-paris-convention-represents-turning-point-in-climate-policy", "title": "U.N. Chief: Paris Convention Represents 'Turning Point' In Climate Policy", "summary": "NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, about why she's optimistic about the climate convention in Paris.", "utt": ["At the end of this month, nearly 200 countries will come together in Paris to try to agree on how to fight climate change. This is the first major U.N. summit on controlling greenhouse gas emissions in more than five years. It is a huge test of international diplomacy. And the woman leading this effort the U.N. joins us now. She is Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres. Welcome to the program.", "Hi, Ari. Thanks very much for having me.", "You have been at the center of this effort for five years. What keeps you awake at night?", "Well, what keeps me awake at night is this inherent paradox that we have, which is that the advance of policy, whether it is at sub-national, nationaL or, in this case, international level, is a gradual advance. On the other hand, and paradoxically, that gradual advance of policy needs to respond to the urgency of the problem. For climate change perspectives, it needs to be done within the next five to 10 to, maximum, 15 years, so that paradox...", "So you're saying the kind of change humanity has to make is the kind of change that humans have never made in the history of our existence as a species.", "Yes. The answer is yes.", "And you're convinced that it can be done?", "Yes because, you know, just - let's look very quickly at the leap that the information and technology sector has had. Who would have believed, you know, that we have the reach with cellular telephony that we have now way surpassing anything that landlines could ever have done? It is fantastic for me to go to, you know, small, little, poor, developing countries and find a woman way out there in some little hut, picking up her cell phone and doing cell banking. That is the kind of transformation that we need to have in the energy sector. Is it possible - yes. We have most of the technology that we need. We have the capital. We're moving on the policy. We just need to focus and understand the urgency of this. And yes, I do think that we, as humanity, will be able to address this challenge.", "You have talked about the business opportunities presented by clean energy technology, but is the business community really on board with what has to be done?", "Well, understandably, you have some corporations that are still trying to figure out how do they transform themselves. In particular, fossil fuel companies are having the hardest time because they have a huge amount of pressure to be able to figure out how do they transform themselves from fossil fuel companies to energy companies - you know, a complete reframing of their business model. But that's, you know, one sector. Every day, I am surprised to see how many more companies are joining this search for - how do we reinvent ourselves, and how do we bring this forward? And I have to underline; they're doing it because of the self-interest of business profitability not just now but in the long run.", "The United States has said that by 2030, it will cut its greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent compared to 2005 levels. If the United States falls down on that commitment, where is the accountability?", "The accountability is first to itself but also to all of the other nations.", "So does it just mean public shaming?", "There's no, you know, environmental police running around with a pistol pointed at anybody's head. That is definitely not the case. But I think the interesting thing to understand here is, these climate change plans that have already been put forward - we already have 157 of them - they stem from a very deep analysis and cross-sectoral consultation inside each of the countries that have presented them, yes, certainly to obey the global climate change agenda and move that forward, but primarily because it is in their national interest, because they can see that this actually gives them much better air quality. It gives them better transportation. It gives them better food security, water security because they are understanding that we can no longer continue down the path of increasing the risk of non-action. And that is the very interesting turning point where Paris will actually not create that turning point. It will mark it.", "Christiana Figueres, good luck in Paris, and thank you for talking with us.", "Thank you very much, Ari.", "Christiana Figueres is executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Put more simply, she is running the effort to get nearly 200 countries around the world on the same page limiting greenhouse gases."], "speaker": ["ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "CHRISTIANA FIGUERES", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "CHRISTIANA FIGUERES", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "CHRISTIANA FIGUERES", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "CHRISTIANA FIGUERES", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "CHRISTIANA FIGUERES", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "CHRISTIANA FIGUERES", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "CHRISTIANA FIGUERES", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "CHRISTIANA FIGUERES", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-281007", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-04-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/09/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Jordan Spieth Leading in Masters Tournament.", "utt": ["Jordan Spieth is halfway to winning back to back Masters titles, and golf great Tom Watson playing his final round.", "Andy Scholes has more from Augusta in this morning's Bleaker Report. Good morning, Andy.", "Hey, guys, good morning. The big question out here this weekend in Augusta is anyone going to be able to catch Jordan Spieth and keep him from winning back to back Masters. Spieth actually had his first over par round of his Masters career yesterday but he was able to still hold on to the lead. He has led six straight rounds here at the Masters, tying Arnold Palmer's record. Spieth has just a one shot lead over Rory McIlroy coming into today. Rory looking to complete the career grand slam this weekend, and golf fans are in for a treat as Spieth and McIlroy will be paired together for todays' third round.", "I would rather be playing with someone less threatening, to be honest. He has certainly proven himself in majors. But I think it will be a really fun challenge.", "I really need to focus on me and focus on everything I need to do well to hopefully be sitting up here on Sunday with one of those on.", "Yesterday's second round was an emotional one for the great Tom Watson. The eight time major winner playing his final round ever at the Masters. The crowd gave Watson a huge ovation as he walked up 18 for the final time. At 66 years old he said I just can't keep up with the young guys anymore. He won the masters twice during his career. Many guys here are trying to find a way to slow down Jordan Spieth. Henrik Stenson, he got pretty creative. He posted this picture on Instagram with his daughter with the caption, \"Alice told me \"Don't worry about Spieth, daddy, he is going to be late for his tee time.\" And you see her down there messing with Spieth's tires. Spieth made his tee time, so no worries there. Alice's plan didn't really work, guys."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "SAVIDGE", "ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CERTAINLY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "CNN-348304", "program": "CUOMO PRIME TIME", "date": "2018-08-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/22/CPT.01.html", "summary": "Trump on Payments to Women: \"They Came From Me", "utt": ["All right. We did a lot of scrubbing on the facts for you tonight. Why? Because we knew President Trump wouldn't admit to what his former lawyer Michael Cohen made clear in court, that Trump directed Cohen to commit crimes. We knew he was going to go bad on Cohen personally. But there's another line of attack that may be his weakest yet. Remember we played you the tape on this show that made it clear that Trump was aware of what Cohen was doing before he did it. So -- and you heard his lawyer just say yes, he's lying about that. So the new line is this: Obama did the same thing. In fact, he likes this excuse so much, so nice, he used it twice -- once in a tweet and then this.", "They didn't come out of the campaign. They came from me. And I tweeted about it. You know, I put -- I don't know if you know, but I tweeted about the payments. But they didn't come out of campaign. In fact, my first question when I heard about it was, did they come out of the campaign? Because that could be a little dicey. And they didn't come out of the campaign. And that's fake. But they weren't -- that's not -- it's not even a campaign violation. If you look at President Obama, he had a massive campaign violation but he had a different attorney general and they viewed it a lot differently.", "All right. Here, we don't just listen. We test. First off, the only thing that Trump is right about is that there was a violation involving the Obama campaign, a big one. You've got to remember, every conspiracy theory, like every lie, they're all fed by a kernel of truth. But this story that he's telling is all cob except for that one kernel. Obama didn't do anything personally. His campaign, OK, Obama for America, they did plenty. They failed to report 1,300 contributions within 48 hours as required by law. And that campaign received some contributions that also exceeded allowable limits. In total, the contributions amounted about $2 million. So, the campaign paid a percentage, $375,000 in fines. It sounds like a lot. And it was. But relatively, in the words of one election attorney, Obama was the first billion-dollar presidential campaign. So, proportionally, it's not that out of line. Regardless, it was still wrong. And Trump and anyone else who says this type of violation is nothing needs to remember how little control we have on campaign contributions to begin with. So, reporting really counts. All right. I'm digressing. Here's what really matters here. OK? Now, what happened here in the Cohen case is a different animal entirely. This has nothing to do with the campaign apparatus and everything to do with Trump, his lawyer, and their sneaky scheme to avoid more damage to his campaign. Cohen admitted to making illegal campaign contributions, quote: for the principal purpose of influencing an election. And he tied it directly to the president, saying he was acting at the president's direction. He said someone then running for federal office. Obviously, it's Donald Trump. When he paid off Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels. So the president's argument that Cohen didn't commit a crime just isn't true. How do we know? Title 52 of the U.S. Code. All right? Now, you compare that to the Obama campaign violation. It's like comparing apples to, you know, elephants. The Obama matter was settled as a civil matter with the FEC. All right? Cohen intentionally committed a crime and is going to prison. And, by the way, if the president wants to compare his campaign to Obama's, this is why I popped this up. Trump's team also got in trouble in 2016 for improperly handling campaign contributions. About 1,100 donations were made to Trump's campaign in violation of campaign finance laws including donations that exceed the allowable limit in a year. So not only did Obama not do what Trump did, but yes, Trump did do what Obama's campaign did. Now, Cohen paying his peccadilloes, for his peccadilloes. Him saying he didn't know. The real problem here is lying. So, first, Trump said I know nothing about these women, I know nothing about what Cohen did. Then he said, well, all right, I know a little something but I didn't know anything before, I only knew after. That's what he's saying today. But we know about the tape. The tape that we got here on this show that makes it clear that at a time before Cohen made a payment, Trump clearly knew and was directing him. Listen.", "I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David, you know, so that -- I'm going to do that right away. I've actually come up and I've spoken --", "Give it to me and --", "And I've spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with --", "So what do we have to pay for this?", "-- funding.", "One fifty?", "Yes. And it's all the stuff --", "I was thinking about that.", "All the stuff. Because here you never know where that company -- you never know what he's going to be --", "Maybe he gets hit by a truck.", "Correct. So I'm all over that that. And I spoke to Allen about it. When it comes time for the financing, which will be --", "Wait a second, what financing?", "We'll have to pay him something --", "We'll pay with cash.", "No, no, no, no. I got -- no, no, no.", "Check --", "That was before he made the payment. You hear Trump. He knows what's going on. He's lying to your face when he says he didn't know until after. So, now, he's saying you know what, forget about what I said about what I knew or what I didn't know and when, I paid all of it back. So -- first of all, we don't know that for a fact. But let's assume it. Let's give the president the benefit of the doubt. I paid all of it back, so no one contributed anything for me. I call this going the full Buckley versus Vallejo, for you SCOTUS scholars. That's a case that says you can spend as much of your own money as you want on a campaign. Money is seen as political speech. But even if that were true, the president still didn't report it. Anywhere. And that alone would trigger the statute and put him in violation of the law. So then he says, please, no one gets prosecuted for that. Tell John Edwards. His hush money scheme was handled in similar fashion and he was tried. He was prosecuted. He was acquitted but after a full trial. And then today, Trump's Sarah Sanders took it a step further. Not only did Trump do nothing illegal, as Cohen accuses, but listen to this. No. I'm not going to play it for you. She says he did nothing wrong. OK? So, lying to you is not wrong. Lying repeatedly about criminal conduct is not wrong. I showed you the facts. You can conclude quickly that this Trumpian bar of no crime means I did nothing wrong, that my friends is wrong. So what is going to happen with all this politically? The Democrats are playing it in an interesting way. OK? They're not talking impeachment. They're saying no, no, no, we're not ready for that, let's see what happens. But they are now using it as a way to perhaps stop Trump's Supreme Court pick. Is that going to work here? We're going to be talking about that and see if the Cohen-Manafort developments are a game changer the way Chuck Schumer says they are. What do you say? A great debate for you, next."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CUOMO", "MICHAEL COHEN, FORMER TRUMP LAWYER", "TRUMP", "COHEN", "TRUMP", "COHEN", "TRUMP", "COHEN", "TRUMP", "COHEN", "TRUMP", "COHEN", "TRUMP", "COHEN", "TRUMP", "COHEN", "TRUMP", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-234898", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-07-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/19/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Putin Pressured to Open Airliner Crash Site to Investigation", "utt": ["It's 29 minutes past the hour right now. So glad to have your company this morning. Thank you. I'm Christi Paul.", "I'm Victor Blackwell. We continue our coverage now of that crashed Malaysian jet and the reports rebel gunmen are keeping investigators, at least some of them, from the crash site of flight 17.", "Meanwhile, Germany is urging Russia President Vladimir Putin to pressure the rebels to let the investigators in. Malaysian Airlines has just issued its latest list of the 298 people from 11 nations who were onboard the flight when it crashed. Most of the passengers we know came from the Netherlands. There was one American onboard as well.", "International observers at the crash site say they have been hearing gunfire, explosions this morning, and witnesses say some human remains are being put into body bags and moved to the side of the road.", "The Ukrainian government is accusing pro-Russian rebels of removing more than three dozen bodies and destroying evidence.", "Let's bring back Chris Cuomo, the co-host of CNN's NEW DAY. He's live there from the crash scene in eastern Ukraine.", "Chris, I know we spoke to you about half an hour ago, but what have you noticed on the ground there in the last half hour?", "Well, there's just such a tragic set of circumstances here, beside what we're all trying to deal with, which is processing the victims here and finding out what brought this plane out of the sky. There's this show of force. Because there's such rabid ongoing conflict, there's a big influence on the part of this local militia, or separatists, or whatever you want to term them, to show force. So they'll come out with guns and raise their weapons in the air. And then they'll be joking and want photographers to take their pictures in front of the fuselage. And it's really disturbing because the dignity of those who lost their lives here, it's just -- the situation deserves better. It could be better. And I know that we have so many levels of reporting going on right now, why this may have happened and the politics of it, and who Russia says did it and the U.S. and Ukraine. That will all continue until you get dispositive answers that come from pieces of evidence like that. That part of the tale tells an entire story to a trained investigator. It doesn't mean much to me. I know what a body looks like. I know who's being disrespected. There are bags on the side of the road. Victor was absolutely correct about that. They can do better than that. It's very dangerous to get here, but they could be much more hospitable in letting people in. And it's just not going on.", "As you mentioned the bodies there in bags on the side of the road, do we know what will happen with those bodies after that?", "We were actually holding up last night at a place called Kharkiv which is a few hours away from here. We have been told bodies would be taken there to are identified. Victor, as you know, and Christi, because you know this is our job, you have to know how to do that. I'm not going relate what we are seeing here, but I promise you, not just anybody can say what it is they're looking at after something like this. And so we don't know what they're doing with them, and they are not in the mood to take questions. All they want to do is tell you, go where I tell you to go. Ukraine did this. And, why are you so upset about this tragedy and not the one that's happening to us at the hands of Kiev every day? That's what they're saying. And I get where their coming from. This is an ongoing conflict. There's no question that there's literally violence as we speak somewhere in this region. But this situation demands better and it's really horrible that it's being drawn out this way.", "You speak of the dignity, and I'm sure families are watching this closely, and it's just stomach turning. But why do you think, Chris, they are holding off investigators so much but they're allowing people to come in and take pictures? And correct me if I'm wrong. I think you said the villagers and local people are the ones collecting these bodies right now. Yes?", "Yes, Christi that is my understanding. We just interviewed a couple's minors, and they had volunteered. They'd been asked to, who knows if they felt they could say no, but they've been walking around in this field looking for bodies, putting them in the bags and carrying them back to the side of the road. Why are they acting this way? They're in an active state of conflict. They're fighting over their territory. For them they feel they're in a fight for their lives. I think you're dealing with, frankly, a lack of sophistication and an overabundance of macho with these guys. They're much more important to being perceived as powerful than being perceived as competent in conducting an investigation and protecting the dignity of the lives that were lost here despite that the irony that they may be in the circle of suspicion of why this happened. So I think there are a lot of reason, and none of them are good, for why they want this place theirs and be in control, but none of acceptable. And until a message is sent to the men on the ground that they're not in control, that they have to conduct themselves differently, it will not change from what it is.", "Chris Cuomo there, giving us a look and a description, although we cannot see some of it, and we probably shouldn't broadcast it, what is happening there in that field in eastern Ukraine. Chris, thank you so much.", "Thank you, Chris, very much. Let's talk to CNN aviation analyst Mary Schiavo and retired general James \"Spider\" Marks. General, I want to start with you, and thank you both for being with us. When you hear what Chris is saying about the fact that these pro-Russian rebels are allowing villagers to come in, they're allowing pictures to be taken, but they're keeping investigators out, what does that say to you? GENERAL JAMES \"SPIDER\" MARKS", "Clearly, in my mind, Christi, what's happening on the ground is, and they're taking advantage of their presence, their position on the ground. They are establishing themselves as in control, and I would say they're protecting a crime scene so that the evidence doesn't go to somebody else. The larger story here clearly is, what's the international outrage about this? How is the United States going to take a leadership position and call Putin for what he is? Clearly, he's responsible for this. This is a war that he could stop. And clearly, from an intelligence guy's perspective, if I could step beyond the humanitarian disaster for a second, and say what other form of terror will we see? What other jihadists might show up on this battlefield like every other battlefield over the course of the decade and realize this could be an opportunity to replenish military equipment, learn new techniques and then export those elsewhere? So this is a tragedy that goes through a number of layers.", "Mary, many believe that this weapons system was moved from the Russian side of the border into Ukraine and then we saw the video. We believed it was moved back. In the context of tragedies in the past, speaking specifically of 83, the KL-007 flight that was shot down, is there a credible concern that these pieces of the plane will now move from one side of the border to the other?", "Well, absolutely, and not just the pieces of the plane. You know, there's no indication where the bodies are being taken. All of this crime scene evidence, and that's what this is. These are criminals guarding their own crime scene. It's really outrageous. But before they move anything what you do in a good investigation is both the law enforcement and criminal investigators, since it's a crime scene, and the aviation investigators grid the whole crash site area so they can put and piece together the evidence after the fact. And only then once they have gathered the forensics is anything moved, are bodies taken away, and they're certainly taken away in a more dignified manner. So not only is evidence of the crime being spirited away, not to mention the block boxes which we really need to find, but this is not how you process an accident scene or a crime scene.", "General Marks, we have a report today from Reuters that Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have met, that they have at least spoken and agreed that there is a need to urgently stop the hostilities in Ukraine's southeast and begin peace talks. Do you think there's any gauge of what Putin -- does he really want that? What does he really want and how does he go about remedying this, if it was, indeed, an accident by rebels that he was supplying equipment to?", "You know, Christi, the issue is a very, very broad one. The response could be very in-depth. I promise I won't go there. Putin could stop it. He has acquiesced to date. Number one he has supplied and supported and has instigated this ungoverned state, this turmoil that exists in eastern Ukraine. Remember, he annexed Crimea and the world kind of went, well, I guess that's normal. So he's establishing a new barrier in terms of what we're tolerate. He could stop this immediately by putting his foot down and saying, enough. Stop supplying the Russian separatists, agree to having, as Mary indicated, a legitimate and open investigation of what took place. But more importantly, he needs to raise his hand and say, look -- he's never going to say he's culpable, but could start to lean in and begin to embrace what could be a solution that at least gets to this very, very tragic occurrence that took place, and then behaviors will change from that. He could have forces on the ground right now. He was very easy. He got into Crimea. He could have forces on the ground in eastern Ukraine right now, his Russian forces. The international community would yell and scream, but he could isolate the area. He could then move those separatists away, and then he could go away and say, OK, now we have a space where we can have an investigation and get to the bottom of this thing.", "General Spider Marks, Mary Schiavo, thank you, both.", "Thank you, folks.", "Thank you. It's been more than four months since the disappearance of the other Malaysian Airlines flight, but a woman whose loved one was on that plane, on MH-370, has a message for the families of those killed this week, and she's going to join us, live."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "CUOMO", "BLACKWELL", "CUOMO", "PAUL", "CUOMO", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "BLACKWELL", "MARY SCHIAVO, CNN AVIATION ANALYST", "PAUL", "MARKS", "BLACKWELL", "MARKS", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-4152", "program": "Special Event", "date": "2000-3-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/09/se.03.html", "summary": "Florida Law Enforcement Officials Hold News Conference on Safe Recovery of Kidnapped 10-Year-Old Girl", "utt": ["We're going to take you right now to Gainesville where we believe one of the first speakers will be David Turner, who is the sheriff of Gilchrist County, after they have found this Jessica Rodriguez, the 10-year-old who was found alive today apparently safe and all right, but she's gone for medical tests. And she was kidnapped when she got off the school bus on Monday. Let's listen in.", "I just want to say that, right now, we're extremely elated that Jessica has been located, she's been found and she's fine. She's talking with mom. She's in good condition, and right now she's being medically evaluated by the child protection team, and she's also talking with law enforcement. This has been a very trying past few days. The family is, as I said, elated at her return, and the family wanted -- as well as I -- wanted to thank the media for all the responses been given. We feel like it's with your help that we've been able to reach out and obtain Jessica's return. So we are, indeed, extremely thankful for everything that each and every one of you have done that way. We will ask that since it has been a very trying time, that you respect the family's privacy as we continue to go through this period of recovery. And I want to thank all the law enforcement agency -- all the assistance that's being given within our community and by everybody to our office. I want to especially thank the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office who responded so quickly to the Wal-Mart store where Jessica was found, and the response and the attention that they've given to her and all. So once again, from the bottom of my heart, I say thank you to all of you, and Jessica is doing well -- Ken.", "Good afternoon. One of the things we wanted to do was clarify where we're at on suspect information at this time. I know there's a lot of different information. There's some names that are out there, and what I will tell you at this point is we are still focusing on the green SUV vehicle with tan interior and the general description of a white male in his 30s to 40s, described as six-foot and possibly balding. We have not focused in on a named individual, so any of you that have that information, we're still trying to keep this search for a suspect real broad. Now, we, as Sheriff Turner, indicated we will be interviewing the child and trying to get more information. That is a tedious process, and we will take as long as we need to make sure that we're getting good and accurate information there. And as we develop more information, you know, we'll try to get that out to you. But I can't give you a time estimate right now on how long that's going to be. It's going to be as long as it needs to be, recognizing what she's been through and everything else. So we're going to, you know, just take that and make sure we do it in the correct manner.", "The Sheriff is taking questions.", "Excuse me?", "Where do you believe the suspect went", "The last whereabouts we have is the Wal-Mart store on Archer Road.", "Do you have a witness of her being dropped off,", "Not that we've been able to determine yet, but that is some information that anyone that was present at that Wal-Mart this afternoon that saw a green SUV, we'd like you to call in and, you know, give us an opportunity to interview you.", "Everybody's going to have a chance.", "OK.", "Let me organize this a little bit. Yes, ma'am.", "We haven't had, you know, the media pressing. The thing with the child is to get her medically evaluated. We have had a -- not had a lot of opportunity to spend with her and get a lot of detailed information yet, so we don't have that kind of information.", "Does she appear to be injured in any way, bruised or abused?", "The medical evaluation is ongoing as we speak.", "Did she tell you whether she was at a house, at a motel, at a -- did they sleep in the car? Where were they?", "The detectives are still (", "We can't hear.", "The detectives are -- go ahead.", "The detectives are still trying to gather information. We don't have specific information about her whereabouts to release at this point.", "Yes, sir?", "Can you discuss the specifics of how you knew she was at the Wal-Mart where she was dropped off?", "I can give you a little bit on that. She was apparently dropped off at the Wal-Mart. She went inside, went to the desk and identified herself, and then law enforcement was called.", "About the Lumina: You're concentrating on the SUV, but there's a Lumina described...", "Would you like to clarify that? I'll let him clarify that.", "Let me clarify this. We have been continuing our investigation and was in the middle of a lead that involved a Lumina at the time she was found. At this time, the Lumina is still a removed lead, one that we want to resolve, but that's not a pressing lead at this point. That was a separate lead that had been developed and we were pursuing...", "That is the latest from Gainesville this afternoon after 10-year-old Jessica Rodriguez was found alive today, apparently dropped off at a store in Gainesville after she was abducted on Monday. She got off the school bus and this person took her and they haven't seen or heard from her for a couple of days -- but found alive today as she was dropped off at a store. The sheriff, David Turner, saying that the family is elated that she is fine. She's talking with her mom, she's in good condition. They're in the process right now of doing medical tests on her. Law enforcement folks are interviewing her trying to get a little more information about this suspect, the suspect who was last seen driving away from this store in a dark green SUV. And the suspect is described as a white male in his 30s to 40s, about 6-feet tall, brown eyes and brown hair, possibly balding on top. So we'll keep you posted to any other information that we get and we'll update the story."], "speaker": ["DONNA KELLEY, CNN ANCHOR", "SHERIFF DAVID TURNER, GILCHRIST COUNTY, FLORIDA", "KEN TUCKER, FLORIDA DEPT. OF LAW ENFORCEMENT", "QUESTION:  (OFF-MIKE) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TUCKER", "QUESTION", "OFF-MIKE). 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{"id": "NPR-23986", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2015-09-22", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/09/22/442582415/volkswagen-says-11-million-cars-worldwide-have-emissions-cheating-software", "title": "Volkswagen Says 11 Million Cars Worldwide Have Emissions Cheating Software", "summary": "Volkswagen faces a growing scandal over how it used software to dodge clean air rules for diesel vehicles. The Justice Department opened a criminal probe and financial penalties are sure to follow.", "utt": ["Our next story is about disappointment, deception and Volkswagen. The German carmaker has admitted it tweaked software to falsify emissions from diesel vehicles, not just in the U.S., but in markets around the world. Eleven million cars are now said to be affected. Here's NPR's Sonari Glinton.", "On Volkswagen's website, the company advertises the power and fuel economy of clean diesel. And we talked a lot of consumers who bought into that idea.", "I just feel deeply disappointed, and it leaves me just with a level of - I just don't like to be deceived.", "I've been a fan of their engineering over the years, but this is a bridge too far for me.", "They have admitted, yes, we purposely misled you, and that's a pretty big deal.", "Those were VW customers Boris Tuchner in Wisconsin, David McKinley in Dartmouth, Mass., and Lisa Ingardia in Atlanta. It's not just consumers who are feeling the disappointment. Jake Fisher is the head of auto testing at Consumer Reports. Until this revelation, Consumer Reports has for many years recommended several diesel models.", "We want to make it very clear that we do not recommend you buy those cars because really there's no telling when they're not cheating.", "Fisher says the other problems with automakers were all about defects or errors. Fisher says this is different.", "It's not a mistake. It really was a situation where they knew what they were doing and they were just kind of avoiding - they were cheating. I mean, there's no other way of putting it.", "The cheat was that VW was installing software that turned off the emissions controls when diesel cars were on the road and turned them on when they were being tested, essentially negating the clean part of clean diesel. Jack Nerad with Kelley Blue Book says this particular cheat is uncharacteristic of Volkswagen, which has a pretty good reputation in the industry.", "People look at Volkswagen as being a brand that has played by the rules, does things the right way and I think because of that - I mean, this takes a lot of people by surprise.", "Nerad says part of the problem was that VW saw diesel as the key to reopening the U.S. market. The company is by far the leader on the diesel technology front.", "It would have been very, very difficult for Volkswagen to go forward to make any progress. And it has hoped to make big progress in the North American market, without diesel vehicles in the marketplace and, you know, inexpensive diesels in the marketplace.", "Diesel engines are fuel efficient. They're reliable and have a lot to offer, especially those who drive long distances. John German is a fan of diesel. He's with the International Council on Clean Transportation, the group who brought the discrepancy to the attention of the EPA by doing its own independent test.", "There's always been cases like this. This is not the first time a manufacturer has installed a defeat device in their vehicles. It's not the first time they've been caught. Our concern really was to make sure the agencies do their job and to make sure that these things don't happen in the future.", "And do you think we'll see this in other carmakers?", "We have no knowledge that any other manufacturer is doing this, but we do think that the question needs to be asked and it needs to be investigated.", "The one thing we know Volkswagen won't have a shortage of - investigations. There'll be plenty. Sonari Glinton, NPR News."], "speaker": ["ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "SONARI GLINTON, BYLINE", "BORIS TUCHNER", "DAVID MCKINLEY", "LISA INGARDIA", "SONARI GLINTON, BYLINE", "JAKE FISHER", "SONARI GLINTON, BYLINE", "JAKE FISHER", "SONARI GLINTON, BYLINE", "JACK NERAD", "SONARI GLINTON, BYLINE", "JACK NERAD", "SONARI GLINTON, BYLINE", "JOHN GERMAN", "SONARI GLINTON, BYLINE", "JOHN GERMAN", "SONARI GLINTON, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-4588", "program": "CNN International World News", "date": "2000-3-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/16/i_wn.14.html", "summary": "Man Sentenced To 700 Years In Jail For Killing 100 Children In  Lahore, Pakistan", "utt": ["A Pakistani man charged with killing as many as 100 children has been convicted and sentenced. CNN's Hannah Bloch joins us from Islamabad with the details. Hannah.", "Marina, Judge Allah Baksh Ranja today sentenced Javed Iqbal to 700 years in jail and execution for killing 100 children in Lahore during a six-month period last year. And in a very unusual decision, he ordered that Javed Iqbal should be killed by strangulation and that his body should be chopped into 100 pieces and dissolved in a vat of acid, which is how Javed Iqbal killed these 100 children.", "What evidence did the court find?", "Main evidence came in a confessional letter that Javed Iqbal sent to police and some local newspapers here in December. It was a very detailed letter showing that he had killed these children, leading the police to his house in Lahore, where they found children's clothing and shoes and vats of acid with dissolved bones and body parts in them. That was the main evidence that the police had and the courts had.", "Did he not later recant writing that letter?", "He did later recant. When he came to court, he said that he was innocent, and that this was all a trick he had played to highlight police inefficiency and corruption.", "What kind of reaction has there been from victims' families?", "The victims' families are very, very relieved to see this man brought to justice. They mostly are very poor families. The children who were killed were working on the streets begging and doing things like shoe shining. These families were very vulnerable. And the children were very vulnerable. And this case really shocked Pakistan because of its brutality and because of the magnitude of the killings.", "Hannah, any possibility of a delay for appeal? How quickly do they expect that this sentence will be carried out?", "Javed Iqbal's lawyer has already said that the sentence will be appealed. So it will go through the courts now. It's difficult to say how long that will take.", "CNN's Hannah Bloch reporting. END TO ORDER VIDEOTAPES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF CNN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMING, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE THE SECURE ONLINE ORDER FROM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web"], "speaker": ["CNN INTERNATIONAL - WORLD NEWS 03/16/00 PAKISTANI SERIAL CHILD KILLER CONVICTION MARINA KOLBE, CNN ANCHOR", "HANNAH BLOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KOLBE", "BLOCH", "KOLBE", "BLOCH", "KOLBE", "BLOCH", "KOLBE", "BLOCH", "KOLBE"]}
{"id": "CNN-179567", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2012-1-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/17/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Gingrich Urges Santorum, Perry To Drop Out", "utt": ["Wolf, Newt Gingrich was seeing some good-sized crowds today with a lot of energy, hoping his use of hot button language on the campaign trail would get him some badly needed traction.", "Some things never change in South Carolina, especially around election time. The uglier the symbolism gets, the better some folks like it.", "What I've been looking for in my candidate is fire in the belly. We've got to bloody Obama's nose.", "I don't want to bloody his nose, I want to knock him out.", "This is Newt Gingrich's kind of audience and his kind of talk. Like at the last debate, there's cheering when the former speaker doubles down on his frequently repeated line about Obama being a food stamp president.", "The fact is that more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.", "Applause when Gingrich defense his called for poor kids that clean their schools for money.", "We actually think work is good?", "He says he doesn't see this whole focus on work and food stamp as a double-edged sword, though, it's been called coded language and racially insensitive.", "This is a very work-oriented country and there's overwhelming support for the idea of work.", "Sure. He's been using welfare to rile people up since he was in the Congress, but the calculation is that in South Carolina with its high unemployment, it's going to play pretty well these days, especially on his home turf. People you think you're getting a break because you're in the south right now.", "Oh, sure. Look, I think, if you're a Georgia conservative, and now, you're back home, it's a big advantage, I think.", "Gingrich also sees the response he's getting as a response to straight talk.", "We have been spent so much baloney by our liberal elites. And we are so sick of people who don't get it. I think people are just grateful to have somebody with the courage to tell the truth.", "It's the truth according to Gingrich, though, it doesn't always work when he starts trying to explain the race. Why a guy like Rick Santorum ought to get out of the race. Before you listen to this, remind yourself that numerous values voters and conservatives have thrown their support behind Santorum, and that he essentially tied Mitt Romney for first place in the Iowa caucuses.", "I'm respectful that Rick has every right to run as long as he feels that's what he should do, but from the standpoint of the conservative movement, consolidating into a Gingrich candidacy would, in fact, virtually guarantee victory on Saturday.", "Despite what he says, it's still a long way to the winner circle for Gingrich. Skepticism have bounced. Loren Spivack is a nationally known Tea Party activist.", "He is -- he likes to come up with grand plans for things, which is, unfortunately, more of a socialist tendency than a capitalist tendency.", "The Gingrich campaign sees that standing ovation he got at the debate last night as a big plus. They've already put together a television ad to promote it -- Wolf.", "Joe Johns on the scene for us, thank you. Rick Perry was once seen as the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. Now, he's trying to become politics newest comeback kid. Can the Texas governor rebound or is it time to ride off into the sunset? And the Costa Concordia was once Italy's largest cruise ship, now it's a massive headache.", "What are they going to eventually do with that massive vessel lying on its side off the coat of Italy? I'm Brian Todd in Port Everglade, Florida. We talked to salvaging experts about how to dispose of the Costa Concordia once the rescue operation is complete. That's coming up."], "speaker": ["JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JOHNS (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GINGRICH", "JOHNS", "GINGRICH", "JOHNS", "GINGRICH", "JOHNS", "GINGRICH", "JOHNS", "GINGRICH", "JOHNS", "GINGRICH", "JOHNS", "GINGRICH", "JOHNS", "LOREN SPIVACK, TEA PARTY ACTIVIST", "JOHNS (on-camera)", "BLITZER", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-112268", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2006-11-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/22/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Reverend Al Sharpton Discusses Conversation With Michael Richards", "utt": ["Two big stories that only SHOWBIZ TONIGHT covers best. Major developments today in the Michael Richards racial controversy. And the shocking O.J. tape you won`t see anywhere else. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York.", "And does a Britney Spears/Kevin Federline sex tape really exist? I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood. TV`s most provocative entertainment news show starts right now.", "On SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, the Michael Richards` outrage. Tonight for the very first time the targets of the Seinfeld star`s disgusting racial rant speak out. Plus, the biggest stars in Hollywood tell SHOWBIZ TONIGHT what they think of Richards` startling tirade.", "I hope he can get it together.", "I know that there are still obviously certain people that have hatred.", "Tonight, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is asking, is Richards` apology enough? O.J. speaks. Tonight, O.J. Simpson talks about the cancellation of his outrageous, If I Did It, TV special and book.", "Of course I got paid.", "Plus, we`ve got O.J. caught on tape like you`ve never seen him before. Tonight SHOWBIZ TONIGHT goes one on one with the guy trying to sell these outrageous O.J. videos. It`s the explosive interview you`ll see only on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Welcome to the holiday weekend. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York.", "Hi there, everyone. I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood. There are huge developments to tell you about tonight in the two biggest controversial stories out there, Seinfeld star Michael Richards` racist rant and the O.J. Simpson debacle.", "That`s right, Brooke. O.J. today gave his very first interview since Fox canceled the outrageous TV show and book, in which O.J. was going to tell how he might have killed his ex-wife Nicole, if he did it. We`ll be speaking with the man who is now selling startling tapes of O.J. Simpson, as you`ve never seen him before. There he is.", "A.J., first tonight, the targets of Michael Richards racist tirade are speaking out for the first time, just as the Seinfeld star makes a dramatic phone call to apologize. Reverend Al Sharpton got the call and will join us here in just a moment, as the story of Kramer gone wild shows no sign of letting up.", "Michael \"Kramer\" Richards is now taking steps to make up for his ugly racist rant at a Los Angeles comedy club. And his apology on the Late Show with David Letterman was just the beginning.", "I`m concerned about more hate and more rage and more anger coming through.", "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can now tell you that he has taken a dramatic new step. Civil rights activist Al Sharpton tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT Richards has called him to apologize and has agreed to meet with Sharpton in South Central Los Angeles or in Harlem, in New York. Sharpton first broke the news in a call to CNN.", "I said the here you are, somebody we had in our living room. You were Kramer. We were used to you. And to come and see you say this is frightening to many Americans.", "But not everyone is accepting what Richards has to say.", "Did the apology mean anything to you guys?", "No, not really.", "On NBC`s Today Show the targets of Richards` rant are sending a message to him, apology not accepted.", "For him to lash out like that was just totally uncalled for.", "Now, for the very first time, we`re hearing the sharp response from the men who bore the brunt of Richards` horrific rant and the unusual resolution they are suggesting. And we`ll show you how the story that has all of America talking, even has Hollywood`s biggest stars talking to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT about Kramer`s racist crack up.", "Just as a person, if I was in audience, I would have had to have it. I would have went on stage and just took the microphone from him and just said, yo, you need to take a nap.", ": America is still reeling from the shock of watching the man who played one of America`s most beloved sitcom characters, unleash a stream of racial slurs at some fans who were making noise during his performance at a Los Angeles comedy club. Two of Richards` targets, Frank McBride and Kyle Doss, went on the Today Show to tell their side of the story. They say trouble began when they and their mixed race group of friends entered the club during Richards` act.", "There was probably about 15 of us walking in all at once. And we had to order drinks and we had waitresses coming up to us. And I guess we were louder than expected.", "The first thing he said was, oh, the all the blacks and Mexicans are here.", "No, he said we have a stupid bunch of Mexicans and blacks that just entered the room.", "Our first was total shock, I mean, like, there was no punch line, and then not only that, then he kept on going.", "We kept waiting for a punch line.", "Yes, then he kept on just going on. He even said -- he even told me -- he was, like, when I wake up I`m still going to be rich. But when you wake up, you`re still going to be a N-word.", "McBride and Doss have retained celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, who appeared with them on the Today Show. She is suggesting an unusual way for Richards to make amends.", "After he hears the pain that he has inflicted on them, he should listen to the recommendations of a retired judge as to how much compensation he should pay to them.", "They are not the only ones talking about Richards` rant. At the American music awards in Los Angeles, the stars couldn`t wait to talk to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT about Richards and what he said.", "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you the stars reaction to Richards veered from anger and outrage to sadness and pity.", "I try to focus on the positivity and just pray that the negative people can wake up one day and see that we`re all the same.", "It was horrendous. I hope is able to control his anger and his problem.", "I feel bad for him because he must be damaged in a way we don`t even understand that caused him to react like that.", "You can`t really blame it on anger or drinking, or whatever it is. I think that any time anybody makes remarks like that, they need to seriously question their own ideals.", "It`s a shame, but he said he was sorry, and I think that -- you know, I don`t think he should be ridiculed for the rest of his life.", "So, it`s clear that Richards has some work to do to make up to the people he insulted and to the nation he offended.", "We apparently haven`t heard the last apology from Michael Richards. He has hired New York public relations expert Howard Rubenstein to help him deal with the fallout from his incident. Rubenstein tells CNN that his new client, quote, will be doing a good deal of apologies over the next few months.", "Well, as you just heard, Michael Richards has reached out to black community leaders. One of those leaders with us tonight here in New York, community activist and host of the Al Sharpton Radio Show, the Reverend Al Sharpton. Reverend Al, always good to see you.", "Good to see you,", "So, listen, obviously Michael Richards is doing what he can to put this behind him. I think that`s going to be a very long road to travel. What exactly did he say to you on the phone today?", "Well, when he called he said to me that he first wanted to apologize. He felt that what he said he couldn`t explain. He saw that I had called on him not to just apologize on the David Letterman show. I respect Mr. Letterman a lot, but that`s not the crowd or the demographics that he offended. I told him his apology is fine. I don`t think any community leader, national leader can accept an apology on behalf of all black people. I said, what I think you can do is begin a process that can deal with the continuing, lingering problems of racism in the country, which clearly you have found in yourself. What you said was a tirade that came from somewhere. That anger, that racial hate, that you may or may not have known was there, obviously became something that you came out with and you kept going with it. This was not a slip of the tongue. If you can help in a dialogue that can lead us to dealing with that lingering problem, then I think that it becomes something that good comes out of this, not just somebody saying, I`m sorry and some others saying, OK, let`s go on.", "So, how did he respond to your suggestions?", "He said that he wanted to talk. He would be open to whatever continued dialogue that some of us decide that we would do. And he wanted me to get back with him. I told him I would. And I told him I was going to share with my national radio audience and others that we had talked, but that I was not in a position to say this is over or that I accepted an apology, but that unfortunately he represents a continuing problem. I told him last Monday -- I was on the stage in Washington, D.C., where they broke the ground for the Martin Luther King monument. It showed us how far we have come. Then by the end of the week, his tirade shows us how far we still have to go. And I think that if we could recognize that we`ve made a lot of progress, but not be in denial that it`s all over with, then I think we can continue the task. He could, in a weird way, be something that could help us along that way.", "That is a great irony of this whole situation and I agree, there is always a benefit to having this much needed dialogue and having it continue in our country. But when you look at this piece of tape of him going off on this venomous rant, it is just difficult. And I`ve had to watch it a lot at this point. Do you think anybody is actually really going to accept his apology or are we just going to have to watch his actions and decide down the road?", "I think that we`ll have to watch his actions. But I think the issue is bigger than him. I think that what we really have got to come to terms with and is healthy for all Americans to do it and it`s painful for some of us that are African American. Here`s a guy that we got comfortable sitting in our living rooms watching every night. This is Kramer. This isn`t some guy in 1930 with a bib on down south and with tobacco juice running down his jaw. This is Kramer. And if he feels this way about us, it`s a little frightening. So I think that maybe it means that all of us have got to say, wait a minute, let`s look at what`s going on here. On the other hand, we also have got to look at those of us, even in the African American community, that has giving license to the use of the N-word, that we have really got to say wait a minute, we`ve got to draw the line, because we cannot be the only people in America that doesn`t have a word that denigrates and desecrates us.", "Reverend Al, you do say that it is bigger than him, and I do agree with you on that. This is a much bigger problem than one person and maybe he has brought to the surface what we should be talking about. I`ve got about 30 second here. A lot of people have been saying though, and they said this about Mel Gibson as well, for him to have actually said what he said, regardless of the motivation, regardless of what pushed him to that point, he`s got to have it inside of him. So do you think Michael Richards is a racist?", "I think that he absolutely has had racist feelings, racist tendencies. Whether he was a practicing, go to the clan meeting at midnight, racist or not, he certainly had those feelings. They came out. The frightening part, why we need the dialogue, is who else in Hollywood, who may not be in front of the camera, but may be in the corporate boardroom, may have those feelings, and I hope SHOWBIZ TONIGHT helps keep the cameras on until we can get all of the racism out of Hollywood and every other place in America.", "Wouldn`t that be a fine day Reverend Al? Wouldn`t that be a fine day?", "That`s the day we`ve got to try to work towards.", "Well, Reverend Al Sharpton, we always appreciate having you on the show.", "Thank you.", "And We, of course, will have much more on the Michael Richards fallout when the biggest stars in Hollywood tell SHOWBIZ TONIGHT what they think of Richards` startling tirade. We`ll get into that at 30 past the hour. Coming up, O.J. caught on tape like you`ve never seen him before. The guy that`s actually trying to sell the tapes is on the way.", "Also, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT finds out once and for all, is there a XXX Britney Spears/Kevin Federline sex tape?", "And tonight the SHOWBIZ Weight Watch continues. We cover this stuff like nobody else, the continuing battle with body image in Hollywood. We`re going to catch up with Nicole Richie. This is her actual very first major appearances since she sought help for being too skinny. We`re going to have that coming up on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT as we get into the holiday weekend. We`ll be right back."], "speaker": ["A.J. HAMMER, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT ANCHOR", "BROOKE ANDERSON, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "HAMMER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HAMMER", "O.J. SIMPSON, FORMER PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL STAR", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "ANDERSON", "MICHAEL RICHARDS, ACTOR", "ANDERSON", "REV. 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{"id": "CNN-324630", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2017-10-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/26/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Titans of Tech Report Earnings This Hour; Top Journalist Suspended After Harassment Claims", "utt": ["Closing bell ringing on Wall Street. No records on the Dow, the S&P. That bell doesn't sound very healthy today, but the market is up 70 on the Dow. And, well, I think we'll just say that was an OK gavel on a very busy day, as you'll discover. Today's overtrading, it is Thursday, it's October the 26th. It's judgment day for Silicon Valley. In the next few moments, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, all reporting earnings within the next few moments. Over in Spain, the stocks soared before Catalonia's president throws a new spanner into the works. And the Weinstein affect continues. More public figures are exposed as the sexual harassment scandals are now piling up. We'll discuss what this means in the workplace. I'm Richard Quest live in the world's financial capital, New York City, where the Dow Jones has gone through 23,400, and where of course, I mean business. Good evening. A huge day on Wall Street for earnings and companies and we are only just getting started. Around now, we're waiting for a trio of tech titans that will give us their latest quarterly report cards. Amazon, Alphabet -- that's Google, basically -- and Microsoft will always release earnings. And we've already had results from blue chips like Ford, American Airlines and many more. We're going to put it all into context for you. With me are these two. Paul La Monica, guru La Monica, and -- get back to it, you're meant to be watching the latest results.", "It's a quartet actually, Richard. We forget poor Intel, which is only in the Dow. They're reporting as well.", "I look forward to hearing about it.", "All see if I can find that also.", "Then These two are watching for the results and the analysis when it comes on. Otherwise, I'm going to take you and introduce you to our brand-new earnings center. It is here that we're going to track the results and future from America's biggest companies. We're going to use Wall Street ultimate metric, share price, and how it responds in the 24 hours after reporting. It's the share price immediately after in the day that can capture investor's thinking in the quarter just ended and the outlook for the next three months. So, companies get a pop after the results, go to the top of the stairs. For example, 3m and United Healthcare, both of which have seen sure gains of 5 to 7 percent. If the market goes down on that particular share, as it did with Costco, Southwest, American, Citi, and AT&T, then we put them at the other end. So, with the trading day over, we' re going to add the companies that have reported so far this morning. And we must start with Twitter. Twitter with subscriber growth and the potential for profit by the end of the year, Twitter's share price is up nearly 20 percent on the day. An extraordinarily high number for Twitter. So, it goes actually there, because it's way above 3m, which had just 7 percent. Ford and UPS, largest parcel delivery service in the world. Ford, bellwether for industry. Both of these had good results, were impressed by the market, and both are up around 1 percent on the day's trading. Imax, the movie theaters, Imax, excellent results, huge potential in China. Imax shares are up 11 percent. We'll have the Imax chief executive Rich Gelfond who will be with me later on the program. What you see here is a gist. You get a feeling from the laggards and the lows, all the way through. And what it's telling me at this point is that this earnings season, under the bulls, has been better than we expected. Caterpillar, JetBlue, Imax, J&J, FCA, 3m, these, these are all the shares and we've still got many more to come. So, the Dow Jones Industrial and how the Dow traded. The Dow has finished up 71 points. That's a third of 1 percent. The S&P up just 3, just a tenth of a percent. The Nasdaq down. Down for the Nasdaq 7.12. No records on any of those markets or, indeed, on the Europe forces. We will wait to put these on the earnings center. On \"QUEST EXPRESS,\" I asked two traders, whether the earnings that we' re seeing here can really sustain the rally that we're seeing in the market.", "Which part of this chart do you find most significant, other than the fact there's been a constant movement.", "Right, I like the -- you know, the April to June. That consolidation there. Yes, it moved higher. And we didn't see a real breakdown in the market. I think investor confidence is in this market and it seems like the muscle behind it, the potential behind it is still here.", "Yourself?", "I think it was the summer of love. So, what I was looking for, traditionally you see in the summer, that the markets are going to --", "Go on, just draw --", "-- take a bit of a pause. We had at there. Right around there is what I'm looking for. Because that prepared you for the growth were seen right now. That's where you set the table for what we're doing.", "So, if you're right on that, then we should be hoping after this rise, that we get a sort of a consolidation, to put some concrete into the market?", "I think, people are yes, we're redefining consensus and that really speaks to what we're going to -- moving forward, where our floors is, where our base is, what we're looking for growth.", "The trading post and the earnings center. And now let's talk to Paul and Clare the see what the results are so far. All right, which one of you has got so far? Amazon has reported?", "Amazon has reported.", "Tell me what Amazon -- what we're hearing from them.", "Sales are up 34 percent year on year, it was a beat. It was above the guidance they issued at the end of the last quarter. $43.7 billion in sales with a net income and profit 256 million. If you look at that --", "256 million out of 43 billion.", "This is the model for Amazon. This is high sales and high expenditure. This is how they dominate. They spend money to do that. So, we see that in this quarter. Sales were -- the profit was actually slightly higher than we saw in the last quarter, that was 197 million. So, 256 million, I mean, in the world of Amazon, is not too bad, really.", "All right, so Amazon beet on its -- Paul?", "We are digging into Google and Microsoft. It looks like Google and Microsoft have both beat. I'm waiting to get the both companies to give you a little more detail.", "We'll get the actual details on that has as we move forward. While we wait for the minutiae on Microsoft, bearing in mind its new -- well it's not new -- it's successful strategy of cloud, AI, quantum computing and the like. Microsoft's chief executive told me he wants the company to rediscover what made it great. Remember, Satya Nadella has released a book about his attempt to change the company. He's worked at for most of his career. It's called \"Hit Refresh.\" He'd been in Microsoft for decades, so nobody was closer to the company than Nadella. And that, it seems, is part of the problem for Microsoft, generally.", "You know, I' m a consummate insider. I grew up at Microsoft, is how I look at it. And having grown up there, I felt that there was things that we got right and there were things that we got wrong. And it is important for us to learn from the things that we got right in the past, because I'm a product of the company that Bill and Steve built. And I wanted to rediscover. That's why I sort of talk about, even though there was this issue we had, but I wanted to rediscover what made us great in the first place. And get that back.", "Why do you think companies lose their way? Why do you think -- they've got thousands of people, any one of whom can say, actually, we're losing our way here. But you are suggesting that it is endemic, it is inevitable that you will lose your way.", "Look, here's the thing that I write a lot about, which is, because that's -- even the purpose of trying to even reflect in -- this is not about -- while we achieved anything, or we've reached a destination, while in the fog of war of change, how does it feel? The thing that at least I've discovered or at least I recognize is this amazing virtual cycle one creates between the product or the concept that, first of all, made you successful. Your capability and your culture. Right? They reinforce each other. But accept the challenges. At some point, the product that initially drove your success runs out of gas. You need new capability. And your culture needs to cultivate it long before your conventional wisdom.", "Do you have to have a crisis to get to that point?", "One of the greatest things I've learned in observing our own history of 43 years, right? And think about it. Microsoft has had existential competitors who are threatening us in the 80s, in the 90s, in the 2000s and now. They're all different. And yet we were the constant. Why did we and how did we achieve that? The only way we were able to achieve that is we were, in fact, able to hit refresh. Some we got it right, some we missed. But we were constantly pushing.", "But the size of the company now, as you try and hit refresh, you're now facing inertia, you're facing opposition, you're facing the sclerotic nature of any company.", "Well, the job of leaders and the job of anyone in the company is to understand that systems challenge, which is to say, well, you know what? The thing that is successful today is not going to be the thing that's going to make us succeed tomorrow. And I'll be pushing on the status quo. And by the way, it's easy to say -- like you and I can sit here and talk about change as if it' s the easiest thing. And we know that it's the hardest thing for humans, as individuals and institutions or organizations are built of humans. So therefore, it's hard for us as organizations and societies, by the way.", "You have to write in the book about a lot of the personal stuff of your family. Most people, most CEOs run in the opposite direction. But you obviously talk about your children and the difficulties there. And you do so with a pride, obviously, of your family. But you don't shy away from it.", "When does one learn about hitting refresh the most? It's life's experience. Where does one get the courage, even, to lead at work? It's through life's experience. And I felt that I needed to, in fact, do that uncomfortable thing of writing about my own personal life and the moments that have shaped me and who I am at work, and how I lead.", "You say in the book that you are betting the company on three things. Particularly AI, artificial intelligence, but also mixed reality and quantum computing. If you are wrong, history will not be kind.", "In fact, I do right, which is anybody who sort of claims that we are going to forecast technology, don't trust them. So, it's not that -- I write these as three major technology trends. The real thing is, what does Microsoft do with these technology trends that's unique? But talking about these three trends, I absolutely believe the ultimate computing experience something that's going to be right in front of your eyes.", "Satya Nadella talking to me earlier last month. While we're waiting for the results, Paul La Monica, Clare Sebastian are tracking the developments. Microsoft. Let's talk, Paul, about Microsoft. $0.84 on earnings versus 72 expected. What do you make of the results from Microsoft?", "Microsoft's results are very strong and the cloud business that Satya Nadella loves continues to really show great strength. They say in their release that they're exceeding a $20 billion commercial cloud annual one rate. So, they think they're going to be eventually at $20 billion in annual sales just from the cloud. And here's what the thing is that really strikes me. The business line that this is a jargon-laden sentence here, but what they call productivity and business processes, that was up 28 percent. That's essentially office line of business is still extremely soft strong for Microsoft. And I think that's a testament to the fact that just pretty much everyone in corporate America still is using Word, Excel, et cetera. And then it winds up in the cloud.", "Good results for Microsoft.", "Yes, these are very good results.", "Do we have an after-hours share price on Microsoft at the moment? While you're looking for that one, Clare, you do have an after -- you do have a share price for Amazon after-hours.", "Yes, about a minute ago, it was up about 6 percent or so after- hours. Now this share price has been under a bit of pressure. It is up still around 30 percent on the year the last time I checked. But it was under pressure after the last earnings report which missed. So, is not immune to falls, Richard. But I want to point out as well that this was the first report that we had from Amazon since its acquisition of Whole Foods. That closed on the 28th of August, so about a month before the end of the quarter. And that added 1.3 billion to those sales, that 43 billion number.", "All right. So, you've done Amazon. We've done Alphabet. Never mind about intel -- sorry, we've done Microsoft.", "We're about to do alphabet.", "Tell me about alphabet. What can you tell me?", "27.8 billion in quarterly revenues that's up 24 percent --", "Wait, so revenue's up 24 percent.", "Better than expected.", "Which is 9.5 -- $9.57 earnings-per-share as against $8.33 expected.", "Yes.", "So again, that has beaten.", "Definitely beaten. The profit -- the quarterly profit, $6.7 billion. That's what translated to the $9.57 a share. And with Alphabet, it continues to be search advertising. It continues to be YouTube. These are the core businesses. Even though Alphabet, obviously, is doing a lot more with their quote, unquote other bets, things that are a little bit far off in the future. It's just the simple click-based advertising that is really doing extremely well for them.", "We won't have a share price to put on there until tomorrow night, because it's the day after that will reflect in terms of these three in our new earnings center. Will put these on after in tomorrow. But Clare and Paul, as we come to an end here. No records on the markets. The Nasdaq was down, just on a frolic of its own. But 70 percent of S&P companies are beating expectations. In the market likes what its seeing.", "Yes, without question. I mean, whether or not this is because of the hope for more regulatory reforms in Washington, maybe some deregulation tax reform, I think that remains to be seen. I think for the most part, as we've discussed on this show many times, a lot of businesses our ignoring the turmoil in Washington. Consumers are still spending. And that's great news for corporate America.", "And I think there's still an appetite for these tech companies where you see such a major difference between the amount of sales that they're producing and the amount of profit. They're willing to take a leap of faith, particularly for a company like Amazon, that is just dominating in so many sectors, Richard. They're just not looking so much for that core kind of income number, as much as they are for what they're going to do in the future.", "Good to see you both. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Much appreciated. We'll continue tonight on QUEST MEANS BUSINESS. We'll turn our attention from earnings to Catalonia's high-wire independence bid, which seems to have faltered for the moment. A last- ditch plan for regional elections has been called off and Madrid central government is still preparing to suspend autonomy in the matter of hours. Catalan lawmakers are planning their next move. 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{"id": "CNN-413567", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2020-10-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/16/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Trump Refuses to Denounce QAnon Conspiracy Theories", "utt": ["Tonight, Senator Mitt Romney attacking President Trump's refusal to denounce QAnon during last night's town hall, saying, quote, the president's unwillingness to denounce and observe a dangerous conspiracy theory last night continues an alarming pattern. Politicians in parties refuse to purposely repudiate groups like Antifa, white supremacists and conspiracy peddlers. The president going so far as to praise QAnon supporters and defending his retweets of -- I guess you would call it a conspiracy theory, this is completely insane that Osama bin Laden is not really dead.", "I know nothing about QAnon.", "I just told.", "You told me, but what you told me doesn't necessarily make it fact, I hate to say that. I know nothing about it, I do know that they are very much against pedophilia, they find it very hard.", "Just this week, you re-tweeted to your 87 million followers the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden orchestrated to have Navy SEAL Team 6, the Navy SEAL Team 6, to cover up the fake death of bin Laden. Now why would you send a lie like that to your followers? You retweeted it.", "That was a retweet. That was an opinion of somebody and that was a retweet. I'll put it out there. People can decide for themselves.", "I don't get that. You're the president. You're not like someone's crazy uncle who can just retweet whatever.", "No, no, no. That was a retweet and I do a lot of retweets and frankly because the media is so fake and so corrupt, if I didn't have social media, I don't call a Twitter, I call it social, media I wouldn't be able to get the word out.", "Well, the word is false. And you know what the word is? The word is very simple. We're building our country stronger and better than it's ever been before. That's what's happening and everybody knows it.", "OUTFRONT now, former Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill. He's the retired member of Navy SEAL Team 6, the team that killed Osama bin Laden. Rob, you and I have talked a lot about that. You know, his defenses I'll put it out there that Osama bin Laden is alive. As I said, the conspiracy theory I've only heard in taxicabs in the Middle East, not something you'd ever think the president of the United States would put out there. So, what do you say to that? You were there.", "Yes. Thanks again, Erin. Great to see you and to be back on the show. Yeah, I was there and when I heard you say absurd, I mean, it is absurd, and to the point where when we first heard about it, I was on a vacation, some of the guys who are on the ground with me were texting me saying stuff, almost jokingly, like, you know, who did we go in there and kill, why are we all dead? Stuff like that. And, you know, it's one thing to joke about something like that and, I put out a two-way tweet that said I put a I guess we might have must killed Obama bin Johnson or something like that. But, I mean, for the president of the United States, now, he loved to tweet out stuff to whip, to own the news cycle, and a retweet is one thing for someone who's not the commander-in-chief, but for something this important, you can't just tweet out something like that, especially with -- even with someone with that with that many followers and say, well, I'm sure they will just come up with their own conclusions, because, you know, we got crazies on the right hand on the left, and there are people that are taking his words as gospel. And if the president puts out that we didn't kill the right guy or the entire team was killed or whatever, they're saying like that, a lot of people are gonna straight-up believe him. And it can't get to a point where it's more than politically dangerous. It shouldn't be a retweet, he knows what happened, he is the highest of the top secret, the toppest, the highest of the top secret people. He can go see the pictures that we do have it CIA in a file cabinet. We got a lot of photos of him different places where we took bin Laden's body for DNA test. So, it's just -- you know, it's one of those things where as somebody has made mistakes on twitter, the president should not be doing something of that scale.", "No, I mean, it's just tough to imagine, you know, how that -- how that feels to you, when you were there with your team and you risk your lives to do this for this country. I want to ask you about something else, because part of that exchange that I played was about QAnon right? He has said that in the past that he understands QAnon supporters, quote, like me very much and that they love America. According to a reporting from \"The Atlantic\" the, president as promoted Twitter accounts that referenced QAnon more than 200 times, right, with his retweets and other things as you're discussing. Do you believe Trump that he doesn't what QAnon is? And sees them as I guess the valiant opponent of pedophilia?", "I -- I'm not -- see, I'm not even that familiar with QAnon. The most I know is that they claim to be a right wing group. I know people who have gone to their spots as keynote speakers and said they never go back, because they have some bizarre things going on. I'm not -- I don't know what the president knows about them, and I've never spoken to the president about QAnon. I've heard different things from different sides. From what I've read, I'm not going to associate with them. If they're breaking up pedophilia rings, that's awesome. Obviously, I don't think anyone's pro pedophile. But I don't know much about, them I don't know what the president knows about them. It's just -- it just seemed like bizarre, because these are guys that are saying -- I mean, part of that conspiracy, the guys on the bin Laden raid can joke about. We know what we did, we saw it, and the unfortunate thing is we're many -- I mean, few people that have seen it. But then when it gets into the conspiracy that somehow because Vice President Joe Biden says SEAL Team 6, that they shot down SEAL Team 6 to silence the group, because the group got shot down was a different group of guys. Not one guy that died there, albeit some of the best fighters I've ever seen, the best heroes ever, none of them were in the bin Laden, but they were real people, and their kids are still missing their fathers, and that was a real thing. And even to go so far as the conspire that Hillary Clinton saw the missiles that shot them down to shot up SEAL Team 6, that's the kind of stuff what was in this ridiculous QAnon conspiracy theory and that's when it gets very, very personal for me and that's why I did get upset about.", "Yeah, I understand that. It's absurd and it can be very dangerous. I want to ask you one other thing before we go, Rob, because -- since I have you. Look, I know that you yourself, you're a conservative guy. The president has come under fire for suggesting that Gold Star families could've been spread responsible for the spread of coronavirus in the White House, right? He's made some comments here, you know, saying that they just like Hope Hicks so much, they want to hug her, and that's sort of how it happened. He also said this.", "They come within an inch of my face sometimes, they want to hug me and they want to kiss me, and they do. And frankly, I am not telling them to back up, I'm not doing it. But I did say it's obviously dangerously dangerous, it's dangerous if you go by the COVID thing.", "And then, of course, Rob, he specifically said law or military enforcement could've in affected Hope Hicks. I mean, look, veterans and active duty service members are a key part of Trump's political base. Sixty percent of them voted for him in 2016, according to the exit polls. Just from your point of view, do you feel at supporters slipping or not?", "I know -- I know that most of the men or women with whom I've served a conservative leaning, and I think if you want to -- if someone wants to get political as far as Gold Star families, my advice is to keep them out of it completely. And, you know, you don't blame Gold Star kids for something that may have happened when a lot of people aren't 100 percent sure how this virus is spread. I would just, I mean, me personally, if a Gold Star kid wants to hug him, get him a hug, and I'm not going to say a word of it.", "Yeah, right. Point taken, thank you very much, Rob. I appreciate your time.", "Thank you, Erin.", "And next, Trump was repeatedly warned that Rudy Giuliani repeatedly being used by Russian agents to take down Biden. So what was the president's response? And all eyes on a key swing state that could not only determine who wins the White House but who takes control of the Senate. So, who has the upper hand?"], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SAVANNAH GUTHRIE, NBC NEWS ANCHOR", "TRUMP", "GUTHRIE", "TRUMP", "GUTHRIE", "TRUMP", "GUTHRIE", "GUTHRIE", "ROBERT O'NEILL, FORMER MEMBER OF NAVY SEAL TEAM THAT KILLED OSAMA BIN LADEN", "BURNETT", "O'NEILL", "BURNETT", "TRUMP", "BURNETT", "O'NEILL", "BURNETT", "O'NEILL", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-272276", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-12-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/27/cnr.20.html", "summary": "At Least Eight Dead After Deadly Tornado In Texas; Australian Fire Officials Say Bushfire Might Keep Burning Into The New Year; Southern Californians Evacuating After Wildfire Burns Hundreds of Acres; Over 100 Flood Alerts In U.K. After Torrential Rains", "utt": ["A deadly tornado rips through the Dallas, Texas area; at least eight are dead. We'll speak with the local resident who watched the destruction unfold. Plus, as one place picks up the pieces, another burns; a scenic part of California goes up in flames. And beating back ISIS. Iraqi Forces say they've made significant gains in Ramadi held by militants now for months. It's all next here on \"CNN Newsroom.\" We're live from Atlanta. Thanks for joining us. I'm Natalie Allen.", "We are seeing severe weather all over the world right now and that is our lead story. In Texas, the deaths of at least eight people are blamed on a powerful tornado. In Australia, fire officials say a bushfire there might keep burning into the New Year. In Southern California, people are being forced to evacuate after a wild fire burns nearly 500 hectares. And in the U.K., emergency officials issued more than 100 flood alerts and warnings of torrential rains, high winds and fog. And there's another flooding story we'll tell you about in South America, where one storm is responsible for killing eight people in Texas, and officials say five of those deaths were of people whose cars were hit by the tornado that struck in the night. There has been significant damage reported in the Dallas Metro area. One family described how they were lucky to get out of their home alive.", "My daughter's car is in the kitchen.", "Wow. Your daughter's car ...", "Her car is in the garage.", "... is in the kitchen here?", "It's in the kitchen, right in the back.", "In the back of your house?", "Yes. Right now. And my husband's car was in the driveway, it's out and around into the alley, but her car is in the kitchen and it was in the garage.", "That says a lot, the car is in the kitchen. They're lucky to be alive, for sure. Pat McMillan says his apartment was nearly destroyed in the storm. He joins me now on the phone. Pat, we're glad you're OK. Tell us what you experienced.", "We're asleep and I heard the roar of the tornado and I had woke up my mom -- my mom had grabbed me and her boyfriend and put us in the restroom in about -- it lasted about 10 to 20 seconds. When we went outside, it was complete darkness, around 7:30 about -- around like, 7:20, 7:15. It was complete darkness and we went around looking to make sure that the families are OK or anybody needed help. There was a family across the hall from us. The windows are shattered, the doors are messed up and we heard her. So then my mom's boyfriend went inside and like took the door (inaudible) and tried to get out and we went across the street to pick up the cable line so the cars can go through (inaudible) going through and then we saw some churches over there (inaudible) so I went to the church to make sure that anybody, like injured or anything like that needs our assistance but everybody's OK, and our apartment is populated, full of families, kids, you know, like -- family like that and our friend's apartment is just completely gone.", "Pat, so no one was seriously injured?", "No, ma'am. By the grace of God, no one was seriously injured.", "That is unreal. And the pictures that we're looking at right on the T.V. screen that you took, are you telling me that this happened in - what, you said it only lasted 20 seconds?", "Twenty seconds -- about 20 seconds.", "That's really amazing. And are you able to stay in your apartment or are you going to have to go to somewhere -- somewhere else?", "I'm able to stay in my apartment.", "How big is your complex? How many people live there?", "I'll say at least about 100.", "Have you ever experienced anything like this before?", "No. This is my first time, so my reaction was kinda shocked and surprised. Let's get on together.", "I can certainly understand that, and this just happened just a few hours ago. We're so thankful that you and the people you live around are OK because we're looking at these pictures and you're very fortunate. Thank you so much for talking with us, Pat.", "Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Derek Van Dam is here with us. I can't imagine the stories like his that we're going to be hearing from Dallas, Texas and especially Derek, how tragic that these deaths that occurred were people driving on the interstate because ...", "Right.", "... you can't see a tornado at night.", "Right. Now, that's the scary part about that. You heard the gentleman there talking about how he was sleeping when the tornado came through his apartment complex. He's lucky he heard the roar of the tornado or perhaps the tornado siren as well because a lot of people when they sleep, these nocturnal tornadoes, they don't have any forewarning.", "Yes.", "That's the problem. I want to show you this video that is new to CNN and is just phenomenal for me to see something like this. This is from Basehunters, but look at the power lines illuminating the backdrop of this tornado. There were reports on Twitter that this tornado was roughly about 1-1/2 kilometers wide. You can imagine the path of destruction to a heavily populated area like the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In fact, Dallas County is the second-most populated county in all of Texas alone. Take a look at this, my graphics. You'll see just how many tornadoes were reported on Boxing Day, December 26th. Officially six so far, but that has to be assessed from the National Weather Service (inaudible) to see daylight and the true devastation from these tornadoes as they rip through northern Texas and there was also several hail reports and even a lone tornado in Oklahoma as well. I want to show you the radar of the moment the tornado went through Dallas. There it is in the center of my T.V. screen. You can start to see that -- a deep shading of red that moved across the region earlier in the day. It's about 6:45 in the evening, local time when it actually took place and the severe weather threat is not done yet, folks. Get a load of this. This is the future radar going forward. We have a very complex storm system that's going to bring extremely heavy rain, the potential for more severe weather the eastern sections of Texas, part of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and into Louisiana. On the back side of the system, we have a full-blown blizzard that is anticipated through the rest of the weekend and into the first parts of next week. Here are our highlighted areas for the potential damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. Look out, Houston. There's our blizzard threat, and the flashflood threat stretches all the way to Saint Louis and the central portions of Illinois we have another potential 250 to perhaps even 400 millimeters of rainfall and a very saturated environment. Natalie, that means flashflooding is extremely likely. You can see those warnings in red.", "Yes. And that's the region right there, cutting across the United States that sees so many dangerous storms.", "Yes.", "Usually not the week before New Year's, though.", "Yeah, that's right. Allen: All right, El Nino. Thank you. Good. Well, a major California wildfire is more than half contained now but not before causing some major problems in southern California. Nearly 500 hectares have burned, and the Solimar fire, that's near Ventura County, causing two major highways to close for a time. The dramatic video you're seeing here was captured by a Dutch family vacationing. This was what happened to their vacation as they drove practically through this fire to escape. The fire is now 60 percent contained. A fire official believes windy conditions led to a downed power line and that started all of this.", "Despite the challenges of high winds, steep terrain, significant brush, we were able to bring a stop to all forward progress to the fire and did not lose any structures.", "Well, bushfires in Australia's Victoria State had been subdued with about 300 firefighters working to contain then they did lose structures from luxury homes, more than 100 homes, also parts of Great Ocean Road, that's a popular scenic highway also shut down. Earlier, I spoke with Peter Baker, a State Duty Officer with the Country Fire Authority.", "The fire is not yet contained, so we've got -- today, we've got a run of about 300 firefighters and a (inaudible) aircraft working on the edge back. We've got a lot of far (ph) edge. We have about a boundary on this of 40 kilometers. As far as the housing loss, the count yesterday was 118 and I haven't heard that -- sorry, it's 116, and I haven't heard about any further increase on that today. So 116 homes lost in this devastating fire.", "And those homes that were lost, that happened on Christmas Day. Everyone had to get out and go to shelters and spend their Christmas there and then come back to homes that had been burned. And emergency officials say dry conditions could cause more fires into the New Year. Well, floods are causing misery in parts of Northern England. More than 300 warnings and alerts have been issued. Look at that. Hundreds of homes evacuated there. ITN's Martha Fairlie has to look at some of the worst hit areas.", "The Boxing Day deluge had been predicted, but there was nothing home owners could do to stop the rising water. At one point, 15,000 homes were left without electricity", "This is the first time we've been in this state. (Inaudible) Robert's been here 50 years, Hughie Shackleton has been here 52 years and never, ever -- it's totally unprecedented.", "Efforts to keep the rising waters at bay were seemingly futile and emergency services and the army was drafted in.", "So we've been going to the houses that are likely to flood, knocking on the doors, asking the people to leave, telling them of the situation and then registering their response so either helping them to evacuate their property or registering whether they say they don't want to leave and then taking that information and passing it back to the police.", "Oh, my God.", "The force of the flood waters swept away the Red Rocks footbridge at Horton on the River Darwin. While in Delph, homeowners attempted to bail out their properties as the river levels continued to rise. Parts of Manchester city center were also submerged as the River Irwell burst its banks. The M62 motorway was shut after a 20-foot sink hole appeared in the carriageway (TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY0. A month's worth of rain has already come down over the course of one day and with it continuing to fall this evening, residents are wondering when it will all end. Martha Fairlie, ITV News, Lancashire.", "And the Prime Minister, David Cameron, will be holding a cabinet meeting this weekend to talk about the flooding situation. Ahead here, ISIS gets pushed back out of the key city from Iraq. Also, ISIS' leader may be speaking to the world for the first time in months. 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{"id": "CNN-206380", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-5-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/08/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Jaycee Dugard Honored in D.C.; Interview with Bryan Cranston; Discovery of Three Ohio Women Fuels Hope", "utt": ["And you're looking now at a picture of Amanda Berry's home. Her family's home as you can see is decked out with flowers and the balloons welcoming her home from -- well from ten years of hell. As you can see there's also a police officer standing out front to keep people away and to we assume, that she's reuniting in a good way with her family, at least we hope so. No one knows what the three kidnapping survivors in Cleveland are going through quite like Jaycee Dugard. Dugard was abducted in 1991, she was held captive for 18 long years. She even gave birth to her abductor's children while she was in captivity. Last night the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children honored Dugard for her work helping other families of missing children. And she did reference the Cleveland case.", "It's hard to believe that story is me. It's just, thank you for tonight and I want to say what an amazing time to be talking about hope with everything that's happening. I feel like I have come full circle. And we are all finally together celebrating the wonderful hope that you at NCMEC keep alive every day. I am so thankful for the team of people that have supported me throughout these last few years. I am so grateful to all of you. I can't say they have been easy, but anything in life worth doing is sometimes hard, like speaking.", "Oh but she spoke so very well. Also awarded last night, a man you might recognize from TV shows like \"Breaking Bad,\" and \"Malcolm in the Middle\" we're talking about actor Bryan Cranston and his wife. They were honored for their support of the center which they've worked with for more than a decade.", "This is indicative of what is possible in the human condition. This is hope is not to be short changed. It is --", "It's never too late.", "Never too late. It is a -- it is a wonderful thing to hold on to. It's a very human experience right? To be able to say, we have hope, we have faith.", "It is. Bryan Cranston joins me now from Capitol Hill where he's attending the congressional breakfast for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Welcome, Bryan.", "Good morning, Carol. How are you?", "I'm great. And thank you so much for being with us. I wondered what it was like listening to Jaycee Dugard?", "Well, she's a remarkable young woman who not only took her ordeal and began to put the pieces back together for her life, but she's also now extending that to help other victims of abduction and how they assimilate back into society. And she's a remarkable young woman, received a standing ovation last night at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Hope Awards. And it's -- it's a lesson in grace and courage.", "Oh, she looks -- she looks fantastic. But you know, in just her short remarks that we listened to, she said it's not been easy. It's been very difficult. But she did reassure us all that there's hope. But it makes you wonder about the recovery of these three young women in Cleveland.", "Well, I don't think any of us can really imagine what an ordeal like that would be like to be captive by someone for even a week let alone 18 years in Jaycee's situation or nearly ten years or over ten years in the situation in Cleveland. We're very fortunate that we got that news right before the Hope Awards. And it really illustrated that hope is alive and that is the main message that we want to send to families who are -- who are grieving right now around the world, whose loved ones are missing that hope is there still and faith and keep that. And you never know what kind of break is going to come. It's very fortunate for these three women in Cleveland and -- and now there's a big road ahead of them. Physically, they're -- they're now back together with their families. But emotionally, intellectually, they need a lot of support and help to get through these next several months and years.", "Absolutely. You've been involved in the national organization for a very long time. I'm sure there was talk last night about how Cleveland police handled these cases. What was said?", "Well, there's a lot of discussion about what's going on. And I think it's not a bad thing to do. It may be Monday morning quarterbacking, but in this case, law enforcement needs to do that on a regular basis. To look back, look at the things that they did right, look at the things they did wrong, and figure out how to make those corrections for future cases. I can't comment on what the Cleveland police were able to do or not do. I'm not privy to that information. We're just at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, we're just excited that these three women and four, in fact, the little girl have been reunited with their families and hopefully will have a fruitful life ahead of them.", "And just tell me why you've been involved with this organization for such a long time.", "I'm a parent. And I think it's every parent's nightmare to think of what happened to John and Reve Walsh's son Adam many years ago. They needed to turn their anger and frustration into something positive and they created the National Center almost 30 years ago in their garage. And they did the right thing and they (inaudible) their grieving process to something that was positive. Once you become a parent, you realize that they're -- they're living my nightmare of something happening to my child. And so that's all the impetus I needed for my wife and I to get involved in the National Center many years ago and continue working for their progress.", "Bryan Cranston, thank you so much for being with us this morning.", "Thank you, Carol.", "You're welcome. Coming up next in the NEWSROOM more of our special live coverage out of Cleveland, Ohio -- another family still waiting for good hopeful news about a -- about a family member who has been missing since 1995. We'll tell you about that."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "JAYCEE DUGARD, HELD CAPTIVE FOR 18 YEARS", "COSTELLO", "BRYAN CRANSTON, ACTOR, \"BREAKING BAD\"", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CRANSTON", "COSTELLO", "CRANSTON", "COSTELLO", "CRANSTON", "COSTELLO", "CRANSTON", "COSTELLO", "CRANSTON", "COSTELLO", "CRANSTON", "COSTELLO", "CRANSTON", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-290159", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-08-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/01/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Team Korea Wears Shield Against Zika; Yuriko Koike Is Tokyo's 1st Female Governor", "utt": ["Welcome back to our viewers around the world. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Atlanta. I'm Natalie Allen. We want to update you on our top stories right now.", "Hosting the Olympics takes a staggering amount of infrastructure just getting the spectators from place to place. It's also a major undertaking. Shasta Darlington went for a trial run to see whether Rio is ready.", "It's a beautiful day. So we're going to head to some Olympic stadiums and test out the public transportation system, which is coming together at the very last minute. Olympic transport tickets cost about $49 for a week, or $8 for a one- day card. So for the first leg we're taking this journey underground on the metro. And here we go. So we're going to head up to the escalator and up to the train that will be our next leg of this journey. So there are no signs yet for the Olympic Parks. A tourist is going to be pretty lost. They would probably head over here to the information booth. So we'll head over here. Which is also empty. So let's ask security if they know. Excuse me, Olympic Park? Olympic Park? Part two, getting on the train.", "Will depart from platform eight.", "So this used to be the Can of Sardines train. Obviously it's looking better now. They've put more cars on the tracks, especially as we get close to the Olympics, and more security. So if you're coming to see track and field, this is your stop. And let's see if, if you calculate the time to switch trains, it's about 50 minutes from your hotel door to right here at the stadium. If you continue on to the Deodoro Park for BMX or rugby, give yourself a good hour and 15 minutes from the hotel. So if you have just seen an equestrian event or maybe a canoe slalom and you want the get to the main Olympic Park, you're going to take this dedicated bus line. Right now it's empty. In fact, it looks like they're still finishing it. But once the Olympics starts, this is going to be a really important trajectory. It's going to connect to all of the Olympic Park right there, the main one, all of the hotels on Rio's south side. The good news, this has its own exclusive lane. So hopefully, we won't be sitting in traffic. That was fast, comfortable, and air conditioned. I'd be getting on the metro now, but the new line won't be open until four days before the Olympics start. For now, stuck in traffic. Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.", "Well, South Korea is taking extra precautions to protect its athletes in the Olympics. They're wearing special uniforms with built-in mosquito repellent. The idea, to prevent Zika, and they're not talking about how they were able to do that. Paula Hancocks went inside the factory where the uniforms are made there in Seoul.", "The national flag, the team logo, and encouraging messages from people sewn into the lining, this is South Korea's Olympic uniform. 600 are being made here just outside of Seoul for athletes and officials to wear in Rio this August. And there is something else that makes this outfit unique. It is apparently Zika resistant. But aside from the long sleeves and the long trousers, keeping skin off limits to mosquitoes, the rest remains a bit of a mystery. (on camera): The Zika resistant part of this uniform is apparently top secret. All we've been told is once the uniforms are finished, they're shipped off to an unnamed company, and there they coat the uniforms with an insect repellent chemical. We're not allowed to film that part. (voice-over): We're told it has been tested to repel mosquitoes and it works. No lab results or footage available, though. Designer Kim Su Chong says she was going for protection and comfort, and something truly Korean. \"I wanted our athletes to look classy and stylish,\" she says, \"as they're on a global stage. Next, I wanted it to be in the unique Korean style. Lastly, it had to be functional and comfortable.\" South Korea's Olympic Committee says so far no athlete has dropped out through fears of the Zika Virus, but medicine, insect repellent and mosquito nets are being prepared, as well as a uniform that leaves little exposed for the mosquitoes to bite. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.", "Japan's foreign defense minister made history when she took that position, and now she can add another historic role to her political career. Voters in Tokyo have elected Yuriko Koike as their first female governor. Anna Fifield joins me now. She's the chief Tokyo reporter for \"The Washington Post.\" We should say the governor elect, 20 years in politics. Prior to that she was a TV newscaster for what it's worth, Anna. That let's talk about her success. In politics, and what got her to the point where she was elected governor, with men as her fellow candidates.", "Right. Well she achieved the remarkable feat as kind of running as an insider and an outsider at the same time. She has been on the political scene for a long time, more than 20 years. She was a member of parliament. She was defense minister, environment minister. So she has been around and she is a known character here. But she was not chosen by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party as its preferred candidate for this election. So she was running as something as an outsider against the selected candidate. And she said that she could offer a fresh start for Tokyo after a series of scandals involving the two previous governors, both of whom had to step down because of financial irregularities. So Yuriko Koike has come in promising to restore stability to Tokyo, a city of almost 14 million people, and to put the Olympic Games, which is scheduled to come here in 2020, back on track.", "Yes. She's got a big job there because that's four years away, and she'll be traveling to Rio, I know, to accept the flag and the torch to bring it back to Tokyo. But what else has she pledged to do as far as helping children and women there?", "That's right. So Japan is facing those demographic time bombs here. Women are not having enough babies, and the population is aging so rapidly. So to try and deal with this, she has promised to increase the number of day-care centers available to look after young children, to make more nursing facilities available for older people, and just try and make life easier for the residents of Tokyo.", "All right, thank you, Anna Fifield with \"The Washington Post.\" Thank you for joining us, Anna. Pope Francis says he knows what's to blame for terrorism, and it isn't Islam. We'll tell you what he had to say to reporters, coming up."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "ALLEN", "SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ANNOUNCER", "DARLINGTON", "ALLEN", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ALLEN", "ANNA FIFIELD, CHIEF TOKYO REPORTER, THE WASHINGTON POST", "ALLEN", "FIFIELD", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-140240", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-7-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/09/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Four People in Custody in Alleged Scheme to Resell Grave Plots; Biden On The Road Drumming Up Support for President's Economic Recovery Plan; Protesters In Tehran Clashing With Militia Members", "utt": ["And checking other stories that are happening right now. Michael Jackson's death being described as a wake-up call to the nation about prescription drug abuse. The government's drug control policy chief discussed on CBS a short time ago, parents are key to addressing the problem of prescription drug misuse. A vaccine for the H1N1 flu is on the way. That's news from a critical health summit going on in Washington right now. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who you see there, said some doses of a vaccine should be available by mid-October. One hundred seventy people have died from swine flu in the United States. Some of Pakistan's 2 million displaced people may be headed home as early as next week. They were forced from their homes into camps when Pakistan's military launched an offensive against Taliban fighters. Pakistan's prime minister now says basic services are restored and people can return to their towns July 13.", "My mom, she's been buried here since 2004 and, actually, this is kind of a surprise because I was just here a couple weeks ago to just visit.", "Families are now left to wonder, where in is my loved one. Police in one Chicago suburb are investigating an alleged scheme to resell grave plots. Investigators say they found bones tossed into unmarked graves in the back of a cemetery. The headstones from those graves were just thrown on the ground. At least four people are in custody right now. Earlier on CNN's AMERICAN MORNING, the sheriff talked about the crime and what they're doing to try to identify the remains both in and out of the ground.", "We're bringing in some high-tech machines that are going to be able to use ultrawaves and light to make sure that nothing has been tampered with. We have thermal imaging units that are going to be on site here soon. And we're going to double-check everybody because like we told people, this is an incredibly historic cemetery for the African-American community. But as well as the notables, there are regular family members everywhere, children, and grandparents. When you look at some of the grave stones, Joe, that we come across that have been dumped throughout the cemetery and had been hidden, you see grave stones of babies, you see grave stones of grandparents, husbands, wives, parents. This is heartbreaking stuff.", "There's no question about that. A lot of people very upset here. It is also a tough task for investigators checking graves, but it is devastating for the families who do have loved ones there. A little bit later on we're going to be talking with Reverend Steve Jones. He's the chaplain for the Cook County Sheriff's office. He'll give us the very latest. We are talking about this story on our blog, as well, this morning. Just go to cnn.com/heidi and you can post your thoughts there. And we, of course, we'll be sharing some of them with you just a little bit later on right here in the broadcast. Tracking the money and the jobs. Vice president Joe Biden on the road today talking about the progress of the president's economic recovery plan, and we are going to continue to follow that story coming out of Cincinnati, Ohio, where Biden will begin talking a little bit later this hour, and then he will be off to New York. Well, this all comes as Republican lawmakers rip into the Obama administration. They say the stimulus package is not working, and they accuse the White House of overstating the ability of the package to create jobs. More on that now from CNN's Kate Bolduan.", "Even as the Obama administration touts the jobs being created by Recovery Act spending...", "We're starting to see some real progress.", "Unemployment had soared to 9.5 percent and 3.4 million jobs have been lost in the past six months. Republicans say the stimulus isn't working and Wednesday they pounced.", "I think that we need to justify how much money we're spending and where are the jobs saved and where have they been preserved, and I think that we got major credibility crisis here. The president is quoted as saying that the stimulus has \"done its job.\" Is that true or not true?", "We believe that the stimulus has had the impact that we had predicted which is job creation.", "In the hot seat, the president' deputy budget director, Rob Nabors, who said the stimulus plan is slowing the economic freefall. Nabors said 150,000 jobs have been created or saved.", "It's a work in progress, but it's steady progress.", "The Government Accountability Office said of the $29 billion delivered to hard-hit states so far, most have gone to paid Medicaid costs, balance budgets and avoid layoffs. At the same time, Tom Evslin, Vermont's chief recovery officer, said funds for big job- producing investments like broad band and the electric smart grid are still caught in the stimulus pipeline.", "The frustration has been that the money hasn't come out and we kept hearing later and later dates for the money coming out.", "Massachusetts governor Duvall Patrick says states are ready and waiting.", "No funds, no projects. No projects, no jobs.", "Also in the hearing, Robert Nabors seem to indirectly criticize states for making what he called unwise choices to simply use stimulus money to balance their budgets. The administration has said actual stimulus spending will peak in 2010. Kate Bolduan, CNN, Washington.", "So, where is the money? In our next half hour, we're going to show you how much of the recovery package money is being used where you live. We'll break it down for you. Saving the planet. On the agenda at the G-8 summit, President Obama is leading a forum on climate change with some non-G-8 nations invited to the table. CNN's Paula Newton is covering the summit for us from L'Aquila, Italy and is joining us now, live. So Paula, good morning to you.", "And good morning, Heidi. I just had a look at the draft declaration on some of those climate change issues. What's missing is an actual target to cut those emissions by 2050. Now at one point in time, they had said that they were hoping that industrialized countries would agree to cut emissions by 50 percent. That's a lot, Heidi. Right now, it says that they're going to try to come to a consensus by the end of the year on how much they will cut. You know, Heidi, that's a lot less than the environmental groups were hoping for going into this meeting and some of them really being quite harsh about President Obama leadership on this. Listen to Phil Radford from Greenpeace for a moment.", "Well, I don't think President Obama has gone much further than Clinton. It's easy to compare him to Bush, who denied the science. The big problem now is President Obama actually accepts the science, he accepts that this is a big problem and still he's doing very little to nothing to lead on the issue. I don't know what's worse, not believing in it and not doing anything or knowing how bad the problem is and not doing anything.", "They're not really mincing words on this. Now, President Obama is still hard at work at this. He thinks that they give it to the end of the year, they can come up with some hard numbers to really root for with both the industrialized countries and those emerging countries. Although not too sure that they are the ones that should be stuck with the problem that we're trying to clean up the planet with the industrialized countries, they say, caused the problems Interviewer: he first place. And, Heidi, I said I was going to tell you about some hoops...", "Yes.", "Well, I did say yesterday that they had one of these makeshift basketball courts. Here, White House officials saying that, indeed, that President Obama played horse yesterday.", "Who did he play with?", "I remember that stuff from my school days. Yes, he played with his body man, I think, Mr. Love. The guy he usually plays with. So no celebrities or anything like that out there on the court. But it was apparently just before dinner, and he did blow off some steam. A lot of steam to blow off here for many different reasons but yes, I'm told he might take to the hoops again today.", "Yes. I mean, I was hoping though for a little three on three, the different world leaders. I mean, that would have been a really cool photo op, right?", "Well, we've now started a rumor here. George Clooney is going to be touring the earthquake ruins here with Carla Bruni in a few hours or so...", "Holy cow.", "... that he will play with George Clooney, who's -- I know, who said that he always wanted to play and shoot some hoops with President Obama. So we suggested it to some White House people. I'm not sure it is going to happen.", "Actually, well, that would be breaking news. You make sure you let us know if that occurs. Paula Newton, thanks so much. We do appreciate that live from Italy this morning. We do have more on climate change in today's \"Energy Fix\" segment. We're going to be looking at the two reasons why developing nations are against cutting emissions. More now on a story that we brought you at the top of the hour. Police in one Chicago suburb are investigating an alleged scheme to resell grave plots. It's a very tough task for investigators checking the graves, but it is devastating for the families who have loved ones buried there because these bodies have been dug up, the headstones have apparently been smashed and moved to the back portion of this land. Need to talk a little bit more about it with the sheriff of Cook County. That's Tom Dart and Reverend Steve Jones from the Cook County Sheriff's Office, as well. They are joining me now live from Alsip, Illinois. Thanks to the both of you for being here. This is just a pretty incredible story. I know you have been answering a lot of questions about it this morning. Sheriff, I want to get to you first. What is the latest in the investigation? What have you been able to learn in all of this?", "We have four people that are charged right now with class- act official offenses, which are the most serious in the state for dismembering the bodies. The investigation is continuing. There's more angles that we're looking at now, and we're anticipating the FBI any moment now who are going to come in and assist us with some of the excavation and the forensic side of this as well.", "Can you tell us how this all came about? Sheriff, did you learn about this and how did investigators learn about it? I mean, if I understand correctly, this has been going on for quite some time.", "Yes, it appears that this was going on in the neighborhood of about four years.", "Four years. That's pretty incredible, isn't it?", "The whole thing is amazing. When you see the site and you get the gravity of just the expanse that we're talking about and the bones that are laying everywhere, you can see where it's not -- amazing that more people didn't know about it, for starters. When you see some of the vaults that are broken open and laying around, it's difficult to understand that. But nonetheless, someone did come forward and they called the owners, the owners have been concerned about financials. They contacted us about four, five weeks ago and then we opened up what we originally thought was a financial investigation, and then it turned into this.", "Wow, unbelievable. Reverend, I see you shaking your head there. I understand that you were brought into this investigation pretty early on, right?", "Well, as soon as the sheriff realized that we're talking desecration of graves, the spiritual side of this -- I'm one of the chaplains for the Cook County sheriffs and if this is just so unbelievable because of the gravity of people's loved ones being disturbed, the final resting place being disturbed. And he felt that it was a need for not only the clergy to be involved, but he also brought involved the funeral home owners and the directors so that they can be aware of what was going on because this -- this is devastating. This is a landmark in Chicago. This is our neighborhood cemetery and to think of your loved ones' remains being disturbed is just unconscionable.", "Absolutely. Well, I'm glad that you are there. I do wonder what your role has been. I mean, have you had to go out and tell family members about this story?", "Well, you know, I'll let Steve speak to that, but Reverend Jones have actually been physically driving loved ones to the grave sites -- he's been phenomenal.", "We, you know, our pastoral duty is to give pastoral care. And in this instance, all we can do is be a help. And so my role has been basically Father Malett (ph) and myself went out yesterday and we blessed the site, did a temporary committal of the body. So the body so when they go to the final resting place they can be recommitted.", "Wow.", "So those things had to happen, as well as now the families are coming out. They need assistance. They need reassurance and they need comforting and that's our job. That's pastoral care and that's what we're here for.", "We were just actually showing some video of you doing that and blessing the area once again. What was the reaction, Reverend, from some of these families?", "Well, everybody thinks when you put somebody to rest, that part of your life is kind of -- finishes that piece, but now to have somebody come and disturb that part of it, it's really, everyone's in an uproar. The families are just really hurt, and it brings fresh pain. You know, when you think it's finished, it brings that fresh pain like it just happened again. That's what I'm hearing a lot of the families say. They're saying, you know, this has brought it all back. And you know, to re-deal with bereavement, it's just not an easy task.", "Well, it's a very sad story, obviously. Sheriff, before we let you go, remind us again. The previous owners of this cemetery, we should be clear, were apparently the ones involved in this and the current owners are the ones who noticed all of this going on and saying, wait a minute, this is not right, obviously.", "Yes. There's an element of it, too, when you have ownership, which is not unusual, it is not on site that the ownerships are spread throughout the country. They weren't physically here seeing this, and so, this was going on unbeknownst to them. When you really walk through the scheme that was put together, you can see where it is pretty easy to see how they could hide a lot of this from people because, frankly, there were not new graves being dug so you weren't seeing your property numbers decreasing. Because they weren't cutting into new earth at all. So, it was a well thought out scheme by people and, Heidi, the difficult thing is talking to these folks here today. It's heartbreaking. They're crying, and they're telling us about the uncertainty of their loved ones. I talked to a woman today who came back from the gravesite and the head stone is gone and the head stone is missing and she is sitting there now and she's going to have to worry for quite some time whether or not her loved one was one of the ones who was dis-interred. And we can't give her a quick answer on that.", "No, of course, you can't. Very, very quickly, what will happen to those who are in custody right now?", "There's a bond hearing that's going to be conducted in a few hours here in Cook County, and that will determine their fate prior to the trial, and then the trial will proceed from there.", "All right. Well, to the two of you, we certainly appreciate the story and also to the comfort that you are able to provide whatever possible to the families in all of this. Sheriff of Cook county Tom Dart and also the chaplain for the Sheriff's Department there, Reverend Steve Jones. Gentlemen, thank you very much.", "Thank you so much, Heidi.", "Breaking news now. I want to get back to protesters on the streets of Tehran again today, clashing with militia members. The demonstration coming on the anniversary of a student uprising 10 years ago. We are not able to report from Iran as you know because of Iranian government restrictions but CNN's Reza Sayah is following the very latest developments now from our Iran Desk. We should also say, Reza, reminding everybody we really haven't seen many protests, many people on the streets for the last few days.", "Yes, it's been a couple weeks, but now it looks like they're back. Things really starting to heat up in downtown Tehran, and at times they are getting ugly. According to a few observers on the ground in Tehran, about 2,000 to 3,000 protesters are trying to gather in a main square in downtown Tehran. There to meet them, a few thousand security forces and that's usually a recipe for some violence. And that's exactly what we're seeing at this hour. CNN can confirm at least five clashes between security forces and protesters. And let's go ahead and tell you exactly where this is happening. This is happening at Revolution Square, exactly over there which is near Tehran University. Now, Tehran University, 10 years ago, was the scene of another protests that led to deadly government crack down and protesters are using this anniversary to come out and protests these recent elections. And here are some things coming to the Iran desk within the past couple of hours. Observers report seeing forces beating protestors. One of our observers says he saw a man in his 30s with a bloody face being encouraged to get in an ambulance but he was refusing. Also reports of what sounds like gunshots. Now there could be tear gas canisters being fired off or gunshots by security forces in an effort to get people to disperse. We are also getting reports of people wiping their eyes. Again, another indication of tear gas. On a couple of occasions I got on the phone with two of our observers on the ground and I could clearly hear very loud chants of god is great and death to the dictator. And, again, after a two-week lull, this is the first time at least some people, a couple of thousand people have come out. And again international media, including CNN, not allowed to be on the scene. What's interesting is some of the information we're confirming coincides with the activity on Twitter. Take a look at what we're seeing on Twitter. A few tweets coming in recently with people moving towards Tehran University. It's chanting \"Down with the dictator.\" This one says", "Yes, interesting. What is that they're showing over there on the state-run television?", "On the state run, it's black and white. So it looks like possibly a history program.", "Yes. Exactly.", "That is the Farsi-language state-funded TV and there you see the English-language TV, which looks like an interview with a professor. But no sign of the activity going on at this hour at Revolution Square.", "Reza, keep us posted. We'll come back to you, should we need to do that.", "Will do.", "Thanks so much from our Iran Desk this morning. Meanwhile, a parents' nightmare. Kids becoming a victim of school bullying or even worse than that, but it's so serious these day, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are trying to get involved."], "speaker": ["HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COLLINS", "TOM DART, SHERIFF, COOK COUNTY", "COLLINS", "KATE BOLDUAN, CNN CORREPONDENT (voice-over)", "JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BOLDUAN", "REP. BRIAN BILBRAY (R), CALIFORNIA", "ROB NABORS, DEPUTY BUDGET DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET", "BOLDUAN", "NABORS", "BOLDUAN", "TOM EVSLIN, VERMONT OFFICE OF ECONOMIC STIMULUS AND RECOVERY", "BOLDUAN", "GOV. 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{"id": "NPR-16926", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2017-07-25", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/539334328/senate-scores-narrow-win-in-effort-to-dismantle-affordable-care-act", "title": "Senate Scores Narrow Win In Effort to Dismantle Affordable Care Act", "summary": "Vice President Mike Pence cast a tie-breaking vote that now allows the Senate to begin debating health care legislation. But what happens next on health care, no one seems to know for sure.", "utt": ["It's been a dramatic day on Capitol Hill. Senate Republicans scored a narrow but meaningful victory in the party's effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. Senator John McCain, who was just diagnosed with brain cancer, returned to Washington for that vote, and Vice President Mike Pence had to be the tiebreaker. So now the Senate can begin debating health care legislation. But what happens next on health care? Well, no one seems to know for sure. NPR congressional correspondent Susan Davis is on Capitol Hill, and she is with us now. And, Sue, you were in the chamber for the vote. What was it like?", "You know, most votes in Congress have predetermined outcomes. You know what's going to happen before the vote's over. This was really a nail-biter until the very end. Moments before the vote, it became clear it was likely going to pass when holdouts like Dean Heller of Nevada and Rob Portman of Ohio announced that they were going to vote yes with the party. In the end, the only two noes were two moderate senators who we knew were likely noes, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine. And of course, the vote would have failed if not for, as you said, Kelly, the return of Arizona Senator John McCain, who is battling brain cancer and came back to vote to move forward on health care.", "And what was his return to the floor like today?", "He, you know, was greeted with a standing ovation and applause. His return was certainly sort of a factor in the mood up here in keeping the pressure on lawmakers to move forward on this bill. But in sort of a classic McCain move, he came back to help the party, and then in a speech immediately after chastised his colleagues for writing the bill the way they have. Take a listen to McCain on the floor.", "We've been spinning our wheels on too many important issues because we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle. That's an approach that's been employed by both sides - mandating legislation from the top down without any support from the other side with all the parliamentary maneuvers that requires. We're getting nothing done, my friends. We're getting nothing done.", "And McCain made a very important point that a lot of other Senate Republicans have said they were a yes today, they're agreeing to start debating health care, but they might still be a no on whatever legislation Republicans ultimately come up with in the end.", "OK. This vote allows them to start debating health care, as you just said. But what bill exactly are they going to be debating?", "This is the greatest mystery in Washington right now, Kelly.", "OK.", "You know, the motion that - today, the base bill is what the House has passed. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's going to offer a couple amendments to swap out that bill for legislation that would just repeal Obamacare and another vote on legislation that's more closer to the Senate version of the health care bill. If any combination of those passes, they'll become the new baseline. We don't know the outcome of those votes. So after they get through that, we're just going to start later this week on an amendment process that will essentially let every senator - even Democrats here - weigh in on health care and offer amendments to a bill to shape it as it goes.", "So does that mean that this legislation is basically going to be written on the floor of the Senate as this debate unfolds?", "Essentially, yes. You know, I - we don't know what the end product is going to look like on health care. We know that they are on the bill now. McConnell is also keeping in his back pocket another option that has emerged this week that is being referred to as Skinny Repeal, which is essentially the most pared-down version of what Republicans say they can agree on, which would simply repeal the individual mandate and employer mandates and some of the taxes in Obamacare.", "If they - the goal, I am told, is to just get something through the Senate that will then allow Senate Republicans to go into negotiations with House Republicans and see if the two chambers can ultimately come up with a bill that they can pass. The bottom line here is if they do pass some kind of a health care bill later this week, it means that the health care fight in Congress is likely going to continue into the fall and maybe well into the fall.", "All right, we'll keep watching it. NPR's Susan Davis on Capitol Hill. Thank you.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "JOHN MCCAIN", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-192358", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2012-9-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/08/smn.02.html", "summary": "State Ordered to Pay for Inmate's Sex Change", "utt": ["Welcome back, 36 minutes past the hour. In Massachusetts a federal judge has ordered sex reassignment surgery for a transsexual prison inmate ruling it is the only adequate treatment for the inmate's gender identity disorder. Michelle Kosalic once known as Robert is serving a life sentence without parole for murdering his wife in 1990. Advocates praise the ruling as legitimate treatment of identity disorder. But critics, including Senator Scott Brown, called it an outrageous abuse of taxpayer dollars. CNN legal contributor Paul Callan joins me now to talk about this; Paul -- what a strange case here certainly. Is this transsexual surgery an abuse do you think of taxpayer dollars or legitimate medical treatment.", "Well a great question. You know this case makes people crazy. I was discussing it in office with my attorneys who work for me and even attorneys really argue about this. Is it a waste of taxpayer money? Well, both senate candidates in Massachusetts say it is. And I think most people think it's outrageous. I mean, frankly this surgery costs about $20,000. This particular inmate, who is in prison for murder, life without parole, murdering his ex-wife -- his wife; she came into the emergency room once with a fork in her head that he had put there. And they said it was an accident. They sent her home. She was subsequently murdered. The federal judge has said under the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, that it would be cruel and unusual punishment for him not to get gender reassignment surgery, in other words, to be transformed from a male into a female. This judge says the Eighth Amendment gives him that right. Now ironically citizens at home, who don't go to jail, don't have the right to get this paid for by taxpayers.", "Yes certainly not.", "But apparently a prisoner in Massachusetts does.", "But this is the first decision in which a court has actually ordered a prison to provide this sex reassignment surgery as necessary medical treatment. What are the chances, do you think, it could be overturned?", "Well, I think that it probably will be overturned. This is a decision by a district court judge in Massachusetts. Now, he's a federal judge and so this does have national precedent but only in a limited way. Other courts will look at it they are not bound by it. It'll now go up to the Circuit Court of Appeals. The judge makes a compelling argument in his decision. He writes over a 100 page decision. And the biggest thing going for it being affirmed, approved by the Appellate Court, is that unfortunately the Department of Corrections in Massachusetts didn't contest it in any strong way. I mean, they said, listen, our big problem with it is a security problem. If we have to move him to a woman's prison or we have to put him in a special wing of a man's prison that's going to create security problems and expense for us. But they don't contest that medically he needs the surgery. He claims that -- or his lawyers claim that he tried to commit suicide twice.", "Right.", "He tried to castrate himself in prison. And that the only cure for his problem which is his desire to become a woman is the surgery.", "But I mean, you bring up an interesting point. Because if he has to be transferred, if he becomes a woman and then he has to be transferred to an all-woman's prison, you know this is a guy who was convicted of killing his wife, as we discussed. Doesn't that put those female prisoners possibly in danger?", "Well, you know that's the ultimate irony of the case, Randi. Here he -- you're right. He's in prison for killing a woman, for abusing a woman over a lengthy period of time. And now what are we going to do, let's put him in a women's prison. Ironically though, he might be more in danger in a woman's prison than the women. Because think about the women in women's prisons. You've got to be a pretty -- have committed a pretty violent crime to go to prison if you're a woman, a lot of them are gang members. And actually -- he might be more in danger from them than they from him. But -- that's the ultimate result of this case. And which is why as I said at the beginning, it makes people crazy. People are saying, you can't be serious that the state of Massachusetts is going to pay for gender reassignment? They are going to turn a man into a woman and then transfer him to a woman's prison? This actually is a federal court decision that is going forward in Massachusetts.", "When so many states are struggling around -- around the country in this economy, you think that's where our tax dollars are going, it is pretty amazing. Paul Callan, nice to see you. Thank you.", "Always nice being with us -- Randi.", "Well, as the anniversary of September 11th approaches we're taking a closer look at a special fund. It benefits the men and women who helped New York clean up in the aftermath of the attacks."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR", "KAYE", "CALLAN", "KAYE", "CALLAN", "KAYE", "CALLAN", "KAYE", "CALLAN", "KAYE", "CALLAN", "BLACKWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-354687", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2018-11-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/14/ip.02.html", "summary": "Mattis, Nielsen Visit Troops at U.S.-Mexico Border", "utt": ["Topping our political radar, sources say President Trump will announce this afternoon his support for a bipartisan prison reform bill engineered in large part by his son-in-law Jared Kushner. The first step back looks to overhaul the criminal justice system by boosting rehabilitation efforts and giving judges more sentencing discretion for non-violent offenses. It has the support of numerous law enforcement associations and the National District Attorneys Association. Georgia governor's race between Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp still unsettled. This morning, a federal judge ordering one of the state's largest counties to review all provisional ballots that were previously rejected. Abrams has not yet conceded to Kemp arguing there are enough votes remaining to force the race into a runoff. Georgia's Democratic Party meanwhile is taking its appeal to the airways.", "This election, was your voice heard? Too many were silent.", "The Abrams campaign continue to push for all of the state ballots to be counted.", "The Justice Department offering several reasons why Matt Whitaker's appointment as acting attorney general is in its view, constitutional. This comes after the state of Maryland argues President Trump wrongfully bypassed the constitution by selecting Whitaker to replace Jeff Sessions. The state says Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should have been Sessions' rightful successor. But Whitaker, listen here, is in Iowa today. That's home, doesn't seem too worried about the controversy.", "I was asked, as often I am, by people that are not from Des Moines, what does Des Moines mean? Well, it's French. As you may have figured out, and it's French for Des Moines. You never know what you can do when you're U.S. attorney for the University of Iowa.", "No kidding.", "You're going to go places, I know that.", "I guess so.", "Especially with that beard.", "Yes.", "And right now, the Defense Secretary James Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visiting troops at the U.S.-Mexico border. President Trump sent thousands of soldiers to that region ahead of the midterms, according to administration to protect the border from a caravan of asylum seekers making their way through Mexico. Secretary Mattis said a short time ago, he does not foresee those troops having any contact with the migrants and he made sure the men and women serving could ask some questions.", "Adequate", "Interesting optics there. Number one, good for them, good for them. Whether you agree or disagree with the deployment, the troops are there, we're approaching Thanksgiving, they're not at their home base, for the defense secretary, former general himself and Secretary Nielsen to go there is a good thing. Both of them also said today as we discussed earlier in the program to maybe be heading to the off-ramps. What do you make of that?", "I think it's really important that they were there because as everyone knows, sending troops to the border means that they don't get to be elsewhere, they don't get to be with their families. They are living as if they are in a war zone even though they are not really in any kind of combat mission. But at the same time just the fact that they have been trying -- Mattis and Nielsen really have been trying to execute what the president wants without creating bigger problems is one of the reasons that President Trump wants them out of their jobs. Because there are people in the White House who were saying these are people always trying to hold you back from your priorities, Mr. President. And I think that's one of the reasons why they're in the hot water that they're in, but a lot of people would look at this situation and say this is actually a case in which there should not be 15,000 troops at the border because there is really not anything for them to do. At least not for a while now.", "Is this good leadership or is it a case of Jim Mattis saying I'm with her at this delicate moment? I'm not sure. We shall see. Up next, a handful of Nancy Pelosi detractors say they can deny her the speaker's gavel. Nancy Pelosi says good luck with that."], "speaker": ["KING", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KING", "MATTHEW WHITAKER, ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WHITAKER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WHITAKER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KING", "JAMES MATTIS, DEFENSE SECRETARY", "KING", "ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-257590", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-06-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/17/nday.02.html", "summary": "Brother of Former NAACP Leader Speaks Out", "utt": ["I know who raised me. I haven't had a DNA test. There's been no biological proof that Larry and Ruthanne are my biological parents.", "That was former NAACP leader of Spokane, Rachel Dolezal, standing her ground against claims she's misrepresented her race. Dolezal telling NBC that she identifies as a black woman and that she has doubts over whether her white parents were actually her biological parents. We have to ask somebody in the family about this. Ezra Dolezal is here. He is with us yesterday. He is Rachel's brother. They were adopted into -- well, he was into the same family. How are you doing today, Ezra? It's been a big day for you and your family.", "Oh, yes, definitely. It's been busy.", "Busy and I'm sure confusing.", "Oh, yes.", "You just heard that sound byte from your sister saying she has no proof that Larry and Ruthanne are her biological parents. What did you think when you heard that?", "She has no proof that they are not her parents. I mean, I guarantee she is not going to take a DNA test to prove they are not her parents.", "Why wouldn't she?", "Because they are. She doesn't want to be caught going back on her story again, or have to go back in her story again.", "Is she just lying? Do you think she has a problem with the truth?", "I think so.", "Is there anything truthful in what she's saying?", "No. Pretty much everything she is saying is not true. I mean, she -- different forms of the truth, like, history like this story of going to Africa and all that. But --", "Your family was in Africa, but she was not there.", "Yes. She's actually been using the stories to actually change it to help her out, I mean her story out. Like the whole, like several things like that, and being born in a teepee and all", "OK. So, do you have any family lore about a teepee ever? Because, you know, I can think about my family and I can remember stories being told around the family table before I was born. Were there stories like that that your parents talked about, I remember your dad put up a tepee? Was that a family story and she just sort of manipulated it to her narrative?", "Yes, her parents lived in it a month after they were married. Yes, she never did. She used that story to actually help her story out, I guess, just add to it. So --", "Why do you think? I know that is something you are struggling to understand, Ezra, and I'm sure your parents are, too. This must be very mystifying to them. Why? What do you think is at the core of all of this for Rachel?", "I think, she doesn't -- she's too nervous to admit that she's not been telling the truth, which is why she keeps on making up more and more lies to help fit the story as it goes, like, she was changing her story multiple times within the past week. Like, she did say a lot of things differently yesterday than she said before.", "Like what?", "Like, originally, she said she was born black. And, yesterday, she was mentioning about being identifying herself as black. Originally, she said she was born black.", "In your experience, growing up in the Dolezal household, I know she was a lot older than you, and when she had already gone her way to college, she came back in the summers. Did you see evidence of that?", "No, no, no.", "Was there pressure to fit in because we know your adopted siblings were African-American, was there a pressure to feel she need to blend in?", "Oh, no, because up until she was 15, she was the youngest child. None of us were actually born until she was 15. So, she never really felt that, I don't think, pressure to fit with them, or any of us.", "Tell me about the dynamic. She talks about the fact she need to take on this identity in order to survive and that she need to represent the blackness. You grew up with a white mother and white father. Did they feel that similar kind of pressure?", "Oh, no. No, they didn't. Not at all. I don't know why she would say she felt that because growing up -- I mean, even later like in life, up until like 2011, she always identified herself as white. She was interested in African-American studies, and did a lot of work with them, like racism and stuff, but she never actually identified herself or tried to identify herself as black until 2011.", "She was talking about the fact that, you know, her parents aren't really her parents. This has been hurtful to your parents. Can I play the sound real quick of what they had to say on CNN last night?", "It was disturbing because the false statements continue. And as much as we are concerned with Rachel's identity issues, we are also concerned with her integrity issues.", "For you, Ezra, is this an integrity or identity issue or a bit of both for you?", "I think it's integrity. That's definitely what it is, because the fact of how she will change her story, the fact she's told so many statements that are not true in the past week. I think it's an integrity issue with her.", "Well, it certainly has the nation talking about race and identity and who we are as a people. Ezra, thanks so much for coming in. This is putting your family business out there. And I know it's not comfortable to do. Ezra Dolezal, really a pleasure to have you here.", "Thank you.", "Chris?", "The more you learn, the more you want to know about that story. All right. We're going to take a break here. Coming up, Trump says Hillary doesn't say, the election is supposed to be about you. We spotlight the peeps of New Hampshire who gives straight talk about what matters. I test and they take it to me. Here is a taste.", "I think it is up to us, as citizens to attend those town hall meetings. I find town hall meetings very informative.", "Nobody goes to town hall meetings. Nobody goes, in general.", "What do you mean? 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{"id": "NPR-40617", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2005-08-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4816973", "title": "AOL Expands Online Ticket Business", "summary": "America Online is expanding its ticket-sales business. It will provide a place for people who are buying and selling sports and concert tickets to meet and do business. The tickets can be sold for more than face value. But some in the entertainment industry consider AOL's move to be online scalping.", "utt": ["If you want to go see Coldplay or U2 perform this summer, you might have      some trouble getting a ticket unless you're willing to pay big bucks      online.  The Internet has turned into a huge market for secondary ticket      sales.  AOL has announced it is increasing its presence in the secondary      ticket market.  NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.", "When tickets went on sale this summer for the Rolling Stones concert at      Connecticut's Rentschler Field, they were snatched up almost immediately,      says concert promoter Jim Koplik.", "It sold out in 30 minutes, 30,000      seats in 30 minutes.", "Koplik believes one reason the tickets sold so fast is that      many customers bought extra so they could turn around and sell them at a      profit. There's nothing new about this, of course.  For as long as there      have been hot concerts, there have been people buying and selling tickets      to them and trying to make a few bucks in the process.  But the Internet      has made it much easier for sellers and buyers to hook up.  There are      hundreds of Web sites that now sell tickets to sold-out events.  Some      acquire tickets directly from brokers. Even AOL has gotten into the      business.  Gino Yoham is executive director of AOL Tickets.", "We're seeing it grow,      you know, significantly.  Our sales have gone up in the secondary phase      over the course of this year by about 300 percent.  So we're starting to      connect to that audience and we're seeing them respond.", "AOL has a partnership with stubhub.com, one of the biggest      secondary ticket sites.  And this week, it announced it would team up      with a second site called TicketsNow.com.  These sites sometimes offer      tickets for well above face value.  For instance, you can buy a great      seat for Paul McCartney's upcoming concert in Miami on TicketsNow.com,      but it will cost you more than $1,700.  Manuel Gonzales(ph) went to one      of the sites a few years ago to buy Grateful Dead tickets.  He says they      were selling for two to three times their face value.", "The tickets were outrageous.  They were overpriced.      They would pump up the value, I mean, as much as they could.  I mean, I      guess because they can get away with it, they charge you what they can.", "This kind of ticket selling can violate the law in some states,      but it can be difficult for states to regulate Internet ticket sales.      AOL says it expects people using its site to obey local laws, but the      company says as a middleman it isn't responsible if they don't.  Jim      Koplik says that when concert sales get overheated because of the      Internet, something he thinks happened with the Rolling Stones' tickets,      it distorts the market.", "There are tons of people that would have loved to have      bought tickets at the authorized price that the artist and the promoter      set it at, but instead there were people buying tickets and creating a      black market or a secondary market that they, in turn, profit in.", "AOL officials note that the ticket Web sites don't just offer      overpriced concert tickets, they also provide a place for people to sell      tickets they've bought but can't use.  In that sense, they say, they can      also be a good place for consumers to find deals.  Jim Zarroli, NPR News.", "I'm Renee Montagne.", "And I'm Steve Inskeep."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "JIM ZARROLI reporting", "Ms. JIM KOPLIK (Concert Promoter)", "ZARROLI", "Mr. GINO YOHAM (Executive Director, AOL Tickets)", "ZARROLI", "Mr. MANUEL GONZALES", "ZARROLI", "Ms. JIM KOPLIK (Concert Promoter)", "ZARROLI", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "STEVE INSKEEP (Host)"]}
{"id": "CNN-226909", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-3-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/19/nday.01.html", "summary": "Demonstrators Storm Ukrainian Navy Headquarters; Russia Mocks Sanctions from West", "utt": ["And welcome back to NEW DAY. We are, of course, going to bring you the latest on the ongoing search for Flight 370 in just a moment. But, first, I want to talk about these rising tensions in Crimea. Pro-Russian demonstrators storming Ukraine's naval headquarters in Sevastopol overnight. No reports of violent clashes at the facility, but now, it is flying the flags of Russia and its navy. This comes after a gunman killed a Ukrainian soldier at another base in Crimea, leaving the government to authorize its troops to fire back in self-defense. And this all comes after a day after Russian President Putin signed a treaty making Crimea part of Russia. We have reports to you now from Crimea, Moscow, and Washington. We will start with Nick Paton Walsh. He's in Simferopol, Crimea. Give us the latest, Nick.", "Real concerns the these remaining Ukrainian military bases across the Crimean peninsula. You just said how one soldier was killed yesterday, the first military death of this invasion of the Crimea at a base where I'm standing here near the capital Simferopol. This morning, the main port city of Sevastopol, 200 or so protesters stormed in to the base, we understand, suggestions Russian troops were with them, assisting them. No reports of violence or deaths, but inside, it seems the Ukrainian soldiers gave themselves up, reports of them leaving unarmed their installation and Russian flag being hoisted, too. We went to a base in the northwest of the peninsula yesterday, saw tense scenes, Russian troops moving in and around that base. We now understand this morning, a tractor broke open the gates and pro- Russian protesters and Russian troops are standing there, asking the Ukrainian soldiers to give themselves up and the Ukrainian and the Russian flags are flying above that installation. Ukrainian's defense minister is trying to fly here. He says it's pretty clear the local government won't let him land. No such suggestions of negotiations here, a real sense of fear about what could happen to these Ukrainian soldiers or these pro-Russian protesters, they're almost predestined to join Russia, historical right. A lot of confidence amongst that crowd and I think concern what is that might do to tensions around these bases. Back to you.", "All right, Nick. Obviously, the White House watching this keenly, and the Obama administration condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin's move to annex Crimea, calling it a threat to international peace and security. In fact, they have dispatched Vice President Biden to the region to reassure NATO allies. CNN's Michelle Kosinski, pardon me, picks that up at the White House -- Michelle.", "Hi, Michaela. The White House has been extremely measured in its language, its response to Russia. Clearly, the administration doesn't need a war of words with Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though Russia has been exactly the opposite. The U.S.-imposed sanctions, those sanctioned have called them hilarious, an honor. Putin said the West had overstepped the line and Crimea is part of Russia. So, the White House responded that the U.S. and Western nations will not recognize this attempted annexation and that there will be more costs. The administration has really been pressed on this the last few days. What should the response be now since it seems nothing has encouraged Russia or forced it to reverse course? Well, what we know at this point, there will be more sanctions, more support of allies in that region. Next week, the G-7 nations will meet on this subject and that excludes Russia. And at this point, it seems extremely unlikely that those nations will attend the G-8 Summit that Russia is hosting in June -- Michaela.", "All right. Hilarity not exactly the desired effect they are looking for. Michelle Kosinski, thank you so much for that. Meanwhile, a day after Vladimir Putin signed the treaty to annex Crimea, Russian lawmakers are essentially going about the business of making it official. A Crimean delegation in Moscow today meeting with members of parliament. CNN's Fred Pleitgen is in Russia and in the Russian capital, and we understand quite a blizzard happening outside behind you, Fred.", "Yes, Michaela, there absolutely is. And it started early this morning and been snowing all day it's foggy, it's snowing, however, traffic moving. It seems the Russians are very used to this kind of weather. But it's certainly is something that is keeping us in arms a little bit. But as you said, while this is going on, the Russians and the Crimeans are finalizing the deals to make Crimea part of Russia. Officially, it is. However, there are still administrative things that they need to go to. There is this Crimean delegation that's meeting with Russian lawmakers today. They are going to talk about things like pairing up the tax systems about gas security, about energy security. So, certainly, they are giving every impression that they are moving on. There are still a couple of things that need to be done for all of this to become permanent, Michaela, and one of them is that the constitutional court of the Russian Federation has to look at all of this and they are currently doing received the treaty that Vladimir Putin signed yesterday and looking over and seeing whether that adheres to Russian law. And as Michelle was saying, it's absolutely true. The Russians are showing absolutely no indication of backing down on these matters. They say that any sort of sanctions that will be levied upon them will see counter-sanctions from the Russian Federation. That's exactly what Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, told Secretary of State John Kerry in a call last night. So, certainly, it appears as though the Russians are well on their way to a big confrontation here -- guys.", "All right. Fred Pleitgen in Moscow, thank you so much for that. WE appreciate it. Blatant, blatant disregard of international law, that's what Vice President Biden called this annexation of Crimea.", "It's going to be complicated, though.", "Very complicated.", "Because you also have on the other side, the people have spoken. They say it violates the constitution, we didn't monitor the vote, but it's very popular in Russia.", "It is.", "Putin's numbers are very high. We're going to take a break here on NEW DAY. When can he come back, we will keep looking at the new information on Flight 370, testing it -- what is fact, what is just new takes on what's going on. Most frustrating for the families waiting for answers. You are looking for the scene from this morning. They are growing desperate, more so by the hour. One mother had to be dragged from the news conference that just ended. We'll tell you about the extreme measures some families are willing to go to for answers.", "And we are learning that data was deleted from the personal flight simulator belonging to the pilot of Flight 370. We're going to take you inside this, our NEW DAY flight simulator, where we will attempt to recreate some of the movements of that missing jetliner."], "speaker": ["PEREIRA", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "PEREIRA", "MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "PEREIRA", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "PEREIRA"]}
{"id": "CNN-91636", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2005-1-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/26/lkl.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Robert Schuller, Linda Carl, Sara Adamsson", "utt": ["Tonight exclusive. Reverend Robert Schuller's first interview since the shocking Christmas time suicide inside his Crystal Cathedral in southern California and Linda Carl, widow of the man who took his life there. The Crystal Cathedral's musical director Johnny Carl. And then, she went to Thailand to get married last month. The day after the wedding, the tsunami swept away her husband, her 2-year- old son and her mother. Now a month later, Sara Adamsson tells us how she clings to hope and keeps searching after such a devastating loss. It's all exclusive and it's all next here on LARRY KING LIVE.", "Reverend Robert Schuller, his newest book by the way, \"Don't Throw Away Tomorrow, Living God's Dream for Your Live\" published by Harper of San Francisco. Little ominous, ironic in a sense that Reverend Schuller is with us tonight. There's the cover of the book and, today, the designer of the famed cathedral, Philip Johnson (ph) passed away at age 98. When did he design that?", "Between 1970 and 1979.", "Did you commission him?", "Oh, yes.", "Pretty good job.", "Terrific job.", "It's an amazing place. The story. On Thursday, December 16, just hours before the \"Glory of Christmas\" pageant was scheduled to begin at the Crystal Cathedral, the 57-year-old musical director Johnnie Carl had an argument with another employee. Authorities say he went back to the office and then all hell broke loose. Johnnie Carl by the way didn't just work for the Crystal Cathedral, he worked for a lot of great performers like Celine Dion, I think. What happened, Linda?", "I really have been mulling this over in my mind for the last several weeks and I think what happened was his bipolar illness took a different turn the last few weeks of his life. He used to be mostly depressed and I was always looking for those symptoms and those signs and didn't see any and I think what happened is it took a turn into more mania and probably escalated into a psychosis.", "Was he on medication?", "Yes, he was.", "Because bipolar people don't often get violent like this, shooting at other people. It was an erratic night, right?", "It was very erratic. It was not anything that I would have expected of my husband.", "Where were you, Reverend Schuller?", "First of all, he didn't shoot at other people.", "He threatened.", "Yes,", "There were other people that came into the office shortly after he had taken the gun out and he asked them to please leave.", "So he didn't threaten anybody?", "No. He didn't threaten anyone.", "Where were you, Bob?", "I think I was home when I got the call that something was happening and it was explained to me so I got over there and spent most of my time in the parking lot with all of the police cars and Linda.", "You were there, too, Linda?", "Yes, I went to the cathedral and the police took me over to the police station.", "Did they try to have you talk to him?", "No, they didn't.", "Why not?", "Good question.", "It's a very good question. They felt that there might have been something that was going on between my husband and I or that perhaps we had had an argument or that perhaps he had a girlfriend and they had had an argument and I don't understand the rationale behind it because I explained to them that he was mentally ill and everyone in the family explained that we were probably happier than we had ever been because his medication about four years ago had done some good for him.", "You were married 28 years. He was a prominent arranger and composer. A lot of sacred music. How long had he been with the cathedral?", "30 years. 30 years.", "How would you describe his talent?", "Oh, he was gifted. Like when the holy father made a trip to America, Johnnie Carl was picked to do his music.", "Really?", "Oh, yes. And one of the first calls came from Celine Dion because her last record he did the arrangement. He's won five platinums.", "Did you know of his illness?", "Oh, yes, he didn't work for us long and we had some personality problems with him. And we were soon led to believe that he had a bipolar thing.", "What was that like to live with?", "May I say it was hell? He had terrible depressions because his bipolar was fairly severe and I would venture to say that probably 80 to 85 percent of the time he was very depressed. And his mania never surfaced much. He had a ceiling in it and that's why it's not what I was looking for.", "Was he able to work while depressed?", "Sometimes he was. He was very determined to get himself out of bed and go to work because he felt he needed to create and people were depending on him, the cathedral, as well as his family.", "Did you work with him, Bob?", "No, I didn't.", "I mean work with him on his illness? You're so uplifting...", "I tried. Bipolar is something else. It's not just normal despondencies, result of depression, et cetera. I want to say I'm very proud of my wife because I don't think I would have probably had the patience to deal with him for 30 years, almost every year there were these episodes, not this severe. But my wife loved his talent, loved him as a person, said we're not going to let him go and I think she helped him.", "You were quoted as saying you didn't think it was suicide but a cancer of the emotional system. Explain.", "I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer. You might -- therapy and you might think you're all right. Oh, cancer's come back again. Fight it through another treatment and, oops, it came back again. That was the way it was for the past 28 years. But, boy, during those 28 years, boy, oh, boy, his fighting, and our prayers and our support for him, I don't think you mind my saying that, kept him going and gave him the years of creativity. The pastor of a huge Presbyterian church called and said I just looked through my bulletin last Sunday and three of the hymns were all arranged by Johnnie Carl. They're all over the country.", "Was he a religious man?", "Very much so. He felt he wanted people to be inspired through his music and he wanted people to see God through his music and he never felt that he accomplished that. I think he felt a bit unworthy most of the time.", "Really?", "Yes.", "Bipolar can be inherited. Are any of your children having any problems?", "They don't appear to.", "Did he have any in his family before that?", "I don't think it was diagnosed because I don't think people were aware of mental illnesses as much as they are. Even very recently the last three to five years I think it's become much more evident than it ever had been before.", "Has the religious field -- Reverend Schuller, you have always been a little different or away from the norm of religious leaders in that many think just believing is enough or you can answer with prayer and you've always been fond of or certainly been involved with the psychological movement in the United States and accept that. Do you think religion is more and more generally accepting of bipolar? That this is an illness?", "I don't know, but bipolar if it is being more generally accepted, I think, after this, yes. I think so many have heard about what happened.", "And knew him.", "He was a famous name. I can't get over because we're on all over the world every week. At least 10 million viewers and he's been on 30 years, so, it's always -- show starts with Johnnie Carl, you know. And I didn't realize how famous his name was. So, I think they're all taking a new look at it. Remember Johnnie Carl?", "Because you know that many religious leaders have tended to look away from psychology.", "Well, that has been true. I hope it's coming back. I think it's coming back.", "The answers aren't always in one place.", "Oh, no, for sure not.", "We'll be right back with Reverend Robert Schuller and Linda Carl, the widow of Johnnie Carl on this edition of LARRY KING LIVE. Don't go away.", "A scene like this has never been played out at the Crystal Cathedral before. A SWAT team trying to enter the Crystal Cathedral to look for a gunman, a man described in his 50s being extremely despondent who fired off anywhere from two to four shots perhaps inside the cathedral or maybe just before he entered. Police aren't quite sure.", "We're back with Reverend Robert Schuller and Linda Carl, the widow of Johnnie Carl. And she wanted to say something about the psychology question.", "Well, I'm not sure that psychology is the right tact to take with it, because I don't understand someone who would take their own life, but then I'm dealing from a rational point of view in a deep rooted sense of reality. And when you have a mental illness, you're not dealing in that same reality. It's altered according to what is happening in your brain.", "How did you get the news that he killed himself? Who told you?", "One of the officers at the Garden Grove Police Station came and told us. And they pulled my father and I out of the room where we were waiting with my younger two children and both of my parents, and they...", "They told you altogether?", "No, they told my father and I. And then I went back to the room where the rest of the family was and I told them.", "You went into the room where he killed himself?", "Mmm-hum.", "What happened there?", "Well, what happened there was...", "Was just you and the body?", "Well, no, the coroner was there and the police officers. And they said I shouldn't come in. And I said, I am the pastor here, this is the cathedral. And I am here because his widow wants to see him before they take him away. And they wouldn't allow it, but I pressed and they gave in and they allowed. They said we'll call you when we have him as presentable as possible. They kept that promise, but kept her waiting a while. But -- may I ask, I want to say something. What I can't understand is when I saw him, his face was almost in a smile. His eyes looked like they could open and they would twinkle.", "He was very peaceful.", "He really was.", "You got to see him?", "Yes.", "Did you say a prayer?", "I don't remember, did I or didn't?", "Yes, you did.", "I'm kind of addicted to that.", "That must have been something to walk into that -- scene of a life-long friend who had taken his own life, because it's the hardest thing to believe, isn't? As she said, to put yourself having a rational mind into an irrational mind.", "And I think, you know, you never look back and say, if only you know, but I wish I could have gone in there before he shot himself, but they wouldn't let us. The police wouldn't let us.", "What was he saying? Was he talking back and forth to the police? Was there a conversation?", "I haven't had any transcript of what happened. I really haven't been able to even deal with that yet.", "It's been reported that when the family went to see the office where spent his last hours they found the Christmas presents he bought for them.", "Yes, he was probably having the best time of his life. And we talked daily about what we were going to get the children and the parents for Christmas. And he had gone out and purchased nearly everything. I typically do that, as most wives do. And he had apparently shot himself next to where he had stacked all the gifts.", "Why did they take him off that drug?", "His doctor, his general practitioner was concerned that it was having an effect on his kidneys, because some of his levels were a little high -- higher than they had wanted. But I think what we didn't realize was that the drug they took him off of was the mood stabilizer. He was on a cocktail of three different drugs and two were antidepressants and one was a mood stabilizer. And now I understand that when he went off of that, that was a dangerous thing to do.", "Linda Carl and her two sons, Brandon and Evan (ph) spoke at the service. Here's part of what Brandon had to say.", "It was wonderful to see the last couple months, because he was starting to realize that with the help of my mom, he started to realize what he was actually achieving and what he was doing. And that's part of the thing that saddens me the most is he was achieving more within the last month than I think he had ever achieved. So, the thing that is truly keeping me going is the fact that he was achieving so much and God allowed that not to happen. So, in my mind, there has to be a greater purpose.", "There are some people who believe that suicide keeps you out of heaven, do you believe that?", "No. No. It requires a theological answer. I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word. And he doesn't just save us from the sins of the past. I mean, we're his. We're saved from sins we haven't committed yet. And suicide, if it's intentional from a rational mind is something very sinful, but that doesn't hold if they're irrational.", "Can it ever be from a rational mind?", "I don't know. I can't...", "It would be a stretch, wouldn't it.", "It would be a stretch. But I think the theology through the centuries, not from us, but from other Christian representations have said that, you know, you'll go to hell if you...", "I just don't believe that. That's not the God I know. It's not the Jesus Christ I love.", "You've heard from people all over the world, Linda?", "Yes.", "Were you surprised at the outpouring?", "Absolutely astonished. I had no idea of my husband's impact with his music, and with his personality. I think it carried over a little on camera.", "Do you ever think, reverend, why it is that so many gifted people seem to have more troubles.", "We can pick up that perception and I think -- but I'm not sure it's really true. But if it is, I don't have the answer. I don't have the explanation.", "We'll be right back with Reverend Robert Schuller and Linda Carl, maybe take a few phone calls. And then at the bottom of the hour, Sara Adamsson, who still has hope that here husband, her mother and 2-year-old son might be alive. We're going to keep Reverend Schuller and Linda Carl on with her. We'll talk to her for a while, and then bring all them in. But we'll be right back don't go away.", "People think, that I'm the strong one. I knew this was going to happen, but when Johnnie put his arms around them when I was feeling a little stressed or felt I was in a situation I couldn't handle, he made everything better. His strength and weakness complimented mine. And we were 10 times better together than either of us was ever alone.", "We'll insert some phone calls in this segment with Reverend Robert Schuller and Linda Carl. Burkeville, Virginia, hello.", "Hello.", "Hi.", "Hi, how you doing, Mr. King?", "Fine.", "This question is for Reverend Schuller who I think a great deal of and watch your show every time I can. Reverend Schuller, I've Been raised in a Baptist church, a Protestant church my whole life and from early teachings or whatever, the question you just -- the statement you just said that you can be forgiven for suicide I guess maybe I've been mistaken and I'd like your feelings on it. I've been told that it's an unforgivable sin, because you can't ask for forgiveness.", "I'm surprised. You go back to your Baptist pastor and ask him what it means to be saved by Jesus Christ, Christ saves you, he ransoms you, he doesn't rent you. He doesn't take a lease out on your soul. You are his, forever more. Period.", "Have you discussed this with his doctors? Did any of them, psychiatrists, psychologists tell you this could have happened? Did any of them see it coming?", "No. They didn't see it coming. He had been hospitalized at the beginning of November, because he had had an episode that was very different from anything he'd ever experienced before. We thought initially that he had had a stroke because his speech was slurred and he was having trouble walking and they couldn't find anything medically wrong with him. And the psychologist evaluated him and determined that he had had a depressive episode as well as a manic episode all at the same time. And it manifested itself in the symptoms that he was showing. And they had realized at that time that he needed to be put back on the mood stabilizer, which they did. But it was a different mood stabilizer than the one he had been on. And he left the hospital 5 days later and seemed to be all right. So, that's why I tend to think that maybe it's age, you know. Maybe for whatever reason the illness took a different turn.", "How did your wife handle it, reverend? She hired him, right?", "Oh, yes, she hired him. She was his boss from the day he worked until the day he died. My wife handled it beautiful. She is such a super positive person. And she always said Johnnie's gifted and we just deal with his problems.", "How did the congregation deal with it?", "The best way to say it is at the memorial service the place was packed, over 2,000 people. It's the largest funeral I've had since I had the the late Vice President Hubert Humphrey, that was a big funeral. This was even bigger.", "The pianist, Roger Williams, was his friend.", "Very close.", "I think Johnnie counted him his best friend. .", "Really?", "Yes.", "He's a great figure in American music. Holbrooke, Massachusetts, hello.", "Hi, Larry King.", "Hi.", "Thank you very much for this program, because I've been so troubled about this man. I want to compliment Reverend Schuller for his program and his wife, I give my deepest sympathies, and his family. I have always enjoyed his music. And I would like to ask this one question, where did he get this gun to shoot himself with?", "Linda?", "I don't know where he acquired it. But having been hospitalized several times as a depressed person, he was not allowed, legally, to acquire a gun. I think he purchased it about 10 or 12 years ago. I knew he had purchased a gun. And he said it was for protection. Well, we live in Yarbolinda. There is very little crime there. And it frightened me, but that's back when he was really having a difficult time.", "Have you seen the gun?", "I saw the gun. And his counselor and I at the time tried to convince him that he needed to get rid of the gun.", "It was many years ago.", "It was many year ago. And he had kept it locked in the cabinet in the garage. Well, he told me during that time, 10, 12 years ago, that he had gotten rid of the gun. And I knew that it wasn't in the garage any more. I'm suspicious now that he kept it in his office.", "We'll take a break, when we come back, we'll talk with Sarah Adamson. Her 2-year-old son, her husband and her mother are still missing in the aftermath of the tsunami. We'll hold Reverend Schuller and Linda Carl here. And after I talk with her, we'll bring all three into the conversation. Don't go away.", "I just want to thank you, Bob and Narvella, for allowing him to be a part of this church and to work. Because I don't feel there are too many other places that would have accepted him, given the episodes that he had with his bipolar illness. And he and I both truly appreciate the gift that you've given both of us.", "Joining us now from London is Sara Adamsson. Her husband, 2-year-old son and her mother are still missing in the aftermath of December's tsunami. It's been one month since that disaster shattered her life. What, Sara, were you doing in Thailand?", "We were on vacation and we were actually getting married. We had a civil marriage in Sweden in October and we were getting married at the beach on the 25th and we were also looking for a place to live in Thailand.", "Oh, you wanted to live there permanently?", "Yes, we did. We wanted to move from Sweden to Thailand because we loved the Thai mentality and we loved everything about Thailand.", "The son was 2 years old, so he was born before you were legally married?", "Yes.", "What happened the day of the tsunami? Where were you and what happened to them?", "Me and my mother and my son, we were at the beach and I had made a promise to my baby that I would go and get him a toy and I went over to the ladies who do Thai massage and they had brought me and my husband and my family a gift from Phuket because they have seen our wedding the day before. So they were very happy and they congratulated us and I was very happy and I ran back to my mother and Johannes on the beach and I told them that I had had this wonderful present and we were just talking about how wonderful they were and we held my baby in one hand each and we swimmed with him in the ocean and then we just saw black smoke coming out of the ocean. Black smoke and we saw the wave, but it didn't get big around the height -- it got bigger on the length so this was very, very far from the beach and we actually didn't understand how dangerous this was. But we saw lots of tourists getting down in the water, maybe 20 or 40 tourists they went down to take photographs and try to film the wave. But we slowly walked towards the houses.", "Then what happened to your mother -- where was your husband?", "My husband, he was somewhere at the hotel area. I'm not sure. He was staying in the room when we went down to the beach and we were giving some presents to the Thai people that had helped us with our marriage the day before.", "How did they get swept away and you didn't? What happened?", "My mother was beside me and maybe four or five meters behind me and I held Johannes and a Thai lady, she helped me with the baby carriage and I just saw this Thai woman's eyes when she turned around and looked at the ocean and I didn't have time to look at my mother, I only knew that she was maybe four or five meters behind me and then I just screamed to her, run, mother, run. And I take Johannes and my first priority is of course to save my baby so I ran up to a building and I almost saved my baby. If I had one more second, I maybe would have saved him. But I can only remember that there was water coming from underneath and from above and suddenly I -- I just drop him in the wave and then I decided I would like to come with him in the wave and I decided that I want to die, but my body doesn't follow. My body doesn't obey. So, the next second I decided I will not die and that's the only thing I scream. I will not die. Then, suddenly, I'm up at the roof and I don't know how I come up to the roof.", "So you haven't seen your mother, you haven't seen your son and your husband was missing at the hotel?", "Yes. I know nothing. The only thing I know is that I met a Danish girl maybe five or six years old after I dropped my baby boy in the water and she says that -- she told her mother, the first thing she told her mother when they met was that, mother, I had Johannes in a tree, I had Sara's Johannes in a tree and I have been looking for this Danish girl in Denmark for a couple of weeks and now I've managed to find her and she still confirms that she had my baby and she says that there were boats coming and picking them up and one boat took Johannes and one took this Danish girl. So they got separated.", "So you're saying that you believe your son is somewhere.", "Yes, I do. I have to believe that he is somewhere because this girl she recognized my baby and she wouldn't just come up with something like that that she has seen my baby. And she sticks to this story.", "So your hope is that someone took that baby and has the baby with them now, right?", "Yes, I do. I still, I still believe that and I have to believe that because I don't have any other answers. So I have to believe that.", "Your husband, you don't know what happened to him, right?", "No. I have no answers about my husband or my mother.", "You know your mother is gone, right? You saw that, right?", "Yes. She was just in the wave.", "So what are you asking of people?", "I've seen so many miracles. I am asking people to help me to find my baby and if someone knows anything about my baby, Johannes, I can never thank them. I just want to find my baby and I just want to have answers even if it's DNA or if he's alive or if someone is alive. I need to know answers.", "You're not blaming yourself for his going in the water, are you?", "Yes, of course, I do. But I still know that this wave it had approximately 800 kilometers per hour, so, what could I do? But, of course, I blame myself for losing my baby. I could never forget that sight. I could never forget his eyes.", "We're seeing him now, he's an adorable little boy. Where can people contact you if they have any inkling as to where he might be?", "They could contact me in Sweden and we are also doing a reward, me and two of my Swedish friends and they have an e-mail address.", "What is that?", "People could get in touch with us. Excuse me?", "What's the address?", "I don't have the address right now.", "So, anyway, I think I may have it.", "Yes, I think so, too.", "Yes we do. OK. People who want to donate to help tsunami victims. Here's the e-mail address if you have any information on this young man. It's reward-@-punkt-.-sc. I'll repeat that again and if you didn't get it down, if you contact us at CNN, we'll give it to you. It's reward-@-punkt-.-sc. They're offering a reward of 1 million", "We're back. With us Reverend Robert Schuller, founder of the Crystal Cathedral, marking the 50th anniversary of that ministry this year. The host of \"Hour of Power,\" and author of the new book \"Don't Throw Away Tomorrow: Living God's Dream For Your Life.\" Linda Carl, her husband Johnnie Carl committed suicide at the Crystal Cathedral on December 17, 2004. He was a long-time musical director of the Cathedral and acclaimed arranger and composer. In London, Sara Adamsson. Her 2-year-old son, her husband and her mother still missing. There is some hope for the 2-year-old son. Reverend Schuller, what do you say to Sara?", "I want to say to you, Sara, look ahead. Choose your response. You may not be a believer of God, maybe you are. I am. Where was God when it happened? Well, he was in the hearts of millions and millions and millions of people who have flooded the whole situation with their concern and their help and trust him.", "Do you have that kind of faith, Sara?", "Yes. I have always believed in God. But it's very difficult for me to believe that God has saved me or, in the beginning, I felt that it was a miracle that I was alive, but I'm still thinking maybe the same God sent the tsunami. I don't know how to respond to God right now.", "Neither do", "I don't believe God sent the tsunami.", "Who did?", "Well, I think nature. There is...", "But omnipotent, he could have prevented it.", "I'm not sure, he probably could have. But if God began to work against the very laws of nature that he built into the whole system, it would be a disaster.", "It's hard to say to Sara.", "Oh, I know, but it's reality. God created this world. And those plates were going to have to shift. There are going to be shifts and some heavy earthquakes coming here, too. But guess what, I close to live in California. I have chosen to live where there is a fault.", "Linda, what would you say to her about loss? Dealing with loss. Still fresh in your life. In fact, somewhat similar times.", "Yes, it is. And I mourn for my own loss. And I look at your incredible lost. I only lost one, you've lost two and hopefully not a third one. What keeps me going, Sara, is my son's comment that there has to be a greater purpose in this. That somehow, someway God will work good out of evil or hurt. And I am already seeing the good coming out of things that have happened to me. And I hope that you can see that too. I know it's still early and you're still in a lot of pain, but I'm so glad you didn't decide to go with your son, because he may come home to you.", "Yes. You have to have to have thought about that, Sara, right?", "Thank you very much.", "It would have been terrible if you had gone after him and he were alive.", "Yes, of course. I wouldn't have done that, but it happened so quickly, so it's very hard to decide what you're going to do. You just try to follow your heart. And I also believe that some good is going to come out of this. If you look at the Thai people, they always believe that there is a plan with this. And that the good will conquer over the evil.", "Let me say something. Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, \"surely, ye though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.\" The word is, \"through the valley,\" you're not left there. You will get through this somehow, someway. Then the line, \"surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.\" Nothing but goodness, that's not what it says. There are the tragedies, but then you will experience the mercy of God. And that's what you're experiencing now. People that are reaching out to you, crying with you, sympathizing with you, loving you. and God is -- when something tragic happens, who's the first one on the spot? It is God almighty. Maybe in a fireman's uniform, maybe in a policeman's uniform, but God is the first one there.", "After suicide, Linda, do you have any guilt? Could I have done more?", "Yes, because I feel like my hands were tied. And that's what I feel the most frustration and anger over. They kept telling me they didn't want me to talk to him, because they were afraid he either wanted to say good-bye. Or I would irritate him into doing what they didn't want him to do because we had some kind of issue.", "Sara, do you have any, what they call, survivor's guilt?", "No, actually I don't. I don't. I'm very happy to be alive. And I feel there's a meaning that I survived. I have to believe that.", "Do you have a feeling that your son is alive?", "No. It's very difficult for me to say. I want to believe it so much. I want to believe this girl so much. But in this circumstance, I have problems with feeling this. I wish it so much. So I want it to be true.", "But the girl is saying she definitely recognizes him?", "Yes. And as soon as I can, I will go back to Thailand and look for my baby, maybe Saturday or Sunday.", "Again, the address, the e-mail address is reward@punkt.se, reward@punkt.se. There you see the poster of the missing. And of course, people who want to donate help tsunami victims we all know www.usafreedomcorps.gov. We'll be back with our remaining moments with Reverend Schuller, Linda Carl and Sara Adamsson. Don't go away.", "Now, Sara Adamsson, you said you and the family had gone to Thailand and were thinking about moving to Thailand. And I know you're going to go back this weekend, might you stay in Thailand?", "Yes, of course, I might stay in Thailand. I love Thailand and I feel very attached to the place where I lost my family. And right now in our city where I live in Sweden, I am getting lots of help from so many people to collect money for those who have helped me in Thailand, for those people who gave me food. They gave me everything, but most of all, they gave me hope. They gave me the strength to look forward. I would like to help them so much.", "So you bear no anger towards the country?", "No, absolutely not.", "To -- let's take a call to Columbus, Ohio. Hello.", "Hi.", "Hi.", "First I'd like to give my heartfelt blessings to both Linda and her family and Sara and her search for her family. I was wondering if I could ask the reverend if he could expand on the idea about those who take their lives being welcomed into heaven. And, also, if he could touch on anger towards God.", "First of all, I come from a historic Christian tradition, which teaches that Jesus Christ is our savior and we're saved by Christ. He's our best friend. And when he saves us, he saves us from passings, present and future sins so we don't have to -- be sure we give a quick, forgive me, please, before we die. That's totally inappropriate.", "A question on anger though. He got angry.", "Who got angry?", "Christ got angry, angry at his father.", "Well, I don't think so.", "Well, what was that when he...", "He said, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?", "Sounds like anger to me.", "I don't think so.", "What would you call it?", "I would call it a sincere question which arose from going through hell, which is where he was.", "All right, what about dealing with anger towards God? People feel angry.", "Yes, I know they do. I think the best thing is to just be totally honest in your feelings and talk to him. If you're angry say, God, I'm angry. It doesn't make me feel good. The anger doesn't make me happy. Help me. Help me, God. With this anger that I can't handle. And I think he'll help you.", "So ask the figure you're angry at to help you with your anger?", "Oh, absolutely. Sure.", "Have you been angry, Linda, at God?", "Oh, yes. I ask why did you let him do this? Why didn't you do something to...", "Do you get answers?", "... to let him live. And my thought is that God allowed this because he gave people free will.", "Absolutely.", "Whether he was rational or not, he gave us free will.", "Sara, do you say why?", "Excuse me.", "Do you ask why?", "Yes, every day. Every second, of course, I do. But I can't tell you what -- how God is or what he feels or what he thinks. That's not up to me.", "We only have 30 seconds, reverend?", "Why is the one question that God never answers. Even Christ...", "Because why causes such...", "He won't answer the question why. His son ask the question on the cross, why have you forsaken me, and God didn't speak or mumble a word. Why doesn't he answer the why question, because we don't want an explanation, we want an argument and he won't be drawn into an argument.", "Thank you all very much. Sara, we're going to do all we can to help. If you missed that e-mail address, just contact us at CNN and we'll get it to you. Reverend Robert Schuller, Linda Carl, and Sara Adamsson. And we'll repeat our tribute to Johnny Carson Saturday night. Sunday night we'll be live with a special on the Iraq elections. And I'll come back in a couple minutes and tell you about tomorrow night. Don't go away.", "What happens when you adopt a child, start to raise the child and then lose the child to the birth parent? We'll investigate that tomorrow night. Aaron Brown is next with NEWSNIGHT. I don't want to make you feel to old Aaron, but we're extending a happy birthday today, a happy 80th birthday to Paul Newman.", "Oh my goodness, you're kidding me?", "No. Paul Newman is 80.", "And he still looks better than both of us.", "Together.", "Yes. Thank you, Mr. King. Wow.", "Go get them Aaron. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["LARRY KING, HOST", "KING", "REV. ROBERT H. 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{"id": "CNN-212547", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2013-8-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/14/nday.02.html", "summary": "Booker Wins Primary For NJ Senate Seat; Marco Rubio: Obama Could Legalize 11 Million by Executive Order; President Pushes Plan for Internet in Schools; Feels Like Fall", "utt": ["Neon Trees? Of course you knew that. Welcome back to NEW DAY -- smarter than I am, of course you are. It's August 14th, Wednesday, Hump Day. I'm Chris Cuomo.", "I'm Kate Bolduan. We're here with news anchor Michaela Pereira.", "Good morning, everyone.", "Hump Day he says. Coming up in the show, your phone battery is dying and that public charging station looks pretty good like an oasis. Be careful where you plug in. Apparently, you may be exposing your smartphone to hackers.", "Also, have you heard about this? The Justice Department moving to block a merger between American and U.S. Airways. Why? Well, it would create the world's largest airline. What would that mean? Big issue air fare and prices, will it send them higher or lower? We'll give you the details. First, a lot of news this morning. So, let's get right to Michaela.", "Yes, let's get to the headlines right now. We're watching Egypt, breaking news from there overnight. Egypt's military moved in to break up two massive makeshift camps in Cairo, occupied by supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsy. There are competing claims about fatalities. The Muslim Brotherhood claiming 200 protesters have been killed and more than 8,000 injured, Egyptian officials, however, dispute those claims saying that nine pro-Morsy supporters were killed and 78 others were hurt. More breaking news -- a tense hostage drama at a bank in St. Joseph, Louisiana, is over. The suspect identified as 20-year-old Fuaed Ahmed shot and killed by police after a 12-hour standoff. Two bank employees he was holding hostage removed from the scene in critical condition with gunshot wounds. Rescue efforts under way this morning in Mumbai, India, where an explosion and fire aboard an Indian navy submarine killed an unknown number of sailors. The defense ministry says About 18 people were aboard the vessel when the blast occurred. The cause is unknown at this point, but the explosion was powerful enough to sink most of that submarine. Juror number 12 from the Whitey Bulger trial speaking exclusively to CNN after the boston crime boss was convicted on 31 of 32 counts including links to 11 murders. Janet Uhlar says the jury really struggled with the credibility of witnesses.", "You had people that were criminals giving system that took plea agreements, so you weren't sure what you could believe or what you couldn't believe. And some of the --", "The juror says she was sickened to hear from witnesses who were walking free despite having committed murders. Former Hollywood madam, Heidi Fleiss, in trouble with the law once again. Police found nearly 400 marijuana plants growing in her residence in Nevada. Fleiss is facing charges but she was not arrested. Police chose not to arrest Fleiss because she is carrying more than $200,000 worth of exotic birds and that she also allowed officers to search her home without a warrant. All right. Are you ready for some cute? Here we go, there's only one thing cuter than the world smallest monkey, the world's smallest baby monkey. The Houston zoo says this teeny-weeny baby pygmy marmoset was born July 27th. Not sure if it's a boy or a girl. The tiny monkey ticked the scale at 36 grams, just barely over an ounce, really clinging to mom's neck there. They almost blend, look at that. You can see the eyeballs. Don't leave me, mom.", "When you're that little, you're like I got to", "Exactly.", "I'm glad that we've see involved that particular practice. I would not want to carry my kids.", "No?", "When it's that size it fits in the palm of your kids. You're OK.", "That's true, but my kids were never that small. Cuomos come out, you know, asking for their pants.", "Ready for pants.", "Seven, eight, pounds?", "Thirteen, 14 pounds, I forget. My son came out with two days' growth.", "Christina, call and stop your husband.", "He came out with pants.", "My daughter was two and a half feet tall.", "With roller blades on.", "With roller blades.", "We're going to John King again, aren't we?", "When we get awkward the best thing to do is go to John.", "Bring it to John, he'll take care of it.", "I love this face he makes. He's like, I hate you, Kate, I love you but I hate you.", "He got that let it in face.", "This is what he's thinking, bring it on, girl, I've known you long enough.", "Remember the guy the other day stuffing the puppies up his t-shirt, keep that guy away from the cute little monkey.", "It's down his pants, John. Down his pants. It's not funny if it's up his shirt. It's down his pants that made it --", "I know we have a soft spot for those stories.", "I know exactly what we're going to talk. When we get John in studio, this is getting real. All right, but we will talk about other big news like politics. Time for our political gut check. First up he's got big named supporters, Oprah Winfrey, Google's Eric Schmidt, they're back him. But now, Newark's Mayor Cory Booker has his state party support winning the primary for a special New Jersey Senate election. But will enthusiasm be enough should he make it all the way to Washington? A long road to Washington, John. This happens a lot and Chris always jokes because this is what political coverage does. Are we setting expectations too high for Cory Booker? I mean, can he really make that big of a splash in a Senate and a Congress that has more gridlock than ever?", "It is a great question and in some ways, Cory Booker sets expectations high for himself because he's ambitious, because he's somebody who's very active in speaking to the media and active in social media. Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. He did win the Democratic primary but he's the heavy overwhelming favorite. He still has to win a general election. But he's the heavy favorite. He's the overwhelming favorite now in a blue state. He's got all that fund- raising advantage that you talked about. And he's a fascinating guy. We've called him a rising star in the Democratic Party. Let's just drop that. Whether you agree or disagree with him, he's a star in the Democratic Party. He has a chance to be elected now the African- American senator he would be. He would replace Barack Obama, the last African-American elected to the Senate. We had appointed African-American. So, what would he be? He would be a new member of the Senate who has a bit of a national stage already because of his high profile as Newark mayor, he would be among the most prominent African-American politicians and the question how would he make his mark in the Senate? I would tell you this and lay this marker down. Talk to former governors in the Senate, Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, the guys who have been chief executives like Mayor Booker was, they get really frustrated because of the gridlock you've talked about.", "Well, and then let me ask you this, because \"TIME\" magazine approached it this way. If he is a chief executive of a middle sized city of Newark and he's so popular and he's so well-known, \"TIME\" magazine put it this way, \"Why on earth does Booker want to be a U.S. senator?\" Wouldn't the raw politics of it, wouldn't governor be a better route for him?", "Well, the Senate could say why would anybody come to Washington? Young people ask me all the time, do they want to come for jobs on journalism, do they want to come for jobs on Capitol Hill? Why would a grown man with a successful political career, he didn't challenge Chris Christie this time and what Republicans will tell you, he didn't have the guts to challenge Chris Christie for re-election in New Jersey so he chose the Senate seat when Senator Lautenberg passed, to go for the Senate seat instead. But it is a great question why would anyone come to Washington. My view is, the more people you get here, Democrats, Republicans, independents, no matter where they are on the spectrum, if they want to talk issues, if they want to debate policy, please come to Washington, please don't be cynical, please come and try to break that gridlock.", "Try to change it.", "He gets criticized. The mayor gets criticized by liberal Democrats sometimes because he has friends on Wall Street. He's Newark, New Jersey, close to Wall Street, you might understand this, but he's brought in the business community to help with education policies. So, I'm not agreeing with his policy but he sometimes looks outside the traditional boxes for help and, again, without taking any sides --", "Right.", "-- that's a good thing for Washington. Washington could use --", "Anyone who says they want to find middle ground, you can debate -- you can argue it, but I would argue that is a good thing to try to stop the gridlock. One issue he could be facing if he does make it to the Senate, I want to ask you that real quick, is the immigration debate. Marco Rubio just this week is really sharpening his message, saying obviously it's pointed to Republicans that if you don't get on board, the president could completely take it out of our hands and push through immigration reform through executive orders, he's basically saying you might not like it but it could get a whole lot worse. Is this a threat -- do you think this threat is real, a real fear of Republicans?", "The president with the stroke of a pen can't bring those 11 million estimated illegal immigrants out of the shadows and grant them status. The president can't do that. He needs Congress to do that. Can he tell the government, enforce this part of the immigration law, don't enforce that, set this priority, don't make this a priority? Yes, the president can make this policy to some degree. But what Senator Rubio doing here is actually quite fascinating. He's gotten out of his skits (ph) a bit, if you will, calling for a path to citizenship. He's a Republican from Florida who's thinking about running for the presidential nomination in 2016 and the conservative base has been angry of him, Kate and Chris, saying, wait a minute, we don't want to pass the citizenship. So, what is he doing? Number one, he's trying to say, if we don't do something, the president will. Republicans need to be part of this for policy and political reasons and number two, he's trying to at the same time repair relationships with the right. He's talking about perhaps shutting down the government to defund Obamacare, he's talking about taking a leave on anti-abortion regulations. So, here's the guy who's in a bit of a box, because the right doesn't like this position on immigration so he's trying to talk big policy and fix his own politics.", "That's true. Well, we'll see what they hear during recess and what happens when they make it back to Washington. Thanks, John. We'll talk to you soon.", "Good stuff. Let's take a break here on NEW DAY. When we come back, a warning using public charging stations for your phone -- hackers, what we're talking about. They could be laying in wait. We'll explain the potential dangers.", "And in our next hour, three teenagers caught on tape beating up a younger student on a school bus. We brought this story to you earlier. 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{"id": "CNN-258569", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-07-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/01/cnr.08.html", "summary": "U.S. Women's Soccer Team One Win Away from Being World Champions.", "utt": ["Breaking news, another shark attack off the North Carolina coast, this one happening just this afternoon off of Ocracoke island. According to officials there, the victim is a man in his late 60s. He was bit multiple times around his rib cage area, his hip, lower leg, both hands. Witnesses say the shark was six to seven feet long. Reportedly that this man bumped into the shark, according to an EMS official I talked to last hour, the shark pulled the man under water. He swam to shore where a doctor happened to be nearby, called an ambulance, emergency responders airlifted him, he's in stable position, but perspective, you know, we are talking about shark attacks. This is the sixth attack in just three weeks right around the North Carolina area, two attacks happen off the outer banks over the weekend, and two teenager lost limbs on Oak Island earlier this month. And I'm going to leave you with this story today. If you looked up the word teamwork in the dictionary, you would see this -- midfielder, Carli Lloyd with incredible footwork, cross passes to Kelley O'Hara to score the winning goal and yesterday Team USA women's World Cup match against Germany. Let's watch it again. And here we go. Take a look.", "We going to the ship. We going to the ship. We going to the ship.", "The ship as in the championship. That is the U.S. now advances to play the winner of tonight's Japan versus England. My next guest knows the feeling all too well. World Cup champion, two- time Olympic gold medalist Briana Scurry. She led the U.S. women's team to their last World Cup win in 1999. Briana, welcome.", "Brooke, thanks for having me. Glad to be here.", "All right. You are an inspiration to so many of these ladies. And now that you are retired, what was that like, watches that incredible, incredible game.", "I tell you what. All day my nerves started to build up. I was like, you know, a little anxiety. Because I've been watching all the games really close, seeing how USA has been playing, how Germany has been playing. And you know, USA had a fantastic game against China right before that, and Germany had a long game. So I was thinking -- I was very hopeful that the USA would come out and get it done. And they played a very inspired game last night. Like you said Carli Lloyd was fantastic. Alex Morgan, Kelley O'Hara getting in on the action, too. It was a fantastic night for USA, absolutely.", "Let's talk about the ladies from the '90s, you know, you, Brandi Chastain, Mia Hamm. We've heard from a lot of people, even non-soccer fans that this particular women's team has more fans than ever before. I'm hearing they like to have a good time, more personality than the men, who normally get a lot of the attention in the spotlight. Why do you think that tide is sort of finally turning now?", "I think it's fantastic. I think one of the major reasons that it's turning is because of the social media. Now, everybody in the world can get to know, you know Sydney Leroux, get to know Alex Morgan, based on their social media, their Facebook, their Twitter accounts, all that kind of stuff. And they're showing their personalities to the world. So it's very exciting for people to feel like they know them, because in essence, they kind of do. And so, that's a thing that didn't exist before that exists now. And so, now you as an individual, as a fan, you can be someone who feels like you know what these players are about, what makes them tick. And then you cheer for them with more passion, because they're like the girl next door like you know them.", "Totally. I mean, there's a lot of good and bad social media, but this is a definitely a real cool part of it. You do feel like you know them. You know, there's been a lot of criticism about FIFA and its treatment of women's teams. Let me just play this sound. This is from this year's team captain, Abby Wambach and have you respond on the other side.", "People are talking about women's soccer. And if we have a poor performance, I think we shouldn't -- I want to be criticized if I have a poor performance because we want to be treated like the men. And that's what they do with the guys, that's what we want. And so, I think it's good. We can take it. We're professionals. We're big girls.", "Big gills. With this unprecedented fandom, do you think women's soccer will ever receive the level of respect from FIFA?", "I love Abby, that's classic, vintage Abby. So that was really cool that you got to see that. I really do feel like it's a process. It's going to take a long time. It is going to take some major restructuring with FIFA. As you know, with the scandals allegations and all the indictments that happened right before the women's World Cup. It has got to be a lot of things change. And I feel like right now, there has been a real disparity in not only funding, but in support from FIFA for women's soccer. So I think we're in the process now that maybe we can get this done. I mean, if we can rebuild FIFA in a way where they're fair, at least, or at least we're in the ballpark as the men, I think we can get a really good result. And I think it is going to takes time. I mean, everything, every great change takes time. But I think it's on the precipice right now, a lot of people are talking about it. There is going to be a lot of pressure on FIFA. And hopefully they'll get it done.", "OK. I have 60 seconds with you, and we have to end with revenge. Because as you well know, in Japan -- you laugh, but I'm totally serious.", "I get you.", "If Japan wins tonight, the U.S. will be set for that highly anticipated rematch. We remember 2011, emotional, the U.S. lost, that was the whole penalty kick shootout. What kind of pressure would that be? In 30 seconds, going into that final match.", "Right. We have to have Japan winning because the USA, like you say, got their hearts ripped out of their chests I 2011 with that final. And so, it would be poetic justice, so to speak, if USA and Japan went into it. And I am absolutely secure and believe that the USA is wishing that Japan wins tonight. And they are ready and they are ready and they are waiting for that revenge.", "Ready for that sweet, sweet revenge. Briana Scurry, thank you. Go ladies, Team USA. And that does it for me. I'm Brooke Baldwin. 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{"id": "CNN-189237", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-7-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/11/cnr.01.html", "summary": "House Sets Vote on Health Care Law; DirecTV Pulls Plug on Viacom Net", "utt": ["Happening right now in the NEWSROOM, Houston pitch. Mitt Romney, Texas bound to address the NAACP this morning after Attorney General Eric Holder called the Texas voter I.D. law a poll tax. What will Governor Romney say to the nation's oldest civil rights organization? Station break. If you're one of the 20 million DirectTV customers, you are waking up with more than two dozen fewer channels this morning. Comedy Central, mTV, BET, and the list goes on. Overnight, a deal between the satellite company and Viacom falling through, big time. Painkiller prescription. The makers of OxyContin planning to test their drug on children, kids as young as 6 years old. Our Jason Carroll with a NEWSROOM investigation as to what's behind the highly addictive drug. The cash behind the candidate as big corporations give millions to Obama and Romney. CNN digs into who's raking in the most green. Will the election be decided by Wall Street and not Main Street? And home of the beret? The U.S. Olympic team in French hats and blue blazers. Do these guys look ready for the Olympics or a croquet match in the Hamptons? NEWSROOM begins right now. And good morning to you. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining us. We begin this morning with a terrifying airline flight into Miami. This morning, we are learning just how bad it was. Flight 1780 was en route from Aruba when it slammed into turbulence on its initial descent about 30 minutes before landing. Pilots were able to land the plane without major incident but about a dozen aboard that flight were injured, five of them taken to the hospital.", "I never felt it, something like that in the past. Basically, we didn't know anything. And the bumps, you just think that it's going down.", "I thought we were going to die. It was scary.", "John Zarrella is in Miami, he's following the story. I guess American Airlines is saying there was nothing on the radar to indicate such violent turbulence in the air. So the passengers had no warning?", "You know that flight -- well, they had their seatbelts on because, as you mentioned, the flight was on its final descent, on its final descent into the Miami area, 30 minutes from landing. And you know anybody who flies in south Florida, in Florida, in the summertime, knows that turbulence is not unusual. In fact, it was just an article in one of the local papers about a week ago discussing the fact that in the summertime in Florida, afternoon, early evening thunderstorms, certainly can cause a lot of turbulence in the sky. We don't know if that's what caused it yesterday. It was a pretty nice day. There were some storms around. Pockets of storms around in the south Florida area yesterday. But at this point, we don't know what exactly caused it. And may never know. You get these updrafts during the summer here in south Florida that literally cause this kind of turbulence -- Carol.", "John Zarrella, reporting live from Miami. Remember this video of a -- of a JetBlue pilot who had an in-flight meltdown and caused the plane to be diverted? Yes, that was the pilot. It was a terrible incident. We are now learning that a lack of sleep may have led to Clayton Osbon's outburst. A psychologist testified at Osbon's trial that the pilot suffered from brief psychotic disorder and delusions secondary to sleep deprivation. Last week, a federal judge found Osbon not guilty by reason of insanity for interfering with the flight crew. To Columbus, Ohio, now where a fiery train crash overnight forces people to evacuate from the one square mile that surrounds the site. That's because, you can see it, 11 cars that left the tracks were carrying chemicals like denatured alcohol and a chemical used to make plastic. Our affiliate WBNS reports at least two people were hurt. A pit maneuver could not stop an L.A. area police pursuit involving a teacher accused of lewd acts on a former student. Instead, the teacher himself ended the chase dramatically. There you see it, he went airborne, crashing through a guardrail, slamming into a tree. The teacher is expected to survive. He is probably in custody this morning. Nearly two weeks to the day after the U.S. Supreme Court left its stamp on President Obama's health care law, House Republicans are poised to do the same thing. But they are seeking a very different outcome.", "The American people do not want to go down the path of Obamacare. That's why we have voted over 30 times to repeal it, defund it, replace it, and we're -- we are resolved to have this law go away. And we're going to do everything we can to stop it.", "Senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash is on Capitol Hill. Some call this vote symbolic, noting that any measure would likely die in the Senate. But it will still be a pretty dramatic day, huh?", "There's no question about it. And, you know, Democrats are having a little bit of fun with this debate, trying to stay on message. But also say things like one said yesterday the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and trying to -- and expect a different result, which obviously will not happen ultimately. It will, as you said, not get past the Senate. And it certainly wouldn't get past the Democratic president who has made this his signature issue. Still, there has been debate from Democrats and Republicans and it will continue through the day.", "As far as what voters think of this, let's call it political theater for lack of a better term, what do voters think of it? Do they think it's a great thing that the Republicans are doing?", "You know, they are really, really evenly split. The Democrats by and large support the president's health care law. Republicans by and large think it should be repealed. Independents, who both parties are really going for, are also pretty evenly split. If you'd take a look at what they want Congress to do, again, you know, either you see actually favor 52 percent, oppose most or all of it 47 percent. If you look at Congress, 51 percent say yes, repeal, 47 percent say no. So what this is, especially now where we are in the political calendar, Carol, is an attempt to really rile up the bases, to show the bases on both sides who may or may not be excited to get out and vote for the congressional candidates, the presidential candidates, that they are at least doing what they want them to do, and that's really a big part of what we're seeing today on Capitol Hill.", "All right, Dana Bash reporting live from Washington this morning. Mitt Romney will have a chance to score some points with African- American voters next hour as he addresses the NAACP convention in Houston. Every four years, the group invites the presidential candidates to speak. Mr. Obama spoke to the convention in 2008, but he will not be there this year. Vice President Joe Biden will fill in on Thursday. In his address to the NAACP yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder took on the proposed Texas voter I.D. law. Federal judges are reviewing that proposal this week after the Justice Department blocked it. Holder says the proposal would be discriminatory.", "Under the proposed law, concealed handgun licenses would be acceptable forms of photo I.D. but student I.D.s would not. Many of those without I.D.s would have to travel great distances to get them. And some would struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them. We call those poll taxes.", "Holder said studies show one quarter of voting aged African-Americans do not have government-issued photo I.D.s. That compares to 8 percent of voting aged whites. No \"Daily Show\"? Cold turkey on \"Colbert?\" \"Jersey Shore\" jitters? Here's why.", "This is a bad situation.", "It's like the end of civilization.", "Tonight, DirectTV is getting rid of m", "Really?", "Nickelodeon.", "What?", "We're doomed.", "Comedy Central.", "No.", "That's so sad.", "Can we see just the disturbing part again?", "What?", "We've got to stop the show. Hold on, hold on, hold on.", "And more.", "That is the reality for DirectTV viewers this morning. The satellite provider has dropped 26 Viacom Channels, including Comedy Central and mTV and viewers or customers I should say are not happy. Alison Kosik is at the New York Stock Exchange. This was in \"USA Today.\" Angry customers lashing out at DirectTV. What's going on?", "Yes, but you know what, it's not only DirectTV in this equation. You know, if you go and ask Viacom what's going on, and Viacom says, you know what? DirecTV dropped its programming at 11:50 Eastern Time last night, and Viacom the last it heard from the carrier before that was more than 12 hours earlier at 11:00 a.m. so, sure, DirecTV dropped the station 10 minutes early, but what DirecTV is claiming is that Viacom sent a letter, threatening legal action at 11:24. So, yes, this was almost inevitable if they couldn't work it out, and they didn't. And you know this has been pretty publicized that the channels would go dark if the deal wasn't reached. DirecTV had previously said it was wiling to continue carrying the channels while the two sides do picked out. But they say that Viacom just wasn't up for them -- Carol.", "OK. So DirectTV has 20 million subscribers. This is going to affect a lot of people, do you think, that people would dump DirecTV because of this?", "I could be. You know, it's quite a possibility here. We'll have to wait and see we'd fund out. But remember this. Unlike horizon or Time-Warner DirecTV, Carol, is only a television provider it doesn't -- you know, it doesn't have things like phone or Internet to boost its bottom line so it really has to watch its pennies. Now DirecTV is using the rating slide on some of Viacom's channels as a bargaining chip in this catfight. It's saying it's annoyed because so much of the content you can get from Nickelodeon, mTV and other channels. You can get in online and on NetFlix, and if you ask DirecTV, they think that Viacom is taking away the number of people that are willing to pay for DirecTV when they can just get the channels for free -- Carol.", "Good point. Alison Kosik, live at the New York stock exchange. The temperatures are rising, you know that, but your grocery bill is rising, too. How this heat wave is hurting your budget."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COSTELLO", "JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R), HOUSE SPEAKER", "COSTELLO", "DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "BASH", "COSTELLO", "ERIC HOLDER, ATTORNEY GENERAL", "COSTELLO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TV. SNOOKI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE:  BET. 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{"id": "CNN-118668", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-7-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/30/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Tom Snyder, Ingmar Bergman Pass Away", "utt": ["He kept millions of Americans awake into the wee hours. As host of \"Late Night\" -- the \"Late Late night\" TV show, Tom Snyder was a cultural icon. The talk show host died yesterday in San Francisco after a long struggle with leukemia. Known for his casual style, Snyder often smoked during interviews. Now, among his guests, John Lennon and Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. In 1981, Snyder interviewed Charles Manson in prison. Those who knew him best say he loved broadcasting and he also loved to laugh. Tom Snyder was 71 years old.", "Woody Allen once described him as probably the greatest film artist since the invention of the motion picture camera. Director Ingmar Bergman has died at his home in Faro, Sweden. Bergman directed moody films about such difficult subjects as plagues and madness. He also used inventive moviemaking techniques which led may to call him the great master of modern cinema."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "NPR-42941", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-01-29", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5177282", "title": "Bringing Baseball to Vietnam", "summary": "Cleveland Indians relief pitcher Danny Graves rediscovers his roots in Vietnam and hopes to generate interest in his sport while raising funds for a worthy cause.", "utt": ["Relations between the U.S. and Vietnam have been improving steadily in the past decade. Trade between the two nations is now worth billions of dollars each year. Last summer, the Vietnamese Prime Minister visited the U.S. The first such visit since the end of the war. And President Bush is scheduled to travel to Vietnam in November. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on another milestone in U.S.-Vietnamese relations. The export of America's favorite pastime.", "Here's something you don't hear very often in Vietnam.", "Baseball is almost unknown in Vietnam, despite the long U.S. presence here during the war. Soccer is king. But the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Fund and Major League Baseball are hoping to change that. They've just dedicated a new high school ball field in Quong-Chi Province and they brought several Americans along to teach local students the game.", "Some of the boys' bloodiest battles were fought around here, not far from the DMZ. Thirty years after the war ended, the area is still littered with unexploded ordinance which kills or maims dozens each year. The miners found and removed 17 pieces of unexploded ordinance from the land set aside for this project.", "Organizers say the project's goal is to build bridges between the two countries and foster friendship by turning a battlefield into a ball field. One of the teachers is a long-time major league ballplayer, 32 year old pitcher, Danny Graves.", "This, honestly, is the most fun I've had in a long time with baseball. These kids are great. It's just so much fun to be out here and I'm really, really excited. Graves knows a little about bridging cultures.", "His father was a U.S. soldier during the war who met and married a Vietnamese woman working at the U.S. embassy in Saigon. Graves was born in Saigon in 1973. This is his first trip back since his family left the former South Vietnamese capital just before it fell to the communists. Today, he's teaching Vietnamese students how to take aim with the ball.", "Really good, tell him every time we throw, we want to throw it at the guy's chest. We want to throw it to them here, not up here or here or here. Because he's got a really strong arm, we just need to get him to throw it in the right direction.", "For most of the students this is the first time they've thrown a baseball or swung a bat and Graves seems impressed with their quick grasp of the game.", "I feel like these kids, baseball is not very foreign to them. These kids, they're good athletes. They're very quick learners, very teachable, so the game is not as foreign to these kids as people think.", "Major League Baseball's only Vietnamese-born player says he loves being back and that the people are friendly, both to him and to his mother, who is on her first trip back as well. One of his new students, 17 year old Huang Duk(ph) says Graves is a good teacher. After a few minutes instruction, he's able to throw the ball pretty well and says he looks forward to playing more.", "(through translator) I thought it was quite difficult at first. But after some practice, I think it is not too difficult and it's really quite interesting. I just hope to keep this field for baseball and not turn it into a soccer field. I think baseball can be popular all over Vietnam.", "Maybe so, but equipment is costly, there aren't many fields, and soccer is much more accessible, at least for now. But Danny Graves is confident baseball will take off in the country where he was born.", "Not overnight. It might take a while, it could take two years, it could take ten years, you never know. But the way these kids are reacting to it now, it's gonna be great.", "Graves says he hopes that the young people here look at him as proof that Vietnamese can play baseball on a professional level. He says he'll be back in November after his season is over back in the U.S. Michael Sullivan, NPR News."], "speaker": ["DEBBIE ELLIOT, host", "MICHAEL SULLIVAN reporting", "MICHAEL SULLIVAN reporting", "MICHAEL SULLIVAN reporting", "MICHAEL SULLIVAN reporting", "Mr. DANNY GRAVES (Baseball pitcher)", "SULLIVAN", "Mr. DANNY GRAVES (Baseball pitcher)", "SULLIVAN", "Mr. DANNY GRAVES (Baseball pitcher)", "SULLIVAN", "Mr. HUANG DUK (Vietnam resident, baseball student)", "SULLIVAN", "Mr. DANNY GRAVES (Baseball pitcher)", "SULLIVAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-38712", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-9-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/04/lad.17.html", "summary": "Journalism With a Humorous Edge", "utt": ["Well, here's proof that we in the news business don't have thin skins. We have a new book here and it makes fun of the headlines and it's written by the same people who do \"The Onion\" newspaper. So here to talk more about \"Dispatches From the Tenth Circle\" is Robert Siegel. He is the editor-in-chief of \"The Onion\" and Robert, our graphics department was busy, so I'm just going to hold the book up. Here it is. This is what it looks like. And it starts -- oh, and you've got your own copy, too. Great. Well, listen, in the introduction, I'm looking at this by T. Herman Zwiebel (ph), and talk about a ringing endorsement. He says, \"I have no illusions concerning the so-called romance of journalism. The collection you are holding is a sham, a fraud and a waste of your hard earned money.\" Nice sell.", "Thank you.", "What is this really about?", "It's basically a collection of our most award winning journalism, essentially.", "And is this journalism? I mean are these really true stories?", "Absolutely. Why...", "Go ahead.", "What do you mean by that?", "Well, are they real? I mean are these actually pulled from the headlines or are these more like bloopers or drafts?", "Are your stories real?", "Absolutely. We are the world's news leader.", "OK, then we're on the same page here.", "All right. Well, being on the same page, why don't you share some of those pages? I'm looking at something called \"New Smokable Nicotine Sticks.\" What's this about?", "That's basically a, it's sort of a nicotine filled cylinder that when you put it in your mouth and light it, it gives you a nicotine charge similar to cigarettes, essentially.", "And where do you find this one?", "Where do you find that product?", "Where did you find this article?", "Oh, well, we wrote it. We reported on it. We got a lot of, actually, a lot of doctors were calling us asking where they could get them for their patients.", "Yes, it says available in regular and menthol, legal for minors and available wherever cigarettes are sold.", "It's essentially like a nicotine patch but it does a better job of simulating the smoking experience.", "And you raised the question should HMOs cover the drug. What about this one, \"Executive Quits Fast Track To Spend More Time With Possessions.\"", "That's just a feature story about a guy who's sort of reexamining his priorities.", "Reexamining his priorities?", "Yes.", "Like what kind of possessions?", "His cars, his homes, his boats, that sort of thing. And being a really busy executive over the years he never really got to spend the quality time he wanted to. So now he's stepping down.", "And there's something else called \"Funions Still Outselling Responsibilitions.\"", "Right. There was a new product launched by Frito-Lay called Responsibilitions, which is basically a snack chip that encourages -- it's a snack chip that encourages thrift and hard work and discipline, which didn't take off the way the funions did.", "Yes, you bet.", "Unfortunately.", "Well, so I take it you never have trouble coming up with material?", "No. No. We, there's always something to report on, a shark attack or a, you know, summit of some sort.", "Yes, no sacred ground there, huh?", "No.", "Well, who are you guys? I mean who are the writers and what are your qualifications?", "We're basically supremely unqualified. Most of us have backgrounds in the food service industry, sub prep, sub sandwich preparation, dish washing, that sort of thing. We don't really come from the traditional comedy writing background. Most comedy writers come from, you know, go to Harvard and write for \"The Lampoon\" or something like that and, you know, intern on \"Conan O'Brien\" and we're basically just, the majority of the staff is just working stiffs who kind of fell into this strange thing.", "Always the best kind.", "Right.", "And CNN isn't even sacred territory. Do you find that we're funny, too?", "Yes.", "We don't get a lot of humor in the newsroom, usually.", "You don't ever, are you going to show the, are you alluding to a certain story?", "Yes. Let's see if we've got this one. \"CNN Still Releasing News Piled Up During Elian Gonzalez Saga.\"", "Yes, that was basically over the six months when the whole Elian thing was going on. There was a lot of news stories that you guys had to bump in order to devote the full coverage that Elian so richly deserved. So, for example, the Dali Lama died about eight months ago, which is something that we just found out once the Elian thing got wrapped up.", "Well, you know, if you ever feel like you're missing out on something, we always have \"Headline News.\"", "Yes.", "Thanks so much, Robert Siegel, \"Dispatches from the Tenth Circle.\"", "Let me show it, too.", "There you go, just in case you missed the cover.", "It's in bookstores now.", "Gotcha. We'll see you on the Web."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "ROBERT SIEGEL, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, \"THE ONION\"", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN", "SIEGEL", "LIN"]}
{"id": "NPR-15438", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2017-09-25", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/09/25/553532389/nfl-players-coaches-protest-national-anthem-after-trumps-attacks", "title": "NFL Players, Coaches Protest National Anthem After Trump's Attacks", "summary": "Over the weekend, NFL players, coaches and others protested against President Trump for his attacks on the NFL, saying that any player who kneels during the national anthem should be fired.", "utt": ["Yesterday was an extraordinary moment for the National Football League.", "(Singing) Whose broad stripes and bright stars...", "As the national anthem played in stadiums across the country, hundreds of players, joined by coaches and even team owners, knelt, locked arms or stayed off the field entirely during the anthem.", "Some players have made a practice of kneeling during the anthem as a form of protest against racial inequality but not on this scale. This was largely a response to comments President Trump made at a political rally Friday.", "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, get that son of a [expletive] off the field right now? Out - he's fired. He's fired.", "The president doubled down on that sentiment over the weekend.", "And players did not keep quiet.", "It just amazes me with everything else that's going on in this world, especially involving the U.S., that's what you're concerned about, my man? You're the leader of free world.", "Once again, this is a tragedy in our country that we have to sit here and still have these discussions. I know for a fact that I'm no son of a [expletive].", "Targeting the quality of the character of guys in this league - I find that very alarming. This is the same guy that couldn't condemn violent neo-Nazis.", "That was Miami Dolphins' Michael Thomas, the Cleveland Browns' DeShone Kizer and the Kansas City Chiefs' Alex Smith.", "Team owners also weighed in, including several who supported Trump during his presidential run. Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots said this in a statement. I am deeply disappointed by the tone of the comments made by the president. There is no greater unifier in this country than sports and unfortunately nothing more divisive than politics. I support their right to peacefully affect social change and raise awareness in a manner that they feel is most impactful.", "Not all players supported using the national anthem as a moment of protest. Here's New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees.", "There will always be issues with our country. There will always be things that we're battling. But if the protest becomes that we're going to sit down or kneel or not show respect to the flag of the United States of America and everything that it symbolizes, everything that it stands for, everything our country's been through to get to this point, I do not agree with that.", "And many fans took issue. Patriot fans booed their own team after players took a knee."], "speaker": ["AILSA CHANG, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "MICHAEL THOMAS", "DESHONE KIZER", "ALEX SMITH", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "DREW BREES", "AILSA CHANG, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-322056", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2017-09-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/25/ip.01.html", "summary": "Trump on NFL Anthem Policy; Deadline Looms for Health Bill.", "utt": ["Welcome to INSIDE POLITICS. I'm John King. Thanks for sharing your day with us. The NFL and its players take an international stand and knee against President Trump, responding in force to his labeling a few players, quote, sons of bitches, for exercising their right to free speech.", "I know for a fact that I'm no son of a bitch. And I plan on continuing forward and doing whatever I can for my position to, you know, promote the equality that's needed in this country.", "Plus, the last-ditch Republican Obamacare repeal effort is short votes, and the deal-making to try to win support includes more money for states with wavering senators.", "You should not be able to bribe states and governors to say, we will give you a little bit more money now, but after the next several years, we're going to cut access to Medicaid.", "And a new travel ban from the Trump White House focuses on seven countries, including North Korea and Venezuela.", "The travel ban, the tougher, the better.", "We begin, though, with the controversy the president set off over the weekend. Like many Americans, Mr. Trump eager to play Monday morning quarterback today, and he's giving himself rave reviews for escalating what was a modest controversy into an international faceoff of over patriotism, free speech and race. Sent from the president iPhone 7:31 a.m., many people booed the players who kneeled yesterday, which was a small percentage of total. Those are fans who demand respect for our flag. Then, eight minutes later, the issue of kneeling has nothing to do with race. It's about respect for our country, flag and national anthem. NFL must respect this. Again, shortly after 9:00 a.m. hash tag standforouranthem. The president went out of his way to pick this fight Friday night when he said NFL owners should fire any, quote, sons of bitches, who knee in protest during the national anthem. He wanted a big debate and he got one. Last year, this started with one man. You see him right there, and two of his colleagues, Colin Kaepernick. This photo taken exactly one year ago. But take a look at yesterday. Players, coaches, owners at stadiums from Los Angeles to Philadelphia, London, everywhere in between, locking arms, some kneeling, some staying in the locker room while the anthem played. In Chicago the Pittsburgh Steelers sideline empty as the \"Star- Spangled Banner\" echoed in Soldier Field. Only one man, the left tackle, Alejandro Villanueva, a former Army Ranger who served three tours in Afghanistan, trickled out of the tunnel. You see him there. Again, the president insists this is not about race, but until yesterday it was a small group of African-Americans kneeling to protest police shootings or other race-related issues. They call it using their First Amendment right to free speech to make what they say to them is a very important point. The president of the United States called them sons of bitches. Plus, it was an African-American NBA star the president criticized by name on Twitter over the weekend. Today, the NFL owners, overwhelmingly white, many of them Trump donors, say the president is wrong and divisive to stoke all this. So does the Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady, a self-described friend of the president.", "I certainly disagree with, you know, what he said and, you know, thought it was just divisive.", "Part of the president's Twitter tirade against player protesters included this, sports fans should never condone players that do not stand proud for their national anthem or their country. NFL should change policy. CNN's Hines Ward played in the NFL for 14 seasons. Full disclosure, Hines, you are an unpaid volunteer coach during training camp with the Steelers last month. Fans almost came to blows about this yesterday. Some Patriots fans were booing when the players took a knee. Any chance the league will see this as a big enough distraction to listen to the president and take his suggestion about changing the rules?", "No, I don't think it's going to be a distraction to the team. If anything, what we saw yesterday was a sense of unity. I mean from owners, to coaches, to players, to ball boys. I mean it was amazing to see the support that the entire league come together as a unit and show that we support each other regardless of the circumstances.", "Unusual for a president, any president, to get involved in this way. Again, you were in a locker room for more than a dozen years. You were with -- some of the athletes are black. Some of the athletes are white. They're from everywhere around the country. They have every different political views. We saw even last year when Mr. Kraft, the owner of the Patriots, when Tom Brady said kind things about President Trump, it caused a little mumbling and murmuring on that team. What did you see yesterday in terms of having lived through various social controversies, cultural controversies, political controversies as a player, what did you see yesterday that most jumped out at you?", "Well, the thing that I saw, it was very hard to put politics into sports, and for many reasons. I mean you got guys who are protesting, doing the silent protest of what they've experienced. Then you've got guys who the flag is a whole new meaning to them. And then you have guys that are in the middle that really don't want to get into a political stance or whatnot, all they want to do is just play football. I mean that's the reason why they grew up loving the game. They just want to go out there and play football and not have to make a choice. But what I saw yesterday of everyone being united, I mean it makes it tough because it's kind of like oil and water. You know, you really don't want to mix the two because they don't go together. At one point you have players kneeling and then on another point you have players standing for the national anthem and you take -- like you were talking about the player from the Steelers, Alejandro. I mean who are we to sit there and tell a guy who served for our country, did three tours over in Afghanistan, that he can't run out the tunnel and sing the national anthem? So I'm not upset with his choice. And he didn't tell any of the players that he was doing it. But for him to stand out there alone and to do it, I just wish that there were other players show support for him, just like they're showing support for the other protesters that are taking the knee.", "What would you have done if you were in the locker room yesterday and the decision was go out, stay in the locker room, go out and stand, go out and kneel?", "Well, for me, it's a personal choice because of the military background. My father served in the military and I have close friends. And I reached out and I actually texted a dear friend of mine who served in the Marines, who lost his leg, and I asked him, what did he, you know, think about the NFL players standing out and not singing the anthem or standing for the flag? And what he told me was very interesting. He told me that what that flag represents to him -- now, he's been -- he served for our country and now how they drape the American flag over the casket of someone, a dear friend of his, and then folded the flag up and handing it to the wife, he said, that was more saying thank you because of the sacrifices that he made for our country. And so that flag and what it means to these military guys is a whole new meaning, especially for NFL guys who could never talk about what their life experience because they've never been there before.", "It would be a great, thoughtful and maybe even helpful conversation if we could have it as a conversation. Yesterday we got confrontation. Hines Ward, appreciate your insights. It's very important as we continue this conversation. With us here to share their reporting and their insights, Kimberly Atkins of \"The Boston Herald,\" CNN's Jeff Zeleny, Eliana Johnson of \"Politico,\" and CNN's Manu Raju. Well, the president got what he wanted. He got attention. He got a big fight. He insisted it had nothing to do with race. And could have been a one shot, if you will. The president did this Friday night. Could have seen what played out yesterday. Could have gone quiet. But it's clear the president likes this if you look at his Twitter feed today, that he wants this to continue, so we will go through this, at least for another week. We'll go through this at least for Thursday -- Monday night football, Thursday night football, Sunday, next week. Why does the president see this as a win?", "Well, the president likes to wage these sort of us versus them battles. We saw this on the campaign trail throughout his presidency. Remember when the Black Lives Matter protests were reaching its height, he declared that he would have a law and order presidency and that he firmly backed police when that was -- too was not a debate against -- it was not a battle between police or Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter wasn't anti-police. Here he's doing the same thing. He's taking what was a protest, a civil rights protest, that had largely, as you pointed out, died down -- Colin Kaepernick isn't even in the NFL anymore -- and pushed it into and phrased it in terms of a battle against the military, which isn't what it is, but it fuels his base. He likes waging that battle. And it diverts attention away from this health care bill that's probably going to fail.", "Well, that's an interesting point there, as he's starting a big fight here because he's losing a big fight over here. That's one of the points. But us versus them in the context of football -- I'm a Patriots fan. I grew up in New England. I hate the Jets. I hate the Bills. You know, that's -- that's it. I don't hate them. That's just the way you're raised. That's the way it goes. We have this conversation in baseball sometimes. But why bring this into sports? The president -- that's an escalation.", "It is an escalation and the president knew exactly what he was doing. He did it on Friday night in Alabama. He was down in Alabama giving a prime time speech talking about race. He can say it's not about race. It is absolutely about race and he knows it's about race. He knows it is about something that -- he's tapping into something, a, that's already there, which he's done a lot. You know, viewership is down in the NFL, in part because of this, as some people believe. But he clearly wants to remind his base that he is with them. He has been, you know, doing some deals with Democrats. He'll be doing more deals with Democrats. He's failing with other things, not getting some things done, too. It's a -- he was in a comfortable position of a rally, so he decided to go with this. But Ben Sasse, the Republican senator from Nebraska, had an interesting message to players. He said, he wants you to take a knee because it divides the nation with him and the flag on the same side. Don't give him the attention he wants. Of course, Ben Sasse, no fan of this president. But interestingly now the -- the president is on the same side as, you know, some supporters and also the flag. It's a -- it's hard to see the exit route off of this for the president. He wants to keep it going.", "Maybe he doesn't want an exit. Is that the point? I mean I'm old enough to remember when, you know, some conservatives used to goad (ph) the Democrats to come out publicly and support flag burners because you want -- you want", "I think Donald Trump is not a politics president. He's a culture president. And though he's not the traditional culture warrior who talked about sexual ethics and religiosity, he is a culture warrior in that he's a genius for identifying sort of cultural flashpoints and sticking his finger in them and igniting national debates over them. And so I think what he did was deliberate and he doubled down on it when he saw the crowd reaction. It obviously wasn't in his scripted remarks. But it's a debate that he wants to have. And at the very base of it, you know, when you poll people, do they support standing for the national anthem versus, you know, having athletes kneel? The majority of Americans are with him. I think it depends on how people -- what people perceive this debate to be about. Do they perceive it to be about standing versus not standing or the freedom to do so versus not doing so, should someone be fired versus not? I think it's unclear how that's going to play out. But the way the president perceives it. It's clear the White House thinks this is a winning issue for him. I don't think anybody in there has too many qualms about him continuing this debate.", "To make your point -- hang on just one second. To make you point about the president thinks it's a winning issue for him, we learned about what is most, first and foremost, on the president's mind, what he tweets about. No teleprompter. This is what he wants to be talking about. Here's his Twitter feed since Saturday morning. Sixteen tweets about sports and the national anthem, two about health care, one about taxes, one about North Korea, zero about Puerto Rico, where there's a desperate need for some help and the president could help get that help there. That's the president now. I do want to bring this into the conversation. This president is not always consistent. That's, I think, a fair fact. Private citizen Donald Trump, in October 2013, when President Obama was getting involved in the debate about whether the Washington Redskins should change their name, because some people think it's offensive and it's racist. President Donald Trump -- citizen Trump tweeted then, presidents should not be telling the Washington Redskins to change their name. Our country has far bigger problems. Focus on them, not nonsense.", "Yes, put that in the book of, \"there's a tweet for everything.\" I mean there really is, especially on this point. But, you know, I think that you often hear Republicans in this town say that they wish the president would lay off Twitter. This is another example of that. This is a fight that the White House may see as a winning issue, but certainly he's not going to secure a lot of support from his own party on Capitol Hill, particularly in light of the aftermath of what he said in Charlottesville. He said there were some very fine people who were marching along with those white supremacists and neo-Nazis, but how come there are not some very fine people who are taking a knee and protesting what they believe are concerns that they have over civil rights. So I think whenever he dives into these cultural war issues, he doesn't have a lot of support from people in this town. He may speak to that 30 percent or so base.", "It was this -- the interesting strategic (ph) discussion. I said this yesterday. Sometimes we need our president to lead the country through conversations about difficult issues. The president has every right to say, I get your point, you have the right to demonstrate. I wish you'd find someone -- could you please find some other way? Can we have a conversation? Let's not do this to the flag. Let's find another way. That's not -- he's not having -- trying to have a conversation. He wanted a confrontation. And listening to the Steelers coach, Mike Tomlin, here saying, you want a confrontation, president, you got one.", "We've got a group of men in there. men that come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, races, creeds, ethnicities, religions and so forth. That's football. That's a lot of team sports. But because of our position, we get drug into the", "I think that's a frustrating thing for a lot of -- even sports fans is that they watch sports to get away from politics, to get away from all the noise.", "Right.", "And, yes, this was an issue certainly some people were protesting, but it was a small number of people. And the president just injected politics into something that people hoped could stay away from all of this.", "He started -- in terms of the people at the White House that have qualms about it, I'm told that his chief of staff, John Kelly, is actually quite alarmed by this. And it's one of the things he can't control. He says he can control what the president -- who sees the president and what the president reads, but he cannot control what he says in a rally or what he sends out on this.", "Right.", "And I am told that he is alarmed by this, does not know how this will end exactly. And after spending 45 years in the Marine Corps, he sees himself as, you know, someone who does not want to be on this side of this argument here. So I think internally in the White House there's a little consternation. I was also told this morning it happened on a Friday evening going into a Saturday when he was basically alone. Melania Trump was in Canada, Ivanka Trump was down for the Sabbath -- the Jewish Sabbath. So he was sort of alone and tweet to his own devices. So these things often happen on a Friday into a Saturday.", "Well, General Kelly grew up in the same town I grew up in. He's a little bit older than me, but he has a pretty good memory, I think, of what happens when people start injecting themselves into these issues. They can turn into powder kegs. We shall see how this one goes. Up next, the tougher the better. That's the president's position when it comes to the new travel ban rules, while his critics say it's nothing more than a new way to enforce the Muslim ban."], "speaker": ["JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR", "DESHONE KIZER, QUARTERBACK, CLEVELAND BROWNS", "KING", "SEN. MARIA CANTWELL (D), WASHINGTON", "KING", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KING", "TOM BRADY, NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS", "KING", "HINES WARD, CNN SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR", "KING", "WARD", "KING", "WARD", "KING", "KIMBERLY ATKINS, \"BOSTON HERALD\"", "KING", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "KING", "ELIANA JOHNSON, \"POLITICO\"", "KING", "RAJU", "KING", "MIKE TOMLIN, PITTSBURGH STEELERS COACH", "RAJU", "KING", "RAJU", "ZELENY", "KING", "ZELENY", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-12102", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-7-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/17/mn.12.html", "summary": "CNN 20: Hotel Walkway Collapses, July 17, 1981", "utt": ["First today's edition of \"CNN 20.\"", "When two giant walkways collapsed last night at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri was faced with its worst disaster ever.", "I was Chicago bureau chief at the time, and I got a call late on a Friday night at about 11:00 that there had been a disaster at a hotel in Kansas City. One hundred and fourteen people were killed when two walkways collapsed over an atrium during a tea dance, where about 2,000 people were in attendance. It was a horrific scene. Two huge suspended walkways, one had collapsed on top of the other, and they both had fell into the lobby floor, the atrium. It was a story about, first of all, a disaster that effected a city very much. It was also an engineering story on how it happened, how it, you know, how it had failed. It was a huge investigation, and they did determine the cause. The cause was eventually tied to the way that the walkways were suspended, and the bolts and the rods that held the walkways. But it was also caused by the fact that they were having a dance contest. And walkways were at the fourth floor, the third floor and the second floor. And they began to vibrate. And the combination of the vibrations and the apparently less than adequate support, caused them to give way."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "BOB CAIN, CNN ANCHOR", "CHARLES HOFF, CNN DEPUTY NATIONAL MANAGING EDITOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-106133", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-5-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/18/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Border Bounce for Bush; Bush Answers Questions on Immigration Plan, Iraq", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE SITUATION ROOM. I'm Wolf Blitzer in Washington. President Bush today toured a flash point in the immigration battle. In Arizona, he visited a stretch of the Mexican border which has been a target of illegal immigrants. There, the president spoke one-on-one with our White House correspondent, Suzanne Malveaux.", "Thank you so much for joining us, Mr. President.", "Suzanne, thanks.", "I know, of course, we're at the border to focus on your comprehensive immigration reform plan. Your critics, and particularly those of your party, however, call this a publicity stunt. They say that the plan to move forward some 6,000 National Guard troops is really a political ploy to get them to sign on to the guest worker program and they're not buying it. What can you offer members of your own party to convince them this is the right way to go?", "I can offer them a comprehensive strategy to get the job done. And when we add 6,000 border patrol agents to the border patrol that are patrolling up and down this vast border, we will have doubled the border patrol by -- since I've been the president of the Untied States. But until we get those additional 6,000 agents on, we've got to -- they've got to have help. And that's why the National Guard is necessary to help the Border Patrol do its job. And secondly, anything to secure this border is going to require a comprehensive approach. I mean, comprehensive means more agents, more technology. You see lighting along here and fencing. And certain parts of the border will help to (ph) catch and release. But also, a temporary worker program. We've got people coming here to work. And they're doing jobs Americans aren't doing. And instead of sneaking across, it seems like it makes sense to me in order to help our border patrol do their job, there's a rational way for them to come on a temporary basis, provided they pass a criminal background check.", "Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner said earlier today, however -- and he's, of course, going to be ushering this process through the House -- that he simply says you don't get it, that they believe this is amnesty. That ultimately, they're not going to be able to sign off on this. Is this designed in a way to provide political cover for you, to say, at least, to the American people, I tried?", "No. I want to get it done. I mean, I'm one of these kind of people that ran for office in the first place to get things done. As you know, this is an issue I have been living with a long period of time as the governor of Texas. I understand immigration. And I know we've got to enforce our border, but I'm also realistic. There are some -- look, amnesty to me means you're an automatic citizen. And I'm not advocating that. Some in -- some in the Democrat Party might be advocating that, but I'm certainly not. On the other hand, I recognize there have been people here for a long period of time. And it doesn't make any sense to try to deport millions of people. And so there ought to be a way for people to pay a fine or learn the English language, and then get in the citizenship line, but at the back, not at the front.", "A lot of American people see their top priority as Iraq.", "Yes.", "And the majority of Americans have lost faith in that mission. How do you expect them to stay the course when there are Americans who are killed every day, 45 this month, and there is no clear end in sight?", "Well, you know, no question, Iraq has unsettled the American people. I understand that. You know, people don't like war. And war -- this war is as brutal as other wars because we face an enemy that will kill, you know, innocent people in order to achieve an objective. And, you know, I'm also -- I don't believe Americans want us to cut and run either. I think they want us to succeed. And what Americans will see is a new government, a unity government emerging. What they saw last December, and admittedly, it seems like an eternity ago, were 12 million people saying, \"We want to live in a free society.\"", "When can...", "Hold on a minute please. And so -- and so what they're seeing is a political track taking place as well as more Iraqis taking the lead and providing security for themselves. And what was the next question you were asking?", "When can we see U.S. troops leave? Obviously, just yesterday...", "When the commanders on the ground say that the Iraqis are more prepared to take over more of the security needs. This -- the temptation, of course, is to do things for political purposes in America. I don't want to fight a war based upon politics or polls or focus groups. I want to win this war based upon a strategy that's working but also based upon -- and the military decisions being based upon the advice of General Casey, who's the leader on the ground.", "But your own secretary of defense yesterday actually backtracked from what the Pentagon had hoped to say earlier that many troops, U.S. troops, a significant amount, would be out this year. I mean, how can the American people trust the assessment of this administration?", "That depends upon what the general says, Suzanne. If the generals say that we're able to fight with fewer troops, we'll fight with fewer troops. The point the American people have got to know is we're going to succeed. And we're not going to succeed by listening to the advice of some in Washington who say let's just pull out now. The Iraqi people want a democracy. They've got a unity government in place. And it's in our national interest that we defeat al Qaeda in Iraq and at the same time help this country become a democracy.", "Let's go back to immigration. There are a lot of people who listened to this debate and the fact that we focus on the southern border, Mexican immigrants. They believe that there are racial if not racist overtones in this debate. There were a couple days ago when you said -- I'm quoting to you -- \"we're not just going to discriminate against people.\" What did you mean by that, discriminate? Do you get a sense that there is racism that is creeping into this debate?", "I think it would be too harsh judgment to say that somebody who doesn't support a comprehensive immigration plan is a racist. I don't believe that. I do believe legitimate -- I mean, citizens have got legitimate concerns, realizing that parts of this border have been open for anybody who wants to come across. And we've got to stop that. We must enforce our border. So for those who call for border enforcement, I think it would be certainly not a racist statement. But what I don't want is I don't want people condemned, ever condemned based upon their personal beliefs or based upon their religion or based upon their background. And I truly believe the genius of America has been one where we welcome people, we help them assimilate into society and we become, you know, one nation under God.", "I've got just a little bit of time, so let me wrap this up if you would. You came into the second term with a lot of confidence in political capital. Clearly, it is your lowest approval ratings at this point, and congressional Republicans are going in their own direction. What do you do to become -- at least not risk becoming irrelevant?", "Look, yesterday, I signed a bill extending capital gains and dividends. We're making -- we've had a very strong legislative record. I will continue to sign good law, because I'm working with members of the House and the Senate. I -- we're going to win the war on terror. I'm doing my job, what the American people want me to do.", "Thank you very much, Mr. President.", "Suzanne, always a pleasure.", "I appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "And still to come in our 7 p.m. Eastern hour, amid record high gas prices, the CEOs of the top three American car companies come to Capitol Hill offering some suggestions in the gas crunch. And will you see it or will you take a pass? \"The Da Vinci Code\" opens nationwide tomorrow. Many religious groups hope you'll stay away. I'll talk to a prominent Catholic theologian who's seen the movie and ask him what he thinks. Father David O'Connell, the president of Catholic University, standing by live."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-99125", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2005-10-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/29/cst.01.html", "summary": "Hurricane Wilma's Affects On Florida", "utt": ["Turning now to south Florida where the effects of Hurricane Wilma are still causing a whole lot of headaches five days after the storm slammed ashore. Still, long lines at gas stations, hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power. CNN's J.J. Ramberg is keeping track of the situation in Miami. You're there at a gas station, but what's happening there right now?", "Yes, hi there, Fredricka. You can see some cars parked behind me here at the gas station. But they're not here to get gas. This gas station ran out of gas at 9:30 this morning. It stopped getting in customers for gas, what they started to do, because the owner is smart here, is let people park here because there's a big football game going on two blocks away here, but across Miami, you see scenes like this, either cars parked at gas stations or gas stations with big signs that say \"no gas,\" or gas stations with lines that are hours long. Things have gotten a little bit better but not that much better yet. And I've talked to a lot of people this morning who were here getting gas who've really had to rearrange their entire lives because they have no gas. This is a kind of city where you're dependent on driving around. I spoke to one woman who's an ICU nurse who says she pretty much hasn't gone anywhere but to work.", "I haven't gone anywhere. I've just been home and, you know, if I have to go somewhere, it's work. I have not gone anywhere other than just work.", "I spoke to another man earlier who says he usually goes to his daughter's house, every single day, she has five kids and needs help with errands and a lot of help taking care of her kids. He's been able to go twice since the storm.", "I just go up, don't have to go no place. I use the telephone to talk to my daughter, where I used to have to go there.", "Now, the problem here is still power. It's not that there is no gas. There are a lot of gas stations around here that still have gas. There's no power to pump it out. According to Florida Power and Light, they've got power up to about 50 percent of its customers, that's where it was at least last night. Hopefully it'll be more once the power comes on, gas will no longer be an issue -- Fredricka.", "All right, J.J., so I know a lot of folks there are hoping for the power to go on for various reasons, including the whole gas issue, but for the gas stations like the one where you are right now that have run out of gas what's the hope that they'll be getting new deliveries of gas?", "We spoke to the owner earlier today. He said that he has no idea when gas is going to come. Usually he checks on an online site to see when it's expected to be delivered. He's not listed on there right now so he's just waiting. He's generally been getting it at the end of every day or the morning after he runs out of gas.", "All right, what a mess. J.J. Ramberg, thank you so much, from Miami. In hurricane-battered Louisiana, President Bush and other federal leaders are catching some criticism as work to rebuild the area moves forward. This morning in Baton Rouge, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney helped kick off the so-called \"People's Rally to Rebuild Louisiana Right.\" Also at the event, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson. Some labor leaders, democrats and activists accuse the Bush administration of unofficial treating workers who are helping to rebuild the region. Among other things they're calling on the administration to reinstate affirmative action requirements for contractors, and they're pushing for better health care solutions for storm survivors. Two months after Hurricane Katrina flooded much of New Orleans, the city's police department has fired 45 police officers and six civilian employees. They're accused of leaving their posts either before or after the hurricane struck.", "It was obvious that during the crisis, during the time when we needed police officers the most, when our citizens counted on us and when we counted on our fellow officers to be there, during the most challenging time in the history of New Orleans, in modern time anyway, those officers were not there and not only were they no not there, they have not returned since that time. So, it will be very difficult for them to function in our current operation. We need to be able to count on them and they weren't there, so they were terminated.", "And more than a dozen other officers who were under investigation for abandonment have resigned, and other cases are still being reviewed. Civil Rights pioneer Rosa Parks, who died five days ago is being honored this weekend in Alabama and Washington. Public viewing is taking place today in Parks former church in Montgomery. Fifty years ago Parks helped spark the Civil Rights movement when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in the Alabama capitol. Tomorrow and Monday morning, Park's body will lie in honor in the U.S. capitol rotunda in the nation's capitol. She's the first woman to receive the honor that's usually reserved for presidents, members of Congress, and military leaders. Well now, some other stories making news across America now. In California, charges have been dropped against Esther Fielding, she's the mother of a teenager accused of killing a prominent attorney's wife. Fielding was charged with accessory before she agreed to testify against the teenager, her son, 16-year-old Scott Dyleski faced murder charges. Investigators say Dyleski got into a fight with his neighbor, Pamela Vitale, before her death. Connecticut state officials are up in arms about what maybe a bad marketing approach. A British imported beer called \"Seriously Bad Elf,\" depicts a grouch looking elf and other Christmas symbols. State law band alcohol advertising with images that may appeal to children. And this clock repairman in Sacramento, California is affectionately called \"Dr. Time.\" During the time changes that occur twice a year, he has to reset 4,000 clocks. He'll be quite busy this weekend. Clocks roll back an hour, Sunday at 2:00 a.m. Eastern. Try to remember to set the clock back before you go to bed tonight. Well, battle over billions. Are government contractors spending money the right way on Katrina recovery or are undocumented workers getting paid instead? Plus, overcoming obstacles: Can President Bush put this tough week behind him? CNN LIVE SATURDAY continues right after this."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "J.J. RAMBERG, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "RAMBERG", "ARTHUR ABLES, MIAMI RESIDENT", "RAMBERG", "WHITFIELD", "RAMBERG", "WHITFIELD", "SUPT. 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{"id": "CNN-399071", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-05-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/02/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Major Airlines To Require Passengers To Wear Face Masks; Sara Nelson, Association Of Flight Attendants International President, Discusses Mandating That Passengers Wear Face Masks On All Flights", "utt": ["The days of casual air travel are still far ahead, at least the way we all remember it. Major airlines, including United, Delta, JetBlue, American, and Southwest, have all announced they are making face masks mandatory for all passengers boarding those flights. That is not the only change in the works. CNN Aviation Correspondent, Pete Muntean, took a flight to see for himself the future of air travel.", "A scene too similar to travel before this pandemic, new videos of packed planes, passengers bottled up in rows and aisles, raising new fears about social distancing when flying and new calls to restrict air travel even further. This week, JetBlue became the first airline to require passengers to wear masks. Its COO calling it the new flying etiquette. Now all major U.S. airlines, Alaska, American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, and United, have volunteered to do the same. But the leader of the Association of Flight Attendants goes further, telling CNN there must be a federal ban of leisure travel by air.", "Because the flights have been pulled down, we're seeing more and more full flights without policies that really address proper social distancing.", "But the nation's air travel is at a virtual halt. Nearly half of all commercial jet liners are now parked. The TSA says only five percent of passengers are passing through airports compared to a year ago. I set out to see what it's like to fly right now, traveling from Washington D.C. to Atlanta and back. (on camera): It's hard to find someone not already wearing a mask. (voice-over): Airlines are stepping up their use of electrostatic sprayers to disinfect passenger cabins. (on camera): We were handed this Purell wipe when we got on board. (voice-over): Airlines are also not booking middle seats -- UNIDENTIFIED FLIGHT ATTENDANT In according to the social distancing.", "-- hoping to keep up social distancing on board. Industry groups say the average domestic flight is now carrying 17 passengers, up from just 10 passengers just over a week ago.", "I think the people that are traveling are probably healthy. They're not ill or critical or in a bad situation.", "Everybody should be wearing a mask.", "The Department of Transportation gave airlines permission to start scaling back service to small city airports. Plane-maker Boeing's CEO is forecasting a years-long recovery for airlines. Even still, the industry is holding out hope that new measures will mean a new normal of flying again.", "We're hopeful that that will happen.", "From what I saw, passengers do seem keen on social distancing not only on planes but also here in the terminal. Delta and United have both done away with boarding by zone. Instead, now boarding by row, starting with the back of the plane first. At Reagan National Airport, Pete Muntean, CNN.", "Joining us now is the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, Sara Nelson. Sara, good to have you here. We have so much to cover about the very frightening times in your industry.", "Yes.", "You wrote a strong letter a few days ago to the Department of Transportation and the Department of Health and Human Services. I want to read part of it. \"We are calling on the Department of Transportation, in coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services and other relevant agencies to use its authority to mandate masks in aviation for crew, employees, and passengers, require personal protective equipment, and end all leisure travel until the virus is contained.\" Sara, end all leisure travel is a strong demand. What feedback have you gotten from that? And how do you make that demand knowing that the aviation airlines that you work for are dying to sell every single ticket they can?", "We have made a lot of progress since we sent that letter nine days ago. In fact, now we do have masks required at all airlines. And we're starting to get the social distancing policies in place. So that letter is very full of all of the steps we need to take to regain trust from the traveling public in being able to fly safely. Safety and security are the bread and butter of aviation. So that letter is about having the Department of Transportation and HHS take coordinated steps to put these policies in place. I want to applaud our airlines because even without that instruction from the government they have taken those steps over the last nine days. And we are getting more to a place where we're going to have policies in place where people can feel confident to fly again. And that is what this is about. We have to be able to make sure that aviation is helping to stop the spread of the virus and not contribute to it and, in fact, be a part of containing it in the air travel so that people will buy tickets again.", "We know travel was one of the reasons this virus spread so quickly, according to the latest CDC report, which was sort of looking back to how we got here. I want to show our viewers a picture you posted a few days ago, last weekend. It is a pretty full flight. A few people only wearing masks, certainly not all. As we have just discussed, a number of airlines are now mandating masks be worn by all passengers. You, specifically, asked for this. You just said you believe it is a step in the right direction. Safe to say flight attendants are breathing easier now or do you still think travel should be halted until this pandemic is behind us?", "No. Listen, this was always contemplated that there was going to be a period of time where people were not traveling because of the virus, because of the concerns around the virus. And the few people who were buying tickets were not enough to sustain an industry. This was about using these times to put clear policies in place so that everyone can feel confident. The reality is that every single flight attendant on the front line should be able to have an N-95 mask to protect themselves because we're aviation's first responders. Those masks are not even fully available to our health care professionals. So making sure there's a mandate that every single person traveling from the airport door and on to our airplanes is wearing a mask, if everyone is doing that, we're much safer. These are the policies and guidelines that CDC is recommending to everyone. They need to be applied to aviation. I'm pleased to say we've made incredible strides in the last nine days and especially over the last four. And our airlines are stepping up here in the void of direction from the government. So I think we're getting to a place where we will have a new norm in air travel but it will be a place where people can feel a lot more comfortable about buying tickets. And certainly the people I represent are feeling a lot better about the policies that are being put in place.", "How do you handle enforcement of the mask rule? What if a passenger refuses to put on a mask or refuses to keep social distancing and you're at 30,000 feet in the air? What does a flight attendant do in that situation?", "So the masks are overlaid with other policies like social distancing policies, which should give us the ability to separate those people from other people so they're not a threat to someone else. Flight attendants are very adept at dealing with this at 30,000 feet. We have people who don't want to put their seat belt on, don't want to put their tray table up. And we deal with this all the time. We do it expertly. We also do it with a little peer pressure from passengers, saying, come on, man, let's all get along together so we can get there safely. And so we will handle this like we do every other regulation. And, in fact, passengers are supposed to comply with crew member instructions. So at the end of the day, if someone can't do that for medical reasons, we'll treat it that way. But if they won't do it, then they have to pay some consequences, like they would with any other instruction from a crew member.", "I want you to take a look as we discuss the future of air travel. This is in Hong Kong where they are testing out a sanitizing system, a booth that people walk through. They are sprayed with a microbial agent that can kill viruses on their skin and clothes. Is this too extreme? Can you see something like this put in place here in the U.S.?", "Look, at this point in time, we really can't recommend this because we don't know enough about it. We are very familiar with getting sprayed with pesticides in our aircraft cabin. We have fought against that and stopped the spraying of pesticides and put other measures in place to keep insects off the planes. We want to make sure when the airplane door is closed and we are pressurizing that cabin we are not stuck in a cabin with poisons that could be recirculated throughout the air and poison people. So we'll be very diligent about checking this and making sure that this is a safe practice before this would be put in place and our crews would be really guinea pigs in a project that we don't know everything about yet.", "Sara Nelson, thank you very much for joining us. And thanks to your crews as well for the work they're doing.", "Thank you very much.", "Join CNN's Jake Tapper as he investigates what really happened during the U.S. fight against COVID-19. CNN's special report, \"THE PANDEMIC AND THE PRESIDENT,\" airs tomorrow night at 10:00 here on CNN. 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{"id": "CNN-18741", "program": "Showbiz Today", "date": "2000-10-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/27/st.00.html", "summary": "Halloween Has Moviegoers Screaming in the Aisles", "utt": ["Hi, everybody. I'm Laurin Sydney in New York. Jim Moret is in Hollywood. Country music is celebrating a man with friends in all kinds of places. Garth Brooks performed at a party in Nashville Thursday night, where he was honored for selling 100 million albums, the only solo artist to do that. He used the occasion to say that he plans to retire after his next album. Brooks says he wants to focus on raising his kids.", "It's emotional to do, but it's not difficult to do. You should live your life in the passion of what comes first. And with the risk of offending my family, they knew that what came first for me for a long time was music and now something has taken that place. And God makes things happen when they're supposed to. And my first overall love is with those three children. And so, that's where my priorities lie.", "Looking good was the priority at \"GQ\"'s Men of the Year Awards in New York Thursday night. Michael J. Fox joined honoree Matthew Broderick and wife Sarah Jessica Parker at the festivities. Julia Roberts and beau Benjamin Bratt were also there. Elton John received the Humanitarian Award for his continued fight against AIDS. The pop star brought attention to how his work has raised awareness in places such as Africa.", "It's such an inspiring thing to see that people do have a little hope even though the situation is so horrible. And I'm going to go there next year and do something, maybe a concert, and make people more aware of AIDS in Third World countries. But, you know, to be honest, this is something I feel I should do anyway. I feel a bit humble.", "Robin Williams could have passed for a \"GQ\" model last night. He was fashionably attired at a fund raiser for the Big Sisters Organization, which honored him as their Man of the Year. \"Lion King\" stage director Julie Taymor was also honored. Williams' buddies Pam Dawber and Eric Idle dropped by. At the Big Sisters bash, Robin shared something very personal about his Idle friendship.", "He's actually been my big sister for a long time. That's what I always thought. Eric's my big sister. And this is proof. It's always nice to have some proof to remind one. Never be afraid to dress up.", "It's Halloween time. Time for Hollywood to lure moviegoers into theaters with spooky offerings. The \"Blair Witch\" folks are at it again with \"Book of Shadows,\" while \"The Exorcist\" is turning heads its second time around. Bill Tush takes a look at why we like to scream at the movies.", "I am Dracula.", "Our parents, even our grandparents, would plop down the price of admission for the chance to jump out of their seats at the movies. Nothing was scarier in the 1930's than watching Bela Lugosi's \"Dracula\" search for another victim to join his cult of the undead.", "It's alive!", "Then the walk home in the dark with the fear that the \"Frankenstein\" monster might not be far behind. We just love to be scared at the movies.", "It's the same reason you go on a roller coaster ride.", "The 30-year-old \"Exorcist,\" with the help of some additional never-before-seen footage, found a whole new audience when it was re-released in the early fall.", "It sort of set the template for a lot of the stuff that came afterwards, so it is regarded, I think, as a modern classic.", "How it ever became a classic horror film is a mystery to William Peter Blatty, the man who wrote it.", "I haven't got a clue. When I wrote the novel and the script, my primary intention was never to frighten anyone, I promise you. I thought I was writing a psychological thriller, the supernatural detective story.", "\"The Exorcist\" had a fairly decent budget, but Hollywood loves horror films because they don't cost an arm and a leg, except maybe on screen. \"Scream\" 1, 2, and 3 -- pardon the pun -- scared almost $300 million. Freddy Kruger menaced his way through seven \"Nightmare on Elm Street\" pictures and picked up well over $200 million. There was nothing unlucky for the makers of \"Friday the 13th.\" And \"Halloween\" turned out to be a real Hollywood treat.", "You can make them without big stars. You can make them maybe without lavish technical effects, if they pack a punch.", "And while it might of caused a few nightmares, this film became a box-office dream. (", "I'm going to die out here.", "\"The Blair Witch Project,\" made for practically nothing by first-time filmmakers, had a payday of more than $140 million and still counting. The sequel is now playing.", "I think people are really going to love it. It's a lot scarier.", "\"Blair Witch\" was just one of the many spoofed in this year's No. 1 horror film: \"Scary Movie.\" And it was a comedy. But don't fear: Real scary movies will always stay with us, because their creators love to hear us scream. Bill Tush, CNN Entertainment News, New York.", "Like Bill explained, \"Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2\" is hitting theaters this very weekend. But is the trip into the woods as good as the second time around? Peter Travers of \"Rolling Stone\" and Lisa Schwarzbaum of \"Entertainment Weekly\" let us know if you're in for a trick or a treat.", "BOOK OF SHADOWS\")", "You know, if you don't believe in the Blair Witch, then why the hell did you bother to come?", "I thought the movie was cool.", "Oh my God, Peter, I've never been scared in my life.", "Of what? What are you talking about?", "We are talking about \"Book of Shadows.\" (", "Here it comes!", "Here it comes!", "We're talking about \"Blair Witch 2.\" This is the follow-up to the big phenomenon last year's \"The Blair Witch Project,\" where a bunch of kids took digital cameras, ran out into the woods, and scared us senseless, because we couldn't see what was going on. You know what happened? We see what is going on in this sequel, and it's not scary.", "What are you talking about?", "I can sense it, like someone is choking me and squeezing the air out of me.", "What we have are five kids running out in the woods. They're looking back on what happened to the original kids, because if you remember, they vanished last time.", "Why did they go?", "I have no idea. But they're not in this movie. There are a whole bunch of new kinds in this movie. And what happens is, they run around and scary things happen. But it's not scary. What happened? Tell me, what happened, Peter, between...", "What happened? They tried to be funny. They tried to be \"Scream.\" (", "Wait, how many Heather Donahues does it take to screw in a light bulb?", "How many?", "Just one. Just one of them.", "Try they tried to deal with the parody of the movie instead of just making something that is scary in its own right. So it's not scary. It's supposed to be scary. I am shouting. I can't stop shouting.", "If this is a joke, it ain't funny.", "No joke. It's serious, Erica.", "They used their own name, do you know that?", "Oh, boy.", "They're just five people using Jeff, Erica, Kim. Everybody is that. So we're supposed to think they're real. We're supposed to get a documentary feel in this.", "And you don't get the documentary feel. You get the feeling somebody is making a movie. And that kills everything that made the first \"Blair Witch Project\" work: $30,000 it cost, made $250 million, because imagination was here.", "So I know what happens is, the scary thing is, when you give people money and they don't know what to do with it. Oh, my God! What are we going to do? Here's what is going to happen. It's Halloween. You are going to see it. What you are going to really do is go on the Internet site. And that is really where the future of \"Blair Witch\" is. It's not in this movie. (", "It doesn't make any sense.", "I know.", "We were hoping you could explain things.", "I don't have a clue!", "This movie is bringing it back more to a \"Scream,\" to a kind of parody of movies. And that is not what we want. We want fear when we're out here. Peter, is it scaring you?", "No, I wanted a treat and I got a trick. And I'm Peter Travers.", "Well, I am Lisa Schwarzbaum. And I saying: No! What happened to \"Blair Witch\"?", "Find out what scares Winona Ryder and Linda Blair. Go to our Web site at cnn.com/showbiztoday. While there you will also find more on the rest of our stories.", "Stick around, as we go behind the scenes of the new show \"Ed.\" And Lenny Kravitz performs some of his greatest hits in our SHOWBIZ \"Sessions\" segment."], "speaker": ["LAURIN SYDNEY, CO-HOST", "GARTH BROOKS, MUSICIAN", "SYDNEY", "ELTON JOHN, MUSICIAN", "JIM MORET, CO-HOST", "ROBIN WILLIAMS, COMEDIAN", "MORET", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"DRACULA\") BELA LUGOSI, ACTOR", "BILL TUSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "TUSH", "GLENN KENNY, SENIOR EDITOR, \"PREMIER\" MAGAZINE", "TUSH", "KENNY", "TUSH", "WILLIAM PETER BLATTY, \"THE EXORCIST\"", "TUSH", "GLENN KENNY, SENIOR EDITOR, \"PREMIERE\"", "TUSH", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT\") HEATHER DONAHUE, ACTRESS", "TUSH", "KIM DIRECTOR, ACTRESS", "TUSH", "SYDNEY", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"BLAIR WITCH 2", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "DIRECTOR", "LISA SCHWARZBAUM, \"ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY\"", "PETER TRAVERS, \"ROLLING STONE\"", "SCHWARZBAUM", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"BLAIR WITH 2: BOOK OF SHADOWS\") UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "SCHWARZBAUM", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"BLAIR WITCH 2: BOOK OF SHADOWS\") UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS", "TRAVERS", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"BLAIR WITCH 2: BOOK OF SHADOWS\") UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"BLAIR WITCH 2: BOOK OF SHADOWS\") UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "MORET", "SYDNEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-380705", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2019-09-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/18/ath.02.html", "summary": "Soon: Fed to Announce Whether It's Cutting Interest Rates as Trump Continues Pressure", "utt": ["Will they? Won't they? And what happened last night? It's decision time for the Federal Reserve. Chairman Jay Powell is expected to end the speculation today on whether the Feds will cut the interest rates. This will be the second time in two months. Despite this, he is still under intense pressure from the president of the United States. President Trump constantly hitting the chairman that he appointed, a reminder, to the post. On Monday, he said that Jay Powell and the Feds don't have a clue. He has also called them boneheaded. Joining me, another bonehead, Rana Foroohar.", "Hey!", "I don't know why, it's such a good term to use. Under appreciated and under used. OK. Rana, so on this, it does seem at this point like it would be more of a surprise if the Fed chairman would not, would keep interest rates the same.", "Yes.", "What are you, though, listening for after the fact that could be more important even when an announcement comes?", "I am listening to two things. One was alluded to by Chairman Jay Powell. He said a couple of weeks ago in his speech, look, he was flying blind here. He didn't use that exact term thank god. But he more or less said there's no precedent for where we are today. So it's possible that we could see a rate cut and it would buoy the market a little bit. It's possible we could see a rate cuts and stocks would be flat or fall and markets would start to get worried, oh, wow, we're at the end of the fire power here that the Fed has, what else is in the kitty? The answer is nothing. It's also possible that you could see them hold and not cut rates and that would, in turn, scare markets. Because right now, and I have been saying this for years, the markets are totally dependent on the Fed action. I think we're at the end of a growth cycle. I think we're close to what would be a normal recessionary period. I know that sounds scary. There are cycles in the economy.", "Right.", "It's natural to get a slowdown sometimes. We're kind of at that point. That's why everyone is so jittery.", "Jay Powell is between a rock and a hard place.", "Quickly, a couple things. The president called for negative interest rates. Not that that would be the announcement, but what would that do?", "We've seen it in Japan. They've had negative interest rates. It penalizes savers. It makes it hard for people saving money because you are not earning interest on that money. It penalizes older people on pensions, on fixed incomes. It would be good for corporate debt, which may be one of the reasons he wants it. He wants corporations to continue to take on debt, for the markets to stay up. But overall, in the economy, I don't think it's a great thing.", "So then there's this, Rana. Something happened overnight that is raising alarm. The New York Fed launched what's called an overnight repo operation, which sounds very scary to respond --", "Yes. Overnight operations are never very good. I've got news for you.", "To respond to a spike in overnight borrowing rates. This is something, most folks, me included, know very little about. I do know this has not happened since the last financial crisis. So what's behind this?", "A lot of nervousness. What you need to know is, is this repo action basically speaks to the trust banks have in each other, institution have in each other. Right now, there's a lot of worry in the market that there's something hiding. Whenever debt goes up, which has gone up tremendously in the last 10 years, it covers a lot of problems. We're at the end of the cycle where debt can cover problems. Everyone is wondering, where is the exploding package of debt going to be. So borrowing rates between banks are going up. That's what the Feds are trying to cover. I think I will be back here in the next few weeks talking to you about some major market movements.", "Oh, great. Whenever Rana says that --", "-- I'm a little excited and a lot nervous. Thank you, Rana. I really appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "OK. Let's see what Jay Powell says later this afternoon. Still ahead for us, a major blow to almost 50,000 G.M. workers who are on strike. Next, why the company is denying health care coverage for striking union members. And how the Democratic presidential candidates are making an issue of it. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "RANA FOROOHAR, CNN GLOBAL ECONOMIC ANALYST", "BOLDUAN", "FOROOHAR", "BOLDUAN", "FOROOHAR", "BOLDUAN", "FOROOHAR", "BOLDUAN", "BOLDUAN", "FOROOHAR", "BOLDUAN", "FOROOHAR", "BOLDUAN", "FOROOHAR", "BOLDUAN", "BOLDUAN", "FOROOHAR", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-118646", "program": "INSIDE AFRICA", "date": "2007-7-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/28/i_if.01.html", "summary": "Ugandan Reporter Wins African Journalist of the Year Award", "utt": ["Welcome back to the Saxon Hotel in Johannesburg. That's where we're bringing you INSIDE AFRICA from this week. Now, it's 12 years old and now one of the most prestigious journalism competitions in the whole of Africa. The CNN Multi-choice African Journalist of the Year Awards attracted a record number of entries. Last weekend, the finalists gathered in Cape Town. Isha Sesay reports.", "A celebration of the best in African journalism -- the Annual CNN Multi-choice African Journalist Awards were held in South Africa this year. More than 500 guests attended the glitzy ceremony at the Cape Town International Convention Center. The host for the night - CNN International's Jonathan Mann and Nothemba Mdumo from", "Welcome to our continent. And especially our beautiful Cape Town city.", "The 26 finalists came from throughout Africa.", "And these awards, they don't only highlight excellence in journalism, but also they provide a platform for the media in Africa to network.", "The first of the night's awards went to Albert Gachiri and Steven Mwei for their report on silk farming in Kenya. The award categories included print, radio, photography and television. According to the judges, the winners succeeded in telling the continent's stories in an uniquely fresh and engaging way. The night's top honor for African journalist of the year went to Richard Kavuma of Uganda. Kavuma works for the \"Weekly Observer\" newspaper, and bagged the prize for his series of articles on Uganda's approach to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. It was his second award of the night after claiming the M.K.O Abiola Print Journalist Award earlier.", "And I want to dedicate this to all journalists in Africa, who see their profession as a voice of the voiceless.", "Isha Sesay, CNN, Johannesburg.", "Congratulations to Richard, and all of the winners. And that wraps up our show from the Saxon Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa. Thank you very much for watching. I hope to see you INSIDE AFRCA again next week. Until then, take care. END TO ORDER VIDEOTAPES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF CNN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMING, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE THE SECURE ONLINE ORDER FROM LOCATED AT www.voxant.com"], "speaker": ["OKE", "ISHA SESAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ETV. NOTHEMBA MDUMO, ETV ANCHOR", "SESAY", "NOLE BETELE, CEO, MULTI CHOICE, SOUTH AFRICA", "SESAY", "RICHARD KAVUMA, AFRICAN JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR 2007", "SESAY", "OKE"]}
{"id": "CNN-36292", "program": "CNN NEWS SITE", "date": "2001-8-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/02/ns.07.html", "summary": "Polls Say Americans Want Patients' Bill of Rights", "utt": ["The House of Representatives is expected to vote tonight or early tomorrow on a proposed patients' bill of rights. GOP leaders are pushing a compromise worked out by President Bush and Georgia Republican Charlie Norwood. Now, the bill is supposed to protect consumers involved in disputes with insurance companies and health maintenance organizations, but Democrats say it doesn't go far enough. Even if the compromised bill passes the House, critics say they will to try to pass a tougher bill in the Senate. How do Americans feel about a patients' bill of rights ? Let's check with Gallup Poll editor-in-chief, Frank Newport, in Princeton, New Jersey. Frank, what have you got?", "Lou, we've really been studying the data on this one, because it is important. And I can tell you right off of the bat that Americans have signed this things a high priority, and they say that they want Congress to pass a patients' bill of rights. But when we really look at the numbers, we don't see that Americans fully understand what it is that they're going to be getting. We think it just sounds like it's something they need. Let's show you first of all just the approval rating. I mentioned it was high priority, and look at this. When we just asked: \"Should Congress pass the Patients' Bill of Rights?\" Seventy-one to 14 -- we don't see numbers like this a lot. Usually legislation has some contention to it. This is something that looks like it's a no- brainer to the public -- yes, we want it! But as I mentioned, when we get into it a little more, we're not sure people really know exactly what's involved. For example, you mentioned a moment ago, Lou, the wrangling between the Democrats and the Republicans. We asked the public, \"Do you understand the differences between the Democratic and the Republican approaches to the bill,\" we asked that a little while ago. And you can see, being quite honest with us, 66 percent of Americans said no, they don't know what the differences are in the bill. And also, I should point out, we ask an open-ended question a couple of weeks ago, \"What is the Patients' Bill of Rights?\" Very few came back and talked about the ability to sue or the court provisions, that is a lot of what the discussion is about. Most people came back and said, well, somehow we think it'll give us more rights as patients. A little -- logical, there, they kind of restated the name of the bill, itself. And that leads our analysts to feel that Americans don't know a lot of the guts of this thing, therefore it may not have a great impact on them, at least immediately. But, bottom line, Lou, is, as we saw a minute ago, Americans say it sounds like a good idea. We want it -- Lou.", "Frank Newport of Princeton, New Jersey."], "speaker": ["LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "FRANK NEWPORT, GALLUP POLL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF", "WATERS"]}
{"id": "CNN-96048", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2005-7-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/13/lad.01.html", "summary": "Return to Flight for Space Shuttle; Rove, CIA Leak; Iraq Suicide Attack", "utt": ["Well, it is now T minus 9 hours and about 20 minutes for the space shuttle Discovery. The crew has been up for almost an hour now as they prepare to pilot the shuttle program back into space. Or could a delay be on the horizon? CNN's Sean Callebs has more from the Kennedy Space Center.", "NASA is calling it a minor repair. Still, eyebrows were raised when technicians were forced to replace two protective tiles on the shuttle after a plastic window cover fell, damaging the tiles. The space agency says the mishap is not embarrassing.", "I just think it's just one of those things that happened, and I'm actually very proud that we saw it and we caught it, and we were able to act so quickly.", "After focusing the past two-and-a-half years on the shuttle and its operating systems, anxious NASA managers are spending the last several hours leading up to the launch looking at the sky. With only a brief 10-minute launch window, bad weather could keep Discovery on the pad.", "We're looking very closely at imaging, making sure that the vehicle can be seen by the ground cameras. And so, the mission management team will be paying close attention to the cloud cover in the area.", "Not just rain, wind and lightening, even cloud cover could be enough to scrap the launch. That's because NASA has more than 100 cameras poised to photograph the liftoff. The space agency needs near perfect weather to capture all of the necessary images and make sure debris doesn't harm the orbiter and flight STS-114.", "We're not going to stop working after STS-114 flies. We've got, you know, maybe another 28 flights left. So, we need to keep working on this. Are we ready to fly STS-114? Yes, I believe we are.", "And don't forget to tune in to CNN for Discovery's launch later this afternoon. Miles O'Brien hosts our special coverage beginning at 3:00 p.m. Eastern. The White House is maintaining its silence about President Bush's top political strategist, Karl Rove, and his alleged role in the leak of a CIA agent's identity. This case is two years in the making and still no concrete answers. CNN White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux has details.", "President Bush was asked directly whether he would carry out his pledge to fire anyone caught leaking, including his top political adviser, Karl Rove.", "Thank you very much.", "Are you going to fire him?", "Thank you.", "Are you going to fire him?", "Mr. Bush did not respond. White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan was pummeled for a second day over whether he misled the public for the numerous statements he made over the last two years, insisting Rove wasn't involved in the leaking of the covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.", "Has he apologized to you for telling you he is not involved?", "Helen, I'm not going to get into any private discussions.", "I mean, he put you on the spot. He put your credibility on the line.", "You all in this room know me very well. And you know the type of person that I am.", "Rove's critics have seized on the issue.", "The White House's credibility is at issue here. And I believe very clearly Karl Rove ought to be fired.", "Questions about the Bush administration's credibility about intelligence on Iraq is how this controversy started. In his 2003 State of the Union address, the president uttered a 16-word sentence that had to be taken back.", "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.", "Former Ambassador Joe Wilson wrote that he was sent by the CIA to investigate whether it was true that Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Africa. Wilson concluded that the administration had twisted the intelligence to exaggerate the Iraq threat. According to Rove's lawyer, rove then spoke to \"TIME\" magazine's Matt Cooper to downplay Wilson's accusations, making the point Wilson's wife worked at the CIA, and she authorized the trip.", "The big concern at the White House now, how long this will remain a distraction and President Bush pushing forward his domestic agenda. Case and point, the president met at the White House with Republican and Democratic leadership over Supreme Court nominations and also energy legislation. Neither got very much attention. Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, the White House.", "Another problem plaguing the Bush administration: alleged prisoner abuse and who is responsible. The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing today on Guantanamo abuses. FBI investigators reportedly have recommended the former commander at Gitmo be reprimanded for failing to oversee the interrogation of a high-value detainee who was allegedly abused. That's according to the Associated Press. It reports Army Major Jeffrey Miller is currently stationed at the Pentagon in a position unrelated to prisoners. The head of U.S. Southern Command conclude that Miller did not violate any U.S. laws or policies. So, he was not reprimanded. As we told you minutes ago, in Iraq a suicide car bombing. Among the dead: a U.S. soldier and several children. Our Aneesh Raman joins us now from Baghdad with more on this -- Aneesh.", "Fredricka, good morning. As you say, a suicide car bomb detonating in eastern Baghdad. At least 24 people were killed, some 25 others wounded. According to the Iraqi police, the majority of the dead are, in fact, Iraqi children. It happened around 11:00 a.m. when a U.S. military convoy had stopped to interact with the kids, handing out candy and treats. At that point, a GMC truck was driving by and exploded, killing, as we say, a majority of children; also killing at least one U.S. soldier. Now, we haven't seen a situation like this since September of last year when 34 children were killed after a suicide bomber detonated at the opening of a sewage plant. The U.S. military is saying the children were explicitly part of the target for the bomber, and it just goes to underscore how brutal these attacks are and how serious the violence is here on the ground -- Fredricka.", "All right, Aneesh Raman, thanks so much for that update from Baghdad. News across America now. A British teenager is in critical condition them after riding on the Twilight Zone's Tower of Terror at Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida. The 16-year-old's heart stopped beating shortly after she got off the ride. The ride simulates a haunted elevator. A 4-year- old died one month ago today after riding Mission to Space at Disney's Epcot Center. A 4-year-old from Brockton, Massachusetts, was hospitalized due to a medication mix-up. The girl is recovering at home after she was given someone else's prescription. A local CVS pharmacy admitted it mistakenly gave the girl's mother medication to treat an irregular heartbeat. One of Mexico's most dangerous criminals is back in a Mexican prison after 19 years on the run. Police arrested Alfredo Rios Gelena (ph) in Los Angeles. He was sent back to Mexico at the border near San Diego. Mexican authorities met him there to hold him for trial on murder and kidnapping charges. Still to come on DAYBREAK, do you travel for business? You and your company could be paying too much for your hotel accommodations. Plus, they prey on your fears and your wallet. Home repair scammers. We'll show you how to beat them to the punch. Here's a look at what else is making news this Wednesday morning."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "STEPHANIE STILSON, DISCOVERY VEHICLE MANAGER", "CALLEBS", "KATHY WINTERS, SHUTTLE WEATHER OFFICER", "CALLEBS", "EILEEN COLLINS, DISCOVERY COMMANDER", "WHITFIELD", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-103770", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2006-3-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/11/cst.05.html", "summary": "Glitch In Razr Phones Slice Out Countless Callers", "utt": ["It is one of the hottest cell phones on the market, but two companies put Motorola's Razr on hold this week. Cingular and Motorola halted it because of a glitch. CNN's Chris Huntington joins us from New York to explain. Chris, these are pretty popular.", "Carol, I have one right here. These are the razor thin Razrs. They are very, very popular, quite a statement, although, what kind of statement if you can't get hooked up when you are trying to make the call. This has been embarrassing for Motorola over the last couple of weeks. And, as you mentioned, T-Mobile and Cingular had to pull the phone temporarily from selling it to customers, because there was a glitch in a big batch of these phones produced during February. This is for folks that use the GSM standard. That means T- Mobile and Cingular customers only. But the glitch basically meant some of these phones would drop calls unintentionally, or not be able to connect at all. We spoke to one woman who described the problem.", "I couldn't dial out. And I couldn't get in. Like there was no reception on the phone, the actual phone, so --", "So like you picked it up and what would happen?", "Nothing. You can't hear anything.", "You wouldn't even hear a dial tone?", "Yeah.", "Now, we spoke to Motorola earlier today and would only give us a formal statement saying they're addressing the issue affecting what they say is a very limited number of Razr handsets sold, again, for the GSM system. That basically means in the United States, T-Mobile and also Cingular. Motorola saying it continuing to ship new handsets and hopes to have replacements in the hands in all of the retail outlets within the week, or so. Now we're here obviously at a Cingular outlet in Manhattan. And these folks here say they do have replacement phones. So, if you are a customer of T-Mobile or Cingular, and you think you're having trouble with your Razr phone, you can walk in and get it swapped out immediately. The one trouble, though, that Motorola still faces is it doesn't know exactly how many phones actually have the glitch. They're pretty sure it was only phones that were produced and sold during the month of February, but still trying to get a handle on it. And they won't put out a firm number. This is a very popular phone, sold more than 23 million units since being introduced just a little more than a year ago. So you can do the math, and understand, you could be talking about millions of phones worldwide that have the problem -- Carol.", "All right. Chris, thank you very much. All right. More consumer news here; a debit card scam has gone international. So if you have a debit card, listen up. Financial giant Citibank has blocked transactions in Canada, Russia, Britain, after someone started using counterfeit cards at ATMs. Citibank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo and Washington Mutual, have had to reissued debit cards after spotting fraudulent activity, i.e., stealing money out of people's accounts. Analyst Avivah Litan, of Garner Research, call it the biggest scam to date. The former World Bank expert joins me now from Washington. Viva, this is really frightening because I would say just about all of us have a debit card. How did these con artist get the PIN number? Because one couple reported having $3,000 taken out of their account?", "The investigators are still trying to figure out exactly what happened. But somehow they got a hold of this key that's used to lock the data. And by getting hold of the key, they were able to unlock lock probably --", "OK? Let's -- what key? Because I'm thinking the only way -- where do I use my PIN? I use it on a keypad at the ATM machine, I might use it on a keypad at the local store if I want to use my debit card. So does that little box store my PIN information?", "It's not supposed to, but that information was stored somewhere and it was in -- it's encrypted, meaning it was scrambled. And they got hold of the special key from a retailer's system, and they were able to unlock all the PINs.", "So would it be one-stop shopping? Would it be one vendor, like a big retail chain, nationwide?", "The investigators are still trying to figure that out. But there has been a retailer that's been named, although they deny it. So it's probably one of their outsource vendors that was doing the work for them.", "So how does that work? I mean, if I'm making -- if I swipe my debit card at the checkout counter, and my information is stored in this box, where would it go in order for it to go out into the wide world?", "It basically goes from the retailer to a processor and then to your bank and then to the merchant's bank. So it goes among a number of companies before it comes out of your bank. The compromise may have happened anywhere along the route, although it looks like it happened at the retailer outfit.", "So would it be somebody who worked for the store, then?", "It could have been an insider, someone who knew how to get hold of the key. It may have been a hacker, it could have been an insider. But basically they found the key to unlock all these PINs.", "So, is there enough electronic data so that they can actually narrow down the possible suspects and even find the specific vendor or the specific person?", "There should be enough data, because usually all these transactions are logged. So there's an audit trail of every single transaction. And that's what they're trying to figure out right now.", "All right. So do you use a debit card? Do you feel comfortable using a debit card?", "Personally, I don't use PIN debit at the point of sale at a store. I only use it at a bank ATM machine. I would stay away from putting my PIN in at a store. Instead, you can just sign a slip.", "Right, wow. Avivah, great advice. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Coming up, a wounded war vet meets his commander in chief.", "Hoping that I can be an inspiration.", "He lost his legs on the front lines but he didn't lose his passion for life. How this double amputee is beating the odds. Plus, sometimes a doctor is not enough. How about seeing a teacher for what's ailing you? It's happening, a health coach. And no dogs allowed, at least not any more. The crackdown in California. 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{"id": "CNN-253286", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-04-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1504/14/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Marco Rubio Cites His Youth As He Announced Candidacy", "utt": ["Hillary Clinton hitting the road. Her campaign now in Iowa set to make its first official stop in just a matter of hours. Clinton will be holding a roundtable with a small group of students and educators at the Kirkwood Community College. Of course CNN will be there to bring that to you live at -- well, we think it'll happen around 2:00 p.m. Eastern. And like any good road trip, Hillary Clinton has also been making some pit stops. I'm sure you've heard about this. Yesterday she ducked into an Ohio Chipotle, it was Maumee, Ohio, near Toledo. And she ordered a burrito bowl and a sweet drink, and her assistant was standing beside her and absolutely no one recognized her. She's totally incognito. It wasn't until the restaurant manager looked at the security cam video that he realized that Hillary Clinton ordered that burrito bowl at that Maumee Chipotle. Who knew? Also last night Marco Rubio became the third Republican to enter the race for the White House, touting his youth at Monday's big announcement. The 43-year-old freshman senator framed the upcoming presidential election as a generational choice for Americans and he took no time taking aim at Hillary Clinton, calling her, quote, \"a leader from yesterday.\" But can the rising star turn a compelling family story and a lack of experience into a successful campaign calling card? Dana Bash is CNN's chief congressional correspondent. She has more for you.", "Carol, it may not have been exactly what Marco Rubio was going for but being in the room for his announcement yesterday, it was very reminiscent of Barack Obama eight years ago, talking about hope and change and the American dream. And the need to move on to a new generation.", "43-year-old Marco Rubio tried to turn his youth and relative inexperience, compared to older candidates, into a plus.", "This election is not just about what laws we're going to pass. This election is a generational choice about what kind of country we will be.", "It's a theme the Florida Republican returned to time and again drawing a contrast with Democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton.", "Just yesterday, a leader from yesterday --", "Began a campaign for president by promising to take us back to yesterday.", "But Rubio is also drawing a contrast with a Republican name from the past, Jeb Bush, Florida's former governor and Rubio's long- time mentor. Some mutual friends are upset Rubio isn't waiting his turn, which he addressed head on.", "I've heard some suggests that I should step aside and wait my turn.", "But I cannot.", "In an interview with ABC News, Rubio said his candidacy should not be seen as an insult to Bush.", "I'm not running against Jeb Bush and I hope he's not running against me. We are competing for the same job.", "CNN is told Rubio told Bush he's running because no one else has the story to tell he does, a son of Cuban immigrants with the palpable sense of the American dream which shapes his hawkish world view and small government low taxes conservative ideals.", "I live in an exceptional country where the son of a bartender and a maid could have the same dreams, and the same future as those who come from power and privilege.", "Still Rubio has to overcome some GOP concerns that his government experience is similar to Barack Obama's --", "I don't pay much attention to the pundits claiming that I need more experience.", "-- when he became president.", "Now traditionally when a candidate announces for president that then move on to barnstorm, all of the early primary states, but Marco Rubio, he isn't doing that. Today he's going back to Washington to his day job because he sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, which, of course, is holding a very important hearing, and perhaps even a vote on the Iran deal -- Carol.", "All right, Dana Bash reporting. Thanks so much. In just a matter of weeks we'll know if Ben Carson will join Rubio, Clinton and others in the 2016 race. His campaign telling CNN Carson will make a major announcement in Detroit on May 4th. The spokeswoman says no definitive decision has been made yet. But come one, he'll probably announce he's going to run for president in Detroit. Let's not fool ourselves, shall we? Still to come in the NEWSROOM, Secretary of State John Kerry returns to Capitol Hill today to ask Congress not to interfere with complex negotiations on Iran, but will Congress listen? We'll talk about that next."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BASH", "SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BASH", "RUBIO", "RUBIO", "BASH", "RUBIO", "RUBIO", "BASH", "RUBIO", "BASH", "RUBIO", "BASH", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BASH", "BASH", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-132380", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-11-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0811/13/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Obama Transition Team Lays Out Restrictions for Lobbyists", "utt": ["President-elect Obama wasting no time taking on lobbyists. His transition team laid out what they call the strictest and most far reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history. Special investigations unit correspondent, Abbie Boudreau, is actually joining us live with more about this now. So, a lot of people may be wondering, what can lobbyists expect under this new administration?", "Well these new rules mostly deal with the federal lobbyists. They can't give money to the transition team, they can no longer lobby if they work for the transition team. And there is also a 12-month wait for anyone who works on the transition before they can lobby. All of these changes are meant to reduce the influence of special interests.", "I don't take a dime from Washington lobbyists and special interests.", "For months, President-elect Obama has promised tough reforms.", "They do not run my campaign. They will not run my White House.", "That's power.", "Obama's message is critical in this class for lobbyists in training at Georgetown University's law school.", "You heard from -- during this campaign, right, President-elect Barack Obama saying it's not going to be the same. We're not going to have lobbyists controlling things.", "Michael Lewan could be teaching the class. For 16 years he's lobbied for some of the biggest corporations in America.", "It's a dirty word partially because we've made it so as an industry. But perhaps more so because it has just gotten to be such a mantra out there on the campaign trails.", "Lewan says in the wake of former lobbyist Jack Abramoff's conviction of influence peddling on Capitol Hill, in 2006 Congress passed stricter rules. Lewan, and other Washington lobbyists, say the crackdown is long overdue.", "Over the course of the campaign, all of us that lobby were vilified. It's my hope that we can sort of bring down that level of vilification by cooperating with the new administration.", "We have all of these professional trained lobbyists, and then we have you.", "Yes.", "Emily Yoffe writes for the Slate Web site. She wanted to see if only the powerful lobbyists had the influence.", "After Jack Abramoff was sent off to the slammer, my editor said, well, can anyone be a lobbyist? And said, you come up with an organization and go up on the Hill and see where you get.", "So, she came with", "Spay and Neuter Our Pets.", "Yoffe said even she was surprised how far she got. (on camera): And how seriously did the staffers take you?", "My longest meeting was 40 minutes.", "Wow.", "Which I couldn't believe.", "She never met with a member of Congress. But she does feel ordinary people do have influence. Professor Chai Feldblum says now many other grassroots groups may have a stronger voice.", "We will see change in this city after January 20th.", "And there's already changes. Earlier today I talked with an Obama spokesperson. He told me in addition to the other restrictions, the transition team also has a ban on gifts. He says the team will not accept gifts worth more than $20 unless it's from a family member or a close personal friend. And no gifts, absolutely no gifts, from lobbyists will be accepted.", "Interesting. Kind of like the policy here at CNN for journalists, of course. Got to be ethical about all of this stuff.", "More transparency.", "Yes, absolutely. Abbie Boudreau, great story. Thanks so much.", "Thank you.", "Falling energy prices taking the wind out of energy alternatives for now. Even a billionaire is slowed down by the economic slowdown."], "speaker": ["COLLINS", "ABBIE BOUDREAU, CNN SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENT-ELECT", "BOUDREAU (voice-over)", "OBAMA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BOUDREAU", "PROF. CHAI FELDBLUM, GEORGETOWN UNIV. LAW CENTER", "BOUDREAU", "MICHAEL LEWAN, LOBBYIST", "BOUDREAU", "LEWAN", "BOUDREAU (on camera)", "EMILY YOFFE, AUTHOR", "BOUDREAU (voice-over)", "YOFFE", "BOUDREAU", "SNOP. YOFFE", "BOUDREAU", "YOFFE", "BOUDREAU", "YOFFE", "BOUDREAU (voice-over)", "FELDBLUM", "BOUDREAU", "COLLINS", "BOUDREAU", "COLLINS", "BOUDREAU", "COLLINS"]}
{"id": "CNN-304029", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2017-01-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/27/ip.01.html", "summary": "Trump's Meeting with Britain's PM; May talks about Allies; May talks about Russia; Pence Speaks at March", "utt": ["AT THIS HOUR, everybody.", "\"Inside Politics\" with John King, it starts right now.", "John and Kate, thank you. And welcome to INSIDE POLITICS. I'm John King. Thanks for sharing some time with us today. Another busy and consequential day. The Donald Trump presidency, as we speak, now hitting the one week mark. And what a hectic and fascinating week it has been. A live look right now here at the annual March for Life out on the National Mall. The anti-abortion movement is re-energized because of actions and promises from the new Trump White House. And this year's march is getting unprecedented White House attention. Vice President Mike Pence will speak to the marchers in just a few minutes. And we will take you there live when it happens. And happening now at the White House, a big face-to-face first step on to the world stage. President Trump is meeting with the British prime minister, Theresa May. Stay right here as we gear up for the new president's first White House press conference. That scheduled for just one hour from now. It is a giant test. The new president's first steps on the world stage have been, sufficed to say, a bit rocky. A war of words and threats of a trade war with Mexico, whose president abruptly canceled a planned trip to Washington when President Trump signed an order urging fast action on a new border wall.", "Unless Mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless and I want to go a different route. We have no choice.", "That's the president yesterday. The meeting underway this hour is also fascinating. Both the president and prime minister owe their jobs to blue collar frustration with globalism and immigration, but these are two very different leaders. President Trump calls the NATO alliance obsolete. Prime Minister May calls it essential. He talks of making friends with Vladimir Putin. She says, be very careful. President Trump's America first mantra has allies rattled. And the prime minister is here, first and foremost, hoping, hoping, to learn firsthand that such blunt talk is more slogan than strategy shift.", "We, our two countries together, have a responsibility to lead, because when others step up as we step back, it is bad for America, for Britain, and the world.", "With us to share their reporting and their insights, Lisa Lerer of the Associated Press, Jonathan Martin of \"The New York Times,\" Jackie Kucinich of \"The Daily Beast,\" and Ed O'Keefe of \"The Washington Post.\" As we wait to hear from these two leaders today, let's just step back for a second. A week in, if there's a Trump doctrine on the world stage, it's the same as it is on the domestic stage, it's disruption, do things differently, challenge the status quo. What's your biggest question today as we look for the president to stand side-by-side with a key U.S. ally, the British prime minister?", "Well, I mean, it is remarkable. There's been no terrorist attack. There's been no global unrest of any kind. And there's been chaos across the world as a result of Trump coming into office. So, you know, I think people are going to be watching to see if he understands the dynamics of this relationship. Theresa May is in a difficult spot. On the one hand, he's been a strong supporter of Brexit, and she needs to get a trade deal with the U.S. for when the U.K. eventually leaves the E.U. On the other hand, she's also trying to cut a deal for the exit from the E.U., with the E.U., who's been very skeptical of Trump and is very concerned that he's working to weaken the European alliance. So she's dealing with her own difficult political dynamics, and it's going to be interesting to see how cognizant President Trump is of those - those politics at play for her.", "And he's already made that kind of awkward. I mean he cheered Brexit. She didn't really support Brexit.", "Right.", "He said that Nigel Farage, who is not a friend of Theresa May, should be the ambassador to the U.K. I mean so there are several things that have already happened to make this quite an awkward first meeting between these two leaders. And he's already met with some of her - the opposition in the U.K. So they'll have a lot of talk about. I wonder if they broach these - that kind of topic.", "And yet - and yet she's trying to make the most of this. And you mentioned, very important for her to, a, have the security relationship, and to get a new economic relationship, a bilateral trade agreement. She was very impressive when she spoke - an unusual appearance - before Republican congressional members gathered in Philadelphia yesterday. And listen here, Donald Trump has said NATO is obsolete. Now, does he really mean that? Does he want to break up the alliance? Or is it just his words for his criticism that a lot of the other NATO nations don't pony up. They don't pay their dues. They don't spend enough on the defense budget. Here's - listen to Theresa May here essentially saying, America must stay engaged, but offering President Trump a little help.", "An America that is strong and prosperous at home is a nation that can lead abroad. But you cannot and should not do so alone. You have said that it is time for others to step up, and I agree. Sovereign countries cannot outsource their security and prosperity to America, and they should not undermine the alliances that keep us strong by failing to step up and play their part.", "She's kind of trying to massage there what Trump has said about the alliance. And you can be certain, the president - President Trump will speak - this first conversation with Vladimir Putin is on Saturday - but also with the leaders of Germany and France as president. Those conversations will be Saturday. I'm going to put a little money here - I don't know who wants to take the bet - that when Theresa May is clear of the White House, Angela Merkel and President Hollande, they're going to want to talk to her pretty quickly about, what he is like, what does he mean, how much do we follow the words?", "Yes, no, exactly. I think there's going to be a sort of very robust game of telephone going on there. So, you know, what actually is he like in private? I actually talked yesterday to a fellow who's very plugged into the Trump White House who was telling me about the panic that actually ensued the day after election day in embassies all across Washington because they all thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win. They were getting - you know, getting ready for that. And that they literally didn't know anybody in the Trump's orbit and they had to scramble to find literally his phone number to call him. And I think you've seen the Brits try to sort of deal with that here in recent weeks, to try and get in there fast and first. But nobody really knows how he's going to approach the world. This is all a blank slate, John.", "And, of course, during his - you know, during the campaign, his advisors frequently reprimanded reporters by saying, take him seriously but not literally.", "Right.", "And that's what his supporters do. It doesn't seem like that's what world leaders do or Congress. So I think he also has a learning curve here where he's learning that once you're president, your words really matter.", "Right, and to that point, he does have a learning curve I think of how to speak -", "Yes.", "And how to act in these - in these settings that are designed by protocol.", "Yes.", "But he wants to bust a lot of these protocol -", "I know.", "So they're going to have to learn too. I think this is going to have to be a two-way street -", "True.", "Or else there's going to be a lot of misunderstanding.", "You know, I think, actually, there's more pressure on May, especially back home, to deliver here in the next three hours. That if this does not go well for her, the press, her own party, and the British public may be very concerned that she rushed over here before really understanding the new government, the new administration and may not walk away with the assurances that she needs to go home and say, we're getting out of Brexit, but we've still got the Americans. Everything's going to be OK.", "It's a great point, she gets the prestige of being the first world leader to get a face-to-face with Donald Trump at his territory.", "He doesn't have any", "The question is, is it worth (ph) it. Before you jump in, I just want to get - one of the big questions here the European alliance has is, what about all this talk from Donald Trump about being more friendly with Vladimir Putin? Kellyanne Conway, the president's councilor, said in a television interview this morning that easing sanctions against Russia is one of the things being considered at the White House. The western alliance leaders don't want that. Listen to Theresa May here, the prime minister, giving her view of how President Trump should deal with the president of Russia.", "When it comes to Russia, as so often, it is wise to turn to the example of President Reagan, who during his negotiations with his opposite number (ph), Mikhail Gorbachev, used to abide by the adage, trust but verify. With President Putin, my advice is to engage, but beware. But we should engage with Russia from a position of strength, and we should build the relationships, systems, and processes that make cooperation more likely than conflict.", "An effort to kind of gently lightly move him.", "And good advice by the staff at 10 Downing Street, by the way, to make sure that her speech to Republican caucus included a good Reagan shout-out, knowing that that would go over well. And also, by the way, a Tory female prime minister, who does that remind you of?", "Yes, but this is not that relationship yet and it doesn't look -", "No.", "I mean because Reagan and Thatcher had a warm relationship and this is - these are opposite people, May and Trump. Trump is a showman. Theresa May is more of a -", "No, but I'm talking about her invoking Reagan's name to the members of Congress.", "Totally.", "Who, obviously, revere Ronald Reagan. You know, it makes sense. Yes, of course. Look, whether it's Jim Mattis or John McCain or Theresa May, there is a sort of, you know, fairly strong consensus among a lot of people, the center right, about, you know, Putin's not to be trusted.", "Right. John McCain just issuing a statement. Senator John McCain of Arizona -", "Saying - yes, saying that if you - he hopes the president rejects any advice to ease these sanctions, but that if he tries to move that way, that he will work in Congress to codify, to make law the sanctions. So this is not only a big question as world leaders begin to get to know our new president. It is a source of tension early on with his fellow Republicans.", "And this is an administration that's not speaking with one voice on this issue.", "Right.", "What we heard from some of these nominees in the confirmation hearings, they took a much tougher line on Russia than the president himself. So if you're a world leader trying to decipher where they are, I mean given the many messages coming out of the White House, that can be an awfully hard thing to sort out.", "And this - you mentioned the point, Jonathan, that a lot of global leaders were shocked. They thought the election was going to go the other way. One of the things that concerned them is the overriding theme. And again, as Lisa said, a lot of people around Trump, close to this president, very loyal to the president, say, don't take him literally.", "Right.", "He's trying to send a signal with his words, but then follow his actions. But these words right here in this inaugural address, this is what a lot - a lot of people in world capitals, friends and foes, are saying, wait a minute, is the United States about to make a big retreat from the world stage?", "Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries, making our products, stealing our companies, and destroying our jobs. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but, rather, to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow.", "This is what they're asking in Paris and in Berlin -", "Right.", "And in London. And, for that matter, in Tehran and in Moscow. What exactly does that mean when it comes to NATO alliance? What does it mean when it comes to the Iran nuclear deal?", "Right.", "And China.", "Of course. Yes.", "I mean - I mean, here's the thing. If the United States pulls back, if - there's not just going to be a spot left there. People will come in to fill the void, particularly when you're talking about trade. China is probably more than happy to call up Mexico and strike some new deals as a result. And we don't know that it will lead to more prosperity. That is not clear.", "And Trump hasn't really taken steps to clarify any of this. He hasn't sort of laid out his foreign policy in a big address or any sort of comprehensive way. He's done sort of interviews here and there. The plans during the campaign were left vague, perhaps deliberately. So he's not really giving those assurances.", "You know, John, I - I was skimming Spanish newspapers this morning regarding the Mexican president's decision not to come. Across Mexico, across Latin America, over to Spain, a lot of those countries saying good for him for cancelling that meeting amid the uncertainty, amid the disrespect that they believe he was shown. We should all take cue from Mexico on what to do here. And, yes, Democrats on Capitol Hill, who represent Texas and other border states, other business leaders have warned China is ready, willing, and already there -", "Right.", "Not only in Mexico, but across Latin America, building factories, exporting goods. They are more than happy to step in. And - and that will be one of the big counter arguments to all of this, that if you do this, this only helps China.", "And it's a great issue because of the long game and the short game. Politicians often play the short game in the sense that for both President Trump and the president of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, this helps them. This - you know, this helps them -", "Absolutely right.", "This helps them in the moment to stand up for their supporters to look tough, to look like they're ready to have the fight. The question is whether it's Mexico, whether it's China, whether it's anyone else. In the long-term, what disruption does it cause in incredibly valuable economic relationships? The president's right when he says the trade deficit is something he wants to address. But five million jobs in the United States dependent on their relationship with Mexico. What happens if you get into a fight there? As we continue the conversation, listen to these words, because we're just meeting the new Trump team, and their words are one thing. We will see in the days and weeks and months ahead what it means on the world stage. This is the new ambassador to the United Nations, the former South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley, showing up at the United Nations, an organization that all Republican administrations in recent years have heaped a bit of scorn on. You want to know if there's a new sheriff in town? Listen to this.", "There is a new U.S. U.N. We talked to the staff yesterday, and you are going to see a change in the way we do business. Our goal with the administration is to show value at the U.N. And the way that we'll show value is to show our strength, show our voice, have the backs of our allies, and make sure that our allies have our back as well. For those that don't have our back, we're taking names. We will make points to respond to that accordingly.", "It's remarkable. We're taking names.", "Hang - hang tight. Hang tight. We're taking names from Nikki Haley at the United Nations. Another big signal early on from the administration. The vice president of the United States, first time this has happened, speaking to the March for Life here in Washington. Let's listen.", "Thank you, Karen and Charlotte. And thank all of you. On behalf of President Donald Trump, my wife, Karen, our daughter, Charlotte, I'd like to welcome you all to Washington, D.C., for the 44th annual March for Life. It's a good day. And it's the best day I've ever seen for the March of Life in more ways than one. I'm deeply humbled to stand before you today. Deeply humbled to be the first vice president of the United States to ever have the privilege to attend this historic day. More than 240 years ago, our founders wrote words that have echoed through the ages. They declared these truths to be self-evident that we are, all of us, endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights. And that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Forty-four years ago, our Supreme Court turned away from the first of these timeless ideals. But today, three generations hence, because of all of you and the many thousands who stand with us in marches like this all across the nation, life is winning again in America. That is evident in the election of pro-life majorities, in the Congress of the United States of America. But it is no more evident in any way than in the historic election of a president who stands for a stronger America, a more prosperous America, and a president who I proudly say stands for the right to life, President Donald Trump. President Trump actually asked me to be here with you today. He asked me to thank you for your support, for your stand for life and for your compassion for the women and children of America. One week ago today, on the steps of the Capitol, we saw the inauguration of the 45th president of the United States. I can tell you firsthand, our president is a man with broad shoulders and a big heart. This vision, this energy, his optimism are boundless, and I know he will make America great again. From his first day in office, he's been keeping his promises to the American people. I like to say over there at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, we're in the promise keeping business. That's why on Monday, President Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy to prevent foreign aid from funding organizations that promote or perform abortions worldwide. That's why this administration will work with the Congress to end taxpayer funding of abortion and abortion providers. And we will devote those resources to health care services for women across America. And that's why next week President Donald Trump will announce a Supreme Court nominee who will uphold the God-given liberties enshrined in our Constitution in the tradition of the late and great Justice Antonin Scalia. You know, life is winning in America. And today is a celebration of that progress. The progress that we've made in this cause. You know, I've long believed that a society can be judged by how we care for our most vulnerable, the aged, the infirm, the disabled, and the unborn. We've come to a historic moment in the cause of life, and we must meet this moment with respect and compassion for every American. Life is winning in America for many reasons. Life is winning through the steady advance of science that illuminates when life begins more and more every day. Life is winning through the generosity of millions of adoptive families who open their hearts and homes to children in need. Life is winning through the compassion of caregivers and volunteers at crisis pregnancy centers and faith-based organizations who minister to women in the cities and towns across this country. And life is winning through the quiet counsels between mothers and daughters, grandmothers and granddaughters, between friends across kitchen tables and over coffee at college campuses. The truth is being told, compassion is overcoming convenience, and hope is defeating despair. In a word, life is winning in America because of all of you. So I urge you to press on. But as it is written, let your gentleness be evident to all. Let this movement be known for love, not anger. Let this movement be known for compassion, not confrontation. When it comes to matters of the heart, there is nothing stronger than gentleness. I believe we will continue to win the hearts and minds of the rising generation if our hearts first break for young mothers and their unborn children. And if we, each of us, do all we can to meet them where they are with generosity, not judgment. To heal our land and restore a culture of life, we must continue to be a movement that embraces all, cares for all, and shows respect for the dignity and worth of every person. Enshrined on the walls of the Jefferson Memorial are the words of our third president, who admonished us so long ago to remember that God who gave us life gave us liberty. On behalf of the president of the United States and my little family, we thank you for your stand for life. We thank you for your compassion. We thank you for your love for the women and children of America. And be assured - be assured, along with you, we will not grow weary. We will not rest until we restore a culture of life in America for ourselves and our posterity. Thank you, and God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.", "The vice president of the United States, Mike Pence, the former Indiana governor, former congressman before that, doing something unprecedented, the highest ranking official ever to personally address the March for Life here in Washington, D.C. The big annual event of the anti-abortion movement. Ronald Reagan used to telephone in from time to time during these events. Never before has someone with the rank of vice president directly addressed the rally. Earlier today, the president of the United States tweeting out from the @realdonaldtrump account, \"@vpmikepence will be speaking at today's March for Life. You have our full support.\" Hard sometimes to get into full context the sea change that is happening here in Washington, but we're going to move now from the March for Life, unprecedented there, to a big event at the White House. The first meeting between the president of the United States and a foreign leader. It's the British prime minister Theresa May, here moments ago in the Oval Office.", "You'll see one picture tomorrow", "This is the original - this is the original, in many ways. In many ways. And it's a great honor to have Winston Churchill back.", "Well, thank you, Mr. President. We're very pleased.", "Thank you. Thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "You see right there and excuse the shaky shots. The White House press pool gets a little jostled at the end of those meetings. More change there. There the prime minister of Great Britain, Theresa May, meeting with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, at the White House in the Oval Office. And again, more change. In the past administrations, Democrat and Republican, such a meeting, the leaders usually seated by the fireplace. Often we get at least brief hello remarks, cordial remarks there. Just a little small talk between the two leaders about an event that is very significant to the United Kingdom, the Brits, and to this president, the Winston Churchill bust that was not in the Oval Office during the Obama administration has been restored. But, again, to my point, more change. A lot for these two late leaders to discuss. A lot of agreement. But also a lot of potential disagreement, which I'm guessing is why they did it a different way so you don't have the mess of shouted questions.", "And just the risk of improvisation for a president who is not as comfortable on his feet when it comes to dealing with substantive policy issues as past presidents. Obviously he - I think his staff will want him to be more well-prepped for the formal press conference and if you happen to speak there, you kind of risk some kind of a - a gaff. And, obviously, pointing to the Churchill bust is sort of easy, straight forward politics. But, by the way, some things, John, don't change from presidents, and that is the saying of, thank you, thanks, you guys, to usher the press pool out of the Oval Office there.", "Right.", "Never works.", "It never works. They always stick around.", "We like to stick around.", "Exactly.", "Often, though, you do hear a lot of shouted questions. Sometimes the reports, because they're being pushed out, start shouting questions.", "That's right.", "That was actually a pretty calm there, and you're getting a look at - you know, let's remember, as this president has this first meeting, a lot of his team is not in place. His secretary of state has not been confirmed yet, for example.", "Right.", "But he does have this meeting at the White House. And, again, we talked a little bit at the top of the program, this is big for both leaders. Both leaders have - for Donald Trump it's his first introduction to the world stage. A key U.S. ally who he knows it's going to be, as you mentioned, on the phone with other world leaders saying what was he like in private because one of the things we learned in the campaign is that in the big rally setting there's one Donald Trump, but often in the smaller one-on-one or small group conversations, it's a very different Donald Trump.", "But one of the perilous things that these leaders will have to deal with is that sometimes the private Donald Trump, the person they spoke to in the meeting, doesn't remain the same Donald Trump. They walk out and all of a sudden on Twitter, you know, 24 hours later, he is tweeting about a different impression of the meeting that was given publically. So there are - there seems to be even more hurdles than perhaps in a more traditional format for these world leaders.", "Right. And the list of questions is - we could sit here for an hour if we wanted to go through them, but some, she wants a commitment that Donald Trump will stay in the Paris Climate Change Accord.", "Right.", "The administration has not answered that definitively, but it is - he himself, the president, has questioned the science of climate change. She wants to know about the NATO alliance. If I help you to try to get some of the allies to increase their defense spending, increase their dues spending, will you stop calling the NATO alliance obsolete? How do we deal with Vladimir Putin? What about Afghanistan? What about the fight against ISIS? Are you going to still be friendly about Syria? I could go on a bit.", "And he's not necessarily ready to unpack all of that. And so, again, that's - as I said earlier, there's a lot of risk for her if she goes home without answers to those questions. Will the British public accept the fact that she made this trip at all?", "Right. And yet she is a test case for what the president says he wants to do, get away from these big trans-Pacific partnerships, bit multi-country trade deals and do it one nation at a time bilaterally. The U.K. wants one desperately right now as it pulls out of the European Union.", "But this is, I think, an important moment for us as sort of watchers of President Trump to figure out which faction is sort of winning out inside the White House.", "Yes.", "It was clear from that inauguration speech that the Steves, Steve Bannon and Steven Miller, had the upper hand in the drafting of that speech. Hugely important symbolism.", "Right.", "Now we're more -", "Nationalist, America first, populist.", "Absolutely.", "Right.", "Now we're moving from symbolism to substance. And you're talking about actual - you know, making of policy, standing there with our biggest ally traditionally of the U.K. How does he respond on that raft of questions that you just mentioned? 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{"id": "CNN-309337", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2017-04-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/06/ath.02.html", "summary": "Trump to Meet with Chinese President.", "utt": ["Keeping an eye on the White House right now. In just a few moments, President Trump and the first lady will be heading to Florida where they will be hosting the Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife at the Mar-a-Lago resort. It will be President Trump's first meeting with the Chinese leader, though then-Candidate Trump had plenty to say about China throughout the election, basically none of which was complimentary. CNN senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, is live in West Palm Beach, Florida. A lot riding on this meeting. A lot of high expectations of this meeting. What are you hearing, Jim?", "Well, what you're hearing is you're hearing senior administration officials trying to tamp down expectations for this high-stakes meeting between President Trump and President Xi down here in Mar-a-Lago. It's going to start later this evening when the two sit down for dinner. But you're absolutely right, Kate, because of that tough talk that you heard from the president as a candidate during the campaign, there are all of these expectations that President Trump is going to come in and sort of throw down the gauntlet and engage in some very tough negotiations with the Chinese president. But what we're hearing from senior administration official officials is that you may not see a whole lot of that. The president was asked about this on another network this morning, and here's what he had to say.", "It's going to be interesting. Nobody really knows. We have not been treated fairly on trade for many, many years. No president has taken care of that the way they should. And we have a big problem with North Korea. We're going to see what happens.", "The hope to get them to bring leverage on the issue in North Korea?", "Well, we'll see what happens, Pete. But I'll tell you, we'll be in there pitching and I think we'll do very well.", "You're seen the White House sort of back away from the president's promise to label China currency manipulator on day one of his administration. They're now just reviewing all trade relationships across the world, including that one with China. And on top of that, Kate, in terms of other big issues here, you have the North Korea issue. You saw the president make those comments over the weekend, well, if China won't help us with North Korea, we will do that on our own. But I heard from an official yesterday, who was saying, listen, that missile test you saw from North Korea the other day was that not that menacing after all. It splashed into the ocean some 55 seconds after takeoff. So this is going to be a delicate discussion. But at this point, it's really just setting the framework for future discussions and this may not bog down into some nasty rhetoric from both sides, not at this point yet. There's too much at stake to get to that point this early on in the relationship -- Kate?", "We shall see. Jim, great to see you. Thanks so much. Keeping an eye there. We're also getting live pictures from the Senate floor, keeping on there, where they're going through procedural moves right now, changing the rules is where this is headed to push through the president's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, to get him confirmed to the court. This is history in the making. We're following that right after the break."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "TRUMP", "ACOSTA", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-125237", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-4-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/03/cnr.02.html", "summary": "McCain's Vice Presidential Short List", "utt": ["In Brazil, a deadly outbreak of Dengue Fever prompts military action. Twelve hundred Brazilian troops being mobilized to handle the outbreak. They are spraying insecticides and setting up emergency care tents. Now, listen to these figures -- 67 deaths, around 40 of those children; 32,000 confirmed cases in the state of Rio de Janeiro alone. And 80 new cases being reported just about every hour, if you can fathom that. And Dengue Fever, that is a tropical illness spread by mosquitoes. Officials fear that the outbreak may actually worsen.", "Another round of voting ahead. That's the word out of Zimbabwe. President Robert Mugabe's ruling party says a runoff is inevitable. Still, diplomatic sources say that runoff may not take place within the next three weeks as required by law, and that could open the door to voter intimidation and fraud by the ruling party. Voting took place last week. But so far, the government has not released any results. President Mugabe has been in power since Zimbabwe's independence 28 years ago. John McCain gets to work on his vice presidential short list, except it's really not that short. CNN's Dana Bash following the McCain campaign.", "These are the images that were supposed to drive John McCain's message: a reminder of his service with a visit to the Naval Academy he graduated from 50 years ago, until he spilled the beans that he now has a list of names for his running mate. On his bus, he even gave a number.", "I think it's like 20, you know. But I can't talk to you too much about it, obviously.", "But he did. Much to the chagrin of anxious aides who tried to interrupt.", "You put the list together and then you just do a cursory kind of a look at -- I guess you could do on Google, really, when you think about it nowadays.", "But it's a very, very early stage in the process.", "McCain said he wanted to start vetting VP contenders now to avoid what he called unintended consequences like in 1988, when George H. W. Bush picked Dan Quayle, who faced questions about his National Guard service that surprised the campaign.", "Dan Quayle had not been briefed, you know, and prepared for, you know, some of the questions.", "But as McCain plans ahead, a reminder of lingering trouble with some conservatives. Prominent conservative James Dobson released a harsh statement saying, \"I have seen no evidence that Senator McCain is successfully unifying the Republican Party or drawing conservatives into his fold. To the contrary, he seems intent on driving them away.\" McCain responded that polls show conservatives are behind him, but admitted he hasn't talked to Dobson, a frequent critic. (on camera): Why not, you know, pick up the phone and call him and try to...", "If Dr. Dobson wanted to speak to me, I'd be more than -- I'd be glad to speak to him. I just feel that I -- I'm doing what is necessary to keep our party united and to win in November.", "Dobson reaches millions of conservative voters through his radio show and multiple publications, a point McCain conceded. But McCain repeated over and over that he now has as much Republican support as George W. Bush did as a candidate. Privately, though, McCain advisers insist this kind of rebuke may actually help them in their search for independent voters for November. Dana Bash, CNN, Annapolis, Maryland.", "Makes sense here -- make a checklist before your checkup. Be prepared before heading to the doctor's office."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "HARRIS", "DANA BASH, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BASH", "MCCAIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BASH", "MCCAIN", "BASH", "MCCAIN", "BASH (on camera)", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-23214", "program": "Ahead Of The Curve", "date": "2001-1-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/08/aotc.06.html", "summary": "The Week Ahead: PPI, December Sales Report to Drive Markets", "utt": ["Well, the first trading week of the year was a rather wild one, and investors will have some more economic reports to deal with this week.", "Here now with her sector focus and a preview of the week ahead, Christine Romans. What are you watching?", "I think there are people who think they barely survived last week on the Street. First new week of the year and it was pretty tough, even with rate cuts in the mix -- big surprise -- and then, you saw the markets really act strangely into the end of the week. Friday was another rough day. This week we get some more economic data. Folks are saying that it could help to solidify their opinions about what the Fed is going to do next. Its meeting -- next meeting on the docket is January 30th and 31st. So, just right around the corner. Among the numbers we're expecting, no great shakes today. We'll get consumer credit for November today. But, later this week, we'll have wholesale inventories. We have jobless claims on Thursday. And Friday seems to be the big important day, folks are tell me, PPI, that's the December Producer Price Index, and retail sales also for December. PPI is expected to be tame, no big signs of inflation there. But, retail sales are expected to be weak, matching the decline seen in November. And there's a recommendation from the Bond Market Association to close the bond market early on Friday. Don't forget it's the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend with markets closed on Monday. So, when you have a three-day weekend like that, you often see the bond market closing early on the prior day, which means things could shut up for business kind of early, as well on Friday. So, Friday seems to be the important day for the economic data. Also, we might get an early close then. We'll closely watch to see what that PPI number says, especially since the jobs report on Friday did carry a whiff of inflation concern in the wages component. Some people were talking about that a bit on Friday as well. So, we'll look for any more signs there. But, for the most part, people want to see that the Fed has the ammunition that it needs to maybe do another rate cut, which would be a tame inflation picture but slowing growth, and that's what they're looking for this week.", "Given those employment figures, you're right, the wages were up considerably, but almost everything else in the report was fairly weak. Is there going to be unusual attention paid Thursday to the latest figures on new claims for unemployment benefits?", "I think there will be because there has been for some time now. You know, it was -- the weekly number that we get a good look at it very often, and it is something that we can often just ignore, frankly. But we look at that moving average over a period of several weeks, and we've been seeing those jobless claims numbers climb. And so people want to know just how much loosening there is in the jobs market, especially since, you know, there were some signs of strength in that jobs report on Friday, which caught some people by surprise. So, we'll closely watch those numbers as well, as well as the moving average of those jobless claims numbers. And definitely the labor market is back in focus.", "Thanks, Christine.", "Sure. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MARCHINI", "ROMANS", "MARCHINI", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "NPR-18205", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2006-05-22", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5422695", "title": "Opinion Page: 'Da Vinci Code' Truths", "summary": "Religious historian Elaine Pagels says what is important about The Da Vinci Code is not what the movie got wrong, but what it got right.", "utt": ["Time now for the TALK OF THE NATION Opinion Page. Despite some bad reviews and claims of historical and theological errors, the movie version of The Da Vinci Code topped the weekend's box office sales, taking in $77 million. The central theme of both the novel and the movie revolves around the controversial idea that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene were married and had a child, and that the Catholic Church covered up the truth.", "Elaine Pagels is a Professor of religion at Princeton University. She's also the author of The Gnostic Gospels and Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas. In this Sunday's San Jose Mercury News, she wrote an op-ed piece arguing that Brown's story is a work of fiction, but what makes it so compelling is not the parts he made up but those parts that are true.", "If you've read the book or seen the movie, what are your questions about what's true or not in The Da Vinci Code. 800-989-8255, that's 800-989-TALK. And the e-mail address is talk@npr.org", "And, Elaine Pagels, nice to have you on TALK OF THE NATION today.", "Thank you. Good to be here.", "Professor Pagels is with us from her office in Princeton, New Jersey. And I guess we have to begin with the big one. Is there any evidence to support the idea that Jesus Christ was not crucified, got married, and he and Mary Magdalene had children?", "Well, there certainly isn't, although nothing's probably impossible historically, but there's no evidence that I know. I mean, it makes a great fiction novel, I think.", "And I guess that's the point, fiction.", "Yeah, it is. Although, you wonder if Dan Brown had said it was just fiction whether it would have been such a sensation. There is a lot in it that's very interesting and true.", "Well, you wrote in your piece, in fact, that Dan Brown credited you and your book on the Gnostic Gospels, particularly the Gospel of Philip, for sending him off on this novel.", "That's true. This is a secret Gospel. It was found - it's probably written in the early 2nd century and it has words like this, Jesus loved Mary Magdalene more than the other disciples and kissed her often. And the other disciples were jealous and asked, why do you love her more than all of us? Now, you know, in the Gospel of Philip that sounds pretty provocative.", "It sure does. Tell us, for those of us who don't follow such things closely, what are these Gnostic Gospels, when were they written, who wrote them, and how do they relate to the Gospels that we're familiar with in the New Testament?", "Well, those are big questions. I mean, what I learned in graduate school was a surprise, that there are many other Gospels that we didn't know about. A lot of them were buried and suppressed as early as the 2nd century and rediscovered, actually, in 1945 in an archeological find that was just amazing. We found about 50 ancient Christian texts. And so, you know, they show us a much more diverse picture of the early Christian movement than we ever saw before.", "And a picture, you say, the Church, neither then nor now, is altogether too happy with.", "Well, yes. But, you know, these texts are various. What they mainly claim is that certain disciples had secret teachings of Jesus and it differs in some ways from what the Church teaches.", "In an important way, what some of them suggest is that Christ was not himself divine, but human.", "Well, that's true; although it suggests he was human as we are, and also had a capacity to manifest God. And I guess one of the things that is disliked by many people in the churches is the suggestion that you and I are like that, too, that we are human but we have within us a connection with God because we're created in His image.", "A direct connection, as opposed to one that requires us to go through the church?", "Right. The church, in a way, invented a sort of technology of getting to God, which is not, I think, a bad thing. I'm not a conspiracy theorist like Dan Brown. But some of these texts suggest it's not necessary, that you can find God in yourself, you can find God in the universe.", "Of course, an idea that resulted some years later in a major theological split in the Christian churches?", "Oh, absolutely. I mean, most of the churches are based on the assumption that, you know, outside the church there's no salvation. That is, you have to go to the churches, you have to be saved through Jesus Christ, and so forth.", "Mm-hmm. And so this idea that these - there is hidden history to the gospels that were suppressed by the church. Dan Brown writes about that. And broadly, you're saying, he got that right.", "He did. And that's the great adventure that those of us who work on these texts are exploring at this point. Actually, I find what we - what the real story is more interesting to me than what we could make up, because it does show a secret gospel of Mary Magdalene, for example.", "And saying that - talking a lot more about the feminine side.", "Well, that's true, and that's another thing Dan Brown picked up from some of these sources. That is, if you can speak of God, who anyway would be infinite, in masculine form as a father and king and judge and all of that, you could also speak of God in feminine form as Holy Spirit and mother, because those words in Hebrew and Syriac are feminine words; Holy Spirit, wisdom, and so forth.", "Well, let's get some listeners in on the conversation. If you'd like to join us, our number is 800-989-8255, 800-989-TALK. Our e-mail address is talk@npr.org.", "We'll start with Greg(ph). Greg calling from Raleigh, North Carolina.", "Hi.", "Hi, Greg.", "Hi. Dr. Pagels, I read in your book on the Gnostic gospels, I believe it was, in the introduction you refer to that quotation from the Gospel of Philip about the...", "Yes.", "...kissing often. And I noticed in your work, when I checked your footnote, you had inserted, on the mouth, but in the original there's a hole there. How did you come up with that?", "Well, that's right. That's a good point. What happens, you know, is these texts are made out of papyrus. They're very ancient, and if you touch them they crumble. There're many parts of them that are broken, so it says, just as you said, Jesus kissed her often on her, and then the text breaks and you never know.", "Yeah.", "So no, I wasn't the person who put that word in, but others who worked on it before realized that the word mouth would fit in the space that's missing. Now, maybe other words would fit in the space and you can imagine what they might be, but that's the one that most people thought was most appropriate.", "So they put the word mouth in her mouth, as it were.", "That's absolutely correct. And you see...", "I just thought - when I checked the footnote, though, when I actually looked at what you were quoting from, it didn't say mouth there.", "Well, if you look at Robert McLloyd Wilson's(ph) edition, I think it was published about '59 - he's at the University of Edinburgh - he put that reconstruction in. But when you do, you're supposed to put little marks...", "Yeah.", "...that indicate that it's reconstructed. And that's what...", "The brackets. Yeah.", "Yeah, brackets, right.", "Yeah.", "All right, Greg, thanks very much for the call.", "Thanks.", "Bye-bye. Let's go now to Carl(ph). And Carl's with us from San Antonio.", "Yes. It seems to be odd how Mr. Brown has gone out and he announces this book as fiction, but it seems the whole Christian community feels threatened by a book that the author has gone out there and claimed it's fiction; which is almost like twenty years earlier, I believes it was Holy Blood, Holy Grail, they're almost similarly the same. But it just hits me odd how people can go up in arms and everything else on this.", "Well, Prof. Pagels, he said it was fiction, sort of.", "Well, he did, you know, I think you're right about that. And Holy Blood, Holy Grail is a really far-fetched thing. It's not really history. You're right. But the other side is, he said that it was all based on fact, you know, so he wanted it both ways.", "Yeah, I mean...", "And I think if he hadn't said that, then it wouldn't have been the sensation that it was.", "Yeah, but there's a lot of other stories that are out there that are the same thing, where they blend in fact with fiction.", "That's true.", "And to make you great novels and everything else. You know, like Gone With the Wind, that just didn't, you know...", "I guess somehow these here...", "I don't understand why people feel threatened by this book when it's, you know, the author himself has announced it as being fiction but a mixture with history. You know, in the same way as Gone With the Wind.", "Well, that's a good point. I mean, I find, as a piece of fiction, it's perfectly okay with me. But you're right; a lot of people take it very seriously.", "Well, a lot of people would consider some of these ideas heretical. Some of these ideas that they say are, you know, part of a, well, you know - this is an effort to undermine the church.", "Well, I gather that, you know, his purpose is rather anti-Catholic, and suggests that the Catholic Church, you know, or Opus Dei anyways, having people killed to keep the secrets hidden and so forth, I mean that's really far-fetched, I would think.", "Yeah, but it just hits me odd, that's all. That's all I wanted. All right, thank you.", "Thanks for the call, Carl.", "Bye.", "Opus Dei, of course, the previously mysterious group that is, in fact, a real group, which was willing to talk about itself a great deal, much more openly in the aftermath of The Da Vinci Code than it was beforehand.", "Well, they probably felt they had to.", "Yes. Let's get another caller on the line. This is Eric(ph). Eric calling from Macon, Georgia.", "Yes, I was wondering if Prof. Pagels can comment on the historical accuracy of the book and the movie concerning the first Ecumenical Council in Nicaea, and some of the issues that were involved.", "I think in the book, as I recall, it was implied that the divinity of the Christ was decided upon at the church council - at the instigation of the Emperor Constantine, and it was done, actually, with a rather close vote.", "I don't think that's exactly - that's an accurate depiction. What are your thoughts about it?", "Well, I'd have to check again, you know, exactly what he says there. It is true that at the Council of Nicaea the main issue was whether Jesus was to be considered God or not. I don't think the vote was close at all. I think you're right about that, it was overwhelmingly in favor of the creed, and the Emperor voted in favor of it.", "And when the Emperor voted in favor of it, anyone who didn't vote with the Emperor could easily be seen as, you know, kind of suspect.", "Or hurry and change their vote.", "(Unintelligible) vote for this at the council, though.", "Pardon me?", "I don't believe the Emperor voted at the council, though.", "He didn't vote, but I'm saying that the bishops who did tended to favor his point of view. Although, I think it was favored by many of the bishops, as well.", "In any case, an additional problem with the thesis that the Roman government forced that decision on the Council of bishops is that, at some point 20 or 30 years afterwards, the opposite position, the Arian position, and maybe you can comment about who Arius was, the Arian position came to the forefront and for some 50 or 60 years, Arianism was, at least the Roman government's...", "Yes, you're right. There's a very good book by Timothy Barnes, which you may have read, called Constantine and Eusebius, which talks about this.", "Arius was a priest from Libya who was preaching in Egypt, and he opposed the idea that Jesus was God incarnate and suggested that Jesus was human. And that debate, as you say, was intense and was very highly engaged for many decades by many bishops.", "We're talking with Elaine Pagels on TALK OF THE NATION's Opinion Page. She wrote a piece that was published yesterday in the San Jose Mercury News. If you would like to see a copy of that article, go to our website and there's a link to it: npr.org.", "Here are the headlines for some of the other stories we're following here today at NPR News.", "Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson, who's under investigation for bribery, was reportedly caught on videotape accepting $100,000 from an FBI informant. FBI Agents later found much of the cash in Jefferson's freezer, according to reports.", "And the National Hurricane Center is predicting that the 2006 Atlantic storm season will be very active for storms, with as many as ten hurricanes and 16 named storms. However, the center says this year should not be as bad as 2005. Of course, details on those stories and much more later today on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.", "Right now you're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.", "And let's get back to Prof. Pagels and our conversation about The Da Vinci Code and the Gnostic Gospels. And interestingly in 1945 - that's the same year that the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.", "Absolutely. It's an amazing year, and there's only a small part of the Middle East that's so dry that papyrus doesn't rot, it actually survives. And that's where both the Dead Sea Scrolls and these texts were found in Egypt.", "Let's get another listener on the line. This is Carrie(ph). Carrie calling from Lawrence, Kansas.", "Hi.", "Hi, Carrie.", "I would like to say it's delightful to listen to you speak with all these gentleman callers.", "Thank you.", "One of the things - I've only read the book, I've not seen the movie. And the reason why I read the book, having sort of picked it up and sort of given it a cursory look at the bookstore and chose not to purchase it, was that later on, my 20-something car salesman was all excited about it. And I thought well, if my car salesman is excited about this feminist theology-based book, I think maybe I should go read it.", "My question, though, and this is a discussion that I had recently with my husband, is that, is there anywhere in - I guess it's implied, but does it say specifically anywhere that Christ was a virgin? Is there any reason that we should think that he was not sexually active?", "That's a very interesting question. I don't think anything is said about that that I know of in the New Testament or any other Gospel. I mean, some people suggest that he may have been married, because it was common for most rabbis to be married...", "(Unintelligible)", "...back then, as it is now. And because, you know, it might not have been a subject for comment, because it was just taken for granted.", "Mm-hmm.", "But there are teachings in the New Testament, at lest in Mark and Matthew, in which Jesus praises people who are single and celibate. And so, you know, blessed are the eunuchs, for they shall make themselves, you know, it's in Matthew 19. Those who make themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven, and those are people who are sexually inactive.", "Inactive.", "So there were at least suggestions that he was celibate, but we don't know that for sure. It's a good point.", "Well, thank you very much and I look forward to hearing the rest of the conversation.", "Okay, Carrie. Thanks very much. Let's turn now to Katherine(ph). And Katherine's calling from Minneapolis.", "Hi.", "Hi.", "Hello.", "I wanted to respond, actually to the earlier callers comment about -he was wondering why the church was so - or why members of the church have been outraged about the book when he claims that its fiction.", "Mm-hmm.", "I think that one of the messages that a lot of readers are taking away from Dan Brown's book is that we shouldn't necessarily look at the bible or biblical documents as, you know, literal documents that should be interpreted literally, or that we should necessarily take the church's interpretation of them, you know, at face value, but that we should look at them in an historical and cultural context of the time in which they were written. And that puts into question a lot of peoples' doctrine and belief about bible and the Christianity, in general.", "Well, I think that's a really good point. Historians do the same thing, though, whether they're Christians or not, and many of my teachers and colleagues are very definitely Christians; myself included. So, you know, looking at them in historical context, you're right, it does change it.", "Taking literally, though, doesn't just go on one side. I mean, I thought he took, you know, Jesus kissing Mary Magdalene, very literally. Because if you read the Gospel of Philip - further than he did - you realize that it's a mystical text and that she, here, represents the Holy Spirit or the Church, and the Church is the bride of Christ, as Christians know from the letters of St. Paul.", "So there's a great deal of symbolic and mystical language in these texts, which, you're perfectly right, shouldn't be taken literally, and which needs to be interpreted and understood spiritually.", "Katherine, thanks very much.", "Thank you.", "Prof. Pagels, have you seen the movie?", "Not yet.", "You looking forward to it?", "Well, I'd like to see it. Have you?", "Not yet. But I'm looking forward to it too.", "Elaine Pagels, thanks very much for your time today.", "Okay. It was a pleasure.", "Elaine Pagels, a Professor of religion at Princeton University and author of the book, The Gnostic Gospels and Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas. Her Op-Ed appeared in yesterday's San Jose Mercury News. You can find it by going to the TALK OF THE NATION page at npr.org.", "This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. 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{"id": "NPR-5933", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2008-05-28", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90907233", "title": "Motley Crue Sells Music Via 'Rock Band' Game", "summary": "Last month, the rock band Motley Crue began selling a single off a new album exclusively through the video game \"Rock Band\" — with great success. It's another new way for the music industry to find paying customers online.", "utt": ["From NPR News, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Noah Adams.", "And I'm Michele Norris. You might not call the music group Motley Crue cutting edge, but last month, they became the first rock band to release a single exclusively through a video game. For a time, you could only buy the song \"Saints of Los Angeles\" if you had the game \"Rock Band\" and the console you needed to play it. Soon after, the song became available through more traditional methods - on iTunes and other music services - but as Cyrus Farivar reports, the song is selling way more copies through the video game.", "If you have \"Rock Band,\" it'll cost you three bucks to download \"Saints of Los Angeles.\"", "In \"Rock Band,\" players become the band, playing this or dozens of other songs, minus the stage lights and mosh pit.", "(Singing) Tonight, there's gonna be a fight, so if you need a place to go, got a two-roof slum, a magnum seven gun and the cops don't never show. So come right in…", "\"Saints of Los Angeles\" has sold over 80,000 copies through \"Rock Band.\" That's more than double the sales from online music services like iTunes and Amazon combined, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Motley Crue just may be on to something, says Mike McGuire, a digital music analyst at Gartner Research, because a game like \"Rock Band\" really pulls people into the music.", "The person is in the game itself, playing along with that song. It's somebody that's more engrossed in the music, as opposed to, you know, I could have had this music right now, and it would just be background.", "And as CD sales continue to drop, it only makes sense that record labels are looking for a lot of new sources of revenue, something that could be what singles on 45s once were. It's only natural for music labels to tap into the booming and lucrative video game industry, says Aaron Greenberg, director of product management for Xbox 360.", "The games industry last year grew 43 percent over here to $18 billion in the US alone. So as people are looking for how they want to get their entertainment, gaming is sort of the new growth.", "People in the video game and music industries say they anticipate other bands will release new tracks on \"Rock Band.\" Already, the British rock group Def Leppard used the game \"Guitar Hero III,\" which is similar to \"Rock Band,\" to release one new track last month. While digital sales of Motley Crue's \"Saints of Los Angeles\" continue to rise, the physical album won't be released until late next month.", "For NPR News, I'm Cyrus Farivar."], "speaker": ["NOAH ADAMS, host", "MICHELE NORRIS, host", "CYRUS FARIVAR", "CYRUS FARIVAR", "Mr. VINCE NEIL (Lead Singer, Motley Crue)", "CYRUS FARIVAR", "Mr. MIKE GARTNER (Digital Music Analyst, Gartner Research)", "CYRUS FARIVAR", "Mr. AARON GREENBERG (Director of Product Management, Xbox 360)", "CYRUS FARIVAR", "CYRUS FARIVAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-117789", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-6-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/23/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Operation Arrowhead Ripper; Afghanistan President Angry Words at Coalition Forces; Coalition Aircraft Fire Kills Afghan Children; South Carolina Furniture Store Fire; Crossing Guard Alleged Child Molestation", "utt": ["Thank you so much T.J.and Betty. Straight ahead this hour, we will be taking you to one of the most dangerous places in Iraq, as U.S. troops target an al Qaeda stronghold. Also, menacing messages from an e-mail hitman. Find out how do avoid this cyber shakedown. Plus...", "I ordered for the table.", "No onion rings?", "Presidential politics brings us the viral video of the week. The news unfolding live on Saturday, June 23rd. I'm Brianna Keilar in for Fredricka Whitfield and you're in the NEWSROOM We begin with fierce fighting in Iraq on day five of \"Operation Arrowhead Ripper.\" U.S. soldiers are battling al Qaeda militants in Diyala Province and the military says they're tightening the grip on the insurgent stronghold of Baqubah, north of Baghdad. Hala Gorani now joins us live from Baghdad -- Hala.", "Hello, Brianna.", "I wanted to ask -- Sorry Hala, go ahead. Sorry Hala, go ahead.", "All right, well, here's the latest really, on \"Operation Arrowhead Ripper.\" You mentioned that it is targeting insurgent bases in a province north and east of Baghdad, that is Diyala. And especially focusing on the capital of that Diyala Province, Baqubah, involving 10,000 U.S. troops. Now, this is taking U.S. troops closer to danger, closer to action on a house-to-house, block-to-block search for these insurgents, as well as factories that manufacture car bombs and IEDs -- IEDs that are the biggest killer of American troops. Now, the question out there is, did some of these insurgent troops leave the area of Baqubah and Diyala Province in anticipation of the operation? General Odierno told reporters -- he's No. 2 commander of U.S. forces in Iraq -- that that was a possibility. So, that is a big question. Also, is the insurgency, if it has indeed left some of these areas targeted by U.S. troops, relocating to other areas? So, these are all big questions left up in the air as this operation enters its sixth day -- Brianna.", "And Hala, you know, we're hearing that there are some new developments involving Iraq's parliament. What can you tell us about that?", "Well, parliament has essentially extended its session until the end of July. Now, the reason given for that is to work on draft legislation, work on voting on draft legislation that the U.S. considers essential to political reconciliation in Iraq. One of those laws that the U.S. hopes to see passed is a law to share the revenue of oil in this country. Iraq is a very oil-rich country and all sects are going to want to be able to share the revenues of this very important natural resource. However, no draft laws have been presented, essentially, to parliament. So, whether or not the extension of this session will mean anything with that regard is also an open question -- Brianna.", "And we know you'll be keeping an eye on that for us. We really appreciate that. Hala Gorani live, for us, from Baghdad. And now from Afghanistan's president, angry words aimed at coalition forces. Hamid Karzai is upset over the deaths of civilians caught in the fighting between NATO troops and al Qaeda fighters; among recent incidents, a coalition operation that reportedly killed more than two dozen civilians in a village in southern Afghanistan.", "They have to accept our recommendations, which they have not been accepting for the past many years. They have to coordinate with us. They have to strengthen the Afghan National Army further. They have to help us build a police force that is raised from the community, that is in the community. They cannot bring standards from their countries in the West and try to apply it to Afghanistan.", "In another deadly incident this week, seven Afghan children were killed when coalition aircraft bombed a building in eastern Afghanistan. And we've learned more today about Monday's tragic furniture store fire there in Charleston, South Carolina. Investigators have completed their site investigation. And while they still aren't saying what exactly started the fire, they are saying where it began.", "The local ATF office, SLED, the sheriff's office, the police department, the fire department, will continue the investigation to determine the cause of the fire. Our own scene investigation showed that the area for origin for the fire is the loading dock area.", "Many people have said they want to help, and you can help the families of the Charleston firefighters and other causes, as well. You can take this opportunity, right now, to do something about issues that matter to you. Just logon to cnn.com/impact and with a click you'll get the information that you need. Be part of the solution and you can use the news on CNN to impact your world, just go to cnn.com/impact. And the South Carolina tragedy highlights the daily dangers that are faced by firefighters. They go to work never knowing for sure that they'll make it home. CNN's John Zarrella reports.", "Nearly every time Fort Lauderdale fire lieutenant, Billy White, heads out one thing is certain. The danger this second generation firefighter faces will likely be greater than what his father had to deal with.", "The back of your mind going, you know, I don't know what's in here. I don't know what I'm going to expect. I don't know what I'm going to find.", "There are many reasons for the increased risk. Firefighters will tell you the South Carolina fire is an example of this.", "Fires today are inherently more dangerous than ever before because they're burning hotter and faster.", "The reason, because so many of the products in our businesses and homes are made of plastics and resins, polyurethane and response time is faster than ever. Why?", "Cell phones. Everybody has a cell phone.", "At the first sign of smoke, someone is dialing 911.", "You see flames, right?", "Yeah, somebody's calling right now as well.", "911 police and fire.", "We've got a fire in our backyard.", "OK, ma'am. Are you outside the house?", "Yeah, I'm outside the house.", "OK.", "The raw facts bear out the danger. From 1996 to 2005, the number of structure fires declined nationwide by more than 65,000, but the number of firefighter fatalities has hovered near or above 100 every year, this despite a wealth of new technologies -- thermal imaging.", "The whites are hotter. The darker colors are a lower temperature.", "A HAZMAT team arrives at the scene of a ruptured gas line. Vital information about each one, how much air in the tank, which company he or she is with, is continually checked with this monitoring device. If something goes wrong and they are forced to evacuate the scene, each firefighter would get the message loud and clear, \"get out!\" (on camera): Now, that's loud. You can't miss that.", "Right. They definitely know that we want them out.", "Preaching, teaching, constant training is the only way McInerny says to reduce the risk. Even then, there are no guarantees. Fighting a fire means getting up close. Firefighters call it \"putting the wet stuff on the red stuff.\" John Zarrella, CNN, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.", "A disturbing story now out of Pennsylvania. A school crossing guard charged with more than 1,000 counts of alleged child molestation. Dale Hutchings was arrested Tuesday in Berwick, Pennsylvania. He's charged with molesting seven children under the age of 13. Police say Hutchings allegedly took the children to his home which is within sight of the school. And a strong weather system packing a tornado and lots of rain pounded parts of Iowa. Four inches of rain have fallen in some areas, closing Highway Six near west liberty until at least tonight. The twister damaged several power lines, trees and roofs, but thankfully so far, no reports of any major injuries. And now for a closer look at the weather, let's go to Reynolds Wolf there in the CNN Weather Center. Hi Reynolds.", "Hi Brianna.", "All right, looks like we want to be on the West coast today, you know, Reynolds?", "Not a bad choice.", "All right, thanks so much for that. Well, he says he's not running, so why are all eyes on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg? Well, because he can run for president right out of his personal checking account. A look at the possibilities coming up 20 minutes from now.", "I had been in law enforcement for close to 20 years. I mean, been homicides, AG (ph) assaults, but I've never seen anybody brand another person, especially in the facial area.", "This is one of the most horrendous crime stories you will ever hear, a woman branded. That's ahead. But coming up next, North Korea's nuclear program. What do they have and will they actually shut it down? We're going to hear from the United States' top nuclear negotiator. You're watching the NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN NEWS ANCHOR", "SEN HILLARY CLINTON (D-NY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BILL CLINTON, FRM. U.S. PRESIDENT", "KEILAR", "HALA GORANI, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR", "GORANI", "KEILAR", "GORANI", "KEILAR", "PRES. HAMID KARZAI, AFGHANISTAN", "KEILAR", "KEN CHISHOLM, ATF SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE", "KEILAR", "JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "LT. BILLY WHITE, FT LAUDERDALE FIRE-RESCUE", "ZARRELLA", "ASST. 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{"id": "CNN-363670", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-03-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/06/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Trudeau Battles Corruption Scandal; Singer R. Kelly Charge", "utt": ["Radio stations in Canada and New Zealand are dropping Michael Jackson's music in a wake of a new documentary on the late popstar. The HBO film features two men who claimed Jackson sexually abuse them over several years when they were children. Jackson's state is suing HBO, calling the documentary a public lynching. New Zealand's media works, radio stations and rival broadcaster ends at Emmy have pulled Jackson's songs and in Canada the CBC reports three major Montreal base stations have also dropped Jackson from their play list. Activists have long been trying to silence R. Kelly as well, but the Grammy winning singer is now fighting back against allegations that he had sex with underage girls. Chicago police indicted Kelly last month on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four victims, three of them allegedly under the age of 17, but Kelly now says the claims are not true.", "Use your common sense. Don't forget the (inaudible), forget how you feel about me. Hate me if you want to, love me if you want. But just use your common sense. How stupid would it be for me -- to -- with my crazy past and what I've been through all, right now, I just think I need to be a monster and hold girls against their will and chain them up in my basement and don't let them eat and don't let them out, unless they need some shoes down the street from the oracle. Drop it. You got to quit plan, quit plan. I didn't do this stuff. This is not me. I'll fight for my [bleep] life.", "If convicted, Kelly faces up to seven years in prison for each of those 10 counts. Next, Canada's Prime Minister not only faces a corruption scandal, but now resignations from his inner circle and the opposition calling for him to stand down --", "-- before this rally, Treasury Board Minister Jane Philpott became the second member of Trudeau's cabinet to resign over the government's handling of a corruption scandal. At issue, allegations of political influence to prevent a corruption trial of major Canadian construction company SNC-Lavalin which is set to be closely connected to Trudeau's liberal party. The Prime Minister tried to address the resignation at this rally in Toronto this past Monday, but hecklers were not having it.", "Well, I'm disappointed, I understand her decision to step down. And I want to thank her for her service. OK.", "And opposition politicians are pouncing on the issue.", "Jane Philpott's resignation from cabinet clearly demonstrates a government in total chaos led by a disgraced Prime Minister.", "The crisis of confidence for Trudeau began last month when a top minister Jody Wilson-Raybould resigned alleging that government officials had tried to influence her decision on whether to bring corruption charges against SNC-Lavalin. Wilson-Raybould was Justice Minister at the time of the alleged pressure.", "I experienced a consistent and sustained effort by many people within the government to seek to politically interfere in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in his role as the Attorney General of Canada.", "Wilson-Raybould said, the Prime Minister and others were concerned that charges against SNC-Lavalin would lead to job losses. Prime Minister Trudeau has denied the allegations. His Principal Secretary Gerald Butts also quit over the controversy. All this as a general election is just months away.", "It is already having an impact on the liberals. The polling numbers show that dropped 9 percent. I think there's a possibility of them to survive. We're eight months away from an election campaign. He is still is a formidable campaigner. He is going to run on the environment, on progressive policies, but he is got to figure a way out of this.", "Justin Trudeau may be well aware of the fight ahead and could be preparing for what may be the biggest battle of his career. Amara Walker, CNN.", "Let's take a closer look at the scandal with Daniel Beland joining us from Montreal. He is professor of political science at McGill University. Daniel, I just listened to a clip of the opposition leader saying Justin Trudeau simply cannot continue to govern this country now that Canadians know what he has done. Really?", "Well, I think that there's a bit of overreach on the part of Andrew Sheer, the leader of the Conservative Party. He was criticized for saying that. But it's still -- I think it is a major story here in Canada and there are a lot of unanswered questions right now, but it is unlikely that our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will resign anytime soon.", "I mean, the issue here is -- is I mean, SNC-Lavalin, I mean, it seems to me that Trudeau was trying to preserve Canadian jobs or he is trying to preserve donations to his party? What is happening?", "Well, SNC-Lavalin is a major company based in Montreal. And it has about 9,000 employees in Canada, it's a major international corporation in the field of engineering and construction. And Quebec is absolutely crucial if its -- for the Liberal Party. Justin Trudeau's Party ahead of the federal elections, which are in October. And -- there is a lot of pressure, not just on SNC-Lavalin, but also from politicians in Quebec including the premier of the province for the federal government to reach a different prosecution agreement with the company in order. We are told to save jobs and make sure that the headquarters don't leave Montreal. So there is a practical imperative here. Lobbing on part of SNC- Lavalin, about so electrical calculus in terms of all the Liberal Party could stand in the province of Quebec, come October.", "Right. But I mean, nobody is suggesting that Justin Trudeau is taking kickbacks, trying to get anything for himself personally. I mean, he is maybe trying to help his party and trying to save jobs. I mean, it seems like the kind of scandal that in another country, south of the border perhaps would be over in about 12 or 13 hours, but not in Canada.", "Yes. I mean, the main issue here is the independence of the justice system. We have in Canada as opposed to what you see in other countries, that are part of the commonwealth, that are part of the parliamentary tradition like the U.K., New Zealand, Australia, where the Attorney General and the minister of justice are two separate positions, but in Canada these two hats are worn by the same person. And that creates some tensions. So there is an institutional issue here, a legal issue. But it is true that compared to the spectacle that we are seeing everyday south of the border this is kind of more technical issue that we're dealing with, but --, but people take that seriously because it is about the rule of law and the independence of justice in this country.", "And is Justin Trudeau going to survive this? Will he still do OK in the elections later this year? Or is this going to finish him?", "Well, no, I think it is too early to tell. The election is about seven months from now. If we follow the electoral calendar, unless we have early elections. But, you know, I think that -- that the conservatives and the liberals both have a shot at forming a government. They're neck and neck in the polls. And I think it is too early to tell will win, but obviously, it is too early to tell whether Justin Trudeau will still be the leader of this party in a year from now. And if he will be able to be Prime Minister again after this -- this election in October. So, lots of unanswered questions regarding this issue and also the polls are so tight right now that it would probably be a closed race. And certainly this story, the SNC-Lavalin story is not helping the liberals. And it is giving a bit more ammunition to the opposition, to the Conservative Party and to the Left-wing MDP Party to really attack liberals, because they hope to make gains before the October election.", "Daniel Beland, joining us from Montreal, thank you very much for your time.", "Thank you for your invitation.", "And next, a vacation from hell. Some cruise ship passengers left feeling that way after a rocky ride. We'll hear from one of those passengers. That is next. Plus Donald Trump's love affair with the American flag, we will get social media's take on groping old glory."], "speaker": ["WATT", "R. KELLY, MUSICIAN", "WATT", "AMARA WALKER, CNN NTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "JUSTIN TRUDEAU, PRIME MINISTER, CANADA", "WALKER", "ANDREW SCHEER, LEADER, CANADIAN CONSERVATIVE PARTY", "WALKER", "JODY WILSON-RAYBOULD, FORMER CANADIAN JUSTICE MINISTER", "WALKER", "ROBERT FIFE, OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF, GLOBE AND MAIL", "WALKER", "WATT", "DANIEL BELAND, PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY", "WATT", "BELAND", "WATT", "BELAND", "WATT", "BELAND", "WATT", "BELAND", "WATT"]}
{"id": "CNN-218270", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2013-11-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/06/cg.01.html", "summary": "Legalizing Marijuana; Marijuana Movement is Growing", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. Just in national news, it was another grilling on the Hill today. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told Congress that the government needed to fix hundreds of problems with the Healthcare.gov. We're now learning that you'll have one less set of hands to tackle those issues. The chief information officer for CMS Tony Trenkle, who was in charge of the technology of the federal agency that developed the Web site, has announced that he is retiring from the government and taking a private sector job. No word yet if Trenkle is being pushed out for his role in the site's development. Now for the buried lead, that's what we call stories that we think are not getting enough attention -- don't be surprised if you hear Snoop Dogg buying a summer home in Portland, Maine. Last night, that city became the first city to, quote/unquote, \"legalize marijuana\", as did three communities in Michigan, including the city of Lansing. These areas are following in the footsteps of Colorado and Washington state which both voted to legalize recreational drug use last November. But what makes these city decriminalization laws a little different is that they essentially made something that was legal that was never illegal under city statutes to begin with. It's a little like saying, let's make eating legal in our town. It was never illegal. But by passing these proposals, cities and towns may have a stronger leg to stand on in their efforts to change state laws that make it illegal to smoke pot. No wonder the movement is gaining some momentum, according to ArcView Market Research. The legal marijuana market is worth almost $1.5 billion nationally and it's expected to top $2.3 billion by next year. That's a 64 percent increase, faster than the market for smartphones, according to \"The Huffington Post.\" Our next guest is Mark Kleiman, a public policy professor at UCLA. And he says, don't be surprised given the current trend if pot is legal nationwide in five years. Mark, thanks so much for being here. We appreciate it. As you heard, we interviewed New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg a few minutes ago. He called legalizing pot a bad idea. He says he thinks it will make drug dealers offer more potent drugs to make up for whatever money they lose for marijuana sales. What do you say to that?", "It's an odd brand of economics. So on what theory are drug dealers who have a market or some other drug not offering it simply because marijuana is legal? I can't make any sense out of that -- that concern. And then the next thing the mayor said was, well, people who smoke pot will then use more potent drugs. Again, no evidence of that. The big question that he don't answer and nobody has an answer to is whether or not making it legal will get fewer people to drink heavily. If it does, that would be a big deal. If it leads more people to drink heavily, that would be a bad thing. And the honest answer about most of this stuff is we don't know, and anybody said he does know he's bluffing.", "The latest Gallup poll, Professor, shows 58 percent of the American people favor legalizing marijuana. Do you think given the swell of support that more focus needs to put on how to make legalization work rather than debating whether it's a good idea? I mean, has the train left the station and now should we just be worried about safety for the train?", "I think that's right. There are lots and lots of questions that the state has to decide and eventually the federal government will have to decide. The current train that's leaving the station is commercial legalization pretty much on the model of alcohol and tobacco. Those seem to be like two very bad models to follow and I think we ought to be able to do better. But the piecemeal state by state approach rules out what I think is the best solution, which would be to have cannabis distributed by state agencies rather than by for profit private entity. But you can't do that while cannabis is illegal nationally since state officials can't be told to break federal law.", "Colorado --", "I would like to get this out of the hands of the initiative writers and into the hands of the legislators. I'd like to do it nationally and I'd like to do it calmly. I don't think I'm going to get any of those things.", "Colorado recently passed a law to tax marijuana sales at a rate of 15 percent. Do you think that's a good model to follow for other states considering legalizing marijuana?", "Unfortunately I don't. There are two problems with that tax. One is the rate is too low and the other is that it's a set of the fraction of the market price and the market price is going to fall with legalization, probably dramatically. What you'd like is a tax that rises as the market price falls to keep the price to the consumer more or less constant. So, I'd like to have an excise tax on THC, which is the main activation in cannabis and adjust that from year to year. But that's not -- not the direction Colorado went in, not the direction that the Washington state went in. And again, if you're putting something up to the voters, it has to be something you can explain in a 30-second spot. And more complicated proposals aren't going to do very well in that context.", "All right. Fascinating stuff. Professor Kleiman, thanks for joining us. It's like the whole country is changing and nobody in Washington, D.C. is aware of it. Let's check in in our political panel in the green room. Kevin Madden, I hope you don't mind me saying this, that while you may have a great head of hair, you've got nothing on Dante de Blasio's afro.", "Not at all.", "Featured prominently here during the family's signature smackdown dance from last night's victory party in New York. Could we see the young de Blasio singlehandedly bring back big hair?", "I think, yes.", "And if so, are you on board, my friend?", "I am. I think Dante is going to do for big hair what Jackie Kennedy did for pill box hats. Truly -- and what Jake Tapper did for pocket squares.", "Very nice.", "Nobody ever wore pocket squares until you did.", "That's right. We'll take a look at the real implications of election night, not just the follicle ones when THE LEAD continues."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "MARK A. R. 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{"id": "CNN-105894", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2006-5-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/12/acd.01.html", "summary": "National Guard Troops to Defend the Border?", "utt": ["Tonight, tips pour in on the hunt for fugitive Warren Jeffs, as police investigate another polygamist leader. And the battle on the border -- with thousands of illegal immigrants crossing each day, the White House considers sending soldiers, National Guard troops, to help secure America's borders.", "Guarding the borders -- new reports that President Bush might send troops to help do it. He was impeached for lying, but Americans now say this president is more trustworthy than the one in the White House. And a CNN exclusive:", "So many people have had their lives totally dismantled.", "Twenty wives, 100 kids -- he split from fugitive polygamist Warren Jeffs. Now they're all paying the price.", "Across the country and around the world, this is ANDERSON COOPER 360. Live from the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, here's Anderson Cooper.", "Thanks for joining us this Friday evening. We begin tonight with a fight over illegal immigration -- several developments today -- the White House announcing the president will deliver a prime-time televised address on illegal immigration on Monday. And there's word tonight that thousands of National Guard troops could soon be heading to the U.S. border with Mexico. Pentagon sources tell CNN that the idea is on the table, and a decision could be announced as early as next week. The battle on the border is heating up, no doubt about it. And, tonight, we're covering all the angles. Would sending troops to the border work? We will examine what role they would have and who would be in charge. Plus, the civilian fight -- Minutemen demonstrators in Washington today protesting a bill that would give millions of illegals a chance at U.S. citizenship. We will talk to their group's executive director. And the president's address Monday. His poll numbers are reaching new lows. We will talk about the speech's political impact with former White House adviser David Gergen. We begin, however, with CNN senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre on the possible plan to send National Guard troops to the border.", "The Pentagon has been asked to draw up options for the military to help beef up security along the U.S.-Mexico border. And Pentagon sources tell CNN, one idea under consideration is to have the federal government pick up the tab for several thousand additional National Guard troops, to be activated in the border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Under that option, the Guard troops would remain under the control of state governors, as they were during Hurricane Katrina, and would be limited to a supporting role, providing logistics, intelligence and surveillance help to civilian authorities. That's already being done on a small scale by several hundred Guard troops. But the numbers could jump to several thousand.", "This is a job that we can train our forces to perform. We can utilize the panoply of sensors and detection devices and -- and monitoring equipment and military hardware to ensure that we do not continue to be subjected to what amounts to an onslaught every single day.", "Still, don't expect to see U.S. troops on the front lines patrolling the border, officials say. But, with additional helicopters, unmanned spy planes, and sophisticated computers and communications, the Guard can be what the Pentagon calls a force multiplier for the overburdened U.S. Border Patrol and local law enforcement. Active-duty U.S. troops are barred from domestic law enforcement by a Civil War-era law known as Posse Comitatus. But National Guard troops under state control can perform some law enforcement functions, such as crowd control. Still, the Pentagon is anxious to avoid the sort of controversy that erupted back in 1997, when a U.S. Marine supporting counter-drug agents shot and killed a goat herder along the Mexican border. (on camera): The Pentagon says, in theory, it could sustain of force of up to 10,000 Guard troops along the Mexican border without affecting its other operations. But officials say it's way too early to say how many troops might be deployed. And they insist, any additional military assistance will be temporary, until the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency can hire additional permanent personnel. Jamie McIntyre, CNN, the Pentagon.", "Well, if National Guard troops do head to the border, they will go with the blessing of the Minuteman Project. Members of that civilian group say, at the end of the month, they actually plan to start building border fences on private property. Today, its members arrived in Washington, and they made some noise. Here's CNN's Tom Foreman.", "Through a crowd of angry protesters and fresh from a tour of the country, the Minuteman Project arrived at the Capitol with a message for lawmakers: Enforce immigration law, or else.", "If you will not protect our liberties, then you will be booted out of office!", "And you will be sent to the unemployment line! And we will find a patriot who loves America to take your place!", "Whether this group can deliver on such threats is not clear, but they have seized the spotlight, patrolling illegal border crossings, reporting employers who hire illegals, and relentlessly demanding that America's boundaries be secured.", "We want it done the right way. And that's all we're asking.", "David and Michelle Beasley say they have never been involved in politics before, but drove nine hours from South Carolina to say they're worried about the effect of illegal immigrants on national security, American culture, and the economy.", "We see people getting paid under the table.", "Day workers.", "Day workers. They're lined up on the streets down from where we live.", "And what do you think that does to work American workers and American wages? David Beasley, Minutemen Supporter: They cannot compete. They cannot compete.", "Bigots in suits and ties, we don't want your racist lies!", "Protesters who want amnesty for illegal immigrants call the Minutemen racist, Klansmen, Nazis.", "But I'm here to tell them that we are opposed to them, and there are many people who just disagree wholeheartedly with what their opinion is.", "The Minutemen have caught on because a lot of Americans are growing concerned about immigration and fearing that their government is not doing enough.", "They're -- they're just not listening to the people. And, so...", "Why would they do that?", "Honestly, I think it's because of the -- the influence that the lobbyists and corporate America has, and they want the cheap labor in this country.", "Immigration rights activists have filled the streets, but the Minuteman Project aims to fill elected offices with people who can make tough immigration laws and make them stick.", "... of the brave.", "Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.", "Well, Steve Eichler is one of the Minutemen you saw in that piece. He's the executive director of Minutemen Project. He joins me now from Washington. Steve, thanks for being on the program. What were you -- what were you hoping to accomplish with this caravan and this rally today?", "Well, we wanted to draw national attention to the issue. Exactly 13 months ago, Jim Gilchrist went down to the border, the Arizona border, and drew national attention, one man with a lawn chair and a -- binoculars, and, all of a sudden, the president of the United States called him a vigilante. Well, no one's laughing anymore. We have called national attention. We're bringing the argument up. And, all of a sudden, folks want to talk about putting troops on the border. That's a wonderful first step.", "Yes. I mean, what -- what -- what about the plan to -- you actually think National Guard troops -- I mean, would they be able to do a job that the Border Patrol is not able to do?", "Oh. Well, it's a significant first step. The Border Patrol needs a 500 percent increase in their budget. They are understaffed, and they have -- don't have enough equipment. And the fact that the Minutemen are there to be their eyes and ears, to observe and report, is a significant help for them. Now, to add to that, if could have National Guard troops there, that would be wonderful.", "Do you think it is ever really possible, though, to completely seal off this border? I mean, you go down to San Diego, and, you know, they have a double fence, very, you know, high-technology, and you still have people digging, you know, 1,000-, 2000-foot tunnels underneath it.", "Well, according to recent estimates, there will be two million two to three million people flowing across that border. What if we could just cut it in half? That would be significant. We address a lot of those issues our on Web site, of course, at MinutemanProject.com, because we know that, if you take two Minutemen and you put them on the border, they can secure over one mile of border fence. So, if you have National Guard there, plus Minutemen, plus Border Patrols, of course, you're going to have a -- a positive impact.", "You -- the -- obviously, you feel very strongly about this.", "Absolutely.", "You had a couple hundred people involved in -- in this caravan. Obviously, the other side had, you know, hundreds of thousands of people that -- that have turned out. A -- a lot of Americans agree something needs to be done on the border. They need to be more secure, but three-quarters of Americans say in a recent poll that -- that giving amnesty to illegal immigrants who have been here for five years was a good idea. More than half seem sympathetic to illegal immigrants. Do you think, I mean, you guys are really representative of -- of the great -- the vast sentiment out there?", "Absolutely. As this argument grows, more and more Americans are very, very angry at the inaction of the federal government. And by that type of inaction, they're going to be showing it at the polls. So, when they go in the ballot box, they're going to make a decision. Has this candidate properly represented the argument, and will they represent us? If so, they will get the vote.", "Well...", "Yes.", "... we will be watching it at the polls. Steve Eichler, I appreciate you joining us. Thanks.", "Thank you for having me.", "We all know the polling numbers for President Bush have been bad lately, to say the least. But get this. In a recent poll, when asked who was more honest as president, Bush or Clinton, guess who won? We will tell you in a moment. And it's not just honesty they were polled about, foreign policy, Iraq, the economy. We are going to run the numbers. The answers may surprise you. Also tonight, the hunt for a fugitive polygamist.", "The people who practice polygamy in Utah today see themselves as continuing a practice that was urged upon Latter Day Saints by their earlier prophets."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "ANNOUNCER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANNOUNCER", "ANNOUNCER", "COOPER", "JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN SENIOR MILITARY AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (voice- over)", "FRANK GAFFNEY, FOUNDER & PRESIDENT, CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY", "MCINTYRE", "COOPER", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "STEPHEN EICHLER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MINUTEMAN PROJECT", "EICHLER", "FOREMAN", "PATTY PEEBLES, MINUTEMEN SUPPORTER", "FOREMAN", "MICHELLE BEASLEY, MINUTEMEN SUPPORTER", "FOREMAN (on camera)", "BEASLEY", "FOREMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS", "FOREMAN (voice-over)", "AMADA JAUREGUI, PROTESTER", "FOREMAN (on camera)", "WILLIAM ABERCROMBIE, TRUCK DRIVER", "FOREMAN", "ABERCROMBIE", "FOREMAN (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS (singing)", "FOREMAN", "COOPER", "EICHLER", "COOPER", "EICHLER", "COOPER", "EICHLER", "COOPER", "EICHLER", "COOPER", "EICHLER", "COOPER", "EICHLER", "COOPER", "EICHLER", "COOPER", "DEAN MAY, HISTORIAN, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH"]}
{"id": "CNN-357122", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-12-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1812/15/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Parkland School Safety Commission Recommends Arming Teachers", "utt": ["This week, there's been a new controversial push to put guns in classrooms to avoid tragedies like the one at Parkland, Florida. It's been 10 months since 17 people, 14 of whom were children, were gunned down at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Now, the school's Safety Committee that was formed after the shooting has voted to recommend a state law be passed allowing teachers to be armed. Those teachers would have to volunteer and undergo a background check. Joining me with more on this is CNN's correspondent, Polo Sandoval. Polo, this is obviously a hugely controversial subject, arming teachers, now one of the recommendations of this commission. What else did they say?", "Hugely controversial, and a huge report literally, too, Alex, about 400 pages that were prepared by members of this 15-person commission that was put together just months after that February 14th shooting. With two main purposes, identify basically what went wrong from law enforcement and the school district and identify different ways of preventing something from like this from happening again. The most controversial one allows all teachers in the state of Florida to be armed inside the campus. Now, when it comes to some of the other issues here, some of the other recommendations that were laid out by this commission, I want to read you some of the recommended changes that this commission believes should be done at school districts across the state of Florida, things like electronically controlled door systems, the installation of ballistic glass and also metal detectors. You keep going down the list. Also the installation of more fencing around perimeters, GPS locators on school buses. And then there's that proposal we just talked about, this idea of arming teachers. We should mention that Florida has already taken legislative steps in the past, mainly in March, when they allowed certain staff on campus that are trained to be able to carry weapons inside the classroom. However, if approved, some of these latest proposals would seek to allow all teachers to arm themselves as long as they are trained and pass additional screening here. That, Alex, in a very quick nutshell, is a breakdown of what these 400 pages lay out. These are 400 pages that will go to the governor of Florida and to legislators.", "All right, Polo Sandoval, thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "For more, let's bring in Max Schachter. His son, Alex, was one of the 17 people killed in last February's tragic shooting. Max, first of all, tremendously sorry for your loss. And in the wake of your son's killing, you joined this Public Safety Commission that has now recommended arming teachers. Do you believe that armed teachers could have prevented this tragedy?", "I feel I'm in favor of the Guardian Program, and the Guardian Program in its current form would have all personnel potentially to be a part of the Guardian Program to be armed except for teachers. But I want to explain why the commission voted 13-1 to vote in favor of arming teachers, and that is the -- the reason is we did an extensive 20-year active-assault analysis of every mass school shooting in the United States, and what we found is that a lot of things, number one, all these mass murders are over in a matter of four minutes. Number two, you've got all school personnel that are on campus and a majority of these school shootings, school personnel on campus have stopped these murders from taking place. Number three, this mass murderer had an empty gun five times. Five times he reloaded. And if there were personnel on campus that had a weapon, they could have stopped him and neutralized this threat and killed this murder. I did not support this measure. I recently traveled to Israel to look how Israel makes their schools safe. There's a tremendous threat there in Israel. And what they found is that they tried this before. They armed 14,000 teachers in the past, and what they found was the teachers were leaving their guns in the classrooms. They were leaving them in bathrooms, in their drawers at home, and they were extremely nervous about bad things happening with teachers being armed. I am concerned about this. Israel removed all 14,000 guns away from their teachers, and I did not support this measure. Teachers should teach, and that is the only thing they should do. But I am in favor of other personnel, principals, assistant principals, security monitors. The fact of the matter is we need a good guy with a gun on campus. Two is better than one, three is better than two.", "Right. Israel also has incredibly strict gun control laws, we should note. But in this report, there are also several elements highlighted that may have contributed to the incredible horror that followed. We saw gates, doors that locked only on the outside of classrooms. There was an inadequate P.A. system. So what do you think other schools around the country can learn from this tragedy to make themselves safer?", "I mean, there are so many lessons learned, so many best practices that are going to come out of this report. It will be issued January 1st, and I recommend every school district around the country to analyze our report. One very simple thing that Broward County still does not have is a code red policy. There needs to be training for teachers and children exactly what to do when there's an active assailant on campus. And also, there needs to be a hard corner policy or a safe zone. Every classroom needs to have a protected space that teachers and children know where to go if there's a murderer on your campus. This murderer did not enter any of the classrooms. He shot right through the glass window of Alex's classroom door. And it haunts me every day that if we would have had ballistic glass in that classroom window door, Alex, my little boy, would still be alive here today.", "Max, you recently had a chance to sit down with the president and the vice president here in Washington. What did you tell them, and how did they respond?", "They responded very, very well. I told them that, ever since this happened, schools are lost. Marjory Stoneman Douglas, whether it's Santa Fe High School, they do not know how to make themselves safe. Schools around this country are at a loss. They're investing millions and millions of dollars on security cameras to look at forensics of dead bodies when they don't even have locks on their doors. And so I recommended to the administration that, for the first time ever, they create a clearinghouse to develop national school safety best practices. This is vitally needed to give guidance to schools across the country. And the administration heard my pleas, and I am extremely hopeful that that is going to be in this report, this impending Federal Commission on School Safety report that's going to come out very, very soon. The administration is extremely concerned. They do not want this to be just another commission, to have a commission until the next school shooting. I think that the measures that they recommend and that are in the MSD Commission report are going to be the most widely accepted changes and the most drastic changes and the most significant changes to make schools safe in 20 years since Columbine.", "All right, Max Schachter, thanks. Again, our deepest condolences to you and your family.", "Thank you very much.", "And we'll be right back."], "speaker": ["MARQUARDT", "POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MARQUARDT", "SANDOVAL", "MARQUARDT", "MAX SCHACHTER, FATHER OF STUDENT KILLED AT MARJORIE STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL", "MARQUARDT", "SCHACHTER", "MARQUARDT", "SCHACHTER", "MARQUARDT", "SCHACHTER", "MARQUARDT"]}
{"id": "CNN-342662", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2018-06-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/13/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Paul Ryan Denies Trump Had Role in GOP Rep's Loss; Sen. Corker: \"GOP Leadership Relationship with Trump \"Cultish\"", "utt": ["-- support or opposition to the president of the United States played in these Republican primaries?", "I think the evidence is, as David said it is, it played quite a bit of a role. And these races are won on the margins. And all things being equal, people seem to want a person who was an ally of President Trump, who endorsed or somehow associated himself or herself with President Trump instead of the opposite. On paper, Mark Sanford would look like the perfect candidate. Paul Ryan was alluding to these are races specific to these areas, the voters in the state and the district. But he would be, on paper, if he looked at his profile and the way he's voted, Mark Sanford is tailor made for Republicans in that district. He's a fiscal conservative. He's a member of the Freedom Caucus. He was a member of the class of 1994, the Republican revolution. You would think they would want someone like that. And it does seem to be his remarks about President Trump and his willingness to put distance between himself and the president made a big difference there.", "If the president, David, keeps supporting and Republican voters keep electing far-right candidates, like Corey Stewart, who is going to be the Republican candidate for Senate in Virginia? Roy Moore, we remember what happened to him in Alabama. Rick Saccone, we remember what happened to him in Pennsylvania. They all lost. Both of those guys lost. Is this all good news potentially for Democrats?", "Yes, and there's already a lot of momentum for Democrats in their direction. A lot of energy in the Democratic base. The fact that the president himself is unpopular at such a level that it creates a lot of weight for him. But I do think -- there's a couple of points about these special elections. Like off-year elections, these are more enthusiastic people that vote, people that are more committed as opposed to the broader electorate. And, two, I think that association with a particular party is not the winning way to go here on the Republican side. It is much more cultish. It's much more about personality, the Trump personality. It can be about fear. It can be about particular issues that the president has just driven over and over again. He likes to talk about immigration being a winning issue. So I think that's what it is. And this idea of loyalty. You look at Corey Stewart, who is so repugnant to so many, including Republicans in the establishment in Virginia, that standing up for monuments is a proxy for rejecting political correctness in a lot of people's eyes. So those are the kinds of things the president stands for and is providing fertilizer for these candidacies.", "Bob Corker is not running for re-election, the Republican Senator from Tennessee. He unloaded today, speaking about a cult-like relationship developing between some Republicans and the president. But listen to what he said yesterday.", "We might poke the bear! The president might get upset with us, as United States Senators, if we vote on the Corker Amendment. Well, we'll do what we can do. But, my gosh, if the president gets upset with us, then we might not be in the majority!", "How scared are Republicans of poking the bear?", "I mean, I think it's a real thing, it's a real fear, and it's the reason you don't see more Republicans stepping up to come behind Bob Corker in the tariff challenge that he has. Everyone understands, in the Republican and Democratic Party, that could be damaging for them, because their constituents could be badly affected by that, people in foreign states and other areas. But what we saw last night was the cautionary tale of what people are worried about. It's not just that they're worried the president will get mad at them, but their constituent will get mad at them, because they're not seen as a close enough alley of the president. What's difficult for Republicans who are facing reelection challenges or running this year is that Trump's popularity is not necessarily transferrable to them. But in many of these places, if you are seen as somehow disloyal to him or, as David said, if you're seen as not aligned with his values, and too much aligned with the establishment and the people who are in Congress, you're going to have a hard time with those voters. They won't to see a change.", "I wonder if the Republican Party, Trump's Republican Party is going to be a free-trade party, unless maybe it is, all of a sudden. A lot of people who support Trump say, yes, we don't understand trade exactly. A lot of people -- I look at some of the trade issues and I don't understand everything. A lot of people feel that way. And they say, yes, he's standing up for America. Why isn't that a good thing? Maybe if he shifts, he'll say, yes, but we worked it out and now we have better trade deals than we would have had, and it's a success and we should be free traders. And people would go along with that. The real point is, there's no Republican, who is not retiring, who is willing to take the president on. Even Corker, who is taking him on, what has he done to stand in front of the Trump agenda? That's the question for Jeff Flake. The party has to decide, party leaders like Paul Ryan -- now Paul Ryan is standing up against Trump now that he's decided he's not going to run again? There's really not a lot of courage here in the Republican Party. That's all you need to know. They don't want to cross any lines with him for fear he's potent enough on the trail. That's all you need to know.", "Including the leadership of the Republican Party --", "-- in the House and Senate. Stick around, guys. There's more we need to discuss. Since many Republicans are scared to speak out against President Trump, is the legal system the only reality check against the president? We'll discuss that. And the president says the country's biggest enemy right now isn't Kim Jong-Un, isn't Russia. It's what he calls the fake news media. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "DAVID GREGORY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-249845", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-02-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/21/cnr.05.html", "summary": "App Helps Blind Use Volunteers to See", "utt": ["Giving sight to the blind is just another way smart phones are helping people live fuller lives. Here's CNN's Samuel Burke.", "Please identify some of the items in this vending machine.", "I see chips.", "Nefertiti Matos is blind. And she's using \"Be My Eyes,\" a free iPhone app that connects her to sighted volunteers via a video call.", "The first time I used it was in the office. I just went to this vending machine with no braille symbols, no tactile anything. And with Be My Eyes I was able to identify there's a lot of junk food in there. But knowing I now could go up there and purchase something, it's very freeing.", "When you're not using the app, when you have to ask somebody out in the street, is that something that's tiresome for the visually impaired?", "It can be. It also makes me feel like I leave an impression of dependency. And so I feel like technology of this kind really furthers us along in giving the proper impression, which is that we can do anything, really, with the right tools and training.", "Be My Eyes empower the blind users as well as volunteers like Melissa Gould. The first time you got a blind person calling, what was that moment like?", "It was sort of surreal. I just answered the call, and it was a woman holding her phone at her problem, which was on the floor. She had dropped her necklace, and I just kept saying, OK, go a little right, and then I could see her hand, and she took it. And it was a beautiful moment. I felt happy that I could help someone. What I really feel about this is that it's a good deed waiting to happen.", "Open Be My Eyes.", "Blind users say the only change the app really needs is more sighted volunteers.", "I've been known to wait up to about five minute, and by that time, I'm, like, OK.", "Could you please tell me what train station this is.", "It's 23 Street Station.", "Perfect. Thank you very much.", "Wow. Extraordinary."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "NEFERTITI MATOS, BLIND USER, BE MY EYES", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SAMUEL BURKE, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "MATOS", "BURKE", "MATOS", "BURKE", "MELISSA GOULD, VOLUNTEER, BE MY EYES", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BURKE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-95474", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2005-6-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/20/acd.01.html", "summary": "Killen Jury Deadlocked; Search for Natalee Holloway", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone. Breaking news out of Mississippi. The jury in the KKK trial tells the judge they're deadlocked. 360 starts right now.", "Searching for Natalee. Why is it taking so long? Tonight, the latest on the missing American teen and the fourth suspect in custody. Who is he and what role did he allegedly play in Natalee's last night? The CIA's top spy says he has an excellent idea where Osama bin Laden is. But if that's true, why hasn't the U.S. grabbed him? Hidden germs in your office. It's \"Enough to Make You Sick\". Your keyboard, your phone, even your desk are a breeding ground for bacteria. Tonight, why your office may be dirtier than a bathroom toilet, and what you can do to clean it up.", "Live from the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, this is ANDERSON COOPER 360.", "Good evening. We begin with breaking news out of Mississippi this hour, where a jury has deadlocked in the trial of a former Ku Klux Klan member, Edgar Ray Killen. He's accused of ordering and planning and organizing the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers. Now, just a short time ago, the jury deliberating the 41- year-old case told the judge they were deadlocked and they've only been deliberating for about an hour. CNN's Ed Lavandera is live outside the courthouse in Philadelphia, Mississippi, with the latest. Ed, what's going on? They deliberate an hour and they say that's it?", "Well, actually, they've gone a little bit longer than that, about three hours this afternoon. The judge asked them, brought them into the courtroom and asked them where they stood and the forewoman told the judge that they were deadlocked at six, six not guilty, six guilty. The judge has sent them home for the evening and they will be brought back tomorrow to continue deliberations. Anderson, it's been interesting throughout the course of this trial, there haven't been many people around here in Philadelphia showing up for the case. But it's a story that has long roots and they were lining up today to get a taste of what has been going on here for the last week.", "It's a chapter of the civil rights struggle that remains incomplete and still haunts Philadelphia, Mississippi. It was the 1964 Summer of Freedom. Idealistic young people from around the country had come to the South to register black voters. At the center of command among those Freedom Riders, as they were called, were three young men: two white, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and one black, James Chaney. It was June 21. The three men were heading down the Mississippi back roads to investigate a recently torched church. The FBI says after beating several church members, Ku Klux Klan members set fire to the church, leaving it a charred ruin. But before they reached the church, the group was pulled off the road by local police. Arrested for speeding, they were tossed into the Neshoba County Jail. Prosecutors say while the three sat in jail, a gang of about 20 Klan members put a plan in motion to kill them. Accused of leading the effort, part-time Baptist preacher Edgar Ray Killen. Some hours later, the three young civil rights workers were released from jail and drove away in their station wagon. Right behind them were two carloads of Klan members. After a long chase, the mob forced them off the road. Taken from the cars, the three were killed, shot dead at close range: Schwerner, then Goodman, then Chaney. A bulldozer was brought in to bury them. The bodies disappeared. The state of Mississippi never charged any of the culprits with murder. There was no federal murder charge then, so instead, the men were brought up on civil rights violations with only seven serving minimal prison sentences. The man considered to be one of the key instigators, Edgar Ray Killen, walked free, an 11-1 hung jury verdict. Although the jury was all white, there was only one holdout who said at the time she could never convict a preacher. Killen left the courtroom that day a free man, but for more than 30 years groups of civil rights activists, politicians and journalists refused to accept that ruling as the last word. Killen's murder case is the latest in a series of civil rights cases that have been rekindled, looking to right the wrongs of the past.", "Now, defense attorneys for Edgar Ray Killen left the courthouse just a little while ago. They seemed rather upbeat about the 6-6 deadlock at this point and are looking forward to, as all sides are, the jury returning back here to the courthouse tomorrow morning to continue their deliberations. Anderson.", "All right. Deliberations continue tomorrow. Thanks very much, Ed. We want to talk to Jeffrey Toobin in just a moment, but I wanted to put up a picture of these three young men who were brutally murdered. Forty years ago to the day, tomorrow, is when they were killed, and I don't know if you were listening to Ed Lavandera's piece -- I hope you were -- they were pushed off the side of the road by two cars filled with KKK members. They were shot at close range, and they were dumped in a pit that had already been dug and a bulldozer was brought in, in the dead of night. And these guys were just buried. The people who did this wanted these three young men to be forgotten. They wanted what their movement stood for to be forgotten. It hasn't been. This case has been something that people down in that area have never forgotten, nor people around the world. No one has ever been held accountable for murder for these three young men. That is the case that is being discussed right now. On the phone, Jeffrey Toobin. Jeffrey, does it surprise you that, after some three hours of deliberations, they are already saying they are deadlocked?", "It sure does, Anderson. This is a very short time to declare a deadlock, and the judge clearly did the right thing in saying, you have a lot more work to do. Get back to work and try and reach some sort of verdict.", "How can it be that 40 years later, no one has ever been held accountable for these murders? I mean, the guys who actually did it were brought up on civil rights charges and served minimal time.", "Well, this is really a story of Mississippi in the '60s. In the '60s, the legal structure of Mississippi was on the side, frankly, of the killers, not on the side of the victims. It was impossible for any district attorney or attorney general in Mississippi to -- it was politically impossible, and they were simply unwilling to prosecute them for this crime. So, the federal government stepped in, but the federal government didn't have the jurisdiction to prosecute for murder. All they could do was conspiracy. Murder is a state crime, not a federal crime, so the federal government did what it could, and it's only now, decades later, that the state of Mississippi, a profoundly changed place, has decided that it's time to bring a murder case.", "And we should point out, Mississippi is a profoundly changed place. I want to show a picture of this man, Killen. The federal court, which you talked about, which -- where he was put on trial, 11-1 they were voting to convict him. One holdout, a woman who said she couldn't convict someone who had been a preacher.", "You know, it was a different time, Anderson. This was, you know -- it's inconceivable to consider it now, but public opinion was not on Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney's side in Mississippi in those days. Public opinion was very much against them and the jury pool is the, you know, legal manifestation of public opinion and 11-1, frankly, was a surprise to some people, for conviction. It was a very different time.", "Very different, indeed. Again, the jury gets back tomorrow. The judge sent them back to continue deliberations. We'll continue to follow the story. Jeffrey Toobin, thanks very much. On the island of Aruba, there are four suspects in custody, still no sign of Natalee Holloway. We're going to talk to her mom in a moment, but CNN's Karl Penhaul has been tracking the investigation all weekend. There've been a lot of developments as the father of one suspect has repeatedly been called in for questioning. Let's get the latest from Karl in Aruba.", "Suspect Steve Croes covers his face with cuffed hands as police bring him to court. On a judge's orders, he'll be kept in jail for the time being while prosecutors investigate his links, if any, with Natalee Holloway's disappearance. His ex-wife Janet Croes waits with their 3-year-old son, little Steve. She's anxious but convinced he's innocent.", "He's a charming person, a very good father and very hard working. I'm 100 percent sure he's not involved in this case.", "Croes was arrested Friday. He's the DJ on this party boat. His boss says he's an able seaman, too, but declined to tell CNN whether the vessel was at sea the night Natalee vanished. Investigators will not detail how they think Croes may be tied to three other suspects in this case. The chief prosecutor, Caren Janssen, was keeping mum as she left the court.", "I'm sorry. I can't tell you.", "Seventeen-year-old Joran Van Der Sloot, Satish Kalpoe, 18, and his brother Deepak, 21, have not been charge with anything, but under Dutch law, the prosecutor has accused them of murder one, murder two and kidnapping leading to death, to hold them in jail. They were the last people known to have seen Natalee. There's still no conclusive evidence whether Natalee is alive or dead. Over the weekend, police questioned Paul Van Der Sloot, a judge and father of the suspect Joran Van Der Sloot. Police say they regard him as a possible witness, not a suspect. As he left the police station in downtown Oranjestad, Judge Van Der Sloot was in no mood to talk publicly about what he knows. But Natalee's stepfather, George Twitty, is demanding answers.", "I've met him. I met him the night I got here. I got here, you know, 12 hours after it happened, and the guy's -- he's sickening to me. He's a chicken. You can tell. Why's he running this morning on TV? If he has nothing to hide, why's he running to his car? He's -- he makes my stomach turn.", "It's three weeks since Natalee disappeared, and her parents say they will not leave Aruba until they find out what happened to their daughter.", "The question many people are asking is why, on an island just 19 miles long and six miles wide, is it taking so long to hunt down clues of Natalee, and why is it taking police so long to check out the stories of these three young men. Anderson.", "And Karl, I know a little bit later on in the program, you are actually going to sort of take us through a little bit of the search, kind of show -- try to answer some of those questions about why it is so hard to search on this island. We'll look forward to that report, Karl, a little bit later on 360. Also coming up, I'm going to talk with Natalee Holloway's mother -- she's in Aruba -- hear what she thinks of the investigation and how she's dealing with all of this. Can hardly even imagine how she's doing that. Also ahead tonight, did you hear that the director of the CIA said he has an excellent idea of where Osama bin Laden is? The question is, how come we haven't gotten him yet if they know where he is? We'll investigate ahead. Also, office germs. Ever wonder just what's lurking on your computer keyboard, or your telephone, maybe in the break room? Well, it is \"Enough to Make You Sick\". Our special series, you won't believe how many germs are in your office. All that ahead. But first, your picks, the most popular stories on CNN.com right now."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, HOST", "COOPER (voice-over)", "ANNOUNCER", "COOPER", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LAVANDERA (voice-over)", "LAVANDERA", "COOPER", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SR. LEGAL ANALYST", "COOPER", "TOOBIN", "COOPER", "TOOBIN", "COOPER", "KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JANET CROES, WIFE OF SUSPECT (through translator)", "PENHAUL", "CAREN JANSSEN, CHIEF PROSECUTOR", "PENHAUL", "GEORGE TWITTY, NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S FATHER", "PENHAUL", "PENHAUL", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-338552", "program": "CRIME AND JUSTICE WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2018-04-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/26/ptab.01.html", "summary": "Bombshell Arrest, Golden State Serial Killer Caught; Bill Cosby Found Guilt.", "utt": ["We begin with breaking news tonight, just a few hours ago in Norristown, Pennsylvania, jurors found Bill Cosby guilty on all three counts of aggravated indecent assault. The jury deliberated about 14 hours, ultimately believing Aundrea Constand, who testify that Cosby drug her and when she woke he was assaulting her. Five other women told the same story to jurors, Cosby is free on $1 million bond until his sentencing date which has not been determined. But the Judge ruled that he should not leave his home in the Philadelphia suburbs, and must wear a GPS tracking device. Cosby now facing up to 30 years in prison. And that is not the only breaking story we`re covering. We`re also bringing you the latest on the capture of the man police say terrorized Northern California for years, the Golden State Killer. Good evening everyone. I`m Pat Lalama from \"Crime Watch Daily\" in for Ashleigh Banfield.", "A flashlight shining in my eyes, and this large butcher knife.", "Crimes that spanned 10 years across at least ten different counties, northern, central and southern California.", "I`m gonna kill you. Shut up, shut up.", "He enjoys the terror.", "Passion, persistence, knowledge, finally came to an answer.", "Stake out his house and then they caught him when he left the house. An arrest that happened perfectly.", "I can`t believe he is been that close for that long.", "It`s scary to think that someone like that lives bumper to bumper with me.", "Women who raped and survived, you have to believe that they can sleep tonight.", "Good evening, everyone. I`m Pat Lalama from \"Crime Watch Daily,\" in for Ashleigh Banfield, and this is \"Crime and Justice.\" Tonight, investigators, crime buffs and just about the entire state of California are learning everything they can about the Golden State Killer. Joseph James DeAngelo, was arrested after a decade long killing and rape spree that left 12 dead and countless with everlasting scars.", "It shakes you to the core, it really does, mostly when you grew up with the fear of him, and to find out he lives right around the corner? That somebody as heinous as that could live here. It`s just unbelievable.", "The former cop turned alleged serial killer was reportedly shocked when authorities came to his home outside Sacramento. He was so settled into his life in suburbia that he told officers he had a roast in the oven upon arrest. They told him they`d take care of it. And now they`re searching room by room for clues to look inside the mind of an alleged serial killer. I want to bring in my panel investigative journalist, Billy Jensen, Jane Carson, Golden State Killer victim, Paul Holes, cold case investigator, he began working on the Golden State Killer in 1994, and defense attorney, Heather Hansen, and on the phone, Larry Crompton, former sergeant, with the Contra Costa County Sheriff`s Office and the author of \"Sudden terror.\" Straight ahead, now I a m going to tell you, I am going right to Billy Jensen, my colleague, my esteemed colleague at \"Crime Watch Daily,\" and also you helped finish the book that is now being so discussed, and that is \"I`ll be home in the dark.\" Billy, something brand new that just came out. Let me read to you, this is from the Sacramento Bee, that we are reporting, the suspect police say is the Golden State Killer was found using DNA matching information from genealogy websites. Now, yesterday we were told that was probably unlikely. Do you have any thoughts about that? I`m don`t springing it on you just right at this last second, but want to know what you think about that.", "You know, it`s not so much you`re springing it on me, because that is what it sounded like at the press conference. It sounded like, they were talking about. This would solve the familial DNA that it was pointed in the right direction via a family member and then they had to just sort of, you know, eliminate suspects and suspects and then find the guy and they looked into his background. And said, this is the guy, we need to hang out at his house and then get some discarded DNA. That is exactly what it sounded like when they were talking about. I guess, they just weren`t willing to talk about it yesterday, but we found that out today and that is not a surprise at all.", "Well, Billy, let me ask you this, so, you know, the big question of the day yesterday, and still today is, why did they even start looking for discarded DNA? So my question still is, does this have to do with some new revelation, or do you think it`s just the advancement of technology that allowed this to happen?", "I think who it might have been is that, you know, we were constant and I knew people, we were doing it ourselves, we were constantly taking his DNA and checking it against public DNA databases. Now, the DNA databases like 23 and ancestry.com that are closed, you can`t do that, but there`s other DNA databases where people will take their DNA and put them up there just because they`re hobbyists or just because they want to find more information or find more people that they`re related to. That might have been what happened. I don`t want to speculate, but it sounds like that might have been what happened. And then, you`re constantly putting, you know, if somebody just put their sample in there six months ago, then it comes up to a time when you would have, you know, - - somebody would have entered this other sample from the crime scenes and then there was a match.", "It`s so mind blowing, though, how technology has helped us advance in adjudicating cases. And on the phone we have Larry Crompton. Larry, you were the man who sounded the alarm. You were the one that kept trying to tell everyone there was a connection between the East Area Rapist and the Original Night Stalker. What do you think about this latest information about genealogy?", "Well, I wish that they could have used it earlier, back then when he was sitting in our area, we didn`t even know about DNA, so we didn`t have any information. And now that he is caught and in jail, I hope they get an opportunity to talk to him, find out what was in his mind as to why he was the way that he was.", "Paul Holes, cold case investigator, just to stay on this genealogy connection for a minute, what do you make of it?", "Well, you know, trying to find an offender like this, we want to make sure that we employ all available technologies. And up until about a year ago, we exhausted everything that was available to us. So that is when we did resort to having to try to see, if we could find individuals in which the DNA would point us in a certain direction into a family circle. And that is what we set out to do.", "Well, and it`s just an incredible, incredible situation here. Heather Hansen, defense attorney, you know, this whole DNA, I`ve covered dozens and dozens of trials and defense attorneys continuously tried to say well, these numbers, these statistics aren`t valid. You`ve got a real fight if you represented this guy, because of the advancements, don`t you think?", "Absolutely, Pat. I mean, these types of testing is very difficult to get around. And in this situation, I think, that not only are we seeing technology get better, but we`re seeing more and more people access it. And I think it`s the combination of those two things that really hit the jackpot here. Because it`s now available to almost anyone who wants to send away a swab and get their family ancestry. So it`s the technology in combination with the public access that allows for something like this. And I hope and pray that the same type of technology is now applied to all those rape kits that are out there with similar", "Absolutely, I think this is going to open a floodgate. But the thing about advanced technology in DNA, it`s not just good for conviction, it`s also good for exoneration, Heather, correct?", "That is absolutely right. It can be used on both sides. And ultimately it helps the innocent people prove their innocence, and helps prosecutors prove the guilt. And you know, the defense attorney in this case will have to contest the way the DNA was taken, the way that it was studied and the way it was tested.", "Or if it was compromised in any way along the way.", "Absolutely. But there are some cases that are very difficult to defend. And it looks as though this is going to be one of them.", "Billy Jensen, back to you, my colleague at Crime Watch Daily, author, producer, correspondent, you do it all, the renaissance man, I want to read something to you that I found out, it was an article written about DeAngelo when he became a police officer and someone wrote an article about it. Quote, James DeAngelo believes that without law and order there can be no -- there can be no government and without a Democratic government here there can be no freedom. What a juxtaposition to what he turned out to be, allegedly.", "You know, and I think, he probably hid behind a lot of that stuff.", "Yes.", "You know, the first thing we did when we first heard the news, it was 1:00 in the morning when I got a text and I had to confirm it first and I talked to Debbi Domingo, one of -- whose mother was murdered by him. And I wanted to confirm it, before I went and told everybody, went and told Patten Oswald too, who is the husband of Michelle, who wrote the book. And, you know, then we started digging into newspaper.com and start to finding this articles, this articles about him, being caught shoplifting, this articles about that he was in the dive association and really putting all the things that we had thought about him together. And we had thought that maybe he might have been either a failed police officer, or somebody that tried to be a police officer, or something like that, had tried to be a police officer or was really deeply into the military. That was not a surprise. But what was a surprise is that he was a police officer that was, you know, so close to these areas, and he very well could have used that to escape.", "Right.", "Now this could have been just another one of his escape routes.", "Right, if you look at the timeline it seems almost positive that he was committing some of the crimes while he wore the badge and carried the gun. Do you think?", "Absolutely and I think the fact that, you know, we knew -- that he knew -- the reason why he kept on picking these neighborhoods is because he knew all the escape routes to these neighborhoods. I think this was another escape route. What this was is, if somebody would have caught him on the street he might have flipped the badge, he might have named a name if a cop might have come up to him. And these stories are going to come out now that we start seeing photos of him from what he looked like back then. Because the photos that he looked like when he was the Visalia Ransacker, his face was a lot fuller and he was a lot heavier. He lost a lot of weight between when he was the Ransacker to when he was the East Area Rapist.", "Very good, very good. Jane Carson, I am so privileged to talk to you, what a time this must be for you as a victim of the alleged rapist killer. Just pour it out to me, girl. I want to hear everything.", "I can`t tell you how overjoyed I am, how ecstatic I am, how relieved I am. I mean, I got -- actually, I received an e-mail yesterday morning, I was at a hotel with my husband in Wilson, North Carolina, and first thing in the morning, I turned on my phone and there was an e-mail from Larry Crompton, and he said, I guess you already know, Jane, but we`ve got him and I didn`t know. I had no idea. So, oh, my goodness, my husband and I screamed, cried, yelled, woke up the whole hotel. I mean we were -- talk about being a hot mess, I was a hot mess and I still am, because I just can`t believe that this has truly happened and then I called Carol Daley, the detective that had taken me to the emergency room, 42 years ago and she did confirm that he was behind bars in Sacramento.", "Wow. You`re a pretty amazing hot mess. Stay right there, because we`re going to go to some sound. What have we got?", "I was 21 when I joined the air force nurse corps and spent the next 40 years with the Air Force being both in the reserves and on active duty. I think it was right after he raped me, he said you looked really good at the \"O\" club last week, that officer`s club, but \"O\" club, now that is something that we in the military would use, that term, \"O\" club versus officer`s club. For him to say \"O\" club made me think this guy has some military connection, so he knows that I`m in the military, my husband`s in the military, how did he know that?", "That is so chilling, Jane, because I`ve been wondering, did he select his victims, was it random? What do you think?", "Well, what`s interesting is I also lived in Citrus Heights at this time. So he very well could have been my neighbor, which is -- I just can`t imagine. I often wonder how long he had stalked me, where he had first seen me, had it been in the military, ha I actually been at the officer`s club, or Travis where I was stationed? I had no idea. That is my --", "Unbelievable.", "Yes, really.", "Larry Crompton, let me ask you, just -- kind of following on what Jane is talking about, did you have a sense of whether this man premeditated his victims, alleged victims, or, just you know, at the moment he gets an urge and he is got to go do something devious, what do you think?", "No, I believe that he spent a lot of time on it, finding out where he was going to go. He would set the houses up. And some of them he would even go in when they weren`t home and unlock a window or a door. And put the shoe laces hidden inside so he`d have them there to tie them up. And then he`d wait until they went to sleep. And then he would go in and wake them up.", "Wow, unbelievable.", "There was a few times where the ones that -- the lady that was sexually assaulted was not the one that he had in mind. It just happened that he went by that house, and she was in the open. And he attacked her. And the following week, he attacked the one that he originally was after, which was a 13-year-old girl. And -- but most of the time I think he did go into the area, wander through it, find out what it was, and knew who was in the houses and which ones he wanted to go to.", "All right. Stay right there, Larry. We`ll come back to you. Straight ahead. More of our continuing coverage of the arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, the alleged Golden State Killer. And At 8:00 Eastern, HLN presents an encore presentation of all five episodes of \"Unmasking a killer,\" HLN`s in-depth investigation into the decades long search for the Golden State Killer."], "speaker": ["PAT LALAMA, GUEST HOST, HLN CRIME AND JUSTICE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LALAMA", "DEBORAH FISCHER, NEIGHBOR", "LALAMA", "BILLY JENSEN, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST", "LALAMA", "JENSEN", "LALAMA", "LARRY CROMPTON, FORMER SERGEANT, CONTRA COSTA COUNTY SHERIFF`S OFFICE", "LALAMA", "PAUL HOLES, COLD CASE INVESTIGATOR", "LALAMA", "HEATHER HANSEN, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "DNA. 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{"id": "CNN-41397", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2001-10-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/09/se.05.html", "summary": "America Strikes Back:  Taliban Defenses Damaged in Strikes", "utt": ["U.S.-led military struck through the night in Afghanistan, and for the first time, they struck during daylight hours. We are working with a journalist who is inside of Afghanistan, and, in fact, he is in eastern Afghanistan -- Kamal Hyder joins us by the telephone this morning. Kamal, you're getting reports from around the country of the impact of these strikes. What do you know right now?", "Well, Carol, one thing is for certain: They have basically caused considerable damage to the Taliban anti-aircraft missile systems, radar systems, communications systems. And after taking these out, it becomes easier for allied aircraft and American aircraft to be able to fly during daytime, because it is important because they can see troop movement. They can see -- they can pick out targets of opportunity, and it makes their job much simpler. So one thing is for certain: They have caused considerable damage to the Taliban anti-aircraft defense systems -- Carol.", "Kamal, you might know by now that four U.N. aid workers were killed in one of the strikes just outside of the city of Kabul. What are you hearing about civilian casualties?", "Well, other than the four deminers, which was very, very sad considering the kind of work that they do in Afghanistan to save lives, it is, indeed, very sad. But there is no other confirmation of civilian casualties so far -- no confirmation at all.", "Are you hearing ...", "Carol.", "... the Taliban is also reporting from time to time that they have managed to hit some U.S. military aircraft. No substantiation from the United States. They are saying that all planes are reporting back in. What are you hearing about what the Taliban has been able to hit?", "It's surprising that the Taliban are saying that they have shot down aircraft, yet they do not allow journalists, who are kept basically under strict rules here. They do not allow these journalists to go and show these aircraft allegedly shot down, because that would only strengthen their case to prove that they have shot down these aircraft. The fact that they have not been able to show a single aircraft or a captured pilot shows that this is probably a propaganda campaign -- Carol.", "So, Kamal, what is your sense, then, as to how the Taliban -- the ruling Taliban is holding up against these air strikes?", "Well, they are holding up. They are organized. They were expecting heavy strikes. There was a big time gap in between for them to prepare. They were able to disburse their personnel. It must be remembered that the Taliban is not a conventional army. They don't move their armor and artillery to move in organized formation. They are guerrilla forces. Their presence from the Hulan areas. They just move on their 4x4's. They get intermingled with the local population, disappear into Afghanistan's rural landscape. So they are not a conventional army, and then when you're not a conventional army, it's very difficult to hit these targets. So what the Americans are hoping to hit are big sites, which are already destroyed. Considerable destruction has taken place here. So it's very difficult to be able to identify [UNINTELLIGIBLE] with troop concentrations in them -- Carol.", "Kamal, have you been able to see first-hand for yourself the amount of damage some of the targets hit?", "Carol, we are close to the city of Jalalabad at the alleged camps of al-Qaeda were operating these allegedly terrorist camps. And on the outskirts of the city, well defended and basically protected by Taliban intelligence personnel, who have cordoned off these areas. They don't allow anybody to go close by. And they can -- of course, their intelligence personnel can arrest anybody at will -- anybody seen close to the damaged sites -- Carol.", "All right. Thank you very much, Kamal Hyder -- please stay safe inside that country, and we look forward to more of your reports from eastern Afghanistan."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "KAMAL HYDER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LIN", "HYDER", "LIN", "HYDER", "LIN", "HYDER", "LIN", "HYDER", "LIN", "HYDER", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-180813", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-2-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/09/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Women In The Combat Zone", "utt": ["We're continuing our conversation with former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen. And, Mr. Secretary, while I have you, I'd like to ask about some news happening today at your old workplace. The Pentagon is relaxing restrictions on women troops in combat roles. I mean, is that a natural progression, do you think, given the blurry state of combat nowadays?", "Well, I think it is. And we've seen a move from a point of view that women shouldn't be anywhere near the combat field, but they have been over the years. I know that back in the '80s, for example, I questioned the chief of the Air Force as to whether or not women pilots could withstand the g forces as well as men. And the perception was because that women were smaller, lighter, that they couldn't handle a g force. It turns out to be just the opposite. Because of their lighter weight, they were better able to withstand the g force in our high performance aircraft. So we've come a long way in understanding that women can contribute to the military object. It shouldn't be a social equality agenda that's being fulfilled, but can women contribute effectively to the military mission. That's what the Pentagon chiefs are looking at. And to the extent they feel they can, they should be allowed to do so, achieve the mission and they can contribute. They have been contributing. I think it's a natural progression, as you suggested.", "Let me ask you about the Pentagon downsizing U.S. military. Half a trillion dollars give or take now coming out of the Defense Department budget over the next few years. Do you fear that this could have an impact on national security?", "Well, I think Congress, number one, has mandated that they called for $487 billion over 10 years, 259, I believe, in the first five years. So Congress is the one who's saying we've got to save. And the Defense Department has to contribute. I think the Defense Department can handle that particular size cut over that 10 year period. The difficulty is going to be when we talk about sequestration, namely when the ax falls because the special committee, super committee, couldn't reach an agreement on the $1.2 trillion cut that they were supposed to try and achieve. Now they're talking about across the board cuts. That would be another $500 billion out. That would certainly compromise our national security. I think everybody is working under the assumption that that money will be put back in or the sequestration, rather, will not fall and the ax won't fall. The money, if it were to be cut, will be put back in. It's not a way to run the military, in terms of the planners trying to say what will we have to work with. I was with Secretary Panetta in Munich just a few days ago and he indicated that the military is not planning on any further cuts beyond the $487 billion. That's why I think that's a pretty strong signal that the administration is going to work with the Congress to make sure we don't cut any deeper during the next decade.", "Mr. Secretary, so nice to have you on the program and spend some quality time with you. Appreciate that. Thank you.", "Great to be with you.", "Remember all the furor over drug testing welfare recipients in Florida? Well now another fight is brewing, this time in New York, over fingerprinting those recipients. It's something the state still does, but is it fair? That's next. But first, you probably want Emily Clark as your neighbor. She's a former firefighter who's battling cancer. But that didn't stop her from risking her own life when she noticed a neighbor's home on fire. With no one else around, Emily took action.", "I started banging on the back door and still didn't hear anything.", "I grabbed the kids and I took off running to their bedroom to get out. Well, somebody had already kicked in the back door, which we didn't know it was on fire.", "The family says Emily not only saved their home, but their lives. And that makes Emily today's rock star."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "COHEN", "KAYE", "COHEN", "KAYE", "COHEN", "KAYE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KAYE"]}
{"id": "CNN-377477", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-08-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/14/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Russians Train Troops in Central African Republic; Oligarch Close To Putin Behind Russian Mercenaries", "utt": ["We have more now of CNN's exclusive reporting on a secret private army, doing the bidding of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The kremlin's fears about our investigation became evident as a CNN crew was followed all the way to Africa. Here's chief international correspondent, Clarissa Ward.", "This is boot camp, for recruits to a new army in the war-torn Central African Republic. The troops are being taught in Russian. The weapons are Russian too. It's taken months to get access to this camp. Officially, this is a U.N.-approved training mission. But the Russian instructors won't talk to us or even be identified because they are not actually soldiers, they are mercenaries. Sponsored by a Russian oligarch with close ties to the kremlin, they are the sharp end of an ambitious drive into Africa, stoking fears in Washington of Russian expansionism. Valery Zakharov is the man in charge here, a former military intelligence officer, he is now the security adviser to the Central African Republic's president.", "Russia is returning to Africa, we were already present in many countries during the time of the Soviet Union, and Russia is coming back to the same position. We still have connections and we are trying to reestablish them.", "That's not the only reason they're here. The Central African Republic is rich in natural resources, golds and diamonds, and the Russians want them. We are on our way to one of seven sites where a Russian company has been given exploration rights. One of the challenges of trying to nail down exactly what the Russians are doing here is that once you get outside the capital, this is still a very dangerous and chaotic country. And just last year, three Russian journalists were actually ambushed and killed while working on a story about Russian mercenaries. The drive is bruising and long, along rodded tracks to a tiny village of straw huts. And then, we have to cross a river, on this hand- pulled ferry. Local teenager, Rodriguez, agrees to show us where the Russians have been active. It's another bumpy ride through the bush. The last part of the journey is on foot. We asked the workers if they have seen any Russians. So, he's saying that earlier this year, there were a lot of Russians here looking for diamonds. Rodriguez says the Russians now employ hundreds of workers on artisanal mines like this, across the area. In the pit, a group of teenagers pan through the sand, in the search for a precious fragment. Whatever they find, they say must be handed over to the Russian's agent.", "So, it's interesting, these guys are saying that the Russians who visited this spot actually came from the training camp at Baringo that we visited. It's pretty clear they're doing more than just training troops here. CNN has learned that the mining exploration rights have been given to a company called Lobaye Invest. Lobaye is part of a sprawling business empire owned by this man, Yevgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has been sanctioned by the U.S. for meddling in the 2016 election. And a CNN investigation based on hundreds of documents has established that Prigozhin's companies are also providing the mercenary muscle. He is believed to be the man behind Wagner, Russia's most notorious private military contractor. On our return to town from the mines, we noticed we are being followed. We tried to approach, but the car drives off. We catch a glimpse of four white males. All but one hide their faces from our camera. There is no license plate. Police later confirmed to us that they are Russians. Near our hotel, we spot the vehicle again. We try to get closer, but the men drive off. So, we're back at our hotel now. But a little bit shaken up because that car full of Russians have been following us for quite some time. We don't know why we don't know what they want. Mindful of the murder of the journalists last year, we leave town the next day. But back in the capital, Bangui, Russia's growing influence is impossible to escape. On the streets, even on the airwaves. Radio lingo sango features African music and lessons in Russian. No surprise, perhaps that it is funded by Prigozhin company, Lobaye Invest. The manager tells us the station wants to deepen cooperation between the two nations. And in a country where education and entertainment are in short supply, it seems that plenty of people are listening. American officials say they are greatly concerned by Russia's actions here, and that they undermine security. But with the U.S. shrinking its footprint across Africa, and with minimal official Kremlin involvement, Putin has little to lose. For Russia, this is a straight forward bargain. They provide the weapons in the Kremlin, and in return, they get access to the country's natural resources. And in the process, how to reassert themselves is a major player in this region. It's a campaign for hearts and minds and hard power. And Russia is moving quickly to get a step ahead of its rivals. Clarissa Ward, CNN, the Central African Republic.", "And CNN has tried repeatedly to get a comment from Yevgeny Prigozhin through his company, Concorde Catering. But our requests have gone unanswered. Prigozhin strongly denies any links to Wagner. The Russian government also denies links to any mercenary groups. Well, for Jeffrey Epstein's accusers, it is another setback.", "With his suicide -- apparent suicide, you know they've been robbed again of that chance to face their accusers in open court.", "Coming up, the next legal step on a scandal that began years ago. We're back in just a moment."], "speaker": ["CHURCH", "WARD", "VALERY ZAKHAROV, SECURITY ADVISOR TO CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC PRESIDENT (through translator)", "WARD", "WARD", "CHURCH", "SPENCER KUVIN, LITIGATION DIRECTOR, THE LAW OFFICES OF CRAIG GOLDENFARB, WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-178145", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2011-12-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/22/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Jorgen Vig Knudstorp", "utt": ["Hello and welcome to MARKETPLACE EUROPE. I'm Richard Quest, this week reporting from Frankfurt's famous Christmas market. The buyers are out in force, spending money, no doubt, to help the powerful German economy. And even though in other parts of Europe, things may not be going too well, the signs are this Christmas that at least from the shoppers, it might be OK.", "This week, Juliet Mann travels to Denmark, where she visits the makers of one of children's favorite toys, LEGO. And I go on the hunt for some special gifts with the help of one of the world's leading concierge services. (on camera): We know it's going to be an austerity Christmas. And that's got some chief executives seriously worried. And for good reason. So why, then, does the CEO of one toy company believe things will be all right? The CEO of LEGO has been talking to Juliet Mann and says providing that you are prepared, you have nothing to fear.", "We're here surrounded by all of these fantastic LEGO constructions. Has it been a good year for LEGO?", "It's been another fantastic year for LEGO. This is our fourth year of double digit growth. So we're very happy.", "Haven't you already done your planning, though, for Christmas?", "Oh, we are all set for Christmas. That's already history. We started planning it two or three years ago. And yes, it's -- it's gone.", "What about looking at the wider market? What changes have you had to make because of the current economic climate?", "Yes. The current economic climate is definitely a major challenge. I think one of the major impacts it's having in the retail environment is the phenomenal growth of Internet retailing. And I think we just have to realize, we are living in a digital revolution. And it is going to change the market massively, both from a retail perspective, from how we operate your business, the level of data integration, interaction with retailers, our systems, the products we offer. Video games, for instance, it's a major category for us. And then, of course, how we are able to interact with customers and even within the company.", "But if you were in a room with all of Europe's finance minister and you could give them a piece of advice, what would it be?", "Well, my piece of advice would be face the truth. That's what I learned the hard way in our company. We were not facing the realities. The reality for us was also we were over indebted. And Europe is over indebted, as is, unfortunately, many other Western economies. And I think the beginning of solving that crisis is to say, yes, we are over indebted. We -- I'm sorry, we screwed up. We took on too much debt. let's reduce that. I heard in Mesopotamia what they did was when the king died, they wrote off all the debt and started all over again. I don't think we can do that, but I think we need to make a debt write-down. We all think we are richer than we are. Our pensions are vested in these companies who have taken on too much debt on behalf of governments and households. And we have to realize we're not as rich as we thought. But let's get it out. Let's start from a lower base of debt and then we can start being productive economies again. If we don't do that, we are going to be in a 10 year period of no growth.", "So with all of this debt that we're saddled with, you're saying write it off because there's no hope of ever being able to pay it back?", "I am saying not all of it, but what about a 20 percent cut, just telling us -- all of us, because it's you and me, it's not the banks, because we are shareholders in the banks through our pension schemes. So it's about all of us recognizing that we've lost a little bit of our wealth. We have anyway, we're just not facing the music.", "You seem quite relaxed about the economic crisis. But you've thought about it quite a lot. What are the things, though, that are keeping you up at night, that -- that make you worry about the future for LEGO?", "Yes. What really makes me quite worried about the economic crisis, at least in its impact on LEGO, is that I think we are moving from a 30 year period of just borrowing more and more money at the government level, but certainly also at the household level. And I think we have, in some ways, been able to benefit from that level of consumption. I think we are coming into a phase now where there will be deleveraging, there will be increasing raw materials costs. There will not be so much cheap labor available around the world. So I think we are coming into a different phase. And that's why we at LEGO have named our ability to scale our business and our ability to be adaptable as a business. That's the major challenge for the future. So we are stressing ourselves to be even more adaptable than we've been in the past, because I think it's going to be crucial to survival in these kind of times.", "OK. Let's do it. That's good. That's great.", "You can't come to the Frankfurt Christmas market without buying and trying some bethmention (ph). It's a marzipan candy whose history goes back more than 100 years. Apparently, admirers used to send it to the object of their desire. If she kept it, you're in with a chance. If she sent it back, well, you knew to look elsewhere. Perhaps you should send some to the European Council."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "QUEST (voice-over)", "JULIET MANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JORGEN VIG KNUDSTORP, CEO, LEGO GROUP", "MANN", "VAN KNUDSTORP", "MANN", "VAN KNUDSTORP", "MANN", "VAN KNUDSTORP", "MANN", "VAN KNUDSTORP", "MANN", "VAN KNUDSTORP", "MANN", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-375770", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2019-07-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/25/acd.01.html", "summary": "Barr Orders Restart Of Federal Executions After 16 Years; Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) Is Interviewed About The Death Penalty; EPA Spokesman Calls New CA Deal To Raise Fuel Efficiency A \"PR Stunt\"", "utt": ["Attorney General William Barr today directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule the execution of five inmates several months from now. The first time the death penalty will be used in federal prisons in nearly two decades. Barr said the government is moving to speak -- to seek justice against what he called the \"worst criminals\" and bring relief to victims and family members. Well, legal challenges could delay the planned executions. California's Governor Gavin Newsom for one has already put a halt to executions for state prisoners in California. I spoke with the Governor just before air time.", "Governor Newsome, it was just four months ago that you issued a statewide executive moratorium on the death penalty. When you heard what the Trump administration now is planning, what did you think?", "It didn't surprise me at all. I think after Vice President Biden came out with his platform, being now among the chorus of Democrats that support the repeal of the death penalty, invariably this would come out. This is a President that's governing by fear and anger. This few days before the next Democratic debate, making sure that this is topic. I'm not surprised at all.", "So, you think it's coming out intentionally to make this a topic during the debate because he thinks it's a winning issue for him?", "Yes. I mean, the debate happens to be coincidental, but certainly in this campaign it doesn't surprise me. I mean, frankly, what surprises me is he didn't do it in the last two years. But it's ginned up, I'm sure, just in time before the election and it's unfortunate. I mean, the fact is the trend line in the United States of America is to repeal death penalty, you just saw it happened in New Hampshire. Of course, I govern the state with the largest death row in the western hemisphere, 734 people. We put a moratorium. The trend line has been favorable in the United States and around the rest of the world, but the President of the United States wants to gin back up this base and make this a topical issue. Again, it doesn't surprise me.", "The Department of Justice, they've basically identified five people who they say they would execute. I mean, when you look at what these people did, it is really horrific crimes that we're talking about. I mean it's, you know, torture and murder and really disgusting stuff.", "Yes.", "Explain why you think that they should not face the death penalty, because they've already been convicted and they're already obviously in prison.", "Well, I value life and I don't think we have the right to take the life of another human being and I think it rather perverse. I have four young kids. To tell my 9-year-old daughter that we're going to kill someone to teach you that it's wrong to kill, it's rather a perverse message. The fact is the vast majority of Democratic governance around the world has moved away either in practice or by law to repeal the death penalty. It's just interesting, countries like Saudi Arabia, North Korea where we increasingly seeing to be cozying up moved in the opposite direction. I just think we're better than that. And I also think, Anderson, briefly, there's another fundamental point, wealth, culpability determines whether or not you'll end up on death row more often than not. The color of your skin determines that fate more often than not. And I understand that --", "You think the system is so unfair that it's not fair to have this ultimate penalty?", "Look, I just had someone who spent 25 years, a quarter of a century on death row in California for a crime he didn't commit. He's one of over 150 people that have been exonerated that have been on death row. If we don't think this, we know we've killed people that did not commit the crimes. And we know disproportionately -- I'm in a state where 66 percent of people on death row are people of color. There's a fundamental fact in our criminal justice system, and that is it's not fair to poor people and people of color. It's been said many, many times and I'll repeat it, we treat people that are rich and guilty better than we treat people that are poor and innocent in our criminal justice system.", "I also want to ask you about news out of California last night, a federal judge issuing an injunction against the Trump administration policy that would essentially end asylum claims at the southern border. You obviously taken issue with the Trump administration immigration policies, particularly when it comes to asylum seekers. Do you expect that new policy that the President is trying to institute, do you expect it to continue to get knocked down by courts?", "Yes, because I think he's got to change the law. He can't just by, you know, fiat or executive order decide that he can do whatever he wants to do. I think the law is pretty clear. I think in that case the outcome was predetermined on the basis of the facts. Obviously they'll try to appeal it or they'll try to work around it, but it's the nature of what we're dealing with now. We have a President that's not interested in governing, doing the hard work of legislating, working to develop compromise, creating conditions to bring people together. It's all about, you know, again, creating a frame of fear and anxiety and anger to gin up his base and it's really sad and it's rather pathetic and weak, but it is what we're dealing with in the United States right now.", "Does it work? I mean, do you think it's going to work for him to get reelected?", "It's going to work if we don't call it out. It's going to work if we don't stand up. It's going to work if the courts don't intervene. It's going to work only if we don't rollover. And, you know, we're going to continue to do our part in the state of California. Look, we're doing it on vehicle emissions standards. It proves that you can win in this environment. Trump just had a huge loss as it relates to his efforts to roll back fuel efficiency in this country, to take us backwards as it relates to climate change. It proves if we stand up, we assert ourselves and we use our moral authority, we can beat them.", "You just struck a deal I think it was with four automakers of raising fuel efficiency standards for California. There was a spokesman for the EPA who said about this in California. They said, \"This voluntary framework is a PR stunt that does nothing to further the one national standard that will provide certainty and relief for American consumers.\"", "Yes. Well, they certainly know a lot about PRs, so it's not surprising. But the facts are the facts. These four automobile companies, Ford and among others, representing 30 percent of all the auto sales in the United States of America have committed regardless of what Trump does to these higher standards, the Obama air standards with a slight tweak. So no matter what they do, it won't matter for at least 30 percent of the market. Now, what will invariably happen, Anderson, watch this space is other automobile manufacturers will have to join because they don't want two standards in this country. This was a big, big thing that's happened for the environment. Transportation is the principal source of emissions in the United States of America. If we can tackle this and advance the principles that California advanced in the Obama administration embraced, we're going to make some progress. Donald Trump in this case is losing this debate. This was a big breakthrough today.", "Governor Newsom, appreciate your time. Thank you.", "Thanks for having me.", "More ahead in just a moment. Former Vice President Biden says he's changing his game plan ahead of next week's Democratic presidential debates here on CNN. Coming up, let's find out what he has in mind for one of his main opponents."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "COOPER", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-338958", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-05-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/01/nday.02.html", "summary": "Muller Questions for Trump; Pence and Ronny Jackson", "utt": ["\"The New York Times\" reveals 40 plus questions that Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask President Trump if the president were to sit down for an interview. What is the political fallout of this and we have more political topics to discuss with our CNN political analysts John Avlon and Brian Karem. OK, so --", "Hi, guys.", "We'll start with just a question that's impossible to answer, John Avlon, which is, does the release of these questions, now that they're in the public sphere and we can all read them in \"The New York Times,\" does that make that more likely or less likely the president's going to sit down with Robert Mueller's team?", "Well, as you kindly pointed out, it's impossible to actually answer that question. But, look, I think it does show the thinking of the Mueller team. It connects the dots in a lot of ways we haven't quite seen before, including highlighting the contradictions in many of the president's past statements. One other theme I thought was interesting is that a lot of these questions aren't really covered, could not reasonably be covered by executive privilege. That's fascinating in and upon itself. I also don't think there's any reason to think this is a comprehensive list. That's important. But it really does lay out a series of arguments that shows that there are a lot of contradictions in the president's testimony. That's a political problem, that's a practical problem, that's a legal problem.", "You know, the first time I read through these, Brian, I did it as a journalist, you know, and I was reading through the questions, would I ask --", "So did I. Yes.", "Then I read them again and thought about, if I were legal counsel to the president of the United States. And I have to tell you, Jeffrey Toobin feels a little differently about this, feels it's a plus and minus. They would scare me because I don't trust -- if I'm the lawyer, I don't trust the investigators. They're in the business of finding proof of a crime. And I have no reason to believe that this is everything they know. In fact, I'd be surprised they want to talk to me at all if this is all they have. And the unknown is what is most scary, should it not be?", "Yes, absolutely. And I think, as it was pointed out earlier, these are merely topics. And I have to tell you, when I first read them, I went through them and I go, oh, there's a Jim Acosta question. Oh, there's a Jon Karl question. Oh, there's a Brian Karem question. A lot of these questions have been asked in the press room. And so I -- I -- the open-ended questions are just a mere starting point. And it's where they go from there that will take them in probably areas that the president doesn't want to go because as I said, since we've asked some of those questions in the press room, those answers have always been, we're going to refer you to counsel or we're not going to answer those questions. So it's not anything that they really want to answer to begin with. And if you've got Mueller sitting across from you, it's really not anything that you want to sit down. But I think it's an opening salvo to try and find out if the president -- to force him into a decision, to see if he'll sit down. And it gives people kind of an idea of how much Mueller knows or how much Mueller wants to look at or what he wants to look at.", "All right, let's move on to some other political issue, because, as Chris has pointed out, there's a lot on the president's plate this week.", "It's been a busy day, hasn't it?", "Yes, as -- as is every day. But, listen, there are still so many lingering questions about what happened with Dr. Ronny Jackson, OK, who was the long-time White House president's physician. And so, what happened? You know, why was it torpedoed without ever a hearing? So now we have a little bit more information. This comes from our Manu Raju. And CNN obtained some documents that I think are pretty telling. Let me just read to you what our CNN reporting is. According to copies of internal documents obtained by CNN, Pence's doctor, so the vice president's doctor, accused Dr. Ronny Jackson of overstepping his authority and inappropriately intervening in a medical situation involving the second lady, OK, so Mrs. Pence, as well as potentially violating federal privacy rights by briefing White House staff and disclosing details about Mrs. Pence to other medical providers but not appropriately consulting with the vice president's physician. So, that was in September, OK?", "Well, yes.", "So, go ahead. Well, hold on, Brian. Go head, John.", "Sorry. The whole point about that is, I think what happened was, if you take a look at it, the president likes to move when the president likes to move and how the president likes to move. And if he gets an impulse to do something, he's an impulse. You want to take him to wherever the sales are at Kmart. I mean he'll walk in and just buy what's on his mind. Hey, blue light special. And I think that's what happened. Dr. Jackson came out and supported the president, said he could live to be 200, and the president decided, hey, I liked this guy. And in --", "That kind of positive re-enforcement goes a long way. Yes.", "Yes, it does. And it -- and he ignored everything else. And there were plenty of warnings. And this points out that there were and that he ignored them.", "Right.", "And that type of impulsivity is not conducive to good leadership.", "But I think it -- I think it's bigger than the impulse problem, which is well-known. This is actually concrete documentation that was presumably floated to at least the vice president that there was a problem with Dr. Ronny Jackson.", "And he ignored it.", "And -- yes. And it was utter -- utterly ignored. And it's not just questions of violating privacy. And Manu's reporting is phenomenal. WE don't know exactly what that alleged violation was. But then also the Vice president's doctor felt intimidated by Dr. Jackson and almost, you know, refused to meet with him anymore.", "There was an angry altercation of some kind.", "An angry altercation, which Jackson apparently owned and said, you know, that's a problem.", "Well, I guess he wasn't Dr. Feel-Good for him then.", "Right.", "That's the point.", "I mean everybody else. Yes.", "So there may be a kiss up --", "All right, but let's -- let's try and put it into the category of, what does it mean? I'm of two minds on this. So this documentation comes out. No reason to believe it's not legit. Good. It's a good data point.", "Right.", "The White House pushes back and says, this was a dispute between doctors. They don't like each other. That's all it is. It doesn't show anything nefarious. OK, fine. Then they say, and by the way, all the other allegations that came out are false. And it's not just the White House that's putting this out. Friends of theirs. Ari Fleischer, a respected guy, you know, who did the job down there with the Bush administration, he puts -- it was in a tweet, right, so it's inherently incomplete and Ari would have to speak for himself, but he says, all of the allegations are false. But we don't know that. We know that there was proof that rejects some of those, contradicts some of those, but not all. And then it raises the big question, if they had it and said, ah, we got you, media. You went after this guy wrongly with false allegations. Why did they throw him under the bus? Why didn't they push back, John Avlon, and say, you can't prove any of this.", "Well --", "Well, that's a great question. That's the point.", "Let's let the process go forward. And he's going to fine and there's going to be egg on your face?", "You've got five seconds.", "That's the subtext of why they didn't push back.", "Because he doesn't want to.", "That's right.", "He doesn't want it.", "But, I mean, look -- yes, so --", "At the end of the day, that's what it boils down to. He's afraid of the facts coming out. So squelch it, make fun of it and walk away from it.", "There's a lot of fear in this.", "OK. Time up. John Avlon, Brian Karem, thank you both very much.", "All right, so big, big international development. Israel's prime minister says Iran is lying -- the i-n-g is important there -- about its nuclear program. He claims he has proof. He put on a display the likes of which we have never seen from a leader of that country, certainly from Bibi. Why did he do it this way? What is new? What does it mean? The man himself Bibi Netanyahu answers for you."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "BRIAN KAREM, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "CAMEROTA", "JOHN AVLON, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "CUOMO", "KAREM", "CUOMO", "KAREM", "CAMEROTA", "KAREM", "CAMEROTA", "KAREM", "CAMEROTA", "KAREM", "AVLON", "KAREM", "AVLON", "KAREM", "AVLON", "KAREM", "AVLON", "CAMEROTA", "AVLON", "KAREM", "CUOMO", "AVLON", "KAREM", "AVLON", "CUOMO", "KAREM", "CUOMO", "AVLON", "KAREM", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "AVLON", "KAREM", "AVLON", "KAREM", "AVLON", "KAREM", "AVLON", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-320378", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-09-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/02/cnr.11.html", "summary": "Astros Raises Money for Harvey Victims", "utt": ["Welcome back. These are live pictures right now. The President and the first lady just touched down at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland as they return from their trip to the storm ravaged area in Texas and Louisiana where they spent much of the day visiting with first responders, with elected officials, and most importantly perhaps with victims of the hurricane and the flooding that happened in particular in Houston, a city that was just ravaged. Again, live pictures here at Joint Base Andrews as the President and first lady return to the White House. Well, Texans have stepped up in a big way to help victims of Hurricane Harvey. But today, they got a chance to do it all while enjoying America's past time, baseball. The Houston Astros have donated $4 million so far to Harvey relief efforts in the Houston area. And then they partnered with Major League Baseball to donate all the parking, concessions, and the ticket revenue from this weekend's three-game series against the Texas Rangers. And our Nick Valencia joins us now from Minute Maid Park in Houston. Nick, I know the Astros had to have been excited to give back to their city. That's obvious there that they're so, so much, but what are the players saying about today's game?", "Well, for a lot of people here, Ana, this is the first normal thing that they've done since the hurricane. And the players understand that this is a lot -- in a lot of ways, a distraction for the people of this city who have been through so much. We were in the clubhouse earlier before the first game of today's double-header, and we spoke to a couple of stars, one of which is wearing cleats today that are signed by some of the youngest victims of Hurricane Harvey in honor of what they went through and to show solidarity with the victims.", "You know, after getting to go out yesterday and see some of the people and see the shape that they're in, you know, it's definitely heartbreaking. But at the same time, it's really cool to see how the whole city has come together, even the people from Louisiana. And, you know, people are flying from the West Coast and East Coast to kind of -- everyone's contributing to do their part. I bought a pair --", "Please.", "I bought a pair of white Adidas cleats yesterday and I kind of let the kids design them and draw them how they wanted to. I told them I was going to be wearing them this weekend. And I said you guys are going to design them for me, and if you guys want to sign your name or draw a little picture on there or put whatever you want.", "I feel for these people. You know, I'm going to go out and, you know, hope for, what's it's worth, I'm going to run through a wall for this city if I have to. You know, I'll do anything I can, you know, to hopefully make these people feel better for a few hours before they go back to their situations and lives.", "Our crew has been here all week, and I think it's safe to say that this is the most that we've seen this many people smile. They've gone through really just so much. The Astros won the first game of the double-header. They put on a show, 12 to eight. We caught up with some of the fans to talk about their predictions for this game that's going on right now.", "We're excited to get back with the community and have a little fun and spirited. Get behind the boys a little bit.", "Yes, yes.", "As we round around (ph) for the full season.", "I wanted to bring some joy today.", "Do you think it's like a --", "So that's why we're here.", "-- a return to something normal, a little bit?", "Something normal to, you know, bring it back to the fundamentals of what life is about. Just joy or hope. Hope.", "You know, just let's us get back to a little bit of normalcy, you know, after everything that happened.", "I think this is the most we've seen people smile in Houston in, like, the last week, you know.", "Yes.", "Yes.", "Yes.", "And I mentioned that first game was a win for the Astros. Something that was striking to us, the pitcher for the New York Mets in today's game, his name, Matt Harvey.", "Wow.", "The Astros chased him out of the game. It was the shortest start of his career. Right now, the score is tied zero, zero, but a lot of fans are very optimistic that they'll pull another win out today, Ana.", "Real quick, any update on how much money they've raised today?", "So far, we haven't had a chance to talk to the Astros about that, but we know all those proceeds from the parking are going here. We've seen a lot of people stream into the game. There was a lot of empty seats, though, as well. There are people here that are still suffering through it.", "Yes.", "I mentioned that a lot of people are getting back to normal here, but a lot of people are still going through it, Ana.", "I'm sure going to a baseball game was the last thing on a lot of people's minds who are just trying to get their lives back together. Nick Valencia, thank you. Nice to see that silver lining --", "You got it.", "-- to what's happening in Houston. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JOE MUSGROVE, PITCHER, HOUSTON ASTROS", "VALENCIA", "MUSGROVE", "GEORGE SPRINGER, OUTFIELDER, HOUSTON ASTROS", "VALENCIA", "CHRISTIAN DELARIVA, HOUSTON ASTROS FAN", "VALENCIA", "DELARIVA", "CELESTE FISHER, HOUSTON ASTROS FAN", "VALENCIA", "FISHER", "VALENCIA", "FISHER", "MICHAEL STEWART, HOUSTON ASTROS FAN", "VALENCIA", "MARLENE STEWART, HOUSTON ASTROS FAN", "MICHAEL STEWART", "MARLENE STEWART", "VALENCIA", "CABRERA", "VALENCIA", "CABRERA", "VALENCIA", "CABRERA", "VALENCIA", "CABRERA", "VALENCIA", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-8530", "program": "WorldView", "date": "2000-5-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/21/wv.07.html", "summary": "Koala Population Faces Renewed Threat of Extinction", "utt": ["One of Australia;'s best-known animal species faces an uncertain future.", "It's the koala bear. The koala population is under serious threat, and researchers are trying to determine how to save them. CNN's Denise Dillon has more now.", "They're cute, they're cuddly, and they are in danger of extinction. Koala bears were recently put on the endangered species list by the United States. This isn't the first time koalas have been in trouble. Before the 1930s, they were hunted almost to extinction for their pelts. The marsupials were declared a protected species. Since then, they have climbed their way back. Today, there are an estimated 100,000 koalas. Now hunters are no longer their biggest threat, it's urbanization.", "The roads, because they're very slow in crossing roads. And where roads go through their habitat, that causes significant problems.", "And that's not all. There's a matter of their diet. They live on eucalyptus leaves, and about 80 percent of Australia's eucalyptus forests have been cleared for human use. Of the 20 percent left, not all trees are the same.", "Taking leaves from two leaves here. Here's one that the animals have not rally touched at all. Here's one from another tree. It's actually the same species, another yellow box that was growing right next to this one but the animals have clearly stripped.", "Some trees have a higher levels of a particular chemical that can make a koala sick, so researchers are trying to determine the chemical composition of eucalyptus trees that koalas prefer.", "So if we know more about why they're making those choices, we can really choose the trees to replant areas. We can choose trees that might be more favorable in particular environments for koalas.", "By pinpointing which trees are suitable for koalas, it will make it easier to save the habitat, helping the world's fussiest eaters survive. Denise Dillon, CNN."], "speaker": ["ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIAN NELSON, CNN ANCHOR", "DENISE DILLON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DR. WILLIAM FOLEY, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY", "DILLON", "FOLEY", "DILLON", "FOLEY", "DILLON"]}
{"id": "CNN-232039", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2014-6-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/05/es.03.html", "summary": "Heat Versus Spurs in NBA Finals Rematch", "utt": ["What a start to the Stanley Cup Finals. The Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers needing overtime to decide game one of the series.", "Andy Scholes, he's staying up late at night for a lot of reasons, and that was this one in the \"Bleacher Report.\"", "Good morning, guys. Bragging rights are on the line in this one. You know, this is the first time since the 1981 World Series that New York and L.A., they're battling it out for a professional sports title. And Rangers fans, they came out in big numbers in Bryant Park to watch this one and for our viewing party. And they got to watch an absolute thriller. Tied at 2 with time winding down in the third, Henrik Lundqvist with the amazing diving save to send the game to overtime. In the extra period, Justin Williams comes through again for the Kings with the game-winning goal right here. L.A. takes game one 3-2. Game two will be Saturday night. All right, it's a sad day for baseball as the legendary Don Zimmer has died. Zimmer had one of the longest careers in the game, spanning 66 years as a player, manager, executive and coach. He was still working for the Tampa Bay Rays as a senior adviser when he died on Wednesday. He had been in a Florida hospital since having heart surgery in April. Don Zimmer was 83. Trending on bleacherreport.com this morning, the NFL is abandoning roman numerals for the 50th Super Bowl. The game in Santa Clara, California, next February will be known as Super Bowl 50. The change was made because the league reportedly didn't like the look of a Super Bowl L logo, which makes sense. However, after Super Bowl 50, the NFL will be going back to the old roman numerals. All right. NBA finals get under way tonight in San Antonio, and it's a rematch of last year's thrilling series. The odds makers have the Spurs as the slight favorites this time around, since they have the home court advantage. The Heat, of course, is looking for their third straight title. And game one is big when it comes to the NBA finals. The winner of the first game has gone on to win the series about 70 percent of the time. Tip-off is at 9:00 Eastern. And guys, I've been struggling on who to pick in this one. Originally, I thought the Spurs in seven, but I've switched my pick. I think the Heat is going to win this in six and claim their third straight title. Going with LeBron.", "I think the Heat in six, exactly right. I think the Heat can turn it on whenever they want. But a bigger story is the NFL, sticking with the Redskins longer than roman numerals, and Romans everywhere are pissed about this, right?", "As a member of the Romans, I would just like to say they are going back to the roman numerals next year, so dodged that bullet.", "This is like the only place you see roman numerals anymore, Super Bowl logo.", "Kids everywhere, no cursive, no roman numerals. What's our future hold? Thanks, Andy. Appreciate it.", "You're welcome.", "New details on the prisoner swap that freed captured Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. The deal leaving some lawmakers furious. A late-night briefing"], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "ROMANS", "ANDY SCHOLES, BLEACHER REPORT", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "SCHOLES", "BERMAN", "SCHOLES", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-176631", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2011-11-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1111/26/smn.05.html", "summary": "CNN Hero Feeds Hungry Children", "utt": ["It's 25 minutes past the hour on this CNN Saturday morning. And there has been a devastating drought in the southwest, and as a consequence now, among a number of consequences, it's now hitting Christmas tree lots across the region. This drought has killed thousands of Christmas trees in Texas and Oklahoma. They're literally dying of thirst. Hundreds of other trees, they were burned in the wildfires. So some farms will be selling trees grown in North Carolina now. But this, again, as I bring in Bonnie Schneider, we were talking about these drought conditions in Texas. They were going through the season, really a record drought there, and we're seeing the consequences.", "It's impacting so many industries, so I'm not surprised Christmas trees are one of them. We are seeing, though, a lot of rain moving through other parts of the country right now. So for those of you on the road and maybe you're heading somewhere to do some shopping or perhaps continue your holiday travel, let me show you with some of the trouble spots are right now, some strong thunderstorms rolling into Arkansas at this hour. Little Rock, it's just start to go rain there. Expect more of that throughout much of the morning. And to Shreveport, Louisiana and then northward, everything is changing. In Chicago, for example, light rain is moving in. But by tomorrow night, you're looking at a chance of light snow showers in the Chicago area. It's snowing in northern Minnesota, and that's where we have winter weather advisories because we are looking at wintry conditions in this region, snow and ice a possible two to four inches. That's going to be a problem for those of you driving later tonight and through Sunday. And that's really a shame because tomorrow is, rather, the busiest travel day. No delays right now for air travel. But this is what we're anticipating throughout the afternoon. Chicago, winds, low clouds, rains could all cause delays. As well as Dallas, Houston. Memphis, St. Louis, Minneapolis and even Miami all facing delays this afternoon. So if you can get on that earlier flight or hit the road earlier, you'll probably be best off on this busy holiday travel weekend. T.J.?", "Thank you very much. We're about 26 minutes past the hour now. And we're also just about three weeks away from picking a CNN hero of the year. I want to give you a chance to get to know some of the top 10. This morning, chef Bruno Serato, who has more on his mind than serving dinners at his popular restaurant, is somebody we want to introduce you to now.", "Hi. I'm Nate Berkus. And as a member of the American Red Cross celebrity cabinet I am committed to emergency preparedness, disaster response, and lending a helping hand to those in need. Now I am thrilled to help introduce one of this year's top 10 CNN heroes.", "I came to this country I love to cook. But to be in the restaurant business you must love the people. There's your lunch, ladies. In 2005, my mom was on vacation from Italy. I said, mom, let's go to the Boys & Girls Club. This little boy, five-years-old, eating potato chips for his dinner. He was a motel kid. I find a poor family who has nothing else, you live in a model. When they go back after school, there's no dinner. There's no money. Mom said, Bruno, you must feed them the pasta. My name is Bruno Serato. My mission is pasta and feeding hungry children. I don't give the kids leftovers.", "Bruno brings the trays and all the kids expect to eat spaghetti.", "Are you hungry? Are you hungry? Right now, we are between 150 to 200 kids. Who likes the pasta?", "Me!", "My mom, she made me start. Now I could never stop. They're our customers, my favorite customers.", "And you can actually still vote for the winner. Log on to CNNheros.com and take part in our special all-star tribute, December 11th, 8:00 eastern right here on CNN. And Newt Gingrich, what is he doing? Was it a bold step, a big idea, or was it a mistake? His take on immigration raising some eyebrows and some concerns. But look at those two. They don't look concerned this morning. Our dear friends and our political players Lenny and Maria, we're talking all new when we come back. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["HOLMES", "BONNIE SCHNEIDER, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "HOLMES", "NATE BERKUS, TV HOST", "BRUNO SERATO, CNN HERO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SERATO", "CROWD", "SERATO", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-138038", "program": "STATE OF THE UNION WITH JOHN KING", "date": "2009-5-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0905/10/sotu.04.html", "summary": "Last Word: Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Brandy Ovanek", "utt": ["Mixed economic signals this week as the overall unemployment rate went up, but the pace of job losses slowed down. Are the Obama administration's efforts to pump up the economy starting to have an impact? Democratic Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee are here to discuss that and much more. And she's a mother and a wife serving in Iraq. On this Mother's Day, U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Brandy Ovanek gets the last word. All head on this hour of STATE OF THE UNION.", "Sunday, Mother's Day here in Washington, D.C. President Obama met this week at the White House with the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan, reiterating the U.S. goal to help disrupt, dismantle, and defeat Al Qaida and its allies in the region. But while Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari both pledged their full cooperation in the fight, there are deep concerns at the White House and in Congress about whether their governments are capable, capable of defeating the militants. I spoke a short time ago with the man in charge of the U.S. military efforts in the region and the head of the U.S. Central Command, General David Petraeus. General Petraeus, welcome back to \"State of the Union.\" I want to start with the offensive under way by the Pakistani military in Pakistan. It took a long time for you to convince Pakistan to get about this. And I'm starting at the map so I can pull out and show our viewers the area we're talking about, the Swat district up here, right in here. Just a basic question for you, sir. This offensive has been under way for quite a bit of time now. How effective is it?", "Well, first of all, let me say, I'm not sure I accept the characterization that you said. This is Pakistan's offensive, and it was galvanized by Taliban action, certainly not by American rhetoric or encouragement. What has happened in this case is that the actions of the Taliban in breaking the agreement that was reached for Swat, and then moving into other districts of the Northwest Frontier province, these have served as a catalyst, really, for all of Pakistan. And you now see all of the Pakistani political leaders, including opposition figures, you see the Pakistani people and you see the Pakistani military determined to reverse this trend and to deal with the Taliban threat, ultimately, in Swat Valley.", "And how effective do you think it is being -- and let me ask in the context of -- this is a military offensive. They are going in there and bombing and pushing them out and attacking them, but I would not say this is out of the Petraeus counterinsurgency playbook. So do you worry at all that these gains will be short-term, not lasting?", "Well, the true test in counterinsurgency -- and I can tell you that in our dialogue with Pakistani leaders this past week, there is a clear recognition of the concept of counterinsurgency operations, of employing all the tools of government, a whole of government approach. And over the past year, for example, there have been a number of actions that reflect the kind of, if you will, learning and adapting that our own forces have taken -- gone through in recent years as they have carried out operations in Bajaur and Mohmand and so forth. And this will be the challenge, I think, is to bring all of the assets of the government of Pakistan to bear to help their military as it goes in and conducts operations, which inevitably already have displaced citizens, and certainly will displace more of them over time.", "When you were here, sir, with Ambassador Holbrooke a few weeks back, both of you spoke openly about the trust deficit between the United States and the Pakistani government and the Pakistani military that has played out in recent years. After the conversations of the past week, how much of that has been repaired and still how much of it do you have?", "Well, I think the conversations here were quite productive and positive. In fact, I think most participants assessed after the conduct of the trilateral meetings that not just the rhetoric, but even the substance exceeded expectations. So I think they're very helpful. I think they were truly unprecedented in the way that some of the individuals on either side had never even met each other before, and then we had good bilateral conversations with each of the leaders and their delegations as well.", "As this focus now is on the Taliban, give me your assessment of Al Qaida. It has moved, essentially, its headquarters from Afghanistan into Pakistan. With all the focus on the Taliban right now, is this allowing Al Qaida a chance to regroup? And let me ask it in this context. If Al Qaida in Afghanistan was at a 10 in its operational capability on 9/11, how would you rate Al Qaida on that same scale now, as it is based in Pakistan?", "I don't want to get into that kind of numerical ranking, but I think it's worth going back and looking at the history, of course. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, we expelled the Taliban and Al Qaida and the other elements of the so-called syndicate of extremists that had found sanctuaries and safe havens in Afghanistan. They eventually relocated into the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and some of the other areas of the border regions. But I think it's very important to note that those organizations, Al Qaida in particular, has sustained some very serious losses over the course of the last six to 10 months or so, and there is a considerable concern among those leaders because of the losses that they have sustained.", "I want you to listen to something that the Afghanistan president, Hamid Karzai, told our Wolf Blitzer a couple of days ago, when he put the question to him, are there still Al Qaida in your country? Let's listen.", "Are you saying there's no Al Qaida in Afghanistan right now?", "No Al Qaida based in Afghanistan.", "So who are you fighting against?", "That's the thing, that's why we say that the war on terrorism is not in the Afghan villages. That it's in the sanctuaries, it's in the financial support system to them, it's in the training grounds. And it's beyond Afghan borders. That has now been established by the U.S. administration.", "No Al Qaida at all in Afghanistan. Is that an exaggeration, General Petraeus, or is that true?", "No, I would agree with that assessment. Certainly, Al Qaida and its affiliates. Again, remember that this is, as I mentioned earlier, a syndicate of extremist organizations, some of which are truly transnational extremists. In other words, don't just conduct attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan and India, but even throughout the rest of the world, as we saw in the U.K. a couple of years ago. They do come in and out of Afghanistan, but the Al Qaida -- precise Al Qaida, if you will -- is not based, per se, in Afghanistan, although its elements and certainly its affiliates -- Baitullah Mehsud's group, commander Nazir Khaqani (ph) network and others, certainly do have enclaves and sanctuaries in certain parts of eastern Afghanistan. And then the Afghan Taliban, of course, has a number of districts in which it has its fighters and its shadow government, if you will, even. But I think, no, I think that's an accurate assessment, and that the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan -- that very, very mountainous, rugged terrain just east of the Afghan border and in the western part of Pakistan -- is the locus of the leadership of these organizations, although they do, again, go into Afghanistan, certainly, and conduct operations against our troops, and have tried, certainly, to threaten all the way to Kabul at various times.", "President Karzai was quite adamant in that interview with Wolf that he wants the air strikes to stop. He believes the air strikes are not taking out terrorist elements, and instead are killing civilians in his country and fomenting anti-American sentiment. Will the air strikes stop?", "Well, he and I had a good conversation about this yesterday, actually, John. I thought it was important to discuss this with him. I heard that interview. There is no question, and we have all agreed for some time -- and General McKiernan, in fact, put out tactical guidance to this end, as did the Central Command headquarters -- that we have to be very, very sensitive that our tactical actions, our tactical employment in battles and so forth of close air support and other enablers does not undermine our strategic goals and objectives. And we reaffirmed that in our conversation yesterday. We'll certainly relook this yet again in the wake of this latest incident, although as the joint press release that was put out by Afghan and U.S. authorities in Afghanistan after the initial investigation of the latest situation in Farah province in western Afghanistan affirmed that Taliban bears enormous blame for this latest incident by apparently forcing civilians to stay in houses from which they were engaging our forces with heavy-fire RPGs, and quite effective fire, as the term is used.", "General David Petraeus, thank you for your time this morning, sir, and best of luck to you.", "Good to be with you, John. Thanks.", "The assessment of General Petraeus there on the situation in Pakistan and over in Afghanistan. But what do members of Congress think of this administration's approach to the problem? We'll talk with two senators who met with the presidents of both Afghanistan and Pakistan up next.", "In addition to President Obama, the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan met with members of Congress, including a luncheon with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. To of them join us now. Democratic Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania who joins us from Boston this morning and Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee here with us in our studio. And gentlemen, you just heard General Petraeus on the program. That is as optimistic as I've heard him, especially about Pakistan, in some time. You were both at the luncheon with the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan and after that luncheon, Senator Corker, you said this to the \"Washington Post\". My guess is that they left the room with a lot less support than they came into the room with. So you're not nearly as up beat as General Petraeus?", "Look, General Petraeus is a folk hero in our state and I'm one of his great fans and he talks, I listen. He was in the same meeting and there was just an air of smugness, flippancy when serious questions were asked. I asked what our mission in Afghanistan ought to be and I thought President Karzai's response was a nonresponse. And when I pushed him further he basically said, look, this is your mission, which made me feel that our partnership there was not quite I think what Americans would like to see. So my guess is that you're going to say some probing by the Senate and Congress and I think we're going to want to see - we want to see this mission articulated. I think the weakness right now is, what does it mean to make Afghanistan a place that is not a safe haven for al Qaeda, especially when you hear General Petraeus talk about the fact that al Qaeda is actually in Pakistan, which is what we all know.", "And how about that, Senator Casey, just a simple question. First, the challenge is enormous, but do you trust -- are these the two leaders to get the job done? Or are they too weak or just too unwilling to do what it takes?", "Well, John, I was in the same meeting and some of the concerns that Bob raises are very well founded because it may go back to that old line I guess from President Reagan, trust but verify. And the only way we can verify is to continually evaluate what the Pakistani Army and their military forces are doing to push back the Taliban and to defeat them. If they achieve that goal over time, then I think the trust that we must have will be a lot more solid than it is now. So there's a lot to play out here. But one of the real challenges in the near term is not just the military engagement but this refugee crisis, which seems to be spreading across parts of Pakistan because of the military conflict. But we have to continually evaluate the representations that they make and see the evidence of their progress against the Taliban.", "One of the representations made while in this country from President Zardari of Pakistan was how he needs more money and he needs it now. Let's listen to President Zardari.", "I'm thankful for the support that I got, for the people of America to give their tax dollars to us but I need more support.", "Senator Corker, grateful for American tax dollars. They want $10 billion more. That's what the administration is asking for for Pakistan over the next five years. Do they deserve that money given the track record, if you go back through the Bush years and the Musharraf years, billions of dollars sent to Pakistan and pretty hard to account for it?", "Well, I think -- Look, the fact is that we are going to have to support Pakistan. I know one of the things that they are going to begin doing is billing us from their military what they are doing against counterinsurgencies there. The fact is that we find ourselves -- and this is one of the questions I have. How big is our footprint going to end up being? We're in Iraq now and we're seeing some problems as we begin to draw down. We're in Afghanistan. Certainly there have been concerns about our relationship with the army and the ISI in Pakistan itself. Where is that going? But at the end of the day, we're going to be in a position as a country to have to support Pakistan in some way and in large ways. And we're going to have to figure out a way, though, to verify, as you mentioned earlier, that what our money is doing is actually furthering a cause that we all believe in. That obviously has been less than the case in the past.", "Senator Casey, how weak is the U.S. hand here? There's a great sensitivity to putting U.S. boots on the ground in Pakistan. We know it occasionally happens with Special Forces but the military doesn't like to talk about it. You have the drones going in there up in the northern region of the country. But we're just sending money to Pakistan and hoping, hoping that they do what is necessary inside their country. Pretty weak hand?", "Well, no, I think we have a strong hand for a couple of reasons, John. One is, I think President Obama has set forth a strategy which you can clearly articulate in the line that you just used in the lead up to this interview where you talked about President Obama focusing on the trip from al Qaeda to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda. It's very important we're clear about that being the objective. But this can't just be military help on our part or the military campaign by the Pakistani Army. This has to be a comprehensive effort, including the legislation that has passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and should pass the whole Senate and the Congress, the Kerry-Lugar bill, which provides economic aid and other aid for development. That's critically important here if this is going to be -- We cannot just have a war in Pakistan. You have to begin to build up the country itself so they can govern effectively even as they fight the Taliban. If we do that, I think it's a great investment in our national security to provide the kind of economic aid. But as Bob Corker said, you have to be able to follow the dollars better than we have and better than the Pakistani government has allowed us to do in previous efforts to provide economic aid.", "Senators Casey and Corker, I want you both to stand by, when we come back we'll get some insights into political issues including the party switch of Arlen Specter, one of the top GOP senators. We'll be back with Senators Casey and Corker right after the break.", "We're back with Democratic Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee. Senator Corker, to you first on the economy. You're on the Banking Committee. The administration put out the stress test last week and they think this is potentially a turning point, that most banks are in pretty good shape, some banks need a little bit more help in the capital department, but they don't think more taxpayer money. Are they right? Have we turned a corner in the financial sector?", "Well, there are glimmers of hope. I met with Treasury and the Fed the evening they put these out. We obviously are going to want to get behind the data a little bit. But, look, I think it was a positive step. I know that it's being pooh-poohed by many. But there will possibly be additional government dollars. Now I think that hasn't fully been said. And I think that what we have got to be concerned about as we move into the future is not causing TARP to be codified so that it's there forever. And that's one of the things the treasury secretary has asked for as a resolution ability down the road. So hopefully not much in the way of government dollars. It looks like -- I mean, for instance, GMAC looks like a definite for about $11 billion in need in the very near future. But hopefully either through converting to common equity or many of the private offerings that were very successful this week, we're going to see a real difference in our financial institutions and I actually -- I'm feeling better about it. I really am.", "Feeling better, from Senator Corker. Senator Casey, you represent, of course, one of the big industrial states, one of the hardest-hit states in this recession, I want your sense. When you have a week where the unemployment rate goes up, it is now approaching 9 percent, but people cheer the fact that the economy lost fewer jobs last month than the month before, still more than half a million jobs lost last month. When you go home to Scranton, are the businesses and the blue collar workers, are they telling you we've hit bottom, or do they still see it getting worse before better?", "Well, John, on the good news front, we're hearing from business people and small business people, especially, that some -- a lot of inventory, I should say, is moving off the shelves, that's a good sign. But when we describe, we use language like the unemployment rate is a lagging indicator. That gives no hope and doesn't reflect the reality that so many people are living through. If you lose a job or your home or your hopes and your dreams, these economic statistics don't mean much. So we have a long way to go. And I think we have to continually focus on the job numbers.", "I want to talk politics for a minute with both of our senators. As I do so, I'm going to get up and walk over to the wall. But also, show you the front page of the cover of this week's TIME magazine, \"Endanger Species,\" it says of the Republican Party. That's your party, Senator Corker, and as we discuss it, I just want to play this little time line through here to go through what has happened. This is -- goes back 17 years to 1992. And you can see the line here. The red is the Republicans. The Republicans in the minority here. Minority here. Minority in the governorships in 1992. Then, of course, came the big Republican sweep in 1994. The Republicans took the majority in the House, the majority in the Senate, up to 19 governorships at that point. This was the Republican heyday, just after 1994. Fast forward to 2000. George W. Bush wins the White House, and Republicans pick up at the governor level. Parity, 50/50 in the Senate. A smaller majority for Republicans in the House at that point after 2000. And let's forward now to where we are in 2009. Look at this, a much smaller -- Republicans now back in the minority in the House, back in the minority with just 40 Senate seats, 22 Republican governors now across the country. So as I come back, Senator Corker, just like to ask you this question. You know, I've been covering politics for 25 years. Usually when we use the term \"circular firing squad,\" it has been about Senator Casey's party. The Democrats have not handled their struggles very well over the years. But it seems Republicans now are in this internal war, pointing at each other when the party needs to be rebuilding. You're a former mayor, not just a United States senator. What's the way back?", "Well, I think that, look, we've been the party of common sense and sound judgment, I think, in most years in the past. I may offend some folks, but I think a lot of people, even though they may disagree with Republicans, have always looked at us to act as grown- ups as it relates to things like fiscal issues and other kinds of things. I think we've lost that to some degree. We certainly, I think, need to lead by solving problems in these common-sense ways. And I think that we cannot just be against -- although I am concerned about the overreach that's taking place right now on many issues. And certainly, look, I'm a deal guy. I want to see good things happen, but part of our job is to help keep bad things from happening. But again, we've got to create alternatives. We've got to talk with the people. I saw, John, during the General Motors-Chrysler debate, if you will, the American people will respond overwhelmingly to good common sense, to talking about issues as they are. And while many people feel they're in the wilderness today because of this economic stress, I believe that if we as Republicans can walk them through and show them the way that we can regain our majority -- so, look, this is not as much fun as it was two weeks ago when we at least had 41, but I think that will change. And certainly we all want this president to be successful. It's important for our country, but helping him be successful might be enlightening in some ways of policy that hopefully will take our country ahead in a positive way and not a negative way.", "Well, Senator Casey, the latest Democratic vote is now Arlen Specter, the former Republican. He is now a Democrat with you from the state of Pennsylvania. The president is behind him, the vice president is behind him, the Senate majority leader is behind him, your Democratic governor is behind him. There are other Democrats, though, who are outraged about this. Congressman Joe Sestak was right here in the studio last week. He is considering a primary challenge against Arlen Specter, and he says, what's going on here? Barack Obama promised to change politics as usual, to stop bowing to the establishment. And he says, here's a guy, who, since becoming a Democrat, has voted against the Obama budget and said he wants Republican Norm Coleman seated in Minnesota in that disputed Senate seat. Is Arlen Specter a Democrat?", "John, I think he is, but as you know, in our party, we have a lot of diversity, a lot of different points of view. But, John, this is a process. This will play out over time. We have a primary for this Senate seat next May, May of 2010.", "And should the...", "A lot of time between now and then.", "In a primary -- excuse me for interrupting, Senator, but in a primary, should President Obama, Vice President Biden, Senate Majority Leader Reid, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the governor of Pennsylvania be saying, stay out, we'll help this guy raise money, we're going to beat you, we have all the powers that be are now behind Arlen Specter, who has been a Democrat for a week?", "Well, there will be expressions of support for Senator Specter, but I don't think anyone in our party should ever dictate to a candidate. That's really up to that candidate, to run or not run. But I think in this case, it may not seem it now, it may seem a little divided now, but there will be -- I think there'll be consensus. Because the objective here by 2011 is to have a Democratic senator in that seat. But the prime objective today, tomorrow, and for the next several years is to help President Obama.", "Incredibly diplomatic there from Senator Casey. He's auditioning for secretary of state if the administration goes on, a little bit here.", "That's right, there you go.", "Let me ask you a question in closing. We're out of time, but one of the Republicans out quite frequently, to the surprise of many, has been the former vice president. He came in here, Dick Cheney, about six weeks ago and said President Obama is making the American people less safe. He has been on the radio this past week getting involved in a debate within your party about what next, and he'll be back out today. Is Dick Cheney being so visible helpful or hurtful?", "I think it's important for everybody who has the ability to communicate ideas to be involved. I don't really give editorial comments about whether people are being positive or negative. Look, Arlen -- the change there -- I'll get back to that -- certainly was a little bit of a solar plexus blow. To say that it wasn't, it was. But I don't think it had anything to do with the Republican Party. He was very transparent about the fact that on Friday he met with this pollster. His pollster told him he could not win as a Republican, so on Monday, he came in and told Mitch he was going to be a Democrat. Now, I like Arlen fine. But let me just say, John, after 30 years of service, if you see me -- I hope that's not the case for me, but after 30 years of service, if you see me taking a poll and switching parties, give me a call, if you will.", "We need to end it on that, Senator Bob Corker and Senator Bob Casey. Gentlemen, thanks both for coming in. I guess that experience on the Foreign Relations Committee makes you very diplomatic. Thank you both. And as we just heard from Senator Corker, a lot of advice for the beleaguered Republican Party these days. We'll talk about the GOP's effort to rebound with CNN political contributors Mary Matalin and Hilary Rosen. That's up next, stay right there.", "Joining us now to hear their unique political insights, Republican strategist and CNN political contributor Mary Matalin who is in New Orleans this morning. With me here in Washington, CNN Democratic political contributor, Hilary Rosen. Happy Mother's Day to both of you, ladies. Welcome.", "Mary, I want to start with you. If you look at the Sunday talk show landscape this morning, you'll see John McCain, Newt Gingrich, and your friend and old boss, Dick Cheney. And as we showed in our last segment, the cover of Time magazine this week is \"Endangered Species.\" As you know, on the left, they're having a field day with the Sunday lineup, saying, great, if that's the face of the Republican Party, more of it. Let's have more to it, specifically to the point of the former vice president. You know the debate he has stirred up over the past several weeks, beginning right here on \"State of the Union.\" Helpful or hurtful for the Republican Party for Dick Cheney to be out there so much?", "Well, if you consider the -- as I do, as most conservative do -- that Republicanism and conservativism are not necessarily synonymous, that when Republicans aspire and ascend is when they go back to what they do best, which is radical reform and being a party of ideas, as they did post-'64, as they did post-'92. When you have the people who best exemplify and represent those ideas getting (ph) and articulating them, like Newt Gingrich and Vice President Cheney, then that's a good thing. You'll note whenever the Democrats attack Dick Cheney for being out or what he's saying, they never attack the ideas. There's never an answer for what he's speaking about, it's always just a personal attack. Specifically, and I'm sure he's speaking even as we speak now about how really damaging and dangerous it was for this president to release the legal memos on the EITs, on the enhanced interrogation techniques. Very dangerous, very bad precedent and will come back to haunt this president. So rather than have an argument about that, there's a personal attack on Dick Cheney, which means there's no argument against the ideas, which goes to what the Republicans need to do, which is to quit being an echo as Goldwater said, really the godfather of the conservatives and present a clear choice.", "Do you want to jump in on that one? Are they personal attacks or will you take on the ideas? ROSEN; I think Mary's probably the best spokesperson the Republicans have right now, but the attacks on Dick Cheney have been fairly specific. I mean he, after all, I think came on to this network and said that he thinks that the president is making this country less safe. So the responses back have been about where Americans feel that we have been less safe and that the more vulnerable and that President Obama, as we see from the polls, has been addressing that. And in fact, Americans now feel more safe under this president than they did over the last several years. I find that poll fairly remarkable.", "I want to shift our focus. Hilary and I, Mary, you're in New Orleans, safely out of the Beltway. Hilary and I were at this annual event in Washington last night, it's the White House Correspondents' Dinner. It was meant to have fun. The president came and he's a good performer.", "We missed you, Mary.", "I didn't miss you guys, sorry.", "The entertainment was Wanda Sykes, the very funny comedian. And she was very funny, and very pointed in her humor, but then she reached a point where many think she crossed the line. I want you to listen to Wanda Sykes last night and I want both of your reactions. She's talking here about Rush Limbaugh and his statements that he would like Obama's administration, which he calls liberal socialism, to fail. Let's listen.", "To me, that's treason. He's not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden is saying. You know, you might want to look into this. I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he just so strung out on Oxycontin, he missed his flight.", "Hilary Rosen, I know you're not a fan of Rush Limbaugh, but was that over the line?", "You know, Rush Limbaugh gets by on theater, and when anyone holds him accountable for his words, when he says things like \"I want this administration to fail and I'm proud of it,\" when he makes money of politicians, his defense is always, \"Listen, you know, I'm as much entertainment as I am substance.\" Wanda Sykes, hitting right back in entertainment. I think it's fair game.", "Fair game to call Rush Limbaugh the 20th hijacker, Mary?", "Well, I rest my case. It's a perfect example and it epitomizes what I just said about -- not that it's Wanda Sykes' responsibility or within her capacity to make an argument against what her Rush Limbaugh talks about every day, which is the essence of conservatism, she attacks him personally. So it's just part of what the paradigm is when you confront conservative ideas. Just like the Democrats -- let me go back to the torture thing. Torture, this is not torture. What the enhanced interrogation techniques were, were legal, they were limited, they were used on water boarding, which has become -- completely blown out of context. It was used on three people, which Nancy Pelosi knew about, she at least knew about Abu Zubaydah, which led us to KSM, which led us to thwart all those second wave attacks, which saved lives. So much of what made us safe, was classified, is now coming out in a way that is going to make us less safe in the future. So rather than take on those arguments, we call Rush Limbaugh a drug addict.", "I'm going to call time-out here, because we're over time here. I could spend all day with two of my favorite ladies and favorite moms.", "but we're going to have to call it quits for today. But we will have this conversation I suspect many times in the weeks ahead, Hilary Rosen and Mary Matalin, thanks much for coming in this morning. And don't forget coming up right here at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, FAREED ZAKARIA GPS, takes a comprehensive look as always at international affairs with world leaders, policy experts and journalists. This week, Fareed has an exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama.", "Out of desperation, out of hatred, out of anger, out of frustration violence took place. So therefore, violence does not come from sky, violence does not come from guns alone. Ultimately it (inaudible) motivation, emotion. So unless we tackle emotion, destructive emotion, we cannot stop violence.", "More of that fascinating conversation just ahead. Stay tuned for FAREED ZAKARIA GPS coming up at the top of the hour right here on CNN. Up next, a very special guest joins us all the way from the battlefield this Mother's Day with a message from her two young children back home. You won't want to miss this. Stay with us.", "I'm John King and this is STATE OF THE UNION. Here are some stories breaking this Sunday morning. Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis are on the move, fleeing a region where Army forces say they are cracking down hard on Taliban militants. The military lifted a curfew for several hours today allowing those civilians to escape. Pakistani officials say as many as 200 militants were killed in a 24 hour period. Pope Benedict is in Jordan as part of a visit to the Middle East. After celebrating mass in Amman, Jordan this morning, he traveled to the banks of the Jordan River and blessed churches on the spot where many Christians believe John the Baptist first baptized Jesus. Cool, damp water is helping tame a wildfire in Santa Barbara, California that has burned nearly 9,000 acres. Evacuation orders have now been lifted and residents are now returning home. Firefighters say the blaze is about 40% contained. It has destroyed or damaged nearly 80 homes and buildings. Those are the headlines on STATE OF THE UNION. A shot of the capitol there on this Mother's Day, Sunday, here in Washington, DC. Twenty three newsmakers, analysts and reporters were out on the Sunday morning talk shows today. But only one gets the last word. That honor today, a very special treat goes to Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Brandy Ovanek. She's on duty in Iraq on this Mother's Day. Since she joins us now from Iraq, staff sergeant, let me start by saying Happy Mother's Day to you.", "Thank you, sir.", "You don't have to call me sir. You can call me John. That would be just fine. Let me ask you a question we put to the generals all the time. You're serving in Iraq now. By next Mother's Day, most U.S. combat forces including you, staff sergeant, are supposed to be back home here in the United States. The big question, are the Iraqi Army and security forces up to the challenge of replacing U.S. troops as you begin to draw down. The generals say increasingly the answer is yes. Do you agree?", "Yes, sir, I do. I definitely do.", "And how do you see it there?", "I'm sorry?", "And what evidence of that do you see while you're there serving in Iraq?", "I still can't understand you.", "I'm sorry you can't hear me. Let me shift gears, actually. I know you can't be with your children because you're serving your army overseas. Your children Maggie and Parker would have very much liked to make you breakfast at home. We do know that they made you a card. I'm going to show it on the screen here and we can bring it up, \"Happy Mother's Day, wishing you a very happy mother's day, remember it's the little things in life that matter. We love you mommy and cannot wait for your return. Missing you, always, your family, Chris, Maggie and Parker.\" I'm wondering if you have a Mother's Day message to your family back home.", "Well, I just want to thank them for the cards and I definitely miss them as much as they seem to be missing me and also just a Happy Mother's Day to my mother and family in Johnstown, Pennsylvania as well.", "Well, we know your children and husband miss you very much and the reason we know that is because we have them standing by on the line and we want to give them an opportunity to say to you what they might have said to you at breakfast had you been home. Come on in guys.", "Hey, Happy Mother's Day.", "Thank you, dear.", "Happy Mother's Day mama.", "Is that Parker or Maggie?", "It's Maggie.", "Hi, Maggie, thank you. Thank you for the card.", "You're welcome.", "Is Parker with us?", "Yes, he is.", "Now, tell me guys, what would you have made your mom for breakfast if she were home?", "Probably a couple of pancakes with berries on the top.", "Pancakes with berries on the top. I bet you can't get those in Iraq, can you, staff sergeant?", "No, sir.", "Tell me, we're having a nice moment here and I'm glad to have it. You're one of the new face of the United States military. More and more women and more and more mothers serving overseas. How hard is the challenge?", "Happy mother's day, mom.", "It's hard but it's -- thank you, buddy. It's definitely a challenge but we've been preparing for it. We had enough preparation for the deployment. It definitely wasn't a surprise that the hand over to the husband for the duration of my deployment was an easy transition.", "And tell me in this new day of better communications, including the communication we're enjoying right now with your husband and children on the line, is it easier to communicate with them on a regular basis as opposed to, say, five or 10 years ago in.", "Oh, definitely. It's much easier. A few years ago when I deployed, I was lucky if I talked to my children -- at the time, just my daughter, once every two to three weeks. And now I could call or e-mail every day if I wanted to. It makes it much easier.", "We have about a minute time left. I'm going to do the right thing and just be quiet. I want your family to jump in and take the last bit of time we have and just have a bit of conversation and say hi to mom.", "Hi, sweetie.", "Thank you, John.", "Hold on. Here's Parker.", "OK.", "Happy Mother's Day.", "Hello, Parker.", "Hi.", "Thank you, buddy.", "You're welcome.", "You would have made me breakfast this morning, huh?", "Yeah.", "So Parker and Maggie, tell mom what you're going to do today on Mother's Day.", "What would you have made me?", "We're going to make pancakes with berries on top.", "You better call your grandma's.", "And a hot cup of coffee.", "I love you guys.", "Love you.", "You have a few more seconds left, staff sergeant. Anything else you want to say to your children or your mother or anybody back home state side?", "Just that I love everybody and I miss them and can't wait to see everybody.", "All right. Staff Sergeant Brandy Ovanek serving us in Iraq. We thank you for your time on this Mother's Day. We hope -- we know the technology doesn't always work perfectly but we hope getting a quick chance to say hello to your husband and children made your day a little bit brighter overseas and we wish you the best and best of luck in the weeks and months ahead.", "OK, John, thank you very much.", "Thank you, you take care. And on this Mother's Day, we return from one remarkable mother to another. When we come back, we'll take you out to Los Angeles to meet one woman who is doing everything she can for her son. You'll see her struggles up close next.", "We've spent a lot of time in our travels out of Washington looking at how the recession has increased unemployment. The brighter the state on the map here, the higher the unemployment rate. Another impact is homelessness. The brighter the state, again, the higher the rate. Homelessness also on the rise in a bad economy. This week, we went to Los Angeles. I want to show you one statistic in the middle here -- 20 percent to 43 percent, the data is a little shaky, but 20- 43 percent of homeless are in families headed by a single mother. It is a remarkable statistic and you might think all of these single mothers have been thrown out of work. Not all. Some are still in the workforce, but without a roof over their head.", "Up early to beat the L.A. traffic to get Jacob to school on time and then to the office. Ruth Martinez is a working mother and something else you would never guess.", "We went to the movies to go see the movie \"The Soloist\" and there's a lady sitting next to us and a very nice lady and I turn to my son and I go, little does she know that we're homeless. She thinks of us just like regular people. Little does she know that we have curfews and after the movie, we have to run to the car to get back by curfew.", "Curfew because Ruth and Jacob live here in the family wing of the Los Angeles homeless shelter.", "This is our room.", "Their tiny room comes with strict rules. No TV, no lights on after 10 p.m., but no complaints from a grateful Ruth Martinez. So tell me about the first few days.", "Here?", "No, before that.", "Well, we were living in my car. And a couple people at my job knew what was happening and they tried to help but it was easier to say, oh, I hear what you're going through, uh-huh, and they can get in their car and go to their house. But they don't know what it is to pick up your son and say, wow, where am I going to go now?", "Her husband had lost his job and took off. Ruth and Jacob were evicted after falling behind on the rent, living in her car afraid to ask for help.", "It's just crazy. I was embarrassed because a Hispanic Latina does not ask for help. The way I was raised, you put your pride to the side and do what you have to do.", "I am not feeling uncomfortable.", "Would you be open to the idea or the possibility, not right now, but in the future, maybe staying with us so you have a safe place to sleep at night?", "Rudy Salinas sees it every day, the changing face of homelessness.", "Recently, I have noticed in certain communities in L.A. County, an increase in the number of women with children, women with kids below the age of 5 that are struggling for the same resources that a 40-year-old man may be trying to go through so they have somewhere to sleep at night. In my eight years of doing this, I never came across as many people who told us that they have been homeless before.", "Some have just lost their jobs. Others like Ruth Martinez are still working but have been evicted after falling behind on the rent or because their landlord faced foreclosure. Salinas works for PATH, People Assisting the Homeless, which runs the shelter where Ruth finally found a room and where she will celebrate Mother's Day.", "What are you going to do for her on Mother's Day?", "Make her something.", "What are you going to make her? It's on Sunday, you know. Residents can stay six months. If they have jobs, they are required to set aside money, build up enough for a rental property. Ruth is saving, but makes an exception because of her new understanding of what it's like to be homeless.", "When I get off that freeway, I see a gentleman there every time. Whatever I have on me, if I have a couple of dollars, I give it to him. Even though I'm homeless, I'd rather give my last few dollars to a person who needs it more because I've been there.", "Happy Mother's Day to Ruth Martinez and Jacob. I bet she loved the flower. We'll be here again next Sunday and every Sunday at 9 a.m. Eastern for the first and last word in Sunday talk. If you missed any part of our program, tune it tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern. We'll showcase the best of today's STATE OF THE UNION. Until then, I'm John King in Washington. Have a great Sunday. Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms out there. For our international viewers, \"African Voices\" is next. 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{"id": "CNN-218662", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2013-11-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/12/cg.02.html", "summary": "Frantic Search and Rescue Continues In Hard-Hit Philippines", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. We will go back now to our world lead because the story in the Philippines is so horrific. A frantic search for survivors under the rubble, desperate pleas for food and water and very literally, the smell of death hanging in the air. That's the situation right now in the Philippines, where the storm has long passed but a bitter humanitarian crisis is now spiraling out of control. The United Nations estimates that 800,000 people have been displaced by the destruction. I'm joined now on the phone by Tata Abella-Bolo. She's an Oxfam emergency team member on the ground near the northernmost tip of the Cebu mainland. Tata, thanks so much for joining us, and thanks for making time to speak to us in the middle of this horrific situation. The government is calling this a national state of calamity. Give us a state from on the ground where you are of the devastation that you're witnessing.", "Yes. Over in northern Cebu, it's really not as bad as you see in Tacloban in eastern", "We're hearing, Tata, that there's no electricity in the area where you are and no water. What are you doing for supplies?", "Actually, we are doing assessments, and we head back to the city because we also have to do some reports, so we need electricity to do that. So, what we do is we go in the morning really early, then we go right back up, head back to Cebu city, to -- yes, so that we are able to cope with the situation (ph).", "We're hearing from the government of the Philippines that more than two million people are in need of food aid. What are people doing? How are they surviving?", "Yes. At the moment in northern Cebu, there are a lot of municipalities also down in the south that were not affected at all. And they have capability to help. So they are bringing food aid to the northern municipalities and the provincial government is helping as well. But yes, it has only been five days. We don't know if the supplies will be coming in in the next few days.", "Of course, one of the other big needs there are medical supplies. How many people are you seeing in need of attention? How do you as an aid worker, how do you cope with the next threats, the threats of disease?", "Yes. Actually, yesterday we went back to do the technical assessments. We looked at their water system because we're really trying to address that. As I said, there is no electricity and they have no water. So we're looking to how we can really help in that aspect, giving them water. So yes, that's what we did. We also visited the sick hospital there in the area and were surprised to learn that even they have no water. It's like -- it's really a situation that needed to be addressed real soon.", "All right, Tata Abella-Bolo, thanks. The very best to you in this very difficult situation. And God bless the work you do. Our Anna Coren is in Cebu, the staging ground for aid. Anna, thanks so much for being here. The United Nations says 800,000 people have been run out of their homes by this storm. What are you witnessing there on the ground?", "Well, Jake, we flew with the military yesterday Guyan (ph), which is an eastern province. This township is basically the first town hit by super typhoon Haiyan. As we flew over, absolutely everything was flattened. Every single structure had its roof blown off. Huge massive palm trees around the airfield that we flew into were snapped, every single one of them, which gives you an idea of the force of this storm. We were on the ground for 20 minutes delivering aid, and the locals that had gathered at the air base desperate for those basic necessities, basically said they were all homeless. They had all lost their homes. They were staying in erected shelters from what they managed to salvage from their properties. So these people are in desperate need of those basic necessities: food, fresh water, medical supplies. They have been going without them now for many, many days. And there really is a sense of desperation, Jake, on the ground. The problem, of course, is logistics. It's getting that aid to those very remote places. As we know, the Philippines is made up -- it's an archipelago, made up of thousands of islands. The only way to get on the ground is by air or by boat. Boat is extremely slow. These people need aid right now. So these C-130 Hercules here at the Cebu airfield are flying in and out delivering aid drops. Helicopters as well. But this is a very, very slow process, and for the people on the ground, Jake, it really is a race against time.", "All right. Anna Coren in Cebu, thank you so much. Still to come, a former president who tried but failed to pass health care reform, offering some healthy advice to the one who tried and succeeded. Bill Clinton's tough medicine coming up next."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "TATA ABELLA-BOLO, OXFAM EMERGENCY TEAM MEMBER (on the phone)", "TAPPER", "ABELLA-BOLO", "TAPPER", "ABELLA-BOLO", "TAPPER", "ABELLA-BOLO", "TAPPER", "ANNA COREN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-15711", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-9-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/12/tod.08.html", "summary": "Bush Campaign Suffers Repeated Gaffes", "utt": ["Last week, a profanity picked up by an open microphone, this week, a television spot with apparently a hidden message. Bill Schneider, CNN senior political analyst, joins us now from Washington. What do you make of this, Bill?", "It's a big distraction. You know, Governor Bush just said: Why don't we talk about prescription drugs? Of course, we did just show his entire ad, for which he didn't have to pay anything, you notice. But, he would like to get to a discussion of the issues. He would like to, you know, have his criticism of Al Gore get picked up. Instead, what are we talking about? We're talking about the misuse of an ad, we're talking about a profanity, we're talking about the debate over debates. Bush doesn't need this. We just saw in the poll that he's not -- he may be slipping behind.", "We have even Republicans shaking their head. I have a quote from one Republican political consultant who, for apparent, obvious reasons, doesn't want his name given, who says: Bush appears to be terminally gaff-prone now. This is a very critical moment for the Bush campaign to be having Republicans talking about the campaign in such a manner.", "Well, that's right. I mean, he doesn't need this. The Republicans are very worried that this campaign is sinking. It doesn't seem to get any traction ever since the convention started. What we are seeing is that the voters are now engaged on the issues. For the first part of this year, people said that personal qualities and leadership skills were primary. But since the conventions in August, when they suddenly started paying attention to the campaign, they've been saying that issues are the most important thing. And that has been helping Al Gore. Which is one reason why Al Gore has drawn even with and maybe even a little bit ahead of George Bush.", "I saw some e-mails this morning accusing media, CNN in particular, of making too much of this ad deal. Are we making too much of it?", "It's a deception. Voters don't like to be fooled and I think it's a legitimate question. If the man gets elected president, are there going to be -- let's assume he doesn't -- he didn't know anything about it. He says he did not and I believe him. But, there are going to be people around him. Is he going to allow this sort of a thing to go on. I mean, this is a deliberate deception. I'm pretty sure it's deliberate. I don't think it was a mistake. A deliberate deception of voters, and that is a very serious matter.", "What does Bush have to do now? After the microphone incident, he got out there with his town hall mode of campaigning. He changed his slogan. What now?", "What he has to do is figure out some way to engage this debate on an issue that favors him. I mean -- whether that's criticizing Gore's credibility or finding an issue that really works for him. The problem with the Republicans is, you know, their agenda is sort of depleted. The Cold War is over. Tax cuts aren't selling. Crime is down. The economy is good. Welfare is reformed. The budget is balanced. They don't want to talk about abortion or gay rights because it splits the party. What's left? education? Well, there have been some debates, now, about George Bush's education record in Texas. He's got to figure out some way to engage Gore and to get the voters interested in what he has to say.", "Is it -- is it the independent voters in a very few states who are going to be deciding this election? We've been hearing repeatedly that it's going to boil down just to a very few people, proportionately. And, maybe the culture type issues are the ones that will matter most.", "Well, what we're finding is about one in five voters right now says that they are undecided. They haven't made up their minds and they are going to pay a lot of attention to the debates. So, that's why the debates are going to be critical. And, of course, the undecided voters count most in those states that are still up for grabs, mostly midwestern states like Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, a few states in other places like Washington, maybe even Florida. So, it's undecided voters in a few key states that are really being targeted, and that's where the campaign is concentrated. But again, the voters are waiting to hear what George Bush's message is. And, if it's just tax cuts, then he has got a problem because they're not selling this year. And, that's the most surprising thing.", "And, what are we hearing about debates, if anything?", "Well, they're meeting this week with the debate commission. Bush says he's going to debate. He may not do it in Boston, but he's agreed to debate under the sponsorship of the Presidential Debate Commission, which has been sponsoring debates since 1988. They are working out the details. My guess is there will be an announcement by the end of the week.", "All right, CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider from Washington."], "speaker": ["LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SR. POLITICAL ANALYST", "WATERS", "SCHNEIDER", "WATERS", "SCHNEIDER", "WATERS", "SCHNEIDER", "WATERS", "SCHNEIDER", "WATERS", "SCHNEIDER", "WATERS"]}
{"id": "CNN-191595", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-8-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1208/24/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Ten Shot Outside Empire State Building", "utt": ["An American landmark is now the site of a crime scene. A mass shooting outside the Empire State Building.", "We're looking down at 34th Street just off of Fifth Avenue where you see at least two people being taken off in a stretcher after being shot.", "New York City's mayor says a total of 10 people were hit including the man who allegedly ignited it all. At a news conference, Michael Bloomberg says the shooter named Jeffrey Johnson gunned down a former co-worker and then police gunned down Johnson who was 58 years old. An eyewitness talked to CNN's Poppy Harlow.", "Did you talk to anyone else, Rebecca, who witnessed the shooting like you?", "I did. He had a photo of the person the shooter shot in the head. So I knew that he was dead from the photo.", "What did that fellow witness tell you?", "He just said a man had been chasing another man down the street by the Starbucks and shot him in the head and the police shot him.", "And the eight others who took a bullet. Well, there could be more. There were apparently at the wrong place at the wrong time.", "Earlier this morning a little after 9:00 a.m., man who had been fired from his job about a year or is a began shooting near the Empire State Building, but out in the street. He killed one person and at least nine other people were shot some may have been shot accidentally by police officers who responded immediately and while confronting the suspect and fatally shooting him, unfortunately there may have been other victims as well. All of those are not seriously wounded and there's no expectation that any of them will do anything other than recover quickly. I ask everyone to keep the victims in their thoughts and in their prayers. This is a terrible tragedy and there's no doubt that the situation would have been even more tragic, but for some extraordinary acts of heroism. Every day, as you know, our police officers put their lives on the line to protect us. They did so again today responding immediately and they were joined by a number of civilians whose bravery and assistance probably also saved lives.", "So what was the alleged shooter's gripe? Commissioner Ray Kelly indicated Johnson and his apparent victim who police are not yet identifying had a history involving workplace harassment.", "Johnson had been employed for six years at Hazan Imports as a designer of women's accessories. During a downsizing at the company about a year ago, Johnson was laid off. In a dispute with one of the former employees of Hazan in front of the building, Johnson produced a pistol and fired at close range striking his 41-year-old victim in the head.", "And now people are taking note the time of mass shooting. Just this morning, Mayor Bloomberg talked about gun violence.", "It's too many guns on the street. It's not the only problem and you know, the argument that guns don't kill people, people kill people is one of the most disingenuous things you can say. It does take a person to pull the trigger, but if they didn't have the gun -- we are the only developed country in the world with this problem.", "The mayor giving his weekly address on WOR Radio in New York City. Tropical Storm Isaac bringing torrential rain to Haiti right now. Our Chad Myers is keeping watch. Storms on certain path has Tampa and Republican National Convention leaders making precautionary plans. That's ahead."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over)", "LEMON", "POPPY HARLOW, CNNMONEY.COM CORRESPONDENT", "REBECCA FOX, EYEWITNESS", "HARLOW", "FOX", "LEMON", "MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (I), NEW YORK", "LEMON", "COMMISSIONER RAY KELLY, NEW YORK POLICE", "LEMON", "BLOOMBERG", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-295746", "program": "WORLD RIGHT NOW WITH HALA GORANI", "date": "2016-10-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/06/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Impact Of First Presidential Debate In Key Swing State", "utt": ["Welcome back, let's take a look at that hour's top stories. The southeastern U.S. is bracing for a direct hit from Hurricane Matthew as the death toll from the storm rises to at least 113 people across the Caribbean. An official with the aid agency CARE reports complete destruction in the Haitian city of Jeremy. He says 80 percent of the buildings are gone and all phone lines and electricity are down. We'll have more on Hurricane Matthew in just a few moments. British lawmakers, Steven Woolfe says he is feeling brighter, happier, and smiling as ever. After collapsing in the European parliament, Woolfe, and MEP for the UK Independence Party fell ill following an altercation at a meeting between party members. Also among our headlines, more warnings from Russia about potential U.S. military action against Syrian government troops. The Russian Defense Ministry says it would consider any U.S. missile or air strikes, quote, \"An obvious threat to the Russian military.\" Time is running out for millions of Americans to get out of the way of a deadly hurricane. It's on course to hit the southeastern U.S. by Friday morning. Jennifer Gray joins me now from Melbourne, Florida. Jennifer, what are you hearing? What's the latest?", "Well, we are right between some of those rain bands. If we pan just off this mainland, you can see we are about to get another one. It's headed our way. I imagine it would be here in the next 30 seconds to minute or so. Beyond that you can barely see that is the Barrier Island. That's Melbourne beach that was ordered mandatory evacuation. Storm surge is expected to reach three meters in this location. So it will be above my head in the next 12 hours or so. That's why they want everyone in those low lying areas, all of those barrier islands to get up. But, the bridges that span, you can't even see it because of the rain now, but the bridges you do not want to be traveling across those in the next couple hours. Conditions are expected to continue to deteriorate. We imagine it could deteriorate quite a bit by the time we get into the overnight hours. It's expecting to reach the coast of Florida, but basically just brush up the coast. We're talking about 225 kilometer per hour sustained winds with gusts even higher. We could see conditions along the Florida coast that are extremely bad for at least 12 hours or so. It will just ride up that coastline. This could be the worst storm that this side has seen in a decade since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Officials are concerned about complacency. They have urged people to seek shelter, move inland. This is not a storm you want to mess with. This is a strong Category 4 storm and could remain a Category 4 for the next couple of days. So this storm is inching closer, and as we go into the overnight hours, wee hours of the morning, we will be able to tell the sheer strength of this storm. But I can tell you even just these feeder bans, the storm more than 100 kilometers away and the winds are extremely strong and it is only the beginning, it's going to get much worse than this.", "And Jennifer, just quickly, are people heeding the warnings? Are they leaving? Are they evacuating?", "We hope so. We called one of the emergency official for this stretch of beach in front of us, and they said we really don't know how many people got out. The only way we will know is during the height of the storm if they start getting calls of people wanting to be rescued. That's the dilemma, once this storm begins and it gets really bad, they aren't going to be able to get to those people and so that's why they wanted them to get out. I can tell you the roads are pretty empty around here. Most of the businesses have shut down and boarded up. A lot of the gas stations are either out of gas or they have somewhat of a line. So those are signs that people are preparing. You can just only hope that people along this barrier islands right along this river are taking it seriously because we'll have to move, eventually, because water will be above my ahead by the time we get to midnight or 2:00 a.m.", "Indeed, please do, move. Thank you very much, Jennifer, from Melbourne, Florida. While as the southeastern U.S. braces for the storm, Haiti is just beginning to assess the damage. The death toll from the hurricane has now risen to more than 108 people, but the country south is still mostly out of reach due to a bridge collapse and communications issues. So officials fear the number of casualties could rise sharply. CNN's Pedram Javaheri has the story.", "Hurricane Matthew was the strongest storm to hit Haiti in half a century and the devastation is just now becoming apparent. Many were killed by the falling trees, flying debris, and the swollen rivers. The disaster has left Haiti facing its worst humanitarian crisis since the devastating earthquake six years ago, you may recall, that killed over 200,000 people and where tens of thousands still lived in makeshift homes and tents. Entire villages have been flattened. Roads have been swept away by the floods, and there are now reports of a fresh water shortage.", "We are estimating upwards of about a million people have been affected mainly through flooding, collapse of houses, complete destruction, or partial damage, but we're also seeing a lot of crops and livestock damaged by the hurricane.", "Internationally it is trickling in, but the hard hit southern region has been cut off from the rest of the country after a bridge collapse that prevented much needed supplies from getting through. Now in the town of Jeremy, residents were forced to sleep and cook outside because they're houses were either flooded or destroyed. According to the U.N., more than 350,000 people need assistance and Sunday's presidential election has been postponed. Another worry for Haiti is standing water. Aid agencies fear that mosquito-borne diseases and cholera could spread, which has plagued the country since the earthquake. Communications are still down in many areas so the full impact of the storm remains unclear. Pedram Javaheri, CNN.", "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are gearing up to go head to head again as the second presidential debate fast approaches. Their running mates laid some ground work a few days ago in their only televised face- off. Most polls showed Trump's vice presidential pick, Mike Pence, won the match up. But Democrat Tim Kaine told CNN that he accomplished his mission.", "I was really very interested to see whether Governor Pence would defend his running mate or not, and again and again he refused to defend Donald Trump. So I think that is what I was hoping to get across in the debate, and I think folks watching it definitely understood that Governor Pence would not defend his running mate.", "Pence has a different take and here is what he told CNN.", "Donald Trump's vision to make America great again won the debate. I could not have been more honored to have been at that table, to be articulating his vision and drawing a contrast with the campaign of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine that simply want to continue the policies that have weaken America's place in the world, set areas of the wider Middle East literally spinning apart and has stifled the American economy in places like here in Pennsylvania.", "Let's return now to the top of ticket and talk more about how Trump and Clinton are preparing for their next showdown on Sunday. We're joined by CNN senior political reporter, Stephen Collinson. Stephen, how are they preparing and what do they need to achieve here?", "Well, Donald Trump in a few hours will be holding a town hall style event in New Hampshire. That is the format of this second debate on Sunday. It's a much different sort of (inaudible) the first gladiatorial sort of confrontation between Clinton and Donald Trump in the first debate. Hillary Clinton has been down off of the campaign trail for a couple days, on the positions of attacks she will use on Sunday night. I think it would be difficult to overstate how much damage Donald Trump's first debate performance did to his campaign in the swing states, Clarissa, that would decide this election. The polls have turned over the last week or so decisively in Hillary Clinton's favor. Bear in mind that many Americans are starting to not just think about voting, but actually voting. People are requesting absentee ballots. Early voting starts in some states in the next few days. So there's not really time for Donald Trump to have another bad debate and that's why it's such a confrontation on Sunday night.", "So what is he doing, if anything, to turn it around? What's the logic between having this town hall tonight? Shouldn't he be focused on prepping for this debate?", "You would have thought that two days before this crucial debate, you know, he would not be holding his first ever town hall debate, but we understand that Donald Trump has actually watched back some of the tapes of the first debate and he is a little bit more open to criticism about his performance. Whether that changes his method of preparation seems to be anybody's guess. There is only two days left, he has been campaigning hard on the campaign trail. It's not like he is off to a debate camp like many politicians do before these big debates prepare. So it's really up in the air. The other thing is that Donald Trump doesn't have a lot of experience about town hall debates. He didn't do too many in his primary campaign. Hillary Clinton did a lot of them and it's a different scenario when you're sort of interacting with an undecided voter rather than just talking to the camera. Hillary Clinton also did many of these town hall events when she was secretary of state. Almost every foreign trip she would go in sometimes quite hostile environments in places like Pakistan, for example, and answer difficult questions about U.S. foreign policy. So I think it's clear that she has the advantage in terms of experience. It looks like Donald Trump is going to try to wing it again. We saw just over a week ago how badly that turned out for him in the first debate.", "OK, we will all be watching. Thank you, Stephen Collinson. And there is a reason we talk so much about the presidential debates. They're not just entertaining to watch, but they can also sway votes and have a real impact on the election. CNN's Gary Tuchman talked to some voters who had a change of heart after watching the first round of Trump versus Clinton.", "Robert Klein is a biker, Army veteran, and a registered Republican. He says he has never before voted for a Democrat for president. So why is the Nevada resident at a Democratic rally in support of Hillary Clinton? He says the first presidential debate is the reason. (on camera): Before you watch the debate, who were you going to vote for?", "Donald Trump.", "And the debate ended and what do you think?", "Totally convinced Hillary Clinton.", "Following the debate, polling indicated a dramatic shift in Nevada, a big swing from Trump to Clinton, one of the biggest turnarounds in the country and that's because of people like Cline now attending his first ever Democratic rally. (on camera): Are you disappointed that Donald Trump didn't convince you that he should be president?", "Absolutely. I always admired the man.", "The 55-year-old says it wasn't anything Trump said during the debate that changed his mind.", "It's the things he didn't say, you know? He never ever said he has a plan or he has some idea of what he is really getting into.", "Shanis (inaudible) is a Nevadan who says she is an independent. (on camera): Before this debate, did you know for sure who you were going to vote for, for president?", "No.", "And you know for sure today?", "I do. Yes.", "And who is that?", "I will be voting for Hillary.", "She says Clinton answered questions directly. As for Trump --", "He kind of -- instead of answering, he kind of skirts around it.", "Thomas Stark is a registered Democrat, but after Bernie Sanders dropped out, it was Clinton facing Trump.", "I wasn't enthusiastic about either one.", "After the debate, he also decided yes for Clinton, no for Trump.", "He reminded me of Richard Nixon and the reason being is that it just looked like he was hiding too much from the get go.", "Donald Trump's Nevada campaign stops on this day are part of the effort to stop Clinton's momentum in the state. (on camera): And many Trump supporters here believe the upcoming debates can help do just that.", "I think if Trump talks about the issues then he'll win Nevada. If he goes like the first debate, he'll lose.", "I have to have faith in humanity and in people, and I think they will realize that she is crooked.", "But Robert Klein says his decision is final. (on camera): Is it a weird feeling knowing that for the first time you will not vote Republican for president?", "Yes, it is. I feel kind of betrayal.", "Gary Tuchman, CNN, Henderson, Nevada.", "\"The Atlantic\" magazine has a long history of remaining neutral in U.S. presidential elections, but it says it must take a stand now to defend American democracy. \"The Atlantic\" is backing Hillary Clinton, only the third time in its 160-year history that it has made an endorsement. The magazine says concerns about Donald Trump compelled the move calling him the most ostentatiously unqualified major party candidate in U.S. history. This is THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. Up next, more secrets allegedly stolen from the NSA by a government contractor. Could this be another Edward Snowden scenario? 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{"id": "CNN-147873", "program": "RICK'S LIST", "date": "2010-2-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1002/08/rlst.02.html", "summary": "Americans Jailed in Haiti; Quake Survivor Rescued", "utt": ["Boy, this is one I was just reading about on the tweet board here. People are asking and talking about it. Ten American missionaries in Haiti have lost representation. Their Haitian lawyer quit. There was a hearing in Haiti today, a petition for bail. Brooke Baldwin has been following this story for us here. There's a lot of new information. And I did read one report that seemed to suggest that there may be some information coming in from Santo Domingo that may be in their favor?", "May be in their favor. So let me just back up for a second...", "Go ahead.", "... because the entire reason the first five of these 10 Baptist missionaries were in court today, because they're petitioning for this bail. Keep in mind, in Haiti, if you're charged with child kidnapping, there is no bail. So, these first five, including the leader of the group, Laura Silsby, they're in this courtroom. Meantime, according to our crews on the ground following the story, a half hour later a Dominican attorney shows up. And he is there representing this entire group. And it's what he had in his hand that caught the attention of our own Karl Penhaul. He had a manila envelope just like this. Now, he didn't show Karl what was inside the envelope, but he told Karl inside that envelope was documents proving that this group had talked to the Dominican Republic government saying, yes, you can come to our country to start up this orphanage. Now, keep in mind, that is completely contrary to what the Dominican consul told them and told us. We have that sound bite for you. Listen to this.", "And I warned her. I said, \"As soon as you get there without the proper documents, you're going to get in trouble, because they're going to accuse you because you have the intent to pass the border without the proper papers, and they're going to accuse you of kids' trafficking.\"", "So were they told to come or were they told not to come?", "Well, and remember, so what? The children they're taking from Haiti are Haitian children.", "Correct, and you would have to have Haitian government children to take Haitian children out of Haiti.", "That would be like me taking somebody else's kid out of the United States and then arriving in Venezuela, let's say, and saying, well, the Venezuelan government said it was OK. Well, the U.S. government didn't say it was OK.", "Correct, but it's possibly a piece of evidence in their favor, as you said. And we don't know yet.", "Right. Right. It might bolster their argument at best.", "Also...", "Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Go ahead. All right. Stay with me. We've got breaking news coming in. I think it's about this story. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is standing by right now in Haiti. He's at a hospital there in Haiti. Not sure what he's reporting. Sanjay, bring us up to date. You've got it cold, man.", "Rick, we got a tip not that long ago that a survivor from the time of the earthquake had been brought in here to the hospital at the airport. It's called a medishare (ph) hospital. It's run by the University of Miami. They weren't sure what -- can you hear me?", "Yes. I got you. I got you. We lost you for a minute.", "I apologize. Anyway, the patient was brought in here to the hospital, and, you know, like I said, we didn't quite know what to make of that. We came in here, spoke to the doctors, spoke to some of the people who saw him initially. And this sounds like it's real, at least according to the doctors, in the sense that this patient who's 28 years old -- his name is Evans Monsanyik (ph) -- was trapped at the time of the earthquake, nearly four weeks ago -- four weeks ago tomorrow, Rick, as you know. And he basically was brought in very dehydrated, very malnourished. But the doctors tell me that his vital signs and his blood pressure and heart rate was pretty stable. They checked some of the his lab work, which was consistent with someone who would be very dehydrated. But he's awake, but confused. And that's sort of the shape that he's in right now. Doctors are busy resuscitating him. One thing I'll just tell you really quick, Rick, if I can. He said that someone came in a white coat at a few times during the last four weeks to give him some water. He was trapped. And we don't know if he was hallucinating as he's describing this, but he said at various times when he thought he was going to die, someone showed up in a white coat and gave him some water, which obviously is very relevant to the story in terms of survival -- Rick.", "Wow. Stay with me. Hey, Roger (ph), do you have some pictures out of the Haiti earthquake? See if you can put those up just so we can get a sense. Do you know at this point, Sanjay -- I know it's preliminary, I know this guy, what you need to do is make sure he lives, not start asking him a bevy of questions. But do we know under what conditions he was trapped these -- going on four weeks?", "We know one critical piece of information is he does not appear to have any significant crush injuries, Rick, something that we've been talking about for a few weeks now, where a piece of rubble actually crushes one of his limbs.", "Right.", "It seems like he was mainly pinned, but not crushed, so he couldn't get out. And, you know, he eventually was hearing -- at least according to some of the people around him -- was hearing bulldozers around him, knew that rubble was starting to get cleared, and was concerned himself that a bulldozer might be coming to his area specifically.", "But you know as a doctor, four weeks without water is all but right on the cusp of almost being humanly impossible, isn't it?", "I think it's safe to say it is impossible, which makes me believe that in some way he had access to water, whether someone was giving him water, recognized that he was trapped or couldn't free him, but just decided to bring him water, or he somehow had access to water and was cognizant enough to be able drink it. But I think, Rick, you're safe in saying that. We don't know what the human limit is without water because doing a study like that would be unethical. But I think four weeks is simply too long. You're right -- Rick.", "That's unbelievable. And his condition -- again, you may have mentioned this at the beginning, but take us through it again. Is he going to make it? Is he all right?", "I think so. I talked to the doctors who are caring for him, and at this point they are optimistic that he's going to make it. His vital signs, including his heart rate and blood pressure, were remarkably OK when he came in. He did have some lab work done that showed some findings that basically would be consistent with someone who is deeply dehydrated. Some of his lab results showed that. He's very, very skinny, very, very malnourished. But he is confused right now neurologically, which is part of the reason that we're not going to film him. Because we want to wait until he's more awake and understands what's happening before we do that. But this is what we're hearing, and that seems to be the shape that he's in. Rick, have you seen some photographs? We sent over some photographs which were authorized by his family to show you. I don't know if you've seen those. He is very malnourished.", "I don't think -- let me ask -- hold on, Sanjay. Let me ask the producers. She's saying it's PC-103 if we have that. All right. There it is. Yes. Did you take this picture, Sanjay?", "One of the doctors who's caring for him took that with the permission of his family. You know, they did not want, because of his confusion right now, Rick, to take any video, but the family did allow a photograph to be taken. We don't know what he looked like before the earthquake, so we don't know how much weight he's lost. But the family seems to think it was around 30 pounds or so that he's lost over this time period.", "Wow.", "Wow.", "What a story.", "Twenty-seven days.", "Twenty-seven days. It is remarkable. And I think we'll get some more details on exactly how he was able to survive. But again, we didn't know what to believe when we came over. We talked to lots of doctors, we talked to the nurses that care for him. We talked to some of the people that brought him in initially, and they believe it's true. We still are investigating, but we're bringing it to you only because there does seem to be some veracity to this -- Rick.", "You know, I was just thinking -- I was thinking of one more thing, because here we are talking about the body's physical limitations and whether you can go this time without water. How about the mental limitations? Could you imagine being trapped for almost four weeks in a place like that and what can happen to your mind?", "Well, he mentioned neurological implications, but you're speaking psychological?", "Well, yes. No, I'm talking about your cranium disorders.", "You're saying mentally.", "I'm talking about literally that sense that you're trapped in a place, you can't get out, it's dark, you don't know what's going on outside. You lose complete control, and somehow you have the will...", "To survive.", "... to survive and make it out. Sanjay, I don't know if you can speak to that. It's something that may be more theological.", "Well, no. I think it's very fair, and I think that's one of the things he's probably dealing with right now. He is very confused. I think some of the comments that he's made is he still thought he was under the building up until recently. Again, I mentioned this white-coated person that would give him water. We don't know what to make of that. Who was that? Was that a real person, or what exactly happened there? The other thing that I think was a bit haunting -- and he talked about this -- was this idea that he heard bulldozers coming, Rick. I mean, as you know, this has turned from a search and rescue mission to a search and recovery mission. I cannot imagine what it must have been like to hear bulldozers coming thinking that the building in which you're trapped may be excavated. And this is an unbelievably difficult thing to even imagine or talk about, but this is what he has said.", "And there you would go with it. And again, back to the idea that you have no control in a situation like this. Sanjay, heck of a report. Hey, thanks for reaching out to us and sharing this with us. Let us know if you learn anything else.", "We will.", "It obviously is a story that we're going to be continuing to check up on as we get more information.", "Right. And I think Sanjay is there for the week. This will be the one-month anniversary this week. I think today is day 27 since that quake.", "And we continue to cover the story of the missionaries, the Baptist missionaries from Idaho as well, that you were bringing us up to date on. All right. You stay on top of that as well.", "You got it.", "What a story. Boy, I tell you, ,a real head-shaker. Conrad Murray is the doctor who police are saying was linked to the death of Michael Jackson, and the news right now is that he is inside a courtroom. It's taking quite a bit for him to surrender. I imagine there's a hearing going on. In fact, there is a hearing going on. One of our reporters is in that hearing. He's going to be joining us in just a little bit to let us know what actually happened inside that courtroom. Also, the president's deputy secretary adviser, John Brennan, attacked Republicans for use terrorism as a political weapon against the president. He's speaking specifically of the Christmas Day bomber case, and we'll let you know exactly what he says and what all the hullabaloo is about it. Stay there. I'm Rick Sanchez. We'll be right back. 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{"id": "CNN-13942", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-8-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/15/mn.12.html", "summary": "British Airways Grounds Concorde Fleet; Fmr. FAA Official Foresees 'Major Impact'", "utt": ["British Airways has canceled all Concorde flights. That after being told that the plane's airworthiness certificate will be revoked. Air France, you may remember, grounded its Concordes after one of its supersonic jets crashed near Paris last month, killing 113 people. Live to London, Amanda Kibel tracking this and the very latest now there. Amanda, hello.", "Bill, good morning. Yes, British Airways tells us that after the notification from the Air Accident Investigation Branch here in London, they immediately decided to ground their entire fleet of seven Concorde. They have no details at this point as to why the Air Accident Investigation Branch has recommended that they do this or why the Air Accident Investigation Branch has decided to revoke the airworthiness certificate of the Concorde. They say that they have new information which they have gleaned from the crash, which happened just outside Paris some three weeks ago, but the details of exactly what that new information is and why this decision was made now has still not yet emerged -- Bill.", "All right, Amanda Kibel, the latest from London. Let's take it back now in this country here in the U.S. Joining us from Washington to talk about these developments, Michael Goldfarb, former FAA chief of staff there, live from our bureau in D.C. Michael, good to see you. Good morning to you.", "Good to see you, Bill.", "What's your take on this. Said to be not necessarily unusual after a big crash, but what do we know thus far?", "Well, pretty significant to pull the airworthiness certificate, in effect grounding the Concorde. This kind of implies that more than foreign object damage, a piece of metal on the runway that led to a series of things, the tires bursting, for example. We may have something systemic with the fleet itself. All these planes were manufactured at the same time, as you know, and it's significant. It's bad news for the Concorde. Recertification, and we'll have to wait to see -- let me give you the range of possibilities.", "OK, sure.", "Worst case that the recertification would be so significant for the engine performance, other main parts of that aircraft that it wouldn't be worth it to go -- to do that kind of repair. And some have questioned whether the fleet had a long life left to it at any rate, given its high cost and other concerns. On the other end, Bill, would be a more minor kind of thing that could occur rather rapidly and put the planes back in service.", "Is it safe to conclude that BA's been going over these planes with pretty close attention given to all details, given what happened at Charles de Gaulle last month?", "Yes, probably so. It was somewhat questionable about the split here. In other words, the French decided to ground their fleet, the British allowed theirs to fly and one would wonder why. And, yes, I'm sure the British Civil Aviation authorities have taken extra precautions, but this announcement today means that there's something systemic with the Concorde, new information that will basically lead to a different outcome here. Those planes won't fly till, in fact, their airworthiness is granted again.", "Michael, last hour we were talking with another aviation expert live here on CNN's MORNING NEWS and I was just curious just to think and consider at this point about the Concorde. Is it possible that, prior to this incident with BA, that a number of people across the industry still believed in the Concorde as a flying machine?", "Oh, absolutely. I mean, it's a wonderful flying machine. And, you know, it went from first place to last place from safety because of its few numbers of cycles. It's a wonderful aircraft but, once again, this is a significant action. It raises doubts about, in effect, the design or the configuration of the aircraft to safely continue flight. You know, foreign object damage on a runway occurs quite frequently. It shouldn't lead to catastrophic results. And I'm sure the investigators are looking closely at that link as well as whatever new information they have that they'll announce on Thursday.", "Don't want to make a direct tie to ValuJet back in 1996, but certainly that was the major downfall for that airline. We'll see what happens now with this fleet. Go ahead quickly, you thought?", "No, no, correct. I think, given the history of the Concorde, where it is right now, this is a major impact that's going to be hard to absorb, whereas a Boeing 747 with thousands of planes normally has the wherewithal to come back from this kind of a grounding.", "Michael, thanks for stopping by.", "Pleasure.", "Michael Goldfarb live there in Washington for more on what's happening with the Concorde fleet."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "AMANDA KIBEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER", "MICHAEL GOLDFARB, FORMER FAA CHIEF OF STAFF", "HEMMER", "GOLDFARB", "HEMMER", "GOLDFARB", "HEMMER", "GOLDFARB", "HEMMER", "GOLDFARB", "HEMMER", "GOLDFARB", "HEMMER", "GOLDFARB", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-344057", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-06-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/30/cnr.07.html", "summary": "A Comedian Claims He Pulled Off A Prank Call On The President On Board Air Force One; Justice Kennedy's Announcement That He Is Retiring On July 31st.", "utt": ["Holiday in mile high security breach. A comedian claims he pulled off a prank call on the President on board air force one. The comedian, John Melendez aka stuttering John, managed to convince the White House switchboard that he was New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez. Well, before long he got a call back from the President.", "You know, I have a good relationship with the party. You have a good relationship with the party. And I think we can do a real immigration bill. We have to have security at the border. We have to have it. I mean, look, you got 60 percent of the country says you have to have security at the border. And that is good for the Democrats too. It is not like it is good for you or good for me. It is good for both of us.", "No, I understand that, but --", "Go ahead.", "No but -- I'm Hispanic, so I have to -- I'm sure you understand. I have to, you know, I have to look into my, you know, my people as well. You understand.", "I agree, I agree.", "I want to bring in CNN's Boris Sanchez in New Jersey near the President's Bedminster golf club. Boris, we are now hearing from that comedian directly. What is he saying?", "Hey, there, Ana. Yes, stuttering John Melendez revealing that his team actually previously called the White House and openly identified themselves, but they were told that President Trump was busy and they were hung up on. This time he says he was able to get through to President Trump getting a call back from the President on air force one. He says it only took about an hour and a half of time to get through to the President. He could not believe that this was taking place. He says that if anyone had asked him along the line who Senator Bob Menendez, what state he was from or what party he was affiliated with, he wouldn't have been able to answer those questions can. Here is more from stuttering John.", "I get a call from air force one and it is Jared Kushner. And I know it is Jared. I'm a political news junky. I actually do watch CNN all the time and I know Jared's voice and it was definitely him. And he said to me I'm going in and out of my English accent. I'm like -- I answer, hey, hello. And then I go, oh, yes, hello, how you doing Jared. And then he says, well, I can get the President out of a meeting now or I can have him call you back in a few minutes. I said, oh, no, please have him call me back, you know, because I knew I had to call my friend in New York to record it. He said no problem. We will call you back. Now I'm getting nervous. Now, I'm like this can't be happening. And sure enough, 20 minutes later, I get a call. It is from, you know, again I answer with my bad Long Island accent. And hello. And then, oh, yes, let me get the senator on the phone and I call my friend in New York. I get on the phone with Trump and Trump is just like Bob, I want to congratulate you. I didn't even know that Senator Menendez was in any legal problems. And really if they would have just screened me and asked me what party affiliation senator Menendez had or what state he represented, I would have been stumped because I had no idea anything about senator Menendez.", "You could add stuttering John Melendez to the list of things we never thought we would be discussing when covering this administration. Ana, we have reached out to the White House for comments. They have not publicly said anything about this phone call nor confirmed its authenticity -- Ana.", "It is so bizarre. Boris Sanchez, thank you for filling in some of the mysterious gaps in that story for us. Now, the President this weekend is focusing on his next Supreme Court nominee. Justice Kennedy's announcement that he is retiring on July 31st came as a shock to some, but not to others. The 81-year-old is one of the oldest justices on the U.S. Supreme Court second only to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. CNN's Tom Foreman explains why age is more than just a number when it comes to Supreme Court justices.", "When you look closely at the ages of the sitting justices, you begin to understand why this change is so momentous. So let's start by rearranging everyone in order of their age. And you can see that down here we have Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the top at 85, Justice Kennedy almost 82, and then comes Breyer and Thomas and Alito, Sotomayor, the chief justice John Roberts is here, and then Kagan and last but not least, the newest arrival, Neil Gorsuch. Now let's put those appointed by Democratic Presidents on this side and those appointed by Republicans on the other side and consider this. The average age on the Democratic side is 71 1/2. The average age on the Republican side is nearly 66 1/2. And look what happens when Kennedy leaves. Suddenly the two oldest justices are both on the Democratic front. And according to an analysis by the Pew research group, they have already been on the court longer than expected based on their age when they were appointed. So has Clarence Thomas. But he is the only one on the conservative side and he is still about nine years younger than Breyer. Furthermore, look at Neil Gorsuch, the first justice chosen by President Trump. He is just 50. The Pew center found when a justice is appointed around that age, he or she will tend to serve close to 19 years. So you see what is shaping up here. If Kennedy is replaced with a much younger justice, the Republican nominees will certainly dominate this court for at least several years and if either of the two most senior Democratic appointees retires or leaves for any reason, the math says Republican dominance could extend for a decade or more. And remember, President Trump has been loading the lower courts with conservatives. He is doing it at a very rapid pace. And many of these are younger judges who could be around for a long time. Meaning if Democrats are counting for the courts to support their agenda, they could be heading into a rough spell.", "That is our Tom Foreman. Thank you, Tom. Coming up, all the big highlights from the coast to coast immigration protests, including a powerful speech from the daughter of an undocumented immigrant parent.", "Our government also continues to separate people like me from their parents every day. This is evil. It needs to stop. It makes me sad to know that children can't be with their parents. I don't understand why they are being so mean to us children. Don't they know how much we love our families? Don't they have a family too? Why don't they care about us children? Why do they hurt us like this? It is unfair that they got to spend time with their families today while there are children in detention centers."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "JOHN MELENDEZ, COMEDIAN", "TRUMP", "MELENDEZ", "TRUMP", "CABRERA", "BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "MELENDEZ", "SANCHEZ", "CABRERA", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE"]}
{"id": "CNN-218900", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-11-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/16/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Child Found Handcuffed to Porch, Suspect Works for Social Services; Missing Family Found Buried in Desert; The Tiniest Victims of Haiyan", "utt": ["Welcome back now to our live coverage. I'm Don Lemon. Thank you so much for joining us. You're not going to believe this story. We're going to begin with a story that every veteran, even veteran police officers are calling shocking. A couple in Union County, North Carolina in jail this hour after a deputy sheriff found a child handcuffed to a porch of their home by the ankle with a dead chicken hanging around his neck. You heard me right. Dead chicken. CNN's Rosa Flores joins me now. You have some additional information about this and about the mother, but I can't believe this story.", "I know. It's like, where do you even begin? There are many shockers in this story, but one of those shockers, Don, is that this mother works for social services. So above everything, she works for social services, and even though she was not there at the time that the deputies arrived, she is accused of being complicit in the mistreatment of those children. Now, take a look at your screen. Here are their mug shots. Dorian Lee Harper and Wanda Sue Larson, both 57 years of age, now facing intentional child abuse, inflicting serious injury, false imprisonment and cruelty to animal charges. Wanda Sue Larson is also charged with willful failure to discharge her duty as a public official. You see, she is currently employed as a supervisor with the Union County Department of Social Services. Here's the back story, folks. Authorities were responding to an animal services complaint next door when a police officer walked up to this, an 11-year-old child secured to the front porch by the ankle by what appeared to be handcuffs. Now, authorities also say that the child had a dead chicken hanging around his neck. Five children were removed from this residence, four adopted children and one foster child. Now, the child that was handcuffed to the porch was the foster child. All the kids are in the custody of social services, and a social services agency outside of this county. CNN has requested comments from the union county government and the public information officer from that government agency tells us that they cannot comment about this incident at this time, because of course all of this is under investigation, Don. And there's a lot here to investigate.", "They arrived, the police got there, it wasn't about the child, it was an animal services complaint. Right? How is that unfold? What happened?", "So here's the lowdown in other words. So, the police officer arrives, the deputy arrives, he sees this child that's been secured by the ankle to the porch. So he approaches and he asks this man, why is the child, you know, secured to the porch? And by the way, do you have an ID? So when this is happening, a child opens the door to the house and dogs come out. This forces the deputy to retreat to his cruiser. By that time, by the time he comes back, the child is not secured anymore, and the chicken is now on top of the barrel that's also on the porch. So then backup arrives. Of course, they look at the conditions of the house, and that's when the children are taken into custody. And so is the parent.", "And all of these and a woman works for social services. So, what happens next? Where does this go from here?", "Well, they have their first appearance in court on Monday, and they're being held on bond. But the details are disturbing.", "Yes. Make sure you follow this. This is unbelievable. Rosa Flores with that story. I hate to start off with such a disturbing note, but it is news. I appreciate it Rosa. We're going to move on to something that we're watching on new developments on that. A California family of four that disappeared in 2010 no longer missing. But this is not a good news story either. Police yesterday uncovered the remains of a mom, a dad and their two boys from a desert grave 100 miles from their home. This awful discovery doesn't answer any of the questions about what happened to them. CNN's Nick Valencia has more now.", "For three years, it's been a mystery that has escaped law enforcement and haunted loved ones. Where is the McStay family? But on Friday, a big development after a discovery in the California desert.", "Excavating the site and through the years of dental records, we were able to identify the adult victims as Summer and Joseph McStay. We believe the other two sets of remains are that of the boys.", "To better understand this story, you have to go back to February 4, 2010. The last day Joseph Summer and their two boys Gianni and Joseph, Jr. were seen. After ten days, police visited their Southern California home. No signs of a forced entry. Only some food and their two dogs were inside.", "There was no damage to any furniture. No blood, no violence, nothing broken. You know, no indication of a struggle.", "The McStays had vanished without a trace.", "I want them to come home.", "Then surveillance video surfaced, showing a family of four fitting their description crossing to border into Mexico. Their car was also found a couple of blocks away from the border. But that's where the case went cold. With Friday's news, there still remains plenty of unanswered questions, including how they were killed and who did it.", "It gives us courage to know that they're together and they're in a better place.", "But perhaps now, those closest to the McStays can begin to heal. Nick Valencia, CNN Atlanta.", "All right, Nick, thank you very much. It has been more than a week since super typhoon Haiyan destroyed parts of the Philippines. And aid crews are still picking up bodies off the streets. I need to warn you that some of the images here you're about to see are extremely graphic. Families are guarding the dead as more cadaver dogs arrive. The U.S. military has 9,000 troops on the ground delivering supplies and helping the injured, there's also relief coming in from around the world, places like Saudi Arabia, Israel and Australia. As of right now, the official death toll is just over 3,600 people, but that number is expected to grow. And then there's the tiniest victims of the storm. What some are calling storm babies. Infants born immediately after the storm who are holding on for dear life right now. Some of them wrapped in plastic, just to keep warm. CNN's Ivan Watson is in Tacloban airport right now. Ivan, what are you seeing?", "Well, Don, of course it's been more than a week since this storm, and the city behind me, Tacloban, which has been the scene of so much drama and tragedy, still very much lies in ruins, despite the fact that aid has started to ramp up. Many more flights and ships arriving evacuating people and bringing in assistance. But this town city of more than 200,000 inhabitants and the surrounding countryside have been shattered, Don. It's forcing Filipinos to improvise and it's pushing these communities to the limit.", "Mostly now, mechanical ventilator, especially for these babies, and then suction machine, incubators for prematures.", "Tiny, fragile cocoons. This little girl was born just a few hours ago, and she's six weeks premature. During our visit, some good news. Little James' health has stabilize and he graduates from the ICU to rejoin his mother. (on camera): Is this your first son?", "Yes.", "How do you feel?", "Happy.", "Doctors say most of the newborns here are healthy. But during what should be a moment of joy, parents also face uncertainty. Many have seen their homes destroyed, so they rest amid the pews. While next to the altar, Dr. Rosario says, baby Mososisa's chances are not good.", "Right now, the baby is -- very poor condition, critical condition. So, certainly a poor prognosis for this baby.", "There is little more Jeniah Mososisa can do now but pray for her daughter's life.", "Ivan, when will some of those babies be able to make it to a real hospital with the supplies that they need to survive?", "Well, as I asked the doctor there, the most -- the babies that are in critical condition, she says it would be a terrible idea to move them. They're not stable enough. So, you know, that move could actually kill them. The bulk of the infants in that room, they can move. They're healthy theoretically, so there's nothing really stopping them as long as they're not forced to be out under the hot sun or anything like that, for the near future. But those little children, they can't really move anywhere. You know, we looked into other aid organizations, they've looked into trying to help in this little chapel, perhaps providing a small generator or something. But the doctors there are not the original doctors that are assigned and that normally work in that hospital. Those doctors, their families are also victims of the storm. So the doctors have come in from other cities and they don't even know where the equipment is that you would need to properly treat these babies, even if we could give them electricity from a mobile generator. So unhappy situation, Don.", "It's a terrible situation. Ivan Watson, Tacloban, Philippines. Thank you, I appreciate your reporting. We'll get back to you. You know, it is a terrible thing, tens of thousands of people are homeless, some hungry people surviving on coconut juice alone. If you want to help the typhoon survivors, go to cnn.com/impact for more information. Toronto's mayor vowing to keep his job after admitting to smoking crack cocaine. His city council wants him gone, so do most of the city's residents. We'll going to hear from his brother who is standing by his side, next. And actor Alec Baldwin making headlines twice this week. In the first set of headlines, he's a victim and the second set, he's the accused."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "FLORES", "LEMON", "FLORES", "LEMON", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "VALENCIA", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "VALENCIA", "BLANCHE ARANDA, SUMMER MCSTAY'S MOTHER", "VALENCIA", "MICHAEL MCSTAY, JOSEPH MCSTAY'S BROTHER", "VALENCIA", "LEMON", "IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-44417", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-11-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/26/lt.17.html", "summary": "Northern Alliance Takes Control of Konduz", "utt": ["Much activity on the ground today in Afghanistan. Hundreds of U.S. Marines have landed in southern Afghanistan near Kandahar. In the north, we are told, that the Northern Alliance, the opposition group, has consolidated its hold on the city of Konduz. Nearly all of the northern part of the country is now under the control of anti-Taliban forces. Joining me now on the telephone from town of Taloqan, which is close to outside Konduz, CNN producer Ryan Chilcote. Ryan, tell us what you are learning and what you are seeing.", "Good afternoon, Judy. We entered the city of Konduz from the east on the heels of several thousand Northern Alliance fighters this morning to a rather chaotic scene in the city's center, its streets literally clogged up with tanks, APGs and, believe it or not, Datsun pickup trucks. They are very popular in Afghan warfare here. All of these vehicles packed well beyond their capacity with Northern Alliance fighters racing around the city, forcing their way through, hundreds of the city's residence that have come to watch the fanfare. With minutes -- within minutes of arriving, we saw this dead man still lying in the street with the Northern Alliance troops guarding his body, said he was a Pakistani Taliban fighter they had killed in battle that morning. But we were not able to independently verify his nationality. Across the street, we found a building holding several Taliban POWs. These men were from Afghanistan, not the so-called foreign fighters or non-Afghan fighters that were -- we've been hearing so much about. They claimed that they had been forced to fight and they would have surrendered earlier -- i.e., before the fighting -- but their commander did not give them permission to do that. We also witnessed the funeral of an Uzbek man this morning who was shot, we were told, by retreating Taliban fighters just five hours before we took these pictures. And he apparently bled to death from his wounds -- Judy.", "Ryan, is it fair to say that the opposition forces now have complete control of Konduz?", "I do believe that is fair to say. There are hundreds, and maybe thousands, of Northern Alliance troops now in the city of Konduz. They are everywhere. And they seem to be firmly in control. That doesn't mean that there couldn't be sporadic gun battles in the city, that they couldn't break out. It would be very easy for someone to hide in a home or anywhere in the city and to create trouble after night falls and night has fallen here.", "And, Ryan, what has happened then, if you know, to all of the Taliban or al Qaeda forces, either Afghan or non-Afghan, who were there vowing to fight to the death?", "Well, good question, Judy. We were told by residents of the city that they fled west towards the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, in the direction of General Dostum's forces there, that he -- one would presume is going to be entering into battle with them or accepting their surrender should they decide to do that. We spoke with one man who said he witnessed their retreat from the city. He says he saw several hundreds Datsun pickup trucks traveling west out of the city by his home, which is -- it's right next to the road to Mazar-e-Sharif. He said that they began this retreat in the wee hours of the morning in Konduz and continued it right up until 10 this morning and finishing it just as Northern Alliance troops arrived on the scene.", "And finally, Ryan, I think so many of us are curious about this city that was under siege for days and days. If you had a chance it talk to ordinary people there who maybe were in hiding, what are they saying? How do they look to you?", "People on the streets that we saw looked rather bewildered. Some of them looked scared, albeit some were happy to see the Northern Alliance troops. But, clearly, these were people that had been already through quite -- we were told that we did not see them, unfortunately, ourselves, that there are bomb craters in the city with smoldering smoke coming from them. There was obviously some pretty heavy bombing around that area and also in the city of Khanabad. So the people in this city look like they have been through quite a bit and it had all come to a rather abrupt end for them this morning -- Judy.", "All right. CNN producer Ryan Chilcote. We can only imagine -- in fact, we can't imagine what it must be like for them. Ryan was telling us that he came into Konduz some hours ago and is describing the situation on the ground there. Konduz, of course, being in the northern part of Afghanistan."], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "RYAN CHILCOTE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WOODRUFF", "CHILCOTE", "WOODRUFF", "CHILCOTE", "WOODRUFF", "CHILCOTE", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-207378", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-5-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/24/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Girl, 18, Accused of Sexually Assaulting Schoolmate, 14", "utt": ["Openly gay youths will soon be allowed to join the Boy Scouts of America. In an historic decision, the scout's national council voted to end its century-old policy of barring gay Scouts. Gay rights advocates are hailing the move, but some religious groups argue it dilutes the Boy Scout's message of morality. The Scouts keeping the ban on gay adult leaders. New policy takes effect January 1, 2014. In Florida, a same-sex case is making headlines. An 18-year-old girl is accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old female schoolmate. If convicted, Kaitlyn Hunt could go to prison for as long as 15 years and be labeled a sexual predator. She says it was not assault. Sarah Ganim has the report.", "Authorities in Indian River, Florida, say this is a sexual predator.", "I'm scared of losing my life -- the rest of my life. Not being able to go to college and be around kids and my sisters and my family.", "Instead of trying out this month for a college cheer team, 18- year-old Kaitlyn Hunt is defending herself against charges she sexually assaulted a child, a high school classmate, a freshman age 14.", "To hold someone accountable for a felony for having a relationship with a peer seems outrageous to me.", "It's not just the law that seems outrageous to the family, but the punishment. Kaitlyn Hunt is facing 15 years in jail and a lifetime labeled as a sexual predator unless she accepts a plea deal for two child-abuse felonies. Her family fears the impact of two child-abuse felonies on her record forever.", "A decision like that is, it's like the lesser of two evils. You know, her life has been destroyed already. You know, I can't handle this. And I'm 37 years old.", "The sheriff says this is not about anyone's sexual orientation. In Florida, a 14-year-old can't consent to sex.", "There's a big difference between a 14-year-old child and an 18-year-old child, if you will.", "Police recorded a phone call where both girls admit to the relationship. Hunt is not the first high school senior to find out that sex with a freshman is, in some places, illegal.", "In fact, we have had cases in the past where we have had same- sex, similar circumstances. Albeit, some of the evidence may not have been as intriguing, I guess. We've also obviously had 18-year-old males with a relationship with 14-year-old females.", "But Hunt's attorney says prosecutors are treating her like a predator.", "I've seen those personally. They get a misdemeanor and they all move on with their lives.", "The Hunts believe this would have never been reported by the young girl's parents if Kaitlyn was a boy.", "We would not be here if the parents were not baited. To take it criminally, I feel like they're using the law, the age law to pursue the parents.", "That was our report from Sarah Ganim. By the way, of the alleged 14-year-old victim, they're speaking out publicly for the first time. They spoke exclusively to affiliate, WPEC, and they're defending their decision to press charges.", "We had no alternative, but to turn to the law and as basically a last resort.", "So this whole story about \"you blame Kate\" for making your daughter gay, where did that come from?", "I don't know. You tell me. It didn't come from us. Because that's not how we feel.", "It was never said. And that's why we feel that we had to tell how we felt.", "The 18-year-old, by the way, must decide by today whether to accept a plea deal in the case. All right, a very different note. Shhh, you're going to wake him up. Morgan Freeman takes a nap during a live interview. We'll tell you what happened after the break."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "SARAH GANIM, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "KAITLYN HUNT, ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT", "GANIM", "KELLEY HUNT SMITH, KAITLYN HUNT'S MOTHER", "GANIM", "HUNT SMITH", "GANIM", "DERYL LOAR, SHERIFF, INDIAN RIVER, FLORIDA", "GANIM", "LOAR", "GANIM", "JULIA GRAVES, ATTORNEY FOR HUNT FAMILY", "GANIM", "HUNT SMITH", "BLITZER", "JIM SMITH, FATHER OF ALLEGED VICTIM", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "JIM SMITH", "LAURIE SMITH, MOTHER OF ALLEGED VICTIM", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-60845", "program": "CNN LIVE ON LOCATION", "date": "2002-9-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/23/lol.04.html", "summary": "Study: Bad Air in Parks Rivals Cities'", "utt": ["Some of America's most scenic treasures are suffering from respiratory distress. A new study shows air pollution in some national parks is so bad it rivals the smog in major cities. CNN's Ann Kellan joins us now with the details. Boy, that is bad news, Ann.", "Yes, you think you go to a national park and be breathing clean air and getting away from city smog. Well, think again. A survey released by the National Parks Conservation Association finds you won't be breathing easier going camping or hiking in these parks. The top five most air-polluted national parks then U.S., according to the survey: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Tennessee and North Carolina -- 9 million people visit that a year -- Shenandoah National Park, in Virginia, noted for its skyline drive; Mammoth Cave, with over 300 caves -- that is in Kentucky; Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks, in California; and Arcadia National Park, in Maine. The cause of the pollution is different in the East versus Western U.S. In the East, the air pollution in the Smokies, Shenandoah, Mammoth Caves, Acadia parks is largely blown in from old coal-fired power plants. Now, according to the National Parks Conservation Association, these old plants are except from complying with certain provisions in the Clean Air Act, so they emit more sulfur dioxides and nitrogen dioxides -- pollution -- than modern plants. That is not to say industry emissions contribute as well. Now, out West, Sequoia and King's Canyon National Park gets most of its pollution from traffic, the tailpipe emissions from millions of vehicles blown in from cities into the park. In Sequoia last year, ground ozone levels -- that is the not good ozone -- went above human health standards 61 days in the summer, which puts people, especially those with asthma, at risk. Acadia National Park's big trouble is acid rain -- Kyra.", "Wow! What about remedies? Help us out here. There has got to be something we can do.", "Well, some of the remedies they are looking for are cleaning up the Clean Air Act, trying to get those old coal fire plants to go up top the standards of the modern plants. Also, emission standards. And no, this group does not think that the Bush administration is doing an adequate job right now of requiring stricter emissions control and cleaning up the Clean Air Act.", "All right, Ann Kellan. Thank you so much.", "Sure enough. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "ANN KELLAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "KELLAN", "PHILLIPS", "KELLAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-224450", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-2-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/06/nday.01.html", "summary": "Olympic Toothpaste Bomb Threat; Could Sochi Be Targeted?; A Million Customers Lose Power; FAA To Inspect Control Towers; Key Unemployment Vote; Obama At National Prayer Breakfast; Castaway Back In Hospital; Hoffman Investigation Deepens", "utt": ["I believe that anybody who wants to go to the Olympics should go.", "The games have begun. The first contest of the Olympic Games happening right now, but is it also a race against time to head off an attack. A new warning from the U.S. that terrorists may be using toothpaste tubes as bombs. We're live with the latest.", "Blackout. A million people waking up without power this morning. The Midwest and northeast digging out from a brutal snow and ice storm with yet another storm not far behind.", "Tearful testimony. The former cop accused of gunning down a man for texting at the movies shedding tears at his bond hearing as his alleged victim's widow breaks down describing what he took from her.", "Your NEW DAY starts right now.", "This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Kate Bolduan, and Michaela Pereira.", "Good morning. Welcome to NEW DAY. It's Thursday, February 6th, six o'clock in the east. I got all that right so far. And ready or not, let the games begin. New this morning, a threat is tied to the opening of the Olympic Games, which is just a few hours away. Homeland security tells airlines flying to Russia beware of toothpaste bombs. It's believed terrorists may attempt to pack toothpaste or cosmetic tubes with explosives. CNN is of course, covering all the angles at home and abroad. Let's begin with Nick Paton Walsh live from Sochi, Russia -- Nick.", "Chris, obviously the background chatter now continues to be about security, particularly with this new threat, very specific about flights coming from Europe into Russia, inside Russia. We found actually to fly from Moscow down to Sochi where the games are with liquids in your carry on, they're trying to prohibit that, but still this seems to be getting people stateside certainly very worried.", "Any type of explosive can be extremely damaging. It could be enough to bring a plane down.", "Airlines with direct flights to Russia on alert this morning. The Department of Homeland Security is issuing another terror bulletin warning about the possibility that explosive materials could be concealed in toothpaste or cosmetic tubes on flights headed to the Olympic Games in Sochi. The possible devices intended either to be detonated on the flights themselves or smuggled into the Olympic village. Former presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, who organized the 2002 Winter Olympics discussed this threat with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.", "A real grave concern to hear a report of this nature. And you basically want to know more. Are we going to put in place immediately restrictions on any kind of tubes or any kind of cosmetics going in flights towards Russia? But as individuals, as airlines people are concerned given the specificity of the nature of the threat and the fact that there's almost nothing they can do to prevent something of this nature from perhaps being put on an aircraft.", "Despite security concerns, the Obama administration has not advised Americans to avoid the games. Secretary of State John Kerry telling CNN's Jake Tapper before the toothpaste alert was issued --", "I believe that anybody who wants to go to the Olympics, which is just a great event, should go. We feel that everything has been done that can be done to try to guarantee people safety and security.", "This latest threat coming as athletes continue to arrive in Sochi. One German snowboarder at his first Olympics just landed.", "I'm real surprised because we just touched down and just saw all the soldiers next to the runway. That was -- wow.", "Athletes now head into the Ring of Steel behind dogs, cameras on balloons, warships and anti-aircraft batteries. Cautions taken to protect participants in what experts say may be the most dangerous Olympic games in history.", "There is reason to have some confidence in Russian security services. They first experienced liquids on airplanes back in 2004 when two planes burnt out the skies simultaneously by female suicide bombers perhaps carrying explosives in their makeup. The long history of putting measures in to try and stop that, as we said, they banned liquids in the carryon baggage. But hopefully this noise we are hearing in a moment about the lack of cooperation between the U.S. and Russia maybe ebbs. And in fact they focus on the job of trying to stop anything from happening in the 24 hours ahead when the ceremony starts here that's when the games begin in earnest and then for the two weeks in which they last. Back to you, Kate.", "Yes, within that ring of steel and beyond. That's where the big threat is. Nick, thank you so very much. Let's talk more about this terror threat and what more we are learning about it. Let's bring in Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr for more. Barbara, what more are we learning about where this threat is coming from and what are we going to do about it?", "Well, the key question now, of course, is just that and how credible, how legitimate is this threat. Sources we're talking to say that now the U.S. intelligence community and the Russians are going to have to do a number of things. They are going to be looking at phone intercepts, online Jihadi forums, chat rooms, who's talking to who, where is the chatter, how credible is it. This is going to be a key issue. They're also going to be looking at the locations and capabilities of known bomb makers. Who is out there that would have the capability to do this. If this is strictly a Chechen threat, Chechen fighters have been fighting with al Qaeda for years in many different countries. Has there been some transfer of technology or capability? Are there Chechens that know how to pull this off? And that goes to the very question of what is a toothpaste bomb. What is it? It's going have to be more than just packing with explosives. Who can actually make a bomb with little or no metal content and an initiator-detonator device that would work and be a true threat, that is going to be a big part of this look right now -- Chris.", "All right, Barbara, thank you for the reporting. Let's go now from terror threats to terrible weather. A million customers across the northeast lost power after the latest winter storm, many of them still in the dark. Hundreds of thousands of those dealing with this are in Pennsylvania. That's where power lines came crashing down under the weight leading to massive power failures. Utility companies say restoration could take days. So let's get to Margaret Conley. She is in Abington Township, Pennsylvania. She has more. Margaret, what's the situation?", "Chris, this town, Abington Township is dark. Of the 22,000 households here, 19,000 of them have lost power. It's one of the hardest hit areas in Pennsylvania.", "Over 100 million people continue to dig out of Wednesday's massive snowstorm leaving close to a million people without power.", "We haven't had a winter like this in almost three years.", "Nearly a foot of snow fell in parts of the Boston area forcing schools and government offices to be close again. Roads blocked by downed trees, power lines and mounds of snow made driving nearly impossible from Kansas to New York. The Pennsylvania turnpike shut down for hours after this fatal crash near the state's capitol.", "This winter storm has had a direct impact all across the state of Pennsylvania.", "Residents from Ohio to Maryland remain in the dark this morning. Hundreds of thousands of homes in Pennsylvania face more power outages from this powerful winter storm than from Superstorm Sandy. In this home in hard hit Abington Township, Bob and Debbie Burns has stocked up on candles, flashlights and extra layers of clothes.", "There's no television. There's no radio. We're charging our phones in our car and brought the generator out.", "Heavy snow and ice accumulation on trees caused branches to fall knocking down power lines.", "Repairs have been hampered somewhat by the road conditions especially the back roads and there are so many trees down.", "Officials warn power may not be restored for days.", "Essentially the entire county is out of power. As long as I've here at the county, I can never remember a time that we had that many power outages.", "Now the one good thing about this is that people have more time to spend with their friends and families as there is no electricity in their homes. We've talked to emergency workers and officials. They say they are working around the clock to try to resolve this. One of the big power companies, PICO, they're also flying in 200 people from Chicago to help -- Kate.", "Without power can quickly go from inconvenience to dangerous. Margaret, thank you very much for that. So 1 million people without power and they're not only going to be in the dark, but they are also going to be dealing with very cold temperatures. Let's get straight to meteorologist, Chad Myers, with the latest on the forecast. How is it looking now, Chad?", "You know, you think you can deal with it. It's going to be 25, I can deal without power for one night and then all of a sudden, you turn the stove on, you get carbon monoxide in the house. You do other things that you shouldn't be doing. Please just go to a shelter, find some place warm and get out of this weather. Scranton it's 13, 25 in Philadelphia, 24 in New York City, here are the morning low temperatures for the next three days, Baltimore, power out to your west especially, 24, 24, 24, Harrisburg, 13, Philadelphia, 23, not going to be warming up at all during the morning hours. We're going to stay well below freezing. Even New York City doesn't get above freezing for the next three days. All the ice that's there is going to be there. There's a lot of black ice around the country. If it looks like it's shiny, it's ice. Be careful. The snow showers that we talked about, the big snow for Sunday, looks like a Nova Scotia storm. They're sending us salt. We're sending them snow. That's where that foot or more of snow is coming down. It won't be a snowstorm on Sunday into Monday, inches not feet. That's good.", "And then we have to look to next week. We'll talk more a little later. Thanks so much for that. Let's take a look at more of your headlines at this hour. Breaking overnight, the Federal Aviation Administration will inspect lightning protection systems at more than 400 air traffic control towers nationwide. This comes after a lightning strike injured an air traffic controller at Baltimore's main airport in September. The FAA says that incident was the first of its kind. The FAA began issuing standards for lightning protection systems back in 1978. Senate Democrats moving ahead without the Republicans in their attempt to extend long term unemployment benefits for more than a million Americans. An important procedural vote is set for today. Majority Leader Harry Reid dismissing Republican demands to amend the measure. It's unclear if he has the required 60 votes. New developments for you in the search for a missing police captain and father in Virginia. Two women, and a man, all siblings have been arrested in connection with Kevin Quick's disappearance. Their arrest is linked to the theft of the police captain's truck. They've connected the truck with an armed robbery Sunday night. Quick has been missing since Friday. President Obama will speak at this morning's National Prayer Breakfast set to begin in less than two hours' time. He has spoken at the event every year of his presidency and his remarks have traditionally been among his most personal. First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are also expected to attend. Also new for you this morning, the castaway who says he survived 13 months lost at sea in the Pacific back at the hospital after his improving health suddenly took a turn for the worst. Doctors say Jose Salvador Alvarenga is suffering from dehydration and malnutrition. They're now feeding him intravenously and in fact they are having a hard time keeping him hydrated. He washed ashore some eight days ago. Despite the widespread skepticism, officials say they have no reason to doubt his story so far. And the fact that he's been re- hospitalized indicates that you know --", "He was out in it.", "-- that he was out in it.", "Right. It's an amazing story.", "It's really a head-scratcher. Also new developments this morning in the suspected overdose of actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman, three people arrested in the investigation are now formally charged with drug offenses. One reportedly had the actor's number stored in his cell phone, but officials have stopped short of linking anyone to Hoffman's death. They now say finding a cause of death could take weeks. Let's bring in CNN's Alexandra Field is following this for us. Good morning.", "Good morning, Chris. All three of those suspects have pled not guilty on those drug possession charges. The attorney for one of the suspects, Juliana Luchkiw, says that her client has no connection to Hoffman other than having seen some of his movies and he insists that she was just, quote, \"in the wrong place at the wrong time.\"", "Wednesday night in a Manhattan courtroom, three people believed to be connected to the heroin found in Philip Seymour Hoffman's apartment was indicted on drug possession charges. Juliana Luchkiw and Max Rosenblum, both 22 were charged with misdemeanors, while 57-year-old Robert Vineberg, a felony. Overnight, their attorney saying all three pled not guilty.", "My client by all accounts I know of has nothing to do with Philip Seymour Hoffman. My client is not responsible for Philip Seymour Hoffman's death.", "These arrests and these charges have absolutely nothing to do with Mr. Hoffman's unfortunate death.", "A total of four suspects were arrested Tuesday night during this NYPD drug raid caught on camera not far from Hoffman's apartment. These photos show three of the arrests. The fourth person, 48-year- old Thomas Cushman will not be prosecuted. The Manhattan DA saying there was no evidence he had any control over the drugs. Investigates found 350 small bags of what's believed to be heroin labeled red bull and blacklist. Different brands found in Hoffman's apartment call ace of spades and ace of hearts. One of the suspects, Robert Vineberg is a well-known jazz musician in a New York club scene. He had Hoffman's number saved in his cell phone. Vineberg's neighbors say they're surprised.", "One of the nicest people I've ever met. Smart, goes out of his way to be nice. Great guy.", "Still unknown is what led Hoffman to relapse after 23 years of being sober. Some insight may come from his journal that investigators found in his living room. New York's Broadway community is still reeling from his death celebrating his life in a vigil last night. And while this investigation still continues, the medical examiner's office says it could still take a couple weeks to determine the exact cause and manner of Hoffman's death. They are still awaiting the toxicology reports.", "Thank you so much. Let's take a break. Coming up next, the \"affluenza\" defense, triggering more outrage, a wealthy teen who killed four people in a drunk driving crash will not spend any time behind bars. We'll examine the judge's ruling and we'll speak exclusively to the young man's lawyer ahead.", "Another case of outrage for a very different reason, remember the man shot and killed over a texting dispute at the movies? Both sides breaking down in tears in court. 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{"id": "CNN-311480", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-05-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/03/cnr.08.html", "summary": "All Out Blitz on Health Care Vote Tomorrow.", "utt": ["The White House is launching a full-court press to get the thousand to vote on health care tomorrow. Here are the pictures of the vice President who has rolled up on Capitol Hill trying to get some of those votes and hold some meetings from members of Congress. Earlier the President met with two Congressmen who planned to vote no. Congressman Billy Long and Fred Upton are now voting yes. That is apparently because of an amendment to the health plan that would provide another $8 billion to fund high-risk pools and help those with pre-existing conditions. Moments ago the White House said it is, quote, impossible to estimate whether that amount is going to be enough.", "If someone has continuous coverage, that's never going to be an issue, regardless of no circumstance anyone with continuous coverage with have a problem with pre-existing conditions. If someone chooses not to have coverage for 63 days or more and were in a state that opted out and put in a high-risk pool then we've allocated an additional $8 billion over five years to help drive down the costs. For somebody to know what that number of people, is how many states will ask for and receive a waiver is literally impossible at this point.", "With me now CNN politics reporter M.J. Lee on The Hill, and so on top of the question of whether or not $8 billion is even enough, we know the white house is also insisting anyone with pre-existing conditions be covered. That is a major promise. Do we know that that's how the latest bill is being mapped out?", "I mean, I can tell you that talking point from Sean Spicer that we just heard is not going to be enough to win over the folks on Capitol Hill right now who have real concerns about parole texting people who have pre-existing conditions. That $8 billion big is something that we've been talking to lawmakers all day about. Is that going to be enough. Does that move the needle enough? For some members obviously, members like Congressman Upton and Billy Long, they have both said today that that was enough to get them to a yes vote from a no. For a lot of other members that we've spoken to, particularly the moderate members who are in the Tuesday group, they are still saying that that is not enough to change their votes, and, brook, I can tell you obviously, the White House would like nothing more than to be able to have a vote on this bill tomorrow, Friday or even Saturday, but as of right now there has been no scheduling changes, and what that means is that leadership still not have the 216 votes. Just to share some fun color from Capitol Hill, obviously a very frenzied day. What that means for some members is they are preparing for maybe, and I'm stressing the word maybe, the possibility of having to stay a little bit longer in Washington, D.C., maybe past Friday, even Saturday, and for one member of Congress, Congressman Phil Rowe, he has a wedding to get to on Saturday and it's his own wedding, so a lot of uncertainty right now about what is going to happen to the schedule. Again, as of right now, no scheduling changes.", "Why were you late for your wedding? The health care vote. Hopefully they can get that thing done early. Thank you so much. We'll continue covering this until presumably that vote happens tomorrow. Coming up, all kinds of breaking stories today. You saw the testimony on Capitol Hill from FBI Director Comey in the hot seat talking about why it makes him quote, unquote mildly nauseous to think about his letter regarding Hillary Clinton's e-mails, his decision and why he says he'd do it again. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "SEAN SPICER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "BALDWIN", "M.J. LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-368732", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-05-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/04/cnr.07.html", "summary": "\"Chewie\" Remembrances Dominate \"Star Wars\" Day Observances.", "utt": ["The 145th running of the Kentucky Derby is about to get under way a short time from now. This year's race is expected to be wide open after the favorite was scratched due to a respiratory disease. And weather could play a role in the Derby as rain moves through the Louisville area today. The first leg of the Triple Crown of horse racing is affectionately called the most exciting two minutes in sports. Stay tuned. We'll keep you posted. Finally, this hour, May the fourth be with you. It's \"Star Wars\" day. This year's anniversary is bittersweet for fans of the ethic space saga. Peter Mayhew, who played the Wookie warrior, Chewbacca, died this week at the age of 74. Standing over seven feet tall and covered in yak hair as Chewbacca, Mayhew may have looked terrifying, but he said he always thought of Hans Solo's sidekick, Chewie, as a teddy bear or a security blanket, despite this year's early encounter with C-3PO.", "Screaming about it can't help.", "That's not wise.", "But, sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid.", "That's because a droid doesn't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookies are known to do that.", "Of course, that wasn't this year. That was the early, early interaction. Mayhew acted in five films in the \"Star Wars\" series, starting with the original trilogy, episodes four, five and six, and he then acted in episode three and seven. Poor health forced him to pull out of \"The Last Jedi,\" episode 8. But he still got a film credit as a Chewbacca consultant. This weekend, social media is full of tributes for Peter Mayhew, including this tweet from the \"Star Wars\" co-star, Mark Hamill: \"He was the gentlest of giants, a big man with an even bigger heart. He never failed to make me smile. A loyal friend who I loved dearly. I am grateful for the memories we shared. I am a better man for just having known him. Thanks, Pete.\" Agreed. Thanks, Mr. Mayhew.", "Chewie!", "Chewie, we're home.", "Breaking news out of the Middle East where escalations turn deadly. CNN has learned a 1-year-old baby is now the latest victim in a series of airstrikes."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "HARRISON FORD, ACTOR", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "FORD", "CABRERA", "FORD", "FORD", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "NPR-45170", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2006-03-30", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5311823", "title": "The Economics of Illegal Immigration", "summary": "Harvard professor Lawrence Katz is co-author of a 2005 study, \"The Evolution of the Mexican Workforce in the United States.\" He explores the impact of illegal immigration on wages for domestic-born, low-income workers with Farai Chideya.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is NEWS AND NOTES. I'm Ed Gordon.", "This week immigration protest and politics have dominated the news. In a moment, we'll speak Congresswoman Maxine Waters about the ongoing legislative struggle over immigration. But first the debate. One side argues that these undocumented workers are taking jobs from U.S. citizens and putting a strain on America's economic system.", "The other side says these workers provide valuable services and take jobs that U.S. citizens will not. But is it really that simple? Lawrence Katz is a labor economist at Harvard University and co-author of the 2005 study, The Evaluation of Mexican Workforce in the United States. He points out that the American work force has changed significantly in the last 20 years because of a number of factors, including the waning influence of labor unions and the staggering growth in the number of foreign workers.", "Mr. Katz explained his findings to NPR's Farai Chideya.", "What we attempted to do is we tried to look at the hypothetical of what would have happened over the last 25 years if there had not been such a large increase in the number of immigrants, particularly from Mexico coming in to work in the United States.", "And what you see is when you get large shocks of workers coming across the border entering particular occupations is the vast majority of Americans benefit because the increase in supply of workers of these occupations lowers the prices. It's cheaper to get your walls plastered; it's cheaper to buy childcare services; it's cheaper to get food processed.", "On the other hand, so most of us benefit, but workers directly competing are paying the cost, because they receive lower wages and they get discouraged from entering these occupations and fields. So two groups gain big time. The immigrants themselves have huge increases in income. Most Americans benefit as consumers, but a small group of the most vulnerable Americans pay the cost.", "Do you have any more information on how undereducated workers, these low wage workers, break down by race and ethnicity, the ones who are U.S. citizens?", "Well, the U.S. citizens who are competing with immigrants are disproportionately African American, disproportionately Hispanic, you know, born in the United States.", "Is it conceivable that Mexican immigrants who have legal status are also losing out in wages?", "It's not only conceivable, it's highly probable. Most studies actually find the groups whose wages are most affected are the earlier wave of immigrants with similar sort of characteristics. And in some cases they're moving up the ladder, becoming the supervisors of new immigrants.", "But I think most Americans do benefit from this, and the question is, is there a way that we can find to help out the more vulnerable workers while most of us continue to receive the benefits?", "In some of the cities where we've seen these major immigration protests, the people who you talk about as the most vulnerable are living side by side, neighborhood by neighborhood, with the people who may be benefiting. So in Los Angeles' South Central area you have a predominately African American neighborhood which has transitioned into a neighborhood filled with Mexican immigrants, I'm sure some there with papers and some there without.", "In cities like Houston you also have black and Latino populations. So it seems to me that the issues that you see playing out in your study are, you know, being also played out in a very micro level in America's cities.", "Oh yes, they're quite present there and there are, you know, a large number of issues, of employers being in many cases more wiling to hire recent immigrants than African American young workers, given some of the problems with undocumented immigration, which creates a workforce that in some sense has less ability to stand up their rights because their status in the U.S. is, which is a worrisome aspect of some policy questions like guest worker programs and stuff, which create potentially something that looks more like indentured servants, where your status in the U.S. depends on a particular employer.", "That's something employers might be very happy to have, but not something that's very beneficial to other workers who have to compete with people.", "But, you know, in some sense we all may be able to benefit if we could do more with things like the earned income tax credit, giving employers greater incentives to hire U.S. workers who are more vulnerable. Attempts to stop immigration, given the huge economic incentives, have not been particularly effective in the past.", "Lawrence Katz is a labor economist at Harvard. Thank you so much for talking with us today.", "Thank you.", "That was NPR's Farai Chideya."], "speaker": ["ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "Mr. LAWRENCE KATZ (Labor Economist, Harvard University)", "Mr. LAWRENCE KATZ (Labor Economist, Harvard University)", "Mr. LAWRENCE KATZ (Labor Economist, Harvard University)", "CHIDEYA", "Mr. LAWRENCE KATZ (Labor Economist, Harvard University)", "CHIDEYA", "Mr. LAWRENCE KATZ (Labor Economist, Harvard University)", "Mr. LAWRENCE KATZ (Labor Economist, Harvard University)", "CHIDEYA", "CHIDEYA", "Mr. LAWRENCE KATZ (Labor Economist, Harvard University)", "Mr. LAWRENCE KATZ (Labor Economist, Harvard University)", "Mr. LAWRENCE KATZ (Labor Economist, Harvard University)", "CHIDEYA", "Mr. LAWRENCE KATZ (Labor Economist, Harvard University)", "ED GORDON, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-95213", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2005-6-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/09/lt.02.html", "summary": "Missing Student in Aruba; Rumsfeld on Gitmo", "utt": ["Let's take a look at what's happening \"Now in the News.\" President Bush calls on Congress to renew the Patriot Act. He'll make his case in a speech you'll see live this hour. Mr. Bush says the law passed after 9/11 is an important tool in the war on terror. Critics say it undermines freedom and civil liberties. We're following new developments in the case of an Alabama teenager missing in Aruba. Police this morning arrested three more men in connection with Natalee Holloway's disappearance. They were last seen -- they were the last people seen with Holloway before she vanished. Details in a live report from Aruba just ahead. Authorities say a fifth person is in custody in the terrorism investigation in Lodi, California. He is the son of a local Muslim leader who was detained earlier. In another development, the FBI has backed off earlier suggestions of a possible plot to attack hospitals and grocery stores. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan gives a rather upbeat assessment of the nation's economy. In remarks before Congress last hour, Greenspan said the U.S. economy is on reasonably firm footing with no significant slowdown expected. His remarks suggest the Fed will continue its interest rate hikes. Let's check the time. 8:00 a.m. in Lodi, California; 10:00 a.m. in Oklahoma City; and 11:00 a.m. in Columbus, Ohio. From CNN Center in Atlanta, good morning. I'm Daryn Kagan. First up this hour, there are new developments this morning in Aruba. That is where three more men are under arrest in connection with the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway. Our Karl Penhaul is following the story, joins us now from Palm Beach, Aruba.", "Daryn, those arrests came just before dawn this morning, and police have spent much of the morning searching the properties where those men were arrested in the search for anything that could lead them to clues as to the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway. The three men that have been arrested were the three last seen in Natalee's company on the early morning when she disappeared. Those were the three men that, together with Natalee, drove off in a vehicle from outside the Carlos 'N Charlie's Mexican restaurant. Now, of course, with these latest arrests, it takes to five the number of people detained in the case of the disappearance of Natalee. We, though, talked to the defense attorney for the first two suspects who were arrested over the weekend to ask him if there was any connection between the three arrested today and the other two arrested over on the weekend.", "My client does not know these three men. But I do know, out of the five, that these three men were the three -- the last three to see Natalee Holloway that night, probably the night of her disappearance, when they took her back to her hotel at approximately 2:30 in the morning.", "We're awaiting a press conference later on, possibly around midday or early afternoon, and hope to get some more updates then -- Daryn.", "Karl Penhaul, live from Palm Beach, Aruba. Thank you. President Bush is campaigning for renewal of the Patriot Act. He is set to deliver a speech in just a few minutes. Our Congressional Correspondent Joe Johns is traveling with the president and joins us live from Columbus, Ohio, with a preview. Joe, good morning.", "Good morning, Daryn. The president just got here in Columbus, Ohio, accompanied by the attorney general, Alberto Gonzales. The president appearing in just a little while here at the Ohio Highway Patrol Academy to promote the renewal of 16 provisions of the Patriot Act that are set to expire at the end of the year. The White House chose this location because it was here in the Columbus area that the case of Iyman Faris played out. He was the truck driver who was arrested and pleaded guilty, accused of assisting al Qaeda, even meeting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 2002. The administration says it used provisions of the Patriot Act to follow the truck driver.", "He's an individual that had gone to Afghanistan and met with Osama bin Laden at an al Qaeda training camp and helped terrorists research airplanes and handle case and purchase supplies. And he met with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed back in 2002 and agreed to take part in the al Qaeda plot to destroy a New York City bridge. After he returned back to the United States, federal investigators used the Patriot Act to follow him. And once he was confronted with the evidence against him, he cooperated and provided valuable information to law enforcement authorities.", "Now, review and renewal of some of the provisions of the Patriot Act is, of course, controversial. There are some who say there need to be revisions in order to protect civil liberties. The administration, on the other hand, says stripping any of the provisions of the Patriot Act would make America less safe. Daryn, back to you.", "Joe Johns, live from Columbus, Ohio. Thank you. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld weighing in on the future of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Human rights activists, some politicians and even a former president have recommended shutting it down. Our Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr joins us with reaction from Rumsfeld. Good morning.", "Good morning to you, Daryn. Well, in the wake of calls, at least from the news media, from Senator Biden, from Jimmy Carter, former President Carter, the questions do continue to come to administration officials about what to do about Guantanamo Bay. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld earlier this week made it very clear that in his view there is no consideration in the administration for closing down the detention facility on Cuba. But at a press conference in Europe earlier today, he was asked again about that very question. And he offered some more insight into his thinking. Here's what had he to say.", "A whole lot of questions come to mind. If you closed it, where would you go? The -- our desire all along has been to see that people who were involved in the September 11 killing of 3,000 men, women and children, and were captured, engaged in terrorist activities, or captured on battlefields in Afghanistan or Iraq or elsewhere, be kept off the streets so they don't kill more people. Second, it has been an attempt to find out from them information about potential terrorist attacks that might be in the offing. And, in fact, that's happened.", "Now, one of the reasons the secretary of defense was asked about this was yesterday, President Bush was also asked by a reporter for a news organization what his view was on closing down Guantanamo Bay, especially after President Carter spoke on the matter. President Bush getting some attention in those remarks because he said the U.S. was exploring all alternatives, but administration officials behind the scenes are making it very clear that the only alternatives they are really considering is continuing with their ongoing plans to send detainees off the island, back to their home countries for detention or release when that is possible. No consideration being given to shutting gown Guantanamo Bay at this point. Daryn, there are still 520 detainees on the island, and 234 have actually left the island since the operation began there. And when they talk about leaving the island, what they mean is that alternative, sending them back to their home country for detention if they are still deemed to be a threat, or sending them back to their home country for release -- Daryn.", "All right. Barbara Starr at the Pentagon. Thank you. Authorities are holding a fifth person in an ongoing terror investigation in California. He is the son of a local Muslim leader detained earlier in Lodi, California. That's near Sacramento. Another father and son are also being held. They're accused of lying about the son attending a terrorist training camp. Also, the FBI is backing up earlier details about a possible plot to attack grocery stores and hospitals. To Capitol Hill now, and live pictures for you. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff testifying before a House committee this morning. He's discussing how prepared his department is to respond to terrorism threats facing the nation. Lawmakers are looking into emergency procedures for the Capitol building. That hearing also taking place. Live pictures for you at this hour. A scare involving a small plane last month led to mass evacuation of the Capitol and the White House. CNN \"Security Watch\" keeps you up to date on safety. Stay tuned day and night for the most reliable news about your security. Well, something wicked threatens. Lots of tornado warnings around Leavenworth County, Texas, yesterday. But it was thunderstorms that delivered the power punch: two inches of rain and 80-mile-an-hour winds that knocked out electricity. Also, you'll want to keep an eye on the Caribbean, where a tropical depression has grown into the first named storm of the season. Forecasters say Tropical Storm Arlene could reach Cuba by tonight and move into the Gulf of Mexico tomorrow.", "We are expecting -- speaking of standing by, we are expecting President Bush to speak in Columbus, Ohio, about 10 minutes from now. He's expected to make his case for the Patriot Act. We will bring you live coverage of the president's speech when it begins. A lot of lawmakers will be paying attention to the president's pitch, including Russ Feingold. The senator has been a vocal critic of the Patriot Act. He will also weigh in later this hour."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHRIS LEJUEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "PENHAUL", "KAGAN", "JOE JOHNS, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SCOTT MCCLELLAN, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "JOHNS", "KAGAN", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY", "STARR", "KAGAN", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-186546", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2012-5-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/23/acd.02.html", "summary": "Senate Investigates Veterans Charity; Interview With Senator Max Baucus", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone. It's 10:00 here on the East Coast. And we begin tonight with \"Keeping Them Honest,\" and that's not just a catchphrase. It's our calling in part because of nights like this one. Tonight, \"Keeping Them Honest\" reporting on a vital issue to America's wounded warriors and their families is actually getting action. The Senate Finance Committee has just launched a probe, an investigation, a probe into potential abuses by a veterans charity that we have been profiling. Staffers for committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana, who is going to us shortly, says he learned about the story from reporting by correspondent Drew Griffin and our producer, David Fitzpatrick. Drew is going to join us again tonight because this story is still unfolding. The charity in question is the Disabled Veterans National Foundation. That's their seal. They have raised nearly $56 million in the past three years. What's outrageous is that not one dime has actually gone directly to help disabled veterans. We have been showing you this now for a long time. You may what happened when Drew tried to talk to the charity's president, a woman named Precilla Wilkewitz.", "You're the one from CNN that's...", "That's right. (voice-over): Meet Precilla Wilkewitz, president of the Disabled Veterans National Foundation, whom we found at a small VFW office in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.", "Well, this is the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and I really didn't think you'd do something like this. We've agreed to talk to you and answer questions.", "Nobody has agreed. So here is the question raised over three years.", "Only in writing. Thank you so much.", "And none of the money has gone to any veterans. (on camera): So the bottom line is you're not going to give any interview? (voice-over): CNN has been trying for two years to get an interview with the Disabled Veterans National Foundation, since we began tracking its fund-raising. We've gotten angry phone calls, angry e-mails, promises of written responses and now a slammed door, but no answers.", "And just think about this. If you had raised $56 million over three years and done it legitimately and actually had something to show for it and given that money to veterans, you would think you would want to explain yourself. You would think you would want to show your books and show all the veterans you have helped. They're not doing that. The charity DVNF does send stuff to veterans group, stuff that they get for free, and stuff that veterans groups we have talked to say they don't need, they don't want, they can't use. Here's one now infamous example, Coconut M&Ms;, thousands of packages. DVNF sent one veterans group more than 11,000 of these bags of M&Ms;, 2,600 bags of cough drops, 2,200 little bottles of sanitizer lotion, because that's just apparently what they think disabled veterans need. Probably not. That's just stuff that they were given for free. Veterans groups have also received bulk shipments of chef's aprons, military dress shoes, random donations so useless that vets groups have had to sell the items at yard sales, like that one, just so they can try to raise some money for things they actually need. So where did the $56 million that people donated to DVNF actually go?", "As far as we can tell, up to the 10th floor of this Manhattan office building to a company called Quadriga Art, a company that specializes in fund-raising. And as far as we can tell, Quadriga Art knows a lot about fund-raising -- for itself.", "So this group Quadriga Art is basically paid to build mailing lists for groups like DVNF. That's where the money trail took Drew. He learned that Quadriga Art and its subsidiaries have more than 500 charities on their client list, including DVNF and other veterans groups. So let's just be clear here. The money trail leads from unsuspecting wallets of concerned Americans, good people like you, who donate money to the DVNF, straight to the bottom line of a fund- raising company, the companies of Quadriga Art and its subsidiaries. But it's the charity DVNF that is now being investigated because of its tax-exempt status, because all of us are giving it a tax break for the good work that it's supposed to be doing. In the words of Senate Baucus -- quote -- \"Our veterans should never be use as pawns in a scheme to exploit the taxpayers. DVNF has a responsibility to show it's genuinely helping veterans and playing by the rules.\" Senator Max Baucus joins us now. We should point out that this is a bipartisan effort initiated as well by a Republican committee member, Richard Burr of North Carolina. Also with us tonight is Drew Griffin, because there's a lot more to the story. Senator, what is your goal with this investigation?", "I don't want retired schoolteachers or any other good Americans to be duped by fraudulent organizations into giving money, thinking it is going to go to disabled vets, when in fact it's not at all. It's going in to pad the pockets of some scam artists. I want to stop this stuff.", "What concerns you most about this Disabled National Veterans Foundation?", "I -- it sounds like it's a front. I don't think it's legit. They take about $56 million from ordinary good Americans who want to help veterans, but then don't give any of the money to veterans and in this case don't give any money to disabled veterans. It's just -- it's an outrage, frankly.", "Had you heard about the DVNF before?", "I have not, frankly. You highlighted it in one of your reports. And we got to looking at it and asked a lot of questions of the organization that they're not answering. An outfit that rates charitable organizations gave them an F. And so we have spent more time looking at them.", "A big part of it seems to be all the money is being funneled to this organization Quadriga Art, which basically organizations use to boost their mailing list.", "Right. Right.", "And does that make sense to you and will that be part of the investigation as well?", "Well, clearly, frankly, I smell a rat there. I have a hunch that that outfit, the mail order is using the veterans organization as a front for themselves. So they get the contributions from good, well-meaning, gullible Americans thinking they're helping disabled vets, when in fact the money is going to this other outfit, Quadriga, as a fund-raising operation, and none of the money is going to disabled vets. We're going to be looking at all that. And I have a hunch unfortunately that there are other fraudulent, scam organizations like this as well. And we're going to do what we can to get to the bottom of it.", "And, Drew Griffin, Drew, you actually talked to another organization which it also has a contract with Quadriga that they're trying to get out of. And they at least off camera acknowledged that they were kind of trapped into this contract with this group.", "Yes. They were trapped. Well, I'm saying that. They aren't saying that. They are in a long-term contract for six years, which lasts until 2014, the National Veterans Foundation, which took in $18 million -- or excuse me -- took in $22 million or $20 million and gave $18 million of it back to Quadriga and its subsidiary, Brickmill. They did say they weren't happy with how this all worked out. And they have severed ties with them are now trying to break their contract.", "Senator, a big part of what Drew has uncovered seems to be kind of a shell game. The charity, DVNF, they take credit for enormous amounts of money on their tax returns, but deliver a lot of stuff to veterans groups that veteran groups say they don't need, that it's basically useless, surplus dress shoes, chef's coats, hats, thousands of bags of Coconut M&Ms;, and they claim it as goods in kind, so it will look good to the IRS. Do you think the IRS needs to take a hard look at what this group actually does for veterans?", "There's no question there's some kind of a shell game, some kind of a scam going on here. And I don't know who's getting the money. It's certainly not disabled vets that are getting the money. And I have a hunch there are other organizations like this. And it might -- the scam might be partly the disabled veteran foundation, and they're ripping people off. The scam could also be partly this other mailer outfit that is getting a lot of money that's on the receiving end of it. So we just to get to the bottom of it.", "Drew, you have been struggling now for years to even get basic answers from DVNF and also this Quadriga.", "Yes. For two years, we get nothing but phone calls that aren't returned. You know, we got a door slammed. We even went out to Sacramento last week, as you recall, Anderson, trying to find the person who runs this DVNF. She was supposed to be at a concert, and she canceled at the last minute at a conference there. And we want to ask the same questions that the senator is asking and that you're asking. How can Americans who are so generous be pouring so much money and giving from their hearts to our disabled veterans right now coming back from the war, thinking the money is going to do good? It's doing no good. It's going all the way to the fund-raiser. And, number one, where is the money? From the senator, and from you, Anderson, as I recall, how do you sleep at night?", "Yes. That's the question I would like to -- Senator, that's -- I'm sure that's -- I know that's not one of the questions you asked to the DVNF, but that's probably one of the questions you would like to ask. How do these people who are raising money on the backs of the disabled veterans, and not giving it directly to the veterans, I don't understand how they sleep at night.", "Well, there are a lot of unfortunate bad apples. Let's not forget most charitable organizations are good. They do very good work, and this country probably wouldn't exist without all the charitable foundations that we have in this country. But there are a few rotten apples that take advantage of gullible, good American citizens. And this one that frankly it really ticks me off personally, because we in Montana have the highest sign-up in the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq per capita. We're patriotic. And a lot of our men and women, they come home, they're disabled, they're injured and they're wounded. And it just makes me angry, frankly, that some outfit wants to take advantage of gullible people for their own personal benefit, at the expense of veterans.", "And it makes it harder for reputable organizations that want to help vets.", "Yes, it does.", "It makes it harder for them to raise money. It takes money away from them. Senator, I appreciate you being on this. And we will continue to follow it, your efforts, and Drew Griffin as well.", "You bet.", "Thank you.", "Well, Anderson, thank you for your good work, because you spotlighted this. That's good work.", "Well, it's Drew Griffin who really has done it all. So I appreciate it, Senator.", "You bet. You bet.", "Drew and David Fitzpatrick, producer. One final note. We talked about Drew's many unsuccessful attempts to get DVNF president Precilla Wilkewitz to answer questions about the charity that she runs. This evening, the group sent the following statement. It reads in parts -- quote -- \"The Disabled Veterans National Foundation has helped tens of thousands of veterans with direct financial aid and supplies that have made a difference in their lives. Media reports about our activities have been plain wrong and we welcome the opportunity to set the record straight.\" Let me just point out for the record, we have given them multiple opportunities to try to set the record straight, in their words. Again, we invite her at any point to talk to Drew, come on this show. We will talk to them. To say that -- you know, that this is misleading, and that they're going to set the record straight, we have been waiting for two years to try to get them to set the record straight. It's -- it's ridiculous. Let us know what you think. We're on Facebook. Follow me on Twitter @AndersonCooper. I will be tweeting tonight. Up next: the part of Mitt Romney's record that no one seems to be talking about with all the shouting over Bain Capital, namely, his record as governor of Massachusetts. We will look at it next."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "PRECILLA WILKEWITZ, CEO, DVNF", "DREW GRIFFIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WILKEWITZ", "GRIFFIN", "WILKEWITZ", "GRIFFIN", "COOPER", "GRIFFIN", "COOPER", "SEN. MAX BAUCUS (D), MONTANA", "COOPER", "BAUCUS", "COOPER", "BAUCUS", "COOPER", "BAUCUS", "COOPER", "BAUCUS", "COOPER", "GRIFFIN", "COOPER", "BAUCUS", "COOPER", "GRIFFIN", "COOPER", "BAUCUS", "COOPER", "BAUCUS", "COOPER", "BAUCUS", "COOPER", "BAUCUS", "COOPER", "BAUCUS", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-60092", "program": "CNN CROSSFIRE", "date": "2002-9-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/04/cf.00.html", "summary": "Should the `American Idol' Winner Be Featured on the Day of Remembrance?", "utt": ["Welcome back to CROSSFIRE, coming to you live from the George Washington University. And we come to one of our favorite parts of the program. It's called \"Fireback,\" and we'll look at the board and see what people've got to say, here. All right. \"Harry Truman had a sign on his desk reading `The buck stops here.' It has been replaced by a sign reading: Just blame Bill.\" Kenneth Lee, Raytown, Missouri. Yes, I don't think I ought to blame Bill. I think these guys inherited a $5.6 trillion surplus. But you got to say one thing about President Bush. That's one thing he can do is inherit, very well.", "You know what.", "He's an expert at that.", "I can't even begin to address it. E.J. from Irving, Texas, writes in about the show we did last night on women being allowed into Augusta National Golf Club. \"As a woman,\" she writes, \"I find it very amusing that any woman who has enough money to join Augusta could possibly feel that society has oppressed her. I think that there are much more important issues in society than bothering a group of decent, law abiding men.\" E.J., as a woman, I agree with you.", "Maybe she's like President Bush, she inherited everything. You don't know that.", "What are you talking about?", "What a sexist statement.", "I didn't say they did. I said maybe they did.", "\"It's gone way too far! It seems totally inappropriate to invite some TV contest winner to sing at September 11 ceremonies. You might as well invite the `Survivor' winner, guests of `Temptation Island,' and the girl of `Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?' all to perform.\" Debbie, Lawton, Oklahoma. Actually, Debbie, I agree with you, but I thought that Mo Rocca was a great guest.", "He was. Next stop. Sheri from Vancouver, British Columbia writes: \"The notion of having the `American Idol' finalist play at the September 11 ceremony is sickening. Quite honestly, the `American Idol' show itself is a ridiculous waste of time and gives me yet another reason for why I am proud to be Canadian. We would never support that kind of trash.\" Well, Sheri, we did a little checking, and it turns out William Shatner, Alex Trebek, Rick Moranis and Pamela Anderson Lee, American? No. Canadian.", "Alex Trebek. I like", "We have a question from the audience. Yes, sir.", "Hi, this question is for either Tucker or James. If the Clinton legacy is so hurtful, then why has CROSSFIRE'S ratings gone up so much when it features two former Clinton advisers?", "Actually, they go down. It's more a public service. These guys tried to run for office, but being connected to the Clintons, they failed.", "Well, I think, you know, the country knows what happened under Clinton, and they know that the deficit went down, and they're great for it. From the left, I'm James Carville. Good night,", "From the right, I'm Tucker Carlson. Join us, again tomorrow night, Thursday night, for another edition of CROSSFIRE. CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT begins immediately, after CNN NEWS ALERT. Have a great night. See you tomorrow. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Should the `American Idol' Winner Be Featured on the Day of Remembrance?>"], "speaker": ["CARVILLE", "CARLSON", "CARVILLE", "CARLSON", "CARVILLE", "CARLSON", "CARLSON", "CARVILLE", "OK", "CARLSON", "CARVILLE", "CARLSON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CARLSON", "CARVILLE", "CROSSFIRE. CARLSON"]}
{"id": "NPR-10689", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2017-08-20", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544817823/weekend-politics-trump-s-turbulent-week", "title": "Weekend Politics: Trump's Turbulent Week", "summary": "NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Michael Warren, a senior writer at the conservative outlet The Weekly Standard, about Trump's turbulent vacation and what's ahead.", "utt": ["President Trump's vacation is ending, and he may be relieved. It's been a rocky two weeks for the president, from the violence in Charlottesville and his widely criticized response to it to the exit of chief strategist Steve Bannon, who left the White House with a promise to wage war on those who disagree with his nationalist agenda. For more, I'm joined once again by Michael Warren. He's a senior staff writer at the conservative outlet the Weekly Standard. Thank you, and good morning.", "Good morning, Lulu.", "I saw a tweet last week asking if the president knows that he no longer has to fire a new person every week now that he's not the host of \"The Apprentice.\" Sean Spicer, Anthony Scaramucci - all departed the White House in the last month - now Steve Bannon. What is your read on the firing?", "First of all, I think this seems to be coming from the new regime of John Kelly, the chief of staff.", "Right.", "We had that interview last week - it feels like last week. I guess it was last week - with The American Prospect that Steve Bannon gave. He says he didn't know it was an interview or on the record, but it was out there. And he was out there criticizing his colleagues, criticizing people in the State Department, the Defense Department, saying he was going to get his own guys in there and actually undercutting the president's own sort of public position on North Korea, saying there is no military option - when the president had said that.", "I'm curious. In an interview with your colleague at the Weekly Standard, Bannon declared the presidency of Trump that he fought for as over. How do you read that? Is it over?", "(Laughter) I mean, is it the presidency that Trump fought for, or is it the presidency that Bannon was attaching himself to? And if that's the case, was it even - were there any, really, successes to it? This is, I think, a problem of Steve Bannon - is that he inflates his own importance to Trump and sort of suggests that his own agenda is the same as Trump's. In many ways, they are the same - economic nationalism, sort of what gave rise to Donald Trump. But there's another side to Donald Trump, which is the side that Steve Bannon hates, which is the sort of - you can call it globalist. You can call it - the New Yorkers are the ones who are always criticized in the White House by the Steve Bannon types.", "Right.", "You know, I do think that the sort of economic nationalists are on their heels right now. They don't have anybody. They don't have anybody, really, who identifies with the broad conservative movement left in the White House or certainly the Republican Party, except for the vice president, Mike Pence.", "Moving on, though. What do you think is the significance of the slow break from Trump by Senate and House Republicans? Many are criticizing him by name now. We saw Bob Corker - very harsh this week. Does that have some real significance?", "I think it does. It's been a slow burn throughout the last - what? - seven and a half, eight months of the of the Trump presidency. I think Charlottesville accelerated that. This is a moment when, I think, Republicans who were, for whatever reason, giving the president the benefit of the doubt, thinking, well, at least we can get some of our agenda items through - you have the failure of the Obamacare repeal. You have the sense that it's chaos within the White House. And then you have this real sense that this could be affecting, in 2018, the elections.", "There are, I think, Republicans in the Senate - people like Bob Corker or whoever - who just simply reject the equivocation of Donald Trump. And it sort of offends them on a personal level. So all of that is sort of - now, I think, has been simmering maybe underneath the surface, to mix my metaphors. But now it's come up. And there's no sort of political - I should say there's less political upside to staying with President Trump. And there's more political upside, frankly, to distancing yourself from him, particularly as the 2018 elections heat up.", "What does he need to do to advance his agenda now that he has so few defenders in Congress? And he continues to criticize his own party.", "Well, I suppose there's a possibility he could find sort of a third way - right? - sort of break himself away from the Republican Party and just try to approach things from an independent, populist standpoint. There are some things on which he could possibly find, on the policy side, Democratic support. The problem is he just doesn't have any political support for that. There are - there was an opportunity at the beginning of the administration, I think, to do some sort of big infrastructure package. You could've peeled off Democrats like Joe Manchin or Joe Donnelly or Heidi Heitkamp. That's just impossible now. He's become so toxic not simply to Democrats but also to Republicans, as well. I just don't - I honestly don't see how it happens.", "That's Michael Warren from the Weekly Standard. Thanks so much.", "Thanks, Lulu."], "speaker": ["LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL WARREN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL WARREN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL WARREN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL WARREN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL WARREN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL WARREN", "MICHAEL WARREN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL WARREN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL WARREN"]}
{"id": "CNN-224904", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2014-2-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/13/cg.02.html", "summary": "Olympic Skier: No Regrets For Topless Pics", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm back in this warm studio because, quite frankly, it was lightning out there. Thunder snow, so I was told I have to come inside. In the \"Sports Lead now,\" while we suffer through the winter weather in the U.S., it's so warm at the winter games. How warm is it? That's what you're supposed to say. It's so warm that the skiers are wearing tank tops. American Olympic skier went sleeveless on the slopes as temperatures hit the 60s in Sochi, Russia. The Canadian women's hockey team was even spotted outside warming up in the sunshine, some of them in shorts. One Olympian is in trouble for taking off too many clothes, not in Sochi, but during a photo shoot that took place years ago, footage of which just conveniently surfaced online during the Olympics. Behind the scenes, video of Lebanese skier, Jackie Chamoun was taken on the slopes of a famous Lebanon ski resort almost three years ago for an Austrian ski calendar. Now she's the subject, believe it or not, of an investigation by Lebanon's Olympic Committee in order to avoid, quote, \"harming Lebanon's reputation,\" unquote. Many of her fellow countrymen and women are baring all now on social media to show that they have her back and frankly, her front as well. Nick Paton Walsh is in Sochi. He has that report -- Nick.", "Days ago, Lebanese Jackie Chamoun was just another skier and then these pictures shout three years ago for a skiing calendar when she was just 19 surfaced online with a more revealing video of the making of that calendar. Lebanon's conservatives erupted in outrage, the minister for sports even demanding an investigation. Chamoun was under the wrong spotlight, but in her first interview, she's defiant. (on camera): Do you now wish you never went to the mountains for that photo shoot? You still would have done it?", "I mean, I wish the making of it would go out, but I don't regret doing the calendar.", "And to Lebanon's minister for sports who was offended, what does she say?", "I cannot say anything about political leaders.", "Why not? He said lots of things about you.", "He can say whatever he wants, but I don't like to criticize anyone, anyway.", "Conservative outrage was fought with liberal outrage many asking why this brief nudity mattered at all in a country where bombs and sectarian violence infect lives daily. Hundreds of Lebanese women and men began posting pictures of themselves naked with the hashtag #stripforjackie in solidarity. Chamoun is grateful.", "I would tell them to be free and not to strip completely naked. I saw this movement and pages were created for me. Lebanese are just doing funny pictures. This is so amusing and funny that I think that it has to stop. It has to stop.", "What would she say to the conservatives who criticize her?", "I'd like to apologize to them.", "Why would you apologize?", "I don't think also I did anything wrong by doing the calendar. I don't want to affect them.", "Shouldn't they come to the modern time rather than you go back to the past?", "Yes, I believe they should but it's going to take time.", "In many ways, I think a young woman only 22 there now exhausted by the attention of the past few days, bewildered by the focus she's received from conservatives in Lebanon and wanting to get on with the skiing -- Jake.", "Nick Paton Walsh in Sochi, thank you so much. That's it for THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. I now turn you over to Wolf Blitzer in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WALSH (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PATON (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WALSH (voice-over)", "JACKIE SHAMOUN, LEBANESE OLMYPIC SKIER", "WALSH", "SHAMOUN", "WALSH (on camera)", "SHAMOUN", "WALSH", "SHAMOUN", "WALSH", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-350734", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2018-09-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1809/23/ndaysun.01.html", "summary": "Kavanaugh Accuser Agrees To Testify; GOP Communications Adviser Quits Because Of Sexual Harassment Allegation", "utt": ["This is NEW DAY WEEKEND with Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul.", "Thursday, 10:00 a.m., we now know the time and date that when Brett Kavanaugh's accuser will speak to the Senate Judiciary Committee.", "We still don't know whether the hearing will be public or private. We don't know who's going to speak first. But those details are going to be discussed in a conference call set for later today. Here is CNN Supreme Court reporter Ariane de Vogue.", "Its looks like Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford will be facing senators at a historic hearing on Thursday that could very well determine the fate of Kavanaugh's nomination. While Ford alleges that Kavanaugh assaulted her at a party some 30 years ago he categorically denies the allegations but there are still more details to be worked out between lawyers for Ford and the Judiciary Committee before the hearing is final. They plan to talk later on Sunday to hammer out remaining issues. Lawyers for Ford for instance believe that Republicans senators should question Ford, some in the GOP want to hire an outside counsel, maybe a woman to do the questioning. Also Ford thinks other witnesses should be called. For instance they want to call Mark Judge who Ford has said was in the room where the alleged assault happened. Judge has said he has no memory of the party. But Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley says there will be only two witnesses, Ford and Kavanaugh. Ariane de Vogue, CNN Washington.", "As the negotiations continue, Republican staffers are working to interview those who may have some information about the alleged incident.", "Yes. Democrats such as Senator Dianne Feinstein praising Ford tweeting this. \"She has shown tremendous courage in the face of death threats and harassment.\" From the White House response, Sarah Westwood, CNN White House reporter live in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, for us near the president's golf club. What are we hearing from the White House this morning, Sarah?", "Well, Christi, the White House is seizing on a statement from now a fourth attendee at the party that Christine Blasey Ford describes where the alleged assault took place. That fourth witness is now saying she has no memory of ever attending a party like the one Blasey Ford described. And the White House touting that response in a statement saying, \"One week ago, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford claimed she was assaulted at a house party attended by four others. Since then, all four of these individuals have provided statements to the Senate Judiciary Committee denying any knowledge of the incident or even having attended such a party.\" Now lawyers for Blasey Ford came back with a response of their own arguing that it's no surprise that this fourth witness has no memory of the party because, for her nothing remarkable happened at the party. The lawyer said in a statement, \"It's not surprising that she has no recollection of the evening as they did not discuss it. It's also unremarkable she does not remember attending a specific gathering 30 years ago which nothing of consequence happened to her. Dr. Ford of course will never forget this gathering because of what happened to her there.\" Now other White House aides are sticking to the line that Blasey Ford should be given the chance to testify and that there should be a process to hear up these allegations even as other senior aided have privately expressed frustration yesterday that the progress of getting a hearing on the book took so long. Kellyanne Conway, a top aide to President Trump had this to say last night.", "The White House respects the process. This is still part of the Senate confirmation hearing of Judge Kavanaugh as a nominee to the Supreme Court. This is not a criminal proceeding. This is not a civil proceeding. This is another part -- of course, it was all done until they came up with this in the 11th and a half hour. This is part of the Senate confirmation hearing. And what I think is important to note is Judge Kavanaugh, this man of integrity, intellect and character he has said he has never done this to anyone, including her so that is really definitive and unequivocal. And he also said he wasn't at the party. So she will have -- these allegations are serious. We take them seriously. We want to hear her.", "And of course, this all comes against the backdrop of President Trump's mounting attacks on Blasey Ford. He started late this week questioning why she didn't go to authorities 36 years ago so all a very complicated process, Christi and Victor.", "So, Sarah, for most of the last week, the president was actually bragging about the reception of his understated comments and lack of criticism of Ford on Twitter but then came the tweets on Friday. And I understand that GOP leadership had something to say about those tweets.", "That's right. And, you know, Victor, White House aides have privately marveled at the restraint Trump had shown in the immediate aftermath of Ford coming forward now a week ago today. But as the week wore on, he began to question openly why Ford didn't report this incident earlier and why Senate Democrats had sat on the allegation since July. Our colleague Phil Mattingly is reporting that Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell called President Trump on Friday to tell him that his tweets questioning Ford's motivations were not helpful to the process. The Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Republicans already trying to thread a needle without President Trump throwing bombs into the process. That was first reported by \"The Washington Post\" and since that reported phone conversation between McConnell and Trump, we haven't seen any more tweets from Trump about Christine Blasey Ford -- Victor and Christi.", "All right. Sarah Westwood, appreciate it so much. Thank you.", "All right. We'll try to talk about those tweets in a moment. Joining us now is Julian Zelizer, CNN political analyst, historian and professor at Princeton University, and Joey Jackson, CNN legal analyst and criminal defense attorney. Gentlemen, welcome back to NEW DAY SUNDAY. Julian, I'm going to start with you. Yes, there is the now acceptance of a date and time potentially. Are we really any closer to seeing or understanding the specifics of what we will see or maybe will not see if it's private, on Thursday?", "Well, I think we are going to see testimony from two people it sounds like --", "So you think they both will be public?", "I think it will be. I think if there is no FBI investigation, if there is no other people testifying, and this is all we have, there is going to be a lot of pressure to have this in public. Kavanaugh has been very clear on what he is going to say. And so this will be about hearing Dr. Ford and if this is not in public, I think it's going to be very hard to build support for what happens. I think there is going to be a lot of pressure to see what she has to say and to hear her account.", "Joey, listen to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday and then we'll play -- we'll show you what a Democratic senator tweeted out just yesterday. Watch.", "You watched the fight. You've watched the tactics. But here is what I want to tell you in the very near future Judge Kavanaugh will be on the United States Supreme Court.", "So this is from Alabama Senator Doug Jones. He tweeted, \"I'm a former U.S. attorney. If a judge/juror made a public statement that their mind was made up before all testimony is in the trial would be prejudiced and I'd move for mistrial and have the judge removed.\" Now this is not a criminal proceeding but what do you make of the comparison here?", "You know, Victor, it's not a criminal proceeding but it's a process wherein you would think the truth would matter. You would think that there would be a consequence and a result, as a result of the testimony. And when you have people who are in positions of power and authority, particularly the majority leader, who are indicating to the public that, in short order, the judge will be confirmed, it give the impression that no matter what you say, Dr. Ford, we are moving forward. And that is problematic. And so to the senators, a very good point. I think you need to let the process play out before you have such irresponsible, irresponsible statements and we, of course, heard previously from Senator Hatch, obviously, taking side saying she, obviously, doesn't remember and he spoke to Judge Kavanaugh and Judge Kavanaugh wasn't at the party. I think those prejudgments need to be left aside and to your point, Victor, whether it's criminal or whether it's civil, the bottom line is it is a hearing and it should she not be heard before conclusions are drawn as to whether the judge should be confirmed.", "So, Julian, we have talked for days now about the Republicans questioning of Professor Ford, but \"The Washington Post\" is reporting that Judge Kavanaugh is incredibly frustrated by the prep for his questioning by Democrats. The reporters write of the session that Kavanaugh grew frustrated when it came to questions that dug into his private life, particularly his drinking habits, his sexual proclivity. And there were some questions that he would not answer. What is the risk here -- the risk for Judge Kavanaugh and for the Democrats?", "Well, look, the risk for Judge Kavanaugh and for his supporters is this is ultimately a political situation. This will be about public opinion and whether public opinion after hearing what both sides have to say, if that is what we hear, how it puts pressure on senators like Susan Collins. So if he become frustrated, if he become angry at the questions and won't answer some basic facts that emerge, it could backfire and Collins is the person who everyone has an eye on right now to see if she is swayed. And obviously the risk for Democrats is there is a lot at stake right now. The Republicans are arguing their obstructing and stonewalling so they, too, want to show that they are running the process with a good degree of credibility. So both sides have a lot at stake in this moment. Obviously the future of the court hangs in the balance.", "Joey, to you. The attorney. Can the Democrats get too private, too personal with their questioning and this could backfire for them politically?", "You know, Victor, it's a great point. I think all as lawyers in a proceeding have to be mindful and respectful of the process itself and you don't want to go overboard as it relates to your question. At the same time, you want to ask probative, you want to ask relevant questions, you want to ask questions that get to the heart of the matter. And so I think as long as the Democrat ask those questions, the questions are relevant to the issue, the questions center on what happened or what did not happen, I think they are on solid ground. But we always worry in this proceeding or any criminal or on civil, whether or not our questions really do backfire. And so I think if they ask their questions in a way that are compelling, in a way that helps everyone understand what happened or what did not happen, they will be fine. But if they cross that line there is always a consequence to that and let's see what question they ask to get to the truth.", "Joey, let me stay you for this last one. I mean, there's the new reporting overnight of this fourth person who says that they don't have any recollection of this party or any of the specifics that Professor Ford has talked about over the last several days. For much of last week, Senate Republicans have said that Professor Ford will have to come and testify if she wants to make these accusations, that she will have to go under oath and share her story with the committee. However, with these four that they are talking about now they are accepting press releases, emails, phone calls not requiring them to go under oath on their denials. Is there a different protocol for a witness instead of the primary accuser? What do you make of the acceptance of just these emails and phone call and press releases and statements from attorneys and requiring Professor Ford to come and share her store under oath?", "I make of it that it's problematic. I make of it that it's a sham. I make of it that it's really troubling to the American people. If you want to get to the truth then everyone needs to come forward and they want to testify or should be compelled to testify under oath. You know, we talked about how the president can say anything in public and lie to the press is not a crime. But when you lie before Congress, that's something different. In the event the FBI investigated if you lied before them that is something different . And so a press release is a press release. A statement is a statement. But when you put that hand up and you swear to tell the truth and you don't it becomes something different. And so it shows me that they are not looking to get to what occurred. They are looking to get Judge Kavanaugh confirmed and that really is a problem when it comes to telling the truth.", "All right, 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, tentatively. Still have to work out some of the specifics and we will see if that actually happens. Joey Jackson, Julian Zelizer, thank you both.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "We want to tell you about a shake-up on the Senate judiciary staff. Garrett Ventry, a communications adviser who had been working on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court has resigned after reports that he was fired from a previous job, in part, because of a sexual harassment allegation against him, against Ventry. Now Ventry denies the allegation. He told CNN that -- quote -- he \"doesn't want to be a distraction and that's why he stepped down.\"", "U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and Senator Mazie Hirono join Jake Tapper on \"STATE OF THE UNION\" later this morning at 9:00 a.m. Eastern. And then CNN exclusive, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joins Fareed Zakaria at \"GPS\" -- \"FAREED ZAKARIA GPS\" that's after Jake, that's 10:00 Eastern.", "Well coming up Secretary of State Mike Pompeo implies that Rod Rosenstein's future at the Department of Justice is uncertain amid revelations that he allegedly discussed secretly taping the president in removing him from office.", "Plus, don't let your guard down. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper warns residents to stay vigilant and to be ready to evacuate while the treacherous flooding continues.", "A political cartoonist Mike Luckovich is in the studio. Why he say it's harder to come up with cartoons in the Trump era."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "ARIANE DE VOGUE, CNN SUPREME COURT REPORTER", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "SARAH WESTWOOD, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER", "KELLYANNE CONWAY, COUNSELOR TO THE PRESIDENT", "WESTWOOD", "BLACKWELL", "WESTWOOD", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "JULIAN ZELIZER, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "BLACKWELL", "ZELIZER", "BLACKWELL", "SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), MAJORITY LEADER", "BLACKWELL", "JOEY JACKSON, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BLACKWELL", "ZELIZER", "BLACKWELL", "JACKSON", "BLACKWELL", "JACKSON", "BLACKWELL", "ZELIZER", "JACKSON", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-248573", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-02-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/04/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Aaron Hernandez Murder Trial Continues", "utt": ["As I told you before, the confirmation hearings have begun for Ashton Carter, who may or may not become the next Secretary of Defense for the United States. And you can see, this is Senator Joe Lieberman. And you might be asking, hmm, did he not retire from public service? Well, he's back at these confirmation hearings to introduce Ashton Carter because the two are besties. He's a family friend. And of course he's doing a little more than introducing Mr. Carter, but we'll keep you posted from the important things that are being said at this hearing. In other news this morning, we're expecting another tense day at the Aaron Hernandez murder trial. Day four picking up where Tuesday left off, testimony from the victim's girlfriend. The defense's cross- examination of Shaneah Jenkins begin just moments ago. Shaneah Jenkins broke down on Tuesday, later describing the moment Hernandez consoles her.", "Came into the dining room, asked me if I was OK. Put his hand on my shoulder, kind of rubbed my shoulder and told me he had been through this death thing before. It will get better with time.", "That testimony starting late after high drama, Hernandez losing a possible ally when one juror got the boot. It was very strange. Let's talk about that. Criminal defense attorney and HLN legal analyst Joey Jackson is here. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol.", "So I'm wondering how this juror got admitted to the jury in the first place.", "It's a wonderful question. And what's interesting is -- high profile case, major resources by Aaron Hernandez, a defense team of multiple lawyers, very skilled, very thoughtful, very good at what they do, and it goes to show how difficult the voir dire, that is, the jury selection process really is. Because the jurors just tell you what you want to hear or do they tell you like it is? And apparently in this case it was a telling of the juror what they wanted to hear.", "So to me, this juror sounds like a big fan of Aaron Hernandez and she was eager to serve on the jury and she was all for him.", "That's right. And we call these the stealth jurors, OK? And apparently she had been speaking about the case very early on when it happened and really knew things a juror shouldn't know or the judge admonishes them and says don't pay attention to evidence that's excluded like the two double homicides, or the double homicide that he's accused of, like the murder weapon that wasn't found, and a number of things this juror had access to and information on. In addition to, on the questionnaire, she says I don't really go to Patriots games that often. Comes to find out she's a real big Patriots fan and certainly does go. And so the end result, though --", "And she was wearing a Hernandez jersey under -- no, I'm just kidding.", "And pretty much this juror was saying how difficult it would be to convict in the absence of the weapon. But the end result is they did find out who the juror was. They had a 90-minute hearing, Carol, to determine exactly what she did know. And the fact is they excluded her. That's why you have alternate jurors. This he had six. Now there are five alternates left.", "So if you don't answer truthfully on the questionnaire, do you get in any sort of trouble?", "Of course it's at the option of the prosecution to go after you for perjury. It could send a deterrent effect to other jurors to be forthcoming and honest, but generally it does not happen. You want to encourage people to participate in the process. You don't want to chill their participation. So usually they will not go after a juror for perjurying themselves.", "So let's dive into a little bit of the testimony, right? So the victim's girlfriend is on the stand, very emotional. She says Aaron Hernandez, the suspect in this case, came to comfort her after Odin Lloyd's death. That's chilling.", "Well, this is a big witness. If you remember, the defense is playing up the issue of no motive. This guy, Aaron Hernandez, has everything -- $40 million, a new baby. Why would he do this to his friend, to his friend, to his friend? Well, guess what, Carol? This witness, Shaneah, is saying they weren't so friendly after all. So that's something the defense is going to have to rebut on cross examination, this playing up of why would he do it to a friend when the fiancee is saying, or Odin Lloyd's girlfriend is saying they're not so friendly. In addition to that, what's missing here? A murder weapon is missing. But guess what Shaneah says? She says that my sister, Aaron Hernandez's fiancee, received all of these phone calls and text messages, was acting suspicious. Leaves the house, asks to borrow my car, and takes something in a bag out of the house. What's the inference? It's the gun. Compelling testimony.", "Compelling testimony. And it will continue probably throughout the afternoon. Joey Jackson, thanks so much. Appreciate it.", "Pleasure, Carol, always.", "Still to come in the NEWSROOM, how is this for pain at the pump? Oil at 200 bucks a barrel? Oh come on, Christine Romans.", "I can tell you, Carol, that overnight you're paying five cents more a gallon for gas. I'll tell you if all of those good days of low gas prices are over right after the break."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "SHANEAH JENKINS, ODIN LLOYD'S GIRLFRIEND", "COSTELLO", "JOEY JACKSON, HLN LEGAL ANALYST", "COSTELLO", "JACKSON", "COSTELLO", "JACKSON", "COSTELLO", "JACKSON", "COSTELLO", "JACKSON", "COSTELLO", "JACKSON", "COSTELLO", "JACKSON", "COSTELLO", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-192736", "program": "SANJAY GUPTA MD", "date": "2012-9-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/15/hcsg.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Mayor Michael Bloomberg", "utt": ["Hello from the West Coast. Well, the race is here. I'm in California to race the Nautica Malibu triathlon, along with seven CNN viewers. They have been training all year long, right along with me. I will tell you that the sport of triathlon is growing, and growing fast. In fact, the number of people raising triathlons has increased 10-fold in the last decade. One of the all-time greats is going to be along to share tips about keeping your head in the game. I'm also going to explain something you're going to love. How anyone can get more fit, lose more weight, while in fact working out less. Before we get to all of that, there's a big story we have been following along for sometime out of New York. You may have heard about this. Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched this crusade essentially here to ban large sugary drinks, including sodas in city restaurants and delis. Now, on Thursday, he got what he wanted, a ban or a lid so to speak on the sale of all sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces. I spoke exclusively with Mayor Bloomberg earlier from New York.", "All right, Mr. Mayor, thanks so much for joining us. I wondered -- a lot of people are talking about what is happening in New York City obviously. I wonder if you could sort of take me back to the beginning for you. When did this become something you were thinking about seriously?", "Well, over the last few years, obesity has become a bigger and bigger problem, not just in the United States, but around the world. I think this is the first year in the history of the world where more people will die from the effects of too much food than from starvation. And it is fascinating, it is also, we think, the first disease in the history of the world that has gone from being a rich person's disease to a poor person's disease.", "It's pretty shocking as you may know, Mr. Mayor, we have been reporting on this issue for sometime. Was there a personal story for you? I mean, did you have issues either with the chronic effects of obesity in your own family, yourself?", "No, but I can tell you, and I think I speak for almost everybody, if it's in front of me. I eat it. I love cheese-its. If you put a bowl, two pound box of cheese that's in front of me, I'd probably eat them all. That's not very good for you. But if you eat anything in moderation, there's no harm -- or almost anything. And so, if you put a small bowl of cheese that's in front of me, that's fine. We all do the same thing. All we're trying to do with the full sugary drinks is to have a smaller portion in front of you. If you want to take another portion, you can, nobody is banning you from doing that. You can buy it, as a matter of fact, you can buy two 16-ounce cups or four 16-ounce cups any time you want and take them all back to your seat or your table.", "When you were sitting down with your team and thinking about the future, at the beginning again, of all of this, what was the biggest obstacle to getting this done, that you envisioned?", "Well, I actually think it is relatively simple. I think when people think back on what happened with smoking -- smoking was very controversial to ban it in public places. But when -- if you -- go around now, and say well who was against the smoking ban back then? You can't find anybody. Everybody remembers that they were for it. The big difference between smoking and obesity is that if you smoke and I'm in the same room, I get hurt. If you and I are in the same room and you're obese, I don't get hurt, short term. But I do eventually have to pay your medical bills because that's actually what happens.", "So you make the argument that this is a public health issue, in addition to being a personal health issue? You know, it strikes me, Mayor, listening to you talk. You are obviously a man who has great wealth and resources. And you could have chosen to try to address these issues in many different ways. But as a mayor, what you're doing, I can sense the satisfaction in your voice as your getting things done.", "Well, and somebody said to me, what legacy would you like to have, three years improvement, a life expectancy, the 8.4 million and maybe for a lot of other people around the world, because certainly a smoking ban got copied in all of Western Europe, they're smoke-free. Big chunks of Latin America, countries like Brazil, one of the biggest countries in the world, smoke-free, even in China, where the governments own the tobacco companies, the 150 million people moving to the middle class are focusing on this. So a lot of lives will be saved. And maybe that's a pretty good legacy to have.", "Not a bad one at all. Mr. Mayor, thanks so much. I hope you join us again, I really do want to keep on top of the story. Thank you, sir.", "Thank you for having us.", "And I should note the ban doesn't in fact take place until March. And what we[re going to wait and see is in fact this move in makes New York City any healthier. Meantime, here in Malibu, our Lucky 7, they have already made the commitment to get fit. How about you? Up next, we're going to get advice from arguably possibly one of the greatest endurance athletes of all time. There she is. Plus, my out of this world challenger, a NASA astronaut, she decided to race me from 250 miles high up in the sky. We'll explain."], "speaker": ["DR. SANJAY GUPTA, HOST", "GUPTA", "MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (I), NEW YORK", "GUPTA", "BLOOMBERG", "GUPTA", "BLOOMBERG", "GUPTA", "BLOOMBERG", "GUPTA", "BLOOMBERG", "GUPTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-345139", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-07-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/14/cnr.04.html", "summary": "2 Georgia Officers in Hot Water for Using Coin-Flip App", "utt": ["Two police officers in Georgia are in hot water today. They used a coin-flip app after pulling over a speeding driver. The incident was captured on one of the officer's body cams. Just take a look and listen.", "A heads or tails.", "OK.", "This is tails, right?", "Not the usual crime-fighting tool you might expect. CNN's Kaylee Hartung is joining me now here on the set. Kaylee, what was going on here? What was happening?", "That's what the police chief in Roswell, Georgia, is trying to figure out. He sees this behavior as completely inappropriate. In fact, saying he finds it appalling that any law enforcement would trivialize the decision-making process of something as important as the arrest of a person. What we know is that this woman driver, Sara Webb, was late to work one morning in April. She was speeding down a wet road in bad conditions. She was pulled over by an officer, berated at that time as well. When this officer went back to her vehicle, called for backup, this was the solution in the moment that the two decided on. Used a coin-flip app to decide if they would arrest this woman or release her. What's interesting, when you really pay attention to the details of this exchange is they determined tails to mean they would release the driver. Yet, when the coin flip landed on release, on tails, they still chose to arrest her and charged her for reckless driving, too fast for conditions and speeding. This woman, Sara Webb, the driver, didn't know this conversation was taking place. She was arrested, very visibly upset when you see her in the back of the patrol car. But when prosecutors saw this body cam footage that was uncovered, all charges against her were dismissed. The Roswell Police now conducting an internal investigation, Martin, and these two officers are on administrative leave.", "We always wondered how justice may be meted out on the side of the road. This doesn't help on the part of some officers. All right, Kaylee Hartung, thanks very much. The backlash over the use of a racial slur by the founder of Papa John's Pizza, well, the fallout is continuing. The pizza chain now removing John Schnatter's face from advertising materials. He has appeared on Papa John's Pizza boxes, TV ads, and he's been in the store's interior, at least his image for years. Now the fallout for the company is growing. Several professional sports teams are cutting ties with the pizza chain. He's speaking out now, offering an apology, and his explanation about what happened. Here's what he says.", "It wasn't a slur. It was a strategy and media planning and training, and I repeated something that somebody else said, and said we're not going to say that. We don't use that kind of language, vocabulary. And, sure, it got taken out of context and, sure it got twisted, but that doesn't matter. I hurt people's feelings. That's what matters here. And for that, I'm sorry. And I'm disappointed in myself that something like that could happen.", "Schnatter resigned his position as chairman of the company's board after it became public that he used the slur in the conference call. Next, a woman missing for a week after her car plunged over a cliff has been found alive. Where rescuers found her, coming up."], "speaker": ["SAVIDGE", "UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER", "UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER", "UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER", "SAVIDGE", "KAYLEE HARTUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SAVIDGE", "JOHN SCHNATTER, FOUNDER, PAPA JOHNS PIZZA", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "CNN-309552", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-04-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/09/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Fox News Host Bill O'Reilly Accused Of Sexual Harassment; Neil Gorsuch To Be Sworn In On Monday", "utt": ["Twenty-first Century Fox, the parent company of Fox News, will open an investigation into sexual harassment claims against host Bill O'Reilly. It's according to attorney Lisa Bloom representing one of his accusers. Bloom's clients, Wendy Walsh, filed a complaint against the Fox host. Walsh says O'Reilly broke a promise to get her a job at Fox News because she rejected his advances. Here's what Walsh's attorney said this morning on CNN's reliable sources.", "On Friday, we received a return phone call from a couple of attorneys who represent Fox News and they said that they are indeed going to do an investigation based on Wendy's complaint. I told them we really appreciate that and let's get going as soon as possible. And so I am told that they are taking it seriously and they are going to do the investigation that's legally required of them.", "Alright, this is just one of many harassment claims coming to light against O'Reilly. And after a nasty Senate confirmation battle over his nomination, Neil Gorsuch is set to join the Supreme Court in less than 24 hours. President Trump tweeting out this weekend, \"Judge Gorsuch will be sworn in at the Rose Garden of the White House on Monday at 11:00 a.m. He will be a great justice. Very proud of him.\" That's from the president tweeting. Well the court has been at eight justices since Justice Antonin Scalia died last February. That Gorsuch is expected to keep the court leaning conservative. I want to bring in Barbara Smith. She is a former clerk to Justice Samuel Alito and an attorney at Brian Cave. Good to see you. So what's the immediate impact of Neil Gorsuch now soon to be sworn in as the ninth justice?", "Well, Justice Gorsuch will take the bench and have a whole stack of decision he'll need to make on day one. There are merits cases that the vote may currently be 4-4 and how he votes on the case could determine the outcome. There will be a stack of petitions for", "It is indeed. And so you've clerked for Justice Alito. In what way do you believe the high court shapes the justice particularly when you are new to the bench or how much shaping a new justice imposes on the high court?", "Well, one of the things that I personally love about the Supreme Court is that justices will serve for decades sometimes with the same colleagues, and the work that they do is very confidential, obviously doesn't leave the building and there are really tough legal decisions. And so one of the best things about the Supreme Court in my mind is that you can have justices that vehemently disagree on outcomes but are still quite close personal friends. And at the end of the day I think that's a really good thing for the Supreme Court. They say steel sharpens steel and I certainly think that's the case when it comes to the high court. If you have someone like Justice Gorsuch who has a particular opinion about how a case should come out and maybe a different justice is on the other side of that and they're really able to, you know, go to blows legally behind the scenes and still maintain really close personal relationships.", "So, is it your feeling that while there may be many during that Senate confirmation hearings on both sides that feel like they know Judge Gorsuch because of his record and his decisions that perhaps once you get on the high court, you might read and compare cases and legal documents and apply the law differently when on the high court?", "Well, I really take then Judge Gorsuch at his word when he repeatedly testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that, you know, he has a particular way of deciding cases. He is an originalist and textualist and that means that whatever the subject matter of the controversy that comes before him, he will read the text of the statute or the text of the constitutional provision and neutrally apply the law to the facts of the case. So, his personal policy preferences shouldn't come in to deciding cases. And if he sticks with that particular judicial philosophy then for the next several decades when he's on the bench, they won't.", "And with your experience working with Justice Alito, do you see whether or not this, you know, fraternity of justices, you know, on the high court will, you know, take in now Justice Gorsuch kind of, you know, show him the ropes, you know, take him under their wings or do you arrive, you know, as a fairly independent newcomer and you just got to figure it out on your own?", "Well, of course Justice Gorsuch won't be new to the Supreme Court. He was a former law clerk himself to Justice Kennedy so he certainly knows his way around the building. He knows, you know, how the court works behind the scenes. He's been behind the curtain himself. I'm not sure he'll need a whole lot of schooling on day one, but that said, you know, he had a great reputation on the Tenth Circuit of getting along with all of his colleagues and I expect that that will continue when he's on the high court.", "Yes, well, it's a new job, you know, totally different responsibilities.", "It certainly is.", "Alright, Barbara Smith, thank you so much. Appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Alright, new details on a deadly attack in Sweden. Police have arrested a second man now in connection to Friday's incident in Stockholm. A truck with undetonated explosives rammed a crowd and struck a department store killing two Swedes, one Belgian and a British person. Police say the first man taken into custody is from Uzbekistan and matched the description as seen in this photograph. They also say that he had shown an interest in extremist groups including ISIS and has been refused residency and was being sought for deportation. Alright, coming up next, a major manhunt under way in Wisconsin for a man that police say stole multiple weapons, possibly set his car on fire, and then ran. All of this after sending an eerie message to President Trump. We'll tell you what was said."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "LISA BLOOM, ATTORNEY FOR WENDY WALSH", "WHITFIELD", "BARBARA SMITH, FORMER LAW CLERK FOR JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO", "WHITFIELD", "SMITH", "WHITFIELD", "SMITH", "WHITFIELD", "SMITTH", "WHITFIELD", "SMITH", "WHITFIELD", "SMITH", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-282201", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-04-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/22/nday.02.html", "summary": "Last-Second Shot Lifts Rockets Past Warriors", "utt": ["The death of Prince being felt around the world of sports. Coy Wire has more on this morning's \"BLEACHER REPORT\". Hey, Coy.", "Hi, John. Prince was a big time sports fan. His Minnesota hometown team, precious to him like diamonds and pearls. Vikings, T-Wolves, Twins, and Lynx. Let's see how many Prince song titles we can get into this hit. Let's go crazy! That's in 2007, making people party like it's 1999. Super Bowl XLI in Miami, making fans delirious with guitar riffs, the pouring down rain while he sang \"Purple Rain\", one of the greatest guitarists of all time with arguably the greatest halftime of all-time, and sign of the times -- sports teams took to social media to pay their respects. The Minnesota Twins changing their profile pic, lighting their field in purple, saying, fitting that it's raining in Minneapolis. The Minnesota Timberwolves posted a picture of Prince and said, when doves cry, wolves cry. Prince was only 5' 2, but according to his junior high basketball coach, he could really ball. One thing's for sure, no middle schooler ever looked cooler than Prince. That afro, the side- eye stare, sir, you've got the look. Prince was a big NBA fan. Just last month, he sat courtside at the Warriors game as a guest of the Warriors' owner, Joe Jacob. Those Warriors played the Rockets last night, game three in Houston, and both teams jammed to Prince during warm-ups. Must have inspired James Harden because he was hotter than a little red Corvette. 35 points, and knocking down the game-winner, just 2.7 seconds left. Steph Curry didn't play, out with that hurt ankle, but Rockets win 97-96. Michaela, back to you.", "All right. You did him proud, Coy. Well done, well done, indeed. So music legend Stevie Wonder remembering his dear friend Prince. You're going to see his touching interview with Anderson Cooper, next."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR", "PEREIRA"]}
{"id": "CNN-191855", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2012-8-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1208/29/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Israel Court Exonerates Bulldoze Driver In Death Of American Activist", "utt": ["We're live from Hong Kong. You are back watching News Stream. Now nine years after an American activist was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer, a civil court in Haifa has ruled that the state of Israel was not at fault for her death. The family says they will appeal the verdict. Now Rachel Corrie's mother, Cindy, called it a bad day for human rights, the rule of law, and for the country of Israel. And Frederick Pleitgen joins us now live from Haifa, Israel. And Frederik, the lawsuit, it was filed by Corrie's parents. Can you tell us more about their reaction to the ruling?", "Well, they certainly weren't happy at all with the ruling. Basically, if you were inside the courtroom you could see that the judge literally shot that lawsuit down. He was saying things like that the crew that was part of that bulldozer that crushed Rachel Corrie was not to blame for what happened, also that Rachel Corrie should not have been there in the first place. He called the place a war zone. Clearly, her parents were not happy at all with that verdict. You said what Rachel Corrie's mother said. Her father also reacted in an interview with me just a couple of hours ago. Let's listen in to what he had to say.", "It was a war zone. But, you know, I -- I spent 11 months in Vietnam. I know about war zones. I had nine medals in 11 months there. And strangely enough, one of my jobs was to be in charge of bulldozers. So no matter where you are, you need to know what's in front of your blade. That's just one of the requirements as a decent human being and as a soldier. I think when you start talking about a war zone, that doesn't excuse attacking individual citizens.", "Now, Kristie, the Israeli military, of course, has a very different take of what happened there. They also issued a statement after the verdict was handed down saying, and I'm going to read this to you, Othe death of Rachel Corrie is without a doubt a tragic accident. The verdict states the driver of the bulldozer and his commander had a very limited field of vision such that they had no possibility of seeing Ms. Corrie and thus are exonerated of any blame for negligence.O So they were saying essentially that these bulldozers are very, very big machines. On top of that, they're also armored and therefore the windows are very, very small, very difficult to look out of and therefore they say that the driver and the other person in that bulldozer had no possibility to see Rachel Corrie. And on top of that they say that this was a battle zone, that the activists were there at their own risk, should not have been there. And therefore they don't believe that the Israeli military has any blame -- or shares any blame for the death of Rachel Corrie. As you said, that's certainly not enough for the parents. They say they are going to appeal this verdict in Israel's supreme court, Kristie.", "And can you tell us more about their daughter, about Rachel Corrie, her cause and her activism before her death in 2003.", "Well, she was very active. She was part of the international solidarity movement for the people in Gaza. She took part in several actions in Gaza, also in the West Bank before she was killed. And on that day, she was trying to stop these bulldozers from conducting actions in the town of Rafa. Basically the Israeli military says what was going on that time was that the bulldozers were trying to clear land of tall bushes, of trees as well, where they say they were being attacked by Gaza militants. They say that both settlers and soldiers were being attacked. The peace activists, for their parts are saying that on that day the Israeli military was breaking down houses in that area. And Rachel Corrie on that day was trying to shield the house of a chemist who lives in that area. And that's when she was killed, Kristie.", "Fred Pleitgen reporting. Thank you. You're watching News Stream. And still ahead, taking on U.S. President Barack Obama. Mitt Romney prepares to accept the Republican presidential nomination at his party's convention in Florida. Plus, Iran tries to reshape its public image in its role as a summit host, maybe the first big step in that direction."], "speaker": ["LU STOUT", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CRAIG CORRIE, FATHER OF RACHEL CORRIE", "PLEITGEN", "LU STOUT", "PLEITGEN", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-301443", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-12-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/23/es.04.html", "summary": "Berlin Attack Suspect Killed By Police; Terror Attack Increases Pressure on Politicians; Anis Amri Had Long Criminal History.", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "All right, breaking news. The suspect in the Berlin truck attack shot dead by police in Milan, Italy.", "Welcome back to EARLY START. I'm Miguel Marquez.", "And I'm Christine Romans. It is 31 minutes past the hour. We welcome all of our viewers here in the U.S. and around the world. Again, we can tell you that that suspect in the Christmas market attack in Berlin is dead. He has been shot dead by police in Milan. Actually, outside of Milan -- a suburb of Milan near a train station. He was asked for his identity papers at 3:00 in the morning local time and he did not pull out papers, he pulled out a 22 caliber pistol, took a shot at police officers. An officer was hit in the shoulder and wounded. A fellow officer shot and killed him. The Italian Ministry -- Interior Ministry saying without any doubt this is the suspect in the Berlin attack and he is now dead. For the very latest let's bring in journalist Chris Burns. He is live for us in Berlin. This manhunt has been extraordinary over the past few days. Not really a surprise, I think, that he would try to make his way to Italy. This is, of course, someplace he'd spent time in prison. He'd been in six different prisons according to \"The New York Times\" -- or jail facilities in Italy, and he was found there in Milan apparently alone, Chris.", "Well, that's what we know so far. He was apparently alone, Anis Amri. He -- according to the Italian news agency ANSA, he took a train from Savoie -- in Chambolle and took it to Milan to the central station, and then took another train just outside -- to a town just outside the suburbs just outside of Milan and that's where the police accosted him. So where was he trying to go? Obviously, he was trying to find a place to hide and, yes, he had spent years in Italy and probably had some very good contacts. It is believed that during his prison stints in Italy, over four years, that that is where he radicalized and that's what authorities are going to have to be answering about as well, Christine.", "Chris, do you -- it is interesting that they were -- they are reporting that he had this ticket from France to this train station in Milan on him so, clearly, he went from Germany possibly then directly to France or maybe had some other connection in order to evade capture, and then went on to Italy. He clearly seemed to have some sort of plan. Do you know the level of discussion between the German authorities, the French authorities, the Italian authorities, and just how in lock step they were in the aftermath of this attack?", "Yes. Well, Miguel, yes, they're very much in contact. I mean, there's Europol, there's Interpol, there are contacts with the Americans, they're watching phone calls and so forth. Yes, it's very, very intense. But keep in mind, too, that between Italy, and Germany, and France, they are within the Schengen group of countries where they have open internal borders, so they're not checking everybody going through the border. This is like going between states in the U.S. -- the same thing. They're not checking all the passports, they're not checking every identification, so it's very easy for a guy like Anis Amri to slip from Germany into France, and then France into Italy as, apparently, he did, Miguel.", "The question now, Chris, is how extensive is his network? Was this a case of, you know -- we've heard terrorism officials talk of this loser to lion trend where a guy is just a loser. Goes into the prison -- goes into prison, somehow latches onto the Jihadi romantic narrative, and then is on this brainwashed mission.", "Yes.", "How much help did he have in that? That's what we're trying to find out now, right?", "Well, you know, yes, and CNN got ahold of nearly 350 pages of German intelligence papers that show that, yes, he was very much planted in a group that is -- that was led by Abu Walaa who was a hate preacher who is now in custody. And that organization had worked very effectively in Germany to recruit people, to train them in boot camps, hiking them for 10 miles with backpacks. And that is the kind of training and influence that Anis Amri had in preparing for this kind of attack. We even heard that he had said that he wanted to be a suicide attacker. So this was a guy -- and how many other Anis Amris could there be out there? That is also the question and that's what authorities are very much on edge watching for as well.", "The guy turned 24 years old yesterday and dead today. And now, still many, many questions for German authorities about how you prevent another one of these guys from wreaking havoc.", "And you had a foiled attack, possibly unrelated, at the same time in Germany. I want to bring in Ben Wedeman who's in Italy for us -- in Rome. He knows that train station and that area of Italy quite well. He knows about the background of this individual. Ben, if you could just walk us through what the Italians are saying about how they brought this man down.", "Yes, it happened around 3:00 in the morning local time -- that's about nine hours ago -- when an Italian police patrol routinely was looking for -- he was asking people for ID's outside the Chiasso San Giovanni train station which is on the outside of the city of Milan. And when they asked this individual for his ID, he reached into his backpack, pulled out a 22 caliber pistol and shouted \"Allahu Akbar\" and started to open fire on the police. One of them was hit in the shoulder. Another officer responded, killing Anis Amri. Now, we know that he did spent three and one-half years in six separate Italian prisons, mostly in the southern part of the country. And it was probably during those years in prison that he came into the individuals who led to his radicalization.", "Ben, we're looking at pictures now, it appears, of that train station outside of Milan and it appears that Anis Amri never even got into the station. It appears that his -- they challenged him just outside the station and --", "Or he'd been in the station and left the station and was walking someplace else.", "Perhaps, or was running from authorities or trying to get away from authorities. It doesn't look like a large European train station as one might suspect. What sort of place would this be and at 3:00 a.m. in the suburbs of Milan wouldn't he stick out like a sore thumb?", "Well, this is a working-class neighborhood on the margins of Milan so it's not a big station. But what we understand from the Italian press agency is that he came via France by train, went to Turin, and from there he went to the Centrale train station in Milan, and then he went to this train station, the Chiasso San Giovanni train station. So he clearly was going somewhere specific. He wasn't just going to Milan or to the Centrale train station. And yes, he would stand out a bit like a sore thumb at 3:00 in the morning in December, which is not a time where there's an awful lot of people out. So certainly that immediately would raise a suspicion to the police. And according to the Italian officials and the Italian news agency they described him as acting strangely, which is one of the reasons why the police stopped him.", "All right. Ben Wedeman, we know you'll continue to report for us. Thank you for that information. Don't go far away. We are also watching a news conference out of Germany right now where German officials are speaking to the press. Let's listen in for a little bit of this and see what they are saying about their coordination with Italian authorities.", "-- that they had and please understandI can't give you this information.I, of course, can't say more than Mr. Fladden (ph) or Dimmar (ph). I cannot confirm the death of Mr. Amri. That's what the Italian authorities do if they can, and they have done so. The events took place there and the information is there. I would like to thank the Italian authorities that right from the beginning we had a close, trusting exchange of information. And also with the foreign officers, the German ones in Rome and Milan. I can confirm that we have close exchange of information with Italy but an official declaration is still to come from Italy.", "Mr. Schaeffer (ph) and Mr. Fladden, is it the same liaison officer that --", "All right, you're listening to a German press conference. We'd heard an Italian press conference for confirming the death of that Berlin attack suspect. He was shot dead by police near a suburban train station near Milan. We're going to take a quick break and come back. A lot moreinformation for you after the break."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN HOST", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN HOST", "ROMANS", "CHRIS BURNS, JOURNALIST", "MARQUEZ", "BURNS", "ROMAN", "BURNS", "ROMANS", "BURNS", "ROMANS", "MARQUEZ", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (via telephone)", "MARQUEZ", "ROMANS", "MARQUEZ", "WEDEMAN", "ROMANS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "REPORTER (through translator)", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-406460", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-07-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/25/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Money And Power Causing Disparity In U.S. Virus Testing?", "utt": ["Need a coronavirus test? Well, being rich and famous may help. While everyday Americans face long lines and short supplies, some celebrities seem to have it easy, highlighting the divide between the haves and have-nots. CNN's Brian Todd reports.", "For some people, coronavirus test results come quickly.", "You do a test, boom, and you have it in five minutes.", "But experts worry that during this horrific spike in coronavirus cases, the effectiveness of testing is in some areas of the country a matter of the haves and have-nots.", "When you have resources, when you have power, when you have access, when your insurance is able to pay for it or you're able to pay out of pocket, it's much easier to get the testing that you need.", "Early in the pandemic, it was reported that movie stars could dial up their so-called concierge doctors and get tested during a period when much of the country didn't have that access. In April, comedian and MMA commentator, Joe Rogan, was criticized when he revealed he'd been tested multiple times a week and got a friend tested, too.", "I've been tested twice already. Got tested yesterday and I got tested two days before that.", "Months later, that same power dynamic is still at play, like with professional athletes. NFL, NBA players and others are being tested every day. Their results coming back within hours. While CNN has reported this week that some people, especially in communities of color, are waiting as long as three weeks to get test results back", "Which means we're even farther behind in being able to minimize the impact with regard to disease and death in those communities.", "Experts say Blacks and Latinos are not only more vulnerable to the virus, but also often have less insurance coverage, lower incomes, and less testing availability in their neighborhoods.", "It does break my heart to see folks who are able to pay for these tests and pay to get them quickly, have rapid access, rapid turnaround, and yet, the most vulnerable communities who are the ones who are suffering are the ones waiting 14 days. And, in fact, maybe the ones that are transmitting in the interim.", "Good afternoon, everyone.", "Dr. Jewel Mullen's case illustrates sometimes it's not only a matter of who you know, but where you go. Mullen and her husband Herb Knight, both doctors, had to get tested recently in Connecticut. She went to a prestigious hospital and got her results back in eight hours. But as for her husband --", "My husband went to a drive thru at one of our local pharmacies and it took him nine days to find out that his test was negative.", "Experts say, given the disparity, it's time for new guidelines from the federal government on down to move only symptomatic people and those most at risk to the front of the testing line.", "Given the inequities that we're talking about, yes, we need to take into consideration who's most vulnerable and make sure that we prioritize the testing that's being done there.", "Some cities and states are ramping up their testing for underserved communities. In Boston, mobile testing labs will soon be moving throughout the city. And in Philadelphia, at the start of the pandemic, one doctor, rented a van and moved through predominantly black neighborhoods giving free tests. But experts say, even in areas where tests are being ramped up, there are still way too many delays in getting test results back. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "Interestingly enough, the president was asked about celebrities getting access to testing back to March and he said it shouldn't happen, but, quote, \"perhaps that's been the story of life.\" Coming up, the president makes a series of head-snapping reversals on the coronavirus surges and his poll numbers sink."], "speaker": ["GOLODRYGA", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TRUMP", "TODD", "DR. JEWELL MULLEN, ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR HEALTH EQUITY, DELL MEDICAL SCHOOL AT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN", "TODD", "JOE ROGAN, COMEDIAN, MMA COMMENTATOR", "TODD", "MULLEN", "TODD", "DR. ROCHELLE WALENSKY, CHIEF OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE, MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL", "MULLEN", "TODD", "MULLEN", "TODD", "MULLEN", "TODD (on camera)", "GOLODRYGA"]}
{"id": "CNN-18676", "program": "Newsday", "date": "2000-10-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/26/nd.01.html", "summary": "USS Cole Investigation: Yemeni Authorities Tightening Security Around Hotel Where U.S. Investigators are Staying", "utt": ["Now to the investigation into the attack on the USS Cole two weeks ago. Yemeni authorities are tightening security around the hotel where U.S. investigators are staying, following a bomb threat there. And some of the investigators are coming back to the States, but may be replaced by other agents. Attorney General Janet Reno says authorities are being vigilante, but cannot provide 100 percent security.", "I think it is important that we take every possible step that's realistic and feasible to secure the safety of all our forces. But this is a situation where you cannot control the instincts of everyone in every circumstance at every time.", "For more on the Cole investigation, we're joined by CNN senior international correspondent Walter Rodgers. He is in Aden, Yemen. Walt, good to see you. Walt, what is the very latest on the investigation itself?", "Frank, at this point, the latest in the investigation is that we believe that the investigation still remains in early stages. There are over 2800 people who have been detained by the Yemeni police. These are people who may have been neighbors of the people who planned the attack. They may even have been the grocery man who delivered groceries to them. Most of those 2800 have been released. But the police here in Yemen are now trying to develop a profile of those who might have helped them to see if there are cells here in Yemen who helped the men who attacked the Cole. I should say that the speculation among politicians in this country, and this is speculation, is they are saying it's Osama bin Laden because he is the only man who had the resources, the finances, the wherewithal to put this together. It took at least $30,000 to do it: to buy a car, to buy a boat, to buy a trailer, to rent houses and so forth. The speculation, as I say, points in the direction of the Saudi financier, who is wanted in connection with two U.S. embassy bombings in Africa earlier. The president if this country, Ali Abdullah Saleh, says, however, that an Egyptian was involved -- Frank.", "Walter Rodgers, in Aden, Yemen, thanks."], "speaker": ["FRANK SESNO, CNN ANCHOR", "JANET RENO, ATTORNEY GENERAL", "SESNO", "WALTER RODGERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SESNO"]}
{"id": "CNN-28057", "program": "CNN WORLD REPORT", "date": "2001-4-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/08/wr.01.html", "summary": "Swaziland's King and the Custom of Polygamy", "utt": ["One of the most universal and fundamental social customs in the world is marriage. Most countries allow men and women to have only one spouse at a time. But in some places, polygamy still flourishes. In the tiny African country of Swaziland, a young king is firmly maintaining the national identity by continuing all its long standing customs. South African Broadcasting Corporation traveled to Swaziland and won the Arts and Culture Prize for this report on this seven wives of King Mswati III.", "Swaziland. A country between Mozambique and South Africa. In this tiny kingdom, polygamy is widely practiced, even by the King Mswati III. He's the country's head of state and at the age of 32, he already has seven wives. Once a year in September, young girls come together to pay homage to the king and to celebrate their virginity. This event is known as mstganga (ph), one of oldest traditions there. This is the way Mswati III chooses his wives.", "It's not as if that's where the king normally gets his wives.", "This year, the king's fiancee still takes part in the dance. She'll only marry the king once she's conceived. She will then be wife number eight; she will then learn to have to share her husband, something the other seven wives had to find a way to deal with.", "Coming from a monogamous family, I think at first it was something new. It was definitely something new to me, but because I knew when I did it that the king already had three -- four, in fact, four wives ahead of me, I knew what the situation was.", "At first, you know, the wives meet obligation to help to do what you are expected to do. But, as time goes on, you grow and mature and you realize what makes you happy and what makes you unhappy.", "Sometimes you do have small differences, but you know, at the end of the day, you have to reconcile because you have to meet on certain occasions.", "For myself, I like to set standards for myself and tell myself, OK, I want to achieve this. Not because I have seen somebody else who has, but because I want to.", "At first it was hard. I must admit it was hard. But I guess with experience and maturity, I have learned to be able to cope.", "All I can say is that I am content. Ten years ago, I want -- I didn't have the same thoughts, but now it's life. To me it's life, and I have accepted it and I think I am very comfortable the way I am living.", "A lot of people over the world might think polygamy isn't fair, but for the seven wives of King Mswati III, it seems to be working. This is Mpho Moagi in Swaziland for CNN WORLD REPORT."], "speaker": ["ASIEH NAMDAR, CNN ANCHOR", "MPHO MOAGI, SABC CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "KING MSWATI III, SWAZILAND", "MOAGI", "QUEEN GCINIPHA NGANGAZA", "QUEEN SIGONELO MBIKIZA", "QUEEN DELIFA MAGWAZA", "MBIKIZA", "MAGWAZA", "NGANGAZA", "MOAGI"]}
{"id": "CNN-7463", "program": "Burden of Proof", "date": "2000-5-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/05/bp.00.html", "summary": "Edwin Edwards Case: Alleged Extortion Down in the Heart of Dixie", "utt": ["I'm very pleased with everything and anxious to get it on.", "Well, I'm eager to get it on, because I think that we have done everything that's absolutely necessary to prepare a good, sound, compelling case.", "I think the flaw in the case is they're not going to be able to show any kind of contact by me with any of the people responsible for making these decisions, which was improper.", "Today on", "Alleged extortion down in the heart of Dixie, as the former governor of Louisiana is on trial on the Bayou. If convicted, the flamboyant Edwin Edwards could receive a 300-year prison sentence.", "This is BURDEN OF PROOF with Greta Van Susteren and Roger Cossack.", "Hello and welcome to BURDEN OF PROOF. For nearly three decades, Edwin Edwards, the son of a sharecropper, dominated Louisiana politics. But now, the 72-year-old Cajun, along with his son and five other people, is accused of corrupting the riverboat casino industry.", "The former governor is on trial for allegedly extorting almost $3 million from casino applicants. Yesterday, the trial of Edwin Edwards became almost as controversial as the defendant as a juror was dismissed after deliberations began. Throughout the case, Edwards has held his own court on the courthouse steps.", "That not all is copacetic as they suggest, but I'm not going to comment any further, because I'm just barely staying inside the line. Today, I took care of some housekeeping and had my car fixed and went and cashed a check before they freeze my accounts.", "Joining us today from New Orleans are former federal prosecutor Julian Murray and former U.S. attorney John Volz. And here in Washington, Wayne Paugh (ph), criminal defense attorney Peter Krauthamer and Michael Mandelberg (ph).", "And in the back, Anne-Marie Zandenbroeck (ph) and Brady Barto (ph). And also joining us from Dallas, Texas is CNN national correspondent Charles Zewe. Well, Charles, they started off with 12 jurors, now there's 11. What's going on down there?", "Well, they bounced one, Roger. Juror number 68, a white guy, 48 years old, from the Baton Rouge area, who had been on the jury all along, Judge Frank Polozola said inside the courtroom just a little while ago that, despite all the speculation, and what he called wild rumors that he kicked the guy off the panel because he wasn't following jury instructions, that he brought a dictionary and a thesaurus into the deliberating room, and that is not allowed. And he also said that he had gotten a tip from somebody who called him on the phone, and said something about juror number 68, which he would not elaborate on, but that eventually that led to throwing him off the jury. Now, one of the defense attorneys told me that they thought that this guy was siding with them, and that they thought that he had taken a position that he wasn't going to vote guilty against Edwards or any others for any reason, and had stopped taking part in the deliberations, and that is what the many, many people reported, including CNN, that that is why the trial and deliberations were brought to a halt and why he was kicked off. Now that brought an immediate appeal yesterday in court from the defense attorneys to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to try to force a mistrial to be declared in the case because of a hung jury, but the judge turned those motions down, and went ahead with the deliberations. As far as we know, those deliberations are continuing at this hour.", "Charles, take me back. This is Governor Edwin Edwards, who retired in '96, his trial began in January of this year. What is he on trial for? What's alleged to have happened?", "The businesses of it, Greta, is, according to the government now, that during the last part of Edwards' terms, 1991 continuing through 1997, he left office in 1996, after his fourth term in office, that he, his son Stephen, and some of his cronies, a fellow named Andrew Martin, who is a wealthy tugboat operator from south Louisiana, and a long-time buddy and confidant of Edwards; along with businessman named Bobby Johnson, one of the gambling board members of Louisiana named Ecotry Fuller; state senator from Shreveport named Greg Tarver; and a cattleman from southwest Louisiana named Cecil Brown, again, all friends of Edwards. That they all engaged in a scheme to extorted millions of dollars from casino operators or people applying for licenses. For instance, Edward DeBartolo Jr., who is the former owner of the San Francisco 49ers, claimed that he felt forced to pay Edwards $400,000 in cash in order to smooth the way so there wouldn't be any problems in DeBartolo getting a casino license for the last riverboat license in Louisiana for Shreveport. Now DeBartolo ended up getting the license, but ended up not actually going through with the project after the scandal broke and the investigated started. That's the kind of allegation that was made, that Edwards and his fellow co-defendants, including his son, engaged in extortion, conspiracy and mail fraud to shake down riverboat casino interests in Louisiana.", "Julian Murray, before we get to sort of the legal issues, tell me, you live in New Orleans, is former Governor Edwards a well liked man in the community?", "He is very well liked in the New Orleans area, it is very doubtful they could ever convict him here. He is probably a little bit less well liked in the Baton Rouge area, and that's where they have taken him to be tried this time. And a lot of people claim the government was forum shopping when they did that. It is a much more conservative community, and they believe they have a better chance of getting a conviction there. But he is popular all over the state.", "Now, Julian, Edward DeBartolo, who we have heard referred to as a person who said that he felt compelled to give him $400,000. Mr. DeBartolo had a little deal with the government, himself, didn't he?", "Yes, he did. He got -- a lot of people are skeptical because he sweetheart deal in order to turn state's evidence and testify for the defense. The $400,000 was certainly a lot of money for him and for the casino he was going to get, a lot of people say that really was pocket change, and it is questionable whether -- what relationship he had with Governor Edwards. A lot of people are skeptical whether or not he, in fact, was extorted, or whether he simply paid it to him voluntarily.", "John, I am intrigued by Julian's remark that he would have a hard time getting convicted in New Orleans and the case has been moved to Baton Rouge. Why was the government successful in moving it to Baton Rouge?", "Well, almost any of the federal jurisdictions in Louisiana would have had -- would have been a proper venue in this case because these acts took place all over the state. So if you had just one or several acts committed in the Eastern District or the Western District or the middle districts, where it is being tried, then they would have the jurisdiction. So, yes, there has been a claim that the government was forum shopping, and I don't know that that's so, but they certainly are in a better position in Baton Rouge than we were in some years ago in New Orleans.", "What's the difference between New Orleans and Baton Rouge? I mean, why do you have that level of certainty, and Julian, that he couldn't get convicted in New Orleans, assuming that, you know, the evidence is sufficient. I don't know that it is.", "Well, we certainly thought it was, and when we tried him the last time. But the problem is that he has a very strong, staunch following in the lower socioeconomic education strata of society. And they will not convict, in my opinion, they will not convict Edwin Edwards no matter what he does.", "Why is that, John?", "Well, he seems to have a mystique about him with these people that if you -- it is very, very difficult, extremely difficult, and I'm not predicting the outcome of this case, but it is extremely difficult to get 12 people where you don't have one or two people who really love him. Nobody is ambivalent in this state toward Edwin Edwards. They either think he's evil or they think he is good. And the ones who think he's good will go to bat for him, and will sit back and laugh at his jokes, and all the while knowing that he does things that are on the line, the legal line, and sometimes oversteps that line.", "All right, let's take a break. Up next, after three days of secret hearings, U.S. District Court Judge Frank Polozola sends a juror home. But if Edwards is convicted, could the ouster add fuel to an appeal? Stay with us.", "Good news for our Internet-savvy viewers: You can now watch BURDEN OF PROOF live on the Worldwide Web. Just log on to CNN.com/Burden. We now provide a live video feed Monday through Friday at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time. If you miss that live show, the program is available on the site at any time via video-on-demand. You can also interact with our show and even join our chat room.", "What is it you just said?", "I'm glad I'm not a 6-year-old child from Cuba.", "What do you think about as you prepare for this, as the jury...?", "What's that?", "What do you think about? What goes through your mind, if you can share that with us?", "No, I can't.", "Just your personal feelings.", "I have to be very careful. And as soon as the verdict is in, of course, I will try to share more information with you, and I hope you'll understand that.", "The flamboyant Edwin Edwards served as governor of Louisiana for four terms. Now he awaits a jury's verdict in a federal racketeering case. But today, that panel has one less member as juror number 68 was sent home. Joining us now from New Orleans, or Baton Rouge is Rob Masson. Rob, you have a little more information on that juror?", "Yes, Judge Polozola has had his courtroom sealed off for much of the past three and a half days. We haven't known very much as to -- about his reasons for dismissing the juror. Today, he went on the record for about 20 minutes to explain a little bit about his thought process in releasing the juror. And we learned for the first time that they received a call on this juror back when they dismissed another juror about two weeks ago.", "Who received a call?", "They received a call at the office of Stephen Edwards where this -- and it was complaining about this particular juror, saying that he had a bias against Edwin Edwards. The judge says, at the time, they checked it out, found there was no basis to that, and that the reason that this juror was dismissed was because he failed to follow the judge's instructions, basically refused to deliberate. And the judge went to great pains to try and say that they never asked him any questions about which side he was leaning toward. However, many people on the defense team believe he was pro-defense just by watching the guy's body language in the jury box.", "Peter, if I were the defense attorney, I'd be figuratively, maybe, jumping up and down irate that a judge would dismiss a juror during deliberations over this issue. But the failure to deliberate -- is it a failure to deliberate if -- and we don't know exactly the facts, but if you walk into a jury room as a juror and if you're so convinced of one particular side that you can't be persuaded to look at more evidence, is that failure to deliberate?", "That's the question: I mean, what is failure to deliberate? It's semantics. I mean, I may have made up my mind and go in there and just engage and play the devil's advocate and have no good intentions of deliberating and just -- at least articulate certain words. Or I may say, I've made up my mind and there's nothing I want to say and there's nothing you can say to me. But I think as long as you remain in that room, you are deliberating, you are hearing things, things may have an impact on you. And to just pluck a juror out who says, I'm basically recusing myself from this deliberation and kick him off the jury is...", "Julian, is -- did this juror -- I mean, do we know for sure whether this juror was -- wanted to leave the jury room, whether the juror wanted to be removed? And do we know whether or not the lawyer moved for a mistrial?", "Yes, we know both of those answers. According to the newspaper, the juror did ask to be dismissed because he felt that the other jurors were being antagonistic towards him because of his position; that is, refusing to have dialogue with them. And the attorneys did move for a mistrial. I guess the basic question is: Does deliberate mean debate? Deliberate means to carefully consider, if you look at the dictionary, and there's no indication the man did not carefully consider the evidence. The fact that he won't debate and have dialogue with his fellow jurors is a different matter altogether.", "Julian, does this make -- suppose there's a conviction in this case. And we don't know what's going to happens, but let's assume there is a conviction. Does this make this, in your opinion, make this conviction suspect? I mean, on appeal, what do you think would happen?", "Well, certainly we don't know all of the facts, and that's part of the problem here because it's always held behind closed doors. But the likelihood of an appeal, and this being a strong issue, you couldn't conclude otherwise. Apparently the man did nothing wrong, but he simply took a firm position in the very beginning and I don't know -- you can't do that.", "Well, wait. Let me just make a hypothetical: Suppose he walks in there and he says the following: I've heard this case, I've made up my mind, there's really no reason for me to discuss this with any of you. My vote is whatever my vote is and nothing you say is going to change it. What about that?", "I think he's got a right to do that. I think it happens all the time. We're naive if we don't believe that jurors go in with their minds made up. Maybe all of them are not as candid when they say that, but you know, John and I have tried too many cases as prosecutors where the jury came back in 15 minutes after taking a restroom break and picking a juror. They obviously didn't discuss it and deliberate. They went in there with their with their minds made up. I don't know that that's a reason for dismissing a juror. In fact, I suggest it's not.", "Charles, I'd be -- as I've said, I'd be very distressed if I were the defense lawyer because it seems from afar without all the facts that the judge is almost directing a verdict of guilty if he takes the one favorable juror off the panel. What do we know about the judge?", "Oh, Judge Frank Polozola has been on the bench in Baton Rouge I think for the better part of 30 years and he's handled several very big and tough cases in Louisiana. He has had a continuing supervision of the state's prison system, and that is probably the biggest single issue he's handled in his entire time on the bench. And he's handled that case in a very tough manner, dealing in a very stringent, very by-the-book manner with state prison officials and trying to reduce prison overcrowding and improve conditions. I think people who have practiced before him know Judge Polozola as one of those federal judges who is suey (ph) generous in terms of, you know, he's the god in his own court. And I don't think there are too many lawyers who have practiced before him that relish the thought of crossing him.", "All right, we're going to take a break. Up next: Why did prosecutors have difficulty convicting Edwards in past cases? Stay with us. (", "According to the Department of Justice, how much money has the federal government spent so far on the Elian Gonzalez case?", "$762,000 (END Q&A;)", "No, I don't believe. The evidence was strong in that case. Anybody else would have been convicted probably within two or three hours, in the case, perhaps that's an exaggeration. But it certainly wouldn't have ended the way that it did, except for the kind of jurors that we had. And it was an Edwards jury and, you know, in Louisiana, especially in New Orleans, nobody is ambivalent toward Edwards; they either love him or they think he is evil.", "But you get voir dire, you can look for jurors. I mean, I find it very hard to believe in the entire state of Louisiana, people come in and the fix is in one way or the other, when they are put in the box; that you can't find 12 people in the state of Louisiana who will simply look at the evidence and weigh it.", "Well, we'll see. You know, he has come to be known as having a Teflon coating and we will find how strong that coating is when this case is over. But I'll say that his cases are bizarre, to say the least. This incident, in this particular case with dismissing a juror. In the first case, there was an incident created when the jurors were being moved from one place to another by the marshal service, one of the jurors pointed his finger at the camera in downward motion like that, and that caused the furor of the day, and there was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth about getting him off the jury. He was allowed to remain on the jury, and we believe he's the one that hung the jury up in that case. But the case, had anybody else been tried with the evidence that we had, while we did not have electronic surveillance as they have in this case, we had sufficient evidence of what he had done. In fact, by his own admission, what he had done on the witness stand, that he should have been convicted.", "Peter, one of the things judges worry about is that when they get appeal they better have a record to support that appeal. Now we've heard recently that this judge has now made some statements about getting a phone call and the jury that he dismissed had brought in a dictionary, and had brought in a thesaurus. Is that the judge protecting himself?", "I think what you're going to find when this is all said and done is that Judge Polozola dismissed this juror because he violated his oath. I think that's the only legal grounds the judge could use, is that he violated his oath as a juror. And I think that I have to agree with Julian, that if a person walks in and says: My mind is made up, I have listened to everything, I've listened to everything and this is my vote and I'm not changing it. I don't think that's improper. I think that happens all the time.", "Peter, I want to follow up on that. If that's true, and if John says that happens all the time, that makes this whole situation a little suspect and perhaps the judge has a little -- has a right to be concerned, right, Peter?", "Yes, I think so. I think the latching onto this use of the dictionary and the thesaurus brings it to another realm and puts the judge on safer grounds on appeal. Jurors are not allowed to use extraneous or outside materials in their deliberations. If the juror has a question about a definition of a word, write a note to the judge, and let the lawyers discuss that the definitions should be. We don't know if it's a legal term or if it's a lay term that this man was looking up, and let the judge respond to that juror or to the jury as a whole and deal with it that way.", "Julian, in the few seconds we have left, we have the court forum, we have the TV forum, what are the lawyers in Louisiana saying behind-the-scenes about this case?", "Well, the -- I think most of them don't believe that it had anything to do with a thesaurus or the dictionary. That happened very early, the judge says that's not proper, they took it away, and they went forward with the deliberations. Then you have two days of questioning jurors. They brought in the man's minister, his pastor and his assistant pastor and questioned them. I mean, this is bizarre, you just don't delve that deeply into jury deliberations and you certainly don't do it in secret, the way it has been done. So naturally, people are going to question it. The judge says, well, speculation, it's hearsay, it's rumor. But that's what you generate when you do all of this in secret, it's just too important. I think they'd have been better to have sequestered the jury than to let the jury go and do all of this type of important things in secret.", "Greta, I don't think we have heard the last of the evidence.", "I don't think so either.", "But that's all the time we have for today. Thanks to our guests, and thank you for watching. Today on \"TALKBACK LIVE,\" meet the women who have written the new handbooks on success in business life. And that's at 3:00 p.m. Eastern time, noon Pacific.", "And I'd better read them. But -- and Monday, Linda Tripp will be the topic...", "You know the authors?", "No. Linda Tripp's our topic on Monday, a ruling is expected later today in her Maryland wiretapping case. We'll see you on Monday."], "speaker": ["EDWIN EDWARDS, FMR. 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{"id": "CNN-139615", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-6-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0906/20/cnr.08.html", "summary": "iReport from Iran: Eyewitness to History", "utt": ["So Iran's government clamping down on professional journalists. We are relying more than ever on video, photos, and information from our iReporters on the scene. They are taking huge risks to tell the story of what's happening in Iran and all around the world. We are going to use the rest of this hour for a special look at their work. We call it \"iReport from Iran, Eyewitness to History.\" Let's start with some of the video that came in just this morning. We are only identifying our iReporter as Sarah (ph). She says the video demonstrators are trying to get to a rally, but they were blocked by police officers and army guards. Sarah says one of the guards struck her husband's knee with a baton three times. She says lived in Tehran three years but she doesn't think that she is going to live there anymore. And with Iran's government forbidding reporters from showing you some of the things, we're going to show you more of these photos. Take a look at these. This one is from an iReporter named Mahsa (ph). She took them near Revolutionary Square. Some of them from the rear-view mirror of her car but also she took them in defiance of the government, as many people have been saying. Also now, we want to go to some of the pictures from Amir (ph). She has sent us photos from some of the scenes today in Tehran. It's fire on the streets apparently; some kind of motorbike in flames. Another photo from Amir I want to show you; as you can see, there is dangerous and chaos all over. More scenes from within Tehran straight ahead right here on CNN."], "speaker": ["LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-365453", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2019-03-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/26/ip.02.html", "summary": "Court Hears Arguments in Partisan Gerrymandering Cases.", "utt": ["Any minute now, President Trump will make the short drive from the White House to Capitol Hill for a policy luncheon with Senate Republicans. A little later, he'll hold more meetings with Republican lawmakers at the House. No doubt there's plenty he wants to talk about with the Mueller investigation now finished. We've got CNN's Phil Mattingly. He joins me now from Capitol Hill. Phil, do Senate Republicans have a message for the president?", "Yes.", "A lot to discuss at that meeting, Phil. We'll wait for your reporting on that. Thanks. Turning to two critical arguments before the Supreme Court today, the pair of legal challenges asked the high court to look at the electoral map and decide if ones like this mingled jigsaw or constitutional. This is Maryland's sixth district and what looks like a preschooler struggling to stay within the lines to us. It's really procession cartography with one goal in mind, to help Democrats win. Voting rights groups say electoral maps like Maryland's and North Carolina's violate the constitution by tilting too heavily towards one political party. CNN's Joan Biskupic joins the conversation. She's the author of the new book \"The Chief: The Life, and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts.\" Thanks so much, Joan for joining us, and congratulations on your book.", "Thank you.", "Everyone should run out and buy it. It's on sale today. Let's first turn to this gerrymandering case. Two cases, one brought by Republicans, the other bought by -- brought by Democrats. Critics say, listen, judges don't -- shouldn't have a role in this process determining what should be political or is too political given that it's sort of a political process, anyway.", "That's right. And rather than running out to the bookstore, I ran over to the court this morning and ran right back so I could give you exactly what just happened within the last hour. They heard the North Carolina case first. There was a lot of spirited debate, but mainly from justices skeptical that they should get into this. New Justice Brett Kavanaugh who replaced Anthony Kennedy asked about, you know, there's a lot of action in the states with commissions trying to take over these kinds of redistricting maps, shouldn't we let states do their business. Why should judges be involved? Neil Gorsuch asked questions along the same lines. Chief Justice John Roberts has already suggested he thinks that the court should not be into this. That it would cast -- it would hurt the image of the court to be something so political. And North Carolina's lawyer, Paul Clement played to that saying don't get into this, it will tarnish your image, save your image for something more important down the road.", "Quickly, we want to get to your book, tell us what you've learned. Sort of the most surprising thing you learned about John Roberts.", "Well, it's funny that the Affordable Care Act is back in the news right today because what I discovered behind the scenes is that he switched his vote in that major case of 2012 not once, but twice, and ended up working with two of the liberal justices to craft this compromise that ended upholding the individual insurance mandate but striking down expansion of Medicaid. And --so I was able to get all the behind the scenes maneuvering which seems very salient today when the Trump administration is saying get rid of it all, and the case that's now pending is certainly destined for the Supreme Court.", "And now folks are sort of looking to John Roberts to be the swing justice on the court. Is that something people should actually expect?", "Not in the mode of Anthony Kennedy who, for a long time, was our key swing justice. And before him, Sandra Day O'Connor. John Roberts is a different kind of justice. He has much more conservative roots that I lay out in the book, but he also is so concerned about the institutional reputation of the Supreme Court. Remember in November when he rebuked President Trump by saying, there are no such thing as Obama judges or Trump justices. Indeed there actually are, but he's trying to undercut that reputation and that view, and he is a man."], "speaker": ["HENDERSON", "PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HENDERSON", "JOAN BISKUPIC, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "HENDERSON", "BISKUPIC", "HENDERSON", "BISKUPIC", "HENDERSON", "BISKUPIC"]}
{"id": "CNN-337933", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-04-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/19/cnr.07.html", "summary": "President Trump Consumed By Cohen Investigation?; Men Arrested at Philadelphia Starbucks Speak Out", "utt": ["The FBI looked into it. No charges were pressed. So, in this case, what would happen is the D.C. prosecutor would look at the facts of the case and then make a decision based on the findings. But this report, this scathing report on Andrew McCabe was the basis for his firing last month. He has denied that he ever misled investigators. In fact, with James Comey, he said that he did tell him that he was authorizing the disclosure of information to \"The Wall Street Journal\" in an article about the Clinton Foundation. Comey told investigators that that was not the case. You will recall, just yesterday, Comey on \"The View\" said that good people lie. Andrew McCabe lied, according to the I.G. And then Andrew McCabe's team released a statement saying essentially that the I.G. report was not based on facts and evidence, and they are standing by their story that Andrew McCabe did not mislead investigators. It is not that unusual, Brooke, for context here, for a criminal referral to happen in the wake of an I.G. report. I think that is important to note. But it's certainly serious as well, even though it's not unusual, because you have a group of what are supposed to be nonpartisan, nonbiased lawyers who are referring this to prosecutors to consider potential criminal charges. And we're dealing with the former deputy director of the FBI here, Brooke.", "Right. Right. Right. And you brought up Comey and his role in all of this. Just a reminder to everyone, he's sitting down with Jake in 60 minutes from now. Meantime, Laura Jarrett to you on these Comey memos. Remind us what they are and when lawmakers will actually be able to see them.", "So there are at least seven different memos, at least that we're aware of. And the issue is that some of them arguably contain classified information. They're James Comey's contemporaneous notes from different interactions that he had with President Trump, and he memorialized them. And there's also an issue of whether they could have been part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Several different outlets, including CNN and others, have tried to get our hands on the Comey memos and we sued in court for them, and we lost. And the judge said they're part of Mueller's investigation and they have to stay secret for now. But the Justice Department is prepared, I'm told, according to a source, to make them available to Congress. Whether they're going to be provided completely unredacted or they will be provided in a redacted form remains to be seen. But, as CNN's Manu Raju reported yesterday, members of Congress say they need to be made public and are prepared to hit the Justice Department with a subpoena if they do not hand them over -- Brooke. All right, Laura, thank you very much. Let's go to the legal experts and their analysis of what we just heard and more. With me now, CNN legal analyst and former lawyer for the Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates. He's Shan Wu. And Kim Wehle, who served as associate independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation. Great to have both of you on. And, Kim, let me just start with you on what we just heard from Pam with regard to the former deputy over at the FBI Andy McCabe. You heard Pam point out that he could face, could face criminal charges and that this is not all entirely unusual. What are considerations here moving forward?", "Well, at this point, it looks like it's being sent over to the Justice Department to actually do a more careful, factual investigation as to whether there is potentially a crime here. It's not dissimilar to what's happening in the Mueller investigation with respect to other individuals. And then they will make a determination as to whether there's something to move forward to from a criminal standpoint. I think hopefully to move forward to from a criminal standpoint. I think hopefully what we're seeing is equal opportunity justice here, that these decisions are being made based on the facts and the law and not based on political affiliations. And I think it's important for the public to hear that the Justice Department needs to function independent of the political process.", "OK. Let me move off of that. We will watch that, of course, as it travels forward. But let's talk about the president's personal attorney, Michael Cohen. And, Shan, this is for you, because we know the president's former divorce lawyer Jay Goldberg, was actually called up, so he says, by the president and was asked for advice, and that he told the president that Cohen is likely to flip under criminal investigation, especially if you're looking down 30 years in prison. What do you make of Jay Goldberg's warning, and do you think that that's a fair conclusion?", "I think that's fair concern to have. I think Goldberg knows his former client well and that probably the best way to get advice to the president is through the media. It's absolutely true that anybody facing any criminal investigation is under a tremendous amount of pressure, and this is an unusually aggressive, unusually high-pressure situation. The fact that they executed a search warrant on a lawyer's office, highly aggressive tactic, very intrusive, and that really ratchets up the pressure on Mr. Cohen.", "But if you're saying he's using the media to try to talk to the president, the guy is on the phone with the president. Why is he telling the public about his conversation, do you think?", "My speculation there would be that he knows that when he goes out into the public, that the president likes to watch the media, and the more amplification he gets, the more effective it may be.", "Gotcha. Gotcha. Kim, this lawyer Goldberg, who used to be a U.S. attorney, told our Gloria Borger -- quote -- \"Anybody who is facing 30 years never stands up. Without exception, a person facing a prison term cooperates. \" We know he has a family. He's mentioned that recently. Obviously, I have to imagine that comes into play here. What is the average flip rate in these kind of court cases?", "Well, I don't know in terms of -- empirically, what the answer to that is. But what I do think is interesting is, of course, there are two issues here. One has to do with whether Mr. Cohen has personal criminal liability. And if that's the case, he can make what ever deal is offered for him personally. The other question is whether flipping means he's got information against -- that is going to implicate the president of the United States. And I think that's an extraordinary conversation to be having. If there's nothing to hide from the president's standpoint, this is irrelevant information and Mr. Cohen will go forward with respect to his own personal criminal liability, and the president's out of it.", "Let me hammer home on the point I think you're making. The inference, if we're having -- if he's having a conversation with the president about flipping, that then would mean the president did something wrong.", "Right. Otherwise, it's not an issue.", "Right.", "It doesn't really matter. It's besides the point. And I think it's absolutely astonishing as a matter of what's happening at the upper echelons of our government on both sides of the aisle right now that we're having a conversation as to what Mr. Cohen's decision- making with respect to his familial obligations are if he were to be given the opportunity to turn coat and give evidence with respect to the president's criminal liability. That's astonishing. We all should be concerned that anyone in that kind of position could even potentially be flipping in order to put the president in some kind of jeopardy or that he had information that could put the president in some kind of jeopardy. That has implications for democracy, not just this president .", "Yes. Shan, on that -- and we know, as we pointed out, you served on the legal team representing Rick Gates, who is cooperating with investigators -- that's an entirely separate issue and separate investigation. But can you just help us explain? I don't know how much you can say about that specifically. But when you're dealing with a client who is considering cooperating or flipping, what are the considerations? What is one thinking about as to whether or not they should roll?", "The most important consideration is that the client has to be 100 percent honest and understand what they're getting into. I can't speak about the Gates matter, because that's confidential and it's privileged. But generally speaking, the client must be very clear if you choose to cooperate, it's like being pregnant. There's not such a thing as being a little bit pregnant. You either are or you aren't. If you cooperate, everything is going to be an open book. And to the point made earlier about the flipping issue, simply the fact of cooperation doesn't necessarily, of course, mean that you have criminally culpable information against the president, but rather that he is agreeing to cooperate, rather than raising the shield of the Fifth Amendment. And then it's really up to the prosecutors to determine whether that information he has to give is going to be helpful in terms of criminal liability or not.", "How do you, given Gates cooperating, a couple of former Trump associates cooperating, and now the conversation that maybe, who knows, but maybe Cohen could be cooperating, Kim, how would this sit on someone such as the president?", "Well, I think for the president, if I were advising the president, I would tell him that he really needs, as other lawyers have told him, to ratchet down, stop the public commenting. And with regard to one of the pieces of advice given to him, which is to not sit down with the special counsel, I think that's right. For most politicians...", "You do?", "Yes. I think for most politicians, that's wrong, because if they refuse to sit down, it looks suspicious. They may get a grand jury subpoena. They may have to invoke the Fifth Amendment, which looks terrible. But he's not most politicians, so I don't think that would bother him.", "All right, Shan and Kim, thank you so much. And we're talking about this former divorce lawyer of the president's, Jay Goldberg. He will be on tonight at 7:00 with Erin Burnett here on CNN. So, definitely doesn't miss that conversation. Coming up next, President Trump reportedly is consumed by the news of Michael Cohen. We have new details about the White House's thinking with regard to that case. And Senator Tammy Duckworth making history, bringing her baby to the Senate floor just moments ago. There they are. You will hear what she had to go through to get the rules changed to allow for this. And breaking news on Mike Pompeo's nomination to become secretary of state. We have just learned a key Democratic senator will now vote yes. Stay with me."], "speaker": ["PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST", "LAURA JARRETT, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "KIM WEHLE, FORMER ASSOCIATE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL", "BALDWIN", "SHAN WU, FORMER ATTORNEY FOR RICK GATES", "BALDWIN", "WU", "BALDWIN", "WEHLE", "BALDWIN", "WEHLE", "BALDWIN", "WEHLE", "BALDWIN", "WU", "BALDWIN", "WU", "BALDWIN", "WU", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-163593", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2011-3-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1103/20/se.01.html", "summary": "President Obama Addresses the Brazilian People from Rio de Janeiro", "utt": ["All right, right now, we want to take you straight to Rio de Janeiro, and that's where U.S. President Barack Obama has now taken to the stage there to talk to people about trade and perhaps even maybe he'll mention Libya. Let's listen in.", "Hello, Rio de Janeiro.", "Since the moment we arrived, the people of this nation have graciously shown my family the warmth and generosity of the Brazilian spirit. Obrigado! Thank you.", "And I want to give a special thanks for you -- to all of you for being here because I've been told that there's a Vasco football game coming. (", "So I know that -- I realize Brazilians don't give up their soccer very easily.", "One of my earliest impressions of Brazil was a movie I saw with my mother as a very young child, a movie called \"Black Orpheus,\" and it was set in the favelas of Rio during Carnival. And my mother loved that movie, with its singing and dancing against the backdrop of the beautiful green hills. And it first premiered as a play right here in Theatro Municipal. That's my understanding. And my mother is gone now, but she would have never imagined that her son's first trip to Brazil would be as president of the United States. She would have never imagined that.", "And I never imagined that this country would be even more beautiful than it was in the movie. You are, as Jorge Ben-Jor sang, \"A tropical country, blessed by God, and beautiful by nature.\"", "I've seen that beauty in the cascading hillsides, in your endless miles of sand and ocean, and in the vibrant, diverse gatherings of brasileiros who have come here today. And we have a wonderfully mixed group. We have Cariocas and Paulistas, Baianas, Mineiros. We've got men and women from the cities to the interior, and so many young people here who are the great future of this great nation. Now, yesterday, I met with your wonderful new President, Dilma Rousseff, and talked about how we can strengthen the partnership between our governments. But today, I want to speak directly to the Brazilian people about how we can strengthen the friendship between our nations. I've come here to share some ideas because I want to speak of the values that we share, the hopes that we have in common, and the difference that we can make together. When you think about it, the journeys of the United States of America and Brazil began in similar ways. Our lands are rich with God's creation, home to ancient and indigenous peoples. From overseas, the Americas were discovered by men who sought a new world and settled by pioneers who pushed westward across vast", "All right. Sorry about that. Lost that signal. We'll try to restore it, but --", "Just as he was talking about --", "Oh, it sounds like we have it again. OK. We do have it again.", "Oh, we do. Let's listen in, because he's discussing Libya there.", "Let's go back. OK.", "-- nations who have struggled over many generations to perfect our own democracies. The United States and Brazil know that the future of the Arab world will be determined by its people. No one can say for certain how this change will end, but I do that change is not something that we should fear. When young people insist that the currents of history are on the move, the burdens of the past can be washed away. When men and women peacefully claim their human rights, our own common humanity is enhanced. Wherever the light of freedom is lit, the world becomes a brighter place. That is the example of Brazil. That is the example of brazil."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "CHEERS, BOOS AND APPLAUSE) OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "WHITFIELD", "MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR", "WHITFIELD", "HOLMES", "WHITFIELD", "OBAMA"]}
{"id": "CNN-165780", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-5-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/06/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Obama to Speak at Ft. Campbell", "utt": ["Now that al Qaeda's leader is gone, speculation is growing about who may be taking his place. Some say the logical choice is bin Laden's longtime deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri. Bin Laden was seen as a charismatic leader. He and al-Zawahri founded al Qaeda in 1988. Al-Zawahri is believed to be the strategic mastermind of the group, but he may not be the top candidate. Terror experts say he lacks the draw that bin Laden apparently had, and he is not regarded as an inspiring figure. But sources say al Qaeda's success plan calls for al-Zawahri to take over, but it is unclear if they will follow that. The chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that al-Zawahri is on their radar.", "Any closer to finding Ayman al-Zawahri, the number two?", "We have lots of information on him. I do believe that we're -- I can't say it's imminent, but I do believe we're hot on the trail.", "In Pakistan?", "I do believe --", "Another contender who take over al Qaeda is Anwar al- Awlaki. He is a cleric who was born in the U.S. Right now, he is seen as a key player in the al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, AQAP. Now, in addition to those 79 American commandos who took part in Sunday's top-secret mission, there was one nonhuman member, a dog. According to reports, it's either a Belgian Malinois or a German shepherd. The dog's identify, like these Navy SEALs, not being released. But the hero canine was well-trained -- listen to this -- reportedly had special gear, including body armor, infrared cameras, even had an ear bug to hear remote commands. How about that? Now checking in live pictures, packed house, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, 2,200 different troops there that Mr. Obama will be speaking in front of this hour. President Obama is also meeting with dozens of Navy SEALs, SEAL Team 6, those guys directly involved with getting Obama, raiding his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. We will bring you the president, of course, in front of all of these different members of the 101st Airborne. Also, he is also meeting with some of the Night Stalkers, the 160th SOAR Regiment, also based there in Fort Campbell as well. Now this:", "We see no shortage of manpower or material. We have extra fuel arrangements already in place.", "The Mississippi River is still rising, and the water is spilling in. Now Memphis residents bracing for the possible flood of a century. We are on the ground there next. Plus, some of the casinos that helped much of Mississippi's economy from sinking after Hurricane Katrina, now they risk being swallowed up by all these floodwaters. I will be speaking live with a casino owner about what is being done to save them. That is coming up. Also, we are just getting some breaking news now about an emergency landing -- more on that next. Stay right here."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "WOLF BLITZER, HOST, \"THE SITUATION ROOM\"", "REP. MIKE ROGERS (R-MI), CHAIR, HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE", "BLITZER", "ROGERS", "BALDWIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-208416", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-6-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/09/cnr.01.html", "summary": "President Obama, Chinese President Meet", "utt": ["President Obama returning to the White House after a two- day summit with China's president. A lot on the agenda. Everything from cyberattacks to North Korea to climate change. So how much was accomplished? Here is CNN's chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin in Palm Springs, California.", "President Obama and Chinese president Xi wrapped up their Sunnylands summit with a late-morning stroll in the California desert. President Obama declared the visit --", "Terrific.", "Over two days, the leaders met for a total of eight hours.", "I'm very much looking forward to this being a strong foundation for the kind of new model of cooperation that we can establish for years to come.", "The summit held just four months after Xi took office, meant to launch a close new relationship with the Chinese leader.", "And at present, the China-U.S. relationship has reached a new, historical standpoint.", "The backdrop was unusual, and not just because temperatures soared above 110 degrees. They met at Sunnylands, a private estate of the Annenberg family, better known for hosting Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, and Ronald Reagan for New Year's Eve 18 times. Aides say it offered them a quiet space to work through a range of issues. Among them, North Korea. The leaders agreed to keep up pressure to reign in its nuclear ambitions.", "I think we have quite a bit of alignment on the Korean issue, the North Korean issue, and absolute agreement that we would continue to work together.", "Cyber attacks. According to the White House, the Chinese acknowledged they're a problem, agreed to investigate, and work out rules of the road.", "I believe we can work together on this rather than at cross purposes.", "And climate change. For the first time, China agreed to work with the U.S. to limit the production of greenhouse gases. President Obama gave the Chinese leader a parting gift, this bench made of California wood.", "The bench was made out of a redwood. The two leaders were able to take a walk and were able to sit on what became the bench that the Chinese will be taking with them.", "Throughout the summit, the president and his aides were peppered with questions about new revelations involving government surveillance programs. White House officials had strong words about the consequences of these leaks.", "It's frankly doing an assessment of the damage being done to U.S. national security by the revelation of this information, which is necessarily secret because United States needs to be able to conduct intelligence activities without those methods being revealed to the world.", "During the summit, President Xi publicly invited President Obama to visit China. White House officials say the president agreed to come, and now they're looking at holding a similar informal summit outside of Beijing in the not too distant future. Jessica Yellin, CNN, traveling with the president in Palm Springs, California.", "Prayers offered around the world today for former South African leader Nelson Mandela. We'll update you on his condition and hear about his powerful legacy from another civil rights icon who knows him, next."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "YELLIN", "OBAMA", "YELLIN", "XI JINPING, PRESIDENT OF CHINA (via translator)", "YELLIN", "TOM DONILON, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER", "YELLIN", "OBAMA", "YELLIN", "RHODES", "YELLIN", "RHODES", "YELLIN", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-8359", "program": "", "date": "2000-5-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/18/aotc.05.html", "summary": "Government to Offer Answers on Cause of New Mexico Fires", "utt": ["New Mexico firefighters may be out of the woods, so to speak. The Los Alamos wildfires that scorched more than 47,000 acres of the state are about 60 percent contained now, but the community is asking why it happened, and today there may be some answers. CNN's Martin Savage now with more.", "In Los Alamos, first came the fire, now comes the heat.", "I would not have lost my home had there not been a fire, and I want to see some kind of compensation for my loss.", "It took away your home, and a lot of other homes too, and you should have that made right.", "Before it can make things right, the federal government is trying to figure out what went wrong, how a controlled burn set by the National Park Service to ease the threat of wildfire, instead triggered the largest wildfire in New Mexico history, destroying over 200 homes and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.", "That's the reason for the investigation. See us on May 18th and we'll be ready to discuss it.", "Two days after the fire roared through Los Alamos, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt announced a probe into its cause, specifically, if the Park Service's plan for the May 4th burn was adequate, and why warnings of high winds by the National Weather Service went unheeded. Roy Weaver, the superintendent of the Bandelier National Monument, where the fire was started, has taken responsibility for the decision to go ahead with the burn. He is currently on a paid leave of absence.", "Rather than reflecting on who's to blame or why it happened, let's reflect on trying to keep it from happening again.", "In 1998, forestry expert Bill Armstrong warned of the potential for a catastrophic fire in the Los Alamos area within five years. He saw lightning as the most likely cause.", "You could eliminate people entirely from this landscape and you are not going to eliminate fire.", "Whether the government's probe into the Los Alamos fire makes the same conclusion will be made public later today. (on camera): But for many of those people directly affected by the fire, the government report isn't expected to answer the questions still burning in their minds, such as: Who is going to pay for the massive recovery effort? How much will they pay? And above all, how soon? Martin Savage, CNN, Espanola, New Mexico."], "speaker": ["ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "REP. HEATHER WILSON (R), NEW MEXICO", "SAVIDGE", "BRUCE BABBITT, INTERIOR SECRETARY", "SAVIDGE", "BILL ARMSTRONG, FORESTRY EXPERT", "SAVIDGE", "ARMSTRONG", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "CNN-413028", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-10-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/10/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Biden: Republicans Are the Ones Packing The Supreme Court", "utt": ["Twenty-four days now until the election. Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, is again being asked a question he and his running mate aren't answering: Will they pack the Supreme Court if elected? CNN's Jessica Dean is in Erie, Pennsylvania. So, Jessica, the question is not going away. How was it answered this afternoon?", "Well, Erica, much like it has been answered now for a while. Joe Biden saying it is not a question he wants to answer before Election Day. He's traveled here to Erie, Pennsylvania, to campaign. But when he was getting on his plane, here's what he had to say. Take a listen.", "Look, the only court packing going on right now is going on with Republicans packing the court now. It's not constitutional, what they're doing. We should be focus on what's happening right now.", "Now, Biden has implored the Republican Senators to do what he calls listening to their conscience. And he has made the argument that because voting has started that the Senate should wait on any decisions on the next Supreme Court justice. In the meantime, back here in Erie, Pennsylvania, you see a crowd has gathered outside the area where Joe Biden is set to give remarks later this afternoon. We're told he's going to be talking about his economic message, which he's been bringing, tailored to why is working class voters in areas like Erie, Pennsylvania. So we expect to hear more from him in just a little bit -- Erica?", "Jessica Dean, live there for us. Jessica, thank you. We are learning new details about the plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan and the men accused of plotting it. Those new details are next."], "speaker": ["HILL", "JESSICA DEAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "DEAN", "HILL"]}
{"id": "CNN-81746", "program": "NEWS FROM CNN", "date": "2004-2-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/03/nfcnn.05.html", "summary": "Waiting for Key Witness in Martha Stewart Trial", "utt": ["Waiting for the key witness. Doug Faneuil is expected to take the stand shortly to testify about what he knows about Martha Stewart apparently, supposedly dumping a lot of stock just before it tanked. Let's get the latest now from CNN's Alan Chernoff. He's outside the federal courthouse in New York. What is the latest, Alan?", "Wolf, it's really been a waiting game for Douglas Faneuil, the assistant to Martha Stewart's stockbroker. And he's likely to keep waiting for several more hours, because on the stand right now is the administrative manager of that Merrill Lynch office in Rockefeller Center where Martha Stewart had her brokerage account. Now, the government has been using this witness to build its case. Let's step back a minute. Martha Stewart and her stockbroker and co-defendant, Peter Bacanovic, say the reason Martha Stewart sold her ImClone stock was that they had a prior agreement to sell if the stock fell below $60 a share. Of course, now, the prosecution says Martha Stewart sold because she found out that Sam Waksal, the former chief of ImClone, was trying to dump his stock. So what the government did this morning was, they showed examples of Martha Stewart's stock trading style. Specifically, that she had placed limit orders with her stockbroker. A limit order is when you say, I'm going to sell that stock if it falls to a certain price. And so, they showed evidence that she had placed limit orders for her own company's stock, for JDS Uniphase, for Community Health Systems. The whole idea here is to convince the jury that if in fact she did have a prior agreement with her stockbroker to sell ImClone at $60 or below, then she would have had a limit order. But she didn't. She did not have a limit order. So that is going to be a key point that the government will be hammering home with a jury -- Wolf.", "Alan Chernoff will be watching all of this for us, as he always does. Thanks, Alan, very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "ALAN CHERNOFF, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-111890", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2006-11-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/09/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Correspondent Ed Bradley Dies at Age 65", "utt": ["Stunning news tonight, 60 Minutes\" correspondent Ed Bradley dies at age 65. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York.", "And I`m Brooke Anderson. TV`s most provocative entertainment news show starts right now.", "On SHOWBIZ TONIGHT the gloves are off. In this corner, Britney Spears. In this corner, Kevin Federline. Britney and Kevin`s divorce gets downright nasty. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT with late-breaking details on the knockout custody battle. Plus, Britney and Whitney. Why these two may have plenty in common after dumping their bad boys. Dying to be thin, starving for affection. A riveting and disturbing documentary goes inside an eating disorder treatment center and tells the unbelievable stories of young girls wasting away.", "I`ve always been overweight and I`m never going to be thin.", "Tonight, the filmmaker behind \"Thin\" and the interview you will see only on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.", "Hello, I`m A.J. Hammer.", "Hi there everyone. I`m Brooke Anderson. We are in New York tonight with the startling news of the death of Ed Bradley. Ed Bradley, the award winning \"60 Minutes\" correspondent died today in New York of Leukemia. He was 65-years-old. The news was shocking, to say the least, and today the tributes poured in for Bradley, an intensely private man, who moved easily between hard hitting journalism and Hollywood heavy weights, a man whose work can only be described as groundbreaking.", "Ed Bradley`s legendary career began in the streets of Philadelphia where he covered race riots in the 1960s for local radio. By 1967 his talents led him to WCBS radio in New York. He was one of just three black employees there.", "But in the end, it was just one more plan that didn`t work.", "Just a couple of years later, Bradley was promoted by CBS News and sent to the thick of it all, the Vietnam War. He was almost killed there, injured there by a mortar round. Bradley later went to Washington, where he became CBS`s first black White House correspondent.", "Ed Bradley, CBS News, the White House.", "In 1981 he joined the jewel of the tiffany network, \"60 Minutes.\"", "Didn`t act as if terrorism was an imminent and urgent problem, was it?", "Of course.", "Those who knew him say Ed Bradley was a serious journalist, who didn`t take himself too seriously. He was a natural talent, who lit up the television screen. That talent came through in the hundreds of interviews he did, with everyone from Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh, to celebrities like Denzel Washington.", "I read that you get 20 million a film now.", "I heard you make that kind of money too.", "The sad news of Ed Bradley`s death came as a shock across America. Even most of his colleagues had no idea he was even sick. Katie Couric, who started working alongside Bradley this summer, broke the news in a special report.", "And Ed Bradley, long time CBS News and \"60 Minutes\" correspondent died this morning at Mount Sinai Hospital here in New York.", "The White House was even stunned.", "Our thoughts and prayers not only with Ed`s family, but all of his colleagues at", "What is your response to the allegations that were brought by the district attorney in Santa Barbara, that you molested this boy?", "Totally false.", "Ed Bradley`s award winning first rate journalism set him apart from his colleagues just as much as his earring. Liza Minnelli convinced him to pierce his ear after an interview they did together in 1986.", "Essentially you`re saying that it couldn`t have been you because you weren`t there and you have a paper trail to back that up.", "It was impossible. It was impossible for it to have happened.", "One of Bradley`s last \"60 Minutes\" segments was a blockbuster investigation of the Duke University lacrosse rape case. Bradley told his bosses he wanted to do the story, despite his rapidly deteriorating illness. With a Lifetime Achievement Award, a Peabody Award and 19 Emmies, Ed Bradley`s youthfulness and thoughtful approach to reporting and life will surely be missed the world over.", "Bradley is survived by his wife, Patricia Blanchett (ph). Dan Rather, Bradley`s friend and colleague, sent this statement to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, \"With the passing of Ed Bradley we have lost on of America`s best. As a compassionate, sensitive person, as a gentle, but strong man, as a lover of life and a great professional, he was an example of all a conscientious and dedicated journalist can be.\"", "Well, tonight we have a very distinguished group right here on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT to remember Ed Bradley`s life. Joining us from Washington tonight, Bob Schieffer, host, of course, of CBS news`s \"Face The Nation,\" also in Washington, \"Washington Post\" columnist and host of CNN`s Reliable Sources Howard Kurtz. With he me here in New York tonight our friend, legendary recording artist Aaron Neville, who was a very good friend of Ed Bradley`s. I appreciate you all being here on this sad, sad day. Well Bob, I know you worked with Ed Bradley for years. You guys were great friends. Were you just as shocked as everyone else to learn of Ed`s death, because when the news came on the wire today, we hardly could believe it.", "Well, Ed had been sick. He had been in the hospital about ten days ago. They told us it was for pneumonia, but quite frankly, he had underwent open-heart surgery a couple of years ago and, in my view, he never really got over it. He just didn`t look well in recent years. The last time I saw Ed was the day that I stepped down from the anchor chair in New York. He came by that morning to wish me well, and I just thought at the time, Ed just doesn`t look well, but we lost a good one today.", "We sure did. And I know Aaron, you and your brothers were very, very close with Ed Bradley. You called him the fifth Neville. He`s the godfather to your niece. You said you spoke with him just --", "I called him two days ago --", "Couldn`t get a hold of him?", "No, I couldn`t leave him a message. I didn`t know he was sick.", "Which is astounding and something that obviously he felt the need to feel very close to the vest. He was a very private man in so many ways. I know you guys used to jam with him. He`d jump up on stage with you. Share with us a very fond memory you have of Ed Bradley.", "For years we called him the fifth Neville brother. He would come up and play the tambourine or cow bell or whatever, you know. And one time we did a thing, a song about a diamond of the \"60 Minute\" man, you know, and he came up and sang that with us. He was on a video we dad back at Storyville (ph), from years back, with Dennis Quaid and Bonnie Raitt and John Hiatt (ph). He was just -- 2004 he was at the jazz fest in New Orleans and my wife Joey (ph) told, Ed you don`t look good, you know, you don`t look too good. And he said, I feel all right, but he came back to New York and that`s when he had the triple bypass.", "I remember even a dozen years ago running into Ed down there at the jazz fest. He used to go as often as he could. Howard, of course, we all know Ed was a pioneering journalist. He was the first black correspondence for CBS News, but not only a great news man. He was just a classy guy. That`s what you hear everybody saying. How do you remember him, Howard?", "He had a very dignified air about him. You didn`t read about his private life in People Magazine. The focus with Ed was always on his journalism. And, you know, what a remarkable range he showed over the years. I mean from covering Vietnam to doing investigative work, to chatting up celebrities, to doing some of these award winning, prime time special documentaries, like one that he did on jury discrimination. I think that`s what I will remember most of all. And I think that he is a guy who has become pretty famous and pretty affluent. Could have dialed it back and phoned it in and just done the big interviews, and yet here he was just a few weeks ago, while he was obviously very sick, although we did not know it, doing that tough story on the Duke rape investigation.", "And part of his demeanor that we all got to know, which really drew out the answers from some difficult interview subjects, his calmness. And Bob, I have seen where you have referred to Ed as a gentle giant. Tell us something about him we might not know.", "Well, he was not the kind of reporter in a interview that would reach and grab you by the throat, like Mike Wallace would, but he could put people at ease. He could make them be themselves and sometimes that was to their advantage; sometimes it was to their disadvantage. He knew how to, kind of, sneak up on you, but he did these wonderful stories. He was a great observer of the American scene. And I have to say one other thing and what I remember about Ed Bradley. He was the single coolest guy I ever new.", "He was an incredibly cool guy and that brings us back to the music thing, because it wasn`t just a hobby for him. This was a real passion for him.", "Oh yes, he would have fun. You know, he would come up on stage and play with us. I met him through my brother Art. Him and Art were good friends. I got to know him. He would call me big brother. I`d call him big brother. You know, he was just cool, you know. And when he put the earring on TV, I said, oh man, you cool.", "And back to what Bob was just saying, about, you know, how he got involved with the stories. I had the very good fortune of actually being in a story that he did about a dozen years ago. Ed was reporting on a summer camp program I worked for, for children and family effected by HIV and AIDS. This is 12 years ago, so keep that in mind. And what struck me was that Ed got personally involved in the story, and he was really interested in furthering people`s awareness of the situation. Howard, this is so true of so much of what he did. He took his work very personally. He wasn`t just out there covering the story, right?", "Yes and I think viewers sensed that. Because, you know, it`s hard to hide from the camera. But I also think that when we use the journalistic shorthand, like first black correspondent on CBS, it doesn`t quite capture the magnitude of what he did. When he joined \"60 Minutes\" in 1981, I can count on one hand the number of prominent African-Americans who were on network television at all. So, through that long career, he really was a pioneer and trail blazer and an inspiration to a lot of young African-Americans, not just people in the journalism business. And yet he carried that very lightly. He never limited himself as a kind of reporter who specialized in race-related issues. He did a little bit of everything and he did it with a lot of class.", "Bob, I got to wrap it up, but I would love to get your final thoughts.", "Well, I think Howard is exactly right. And what people don`t know about Ed is how many people he mentored, how many people he helped. Not a celebrity that put his name on a charity, but when he knew somebody needed help, he made sure they got it. Ed Bradley was a man. He was a fine man.", "Bob Schieffer, Howard Kurtz, Aaron Neville, I really appreciate your being with us, sharing your thoughts and incite on truly a remarkable journalist and man, tonight on", "Still ahead, our series SHOWBIZ Weight Watch continues with a disturbing look into an eating disorder clinic. The woman who made the riveting documentary called \"Thin\" joins us on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, coming up. We will also have this.", "Kevin has about as much of a chance of getting the kids as I have a chance of starting for the Lakers.", "Yes, the gloves are off in Britney and Kevin`s breakup. Coming up, the fight for the kids, the money, the property. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT takes you inside the divorce, on the way.", "Plus, why did a deer go to Target? To save a few bucks, of course. And it`s all caught on tape -- sorry about that -- coming up next. Stay with us.", "Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT for Thursday night. This is TV`s most provocative entertainment news show. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York and it`s time now for a story that made us say, that`s ridiculous. So, I bet you`ve always wondered where do bargain savvy wild animals do their shopping? Well, at Target, of course. Check this out. A deer actually ran into a Target store in Iowa and dashed into the clothing section. Perhaps he was fawning over the new Isaac Misrahi (ph) line. The deer eventually found a door and the deer ran out the door before animal control could get there. But, I personally think it makes perfect sense for a deer to go to Target. Maybe he wanted to save a few bucks, you know, save a little doe. Maybe he went shopping with his aunt", "That was terrible A.J. Now to the celebrity breakup. Everybody is still talking about Britney Spears filing for divorce from ex back up dancer and aspiring rapper Kevin Federline. Now Federline has filed his response to Britney`s divorce filing. And you won`t believe what he`s asking for, custody of the couple`s kids. And now the singer who once sang \"Hit Me Baby One More Time\" may be preparing to hit K-Fed with one nasty custody battle.", "Forget all the Whitney and Bobby comparisons. In their divorce battle Britney Spears and soon to be ex-husband Kevin Federline may soon get compared to another couple, Kramer versus Kramer.", "I want my son.", "You can`t have him.", "Like Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep in that Oscar winning movie, Britney Spears and Kevin Federline appear on the brink of an all out war for their two baby boys, Sean Preston and Jadon James (ph). TMZ.com broke the news of the Britney-Kevin divorce and its managing editor says it could get ugly.", "Let the battle begin.", "Britney Spears happily hit the ice and went ice skating in New York City soon after filing for divorce from Federline. She`s asking for sole custody of the couple`s two children. But while Britney was hitting the ice, little did she realize that she may be skating into a battle with her soon to be ex. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has for you K-Fed`s legal response to Britney`s divorce petition. Get this, he wants the court to give him, and not Britney, sole and legal custody of the kids. TMZ.com`s Harvey Levin is blunt about K-Fed`s chances.", "Kevin has about as much of a chance of getting the kids as I have a chance of starting for the Lakers.", "When Federline stopped by SHOWBIZ TONIGHT for his last big interview before Britney filed for divorce, he talked to me about his parenting philosophy. (on camera): How are you not going to spoil those little ones?", "Well, I know I`m not. I don`t know about her. I think it`s going to be one of those things where daddy is the disciplinarian and mommy is giving you everything behind daddy`s back.", "It was Federline`s knack for partying, instead of parenting, that reportedly was a factor in his split from Britney.", "The reality is she has had these kids 24/7. And as for him, it seems to me the nanny has had more involvement than he has.", "So why is K-Fed bothering? Levin believes K-Fed may really be after something else.", "The oldest trick in the book is you ask for custody and then say, you know, I`ll drop that if you ante up a little bit more money in the property settlement. Absolutely, he is going to try and show that she`s not a real good mother.", "Britney`s mothering skills have landed her in the tabloids more than once, including when she was photographed driving with her baby incorrectly in a car seat or without one at all.", "He will bring up the car seat, but I think he`s going to bring up how they partied together, or at least threaten to.", "So, it looks like K-Fed and Britney are headed into battle. And like so many divorce cases, this could boil down to two issues, money and children.", "Money, of course, is a big issue in this divorce. It`s been widely reported that Britney and Kevin have an iron clad prenuptial agreement, which would only give Kevin just a tiny part of Britney`s estimated $100 million fortune.", "Well, let`s talk about that, because the gloves may be off, but no matter how ugly it gets, someone has to be gracefully orchestrating all the movements for both Spears and Federline. That job, of course, left to the lawyers. Who better to guide us through it all than divorce attorney Nancy Chemtob, of the firm Chemtob, Moss and Forman, and famous celebrity divorce attorney Raoul Felder. Thank you both for being here tonight. Now, Brooke just said it again, we have been hearing an awful lot about this iron clad prenup. Raoul is there really such thing as an iron clad agreement in this case?", "Well, you know, everybody began worrying when Donald Trump`s agreement was attacked by Ivana and they said Donald Trump, with his 400 lawyers, has trouble with the agreement. What about me? The guy around the corner did it? The truth is prenuptial agreements are alive and well and living in America, if they are properly prepared. The reason people sue is because it`s the only lawsuit in the history of the world that if you sue and lose, you are back with the deal you bargained for. So, you might as well sue. And you don`t want to place somebody in a position like the Bob Dylan song, \"If You Ain`t Got Nothing, You Got Nothing To Lose.\" And that`s what Federline is in.", "Yes, I mean, exactly. What has he got to lose, really? It`s already pretty much gone, as of this point. So Nancy, we are also hearing that this prefab is not really a good piece of paper, as far as Kevin Federline is concerned. Some of the details that TMZ.com is throwing around is that he could perhaps get a 20 percent cut of their $10 million Malibu Mansion, so about two million bucks there. Maybe about $250,000 or less for one year of spousal support. Does this all sound pretty much about right for how long they were married, just a couple of years?", "It does because when you do a prenuptial, and for something that`s iron clad, as people are saying, there has to be consideration for him signing off on an agreement that would already figure out exactly how much he were to get, if they were to get divorced. The big question here is, even in an iron clad prenuptial agreement, one thing that`s not concerted is the amount of spousal, I`m sorry, child support that he would receive. So, therefore that`s why, why not go for custody. This way maybe I can get child support.", "Well, yes, and let`s talk about the custody, because that is something that Kevin is counter-suing for. Raoul, he is saying he wants sole custody and that he basically wants physical custody of the kids. Going back to what you were saying, is it more likely than not that this is just a ploy to get some kind of settlement?", "Sure, because this let`s lots of dirt into the proceeding. When you are talking about custody, all kinds of behavior, and lord knows what behavior he has about her. We know about his behavior. So, it`s a leverage to get some more money out of the situation, usually. Look, the truth is, if they examine both these people as potential parents, you might get custody.", "Yes, and all bets are off, as far as the dirty laundry. We have heard rumors of a sex tape actually being out there. But really, let`s be serious for a second Nancy, is there really any chance this guy we call K-Fed, now K-Fed-ex, could possibly get custody of these two children, sole and physical custody.", "One of the most interesting things is where has he been since this whole divorce came out. We all know that Britney and Kevin have been in New York since Friday. If he really wanted custody, he should have gotten on a plane back to California, picked up the two children. But the most interesting thing about this entire divorce is that there hasn`t been one picture since Friday with either parent with the children. So, at the end of the day, it`s really going to come down to what`s in the best interest of the children. And in this situation it points to Britney.", "Nancy Chemtob, Raoul Felder, it was good to see you both. I appreciate your insight tonight. Also coming up on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Britney and Whitney. They have a lot in common these days, now that both are shedding their bad boy. So, what`s it going to take for them to make a come back? We are going to get into that at 31 minutes past the hour, here on", "Coming up, a brand new development in the case of a woman who says Bill Cosby sexually assaulted her. We`re going to fill you in next.", "Plus, as we`ve been talking about, Britney dumping her bad boy. But really, what attracted her to this guy in the first place? We are going to be taking a look at the allure of the Hollywood bad boy, coming up. We will also have this.", "I hate me. I`ve always been overweight. I`m never going to be thin.", "A disturbing and riveting look at young women who are dying to be thin. A filmmaker goes inside an eating disorder clinic where girls are wasting away. That filmmaker is here, just ahead. Stay with us.", "Bill Cosby has settled a lawsuit with the woman who says he drugged and sexually assaulted her. The details of the settlement are being kept quiet. A joint statement simply says that the plaintiff and Cosby have resolved their differences. The woman says that Cosby assaulted her at his home in Philadelphia back in 2004. She went to police a year later, but prosecutors didn`t file criminal charges, so she filed a lawsuit. In legal papers Cosby denied the allegations.", "Britney spears has dumped her bad boy. But what attracted her in the first place? We are taking a look at the allure of the Hollywood bad boy, coming up.", "Also tonight, our special series SHOWBIZ Weight Watch continues. Tonight, it`s a disturbing and riveting look at young women who are dying to be thin. A filmmaker goes inside an eating disorder clinic where women are literally wasting away. That filmmaker is here and she will join us just ahead in an interview you will see only on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.", "Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. It is 30 minutes past the hour. I`m A.J. Hammer. We are coming at you from New York City.", "And I`m Brooke Anderson. This is TV`s most provocative entertainment news show. A.J., tonight in the SHOWBIZ Weight Watch, we`re going to go inside the very disturbing, compelling stories of four young women, who are literally dying to be thin, wasting away before our very eyes in a riveting documentary called, appropriately, \"thin\" and the filmmaker of \"thin,\" the director, is going to be with us, coming up in just a minute.", "Tough images to look at indeed. But first tonight, the Britney Spears/Kevin Federline breakup thing has got us thinking, why exactly is it that ladies like the bad boys so much? You know, you look at K-Fed. He`s not exactly a poster boy for preppiness. He`s always wearing a tank top. He`s always out partying. Kind of rough around the edges, right? So, we rolled up our sleeves. We put on a leather jacket, hopped on our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT motorcycle so we could find out why females flock to Mr. Wrong.", "Ah, bad boys. From Jack Nickelson to Collin Farrell to Charlie Sheen. They are rugged, handsome, confident. They are oh, so irresistible, but also oh, so unattainable.", "They really do make us feel so good. Why is it? Well because they are handsome, they are illusive. You know, we have this inability to possess them and I think that for a lot of women that the whole mystique.", "Pop princess Britney Spears knows the mystique. She fell for a bad boy in a big way. She ditched her bubble gum image with squeaky clean Justin Timberlake for not so squeaky clean Kevin Federline, a smoker, a slacker and a fledgling rapper.", "Kevin Federline is a bad boy, who attained a status after he tasted fame. It affected his personality and made him into this alpha male, would be rock star.", "Let`s face it, Mr. Wrong is nothing new. He`s been right for years now. Just go back and take a look at the classic Hollywood bad boy Warren Beatty. Beatty has been connected to a galaxy of beautiful women, from Joan Collins to Bridget Bardough (ph), a real love them and leave them kind of guy, a bad boy who many thought would never settle down. But wouldn`t you know, it just took the right woman. Enter Annette Benning.", "Warren Beatty was a bad boy his entire life and then when it came time for him to settle down, he picked a powerful, confident, acclaimed actress in her own right, who was exquisitely beautiful and, you know, she captured him. It was, I think, heartening for a lot of women to see that someone like Warren Beatty could be tamed.", "Beatty could be tamed, but most bad boys can`t. Why is that? What is it about these guys?", "They are charming, they are charismatic, they are never boring. I mean, who can resist somebody who is just focused on you, focused on making you, for that moment, the center of the universe? I think that is often why Bill Clinton has been described as being such a lady killer, because when he`s talking to you, you`re the only person in the world and I think he`s kind of the ultimate bad boy.", "Well, now that Britney Spears has booted her bad boy, Kevin Federline, to the curb, we here at SHOWBIZ TONIGHT think Britt should do brunch with another music Diva, who finally ditched her dead weight, talking about Whitney Houston, of course, saying bye-bye to Bobby Brown. Britney and Whitney were really both at the top of their game before they got together with their bad boy. So can Whit and Brit return to Diva-dom? With us tonight to answer these questions, developmental psychologist Cooper Lawrence, and clinical psychologist Dr. Judy Kuriansky. Lovely to see you both there. We just covered a mass of reasons why women are attracted to these bad boys. But let`s get into so me more. Cooper, is part of it the fact that these women are big stars and fame has a little something to do with it?", "That`s part of it. You have to remember these are two women that developmentally at very young ages were pop stars and they went through all these years of being a pop star and they will keep it normal. And to them, bad boys seem normal.", "But they are not normal. They are normal maybe to them, is part of the thinking, Dr. Judy, that maybe they can be changed? Maybe somebody like the pure, wholesome Britney Spears can perhaps tame this guy, K-Fed?", "Yes and all young girls feel that way. There`s a lot of young girls who are just like Britney and Whitney, who fall into that trap, thinking not only am I going to change his ways and make him into the good guy, but he`s going to give me an exciting life. The real key here that`s interesting is that the girls identify with that. They want their own wild side to come out, which is why the real solution to this, so that you don`t fall into the mess that they are both in, is to be who you want to be. And, you know, they got a little bad girl inside themselves too. Britney`s a little bad girl and so is Whitney, so.", "Well, it`s funny, you say they are sort of drawn to these guys because they want to have a little excitement in their life. Yet, you look at Britney Spears, doesn`t look like she needs much more excitement.", "It`s the inside excitement that they are talking about, the fact that they are cool and they could be hip. A lot of girls are brought up to be the nice girls and the good little girls and to behave and so they want to let that side out and the guys give them the opportunity to do that. So that`s why I say they do it themselves, then they don`t have to be attracted to the bad guys and then they can find a nice guy.", "There is some validation about it, because if they want to feel like they are bad girls and a bad guy likes you, well then I must be a bad girl, because if he`s bad then I must be and we`re a perfect couple.", "Yes, and Dr. Judy just mentioned OK, they moved through their bad boy phase and now they can look for the nice guy, and really, talking specifically about Britney Spears and Whitney Houston, how important is it now for them that they seek out the anti-K-Fed, the anti-Bobby Brown.", "I think it`s very important. I think that it would be great for them, especially because they both have children and they want to be role models. So, what a great role model is if now they finally find somebody who really does reflect who they are inside and where they have gotten to developmentally, where they have come to. I think they probably will too, because they are the ones that kicked them to the curb and that`s what`s really important. And because, as mothers, it`s enough. There`s like a straw that broke the camel`s back, because they both had, not only children, but the guys are children. They are even worse adolescents than the babies that they have. And so I think it`s partly an acknowledgement that Britney and Whitney have grown up a little bit, enough to say I`m not going to put up with this infant anymore, who is like an adolescent kid, who`s acting like the worst kind of teenager imaginable. So that`s a good sign that they can find a nicer guy, who is a little more mature, as long as their friends and the people around them help them.", "And I imagine, and this may be something that some people watching at home can relate to, when you break up with a bad guy, people don`t have such a problem with it, as much as when you break up with a nice guy, right?", "Right, because if you break up with a bad guy, it`s good for you. Break up with a nice guy, what`s wrong with her? Why did she break up with this fabulous guy that the rest of us deem valuable? So obviously there is something wrong with her. Whereas break up with a bad guy, it`s you`re in a better place clearly.", "And shedding that dead weight is just going to help their career come back.", "Well Britney and Whitney both need to grow up too and really settle down and, you know, really be mature women and mothers.", "Well, the world will be watching, Dr. Judy. We`ll see if they can actually pull that off. Cooper Lawrence, Dr. Judy Kuriansky, I appreciate you both being with us tonight. Grab your copy of Cooper Lawrence`s book, \"Been There, Done That, Kept the Jewelry.\" Great title, and Dr. Judy Kuriansky`s book, \"The Complete Idiot`s Guide to a Healthy Relationship,\" great title. Both in bookstores now.", "Reaction to the Britney/K-Fed divorce has been pouring into SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Last night we asked Britney dumps Kevin, did she do the right thing? Tons of votes. Here`s how it all broke down. Check it out, 96 percent of you say yes. Only four percent of you say no. Many of you have been writing in about our interview with Kevin Federline. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT got the last extended interview with Kevin before the divorce papers were filed. And just to refresh your memory, he told me that everything was fine at home. Take a look. (", "You see all the negative stuff, but, I mean, everybody`s got to know that, like, behind closed doors, everything is, you know, is great. It`s not always what they say it is. You know, I mean, we`re people too. We are happy behind closed doors.", "Now, this really got El from Michigan upset. Here`s what she wrote, \"why do celebs have to flat out lie to us? He may or may not have seen it coming, but don`t go on national TV and say such things and then announce two days later that you`re getting divorced. That is just so irritating. Coming up, more of your fired up e-mails reacting to the Britney Spears, Kevin Federline divorce. We`ve got our intern going through them right now, actually, and there are some doozies, believe me. Plus, we`ve also go this.", "I hate me. I`ve always been overweight and I`m never going to be thin.", "Tonight, in the SHOWBIZ Weight Watch, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s on- going coverage of Hollywood`s obsession with body image, the shocking new movie about women battling eating disorders and literally dying to be \"thin.\"", "And oh, what people will do to get into the Guinness Book of Records, painful, disgusting and totally ridiculous things, that`s next.", "Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, TV`s most provocative entertainment news show. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York and it`s time now for another story that just made us say, that`s ridiculous. Wow, that was terrible. Say it happens to be Guinness World Records day and that means people are doing all sorts of disgusting, outrageous and downright stupid things, kind of like my cameraman does, just to get in the book of records. They are chopping concrete blocks, they are rolling around in plastic balls, as you see here. We even have the woman with the smallest waist. But check out this guy, he is breaking the record for stuffing the most rattlesnakes in his mouth, yes, horrible, ten rattlesnakes, actually. It has to be the nastiest possible of the record-breaking achievements. The guy obviously didn`t see \"Snakes on a Plane.\" Actually, nobody really saw \"Snakes on a Plane,\" but the point is snakes are pretty scary. So, putting them into your life, that`s ridiculous.", "That was better, guys. OK, now the SHOWBIZ Weight Watch. It`s our ongoing coverage of Hollywood`s obsession with body image. This is stuff that we cover like no other entertainment news show. Tonight, the heartbreaking, heart wrenching documentary called \"Thin.\" It`s about some women who are battling dangerous eating disorders that could kill them.", "I hate me. I`ve always been overweight and I`m never going to be thin.", "She`s dying to be thin.", "I want to be thin. I want to be thin.", "Britney suffers from the eating disorder Anorexia Nervosa. So do Polly, Alisa and Shelly. The new documentary \"Thin\" provides an intimate and shocking look at these four women and their battles with body image.", "I want people to learn what it`s like to have an eating disorder, what the day-to-day reality is like. That it`s not the glamorous illness that we sometimes see in the magazines, that celebrities have.", "Photographer turned filmmaker Lauren Greenfield gained unprecedented access into a Florida treatment center. For ten weeks her cameras captured the gritty reality of the recovery process.", "You`re going to drop dead at any time and you don`t realize that.", "Intensely private family therapy.", "I feel so weak compared to her, so stupid compared to her.", "Emotional group sessions.", "There`s so many thin girls and I`m not one of them and I can`t take it anymore.", "She`s being so honest.", "Even heart wrenching art therapy.", "What do you think, looking at this now?", "I see problem areas.", "All caught on tape.", "Lauren Greenfield not only directed the HBO documentary, but she has also been exploring the issue of body image through photography for more than a decade. Lauren Greenfield is with me tonight in New York. Hi Lauren, good to see you again. We first met at Sundance, where the film began. Nice to see you.", "Thank you.", "OK, now we know that people who struggle and battling eating disorders get very skilled at hiding those illnesses. And here you are with unprecedented, exclusive access to this treatment center. Were you as shocked by the stories that you came across as I was when I watched the film?", "The stories are very sad and in some ways shocking, but the way that we made the film was by spending a lot of time in the clinic and really getting to know people. We filmed it over a six-month period and we really had a lot of trust with the women, and we really got to know them very well on a personal level. So when you spend that much time in a place like that, the stories stop shocking you, because there is a lot of repetition. There`s a lot of commonality among people`s experience with eating disorders.", "Yes, the stories are very sad, and devastating at times. You profile four very dramatic cases. One of the women, Polly, tried to kill herself after eating two slices of pizza. It`s just mind-boggling. And I can bet, you know, that a lot of people watching at home probably can`t even comprehend that. But is it what the pizza represents that causes such despair? Maybe the loss of control?", "Yes, it`s really not -- I mean, they say over and over again at the clinic it`s not about the food. It`s really about the underlying emotional issues. And even Polly says the pizza was the straw that broke the camel`s back. So, it`s not literally because of the pizza, but I think that does show the extent of the pain and suffering that the girls are going through and how they are using the eating disorder as a coping mechanism to numb out that pain, much in the same way one might use drug addiction or alcoholism.", "We spoke to actress Lindsey Lohan recently, a person who, herself, has been harshly criticized for being very thin at times. And she told SHOWBIZ TONIGHT that she watched the film. It made a big impact on her, had a big impact on her, and she spoke to you about it. Let`s listen to what she had to say.", "It`s an amazing film and I`ve met with her and I would love to do something with her for the film and, you know, make it into, maybe, an actual, you know, feature, because I think it`s something important for people to know about.", "Have you met with Lindsay Lohan? Is it a possibility that a feature film could be made?", "I actually don`t know about that, but I`m very flattered by her support and very much appreciate it. We met briefly at a screening of the film, and I was very moved by the way the film impacted her.", "Yes, it had a big impact on me as well. It`s hard to watch it and not be moved. And you say -- One of the things you say as a big misconception of people with eating disorders is the fact that it`s a glamorous illness. You know, young women, young girls see their favorite Hollywood stars, they see these images of girls just wasting away before their very eyes. How much of an impact do you think stars really have?", "Well, I think that we are all affected by the images of the people that we admire and certainly the atmosphere that these pictures of very thin models and actresses create, has a -- creates a pressure for young girls. That said, I don`t think that`s why women get eating disorders. I mean, that`s a much more complex causality than that. I think what you see from the film and from the book is a very serious mental illness and much deeper than most people think, that it`s not this kind of superficial illness of vanity, that it`s a really deep rooted emotional and psychological illness.", "Very serious illness. And you have quite an eye opening documentary that you have made. Lauren Greenfield, great to see you again. Thanks for being here.", "Thank you.", "And you can see Lauren`s documentary \"Thin\" on HBO, premiering next Tuesday, November 14th. And the companion book, \"Thin,\" is in bookstores now.", "As you may have heard Reese Witherspoon just filed for divorce from her husband of seven years, Ryan Filipe, and there are rumors actually floating around that he cheated, rumors that he has firmly denied. So, it seems a little ironic that his new film is called \"Breach.\" Now the film is all about infamous FBI agent Robert Hanson, who was convicted of selling top U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union. And here`s your first look in tonight`s SHOWBIZ Show Case.", "You`re going to be an agent.", "Say it again, OK?", "You`re going to be an agent.", "You`re being tasked to headquarters, where you will be riding the desk of an agent named Robert Hanson, considered our most knowledgeable analyst on Russian intel. He`s also a sexual deviant. This could be a huge embarrassment to the bureau. You`re going to keep an eye on him for us.", "Tell me five things about yourself, four of them true.", "I don`t think I would be much good at bluffing.", "That would have counted as your lie right there.", "Is there anything you can tell me about him?", "Sure, take nothing personally.", "You know why the Soviet empire collapsed? Godlessness.", "God expects you to live your faith, Eric, at all times.", "I don`t know what I`m supposed to be looking for. The guy doesn`t drink, goes to church every day.", "Faith, family, country, those are the things that matter.", "You`ve come to admire him I see.", "Yes.", "Respect him?", "I have never cared about making headlines. I wanted to make history.", "He`s a traitor, Eric. Started spying for the Russians in 1985. Good news is you`re in the middle of the biggest case we have ever run. The damage he`s done to the U.S. government is in the billions. It might be years before we truly know how many deaths he`s been responsible for.", "Why don`t we just arrest him?", "Can`t do that. Director wants him caught in the act.", "What if he`s smarter than I am?", "He spent the last 20 years out-thinking Russian spies. He`s smarter than all of us.", "Have you been in my briefcase?", "No.", "I don`t like being scrutinized. Have to do something about that.", "He`s parked outside your apartment.", "Where were you?", "I`m telling so many lies now, I can`t keep them straight anymore.", "Are you finding this job stressful?", "Sometimes.", "Pray more.", "He knows the names of every source we have ever turned. Their lives are all at risk.", "I need to know if I can trust you.", "What are you doing?", "Who was calling you in the car?", "Put the gun down.", "I need to know if I can trust you.", "\"Breach\" will be in theaters in February of 2007. So, last night we asked you to vote on our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day. Britney Spears is shocking everyone, including her soon to be ex-husband, by filing for divorce. Here`s how the question went. Britney dumps Kevin, did she do the right thing? Tons of votes, ton of e-mails. It seems like almost all of you out there are glad that she is kicking him to the curb, with 96 percent of you saying yes, she did the right thing, four percent of you say no. Let`s look at an e-mail from one of those four percenters. Sean from Maryland actually thinks it`s the wrong move, writing \"Brit made a terrible error. Dumping K-Fed now is useless. She is already so deep into it.\" Now, Wayne from Tennessee kind of made us laugh with a different point of view, \"I think she should have taken the advice of Bob Barker, who says `Remember to have your pets spayed or neutered.`\" Nice. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT coming right back.", "We`ve been asking you to vote on our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day. Britney`s divorce battle, should K-Fed get the kids? Keep voting, CNN.com/SHOWBIZTONIGHT. Write to us at this address, SHOWBIZTONIGHT@CNN.com. We are going to read some of your thoughts tomorrow. And remember, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is the only entertainment news show that lets you express your opinion on video. So just look into your video camera or your or web cam and send us a piece of your mind via video e- mail. It`s really easy. Head to our website, CNN.com/SHOWBIZTONIGHT and you can learn how to do it. Remember, keep them short and sweet, 30 seconds or less. And then watch for your video e-mails right here, only on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.", "Friday is almost here. Let`s see what`s coming up on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT tomorrow. Well, his name is Robert Ray, but in TV land he`s known as Dr. 90210. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT gets a very special inside look at this in-demand plastic surgeon as he nips and tucks some of the biggest names in Hollywood. We will do that tomorrow on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Also spouses we love to hate, Britney Spears` Kevin Federline, Whitney Houston`s Bobby Brown, and the woman that many say broke up the Beatles, John Lennon`s widow Yoko Ono. Why they have always left a bad taste in our mouths. We`ll get into that tomorrow. That is it for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Thanks a lot for watching. I`m A.J. Hammer. We are in New York.", "Yes, we are in New York. Have a great night, everybody. I`m Brooke Anderson. Glenn Beck is coming up next, right after the latest headlines from CNN HEADLINE NEWS."], "speaker": ["A.J. HAMMER, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT ANCHOR", "BROOKE ANDERSON, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "ANDERSON (voice-over)", "ED BRADLEY, \"60 MINUTES\" CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON", "BRADLEY", "ANDERSON", "BRADLEY", "CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE", "ANDERSON", "BRADLEY", "DENZEL WASHINGTON, ACTOR", "ANDERSON", "KATIE COURIC, CBS ANCHOR", "ANDERSON", "TONY SNOW, PRESS SECRETARY", "CBS. 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{"id": "CNN-41905", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-10-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/17/lad.08.html", "summary": "Who Has Stockpiles of Chemical and Biological Weapons?", "utt": ["Time now to go back to the issue of the anthrax investigation. The source of the anthrax is a major mystery. Government sources tell CNN the anthrax tested so far in the investigation of those tainted letters had not been genetically altered. They say it is natural in origin, and matches strains that have been around for some time. CNN's Miles O'Brien joins us from Atlanta, now, with a look at locations around the world where stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons are suspected to be found. Good morning, Miles.", "Good morning, Paula. It probably should come as no surprise to us that these are attacks, involve anthrax. Anthrax, after all, exists naturally in dirt, and it is commonly found in soil samples all throughout the world. In addition to that, it is a real threat to livestock, and so it is studied at several hundred facilities all over the world to try to find a vaccine. And so, anthrax is as common as any of these kinds of things that could threaten human life or life in general. Let's take a look at some of the other stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons suspected by the Central Intelligence Agency, think tanks and various other organizations. Let's begin with Libya, and give you a sense of what might be going on there. Libya appears to have the goal of establishing a chemical weapons capability. It is believed to possess chemical weapons and has some sort of stockpile, and it is actively working to get biological agents. The scope of it is unclear. Syria is another one that has a stockpile of nerve gas, serin gas, and it is trying to develop more toxic nerve agents, according to the CIA. It apparently does have or is developing an offensive biological weapons capability. Once again, the scope not clear there. Israel has a stockpile, as well, although it does not officially talk about it. Chemical and biological weapons program is said to exist there, although not officially admitted to. Iraq, of course, is one of the big players in this. Iraq has acknowledged claims that it has biological weapons on the tips of missiles that were in the stockpile during the Persian Gulf War. The United Nations continued inspections there after the war. Nobody on the ground there now, so it's unclear exactly what the situation is in Iraq now. Those inspections not existing in the current timeframe. Iran also apparently a big player in all this. They are apparently have -- developing stockpiles of blister, blood, choking, and nerve agents, as well. And apparently are also -- and this is an important part -- the bombs and artillery shells to deliver them to their neighbors if need be. Pakistan also has stockpiles, as well. India -- the Chinese have helped the Pakistanis, and the Russians have helped the Indians over time as they have tried to develop these chemical weapon stockpiles. Moving up to Russia, Russia probably has the single largest stockpile of chemical weapons. Russia has committed to dismantling this capability, but you have to consider the important fact that Russia's economy is so strained that there is a temptation on the experts within the Russian chemical weapons and biological weapons community to sell their expertise and perhaps some of their raw materials. So there is some concern that might be a problem. Moving along to some of the other players in this game, North Korea, which of course, there are concerns about ballistic missiles there, as well, has declared the existence of a chemical weapons program and production facilities. And it is known to have a biological weapons capability. South Korea has been trying to keep up with North Korea in that realm, and Taiwan, as well. And just to bring you back to the U.S., in Hawaii as well as the continental United States, the second largest stockpile of chemical weapons exists in the U.S. It is considered a defensive stockpile to learn, in other words, how to, how to protect U.S. troops against these attacks, not offensive, but nevertheless exists. Now, if you want to find out more about this, we invite you to go to CNN.com. There's an excellent map which sort of lays out what you just saw before you. Click on the various countries and it'll give you a brief indication of where they stand and really, quite frankly, the grim facts about chemical and biological weapons. So, let's send it back to Paula in New York.", "Thanks, Miles. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["ZAHN", "MILES O'BRIEN", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-408788", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2020-08-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/20/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Former Top Trump Adviser Arrested On Fraud Charges; American Initial Jobless Claims Rocket Above One Million Again", "utt": ["All right. Stocks are pretty much flat, but in positive territory. Tech stocks are headed for another record high despite the spike in initial jobless claims. Those are the market and these are the stories behind them. Steve Bannon is arrested and charged with multiple counts of wire fraud. The U.S. jobless claims are headed in the wrong direction, back above one million. And Joe Biden prepares to make his pitch to the American people on the last night of the Democratic Convention. Coming to you live from New York, it is Thursday, August 20th. I'm Zain Asher and this is QUEST MEANS BUSINESS. A former chief adviser to Donald Trump will soon make his first court appearance after being arrested on fraud charges. Steve Bannon and three others are accused of cheating donors who contributed to a crowdfunding campaign that promised to use all of the funds to finance a U.S. border wall with Mexico. Prosecutors say they lined their own pockets instead. Here's how President Trump reacted.", "I know nothing about the project other than I didn't like when I read about it, I didn't like it. I said this is for government. This isn't for private people. And it sounded to me like showboating. And I think I let my opinion be strongly stated at the time, I didn't like it. It was showboating and maybe looking for funds. But you will have to see what happens. I think it is a very sad thing for Mr. Bannon.", "Last year, one Board member of the crowdfunding campaign told \"The New York Times\" that Mr. Trump not only knew about the project, but said it had his blessing. Let's bring in Kara Scannell. So, Kara, much did the President actually know? What do we know for sure here?", "Well, there is no allegation in the indictment today of the President having any knowledge or involvement in this alleged scheme. In fact today, Steve Bannon and three others were charged with defrauding investors with two counts, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. But the men are accused of raising money through this online fundraising site called, We Build the Wall. They have raised $25 million. Now, prosecutors said that they told investors that they would use the money, all of the money for construction, but in fact, according to prosecutors, they used the money to pay their personal expenses. According to the indictment, the individuals, including Bannon had exchanged text messages between each other discussing this arrangement and had used shell companies in which to move the money in order to conceal the actual origin. So we are expecting Bannon to appear in the courthouse just behind me later today. He will have his first appearance. We have not yet heard from Steve Bannon. His lawyer has declined to comment. But we may see Bannon afterwards. We are waiting to see if he is going to say anything. But this is a big development for -- a big news today for Steve Bannon, and also just one of the latest individuals who are close to the President who has been charged with a crime. There was Roger Stone, a longtime adviser, Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman and of course, Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney. Steve Bannon though today facing the charges. He will be in court shortly and then we will see if he has anything to say to address these allegations head on.", "So, Kara, how was this alleged scheme actually uncovered? How were authorities tipped off?", "Well, you can see from the indictment as that there was certainly a money trail and a paper trail. It looks like prosecutors were able to trace these funds that went from the donations that came into the GoFundMe account, this online fundraising group that then went to Bannon, went through shell companies into others involved in this alleged scheme. So prosecutors seem to have a sense of how they have moved the money here. They also have indications through the indictment that they also they also have seen text messages between the men. So, certainly, it appears to be a document-heavy case and one where they have followed the money.", "All right, Kara Scannell, live for us there. Thank you so much. The latest jobs figures in the United States show a setback for the economic recovery, another 1.1 million workers filed initial claims for the unemployment benefits last week. For economists, it dashes hopes for a smooth and steady growing back in the labor market after last week's report was the first since March under a million.' Cristina Alesci is with us from New York. So Cristina, when you look at these numbers, initial jobless numbers rising above one million. What does that tell us about the state of this recovery?", "Well, the bad news here is obviously the initial unemployment claims came in at over a million and economists and investors were hoping that last week's sub-one million number would hold through this week. It didn't. And essentially what this says, Zain, to your question, is that the jobs recovery is going to continue to be pretty uneven. But I don't think this week's report really fundamentally changes that outlook that we are going to have just a bumpy ride from here. Unfortunately, there is going to be more pain ahead because of a number of things that we have been reporting, just anecdotally. For example, Boeing has already warned that it is going to have to make more cuts. We have had retailers announcing that they are going to be closing more and more stores. For example, Lord and Taylor today saying that they are going to have to close more stores than originally thought under their restructuring plan. And then cities and states are seeing their budgets completely obliterated. So we are likely going to see reduced jobs numbers from that section of the economy, which is a really important one. So all of this is very bad news against the backdrop of people in the administration like Larry Kudlow insisting that we are in some kinds of V-shaped recovery, which is kind of insensitive and disconnected from the fact that millions of Americans are still unemployed. And by the way, they are still not getting that enhanced unemployment benefit of $600.00 a week. Of course, the President has said that you know, he has actually signed an executive order that would allow for some disaster relief funding to provide people, unemployed people with a $300.00 benefit. Only a few states have taken advantage of that so far. We are going to have to see how the rollout goes in the rest of the country. But when you look at the jobs number, it is very clear that it is not a V-shaped recovery. Sure, we could have a V-shaped recovery in some pockets of the economy, for example, like the housing market, and then, of course the stock market has been on a tear. And also showing a V-shaped recovery. But not everybody is fortunate enough to own a home or stocks. So, Zain, a very uneven recovery, and possibly fueling, actually probably fueling more and more inequality between the highest income earners and the lower income earners here. But certainly, a lot more pain to come -- Zain.", "Yes, it's certainly a tale of two Americas at the very least. Christina Alesci live for us there, thank you so much. Wall Street is continuing its trend of shrugging off negative news about the state of the economy. All three major U.S. markets are higher. The S&P 500 is within striking distance of another all-time closing high. As things stand now, the NASDAQ appears set to close at its third record high of the week. Wall Street records come during a pandemic that ravaged the economy for average people. It is a wealth gap that's only getting worse. Vanessa Yurkevich tells the story of those being left behind.", "There are two economic realities in the U.S. right now. Wall Street is surging.", "We got it. All-time high for the", "The NASDAQ looking to extend those record gains.", "But on Main Street, the economy is spiraling.", "For us, it's been a lot of stress.", "It is not getting better. It's getting worse.", "There is a disconnect. The stock market has recovered from the pandemic while the U.S. unemployment rate tops 10 percent.", "Wall Street is primarily reflecting the profits of firms, which have a very different trajectory than the lives of workers. There is no doubt that this recession is widening the already large inequalities in this country.", "The Federal Reserve helped Corporate America and markets by injecting trillions into the financial system while keeping borrowing rates low. At the same time, more than 100,000 small businesses have closed, taking with them thousands of jobs. The landmark, Fraunces Tavern sits in the shadow of the New York Stock Exchange. Owner, Eddie Travers says revenue is down 80 percent even with government stimulus.", "Of course it is frustrating for us to look at that. To see that the stock market is doing incredibly well and for us, as we see it at the moment, it is not going to be pretty for us, our families, and our businesses.", "Like the majority of low-wage workers, Travers's employees don't have the option of working from home as most high-wage earners do.", "We sell an experience, you know, it is an experience of visiting the restaurant, and we can't package that up and put it in the car.", "That simple difference has dramatically slowed low-wage job recovery.", "High wage workers are essentially back to the employment levels they were in February and March, whereas low wage workers are still only half recovered.", "White workers gained back nearly twice as many jobs lost as black workers during the pandemic. Latinos also trail white workers in jobs recovered. Lucie Joseph was terminated from her job as a gas station cashier in Florida in June after she recovered from COVID-19. She says she was making $13.00 an hour.", "My world turned upside down. It was like a knife put into my heart.", "She says she is barely getting by on unemployment while she looks for a new job. A search made even more critical because of her 10-year-old son, Bailey.", "When you are a single mother, you have got no one to help you, so you are alone. How am I going to pay rent? You know? I have got to put a roof over my son's head.", "There are no record highs for Joseph and her son, only lows she is trying her best to climb out of.", "How are you going to say the economy is coming back where everything is closing down? That's not the truth. We are all suffering. I'm suffering.", "Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, New York.", "While Donald Trump routinely claims credit for stock market highs, Joe Biden is portraying himself as the savior of Main Street as he prepares to accept the Democratic nomination for President tonight. At the convention this week, the former Vice President and his allies are laying out their case why Biden should lead the U.S. through this economic recovery.", "Joe's plan to build back better includes making the wealthy pay their fair share, holding corporations accountable, repairing racial inequities, and fighting corruption in Washington.", "Joe won't just put his signature on a check and try to fool you into thinking it came from him. He will work to make sure that your paycheck reflects your contribution to and your stake in a growing economy.", "Joe will bring us together to build an economy that doesn't leave anyone behind, where a good-paying job is the floor, not the ceiling.", "He will rescue the economy like Joe helped me do after the Great Recession. I asked him to manage the Recovery Act, which jump started the longest stretch of job growth in history. And he sees this moment now not as a chance to get back to where we were, but to make long overdue changes so that our economy actually makes life a little easier for everybody.", "Penny Pritzker served as Barack Obama's Commerce Secretary. She joins us live now from Aspen, Colorado. Penny, thank you for being with us. What is the number one thing that Joe Biden needs to do in order to relieve this country of some of its economic woes?", "I think there are actually three things that Joe Biden is focused on to bring this country back to an inclusive economic growth. The first is a plan to end the pandemic, and to basically listen to the scientists and listen to the experts to be able to bring therapies and vaccines to all of us. The second is, he has developed an inclusive economic competitiveness plan. A plan that invests in our work force, gives people the kind of benefits that are necessary in order for them to be able to work. Invests in manufacturing so that we make vital products here in the United States, invests in R&D so that we are leading in the technologies of the 21st Century, like 5G, and A.I., and Quantum. And finally, investing in clean energy so that we have an environment that is healthy for all of us, but also that we have the energy supply that we need in order lead the world. And finally, the thing that Joe Biden plans to do and will do is put America back in a leading position globally. He will work together with our allies and he will work against our adversaries, and so I think that a combination of these things will bring greater certainty and stability to our country and to our citizenry and certainly will help businesses make more investments.", "You talked at the beginning of your answer about ending the pandemic. But how much is Joe Biden's hands tied just in terms of what he can do economically to revive the economy without there being a vaccine and when there appears to be a second wave in this country as well?", "Well, there is a lot to do. You can make investments, you know, in our workforce, make sure that we have training, make sure that we are leveraging our community colleges, and make sure that we are helping those who have lost their jobs, upskill, so that they are qualified for the jobs that are open and available. You can invest in R&D. You can put us back on a clean energy program, which is something that Americans want. So there's a lot to be done. But simultaneously, you know, as President, you have to do a lot of things at the same time. And simultaneously you're addressing the pandemic and the conditions and setting a tone -- which is we all need to wear masks, this is not optional. This is not a choice. This is what we need to do.", "Obviously, Joe Biden's priorities as you just laid out are going to be domestic. However, if you look at the bigger picture, the world's two biggest economies are at lager heads. The U.S. and China. What do you think Joe Biden's strategy -- I mean, once he sort of takes care of the economy here, given the pandemic, what do you think his strategy is going to be when it comes to handling China?", "I think first of all, his strategy is to make sure the United States is competitive, and that economic competitiveness plan that I just laid out is something that is essential not only for us domestically, but frankly, the Chinese fear it. They fear our competition, so that's number one. Number two is to stand up and hold China accountable to their responsibilities globally, like playing fair, whether it is around intellectual property protection or following the rules of global trade so that, you know, China and the United States are at least on a level playing field with one another. So there is lot that Joe Biden can do and will do to stand up to China and to put the United States and continue to put the United States in a competitive position and make sure that all Americans are benefiting from that.", "We are living through a tale of two Americas right now. I mean, obviously, you know, almost every day on this program, I talk about the fact that we are either at or nearing or hovering around record highs in term of the stock market. At the same time we are witnessing ordinary Americans really suffering especially given that it has been several week now since they have had that unemployment insurance, $600.00, a week that they so desperately need. Why is there this divergence between what Wall Street is experiencing on the one hand and what Main Street is experiencing?", "Well, I think we need to -- you know, look, the issue of inclusive economic growth is something that I have been passionate about since before my time as Secretary of Commerce and making sure that every American has the opportunity to adjust and thrive as we transition into a much more digitally led economy. And that's something that's central to the plan that Joe Biden has put forward, and what you are seeing is using significant growth in our digitally lead businesses, and you're seeing significant pain in our, you know, travel or tourism or restaurants or Main Street type retail, if you will. And you know, we are going through a massive transition in that respect. I think, you know, the ability to bring back travel and tourism goes right to the heart of needing to handle the pandemic. Without handling the pandemic, without all of us feeling safe, we are not going to get, you know, on a plane or go to a hotel, or eat out at restaurants at the rate that we were before. And so, you know, there's a lot to be done, and Joe Biden understands that. And for me, this issue of, you know, fundamental to the competitiveness plan is investing in our people so that the recovery is inclusive of everyone.", "And then you know, just in terms of obviously, yes, it is a priority to make sure that this recovery is inclusive. But you know, we have sort of stalled in terms of having a stimulus bill that gets passed for example. If he continue to wait and those stimulus checks aren't sent out, you know, what is going to be the consequence in terms of this recovery?", "Well, Congress recognizes I think they have got to get their act together, that this crisis is not over and their possibility has not ended. And so, I am hopeful that they can find common ground because Americans are suffering and we cannot allow -- as we transition through this horrible virus -- that we let Americans flail. So, I think there is enormous pressure on Congress, and frankly on President Trump to take action and the executive actions are -- as you have seen, the Business Roundtable has come back and said we cannot implement these executive actions. So Congress needs to act.", "Penny Pritzker live for us there. Thank you so much. Appreciate you joining us.", "Thank you.", "Still to come, the fall semester is officially under way at the University of Miami. We will talk to its President about how students are keeping safe. Plus, the Kremlin is accused of targeting a major opposition figure. 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{"id": "CNN-10117", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-6-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/15/ee.10.html", "summary": "SEC Director of Enforcement Discusses New Challenges for Regulators Trying to Insulate Investors from Criminals", "utt": ["Authorities expect to make more arrests in what's being called the largest crackdown on securities fraud in U.S. history. Police have already collared 120 people in the Wall Street investigation. Officials say all five of New York's major organized crime families are involved.", "Now, the crackdown, according to investigators, is proof the Mafia is now infiltrating white collar businesses. And that poses new challenges for regulators trying to insulate investors from criminals. Which is a good time now to go to Richard Walker. He is the director of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission, who is in New York this morning. Good morning, Mr. Walker.", "Good morning.", "Give us an idea of the scope of this case. Have you seen anything like this in your experience?", "This is the largest case in history for us involving actions of this kind.", "Well, as I understand it, if the indictment is correct, it involves at least five mob families, operating for five years, managing to corrupt everyone from company heads to brokers to attorneys, what does this tell us about the fraud safety net on Wall Street?", "I think it is important to note that these actions focus on a very small segment of the market, an area of the market that we call the micro cap securities market. These are generally low-priced, thinly traded securities, and I don't think that there is anything about the actions that would indicate that Wall Street, in general, is anything other than very safe and secure and well policed.", "But for the investors who managed to lose $50 million over five years, what do you tell them about whether are the regulatory safety net actually worked or failed here?", "Well, I think it is a very important message for investors that they have to take very, very careful steps to get the facts, to do their homework. This is an area of the market where there is less public information available, than in other areas of the market. And there is certainly an unrelenting bull market over the last 10 years lots of opportunities. I think investors sometimes are lulled into a false sense of security. There is no substitute for doing homework and getting the facts.", "As I understand it, part of this operation was a boiler room operation, where they would actually telephone people and solicit over the phone. Who was usually targeted?", "There was a variety, a cross-section of people, some were elderly, but there is no particular characteristics of the people that were targeted in these kinds of schemes. These situations involve cold calls to many people, and it happens on a broad basis. The Internet was also used to achieve greater penetration.", "Well, perhaps in a situation with a cold caller or an Internet solicitations, it is pretty easy to say buyer beware, but could this or did this happen where people actually were working with their own brokers, where there was a relationship, and that broker had been corrupted and compromised by these mob figures allegedly?", "In some cases that was also true. There was, again, a variety of different types of activities that occurred in these actions. But generally speaking, these were smaller firms that were engaged in cold calling and boiler room type of activities.", "So how do you know? If you have a relationship with your broker, how can you tell if the advice that you're getting is false?", "If you have got a relationship and you know who your broker is, and you have checked your broker out, and made sure that your broker is reliable and credible and hasn't been disciplined, you're in good shape. But if you just talk to somebody on the telephone, you don't know who they are, you need to do more.", "So how widespread do you think this case is going to be? how many more people arrested?", "Our investigation is ongoing. And obviously, when -- over 100 people are involved in any particular action, there are lots of leads to continue to follow up. So I suspect that we will be active for a good period of time.", "You know what happened to the money?", "The money was, in many cases, spent by those who raised it. But we are going to use our very best efforts to get some of the money back to try to reimburse some of the investors who were harmed.", "Hopefully, you will be able to do just that. Thank you very much Richard Walker with the Securities and Exchange Commission.", "Thank you, Carol."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "RICHARD WALKER, U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION", "LIN", "WALKER", "LIN", "WALKER", "LIN", "WALKER", "LIN", "WALKER", "LIN", "WALKER", "LIN", "WALKER", "LIN", "WALKER", "LIN", "WALKER", "LIN", "WALKER"]}
{"id": "CNN-392998", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-02-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/17/nday.02.html", "summary": "Former DOJ Officials Call for Barr's Resignation.", "utt": ["Welcome back. More than 1,000 former Justice Department officials who served under both Republican and Democratic administrations are now calling on the attorney general, William Barr, to resign. In a rare statement, the officials write, quote, Mr. Barr's actions in doing the president's personal bidding unfortunately speak louder than his words. Those actions and the damage they have done to the Department of Justice's reputation for integrity and the rule of law require Mr. Barr to resign. One of the signatories is the former acting attorney general, Stuart Gerson. He was an adviser to George H.W. Bush. Mr. Gerson, thanks so much for taking the time this morning.", "Good morning, Jim.", "So I find your point of view fascinating here because your argument, in effect, is that Barr is less interested in defending Trump himself than in advancing his own belief in a reactionary, you call it, or right wing agenda here. And that, in effect, he's smarter than Trump and, therefore, able to do this. Explain that.", "Well, he's a good deal smarter than the -- than the president. The president is able to capitalize on the intellectual depth of Bill Barr, who's setting an agenda that the president can adopt. I think the point of Barr's statement was, get out of the way, Mr. President, and I can advance this agenda. Barr believes in a -- what he calls -- his view of the unitary executive, which would grant superiority to the executive over the other branches. That's not the way the framers saw it but it's an authoritarian view and the president is very comfortable with that.", "Respond to the argument, because you will hear from the president's defenders, or from Barr's defenders, saying, hey, Eric Holder looked out for President Obama. Explain where Bill Barr, in your view, has gone beyond previous attorneys general.", "Bill Barr has never been a prosecutor. He's never stood up in front of a jury perhaps as a white man talking to a black jury seeking the conviction of a black man. It's the job of federal prosecutors to dispense justice without fear or favor, without respect to class or position in life. These prosecutors, who were on the line, who brought in a verdict against someone who was a crony of the president now see that being undone in a way that differs from the way other people are treated. That's the point.", "And it's not just on Roger Stone, because, as you know, Attorney General Barr has now -- is now re-examining a whole host of cases, including the prosecution of Michael Flynn. Tell us -- tell us about how that might play out in your view and what that does to the line prosecutors who've been entrusted with these cases?", "Well, it's likely to do nothing to the judges who have these cases. They're experienced judges. They see what's going on. And they're going to decide what sentences should be based on the way they see the facts and what information is made available to them that they don't otherwise get. So I think we'll be safe as a public from that. Where -- where there's a problem is when what is supposed to be the least political branch of the executive branch, the least political part of the executive branch, where political officials are reaching into pending cases, that is something that's out of the ordinary and out of the norm. Of course there are going to be disputes between prosecutors and their superiors about how cases should be treated and charging decisions and the like of that, but this goes beyond that. This is reaching into a pending case, obviously without the knowledge and input of the prosecutors, else that otherwise couldn't explain their resignations. They were -- they were taken aback by all of this. And it's a very unusual situation. And it's not a good one.", "And that is a concern for the attorney general, is it not, that he has something of a mutiny on his hands here, when you have four U.S. attorneys resign from a case in protest in effect here. And it's CNN's reporting that this extends far beyond those four prosecutors.", "Well, look at it -- look at it this year, I -- I've seen reporting that suggests that the attorney general doesn't care that there's disputes within the department as long as he's doing the right thing. My experience, albeit for a shorter time is, you can't lead without the people following you. And this is a situation that needs to be resolved and explained. On a day-to-day basis, I'm confident that the assistant United States attorneys, throughout all the 90 plus offices in the country, are going to do the right thing. This makes it a little more difficult, and they're certainly looking over their shoulder.", "Stuart Gerson, good to speak to you this morning.", "Thank you very much, Jim.", "All right, Jim, we are following breaking news with the coronavirus outbreak. So NEW DAY continues right now.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is NEW DAY. John Berman is off today. Jim Sciutto joins me. Great to have you.", "Good to be here. Just a little bit of news to cover this morning.", "There sure is. So, after two weeks in quarantine on a cruise ship in Japan, more than 300 Americans are back on U.S. soil at this hour. And now they're facing another 14 days in isolation here. These two charter planes have landed this --"], "speaker": ["SCIUTTO", "STUART GERSON, ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL UNDER CLINTON ADMINISTRATION", "SCIUTTO", "GERSON", "SCIUTTO", "GERSON", "SCIUTTO", "GERSON", "SCIUTTO", "GERSON", "SCIUTTO", "GERSON", "CAMEROTA", "ANNOUNCER", "CAMEROTA", "SCIUTTO", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-326173", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-11-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/16/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Trump Touts Trip to Asia", "utt": ["This is CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. Ahead this hour --", "As armored tanks roll down the streets of Harare, what's next for Zimbabwe after an apparent military coup?", "Donald Trump and his most excellent adventures. A thirsty U.S. President boasts America is back after his marathon trip to Asia.", "And a defiant Roy Moore fights back against a growing list of accusers. Attorney Gloria Allred joins us to renew her call for a senate hearing.", "Hello and welcome to our viewers all around the world. Great to have you with us. I'm John Vause.", "And I'm Isha Sesay. NEWSROOM L.A. starts right now. Well, Zimbabweans are anxiously waiting to see if a military takeover will bring political change. President Robert Mugabe who's ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for almost four decades is now said to be safe under house arrest. It's unclear what political role, if any, the 93-year-old president will have in a new government.", "Military leaders denied they staged a coup but it sure looks like they have. Tanks and troops are stationed around key government buildings and state-run television is under their control. A number of officials have reportedly been arrested. Analysts believe the military is trying to prevent the President's wife, Grace, from taking over from her husband.", "CNN's Eleni Giokos is following all of this for us from Johannesburg and joins us now live. Eleni -- good to have you with us. So the military described what is happening in Zimbabwe as a move to target criminals surrounding President Mugabe to pacify the situation in the country. What can you tell us about what is happening in the country at present?", "Well, I mean what we do know -- military on the ground, it's got all the markings of a potential coup. The military, of course, as you said, is not calling it a coup at this point in time. We know that the airport is still under control of the military, so too is the state broadcaster. President Robert Mugabe and the first family as we understand is being confined and under house arrest so to speak. But talking with President Jacob Zuma we know that apparently everyone is fine. I was watching the Zimbabwe news broadcast this morning, of course as I mentioned it is under military control at this point in time. And mixture of news coming through this morning but one of the key elements that came through was that peace and stability needs to kind of stay in place; that people are urged to go back to work. That it's all about peace. The military is also hosting a three-day summit in Masvingo over the weekend that is going to be focused on peace and stability. So the military I think is just going on about making sure that peace and calm remains in the country. And the reason that they need to do this is to ensure there isn't any kind of hard-core regional intervention. And we know that President Jacob Zuma's envoy has been sent there this morning and hopefully they're going to be engaging in some kind of negotiation and a meeting with President Jacob Zuma. But the region is definitely on high alert because if anything does play out, any kind of violence sparked, then it becomes a regional problem and, of course, there needs to be as much calm as possible at this point in time and a very difficult and, of course, tense situation.", "Jacob Zuma sending an envoy to Zimbabwe to engage in talks, as you mentioned there. But the question has to be, what is the end goal on the part of the South African envoy of Jacob Zuma being quite clear that this is a coup urging the military not to intervene or not to contravene the Zimbabwean constitution? Meanwhile, the African Union taking a more circumspect position here in all of this just saying, you know, urging restraint. So what is -- I guess, what's Zuma's end game here?", "Well, Zuma and Mugabe we know are close friends. In fact, Mugabe invited to the World Economic Forum a little earlier this year which, of course, raised a lot of eyebrows given the fact that Zimbabwe of course, has been under international scrutiny for a lot of issues over the past 20 years or so. Importantly Jacob Zuma is now the chair of the Southern African Development Community. He has to take a diplomatic stance. And he has to also ensure that he engages in SADC (ph) protocol and African Union protocol as well. It's going to be very difficult for him to stand on the sidelines. As to which side he's going to take, it's going to be interesting. We know that South Africa has always taken a stance of perhaps quiet diplomacy when it comes to Zimbabwe even during the times of violent land grabs by the Zimbabwean government in the early 2000s that resulted in food shortages and hyperinflation. South Africa perhaps stood on the sidelines and that was the view of many people. So it will be interesting to see how Jacob Zuma reacts to all of this. But also remember this is a man that has been in power for almost 40 years. Is he going to stand by and just stand down? This is going to be kind of an interesting development. It's very fluid right now as you can tell.", "Yes. It certainly is. I mean Robert Mugabe still held by many African leaders as, you know, this legendary figure that saw off the British there in what was Rhodesia. So it will be interesting to see how they handle this moment. Eleni Giokos -- appreciate the insight and analysis. Thank you.", "Well, to Washington now and fresh off his trip to Asia, President Donald Trump says America is back, so am I; and he's restored U.S. standing in the world. And he's claiming progress on North Korea, fighting terrorism and trade.", "I also had a very candid conversation with President Xi about the need to reduce our staggering trade deficit with China and for our trading relationship to be conducted on a truly fair and equitable basis. We can no longer tolerate unfair trading practices that steal American jobs, wealth and intellectual property. The days of the United States being taken advantage of are over.", "Joining us now, CNN correspondents Andrew Stevens in Beijing; Paula Hancocks is in Seoul, South Korea; and here in Los Angeles, Democratic strategist Caroline Heldman; and conservative commentator Alex Datig. I hope I got that right. Thank you for being with us. Ok. So Caroline -- this was a 35-minute long speech by the President. It was billed as a major announcement but it seemed more like a travel diary and most of the entries say I was wined and dined and had a really good time and everyone liked me.", "And apparently he didn't have enough to drink because he was very thirsty.", "There was that, too.", "This is what we remember about the speech. I thought he was teasing a major trade deal as his whole point in going on this trip was really two-fold. One was to establish a clear trade policy in the region which he's failed to do. As much as he says that he has there's nothing concrete. And the other was to share an idea of stabilization and get everybody together to coalesce against what's happening to North Korea. That didn't happen either. He got into a petty Twitter squabble with Kim Jong-Un and then, you know, he flip-flopped on Russia after meeting with Putin. So this was not a successful trip and his speech today really exemplifies the fact that nothing happened on this trip.", "Alex -- how do you answer that criticism? Also, the fact that, you know, what he did outline in this speech many say it's kind of overblown? It's exaggerated.", "Well, I'd like to begin like this.", "Nice.", "Here's to you.", "You're not the only one who's done that today, by the way.", "You know, I think he accomplished a lot by bringing those UCLA basketball players home, for starters --", "That was not on the trip thought.", "-- and it would have been nice if they would have said thank you.", "I think one did.", "Ok. Well, if they did, then I didn't hear it. But needless to say, I thought that was a good accomplishment. And I though, you know, I thought it was, you know, no good deed goes unpunished with this President. Nobody wants to give him any credit. He freed these students. They got admitted to UCLA, what are they doing stealing stuff?", "He didn't go to Asia to free the three students.", "I understand and he could have negotiated something else had they not done that.", "That's why he didn't get a trade deal -- Alex? Because he was negotiating on behalf of the basketball players?", "He was looking toward a trade deal. He was looking to have good relations.", "Ok.", "He was looking to have good relations with China to help with Korea so we wouldn't have an issue with Iran because we do have this nuclear agreement that is being undone right now or in the works and so forth. So I think it was a diplomatic tour very much for him. I think it was successful. And I don't think we should have expected a lot more than just for him to have good relations so that we can have higher expectations.", "Well, one of the big goals of the trip was to build pressure on North Korea, especially to try and get to China do a lot more about North Korea and its nuclear and missile program. This is the assessment the President had. Listen to this.", "During our visit, President Xi pledged to faithfully implement United Nations Security Council resolutions on North Korea and to use his great economic influence over the regime to achieve our common goal of a denuclearized Korean Peninsula. President Xi recognizes that a nuclear North Korea is a grave threat to China.", "To Andrew Stevens in Beijing, did China actually agree to making denuclearization a goal here? Because in the past the priority has always been to main peace on the Korean Peninsula, never going that far.", "Well, China has always been looking for a denuclearized Korean Peninsula -- John. That is true. And the President's right in saying that it does wield an awful lot of economic influence over North Korea. What China would also say and has been saying repeatedly is that it is abiding by all the U.N. sanctions, those latest sanctions imposed after the September 3 hydrogen bomb test that include capping oil exports to North Korea and also looking at banning exports of textiles and also cutting back visas to North Koreans working overseas. So China says it's faithfully implementing all those and could go a lot of further if it wanted to and that would take it beyond the remit of the U.N. sanctions. And it's showing no indications it's prepared to do that. I would say though and this is being seen as not a coincidence that a special envoy from Beijing is traveling to Pyongyang tomorrow to meet with senior members of North Korea's communist party. We don't know whether he'll actually be meeting with Kim Jong-Un himself. The Chinese are saying this is a protocol visit to tell the North Koreans what happened at this recent 19th national congress held in Beijing. But a lot of the conversation here is the fact that that envoy would be bearing a message to Kim Jong-Un from Xi Jinping and relations there are not warm at all. We don't know what the message -- or what the content of that message will be but certainly -- it's quite safe to assume that denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula will be s very, very high on those talks. What happens from there we don't know -- John. But -- the President's right in saying that China has this massive economic influence, 90 percent of North Korean international trade goes through China but there's no indication from President Xi or anyone else that it's going to do anything other than stand by the U.N. resolutions on dealing with North Korea.", "Andrew -- thank you. From Beijing, we'll head over Seoul and we'll talk about the issue of North Korea because -- Paula, good to see you -- Donald Trump talked about the progress he made in dealing with North Korea. Listen to this.", "We have ended the failed strategy of strategic patience and as a result we have already seen important progress, including tough new sanctions from the U.N. Council. We have a Security Council that has been with us and just about with us from the beginning.", "So Paula -- what's the view from there? Is progress being made on ending Pyongyang's nuclear missile program?", "Well, what we did see was the U.S. President was in the region with Japan and South Korea coming out with unilateral sanctions against North Korea, potentially in order to curry favor with the U.S. President, certainly we saw those two countries pull out all the stops in order to try and impress Donald Trump. I think that's not too much of a stretch to say that. So we did have unilateral sanctions, but beyond that there was nothing concrete. Interestingly, we haven't seen any missile launches from North Korea for about two months now. That is uncharacteristically quite when you consider 2016, much of 2017 has been intense testing, the likes of which we haven't seen in North Korean history. But that can't be put down to the last couple of weeks of this U.S. President's trip in Asia and certainly from North Korea's point of view when it comes to the rhetoric, they're angered by the U.S. President by what he has said, by the Twitter spat that he's got into once again. One thing I wanted to read you a commentary from the North Korean newspaper on Wednesday said, quote, \"Trump who is no more than an old slave of money dared point an accusing finger at the sun. He should know that he's just a hideous criminal, sentenced to death by the Korean people.\" Now, that is because they are angered that he is making personal attacks against Kim Jong-Un, the North Korean leader and also a fairly unusual threat on his life against the U.S. President himself. So in that respect, he's not making much headway.", "I guess on North Korea we'll give him an incomplete and maybe work on his people skills. Paula Hancocks -- thank you, in Seoul. And before you -- Andrew Stevens there in Beijing. Thanks to you both. Back to Alex here because the problem for the President is that the story dominating the news right now the story that Donald Trump does not want to talk about. Listen to this.", "Thank you. Thank you all.", "Should Roy Moore resign, Mr. President?", "Should he resign?", "Ok. So this is Roy Moore, you know, the senate candidate from Alabama accused by a growing number of women, two more have come out according to the \"Washington Post\" the last couple of hours accusing him of inappropriate sexual behavior. Donald Trump won Alabama by 28 points. If he wanted to resolve this, he could do it quickly and he could do it easily. Yes?", "You know, yes. But I'm not if the President is even an issue here. We have 3.1 million registered voters in the state of Alabama; 1.3 million of which voted for Donald Trump; 700,000 voted for Hillary. So, in last election in the primary they had 17.6s percent voter turnout which means 580,000 Republican votes and 109,000 Democratic for Jones. Now Moore won that over Luther Strange. So, I mean, if you have Republican turnout it may not matter what the women do or what they don't do because it's a numbers game. And while -- if these allegations are true, I find that all very sad and very horrible. I just think it's very -- it is politically motivated. I do not like seeing sexual harassment claims made at the eleventh hour against a candidate. But at the same time, children are off limits, you know? And if you're talking about us having to decide whether or not to give someone the benefit of the doubt so they can run for the United States Senate, the answer's no. And that's just my position. It's been my position for a while and I came out on Facebook about it and I got called out. But now, you see what happens. And I just, you know, I do not like sexual harassment being used in politics at all because the victims don't really get redress. They may get monetary relief but redress is impossible when they make this public.", "Let's get Caroline in this --", "So they should have stayed quiet? I mean I think it's morally reprehensible that we are having a conversation about whether or not Roy Moore is fit or the timing of all of this. It is really clear, we are talking allegations of pedophilia, of sexual assault. At this point, yes, the President could step in. Terrible timing for the GOP but at the end of the day this is Steve Bannon's fault. This man was not vetted. He should have been vetted and this should have all been resolved. He never should have been the candidate.", "Alex,", "I love that question -- John.", "I'm sure.", "And the reason I love that question is because I'm a human trafficking survivor. I'm a sexual assault survivor. I'm a child molestation survivor. I'm a teenage rape survivor. And as a rape survivor and a sexual assault survivor, I can tell you today if I sued every person that sexually harassed me I'd be an unemployable millionaire.", "What about the 16 for Trump, though?", "But it doesn't matter. It's very damaging for a sexual harassment victim to come out and speak about this publicly because of the re-traumatization.", "But doesn't that --", "It should belong in the therapist's office.", "-- doesn't that lend credibility to those claims?", "I understand -- you know, I understand the sticking point and all that but this is not something that is healthy for a sexual assault survivor. It's not healthy.", "Wait -- no, no. They get to decide that. As a sexual assault survivor --", "I understand -- I understand why the sexual assault survivor gets to decide.", "They get to decide when they come forward.", "I understand but you know what as an advocate for child --", "You're speaking with one, as well. You're speaking with a sexual violence advocate so set that aside. Donald Trump --", "-- with the toughest laws in the country against child sex trafficking and Roy Moore is a child sex trafficker.", "And yet you're still -- and you're still --", "When you take a minor --", "But should he be in the Senate?", "He should not.", "Ok. Good.", "He should not. Absolutely not. We agree.", "We agree. Ok. Well, it looks like he's going nowhere because he tweeted this out a short time ago. \"Dear Mitch McConnell,\" -- the Republican Senate leader -- \"bring it on.\" He obviously blames the Republican Party establishment for this -- what he calls a witch hunt and he's not leaving. So this goes on. Alex and Caroline -- good to see you both. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Quick break here. 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{"id": "CNN-70926", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-5-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/16/lad.17.html", "summary": "Texas Showdown: Renegade Democratic Lawmakers Return", "utt": ["They're back. Those renegade Texas lawmakers have arrived in Austin on a bus from Oklahoma. Ed Lavandera is live in the Texas state capital. Ed -- are they there yet? What will the reception be like if they are?", "Well, they arrived about an hour ago, a very quiet reception quite frankly. It's 4:00 in the morning, so you can't expect a lot of people to be hanging out at the state capital. But they do have plans for a big rally later on this morning. In probably the next hour or the next couple of hours there will be a rally here at the state capital, so many of the representatives that have made their way back from Oklahoma freshening up this morning. They crossed the state line from Oklahoma into Texas just a little after 11:00 last night, 11:15. And as they did that they declared victory and had a lot of cheering to do. So, those lawmakers making a quick dash down Interstate 35 into Austin and the state capitol. They will return to the House floor later on this morning. Since they left here Sunday night in the middle of the night and made that bus trip up north to Ardmore, Oklahoma, the Texas House of Representatives has essentially been shut down, very quiet on the floor. Four days of not being able to get any business done on the floor. So, the representatives and the handful of Democrats that were left behind here have been resorted just to working in committee hearing meetings throughout the week. But business picks up here again. Republican -- the speaker of the House told me yesterday that the Democrats, they have no plans for any kind of retribution, but one of the Democrats that did stay behind, Carol, that these lawmakers need to watch their backs.", "Well, you have to think that there will be hard feelings between Democrats and Republicans, especially now, no matter what they say, right, Ed?", "Absolutely. You know, there was a big controversy. The Republicans here saying that some 500 bills have been killed because of this political stunt that the Democrats were able to pull off this week, and that that money -- that cost the state about $600 million as well. But Democrats say they'll still be able to salvage many of those bills, but the Republicans here are very skeptical of that, and it doesnt look like anyone is willing to bend over backwards to help these guys at this point.", "Two weeks left in the legislative session, so we'll see how it goes. Ed Lavandera live from Austin, Texas this morning."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "LAVANDERA", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-196515", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-11-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1211/29/cnr.07.html", "summary": "UK Judge Calls for Independent Panel on Media", "utt": ["Tabloid journalists in Britain lisping in on the private phone calls of celebrities, listening in on the British royal family, even ordinary citizens. This was a scandal that rocked the British press, but one of their oldest tabloids put them out of business and led to a year-long ethics investigation of phone hacking. Well, today the judge leading that investigation issued his final report. It calls on the tabloids to set up an independent panel to regulate their practices. British prime minister David Cameron reacted to the judge's decision.", "A regulatory system that complies with the Leveson principles should be put in place rapidly. I favor giving the press a limited period of time in which to do this. They do not need to wait for all the other elements of Lord Justice Leveson's report to be implemented. While no one wants to see full statutory regulation, let me stress, the status quo is not an option.", "We're going to have more on this story from our Dan Rivers out of London in just a bit when we can call him up. In the meantime, Japanese authorities are now dealing with this mysterious boat. It was found grounded off the country's Sado Island in the Sea of Japan. Now, inside police found a number of decomposed bodies. The damaged wooden boat has markings that appear to be Korean characters. Now, authorities think the remains may be those of North Korean fishermen or defectors. They don't know how long the boat had actually been adrift at sea. And U.S.-based Continental Airlines is now cleared of blame in the crash of the Concorde back in 2000. One- hundred-thirteen people were killed when the high-speed jet went down on takeoff at Charles de Gaulle airport outside of Paris. Well, today, an appeals court in France ruled that Continental is not criminally liable of negligence or manslaughter. Now, the ruling comes two years after another court ruled that Continental was responsible for that crash. Want to go back to Dan Rivers in London. I understand we have got a connection there. Dan, you've got some more information on what is taking place. The judge ruling the final ruling and recommendation from his report regarding some of the British tabloids that got into some serious trouble from phone-hacking all the way to essentially spying on the royal family and many others. What do we know?", "Yes, so, basically, this is a response to this sprawling phone-hacking scandal in the U.K. which exposed the way that tabloid journalists were going about getting stories, not only doing things in a very underhand way. In many cases breaking the criminal law to get stories, hacking into the phones of celebrities, of sports stars, of politicians, even of murder victims and of the victims of terrorism, so a broad range of victims. Now, a huge volume of suggestions, 2,000 pages in total, from the judge that's been charged with trying to come up with a solution to all of this as to how better to regulate the British press. And, basically, the suggestion is it should be an independent form of regulation of the press with some sort of legislation to back that up, but basically the press should have an independent body overseeing it, making sure that it's playing fair and that the people who feel that they're not treated well have a means, a cheap means, of getting redress, getting apologies on the front pages, getting compensation if necessary.", "Dan, I notice one thing you said. You said suggestions. So are -- is this completely voluntarily? I mean, how would this be enforced? Would this body, this independent body, have some real teeth, some real power in enforcing how the press behaves?", "Well, it's a very delicate balancing act that he's tried to perform here, Lord Justice Leveson. We don't have a First Amendment here, guaranteeing the freedom of the press, and so they're very concerned that they don't try and muzzle the press while, at the same time, trying to gently suggest that they all join this scheme. They're not going to force the press to join this regulatory scheme, but there are going to be -- there's going to be sort of financial jeopardy if papers don't join in, it is suggested. They could be liable to greater damages in court cases, for example, and they're talking about a kind of stamp of approval that papers who are in this scheme could put on their front page to say this is a trusted brand of journalism. So, they're trying to entice them in. The question is, though, will the politicians agree to actually implement any of this?", "Yeah, good question. Thank you, Dan. Appreciate it. So, we're talking about a brutal $6 billion campaign filled with those nasty attack ads. You remember them. Well, now, President Obama and his former rival Mitt Romney, are they ready to bury the hatchet, break bread together? Well, that is about to happen at the White House, minutes away. We're going to get a live report. Could be kind of an awkward lunch date."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER", "MALVEAUX", "DAN RIVERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX", "RIVERS", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-361411", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2019-02-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/07/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "Trump's Allies Attacking His Enemies Behind", "utt": ["Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee taking the first steps today to try to get President Trump's tax returns. Can you believe that? The committee hearing from experts on how an obscure provision in the tax code could potentially give the chairman access to Trump's returns. Let's discuss now, Michael D'Antonio here, Michael is the author of \"The Truth About Trump,\" and Andrea Bernstein, the co-host of the podcast \"Trump, Inc.\" from WNYC and ProPublica. You won for this podcast what?", "A duPont.", "Congratulations.", "Thank you.", "And welcome. Michael, you covered Trump for years. He has been adamant about not releasing his personal financial details. What is he trying to hide?", "First of all, he lies a lot. So, no matter what is in these tax returns, we're going to discover that he has lied about something. He has either lied about how wealthy he is and how much money he makes, and this claim to being a billionaire is not quite proven, or perhaps he has lied about his connections to foreign interests, maybe he's lied about how he acquired his wealth, the inheritances from his father. There are so many possibilities here for deception. And I think also, he could wind up being exhibit 1-A for what is wrong with the tax system. We may discover that he hasn't paid much in taxes at all for a very long time. And the public is going to see this and think well, wait a minute, how is this person who is ostensibly so rich not paying taxes the way that I'm paying taxes? So, there's nothing good in this for him.", "And you have said and others that there's absolutely no evidence that he's presented -- actual evidence that has been presented that he's a billionaire.", "I'm not sure that he is. You know, he's one of these people who hectored the various lists, insisting that he be put on them as a billionaire. You know, I think during the campaign, it was $10 or $12 billion he was worth. But when he and Tim O'Brien were in court over this, he had trouble proving that he even possessed $1 billion in wealth.", "Interesting. So, Andrea, when he hosted \"The Apprentice,\" he was able to present himself, right, as a businessman, consummate businessman, who has it all together. Do you think that, you know, was that accurate as to what was happening behind the scenes at the Trump Organization?", "Well, from what we know now just from the reporting that we've done, that others have done, there were a lot of problems. There was -- I mean, for example, look at the Michael Cohen guilty plea. Well, that involved the Trump Organization participating in making elicit payments, or there's an investigation of the Trump Foundation, whether there was appropriate walls between the campaign, the foundation, and the Trump Organization. So, from what we have learned already, there are -- there has been a tremendous amount of problematic behavior. So, we don't know why the president is so upset. We don't know what there is left to find. It's unknowable until we actually find it. But we do know when we examine deals, when we examine financial transaction, when we examine business partners, we find a lot of problematic people and some of the people he was working with are now, we know, outright crooks.", "Well --", "Wow.", "You know, what do you think we would think if it were shown that Donald Trump's business tax returns indicated payments to AMI? So, how is it that he's gotten such great publicity from the National Enquirer for so many years? Was he buying the publicity? His assumptions about everybody being corrupt, the way that he attacks Bezos, for example, are based on his own experience.", "And projection.", "Right. So we know that these returns and if they dig deep enough, get into his business activities, could reveal all kinds of cross currents that no one has imagined.", "In fact, \"The New York Times\" did get some of his father's tax returns.", "Right.", "They concluded that there was outright fraud, that was their language, in the way that the Trump family business had not declared taxes, not made clear the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next, $413 dollars, they say, Trump's father gave him that he has not declared. He said, oh, no, it was a million. So, I think obviously what all this is building to is the sort of question is what was he doing in Moscow?", "It was amazing to many people that that story in \"The New York Times\" that you referenced was kind of a big shrug, and that's a huge story.", "Right. I mean, it's hard to know because these things have a way of coming back around with Trump, but it does show that when you start looking even at something that people thought was old and long ago, a lot of questions are raised about possible criminal behavior.", "When it comes to doing business in Russia, he has always maintained that he has nothing to hide. Listen to this.", "By the way, I would say, I don't -- I don't -- I mean, it's possible there's a condo or something, so, you know, I sell a lot of condo units, and somebody from Russia buys a condo, who knows? I don't make money from Russia. I don't have buildings in Russia. They said I own buildings in Russia. I don't. They said I made money from Russia. I don't. It's not my thing. I don't, I don't do that. Over the years, I've looked at maybe doing a deal in Russia, but I never did one.", "You think that that debt could also be something that he's trying to hide?", "Well, I mean, what we know from Michael Cohen's guilty plea before the special counsel was that the Trump Organization was trying to get a Trump Tower building built up until the time practically that president -- now President Trump accepted the nomination of his party, even though he denied it. So, again, this question is, if it's all fine and if it's something as he now says, oh, this was just something any businessperson would do, I was running a business, I might not have won, I was entitled to make money, the question is, why did he say all this time that he wasn't when he was if it wasn't problematic? There is a question here about how things add up and fit together. I think what we're having now with the House various oversight committees looking into that is the possibility of actually getting some answers to these questions.", "I got to run. That's got to be the last word. Thank you, both. I appreciate -- boy, oh, boy, appreciate your time. A Republican congressman tried to have the fathers of two Parkland victims kicked out of a gun violence hearing when they interrupted him. Congressman Gaetz told Chris Cuomo his side of the story tonight. And one of the fathers tells me his side, next."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "ANDREA BERNSTEIN, CO-HOST, TRUMP, INC. PODCAST", "LEMON", "BERNSTEIN", "LEMON", "MICHAEL D'ANTONIO, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "LEMON", "D'ANTONIO", "LEMON", "BERNSTEIN", "D'ANTONIO", "LEMON", "D'ANTONIO", "LEMON", "D'ANTONIO", "BERNSTEIN", "LEMON", "BERNSTEIN", "LEMON", "BERNSTEIN", "LEMON", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (voice-over)", "LEMON", "BERNSTEIN", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-350142", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-09-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1809/15/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Inside Dallas Police Shooting Victim's Apartment.", "utt": ["A Texas family is demanding answers after a man was shot by a Dallas police officer who says she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Botham Jean was laid to rest yesterday and an attorney for his family is now casting doubt on the official story. The police officer who pulled the trigger says she thought she was entering her own home and opened fire on who she thought was an intruder. CNN's Ryan Young has more on this and goes inside the victim's apartment to see himself what happened. Here is his report.", "Unit 1478 was Botham Jean's apartment. It's where the 26-year-old's young life was cut short when he was shot by a police officer in his living room. A small memorial with flowers and a photo of his mother, adorn his front door.", "At 26 years old he had done so much.", "With permission from the family, we are getting a look inside Botham's apartment. It's a typical single man's apartment except for the bullet hole in the wall indicated by an evidence marking more than six feet high. There's also a pool of blood on the floor which we will not show you. There is laundry piled on the couch and Botham's half- eaten bowl of cereal still had milk in it. He may have been reading one of the many books littering the apartment before being shot and killed by Officer Amber Guyger. This is video of witnesses of Amber Guyger pacing around upset moments after the shooting. Officer Guyger tells investigators she shot Jean after mistaking his apartment for her own. Guyger tells investigators that after work she parked her car on the wrong floor, walked to the wrong apartment, that Jean's door was slightly open. In her statement to police, Guyger says she gave verbal commands before firing two shots. S. Lee Merritt says witnesses tell a different story.", "They both heard a knock or a pounding on the door followed by a female's voice saying open up, let me in. She says the voice didn't sound like an officer command, but it sounded like someone who wanted to be let into the apartment. She said that was shortly followed by the sound of gunshots and the sound of a man's voice saying, she believed to be, oh, my God, why did you do that.", "The Jean family's attorney and the family are now upset by the leak of a search warrant indicates officers went inside Jean's apartment looking for drugs. Officers say they did find and removed several items, including a small amount of marijuana. The warrant doesn't indicate who the items belonged to. It's unknown if a search warrant was executed at the officer's apartment.", "26 years on this earth. He lived his life virtually without blemish. And it took being murdered by a Dallas police officer for Botham Jean to suddenly become a criminal. There is a clear intent here to smear the name of Botham Jean.", "During a moving funeral service, we learned much more about Jean and his accomplishments. Family and friends talked openly about his love of people, for singing, and the fact that he was a high achieving employee on a partnership track at the accounting firm", "PWC is hurting. Not just in Dallas but all across our country.", "He was so joyful. We know how much he loved to sing. He was the biggest extroverted accountant you'll ever find.", "Amber Guyger is on an administrative leave during the investigation. The D.A.'s office will take the case before a grand jury to determine the next course of action. CNN has reached out to Officer Guyger's attorney. And they have not returned our calls. For a heartbroken mother wants answers.", "I'm calling on the Dallas officials, please come clean. Give me justice for my son. Because he does not deserve what he got.", "Ryan Young, CNN, Dallas."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "RYAN YOUNG (voice-over)", "ALLISON JEAN, VICTIM'S MOTHER", "YOUNG", "S. LEE MERRITT, JEAN FAMILY ATTORNEY", "YOUNG", "MERRITT", "YOUNG", "PWC. TIM RYAN, SENIOR PARTNER AND CHAIRMAN, PWC", "ALEXIS STOSSEL, FRIEND", "YOUNG", "JEAN", "YOUNG"]}
{"id": "CNN-71516", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2003-5-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/28/lol.06.html", "summary": "Safer or Scared?  Impact of the War on Terror", "utt": ["The Bush administration contends that its war against terrorism has made the world safer. But Amnesty International doesn't see it that way. In its annual report on human rights abuses around the world, the group charges that the U.S. is denying rights of people arrested in the war against terror, that thousands were detained from the war in Afghanistan, in defiance of international humanitarian law and Amnesty International says that foreign nationals arrested in the U.S. have been deprived of legal safeguards. The group also contends that while U.S. forces fought to topple Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration ignored growing human rights abuses elsewhere in the world. Well, Amnesty International's U.S. Executive Director William Schulz is here and so is Gary Bauer, who is -- has an opposing view. He is president and former president -- president of American Values, the group, and former presidential candidate.", "Hi, Judy.", "Gary Bauer, good to see you.", "Good to see you.", "Mr. Schulz, good to see you. Let me begin with you, Mr. Schulz. You are arguing in essence that the war in Iraq, the war on terror, has taken the attention of the United States and this administration off of human rights abuses. But wouldn't you agree that Saddam himself -- Saddam Hussein himself presented an enormous example of human rights abuses?", "Absolutely, and Amnesty International had criticized Saddam for 20 years, long before the United States and the United Kingdom and any one else was paying any attention. Absolutely. And there's great promise for improvement in human rights in Iraq. The issue is how else we are fighting this war on terror. When the United States itself engages in racial profiling in its choices of who to detain when it at least is accused of rendering prisoners to countries that torture them in order to get information; when it refuses the basic human right of a right to counsel to U.S. citizens, as it is doing with Padilla and Hamdi; when indeed in Guantanamo it ignores the requirement of the Geneva Convention that their status as prisoners of war or as unlawful combatants be determined by a competent tribunal -- whenever the United States violates human rights itself, it does two things: first, it makes it harder for moderate Muslims to support the war on terror; and second it gives excuses to countries like china to be themselves human rights violators.", "Take those points, Gary Bauer.", "There's so many of them. I mean, first of all, thugs and tyrants don't need excuses to suppress their people. They do that regardless of what the United States does. If one is concerned about human rights and hate crimes, et cetera, you don't have to go further than 9/11, when 3,000 Americans were killed simply because they were Americans. The bush administration's reaction to that could have been to issue an annual report the way Amnesty International does. That would have accomplished nothing. Instead, we declared war on terrorism. It was the right thing to do. And quite frankly, for Amnesty International to blame the U.S. for the fallout from that war is a lot like blaming firemen, instead of the fire for the damage caused by the conflagration.", "Mr. Schulz?", "Amnesty International is not criticizing the war on terror in and of itself by any means. We condemned unequivocally the 9/11 events. That is a horrific human rights violation. The right to security is a basic human right.", "But you're criticizing what hasn't happened as a result of that.", "We are criticizing the way in which -- some of the ways in which that particular war has been carried out. And the reality, Gary, is that China has cited the United States' war on terror as a reason to crack down on weaker (ph) Muslims. And you yourself, as one of the champions of human rights for Chinese, ought to be speaking out against the Chinese government using the excuse of the U.S. action...", "What I have always done is spoken out against the Chinese government, who was oppressing Muslims, long before the United States had a war on terror. The fact of the matter is that this report, no matter how you dress it up, is another perfect example of blame the United States first. The report even says we are responsible for the United Nations' Human Rights Commission failing to do their job, when, Judy, I think you know that commission has become a haven for the very thugs that are oppressing people.", "Mr. Schulz, couldn't you have made -- couldn't have Amnesty International have made the point it made without directing so much criticism at the Bush administration's leadership?", "Let's me be very clear. This report criticizes 140 countries around the world. This is a report that is comprehensive in its analysis of the human rights violations of countries from every corner of this globe. Obviously, only one portion of it, certainly a portion that we're responsible for here, in the United States, is the implications of U.S. policy for human rights. That's, of course, what we're talking about.", "Judy, you're talking about excuses. I'll tell you what this report will be an excuse for. It will be an excuse for American- haters from one end of the globe to the other. Maybe it mentions 140 countries. But in Europe and a good bit of the Middle East an in Asia, Amnesty International will be cited as evidence that somehow the United States is the bad guy in the war on terror.", "Very quick response...", "Let me just say two things. First of all, President Bush himself cited Amnesty International in his reasons for going to war in Iraq. So the president must think we're a pretty reliable source.", "And second of all, believe me, the world doesn't need Amnesty International's report to be critical of the United States, as Bill Schneider's report on world opinion a few minutes ago just showed.", "Right, but it seems to Amnesty International has piled on once again. I would like to see reports about what we are going to do to deal with the thugs that are preying on this country.", "Just read the whole report and it's right in there.", "We're going to have to leave it there. Gary Bauer, William Schulz, it's god to see you both.", "We thanks you for coming by to talk about this.", "Thank you.", "Thank you very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "GARY BAUER, PRES., AMERICAN VALUES", "WOODRUFF", "BAUER", "WOODRUFF", "WILLIAM SCHULZ, EXEC. DIR., AMNESTY INTL. USA", "WOODRUFF", "BAUER", "WOODRUFF", "SCHULZ", "WOODRUFF", "SCHULZ", "BAUER", "WOODRUFF", "SCHULZ", "BAUER", "WOODRUFF", "SCHULZ", "SCHULZ", "BAUER", "SCHULZ", "WOODRUFF", "WOODRUFF", "BAUER", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-242165", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2014-10-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/30/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Coast Guard Encountering Increase in Cuban Migrants", "utt": ["The U.S. Coast Guard is seeing a record number of migrants trying to make it to the United States by crossing one of the most deadly waterways in the Western hemisphere, the Florida Straits. In a CNN exclusive, our own Alina Machado went along with the U.S. Coast Guard to get a firsthand look at what's happening.", "We got eyes on him.", "A dramatic scene plays out in the Florida Straits.", "Have you got him?", "Yeah, I've got him.", "A United States Coast Guard plane spots this small boating packed with 29 Cubans, including several women and at least one young boy. The boat is taking on water.", "So it's coming on scene.", "Yet, when the Coast Guard cutter, \"Margaret Norvell\" arrives to help, the group's leader refuses to cooperate.", "They are claiming they are", "Eventually, the group gives up and gives in.", "They got them now.", "Joining the growing number of migrants rescued making this deadly journey to the", "We've been seeing the highest migration levels that we've seen from Cuba and Haiti in the past five years.", "Roughly 10,000 migrants have been found in this area just this year. That's more than 3,000 than the year before. The biggest spike, Cubans whose numbers have doubled since the Castro government lifted travel restrictions in 2012. (on camera): You have to be pretty desperate to go into open water and just try to make it, no?", "Yeah, it is.", "It's dangerous. It's very dangerous.", "Most of it is economic, you know. They are looking for a better way of life.", "Lieutenant Kirk Fistic (Ph) is the commanding officer of the \"Norvell,\" one of the agency's newest hi-tech ships in the Coast Guard. LT. KIRK FISTIC (ph), \"", "This is the front line of Coast Guard operations. This is where the action happens.", "We wanted to get a firsthand look at the action. So we spent a few days on board the \"Norvell.\" And what we saw was sobering. A few hours into our journey -- the \"Norvell\" takes on 10 migrants. The lights of the U.S. shine in the distance. This is the closest this group will get.", "One more!", "A doctor is concerned the last one may be suicidal, refusing to eat after telling the Coast Guard this was his ninth attempt to reach America. (on camera): So you see they put man on the stretcher, on the cutter, safely. But it doesn't appear he's responding. At this point, it's unclear what they will do with him. We know that the remaining nine migrants are all in the same area on this boat and they probably will be here until the process runs its course. (voice-over): In the early morning hours another group of Cuban migrants is found barely moving, idling in what appears to be the middle of nowhere.", "Take them by the rope.", "Each one is given a life vest before being transferred to the cutter. Their small boat is then filled with gasoline.", "And shot up with a 50-caliber machine gun.", "A fire sinks the tiny boat. On the cutter, migrants wear Tyvek suits to stay dry. They're given red beans and rice to eat twice a day and a rubber mat to sleep on. Some interact with Coast Guard members, like Ronald Garcia, Cuban- American himself.", "It's terrible to see the situation that they are in.", "In all, we saw about 80 Cuban migrants in just four days with the Coast Guard, all of them with desperation in their eyes. For most, their search for a new life is over at least for now.", "Of the 80 migrants we saw, 29 Cubans who were found on a U.S. territory were allowed to stay in the U.S. because of a long- standing policy that only applies to Cubans. Most migrants who are found at sea are usually sent back, regardless of their country of origin -- Wolf?", "Alina Machado, thanks for that report. Alina Machado, I want to add this note. This is just coming in to CNN. New numbers from the U.S. Coast Guard in Florida. This week, they found dozens of migrants off the Miami coast. In all, about 640 migrants have been found this month alone. At least four have died in the journey. We're down to the final days until the midterm elections here in the United States and the races are very close in several states. Here's the question. Why? 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{"id": "CNN-1963", "program": "Newsday", "date": "2000-2-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/03/nd.05.html", "summary": "Priceline.com Tackles Problem of Grocery Shopping for Budget- Minded", "utt": ["Internet commerce is a growing part of everyday business. And nothing is more everyday than shopping for groceries. Now, one well-known Internet shopping service is tackling that for the budget-minded. More on that from CNNfn's Bill Tucker.", "For New Jersey mother Teresa Kominkiewicz, shopping for groceries on Priceline.com has cut her bills by at least one third.", "Normally, I spend about $180, you know, once a week going grocery shopping with Priceline, and then I know, looking at my checklist, that I paid Priceline about $110, $120.", "The process is simple: Submit a price for a grocery product, and if Priceline accepts it, your credit card is automatically billed. Then when you're done shopping, just head to your nearest participating supermarket and pick up your items. There is no membership fee, but after three months, you will be charged $3 a month if you use the service. But while shopping on-line may save you money, you do sacrifice convenience because, in a way, you are shopping twice.", "The first shopping experience involves going to the Priceline.com, logging on, wading through the screens and sifting through the menus and clicking on a series of buttons, and then double- and triple-checking those entries. Second time, you go to the store. You have to then cruise the aisles not only looking for specific brands, but looking for specific sizes.", "And if you happen to be brand-loyal, the Web house club may not be a good match.", "You have to be brand-flexible. You can't say, I want B&M; Baked Beans. You have to be willing to, say, accept Heinz, B&M;, Bush's Beans, and maybe some other brand. So you have to name at least two brands. The more brands you specify, the greater your odds of successfully getting that particular item.", "\"Consumer Reports\" recommends using Priceline.com for big-ticket items such as diapers and meat products, which rarely go on sale. That's \"Your Money,\" Bill Tucker, CNN Financial News, New York."], "speaker": ["JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR", "BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "TERESA KOMINKIEWICZ, PRICELINE.COM CUSTOMER", "TUCKER", "TOD MARKS, \"CONSUMER REPORTS\"", "TUCKER", "MARKS", "TUCKER"]}
{"id": "CNN-134633", "program": "ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL", "date": "2009-2-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/02/ijvm.01.html", "summary": "Lawyer Sues Seattle Paper over Coverage of Amanda Knox Fundraiser", "utt": ["She`s pretty. She`s young. And she`s an accused killer in a twisted sex game attack. It`s a case that has captivated all of Europe. Twenty-one-year-old Amanda Knox, a.k.a. Foxy Knoxy, on trial in Italy for the murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. Authorities say she was killed when she refused to take part in a bizarre sex game. Defendant Amanda Knox has a group of supporters here in the United States. A fund-raiser was held for her last week in her home town of Seattle. Now shocking reports that the Italian prosecutor is suing a local Seattle newspaper after it reported that somebody at the fundraiser called him mentally unstable. Wow. To discuss all this and all the latest developments in this truly strange case, I am joined by Candace Dempsey. She`s a blogger at \"The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.\" And not to be confused with the paper involved in this reported litigation. I want to make that clear. Candace, thanks so much for joining us tonight.", "Thank you, Jane.", "I understand you`re now writing a book called -- about this case called \"Murder in Italy\".", "Yes, I am.", "By the way, a book written for Italian audiences is already a monster best-seller. I want to ask you why the fascination with this case. And let me start out by asking you a question I`ve asked like five reporters so far covering this case. Nobody has given me an answer. What is the sex game that prosecutors say they were playing when this murder occurred?", "Well, the prosecutor believes that -- that all three suspects participated in a game where, I guess, they were all in the house together, and they tried to initiate Meredith into the sex game. She resisted, and so they killed her (ph).", "What kind of sex game?", "Well, that`s -- they`re very vague about that. And, to me, it`s never made -- sounded extremely erotic or really made a lot of sense. And I think that`s why people have a hard time answering that question that you just asked.", "And apparently -- yes, go ahead.", "Well, there wasn`t -- I mean, there was just so little time. I mean, Meredith Kercher was on the phone with her mother at 9:30. And they believe that at 10:30, one of the suspects was seen running out of the house, which only gives you about an hour at most...", "That`s enough time for a nasty sex game.", "Well, it is if everybody is already there and they`re drinking and they`re, you know, smoking marijuana and all that kind of thing. But there`s no sign that that really happened. So the sex game is one of those things that they`re going to have to cover -- to tell us more about in court.", "Let me ask about this Italian prosecutor suing the \"West Seattle Herald,\" because somebody at this part said that he was mentally unstable. Why does an Italian prosecutor care what they`re saying in Seattle? And does this have any chance of flying, this lawsuit?", "I don`t think it has any chance of flying, because all the reporter did was to repeat what somebody else said at the press conference. So as far as American libel laws, that doesn`t cross any line of any kind.", "Let me ask you about Foxy Knoxy`s history.", "Right.", "Because apparently, the book that`s a best-seller in Italy is chock full of sexual details. Who is this young woman?", "Well, Amanda Knox is a Seattle girl. She`s a soccer player. She doesn`t really have a history of orgies. And if you read her diaries, there`s no indication that she was interested in having group sex with anyone. She seems like a -- to her family, at least, seems like a very sweet, loving girl. And I actually did meet the author, though, of that book when I was in Italy recently. So...", "OK. Well, listen, I want you to come back as this case continues. Candace, thanks so much.", "OK.", "Drew Peterson, suspected in the disappearance of his wife, Stacey. Now his new fiance dumps him on national TV, saying it was a sham."], "speaker": ["VELEZ-MITCHELL", "CANDACE DEMPSEY, \"SEATTLE POST\"", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DEMPSEY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DEMPSEY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DEMPSEY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DEMPSEY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DEMPSEY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DEMPSEY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DEMPSEY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DEMPSEY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DEMPSEY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-209671", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2013-6-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/27/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Queen Elizabeth Gets $3 million Pay Raise", "utt": ["Queen Elizabeth II is getting a $3 million pay rise. The crown and state, which manages the property portfolio for the British monarch has posted a record profit. So the queen will see an income of about $60 million next year. Royal correspondent Max Foster with the details for you.", "The queen is one of the richest women in the world. Her officials duties and several of her residences are paid for by the British tax payer, which also picks up some of the cost for other members of the royal family. So how is the money paid? Well, she gets a proportion of the income of something known as the Crown Estate. It's a land portfolio originally inherited from earlier generations of monarchs, which now includes an enormous range of properties from offshore wind farms to prime real estate. For example, almost every property on Regent Street here in London. It is one of the premium shopping streets, and also Regents Park here in London. Property values have been booming. So that means the queens income is rising too. But handing the queen a pay rise has proved very controversial at a time when salaries for many people are frozen or even being cut. The anti- monarchy group Republic called for the queen to reject her funding increase whilst most other people in Britain are facing cuts. Now, the royal family says it needs the money to catch up with a back log of repairs at palaces -- Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, for example. Apartment 1A at Kensington Palace, for example, is being renovated for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. It's a big home, though, a big project. So so far it's cost around $1.5 million, that renovation work. It's due to completion in the autumn. It won't be done in time for the new royal baby. Now adding travel and other expenses to the equation, for the year up to March, the total cost of the monarchy to the UK taxpayer actually comes to around $47 million. Max Foster, CNN, London.", "Well, we asked you on our Facebook page whether you think the queen should accept her pay rise, given these austere times. One of you writing, the 5 percent of her earning increase should go to children in third-world countries. Another view asks, what is her job to earn that sleeping? Another believes she should accept it. People all over the world are feeling the spending cuts and austerity, but that should not allow us to envy the monarchy. The monarchy served its people, too, and needs to be paid. Somebody else writing in, reckons the queen is worth every penny. Her son, however, in my opinion is not worth one pence. To join the conversation, just add to Facebook or certainly head to Facebook and add your comment. Facebook.com/CNNConnect. Let us know what you think. You can tweet me as ever @BeckyCNN. That's @BeckyCNN. Now just on that, of course, but on anything you've got on your mind. The latest world news headlines are just ahead, as you would imagine, the bottom of the hour here on CNN. Plus, two years of war now killed an estimated 100,000 people in Syria. What can be done to finally stop the bloodshed? I'm going to talk with a former peace negotiator for Bosnia who has got some ideas, Lord David Owen. How Kofi Annan is helping young people around the world tackle that growing problem of youth unemployment. You'll hear from him coming up. And there's been another slip-up at Wimbledon, but this time it doesn't involve any of the seeds. Coming up, we're going to speak to a man who knows what it takes to keep the court -- that being the lawn grass courts -- in top condition."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "MAX FOSTER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-246859", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-01-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/10/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Terror Sleeper Cells Activated in France; Global Hunt For Dead Terrorist's Girlfriend; World Leaders To Attend Paris Unity Rally; Grading France Terror Attack Response, Able to Prevent More", "utt": ["You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Brianna Keilar in New York.", "And I'm Jim Sciutto in Paris. Welcome to our coverage of events in Paris, in France, including a new terror warning tonight. A fresh wave of fear rising in Paris. A French police source tells CNN terror sleeper cells were activated just over the last 24 hours inside France. Police officers have been told to erase their social media accounts and to carry their guns now at all times. Up next I'll talk to a CNN analyst who spoke with French police about those terror cells. Meanwhile, the hunt is on for a woman personally connected to all three terrorists who launched attacks in and around Paris this week. Hayat Boumeddiene is the only person suspected of connections to the terrorists in Paris who is still alive. A source tells CNN that Boumeddiene entered Turkey on January 2nd from France, a French store says, she may be on her way to Syria. Meanwhile, Hezbollah's leader is condemning the terrorists who slaughtered 12 people at \"Charlie Hebdo,\" a satirical magazine. Listen to what he had to say --", "And those through their actions, words and shameful, heinous, violent, inhuman and brutal practices, offended the messenger of god. The religion of god, prophets of god, the book of Allah and the Muslim nation more than his enemies did. Even those who have attacked the messenger of god through books, depicting the prophet or making films depicting the prophet or drawing cartoons of the prophet.", "In Paris today crowds gathered outside \"Charlie Hebdo's\" offices to honor the victims. The magazine plans to issue a million copies of its next issue. One terror suspect remains on the loose today from the terrifying and deadly events in and around the city this week. This is that suspect, a woman, one of few pictures we have of her that shows her face during a police hostage standoff Friday. French officials believed at the time she was with another suspect holding hostages inside that kosher grocery store. Today there are new reports that she was not there. In fact, not in the country. Frederik Pleitgen is in the eastern part of Paris where that store standoff happened. Fred, who is this woman and where is she believed to be right now?", "Well, she's 26 years old and she has been living with Amedy Coulibaly apparently for the past five years. In a suburb in the south of Paris. We actually had a crew, one of our crews, go down to the apartment where she and him were staying before all of this happened. And they said that it was still all full of police. That obviously the police there was also questioning people that she might have known. People also that she might have associated with. But, of course, the news that perhaps she wasn't even in the country when all of this happened is something that is going to be very significant to this investigation as it moves forward, of course. The police was hoping to confirm a lot of details with her. Also confirm possibly the motivations of not just Coulibaly but also the Kouachi brothers because apparently there was quite a bit of back and forth between herself and the wife of one of the Kouachi brothers which seems to indicate that possibly there was a higher level of coordination between all of them than previously thought. But, remember, that one of the things that Coulibaly said when he was on the phone to a journalist is that he said that he had been synchronized with the Kouachi brothers. So, certainly it would have been very interesting for French authorities to speak to her. Nevertheless, that is something they would still like to do. Of course, the big question is now would she still be in a place where authorities could get to her. As you've just said the police and the Turkish authorities as well believe that she left this country on January 2nd, went to Turkey, and that her final destination most probably would be an attempt to get to Syria and it's unclear whether or not she might already be there. Certainly if she is, it would be almost impossible to get to her. If she's not, however, there are efforts the French could make to try to extradite her back to this country if, in fact, these Turkish authorities manage to get their hands on her. The big question the of course would be could she shed some sort of light another possible networks that might be operating here, that might be also have had contact with any of these three people and also possibly especially in light of what we're reporting now is that apparently some sleeper cells have been activated, maybe she could also say what she knows about all of that, Jim.", "That's right. If she's essential not just the investigation looking backward but looking ahead. Tied to this terror cell. It is this terror cell that is believed involved in this current threat because it was the hostage taker at that kosher grocery where you're standing that made those calls to other contacts, encouraging them to carry out attacks on police. Really essential to keeping this city, this country safe going forward. I wonder, Fred, if you could talk about what's going to happen tomorrow. A unity rally here in Paris. A number of people from around the country taking part but also around the world. World leaders as well.", "Yes. This is really gained global traction if you will. I mean, if you think about the fact that right after these horrifying attacks happened, how the Je suis Charlie sort of hashtag and saying -- has taken global root, if you will. Of course, that's something that's also fueled this unity march that's going to happen tomorrow and so certainly the people who are organizing it believe that tens of thousands, if not well over 100,000 people, are going to participate in that march that starts on Place de la Republique in the afterhours and also a lot of foreign dignitaries, foreign leaders are going to be participating really on very short notice. Very difficult to -- now something like this on such notice. You have the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, you have the king and queen of Jordan who are going to come here, Angela Merkel of Germany is going to be coming as well as the British Prime Minister David Cameron. So this is going to be a gigantic event, a gigantic show of unity if you will and also a show of how tragic world leaders hold these events to be and how important they believe and how essential the time is now to try and heal these wounds that have been so badly cut into this nation.", "And as you say, Fred, it's a truly diverse group. And it is not just European leaders, Europeans standing up to this, it is other Muslims, the leaders of Muslim countries, the Jordanian king, the prime minister of Turkey coming to join to show that same defiance in the face of extremism. I want to bring in our terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank in Washington. Paul, so many new developments today. First, I want to ask your view, help put into context for our viewers this latest threat warning to police around the country about the possibility of new terror cells, activated or other terrorists activated, encouraged, to attack police. How serious a threat do you believe this to be?", "Well, Jim, the French are clearly very worried. After all we've had this terrible attacks in France this week. The fear I think is twofold. One there could be more accomplices of this terror cell they took down in Paris this week, and, two, there could be lone wolf attacks against French police and other targets in the days and weeks to come. And we've seen in previous attacks that others have been inspired to take action. For example, in New York in October, Zale Thompson a radical extremist carried out a hatchet attack on the NYPD police officers, right of -- famous events played out in Canada with the gun attack on the Canadian soldier outside the Canadian parliament in an attack to get into the Canadian Parliament by an Islamic extremist over there. A lot of concern in France and that's why some of these warnings are now coming out. A lot of concern that police and soldiers will be targeted. Either by people who have sympathies with AQAP but also ISIS and ISIS have called for attacks on soldiers and police in France.", "Just such a diverse threat. You get it there. There's a whole range of possible assailants in this case. There could be lone wolves, radicalized on their own. No contacts with groups in the Middle East or they could be in the category like the Kouachi brothers who had some contact, some training there, perhaps planned this on their own. That's one new development today. Sleeper cells activated. Another new development from an interview we did a short time ago with Eric Pelletier, he is with \"L'Express\" magazine, he learned the Kouachi brothers were under surveillance for some three years in France but taken out of surveillance just six months ago. Really a remarkable development. How much of an intelligence failure is that, Paul? Or do you think it's just a measure of how many potential terrorists there are to track and how difficult it is to make those judgments?", "Well, my understanding is that there was significant surveillance on these brothers including surveillance of their phones and that ended in June of 2014. And when they sort of were reserving these brothers, they didn't seem to be that radical anymore, so they decided that they weren't a big priority. And this was even after they learned that they probably went over to Yemen at least one of them to get terrorist training with al Qaeda in Yemen. But the reality is, the French have to look at about 5,000 people at any one time that they're concerned could be a threat in France so they have to prioritize. And clearly for whatever combination of reasons, this past summer they decided that these brothers were no longer a top order threat in France. And that raises the question of whether these brothers were deliberately pretending not to be radical so they wouldn't get any more attention from French security services -- Jim.", "Yes. Absolutely. That's a good point. I spoke to the former head of the French counterterror police a short time ago who made the point that with some 5,000 suspected terrorists in France, it takes three to ten people to keep just one of them under surveillance. Imagine those numbers, just impossible numbers, calls for judgment calls, sometimes clearly intelligence services, sadly, get those calls wrong. Thanks very much to Paul Cruikshank our CNN terrorism analyst in Washington. Well, it has been a time of chaos and mourning certainly here in France but this nation is far from the only one suffering right now. We've seen bloody attacks in several countries showing that France is certainly not the only target for extremists. We'll have more on that broader threat right after this break."], "speaker": ["BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN (through a translator)", "SCIUTTO", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SCIUTTO", "PLEITGEN", "SCIUTTO", "PAUL CRUICKSHANK, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST", "SCIUTTO", "CRUICKSHANK", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "CNN-35489", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-7-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/24/ltm.03.html", "summary": "U.S. Troops in Kosovo Bring Peace of Mind, Protection to Serbs", "utt": ["Some 5,000 U.S. troops are stationed in or near Kosovo. CNN's Christiane Amanpour now takes a look at their mission.", "An American Army medical unit travels around eastern Kosovo, dispensing drugs and comfort.", "Controlled, sometimes, you know, when I...", "Serb civilians especially rely entirely on KFOR, the multinational peacekeeping force, to keep them safe. Everyone's blood pressure is high, say these medics, whose most valuable prescription may simply be moral support.", "A lot of the towns, we see like 200 people and we'll probably have 30 or 40 who are legitimately ill, and the rest of them, they like to come, see the Americans, talk to us.", "What Serbs like best is the drop in revenge attacks by Albanians, the sandbags and 24-hour guards at their churches. (on camera): There are about 80 to 100,000 Serbs left in Kosovo, roughly half the pre-war population, and mostly they live in three enclaves heavily guarded by NATO troops. (voice-over): Most Serbs tell us they feel safer these days, though some can still summon up that old nationalistic passion. \"If the Americans hadn't come to Kosovo,\" says a Serb farmer, \"this would still be our land.\" Indeed, most disputes these days are about who owns what field. Down the road, U.S. foot patrols keep the peace between Serbs on one side of town and Albanians on the other. KFOR commanders say they are slowly stabilizing Kosovo, but they say the mission has a long way to go. A measure of how long they think they'll be here, Camp Bondsteel. When U.S. troops first deployed two years ago, this was all mud and makeshift tents. Now, the sprawling headquarters, equipped with all the comforts of home base, is the envy of the multinational force. There is Burger King and a cappuccino bar, flower pots and free movies, a gym, a hospital under correction, an artificial lake and paved roads. KFOR is meant to help Kosovo eventually set up its own security and political institutions, but commanders say that day is at least four years off. Christiane Amanpour, CNN, with U.S. forces in Kosovo."], "speaker": ["BRIAN NELSON, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "AMANPOUR", "LT. DARRYL METCALF, U.S. BATTALION MEDICAL OFFICER", "AMANPOUR"]}
{"id": "CNN-333664", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2018-02-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/25/ndaysun.01.html", "summary": "North Korea's Delegation Willing To Talk To U.S.; Olympic Competition Wraps Up; Second Gold Medal For Olympic Athletes of Russia", "utt": ["This just coming in to CNN. North Korea's delegation says apparently that it's willing take to you to the United States. CNN international correspondent Will Ripley in Pyeongchang, South Korea for us right now. What are you hearing? This is a change.", "Hi, Christi. Yes. We just received a statement minutes ago from the South Korean Blue House. They met just before the closing ceremonies taking place at the Olympic Stadium. Actually it seems like they just wrapped up 35,000 people there. But the meetings that happened beforehand a potential significant development. The North Korean delegation expressing willingness for a dialogue with the United States and also acknowledging that in order for relations between South Korea and North Korea to improve that they also need to improve their relationship with the United States. This is a pretty dramatic shift for North Korea's tone even in their state media just within the past few hours. Today they put out an article threatening the United States with grave consequences over the new round of sanctions, the heaviest sanctions ever imposed by the Trump administration calling those sanctions tantamount to an act of war. But apparently the North Koreans who are on the ground here are now acknowledging that talks with the United States will be crucial if they are going to actually move forward with their goal of easing tensions on the Korean peninsula. And obviously there are a lot of major issues that divide the United States and South Korea, and North Korea and its leader Kim Jong-un, the biggest one of all North Korea's nuclear program. North Korea has repeatedly and consistently said that they will not give up their nuclear weapons despite sanctions or diplomatic or even military pressure. However, they are at least saying for the time being now that they are willing to have discussions. We also saw the first images coming out of the opening ceremonies. Ivanka Trump was in the VIP box as expected with the North Korean delegation led by North Korea's former spy master Kim Yong-chol. He was just one row and a few seats behind her to her left. There was no visible interaction between the two. We don't know if there was any behind the scenes interaction between the U.S. delegation and the North Korean delegation although we do know that the North Koreans did send one official who is in charge of their department and north American affairs and indicating at least a willingness, if there was some sort of a meeting, that perhaps they could have a brief chat, see where things go from there. So obviously, things can change very quickly, Christi, but that is the latest on the ground here in Pyeongchang as the Olympics are now officially over and the Paralympics set to kick off very soon.", "All right. Will Ripley, so glad you are there to walk us through it all. Thank you.", "All right. Before we begin the Paralympics or they begin it, the final events of the Winter Olympics are wrapping up and the Olympic athletes of Russia got a lot of attention as they battled Germany in the gold medal match in ice hockey.", "Yes. Amanda Davies has more for us from South Korea. Good morning, Amanda.", "Good morning, Christi. Yes. The men's hockey final was always going to have to go to", "All right. Amanda Davies, thanks so much.", "All right. You know John Kirby on our air? You know somebody that we go to to get really great perspective and information on many things, but he is really opening up next with us here with his daughter, sharing the story of survival of her anorexia. A pretty brave conversation coming up. Stay close."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "AMANDA DAVIES, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-180228", "program": "PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT", "date": "2012-1-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/30/pmt.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Jack Welch, Suzy Welch, Presidential History With Nathan Raab and Douglas Brinkley", "utt": ["It's been 48 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. One key source about that day is a tape of the radio traffic from Air Force One as it flew back to Washington carrying JFK's body. Until now, only a heavily edited version was available, but tonight there's discovery short to incite conspiracy theorists a much longer version with revealing new details has surfaced. And joining me now to sort out what it all means is presidential history, Douglas Brinkley, and Nathan Raab, his company, the Raab Collection, uncovered the tapes. Let's start with you, Nathan. I mean a fascinating discovery. How did you come across this extra bit of a tape?", "We felt the same way. We literally found it at the bottom of a box, a large box that was part of the collection of Ted Clifton who had worked in the White House both for John F. Kennedy but also for Lyndon Johnson. He left the White House in '65, he died in '91, his wife passed away in 2009 when they sold the estate. This was included along with other personal effects.", "And this actually the box you found the tape in, right?", "This is the box and the tape is in it. It's a reel-to- reel. And when we found it, it was just a box with a reel-to-reel with no knowledge of what was in it. And we had our suspicions, it says, radio traffic. Involving Air Force One in flight from Dallas that has the date. Now he left the White House in '65, the version we had before came out in the late '60s or at least '70s. The timeframe didn't match.", "And tell me this, other than the fact of its discovery, which is fascinating, is there anything truly significant on this extra bit of footage or not.", "Yes. Absolutely there is. No only the individual elements of the tape, what is heard within it things that we haven't heard before, but also the fact that it fills in holes. Historians had specific questions, where's the beginning part of this conversation, now we only have the tail end of. He refers to a Cadillac. But we have the beginning portion that. But also the tale of the tape. There was the raw tapes which have gone missing and then there's this original version. You know, how did we get from A to B?", "Let me go to Douglas Brinkley here. Because, Douglas, you're a big historian. You know this area very well. How significant, do you think, these tapes are in terms of suddenly surfacing like this?", "Well, it's a fascinating story. I mean you have to put in perspective who General Ted Clifton is. He was - there was no White House chief of staff for John F. Kennedy. He was the military aide of Kennedy serving in that function. He was part of the Dallas motorcade. When Kennedy was killed, Clifton was put in charge of getting all military arrangements figured out. Meaning, what do we do if the president dies at Parkland Hospital? How do we move his body to Air Force One? What are we going to do with First Lady Jackie Kennedy who's wearing a pink Chanel suit with blood all over it. This gentleman Ted Cliffton had to deal with it all, and now we've got for the first time this remarkable tape of the journey of Air Force One from Dallas back to Washington. And it raises a lot of question, why did a lot of 45 minutes worth of tape was edited? So people making their judgments on the Warren Commission up now, were missing this 45 minutes and then there are all sorts of nuggets that are emerging from this 45 minute tape that's going to be cherry-picked and analyzed by scholars for months and years to come.", "Well, let's play a clip which is from the original tape that was put forward which we new existed , he just puts it in context. Let's hear it first.", "Wayside, wayside, this is the SITUATION ROOM. I read from the AP bulletin, Kennedy apparently shot in head. He fell facedown in back seat of his car. blood was on his head. This as Kennedy cried, oh no, and tried to hold up his head. Connolly remained half seated, slumped to the left. There was blood on his face and forehead. The president and the governor were rushed to Parkland Hospital, near the Dallas Trademark, where Kennedy was to have made a speech. Over.", "Now that's part of the tape that we've heard before, but it puts it in context. What I want to play now are completely unheard parts of the tape, which have been discovered in this tiny box at Major General Ted Clifton's house. Let's listen to the first clip from this.", "General Lemay is in a C140. The last three numbers are 497.", "Four nine seven, last three numbers.", "Right. He's inbound. His code name is Grandson. And I want to talk to him.", "Now, the significance of that -- again, to Douglas -- is the fact that it involves General Lemay. Now he was known to be an opponent of President Kennedy's. So this is a sort of sourcing of him in this type, which we weren't aware of before. What does that tell you?", "Well, that's right. Why did General Lemay get cut out of the censored version of this Air Force One tape? Lemay had been an enemy of President Kennedy. He was furious about the way Kennedy handled the Cuban Missile Crisis. He wanted to have bombed Cuba. He was just angry that Kennedy was seeming to be lackadaisical about the effort in Vietnam. So people have always wanted to know where was Curtis Lemay on the day Kennedy was shot? It's been mixed messages about it. This tape provides exactly where he was. But we see a colonel -- we hear a Colonel Dorman calling Air Force One, saying we have to find Curtis Lemay. Otherwise it will be too late, for whatever too late means. But it's significant in the sense of placing -- you know, when you're dealing with the Kennedy assassination, we're trying to understand where all the characters were. Here is just a new mystery that scholars and conspiracy theorists are obviously going to be looking at.", "Yes. I think the fascinating thing to me is it may not mean anything. But it's the fact that they removed all reference to General Lemay, who had got this history with Kennedy, makes it absolutely compelling. Who decided to take that out? And why would they remove all references to him. Let's play the second clip from the unheard element of this tape, which, again, is really interesting.", "General Heaton, this is Dr. Burkley.", "Yes, Burkley.", "You, the military District of Washington in regards to the -- taking care of the remains of the -- President Kennedy -- and we are planning on having the president taken directly to Walter Reed. Probably Mrs. Kennedy will also be going out there. But we will clarify that later.", "Oh. All right.", "Nathan, I'll come to you with this. This is between Admiral Burkley and General Heaton. It's a piece of history. This is the most infamous moment of America's modern history. And you have got all this stuff which no one has ever heard before.", "That's a powerful clip, because, of course, that's not what ended up happening. The debate about where to send the president's body, whether to go to Walter Reed or to Bethesda, is really what makes this tape central. This is how we know what the federal government did immediately after the assassination. The fact that you have the surgeon general talking with Kennedy's personal doctor, making a decision which later is contrary to what ends up happening, that is powerful. Why that was cut out here -- there's a full lead up to this. And why that moment was cut out, no one's around who could tell you.", "Now you are trying to sell this. So I am going to go to Douglas to see if he can put a valuation on this? What is the worth, Douglas, would you say, from an historical important point of view?", "Well, you can't write about the Kennedy assassination without grappling with the contents of this tape, meaning the information that's now available on it. It places everything in Air Force One that occurred. Just that clip you just played -- why if the radio is saying you're taking President Kennedy for an autopsy at Walter Reed -- you just heard it -- why was Kennedy, once landed, diverted to Bethesda Naval Hospital. It's simply a question. But the autopsy of an assassinated president is pretty important stuff. And that's been missing from all the books that have been written until now. So people -- we're heading into the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. And these tapes will be footed noted and quoted in all books in the future. This is a very serious find. I don't know the rare book manuscript market or what -- who would want to particularly purchase this. But from an historian's point of view, it's valuable information.", "It certainly is. And it's absolutely fascinating, I've got to say. I haven't heard the whole thing, but I'd very much like to. It's a really absorbing and compelling story. This has sat in this guy's house, and never been heard. Even the Warren Commission has never heard this tape, which I think is extraordinary. Thank you very much, Nathan, for bringing it in. Thank you, Douglas, for putting it into historical context. I'm sure this will run and run, the unheard JFK assassination day tapes. Quite extraordinary. After the break, talking of quite extraordinary things, I am going to bring out the single most annoying man I've ever met in my life, Howie Mandel, my former co-judge on \"America's Got Talent.\" I don't know why I'm doing this, to be honest with you."], "speaker": ["MORGAN", "NATHAN RAAB, VICE PRESIDENT, RAAB COLLECTION", "MORGAN", "RAAB", "MORGAN", "RAAB", "MORGAN", "DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, HISTORIAN, RICE UNIVERSITY", "MORGAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MORGAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MORGAN", "BRINKLEY", "MORGAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MORGAN", "RAAB", "MORGAN", "BRINKLEY", "MORGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-324426", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-10-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/24/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Pentagon Revises Timeline of Deadly Niger Ambush", "utt": ["And now of course this attack left four U.S. soldiers dead and two wounded as well as five Nigerian troops killed. But even after providing this timeline General Dunford acknowledged that there were additional questions that remained unanswered.", "Did the mission of U.S. forces change during the operation? Did our forces have adequate intelligence, equipment and training? Was there a pre- mission assessment of the threat in the area accurate? Did they decide to do something different than the original patrol with their partner forces? Those are the -- those are some of the key questions that the investigation is looking to uncover.", "Now one of the biggest unanswered questions is how Sergeant La David Johnson became separated from the rest of his team by up to a mile officials tell CNN. So this is something that will be looked at in the investigation as it unfolds and there are additional questions as well. But remains to be seen exactly what happened during that fire fight that left four U.S. soldiers dead and two wounded -- John.", "Ryan Browne at the Pentagon, thanks so much. Joining me now to discuss, CNN military analyst, retired Colonel Cedric Leighton, and Jason Beardsley, former U.S. Army Special Operations. Jason, I want to start with you. You were deployed under both CENTCOM and AFRICOM, you've done similar operations in West and Central Africa. You know, what are the biggest unanswered questions you have?", "Well, we're going to get -- thank you, by the way, John. We're going to get some of those answered questions after the investigation is done and we've got the soldiers there. Remember, we've got Green Berets that are in contact, we've got these support soldiers. This was a chaotic ambush out in a remote austere environment. So these guys were operating at some level of risk anyways. This is kind of a continuation of a mission that we've run relatively routinely. So I'm not sure that right now we have anything to really be concerned about except that when that information comes in, we'll know precisely how our forces were dispositioned and what the enemy forces were there. This was a chaotic scene so it's going to take a little bit of time but we will get there.", "Colonel Leighton, talk to me about the investigation right now. The investigators on the ground, what are they doing?", "So right now, John, what they're doing is they're looking at what they can possibly see from the standpoint of why, what types of weapons were used against the U.S. Special Forces, they're looking at what the angle of attack was, where did the ISIS fighters or alleged ISIS fighters come from. And also they're going to be piecing together things such as the intelligence picture. What did the special forces team actually know? How were they prepared from an intelligence perspective? And then how were they trained to handle these various types of missions? The other thing that they'll do, John, is they'll look at exactly how the Nigerian forces were dealing with this and how much of a partnership there really was between the forces involved.", "Well, and to that point, Jason, one of the concerns might be that the village that the servicemen were meeting in, that the villagers somehow stalled the soldiers to give the insurgents more of a chance to stage their attack. That would be a cause for serious concern if the people that U.S. soldiers are working amongst can't be trusted.", "Right. This is a very difficult area. Again it's an austere environment on the border of Mali. You've got Boko Haram in the south, you've got Islamic State elements in the north. It's", "You know, Colonel Leighton, you're an Air Force guy, talk to me about what the air support concern or lessons might be a better word, might be going forward. There was a drone on the site very, very quickly. We don't know if it even had the capacity to fire. There were French Mirages, French air support but they did not fire for whatever reason. So how can you change or address this concern going forward?", "Well, part of it I think would be how you engage the air forces involved and what kinds of air forces do you have that are at the disposition of troops like these special forces units. So in this particular case, you've got a drone like you said, John, that was overhead, and very quickly overhead, and that tells me that they could very easily have positioned the drone if they had known that there was a troop in contact, troops in contact type situation. The French forces, they clearly responded. Perhaps there's a way to make that response quicker, although the distances involved are very, very large.", "And, of course, the most important thing here is to make sure something like this does not happen again to improve --", "Don't forget those troops in contact --", "-- the situation. Go ahead.", "-- were very close to the enemy forces.", "Absolutely.", "So, you know, getting close air support, requires a little bit of distance between our forces and theirs. We don't think they had that in this incident. That's something we'll find out.", "As you said, though, the facts are what's so important here and learning is what's so important here to make sure again things like this can be prevented if they can be prevented. Colonel Cedric Leighton and Jason Beardsley, thanks so much for being with us. Appreciate it.", "You bet, John.", "Thank you.", "So this could be awkward, the president heading to Capitol Hill for a big meeting with Republican senators, but all morning long he's been in a brutal, bitter feud with a very powerful Republican senator."], "speaker": ["RYAN BROWNE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "GEN. 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{"id": "CNN-271068", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2015-12-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/11/es.03.html", "summary": "Cardinals Top Vikings, Clinch Playoff Spot.", "utt": ["So, tell me, did you stay up late to watch Thursday night football? If not, you missed the good one, between the Cardinals and the Vikings. I personally didn't stay up and watch it. Andy Scholes, I went to bed. But you've got more in this morning's bleacher report. Good morning.", "Yes, absolutely. Good morning, guys. Believe it or not, we are already in week 14 of t the NFL season. Just four games left for teams to make the final playoff push. The Cardinals could clinch a spot in the post season with a win over the Vikings. Check out the block by Larry Fitzgerald right there. Wow. That gave Arizona a 17-10 lead. Under 20 seconds to go. Vikings down three in field goal range. Teddy Bridgewater gets sacked. Cardinals recover. They get the win, 23-20. He earned an extra $200,000 for that game winning sack. All right. Christine Romans, fourth ranked Iowa State Cyclones were down 20 before rallying to win. 83-82. The fans storming the court after the final buzzer. And during the chaos, \"Des Moines Register\" said Randy Peterson suffered a broken tibia and fibula, according to the paper. Peterson, who's covered sports in Iowa for four decades, tweeted from the hospital, one word, \"Ouch\". He is scheduled to have surgery later today. We, of course, wish him well. All right. The Golden State Warriors back on the court tonight, going for their 24 straight win to start the season. Dating back to last season, the team has now won 27 games in a row. Just six away from the record set by the Lakers in 1972. Here's a look at the warrior's upcoming schedule. Tonight, they play at the Celtics and then finish up that seven game road trip in Milwaukee before returning home for five straight. Of course, the game everybody has on the calendar is the Christmas Day match up against LeBron and the Cavs. Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker is not just one of the best in the business in kicking field goals, he is also the best opera singer in the NFL. Take a listen.", "That was tucker. Amazing, right? That was a charity concert in Baltimore, sold out because everybody wanted to see Tucker sing. He said he gets more nervous singing than he does kicking in front of 70,000 fans on Sunday.", "Well, you know, if things don't work out with the Ravens for him, he's also got opera singing.", "Absolutely. He's got a future, right?", "Absolutely. Thanks so much, Andy Scholes.", "All right.", "Trump leading in the new national poll, but there are some signs this morning that GOP leaders are getting nervous, next."], "speaker": ["KOSIK", "ANDY SCHOLES, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "SCHOLES", "KOSIK", "SCHOLES", "KOSIK", "SCHOLES", "KOSIK"]}
{"id": "CNN-194786", "program": "EARLY START WITH JOHN BERMAN AND ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN", "date": "2012-10-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1210/25/es.02.html", "summary": "Lady Liberty Now More Accessible", "utt": ["Welcome back to EARLY START. It is 51 minutes past the hour. You are taking a live look at the picture of Lady Liberty. And her torch is nice and lit up there. New York's Lady Liberty has a new look after a yearlong, multimillion dollar makeover. Before reopening to the public this weekend, I had an exclusive tour inside the Statue of Liberty, along with some of our wounded warriors.", "The Statue of Liberty's crown and interior have been closed for a year. But for retired Marine Corps' Larry Hughes, it's seemingly been longer. That's because the observation level of this iconic symbol of freedom was not wheelchair accessible until today.", "Wow! amazing.", "Hughes, a Vietnam vet, is taking the inaugural ride in a newly installed elevator to the statue's observation deck.", "Just to be here was something that never really entered into my mind, because simply I hate to be turned down. I hate to be rejected. So I'm no longer being rejected. I'm being here.", "The new elevator is just part of a year-long, $30 million renovation, that also includes upgrading stairwells and making safety improvements. The end result, a more accessible Lady Liberty that will allow an additional 26,000 visitors each year a chance to enjoy her spectacular views.", "When these adaptations are made, it opens up tremendous opportunities for all of us.", "Among the first to see the new renovations, two generations of severely wounded warriors. I joined Kirk Bauer, who lost his leg in Vietnam, and Jesse Acosta, who suffered injuries to his hip in a roadside bomb in Iraq, on the 146-step climb to the top. (on-camera): So you stuck your head out of --", "The crown!", "The crown. Very cool. What do you think? Is it what you expected?", "Fantastic. Actually, it's more tight than I thought looking up, but it isjust an incredible view.", "The renovation was full of challenges because of the statue's location and because they had to do it all without drilling into any part of the historic structure.", "It was a challenge, a huge challenge, because we had to envision all of this, make this building more safe, more code compliant, more accessible, more welcoming. And do it in a way that respected the historic fabric.", "It's very impressive, what they did, to see the investment in these days, in a World Heritage site, to allow those with perceived disabilities, those that need access, to see some of our historical sites, to be able to touch it and see it that much closer. It's really generous, really wonderful to be here.", "For the statute superintendent, David Luchsinger, who has lived on Liberty Island for more than three years, this moment among the most memorable.", "To be able to welcome our veterans home, and welcome them here, and actually get veterans up into the crown and up into the observation deck is just amazing.", "Grateful construction workers saluting America's heroes on this historic visit.", "We want to give you a token of thanks, first for coming out and visiting with us, but most importantly, for the service and the dedication that you've done for our country.", "They were thanking us. We should be thanking them. Because they're the ones that are making it possible. They're the hands that made this monument open to everyone, including those with disabilities.", "Restored Lady Liberty truly representing a symbol of freedom for all to enjoy.", "And work on the monument is expected to be completed early next year. If you are interested the in visiting the Statue of Liberty's crown, it opens on Sunday. Tickets are available online. However, demand is so high, the National Park Service says they are already sold out through the end of the year. But I still wish you luck, because what an experience.", "That was a beautiful piece. And you had a beautiful view.", "I did have a beautiful view and with those guys, I want to say thank you to Larry, Kirk, and Jesse, because they made this one of the most memorable experiences of my life. It was fantastic. Thank you. Today's best advice, coming up."], "speaker": ["SAMBOLIN", "SAMBOLIN (voice-over)", "LARRY HUGHES, MARINE CORPS (RET.), VIETNAM VETERAN", "SAMBOLIN", "HUGHES", "SAMBOLIN (voice-over)", "KIRK BAUER, VIETNAM VETERAN", "SAMBOLIN (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAMBOLIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAMBOLIN (voice-over)", "MICHAEL MILLS, ARCHITECT", "JESSE ACOSTA, IRAQ VETERAN", "SAMBOLIN", "DAVID LUCHSINGER, SUPERINTENDENT, STATUE OF LIBERTY", "SAMBOLIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BAUER", "SAMBOLIN (voice-over)", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-325457", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-11-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/07/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Trump to Address South Korea Assembly", "utt": ["In just a few hours, President Trump will deliver a highly anticipated speech before the South Korean National Assembly. The whole world waiting to hear what he will say about the nuclear standoff with North Korea and on that front, the president seems suddenly relatively optimistic.", "He does. A real reversal in language and tone, speaking today with South Korea's new president, barely 35 miles from the border with North Korea. President Trump claimed for the first time progress is being made and movement towards curbing the North Korean threat. Our Jeff Zeleny is in Seoul. What did he say - you know, that marked such a reverse of course?", "Good morning, Poppy. It was more of the tone of what the president was saying, more of a measured response, rather than exactly any new policy change. The reality here is that the president was talking about progress. He's hopeful that that is happening here, but that's a very difficult to measure. But he was also talking about strength. He was also talking about using the full force of the U.S. military and the allies here. This is what he said earlier today, if things don't go well, what will happen. Let's watch.", "We have a nuclear submarine also positioned. We have many things happening that we hope, we hope -- in fact, I'll go a step further, we hope to god, we never have to use. With that being said, I really believe that it makes sense for North Korea to come to the table and to make a deal that's good for the people of North Korea and the people of the world. I do see certain movement, yes. But let's see what happens.", "So hope to God we never have to use the full weight of the military there. That was something we've not heard from the president before. Again, though, the facts on the ground on either side of this peninsula have not changed at all. So it's hard to imagine that a deal would be reached or negotiations would begin. But the president was definitely in optimistic mode, not necessarily a change of strategy, more likely a change of proximity. As you said, you know, essentially in the shadow here of the regime, some 35 miles to the border, of course, farther across the country, but the reality here is when the president gives that speech this evening, he is going to be trying to urge other world leaders, particularly Russia and China, to come to the table and stop, you know, and increase the sanctions and other measures here. But that speech tonight around 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, will be something to watch without question to see if he continues that measured conciliatory tone that he's had so far here in Seoul. John and Poppy?", "All right. Jeff Zeleny for us in Seoul. Jeff thanks so much. Joined by Dan Blumenthal, director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Dan thanks so much for being with us. The president has gone from rocket man to all of sudden this more measured tone. This hours before his big speech to the South Korean National Assembly. What do you think he can get out of this speech tonight?", "I think the most important thing is to lay out a vision for the future of the peninsula, free of nuclear weapons. And hopefully, also speak to South Koreans and North Koreans who get information through all sorts of sources about bettering the lives of North Koreans as well. As well as reassuring the rest of the region. But it's not the United States that's going to start a crisis. We'll defend our friends and allies and ourselves, but the danger really has to be focused on Kim Jong-un and his unpredictable behavior now that he also has an ICBM and is closer to having a nuclear weapon he can put on it.", "National security adviser H.R. McMaster said last week that the president is, indeed, Dan, thinking about adding North Korea back to this list of, you know, state sponsors of terrorism. If that were to happen, what does that actually mean?", "Well, we and the rest of the world would be treating North Korea very differently. We would not be treating it as a normal state that has all the prerogatives and privileges of any other country. We would be treating it as a terrorist entity which has implications for how you treat their diplomats who oftentimes further the goals -- terrorist goals, criminal goals, of North Korea, and a whole new set of sanctions as well. I think it's the appropriate move, given North Korean actions and, you know, on other people's soil to assassinate and so forth.", "The president says he sees certain movement in dealing with North Korea. Do you see movement?", "It's very, very hard to read movement. It's such a closed box. I don't think anyone has a good sense really on the outside of whether Kim Jong-un is even processing information he's getting, whether his leaders are giving him that information. The movement may be from China itself. Remember, some of the target of the harsh language and of the military exercises is to put China back on its feet, knowing that we are serious and helping them move forward to put pressure on North Korea.", "And you do know that the president heads to Beijing a little later today. This is a trip that could be fraught with peril, but before he gets there, while he is still in South Korea, you think that we are headed towards a deterrence and containment and pressure sort of evolving relationship with North Korea. But you say a policy of unification would be better, why?", "Well, I think it would be better for us, it would be more stable, it would be better for the Koreans, the South Koreans, certainly would be better for the North Koreans who are enslaved by Kim Jong-un and frankly it would be better for China. After a while China will tire of having North Korea as its de facto ally, if it continues to face this kind of coercion.", "All right, Dan Blumenthal, American Enterprise Institute, thanks so much for being with us. Appreciate it.", "Thank you so much for having me.", "It is Election Day across the country. Perhaps the most closely watched race in Virginia. What it tells us, not just about that state, but the state of politics in this country.", "Yes, the president's policy being put to the test."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "HARLOW", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "TRUMP", "ZELENY", "BERMAN", "DAN BLUMENTHAL, DIRECTOR, AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE", "HARLOW", "BLUMENTHAL", "BERMAN", "BLUMENTHAL", "HARLOW", "BLUMENTHAL", "BERMAN", "BLUMENTHAL", "BERMAN", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-234518", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2014-07-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/12/ndaysat.03.html", "summary": "Airstrikes Pound Gaza As Rockets Hit Israel", "utt": ["Let's talk about the crisis in the Middle East now. Sometimes we talk about these in terms of day by day things are changing. This is ratcheting up by the hour.", "Israel's defense minister says the military is gearing up for more long days of fighting, speculation increases that Israeli ground troops may move into Gaza. That is the iron dome defense system intercepting militant rockets flying across the border from Gaza.", "There is no iron dome defense shield in Gaza. Instead, activists are forming human shields around some hospitals. We are seeing casualties mount as Israeli missiles rain down there. Officials say an air strike at a facility for the disabled killing two women. They say 127 people now have been killed in Gaza and nearly 1,000 have been injured.", "CNN's Wolf Blitzer is in Israel. In fact, he and his team had to run for cover when air raids sirens sounded. Here is the video of him trying to take cover. He is safely in Jerusalem -- Wolf.", "I've been coming to this region for many years. Usually when I'm here the situation is bad. I'm here usually covering bloody conflicts, though, I did have a happy experience back in 1994 when I was CNN's senior White House correspondent. I covered the signing of the Israeli Jordanian peace treaty. That was in Aqaba in Jordan, but now the situation is very tense, very bad and I truly fear it's about to get a whole lot worse. Israeli attacks and armored vehicles, they are poised to move into Gaza, which already has taken a severe Israeli pounding from the air. There will be many casualties on both sides if that happens. Millions of Israelis have been living in fear, fear of hearing those awful air raid sirens blast out. I've encountered a few of those experiences over the past couple of days when I drove down south to the border with Gaza. But as bad as the situation is on the Israeli side, it's a whole lot worse in Gaza. That's a small area with more than a million and a half Palestinians crowded in. Finding a way out of this awful mess won't be easy. Everyone seems to appreciate that. What's so sad is that Israeli and Palestinian leaders, they've had opportunities over the years. They would have a wonderful coexistence if that long elusive peace process could get off the ground once again and both sides were willing to make the necessary compromises. Unfortunately, right now that seems so unlikely. Wolf Blitzer, CNN, Jerusalem.", "An alleged escort is charged with manslaughter in the death of a California Google executive, but it does not stop there.", "Investigators are taking a new look at the death of a nightclub owner in Georgia that's scarily similar."], "speaker": ["BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST, \"THE SITUATION ROOM\"", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "NPR-5161", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2012-10-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/10/09/162551938/disgraced-south-african-politician-champions-striking-miners", "title": "Political Contest Plays Out In South African Court", "summary": "A disgraced political upstart, expelled from the governing party for insubordination, has redirected South Africa's spotlight on himself as a champion of striking mineworkers. Once an ardent supporter of the president, he now denounces him as a hopeless leader. In turn, the rebel politician is facing alleged money laundering charges.", "utt": ["In South Africa, high stakes political drama is playing out in the courts and in the headlines there. A disgraced political firebrand expelled from the governing African National Congress for insubordination has worked himself back into the spotlight as a champion of striking mine workers. Julius Malema is denouncing the president, a man he once supported, as a fat cat growing rich on the backs of the masses. In turn, the rebel politician is facing money-laundering charges. From Johannesburg, NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton has this profile.", "(Singing in foreign language)", "You can't ignore Julius Malema in South Africa. He's young at 31, he's vocal, and he's partial to populist rhetoric. As one local newspaper says, Malema is an expert at capturing public outrage, adopting it and exploiting.", "(Speaking in foreign language)", "Others argue that as an unelected politician, Malema fills a leadership vacuum and that's how he has remained relevant, despite being expelled in April from the governing African National Congress, where he was president of the party's youth league. Julius Malema is divisive, opinionated and well-connected.", "They have been stealing this gold from you and now it's your turn. You want a piece of gold.", "Speaking to thousands of striking gold miners in Carletonville recently, Julius Malema exhorted them to make South Africa's key mining industry ungovernable. In another address, Malema urged disgruntled soldiers of the national defense force to defend their rights.", "Our political consciousness will not allow us to sit back. We only have our voices to fight this barbaric regime under President Zuma, to fight this...", "He's talking about the government of President Jacob Zuma, the same man he helped to come to power and said he was prepared to die for. Then the two fell out. In a recent speech, at the height of the deadly platinum miners' strike, the president made this comment about his political opponents.", "They are unashamedly using a tragedy to score political points instead of putting the interests of the workers and the country first.", "South African police shot dead 34 platinum miners in August in a violent confrontation over mine workers' demands for better pay and conditions. Their grievances and the spread of labor unrest have given Malema a second wind, says commentator Audrey Brown.", "Julius Malema is interesting because he has managed to outsmart and outwit and outplay the president and other important people within South Africa. What he's done now is launched what I call an insurgency against the ANC.", "Brown says Malema has tapped into a national need.", "The fact is that he speaks uncomfortable truths to power. There will always be a Julius Malema in South Africa, I believe, as long as South Africa is as unequal as it is and as long as people are as dissatisfied with how our problems are being addressed.", "(Speaking in foreign language)", "Malema's anti-Zuma message is gaining currency 18 years after the end of apartheid.", "Our country is leaderless. It's on an autopilot. Passengers have taken over. The captain has given up. He doesn't know where we're going.", "For months, South Africa's elite police unit has been investigating Julius Malema's financial affairs. He's facing a charge of money laundering in his business dealings and allegations that he profited from government contracts in Limpopo, his home province. Commentator Audrey Brown says the big test comes now.", "So is it coincidental? People wonder why these charges, why now? Is it to shut him up or do they genuinely have a case against Julius Malema and does he have a case to answer?", "Malema's lawyers insist the money laundering charge is politically targeted to silence their client. Granted bail, Julius Malema is scheduled to return to court on November 30, his opportunity, he says, to take the stand and defend his version of events to South Africans. Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, NPR News, Johannesburg."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED CROWD", "OFEIBEA QUIST-ARCTON, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED CROWD", "OFEIBEA QUIST-ARCTON, BYLINE", "JULIUS MALEMA", "OFEIBEA QUIST-ARCTON, BYLINE", "JULIUS MALEMA", "OFEIBEA QUIST-ARCTON, BYLINE", "PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA", "OFEIBEA QUIST-ARCTON, BYLINE", "AUDREY BROWN", "OFEIBEA QUIST-ARCTON, BYLINE", "AUDREY BROWN", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILDREN", "OFEIBEA QUIST-ARCTON, BYLINE", "JULIUS MALEMA", "OFEIBEA QUIST-ARCTON, BYLINE", "AUDREY BROWN", "OFEIBEA QUIST-ARCTON, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-95196", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2005-6-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/08/lol.01.html", "summary": "Suspects in Aruba Disappearance to be Held Longer; Fans Gather to Wait for Jackson Verdict", "utt": ["Missing student mystery. Suspects in Natalee Holloway's disappearance go to court. We're live from Aruba with the new developments.", "I'm Chris Lawrence, live in Lodi, where federal agents say they have broken up an alleged terrorist cell, right here in northern California.", "He was carrying a bloody chain saw, a knife and a sword. But U.S. border agents let him in. Now he's in jail after a gruesome discovery.", "He pointed the gun to my face, took my right hand, caught his wrist. One shot was fired then.", "Dedicated deliveryman. This pizza guy gets hit by a bullet and still makes his next three deliveries. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Kyra Phillips. CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now. Immigrant father, ambitious son, specialized training abroad. Polygraphs, arrests and alleged confessions. It's the lowdown in Lodi, not the American dream but allegedly a post-9/11 American nightmare. Feds in California say the sons studied terror at an al Qaeda training camp and both men lied about it. Now both, along with two local men, imams rather, are front and center in the \"CNN Security Watch.\" Chris Lawrence has all the details -- Chris.", "Kyra, right now, federal agents have arrested two U.S. citizens. They say Umer Hayat and his son, Hamid Hayat, lied to federal agents about involvement with terroristic activity. Now, this also follows several raids in this area around Lodi, California, including mosques and two private homes. Now federal court documents show that this investigation began more than a week ago being when Hamid Hayat popped up on a no-fly list coming into the country from a flight from Pakistan. He was allowed to come into the United States, where FBI agents questioned him. They say Hayat at first denied, then admitted, that he had attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan, which he described as a place where people learn how to kill Americans, receiving instruction on explosives and weapons, including sessions where photos of President Bush were pasted onto targets that the trainees were then instructed to shoot at. Officials also accuse Hamid of potentially targeting hospitals and grocery stores right here in the United States -- Kyra.", "Chris, what more can you tell us about the other two suspects? I believe one of them is the imam at this Lodi mosque, right?", "That's right. Both actually are imams or spiritual leaders of local mosques here in Lodi, California. And law enforcement sources are telling CNN that they were both taken into custody on possible visa violations, after meeting separately with the Hayats over the weekend. But when the family of one of the imams came back here to this house early this morning...", "Got you.", "... we saw the wife of one of the imams go back into the house, and a family friend said there's just no way he can believe that they could be involved with anything having to do with terrorism.", "We are very, very confident that they will be cleared because we know Mr. Adil Khan here for a few years, three or four years. And since he's been here, he's very involved with the community, not only Muslim community -- he had a relationship with the temple that we went to, Christian, Jews, and all the neighbors. He had a very good relationship.", "Now, law enforcement sources are telling CNN that they are investigating others in this case. They say there is the possibility of more arrests to come as they investigate the possibility of a terrorist cell right here in northern California -- Kyra.", "All right, Chris Lawrence, thanks so much. We're going to talk more about that possible terrorist cell with our Nic Robertson and also Peter Bergen, our analyst, of course, on terror. Well, CNN is committed to providing the most reliable coverage of news that affects your security. Stay tuned to CNN for the latest information day and night. Now a ruling in Aruba, two actually. A judge says both suspects in the disappearance of an Alabama teen can stay locked up awhile longer while investigators look for more evidence. We still don't know what evidence they've got already. And the arrests notwithstanding, investigators still don't know whether Natalee Holloway is a runaway, an accident victim or a victim of something worse. We do know, now, the suspect's names, Nick John and Abraham Jones. CNN's Karl Penhaul joins me on the phone with more on these two individuals. Karl, what can you tell us?", "In morning hearings, Kyra, the judge has said that the two suspects will have to remain an eight further days in custody while investigations continue. And that will also give prosecutors a chance for them to gather further evidence. We've talked to the defense attorneys for Abraham Jones, a 28- year-old, and Nicky John, a 30-year-old, both of them security guards. The defense attorneys say that, so far, evidence gathered by prosecutors is merely circumstantial evidence from witnesses. But none of these witnesses in their statements, according to defense attorneys, ever report having seen the two security guards in the company of Natalee Holloway. We have talked also to family members of Abraham Jones. The mother turned up at the courtroom this morning, although the hearing was not eventually held there. This is what she had to say about her son.", "But God is above! God is above! God knows my son is innocent! And I will go down for it! My son is innocent!", "Now, Abraham Jones' mother...", "All right, I apologize. Obviously, we're talking to Karl Penhaul via satellite phone, and we lost that connection there. We'll try to get him back on the phone to find out more about these two men now that are being held, locked up actually, while investigators look at the evidence existing, possibly against them. Well, the fate of Michael Jackson is still being figured out in a tightly guarded room in California. Ten counts concerning Jackson's alleged abuse of a 13-year-old cancer patient have so far occupied four men and eight women for a little under 16 hours now. We get an update from CNN's Ted Rowlands in Santa Maria -- Ted.", "Kyra, the wait continues here. Jurors arrived a little early for their deliberations this morning, coming at 8:22. And that's when they started their deliberation process. They had been at it awhile. So everybody outside covering it. The fans and surely, the interested parties are on edge, waiting for that word a verdict may come in. As you mentioned, the jury is made up of eight women and four men. The foreman is a male, who is a retired high school counselor, a person that has worked with kids for years and may provide some insight as to children's behavior and may possibly -- believability. This is a juror that took a lot of notes. He was seated in the corner with another gentleman that took a lot of notes. He's the one with the mustache there, on the -- on the sketch. Now, Michael Jackson -- we've not heard an update as to the latest on him. According to his spokesperson, he has remained at Neverland Ranch throughout this deliberation process. Jesse Jackson has been coming to the courthouse on a daily basis. He is here right now. And he has been giving updates on the Jackson family. But at this point, we have not heard anything new, if you will, about this. Clearly, it is a wait. And as more time goes on, the tension level inside and outside this courthouse increases. Fans have kept a vigil outside the courthouse constantly throughout this deliberation process. There are dozens of fans out here again this morning. And the judge has said that he's going to allow just one hour. So these fans are not taking any chance. They are camped out here. The crowd a little bit thinner than we have seen in days past. But there are majority security concerns with this crowd, especially if the verdict does not go their way. Sheriff deputies will be on patrol in force, when the jury verdict is read. It will be read -- we will be able to hear it live. The judge has allowed an audio-only feed from the courtroom, when this verdict is read, and presumably, these fans will hear it when it is read live -- Kyra.", "All right, Ted if, indeed, a verdict is announced today, who exactly contacts Michael Jackson and what happens from there? Is he brought back to the courthouse? Give us the rundown.", "When word of a verdict comes down, the attorneys will be immediately notified and, presumably, the attorneys will then notify Michael Jackson. Thomas Mesereau's team will notify Jackson. He has an hour to get to the court. Clearly, they'll give him some leeway. But the idea is to leave as soon as possible. If he is at Neverland, which a spokesperson says he is, it takes about 40 minutes to drive. And then once everybody is in place, the verdict will be read. If it is not guilty, Jackson walks out of the courthouse a free man. If it is guilty, he most likely will never go back to Neverland, or at least not for some time. Because he will be, it is presumed, remanded into custody. His bail will be revoked, because he would be considered a major flight risk. A lot at stake here when that verdict is read, obviously.", "All right. It's going to be a busy day, I can just feel it. Ted Rowlands, live from Santa Maria, California, thank you so much. Well, if you got shot on the job, your boss would probably understand if you went home for the day, right? Well, this pizza guy decided to keep the pepperonis coming after he took a bullet. He tells his story straight ahead on", "Also straight ahead, doctors are calling it a miracle, a medical first, an ovarian transplant resulting in a bouncing baby girl. We'll tell you how they did it when they come back.", "You're watching LIVE FROM on CNN, the most trusted name in news."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "TOM STEFANELLI, PIZZA DELIVERY MAN", "PHILLIPS", "LAWRENCE", "PHILLIPS", "LAWRENCE", "PHILLIPS", "LAWRENCE", "RAMZAN ALI, SUSPECT'S NEIGHBOR", "LAWRENCE", "PHILLIPS", "KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CYNTHIA JONES, ABRAHAM JONES' MOTHER", "PENHAUL", "PHILLIPS", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "ROWLANDS", "PHILLIPS", "LIVE FROM. ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ANNOUNCER"]}
{"id": "NPR-3951", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2014-09-28", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/09/28/352198470/russia-moves-to-protect-its-information-sovereignty", "title": "Russia Moves To Protect Its 'Information Sovereignty'", "summary": "Russia's parliament, the Duma, approved a bill on Friday that would limit foreign ownership of Russian media to less than 20 percent.", "utt": ["Russian lawmakers have approved a bill that would limit foreign media ownership in the country to less than 20 percent. Critics say the measure means big changes for Russia's media landscape and much tighter controls of information by the Kremlin. NPR's Corey Flintoff reports from Moscow.", "The bill targets nearly half the publications on display at this news kiosk in Central Moscow. The offerings include business journals such as Forbes, as well as Russian editions of glossy magazines from Playboy and Cosmopolitan to Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.", "President Putin is expected to sign the measure into law next week. And if he does, these publications will have to sell most of their shares to Russian buyers or else out shut down. Lawmakers who sponsored the measure say it's necessary to curb foreign influence on Russia's information space. This is Sergei Naryshkin, chairman of the lower house of Parliament talking about the bill.", "(Through translator) This is international, standard practice. When national lawmakers protect their own markets, the goal is clear - to protect national sovereignty.", "Other lawmakers go further. They say Russia is defending itself in an information war against the west, and that means protecting so-called information sovereignty. Critics say the foreign-owned publications that are seen as most subversive include Forbes and the Business Daily newspaper Vedomosti, which is co-owned by the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Russian publishing house Sonoma. Both often run articles and columns that are seen as critical of the government and its connections with Russian business.", "The legislation has run into a lot of criticism in the Russian media sphere. This is Pavel Gutiontov of the Union of Russian Journalists.", "(Through translator) To put it mildly, you could say this bill isn't well thought out. No one has explained to me how our press will become better and more honest if we refuse foreign financing.", "Gutiontov says most complaints from the public about media in Russia are launched against the state-run media on the grounds that they spread disinformation about issues like the conflict in Ukraine. Masha Lipman, an independent media analyst in Moscow says the legislation is part of a Kremlin trend toward self-isolation in Russia, isolation that's hurting the economy.", "It will go much farther than just a few political publications that have foreign ownership. It has to do with channels such as Walt Disney or Discovery Channel. We have all these in Russia now. So it will affect the market, no question about that.", "The Moscow Times, a foreign-owned, English-language daily newspaper says the legislation could affect thousands of jobs in Russian publishing and drive down the overall quality of Russian media for lack of competition. If it's passed, the legislation would take effect in 2016 and give media owners another year after that to comply. Corey Flintoff, NPR News, Moscow."], "speaker": ["LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST", "COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE", "COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE", "SERGEI NARYSHKIN", "COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE", "COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE", "PAVEL GUTIONTOV", "COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE", "MASHA LIPMAN", "COREY FLINTOFF, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-381229", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-09-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/23/nday.01.html", "summary": "Pelosi & Schiff Open Door to Trump Impeachment", "utt": ["We had a great conversation. We don't want our people creating (ph) to the corruption already in the Ukraine.", "Trump did a terrible thing. Focus on the violation of the Constitution this president has engaged in.", "There's enough smoke here. Somebody other than me needs to look at it.", "In just hours, world leaders will gather at the U.N. amid escalating tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia.", "Not confident that we can avoid a war.", "The military option is always on the table.", "I know the Iranian people want a peaceful resolution.", "This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.", "Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is NEW DAY. It's Monday, September 23. It's 6 a.m. here in New York. And new this morning, the president says he did it. He admits it. Now, the question is, what are Democrats going to do about it? There are new signs this might be a tipping point on impeachment. President Trump did raise unfounded corruption allegations against Joe Biden during a phone call with the president of Ukraine over the summer. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff are both signaling their opinion on impeachment has shifted. The speaker is now demanding the White House turn over a whistleblower's complaint about the president's conduct by Thursday or face, quote, \"a whole new stage\" of investigation.", "The White House, meanwhile, is trying to shift the discussion to Biden, though there's no evidence of wrongdoing by the former vice president or his son. Biden accuses President Trump of conducting a smear campaign against him. One prominent Republican is calling on the administration to disclose the details of Mr. Trump's Ukraine phone call. President Trump claims that he also hopes the transcript will be released, though he's the one who has the authority to order it. This all comes as the president and world leaders convene here in New York at the United Nations. So let's begin with CNN's Joe Johns. He is live at the White House with our top story. A lot happened this weekend, Joe.", "That's right, Alisyn. It is a stunning admission by the president and even says something how worried he is about his re-election campaign. It's also expected to put more pressure on House Democrats in their impeachment investigation.", "President Trump admits he did discuss former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in a phone call with Ukraine's new president over the summer.", "The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, was largely corrupt in all of the corruption taking place. It was largely the fact that we don't want our people like Vice President Biden and his son, creating to the corruption already in the Ukraine.", "The Democratic frontrunner responding on the campaign trail.", "The House should investigate this. This appears to be an overwhelming abuse of power. To get on the phone with a foreign leader who is looking for help from the United States and ask about me and imply things, if that's what happened.", "The president's closest adviser is demanding investigations into Biden, despite no evidence of wrongdoing by the Biden family.", "I do think if Vice President Biden behaved inappropriately, if he was protecting his son and intervened with the Ukrainian leadership in a way that was corrupt, I do think we need to get to the bottom of that.", "President Trump telling reporters Sunday he hopes officials will release details of the call, but some advisers urging the opposite.", "I think that would be a terrible precedent. Conversations between world leaders are meant to be confidential.", "A source telling CNN the call with the Ukrainian president was part of the initial whistleblower complaint, which raised concerns about multiple actions. The White House still refusing to turn that complaint over to Congress. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sending a letter to all members of Congress, calling the stonewalling \"a serious possible breach of constitutional duties by the president.\" Adding that, if it continues, \"they will be entering a grave new chapter of lawlessness, which will take us into a whole new stage of investigation.\"", "I don't know whether the whistleblower complaint is on this allegation. But if it is, and even if it isn't, why doesn't the president just say release the whistleblower complaint? Clearly, he's afraid for the public to see either one of those things.", "CNN has learned that Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff were in close coordination all weekend, formulating a strategy on how to proceed as some Democrats blamed Congress for not starting the impeachment process sooner.", "You know I have been very reluctant to go down the path of impeachment. But if the president is essentially withholding military aid at the same time that he is trying to browbeat a foreign leader into doing something illicit, that is providing dirt on his opponent during a presidential campaign, then that may be the only remedy.", "In that same letter, the House speaker called on the acting director of national intelligence to turn the whistleblower complaint over to Congress by Thursday and clear a path for the whistleblower to speak directly to Congress. The president is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, where he is expected to meet with the president of Ukraine. Back to you, John.", "All right. Joe Johns for us at the White House. Joe, keep us posted, because we keep on hearing from the president about this. It's possible he's said something else in the next few hours. Want to bring in CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash and CNN political analyst Margaret Talev. She's the politics and White House editor for Axios. And Dana, I want to start with you, because it's your reporting that Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi were in contact before they both came out with what were very new positions on investigating the president. Adam Schiff saying we've crossed the Rubicon and maybe now impeachment is something we need to look at. And Nancy Pelosi saying a whole new stage of the investigation. What's going on here?", "What's going on is that the pressure that we have been talking about and we have been seeing now for months reached a completely new level last week with Corey Lewandowski -- we can't forget that -- and the frustration, anger really, among a lot of Democrats that -- that he wasn't held in contempt right then and there when he was, you know, not answering questions, never mind not treating the members of Congress with the respect that they felt that they deserved. But then, of course, this. The whole question of Ukraine and the idea that the acting DNI is not turning over the whistleblower complaint. The fact that Adam Schiff, who has not been in the impeach crowd, not even close to that. He's been extremely cautious. He's been much more in lockstep with Nancy Pelosi and other members of the leadership who have been saying, hold on. Let's just wait. We're not there yet. The fact that he used the \"I\" word and then, as you said, I was told that he coordinated closely with the House speaker this weekend. She released the letter, notably did not use the \"I\" word. Did not use impeachment. But still, nonetheless, her letter was extremely tough. A lot of focus on the fact that she said that this would -- if there's no reaction from the administration, it would put the investigation into a whole new level. But she actually wants immediate action. What she was trying to do, I'm told, in this letter is appeal to not just Democrats but Republicans. There are a lot of them who have said that they're retiring, so they don't have any, you know, kind of political strings on them, to push the DNI to really come on Thursday and deliver the report to Congress that has the information about the whistleblower's report.", "Margaret, Nancy Pelosi didn't use the \"I\" word. She used the \"E\" word. She said this is an emergency that needs to be addressed immediately. And we just don't know this week what that will look like.", "But we know that it will look like the president is at the U.N. G.A. with the entire world watching, and she's running the tables back in Washington. There are some things that are changing inside her caucus now, as Dana was mentioning. There are a number of kind of either centrist Democrats or Democrats in vulnerable districts who now are more interested, more open to the idea of impeachment. There are Republicans in the Senate, as well as the House, who are uncomfortable with the notion of what the president may have done and want to see this transcript themselves, although they don't want the impeachment fight. She understands that the internal pressure on her is increasing to do something. That if she does not shift accordingly, it could be a problem for her. She understands that this is a moment to put the president on the hot seat to try to get that transcript, and to put the Republicans on the hot seat, if they continue to defend him.", "You know, as James Carville was quoted today -- I think it was \"The New York Times\" -- who basically said, you know what? The politics of this have changed. You might be able to take an impeachment vote in the House now and force Republicans in the Senate --", "Right.", "-- to explain their vote against it. Not saying that they wouldn't vote against it, but if they have to explain it, it puts them in a difficult position, Dana. Which brings me to the Republican senator from Utah, Mitt Romney, who put out this statement last night. Let me read that: \"If the president asked or pressured Ukraine's president to investigate his political rival, either directly or through his personal attorney, it would be troubling in the extreme. Critical for the facts to come out.\" I'm not sure Mitt Romney watched the news this weekend, where he saw the president admit to having had that discussion, or Rudy Giuliani flat-out say to Chris Cuomo last week. However, if Mitt Romney is now saying the facts need to come out, is that what you're getting at, Dana and Margaret, when saying --", "Yes.", "-- that there are now Republicans saying, release this transcript. Put the pressure on them.", "Absolutely. Look, one of the big questions when Mitt Romney became a senator, and knowing his history with not having a very high opinion of the president, how much he was going to push back. And he has been very careful to pick his moments. This is a moment. And this is notable. The fact that he decided to tweet it. Yes, it is true that the president admitted it. Rudy Giuliani paved the way last week, as he is wont to do. But what Romney is saying is we need more than that. We need the details. We need what Nancy Pelosi called for, which is the actual whistleblower complaint to come to Congress so that there could be a full report to get to more than, OK, yes, I did it. Well, what exactly did the president say and, you know, the context around that? And so that is significant when it comes to the Senate, but in the House, you still don't have -- never mind a critical mass of Democrats. I mean, you have a lot of Democrats. But you don't have the 218, as far as the math that I'm looking at, to get to impeachment. We're not quite there yet. But more importantly, historically. I mean, the last time this happened, it was bipartisan. It was largely Republicans who voted to impeach President Clinton, but there were Democrats on board. That's not happening now. And that is why the part of Nancy Pelosi's letter where she's calling on Republicans to help pressure the White House on this issue is really important.", "As Dana points out, times have changed --", "Yes.", "-- since there was a bipartisan vote on impeachment. And so I mean, I guess my question is why would impeachment have to be this belabored experience that all the Democrats seem to fear, if they are doing the count of their vote right now? If something has changed this weekend, can they just quickly take a vote and just all be on the record? They know it's not going to happen in the Senate. They know the president's not going to be officially impeached or -- by the Senate. But shouldn't -- if they believe people should be on the record, can they do that quickly?", "I think yes is the short answer. But there is a longer answer, which is that Nancy Pelosi has -- part of her concern has always been, OK, so let's say that the House votes, the House Democrats vote. What does it get you if most of the -- if the American public itself is divided --", "Just posterity. That's it.", "That's what -- that's why this could be, potentially, a pivotal change. Because it's one thing to go after, essentially, the Mueller report, after the Mueller report is out. This is something different. This is something new. This actually goes to -- I mean, you're going to hear the word collusion if this continues to move forward. But it's not going to be, ironically, with the Russians. It's going to be a question about whether President Trump, whether there was a quid pro quo, whether he tried to hold up military aid to a U.S. ally at a time when they needed it to defend themselves against Russia. So we are still talking about Russia. I just think that, while the calculus has changed for the Democrats, they are still trying to understand would the American public be behind them? Is it worse for them if they do or if they don't proceed on this front? And can they use the pressure of it to get anything that they want out of the White House?", "And -- and the one other dynamic that I think it's important to point out is that the Democrats who have been calling for impeachment since day one, the AOCs of the world, they have reached a different point in their rhetoric, as well. And that is they're blaming not just, you know, Republicans and the White House for stonewalling. They're now blaming their own leadership for letting the -- the White House get away with it. And that's -- that's pretty intense stuff. And the fact that they're willing to go there and willing to go there loudly also gives you a sense of where the dynamic is inside the House caucus.", "There's also a House transcript. I mean, there's one tangible thing to fight about over the next few days.", "And the complaint. I mean, the whistleblower complaint. There's two tangible things.", "Sure. Two tangible things, and there's a tangible person. There's the inspector general of the Intelligence Committee, who thinks this is of urgent concern. So there are many more tangible things here, perhaps, than we had during the whole Mueller investigation. So maybe that will give Democrats the hook they -- if they want to go that way, to dig in here. Dana, thank you for your reporting. Margaret, you, too. Great to have you here on set. It is day one of the U.N. General Assembly, but President Trump will not be at one of the biggest summits of the day. We'll let you know what he is skipping and where he will be instead, next.", "And later this hour, we have a CNN exclusive with George Clooney.", "What we realized was we need to start -- we may not be able to shame war criminals, but we can sure shame people that live 15 miles from here in a beautiful home.", "All right. More of that interview ahead."], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-282464", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2016-04-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/26/se.03.html", "summary": "Trump Wins Five States, Clinton Wins Three; Two Races Left To Be Called; Sanders Wins Rhode Island", "utt": ["If he wins Pennsylvania with anywhere near or number like that, he will go back to those people and say you have to go home and look and your neighbors in the eye, and look what I did in your state, you have vote for me. So the political argument, the moral argument for Donald Trump to get these uncommitted delegates will be help the great deal if that number stays anywhere close to that. If he's at 61 percent in a big diverse complicated state like Pennsylvania, that's a wow. That I don't know if he's going to stay that high, we only have 2 percent of the vote out in Pennsylvania but if he's above 50, that's a significant win. And every degree he moves up above 50, Wolf, increases the argument when he personally and this is what this will come too if he's short of 1,237 after California, this will come to personal phone calls, meeting with these delegates, he will have a powerful case to make that if you're going to go home, to scratching were I'm getting 76 percent of the vote is that holds up, you can't look your, you know, you can't look your neighbor in the eye and say I didn't vote for Donald Trump on the first ballot. That is what Mr. Trump hopes for tonight with the big Pennsylvania win. We only get two for ahead of ourselves but as this map fills in, it's again another very impressive win.", "Take a look at Rhode Island for a second on the Republican side because it's very interesting. Right now in Rhode Island you can see Ted Cruz with almost half in the voters in. He's got 10.1 percent, you need at least 10 percent that threshold to get anything. If he gets under 10 percent, he gets zero in Rhode Island.", "And if you see Ted Cruz, can you imagine a scenario where Ted Cruz gets shut out? Five states, you are trying to make the case that you are the clear alternative to Donald Trump and you get shut out or you walk away with fewer delegates, than take in count on two hands of fingers left over, that's why again, Donald Trump's political argument to the uncommitted delegates, Donald Trumps political argument, if you get to a contested convention is helped greatly if he can go to state after state after state where he can point to his margins of victory especially late in the campaign. Now, if you have a contested convention momentum into that convention what matter and if Donald Trump is five for five tonight, I know Ted Cruz is in Indiana tonight saying I'm going to make that my firewall, right now he's losing in Indiana and the logic of politics tells you that Donald Trump is going to have a big night tonight and at least starts into next week with some momentum.", "Yes, he has 60 percent so far and all and four of those states still waiting for Maryland. Let's see how he does. Let's go back over to Jake and Dana. I know you guys are getting to more insight right now into how they've managed do this, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but I just want to remind our viewers we're standing by to hear from the big winners. They're going to both be speaking, we have live coverage of that coming up.", "And of course we've called projected three states for Hillary Clinton as of now, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. And that let me bring in our political director David Chalian because the big question is, how did she do it? Who were the voters that turned out in the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania?", "So let's look at two key groups for her supporters tonight, let's start in Maryland and we're looking at woman first here Jake. She wins women voters in Maryland 67 percent to Bernie Sanders 31 percent, women made up 61 percent of the Maryland Democratic Primary electorate tonight. Let's look at women in Pennsylvania, where they made up 59 percent of the electorate tonight and she wins them 59 percent to 41 percent. Now let's look at non-white voters, this has also been a Clinton strength. In Maryland 68 percent on non-white voters go for Clinton and 30 percent for Sanders. They made up 57 percent of the electorate in Maryland. Pennsylvania it's more of a white electorate, but the non-white voters were 29 percent of the electorate. Hillary Clinton got 64 percent of them. Bernie Sanders got 36 percent of them. You take non-white voters, you take women voters, in that kind of turnout with those numbers for Hillary Clinton, that is what is putting her so far ahead of him not just tonight but quite frankly, throughout this Democratic contest.", "Fascinating and David, on the Republican side the number hovering over every single other number that we declare this evening is 1,237. That's the number of delegates needed for a Republican candidate to clench the nomination, and it is the majority and there's a question about whether or not Donald Trump will be able to achieve it. He certainly had a strong showing tonight and maybe he will achieve it, but what do voters think about the prospect if no one secures that number, whom should the delegates award the nomination to at the convention?", "You're right, Jake, there may be a question about whether or not Donald Trump gets that number. There is no question among primary voters as to what should happen if he doesn't. He should get the nomination according to him. Take a look at this, in Connecticut if no one wins the 1,237. Nobody hits that magic number, 67 percent of the Connecticut primary voters today said the nomination should go to the person that has won most votes in primary and caucuses process, only 29 percent say, it should go to the best candidate for the delegates to decide in Cleveland. Take a look at that another state Maryland where 65 percent say it should go to the primary winner if everyone falls shortly of 1,237, 32 say, 32 percent say to the best candidate. And in Pennsylvania we asked the same question, 70 percent, of Pennsylvania Republican primary voters, no matter who they voted for tonight say that if you fall short the guy winning the most votes in these caucuses and primaries, should be the nominee, 27 percent say it should be the best candidate.", "Fastening and Dana Bash, whether it is their concept of simple fairness or whether Donald Trump's arguments are starting to take hold, this is more bad news for the never Trump voters and forces out there. A majority, a significant majority in some cases of voters in these states, Republican say, give it to the guy with the highest number of delegates even if it's not a majority.", "And the most interesting number of all those states that David just put up was Pennsylvania because if 70 percent say that it should be the guy who wins, that's a very big deal in a state where 54 of the delegates are going to be completely unbound even on the very first ballot at the convention. So if he does fall a little bit short, he has an argument that he can go make do them that it looks like according to the exit polls that they will be receptive to.", "And looking beyond the convention, it is a very significant number considering the fact that Pennsylvania is a battle ground state. It is a state that Donald Trump has said he hopes to be able to turn red. So Anderson, as we throw it back to you, think about that fact, does the Republican national committee want to annoy, irritate, aggravate that many Republican voters in a state so important?", "And that's been the question we've been asking now for months as we watch and wait for Secretary Clinton to make her victory speeches tonight and Donald Trump as well. Let's turn back to our panel. On the Republican side, how does the race now change? I mean Donald Trump has certainly ...", "A sweep.", "... a sweep. I mean it's major, I mean above 60 percent.", "And I would argue that he's performed above expectations.", "Right.", "So I mean everybody thought he was going do well, but this is kind of at the level that he won in his home state across a bunch of states here. A handful of states. I'm not sure what the exact numbers are going to turn out to be and I think that that would lead you to believe and we don't know numbers of that turnout or anything else, but I think it would lead you to believe that something has turned ...", "There's a feeling that come in ability.", "Something is happening here.", "It's going up in inability.", "Exactly.", "For all that talk of the ceiling that Donald Trump had.", "Of the 35 percent and it's done.", "I think there's a psychological barrier about to be broken because I'm keeping a close eye on John King's the map and it seems like Donald Trump is getting hopefully close to 1,000. There's something about breaking 1,000 ...", "Yeah.", "... whether it's tonight or sooner after where he's win almost length of 1,237.", "Well, I mean, well, you know, how do you -- I'm just sitting here trying to imagine how you manage your convention where this guys gets close, he's mounting these big numbers, you've got candidates, alternative candidates who are going, you know, 0 for five here ...", "Right.", "... and winning a delegate and you say you know what, I'm going to pick that guy. I mean how does that work? That just I think that's open rebellion.", "I mean, how does Kasich make the electability argument, by the way, Mr. One for -- what does Trump call him, one for?", "One for 41.", "41, right.", "And in some ways, it diminishes the importance of Indiana. Ted Cruz has been going all around saying, you know, it's all on Indiana, so he goes in there and maybe he wins it at this point of Donald Trump is head probably because I think he has got this momentum. So, you know, I mean mere argument just gets more difficult the more that Trump wins.", "That I think, I don't want to get too far away from the things that might actually matter. This is a bizarre outcome. I just -- I'd refuse to adapt to the absurdity of what's going on. John K. I just refuse to adapt to it.", "What does that mean?", "What does that -- oh my god.", "We don't know we already even what we have in the White House for the Trump side.", "Can you also be more specific of which crazy absurd thing you're talking about?", "I'm here to help you.", "You're in a safe place.", "John Kasich, I just, I don't agree with him, he has been a governor. He has been a successful governor. He was one of the architects of the Newt Gingrich revolution. He changed America, this guy should not have won state and like pancakes today. He should have a lot more than pancake.", "Van, you can see that about crazy, crazy thing or ...", "John Kasich is the only one among the Republicans who beats both Democrats in Pennsylvania. If you win Pennsylvania and Ohio, you win and yet he's getting clobbered by Trump.", "Right, exactly.", "And if -- I just take there's some, there's -- we are in real danger that we start lowering our own standards about what we think matters. Fine, I know -- something's happening out there and he's real. You can't deny, you can't ignore it, but you should be able to govern. You should be able to speak respectfully. You should be able to pass the standard of a third grade class before you're on your way to being president.", "But then you look at this numbers -- you look at this numbers and people ..", "People like Donald Trump.", "... are completely angry ...", "Yeah.", "They feel betrayed, we see it week after week after week and they want the guys is going to punch the system in the nose not the guy ...", "And by the way where Secretary Clinton is about to emerge and we'll obviously bring her comments live as we listen to -- I believe it's \"eye of the tiger\".", "You don't -- which obviously is not the voters are angry. You know they like, they want a different tone. I can understand that. What I have a difficult time understanding is that electability has become a non-priority. And here we have Hillary Clinton coming to the stage I'm guessing.", "And we can continue talking as we watch her approach. It will probably be a little while. (", "No, but if you want like so right of thing. If you want the guy that can really, you know, punch the system in the throat, doesn't that guy have to get elected to do it?", "Yeah, well that's to both parties electability hasn't been a very consuming passion of voters on either party and that may not be that unusual.", "And also what have Trump is more electable.", "And that was the argument ...", "Trump is more electable than Cruz but he is not more electable than Kasich in general.", "He is -- he is. When you ...", "I mean he's clearly more electable.", "And lets -- as Secretary Clinton takes the stage, we saw former president Bill Clinton coming in with her. He's not seem like he is standing on the stage with her during those day (ph). We've see another occurrences before. Let's listen in.", "Thank you. Thank you so much. Wow! Thank you, Pennsylvania! What a great night. I want to -- I want to thank everyone. I want to thank everyone. Thank you all so much. Wow! I just want to thank all of you, everyone who came out to vote, here in Pennsylvania and across Maryland and Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island. I am so grateful to all our volunteers, our organizers, our community leaders. Everyone who worked their hearts out and I want to thank the leaders here in Pennsylvania. Thank you Governor Wolf, thank you Senator Casey. Thank you Congressman Cartwright and thank you so much Mayor Kennedy for your great help. And of course I want to thank the 42nd president of the United States, my husband. Now, with your help we're going to come back to Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention, with the most votes and the most pledged delegates. And we will unify our party to win this election and build an America where we can all rise together, an America where we lift each other up instead of tearing each other down. So we need you to keep volunteering, keep talking to your friends and neighbors. Please join the more than 1.1 million people who have already contributed @hillaryclinton.com. Look, I know there are still too many barriers holding too many Americans back, but despite what other candidates say, we believe in the goodness of our people and the greatness of our nation, and if anyone doubts that, just let them travel across this country as I've done in this campaign the past year hearing people's stories, learning about their struggles, listen to the quiet determination of the working parents I met last week in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. They are doing everything they can to provide opportunities to their children in an economy where there's still aren't enough good-paying jobs. Listen to the mothers who lost children to gun violence and encounters with the police. They're turning their sorrow into strategy and their mourning into a movement, a movement for justice and dignity. Listen to the nurse I met this weekend in New Haven, Connecticut who worked for years to build a middle class life and raise a family, but then her luck changed. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and used up all her savings and her sick time. Soon she was facing foreclosure and the prospect of losing the home she loved for more than 20 years and here's what she said to me. My daughter and I live in fear of the day that we might come home and have a lock on the door. We're in pain. We're hurting. We were and are the backbone of this country, the middle class. We're not asking for a handout. We just want to be treated fairly. And she is -- she is speaking for so many people across our country who feel beaten down, left out and left behind. People who have worked hard and have done their part, but just can't seem to get ahead and find it tough even to get by. Now under neither all these worries together we are going to come together and we are going to solve the problems we face. And you know ... You know, I am aware that too many people -- too many people feel at the mercy of forces too big for anyone to control and they just worry that those of us in politics put our own interests ahead of the national interests. The faith that we can make things better, that we can give our kids a better future than we had is at the heart of who we are as a nation. And it's one of many reasons that being American has always been such a blessing and our campaign is about restoring people's confidence in our ability to solve problems together by delivering results that help people follow their own dreams. That's why we're setting bold, progressive goals backed up by real plans that will improve. After all, that is how progress gets made. We have to be both dreamers and doers. And as a great Democratic president once said, there's nothing wrong with America that can't be cured by what's right with America. So here's what I believe, I believe we can create more good jobs with rising incomes, jobs that provide dignity, pride and a middle class life. We can renew our democracy by overturning citizens united. We can lift up people and places who have been left out from our inner cities to aplasia, in every manufacturing town, hallowed out when the factory closed, every community scared by substance abuse and addiction, every home where a child goes hungry, that's what we Democrats believe in and that's what we know is possible. So we will build on a strong progressive tradition from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama! And I applaud Senator Sanders and his millions of supporters for challenging us to get unaccountable money out of our politics and giving greater emphasis to closing the gap of inequality and I know together we will get that done. Because whether you support Senator Sanders or you support me, there's much more that you unite us than divides us. We all agree that wages are too low and inequality is too high, that Wall Street can never again be allowed to threaten Main Street and we should expend Social Security not cut or privatize it. We Democrats agree that college should be affordable to all and student debt shouldn't hold anyone back. We Democrats agree that every single American should and must have quality, affordable health care. We agree that our next president must keep our country safe, keep our troops out of another costly ground war in the Middle East. And we Democrats agree that climate change is an urgent threat, and it requires an aggressive response that can make America the clean energy super power of the 21st century, and we Democrats agree on defending all of our rights, civil rights and voting rights, workers' rights and women's rights, LGBT rights and rights for people with disabilities. So in this election we will have to stand together and work hard to prevail against candidates on the other side who would threaten all those rights and pit Americans against each other. They would make it harder to vote, not easier. They would deny women the right to make our own reproductive health care decisions. They would round up millions of hard working immigrants and deport them. They would demonize and discriminate against hard-working terror hating Muslims- Americans who we need in the fight against radicalization and both of the top candidates in the Republican Party deny climate change even exist. Now, the other day Mr. Trump accused me of playing the, quote, \"woman card\". Well if fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman's card, then deal me in. So my friends, if you are a Democrat, an independent or a thoughtful Republican, you know, their approach is not going to build an America where we increase opportunity or decrease inequality. So instead of letting them take us backwards, we want America to be in the future business. That's why I want you to keep imagining a tomorrow where instead of building walls, we're breaking down barriers. We are making it more likely that Americans will be part of a prosperous inclusive, decent society. We're imagining a tomorrow where every parent can find a good job and every grandparent can enjoy a secure retirement. We're imaging a tomorrow where no child grows up in the shadow of discrimination or under the specter of deportation and where every child -- every child has a good teacher and a good school no matter what zip code that child lives in. And imagine a tomorrow where any young person can graduate from college debt-free. We're going to imagine a tomorrow where hard work is honored, families are supported, streets are safe and communities are strong and where love Trumps hate. That is -- that is the future I want. I want that future for my granddaughter and for all of our children and grandchildren. Now, think of this. Our nation was born right here in Philadelphia. Our declaration of independence and constitution were signed just a few blocks away and ever since, even through dark and difficult chapters of our history, the idea of America has shown through. At our best we are as Robert Kennedy said, a great country, an unselfish country and a compassionate country, but America's greatness is not a birth right. It must be earned by every generation. So please join us, join us, go to hillaryclinton.com, text \"JOIN\" 47246, volunteer, contribute, compete, let's go forward and let's win the nomination and in July let's return as a unified party. Thank you so much.", "Hillary Clinton declaring victory three states have been projected to fall in her column this evening, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. It was really a general election speech she seemed to be giving in many ways. She commended her Democratic primary opponent independent Senator Bernie Sanders talking about how he has been pushing to get big money out of politics, but really so many of the phrases and even slogans that she used in her speech were, direct responses to the campaign of Donald Trump. She talked about instead of building walls we should be breaking down barriers. She talked about when Donald Trump said that she was playing the woman's card. She said if that's the fighting for women's pay equity is playing the woman's card then deal me in and then of course this phrase love Trumps hate, not a so subtle reference to the man whom she may well end up facing in the general election there.", "No question about it, this is somebody who is very ready to pivot to the general election. You heard that not only in the things you were just describing, the way that she focused on Donald Trump, but also the kind words that she had for Bernie Sanders. You know, kind of effectively thanking him for the contributions that he has made in the Democratic primary as opposed to, you know, whacking, reportedly as we've seen in the past.", "And speaking of which Wolf Blitzer, you have a projection for us.", "We do have a projection. A win, a win for Bernie Sanders. CNN projects Bernie Sanders is the winner of the Rhode Island Democratic presidential primary. That's his first win of the night. So far Hillary Clinton has won three states and Bernie Sanders wins in Rhode Island. Here is the wins so far on the Republican side. A clean sweep for Donald Trump all five very big night for Donald Trump he wins Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware. Big wins for Hillary Clinton tonight as well, three big wins so far Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. Now Rhode Island goes to Bernie Sanders a win for Bernie Sanders in Rhode Island. That's his first win. We're still waiting for Connecticut to we're still waiting for Connecticut to -- we'll still waiting for Connecticut, we'll see what's going on there. We're waiting also to hear from Donald Trump. He's about to give a big victory speech. He just won five -- all five of the Republican presidential primaries. We'll take a quick break, we'll be right back."], "speaker": ["JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "KING", "BLITZER", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR", "TAPPER", "CHALIAN", "TAPPER", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST", "COOPER", "BORGER", "COOPER", "BORGER", "MICHAEL SMERCONISH, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BORGER", "SMERCONISH", "BORGER", "COOPER", "BORGER", "SMERCONISH", "BORGER", "SMERCONISH", "DAVID AXELROD, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "COOPER", "AXELROD", "BORGER", "AXELROD", "BORGER", "NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER", "VAN JONES, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "COOPER", "HENDERSON", "JEFFREY LORD, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "COOPER", "AXELROD", "LORD", "JONES", "BORGER", "SMERCONISH", "HENDERSON", "JONES", "AXELROD", "BORGER", "AXELROD", "BORGER", "AXELROD", "COOPER", "SARAH ELIZABETH CUPP, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "COOPER", "CROSSTALK CUPP", "AXELROD", "COOPER", "BORGER", "CUPP", "LORD", "HENDERSON", "COOPER", "HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "TAPPER", "BASH", "TAPPER", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-92118", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2005-2-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/14/lt.03.html", "summary": "Beirut Bombing; Election Results In", "utt": ["Let's take a look at what's happening right \"Now in the News.\" A massive explosion ripping through downtown Beirut, killing the former Lebanese prime minister. At least nine other people were killed and 100 others wounded. The explosion comes amid increasing political tensions in Lebanon. We'll go live to Beirut in just a minute. Authorities say at least three people were killed in a trio of bombings in the Philippines today. Among the targets a bus in Manila and a department store in the southern Philippines. A caller to a radio station claimed the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf was responsible. Thousands of U.S. troops prepare to leave Iraq after a handover ceremony today in Tikrit. Members of the 1st Infantry Division were replaced by solders from the 42nd Infantry Division. It's the first National Guard division to be activated since the Korean War. The nation's new attorney general takes the oath of office. Alberto Gonzales was sworn in during a ceremony seen live on CNN last hour. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor administered the oath as President Bush looked on. It is 11:00 a.m. on the East Coast, 8:00 a.m. on the West Coast. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, good morning once again. I'm Daryn Kagan.", "And I'm Rick Sanchez. A lot of news. And up first this hour, it's a massive explosion in downtown Beirut. And that was not just a bombing, but a political assassination as well. The blast killed one of the most influential power brokers in the Middle East and left the city's fashionable seafront littered with burned-out cars. Senior international correspondent Brent Sadler, he's been tracking the story all morning long. And he's joining us now live. Do we know yet why this happened, Brent?", "No, we have no suspects in the frame. No real hard information as to why it happened. But you can add the figures together in terms of trying to make sense of it, in terms of an equation. This was a huge blast it. It shook me off my desk earlier this day in our bureau here in central Beirut. Glass shattered through the city's center a mile away from the actual scene of this political assassination, of this very larger than life political figure, Rafiq al-Hariri, who just turned 60 at the end of last year. He was a dynamo in terms of the reconstruction, the post-civil war reconstruction of Beirut. He was seen as a powerhouse of politics by his supporters, but he also had very many political opponents on the scene here, as well as diehard enemies. And Lebanon is facing a parliamentary election in a couple of months from now. One of Hariri's closest allies, there was an assassination attempt against him with a bombing attack a couple of months backed. He survived. Hariri knew the risks of the game in terms of trying to come back again for possibly a sixth term as prime minister in these upcoming general elections here. But there has been fierce political rhetoric. The whole atmosphere of politics has been really thrown back in recent weeks to the years of the civil war. This is a country with a veneer of stability. And that veneer was ripped apart by that massive explosion earlier this day, eliminating one of the most powerful Sunni political players on the field in Lebanon whose reach not just because he was a multibillionaire, but whose reach stretched far beyond the coastal shores of Lebanon to the United States. He had cordial, very good relations with President George W. Bush. Also a personal friend of President Jacques Chirac of France. A player who used his own personal 777 Boeing jet to travel the world to promote Lebanon, to get over the years of civil war and brutal conflict here to try and rebuild the country. And it was Hariri who has now been liquidated. A political assassination it's being seen by his supporters here, and the ramification are indeed potentially seismic -- Rick.", "Why would people suspect the Syrians? And could this then have a backlash against the Syrians? Can you explain that to us?", "Yes, the Syrians have been under growing international pressure, led primarily by the United States, with the support of France to pressure Syria to loosen its grip on Lebanon, to withdraw what are seen by many Lebanese here, particularly among the Christian community, as occupation forces. For Syria to stop supporting Hezbollah, which the U.S. and Israel regards as a terrorist organization. And Hariri behind the scenes was seen as a catalyst to bringing about this U.S.-French pressure on Syria -- Rick.", "Interesting. Brent Sadler, thanks so much for explaining that to us. We'll certainly be checking back with you -- Daryn.", "Now to Iraq, where the horse trading begins today. The election results are in, and a Shiite slate of parties will now try to shape a new unity government. Senior international correspondent Nic Robertson is watching developments in Baghdad today. Hello.", "Hello, Daryn. Well, perhaps one of the most interesting things to happen today, we've heard from some Sunni politicians who have been mostly marginalized so far in these elections that have been dominated by the Kurds from the north and the Shias from the south. The Sunnis today saying that they feel like they're in a vacuum. The influential and the most popular Sunni party here, the Iraqi Islamic Party, has said that it thinks that the Sunni clerics are to blame for the reason that Sunnis didn't come out to vote. And now they want to be a part of a political process. They want to be involved in the drafting of the constitution that's going to begin soon. And they say that they hope by the end of the year, when next elections are expected to happen, that Sunnis will come out and vote. So that's quite an interesting development, that really the split happening within the Sunni grouping now -- Daryn.", "A couple questions for you. First, about the Kurds, they had what many consider an excellent showing in these elections. My question is, do the Kurds want to be part of Iraq or do they want to have their own independence movement and continue that effort to have their own country?", "Well, they really feel that they got what they were expecting here, which was a quarter of the seats in the national assembly. Right now they say absolutely, they want to play ball, they want to be part of Iraq. Indeed, they want to be -- they want to get one of the top jobs in the new government. They want their representative to become president. And they say that's going to be a real test of how well the ethnic Kurds in the north are going to be dealt with by the ethnic Arabs, if you will, the Arabs in Baghdad. The Baghdad government has never had to deal with the Kurds in this way. And the Kurds say, if they're not accepted in Baghdad on equal terms, if their man cannot be president or take a top job, then that's going to show them that they don't have a future in a united Iraq, and therefore, they'd rather pursue their own interests. But right now, they say Kurds as part of united Iraq, definitely the best place for Kurds to be.", "Let's talk about some of the other key positions. You mentioned a president, also a prime minister needs to be selected.", "Prime minister, defense ministry is also an important position, the minister of interior as well. Key, key jobs here, and the horse trading for those is going to be very intense. Perhaps what makes it more intense than people had initially anticipated is because that -- the very popular religious Shia party that so dominated in the elections has done well, but not that well that they can ignore what everyone else wants. Now, they're expected to put in a moderate person in one of those influential positions. Indeed, a lot of people are saying, \"We want to see an independent player there. We don't want to see party politics coming into top jobs like the prime minister's job, like the interior ministry, key, key positions in determining the future security.\" Those jobs that would determine whether or not the country stays united and whether or not the person doing those jobs really is a unifier or a divider, and that's very critical for the future of the country -- Daryn.", "Nic Robertson joining us live from Baghdad. Thank you. An expert weighing in on Iraq's election outcome in our next half-hour. We're going to talk with a former Middle Eastern diplomat about the next steps on Iraq's road to democracy.", "Time now for a CNN \"Security Watch\" report. South Korea's top diplomat goes to the State Department this hour. He's going to talk with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about North Korea's nuclear pursuits. Last week the north declared it had nuclear weapons. It demanded one-on-one talks with the United States, not with five other nations. The Bush administration refused to do it. State Department officials say China, which holds a lot of sway over the north, will try and pressure it now to return to six-party talks, or so the Chinese have promised over the weekend. Now, the Pentagon and the CIA is not going to touch this one that we're about to tell you about. But there is a published report saying that the Bush administration is spying on Iran's nuclear program, using drones, supposedly. National security correspondent David Ensor has been following up on the story, and he's joining us now to let us know what he knows. David, over to you.", "Rick, there have been a couple of developments in the area of intelligence in Iran over the weekend. With the U.S. intelligence community working on a wide-ranging review of its intelligence about Iran, these two revelations are getting attention in town here. First, knowledgeable former officials are telling CNN that in the early 1990s a network of Iranian agents for U.S. intelligence was discovered by Iranian counterintelligence and dozens of agents were jailed or executed, according to these sources. They did say the network was a low-level one, was set up at the request of the Pentagon. Word of the loss came first in recent testimony by former Pentagon official Richard Perle.", "I imagine there are many on the committee who are familiar with the terrible setback that we suffered in Iran a few years ago, when in -- in a display of unbelievably careless management we put pressure on agents operating in Iran to report with greater frequency, and did not provide communications, channels for them to do it. The Iranian intelligence authorities quickly saw the surge in traffic and, as I understand it, virtually our entire network in Iran was wiped out.", "Now, Richard Perle is a frequent critic of the CIA. And knowledgeable former officials dispute him on several counts. They call his testimony \"inaccurate\" in some details and \"misleading.\" These officials say his description of how the network was rolled up is wrong, and that it was smaller than he described. Meantime, as you mentioned, two well-placed sources are now confirming to CNN a report that the U.S. has used unmanned aerial vehicles to collect intelligence on Iran, though U.S. military and other officials are saying that no such flights have occurred recently. This occurs over a backdrop where some CIA officials are worrying that the Pentagon and FBI may be seeking to take over more of the human intelligence effort in Iran, recruiting spies to report from the ground. We're in a situation now where the president seems to be delaying his choice of a new director of national intelligence. And that, in the view of some senior former officials, lays U.S. intelligence to be vulnerable to what one official called poaching -- Rick.", "David Ensor, national security correspondent, reporting to us on two developments having to do with Iran. And we should tell you that CNN \"Security Watch\" keeps you up to date on safety, your safety. Stay tuned day and night for the most reliable news about your security.", "A lot going on this morning. Just as you were talking to David Ensor, Michael Jackson arriving at the courthouse in Santa Maria, California. We have the pictures of Michael Jackson arriving. Jury selection continues. The requisite umbrella on a sunny day on the central coast there. As jury selection goes on, they have it down to nearly 250 potential jurors. They're filling out questionnaires into -- they want to get to down to 12 panelists and eight alternates. Jackson is accused of molesting a 13-year-old former cancer patient, giving the boy alcohol and conspiring to hold him and his family captive. So jury selection continues in Santa Maria. We move back East. A shooting at a crowded New York mall sends panicked shoppers scrambling for cover and leaves at least two people wounded. This morning, police identified the suspect as 24-year-old Robert Bonelli. He's charged with assault and reckless endangerment. Police placed the mall on lockdown immediately after the shooting yesterday. They say the gunman fired an assault-type weapon until he ran out of ammo. A mall employee helped capture the suspect after he stopped firing.", "All of a sudden, out of the Best Buy exit I saw a guy with a guns, a rifle coming out. And a couple of shots rang out. And as everybody was running out, I saw him going down the mall entrance. And so for whatever reason I started going down towards that entrance. And people were yelling at me to get back, \"He's got a gun, he's shooting people.\" And, you know, gun's going off and firing. And so I peeked around the corner and saw him go around another corner. So I snuck down that corner and saw him go around.", "Police say that a National Guard recruiter wounded in the shooting might lose his leg. The other victim had minor wounds to his arm and his leg.", "Thank god he was terrible shot.", "Yes. It could have been a lot worse.", "There's also another story that we're following. There's a concern about safety as well after yesterday's intense fire in this building. Look at it. It's a fire now out, but authorities have another problem on their hands, and we're going to tell you what it is up next.", "And then have you heard what Canseco -- Jose Canseco has to say? He's letting loose in a new book. Find out who he says he did steroids with and what he thinks about doing steroids now.", "Also, don't forget about Valentine's Day today.", "Did you remember?", "Of course I did.", "OK. Good job.", "I'm all over this one. All over it. I'm convincing myself. Why chocolate may be a tasty and healthy choice, or a great excuse."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR", "BRENT SADLER, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SANCHEZ", "SADLER", "SANCHEZ", "KAGAN", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. 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{"id": "CNN-332598", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2018-02-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/11/ndaysun.02.html", "summary": "Three Killed, 4 Injured in Grand Canyon Helicopter Crash", "utt": ["-- a sightseeing helicopter crashed into the Grand Canyon.", "These are some of the first pictures we are getting of what happened there. Local police have called in the military now to help rescue the survivors. And you can see why. The terrain is rocky. The winds are high and it's still dark in Arizona. CNN's Polo Sandoval is joining us live with more details. What have you learned this hour?", "Well, Christi, we do understand that first responders have actually reached these four survivors so they are helping them, administering first aid there and trying to get them some of the help that they need. The next issue, though, is getting these survivors out of the scene. It is something that has proven to be difficult, to say the least. You mentioned, it is rocky. It is extremely rugged terrain there. This accident happening in the corner of Master (ph) Canyon, which is a part of the Grand Canyon there, a deeply valley that is extremely tough to get by air. With these windy conditions, we understand wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour making it very difficult for aerial access. However, now with military assistance, that likely could hopefully get these what are described as trauma, level one trauma patients out of the scene as this investigation begins. We understand the NTSB will be looking into the cause of this accident. This was a tour operated by Papillon Tour group. It's described itself as the world's largest sightseeing company. We also understand that this was a helicopter that was an EC 130 based on the manufacturer's Website. It's a single engine, very roomy, very capable aircraft there, capable of transporting seven to eight people, very popular among both law enforcement and also the tourism industry. So, again, the NTSB will be launching an investigation there. We dig some digging, found out that this tour group, this tour company was involved in a deadly accident back in 2001 and haven't seen anything since. And now here we are, again, where again four of seven people did survive a deadly accident there in the Grand Canyon. This is still an evolving situation as the military now joins in for assistance here, trying to get the survivors away from the scene and over to help.", "Yes, hopefully, sunrise there in a few hours helps bring the people out quickly. Polo Sandoval, thanks so much.", "You bet.", "This is another example of the White House being forced to deal with a crisis.", "There has to be a zero tolerance towards that type of domestic violence.", "The president is being rather defiant in response to these accusations of two his now former staffers.", "He said, very strongly yesterday, he is innocent but we absolutely wish him well.", "Disgusting comes to mind. Disturbing also comes to mind.", "I think it's important for the president to acknowledge the victims.", "We are in the middle of a Sunday afternoon protest in Seoul and these people are angry about what is going on.", "Vice President Pence came here calling for maximum pressure, calling for isolation of North Korea, and instead the North Korean delegation was in the VIP box with him.", "We'll get to that story in a moment, but Democrats are now demanding answers as the White House faces questions over the handling of two staffers accused of domestic abuse.", "A dozen Democratic senators have sent a letter to Chief of Staff John Kelly and White House counsel Don McGahn. And the senators ask when the White House found out about the abuse allegations and why the staffers were allowed to keep their jobs until this week. It's not only a moral question, there are also some national security implications here. The letter asks, should Rob Porter have been handling classified information with an interim clearance?", "Now, President Trump continued to defending his now former staffers, this time through a statement on Twitter saying that lives are being destroyed over what he called mere allegations and whatever happened to due process, he asked. But after that, an attempt at pivot for the president to the ongoing fight over immigration.", "We are live from Washington with our CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes now. Kristen, good morning to you. What are you hearing from the White House?", "Good morning, Christi. Good morning, Victor. Well, administration officials are telling us this is a White House in turmoil dealing with, yet, another public relations crisis. You mentioned that pivot to immigration. Well, this is likely because of the widespread backlash President Trump received from that tweet, from that response. And this is really become a pattern that we have seen with the president when responding to these abuse allegations, particularly when they are against his colleagues or his friends or even himself. Now, people took issue with many parts of this response, but one thing, in particular. There was no mention of the victims. President Trump did not mention the victims when he first responded to the situation in the oval office and then he didn't mention the victims again in this tweet. Now, take a listen to what a Republican Congressman Charlie Dent had to say about that.", "There has to be a zero tolerance toward that type of domestic violence that is being discussed in these two situations. That's very clear. And, of course, we should be very sympathetic and empathetic to the victims, to the women who have been violated here, subject of violence. That said, I think it's important for the president to acknowledge the victims.", "And again, that was a Republican congressman. And now, as you mentioned, that the letter from 12 Democratic senators. And they are outlining everything from the security clearance. Did Porter disclose this situation? Did he actually get denied a security clearance? And was he handling these classified documents without a clearance? And what did John Kelly and Don McGahn know? And when they did know it? And I just want to for our viewers lay out what we've been told by our sources which is that it was in January and February of 2017, so a year ago, when Porter first told Don McGahn that this might be an issue on his background check and then again in the fall of this year is when John Kelly was made aware of the situation.", "All right. Kristen Holmes, we appreciate it so much. Thank you.", "And still to come, Kim Jong-un's sister had a lunch meeting with the South Korean prime minister in Seoul but on the street was very different, not so friendly. Protesters chanted anti- North Korean slogans. We'll tell you more about what happened there.", "And history was made in Pyeongchang. The U.S. took home gold in the men's snowboard slope style and Coy Wire was there with Red Gerard's elated family. We have a live report for you. Stay close."], "speaker": ["VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLACKWELL", "SANDOVAL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "REP. CHARLIE DENT (R), PENNSYLVANIA", "HOLMES", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-199403", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2013-1-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/15/sp.02.html", "summary": "Aurora Theater To Reopen Thursday; Justice Thomas Speaks!; Coca-Cola Joins The Obesity Fight; Wal-Mart To Give Vets A Job; Obama To Act On Biden's Gun Proposals; Revving Consumers' Engines", "utt": ["-- the storm bill is full of pork. In the next hour, Soledad is going to talk to South Carolina Congressman Mick Mulvaney, a Republican who says he is not going to vote for this bill. Six months after the midnight massacre at the Aurora, Colorado movie theater where a gunman killed 12 and wounded 58 others, that theater is set to reopen on Thursday. But today and tomorrow, victims and their families will be allowed to tour the renovated complex. The grand reopening is being billed as a night of remembrance and city officials plan to distribute some 2,000 tickets to victims, first responders and hospital workers. It is controversial there. So it's enough to make Supreme Court watchers giddy. This is huge. Justice Clarence Thomas spoke during oral arguments for the first time in almost seven years. He speaks. The trouble is no one really has any idea what he said except that he was cracking a joke about Ivy League lawyers specifically lawyers from Yale where the Justice went. Justice Thomas has a strained relationship with alma mater. He said he regrets going there, but he hasn't mentioned it in years. So it's a big, big deal if only we knew what he said.", "He made a joke -- this is fun.", "Couldn't have been that funny. So it's 31 minutes after the hour here. And Coca-Cola has been an American staple for more than a century, but many experts say sugary beverage like Coke contributes to our growing obesity problem. But now there's a new ad from the Coca-Cola Company that claims its new no and low sugar drinks can be part of the obesity solution.", "For over 125 years, we have been bringing people together. Today, we would like people to come together on something that concern all of us, obesity, the long-term health of our families and the countries at stake. And as the nation's leading beverage company, we can play an important role.", "CNN's senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen joins us now. And Elizabeth, there was consensus at this table that this is a really interesting new measure by Coca-Cola. So what was the goal of the new campaign?", "It's interesting just that they have done it at all. I mean, you were saying Justice Thomas speaks. Some people are saying Coca-Cola speaks that they really haven't said much about obesity considering how large a company they are. So the goal of this the company says is to say, we are doing our part to fight the obesity epidemic. They say we offer lots of low and no calorie options. They say we're coming out with smaller sizes of our products, 7.5 ounces rather than 12 ounces. And they are also saying we're going to put the calories or we are putting the calories right here on the front. If you can see on this silver band it says right there 140 calories so people see it right there and can make choices. So they say you put all of this together and they say the company is clearly showing that they have helped people lose weight and that they continue to help people lose weight.", "We have been talking about obesity epidemic for years and soda consumption is actually going down. So how responsible is something like soda really?", "You know, I think we have to look at it on an individual basis. So I mentioned the 140 calories. Let's say you have two Cokes a day, 280 calories. That's a lot of calories. That's more than 10 percent of what you are supposed to get in an entire day and you are getting it in two sodas. But also take a look at what I have here. According to the Harvard School of Public Health, sodas have nine teaspoons of sugar per soda. So we were talking with Zoraida in the last hour, would you eat nine teaspoons of sugar. So nine teaspoons of sugar in a soda that is obviously quite a bit of sugar and a lot of doctors say that when you drink your sugar, it gets into your blood stream faster. Let's say you ate it in an apple, the fiber would help slow down the absorption.", "All right, Elizabeth Cohen, that really is a stunning picture there, the nine spoons of sugar.", "It makes a lot of sense. They are getting ahead of, you know, this is where the country is thinking about obesity and these are the consumers, right?", "You said that soda consumption is going down. Childhood obesity is also going down as soda consumption goes down. There is a relationship between this product and obesity and you just happened to acknowledge that. They are doing something to help, great. Everybody does something to help. But you are also part of the problem.", "Bravo. This is a cultural phenomenon. This is an example about how public attention and public pressure can change our culture. Coca-Cola is responding to that. We do have a looming crisis. We talk about the budget. Health care cost has to do with obesity and hypertension and diabetes. Bravo for the first lady who has brought attention to public policy. This company is responding to what consumers have asked.", "We will talk more about this when we do our tough call a little bit later this morning.", "You know, there's another big company making news right now and that's Wal-Mart. So if you served the country and you need a job, Wal-Mart is hiring. Today the nation's largest retailer will announce an ambitious new five-year plan to hire 100,000 veterans. Any service member who has received an honorable discharge within the past year is eligible for the program. It begins Memorial Day, which is May 27th. It's just fantastic.", "That's just good to do. I love that.", "So big, everything they do, positive and negative.", "And wouldn't it be great if others saw that?", "Well, the first lady is going to ask other companies to join in.", "These are not like replacing existing employees.", "Hopefully people are going to --", "Interesting. The president is currently reviewing Vice President Joe Biden's gun control proposals. We haven't really heard the specific details yet because they are not been made public. But the president gave a preview of how he is likely to act on them. Here's what he said.", "You can count on is that the things that I've said in the past. The belief that we have to have stronger background checks and can do a much better job in terms of keeping these magazine clips with high capacity out of the hands of folk who is shouldn't have them. An assault weapons ban that is meaningful and those are things I continue to believe make sense.", "Congressman Mike Thompson is a California Democrat. He chairs the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. It's nice to have you with this morning, sir. Thank you.", "Thank you, Soledad. Good to be with you.", "I appreciate that. You have spoken to the vice president and as I mentioned, no one really knows the exact details because they haven't been made public yet. But walk me through -- give us some insight into what is in the package that the vice president has now presented to the president.", "Well, we met with the vice president yesterday and the vice president agrees that we need a comprehensive package in order to put an end or help put an end to gun violence and Congress is very important in this. It's just going to be a cooperative effort between the two branches of government although there are some administrative actions that the president can take. That's only part of the equation. We need to focus on things that save lives like the comprehensive background check before anybody buys a firearm and put an end to these assault magazines that give killers so much more firepower than they would otherwise have.", "There are some other details that some have to find gun trafficking as a federal crime. Improve federal and state data collection in the background check system. Ban the sale of certain rapid fire weapons and encourage more gun violence research and strengthen mental health checks. As far as you know, are those provisions also in what the vice president has presented to the president?", "Well, there are certain things that the president can do as I said, administratively. He can appoint a director of ATF. He can demand that his agencies provide the data that sometimes lack to make sure that the background checks are as comprehensive and complete as possible. He can certainly make sure that they enforce the existing laws, which are important. Gun trafficking as you mentioned, straw purchases and when criminals try to buy guns, they need to be prosecuted. All those are incredibly important, but again, we need a comprehensive package that is going to take both the Congress and the president working together to put an end to gun violence.", "Congressman, good morning. Ron Brownstein from the \"National Journal,\" in your first answer to Soledad when talking about Congress, you mentioned actions on universal background check and assault magazines. You did not mention assault weapons, which the president also cited as a priority again yesterday. Do you think you have a better shot at passing those first two than getting back into a ban on actual assault weapons themselves?", "Well, I do. I think we have to concentrate on what is most important in saving lives and if you take the magazine out of the rifle, the rifle has less capacity than it would otherwise. So I think that is absolutely important. We need to prioritize on this. I'm not an assault weapon fan. I carried one in Vietnam and I know the purpose of those. I am a gun owner. I am a hunter. I don't own an assault weapon and quite honestly, I think it gives hunters and gun owners a bad name. We need to concentrate on what will save lives.", "When the gun control measures were passed in the 1990s, the Brady bill and the assault weapon ban, there was substantial number of Republicans, nearly 60 on the Brady bill and nearly 40 on the assault ban who voted for it. Do you see any interest among House Republicans on even those two issues, the background checks and the magazines even if you separate out the weapons themselves?", "Well, in my capacity as chair of this task force, I have been meeting with every community of interest imaginable including my Republican colleagues. There is interest on the part of many of my Republican colleagues to come to do something that will make our communities safer and save lives. So I'm hopeful that we will be able to put together a package that will get votes from both sides of the aisle.", "But does the task force that you chair include any Republicans?", "No, it's a Democratic task force.", "Is that importantly problematic?", "I don't think so. I'm more than anxious to have Republicans participate in any way they like. As I said, we have been meeting with them. We're working with them and when all is said and done, I'm hopeful that we will have a bipartisan package.", "Congressman Mike Thompson is a Democrat from California joining us this morning. It's nice to see you, sir. Thank you for being with us.", "Thank you.", "We're going to get Republican reaction from Oregon Congressman Greg Walt and he'll be our guest ahead this morning. Up next, Big Brother is listening to Carmelo Anthony. We'll tell you why they are apparently keeping a close ear on the star conversations on the court. It's fascinating. 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{"id": "CNN-84029", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2004-4-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0404/23/lol.03.html", "summary": "Former NFL Player KIA in Afghanistan", "utt": ["He willingly left the NFL to fight in the war on terror, now Pat Tillman has paid the ultimate price for his country.", "balancing family's privacy with the public's right to know, debating those newly released photos and the true cost of war.", "Plus, why an appeals court ruling could eventually cost Zacarias Moussaoui his life.", "And on the lighter side of things, what really is to blame for your beer gut, a major beer manufacturer takes on the science behind the South Beach Diet. Doh! From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Miles O'Brien.", "And I'm Kyra Phillips. It's Friday, April 23, CNN's LIVE FROM... starts right now.", "Our top story, an NFL player turned Army Ranger, killed in the war on terror. Pat Tillman was killed yesterday in a mission in southeastern Afghanistan. The former safety for the Arizona Cardinals joined the Army shortly after the 9/11 attacks. I'm joined now from Washington by Sean Callebs with details on this tragic story -- Sean.", "Yes, Miles, indeed, tragic. And here is what we know about Pat Tillman. He was killed serving in Special Forces in the southeastern area of Afghanistan. He was with the 75th Ranger Regiment, that's a light infantry unit out of Fort Benning, Georgia. The Pentagon is saying Tillman died during a firefight. And let's remember, the military has been in that area, trying to root out al Qaeda operatives and those in the region sympathetic to the Taliban since right after September 11. And by all accounts, Tillman was an outstanding young man. But what sometimes gets lost in all of this, the fact that Tillman joined the Rangers with his brother Kevin, and the two were serving in the same battalion in Afghanistan. Now, Tillman, offered a chance to go into the Army as an officer, but he and his brother Kevin turned it down. They went in as specialists. A great deal made about the fact that Tillman turned down a multimillion-dollar contract, a three-year contract with the Arizona Cardinals. In fact, when went in as a Ranger he was making at most $18,000. Now, a bit more about this young man, he announced the decision to join the Army after he returned from his honeymoon, and it's a decision he made without consulting his agent. It is clear the events of 9/11 had a great impact on Pat Tillman. Those closest to him say he wanted to make a difference after the attacks but the precise reason, he didn't share that. He shunned the media. No interviews. As you can imagine, a number of interview requests from the national media came in once he went to Fort Benning to begin going through Ranger school there with his brother. Now, of all the folks that try to go through Ranger school, about one in three actually make it through. By all accounts an impressive young man who handled the swamps, the brush, the hills of South Georgia to make it through that school -- Miles.", "He earns the admiration of so many people, and yet he kind of shirked the limelight. And I noted with great interest that the senator from Arizona, John McCain, used his story as a distinct example of bravery, didn't he?", "Yes, he really did. He was without question an inspiration, not only to Senator McCain, so many people in Arizona, throughout the United States, but those in the world of professional sports as well, especially those in the Phoenix area. Members of the Diamondbacks baseball team, the Coyotes hockey franchise marveled at the courage that Tillman showed. And you talked about Senator McCain. Here is what John McCain, Republican from Arizona, had to say about Tillman, saying he's heartbroken. And he says: \"While Tillman's death will seem like a heavy blow to this nation's morale, and surely for the 27-year-old's family, sadly it is a sacrifice that scores of military families are coping with.\" McCain saying there is in Pat Tillman's example: \"in his unexpected choice of duty to his country over the riches and other comforts of celebrity and in his humility, such and inspiration to all of us to reclaim the essential public-spiritedness of Americans that many of us, in low moments, had worried was no longer our common distinguishing trait.\" And McCain went on to say: \"We celebrate the courageous life and mourn the heroic death of this most honorable American.\" It's also interesting, Miles, when Tillman went to college, his coach wanted to redshirt him his freshman year, try to get five years out of him. Tillman said, do whatever you want, in 3 1/2 years I'm out of here, I have a life to lead. And he graduated from college in 3 1/2 years with a 3.84 grade point average.", "An amazing American. Sean Callebs, thank you very much. Let's take a closer look at the life of Pat Tillman. And for that we turn it over to Steve Overmyer of CNN Sports and Gary Belsky, the senior editor of \"ESPN\" the magazine in New York. Steve, I want to begin with you. I can't help as I sit here and listen to all these wonderful statements made about this remarkable man, a man you knew, I can't help but think that if he had something to say about it he'd prefer we not single him out.", "There's no doubt about it. He was a guy who shied away from the limelight. When the cameras were around him in the locker room, I covered him for five years at Arizona State and with the Arizona Cardinals, he was a guy who would run away from the cameras. He was not someone who wanted to be singled out, especially as such a courageous story as it was for him to be such a low draft pick and to make the team as a starter for the Arizona Cardinals. He was such an incredible player and an incredible personality. Everybody loved him on the team. And it was really such a surprise when he made this decision, or I should say, it probably wasn't much of a surprise to the guys. In fact, Dave McGinnis, his coach at the time, said this is exactly Pat Tillman. Pat Tillman told some of his friends that he felt that he had led such a comfortable life that he needed to do something for his country. And that's why he joined the Army Rangers. : Gary Belsky, there are so many things about Pat Tillman that defy the typical caricature of a professional sports athlete. He was a very deep thinker, a person who defied a lot of odds, a hard worker. What else can you add to that?", "Yes, I'm not sure -- everybody's talking about how rare it is that an NFL player would volunteer for the Army. I'm not sure there are that many marketing degree holders who have a 3.8 average who are volunteering for the Army, either. This was a guy of great physical courage and great commitment. You know, when he was a kid growing up, he used to play in the trees around San Jose. He would sort of hold on to branches during wind storms just so he could swing with them. And he would go through the forest near his house in the treetops, again, sort of operating without a safety net. And by the way, remember, when this guy -- when Pat Tillman and his brother Kenny, who was a minor league ball player, when they decided to enlist, they left phoenix and drove to Denver in the hope that they would not have to face such public scrutiny. There was no way they were going to avoid that. But they were consistent in not wanting to be treated any differently than soldiers. His commitment -- my favorite story about Pat Tillman's commitment or sort of giving it his all was when he was at Leland High School (ph) in San Jose, they were crushing a team in a high school game, and Tillman -- the coach sat all the starters in the second half because they didn't want to sort of run up the score. And Tillman snuck himself in during a kickoff and returned it for a touchdown. And nobody tells that story to show that he was a bad winner but rather just that he couldn't bear to sort of sit and not give everything.", "Steve, final thought. I know you got to know him on a very personal level. How will you remember him?", "Well, I'm going to remember him as a guy who marched to the beat of a different drummer, as a guy who, you know, when you'd look in the parking lot of the Arizona Cardinals complex and you saw all the Rage Rovers and Escalades chromed out with 24s, here's a guy who rolled up on a 1950s bicycle. And he's going to be a guy who -- he definitely will be someone that I think America should remember as a hero.", "One of hundreds of great Americans we have lost in the war on terror, we should point out. Steve Overmyer and Gary Belsky, thank you very much for taking a few moments to remember one of them - Kyra.", "From Afghanistan to Iraq, in the early months of the Iraq war U.S. troops worked around the clock to root out Baathists, Iraqis loyal to Saddam Hussein's regime. Turns out now some of them may be welcomed back. U.S. Administrator Paul Bremer announced that thousands of Baath Party members will get their jobs back. Most are teachers and senior military officers. With more from Iraq now, CNN's Jim Clancy in Baghdad.", "Iraqi officials say a suspect arrested near the scene of one of the suicide bombings in Basra was from the besieged city of Fallujah. In the view of some it is evidence the suicide bombings that killed 20 school children along with more than 50 other Iraqis were not the work of al Qaeda or foreign fighters but Iraqis outraged by the U.S. military's Fallujah campaign that has killed hundreds of Iraqis, including many civilians. But it also raises questions about who may be directing the suicide attacks from inside the city. U.S. Marines in Fallujah are still exchanging fire with anti-coalition fighter as a nominal cease- fire continues. Coalition commanders asserted that hundreds of foreign fighters may be among them. The surrender of those foreign elements along with the insurgents' arsenal of weapons is being demanded as a condition of any permanent truce. Thus far coalition military sources say the weapons handover has been disappointing, with old rusted arms or dummy rockets being handed in. When coalition forces surrounded and cut off Fallujah earlier this month, it was noted that feared bomb attacks in the south failed to materialize during Shia Muslim religious commemorations. That was in stark contrast to similar events that were marked by hundreds of casualties in Baghdad and Karbala. The coalition blamed those attacks on al Qaeda or Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, a Jordanian-born militant with similar aims. While stressing no group has been tied to the Basra attacks, some believe the tactics are familiar.", "If you take a look at the manner in which it was carried out, the technique that was used, the tactics that were used in the attack, it clearly points to a network, a terrorist network, a coordinated terrorist network such as the Zarqawi network.", "Al-Zarqawi is believed trying to foment civil war between Iraq's Shia and Sunni communities as the best way of destroying U.S. plans here. Friday coalition spokesmen said they had no more information about what the suspect may be telling investigators. If he is indeed tied to the Basra carnage, those investigators are going to want answers that go far beyond Basra. Jim Clancy, CNN, Baghdad.", "Other news across America now, funeral services will be held tomorrow for Dru Sjodin. The body of the missing North Dakota college student was found last Saturday. Murder charges are expected against the man accused of kidnapping her. A grand jury has indicted hockey player Mike Danton and a friend in an alleged murder-for-hire plot. The two are accused of trying to hire someone to kill a man Danton knows. Danton reportedly was caught on tape trying to hire a hit man. Court papers show his friend has given a written confession.", "And \"The Orlando Sentinel\" reports that Michael Jackson has gone into seclusion in Florida. The newspaper says Jackson is staying in a 12-bedroom mansion with his children and entourage. The singer has been indicted by a California grand jury investigating the child molestation case against him.", "A little farther south in Florida, President Bush is back raising money and defending his environmental record a day after Earth Day. White House correspondent Dana Bash with the president. She joins us now from Naples, Florida. Hello, Dana.", "Hi, Miles. And the president is going to spend the rest of his day raising some money for the Republican Party. But as you mentioned, this morning his event was what the White House is calling day two of his Earth Day push to talk up the environment, specifically his new plan that he announced yesterday in Maine to expand wetlands. Now, he came here to the Rookery Bay Research Reserve (ph), it's on the edge of the Everglades along with his brother, the governor, Jeb Bush, to get a tour and get a photo op, pulling some of the non-native plants here that they say is hurting the habitat here. Also, he's really been talking up the environment over the past two days even though it is, according to pollsters not even barely in the top 10 items that voters say they care most about. However, it is important to some key swing voters, and here in Florida the issue of the Everglades is very important, especially in key areas. That is why the president talked it up today.", "In order to make sure enough fresh water would go to the Everglades, the federal government and the state agreed to install large pumps and build canals and large freshwater storage areas. In other words, my administration recognized the importance of the Everglades not only to the state of Florida but to our country, and we will continue to work with Jeb and state to make sure the Everglades is vibrant, alive, and available for future generations of Americans.", "Now, the president has tried to defend his record on the environment even as his probable Democratic opponent, John Kerry, spent the week touring through the south including here in Florida, hitting the president on his environmental record, saying that he has the worst record essentially in history on it. That is one of the reasons why the president has been talking it up. And of course, Florida, no one will forget the importance of Florida because of that 36-day recount in 2000. And it is going to be neck and neck, at least it is at this point. Take a look at the latest poll between the president and John Kerry. The president at 46 percent, John Kerry at 45 percent, and Ralph Nader, is he is here on the ballot, 3 percent. That is the latest from the American Research Group. That is why the president is here today, Miles, for his twenty-first time since he's been in office -- Miles. CNN's Dana Bash in Naples, Florida. Thank you very much. The governor of Illinois is scheduled to tour storm-damaged parts of his state today. The visit comes as people continue sifting through debris in five counties damaged by Tuesday night's tornados. Especially hard hit, the small town of Utica, where funerals are expected to start tomorrow for eight people killed in a downtown tavern.", "Oklahoma's also recovering from this week's violent weather. A special order has been signed allowing out state insurance adjusters to come in and help tally the damage. Jerry Giordano with affiliate KTUL gives us a glimpse of some of the damage they'll see.", "It sounded kind of like jet airplanes. Yes, it's pretty mean sounding.", "Eighty-five-year-old Jim Graham (ph) believes he's lucky to be alive because when he saw this overhead he took quick action.", "We was all out here and heard a big noise a- coming, tornado, and we got in the cellar, just a little bit, it's gone.", "And look no further than Graham's back field for proof of severe damage.", "About where we're standing.", "Tommy Dotson (ph) takes us by four-wheel drive, and we see these amazing sights, 50-foot trees snapped in two, floating in plenty of water. Brittany Edwards (ph) saw it all.", "Yes, it was really windy. It was like, I don't know, I've never seen one like that before.", "Area crews are hard at work, but some jobs are tougher than others. Like getting around, this truck did make it through. (on camera): But other drivers were taking no chances, deciding these rushing waters could be too much for their vehicles. (voice-over): Driver Jerry Ensley (ph) decides on the spot he's retreating.", "It looked too deep and too swift, so I'm going to turn around and go a different way.", "To get an update on the Midwest storms, we turn to now CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano. Rob, what's the latest?", "Kyra, same set-up today only a little bit farther to the west. Yesterday there were 10 tornados that touched down, mostly in eastern Oklahoma, around the Tulsa area. The set-up pretty much remains the same. We've had the stationary front separating the cold and the warm air, and it's been here all week long. It'll be here through tomorrow as well. For today, though, the shift does happen west of Dallas. This is the greatest threat later on this afternoon and evening where we could see some severe weather break out. The other flip-side of this storm, that cold air in the Colorado Rockies, heavy snow today. Denver, Colorado already with about four inches. You go south and west into the mountains just north of the New Mexico border in Cochara (ph), 32 inches of snow. Now most of the ski resorts are already closed but they could certainly use some of that snowfall because this area is seeing some drought and it's still snowing in Denver as we speak, Miles. We'll keep an eye on the severe weather potential later on in the afternoon and this evening. Meanwhile, back to you.", "Thank you very much, Rob, appreciate it. We're going to take a break. We are expecting very shortly a live news conference from representatives of the Arizona Cardinals. As we told you at the top of the show, Pat Tillman, former safety for the Arizona Cardinals, killed in a firefight in southeastern Afghanistan. We'll bring that to you live as it happens. Also, there's this. A national tragedy forces a communist country out of its self-imposed seclusion. As the death toll climbs, we'll tell you what's being done in the aftermath of a North Korean train explosion. Plus, what a difference a day makes. Why the government's case against Zacarias Moussaoui just got stronger. Also ahead, why some want Germany to lift its ban on Hitler's personal manifesto of hate."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "PHILLIPS", "O'BRIEN", "PHILLIPS", "O'BRIEN", "SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "O'BRIEN", "CALLEBS", "O'BRIEN", "STEVE OVERMYER, CNN SPORTS", "GARY BELSKY, \"ESPN\" THE MAGAZINE", "O'BRIEN", "BELSKY", "O'BRIEN", "PHILLIPS", "JIM CLANCY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BRIG. GEN. MARK KIMMITT, U.S. ARMY", "CLANCY (on camera)", "PHILLIPS", "PHILLIPS", "O'BRIEN", "DANA BASH, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-244796", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-12-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1412/08/cnr.08.html", "summary": "The Duke And Duchess Of Cambridge Stay Busy During U.S. Visit", "utt": ["The royal couple is on this whirlwind three day trip to the United States. It's their first trip together right here to New York City. Earlier, Prince William went to Washington and you see the big photo op sitting there at the White House with the president of the United States. They then talked about illegal wildlife trading, at a World Bank session. Meanwhile, the duchess of Cambridge visited Harlem with the first lady of New York. And tonight the royal couple will see a king, King James that is. They will be at the Nets/Cavs basketball game. So let's talk about all of the facts that goes into this kind of trip with Max Foster and Victoria Arbiter, CNN world commentators. So, so lovely to see both of you next to me. And I don't even know where to begin. We'll get to the basketball in just a minute. But first can we show the tweet? We know that Anderson Cooper has tweeted, he is so happens to be on this plane, on the Washington, D.C./New York leg. But here's Prince William from this morning just, you know, on any regular --", "Been careful not to bang his head.", "He's a tall guy, it looks like.", "He is very tall. I think", "This is commercial air.", "Yes. Well, you know, when they are paying privately to go to these events they will go on budget airlines. They are not flashy at all.", "They regularly fly commercial as it happened. It is only, for example, when they were in Canada on their tour, if the host country is paying for their flights to go in between, if they got to get to somewhere quickly. But otherwise, you regularly see them on commercial airliners.", "And then the notion of going to this basketball game or, you know, Kate up in Harlem, are these things that we think ahead of time they said we would love to see this, we would love to do this. Are they big basketball fans?", "They are very carefully. Everything is planned for months and months in every detail. And the basketball game -- I mean, it's not basketball they are interested in. They are hooking up -- their foundation is hooking up with the NBA on illegal, in the fight against illegal wildlife crime trade. And that's what William is constantly talking about on this trip. It's his -- it becomes his last passion, I think. Meeting Obama he wanted to bring that up. In his speech today was all about that. So, it's about raising awareness on the charities, of course, and also representing the British government as well.", "The host country would have said here's an example of things that you can do while you are here. Their aides would have looked at that and they take to it William and Kate and say what on here do you want to do, what furthers the cause and they have some time to choose events tomorrow night at the Met which is called their alma mater where they fell in love. And so, really, everything then just came together to hit everything they wanted to hit.", "Hold on I'm still back on this basketball game. Because if they are flying on this little shuttle plane back up here to New York, I assume they would be in a box at this Nets game but are they -- do they have seats?", "Probably for the first half of the game they will be in a box. They will be meeting, you know, charity heads and being wined and dined. But William and Kate really like to experience everything and they are big sports fans. You know, they are probably not terribly familiar with basketball but they are athletic. It's what they like to do. And so, they want the true New York experience and they will be courtside.", "Lots speculate about Beyonce.", "Yes.", "She's meant to be there and Jay-", "Can you see the photo op of the four of them to the courtside?", "Well, there's funny", "Beyonce approaching Kate.", "And of course, front seat tend to be celebrity jam packed. Anyways, there is no telling who else might in attendance tonight.", "That is incredible. We will all be watching for that. And just quickly, finally you are saying, Kate was taken aback side the entourage or everyone, how is she is going from JFK, all around the city. This is not how she rolls in London.", "No. It's not how the royals roll in the", "You think the motorcade well, I have to say.", "Yes. I mean, you really roll it out. It is like a scene from the movies is when you see outright is coming way ahead of the rest of the", "There's a moment, I think. You have people keep asking why there's a fascination in America with royalty. And I think it's kind of the fairy tale. But when she was in Harlem today, she went into this room and there are some kids in a class. And as she came in, these are kids that have behavioral issues. And they saw her and they shouted princess. And they were so excited. And then one of the administrators said I think the princess was frozen. This is what Kate does is she brings these fairy tales to life. She makes them real. And that's why people kind of blowing away when they meet her.", "There's a certain magic, I think, to the royal family for whatever reason that is. Victoria and Max, thank you both very much. We will be looking for the courtside pictures tomorrow. Appreciate both of you.", "Thank you.", "Now to this. One after another, women have been coming forward accusing Bill Cosby of rape. At least 20, each with similar story, each accusing a man once known of America's dad of heinous crimes. Ahead hear what several of them have said when they -- when we asked them, actually, if they would want to get some money out of Bill Cosby. That's next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "MAX FOSTER, CNN WORLD COMMENTATOR", "BALDWIN", "FOSTER", "BALDWIN", "FOSTER", "VICTORIA ARBITER, CNN WORLD COMMENTATOR", "BALDWIN", "FOSTER", "ARBITER", "BALDWIN", "ARBITER", "FOSTER", "ARBITER", "FOSTER", "Z. BALDWIN", "FOSTER", "BALDWIN", "ARBITER", "BALDWIN", "ARBITER", "UK. FOSTER", "ARBITER", "FOSTER", "BALDWIN", "ARBITER", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-7409", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-5-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/04/mn.04.html", "summary": "Cardinal John O'Connor Dead at Age 80, Remembered as Man of Faith, Compassion and Strong Convictions", "utt": ["Cardinal John O'Connor is being remembered today as a man of faith, compassion and strong convictions. The leader of more than two million Catholics in the Archdiocese of New York died last night, he was 80 years old. Our Deborah Feyerick joins us from outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City with details. Deborah, Good morning.", "Good morning, Daryn. Well, people are taking a few minutes out of their busy morning rush hour to stop inside the cathedral and pay their final respects. Inside, about 100 people at any given time, they're praying and they're lighting candles. One man we spoke to upon exiting the church said that in his opinion, Cardinal O'Connor was one of the greatest leaders the church has ever had. Now the Cardinal died last night of cardio-pulmonary arrest brought on from the cancer he suffering. At home with him was his younger sister Mary as well as several nieces, and his closest friends, including Cardinal Bath (ph) of the Vatican. All of them witnessed the end of a well lived life.", "John Cardinal O'Connor was born in Philadelphia on January 15, 1920. At the age of 16, he entered the seminary and was ordained a priest in 1945, the year World War II ended. O'Connor spent nearly three decades as a U.S. Navy and Marine Corp. chaplain, serving American troops during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He retired from military service as a rear admiral in 1979. He rose quickly through the church hierarchy from bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1983, to arch-bishop of New York in 1984, then cardinal a year later. A man of strong convictions and deep faith, Cardinal O'Connor held tightly to the teachings of the Catholic Church, marching against abortion and criticizing Catholic politicians like Geraldine Ferraro, who supported it, no matter what office they were running for. Though he drew fire from abortion advocates and others who disagreed with his positions, he defended his convictions in a spirit of peace.", "We do not pray today in protest, we pray in love and in hope.", "He vigorously denounced violence at abortion clinics, even going on-line in 1995 to field questions about clinic bombings.", "If anyone has an urge to kill anybody at an abortion clinic, kill me instead.", "Cardinal O'Connor became a bridge builder. When police opened fire on an unarmed West African immigrant this year, the cardinal held an interfaith service to ease race relations. And, in a moving letter during the Jewish holidays, he expressed his abject sorrow for any harm done to Jews by Catholics. When he turned 75, he submitted his resignation, as required by church law. The pope reportedly wrote back: \"Keep doing what you're doing, we'll call you.\" Early this year, O'Connor had a growth surgically removed form his nose. Then in August, suffering from persistent nausea, he was admitted to Memorial Sloan Kettering in Manhattan, where he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Reflecting on his life from his hospital bed, the cardinal wrote: \"I find myself in unutterable peace, a peace borne of the grace of God and the goodness of God's people.\" John Cardinal O'Connor, New Yorker, Catholic leader and teacher, humanitarian.", "Cardinal O'Connor will be interred here in the crypt of St. Patrick's Cathedral. The funeral, expected to take place Monday afternoon. Reporting live, Deborah Feyerick, CNN, New York."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FEYERICK (voice-over)", "CARDINAL JOHN O'CONNOR", "FEYERICK", "O'CONNOR", "FEYERICK", "FEYERICK"]}
{"id": "CNN-133540", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-12-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0812/24/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Former Child Actor Killed in Standoff", "utt": ["You know, quite a shock for Dallas police to realize here their suspect in a fatal shooting spree used to be on their side of the law. Brian Smith was a Utah state trooper until his resignation earlier this year. He's in critical condition today after shooting himself in the head during a standoff with police. Cops say ballistics evidence linked Smith to at least one of two rush-hour murders on Monday.", "At this time we don't feel there's a threat and that people don't need to be concerned about being on the freeways, and it's safe to be out and about as you're doing your Christmas shopping.", "Now, according to Texas and Utah police, Smith became addicted to painkillers after an accident on the job. California police have released the name of the man killed in a standoff near Los Angeles yesterday. Thirty-eight-year-old Manuel Benitez was a former child actor who went by the name Mark Everett. He was wanted in connection with the killing of his girlfriend four years ago. KCAL's Suzie Suh has more on the hostage ordeal.", "The suspect claimed that he was going to shoot it out with the police, claimed he was going to kill the child, harm the child.", "In the middle of a busy shopping plaza, a hostage situation shut down streets, evacuated businesses.", "We closed the doors.", "And stunned witnesses.", "It was kind of scary. Because, you know, everybody with guns and everything.", "Police responded to a report of a suspicious person who appeared to be a transient walking with a little boy on an El Monte sidewalk.", "He produced a handgun. He moved the child that he had in his hand, was holding by the hand, between himself and the officers.", "The man reportedly took the 6-year-old boy into the Tai Pan Chinese restaurant and barricade himself in the bathroom.", "He had a semiautomatic pistol and a revolver.", "After two hours of trying to negotiate with the man...", "There was a couple of bangs.", "... a SWAT team went in to rescue the boy.", "There was an exchange of gunfire. The suspect was hit and killed at the scene.", "The boy was also hit. It's unclear if he was wounded from the man's gun or police gunfire.", "Police say the boy, Benitez's son here, is expected to recover. Authorities also are looking for his mother. That's Elizabeth Velasco. Santa knows it already, and he's got lumps of coal with their names on them. He knows these folks. But do you know who has been naughty and who has been really naughty this year in politics?"], "speaker": ["LUI", "LT. CRAIG MILLER, DALLAS POLICE HOMICIDE UNIT", "LUI", "LT. LIAM GALLAGHER, LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT", "SUZIE SUH, KCAL REPORTER (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SUH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SUH", "GALLAGHER", "SUH", "GALLAGHER", "SUH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SUH", "GALLAGHER", "SUH", "LUI"]}
{"id": "CNN-392779", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2020-02-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/14/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Biden Tries To Assure Donors He Can Win Nevada, South Carolina", "utt": ["Joe Biden is trying to reassure donors that victories are within his reach after his disappointments in New Hampshire and Iowa. CNN Political Correspondent Arlette Saenz is in Nevada, that holds caucuses just eight days from now. And, Arlette, tell us because Biden has an event there tonight.", "That's right, Brianna. Joe Biden will be appearing here in Henderson, Nevada in just a short while. And yesterday in New York City, he told donors that he believes he will place either first or second here in Nevada as he is looking to regain his place in the race following those disappointing finishes in both Iowa and New Hampshire. The Biden campaign really sees Nevada as a launching pad for the former vice president in part because of the diverse demographics here in the state and also the strong presence from unions. They believe that that group is also beneficial for the former vice president. Today, he picked up a key endorsement from one of the congressmen from the state, the only African-American member of Congress from Nevada. And as the Democratic candidates prepare to descend on the state, one candidate who will not be here is Michael Bloomberg. But right now, his record is really coming into sharp focus. And he is apologizing for his defense or his past defense of the stop-and-frisk policing policy. Take a listen to what he had to say.", "There is one aspect, approach, that I deeply regret. the abusive police practice called stop-and-frisk. I defended it, looking back, for too long because I didn't understand then the unintended pain it was causing to young black and brown families and their kids. I should have acted sooner and faster to stop it. I didn't, and for that, I apologize.", "Now, next week, the Democrats will be gathering here in Nevada for the next democratic debate. And one question is will Michael Bloomberg meet the qualifications to be on that debate stage. And if he does, his rivals could be ready to pounce. Brianna?", "Arlette Saenz, thank you so much. And just ahead, experts issue a new warning about the spread of the coronavirus."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "ARLETTE SAENZ, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SAENZ", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-169294", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-7-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1107/20/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Education Budget Cuts; End of Bookstores?", "utt": ["Last week, Memphis City school superintendent Kriner Cash was directed to cut $78 million from the current budget. Entire budgets for non-mandated programs such as junior ROTC, school security staff and early childhood education were cut. The Memphis City School's Board held an emergency meeting last night. The board claims that the city owes them over $151 million, dating back to 2008. And that it would be, quote, \"irresponsible\" to open schools while cutting all of these services. So, the board voted to indefinitely delay the school year until the city of Memphis pays up. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, legislators agreed on a proposal to end the state government shutdown. Part of the deal would require the state to raise $700 million by delaying state aid checks to school districts. And while you can find reports of delayed payments to school districts all over the country, all of the budget battles have one thing in common: when public sector spending needs to be reined in, education becomes a major part of the equation. So, the question for today's Stream Team is this: are education cuts sacrificing the future or a necessary evil? On the team today: Jeff Gardere is a clinical psychologist. And Steve Perry, he's on the phone with us. He's a founder and principal the Capital Preparatory Magnet School. He joins us also. Let me start with you, Jeff, if I can. Are you in favor of the steps that the Memphis school board is taking? Do you think this is a good idea to delay school indefinitely?", "I think it's a horrible idea. It's a horrible message to the kids. We are telling them we're playing politics with their education. Education should be the last bastion that should be touched. And I just think they're being forced -- in their own minds, they feel they're being forced to take this drastic action. But, again, I just do believe that it's going to have a very deleterious effect on the minds of the children knowing that this is going on.", "Steve, what are your thoughts on the recession and how it is impacting education reform?", "The recession has been one of the most important things to happen to public education. Because what it's done is it's shown us that we've overspent and underperformed. And it's now created an opportunity where accountability can be the order of the day. It's also presented us with the opportunity for governors to lead. They've been given a mandate to make certain decisions to just get done. And, finally, what it's also shown us is we as educators have a responsibility to make sure we are fiscally responsible. We've seen for too long that in public schools, we've had whatever we wanted. As often as we talk about the problems of underfunding and over- expecting, we've had an average class size for very long of about 22. As a result, we've gotten -- we've become one of lowest performing public school systems in the world.", "So, it sounds like you're saying that you do believe that schools can actually run more efficiently. How much of a problem is it for schools to not have their whole budget?", "Well, it's a problem for them to not have their whole budget. It would be foolhardy to say you can operate without the budget that you need. But the problem is we don't often need the budgets we're often given. We are overspending. When you give everyone in the school a raise simply because they lived another year, then you're not being fiscally responsible. You have to give raises based upon a person's ability to perform and more importantly, the ability of the organization to pay. You cannot simply give a raise because it's another calendar year. That's what we've done for too long. You simply cannot give bloated benefits because people want them. If you can't pay for them, you can't give them. It doesn't matter if they're educators or eye doctors. It doesn't matter.", "Jeff, who really loses out here? I mean, when you think about school not opening on time and then also, of course, having to extend to make up those days, what happens to the kids here?", "Well, these are kids now who see adults as playing with their future. It's like all of us as adults who are so through with Washington, with the partisan politics over the raising of the debt ceiling. We now feel that this is just a big game and we're pawns in it. And the kids see the same thing. And even though Steve is giving some very wise words here, I really do believe that he's mixing apples and oranges. This isn't about paying for performance that's not being delivered. This is about closing down a school system because you're owed money. And at the end of the day, the ones who suffer the most, as you're saying, are the kids who are going to have to start school late, perhaps, and then have to work through the summers. It's just not fair to them that the adults are playing politics and I understand that they may have to, but that they are still playing politics with the futures of our children, with the education of our children.", "Steve, I have 20 seconds for you to have the final word here.", "Call it politics or whatever you'd like to. In the end, no government entities can run without money. And we are schools and we are government entities. And in order for us to be able to run effectively, we need to be able to pay people. If there's no money to pay people, it doesn't matter what they do, police, fire or educators. We have to have enough money to pay. Memphis Public Schools has a particular set of circumstances that extends beyond this conversation, not the least of which it's already been taken over by the county. It's a bigger problem. And it's one of the lowest performing school systems in t country.", "Right.", "Much bigger problems than we have the opportunity to discuss here. More important, we as educators have to pitch in and understand that we have a responsibility to be responsible in our spending and in our product.", "All right, Steve. That was more than 20 seconds, because it's such an important topic, I'll let it go.", "My bad.", "Steve Perry, Jeff Gardere, appreciate both of you. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Planning on picking up the latest copy of \"Harry Potter\" at your local bookstore? You may need to hurry up. The nation's second largest bookstore chain is closing. Why and what this means for the price of books, next."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "JEFF GARDERE, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST", "KAYE", "STEVE PERRY, CNN EDUCATION CONTRIBUTOR (via telephone)", "KAYE", "PERRY", "KAYE", "GARDERE", "KAYE", "PERRY", "KAYE", "PERRY", "KAYE", "PERRY", "KAYE", "GARDERE", "KAYE"]}
{"id": "CNN-333808", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-02-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/27/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Vegas Survivors Call for Assault Weapons Ban; Vegas Survivors Call for Assault Weapons Ban.", "utt": ["The mass shooting at a Florida high school brought back painful memories for survivors of last October's massacre at a Las Vegas concert. CNN's Sara Sidner sat down with them to get their take on the current gun control debate.", "Gunfire altered all of their lives during the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Nearly five months later, the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, brought their terror right back.", "I had an automatic reaction. I couldn't control it. I went in the bathroom and started vomiting, I was on the floor in a fetal position for two hours.", "They know what these children are going through and the long road to recovery. This mother of two, Chelsea Romo still has many surgeries to get through, after shrapnel tore through both of her eyes. Initially blinding her.", "I thought about as my daughter grew up and not seeing her get married, seeing her become a woman, can see her face as she matures like, oh, it's crossed my mind. That's why now I thank god every day.", "She is now laser focused on simply seeing her children grow. Survivors Heather Gooze and Christine Caria are helping other survivors, while nursing psychological wounds. Gooze, she spent hours holding bullet riddled strangers as their lives slipped away.", "He got shot in the back of the head. So, I reached under. I was holding a jeans jacket to the back of his head. The jacket had dropped, and my finger was in the bullet hole in the back of his head.", "Page Melanson was hit in the elbow. Her mother shot in the chest. She is still in the hospital awaiting her tenth surgery. These survivors agree. America's leaders have not done enough to tackle a uniquely American problem.", "I mean, after the Las Vegas shooting, they said it is not the right time to talk about guns. After the Texas shooting, they said it is not the right time talk about guns. After Parkland, oh, let them grieve. It is not the time. When is going to be the time?", "We all don't want to see babies die. We don't want to go to church or a concert and feel like we're going to get killed. We can do better than this as a nation.", "Caria, a mother of two is convinced a ban on semi automatic assault style weapons and bump stocks is very good start. Her conviction's so strong, she became the president of the Las Vegas chapter of the Brady Campaign against gun violence.", "I am very pro second amendment. I love guns.", "Heather Gooze never thought new gun legislation was needed until being covered in the blood of strangers. Do you have a problem with AR 15 assault style rifles?", "Yes. I have a problem with a killing machine.", "You have a problem with bump stocks?", "100 percent.", "Why is it hard to say we need to ban AR assault-style weapons.", "If people hear us say we need get rid of one certain type of gun, all they hear is you want to take my guns away.", "Are you trying to take their guns away?", "No.", "100 percent, no. But is this a killing machine? Yes. Is it being used to commit mass murder? Yes. You know what? We need to start somewhere.", "\"THE LEAD\" with Jake Tapper starts right now."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHRISTINE CARIA, LAS VEGAS SHOOTING SURVIVOR", "SIDNER", "CHELSEA ROMO, LAS VEGAS SHOOTING SURVIVOR", "SIDNER", "HEATHER GOOZE, LAS VEGAS SHOOTING SURVIVOR", "SIDNER", "PAGE MELANSON, LAS VEGAS SHOOTING SURVIVOR", "CARIA", "SIDNER", "CARIA", "SIDNER", "GOOZE", "SIDNER", "GOOZE", "SIDNER", "GOOZE", "SIDNER", "CARIA", "GOOZE", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-230935", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2014-5-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/19/wolf.02.html", "summary": "3rd American Tests Positive for MERS", "utt": ["Welcome back. I'm Wolf Blitzer, reporting from New York. A third American has now tested positive for the MERS virus. For the first time, the person contracted the virus right here in the United States. In this case, it was passed from a patient in Indiana who had previously been in Saudi Arabia where virtually all of the recent cases originated. This case may also have come from casual contact which was earlier thought to have almost been unheard of when it comes to MERS. But are U.S. hospitals ready for some kind of outbreak? Brian Todd is joining us. He's been look at this part of the question. Brian, how vulnerable is the U.S. health care system to this potential disaster out there?", "It certainly could be vulnerable in some places. Hospitals in the U.S. are ramping up and they need to, with this new case, the first one believed to be transmitted within the U.S. In addition to the existing two cases inside the United States, we went to some hospitals to look at how they prepared.", "Serious new warnings from disease specialists on the potentially deadly virus.", "We definitely should expect more MERS cases to arrive in the United States.", "Experts say the explosion of air travel between the Middle East, where MERS originated, and the U.S. makes that likely. Is America ready? Hospitals tell us they've been warned for at least a year, been instructed by the CDC what to do if MERS arrives. Here's a first line of defense, a negative-pressure isolation room where MERS patients can be treated. It's got a special vent that moves virus-exposed air into a super filter.", "The idea behind it is not circulate any germs or viruses to other parts of the hospital.", "American health care workers have been told to heavily screen patients who have MERS symptoms, like coughing and fever, to ask them whether they've to the Middle East recently. They're making care workers wear protective gloves, eyewear, gowns and --", "This is the mask our workers wear.", "A mask that provides more filtration. These are safeguards in big-city hospitals. But some small towns might not be as prepared because their health departments have been hit with major budget cuts.", "We might not have the number of epidemiologists or labortorians or others in the public health field responsible for investigating these cases or monitoring the surveillance systems in place.", "In small towns or big cities anywhere, medical staffers are at higher risk.", "As simple a thing as just washing hands with water and soap. It's really, really essential.", "Doctor Dan Lucey is an infectious disease specialist who has battled MERS in the Middle East and SARS in Asia and Canada. He says sometimes the procedures they use to treat MERS patients are what make health care workers vulnerable.", "To open up airways there are certain medicine that they give them that could aerosolize or put a lot more virus into the air in the shared breathing space that health care workers have with their patients.", "Dr. Lucy says during the SARS outbreak, it got to the point where health care workers treating patients had to be monitored by other staff members to make sure they were changing gowns, gloves and masks between each patient and doing it in the proper sequence. He says it's possible that may have to happen again during this MERS scare -- Wolf?", "The two cases of MERS in the United States were individuals who came back to the United States from Saudi Arabia. This third case is very different. Explain.", "This is different, because, Wolf, this is the first case transmitted actually on U.S. soil. The other two cases, the previous two cases, those two gentlemen, who are both health care workers, got it in Saudi Arabia, flew to the United States and potentially exposed a lot of people. The people they may have come in contact with have been tested and those tests have come back negative. So far, there's some pretty good news there. But with this first case transmitted on U.S. soil, that's what makes it different. Now officials are going to have to track that person's contacts.", "Very, very worrisome, Brian. Although, this third individual is apparently in very good shape?", "That's right. He did not feel sick at all really during the time he had it. But, again, he may have been infectious at some point, so they've got to try to track the people who he came in contact with.", "Good point. Brian, thank you. Up next, the ties that bind. A Congressional candidate in tomorrow's Pennsylvania primary has some major family political connections to the Clintons. So what will that make? Will that make a difference? Gloria Borger standing by. And two Nigerian informants tell CNN they know where Boko Haram training camps are located but they say no one will listen. We'll have a live report from inside the prime recruiting ground. Our Arwa Damon is on the scene."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TODD (voice-over)", "DR. DANIEL LUCEY, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER", "TODD", "LUCEY", "TODD", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TODD", "JACK HERRMANN, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY & CITY HEALTH OFFICIALS", "TODD", "LUCEY", "TODD", "LUCEY", "TODD", "BLITZER", "TODD", "BLITZER", "TODD", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-161112", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-1-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/21/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Mrs. Obama Surprises White House Guests", "utt": ["The new governor of California getting a very specific death threat, and police are not only calling it very real, but they are considering it a terror threat. Jerry Brown hasn't even been in office for a month, but somebody reported seeing some pretty disturbing graffiti. Take a look. The first message, \"We're gonna kill Gov. Brown on 2/14/11.\" We're told it was on a wall in one residential neighborhood. Somebody also found a second message in another neighborhood, this one includes a countdown. Quote, \"26 more days 4 Brown.\" Police are investigating. We're told city crews have painted over that graffiti. A fun \"Political Pop\" today. White House tourists got a special surprise yesterday. Brianna Keilar tells us what that's all about. Good to see you, Brianna.", "Good to see you, Randi. I don't know if you've ever been on the White House tour, but it normally does not include a run-in with the first lady, although yesterday it did. Michelle Obama was hanging out in the Blue Room. She was just kind of kicking it there with Bo the dog while tourists came through, quite surprised, as can you imagine, Randi, to see her just standing there waiting to greet them", "Yes, I think we'd all be surprised.", "I know, can you even -- they had -- it was the funniest reactions that these people had. But this was the two-year anniversary of President Obama's inauguration of the first family coming to the White House, and so the White House put this on. This came from whitehouse.gov, and they live streamed this saying that this was part of the Obama's commitment to making the White House more open and accessible, or that's what the press release said, Randi.", "I love to see those folks coming through. When I was at the White House as a kid, but never got inside. Certainly, never met the first lady on a tour. But I know there were some pretty funny moments. As you watch these people come through, can you tell us what happened?", "Yes, I mean, they are going through the White House, which is pretty amazing in itself. So they are going through the Green Room, as you can see there on the right, into the Blue Room which is where Mrs. Obama was. And a lot of them would just kind of stop in the door sort of surprised at what they were seeing. There were a number of responses. They were very varied, I guess you say, but this one in particular was kind of funny. One of them asked Mrs. Obama how to get to really what's a D.C. Institution, a restaurant that the Obamas have made more famous by visiting. Listen to this.", "Where would I find Ben's Chili Bowl?", "Oh, where is Ben's? OK, Ben's Chili Bowl. These guys will know.", "OK, of all the things, Randi, that you could ask the first lady and you ask her how to get to Ben's Chili Bowl. Because of that, we actually --", "Forget about health care -- you know, forget about health care, forget about the economy.", "I mean, right? No, no. Where is Ben's Chili Bowl, which, of course, has some of the finest half smokes and chili in D.C. And we've actually prepared a map for people, should they have to run into the first lady, they can ask her a different question. It's up there on U Street north of the White House. Well, I thought we had a map. I'm not sure --", "Maybe you can still tell us because people will be going there now.", "Very delicious. There you go. From the White House to Ben's Chili Bowl. And I went there actually for the first time in five years, in the five years I've been in D.C., it's very delicious.", "You didn't see the president there though, did you?", "No. Although, there's a sign that says, \"Only the Obamas and Bill Cosby eat for free.\" That's sort of a famous sign. But as you can imagine, Randi, there was a whole lot of joking during this time period where she spent almost an hour there in the Blue Room. There is even some one-on-one conversations between Mrs. Obama and Bo the first dog. Take a look.", "I'm Michelle Obama. You are in my home. I know. Are you bored? That way.", "I know that you're a Beaver fan.", "Oh, you're a Duck. I'm surrounded by Ducks and Packers.", "So very strange, almost like the tourists thought they were on \"Candid Camera.\" They just didn't know what to do about it all, Randi.", "I love that she was talking to Bo though to, I guess, kill some time.", "Yes, because those were in between tour groups and she was kind of waiting for people and it was live streaming, so she's just kind of standing there trying to fill time.", "Bo was very well behaved though it looked like.", "That said, he did a lick a little boy's face and he got a slight reprimand from the first lady for that.", "Oh well, I'm sure the little boy thought it was cute. I got to say though on that guy, the one who asked for the directions to the chili place, I don't even think he said hello. If you play that back, he just went right up to her and said, where's Ben's Chili. I don't think the guy even said hello and greeted the first lady.", "This is what was shocking to me. It's like some sort of sociological experience because people just didn't know what to do with themselves.", "We're going to play that back actually. Let's play that back, cause I do want to know if he said hello. It seemed to me he didn't, but let's listen one more time.", "Where would I find Ben's Chili Bowl?", "Oh, where is Ben's? OK, Ben's Chili Bowl. These guys will know.", "OK, I didn't hear him say hello.", "No.", "I mean, wow. That man was on a mission.", "Good chili, I don't know.", "All right. Brianna Keilar, that was fun. Thank you.", "Happy Friday to you, Randi.", "Go get some chili now.", "Pirates hijack a ship in the Indian Ocean. They take hostages, but navy commandos fight back. We'll show you this very dramatic rescue. Also, a brand new message believed to be from the world's most wanted terrorist, and Osama bin Laden's warning is very specific. Hala Gorani joins me live and she is next. And just a reminder, we will soon hear from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' medical team. They should be coming out any second. You will see it live, so stay right there."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "KAYE", "KEILAR", "KAYE", "KEILAR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MICHELLE OBAMA, FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES", "KEILAR", "KAYE", "KEILAR", "KAYE", "KEILAR", "KAYE", "KEILAR", "M. OBAMA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "M. OBAMA", "KEILAR", "KAYE", "KEILAR", "KAYE", "KEILAR", "KAYE", "KEILAR", "KAYE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "M. OBAMA", "KAYE", "KEILAR", "KAYE", "KEILAR", "KAYE", "KEILAR", "KAYE", "KAYE"]}
{"id": "CNN-328830", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-12-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1712/20/cnr.20.html", "summary": "ANC's New Leader Promises To Unite Party; North Korea Blame For Massive Cyber Attack.", "utt": ["A very warm welcome back to our viewers joining us from all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. Want to update you now on the main stories we're following this hour. The U.S. Senate passes the Republicans tax reform bill just a short time ago. The 51-48 vote was along Party line, because the senate made technical changes to the measure, the house will have to vote on it again later Wednesday. Then it can go to President Trump for his signature. Cardinal Bernard law, the former archbishop of Boston, has died at the age of 86. He was a powerful figure in the Roman Catholic Church, but he resigned in disgrace in 2002 after the Boston globe uncovered a massive sex abuse scandal in his arch diocese. Law was accused of protecting priests who were abusing children. Sir Ramaphosa will soon deliver his first address as head of South Africa's ruling Party. He will give the closing address at the conference hall at the African national congress. He replaces Jacob Zuma as Party leader and he is still but certain to take over as South Africa's President in 2019. And Ramaphosa is promising to unite the ANC which has been mere in the corruption scandals facing Jacob Zuma. CNN's David McKenzie is in Johannesburg. He is joins us now live. So, David what does Ramaphosa bring to the table, what challenges does he face and how possible is it that he could replace Jacob Zuma earlier 2019?", "Well, Ramaphosa, Rose Marie, carries the hopes of millions of South Africans who want to see the ANC take a new direction and try kick start the country's ailing economy. But throughout his career he is almost been called a nearly man, almost getting to the presidency, but now his time has come.", "At the childhood home, the proud older sister waited for the vote to be announced.", "Very nice to meet you.", "Hidden in the bathroom, too nervous to even watch.", "I was just praying.", "We declare Ramaphosa as the new president of the African National Congress.", "Whoa!", "Then I get out, I said, oh, is that Zuma? No, Cyril, they were shouting.", "Ramaphosa says this was always the goal.", "Maybe one of the good days, god will bless us like this.", "It just took longer than expected. A union organizer during (inaudible) and a protege of nelson Mandela, he was on the fast track to becoming President. Ramaphosa became the chief ANC negotiator with the racist regime, known as being tough but fair.", "The regime is determined to block any advance to democracy.", "But when it came time to step down, Mandela chose another successor. Ramaphosa left government for business becoming one of the richest men in South Africa. Those business ties came into question in 2012. When police brutally killed scores of striking miners at a Catalan mine. Ramaphosa was a board member at the company that owned the mine.", "The responsibility has to be collective and as a nation we should dip our heads and accept that we did fail the people of Maricana, particularly the families and the workers and those who died.", "He was cleared of wrongdoing, and by the time he reentered politics as deputy President, many hoped he could drive the country forward.", "I think we are ready for a takeoff. You will see changes happening in South Africa soon.", "Instead, under the leadership of Jacob Zuma, the country faltered, entering a recession. And it through the multiple corruption scandals, court challenges and street demonstrations, like many in the ruling ANC, the vocal Ramaphosa stayed silent. He now faces fractures in the ruling Party already losing support with the public. Here in so we to, they are convinced that Ramaphosa is the man to bridge that divide. When you see him again, what are you going to say to him?", "I'm going to hug him. I'm going to hug him.", "So, he has a tough job ahead of him, Rosemary, because his top leadership is divided amongst the fractious ANC. Still there is hope in south Africa hoping that the man that is been an icon in south African politics for so long could be the right man to lead this country forward. Rosemary?", "We will watch to see what changes may occur. David McKenzie joining us live from Johannesburg which is nearly 10:40 in the morning. Many thanks. The U.S. is trying again to pressure North Korea to resolve the nuclear crisis peacefully. Canada and the U.S. will host a new international group in Vancouver next month with the goal of bringing Pyongyang to the negotiating table. President Donald Trump has rejected the possibility of talks before, but now the U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says diplomacy is still an option. But only if North Korea stops its nuclear provocations.", "The White House position on talks, they have not rejected diplomatic talks. What the White House has merely observed is that North Korea has not exhibited a willingness to talk. But the White House position and the President's policy has always been -- and I go back to why does the pressure campaign exist, and this pressure campaign of sanctions and diplomatic pressure is the President's policy. It is the policy that came from the national Security Council that we would put in place. Sanctions is seen like never been seen before.", "Meanwhile, the U.S. could retaliate against North Korea for the WannaCry cyberattack which blocked computers in almost every country earlier this year. Experts have widely suspected Pyongyang was behind that virus, and now Australia and other countries are following the U.S. in directly blaming North Korea for the attack. Our Brian Todd has more.", "It is the biggest cyberattack the world has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of computers around the world in about 150 countries rendered useless. Businesses, homes, and hospitals were hit, holding critical systems hostage. Even parts of Britain's National Health Service were crippled putting lives at risk. Now the U.S. Government is publicly placing the blame for that cyber assault uniquely dubbed WannaCry, squarely on Kim Jong-un's army of hackers.", "It was directed by the government of North Korea. We are also comfortable in saying that there were actors on their behalf, intermediaries carrying out this attack and they carried out those attacks on behalf of North Korea in the past.", "Sources tell CNN British intelligence officials and Microsoft had previously concluded that groups associated with the North Korean regime were responsible for the WannaCry hack which occurred in May. But this was the first time the U.S. publicly singled out the Kim regime.", "North Korea is in the extortion business. It's in the intimidation business. Frankly, it's in the larceny business.", "Experts say the North Korean attack was unique for a foreign government, because it was ransomware, designed to shut down computers until users paid ransom money to unlock their screens. But officials say in the WannaCry hack, the attackers botched the ransom technology and didn't make much money.", "Once word got out ping didn't unlock the computer it stopped. Still the destruction was widespread and a cyber war team that has become dangerously proficient. Kim Jong-un is believed to have an army of more than 6000 hackers, most of them from North Korea's top intelligence agency. The best of them work for an elite unit called Bureau 121, the same unit who is believed to hack Sony pictures and has infiltrated systems in many countries.", "They are causing disruption, banks, and ATM machines in South Korea. They are attacking the finance sector and affecting swift, one of the main ways we move money around to do financial heists.", "Financial heists designed not just to disrupt the west, but generate real money for the Kim regime.", "That money is then used in turn by the regime for its nefarious purposes for the nuclear program for the missile program.", "Publicly White House officials say they don't have many options for retaliating against the Kim regime for the WannaCry attack.", "President Trump has used every lever you can use short of starving the people of North Korea to death.", "But behind the scenes White House officials tell us they are taking measures to hinder North Korea's hacking capabilities, applying what one official calls max pressure. They won't discuss their options in advance, but cyber experts tell us that could mean that U.S. Cyber command is launching its own offensives to disrupt Kim Jong-un's hackers. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "Facebook and Microsoft are working together against North Korean hackers among other strategies. Microsoft is increasing windows security to prevent a similar cyberattack. Facebook has deleted profiles used by hackers and is reaching out to users who may be at risk. The White House wants tech companies to work more closely with the government against cyber threats. And now Paula Hancock is following this story from Seoul, South Korea. She joins us now live. Paula, what's been the response in South Korea to this increasing pressure on Pyongyang other nations blaming North Korea for the WannaCry cyberattack?", "Well, Rosemary, we and an official response from South Korea when it comes to WannaCry, we would expect one certainly. South Korea is the main target of cyberattacks which it says originate from North Korea. In recent months, recent years, you've had cyberattacks here on banks, on broadcasters, even on the South Korean military and all of those according to South Korean officials have been the work, they believe, of North Korea officials had been the work, they believe of North Korea. It is certainly an issue that South Korea feels acutely and imagine that they would welcome the fact that there has been this rally internationally to try and combat this. So, today you had the likes of Japan, Australia, New Zealand, all agreeing with the United States saying that they believe also that North Korea was behind the WannaCry cyberattack back in May. Now, 164 countries were affected, according to the White House homeland security. So, certainly you can imagine there is a great deal of power within those companies -- countries to be able to club together. And then when you have massive companies like Microsoft and Facebook as well joining together to try and fight this, this is what homeland security is hoping for at this point, that this kind of collaboration from not just governments, but also the private sector could actually make a difference. Rosemary?", "All right, Paula Hancocks joining us there from Seoul in South Korea. Many thanks to you as always. Donald Trump's first year as U.S. President has been a never-ending source of comedy goal for late night hosts. Still to come, a look at some of their more memorable moments.", "Things just started to tip over as it was going around, it ended up on the side. Everything went dark.", "And we are hearing from passengers who were on an Amtrak train when it careened off the tracks in Washington State. 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{"id": "CNN-70561", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-5-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/09/ltm.05.html", "summary": "Hazing Incident at High School in Illinois", "utt": ["Turning now to the hazing story in suburban, Chicago. Criminal charges could be filed today in connection with the high school hazing on Sunday. Authorities are trying to determine if parents provided alcohol for the event, where some girls were beaten and covered with mud, paint and feces. As many as 100 students from Glenbrook North High School were said to be involved. The school's principal says efforts are being made to discipline them.", "As of today, the school has starred to take disciplinary action, and that action has been in the area of extracurricular activities. All of the students who were involved in the incident are still in school. Suspensions have not taken place on the academic portion, which is an area we feel is outside our jurisdiction, and outside of what we legally can do.", "Now from Northbrook, Illinois, Michelle Parks, a sophomore at Glenbrook North High, who not present Sunday, along with her mother, who joins us, as I said, from Illinois. Kim, I want to start with you. What do you think of what Principal Riggle just said?", "Well, you know, in talking with several different parents, and also a principal of Michelle's old elementary school, I guess I begrudgingly accept the fact that we can't act on expelling these girls at this point. And when I attend the board meeting, the Board of Education Monday night, I would like to stress and request that we review current policies and rules, and possibly rewrite them to allow us a little bit more power if another situation like this should arise.", "You graduated from...", "Because I...", "I'm sorry. You graduated from the same high school...", "Yes, I did.", "... back in 1978. Was any of this going on then?", "I actually participated in powder puff that was sponsored by school. It was affiliated with homecoming. And I guess -- I mean, I don't remember this, but they discontinued it in 1977. And they know last night...", "Why do you think they did that?", "They stated it was due to roughness, and I don't recall any girls ever getting hurt. So, I tend to disagree with that statement.", "All right, Kim, let me move on to you. Do you think criminal charges are appropriate for these kids?", "Absolutely, absolutely.", "Michelle, what about you?", "And I just wish they would move...", "I kind of go both ways on that. It depends on what they did. Like, if they were just cheering, I don't think it's, like, they should get too harshly punished, because they're still growing up. We don't want to ruin their young lives. But those who were actually doing the beating, I do think they should get punished for what they did, because nobody deserves to be treated like that.", "You're a sophomore, Michelle. And I'm wondering if you had been a junior, would you have gone to this? Would you have been nervous about it?", "No, I would not have gone. It's ridiculous. It's really not planned out, and the whole thing is just sneaky. I don't think it would be very smart to go.", "How did you feel when you saw some of your friends participating in this?", "Kind of shocked. I didn't think they would. But not -- I wasn't really close with anyone who did it. They were just, like, acquaintances. I knew them from sports teams.", "Kim, are you thinking of taking Michelle out of Glenbrook North High School?", "No. No, not at all. That's not even under consideration. It's a great school, and I think that's what we need to do, to put the focus back on. There are a lot of -- I mean, 1,900- plus good students. And I guess, I just wish some more parents would come forward and set examples for their kids to know that we have a problem on our hands and let's address it. And silence -- the code of silence does not send a very good message to people.", "All right, Michelle Parks, a sophomore at Glenbrook North High School, and her mother, Kim, thanks so much for being here to both of you.", "Thanks. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "MICHAEL RIGGLE, PRINCIPAL, GLENBROOK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL", "COLLINS", "KIM PARKS, MICHELLE'S MOTHER", "COLLINS", "K. PARKS", "COLLINS", "K. PARKS", "COLLINS", "K. PARKS", "COLLINS", "K. PARKS", "COLLINS", "K. PARKS", "COLLINS", "K. PARKS", "MICHELLE PARKS, SOPHOMORE, GLENBROOK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL", "COLLINS", "M. PARKS", "COLLINS", "M. PARKS", "COLLINS", "K. PARKS", "COLLINS", "K. PARKS"]}
{"id": "CNN-411374", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2020-09-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/20/acd.02.html", "summary": "Nation Mourns, Senate Fights, In Wake Of Justice Ginsburg's Passing", "utt": ["It is 9 p.m. in Washington where it never has been more apparent. We have three branches of government. The Supreme Court and the nation mourning the passing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The president scrambling to fill her seat. His campaign even selling t-shirts calling for just that. The Senate, meantime, is a battleground with fewer than a handful of Republican senators under pressure to either delay consideration of a nominee until after the election into a lame duck session or get onboard the president's fast moving confirmation train. A lot to talk about in the our head and the stakes of the country perhaps from decades to come could not be higher. CNN's Manu Raju starts us off.", "President Donald Trump is moving quickly to name his Supreme Court nominee to fill the seat of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg.", "Raise your right hand.", "According to sources familiar with the process, three female appeals court judges appear to be among the frontrunners, Amy Coney Barrett, Barbara Lagoa and Alison Jones Rushing. But he has little margin for error to get his nomination confirmed to the bench before the November election. Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can only afford to lose the support of three Republican senators in order to get 51 votes to get a nominee confirmed. But already two Republicans have said the nomination should wait until after the elections. The latest, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the lone Republican to vote against Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the court in 2018. On Sunday, Murkowski said, \"I did not support taking up a nomination eight months before the 2016 election to fill the vacancy created by the passing of Justice Scalia. We are now even closer to the 2020 election, less than two months out, and I believe the same standard must apply\". But Murkowski would not comment on Sunday about whether she would oppose Trump's nominee in the lame duck session of Congress which will occur after the November elections and conclude in January. Similarly, Senator Susan Collins of Maine fighting to keep her seat has said the vote should wait until after the election. But her office has not responded to CNN questions about whether she would vote against a Trump nominee in the lame duck session if former Vice President Joe Biden wins in November. The battle over the nomination comes amid a furious fight for control of the Senate in November. And it has put some Republicans like Cory Gardner of Colorado in a difficult spot as he campaigns to keep his seat. In 2016, when Republicans refused to move on Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the court, they argued it was too close to the election. Gardner said at the time, the American people deserve a role in this process. But on Saturday, Gardner refused to say if he would stick to that same position now that there's a Republican president, and just 44 days before the election,", "There is time for debate. There is time for politics. But the time for now is to pray for the family.", "Several veteran Republican senators including Chuck Grassley of Iowa have also declined to say if they think that nomination should wait. And the party's 2012 nominee, Senator Mitt Romney has so far declined to comment. Several Republicans in difficult races are aligning with Trump.", "I voted for several hundred conservative judges including two on the Supreme Court and another one on the way.", "Tillis sung a different tune four years ago.", "We're going to let the American people speak.", "Republican say times have changed because they now control both the White House and the Senate unlike 2016.", "It's a question of checks and balances.", "But four years ago, Cruz said this.", "This is for the people to decide.", "For the people to decide. Manu, you have some new reporting about the shortlist for nominees.", "Yes, that Amy Coney Barrett appears to be one of the frontrunners if not the frontrunner for this nomination at the moment. She's a federal appeals court judge. She actually has come up in conversations I'm told between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Trump over the weekend. Now, they've spoken more than one since the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and I'm told that Mitch McConnell has indicated to Donald Trump that Republicans know Barrett well, that essentially they would be comfortable with her nomination if she were to be put forward. Now, he hasn't been advocating for her necessarily, but certainly would support her if Donald Trump were to go that route. Now they've talked about the importance of nominating a female justice in the aftermath of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Of course, the president himself said that he would in fact name a Supreme Court, a female to the court. And Republicans of course will come back tomorrow, they'll meet for the first time on Tuesday to discuss all these. But we expect that nomination to come forward potentially early in the week as Republicans see. They're going to count the votes to see if they have enough to get it done before November, Anderson.", "All right, Manu Raju, appreciate the reporting. Thank you. Shortly before airtime, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer talked to reporters including about what Democrats might do when the president gets his pick. But Democrats take the White House and Senate.", "If the president's pick is approved. And Biden wins the election, should he have more Supreme Court justices?", "Well, it will be a decision that comes to the Senate. We first have to win the majority before that can happen. But once we win the majority, God willing, everything is on the table.", "Joining us is Democratic Strategist Paul Begala, no stranger to hardball and author of \"You're Fired: The Perfect Guide to Beating Donald Trump\". Also, CNN Political Commentator Scott Jennings, former special assistant to President George W. Bush and a longtime political adviser to Majority Leader McConnell. With us as well, CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger. Gloria, what do you make the news tonight that McConnell is indicating to President Trump the GOP senators would be comfortable with judge Amy Coney Barrett?", "Well, I think she clearly is a frontrunner and she's kind of the opposite of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It's clear she would invalidate the Affordable Care Act. She is pro-life. And the question I think, with this nominee, if she becomes a nominee is would she galvanize suburban women against Donald Trump? I mean, that, that is a big question. And so she would be controversial for Democrats but not for Republicans. She is a likely choice.", "Paul, I know you've been talking to Democrats on Capitol Hill. How do you see their strategy now?", "Well, the most important thing they're trying to do is frame this as more than just like the power play bullying process argument, but instead, to make it about the Affordable Care Act. First and most importantly, the Affordable Care Act, with its protections for pre-existing conditions comes before the Supreme Court on November 10th, November 10th, the Texas versus California case with the Fifth Circuit invalidated the whole ObamaCare law especially this very popular pre-existing condition rules. That's the thing they want to focus. And then they're also going to talk about other cases that the court will decide like Roe as Gloria mentioned, like labor rights, like marriage equality, like environmental protections, but most importantly, they believe this is a healthcare election and this is a health care fight over this nominee.", "Scott, I want to just show our viewers what Majority Leader McConnell said back in March of 2016 when President Obama was not nominating Judge Merrick Garland to fill Justice Scalia's seat on the Supreme Court. Let's play this.", "This nomination ought to be made by the president we're in the process of electing this year. This nomination ought to be made by the next president. We don't intend to take up a nominee or to have a hearing. And it is a good opportunity to reiterate our view that this appointment should be made by the next president. This vacancy will not be failed this year. We will look forward to the American people deciding who they want to make this appointment through their own votes.", "Scott, I mean, I understand the politics of it but I mean, is it not just blatantly hypocritical? I know that he will argue that, you know, there were -- it was a different rule but he's talking about the voters deciding and an election actually is now much closer, in fact, is already underway.", "Well, for McConnell, Anderson, the issue wasn't how close the election was, the issue was, was that the White House was controlled by one party and the Senate was controlled by another. And see a split control go all the way back to the --", "I mean, was that really the issue?", "They were split control. That's number one. Number two, you have to go all the way back to the 1880s to find a similar situation where someone was confirmed. Now in this particular case, you have the White House and the Republicans in the Senate, obviously under same control, Republican in the White House as well. And it's very common, in fact, when that situation occurs for presidents and the Senate to confirm a Supreme Court nominee. So it's a different political situation. Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, I think, had the best punditry of the weekend today. He said no one should be surprised that a Senate Republican majority is going to vote on a Republican president's nominee. And so they're going to move forward with this. You mentioned Barrett, McConnell likes her, the president, by the way, had a great list. And I know the senator like several of them on there, but Barrett is a good choice. She ideologically fits the Senate majority and they're moving forward. And I will just say politically, it is not an option for Republicans to lay back here, their base, their voters, the people in their party that support them and that elected them in all these states, they would be apoplectic if Republicans laid back like this. So it's full speed ahead for the Republicans.", "Yes, but honestly, with all, with all due respect, Scott, the president can nominate somebody and that's fine. He's president United States. But for the Senate to vote not before an election, we are in the middle of an election right now as Anderson was pointing out, people are voting right now. And when you look at what Mitch McConnell was saying, there is only one way to interpret this, and that is that he wants to jam this through as quickly as he can because he has a couple of goals right now, and you know him better than anybody, he's got a couple of goals. One is he wants to keep control of the Senate, and the other one is, he wants to pack the courts. And this is the big prize here. So let's not pretend that it's about all these other things which is who controls the Senate and who control -- this is just raw political maneuvering on Mitch McConnell's part, and I don't think we should call it anything else.", "I mean, it's also it's also just -- I mean, just if I may, Anderson, it's not just maneuvering, it's also the constitution, right? There's two institutions at play, the White House and the Senate, they have an equal, they have an equal hand in this. And it's the president's job to nominate, and it's the Senate's job to do with it what they think is right at the time.", "Right.", "And in this political instance, Mitch McConnell and the Republicans think it's right to vote on a Republican president's nominee. No one should be surprised that they're doing that.", "In the middle of an election.", "Paul, no one should be surprised. I mean, hypocrisy is, you know, abounds everywhere but it's still pretty unpalatable to have a dressed up as something else.", "Right. But it's -- this is not what about politics, this is not about the election. This is not about November 3rd Election Day, it's about November 10th, Affordable Care Act day. I'm telling you. Mitch McConnell's base is not all those wonderful people who vote for him, it's the financial people who are flooding his party with dark money. And at the top of that list are the insurance companies who are going to be in front of the court through the attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, also under Dimon, and asking them to throw out protections for pre-existing conditions that Congress can't do it because it's very, very popular. Republicans tried 70 times, they can't do it because the American people want those protections. So Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump has to get this judge in there before November 10th so he or she can invalidate the Affordable Care Act, something they cannot do politically through the normal political course. That's what this is about. It's about money and it's about the Affordable Care Act.", "Scott?", "Yes, with all due respect to my friend Paul, if you're worried about dark money in politics, Democrats have a lot more of it in this election than Republicans. Number two, this isn't about the next month or two months, this is about the next 30 or 40 years, having a majority of Supreme Court of conservatives of people who believe in originalism and the text of the constitution for Republicans --", "And pre-existing conditions?", "-- for senators, for base activists, this is everything. And so it's not about a case in a month, it's about the next three decades. And that's --", "Well --", "-- that's why Republicans are so excited about the opportunity.", "I'll agree with you on that, Scott. I do think it's about the decades to come. And I think what we're looking at is -- it's a moment that will galvanize perhaps both sides but there is a point that if Mitch McConnell takes this risk and if he tries to jam through before the election, that this could backfire for a very long time. And, and, you know, he -- it is a, it is a galvanizing force for the Democratic Party to talk about what this will do to the Affordable Care Act, for young women who may have thought, you know, I don't have to vote for this election, I liked Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I'm sorry she's gone. But now they see what who the president might want to appoint, I think there is a real risk here of this boomeranging for Mitch McConnell and for control of the Senate. We don't know for sure, of course, yes, but there is that possibility.", "Let's -- we'll have to see. Paul Begala, Scott Jennings, and Gloria Borger, thank you. I really appreciate it. Actor Dan Rather, excuse me, anchor Dan Rather joins us shortly. We'll talk to legendary newsman Dan Rather. And next, a live report from the growing people's memorial outside the court and what we know about how the court is memorializing Justice Ginsburg. Later, one of the women she battle for even though it had to be in dissent from the majority, Lilly Ledbetter joins us."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "RAJU (voice-over)", "SEN. CORY GARDNER (R-CO)", "RAJU (voice-over)", "SEN. THOM TILLIS (R-NC)", "RAJU (voice-over)", "TILLIS", "RAJU (voice-over)", "SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX)", "RAJU (voice-over)", "CRUZ", "COOPER", "RAJU", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY)", "COOPER", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST", "COOPER", "PAUL BEGALA, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "COOPER", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-76224", "program": "CNN LIVE SUNDAY", "date": "2003-8-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/31/sun.12.html", "summary": "Rescuers Search For Survivors After Flood Wave Knocked Out Barrier", "utt": ["Rescuers are searching for missing people from an accident that killed four children on a flooded highway in southeast Kansas. Officials say a wave washed out a barrier wall last night, sweeping several cars off Interstate 35. A family from Missouri was in one of the cars. All four children died in the flooded waters. Their mother apparently is still missing. And on the phone with us now, from Wichita, is Michael Johnston, president and CEO of the Kansas Turnpike Authority. Mr. Johnston thanks for joining us. Can you explain to us exactly what happened?", "Well, Fredricka, last night about 9:30 on I-35, about 65 miles north and east of Wichita, we apparently had a flash flood, just a torrent of water. A wall of water came across the turnpike, and took with it seven vehicles in addition to thousands of pounds of concrete barrier, and just washed them all off the roadway. As you said, we've had four confirmed deaths, the four children in the Missouri family, and their mother is missing in addition to another person we believe from Texas, who is also missing.", "Had it been warned that there were flash floods?", "Well, there was no warning. It had been raining all day in the area, heavy at times, but this area of the turnpike, insofar as we can determine, has never had water go across the roadway in our 50-year history. So it certainly was an unexpected event and you know, sometimes we're just no match for nature. I think this was one of those times.", "So there were no prior indications of vulnerabilities on this I-35 stretch that in part was washed away along with these seven vehicles?", "No, as I said, insofar as I can tell, we've never had water across the roadway in that location before. There are some other areas of the turnpike where we occasionally have water go across the road, but this is not one of them.", "Of these other vehicles that were swept away, or caught in this flash flooding, you said at least one other person, that from Texas, as well as the mother of this one vehicle where the children were swept away, you're still searching for. What are the conditions of all the other people who are involved in this?", "Well, I understand that in a couple of instances people got out of the vehicles before they were swept off the roadway and escaped. In one case apparently a gentleman was swept off the roadway and managed to get out of his vehicle and swim away to dry ground. So a variety of different circumstances. But a terribly tragic event and one about which we're quite sad.", "And what can you tell us about the efforts under way to try and find these, at least two, missing persons?", "Well, we have our emergency responders in addition to local law enforcement agencies and volunteers that are at the scene and continuing to search as we speak. I was there earlier this afternoon myself. So we'll continue to search for these folks until we find them. But it's not an easy task. The water has receded. The rain has virtually stopped. So we can certainly make progress. But it's a tough and gruesome task.", "Michael Johnston of the Kansas Turnpike Authority. Thanks very much for joining us.", "Thank you, Fredricka. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Barrier>"], "speaker": ["FREDERICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "MICHAEL JOHNSTON, CEO, KANSAS TURNPIKE AUTHORITY", "WHITFIELD", "JOHNSTON", "WHITFIELD", "JOHNSTON", "WHITFIELD", "JOHNSTON", "WHITFIELD", "JOHNSTON", "WHITFIELD", "JOHNSTON"]}
{"id": "CNN-394706", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-03-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/08/cnr.04.html", "summary": "U.S. Surgeon General says Expect More Deaths and Cases But Do Not Panic; Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) is Questioned About the Coronavirus and the Economy; Nursing Home in Washington State has Three Employees Positive for Coronavirus", "utt": ["Hello. I'm Ana Cabrera in New York. You're live in the \"CNN Newsroom.\" And the top medical officer in the United States today says the outbreak of the potentially deadly coronavirus has not yet peaked. He warns there will be more cases, more deaths, but that does not mean people should panic. Those words from the U.S. surgeon general today, the same day the number of infected people in this country tops 500. People are testing positive for the virus in 33 states, mostly in Washington State, around Seattle, and in New York. The northeastern suburbs of New York City, more than 20 people have died after being infected and in the coming days, about 4 million testing kits are expected to be available at centers across the country. That's the hope, anyway, of White House officials who blame what they call a glitch for the comparatively small number of test kits that have already shipped. And now, about those crowded cruise ships with infected people onboard. One that has been held off the coast of California might be able to dock tomorrow. And now there's another one off the coast of Florida, waiting to be told what to do. We'll have details on the status of those ships in just a moment. CNN senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen is with us, also CNN's Lucy Kafanov is in Oakland, California. Elizabeth, first, take a listen to this. This is the U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams on CNN this morning making a key distinction in how the government is now approaching this coronavirus crisis.", "Initially, we had a posture of containment so that we could give people time to prepare for where we are right now. Now, we're shifting into a mitigation phase, which means that we're helping communities understand you're going to see more cases. Unfortunately, you're going to see more deaths, but that doesn't mean that we should panic.", "Elizabeth, moving from containment to now mitigation. What is the difference and how does that affect people who most need to be tested?", "Right, Ana. So we're going to be hearing these terms more often, so let's go over them. Containment means literally you're trying to contain the virus that is often done in several ways, but to a large extent through something called contact tracing. You get your first case. You track down that person's wife, their co-- worker, their -- people they have had close contact with. You put those people in quarantine and you watch them to see if they get sick and you go from there. You know, the sort of what underscores what Dr. Adams is saying is that we now have many more cases. Experts tell me it is harder and harder to do that kind of one by one by one contact tracing as this number of cases gets higher. It is taxing on the public health system and it becomes less and less useful the more numbers that you get. Now, you ask, Ana, about testing. This doesn't really affect who gets tested. You know, the rules are different in different states because right now it is pretty much state health labs who are doing this, but you know, you can -- not everyone who wants to get tested will get tested. Your doctor has to want to test you and then your doctor will have to get a hospital to test you, because this testing based on the conversation that I've been having, that testing is happening in hospitals. It is not happening in doctor's offices because doctor's offices don't have the infection control procedures to do that kind of tests. You want to go to a hospital for it. And hospitals can't test absolutely everyone. They have to have some limits.", "Elizabeth, stand by. I want to bring in Lucy Kafanov because we just heard from the governor of California about the status of the cruise passengers off the coast there. For people just joining us, what were the main takeaways?", "Well, the governor confirmed that the ship is expected to come in to the port of Oakland, that's where we are right now, tomorrow. It's not clear what time yet. That's because they're going to be looking at the currents, at the weather situation to figure out a good window of time. We have a little bit more of an update on the sequence of events. In the next hour, they are expecting to send medical staff onboard to begin the process of screening passengers, conducting interviews, getting their medical history and all of that in order to speed up the process tomorrow. Once the boat is in port, the seriously ill passengers will be evacuated and taken to hospitals in the region. They will then proceed with evacuating the American passengers off board. There are 2,241 passengers; about a thousand of those are California residents. All of the California residents will be quarantined in the state, either at the Travis Air Base up north or at Miramar down near San Diego. Remember, both of those bases have been hosting Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China so they are very experienced on this. The other U.S. citizens will get taken either to Texas or to Georgia. They will then be quarantined for 14 days there. The big question, what happens with the foreigners onboard? There are 54 countries represented. The State Department, as we speak, is working out negotiations with different countries to repatriate those citizens home. They will likely be flown out on charter flights out of the Oakland airport. But again, the governor stressing, these are private charter flights. They will not be mixed in with the general population. They are taking every step in order to make sure that these passengers are isolated from the communities here. Now, the crew members, there's over 1,100 members of crew onboard. They will not be getting disembarked. They will be getting off the ship, pardon me. The governor saying, confirming what Vice President Mike Pence said, which is the crew will be quarantined for 14 days onboard that ship. As soon as all the passengers are off, they are going to pull away from the port of Oakland and get that ship back out to sea, again, in order to minimize the exposure to the community here, Ana.", "All right, Lucy Kafanov, thank you -- our thanks to Elizabeth Cohen as well. Meanwhile, we are getting really mixed messages from the Trump administration as to just how many coronavirus test kits are available right now. Each clip you are about to see is from this morning.", "We have 75,000 tests available right now for folks. By early next week, tomorrow, we should have over 2 million tests available. By the end of the week, through partnerships with private industry, over 4 million test available.", "Right now, I believe 1.1 million tests have already been sent out. By Monday, there'll be an additional 400,000, and by the end of next week, probably around 4 million.", "Over a million tests were shipped out already this past week. Tomorrow, another 640,000 will be available.", "All kinds of different numbers there. Joining us now, Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania. His state is dealing with at least four cases right now. And Senator, do you feel like the U.S. is prepared to do widespread testing and really get a sense of how broad this outbreak is?", "Ana, I'm not sure that we're prepared in terms of having enough test kits available so I'm very concerned about the different numbers we keep hearing from the administration. The most important thing they have to do right now is not to get caught up in the numbers, but to get the test kits out to the states so that we can do the testing, so you know the scope of the problem, and these conflicting numbers are very confusing. The president's commentaries have added a lot more in terms of the problem. I would hope that folks out there would listen to their medical provider and would listen to the Centers for Disease Control and others who have authority to speak. But the president's comments so far have been very damaging.", "Does Pennsylvania have what it needs right now?", "Ana, I spoke to Governor Wolf today and I think at least right now in Pennsylvania, they feel like they have enough test kits or tests available and they're testing every day. But as you just noted, we have four cases and that just happened since Friday. And we expect or I should say, I expect, based upon the information that I have, that that number will go up.", "You're on the Finance Committee and we have seen a tremendous drop, of course, in the stock market. And it's not just the stock market where we're having issues financially, of course. As this crisis goes on, big businesses are going to take a hit. Jobs are on the line. Savings are on the online. This administration has talked about waving fees and taxes for the travel industry. Do you believe it's time for Congress to take some kind of measure, some kind of stimulus in order to prevent a major financial crisis?", "Well, Ana, I think we should have hearings to consider that. But I think it's premature at this time to be able to have a remedy, based upon what we know so far. It's still early in terms of those economic assessments. The most important thing that Congress did was in the last couple of days, appropriating more than $8 billion. The president signed into it law. Now, the administration has to get that -- those dollars out the door to state and local governments and health departments, as well as to make sure that the dollars are in the pipeline for a vaccine, which we know will take probably on the order of 18 months to provide. But we have to make sure that all of the personal protective equipment that health care professionals need is there. We've got to make sure, of course, that the test kits get out. But the administration has to be very clear about numbers and about the basic information because when you have this kind of confusion, I think that just adds to the anxiety that people feel.", "The CDC is advising older Americans to stay at home, as much as possible, to avoid crowds. Today, Dr. Fauci said those older Americans should think twice before flying long distances. And yet it is campaign season and right now you have Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and President Trump, all in their 70s, they're crisscrossing the country, shaking hands, they're hugging people, holding these huge rallies. Do you think it's worth the risk?", "Ana, I think that everyone has to make their own decision about how to proceed, but I think the best thing to do, especially if someone is a senior citizen or has a complex medical condition or is in some way compromised, they should be very careful. But again, they should rely upon the advice of their medical provider as well as CDC and other authorities, not on the admonitions necessarily of elected officials. But so far -- so far I think folks have taken this very seriously. And I will say, as well, despite what the president has said and done, a lot of members of his administration I know are very concerned about this take it very seriously and are trying to get it right. But we've got to make sure that those resources get out the door so that states and communities have help, whether it's a hospital or a state health department or a county health department as well as communities throughout the country.", "Senator Sanders made the round on the Sunday shows today and he explained the current state of the race this way.", "The establishment put a great deal of pressure on Pete Buttigieg, on Amy Klobuchar, who ran really aggressive campaigns. I know both of them. They work really, really hard, but suddenly right before Super Tuesday, they announced their withdrawal. If they had not withdrawn from the race before Super Tuesday, which is kind of a surprise to a lot of people, I suspect we would have won in Minnesota, we would have won in Maine, we would have won in Massachusetts. The turnout may have been a little bit different.", "On top of that, senator, a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds that six in 10 Sanders supporters are uncomfortable with Biden. You've thrown your support behind Joe Biden and so my question is not necessarily whether you agree with Sanders about whether there's an establishment working against him and pushing even other competitors out of the race. I have to ask you, in your home state of Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump by less than 50,000 votes. So, you know, every vote counts. Should Biden become the nominee? How do you ensure that Sanders' supporters come out to vote in November?", "Well, Ana, I think no matter where your support lies right now, whether it's with Vice President Biden as mine has been since the day he announced or with Senator Sanders, I do think that there's a great unanimity, if I can use that word, in our party to be prepared to defeat Donald Trump. So, I don't think there's going to be any problem with unity in our party when it comes to defeating Donald Trump because I think most Democrats or every Democrat I know knows that there's a lot at stake for our national security, for our economy, and especially on the overriding issue of health care, which will be the number one issue in Pennsylvania. If you vote for Donald Trump in the fall, you're voting for someone who will take away protections for pre-existing conditions, for example. As demonstrated over and over again that he wants to cut Medicare and Medicaid. That's not going to work in Pennsylvania. I think both supporters of both candidates in the Democratic primary will be together united to defeat Donald Trump.", "But didn't not voting for Trump not necessarily worked for Hillary Clinton?", "No. Look, I think that the circumstances are different now. I think there are a lot of voters, who in 2016 might have thought, well, let's try an outsider who's not part of the political system. And now we know the damage that that has wrought. The number of uninsured is going up for the first time in years. The number of children who are uninsured has gone way up by hundreds and hundreds of thousands. And I think most people know that even as the president will talk about the stock market and some other indicators, which are really a false reading for working men and women. They also note the same time the cost of child care is up, the cost of basic daily living expenses for middle class families are way up. So I think people know what's at stake and I think 2016 is a distant memory for a lot of voters.", "Senator Bob Casey, thank you for your time this evening.", "Thanks, Ana.", "Up next, a doctor who specializes in pathogens joins us to answer your questions about how well prepared the country is to handle this crisis and what you should be doing. Plus, former Vice President Joe Biden picks up the endorsement of Senator Kamala Harris. Hear what she said about whether she wants to be on the ticket if he gets the nomination."], "speaker": ["ANA CABRERA, CNN HOST", "JEROME ADAMS, U.S. SURGEON GENERAL", "CABRERA", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "LUCY KAFANOV, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "ADAMS", "ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE", "BEN CARSON, MEMBER, WHITE HOUSE CORONAVIRUS TASK FORCE", "CABRERA", "SEN. BOB CASEY (D-PA)", "CABRERA", "CASEY", "CABRERA", "CASEY", "CABRERA", "CASEY", "CABRERA", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-376881", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-08-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/07/nday.01.html", "summary": "Today: Trump Visits El Paso & Dayton after Mass Shootings; Trump Tells Beto O'Rourke To \"Be Quiet\" in Tweet", "utt": ["It's 4:00 a.m. here in El Paso, Texas. Alisyn is off, I'm joined this morning by Erica Hill who is in Dayton, Ohio. In this morning these two cities, there are cities in pain and there are also cities in dread. The first we're used to. American towns and communities recovering from the plague of mass shootings. But the second, the dread at least among some here is new. It comes from the anticipation of a visit from the President of the United States in just a few hours. This morning, the President leaves the White House to come meet with first responders, medical personnel, and victims' families. Here in El Paso, protesters plan to gather hours ahead of the arrival to call for gun control and denounce white supremacy. Beto O'Rourke will be there. Now, he was the target of what some might call destructive bipartisanship by the President overnight, who made fun of O'Rourke's name and told him to be quite. Now that is the same President who just Monday read from the teleprompter saying, now is the time to set destructive partisanship aside. Now apparently ended Monday or maybe never begun. O'Rourke, who has been critical with the President calling him a racist, wrote back that neither he nor El Paso, Erica will be silenced.", "Well, John, I should point out protests are also planned here in Dayton where the major insist she will confront the President on gun control, something she said, he failed to do in that address of the nation on Monday. Keep in mind, though, it's not just in Dayton and El Paso where these shootings have Americans on edge. I want to show you the scene from New York's Times Square just last night. The panic there as the sound of a backfiring motorcycle was mistaken for gunfire. Look how quickly people are moving there in this heavily, heavily densely populated area always full of people. Scrambling for cover. Police at the same time pleading for calm.", "I have to say, it's completely understandable. And at this moment, completely American that in Times Square or at a mall, you're looking over your shoulder anticipating something going wrong. We got a lot of news for you this morning. We're going to begin here in El Paso with Rosa Flores with the latest from this city. The President is coming. And setting a tone even before he arrives.", "Definitely so. You know, we've talked to a lot of people here in El Paso. There's mixed emotions about the President arriving. Democratic Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke of course has been here. He's been very vocal in calling out President Trump and his immigration policies, his rhetoric, the words that he has used to describe immigrants. And this of course has caught the attention of the President. Let's take a look at his tweet, the President tweeted this out saying, \"Beto (phony name to indicate Hispanic heritage) O'Rourke who is embarrassed by my last visit to the state of Texas where I trounced him. And is now even more embarrassed by polling at one percent in the Democrat primary, should respect the victims and law enforcement and be quiet!\" Beto O'Rourke of course responded by saying, \"22 people in my hometown are dead after an act of terror inspired by your racism. El Paso will not be quiet and neither will I.\" And I can tell you, John, a lot of people here in El Paso, this is the last thing they want to be hearing. They don't want to be talking about politics. They don't want to be thinking about politics while they're mourning those 22 individuals who died.", "They want to hear about how something like this will be prevented. They want to hear how they will be lead through this crisis. Rosa, I understand we're also hearing for the first time from the family of the killer or alleged killer?", "Right. The alleged killer. This is the first time we're hearing from them. And they have been very quiet, but their words are pretty profound. And they separate themselves from the racism and the violence and the hatred. Here's what they had to say in a statement that says in part. \"Patrick's actions were influenced and informed by people we do not know and from ideas and beliefs that we do not accept or condone, in any way. He was raised in a family that taught love, kindness, respect, and tolerance, rejecting all forms of racism, prejudice, hatred, and violence.\" We know, of course, that the suspect sitting in jail right now facing capital murder charges and he's being held without bond.", "All right, Rosa. Stay on the story for us. We'll keep talking to you throughout the morning. Let's get the latest headlines from Dayton, Ohio. Erica Hill is there. Erica.", "And we begin here in Dayton, John, with the CNN exclusive. As this city is preparing for the President's visit, we have chilling video of the Dayton gunman inside the bar about two hours before the massacre. You see him in this video in a t-shirt and shorts. You'll notice no tactical gear, no visible confrontations on this video. No sign of what was about to happen. His ex-girlfriend also coming forward to say he was interested in what makes terrible people do terrible things. Including mass shootings. CNN's Brynn Gingras is live with me here in Dayton with the latest here. That alone is chilling.", "I was just going to say that video is just chilling. Because right this is the first time we're getting a look at sort of his movements before the shooting. And we haven't even had a timeline from police. So that's why we're fascinated by this seeing maybe what his thoughts are, which is what police are trying to answer. But let's walk through the video as viewers are seeing it right now. So that is Connor Betts that we've identified there in that video. This is at a bar here in the really entertainment district two hours before the shooting rampage. And again, we're highlighting there the fact he has a t-shirt on, he has shorts on. He got a wristband to go into that bar. He does not have that mask and vest that we know he wore during the shooting. Now, we know from time stamps at this bar that he left alone from this bar an hour later. Remember, he entered with his sister and a companion that CNN has identified as Charles Beard. He left about an hour later. His sister and that companion left 45 minutes after him. Now, at that time was only about six or so minutes before the shooting. So that's how close it was. We know from the police chief that Betts, this gunman, had some sort of communication with a companion during that time. But they wouldn't elaborate what communication that is. We also know, of course, his sister was a victim in this. And so was that companion who he walked into that bar with, Charles Beard. He was shot and is in the hospital. But police do not believe they had any sort of knowledge as to what was about to happen.", "So, so many questions as you point out, we have now a snippet of that timeline.", "Right.", "But what was that communication? What was said? What brought them outside, so much more.", "And there's still so many questions, right? We now know that the FBI is involved because there was some sort of ideology that Connor Betts bit into that they are not investigating. And we know that he was fascinating with mass shootings. And we know that Drew Griffin spoke to an ex-girlfriend who said that. That he even showed her a picture on one of their first dates.", "One of their first dates. It is chilling. I keep going back to the word, but it's hard not to. Brynn, thank you.", "Yeah.", "John, we'll send it back to you in El Paso.", "All right, Erica. Thanks very much. Joining me now is Adolpho Telles. He is the chairman of the El Paso, Texas, Republican Party. Adolpho, thanks for being with us. I just want to show people this t-shirt first of all which is going to go on sale not even today, in a couple of days. All the proceeds from this that says El Paso Strong are going to go to the El Paso Community Foundation, 100 percent. And that's symbolic I think of this community pulling together to work through this. It's so impressive. We want to thank you for welcoming us here. My question, you know the President is coming. You know it's controversial. There are people who are welcoming it. There are people to say the least who are not.", "Right.", "How will the President's visit help today?", "You know, the President is the President of the United States. Not of a certain part, of all the United States, of this city, this state, this country. He normally attends every location where there's a major issue. This is a major issue. Him showing up in El Paso to show his support, to learn what's going on, hopefully take things back on what needs to be changed, what needs to be worked on, I think it's very important to be here. And I think it's outstanding that he can coming.", "The President on Monday read from the teleprompter saying now is the time to set destructive partisanship aside. How is going after Beto O'Rourke for his name? How is telling Beto O'Rourke that he trounced him, the President when he came to El Paso? I don't even know what that means. How is that setting destructive partisanship aside?", "Great question. When I heard about this issue on Saturday, we the local Republican Party decided without discussions of anybody else, that we did not want to make this a political issue. Did not want to do it. Within a day, O'Rourke, Escobar, Moody started spewing poison to the community and being negative, making it a political issue in order to enhance their political opportunities. They started the issue and we have tried to stay back. We still don't want to make it a political issue. This is a time for healing. This is a time to address the people. And the families of the people that got hurt, the families that are trying to heal and the communities.", "So now was the time to set destructive partisanship aside. Shouldn't the President be the first to do that?", "Well, once he gets attacked and once he gets it, he has got to do what he's supposed to be doing. And what he's supposed to be doing is being here. That's his responsibility. The people that are being unprofessional and inappropriate are the people I just mentioned. They're the ones that are causing the problems in this community and causing people to be upset instead of focusing on helping our people.", "What tone does it set though? What I know you talked about the President, you don't always happy with him. What tone does it set that hours before he comes here, he sends out that message? What does it say? Does it say, do as I say, not as I do?", "No. I think what it says is you got to focus on the people that are locally and look at how they're reacting. And we've got our politicians that do not represent El Paso. Escobar and O'Rourke do not represent all of El Paso. And they're the ones that are causing it and they're the ones that need to stop.", "I would think --", "If they back off, I'm sure the President would too.", "They were literally both -- Escobar now is the representative of El Paso and Beto O'Rourke was in Congress.", "Yes.", "I want to play something for you. And we have heard from Latinos all over the country, here in El Paso as well, who feel like they're being hunted down and under attacked. That this attack here in name of white supremacy targeted them specifically. And we know it because we read it. I want you to listen to what Tucker Carlson said last night on Fox News. And I want to have you help me understand it if it's at all possible. Listen to what he said about white supremacy.", "White supremacy, that's the problem. This is a hoax. Just like the Russia hoax. It's a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power. That's exactly what's going on.", "White supremacy is a hoax, he says. And I say this to you as someone who serves in this community with the 22 people who were killed behind us because the killer told us of what they look like and the language they speak. How on earth can you call that a hoax?", "You know, I'm Hispanic. OK? I speak Spanish. My mother, my grandmother was from Mexico from Zacatecas. I am Hispanic and I claim it and I'm very proud of it, OK? White supremacy -- somebody asked me yesterday if I agree 100 percent with the President. I said I don't agree 100 percent with anybody, OK? I like Tucker Carlson. White supremacy is not a hoax. But that doesn't mean it's a national very large group. There are pockets of radicals from any type of focus that you want to look at all over this country, all over this world. That doesn't mean that it's something that's going to take over, that's going to dominate. But without a doubt, you've got people that are anti-black, people that are anti- white, people that are anti-Hispanic. And you -- if want to be a radical some place? You're going to find a group that will support what you that you want to believe.", "But I know you know, diminishing the threat of white supremacy as Carlson was doing, it doesn't help the people. In your community here, I know you know that and the people who were killed here behind us. It's not language you would use.", "This community is 80 percent Hispanic, 80 percent-plus, OK. We're 82 percent, 83 percent Hispanic and we get along and I mean everybody. I'm a minority. This is a democratic county. I'm a Republican representative in a democratic county in a Republican state, OK. But in spite of that, we don't have -- we have differences of opinion, strong differences of opinion, but we don't have anger and frustration and fighting over our differences of opinion. And so we acknowledge that there are issues here, there are problems here. You know, we can touch a number of issues that are -- we're sensitive about because you can see the lights behind us.", "That's Mexico.", "And that's Mexico. That's how close we are to Mexico. And so we deal with immigration issues, with border patrol issues, human trafficking, child trafficking, we deal with those things all the time. And I think in this community, we've been able to control that. But we're the front line for the rest of the United States because what goes on in the rest of the United States is impacted by what occurs in El Paso.", "I do want to say, Adolpho Telles, thank you again for having us here in this city. It's been an honor to be here. Thank you for the work you do. Nice to see you.", "You're welcome.", "Thanks for coming in.", "Take care.", "I want to know Chris Cuomo is going to moderate a live Cuomo Prime Time Town Hall, America Under Assault: The Gun Crisis. That's tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern. Now, protesters told Ohio's governor to do something after the shooting in Dayton. Now he is. 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{"id": "NPR-37315", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2006-12-07", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6591590", "title": "Letters: PTSD, a Baby in Baghdad, Calling in Sick", "summary": "We received many letters about Daniel Zwerdling's story on mental health care for soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. We also received comment on the problems of a new child in Baghdad. And some listeners questioned a guest who criticized workers for calling in sick when they're not.", "utt": ["And it's time again for your comments. We received many letters about Daniel Zwerdling's story on mental healthcare for soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Many of you wrote in about your own experiences, including Captain Matthew Carter of Auburn, Alabama.", "Thank you for your story on post-traumatic stress disorder and returning veterans. I've been on both sides of this as a physician screening soldiers in-theater and as a veteran with horrendous, vivid nightmares who could not find help in the Army. As a physician, I was told that soldiers were quote “faking it” in order to go home or get out of the Army. What I have discovered is that the Army has a system in place that requires questions be asked, but requires no action - in fact, discourages action on the part of questioner.", "This week, we also heard from an Iraqi under stress. Salim Ararh(ph) works for NPR in Baghdad, and he's absorbing what should be good news. His wife is about to have a baby.", "Why would I want to bring an innocent child into a bloody, savage world? I don't. I regret what I did. I got my wife pregnant in Baghdad.", "Trish St. Michelle of Silver Spring, Maryland wrote, I am seven months pregnant with our first child, and while it was heartbreaking to hear his story and his regrets about bringing a child into a war zone, it helped my husband and me put our frustrations with insurance companies in true perspective.", "Some listeners questioned a guest who criticized workers for calling in sick when they're not. Richard Castellini of careerbuilder.com described one of the more creative excuses that he has heard people give for missing work.", "And in this one I actually don't know if it is made up, but someone claimed they said that they had sneezed and they threw out their back.", "As it turns out, Peter Wunsch(ph) of East Northport, New York, found this excuse entirely plausible. As a 56-year-old accountant who has only missed one day of work in the past 10 years, I took great offense at the remark that someone called in sick because they injured their back while sneezing. My one absence was exactly that. I sneezed while brushing my teeth and wound up in the emergency room.", "We hope you're brushing your teeth safely this morning, and afterward you're welcome to comment. Go to npr.org and click Contact Us."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, host", "Captain MATTHEW CARTER (Physician)", "DEBORAH AMOS, host", "SALIM ARARH", "DEBORAH AMOS, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "Mr. RICHARD CASTELLINI (CareerBuilder.com)", "DEBORAH AMOS, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-399966", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2020-05-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/12/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "L.A. County Likely To Remain Under Stay-At-Home Order Through July; Fauci's Blunt Warning; Trump Declares The U.S. Has Prevailed With Testing; Fauci: U.S. Death Toll \"Almost Certainly Higher\" Than Reported", "utt": ["All right, Matthew Chance, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Our coverage on CNN continues right now. Thanks for watching. Stay healthy.", "This is CNN Breaking News.", "Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer in THE SITUATION ROOM. We're following breaking news. Residents of the nation's largest county are likely looking at months more at home. The Los Angeles County health director just said she expects the stay-at-home order covering the county's 10 million people to be extended through July. Also breaking right now, the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic now approaching 82,000 people with more than 1.3 million confirmed cases. The U.S. now counts for more than one quarter of the world's 4.2 million cases and almost 300,000 people have died worldwide. Meanwhile, a blunt warning from a top U.S. health official that stands in stark contrast from what we're hearing from President Trump. Dr. Anthony Fauci telling senators that ignoring guidelines on reopening creates the real risk of what he calls an outbreak that you will not be able to control, direct quote. And he's urging more testing, despite President Trump's claim that the U.S. has, once again, I'm quoting the president, prevailed when it comes to testing. Let's get some more on all the breaking news. First, out of Los Angeles, our National Correspondent Erica Hill joins us. Erica, 10 million residents of Los Angeles County. They're probably looking at months more at home.", "That's right, that's what we heard from the county public health director. What she said really coincided with what we heard from Dr. Anthony Fauci today, his concerns about moving too quickly, about possibly triggering a spike. The public health director saying that her hope has always been that by using data, they could lift restrictions slowly over the next three months. Today, Wolf, she said very simply there is no way.", "An experiment in real time, as experts urge caution.", "I think we're going in the right direction. But the right direction does not mean we have by any means total control of this outbreak.", "Retail stores opening their doors in Ohio today.", "We are going to stick to a strict two to one. If we have an employee, we can have two customers.", "As more restaurants adapt.", "We really felt we needed one more week to let people stay at home and not quite rush into it.", "Beaches in Los Angeles County set to reopen Wednesday. For exercise only. As the county's public health director warns other stay-at-home orders will likely be in place for the next three months. Broadway's iconic theaters won't be back before at least September 6, as the CDC reports there could be as many as 5,000 additional deaths in hard-hit New York City. The mayor warning any reopening is still weeks away.", "In the beginning of June, that will be the first chance we get to start to do something differently. But only if the indicators show us that. Only if they show that we've reached the kind of consistent progress we need.", "That progress includes a steady decline in cases. Part of the White House's own guidance which no state appears to have met. Alabama, Texas, and South Dakota among those seeing an uptick. In Georgia, one of the earliest states to reopen, cases remain steady. With nearly every state scheduled to be partially open by the end of the week, Americans are not convinced officials have the virus under control. More than half say the government is doing a poor job preventing the spread, according to a new CNN poll. While 52 percent believe the worst is still to come.", "I think we're only literally in that very, very early inning of this. And what's really concerning to me is we're not planning for what could be a large wave of cases.", "There is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control.", "The union representing many workers at the nation's meat processing plants says 10,000 members have been infected or exposed to the virus. At least 30 have died. Outbreaks and deaths at nursing homes and long-term care facilities also a major source of concern. Dr. Anthony Fauci noting Tuesday the number of U.S. deaths may be far higher than the 80,000 plus reported. And while September may feel like a lifetime away, there is pressure for answers about school this fall. Dr. Fauci warning there is not a single solution and there also won't be a vaccine in time.", "The idea of having treatments available, or a vaccine, to facilitate the reentry of students into the fall term, would be something that would be a bit of a bridge too far.", "Meantime, Disney now accepting July reservations for its theme parks, as baseball prepares for a shortened season with fans cheering from home.", "There was some pressure on officials at the hearing, Wolf, for direction from the CDC. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut actually pressing CDC Director Robert Redfield saying are we going to get this guidance or not, my state is getting ready to reopen, I'd like to have the information. And Dr. Redfield basically making it clear, it will likely not be there in time for Connecticut at least, which is one of the last states until to set to reopen.", "We'll speak to the governor of Connecticut shortly. All right, Erica Hill, thank you so much. Let's go to the White House right now, our chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta is on the scene, as he always is. Jim, some really stark testimony today by Dr. Fauci and other top health officials.", "That's right, Wolf, president trump's rosy assessments about the pandemic were put under the microscope during that Senate hearing top administration health expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned senators not to reopen schools in the U.S. too quickly. And even one of the president's fellow Republicans, Mitt Romney, tore into Mr. Trump's misleading statement that the U.S. is leading the world in testing.", "Thank you very much Mr. Chairman.", "Testifying remotely at a rare Senate hearing on the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned the health crisis in the U.S. could be worse than what's already known. Telling senators the actual number of deaths may be higher than current estimates.", "I think you are correct that the number is likely higher. I don't know exactly what percent higher. But almost certainly it's higher.", "Fauci and other health officials were grilled about some of President Trump's questionable comments about the virus. Ahead of the hearing the president twitted, our testing is the best in the word by far. But that's not true. Some of the latest data show the U.S. still lags behind other countries in testing. The administration has frequently compared the U.S. to South Korea, even though the two countries are far apart in deaths. A glaring contrast noted by GOP Senator Mitt Romney.", "I find our testing record nothing to celebrate whatsoever. The fact is, their test numbers are going down, down, down, now, because they don't have the kind of outbreak we have, ours are going up, up, up.", "A clash over reopening schools, Republican Senator Rand Paul echoed complaints from Trump supporters that Fauci has been too cautious. Fauci fired right back.", "I don't think you're the end-all, i don't think you're the one person that gets to make the decision.", "I have never made myself out to be the end-all and only voice in this. I'm a scientist, a physician, and a public health official. I think we better be careful if we are not cavalier in thinking that children are completely immune to the deleterious effects.", "As the White House and some Republicans are clamoring for states to reopen, Vice President Mike Pence was spotted outside the West Wing, wearing a mask. Unlike last week, White House staffers could be seen in masks too. Pence is keeping his distance from Mr. Trump, officials say, as a precaution after the vice president's press secretary tested positive for the virus.", "The vice president has made the choice to keep his distance for a few days, and I would just note that that's his personal decision to do that, as to how many days he does it.", "A new CNN poll shows a sizable majority of Americans don't approve of the president's handling of the virus, a measurable spike over the last two months. So the president is trying to distract the public from his record, taking credit for the positive poll numbers from many governors tweeting, Remember this, every governor who has sky high approval on their handling of the coronavirus, and I am happy for them all, could in no way I have gotten those numbers or had that success without me and the federal government's help. The president is tossing out new bright shiny objects, coining the term \"Obama-gate,\" to suggest former President Barack Obama somehow committed a crime even as Mr. Trump won't say what it is or produce any evidence.", "What is the crime exactly you're accusing him of?", "You know what the crime is. The crime is obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers, except yours.", "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell complained about Obama's criticism of the president.", "I think President Obama should have kept his mouth shut.", "Now, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was not wearing a mask during her briefing with reporters earlier in the day. She said she took off her mask as she felt she was a safe distance away from reporters in the room. We should note nearly all of the journalists were wearing a mask during that briefing. And as for Senator Paul telling Fauci he is not the end-all, be-all on the pandemic, it should be noted the press secretary frequently cited the doctor and his expertise during his briefing. Wolf.", "As she should, indeed, because he is Dr. Fauci, a national treasure, we've said it many times and we continue to say that. All right, thanks very much for that, Jim Acosta at the White House. Joining us now, the Governor of Connecticut, Ned Lamont. Governor, thank you so much for joining us. The headline we're having this hour some residents in Los Angeles will probably remain under at least some form of stay-at-home order for the next three months. Your stay-at-home order in Connecticut expires, I understand, next week on May 20th. Are you considering, governor, a partially extension of two or three months like they seem to be doing in Los Angeles, at least now?", "No, we followed Dr. Fauci's guidelines very closely in terms the downward trend in hospitalizations, upward trend in our testing, making sure we're doing track and tracing in a very serious way. We're going to have a very limited open on May 20. And I think we can handle it and handle it responsibly.", "The Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, a man you know well, had some rather tough questions for the CDC director about the lack of specific guidance on reopening from the CDC. In fact Senator Murphy called the guidance given out so far in his words, criminally vague. From your perspective as governor, does Connecticut have all the support and information you need from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?", "Well, Wolf, as soon as I heard there was some CDC guidance that the White House yanked back, I really scoured to see how we could get ahold of that guidance so he could see what they had to say. So we did get ahold of that guidance. But more importantly, I've got a business and scientific team that's put together guidance, store by store, business by business, so they know how to open safely.", "The administration hasn't released that guidance publicly yet although it's available, it's been leaked, obviously. Do you have any reason to believe that the White House is deliberately suppressing that guidance as Senator Murphy suggested?", "I have no idea why they suppressed it. You know, it was tripped. It really took the seriousness of covid to heart and made sure we open in a serious way. And I don't know why the White House would wanted to discourage us getting that information.", "All right. So just bottom line on this point that you're satisfied what you're hearing from the CDC, the guidance you're getting?", "Look, it was limited, it was not specific at all when it became to businesses. We did that ourselves. It was quite specific when it came to religious services, worship services, that was sort of interesting, discouraging singing because that spreads germs. So, it was specific where they wanted to be specific.", "Dr. Fauci reiterated his warning that reopening too soon will risk triggering an outbreak that states won't be able to control. What metrics will you monitor to make sure that doesn't happen in Connecticut?", "We're going to have extensive testing, number one. And number two, hospital utilization. Right now we have about 40 percent of our beds empty. So we have capacity to take a hit. But we're going to do that in a very careful way to make sure we always have the hospital capacity we need to keep everybody safe.", "Admiral Giroir from the Department of Health and Human Services says, he said that he believes the United States will have 40 to 50 million tests per month by the fall. Are you confident that you'll have enough testing and contact tracing in place by the fall to reopen schools in Connecticut?", "I am, Wolf. We're going to test everybody going back to college, especially those people in residence hall. We're thinking about selective testing how you do a K-12 as well. We're testing everybody going into the factory floor at electric boat on a regular basis. We're doing everything we can to keep people safe and see if we can cautiously get our economy moving again.", "Thank you so much, governor, for joining us. I know these are really difficult life and death decisions you have to make. We're grateful to you for joining us. We appreciate it very much.", "Thanks, Wolf.", "Up next, more on Dr. Fauci's blunt warning in sharp contrast to claims by President Trump. Plus we'll have more on the breaking news, Los Angeles County now expected to extend its stay-at-home order through July."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "ERICA HILL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HILL (voice-over)", "DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NIAID", "HILL", "RANDY BENEDICT, GENERAL MANAGER, SECOND SOLE", "HILL", "JOHN HORN, OWNER, ANNA MARIE OYSTER BAR", "HILL", "MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO (D), NEW YORK CITY", "HILL", "MICHAEL OSTERHOLM, DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH AND POLICY", "FAUCI", "HILL", "FAUCI", "HILL", "HILL", "BLITZER", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "FAUCI", "ACOSTA (voice-over)", "FAUCI", "ACOSTA", "SEN. MITT ROMNEY (R-UT)", "ACOSTA", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-413724", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-10-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/19/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Whitmer Kidnap Suspects Video Evidence; French Educators' March In Grief And Support", "utt": ["It's just over 2 weeks to go until election day in the U.S. and the president, Donald Trump, is on a campaign blitz. He spent the weekend crisscrossing the country and he'll begin this week with two rallies in Arizona. Now the president was in Nevada on Sunday evening and, yet again, despite COVID cases surging throughout the country there was clearly no social distancing and very few masks. Well, President Trump seems to be going back to his playbook from 2016 holding several rallies a day and making baseless accusations against his democratic rival, Joe Biden. But it was a very, very different scene in North Carolina as you can see here where Mr. Biden was holding a rally. He wore a mask until he started speaking and his supporters were socially distant as they cheered from their cars. Meanwhile, across the U.S., early voting turnout is continuing to smash records. More than 27 million general election ballots have been cast as of Sunday evening. That's according to a survey. Well, Ryan Nobles is on the campaign trail with the president and has the details. Ryan.", "President Trump is in the middle of a very busy campaign schedule, a campaign schedule that's actually picked up since he was diagnosed with the coronavirus pandemic. The president just in the past few days traveling to key states including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and he ended the weekend with a trip here to Carson City, Nevada. It was at that event in Nevada that he talked about his response to the coronavirus pandemic and actually ridiculed some of the scientists who've been giving him advice when it relates to the virus. Take a listen.", "If I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now have a country that would be in a massive depression instead of we're like a rocket ship. Take a look at the numbers. And that's despite the fact that we have like five or six of these Democrats keeping their states closed because they're trying to hurt us on November 3rd. But the numbers are so good anyway. They'd be even better.", "And this torrid campaign pace is expected to continue. The president expected to make stops next week in Pennsylvania and in North Carolina. And, of course, he'll travel to Nashville on Thursday for the final debate of the 2020 campaign. Ryan Nobles, CNN. Carson City, Nevada.", "And Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, as I said, is running a very different style of campaign than President Trump. Arlette Saenz tells us what Biden has been saying and where he's going next.", "Joe Biden traveled here to Durham, North Carolina as in-person early voting is underway in the state. The former vice holding a socially distanced drive-in style rally as he encouraged his supporters to make a plan to vote in the final weeks of this election. Now Joe Biden once again hammered away at the president for his response to the coronavirus pandemic as he believes this is a central issue in these final weeks before the election. And Joe Biden also talked about how the country needs to overcome division and how he is a president who will look out for all Americans. Take a listen.", "Folks, as my coach used to say in college, \"It's go time.\" I'm running as a proud Democrat but I will govern as a American president.", "No red states, no blue states, just the United States. I promise you I'll work as hard for those who don't support me as those who did.", "Now North Carolina is one of those states President Trump won back in 2016 that Joe Biden is trying to flip in these final two weeks before the election. And on Monday, his running mate, Kamala Harris, is returning to the campaign trail. She will campaign in the state of Florida. This comes after the campaign had suspended her travel for a few days after two members of her traveling team tested positive for coronavirus. Kamala Harris tested negative for coronavirus on Sunday and will resume campaigning on Monday. And later in the week on Wednesday, perhaps the biggest Democratic surrogate out there is hitting the campaign trail for Joe Biden. President Obama will campaign in Philadelphia, his first in-person campaign appearance as he's making that pitch for his former V.P. Arlette Saenz, CNN. Durham, North Carolina.", "Well, chilling videos of the suspects accused in a plot to kidnap the Michigan governor have been released. And in at least one of them are seen carrying out what appear to be training exercises. The video is now part of the evidence being used against the suspects. As Sara Sidner now reports.", "You are looking at evidence that was played in federal court of the field training exercises federal prosecutors say were carried out in a plot to storm Michigan's capital and kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. CNN affiliate, WXMI, obtained the video from the U.S. Attorney's office after the preliminary hearings for six men federally charged with conspiracy to kidnap a sitting governor. Several pieces of federal evidence were played in court. Including this video of suspect, Brandon Caserta, ranting about the government.", "I'm sick of being robbed and enslaved by the state. Period. I'm sick of it. And these are the guys who are actually doing it. So if we're doing a recon or something and we come up on some of them, dude, you better not give them a chance. You either tell them to go right now or else they're going to die. Period. That's what it's going to be, dude. Because they are the (bleep) enemy.", "The suspect's alleged deeds and words were shown to the federal judge so she could decide if there was enough evidence to go to a grand jury. In this video, the lead FBI agent acknowledged in testimony the defendant, Adam Fox, is inside a basement appearing to be speed reloading his weapon to quote, \"minimize the time that your weapon is inoperable in case of a gunfight.\" Prosecutors say the video was taken inside this vacuum shop in Grand Rapids. The owner of this vacuum shop says Adam Fox lived here for the last couple of weeks. He says he lived behind this door and down into the basement.", "(...), basement. Where he stayed.", "OK.", "And he was only going to stay here till 1 November.", "Why did you decide it was time for him to go?", "He was buying more like attachments for like an AR-15 and he was buying like food. And I'm not stupid, I was in the Marine Corps. So that -- I told him he had to go.", "Briant Titus said he had no idea what was going on in his business's basement after hours.", "Thanks, Sara. Brilliant piece there. Appreciate it. So CNN has actually heard back from one of the defendant's attorneys. That attorney for Ty Garbin told us that as soon as his client learned of the alleged plot, he disavowed it and withdrew from it and is innocent of all of his charges. Of course, all of the defendants, as Sara was saying, they are presumed innocent unless they are proven guilty. So across France, thousands of people have now been rallying in support of free speech and educators after the beheading of a French teacher. Jim Bittermann has the details.", "In a country that puts a high value on education, Friday's attack and beheading of a middle school teacher has provoked a huge outpouring of grief. In Paris and dozens of other cities, thousands gathered in tribute to Samuel Paty, the 47-year-old teacher who had conducted a class discussion on freedom of expression centered around caricatures of the prophet Mohammed from the controversial satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo. A discussion that became the focus of social media anger from Islamic fundamentalists. France takes pride in laicite, the secular nature of its institutions. The brutal killing of Paty stirred memories of the other acts of Islamic terrorism that have occurred here. But it raised questions too about whether Paty should have been better protected especially given the Internet -- teacher space.", "It's a reality and nobody seems to take it seriously and our bosses do not protect us at all.", "Attend (French)", "Still, police were not faulted in their response after the attack.", "(French language)", "As seen in this video, within minutes they had chased down the 18-year old perpetrator and officers can clearly be heard in French ordering him to lay down his arms. And when he didn't police brought him down with a volley of bullets.", "More tributes including a national one on Wednesday are scheduled later this week with thousands of teachers expected to take part as they did Sunday.", "(Singing French National Anthem)", "More than a million French are involved in the national education system here. It's viewed as a cornerstone to the country's principles of liberty, equality and fraternity. Perhaps the reason the minister of education and others here have said that Friday's brutal murder was not just an attack on a single teacher but on the French Republic itself. Jim Bittermann. CNN, Paris.", "Thank you, Jim, for that. So a convicted murderer who helped stop a terror attack on London Bridge last year will likely have his sentence reduced thanks to a pardon of sorts from Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Steven Gallant famously used a narwhal tusk to confront the Islamist attacker who fatally stabbed two people. A viral video of the incident shows Gallant jabbing him with a tusk before police shot him dead. Well, Gallant was actually on leave from prison to attend an event on prisoner's education when the attack took place. Queen Elizabeth granted him a rarely used prerogative of mercy to get him considered for this early parole. And Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is calling on President Trump to condemn the alleged chemical attack against him. Navalny became gravely ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow back in August. The global chemical weapons watchdog confirmed the presence of the nerve agent novichok in Navalny's body. In an interview on \"60 Minutes\" Navalny said all leaders should speak out against the use of chemical weapons. Moscow denies Navalny's accusation that President Vladimir Putin was behind the poisoning.", "I think for Putin, why he's using this chemical weapon -- to do both; kill me and terrify others. It's something really scary. That people just drop dead without -- there are no gun, there are no shots and in a couple of hours you will be dead without any traces on your body. It's something terrifying. And Putin is enjoying it.", "So coming up on CNN. Months ago, the Czech Republic was the first to beat the wave of coronavirus. But it celebrated too soon. Now it's in the grips of a brutal second wave."], "speaker": ["CURNOW", "RYAN NOBLES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "NOBLES", "CURNOW", "ARLETTE SAENZ, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "JOE BIDEN, FMR. VICE PRESIDENT AND DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "BIDEN", "SAENZ", "CURNOW", "SARA SIDNER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BRANDON CASERTA, SUSPECT", "SIDNER", "BRIANT TITUS, STORE OWNER, GRAND RAPIDS", "SIDNER", "TITUS", "SIDNER", "TITUS", "SIDER", "CURNOW", "JIM BITTERMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ALBERTINE, SPECIAL NEEDS TEACHER", "UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER", "BITTERMANN", "UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKERS", "BITTERMANN", "BITTERMANN", "CROWD", "BITTERMANN", "CURNOW", "ALEXEY NAVALNY, RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER", "CURNOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-8160", "program": "", "date": "2000-5-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/15/aotc.05.html", "summary": "'Fortune': Germany's Preussag Pays $2.9B for Thomson Travel of Britain", "utt": ["Well, Britain's biggest travel company has been taken over by a German rival.", "It's an almost $3 billion deal and highlights the transformation that Germany's Preussag has undertaken in recent years. Janet Guyon of \"Fortune\" magazine joins us now from London. Good morning, Janet, what is the scoop on this deal?", "Good morning, how are you? Well, the scoop on this deal is that Preussag has outbid C&N;, which was another German-backed travel company was also interested in Thomson Travel, but over the weekend Preussag got the agreement of the Thomson family to buy this company and the Thomson family has agreed to sell them 22.7 percent of the company and combined with what Preussag had acquired on the market, that gives them over 30 percent of the company, plus the recommendation of management to go ahead with this transaction. And shareholders of Thomson obviously like this deal, the stock is up about 6.1 percent to 172 1/4 pence, which is very close to the offer price of 180 pence. Preussag shares are down slightly to 42.9 euro, but still, it is a pretty big deal for the travel industry here in Europe.", "I don't think most Americans have heard of Preussag, but they may have heard of one of its subsidiaries, specifically Thomas Cook. Will it be able to go on owning Thomas Cook?", "Well, no, it won't because of competition issues in the U.K., there are really four big travel companies here in the U.K., and they'll have to dispose of their 50 percent stake in Thomas Cook. Now there's speculation that C&N; might, which lost the bid for Thomson Travel to Preussag, may actually be interested in buying that -- that -- that stake, but we'll have to see what happens. Now, at its press conference this morning, Preussag also said that it would have to sell 49.5 percent of Hapug Lloyd (ph), which is a shipping and cruise ship operation that's run out of Hamburg. So all in all, this continues the transformation of Preussag from what was a steel industrial company, pretty boring stuff, into a travel company. They're trying to latch on to what is one of the faster- growing industries here in Europe.", "Janet, a lot of talk this morning about the food stocks, it looks like they're definitely going to be getting a lot more play in today's session, at least here in the U.S., any updates on Nabisco being floated around over there?", "Not on the Nabisco deal, but there is a little bit, we might get a little bit of news today on that Unilever-Bestfoods deal. You know, as you recall, Unilever has an $18.4 billion bid on the table for Bestfoods. Now there is a Goldman Sachs food conference going on today in New York, at which the chairman of Bestfoods and the chairman of Unilever will be speaking. They don't have a formal meeting arranged, but there's speculation out of London that there may be some talk.", "All right, terrific. We want to thank you for joining us. Janet Guyon, of \"Fortune\" magazine, live from London."], "speaker": ["DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "JANET GUYON, LONDON BUREAU CHIEF, \"FORTUNE\"", "MARCHINI", "GUYON", "HAFFENREFFER", "GUYON", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "CNN-121800", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2007-12-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/01/smn.01.html", "summary": "Arrests Made in Sean Taylor Shooting", "utt": ["Good morning, everybody. From the CNN center in Atlanta on this Saturday, hope you're having a great one. I'm Betty Nguyen.", "And I'm T.J. Holmes. So glad you could be here. We are jam-packed with a bunch of major developing stories this morning. Up first here, the hostage crisis at Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire campaign office. You may have missed this one overnight. This was a developing story. Senator Clinton did talk about it late last night. We'll have the developments.", "Yeah, that drama is putting a spotlight on a major problem in this country and that is mental illness and the lack of affordable treatment options. We've got a reality check for you this hour.", "Also our other major story this morning, four arrests in the killing of NFL superstar Sean Taylor. The suspects are in jail and have a video court appearance coming up in about an hour. We will take you there live on this", "But first up, Senator Hillary Clinton says she is relieved and grateful, this after a hostage drama at her presidential campaign office in New Hampshire ends peacefully.", "And she spoke late last night after this thing ended. This morning the suspect behind bars. We want to go to Rochester now live to CNN's Jim Acosta who's on the story for us. Hello again to you, Jim.", "Good morning, T.J. You know, the Clinton campaign says it is doubtful that the candidate will be making an appearance at this office here in Rochester today, because they say they don't want to appear that they are politicizing what happened here yesterday. So, in the meantime, for these campaign staffers who went through this terrible ordeal yesterday, they will be getting back to what they should be doing. That is politics.", "Wearing a fake bomb that was nothing more than road flares duct taped to his chest, Leeland Eisenberg surrendered to police, ending a tense hostage crisis that brought the race for the White House to a standstill. For more than five hours, Eisenberg, a 46-year-old with a history of mental illness, was holed up inside this Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire, threatening to blow up a handful of staffers, a child and himself. At one point during the crisis, Eisenberg called CNN, complaining that he had been unable to seek treatment for his mental illness and added that he had gone to that campaign office to speak with the candidate directly. But police say involving the presidential hopeful was not an option.", "We decided not to introduce anyone from the campaign or the senator's office into the negotiation process.", "Eventually the hostages were released. The fake bomb was destroyed by police. And late in the evening, Senator Clinton flew to New Hampshire for a brief visit with the then released hostages and their families.", "We're immensely relieved that this has ended peacefully. To see the people who were directly held hostage and their families and to thank the New Hampshire professionals who made this day turn out as well as it did.", "Over at Eisenberg's mobile home community a few miles away, neighbors say they saw early warning signs of trouble ranging from alcohol abuse to loud arguments at the suspect's home.", "He would walk over to the filling station right up the street every day and always get either a 12-pack or something like that. This is every day.", "They hauled him away for domestic violence, yes. I don't know what happened. I was coming in from work and they were hauling him in the cruiser.", "On Eisenberg's front door, a note from his family saying they have no comment for now.", "And as for Leeland Eisenberg, he is in jail this morning. And as for this Clinton campaign office behind me, after everything that they went through yesterday, the doors are locked, the lights are off. It is very likely that much of this campaign staff today will be taking a much-needed breather. T.J.?", "We know politics is hot and heavy right now. But, yeah, this is one reason, one day they can probably all use a break and deserve one. Jim Acosta for us there in Rochester, New Hampshire, we appreciate you. And of course, this hostage crisis highlighting the issue of mental health. How common are mental disorders and where can you find help? Our Josh Levs has some answers for us in the dot com desk coming your way in about 10 minutes.", "Four men are due in court in Lee County, Florida, in about an hour. They're facing murder charges in the death of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor. Twenty-year-old Venjahk Hunte, 17-year-old Eric Rivera Jr., 17-year-old Jason Scott Mitchell, and 18- year-old Charles Wardlow were arrested in connection with the killing in Miami. Our John Zarrella is in Ft. Myers covering this morning's proceedings and he joins us live. What are we expecting to see in court today, John?", "Well, Betty, probably not a whole heck of a lot. The four young men spent the night in the Lee County jail and they will make their first appearance in about an hour from a video hook-up between the jail and the justice center here, the Lee County justice center, with a judge in the justice center, all four of them making that first appearance. Then we expect at some point they will be transferred to Miami to face the likely murder charges, all four of them. They were picked up yesterday in the Ft. Myers area. They spent much of the day being questioned at the Florida department of law enforcement offices and ultimately one, perhaps more of them, confessed to the murder of Sean Taylor.", "Totally distraught, shocked, the mother of Jason Mitchell arrived to face the unthinkable -- her son is being charged along with three others in the murder of Washington Redskins football star Sean Taylor. Miami-Dade police say the four young men ranging in age from 17 to 20 came from Ft. Myers, Florida, across to Miami to burglarize the player's home.", "They were certainly not looking to go there and kill anyone. They were expecting a residence that was not occupied. So, murder or shooting someone was not their initial motive.", "During a Friday night news conference, police said the suspects had previously visited the house but would not elaborate on the connection. Outside the headquarters of the Florida department of law enforcement in Ft. Myers, where the four had been questioned all day, reporters got glimpses of them in handcuffs and even watched as a court stenographer followed one of the suspects into the interview room.", "I'm just going to tell you that we have confessions within this investigation. I'm not going to tell you which ones confessed and which ones did not. We have more than one confession. I'll put it at that.", "Police say they are looking into the possibility that at least one of them knew someone in Taylor's family. All four of the suspects are no strangers to the law with charges ranging from drug possession and sales to grand theft auto. Taylor was murdered in the early morning hours last Monday when he reportedly confronted his assailants at the door to his bedroom. He was shot once in the leg and died the next day from massive bleeding. The grandmother of suspect Jason Mitchell says she saw him the day of the shooting. You saw him Monday here, though, right?", "I saw him home Monday.", "But you don't know about Sunday.", "No, I do not. I don't know nothing about no Sunday. I saw him Monday.", "Taylor's memorial service will be held on Monday in Miami, Taylor's hometown. The entire Washington Redskins football team, along with several thousand mourners, are expected to attend.", "Now, these first appearances are generally very brief with the judge letting the defendants know what they face. Now, police would not say exactly what led them to the four individuals, tips they said, but would not elaborate on how the arrests went down. Betty?", "And as we get into this case, John, we learned a little bit earlier from one of the defendants' attorneys who said essentially, yeah, they went to the house but they weren't intent on killing anybody. Is that what you're hearing on your end?", "That's exactly right. That's what police believe, that they went there to burglarize the house. They did not know that Sean Taylor was going to be there. Remember that Taylor -- the Redskins didn't even know he was going to be there. He had come to Miami to seek a second opinion on his injured knee. He hadn't even played in Redskins games for a couple of weeks, so that's why he was down in Miami. He apparently went there within a couple of days before he was shot and killed. Betty?", "He may have just surprised them as they were burglarizing the home.", "Yes.", "You're going to be in the courtroom at 9:00 a.m. sharp when that hearing gets under way. I know we'll be talking with you shortly after that. Thanks, John. Talk to you soon.", "Of course an important day today, world AIDS day 2007 and a huge concert just getting under way in Johannesburg, South Africa. This hour, it's the fifth year for this annual concert.", "It is huge, as you said, T.J.. Let me just give you a lineup here, Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, the GooGoo Dolls, Ludacris. Those are just some of the artists expected to perform today. You want to keep it right here because we will be talking with some of those performers throughout the morning.", "The face of AIDS has changed dramatically from the image most people had just a few years ago. We asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the leading U.S. experts on AIDS for his opinion on this. Take a listen.", "The face of AIDS in the U.S. today is the young African-American woman who was infected by a partner who she did not know that that partner was infected and had no reason to believe or even means to protect herself. The face of AIDS is the young African-American man who's bisexual and because of the stigma associated with being gay superimposed upon the stigma associated with being infected, the person does not counsel nor appreciate what one needs to do to decrease or eliminate the risk of HIV. So, it really has been transformed over the years to a situation where you have 12 percent of the population in the United States is African-American and among new infections, among men close to 50 percent of the infections are in African-American men and among women, over 60 percent of the new infections are among African-American women.", "That is staggering, over 60 percent of the new infections.", "Scary, scary words there. That's the reality from Dr. Fauci. And that entire interview you can find at cnn.com, but the numbers are staggering. They are disturbing and certainly for the African-American community, there's been some scary stuff. We talk about this AIDS quilt. I'm going to be going out. 10:00 we'll be live at the location where they actually keep it here in Atlanta, Georgia. But 47,000 of those panels as you see there, they represent some 91,000 names, people who are memorialized by this quilt. Would you believe 91,000 people that have died of AIDS here memorialized in this quilt, only a few hundred are black on this quilt, so memorialized on this quilt.", "Really and when you look at the numbers, I mean it just doesn't add up.", "It doesn't add up. But we are going to get in that too with the executive director, the person who manages the quilt project, the names project, as it's called, the AIDS memorial quilt, more commonly known as but the quilt itself is fascinating, an amazing thing. We were talking about it earlier, we can't believe how huge it is, that you can't get it together in one place anymore.", "When you hear numbers about AIDS and how it's spread worldwide and how many millions are affected and you see 47,000, it doesn't really register until you actually physically see this quilt. It is so big that they can't put it in one place.", "May not be able to do it ever again. It was done in 1996 the last time at the national mall in DC, but it may never happen again.", "You'll be there at 10:00 a.m.", "We'll be there starting at 10:00, yes.", "We'll be looking forward to that. In the meantime, let's get a check of the weather for you with Reynolds Wolf. He's in the severe weather center. What are you watching today?", "What a day in store for us. Thank you, Reynolds. Listen to this, folks. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has more harsh words for the United States.", "He's also got some more harsh words for President Bush. He's even got some harsh words for Betty.", "Well, not me in particular.", "For CNN, all of us really here at CNN. We'll tell you what he's saying this time around. What is Josh Levs saying this time around? Good morning, Josh.", "Looking forward to that. After the events yesterday at Clinton campaign offices in New Hampshire, we today are taking a look at how common mental disorders are in America. 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{"id": "CNN-306887", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2017-03-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/05/ip.01.html", "summary": "Trump Claims Obama Wiretapped Him, Offers No Proof; Russia Questions Shadow Trump White House; From Trump's Big Speech to Twitter Attacks.", "utt": ["The president of the United States!", "A big night.", "Everything that is broken in our country can be fixed. Every problem can be solved.", "But a celebration cut short.", "I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the Trump campaign.", "Democrats are feisty.", "What are the Republicans afraid of? This goes right to the Republicans in Congress to their doorstep.", "And it's crunch time for big policy fights.", "Let me make you a promise. The Obamacare nightmare is about to end.", "INSIDE POLITICS, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, now.", "Welcome to INSIDE POLITICS. I'm John King. Thanks for sharing your Sunday morning. President Trump is mad, and he is lashing out. In a stunning series of tweets Saturday morning, Mr. Trump accused his predecessor, President Obama, of wire tapping the phones at Trump Tower during last year's campaign. The president offered no evidence nor have his aides in the 24 hours since the remarkable tweet storm. The outburst is from a president described by a mix of aides, advisers and friends as angry and very frustrated after a week that started well. Remember his big speech to Congress Tuesday, but then spiraled out of control. Several aides and advisers acknowledged meetings with Russian ambassadors after months of Trump and his team denying any such contacts and, of course, there was this.", "I have now decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaigns for president of the United States. I feel like that I am -- I should not be involved in investigating a campaign I had a role in.", "That recusal happened just not long after the president said he didn't think it was necessary. With us to share their the reporting and their insights this Sunday, Julie Pace of \"The Associated Press\", \"New York Times\" reporter Jonathan Martin, Perry Bacon of FiveThirtyEight.com, and Mary Katharine Ham of \"The Federalist.\" Let's go through the tweets from yesterday morning before the sun rose in Florida. The president was up. He started with this one, of 6:35 a.m., \"Terrible. Just found out that Obama had my wires tapped in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism.\" Then, 19 minutes later, 15 minutes later, 14 minutes later, sorry, new math there, \"Is it legal for a sitting president to be wiretapping a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A new low.\" Remember the \"turned down by court earlier\". We'll come back to this. Then, a little bit later than that, \"How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process? This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad or sick guy.\" Now, we have been asking his aides in the 24 hours since to explain this to us. Is the president getting this at some aides suggests, from a story on Breitbart News about a talk radio program by Mark Levin, is that where the president is getting the information? Or does the president who has access to the most sensitive intelligence than all of us, does he know about a legal wiretap during the campaign? Well, we do know the FBI is looking into alleged contacts between some Trump associates and the Russians, and it is possible -- these are not public documents -- it is possible there was an intelligence finding and they went to the court and got it. Which is it?", "That is a great question and if someone from the White House could give us a call right now and answer that question, we would appreciate it. I mean, I'm not sure the president fully understood the door he was opening in doing this if he was just getting the information from Breitbart or other conservative media, because this has been one of the major questions surrounding this FBI investigation is, was the FBI, were intelligence agencies actually accessing communication that the Trump's advisers had during the campaign with Russians? If the president is the aware that happened, whether it was ordered by Obama or happened during the Obama administration, he's now essentially given the Hill, the investigative committees there and the intelligence agency I think an opening to share some of that information publicly which they have been reluctant to do so far.", "They have been reluctant so far. So, I mean, it's one of two things. Either he has access to some information that there is such a wiretap, but, again, a president cannot order that. A president cannot personally wake up in the morning and say, \"I'm mad hat Jonathan. Tap his phones.\" It doesn't work that way. That would be illegal. He would have to have the FBI director, the attorney general and a whole lot of technical people involved in that who somehow decided not to share that information -- unlikely. But there could be a legal one. But you asked the White House and now they say, Sean Spicer says the White House counsel is \"reviewing what options are available to us.\" Is that just spin so that they don't say the president was just winging it because they were all surprised by this? They say they found out about this from reading it on Twitter. This was not part of a plan. Is that spin, or can they actually -- can the White House counsel now go and find some documentation and then essentially -- if there is documentation, that would be a confirmation by the White House that the Obama administration Justice Department went to court and made the case that there was enough probable cause to have a wiretap?", "Well, it's funny you ask that question because we actually reported yesterday that a senior White House official said that Don McGahn, who is White House counsel, was going to try and find the FISA order. Well, there was enormous blowback to that and then hours later, a second White House official said, well, no, we're going to try to figure out what is going on here, but we're not going to have McGahn go and search for some FISA warrant. Now, why is that? Because the White House counsel can't go to DOJ and demand a FISA order. That's not how it works. That would be breaking enormous precedent in terms of, you know, separation of powers. So, that is the ongoing question is, are the White House aides basically trying to clean up/make Trump feel good, by pretending that they will get to the bottom of this when actually they are just trying to figure out how to pretend like they are for his sake, or are they actually doing some kind of an internal investigation to actually figure out what happened last year in this investigation?", "A lot of conflicting information on certain information, because, again, the president went to Florida. Most of his senior staff stayed behind. We know that on Friday before he left, there were a number of very tense conversations, including I'm told the president of the United States himself venting, where are all the leaks coming from and why do we keep getting in our own way and we had a great speech to Congress and now, we have Jeff Sessions? And he said, the president said when he was on the aircraft carrier, what was supposed to be his big event on Thursday, he said he didn't think Jeff Sessions needed to recuse himself and then Jeff Sessions recused himself --", "He was very angry about that.", "Yes, angry about that. And so, the question is, where is this coming from? I just want to show you a screen grab of the story that was on Breitbart, the conservative radio host Mark Levin had a program the other day where he, Levin, makes the case that there's a deep state, if you watch the show \"Scandal,\" you'll follow along here, that there's a deep state that is obstructing Trump and Obama is in cahoots with them. I find that part interesting because this is the same crowd that spent most of eight years saying he was an illegitimate, Kenyan Muslim sleeper cell, and now apparently, he's in cahoots with a deep state to undermine Trump. Is this where the president making policy decisions from or at least tweet decisions from?", "Yes, I mean, Occam's razor says that he probably saw this story somewhere and did not have inside information that we have seen.", "That's my sense, too, yeah.", "There is sort of sketchy reporting are on the idea of some sort of FISA warrant, two different versions, one that maybe named some Trump associates and then a broader that was approved later because the first one was rejected. So, there's some -- there may be some there there, but it does not equal Obama wiretapping Trump Tower. It may not even actually be related to physically Trump Tower. But I do think we're going to because of this tweet have to ask some people, what exactly was there?", "I mean, the tweets do seem to have an obvious strategy of this is an issue he can't get past, the Russian connection. So, let me make it a political issue. Let me say it's Obama's fault and sort of blame it on Obama, pin it on him. The danger, of course, is immediately, he made a bunch of substantive claims in those tweets that as far as I can he can't really defend and there's no real -- and it's also a problem when the president of the United States is introducing facts that were not -- he basically all but accused the former president of a crime, like getting involved in DOJ investigations, and we saw the Obama staff say, no, we did not do this. So, Trump has had a claim against a former president who is very popular while Trump is not and right now, Trump has very little evidence of this point.", "It's a key point because some people roll their eyes and say it's Trump being Trump, you know, pointing out these things on Twitter. But Trump is the president of the United States now and he's accusing his predecessor of committing a crime, the way he read, turned down by court earlier, which is gets me back to what he's picking up the Breitbart reporting. But -- so this is why, as Senator Ben Sass, Republican, called this civilization warping crisis of public trust, because you have a president accusing his former president of Nixonian, McCarthyism, et cetera. Listen to Lindsey Graham, who happened to have a town hall yesterday back home in South Carolina, again, a Republican senator, frequently a critic of Trump. But listen here, he chooses his words very carefully but he says now that the current president has put this out there about the former president, raising such serious allegations, Congress better get to work.", "If it is true, illegally, it would be the biggest political scandal since Watergate. If the former president of the United States was able to obtain a warrant lawfully to monitor Trump's campaign for violating law, that would be the biggest scandal since Watergate. I'm very worried that our president is suggesting that the former president has done something illegally.", "Yes, I mean, Trump was trying to sort of muddy waters here on this issue and, you know, divert attention away from Jeff Sessions and Russia and focus more on Obama. But what he's unwittingly done is give more impetus to people like Ben Sass and Lindsey Graham to say nothing of Democrats in Congress to investigate this, because now, they can say -- well, if President Trump was worried about this issue, well, now we're going to get to the bottom of this. So, it just gives them on the Hill cover to push this more aggressively.", "And Trump has benefited so far from the fact that the FBI, James Comey in particular, has been incredibly reluctant to say anything publicly about what's happening behind the scenes with their own investigation. But where he's going to have a problem I think is when this does move to the Hill because you're going to have House and Senate committees investigating this, Democrats on those committees who are going to be far more willing to talk publicly about what comes up and he's not going to be able to control that.", "There's a bit of a precedent for Comey coming out and giving announcement --", "Exactly.", "I want to say, to Sass' point, I think it's larger than the daily politics of this. I do think there is a giant public trust problem here and often in the news cycle, it feels like you're sitting at the mad hatter's table and there's nonsense coming from every single direction and we're all trying to parse it, and that's a really deeper issue than the daily politics and --", "That's absolutely right. Before we take a break, we're going to come back to the details of the Russia stuff and the investigation later on in the program. But this happens at a time when you talk to people in the last 48 hours. They say this president - I've talked to a close friend of his who says he's hot. He's hot. He thinks -- his team keeps getting in their own way and he's also mad about the leaks which he thinks are coming from career people and Obama holdovers. But he is hot, which is one of the reasons why he's lashing out. What's going on inside the White House?", "It's really a tough environment right now. What you've seen happening with the president is every time he sees that a story is getting out of control, he turns to his team and he blames them for lose control. That's his main focus right now. He doesn't understand why they couldn't ahead why they couldn't get ahead of the Mike Flynn story. He doesn't understand why they couldn't control the Jeff Sessions story, why Sessions had to recused himself. And it leaves his team in a really uncertain position. They don't know how he's going to react. They follow directions sometimes only to find out that that's not actually what the president wanted. And in a White House where you're dealing with a lot of incoming but also trying to have a proactive agenda, I think they have basically are at a point where they are just stuck right now.", "Stuck. Sorry, quickly.", "One point. Lindsey Graham, senior senator, used the term Watergate twice in that clip. It's important to note, this scandal -- it looks like we're in a moment where Republicans are very nervous about a burgeoning scandal.", "We'll see how that one plays out, if nothing else, now they think they have an opening from the president to ask more questions. The president put this on the table, we have a right to ask more questions. Now, we'll see. Everybody sit tight. Ahead, when it comes to election year Russia contacts, no means yes. That in a few minutes. Next, though, a Trump agenda progress report as the president nears the 50-day mark. But first, every Sunday, politicians say the darnedest thing. This Sunday was an \"SNL\" shout-out to Jeff Sessions ala Forrest Gump.", "I wish I could go back to the White House and see Mr. Trump. I miss him. And Democrats want me to resign. I've just got to prove to everybody that I don't have any ties to the Russians whatsoever.", "This meeting never happened.", "I wouldn't remember it anyway."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "JOHN KING, CNN HOST (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KING", "JEFF SESSION, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL", "KING", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), HOUSE MINORITY LEADER", "KING", "MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KING", "KING", "SESSIONS", "KING", "JULIE PACE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS", "KING", "JONATHAN MARTIN, THE NEW YORK TIMESD", "KING", "MARTIN", "KING", "MARY KATHARINE HAM, THE FEDERALIST", "MARTIN", "HAM", "PERRY BACON, FIVETHIRTYEIGHT", "KING", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-151544", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-5-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1005/31/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Israeli Navy Storms Gaza Aid Ships; Israel Raids Aid Ships Killing 10; New Effort to Cap Oil Leak", "utt": ["Lionel Richie singing \"America the Beautiful\" at the 21st Annual National Memorial Day concert there in Washington on PBS. It was broadcast just yesterday evening and the show, they say, focused really on three themes. Of course the sacrifices of young military widows, Korean War soldiers -- by the way, it was the 60th anniversary of that conflict -- and the service members who died in both world wars. And America remembers its fallen fighting men and women who paid the ultimate price for freedom on this Memorial Day holiday. And we are bringing you live various observances including Vice President Joe Biden's ceremonial wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns and the nation's hallowed military cemetery there from Arlington, Virginia. We will also be taking you live -- how unique is this -- to Nazaria, Iraq for another Memorial Day observance being held there. We have a whole lot more for you when it comes to, really, just remembering all of our heroes. But first let's get to this developing crisis in the Middle East and this growing diplomatic outrage. We have brand-new overnight video, folks -- this just keeps coming in -- of the commandos in the Israeli military storming these six ships. Almost looks like infrared video here. It's loaded -- the ship, the flotilla, loaded with food, medicine, construction supplies all bound for Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip. And part of the melee -- here's the number we have now. At least nine people left dead, dozens injured. The fiasco happened as the vessels were sailing in international waters off the Mediterranean Coast. But let's take a little bit -- closer look here at some of these video of the attack. And again we're getting video here really literally by the minute here. And clearly pandemonium unfolding as Israeli naval troops drop down from helicopters from above from ropes onto the largest of the ships, that being the one from Turkey. And you can see really just violent clashes back and forth. In some cases you can see guns drawn. I have seen blood. And some of these activists are trying to fend off the commandos with axes, knives. And let's take a step back because the situation in Gaza has been desperate -- you know this. It's been desperate for years. And Israel has maintained this three-year blockade of the strip in an effort to isolate Hamas. They took control of the territory in 2007 and Israel considers Hamas a terror organization. And in terms of really the people on board those six ships we're hearing about 600 passengers were on board carrying over 10,000 tons of aid. But we are getting conflicting reports about what precisely happened, really, from both sides. You have the pro-Palestinian passengers. They say they were just trying to get much help -- much needed help to people in Gaza, but Israel coming out saying the organizers are well known for their ties to global jihad and that the convoy had a much more sinister purpose than simply delivering some medicine. Take a listen.", "I want to report this morning that the armada of hate and violence in support of Hamas terror organization was a premeditated and outrageous provocation. The organizers are well-known for their ties to global jihad, al Qaeda and Hamas. They have a history of arm struggling and deadly terror. On board the ship we found weapons prepared in advance and used against our forces. The organizer's intent was violent. Their method was violent and their results were unfortunately violent. Israel regrets any loss of life and did everything to avoid this outcome.", "Now Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has already declared three days of mourning and one of his aids said, quote, \"We certainly condemn such an attack. This is a clear manifestation of Israel's determination to undermine the will of the Palestinian people to maintain its siege of Gaza, the largest in modern times.\" And already here, of course, backlash really internationally over this raid is erupting. United Nations Secretary-General Bang Ki-moon saying, quote, \"I condemn the violence and Israel must explain.\" Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, as I just said, three days of mourning. And Turkey now stepping forward recalling its ambassador from Israeli as thousands of ralliers take over the streets of Istanbul. And Octavia Nasser, senior editor of Middle East affairs, joining me live. And Octavia, if we can just -- let's walk through some of these pictures because I know -- I was just being told in my ear that we're getting some new pictures. You help me as we look at some of the video that's coming, some of the surveillance video, both that looked like from some of the -- some of the ships, some of it from above. Let's walk through what we're seeing and also explaining, again, what both sides are claiming here.", "Yes. First of all, this video seems to be coming to us from the IDF, the Israel Defense Force. And it shows basically that commandos, as you described it -- you see the helicopters and then some Israeli Navy officers drop down on the ship. What Israel is saying is they were faced with -- what they called lynching, that the people on board were ready to attack them and that they were using paintballs in the beginning, the IDF were, and then they changed -- they switched to live ammunition. And this is where people are not buying into that, even people within Israel. Even Israeli journalists and -- this is getting this reaction really on social media.", "Yes.", "Yes.", "Let's talk about that because, Octavia, this is fascinating. And here in 2010, we are looking at a story halfway across the world yet we're hearing about it up-to-the-minute updates on Twitter.", "That's right. As a matter of fact, those people who organized this flotilla to go to Gaza with the aid on board and 600 people. We're talking about many, many volunteers from many different countries. We're not talking about just Palestinians. Now obviously all those on board are pro-Palestinian in the sense that they are for sending aid to Gaza.", "Freedom for Gaza movement, being one of the big groups.", "The -- yes. These are the organizers. And what they did, they had a camera o board. And they were doing live streaming. As a matter of fact, before the story became a huge story on Twitter and other social media, we were able to see the development -- how these ships are heading to Gaza and so forth. And you saw pictures like these where the IDF soldiers got on the boat and you saw some of the scuffles, as you describe. So having those cameras on board, very interesting because they were able to stream all that live as it was happening. And of course right now we're not hearing anything from that side. But we're getting new pictures from the", "Fascinating. Amazing just looking at some of the pictures and hearing in this day and age with social media. Octavia Nasser, thank you so much. I'm also hearing that we have Dan Lothian with live for us in Illinois. And, Dan, I'm hearing you have some breaking news. Let me just pass it on to you.", "That's right. From Benjamin Netanyahu's office now confirming that he is canceling that trip that was scheduled for tomorrow coming here to meet with President Obama. Of course, this all comes at a very critical time as the administration has been trying to move forward with Mideast peace talks. Also wanted to sit down and talk with Mr. Netanyahu about the situation in Iran as the United States has been pushing for tougher sanctions there. The White House releasing a statement earlier this morning in response to the incident saying, quote, \"The United States deeply regrets the loss of life and injuries sustained and is currently working to understand the circumstances surrounding this tragedy.\" Now I reached out to the White House to get some kind of reaction to whether or not Mr. Netanyahu's trip would be cancelled and what implication that might have. We're still waiting for a response on that -- Brooke.", "So, just to reiterate, you're hearing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelling his trip. He was supposed to be in Washington meeting with the president tomorrow. I know he's in Canada right now.", "That's right.", "Any idea when he's heading home?", "No idea yet on when he's heading home.", "OK.", "But again as we pointed out, he was scheduled to meet with President Obama tomorrow. And in fact, what's interesting is that next week Mahmoud Abbas is expected to meet with President Obama. So again, you know, this is an important time as the administration really try to push this Mideast peace process forward, try to get these two critical leaders to sit down and talk. And now this incident complicating the situation.", "Unbelievable timing of all of this. Whew. Dan Lothian in Illinois traveling with the president. Dan, thank you for that. Also want to remind you we should be getting some more reaction from Israel to this flotilla attack about an hour from now. Of course we'll bring that to you live. Live coverage of that news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Dan was just reporting. He will not, not be going to Washington, D.C. Meantime, turning our attention to the story we've all been watching here, what for 42 days. Folks, this is day 42 of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Still no end in sight to the crisis. So right now work is under way to place this custom-built dome over the ruptured well. We've been seeing all that oil seeping out. Now that effort replaces the top kill effort to plug the leak. And over the weekend, huge news we learned from BP COO Doug Suttles. The maneuver had failed. So it could be several more days before we know -- they said four to seven days before we know if this capping method will work. And even if this new effort to cap the leak does indeed work, it will not fully capture all of the escaping oil. So let's take a look at what is next, right, in this painstakingly slow process, some would say. CNN's Josh Levs is here to walk us through this LMRP, this lower marine riser package cap.", "Yes. It's time for us --", "Did I get that?", "Yes, you've got it. You got the lexicon. You've got the lexicon. Perfect I guess. Time for us to take a look at the next step. In fact what we can do first is just go straight to this video. We have the animation that's showing you what BP is talking about here. And the reason I want to do that is I want to make very clear what it is that's different this time. You know throughout all this, every time you hear a term -- containment dome, top hat -- there's been a lot of similar concepts. Just put a cap on the thing, right? So what you're seeing here is what they're going to be trying to do is the lower marine riser package. And they want to put a cap on it. Hence LMRP, and it looks really pretty in the animation. You have a stub, you have a cap that comes on and seals it off. The problem is that's not how it works. And it's really like performing heart surgery 5,000 feet below the water. It's incredibly hard. Let me show you what has to be done. I have some images here from BP. This is the blowout preventer right here. And this right here used to be poking upwards, right, up toward land basically. What you have here through this explosion is this is now way down here. And they have these little robot things called remote operated vehicles that are at work right now. They need to make a couple of cuts. The first cut they need to do is this hydraulic shears are going to make a cut basically in what seems like that pipe right there. Then come over here. Then they have some even sharper. It's an actual diamond wire cutter. It uses diamond. It's that sharp. And it's going to be making a cut right here. And if those cuts go the way they want them to then what you end up with is -- you know, I'm going to make this big, watch that. I'm going to make this big. And what you end up with is what they're looking for. You end with a stub right here at the lower marine riser and then you end up with a cap that will fit right on top of it. So the idea is you get this cap, you seal it off. Now let's go back to that animation. What you understand now when you see this animation is what happens at the beginning of it. They're showing you the blowout preventer. Then they're showing you those he two pieces just kind of move away and that's where things are so hard -- right there. Because you have to be incredibly precise all the way down in order to remove those pieces and in order to create a cap that will fit perfectly. And in the process, you have to make sure that you're not -- think of it like nicking a vessel. Creating more problems that are ultimately going to cause even more oil to gush out. BP is already saying it could cause 20 percent more in the process as planned. What if it's even more than that? All right. Let me tell you what you're seeing now. I'm hearing in my ear here. These are live pictures of these remote operated vehicles at work under water. They're not actually doing yet what I told you about. What I told you is going to take four to seven days before they can start that LMRP process. What they are doing now, we're told by BP, is some preliminary steps to try to get ready for that. You know if we wait a few seconds you can actually see one of these little remote robots, one of these remote operated vehicles at work underneath kind of sawing away. Before they can even start the process, I was just showing you, they have to get rid of -- just think of it as some extra stuff that comes from the explosion. So we're looking at these pictures now and we're all following this 24/7 as they are going about this process of preparing it for what we're talking about eventually happening, Brooke, which is preparing it for this process to take place all in the hopes that when it does it ultimately creates a seal which, as you said, is not even 100 percent.", "Right. It's not perfect. Looking at my inbox, BP is saying they're on track, four to seven days, continue to work to make adjustments and prep for cutting the riser.", "Prep the cutting riser. Yes. I mean that's the goal. The prep work is going on right now. They're laying the groundwork for what I'm talking to you about that surgery there. And again, so many ifs along the way. There's a lot of conditionals about whether this works or not. But at least it's the next thing that they're trying.", "All right, Josh Levs, thank you.", "You got it.", "Let's also mention -- let's talk about the chemicals here, right? BP using some chemicals. In fact some of the chemicals -- one in particular -- is banned in other countries. So why are the chemicals that are being prohibited in other countries allowed to be used, right, in everyday products in America? Watch \"TOXIC AMERICA,\" this two-night special investigation with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. It is Wednesday and Thursday 8:00 p.m. Eastern here on CNN. So how mad are the people in Grand Isle, Louisiana right now? They are so mad that a priest will not even say -- won't even utter the word \"BP\" in church for fear it will make the flock boil over. But the oil that threatens to destroy their community sustains their economy. This is a complex duo of emotions really for people along the gulf region and Carol Costello will have that story later this hour.", "And I'm Rob Marciano in the CNN Severe Weather Center. It is Memorial Day. That's means picnics, barbecues and Memorial Day services and parades, many of which are outdoors. We're going to run down that forecast for you in just a few minutes. Stay there."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "DANNY AYALON, ISRAELI DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER", "BALDWIN", "OCTAVIA NASSER, CNN SENIOR EDITOR, MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS", "BALDWIN", "NASSER", "BALDWIN", "NASSER", "BALDWIN", "NASSER", "IDF. BALDWIN", "DAN LOTHIAN, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "LOTHIAN", "BALDWIN", "LOTHIAN", "BALDWIN", "LOTHIAN", "BALDWIN", "JOSH LEVS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "LEVS", "BALDWIN", "LEVS", "BALDWIN", "LEVS", "BALDWIN", "ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST"]}
{"id": "CNN-278416", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2016-03-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/07/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Tunisian Forces Respond to Attack Near Border; Sharapova Admits to Failing Drug Test; World's Richest Female Athlete Fails Drug Test; Sharapova: You Must Be a Pro Off the Court; Quest Means Business: A Daily Newsletter", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Richard quest. More QUEST MEANS BUSINESS in just a moment, when we get the World Anti-Doping Agency response to Maria Sharapova's failed drug test. And we look back of the life of a man Ray Tomlinson. Now you may never have heard of Mr. Tomlinson, but he invented e-mail and he decided there was all going to be such and such @, Ray Tomlinson we'll talking about after this. Before any of it, this is CNN, and on this network, the news always comes first.", "The tennis star Maria Sharapova faces a possible suspension after announcing she failed a drug test at the Australian open. Sharapova said she was an unaware that a drug she was taken since 2006 had now been banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency at the beginning of this year. At a press conference she expressed regret and asked for forgiveness.", "I made a huge mistake and I've let my fans down. I've let the sport down that I've been playing since the age of 4 that I've loved so deeply. I know with this I face consequences and I don't want to end my career this way and I really hope that I will be given another chance to play this game.", "E.U and Turkish leaders are meeting at an emergency summit in Brussels. Turkey has asked the E.U. for $3.3 Billion and in exchange the country said it will stem the flow of migrants to Europe. Turkey has also promised to take back some migrants from Greece. Europe would take in some Syrian refugees in return.", "With this new proposal, our objective is to rescue the lives of the refugees. To discourage those who want to misuse and exploit the desperate situation of the refugees, meaning human smugglers. To fight against human smugglers. And to have a new arena, Turkish new relations.", "Tunisian authorities said at least 35 militants have been killed in clashes after a deadly assault on police in the army posts. It happened in a town near Tunisia's border with Libya. The militants attack killed at least 18 people and that included civilians and security forces. More now on the news that Maria Sharapova has failed a drugs test. In the past few moments the World Anti-Doping Agency sent us this response saying, \"WADA is aware of the ongoing case. As is our normal process, and in order to protect the integrity of the case, WADA will refrain from commenting further until a decision has been issued by the ITF.\" They went on to confirmed, \"...Meldonium was added to the 2016 prohibited list,\" saying, \"...Meldonium was added to the list because of evidence of its use by athletes with the intention of enhancing performance.\" Simon Love, Sky News Australia joins me now from Melbourne. Where people are waking up to learn that Sharapova failed that drug test at the Australian open. Extraordinary, good morning to you, Simon, in Australia. But an extraordinary business. What will they make of it? Will there be sympathy for the facts of this? Or will they believe perhaps she should have known better, thrown the book at her?", "I think it will be a really interesting response. Good morning to you from the scene of the alleged crime, Melbourne Park in Southern Australia, Richard. Because here in Australia there's been a lot of talk around drugs in sports. There was an entire almost football team that was banned at an incident at a football club for taking an illicit substance. There was always a player over in Perth in Western Australia, Ryan Crowley, an Australian rules player, that inadvertently took a banned substance and he served out a 12 month suspension from the game. So this news surrounding Maria Sharapova as Melbournians and Australians wake up to it. It's a familiar setting, drugs in sport, athletes taking substances that they claim they did not know were banned. The details of this case, Maria Sharapova calling a snap news conference in Los Angeles. Only around 90 minutes ago. And many thought that it was actually her announcing her retirement of course after bowing out to Serena Williams, the world number one, here at the quarter finals of the Australian opening straight sets. However, Maria Sharapova was very forth with, she was very frank and upfront. Said that she had taken a banned substance and she had received a letter from ITF, the International Tennis Federation, to advise her of that positive test. She does not know her punishment, Richard. So it'll be interesting to watch and see whether she will be given an interim suspension. Of course that would prevent her from playing in the Indian Wells tournament that's due to get underway shortly. But this substance is very interesting. You were just mentioning it before. It goes by another name of Mildronate. Now, she says that she's been taking it for ten years, and that ten years ago, Richard, that this substance was not on the wider banned list. But it was only put on the wider ban list I believe around the 22nd of December, so not too long ago. And Maria Sharapova says that she had received an e-mail from WADA about the new banned substances, which included that substance she was taking. But she's admitted she did not open that attachment and look at the banned substance list, Richard.", "Simon, thank you, in Melbourne, Australia, Simon joining us there. She's been the highest paid female athlete in the world for more than a decade. Sharapova became an instant star when she won Wimbledon at the age of 17. Now, off the court she's also seen immense success with a variety of endorsements. Just look at the resume. You've got partnerships with Porshe. You've got TAG Heur who have just told us they have no comment to make at the moment. Now the taste for business even led her to launch her own candy company, Sugarpova. She made nearly $30 million last year according to Forbes. And thanks to those endorsements, she tops Serena Williams's income, even though Williams has more titles. I spoke to Sharapova back in 2013 when the candy line was initiated or launched. She told me her career success has come from a careful strategy and professionalism both on and off the tennis court.", "You have to be smart in other aspects of your tennis career. Whether it's going to a press conference and you know, saying the right things and doing the right things. You have to be a pro. Because at the end of the day, you're not just on the tennis court.", "It's image and it's brand, isn't it?", "I think it's a little bit of everything. It's how you see yourself and it's how you envision your career and your life, and your goals. And sometimes you think of the craziest things. I've had goals when I was quite young. When you're five years old and you're thinking you want to win Wimbledon, how crazy does that sound? You think that's so unrealistic and yet I did, I did.", "CNN's sports analyst Christine Brennan is with me from Washington. Sharapova says that when you go to press conferences, saying and doing the right thing, which arguably is exactly what she did today in Los Angeles. As I was listening to her, and I'm sure you were hearing, the word that came to my mind was contrite.", "Yes, Richard, I would agree. I think it's a smart move for her as well, to come out in front of this, so to speak. Think of all the positive drug tests we've heard about and all of the rumors and innuendo. From Lance Armstrong, to Floyd Landis, to Marion Jones, on and on it goes. What did they all do? They denied and then denied some more. And when the chickens finally came home to roost, and they always do, they got the book thrown at them in all cases. All of them ruined. Obviously Lance Armstrong, Marion Jones, two of the biggest ever. And so with that in mind, I think Maria is very smart to get out in front of this and hope she doesn't get a two or four year ban which would basically effectively end her career. But maybe get some time off for good behavior, and maybe it's less of a ban. I think that's really smart and it's refreshing, frankly, to see someone actually come clean and not deny. So at least there's that piece of it for her.", "Ok, now on this question of sponsorship, do you think that the sponsors will stay with her?", "It's a great question. I think if we look at history, sponsors usually bail pretty quickly, Richard. So I would not be surprised at all if some sponsors put things on hold. Number one, you won't - if she's banned, at least for some time, maybe not two years but let's say she's ban for six months or on some kind of probation, well then you're not going to have your athlete playing. So sponsors want the athlete to be out there playing that's the whole reason they sponsor people. So you've got that piece of it. And you just don't want to be attached to any of this. And while we're hearing that it's inadvertent and she took it for ten years, there is another story, and it usually comes out that there are other reasons. I have no clue if it was a mistake by Maria Sharapova or not, but it's certainly within the realm of possibility that it was not a mistake, and this was systemic use of this substance that was banned and all of a sudden surprised her and a lot of other Russians, by the way. Russian ice dancing world champion just got banned for the same drug today and there's other Russians that have used it so there's that piece.", "I'm clearly missing something, Christine, in all of this. Because I had this discussion with Alex Thomas this morning. It seems to me that what she's being done for now is that she didn't basically stop taking it once the rules had changed. But for the past ten years has been entirely legally taking it without any problem.", "Right, and I think what that tells us, I'm trying to get my sources, obviously, as this story is fast developing and I haven't yet. But what that tells is WADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency, decided that this was cheating. That the use of this drug it's for heart problems, but that it can be for endurance and increasing metabolism. That is what I'm hearing. And if that's the case, what they decided was enough of this. This is illegal and we're putting it on the banned substance. And there's all these athlete, it is incumbent upon them to find out what's on that substance and that's of course what Maria said today she did not do that.", "Right, I need you to talk about that finally, with your expertise on the athletic and the tennis world. They get this list. And they might be on all sorts of medications for legitimate or whatever. But isn't it their doctor's responsibility, their coach's responsibility, to know exactly what they are taking, medicinally, and say, \"Whoa, we've now got a problem with this substance?\"", "It certainly is, but I would say for a 28-year-old woman who's been in this world for a long time, Maria Sharapova, it's her responsibility too, and she did say that. What she puts in her body obviously is her responsibility. So a doctor can say don't do it and she could have still done it. We don't know if that's the case. But I do think these athletes, there's no excuse for this. And the old, \"Gosh, didn't know,\" that doesn't work. It wouldn't work for you. In your line of work, depending on what the issue might be that would be a corollary. It wouldn't work for me. Maria has so much to lose that she had to open that attachment, Richard. She had to know what was going on. She had to be up on this. This should be the number one thing in her life is finding out exactly what's on the banned substance, making sure that she's up to date on that. So that is a huge mistake. If that is it, that's still a huge mistake. Obviously, if there was attempt to cheat, then it is of course, way worse.", "In a word, ban or no ban?", "Oh, I think ban. I think you've got to ban someone for this. Whether it's six, eight months, a year, you have to.", "Great to have you on the program. Thank you for your insight. Thank you for your judgment on this one. Thank you, much appreciated.", "Thanks, Richard.", "That was a forgettable message that kicked off an unforgettable revolution in communications. Ray Tomlinson says he couldn't remember what he wrote in the first ever e-mail. Whether it was \"QWERTYUIOP\" in wake of this death, the internet has shown it won't forget Mr. Tomlinson any time soon."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "QUEST", "MARIA SHARAPOVA, TENNIS PLAYER", "QUEST", "AHMET DAVUTOGLU: TURKISH PRIME MINISTER", "QUEST", "SIMON LOVE, SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA", "QUEST", "SHARAPOVA", "QUEST", "SHARAPOVA", "QUEST", "CHRISTINE BRENNAN, CNN SPORTS ANALYST", "QUEST", "BRENNAN", "QUEST", "BRENNAN", "QUEST", "BRENNAN", "QUEST", "BRENNAN", "QUEST", "BRENNAN", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-61295", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-10-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0210/04/lt.01.html", "summary": "Blix to Meet White House Officials", "utt": ["As we turn our attention now to Iraq, we find that Secretary of State Colin Powell is getting set to meet with the chief U.N. weapons inspector today to discuss if and when weapons inspectors should be returning to the region. CNN White House Kelly Wallace checks in now, she's got more on this -- and Kelly, it appears the White House may be on the verge of scoring something of a victory here, correct?", "Well, a little bit of a victory, Leon. The White House certainly pleased because it appears that Hans Blix, the head of that U.N. weapons inspection team, is indicating that inspectors won't go to Iraq until there are new instructions from the United Nations. This administration pleased about that, because it wants to get a tough new U.N. resolution in place, spelling out the consequences for Iraq if it doesn't comply with U.N. demands before any inspectors go back inside Iraq. Now, President Bush will not be at the meetings today, this afternoon, with Dr. Blix. He and the first lady left the White House just a short time ago. They are headed to Boston, the president doing some fund raising for the Republican gubernatorial candidate Mitt Romney, but the president's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, as well as Secretary Powell will be shuttling behind closed doors with Dr. Blix at the State Department this afternoon, and I am told there are really two goals for this meeting. Number one, to hear directly from Dr. Blix about his meetings with the Iraqi officials in Vienna earlier this week, and to hear about the so-called loose ends that he is describing, that still must be worked out with Iraq before inspectors return. And number two, the administration will convey privately what it has been conveying privately, that it believes there must be unconditional inspections, that Dr. Blix cannot take no for an answer from the Iraqis, that those inspectors should be able to go any place, any time they want, and that the U.S. will be backing them up there. Now, the U.S. is continuing to say the old way of doing business is not working, and so it continues a very difficult diplomatic battle, trying to get a new U.N. resolution. As we know, countries such as France and Russia continue to be very skeptical. In fact, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, today saying the inspectors should go in now, and not wait for a new U.N. resolution -- Leon.", "Thanks, Kelly. Kelly Wallace at the White House. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "KELLY WALLACE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-116579", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-5-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/04/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Disappointing Picture of the Labor Market", "utt": ["Straight to the NEWSROOM now, several developing stories, T.J. Holmes on top of it for us. What do you have, T.J.?", "First, we want to take you to a live picture out of Brooklyn, New York. This is the Dyker Heights neighborhood section of Brooklyn, where, apparently, right now a person is trapped, after a trench collapsed. This is information coming to us from WABC, as well as this live picture coming to us from our affiliate WABC. But they are reporting on their Web site information that a worker was working in this trench when it just collapsed. You can see a good collection, a -- looks like a large crowd even, but a lot of emergency workers there, trying feverishly and working hard to try to get this worker out -- again, this information coming to us WABC -- apparently, a man trapped in there. This hole that he is in now is some eight feet deep and three feet wide. Reports of this came in not too long ago, about a half- hour or so ago. So, it doesn't seem like he's been there too long, but, certainly, a lot of people there working pretty hard, trying to get this worker out. Don't know about what kind of condition he may be in, if they are able to communicate with him. It's just a matter of trying to find a way to get him out, but don't know if he will need to be tended to medically and what kind of shape he's in. But this is something we're keeping an eye on, this live picture here. Don't have a wider shot or get a different or bigger or wider perspective of this area. But right now we know that a trench has collapsed, and it appears that at least one worker is trapped down there. We're keeping an eye on that for you.", "All right, T.J., you got another story, don't you, another developing story, as well?", "OK, yes. We're sticking with the -- moving now to the total opposite coast, moving out to the San Diego area, and moving to California, to Vista, California, specifically. This is about 40 miles or so just north of San Diego, where we know that three schools are right now in lockdown in the area of Olive Elementary School. That's one of the main ones here in this area -- but three schools we know of in lockdown, keeping everybody in place, because of reports of someone with a gun that was around the school -- no reports of a gun in the school, this person having anything to do with the school. But the report is that someone had a gun, and they were somewhere in the area of the school. The schools have been locked down, three of them, just as a precaution. Right now, police believe this person may have a rifle. Right now, again, no shots being fired, no one injured, no one shot, but just the police taking precaution, because reports of somebody with a weapon, with a gun, that is somewhere near these schools. Schools are in lockdown. Just want to keep you abreast of what's going on out there, and give you any kind of update we may get -- but, right now, again, not anybody with a gun in the school, anything affiliated with the school, associated, just police taking precaution, because someone was spotted with a gun near the school. So, we're keeping an eye on both those things for you -- Don.", "All right, school problems in California, and then also a trench collapse in New York -- T.J. Holmes on top of both of them. We will check back if you get some more information. Thanks,", "Sure thing.", "In business news, a new report -- we have been hearing for some time now that the economy is slowing. And the latest jobs report doesn't look very good. Felicia Taylor is at the New York Stock Exchange -- Felicia.", "Hey, Susan. The monthly jobs reports is one of the most important economic reports we get. And this one does not paint a very rosy picture of the labor market. Employers added just 88,000 jobs in April. That's less than expected and the smallest amount in more than two years. In addition, job gains in February and March were weaker than originally thought. Meantime, the unemployment rate edged slightly higher to 4.5 percent. Job losses are now spreading beyond manufacturing, into retailing, construction and financial services -- Susan.", "So, overall, what does that mean, Felicia? What is next for us?", "Basically, it shows that the job market is tightening a little bit, but it's not collapsing. The unemployment rate is still very low, by historical standards. But worker pay isn't going up very much. And that actually is a good sign for inflation. Because of that, the Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady at 5.25 percent when it meets next week. Despite the coming news about inflation, it has been a somewhat choppy session on Wall Street -- the Dow industrials trying once again for another record close, up right now by 27 points, although that is off of the session's earlier highs. The Nasdaq composite, for its part, is up just fractionally by four points. That index, though, is getting a boost from an 11 percent gain in shares of Yahoo!. Microsoft is reportedly renewing its efforts to buy the search engine. Another possible deal, news provider Reuters Group says it has been approached by an unidentified third party about a takeover. Reuters shares that trade here in the U.S. are soaring 25 percent. Coming up: The Dow hit three straight record highs this week. We are going to be watching to see if today will mark a fourth. I will bring you the closing bell live in 30 minutes -- Don and Susan, back to you.", "OK. We will be waiting. Thanks.", "Oh, the hats, the drinks, the odds, oh, and, of course, the horses, no doubt. Look at that, Churchill Downs. Kentucky Derby, that's where it's going to happen. The 133rd Kentucky Derby surely will not disappoint. It is a race fit for a queen. That's because she's going to be there. We're live from Churchill Downs, coming up right here in the CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "T.J. HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "HOLMES", "LEMON", "T.J. HOLMES", "ROESGEN", "FELICIA TAYLOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROESGEN", "TAYLOR", "ROESGEN", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-354609", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2018-11-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/13/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview With Senator Edward Markey; White House Chaos", "utt": ["Mr. Trump is weighing a White House shakeup, possibly replacing multiple senior officials. And in a truly extraordinary move, the first lady, Melania Trump, publicly called for one senior official to be fired. Unconstitutional. Tonight, President Trump is facing multiple lawsuits, including one from CNN over the decision barring our chief White House correspondent, and others challenging the president's controversial appointment of Matthew Whitaker as the acting attorney general. And line of fire. Historic and deadly infernos raging out of control in California fanned by hurricane-force winds. Tonight, the death toll continues to climb in the state's worst fire disaster on record. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We're following multiple breaking stories swirling around the White House tonight, including President Trump and his lawyers reviewing written questions from the special counsel, Robert Mueller, about possible collusion. At the same time, the president is said to be weighing replacing some top officials, and in a stunning move, the first lady, Melania Trump, has publicly called for one of them to be fired. And tonight, the president and five top officials are facing a lawsuit brought by CNN over the decision to suspend the press pass of our chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. I will talk about all of that and more with Senator Ed Markey of the Foreign Relations Committee. And our correspondents, analysts and specialists are also standing by. CNN's Brian Stelter has details of the lawsuit. We are going to have much more on that in a moment. But, first, let's go to our senior White House correspondent, Pamela Brown. Pamela, a truly remarkable move by the first lady of the United States.", "Yes, that's right, Wolf. An extraordinary statement from the first lady about a top national security aide, Mira Ricardel, saying that she no longer deserves to serve the White House. And around the same time the statement came out, Ricardel was seen as a ceremony with President Trump.", "Late today, Mira Ricardel was seen with the president at his only public event at the White House. Tonight, she was ousted from the West Wing, fired from her role as deputy national security adviser after drawing the ire not of the president, but of the first lady. In a rare rebuke tonight, the first lady demanded Ricardel, John Bolton's deputy, be fired, saying in a statement, \"She no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House.\" Ricardel recently feuded with the first lady over her trip to Africa, arguing over seating on the plane and National Security Council resources, one source tells CNN. The sources say the president is also considering potential replacements for other senior positions, both inside the Cabinet and the White House.", "We are looking at a lot of different things, including Cabinet.", "The potential shakeup could include Chief of Staff John Kelly and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, officials tell CNN. At the White House today, the president ignored questions about staffing changes.", "Thank you very much, everybody.", "Are you planning to make staff changes at that level?", "The president is said to be unhappy with Secretary Nielsen's handling of immigration and border security and could ask for her resignation in the coming days, multiple officials familiar with the matter tell CNN. The president's angst today was not just reserved for his own team. Trump trolling one-time close ally French President Emmanuel Macron, launching a barrage of incendiary tweets, saying that the French -- quote -- \"were starting to learn German in Paris before the U.S. came along. Pay for NATO or not.\" And threatening to impose new tariffs on French wine. \"France it very hard for the U.S. to sell its wine into France and charges big tariffs, whereas the U.S. makes it easy for French wines and charges very small tariffs. Not fair. Must change.\" Mr. Trump's frustration with friends and allies come as he continues to be dogged by the special counsel's Russia probe. CNN has learned the president met with his legal team over the Veterans Day holiday to go over a series of written questions from Mueller's team. The questions focus on colluding with Russia, but not obstruction of justice, part of an agreement with Mueller's team to -- quote -- \"move forward with the president's participation,\" according to a source.", "And the president is once again meeting with his legal team today to go over those questions from Robert Mueller's team, and a source familiar says the plan is to give those answers to those questions back to Mueller's team within the coming days. Now, as for Ricardel, CNN has reached out to her for comment and has not heard back, and there's still confusion here at the White House, Wolf, in terms of what her future is, a source telling my colleague Jeff Zeleny that President Trump has made the decision to fire her. Another White House official says there are no personnel changes to announce right now and that she is still in the office. We will have to wait and see how this transpires -- Wolf.", "Pamela Brown at the White House, thanks very much. Let's get some more on CNN's lawsuit against President Trump and other top White House aides for suspending our chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta's press pass. A hearing has now been set for tomorrow afternoon before a federal judge. Our chief media correspondent, Brian Stelter is joining us. Brian, what is the latest?", "Yes. The judge in this case, Timothy J. Kelly, was assigned earlier today. He has given an 11:00 a.m. deadline to all the defendants, including the president, to file any response they might have to CNN's lawsuit. Then there will be this 3:30 p.m. hearing in the U.S. District Court in Washington. So we are seeing this kind of epic battle for press freedom shaping up, because both CNN and Acosta have sued, alleging First and Fifth Amendment violations. The First Amendment violations involve freedom of the press, the idea that according to CNN Acosta is being discriminated against based on his content, based on his reporting, based on his work at the White House. The Fifth Amendment violations that are alleged here involve due process because there are rules and regulations for how the Secret Service hands out and then revokes press passes, and those regulations were not followed in this case. So both a First Amendment and a Fifth Amendment argument, and those arguments will begin in court tomorrow afternoon.", "Brian, how is the White House preparing to fight this lawsuit?", "We have heard from Sarah Sanders today, one of the six defendants. She says CNN is just grandstanding by suing and she says the White House will vigorously defend this case. Here is a portion of her statement where she talks about how Acosta was asking too many questions and being too aggressive at last week's press conference. She says: \"The White House cannot run an orderly and fair press conference when a reporter acts this way, which is neither appropriate nor professional. If there's no check on this type of behavior, it impedes the ability of the president, the White House staff and members of the media to conduct business.\" That's the new word from Sarah Sanders, but the explanation or the rationale for revoking Acosta's credential has shifted over the past week. Initially, last Wednesday night, the claim was that Acosta had placed his hands on a White House intern. You will remember that intern came over, tried to take the microphone away and Acosta kept asking questions. Well, obviously Acosta did not mistreat the intern. Everybody saw the video. We all know what happened. But Sanders posted a distorted video apparently taken from Infowars in order to argue Acosta had acted inappropriately. But she is not claiming that anymore. You will notice in today's statement she is not saying that Acosta placed his hands on anybody. Instead, she is just saying that he tried to hog the mic and wouldn't let other reporters ask questions. But as you know, Wolf, from your time at the White House, lots of reporters ask lots of follow-ups. It is pretty normal at the White House.", "That's what reporters do. They ask follow-up questions. All right, Brian, thank you very much, Brian Stelter, working his sources on all of this as well. Let's get some more on the president and his lawyers reviewing Robert Mueller's questions about possible collusion. Our political correspondent, Sara Murray, is here with us. Sara, Mr. Trump's responses to Mueller could be submitted in the coming days. What comes next after that, an actual sit-down Q&A between the president and Mueller and his team?", "Well, certainly, I think Mueller and his team would love to have a sit-down Q&A, but that probably is not in the cards. I think it depends on how soon they hand these questions over and how Mueller's team feels like the answers to those questions compare to the interviews they have already done and the information they have already have. The president has been out there saying he would love to sit down with the special counsel, he would be fine with that. The reality is he and his legal team seem to be doing everything possible to avoid putting President Trump in a room with Robert Mueller or his investigators.", "We know that the president's longtime fixer and lawyer spent a decade working with then private citizen Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, he spent hours with Mueller's team yesterday, a federal holiday, going over who knows what. But I assume the White House is concerned about this.", "Well, I mean, who knows what? Like you said, we know Michael Cohen has obviously been cooperating with investigators, not only investigators in New York, but also the special counsel's office. And the big concern I think for the White House has to be what else does he still have to offer information on, is there another shoe to drop? Obviously, what we saw when Michael Cohen was in court in New York about those campaign finance violations was a very big shoe, Wolf.", "Interesting development today. Jerome Corsi, longtime associate of Roger Stone and a Trump adviser over many years, he said yesterday he expected to be indicted by Mueller. He also said that he would have much more to say today on his Internet radio or YouTube program. He didn't show up to host the show today. What are you learning?", "Well, this I think the dance you do, I guess, when you are expecting to be indicted. We saw Jerome Corsi go out and say he is expecting an indictment. He said he was going to continue to host his Webcast all week long. He also has been trying to do a number of interviews throughout the day today, but I know that his lawyer is trying to put the kibosh on all of these things. His lawyer really wants his client to be quiet, which I think is what any lawyer would want any client to do in a situation when they're waiting for a pending indictment from the special counsel. So, today, at least, when it comes to the Webcast, it seems his lawyer may have won. We will see what tomorrow brings in the Jerome Corsi saga, Wolf.", "Every day is dramatic. Sara, thank you very much. Let's get some more on all of this. Democratic Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts is joining us. He is a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. Senator, thanks so much for joining us. So, what do these developments tell you right now about where Robert Mueller's investigation stands?", "Well, it is clear that the White House is stonewalling on the one hand. They don't want to answer questions. And in order to make sure that that is successful, they're trying to have Whitaker take over at the Justice Department, and consistent with his promises in the past, his prejudicial comments in the past to defund the investigation, to severely limit the scope of the investigation, all towards the goal of making sure that the American people never get the answers to what happened in 2016 in any potential collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.", "You're clearly very concerned about the new acting attorney general of the United States, Matthew Whitaker. He has already taken over for Jeff Sessions, who is out of there. What can you do realistically about that?", "Well, there is going to be a bipartisan effort to attach a bill to must-pass legislation so that Mueller cannot be, in fact, fired without cause, that he would have an ability to have judicial review of whether or not that had happened, and that all of the documents are actually preserved, so that the House and Senate Judiciary Committees would have access to them. So that effort is going to be made over the next couple of weeks on the floor of the United States Senate, and so we intend on doing everything we can to make sure that Whitaker is not brought in as a political hatchet man to destroy the Mueller investigation before the American people get the answers that they have been waiting for.", "But do you think your Republican colleagues would vote for such legislation protecting the special counsel?", "Well, over the past year, they have said that they want to maintain the integrity of the Mueller investigation. They have said that they respect Mueller. So this will be the moment, where obviously Trump does not want that, but yet, again, the integrity of the United States Senate is on the line. Will Republicans stand up with Democrats to ensure that this investigation is not short-circuited for political reasons? Because that's why Whitaker has been given this job.", "Let me get your reaction, Senator, to the very strong and public statement from the first lady calling for the departure of the deputy national security adviser to the president. Have you ever seen anything like this, a public rebuke of such a senior official by a first lady?", "This is unprecedented, Wolf. This just shows how dysfunctional this White House has become, where the first lady is publicly tweeting that she wants someone on the national security team to be fired. There's a way of handling this, but that's not the way to do it. We have far many more important things that we should be talking about today, the North Korea nuclear crisis, the Russian-American nuclear crisis, what is happening to the Rohingya in Burma and Bangladesh. And ,instead, this is what we're talking about, just another distraction in a dysfunctional White House.", "Yes, our Jeff Zeleny, our White House correspondent, is reporting that, for all practical purposes, she's been told she is fired, but they're letting her clean out her desk right now before she is escorted out of the White House. We expect the president, by the way, Senator to ask the homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, for her resignation soon as well and others could be forced out in the next few weeks. How concerned are you about stability, or lack thereof, inside the Trump administration?", "Well, again, it is the prerogative of a president to appoint Cabinet members, but we have to just step back and see that it is being done in the context of this dysfunctional atmosphere that has been constructed. And so I'm afraid that what this president is now doing is going in and just taking out people that may have had slight disagreements with him, and doing it in a way which is unpresidential on the one hand, but on the other hand just sending the wrong signal to the rest of the world about the stability of our federal government.", "Senator Markey, I know you are on the Foreign Relations Committee. I want to ask you about North Korea right now, these reports that it is operating more than a dozen undeclared military bases. The president responded by saying -- and I'm quoting the president now -- \"We fully know about the sites being discussed. Nothing new and nothing happening out of the normal.\" He went on to say, \"I will be the first to let you know if things go bad.\" You say the president is getting played by Kim Jong-un. What do you see happening? What do you want to see happen?", "Well, \"The New York Times\"' report is definitive. It is using the CSIS investigation. The North Koreans are still manufacturing new fissile material, nuclear material. They're still manufacturing new nuclear weapons. They're still building new ballistic missiles and the capacity to deliver those weapons potentially to the United States, but for sure to that entire Pacific region. And so the president is just being taken for a ride by the North Korean government. The new normal for North Korea is, they just continue to build nuclear weapons and missiles, they enhance their trade with China and with Russia, which reduces the economic pressure on them, and then they smile as the president of the United States contends that we have won a negotiation, and that there's no reason to be concerned about the North Korean nuclear threat, which is absolutely the opposite of what is happening.", "Senator Markey, thanks so much for joining us.", "No, glad to be here. Thank you.", "All right, the breaking news continues. A high-level White House official being forced out in a truly stunning way. The first lady, Melania Trump, publicly called for her to be fired. So, what is behind this remarkable move?"], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "THE SITUATION ROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-109679", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-8-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/23/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Showdown With Iran; Northwest Plane Diverted Due to In-flight Disruption; Interview With DNC Chairman Howard Dean", "utt": ["And to our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM, where new pictures and information are arriving all the time. Standing by, CNN reporters across the United States and around the world to bring you today's top stories. Happening now, the Bush administration says Iran's nuclear offer falls short of United Nations demands. Will the U.S. and its allies do anything about it? It's 12:30 a.m. in Tehran. Are Iran's war games an ominous hint of what's to come? We're inside Iran, only on CNN. A midair incident involves air marshals, and a Northwest airliner is forced to turn around with a fighter escort. It's 11:00 p.m. in Amsterdam, where Dutch police arrest a dozen passengers. What happened? And a shy, quiet boy who played soccer and went to the local mosque, what turned him into the world's most wanted terrorist? A special preview of CNN's powerful new documentary, \"In the Footsteps of bin Laden.\" I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Not good enough. That's how the Bush administration today characterizes Iran's response to incentives aimed at halting its nuclear program. Iran's nuclear negotiator is offering more negotiations, but the State Department says that falls sort of U.N. demands. Is the stage now set for a showdown? Our Aneesh Raman is standing by in Tehran. He'll join us live with a report you'll see only here on CNN. But let's begin this hour with CNN's Brian Todd with a look at the possible Iranian threat -- Brian.", "Wolf, new details on that threat and some exasperation from leaders on Capitol Hill who put out the information.", "From key intelligence leaders in Congress, new warnings on Iran. While the regime weighs incentive packages and a deadline for suspending nuclear enrichment, they say, Tehran is also playing a familiar and dangerous game.", "It's beyond a shadow of doubt for me that they are trying to stall for more time to continue their uranium enrichment and the building of their nuclear program.", "Congressman Mike Rodgers says Western leaders have been duped by Iranian diplomacy for the past three years. Rodgers is a key player in House Intelligence Committee's new report on Iran's strategic threat to the U.S. and its allies.", "These folks are absolutely up to no good. They're developing ballistic missiles, they're developing and trying to enrich uranium. They have chemical and biological weapons programs.", "Information that's not new but does raise new questions about Iran's intentions at this crucial moment in diplomacy. For instance, the report says the regime has produced enough of a compound called uranium hexafluoride to produce 12 nuclear bombs if it's enriched to weapons grade. Still, U.S. intelligence leaders and outside experts have repeatedly said Iran likely won't be able to produce a nuclear weapon for at least four years. Ready now, a delivery system for any nuclear weapon, what the report calls the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East. A capability that experts say is rapidly being developed further.", "The Shahab 3, which is currently operational, has a range of 2,000 kilometers, can get to Israel. The Shahab 4, twice the range, 4,000 kilometers, can get to much of western Europe. The Shahab 5, also under development, could get all of the way to the United States, but they're years away from having that capability.", "Between four and 10 years for those two longer-range missiles, according to John Pike. Now, after repeated calls and e-mails just a moment ago, I got off the phone with a top Iranian official at the United Nations. Who told us he needed more time to read the U.S. House report, but he also refuted the accusation that Iran is stalling for time on the nuclear issue and said his government is ready to begin negotiations at any time -- Wolf.", "Brian, thanks very much. Brian Todd reporting for us. Is there any room, though, for compromise? Is Iran ready to risk a showdown? Our Aneesh Raman is the only U.S. television network correspondent in Iran right now. He's joining us live from Tehran. Aneesh, is there a sense that you're getting speaking to Iranian officials that this is their bottom line, or what is the answer as far as August 31st, which is the real deadline for stopping enriching uranium?", "Well, Wolf, I'm getting a much better sense on the Iranian strategy a day after that official response, given the fallout we're hearing. The U.S. saying it fell far too short. Iran is not going to suspend its nuclear program by that U.N. deadline. That is the sense I get by every indication. What Iran did in this response is open up the possibility for new negotiations. Why did they do that? Because at the U.N., when that deadline comes and passes with Iran not having suspended its program, there is no immediate trigger of action. Sanctions don't immediately come. A debate has to take place within the U.N. Security Council. Russia and China, key Iranian allies on that Security Council, have already said they are open to the thought of new negotiations with Iran to find a new resolution. So Iran is preemptively, if you will, it seems, setting in place fodder for Russia and China, among, perhaps, others, to say let's slow down, let's not impose harsh sanctions, let's see if we can restart these dialogues and figure out a diplomatic solution -- Wolf.", "Aneesh, when you speak to Iranians on the street in Tehran, and the word \"sanctions' come up, if the United Nations Security Council were to impose some sanctions against Iran, do they understand the potential economic ramifications for the millions and millions of people that live there?", "They do. Iran is a country that has and is enduring sanctions. And it endured an eight-year battle with Iraq. It's a people that are hardened. And when it comes to economic sanctions, specifically a people that are essentially used to them. When I ask a lot of them, they say, it's really no big deal, we're already sanctioned. It could just get worse. So what does that matter? What will have to happen in terms of the sanctions for it to hit the ground on the Iranian street, it's a", "Aneesh Raman is the only television -- U.S. television network correspondent in Iran doing outstanding work for us. Aneesh, thank you very much. In CNN \"Security Watch,\" another disruption and another passenger plain diverted. This time with a military escort. It happened in the Netherlands during a Northwest Airlines flight. Let's get some details now from CNN's Homeland Security correspondent, Jeanne Meserve -- Jeanne.", "Wolf, 12 people are under arrest and facing preliminary charges in the Netherlands. Who they are, where they're from, still unknown.", "Northwest Airlines Flight 42 sat on the tarmac at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. The flight, which originated in Minneapolis-St. Paul, was turned around after taking off from Amsterdam for Mumbai, India.", "It's standard procedure in the Netherlands to send an escort, a military escort. Two F-16 aircraft were sent to escort the plane back -- back to Schiphol.", "Passengers were told the plane was going back for a security check.", "It wasn't any conversation that you could hear. All I could see was the security police took a lot of people out and handcuffed a few of them and took them away.", "An airline source in Amsterdam said the arrested passengers had been looking into bags and pulling out cell phones, which can be used to detonate bombs. A U.S. official said some had taken out cell phones during takeoff and tried to pass them around. The official also says some of those arrested unfastened their seatbelts while the seatbelt sign was still illuminated. U.S. federal air marshals on board the flight broke cover, according to the official, and took control of security while the pilot headed back to Amsterdam.", "I was afraid.", "Yes? Why?", "I was just", "Officials say there was no intelligence indicating the flight was at risk and they are still evaluating how big a security threat the passengers posed. Wolf, back to you.", "All right, Jeanne. Thanks very much. The war in Iraq, the war on terror, all stuff for political wins and losses. Stuff that political wins and losses are actually made of in elections. Joining us now in Burlington, Vermont, is the Democratic National Committee chairman, Howard Dean. Governor, thanks very much for coming in.", "Thanks for having me on, Wolf.", "We know that since 9/11, in 2002, in the elections, 2004, in the elections, the Republicans did very well with the issue of the war on terrorism. And in our latest CNN poll that's out this week, we asked, \"Which party is doing a better job dealing with terrorism?\" Forty-eight percent of the American people said Republicans, 38 percent said Democrats. You've still got a 10-point spread here. You've got a major problem.", "I don't think so. It's essentially even. The poll numbers jumped after the British caught the potential bombers in the airlines. But the fact is, for the last year and a half, the president hasn't had anything like the numbers that he had during the 2004 election. Fifty-four percent, same poll, don't believe the president is telling the truth. Sixty-one percent think the war is a mistake and we shouldn't be there. So, I think this president is in deep trouble. Although, I have to say that the Iraq war is an issue that's getting him into deep trouble, but the issue that really got him into deep trouble, the anniversary is at the end of this week, and that's Hurricane Katrina.", "You think that was a bigger problem for the president...", "I think the president...", "... the way his administration dealt with Katrina...", "Yes.", "... as opposed to the way the administration has dealt with the war in Iraq?", "I do. I think Katrina -- the response to Katrina was effectively the end to the president's presidency in the sense that people all of a sudden saw the small man behind the curtain. People in America and throughout the rest of the world for a long time have believed that Americans can fix anything, that we're better organized and better managed -- managed better than anybody, and that if something really awful happens, call on the Americans. And for the first time in our lifetime and in the world's lifetime, since World War II -- since before World War II -- we suddenly saw an American president just descend into failure. And I don't think he's ever recovered from that.", "Here is what the president said earlier this week when it comes to the difference between what he said were Democrats' views on Iraq and what his position is. Listen to what he said.", "There's a fundamental difference between many of the Democrats and my party. And that is they want to leave before the job is completed in Iraq. And again, I repeat, these are decent people. You know, they're just as American as I am. I just happen to strongly disagree with them. And it's very important for the American people to understand the consequences of leaving Iraq before the job is done.", "Now, that's translated by a lot of Republican politicians into charges of cut and run, that that's what you want to do and basically give up any hope for trying to deal with the situation in Iraq.", "This is exactly what was going on in Vietnam. And the president and the vice president are saying exactly what Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew said again and again and again. It resulted in 25,000 more Americans being killed in Vietnam, and the result was the same as it would have been had we left earlier. This is wishful thinking on the part of the president. They never thought this out. I can remember the secretary of defense saying the whole world would be paid for by Iraqi oil. The vice president was saying we'd be greeted as liberators. These folks are fundamentally out of touch with what's going on in Iraq and they're fundamentally out of touch with the needs of the American people. And we need a new direction in this country, Wolf, and we're going to have a new direction after November.", "But as you know, a lot of Democrats, especially Democratic senators, are also saying the U.S. should try to finish the job and not set an artificial deadline for getting out.", "Finishing the -- the job was finished. We went in there to get rid of Saddam Hussein. We got rid of him. Then we decided we were going to occupy the country, and then we decided that we would try to mitigate a civil war, which we're now in. The problem is, the job, as far as the president keeps defining it, is a moving target. He doesn't know what the job is. He doesn't know what the end point is. The idea that we're going to have a democracy that looks like America was a ridiculous right wing intellectual idea from the beginning, and, you know, the neoconservatives. They're out of touch. Most of them have never served in the army and the ones that have rarely served abroad defending the country. What they should have done is listened to the people that actually served abroad, listened to the military people, do what the military suggested. The difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is not that we're not both tough. We are. But the Democrats will be tough and smart, and that means we're going to listen to people who know what we're talking about before we commit troops.", "When it comes to this issue, Senator Joe Lieberman clearly disagrees with you. And in part, that helped explain why he lost the Democratic primary in his home state of Connecticut. I interviewed him here in THE SITUATION ROOM yesterday. Listen to this exchange I had with Senator Lieberman.", "Are you telling us -- can you look into the camera and tell the people of Connecticut once and for all you would not then join the Republican caucus?", "That's absolutely what I've said. Are you representing the Republicans here?", "I'm asking the questions.", "No. The answer is I have made that clear. I...", "So there's no chance you would side with the Republicans...", "No.", "... even though you become a chairman potentially of a committee?", "No. I'm a Democrat, and I will remain a Democrat.", "Now, you're a democrat, too, Governor Dean. It looks like there's a win-win potentially for the Democrats. If Ned Lamont wins, he's a Democrat. If Joe Lieberman wins, he says he's a Democrat.", "Look, I'm chairman of the Democratic Party. The Democratic voters in Connecticut chose Ned Lamont, who is a very capable, very smart guy who is moving forward and looking for a new direction in America. And I'm 100 percent supporting Ned Lamont and I'm going to campaign with him, we're going to help him in every way possible. We believe that the voters have spoken. When the voters speak, you have to honor that in politics.", "If he's elected, the senator, if he's reelected, would you like him to remain in the Democratic caucus in the U.S. Senate?", "Sure. We want to be a big tent. And Joe has served the country honorably. But Joe is the past and Ned Lamont is the future. And we need a new direction in this country, and the voters in Connecticut have indicated that.", "In this most recent \"USA Today\"-Gallup poll, the generic question among registered voters, your choice for Congress, it looks neck and neck, 47 percent Democrat, 45 percent Republican. We had a poll earlier which did show a significant Democrat preference, 52-43 percent. But what do you make of this more recent \"USA Today\"-Gallup poll?", "Well, there was a \"New York Times\" poll that also showed that the gap was much wider than that. But, you know, in the end, as you very well know, the polls right now are relatively -- relatively unimportant. And there's only one poll that really matters, and that's the one on November 7th. So, we'll see what the polls show then. But I think if the election were held today the Democrats would win. But the election is not going to be held today and we've got a lot of work to do.", "Governor Howard...", "Look, Wolf...", "Yes, go ahead.", "... the country fundamentally wants a different direction. The Republicans are just going to give us more of the same. We want a new direction in the economy, we want a new direction in health care, we want a new direction in foreign policy, we want a new direction in Iraq, we want a new direction for gas prices. We need a new direction. You can't get that by voting for Republicans.", "We'll have you back soon, Governor. Thanks very much.", "Thanks, Wolf. Thank you.", "And equal time, that's what we call it. Tomorrow we've invited the Republican Party chairman, Ken Mehlman. He'll join us right here in THE SITUATION ROOM. That's coming up tomorrow. And coming up right away, he drove all the way from New Orleans to deliver a message to the president. Only a few hours ago he got his chance. We're going to tell you what he had to say. Then, at 9:00 p.m. Eastern tonight, CNN will air a powerful new documentary about Osama bin Laden. We're going to have a special excerpt. That's coming up right here in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TODD (voice over)", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-93724", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2005-4-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/14/lol.03.html", "summary": "Greasing the Wheels?; Missing Girl; Deadly Bat Attack", "utt": ["More alleged fraud in oil-for-food. As you know if you've been watching CNN, a Texas oil man and two of his front men stand accused of slipping illegal payoffs into their payments for prewar Iraqi crude. The feds say the money enriched Saddam Hussein at the expense of the people that the U.N. program was designed to sustain. We get the latest now from CNN senior U.N. correspondent Richard Roth -- Rich.", "Kyra, David Chalmers is the name. He has been indicted. And the federal government says he, in effect, becomes the first American involved and indicted with oil-for-food corruption scandal. He's a Texas oil businessman. In about one hour, he's going to face his first appearance. The oil-for-food case turned into a cash cow for the Saddam Hussein regime. The Security Council, 10 years ago today exactly today, when they set up this programming, allowed Saddam to choose which vendors, which businesses he would be dealing with when they purchased oil and he received humanitarian goods for the citizens of his country living under existing Security Council sanctions. Now Chalmers has been charged with three felonies, including wire fraud, breaking the economic embargo with Iraq, and transactions of a financial nature with a stat sponsor of terrorism. It was all involving kickbacks and surcharges involving middlemen. And the government of Iraq is described by U.S. attorney David Kelley.", "And what the defendants are alleged to have done to further this scheme is threefold. First, the defendants at Bayoil, led by David Chalmers and assisted by Irving Dionissiev paid inflated commissions to allocation holders, or oral industry brokers, knowing and intending that a portion of these commission payments were earmarked for the kickbacks to the Hussein regime.", "Now, the money was supposed to be -- most of it did go into an escrow account which was monitored by the U.N. But to get more money and to grease the wheels, as you've been saying, Kyra, money was paid through third parties, third companies. Saddam asked for more money. If you want to do business with the Iraqi government, he said, you're going to have to pay these commission commissions. And many people at the U.N. and the Security Council, they were aware of all of this. But the U.S. was very eager to keep the sanctions on Iraq. And, in fact, today, the secretary-general, Kofi Annan, somewhat publicly for the first time going after the U.S. and Britain, saying they turned a blind eye to other aspects of the program and corruption, smuggling, smuggling through Jordan and Turkey, because the said they with allies of the U.S.. And he also asked for more balanced media coverage to show how widespread this was and it just doesn't involve the U.N. Back to you, Kyra.", "Richard, could this be a domino effect? Could we see more American businessmen or women caught up in the scheme?", "Oh, definitely. The shoes will keep dropping. One man already indicted. An Iraqi-American, Samir Vincent, has already cooperated. And it's believed that his cooperation resulted in some of the other indictment announcements today.", "Richard Roth, we'll stay on the story. Thanks so much -- Miles.", "Well, $40 a pill, give or take, 290,000 pills. You do the math. It all adds up to a world of trouble, however, for two Air National Guard troops charged with smuggling ecstasy aboard their C-5 Galaxy cargo plane, largest cargo plane in the U.S. inventory. That was during an official flight from Germany. The drugs were found. The men arrested on Tuesday, after an otherwise routine mission to drop off training supplies in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. The captain, by the name of Franklin, Franklin Rodriguez, and Master Sergeant John Fong, could face 40 years in prison if convicted.", "In Ruskin, Florida, the search continues for missing teenager Sarah Michelle Lunde. She disappeared Sunday. And police are questioning sex offenders in that area. The latest now from our Susan Candiotti.", "Among the 100 or so volunteers that are helping out this day, Mark Lunsford, whose daughter Jessica was killed allegedly by a sex offender who lived practically across the street from them. This happened about a month and a half ago, about 100 miles from here. Mark Lunsford saying he is here to lend support to Sarah Lunde's mother, who is desperately trying to find her daughter.", "I spoke with Mr. Lunsford, as a matter of fact. And he said he came down here to help. He asked to be hooked up with a search team. We have done that. He also said that he would be here to speak with Kelly May, if she choose to do that. I have spoken with Kelly May, and she said that she is more than thrilled that Mr. Lunsford has come down to help.", "Police say one convicted sex offender of about 24 living here in the town of Ruskin, population about 8,000, has captured their attention. His name, David Onstott. He was arrested Tuesday night on unrelated charges and appeared in court this day for arraignment on a charge of failing to register at least once a year in Florida, as required by Florida law. Now, Sarah is only 13 years old. She is said to be very active in her church. She does come from a broken home. The church provided a home video of her, shot here washing a car last December. There's also a photograph of her taken on Saturday night. She was part of a church outing, and friends say she had a great time when she came home. Now, she has run away from home before. But authorities say she has always returned home. And friends say it is totally out of character for her to be away this long without phoning someone. Susan Candiotti, CNN, Ruskin, Florida.", "And the Hillsborough Sheriff's Department is urging anyone with information to give them a call. The tip line is 813-247- 8200. That number again, 813-247-8200.", "Other news \"Across America\" for you. Off the market. A Florida man has finally sold his clapboard home and 160 acres of land for $5 million. For years, Jesse Hardy rejected the state's repeated offers to buy his property. Says he wanted to hold on to a dying rural lifestyle. His land will be used for the multibillion-dollar Everglades restoration plan. There will be a lighter load for air travelers, quite literally. The TSA begins its ban on cigarette lighters. Starting today, lighters are banned everywhere on a plane. And passenger cannot check them into their bags, just like other dangerous items. And in Los Angeles, a freak freeway crash. Police say road debris smashed through the windshield of a minivan being killing two people. They're not sure if the object was intentionally thrown or if it hit the van by accident.", "It's a case of teen angst turned deadly, according to some witnesses. A 13-year-old California boy is accused of beating his teammate to death with a baseball bat after a game. A candlelight vigil was held for the victim last night. Reporter Juan Fernandez with CNN affiliate KCAL has the story.", "A friend of 15- year-old Jeremy Rourke come together, trying to make sense of his untimely death.", "I was in shock. I didn't -- I, like -- deep in my heart, I knew there was no saving that boy.", "Jeremy was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. His good friend and teammate, just 13 years old, now charged with his murder.", "All the kids are friends. We've all grown up together. All the kids have grown up together. The younger brother was best friends with this other child.", "Witness say that friendship became strained when Jeremy teased his 13-year-old friend about losing a baseball game.", "Next thing you know, the boy pulled out a bat and he, like, kind of hit him once in the side and once up around the neck. And then he just hit him really with tremendous force to the head. And I just -- I saw his head just -- it sounded like a pumpkin getting hit with a bat.", "At Jeremy's school, where he was in the ninth grade, both students and teachers met with grief counselors.", "I was just stunned. And I don't know why anyone would do that.", "He was nice. I don't see him like attacking anybody or doing anything to get in like that kind of thing, you know. But, it's like, I don't see why somebody would do that.", "Rick Shade (ph) is a friend of Jeremy's family. Mother has a message.", "She made the comment that, by no means was the kid a monster. Don't make him into -- that he was a very good kid. They were friends, believe it or not.", "Thanks to our affiliate KCAL for that report. The 13- year-old is in custody for investigation of murder now, and prosecutor are expected to get the case. Straight ahead, he United States has a Department of Defense, but should it also have a department of peace? Straight ahead on LIVE FROM, Congressman Dennis Kucinich and best-selling author Marianne Williamson join us to talk about a bill proposing a secretary of peace. And can you get too much of a good thing? New medical research suggests that drinking too much water could actually be fatal. 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{"id": "CNN-84667", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2004-5-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0405/17/lkl.00.html", "summary": "Interview With Evan Bayh, Lindsey Graham", "utt": ["Tonight. Exclusive. She cheated death by inches when a savage mountain lion attacked, tore off half her face and now in her first live television interview. Anne Hjelle takes us back to that terrifying day and tells a miraculous of faith and love, survival and recovery but first, United States forces find a possible nerve gas weapon in Iraq. And the Iraqi governing council president assassinated. What's it all mean with germ warfare correspondent Judith Miller of the \"New York Times,\" Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator Evan Bayh. They're all next on LARRY KING LIVE.", "Before we get an update on the Sarin gas and the parent explanation of how that happened in Iraq today, let's first get to the stories appearing in \"Newsweek\" and the \"New Yorker\" and start with our senators. What do you make of this, Senator Graham, the possibility that the Geneva Accords were overlooked?", "Some very serious allegations. The basic essence was that they --- some military lawyers may have been dealt out in terms of giving input that there was sort of an effort to camouflage a secret program that did not have to abide by the Geneva Convention. One thing quickly, the al Qaeda has never been -- I agree with the president. Al Qaeda should not be covered by the Geneva Convention in terms of their status because they're not legally entitled to it but they should be treated humanely. That's the president's policy. Whether or not that policy was deviated from, we'll find out.", "Senator Bayh, are you concerned about the memo from Secretary Powell against all of this? What do you make of it?", "Well, Larry, like so much else in this unfolding story, we need to get to the bottom of it. That's why we'll have further hearings this week in the armed services committee and get these facts out. I think Lindsey is right, we need to differentiate uniform representatives of the military of nation states and detain terrorists or insurgents who are killing American military men and women and innocent civilians. It's important that we ensure that this kind of thing never happen again. At the same time, we need to be able to use some acceptable but aggressive techniques when we get some of these hardened terrorists and innocent lives may hang in the balance on our ability to get timely information.", "It's a puzzlement. Judith Miller, what's your update, what can you tell us about this Sarin gas story? First, what is sarin Gas?", "Sarin is a nerve agent, Larry, that causes death by basically asphyxiating someone. You may recall in 1995, it is the agent that a group, Aum Shinrikyo, used in the subways of Tokyo that caused 12 deaths and made about 5,000 people sick. We still don't know for sure what was discovered in Iraq. However it does appear to be Sarin according to two tests that were done by the British and by the Americans in the field. That's according to sources I interviewed today.", "Now, does this say two things. One that there are weapons of mass destruction around somewhere, and two, are all the troops in danger?", "Well, what it does say is that it appears at this point that there was certainly some insurgent who found something that appears to have been a chemical artillery shell. At that point -- before 1990, Iraq made approximately 4,800 of these shells, and at the end of the U.N. inspection period, there was still about 40 tons of Sarin unaccounted for, but we still don't know whether or not this was one single shell that someone found in a dump someplace or whether or not it was part of a cache that the insurgents may have found from the unaccounted for material that Iraq really never fully explained the fate of.", "Senator Graham, member of the armed services committee, as is Senator Bayh, veteran of the Air Force. Senator Graham, what do you make of this? It gets puzzling every day, doesn't it?", "It does, but in terms of the prison abuse scandal, the rule of law is our guide. We're trying to show the world we're different. I don't want to compare our troops to the Saddam era because I think you've lost when you start doing that. I want to show the world that in a democracy, there's a better way and you got to not only talk about it, you got to demonstrate it. So the prison abuse scandal, holding people accountable is what we're trying to demonstrate to the world is the right way. In terms of the nerve agents, we'll find out over time more about the Saddam era. It's a hard place to crack. People are afraid. Look what happened to somebody today who wanted to step up and have a new Iraq. There are a lot of people in Iraq today that are going to kill you if they can if your idea is to bring about a democratic transformation, because if a democracy is in place, they lose big time because people won't vote for their ideas. You got to stay the course and the paths will come out over time as we have trials and we learn more.", "Senator Bayh, do you sense the public turning against the war in Iraq?", "I think the public is concerned, Larry. I think the American people have more resiliency and staying power than they're given credit for. What they really want are two things. First they want a strategy with a plausible, successful outcome. Lay out the steps that we're going to pursue here to create a stable, more democratic Iraq and ultimately Iraqi defense forces and police forces that can secure their own society so that our troops can come home. What's the strategy? How do we successfully resolve this and No. 2, candor, Larry. And I think that's where we may be getting into trouble. At the outset of this, there were some who said, look, this will be easy. We'll be greeted as liberating heroes. It won't cost us much money or too many lives. Some of the rest of us knew it was going to be more difficult than that. So I think to the extent you're seeing the public sour, it's because of the element of surprise. We need to be candid going forward. We can win this. It's vitally important we be successful but it's going to be a difficult undertaking.", "Judith and this for all of you. What do you make of the killing of the president of the Iraqi governing council today, the second member of the council killed?", "Exactly. I think it shows that the insurgents are targeting the Iraqis who would claim to be part of any kind of transition government, who are working with the Americans, the fact that the insurgents can kill the head of this council will certainly -- it's aimed at deterring other Iraqis from stepping forward to carry this burden. Ultimately, Larry, it's going to be up to the Iraqi people to decide whether or not they have the courage and persistence to fight to save their own country, and we don't yet how that struggle is going to come out.", "Senator Graham, what's your read?", "Well said. They have to want their freedom as much or more than we do. If you sign up to be a police chief, to be a city councilman, to be a governing council member the insurgents and al Qaeda want to kill you, because they don't want a democracy. If you're a coalition force member, they're going to come after you like they did in Spain. Their goal is to drive us out. That's what the beheading was about, and I think we have the resolve, as evidenced, to stay the course, because the only way we'll change this world is allow women to vote, women to participate in Middle East politics and a democratic Iraq is good not only for Iraq, but for the United States, and they're going to test us. Is our resolve to stay greater than their resolve to drive us out? We need to adjust. I believe we're going to stick to it and win if we have the resolve to do so.", "Senate Bayh, is the United States the changer of the world?", "We can't take on the task of changing the entire world but we can stand for our values which are democracy and freedom, and the right of every individual to try and choose their own elected leaders and benefit from the fruits of their own labors, worship God as they see fit, associate with those of their own choosing. If we stand for those principles, that will stand in stark contrast to the principles of those who beheaded Nicholas Berg, the principals of those who assassinated this leader today in Iraq, and in the long run, Larry, you know, we're not perfect. The prisoner scandal showed that. But I think our ideals and values will be a better path for those in the Middle East than suicidal tear and the path that some others would have them travel down. That's our greatest hope in the long run, not imposing our values but exposing others to them. And in the long run if I put it in one sentence, it's not just the power of our arms but the power of our ideas that ultimately will secure our country.", "Thank you. Judith Miller, Senators Lindsey Graham and Evan Bayh. We'll be calling on you all again. We appreciate the time, and when we come back, we'll meet an extraordinary young lady, Anne Hjelle, this is her first live primetime interview. She was mauled by a mountain lion in January. Don't go away.", "We have to be careful. We can't say something that's inaccurate. So what we have to then do is to try to track down and figure out how it might be there, what caused that to be there in this improvised explosive device and what might it mean in terms of the risks to our forces, the risks to other people, and any other implications that one might draw, and that's going to take some time."], "speaker": ["LARRY KING, HOST", "KING", "SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA", "KING", "SENATOR EVAN BAYH (D), INDIANA", "KING", "JUDITH MILLER, \"NEW YORK TIMES\"", "KING", "MILLER", "KING", "GRAHAM", "KING", "BAYH", "KING", "MILLER", "KING", "GRAHAM", "KING", "BAYH", "KING", "DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY"]}
{"id": "CNN-358887", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2019-01-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1901/08/ath.02.html", "summary": "Kamala Harris Launches Book Tour Amid Speculation of White House Run", "utt": ["Is she running or is she running? Right now Democratic Senator Kamala Harris says she is not really running. She is just rolling out a new book. Listen.", "I think we are at an inflection moment, not only in the history of our country but in the history of our world. There's a lot that is in flux there, there's a lot that is changing. There are a lot of people who rightly feel displaced and are wondering, where do they belong, are they relevant, are they seen, are we thinking about them. I think it is clear to me that what we need in this country is leadership that has a vision in the future in which everyone can see themselves.", "Senator Harris is one of many Democrats taking a serious look at entering the 2020 presidential race. And rolling out a book after making stops in Iowa is doing nothing to tamp down that speculation. Is she running? Here now, CNN national political reporter, Maeve Reston, and CNN Politics editor-at-large, Chris Cillizza. Maeve, is she?", "All signs certainly point to yes. My sources in California are telling me that they expect an announcement later this month most likely out on the west coast where she built her political career as a prosecutor and as California's attorney general. And you have seen in these appearances this morning and in this book a real rallying cry against the Trump administration's policies and what she calls a call to action. Her constant refrain both in Iowa and in this book is that we're better than this. Clearly she, feels that it's time for someone who is a more diverse figure in American politics, someone who can lead the country and represent the voiceless. She sort of positioned herself as a champion for the powerless here.", "Chris, so much of the discussion to this point has been do Democrats go for a centrist Democrat? Where does Kamala Harris land?", "She is not center left. Out of the broad spectrum of the 30 plus candidates who might run, in exaggeration but really only slightly, she is not as far left totally. On policy she is probably close but not as far left as Bernie Sanders. But neither is she the establishment pragmatist we need to work with Republicans. I think Joe Biden represents to people whether or not he will talk like that. She is certainly closer to the left than center-left. I think she views that probably as a good thing if that is where the nominee can from. The left, there will be a lot of candidates trying to be the most liberal candidate. Biden will occupy the pragmatic center candidate. I don't think anyone else could. And then the in-between there maybe that is where the nominee comes from. I'm with Maeve, I think her tough-on-crime background, the attorney general of California, the first Indiana-American and first African-American woman elected to the Senate in California.", "And that --", "This is a background that looks like the kind of candidate that the Democratic Party is looking for these days.", "She is the only woman of color who is considering a run, Maeve. What does that mean for her on how she positions herself?", "She had this string of historic firsts throughout her career.", "Yes.", "She is obviously the first African-American Senator from California. And this book really lays out kind of how the story of her immigrant parents shaped her thinking, how she approaches the issue of immigration, for example. And what her team hopes and she does have a good strong team around here, is that she will be able to build a coalition of white progressives coming from that background in San Francisco, women and particularly African-Americans, who will be so key in those early state contests, not just in South Carolina where they made up 61 percent of the electorate in the primary, but also in all of those southeastern states that will come very quickly up on the calendar after those early contests. And if she can rack up a series of wins by consolidating the African-American vote which is a tall task, then she really could be in a strong position early in the presidential season.", "First, she has to announce and then raise money. She is from California, which is where a lot of money is for a Democratic candidate. Chris, we were talking about Joe Biden. I spoke with former Virginia governor, Terry McAuliffe, another possible. He told me that his decision to run is separate and independent of Joe Biden's decision to run, if and when he decides. If Biden is the best-known right now, what does Biden's decision to run or not mean for everybody else?", "Well, I mean, I think most people that I talk to -- if you look at every sign out there, most people assume Biden is going to run barring some last-minute change of heart. I think people are saying he starts the race as the front runner. The question is, how much oxygen is there out there if you are not going to try to be the most liberal candidate, and if you don't have the sort of angle that the historic angle that a Kamala Harris will have, where is there oxygen to get somewhere else. If Biden is the traditional candidate, where do you run and fit? That's where Biden matters. It takes up a big chunk of space that other people can't occupy.", "Fascinating. Buckle up, friends. Great to see you, Maeve.", "Thank you.", "Great to see you, Chris. Thanks guys.", "Thank you.", "Coming up for us, the government shutdown must end -- that is a message from the president of the Association of Flight Attendants. Why she says the shutdown is jeopardizing safety and security at airports."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "SEN. KAMALA HARRIS, (D), CALIFORNIA", "BOLDUAN", "MAEVE RESTON, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER", "BOLDUAN", "CHRIS CILLIZZA, CNN POLITICS REPORTER & CNN POLITICS EDITOR-AT-LARGE", "BOLDUAN", "CILLIZZA", "BOLDUAN", "RESTON", "BOLDUAN", "RESTON", "BOLDUAN", "CILLIZZA", "BOLDUAN", "RESTON", "BOLDUAN", "RESTON", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "NPR-18234", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2006-05-15", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5405611", "title": "An Argument Against Calling Darfur Violence Genocide", "summary": "Michael Clough talks about his op-ed that appeared in Sunday's Los Angeles Times, where he argues that using the word \"genocide\" is both misleading and counterproductive when applied to the violence occurring in Darfur.", "utt": ["On Mondays we turn to the TALK OF THE NATION Opinion Page.", "To call something genocide is controversial. To say that what's happening in Darfur is not genocide may be even more controversial.", "Michael Clough is a former Director of the Africa Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. In Sunday's Current section of The Los Angeles Times, he wrote that calling the crisis in Darfur genocide is not only inaccurate, but counterproductive.", "So is it genocide or not? Why is that word important? If you have questions about Darfur and genocide, give us a call: 800-989-8255. That's 800-989-TALK. The e-mail address is talk@npr.org.", "the United States Policy Toward Africa and the End of the Cold War. He joins us now from the studios of member station KALW in San Francisco. And thanks very much for being with us today.", "Thanks for having me.", "First of all, as you point out in your piece, the word genocide has legal implications.", "Right. The word genocide's actually a very precise legal term that refers to the intent to wipe out, either in whole or part, a particular ethnic, religious, racial, group. I want to be clear in saying that I don't think that Darfur is genocide, as the piece makes clear. That's not saying that I don't think it's a horrific pattern of human rights abuses that demands a very serious response. In fact, part of the argument I'm making there is that we shouldn't have to call it genocide in order to try to mobilize people to act.", "But calling it genocide really runs against what the actual legal definition of genocide is, and it's for that reason that very few, if any, of the major human rights organizations have actually come out and called it genocide. It's been mainly politicians and activists that have adopted that label because they think it'll mobilize the public.", "Well, among them is the United States government. And the way it is usually portrayed - it is that, of course, all of these people are African but we're using different distinctions here, that basically Arab tribesmen and this militia known as the Janjaweed, which works in conjunction with the Sudanese government, has been unleashed on African villagers, partly because they support a rebellion, partly for various other reasons. But why doesn't that qualify for genocide?", "Well, you said partly because they support a rebellion. I don't think it's partly because they support a rebellion; I think what's going on in Darfur is a very brutal counter-insurgency campaign directed against the villages that support the rebels.", "I - there's clearly been animosities over time between Arabs and Africans, but in western Sudan, which is where Darfur is, there hasn't been this history of ethnic conflict. In fact, Alex de Waal, one of the people who knows the region best, has written about, you know, sort of the long-standing malleable nature of ethnic and other boundary lines there. There wasn't, as in Rwanda or in other places that we think of as being heavily conflicted ethnically, a long history of ethnic tension.", "It's much more political. It's much more directed towards the fact that the government there, just as it tried to do in the south and other parts of the country when it was facing an insurgency, has gone after the sea in which the rebels swim.", "And, as you say, the tactics are quite similar to what happened in southern Sudan during that very, very long conflict.", "Yeah, and two million people may have died in southern Sudan, which is part of my point is that by focusing on genocide we may be missing the fact that what we need to be responding to are gross human rights abuses, not to the labeling of a conflict as a genocide. And, as I say in the article, there are also other reasons why I think it's particularly problematic to choose that label.", "Well, one of the things you fear is that the use of the word genocide will, in fact, exacerbate tensions between the Arabs and the Africans who, at the end of the day, have to live together.", "Exactly. I mean, it's a mistake to believe that the Arab population, the Arab nomads and other groups that I identify with the Arab government in that region, aren't going to go away. They're going to be there, and peace in Darfur is going to require those population groups to come together. By declaring it a genocide, you've already set up a categorization that is going to make it hard for any of those groups to begin to sort of move beyond.", "I think that we ought to focus on the real perpetrators of the human rights abuses, which is the government of Sudan, not on some ethnic categorization. And there, as I mention in the article, one of the examples of the dangers of genocide rhetoric is what's going on in Rwanda. The - in Rwanda we had what was clearly a genocide. I don't think there's anybody that disputes that. But now we have a situation in which the government that came to power after that genocide, which is a minority government, basically uses genocide rhetoric to carry out - as Human Rights Watch has documented - an incredibly repressive political strategy.", "And so, once again, I mean, we've got to be careful of what the consequences of the rhetoric we use are.", "Would ethnic cleansing be a more appropriate term?", "Well I - Human Rights Watch - and I should be clear, I don't speak for Human Rights Watch anymore, I'm now a private attorney. I worked for Human Rights Watch for nine months on an interim basis during part of the Darfur debate. Human Rights Watch called it ethnic cleansing. Personally, I'm not even sure ethnic cleansing makes sense in the context. I think, as I said, I think it's a brutal counter-insurgency campaign.", "We've seen other counter-insurgency efforts. We could look at the situation in Angola, or quite frankly, look at Vietnam. People forget, a million people died - a million civilians died in the Vietnam conflict. Many of them as a result of U.S. activities designed to eliminate the villages and hamlets and the support that was coming from the peasants for the Viet Cong.", "So I - once again, I think it's - I would much rather focus on getting out of the naming game and also this even more important problem is if we're going to prevent genocide, or prevent gross human rights abuses, however we call them, what we've got to do is develop the capacity to respond early on in the cycle of conflict. One of the problems with genocide is that by the time something reaches the level at which there's even a genocide debate, it's already too late to prevent much of the suffering.", "And so I think we need, in a sense, a coalition to prevent human rights abuses as much as we need a coalition to stop genocide.", "Michael Clough is on the TALK OF THE NATION Opinion Page today. He's written an Op-Ed piece in The Los Angeles Times that argues that the use of the word genocide, as it relates to Darfur, is both inaccurate and counter-productive.", "This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.", "And let's get a listener involved. John(ph) is with us on the phone line. 800-989-8255 if you'd like to join us. John's in Jacksonville, Florida.", "Hi. I have a - first a statement and then a question for Mr. Clough. The word ethnic cleansing reminds me too much of an Orwellian term. It's basically newspeak - it's making a word, genocide, into something that's a little bit more palatable. And I was first alarmed in Bosnia when ethnic cleansing was used instead of genocide, and also in Rwanda I remember ethnic cleansing being used.", "I'm wondering - I mean, as far as I know, the term genocide is a systematic elimination of a race. Under the U.N. Charter, it's also my understanding that they are mandated to intervene if genocide is taking place. So I'm wondering, is this actually a systematic extermination of a race by another race? Is it genocide, and if it is, wouldn't the U.N. be mandated to intervene and stop it?", "John, that's an excellent question. In fact, you've actually gone right to the heart of the problem with the use of the term genocide in this context.", "One, it's now been, what, 20 months since people started to begin to call Darfur genocide. They did begin to call it, for exactly the reasons you've -genocide for exactly the reasons you cited. They thought it would mandate the international community to respond. The international community hasn't responded that way.", "So, in a funny way, one of the unfortunate lessons of this debate is that you created a public consensus called a genocide, and you established that the international community won't respond in the way that it is theoretically mandated to do. In fact, one of the great ironies is that the same day that Colin Powell said that the State Department had found that it was genocide, he also said, well, but it won't really change the direction of U.S. policy. And U.S. policy continues to be a much more nuanced policy than you would expect in response to genocide.", "Now, to go back to the question, I don't think that what's going on there is a systematic attempt to eliminate the African population. I think it's a systematic attempt to defeat the insurgency and the rebels, and that the solution is ultimately as we're seeing now, a political solution. Once there's either a political settlement or a change in government, I don't think that this is going to be a continuing conflict between Arabs and Africans, which is what the term genocide implies.", "John, thanks very much for the call.", "Thank you.", "Another thing you pointed out was that Darfur came to a lot of people's attention, not to say that it wasn't happening earlier, about the same time as the 10th Anniversary of Rwanda, and indeed, this was, in some people's minds, the new Rwanda…", "Right.", "…what was going on now. But even in Rwanda, where obviously things happened a lot quicker, but in Rwanda, that was clearly genocide and the international community did nothing about that either.", "Exactly. And that period in time I think is actually very instructive. I mean one of the reasons that I'm so concerned about the mischaracterization is that there's been a boom-bust cycle in activism concerned with Africa. And what people now forget is that the main reason the United States was so slow to respond in Rwanda, to what was clearly genocide, was because of the disaster in Somalia.", "In December of 1992, the old Bush administration made what was a generally applauded decision to intervene in Somalia. As we know, it turned out to be a disaster, (unintelligible) debate over why. But then the Clinton administration was forced to pull out of Somalia. Somalia is now - in fact, Somalia is coming back into the news this week because of continuing fighting. There's no state there.", "In that case, you had this exact same phenomenon. The activists rallied to humanitarian intervention in Somalia. It created a set of consequences that no one was prepared for. And when it came to Rwanda, people forget, Madeleine Albright basically used Rwanda to send the message that the Clinton administration was not going to embark on dangerous foreign adventures. And so when we get these sorts of rallies we've got to be careful about what the long-term consequences are going to be.", "Michael Clough, thanks very much.", "Thank you.", "Michael Clough's Op-Ed appeared in The Los Angeles Times. His, and all the previous stories in this series, are linked at the TALK OF THE NATION page at npr.org.", "Michael Clough, former director of the Africa Program at the Council on Foreign Relations.", "I'm Neal Conan, NPR News, in Washington."], "speaker": ["NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Michael Clough is also the author of Free at Last", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "JOHN (Caller)", "JOHN (Caller)", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "JOHN (Caller)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "Mr. MICHAEL CLOUGH (Author; Former Director of the Africa Program, Council on Foreign Relations)", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host", "NEAL CONAN, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-255078", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2015-05-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1505/12/lvab.02.html", "summary": "Two Georgia Deputies Caught On Video Violently Restraining Inmate", "utt": ["We got some new video just in to us of sheriffs, deputies in Chatham County, Georgia and they are violently restraining an inmate who had just come out of a restraint chair. I do want to give you a warning. This is pretty disturbing video but it's also very telling. Two of the deputies in the video happen to be the same deputies who were recently fired for their part in the confrontation that led to the death of a 21-year-old man named Matthew Ajibade. Now, this is not Matthew. Ajibade was arrested in January but this video is taken 23 days after the death of Ajibade and you can see this very violent confrontation that sheriffs and deputies taking that man down. They went back for that inmate and according to the affiliate WSAV, they opened that door without telling a supervisor for violation. The confrontation turned violent. A third officer enters the scene, delivers a knee blow to the inmate's head. It's not protocol either. A female deputy ended up being involved as well and she brought out her Taser. She had that Taser real close to him and the report said that that inmate was tased while he was in full restraint. CNN Law Enforcement Analyst Cedric Alexander who is the President of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives with us live. And also with me is CNN commentator Mel Robbins. So first to you Mel, I just want -- you've seen the video, you had a chance to look at it. I often start off by saying, \"Let's remember folks, these guys are not in those circumstances because they were singing too loud in church. They are often violent. They are often difficult. They bite, they spit, they punch, they hurt even if they're in restraint.\" But with that said, is an officer allowed to use all that kind of force to try to restrain a bad guy?", "Well, there is a justification for using force in certain situations and that, what we just saw on that video and there's more to that video, there's a second confrontation where that same officer that rackets the guy in the head with his knee does the exact same move to another guy who's doing nothing. And so --", "Spitting or yelling or something now --", "He's spitting.", "Yeah.", "So here's the problem, in a correction facility it's very different than being a police officer on the street. You actually have a controlled environment. You also have background on the inmate so that you know exactly what they've done or been accused off. You now whether or not there's a mental health history or whether or not they're --", "You would hope you have, but this is intake. These guys have not been sitting in the cell for a long time.", "Yes, but they have complaints and in this particular situation, we're talking about a situation that didn't turn violent. We're seeing on videotape a situation that officers created using violence. And so, you don't see any, yeah, like you don't see anything happening with that inmate and yes...", "I do, I see him taking a shoulder to the bigger officer. Now, I see the bigger officer also, you know, like you said, gave him the rackets kick to the head with his knee. But Cedric Alexander, is there any circumstance for officers like that to use any means necessary with their body for instance if they're not holding a Taser, if they can't tase this guy and he is violent, can they knee kick him to the head, can they use their own bodies to stop him any way they can?", "Well, you know, every agency and I'm quite sure and this agency as well too inside a correctional facility, you're going to have policies in which you're going to have to abide by even when it comes to take downs. There are such in this case as well too. But it's very hard for me because in some ways, we can clearly see what is going on. But yet in some ways we can not. So without me being too speculative about this Ashleigh, I think one thing that's going to be critically important in this particular case considering the history of a previous case 23 days ago is going to be the outcome of the investigation. And I'm quite sure that is going to be conducted or is currently under investigation. Because I think in there, we're going to get more to the truth that is going to collaborate with that video and maybe some that will not. But certainly it is not a video in which I would say the officers in some kind of way felt that they're in threat for their lives and they needed to go beyond what they would typically go beyond. But this clearly is a case that's going to require some more review considering his history.", "Well, without question -- considering its question considering Matthew Ajibade is dead.", "Right.", "And so this is, you know, 23 days later you got an evidence --", "That's right.", "-- of guys who were, you know, let go. So I have to leave it there but we're going to continue to watch this case. Mel, I know you were fascinated by the fact that the people who were watching, the administrators didn't seemed to be -- they were somewhat non-classify what they were witnessing and that's maybe something that will work itself into this case too. Cedric Alexander as always, thank you.", "Thank you.", "Mel, always good to see you.", "Thank you. Coming up, a shot fired at one George Zimmerman. Yes, the George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Lots of shattered glass, but Mr. Zimmerman survived and we have the 911 call. But wow, this makes a long list of incidents George Zimmerman has been involved in. We'll update you next."], "speaker": ["ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, CNN HOST", "MEL ROBBINS, CNN COMMENTATOR", "BANFIELD", "ROBBINS", "BANFIELD", "ROBBINS", "BANFIELD", "ROBBINS", "BANFIELD", "CEDRIC ALEXANDER, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "BANFIELD", "ALEXANDER", "BANFIELD", "ALEXANDER", "BANFIELD", "ALEXANDER", "BANFIELD", "ROBBINS"]}
{"id": "CNN-318102", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-08-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/02/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Detained; Lawsuit Fox News & White House Made Up Seth Rich Story", "utt": ["Hello, everyone! You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles, I am Isha Sesay.", "I'm John Vause. We'll take the headlines this hour. Rex Tillerson says the U.S. is willing to hold talks with North Korea proving the Pyongyang includes its nuclear weapons program in those negotiations. The U.S. secretary of state insists, Washington is not pushing for regime change, but he says Pyongyang is posing an unacceptable threat, and the U.S. must respond.", "President Donald Trump says the U.S. is holding Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, personally responsible for the safety of two opposition leaders. The men were pulled off of their home in the middle of the night and thrown in jail. The pro-Maduro Supreme Court says Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma were detained because they were planning to flee. The opposition leaders publicly opposed the new assembly that has the power to rewrite the constitution.", "Two suicide bombers killed at least 29 people at Tuesday in a Shiite Mosque in Western Afghanistan. Police say one of the bombers started firing on worshipers and then blew himself up. The second bomber also blew himself up in the crowd of people that gathered their evening prayers, still unclear who is responsible for the attack.", "Apple shares all surging an after hours trading. After the company predicted it would be the expectations and hit $52 billion in sales in the fourth quarter. And that's suggest Apple well indeed launched its new iPhone come September. Apple earning also sold 17 percent in the third quarter. Now a bombshell lawsuit against Fox News claims that the White House played a role in the network fake story about a murdered DNC staffer.", "And also like this story was department effort to distract from the conversing course by the ongoing Russia investigation. We get details from Brian Stelter.", "There's a possibility, this is a guy who provided two Wikileaks all those DNC e-mails.", "A false story peddled by Fox News, could have finger print that reach all the way to the White House. A new lawsuit filed in federal court claims Fox concocted the story about the murder of 27 year old DNC Staffer Seth Rich and claims the White House have oversight it.", "If it was true that Seth Rich at Wikileaks and DNC e-mails would not blow the whole Russia collusion narrative that the media has been pushing out of the water.", "That is part of this pro-Trump conspiracy theory. Rich's family says his death had been exploited by right-wing media. At the center of the story is Ed Butowsky a wealthy Republican donor. Tuesdays suit followed by Rod Wheeler a Fox News contributor claims Butowsky and Fox were in cahoots contriving a link between Rich and Wikileaks. Wheeler worked with Butowsky investigating Rich's death.", "It's very consistent for a person with my experience can begin to think, well perhaps there were some e-mail communications between Seth and Wikileaks.", "Rich's family says, \"That's not true\". And D.C. police believe his killing was a bust robbery nothing politically motivated. But that didn't stop Fox.", "It sure doesn't look like a robbery. It looks like a murder.", "After days of coverage back in May, the network retracted the story. Now a month later Wheeler's explosive lawsuit says he was misquoted defamed by Fox. And his suit goes much further claiming Butowsky coordinated the phony story with the White House. Why quote \"to shift the blame from Russia and refute coalition claims?\" Butowsky named as a defendant in the suit strongly denies the allegations. ED BUTOWSKY, TRUMP SUPPORTER and", "The lawsuit is absolute crap. There's nothing to this law suit that has any in there whatsoever.", "This text mess age from Butowsky to Wheeler is one of the suits most eye-popping claims. \"Not to add anymore pressure but the President just read the article. He wants the article out immediately. It's now all up to you but don't feel the pressure\". Butowsky now says he was just kidding around.\"", "I was just joking with the man. And that's all that was.", "The White House pushing back as well.", "The President didn't have knowledge of the story. The White House didn't had any involvement in the story.", "But there is a link to the White House. Butowsky and Wheeler met with then Press Secretary Sean Spicer a month before the phony Fox story came out. Spicer says it was just a 10 minute courtesy meeting and the White House had nothing to do with his story. But the suit claims that Spicer asked to be kept addressed of developments. As for Fox it calls the accusation that it published the Seth Rich story did detract from the Russian Coalition Issue \"Completely erroneous\".", "And Brian is with us now from New York. You know Brian it took Fox a week to retract this particular story after it was published. But the network they've been, they were hammering this bogus story along before that and creating their selves narrative. It wasn't the Russians in fact the DNC it was Seth Rich and this ultimate example of fake news its living on to this day.", "It is. It's a counter narrative that is popular amongst some Trump voters who do not accept the U.S. Intelligence Community's conclusion that Russia interfered in the U.S. election. That is of course partly predicated on the Wikileaks release of DNC e-mails, e- mails stolen from the DNC. There's a lot of other evidence involving Russian interference. But the DNC e-mail is one piece of the puzzle. And the Seth Rich conspiracy theory suggests are actually assert. No, it wasn't Russia it was this DNC staffer who stole the e-mails and then got them over to Wikileaks and he was killed for doing so. Imagine the heartache that this has put those Rich's family through. They say this conspiracy theory is bogus but it's been an increase source of amount pain for the family that is already grieving for the loss of their child. Now they have to see these kinds of story all over the place and Fox perpetuated it.", "And they had beg for weeks asking the network --", "That's right, yes.", "-- to stop putting to end, you know, for whatever reason it took a consider amount of time. You mentioned Wikileaks. According to the lawsuit, the Fox News reporter attributed two fabricated statements to Wheeler define at here. Here are those statements, \"My investigation up to this point shows there was some degree of e-mail exchange between Seth Rich and Wikileaks\". And that the other statement, \"My investigation show someone within the D.C. government, Democratic National Committee or Clinton Team is blocking the murder investigation from going forward. That is unfortunate. Seth Rich's murder is unsolved as a result of that.\" Now this is what Wheeler said was his first reaction when he saw those bogus lines attributed to him.", "The reporter from Fox News Malia Zimmerman she wrote that story. I immediately challenged her. And I said, \"Malia that's just simply not true, you and I both know this isn't true\". And she said, well her boss has told her to leave those quotes in there. And I said, \"Why would you leave something in an article that you know is not true?\" And that's why we're here today.", "So Brian, the court filing Wheeler alleges \"That's how the President wanted the story\". We don't know if that's true. At the very least can we say the White House did nothing to kill the story which it knew to be totally false?", "I think of it on the Fox News side the ethics of Fox's behavior here are -- they're lacking to say the least. The idea that the boss is wanted this out there. They're pushing this story, it's a survey and from a journalistic ethics point of view, this is a disaster for Fox News. They retracted it. They said they're still investigating. Who knows what will happen. But on the White House side I think it's murkier. I think it's unclear exactly how much involvement there was at the White House. We know Sean Spicer had this meeting with Wheeler where it talked about the investigation. Spicer suggested there weren't any other conversations after that. The lawsuit contradicts him and says Spicer wanted updates on what was going on. Now, the lawsuit also says Steve Bannon was in touch in some way with the GOP donor who was pushing this. So it's murky. And I think there's more reporting that needs to be done on the White House piece of this.", "You know, we don't know if these allegations are true. We don't know how much involvement there was from the President of the United States. Did he work with Fox News to fabricate the story? But it comes just out after the Washington Post reported that Donald Trump dictated a false story about his son's campaign meeting with a Russian lawyer. You know, these accusations would lead devastating for any president. But it seems especially so for a president who complains almost daily about fake news.", "And this is a false news story. What Fox was pushing at may was a false story. And it came at a terrible time for President Trump. Terrible time, meaning he had just fired James Comey. He had shared top secret information with the Russians in the Oval Office. He was at that moment. The low point is presidency, his gone lower since. But at that time it was the low point in his presidency. And what did Fox do? It touted this story to made him look in some ways good and give a counter narrative to all the Russian coalition questions. So this was for Trump it was a story he needed at that moment. Does that mean the White House was involved in someway? As you said, we don't know. We need to have more reporting on this. Maybe the lawyers will be able to get more through the discovery process in this lawsuit.", "Very quickly last question here. Wheeler, he is claiming he was forced to correct the record that goes un-repairable (ph) harm to his reputation and career but how reliable is he and how reliable is his testimony?", "I have questions about that because he was at Fox by the time he was saying some of the stuff on the air at the time. And now he is telling us somewhat different story. It is unclear, you know, why he's had this change of heart. I have questions about that that I would like to ask him. But the bigger issue here as you've been hearing on John, is the White House, is the Trump White House and its deceptive nature the Washington Post story being the most recent example. And then you hear about this, the idea that Fox and the Trump White House are working together in order to concoct this story. The reason why I'm taking it seriously is because of the Trump White House credibility crisis. And because of its past behavior trying to influence and interfere in news conference.", "And of course, in all of these a complete and total disregard it seem for, you know, what the parents of this young man have been going through, I believe in prime (ph).", "At the status protocol.", "Yes, Brian, good to speak with you. Thanks so much.", "Thanks.", "Quick break here. The Brexit vote exposed some deep risk in British society. 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{"id": "CNN-278974", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2016-03-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/15/se.04.html", "summary": "Donald Trump Speaks to Supporters; Clinton Maintains Lead in Illinois; Sanders and Clinton Close in Missouri; Trump Wins Big Again .", "utt": ["Let's get a key race alert. Three outstanding contests remaining. Nail biter in the way in Missouri right now on the republican side. Look at this, Donald Trump 41.8 percent, Ted Cruz 41.2 percent. Donald Trump is ahead by only 3,141 votes, 71 percent of the vote is in. We still not have been able to make a projection there. Look how close it is in Missouri on the republican side. Staying in Missouri now on the democratic side, it's close. Forty one of vote is in. Bernie Sanders does have a lead of about 10,038 votes. He's at 51.2 percent, 47.4 percent for Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders is looking his first win of the night maybe in Missouri. We'll see what happens there. In Illinois, Hillary Clinton has a slight lead, 51.7 over Bernie Sanders's 47.5 percent. She's up by 54,000 votes, 66 percent is in. In Illinois it's close there in Illinois for the democrats in Illinois and Missouri. Very close on the republican side in Missouri as well. Let's go over to John King at the magic wall. You're looking at this three contest, to get a better sense of where it's moving right now. It's very close in all three of them.", "Yes. And I'm just trying to look at some of the delegate math. And I've been very generous here, if Donald Trump holds out in Missouri and he's won Illinois, this gives him more delegates than he's going to get from those states because we don't know the break down by congressional district yet but you have to do in Missouri, but we don't know the breakdown in Illinois just yet. But even if he do this, if Donald Trump, and again, that's an overly generous number. Donald Trump is going to end the night needing to win 60 percent, probably a little higher than 60 percent of the remaining republican delegates. So, just in ballpark 60 percent is 1,006 republican delegates left to be won in the remaining contest. Donald Trump is going to have to win in ballpark 60 percent of those delegates. Not impossible but it's difficult. Because not all of those states, any of those states are now winner-take-all. So, it's a very interesting dynamic. Everyone I know is saying where does Kasich go from there? But that win in Ohio tonight substantially increases the odds that Donald Trump gets to the end in the lead, yes, but shy of 1237. It doesn't mean he can't get there but he will have to win 60 percent of the delegates to do it from here on out and that's a high test. Now let's look at the democratic race. If you look right now without dealing with Illinois or Missouri yet, Hillary Clinton this is quite substantial. She now has a 300 delegate lead just pledge delegates. Forget the super delegates she has in her back pocket. The Sanders campaign doesn't even like to talk about those, so for now, we won't. But it doesn't matter. Because she has a 300 delegate lead right now. Even if, even if these are very close contest. But even if Bernie Sanders, let's say he wins Missouri, it's very close right now and gets slightly more than Hillary Clinton, they're running, it's a 50 -- both races Illinois and Missouri are 50/50. So, they are going to essentially evenly split the delegates. Even if we're overly generous and give Senator Sanders this, Secretary Clinton is going to end the night in the area of 300. This has just under 300. But I just gave those delegates probably overly generous to Senator Sanders. So, the Clinton campaign they don't think tonight is going to end like this. They think they can still win both Illinois and Missouri and right now they're in position to possibly do that. But even if they don't, they're going to end in the ballpark of a 300 delegate lead, which they will make the case -- 72 percent, if that's the case, Senator Sanders would have to win 72 percent of the remaining delegates from here on out. Although Hillary Clinton would have to do to clinch her keep her current percentage which is winning about 58, 59 percent of the delegates. So, the Clinton campaign will say mathematically it's impossible. The Sanders campaign will say there's some nice states to come but the math at the end of the night especially on the democratic side, pretty overwhelmingly on Hillary Clinton's favor. As we wait to sort Illinois and Missouri. Now on the republican side the Stop Trump movement will say he's not going to get there by the convention. And Trump supporters I know Jeff has been quite adamant about this but having to say even if he doesn't, he still have a lopsided lead. But that fight continues.", "Yes, you need a majority, you need that 1,237 to get the nomination that close but you need 1,237 according to the current rules of the RNC. All right. Let's go to Anderson.", "Yes, Wolf, thanks very much. Let's try to play out what happens, assuming Trump doesn't get the complete number of delegates he needs, comes close to John's point but doesn't get it. Nia, what happens in Cleveland?", "You know, it's anybody's guess. I mean, it's going to be Helter Skelter there in terms of trying to figure out a way to stop Trump. The establishment trying to stop him but also this idea -- Gloria laid out two scenarios, sort of going around Cruz are finding someone else. But the other thing is can they find a way to sort of rehabilitate Trump in some ways? I mean, can be become a better candidate, can he move away from a lot of the harsh talk that has alienated a lot of voters in the primary, and can they kind of clean him up...", "And the other option is that by that point many in the establishment will sort of given up to stop Trump and sort of tried to make their peace with him.", "I'm not sure they're ever going to give up in trying to stop Donald Trump in this process. I see signs that they're going to want to fight this thing all the way through Cleveland. To Nia's point, Donald Trump tonight was a more conciliatory Donald Trump, apart from regarding the media as quote, \"disgusting.\" I didn't hear any of...", "He meant that in nice way.", "I didn't hear him say anything about Governor Kasich, which I found very interesting. Maybe I missed it but I don't think so. But he again made reference to having spoken with Paul Ryan to having spoken with Mitch McConnell I think this is and he didn't take questions from the media perhaps wanting to make sure that the evening ended on that relatively high note. One other item, if I can point this out, Anderson, about the night that he had. Earlier, David Chalian noted that 36 percent of those in Florida who wished to give a path to illegals nevertheless voted for Donald Trump. I went back and I looked at the Florida internals and I that see Trump won 38 percent of non-Cuban Hispanics. You know he loves to say the Hispanics, they love me, tonight, to an extent, they did.", "You know. I think that the -- it actually -- I disagree with you that the establishment will never give up. I think if Donald Trump is close, if he's in the sort of 45 to 50 range, I think it's going to -- I think they're going to be resigned to the reality of this thing...", "Can't deny it.", "It's just simply too messy to deny a guy who is right on the doorstep of claiming the nomination. I mean, you'd rip your party apart. Can you imagine that convention where virtually half of the delegates are there?", "Today, I think Rush Limbaugh was saying that Jeb Bush is going to come back that he's going to be the one that doesn't seem to...", "Many republicans believe if they nominate Donald Trump it will destroy the Republican Party. Others believe that if they fight the nomination on the floor, it will destroy the Republican Party. Either way, I'll be watching it from my classy estate from Mar-A-Lago, you know, my super model wife.", "If Donald Trump only goes into convention say 50 percent, maybe 60 percent of the republican votes, i.e. delegates, how do you as party elder or as a king maker say, well, to 60 percent of the party voters, we know better than you. I think that's a huge mistake and it's right in the face of democracy. I am the first person to say I do not want Donald Trump to be our nominee or the president. But I think that would be a huge mistake for the party and for the whole process.", "But they're going to try to fight it before, before you get to that point.", "It is still going to resonate badly with his supporters.", "So, we have a key race alert and we'll come, Wolf.", "All right, Anderson. We got a key race alert in Missouri. All of a sudden Ted Cruz has taken a very slight lead over Donald Trump in Missouri, 77 percent of the vote is in. Ted Cruz now at 41.7 percent. Look at how close it is with Donald Trump, 41.6 percent, 892 votes separate these two. Ted Cruz is speaking right now. I think I want to go listen to Ted Cruz. Let's listen in. He's in Houston.", "Thank you so very much. God bless each and every one of you.", "Ted Cruz delivering a very, very tough speech largely designed to go against Donald Trump. Donald Trump so far has won three states, Ted Cruz so far has not won any states. Let's give you a key race alert right now at what's going on. There are three outstanding contest on the republican side. One outstanding contest, Donald Trump, he's at 41.5 percent, Ted Cruz, 41.2 percent. In Missouri, 99 percent of the vote is in. In Missouri, Donald Trump is ahead by 2,315. Fifty two delegates at stake in Missouri, it's very, very close. Once again, 99 percent of the vote has been counted. Donald Trump has a very, very slight lead right now, 2,300 votes over Ted Cruz. On the democratic side, take a look at this. In Missouri at the same time, very close, Bernie Sanders has 50.8 percent, Hillary Clinton 48 percent, 62 percent of the vote is in. Nearly 12,000 vote advantage for Bernie Sanders right now in Missouri. He has not won a state yet tonight. This would be his first win if he holds on. In Illinois she has a lead, 76 percent of the vote is in, Hillary Clinton with 51.1 percent, Bernie Sanders 48 percent. She's got a lead of almost 46,000 in Illinois right now. She's already won three states, North Carolina, Ohio, and Florida. Illinois still outstanding. Missouri is still outstanding on the democratic side. The only outstanding vote on the republican side, Missouri. Here are the states won so far. Let's update you. Donald Trump, he has won tonight in Florida, Illinois, and North Carolina. 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{"id": "CNN-142571", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-9-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/05/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Uproar Over the President's Address to School Kids", "utt": ["It may actually be the Obama administration that learns a tough lesson from the president's upcoming speech to school children.", "Talk about an uproar here. Really a huge uproar generated by this talk that's happening Tuesday. It's causing the White House to release a complete text of the speech early on Monday. But the question is, will parents still let their kids listen? Here's our own Tom Foreman.", "Call it a fast lesson in public pushback. The president's plan to speak to school kids on Tuesday has some conservative parents saying he's trying to brainwash their kids into buying his politics.", "Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that, it just really upsets me.", "Politics is up to the family.", "So will I send my child, I don't know. Right now I would say no, I'll keep them home.", "Across the country many school districts are encouraging students to watch. In New Orleans it will be required but that's an exception. In virtually every state at least some states schools have decided to either not show the speech, review it first or make viewing optional. Some cite schedule conflicts and technical difficulties but this was not what the White House expected. The president's speech will focus on keeping kids in school, a subject he's promoted before.", "Unfortunately nearly 30 percent of U.S. high school students aren't making it to graduation.", "But the core complaint seems to be with supplementary teaching materials from the Department of Education. Originally they called for students to write, quote, \"What they can do to help the president.\" (", "The White House has since changed that, suggesting the children now write about their own educational goals. Furthermore, the text of the president's speech will now be put online Monday, so any teacher, parent or politician can preview what's going to be said. (", "Plenty seemed fine with that, including the national president of the", "We have an opportunity here in the United States for parents, teachers and students to take part in a tremendous civics lesson.", "Still, just like the crowds at all of those town hall meetings, others are far from satisfied.", "My rights as a parent are being circumvented so that this president can speak to my children.", "And they clearly resent the notion that they are unfairly questioning the president's motives.", "Education matters, and what you do today and what you don't do can change your future.", "After all, they point out, when the first President Bush spoke to school kids on TV in 1991, top democrats called that just political advertising on the taxpayer's dime. Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.", "And if you would like to, you can watch the president's full address to the nation's school children on Tuesday. It starts at noon eastern, 9:00 A.M. pacific and, of course, you can watch it all right here on", "Well, kind of curious now, even if you weren't even into it or thinking about it. All of this hubbub about a speech and the president speaking to the country's schoolchildren seems a little much.", "It makes you want to watch.", "It makes you want to watch, there you go. Reynolds, we will be watching that next week.", "A lot of crowds are going to be gathering as we said this holiday weekend. People might want to cover your mouth. You might want to watch the shaking of the hands and things like that because h1n1 is a real issue, it's a real problem and it is spreading. How worried should you actually be about it? When can we possibly see a vaccine? We're getting some answers from the CDC."], "speaker": ["HOLMES", "BALDWIN", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FOREMAN", "OBAMA", "FOREMAN", "On camera)", "Voice-over)", "PTA. CHARLES SAYLORS, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL PTA", "FOREMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FOREMAN", "GEORGE BUSH", "FOREMAN", "BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "CNN. T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR", "BALDWIN", "HOLMES", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "NPR-13603", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2018-01-18", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/01/18/578956901/trump-says-his-commitment-to-border-wall-is-rock-solid", "title": "Trump Says His Commitment To Border Wall Is Rock Solid", "summary": "President Trump's proposed border wall has long been a rallying cry for his supporters. Aides say Trump's views on the wall have evolved over time, but the president insists his plan is still rock solid.", "utt": ["President Trump says his commitment to a border wall remains rock solid. He appears to be pushing back today against comments from his chief of staff that the president's feelings on the wall have evolved over time. In a tweet this morning, Trump insisted, quote, \"the wall is the wall. It has never changed or evolved.\" NPR's Scott Horsley reports.", "From the moment he began running for president two and a half years ago, Donald Trump's border wall has been a central feature of his campaign.", "Nobody builds walls better than me. Believe me. And I'll build them very inexpensively.", "This is from the president's 2015 kickoff announcement in Trump Tower, the one where he denounced Mexican border crossers as rapists and drug dealers.", "I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.", "Never mind that illegal border crossings had already fallen 75 percent in the last 15 years or that most illicit drugs are smuggled through legal ports of entry. The builder-turned-politician had struck a nerve, and Trump's border wall quickly became a rallying cry at campaign events around the country...", "Build the wall. Build the wall. We will.", "Build the wall. Build the wall.", "...As always with the call and response.", "Who's going to pay for it?", "Mexico.", "One hundred percent, OK?", "Mexico's president made it crystal clear his country would not pay for the wall. He even canceled an early meeting with Trump to drive that point home. The two men later spoke by telephone, and Trump urged his counterpart not to call his bluff so publicly.", "Funding for the wall is now one of the sticking points in congressional negotiations over spending and immigration. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont grilled the homeland security secretary earlier this week.", "Do you know whether we have arrangements with Mexico to pay for it?", "I know that we have arrangements with Mexico to secure our border.", "Do we have arrangements with them to pay for the wall as President Trump promised the American people they would do?", "In ducking the question, Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen made it plain the administration doesn't have an actual plan to recover the wall's cost from Mexico.", "How do you mean pay, Sir? Do you mean through fees? Do you mean through - there's a variety of ways.", "Well, usually when something is paid for, you pay for it with money.", "The White House briefly floated a plan to pay for the wall by taxing imports from Mexico, effectively shifting the cost to U.S. consumers. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham quickly shot down that idea, tweeting, any policy that drives up the cost of Corona, tequila or margaritas is a big-time bad idea - mucho sad. The White House has also suggested that NAFTA negotiations with Mexico could indirectly produce revenue for the wall.", "For now, though, U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for anything that's built. The administration's asking for $18 billion over the next 10 years, though Trump said last week the wall shouldn't cost that much.", "I like to go under budget, ahead of schedule.", "Trump has also acknowledged the wall might not need to be a concrete barrier in its entirety. Fencing could work in some areas. And it doesn't have to stretch along the whole 2,000-mile border.", "Because of mountains and rivers and lots of other things. But we need a certain portion of that border to have the wall. If we don't have it, you could never have security.", "White House chief of staff John Kelly told Fox News this week the president really wants to wall off only about 800 miles of border.", "He has evolved in the way he's looked at things. Campaign to governing are two different things, and this president is very, very flexible in terms of what is within the realm of the possible.", "Trump is still in campaign mode on Twitter, though, making the case for his wall. While critics have dismissed the proposal as a 14th century solution to a 21st century problem, the border wall remains a potent symbol as well as a stumbling block to congressional compromise. Trump tweeted this morning, if there is no wall, there is no deal. 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{"id": "NPR-14417", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2006-02-21", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5226605", "title": "The Medical Ethics of the Death Penalty", "summary": "The execution of convicted killer and rapist Michael Morales was delayed when two court-appointed anesthesiologists refused to take part. Attorneys for Morales argued that lethal injection was cruel and unusual punishment. Alex Chadwick discusses the controversy with Dr. Priscilla Ray of the American Medical Association's ethics council.", "utt": ["Convicted killer and rapist Michael Morales was scheduled to die by lethal injection just after midnight at California's San Quentin prison. But the execution was delayed when two court-appointed anesthesiologists refused to take part. Those doctors had been asked to attend the execution after Morales's legal team called California's lethal injection cocktail cruel and unusual punishment.", "Dr. Priscilla Ray is Chair of the American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. Earlier, I asked her to outline the AMA's ethical stand on doctors participating in executions.", "The AMA's position is that while a position on the death penalty is up to each individual person's moral and ethical beliefs, that physicians should not participate in executions.", "So, would it be then unethical to oversee or to witness an execution in an official capacity?", "Yes it would. And our belief is based on the fundamental ethical precept of medicine is that we first do no harm.", "In this case, here you have someone who's been found guilty of a heinous crime, been sentenced to death, and has raised objections about the way the execution is carried out, says that he's concerned that he may feel excruciating pain. Wouldn't it be the role of a physician to sort of look over that and say well here's how you can avoid the pain?", "I think the patient or the, I guess, condemned person in that setting, is not interested actually in dying. And so, it's the issue of do we adhere to the patient's wishes if there's hope of prolonging life or preserving health? Or do we simply participate in an execution by giving advice, by giving counseling, by overseeing it, or supervising it? And our position is that that's what doctors are not supposed to do. We're healers, we're not killers.", "If an anesthesiologist oversaw an execution, or simply witnessed one, or lent some advice, would you take action against that person? Would the AMA attempt to have his or her license revoked?", "The American Medical Association, if the case is brought to us, would be reviewed by the Council on Ethical Judicial Affairs concerning that physician's membership in the American Medical Association. The board of medical examiners in the different states would oversee licensure.", "So, you might throw him out of the AMA but they, they would still be a doctor?", "Well, they would still be a doctor even if the license was removed but they might not be able to practice in that particular state and that depends on the state.", "Let me ask you this. The State of California says they have a backup plan. If they can't get an anesthesiologist by 7:30, 8:00 tonight, when the execution is set, it will use barbiturates rather than this mix of chemicals that are administered intravenously. How long would it take someone to die from an overdose of barbiturates?", "That, I understand that it's a longer death. Although I don't administer these barbiturates.", "Would it eliminate the possibility of pain?", "Again, that's not a drug that I administer, so I can't tell you for sure. That's my understanding of what I've been told.", "Well, you are the chair of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. Here's something that I bet you have questions about, states would have questions about, but I think you're saying look we just don't need to know or want to know the answers to all of these questions. It's not our position as physicians to provide these kinds of answers.", "That's right. I think the advice could be sought out other places about what would be humane and what would be not. Or they can derive that from facts that are already known. I don't think it requires the consultation of a physician to participate in the execution by giving advice on how to carry it out.", "Dr. Priscilla Ray, Chair of the Council of Ethical and Judicial Affairs for the American Medical Association. 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{"id": "CNN-203028", "program": "EARLY START WITH JOHN BERMAN AND ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN", "date": "2013-3-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/14/es.02.html", "summary": "Michelle Obama En \"Vogue\" Again", "utt": ["Welcome back to EARLY START, everyone. First lady, Michelle Obama, is everywhere this these days, from late-night talk shows to the academy awards. And come April, she will be on newsstands everywhere, becoming the first American first lady to grace the glossy cover of \"Vogue\" twice. CNN's first lady of fashion, Alina Cho, has more.", "Second term, second cover. First lady, Michelle Obama, en \"Vogue\" again.", "There's something so groundbreakingly modern about the Obamas. You know, they are the first Black president and first lady. And you know, Anna Wintour at \"Vogue\" is crazy about them.", "\"Vogue's\" poweful editor-in-chief is a massive Obama fundraiser, once rumored to be the next U.S. ambassador to the U.K., so it's her friend, the first lady, appearing on \"Vogue's\" April cover, wearing a sleeveless dress by Reed Krakoff. Yes, that Reed Krakoff, the same designer Mrs. Obama chose for the inauguration. Here she is in Michael Kors. But writer, Jonathan Van Meters, spoke to both of them, the first lady and the president.", "Them as a couple, their marriage, their children, how they live in the White House, how they deal with the bubble.", "What struck him?", "They're so sweet with each other. There's a lot of affection. And if there's any married couple to whom the phrase, they finish each other's sentences applies, it's them.", "Of their marriage, the president says, \"I think it would be a mistake to think of my wife when I walk in the door is, hey, honey, how is your day? Let me give you a neck rub. I think it's much more. We're a team.\" \"Of his clothes, she jokes, this is the man who still boasts about this khaki pair of pants I've had since I was 20. And I'm like, you don't want to brag about that.\"", "She very effortlessly tells a story that leads to a punch line that could crack you up. And what I loved is that, sometime, she and I weren't finished laughing.", "And he was done and ready to move on, the president, and she would sort of look at me and keep laughing with me, like, I just loved that spirit in her, that jovial spirit, that really surprised me.", "A story compelling readers to go beyond the cover. Alina Cho, CNN, New York.", "Forty-four minutes past the hour. Mitt Romney's infamous 47 percent comment didn't do his presidential campaign any favors. And now, for the first time, the man who recorded it has come forward. Scott Prouty was tending bar at the Romney fundraiser last year. This was in South Florida. Romney said 47 percent of voters would choose President Obama because their dependent on government and feel like victims who are entitled to handouts. Prouty says he didn't go in with a grudge against Romney and wasn't hoping for any gotcha moments.", "I had brought the camera, and a lot of other people brought cameras, you know, like I said, for thinking that he would come back and take pictures. Clinton, in the past, had come back with the staff and taken pictures. And that was, you know, really my thought. I really had no idea he would say what he said. I thought it would -- he would say basically the same things he was saying in public. I had no idea it was going to be this big thing that it turned out to be. I had no idea. And I felt an obligation, in a way, to release it. I felt an obligation for all the people that can't afford to be there. You shouldn't have to be able to afford $50,000 to hear what the candidate actually thinks.", "Prouty said that he sat on the video for a couple of weeks and struggled with the idea of actually releasing it. He claims he didn't reveal his identity before the election because he didn't want to draw attention away from the video.", "And it got a lot of attention.", "It sure did.", "This progring note -- programming note, I should say. We're just days away from the launch of a new CNN show that will cover the world of politics and oh so very much more. \"The Lead\" with Jake Tapper live from Washington premieres Monday at four o'clock eastern time right here on", "And a lot of controversy over whether some small knives should be allowed on airplanes.", "Ahead, why the TSA is defending its decision?"], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JONATHAN VAN METER, VOGUE CONTRIBUTING EDITOR", "CHO", "VAN METER", "CHO", "VAN METER", "CHO", "VAN METER", "VAN METER", "CHO", "SAMBOLIN", "SCOTT PROUTY, RECORDED ROMNEY'S 47 PERCENT COMMENT", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "CNN. SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-155496", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-9-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/11/cnr.08.html", "summary": "The Hunt for Bin Laden", "utt": ["Nine years to the day, the man behind the attacks on September 11th remains free. Osama bin Laden, today, has a $27 million bounty on his head. CNN's Nic Robertson shows us how the head of al Qaeda has eluded capture and assassination through the years.", "Late in 2001, U.S. bombs fell on Tora Bora in Afghanistan, al Qaeda's last holdout. Osama bin Laden escaped. His whereabouts, until now, thought to be a mystery.", "There was an ability in western intelligence to track his movements for a number of years to identify the people that he was meeting, to identify his role in certain plots.", "CNN terrorism analyst, Paul Cruickshank, has new information on bin Laden's movements from a former senior European intelligence official who had an informant close to the al Qaeda leader.", "Western intelligence was able to actually draw up a map between 2003 and 2004 of where bin Laden was moving around.", "The new information reveals this video would have been no surprise for intelligence agencies. The informant was telling them bin Laden was quickly regrouping al Qaeda leaders -- even meeting with the 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before his arrest in 2003.", "He starts to communicate again with some of his top al Qaeda lieutenants. He meets with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the period after 9/11. He meets frequently with Ayman al-Zawahiri.", "But despite the flow of information from the Pakistan- Afghan border, there were immense frustrations. The source was unable to obtain actionable information on bin Laden's movement and the al Qaeda leader kept on the move constantly.", "The closest they got was a sort of a week away from where he was. So, they were never able to call in a strike.", "By 2006, bin Laden seemed to be settling down. His video and audio messages were more frequent and he was clearly more comfortable. And for reasons unknown, the informant's intelligence dried up. But contrary to conventional wisdom that bin Laden's trail is dead, Cruickshank's source says otherwise.", "It's unclear what the quality of the intelligence that's coming in. But there is intelligence on his movements which continues to come in and being analyzed all the time.", "Indeed, the source says the evidence suggests that all these years later, bin Laden and Zawahiri are still in close communication, directing al Qaeda, and often, not far apart. The trail has not gone entirely cold. Nic Robertson, CNN, London.", "A new generation of leaders to follow Osama bin Laden. Tonight, a CNN special report shows us who they are. Stay tuned for \"Bin Laden's New Jihadists.\" Tonight at 8:00 Eastern, only here on CNN. We're going to get right back to the Ground Zero story in just a moment after -- marking today's ceremonies in just a bit. And children being trained to survive armed attacks on a school -- you'll see where it's happening."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "PAUL CRUICKSHANK, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST", "ROBERTSON", "CRUICKSHANK", "ROBERTSON", "CRUICKSHANK", "ROBERTSON", "CRUICKSHANK", "ROBERTSON", "CRUICKSHANK", "ROBERTSON", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-24368", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2001-1-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/25/tod.03.html", "summary": "Greenspan Hints that Tax Cut Could Benefit Economy", "utt": ["Well, does Wall Street have an attitude about talk of both a tax cut and debt reduction? Let's join CNNFN's Myron Kandel at the financial desk in New York. First, the markets, Mike -- have they reacted to any of this talk today?", "Well, not very sharply, Lou. You know, Greenspan talks in what we call \"Greenspanese,\" which is sometimes hard to decipher. But you put your fingers on it -- Natalie did, in the sense that he now says a tax cut is preferable to cutting the deficit for two reasons: one is that the surplus -- cutting the debt, rather -- that the surplus has gotten so big, we have to deal with that and, indeed, the economy is slowing. So what happened on Wall Street is the markets generally greeted it with a big yawn. The Dow is up more than 100 points; the Nasdaq is down. But for more structural reasons for stocks, rather than Greenspan, they were watching what Greenspan was saying to see for any sign about interest-rate cuts. The Fed meets next week to decide whether to cut interest rates again. Greenspan did suggest -- he hinted -- he never speaks about that directly, but he definitely hinted there will be another cut in interest rates. Wall Street isn't sure whether it's going to be a quarter of a point or a half a point. But in that sense, Wall Street liked what it heard, but not enough to send the Nasdaq into the plus column. The Dow, however, is up solidly, Lou.", "Take it down to Main Street, if you will, Mike; how are mom and pop -- how are all of us supposed to absorb this latest economic news: the massive layoffs going on in a number of companies, including our own; the talk of the tax cut; Greenspan today saying growth near zero; 401(k)s taking a big hit in the fourth quarter. Where are we?", "Well, that growth near zero indicates the economy really is slowing. It had a really gangbuster's pace last year, and it has slowed considerably. He never used the word recession; in fact, he suggested that that may not be happening. But certainly, the economy is slowing. What this means is the Fed is indeed -- I'm certain, going to cut interest rates more. Whether -- how much are they going to do it and how fast, we won't know until next week. But lower interest rates are good for consumers. They mean lower mortgage rates, lower interest rates on credit card debt, et cetera; and that should help give the economy a boost -- won't happen overnight, but may very well avert a lasting slowdown, and that's what economists are hoping for.", "Not such good news for those who live off interest rates.", "Well, that's the other side of the coin, Lou. If -- you know, if you live on fixed income returns, those interest rates will go down. But also, the other piece of good news is inflation doesn't seem to be worrying Greenspan at this point. You know, he's the inflation fighter, and that's not on his radar screen right now, Lou.", "And a slowing economy isn't necessarily a bad thing, is it -- when that was the intention of raising the interest rates to begin with?", "Exactly; but we didn't want it to -- no one wanted it to slow this much. It seems to have slowed more than the Fed expected. And that's why we had that big, unexpected half-point move earlier this month, and another one that looks like it's going to come next week.", "All right, CNNFN's Myron Kandel. As always, thanks, Mike."], "speaker": ["LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "MYRON KANDEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WATERS", "KANDEL", "WATERS", "KANDEL", "WATERS", "KANDEL", "WATERS"]}
{"id": "CNN-130366", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2008-9-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0809/04/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Dangerous Storms Closing In; Power Still Weeks Away in Louisiana", "utt": ["There's a new update just coming out from the National Hurricane Center on Hurricane Ike, at last report a very, very dangerous category four storm, along with Tropical Storm Hannah. Both closing in on the U.S. coast right now. Hannah coming in before Ike. Let's go to our severe weather expert, Chad Myers. He's in the CNN Hurricane Headquarters. What's going on -- Chad? Give us the latest.", "Hannah is going to make a run at North Carolina and South Carolina, almost right there op the border. That happens tomorrow night, after midnight, probably 2:00 a.m. for a landfall, but as a tropical storm. That big thing out there is Ike. That will make landfall somewhere as a big time hurricane. There's Hannah, kind of disorganized right now because there's dry air wrapping its way into the storm. That's good news. The dry air kills it. Hurricanes want moist air. Dry air just spins it and basically cuts it off from strengthening. So, a 70 mile per hour storm, 2:00 a.m. tomorrow. So what is that, you know, like 29, 30 hours from now. That's Hannah. It could be a little bit left, it could be a little bit right. If it's a little bit left, it's quicker, because it's a shorter distance to get to Myrtle Beach. You get the idea. It's still tomorrow night. But this is the storm that we have to worry about. This is Ike, a category four, 135 miles per hour. It was 140 earlier, so it's down five miles per hour. That's because there's going to be a little bit of a shift. There's going to be a little bit of a wind coming in from the north and the northeast that's going to push it to the south. Then that wind is going to stop and it's going to turn back up toward the northwest. And that right there, boy, that's a terrible cone, no matter where you live, from Cuba all the way up into the Carolinas. As a category three, very dangerous -- the third major hurricane of this season already -- Wolf.", "So, we have a lot of viewers in Miami and Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. How worried should they be right now?", "Well, you know, probably not worried yet. We're still five days away. This cone distance is 500 miles either side of the middle. So it could be way up here. It could be well into Cuba, killing itself in the mountains of Cuba, by Monday into Tuesday. But if you're not watching the TV on Sunday and Monday in South Florida, you're doing yourself a disservice. You need to know. Maybe you need to get out of there. And there may be a mass evacuation in Florida somewhere or maybe through the Carolinas. You have to get out of the way of a category three, no matter what you do.", "And we're thinking it could be Tuesday afternoon or so when this hits Florida?", "Yes. You know, Wolf, that's 120 hours out and sometimes you can't forecast these things 12 hours out -- or at least we do our best. But the best case scenario, this thing misses the U.S. and turns to the right and gets to the ocean. Probably a 10 percent chance of that. Maybe a 15 percent chance of it hitting Cuba. But somewhere in the middle of this cone is South Florida, at 125 miles per hour on Tuesday.", "All right. Thanks for that update, Chad. Meanwhile, 829,000 homes are still without power three days after Hurricane Gustav roared through Louisiana. And in some areas, electricity could be weeks away. Susan Roesgen is joining us now live from New Orleans. What's going on? Why so long -- Susan?", "You know, apparently the power company's trucks are just out there. They just didn't get in here soon enough. And in Baton Rouge, Wolf, nearly every power company customer lost power. Now, we're here in New Orleans, where people are just now today being allowed to come home. And some of them are in for a big shock. Can you imagine, Wolf, coming home and finding this? This is a house under renovation. You can see that the green paint is still fresh. And it just didn't have the interior support to withstand the wind of Hurricane Gustav. But the deal is that Hurricane Gustav really just sort of grazed New Orleans. So people here in New Orleans are absolutely furious, because they want to know why, if this hurricane was not so bad, do they not have power? No lights, no air conditioning now. Long lines here for ice, for generators, for the gasoline to power the generators. And even Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has come out a couple of times in the past couple of days and said step it up. He wants the power companies to get in there and restore the power. As far as this house goes, well, she's sort of like New Orleans -- she's battered and bruised, but a survivor. The owner says she can be pulled back up -- Wolf.", "Susan Roesgen watching heartbreaking story for us, as well. Thanks very much. Meanwhile, the Mayor of a major American city has resigned in disgrace and he's facing jail time. Details of the felonies to which he has now pleading guilty. That's coming up. Plus, subtle and not so subtle digs at Barack Obama from the GOP podium here in St. Paul -- his experience, his work as a community organizer. His senior adviser, Robert Gibbs, is here to respond. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "BLITZER", "MYERS", "BLITZER", "MYERS", "BLITZER", "SUSAN ROESGEN, GULF COAST CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-146724", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2010-1-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/06/acd.01.html", "summary": "President Obama Breaking Transparency Promise?", "utt": ["In \"Raw Politics\" tonight: health care and transparency. From the get-go, President Obama promised the health care debate would take place in the open, including the negotiations that are central to writing a bill. He even spelled out how the transparency would happen, not once, but at least five times. And feel free to count along with me.", "It will be televised on C-SPAN. I can't guarantee you it will be exciting. Broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN, so that the American people can see what the choices are. And we are going to do it all on C-SPAN. It is all going to be televised. All this will be done on C-SPAN, in front of the public. We will have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN.", "Well, that's just five times. As promises go, it's pretty explicit. So, why, then, as Democrats prepare for the last key phase of health care negotiations, where they merge the House and the Senate bills, are Democrats ignoring C-SPAN's actual request to cover the negotiations live? C-SPAN sent a letter to Democratic leaders last week -- as of tonight, no response yet from lawmakers or from President Obama. Joe Johns joins me with the \"Raw Politics.\" Joe, I mean it does seem odd. The president talked a lot about transparency, clearly said he wanted to see this on", "Well, it is simple. This has obviously been very hard so far, and it will be a lot easier than having a big televised event. The White House is just sort of making the case that this issue has already been vetted, vetted for two years. They also realize that, if they did have televised hearings, it would just give the opposition another platform, Anderson.", "But, again, it's just a case of, you say one thing when you are running for office -- and this happens on both sides of the political aisle -- and then something else very different when you are actually leader. From the Republican perspective, you know, there were some backroom deals. Republicans say the Democrats were essentially buying votes, at Senator -- you look at Senator Ben Nelson, whose state of Nebraska ended up with a deal where they -- they don't have to pick up the tab for expanding Medicaid. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a supporter of the public option, his state ends up with a $10 billion grant for community health centers. So, do Republicans have a point here?", "Well, yes. It's also a question of political realities. It is pretty clear the bill is not going to get significant Republican support. And what the Republicans are pretty much going to miss out on now is the opportunity to score some points and grandstand for the base. And they are still also getting to the point where they can claim the president is breaking that campaign promise. But, to be fair, the president made that promise before the Republicans said they would filibuster the health care bill. So, either way, this gives an opportunity for them to accuse those Democrats one more time of the secret deal-making you were talking about on health care -- win-win for them, pretty much.", "Yes. Nancy Pelosi was asked about this by a reporter, about not having these negotiations on C-SPAN. Here's what she said.", "Well...", "... there are a number of things he swore on the campaign trail.", "Yes. I mean, ouch. Why -- why would the speaker sort of whack the president like that?", "Well, definitely. It sounded like the speaker was having a little fun at the president's expense. And, you know, in a way, she is right. When you make promises about transparency, like Mr. Obama did on the campaign trail, you have got to expect that they could come back and bite you. The administration has admitted, sure, there have been miscalculations all the way through this health care debate, starting with their failure to sort of figure out how militant the opposition would be. A Democratic analyst told me, the White House never really expected to get the kind of public pushback that they have gotten so far.", "So, does the president have lasting damage for being, you know, for transparency before he was against it?", "Well, sort of short-term/long-term. Short-term, probably not. Fights over congressional procedure generally go absolutely nowhere. And the president and his party are likely going to get what they want when they pass their bill. Long-term damage, though, could be a different story. Clearly, it looks, it appears like the president has gone back on his word. So, if this is about political capital, he spent a lot on this one. The question really is whether he spent more than he's got.", "All right, Joe Johns, appreciate it. Thanks very much. Let's turn again to CNN senior political analyst David Gergen for tonight's insider briefing. David, we should point out, worked for the Clinton administration during its struggle to pass health care reform in the '90s. He's also worked for Republican administrations in the White House. I talked to him earlier.", "David, you went through this with the White House, with the Clinton White House. They were also accused of being -- of not being transparent, of being overly partisan. I mean, what do you think the fallout is going to be for the Obama administration and the Democrats in general this time around?", "Well, so far, Anderson, they have had a remarkable lack of success in bringing the public along on this health care bill. And it seems to me that is their biggest problem right now. They have got the Democrats pretty much. And I think they are going to be able to resolve a lot of these differences behind closed doors. This whole effort to say, put it on C-SPAN, I sort of don't think is going to go -- make that much difference to the public. What the public is really concerned about is, is this plan going to work? How much money is it going to cost me? How much -- is the government really going to be able to run this right? Am I going to lose my health care? -- the more substantive issues. And, on those issues now, there has been no movement in the polls that I have seen in the president's direction, which means we could have, for the first time in our lifetimes, major social legislation passed in the teeth of public opposition.", "What did they do wrong? I mean, they supposedly had learned the mistakes that had been made under the Clinton administration of trying to do health care. You have President Obama elected saying -- a lot of people saying they want health care reform. They now are on the brink of having some kind of health care reform, and, yet, as you say, this is in the face of public opposition.", "Anderson, I -- I think that, in -- they may have overlearned the lessons of the Clinton administration by essentially assigning almost all the responsibility for writing the bill, the health care bill, to Congress. It inevitably got drawn into the vortex of what's -- especially in the House, is a lot of partisanship. And, very importantly, the summer was a turning point for this. When those tea parties got started up, and the people started throwing bricks at the health care plan, the White House wasn't quite prepared for that. And they had -- the month of August was a lost month for them. And by the time the president came back, went to the Congress to give that speech, he was able to, I think, staunch the flow of bleeding, but he wasn't able to turn opinion around in his favor. And I -- I think the White House itself now realizes that one of the things they have got to get straightened out here in the future is, -- they -- they're -- they're -- they can be really, really good when they are all together in the White House. But, when they scatter for holidays, as they did in August, and as they did again with the -- with the December bombing by the bomber in Detroit, they tend to be a little slower off the mark, and they can lose some of the momentum.", "Maybe no holidays next year.", "No.", "We will see. David, thanks -- David Gergen.", "Thank you.", "Well, still ahead tonight: a 360 dispatch from what appears to be the new front in the war on terror. We will take you inside Yemen for a firsthand look at where and why al Qaeda is thriving, real reporting you will only see on CNN. And a daring escape caught on camera: An inmate breaks free from a chain, runs off -- how it ended coming up."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "COOPER", "C-SPAN. JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "JOHNS", "COOPER", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "PELOSI", "COOPER", "JOHNS", "COOPER", "JOHNS", "COOPER", "COOPER", "GERGEN", "COOPER", "GERGEN", "COOPER", "GERGEN", "COOPER", "GERGEN", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-65366", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2003-1-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/11/smn.11.html", "summary": "U.S. Takes Aim at Hussein.", "utt": ["All right, turning now to the showdown with Iraq. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has signed orders for an additional 35,000 troops to be deployed to the Persian Gulf region. Meanwhile the Pentagon is taking cyber shots at Saddam Hussein. It's sending e-mails to Iraqi leaders encouraging them to defect or defy Saddam Hussein. CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr has more.", "CNN has learned that in the last few days the U.S. military has begun a surreptitious e-mail campaign inside Iraq sending disguised e-mails to Iraqi leaders urging them to descent and defect from Saddam Hussein, telling them that they cannot win if the U.S. and its coalition partners go to war against Iraq. The immediate scope of the campaign could not be learned, but officials tell CNN it is the first time the U.S. military has engaged in such an e-mail campaign inside Iraq. Officials tell CNN this is all part of 21st Century warfare, using the Internet, bits and bites, as much as bombs and bullets. Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon."], "speaker": ["HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)"]}
{"id": "CNN-291541", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-08-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/16/nday.04.html", "summary": "Bahamian Sprinter Dives For The Gold In Rio; Michael Phelps On His Last Olympic Games.", "utt": ["All right, this is the photo finish, right there in Rio, that has everyone buzzing this morning. It's a dive by Shaunae Miller at the end on the women's 400-meter race and it robbed American legend Allyson Felix of another gold medal. Let's discuss this and so much more with CNN sports correspondent Coy Wire, and CNN sports analyst Christine Brennan. Great to see you guys this morning. Christine, when I saw this, this morning, I said is that legal? Can you go over the finish line with your hand and not your feet? And I'm not alone. People on social media have been buzzing about this --", "Oh, well.", "-- as well. Christine, is this OK, how she won?", "Yes, it's absolutely OK and you can be assured -- everyone can rest assured that if it were not OK that Allyson Felix would be the Olympic gold medalist, so you know that that has been resolved. These things happen every now and then in track and field, especially. I think folks over the first week have seen so much swimming and there's a saneness to swimming. You don't see people falling over the water, obviously. So track and field presents a whole new issue and it makes it so much more fun. Going back to 1992, there was a woman named Gail Devers, two-time Olympic champ in the 100 meters who fell over the last hurdle. She was actually known as \"The Hurdler\" and stumbled and basically crawled across the finish line. That time she finished fifth. This time of course, for Miller, it was gold.", "I thought this was outstanding. We might look back and say that this was the most valiant effort of these Rio 2016 Games. I've said it before, I'll say it again, the Bahama mama with the finish line drama, Shaunae Miller, laying out, full out. She had the defending world champ clipping at her heels, breathing down the back of her neck, and she lays it on the line. It was at an event with Michael Phelps -- the U.S. women's soccer team were there. When that happened they were all speechless. They were just waiting to find out who was going to win this thing. It was an incredible moment. Shaunae Miller, congrats to her, bringing the Bahamas their first gold medal of these Rio Games.", "One more beat on this. Christine, why is it OK? What is the rule?", "The rule is as long as you've got some part of your body crossing over -- there's a photo finish and maybe folks have seen it. Every one of these races, Chris, there is a photo and it's just a question of what part of your body goes over and as long as you're over, you're fine. I mean, that's as I understand it.", "You just stay in your lane.", "Yes, she cannot leave the lane, obviously.", "I think she had two arguments that makes this great. One, is that she had the presence of mind to make one of the hardest calculations in that sport, which is do I slow down a little bit to dive because you don't just dive full out, right, so there's hesitation --", "Not purposely.", "-- and that's why people don't do it -- or if it was illegal, I fell. You can see that she stubs her toe, the knee goes down, and then she reaches out to brace herself. I think she had it all day long.", "And real quick, guys, we would be remiss if we didn't mention Allyson Felix.", "Sure.", "Even with the silver she becomes the most decorated female Olympic track and field athlete of all time, beating Jackie Joyner- Kersee, the great, with seven medals in her career.", "All right, so Coy, we know that you caught up with Michael Phelps and asked him about what his sort of best moment was and what he plans for the future, so let's play a little moment of that.", "I am definitely very happy I came back for one more but now we're going back into retirement.", "What's been the most impactful memory from these games, thus far?", "Having my son here is the best, you know. Being able to share this moment with him at my last Olympics and you know, I'm looking forward to sharing these memories when he gets old enough. In a couple of years, hopefully, I'll get the chance to take him to Tokyo and watch some events over there.", "As Chris has pointed out, his baby will never remember this. However, luckily he has the video. Christine, what was your most goosebump-inducing moment?", "Well, I think of the games so far, probably Katie Ledecky or Phelps in the pool. But going back to Coy's interview, I think it's fascinating because Phelps has said he's done. I'm not so sure about that. I've covered him since 2000. And I certainly take him at his word, I'm not saying he's lying. I just think that in a couple of years he just may miss this again. Keep in mind that Dara Torres went all the way to 40 years old.", "Yes, five Olympics.", "Yes, right, for Dara Torres at the age of 40 in Beijing in 2008. So -- actually I think she was 41, as I recall. So the bottom line is there is more time for Phelps. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he starts training again.", "You heard it here first. And Chris, as you mentioned earlier, he still has the seaboard outboard motor or whatever it is to the back and that guy can still fly, so we'll see if Christine's vision comes to fruition.", "That's great. Coy, Christine, thank you so much. Great to always get your wrap-ups on this. He might not be done. You heard it here first.", "I don't buy it although Christine Brennan is so much better at this and so much smarter than I am, maybe she's right.", "Let us know what you think on Twitter. We're following a lot of news this morning including Donald Trump laying out his plan to defeat ISIS, so let's get right to it.", "What if he dives across the line?", "We cannot let this evil continue. 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{"id": "CNN-405405", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-07-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/14/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Israelis Demand Economic Relief As Restrictions Resume; Corporate Earnings Kick Off In Coming Day.", "utt": ["So there's growing anger in Israel over the government's response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Over the weekend, thousands of protesters demanded economic relief after a spike in new cases caused restrictions to be reimposed. Here's Oren Liebermann for that story.", "On the streets of Tel Aviv, the numbers are going up. First, there's the number of protesters. Police say more than 10,000 people filled Rabin Square to demonstrate against the government's handling of the Coronavirus crisis, demanding economic aid and health signs that read economic war and free the money.", "I don't feel that they're doing enough to support us. We eat our savings, we don't get any money.", "Then there's unemployment which hit 21 percent this week according to the Israel employment service. Over the weekend, 1,250 citizens returned to work with more than twice that number filed for unemployment.", "I can't train, I can prep, I can work. I can get money from the country. My clients can't come and train and I had enough of it.", "And there's Coronavirus which has surged to record numbers of new cases a day. Israel is struggling to contain in July what it thought it had under control in May. The numbers have all put pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who promised up to $2,170 and soon the unemployed and business owners who qualify.", "This support, this grant is not dependent on legislation. And we ordered that it will be acted already today. The button will be pressed so the money will arrive in account in the next few days.", "One number that is falling, Netanyahu's approval rating in the handling of the Coronavirus crisis from 74 percent in May to 46 percent now. Last week, Netanyahu held a zoom call with business owners trying to placate their fears. Instead he became the target their anger. My husband and I, we don't know what to do. How are we going to live? This woman tells the Prime Minister. We never got anything in the first round or the second round. There's nothing that we can do. We need a serious solution. Politically, Israel's longest-serving prime minister faces no real threat from the right or the left, but he has to contend with a second wave of Coronavirus on a tide of economic hardship.", "That report there from Oren Liebermann. Now, COVID-19 is deepening the recession all over the Middle East and causing into the International Monetary Fund to slash its full cost for the region. That's due in large part to much of the world staying home and not using much oil. And that affects so many aspects of these economies from fighting poverty to stimulus plans. Well, John Defterios is standing by live in Abu Dhabi with more on all of that. John, hi.", "Hello, Robyn. Yes, this is quite a nasty combination that we have in the system right now because, as you suggested, we know that it is a global pandemic. It's slowed down economic growth, but it's undermined oil demand. It was down at one point nearly 30 percent, but it's still for the year, roughly down 10 percent. So this is the way the IMF sees as the major challenges. They call what I just described there, the double whammy, which is hitting the economy's particularly hard, negative 7.3 percent for the Middle East oil exporters overall. They're going to be losing $270 billion vis-a- vis 2019. That is serious erosion. And something that was overlooked beyond the borders of the Middle East here is that the stimulus packages are some of the lowest in the world. So the International Monetary Fund is suggesting with this snapback there's going to be a wave of new pressure and more challenging times ahead. Let's hear the regional director from the IMF.", "Defeated ahead will be marked by high uncertainty amid the unclear shape and the speed of the global recovery. Risks of second round pandemic with more protracted impact are elevated. Therefore, navigating the uncertainty in the period ahead will require agility and preparedness.", "That's difficult to do if you don't have money in the bank that the Gulf states here on the Arabian Peninsula have $2 trillion of sovereign wealth that's being eaten up. If you have to think of the context of the Iraq, Iran, Angola, countries like Kazakhstan in Central Asia, Libya, the failed state, this is very, very difficult. So you can't be that agile, if you don't have money in the bank and your oil revenue represents 90 percent of your budget.", "So bad news on that front also, expecting a little bit of bad luck, bad news, and when we talk about the earnings coming out this weekend, particularly when it comes to banks. So many -- so many bankruptcies, certainly going to have an impact on the world.", "Yes. And Robyn, they're out of the starting gate if you will. They're the first to report their quarterly earnings here. And the bigger names JPMorgan Chase and groups like Citigroup, Wells Fargo, which may give up its dividend, they've set aside $35 billion for toxic loans because of the bankruptcies that you're talking about. That's not going to be nearly enough. Their earnings are probably going to go down by 50 percent. And that's why we saw a spike up in prices early in the day and then a wake-up call saying, OK, earnings start tomorrow, what's going to happen? So we had a fall of nearly one percent for the S&P 500, two percent for the NASDAQ. But if you look at the futures right now, they're at their high for the early morning Asian trade, although we see some of the Asian markets down. And if we circle back to oil in the impact of the Middle East, OPEC is going to be talking about maybe easing some oil back on the market. And this is keeping oil prices under pressure in the Asian trade.", "OK, thanks so much. John Defterios there in Abu Dhabi, live there. Keep us posted on how things go for the rest of the week. Thank you. So, some news from South Africa. Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of former South African President Nelson Mandela and activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has died. She was 59 years old. Mandela was South Africa's ambassador to Denmark at the time of her death. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says Mandela brought home \"the unshakable resolve to fight for freedom.\" No cause of death has been announced. You are watching CNN. An English Premier League star opens up about the racist abuse he received while playing in Eastern Europe. That story is next."], "speaker": ["CURNOW", "OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "YIGAL SHILOAH, PROTESTER", "LIEBERMANN", "MAAYAN ELIASI, PROTESTER", "LIEBERMANN", "BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, PRIME MINISTER, ISRAEL (through translator)", "LIEBERMANN", "CURNOW", "JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN BUSINESS EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR", "JIHAD AZOUR, REGIONAL DIRECTOR, IMF", "DEFTERIOS", "CURNOW", "DEFTERIOS", "CURNOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-287629", "program": "IDESK", "date": "2016-06-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/27/id.01.html", "summary": "Parliament's First Session Since Brexit Vote; P.M. Cameron Says Brexit Outcome Was Not One He Desired, But Process Must Now Begin Nonetheless; Cameron: We Will Not Stand For Hate Crime; Prime Minister Cameron Reassures That Robust Contingency Plans Are In Place; Cameron Says Article 50 Will Not Be Invoked At This Stage and That U.K. Should Not Turn Its Back On The EU; Corbyn Says Economy Needs Clear Plan For Investment And Welcomes Market Protections; Scotland Voted 62 Percent To Remain In  European Union And Is Considering Independence Referendum.", "utt": ["The Houses of Parliament in London has the impact to the U.K.'s decision to leave of the European Union continues to be felt around the world. We are now waiting for Britain's prime minister to face parliament. It will be David Cameron's first time standing before them since he announced plans to resign. Mr. Cameron is coming from 10 Downing Street where he just met with his cabinet, his spokeperson says he told them to begin laying down the groundwork for a split with Europe. For more on the political chaos here in the U.K., we turn to John Peet, the Political Editor for The Economist. And forgive me John, we will break in to this because we will -- we are of course waiting on the statement from the prime minister. And this will be the first time that we've seen him since, 8:00 in the morning when it was clear that the country voted to leave the E.U. and he looked pretty stomped (ph) at this point.", "Almost cheerful at one point. And he said he did not expect to leave the state. I think he assumed he will win all the way three", "Yes.", "So he was stopped.", "What do you make of what's going on in present.", "Well, it's the best. I mean, I think he have to resign. I always think he lost the state particularly since he was so strong identified remaining campaign he had to go. I'm slightly surprised the turmoil spread, say, quickly to the Labour party, the opposition as well. But we now (inaudible) leaderless parties. And obviously, we got problems with the markets, stock markets, with -- on selling falling. People want things to move more quickly. So I didn't think we got that long to resolve for the party.", "And we've been looking to some bright spots this morning. Now, I see that David Cameron there smiling on the right-hand said of the screen, just for the left. There aren't a lot of bright spots to talk about. One of them perhaps is that in fact Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor rating (ph) but keeping it basic, all the E.U. leaders who say out, is out, let's get Britain divorce from this club as quickly as possible suggesting that Britain should be needing some time, you know and let's just take this first a little clearer then others might ...", "I think, I mean it will be an interesting to see what the mode is like in Brussels tomorrow when Mr. Cameron goes out to meet his colleagues, but I think they were -- their (inaudible) is British. They didn't think this is very -- was necessarily, they think Cameron has mishandled it ...", "Just take this process a little flow than others might ...", "I think, I mean it will be an interesting to see what the mood is like in Brussels tomorrow when Mr. Cameron goes out to meet his colleagues. But I think they were -- they're angry with the British. They don't think it was necessary. They think Cameron mishandled it. Britain is always an awkward country in the European Union anyway.", "Yeah.", "But there's also grown politicians. They know that elections (ph) always what people what to do. And they were trying the best of way we got to and they want to have a good relationship with Britain. They want to preserve trade as much as they can. And so I think they will be quite grown up about their approach because that's not the same being easy or generous to the British. So I think, you know, it's going to be a tough negotiation.", "What do we need to hear from David Cameron?", "I think we need to hear that he's exploring all these options, that his setting in train quite quickly a Tory leadership contest because we do need new prime minister. And I think, you know, early October is maybe too late. We want it -- we may want it before then because I think they do need to get the negotiations going.", "We've heard from the committee that organizes these things that the nominations for a new leader of conservative party will be in and close by Wednesday evening.", "Yes.", "And that a new leader of the conservative party will be in position by the December the 2nd.", "December.", "That's pretty quick I think, you know.", "That is quite clear. I mean it may (inaudible) a bit but that is ...", "Yeah.", "That is quite clear because probably will respond to the pressure. I think the question then is how quickly do we -- and to form organizations to lead. And I think the other countries will want happen quite quickly in September. The new leader, if its Boris Johnson may say you'd rather have an informal negotiation before we get into the formal exit negotiations. I think the other countries will say that no interested in that. They want to know whether Britain serious about leaving or not. It's conceivable somewhat during this negotiation period.", "Yeah.", "The British may something to say well we're not sure this is a game or the right way. We need to think again. But I think, you know, a referendum like this probably doesn't mean we are leaving.", "David Cameron has had the weekend to think about what is he's going to say here. It is 3:30. We'll just ask you within -- in the U.K. We are waiting his statement to the British Parliament. He's got a weekend to think about it. Given that (inaudible) seems -- he's standing up now. So let's go ...", "Yes.", "... to David Cameron.", "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the result of the E.U. referendum. Last week saw one of the biggest democratic exercises in our history with over 33 million people from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar all having their say. We should be proud of our parliamentary democracy. But it is right that when we consider questions of this magnitude, we don't just leave it to politicians but rather listen directly to the people. And that is why Members from across this House voted for a referendum by a margin of almost 6 to 1. And when I talk about this House, let me welcome the new member for choosing to her place. I think I had advice to keep my mobile phone. She might be the shadow cabinet by the end of the day. And I thought I was having a bad day. Mr Speaker, let me set out for the House what this vote means, the steps we are taking immediately to stabilize the U.K. economy, the preparatory work for the negotiation to leave the EU, our plans for fully engaging the devolved administrations and the next steps at tomorrow's European Council. Mr Speaker, the British people have voted to leave the European Union. It was not the result I wanted nor the outcome that I believed is best for the country I love. But there can be no doubt about the result. Of course, I don't take back what I said about the risks. It is going to be difficult. We have already seen that there are going to be adjustments within our economy, complex constitutional issues, and a challenging new negotiation to undertake with Europe. But I am clear -- and the Cabinet agreed this morning -- that the decision must be accepted and the process of implementing the decision in the best possible way must now begin. At the same time, Mr Speaker, we have a fundamental responsibility to bring our country together. In the past few days we have seen despicable graffiti daubed on a Polish community centre. We've seen verbal abuse hurled against individuals because they are members of ethnic minorities. Let's remember these people have come here and made a wonderful contribution to our country. And we will not stand for hate crime or these kinds of attacks. They must be stamped out. Mr Speaker, we can reassure European citizens living here, and Brits living in European countries, that there will be no immediate changes in their circumstances. Neither will there be any initial change in the way our people can travel, in the way our goods can move, or the way our services can be sold. The deal we negotiated at the European Council in February will now be discarded and a new negotiation to leave the EU will begin under a new Prime Minister. Turning to our economy, it is clear that markets are volatile, there are some companies considering their investments and we know this is going to be far from plain sailing. However, we should take confidence from the fact that Britain is ready to confront what the future holds for us from a position of strength. As a result of our long-term economic plan, we have today one of the strongest major advanced economies in the world and we are well placed to face the challenges ahead. We have low, stable inflation. The employment rate remains the highest it has ever been. The budget deficit is down from 11 percent of national income, forecast to be below 3 percent this year. The financial system is also substantially more resilient than it was 6 years ago, with capital requirements for the largest banks now 10 times higher than before the banking crisis. The markets may not have been expecting the referendum result but, as the Chancellor set out this morning, the Treasury, the Bank of England and our other financial authorities have spent the last few months putting in place robust contingency plans. As the Governor of the Bank of England said on Friday, the Bank's stress tests have shown that U.K. institutions have enough capital and liquidity reserves to withstand a scenario more severe than the country currently faces. And the Bank can make available 250 billion pounds of additional funds if it needs to support banks and markets. In the coming days, the Treasury, the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority will continue to be in very close contact. They have contingency plans in place to maintain financial stability -- and they will not hesitate to take further measures if required. Turning to preparations for negotiating our exit from the E.U., the Cabinet met this morning and agreed the creation of a new EU unit in Whitehall. This will bring together officials and policy expertise from across the Cabinet Office, Treasury, Foreign Office and Business Department. Clearly, this will be most complex and most important task that the British Civil Service has undertaken in decades. So the new unit will sit at the heart of government and be led by and staffed by the best and brightest from across our Civil Service. It will report to the whole of the Cabinet on delivering the outcome of the referendum, advising on transitional issues and exploring objectively options for our future relationship with Europe and the rest of the world from outside the E.U. And it will be responsible for ensuring that the new Prime Minister has the best possible advice from the moment of their arrival. Mr Speaker, I know that colleagues on all sides of the House will want to contribute to how we prepare and execute the new negotiation to leave the E.U. And my Right Honored Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster will listen to all views and representations and make sure they are fully put into this exercise. He will be playing no part in the leadership election. Turning to the devolved administrations, we must ensure that the interests of all parts of our United Kingdom are protected and advanced. So as we prepare for a new negotiation with the European Union, we will fully involve the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland governments. We will also consult Gibraltar, the Crown Dependencies, the Overseas Territories and all regional centres of power, including the London Assembly. I have spoken to the First Ministers of Scotland and Wales, as well as the First and Deputy First Ministers in Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach, and our officials will be working intensively together over the coming weeks to bring our devolved administrations into the process for determining the decisions that need to be taken. Mr Speaker, while all of the key decisions will have to wait for the arrival of the new Prime Minister, there is a lot of work that can be started now. For instance, the British and Irish governments begin meeting this week to work through the challenges relating to the common border area. Mr Speaker, tomorrow I will attend the European Council. In the last few days I have spoken to Chancellor Merkel, President Hollande and a number of other European leaders. We have discussed the need to prepare for the negotiations and in particular the fact that the British government will not be triggering Article 50 at this stage. Before we do that we need to determine the kind of relationship we want with the EU. And that is rightly something for the next Prime Minister and their Cabinet to decide. I have also made this point to the Presidents of the European Council and the European Commission and I will make this clear again at the European Council tomorrow. Mr Speaker, this is our sovereign decision and it will be for Britain - and Britain alone - to take. Tomorrow is also an opportunity to make this point, Britain is leaving the European Union, but we must not turn our back on Europe -- or on the rest of the world. The nature of the relationship we secure with the E.U. will be determined by the next government. But I think everyone is agreed that we will want the strongest possible economic links with our European neighbors, as well as with our close friends in North America, the Commonwealth and important partners like India and China. I am also sure that whatever the precise nature of our future relationship, we will want to continue with a great deal of our extensive security cooperation and to do all we can to influence decisions that will affect the prosperity and safety of our people here at home. Mr Speaker, this negotiation will require strong, determined and committed leadership. And as I have said, I think the country requires a new Prime Minister and Cabinet to take it in this direction. This is not a decision I have taken lightly. But I am absolutely convinced that it is in the national interest. Mr Speaker, although leaving the E.U. was not the path I recommended, I am the first to praise our incredible strengths as a country. As we proceed with implementing this decision and facing the challenges that it will undoubtedly bring, I believe we should hold fast to a vision of Britain that wants to be respected abroad, tolerant at home, engaged in the world and working with our international partners to advance the prosperity and security of our nation for generations to come. I have fought for these things every day of my political life and I will continue to do so. And I commend this Statement to the House.", "And the leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn.", "Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Firstly, I would like to thank the British people for turning out to vote in the referendum in such high numbers. The votes was a reflection of the significant of the issue, but it was a close vote on the back of the campaign that was too often divisive and negative. These benches put forward a positive case to remain part of the European Union and convince more than 2/3 of our supporters. But the majority of people have voted to leave and we have listened to an accepted what they've said. Many people feel disenfranchised and powerless, especially in parts of the country that have left behind for far too long. Communities, Mr. Speaker, that have been let down not by the European Union but by Tory governments. Those communities don't trust politician's deliver because for too long they haven't. So, instead of more extreme cuts to local services which have hit the areas the hardest, this government needs to invest in those communities. Many of those areas are deeply concerned. Deeply concerned about the security of pledge E.U. funding. Can the Prime Minister give us any guarantees on those issues as that money is desperately needed? Secondly, is the issue of trust and the tenor in the referendum campaign was disheartening. Half truce and untruce were told.", "Yeah.", "Many of which key lead figures spent the weekend distancing themselves from not at least proclaim that the vote will leave the -- would hand the NHIS an extra 350 million pounds per week. It is quite shameful that politicians may claim the new (inaudible) of promises they knew could not be delivered. Thirdly, real concern exist about immigration but too much of the discussion in the referendum campaign was intemperate and divisive. And in the days following the referendum results, it appears we've seen a rise in racist incidents such as the attack on the Polish Center in Hammersmith which the Prime Minister quite right he referred to, and sadly, many of the such incidents all of over this country. I hope the Prime Minister and Home Secretary will take all action they can to help these attacks, help this graceful racist behavior on the streets of this country. As political leaders, we have duty to calm our language and our tone, especially after shocking events of 10 days ago. Our country is divided and the country will thank neither the benches in front of me nor those behind for indulging an internal factoring maneuvering at this time. Mr. Speaker, we have serious matters to discuss in this House and in the country.", "I want to accommodate as many as possible of those colleagues who wish to question the Prime Minister matter to just slow up if people make a lot of noise. I've got plenty of time. I don't know other people have. Jeremy Corbyn.", "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It does appear that neither wing of the Tory government has an exit plan which is why we're insisting that the Labour Party be fully engaged in the negotiations that lie ahead. We need the freedom to shape our economy for the future and protect social and employment rights while building new policies on trade, on migration, environmental protection and on investment. I fully understand the Prime Minister is standing down in three months time but we cannot be in a state of paralysis until then. The Prime Minister is making the European council tomorrow. I hope he's going to say that negotiations will begin so we know what's going on, rather than being delayed until October. We as a house have a duty to act in the national interest and ensure we get the best agreements for our constituents. Will the Prime Minister today confirm that in the light of the economic turmoil, the chancellor would announce at least a suspension, prepping the termination of his now even more counterproductive fiscal rule? What the economy needs now is a clear plan for investment particularly in those communities that have been so damaged by this government and sent such a very strong message to all of us last week. Will he specifically rule out tax rises or further cuts to public services that was threatened in the pre-referendum? I welcome his assurances on the uncertainty felt by many E.U. nationals currently working in our economy, including the 52,000 who work so well and held by a national health service to provide the service we all need. It is welcome that the Prime Minister is consulting with the leaders of devolved administrations and I hope with the mayor of London too, a city for which the implications are huge. We must act in the public interest and support nations to reduce volatility. I welcome market protections but what about protections for people's jobs, their wages, and their pensions? Can the Prime Minister make clear what plans are in place? The chancellor spoke this morning to reassure the stock markets, though they clearly remain very uncertain. We understand that some measures cannot be discussed in the house, so will he give me an assurance that the chancellor will provide private briefings to has offset numbers on this matter? Finally, Mr. Speaker, on a personal note, may I say -- may I say Mr. Speaker, finally on a personal note, I've many fundamental disagreements with the policies of the Prime Minister and his governance. Nevertheless, as he announces the end of his premiership, its right to reflect that he led a government that delivered equal marriage against the majority of his own MPs and he was right to do so. But I want to thank him too for his response to the bloody Sunday inquiry and had reject -- reacted to the tragic murder of Jo Cox. We thank him for his service that I'm sure we will enjoy many more debates and disagreements while he continues as Prime Minister.", "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Well, let me agree with the leadership opposition that it was positive turnout was so high. I also agree with him that we do need to reach out to those people who haven't benefited from economic rights and make sure they feel that their economic security is important to us as well. But I don't agree with him that it's right to start to try and re-fight the campaign all over again. All I know, from my part, is I feel I put everything I could into the campaign that I believed in with heart and soul, and left nothing out and I think that was the right thing to do. Answering these questions on money that different areas of the country get, until we leave the EU none of those arrangements change. So, what has been set out in the budget and the payments and the rest of it, all of those continue. But as the negotiation begins probably for leaving, obviously, the next government will want to set out what arrangements it will put in place for farmers, for local authorities, for regions of our country. On intolerance -- in fighting intolerance, I absolutely agree with him. We must take all action we can to stamp this out. He asked about the chancellor's fiscal rule and also future plans. What I would say is that we have not worked so hard to get the budget deficit from 11 percent down to below 3 percent to see that go to waste. And we must continue to make sure that we have a sound and strong economic plan in our country. For the coming months, that is my responsibility and the chancellor's responsibility. In time, it will be the responsibility of a new government. And they will have to decide how to react if there are economic difficulties along the way. He asked if there could be private briefings for members of the front bench with the chancellor, his checker (ph). As always, in these arrangements, if shadow cabinet members want these sorts of briefings, they can have them. And can I finally thank him for his kind remarks and the fact that he hopes that we'll be debating with each other some weeks and possibly months to come.", "Mr. Speaker, when we acquire a new government that's decided what it means by leaving and draws up some detailed policy instructions for the committee officials he set up, a great deal of detailed legislation on covering a whole variety of fields was thought being submitted to this parliament. Does my right honorable friend agree that we still have a parliamentary democracy? And it will be the detail -- duty of each Member of Parliament to judge each measure in the light of what each man and woman regards as the national interest and not to take broad guidance from a plebiscite which has produced a small majority on a broad question after a bad tempered and ill informed debate? And would he agree that we face months of uncertainty if we're not careful either?", "It's really not acceptable for people to make that level of noise. The right honorable and leaded gentleman will be heard and every member of this house will be heard. Let's accord the right honorable and leaded gentleman the respect to which he's entitled.", "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And with my right honorable read as a risk of uncertainty for a few months causing very considerable difficulty, we consider the possible first step of joining the European economic area, which was designed in the first place for countries like Norway and Iceland where the great bulk of politicians wish to join the European Union but could not get past the ridiculous hurdle of a referendum in order to get there. And that that would at least would be negotiated, modifications, changes, if anybody can decide what they want after we get there, but do we give some reassuring order and stability to our economy and might begin to attract a little investment and future prospects for our country.", "Well, let me thank my right honorable friend for his remarks. It might be a symbol this house shouldn't block the will of the British people to leave the European Union. But of course, we've now got to look at all the detailed arrangements and parliament will clearly have a role in that, in making sure that we find the best way forward. And will be principally the job for the next government. But I do believe in parliamentary sovereignty and the sovereignty of this parliament and the latter detail will have to be discussed and debated. But decisions like whether or not to join the EEA must be for our future government.", "Angus Robertson.", "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Scotland voted overwhelmingly to remain in the European Union. The 62 percent of voters cast their votes to remain the EU. Every single local government area in the country voted to remain in the EU. And in Scotland, we voted to remain because it really matters that we are in the single European market because we value the free movement of people of goods and services because our EU citizenship rights matter as do our legal safeguards for workers, for women and for parents. In Scotland, Mr. Speaker, we voted to remain because we are a European nation. It really, really matters to us that we live in an outward-looking country not a diminished little Britain. In Scotland, we are now being told from Westminster that despite the majority against leave, we're going to have to do as we're told. We're going to be taken out of Europe against our will. Mr. Speaker, let me tell this house and our friends across Europe, we have no intention whatsoever of seeing Scotland taken out of Europe. That would be totally, totally democratically unacceptable. We are a European country and we will stay a European country. And if that means we have to have an independence referendum to protect Scotland's place then so be it. Thank goodness, Mr. Speaker, that we have a Scottish government and a first minister prepared to lead and seek to protect Scotland's place. And it is very, very welcome that this approach is being supported by opposition political parties across the Scottish parliament. Meanwhile, Mr. Speaker, Project Fear has turned to Project Force. Apparently, those who proposed that we could leave Europe have no plan. A senior leave MP said and report, there is no plan. The Leave Campaign don't have the post Brexit plan. They went on to say number 10 should have had a plan. Meanwhile, U.K. share prices are so volatile that some stocks have temporarily been suspended and Sterling has hit a 31-year low. Mr. Speaker, on one thing I hope we are all agreed. And that is that we take very serious note of the very disturbing series of racist incidents directed against our fellow citizens who happen to come from other European countries. I hope that we all on all sides totally repudiate these despicable acts and encourage the police and prosecuting authorities to do all that they can. Mr. Speaker, given the economic damage and uncertainty that is currently being caused, may I ask the Prime Minister the following financial questions. We welcome the actions of the Governor of The Bank of England to help provide certainty in difficult times. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the Governor has no plans presently to change his forward guidance on interest rates? The S&P will continue to support any sensible measures to deliver stability and confidence in the U.K. economy at this time. However, we want to be explicitly clear that this will not be used to further deepen the program of austerity. In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, the lack of leadership from Whitehall over the past few days has been unprecedented. We recognize at any further drift or vacuum simply exacerbates uncertainty. We know the Prime Minister is planning to leave and we wish him well. But can we have an absolute assurance that this government will finally start to take a firm grip of the situation we all sadly find ourselves in it.", "But first of all what I say to the honorable gentleman is our focus should be to get the very best deal for the United Kingdom outside the European Union. That should be the very best deal for Scotland as well. I actually agree with him about the despicable acts of racism that are taking place and that we reassure him as well. We will take every step that we can. He asked questions specifically about interest rates that is the matter for the Governor of Bank of England and a monetary policy committee. And they set out the views in advance of the referendum. He asked about budget that's going to be a matter for a future government. And then they say this to him, Scotland benefits from being in two single markets, the United Kingdom and the European single market. In my view, the best outcome is to try and keep Scotland in both.", "Sir William Cash.", "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Speaker. May I first of all pay tribute to the Prime Minister for the dignity with which he addressed the nation from 10 Downing Street yesterday. Mr. Speaker, will my right on the offense take a positive and simple message to the leaders of the other 27 member states of the European Council tomorrow. They made -- a voters of the United Kingdom have demonstrated that the value of that great principle, the principle of democracy for which people fought and died.", "Hello. Let me take my honorable friend. Of course, when I go to the European Council tomorrow, I will report directly of the result and the decision of the British people and no one should be in any doubt about that. But I think it's important that we set off on this path of exiting from the European Union. We try to build as much good will as possible on both sides.", "Tim Farron.", "Can I pay tribute to the Prime Minister following the announcement of his resignation on Friday. Of course, we haven't often agree but his commitment to historic bipartisanship during the coalition government and his energetic commitment to the Remain Campaign contrast favorably, the tribalism of others. He has my respect and my thanks. I also respect the outcome of the referendum but I still feel passionately the Britain's interests are best served at the heart of Europe in the European Union. I can accept defeat but I will not give up. I have not changed my beliefs. With the promises of the Leave Campaign unraveling and no leadership being shown by the opposition, will the Prime Minister confirm that free movements of people and access to single market are paramount the economic stability of Britain? How many launched investigation as the whereabouts are the members for Oxbridge, I'm sorry.", "It's all up to me to ensure attendance in the chamber. I've got many responsibilities but that's not one of them. Let me thank him for what he said about my leadership and that is how much I enjoy playing on a platform with him at the final rally outside Birmingham University. We've brought together himself, myself and Gordon Brown (ph) and they are unique but obviously unpersuasive trilogy. Well, they have to say Gordon Brown (ph) on the write when they gave fantastic speeches. 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{"id": "CNN-104993", "program": "OPEN HOUSE", "date": "2006-4-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/15/oh.01.html", "summary": "Don't Accept First Mortgage Offer", "utt": ["Earth Day is one week from today and with oil and gas prices skyrocketing, we take a look at an environmentally friendly way to power your home. Allan Chernoff explains.", "When Peter Baumert decided to build a house with his family he knew he'd be breaking ground of a different kind. Baumert had an eye towards energy efficient housing.", "Rising energy costs was a big factor. Second is the environmental impact. We're looking at newer products to make my house healthier, more efficient and stronger.", "But he's taken energy efficiency to a whole new level.", "We're looking to create Long Island's first net-zero energy-efficient home which basically means whatever electricity or utilities that the home would consume, it'll produce that much and give it back to the utility grid, so basically zeroing it out on the utility side.", "And that could mean big savings. The Department of Energy estimates the average homeowner in the U.S. spends about $1500 a year on utility bills, though homeowners in northern states can pay far more. An energy efficient home will have a lower impact on the environment.", "Your home, and the power that you use in your home, is probably responsible for more pollution than the cars you drive. A lot of people don't understand this. So, obviously, by using less electricity in the home or by generating some of your electricity in the home with zero emission generation sources like solar, you're actually contributing to a cleaner environment and cleaner air.", "Construction costs can run higher than a conventionally-built house, but the energy savings can make it world while in the long run.", "Energy-efficient homes are cheaper to operate and they tend to be more comfortable than less energy efficient homes. You may find yourself paying a little bit more for some of these features up front, over the life cycle of the home and or even in the first few years of ownership, you can get all of this money back in lower energy savings and sometimes, in some areas, energy efficient mortgages are available to homeowners who want to buy an energy-efficient home, so they can buy more home for the money.", "Fannie Mae, the Federal Housing Authority, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, as well as some mortgage companies offer special financing for energy-efficient homes.", "The loan product will take into account the fact that the consumer will be saving monthly on their utility bills because of the added energy efficient measures that have been add into the home. The consumer will have lower utility and so they're able to qualify for additional mortgage money.", "A potential added bonus...", "A home that has energy efficient measures and has documented lower energy costs will be worth more in both the value and market ability of that home.", "But Peter Baumert says he has a greater goal.", "Because every single day that you live in the house, it's a healthier house, it's more energy efficient, you're payback is that you're not burning the resources that everybody else is.", "Allan Chernoff, CNN New York.", "No one wants to pay more than they have to on their mortgage, but many of you could be paying too high a rate and the worst part is someone may have profited from your misfortune, Peter Viles has the story.", "It can be awfully confusing buying a house these days. Do you go with a fixed-rate mortgage, an adjustable, a highbred or maybe an interest only? So confusing, more than half of buyers now turn to mortgage brokers to sort through their options. But do you really understand how the mortgage broker makes his money and that ultimately it comes out of your pocket.", "Unless you're a mortgage broker in the mortgage industry you don't understand it at all. It's poorly disclosed on statements with an acronym, \"YSP\" or something to that effect and it really amounts to thousand of dollars out of your home equity.", "Brokers charge fees and they collect something called a Yield Spread Premium from the lender. Here's how it works. Lets say the lowest interest rate you qualify for on a $300,000 loan is 6.75 percent. If the broker places you on a loan it's 7.25 percent, he can receive a premium from the lender of $3,000. If he places you at a loan of eight percent his premium goes up to $6,000. Lenders, like New Century Financial, say reasonable premiums often serve a useful purpose by lowering up-front closing costs.", "It's really to assist the borrower who doesn't have enough cash to pay the broker points and fees that the broker wants to charge at the closing. Typically, when a borrower pays a Yield Spread Premium it doesn't result in a huge increase in the interest rate, it's typically a quarter to a half a point.", "And on the question of whether homebuyers really understand that they're paying this premium, well, brokers insist they do understand.", "My experience is the borrowers do in fact understand that brokers get paid either as a part of a broker fee or an origination fee and also, in most cases, there's an additional compensation called the Yield Spread, fully disclosed to the Good Faith estimate.", "But critics say some buyers are simply getting ripped of by brokers who are looking for a bigger premium.", "In many cases, in all too many case, a Yield Spread Premium is a fancy name for a kickback, that a mortgage lender will pay to the mortgage broker for putting the borrower into a loan that is more expensive than the loan they could actually qualify for.", "Now, the advice from the Mortgage Broker's Association, itself on this is kind of interesting. They say you should not rely solely on one mortgage broker to get a loan. They say you should shop around, go directly to banks and other lenders and get a total of four estimates before you choose one and close on the loan. Peter Viles for CNN, Los Angeles.", "It is trickier than you may think. When I applied for a mortgage recently my mortgage broker charge me a Yield Spread Premium, but she never volunteered the information, in fact, hi to ask her about it after reading the fine print in my mortgage documents. I suggest you do the same and don't be intimidated, negotiate any fee that you feel is unfair. You've been putting it of long enough, Spring is here and you want to get your house in top shape, but you don't want to spend all day doing it. We're going to show you the easy way to get your Spring cleaning done, but first, the mortgage numbers."], "speaker": ["WILLIS", "ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "PETER BAUMERT, HOMEOWNER", "CHERNOFF", "BAUMERT", "CHERNOFF", "DAVID GARMAN, UNDER SECRETARY OF ENERGY", "CHERNOFF", "GARMAN", "CHERNOFF", "PAT GOOLSBY, CRITERION MORTGAGE", "CHERNOFF", "GOOLSBY", "CHERNOFF", "BAUMERT", "CHERNOFF", "WILLIS", "PETER VILES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MARK PEARCE, CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE LENDING", "VILES", "MARC LOEWENTHAL, NEW CENTURY FINANCIAL", "VILES", "JOSEPH FALK, NAT'L ASSN. OF MORTGAGE BROKERS", "VILES", "PEARCE", "VILES (on camera)", "WILLIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-237191", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2014-08-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/22/es.02.html", "summary": "Gaza Airstrikes Kill 3 Hamas Commanders", "utt": ["Israel is stepping up airstrikes on Hamas targets in Gaza. Three top Hamas military commanders killed in pre-dawn attacks. Israelis are calling up an additional 10,000 reservists to sign other possible escalation in hostilities as Hamas officials vow revenge. Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas insists there is no alternative to Egypt's plan for a long term truce. He's heading to Cairo for a new round of peace talks this weekend. Let's bring in Karl Penhaul live from Jerusalem. Karl, a Hamas spokesperson, just a few days ago, warned there would be targets, the Ben Gurion Airport there in Tel Aviv. Did those threats ever come to fruition?", "Well, exactly. That really is important. Those threats that Hamas was making the other day. They are already having some effect. There is a heightened alert at the Ben Gurion Airport. But, certainly, no suspension of flights like we saw a month ago in July when the FAA did, in fact, suspend U.S. airlines from flying into the international airport, which caused huge embarrassment for Israel. But there's no repeat of that, yet, although yesterday, a Hamas rocket did fall about five miles short of the airport. Another impact of Hamas' renewed threat to Israeli society, if you like, is that the Israeli Football Association, the soccer association, has come out and suspended the start of this season's football matches. They were due to start tomorrow. But Hamas said it will try to target large public gatherings. And so, for safety reasons, that's why the soccer season has been postponed. And Hamas is already saying that is a sure sign that Israel can't provide security to citizens. As well, of course, what we are keeping our eye on is the air war. That is what the fight in Israel and Gaza has reverted to over the last 24 hours. More than 100 rockets being fired from Gaza towards Israel. The Israeli military says in return, several dozen airstrikes going in, and 37 people in Gaza killed, we are told. And among the dead, of course, the three Hamas commanders, those in conventional military terms would be seen as generals. But no sign, yet, what operational impact it may have on Hamas' war, Victor.", "All right. Karl Penhaul there for us in Jerusalem -- Karl, thank you.", "All right. Texas Governor Rick Perry set to be indicted today on felony ambush power charges. But he won't be near the courtroom, we'll explain why, next."], "speaker": ["BLACKWELL", "KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLACKWELL", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "NPR-7864", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2019-05-19", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/05/19/724747883/student-journalist-lands-a-national-scoop", "title": "Student Journalist Lands A National Scoop", "summary": "NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks 17-year-old Gabe Fleisher about breaking the news of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's presidential run.", "utt": ["New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was going to announce his run for president on national television last Thursday. But de Blasio got scooped by a reporter, a high school junior. Seventeen-year-old Gabe Fleisher, who writes the Wake Up To Politics newsletter, joins me now. Welcome.", "Hi.", "So congratulations on the scoop. From one journalist to another, how'd you do it?", "Thank you. I - so each morning in my newsletter, I include the schedules for all of the 2020 presidential candidates. And so I'm kind of, you know, kind of scouring the Web to make sure that I can keep on top of all of them. And on Wednesday night, I stumbled upon a Facebook post from a county party in Iowa announcing that de Blasio would be coming there for the first stop on his presidential announcement tour. And that rings alarm bells since he hadn't announced yet. And so I tweeted out and was able to kind of pre-empt his announcement.", "That is a huge scoop. And it's great sleuthing. I mean, it's amazing attention to detail. And you also put out your news on the same day you were taking a four-hour Advanced Placement exam, which is extraordinary. That must have been a lot of work.", "It was. It was a big day, for sure.", "You have been writing this newsletter since you were 9 years old. I mean, you've clearly been a journalism junkie for a long time.", "Yeah. That's right. I first started writing it as an email to my mom each morning. And it's kind of grown and grown since then. And I've got 50,000 subscribers now.", "Oh, my goodness. And why to your mom? You just wanted to keep her up to date?", "I've always been really interested in politics since I was really young. And I would always try to tell her things in the morning about what was going on - what I was reading in the news. And one day, she just said, I have to get to work. Just put this in an email - and so I did. And that's how it started.", "If there's one politician that you could interview, which one would it be?", "I probably would have to say that if there's one person I'd want to interview, it'd probably be President Trump. I think right now would be - to interview most. But, I mean, there's obviously - it's a huge field right now. And I'm definitely hoping that there'll be more than one of the 2020 candidates I'll be able to spend some time with in the next few months.", "Gabe Fleisher, writer of the political newsletter Wake Up To Politics and current high school junior. Thank you very much.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "GABE FLEISHER", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "GABE FLEISHER", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "GABE FLEISHER", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "GABE FLEISHER", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "GABE FLEISHER", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "GABE FLEISHER", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "GABE FLEISHER"]}
{"id": "CNN-91628", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2005-1-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/25/lol.04.html", "summary": "Viewer Email:  \"The Passion of the Christ\" snubbed for Academy Awards Best Picture Nomination", "utt": ["All right. We want to get back to our LIVE FROM e-mail question of the day. We've been asking you if you think Mel Gibson's \"The Passion of the Christ\" should have gotten a best picture Academy award nomination.", "We've been tracking your responses. And now, without further ado, we will share some with you. No extra charge. This is from Joe in Live Oak, Florida. \"Mel Gibson's \"Passion of the Christ\" was by far the best movie I've seen in the last 12 months if not longer. It is really a shame that the voters for the Oscars shy away from deeply religious and moving movies. Could they be bending to political pressure?\" he asks rhetorically there.", "Yes, the next one is from John in New York City and he writes, \"the \"Passion of the Christ\" was a flawed depiction of a great story. If you enjoy gore and drama that unrealistically exaggerated you will likely find the movie entertaining but it is not worthy of a best picture nomination.\" That's the first one of those that we've seen.", "Yes, that was pretty strident there. S.M. in Athens, Tennessee with this: \"the \"Passion of the Christ\" should have been nominated for that, it was the best movie of the year. Men and women who have not been to the movies in years went to see that. Come on, Academy, what are you thinking?\"", "And this next one is from Paul. \"There is a great deal of people who are taking their passion for the \"Passion of the Christ\" out of context. They're reacting to this movie like it's a religious experience and are blinded by the fact that it is a very poorly made motion picture.\"", "All right. \"Oscars are for Hollywood,\" says David. \"Mel Gibson's \"The Passion of the Christ\" was for the people. The People's Choice award showed that. Give to Ceasar what is Ceasar's,\" he says. And so it is written. Thank you for sharing your e-mails with us. We appreciate it.", "And people on both sides. A lot for, though, that being a best picture nomination.", "Well, and you know what was good on both sides, very thoughtful. Nice to see those. Thank you for those.", "Well, it is the strongest rally of the year for stocks. Susan Lisovicz joins us from the New York Stock Exchange with a market report. Hey there, Susan.", "Well, the good book is good enough for \"Rolling Stone\" after all. Next hour, the magazine has a change of heart.", "And the personal story that made all of us here stop and think today. It's the inspiring life and sacrifice of Sergeant Carrie-Ann Gazwits (ph)."], "speaker": ["BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "NGUYEN", "O'BRIEN", "NGUYEN", "O'BRIEN", "NGUYEN", "O'BRIEN", "NGUYEN", "O'BRIEN", "NGUYEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-115832", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2007-4-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/04/acd.01.html", "summary": "God, Faith, and Hard Science", "utt": ["Welcome to another edition in our \"What Is a Christian?\" series, tonight, \"God, Faith and Hard Science.\" It's a clash that has stretched has crossed across centuries, the relationship between the scientific and the divine, at its heart, the most fundamental questions about how we got here, who we are. Many Christians call the Bible the ultimate authority on creation and existence, a manual for all that is possible. Others seek to chip away at that conviction. And yet others hope for harmony between science and faith. Where do you stand? Chances are, you have asked yourself some of these questions. Did God create our bodies? Does he heal us when we're sick? Or is religion a denial of science? Could there actually be a scientific explanation for biblical miracles, like the parting of the Red Sea? Tonight, all the angles -- and we begin with the most contentious issue: the fight over creationism. Here's CNN's Tom Foreman.", "In the beginning, an explosion rocked the cosmos, and the universe was born. Primitive life crawled from an ooze, mutating, changing. Dinosaurs lived, died, left nothing but bones. And evolution rolled on, until millions of years later. Science tells us that's what happened. But what if it's wrong? What if another story, a very old one, is right? (on camera): So, this is the Garden of Eden, and you have dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden?", "That's true, because God made the land animals on day six. He made...", "Ken Ham is the founder of a $27 million Creation Museum set to open on Memorial Day in rural Kentucky. The message: God made the Earth, the heavens, and everything in them in just six days, just 6,000 years ago. (on camera): This just doesn't look like what I have always thought of as the Garden of Eden. Does it you?", "Well, that's true. And -- and it's meant to challenge people, because most people today would not think of that. That's true.", "Polls show roughly half the country believes human beings were created in our present form by God.", "Genesis is written as literal history. Why are we sinners? Because there was an original sin, because a real man, in a real garden, with a real tree and a real fruit; a real event really happened.", "So, it stands to reason, people and dinosaurs roamed the planet peacefully, together, facing no death or disease before Adam and Eve sinned and were cast out of Eden. Some people might call that blind faith, but the Creation Museum calls it hard science. And, they say, they have proof.", "We are also finding dinosaur bones that are not mineralized. They're not fossilized yet. How in the world can a bone sit out there for 65 million years and not be completely mineralized?", "That argument doesn't wash in this museum, the American Museum of Natural History in New York.", "There's no question in my mind that dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, long before humans. There's absolutely no scientific evidence aligned with the notion that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.", "If the history in the Bible is not true, then neither is the rest.", "There is a ready market for this version of history. Ken Ham is preaching to the choir, a convention of Christian homeschoolers in nearby Cincinnati.", "They haven't thrown religion out of the classroom, by the way. They have thrown Christianity out and replaced it with a different religion. It's a religion of atheism, or the religion of naturalism.", "You could always take one of these lessons and stretch it over a full week.", "Here, parents browse creation science textbooks, with lessons you will never find in a public school.", "We believe it's the truth. I mean -- and why would we teach our children something that's not true? You know, we don't sit down and talk to them about Santa Claus and an Easter Bunny and try, and instill in them that that's the way it happens. No, we tell them the truth. Evolution doesn't fall into that category of being good science.", "Pam Amlung and her daughter Kayla say believing all creation came to be without God requires an even greater leap of faith.", "How could all of this, what we see, possibly have come from nothing? I just can't figure out how atheists can have that much faith to believe. I mean, it takes a whole lot of faith.", "Yes.", "Like, they have nothing to start with. We have something, but they have nothing. And they're believing this whole thing, where the Bible makes more sense.", "They admit faith is full of mystery.", "I think, when we get to heaven, that we will be really surprised, that God will reveal at that point in time, \"This is how I did it.\"", "Yes.", "And it may not look exactly like what any individual here on Earth ever could even imagine.", "But, until then, they will believe that creation looked like this glimpse of Eden in the heartland. Tom Foreman, CNN, Petersburg, Kentucky.", "Well, the battle over what children should be taught in school has been raging for nearly a century now. The question is, is there room for compromise? Joining us to talk about it is Robert Boston of the Americans United For Separation of Church and State, and Charmaine Yoest of the Family Research Council. Appreciate both of you being with us. Robert, let me start with you. Polls show that nearly half the American believes that people didn't evolve from lower life-forms, but were created, in our present form, by God. If so many people think that, shouldn't we at least be discussing it in a science class?", "Well, I think we need to look really not at what polls show, but what the scientific evidence shows. We wouldn't want to teach something in the public schools that was factually incorrect, simply because some people believed it was so. So, we really have to look at the science. If you look at the scientific community, you don't see this great disparity in polls. You see most of the scientists backing the theory of evolution.", "Charmaine, what about that? Why should a science class be forced to -- to teach something which mainstream science says is simply not true?", "Well, you know, mainstream science, throughout history, has been challenged by questions. And that's how we make advances in science, is being open to all different perspectives. And that's all that we're calling for, is saying that, you know, have we gotten to a place in our culture where science has such an orthodoxy around Darwinian theory that we can't even question it, that we can't even look at some of the gaps in the theory, and ask, how can we do better and how can answer some of these questions? That's all we're asking for, is an openness of dialogue and looking at all of the research.", "Robert, President Bush has suggested that this theory of intelligent design should be taught in public school classrooms. The idea is that kids should be able to make up their own minds; they should get different points of view. Robert, what is wrong with that?", "I disagree. I think that there is a mechanism in science that allows for these views to be aired through peer-review journals. And the intelligent-design advocates...", "Well, sure.", "... have not been able to public any research that indicates...", "That's just not true.", "... their point of view. Let me finish, Charmaine. And one of the important things we need to remember, too, is that some of the ideas that groups would like to bring into our schools have been completely discredited, for example, the idea that the Earth is 10,000 years old and that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. Scientifically, that's untenable. Yet, that is what the creationists believe. And that is what, ultimately, I think they would like to bring into our classrooms.", "Charmaine, I mean, do you -- do you believe that dinosaurs walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden? And, if so, is that the -- the basis of your argument?", "What we are looking at here is saying, there are legitimate scientific questions on the table. And it is not true that -- that there is a complete cohesiveness among scientists. So, we're really, really seeing an amazing censorship of anything that questions Darwinism. And you see this kind of thing where, immediately, the minute you question Darwinism, people like Rob come up and say, oh, no, you're going to talk about God. Well, you know, I think our children have more robust intelligence and -- and questioning to be able to cope with looking at all the different theories that are out there. I think it's -- I just have to ask, what is he so scared of?", "Robert, do you believe this is really about -- a debate about science, or is it a debate about religion?", "Of course it's about religion. And notice how she did not answer your question about the age of the Earth and dinosaurs and humans coexisting. I would guess that, if you took a survey of the members of the Family Research Council, you would find, overwhelmingly, they believe that the Earth is 6,000 to 10,000 years old, that dinosaurs died because they were too big to fit on Noah's Ark, or that they existed alongside human beings, other pseudoscientific ideas that has been debunked time and time again.", "Hey -- hey, Rob...", "Why would we want to bring this into the classroom, when there's absolutely no scientific evidence?", "Charmaine, answer the question, yes or no. Age of the Earth?", "You are trying to confuse the issue of conflating...", "Age of the Earth, answer the question.", "I am trying to answer the question.", "How old is it?", "I'm trying to answer the question.", "How old is it, Charmaine?", "I can't get a word in -- that you're trying to conflate creationism with intelligent design.", "That's because you want...", "I'm saying that you should look at...", "... you want creationism in the classroom. Answer the question.", "I didn't say -- I didn't say that.", "Ten thousand years or six billion?", "The only thing I have talked about is intelligent design.", "Why are you afraid to answer the question?", "Why are you afraid of the fact that 90 percent of the American people do believe in God?", "I know exactly what you want to do. You want to teach your book of Genesis as if it's some kind of literal, scientific truth, instead of maybe possibly metaphor or lots of other history. You want to bring it into science. It's not going to fly.", "Do you want your children -- Charmaine, do you want your children to be exposed to a belief which the scientific community has disproven? I'm not saying that they have disproven all of this. But, in certain cases, I mean, some things clearly...", "Sure.", "... have been disproven.", "Sure.", "Things which have been clearly scientifically disproven, do you still want them taught?", "Well, absolutely. That would -- that would come in, in a history of science, in a philosophy of science. That's why I'm saying, there's different kinds of classes. So, we're talking about kind of a broad array of things. Your kids need to know what opinions are out there and -- and -- and see what the evidence is, consider the evidence.", "So, for other subjects in a science class that people disagree on, but that have been disproven, the kids should be taught those as well?", "Sure.", "They should -- they should -- they should know that there are other people who disagree on...", "Absolutely.", "... just about every scientific issue?", "I'm not afraid of my kids knowing about any controversy that is out there, as long as you put the evidence on the table and consider what -- what the debate is. That's what education is all about, is having a vigorous debate.", "Charmaine Yoest, appreciate it, and Robert Boston as well.", "Thank you.", "Fascinating discussion.", "Well, as you have just seen, the emotions are strong in this debate, the lines clearly drawn. But some are trying to reconcile science and God. Coming up: one of the top scientists in the world who once believed there was no God, and what made him change his mind. Also tonight: divine healing or just wishful thinking? Speaking in tongues, falling for God's mercy.", "Some say the age of miracles is past. I don't believe that.", "Meet a pastor who says prayer can cure sickness. Plus: the greening of the church, the Christian environmental agenda, making some Christians red-hot mad.", "It is Satan's attempt to redirect the church's primary focus.", "Politics and passion, when \"What Is a Christian?: God, Faith and Hard Science\" continues."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "KEN HAM, FOUNDER, CREATION MUSEUM", "FOREMAN (voice over)", "HAM", "FOREMAN (voice over)", "HAM", "FOREMAN", "HAM", "FOREMAN", "MIKE NOVACEK, PROVOST, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY", "HAM", "FOREMAN", "HAM", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FOREMAN", "JOE SCHLAWIN, CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLER", "FOREMAN", "PAM AMLUNG, CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLER", "KAYLA AMLUNG, STUDENT", "K. AMLUNG", "FOREMAN", "P. AMLUNG", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "P. 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{"id": "CNN-195440", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2012-11-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1211/09/ampr.01.html", "summary": "World Reaction to Obama Re-election", "utt": ["Hello, everyone, I'm Christiane Amanpour, and welcome to the special weekend edition of our program, where we bring you two of the big stories we covered this week. And the big story was what happened here in the United States, America elected a president, reelecting Barack Obama, who will have four more years to fix what ails his country at home and abroad. So how is the world reacting to Obama 2.0? One of the strongest reactions came from Russia. I had the rare opportunity to speak to a key ally of President Vladimir Putin, a true insider, Alexei Pushkov. And we'll have that interview in a few moments. But first to Israel, and the notoriously chilly relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Obama. Netanyahu, though, was one of the first to congratulate the American president on his victory. But many in Israel complained that their leader had backed the wrong horse, challenger Mitt Romney, as one headline blared, \"Bibi Gambled; We'll Pay.\" And all of this came after an explosive television report rocked Israel, revealing that in 2010, Prime Minister Netanyahu had allegedly ordered his military and his intelligence to prepare a strike on Iran. But, the report says, they refused. I spoke with Ilana Dayan, the journalist who uncovered the story. But first, to Israeli deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, about Israel's reaction to all of this and about how the Israeli-U.S. relationship will go forward now.", "So first off, you can't be that thrilled with all the headlines --", "Good to be here, Christiane.", "Thank you. You can't be that thrilled with all the headlines in the papers today, saying that your prime minister took the wrong political gamble.", "You know, we are our worst critics here in Israel. I respect very much Israeli media and papers, even though not all the time they're correct, and many times they're sensational, which is fine. But let me tell you, I think we should set the record straight. It is true, Christiane, that there was a special kinship between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Mr. Romney, based on the fact that both of them were graduates of MIT, working together later in the same McKinsey consulting firm, but from this, to say that there was a preference, it's a little bit of a stretch. Israel cannot afford to be meddling or involved in U.S. policies. Now, I know very much how acrimonious this campaign was. We were dragged into it by campaigns, not by our own design. And --", "OK, Mr. Ayalon, you're --", "-- (inaudible) for me to tell here that --", "You're mounting a spirited defense and I would expect nothing less, but of course, your own population sees it differently. So the real question is, going forward, what kind of a relationship on particular issues -- Iran -- has the temperature in Israel now, in the prime minister's office, dropped over a military confrontation with Iran? Or will we see that rise again?", "Let me tell you, first of all, you know, Israel and the United States are natural allies, based not only on shared values, common threats that we have, but also on the very sense of the core similar identities and outlook of the future, investing of the two nations. Well, on Iran, we also share almost identically the same outlook with the United States, and we very much trust the leadership of the United States, the leadership of President Obama. And I went on record, just two months, actually in September, in New York, with a conference of major Jewish organizations, to say -- and I am on record -- that we have no better friend than President Obama. Actually a year ago, with my good friend -- which I'm sure you know, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, I said the same thing. We have no better friend than President Obama. And we know that we will continue the consultations because we cannot afford not to work together, because the issues are too big and too immense, and a threat, not just to Israel or to the region, to major American allies in the region, but also to the very basic interests of the United States in Europe. Nobody can afford a nuclear Iran. The question is how we go about stopping it.", "All right.", "And I have a full confidence knowing not only the president's commitment but also his team. And there is, in a way, there -- I see an advantage by the continuity of the administration, being very seasoned, knowing very well that Iran file and portfolio to continue and make sure that Iran will not become nuclear.", "If I'm not mistaken, then, that is a ringing endorsement of the Obama administration's policy towards Iran.", "Yes, well, absolutely. And, well, we're not going to hide anything behind the table. I know we are great allies and friends. Even among the best friends there are sometimes difference of views. And let me tell you -- and I can understand it. You know, the view from, let's say, Kansas City, or the view from Tel Aviv, about the threats from Iran is different by nature of the proximity. But at the end of the day, we will continue and work together. Yes, there were differences about some timelines, about what is exactly the goal, whether to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear capabilities or actually having the bomb itself. But I think today we can safely say that we are very much on the same page and will continue to follow the lead of the United States. By the way, what the United States has done under the leadership of Obama is something that we would have dreamed about a year ago, actually amassing a great pressure in a concerted effort where the entire international community now is coming hard on Iran with the sanctions, not only the United States, but also most of the like-minded countries including Europe. And Iran is hurting now and, for the first time, paying a price. So the dilemma now is of the ayatollah's, whether to continue and breach international law and all the agreements, or space the consequences. And I have full trust that together internationally we will be able to stop Iran.", "Danny Ayalon, thank you very much indeed. Israel's deputy foreign minister. Thank you for being with me. And now, for more on that sensational story that's rocking Israel, Ilana Dayan is one of Israel's leading journalists, as I just said. She's the anchor of the investigative news program, \"Uvda,\" which is Hebrew for \"fact.\" She's the reporter who broke the story that we were just talking about, the story that, apparently two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his military to prepare for attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. Dayan's story documents how the army chief and the head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence, both refused to comply. And she's just shortly about to join me as she's getting into the chair. But as we wait for her, let me just say that: \"The Iranian government has responded to that very program, saying in a letter to the Security Council, the Islamic Republic of Iran expresses its strong protest and condemnation of such a provocative, unwarranted and irresponsible statement by the Israeli regime's prime minister. I wish to reiterate that the Islamic Republic of Iran has never had any intention of any attack on any other nation.\" Ilana, thank you so much for joining me. You've heard the whole premise; you heard what your deputy foreign minister has responded about this. He wouldn't confirm or deny. He said that there was no order from the prime minister. Do you believe that the prime minister had ordered a strike, or do you believe that this was part of the preparations and the psychological pressure to ratchet the pressure up on Iran?", "I'll tell you the facts as I know them from many, many talks that I had, also from people who were in the room, this specific, dramatic meeting of the G-7, the seven city ministers of our government. It happened in the course of 2010 and all of a sudden, just when they are at the door, the chief of staff, then Gabi Ashkenazi, and the head of Mossad, Meir Dagan, are given an order by the Prime Minister Netanyahu to step into a pre-attack alert and be ready to strike in Iran. This is what happened. This is as close, I believe, as Israel has ever gotten to a strike in Iran. And more importantly than that, this was, I guess, the most dramatic rift between the military establishment and the political establishment in which you find really a fascinating dispute between these two sides, when you have on the one side Prime Minister Netanyahu with a deep conviction, very coherent world view in this respect; you have Ehud Barak, who is a, you know, Mr. Security. And on the other hand, you have the chief of staff and the head of Mossad who very courageously set off the alarms and say, guys, this is not the right thing to do now. And if we step into this pre-attack alert, this is noisy; this can lock us into war.", "You just heard your deputy foreign minister be very conciliatory -- or maybe you didn't hear him. Did you hear Danny Ayalon talking about following the U.S. policy and believing that the U.S. and Israel were together on this policy of Iran? I may have lost you, Ilana. It looks like I may have lost Ilana Dayan.", "We are trying to do -- yes.", "You can hear me?", "I'm fine now.", "You can hear me? OK. Let's continue. This is live television, now why the heck not? So do you believe that the temperature for a military strike against Iran has gone up or down in Israel, especially since the U.S. election of Barack Obama and not Mitt Romney?", "It's interesting; I was listening to Deputy Minister Ayalon just a couple of minutes ago, and it was interesting, the way he put it. He said Obama has done for us much more than we could ever expect. He said that he thinks Israel and the U.S. are now on the same page, not only in terms of the intelligence understanding of what's happening, but in terms of what should be done. That was not the case of the interview I had with Prime Minister Netanyahu, just last Friday, in which he very, very strongly said if the U.S. doesn't do it, we'll have to do it ourselves. This is Netanyahu's agenda and the interesting thing that we are about to be seeing now is what happens with the just newly-reelected President Obama. And in my view, you know, the most important -- really the most important thing is whether these two guys, these two gentlemen will be able to create this strategic intimacy, as someone put it to me, that can really be the only way to create innovative options and who are both dangerous ones.", "So you've also said that, look, this discussion continues. You understand where Prime Minister Netanyahu is coming from. You also understand where the opposition, those who don't agree with this kind of strategic direction towards Iran. So are we likely to see this conversation continue in Israel?", "No doubt about it. I mean, we have this postponed deadline until the spring of 2013. But again as far as Netanyahu is concerned, this -- neither this prime minister came to the table with a very coherent, a very well-established -- I have to tell you, very, very respected world view, a historic conviction that he should get rid of the Iran nuclear threat. When you hear Mr. Netanyahu, you understand that it is something which is really very deeply embedded in his psyche, in his world view. And on the other hand, when you speak about opposition, it's not only the brass that really, you know, unexpected and unprecedentedly holds its horses back. It's also the intellectuals. You have writer David Grossman, the brilliant writer, Israeli writer, perhaps one of the most famous ones, writing an article a couple of months ago in the arts newspaper, in which -- in which he said something that I think is very interesting and very important to bring into account when you think about this Israeli dilemma, the bomb or the bombing? And he said that we might be locked into our most ancient Jewish fears of annihilation, of destruction, of death, of murder, of somebody wanting to -- wanting for thousands of years to wipe us from the face of the Earth. And he was trying to claim that Netanyahu is playing upon those fears and he's really touching upon those fears. Netanyahu, on the other hand, will tell you these are true and genuine fears, Iran is running for the bomb. It has already almost 200 kg of 20 percent enriched uranium. We might not know when they run for the last presplit (ph). So it's an interesting dilemma; it's an important dilemma. And the way I see it as a journalist, it's a fascinating dilemma because you have - - you have an unprecedented vision of the players, of the characters on the field.", "Ilana Dayan, it was a great program and it's always fascinating to talk to you. Thank you very much for being here. And when we return Russia's reaction to the presidential election in the United States, a fascinating look inside the Kremlin with Alexei Pushkov, comrade and confidant of President Putin. But first, another look at the U.S. presidential campaign. Politicians kissing babies; nobody knows when it became an American tradition, but it is as much of a part of campaigning these days as hot dogs, balloons and flag waving. And it's not just an American phenomenon any more. International leaders have started puckering up for the camera. Even some you might not think of as babysitters. Take a look.", "You OK there? Aw, come on. (Inaudible).", "Hello, I'm Jonathan Mann. He was one of America's most trusted soldiers and for a little more than a year he has served as the nation's top spy, but now David Petraeus has abruptly resigned his position as the head of the CIA because, he said in a letter to the president, of an extramarital affair. Petraeus, formerly a four-star general who took on the leadership of America's intelligence community in September of last year, put it this way, \"After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment,\" he said, \"by engaging in an extramarital affair. \"Such behavior,\" he wrote, \"is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. This afternoon the president graciously accepted my resignation.\" David Petraeus was a four-star general closely associated with the success of the surge in Iraq and an attempt to replicate its success in Afghanistan. He led U.S. forces in Iraq; he led U.S. forces in Afghanistan and then as a sign of President Obama's regard for him as a military man, slightly more than a year ago, he became the leader of U.S. national intelligence. Now, though, America's top spy has revealed a secret that he felt apparently he could not keep. David Petraeus resigns as head of the U.S. CIA because of an extramarital affair. I'm Jonathan Mann. We return you now to AMANPOUR.", "Welcome back to the program. As we went around the world this week, seeking reaction to President Obama reelection, we stopped in Moscow. Now Mitt Romney, President Obama's challenger, had called Russia America's greatest geopolitical foe, and that didn't go down well there. Leadership has not always been pleased with Barack Obama and his policies, but Romney's bellicose stance enhanced Obama's reputation. So President Obama begins a new term, an opportunity to reset once again America's relationship with Russia. Earlier this week, I spoke exclusively to Alexei Pushkov. He is the chairman of the international affairs committee in the Russian parliament. I had asked him about Syria, because clearly the United States wants much more Russian cooperation on that raging civil war there. But I also asked what does Russia now expect from the United States?", "Let's just talk about perhaps some of the opportunities ahead. I want to play you something that took place, transpired; it's now very well known, this off-mike video has been played and replayed between then-President Medvedev and also President Obama.", "This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility. I understand you.", "I transmit this information to Vladimir, and I stand with you.", "So there was President Obama, assuring the Russian leadership that he would have more flexibility in a second term. What is it that Russia would like to see? In other words, where do you see the area of opportunity now in an Obama second term?", "Well, President Obama clearly pointed to the situation around the U.S. ABM system in Europe. So I suppose that one of the opportunities could be to show this flexibility and to try to establish an ABM system in Europe which will not be considered by Russia as something detrimental for its security interests. I think it would be a reasonable approach and I think it would have really helped for the United States to have Russia as a policy partner than -- rather than foreign policy adversary.", "So just to be clear, you're talking about the general anti- missile defense system that the United States is talking about building?", "I'm talking about the American ABM system that will be placed on the European soil. And there it becomes an issue of European security and of Russian security, because Russia is part of Europe. And this is why Russia says that if America wants to establish an ABM system on the European soil, Russia should have a say. And Russian concerns should be taken into account. So we just actually proposed a negotiation that will lead to some kind of compromise over this. And we cannot accept the approach which had been stated by quite a few American politicians, that this ABM system will be established, no matter what Russia thinks and even if Russia thinks it is directed against its security.", "Well, then, when you heard that conversation between President Obama and Mr. Medvedev, do you believe, then, is it your understanding that a second Obama administration would be flexible on that precise issue?", "Well, that's what Mr. Obama suggested. And personally, I tended to think that he was sincere. And we would like, actually, that some, at least, flexibility be shown on this issue. On the other hand, we see very well from Moscow that the ABM system in Europe is an issue around which there are a lot of passions in the United States and first of all in the U.S. Congress. And some people imply that any steps forward, Russian -- in the direction of Russian concerns would mean the selling out of American security to Russia, which, to my mind, is a complete nonsense. It's not about selling out American security. It's about reaching an agreement like we did reach an agreement on START III, for instance.", "President Putin has just basically fired the defense minister. It's said that it is about a corruption problem. But it looks like he may have upset and ruffled the feathers of many in the establishment, in the defense establishment, by his reforms.", "Well, we have to pass from an army that was an army of a global power, like the Soviet Union was and which numbered around 2 million people, and which had important goals to fulfill outside of the Soviet Union, to an army that would react to modern challenges and that would be much more flexible and much better technologically armed. So of course you have to fire a lot of officers. You have to fire a lot of generals. It's a very painful thing. And we have to have a more efficient army, but efficiency also meaning cutting the personnel. And that's why it is true that there were quite a few accusations towards the minister of defense in Russia that he's cutting across living tissue. But also there were accusations that the reforms he's conducting are not quite that efficient, that some of these reforms are leading to the weakening of some elements of the Russian army that were rather considered to be OK. So I would say that there is a mix of and criticism which is well-found and a criticism which is -- which is connected with vested interests.", "Mr. Pushkov, how do you think the Iran nuclear situation is going to be resolved?", "Well, it's a very complicated issue. First of all, nobody has any clear proof that Iran is making a nuclear bomb. And you know that in 2003, 16 U.S. intelligence agencies have stated that they don't have proof of such a nuclear program in Iran. Of course, some years have elapsed since then. But nobody said for sure that Iran is making such a bomb. So we are based on some assumptions which have not really very strong basis. That's one thing. The second thing, what I certainly see is that if the military scenario, the military scenario is applied, If there are strikes against Iran, this is a very secure way to make Iran nuclear armed in 3-5 years, because if Iran is attacked, if it is aggressed, then Iran will have all the reasons to make such a bomb as a means of defense. And as no country in the world will be able to occupy Iran for a long period, I think that once Iran will redress itself after those strikes, if they happen, then it will take a clear path for arming itself with nuclear weapons. So once again, it's also a complicated issue like the Syrian one. But I will also say that we need more negotiations and we have to talk Iran into not building this bomb. And I think that's the only way we have to proceed, because when -- if it goes to a military solution in Congress (ph), I don't think it will be a solution. I think it will be a way to disaster.", "Alexei Pushkov, thank you very much indeed for joining me.", "You're welcome.", "Of course we'll be watching the re-reset in U.S.-Russia relations, particularly on all those important issues and how that relationship survives. But in the wilds of China, there is another kind of survival of unbearable proportions. That's when we come back.", "And a final thought, in a week where the new Chinese leadership is being unveiled in Beijing, now in the West, China is often seen as a secretive and threatening force. But imagine a world where panda-monium reigns. There was cause for celebration last week at a research base in Szechuan province as seven new panda cubs were introduced to the world and its insatiable appetite for anything panda, there was even an Internet contest to name the cubs. Almost 1 million people went online to name Oreo, the oldest cub, who was born last July on the opening day of the London Olympics, where, incidentally, China came in second to the United States with 88 medals. The pandas' keepers often dress like pandas themselves, and they even smear themselves with panda urine so that when the pandas are released into the wild, they're better able to adapt. China has given the world gunpowder, pasta and tea, along with economic heartburn, but nothing more cuddly than the pandas, including the human ones. That's it for this weekend edition of our program. Thank you for watching and goodbye from New York. 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{"id": "CNN-136598", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2009-4-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/01/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Sneak Attack on the Dollar; Cigarette Tax Soars, Smokers Fume", "utt": ["The U.S. military and the intelligence services -- they work very hard to stay on top of new threats, like long-range weapons in the hands of America's foes. But the United States may also have to prepare for another kind of attack -- on its currency, the U.S. dollar. Let's go to Mary Snow in New York. She's working this story for us -- all right, Mary, explain what's going on.", "Well, Wolf, a panel of experts met recently for what was called the Unrestricted Warfare Symposium at Johns Hopkins. And a case was made that the U.S. needs to add the dollar on its list of things to watch.", "A potential attack would not involve bullets or soldiers. Instead, the opening salvo could be a simple piece of paper. The seriousness of the situation was made in this fake press release from the Central Bank of Russia, saying it has arranged long term use of vaults in Zurich and Singapore, capable of holding up to 10,000 metric tons of gold. Translation -- the dollar is under attack. Analyst James Rickards calls it the dollar Pearl Harbor and he presented the scenario to a recent conference looking at national security implications of economic threats.", "I'm not predicting this attack. I'm really just warning. I'm saying if we keep going down the path of debasing the dollar, this is something that could happen.", "Rickards envisions a potential attack driving down the value of the dollar by 75 percent, triggering an even larger economic meltdown. His warning -- the dollar is vulnerable.", "There's almost a kind of arrogant assumption that because the dollar has been king for a long time, it will always remain so. But history says the opposite.", "Concerns over the dollar arose just last week when China suggested using a new currency to replace the dollar as the world standard. Some who monitor currency markets say there are vulnerabilities, but play down the chances of an outright attack.", "Driving the dollar down would hurt them more than it hurts us. For example, China -- the United States is perhaps their single most important market and they like the dollar to be strong against their own currency, because it makes their exports cheaper to us.", "And, Wolf, China holds about $1 trillion worth of U.S. debt. And while it's worried about the dollar, some say China's investment in the U.S. also ensures for China that there is a market for its consumer goods -- Wolf.", "Good point, Mary. Thanks very much. Mary Snow is in New York. Smokers are fuming over a huge jump in the federal tax on cigarettes and some are blaming President Obama -- himself a known smoker, at least in the past. CNN's Jim Acosta has the latest -- Jim.", "Wolf, the federal government is raising tobacco taxes like never before -- starting today. And on this April Fool's Day, smokers are not laughing.", "Smoke them if you've got them has become smoke them if you can afford them.", "I can't do it anymore. I'm done. I'm done. I'm not smoking anymore after this cigarette.", "There you go.", "Last February, when President Obama signed a law that expanded health care coverage for millions of children, he did so on the butts of millions of smokers.", "In a decent society, there are certain obligations that are not subject to tradeoffs or negotiations. And health care for our children is one of those obligations.", "To pay for all of that new health care coverage, starting today, the federal tobacco tax on a pack of cigarettes is going up big time -- from 39 cents to $1.01. Anti-smoking activists who have been fighting the likes of Joe Camel for decades like the smell of that.", "All the research, all the evidence shows that one of the best ways to reduce smoking, particularly among kids, is to increase price. Our model suggests that almost two million kids will be prevented from becoming smokers just from this price increase.", "Over the next two years...", "But critics argue it's a promise broken for President Obama, who has said he would only raise taxes on the wealthy and it's the poor who smoke the most.", "If you're a pack a day smoker, that -- this 62 cents per pack increase is a $225 a year federal tax increase. For people with moderate income, that's a pretty big hit.", "And the tax is not a big hit with the dwindling number of restaurants that still sell tobacco products, like this Washington cigar bar just a few blocks from the White House.", "If we get a dramatic increase in a particular brand or a particular line of cigars, we will be forced to -- to increase the price somewhat in order to -- to maintain our margins. So, yes, if there's dramatic increase in a particular item, we will pass that on somewhat.", "The big cigarette makers have done just that -- raising their prices before the hike. Public health advocates say add that to the list of reasons for smokers to kick the habit.", "Yes. It's probably time to stop. It's just getting out of hand.", "And Congress isn't finished with the tobacco industry just yet. The House is set to vote on a bill that would give the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulation the products for the first time. It's a big leap forward from those days of smoke-filled rooms up on Capitol Hill -- Wolf.", "All right. Jim Acosta, thanks very much. The new tax, by the way, pushes the national average price of a pack of cigarettes to $5. Here's the breakdown. A $1.01 federal tax as of today; an average of $1.21 state tax per pack; an average state sales tax of 23 cents; an average of $2.25 to the manufacturer; and the profit for distributors and retailers, an average 30 cents per pack. That's where the money goes. Senator John McCain -- he's standing by live. We're going to talk about his new budget that he's unveiling right now -- an alternative to President Obama's. And the former Republican presidential candidate will answer questions on other subjects, as well. Our interview with Senator McCain -- that's coming up next. Plus, the first lady, Michelle Obama, in the global spotlight -- how is she doing on her first overseas foray as first lady? 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{"id": "CNN-105930", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-5-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/12/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Militias Growing Problem In Iraq", "utt": ["They're sometimes overshadowed by insurgents, but the militia groups are also responsible for violence in the country. President Bush took note of that with current and former secretaries of state and defense. CNN's Brian Todd is joining us now with more on this story -- Brian.", "It's likely no coincidence this problem has made its way up the chain of command to President Bush. Top coalition commanders have talked a lot about the militias recently. They're getting more worried about their level of violence and brazen tactics.", "Near the central Iraqi city of Baqubah, captured fighters wearing Iraqi army uniforms, held by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers. They're not who they appear to be. U.S. military officials say some of these men confessed to be members of the notorious Mehdi militia linked to the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr. They've gotten hold of Iraqi army uniforms, gone around in pickup trucks, kidnapping villagers. U.S. and Iraqi forces were ticked off and intercepted the militia.", "When we got there, they found a force of about 40 individuals and seven vehicles, and proceed to engage those criminal forces. A firefight that left five militia men dead, dozens of other apprehended. But some got away with kidnap victims. A senior U.S. military official on the ground tells CNN groups like this are, quote, \"one of my biggest problems,\" a problem that's gotten the attention of his commander in chief.", "Perhaps the main challenge is the -- is the militia that tend to take the law into their own hands.", "In Baqubah, Baghdad, and elsewhere, local residents tell CNN these lethal militias are the real power in the streets, answering only to their leaders, like Al-Sadr, not to American forces or Iraqi government officials. The problem: the failure to fill key cabinet positions, leaving a power vacuum in Iraq.", "We have had an extended political hiatus while this government has been standing up. And that has permitted radical politicians and some militias to claim to represent, to regulate, and to communicate -- to protect their own communities.", "We're told that a new Iraqi cabinet could be named as early as Sunday. But even then, the job of containing the militias would only begin, and the scope of these sectarian killings is staggering. Iraqi's president says last month alone, the Baghdad morgue reported more than 1,000 victims of day to day violence -- Wolf.", "Brian Todd, thanks for that. A key member of the CNN security council, our world affairs analyst, William Cohen, is also a former defense secretary. He was in the meeting over at the White House earlier today with the president. William Cohen is also the chairman and CEO of the Cohen group here in Washington. He's here in THE SITUATION ROOM right now. Take us inside the West Wing. What was it like with these former secretaries of state and defense and the president and his top advisors?", "Wolf, this is the second time in a very short period of time in the last two or three months that President Bush has called for a gathering of former secretaries of defense and state. And basically, it was an opportunity for Secretary Rice and Secretary Rumsfeld and General Pace to give about a 45-minute briefing to all those there, bringing us up to date on what is taking place on the ground, what are the challenges, et cetera. At the end of that 45-minute presentation, President Bush came in. He then engaged in a give and take for the next 45 minutes to an hour, soliciting views of us and giving us a perspective on his part, his administration, what his goals are.", "Did you learn something that you didn't know walking into the West Wing?", "Well, perhaps more specifics than what we got from the newspaper in terms of what is taking place on the ground, the kind of reports coming from General Casey and our ambassador in Iraq itself. I was able to convey my own impressions of traveling in the Gulf region, from Riyadh to Qatar to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, most recently, and...", "You're just back.", "Just back. And to convey the level of anxiety that those countries have about what is taking place in Iraq. But also what is taking place in Iran. There is genuine concern and apprehension on their part about the growing tensions that exist and the threat that exists from Iraq -- Iran, rather.", "So they're worried that the U.S. might take military action against Iran? Was that the concern you conveyed to the president?", "They're -- they're concerned on two levels. No. 1, they're concerned about the growing power of Iran. They're also concerned about any kind of military action being taken without some real serious diplomatic initiatives being undertaken. And Secretary Rice, I think, conveyed very clearly that we are pursuing diplomatic initiatives and not looking at the military options.", "There were former Democratic secretaries of state and secretaries of defense, former Republican. Was anyone -- were there any sharp exchanges? Anyone critical of the president to his face?", "No one was critical to the president. There were obvious disagreements amongst some of the members who were there. Albright had some very strong opinions, but she is a diplomat and a former secretary of state, and she conveyed her views in a very professional manner, as did others. And so this is a group that has worked together and known each other for a long period of time, have had similar experiences of being in positions of responsibility. And so it was a very easy going exchange but very forthright.", "Based on what you heard, did you emerge more or less optimistic about the situation in Iraq?", "A little more encouraged in terms of what is taking place, in terms of the commitment of the new government, with a prime minister designate committed to forming a unity government, filling those positions, then cracking down on the militia, taking away the sectarian violence to the extent they can. Also delivering services that are much needed: electricity, water, all of the human needs that are required in order to win the hearts and minds. I think there's some progress being made there, but the jury is still out. Still a tough road to go.", "Well, we're glad you're back safe and sound from the region. Thanks for coming into", "A pleasure to be here, Wolf.", "Lou Dobbs is getting ready for his program that begins right at the top of the hour. He's going to tell us what he's working on.", "Wolf, thank you. Coming up at 6 p.m. Eastern here, we'll have complete coverage of President Bush's plans to address the nation Monday night in an effort to save his so-called comprehensive immigration reform. Will President Bush send troops to our southern border? We'll be live at the White House, Capitol Hill, and the Pentagon tonight. And among my guests tonight, Congressman Virgil Goode, who introduced the amendment to send troops to our border; Congressman Sylvester Reyes, who strongly opposes that idea. And I'll also be talking with three of the country's top political analysts. We'll have a special report as well for you on a major new crime wave sparked by illegal immigration. American children are the victims. Please join us, 6 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN. Back to you, Wolf.", "And Lou, we'll be seeing you here in Washington Monday for our special coverage. You'll be doing your program from 6 to 7. You'll stay with us in THE SITUATION ROOM. We'll get to the president's speech at 8 p.m. Eastern, then a special edition of \"LOU DOBBS TONIGHT\" coming up after the president's speech at 8:30. Did I get it all right?", "I think you did very well, Wolf. It's going to be a day of intense and important coverage. We're looking forward to it.", "Lou Dobbs will be here in Washington for all of our coverage. Lou, thanks very much. And still to come, author and aggressor. Saddam Hussein's newest book could soon be on the bookshelves. You think you want to buy it? And in Iran, you're told what books you can't read and what Internet cites you can't surf. But many Iranians are thirsty for information, and they've found a way around that. Our Aneesh Raman is inside Iran, and he has the story."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TODD", "LT. COL. THOMAS FISHER, U.S. ARMY", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "TODD", "LT. GEN. ROBERT FRY, BRITISH ROYAL MARINES", "TODD", "BLITZER", "WILLIAM COHEN, FORMER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "BLITZER", "COHEN", "BLITZER", "COHEN", "BLITZER", "COHEN", "BLITZER", "COHEN", "BLITZER", "COHEN", "BLITZER", "THE SITUATION ROOM. COHEN", "BLITZER", "LOU DOBBS, HOST, \"LOU DOBBS TONIGHT\"", "BLITZER", "DOBBS", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-34587", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-7-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/12/lad.08.html", "summary": "Emmy Award Nominees to Be Announced", "utt": ["It all begins in about 30 minutes: The television industry gets ready to honor its bright lights. CNN's Paul Vercammen, our own bright light, is up early. Paul, you're in Los Angeles, to preview these nominations. Hi.", "How do you know I didn't just stay up late like the last time I joined you?", "I know, the \"Pearl Harbor\" party. You get it all.", "Actually, I did catch a couple of winks. And just recently, they allowed me back in the room. They have a security sweep here, in which they kick out all of us journalists and publicists -- because who else would be up this early in the morning. They're going to announce the Emmy nominations in just a few minutes, and they will be announced by Sean Hayes, who won last year for \"Will & Grace,\" and also by Patricia Heaton, who won last year for \"Everybody Loves Raymond.\" And as is sort of a custom here, they will probably hear their own names announced again this year, as they are once again nominated. Now what shows are being talked about this year? It's the usual suspects. Expect the \"West Wing\" to get a lot of nominations in the drama category. Also \"The Sopranos,\" so we'll have the White House dueling with the mob again. Among the comedies, \"Everybody Loves Raymond,\" watch for \"Will & Grace,\" and we'll see if there are any surprises. So we'll bring you all of the revelry this morning in just a little while -- Carol.", "Thanks so much, Paul. You are such a trooper. We'll see you in just a bit."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LIN", "VERCAMMEN", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-171159", "program": "PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT", "date": "2011-8-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/24/pmt.01.html", "summary": "No Word of Gadhafi's Whereabouts; Libyan Rebels Control Almost Entire City of Tripoli", "utt": ["The $2.5 million bounty on the head of Moammar Gadhafi tonight, the clock ticking to the end of his regime, battles are raging strong in Tripoli and other cities. Senior international correspondent Dan Rivers is there in Tripoli and joins me now. Dan, what is the latest? Tell me about this bounty.", "This has been confirmed to me that they are offering 1.7 million dinars, that number symbolic. This revolution started on the 17th of February, and they are offering this money to try and encourage someone to give up Colonel Gadhafi. They're also offering an amnesty for anyone that will turn him in, who are currently loyal to him. We've come in from the mountains today, into Tripoli, where these rebels surged a few days ago from Zentan. We drove in through the west of the coastal area here, through Zawiya into Tripoli. We were ushered into a briefing with the rebels where they acknowledged that large parts of the southern side of Tripoli remain very dangerous and very volatile. Anything south of the ring roads here is extremely dangerous. They say there are pockets of resistance and snipers loyal to Gadhafi there which are really causing them problems. So, there's a slight change in the picture that we've been led to believe that they control 80 percent or 90 percent of the city. I think that's a little overly optimistic at the moment. But, certainly, where we are now, just near the port here now, you can hear a lot of celebratory gunfire. This area seems to be fairly secure as the rebels, you know, are now driving around, loosing off magazines to celebrate what they think is an inevitable victory.", "Obviously, there's a huge bounty, never mind financial, just on being a rebel that could get Gadhafi personally. Is there a huge kind of manhunt going on? How would you describe the atmosphere to find him?", "Oh, yes, absolutely. Febrile I guess is the best word. When we were in this briefing, a bunch of these rebels all ran out and jumped into their trucks claiming they were going off on a secret mission to capture a senior person who may or may not have been Gadhafi, they thought. Turns out it wasn't. But it's fairly -- it feels fairly chaotic the way they are behaving, the rebels, from what I've seen. There's a lot of kind of running around in these pickup trucks, some of which have antiaircraft guns mounted on them, you know, break-neck speed. We've seen a lot of these cars sort of doing doughnuts down in Green Square, or Martyr Square as they're calling it now behind me, you know, in celebration. They don't give the impression of being particularly disciplined. And, you know, obviously, the big question is, where is Gadhafi? Is he still in Tripoli? Rumors that he might be south near the airport where one of my colleagues, Arwa Damon, is still holed up amid that intense fighting. But, frankly, no one really knows at the moment.", "Now, that is the big question. Dan Rivers, thank you very much indeed. As the battle rages in Tripoli, opposition forces are making plans for post-Gadhafi Libya. My next guest may have a lot to say about that. He's a member of the Libyan royal family who has been in close touch with the rebels. Prince Idris al-Senussi joins me exclusively now. Prince al-Senussi, thank you very much for joining me. I spoke to your brother yesterday. Obviously, a very jubilant time for you, for your family, and indeed for Libya. What is your reaction to what you're seeing?", "Hello, Piers. Nice for you having me again on your show. I'm proud of the people of Libya who have been fighting to bring back democracy and establish freedom in Libya. Of course, this is great times for the people of Libya, especially for our family, and the legacy that we have seen in Libya. I would love very much to thank the Libyan people. And I want to take this advantage to tell them with the finishing of Ramadan, now is the time for us to reconciliate and put all our rivalries aside and be all tribes unite under one flag, under one constitution, and build the institutions again, the civil society.", "And royal highness, you and your family were kicked out of Libya in the late '60s, and you've had to watch Colonel Gadhafi run his reign of terror ever since. Now that he's gone, can you see a situation where you would return, perhaps be part of the government going forward?", "Look, Piers, we have not been outside the country, we've been working from day one in opposition against Colonel Gadhafi. I've been in a opposition on my life. My cousin is part of the government in Libya. It's been 31 years part of the transitional government. Of course, we would like to work with any government that comes, that puts the government back together, on the world map as a civil country, civilized country. So our role is not important, what role we play. It's important that we continue our work, what we are doing now. We're working with the named -- the people who are injured, we're working with the humanitarian. We would like to soon help the companies who would like to go back and do the construction, who would like to see the people be -- the Libyan people who are very well- educated, professors, and all of us go back, and what our role can be is not important. Whatever role is available.", "And finally, Prince al-Senussi, most of us were watching the extraordinary scenes at Gadhafi's compound yesterday because when a man loses his home, his compound like that, we all kind of know it's all over. For you, it must have been such a symbolic thing to watch. What was your personal human reaction to those scenes?", "Well, my reaction is, the tyrant, he's gone. Libya is coming back as a country. I have been watching, waiting for this -- for this event to happen for 41 years, although I was young. But I still remember that I always dreamt of going back, and seeing Gadhafi out of Libya. And I always hoped that I will see Libya without a Gadhafi. And that's what I saw. When I saw the compound, that's it. I said, the symbol -- he symbol of power, the symbol of Gadhafi is gone and it became history. That's what I've seen.", "Wonderful moment for you, and for Libyan people. Prince al- Senussi, thank you very much for joining me. When we come back, CNN's Sara Sidner, and what it's like to report in the middle of Libya's chaos."], "speaker": ["MORGAN", "DAN RIVERS, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MORGAN", "RIVERS", "MORGAN", "PRINCE IDRIS AL-SENUSSI, MEMBER OF THE LIBYAN ROYAL FAMILY", "MORGAN", "AL-SENUSSI", "MORGAN", "AL-SENUSSI", "MORGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-344709", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-07-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/09/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Trump Selects Court Pick to Be Revealed Tonight", "utt": ["-- the name of the federal judge? Anthony Kennedy. After President Reagan nominated then Judge Kennedy to the court in 1987, these far-left special interest groups impinged his character. They cooked up apocalyptic warnings about the terrible things that would happen to Americans if he were confirmed to the court. Of course, the American people didn't buy it and a majority of senators saw through the hyperbole and hysteria and confirmed that qualified nominee. And believe it or not, Mr. President, the sky didn't fall. It didn't fall. But decades later our Democratic colleagues still haven't tired of crying wolf whenever a Republican president nominates anyone, anyone to the Supreme Court. We have seen the same movie time after time after time. Less that be three years after Justice Kennedy's confirmation, President Bush nominated David Suter to the supreme court. Get what left groups said about him? That's right, the very same things you're hearing today. The same things you have heard from the same corners about every Supreme Court nominee named by a Republican president. One organization proclaimed that Justice Suter might undo the advances made by women, minorities and other disadvantaged groups. That was about Justice Suter. And they assailed the nomination of John Paul Stevens. They said he liked impartiality and imposed women's rights. That was said about John Paul Stevens. So, these far-left groups have been at the same scare tactics for over 40 years. The consistency is quite amazing. Decade after decade, nominee after nominee, the far-left script hardly changes at all. Anyone and everyone, a Republican president nominates is some kind of threat to the Republic. According to the hysterical press releases that inevitably follow. No matter their qualifications, no matter their record, no matter their representation, it's the same hyperbole, the same accusations, the same old story. Tonight, President Trump will announce his nominee to fill the current supreme court vacancy. We don't know who he will name, but we already know exactly what unfair tactics the nominee will face. It won't be new, and they won't be warranted. We can expect to hear how they will destroy equal rights or demolish American health care or ruin our country in some other fictional way. Justice Kennedy's resignation letter barely arrived in the president's hands before several Democratic colleagues began declaring their blanket. Opposition to anyone at all that the president might name. One Democratic senator stated she would resist any attempt to confirm any nominee this year, quote, it doesn't matter who he's putting forward. It doesn't matter who. Earlier today, another Democratic senator issued a press release declaring preemptively that he plans to oppose whomever the president nominates tonight, no matter who they are. Another of our Democratic colleagues offered this assessment. We're looking at the destruction of the Constitution of the United States as far as I can tell. It's hard to keep a straight face when you hear stuff like that. There's not even a nominee yet. Justice Kennedy just announced his retirement and they are talking about the destruction of the constitution? Please give the American people some credit. This far left rhetoric comes out every single time. But the apocalypse never comes. Americans see beyond the mongering. This kind of fear mongering they tried over and over again for 40 years. Senators should do the same. We should evaluate this president's nominee fairly based on his or her qualifications. We should treat the process with the respect and dignity that it deserves. The judiciary committee under the able leadership of Senator Grassley will hold hearings and the nomination will come to the full Senate for our consideration. One more round, one more round", "All right. So, as this is all about who the president chooses to be his next nominee, ultimately pending confirmation, the next justice of the Supreme Court, just in -- to think about legacy building not just for the president but the man you saw speaking there, the senate majority leader because he kept Merritt Garland, President Obama's choice, before he left office to be that pick. He kept him from being -- any of the hearings to happen and that, therefore, led to president Trump, led to Neil Gorsuch, the justice, which led to, for example, most recent decision on the supreme court, the upholding of the Trump travel ban. Keep that in mind, too. 9:00 eastern tonight the announcement from the east room of the White House. Quick break. We'll back here in just a moment."], "speaker": ["MITCH MCCONNELL, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-107477", "program": "PAULA ZAHN NOW", "date": "2006-6-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/23/pzn.01.html", "summary": "Families of Terror Suspects React to Arrests", "utt": ["And glad to have all you out there with us tonight. Appreciate your dropping by on a Friday night. Here's what's happening at this moment. U.S. intelligence experts are now analyzing the videotape just out today from al Qaeda's number-two man, Ayman al-Zawahri. The tape shows him grieving in front of a picture of terrorist Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, who was killed earlier this month in an American airstrike. Al-Zawahri is calling him a hero and a martyr, and promised revenge for his so-called murder. Concern about Korean missile tests move the U.S. and Japan -- agree to cooperate on stronger missile defense systems. The U.S. has also just completed the largest war exercises in the Pacific since Vietnam. In Sedona, Arizona, wildfires burning there since Sunday have now consumed some 4,000 acres. People there are now bracing for strong winds that could put even more homes and resorts in danger. Moving on now to the \"Security Watch\" tonight -- the very latest on a plot the government claims was the beginning of a terrorist attack potentially even more devastating than 9/11. We first alerted you to the stunning details as they were breaking late last night at this time during our hour, allegations of a spectacular plan by a group of extremists to blow up buildings in Miami and the country's tallest skyscraper, the 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago -- a particularly chilling note: Most of the suspects are American citizens. Now, some see this as an ominous new trend in the war on terror. Others have big doubts about the case tonight. Susan Candiotti is in Miami. She has been working on this story ever since it broke, and she has just filed her report.", "They had no money, weapons or supplies, yet, the government claims this seemingly inept group of seven planned to pull off a full-scale terror ground war against the U.S. -- their alleged base of operations, this windowless warehouse in a rundown section of Miami.", "What we have is a situation where individuals here in America made plans to hurt Americans.", "Hurt them by blowing up the Sears Tower and government offices.", "They sought supplies, including weapons and vehicles. They took reconnaissance photographs.", "The government cites these photographs of Miami's FBI headquarters, the Miami Police Department, and a nearby federal courthouse and detention center. The government showed off what it said were secretly shot photographs of each participant in meetings that allegedly plotted attacks. The indictment charges, the group's leader, Narseal Batiste, claimed soldiers would -- quote -- \"Kill all the devils we can\" in a mission -- quote -- \"as good or greater than 9/11.\" Whether the accused could have pulled it off as the question. According to the indictment, a government informant who pretended to be a member of al Qaeda infiltrated the group over several months. The group's leader is charged with pledging his allegiance to al Qaeda. He wanted boots for his half-dozen soldiers, a rental car to shoot surveillance photos of possible targets, bulletproof vests, machine guns, and $50,000 in cash to blow up the Sears Tower. But the indictment alleges the group's leader said his plans were delayed because he was having trouble with his organization. What kind of trouble was not described.", "They certainly had the will. They were searching for the way, which is the bottom line.", "In a Miami federal courtroom, five of the seven, all handcuffed, appeared briefly before a judge. Each testified he owned no property. Two said they had jobs. All got court-appointed attorneys, and will be arraigned next week. Relatives said the suspects don't like President Bush and hate the war in Iraq, but never talked terror.", "My son, he don't have a heart to kill people.", "He ain't got no heart to kill nobody.", "He ain't go no heart to kill nobody.", "Don't have heart to kill people.", "Authorities said they made the arrests now because they made their case.", "Well, we took action when we did, because we believe we have an obligation to prevent America from another attack here.", "Al Qaeda wanna-bes or not, the FBI insists this obscure group of religious zealots had to be stopped. Yet, given their lack of money, guns, bombs or training, it's not clear whether they were all talk and no action. Susan Candiotti, CNN, Miami.", "So, what's it like to find out you may have a homegrown terror group right in your own backyard? I'm going to ask Miami Police Chief John Timoney that question in a few minutes. But, first, the men who committed the atrocities of 9/11 all came from outside the U.S. to attack the Pentagon and the World Trade Center towers, symbols of America known all over the world. But with the Miami arrests, some experts see a frightening new trend, homegrown terrorists preparing to strike from within. Here's homeland security correspondent Jeanne Meserve.", "The Sears Tower, a landmark, a symbol, on the list of potential terrorist targets since 9/11. But the threat against it, once believed to come from abroad, came, in this instance, from within.", "They were persons who, for whatever reason, came to view their home country as the enemy.", "It is a product of the war on terror, officials say, unexpected and unwelcome. With al Qaeda disrupted, the seeds of jihadist ideology have dispersed, germinated, and grown into small, local terror cells.", "These extremists are self-recruited, self-trained and self-executing. They may not have any connection at all to al Qaeda or to other terrorist groups. They share ideas and information in the shadows of the Internet.", "The bombers who attacked the London transit system a year ago are said to have had no direct al Qaeda link, likewise, the alleged Toronto terrorists arrested earlier this month, who are said to have wanted to blow up the Canadian parliament and behead the prime minister. And now there are the purported plotters in Florida, who were caught because someone who knew them grew suspicious.", "Let's just say that they were doing things that came to our attention through people who were alert in the community.", "Members of local cells plot and plan where they live and work. They belong there. They do not stand out. They are, in short, hard to find. A homegrown cell that originated in this California prison was only stopped after some members were caught robbing gas stations and investigators stumbled on to evidence of terrorism. The absence of a larger organizational hierarchy decreases the likelihood of communications intercepts or unusual travel that might raise alarm bells. The key, say experts, is old-fashioned police work.", "You have to have a constant surveillance of what's going on within the community. And that means that agents have to be out there working with their informants.", "Officials make it clear finding and stopping these homegrown cells must be a priority.", "And, left unchecked, these homegrown terrorists may prove to be as dangerous as groups like al Qaeda.", "No one has a real handle on the number of homegrown terrorists in the United States, but officials are worried that their number could be multiplying, and their danger growing. Jeanne Meserve, CNN, Washington.", "And joining me now, Steven Emerson, the author of \"American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among us.\" Always good to see you, Steven. Welcome.", "Hi.", "So, we have established the men charged had no weapons, no training, no materials, no money. Were they competent enough to ever get past the planning stages of this plot?", "Well, Paula, they -- they didn't have money or -- or training or -- or weapons at that particular time that they were arrested. But let's take the corollary. Let's say there wasn't a U.S. operative who had infiltrated the group. Let's say they had made contact with a real al Qaeda bankroller or arms dealer, and then they acquired the weapons. I have no doubt that, if they had the money and the weapons and the training, they would have carried out these attacks. So, I think we have to be understanding of why the FBI tried to, early on, stop the operation by arresting them.", "Why are you so convinced they could have pulled this off?", "Look, there's no guarantee that they could have pulled it off. But the fact remains that they definitely had a motivation to kill as many as they could. They wanted to actually exceed the number of dead occurring during 9/11. They hated Americans. They swore allegiance to bin Laden. And, so, if they had the material and the explosives, the possibility is that they could have pulled it off. And I would rather not take that chance.", "I don't think anybody out there would ever want to play with that chance. What can you tell us about the Seas of David group that they are seemingly thinly associated with?", "I'm not really familiar with it. You know, what -- what -- what I have seen happen, particularly among black Muslims, are these different types of sects that emerge, such as the one in California that was interrupted last year plotting to blow up synagogues and National Guard facilities that came out of a prison. They are very small and contained. They spread a jihadist ideology among them that is easily obtained from the Internet. It's the virtual jihad. Any time you have an Internet connection, you can bring it into your living room. And all they need is a charismatic leader who is going to motivate them to carry out an attack.", "Steven, what is so -- seems so strange about this group of men -- we have just heard Jeanne Meserve talking how these folks who are usually in homegrown terror cells blend in rather elusively with their community. But these guys are described by neighbors as always wearing black, always stating publicly that they were going to give their lives to God. Isn't that a little bit unusual?", "It certainly is a little bit unusual, because you expect them to be much more circumspect about how they go about their training. On the other hand, they were true believers. And, in the Virginia jihad case, they used to train every weekend in paintball exercises, under the cover that it was just paintball. But they were really preparing for jihad. So, I think that these are telltale signs that sometimes indicate what their true motives are.", "And we will be discussing more of that throughout the broadcast tonight. Steven Emerson, always good to see you. Thanks for your time.", "Sure.", "We are going to move now to our nightly countdown of the top-10 most popular stories on CNN.com, 17 million of you going to our Web site today. AT number 10 -- the murder of a journalist in Somalia. Cameraman Martin Adler was covering a rally for Britain's Channel 4 News this morning, when he was shot and killed. Adler recently covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Number nine -- in Ohio, two days of severe storms causing major flooding near Cleveland. One firefighter was killed while rescuing two people stranded in a jeep. Thousands of homes lost power. And a flood watch is still in effect for the area tonight. Numbers eight and seven next -- plus, a deeper look at the Miami terror suspects and the strange motivation that drives domestic terror.", "Just who are the seven Miami suspects, soldiers with a passionate cause accused of plotting a violent jihad. What would drive people to allegedly declare war on their own country? And \"Vital Signs\" -- Morgellons disease, sounds like science fiction, more and more people tormented by mysterious threads growing deep under their skin. Is it all in their heads or has medicine encountered a startling new disease? 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{"id": "NPR-5977", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2019-08-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750897637/guatemalas-president-elect-will-inherit-strained-relationship-with-u-s", "title": "Guatemala's President-Elect Will Inherit Strained Relationship With U.S.", "summary": "Guatemala enters a new era after the victory of a conservative former prison official with no previous governing experience. His challenges include deep corruption, poverty, violence and migration.", "utt": ["Guatemala's president elect is a 63-year-old conservative who once ran the country's prison system. And he ran three unsuccessful bids for the presidency before winning this time around.", "Now, as NPR's Carrie Kahn reports, he inherits a strained relationship with the United States over migration, plus deep corruption and violence at home.", "Alejandro Giammattei beat his rival, former first lady Sandra Torres, by nearly 16 points. But no one is calling his victory a mandate. That's because nearly 60% of eligible voters didn't even bother to go to the polls.", "(Speaking Spanish).", "At this downtown Guatemala City polling place, Hilda Flores, an IT university professor, like many voters, had a hard time picking a candidate.", "Like, the less worse - is that correct to say in English? - the less evil.", "She says she's sick of choosing between the lesser of two evils. Sunday's presidential contest had the lowest voter turnout in nearly two decades. Even Giammattei's victory party was underwhelming. Looking exhausted, the former surgeon's acceptance speech was quick.", "(Speaking Spanish).", "\"You will not find a president distant from the people. You will find a president close to the people,\" Giammattei declared before departing. He took yesterday off to rest. While Giammattei has run four presidential campaigns, he's never held office. And he's going to have to catch on fast.", "Guatemala is facing huge challenges. Nearly 60% of the population lives in poverty, and because of that and increasing violence and unchecked corruption, hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans have headed north and been detained at the U.S. border in the past 10 months.", "Edmond Mulet, an unsuccessful presidential candidate this year, says the Guatemalan state is failing. And he says he knows what that looks like. In the mid-2000s, he headed the U.N. mission to Haiti, the poorest country in the hemisphere.", "The efforts in order to fight corruption have been very much reduced and - which is of concern.", "Just four years ago, Guatemala was actually an inspiration for the rest of the region, as it jailed a class of corrupt politicians, including the then-president, vice president and other high-profile targets. That crusading crackdown was led by a U.N.-backed anti-corruption commission known as CICIG for its initials in Spanish. However, last year, current President Jimmy Morales, who had come under investigation by the commission, canceled it and expelled its head.", "Claudia Escobar, a former Guatemalan judge, says Morales has once again opened Guatemala to criminals and corrupt officials.", "I feel that Guatemala right now is a patient that is in intensive care, and CICIG was the help for this patient to be alive. And with CICIG gone, I think we really have a high risk of being a failed state.", "President-elect Giammattei, backed by business and military interests, says he won't bring CICIG back. He says he will instead attack the root causes of corruption but provides few details. He also pledges to start his own national anti-corruption commission.", "It's unlikely he'll get pressure from the U.S. to make good on those promises. President Trump has abandoned years of bipartisan support for CICIG. He didn't protest the commission's expulsion. Trump's now more focused on an agreement he got Guatemala to sign, obligating the country to accept possibly tens of thousands of Central American asylum-seekers.", "In his congratulatory tweet to the new president-elect, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he's looking forward to combating irregular migration together. He didn't mention fighting corruption.", "Guatemalan constitutional lawyer Alexander Aizenstatd says U.S. policy is shortsighted.", "Which is regretful because in the long term, the fights against corruption and impunity is something that will certainly reduce illegal migration.", "Lorena Monzon, an insurance saleswoman, says Sunday's election results leave her pessimistic about Guatemala's future.", "(Speaking Spanish).", "\"We're going to go back to the way we were before when the politicians just did whatever they wanted and lined their pockets with all our money.\"", "Carrie Kahn, NPR News, Guatemala City."], "speaker": ["MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED PERSON", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE", "HILDA FLORES", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE", "ALEJANDRO GIAMMATTEI", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE", "EDMOND MULET", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE", "CLAUDIA ESCOBAR", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE", "ALEXANDER AIZENSTATD", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE", "LORENA MONZON", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE", "CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-391871", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-02-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/05/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Trump's State of the Union; Iowa Results Show Buttigieg with Narrow Lead; Senate Expected to Acquit Trump; Pelosi Calls Trump Speech A Manifesto Of Mistruths", "utt": ["Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.", "I'm John Vause at the CNN Center in Atlanta where it's just gone 2:00 am on the U.S. East Coast. It's 11:00 pm out west. Wherever you are, thank you for joining us. And we begin this hour with a split-screen moment in America. As the president was delivering the most partisan State of the Union address in memory, Democrats continued counting votes in the Iowa caucus. The long delayed results have been slowly trickling in. Right now with 71 percent of precincts counted, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, maintains a narrow lead over Bernie Sanders. The big loser still in fourth place, former Vice President Joe Biden.", "Meanwhile, Donald Trump delivered the annual address to Congress, taking center stage for 78 partisan minutes, starting with a presidential snub for the House Speaker and ending with a not-too- subtle insult from Nancy Pelosi.", "And in the moments in between, the president appealed mostly to his base, talking about the economy, immigration, his border wall, socialism, abortion, judges, guns, school prayer. And then there were the major TV moments, like the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States, for conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh. And, of course, there was the usual Trumpian hyperbole.", "Our borders are secure. Our families are flourishing. Our values are renewed. Our pride is restored. And for all of these reasons I say to the people of our great country and to the members of Congress, the state of our union is stronger than ever before.", "Speaker Pelosi was not having any of it. After Mr. Trump snubbed her offer to shake hands before the speech, she returned the favor several times, introducing him without using the words \"high privilege and honor,\" standing and clapping only when someone was honored and ripping up the paper copy of his speech at the end.", "Not very subtle. Joining us now from Los Angeles, Ron Brownstein and Michael Genovese.", "Also Democratic strategist Caroline Heldman and political radio host Joe Messina.", "First, though, we'll begin with Michael. Judging by what we saw a few hours ago, the State of the Union, what, best described as two toddlers having temper tantrums in a sand pit?", "Both the Speaker and the president were a bit snarky. It started with the snub. It ended with the tearing of the speech. That's partly because I think we all knew that it was going to be a highly partisan speech. And both sides were highly partisan. But this was I think one of the president's better speeches. I think he hit most of the key points. It was really two speeches. The first was listing his accomplishments. And he has some accomplishments to list. The second was red meat to the base, throwing at them all of the key things that will highlight why they should be energized by him.", "And, Ron, I want to turn to you now. Of course, in his address President Trump boasted that the U.S. economy is the best it's ever been, due to his policies. Can he claim all those successes? And what about his flip-flop on pre-existing conditions? How does he get to own that, given he's trying to take those very same protections away now in the courts?", "Yes, it's interesting, Rosemary. I thought the speech actually was a good preview of what the economic debate is going to be in the general election here in the U.S. because, on the one hand, voters are very satisfied with the economy, three-quarters of Americans saying the economy is excellent or good. And President Trump's approval rating on the economy is up to the mid to high 50s, which is a very robust number for an incumbent president. On the other hand, the share of Americans who approve of the way he's handling health care is under 40 percent usually in polls. And when people talk about their day-to-day economic concerns, the cost of health care, in particular, the cost of prescription drugs, is right at the top of the list. If the economy may be his greatest policy strength at the moment, health care is his greatest policy vulnerability. And I think you're going to see an argument play out through the rest of the year about which one of those weighs more in the minds of voters.", "It was quite telling that, when Democrats at one point got up and started chanting, you know, 3, 3, 3, after H.R. 3, the bill that passed the same week as they impeached him in the House to lower prescription drug prices and which may prove more consequential, at least in the battle for control of the House than the impeachment vote itself.", "Right. And, of course, we will have a lot more from the State of the Union later this hour with CNN's Nic Robertson, live from London, while in Abu Dhabi CNN's John Defterios will join us. And Ron and Michael will also be staying along for that.", "The president addressed Congress from the same room where 48 days earlier Democrats voted to impeach him. In the coming hours, though, he'll be acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate. And his approval rating with Gallup is at an all-time high. So, too, his approval for the handling of the economy. Meantime, Democrats, it seems, are struggling to count people in a room. So Joe, to you, is this the high water mark if not the high point for the Trump presidency so far? Does it get any better than this?", "Oh, it's going to get much better than this.", "Why did I know you'd say that?", "You're going to see the economy get even better to the point where we'll be able to let more people into the country that want to work here because we don't have the people now to fill the jobs that we have. He's going to finish building the wall. I'm going to tell you something. It's easy to sit there when you're looking at it from a different set of lenses and talk about all his -- all his issues and all his problems. But the reality is he's done a lot of what he said he was going to do. You brought up health care a few minutes ago. I think it's rich to bring up health care and talk about how much of a problem it is when some of the people I know were paying three times the amount in premiums when it was under the ACA. So it needs to be fixed. It needs to be changed. And I believe that Nancy Pelosi runs the Congress. I think she can help with this.", "Caroline, turning to you, if the Democrats can't even successfully organize their own Iowa caucuses, how can they convince America's voters that they offer a better way ahead than President Trump?", "Well, I think you bring up a good point, Rosemary, that they have an uphill battle. And I think that perhaps Democrats have been thinking that because perhaps Trump is the least popular president in modern history that this is going to be a cakewalk in November. I think tonight, you know, the third State of the Union address that Trump has delivered, where he actually looks presidential. And I don't think he does 364 days out of the year. He does a lot of erratic things. He violates the norms of the office. Some would argue the Constitution. But this one night of the year when he knows that he has probably 20 million viewers, he absolutely acts presidential. And what he did tonight is he essentially stole the mantle of environmentalism. He stole the mantle of being good on health care when really what he's doing is gutting environmental regulations. He is gutting health care, pre-existing conditions. The fact he's claiming credit for that really shows the length to which he is going to go to, to frame the issues that matter most to Americans, despite the fact that behind the scenes he's actually not supporting those policies one bit.", "For Democrats, everything that could go wrong in Iowa on Monday night did go wrong. Here's a short list. There's probably a lot of other things we could add to it. But having said that, you can read it as we talk. Joe, in 2012, the Republicans declared the wrong winner from their Iowa caucus. On the night they called it for Romney. Days later it was Rick Santorum they said won. Days after that Congressman Ron Paul emerged the winner. I guess there were problems last time between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Is this the last we'll see of the Iowa caucus?", "I don't know. That's a good question. People like consistency. They like things they're familiar with. I looked it up before I got here. And 15 of the last winners of the Iowa caucus did not go on to become president. When you look at those numbers and you look at what they're doing, this is what they're comfortable with. I'm not so sure they're going to change it anytime soon.", "And, Ron, I wanted to turn to you because the results from Iowa, so far at least, show Pete Buttigieg just in the lead ahead of Bernie Sanders. Here's what Buttigieg said earlier.", "It validates for a kid somewhere in the community, wondering if he belongs or she belongs or they belong in their own family, that, if you believe in yourself and your country, there's a lot backing up that belief.", "A very emotional point there in Buttigieg's speech. But Ron, Democrats have and had previously viewed Joe Biden as their best bet for beating President Trump. That view appears to have been abandoned within the party, certainly in Iowa. It's just one state, though, right? But if Buttigieg does become the Democratic presidential nominee, what are his real chances of beating President Trump?", "That's several steps down the road, Rosemary. First of all, I mean, to the point of the previous question.", "You know, the Iowa caucus is a caucus because it is a way to evade New Hampshire's law requiring it to be the first in the nation primary. That is sanctioned by the Democratic Party, Democratic National Committee in Iowa, that lead opposition. I think they're going to face enormous pressure to not have these two 90 percent white states lead off the process for an increasingly diverse party, especially after this historic debacle this week. Look, to me the biggest story out of the Iowa caucus was that none of the Democrats yet is big or broad enough to pull away from the others. It is entirely likely that the margin of the share of the total delegates won by the winner will be the smallest ever for a first place finisher in Iowa. It was the first time five candidates reached double digits for Democrats in the Iowa caucus. And it reflects the reality that they are all operating -- they've all consolidated different parts of the party, different pools of the party. But no one really, I think, looks nearly strong enough to pull away from the others. Biden I think was staggered and you could see it coming. I spent the last week at his events. They were small. His energy was low. But his best constituency, African Americans, haven't weighed in yet. So it is possible Democrats have a long way to go until they find a candidate to oppose Trump, at a point when, you know, Trump's approval has been rising slowly but steadily given the increasing -- under the push of the increasing optimism about the economy.", "It turns out if someone wants to launch a thousand conspiracy theories, ruin their own credibility, cast doubt over an entire election, there's an app for that. And Democrats in Iowa are sorry. Listen to this.", "The reporting of the results, circumstances surrounding the 2020 Iowa Democratic Party caucuses, were unacceptable. As chair of the party, I apologize deeply for this.", "So, Caroline, I apologize. That's good. But how about I resign?", "He should absolutely resign. This was a rookie mistake. You put out a new app you haven't properly tested under the cloak of secrecy. When people finally do download it on Monday night, they find that they get a warning that says, look, maybe you don't want to download this app because it wasn't coming from an app store, which caused a lot of people to close it down. Just from top to bottom, all of the issues with this technology are things that could have been prevented, had someone simply had a little more experience. So I think at the end of the day, he should resign. This absolutely hurts the party. It's opened it up so that Republicans are now floating a lot of conspiracy theories. It's playing into this fear about things being rigged against Sanders in 2016. So it's incredibly harmful to the party.", "Joe, I do want to go back to you and to the State of the Union address, where President Trump pledged to protect patients with pre-existing conditions. That's not even factual. He's currently in the courts trying to eliminate coverage for pre-existing conditions. So he can't claim that. How do you explain that to voters?", "Well, look, it's like everything else when they're laying down legislature, trying to work through things. These bills aren't clean. They never have been clean when they come through. I've been screaming from my own radio show that the bottom line is I would like bills to show up with one issue on them. So if we're talking about medical issues, pre-existing conditions, which ones are we talking about? What conditions exactly is he trying to get thrown out or is he trying to keep in? And the Republican legislators have said they will keep it in there, they will work to make sure they maintain pre-existing conditions.", "A couple hours from now, it looks as if President Trump will be acquitted in the impeachment trial in the Senate. And, Michael Genovese, we heard from one of the swing voters if you like, senator Susan Collins, basically saying that she will vote for acquittal, believing that Donald Trump has learned a very valuable lesson from this and will be more essentially contrite moving forward. Really?", "Well, there's a first for everything. You know, basically the Republicans have been saying guilty but so what. There's a big so what. It matters greatly. Presidents need to be controlled. They need to be under the rule of law. And I think in this case, especially you see a lot of Republicans scrambling because they know that politically they need to support the president. And yet they know that on the basis of the evidence, as Alexander said, the House Democrats have proven their case. We know he's done wrong. But so what?", "All right. We'll wrap that panel up. Many thanks to Caroline Heldman, Joe Messina for joining us there. Of course, Ron and Michael, you're going to stick around.", "In the meantime we're going to take a short break. When we come back,", "Plus the U.S. and other countries are racing to get their people out of China as the Wuhan virus spreads. The dramatic new steps China is taking to slow the outbreak. That's next."], "speaker": ["ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "CHURCH", "VAUSE", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CHURCH", "VAUSE", "CHURCH", "VAUSE", "MICHAEL GENOVESE, POLITICAL ANALYST", "CHURCH", "RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SR. 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{"id": "CNN-225819", "program": "STUDENT NEWS", "date": "2014-2-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/27/sn.01.html", "summary": "Obama`s Plan for Full Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan; Tourists in Favelas for the World Cup in Rio de Janeiro; Welcoming Airman Teacher Home; River of Clouds over Atlanta; Rescue Dolphin Turned Artist", "utt": ["Happy to have you watching CNN STUDENT NEWS. I`m Carl Azuz. We`ve got a lot of ground to cover today, starting in Afghanistan. The U.S. has more than 33,000 troops there, supporting the military mission that began in 2001. Many of those troops will be coming home this year. The question is, will some stay to train Afghan troops and help them fight terrorists? The U.S. wants Afghan president Hamid Karzai to sign an agreement about this. Because he hasn`t, President Obama is threatening to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by the end of December.", "Why this is happening? It`s because the U.S. says it`s really running out of patience with Karzai. He`s indicated he won`t sign that security agreement that would be the legal framework for troops to stay there after the end of 2014. With no agreement, U.S. troops would have to go. They can`t get him to sign, so President Obama publicly now saying plan for a full troop withdrawal.", "A government official from Pakistan says that would be a mistake. He says, without some U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the country would have a civil war.", "Time for \"The Shoutout.\" What`s the only South American country whose official language is Portuguese? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it Argentina, Portugal, Brazil or Guyana? There are several world nations whose official language is Portuguese. But the only one in South America is Brazil. That`s your answer and that`s your \"Shoutout.\"", "Favela is a Portuguese word dating back to the 1940s. It translates to shantytown, or slum. An event coming soon to Brazil could bring a lot of money to some of Rio de Janeiro favelas. The FIFA World Cup, the biggest and most watched sporting event on the planet takes off on June 12. It will play out in Brazil over a month, and as the supply goes down for places where can stay, demand goes up as do prices and opportunities.", "Some of the best views in Rio from some of the cheapest rooms in town. World Cup fans, take note: Rio de Janeiro`s one infamous shantytowns or favelas have opened their doors to tourists. Dutch backpacker Michael Blommers says it`s the only way to go.", "If they want to see the World Cup, want to see some football matches and - experience a true Brazilian life, they should really come to a favela and just check this out.", "As the hostels along the beach, which usually go for around $40 will cost as much as $400 a night. Many hotels will charge over $1,000. But a bunk here at Alto Vigigal (ph) will cost just $65. Four times the normal price, but still, a bargain. (on camera): Cheapest price around, actually. (voice over): Still, in many ways, visitors really do have to slum it. Garbage piles up along the roads, electricity, water and sewage services are spotty at best. And transportation precarious. And then, there is security. Just a few years ago, Rio`s favelas were controlled by drug lords. Police have since stormed many of them, so called pacification. Driving out armed gangs in an effort to make it relatively safe for residents and visitors. With all these tourists coming up here now, people have opened up shops in their own homes. This guy right down here is selling handy crafts and then right up here, there is a new tapioca sandwich shop, which I have to say, sounds pretty good to me. Let`s go try it. \"People are opening up little hotels, because demand keeps growing,\" he says. Indeed, upstairs his cousin has built a one bedroom that she`s going to rent for $500 during the World Cup. In other favelas the pacification efforts have had mixed success. In Hosigna (ph), Maria Clara Du Santos, says she could hear the recent shootouts from her terrace. She rents rooms in her bright yellow house to foreign tourists. And she says safety depends on knowing where and where not to go. That hasn`t stopped visitors in search of a more authentic experience and, of course, the great views. Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.", "At the beginning of black history month, we explored some inspiring words from African American historic figures. As February wraps up, we are reporting on some of those who were making a difference today. We`ll start with a pair of politically minded people. First, meet Chelsea Henry. She`s been named a rising start by the Republican National Committee. Last year, she spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference and two years ago, she was the youngest Republican delegate to the party`s national convention. Next, meet Atima Omara. She`s the first African American to lead the young Democrats for America. And in 2013, she was named one of \"Ebony\" magazines Power 100. It honors some of the world`s emerging leaders. Here`s Kimberly Bryan. She started a program called \"Black Girls Code,\" which we`ve covered before on our show. Bryan`s program teaches computer coding to young people. She says her students are able to take what they learn from their classes and use it to advance in other areas of their lives. It takes a great deal of character to leave the people you love to serve the country you love. And while we love to show military homecomings usually involving U.S. service men and women surprising their kids, today`s character study is about how students celebrated an airman and a teacher at Linda Jobe Middle School in Mansfield, Texas.", "Each of you are a participant today.", "Call it a well-executed mission at Linda Jobe Middle School. With students assembled, his wife waiting in the shadows, Air Force tech sergeant Troy Harvey walked in to one surprising pep rally. His own. Student council members planned the whole thing. To let their beloved teacher and coach know how much he was missed during his four months in Afghanistan.", "It`s a message that Air Force veteran clearly received, time and time again.", "They go to the trouble they did to set this up, and to express their things and love. It`s just amazing.", "I`m physically relaxing, probably for the first time in about four months.", "Principal Elizabeth Hostin says her football, basketball and leadership coach has a calming presence that permeates the school.", "Having him here just gives all of us a sense of piece and comfort.", "So, having him back in their hallways?", "He`s just like a ball of joy, like. He brings happiness wherever he comes.", "Students say now that is the perfect reason to cheer.", "Let`s see who is watching us there. It`s time for the CNN STUDENT NEWS \"Roll Call.\" Pocatello High School, home of the Indians. You are on today`s roll. Glad to have you online in Pocatello, Idaho. How about Hinesburg? It`s in Vermont. It`s where the red hogs are checking us out at Champlain Valley Union High School and in the Orange State, it`s the bull dogs day. Hi to the students of Crestview High School in Crestview, Florida. Undulatus Asperatus, also known as River of the Sky. It`s a lot easier to say that nickname and it`s a lot cooler to look at. Check this out. These undulating waves of clouds rolled over Atlanta, Georgia the other morning. Though they are often seen in the plain states, they are not common in the American southeast. And scientists aren`t sure what causes them. They think it`s either a cold front meeting a warm front or a dry front meeting a humid one. They do agree it`s a meeting of two fronts. And whatever the right answer is, it was beautiful to those people who weren`t scared by it, and it gave us, commuters something to look out besides traffic, which sometimes moves slower than the clouds. You can`t really call it a fish story, but it is a sight to see. This dolphin named Chance is an artist, by chance. His brush is custom-made using a pool noodle. His masterpiece is made by mouth. He is a rescue. Chance was found three years ago, stranded on an Alabama beach. He`s been recovering at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi. His rehabilitation has allowed him to brush up on some new skills. He`s a regular Leonardo Dolphinci. A Paul Cezanne. A Fincent Van Gogh. A Marine Cassatt (ph), an Edward Flipper, a Georges Seurat (ph). Teaching him to paint with a stroke of genius, we`re sure he has a massive fin club. Art critics need to get in the swim, because this mammalian Matisse isn`t taking a dive. He`s making waves, yo. I`m Carl Azuz for CNN STUDENT NEWS. 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{"id": "NPR-42108", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-07-20", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5571362", "title": "NAACP Attendees and President Bush", "summary": "NPR's Allison Keyes reports on reaction to President Bush's speech from delegates at the NAACP's annual convention. It was the first time Mr. Bush has addressed the civil rights group since he took office.", "utt": ["I'm Allison Keyes with a view from the convention floor.", "I'm Allison Keyes with a view from the convention floor.", "The NAACP delegate greeted Mr. Bush with a standing ovation and seemed generally pleased that he had come. But in the hall there were several hundred empty seats and many who attended sat with crossed arms and skeptical looks.", "The NAACP delegate greeted Mr. Bush with a standing ovation and seemed generally pleased that he had come. But in the hall there were several hundred empty seats and many who attended sat with crossed arms and skeptical looks.", "The president's usual folksy rhythm was off and some of the statements didn't go over well. Jackson, Mississippi, delegate Irene Jones called the speech bland and thought President Bush should have remembered to whom he was speaking.", "The president's usual folksy rhythm was off and some of the statements didn't go over well. Jackson, Mississippi, delegate Irene Jones called the speech bland and thought President Bush should have remembered to whom he was speaking.", "There seemed to be a lot of places where he expected applause, but he forgot that this is a highly politically educated audience and so we recognize what's not said and we recognize what this is being used for. He's in some trouble right now.", "There seemed to be a lot of places where he expected applause, but he forgot that this is a highly politically educated audience and so we recognize what's not said and we recognize what this is being used for. He's in some trouble right now.", "Most in the audience, like Mervin Sealy(ph) from Hickory, North Carolina, cheered to hear the president say he would sign the Voting Rights Act.", "Most in the audience, like Mervin Sealy(ph) from Hickory, North Carolina, cheered to hear the president say he would sign the Voting Rights Act.", "That was the main point. That's why we're here.", "That was the main point. That's why we're here.", "But Sealy was unhappy to hear President Bush's support for vouchers, a statement that drew a few boos from the crowd, and a few other points as well.", "But Sealy was unhappy to hear President Bush's support for vouchers, a statement that drew a few boos from the crowd, and a few other points as well.", "Of course I'm in no way for charter schools or vouchers. I am in no way for him to mess with Social Security and when he talks about home ownership, we need jobs.", "Of course I'm in no way for charter schools or vouchers. I am in no way for him to mess with Social Security and when he talks about home ownership, we need jobs.", "Two protestors, one in glasses and dread locks, tried to interrupt the president's speech.", "Two protestors, one in glasses and dread locks, tried to interrupt the president's speech.", "- Civil War.", "- Civil War.", "(unintelligible)", "(unintelligible)", "and the 20th century denied African Americans to vote in many parts of our country.", "and the 20th century denied African Americans to vote in many parts of our country.", "(unintelligible)", "(unintelligible)", "And at the beginnings of the 21th century -", "And at the beginnings of the 21th century -", "Shouting about teaching children to read and asking questions about Dick Cheney and the situation in the Middle East. After the speech civil rights veteran and Congressman John Lewis wondered why Mr. Bush didn't talk about foreign policy.", "Shouting about teaching children to read and asking questions about Dick Cheney and the situation in the Middle East. After the speech civil rights veteran and Congressman John Lewis wondered why Mr. Bush didn't talk about foreign policy.", "I'm surprised he didn't say much about what is going abroad, about the Middle East and the war. You know we're not one (unintelligible) issue. We're not just concerned about civil rights. We're concerned about peace and balance and war.", "I'm surprised he didn't say much about what is going abroad, about the Middle East and the war. You know we're not one (unintelligible) issue. We're not just concerned about civil rights. 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{"id": "CNN-296444", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-10-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/19/nday.03.html", "summary": "Trump & Clinton Face Off in Final Debate Tonight. ", "utt": ["Clinton widening her lead, according to the polls. Trump needs to do something to increase his reach. Now, can he do that, given his repeated claims of a rigged election and the flood of accusations by women that he calls liars?", "Clinton, of course, has her own challenges from the revelation and the hacked e-mails to new undercover video suggesting the Democratic operative may have incited violence at Trump rallies. There's just 20 days until election day. Let's begin our coverage with CNN's Manu Raju. He is live in Las Vegas. How's the scene there, Manu?", "Hey, good morning, Alisyn. Now, Donald Trump had one of the worst months of any presidential candidate in recent memory. There's, of course, those allegations of sexual misconduct, his rocky debate performances, and his bitter fights with his own party. So, the question is tonight whether he can reverse that downward slide here in this debate hall.", "Ahead of tonight's final debate, Donald Trump throwing a \"Hail Mary,\" going after Washington and intensifying his unfounded claim that the election is rigged.", "They even want to try and rig the election at the polling booths.", "Even calling on his supporters to monitor polling places.", "People are going to be watching on November 8.", "And doubling down on his media conspiracy theories.", "There's a voter fraud also with the media, because they so poison the minds of people by writing false stories.", "The GOP nominee pledging to shake up Washington.", "It is time to drain the damn swamp.", "Now promising, if elected, he will push for term limits for members of Congress, a populist proposal that has yet to succeed.", "Decades of political failure and special interest collusion must and will finally come to an end.", "Trump opting not to respond to President Obama, who ridiculed the billionaire's voter fraud accusations.", "He started whining before the game's even over. If, whenever things are going badly for you and you lose, you start blaming somebody else, then you don't have what it takes to be in this job.", "Instead announcing that he's bringing Obama's Kenyan-born half- brother, Malik, a Trump supporter. to tonight's debate. Trump and Hillary Clinton head into tonight's final debate with looming controversies. Undercover videos released Tuesday, produced by discredited conservative activist James O'Keefe, suggest it was Democratic operatives working for the Clinton campaign instigating violence at some Trump rallies.", "Honestly, it is not hard to get some of these assholes to pop off.", "Both the DNC and the Clinton campaign deny any involvement. And those on the tape deny any of the proposed schemes ever took place. Meanwhile, Trump is facing accusations from at least nine women who say he made unwanted advances without their consent.", "These are people who are trapped. Puts his hands under somebody's skirt on an airplane.", "Trump rejects those claims, but Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid blasting Trump's behavior.", "It is kind of a sickness.", "Now, Clinton has been off the campaign trail for several days, as she tries to fine-tune a message aimed at courting those moderate independent voters and also to turn those red states blue come November. But, also, Alisyn, Hillary Clinton tonight may have to address all those damaging revelations that came out in the e-mails obtained by WikiLeaks, something that her campaign has yet to do in any sort of meaningful way.", "OK. We're going to talk about that, Manu. Thanks so much for the reporting. Joining me now is CNN political commentator and Trump supporter Scottie Nell Hughes and CNN political commentator and former New York City council speaker Christine Quinn. Ladies, great to have you.", "Thank you.", "Question, here is the rule. You may not other your opponent's name. This is my first, just for the first question.", "OK.", "What, Christine, does your candidate, Hillary Clinton, basically in a couple of sentences need to do tonight?", "Secretary Clinton needs to continue to send the message she sent that she is strong, the most fit to be president of the United States, has a vision that really is going to help all Americans.", "Does she need to spell out that vision? That's been a big question, that she hasn't articulated her vision, other than in contrast to her opponent.", "Well, I think she has, if you look at all the position papers out there, if you look at her tax plan, which unlike another person in the race actually helped middle class Americans, doesn't reduce taxes on billionaires. I think she has. Now, look, this has been a hard race for both candidates for issues to rise above the din, if you will. And I think tonight is a perfect opportunity for Hillary to kind of put a punctuation Mark on the end of this campaign and really make it clear, she is the person who's going to lead this country, particularly working class and middle- class Americans to a place of tax relief, job creation and a really strong future.", "Scottie, what does Donald Trump need to do tonight?", "Donald Trump needs to continue to separate himself from the establishment. The political establishment, as well as to show about what is so corrupt about Washington, D.C., which is a feeling the majority of Americans on both sides of the aisle feel like. He needs to show it, why he is an outsider and that he is a voice of the people. I think that's why you saw him yesterday release his plan, talking about how he was going to do reforms, including term limits. A suggestion that resonates with Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians. Reduce the size of government, show the corruption something that his opponent represents which is her background, all of her experience is all Washington, D.C., political experience. And how that system is...", "You're breaking the rule.", "... broken and why he's opposite.", "This is so hard for you guys not to talk about your opponent.", "I won! I won!", "OK. Let's talk about one of the things that may come up, and this is a controversy that would affect Hillary Clinton. These new videos that had been released by James O'Keefe's outfit that purport to show Democratic operatives trying to incite violence at Donald Trump rallies. Let me play -- if people hadn't seen them, let me play a portion of Scott Foval revealing Trump rally tactics for you.", "And, honestly, it is not hard to get some of these assholes to pop off. It's a matter of showing up to want to get into the rally in a Planned Parenthood T-shirt or, you know, Trump is a Nazi, you know. You can -- you can message to draw them out and draw them to punch here.", "OK, Christine. If you can believe what this man is saying here, this Democratic operative. He is sending people to Trump rallies to try to get them to, quote, \"pop off and punch them\" to show the violence. I mean, how does -- how is Hillary Clinton going to address this one tonight?", "I don't grant any validity to this video at all.", "Even though you hear him in his own words saying this? I mean, how could they be fudging this?", "You now, we've seen many different tapes recently in history over the past few years or so be put together, really focused on attacking progressive groups like Planned Parenthood. And then we found out afterwards that those tapes were cut and spliced and put together in a way that they show something totally different than what happened. I have no doubt in my mind that no one associated with the Democratic Party or with Hillary Clinton's campaign would ever do something like that. It is absurd and, look, I...", "Wait. You don't think that the DNC worked with this outside Robert Kramer group to try to stage counter protests?", "Counter protests outside?", "Yes, counter protests. That's what he says he was tasked with doing.", "That's -- I'm sure that happened, and I'm sure the RNC or the Trump Organization set up counter-protests outside Hillary events.", "You're saying nobody tried to provoke Trump supporters to violence?", "No. Absolutely it would never happen in Hillary Clinton's campaign.", "Scottie, what's interesting, of course, is you hear Christine saying, \"I don't believe that tape. I don't believe the words on that tape.\" And we've heard other people say, even if he did say those things, it never translated to action. These are the same words Trump campaign used about hearing Donald Trump's own words on tape about the alleged sexual assault of women. So how big of a role does this tape play?", "He never denied those were his words. Let's be perfectly clear.", "He didn't deny it. But this guy can't deny that these are his words. He can't deny that they are the words. Did it translate to action?", "Donald Trump never raised that the Billy Bush tape was cut or spliced.", "What I said was locker-room talk, and it never translated to action.", "OK. But I'm going further. I'm not even buying that this video is legit.", "OK. Go ahead. Scottie, how do you see it?", "See, and that's -- I don't know how you can do that, because Robert Kramer is a very well-known Democrat. Most people in the Democrat circles know him. He visited the White House over 100 times. He's got strong ties. He's married to a congresswoman, for goodness sakes. So he is someone that definitely is involved and had a lot of credibility up until these videos were released.", "But that's not who you hear in the video. The person that we just heard in the video, just to be correct, just so everybody knows, that is Scott Foval, who's a subcontractor, saying what he plans to do. Robert Kramer is only saying that he's staging these counter-protests. Go ahead, Scottie.", "Obviously, at this point they've severed all ties and both have had to basically resign or be fired. So, you know, if there was no wrongdoing, then they should be standing up for themselves. But the point about all this -- and this is the difference, is there was action that were taken. We did see people in the rally in Chicago shut down. People were not able to go in. We saw assault on Trump supporters. There are so many specifics that are laid out here, that there are actions that match up with these men's words. And this is very sad. I think this is one of the darkest, deepest skeletons within the Democratic Party that have come out, just like the WikiLeaks might not like how we got the -- how we found out the secrets. We found them out, but that doesn't mean that they're not legit. And people have lost their jobs and had to resign because of it. The same thing right here. So I don't know how you -- just say, \"You know what? It's wrong. I'm sorry. We shouldn't have done it\" and move on. You know, take accountability for it.", "Let me just say something. Let's be clear here. Scottie is talking on behalf of the Trump campaign and Mr. Trump, the candidate. Let's not forget, this is a man who at his rallies, we saw people sucker punch senior citizens. We saw Donald Trump say he would...", "No, no, no, no.", "That's not fair. Donald Trump did say, hey, you should punch that guy. Anybody who's protesting, you should punch them in the mouth. They should be taken out on a stretcher.", "And I'll pay for their lawyers.", "Because we -- now it backs up that we knew this was planned attack.", "Still, the rhetoric doesn't -- doesn't follow.", "That was their goal, to fool (ph) the American people.", "But based on what you're now saying, connecting two and two and making six, which doesn't make any sense. You then were correct and needed to sucker punch a senior citizen? That does not add up. And I have been involved in a lot of Democratic campaigns.", "The Democrat was a plant. The COPD person was a plant.", "Why wouldn't you just say...", "Why would the presidential candidate say punch the plant in the face. I mean, that still does take it to a different level.", "Because he's a bully. Because he's a bully.", "We now find out they were trained, they were encouraged -- in fact, they were encouraged to do everything they can to instigate. The very first sign of violence that we saw was the fact that the man was cursing, was spitting on people and using racial slurs.", "But Scottie, that's why we have -- that's why we have security guards who take people out. That's the response to that and that Donald Trump said, punch him, shows exactly why he can't be president of the United States. What is he going to say when an international leader makes him annoyed?", "Christine, Scottie, chances are this will come up tonight, and we are going to leave it for the debate. Ladies, thank you very much for this debate here. Stay with CNN for live coverage of tonight's debate. It begins at 4 p.m. Eastern. You can be sure to watch the debate at 9 p.m. right here on CNN -- Chris.", "All right. Tonight's debate is going to be a big character test for both candidates. Who's going to emerge the winner in this final show down? Also, Trump is calling for congressional term limits. What do two sitting lawmakers think about that? We'll ask them, next.", "All right. The idea that the debate might get ugly tonight is an easy one to have, right? Everything else has. But what is really the bar for what needs to get done by Clinton and by Trump to move the needle tonight? Character will probably come up, no matter what the topics are. There are some forceful arguments on each side. So let's get a little taste of what might happen tonight.", "So, yes, this is who Donald Trump is. But it's not only women and it's not only this video that raises questions about his fitness to be our president. He has also targeted immigrants, African-Americans, Latinos, people with disabilities, POWs, Muslims.", "Bill Clinton was abusive to women. Hillary Clinton attacked those same women, and attacked them viciously. I think it's disgraceful, and I think she should be ashamed of herself, if you want to know the truth.", "All right. So what will it take for someone to come out on top tonight? Let's discuss with two congressmen from New York. We have Republican Chris Collins. He's co-chair of the Trump campaign's House Leadership Committee. And Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, he supports Hillary Clinton. Gentlemen, actually, let talk about you guys first. One of the things that just came up in the campaign is Trump calling a plan to have term limits. I say plan. I'll direct it to you, first, Congressman Collins. It's a deceptive word, because he can't get this done. As we all know and maybe Trump knows, too, Congress is going to have to make term limits happen. You'd have to have a constitutional amendment. We know what that means. A super majority among you guys and then three-fourths the state. Very hard to do. Do you think there's any chance of term limits for Congress?", "Well, I think the public would say we certainly need term limits. Most of us would support term limits. What Donald Trump is doing is addressing the nation as the change agent. Someone who says it's broken in Washington. He also talked about his ethics reform package. He's talking about the problems that the public knows are in Congress. Many folks call them the career politicians who never held a job in the private sector, never signed the front of a paycheck. So he's speaking as the change agent. Of course, there's a process that we'd have to go through. The Republicans I believe, I know I would support it. So we'll have to see, because I think it is a good message for him to be on, because right now congressional approval ratings are in the single digits, 8, 9, 10 percent. So I think it's a good message point for Donald Trump, and he can leave the details for later.", "See, it's interesting how Congressman Collins explains it: it's good for Trump to play on this. People are angry at Congress, and changing it sounds good. But isn't it a realistic -- is it a realistic proposal for him to say \"I'll get a constitutional amendment passed to make term limits\"?", "Unrealistic proposal for the reasons that you set forth. You're not going to get a two-thirds majority in Congress, No. 1. And No. 2, you're not going to get three-fourths of the states to ratify it for good reason. Because it's a cosmetic change. It's not a substantive change. Washington is broken. But we need meaningful campaign finance reform. We can't have unlimited outside money from billionaires and millionaires being poured into the system on behalf of special interests. We need redistricting reform, because you've got a situation right now where the politicians are choosing the voters, as opposed to the voters choosing the politicians. These are actual, real things that Hillary Clinton supports that will be good for our democracy. Donald Trump is desperate right now. He's flailing. He's throwing anything out there. And term limits is not a solution to the problem.", "To the extent that character comes up tonight, Congressman Collins, what do you think Donald Trump needs to do to come out on top?", "Well, on the character issue, the public -- you know, two- thirds or more of the public knows that Hillary Clinton is a liar. She can't be trusted. And now the two faces of Hillary Clinton are coming out. The fact, through WikiLeaks, that she says one thing... (", "Oh, no. All right. Let's see if we can get Congressman Collins back. Obviously, we just lost the satellite feed. That sucks. He's making a point of advantage, which I will now make and not as gently as the congressman was just doing it. We've never seen a Democratic nominee be disliked or untrusted the way Hillary Clinton is. Why are those not disqualifying flaws for the electorate?", "Because she's been beaten up for more than 30 years as a first lady of the United States of America, United States senator, secretary of state, two-time presidential candidate. She's been subjected to attack after attack from the right wing.", "But with cause or without cause?", "Totally without cause.", "Totally without cause?", "Well, Chris, she made a mistake and has acknowledged it.", "That's the cause, Congressman.", "Well, right.", "The e-mail server, her choice. Wrong, arguably illegal. Her choice, cause. Not without cause.", "She made a mistake. She's acknowledged it. It certainly wasn't illegal. We've had the FBI under the leadership of James Comey, who is a Republican, acknowledged that she did nothing wrong in terms of criminality.", "Comey started off as a Republican, maybe. I don't know what his politics are. But he was put there at the FBI by a Democratic administration. And a mistake is when I hit my cup, and I knock it over; and Alisyn says, \"Not again, you're an idiot.\" When you choose to have a server in your basement, not a mistake. When you say you got approval for it and did not. Not a mistake. When you're told to cull e-mails, and you do it in a way that is self- serving, not a mistake.", "Well, I think it's a mistake that she's acknowledged, and that's the test of character strength. Because we're all imperfect as human beings, but as leaders you need to acknowledge when you make a mistake and then move forward. And from a policy perspective, I think what she needs to do tonight is continue to demonstrate that she's prepared, poised, presidential; and let Donald Trump be Donald Trump. Because at the end of the day, you know, he's running around the country like a Tasmanian devil, the cartoon, totally out of control, harming everything that's in his path. Just waiting for the American people to pull the plug on November 8 and hopefully relieve us of our long national nightmare. And if she continues to maintain the high ground and speak to the importance of the American people on the economy and beyond, she'll prevail in this debate, as she did in the two previous ones.", "Full disclosure: Tasmanian devil, one of my favorite Looney Toons, so I don't like seeing him being used negatively. Congressman Collins, you are back. I have been doing a better job than I've ever heard you do, going after Hakeem Jeffries about how the e-mails are not a mistake. They were an intentional choice and series of choices by Clinton, but, please, play to advantage and make the case that you think Trump has to make tonight.", "Well, again, he's the change agent and that Hillary Clinton is the status quo. Two-thirds of America know the country is headed in the wrong direction. Our borders are porous. They know their wages haven't gone up, that our jobs are being lost. Donald Trump needs to be calm, cool collected and presidential, with a demeanor that simply indicates he is the change agent that's going to be able to bring our jobs back, secure our borders, defeat ISIS and stand up and make America great again. And contrast that to Hillary Clinton effectively representing a third term of Barack Obama, who has failed this nation with stagnant wages, all the divisiveness that we have in this nation, the unrest in the cities and so forth. So, as the change agent, he needs to speak to many of the folks concerned about the future of their children and grandchildren to live the American dream in the land of opportunity. And if he can do that in a calm, cool, collected demeanor, I think he will bring some folks in under his tent where they know they've decided they're not going to vote for Hillary Clinton. You can't trust a thing she says. She's self-serving, lining her own pockets; stands up first -- Clinton family first. So, if he can differentiate himself as the change agent, versus the status quo, I think that's going to carry the day, because two-thirds of the country say we're going in the wrong direction.", "All right. So both of you got a chance to lay out why you think your candidate is better. I feel better now myself. Chris Collins, thank you very much. Thanks for sticking around.", "Thanks, Chris. Hakeem, it was nice to meet you.", "Hakeem Jeffries. Absolutely. Good to have you with us, as always. Both of you. Congressmen, thank you very much. Alisyn.", "There's been a lot of role playing on this show so far this morning, and I think we're going to continue that. For months we've heard accusations that Democrats were baiting Trump supporters into violence at rallies, and now there's this undercover video that appears to back up some of those claims. So, up next, CNN examines whether this group hired by the DNC was behind some of these provocations.", "All right. Online there's a lot of discussion, certainly among you guys on the right about this new undercover video that appears to show Democratic operatives hired by the DNC explaining how they can easily provoke Trump supporters into violence at rallies. Now, the video comes from a controversial source, a conservative activist who has a checkered history of his own. It's called the Veritas Project. CNN investigative correspondent Drew Griffin joins us now with more. What do you see, Drew, in terms of what this video may have to offer and what should be the qualifications for people who do see it?", "Well, if you look at the video, which we did, we didn't look at the produced parts. We looked that sound bites of the people who were involved in this undercover. And what you're seeing is these Democratic operatives hired by the DNC to work with the Clinton campaign. They were paid to bring protests to press conferences and counter-events everywhere that Mike Pence and Donald Trump took place. And in the video, we have this person here, Scott Foval, who is a subcontractor, explaining how his role was to actually train people to incite violence, and he tells us just how he says he did it."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "MANU RAJU, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "RAJU (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "RAJU", "TRUMP", "RAJU", "TRUMP", "RAJU", "TRUMP", "RAJU", "TRUMP", "RAJU", "OBAMA", "RAJU", "SCOTT ROYAL, NATIONAL FIELD DIRECTOR, AMERICANS UNITED FOR CHANGE", "RAJU", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-75837", "program": "CNN LIVE SUNDAY", "date": "2003-8-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/24/sun.02.html", "summary": "Two U.S. Soldiers Die in Iraq", "utt": ["Let's head back to Iraq now where a new day brings word of new U.S. casualties. Officials at Central Command say two more troops have died, one from a non-hostile gunshot wound, and the other apparently drowned in the Euphrates River. CNN's Rym Brahimi is in Baghdad with the latest developments. Hello, Rym.", "Hello, John. Indeed, those two latest developments announced just today, but it appears that the two soldiers had died previously. Now, we've just heard of word of another incident. Now, this happened in the city of Najaf, two Iraqis were killed, another one was wounded, when an explosion occurred in that holy city that's about 160 kilometers, a two-hour drive south of the Iraqi capital. The event was witnessed by Marines, but Iraqi police are now present at the scene. As you know, Najaf is a holy city to Shiite Muslims. We'll be updating you on that as we get more information. And another attack, it seems at any rate, against U.S. soldiers. As you know, there are regular attacks against them. One what seems to be an attack on the western highway from Baghdad; a Humvee was apparently the last vehicle in a convoy. It was -- there was an explosion say eyewitnesses. When they went to the scene they say they saw that Humvee on fire. Soldiers closed in on that area preventing anyone from exceeding it, while they evacuated a couple of injured soldiers, according to eyewitnesses; and evacuated the vehicle as well. Now, all that means there are still a lot of issues with regard to security. We spoke -- we were briefed a short moment ago by a military spokesman. Here's what he had to say.", "Over the last 48 hours we've had 25 attacks against coalition forces, with the average being slightly more than 12 a day. You know, it is on average. We take each and every attack seriously: look at it, investigate it, see if there's anything that we can use from that attack to help us prevent another attack.", "A spokesman from the coalition authority says they will not be deterred by what he called \"these acts of intimidation.\" And they will continue the projects that they've been working on in order to rebuild Iraq --John.", "CNN's Rym Brahimi there reporting for us live as always in Baghdad. Thanks, Rym."], "speaker": ["JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR", "RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COL. GUY SHIELDS, U.S. ARMY SPOKESMAN", "BRAHIMI", "VAUSE"]}
{"id": "CNN-309255", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2017-04-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/05/se.01.html", "summary": "Arnold Schwarzenegger's National After-School Summit at the University of Southern California. ", "utt": ["Welcome to \"The Messy Truth.\" I'm Van Jones. Thank you for being here. The one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger is in the house tonight. We're going to have him. We've got a live audience here to ask him questions and it's going to be fantastic. I've been working on that, OK. Before we bring him out, I want to talk about a couple other names in the news, Donald Trump, Susan Rice and Jared Kushner. Now, with his usual zero facts and no evidence, President Trump today declared that Susan Rice is guilty of a crime. What crime? He didn't say. And with the same zero facts he says that Bill O'Reilly is innocent. Now, I'm going to get to Bill O'Reilly later in the show, but let me say a couple words about Susan Rice. The right-wing media wants to burn Susan Rice at the stake for doing her job. That's it. Susan Rice was our national security adviser. To give good advice, you're going to ask good questions, especially when fishy looking stuff lands on your desk. OK? Now, finding out for yourself the names of sketchy people doing possibly sketchy things is called unmasking, OK? Now, it doesn't mean revealing that to the whole world. That would be illegal. It does mean revealing those names to yourself at your desk so you can do a better job advising the president. As best we can tell, that's all she did. Her job. Now, if she were a terrible person up to no good trying to ruin Donald Trump, you know what she would have done, what she could have done? She could have called a press conference in the middle of the election, like James Comey did from the FBI, OK? She could have run around screaming bloody murder. Look what I found, look what I found. She didn't do that. She got very disturbing information and she looked into it. And as best we can tell, she did her job inside the proper channels. So doing this, Donald Trump should give Susan Rice the presidential Medal of Freedom, OK? Somebody like Comey would have run to the cameras, created a huge firestorm and possibly wrecked his campaign. So Republicans should love Susan Rice. They should thank Susan Rice. Thank you for being a professional. Instead, they're throwing fits. Why? Maybe they don't want you to think about what Susan Rice unmasked. People on Trump's team possibly playing footsie with bad guys from Russia. Let's not get distracted. Now, speaking of Trump's team, Jared Kushner is the opposite of Susan Rice. He has zero qualifications for his job, except that he married Ivanka. Nobody even knows what his job is. He is wandering all around the world, riding his tricycle all around the world saying, god knows what to god knows who. OK? Trained diplomats worry that one wrong word could put us on a path to war. We have no idea what kind of messes Jared's out there creating right now. So if Republicans are concerned about the proper function of our government, they should call hearings on Jared and his role and point to Susan Rice as an example of how to follow protocol. Now, how is that for a messy truth? How is that for a messy truth? So, now, let me welcome to the stage somebody who knows how to run government the right way, because he ran this beautiful state of California very well for two terms, the one and only governator (ph), Arnold Schwarzenegger. Oh, my goodness. Doesn't get any bigger than that. Wow.", "Thank you very much for the nice introduction.", "Well, it's glad to have you here.", "That's exactly the way I wrote it. And I like that now you are starting with the accent.", "I'll try. That's right.", "That's funny.", "We've had a great day today. See, he knows that it's a hard accent to mimic. We had a great day. We started out dealing with young people. And you're so passionate about the young people and we have students who are here. We've got people from your institute at USC, a bunch of students are here. We also have young people from your program, your After-School Program, After-School All-Stars. Give a round of applause for the young people who he is helping every day. Thank you for being here. It means a lot. Look, I watched you. You didn't know I was watching you. But when we were together and you were looking at those kids, I was looking at you. You love those kids. You love those kids and I want to ask you a question. Do you think that Donald Trump's budget reflects the values of a man who loves kids the same way that you do?", "Well, look, I understand when people have budget problems and we try to cut down the deficit and all of those kinds of things because I have gone through it when I was governor. But the fact of the matter, when you try to cut the budget, I mean, the first thing you do is that cutting children's programs, especially After-School Programs that are so important to our families, to our kids. And you try to balance the budget on the backs of those kids. I think there's something wrong and this is why I spoke up. And this is why I challenge him on that. I think it is extremely important that we do everything that we can to get this $1.2 billion back in the budget because the kids need it. After-School Programs is an extraordinary great, great program. And he has talked so much about making America great. And I just feel like taking that $1.2 billion away from the kids is not making America great.", "Well, it's kind of hard to argue with that. Are you going to go and fight? Listen, Republicans were saying, \"We don't like Trump. We don't like Trump.\" As soon as he got in there, they all fell over. Are you actually going to go to D.C. and do something about it? Or are you just hoping and praying?", "Yeah. First of all, let me just tell you that the history of this is after Bill Clinton has made it possible that we have the 21st century money in the first place, every president since then has, you know, taken it out of their budget. I remember that President Bush took it out. We immediately went back to Washington and lobbied. And we brought Democrats and Republicans together.", "So you're going to do that this time?", "And we did it also -- after that, we did it again with Obama. We did it now. I mean, we're going to go and get organized again and do it again. It's just that simple. We are not going to get -- let anyone take that money away, because this is what helps kids so much to have a program after school, because 70 percent of the kids come from homes where both of the parents are working.", "Well, Governor, you got a big heart. And you care and you're out there for the good stuff and, yet, Donald Trump doesn't seem to see you in the good way that you do, and the way we do. Here is what Donald Trump had to say about you. And I want to get your reaction to this. He said this at the National Prayer Breakfast.", "-- hired a big, big movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger to take my place and we know how that turned out. The ratings went right down the tubes. It's been a total disaster. And mark will never, ever bet against Trump again. And I want to just pray for Arnold if we can for those ratings.", "Now, this is the President of the United States. You're laughing. You're laughing. You see, he's laughing.", "Because I think it's funny.", "Well, the President of the United States in a Prayer Breakfast says this. Why do you think it's funny?", "I think it is funny that he uses the Prayer Breakfast, you know. Plus, you know, I have thick skin. I mean, this doesn't bother me at all. And it's very funny and it gave me an opportunity to then go and shout back and say, you know, that the show didn't do well because, you know, one-third of the audience left because they boycott the show because you're the executive producer, Donald Trump. And if you would just -- not to open up your mouth and tell everybody that you're executive producer, we would have had great ratings on the show. But the advertisers left. The audience left. They hate the guy. So, I mean, so they left. And so, I was caught in the middle of this political thing there.", "That's why I said I'm not going to do the show again.", "Well, I understand. But I'm going to challenge you, though, because, you know, a lot of Republicans who think like you, who maybe have moral (ph) -- so-called moderate views, you know, I think there were 16 of them, 17 of them, standing on the stage. Donald Trump mowed them all of down. So, how does it make you feel when you think about the fact that the party -- those Republican voters, you know, they may not like your show. They sure like Donald Trump.", "Well, that's perfectly fine. Look, I think that Donald Trump won the presidency. And I called him right after he won and I said, \"Congratulations, you are now our president. Anything I can do, I will be helpful, because if you are successful, we all are going to be successful.\" And I say the same thing also about Obama and the Republicans when I went to this Republican fund-raising in California and that Obama just won. And I said to them, I said, \"Look, now we all have to go and help Obama be successful.\" I said, \"Because he is our president. The people have spoken. I believe in the democracy and in our voting system and everything like that.\" And so, I push and they kind of like, ooh, aah (inaudible).", "They are like that.", "And I try to tell, I said, no, no, no. I said, \"It is extremely important that we think of it as Americans here, not as Republicans versus Democrats.\" And this is what is wrong right now with the country. It is so divided. Everything is about Democrats versus Republicans. I feel the parties have to come together. And I think that the only way they will come together eventually is if you have redistricting reform, which is another thing that I'm very passionate about as you know.", "And we're going to talk about a little bit later, but you said you called him. Now, that means you must have his phone number. Are you guys' friends?", "We have been friends for many, many years, for decades as a matter of fact.", "Why is he so mean to you?", "We run into each other in professional wrestling. We have run into each other -- as a matter of fact, he was wanting to contribute to my campaign when I ran for governor. And the only thing why we didn't accept his money was because it was from a gaming casino. And I didn't accept any money from gaming casinos and from gambling and from unions, and so on. So there are certain lists of things why I didn't accept any money. But -- and so, we had a very good relationship. The only thing is, what I think what ticked him off is obviously the fact that I didn't vote for him and that I came out and said I'm not going to vote for him. And I would urge others not to vote for him. So I think that ticked him off. And the reason why I didn't want to vote for him is simply because just alone the issue that he wanted to bring coal back. I say, I've been fighting for clean environment since the time I've come into the governorship and we've got to go and clean our environment. We've got to go into a green energy future. We have 7 million people die every year because of pollution and I told him that. And as I said, therefore, I cannot endorse you because you want to bring coal back and the next thing you want to bring back is horse and buggy or blockbuster or pagers and stuff like that. What are you talking about? And I say, I don't think that you're a man of the future.", "Well, I'd like to bring somebody in, actually a Trump supporter. Randi is here in L.A. trying to fly the Trump flag in L.A. God bless you. What do you have to say?", "So, I actually have been organizing the Trump rallies in Southern California, Hollywood and L.A. areas since August, which is comprised mostly of informed Democrats, a lot of minorities, homeless people and veterans. And we are intrigued to see if anything can be done to stop people from spitting at us and on Trump's star. A lot of people don't know that Trump star was vandalized and destroyed. So when we're out on the street it's a constant that we are spit at and there's a lot of minorities and Democrats who are being spit at by the haters. So, you know, we're just intrigued if there's anything that you think can be done, because most of us out on the streets supporting Trump want to unify and a lot of us are just anti-establishment at this point.", "Well, first of all, let me just say that it is very sad that America has gotten to the point where they look at the other side as the enemy, because they're not the enemy. He's a Democrat. I'm a Republican. I don't look at him as the enemy. I love the kind --", "And I'm glad that you don't, sir.", "No, no. But, I mean, it's ridiculous. It used to be that both of the parties worked together. And this is what it's supposed to be. And I think that it goes back to George Washington, President Washington (inaudible) of that. He always said that he is now the party man, but if you have two parties, I think they have to get together and work together. And this is why it is so important that we understand that redistricting the way that politicians draw the district lines is where they draw in such a way that the Republicans get locked into one district and the Democrats in another. They get further and further apart. So when they come to Washington, or to Sacramento, or any of the capitals, they can't really work together. It's just the other side becomes the enemy. We have to get rid of this problem. I think it is extremely important that we respect each other that we can have a fair debate and argument about the issues. It is OK to have different points of views and different ideologies and all of those things. But to me, when I got into office it was all about how can I bring Democrats and Republicans together, because the action is only when you're together solve problems. Because then it -- look what happened, you know, President Obama started signing executive orders because he couldn't get anything done through Congress and now they're all gone, those executive orders. And now, Obama -- Trump is signing executive orders and not doing it through Congress. They will be gone when the next president comes in. So, it's not a long-lasting kind of legacy if you do that. You've got to work with Congress. You've got to be a leader. You've got to bring both of the parties together. Now, it is very difficult do that right now, as you know, because of the way they rigged the system and the way they draw the district lines. That's why in California we have taken the drawing of the district lines away from the politicians. Now, I campaigned on that for many years. And eventually, we had the people approved. We put it on the ballot, an initiative. And the people approved it finally after the third time, they approved it.", "You know, they had the great line that the United States is the only place where rather than the voters picking the politicians, the politicians were picking the voters by rigging the system.", "This is the way it is. They draw the district sign and they pick the voters to politicians instead that the voters picking the politicians. So they rigged the system in such a way and so we got rid of that in California.", "We're going to talk about that when we get back.", "OK.", "Stick with us.", "You promise?", "I promise. Hey, listen, I got the governator. I got to do what he says. So, listen, when we get back, we're going to have more questions from the audience. Plus, we're going to ask whether we are ever going to see the name Schwarzenegger on the ballot again, when we get back.", "Welcome back to \"The Messy Truth.\" I'm Van Jones. My special guest tonight is the man I use to call the governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Governor, you've been a star Republicans for a very long time. In fact, here you are at the GOP convention in 2004.", "When I was a boy, the soviets occupied part of Austria. I saw their tanks in the streets. I saw communism with my own eyes. The day the world no longer fears the Soviet Union and it is because of the United States of America.", "Now, that was then back when Republicans were standing up to Russian invaders. Now, you got Trump. He's got this bromance with Putin. Putin is attacking other countries. He's repressing his own people. As a Republican, you know, how do you make sense of that? I mean, you're a freedom loving -- liberty loving Republican and yet you got a Republican president who seems to be, you know, best buddies with somebody who has invaded -- you know what that's like. You know what that's like.", "Well, first of all, I know because of a bipartisan commission that has just decided that, yes, Russia was involved in our elections. So, I think this is interesting to know because, again, it just goes back to the Washington when you talk about the problem parties fighting so much that some outside force can come in and interfere with our political system. It's been (inaudible). It didn't make any sense, but now it does make sense, because we have seen it, you know, unfold in front of our very eyes. If Trump has any connections with them or not, that we have not really established yet, so I don't know and I have not seen any of the secret papers and all this things that maybe point to it. But I haven't seen it, so therefore, I cannot really comment on that.", "But, I would just want be politically, he doesn't seem to be as tough on the Russians and it almost seems like he wants us to be -- maybe look the other way. Does that worry you about this way?", "I think -- you know, to be honest with you, I mean, every president has their own strategy. I think that as you remember with President Nixon and Henry Kissinger, they paved the way to not look at China as just the enemy, but start working together with them. He then flew over to China, visited them. The Chinese premiere flew over visited Nixon and other stuff. So I think that opened up relationships, so I don't --", "That's something to workout.", "I don't mind when people reach out. I think it's the key thing for the United States to go and look at the world and say we are trying to have as many friends as possible and maybe through a friendship we can go and tone things down and to have -- and kind of work together on various different issues, I think national issues. So, you know, I don't know what his plan is. I've never talked to Trump about it. But, I mean, let's just see what the future hold us.", "So, let me just rewind the clock back though now for you. You were a young man. You were in Austria, modest background. You looked at American and you said, \"You know what, I think I can go there. They love freedom. They're going to open their arms to me. I can go. I can make a big difference.\" Would a young Arnold Schwarzenegger now looking at America now with so much of the anti-immigrant conversation, even coming from the White House, would a young Arnold Schwarzenegger have come to America? Would you come to America today as a young guy?", "Absolutely.", "Why?", "Well, I tell you. I happen to get around the world a lot because of promoting movies, promoting the Arnold classic sports and fitness festival, promoting Special Olympics. I just came from Austria celebrating the Special Olympics, I mean, the national winter games over there and being with the athletes, because I'm the international coach for them. I'm traveling around giving speeches about the environmental issues. So I travel around a lot. I've never ever seen anyone come up to me and say, \"Man, I cannot wait to move to China.\" Or can you help me get a visa to the Middle East? Or I want to go and move to Africa, or something like that. Everyone wants to come to California.", "Yeah.", "This is the place to be. Everyone loves this place. And even though we criticize America and I remember Trump during the campaign went around and said make America great again. America is great. What are we talking about great again? America is great. It's the greatest country in the world by far. Yes, we have problems, but it is the greatest country by far. Of course, I would have come over here. I remember that when I was a kid, 10 years old, and I saw documentary film in school and I saw this huge skyscraper and the airplanes and the freeways and, you know, Hollywood in order (inaudible), \"What am I doing in Austria? What am I doing in this little farm village here? I want to be over there.\" I did everything that I could to come to America. And there is millions of people out there that feel the same way. This is the land of opportunity. You would never have the opportunities anywhere else like in America.", "Tougher question for you then. Your party does not seem to agree with you in the same way. That enthusiasm is not there in the same way. If you had come, young Arnold now, would you join this Republican Party giving how tough they are on immigrants?", "That I don't know what my thinking would be if I would be, you know, now 21 years old when I came over here. I just tell you that I was absolutely in heaven when I heard Nixon talk. It was the campaign between Nixon and Humphrey. And I heard Humphrey talk and then there was like, \"Wait a minute, I'm back in Austria again.\" And then I heard Nixon talking. It was refreshing, you know, to open up and to have world trade and to be strong military, strong law enforcement, you know, to get government off your back and all of this kind of dialogue that I have heard was so appealing to me that I said to my friend, I said, \"What party does he belong to?\" And he says -- my friend was a Democrat and he said just a disgusting. He said, \"Republican.\" Then I said, \"Well, then I'm a Republican.\" And so he was disgusted about it because he was a Democrat. But, you know, so I fell in love with the party. And I'm -- you know, when you think of me as a Republican, I am a Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan Republican. What they've really means is that, you know, Lincoln was, you know, during that time wanting to free slaves. The Republican Party then voted overwhelmingly. As a matter of fact, the Democrats were nowhere to be found then, but the Republicans voted overwhelmingly to get rid of slavery, to make them join the United States, to give blacks a vote, you know, to also have, you know, voting right in order to -- so that was the Republican Party that I could identify. And the same as, you know, Teddy Roosevelt, who put more land aside for conservation, who was a great environmentalist inspired by John Muir, a Californian. And -- but then, you know, Nixon, who was trying to do health care reform, universal health care in 1974 and Teddy -- you know, it was Kennedy, of course derailed that (inaudible), you know, because he couldn't handle. The Republican was doing health care reform and other stuff. So, I mean, this is -- Reagan created the resources board as a Republican to clean the environment. Those are the kind of Republicans that I could identify with.", "So you named Lincoln, you named Reagan. Are you a Trump Republican?", "I'm not a Trump Republican. No, that's why I didn't vote for him.", "We got some young people here. I want to give Alec a chance to answer his question, (inaudible).", "Absolutely.", "In light of some mixed signaling over the last few months with President Trump in regards to his allies backing off from some allies and also the return of protectionism, how can the United States maintain its credibility and leadership on the global stage?", "I think that the United States is very much respected internationally. And I think the key thing is it's one of those things. It's like gardening. You know, when you do gardening, the only way you have a great garden is if you go and attend the garden every day. You pull out the weeds every day. You sprinkle the water every day. You put seeds in every day. You attend and you do work on that all the time. That's the way it is with relationships. If it's foreign relationship, it is relationship with the other party and other stuff, it's all about relationship building. And I think that, you know, it is key for us to have a strong direction. Let the world know what the direction is, what we really stand for. That is the key thing.", "Good. And so you are famously passionate about After-School Programs. You have the After-School All-Star Program. One of your youth is here. Citlali has a question.", "Ever since I was in elementary school, I've always relied on After-School Programs. My parents were always working late and then when my father died when I was in the third grade, I began living in a single parent home. My mother could no longer afford to pay for After-School care in elementary school, but luckily in middle school I found After-School All-Stars, which is free. And now that I'm in high school, I no longer have an After-School Program and I have to take the school bus, the public bus and walk home every day from school. In light of these budget cuts, how can we ensure funding for After- School Programs not only in elementary and middle schools, but in high schools as well? And what can everyone do to help?", "And you have (inaudible) -- first of all, give her a round of applause. We've got young people like this all over the country who are benefiting. And thank you for your work and your commitment. But, you know, a lot of Republicans would say, \"Hey, listen, you know, helping a kid like that, that's -- it's a pork barrel stuff.\" So, you know what -- answering her question, but keep that in mind. You know, a lot of people in your party say, \"Hey, that's a pork barrel.\"", "Well, first of all, let me just say, I think that it is really wonderful to have you stand up here and ask a question in front of all of these people and millions of people that watch this show, so congratulations. Give her a big hand for that. You did a great job. Now, it's a very good question because as you know, California is the only one -- the only state that is really way ahead of every other state when it comes to After-School Programs. What we did was we passed an initiative in California, Proposition 49, the After-School Education Safety Act that I, you know, partially sponsored and drove all the way until it won. And that that gave us $550 million of After-School money. And so now this is why every elementary school and middle school in California has After-School programs. But we didn't get enough money to also include high schools, so this is where the problem comes in, that what you are talking about here. And so, I think that we have to go back another time and ask people maybe for another few hundred million dollars a year and we will do that, to go back again to the people and to say it, because when we tested it, when we originally did it, when it went to a billion dollars, people won't afford it. But when we kept it below $500 million, it was $428 million exactly in the beginning and now it rose up to around $550 million, so we just have to get back and give more money. And the key thing is to keep the federal money, because this $1.2 billion is extremely important and this is why I promised the kids today that this is not unanswered. We are going to be in Washington.", "He will be back.", "That we're going to lobby in Washington. And we're going to bring Democrats and Republicans together, because this is not a party issue, this is a people's issue. This is the important thing that we gather through within the people's issue (ph).", "Listen, I love your passion. I want you to stick around. Look, there are very few issues -- you don't like this. There are very few issues that are so consequential. They impact your kids, your grandkids, your health and your pocketbook. But Donald Trump recently took some action that jeopardizes all four. In fact, Donald Trump may have signed the death certificate for planet Earth. So, luckily, we got a super hero here. He can help us save the world, save the thing. Well, he's got some great ideas for us when we get back. Arnold Schwarzenegger in the house, \"The Messy Truth.\"", "All right, welcome back to \"The Messy Truth\". We are here with Arnold Schwarzenegger. You know, Arnold saved the world many times on the big screen, but he also tried to save it in real life when he was fighting for clean air and clean water and clean energy as California's governor. Now, both parties might want to listen up right now because we're going to talk about this. Let me get in first, Republicans, please, on the issue of the environment, please stop talking about killing regulations. That's the false choice. It's a false binary. Without regulations, your kids will be breathing polluted air. They'd be drinking poisoned water. Your city would be covered in legal -- in lethal smog, the same way they are in China. So America should never, ever have to choose between job killing regulation so-called or child killing deregulation. Americans are smart enough to know how to grow our businesses and make money and create jobs while restoring the Earth and respecting the health of our children. That's for Republicans. Democrats, you know all of this, but you always get lost in all this doomsday stuff. Give people some hope for once. I mean, for example, you got solar panel installers. These are good people making a good living. We got hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs in America in solar and wind. We never brag on them. Those clean energy solar panels can cut an energy bill from $200 a month to $2 a month. That's good for workers, for homeowners and the Earth. So both parties have got to do better. But, sir, your party, I just don't understand. You talked about Teddy Roosevelt, the first conservationist was a Republican. Now, you got a head of the EPA, doesn't believe in science. You got a former oil executive running State Department and Donald Trump just rolled back a decade's worth of climate protection. What can you say to Republicans who are watching right now to get them back on the good side when it comes to the environment?", "Well, first of all, traditionally, our party was very, very pro environment, as you said, not only Teddy Roosevelt, but Ronald Reagan created the EPA -- created the, you know, Resources Board in California.", "Nixon did the", "And Nixon created the EPA in Washington.", "So, what happened?", "And Bush negotiated the acid rain deal, which was the first kind of cap and trade deal. And so, it was a great, great history.", "What happened?", "But the other -- what bring -- the other thing that I want to remind you all, from the mode (ph) to remind the people is it's not just Republicans. It's also Democrats, because they are -- when you go to those states where they, you know, give coal, they have the coal mines, those representatives, senators and congressmen and governors are fighting for those coal jobs and they are Democrats and they are fighting for the coal jobs. So, you have both parties. But, you're absolutely correct that the Republican Party has now gone and decided they're going to go and, you know, maybe get the campaign contributions from coal industry or maybe get the campaign contributions from the oil companies that's why they are catering to them. But then there was, you know, that there's many reasons why that it is --", "What are your best -- I heard you make incredible arguments. What are the best arguments for Republicans?", "The best argument is whenever they say -- first of all, if you believe in global warming or not, that is irrelevant, because 7 million people die every year because of pollution. That is much more than die of traffic accidents, homicide, suicide, wars, everything together. So to me that is inexcusable and we have to do something about that. In America alone, 200,000 plus people die every year because of pollution. It is government's responsibility to protect the people. And so, we do all kinds of things to protect the people. That they have helmet laws so that you don't -- you hurt yourself when you have a motorcycle crash or a bicycle crash, all those kind of things to protect the people. But when it comes to pollution, they're not there to protect the people. So this is -- I think that every one, both of the parties need to work together. Republicans a lot of times say as you remember when we fought Proposition 23, Republicans say, \"Well, if you go green, then that means that we lose jobs. The economy will go down.\" And that was -- it's all none sense, because that fact that somebody is --", "Let me ask you a question.", "-- California. But in California, we have 4.3 percent economic growth, GDP growth. And the nationwide GDP growth is only 1.7 percent. We in California are way ahead economically. We are number one in tourism. We are number one in our industries. We are number one in entertainment. We are number one in agriculture, number one in biotech, in high tech, you know, and all of those things and everything. Everything we are number one. How is it possible when we have the strictest environmental laws in the United States? So we are to be proven that you can do both. You can protect the environment and you can protect the economy at the same time. It's that simple.", "You can drop the mic with that one, sir.", "OK.", "We'll listen to that. Well, listen, I want to turn to a more close to home subject then bring Rodrigo into this conversation. I know you're still in grief, but I hope you will raise your question with the governor.", "Yes. Governor, nice to see you. Nice to meet you.", "Nice to see you.", "On February 19th, my fiancee and son were driving back from church when they were tragically killed, T-boned by an illegal immigrant. My son was in the vehicle. He saw his mom die. And from this illegal immigrant who has been deported five times, multiple felon, three DUIs. Nobody has reached out to us, not Chief Beck, not the mayor, but our President Donald Trump reached out to me and gave me his condolences. I was fortunate enough to vote for Donald Trump. My question to you is this. What are we going to do about the problems that we have here in this city that feels so much like a sanctuary city? How are you and Donald Trump going to come together and fix the issues that we have? Now, you pointed out that -- about these After-School Programs and the kids (inaudible), but I have a 12-year-old son now that's only has one parent. I'm a single parent now, unfortunately. So, I need to know how are you going to fix that with Donald Trump.", "Well, first of all, I'm not in office. OK? So, but then in one thing I can tell you, through our institute we have been working very hard on immigration reform. This needs comprehensive immigration reform. And the sad story is that Democrats and Republicans have not been able to come together in decades on this issue. There is a bipartisan plan that -- for Democrats and for Republicans get together and they came up with a really great immigration plan. But it was shot down. So now both of the parties can't get anything done. But, may I remind you not just on immigration, on anything else either. Congress can't get anything done and this is why we have a problem with the redistricting and that goes back again to the redistricting. If we redraw the district lines, people would talk about it and see it later on. But, we need comprehensive immigration reform, which means that we have to secure our borders, number one. Number two, we have to go and redo our visa system. We have to make sure that the students can go and stay here after, you know, they have studied and they have gone through universities rather than sending them back. You got to give them a temporary working permit, more case workers programs and stuff like that. Make it really legitimate and secure the border. There's a whole bunch of issues that need to be addressed. They have to get together. It's a complex issue and they have not been able to work together. That's why we have problems like that. And this is why I am in a way upset when I know that Congress has a 15 percent to 18 percent approval rating and they get re-elected. 98 percent of them got re-elected last time. So that is your problem. Your problem is, you have to go and fight that system and go and make them redraw the district lines so that we have a coherent system --", "Governor, you raised this issue numerous times and we have somebody here who is an expert of this and he's actually a victim of this entire thing. You -- nobody talked about this. You know about this, Margaret. Part of the reason we can't get anything done is because the system has been rigged to make sure only extremists can be elected. Margaret, ask your question.", "Thank you, Van, very much. I appreciate being here. Redistricting, I think, Governor, and I think you think as well has changed our elective process more than anything else in the recent past. Republicans came to my state, North Carolina, and armed with private computers which had surgically precise software loaded on to them and they manipulated the district boundaries so that their candidates would win. Now, real people with real issues live in these districts, not only in my state, but all over the country. And they are entitled to be able to elect candidates of their choice, not candidates selected by partisan political operatives. So, my question to you, Governor, is how do we fix this artificial firewall that has been erected between our elective process and the will of the American people?", "First of all, just I want to say -- my condolences to you. It's horrible, the story that you just told us. Sorry about that. But to get to your question, the only way we can do it -- this is what we did in California. I mean, in California it goes the rest of the nation goes. That's what they always say and that's exactly what we want to do. In California, we have reformed the system. We now -- that an independent panel destroying the district lines. We took this power away from the politicians. And since then things have changed. Now, what we said and the Republicans are talking about immigration reform. Now what we said and the Democrats are siding with the Chamber of Commerce and voting 90 percent with the Chamber of Commerce. So things have totally changed since then and this is the kind of things, not the only way to make changes, but it is a very important step forward and there is 37 states in the United States where they have an initiative process where they can do the same thing as we have done in California. Then there are other states where we can do it through the legislators. And if that doesn't work, then you can go and do the judicial way. And we have seen that already, you know, and it works. And that the Supreme Court usually sides with the people. They want the district lines to be drawn by independent --", "I sure wish that you could be on the ballot for the presidency or something else. You hit every issue brilliantly. I want to thank you for being here. Give him a round of applause. Now, listen, up next, I took a trip to California, a farm in California, and I discovered something interesting. The farm owners who voted for Trump are actually now praying that he won't implement his immigration policies. We are about to get messy when we get back.", "Truck farmers. If all these immigrants left, what would happen to those crops?", "You know, it will just get rotten. Nobody will harvest them.", "Welcome back to \"The Messy Truth\". I'm Van Jones. Now, look, I got a chance to go on a farm, and you're going to see this crazy video about the farm, but before we get there, I want you to know something. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said that it is unlikely, in his word, that President Trump's promised wall is going to be built and stretched from sea to shining sea. So that's some news today on immigration. They're talking about immigration. He also said that the president told him to protect the border in any way that makes sense. Secretary Kelly went on to praise Trump's immigration crackdown. He says that the substantial drop in the apprehensions at the border proved that the crackdown is working. So this whole fight around immigration is still going on, your loss and other people's concerns. But I'm trying to get to the root of the root of this thing. So a few days ago, I took a trip to California's Central Valley and I spent some time with some of the farmers who are there. Now, many of those farmers actually supported Donald Trump, but here's the messy truth, because of President Trump and his immigration policies, those very same farmers may now lose the workers they rely upon for their livelihood.", "In order to really understand a farm worker from California's Central Valley, you need to play the part.", "We have to go.", "So I got out of the bubble and stepped into a tractor so I could spend some time with actual Central Valley farmers like Paul Betancourt. (on camera): We wouldn't eat if it weren't for you guys.", "Van, One of the things about farm folks is they're proud of what they do.", "Well, (inaudible) stuff, hard work and good folks. (voice-over): But these folks also need help. They need people to work on these farms and there's a lot of work that needs to get done in these fields. A large amount of the nation's food supply comes from right here, and undocumented workers toil in these fields every single day.", "Some things still need to be had done. There are always be a need for hand labor and it's unfortunate for whatever reason and I'm not going to pick on people. There's folks from town that, you know, think there's easier ways to make a living.", "And that's understandable. Not everybody wants to be a farm worker. It is backbreaking work for long hours under the hot sun, but it's a job that needs to get done and many of the people who do it right now are at risk of being removed from the country under President Trump's immigration policies. So why did so many farmers like Paul Betancourt support Trump?", "The alternative was unthinkable. Continued pressure from the federal government was squeezing us out. The big issue here is water. We got no help from Washington on water during the drought. And, you know, the regulatory burden continues to increase, so continuation of what we had was unthinkable.", "I know you supported Donald Trump. On the one hand, I know he's good for small businesses in some ways, but he also is tough on the immigrant workers. Are you kind of caught in the middle here?", "Yeah, I disagree with him on that.", "Farmer Paul Wenger also supported President Trump, but also says that deporting farm workers is bad for business.", "We like to say your food that's going to be on your table tonight is probably going to be picked by immigrant hands. The real question is, is it going to be picked by immigrant hands here in the United States and for us in California or in another country?", "You must work with folks pretty closely who are probably very scared.", "Yes and no. I think most folks realized that something is going to have to happen. They're not going to move 12 million to 14 million people out of this country.", "But many people on these fields certainly do believe that they could be kicked out of the country and they live in fear that they could be deported any day. And Farm Worker Rights Advocate, Horacio Amexquita, he says if you chase away the farm workers, you likely chase away the farm.", "If all these immigrants left, what would happen to those crops?", "You know, it will just get rotten. Nobody would harvest them. If he takes away all the undocumented workers out of the fields, the economy will collapse and it will be a lot of trouble not just for the farmers or California, but it will be a lot of trouble for all United States.", "When you say trouble, what do you mean?", "Yeah. You know, all -- the crops get rotten. They're not going to be delivered to other states. People are not going to have their vegetables, their fruits. All these crops that are fresh on your table, they're being harvested by hand.", "This is messy. If the farmers are not in lockstep, you know, you get three farmers together, you get five different opinions. And so, you know, I have no problem voting for the president and disagreeing with him on trade and immigration because I think he's wrong on those issues.", "You see, when you get down there in the real world, it gets really, really messy. And so, you know, let's keep in mind these conversations got to keep going forward. Now, when we come back, I'm going to give you my thoughts on Bill O'Reilly and President Trump. Watch out, Bill O'Reilly, I'm coming for you.", "Welcome back to The Messy Truth. Before we leave tonight, I have a final thought. Today, a reporter asked President Trump about Fox News star Bill O'Reilly and the sexual harassment allegations against him. And the president of the United States responded, \"I don't think Bill did anything wrong.\" Now, look, we could just brush this off as another example of Trump spewing out garbage about stuff he doesn't understand but actually Trump understands treating women like crap very well, because at least 11 different women have accused President Trump of sexual harassment, themselves. Also, Trump seems to know a lot about being a hypocrite because when another Bill, Bill Clinton, was accused of similar stuff, Trump went on the war path then saying that the women were right and that that Bill was wrong. But that's not the worst of it. Here's the messy truth that nobody's talking about. Liberal feminists, honestly, they were never in Trump's camp, anyway, so maybe he doesn't owe them very much, but Donald Trump owes conservative women everything. They came out for him in droves. They stopped Hillary Clinton and they put him in power. And those are the kinds of women, it's pretty safe to assume, work at Fox News. Now look at Trump throwing conservative women under the bus, his own core supporters. Without even giving them two seconds of a fair hearing. Zero loyalty to the women who got him into the White House. That's got to be devastating for Trump supporters. And now where is warrior for women Ivanka Trump? Where is she? She said she wants to use her platform for good. Well, good, your dad just spat in the face of the very women who gave you and your family that platform. I am sure that your fellow conservative women would like to hear from you now and so would the rest of us. So would the rest of us. So, I want to thank my studio audience and all you watching at home. We had an honest conversation. We had a lot of fun. We had the gubernator. Keep the conversation going at home in your dinner tables, in your neighborhoods. We are messy. We tell it like we see it. CNN Tonight with Don Lemon starts right now. 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{"id": "NPR-48404", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2006-07-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5583763", "title": "Searching for an Electric Fan in SoCal", "summary": "Like much of the nation suffering through the current deadly heat wave, it's hotter than usual in Southern California. The heat has prompted a surge in demand for electric fans — but bare store shelves has left some customers steaming hot.", "utt": ["An odd result of the heat wave in Southern California, a rush on electric fans that's left store shelves empty and customers steaming. We sent senior producer Steve Proffitt out in search of what would be just another household appliance most anywhere else.", "Folks in Los Angeles, especially those who live on the west side of the city count on cool breezes from the Pacific Ocean to keep things moderate. Many, if not most, don't have air conditioning. In fact it seems, many didn't even have electric fans and they quickly cleaned out the supply at local retailers.", "Do you have any fans?", "We'll have some later on this afternoon.", "Santos Mantiano of B&B Hardware in west LA, says just last week before temperatures began to break records, he had fifty fans in stock.", "They stayed here for a while. When the heat hit - I mean they went.", "Ditto for several other hardware and house ware stores I tried, with no luck at the office supply place, either. But then I got a tip in my hunt for the elusive electric fan.", "Okay, we're in the parking lot of the Costco, which is a big - I guess they call it a big box retailer. There's a car alarm going off. And I have heard that perhaps there are fans for sale here, if you get here early enough to get one.", "Turns out my tip was a good one.", "Today we got a shipment in of both A/Cs and fans.", "Jorge Fresiado is a manager at Costco. He says it's a small shipment but all he could get and it will probably all be gone in an hour.", "It's crazy. The nearest stores that have them is the Hawaiian Island stores, so I doubt anybody's going to make a trip over there for that.", "Now Costco requires shoppers to buy a membership card and those who pay extra to register as business customers get to go in early. Everybody else has to wait until 10:00 a.m. At a little past nine, already, a lot of regular customers are lined up waiting.", "Other people get to get in first while we wait. And we watch and count the fans as they come out.", "That's Dorothy, she's here with her friend Annette. About a dozen other folks are waiting too, hoping to score a fan. I see a guy coming out of the exit with one and chase after him.", "How did you know that you could get this fan here?", "I work here.", "Oh. As Dorothy and Annette look on, more and more shoppers emerge with the object of their desire. A forty-inch tall tower fan that comes complete with a remote.", "Can I ask you a question? You have three fans there.", "Four.", "Four. Forty inch - you have 160 inches of fan here.", "Right. (laughs) I could use more.", "Finally, Dorothy and Annette and the others are granted entrance, as elite shoppers continue to carry out fan after fan. Since the guy at the door wouldn't accept my press pass as a membership card, I find a little patch of shade and wait for my new fan-seeking friends to emerge. Finally, I see Annette, she's empty handed. Wait, wait, wait, wait now I don't, I don't see you carrying a fan. Where's your fan?", "Those people who pay the fee for the business, they got them, and the inside employees got them.", "And there's none left for the folks like you and me?", "Oh no. No. Oh I know, we have hundreds of them, in Hawaii. Is that a bitch? (laughs)", "Well, here's an idea. We could fly to Hawaii, buy a bunch of fans and bring them back, and sell them and pay for our trip.", "yeah, some people will probably try to do that.", "Okay I'm going to call my travel agent. I'll see you later. Bye bye.", "Bye.", "At the Costco warehouse store on the west side of LA, Steve Proffitt, NPR News.", "Stay with us, NPR's DAY TO DAY continues."], "speaker": ["ALEX CHADWICK, host", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "Mr. SANTOS MANTIANO(ph)", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "Mr. SANTOS MANTIANO(ph)", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "Mr. JORGE FRESIADO(ph)", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "Mr. JORGE FRESIADO(ph)", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "DOROTHY", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "Unidentified male", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "Unidentified female", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "Unidentified female", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "ANNETTE", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "ANNETTE", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "ANNETTE", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "ANNETTE", "STEVE PROFFITT, reporting", "ALEX CHADWICK, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-297291", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-10-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/31/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Iraqi Forces Continue to Advance Toward Mosul; French Village Welcomes Its First Calais Migrants", "utt": ["Welcome back to our viewers around the world. We're coming to you live from Atlanta. This is CNN NEWSROOM, I'm Natalie Allen.", "And I'm Cyril Vanier. Here are the headlines this hour. The U.S. Senate's top Democrat says FBI Director James Comey may have broken the law by revealing a new batch of e-mails belonging to a close aide of Hillary Clinton. The blistering letter by Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid accuses Comey of deliberately hurting the Clinton campaign. The federal law bars U.S. government employees from all political activity.", "Saudi Arabia says it has busted two separate terror cells that were plotting attacks. Authorities arrested four Saudi nationals who had ties to ISIS and four Pakistani nationals from a cell alleged to planning to bomb a World Cup qualifying match earlier this month in Jeddah.", "Italian authorities are working to get aid to two central regions rocked by a 6.6 magnitude earthquake on Sunday. At least 20 people have been injured. This follows two tremors last week and a quake in August. That one killing almost 300 people.", "Paramilitary forces in Iraq are fighting ISIS militants west of Mosul in support of the Iraqi Army. Officials say 20 villages in that area have been liberated. Meantime, Iraqi forces continue their push toward Mosul, but ISIS is putting up strong resistance with reports of civilians being used as human shields.", "Senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh is embedded with Iraqi troops near the front lines.", "And of course the team with him to get this dangerous job done, photojournalist Scott McWhinnie and producer Ghazi Baqis (ph) were also with Nick for this report. Here it is.", "The last phase of lifting ISIS' dark curse from Iraq begins here. Trying to hit a specter of fleeting enemy lit only by the glow of Mosul's city limits. Barely two kilometers away. Iraqi Special Forces trained by the U.S. target with a tank here, where they are attacked from during the day, putting us to use Humvees as cover when they move. The commander Major Salam has fought ISIS in Fallujah, Ramadi, and now the end is near. \"Where did the artillery land,\" he asked? Just visible in the distant light of Mosul. This is the global tip of the spear in the war on ISIS. Surging forward on a thin strip of land into ISIS territory. And as we see, in the same area in daylight, constant counterattacks. Here, they can see ISIS just beyond the berms. The incoming is from behind it. A truck that pops out, opens fire and vanishes. (on-camera): ISIS is less than a kilometer away firing at Iraqi Special Forces position. This is a constant day in, day out. (voice-over): \"Where is it moving,\" he asks? As fast as it emerged, the truck vanishes. But here, there are yet tougher hours ahead. Dark has just fallen, and the sky is alight with ferocious firepower. ISIS have attacked the berms. Suicide bombers, rocket- propelled grenades. It is constant, exhausting, closer and closer to the roof we are on. We simply do not know where in the town around us ISIS may have broken through. (on-camera): So far toward this Iraqi Special Forces position, now it seemed to try and stop those coming down the road. (voice-over): ISIS despite being in their end days still able to conjure the terror of omnificence that began their savage rule. The wounded start coming back, but we cannot film them. A steady stream. The unit we were with earlier on the roof had been hit. Rockets struck, many of them asleep, tightly packed in a room. The blast killed 14 soldiers. Many limbs torn clean off Major Salam is shown the weapons of the dead. He pauses in emotion. \"You guys are heroes,\" he says. \"And none of you should be affected by this. Those suicide bombers are nothing.\" Two kilometers from Mosul City, and seven left to the center to go. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Baswir (ph) near Mosul.", "You know, they didn't know what they were going to see as far as resistance. But ISIS, you know, being their tactics are just brutal and wild and they really kind of have a fight up ahead, but hopefully they'll keep moving toward Mosul. All right, here. Well, dozens of young migrants gathered at a makeshift church in the French migrant camp known as the jungle for a final service before that camp's complete demolition.", "Thousands of refugees have been sent from Calais to shelters across the country, but hundreds of minors are still living in temporary housing in the camp, and aid workers are concerned about the welfare of those young people.", "We know that there are more than 1500 minors at the CAP, temporary reception centers. But we also know that there are a few in the jungle. Yesterday around ten people had to sleep outside the CAP, unaccompanied minors. And we also know that there were some security problems inside the CAP and it would be worth investigating that. There are still people who are hiding out in the area and who come back here during the day to have access to food, water, things like that.", "And so migrants are now facing the reality of life outside of Calais. 40 refugees were sent to a welcome center in Southeastern France.", "But as CNN's Zain Asher explains, their arrival is making some of the locals uncomfortable.", "From the squalid camp in Calais to Champtercier, a picturesque village at the foot of the French Alps nearly 1,000 kilometers away. 40 migrants, mostly men from Sudan, Afghanistan and Pakistan, arrived here in the middle of the night. Welcomed by aid workers and a few of the town's residents, the men sat down for hot coffee and tea after their long journey. Zarif (ph) who recently fled Afghanistan said leaving Calais was a nightmare.", "Last night, all the jungle is finished. People do fire and the house is all finished.", "Zarif (ph) and the others are now settling in at this empty lunch while they apply for asylum in France or elsewhere.", "Maybe I stay here. Maybe I'm going back to Afghanistan. I don't know.", "Champtercier is small. Home to about 700 people. Some of them welcomed the refugees with open arms, but some are uncomfortable with the influx of new arrivals.", "My house is 400 meters away from the holiday resort where the migrants will be housed and where I go past on my morning walks. And I don't know if I'll be able to continue this in the future because I don't feel safe.", "I can understand that people are afraid. People are always afraid of what they don't know, afraid of strangers, but you have to be able to control these emotions.", "It's not clear how long the refugees will stay, but more are due to arrive. Up to 100 will make Champtercier their home, while authorities consider the applications for asylum. Zain Asher, CNN, Atlanta.", "All right. We've got a lot more coming up on the show. Namely, everyone has been waiting to hear whether Bob Dylan would show up to accept his Nobel Prize."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "VANIER", "ALLEN", "VANIER", "ALLEN", "VANIER", "ALLEN", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ALLEN", "VANIER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "VANIER", "ALLEN", "ZAIN ASHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ASHER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ASHER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "ASHER", "VANIER"]}
{"id": "CNN-50443", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-3-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/06/lad.01.html", "summary": "Drone Sees Execution of SEAL in Afghanistan", "utt": ["U.S.-led ground forces are pressing ahead in their operation to rid the eastern Afghan mountain region of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters. CNN's Martin Savidge is the only reporter going along on the offensive. Here's his exclusive report from the front lines.", "Operation Anaconda was at least a month in the planning. Three battalions of over 1,700 soldiers including the 10th Mountain Division, the 101st Airborne, coalition and Afghan forces would launch a surprise attack in the area of the town in eastern Afghanistan known as Sheer Konkill (ph). Intelligence sources said it contained a large pocket of hard- core al Qaeda and Taliban fighters numbering 150 to 200. But the plan ran into problems even before it lifted off. Bad weather at the ejected site forced a two-day delay. The first U.S. forces on the ground found that time wasn't the only thing lost. So was the advantage of surprise. At a number of landing zones enemy forces were already waiting, heavily armed and anxious to attack. For two days we tried to go in with a second wave of reinforcements, both times turned back when the landing area was receiving too much fire. Finally on a third try, we made it in with a reserved battalion armed with heavy weapons and a will for revenge. The first part of the mission, to seek out and destroy al Qaeda caves and operation centers high in the mountains above 10,000 feet. Elevation, cold, and the constant threat of attack was a triple burden for U.S. soldiers. After the caves we pushed south to the main objective, the village of Sheer Konkill. Barely had U.S. forces got in position when Taliban forces attacked at dusk -- automatic weapons fire and mortars. U.S. soldiers responded back with heavy suppression fire and mortars of their own. Then came the close air support, as for two days wave after wave the fighter bombers, B-52s and Apache helicopters pounded the surrounding valley around the clock. More reinforcements arrive and began dislodging the Taliban and al Qaeda forces. The original mission was to last 72 hours. Some thought it might only take 24 hours. Instead now the operation has gone on for four days, as it's clear the Taliban and al Qaeda forces with no place to run, also have no plans to surrender. Martin Savidge, CNN, Sheer Konkill.", "Amid concerns of possible mounting casualties in the latest Afghan fighting, there's more information on the latest Americans who die in action, here's CNN national correspondent David Ensor.", "Chilling details are now emerging on how eight Americans died. Sources say Navy SEAL Neil Roberts fell off a Chinook helicopter as it rose, was captured, and commanders watched in agony from a predator drone camera overhead as he was executed.", "Put your guns down.", "Another six casualties occurred after a Chinook helicopter was damaged and crash-landed forcing the men to fight under withering enemy fire for 12 to 14 hours.", "It was sometime thereafter that we initiated a rescue operation and extracted, took out, all the folks on the ground there.", "Reinforcements are on the way to aid the roughly 2,000 U.S. and allied forces assaulting entrenched al Qaeda and Taliban forces U.S. officials say. At least five Marine Cobra gunships and two large troop-carrying MH-53 helicopters have been sent from aboard ships in the North Arabian Sea with officials saying all the Apache helicopters flying air support in the first day of the battle were damaged. These pictures, the first of Operation Anaconda, released by the Pentagon show American troops, soldiers of the Army's 101st Airborne Division moving upwards into positions around the enemy. As they searched a compound on the way up into the mountains, they came under fire.", "Where's that fire coming from?", "The reinforcements come as U.S. officials revise upwards their estimates of how many enemy they have surrounded in the high mountain area near Gardez. Despite punishing bombing by U.S. and allied aircraft, officials now say with perhaps 200 enemy dead, there still could be as many as five to 600 left. Officials are saying the fight could take over a week to finish.", "This is like fighting in the middle of the Rocky Mountains in the wintertime. It's tough. We have members of the 101st and members of the 10th Mountain. They're trained in cold weather and they're doing a fantastic job.", "U.S. officials are saying once this pocket of resistance is defeated, there are others around Afghanistan, although this is the largest. All of them are likely to require dangerous groundwork by U.S. troops with most of the remainder enemy apparently willing to fight to the death. David Ensor, CNN, the Pentagon.", "Of the seven U.S. servicemen killed in Operation Anaconda, the youngest was 21 years old, the oldest was 36. They came from such places as Brandon, Florida; Boulder City, Nevada; and Joplin, Missouri. A multi service Honor Guard met the seven caskets at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. They were then sent to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware where they arrived early in this morning. At Dover the remains will be prepared for their return to the families. The seven men died Monday in two separate incidents involving MH-47 Chinook helicopters. The dead have been identified as Sgt. Bradley Crose, Sgt. Philip Svitak, Specialist Marc Anderson, and Private First Class Matthew Commons, all from the Army. Also Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Neil Roberts and from the Air Force Tech Sgt. John Chapman and Senior Airman Jason Cunningham. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR", "PHILLIPS", "DAVID ENSOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ENSOR", "BRIG.GEN. JOHN ROSA, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF", "ENSOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ENSOR", "ROSA", "ENSOR", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "NPR-7617", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2018-08-21", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/08/21/640630534/pentagon-officials-say-theyre-concerned-about-drop-in-admissions-of-iraqi-refuge", "title": "Pentagon Officials Say They're Concerned About Drop In Admissions Of Iraqi Refugees", "summary": "NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Reuters reporter Yeganeh Torbati about concerns of military officials about the drop in admissions of Iraqi refugees to the U.S., saying it will discourage locals from cooperating with U.S. forces in other conflicts.", "utt": ["Now a story about a program born out of the Iraq War. It's a special refugee program for Iraqis who assisted the U.S. military and other American organizations on the ground during the conflict. But the number of refugees admitted is declining rapidly. More than 7,000 Iraqis entered the U.S. through this program in fiscal year 2015. This year, as of last week, just 48. Now the Pentagon is voicing concerns to the White House over the drop in numbers, according to a new Reuters report. Officials argue that by not providing safety to people who risk their lives to help the U.S. military, it will be more difficult to win future cooperation from locals in Iraq and other conflict zones. Yeganeh Torbati wrote that story for Reuters. She joins us now. Welcome to the program.", "Thanks for having me.", "Tell us who these Iraqis are who are eligible for this program. What kind of work do they do?", "This program is open to Iraqis who worked for the U.S. military, for the U.S. embassy, for American contractors who worked in Iraq, for American news media who had a presence in Iraq and also for American non-governmental organizations who had a presence there.", "And when you say work with the military, what kind of thing would you be doing as a local Iraqi for the U.S. government?", "The most common task that I've come across is interpretation, but it's important to note that at least the interpreters that I've spoken to, often, their actual jobs went way beyond that. I spoke to one man who helped his U.S. Army supervisors navigate firefights, who helped introduce them to local influential government individuals or elders within different tribes. So really, you know their, tasks can run the gamut.", "What kind of danger are they in that leads them to apply for refugee status?", "Everything from actual assassination. That's happened many times, where people who were known to work with Americans have been killed and targeted specifically by militias who are opposed the American presence in Iraq. They can be kidnapped. And they can be ostracized from their villages and cities and communities.", "So there's always been a high threshold for this program, right? You have to be screened pretty intensely.", "Absolutely.", "What's changed why there's been a drop in the number of people admitted?", "So the Trump administration has instituted a number of changes to the refugee program since taking office in January 2017. It first did an outright ban on refugees in the first months of the administration, and then it required refugees to submit more information as part of their application. And so this meeting that I reported on that happened at the White House at which there were many officials from many different agencies, what was revealed at that meeting is that the way the FBI is conducting certain background checks that are required of Iraqi refugees, those checks are bringing up many more red flags than they were previously. And at that meeting, from the officials who have told me about sort of what transpired, it wasn't really clear to officials there exactly what may have changed in the FBI's screening methodology that, you know, wasn't the case before. And that's something that officials are going to be looking into a little bit more.", "So in your reporting, you're finding there are people in the Pentagon saying, look, whatever we can do to help this process along, we need you to help the people who helped us. What does the White House say to that?", "The White House says that the changes that we have made to the refugee program over the last year and a half are making Americans safer, that we vet refugees from Iraq or from any country more thoroughly than ever before.", "And that includes whether they helped us and whether they're applying in this special refugee program.", "Exactly. I think that the White House's emphasis is on the potential threat that's posed by refugees and not so much on the potential benefits, whether it's foreign policy benefits or whether it's - as some people in the Pentagon and throughout the administration would argue - the national security benefits that, you know, presenting a robust way for Iraqis to find safe haven after helping America presents.", "Yeganeh Torbati. She is an immigration reporter for Reuters. Thank you for speaking with us.", "Thanks so much for having me."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "YEGANEH TORBATI", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "YEGANEH TORBATI", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "YEGANEH TORBATI", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "YEGANEH TORBATI", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "YEGANEH TORBATI", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "YEGANEH TORBATI", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "YEGANEH TORBATI", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "YEGANEH TORBATI", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "YEGANEH TORBATI"]}
{"id": "NPR-41566", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-12-12", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6615443", "title": "Looking Behind the 'Natural' Label on Foods", "summary": "Noah Adams talks with nutritionist Marion Nestle about what it really means when foods are labeled \"natural.\" Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. Her latest book is What To Eat.", "utt": ["Back in the summer, we talked with Marion Nestle about some of these food matters. She teaches nutrition and food safety at New York University, and she wrote the book. It's called, \"What to Eat.\"", "Ms. Nestle, welcome back.", "Nice to be here.", "You know, the term organic we've wrestled with in the past. That's hard enough to deal with. But it seems like natural could be even more problematic for us?", "Well, organic is actually very simple to deal with. It's governed by rules and the companies that produce organic foods have to follow those rules and they're inspected to make sure that they do. So nothing could be simpler. It's black or white. They either do it or they don't.", "Now when you go to the store, do you have any difficulty with natural? Natural is all over the place. It's almost like - the one I like is farm fresh. They like to use that one.", "Well, I just find it entertaining. I mean, I sort of collect the terms. I find them hilarious because they're meaningless and yet they sell food. And I think somebody who isn't really up on FDA and USDA regulations will see the word natural and think that's really good.", "And of course, the people who don't like organics - and there are many - feel that natural is better than organic, which it may or may not be, and prefer to use natural because it leaves them so much more wiggle room.", "The producers like to use the word.", "The producers and also the people who feel that organic rules don't go far enough.", "So natural sort of works for them.", "Yes, whatever they choose it to mean, as long as it's truthful and not misleading.", "Back in the summer, Melissa Block, you recall, brought some yogurt in to talk with you about. We should point out you're in New York and we're in Washington, so you can't see. We have brought today some packages from the grocery store. And I have one which may work. Clearly, here's an example. It's Nature's Promise chicken and it says right on the cover all natural. No antibiotics administered. Fat and all vegetable diet. No growth stimulants or hormones.", "Okay. The chicken wouldn't have hormones anyway, so that's a gratuitous statement and the rest of it you take on face value. There's no inspection system to back it up.", "Okay, so this would be natural.", "That would be natural.", "All right. Nature Valley Crunchy Granola Bars. Right on the box it says 100 percent natural. Excellent source of whole grain. What should I look for here?", "The whole grain as a high ingredient on the ingredient list would be where I would start. I don't know what they mean by natural. Maybe it means that no artificial fibers had been added. It would be hard to know without seeing the ingredient list.", "Okay. Midway down the ingredient list - at least not at the top - is high fructose corn syrup.", "Right. Now is that natural or not? Ooh. That's a wonderful question. High fructose corn syrup is made by taking corn starch and using several kinds of enzymes in order to convert the starch to sugars, so that's an enzymatic process that does occur in nature. It occurs in your mouth, for example. I wouldn't call it natural if it's in the laboratory. So that's one of the points of debate. Would you consider something that's been treated with enzymes natural or not?", "Okay. Now here's another one and this is a cereal bar by Kellogg's Nutra Grain. It says naturally and artificially flavored. I saw a guy in the store the other day and he had a magnifying glass that had a light on it. He was looking at the ingredients.", "Oh, good for him. I do the same thing.", "And you need it for this one.", "Print is getting smaller and smaller and my eyes are getting worse and worse and it's a bad combination.", "Right. Well, there's about 100 things in here.", "At least 100. Well then, you know it's not natural.", "Okay, we'll put that one aside. There is this process that Allison Aubrey talked about. High pressure pasteurization. The food is sealed. High pressure is applied, and the bacteria are somewhat neutralized. What about that?", "Well, that's an extension of regular pasteurization. Regular pasteurization heats the - usually milk or juices - to a certain temperature for a certain period of time. And what the high pressure pasteurization allows it to do is to shorten the time because they do it at a higher temperature. I don't see that there's much different.", "So you're kind of okay with that?", "I'm okay with that one. I don't like bacteria in my juices or milk, so I'd just as soon have them pasteurized.", "You know, farm fresh, I mentioned earlier, used to be right from the farm and somebody's market -", "That's what I think of. That's what I think it means.", "Still?", "Straight from the farm.", "Okay, but isn't what's going on here simply an updating of regulations that have been out of step for a long time?", "I think the regulations were never meant to deal with the extraordinary number of health claims and processing claims that are on foods right now. Every single food company that makes any kind of food that can be advertised as healthful or as produced according to humane and natural methods is advertising it as such.", "The public is extraordinarily confused about what it means. And there's no question that words like natural, healthy, vitamin enriched and that sort of thing sell food products. So to set a level playing field for the sales of fruit products - there's been a lot of pressure on the FDA to come in and try to make some sense out of all of this.", "Marion Nestle, author of “What to Eat,” and a professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University. Thank you for talking with us now.", "My pleasure.", "And you can find more advice from Marion Nestle at NPR.org. 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{"id": "CNN-245468", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-12-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1412/17/nday.03.html", "summary": "New York Premiere of 'The Interview' Canceled after Threats", "utt": ["But now developing, a person close to the situation says Sony would not object if theaters decide to pull it from their box offices.", "You want to go kill Kim Jong-Un?", "Totally.", "Carmike Cinemas reportedly the first movie chain to pull the plug from their more than 270 theaters across more than 40 states. Landmark Theaters also bailing, canceling Thursday's premiere in New York. Even the film's stars, Seth Rogen and James Franco, dropping out of all media appearances this week. This fear in the movie industry prompted by a new threatening message, purportedly from the Sony hackers. The FBI investigating their promise of a bitter fate to anyone who sees the controversial North Korean comedy. The message says, \"Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made. The world will be full of fear. Remember the 11th of September 2001.\"", "Now they've got all these threats against people. You know, if you go see the movie, be careful. They're threatening the families of Sony employees. This has taken hacking to a level that we've never seen before.", "This week, a leaked scene from the film was posted, showing the gruesome assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, something the country condemns as an act of war. U.S. law enforcement sources tell CNN the strong suspicion is that the reclusive country is the instigator of the hack and possibly outsourced it to a group elsewhere as retaliation for the controversial film. The FBI is scrubbing Sony's computer system, trying to gather enough evidence to be able to definitively point the finger at the hacking culprit.", "It is a complex, nuanced investigation. The more sophisticated hackers have gone through multiple, multiple infrastructures to get to where they've gotten to. So it's not something that Sony is going to solve in a day or a week or a month.", "And sources tell us that the hackers had access to the Sony computer system for several months before the FBI was brought in in November. So a lot of damage was done in that timeframe, making it harder for investigators to get to the bottom of it. And Alisyn and Chris, you may be wondering why the U.S. government isn't speaking out more. They first want to be certain who the instigator is, who the hacking culprit is and then figure out what to do once they announce it.", "All right, Pamela. Thank you very much. Let's continue our coverage with Will Ripley in Tokyo, because that's where Sony is headquartered. And by the way, the film will not be shown there -- Will.", "Well, Chris, we know that Sony executives are likely to be facing tough questions from the Japanese government over why they allowed this production to even happen, considering the geopolitical ramifications. We have some new pictures coming in from North Korea from Pyongyang, a city that I visited just a few months ago. And I can tell you they almost worship their leaders like gods there. And right now, tens of thousands of people are turning out, marking the three-year anniversary of the reign of their young leader, Kim Jong-un, and also mourning the passing of his father, who died unexpectedly. This shows just how deadly serious the North Koreans are about their leaders and may explain the motive, if indeed North Korea is behind this cyberattack, an attack that has paralyzed an American company, creating so much fear that theaters are now, as you see in the United States, canceling these screenings. But that fear is nothing new to people here in Japan, who have always taken North Korea seriously for decades. Ever since the country kidnapped Japanese citizens and forced them to train spies and launch projectiles into the Sea of Japan. And now with this apparent new vulnerability to cyberattacks, there are more fears here in Tokyo about what could happen next, as the film premiere is just days away -- Chris.", "Will, thank you very much. Alisyn, over to you.", "Let's talk about more about this with Dawn Chmielewski. She's the senior editor of Recode, a tech news website; and Tom Fuentes, CNN law enforcement analyst and former assistant FBI director. Good morning to both of you. Tom, in the last 24 hours this whole hacking scandal feels as though it's taken a much more ominous turn. It's no longer just about salacious emails that have been hacked and released. It's now about threats along the lines of 9/11. Let me read to you what the hacking group has posted on its website. It says, \"The world will be full of fear. Remember the 11th of September 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.\" They mean the premiere of the movie. \"If your house is nearby, you'd better leave.\" They mean if your house is nearby the theater, you'd better leave. What do you make of these threats, Tom?", "Well, I think at that point, Alisyn, the threats, you know, they're beyond the pale, and it makes you wonder. You know, al Qaeda itself and ISIS itself don't have the capability of that large-scale of a bombing attack on the United States. So -- and they want to more. But this has gone from you know, in the beginning, an extortion and a hacking case to now this, to now serious threats. So this -- these are crimes that are serious crimes in the U.S., even though it's an attack on a private company initially. It's still a major extortion, affecting the commerce of the U.S. and of the company. And it's not to be tolerated. And the government is doing the best it can, as quick as it can, to try to identify and neutralize the people responsible for this.", "And Dawn, of course theaters have to listen to this. They can't ignore a threat of this magnitude. So late last night, the New York premiere of the movie, called \"The Interview,\" was canceled. What is Sony saying about all this?", "Well, Sony is actually saying nothing publicly. But you're absolutely right. I mean the theater owners up until this point have been supportive of Sony and Sony's desire to exercise its free speech rights, to not have cyber criminals determine what films it can or cannot release. But this threat that evokes the terror of 9/11 really caused exhibitors to begin to reassess the situation. I mean, the theatrical, the theater owners have employees. They have audience members, people coming into their theaters. And no one -- there's some real concern about putting people potentially at risk. Even though the Homeland Security Department has said that there's no credible threat here. Tom, when you read this threat, the grammar of it is very peculiar. It's very strained. It says, \"though,\" as if English is not the first language of whoever the hackers are. But of course, that could all be a ruse. Do we believe today that North Korea is behind this?", "I think that, you know, many people think they do. They have the most interest in doing it. So you know, motive, opportunity, the skill set. And they could have help from, you know, their big brother. Hackers in China. So you know, you don't know for sure. And they won't say so for sure until they have the evidence. But you know, all indications show that that's probably true.", "Dawn, the larger issue here is that this is a movie. This is Hollywood. This is fiction. This is our entertainment. Since when do we let hackers dictate our media and what we're allowed to see?", "That's -- that actually has been the point that Sony has been making all along. You know, the -- you know, Sony corporate has been sensitive, though. We've seen a number of email exchanges between Kaz Harai and the studio chief, Amy Pascal, indicating that they recognized there were certain sensitivities. And the studio was trying to walk this fine line between acknowledging that this is a sitting leader of a country, and also allowing artists to create a comedy. You know, and but these grave threats seem to have taken it out of this academic debate about free expression.", "Tom, there have been other movies about world leaders that have caused some hand-wringing, but is this level unprecedented?", "I think so. And you know, what we don't realize or forget in this country is that, you know, our comedians every night of the week on various shows criticize our leaders, make fun, spoof, satire. It's been a way of humor. I mean, you can go back to the revolution, and humorists have made fun of political leaders. But in other parts of the world, it's not allowed. I mean, remember when Putin locked up a rock-and-roll band for lyrics critical of him. So -- so there's a number of countries that, if you open your mouth and criticize the government, that's it. You're going to prison and maybe worse than that. So in that sense, this one is a little more unprecedented, because it's hitting here against us in the U.S. or against a company doing considerable business in the United States. But there's a bigger implication here, Alisyn. You know, CNN has showed clips from that movie how many times a day? The other news networks also. What if they turn this hacking attack on one of the news networks and start censoring our news? Tell CNN that \"we're going to release your emails and your -- and destroy data in your network if you don't stop showing the clips and stop promoting this movie?\" Because, you know, I mean, the reality is that many people, nobody I know had any intention of ever seeing this movie. But now curiosity may lead this to become a blockbuster.", "Well, if it's allowed to be released. I mean, Dawn, what is going to happen with this movie?", "There's a considerable amount of hand-wringing, and I think it remains to be seen whether exhibitors are going to stand by it and open it. And there's an ongoing discussion between other film distributors and other studios and the theatrical community about whether or not adjacent films might be hurt. If people decide to stay home at Christmas time, which is a period -- one of the most popular times of the year for families to go out and see movies, this film -- the fears about this film could ripple over and affect other movies that are showing in theaters at this time. So there's a good deal of anxiety at this moment. We'll find out soon,, perhaps, what happens.", "Tom, let's end on a law enforcement note. As a law enforcement officer, do you think that theaters should show this movie?", "I think they have to make their own decision. But you know, I cannot imagine the terror attack, you know, going after how many tens of thousands of movie theaters we have in the United States.", "Maybe just one. I mean, even just one.", "Maybe just one. But we have that every day of the week. We have just one. I mean, we have -- we have to worry about crazy people, you know, doing something like what just happened in Sydney, Australia, every day of the week. That can happen. So you're right. But in this case, a major extortion possibly, you know, as a result of a foreign state carrying this attack against us, that's serious business. And I think that, you know, I think obviously the FBI, homeland security, the authorities here and with the partners around the world are going after this as hard as they can. But I don't personally believe that there will be a bombing in a movie theater over this movie.", "Let's hope you're right.", "That's my opinion, and I hope I'm, you know, right on that.", "We hope you're right, as well. Tom Fuentes, Dawn Chmielewski, thanks so much for this conversation. Of course, we want to hear from you. Would you go see this movie, despite the threats? Should it be released at all? Go to Facebook.com/NewDay or you can tweet us @NewDay. We'd love to hear your thoughts. We'll share them later. Let's get over to Michaela now.", "All right, Alisyn. Thanks so much. Let's give you a look at your headlines. Funerals are under way as Pakistan begins three days of mourning after that deadly Taliban siege at the military school in Peshawar. At least 145 people were killed, among them 132 schoolchildren. In response to the heinous attack, Pakistan's prime minister has now lifted a moratorium on the death penalty for terrorism cases. Also breaking overnight, Australia's prime minister has now pledged an urgent joint review into the deadly hostage situation in Sydney. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said a wide range of issues will be examined, including why the gunman was granted Australian citizenship and how he was able to legally obtain a gun. The full report is expected to be released sometime in January. In the meantime this: a makeshift memorial for the two victims continues to grow. Flowers and cards pile up near the Lindt cafe on Martin Place in Sydney. Government shutdown avoided. Overnight President Obama signed $1.1 trillion spending bill, which would fund most government agencies through September of next year. One big exception, the Department of Homeland Security, which will get a funding extension only through the end of February. A bit of a mystery here. A pickup truck once owned by a plumbing company in Texas has somehow made its way to the front lines of Syria's civil war. A picture of the vehicle was posted online. It shows that this vehicle has been converted into an anti-aircraft weapon for Islamic militants. The owner of the plumbing company said he traded his truck in last November, assuming that the dealership would remove the decal. He also said he had no idea that it would end up in terrorist hands and has no idea how it got there. He says that his business is being flooded with nasty calls and he's quite stupefied about how this happened. He can't figure it out, either.", "How did it get there?", "It's not surprising he's getting a lot of nasty calls, and it's also not surprising that we are seeing more and more of the adaptability of militants in that area. They're using everything they can to become a weapon. And we're going to see more of it.", "Lay off the calls to that guy. He didn't do anything.", "That's why he wanted to come out and say, \"Look, I had no idea.\"", "All right. Well, back to one of our top stories. In the wake of that deadly siege at the school in Pakistan, will the country change its tactics on the Taliban, making it enemy NO. 1? Christiane Amanpour joins us live to talk about that. How did this situation happen? What does it mean about how little control the Pakistan government and military may have? That answer could lead to more U.S. involvement abroad."], "speaker": ["PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "FRANCO", "ROGEN", "BROWN", "CRAIG A. 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{"id": "CNN-324160", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2017-10-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/20/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview With California Congressman Eric Swalwell; FBI Investigating U.S. Soldiers' Deaths in Niger; Despite Video, White House Defends False Comments by Kelly; Trump: Kelly Was \"So Offended\" Congresswoman Heard Call.", "utt": ["The White House stands its ground after newly surfaced video shows Chief of Staff John Kelly's claims about a Democratic congresswoman were false. And Press Secretary Sarah Sanders calls it highly inappropriate to question Kelly because he's a four-star general. A mile away. New details tonight about the deadly ambush of U.S. troops at the heart of the Kelly controversy. CNN has learned that one of the American soldiers killed was found a mile from the scene of the attack. Lawmakers are now pressing for more information. Are they satisfied with what Defense Secretary James Mattis told them today? Brushing off Bush. The White House faces new questions about the sharp rebuke of the Trump presidency by former President George W. Bush. He denounced many of President Trump's policies and behaviors without mentioning him by name. Why does the White House now say the former president wasn't talking about the current one? And laughing it off. House Speaker Paul Ryan roasts President Trump, making light of controversies he usually doesn't address, including the president's insults, his Twitter habits, and more. Was Ryan revealing his true feelings under the guise of humor? We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "Breaking news tonight, White House efforts to quash the controversy over President Trump's condolence call to a Gold Star widow have thrown fuel on the fire instead. Newly surfaced video shows White House Chief of Staff John Kelly's allegations against the Democratic congresswoman who criticized the president's call are false. Kelly claimed that in a 2015 speech, Representative Frederica Wilson made self-serving and self- aggrandizing remarks that he called stunning, but video of the speech contradicts Kelly's claim. The White House responded by saying it's -- quote -- \"highly inappropriate\" to question a four-star general like Kelly. Also breaking this hour, new information about the ambush in Niger that killed four American soldiers, including one who was the subject of the president's condolence call, Sergeant La David Johnson. Four administration officials familiar with the investigation now tell CNN that Johnson's remains were found nearly a mile away from the central scene of the ambush. The Pentagon is trying to determine how and when Johnson became separated from his fellow soldiers. And the White House says that a remarkable speech by former President George W. Bush rebuking the Trump presidency wasn't about President Trump at all. Mr. Bush condemned bigotry, white supremacy, anti- immigrant nativism, and more in his remarks, but never named President Trump, but were clearly a takedown of his policies and actions. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters, quoting her now, \"Our understanding is that those comments were not directed toward President Trump.\" We're covering all of that, much more this hour with our guests, including Congressman Eric Swalwell of the House Intelligence Committee, and our correspondents and specialists are also standing by. But, first, let's get straight to the breaking news, the White House defending false comments by the chief of staff, John Kelly. Our White House correspondent, Sara Murray, is joining us. Sara, new twists in this now four-day-old controversy.", "That's right, Wolf. And nearly everyone who has been involved in this four-day-old controversy has expressed disgust that the death of a U.S. soldier has turned into a political battle. But that certainly didn't stop the attacks from flying today.", "The president's response to a U.S. soldier killed in Niger devolving into a political brawl. Trump taking to Twitter again overnight to blast the congresswoman who accused him of being insensitive in a condolence call when he told Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sergeant La David Johnson, that her husband knew what he got into when he signed up to serve. \"The fake news is going crazy with wacky Congresswoman Wilson, who was secretly on a very personal call and gave a total lie on content,\" Trump tweeted. What began as a question over an ambush in Niger that left four American soldiers dead now morphing into a political battle over how the commander in chief carries out his most solemn duty, comforting the families of soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Just a day earlier, White House Chief of Staff and retired Marine General John Kelly made a rare appearance in the Briefing Room. A Gold Star father himself, he lamented that a call between the commander in chief and the widow of a fallen soldier was being politicized.", "It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on that conversation, absolutely stuns me. And I thought at least that was sacred.", "Wilson says she's close with the family and was with them when the president called. But Kelly went further in his criticism Thursday, taking another swipe at the congresswoman.", "And a congresswoman stood up, and in a long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, stood up there in all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building, and how she took care of her constituents because she got the money, and she just called up President Obama, and on that phone call, he gave the money, the $20 million, to build the building, and she sat down. And we were stunned, stunned that she'd done it. Even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned.", "Wilson quickly took issue with how the chief of staff portrayed her appearance at the FBI building dedication.", "I was not even in Congress in 2009, when the money for the building was secured. So that's a lie. How dare he? However, I named the building at the behest Director Comey, with the help of Speaker Boehner, working across party lines. So he didn't tell the truth, and he needs to stop telling lies on me.", "A video of the 2015 dedication from \"The Sun-Sentinel\" doesn't back up Kelly's version of events. While the congresswoman touts her efforts in getting the building named for the fallen FBI agents, there's no discussion of securing funding for the project.", "Everyone said, that's impossible. It takes at least eight months to a year to complete the process through the House, the Senate, and to the president's office. I said, I'm a school principal, and I said, -- excuse me my French -- oh, hell no. We're going to get this done.", "And she takes pains to thank the law enforcement officials in attendance and praised the slain FBI agents being honored.", "Most men and women in law enforcement leave their homes for work knowing that there is a possibility they may not return. If I may, will all men and women and first-responders who work in law enforcement stand up, stand up now, so that we can applaud you and what you do?", "Stand up. We are proud of you. We're proud of your courage. Thank you.", "Still, the White House is standing by Kelly's criticism of the congresswoman.", "As General Kelly pointed out, if you're able to make a sacred act like honoring American heroes all about yourself, you're an empty barrel. If you don't understand that reference, I will put it a little more simply. As we say in the South, all hat, no cattle.", "Even going so far as to suggest General Kelly a military background inoculates him from questioning.", "Can he come out here and talk to us about this at some point...", "I think he has addressed that pretty thoroughly yesterday.", "Well, he was wrong yesterday in talking about getting the money.", "If you want to go after General Kelly, that's up to you, but I think that that -- if you want to get into a debate with a four-star Marine general, I think that that's something highly inappropriate.", "Amid all of the political sniping, still few answers from the administration on what exactly happened during the mission in Niger that went so badly awry.", "Mr. President, did you authorize the mission in Niger?", "Thank you.", "Now, Sarah Sanders essentially refused to entertain questions about what happened on that mission in Niger. She said the administration is going to wait until an investigation into the events that unfolded is completed -- back to you, Wolf.", "All right, Sara, thank you, Sara Murray over at the White House. We're also learning tonight new information about that deadly ambush of U.S. troops in Niger. Our global affairs correspondent, Elise Labott, is working this part of the story for us. New details and a lot of additional questions emerging.", "That's right, Wolf. There are new details about the circumstances surrounding the ISIS attack, but there are still more questions than answers, particularly how a fallen American soldier was separated from his team and left behind and why it took two more days to recover his body.", "Tonight, CNN has learned Sergeant La David Johnson was found nearly a mile away from the central scene of the ambush, according to four administration officials familiar with the early assessment. The Pentagon is still looking at the exact circumstances of how Johnson became separated. Officials say the entire team led by Green Berets has been interviewed about the last time they saw Johnson. Nigerian forces found his body 48 hours after he had become separated. Defense Secretary James Mattis was on Capitol Hill today to meet with Senator John McCain, a day after he threatened to issue subpoenas for the information on the ambush.", "I felt that we were not getting a sufficient amount of information, and we are clearing a lot of that up now.", "We can do better at communication. We can always improve on communication, and that's exactly what we will do.", "Mattis is defending his troops in the face of criticism.", "Having seen some of the news reports, the U.S. military does not leave its troops behind, and I would just ask that you not question the actions of the troops who were caught in the firefight and question whether or not they did everything they could in order to bring everyone out at once.", "U.S. officials are starting to provide a clearer picture of the circumstances surrounding the attack. The U.S. team stopped in a town on the Niger/Mali border, so the Nigerians they were working with could pick up supplies, including food and water, and then meet with village elders. Investigators believe the ambush may have started when the U.S. soldiers were back at their vehicles, perhaps even driving. With four Americans dead, the FBI is assisting Nigerian authorities with the investigation, providing technical assistance and helping to gather evidence, a routine step when U.S. citizens are killed overseas.", "The first thing they're going to do is speak with the military personnel who survived the attack. They will be analyzing every bit of electronic evidence, any kind of e-mail traffic that might have come and gone from that region, talk to all of the security forces throughout West Africa who may have information regarding the movement of the people who attacked them.", "About 1,000 U.S. troops are in Niger supporting a French-led campaign against extremists. Senator Lindsey Graham now saying the war on terror is morphing, and we could see more U.S. actions in Africa.", "We don't want the next 9/11 to come from Niger.", "At the Pentagon today, France's defense minister received full military honors and a thanks from Mattis.", "Following the ambush of the U.S. troops in Niger last week, thank you for your support.", "French fighter jets arrived on the scene to help the U.S. troops, but CNN has learned they didn't fire on the militants because they couldn't I.D. targets and risk hitting the U.S. and Nigerian forces on the ground.", "And one of the main unresolved questions is why the American soldiers were caught by surprise. U.S. intelligence deemed it unlikely at first that ISIS was in the area, which meant that these U.S. troops were not traveling in armored vehicles and did not have any air cover, Wolf.", "It's a major, major intelligence blunder that they're going to have to investigate, make sure if doesn't happen again. Elise, thank you very, very much. Let's get some more on all of this. Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell of California is joining us. He's a member of the House Intelligence Committee. Congressman, why do you believe, first of all, that the condolence call that the president placed has so -- has become so politicized over these days?", "Good evening, Wolf. First, let's just remember who these individuals are. We're talking about Bryan Black and David (sic) Wright and Jeremiah Johnson and La David Johnson. And I don't think their names have been said enough. The politics seems to dominate this. But for the families, they just deserve the peace of knowing that their loved ones are remembered for how they fought and who they were. And I think the president, if the family wasn't happy with the call that he made, call them again and express your sorrow in a better way, and this story would have been over. And it's just so sad to see, you know, Gold Star families continue to be, you know, hurt by this president when they need, you know, him to be consoling them.", "Was it appropriate, Congressman, for the White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, today to argue that John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, a retired four-star Marine Corps general, shouldn't be questioned about this because he is a retired four-star general?", "Of course he should be questioned. I'm being questioned by you right now, Wolf. America's leaders are supposed to be questioned. That's what the soldiers who, you know, fight and sacrifice for our country, that's what they're fighting for is the ability of the press and our constituents to question us. I respect John Kelly a lot. But he's not above questioning, any more than I am.", "Let's discuss the ambush that led to the deaths of those four U.S. soldiers. Was there an intelligence blunder that led to those soldiers being blindsided by 50 ISIS-affiliated terrorists who all of a sudden came up well-armed and killed these four soldiers, injured two others?", "There was a blunder somewhere, Wolf, and the families are owed an accurate explanation as to what happened to their loved ones. And I think the best way you honor the dead who have fought and served for our country is to take care of those who are still serving. And that means looking at the conditions that, you know, our troops continue to serve under. We have 1,000 now, as you reported, in Niger, and that number has grown over the past few years. And so I think, you know, Congress needs to look at the conditions that they're serving under, the terrain that they're covering, and the length of time that they're there and make sure that, you know, proper restraints are put in place. And this is a larger issue we're dealing with, Wolf. And we see it in Syria and Iraq, is that we're operating under authorities that were granted in 2001 and 2003, and we haven't revisited them. And I think we owe it to those who serve to put some restraints in place.", "Yes, I suspect, Congressman, that most Americans, they know there are thousands of U.S. troops still in Iraq and Afghanistan, now in Syria, but they don't know there are thousands of U.S. troops potentially in danger not just in Niger, but a lot of other countries in Africa right now. Are you fully briefed on what their mission is?", "We are briefed, but I don't believe that we have received, you know, consistent updates about, you know, the growing presence in places like Niger or, you know, what the cooperation is with other services and what are our -- you know, what resources do they have if they come under attack. Clearly, here, the response time was not, you know, enough. It wasn't fast enough to save their lives. Now, the culprits here, Wolf, are not, you know, the U.S. or the French. It's ISIS. They're the ones that killed these soldiers. We shouldn't forget that. But we should also do everything we can to make sure that if soldiers are serving in harm's way, that they have all of the resources and force protection around them so that something like this doesn't happen.", "Your committee, the House Intelligence Committee, is investigating the Russia -- the allegations of collusion. I want to talk a little bit about that. Listen to a comment made by the CIA director, Mike Pompeo, yesterday.", "Can you say with absolute certainty that the election results were not skewed as a result of Russian interference, especially given what we have learned just in the last few weeks? And more, importantly, are we vulnerable in 2018", "I'm not sure there could be anything -- I'm not sure there could be anything more important than that.", "OK.", "That we conducted an election that had integrity. And, yes, the intelligence community's assessment is that the Russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of the election.", "Not necessarily precise. The public report -- the report made public by the director of national intelligence, and that was released in January of this year, stated the intelligence community did not make an assessment of the impact that the Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election. That's a direct quote. So what's your reaction to the CIA director drawing a different conclusion than that report? By the way, the CIA later clarified what the conclusion of the national intelligence community was.", "His statement doesn't reflect the facts or the findings, and it also -- it actually only reflects the belief that the president has, which is, you know, not fully accepting the Russians' role in interfering in our election. And, Wolf, speaking of troops, I led a group in Congress called Future Forum. I have gone across the country with my 27 youngest House Democratic colleagues. Almost everywhere we go, we talk to young service members. A million millennials served in Iraq and Afghanistan. And what they're so concerned about what Russia did is that we are losing our freedom to choose. And that's what they're fighting for is the freedom of democracy and free and fair elections. And if we don't have unity at the top from our CIA director and our president that Russia did this, Russia will use that disunity that we're seeing right now in the United States to sharpen their swords and come at us again. And so we need unity and agreement, a basic consensus on what Russia did if we're going to protect future elections.", "Yes, the intelligence community did conclude that the Russians interfered in the U.S. presidential election. They tried to sow dissent here in the United States. They tried to undermine, hurt Hillary Clinton's campaign and indirectly help Donald Trump's campaign. But there was no bottom-line assessment on whether or not it had a direct impact on actual votes that were cast. Congressman, stand by. We're going to resume this conversation right after a quick break."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "THE SITUATION ROOM. ANNOUNCER", "BLITZER", "SARA MURRAY, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "MURRAY (voice-over)", "JOHN KELLY, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF", "MURRAY", "KELLY", "MURRAY", "REP. FREDERICA WILSON (D), FLORIDA", "MURRAY", "WILSON", "MURRAY", "WILSON", "WILSON", "MURRAY", "SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "MURRAY", "QUESTION", "HUCKABEE SANDERS", "QUESTION", "HUCKABEE SANDERS", "MURRAY", "QUESTION", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MURRAY", "BLITZER", "ELISE LABOTT, CNN FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT", "LABOTT (voice-over)", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA", "JAMES MATTIS, U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "LABOTT", "MATTIS", "LABOTT", "TOM FUENTES, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "LABOTT", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-277584", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2016-02-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/26/acd.03.html", "summary": "Rubio And Cruz Throw Simultaneous Jabs At Donald Trump In Last Night's Debate; Trump Expected To Win Handily In Most States Voting On Super Tuesday; Rubio Throws Debate Handbook Out The Window.", "utt": ["And welcome back; 11:00 p.m. here in Houston, site of the most important Republican Debate before the most important day of the campaign so far, Super Tuesday. Donald Trump went in to tonight with three straight victories, of course, and the prospect of many more. His rivals went in knowing this might be their last chance to try to stop him. It made for an explosive mix at times. Here's a quick look at some of the best moments.", "The nice part about -- you have many different plans. You'll have competition. You'll have so many different plans.", "Now he's repeating himself.", "Mr. Trump?", "No, I'm not. No, no, no. [Cheering and Whistling]", "I don't repeat myself. I don't repeat myself.", "You don't repeat yourself?", "Here's the guy who repeats himself.", "You repeat yourself every day.", "I watch -- they're talking about repeating. I watched him repeat himself five times, four weeks ago -", "And I saw you repeat yourself five times five seconds ago. [Cheering and Whistling]", "I watched him -- I watched him meltdown on the stage like I've never seen anybody --", "Mr. Trump? Let's stay focused.", "-- I thought he came out of a swimming pool.", "I said -", "Let's talk about your plan.", "I see him repeating himself every night. He says five things: everyone's dumb; he's going to make America great again; --", "Senator Rubio, please.", "-- win, win, win -", "Senator Rubio, please?", "-- he's winning in the polls (inaudible) the lines around the state. [Cheering and whistling]", "Every night, same thing.", "Are you talking about getting rid of Kim Jong-Un?", "When I say \"regime change\", I don't have to talk exactly what that means. Look, I've been involved in national security for a long time. You don't have to spell everything out; but what I'm telling you is you look for any means you can to be able to solve that problem in North Korea and in the meantime put the pressure on the Chinese and what we're doing is beginning to work against them. They are the key to being able to settle this situation.", "I'm a negotiator. I've done very well over the years through negotiation. It's very important that we do that. in all fairness, Marco is not a negotiator. I watched him meltdown and I'll tell you it was one of the saddest things I've ever seen. He's not going down -", "He thinks a Palestinian is a real estate deal.", "Wait a minute. Wait a minute. And these people may even be tougher than Chris Christie; okay?", "The Palestinians are not a real estate deal, Donald.", "Excuse me; no, no, no. A deal -", "They're not a real estate deal.", "A deal is a deal. Let me tell you, I learned a long time ago --", "A deal is not a deal when you're dealing with terrorists. Have you ever negotiated with a terrorist?", "You are not a negotiator. This guy is a choke artist and this guy is a liar. You have a combination of factors. He can't do it for the obvious reason and he can't do it because he doesn't know how to tell the truth. Other than that, I rest my case.", "There's the typical thing he does about any debate about policy --", "One at a time -", "-- he goes right for outrageous --", "Gentlemen? [Cross Talk]", "Governor Kasich, you have the floor. Governor -", "I'd like to speak to that.", "You will have a response, but I promised Governor Kasich he could respond.", "Can somebody attack me, please? [Laughter]", "Wolf, there's something -", "First of all -", "Mr. Trump?", "He's talking about the polls, I'm beating him awfully badly in the polls.", "But you're not beating Hillary. But you're not beating Hillary.", "Then if I can't - hey, if I can't beat her you're really going to get killed, aren't you? So let me ask you this, because you're really getting beaten badly. I know you're embarrassed. I know you're embarrassed, but keep fighting; keep swinging men. Swing for the fences. I know politicians, believe it or not, better than you do and it's not good.", "Oh, I believe it. No, I believe you know politicians much better than I do because for 40 years you've been funding liberal democratic politicians. And, by the way, --", "I funded you.", "You're welcome to have the check back.", "I gave you a check. I gave him a check.", "Let's be clear -- you gave me $5,000.", "He never funded me.", "And by the way, let's be clear. [Cheering and Applause]", "Donald claims to care -", "You know why? I didn't want but he sent me [cross talk] his autograph --", "Donald. Donald. Donald, I understand rules are very hard for you and it's very confusing.", "Mr. Trump, you're doing a great job. I have his book.", "Okay. [Cross Talk]", "Thank you for the book. Go ahead.", "Donald, you can get back -", "(Inaudible) a lot of fun up here tonight I have to tell you. Thank you for the book I really appreciate it.", "Donald, relax. [Laughter]", "I'm relaxed. You're the basket-case.", "Some of the moments that voters will be weighing, perhaps, and that will be looking closer at tonight as we also look ahead to Super Tuesday. We want to bring in the panel here, with a couple new faces. Debate panel member and conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt who is on the stage tonight; CNN Political Commentator Ana Navarro, as well as joining John King; Nia Malika Henderson; Amanda Carpenter; and Trump supporter, Jeffrey Lord. Hugh, it's always hard when you're on that stage, in the midst of a battle like that, to kind of get a sense of the ebb and flow of things, but what stood out to you?", "Well I'm here to drag down your ratings. [Laughter]", "That was a comment that had made Trump.", "I felt like I walked into a scene the \"Deadwood\" and all praise to Wolf.", "That's Shakespearian.", "It was Shakespearian; but all praise to Wolf Blitzer. He kept it moving forward. He got a lot of ground covered. It was very substantive. I can't tell who won, but I can tell that most of the incoming was at Donald Trump.", "Right.", "It really was a fuselage. So I don't know if he withstood it and grows stronger or if he bleeds out as a result; but it was just incoming after incoming.", "We have seen, Ana Navarro, in Nevada that those who made up their minds closer to election day, that there was some movement there from Marco Rubio. Does this - does tonight change anything, you think, in voters' minds?", "Look, I think what we'll know in four or five days with Super Tuesday occurs. I think Rubio had a very good debate today. He did what he had not done until tonight. He finally took off the gloves. He finally took on Donald Trump. I think there was a great idea. I'm very happy he did it because he's been fighting for number two with Ted Cruz for the longest time and it's gotten awfully exhausting and awfully small. I think if he needs -- he needs to elevate himself. It needs to be by taking on the frontrunner; and he came in tonight with the intent of getting under Donald Trump's skin. One of the things that I noticed was he didn't follow the rules. You know, we saw that Jeb Bush was not effective in landing blows on Donald Trump because he kept following the rules. Marco today interrupted. Marco would not let himself be shut down by Donald Trump. I will tell you, you know, I'm from Miami, so I got a lot of experience with fast talking shouting matches. I had a hard time following these fast talking shouting matches tonight.", "Let's show one more exchange that Rubio had with Trump; let's listen in.", "Senator Rubio, you accused Senator Cruz in a previous debate of lying when he said that you said one thing in Spanish and another one in English. So in what sense did he lie?", "Because it is not true that I'm not going to get rid of DOCA; I am going to get rid of DOCA. In the Spanish interview -- you just read out the transcript in Spanish. I said it will have to end at some point. That point will be when I eliminate the executive order and the people who they have those permits, when expire they will not be allowed to renew it and new people will not be able to apply. In fact, I don't even think we should be taking new enrollees in the program now. That is how the program ends and how you wind it down, is you allow the people who are on it, when the program expires, they cannot renew it and it goes away. But I will cancel the executive order as soon as I take it - as soon as I step foot into the oval office.", "I have to say, he lies this time. He lied, 100-percent. 100- percent.", "Senator -", "You lied about the Polish worker -", "Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah; 38 years ago.", "You lied that there was a Trump University.", "38 years ago.", "Oh, you lied 38 years ago. I guess there's a statute of limitations on lies.", "How much -- I mean, sometimes when you're on a stage you catch things that don't necessarily come out on camera. The -- obviously it felt like it must have been very tense up there on that stage. It felt like bristling at times.", "It was extremely hot, hotter than the previous three I've done. Much hotter than I expect in March. I do believe that Marco Rubio looked like he swallowed the canary. I think he got exactly what he thought he was going to get the red wedding from \"Game of Thrones.\" Ted Cruz - [Laughter]", "Ted Cruz looked like he got what he wanted. Donald Trump, of course, he's a master at this stuff and I defer to the people who watched it. He was not ruffled but he was under fire. I mean, he was having to go back and forth and so I praise to him as well.", "Yeah; the thing that's really interesting is that -- we talked before about how Donald Trump's brand is all about winning, all about winning, but this is the first night I think you really see him get rattled by a number of questions that threaten his ability to win in a general election. Cruz went very deliberately at that question saying hey, you donated money to the Clinton Foundation. We want to make an issue of the Clinton Global Foundation in the general election. Donald Trump hurts your ability to do that and he did that systematically, over and over again. So if the combination of attacks from Rubio and Cruz can just put that question mark in people's minds, Republicans want nothing more than to just win after losing the White House for two cycles. If people are worried that Donald Trump will not win, that's the beginning of Donald Trump going down.", "I think one of the things that's interesting, we keep talking about brands, John did and then Amanda there, what is Marco Rubio's brand? It's been a little bit uncertain coming in to this. He hasn't really made an effective emotional case for his candidacy; it always sounded like talking points about him being the consensus candidate or being able to expand the party. Is -- you know, sort of the brand now, him as the Trump- slayer, and is that enough to kind of peel voters away from Donald Trump, to peel voters away from Ted Cruz? I think there's still some questions about how he makes the case that he should be president and maybe it's not enough just that he's able to take on Donald Trump.", "And then you put the drama of tonight into the context of where we are in the race.", "Right.", "There's no question, Donald Trump came under aggressive, sustained attack for a longer period of time than in any other debate. To Amanda's point, whether he was rattled or certainly surprised that it kept coming because in past debates there's been a few exchanges and then off they went to something else. The question is, what's the impact.", "Yes.", "And right now Ted Cruz is leading in Texas and Donald Trump is leading in ten of the other 11 states that vote for Republicans on Tuesday, in most of them by margins that are unlikely, even if he loses some ground because of tonight, you know, -- the question is -- my question is, Rubio has to win Florida, which we have to wait for. Kasich, if he stays in, has to win in Ohio which we have to wait for. So on Tuesday, I mean, I guess Rubio is coming in second just about everywhere. It looks like it will be Cruz/Trump in Texas. That's probably the best Rubio can hope for but --", "I think he needs to move to one of those states, the one that is the most winnable. He needs to spend the next four days there, because I don't know how you get to March 15th with -", "Without a win.", "-- 15 contests having gone through and you have nothing to show but silver and bronze medals for it.", "I just have a question: Rubio had, in the exit polls, the closing momentum over a week. Is momentum that closes a state by state thing? I'll ask John King, the expert on this, is that limited to Nevada or does that actually transfer to other states when you have closing momentum?", "No; I think there's no question that Rubio's standing has improved in the national polls, as well as in the state-by-state. So, obviously, if you're interstate, the problem with Rubio is we're out of the single state period of the campaign, where you can go to Nevada for a couple of days or you can camp out in Iowa or you can be in New Hampshire. Now, to Ana's point, if he wants to win one, he's going to have to pick one and spend more of his time there; and I don't know if any of them are within reach.", "Which would be should he pick?", "The one thing - well, you could make an argument for Virginia. You could make an argument for Vermont or Massachusetts, go for the smaller states, more moderate if he wanted to do that.", "Marco, are you listening to this?", "But Trump is well ahead in all these states right now. Only today did he start buying advertising. I do think the one thing Rubio did tonight is, if you have skeptical donors, can you really wait until the middle of March to get a win? Going aggressively, so aggressively after Trump will calm the donor class down a little bit, to say, okay, if he gets an opening he seems now better prepared to get it, but Trump is prohibitively ahead in all of these states and he has an early start. It's hard to beat.", "Even if he wins one or two states on -- on Tuesday, is that even really enough? I mean, you've got to -- you sort of sweep from Trump or a split with Cruz. If he wins Georgia or Virginia, is that enough?", "We've got to take a -- I want to toss it back to Jake Tapper who is standing by and then we'll come back; Jake?", "Thanks, Anderson. Let's stay here with CNN Political Commentator Michael Smerconish and our Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger. One of the interesting moments of the night came when Dana Bash, and then Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, trying to get Donald Trump to be more specific about what exactly he thinks should replace Obamacare, or more specifically what his position on health care is. Here's a brief excerpt.", "On Obamacare, both Donald and I say we want to end it but for very different reasons. I want to end it because it's goes too far; it's killed millions of jobs; and it's hurting people's health care. Donald wants to end it because it doesn't go nearly far enough. And what was amazing in that exchange that was missing is for decades Donald has been advocating socialized medicine. What he said is the government should pay for everyone's health care and, in fact, a couple of debates ago he said if you don't support socialized health care, you're heartless. Now, liberal democrats have been saying that for years. [Applause and Whistling]", "I do not want socialized medicine, just so you understand. He goes around saying oh, he wants it. I do not want socialized medicine.", "Donald, true or false; you said the government should pay for everybody's health care?", "That's false.", "You've never said that?", "NO, I said it worked in a couple of countries.", "You've never stood on this debate stage and said it works great in Canada and Scotland and we should do I there?", "No, I did not. No, I did not.", "Did you say if you want people to die on the streets, if you don't support socialized health care you have no heart?", "Correct, I will not let people die on the streets if I'm president -", "Have you said you were a liberal on health care?", "Excuse me; let me talk.", "Talk away. Explain your plan, please.", "My plan is very simple. I will not -- we're going to have private health care but I will not allow people to die on the sidewalks and the streets of our country if I'm president. You may let it and you may be fine with it; I'm not fine here.", "So is the government paying for everyone's healthcare?", "We're going to take people and --", "Yes or no; just answer the question.", "Excuse me; we are going to take those people and those people are going to be serviced by doctors and hospitals. We're going to make great deals on it but we're not going to let them die in the streets.", "It seems to me that the Trump health care plan is removing state barriers so that insurance companies can all compete within states, some sort of bare minimum of Medicaid that already exists so people don't die in the streets. Perhaps he would expand it, whatever that means, and that the government would pay, for and in addition, the government would cut better deals with the pharmaceutical companies. What am I missing? Is there anything more?", "No, and I think that's what Dana Bash was kind of pushing on because Trump's solution really seems to be, as he said, getting rid of the lines around the states, allowing health insurance to be sold across state lines, but when you push and when Cruz tried to push about socialized medicine, beyond what we have now, Medicaid, it -- he didn't -- he -- he didn't get specific. What he did was he turned it around, which Trump is really good at doing, and said I don't want people to die in the streets and who can be against that? Nobody can be against that. So it was -- nobody touched him on it although it did to me, leave you wondering where -- where are the specifics in this. I mean, everybody else has got a 6-point plan and a 5-point plan and it's -- Trump's message is I'm going to make it work better for you. Obamacare is a failure. It's costing a lot of money. It's not working. Your premiums are going up. I'm going to fix it and privatize it, but what's the answer.", "He's also said contradictory things about the individual mandate -", "Right.", "-- and, Jake, I couldn't help but think, as I watched each of them on the stage down there, talking about their desire to end the individual mandate these are five candidates who in every other circumstance are trumpeting personal responsibility. Stop and think about it. When it comes to insurance, what they're really saying is when it comes to your health insurance we're going to relieve you of the responsibility of making sure that you cover yourself, which I find this to be a huge contradiction and one that will be attenuated in the Fall.", "Although it was pointed out by Dana or Wolf, I believe, that when Governor Kasich was a member of Congress, back when it was Republican wisdom to support the individual heritage -", "Heritage, right.", "-- and the Heritage Foundation -", "Right.", "-- behind it -- this was at a time by the way, when the Clintons, Bill and Hillary, were pushing employer mandate.", "Right.", "The Republican position was individual mandate, personal responsibility, he did agree with that at the time.", "Absolute; and the origin, many would say, of the Affordable Care Act going back to Romney-care, before that going back to the Heritage Foundation when it rose out of this conservative think-tank, the idea for a very conservative principle, which is, people out to take care of themselves so that they're not showing up in an ER and burdening society, but that's gotten lost on the stage.", "It's weird because I would think it would be a republican principle because it's against freeloaders --", "Correct.", "-- people who can afford healthcare -", "That's my point, but you didn't hear that.", "Well you don't hear it among Republicans at all -", "Right.", "-- even though it was Republican wisdom. I know that you're somebody who thinks Governor Kasich doesn't get enough attention from the media. So why don't you tell me what you thought his strongest moments were this evening?", "Great! I think he distinguished himself, -- the uglier that it got in the center of that stage tonight, I think the better that he looks because he doesn't play that game; and you could make the same observation about Ben Carson, but I don't think that Carson has any conceivable path. Strong moments for John Kasich tonight would include his responses pertaining to Apple, and the idea of what a commander-in-chief and a president should do in a circumstance like that. I think the words to the effect of lock everybody in that room and you're not coming out until you iron-out a solution. I also thought when he was pressed on the religious liberty questions, and he essentially said, Jake, bake the cupcake. I'm from religious liberty and protecting religious liberty when we're talking about religious institutions, but if it's commerce then you're the wedding planner or whatever, you've got to do your job.", "You know, I was talking to some Kasich people today and some of them urged him to actually take on Donald Trump a little bit this evening.", "No, he wouldn't do it.", "And he wouldn't go near it and I think just in texting with a bunch of republicans tonight, there was some sense among republicans, hey, why did you let those two guys out there alone. You kind of wimped out on us. You needed to take on Trump, particularly because you're running, by the way, and Super Tuesday -", "Yes.", "-- and there was a sense from republicans that Kasich really didn't perform the way he should have, like Rubio, like Cruz, --", "I disagree.", "-- and taking an opportunity to actually take on -- take on Trump.", "It distinguishes him; it sets him apart.", "I will say though, having been in Washington for a long time, Congressman Kasich, Congressman Kasich -", "Right.", "-- not governor. If Congressman had been asked hey, is waste, fraud and abuse enough to solve the debt problem -", "Exactly!", "-- he would have unloaded with a string of epitaphs about how that was nonsense, --", "Of course.", "-- but that John Kasich -- that's 20 years ago.", "Who prides himself balancing the budget, etc.", "Yes.", "The Government wasn't in the red. There wasn't waste, fraud and abuse.", "I got it. Anderson, back to you.", "Exactly.", "Jake, we're going to continue the discussion here; we're to take a quick break though. 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{"id": "CNN-320885", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2017-09-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/09/ndaysat.03.html", "summary": "Hurricane Batters Cuba As It Barrels Towards Florida", "utt": ["And if you are just joining us, thank you so much for being with us. I'm Christi Paul here in Atlanta. We appreciate your company. Victor Blackwell is in the thick of it in Miami this morning. Hurricane Irma taking its first swipe at Florida. Victor, good morning to you. How are you doing?", "We're good. We're good. A little windy, a little rainy, but compared to what's coming to Florida, this is crystal clear perfect weather because it's going to get really bad. It's going to happen quickly. The breaking news this morning, very powerful Category 4 hurricane on a new track this morning and it's headed this way, of course, we're talking Irma. This deadly storm is scheduled to make landfall in the Florida Keys sometime early hours on Sunday. The latest track now puts the West Coast of Florida in line for much of what the worst of Irma will bring. We're talking from Fort Myers through Sarasota, St. Petersburg, Tampa as well. Florida's governor, the mayors across this state are pleading with people who are still in evacuation zones. Those mandatory evacuation zones to get out and get out now. Hundreds of people, thousands of people across the state in fact have headed to county shelters. And some people spent the night on the west coast sleeping in their cars on the side of the road waiting to get into a shelter because this is what is coming. Look at this. Irma beating up on Cuba. There are, I mean, feet of water in some places. That's not an exaggeration, considering what our Patrick Oppmann who is there on the north coast has been showing us, 160-mile-per-hour winds. Broke the equipment there that records the wind speed on the island. You know, we are tracking Irma across Florida. We've got reporters, live from Miami Beach to Key Largo, Fort Myers, all across the Caribbean as well. Let's go first with the National Hurricane Center that updated advisory on the strength and the track of Irma. Let's go to Chad Myers in the weather center. The changes we've seen overnight -- because a lot of people went to sleep, and it was a Category 5, and it was moving towards the west coast. We've seen some changes overnight, Chad. Get us all up to date.", "Victor, the storm made contact with Cuba overnight and that's the biggest change to anything here. The new models coming out later this morning, we'll have to deal with a Category 4, but only 130 miles per hour, compared to 155, which was the number at 5:00 this morning. So, things have really improved for the U.S. They have not improved for Cuba. The northern coast of Cuba getting pounded by this storm. Also, the Cuban keys right through here. And our Patrick Oppmann which is right there in the eye wall, picking up those winds of 130. The radar now picking up the storm. It is raining in Key West all the way up into Key Largo and into Miami. We're going to see that rain continue across the everglades. It's going to be a little hard still to get out of Miami today, but the roads are clear. I just checked traffic. There's a lot less traffic today than there's been the past couple days. Forecasters feel for this to regain strength. The pressure is still lower than the pressure of Harvey and that's what we saw in Texas, of course. We talk about the storm paralleling the coast of West Coast Florida and how the east coast is not in as big of trouble. But, you know what, this is the bad side the storm. We call that the dirty side of the storm. We have to add the movement of the storm with the wind field. And so as the winds pour on shore here, you're not out of the woods by any means, Ocala, Leesburg, all the way up to the east coast from Port Jupiter, to anywhere all the way to Daytona Beach all the way down south into Miami because you're on the wrong side. You're on the bad side of the storm also causing significant storm surge. Now let me just use a different term, flooding. Do you get that? Storm surge is water that will kill you. It is water that is 8 to 12 feet above sea level and your house, if you live the ocean, is not. That's what storm surge is. It is the push of the water, the pull of the water by the load and the difference of pressure. And as it pushes onshore, that water will get to Everglades. It will get to you, Naples. It will get to you Fort Myers, and we are concerned about your storm surge because the fatalities in water are greater than the fatalities in wind. Dr. Michael Brennan from the National Hurricane Center joins me now. Thank you so much for joining me. I know you guys are busy down there. Talk us through the 8:00 a.m. update.", "Sure. While you can see the eye of Irma here on the radar from Key West skirting the north coast of Cuba. That interaction with land has brought the peak winds down a little bit, but I don't want people to focus on that because the hazards from Irma are just now arriving through the Florida Keys in South Florida. These outer rain bands are beginning to arrive so conditions are deteriorating now and we expect Irma to re-strengthen as it moves over these very warm waters in the Florida straight. It's going to have about 12 or maybe even 18 hours over the water before it reaches the Keys and then perhaps even a little more time over water after it passes the Keys before it finally moves inland somewhere along the west coast of Florida during late in the day on Sunday or Sunday night. So, a very dangerous situation particularly for the Keys, the Florida West Coast, all the way from Tampa Bay southwards to Naples. They could see the core of the major hurricane, and as you were just talking about that life-threatening storm surge. The gulf coast of Florida is particularly sensitive to storm surge. It's very high inundation values that extend quite a way inland. So that's a big concern of ours today.", "The topography of the water across Southwest Florida, the bathymetry or the underwater topography is different on the southwest side than on the east side. Tell us how that will affect surge even into the everglades, Doctor?", "Right, yes, the bathymetry and the coastal shelf on the gulf side is very shallow. As you walk out into the water, the water doesn't get deep very fast. So, all of that water that's being pushed by the hurricane so as Irma may come up like this. The northwesterly winds on the back side of it are going to drive that water and it piles up and can go really far inland in the Naples area. It can go up these rivers and creeks near Fort Myers, and up into the bays. So, it can affect millions of people are at risk of life-threatening storm surge in these areas. There's still is a significant storm surge risk on the southeast coast as well, particularly Miami-Dade County along the westside of Biscayne Bay and as well as in the Florida Keys. They are all at risk of this life-threatening surge event.", "Let's shift our attention from Boca down to Miami and even to Homestead, what are the new updates for that as the storm has shifted 20 miles to the west, what are your thought processes there?", "Well, the surge threat is still there. We could still see 5 to 10 feet of inundation all the way from Boca down around the southern tip of the peninsula. Now on the east coast as you mentioned, the storm surge threat doesn't extend as far inland especially in Palm Beach and Broward Counties. But here in Miami-Dade, it goes inland and a lot farther along Biscayne Bay. So, there's lots of people at risk that have been asked to evacuate for storm surge and that storm surge throughout is going to crepe northward along the gulf coast and Atlantic coast of Florida as we go through Sunday and even into Monday.", "I have not many seconds left. I am a little bit concerned, Doctor, that we flood the Everglades with 12 feet of water, and Miami, let's say, West Kendall, can flood from the back side. Are you looking at that at all?", "Yes, there is the potential for that. That's generally for a slower moving storm that would be the biggest threat for that type of flooding. But there's going to be a lot of water with the storm, a lot of rainfall. There's going to be a lot of flooding problems just in general in the Florida peninsula either from storm surge and/or the combination of very heavy rain. So, everybody wants to keep an eye out for that.", "Thank you, Doctor. Also, some displaced livestock, wildlife, in particular, alligators, I don't like wildlife anyway. Doctor, thank you very much. We'll talk to you at 11:00. People, this is the real deal. This truly is. If you are in Key West, you need to go. This could be 140-mile-per-hour storm knocking down the entire city. I was married there. I love Key West. I love how it looks, but this is the real deal -- Victor.", "Yes, Chad. There echoing what we heard from the National Weather Service out of the Keys that this is as real as it gets. Take all of these warnings seriously. Chad Myers from the CNN Weather Center. Thank you so much. We've got live pictures comes in from Orlando. Again, what is hitting South Florida in a few hours will be hitting Central Florida later in the day on Sunday. So, we're seeing a water distribution center here. There have been difficulties getting bottled water across the state. And we know that this is one of the options here for people who are trying to get some water up in Orlando. Thanks to our affiliates for brings us that. Let's now go to Cuba, which is bearing the brunt of Hurricane Irma, has overnight. CNN's Patrick Oppmann is there on the north coast. Patrick, I want you to give us an update on what you're seeing there. But also leaning on your years of living in Cuba, being based there. Your fears for the island, considering the conditions you're seeing as Irma passes.", "You know, it's really just astounding as the light comes up, and you see the damage where we are and this is very concerning hurricane because I've covered a number here and Cuba always seems to miss the bullet, somewhat, they got it dead on last night. And the effects are being felt as far away as Havana and throughout the island and until, the waters recede, because right now, we're on the second floor of a house, five or six feet of water. Most of the houses in this region are single story houses, sometimes with wooden roofs. Sorry, there's another wind gust in here. It's not done yet. But some of the houses you see look like they're going to fall over on a good day. I don't know how they survived. You know, if we would have stayed on the first floor last night, we would have drowned. Most of the people who did not evacuate lived on the first floor of their homes. I don't know how they survived the night, frankly. I know people told me they were going to stay. I think they regretted that decision. Very few people expected Cuba would get the beating it took, but you look around this town, most of it is underwater. There are trees down. We are continuing to see pieces of roofs fly off as the wind picks up. So, a very distressing scene. We won't have the full picture probably for several days until the waters go down and people come up to see their homes -- The family who hosted us, I'll tell you, when they came out a little while ago, they had tears in their eyes. They're looking out at their home, their town, the place they build their whole lives and it's just a tragic scene.", "All right. As the sun comes up, Patrick Oppmann, thank you so much. We'll see more of the damage it's caused there. And hopefully, it's nothing like we saw across the eastern section of the Caribbean. Patrick Oppmann, again, thank you so much. Let's go to Meteorologist Derek Van Dam in Miami Beach with more on the specific threat from Irma and what it poses to the Keys. Derek, the last time I saw you, it was getting pretty dangerous out there on the beach. The wind really picking up there. What are the conditions like where you are now?", "Well, they continue to deteriorate, as one would imagine. You know, you describ3ed it really well at the top of the hour, how each hour, as we stand out in these conditions, the winds become stronger and sustained for longer. We get these feeder bands that come in, the conditions deteriorate in a matter of seconds. Right now, we are on the South Beach. And if you've been on the South Beach on a Saturday morning, you know that this beach would be crowded. I got the pick of the litter here. No one to talk to because everyone has heeded the warnings to evacuate. The National Weather Service just tweeted from the Miami Bureau that the international airport here had an official wind gust of 58 miles per hour. Where I'm standing we're averaging 35 to 45 miles per hour. It's picking up sand and pelting us in the face. It's also getting a bit tricky to stand because the wind can be so gusty at times and really take your body along with it. I want to show you just quickly, because I want to shelter our camera from the storm that continues to come in. But look to the shore here, you can see that this water is really starting to pick up. Waves earlier, one to three feet, I would say anywhere from three to upwards of five feet and the surge is definitely starting to press in. So, I would say the National Hurricane Center, there's inundation forecasts of five to ten feet, spot on. Because we are getting that push of Atlantic water, starting to move in as the eye wall approaches closer and closer to us here. There was a significant weather advisory for central and southern Miami-Dade County. The winds picking up tropical force winds officially. That means any of these palm trees with coconuts or perhaps their palms leaves could be flying debris. That could also mean life-threatening conditions as some of that debris makes its way down to Ocean Drive, for instance. Fortunately, everyone's heeded the warning to evacuate. Really, there is just no one out right now with the exception of my team and I -- Victor.", "All right. Derek Van Dam there for us in South Beach in Miami, Derek, thank you so much. Stand by. We'll get back to you later this morning. I want to go now to the mayor of Naples on the west coast, Bill Barnett. Mr. Mayor, thanks for making time for us. Increasingly, with the advisories we've seen from the National Hurricane Center, about the path of the storm have crept west. Now putting your city and your constituents if greater danger, how are you preparing?", "Well, thank you, Victor and good morning. We are about as prepared as we can possibly be and we've been doing that now for probably the last six days. And our emergency -- our response -- you know, first responders and emergency services, all our city staff, you know, we're hunkered down and we're watching and we're waiting. And I think that I'm certainly -- that it certainly is not a concern of mine of whether the city has done their preparation, as well as the county, as well as Collier County. So, for that aspect, fine. What we're going to get, you know, as well as I do, and I'm watching you, I've been watching network, and you know, Cuba has certainly slowed it down. I feel bad for those poor folks. But, you know, we'll just -- as this -- as this wears on, we'll be better prepared to give you right up to the minute updates.", "So, let's talk about evacuations. Are there mandatory evacuations there in your city? And how many people, rough estimate, are heeding those, or deciding to stay exactly where they are?", "Well, thank you for that question. They have been evac -- we are in the mandatory evacuation as of yesterday at 2:00 p.m., but I will tell you that the residents of the city of Naples pretty much listened to what I was saying and others were saying earlier in the week, and many, many, many of them have evacuated. The town is very, very quiet, and I will tell you, you know, because we are seasonal, many of our winter residents are gone anyway. You know, they don't normally come back until October or November. So, the attitude here was, especially after Harvey, was they took this very, very seriously and they did evacuate. And so, you don't -- from my understanding, it's someone I just spoke to on the road on I-75 said there's very little traffic this morning. So, I think that was a good thing and getting that warning out early worked very well.", "Absolutely. Mayor Barnett of Naples, Florida, thank you so much for being with us. We'll check back throughout the day and you, sir, stay safe. The mayor makes a good point there that much of South Florida is seasonal. Hundreds of thousands of people who come down for vacations, have homes here, their season typically is Thanksgiving to Easter, roughly. So many of those people are not here. A lot of people who live here, the truth is, though, the residents here many of them have never lived through a storm like Irma. What is coming here. 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{"id": "CNN-256559", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2015-06-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/03/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "Jim Bob, Michelle Duggar Speak Out About Familial Sexual Abuse Scandal. ", "utt": ["This is CNN Breaking News.", "And the breaking news is, the Duggars finally speak out.", "He said he was just curious about girls and he had gone in and just basically touched them over their clothes while they were sleeping.", "Well, we watched it all so you don't have to. This is CNN Tonight. I'm Don Lemon. I want you to listen to what Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar told Fox News.", "Josh has done some very bad things and he's very sorry.", "But what about what they didn't say? Can they save their show and their finally. Plus, Caitlyn Jenner.", "Put it this way, I'm the new normal.", "Is he, with a $500 million jackpot on the line. Family therapists debate whether she did the right thing. We'll talk about all of that. But I want straight to the Duggar family finally breaking their silence tonight. Joining me now (inaudible) is Nischelle Turner, Entertainment Tonight host and CNN contributor, Brian Stelter, CNN senior media correspondent. Thank you all for joining us. How do you think the Duggar fans will react to this Brian Stelter?", "I think for some fans this is going to sound like a really significant apology. But to many people this was minimizing something that was very horrific. What we heard tonight from the parents was that four of the victims were Josh Duggars' sisters. It's hard to even say out loud. The Duggars talked about how some of the inappropriate touching, the improper touching was above the clothes and some under the clothes. One of the other victims -- the other victim was a baby sitter. The idea they call this improper touching they continue to emphasize this was not rape in the words of Jim Bob. It's going to come across to a lot of people like they're trying to downplay the significance of this.", "Nischelle.", "It certainly came across that way to me, watching this tonight, Don. I mean, there were a lot of things that concerned me. Throughout this interview, I mean, I thought that Jim Bob started off with some pretty strict talking points from the beginning of this interview and it continued them throughout. But like Brian mentioned there are some of the things that he said like, well, this is not like it was rape or anything that was very concerning. Then they did keep making of the fact that, well, he touched them while they were sleeping and touched them over their clothes. Well, that doesn't make it better and that makes it even creepier.", "Yes.", "If you're fondling people while they're sleeping. And you know, to try to make excuses that they didn't even know that this was going on and he came to them. I mean, it's all very concerning now. I will say, you know, hearing some of the steps that they did take, I did think were appropriate, although they were far removed, but I did think that they did some of the things. And I do have to say if we're being fair, it is a very tough thing for them to have to deal with when you're talking about your children.", "Yes.", "Both, you know, two sides of your children.", "Well, let's talk about some of the safeguards they say they put in place. Listen.", "When you went to bed at night during that time frame, were you scared? Were you worried? You know, he's 14, he's having this problem. What's going to happen when we go to sleep?", "Right. Nothing ever happened like that again in the girl's bedrooms after that.", "OK.", "OK. So, we had safeguards that, protected them from that. But there was another incident where -- two different incidents where girls were like laying on the couch and it was a -- and he had touched over the couch and actually touched the breast while they were sleep. And so, yes, over the clothes. And so, it was a very difficult situation. But as we talked to other parents and different ones since then, a lot of families have said that they've had similar things happen in their families.", "Nischelle, what's your reaction?", "Well, first of all, I just say over and over again in my head, deflect, deflect, deflect and that's what I felt was going on a lot when he was talking there. I mean, then to bring up the fact that while other people say the same thing goes on in their homes. What? I really think that there was a healthy dose of denial going on throughout this interview there. And I was -- I came away very confused and I came away with a lot more questions than I did answers about the time line and about how long it took. And actually how many people, how many girls there were because I kept hearing different numbers. And it just was very confusing and very disappointing. Because I feel like when people sit down for an interview like this at no-holds- barred tell-all, I really want to hear them to be a little contrite. And when he talked about how, oh, my family was attacked and we may sue this people over releasing of due in the records because they did us wronged and we were wronged. I don't know, I have a hard time wrapping my brain around that.", "Yes.", "Do you think that we just said that we are getting important perspective. It's been almost two weeks since the scandal broke. We barely heard from the parents. At least, finally, we are hearing from them.", "That's true.", "That is valuable. The time they were most fired up, maybe even most emotional, was when they were talking about the illegal release of the juvenile records. They even suggested they may sue the people that released these records, maybe the police chief or the city. That is not worthy because that means this could go on for months or years.", "Right.", "It's hard to bring legal action. But they did seem more bothered in some ways. They suggested they were going to become advocates to ensure other juveniles are not hurt this way, but not so much on the molestation issue.", "I found it interesting that when Megyn Kelly asks them if it was a selfish choice between the daughter's and the son and they, you know, to protect their daughters and their son. Listen.", "It feels at all like a selfish choice, I have to protect my daughters at the expense of my son or vice versa?", "You know, I think it's a situation where we felt like our son's heart had gone astray. I think Jesus shared a story about He had 100 sheep and one went astray. And there He was he took care of the 99 then also went after the one who went astray. And so as parents we still love Josh and we love the other ones that we're going to protect those that are in our hands but also we're going to make sure that Josh doesn't make any wrong choices.", "It doesn't mean that you're not a good shepherd. Jesus was a good shepherd but He went after that one that went astray. And so, He think as parents, we were trying to do the best thing we knew how to help this one and protect these and I feel like, through that, as we came to that point where, you know, Josh shared at, you know, improperly touching the young one, we were devastated and we said, we've got to send him out of the home. He's got to go.", "Let's talk more now. I want to bring in the woman who were herself has suffered sexual abuse. She's a survivor. She is Erin Merryn, and she was abused at age 6 and went on to find -- to found, excuse me, Erin's Law, which requires public schools to have a program to prevent child sexual abuse. She's the author of \"An Unimaginable Act\" and she has met the Duggars at the child abuse conference last year. She also worked with them. She went to meet with them. She joins me now. And also, family psychologist John Caffaro, author of \"Sibling Abuse Trauma.\" So, you heard about what they say about the safeguards put in place, Erin, and she said, you know, other people have told me that this happened in their homes. What do you make of that?", "I would just say, you know, from listening to it, first and foremost, you know, any parent listening to this, if this ever happens, you remove the child from your home immediately. You know, I don't care how much therapy you get, I don't care if you're sending away to a juvenile home for a year, and they're sent back home, if this happens in a home and it's a juvenile, you remove them immediately. You can't put that risk. There is a risk there. And that's what we can all learn from what happened with the Duggars. Every parent listening, that is a risk. Do not take that risk. Remove them from the home. Find another place for them to be.", "You were upset about this new police report. Why is that?", "I just think it's outrageous. Why did this police department have to disclose this? What was the purpose and intention behind it? What was the motivation? You know, this was a juvenile record. Yes, he committed a crime. But what we're doing to these girls all over again, re-victimizing them, it's outrageous. And you what, honestly, I think there should be some -- held accountable for what they did. What this police department did is unacceptable.", "Do you agree with that John?", "It's not fair to this family.", "Do you think that's more important than what happened to the family? The release of the information?", "It's difficult to make a distinction between those two. But I do agree with your guest that the victim's safety and the victim's need too are really paramount. And we haven't heard nearly as much about them as we have about Josh or about the family.", "John, Michelle stressed that Josh made a bad choice. Do you view this as a choice, is it a behavior or is it a crime?", "I view it, as a psychologist, as a behavior, as a highly maladaptive behavior. But one that's contingent, as many behaviors on environmental as well as sort of, you know, internal factors. We don't know nearly as much about the offender as we like. But the environment that he was raised in, the family is a key determinant here in terms of how this happened and how it was allowed to happen over time.", "Yes. On that day listen to what they talk about this issue.", "Hello and he was like, what's wrong? Where is -- why is daddy and Josh leaving? And as we're all leaving the next day and for days and days I was saying, you know, Josh has done some very bad things and he's very sorry.", "Yes. But I was thankful and the ray of hope was that Josh had come and told us. And his heart was still soft because we wouldn't have known about any of these things if he didn't tell us.", "All of it you learned from Josh?", "And actually none of the victims knew about this or understood what he had done.", "What about that Jim Bob, as a parent, did you feel guilty when you learned that his behavior had continued and others girls in the house had become victims?", "Yes. Yes. We, I think as parents, you feel like a failure when one of your kids does something wrong.", "Erin, the victims didn't know?", "No. I mean, according to them, they said they were asleep and I personally, from my own experience, both times when I was abused, it happened while I was sleeping, but I woke up. So, I don't know, you know, how this -- you know, I wasn't there. I don't know how this happened. But I woke up. Obviously he's saying, you know, he went to his parents and told. But I would describe that behavior of what he did as grooming. It's a grooming process, you know, predators use when they sexually abuse someone. It's a process they use to see if they can get away with it. He obviously wants to told his parents. But other predators out there will use it to see how far they can go before they get caught.", "John, do you believe the victims didn't know?", "Well, it's likely that, especially if it was happening over the course of months or even years that had some point the victims knew it was happening. As your guest is saying, victims oftentimes can pretend to be asleep as a way to both protecting the offender and also just protecting the family environment from this, you know, horrible event. But that's not necessarily a good indicator either in terms of the victim's recovery. Children who have to pretend something isn't happening when it is, often suffer dire consequences later from that kind behavior.", "So, John, I want to ask you this. Because every doctor that I've had on have spoken about this, will tell you that those behaviors, that behavior is you say learned behavior. He was in a very suppressed environment sexually. Where would he learn those behaviors from if they hadn't been presented to him in the past or before?", "You're talking about Josh?", "Yes.", "Yes. Well, it's an interesting question. The evidence is pretty clear on this point that the earlier an analyst the offender becomes known, the more likely it is that they were actually traumatized themselves. It's one of the key questions I've had about this case is whether or not Josh has a history of sexual traumatization or any sort of traumatization that preceded the molest of these girls. The fact that he was -- it seems like about 14 maybe, which is when it first became known, that doesn't necessarily mean that's when it first began. It may be when he first confessed to the event. But again, we need to know from the victims what really happened. But that suggests that there might indeed be a history of traumatization in this boy's life.", "Thank you for answering that. Erin, I want to ask you. I know that this has been personal for you in a sense because you have been speaking to Michelle. Do you care to share any of your conversation or how she's doing or what she has shared with you or what you have share with her?", "Well, I just share would her, you know, so many people are throwing stones at this family and being a survivor of sexual abuse, and many would think that, you know, I'd want to throw stones at them too and say, what you did was wrong. It's not my place to judge them. And basically what I've been encouraging her is, Michelle, what can you do now from this situation? What can you learn from this and do something good out of it? You know how can you educate others? And I know she told in the interview, she brought up Erin's Law. And how she is trying to help me get it introduced in other states. And so, obviously that was edited out. But like I said, I've encouraged her you need to do something good out of this negative event. You know, yes, I feel that they made some mistakes, not going to the authorities immediately, allowing their son to be back into this home. But at the same I ask parents out there that are listening, put yourself in their shoes. What if this was your son? You know, how would you handle this? No one prepares for that. We prepare for stranger danger to hurt our kids, not somebody we love and trust. And look at the police officer that they went to, look at the pedophile he was with pornography. These people are somebody we know and trust. 93 percent of the time it is people we know and trust. Not that stranger danger we warn so much about. So, parents listening, what they need to do, is sit down and talk to their kids about personal body safety. You don't keep the secrets if this is ever happened to you, you tell somebody, you will be believed.", "All right. Erin, thank you for sharing that with us. I absolutely I agree with you 100 percent. The question is so, if it happens in your family, how much can you trust what the Duggar parents are saying. We've got a lot on this when we come right back. The Duggars and the law, what might have happened if there had been no statute of limitation in this case. Plus, Caitlyn Jenner says she's finally living an authentic life. But, tonight therapist debate that, what about her family?", "We're continuing on with our breaking news tonight. Jim Bob, Michelle Duggar speaking out about the sexual molestation scandal involving their son, Josh. I'm joined now by attorney and the Victim's Rights Advocate, Lisa Bloom, legal analyst for Avo.com. Also with me, CNN correspondent, Dan Simon and Janet Johnson, criminal defense attorney, also John Caffaro, and Brian Stelter are with me. So, I appreciate all of you joining me. I want to listen to part of the interview and then I want to get your reaction. This one is about when Josh came back into the home. Let's listen.", "When you heard that behavior had resumed, describe what that was like for you?", "We thought, you know, at first that Josh, you know, was on the road to mend, you know, at first but he was still a kid, you know, and he was still a juvenile. He wasn't an adult. And so, there was a couple more times that he came and told us what he done and we were devastated. And all this again, this was not rape or anything like that. This was like touching somebody over their clothes. There were a couple of incidents where he touched them under their clothes, but it was like a few seconds and then he came to us and was crying and told us what happened.", "Lisa Bloom, if you're saying over the clothes, whatever. I mean, that still molestation.", "What was just sad to me about this interview was how willfully ignorant the Duggar parents are about child sexual abuse. They don't seem to have educated themselves then or now about the facts. It is not minimized if it's only a few seconds, if it's over the clothes, if a victim is sleeping. None of that is particularly significant. The whole interview seemed to focus on what they were feeling, how hard this was for them and, of course, I'm sure it was hard for them, but I have to ask where is Josh Duggar? He's a grown man now. He's a father. He has children sitting on his lap, which they say would not be allowed in their home. Why wasn't Josh Duggar doing this interview?", "That is a very good question. Brian Stelter, can you answer that?", "I've tried to ask that question actually to the Duggar PR people. They haven't had any comment. We do know the two of victims, two of the sisters did speak with Megyn Kelly. We're not going to hear much of that until later in the week.", "We're going to hear them.", "But he's telling that we haven't heard from Josh.", "We'll hear from them. But let's -- we're going to talk about why we haven't heard from Josh. So, listen to it at least. Play it.", "Yes.", "Did you had a worry that the treatment didn't work with especially with so many young children in the house?", "No. No. Josh was a changed person. And you could...", "But we did -- and we still had those things carved in place. I mean, it's like we just -- there were a lot things that changed. And our understanding as parents with this, you know, this first child, first son, you know, to come to this place in his life, we're like, there's things that we've learned even since then that I think -- you know what, we don't let boys baby sit. We don't let, you know, they don't play hide and seek together. Two don't go off and hide. I mean, there are just a lot of things that we put in place and we said to him. You're not alone in the room with someone else. Always be out visible and that, you know, little ones don't sit on big boys laps or people that you don't know or even family members unless it's your daddy. You know, and so, we just -- there's boundaries that we've learned...", "So, that more about boundaries and what they've learned. He's a changed person. Doctor, John, what do -- how do you know someone is changed? How do they know he's changed?", "We can't really determine that without getting more information about a number of things that had to do with the time of the occurrence of sexual molests acts. For example, as I said earlier, whether or not he's actually got a history of being traumatized himself or the important. What kind of treatment did he have. Did he have a specific treatment; was he treated by someone who had expertise in working with sibling sexual abuse or working with juvenile offenders in general? One of the primary things that hasn't been talked about yet has to do with the fact that the evidence is really clear that in cases of sibling sexual abuse, there's almost always instances of lack of parental supervision and they're even neglect. So, I would want to know who was supervising Josh when he was sort of having access to these children. In large families it's not unusual to have one child in-charge of younger siblings. But we need to know something more about whether or not the parents were actually supervising or monitoring Josh's behavior.", "Dan, does he, Dan Simon, there is a police reveal any of that information? What are you learning about this police report?", "Well, this is a new police report. As Megyn Kelly noted in the Fox broadcast. This was all, you know, blown open, blown wide open by \"In Touch Weekly\" and now they've obtained a new police report. And I think the thing that you take away from this is that, this was very widespread. There were at least seven or eight incidents to which Josh confessed to his father. He told his father repeatedly about some of these things. I want to give you one example of what Jim Bob told the authorities when they started looking into this. This is 2006. The quote says, \"James,\" we're talking about Jim Bob here, but the report said, \"James said that Josh was reading to his 5- year-old sister and as she was sitting on his lap, he had touched her breasts and private area.\" The report goes on to say that James also said, that during this time frame, his daughter had been standing in the laundry room and Josh had put his hand under her dress. The bottom line here, Don, is these were horrible things that were going on and now we're getting some better insight into how pervasive this was and how disturbing this was.", "All right. Before I get to Janet Johnson I want you to listen to the daughters. Here they are.", "They can't do this to us. We're victims.", "And yet they did.", "And they did.", "The system that was set up to protect kids, both those who make stupid mistakes or have problems like this in their life and the ones that are effected by those choices. It's greatly failed.", "So, Janet, they're talking about the information in the police report being leaked out, the whole reason that we're doing this story and they say they're looking into their legal options. What do you make of that?", "As a defense attorney, it's always good to hear people come around and be concerned about the rights of juveniles and the rights of, you know, victims. And I get that. But it's kind of burying the lead though, I think in this story. Because, you know, we do have somebody who went that report was written, I actually disagree that there was a statute of limitations that it had already run. I think because they were minors, they were still within the statute of limitations. So, yes, I guess it's bad to report leaks. But it's hard to get incensed about that when they missed an opportunity to prosecute somebody who, you know, we just talked about, he has three, and he's expecting four children. You know, is that a concern today? You know, is the doctor concerned that this is someone who now has little children at home and he's not had psycho sexual treatment, which I think is required in this situation.", "It's clear the family wants this to be about the release of records.", "Right.", "That is clear from Megyn Kelly first time it's on Monday and it's even clearer now. Michelle Duggar at one point said they've been more victimized by what happened in the last two weeks than they were 12 years ago.", "Yes.", "Yes.", "That just -- it doesn't ring true to a lot of people.", "Brian, hang on, because I think there's a good question that Janet's asks for the doctor. What do you make of Janet's question, should he be in the home with his children, should it be made clear and should we be sure that he has had treatment for this?", "We definitely should be sure that he's had treatment and determine whether or not that's actually something we can rule him out. We also need to know something more about the circumstances surrounding even his parenting with his children now currently. There's again, Don, a lot of evidence that suggest that this kind of abuse is into generational. In other words, folks who come from the family whether it was sexual abuse tend to re-create that trauma in their own families. So, I would definitely agree with your guest that it would be wise and prudent to know more about what the extent that Josh is an active parent should...", "Should something be done, doctor, to check on Josh's kids?", "I'm sorry?", "Should something be done to check on Josh's kids?", "Well, certainly, some -- I think my own view of this would be that we would want to take a look that entire family, not just the children but the entire family. Because those kind of dynamics tend to be re-created. So that the entire family ought to be evaluated for what might be going on in the family.", "OK.", "Don.", "Go ahead.", "I would say, absolutely, yes. And can we talk about the safeguards that Michelle Duggar said they took put in place. No male baby sitters. Hello, the threat was coming from inside the home. No hide and go seek. None of these incidents allegedly happened during hide and go seek. It's like two sheep's passing in the night the safeguards that they supposedly put in place. The bottom line is, it did not work. A 5- year-old girl was molested after the parents knew about it and failed to remove the perpetrator from the home. And I hope nobody...", "And Lisa...", "... any of the safeguards were at all effective because they simply did not address the problem.", "Janet, quickly. I have to get a break in.", "And Lisa. Well, and you can be alone with daddy. I mean, daddy can be a perpetrator. And I'm not saying this case is, but that's just -- the science there is wrong.", "Yes. OK. Thank you every one. Stick round. When we come right back, we're going to talk about can the show survive. We'll be right back.", "We're back now with our breaking news. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar speaking out about the sexual molestation scandal involving their son, Josh, and their family. But what happens next for the family and for the show? We're going to continue on to talk about this. And I need to tell you my guest, we'll going to go a little bit longer than we thought we were going to because it's such an interesting conversation. And I appreciate what my guests are adding to this conversation. Lisa Bloom, Janet Johnson, John Caffaro is here, Brian Stelter, and also Nischelle Turner is back with us. Thank you all for joining us. I want you to listen to, I thought there was a great question by Megyn Kelly. Megyn said, why would you, after all this happened, why would you even invite cameras into your home? Here it is.", "Right.", "OK. So, it's all behind you for all intense purposes. And then in 2008, you launched a reality TV show. What would make you launch a reality TV show about your family given this past?", "You know, back in -- back early on, it was after all this was taken care of in 2003. We actually had a magazine that came to Michelle and said, hey, can we do a story about your family, and we said, yes, that would be fine.", "But are you thinking at all, wait, this might not be a good idea because when you bring cameras into your home, they tend to discover things and people get more interested in you.", "We had nothing to hide. We had taken care of all that years before and when they asked us to do the reality show, all of this had been taken care of five years before.", "Nischelle, you were at Entertainment Tonight, you are still a contributor here on", "Yes.", "You worked as an entertainment for us once, you have nothing to hide. We know when cameras -- that was a great question, when cameras go into your home...", "Yes.", "...you should know better. Things are going to come out. It invites things to come out.", "Yes. You know, there's a lot of reality television stars that say, if you have a skeletons in your closet, don't go on television because inevitably they are going to come out. But, you know, one of reasons she asked why, I was thinking to myself, well, it's almost an easy answer to me you would think, because the bottom line a lot of times is the bottom line. I mean, listen, the Duggars earn about $40,000 an episode for the show. They've been on for 10 seasons. They could very well be on for an 11th if TLC does not pull the plug on the show. It's the most popular show on the network. It makes about $25 million dollars in ad revenue for the network. So, when someone comes to you with that type pf prosperity, you know, and you're thinking, well, this is supposed to be a sealed document in juvenile court, no one will ever find out, let's do it.", "$25 million revenue, they're getting $40,000, they should be paid more, but that's another story. How can TLC continue this, Brian?", "TLC is a very carefully avoiding comment on everything about this tonight, Don. They are avoiding comments as they had been for weeks. But taking it off the air but not canceling it, they've taken this middle ground and they're going to stay there. It was interesting we heard Jim Bob tonight say, I don't know whether the rest of the family should be punished with what Josh did many years ago. That sort of implies, let our show continue. On the other hand, they also said, we'll be fine if they film and so they film us. I think the ultimate outcome here might still be a spin off with some of the kids but not the wider family.", "It seems like there was -- not only watering down of what happened, but also there was a lot of denial. I mean, I felt sorry in a way, because I felt they were in denial. I mean, maybe they're just that naive, I don't know. But this is when they talked about when the behavior had continued on belongs to them. Listen.", "When you heard that the behavior had resumed, describe what that was like for you.", "We thought, you know, at first, that Josh was on the road to mend but he was still a kid, you know and he was still a juvenile. He wasn't an adult and so there was a couple more times that he came and told us what he had done and we were just devastated. And all this again, this was not rape or anything like that. This was like touching somebody over their clothes. There were a couple of incidents where he touched them under their clothes but it was like a few seconds and then he came to us and was crying and told us what happened.", "I mean, Janet, does he know that this is not like rape or.", "Yes, Don. And he's on the mend like he had a broken leg. I mean, I've represented kids that were accused of this and I've had to depose victims and meet with parents of victims. And, you know, I have to think that if one of the girls was offended by somebody outside of the family, this is not the language you would be hearing. They would now be saying, we thought he was on the mend, and you know, he was a juvenile. Yes, you know, they have juvenile justice system where kids go to facilities for a year and a half. I mean, they go to high level security facilities to get treatment, but, you know, also to keep them away from the family. This isn't the conversation that I hear in court every day.", "Doctor, do you want to weigh in on that?", "Well, I do actually and I guess I want to suggest too also that this is a kind of agonizing selfish choice sort of situation for the parents of this kind of an event to have to choose between your two children. You wouldn't wish on anybody. So, I guess what I want to say is that, as much as we're all in support of safety for the victims first and foremost, it's also important to recognize that this family is probably struggling to make sense of this because it would be difficult for any set of parents to have to choose between...", "You know, I have...", "Lisa Bloom, go ahead.", "They're not choosing. I'm sorry, I have to disagree with the Sophie's choice thing. You have a responsibility as a parent to protect your children if they are victims of sexual abuse. You take the predator out of the home that he's a child. He's not going to, you know, get his head chopped off. He's going to a treatment facility. It's not in his interest to be allowed to reoffend. And so, I resent that implication. There are so many inconsistencies in the story that these parents have. They said that the kids were all asleep when it happened. Then they say one of them was on his lap having a book read to her and another was a babysitter. The biggest problem they have is they completely believe Josh Duggar's account of what happened. But we know that perpetrators tend to minimize and deny. They believe the victims when they say they were asleep, which is a very common thing that young girl say because of the denial and I don't want to acknowledge everything that happened. I mean, these parents are so in the dark of the realities, of child sexual abuse. And they made a choice to stay in the dark, even after they knew that they had a predator in their home.", "OK. Lisa. Doctor, I'll let you respond after the break. We have much more in this breaking news tonight. Does Josh Duggar have to speak out on this himself? We'll be right back.", "We're back now with our breaking news tonight. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar speaking out about their son, Josh, and the sexual molestation scandal surrounding their family. Back with me now, Lisa Bloom, Janet Johnson, John Caffaro, and Nischelle Turner, and relationship therapist Elisabeth Mandel, and Nell Gibbon Daly, a psychotherapist and writer. I have to let you doctor to what Lisa Bloom said, because you were rearing to respond to that.", "Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Let me first say that I'm not in disagreement with any of the comments that are made about holding the child responsible, holding the offender responsible. But from a clinical point of view, the tasks involved in helping this family heal are different than what the judicial systems has to do. In fact, this is why these cases are so complex. So, I was only trying to suggest that indeed, the entire family, while there was one offender in this case, as far as we know, and that's also a question -- that's only as far as we know, but nonetheless, the entire family, particularly the parents are most responsible for maintaining this behavior. Because it was obviously was disclosed and then it continued on. So, my only comment is that everyone in this family deserves compassion because they're going to have to go through a pretty tough time if they are going to actually be able to deal with the denial on multiple levels and keeping the children safe. And let's not forget there's at least one victim who's not in the family that we haven't heard from either. And without knowing their stories and what really would be consistent with, you know, what Josh' said, we really only have anecdotal reports to go on here. So, there is a lot of information that is still lost.", "The parents say they feel like failures. Listen.", "I think as parents, we felt, we're failures. You know, here we tried to raise our kids to do what's right, to know what's right and yet one of our children made some really bad choices. And I think as a parent, we were just very devastated.", "Nell, what does this do to a family?", "I think it's obviously very devastating for the family. The one thing that concerns me is that when, you know, in the last few years since they've been on television, they've come out and on certain political issues having certain very conservative stances on things. And I think that what I've heard in my community with my colleagues is that, there was an element of self-righteousness sometimes that they portrayed in the family. And then now we see this side of them that they clearly hid which, you know, becomes very problematic both for the family to heal from.", "Does it see to you like they're speaking sort of above their heads above their knowledge of the actual situation, the severity of the situation?", "It does. It sounds like they're down playing it to protect their reputation as a family. I think that part of the reason why they're doing this is to protect their children from, you know, mockery, but ultimately, you know, the parents need to come to terms with the truth and the family, yes, needs to heal from this together.", "Yes. But they live with this? They're going to live with the stigma of this. They're still having to be in the same family and deal with the person who perpetrated this molestation or abuse. 19 children in the family, four abused and then there's Josh. Do you think that they all need to be in therapy?", "Oh, I mean, yes. Yes.", "You do?", "Yes. Obviously, yes. The thing is that the treatment for what these girls went through would be different than what the perpetrator went through and then obviously, the ramifications just keep going outward.", "Yes.", "So, having family therapy and individual therapy for all of the people involved is massively important.", "Even the 14 kids, even the kids who weren't involved?", "Yes, we have -- look at what they're going to face going forward just publicly.", "Yes.", "Knowing that has happened. And some of the children are still quite small, so how do they begin to make sense of this?", "Yes.", "Then one of the ways that we do make sense of trauma that happened in the family is by talking about it.", "Yes. Is Nischelle Turner still with us or -- Nischelle?", "I'm here, Don. I haven't left.", "OK. So, Nischelle, tell us about Josh Duggar because he has kids and doesn't he have one on the way?", "Yes, three kids, one on the way. And, yes, he, you know, we did hear him speak often from the Parent's research Council about very conservative views. He was taking a leadership role there and that's kind of what has him also, you know, also in this situation is the fact that we heard him say like, the ladies were talking about -- sounding a bit self-righteous on a lot of different issues. And now we're seeing kind of his past come back to haunt him. So, it will be interesting.", "Nischelle, does he have to talk?", "Well, he doesn't have to but should he, absolutely. And would we like for that to happen? Yes. And would I like for him to do that with me on Entertainment Tonight, yes.", "I would love for him to do it right here on CNN Tonight, on either of this tonight's shows, but CNN Tonight preferably and then to Nischelle Turner.", "There you go.", "Because I really -- as a survivor, honestly I would really like to talk to him and talk to this family, anyone in this family.", "Yes.", "But I have to ask you, Lisa, do you think he should talk...", "He should talk to you.", "Yes, go ahead, Lisa, should he talk?", "Yes. And you know why that's important because in 2002 to 2006, when this all went down the family circled around to protect Josh Duggar. And today, in 2015, exactly the same thing is happening. The whole family is protecting Josh Duggar who is at the center of this who has not come forward to speak, even though he's a grown man. I think that's very sad. You know what, therapy is great, I'm all in favor of it for everybody in the family, but you what's even better for victims, accountability and justice.", "Yes.", "That's what I traffic in because I reference victims. A little accountability goes a long way to healing victims.", "And as much as we all have faith and belief and I have faith and belief but that is not therapy. God and religion are not therapy. You need professional therapy when you're dealing with this. We'll be right back and then we will continue to talk.", "Breaking news now. The Duggar scandal. My guests are all back with me. So, thank you for joining us. I want to know, is it fair to put the daughters out there at guest? Because let's listen to this now by where they talk about, one of the daughters at least was awake but they say not aware. Here it is.", "The subsequent incidents after the first one involved daughters who are awake or at least a couple of them?", "There were a couple, yes. And they didn't really understand though what happened.", "So, that's what happened?", "They didn't say it was more of his heart -- his intent that he knew...", "Right.", "... that it was wrong. But they weren't even aware. It was like, you know, it wasn't -- to them, they probably didn't even understand that it was improper touch.", "I mean, and now let's hear from the daughters.", "They don't have a right to do this. This is an -- we're victims. They can't do this to us.", "And yet they did?", "And they did.", "The system that was set up to protect kids, both those who make stupid mistakes or have problems like this in their life and the ones affected by those choices, it's greatly failed.", "Lisa, should they be putting the daughters out there do you think?", "That's up to the daughters. I would say to them from the bottom of my heart, you have nothing to be ashamed of, you have done nothing wrong. I hope you will hold your heads high. The choices you make about your life are going to be what defines you, not these crises, not what the media has done, not what the police did, and certainly not what Josh Duggar did to you. You should not be upset about this.", "Yes.", "You can define your own life.", "I just have a few seconds here. John, should the daughters be out there like that?", "I think there's always the risk of re-traumatization with the daughters and I would want to give them full freedom to sort of decide for that on their own rather than just impose it on. They've already been imposed upon obviously and some of them most degree just ways we can imagine.", "John, Lisa, Janet, Elisabeth, thank you very much. Nell, I appreciate all of you and to all of my guests who have joined me this evening. We'll be right back.", "Sorry we didn't get to the Jenner story. I will call it to try to do it tomorrow night. I'll see you then. 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{"id": "CNN-9650", "program": "CNN International World News", "date": "2000-6-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/07/i_wn.11.html", "summary": "China Warns Hong Kong About Doing Business Taiwan", "utt": ["In China, Hong Kong officials are defending the city's businesses after some remarks viewed as threatening by the government in Beijing. CNN's Hong Kong bureau chief Mike Chinoy reports Taiwan is at the center of the controversy.", "The business of Hong Kong is business, a meeting place of East and West, China's gateway on the world and, these days, the conduit for billions of dollars of indirect trade between Taiwan and Mainland China. But the election of Chen Shui-Bian, who has long voiced sympathy for Taiwan independence as that island's new president, has rattled Beijing, which considers Taiwan a renegade province. Now, China has taken its continuing campaign of intimidation against President Chen to Hong Kong. Despite a Chinese commitment, enshrined in the handover agreement with Britain, to preserve Hong Kong's autonomy, a senior Chinese official here has threatened local companies with reprisals for doing business with independence-minded Taiwanese. The warning has set off alarm bells here.", "Anything that threatens business is dangerous for the life of everybody in Hong Kong. If confidence goes down, then the economy can go down. So, anything like this that does threaten business decision-making, independent business decision making, is something that has to be stamped on very quickly.", "That's why Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee-hwa, who rarely disagrees with Beijing, swiftly announced he'd secured a Chinese pledge not to interfere. Tung's deputy was even more outspoken.", "In our view, business decisions are best left to businessmen and should not invite the interference of any official of whatever status.", "China's latest threat follows a warning in April from another senior Beijing official that Hong Kong journalists should not report the pro-independence views of Taiwan's vice president. In that case, chief executive Tung initially remained silent and then spoke out only grudgingly under strong public pressure.", "There has been a lot of criticism in the past that in particular C.H. Tung has not come speedily enough to the support of Hong Kong, he has not demonstrated a keenness to stand up for Hong Kong as Hong Kong.", "But this episode involves business, not freedom of the press, and in a city dominated by powerful business interests, the Hong Kong authorities have moved swiftly to tell Beijing to back off. Mike Chinoy, CNN, Hong Kong."], "speaker": ["MICHAEL HOLMES, WORLD NEWS", "MIKE CHINOY, CNN HONG KONG BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over)", "KEN DAVIES, ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT", "CHINOY", "ANSON CHAN, HONG KONG CHIEF SECRETARY (through translator)", "CHINOY", "DAVID DODWELL, JARDINE FLEMING", "CHINOY (on camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-37251", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-8-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/16/ltm.07.html", "summary": "New Math Finds More Dollars for President's Programs", "utt": ["Welcome back to CNN Live This Morning, where it seems social security is no longer in a lockbox. The latest indications are that President Bush and his allies in Congress are now ready to tap social security reserves for other budget expenses. The story now from CNN White House correspondent, Major Garrett, who is traveling with the president in Crawford, Texas. Major, good morning.", "Good morning, Stephen. Well, I would say to your introduction, not exactly. There's some new math in Washington, some new math the White House has come up with and it's arrived at a convenient time. What is that new math? Well the White House says, through its spokesman Ari Fleischer who talked to CNN just a few moments ago, that the White House has changed the way it accounts how payroll taxes come into the government. As a result of that change in accounting, the government has found a few extra billion dollars. Why are those billion dollars important? Well, because the economic slowdown has reduced overall tax revenue to the government, and there are some in Congress who believed it has reduced it so far that this year's surplus might be smaller than the social security surplus. Meaning that Congress and the White House may be forced to tap into what had been off-limits in that lockbox you referred to. Now, let's go through some of the numbers here. The projected surplus for social security payroll taxes this year is $157 billion. The White House says that number holds, and the White House will in no way touch that money. What does that money do? Well, it buys bonds. What do those bonds do? They pay off debt and social security, which allows social security solvency to extend many years in the future. What Congress says is it may be forced to spend money below that $157 billion, tapping into that social security surplus, that lockbox you referred to. But the White House says absolutely not, thanks to this new math. The new math and the new arrival of this extra money will allow it to still meet all of the president's budget obligation, it says, without tapping into that social security surplus. But I guarantee you, Stephen, Democrats on Capitol Hill, Democrats across the country are going to have a different set of numbers, a different set of math. They say it's rooted in the old way Washington used to count this money, and they'll say the president is in fact tapping into that surplus. Stephen.", "I can hear them now. I can imagine, Major, we're going to hear about fuzzy math in a minute. But this is basically an accounting change. Is that right?", "It's an accounting change. Here are some of the other numbers. Ari Fleischer says, the White House press secretary, that this new method of accounting basically accounts for three years of miscounted payroll tax revenue sent to the government by a total of $5.6 billion. But he also says the White House is changing another number, which is money that had been counted in that overall budget surplus that was really devoted to postal service retiree benefits. He says they're taking that out. So, subtract $1.3 billion. The aggregate number, he says, $4.3 billion, which is going to leave enough money for the government to spend all the things it wants to do on education, defense, environment. All the priorities without touching that social security surplus. But let's face it, Stephen, there's going to be a lot of disagreement about this math and a lot of political fighting about who or who is not touching that social security surplus.", "Well there's no disagreement about how nicely you explained all of that. Major Garrett from Crawford, Texas. Thanks a lot, Major."], "speaker": ["STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR", "MAJOR GARRETT, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FRAZIER", "GARRETT", "FRAZIER"]}
{"id": "CNN-187794", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-6-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1206/14/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Police Hunt Surgeon After Hospital Shooting", "utt": ["A manhunt in Buffalo, New York, is drawing national attention this afternoon because the person police are hunting is a well-known Buffalo surgeon. Police want to talk to Dr. Timothy Jorden about the deadly shooting of his ex-girlfriend. That happened yesterday morning. But what makes this particular shooting even more noteworthy is that it happened at the hospital where both the doctor and the victim worked. Buffalo Police tried to calm all the fears, obviously, in the community in a news conference just this morning. Take a listen.", "I don't think the general public is in danger. Again, an officer coming across this individual, again, he has to be considered armed and dangerous. But we want to talk to him about yesterday's incident. And that's all I'll say right now. I don't think he's a danger to the public at large, no.", "I want to bring in Pete Gallivan right now. He's a reporter with Buffalo TV station WGRZ. And, Pete, let me just ask you this. I know police aren't calling Dr. Jorden a suspect. Why is that?", "Right. Well, they're referring to him as a person of interest in this case. And the bottom line is, there are different rules as to how you can talk to a suspect, as opposed to a person of interest. But at this point, they're saying he's just a person of interest that they would like to talk to regarding the killing of Jackie Wisniewski yesterday, as you mentioned, at the Erie County Medical Center, where both the doctor, as well as the victim, worked.", "So it sounds like the background on this story is a bit textured, as some of these details are coming out, because we know that there are these records that are indicating this doctor was actually involved in not just one, but two prior domestic violence disputes. Not with this victim. But let me just play some sound. This is what the police commissioner said about that. And then I got a question for you.", "I don't believe there were any order of protections involving the victim. I can't comment on the motive right now.", "He's not commenting. I'm hearing, though, that a lot of the victim's friends are commenting today with regard to stories of abuse. Is that correct?", "Yes. We're hearing quite a bit coming out over social media, FaceBook, Twitter, that sort of thing, yes, telephone calls. One thing that was said by one of the victim's friends was, she was told by the victim, if something happens to me, it was him. There was also another statement made by another friend that said, she loved him but was afraid of him. We're also hearing word that he may have put GPS tracking on her car after she moved out. So we're hearing a lot of these different side of this relationship between Jackie Wisniewski and Dr. Timothy Jorden.", "Tell me about this massive search, Pete. Outside this doctor's home, it's on this cliff, I understand. It's overlooking Lake Erie. Is there any indication they might possibility be searching for his body?", "There is an indication of that. We received a phone call -- we did a telephone interview earlier today with a neighbor of Dr. Jorden and he said he didn't think of anything -- think of this as anything at the time, but he says he did hear one gunshot early yesterday morning, which would have been in the time frame after the shooting. Police aren't sure if that has anything to do, whether it was a distant hunter, but police are on the bluffs behind his house, that overlook Lake Erie, this morning. They've been -- or they started this morning and they're still there at this hour.", "So sad for the community, I know, in Buffalo. If anything happens with the search, obviously, Pete, we'll pop you back in front of that camera and you can let us know. Pete Gallivan from our affiliate WGRZ. Pete, we appreciate it. Let me get to some news here just into us here at CNN. We are getting word now that the U.S. military has completed plans in the event American troops are involved in an operation in Syria. We're going to take you live to the Pentagon for that."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "DANIEL DERENDA, BUFFALO POLICE COMMISSIONER", "BALDWIN", "PETE GALLIVAN, WGRZ REPORTER", "BALDWIN", "DERENDA", "BALDWIN", "GALLIVAN", "BALDWIN", "GALLIVAN", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-146502", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-12-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/30/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Officials: U.S. May Strike al Qaeda in Yemen; Abdulmutallab's Hometown", "utt": ["And good morning, everyone. It is Wednesday, the 30th of December, 2009. And here are the top stories for you, right here in the CNN NEWSROOM. A trail of missed opportunities from Nigeria to Detroit. Eight years after 9/11, U.S. agencies aren't communicating about potential terrorists. The Iranian regime calling thousands of its supporters to the streets. Anti-government protesters are told to stay away or expect no mercy. And tears of joy in Georgia. A mother reunited with the daughter she gave up for adoption 50 years ago. Good morning, everyone, I'm Tony Harris, and you are in the CNN NEWSROOM. A new finding this morning about the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253. Here's what we know right now. Two senior administration officials tell CNN the U.S. military is reviewing targets in Yemen. Retaliatory strikes could be aimed at al Qaeda training camps. Bomb suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was apparently on the CIA's radar as far back as August, but sources tell us a report on the Nigerian never made it to other U.S. security agencies. President Obama calls the communication breakdown a systemic failure. The president says the intelligence, plus other information, could have kept the suspect off the plane. And an official with the African Union says a man was arrested after he tried to board a flight from Somalia to Dubai last month. The official says the man carried potential bomb-making ingredients. He says the incident may be linked to the Detroit incident. All passengers flying out of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport to the U.S. will now undergo a full body scan. The technology could have detected the explosive powder hidden in the suspect's underwear.", "It takes three weeks to start using these machines because one-half of the two still have to be", "All right. And that is a look at the latest developments in the terror investigation this morning. Now let's zero in on Yemen and possible retaliatory strikes on al Qaeda. CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr joining me now. And Barbara, what are you learning about possible military action?", "Well, you know, Tony, let's break it down for people. There have, in fact, been, already this month, long before this Northwest flight incident, a number of military operations in Yemen. Some carried out directly by the Yemeni military, by all accounts, some U.S. intelligence and targeting information, possibly even some U.S. weapons provided to go after al Qaeda targets. The al Qaeda network in Yemen has already been in the crosshairs of both countries. But now, in light of this incident, two senior U.S. officials tell CNN that both countries, together, their military and security services are going back, looking at the al Qaeda target list inside of Yemen, trying to see if they can make a link to this Christmas Day foiled attack. And if they can, they certainly will continue to carry out these strikes that have already been ongoing, and they will look for targets that they can hit that were directly linked to this possible attack -- Tony.", "Barbara, any way of knowing how many al Qaeda militants are operating or training in Yemen?", "Right. What exactly is the al Qaeda target list in Yemen? Well, you know, U.S. officials say they think, but nobody has a really solid handle on it, that there might be as many as 200 or so al Qaeda members inside of Yemen around a central core leadership in that country. But the key is the strikes that have already happened, nobody really knows for sure yet whether they have been able to take out that core leadership or whether the leaders have actually scattered and now will even be tougher to track down. There are also a number of al Qaeda training camps inside of Yemen, and there is some concern that this Nigerian suspect may indeed have trained at one of those camps -- Tony.", "One more for you, Barbara. The idea of dropping U.S. bombs on another country, clearly highly sensitive stuff here. How does the U.S. potentially head down this road and avoid the type of blowback we've seen in Pakistan?", "Well, that is really key here. If there are additional strikes, the level of U.S. involvement, we are told by very senior officials in the Obama administration, would be directly coordinated with the Yemenis. And that's the reason the U.S. has been so quiet about the strikes that have already happened this month. There's essentially a secret agreement with Yemen. The U.S. will help, it will help as much as it can, it will press the Yemenis to do as much as they can, but Washington will remain very quiet about it because it's so sensitive inside of Yemen that there would be any U.S. military assistance. So don't expect to see a lot of headlines when and if it happens -- Tony.", "OK. Barbara Starr at the Pentagon for us. Barbara, appreciate it. Thank you. And next hour we will talk more about airport security worldwide. Rafi Ron joins us. He is the former security director at Israel's Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International Airport. And to get a better understanding of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, CNN's Christian Purefoy traveled to the hometown of the suspected terrorist in Nigeria.", "This is the small mosque once attended by Umar Abdulmutallab, the man who allegedly tried to let off a bomb onboard the Detroit flight on Christmas Day. The last time Abdulmutallab came here to pray, his neighbors say, was in August this year, just before he went to Yemen. Everyone here is shocked that he is now the center of a global terrorist alert. (on camera): Was he a devout Muslim? (voice-over): \"He would be the first to prayers and the last to leave,\" says the local imam. \"But he didn't mingle. He liked isolation.\" At the prestigious local school he attended, which does not even teach religion, this son of a wealthy Nigerian banker is remembered as well-behaved and popular with his classmates. (on camera): So he mixed with children from all backgrounds here, Christian, Muslim...", "Yes, that's right. Christians, Muslims, Hindus, other religions, because we have other nationals here in Nigeria.", "Do you have Americans here in the school?", "Yes, we have Americans.", "But outside the school there was violence on the streets. The city of Kaduna sits on one of the longest religious fault lines in the world, separating a Christian sub-Saharan Africa and a Muslim northern Africa. In 2000 nearly 1,000 people were killed in Kaduna after religious riots, and in 2002, thousands were displaced after the Miss World Competition was to be held here. It was canceled after tens of mosques and churches were burned. Growing up in Kaduna, Abdulmutallab was certainly no stranger to religious violence. (voice-over): Nobody in Kaduna that I met publicly supports Abdulmutallab's actions. But he is certainly not alone in his resentment against the West. \"The West promotes immoral values,\" said this trader. \"It's wrong for the west to support the Israelis to kill Muslim Muslims,\" says another. Extremism is not taught here, insists Imam Dumawa. There is no attempt to justify suicide attacks. Abdulmutallab must have learned his radical ideas in his studies abroad, he says. But he warns many similar young men from wealthy families studying in the Middle East are often returning with dangerous ideas. \"There are sects abroad that are trying to trap and brainwash our children,\" the imam says. The question that concerns many in Kaduna now is whether Abdulmutallab may not be the last young Nigerian to fall prey to radical and violent ideology. Christian Purefoy, CNN, Kaduna, Nigeria.", "Another major story we're developing and following this hour, government-staged rallies in Iran. We will show you the other side of the story. And Jacqui Jeras tracking weather. Get your -- I always want to walk over here when I see this shot. Get your New Year's Eve forecast from this lady right here.", "You've got to go that way. Hello.", "Sorry about that, Jacqui. I don't know what to do with that shot. But first, here's the latest from the New York Stock Exchange. We're selling, in a selling mood early. Stocks down 13 points. We're following developments throughout the day, right here for you in the CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "GUUSJE TER HORST, DUTCH INTERIOR MINISTER (through translator)", "HARRIS", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "STARR", "HARRIS", "STARR", "HARRIS", "CHRISTIAN PUREFOY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "KERCHIRI SETH, SCHOOL VICE PRESIDENT", "PUREFOY", "SETH", "PUREFOY", "HARRIS", "JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-233856", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-07-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/03/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Georgia Dad in Court in Son's Hot Car Death.", "utt": ["Let's take you back inside this Cobb County court. This is defense attorney, Maddox Kilgore, now.", "Five days later, the 24th? Six days later?", "Five or six days, yeah.", "OK. So at that time you had done five or six days of investigation.", "Yes, sir.", "OK. And you then stepped the warrant back to cruelty in the second degree.", "I would argue it's not a step back.", "OK. You went from basically an allegation of willful to negligence.", "Yes, sir.", "Criminal negligence, right?", "That is correct.", "Was there, like, one particular piece of evidence or so that caused you to make that change in the warrant?", "No. There's multiple pieces of evidence.", "OK. That during that five or six days caused you to go from willful to criminal negligence.", "Yes, sir.", "OK. What was -- what would you say was the primary piece of evidence that caused you to move from willfulness to negligence?", "The primary was -- is how it's worded. And it was -- the medical examiner's report came back and he came back and said it was hyperthermia. Before we were going with dehydration, lack of sustenance. The child did die from the neglect of being left in that car seat.", "And that was -- that was why the decision was made to get a warrant for second degree.", "Yes, sir.", "You are the case agent, right?", "That is correct.", "OK. So you -- you pretty much know everything -- all the information flows to and through you, right?", "We try.", "OK. Well, you got computer crimes involved in this. You've got a lot of moving parts. They all report back to you.", "They all issue reports, yes, sir.", "OK. And you keep up with that, and you know what's going on.", "I try.", "All right. Let's talk about the scene for a moment. At the scene, you -- did you personally ever go to the scene?", "I did.", "All right. And at what time did you get there?", "I got there about 5:07: p.m.", "OK. What was going on at the scene when you got there?", "When I got to the scene, the scene had been secured. Detectives were walking in the scene in their cursory views. Crime scene was on-scene, starting their photographs.", "OK. And did you talk to the officers at the scene?", "I did.", "Who were the officers at the scene?", "I spoke with Officer Piper and Officer Foglia.", "Piper and who?", "Foglia.", "OK. And had those officers interviewed witnesses at the scene?", "They had.", "Do you know who they interviewed?", "I do not.", "Did you interview witnesses at the scene?", "I did not.", "Do you know if there was any detective that interviewed witnesses at the scene?", "Yes.", "Who was that?", "Detective Raissi was on the scene, Detective Murphy.", "Did you say Racy (sic)?", "Raissi.", "How do you spell that?", "OK. And Detective Murphy?", "And Detective Murphy. And I believe both of them interviewed witnesses.", "OK. Do you have a list of those who were interviewed?", "I do.", "All right. Can you tell me who those folks were?", "I cannot.", "How many were interviewed?", "Multiple.", "They didn't all give exactly the same story, did they?", "No, sir.", "In fact, you interviewed several witnesses who told you that Mr. Harris was absolutely hysterical at that scene.", "I didn't interview anybody at the scene.", "Some of your detectives interviewed witnesses who told you or told them that Mr. Harris was absolutely hysterical.", "I would say that is true.", "There were witnesses who told some of your detectives that he was crying at the scene.", "I don't recall anybody saying he was crying.", "Screaming.", "I would go with screaming.", "In shock.", "I don't recall those words being used.", "OK. Dazed.", "I'll go with dazed.", "OK. And did you record all those interviews?", "I did not.", "Well, when I say you, I'm talking about the Cobb County Police Department. I know you didn't do it all.", "You need to be more specific in your question.", "Did your detectives record those interviews?", "Yes, sir, they did.", "OK. All right. And did your detectives get the names of the EMTs there, as well?", "They did, sir.", "OK. Of the witnesses that were there on the scene, isn't that true that some of them actually reported seeing Mr. Harris down on the ground trying to give CPR to Cooper?", "Yes, sir.", "OK. And then there were some who didn't see that.", "That is correct.", "So there were stories really all over the place, weren't they?", "Yes.", "OK. But they all agreed that it was absolute chaos, didn't they?", "I wouldn't use those words, but --", "Do you remember if you -- if one of your detectives interviewed a witness by the name of Leonard Madden, M-A-D-D-E-N?", "I do not know, sir.", "You have no idea what Mr. Madden would have seen if he was there?", "No, sir.", "OK.", "Stay right here. Quick break. Back after this.", "Now let's jump back in. This is cross examination, the defense attorney questioning this detective of this case of this father in Cobb County accused of felony murder for leaving his 22- month-old child in this car on a 90-something-degree day in Georgia. We have a lot of analysis. This is pretty tough testimony to listen to. But first, let's take it in.", "-- the six-minute phone call. They do not have a six- minute messaging system there. So he was speaking, and it's an apparent he was speaking with somebody.", "OK. And you learned during the interview that he was trying to reach Little Aprons before his wife got there, to let them know, hey, keep her there, because she's going to find out about this.", "Correct.", "That's why he was trying to reach Little Aprons, right?", "That is correct.", "And that certainly would be consistent with someone who is an absolute panic at that time, correct?", "I would say it would be reasonable.", "OK. When he was driven away from the scene in the cruiser, was Ross taken directly to persons to be interviewed?", "Yes, sir.", "All right. When he got to \"persons,\" how long was he there? Before he was interviewed?", "I don't have those times in front of me, sir.", "Well, do you think it was more than an hour?", "I would say less than an hour.", "OK. And during the time he was there, he was in a cell, right?", "No.", "No? He was just in a lobby?", "He was unhandcuffed. He was placed into the interview room and given water.", "OK. And you recorded all of that.", "That's all recorded.", "Sure. So anything he said or did, regardless of how it may be characterized, we're going to get to see at some point, right?", "Yes, sir.", "And then who came in there to speak with him?", "I did and Detective Waldorf.", "Who?", "Waldorf.", "Waldorf.", "With the crimes against children's unit.", "So by the time you sat down to interview him, he had just seen the body of his son. At that juncture, less than three hours.", "Yes.", "Less than two hours?", "We'll say less than three for now.", "OK. Certainly sufficiently short period of time where somebody absolutely could still be in shock, correct?", "Correct.", "And at this point in time, when you spoke to him in that interview room, he had not had an opportunity to see his wife, speak to his wife, or have any interaction with her at all, had he?", "That is correct.", "During the interview, was he expressing to you concerns about what in the world he was going to say to his wife?", "Yes.", "And he wanted to talk to her.", "Correct.", "And that would not be a remarkable or unusual concern for somebody in this situation, would it?", "I would say no.", "How long was the interview?", "I believe the interview was about -- I'm going to say approximately, but around an hour, hour and a half.", "And it's audio and video.", "It is audio and video.", "OK. So you went through the events of the day.", "That is correct.", "You didn't -- you didn't discover that Ross had taken Cooper to Chick-Fil-A. He told you that.", "Correct.", "He told you that they went there, they went inside. They ordered breakfast and had breakfast there.", "Correct.", "And have you gone to Chick-Fil-A to get a recording of those events?", "We have.", "OK. And did you review those?", "I have.", "And it's fair to say that what Ross told you about what transpired at Chick-Fil-A, that was accurate?", "True.", "Who -- who have you talked to at Chick-Fil-A, or who did some of the detectives talk to at Chick-Fil-", "They talked to the manager.", "Do you know who that is?", "I don't. Well, it's an owner operator --", "Let's get analysis as we're listening to this defense attorney cross-examination this detective in this case of this father in Georgia, who is sitting in that orange jumpsuit right there right now, who is Justin Ross Harris, who left his 22-month-old, Cooper, in that hot car in June. Sunny Hostin and Ashleigh Banfield are with me. Sunny, let me bring your voice in, your prosecutorial voice, and that of a mom. Listening to all these new details, initially, it's a probable-cause hearing. You want to see if you have enough evidence to go to trial. What are you hearing?", "Well, certainly, they're going to prove probable cause. We know that. And probable cause is a very low threshold, and so that was never really an issue here. But let's face it, Brooke. I think we're all horrified at what we're hearing.", "Disgusting.", "Most people, myself included, were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, the benefit of reasonable doubt. Again, because these accidental deaths happen all of the time. And he was claiming accident. Now the prosecution has, in my view, placed before the world its theory. And that is a theory that includes motive. We're talking about a marriage that's failing, a marriage that's in trouble. Someone who is sexting, searching, how to live a child-free life. Someone with financial difficulty that has two insurance policies, life insurance policies, out on this little boy. When you take all of that in front of a jury, because, as I often say in these cases, you don't have to prove motive. It's not an element of the crime, but a juror, my goodness, needs to hear why a father, which is so unusual, would bake his child to death. I can tell you, Brooke, after hearing all of this, any juror that hears this evidence of motive will convict.", "Ashleigh Banfield, just bringing you in. We were talking about really just difficult details. When I heard this detective describing the scratches on the face of this 22-month-old as he was strapped inside this car seat from early in the morning until the afternoon, perhaps scratching, scratching, as the car is getting so, so hot. And just a little color inside the courtroom that we're getting from one of our producers, as we have been looking at Justin Harris sitting in the orange jump jumpsuit, visually motionless, the wife, Leanna, also sitting in the courtroom. And from what I'm looking at, she's just been blank look on her face, and just staring straight ahead -- Ashleigh?", "Well, there has been a lot to take in. I don't know how much of this she already knew or how much of this she is learning for the first time. But I'll tell you where I'm laser-focused, Brooke, on that man in the orange. There has been nothing, nothing when they describe what you just talked about, the injuries on that child's face.", "Motionless.", "Nothing. When they called out the condition of the child lying on the pavement, nothing. When they talked about how they were both notified of what had happened, nothing. No demeanor at all. \"No tears\" is what this detective actually said. Not from the father, not from the mother. I've covered cases where that's happened. So I'll let that go. But I'm having a really tough time letting some other stuff go.", "Like what?", "I'm -- well, where should I begin? They said they have only scratched the surface on what they're looking for on those hard drives. So I'm waiting to find out what's going to happen in the toxicology report. Because if this man was looking at child-free lives and how to die in a hot car whether you're an animal or child, perhaps he knew what kind of pain would be involved and thus if there is some toxicology to suggest that there is a drug that would, you know, mitigate that pain. Just wait, because that takes some time. It takes about six weeks, usually, depending on the jurisdiction and the busyness at the labs. I have a feeling they'll rush this case. But when that toxicology comes back, that will be a fascinating fact. It just -- everything all together and the motive now that they have established, the financial difficulties, the searching for the issues of being child-free, and this sexting with a 16-year-old. Now they're talking about the exploitation of a minor. So what you're looking at now, these two charges, tip of the iceberg, tip of the iceberg.", "Just hearing what this father apparently said to the wife inside of this room, alone, saying -- describing the state of Cooper, when he had died that he was peaceful, his eyes were closed, and to hear the detective say, no, he wasn't. Quick break. Back after this.", "Back inside this Cobb County, Georgia, courtroom, cross- examination as part of this probable cause and bond hearing involving this 22-month-old baby boy left who was in a sweltering hot SUV just a couple weeks ago. Take a listen.", "One of the colleagues just announced a blurb of a chat log that's not really readable.", "OK. So if, in fact, that chat log indicated that during the day the three of these gentlemen talked about interns working there, which school had the most interns, talking about going to lunch, talking about going to Publix, talking about going to a movie later in the day, that would be completely consistent with whatever Ross told you.", "Except with the interns and the peripheral stuff but -- so I would say no.", "Did Ross tell you that one of his colleagues was going to go buy the tickets ahead of time.", "True.", "OK. And you checked that out, and that was true?", "Yes, it was.", "And it's true that, in fact, where he pulled over there off Akers Mill road, that was on the way to the movie.", "Correct.", "And where his office is, he had to go that direction toward the movie?", "Correct.", "And when he pulled off, he had to take a right into the shopping center where Cinco is.", "Yes, sir.", "And his car literally was pulled in the middle of the road, wasn't it?", "That is correct.", "And you said one of the witnesses said he literally just heard screeching, the car came to a stop, and the man just jumped out.", "Yes, sir.", "OK. So other than the fact that there was a trip for the light bulbs, which were tossed in the car, was there anything of a significant -- that you think intentionally didn't tell you about?", "Well, except leaving his son in the car.", "He told you he left his son in the car, right?", "And I will give you that. No.", "On Monday night of this week, some of your detectives executed a search warrant at the home of Ross' wife, correct?", "That's correct. And if I may, the previous answer I gave, he also failed to tell us anything about the sexting and for lack of a better term.", "All right. Did you ask about that?", "I did not.", "OK. Well, he didn't mislead you or lie about it, did he?", "No. He just forgot or left out.", "And, in fact, that's got absolutely nothing to do with this accident whatsoever, then it's not relevant, is it?", "I believe it is relevant.", "OK.", "Quick break. Back after this.", "And we take you back to this probable cause and bond hearing in Cobb County, Georgia. This father, who we are honed in on, sitting right there the left of your screen in that orange prison jumpsuit, this is the father who is now sitting accused of felony murder in the 22-month-old son, 22 months of age, Cooper, death in the hot car just a couple weeks ago. Take a listen. Cross-examination now.", "Anything out of the glove box? You didn't see him pick anything up off the floor? You didn't see him look in the back seat? You didn't see him look over the back seat? You didn't see him looking around? See if anybody was watching? You didn't see any of that on that video, did you?", "Not at the car.", "OK. Because if you would have seen it in the video, it would have been in the warrant, right?", "Possibly.", "He just tossed the light bulbs in, closes the door and walks away?", "Yes, sir.", "The car seat in Ross' car, we've seen in that photograph, is a rear-facing car seat?", "Correct.", "It's in the middle of the -- in the middle of the back seat?", "Correct.", "So if he's on the driver's side, that car seat would be to his -- behind him to his right?", "Correct.", "Did you ever ask Ross if he had any sort of physical limitations which might impair his ability to see or hear Ross or anything like that?", "He said he had no medical conditions.", "OK. Did you ask him what medical conditions he had?", "I asked him if he had any medical conditions, or if he was under the care of a physician, I think is my exact words.", "Let's be exact.", "Well --", "You asked him if he was under the care of a physician.", "I don't have my notes here in front of me, sir. So we're going to say --", "All right. Well I'm going to restate my question. I apologize.", "OK.", "Did you ever ask him directly if he had any kind of physical limitations which might impair his ability to see or hear his child?", "Not directly.", "OK. Would that be something that would be relevant to --", "Quick, quick break. 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{"id": "CNN-373258", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-06-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/25/nday.06.html", "summary": "Latest Sexual Assault Accusation against Trump", "utt": ["For a moment I was stunned, right, and then he tried to kiss me, which was repulse -- it was so hard (ph). But so my reaction was to laugh, to knock off the erotic whatever he had going on because a man, when you laugh at him, he's like oh, no, you know, he just went at it.", "To me, the fact what she describe -- what she describes is legally a rape, puts it in a different category than what we've heard before. Am I wrong?", "It is certainly a more serious offense. It is a more serious violation of a woman and her sovereignty she has over her body for sure. There's -- there's just nothing to excuse this. This was not excusable. You can look at her, you can determine whether you think she's credible or not. We all have done this a lot over the last two years. And this woman seems to me, as a woman, you know, as a Republican, it -- the politics don't even matter because it's about a woman being violated. How this plays out in the news is entirely different. And -- and that's maybe what the next layer of this and how we talk about because there does seem to be a level of political immunity that is grant to the president of the United States. And it's not just this time.", "And, Ana, I mean it's been described as a numbness. Is that what you think is going on?", "I do. You know, and I -- look, I think the barrage of indecency coming out of that Oval Office and that White House is such that he has exhausted the ability of Americans to be outraged. And I think he is counting on that. And it is a very dangerous place for America to go. We cannot get numb, we cannot get used to the fact, we cannot just shrug our shoulders and say that's Trump being Trump and we've heard this before, we've heard these exact lines before. We cannot get normal. We cannot make normal what is not normal. The lies, the bullying, the attacks on the press, the sexual harassment allegations, now the rape allegation. This is not normal from a White House, from a president of the United States. And also, you know, Alisyn, in 2016, Democrats nominated a candidate who was burdened and saddened by the actions of her husband and sat their silently while Donald Trump, who had been accused, as you just said, by 15 women, showed up with the women that Bill Clinton had been accused by. Well, I hope that this time somebody does bring it up because decency does matter. Character does matter. Having somebody in the Oval Office with a moral compass does matter. And he should not be able to get off scot free from it just because people are used to it. We should refuse as Americans to be used to this.", "Nancy, there's a crazy paradox that's happening right now, which is that the media, or the viewers, get more numb upon hearing each story. But in court, legally, if you brought in 15 women who all describe the same M.O. of the same defendant, wouldn't that be more effective?", "The most effective thing is his own words. Rarely do I have a case where the perpetrators of sexual violence or sexual harassment is on tape admitting sexual violence and sexual harassment.", "Describing his", "Describing exactly what is being described by these women. You never get -- that's called direct evidence. You win. He admits it. And for some reason there's a cult that Fox News has actually cultivated. The loudest voice in the room is just coming out and it showed it last night at the premier --", "The Showtime series about Fox that went under Rogers Ailes' rein.", "And it shows how he actually planned to speak to people's grievances and feeling of other and feeling like the great old days of the white male macho world are fading and we have to bring it back, whether it's true or not. And that's what he's done. He literally has a cult of people who you can't talk to about reality. It's very scary.", "You know, it used to be that hypocrisy was the unforgivable sin in politics. And now it's like you can't play politics unless you are a hypocrite by design. And I just -- as we talk about -- you know, I said, this isn't the first time a president has been immune from these kind of accusations. And conservatives rallied behind Juanita Broaddrick, who made very similar accusations against President Clinton, and they rallied behind her in the 1990s and they rallied behind her in 2016. And we have now -- I mean where is Steve Bannon, right? Where are all of the men who brought four of those women as political props? Do they believe that this woman, who has the same allegations, is equally as credible? This -- we also found out, as you were talking about Fox News, that \"The New York Post\" spiked the story about this woman and her credible accusations against the president because of the politics.", "Because they're all", "Right. They asked me to be on Fox News today to talk about my client, Meredith Watson, who's accused a Democratic lieutenant governor of rape months ago. Why today? Because let's talk about a Democrat who's --", "You know what -- doing --", "That's fascinating, isn't it? Yes, go ahead.", "When -- when Margaret and I were growing up in the Republican Party, one of the -- one of the legs of the conservative stool was conservative values, was Christian values, was family values, was social values. And we have seen that be turned on its head. We have seen people who are supposedly representatives and leaders of the evangelical movement, of the Christian right, embrace a president who we see time and time and time again represents everything that is against social values and family values and Christian values.", "OK, so coming up, we're going to talk about whether 2019 is different than 2016. Much more from our panel, next."], "speaker": ["E. JEAN CARROLL, ACCUSES PRESIDENT TRUMP OF ASSAULT", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "MARGARET HOOVER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "CAMEROTA", "ANA NAVARRO, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "CAMEROTA", "NANCY ERIKA SMITH, ATTORNEY, SMITH MULLIN", "CAMEROTA", "M.O. SMITH", "CAMEROTA", "SMITH", "HOOVER", "CAMEROTA", "SMITH", "NAVARRO", "CAMEROTA", "NAVARRO", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-308718", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2017-03-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/29/es.01.html", "summary": "House Intel Russia Probe Stalls; Health Care Back on the Table; GOP Going Nuclear; Trump: \"We're Doing Very Well in Iraq\"", "utt": ["The House investigation into the Trump campaign ties to Russia on hold. How long until things get moving? Will they ever get moving? Will we ever hear from the former Justice Department official who could have damaging evidence?", "New signs on health care from the Republicans. After declaring he was moving on, is the president ready to re-engage with lawmakers who spurned him?", "And Republicans are going all in on Neil Gorsuch. A vote expected next week despite a growing number of Democrats ready to filibuster the Supreme Court nominee. All right. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans.", "I'm Dave Briggs. Russian salad dressing on the menu today on EARLY START. It's Wednesday, March 29th, 4:00 a.m. in the East. We'll get to that later. But we start with the schedule today for the House Intelligence Committee investigating alleged ties between President Trump and Russia. What's on that schedule? No meetings. No hearings. Well, no nothing. The Trump-Russia probe has completely broken down for now amid a growing divide over whether House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes should recuse himself. Those calls coming from a growing number of Democrats and now even from the ranks of Nunes own party. Elijah Cummings, first, the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, points to a claim made by Nunes that he was on White House grounds to read classified material but no one on the west wing was aware. Cummings says, quote, \"The claim by Chairman Nunes no one knew in the White House knew about a visit cannot be true. Chairman Nunes was not a White House fence jumper. He was invited in.\"", "And now, there's a Republican House member saying Nunes should recuse himself, Walter Jones of North Carolina. Meantime, Nunes is scoffing at the suggestion he might step aside.", "Are you going to stay as chairman and run this investigation?", "Well, why would I not? You guys need go ask them why these things are being said.", "Can this investigation continue as you as chairman?", "Why would it not? Am I not briefing you guys continuously and keeping you up to speed?", "But they're saying that it cannot run with you as chairman.", "You got to talk to them. That sounds like their problem.", "All right. Before the investigation resumes, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, he wants Republicans to agree to reschedule hearings that had been set for yesterday. Among them, one of which the former acting Attorney General Sally Yates was expected to testify about communications between former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn and Russia's ambassador to the", "\"The Washington Post\" reported Tuesday that the White House sought to block Yates from testifying, a claim Press Secretary Sean Spicer adamantly rejected.", "The 24th, Miss Yates' attorney sent a letter to the White House counsel requesting that consent specifically stating that if they did not receive a response by March 27th at 10:00 a.m. They would, quote, \"conclude that the White House does not assert executive privilege over these matters. The White House did not respond and took no action that prevented Miss Yates from testifying.\" I hope she testifies. I look forward to it.", "There's at least one investigation moving forward in a bipartisan spirit today that's the chairman and ranking Democrat on the Senate Intel Committee. They will offer an update on their Russia investigation today at 2:30, in a news conference.", "Crickets from the House, but we'll hear from the Senate at 2:30. All right. Spicer, Sean Spicer may be running out of ways to downplay the Trump administration's ties to Russia. Listen to the press secretary getting into a heated exchange with reporters after suggesting the media is looking for Kremlin connections that simply don't exist.", "I said it from the day that I got here until whatever, that there's no connection. You've got Russia. If the president puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow there's a Russian connection. But every single person -- no, well, no, that's -- I appreciate your agenda here but the reality is -- no, no, hold on. No, at some point, report the facts. The facts are that every single person who has been briefed on this subject has come away with the same conclusion. Republican, Democrat, so I'm sorry that disgusts you. You're shaking your head. I appreciate it.", "But, OK, but understand this, that at some point, the facts are what they are.", "Sean Spicer accusing that respective reporter of having an agenda. April Ryan of American Urban Radio asked the question that sets Spicer off. She was also a reporter Spicer told her to stop shaking her head. She's going to join us live in the 8:00 a.m. hour of NEW DAY. April Ryan.", "Russian salad dressing. I mean, that really was the headline of the day. Really. I mean, it exploded online. I brought you a gift this morning.", "Oh, no, are you kidding me?", "Our producer, Leslie, resourceful at 3:00 a.m. Apparently, people still do use it.", "And you did a little bit of research. What is the -- what is the preferred dressing in America?", "The 17th most popular salad dressing in America. Seventeenth. So, if he was using it, yes, that would be suspicious. Ranch dressing is your number one.", "On my eggs, this morning.", "Number one.", "May not this morning.", "Meanwhile, Republicans insisted they had no plan B on health care. So, since we're talking about insurance, we'll call this a rider number one. Just days after the GOP effort to repeal Obamacare ended in disaster we're learning the issue is now back on the table. If it was really ever off. Officials telling us the president and vice president spoke with several house members over the weekend about a path forward. Even so, the White House now keeping a lower profile, encouraging talks between members of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus and the moderate Tuesday Group.", "A senior administration official says members whose opposition helped kill House bill last week are, quote, \"terrified\" of backlash, backlash that some are getting from their constituents who elected them to repeal and replace Obamacare. The official says White House believe its threat to move past health care helped jolt House Republicans into action. And last night, President Trump all but admitted he's not done with this issue. For the very latest, I want to bring in CNN senior White House correspondent Jeff Zeleny.", "Christine and Dave, five days after the collapse of the health care bill, President Trump, the White House and some members on Capitol Hill are talking about reviving the bill and doing another type of deal. Now, they are in the very early beginning stages of talking about this. One is the pressure from the outside. Republicans, of course elected many of these people for years really to do something about health care and after the dramatic failure last week, of course, it fell apart. But now, there are serious talks going on. And President Trump invited senators from both parties to the White House last night. And he mentioned health care actually isn't that hard. Let's watch.", "I know that we're all going to make a deal on health care. That's such an easy one. So, I have no doubt that will happen very quickly. I think it will actually. I think it's going to happen, because we've all been promising, Democrat, Republican, we've all been promising that to the American people. So, I think a lot of good things are going to happen there.", "Such an easy one the president says. But, of course, he knows all too well health care legislation is so much more difficult than that. But the fact that he invited bipartisan group of senators to the White House is the latest in a series of steps this White House is calling a course correction. They want to bring some Democrats on board as well to try and get some difficult pieces of legislation through. We'll see if health care falls in that list or not. But, Christine and Dave, he certainly talked about it here last night.", "Yes, bringing on Democrats. That will be a difficult haul. Thank you, Jeff. The number of Senate Democrats declaring opposition to Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is growing this morning. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has now set a date for the floor vote on the floor nomination, defiantly predicting that Gorsuch will be confirmed next Friday. The Judiciary Committee is already set to vote on Monday and McConnell says he wants the full Senate to vote before lawmakers head off for a two-week spring week.", "McConnell and Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer already squaring off over the Republican threat to invoke the nuclear option. That would change Senate rules to end the filibuster on high court nominees so they can be confirmed by 51 votes instead of 60.", "We're going to get Judge Gorsuch confirmed. It will be an opportunity for Democrats to invoke cloture. We'll see where that ends, but it will really up to them how the process to confirm Judge Gorsuch goes forward.", "It's going to be a real uphill climb for him to get those 60 votes. It's such an important position. It should have bipartisan buy in. If a judge can't meet, if a nominee can't meet the 60 vote standard, you don't change the rules.", "As of now, 27 senators plan to filibuster the Gorsuch nomination. Three Democrats haven't said whether they will join the filibuster but said they would vote against Gorsuch on the floor and only two had said they won't take part in the filibuster. That's out of eight that Republicans need to break it.", "All right. The future of online privacy is now in President Trump's hands. The House of Representatives and the Senate have voted to repeal Internet privacy protections that were approved in the final days of the Obama administration. The rules have not yet gone into effect. But they would have required Internet service providers to get permission before collecting and sharing your personal data such as web browsing history, app usage and geo-location. There's big money in using your information. Providers would also have to notify customers about the data they collect. The goal was to give consumers extra control over their personal data online, the time when everything from smartphones to refrigerators can be connected to the Internet. Lawmakers who back the repeal say it's a duplicate regulation, getting rid of it will increase competition they say among Internet companies and cut the cost for those big companies. Democrats and privacy advocates argue the move effectively hands over your personal information to the highest bidder.", "She's emerged from the woods and now re-entered the political debate. Last night, speaking at a women's conference in San Francisco, Hillary Clinton gave her most pointed speech since election and got fired up talking about the Republican health plan.", "When Congress and the administration try to jam through a bill that would have kicked 24 million off their health insurance, defunded Planned Parenthood, jeopardize access to affordable birth control, deprive people with disabilities and elderly and nursing homes of essential care, they were met with a wave of resistance. I mean really take away maternity care? Really? Take away mental health and substance abuse care? I mean, who do these people talk to?", "Clinton also told the crowd, quote, \"There's no place I'd rather be here than with you\", before clarifying other than the White House.", "Interesting to hear from her, first really extended remarks I've heard in sometime.", "Yes, continued questions of who is the leader of the Democratic Party. Is it still her? Are they still -- is it Elizabeth Warren? Is it Chuck Schumer?", "She's clearly plugged in and has things to say about the news of the day new question.", "Yes. All right. Comment from the president on Iraq raises some eyebrows this morning. And his assessments of the situation on the ground, let's just say, running afoul of the fact checkers. We're live in Iraq, next."], "speaker": ["CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVE BRIGGS, CNN ANCHOR", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL REPORTER", "REP. DEVIN NUNES (R-CA), HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN", "RAJU", "NUNES", "RAJU", "NUNES", "ROMANS", "U.S. BRIGGS", "SEAN SPICER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "SPICER", "SPICER", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ZELENY", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-145806", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-12-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/07/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Talking to Your Kids About Sex", "utt": ["OK. So this is a big one. When is the right time to talk to your kids about sex? A new study suggests many parents are bringing it up too late after their children have already had sex. CNN's senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, having an eight-year-old, I can barely even talk about this. Joining us now with some more details of this study. OK. Tell us first about the study and then we'll go from there.", "Well, in the study, they polled kids. And they talked to parents and they tried to figure out when are parents having this discussion. And so what they found out is that many parents are having a discussion about sex too late. Meaning after the child has had sex, which is too late. So let's take a look at the major finding from this study. What they found is that 40 percent of kids were having sex without having first spoken to their parents about birth control and sexually transmitted diseases. Obviously, two topics that you want to cover before your child starts having sex.", "But is there any information about whether or not they're having sex without using birth control.", "That's a good question. I don't think they looked at that. What they found is that they were having sex without having had this discussion with their parents. Now maybe they had had the discussion in sex-ed class. Maybe they'd had the discussion other places. But many studies show that the best place for kids to get information is from their parents. They take it in better. They listen to it better.", "Yes. I'm so hesitating on asking this next question. But it's important to know, on average, according to this study, how early are kids having sex?", "It is scary. As a parent, you are not going to like the answer, Heidi. No parent likes this answer. You got to know. You have to know. According to the authors of this study, kids, one-third of all ninth graders are having sexual intercourse. That's one-third of ninth graders. Ninth graders are about 14, 15 years old. And half of tenth graders have already had sexual intercourse. So in other words, if you wait until they're, like, 15 to have a discussion about having sex, it's too late.", "And so, if you home school your child and lock them in the closet for every other portion of the day, that helps, or there's nothing in the study about that?", "I haven't seen a locking in the closet study. But if I do, I'll let you know.", "Oh, lord. So then I guess the question would be if parents have the sex talk, does it even work or would we see these numbers be different?", "Well, we asked the researchers when parents do it right and they have that sex talk, does it mean that kids are delaying having sex? And they said, you know, we didn't look at that. We can't answer it. But what they do know is that when parents have that sex discussion with their kids, their kids are more likely to use birth control when they do have sex and are more likely to have safe sex, in other words sex where they're preventing sexually transmitted diseases. So if you have that talk with your kid, it may or may not delay sex, I supposed it depends on what message you give them but it will increase the chances that they'll have safe sex and use birth control.", "All right. Thanks, Elizabeth.", "It's not easy.", "Not easy at all. All right. We'll talk again. Thank you. Iran's students day had little to do with the current youth population and a lot to do with the regime many of those young people resent. Why so many are so angry during a national observance there."], "speaker": ["COLLINS", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS"]}
{"id": "CNN-400804", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2020-05-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/21/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Chinese Search Giant Baidu Rethinking NASDAQ Listing", "utt": ["Yes, Richard, and I think, Facebook, the latest company to admit that some of these changes will be permanent. The company saying it was Zuckerberg in a town hall for employees that he broke us live on his own Facebook page saying that that 50 percent is not a target. But he expects over the next five to 10 years that they could see about half of their workforce shift to permanent work from home. Now, this is -- this is because he's listening to employees. He says they conducted an internal survey. And about 40 percent of people expressed an interest in continuing to work from home. And of those, 75 percent said that, in doing that, they would relocate to another location. So, Zuckerberg saying that he's going to start doing this by remote hiring, by allowing the company to hire engineering talent from within about four hours distance of some of its existing offices. So, that's for the beginning and then eventually they'll open it up to existing employees. So really, an admission, Richard, of just how big of a change this is and how people are unsure, executives are unsure about how long this will go on. But Zuckerberg also saying this will be helpful for Facebook, they have to retain and attract engineering talent and other talent. And he wants it to be -- you know, this is his lofty vision. He wants it to be helpful for the world, as well. He says that they need to sort of broaden our economic prosperity to other geographic regions, bring in other perspectives. And of course, we've seen this Richard, he thinks it will help the environment bring down commuting and the emissions from that.", "Clare Sebastian. Clare, thank you. The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a bill that would require Chinese companies to comply with U.S. audit standards. It's a fairly Draconian measure. Companies that do not three years in a row will be removed from U.S. stock markets. Senators said they're meant to protect investors. Now, the Chinese search engine giant Baidu is considering a U.S. listing following that vote by the U.S. Senate. The CEO Robin Li told a statement in China Daily, it doesn't concern -- this is what he actually said. \"The U.S. government is constantly tightening its control of Chinese companies listed in the U.S. Our basic judgment is that if you are a good company, there are many options on where to list. It is not limited to the United States.\" Matt Egan, is with us, CNN Business Senior Writer. And the idea first of all, that Chinese companies must comply with SEC audits. Now, is this if they're listed and doing business over here, I mean, what is this designed to do to catch U.S. companies in which way?", "This is designed to protect U.S. investors. The problem when you talk to the sponsors of this legislation, they say is that Chinese companies are not playing by the rules. Beijing does not let U.S. accounting watchdogs inspect the audits of companies that are registered in China or Hong Kong. So, we're talking about China companies that are listed on U.S. exchanges. And there's no coincidence that this is happening that this bill passed the Senate, just weeks after the Luckin Coffee accounting scandal. The Chinese company, they had to fire their CEO, their COO, and that's because of these accounting irregularities that they have disclosed. And so, the problem is that there's not enough transparency. So, this bill would basically say that companies that don't open their books are not going to be allowed to list on Wall Street. I got off the phone with Senator Chris Van Hollen from Maryland, one of the co-sponsors of this bill. And he said, Listen, we're not trying to take on China. We just want them to play by the same rules as everyone else.", "But isn't this a case of caveat emptor for investors? If you know that you can't see the books of -- I can understand if it's a security issue, but if it's a straight investment question, you know, you pay your money, he takes your choice.", "I think so. I think that's -- that is a fair -- a fair statement. But we also have to remember that there's a lot of people that are investing in Chinese companies, and they may not actually realize they're doing it, right? You and I have money in mutual funds, we might have ETFs. And those funds may be investing in companies that are based in China. And we might not know that there's not as much transparency there. So, there is an accounting risk. But Richard, I mean, let's be honest, this is part of a broader issue, right? This is a broader crackdown between the United States and China. There is clearly a battle here going on. It's not just about securities. It's about national security. It's about technology and global supremacy. So, we're seeing it playing out right now in terms of Chinese stocks. But there's also this crackdown on Huawei. We saw NASDAQ is also proposing new securities restrictions as well. President Trump continues to talk about possibly imposing tariffs or sanctions on China. So, this is a broader issue and it's not going away. It's going to be playing out for the next few years.", "Matt Egan, Matt, thank you. France has always been number one in terms of foreign visitors, the destinations in the world. There's all sorts of logistical reasons why, but now the question is, how can France maintain that top status? Paris is also a way up there. After the break."], "speaker": ["CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "QUEST", "MATT EGAN, CNN BUSINESS SENIOR WIRTER", "QUEST", "EGAN", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-195264", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2012-11-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1211/05/ampr.01.html", "summary": "US Presidential Election; China-US Relations", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. I'm Christiane Amanpour. Whenever Americans elect a president in the United States, the whole world watches with bated breath. How will this affect us, they ask? Indeed, as the joke goes, people around the world believe they should also have a say about who becomes the leader of the only superpower. But it is Americans who are voting and though Tuesday is Election Day, already long lines stretch across the country as people have started casting their ballots in early voting. According to CNN's latest polls, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are tied in the popular vote. But here in the United States it's the Electoral College that counts, the complex system that weighs voting by states, not by the total number of votes that Americans cast. And in that tally, the president is said to be leading Mitt Romney. But, of course, the outcome is far from certain. Also unclear: will American foreign policy change no matter who wins? In the only foreign policy debate between the two men, Mitt Romney had harsh words for the president's handling of key crises around the world.", "You look at the record of the last four years and say, is Iran closer to a bomb? Yes. Is the Middle East in tumult? Yes. Is al Qaeda on the run, on its heels? No. Are Israel and the Palestinians closer to reaching a peace agreement? No. They haven't had talks in two years.", "But in another debate, President Obama said that he had delivered on key foreign policy promises.", "Not everybody agrees with some of the decisions I've made. But when it comes to our national security, I mean what I say. I said I'd end the war in Libya -- in Iraq, and I did. I said that we'd go after Al Qaeda and bin Laden. We have. I said we'd transition out of Afghanistan and start making sure that Afghans are responsible for their own security. That's what I'm doing.", "In a moment, I'll speak with someone who knows exactly how tough it is to make foreign policy priorities and decisions, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. But first, a look at some of the other election stories that we're covering around the world.", "Two brave women, worlds apart; two brave voices for democracy. When casting a vote could cost you your life. And after the election comes the constitution. In Tunisia, they're inspired by the Arab Spring. In the state of Alabama, they've been writing one for 100 years, and still haven't got it right.", "We'll get to that in a bit. But first, Madeleine Albright appreciates America's foreign policy challenges better than just about anyone. She served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and as secretary of state under President Bill Clinton. She was the first in a long line of distinguished women who have now served in that position. And in May, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor. Secretary Albright, thank you very much for joining me.", "It's great to be with you, Christiane. Thank you.", "So the all-important question that everybody around the world is really on tenterhooks waiting to know: how will American foreign policy change no matter who's elected?", "Well, if President Obama's reelected, which I expect, I think that he will continue to pursue a policy in which America's strength is evident by how we operate in an increasingly complex world with partners. I think that he has been quite remarkable in the way that he has understood the issues that are out there for us to deal with that really do require partnership. And as you said, or as the president had said, he has done the things that he said he would do, which is end the war in Iraq, move to get us out of Afghanistan and deal with Osama bin Laden. He also, I think, understands that there are an awful lot of other issues out there that require American engagement. He did say we were the indispensible nation and that we will do that in partnership with others. So I think there will be a continuation of the policy with President Obama. I'm more concerned if there should be a President Romney, because it's very hard to figure out exactly what he stands for. I think he has said, for instance, that Russia is our number one geostrategic problem, which made sense for the 20th century, but makes no sense in the 21st. And he's changed his mind on so many issues. So I am more concerned about that.", "Well, let me get to those points. And you bring up the indispensable nation. Of course, you are the one who coined that, so I'm sure it brings a smile to your face when the President of the United States says that. But let me ask you, traditionally, when an American president is reelected, there's this idea of a second term freedom. There's this idea that they could perhaps pursue certain policies that perhaps they couldn't have done in a first term. And to that regard, I would like to play this sound bite. It was a hot mike recording between President Obama and President Medvedev of Russia.", "This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility. I understand you.", "I transmit this information to Vladimir, and I stand with you.", "All right. So discussing with the Russian president how he would have more flexibility. What precisely do you think he means? And when you talk about priorities in a second term, where do you think they should be?", "Well, I think the president, you know, had moved forward on a New START treaty and was in the wake of having worked that through the Senate. I think that what the president understands is that one of the issues out there is how to have cooperation with Russia on the various parts of nuclear agreements that are not yet finished. So I think he understands, as I said earlier, that he has to cooperate with a number of different countries. I do think that one of the things where there will be something different and it's already a beginning of that is what has now been called the rebalancing to Asia, a genuine understanding that the United States is an Atlantic as well as a Pacific power, and that we have to deal with a rising China that is both a friend and a -- in some ways a competitor. And the various aspects to do with that and the fact that so many people really live in Asia and that we have to spend a lot of time dealing with that. So I think that will be very much a part of a second term of an Obama administration.", "And that, of course, is also up for debate in questioning, not just how America will deal with China, but how China will deal with the United States. There is a new Chinese leadership election a couple of days after the American election. And I want to read you something that presumed new president of China said a couple of years ago on one of his foreign trips. Xi Jinping said, \"There are a few foreigners with full bellies who have nothing better to do than try to point the finger at our country. China does not export revolution, hunger, poverty nor does China cause you any headaches. Just what else do you want from us?\" said Xi Jinping a few years ago. Just what does the United States want from China?", "I think that we want to have a relationship in which there's some cooperation on a variety of our economic issues that we have to deal with. I think we want China to play a responsible role globally because they are out there in many ways resource-hungry, looking for various areas where they can have an influence. But as I said earlier, the United States wants to have other countries be partners in solving some of the problems that we have abroad. I think what we don't want to see is a real escalation of problems in the South China Sea and we would like to see a cooperation in terms of dealing with some of the territorial issues. What I find interesting was Xi Jinping was in the United States. We had a -- some of us had a small dinner with him. And I think he was looking for ways to build on the long-term relationship that's existed with China and see where the areas are that we can cooperate. And I think that's what we're going to be looking for also.", "Well, of course, the Chinese could be forgiven for thinking that the United States is simply throwing rhetoric and harsh words at them. Both President Obama and Mitt Romney have thrown around harsh words at China during this election campaign. Do you think that's just the election?", "Well, I think we do understand that our economic relationship with China is complicated and the issue is, you know, while we're talking about national security, for a lot of people voting tomorrow and in the early election, are questions about jobs and what our economic relationship is with China. But -- and President Obama has made clear that he wants to see fair trade going forward and really a way of doing with that, not -- I mean, frankly, when you were asking what would happen with Governor Romney, he said he would declare China a currency manipulator on the first day. He hasn't told us what would happen on the second day, because that would really cause a major rift.", "Well, Governor Romney has also said -- and we played it in that debate, that Iran is four years closer to a nuclear bomb. There's been no progress with Iran except for very harsh sanctions that this administration has leveled on Iran. But no progress in the idea of controlling their nuclear program. What should a President Obama or a President Romney do to try to resolve this peacefully?", "Well, there's no doubt that Iran poses a major problem for the international community. And what President Obama's been able to do is to, in fact, put in these very tough multilateral sanctions and work towards isolating Iran internationally, which other presidents have not been able to do, and to then also make clear something that is very important. He has said that Iran -- he would not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, and that containment is not enough of a policy and that he hasn't taken any option off the table; whereas Governor Romney has made it sound as, first of all, he hasn't made clear what he's talking about, whether it's a way of having nuclear potential or whatever word he uses, but he also makes it sound as if we're ready to go to war with Iran. And I think that's dangerous just to have that as a flat-out policy. And President Obama is working with the international community to see whether there isn't some negotiating path while not taking any option off the table.", "And very briefly, the Middle East peace process, no movement for a couple of years. Mitt Romney said in the debates, it's -- or he said that it's a problem that will remain unsolved. Does the next United States president have to reenergize that and restart that process?", "Well, first of all, the Israelis are having an election in January themselves. That will determine a lot about what their position is. And I do think that it's something that has to be on the second term agenda. But in the end, the United States can't dictate terms. And so I think it is important to reenergize that and I hope very much that both the parties, the Israelis and the Palestinians, will be prepared to move forward.", "Secretary Albright, thank you very much for joining me.", "Great to be with you, Christiane, as always.", "Thank you. And, of course, Secretary Albright doesn't just have an eye on the U.S. elections and foreign policy. She's also part of a commission that advises on fair and free elections around the world. When we return, a look at two women at the forefront of that fight in their own countries. But before we take a break, here on the East Coast of the United States, they continue to feel the devastation of superstorm Sandy.", "Just look at the latest cover of \"New York\" magazine, showing, really, a tale of two cities, flooding knocked out power in Lower Manhattan, while in the northern part of Manhattan, electricity continued flowing. Lights came back on this weekend in some areas. But now many people will face another storm this week without heat or electricity. And you can take another look at this remarkable picture at amanpour.com/Facebook. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST", "FORMER GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-121251", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2007-11-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/09/acd.01.html", "summary": "Al Qaeda: The Looming Terror", "utt": ["Good evening. I'm Anderson Cooper. Tonight, we are going to take a hard look at al Qaeda and the men who built it into a killing machine. More than six years after 9/11, many experts believe al Qaeda has regrouped, reorganized. The videotapes and audiotapes keep coming, promising more attacks. The people who know al Qaeda best say the only chance we have to defeat it is to understand its past, see where its strengths lie today, and know where it wants to go in the future. Tonight, we are going to slice through the myths and uncover the facts. Joining me is Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \"The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,\" also CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen, one of the few journalists to have actually met Osama bin Laden. He's also the author of \"The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History.\" You're watching a special edition of 360: \"Al Qaeda: The Looming Terror.\" Six years on from 9/11, do we know who our enemy is? I mean, have we done a good job of identifying and explaining who the enemy is?", "No. I think they know us very well, but, in terms of our understanding of the enemy is -- is minimal. We -- very few Americans know where they came from, what they are fighting for, what their grievances are against America. I have to say, our level of ignorance of our enemy is about as great as it was on 9/11.", "And why is it important to -- to understand the enemy?", "Well, how are you going to defeat the enemy if you don't know the first thing about them? And that's not just true of ordinary Americans. It's true through much of the American intelligence community. The head of the FBI's counterterrorism bureau testified under oath that he didn't know the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite, and that he thought that was an irrelevant question. Well, if you don't know the first thing about your enemy, you will always have a failure of imagination, an inability to connect the dots.", "President Bush has often said, well, they hate our freedom. It's not that simple, though. Let's talk about the underpinnings of it, the seeds of al Qaeda.", "And, I mean, to do that, you really have to start even before al Qaeda ever existed many years in the past. Where did this begin?", "I would start it in -- in Egypt with Sayyid Qutb, the Islamist philosopher behind this movement. This is the guy who wrote the book \"Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq,\" which means \"Milestones,\" that everybody read. It's the book that Ayman al-Zawahri, the number-two guy in al Qaeda, read, and the book that Osama bin Laden read. He came to America in 1948.", "This guy Qutb came to America in '48?", "Yes. But he hated America. Everything he saw, he hated. The -- you know, he couldn't even get his hair cut in a way that he liked. But the things that were -- women, he was very threatened by American women, their sexuality, their openness. He was a middle-aged virgin. He was very undermined by their sexuality.", "And it's interesting, because it's not as if this guy was hanging out, you know, in -- in Time Squares in New York.", "No.", "He was at a -- at a -- what, a Midwestern college somewhere?", "In Northern Colorado, a place in Greeley, Colorado, a little educational school there, where he spent most of the time that he was here. If you read his writing about what he says about the women in America, you can see his just -- his longing is so high and his -- and his fear of them is so great.", "So, why is Sayyid Qutb important, Peter?", "Well, basically, you know, the book that Larry referred to, \"Milestones,\" it's -- it's a very timeless book, because it essentially said, look, every Muslim country around the world is not really being governed by Islamic law. Your government is not really running a proper Islamic state. And we're living in a state of pagan ignorance, he called -- a state called jahiliyya, and that they -- and the implication being that you have the right -- in fact, you should overthrow your government. And, in fact, he -- in the book, he says, it's not just about defensive wars. You actually have to, like, do jihad in an offensive way. So, this is a book that, you know, you can read now, many decades later, and you can -- it's basically a handbook for jihadists to overthrow regimes, attack non-Muslims.", "I mean, why is it important to know who Sayyid Qutb is? Knowing that, what does it change or how does it inform how we should look at al Qaeda now?", "There are two concepts that Sayyid Qutb brings to the table which are important in terms of understanding al Qaeda's mind- set. One is the one that Peter mentioned, jahiliyya, the idea that, before Islam, the world lived in a kind of pagan chaos, and -- and Islam came along and changed that. But, Qutb says, now we are back to that original state. And, in order for us to be real Muslims, pure Muslims, we have to return to that state of pure Islam. That is essential to understanding their view of the world. The other also you can credit Sayyid Qutb on is takfir. That -- the word means excommunication. And it's not a word that...", "Takfir?", "It's not a word that he used. But it -- it entitles one Muslim to say that another Muslim is not really a true Muslim. And this happened when Sayyid Qutb was in prison in Egypt. A number of Muslim brothers were rounded up, and they were thrown into a cell. And, one day, some of the guards went in and just opened up them with -- with machine guns. Qutb was in the prison hospital when some of the injured were brought in. And he said to himself, what kind of Muslim would do this to another Muslim? And his answer was, they are not Muslims. In his mind, he excommunicated them. And it's that example that Zawahri and others have used to justify the killing of thousands and thousands of Muslims.", "And, so, who -- who read that book, and how did it lead to al Qaeda?", "The first person I would point to is Ayman Al-Zawahri. And he was -- his uncle was Sayyid Qutb's lawyer and protege and the last person to see Sayyid Qutb alive before Gamal Abdel Nasser hanged him in 1966. And that was the year that Ayman Al-Zawahri started a cell to overthrow the Egyptian government.", "And he was, what, 15 years old?", "Fifteen years old. This is a man who has never deterred from that path since he was a -- a middle teenager.", "And, at the age of 15, he wanted to overthrow the Egyptian government because they were not Islamic enough?", "Yes.", "And how did all Zawahri become -- go from being this 15- year-old kid to the -- the terrorist that he is today?", "He began at a very early age to organize schoolmates, and eventually army officers, police officers, technical men like him -- he's a medical doctor -- into a sophisticated underground cell. And it was one wing of that cell that assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1981. Following that, Zawahri and hundreds of other Islamists were rounded up and put in Egyptian prisons, where they were able to communicate with each other and -- and form networks. But they were also brutally tortured.", "So, we -- we have all seen the video of the assassination of -- of Sadat...", "Yes.", ".. at the parade grounds that the shooting breaks out. So, those were followers of Zawahri?", "Some of them were, but they were all followers of Sayyid Qutb. And they were all inspired by his example.", "And, so, after that assassination, hundreds were rounded up?", "Yes, including Zawahri, who spent three years in jail. Basically, anybody who was involved in this movement, they are thrown in jail. And Zawahri was on the fringes of the -- of the assassination plot, but, I mean, he had -- clearly, he was a militant. And, of course, as Larry said, a lot of the treatment that these guys got in prison made them more radical. And, of course, they met like-minded people, swapped business cards, became even closer. And, once these guys left, like al-Zawahri, who left in -- he -- you know, he was more militant probably than he had been when he had actually gone into prison.", "So, where does -- Zawahri is in prison. They become further radicalized. He has his own organization, but it doesn't -- he doesn't quite have the charisma of a bin Laden?", "Not at all. I mean, in fact, he was a terrible leader for his own organization. He was constantly running them into trouble. They are innumerable accounts of the -- the key person with the computer with all the names on it was captured, and his group was all rounded up. And he would start over again, and the same thing would happen. He's non-charismatic. He's -- he's -- he had no money. He had no real personal loyalty. But what he had was a driving commitment and an eye for talent. And that's why, when he spotted bin Laden -- I always think it's sort of like Colonel Parker seeing Elvis for the first time. And he's thinking, I can do something with this young man.", "When we come back, we're going to talk more about Osama bin Laden, look at the early days of bin Laden, how he became this terrorist mastermind, and dispel some of the myths of bin Laden, as well -- when this special edition of 360, \"Al Qaeda: The Looming Terror,\" continues."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "LAWRENCE WRIGHT, AUTHOR, \"THE LOOMING TOWER: AL QAEDA AND THE ROAD TO 9/11\"", "COOPER", "WRIGHT", "COOPER", "COOPER", "WRIGHT", "COOPER", "WRIGHT", "COOPER", "WRIGHT", "COOPER", "WRIGHT", "COOPER", "PETER BERGEN, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST", "COOPER", "WRIGHT", "COOPER", "WRIGHT", "COOPER", "WRIGHT", "COOPER", "WRIGHT", "COOPER", "WRIGHT", "COOPER", "WRIGHT", "COOPER", "WRIGHT", "COOPER", "WRIGHT", "COOPER", "BERGEN", "COOPER", "WRIGHT", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-293608", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2016-09-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/09/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "Clinton: Half Of Trump Supporters Are In \"Basket Of Deplorables\"", "utt": ["Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton making news on the campaign trail tonight. This is CNN TONIGHT. I'm Don Lemon. Here to discuss, three talk show hosts, Chris Stigall of WPHT in Philly, John Fredericks, a Trump supporter and Mr. Joe Madison of Sirius XM. Long time no see, Mr. Madison. Are you doing all right? Hello to all of you. Joe, first to you. Listen to Secretary Clinton at a fundraiser here in New York tonight.", "You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables, right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it. But the other basket of people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them --", "It's an interesting to hear what she went on to say about that. It sounds like there was kind of mid thought, but do you think that she should have said that, Joe, basket of deplorables, racists, sexists?", "I think I heard in the last segment someone said, well, she should said half or I don't know if she should have said one third or you could put ten people. I mean, you know, there have been some very deplorable people that even Donald Trump has had to denounce. We had to force him to denounce David Duke and others. But let's understand one thing, she obviously not speaking literally, it was figuratively. And, secondly, this is what you do and say at fundraisers. You are with -- it's almost like being a cheerleader. It's like being with your crowd and you think this is something, you wait until you get to a Republican fundraiser. You'll have the same thing said about liberals, about progressives. This is what people do at fundraisers.", "But, Chris, I have to ask you, though, because you remember when Donald Trump says, you know, said that he was -- he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and he got a lot of flak for that. Do you think it's similar?", "Actually, what this reminds me of, this reminds me of Mitt Romney's 47 percent comment caught at a fundraiser and it was devastating. I actually didn't hear this until I was on my way in to do your show tonight, Don. And I have to tell you, the Trump people would be smart to run this in an ad often. I don't know that I've ever heard a candidate define voters in such a pejorative, using such pejoratives. You can call him a racist, sexist, xenophobia running against him, but to call him supporters, half of them names? That could be terminal for her. That could be a big error tonight.", "I've heard Donald Trump and I play this on my show almost every day. I heard Donald Trump and I can give you the clip if you want, I'll be glad to send it to you saying I love stupid people and he was talking about his supporters.", "He said I love the uneducated.", "Well, uneducated, stupid. I love the uneducated people. Who calls his supporters uneducated? Who does that? We don't want uneducated people making uneducated decisions like voting for Donald Trump. So be very careful when you bring that up because that clip is out there and if Hillary Clinton's people are smart, they'll play that every day during the campaign.", "What he did not say is I love Hillary Clinton's stupid people, I love the stupid people that support Hillary Clinton. Far different than saying the people that support my opponent are racist and xenophobic and blah, blah, blah.", "You don't call our own supporters uneducated.", "John, you're sitting there and you're awfully quiet. Is this like when President Obama talked about bitter people in Pennsylvania clinging to their guns and religion? That hurt him. Do you think it's going to hurt her?", "The Clinton campaign is in free fall, dead panic in Brooklyn. They don't know what to do. They're delusional. They don't have any idea what e-mails are going to get out there. They don't know what Wikileaks is going to do. Right now, Trump is surging all over the country. Don, I was the first one in America to predict in media that he was going to be the Republican nominee and I'm predicting that he's going to win on November 8th. And if you --", "Everybody's been the first, John, by the way. I'm not saying you're revising history, but a lot of people have been, but go ahead.", "If you saw Mrs. Clinton tonight, that was a desperate attempt to frame Trump's backers, calling them stupid or whatever she's trying to do. At the end of the day, they have no plan -- her entire campaign right now is based on bashing Trump and then continuing to bash Trump. They have no plan. They're in a free-fall. Trump is going to win, Don. I mean, I don't know what these people are going to do because they're not -- they're not seeing reality right now.", "OK, I want to play this in because to Joe Madison's point, Joe, you said if you go to a conservative or a Republican rally, you'll see similar things. Donald Trump on the campaign trail tonight down in Pensacola, Florida, he said this about Hillary Clinton.", "Because she is being so protected, she could walk into this arena right now and shoot somebody with 20,000 people watching right smack in the middle of the heart and she wouldn't be prosecuted, OK? That's what's happened. That is what's happened to our country. I never thought I'd see the day when this is happening to our country.", "So, Chris, is that appropriate?", "No. Would I tell him to say it? No. I long gave up the business of spinning for Donald Trump. I don't do it. An overwhelming majority of the country believe Mrs. Clinton should have been punished by the FBI. A majority of people polled say something should have gone down with the FBI and Mrs. Clinton's e-mails. It didn't. Most of this country feels she is getting away with something criminal. I heard what you said, she hasn't been charged with anything criminal, fine. But most people believe she's done something criminal and that sentiment exists.", "I don't disagree with you, but to come on and definitively say that Hillary Clinton has committed a crime is just factually inaccurate and I was trying to get that across to the guest who is an attorney. I was shocked that he doesn't understand that. But anyway, I think most people get it. Joe, do you think that that was appropriate to say? I mean, you got a good chuckle out of that.", "I got a good chuckle out of it because as I said, you're going to hear it on both sides. Look, again, I've played on my show Donald Trump saying I could stand in the middle of Fifth Street --", "Fifth Avenue.", "Fifth Avenue, excuse me and shoot somebody and --", "Joe, let me play that.", "Go ahead, please.", "They say I have the most loyal people. Did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's like incredible.", "Go ahead, Joe.", "I mean, whoever would have heard -- in all my life I've never heard any presidential candidate, Republican or Democrat, say something like that. I mean, so you can see how -- let me say this quickly and I think we all can agree with this. I will be so glad when we start talking about issues that impact my child, my grandchild, my this back and forth attack, what's going on right now, I don't know if this is pre-debate nonsense. But at some point in time we have got to get into the substance of public policy. And that's what I'm waiting for because what I think we're all tired of is this attack/counterattack. Let's talk about substantive public policy issues, education, the economy, and who will lead the country in the next four years. That's what I think the American people really want.", "And substantive issues like taxes. We'll discuss that.", "Absolutely.", "We'll discuss that when we come right back. 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{"id": "CNN-129836", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-8-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0808/18/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Tropical Storm Fay Threatens Florida; Russian Power Play", "utt": ["Well, here comes Fay. The center of the storm is still hours from South Florida, but its outer bands are battering the Lower Keys. The Upper and Middle Keys are bracing for the same and all of Florida is under a state of emergency. Now, earlier, the tropical storm swamped Haiti and the Dominican Republic. At least eight people are dead. And it caused far less destruction in Cuba, by the way, brushing over the western edge. CNN's John Zarrella and his crew are getting pretty good and soaked in Key West. How you doing, John?", "Look at this, Kyra. An hour ago, we were just getting hammered here in Key West with sustained tropical-storm-force winds, gusty rain. We're in the center of circulation, so it looks as if the center of Tropical Storm Fay is actually over Key West right now, because it is just about dead calm here. The trees are hardly blowing over here. They're not moving at all. The surf has completely died down. So, again, it looks as if Tropical Storm Fay, the center of that circulation has made it right up to where we are here in Key West now. I'm sure that Jacqui Jeras, the weather folks probably keeping an eye on exactly where it is. But I have been through a lot of these, and I can't imagine it being anything else. Don't know what we can expect on the other side of the storm. I'm sure the weather will kick up a little bit. Again, we understand now that, at least up in the middle part of the Keys, there's power lines that are down. There may be some minor damage possibly from a tornado. There's also standing water all through the Lower Keys. We're going to try and get out and get some of those pictures in a little while here. But, right now, again, it looks, Kyra, as if we are, not an eye -- it doesn't have an eye -- but certainly the center of circulation of Tropical Storm Fay -- Kyra.", "All right, we will keep tracking it. And, of course, we are going to talk to Chad Myers more about it, too. John, thanks so much. A lot of questions about Fay. Will it become a hurricane? Where is it headed exactly? What do you think, Chad Myers?", "I don't think these keys are going to slow Fay down at all, Kyra. We always talk about a hurricane approaching land, and it dies off. This isn't going to happen, because the keys are only about 10 feet tall. So, right now, we have the eye, the center of the circulation, very close to Key West, probably up toward Shark Key, if I had kind of my druthers on this. But you have the onshore flow all the way up the oceanside, all the way down from", "Well, that happened even this morning. About 8:30, Reynolds Wolf came in and gave us a big scenario, telling us the whole scenario. And then he said, but, bottom line, we really don't know if that's what's going to happen.", "That's correct. If question had weather spotters that were sending up weather balloons every 50 miles in the ocean, we wouldn't have this unknown. We would know exactly where it's going. We don't have people out there telling us what's going on. We don't have weather watchers. We don't have weather balloons going up and down all day long telling us what those winds are like. It's an ocean. Nobody lives there, so we don't have the information.", "We need a direct line to Mother Nature is what we need.", "Correct. If I had this hurricane over Georgia right now, I could tell you where it's going because I have all kinds of weather balloons around. I have people telling me what direction the winds are coming from. In the middle of the ocean, they don't have those people.", "Chad, thanks. Well, with Tropical Storm Fay approaching Florida, have we learned any lessons from Hurricane Katrina? Lieutenant General Russel Honore, who helped the Gulf Coast get past the horrors of Katrina, will offer some helpful hints just ahead. Back from vacation and back on the trail, Barack Obama is talking economic and energy issues in New Mexico today. On his schedule this hour, a town hall meeting in Albuquerque. And military issues top John McCain's agenda today. The Republican candidate spoke to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention this morning in Orlando, Florida. He said the policies he supports are helping make Iraq more secure. And in a couple of hours, he's going to hold a fund-raiser right here in Atlanta. The faith forum both candidates took part in over the weekend is still causing a buzz. CNN's Rick Sanchez spoke with the man who asked the questions, Reverend Rick Warren. We're going to hear what he had to say later in the hour. And tributes in Little Rock today for the state Democratic Party chairman shot down on the job. The list of Bill Gwatney's mourners reads like a who's who in Arkansas politics, including Bill and Hillary Clinton. Gwatney was killed in a shooting last week at the Democratic Party headquarters. That gunman was later killed after a chase by police. The officers say that they had few clues as to a motive for the shooting. Russia says that today it's begun a withdrawal from Georgia, but hours later there's no indication that Moscow is keeping its word. CNN's Michael Ware is among the Georgia troops and the desperate Georgian civilians, actually, in the occupied town of Gori.", "It's already Monday afternoon on Georgia's eastern front. And the nominated deadline for Russia's troop withdrawal has passed. Yet there's no sign here on the eastern front of the Russian soldiers pulling back. Indeed, this checkpoint is the furthest line of Russian advance, 15 kilometers east of the Georgian city of Gori. Indeed, in some of the Russian positions in the surrounding hills, there are signs of the soldiers digging trenches and camouflaging their tanks and armor with fresh-cut foliage, Russian withdrawal from Georgia or not, according to the cease-fire. Standing here as dusk approaches in the Georgian city of Gori, still under Russian occupation, hundreds and Russian vehicles and their armors vehicles surround me. In this town square, the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, a statue looms high above. At the town hall, desperate Georgians are registering for food rations as the Russian troops still maintain patrols and checkpoints around this city. While most of the city appears to remain intact, the destruction wrought by this war can still be seen in buildings brought down like this one, that, according to locals, was destroyed by a Russian rocket. The scars of the war are also seen in the eyes and the jittery hands of the few Georgians who still remain. Gori is an almost vacant city, shops, homes and apartments all shuttered. It is a town of the old and the infirm and but a few sparse families. Russian checkpoints still man the streets, like this one over here. The troops are telling us that they have orders to withdraw at dusk. Everyone now waits until nightfall to see whether those orders are carried through. Russian armor still firmly inside Georgia as the last light begins to fade, an act of defiance or a precursor to departure? By the way, both sides to this conflict are reluctant to give ground. Michael Ware, CNN, on the road to Tbilisi.", "And a changing of the guard in Pakistan. Who's going to replace U.S. ally Pervez Musharraf in a volatile front in the war on terror? We will talk about it.", "Sniffing out cell phones, the newest tool to stop phones from being smuggled into state prisons."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "PHILLIPS", "MYERS", "PHILLIPS", "MYERS", "PHILLIPS", "MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-1175", "program": "Inside Politics", "date": "2000-1-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/21/ip.00.html", "summary": "McCain Delivers Counterattack by Air", "utt": ["In New Hampshire, Senator John McCain's lead over Governor George Bush has practically disappeared, according to our poll of likely Republican primary voters. McCain has 39 percent, Bush 37 percent. McCain led by four points in the same poll a month ago. However, those same New Hampshire voters say they believe Bush is more electable. Seventy-eight say they believe he can win in November, while 57 percent say McCain can beat the Democratic nominee. McCain is attempting to undercut Bush's support by releasing a new ad in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, the Arizona senator has moved a step ahead on the campaign trail, stumping in what he sees as the next critical primary state. Charles Zewe reports from South Carolina.", "The Arizona senator, who considers winning South Carolina critical to his insurgent campaign, pressed into the Palmetto State with an appeal to conservatives and the state's large veterans community.", "We must take care of these brave warriors.", "He also repeatedly pledged not to attack fellow Republicans.", "I will not say anything negative about the other candidates.", "On New Hampshire TV, however, the candidate addressed his chief rival with his toughest ad yet. (", "I guess it was bound to happen. Now my opponent has started the political attacks after promising he wouldn't.", "McCain struck out at Texas Governor George W. Bush, accusing him of breaking his promise to steer clear of negative campaigning. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, MCCAIN CAMPAIGN AD)", "Mr. Bush's attacks are wrong. My plan cuts taxes, secures Social Security and pays down the debt.", "It's a response claims that Bush has made in an ad that ran this week in New Hampshire. That ad says McCain's tax plan would close several tax loopholes, resulting in a $40 billion tax increase on workers. McCain said he had to defend himself against Bush's charges, but he bristled at the notion that he may be doing exactly what he's criticizes his opponent of doing.", "It was a direct response to an ad that he's been running that alleges that I'm trying to raise taxes by some $40 billion. That is not true. And everybody knows that's not true. So I have to tell people when he's running an ad saying that I'm raises taxes by $40 billion, that I'm not.", "Since entering the race, McCain's support among South Carolina Republicans has grown slightly, but he still trails Bush substantially, and the primary is less than a month away now. The Palmetto poll, taken by Clemson University of likely Republican voters shows Bush with a 51 to 29 percent lead over McCain. Analysts say that despite McCain's efforts here, figures indicate voters have made up their minds to support Bush. Charles Zewe, CNN, Greenville, South Carolina.", "Bush did not let McCain's New Hampshire ad go unanswered. Our Candy Crowley has the candidate's reaction from the stump here in Iowa.", "On a street corner in Grinnell, Iowa, George Bush stood in the frigid cold, discussing the heat rising in New Hampshire.", "But this is politics. You know, that's -- I find it to be amusing and -- that when there's an honest disagreement about what the definition of employer benefits mean, that there's kind of resort to name calling.", "This is really just another chapter in a week-long saga, which began when Bush said John McCain's tax cut plan actually raises some taxes. It is a kind of \"so's your mother\" argument. McCain says Bush has gone negative. Denied, and back at you.", "He can say anything he wants. Evidently, he is running an ad that says, you know, that I spend all the surplus, and I don't have any money left for Social Security. That's completely inaccurate.", "Mostly, though, Bush's attention is not on ads in New Hampshire, but votes in Iowa. It is town-to-town, nonstop retail campaigning, using shoe leather and his standard campaign speech. Veering a bit off the beaten path, Bush spent the morning sitting in the basement of a faith-based residential center for troubled and addicted lives.", "I was a victim, not a victim, but I was in prison -- I was a prisoner of drugs and alcohol. They had me. I didn't control them; they controlled me. And until I got here and God was able to open up my mind and show me that, hey, you've been believing things that just are not right, you need to change the way you think and then the way you act will be a natural process of that.", "Teen Challenge takes no government money. It's rehab services are free. Its success rate is high.", "If there was a voucher attached to a person that was seeking help, would you accept the voucher? He said yes. Under one condition: no strings. And I agree with that concept as well.", "There is no interest here in breaking any new ground. The sense you get is that of a holding pattern. What the Bush camp most wants is an uneventful though active couple of days, so that Monday, the candidate can bring home that double-digit lead indicated in Iowa polls. Candy Crowley, CNN, Marshalltown, Iowa.", "During Bush's walking tour of downtown Brunell, Iowa, he made a stop at a coffee shop. Waiting inside were several Bill Bradley supporters, who were there to write letters in favor of their candidate. The Republican hopeful spent a few minutes talking with the college students, long enough to make a good impression on at least one of the Democrats.", "I thought Bush was much more personable one on one. After meeting with them, I'd say go Bush. But after reading all of their policies, I'm for Bradley. So I think that it's definitely confusing when you meet them. It's two different things. It's like their person approach and then their policies don't often match.", "Not all of the Bradley supporters were as impressed. Another student talked with Bush about civil disobedience, and said he was not satisfied with the governor's answers.", "When we return: Has retail politics fallen by the wayside in New Hampshire? Our Bill Bradley on how the hopefuls are reaching Granite State voters."], "speaker": ["WOODRUFF", "CHARLES ZEWE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MCCAIN", "ZEWE", "MCCAIN", "ZEWE", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, MCCAIN CAMPAIGN AD) MCCAIN", "ZEWE", "MCCAIN", "ZEWE", "MCCAIN", "ZEWE (on camera)", "SHAW", "CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CROWLEY", "BUSH", "CROWLEY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CROWLEY", "BUSH", "CROWLEY (on camera)", "SHAW", "CELIA SEARS, STUDENT", "SHAW", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-247648", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2015-01-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/21/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview With State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki; Terror Manhunt", "utt": ["Plus, terror manhunt, urgent new raids in Europe and new evidence that several cohorts of the Paris attackers may be hiding in plain sight right now, getting ready to strike. And Ferguson controversy. As a new video of looting surfaces, there's now a new report that the Justice Department is nearing a bombshell decision in its investigation of the police officer Darren Wilson. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You are in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We have breaking news tonight. ISIS invades al Qaeda's turf, battling to be the top terrorist group. CNN has learned ISIS is actively recruiting inside of Yemen and the country is the home to al Qaeda's most dangerous affiliate known as AQAP, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen's government has been fighting off attacks by rebels for days and teetering on the brink of collapse. The violence and the chaos are threatening a crucial U.S. ally and emboldening brutal killers. The State Department's top spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, there you see her, she is standing by over at the State Department along with our correspondents, our analysts, and they're covering all the news that is breaking right now. But, first, let's get the very latest. Our chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto, is joining us -- Jim.", "Wolf, this is part of the brutal competition under way terror groups fighting for attention, recruits and territory. We're now seeing that extending into Yemen. Yemeni officials telling CNN, including our Brian Todd, that perhaps dozens of fighters now loyal to ISIS in Yemen and they are attempting to recruit more.", "The terror group ISIS, a Yemeni officials tells CNN, now active and recruiting on a new front in Yemen. ISIS competing for influence in a country now dominated by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. AQAP believed to have hundreds of members in Yemen, compared to dozens from", "They are promoting themselves as ISIS. It's the rebranding of a new militant group. The understanding that we have is they initially started recruiting from within AQAP ranks. But now they are expanding and trying to recruit within the tribal areas.", "As the ISIS threat expands, President Obama used his State of the Union address to call on Congress for new authority to fight", "Now, this effort will take time. It will require focus. But we will succeed. And tonight, I call on this Congress to show the world that we are united in this mission by passing a resolution to authorize the use of force against", "Still, since the start of military action against ISIS in August, the president has already authorized a deployment of some 3,000 troops to Iraq, and U.S. warplanes have conducted more than 1,900 airstrikes. The president's new call continues a delicate constitutional balancing act for the White House, simultaneously arguing the U.S. needs new authorization, while continuing to expand the war under the old one, dating back to the 9/11 attacks. Even Democrats in Congress are demanding quicker legislative action.", "American servicemen have already lost their lives as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, this war against ISIL. If we are asking people to go out and risk their lives, it would seem that we could approach with seriousness and speed. So why everybody is slow-walking this thing is a mystery.", "The call for new action comes even as administration officials are making great efforts not to overplay the immediate threat from ISIS to the", "There is no existential threat to the United States because of what is going on there, but there is a threat in the region. We are making progress.", "The ISIS presence in Yemen highlights the growing threat that failed states pose directly to U.S. interests, ISIS gains in Iraq and Syria giving it enormous recruiting power which was seen as far afield as Libya, the Sinai, Afghanistan and now Yemen. Wolf, I have been in touch with a U.S. counterterror official and they make the point that in Yemen you do have this tremendous competition among these various groups, including AQAP, which remains the dominant force there, but ISIS making strides. You are also seeing some AQAP loyalists who share goals with ISIS, some sympathy, et cetera, who don't necessarily leave AQAP, but they show a new allegiance to ISIS. This is one of the things you see. A lot of these groups, they are competing for power, but they are also competing for the same group of fighters here. It's possible that a fighter can be loyal to one group, but also supportive of the other group's goals.", "With the exception of the Yemeni government, which is in tatters right now, seems to be on the verge of collapse, all these other groups have one thing in common. They hate the United States of America.", "Exactly. No question. And it's yet another group taking advantage of a failed state. You see in Somalia you have got Al- Shabab. You certainly see in Yemen. You see Libya becoming an increasing haven for these kinds of groups. It's a real problem going forward.", "Jim Sciutto, thanks very much. Breaking now in the Paris terror investigation, CNN has learned that the terrorists appear to have urged about six associates to leave France before the plot was carried out. That would allow them to launch more attacks possibly soon. Let's go to Paris. Our justice correspondent, Pamela Brown, has uncovered new information. What are you learning, Pamela?", "Wolf, the concern among officials I have been speaking with is that these associates of the Paris suspects could pop up in ISIS propaganda videos, or, even worse, be recruited to attack the West, this as we learn more about the four suspects already in custody here in Paris.", "Today, for the first time, the Paris prosecutor is identifying four suspects charged in connection with the Paris attacks whose DNA was allegedly found on Amedy Coulibaly's car, gun and glove found at the crime scene. But the prosecutor says authorities are still investigating whether the four suspects were actually complicit in the attacks. He says, \"We think that there's a group of individuals who contributed as part of an agreement and that this has effectively served the terrorists who commit the attack.\" But it's the others who are still on the run, suspected cohorts of Amedy Coulibaly and the Kouachi brothers, that have authorities on edge. Sources tell CNN it's believed that terrorists urged around half-a-dozen of their associates to leave France just before the attacks, including Coulibaly's wife, Hayat Boumeddiene. A law enforcement source tells CNN the concern is they could all be hiding in the terrorist safe haven of Syria and soon try to attack the West. Meanwhile, two weeks after the attacks, Paris remains under heightened security with soldiers and police guarding landmarks and Jewish sites.", "Seeing on CNN all the security, the Eiffel Tower and around the city, I never once felt threatened.", "Today, the French prime minister announced new details of suspected jihadis living in France. He says 3,000 people with jihadist ties need to be under surveillance. And the number of people linked to terror networks in Iraq and Syria has jumped 130 percent in just one year.", "Well, they're talking they have 3,000 people they need to cover and you have the massive amount of resources it takes, people, vehicles, equipment, photography equipment, radio equipment, and extensive training, this is no small chore on their part.", "Another jihadi hotbed, Belgium. Tuesday night, Belgium police evacuated a neighborhood as they raided a home at the request of French authorities, part of the wider anti-terrorism operation, this as the manhunt continues for suspected Belgian ISIS operative Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Authorities believe he was directing a plot from Greece that may have included attempts to murder Belgian police officers.", "And, today, the French prime minister announcing that nearly half-a-billion dollars will be spent in emergency funding to track -- spending, rather -- to track those 3,000 jihadis living in France. Wolf, that news today very unnerving for people here.", "You said a half-a-billion dollars, right?", "Nearly half-a-billion dollars in emergency spending, that's right. They say that money will come from savings from other public service funds that they have -- Wolf.", "All right, Pamela Brown, thanks very much. Tonight, a new terrorist call to attack the West in a video released by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. AQAP may be even growing more dangerous right now, given the turmoil in its home base of Yemen. Yemen has been under siege now by the rebels for days and now there's a report the two sides may have reached some sort of tentative deal. But chaos and instability remain a very serious threat to a critical U.S. ally in the war against terror. Our senior international correspondent, Nick Paton Walsh, is the only Western TV correspondent inside Yemen right now. Nick, you went to the president's home. You had a chance to see what was going on. Looks like this whole country is on the verge of being a failed state. Tell our viewers what you saw.", "Around the president's residence today, it was clear he was inside. It was clear that part of his security detail had, as we were told by one Yemeni official, run away the day before in the violence. But guarding him, sharing the duty with the guards still inside were the young Houthi militia in charge of a tank. If you ask them who is in charge, who is the president, they pointed to themselves and said it's the people now. They really began a day in which was clear President Hadi's power was going to be diminished in some way. Talks continued. Of course, the Houthi militia were in charge of the presidential palace and many other key buildings too. In the last few hours we heard of the tentative peace plan. Both the Houthis and the presidential administration seem to be more or less on side. It's a pretty one-sided deal, frankly. The Houthis have to pull their guys back from the key buildings and good vantage points in the city, release the presidential chief of staff. Fine. But on the other side, the government has to allow an editing, a rewriting in some degree, we don't know how significant, but pretty substantial under the text of the agreement, of the new constitution that the Houthis originally objected to. They have to let the Houthis have key figures in government and they have to give the Houthis some sort of concession in Marib, the province to the east of the capital here, where there have been potential clashes against al Qaeda. A substantial concession from the government. We just don't know, Wolf, at this stage whether or not the president is president in alone or still will retain some sort of lever -- sorry -- hand on the levers of power here, Wolf.", "All right, Nick, tell us a little bit about this new AQAP, this al Qaeda video that was released today telling its supporters out there, don't worry about coming to Yemen where they are, just go ahead and start killing people, killing Americans in particular.", "This was recorded ahead of the Paris attacks, but is being pushed out again as I think al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula try to reinvigorate their following around the world, sickeningly, after what they claimed responsibility for against \"Charlie Hebdo\" magazine. But this message is pretty stark, really. It says, look, you may be -- I'm paraphrasing here -- you may be depressed, living with the infidels in the West, but you may want to leave. Don't do that. Stay where you are and launch attacks against the West where they are. A remarkable call really for lone wolves, people who share this kind of ideological, not to seek to leave the countries they're in, but stay there and cause violent attacks there. It goes on, Nasr Al-Ansi, the spokesperson we saw in the claim for responsibility for the \"Hebdo\" attacks about a week ago now, he goes on to say that they believe they have managed to close 16 embassies through what they refer to as external work, and that's operations against the West, terror attacks, as you refer to them. And basically says that this jihad and incitement will stop the severity of the disbelievers, a very troubling message there from the spokesperson for AQAP. They clearly feel they are on the front foot and encouraging people to stay where they are and cause attacks in the West rather than try and leave.", "That's very, very disturbing. Thanks very much, Nick Paton Walsh. Be careful over there. Let's go to the State Department now. Joining us, the State Department's top spokeswoman, Jen Psaki.", "Hi, Wolf.", "Jen, thanks very much for joining us. All right, so how worried are you about this new al Qaeda video telling people out there, their supporters, don't worry about coming here, just stay where you are and kill Westerners, kill Americans?", "I think you heard the president of the United States talk last night about how committed we are to taking on the threats of terrorism around the world. It's not just al Qaeda. It's ISIL. It's Boko Haram. But certainly we're not only aware and concerned. It's one of the top priorities of the administration to fight this terrorism, to work with partners around the world, including the Yemeni government.", "When you have groups like ISIS and al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula competing with each other now for dominance, if you will, that makes these terrorist organizations even more dangerous, doesn't it?", "Well, there's no question it's a sick race to the bottom, Wolf. I don't have any confirmation of the level of recruitment or the success of recruitment of ISIL in Yemen. But I can tell you that our partnership with the Yemeni government on counterterrorism operations, which is ongoing, and is one of the reasons why it's so important we have a presence in Yemen, is something that we're focused on taking on all threats of terrorism. Yes, AQAP, as you have been talking about, certainly has a large presence there. But any threat that is -- any counterterrorism threat that we can take on there is one we will continue to work with the government on.", "We heard the spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy here in Washington tell us just a little while ago there are hundreds of American diplomats, military personnel, sort of official Americans in Yemen right now, but there are thousands of U.S. citizens, many of them Yemeni-American dual citizens who are there right now. Here is the question. Are they safe?", "We don't get into numbers because we think it puts the men and women serving at risk. We certainly understand there are a lot of numbers out there. I can tell you that one of the top priorities of the president of the United States, the secretary of state, everybody who works in this building that I'm standing in right now is the safety and security of American citizens. And we weigh that very, very heavily. But we look at a range of factors. And that's a conversation that's ongoing. We're not just monitoring it. We're discussing internally the situation and what the right steps are. But nothing has changed at this point in time in terms of our presence there.", "Where does the evacuation proposal, the evacuation plan stand right now? We know there are two U.S. warships, the Iwo Jima, the Fort McHenry, right off the coast of Yemen. How close are you, the State Department, to ordering an evacuation of all American diplomats?", "Well, Wolf, we always have to be ready. There's no question there's a lot of violence happening in Yemen right now. There's a lot of tension on the ground. And it's our responsibility to take every step necessary as a government to be prepared. But we have not changed or made a decision to move forward with an evacuation. Obviously, we continue to discuss internally what the right steps are. Now, you talked a little bit about steps that were taken, a tentative political agreement. Obviously, that's a positive step. Implementation is key from here. But we're going to continue to work with the government and see if we can move toward a more peaceful path on the ground.", "Because Angus King, the senator from Maine, independent senator from Maine, he's a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he was on CNN earlier today on \"NEW DAY.\" He is concerned that some of those Americans could be held hostage, taken hostage by these terrorists who are out there. You are concerned about that as well, I assume?", "Well, of course. We're concerned about any man or woman serving us, whether that's in Yemen or any high-threat post around the world. And obviously taking care of American citizens is one of the primary responsibilities of the State Department. And that's something we take incredibly seriously. We have a lot of information we look at. And we have a lot of internal consultations that are ongoing. And I can assure you that, if this is a step that we believe is warranted, we will take it.", "You have taken it in Libya. You have taken it Somalia and have taken it in Syria. We will see what happens in Yemen next. Those other embassies, they are all shut down, as we know. Jen Psaki, I want to you stay -- stand with us. We have a lot more to discuss. There's other breaking news we're following. We will take a quick break. We will be right back."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "THE SITUATION ROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-27943", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-4-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/06/ltm.08.html", "summary": "Diplomatic Efforts Show Promise in U.S.-China Standoff", "utt": ["The latest now on that spy plane standoff between the United States and China. Just minutes ago, as you might have seen on CNN, Secretary of State Colin Powell briefing reporters; he said U.S. officials are encouraged by their discussions thus far with Chinese officials. We want to talk a little bit more about that now with our State Department correspondent Andrea Koppel. From what he said though, Andrea, it sounded like the conditions that the crew is being kept in is the most encouraging news that they've received so far.", "Yes it is, Stephen. The -- Secretary of State Powell briefing reporters on the status of the crewmembers. They had just gotten briefed -- President Bush and Secretary Powell had just been briefed on that meeting this morning with those two U.S. diplomats who saw them, now, for second time this week. And, as you mentioned, he had an update on the status of those 24 crewmembers.", "All of the crew members are in fine shape, they're in good health, they're in high spirits, their morale is great. And to quote one of the things that the general said to the president, \"make you feel real proud; they looked good.\" They are residing in Chinese officer quarters, so they are being cared for well in these -- equivalent of Chinese officer quarters. And the rooms that they're in are clean and well-lit and they have all the provisions they need. They are receiving catered food from outside, so the Chinese are taking good care of our men and women.", "In addition, Secretary Powell said that there was no evidence of any physical or mental abuse. He said that these U.S. diplomats expect to see the crew again on Saturday -- tomorrow, and that they hope to see, and their expectation is that they would be able to see the crew regularly until they're released. Now, as Secretary Powell said publicly now, for the first time -- what CNN has been reporting since yesterday, the negotiations to get those crewmembers released have been going well. In his words, \"they've been exchanging precise ideas as to how they might do that.\" China and the U.S., obviously, have certain points that they're debating right now. Among them, China wants the U.S. to stop flying surveillance flights along its coast. And so they're talking about, among the ideas the State Department officials say they're discussing is a maritime military commission that was brought about a few years ago to deal with problems at sea. And Stephen, they're now talking about how, perhaps, to use that commission as a mechanism to discuss what to do about U.S. air flights near and around China soil.", "So help me with the protocol of this, then, Andrea. If this whole entire matter were referred to that maritime commission, which already exists, would that show that it's all being calmed down, scaled back from the absolute top-level diplomacy that we're seeing now?", "Well, I think it's a combination of all of those things. This is one aspect of a larger puzzle that they're trying to complete right now, in terms of gaining the release of those crewmembers. I rather doubt that Secretary Powell himself would be sitting down with his counterpart to deal with this commission. So, most likely, there would be senior military officers or senior diplomats who would be sitting in on the meeting. But all of this, in Secretary Powell's words, are encouraging signs that after almost a week they're finally making some progress, finally talking to one another in a productive way. And he said that the negotiations are continuing in Beijing with the U.S. ambassador there and here in Washington. They're really trying to keep this going around the clock.", "And it's been a long week for you, Andrea, given that 12-hour time difference between Washington and Beijing. Thanks for those insights this morning."], "speaker": ["STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR", "ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT", "COLIN POWELL, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE", "KOPPEL", "FRAZIER", "KOPPEL", "FRAZIER"]}
{"id": "CNN-156155", "program": "RICK'S LIST", "date": "2010-9-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/27/rlst.02.html", "summary": "CNN Poll on the Economy", "utt": ["There is a new CNN/Opinion poll out with some bad news if you're a Democrat. Forty-seven percent of those surveyed think the Republicans in Congress are more likely to improve the economy. That is compared to 41 percent who say Democrats and Congress are more likely to make the economy better. Wolf Blitzer, not in D.C. -- I see him in New York today -- he is joining me to break down the nuances of the poll. Of course, next hour in \"THE SITUATION ROOM.\" But Wolf, the Dems, they're not having so much success here as they to blame the Republicans for the economic situation that we're in now.", "And the irony, Brooke, as you know from these polls, is that more people blame the Republicans for getting the U.S. economy in this mess. Yet, at the same time, they think the Republicans might be able to do a better job, as that poll shows, in getting the economy out of the mess. And that's why it's so frustrating for President Obama and other Democrats right now, because they're going forward. They're saying look at al of these Republican ideas that are coming out in this \"Pledge to America\" that came out last week, for example. They say there's nothing new there, these are the same policies that helped create the disaster in 2008 and earlier, in 2007, and now you want to go back to the disaster. But the American public, they're looking at these jobs, or the lack of jobs right now, and they're saying the Democrats control the House, the Senate, the White House. Why isn't the situation better? And they're obviously taking direct aim at the Democrats and the president right now. We'll see how that plays out on November 2nd.", "Right. And thus, they say the Republicans perhaps can get us out of the mess. Speaking of Republicans, big bomb dropped today in New York, right? We had the GOP primary for the gubernatorial race in New York in which we had Carl Paladino, we had Rick Lazio. We know Paladino won. He's the Tea Party favorite. And now today, Lazio, who had been running on a conservative party ticket, just said -- threw his hands up. He's done, dropped out of the race. A, what do you make of that? And, B, what do you make of the fact that he is not coming forward and endorsing Paladino?", "Well, Paladino is a formidable Republican challenger to Andrew Cuomo, who's by -- almost all of the polls show him ahead, some show him way ahead, others show it a little bit tighter. But you can't take Paladino lightly. He's got an amount of support over there. He's running against Albany. And Andrew Cuomo, the attorney general, is seen as part of Albany, if you will. So it's going to be a struggle. It's great news for Paladino that Rick Lazio will not run as a separate candidate, because he would have taken votes presumably away from Paladino, not from Andrew Cuomo. So it's good news for Paladino, but Paladino, let's be honest, he has a struggle ahead of him, five weeks to go. And it's going to be an uphill struggle. But Cuomo should not just sort of rest. There was an interesting editorial in \"The New York Times\" over the weekend saying Cuomo's got to take this guy very, very seriously. He can't just go out and do ads. He's got to debate him, he's got to fight him, he's got to respond to the attacks. We'll see if he does.", "It is not necessarily a done deal for Cuomo. And finally, Wolf, I see you in New York. Whenever you're in New York, I know you have got something shaking. Why are you in New York? What do you have coming up on \"THE SITUATION ROOM\"?", "Well, you know, we're in New York because tonight are the news and documentary Emmys, and \"THE SITUATION ROOM\" has been nominated for an Emmy thanks to Drew Griffin and his excellent piece which you probably saw on a wheelchair, and a family and a wheelchair.", "Yes.", "And it showed the absurdity of the federal waste when it comes to health care funding. And that piece which aired in \"THE SITUATION ROOM\" has been nominated for an Emmy. So I'm here to go to the Emmys later tonight, and hopefully \"THE SITUATION ROOM\" will win that Emmy, and I will be able to share it with Drew and with Kathleen (ph) and everyone else who was involved in putting that excellent, excellent report together.", "Excellent. Will you be donning a tux or are you doing the suit and tie look, Wolf Blitzer?", "I'm going -- no, no, it's not black tie. It's just business suit.", "Just business. Business as usual.", "I can go just as I am. This is the Emmys -- the news and documentary Emmys.", "Wolf Blitzer, we thank you very much. Congratulations, best of luck, Wolf. We'll look for you in about nine minutes from now.", "Thank you.", "Meantime, Chad and I were chatting earlier about how hot -- it is hot, hot, hot in L.A. In fact, I have got this weather advisory. Let me read this, and then I'll show you some of the celebrities who are tweeting. The previous all-time record -- we're talking it's, like, 112, 113, 114 out in the L.A. area. The previous all-time record high temperature was set on June 26, 1990, which makes today's record even more exceptional than it was in late September. The high temperature in downtown L.A., as I said, 113 degrees. And we have a couple from our celebrity list. We have a couple of celebrity tweets. So take a look at this. Jeremy Piven, you know him from \"Entourage.\" He says, \"2 billion degrees here. Just taught a Bikram yoga class in my car.\" That's the yoga that's really, really hot. Also have one, NFL sportscaster Michael Strahan shot (ph) a TwitPic. \"Just got in my car. Look at the temperature. Darn, it's hot.\" See the odometer? And you can see that it's -- obviously it's not right, but 148 degrees Fahrenheit? Yes, that will cause you to slow down. Thanks, guys, for both of your tweets. And moving on to this story, this is a story -- it's spectacular, but it's especially spectacular if you're a parent, you have a child, you take the child to the doctor. And the situation with this group is this -- when doctors wouldn't listen, parents trusted their guts and they saved their daughter's life. This is yet another reason to be an empowered patient. I have Elizabeth Cohen. She'll be joining me in a couple of minutes with this story. THE LIST rolls on."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "BALDWIN", "BLITZER", "BALDWIN", "BLITZER", "BALDWIN", "BLITZER", "BALDWIN", "BLITZER", "BALDWIN", "BLITZER", "BALDWIN", "BLITZER", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-128489", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2008-7-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/09/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Senator Ted Kennedy Casts a Vote", "utt": ["It was a dramatic moment on the floor of the U.S. Senate just a little while ago when Senator Ted Kennedy, suffering from a cancerous brain tumor, actually returned to cast a vote in favor of Medicare funding. And shortly thereafter, Ted Barrett, our producer up on Capitol Hill, had a chance to speak with the ailing Senator.", "Is it good to be back, sir?", "It's great to be back.", "How are you healing?", "I'm just glad to be back in the Senate", "How important is this vote?", "It's enormously important. The whole issue for our seniors to be able to be protected is a key defining issue for this Congress and for this country. And I didn't want to miss the opportunity to be able to express my voice and my vote.", "And how are you feeling, sir?", "I'm feeling fine.", "Are you coming back here full-time, sir?", "Coming back full-time soon?", "Hopefully.", "Thank you, sir.", "Thank you.", "It's certainly good to see Senator Kennedy back in Washington where he belongs. We wish him a very, very speedy recovery. Let's move to another story we've been following. The Reverend Jesse Jackson making some very crude remarks today about Senator Barack Obama. Reverend Jackson expressing his deep distress at what he said. The remarks so crude, we can't even tell you here in THE SITUATION ROOM precisely what he said. Suffice it to say they were not -- not very nice. He's apologizing profusely to Senator Obama. But I want to bring back Donna Brazile and get her reaction -- Donna, you've worked long -- many years ago, you ran his presidential campaign, Jesse Jackson. There was an open mike. He said stuff about Barack Obama that he certainly should not have said. What do you think?", "Well, Wolf, first of all, when I heard about the remarks, I was somewhat dismayed. Look, Reverend Jackson is a passionate supporter of Senator Obama. He has done everything to help Senator Obama. Of course, Congressman Jesse Jackson is actively out there also supporting Senator Obama. So I was somewhat dismayed. And I think Reverend Jackson has expressed his remorse and his regrets. And Senator Obama should accept his apology. This is a very important campaign, and not just for African- Americans, but the entire country. And Senator Obama has addressed many of the issues that Reverend Jackson allegedly talked about in this hot mike, so to speak. He has attended conventions where he's spoken out on the problems facing the inner cities. He has spoken passionately about trying to repair some of the problems in the black community. But he is now a presidential candidate that must address and reach out to all Americans. And I think he's doing a great job doing that.", "So you think Senator Obama should forgive and forget?", "Oh, no question. This is going to be a very important election season. And Reverend Jackson's support will continue to be very valuable to Senator Obama. But Senator Obama is his own candidate. And on Monday, he will address the 99th convention of the NAACP in Cincinnati. And that will be another opportunity for Senator Obama to not just talk to the NAACP, but to all Americans who support equal justice under the law.", "Donna, thanks very much. Let's move on now. It's China as you've probably never seen it before in a brand new Discovery Channel special. Ted Koppel takes us in and around, under The People's Republic of Capitalism, as he calls it. Let's watch a little clip.", "When they chant that slogan about safety being important, it is -- to them, and certainly on this occasion, to me. They're allowing my crew and me to accompany them down to the coal face. We've been assured and reassured that this is one of the safest mines in China and so it appears to be. (on camera): This is one of those beginner ski lifts. So instead of going a thousand feet up, we're going a thousand feet down.", "Ted Koppel is here in THE SITUATION ROOM. Ted, I've known you for a long time. You're a lot more courageous than I am. I'm not sure I would have gone a thousand feet down in that mine.", "It's actually about -- by the time you get down there, it's about 3,000 feet but...", "So were you sweating profusely? Were you scared out of your mind?", "Not at first. But I'll tell you, where the miners actually work, you know, you're there in about -- it's less than four feet. So you kind of crab walk your way into the last -- the last part of the tunnel. It's...", "Because if you're at all a claustrophobic, you could get a real panic attack.", "You could do that and it wouldn't do you much good at that point so.", "What were you thinking? And why -- give us the important -- why is it important for Ted Koppel -- and you've done an amazing documentary on China.", "Thank you.", "Anybody who sees it will learn a great deal. Why was it so important, at this stage in your career, to go ahead and literally, given the safety -- or the lack of safety in China's mines -- to go ahead and risk your life?", "I think if -- well, first of all, I don't think I was risking any life in any serious way. But I think it's important to go places that you report about. If you report about it simply based on what other people tell you -- we have to do that a lot of the time. We can't be everywhere. But here was an opportunity where they said yes, if you want to go down in the mine, we'll take you down. So, absolutely.", "You've suggested that of the 1.3 billion people in China, 300 million now have actually emerged from poverty...", "Yes.", "And there's a significant middle class. That's about the same number of Americans.", "It is. And they're bootstrapping -- they're trying to bootstrap that remaining billion people out. And the extraordinary thing is, I think Americans believe that if only capitalism takes hold in China, democracy can't be far behind.", "What do you think?", "Capitalism has taken hold in China. There's no question about it. But I think democracy is a long way behind.", "How worried should Americans be that this China economic bonanza will represent a major threat to the United States?", "It is going to represent a major threat in terms of competitiveness. The question is, are we going to deal with that threat confrontationally or are we going to deal with it collaboratively? There is a new study out that indicates by 2035, the Chinese economy will surpass that of the United States. That's only, what, 20 some odd years from now.", "That's an amazing situation. You know what else is amazing? I learned from your documentary that the elite in China, the car they want is not a Lexus or a Mercedes Benz...", "A Buick.", "It's a Buick.", "A black Buick.", "All right. Help me. Explain why they love Buicks in China.", "The Buick has been a major brand in China going back to the old emperor 80 years ago. He drove a Buick. Chou En-Lai, the former prime minister of China, drove a Buick. The Chinese think the Buick -- and a black Buick in particular -- is just the quintessentially elegant car. And the real kicker is you can't sell Buicks in the United States...", "But they love them in China.", "They're selling more Buicks in China than they are in the United States.", "What about the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games?", "Right.", "President Bush is going. He'll represent the United States.", "Right.", "Senator Obama says he's not sure that's a good idea, given what's happening with Tibet and freedom in Tibet. He wouldn't do it, he says, if he were president. What do you make of this?", "I must tell you, with all due respect to Senator Obama, I think if he were president, he would do it.", "Why?", "Because the U.S. national interest is in maintaining as good a relationship with China as it possibly can.", "Who needs who more?", "We both need each other extraordinary -- I mean to an extraordinary degree. Let me give you one example. The war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan. The Bush administration has not raised a single dollar in additional taxes to pay for those wars. Those wars are being paid for by U.S. Treasury bills that have been bought by Japan, China, Saudi Arabia, England. The Chinese hold somewhere between $600 billion and $1 trillion of our Treasury.", "And so the threat is, if they want to call in that debt, they could do that.", "They don't want to do it. I mean we are, in effect, holding guns to one another's head. If they called in those bills, it would mean a huge inflationary spiral here in the United States. It would mean we would not be able to buy all the goods from China that we're buying right now. They need us. We need them.", "You're going to have this documentary released over four nights on the Discovery Channel.", "Tonight through Saturday night.", "Right. And you spent a lot of time in China, going back many, many years...", "Many years.", "...when you were a correspondent for ABC News, as a lot of us old enough to remember your excellent work then.", "There aren't many of you left, though.", "What is the single most important nugget of news or information that you've personally learned as a longtime China watcher?", "They have a huge problem with corruption. And they try to deal with that by arresting every corrupt official they can find. And they have thousands of them in prison. And if a corrupt official takes -- I think the cutoff point is about $14,000 -- then the punishment is capital. It's death. The problem is the people who are giving the bribes, presenting the kickbacks to the officials, they're not prosecuted. And I had a long and somewhat contentious interview with the head of the anti- corruption unit in the City of Chongching. And, finally, in frustration, he said to me, in effect, you just don't get it. Those people, they're the ones who are -- they're the goose laying the golden egg. They're the ones making the investment in our city. If we start arresting those people, all these new buildings, all these new industries, all these plants aren't going to get built. So they arrest half the problem. They arrest the officials. They throw them in prison. They execute some of them. But they don't arrest the other half.", "And a...", "So corruption is a huge problem.", "As everything Ted Koppel does, it's excellent, excellent journalism and I recommend it very highly.", "You're very kind.", "Thanks, Ted, very much for doing this.", "Thank you, Wolf.", "Anybody who wants to learn something about what's really going on in China has to watch this documentary.", "Thank you.", "A worrisome milestone in that nationwide salmonella outbreak, now one of the worst in recent memory. And Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama split on a controversial vote. 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{"id": "CNN-319828", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-08-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/25/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Samsung Chief Found Guilty of Corruption; Trump Personal Touch in White House Renovations; State Department Science Envoy Resigns Over Trump Remarks.", "utt": ["This is CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. Ahead this hour.", "Build that wall. It was a Trump campaign rallying cry, but will the president really shut down the government to get it done.", "Judgment day in Seoul. The head of Samsung awaits a verdict in his corruption trial, a scandal which took down the company's president.", "And the White House renovations are done. We'll get a look at the Trump approved changes inside the West Wing. Hello and welcome to our viewers all around the world. I'm Isha Sesay.", "I'm John Vause. This is the third hour of Newsroom", "Well, we're waiting for verdict in what's being called South Korea's trial of the century.", "A court is set to decide on a string of corruption charges against Jae Y. Lee, chief of the powerful Samsung Group.", "Well, for more, let's go live to Seoul and join CNN's Paul Hancocks. Paula, just explain to our viewers what's at stake here with this trial of Jae Y. Lee, one of South Korea's most powerful and influential men.", "Well, this is certainly a very significant court case, the verdict being read out right now. We know there's three judges in there. They are going through each charge individually and assessing why they came to their decision, but we don't have a steer at this point as to which way it's going to go. But Jae Y. Lee is one of the most powerful men in South Korea. Samsung is the biggest company in South Korea. It drives the South Korean economy. It is, for some people, the face of South Korea to the rest of the world because it is such a well-known brand. So, the fact that the head of Samsung is on trial is certainly significant. It's not unprecedented, though. This has happened before. Many heads of these big family run conglomerates in South Korea over the years have been tried and convicted of different white collar crimes. In fact, Jae Y. Lee's father was tried and convicted twice, never actually spent a day in prison, though, and subsequently had a presidential pardon. But it's a different time in South Korea now. There is a real sense among many South Korean people that they are sick of corruption. They are fed up with what they see as this very cozy relationship between the government and businesses here in South Korea. So, there's certainly a lot of people in South Korea who are going to be watching this very closely. Isha?", "So, that being said, the level of interest and just the mood, if you will, in the country as a whole, how much pressure is there on prosecutors to get a guilty verdict here?", "Well, certainly, the courts, the judges will say that they are following justice. They are not going to be pressured or swayed in any way by public opinion. But just on the other side of the building, right now, there are protests ongoing, not large protests, but protests of people who are supporting the Samsung chief because they are supporting the former president Park Geun-hye, who is linked to the same corruption scandal, who was also going through the court cases at this point. And certainly, there is a lot of interest because whatever happens today with Jae Y. Lee could well have an impact or give a little bit of guidance on how the eventual verdict will go for the former president as well. Now, just remember, a matter of months ago, there were hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of people coming on to the streets in these candlelight vigils in Seoul and around the country protesting what they saw as a corrupt system. Moon Jae-in, the current president of South Korea, campaigns on an anti-corruption ticket that he was going to clean up government, clean up business, and so, certainly, there is a lot of interest in this verdict to see what that means for the future. Isha?", "Paula Hancocks joining us there from Seoul, South Korea. Thank you, Paula.", "Well, Donald Trump's relationship with Congressional Republicans appears to be getting worse just when he needs them the most. The president wants funding for his border wall. And if he doesn't get it, he is warning of a possible government shutdown.", "Mr. Trump seemed spoiling for a fight Thursday morning as he went after both the Senate majority leader and House speaker on Twitter. This is what he said, \"I requested that Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan tie the debt ceiling legislation into the popular VA bill, which just passed, for easy approval. They didn't do it, so now we have a now big deal with Dems holding them up as usual on debt ceiling approval. Could have been so easy, now a mess.", "Well, despite the angry tweets, the White House press secretary told reporters, everything's just fine.", "Look, I think the relationships are fine. Certainly, there are going to be some policy differences, but there are also a lot of shared goals, and that's what we're focused on. We're disappointed that Obamacare, they failed to get it repealed and replaced. But at the same time, President Trump has worked with leader McConnell to reach out to other members and to work on those shared goals and we're going to continue to do that when the Senate comes back from recess.", "Well, joining us now Democratic strategist Matthew Littman and CNN political commentator and Trump supporter John Phillips.", "Also, with us here in Los Angeles, CNN senior reporter for media and politics Dylan Byers. Dylan, first you, a government shutdown over a popular issue, that's one thing. But poll after poll after poll has shown that American voters in an increasing number and in a majority don't want this wall.", "No, that's absolutely right. And, look, like you said, even when you try and force the government shutdown over a popular issue, that is still an extraordinarily controversial move to make. To do it over an issue that the majority of Americans oppose, to do it while you are sort of insulting or at least worsening your relationship with Congress, and then on top of that to have all of this come in the wake of an election in which you promised time and again that you would get Mexico to pay for that wall, and now you're threatening a government shutdown to get funding from the government for that wall, none of this looks terribly good for the president. And I would just say you go back to those tweets you showed against the House speaker and the Senate majority leader, it really speaks to how isolated Donald Trump has become in Washington. Why he is trying to antagonize the people who might be able to help him in this process, it seems to sort of pass the buck of responsibility. I think there are probably a lot of people in that White House tonight who are wishing that Trump hadn't written those tweets.", "Matt, to bring you in here, are you taking him seriously here? There are those who say this is just bluff, there are those who say he's crazy like a fox. Where are you with the -?", "Well, Dylan said that there are a lot of people in the White House wishing he wouldn't send out those tweets, we could have said that every day for the last eight months, right?", "The problem is that a lot of Trump supporters don't care if he gets any legislation passed. They like the professional wrestling aspect of this. They just want to see Donald Trump pick a fight. That Donald Trump is now down to, in his support, the base of the base. That's where - he's somewhere like 33 percent support and that's really who he is trying to appeal to at this point. The chances of him - tax reform, he was supposed to be doing that, right? They have no tax reform plan. They're not putting out a tax reform plan. They said that they would. How are we even going to do tax reform, which is the biggest thing that they said they would do this year.", "Dylan brought up the fact that, this was raised over and over again during the campaign. Let's remind ourselves, before we come to John, about exactly", "We are going to build a great border wall. We will build a great, great wall. We're going to build a wall, don't worry about it. Oh, we'll build a wall. We will build the wall 100 percent. I promise we will build the wall. And who's going to pay for the wall?", "Mexico.", "And who's going to pay for the wall?", "Mexico.", "Who?", "Mexico.", "It'll be a great wall. Mexico is going to pay for the Wall. Mexico is going to pay for the wall. Mexico will pay for the wall. And Mexico is going to pay for the wall and they understand it. Mexico is going to pay for the wall, believe me, 100 percent.", "John, I had some audio troubles. I didn't hear the last bit. What was that? Who was going to pay for the wall?", "The only thing bigger than his promise to build the wall are his hands.", "Seriously,", "We'll end up taxing remittances or something. I have to pay for all kinds of crap I hate from the government. I have to pay for this bullet train to nowhere that Jerry Brown is obsessed with. At least with the wall, that's something tangible that I want. And illegal immigration has fallen off the cliff since he's been elected. The 20 years from now when Skippy Bush III gets elected and decides to open up all the borders, we need something there. And last week was a bad week for Trump. You look at polling numbers in swing states, it was not good.", "Another statement that could have been repeated -", "However, there was something that happened that was very important that everyone in the country should pay attention to. And that is, if you look at The Cook Political Report, which tracks all of the US Senate races, they move five different races one way or the other. Four of the five moved in the direction of the Republicans, all of them happened in red states, all of them happened in places where they want the wall. They want the wall with great vigor, and I'm absolutely in favor of him tying this to a government shutdown, force Claire McCaskill to vote against the wall, force Heidi Heitkamp vote against the wall, forced Joe Manchin to do it. I think it's good politics.", "All right. Dylan, to bring you in here, before you respond to whether or not it is good politics, listen to what Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during the White House press briefing when she was asked about Mexico paying for the wall.", "We're committed to making sure the American people are protected and we're going to continue to push forward and make sure that the wall gets built.", "Why is he threatening a shut down over paying for it? Again, he said over and over - he talked about in the campaign, over and over again, he said Mexico is going to pay for the wall. He asked people - his crowds chanted back, Mexico is going to pay for it. And now, he is pushing - threatening a shutdown", "No. Once again, the president is committed to making sure this happens, and we're going to push forward.", "Dylan, is the estimation on the part of the president and this administration that they are in a stronger position with Republicans and those in Congress, so they can push this issue of shutting down the government because ultimately the president is going to come out looking better than them?", "Well, I think that's part of it. And I think the other part of it goes back to what Mathew, which is he's appealing to the base of the base. What's curious to me, and it's the same question that we ask so many times on this show and that everyone in the media I think has been asking for so many months, is at what point does that base start to care that the narrative has consistently changed, at what point do the promises that were made during the campaign not seem to matter so much, now that he's president of the United States. And then, again, just to return to this issue, how is it in the interest of the American people to force a government shutdown, to do something that the majority of them don't want? Remind me how that is good for the American people because I don't know.", "Look, I just want to do a quick fact check on something that Huckabee Sanders said in the briefing about the Democrats who supported this. Budget Director Mick Mulvaney first brought up that claim saying Democrats had voted for a border wall. PolitiFact says that's a half-truth because the wall they voted for was 700 miles long, nothing like the one the president wants. That was about 10 years ago. And Donald Trump actually said that was not a wall. But, Matt, as far as the Democrats are concerned, Donald Trump seems to have let them off the hook completely by putting all the blame on the Senate. Littman: Yes. By the way, this is a winning issue for the Democrats because if Donald Trump shuts down the government over a wall that nobody wants, that he said that Mexico was going to pay for, then Democrats, in that case, win. I'm not sure exactly what polling is in some of those states, but the Democrats in some of these swing states actually seem to be doing pretty well. But to shut down the government - Donald Trump was supposed to be talking about - where's infrastructure, right? Where is tax reform? They don't even have any plans for these things. They're not - Donald Trump doesn't go out. He gives these big speeches in Phoenix and all these other places. He doesn't push for anything for the government to do, except to list his own grievances toward newspapers and toward Mitch McConnell and toward Senator Jeff Flake from Arizona. None of it is about actual legislation and getting anything done.", "And, John, what about that point that this just comes off to many as just about his ego, what about those other elements that were a part of his agenda?", "No, this is issue number one, two, and three for Donald Trump.", "It was an issue that Mexico was going to pay for.", "The reason that Donald Trump won the Republican nomination and the reason that Donald Trump won the general election and won so many of those Rust Belt states that Mitt Romney and John McCain lost is because he took on the elite consensus in Washington DC on any number of subjects, immigration being the first one, but also foreign trade and foreign wars. And those are the three issues - with what he's doing right now in Afghanistan, the jury is still out as to which direction he's going to go, and now that Steven Bannon isn't at the White House anymore. But he's got to come through with his position on trade. He's got to come through with his position on immigration. If he doesn't, he's toast. This is my read-my-lips moment or his read-my-lips moment. He can't go back on this. He's got to put the wall up.", "Dylan, if we take John's point, this is good politics, that this is about Donald Trump appealing to the base of the base of the base of the base, he's done this as well when it comes to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia appealing to the white nationalist violence on both sides. Not very good for the country, but it may be good politics. Shutting down the government would cause economic turmoil around the globe and a whole bunch of problems, but it may be good politics.", "Right. And again, it goes back to this appeal to the base of the base strategy. And John is absolutely right that this is a moment where the president has to follow through on this promise, otherwise what does he have left. I guess what I question are two things. First, how much is he following through on his promise, if he's not actually going to have Mexico pay for the wall, how much is he setting himself up to look like a failure if he can't push this through even with government funding and is passing the buck of responsibility to Congress. And then secondly, again, like when does that moment happen that the president of the United States thinks maybe it would behoove me to act on behalf of the interests of the American people, maybe it would even behoove my own reelection prospects if he even does want to run for reelection at this point. So much of what he's doing, it's not just that it's driven by ego because ego would suggest that he sort of wants to cement his place in history as perhaps a halfway decent president. A lot of it seems to be driven by this sort of narcissistic petty grievances that he can't go more than a day or an hour without sending a nasty tweet in someone's direction to sort of offload responsibility for his own ineptitude and pass it on to someone else. And it's pretty staggering to watch that happen even on the principal issue, like John said, that he ran on which was the border wall.", "So, Matt, what do Democrats do? Obviously, the blame has been shifted to Republicans, in the way the game is set up right now with the president? But what do they do? Do they just get back chairs and cigars just watch this play out?", "It does sound good. I'd like to refer to it as Trump's Alzheimer's. Forgotten everything but the grievances. Listen, they need Democrats to get this debt ceiling - the budget fight that's about to happen. They need the debt ceiling to go through. They need eight Democrats on their side.", "And those things have sort of been intertwined here, which is why there's such -", "Exactly right. And then tax reform has to come out of the budget process. And right now, none of it looks like it's going to happen. And Donald Trump isn't trying to appeal to the Democrats or trying to work with the Democrats. I would just say this, though, about Donald Trump and his poor relationship with Mitch McConnell. I think if it were up to - like, if Donald Trump really wanted to, he gets along with Chuck Schumer much better than he does Mitch McConnell. I don't think - I really don't think he likes Mitch McConnell at all. He is forced to work with McConnell. In a sense, he's right in terms of the fact that McConnell did promise for seven years to get healthcare reform through and he was not able to, but let's remember that Donald Trump didn't fight for healthcare reform. He is not fighting for infrastructure reform - for infrastructure. He is not fighting for tax reform. He is not fighting for many of the issues that people elected him on, especially one that John left out, jobs, wage growth is not high. It's lower than it was under Obama. Job growth not high, lower than it was under Obama.", "We're almost out of time, but let's get to the tweet of the day. The tweet de jure. It was the retweet.", "Yes. It was a retweet. President Trump on Thursday retweeting the meme of the best eclipse ever. Let's put it up. It features a montage of four photos that show Trump, as you see there, blocking former President Obama, as you see, the best eclipse ever. But did I mention that this was a meme that was shared by YouTube personality Jerry Travone, who previously shared an extremely anti- Semitic tweet on Sunday, John.", "I think that photo is hilarious. However, my favorite of the memes is the one where Chris Christie is sitting in the beach chair and just comes in right over the sun and that's what I call a total eclipse.", "The guy who tweeted this, he also said to tweet out saying he wants to get rid of all the Jewish drivers.", "He's an anti-Semite, he's a misogynist, he's a total freak.", "Here is the question, how do you know that the drivers are Jewish? How does he know? Are we gesticulating? Are we saying", "Dylan, what is the responsibility of the president here because this happens a lot? Should he be aware of the background of the person that he's retweeting here?", "Yes. But, well, look, what I'm reminded of is when, very early on in the presidency, people were accusing the president of doing all manner of things that were \"unpresidential\" and she said well he's the president, so it is presidential. He is the president of the United States. He sets the tone now and going forward of what is acceptable behavior by the president of the United States. The problem is that it's embarrassing frankly for America on the world stage. It's embarrassing, I think, for many of the citizens how the president of the United States is retweeting a sort of dumb meme from a guy who clearly has anti-Semitic tendencies. And it goes back for me about the character of Donald Trump and this question of how do you take on the greatest office in the land, how do you assume the responsibility of commander-in-chief and leader of the free world, and how does that not impress itself upon you and force you to sort of rise to the occasion and be better than re-tweeting an anti-Semite's dumb meme? I think it's embarrassing. So, look, it's presidential because he is the president, but it's a sad day for the office of the American presidency.", "We are out of time. But the other thing too is that when those retweets are put out there, it emboldens those hate groups. They think it's great that they're being retweeted by the president. But we'll leave it at that. Dylan, John and Matt, thank you so much.", "Thank you. Thank you. All right. Time for a quick break now. And if you have a dream of sticking it to your boss after quitting your job, take note how one scientist really spelled it out for President Trump in his resignation letter. Next."], "speaker": ["JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR, NEWSROOM", "ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR, NEWSROOM", "VAUSE", "SESAY", "VAUSE", "LA. SESAY", "VAUSE", "SESAY", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SESAY", "HANCOCKS", "SESAY", "VAUSE", "SESAY", "VAUSE", "SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "SESAY", "VAUSE", "DYLAN BYERS, CNN SENIOR REPORTER FOR MEDIA AND POLITICS", "SESAY", "MATHEW LITTMAN, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "LITTMAN", "VAUSE", "DONALD J. 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{"id": "CNN-384257", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2019-10-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/29/cg.01.html", "summary": "House Releases Text of Impeachment Rules; Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) is Interviewed About House Impeachment Resolution.", "utt": ["We have breaking news now. We're just seeing the text of the House impeachment resolution that the House will vote on on Thursday. The resolution outlines exactly how impeachment proceedings -- impeachment inquiry proceedings will go down, from public hearings to a report that will be delivered on their findings. CNN's Lauren Fox is on Capitol Hill. Lauren, walk us through the key points in this resolution.", "Well, what we know, Jake, is that there are public hearings and they will issue the public report and release the transcript of the closed-door depositions going on for several weeks now. But this is really about broadening the role of the minority here. The minority's rights are going to be expanded, including the fact they could now request witnesses and documents as this moves to the Judiciary Committee for that broader public hearing. Now, there is a catch to that. The Republicans only have those rights in consultation with the Democratic chairman. If there is a disagreement, then it will go for a full vote of the committee and as you know Democrats control the House of Representatives and therefore they'll have more votes in the committee. But this also expands the rights of the president to defend himself. A few key points that are outlined in this resolution. It present -- it allows the president and his lawyer to present their case and respond to evidence, attend hearings, including those in executive session and raise objections and cross-examine witnesses. And Democrats are arguing this really undercuts a key Republican talking point that this process is unfair and they're arguing moving forward it is officially outlining what the rules will be -- Jake.", "All right. Lauren Fox on Capitol Hill, thank you so much. Joining me now is Democratic congresswoman from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Madeleine Dean. Congresswoman, thanks for joining us. Your reaction to the resolution that just posted within the hour?", "I'm pleased with it. I think it's the right step forward. If you read the very first line of the resolution, it directs the committees, the Oversight Committee, I happen to be on the Judiciary, to continue our investigation as to whether sufficient grounds exist to bring to bear our constitutional authority of impeachment. So, I think it's -- it's an excellent step forward. It is a matter of process and due process as your report just laid out.", "And what kind of evidence will you need to vote to impeach the president, do you think?", "Well, that's a question down the road. That is why again I like the opening statement of this. What we will need is the evidence from the witnesses that are being collected now. I look forward to the public hearings that we will have. I look forward to the transfer of the report to the Judiciary Committee, so that we can determine whether or not to draft articles of impeachment and then, of course, to have hearing or mark-up on drafted articles.", "I heard a lot of Democrats complaining about the House Republicans storming the SCIF last week. Are you worried that Republicans are going to take advantage of public hearings to try to distract, change the subject, undermine, turn them into a spectacle in the view of Democrats?", "I certainly hope not. And that is what was sort of grounding about this resolution. It shows the seriousness with which our party, our caucus takes where we are headed. Speaker Pelosi has said so many times we're in a solemn place. Nobody wanted to be here. This is a very difficult time for our Congress and even more difficult time for our country. But when you have a president who behaves as though the law does not apply to him, when you have a president who abandoned his oath of office, when you have a president who would rather compromise our elections than actually work diplomatically with Democratic partners around the world, putting them at risk, when you have a president who attempts to shakedown a foreign president for dirt on a political opponent for his own personal and political gain, we have no choice but to take this very, very seriously. I hope my Republican counterparts on all of the committees of oversight take it that solemnly, that seriously. This should not be filled with stunts or circuses.", "\"The Wall Street Journal\" published an op-ed about the decision for the resolution and for the vote on Thursday. It says, quote: This is what you say when you know your critics have been right but you don't want to admit it. Perhaps Mrs. Pelosi realized that the House process so far has looked like a partisan railroad job, unquote. Should the public look at this resolution as a concession of sorts that the Republicans had a point that the process needed to be far more transparent?", "I think not. And here is why. I disagree with the premise of the editorial by \"The Wall Street Journal\" board. They said it is as though she said, yes, you were right. I should have had a vote on a formal inquiry. This is not that vote. This is a vote laying out process and due process including for the president and his own counsel, so it's actually that the premise of the editorial is just plain false.", "And also, describe if you would -- the resolution also brings some sort of clarity to the role of transferring evidence to the committee on which you sit.", "Yes.", "The House Judiciary Committee. What kind of physical evidence is there?", "Well, we will get copies of transcripts of all of the depositions, as well the American people. I think that's incredibly important, transparency is incredibly important to prosecute this case and to see whether or not high crimes and misdemeanors exist. We're going to see evidence -- obviously, you know today the very evidence of the lieutenant colonel on the Ukraine phone call and how concerned he was about what was going on. We heard from Bill Taylor, his courageous testimony with corroborating notes that talked about he was deeply concerned about a shadow foreign policy being performed by Rudy Giuliani of all people, and that things were contingent upon President Zelensky making sure he opened up an investigation into Biden and Burisma and also that he publicly made a statement about that. We've seen this pattern of behavior before by this president. We read the exact same pattern in the Mueller report, where the president wants somebody to do something for him publicly, that will benefit him politically and personally. That kind of evidence from these courageous folks who are coming forward to testify and others who will still come in open settings is the evidence that is important.", "Democratic Congresswoman Madeleine Dean of the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania -- thank you so much for your time as always.", "Thank you, Jake.", "Now, the House committee has released a draft of the impeachment inquiry resolution, the process and how will the White House respond? Stay with us."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "LAUREN FOX, CNN CONGRESSIONAL REPORTER", "TAPPER", "REP. MADELEINE DEAN (D-PA)", "TAPPER", "DEAN", "TAPPER", "DEAN", "TAPPER", "DEAN", "TAPPER", "DEAN", "TAPPER", "DEAN", "TAPPER", "DEAN", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-232684", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-6-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/16/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Mom on Run to Avoid Vaccinating Child", "utt": ["A Florida mother has taken a stand against vaccines by taking her toddler and going on the run. The FBI has just charged Megan Everett with flight to avoid prosecution. Just last month, the state of Florida charged her with kidnapping. Here's the story. Everett and the father of his two-year-old, Lilly, they share custody. On the day Everett was supposed to drop Lilly off, the father found a letter from Everett instead, according to court documents, and in part this is what it read. Quote, \"I love you and Lilly loves you. You are a great dad. If I let them take her and vaccinate her and brain wash her, I wouldn't be doing what's right. I cannot let a judge tell me how my daughter should be raised. We will miss you, but I have to leave.\"", "My daughter deserves to be safe and happy and I don't believe being on the run is, you know -- psychologically OK for a two-year-old. I do fear for my daughter's life. I do fear that if she's not in a safe place, you know, she gets injured, I don't feel like she'd seek medical attention.", "CNN legal analyst and mom -", "Yes.", "Sunny Hostin joins me here. I mean clearly this mother thinks what she is doing is in the best interest of her child. That said, would prosecutors give her mom any -- this mom any lenience because of that?", "You know, not at all, because now we're really talking about a kidnapping case, right? And we're also talking about a father who clearly disagrees with that.", "Right.", "Most courts, Brooke, do agree that you have to decide these cases based on what's in the best interest the of the child. But certainly kidnapping, as the father just said, is never in the best interest of a child. And the fact that she disagrees with having her child vaccinated is one thing. We've all debated that at one time or another. You know that's something that -", "Could that be used against her?", "You know, I think that what is going to be used against her is the fact that she sort of flouted these court orders, these custody -- this custody agreement and took her child. But I will tell you, this is a debate that moms have often. This vaccination debate has been in the forefront, I think, ever since, you know -", "For years.", "Jenny McCarthy -", "Right.", "For years sort of came out against it. And I will tell you, there's no federal vaccination law that doesn't exist. But each state does require certain vaccinations and immunizations for public schools. If you want to put your child in school. But there are always exemptions. And that's something that this mother could have done. There are medical exempt --", "That would be my follow-up. There are exemptions?", "Yes. There are.", "he should have followed those paths.", "Absolutely. There are exemptions. There are medical exemptions. There are philosophical exemptions, believe it or not. There are personal belief exemptions. And so the law does provide for situations like this when a mom doesn't want to vaccinate her child. But you cannot just kidnap your child. And I think what is really interesting is that in the note that she left, she said, \"you are a great dad.\" Well, the court is going to look at that and say, so he's a great dad --", "Hang on a second, right.", "But you are still taking his child away from him. It's not going to end well, I think, for this mother when and if and hopefully they do find this child.", "Hopefully they do.", "Yes.", "We'll follow up when they do. Sunny Hostin, thank you so much.", "Thanks, Brooke. And just ahead, the U.S. had captured the leader of this group, terrorizing Iraq right now, but let him go. And on his way out, he told a commanding officer, \"see you in New York.\" You will hear from that officer in just a moment. Plus, the U.S. and Iran have similar interests in taking down these militants, but will they talk? Christiane Amanpour joins me live. Don't miss it."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "ROBERT BAUMANN, FATHER OF KIDNAPPED CHILD", "BALDWIN", "SUNNY HOSTIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-160801", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-1-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/15/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Tucson Shooting Safeway Reopens; New Interim President of Tunisia Announced Amid Violence; Gun Show Opens Near Site of Arizona Shooting; Surviving Victim of Shooting Interviewed", "utt": ["Two developing stories this morning. The scene of Tucson's horrific shooting getting back to business, but people are also getting a chance to pay respects to those shot during last week's attack. We're there with a preview of this morning's emotional ceremony and plans to hold a gun show today just a short distance away. And in Tunisia reports of a revolution getting bloodier and nastier each hour. More than 40 people are killed when a prison is set afire. The president has fled and unclear who is in charge. The latest inside the country and chaos. From the CNN center, this is CNN SATURDAY morning. Good morning to you. I'm Martin Savidge, thanks very much for being with us. Also coming up this hour, surprising revelations from Ronald Reagan Junior's new book, raised the revelation that president Reagan's Alzheimer's may have been evident before he left office. Who knew about the health crisis and when? Detroit thinks American drivers are finally ready to commit to electric cars. Before you buy, we will answer the most common question to decide if the cars are worth the steep price tag. But we start this morning with a solemn ceremony in Tucson, Arizona. This was unlike any supermarket opening you have seen in the past, talking about that safe way in Tucson that served as the backdrop to last week's deadly shooting. Thelma Gutierrez is there for us this morning. And Thelma, did they do anything special to honor the victims? I imagine, of course, they did.", "Well, Martin, coming up in about two hours, they will hold a moment of silence here in the Safeway store. They're going to announce it over the pa. They will stand out here at this memorial you see at the front door and they will remember the victims of last week's shooting. What was really interesting, Martin, is that when those doors opened about an hour ago, three employees walked in. They had their arms around each other. I talked to them a short time ago, and they said they still can't get over what they heard, what they saw, just seven days ago right out here where I'm standing. They said it was just a terrible, terrible thing. They said it's time to get back to normal, get back to work for the first time in seven days. At the same time, they say, very, very difficult to get over those emotions, over those sights and sounds that they heard.", "I understand it would be. Our heart very much goes out to them. I'm wondering, I understand there is a gun show getting under way nearby. Of course, it's legal. But I'm wondering what people are saying about it?", "Well, it's interesting, because right after this massacre occurred, the gun show has been in the making for quite a while. It's been planned, a scheduled event. But after the massacre, the organizers came under a good amount of criticism, people wondering whether or not the timing was appropriate to have such a show. The organizers say they plan to move forward. Thousands of people expected today to come to that gun show, to go buy firearms, this kind of thing. And so once again, this massacre has reignited that national debate on gun control, and Tucson has become ground zero.", "At this firing range in Tucson, Arizona, nearly every lane is full with couples and firearms enthusiasts, like Jim Coniglio, who says he's proud to live in a state where he can carry a concealed weapon on his person and in his vehicle with no permit at all.", "We are citizens, not subjects. That's the bottom line.", "The law is called \"constitutional carry,\" a new law that just passed last year.", "I think we're the Tombstone of the United States of America.", "After the massacre in Tucson, the sheriff of Pima County says things are out of control. He cited proposed legislation which would allow students 21 and over to carry guns on campus.", "I have never been a proponent of letting everybody in this state carry weapons under any circumstances that they want. That's almost where we are.", "I carry -- it's -- this is a Ruger P95.", "And 24-year-old Joe Zamudio says he carries a concealed weapon to feel safe.", "So this is something that you carry with you where, the store?", "Pretty much everywhere I go.", "Last Saturday was no different. Joe said he had his firearm in his jacket when he went to buy cigarettes.", "I heard the shots from inside the building. When in turned and squared my shoulders to the breezeway, I saw another gentleman with his right hand lifting the firearm like this only it was locked back. And he brings it around his side. That, to me, he was standing, he was holding a gun.", "Joe saw victims in pools of blood. He had to make a split second decision about his gun with no room for errors.", "He needed to be taken care of was my immediate problem, address that firearm.", "Instead of his gun, which he says he was prepared to use for a moment just like this, Joe reached for the man's wrist instead.", "Did he say anything? Did he say, I'm not the shooter?", "Immediately. No, it's him. It's him.", "Joe saw Jared Loughner on the ground. Turns out the man with the gun had disarmed Loughner.", "I'm just so lucky. I'm just so lucky. We were all blessed he had been there that day. If he hadn't been there, I might not be here right now. I might have gotten shot and gone out that door and got my head blown off.", "Does that go through your mind?", "Yes.", "Has it affected your life?", "It's been horrible, one of the worst thing that ever happened.", "Joe believes the gun training that made him an able marksman also helped him to make a sound judgment call.", "There was a bunch of people watching and all those people watching see me pull a gun out thinks second shooter. And in Arizona, where people keep guns in their cars, somebody could have shot me.", "Joe says the reality of that is just now starting to set in on him. He says he's having such a tough time dealing with what he witnessed, with what he went through here in Tucson, that he actually left town last night to just get away from things for a while. Martin?", "An amazingly powerful story, Thelma. Thank you very much for bringing it to us. One of the victims in the shooting was federal Judge John Roll. He was laid to rest yesterday. Mourners packed the Tucson church to say their final good-byes. Roll grew up in Tucson. Former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor was among the mourners and three of his grandchildren spoke at his service. Then nine-year-old Christina green laid to rest Thursday. Our Susan Candiotti spoke to Christina's father yesterday, and he told Susan that some of Christina's organs were donated to a little girl in Boston. He also said he and his wife would like to meet that little girl one day without a doubt. Makes perfect sense, they would love to give her a big hug. Among those wounded were Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her aid, Pam Simon. Giffords remains in the hospital and her doctors say she's progressing as well as can be hoped. Simon was released on Thursday. Here's a picture of Pam Simon with President Obama during his visit Wednesday, and our Randi Kaye sat down with her to talk about the tragedy.", "Do you remember when that shot was fired at the congresswoman?", "It happened, everything happened probably in a matter of seconds. My feeling is that he was whirling his back was to me. I saw the congresswoman go down, I saw Ron go down. And then I think I must have been one of the next people hit, because from that point on, I was laying on the ground.", "Did you ever actually see the gunman's face?", "No, no, I did not.", "What was that moment like for you, when you knew you had been shot?", "It took a few seconds to actually, for the reality. I think I was on the ground before I thought this is actually happening.", "Were you scared? Did you understand what had happened?", "I don't remember the emotion of fear at all, I just remembered kind of survival instincts kicking in. I laid very still and played dead. I didn't know if he was still around.", "Simon was shot twice, once in the wrist and once in the chest. That bullet, by the way, traveled through her body and is now lodged in her thigh. We'll have more of this interview later this hour. Startling changes in the African nation of Tunisia. Tunisia's parliament speaker says he is acting as interim president today. Yesterday Tunisia's president fled the country amid over discontent over economic conditions and rampant corruption in government. And there are reports today of fires of several prisons across Tunisia. At least 42 inmates killed at just one of those prisons. The nation says -- senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman, rather, is descending into chaos.", "Walking around the capitol this morning, it's clear the army is firmly in control. I watched overnight from my hotel window as young protesters were rounded up by the army and plain-clothed policemen. They were beaten and kicked and hauled away to who knows where. It may have started off as a popular movement but it looks like it may be ending in a military coup d'etat.", "The capital city remains under a nighttime curfew. Now to southern India where a stampede has killed at least 100 people. The stampeded apparently started when a truck overturned into a group of people along a narrow stretch near the temple. Michael Steele is out as chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was plagued by controversy and criticism even though he presided over the retaking of the House. Wisconsin GOP chairman Reince Priebus was elected as the new chairman.", "With the election over, now is the time for the committee to unite. We must come together for our common interests, for the betterment of our party and our country. With that in mind, I want you to know that I am here to earn the trust and support of each and every one of you. I told you I would serve in humility and work hard and I'm going to start working right now as your chairman.", "And first on the agenda will be to raise money for that 2012 election. In other political news, Ron Reagan, he now says his father may have been showing signs of Alzheimer's disease as early as his first term. He makes the connection in a new book saying he had first the first shivers of concern three years into Ronald Reagan's presidency. He says he believes his father would have stepped down if he had been diagnosed while in office. President Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's in 1994, five years after leaving office. That so-called virtual fence along the U.S. Mexico border, well, it's being scrapped. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano cited technical delays as reasons to end the project. It cost $1 billion to cover just 53 miles of the 2,000 mile border. The network of cameras and sensors already in place will take advantage of unmanned drones and thermal imaging devices. Zsa Zsa Gabor has lost her right leg to infection. The 93-year- old actress developed a lesion on her leg that turned out to be resistant to drugs. The husband said he didn't tell Zsa Zsa about the amputation before the surgery. Doctors are guarded about her recovery. So what did Jared Loughner do in the hours before the shooting at the Tucson Safeway? We have the minute by minute breakdown, what police said he did before that horrifying event."], "speaker": ["MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR", "THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SAVIDGE", "GUTIERREZ", "GUTIERREZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GUTIERREZ", "SHERIFF CLARENCE DUPNIK, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA", "GUTIERREZ", "DUPNIK", "JOE ZAMUDIO, WITNESS", "GUTIERREZ", "GUTIERREZ (on camera)", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ (voice-over)", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ", "GUTIERREZ (on camera)", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ (voice-over)", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ (on camera)", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ (voice-over)", "ZAMUDIO", "GUTIERREZ", "SAVIDGE", "RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PAM SIMON, AIDE TO REP. GIFFORDS", "KAYE", "SIMON", "KAYE", "SIMON", "KAYE", "SIMON", "SAVIDGE", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SAVIDGE", "REINCE PREIBUS, CHAIRMAN, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "NPR-42898", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-02-07", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5194724", "title": "Denmark Battles Muslim Backlash over Cartoons", "summary": "The Danish government tries to mollify Muslims angry over cartoons depicting Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. But it has not condemned their publication. As protest continues around the world, Copenhagen is demanding protection for its diplomats and citizens.", "utt": ["Going back to the cartoon controversy, we're going to take a look at the fallout in Denmark, where the drawings were first published. As NPR's Rachel Martin reports from Copenhagen, Danes have been shocked by the harsh reactions in the Muslim world.", "After the cartoons were printed last September, 11 ambassadors from mostly Muslim countries asked the Danish prime minister for a meeting to discuss them. The prime minister refused, so a group of Islamic clerics took the cartoons and reportedly other more offensive depictions of the Prophet Muhammad to the Middle East and circulated them widely. That stirred up strong anti-Western sentiment and the ensuing violence and attacks on Danish embassies. Since the violence erupted, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has repeatedly apologized for the offense caused by the cartoons but has not condemned their publication. At a press conference in Copenhagen today, he took a defensive stance.", "We are seeing ourselves characterized as an intolerant people or as enemies of Islam as a religion. That picture is false. Extremists and radicals who seek a clash of cultures and religions are spreading it. I would like to emphasize, Denmark and the Danish people are not enemies of Islam or any other religion.", "The Jyllands-Posten newspaper has now issued an apology for any offense caused by the depictions of Muhammad. Muslims here have picked up on recent reports that the paper turned down cartoons depicting negative images of Jesus Christ a few years ago for fear they would offend readers. Abdul Wahid Pedersen is leader of the group Muslims in Dialog. He said he understands the outrage in the Muslim world, but says the violence will only fuel anti-Islamic feelings in Denmark.", "When people go crazy in the streets of Beirut or in the streets of Damascus, the only ones who benefit are the right-wingers back here in Europe. And this is the situation, that we're up against people like this, who are setting Denmark into a position of actually not being a civilized and good, we can say, democratic country.", "The controversy has turned into a crisis for many Danes, who pride themselves on their tolerance and their country's strong history of aid and diplomatic work in the Middle East. At a corner store in central Copenhagen, 27-year-old Lisette Olsgaard flips through the pages of a Danish tabloid filled with stories about the cartoons and their effects.", "It makes me sad that other people around the world get the picture of the Danes to be that bad. I don't like being hated. And I don't think that all Danes are like this.", "Fellow customer Mazu Hussein is a Muslim originally from Pakistan. He says while he rejects the violent reaction to the cartoons, he understands its roots.", "(Speaking foreign language)", "I won't accept these drawings, he says. I don't want anyone to make a picture of our prophet. I don't care who's doing it. It's not acceptable. And any apology made by the government has come much too late.", "Community leaders say the crisis could at least open more honest discussions in Denmark about religious tolerance and the freedom of speech. Abdul Wahid Pedersen says the challenge now is to try to repair people's faith in Denmark as a tolerant nation.", "There are big, big gashing wounds that have to be healed. So we have to be forbearing. We have to be forgiving. But we have to also stress that we must find a way to live together.", "Danish ministers are demanding that governments in the Middle East protect Danish embassies and citizens. Meanwhile, the prime minister says the key to resolving the conflict is dialog and improved cultural communication between the Islamic world and the West.", "Rachel Martin, NPR News, Copenhagen."], "speaker": ["MICHELE NORRIS, host", "RACHEL MARTIN reporting", "Mr. ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN (Prime Minister, Denmark)", "MARTIN", "Mr. ABDUL WAHID PEDERSON (Muslims in Dialog)", "MARTIN", "Ms. LISETTE OLSGAARD (Resident, Copenhagen)", "MARTIN", "Mr. MAZU HUSSEIN (Muslim and resident, Copenhagen)", "MARTIN", "MARTIN", "Mr. PEDERSEN", "MARTIN", "MARTIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-68148", "program": "CNN SHOWDOWN: IRAQ", "date": "2003-3-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/17/sdi.02.html", "summary": "Bush to Give Ultimatum Tonight", "utt": ["President Bush's address to the nation will begin just about eight hours from now. His spokesman has already said the diplomatic window is closed. So what's the president going to say tonight? Let's check in with CNN White House Correspondent Dana Bash -- Dana.", "Well, Anderson, we've been hearing here at the White House that there had been weeks not months left for diplomacy. And today, diplomacy, they are being very clear, has come to an end. And, as you said, that diplomatic window is now closed as far as the White House is concerned. We will hear from the president himself tonight at 8:00 Eastern. He will speak to the nation and to the world, and we are told he will say that there's an ultimatum for Saddam Hussein, that unless he leaves the country, he can't avoid military action. Military action will proceed unless Saddam Hussein leaves the country. That is going to be the president's message tonight. He will give, likely, a short window perhaps 72 hours for that to occur. He also is intending to send a signal tonight to U.S. citizens and other friendly diplomats in Iraq that it is time for them to leave, that they also have a short window to get out. And, of course, you're seeing that happening already in Iraq. Now, this speech tonight was sort of decided finally at a meeting this morning among the president and his top national security team. The regular national security council meeting, the president was informed by Colin Powell, we are told. You see him leaving the White House today. We are told that Colin Powell told the president that he had spoken with about six foreign ministers from around the world and Kofi Annan and they had concluded what they sort of already knew, which is that there was no hope for getting resolution -- another resolution through the United Nations at this point, and that they were going to have to abandon the process at the U.N. That is when they made the final decision to go ahead and pull the plug on the U.N., and say the diplomatic window at the U.N. had been closed, and that the president would, indeed, give his ultimatum speech tonight. That is what he will do. The president has been working the phones this morning. He spoke with the Spanish prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, and he spoke with Tony Blair, the British prime minister. The two men he met with yesterday in the Azores when they made it pretty clear that the moment of truth had arrived or almost arrived, and now, of course, it has. I should also note, Anderson, later today the president will have some other meetings with members of Congress. Later this afternoon, he will meet with the top Congressional leadership, including the speaker of the house, Denny Hastert, and the Senate minority leader, Tom Daschle. So he is going to keep informing the people he needs to inform, and he will have this major speech tonight -- Anderson.", "All right. Dana Bash, live at the White House. Thanks very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "DANA BASH, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-285338", "program": "CNN RELIABLE SOURCES", "date": "2016-05-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/29/rs.01.html", "summary": "The Decline of Rush Limbaugh", "utt": ["Who is the king of conservative media? I would say it's that man over my shoulder right there, radio host Rush Limbaugh. But a new article in \"Politico\" magazine says Limbaugh's radio power may be waning. Almost no one has thought of this, but Limbaugh's contract is about to expire, less than two months from now actually. His current deal, a landmark eight-year commitment, was valued at $400 million. But times have changed since there. And here's what writer Ethan Epstein wrote for \"Politico\" magazine. He said: \"In recent years, Limbaugh has been dropped by several of his longtime affiliates, including some very powerful ones, like WABC in New York, WRKO in Boston and KFI in Los Angeles, for example. In many cases, Limbaugh has been moved onto smaller stations with weaker signals.\" So what's going on here? Shouldn't Rush be benefiting more from the rise of Trump? Let's ask Ethan. He joins me now from D.C. He's an associate editor with \"The Weekly Standard\" and a contributor to \"Politico\" magazine. Ethan, when you were writing about this, did it surprise you that Trump hasn't really had more of a ripple effect for Rush, that Rush Limbaugh hasn't benefited more from this incredible moment in conservative politics?", "I think, in a way, he has. Talk radio has actually seen a ratings boost, thanks to the Trump -- they're actually calling it a Trump bump among radio insiders.", "The same ratings bump that television has seen, radio has seen as well, you're saying?", "Exactly. But I think what differentiates Limbaugh's case from places like CNN, I hope at least, for CNN's sake, is that Limbaugh hasn't been able to monetize it in the way television has, because his main problem is an advertiser boycott, which really -- no matter how many listeners he has, the advertiser boycott is still hurting him.", "And that's why I thought your article was so interesting. Why is this happening? Two words. Sandra Fluke. People might remember this case from four years ago. Let me put on screen what you wrote about this situation. You say that: \"Four years after Limbaugh called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a slut on the air, spurring a major boycott movement, reams of advertisers still won't touch him.\" This is a rare sort of ad boycott that's actually had a long-term effect.", "That's exactly right, Brian. Four years ago is an eternity in the media universe. I'm sure most people haven't even thought of the name Sandra Fluke.", "Honestly, I had forgotten about the case entirely. Yes.", "That's exactly right. And I think you're not alone in that. But what is amazing is that, after all of those companies came out and announced they were going to boycott Limbaugh's show, they stuck by it. They never came back for the most part. And that has had a seriously deleterious effect on his business. What is also important to remember is that Limbaugh, as you mentioned, too, at top of the segment, had a guaranteed contract. He had an eight- year contract. So, you know, every advertiser could leave him. And he was still going to get $38 million to $50 million a year. What makes now different is that the contract is about to expire. And he needs to renegotiate it. So, this is where his personal finances could be on the line.", "You reached out Rush. You reached out to Premiere Networks, his syndicator. You didn't hear anything back from them about what's going to happen to his contract in the future?", "I didn't. And I also talked to a lot of people that are involved in talk radio in writing this piece. They all think that Premiere does want to resign him. He's still the marquee name in talk radio.", "He's not going away, right? Rush Limbaugh is not going away.", "No. He's going to be talking somewhere. The question is how people are going to listen to him. And Premiere, all things being equal, would prefer to keep him. But the fact is, they simply will not be able to afford the same amount of -- the same salary that they gave him this time around. If he stays with Premiere, he is going to get a pay cut.", "Does that say something about conservative talk radio more broadly, that the medium is not as strong as it used to be?", "I think there's some truth to that. And part of that as well is the case of -- the effects of Sandra Fluke, because the advertiser boycott ended up affecting basically all of talk radio. What a lot of companies did, take J.C. Penney, for example. They loudly announced they were no longer going to sponsor the news and traffic updates during the Limbaugh show. But not only did they do that. They pulled their advertising from all talk radio just to be on the safe side. In that way, what Limbaugh did really hurt all of his colleagues. And that actually includes liberal hosts as well. The whole news talk format became a no-buy zone for al to of companies.", "I feel like when I hear about advertiser boycotts, I usually roll my eyes, because I don't think they are going to have an impact, but in this case, it actually did. And the fact that you're saying it actually has affected other shows as well is really interesting. Before I let you go, you mentioned in your story that Trump has not been endorsed by Rush Limbaugh, nor has he been attacked by Rush Limbaugh. Right? So, Rush has taken this sort of middle approach of not going all the way in for Trump. Is that right?", "That's right. I think now that the primaries have wrapped up, you know, he will be pulling for Trump, particularly against his hated Hillary Clinton. In the primaries, he was agnostic. And I think that actually spoke to his business sense. He knew that about half his audience loved Trump. He knew about half hated it, so he kind of went down the middle.", "He is a smart businessman, but it does seem like the ground has shifted underneath him. And we will see what he does in July when his contract is up. Ethan, thank you so much for being here.", "Thanks so much.", "Up next here on the program, does Peter Thiel's bankrolling of lawsuits against Gawker pose a challenge to other news outlets too? 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{"id": "CNN-159852", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2010-12-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1012/21/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Report from North Korea Visit; Terrorists Targeting Food?", "utt": ["Also, details of a chilling tactic considered by al Qaeda supporters: targeting the food we eat. A horrifying on-stage accident brings the most expensive show in Broadway history to a halt, and leaves an actor critically hurt. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world, breaking news, political headlines and Jeanne Moos all straight ahead. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You are in THE SITUATION ROOM. I'm back in New York today just back from an exclusive assignment to North Korea accompanying the New Mexico governor, Bill Richardson, on a private mission to try to ease tension and avert all-out war on the Korean Peninsula. This hour, we are taking you inside those high-stakes talks and behind the scenes in one of the world's most isolated and secretive countries. The White House is also very eager to hear what Governor Richardson saw. Officials there will be debriefing him soon, but, right now, they are fairly skeptical of the North Korean promises to resume six-party talks, saying the country first needs to stop belligerent actions and live up to its obligations. Let's get some inside information on all of this. We are joined by Jack Pritchard of the Korea Economic Institute, and international security analyst Jim Walsh with MIT. Guys, thanks very much. As you know, I just came back. I covered Governor Richardson's visit there. I spent six days. The situation was a lot more tense in the early part, but after these exercises and the lack of a military response from the North Koreans, it has calmed down. But it could easily escalate once again. Mr. Pritchard, what do you think? Are we at a turning point right now, or is this going to go back to the bad old days?", "Well, Wolf, this is one of the things you can't really predict. The North Koreans, as you well know, they tend to military hyperbole and a lot of times nothing comes from it. But in this particular case, as you well know, over the last year, we have seen two very deadly incidents of North Korean provocative behavior. So you can't assume it is going to end up with the North Koreans backing up. What we don't know, as an example, is what role the Chinese played behind the scenes. We know they weren't very constructive in the U.N. Security Council discussions. The Russians were. Perhaps the U.S. and the South Koreans chose to send some type of military signal to the North Koreans to suggest that if the North Koreans were to react to these drills, that the United States would be prepared, along with South Korea, to ratchet up the response. None of these things we know for sure, but it was a tense situation.", "You know, Jim, I was pretty surprised. After the North Koreans said going into the live-fire exercise that the South Koreans planned, that they would respond with brutal consequences, in their words, beyond imagination. For the military and North Korea to make that declaration and then after the exercise which lasted an hour-and-a-half, for them to say, you know, it really wasn't worth the response, how extraordinary was that, for them to back down?", "Well, I agree with you, Wolf, that it was very scary. You know, on any given day, war is unlikely, but the risk was rising every day during this process. Sometimes, the North Koreans, as Jack points out, will make bold statements that are not really followed through, but sometimes they do follow through on them. And no one knows in advance which it is. But I think one of the clues here was the fact that the North Koreans did invite Governor Richardson and yourself to come to North Korea. And I think that made it less likely that they were going to do something in the middle of that visit. And, more importantly, as I understand it, Governor Richardson got some important pledges from the North Korean government, not the least of which would be to allow international atomic inspectors back into North Korea. I would call that a tremendous achievement if that in fact happens and would point to the fact that perhaps North Korea is -- that we have a moment here, a moment that would should take advantage of to try to put things on a different path.", "On that issue of the inspections, the resumption of IAEA monitors, Mr. Pritchard, you were just in North Korea yourself. A lot of experts are skeptical. They say, well, maybe the IAEA will go back and inspect Yongbyon, their main nuclear facility, but there may be another secret facility that we don't know about. Do you think there is a secret facility where they're developing nuclear weapons?", "I am reasonably certain that there is. The good news, as Jim points out, is a willingness to bring back the IAEA inspectors. When I was there on the 5th of November at Yongbyon, and first learned of the uranium enrichment facility, when I went back to Pyongyang that evening, met with people that you have now met with and tried to convince them that if they were serious about this being a facility for peaceful nuclear energy use, then they need to be on a path towards transparency. I encouraged them to invite the IAEA back in or at the very least to allow Dr. Hecker, as you know, who went into the facility the following week. So, I'm encouraged that they're going to do this. I do believe this specific facility is as advertised for a fuel fabrication for a light water reactor and it is not their main facility for producing what would be enriched uranium for an atomic bomb. That is probably someplace else.", "Jim, I woke up this morning in Pyongyang. We flew on Air China from Pyongyang to Beijing. I was with Governor Richardson. When we go to Beijing, I had a little interview with him. And I want to play this little clip on his bottom-line assessment. Listen to this.", "It is my first time to see you after I saw you in", "Thank you very much. Thank you for letting me come here with Governor Richardson to North Korea.", "I'm personally very happy to be able to meet with you, Mr. Wolf, who I presume have the same power as the American president.", "Thank you very much for that compliment, but I don't think it is true. But it was very nice to hear from you.", "What will be your message to the Obama administration back in Washington?", "Well, my message will be that I will be very pleased to take their phone calls, but that I think it's important that a new effort at re-engagement take place among the six-party countries. I think this incident provides an opportunity for a dialogue for a resumption of talks. There haven't been any talks. There has been acrimony, tension on the peninsula. I think all sides, including North Korea, need to come back to the negotiating table in a serious way.", "What is the most serious issue to discuss right now?", "Right now, what needs to happen I believe is North Korea needs to abide by the 2005 declaration that says they are going to de-nuclearize, get rid of their nuclear weapons. And that needs to be a framework for new negotiations.", "Do you think that is going to happen, Jim?", "Well, I think Bill Richardson is right. There is a real opportunity here. And it is an opportunity that shouldn't be wasted. I was a little disappointed in Robert Gibbs' reaction to all of this today, saying, well, we just don't want to talk for the sake of talking. But it was President Obama who when he took office said we need to talk to our adversaries. It is in our national self-interest to communicate, particularly at a time when North Korea is undergoing a political transition, where the old leader is going to be moving on and a new inexperienced leader is coming in. There could be no more important time to talk than this. But let me conclude, quickly, Wolf, by saying I can't believe you were in Pyongyang this morning and now you're broadcasting at night. And, by the way, when I met with in Kim Kye-Gwan in Pyongyang across a big table, the first thing he said to me when we started talking was: \"Dr. Walsh, I see you on CNN all the time. I hope you come back and have a positive message.\" So they are watching.", "It is true. I discovered they knew a lot about what is going on. Mr. Pritchard, I'm sure you discovered that when you were there. This notion that they are isolated and they're living in the Dark Ages, they really don't have a clue on what is happening in the outside world, I simply didn't discover that. In the six days I was there, they seemed to have a pretty good sense of what is going on. And when they asked me questions about what is going on in the White House in the Obama administration, they asked some pretty good questions, as individuals who are fluent obviously in English, were watching what was going on and were curious. Was that your impression as well?", "It is, Wolf. Let me just relate one story. When I was there, it was during the midterm elections. And when I sat down with Ambassador Li Gun, whom you also met, I believe, he is the one that said to me, he said: In the Foreign Ministry here up on the third floor, in our situation room, we are watching CNN, and we will be glad to tell you the results of the midterm election as we find them out.", "So, it was amusing that I am getting U.S. election results from the North Koreans in Pyongyang.", "You know, the thing, the other point that really struck me was the lack of electricity, the lack of power. They keep saying they need these nuclear reactors because they need nuclear power. You go into these big buildings, there may be one room that is heated, but everything else is cold. The kids are in school wearing their overcoats. You don't see lights anyplace. You have all seen that dramatic satellite picture, South Korea at night well-lit North Korea, they got one light basically in Pyongyang. How much is this economic condition, Jim, driving the North Koreans right now?", "Oh, I think it is central. It is very, very important. We are just about to go into the winter months. They have traditionally had problems raising enough food to feed their population. And you were in the capital city, Wolf. If there is any city that gets resources amongst the whole country, it is the capital city. So, when you see that there, you know there is a problem. When I was there, there was a big storm one night. And we all -- my driver was driving me out the next day. And you could see out in the street little old ladies and men in uniform out collecting sticks and bundling them as fast as they could. Why? For firewood, because electricity and lack of energy is a huge issue there.", "And the other point that struck home at me, Mr. Pritchard -- and I don't know if you discovered this -- they took me to the university, Kim Il-sung University, the main university. They took me to an elite high school where they teach foreign languages. The most popular language to learn in the university and in these high schools -- and the smartest kids go to them -- is English. They all want to learn English. And I was talking to these 16-year-olds. And they were -- you know, all of the sudden, they're using American slang. And they are saying, oh, that's pretty cool with an American accent. They really want to get a sense of what is going on. They don't want to be isolated. They want to learn about the United States. And they are learning English. And they're learning it quite well, I must say. I don't know if that is what you saw when you were there.", "I have -- I had an opportunity to go to their middle schools, Kim Il-sung University, and, on this trip, the Pyongyang University for Foreign Studies, where they specialize in foreign language. And I was amazed at the quality of the instruction and the conversant capability what really would be high school students. They are really very good. And they have got their heart set on learning English, which is to our advantage.", "Yes. I was under enormous restrictions together with a \"New York Times\" reporter who was there and our photographer from our Beijing bureau. We couldn't go certain place. We had to be watched at all times, and I stress at all times. But, all in all, I must say that I emerged with a very different sense of North Korea than I went in with. And we will get into some specifics on that in the coming days. We have got a lot of video, a lot of still pictures we will show our viewers, much more coming up. Guys, thanks very much, a very important subject at a critical time right now. And don't forget, you can check out my blog on the entire visit, including several anecdotes about life for everyday North Koreans. You don't want to miss it. It is up right now at CNNPolitics.com. I am writing another one, a reporter's notebook. In fact, I have just finished it, about 1,400 words, some of the insights that I had. That is going to be posted fairly soon at CNN.com as well. We will post a lot of the pictures, some of the video. We have got a lot to show you about what is going on in North Korea. Meanwhile, we are learning more about a very disturbing terror development. U.S. officials tell CNN al Qaeda associates considered a tactic to poison salad bars and buffets at American hotels and restaurants. Brian Todd is digging deeper for us. Brian, what are you finding out?", "Wolf, some alarming information on a possible method of attack on a sector of the U.S. economy that is very vulnerable.", "U.S. officials tells CNN people associated with one of al Qaeda's most dangerous branches have contemplated an unconventional, but potentially lethal attack, spreading poison on salad bars and buffets at American hotels and restaurants. Homeland security officials tell us people connected with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula considered placing ricin and cyanide poisons into food supplies. This is the same group that launched failed attempts to bomb cargo planes this year and a Christmas Day passenger flight last year. U.S. officials downplay this recent disclosure, saying there is no imminent threat, that discussions of that tactic came into the threat stream months ago. But it's method of attack that has been on the general radar longer than that. (on camera): A concern that experts have always had is the openness of the American food supply in delis like this with salad bars right out in the open. I'm joined now by Colonel Randy Larsen, a homeland security expert. He is the CEO of the WMD Center. He worked with the USDA after 9/11 to help secure the American food supply. Colonel, just how easy is it to spray a deadly agent into something like this?", "Well, you see how easy it is. They put up these cough shields just so you don't cough into it. So you can imagine how easy it would be to have a small spray bottle, which has been done before in certain cases.", "Is it odorless, colorless, tasteless?", "There's many different things you could use, most of them you would never know that have been sprayed on there.", "Larsen doesn't believe this would be a weapon of mass destruction, and he points out thousands of people die every year of naturally occurring food poisoning. But U.S. officials were concerned enough about what they heard that they met through regular channels with leaders in the hotel and restaurant industries to discuss the tactic and to make sure they took steps to protect against it. CNN national security contributor Fran Townsend says there is another potential safeguard.", "The other thing you want to do is alert public health officials to be on the lookout for an increase, a spike in what may appear to be food poisoning, and that they ought to question and be suspicious and do further testing, so that we can get an early warning if such an attack is under way and limit the amount of damage it can do.", "This story was first reported by CBS News. In a statement to CNN on this latest information, a Homeland Security spokesman said -- quote -- \"We are not going to comment on reports of specific terrorist planning. Al Qaeda has publicly stated its intention to carry out unconventional attacks for well over a decade. And AQAP\" -- that's al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- \"propaganda in the past year has made similar reference. We get reports about the different kinds of attacks terrorists would like to carry out that frequently are beyond their means.\" But, Wolf, as we said, experts say routinely that these kinds of attacks are not necessarily beyond the means of terrorist groups that know what they're doing.", "All right, Brian, thanks very much -- Brian Todd reporting. We are combing through new numbers from the U.S. census. They could have a huge impact of President Obama's reelection campaign in 2012. Are the numbers on his side? Stand by. Plus, the vote in Washington that could change how you use the Internet."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "JACK PRITCHARD, PRESIDENT, KOREA ECONOMIC INSTITUTE", "BLITZER", "JIM WALSH, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY", "BLITZER", "PRITCHARD", "BLITZER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "CNN. BLITZER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "BLITZER", "BLITZER", "GOV. 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{"id": "NPR-48728", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2017-10-19", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/10/19/558706798/pirate-party-parliament-member-in-iceland-wears-eye-patch", "title": "Pirate Party Parliament Member In Iceland Wears Eye Patch", "summary": "Eva Pandora Baldursdottir says it's not an old sea injury, just a bizarre accident when her one-year-old scratched her eye. She had to wear the eye patch for a TV debate.", "utt": ["Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep with the accidental costume of a member of parliament in Iceland. Eva Pandora Baldursdottir is a member of the Pirate Party, a real party - 20 percent of the parliament seats - which stands for direct democracy and free information. And this Pirate Party member showed up at work wearing an eye patch. She says it's not an old sea injury, just a bizarre accident when her 1-year-old scratched her eye. She had to wear the eye patch for a TV debate. It's MORNING EDITION."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-248177", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2015-01-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/29/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Awaiting Word on Fate of Hostages", "utt": ["Tonight, the world waits for word on the safety on two men held hostage by ISIS. The militants have said they would spare the lives of a journalist and a pilot if the Jordanian government turnover a convicted terrorist. It is been hours since that deadline, no word again on whether those hostages are alive or dead. Tonight, we're learning more though about that would be female bomber that they want in exchange for those men and the other high value terrorists that ISIS desperately wants to free. Deborah Feyerick is OUTFRONT.", "For ISIS it is a new dynamic experts say demanding high value prisoners in exchange for hostages. And coincidentally or not, three prisoners ISIS wants back are women. A suicide bomber, an alleged bomb maker and a woman tied to the head of ISIS. The fourth is a child. Each symbolically and strategically important for the terror group.", "By negotiating with ISIS, by recognizing them, by even having dialogue with them, it gives them the impression of acting as a state.", "And exchange for the Jordanian military pilot and Japanese journalist ISIS is demanding the release of failed Jordanian hotel suicide bomber Sajida al-Rishawi. The al Qaeda operative and her husband targeted a Radisson Hotel ballroom in 2005 killing three dozen wedding guests. Al-Rishawi is connected to ISIS through her brother once a ranking member of al Qaeda and Iraq which spawned ISIS. In exchange for American journalist James Foley and later Steven Sotloff, ISIS demanded the release of Lady al Qaeda, an imprisoned M.I.T. trained neuroscientist in the United States linked to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. She was arrested in Afghanistan in 2008 carrying bomb making documents for a mass casualty chemical and biological weapons attacks against American targets including the Statue of Liberty in Brooklyn Bridge. It's ironic ISIS is demanding women prisoners given how they treat women terrorism expert Sajjan Gohel.", "Women are seen as commodities. People who can be sexually exploited. And ISIS thinks that it can be justified. It's a disturbing dynamic of a group that effectively thugs, bandits and criminals that have created an ideology cloaks their true and nefarious agenda.", "One high profile prisoner who ISIS has not yet publicly demanded is this woman who maybe the wife shadowy ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi who fought with al-Qaeda in Iraq. Regional sources tells CNN Saja al-Dulaimi is herself a powerful ISIS figure arrested as a high value target as she crossed into Lebanon with this 4-year-old who the source identifies as Baghdadi's child. The source sells CNN since the capture in March 2014, Baghdadi has been calling to get his child released.", "All right, Deb, thank you very much. And OUTFRONT now, Gary Berntsen, a former CIA officer who dealt with hostage situations, he was with the agency and retired U.S. army General Spider Marks. Good to have both of you with us. Gary, let me start with you. You were critical on helping to rescue two aid workers who were held hostage in Afghanistan. If there is an opportunity in this situation, for this 26-year-old aid worker to swap somebody that ISIS wants, one of those prisoners Deb was just talking about in exchange for this aid worker, should the U.S. do it?", "I would say that the United States doesn't want to be in the business of doing swap. They've been done in the past. We want to do everything we can to use our covert capabilities, our military capabilities and we need to convince these people if they kill an American there as, you know, they beheaded people, that we're going to send 25 b-52s from, you know, North America and we're going to flatten Raqqa. I mean, we have to play hardball with these guys, if they want to play this way with us, we have to be very hard with them.", "And to be clear though, obviously as you point out, Americans have been beheaded. The U.S. has conducted air strikes. So far has failed to take these guys out. It's not like they haven't tried.", "No, no, not of the quantity that I'm talking about.", "OK.", "We send 50 b-52s over there and we destroy the city of Raqqa, they kill an American, I think they will stop killing Americans that way.", "General Marks, what do you think?", "Well, clearly this administration has not upped the ante as Gary has indicated, you know, the quid pro quo for something like this, it would include a much greater use of military force and essentially an air campaign of some sort. But clearly the issue Erin in my mind is as governance collapses and we're seen this very as broadly in the mid-east the ability of government to establish themselves legitimately and inarguably our government's inability to really maintain a leadership ability to influence activities and affect activities on the ground elsewhere, NGOs and businesses, non-governmental work and start to provide good services and activities where the governments can't. And so you end up with aid workers that are held hostage. So, the question becomes are these folks afforded the same type of protections as you would a soldier or service member who might be in a similar circle?", "Well, that's a key question when you put it that way. Right? I mean, Gary, what do you say to that? Because obviously you just heard John Kirby from the Pentagon, you know, when he's talking about it he's saying, well, it's a sacred duty to rescue a prisoner of war from the United States military. If these aid workers are doing something the military for example was doing in Afghanistan but isn't here, should they be treated the same way?", "Look, during the Afghan conflict, we had the shelter now international hostages there. Two of them were Americans. We pursued the rescue of those young women with the intensity that they were our daughters, sisters, wives or mothers. We did everything possible and thankfully we were able to execute all of the agency and the military together a recovery of them. But it required work on it every day. The agency myself and a team for a military forward every day working with our Afghan partners communicating with the other side running sources in. We did a number of things to make this happen. But you have to have an intensity and I was expected to do that by CIA. And the White House wanted to be briefed on that. Every day I was reporting back. And I knew it was going to the President.", "So, here's the thing though. You know, when you're talking about, do whatever it takes and I know Gary in your view, you wouldn't do the swaps. But, you know, raids, things like that to try to help these people. So, I spoke with the former Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill who killed Osama bin Laden, I asked him about this very situation, right? About when someone's in a place like Syria trying to do good, right? But they are there by choice. They know the risks of capture and death. They are there by choice. That person gets captured. American troops get sent in to risks their lives, to try to rescue this person. I wondered if SEALs ever feel resentment being told to go in and conduct raids to risk their lives to help people like that. And here's what he said. It was a pre-honest answer.", "It is upsetting. I've had a good friend that was in my team. He was killed tried to rescue an American doctor in Afghanistan. And part of our issue is why are you going there? I mean, obviously, it's noble and they wanted to do the right thing and they are good hearted people. Most of them are aid workers and journalist.", "Right.", "The problem is you need to have a realization that there are people that don't like you based on simply being a non- believer or an apostate. They will kill you based on how you look.", "General Marks, that's a pretty honest answer. But yes, there is resentment. Should the U.S. be conducting raids to save every American that goes into these places even if they are people with good hearts and good intentions?", "Well, this is anecdote one, this is one man's view.", "Yes.", "And an incredible view of the activity.", "Yes.", "I mean, he's been at the very tip of these engagements and he knows intimately what it's like. The point that were trying to make is, the United States will bring any power that it has to bear. They will galvanize everything they can. They will put folks at risk in order to solve a problem very precisely as Gary has described and that we've all been a part of. The fact remains is as our inability to work all elements of power. That's the diplomatic, the informational, the economic piece in a long term, kind of a long horizon engagement, you have to have a military capability in order to make this work. It is very demanding and it must be done.", "Right. Thanks so much to both of you. And today Senator John McCain tore into prosecutors who swarmed the former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger while he was testifying before Senate committee today. The demonstrators are from a professional basically protesting group called code pink. They surrounded Kissenger. He's 91 years old. They held up sings accusing him of war crimes being Vietnam. Senator McCain was incredibly angry. He ordered Capitol Hill police to remove them.", "I've been a member of this committee for many years. And I have never seen anything as disgraceful and outrageous and despicable as the last demonstration that just took place. Get out of here you low life scum.", "You think he was justified. Let us know. OUTFRONT next, the measles outbreak spreading in America. We'll tell you about a father's desperate fight to stop the anti-vaccine movement. And inside a cockpit of an airbus A-320 simulator. We're learning new details tonight about Air Asia. 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{"id": "CNN-11571", "program": "Science and Technology Week", "date": "2000-7-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/08/stc.00.html", "summary": "Butterfingers Get a Grip with Popcorn Fork", "utt": ["You can use the Internet to chat, do research, shop, play games -- so why not use it to take piano lessons? Denise Dillon has more.", "Andy Kossowsky is getting ready for his piano lesson, but he's in Fords, New Jersey, and his teacher, Andrew Gordon, is 3,000 miles away in Lawndale, California.", "OK, Andy, today's lesson, with the blues scale we get something like this.", "The Web site, onlineconservatory.com, puts students and teachers together with a click of a mouse. Using specially designed software, teachers and students can follow each other's keystrokes by watching a keyboard on their computer screens. And they can talk to each other in real time.", "OK, good, Andy. That's a good start.", "Kossowsky says he always wanted to learn to play, but never seemed to have the time. Now he takes lessons right from his own living room at a time that fits his schedule.", "If you're taking a half-hour lesson, you only need a half hour of time. This way, oh, it's 7:00, put in the software and I'm playing music for half an hour, done, 7:30.", "Since January, more than 800 students in 55 countries, from America to Afghanistan, have taken lessons through the online conservatory.", "I made the statement, it will forever change the way people learn music. And it's true.", "Students can choose their own music style, from classical to hip hop. And they can choose their teacher. While the cost varies per instructor, the average price for a half hour is $20. But students say it's the convenience that can't be beat.", "That's all, Andy, thanks.", "OK, take care, bye.", "For SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY WEEK, I'm Denise Dillon.", "Now sometimes we're able to bring you a story about an important invention that will change our lives. This is not one of those times. But you will find this invention important if you hate getting your hands greasy when you eat buttered popcorn. Jeanne Moos has the story.", "All it took was the kernel of an idea. (on camera): It's a popcorn fork.", "Oh!", "Bon appetit.", "Perfect if like popcorn to melt in your mouth, not in your hands.", "Because I don't like to get my fingers greasy.", "And you hold it like a pencil, and you plunge it in.", "Don Sothman took the plunge nine years ago. That's when this Menomeny Falls (ph), Wisconsin, machinery manufacturer patented the popcorn fork.", "I mean, we don't eat mashed potatoes and gravy with our hands because we've invented a fork for that.", "So why not for popcorn? Sothman had observed popcorn eaters at their worst in movie theaters.", "A lot of them were literally wiping their hands on the seats.", "But those who like their popcorn by the fistful tend to resist the popcorn fork. Sothman has sold fewer than 100,000 of them.", "It's terrible! It's terrible!", "Why? What's wrong with it?", "Because, look, you only get one corn.", "Watch a master at work here. (voice-over): This after a mere half hour of experience with the popcorn fork. Sothman figures a good stab can net you four to six kernels. This is the wrong way to use a popcorn fork, and this is the right way. (on camera): I like your nail polish.", "Thank you. How do I let it go?", "Well, you just shove it in your mouth.", "Oh.", "True, many a kernel missed its destination. And we recommend against using the popcorn fork in windy conditions. (on camera): Whoa!", "You can eat just about as fast with this, once you get used to it, as you can eating with your hands, because you can only fit so much in your mouth, you know?", "We know.", "Works great for cheese. Always -- you know, you always get a mess on your hand with that.", "And though the popcorn fork looks a little cheesy, it was a big hit in Times Square. (on camera): How much? (voice-over): For three of them, $3. Though she whipped out her wallet, the only place to buy this utensil is on the Web at popcornfork.com. (on camera): Oh, I didn't show you the best part. The salt.", "Now, that's cool!", "There's no butter dispenser, but each fork has a built-in salt shaker that left folks shakingýshaking with laughter. And talk about a fork in the road. For SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY WEEK, I'm Jeanne Moos.", "OK, thanks for joining us. I'm Ann Kellan. Next week, this is what happens when two atoms smash together. 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{"id": "CNN-88057", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2004-9-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/15/ltm.07.html", "summary": "Ivan Heads Toward Gulf Coast; Candidates & Battleground States", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. Eight-thirty on the East Coast. It is 7:30 in the morning here in Mobile, Alabama. The winds are picking up, evident there by the flag blowing in the wind, but this is nothing compared to what we expect to get later in the day, perhaps six hours from now, maybe 12 hours from now, perhaps 18 hours away. But still Ivan a powerful Category 4 storm. Winds at 140 miles an hour. The latest coordinates came out about 30 minutes ago; this storm has not weakened one bit overnight. Expected to make landfall somewhere along the Gulf Coast between Grand Isle, Louisiana and Apalachicola, Florida in the east in the Panhandle. That's an area about 300 miles long. And Ivan right now 180 miles out to sea southeast of New Orleans -- hurricane force winds extending 100 miles out from the eye. Tropical storm winds go 200 miles out from that -- so -- this is a monster yet again. Evacuations well underway; coming in late last night we could see from our airplane up the highways going north out of Mobile, nothing but taillights. People going north and going west trying to get out of the way of this storm. There are people who are sticking behind, but I could tell you based on what we saw in Frances in Florida just two weeks ago, many people leaving shared their concern about their own safety, but also that they stayed behind it makes their life downright miserable here. No air-conditioning, no electricity, no hot food. Many times there was no gas at the gasoline stations. That's the hardships that many people have to deal with for weeks after a storm like this comes through. We're waiting for Ivan here in Mobile this morning. Back to Heidi Collins in New York, as well -- Heidi, good morning again.", "All right, get out of dodge is what I say. Boy, it just doesn't sound like any fun at all. Thanks so much, Bill, for that. Also this half hour, the latest on how Major League Baseball is responding to that brawl in Oakland -- we showed it to you yesterday, but right now, first we're going to check on the stories now in the news. Spain's former prime minister will be called to testify about the train bombings last March. Pictures of the actual blast taken from security cameras were published in a Spanish newspaper yesterday. Jose Maria Aznar will testify to a commission investigating the attacks. The bombings took place just before national elections and may have cost the prime minister his job. A Kentucky prison has been brought under control this morning after inmates set three buildings on fire last night. The state police don't know how the prisoners started the fires. No reported injuries but guards are checking to see if any of the 800 prisoners escaped. California police have described for the first time the type of gun believed to have been used to kill two camp counselors last month. Authorities showed off a similar rifle yesterday. The killer used a Marlin 45-caliber rifle to murder Jason Allen and Lindsay Cutshall last month on a remote beach. The rifle is a type commonly used for hunting. The National Hockey League's collective bargaining agreement expires at 12:01 Thursday morning. Team owners are expected to announce a lock out of the players when the league's board of governors conclude an afternoon meeting in New York. The two sides have not spoken since talks broke off last Thursday. I hope they get that together. Like hockey.", "And a Category 4 hurricane. We saw that with Charley. Nonetheless, though, this is a monster right now, 140-mile-an-hour winds, sustained at that with gusts even going higher. In the meantime, though, we have watched Ivan move its way across the Atlantic, strengthen along the way, cause enormous amounts of damage in places like Grenada, Jamaica, the Grand Caymans, and then the western part of Cuba. More than 68 killed along the way. Cuba still reeling from that. Here's Lucia Newman now reporting for us this morning.", "The eye of Hurricane Ivan is long gone but not so its devastating effects. The sea continuing to flood Las Tunas, a small seaside village on the western tip of Cuba. I'm speaking to you from the top of a large water tank or cistern here, which is just barely above water. In fact, the beach here in Las Tunas is completely gone, it's been swallowed by the ocean and the waves are now coming into the back door of most of the houses. Residents were evacuated days in advance, unable to return now to pick up the pieces until the waters recede. Not that Ivan's ruthless hurricane force winds and torrential rains caught people here off guard. As he hangs out his wet clothes to dry, Pedro Paulo Guerra counts his blessings. His house and his family having survived the hurricane.", "We were warned and prepared so much in advance that anyone caught by surprise had to do it on purpose, he says.", "But his neighbor, Yamilia Perez, says no one can prepare you enough for such a monstrous storm.", "It was an enormous hurricane, she says, so much wind and water. We were afraid.", "Roads are still flooded. Electricity still out, and the damage to crops, especially western Cuba's famous tobacco, is still being estimated. But perhaps because they were well prepared, or because the hurricane struck a relatively small portion of Cuba, there was not the loss of life witnessed on other Caribbean islands in Ivan's path. But the people of western Cuba who were victims of Hurricane Charley just a month ago a sense of relief in the knowledge that it could have been a lot worse. Lucia Newman, CNN, Cuba.", "That is in Cuba. Now we await here live in Mobile, Alabama. By the way, behind me -- and running northward here, is the Mobile River. Late yesterday afternoon the Coast Guard, boat owners, yacht owners taking all their ships and water vessels up north into this river trying to get away from Ivan when the full fury of that storm comes on shore later tonight and into the early morning hours of Thursday. We're watching and waiting live in Mobile. Much more in a moment here. Back to you in -- to you now in New York now, Heidi Collins.", "Yes, watching and waiting. Boy, that's for sure. Bill Hemmer thanks so much for that. Want to turn now to politics. Joining us from Washington this morning our resident debaters, Democratic strategist Victor Kamber with the Kamber Group. Vic, hello to you.", "Hi, Heidi, how are you?", "I'm great. And Cliff May, former RNC Communications Director now with the Foundation for Defense of Democracy. Cliff, good morning to you as well.", "Good morning, Heidi, good morning Vic.", "You know we've been looking at these battleground states and the polls there very, very closely here on AMERICAN MORNING. Right now, we can say that Kerry is ahead in Michigan by six or seven points or so. And Bush is ahead in Wisconsin by about eight points. Cliff, what do you make of these newest polls? Do you think they're going to stick?", "Well, what you have right now is a situation in which I think Senator Kerry has got the harder hand to play. He is behind in the polls, not by a huge amount, but by a significant amount more than the margin of error, generally speaking. That means he needs to do one of two things. He needs to either change the debate, move it to a place where he benefits. Or when it comes to the actual debates, when they actually face each other, he needs to do it very well, probably needs a knockout punch. The dynamics need to change for Kerry to get back ahead.", "It's true, Vic, isn't it, that the margin of error at least in the other polls that we've seen all along has been -- made things even closer? It's just showing more of a gap now.", "Well, I think what you're going to see is in the 10, 12, 15 states that are considered pivotal and marginal they're still going to fluctuate up and down and they are within the margin of error. The -- where the gain for Bush has been and I don't mean to minimize it, has been in states like -- his own states like Texas, Utah -- where he's gained tremendously -- and in states -- Kerry states like California and New York where the lead has shrunk. So, where Kerry was 17 points up in New York he's down to 12 or where he was 15 points up in California he's down to nine still leading. So, the -- why Bush's margins are as high as they are at this point, six, seven points speaks much more to the national picture but on a state by state basis you're going to get just what you got today. One state for Kerry, one state for Bush, and until the debates, until this campaign is fully engaged, frankly, I think it's going to be close right up to the end.", "So, you don't think it's anything different about Wisconsin then, which was won by Gore back in 2000 by 1 percentage point?", "No, that's what I'm saying is I don't disagree with the poll that Bush is ahead there. All I'm saying is that I think three weeks ago Kerry was ahead or equal. I'm not sure I believe that that number won't change. I think three weeks ago there -- the Bush people were claiming that they could win Michigan. I think they were within one point either up or down. I think Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, West Virginia -- all those what I call marginal states where the pivotal states you're going to see the kind of fluctuations that we're seeing. We're not going to see them in California, New York, Texas, Utah. I think those states are won or lost for the candidate of your choice.", "All right, let's talk now a little bit more about the National Guard service, an issue that is still out there. There is in fact a video that the Democrats are running on the DNC Web site that talks about -- at least insinuates that the president did get help and did have some strings pulled in order to get him in to the National Guard during the Vietnam War of course. It also includes a sound bite now from \"60 Minutes\" -- the whole discussion of the candidates Vietnam War record has been problematic for John Kerry then why are the Democrats, Vic, keeping it alive?", "Well, I think -- one I give the credit to the Republicans for over the years having learned to use alternative media to make a threshold. This use of the Web site, use of this one issue when you're in a very close race you're looking to move very small margins of people. Probably more people will watch this show today than will ever switch on the Web site and see that exact video or that thing whatever is going to be playing. But for those who do if you take the partisans on both sides aside you may move a few hundred people, a few thousand people and frankly if you take six, eight, ten issues like this and move people you have won the election. There is a credibility question about George Bush and the Republicans -- Democrats are trying to exploit it.", "Why run it, then?", "I think it is a big mistake. I really do. I think for the Democrats to continue to harp on what George Bush may or may not have done in the National Guard years ago, particularly with the whole scandal over whether CBS was using forged documents, even to keep the attention on Kerry's Vietnam service is just a terrible mistake. They need to move on from that and move to other issues on which Kerry needs to be very clear and try to convince voters and I really think the Democrats and I'm not sure Vic disagrees with me here -- are making a big mistake by harping on this over and over again.", "And I've said to Cliff that the big picture there's no question -- it's jobs, it's the economy, it's terrorism. But I'm saying on the marginal issues you need to keep hitting away.", "This is not a marginal issue. They're making this a big issue.", "We're going to have to leave it there, gentlemen. Cliff May and Victor Kamber. Thanks so much as always.", "Thank you, Heidi.", "Thank you Heidi.", "Still to come this morning a new product that virtually ensures you'll always have a working flashlight on hand. Andy is \"Minding Your Business\" on that, plus, people along the Gulf Coast bracing for Ivan but are they ready for a medical crisis when the storm hits? Dr. Sanjay Gupta tells us how you can prepare ahead on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "HEMMER", "LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PEDRO PAULO GUERRA, HURRICANE SURVIVOR (through translator)", "NEWMAN", "YAMILIA PEREZ, HURRICANE SURVIVOR (thorough translator)", "NEWMAN", "HEMMER", "COLLINS", "VICTOR KAMBER, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "COLLINS", "CLIFF MAY, FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES", "COLLINS", "MAY", "COLLINS", "KAMBER", "COLLINS", "KAMBER", "COLLINS", "KAMBER", "COLLINS", "MAY", "KAMBER", "MAY", "COLLINS", "KAMBER", "MAY", "COLLINS"]}
{"id": "CNN-133371", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-12-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0812/18/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Mastermind Behind the Ponzi Scheme", "utt": ["Right now it's 1:31 Eastern time. Here are some of the stories we're working on in the CNN NEWSROOM. President Bush says he hasn't decide what he might do to help the U.S. auto industry, but his press secretary says today the president is considering what she described as an orderly bankruptcy. Chrysler is shutting down its factories for the next month and GM is also temporarily closing some of its plants. President-elect Obama says federal regulators dropped the ball when it comes to regulating the financial industry. He made his remarks made as he named three veteran regulators to his team, including the first woman to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission. Meantime, the Bush administration has issued a new federal rule strengthening legal protections for doctors who refuse to take part in abortions because of religious objections. Critics argue that the rule is too broad and will limit a patient's right to get care and accurate information. Barack Obama has vowed to make Afghanistan the central focus of the war on terror more than seven years after 9/11. There's still no complete victory over the Taliban and reaching that point could be years down the road. Here is CNN's Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, with a \"Memo to the President.\"", "Mr. President, some say the war in Afghanistan isn't going well. It's one of the reasons you asked Bob Gates to stay on as Secretary of Defense.", "As Bob said not too long ago, Afghanistan is where the war on terror began, and it is where it must end.", "But how to end it? You will soon be to asked to approve sending an additional 20,000 troops to join the 30,000 already there.", "We are hopeful that we will be able to send an additional two combat -- brigade combat teams by late spring.", "The first wave arrives here in southeastern Afghanistan where there hasn't been enough U.S. troops or Afghan police to provide security. The Taliban now controls some towns and villages, moving about unchallenged in some cases.", "They got areas where they can sleep, where they can eat, where they may have contacts and curriers come and deliver money.", "It's an insurgency fueled by a thriving poppy crop. Your top military adviser warns with all of these challenges, even 20,000 more troops won't be enough for all-out victory.", "I think there needs to be a considered effort economically and a considered effort in the governance rule of law, diplomatic, political side.", "Billions of dollars in aid is urgently needed, so are more troops from our allies. But NATO countries have been resisting getting more involved. In the Afghan security forces the U.S. is training, the U.S. will pay the tab for them for decades to come. Your not-so-new secretary of defense seems frustrated.", "I think everybody would agree that holding your own isn't good enough.", "Mr. President, the clock will be ticking as soon as you take office to try and to get those troops into Afghanistan as quickly as possible. Why? Afghanistan is set to have its own presidential election in September 2009. The U.S. troops will be vital for providing security for those elections. Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.", "Just a month from Saturday, Condoleezza Rice exits the world stage. In our next hour of the CNN NEWSROOM, the secretary of state talks with our own Zain Verjee about her job, the good and the bad times and she offers us a glimpse into her life away from work. It's been 10 years since Bill Clinton was impeached. Has Washington moved on? Or, is it the same old town? CNN's special correspondent, Frank Sesno, takes a look back at the", "William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.", "It was 10 years ago...", "-- Perjurious, misleading and untruthful.", "Mr. Speaker, this is wrong, wrong, wrong.", "The impeachment of a president. It had been tawdry and tortured, this becoming this.", "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.", "But it was really about truth and consequences.", "I never told anybody to lie, not a single time. Never. These allegations are false.", "But they weren't.", "The I's (ph) have it --", "Monica Lewinsky, a young White House intern, and the president had what was politely called \"inappropriate contact.\" He got into trouble for what are he told investigators.", "It depends upon what the meaning of the word is is.", "The evidence suggests that the president repeatedly used the machinery of government and the powers of his high office to conceal his relationship.", "The scandal divided the country.", "A nation of laws cannot be ruled by a person who breaks the law.", "When will this mindless cannibalism end? How many good public officials must be destroyed because of their private sins and human imperfections?", "It paralyzed the presidency, and made their private lives, and foibles, painfully public. It became about survival. So the Clintons circled the wagons and went on the offensive.", "The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.", "The impeachment hearings live and in graphic detail capped a year of this. The House voted to impeach, but the Senate did not convict. He's worked every since to reclaim his reputation. She's run the marathon and has gained influence. But there will always be that history. And private lives will always be the quicksand of American politics.", "So the quicksand of American politics, Kyra. They made it through that, obviously. They did it because they circled the wagons, as I said. They stayed together, they adopted a really tough strategy and they made this a political -- a political battle. And in the end the country and the Senate said, you know what? A sex scandal and all the lives surrounding it, not enough to bring a president down.", "Wow, you know what's wild? And -- I do have a couple questions for you. But just seeing Hillary Clinton, Frank, and talking the way she was talking and how she handled all that, and then you fast forward 10 years, and here she was running for the presidency. I don't know. It's just fascinating to kind of see her then and see her now.", "Well, you've got to give her incredible credit. She has taken her lumps -- and we know this -- from all across the spectrum. People have said she should have left her husband, people have said she is part of the vast left-wing conspiracy. And she hung in there, and she deserves a lot of credit for that in the American political system, just to kind of stay with the fight, and stay in the game, and put herself out there. I mean, regardless of what you think about the Clintons' politics, and they remain divisive by the way, of course, is they are in this game and they are one tough political couple.", "Now if I remember correctly, I think you were a bureau chief at that time.", "Yes, you had to remind me.", "Back in the day. Yes, that must have been hell.", "Yes.", "What do you remember?", "What I remember is being taken in places, Kyra, that we had never been taken before. We had to figure out what kind of language to put on television, how to describe the sexual scandal. When the president said it depends what your definition of is is, it was -- he was talking about the definition of sexual relations. We put things on television, and we put things out there to the public that we would never have imagined doing. But in this particular case, it came down to whether a presidency was going to survive. And it was day in and day out of this trying to get information, trying to figure out -- there were leaks all over the place. What could you go with? What couldn't you go with? But really it was about seeing a constitutional crisis built around an intensely personal and really tawdry, nasty scandal like that.", "And you sort of wonder if that would have happened to a woman, you know, what would have happened to her reputation? It happened to a man, and the guy's still a rock star. He went through a tough time, but he kept his popularity.", "The questions about the political implications of it, the social implications, the double standards, as you say, the issues of governance and propriety -- I remember we had a lot of conversation about other presidents and people saying, like, Ronald Reagan and others who never took their suit coat off in the Oval Office, and this had somehow, sullied the Oval Office beyond belief and by itself was enough for the president to resign. Others said the presidency needs to be stronger than this, and this had a lot to do about our institutions of government. And of course, the way the world looked at us. Some people thought we were out of our minds because -- the French, they have traditions of their own as we know -- and the Europeans. And they thought the Americans have just gone off the deep end. It was a very -- it was a bizarre, surreal time.", "Yes. I think in some ways we did go off the deep end. But I can't believe it's been 10 years. Frank --", "Well, it's -- you know, you're right. And what's interesting, if I may very quickly, it really is fascinating to see where the country came down on these issues of privacy and sexual behavior and private lives of public officials. Because I think that may have been the big surprise. People, I think, in the end, especially observers and people here in Washington, surprised where the country came down on that.", "And how crafty politicians can be with one or two words.", "There's that.", "Thanks, Frank.", "Thanks, Kyra.", "All right. Well they've held the highest office in the land. Barack Obama will soon be turning to President Bush and the men who came before him in the Oval Office for advice. More on this big meeting of the minds in the next hour of the CNN NEWSROOM. Well accused investment guru, Bernard Madoff, is under house arrest in his $7 million Manhattan apartment with a special hi-tech accessory adorning his ankle. He is accused of ripping off investors to the tune of some $50 billion. He wanted to go free on $10 million bail, but despite all his friends in rich places, he couldn't get four to sign his bail request. Donald Trump sure as heck wasn't going to do it. And here is what he said on CNN's \"AMERICAN MORNING.\"", "The people in Palm Beach, many of those people have been just ripped off by this sleazebag. And they'll never see the kind of money that they've seen. You have some people that gave 100 percent of their net worth to him, in trust, because they trusted him, they trusted his family, they trusted everybody. And now they literally are selling their houses in order to live and some of them mortgaged their houses in order to give that money to this Madoff. And it's really a terrible thing. I'd see him around Mar-a-Lago, I'd see him around Palm Beach. And he's a disgrace.", "Madoff is accused of creating a massive Ponzi scheme. So what exactly does that mean? Josh Levs at the CNN magic wall to kind of talk us through how it works, what it means, and where the word Ponzi comes from.", "There you go. Yes, we're going to break this down Schoolhouse Rock style, Kyra. You like that?", "Oh my gosh are you taking me back. I'm just a bill. A lonely -- OK, I won't go there.", "All these years later we remember it because this stuff works.", "I do.", "And the Ponzi scheme is a perfect example. A lot of people hear the term, you hear pyramid scheme. I want to show you how this works. So we're going to start off with this one right here. This right here, this is the guy who's creating the Ponzi scheme. And he will be very recognizable to you as I talk from this Pac-Man face. Everyone over here is potential investors. This guy, Mr. Ponzi Scheme, is saying to everybody, hey invest $1, and you'll make $1,000 off of this. Now, it's not always that extreme. But the basic idea here is it starts with the promise of a ton of money from a simple investment. Hard to believe that you can actually get that much money that fast. But people line up, they start to invest. They say, you know what? I want to get in on this. I want some of that money. So these are the investors. Now, this is where your Ponzi scheme gets under way. Right here. Check this out. This means it's happening because more people come along, they say, I want to be a part of that scheme. So here is what they do. They buy in, they pay their money to him, he then gives their money to these guys, which means they're starting to get everything that was promised to them. So they start to say, hey, this is actually working. Then even more people come in. Check it out. This is the -- we're going to end (ph) the pyramid. These people come along, and they're like, I want in, too. They take their money, they buy in, these people and these people get their return. But that is when everything falls apart, Kyra. That is why, ultimately, these things fall apart. Because even if every person in America bought in, in the end, it wouldn't work out, because eventually you'll run out of investors. So the people who were at the bottom wrung are left with nothing. Everybody who was ahead of them on the pyramid runs away with their money. And that is how -- that's what a Ponzi scheme is. And that is how to not fall for it. Watch out for those huge promises in the first place. Investigate.", "I liked your --", "Make sure you know.", "-- your gingerbread Pac-Man there. Real quickly, Ponzi, it came from an Italian name, right?", "Yes, it is. It's an Italian name. He's the guy who in the 1920s got away with it. And guess what? We have his mug shot right here. That's him back in the 1920s, in the U.S. We have his -- I didn't know they had mug shots at the time. We have his actual mug shot from all those decades ago. And it was named after him because he managed to bilk investors out of so much money at the time, Mr. Charles Ponzi (ph).", "Slick Italians. Josh, thanks.", "A little. Thanks, Kyra.", "Well the men who made history are about to witness it. The Tuskegee Airmen head to Washington for the presidential inauguration. 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{"id": "CNN-216447", "program": "SANJAY GUPTA MD", "date": "2013-10-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1310/12/hcsg.01.html", "summary": "The Bravest Girl in the World", "utt": ["I know your father is backstage and he's very proud of you, but would he be mad if I adopted you? Because you sure are swell.", "Did you see that interview this Tuesday night, Jon Stewart in awe frankly as we all are of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who you might remember was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman one year ago this week, and on Monday, Malala became the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. And as her week in New York is wrapped up, but she didn't win, but she did sit down to talk with our very own Christiane Amanpour.", "The thing is, they can kill me, they can only kill mala. But it does not mean that they can kill my cause as well. My cause of education, my cause of peace, and my cause of human rights, my cause of equality will still be surviving. They cannot kill my cause.", "Joining me now from New York is our chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour. And, Christiane, this young woman, she is now 16 years of age. She is passionate. She has conviction. Where does it come from?", "You know, I think she's a prodigy. Every time I see her, I'm just absolutely stunned by how un-girl-like she is and how incredibly womanlike she is. She's able to articulate her passion, her dreams, her desires, even after being shot in the head only a year ago. She was so lucky that the bullet didn't pierce her bones, her brain, rather, some bone fragments did, but she's made a remarkable recovery and she consistently keeps up that spirit of really revolutionary zeal and that is to bring education to all Pakistan but most especially to girls. And you wonder where does she get this from?", "Right.", "She comes from a small village.", "She comes from a small village. This is all about education, and the world, Christiane, knows so much of her story, but there's so much that we don't because we know she went to this Pakistani hospital. She was then flown to Birmingham. And I know there was this British doctor, Dr. Fiona Reynolds, who happened in be in Pakistan and was instrumental in her care. Not many people know about this woman, Christiane. What's the story there?", "Well, I think it's really important to state that the Pakistani doctors, the medical surgeons, the military surgeons, rather, did save her life initially. For instance, they stabilized her and they saved her life with very, very rapid operations after she was wounded. But then, the aftercare was not satisfactory. And quickly her vital signs started to get weaker. And it just so happened that this doctor. Fiona Reynolds, from the specialized hospital in Birmingham, along with Dr. Javid, who was also Pakistani British, were in Pakistan on a different mission and they were asked to come and look at her. And Dr. Reynolds is very shy of the spotlight. She says, look, I'm a doctor, patient/doctor conversation is confidential and privileged, but Malala insisted on telling the whole story, on telling the truth, and therefore that is how I became part of the story. But her role was absolutely instrumental.", "So, here we have with mala this outer circle, if you will, of support, right, the doctors and the staff and then you have her family and specifically, Christiane, her father. Tell me about their relationship.", "Oh, my goodness, it is remarkable. You know, I know because I grew up in Iran, which even then was a male-dominated society, and I remember my mother telling me that when her friends, you know, had girls, you know, the dads were just distraught. Some even wept at the bedside. My mother had four girls and my father luckily was very evolved and, obviously, so is Ziauddin Yousafzai, because when he had his little girl, he also had two boys. He said he was thrilled. He looked at the face of this little girl and thought she was miraculous. And he from somewhere deep in his upbringing and situation is a rare commodity in the villages of Pakistan. He's a free and progressive thinker. And he wanted to bring education, not just to all the children, but specifically to girls. And he knew that that is what he wanted to do with his life. He set up a school and that is where Malala went to school. But I think we also understand that she's taken an incredible burden on her shoulders. She and her family are carrying a very heavy cross. The Taliban has continued to say they want to kill her, and if she continues to fight this fight, she's also recognizing that she's doing it at the possible cost of her life.", "Revolutionary zeal, I like how you put that. Christiane Amanpour, thank you so much. And you can catch and watch the premiere of \"The Bravest Girl in the World\" this Sunday night at 7:00 Eastern right here on CNN. Christiane, thank you. Coming up next, relationship advice you probably never heard before. Wait for this. Controversial sex columnist Dan Savage has some savage love for you right after this."], "speaker": ["JON STEWART, COMEDY CENTRAL", "BALDWIN", "MALALA YOUSAFZAI, ACTIVIST", "BALDWIN", "CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "AMANPOUR", "BALDWIN", "AMANPOUR", "BALDWIN", "AMANPOUR", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-225395", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-2-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/21/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Juror 8: \"I think He's Guilty of Murder\"; NFL's Growing Image Problem; Unconscious Baby Saved in Highway Rescue", "utt": ["Good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thanks so much for joining me. Wild, closed-door discussions, shouting, that's how juror number eight describes the tension during the deliberations in the \"Loud Music\" murder trial of Michael Dunn. Now that juror is speaking exclusively to CNN. Alina Machado has more for you.", "I never thought about -- this is a black kid, this is a white because that was -- that wasn't the case.", "So people who say you know here is another white guy who got away with shooting and killing a black kid, what would you tell them?", "I would tell them that they really should (inaudible) based on the law.", "Creshuna Miles is setting the record straight.", "I just wanted to bring justice to whoever it was.", "The 21-year-old was juror number 8 in the Michael Dunn trial. She sat down exclusively with CNN to talk about the case and the heated deliberations. (on camera): What was it like inside that deliberations room?", "It was wild.", "Wild as --", "Like, it was shouting. There was a lot of yelling.", "Miles even shared her impressions about Michael Dunn and explained the partial verdict the jury returned. (on camera): What did you think of Michael Dunn?", "I honestly think he was a good guy. I think he's a good guy. I don't think he hates everybody. I don't think he walks around wanting to shoot everybody. I think that he made bad decisions.", "You still think he's guilty of murder, though?", "Yes. I really think he's guilty of murder but not the guilty as charged.", "First degree? You don't think he's guilty of first degree?", "I think he's guilty of second degree.", "How difficult was it for you to come back into that courtroom knowing that Jordan Davis' parents were there and that you couldn't agree on a charge related to his death?", "It was -- we were confident and cool with it but when you (inaudible) back, we got really nervous because we didn't know if this was going to throw out the whole case or he's going to retrial or is the court satisfied with just what happened? Is she going to do more? Is Jordan ever going to get justice? We did not know. And walking back into there, I got so nervous because I'm just like, what do we -- what if we completely messed up.", "Do you feel like you messed up? Do you feel like the jury messed up?", "No. I feel like we did what we was supposed to.", "What would you tell Jordan's family?", "I would tell them that, from my end, I tried. I really did try. I tried to fight for their son. I saw his dad's face when we were on the stand. And I know it hurts. And it's like, oh, you have this wound and then somebody slices it open again because they have to go through the whole process all over again.", "Now, if there is a retrial, Miles says she hopes the jury in that case will be able to agree on the murder charge and come with a verdict -- Carol.", "Alina Machado reporting live for us, thanks so much. Despite unprecedented popularity in revenues the NFL has a major image problem this morning. The league's reputation is becoming battered and bruised. A star running back accused of beating his fiancee unconscious at a New Jersey casino. A former all pro safety suspected of raping at least eight women in five states. Andy Scholes is here now. Andy, toss in the bullying scandal and the concussion scandal and the NFL has got a mess.", "Yes, they certainly do Carol. You know many thought last off season PR wise was the worst ever for the NFL. 31 players from 19 different teams were arrested for a variety of offenses. Now the most notable of course was Aaron Hernandez being arrested for murder. Now the NFL continues to try to clean up their image but this off season already off to a pretty rough start.", "The video is jarring. Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice caught on tape dragging his seemingly unconscious fiancee out of an elevator. TMZ says the shocking footage shows the aftermath of a fight between the couple last week inside an Atlantic City casino. According to police, Rice and his fiancee both struck each other; Rice's blow knocking Janay Palmer out cold. Both have pleaded not guilty to simple assault charges. The Baltimore Ravens are reviewing their disciplinary options and released a statement to CNN that reads in part, \"We have seen the video. This is a serious matter and we are currently gathering more information.\" And a former NFL player also finding himself in legal trouble. Yesterday NFL Network analyst Darren Sharper pleaded not guilty to charges of rape in a Los Angeles court. According to an affidavit Sharper allegedly drugged two women before raping them. Sharper is now under investigation in five states in connection with a total of eight rape cases according to authorities in both Los Angeles and Miami. This is the latest in a seemingly endless string of high- profile arrests this year of both current and retired NFL players.", "When you think about the fact that you've had these recent incidents of domestic violence or these accusations of domestic violence we do have high- profile crimes that have occurred when we have this history in terms of medical history that's questionable and some of the other same things that impact the game, you know like possible addiction to painkillers and things like that, then, yes, absolutely the NFL does have a bit of an image problem. Except it's still the most popular sport in the country.", "Arrests numbers for active players skyrocketed in the 2013 off season up 75 percent from the year before. Those arrests included Aaron Hernandez who was charged with the murder and the shooting death of a friend. He's also under investigation for a separate case of double murder. Yesterday at the NFL Combine, Miami Dolphins' head coach Joe Philbin face a barrage of questions stemming from the NFL's most recent investigation in the bullying allegations.", "Some of the facts, the behavior, the language that was outlined in the report is inappropriate and it's unacceptable.", "The report released last week concluded that Jonathan Martin was taunted and ridiculed almost daily by fellow player Richie Incognito. Martin claim Incognito who was suspended by the team used racial slurs and physically threatened him the team has since fired its offensive line coach and head trainer.", "And even though we continue to hear about players getting in trouble all the time, it should be noted Carol that NFL players, according to a study actually are arrested 75 percent less than men age 22 to 34 in the general population. We just hear about it.", "But that doesn't make it much better.", "It doesn't feel any better if we just always hear about stories (ph).", "So is the NFL planning to do something about at least the perception of this?", "Well, you know Roger Goodell he's really started to come down hard on players that you know get arrested in and end up getting in trouble with the law. The suspensions have been increased and increased. But it's hard to say if they can ever do anything that will really put a stop these players in the off season just getting in trouble.", "Andy Scholes thanks so much. Two Florida women making their mark as they save the life of a baby on the side of the road. With her 5-month-old nephew dying in her arms, Pamela Rauseo jumped from her car, screamed for help and frantically started giving the infant who had turned blue CPR. Fighting tears, the aunt and a good Samaritan named Lucila got the baby breathing again.", "All of a sudden I see her and she's screaming and you know she's holding the baby and she's putting it up and down. Like knowing what you know she was desperate. I just stopped the car and jumped out of the car. And I asked her what was going on and we tried to start working as a team at that time when I see it. And we start doing CPR to the baby and the police officer help with the chest compressions and the baby finally started breathing.", "A local hospital says the boy is currently in stable condition. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, Chris Christie ripped by fellow Republicans for getting too chummy with the President. He broke ranks then but you won't break bread now. 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{"id": "CNN-43982", "program": "CNN SUNDAY", "date": "2001-11-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/18/sun.06.html", "summary": "Can Osama bin Laden Be Hiding in One of Afghanistan's Many Caves?", "utt": ["From day one of this campaign, we've heard about the difficulty of finding Osama bin Laden on his home turf. He can find shelter in numerous locations deep in the mountains, and while a cave might seem like a primitive hiding place, wait until you see this. The ones bin Laden has access to are very elaborate dwellings. CNN's Miles O'Brien with our report.", "There have been caves in Afghanistan, literally, for thousands of years. In order to obtain water to grow crops, the Afghans have used caves to burrow down to the water table and access water that way to irrigate their crops. Let's take a look at some animation that we put together, to give you a sense of how intricate they can become, however. These Tauraz (ph) caves, very rudimentary, of course -- basically, a horizontal shaft into a mountain, and then vertical shafts to aid in getting the water. But they have been modified over the years in ways we see right here. Primarily, it occurred, during the days of the Soviet occupation. They were buttressed and enhanced in order to aid the Mujahideen, as they fought the Soviets, including sleeping quarters like this. Here, you see depictions of Kalashnikov rifles, which would, of course, be nearby, food supplies and that kind of thing, linked nearby to a weapons cache there, with rocket-propelled grenades and additional Kalashnikovs, linked across the way to fuel drums to supply their vehicles and so forth, along with additional weaponry. And then air shafts, obviously very important to maintain air when you're underground. Now, then, it gives you a sense of sort of a depiction of a typical type cave. Note these right angles as you enter into the cave, and then this next depiction, will give you a sense of how difficult it is to attack people who might be in these caves. This is a bunker-buster bomb we're depicting here, a GBU-37, 4,500 pound warhead. If it, in fact, goes in and wipes out the entrance, say, to a cave, what you can see here, these right angles make it possible for the occupants of the cave, not only to survive, but to get out as well. So it's a very difficult thing to wage war against an air campaign, and certainly a campaign on the ground makes it all the more difficult. Niamatullah Arghandabi is a former Mujahideen fighter, who is very familiar with these caves. He joins us live from London -- good to have you with us, sir.", "Thank you.", "Give us a sense of how intricate these caves are, and how useful they are to fighters who hunker down in them.", "Yes, there are many caves where I used to fight. We were using them to hide and keeping our munitions, and we lived in them to hide and keep our munitions and important weapons, and especially when we were striking the Soviet position or ambushing them time wise, if things were getting bad for us, so we would go back to the caves that we were very familiar with, and we made it stone by stone. So, and we were using them for hiding.", "Well, are they virtually impenetrable, Mr. Arghandabi?", "Yes they are. I mean, there are different kinds of, you know, caves. The ones you were talking about, though, we call it kurages (ph), and that is in Kandahar and around Kandahar. The kurages (ph) are not good for the fight. You can just -- they are going from the mountain to the plain area and for irrigation system. You can only hide there for a temporary time, but the caves in the mountains, those are, you know, natural caves are there for thousands and thousands of years. So, and we made some spaces in there, so to hide, and they cannot be affected by heavy bombs. I mean, even if they hit the top. So if it hits the entrance, it may block the entrance, but if it's around that, it won't be"], "speaker": ["DONNA KELLEY, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera)", "NIAMATULLAH ARGHANDABI, FORMER AFGHAN CAVE FIGHTER", "O'BRIEN", "ARGHANDABI", "O'BRIEN", "ARGHANDABI"]}
{"id": "CNN-371687", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2019-06-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/06/cg.02.html", "summary": "Biden Defends 1994 Crime Bill as Trump, 2020 Dems Pounce; Voicemail from Trump's Attorney to Flynn's Lawyer Released.", "utt": ["In our 2020 lead today, former Vice President Joe Biden facing lingering questions about his authorship of the 1994 crime bill. And as Jeff Zeleny now reports, it's an issue Biden will not be able to avoid, certainly not when he shares the stage with his opponents at debates in just a few weeks.", "Joe Biden is defending what many Democrats now see as all but indefensible -- the 1994 crime bill.", "When I wrote the crime bill, which you have been conditioned to say is a bad bill --", "That bill is now one of the heaviest potential weights around his 2020 candidacy. One of the biggest points of contention is this long-held believed Biden is still holding on to.", "This idea that the crime bill generated mass incarceration, it did not generate mass incarceration.", "His rivals have rushed to disagree, teeing up a likely conflict at their first debate only three weeks away.", "That 1994 crime bill, it did contribute to mass incarceration in our country.", "But 25 years ago this summer --", "Let us roll up our sleeves to roll back this awful tide of violence.", "The bill was a compromise between Democrats and Republicans, supported by many members of the Congressional Black Caucus, big city black mayors and clergy leaders alarmed at soaring crime rates. So what did the crime bill do? Formerly known as the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, the bill was a sweeping $30 billion package, which put 100,000 new police officers on the streets, created the Violence Against Women Act and an assault weapons ban. The bill also expanded the federal death penalty and created dramatically harsher sentencing laws, including three strikes -- mandatory life terms for people with at least three federal violent crimes or drug convictions. One of the most controversial aspects, granting states billions to build prisons if they pass their own tough sentencing laws with mandatory minimums. But those state laws incentivized by the federal government are what critics say helped contribute to an era of mass incarceration. Four years ago as Hillary Clinton faced blistering criticism for the bill, President Clinton apologized.", "Because I signed a bill that made the problem worse. And I want to admit it.", "That is far more than Biden has said. As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he proudly took ownership of it.", "A guy name Biden wrote that bill and wrote that bill by going down and sitting down with the president of the United States of America.", "This year, Biden has tried reconciling some of his tough on crime views.", "I haven't always been right. I know we haven't always gotten things right. But I've always tried.", "President Trump is now inserting himself into the debate saying on Twitter: African-Americans will not be able to vote for you. I, on the other hand, was responsible for criminal justice reform. What Trump doesn't say is decades ago, he promoted similar policies on crime.", "The problem with our society is that the victim has absolutely no rights and the criminal has unbelievable rights.", "Now, Joe Biden is not the only Democratic presidential candidate who voted for the crime bill. Bernie Sanders, then in the House, voted for it, but he said he did so because it had the Violence Against Women Act in it. Governor Jay Inslee of Washington also voted for it. He was serving in the House as well. He's since expressed regret for it. But, Jake, inside the Biden organization, there is a discussion going on if he needs to have more of a frank conversation here about the consequences of the crime bill. He's been defending it. One thing is clear: 25 years after it was signed, it's now a part of this debate as well.", "All right. Jeff Zeleny, thank you so much.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We have breaking news in our politics lead. For the first time, we are hearing the audio of a voicemail from President Trump's former lawyer John Dowd to his fired national security adviser Michael Flynn's lawyer. A key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, Flynn was. CNN crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz joins me now. And, Shimon, we're now hearing this voice mail for the first time?", "Yes, for the first time, we're hearing the president's former personal attorney John Dowd in a phone call to Michael Flynn's attorney that was part of the obstruction investigation where he was asking about Flynn's potential cooperation with the special counsel. And here's that voice mail, Jake.", "Hey, Rob, this is John again. Maybe I'm sympathetic and I understand your situation, but let me see if I can't state it in starker terms. If you have -- it wouldn't surprise me if you've gone on to make a deal and work with the government. I understand that you can't", "So, Jake, obviously this coming after the transcript, which was released last week by the government. Of course, John Dowd not pleased with the release of all this information saying the Mueller team and the Department of Justice are doing this in an attempt to somehow smear him. He says he's been questioned about this call. So the idea this was part of any kind of investigation, he certainly has found it to be a little ridiculous and he's kind of been saying, you know, they're doing this because they're trying to smear me.", "You can hear the president's lawyer telling Flynn's lawyer, give us a heads-up if you're handing over information on the president, damaging information on the president.", "Right. And that part was the key thing in all of this for the Mueller team. It's why Flynn's lawyers, when they heard this voice mail, when they got it, they certainly recorded it, copied it and gave it and turned it over to the Mueller team, to the special counsel. And it came up in the report where this was potentially one of the things that they looked at as a possible obstruction. The other thing in this voice mail as you recall was the president's feeling. John Dowd telling Flynn's lawyer, remember how the president feels about Michael Flynn. Why all of that is important is something that the Mueller team looked at because they were wondering if they were trying to somehow sway Michael Flynn's cooperation.", "Right. The suggestion being, of course, that maybe he would pardon Michael Flynn. Everyone, let's weigh in on this. There's a lot of Flynn news today, surprisingly. First of all, what do you make of this as somebody who covers the White House day in, day out? I'm kind of surprised that the president's attorney would say something like this on a voice mail message. It doesn't seem the wisest lawyering.", "Yes, floating the possibility of a pardon, I mean, he --", "He denies that.", "Yes, exactly, he denies it. But that's effectively what the effect is there. To do that on a voice mail is stunning. Beyond the notion of floating a pardon, also you're hearing the president's attorney here saying if you're going to implicate the president in a crime, which why is a lawyer for the president, would you be worried about --", "Implicates the president, yes.", "-- implicating the president of a crime if you don't think the president committed a crime? And this takes me back to those days we're talking about the perjury trap the president could face that somehow if you sat down with Mueller, the president was going to implicate himself in a crime or lie to investigators about matters they were looking into and, therefore, you know, face criminal charges or be violating the law at least.", "And, Amanda, the president -- I'm sorry, Michael Flynn still awaiting to be sentenced. And we just learned today that whether he was fired or he quit or whatever, he and his lawyer are not working together anymore, which is certainly unusual at this stage of prosecution.", "Yes, it's amazing that his case still remains in limbo. I think we have to be reminded of the fact that he pled guilty to lying to investigators about sanctions talk with Russia. He chose to cooperate with Mueller even after being dangled a plea as we heard in the voice mail, being threatened with national security implications. And the judge, he was going to be sentenced earlier this year. The judge essentially said, do you want to do this, let the treason word slip? It was really confrontational open court hearing. Now, he's trying to judge -- it makes me wonder, is he trying to retract that plea? Is the pardon offer still operable? This case is not closed.", "So, speaking of pleas and pardon, let's turn to another Trump associate. He's known as the big man on campus. Why sources say that President Trump's ex-lawyer and former fixer Michael Cohen is Mr. Popular in prison. That's next. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ZELENY", "BIDEN", "ZELENY", "SEN. KAMALA HARRIS (D-CA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ZELENY", "BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT", "ZELENY", "CLINTON", "ZELENY", "BIDEN", "ZELENY", "BIDEN", "ZELENY", "TRUMP", "ZELENY", "TAPPER", "ANNOUNCER", "TAPPER", "SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTER", "JOHN DOWD, FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S LAWYER", "PROKUPECZ", "TAPPER", "PROKUPECZ", "TAPPER", "JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER", "TAPPER", "DIAMOND", "TAPPER", "DIAMOND", "TAPPER", "AMANDA CARPENTER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-335452", "program": "HALA GORANI TONIGHT", "date": "2018-03-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/19/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Facebook, Data Firm In Center Of Storm; Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Speaks To CNN", "utt": ["Hello and welcome, everyone. It is Monday. I`m Hala Gorani. Tonight, two huge stories with their heart right here in the United Kingdom. First of all, did a big company secretly harvest info from 50 million Facebook users? Officials in London and Washington want to know. And also, this hour, what is being called a decisive step forward in Brexit talks? Do we finally have more clarity? We`ll get to that in a moment. First, though, lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic are demanding answers from Facebook and from a company called Cambridge Analytica. We may not have heard of it just a few days ago, but it`s become quite a household name. The data firm is allegedly involved in harvesting information from Facebook users to use in political advertising and influence campaigns. It`s a story that sent Facebook shares plunging today and one of the major issues is the millions of people whose data was potentially taken had no idea that their information was used in this way. In a moment, I`ll be speaking to the whistleblower at the heart of this story, but first Issa Soares explains how Facebook and that relatively unknown company with roots here in the U.K. came to be at the center of a storm.", "I first met the CEO of Cambridge Analytica, Alexander Nicks nine days before the U.S. presidential election in 2016, a man confident he can get inside the mind of American voters by predicting and then attempting to alter their behavior.", "I think the data is extremely robust and proven to be so time and again.", "His data helped this man win, U.S. President Donald Trump, who paid multimillion dollars for them to work their magic. The behind their win method is more than just data crunching, it`s a massive data grab so says their former contractor, now turned whistleblower, Chris Wylie.", "We spent almost a million dollars during this. It wasn`t some tiny pilot project. It was the core of why Cambridge Analytica became. It allowed us to move into the hearts and minds of American voters in a way that had never been done before.", "And this is what Wylie says they did. Cambridge Analytica receive data from a third party, a professor, Alexander Coogan based at the University of Cambridge. He was able to gather data on tens of millions of Americans through Facebook. And then using a survey placed on Facebook, they asked users to take a personality test. The answers group people on the personality types. They combined it with voter history, what they buy, where they shop, and what they watch on TV. And that enabled them to predict the personality of every adult in the United States, and then target them with specific political ads, but it goes further, by opting into these Facebook surveys, each user was actually giving not just their data, but that many of their Facebook friends.", "It was a great grossly unethical experiment because you are playing with the entire country, the psychology of an entire country without their consent or awareness.", "Speaking to the U.K. Parliament Committee on Data Protection and Fake News back in February, Cambridge Analytica denied they violated Facebook`s terms.", "(Inaudible) Facebook data, we don`t have Facebook data. We do use Facebook as a platform to advertise (inaudible), most of agencies, all agencies and we use Facebook as a means to gather data.", "The attention now turns to Facebook and how it reportedly allowed a data breach on the scale.", "As I`ve said from the beginning --", "And more importantly how it was used to reach and influence voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election. In a statement Facebook said the claim that this is a data breach is completely false and if those involve certified they have destroyed the data. Meanwhile, it says it`s suspending the accounts of Chris Wylie, Cambridge Analytica as well as Professor Alexander Coogan, who did not respond to our request for comment. If anything is shine the light in the dark casts of political advertising. Isa Soares, CNN, London.", "Well, obviously, there`s a lot of reaction to this story. Just in the last hour, we have seen secret footage of the CEO of that company mentioned in the report, Cambridge Analytica, saying his firm could use sex bribes and sex workers to entrap rival politicians. Following that report on Britain`s Channel 4 news, the U.K. Information Commissioner said she is applying for a warrant to search the firm`s databases and Facebook says Cambridge Analytica has agreed to an audit of its servers. That it really deleted these tens of millions of data points from users that perhaps weren`t fully aware that they were sharing their personal information with a data firm. Christopher Wylie is the whistleblower, who revealed the alleged breach and whom you saw on that film and he joins me now in the studio. Thanks, Chris Wylie for being with us. Where did Cambridge Analytica get its data from, was it -- I mean, it harvested it from Facebook, how?", "So, after Robert Mercer (ph) put in tens of millions of dollars into this idea --", "Robert Mercer is the billionaire GOP donor.", "Yes. He`s the rich guy who put in all the cash and when he -- when he put all his money, Steve Bannon said, OK, you know, we want to we want to be ready for the 2014 midterms, we got to find data fast. And Professor Alex Coogan at Cambridge University at the psychology department, came to us and said, I think I have a solution. I`ve got these apps that can pull data not only from the app users but from the entire friend network also. And you know the company looks at that and realize that that mandate, if we got one person to download that app, it would pull, you know, 200, 300 records and that would scale really quickly --", "Without their knowledge.", "Without their knowledge and that would scale really quickly and that would build up a sufficient data set for the firm to be ready to operate in the 2014 midterms.", "What kind of information was being harvested?", "You know, Facebook profile information so the algorithms that were developed in the scheme really focused at least initially on Facebook likes because when you think about what are Facebook likes. These are all the things that you know you are liking and following and really it creates a curated picture profile of you. And so, these likes would then be harvested from U.S. user and then in all of your --", "All my friends.", "And be used to develop an algorithm that could then profile the user`s personality traits and psychological disposition so that Cambridge Analytica or its clients could target messaging that would focus on underlying, you know, mental heuristics or vulnerabilities.", "So, like psychometrics, like you could categorize people as neurotics or as open or (inaudible).", "Absolutely. This is the big five model personality.", "Yes. And then based on the you think, OK, here`s an area where we could potentially target voters and then flood them with radio ads, billboards, and maybe things they would be responsive with.", "With very nuances specific kinds of messages. I think one of the other things that people have to understand is that Cambridge Analytica, you know, was birthed from another company class, STL Group, which is a military contractor that`s based here in London that works in information operations. So, in terms of what, you know, the culture and attitude of Cambridge Analytica came from that, came from a military background and really treats the electorate in the same way that we would, you know, go and treat, you know, the Taliban or ISIS in Islamic extremism.", "Did Cambridge Analytica know that this data was taken from profile from users on Facebook that hadn`t voluntarily shared it?", "Yes.", "They knew that?", "Yes.", "And they were fine with that?", "Yes, because, you know, it`s one of those, you know, if you don`t ask questions, you will not get answers that you do not like, right? So, you know, we knew how the apps worked. We knew that, you know, when it pulls the Facebook friend data, it would not ask the friends if they could give permission for that. It just went and just pull it and that`s why it scaled so quickly. It made the program -- I mean, we spent over a million dollars on the program, but in the scheme of the amount of data that we were able to collect, it actually was fast and cheap and gave us great quality data.", "The other big question is, did Facebook know?", "So, my understanding is that Facebook authorized Coogan to -- Dr. Coogan, the professor, to use the app for academic purposes and that is what they told me in the legal correspondents that I`ve had with them, which means that Facebook did allow this to happen and they knew that this was happening. They just thought it was for academic research. But nonetheless, Facebook still allowed and have to go and harvests data of friends without permission.", "But they knew that the app would not just collect data from the person downloading the app but their friend networks?", "Facebook granted that permission for the app. So, that, you know, they knew what the app is doing. They just did not necessarily know what it was for.", "Right. So, they knew the app was going into friend networks beyond the person who downloaded the app.", "And pulling all of your friends` data without them knowing.", "But that goes against what Facebook routinely says, which is that your information is yours and its private and you know, they are not selling it or in any way --", "Well, obviously, but this gets to how, you know, the definition of what is private because the way -- the way, at least my understanding of what was some of the statements have come out recently is it`s defining your likes and your profile as public because you share it with your friends.", "Right.", "But just because you share something with your friends, does not mean that you necessarily want to share it with like psychological propaganda machine --", "Right. And that`s what you call Cambridge Analytica, I read a quote from you calling it a propaganda machine.", "Well, that`s what it does. I mean, again, it comes from STL Group, which is a military contractor that works in information operations for militaries around the world. That`s propaganda.", "When did you leave Cambridge Analytica and why, and why are you speaking up now?", "I left near the end of 2014. After I left, you know, they got very upset with me. You know, you have to remember I was one of the people who was creating this company to have me to leave was a I think a massive blow and they threatened all kinds of legal action after I left. I signed an NDA after, you know, it`s quite intimidating --", "A nondisclosure agreement.", "A nondisclosure agreement, you know, it`s quite intimidating to have, you know, a company backed by a rich billionaire threatening you nonstop. So, I signed an NDA and I did not say anything.", "Why now then?", "Well, because when I was watching the 2016 election happen in the United States and all of these questions about Russian interference, for example, you know, I started thinking back to the times where we were meeting with Luke Oil (ph), which is the second largest oil company in Russia. Alexander Nix did presentations to Luke Oil and the first slide was all about rumor campaigns and the second slide was about voter inoculation and, you know, we had our professor, who is managing this data harvesting program, going back and forth between London and Russia because he is also working -- Because he was also working on projects in Russia that were funded by the Russians on psychological profiling, and so for me it is really concerning because I look at what is happening, and I think OK, you know we are amassing this mass amount of data. Meanwhile, we are interfacing with a company that has no link to the FSB, which is the Russian security and intelligence service and we -- the professor who is managing this app and harvesting program was going to Russia and working for the Russians. In addition to this, the company literally pitched Coogan`s work for the Russians to other clients in other countries.", "This completely contradicts what Alexander Nix, the boss of Cambridge Analytica told lawmakers here in Britain. He was asked directly, do you have any Russian clients, he said no. Do you harvest information from Facebook to use Facebook as a source for your data? He said no. Are you saying he lied to lawmakers?", "What I am saying and what I showed Damien Collins last week as the chair of the committee that you are referring to. I showed him contracts, invoices, e-mails that showed that, you know, a million dollars was spent at least on this program. That data was collected. You know, Alexander Nix`s signature is on the documents, right? He cannot deny it. So, for him to go to committee and say that he did not use Facebook data is patently false. People have to remember, this scheme, this data harvesting scheme was the foundation of Cambridge Analytica. These algorithms were only built because of this Facebook data.", "And this Russian connection, could you expand on that because Alexander Nix saying we have never had Russian clients before?", "Well, what I passed to the \"New York Times\" and \"The Guardian\" were e-mails and slide decks that Alexander Nix made that, you know, reference rumor campaign, voter inoculation, you know, undermining people`s confidence in the electoral process in Nigeria, for example, that he sends to recoil. He also sends white papers that I have written on the data assets that we were amassing in the profiling algorithms that were creating and he sent that as he said to me in an e-mail to the CEO of Luke Oil, right. I am talking to senior executives at this company and in addition to that you had Alexander Coogan going back and forth between London and Russia working at St. Petersburg University on profiling people`s psychology for the Russians meanwhile as he`s setting up this massive harvesting scheme. So, I think for me, what is concerning looking at Russian interference is that this company was interfacing with Russian entities at least when I was there. I think it`s something that should be explored.", "Well, I want to tell our viewers because Facebook and Cambridge Analytica both are basically blaming the Cambridge professor, Dr. Coogan. They are saying they thought he was complying with U.K. law.", "Right.", "Is that -- what is your reaction?", "Well, what I would say to that is, you know, in the U.K. as a data controller, which Cambridge Analytica was, you have a legal obligation to make sure that you are getting consent from the data subjects of projects that you are funding way, right, and they did not do that. You know,", "They are saying they knew, but they were as you said not asking the question.", "They are now asking the question. I mean, I don`t want to obfuscate my responsibility in this. I played a very significant role in setting up Cambridge Analytica. You know, it stems from the research and work that I was doing when I was research director at FDL, the prior company and that is why I am coming and speaking out. You know, it`s unfortunate that, you know, Facebook as soon as I come and speak out, you know, they banned me from their platform. They banned me from Facebook. They banned me from Instagram for speaking out on a program that they have known about for at least two years. It`s only when I come public to tell people about this that they come back to me and ban me.", "And Facebook is asking you agree to an audit and they`ve asked Cambridge Analytica and Cambridge Analytica said yes. Will you agree to that? I`m not sure what that entails.", "They haven`t told me what it entails. I am willing to have a chat with them, but you know, what is it that you want to audit, my phone?", "Well, because you`ve been suspended from Facebook so --", "But you know what are you going to audit, my phone? I do not -- I am not company. I don`t have a server. I don`t have -- you know, what do you want audit?", "Well, I mean, that`s a question for them. I am also slightly confused by that request.", "I`m the person like the thing that really frustrates me about Facebook`s response is I`m the person bringing public attention and scrutiny to this issue. I talked with their lawyers. My worst talk with the lawyers last week. They said that they wanted to have -- they`ve known that this was coming for a week as we gave them a heads up. And you know, they committed to me in writing that they want to have an open and collaborative approach, and now they turn around and drop this press release that says I`m being suspended. Make insinuations that somehow, I am, you know, working on some kind of nefarious thing or --", "You want to setup a rival company, that was --", "I am sorry that is just patently false. I do not want to set up a company for the alt-right. Like look at me, I am not exactly the vision of an alt-right, you know, I do not want to set up a rival Cambridge Analytica.", "Well, for instance, if it were for a political side that you embrace so that you agreed with. Would you have continued this work under these circumstances?", "I work in political targeting. I worked in the United States. I have worked in Canada. I`ve worked in U.K. I worked actually all around the world for progressive candidates. So, yes, I do work in targeting. I do not work in propaganda or, you know, go around stealing data.", "Yes.", "But, you know, the idea that I am trying to set up a rival Cambridge Analytica is patently false and by the way, I haven`t. Look, I am not.", "(Inaudible) for years is what you`re saying.", "And I`m not -- like there is this rival Cambridge Analytica that I am setting up.", "I want to ask you a question about Steve Bannon because essentially he is the one who brought the Mercer money in, right, the 15 million reported 15 million.", "Yes.", "What did he see in the company? At the time, it was upstart. It didn`t have the big cash injection. Did you meet him and what did he say - -", "Yes. So, he came -- it`s a funny story because somebody who had previously worked with FDL on the military side, just by sheer coincidence met some Republican consultants on a plane and you know how Americans do. They started chatting and (inaudible) your second no feet, you know, what you do, what I do, work in cyber warfare. I am a Republican consultant let`s like talk.", "Right.", "They got -- I got introduced to Alexander Nix and then Alexander Nix got introduced to Steve Bannon because Steve Bannon was, you know, at the time running Breitbart and the Breitbart vision was, you know, don`t focus on politics, change politics and culture. (Inaudible) politics close from culture and so he was looking for, you know, a wider arsenal of weapons to fight back culture war. And it really appealed to him that FDL had background in military information operations because, again, if you think about how do you wage a culture war, you need an arsenal of weapons, and what better place to go to where the military goes.", "But he saw potential in a company that had really done anything on a big scale in the U.S. at all because its first attempts laboratory as I was told by another person who worked at Cambridge Analytica was the 2014 midterms. That is where that all that methodology was tested and then utilized in a more refined sophisticated way in 2016.", "But FDL Group, you have remember, Cambridge Analytica didn`t exist at the time. Cambridge Analytica was, you know, only came into existence after Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer decided to fund the project to take what FDL is doing around the world for various militaries. Intervening in elections in other countries and take it and (inaudible) into the United States and set up an American entity. It`s something to point out is that Cambridge Analytica is more of a concept or brand for its American facing work, but the vast majority of its staff are based here in London. And they work for FDL. Their paycheck is", "I`m going to ask you one last question. How do we know any of this had any impact on any race? How can we measure that, can we?", "I mean, like anything in elections, it`s impossible to say, you know, exactly what -- you know what won it for Trump or what won it for whomever. But, you know, I think that it must had an impact -- knowing the research that I was working on at the time, we were looking at, you know, things like drain the swamp. We were looking at imagery of walls and how people engage with that concept. We were looking at, you know, suspicions about the deep state. We were looking at all kinds of things that at the time, you know in 2014 would have sounded slightly fringe or crazy for any political candidate to go on. But what we are finding were, you know, cohorts of Americans who really responded to some of these things and this all got fed back to Steve Bannon, you know, and then right after I left, Cambridge Analytica started meeting with Corey Lewandowski, who later became Trump`s campaign manager at the Trump Organization in New York before Trump even announced that he was going to run. So, for some reason you`ve got Cambridge Analytica, who is working for Ted Cruz at the time, going to the Trump Organization in New York and meeting with Corey Lewandowski for some reason before Trump even announced.", "This is very interesting to me.", "They confirmed that to me --", "They were meeting at Trump Tower before --", "Trump even announced that he was running for president.", "OK.", "Yes. That relationship goes back far, you know, far longer than what they have admitted so far and you know, this -- I had it in writing from their lawyers that they had this meeting.", "With Corey Lewandowski present?", "Yes.", "And Trump or just Corey Lewandowski as --", "Corey Lewandowski at the Trump Organization in New York in the spring of 2015.", "At that point they decided to work together.", "I do not know. You`ll have to ask Cambridge Analytica, why were you meeting with Donald Trump before he could even announce when you were working for Ted Cruz, what were you pitching? You know, this is at the same time that they are going around talking to all these Russian entities, you know, it is bizarre.", "Well, it is certainly connect-the-dot situation here where we are getting a lot more information. Thanks to you in putting the pieces of the puzzle together. Chris Wylie, thanks so much for joining us. We really appreciate your time. We spent a long time talking to because it is so interesting what you shared with us this evening. And many people on Facebook also I think will be interested in some of these.", "I have a message to Facebook, it`s like let`s work together. I am not out to get Facebook.", "OK. Chris Wylie, thanks so much for joining us. Still to come, is it a Brexit breakthrough after long negotiations before we finally have more clarity? 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{"id": "CNN-321196", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-09-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/14/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Trump Vows Wall Will Happen; Trump Tours Hurricane Damage; Trump Base Explodes.", "utt": ["And so we begin. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Thank you so much for being with me here on this Thursday. As the president tours hurricane ravaged Florida, he is getting battered himself, not by protestors, not by Democrats, but by a big part of his own base. They are calling his latest agreement with Democrats a betrayal while he's hailing it as bipartisan. This is all coming after this White House dinner, Chinese and chocolate cake, with Democratic leaders, both Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. The three of them say they agreed to move forward on DACA. This is the program that allows undocumented immigrants who entered as children to remain in the U.S. But the key question, one of them, is at what cost? Both Pelosi and Schumer say DACA will not be linked to border wall funding. And at one point today, the president seemed to be on board with that, talking about paying for the wall, you know, down the world at some later date. But then later, he repeated at least four times, there will be nothing on DACA unless he gets the wall.", "What's very important is the wall to me. We have to know that the wall will not be obstructed because without the wall I wouldn't do anything. We also have to get the wall. It doesn't have to be here, but they can't obstruct the wall, whether it's in a budget or something else when we're ready for that funding. We have to have a wall. If the wall is going to be obstructed, when we need the funds at a little bit later date, we'll be determining how much we need, then we're not doing anything. We'll only do it if we get extreme security, if we get not only surveillance but everything that goes along with surveillance. And ultimately we have to have the wall. If we don't have the wall, we're doing nothing.", "Let's begin with Jeff Zeleny, our CNN senior White House correspondent. And, Jeff, I have read all the guidance, the different iterations of messaging. I'm confused. What's the deal?", "Well, Brooke, it's interesting. The president right there was speaking in Florida when he arrived to look at the damage from Hurricane Irma. But before leaving the White House here earlier this morning, he made clear that it, indeed in principle at least, he has -- is moving toward an agreement reached with Democrats after that dinner last night to move forward on DACA. He said 92 percent of the public supports, you know, the idea of keeping these young dreamers here, those young, undocumented immigrants. And he said clearly, the wall will come later. But by the time he reached Florida, a couple of hours later, hearing all the blowback from conservatives after talking to Speaker Ryan and others, he made clear that, look, the wall will still be part of it. So, Brooke, what is actually happening here is the president, once again, is going forward and he wants to get something done. He is reaching at least the broad outlines of a deal with Democrats and they have agreed to do some type of, in their words, massive security bill along the border, but not including a wall in this dreamer legislation, and then a wall -- some type of a wall or funding would come later here. But, Brooke, this has inspired and sparked outrage for many conservative Republicans, including Congressman Steve King from Iowa. Take a listen to what he said earlier today on \"NEW DAY.\"", "Because the base will leave him. They won't be able to defend him anymore. I support Donald Trump's campaign agenda. I support the agenda that he had when he was sworn into office. And I support almost every piece of the rest of his agenda, except this amnesty piece that's being dangled out in front of America right now.", "But, Brooke, when you break this down a little bit more, there are Republicans on Capitol Hill we have talked to who frankly are not that enthused about a wall as much as hard liners like Steve King. The reality is, the wall is going to be much more like a fence in some areas, other parts are not going to have a wall at all because of the rocky conditions and other things there. So the president, we are told, is prioritizing the DACA, the dreamers. He does want to get something done on that. Yes, that puts him at odds with some of his supporters here, but he believes the rank and file members of his base, not necessarily the talk radio hosts or people like Steve King will stick with him here. But, Brooke, we are seeing in real time play out the -- a new strategy here. The president trying to break some gridlock here doing so by breaking bread with Democrats, as he did last night, and Republicans, in some respects, are rushing to come along and get caught up with him, Brooke.", "And others are not that enthused, to put it nicely as you did. Jeff Zeleny, thank you so much. We'll talk about the ramifications of the base in a second. I've got Mark Preston waiting in the wings. Let me bring him in, CNN's senior political analyst. And so, Mark Preston, you know, just again, going back over the day. So you wake up this morning. You read the president's Twitter feed. You know, initially claiming no such deal was made. Tweeting that the wall is actually already under construction. Then on his way to Florida, he said something will happen regarding a deal and that the, quote, wall will come later. Then he goes to Florida, quote, the wall to me is vital, all the while expressing support for the 800,000 dreamers. You know, and the White House, meantime, is claiming his is not at all considering amnesty.", "Although he -- although one of his spokespeople did say that they wouldn't use the word amnesty, Brooke. They did put it on the table that perhaps some of these dreamers, when they were going down to Florida, could perhaps get citizenship. But this is just another day in the Trump White House where we hear one message from him one hour, a different message the next hour.", "Is -- as far -- Zeleny was eluding to this, the non-enthused folks. The president's base.", "Right.", "How swift have the threats been from them today?", "Well, they certainly have been from the loudest ones. Steve King, the Iowa congressman, no surprise, he's a hardliner when it comes to immigration. Breitbart, the conservative news website, which is being led by his former senior adviser, Steve Bannon, was very critical of him, as we have seen from other conservative outlets. And I think we've got to be careful not to put too much stock into how much power they have over the president's agenda. As we know from President Trump, in his actions so far in office, he's going to walk to the beat of his own drummer. And I don't think that the pressure from the likes of Breitbart are necessarily going to knock him off balance from what he's trying to do.", "I hear you on that, but I think there's a bigger question as far as, you know, what does it say about America, or maybe more appropriately Congress, that it is so divided that the notion of, you know, working with the other side of the aisle results in an explosion of, you know, we're going to abandon you.", "Yes, no doubt. And, look, Donald Trump has won himself no favors so far working with Congress. He's been highly critical of Republican -- the Republican leaders in Congress. He's been highly critical of Democrats, other than the past week where we've seen him working with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. But the fact of the matter is, you can't get anything done in Washington unless you do have some compromise. And when you have compromise, both people need to walk away from the table a little unsatisfied. That's what happens when Washington works correctly.", "You mentioned Nancy Pelosi. We know she was part of that dinner last night over at the White House. You did your Sirius XM radio show. You interviewed her, which will air this weekend, and she talked about how the president is learning about the way things work. Here's a piece.", "President Trump is, I think, understanding better that it isn't just what the president says and then Congress -- this is not a parliamentary system, that the prime minister says something and then his party endorses it. This is a presidential system. So I think he's learning now that he not only has to reach out to -- across the aisle, but he has to have the votes on his own side. And that's a -- something that is, I think, quite obvious. But presidents in the White House don't always see that as clearly right from the start.", "I mean, to her point, Mark, about what he's learning now. To me it seems like there is a big story, too, in how maybe the last two weeks there has been this strategy shift that, you know, he's sick of the last eight months and no major, you know, wins legislatively. And so he's thinking, all right, I want to get something done. And if I have to do it, and do it with Democrats, I'm going to do that.", "And he's going to do that. If anything we know about Donald Trump, he's an opportunist. He wants wins. Now, if you take a step back and, as you said, look at what has happened the first eight months of his term in office, a very embarrassing defeat on repealing and replacing Obamacare. The courts have snubbed him when it comes to trying to put in place a travel ban. We have seen the West Wing basically turn over entirely at this point. Donald Trump needs to get some wins. And you have to wonder, is he now looking at Democrats saying, I can't get it done with my Republicans, can I just get it done with my Democrats? And the most important thing there that I think Nancy Pelosi said is that ideas are important but they don't win the day. Votes win the day. And in the end you need 218 votes in the House to get anything done.", "Yes, it does feel like a bit of a sea change out of Washington in the last little bit. Mark Preston, thank you very much. Talking about the president. President Trump and the first lady, they are now en route back to their home in Washington, D.C., after getting a firsthand look at the destruction in the wake of Irma down in Florida, specifically visiting Ft. Myers and Naples and meeting with hurricane victims. And our senior national correspondent, Alex Marquardt, is live for us right now in Ft. Myers. We see the plane over your shoulder. Maybe they haven't left quite yet. Tell me about that visit.", "No, the president has left, you're absolutely right, along with the first lady a short time ago. This is actually Air Force Two, the vice president's plane. So we imagine he'll be taking back off for Washington in due course. The trip to Naples, you're right, he made two stops. He stopped here in Ft. Myers for a briefing with officials and to meet with local responders and other emergency services before heading down to Naples, which, of course, was one of the hardest hit areas by Hurricane Irma here on the southwest coast. It took a ten-minute short chopper ride in Marine One and he would have seen some incredible devastation on his way down. We were in an area yesterday called Bonita Springs, which has been flooded. No power. People have had to leave their homes. Now, remember, a lot of people are -- were relieved at the -- that the winds weren't as strong as they were originally thought to be. So a lot of the homes were not damaged. But a lot of the mobile home parks were. Not just flooded, but damaged severely. And so we did see the president and his large entourage go down to a mobile home park in Naples. He and the vice president served lunch to many of the residents there. He spoke with the residents. And you have to imagine, you know, this is what president's do in the wake of natural disasters like this. They visit the sights. They talk with the people. The president had come under a lot of criticism in the wake of Hurricane Harvey because of his first trip down to Corpus Christi in Texas he did not do that. I imagine here one of the major questions that he and his entourage were probably getting, when is the power coming back on? Millions upon millions have lost power in Florida and in the southeast in the wake of Hurricane Irma. President Trump, upon arriving here at Fort Myers, did praise the Florida power company saying that they are making great progress. Indeed, they are. We've got a chart that is updated several times a day and we have watched the number of people without power decrease dramatically. But there's still some 2.5 million customers without power. And so a lot of those folks are wondering when their power is going to come back on. And I just got a text message from someone in Sarasota saying that he didn't even know that the president was here in Florida because he doesn't have any power. Brooke.", "Oh, I cannot imagine. I mean let me just repeat that number, that is massive, 2.5 million people. And there are priorities, as far as getting the power back on, it's going to take a little while, as we've been hearing. Alex Marquardt, in front of Air Force Two, thank you very much. Coming up here, sort of back on what we were just talking about at the top of the show, is the president at risk of losing his base over making deals with Democrats, especially a deal that doesn't involve the wall? We're going to talk to two Republicans and get their take on President Trump's strategic shift. And, question, do you trust the president? How Nancy Pelosi answered that question today after her dinner at the White House last night. And honeymoon phase over? Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin under new scrutiny for requesting a government jet for his honeymoon European vacation. His explanation as some accuse him of just being downright tone deaf. I'm Brooke Baldwin. You're watching CNN."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BALDWIN", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "REP. STEVE KING (R), IOWA", "ZELENY", "BALDWIN", "MARK PRESTON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "BALDWIN", "PRESTON", "BALDWIN", "PRESTON", "BALDWIN", "PRESTON", "BALDWIN", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D), MINORITY LEADER", "BALDWIN", "PRESTON", "BALDWIN", "ALEX MARQUARDT, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-293527", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2016-09-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/08/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Kerry, Lavrov to Meet About Syria", "utt": ["Well, let's stick with that election then, that U.S. election in November. The U.S. presidential candidates gave Americans a preview of how they would perform in the debates on Wednesday night. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump appeared separately in what was a forum hosted by NBC. And the event revealed stark differences in how the candidates intend to manage foreign policy and national security if they are elected president. Well, let's break down those differences with Fawaz Gerges. He is the chair of contemporary Middle East studies at the London School of Economics. And he is the author of the book \"", "A History.\" Look, Fawaz, we are told that the world stands on the cusp of a deal on Syria at present. Should that deal be pulled off, maybe the presidential candidates don't have to worry about Syria. But that's not likely, is it? So what did you hear from them on Syria that impressed you, if anything?", "Well, you know, Becky, we know where Hillary Clinton stands. Hillary Clinton has made it very clear, she will not send boots on the ground either to Iraq and Syria. She called it the lessons of Iraq, the catastrophe of American intervention in Iraq. If you ask me how to summarize Hillary Clinton's approach to the Middle East, it will be more of the same of Barack Obama -- relying on local forces, using American air power, using American special forces. It's really the continuation of Barack Obama approach. With Donald Trump, Becky, truly, everything that he has said so far we do not know where he stands. We do not know whether he has foreign policy vision. Comes cross incoherent, ill-informed, lack of complexity, all over the map. On ISIS, I mean, it is disastrous. He says -- first, he says, it's going to take him 30 days to defeat ISIS. This is the height of ignorance, because we know that it's going to take years to defeat ISIS. Even if you dislodge ISIS from the major towns and cities in Iraq and Syria, ISIS will mutate into a terrorist organization. So we know where Hillary Clinton stands, we do not know where Donald Trump does, or if he has any ideas. My take on Donald Trump and the Middle East he is more of an isolationist than really an active or a coherent foreign policy.", "Fawaz, our chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, my colleagues, spoke to the U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, about the war in Syria and Washington's support for support for the Syrian Kurds, the very same Syrian Kurds who are Washington's ally, Ankara sees as the arch enemy, of course. So, there is an issue there. In an exclusive interview, she asked the secretary what the Kurds could expect from the U.S. going forward. We all understand this is incredibly complex. Have a listen to this.", "The Syrian Kurds are an important ingredient in the Syrian Democratic forces, which we are supporting. They have been an important part of the strength. And they have been successful on the battlefield. And we have kept our commitments to them and they have kept our commitments to us. They are a valuable partner to us therefore. And we intend to continue to keep our commitments to them as they move towards Raqqa. Now, at the same time, we intend to keep our commitments to Turkey. And you are absolutely right and you understand this very well, they don't get along with one another. That happens. We understand very clearly what our interests are here, which are the defeat of ISIL. We communicate that to them and we work with both sides and we try to manage the tension.", "Are the Kurds about to be dumped once again by the U.S. as they have been let down in the past?", "I think so, Becky. I think at one point must be made very clear, the Americans do not support the Kurds' political aspirations and ambitions in Syria. This is the end of the story. The Americans have used the Kurds as the most effective force against Daesh or ISIL in Syria. Time and again American forces have made it very clear basically their relationship with the Syrian Kurds is very limited to the fight against ISIS. The reality is, Turkey is one of the most important allies of the United States. It has the second largest army in NATO. So, at the end of the day, the Americans have made up their mind, to support Turkey. And the Kurds really, they do not support the Kurds vis-a-vis any kind of federal system or even an autonomous entity in Syria.", "Right. We have been talking about the fact there is an election in 61 days, a presidential debate in something like two and a half weeks. But there is a U.S. election in 61 days. And we regularly talk about the two main candidates of course. And we heard perhaps loosely termed, their foreign policy positions in this town hall last night. There are two other characters around this presidential election, and one of them is the Libertarian presidential nominee, who stumbled over a question about this civil war in Syria during an appearance on MSNBC. I don't know if you have heard this, but if you haven't, have a listen to this exchange with Gary Johnson.", "What would you do if you were elected, about Aleppo.", "About?", "Aleppo.", "And what is aleppo?", "You are kidding?", "No.", "Aleppo is in Syria, it's the epicenter of the refugee crisis...", "OK. Got it. ot it.", "Well, Johnson since released a statement saying he made a human error and understands the dynamics of the conflict in Syria. The candidate says he also understands the significance of Aleppo. What's your response to that moment in time?", "I'm not surprised, Becky. I mean, in fact, Donald Trump is really very much ignorant about the Middle East. Whether he talks about ISIS, whether he talks about regional rivalries, whether he talks about sectarianism, he has no idea what's happening in the Middle East. I mean, think about it, Becky. He says he was against the Iraq war, and yet he criticizes President Barack Obama for pulling out of Iraq. He says wants to work with Putin on Syria, that he does not realize that any relationship with Russia in Syria basically provides ideological ammunition to ISIS. And it tells you about the level of ignorance about American foreign policy in the Middle East by two of the major candidates in the U.S. presidential elections.", "Fawaz, while we await the result of these talks, it feels like we've been here before, doesn't it? Well, the point is we have. It's like a deja vu, isn't it. But as we await the outcome of these talks on Syria in Geneva between the U.S. and Russia, I want to show you these new pictures and our viewers, showing the Damascus suburb of Dariyah (ph). Now, a report says thousands of people are leaving. And it's just one example of how local ceasefires and territory swaps are playing out on the ground. At a meeting on Wednesday a spokesman for the Syrian opposition bloc said, and I quote, we need a lasting solution to Syria's nightmare, not local ceasefires or temporary cessations that can be exploited by the regime and its Russian ally. I know, UN Syrian envoy actually had felt like these temporary cessations of violence were a good idea and had been preaching for them. Are these deals overall a good thing?", "Well, Becky, they are not local ceasefires, they are basically surrender on the part of the armed opposition factions, whether you are talking about earlier in Homs, then in Dariyah, and now in Madamiyah (ph) in Damascus, this is basically the Syrian government has forced the armed opposition in the suburbs of Damascus to surrender. There is no -- there are no local ceasefires. This tells you a great deal, Becky, about the balance of power, how the balance of power has shifted in Assad favors thanks to Russia's support, thanks to Iran's support and thanks to Hezbollah support. And this is why John Kerry and Lavrov, his Russian counterparts, are trying to find a deal, trying to have -- I mean a ceasefire throughout Syria, trying to basically come to a particular deal. My take on the talks between the American foreign secretary and the Russian foreign secretary is that even if they reach a deal in the next 48, how do you translate it into reality on the ground? It's very difficult.", "Fascinating. Fawaz, a regular guest on our show. We thank you. Live from Abu Dhabi, you are watching Connect the World. I'm Becky Anderson for you. Coming up, India working to ban commercial surrogacy. We will discuss the consequences of that decision. 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{"id": "CNN-56275", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2002-6-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/21/bn.04.html", "summary": "Man Wanted for Questioning in Smart Abduction in Police Custody", "utt": ["In about 15 minutes, Salt Lake City officials will be holding a press conference, perhaps revealing some of the questions they are anxious to ask to Bret Michael Edmunds. And now they have an opportunity, because, early yesterday morning, Bret Michael Edmunds checked himself into a Martinsburg, West Virginia, hospital after overdosing on a drug called Lotridin (ph). He checked himself in not under his real name, but under the name of Todd Richards. But he made the mistake of giving a correct home phone number for himself and his mother's true name and phone number. And when hospital authorities tried to reach his mother and called those phone numbers, they found out that something was fishy here. He's not Todd Richards, but instead Bret Michael Edmunds. And then hospital authorities then called officials in their neck of the woods. And then they were able to get the U.S. Marshals involved, where all of the right people were now up to speed on who they had in custody there. And now, in about 15 minutes, Salt Lake City officials will be addressing cameras and reporters there, telling people what kinds of questions they want to ask Bret Michael Edmunds. They are still saying he is not a suspect in connection with the disappearance of 14- year-old Elizabeth Smart. Instead, they have been saying for two weeks now that they merely have questions. Now, this development came to CNN's attention about an hour and a half ago. And this all comes after about 2 1/2 hours of a press conference that took place in Salt Lake City involving the family members. And, for the first time, we saw a very tearful Ed Smart, the father of Elizabeth Smart. We want to bring you part of his press conference once again.", "I want to thank all those people who are out there praying for us, for all the effort that has gone forward to help bring Elizabeth back to us. I can't thank you enough for your prayers and would ask that you would continue to pray and please plead for her return. I'm asking and I'm pleading with whoever has her that I would do anything to have her back in my arms. And please realize how much she is missed. She's missed tremendously. I want to read a comment that President Hinckley made on faith, which I feel really demonstrates our feelings. Faith is something greater than ourselves, that enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired, or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming, and the course is uncertain.\" I want to reinforce to you that we still feel that Elizabeth is out there. We still need each one of your help. We need you to be the eyes and ears in the neighborhood. We need you to be the eyes and ears wherever you are going, and one of the most important things is that each person is a searcher. It doesn't matter where you are, please keep your eyes and ears open. I truly feel that this is the way Elizabeth is going to come back to us. I want to thank all of you for being here today and for supporting us, because this is truly the way that Elizabeth will come back. I just would like to, again, thank everyone for all of their love and support, for the incredible community that we have, for the support of the community, the support of the nation, and the support of the world. It's been very humbling to us, and I'm really grateful for all of your prayers and all of your help, and I know that Elizabeth is still coming back to us. I really have a tremendous faith that she is. I still have a feeling that she is out there waiting for us to find her. And it will take everyone's effort out there to find her. Thank you. Louis would be here. She was sick last night. And she's sick this morning, and she just needs a day to rest.", "You seem a little bit more upset than you did yesterday. Are you OK? Is there something...", "No, I'm fine. I just want everyone to really know it's not a feeling of upset. It is a feeling of thankfulness. I really want everyone to know how thankful I am. I am just overwhelmed at the response that we've had from everyone, and for the caring and the love. It is just -- it's -- it's just overwhelming. And -- but I want everyone to keep going forward, because I know that's how we will find her.", "Mr. Smart are you disappointed that the police have decided not to continue these briefings?", "No. No, I am not. I know when we get to a point were there is a briefing that's needed, they will be here, they will be supportive. I want them to be out there working and doing everything that they can. Thank you.", "The words from a visibly devastated father of Elizabeth Smart. And it wasn't long after that that it was revealed that Bret Michael Edmunds, the man that Salt Lake City officials have been wanting for questioning, had already checked himself into a Martinsburg, West Virginia, hospital. For more on the details as to how it was discovered that Bret Michael Edmunds was already in custody and being treated in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Kelli Arena has some details now from Washington -- Kelli.", "Fredricka, we have been told by the FBI that Edmunds has been -- is now arrested. As you know, he's not been arrested in relation to this case. He was wanted on other charges out of Salt Lake City. The FBI field office that has jurisdiction over West Virginia is actually located in Pittsburgh. They did send their agents down to just basically take him and put him under arrest. I am told that his automobile that he had been driving apparently crosscountry in had been searched. No body has been found in that car. As to other evidence, it is unclear at this point. And I'm sure that that does need to go through some forensic investigation. We are told that officials from Salt Lake City are on their way to interview him as soon as they possibly can. He is and remains in critical condition, we are told. So, he's not going anywhere anytime soon. Salt Lake City police remain the lead agency in this investigation, not the FBI. FBI, though, we are told FBI agents from Salt Lake may accompany Salt Lake City police, so that they can question Edmunds together. This is what we have got at this point. He is surrounded, as we heard earlier, by agents and U.S. Marshals. And his vehicle, obviously, as a piece of evidence, is surrounded as well -- Fredricka back to you.", "Now, Kelli, obviously, hospital authorities are working feverishly to try and upgrade his condition, anywhere from between stable and critical condition. It was reported earlier, thanks to a U.S. Marshals Office official, that he had already been suffering from a liver collapse. Do you know anything more about that as a result of this drug overdose?", "No. Law enforcement officials would not give out any medical information. It's not their habit to do so. That would have to come from the hospital. If they chose to do that, there are some privacy issues that are involved here. So, whether or not we hear from hospital officials is unclear at this point. But, basically, the general information that law enforcement is giving out is that he is in serious enough condition that he's not going to be moved any time soon. He won't be transported. And perhaps they may have to get him somewhat more stable before an intensive interrogation can begin. So, things are very sketchy right now. This is someone who just went through a pretty heavy-duty medical problem. And that situation has to be stabilized first before the law enforcement situation. So, obviously, everyone is very anxious. Law enforcement is very anxious to talk to this man.", "Sure.", "They are looking for any information that he may have to offer on Elizabeth Smart, if he has any at all. We have heard repeatedly, even though his face has been plastered across the nation, that he is not a suspect. But, obviously, they were very anxious to talk to him. They will have that opportunity soon. But you do have to wait for the appropriate officials, those being your Salt Lake City officials, to get to West Virginia to take over the case.", "All right, Kelli Arena, from Washington, thank you very much. Of course, we all have a whole lot of questions about Bret Michael Edmunds. But, more importantly, Salt Lake City police say they have an awful lot of questions that they want to pose toward him. And that's why they have been looking for him for about two weeks now. To help us get a better sense as to what kinds of questions they may want to be asking him once he's coherent enough to answer any questions is Bo Dietl. He's a former New York homicide detective. And he joins us to help us better understand this prosecutorial and evidentiary phase now of this investigation. Bo, thanks for joining us. Initially, we know the obvious questions are: What might he know about the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart? But how do you actually strategically try to get those questions answered, if the direct questions don't give you the answers you're looking for?", "First of all, it's Bo Dietl. But the thing is that what has happened -- and I could never understand. I've been following the case pretty closely. I could never understand how they were so emphatic about the fact that he was not a suspect. Until you find the person that kidnapped this young girl, everyone is a suspect. For them to say that is pretty irresponsible, because we don't know for a fact that he's not a suspect. Now, when they get the car there, they are going to be going through that. They got to get a warrant. They are not just going to go through it, because, if they find any kind of hair samples or evidence that that young girl dropped, that evidence could be thrown out. So, they will apply for a warrant. They will do that and comb through that car with a fine-tooth comb as far as to find any physical evidence that there was a possibility that that girl was there. Also, they are going to reconstruct his leaving Salt Lake City until he ended up in Virginia and try to answer the questions and do a timeline of all these days that he has been missing, and then verify, check, and crosscheck with any kind of alibis of where he stayed and where he had gone. Remember, he has an active warrant on him that he's running from. So, at this point right now, we don't know if he's directly involved with the missing girl. But we certainly cannot say that he's not a suspect. That's irresponsible for any law enforcement person to say that. The only time you will say someone is not a suspect is when you catch the suspect.", "Well, Bo, isn't one obstacle or a major obstacle is the fact that he is being treated medically now? We don't know exactly how coherent he is. But time is of the essence. And so, if investigators have to wait for some amount of time to elapse because of his medical treatment, how are they going to go about trying to track his journey from Utah to West Virginia? How much resources do you have in order to ask all the questions?", "Well, you don't have to wait to apply to a magistrate for a search to possess that car that he was in. And that's the same car that in fact was around Salt Lake City. Also, the fact that what he did with the license plate, buried the license plate, his actions, to me, if I'm the detective working on the case, he's a suspect in my mind until we eliminate him. But, obviously, what he's in the hospital for, an overdose of what? If barbiturates, it will take time for them to come out of his system. There's a lot of different variables, but you can get the", "Now, Bo, let's reiterate that Salt Lake City police are not considering him a suspect. As you have said, they only want to -- and we have said -- they only want to ask him some questions. But, in your mind, you sound as though you have some great suspicion about him. You are already ready to see how he could be a suspect. What sort of questions would you want to ask of him, if you had that opportunity, since you're not directly involved in the investigation? But what questions would you want asked?", "He is a suspect. Everyone in that house is a suspect until you eliminate, until you find the person who did it. The question that I'd want to ask him is, I'm not interested in fleeing from the law because you have a warrant, but what you were doing in Salt Lake City, from that day when the girl disappeared? Where were you at that time? Where did you go from there? Oh, I slept in the Sleepy Hollow motel. You know, you want to backtrack his whole actions. And then try to verify -- all right, there could be a reason. There could be a motive for running. Like I said, all of a sudden he has a warrant and he could have committed some petty crimes along the way. Maybe he did some burglaries that he's running from also. At this point, we're not at all concerned about his breaking into a house. We're concentrating now on this beautiful little girl and finding her. And that would be my motive to talk to him, to tell him, look whatever you did, breaking into a home or a store, that really isn't what we're interested. We're interested in specific questions about his whereabouts around that little girl's house, and if he had that little girl.", "All right, Bo Dietl, thank you very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Custody>"], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "ED SMART, FATHER OF ELIZABETH SMART", "QUESTION", "SMART", "QUESTION", "SMART", "WHITFIELD", "KELLI ARENA, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "ARENA", "WHITFIELD", "ARENA", "WHITFIELD", "BO DIETL, FORMER NEW YORK CITY HOMICIDE DETECTIVE", "WHITFIELD", "DIETL", "WHITFIELD", "DIETL", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-404577", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2020-07-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/04/ndaysat.02.html", "summary": "There Are 50,000-Plus New COVID-19 Cases In U.S. For Third Straight Day; Experts Urge Caution During Holiday Weekend As COVID-19 Cases Rise; Airlines Anticipate A Fraction Of Usual July 4th Travelers This Year", "utt": ["In some of the hardest hit areas are struggling to keep up.", "It's set up a perfect storm.", "If people gather on Fourth of July, the same way they did in Memorial Day, it could lead once again to an increase in the number of people who lose their lives.", "There's nothing more American than making a sacrifice by staying home to keep a family member safe, a neighbor safe, or a stranger safe.", "This is an administration that can't seem to come up with a plan.", "The virus has breached the President's inner circle.", "Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of Donald Trump, Jr. and the top fundraiser for the reelection campaign test positive in South Dakota.", "Well, good morning to you. I'm Christi Paul.", "And I'm Martin Savidge in for Victor Blackwell. Happy Fourth of July.", "That's right. Saturday, July 4th, we are glad to have you with us. Listen, we want to talk about the COVID and what's happening right now because there's some real concerns from health experts about the pandemic, particularly this weekend because this is a Fourth of July, like we have never seen in the middle of a pandemic. They're saying don't let your guard down. The concern, the big gatherings of course, the barbecues, beaches fireworks, that it could increase the infection rate even more. Events we know are being scaled back, safety measures are being enforced. At beaches from the West Coast to the East. There are some places closing them entirely in fact, such as Southern California.", "The U.S. enters the holiday weekend after reporting more than 50,000. That's right, 50,000 new cases for a third straight day. 37 states are seeing an increased trend of new cases, only one per month is seeing a decline. And then, late last night we learned that the coronavirus has now breached the President's inner circle. Kimberly Guilfoyle is a top Trump campaign official, and the girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. And she's isolating after testing positive COVID-19.", "I want to go to CNN Sarah Westwood right now at the White House. Sarah, what are you learning about, about her? She's asymptomatic?", "Oh, good morning Christi and Martin and yes, Kimberly Guilfoyle is asymptomatic according to a spokesperson for Trump victory finances, which she's the National Chairwoman. She's self-isolating after testing positive for coronavirus, and she was in South Dakota at the July 4th event that President Trump attended last night at Mount Rushmore. She had not had contact with the president, yet she tested positive, obviously left the event after receiving that diagnosis. And thankfully, her boyfriend, Donald Trump Jr. the President's son has tested net negative but he did -- he is also self-isolating after all of that. But despite that, and the fact that cases are surging in states around the country, we did not hear much about coronavirus in the President's July 4th address at Mount Rushmore last night. Instead, we heard a dark message of preservation of American heritage and history, the president railed against what he described as a merciless campaign to erase history.", "Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, to fame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children. Our children are taught in school to hate their own country, and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that were villains.", "The President also went after cancel culture and double down on a message that we've heard from him before going after some of the destruction and other aspects of the protests that we've seen around this country. He also signed an executive order establishing an outdoor park that will be called the National Garden of American Heroes, which will contain monuments to American figures from history he did not specify exactly who would be represented in that outdoor park or where it will be located. But it shows that the President doubling down on this message so much that he is pushing for more statues and not less Martin and Christi.", "Sarah Westwood, always good to have you. Thank you.", "You know, the Fourth of July always we want to get together with friends and family but the fear is that the impact of Independence Day celebrations could have an impact on the rising number of coronavirus cases. So, how cautious are people over this holiday weekend?", "Across the country, Fourth of July events, as we said are being scaled back. There beaches that are closed or they do have social distancing rules. More state and local leaders are rethinking their stance on mandating fake face coverings and health experts fear what will happen if too many people let their guard down. CNN's Polo Sandoval is at Coney Island in New York, usually packed there on the Fourth of July. First of all, Happy Fourth of July to you. Secondly, what are you seeing there this morning, Polo?", "It's a fairly quiet morning at least for now. There's some preparations underway; some folks that are working on the beach right now and a few people strolling on the iconic Coney Island boardwalk but those crowds at least we are expecting to see a larger presence later today as New Yorkers do head to the beach. I'll be exercising those social distancing measures that authorities are recommending. Like what you mentioned is important here, there is a real concern not just here in New York, really across the country that the Fourth of July could mean possibly a perfect storm in terms of coronavirus here, that's according to one health expert that we heard from, from Boston. Multiple factors here, some people may feel more confident, maybe traveling across the country. There are, of course, states that do continue with their reopening so others are either pausing or scaling back. And then finally, of course those Fourth of July celebrations, potential gatherings that we are likely going to see across the country, which of course we've heard from authorities, there's certainly nothing wrong with families coming together, especially those who live together. But those social distancing measures wearing those masks, of course, going to be extremely critical because when you look at the map here, you're seeing way too much read, way too much orange. As you mentioned only Vermont right now showing a decrease in cases. So, across the country as a whole, COVID is still in remains a very real threat. So, there is a concern here that Fourth of July will potentially lead to yet another surge in cases more than what we're already seeing. What we are noticing the IBF authorities are there many fireworks show that are being canceled, parades are being canceled, the Mayor in Miami Beach closing beaches here, implementing a certain guideline, including a curfew. And say, look, there's going to be nothing more American than staying home and celebrating with your family, though. However, we are certainly going to expect families to still go out and do -- people that are going to at least try to enjoy the day and celebrate together, but of course the key is by taking those precautions. Here in New York, it is again relatively quiet right now on the boardwalk. We do expect people to come out to the beach later today. But Martin and Christi, as we get, get ready to send things back to you, of course, just consider what's happening, for example, in Florida, where that continues to be the state that leads the, the number of cases and then of course, Texas, Arizona, California -- four states that continue shattering their own records, in terms of COVID cases.", "Well, Polo, have a good day out there. We'll keep checking back with you to see how things are. Thanks.", "Let's bring in Dr. Jennifer Caudle, she's a Family Physician, Associate Professor at Rowan University's Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Caudle, always good to have you with us. Thank you for being here.", "Thank you.", "I wanted to ask you, as we get started with this, what your main takeaway is from the numbers that we're seeing, the rising number of cases, yet the number of people who are dying is not rising. What is your takeaway from that? Those new statistics that have come in?", "Right, so the rising number of cases tells me just like it tells all of us that we are not done with this yet. We are still very much in the throes of this pandemic and it's prudent for us not to be naive, especially as we go into this holiday weekend. The deaths, we know that deaths can lag behind by a couple of weeks. So, what I'd really like to see is in the next couple of weeks how those numbers shift, if at all, because if anything we see deaths is lagging behind the actual cases.", "Doctor, I wanted to bring in the Surgeon General because, you know, what he has to say obviously influences many Americans when it comes to their health. Listen to his comments just before the whole day.", "It's not a yes or no. Every single person has to make up their own mind. There are going to be people going to beaches, going to barbecues, going to different environments, and they have to look at their individual risks. As you mentioned, CDC says larger gatherings are a higher risk. You have to take that into account.", "What are your thoughts on that doctor? Is it an individual decision, or do we have a national kind of responsibility?", "Yes, so, so it's so interesting that you play that clip because I actually tweeted the Surgeon General yesterday after I saw that clip, clip. And I tweeted directly to him, you know, publicly that, you know, I -- with all due respect, I would have said to avoid large gatherings. And I literally put that in a tweet because I feel that way. I mean, yes, the bottom line is, is it an individual decision? Of course, it is. No one can literally make you stay home at this point, that they can't handcuff you and keep you in your house if you choose to leave. And also, yes, as you mentioned, we do have a responsibility not only to ours to ourselves, but to the country into other people. But the bottom line is in the middle of this pandemic, we're seeing cases that are rising in Texas, Arizona, Florida, other places. We know we are far from done with this. The CDC has recommended against large gatherings. It's prudent, I think, for medical physicians for physicians, health care workers and the rest of us to say, hey, look, you know, look, you do have a choice, but you should stay home and avoid large gatherings. So, I actually tweeted that out yesterday that I actually say, avoid large gatherings. That's what needs to be done at this point.", "I want to ask you to about this new report that that there's been a mutation and that mutation shows that the virus is more infectious. But the, the -- it's no, it's no more virulent, it's not going to totally cause more deaths based on what they found. It sounds like good news on the surface to some degree, more people might get sick, but they may not -- more people might not die. Help us understand, is this or is this not less dangerous?", "So, that's a really good question. I think time is really going to tell us really how we can think about this mutation, but let's put mutations in perspective. You know, viruses mutate, that's actually one of the things they just do. It's not entirely surprising that we've come across a mutation with this virus. And, and you're right, this particular mutation seems to be that it's more infectious, meaning that it can spread easier, faster, quicker, more readily, but it's not necessarily more virulent, which means it's not necessarily any more deadly than what we have seen, which in that respect, is good news, right? It's good news that it's not more deadly or that it doesn't seem to be. You know, I think that time is going to tell you -- the coronavirus and COVID, this is a very new condition. A new, new virus for us. It's an it's a new disease state, every single day, we're learning more and more. So, you know, to be honest with you, I think the verdict is still out about how this is going to play into our total landscape of infections and cases and things like that. But at least at this point, it doesn't seem to be more virulent, which that is a good thing.", "What do you make doctor of the age of those who are impacted going down? It's gone down significantly from those that we saw, you know, with elderly patients to now very young. Is that a change of the disease? Or is that a change of practices by people?", "That's a really good question. You know, once again, I can't say for sure, because, you know, there's likely multiple factors playing a role here. And, you know, when we get months away from this, I think we'll have a better idea of what's going on but that that the thought seems to be, and I have to say I agree with this, that we are seeing younger people having this condition and it may be due in part at least to change in, changes in behavior. Younger people may be more willing, or more readily going out, the beaches, the clubs, the bars, etc. You know, the swimming pools, the Memorial Day events and things of that nature. Look, you know, this is I've said this before, and I'll say this again, you know, young people are not necessarily immune. We know that young people can get the disease. I think that there's this myth or this feeling that, oh, if I get it, and I'm a young person, it won't be so bad, I'll be just fine. Well, the truth of the matter is that yes, complications tend to be lower and less in younger people, but they're not necessarily benign. I've said this before, I've had patients and I've known people that have gotten COVID that are young and healthy, that have had strokes, that have had loss of sense of taste and smell that have lasted for weeks and weeks. The fatigue, the shortness of breath, even after they've recovered technically from COVID, they've still remained symptomatic. So, I don't want any young person or anyone out there for that matter thinking, oh, if I get it, it's going to be a walk in the park. We hope it will be, and likely for young people it will be. But it's not necessarily like that for everyone. And of course, we know young people, just as other people can spread it to those who are higher risk. So, so, you know, we need to stop sort of thinking that this is not such a big deal, because we know it can be and we really got to take that into consideration.", "A great point, Dr. Jennifer Caudle, thank you very much for joining us. Great to have you on the program.", "Thank you so much, Doctor.", "Thank you.", "Look, we know usually, you have some travel plans most likely for this weekend. And everything looks so different this year, Americans are still determined to get away though. How changes to air and ground travel are working to try to keep you safe in the process?", "Plus, protesters flooded the streets of Aurora, Colorado last night over the death of Elijah McClain after a selfie taken by officers at McClain's memorial site sparked immediate outrage. 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{"id": "CNN-55487", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-6-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/06/lt.07.html", "summary": "Senate Reviews FBI Knowledge Prior to September 11", "utt": ["We are still covering some other stories that the FBI is working on. For instance, we are confirming now that the FBI is still keeping tabs right now on what it is calling a substantial number of people suspected of having some sort of ties to terror cells or activities. And our Kelli Arena has been following that. She is in Washington. Let's check with her now. Hello, Kelli.", "Hi there, Leon. Well, the FBI director, Robert Mueller, has said that the FBI is surveilling what he calls a substantial number, he would be not be specific, but a substantial number of people right here in the United States with possible terrorist ties. Now, in many cases, those people are here legally. But in some cases, they are here illegally. And instead of bringing those people in on visa violation charges or other charges, what they are doing is that FBI agents are surveilling their every move to see who it is that they are calling, what types of places they tend to see, who they associate with. These people obviously have not been directly charged or cannot be directly charged with any terrorist activity. They are just people who the FBI is keeping a close watch on. The director says that it is really pushing the bureau to its limits in terms of resources because these people do have to be surveilled around the clock. And it is the first time that we really have heard such a strong assertion that there are people that do -- may have some connection to the al Qaeda network or other terrorism networks, right here under our noses here in the United States, Leon. This is something that we have not heard publicly before, and the FBI director saying, yes, this is very much the case and we're on it.", "Well, give us an idea, if you can, of the kind of stresses that the system may be actually undergoing right now, because we just heard a little while ago, Director Mueller testifying about the fact that they had so much material that was not in the computer and it was hard to collate and keep track of all these sorts of things. How many people do you -- if you have any idea -- how many people we're talking about trying to keep track of right now and how difficult that must be if they are just using paper to do it?", "Right. Well, we don't know, as I said, how many people. He did say a substantial number of people. And this is not just paperwork, Leon. This is actual surveillance. I mean, agents who are there, watching, observing, gathering information in any way they can on who these people are talking to, where they are going, who they are calling, who they are keeping in touch with. And the people who are under surveillance -- there is a great range. I mean, these are people anywhere from individuals who are calling known terrorists overseas to people who are distributing al Qaeda propaganda. So there's a wide variation here. But in any case, the FBI says that it is important that they keep an eye on these individuals, despite the fact, as I said earlier, that there is no actual criminal violation that has occurred. These are people who are suspected of having terrorist ties and they just wanted -- the FBI is just wanting to make sure that it has handle on every known person that is here within our borders who could possibly do harm to Americans. You know, Leon, there is a quarter of the agent work force at the FBI that is now devoted to counterterrorism. And when directly asked how many more resources would be applied to this type of an operation, the director said as many as necessary. That is a large percentage of the agent population, as you know. The FBI is not only fighting terrorism, although it that is its new priority, but there are many other responsibilities as well.", "That's a great point. Great point. Kelli Arena in Washington, thank you very much.", "You're welcome.", "Let's bring that point up now to our next guest, who is joining us right now, a former member of the community there of the FBI. Former agent Don Clark joins us now from Houston, Texas. Thank you very much for your time this afternoon, sir. What do you make of what you just heard Kelli Arena report that some one-quarter of all the agents right now are so busy working on counterterrorism efforts right now that they may be compromising other missions of the FBI. Does that concern to you hear that?", "Well, it doesn't concern me that the director of the powers that be have decided to really give the counterterrorism effort a significant push. I mean clearly, post- 9/11, that's probably the right thing to do. But what I do think is that we cannot forsake -- I don't think the organization can forsake, forgo some attention to all of the other criminal ills that we have in our country and in our society here. Those things have to be addressed as well. So there's got to be a delicate balance there. And I have to say, Leon, that throughout and even back in my days of being involved in counterterrorism investigations, there have been significant surveillance activities that have taken place over the past. But keep in mind that as you put more people out there to do more work and surveil and gather information, that takes more people and better equipment to be able to process and do something with it. That seems to be the hang-up in most of this right now.", "Yes. And that's kind of the thing we have been hearing on Capitol Hill as we have been hearing FBI Director Mueller's testimony this morning and this afternoon. Have you been listening to it today?", "I haven't had an opportunity to listen that much to it. But I have picked a bit here just actually through CNN and listening at some of the things that takes place. If they are going to continue at this intensity, without a doubt, not only will it require more field agents out on the streets to gather this information, but more linguists that's going to have to be involved, more computer literate people who are going to have to be involved, and more people with simply analytical skills to be able to, and I hasten to use this, but I will, because it is overused, but connect all these dots that people have talked about.", "Can you sit tight for just a second, because what I would like to do is I want to bring in our Kate Snow, who is in Washington right now. We want to talk some more about what we expect to hear any minute here in those hearings on the judiciary committee. Special agent Coleen Rowley, who wrote the so-called -- the whistleblower who wrote the letter -- the memo that's really got everything started there on Capitol Hill, and she actually, I guess, leaked that memo or sent it out to someone on Capitol Hill. Kate Snow is actually, as I understand it, Kate, you have got a copy of what we expect to hear from Agent Rowley.", "Well, not exactly. I have some characterizations of what we think we are going to hear from her once we get started her. I think she is going to talk -- I can tell you she is going to talk about why she wrote the letter, first of all. We have known for some time that she agonized over this letter, that it took her about a week of revising it before she finally delivered it to both the FBI director, Robert Mueller, and also to a couple -- at least a couple of senators here on Capitol Hill. She will talk about that. But then mainly, what she's going to do is lay out what she sees as the problems with the FBI, what she sees with the bureaucracy of the FBI. She points to the bureaucracy as one of the biggest problems. She is going to talk in general themes about risk aversion and about people at the FBI feeling like they don't want to take chances because they might make a mistake. She sees that as a clear problem. She is also going to talk about too many levels of bureaucratic layers, as I just mentioned, too many reports, endless paperwork, agents being told that they have to complete paperwork that she will define as irrelevant or just busy work. And then she is also going to talk about roadblocks, and this goes to what happened in her particular case with the information coming out of the Minneapolis field office. She, of course, is the general counsel of that office in addition to being a special agent there. And she saw information flowing to headquarters and being blocked. She saw them asking for a warrant to go after Moussaoui's computer records, for example, and some of his other personal effects. That warrant was blocked, in her view. She will talk about roadblocks in general. She is going to make some suggestions for change, including lifting burdens on lower-level people, changing the FBI culture, and a theme that we have heard again and again this morning, Leon, asking that technology be implemented at the FBI. We have heard the senators ask that of Robert Mueller time and again this morning, why don't they have adequate computers, so that, for example, if there are memos out there on the same subject, someone can go to a database and find all the information on that subject that's been gathered all over the country -- Leon.", "Yes, that was pretty alarming to find they didn't have that. They have got that, you know, in my son's elementary school. They can do that with a Google search. Let's go back to former agent Don Clark over there in Houston. I would like to ask you what you think about what you just heard there Kate describing or characterizing what we may be hearing here from special agent Rowley. Does that sound to you like a pretty fair characterization of the FBI's culture up until now?", "Well, not exactly. I think, Leon, we have to keep in mind that I feel very certain that this Agent Rowley is very committed to her position and she has her opinion. And I know that she is probably committed to those things. But keep in mind, this is a field agent, a general counsel of an office, if you will, who is there to give advice and counsel to the head of the office and the other investigative agents there, and clearly will have an opinion about those things. But, nonetheless, there are layers that are required, that absolutely need to be in place to make sure that all rules, policies and guidelines are adhered to. And I would suggest that it's probably appropriate, and obviously they are going to do it, for Congress to listen to this agent and get the information. But I think it would be a tragedy if we rush to judgment here on one agent's characterization and opinions about how things ought to be in a very complex organization like the", "Well, unfortunately, we are going to have to rush to a break right now. Former agent Don Clark, we thank you very much for your insights. Sure would love to talk with you later on down the road about all this after it's all wrapped up.", "Thank you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "KELLI ARENA, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "ARENA", "HARRIS", "ARENA", "HARRIS", "DON CLARK, FORMER FBI AGENT", "HARRIS", "CLARK", "HARRIS", "KATE SNOW, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "CLARK", "FBI. HARRIS", "CLARK"]}
{"id": "CNN-113999", "program": "GLENN BECK", "date": "2007-1-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/24/gb.01.html", "summary": "Making Sense of the State of the Union", "utt": ["All right. Coming up, we`re going to translate the president`s State of the Union speech from bull crap to English. It will be tough, but we`ll do it. Plus, there`s a lot of great teachers out there. But tonight, I`m going to tell you how to fire your kid`s bad teacher, next.", "Tonight`s episode is brought to you by subway hero Wesley Autrey. Wesley Autrey, making the most out of his 15 minutes.", "The view was great. Wesley Autrey last night, I expected him to just look down at Bush and go, \"Call me.\" As I was watching the State of the Union address last night, I couldn`t help but think man, what I wouldn`t give for a second hour of \"American Idol\". Here is the point tonight. Most of the president`s speech, as is the case with most of the State of the Union addresses, was complete and utter political bull crap, a waste of time. However, there were a few things that were important that we needed to hear. Unfortunately, I`m not sure that we all did hear them. Here`s how I got there. Our crack team of researchers have analyzed Bush`s speech using state of the art technology, and we have come up with this pie chart. Yes, 12 percent clapping. That cost us $1.3 million. We bought it from the government`s new health care system that was proposed last night. It`s going to be great. The political bull crap parts of the speech began right at the top, and they were just sprinkled throughout. I have absolutely no idea how these politicians look each other in the eye and say these things with a straight face. I mean, they know none of this stuff is ever going to get done. For instance, let`s balance the budget and fix our schools. Yes. Yes, good luck with that. The most irritating example of the bull crap section had to be the part on immigration, at least for me. I was screaming at the TV last night. I want you to pay close attention to Nancy Pelosi nod approvingly behind the president.", "Extending hope and opportunity in our country requires an immigration system worthy of America with laws that are fair and borders that are secure.", "How agonizing. You know what? How dare you. Conservatives like me have been begging George Bush to do something on the border, to practically no avail, and Nancy Pelosi, yes, we need that. You`re living in a state where they`re shutting down emergency rooms because you`re out of cash, yet you want to give free health care to illegal aliens? Stop it, both of you. Blood is about to shoot out of my eyes. Stop preaching to me about the border security. You don`t mean it. We do. That`s why it`s in the bull crap section. President also spoke about energy reform and ridding ourselves of foreign oil. Great, good idea. Sounds reasonable. So, why is it in the bull crap section? Well, let me just share with you a few words from people you might know and their State of the Union addresses. First, Jimmy Carter: \"The crisis in Iran and Afghanistan have dramatized a very important lesson. Our excessive dependence on foreign oil is a clear and present danger to our nation`s security.\" How about Ronald Reagan? \"We`ll continue the support of -- the support of research leading to the development of new technologies and more independence from foreign oil.\" Bill Clinton: \"I propose $6 billion in tax cuts and research and development to encourage innovation, renewable energy, full-efficient cars, high energy\" blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, as I was about to doze off last night, finally the president got to some important stuff, stuff that you could just feel by watching him, he believes. Namely, the situation in the Middle East, Iraq. He defined it differently last night. One line that should resonate with every American, whether you`re a Democrat or Republican, was this line.", "And whatever you voted for, you did not vote for failure.", "You know what? Let me tell you: one thing we`ve got to unite on is this. We cannot fail. Please, let`s start having a dialogue on how we win this war, not a dialogue on how not to lose. So here`s what I know tonight. I know that last night, everybody heard what they wanted to hear. Unfortunately, I don`t think people-- I don`t think -- I don`t think people heard what they needed to hear. What they needed to hear was this. Our country is generally strong. Our enemies are forming a strong alliance against us, and we must pull together. We cannot fail. Here`s what I don`t know. At this point, can President Bush change a single person`s mind? He is what he is to his constituents and to his opponents. He may have beaten \"American Idol\" in the ratings last night, which is a shock to me. But there`s a difference between people actually hearing him and listening to him. Jonathan Martin, he`s a senior political writer with \"Politico\". Jonathan, was anybody actually listening last night to what President Bush said?", "Sure. He`s still the president, Glenn. And absolutely. He still commands the audience when he does give an address like this speech last night. And I think that he actually got some pretty good reviews. His tone was fairly solid. I think he struck a very gracious note at the outset, recognizing Speaker Pelosi in the way that he did. So I think the president last night, given the challenges that he faces and given where he is in the polls, actually came off looking pretty good.", "Yes. No, I agree with you. I thought he looked really -- I thought he looked really good. I saw a difference. And maybe it was just me. I saw a difference between the first part of the speech, where he was talking about domestic issues.", "Sure.", "And when he moved to the Middle East. There`s something about this guy with the Middle East.", "It`s a passion gap.", "Yes. He feels it to his core. And there`s a disconnect elsewhere.", "Well, certainly he realizes that his presidency, to a large degree, is staked on what happens in the Middle East. So he, of course, is going to be very much a passionate, fired up when it comes to talking about the road ahead in Iraq. So that is going to be a lot of where his heart certainly is. That said, he did last night want to talk about domestic issues. He wanted to try and reach out and find some common ground with Democrats in the Congress on domestic issues. Now whether or not that can happen in the days and weeks ahead remains to be seen.", "You know, I heard something and I`m sketchy on the details. I don`t even know where I heard it. But he`s going to some Democratic Caucus meeting?", "That`s right.", "What is that? And is that unusual for him to do that?", "It actually is fairly unusual. Every year, Glenn, the Democrats and Republicans separately have what they call retreats that start out the congressional year. They`re usually in January or February. The Democrats this year are having theirs done in Williamsburg. Actually, in a rare move, President Bush is himself going to go down there and visit with Democrats from the Congress. He was invited by Speaker Pelosi and actually by Rahm Emmanuel, as well, a very shrewd political player, who in some ways dared the president to come. They invited him and said, you know, \"We dare you, Mr. President.\" And he took the bait. And he`s going to go down there and rub elbow with his Democrats.", "Good. Good. You know, the problem is, if it was a sincere -- and I`m not saying that it wasn`t. If it was a sincere invite, you know, that`s great. We`ve got to stop playing the games. Although Claire McCaskill said -- and I thought it was a shocking moment of honesty. Said today that she was actually watching Carl Levin to figure out when to stand during the applaud. When should I clap, when should I stand?", "Right.", "It`s a giant game last night in the State of the Union, isn`t it?", "There`s a lot of feeder, Glenn, that goes on. And for us political junkies, it`s a great spectacle to watch. It starts out with members of Congress arriving literally five to six hours before the speech begins, going down to the House floor and getting right on that center aisle. Democrats and Republicans, I should add, so when the president does come out they can be the first to shake his hand and get about ten seconds of his attention.", "That absolutely kills me.", "And, I should add, ask for autographs afterwards.", "I know.", "It`s something else.", "I`ve seen his enemies, you know the people -- the people like what`s his name from -- from Cleveland.", "Dennis Kucinich was down there.", "Right. All I could think of was Gollum. But he was down there.", "Jesse Jackson, Jr., of course, form Chicago is down there as well.", "It`s nuts. The other thing is, I -- if you`re looking at it as a game, I really want to -- I doubt this network would ever let me do it, but I would like to host the coverage of it next year. And I want to get the isolated feeds of Hillary Clinton, of Ted Kennedy, of John Kerry, because I -- maybe it`s just me. I was -- I spent more time watching Nancy Pelosi`s face than George Bush`s face last night.", "Right. Sure.", "Does that make me weird?", "No, not at all. Look, I think invariably even the biggest policy wonks in the world, after about 20 minutes, they start watching the body language of Cheney and Pelosi. And certainly, those shots there, you know, in the audience of Ted Kennedy looking down at his notes or Senator Clinton looking tired, certainly neat to watch.", "Jonathan, thank you very much. Now I watched the speech last night. And I`ve got to tell you, I was mesmerized by Nancy Pelosi. You know, the clapping thing. The Democrats clap. Nancy stood up, Democrats stood up. It was almost like it was some sort of weird game.", "Nancy says clap your hands. Nancy says stand up. Nancy says stand up and look constipated. Now Nancy says fall asleep. Now stand up. I didn`t say Nancy says. Sorry, Dick. OK. Nancy says wiggle your head. Nancy says look really bored. Now Nancy says look like you`re better than everyone else. Hillary, I know exactly how you feel, girl.", "This is", "Coming up, the president calls Iran and Syria to the mat for supporting terror on the same day President Tom threatens to end us again. And it`s time to substitute our teachers. Education needs a major overhaul. And I`ll tell you about one city that`s doing something about making sure educators make the grade. Firing teachers? Tonight`s \"Real Story\". Plus, we`ll break from the serious confessions of a dangerous mind and \"Galaxy Quest\" actor Sam Rockwell is going to join us to give us the scoop from Sundance and his latest films. Don`t miss it, coming up.", "Show me the examples of when the government has done something better than the private sector.", "National defense.", "Only because we`re not allowed to. You`re telling me that Ross Perot couldn`t defend Texas better than the United States government? We`d be broadcasting from the \"Star Wars\" space death star right now. Wow, it`s weird. I`m looking at Ross Perot`s death star. It`s pretty cool. You know, the laser beam on this one, though, doesn`t come out of the center of it. It`s got two big satellite ears on each side. Do you know what else? Do you remember in the death star in \"Star Wars\" how the government designed it with that one weird shaft that went to its only weakness? Private sector decided not to build it that way. It`s weird, isn`t it? Come on!", "As President Bush ran through the usual suspects of issues in last night`s State of the Union address, he took a brief break from the rhetoric to make one thing perfectly clear, Iran is supporting those that are killing Americans. Now say what you want about the president. One thing he has been consistent on is his stance against those lending aid and comfort to terrorists. Last night, I don`t think he left a lot of room for confusion. Take a look.", "Many are known to take direction from the regime in Iran, which is funding an army of terrorists like Hezbollah, a group second only to al Qaeda in the American lives it has taken.", "OK. Make no mistake about it. The many the president is referring to are terrorists. Let`s go back a little bit. That was last night. On the speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, President Bush said, and I quote, \"Any person involved in committing or planning terrorist attacks against the American people becomes an enemy of this country and a target of American justice.\" There is really no need to read between the lines on what happened last night. Now factor in this little tidbit. Yesterday, with a meeting with a Syrian foreign minister and Iranian President Ahmadinejad, Ahmadinejad said that the United States and the Zionist regime of Israel will soon come to the end of their lives. You don`t really have to be a foreign policy expert to see what Ahmadinejad has, you know, on his enemy list. Illicit starts with \"I\", Israel and ends with U.S. If and when President Bush takes action against Iran or the terrorist organizations they`re supporting, you can`t say he didn`t warn us or that the psychopath running Iran wasn`t asking for it. In our war on terror, we have to do more than not lose. This is a war, especially in relation to Iran, that we must win. In my opinion, when it comes to the president stopping Iran in their tracks, the question really isn`t if he`ll do it, but how and when. Ilan Berman, V.P. of policy for the American Foreign Policy Council. Ilan, the president, was he telling us last night that an attack -- that an attack on Iran is part of the future?", "Well, maybe. Certainly, that`s -- that`s one of several potential futures. But what I think was -- I took away most from the State of the Union yesterday was the degree to which he hammered home the point that he made a couple of weeks ago in his January 9 address, which is that Iraq is not a closed loop. Lots of countries are meddling in Iraq and Iran is chief among them and the U.S., the measure of our success is determined not only by how we reconstruct Iraq, how we create stability there, but also how we deal with these foreign meddlers.", "Yes. I was shocked last night. It was almost -- it was clear. And he`s not always clear when it comes to Iran. But he was very clear. It was cold almost. To me -- I`d love to hear your opinion on this -- it was almost as though he was setting up the Bush doctrine. Here`s the Bush doctrine. Here`s how they fit exactly. Was it just me that felt that way?", "No. I think there was certainly an element of that. But what I also noticed was that the way he talked about Iran was very nuanced. Look, President Bush knows that any sort of military reaction against Iran is going to be a huge enterprise after Iraq. But he also knows that he`s already staked out a claim. He said that the U.S. and his administration will not tolerate a nuclear Iran. And that means that he needs a bipartisan consensus about the fact that Iran is part of the problem and that we might have to resort to force in order to solve it. And that`s why he`s framing Iran directly in the Iraq context.", "OK. Now President Tom is sending messages all the time. We`re going to be destroyed. We`re going to end soon. You know, we`ll burn in the fires of the Islamic fury. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But we`re also sending -- and it was in the State of the Union. It was again kind of buried. We`re sending messages to him. We just sent a carrier group. We`re sending over Patriot missiles. What exactly is that trying to tell President Ahmadinejad?", "Well, that`s exactly what we`re trying to tell them. We`re trying to tell them that there are consequences for the type of behavior that he`s engaging in. It takes four carrier groups, four full carrier groups to wage a full- scale war. And it, I think, bears noting that right now we have half of that deployed in the Persian Gulf. It doesn`t mean that we`re going to go to war with Iran tomorrow, but it`s quite clear that the administration is trying to telegraph in no uncertain terms to the Iranian president and to the Iranian regime itself, that it`s very, very serious.", "May I ask you a highly speculative question for an outrageous answer? Did you ever watch \"The West Wing?\"", "Absolutely.", "OK. There was one episode right before Bartlett left where he -- he engaged in some very unpopular war and both candidates came and said what are you doing? You`re killing us. Now we`ve got to clean up the mess. And he said it has to be done. You know what? I keep playing that scene over and over again. We`ve got two years of Bush. I don`t think he`s going to leave this mess for the next president. I don`t think he`ll leave Iran just kind of sitting out there. Do you?", "Well, the real question, I think, is more than anything else, the timeline that Iran`s ayatollahs have. Because it`s quite clear that, because Iraq is unpopular, because there`s a lot of other issues pressing on the attention of the White House, the impetus for inertia is very great when it comes to Iran. But the ayatollahs have very different ideas. They`re talking about regional domination. They`re talking about standing up as a spoiler for American strategy in the region. And quite honestly, I think it`s a fight that we can`t run away from, because they won`t let us.", "OK. Thank you very much, Ilan. I appreciate it.", "My pleasure.", "And coming up in just a second, a little on \"American Idol\". Some laughs right around the corner. Hang on.", "Last night`s State of the Union address might have been the most watched in history, believe it or not, thanks, of course, to the fact that it followed \"American Idol.\" I don`t know if you saw last night`s show. A whole lot of freaks that just can`t sing. But last night, something crazy happened: a freak who could sing. I like to call this guy \"Castro chic.\" Surprise, surprise. Listen to this guy sing.", "My head`s been wet with the midnight dew because I`ve been down on bended knee talking to the man from Galilee.", "A little pitchy for me. But Kim Caldwell, she`s the host of TV Guide`s \"Idol Chat\", actually, a former contestant herself. What did you think -- what did you of Castro or Osama bin Laden? How are you?", "How are you doing? Good morning. Good night, whatever.", "I`m good.", "Let`s talk about Jesus.", "Yes.", "I think that he was absolutely amazing. And I was really surprised. I thought he was going to go in there and, like, pull some like chickens out of his back pocket and start juggling or tapping or something strange.", "Yes.", "And he actually was really, really good.", "How long before he -- do they shave him? I mean, take him right out back and shave him?", "This is what I think is going to be really interesting to see with him, is whether he`s going to do the makeover and, like, do the whole makeover, like Clay did, and have a total transformation.", "Yes.", "Or whether he`s actually going to do the Taylor thing, like Taylor kept his gray hair and everybody wanted him to dye it.", "Nobody wants him to keep that beard.", "It worked for Taylor.", "Right.", "So you never know.", "You were a contestant. How far did you go?", "What do you mean how far did I go?", "Well, you can answer that any way you want.", "I was number seven.", "You were number seven?", "I was number seven on season two.", "Really?", "Well, I did a huge transformation too. You should see the outfit that I had.", "We will see it next week now.", "NO, we will not. We will not, or I will not be coming back. It was horrible. But I did do kind of a cool transformation and did, like, the extensions and lost, like, way too much weight.", "That`s too bad.", "Yes.", "All right. So the other thing was there was this really kind of sad, poignant moment. Usually when these happen, it`s like oh, that guy is going to get on. He didn`t get on. But listen to this sad moment. What was this guy`s name, Chris McCain. Watch this.", "OK.", "My wife left me recently. I found out that she had been messing around, but, you know, I forgave her. And then she said she wanted to keep messing around. So, I told her to leave. I think, though, when I become the next \"American Idol\" she`s going to want me back, and I`m just not going to have it.", "Yes.", "Yes. Well -- we always need to -- well, we always need to remember is this is a singing competition. But first and foremost, it is a reality -- you know, it`s a reality show. It is.", "And then he got...", "So of course, they`re going to show that guy, who is like stalking Paula.", "Yes.", "And wants to be the next Idol because he thinks his wife will come back to him. You can`t do it for that reason. You`ve got to do it because, you know, you love singing.", "Yes, I really don`t think his wife is really going to be coming back to him after the performance last night.", "Probably not, especially with his dance moves. I mean, they were just wrong.", "Sundance Head.", "My favorite so far. Love him.", "Not saying a lot.", "And actually, he`s from Houston. Work it out, Houston. And his dad used to be a big singer in Houston. And now he`s taken over. He`s Sundance Head. And what I loved about him is that you didn`t really expect that voice to come out of him. And secondly, at the end, you saw Simon say he blew -- he blew Taylor out of the water. Blew Taylor out of the water.", "You know what?", "Simon has actually been taking hard core digs at Taylor throughout this competition.", "Here`s the thing. We just need all of them sheared. That`s what we need. Back with \"The Real Story\" in a second.", "We do need a razor.", "All right. Welcome to the \"Real Story.\" One of the lines that just popped out at me last night from the State of the Union address was this one. Watch.", "And to further protect America against severe disruptions to our oil supply, I asked Congress to double the current capacity of the strategic petroleum reserve.", "Wow, \"severe disruptions\"? What do you suppose that is? You know, I always tell you how George Bush, when he gives speeches, you know, he gives them in code worthy of a Navajo Windtalker? Well, this was definitely one of those, because the real story tonight is that \"severe disruptions\" doesn`t mean $3-a-gallon gas. It means we`re at war with some people who control a lot of oil. Back up. History, 1975, President Ford created a strategic petroleum reserve after the Arab countries decided to stop shipping oil to anybody who supported Israel. Hey, wait a minute. That would be us. There`s nothing like a 400 percent price increase to finally make us start saving just a little bit of oil. The reserve now currently holds 690 million barrels, which sounds pretty impressive, until you realize that would only last all of us 55 days, if we had to stop importing oil. But that`s assuming that we would actually use the reserve for our day-to-day life, which is not what it`s there for. This is the \"strategic\" reserve. Last time I checked, fueling up the lawnmower, not very \"strategic.\" It`s there to keep our critical infrastructure running, little things like F-16s and Abrams tanks. Yet every time the price of gas skyrockets, you`ll hear some slime ball politician screaming about opening up the reserve. And the president has, up to this day, said, \"Ah, let me think about it. No.\" Aside from 1975, when it was created, the other time a president ordered a huge increase was right after 9/11. This president directed that we add another 150 million barrels to it. We`re kind of like the guy who has declared bankruptcy twice before realizing we should probably put a little bit more money in the bank. But fortunately, this president sees the future, doubling it a billion and a half barrels. He`s seeing a future that is very dangerous for us. This is not a short-term process. This is long term. This guy understands that it won`t be finished during his administration. But that`s why we need to make sure our next president sees the reserve the same way this one does: not as a political cookie jar to use whenever gas gets a little pricey, but for when our planes must fly on a very, very rainy day. All right. Next, one of the other themes last night in the speech was education reform. The president proposed the revolutionary idea of giving local leaders more flexibility to turn around their own flailing schools. Now, I heard that, I thought, \"Wait a minute, are you telling me that the local community and parents can do a better job than the U.S. government? Please, governments always do it the best. Have you been to the DMV lately and gotten your driver`s license? I mean, they`ve got that wait down to like two and a half hours!\" But the real story tonight, you can give those local leaders all the \"flexibility\" you want, but nothing really will get done until we fix -- ready? Not even sure I`m allowed to say this on national television -- until we fix the teachers` union. Am I still on the air? Teachers, before you start sending loads of hate mail, all of it with perfect spelling and grammar and punctuation, hear me out. You know, I think, if you`re a good teacher, you`re going to agree with everything I`m about to say. Teachers` tenure and union contracts stand against everything a free market system stands for. You know, you want to be able to reward the best teachers by paying them more, right? No. Sorry, current union contract doesn`t allow for that. How about firing the worst teachers every year and bring in new ones with fresh ideas? Yes, can`t do that one, either. No, got tenure. Imagine if you ran a small business with those same rules. Why would your employees ever want to work harder when there`s no way to reward them or discipline them? It`s an invitation to mediocrity. It`s exactly what made the Soviet Union into what it is today. And if you ran your business like that, I guarantee you`d be bankrupt within a month. Well, our schools are essentially bankrupt. You know, there`s a monopoly going on. There`s no competitor ready to come in and clean up the mess. In New York City, a teacher putting in just three years of service is eligible for -- ready for this? -- lifetime tenure. Now, the union is going to come back and say, \"Yes, but, Glenn, they don`t just hand it to you. There`s a review process after those three years.\" Uh-huh, uh-huh. Yes, Department of Education says that 99 percent of teachers who get through the first three years get the lifetime tenure. I can imagine how thorough and tough that review process must be. In Bergen County, New Jersey, there are 10,000 teachers. Take a wild guess how may had been fired through the tenure process over a 10-year period. Try zero. Not even one. And it`s because the absolutely ridiculous amount of time and money it takes to fire a tenured teacher, even when the case is open and shut. For example, New York City, they found out that a teacher was sending sexual e-mails to a 16-year-old student. They had the e-mail, the teacher confessed, and guess what? It took six years and thousands of dollars before he could actually be fired. And even though he wasn`t teaching during that time, he still took home his entire six-year salary of $350,000. Now, why did it take six years to sort that out? Take a look at this. It`s a flow chart. This is showing all of the steps New York schools actually have to go through to be able to fire a teacher. It`s one hearing and conference after another, and it`s all governed by over 200 pages of union contract. This is an embarrassment; this is criminal. Thankfully, someone besides this rodeo clown actually seems to agree. New York Mayor Bloomberg announced last week a new initiative to reform that city`s tenure process. In an announcement that came as quite a shock to the head of the teachers` union, he said, \"Enough is enough.\" Joel Klein, chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, Chancellor, you`ve got one of the toughest jobs in America. What exactly are you guys trying to do now, because you`re not really going to get rid of tenure, because I don`t think you can? What is it you`re doing exactly?", "Well, what we`re doing, Glenn, is making sure that tenure decisions are thorough, are careful, because precisely what you said. We are making a long-term, lifetime commitment to our teachers. And the teaching force in our city is the most critical element in the work that we`re doing. And we want to make sure that, when we have a tenure decision, which is after three years that a teacher has been with us, we look at student achievement, we look at the evaluations of the teacher, and we make a careful, thoughtful decision.", "Chancellor, I mean, look -- teachers, I`ve had teachers that have changed my life. I have a lot of respect for teachers, especially with everything they have to go through right now. I mean, they`re practically policemen and nurses and everything else, parents, in many cases. So I`m not coming down on teachers. I just, for the life of me, don`t understand how you could work some place for three years and then nobody is able to fire you. What is the purpose of tenure?", "Well, it`s an interesting question. You know, in my view, teachers changed my life. I went to public schools in the city of New York. And they`ve been wonderful. But I do think it`s a strange process where, after three years, you get a lifetime commitment. That`s the law in the state of New York. That`s the law we`ve operated under. It`s a law that, I think, is worthy of further reflection. That being said...", "That was the greatest politically correct statement I think I`ve heard today. God bless you. \"I think it`s one worthy of reconsidering.\" Or what did you say, further examination?", "Further reflection.", "That`s great.", "But I think also highlights, Glenn, exactly what we`re talking about, which is why it`s so important that, after three years, we look at the entire record, we make sure we do a careful analysis. In the past, 99 percent of the people who were in the system for three years would just move forward, and I think we can do a better job.", "But, Chancellor, again, when does common sense play a role? I just talked about the story with the teacher who was writing sexual e- mails. He admitted to it. Took six years to fire this guy.", "That`s nuts, isn`t it?", "It`s beyond nuts.", "It`s absolutely nuts.", "It`s beyond nuts. When does the union ever step -- because, look, I think the idea behind tenure is to not throw people out, just to, you know, make sure that it`s a fair work environment, et cetera, et cetera. That`s fine. I`m all for that. But come on, man, the teacher union is defending this guy and dragging it out for six years. When does common sense play a role?", "Well, you and I are on the same page. And it`s not just common sense; it`s how about what`s right for kids? You know, just as the teacher can change the life of a kid, a poor teacher can really undermine a kids` learning. So I think we do need a little more common sense. I think under Mayor Bloomberg`s leadership, we`re bringing a lot more common sense to the school system, and this reform, frankly, I think, will help us move it forward.", "I don`t want to put words in your mouth here. And I`ll let you skate on this one, because you`ve been a good guy. You couldn`t break up the teachers` union if you wanted to -- or not the teachers` union, but tenure. You couldn`t get rid of tenure if you wanted to.", "Well, certainly, I think what I`d like to see is a tenure process that is more effective, more efficient. And like you`re saying, I mean, six years for a guy who admitted to sexual abuse is nuts. And I think we need to make sensible reforms. The basic notion that before you terminate a teacher, after you grant them tenure, that they should have reasonable due process, I agree with. But it shouldn`t be a full-blown trial like it is in a criminal case.", "Right. Right. Chancellor, thanks a lot. And that is the \"Real Story\" tonight. If you`d like to read more about this or if you`ve found a real story of your own, please tell us about it. Go to glennbeck.com and click on the \"Real Story\" button.", "All right. If you like movies about superheroes, aliens, lasers, then Sundance probably is not the best place for you. But the annual film festival founded by Robert Redford years ago under way right now in Utah. And for some reason, the stars actually are willing to talk to us. Now, it could be that we`ve convinced them that I host \"Access Hollywood,\" but maybe not. Sam Rockwell gained critical acclaim for his role in movies like \"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.\" He has now currently not one, but two movies at Sundance, \"Snow Angels\" and \"Joshua.\" And here is a look at \"Joshua.\"", "OK. Hey, hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? What are you doing?", "In Egypt, when they embalm people like pharaohs, they broke the nose and removed the brain through the opening.", "Josh, that`s...", "They drain the body of all its fluid on a special stone slab.", "Josh, Josh, Josh, Josh, why are you doing that? Why -- don`t.", "This guarantees him a glorious afterlife.", "OK, Sam, that`s freaking me out, man. What is it with the -- what is wrong with you people? We`re already freaked out enough. We don`t need to go into a movie theater and be freaked out. What is this movie about?", "Well, it`s about a creepy kid, you know.", "I got that.", "It`s about a creepy kid, and these parents, and how they sort of -- the mother is dealing with postpartum depression, and the father is just trying to make ends meet, and they have a strange child.", "Sam, I mean, gosh, I don`t want to get into politics here at all.", "Yes?", "I want you to know, I`m a big fan of yours.", "Thank you. Thank you.", "Is there a ray of sunshine in any of the movies coming out at Sundance?", "Is there a ray of sunshine? How do you mean? Do you mean --when you say politically, do you mean any optimistic...", "No, no, I don`t want to talk politics.", "OK, OK.", "Yes, optimistically, is there anything that`s happy? Is there a toe-tapper coming?", "You know, I think there`s a few of those. But my two movies, the movies that I`m in are not that.", "Not so much?", "Yes. They`re...", "Which one are you most proud of?", "I`m really proud of both of them. I mean, they`re apples and oranges. One`s kind of a genre horror film, and the other one is a drama, you know, not unlike \"Ordinary People\" or \"The Ice Storm\" or something.", "Can you go back and make, just to balance things out, a little, \"Galaxy Quest\"? Is there a possibility of...", "Yes.", "Because you know what? I`ve got to tell you, I don`t know what other people think of \"Galaxy Quest.\"", "I loved the movie.", "Oh, it`s great. And you were just the highlight of it. You were so great in that movie.", "Well, thank you. I bump into a lot of my cast members a lot from that. And, you know, we always -- I don`t think it made enough money to have a sequel, but a lot of people, I think, would like a sequel, you know? It has a cult following.", "Because you were in \"Galaxy Quest,\" you were also in \"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.\"", "Yes. Alan Rickman was in that, too.", "Great, great movie. Let me talk a little science here with you just a second. Hollywood in Mormon, Utah, is that like matter and anti- matter? Is there a possibility that the entire universe disappears some time this week?", "Yes, it`s an oxymoron. No, it`s pretty severe scene over here. It`s pretty intense, lot of dehydration, lot of people. And a lot of talking heads. But it`s fun, you know? It`s a lot of fun, too.", "I mean, you`ve been in -- I think you`re probably -- up until \"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,\" you were probably one of those guys that everybody would see and go, \"Oh, my gosh, I love you,\" but if you said the name, most people wouldn`t know you.", "Yes.", "Has that changed for you now?", "\"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind\" definitely changed things and for the better, you know? And I have George Clooney and Stephen Soderbergh to thank for that.", "You`re kind of a -- correct me if I`m wrong, but you seem like a selective guy. You`re more into the art of the work than the bottom dollar. Am I wrong on that?", "Yes, I try. You know, I hope that money is only part of the equation, you know? And I`ve done a lot of movies for no money this year. And it`s because they`re really good scripts.", "Have you thought about maybe -- I mean, Gene Hackman just did a lot of movies. Some of them were good; some of them really sucked. But he was always good in them.", "Yes. Well, he`s a great actor, you know? I mean, he was always good in them. That`s a good point, same thing with Michael Caine. You know, they`re prolific. And you`re not always going to get a home run, you know?", "Yes.", "Just do your work, like Gene Hackman. That`s a good example.", "Sam, best of luck to you. And a big...", "Hey, thanks.", "... a very big fan, and best of luck in the future.", "Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot, Glenn.", "You bet. Now let`s check in with Nancy Grace, see what she`s got coming up on the show tonight -- Nancy?", "Well, Glenn, tonight, Donald Trump does battle again. This time with a bunch of millionaires down in Palm Beach who told Trump he`s flying his American flag too high. That`s right: the American flag. Can you fly the American flag too high, Glenn? Let`s see now. The Supreme Court says you can definitely burn the American flag, but Palm Beach says you can`t fly it so high. And they`ve ordered it down. And, Glenn, tonight, live to Tennessee, a Tennessee couple fight for a little Chinese baby they took in eight years ago. But before you judge, the Chinese mom would hide in a neighborhood gas station to watch the little girl go by on her bicycle or for a walk. They claim they never meant to give the girl up. So what should the judge do, Glenn?", "Don`t forget. You can check out Nancy tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 Eastern here on Headline Prime.", "All right. Last night`s State of the Union, it featured one of my favorite things that politicians do. And that is point people out in the audience and say how great they are. It is quite an effective way to break up your speech, because, I mean, we`ve got an incredibly short attention span. You know, you just can`t -- hang on. Something shiny, America. Wake back up. I can`t just stand here and just tell you about the news, you know, for 30 seconds straight. There`s got to be a banner that describes exactly what I`m talking about, a crawl at the bottom of the screen, or perhaps even some relevant video. Like this.", "Three weeks ago, Wesley Autrey was waiting at a Harlem subway station with his two little girls when he saw a man fall into the path of a train. With seconds to act, Wesley jumped onto the tracks, pulled the man into the space between the rails, and held him as the train passed right above their heads. He insists he`s not a hero. He says we`ve got guys and girls overseas dying for us to have our freedoms, we have got to show each other some love. There is something wonderful about a country that produces a brave and humble man like Wesley Autrey.", "I love this. You know, here`s a guy who`s just living his life. He`s standing in a Harlem subway station three weeks ago, now he`s a personal guest of the president at the State of the Union. And in case you were wondering, this is the way you should celebrate a moment like that. It`s like of you`re like between scoring the winning touchdown at the Super Bowl and going home with Jessica Alba. And you deserve to act that way. All the way through it, I really did think that he was just going to mouth the words, \"Call me. Call me.\" So does Wesley Autrey`s life go back to the way it was now? Or does everything change forever? Miles O`Brien asked Autrey just that.", "I believe it`s going to be different in a real way.", "How so?", "Well, I think Oprah is going to be next.", "Yes?", "Yes. Oprah.", "What is that? Did you get a call from Oprah? I mean, I think if you`re on the phone with the president and your phone beeps and, you know, your caller ID says Oprah, you might click over. But you might not be going to the State of the Union anymore, but you`re going to be watching it on a brand new 61-inch plasma TV. All right, you can e-mail me at GlennBeck@CNN.com. We`ll see you back here tomorrow, you sick, twisted freak. Good night. 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{"id": "CNN-124187", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2008-2-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0802/29/sitroom.03.html", "summary": "Will Barack Withstand Pressure from the Competition", "utt": ["Our poll of polls shows Hillary Clinton leading Barack Obama by seven points in Ohio, but with a considerable number unsure who they want to be the Democratic nominee. Let's get back to the best political team on television. Jack, there was a story on the front page of \"The New York Times\" today saying if Obama gets this nomination, get ready, because the Republicans, their opposition research, they're gearing up. And Mark Penn, the top strategist for Hillary Clinton, was quoted in the story as saying this: \"The truth is, if he is ever in a general election, a lot of positions he took in 2003 and 2004 will come back to haunt him in a big way and a lot of the vetting that didn't happen will happen. The Independent and Republican support that he has had will evaporate really quickly.\" What do you make of this?", "Well, I think -- I'm sure Mark Penn hopes that will be the case. Barack Obama seems like a big, strong guy. He's probably able to take care of himself. And they're missing the point about what's going on, I think. Barack Obama is running on the palpable rage against the status quo in Washington, D.C. . The reason that 20,000 people turn out to hear Barack Obama speak and 200 show up at some school auditorium to hear Bill Clinton talk about his wife is that the public is up to their eyebrows in the status quo of Washington, D.C. The stock market is down another 3.25 today. The dollar is approaching the value of those pennies somebody had in a report a few minutes ago. We're $9 trillion in debt. Kids dying in Iraq. We've got two wars going on. And if there were ever two poster children for the status quo in Washington, D.C. , they are John McCain and Hillary Clinton. And that's why Barack Obama will probably be just fine.", "Gloria?", "A lot of Democrats I talked to today, Wolf, privately worry that Mark Penn is actually right. And that whatever the Clinton campaign could dig up on Barack Obama, perhaps from his early years as a community organizer, things he might have said, that maybe they decided to hold back on it because in the Democratic campaign. They didn't want to anger the Democratic base. And so maybe some of the stuff they didn't want to use against him and the Republicans can run with it. So there is some unease, you know, among Democrats.", "Jeff, is that unease, as Howard Wolfson, the Clinton communications director told us just a little while ago, bordering on this whole notion of buyer's remorse?", "Well, I think the Clinton people are betting on buyer's remorse because the Democratic Party, at least, is clearly buying Barack Obama. But I think what we're going to see in the fall, if Obama is the nominee, is a classic sort of anti-liberal campaign. Every word from the Republican is going to be he's a liberal, he's liberal, he's out of touch, he's so liberal. And that's worked very well over the past 20 years in American politics. But you know what? Maybe it won't work anymore. Maybe that list of disasters that Jack just gave is enough for people to say, look, you know, liberal doesn't sound so bad to us now. And change of any kind sounds good. But, certainly -- I mean Mark Penn is right that there is going to be assault on Obama that he is simply too liberal.", "If Mike Huckabee stays in this race, Jack -- and he's staying in the race, even though McCain has an overwhelming mathematical advantage -- why shouldn't Hillary Clinton stay in the race as long as Barack Obama doesn't reach that magic number, even if she loses Texas and Ohio on Tuesday?", "I don't care if she stays in the race. I mean I -- you know, at some point, the Democratic Party, if they think the opportunity they sense is there is real, is going to have to make up their minds, get behind somebody and get about the business of winning the general election. The longer the race is unresolved, the more money gets spent fighting each other, et cetera, et cetera. The thing with Huckabee is he's got the support of a whole bunch of Republicans and John McCain is this close to being the nominee. Neither Clinton nor Obama is that close to being the candidate. But at some point, the Democrats are going to have to decide what they want to do.", "Wolf, Hillary just has a lot more to lose by staying in, if she were to lose Texas and Ohio. She has a great reputation, could be Senate majority leader some day, doesn't want to be seen as a spoiler dividing the Democratic Party. There's also the question of her husband's legacy. If they could be seen as the people that bring the party together, that would be very, very good for Hillary Clinton in the future. Mike Huckabee, what does he have to lose? Nothing.", "Right. And unlike Mike Huckabee, Hillary Clinton actually has a job right now.", "Exactly. And has --", "That she could go back to. And she's, by all accounts, very good at it and enjoys it.", "All right --", "And, as Gloria says, has a considerable future, certainly in the Senate, and perhaps as a candidate for president.", "We've got to leave it there, guys. Thanks very much, Jeff and Gloria. Have a great weekend. Jack, we're not done with you yet. We've got \"The Cafferty File\" coming up. John McCain's middle name is Sidney. Hillary Clinton's middle name is Diane. Surely both nice names that you might not know. But you likely have heard Barack Obama's middle name. And here's the question -- why? Barack Obama's wife thinks she knows why. Let's turn to CNN's Mary Snow. She's in New York -- Mary?", "Wolf, his political opponents on the right step up the use of Senator Obama's full name. His wife Michelle says they're doing it to play on fears.", "His middle name, Hussein, has never been a secret. But twice this week alone, Senator Barack Obama's full name has been used in two attacks drawing scrutiny. Obama's wife Michelle says it's a fear tactic she witnessed in past campaigns.", "They threw in the obvious ultimate fear bomb that we have been hearing now. They said his name. They said look out for his name. When all else fails, be afraid of his name and what that could stand for because it's different and let me play on your fear of difference.", "Reporters who covered Obama's 2004 Senate race say a Web site went up with Obama's name, along with a picture of Osama bin Laden. It eventually disappeared. In this election, conservative radio talk show host Bill Cunningham, for one, is emphasizing Obama's middle name, Hussein. It was part of a broader attack on Obama. And Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain publicly apologized for Cunningham's attacks since they happened at a McCain event. But Cunningham remains defiant.", "Hussein is a great Muslim name. I meant no offense and none was taken.", "The Tennessee Republican Party issued a press release captured by some newspapers titled \"Anti-Semites for Obama\" that included his full name. The Republican National Committee denounced it and it's been retracted. While McCain has vowed to run a respectful campaign, some observers say they expect the attacks to continue if Obama becomes the Democratic nominee.", "There's a whole world out there in the blogosphere and conservative talk radio that will not be beholden to what Senator McCain wants to do and what might be considered general notions of impropriety.", "Michelle Obama told a crowd on Thursday that despite political opponents trying to raise fears about Obama in 2004, she said he prevailed in what she called a climate of negativity and doubt -- Wolf.", "All right, Mary. Thank you. Mary Snow reporting. A White House assistant admitting now to plagiarism. We're going to show you who he is and what it turns out he didn't write. Plus, it's an issue some say should disqualify John McCain from becoming president. How now lawmakers are coming to his defense, including Barack Obama. Stick around. 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{"id": "CNN-38304", "program": "CNN AHEAD OF THE CURVE", "date": "2001-8-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/30/aotc.10.html", "summary": "European Markets Quiet Ahead of ECB Meeting", "utt": ["Well, Todd Benjamin is standing by at the London Stock Exchange this morning. Three little letters on everybody's mind, that's", "That's right, David, the European Central Banks is meeting today. Now they've only cut rates one time this year, that was back in May by a quarter point, and they are clearly on the slow track compared to the Fed which has cut rates seven times, the Bank of England which has cut rates four times. There's a lot of anticipation they could move this time by another quarter point, but it's not a sure deal. First of all, it's the euro launch for the ECB in terms of the publicity campaign in -- because beginning next year, actually you'll have the physical notes and coins beginning in January. And so some people think they may not want to muddle the two events. The other thing is also the Bundesbank president and council member Ernst Welteke came out yesterday and said that it's not the job of the European Central Bank to spur growth in the euro zone. And that dashed hopes of some who were expecting that they would cut rates to now be thinking that, hey, maybe they'll hold off. So it's really unclear what the ECB will do right now. It's really a divided camp among economists. In terms of the markets today, they are basically cautious ahead of that decision which we're going to get in a little over an hour's time, but there are some real standouts. One of them is telecom. Look at this, Vodafone is up 3 percent. Of course that also trades in the U.S. The reason is Merrill Lynch repeated its buy recommendation. They think the stock is undervalued at this level and could be worth about 245 pence so nearly double its current price about end of 2002. And Orange is up 6.5 percent on anticipation that this mobile phone operator could have better results. Its owner, France Telecom, is up 3.2 percent. You've got Deutsche Telekom up 1.5 percent and British Telecom is little changed. Tech under some pressure following that profit warning from Sun Microsystems. STMicroelectronics is off nearly 2 percent. Infineon, the chipmaker out of Frankfurt, is off 1 percent. ARM Holdings, a chip designer here in the U.K., is off 4 percent. Siemens, out of Germany, is off 1 percent and Alcatel, the telecom equipment maker, is off 2.5 percent. The tech markets all down, as you can see here. The one in Germany down the most, off nearly 2.5 percent, the one in Paris off nearly 1 percent. And the FTSE basically flat, the DAX is basically down just a third of a percent, the CAC is up -- rather down just slightly and the SMI is off very, very slightly. So very, very quiet ahead of the ECB meeting in terms of the markets in general. David, back to you in the studio.", "All right, thank you very much, Todd. Todd Benjamin at the London Stock Exchange. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "ECB. TODD BENJAMIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HAFFENREFFER"]}
{"id": "CNN-199004", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-1-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/09/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Wal Mart to Join Gun Control Meeting; Ferry Crash Injures Fifty", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. I'm Ashleigh Banfield. We are watching two developing stories right now. Breaking news, first, Wal Mart has just decided to join in on those White House meetings with Joe Biden, White House meetings on gun control that they previously said they were too scheduled to be a part of. A change of tune there. And then also on your right-hand side of the screen, a ferry crash. It happened at a dock this morning in lower Manhattan and at least 50 people at this point are reported hurt. And we've got another deadline looming, as well, in our nation's capital. This one, though, having nothing to do with deficits or budgets or cliff. After Newtown, President Obama asked Vice President Biden to come up with concrete steps to curb gun violence and said, quote, \"no later than January.\" So, right now in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is right next door to the White House, Joe Biden is sitting down with gun violence victims and gun safety groups and our Dan Lothian is watching all of this closely. This all seems to be unfolding fairly quickly, certainly by Washington standards, Dan, so do we know at this point where the Joe Biden group is heading in terms of policy or is it an open book?", "Well, you know, to some extent, it is an open book and you are correct in that this is moving very quickly, and the president had pointed out early on that when he formed this group and had the vice president lead it, that he wanted to get some policy proposals by the end of this month. So, that's the reason that you're seeing this move very quickly. But some of the things that the White House has been talking about are universal background checks. That's something that they believe that Congress could really push forward, reinstating the ban on assault weapons and then, finally, limiting high-capacity magazines. These are things, they say, that can start getting into place as they seek these other options and that's what these meetings are all about, sitting down with all of the stakeholders, with those who have been impacted by gun violence and those who own guns to come up with some ideas that can prevent further gun violence.", "Now, Dan, obviously a lot of the buzz wasn't so much about today's meeting, as important as it is with the gun violence victims and the gun safety groups, but instead with the NRA and then the overture to Wal Mart, which is the world's largest retailer and by many accounts one of the largest sellers of guns and ammunition, this is warp speed in terms of movement. The NRA said it was going to send someone to listen ...", "Right. A rep.", "... and Wal Mart said they would not because they were busy and they changed that. Characterize what's going on.", "That's right. I mean, it's kind of interesting what happened with Wal Mart. I mean, essentially, they had pointed out that they had already had a meeting at the White House with the vice president and his group this week and I checked with the White House and they confirmed that, in fact, they had a phone meeting with them. So some sort of a phone conference call, but no face-to-face meeting. And what Walmart was explaining is that the point people that they have who would be attending a meeting like this were busy at a meeting in Arkansas and that's why they could not make it. But it was certainly a PR problem for them, a lot of raised eyebrows that they would not be sending one here. And then they did that reversal, saying that, you know, they said it wasn't a diss, in their words at the White House, wasn't a, quote, \"slight,\" but that they had a conflict in the scheduling. Well, they reversed and are now sending someone to that meeting that will be taking place here at the White House.", "And then what about the president in all of this? It seemed by the very quickly made plans after the massacre in Newtown, the president had dispatched the vice president to collect this information, come up with proposals. But does the president have a kit of proposals on his own and might he tip his hand during the State of the Union?", "Well, he just might. I mean, remember, look back at that press conference that the president had back in mid-December after the shootings and he said that he wanted those policy proposals, that he would bring forth those proposals during his State of the Union and so that is something that the president just might do. Jay Carney was asked about that yesterday during the briefing and he said that he did not want to get ahead of what the president might say during the State of the Union or during any other address that he might make. But this is certainly something that the president has pointed out that's very important. He wants to move on very quickly and he's trying to get as much input as possible. And then you have the NRA and other groups who are saying, wait a minute. Step back a bit. Take a look at the entire picture, not just on gun control, but take a look at mental illness, take a look at these violent video games as well. And you've heard them talk about getting armed guards at all of the schools, as well, to protect the children. So there is this conflict, those who are saying we need to have tougher gun laws and others who are saying, take a look at the more comprehensive view of this in order to find solutions.", "I'm glad you mentioned the armed guards protecting schools, et cetera. That was certainly something, Dan, that Sheriff Joe Arpaio mentioned down in Arizona, the Maricopa County sheriff, whom will be a guest in just moments. So, Dan Lothian at the White House ...", "Great segue.", "Yeah, how about that? Right? Thank you very much. Keep your eye on developments. That is fascinating what's happening and how quickly it's happening, as well. But we also have other breaking news now, so I'm going to segue away for a moment to New York City with our live pictures. Check out the front of that ferry. That damage caused a whole lot more damage to people inside. About 50 people were hurt when that ferry crashed down near Wall Street. One person actually critically injured. Apparently, this was a very busy pier in lower Manhattan and our Alison Kosik rushed right to the scene. She's getting a handle on all of this. And, Alison, I know this started to unfold about 9:00 this morning. That's a peak commute time. So what's the very latest? What were you able to find?", "Just to let everybody know who doesn't live in New York, there are lots of way people commute here into the city. You know, some people drive, some people take the train, and some people take the ferry. This is a regular commute for a lot of people, especially in New Jersey. This is called the C Street Ferry. It is out -- this particular boat is out of Highlands, New Jersey. It's a private ferry system and it says it provides high-speed service. It can go up to 44-miles-per-hour. So, this was the 8:00 a.m. out of Highlands, New Jersey, expected to arrive here around 8:45. Around that time, one passenger told me that is when she remembers flying through the air and waking up to a woman shaking her, hoping that she's OK. We did speak to many passengers, many people saying a very similar story, that this boat just suddenly just hit. Listen to some of what they had to say.", "It was a sudden crash. Everybody who was standing fell forward and people were in their seats got thrown forward.", "Basically, it was, you know, 60-to-0. So I don't know how fast we were going, but, you know, what happens when people come into the dock, usually the boat slows down a little bit, people get up to get off the boat, and that was what the problem was. When we hit the dock, everybody went flying. So that's why we had so many injuries. You know, people got thrown downstairs and that's where most people got hurt.", "I was actually sleeping. All of a sudden, we just hit, boom, and people were catapulting forward.", "I was standing up and I went backwards and hit chairs and then people landed on top of me. It was normal approach.", "And then what happened?", "Just a sudden crash.", "And you know something, Ashleigh, that a lot of commuters wind up doing and I see this when I ride the train and when people are on the ferry is, when you know you're getting close to your destination to get off and go ahead and get to work, a lot of people stand up. But in this case, one passenger told me a lot of people were standing on this staircase there -- this is a two-level ferry -- and when that boat hit, everybody went tumbling down. Now, the NTSB is sending a team to investigate. We hope to get more details. Ashleigh?", "And obviously, this is probably way too early, but is there talk down at that location about this being a mechanical error or human error at this point?", "Of course, those are all the questions everybody's asking. You know, these passengers did tell us, though, the captain came out right away and tried to help. Certainly, the captain will be interviewed. We'll find out what he has to say.", "And then what about just the response? I was watching earlier. I have to admit, I was horrified when I saw helicopter pictures putting blankets over people because it appeared at one point as though there were fatalities. But these were people who were just being blanketed for warmth. We've got to be very cautious to let you know those pictures show people who are injured and not killed.", "Right. Right. So far we have heard no one was killed in this accident. We are not hearing that as of yet. It is a chilly day here today in New York, so that could be the reason why you're seeing the blankets. You know, one passenger told me he saw one man having CPR performed on him with a head gash. So he may have been the worst case, but, you know, each person was different. One of the women I talked with, she walked off and was going to go see a doctor on her own, even though she was knocked unconscious for a bit.", "You can see there are so many first-responders who are on the scene and got there, obviously, very quickly down near the Wall Street location. Alison Kosik, keep us updated, if you will. Sure appreciate that. And we're going to give you the updates when Alison gets them and as we get them from the NTSB if they have them. And we're going to take a break. Be right back after this."], "speaker": ["ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, ANCHOR, \"CNN NEWSROOM\"", "DAN LOTHIAN, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BANFIELD", "LOTHIAN", "BANFIELD", "LOTHIAN", "BANFIELD", "LOTHIAN", "BANFIELD", "LOTHIAN", "BANFIELD", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "STEVE MANN, PASSENGER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KOSIK", "BANFIELD", "KOSIK", "BANFIELD", "KOSIK", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-160863", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-1-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/16/cnr.04.html", "summary": "College Releases Jared Loughner Video; Arizona Shooting Survivor Mavy Stoddard Discusses Husband, Shooter", "utt": ["As I reported moments ago, we have developing news to tell you about. We have just learned that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' condition has been upgraded from critical to serious. The hospital says she is continuing to do well, and she is no longer on a ventilator. And for those of you just catching up, we're finally hearing from alleged shooter, Jared Loughner, in his own words this weekend. His former school, Pima Community College, released a video that Loughner reportedly shot and narrated. It is a rambling rant-filled tour through the campus. and it's one of the reasons the school booted him in September. Here's part of it.", "We are looking at students who have been tortured. Their low-income pay in two wars -- the war that we are in right now is currently illegal. It's impossible for", "What's that?", "This is the police station. This is where the whole shaboozy goes down with illegal activity. If the student is unable to locate the external universe, then the student is unable to locate the internal universe. where are all my subjects? I could say something sound right now, but I don't feel like it. This is genocide in America.", "Thank you. This is Jared from Pima College.", "There's also this detail from a law enforcement source. There's reportedly a picture that Loughner took of himself wearing a G-string, posing with a .9-millimeter gun over his crotch. We're told it was on a roll he had developed in the hours before the rampage. Our own Thelma Gutierrez sat down with one of Loughner's long-time friends. Hear more about the Jared Loughner she knew, well before this all went down, when Thelma joins us in a live report next hour here on CNN. And at the top of the show, we showed you funeral services for Dorwin Stoddard, one of the victims of the Arizona rampage. The 76-year-old died a hero, giving his life to protect his wife. Our Ted Rowlands spoke with her as she recovers from the wounds she suffered that day.", "76-year-old Mavy Stoddard says she and her husband, Dori, were living a fairytale.", "We had as good a marriage as I believe anyone in this world could have.", "They were classmates who shared a first kiss in school but didn't marry until they were in their 60s. Both were widowed. Both had raised four children. For the past 15 years, Mavy says she and Dori had a ball. Last Saturday, the couple decided to go meet their Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords.", "Tell her how we admired her for going in person out among the people.", "When the shooting started, Mavy says Dori put himself between her and the bullets.", "He put himself over me. I don't know whether he threw me down or whether -- my first thought was get down, when I saw what was happening. I think it was the last -- last shots that killed him.", "Dori was pronounced dead at the scene.", "He died on my arms -- on my leg actually. On the side of my leg, with me talking to him and telling him I loved him, and kissing him. So he saved my life and gave his for it. And you can't ask for much more. And he would have protected me with his dying breaths, same way he loved me.", "Mavy says she feels sorry for everyone involved including the man responsible.", "It's a horrible thing that happened. It touched so many lives. It hurt so many people. That's why I feel no real animosity. I do forgive the young man. I hate what he did, but I don't hate him.", "Mavy was shot three times in the leg. She'll make a full recovery, but she'll be without the love of her life.", "That's CNN's Ted Rowlands, reporting. One of the world's most powerful leaders is headed to Washington. And that's one of the stories that will be making news in the week ahead. We'll tell you what else you can expect. And the best from movies and television being recognized tonight in Hollywood at the Golden Globe Awards. We are celebrity watching, live on the red carpet right now. We're going to take you there."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "JARED LOUGHNER, ALLEGED SHOOTER", "UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER", "LOUGHNER", "LOUGHNER", "LEMON", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MAVY STODDARD, SHOOTING SURVIVOR", "ROWLANDS", "ROWLANDS", "ROWLANDS", "STODDARD", "ROWLANDS", "STODDARD", "ROWLANDS", "STODDARD", "ROWLANDS", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-162305", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-2-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1102/19/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Former Supermodel Iman is Interviewed", "utt": ["Her name is synonymous with fashion, her iconic face with modeling. Iman talks face to face with Fredericka Whitfield about being a business mogul and her staying power.", "Fashion week in New York means a lot of excitement on the run ways, among the models and the fashion designers. Someone whose fame rose from the runway, Iman, says been there done that. She says you will rarely find her at a show today. She tells me she loves how models of today are seizing the opportunity, recognizing that the catwalk and magazine covers can be a springboard for even bigger business breaks.", "I was awarded the fashion icon award. I was, I was totally surprised because it's not a yearly award that they give, they have given it only to another four women, I believe Kate Moss and Nicole Ritchie, Sandra Bernhard and I can't remember the other one. I have to say, it's great for the ego, at my age, I'm 55, so I thought, how perfect, you know, right?", "Very relevant.", "And to top it off, Barney's gave me two windows and it was all celebration and love fest for a week.", "Something tells me it's forever.", "Fashion is not forever.", "So you say fashion is not forever, however, did you ever realize you would have this kind of staying power in the industry of fashion, of beauty, of business?", "No, it's all a surprise. If anything, I was more confident about my legacy, cosmetics. I was confident if the women got their hands on the cosmetics, they would be a believer. As Iman, I have no idea how I lasted or why I lasted this long. And to top that off, I had stopped modeling in 198. To be still relevant in this industry, I have no clue, I have no clue how it happened. But I'm glad.", "You did something that was unique, you forged a relationship with fashion designers, you had Calvin Klein, you had people asking you, how would you put this together? How would you wear it? If you wanted to make a statement, you wanted to put it on Iman.", "Unfortunately they don't use models like that anymore. Models used to be muses, and they really paid attention how you wear your own clothes and your personal style. So now that doesn't exist. And, yes, that had a lot to do with it. When I see Oscar de la Renta, I saw him at Versailles, he said you haven't aged a bit.", "That's probably true, actually.", "I think a lot of models today understand the branding of one's self, they really do understand, because it's a new generation of models and of business that is at hand. They have a business plan. They have seen how Giselle or Kate Moss have navigated this, and so they are really aware the longevity doesn't exist anymore. It's a very tough business. Lots of growth will go into it and the amount of girls that go into it, I would say 5 percent make it. It's a tough competitive business. And you loses your identity. You lose your identity, you lose yourself. You only see yourself through the eyes of how they judge you. So it is really tough on a young person.", "So now what does your family say about the choices that you made that went as far back as when you were 18 and 19?", "They still think I made the wrong choice.", "No, they do not.", "They think I would have made better in public service. I personally think I probably can do more on the outside than the inside. Inside is tough. You have to play by the rules.", "Perhaps your philanthropy is part of public service.", "That's the only thing I'm really proud of is my philanthropy.", "Fantastic. Your vision, your next act?", "I don't know. Usually it unfolds itself, you know, and it reveals itself. I wish I could say that I planned a lot of the things that have happened to me, none of it was planned. But once they arrived, I recognized it. I don't have it in my head, but once they arrive, I recognize them as my path.", "Instincts mean something?", "Instinct means a lot. You know, I'm taking advantage of an opportunity when it comes. But it somehow reveals itself. When I was writing my book, \"I am Iman,\" I had no clue what I was going to call the book. And as we went along, an English young man said it will reveal itself when you finish the book. The day I finished the book, it actually revealed itself. A lot of people say I'm being grand, \"I am Iman.\" People in the streets sometimes say to me you look just like Iman. I say I am Iman. My name Iman is a man's name. So it's a play on I am a man.", "Your dad played a big role in that, right? For some reason he said this young girl is going to be different, is going to be unique and I'm OK naming him a man's Somali name?", "The funny thing is that in the rest of the Middle East it's a girl's name. But in Somalia it's a man's name. So it's a high name, like to have faith, to have faith in god. And I do.", "Next Iman tells me face to face the secret behind her 20- year marriage to rocker David Bowie."], "speaker": ["SAVIDGE", "FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "IMAN, CEO, IMAN COSMETICS", "WHITFIELD", "IMAN", "WHITFIELD", "IMAN", "WHITFIELD", "IMAN", "WHITFIELD", "IMAN", "WHITFIELD", "IMAN", "WHITFIELD", "IMAN", "WHITFIELD", "IMAN", "WHITFIELD", "IMAN", "WHITFIELD", "IMAN", "WHITFIELD", "IMAN", "WHITFIELD", "IMAN", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-260733", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2015-07-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/28/qmb.01.html", "summary": "The First Female NFL Coach.", "utt": ["A major barrier for women in sport has been broken and of all places it happened in the National Football League. The NFL is getting its first female member of a coaching staff. The team who hired her is the Arizona Cardinals and they tweeted she has a Masters, she has a PhD, she has an Arizona Cardinal's coaching job. She's Jen Welter. Rachel Nichols is here. And, Rachel, this is a big deal and a lot of people are surprised that it's coming from the", "Yes, I mean look, we saw a female assistant coach in the NBA just this past season and she actually coached the San Antonio Spurs summer league team and won the whole thing. Because what do you want to do when you're making history - let's go out and win the whole thing. Jen Welter not in that kind of position. She's coming in at the entry -- entriest-of-entry levels, but that's how it works in professional sports. You start as an assistant to the assistant kind of thing and then you work your way up. And the fact that she is getting the opportunity to do that is huge. It makes a statement about the NFL and their inclusiveness. We all know that sports in many countries, certainly in the United States, leads social change. We've seen Jackie Robinson, we've seen Billie Jean King beating Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes. There's so many times where it happens first in sports in America and then filters out to the rest of society. And the message here is not just about women's being included, it's also about a woman leading a group of men. When you're the coach, you are in charge. And one of the big questions there has been about female leadership at the highest levels is OK, OK she's smart - whether it's in politics or in sports - but are the guys really going to listen to her?", "And that is my question - how do you think she will be received? Because we have seen very talented young players drop out because they didn't like some of the hazing, whether it was because of sexuality or where they came from or race. There've been a lot of issues. How do you think she's going to cope with that locker room?", "Well so far it's been very positive. In fact some of the leaders on the Arizona Cardinals team have made a point of taking to Twitter and taking to other forms of media to say, hey, we're happy about this. And I think in any locker room it's really about what the bigger players do and say. If they let things like hazing or sexual comments go on, then that's going to happen. If they say, `Hey, we don't that around here,' then that's what you'll get. And the leaders of the Arizona Cardinals have been forthright in saying hey we welcome this. And I think Bruce Arians, the head coach, wouldn't have done this -", "Right.", "-- if he thought it was going to be disruptive. But he is a very progressive guy, he's got a very mature and veteran locker room and she's a smart football person. And the thing about the NFL we see over and over again is that winning trumps all -", "That's right, that's right - they want to win.", "-- you know, there are people who have literally been accused of murder who have been - gotten interest from football teams because they thought they could help them win. So just being a woman - I mean, heck - if you're going to help you win - that's nothing.", "Nothing, that's right. Which leads us to the cheaters. We have a big news breaking about Tom Brady of course accused of cheating to get the Super Bowl title - NFL sticking by their decision.", "Yes. They've decided to uphold his four-game suspension and this is a couple levels of bombshell here. First of all, a lot of people thought that it would be reduced. This is in the \"Deflategate\" saga that we in America insist on talking about I think every five minutes basically.", "But it's not just that. The NFL came out in its ruling saying they were upholding his four-game suspension. They said that Tom Brady destroyed his cell phone on the day that NFL investigators were supposed to come talk to him. And the idea that he then was destroying all of this evidence has been seen as not just not participating in the investigation but obstructing the investigation. And that is part of what this punishment is for. Now, Tom Brady in his appeal hearing that has already happened, came back and said, `Hey, you know what? I change cell phones every four or five months. I always destroy or have my assistant destroy the phone and the SIM card. It's a privacy issue. He is of course married to the international supermodel Giselle, so maybe there's people going through his trash in a way that don't go through your trash or my trash. But there are some problems with the fact that he obviously knew this investigator was coming to talk to him. He did have the appointment in fact. He destroyed it that day anyway. And there was a previous cell phone that he had that the NFL was aware of was still in existence so their case is, hey, if you're destroying all your phones, how come we know that this one is still around? So a lot of questions and we'll have to see now if Brady and the NFL Players Association take the NFL to court. That's the next step (inaudible).", "It's going to be a big issue for the league the next season and also inevitably Tom Brady's legacy.", "Absolutely.", "Rachel, thank you so much for joining us, it's great to see you.", "Thanks.", "Now after 25 years, the new bestseller for Dr. Seuss -- \"How Pet Should I Get?\" soared to the top of the charts."], "speaker": ["LAKE", "NFL. RACHEL NICHOLS, CNN WORLD SPORT", "LAKE", "NICHOLS", "LAKE", "NICHOLS", "LAKE", "NICHOLS", "LAKE", "NICHOLS", "NICHOLS", "LAKE", "NICHOLS", "LAKE", "NICHOLS", "LAKE"]}
{"id": "CNN-117221", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2007-5-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/30/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Hurricane Force: Can Your Home Survive?", "utt": ["Some \"Quick Hits\" for you now. And this is what Chad was talking about a couple minutes ago in his weather report. In Colorado yesterday, it was an unusual storm, grape-sized hail pounding Denver. It wasn't necessarily the size, but just how much they got. Four inches in some parts. It ended up looking like snow on the ground. Heavy rain also flooding intersections there and stranding drivers. Not fun. End of May in Denver looking much like winter in other places. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin will give his state of the city address tonight. It will be the first since Hurricane Katrina hit in late August of 2005. The Coast Guard says it's now better prepared to face a disaster like Katrina. Admiral Thad Allen says there is now a special Coast Guard unit to respond to disasters. We remember how instrumental the Coast Guard was in helping pluck people off of roofs during Hurricane Katrina, saving countless lives, people, as well as animals. Thad Allen, by the way, gave details at a news conference, and he's going to give more of them at a news conference taking place a little later this morning -- John.", "Well, the 2007 hurricane season begins on Friday. Experts say there could be five major hurricanes this year that's Category 3 and up, with winds over 111 miles an hour, the point at which buildings start to take heavy damage. CNN's John Zarrella is live in Gainesville, Florida, this morning with something new to help us make it through hurricanes. What have you discovered, John?", "Hey, John, it sure is. Well, engineers and engineering students here at the University of Florida are literally creating hurricane conditions. What they're doing is using these enormous motors here and these huge fans. And the idea is to ultimately build better homes. What's unique about this entire project is that they don't test individual components of homes, but the entire structure in a real-world setting.", "Two twin turbo diesel engines produce 2,800 horsepower, driving eight enormous fans. The University of Florida engineering team had never done this test on this scale before. The idea, focus hurricane-force winds in excess of 100 miles an hour on a simulated house. In other words, how will your windows, doors and roof perform in a hurricane as a whole, not as individual pieces?", "If you're a homeowner, you want a house that has every single part of that house designed for a particular wind speed, not a range of wind speeds.", "For this test, a 1970s style window was used. Common today in millions of older homes. How will it perform? And the rest of the structure, the shingles and wood frame, built by the team to new tougher hurricane codes. Let's see. Within seconds, hurricane-force winds and rain are pummeling the side of the wood frame. The pressure is too much, the top pane of glass blows in. Seconds later, the rest gives way. The shingles peel back, but stay in tact, as does the wood frame. Full-scale testing like this may answer what fails and why.", "Whether it's just a tornado, a hurricane, or even an ordinary thunderstorm. So, we are answering questions by doing this before a storm. It tells us how to build it differently so we can prevent the damage in the first place.", "Damage like this -- a home obliterated in Hurricane Charley. Its unprotected windows blown in. The outcome clear here in the real world and in the lab.", "A pretty clear idea right there why you need to put shutters up if you have those old-style windows and don't have impact- resistant glass. You know, what's unique about this is this is a test bed to test this equipment, but, ultimately, it's mobile, John. They can take this out on the road, you can bring this entire apparatus into a neighborhood or a development and see how the entire structure, as a whole, will perform in a major hurricane -- John.", "So, they're investigating the wind, but as my former colleague who is one of the great hurricane hunters of our generation, Dan Rather, used to tell me, it's not the wind, it's the water. Is there any way to test a building's resistance to that storm surge and the water that comes ashore at the leading edge of a hurricane?", "No, not really, not at this point. Not that I know of, anyway. And you're right, water -- you know, nine out of 10 people who die in a hurricanes die in the water. And a lot more now from inland flooding than every before because our technology allows us to get people back from the coast and the initial storm surge. So that is still one of the biggest bugaboos in hurricanes, is death caused by water -- John.", "Of course, though, the majority of the structures are inland, not there on the coastline. And it's always good to have those built to new specifications.", "Yes.", "All right. John Zarrella, thanks very much. Really interesting stuff, John.", "Twenty-five minutes past the hour now. Ali Velshi is \"Minding Your Business\". Two new gadgets, I guess you could say, from Microsoft, because they're not even a computer. It's a pen, right?", "Right. There are two things coming out today. And the thing that's really interesting is -- I'm really into gadgets, but in these particular cases, these two things might actually change the way computing is done. One of them being unveiled by Microsoft today is called Surface. Now, basically, it's a table. It's 30 inches on the diagonal, and you can see pictures of it there. The idea is that it's a variation on what we think of as an input device, a keyboard. Fundamentally, when you think of how kids deal with things today, with the various types of devices they use, input is not just key input. So, this thing is a table. It allows you to touch and move things around. The way it works is there are five wireless cameras situated. So when you put your hand on it, you can move something around the way you would move it on a table.", "How do you type, though?", "Well, it's getting away from the typing as an input. This is a new way of doing things. So, you've got a picture on your cell phone, you put the picture on the table. It will read the picture, and then you can move that picture around and store it and do different things. It's like thinking about an iPod or thinking about a cell phone. You use things, get away from the idea that it's technical input.", "Right. Like I don't need to ask you, how do you put this cassette tape into the iPod, because you don't even use them anymore.", "Right, exactly. That's the point. The other thing that's coming out is a simple pen. It's from a company called LiveScribe. Now, if you have kids and you've seen this LeapFrog fly pentop, same concept, same technology. It uses a special paper that has dots on it, and a sensor on the pen reads those dots. By the way, this will be available in October for around $200. The nifty thing here is that the company that makes this wants to create a community of programmers for it. So, it's not just sort of a single purpose or multipurpose pen. The idea is your pen becomes your input device, and computers, people who design software around the world, will find ways for you to compute using this pen.", "But it's still making my head spin.", "Look at these two. They're looking at me like I have three heads. This could be the future. Save this tape. Today might be the day the future began, or not.", "OK.", "Ultimately, when you just talk to the computer, that will be the whole...", "We're getting there. We're getting there.", "Thanks, Ali.", "You talk to your computer anyway, but it doesn't get you anywhere yet.", "It doesn't do anything. It just sits there and listens. \"Quick Hits\" now. The top story on CNN.com. A 25-year-old woman and her three young daughters were found dead, hanging in a closet in their home in Hudson Oaks, Texas. Amazingly, another child, an 8-month-old, survived the hanging. Police believe it was a murder-suicide because the doors were locked from the inside. Also on our most popular list this morning, health officials are looking for fellow passengers of a man infected with a highly drug- resistant strain of tuberculosis who took two overseas flights. Right after the break we're going to talk with the reporter who has spoken with the patient about why he took those flights against doctors' orders. And tracking your every move. A college professor who came under suspicion after 9/11 devises a way to prove he's not a terrorist. We'll meet him later on AMERICAN MORNING. The most news in the morning is on CNN."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ZARRELLA (voice over)", "FORREST MASTERS, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA", "ZARRELLA", "LESLIE CHAPMAN, FEDERAL ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOMES", "ZARRELLA", "ZARRELLA", "ROBERTS", "ZARRELLA", "ROBERTS", "ZARRELLA", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ALI VELSHI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHETRY", "VELSHI", "CHETRY", "VELSHI", "CHETRY", "VELSHI", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "VELSHI", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-15249", "program": "", "date": "2000-9-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/04/aotc.07.html", "summary": "'Fortune': London to Press on with 'iX' Deal Amid Reports of Yet Another Bidder", "utt": ["There may be yet another bidder for the London Stock Exchange. Just a few days after Stockholm exchange made an offer, Euronext reportedly has an offer of its own.", "Euronext is the three-way combination of the Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam bourses, whose own merger has yet to be finalized. And now Janet Guyon, of \"Fortune\" magazine, joins us now from London. This was an unexpected cobbling together of a bid or no?", "Somewhat unexpected, David. But the truth is the London Stock Exchange has been looking for an alternative to the Swedish bid for it, for some time now. There have been some members of the London stock -- some shareholders of the London stock exchange who haven't been happy with the proposed merger between London and the Frankfurt exchange. So, the idea that this hostile bid from the Swedes is opening up other possibilities is somewhat not surprising. What appears to be happening now is that this proposed merger between Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, the Euronext group, is putting -- appears to be getting financing or looking for financing to put a bid together for the London Stock Exchange. I talked to the spokesman for the Paris bourse earlier today, and she wouldn't really comment on what's been reported, but she said we observe the situation with much interest. So that does indicate that probably they are looking at trying to make a counterbid for the London Stock Exchange. Now, the other player in this is Milan. The Milan bourse has also come out and said -- to say, we too would like to be part of a London exchange. So what we may have going here is a counter bid to this hostile bid from the Swedes, by the Deutsche bourse, Euronext, and the Milan Exchange. It's possible that all these exchanges will get together in order to bid for the London exchange.", "The combination of exchanges, of course, creates a bigger global market, and presumably creates economies of scale for the exchanges. But what's the impact on the average investor who owns companies that trade on these exchanges?", "Well, you know, quite frankly, I think it would be the great if all these guys could work out their problems and get together in some grand European merger. I think the chances of all of these exchanges getting together aren't that great because of the various disputes between them. But, for investors, it would mean lower trading costs, more access to more stocks across Europe. Right now, it's quite difficult for an ordinary retail investor in one country to buy stock in another country because of all these exchanges. I think it would be good for U.S. investors -- I -- as well, because they would have access to a sort of a more complete exchange. They could go in and by a German stock on the London exchange, it would be transparent. So certainly, for investors, the combination of these exchanges in Europe would make it much easier to trade cross- border, to buy shares in European companies, regardless of the country.", "All right, Janet Guyon, \"Fortune\" magazine, thanks so much for the update."], "speaker": ["DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "JANET GUYON, LONDON BUREAU CHIEF, \"FORTUNE\"", "MARCHINI", "GUYON", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "CNN-292011", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2016-08-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/22/ctw.01.html", "summary": "City of God Favela Welcomes Homegrown Hero", "utt": ["Live from New York, you're watching CNN. This is Connect the World with me, Becky Anderson. Welcome back. Rio's homegrown hero Rafaela Silva is the talk of town and all of Brazil. She is the first athlete to win gold for the host nation at the 2016 Olympics, a feat all the more remarkable when you consider her humble roots. She was born in Rio de Janeiro's notorious City of God Favela. And she is being honored with a parade to celebrate her Olympic glory. Getting set for that is our Shasta Darlington who joins us from the City of God. And describe just where you are and what the atmosphere is like, Shasta.", "Absolutely, Becky. I'm here outside a small judo studio where kids are getting ready to greet Rafaela Silva when she shows up in about an hour's time. This is the Faveal where she was born, where she grew up. And while she is a hero across Brazil, this is where they really -- they really want to grab her and carry her around town. And that's what they're waiting to do. Hers is such a fantasic story for all of the people around here. This is the notorious favela that most people have heard of because of the movie of the same name, City of God, that for a couple of decades was controlled by drug dealers. And now it's still impoverished. And she has shown to the people here that through sport you can climb your way out. In fact, we talked with her parents, they told us she was pretty hard to control as a kid, a fighter, so they put her in judo classes. And look where she is now. Especially rewarding when you consider what she went through after the London Olympics. She was disqualified because of an illegal hold. And then just based a barage of racist attacks on social media. She has gone beyond that. And now she's a hero of all Brazil and showing people -- what she told us is that, you know, sport is sometimes up, sometimes you're down. But this is something that everybody can get ahead in.", "Right. And she's obviously inspiring a whole bunch of youngsters just behind you -- I don't know if you cameraman can open up for you, just over your, what, left shoulder there's a couple of what, 5 or 6- year-olds, just turn around -- you can see these little kids. Just open up behind you there -- the other way. There you go. These two are having a really good go of it. Come on, guys.", "Exactly.", "I mean, Shasta...", "Getting ready for Rafaela Silva.", "Absolutely. Well, that's just marvelous. What do Brazilians think, very briefly, about the Olympics? Do they believe it was a success?", "You know, the reaction has been really mixed here. There was so much trepidation. Would Rio pull it off and should they be holding these games at all? What we see at the end, a poll said 62 percent of Brazilians still think the Olympics did more harm than good, but 57 percent think they made Rio look good. And that's important to Brazilians. I think the fact that there were some really important gold medals won just in the last couple of days also lifted the mood. You know, the first gold medal for men's football is something that had the whole country cheering. The men's volleyball also just nailed it in the last few hours. So, I think it's left a bittersweet taste in people's mouths. They're happy about the gold medals that were won. They're happy that Rio did pull it off, but they're not sure it was really worth it all, Becky.", "Well, I tell you what, those two little lads behind you, they think Rio pulled it off, I can tell you. They're still going. Let's hope that we see those two lads in about eight years' time or perhaps even four, who knows. Shasta, thank you for that. Your Parting Shots today and as a Scot this is one after my own heart. A desert dreamer brings a winter sport to one of the world's hottest countries. Jon Jensen has the story for you.", "Rock first. Good.", "(inaudible) is chasing an Olympic dream no one has ever achieved...", "The slide will be good, very good.", "...to make this cold weather sport succeed in one of the hottest countries on the planet.", "You push yourself a little harder.", "Belleli is the coach of Qatar's new curling team.", "It's a good opportunity to be at something here. So, of course it's harder because nobody knows anything about curling. No, your balance is on your sliding foot.", "His club is just a few months old. It's the first in the Middle East. And Belleli, a former national champion from Hungary, is starting from scratch. Finding players in this desert nation was one.", "No problem, no problem. This is just the first delivery. No problem.", "Most are students who had never heard of curling, let alone played it before.", "When you deliver, you have to hit, the other rocks and it's pretty hard.", "Off the ice more obstacles, a budget to convincing others that curling is even worth it. And last but not least, the team doesn't even have their own place to play. When they practice, they have to rent time on this ice rink in the middle of a shopping mall's food court.", "Despite the odds, Qatar played its first international tournament this spring in Sweden. They didn't win a single match. But that hasn't stopped these players from believing.", "My dream is to compete and lift my country to be in better ranking.", "Belleli hopes to qualify for the winter games in 2018 or at least have fun trying.", "It's always important not to enjoy only the results, to enjoy the chase.", "And this dream, he says, he'll chase to the end. Jon Jensen, CNN, Doha.", "Well, before we leave you this hour, we hear a lot about the terrible suffering and loss of innocence of kids caught up in conflict, don't we? On our Facebook page we have a story that brings some hope. Refugee children share their dreams for the future with high ambitions despite the trauma they've faced. You can watch that video and many others on Facebook.com/CNNconnect. That is Facebook.com/CNNConnect. I'm Becky Anderson. That was Connect the World out of New York for you, where we are all week. Thank you for watching. We will see you this time tomorrow. 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{"id": "CNN-28166", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-4-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/10/lad.08.html", "summary": "Red River Flooding: Residents Prepare for the Worst", "utt": ["We turn now from California's energy crunch to a potential natural disaster in the Midwest. The Red River Valley is a flood plain today. And there's a desperate race to keep its rising waters out of cities, towns and farms in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Our Jeff Flock is in Crookston, Minnesota, which is bracing for a flood surge -- Jeff.", "Good morning to you, Carol. Indeed, Crookston, Minnesota, one of the danger zones -- and right now, they have had some good news, because yesterday, at about this time, they had ice out here in the Red Lake River. This isn't the Red, but the Red Lake, which empties on in a little farther down -- a lot of ice. And it caused an ice jam here and backed the water up. And it was another 5, 6, maybe 7 feet beyond where it is right now. I've got the mayor of Crookston with me: Don Osborne this morning. You're pretty happy this morning, you got rid of that ice.", "Yes, it's definitely a peaceful sign.", "Now, you've got levees all along here that have had some water up on them for a while. You got some real worry about your levees.", "Yes. As a matter of fact, where we're standing here right now, there was water here earlier in the week. The levees, yes, they're very old. They were done by lay people back after the '50 flood. There's an awful lot of sand veins, a lot of slipperage. And right at this point, as the water goes down, my fear is that the one that could still give way.", "If that happens, then, even don't have to top a levee. Water doesn't have to come up any farther than it is right now and you could have trouble.", "Yes, I think it would be just as bad as the Chicago fire.", "If that happened.", "Yes.", "Wow.", "And we'd lose an addition to the city.", "Yes. Now, I want to ask Rick (ph) if he can run over -- I'll tell you, if we can get over here -- walk over here with me, Mayor, if you can -- you get a sense of this. And we're walking right through our light here. But if you can see back in there, this is some of the ice that you had. Rick, if you can go ahead and run back in there and see if you can see that. That ice was all over here yesterday.", "Yes. It was -- well, it was up on the far side of the bridge there. There's still a lot of ice there. And you can see the marks with the ice yet. So...", "Have you got any more coming down?", "No. What they've talked about out of coming out of Thief River, that should be deteriorated before it gets here. A lot of it will go along the sides, out of the channel.", "So hopefully you're past the ice problem.", "Yes, I definitely...", "And before we get away, the last problem is, potentially, you're going to get some -- you're going to get some rain here later in the week.", "The forecast says Wednesday and Thursday. Hopefully, that is not as serious as they originally forecast. They did change it some this morning, so I hope it's -- they keep it that way.", "All right, Mayor Osborne, I appreciate it very much.", "Thank you.", "Thank you, sir. We're going to check back with you next hour -- perhaps be live next hour down in the command post, which is in the basement of the police station here as they prepare to fight this flood, hope it doesn't get any worse. That's the latest from Crookston -- back to you, folks.", "Thanks, Jeff. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DON OSBORNE, CROOKSTON, MINNESOTA, MAYOR", "FLOCK", "OSBORNE", "FLOCK", "OSBORNE", "FLOCK", "OSBORNE", "FLOCK", "OSBORNE", "FLOCK", "OSBORNE", "FLOCK", "OSBORNE", "FLOCK", "OSBORNE", "FLOCK", "OSBORNE", "FLOCK", "OSBORNE", "FLOCK", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-199512", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-1-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/17/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Obama Unveils Gun Plan, Reaction Rolls In", "utt": ["Well, President Obama has made no secret he wants to do something about gun violence with a concrete set of proposals. Some with executive and some with work that Congress is going to have to do but many of the things are left unanswered. And my next guest has a lot of those answers and is trying to work through those as well. He's New York's commissioner, Ray Kelly. Thanks for coming in.", "Thank you.", "I know you were in D.C. for the event yesterday and I know you're still getting your head around what -- it seems to be put together in warp-speed time. But just from what you do know, your reaction to the president's actions?", "My reaction is certainly positive. I think it's something that's been overdue. Mayor Bloomberg has led the charge in this area. And the president, I think, in essence supported everything that the mayor has put forward.", "One of the big criticisms is that while assault-style weapons sound terribly menacing and the big items include Newtown and the Aurora shooting, et cetera, et cetera, the bigger problem is actually handgun violence, and what happened yesterday does not address that. Is that not a grave concern to you? You're the commissioner of a city that deals with happened gun violence ad nauseam.", "Absolutely. That's the major problem of urban policing these days, concealable hand guns. Even so, I think what happened yesterday is a move in the right direction. And also the background check for all weapons exchanges or all cells, I think can -- it has the potential tension for reducing handgun violence. There's no easy answer here. There's no magic bullet. It's complex. No question about it.", "And by the way, it's hard to even determine what constitutes an assault weapon.", "Right.", "It used to be defined by law from 1994 to 2004 under that ban. It's no longer defined by law yet. But what will an assault weapons ban actually ban?", "Well, we're going to see what Congress comes forward with. In 1994, there were 19 specific types of weapons or 19 specific weapons and a broader definition. It was able to take, you know, the --", "-- a folding stock, those sorts of things were incorporated in the definition, really a weapon of war, and I think part of the 1994 ban has to do with the cosmetics of it, people were frightened by the look of these weapons. Whether or not that remains, I think it's one of the challenges for Congress to put a reasonable definition together.", "And then when the president seeks to make -- access to mental health better and also the sharing of mental health data more ubiquitous, doesn't that open an extraordinary can of worms in terms of privacy issues. For instance, if I want to go to a psychiatrist and have suicidal thoughts, I could end up in a federal registry?", "I think it's an issue and a challenge. We're going to se what Congress comes up with. One in five people are supposedly -- have some sort of mental issues in this country. So do they go into the database? What is the criteria?", "Isn't the irony, commissioner, that if that's how we're going to expand the definition of those being reported, they are just not going to go. They are not going to the doctor and, hence, we're driving more of those people under the ground and making them harder to track?", "Yes. I think, in general, what the president did with the executive orders yesterday was to require first federal agencies to put more information into the database. There's a lot of information in the federal government that's not available. The NIBC, National Instant Background Check. Also to require other agencies, state agencies to put information, but I think is a good think. But your concern about privacy is a real one.", "It's very, very complex as to how they are going to get around this while respecting the privacy rights, which is not outlined in the Constitution, however privacy is a big issue for the country. Lastly, there have been a number of people -- I'm not going to say of your ilk, but certainly in law enforcement. Some county sheriffs who have said, we're just not going to follow what the president's laws are. We're not going to enforce them. What do you make of that? How do you react to your counterparts who say that?", "I'm not certain what they're saying. As far as the federal law enforced by federal agencies. I don't know what the sheriffs are talking about. I assume most are going to follow the law.", "How about confiscation of weapons of those who have perhaps have made threats to psychiatrists and they report those reports to local law enforcement, and the action is they have to confiscate those weapons. What if the sheriff says, no, that's a Second Amendment infraction, not going to do it?", "That's way down the road here. We've got to get a piece of legislation that works and see what Congress does with it. I don't know if we can predict what the reaction will be.", "You have a lot to read I think still.", "That's right.", "We are all just sorting through this as we all begin to learn more what these executive actions and congressional measures will contain. Thank you, Commissioner Kelly. It's good to see you.", "Thank you.", "And Commissioner Kelly has been working hand in hand with the mayor, Michael Bloomberg, of New York City. We're happy to report that Mayor Bloomberg will join Anderson Cooper tonight on \"A.C. 360.\" That starts at 8:00 p.m. sharp right here on CNN. We're back after this."], "speaker": ["ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "RAY KELLY, COMMISSIONER, NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT", "BANFIELD", "KELLY", "BANFIELD", "KELLY", "BANFIELD", "KELLY", "BANFIELD", "KELLY", "KELLY", "BANFIELD", "KELLY", "BANFIELD", "KELLY", "BANFIELD", "KELLY", "BANFIELD", "KELLY", "BANFIELD", "KELLY", "BANFIELD", "KELLY", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-337245", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2018-04-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/10/acd.01.html", "summary": "Stormy Daniels Cooperating with Investigators", "utt": ["More breaking news. We learned that the FBI raid on President Trump's lawyer targeted records relating to payments to former adult film stars Stormy Daniels and the deal involving American Media Incorporated and former Playboy playmate model Karen McDougal. Who both claimed they have affairs within citizen Trump. The White House has denied the affairs. There's another development tied to Ms. Daniels, a source tells us she is cooperating with federal investigators who were looking into her 2016 non-disclosure agreement and a $130,000 hush money payment from -- or that was facilitated in Michael Cohen's words. Joining me now is Stormy Daniels' attorney, Michael Avenatti. First of all, your not be able to talk about it or the specifics, but this idea that she's cooperating with the feds can you say anything about it?", "Well, Anderson, here is what I will say. We were contacted by various attorneys from the government that are looking into this. We're going to cooperate fully. We're going to be as user friendly as possible. We're going to respect the process. We understand the seriousness of this. This took on a whole other level with the last 48 hours.", "Can you say, when you were contacted?", "I'm not going to get into when we where contacted, I'm not going to get into the content of those discussions. What I will say is we're going to cooperate. And we're going to do whatever we can to assist that investigation. We're not going to require FBI raids to cooperate or to tell the truth. Our entire intent for the last five, six weeks on this case, has been to expose the facts, expose the truth for the American people to learn as much as possible, what happened here and to the extend that we can assist in the investigation and accomplish that, that's what we're going to do.", "I just learned that, apparently Stormy Daniels has -- is going to be appearing on the cover of Penthouse Magazine in May, gave a link the interview as described to us. Do you know anything about that? Were you aware of that?", "I'm not going to get into what I was aware or not aware. I'm not aware of the appearance of the magazine, as far as the details of the magazine, or what was said or was not said.", "OK. The -- we heard from Michael Cohen today, who talked with Don Lemon, when asked if he was worry, he said, \"I'd be lying to you if I told you I'm, do I need this in my life? No. Do I want to involved in this, no. he said that the agents in the raid were professional, courteous and respectful which is certainly a far cry from the way the President described as the agents breaking into his office. Do you have any belief that what happened to Michael Cohen's office and his hotel room and his apartments or house is linked to what the President said just last week in which he indicated that Michael Cohen was his attorney, but he knew nothing about this. Essentially saying that some people have suggested that meant that attorney/client privilege would not be involved because Michael Cohen was not acting as the President's attorney in whatever he did with Stormy Daniels.", "Well, let me take couple things. First of all, you know, while it maybe good for CNN for Michael Cohen to be speaking to Don Lemon is moronic under the circumstances. And it will --", "It", "Yes, I mean any experience attorney would tell a client not to be speaking to the press, the day after the FBI executes three search warrants on your homes and your offices. I mean this is just crazy, it's ludicrous. When I heard that he actually spoke to Don Lemon, I didn't believe it, until I saw Don's report, and low and behold I believe that Don that it happened. It's beyond stupid. So that's number one. I don't understand what he is doing. That's first. Secondly, I still cannot believe that the President made these statements on Air Force One and effectively put his own personal attorney in the cross hairs by way of those statements. Put the way to the world really.", "How are you saying the President put him in the cross hairs?", "Well, by saying that he didn't know anything about it. And that -- that he basically referred everyone to Michael Cohen. And he said he is Michael Cohen up to be the fall guy in my view. I said this last week. And there is now a false sense of security, I think on behalf of the President that Michael Cohen is going to take the fall for this and that Michael Cohen is going to be able to withstand this amount of pressure and heat. Look, if you're going to have a fixer, you need -- there's need to be two attributes on that fixer. First of all, he better be really smart or she better be really smart. And secondly, he or she should be able to withstand a significant amount of pressure, a significant amount of heat, and go potentially go to prison for you. That's the best picture you can possibly have. In my view, Michael Cohen doesn't fit either one of those requirements.", "For all his talk to being incredibly loyal to President Trump, then Donald Trump of being a guy who, you know, is the keeper of all the secrets, the tough guy, you don't believe that in the end he would go to jail for his client.", "I don't. I mean I said this last night.", "If that in fact, you know, was", "Correct, I don't. I said this last night, I'm going to say it again. Any guy in my experience who has to constantly tell you how tough he is, or refer to himself as Ray Donovan, is not a tough guy. He is more -- he is closer to a purse puppy than a tough guy. I'm going to stand behind those statements. The problem is this. And it's been a constant problem I think for Mr. Trump. Over the last 20 years, he has not surrounded himself with the best and the brightest when it comes to lawyers and people around him. And you've seen that even more recently in the last 18 months and now, this is going to come home to roost as it relays to Michael Cohen. He picked the wrong fixer, he trust that too many personal secrets with Michael Cohen. And I think Michael Cohen is going to fold like a cheap deck of cards on Mr. Trump, and the results are going to be very, very bad.", "Michael Avenatti, appreciate your time.", "Thank you.", "Thank you very much. Coming up, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says, he is sorry. We'll have more on what Zuckerberg said on Capitol Hill today, got everything from privacy to the special counsel investigation. We'll also her from Senator Amy Klobuchar on what she thought this testimony, next."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "MICHAEL AVENATTI, STORMY DANIELS' ATTORNEY", "COOPER", "AVENATTI", "COOPER", "AVENATTI", "COOPER", "AVENATTI", "COOPER", "AVENATTI", "COOPER", "AVENATTI", "COOPER", "AVENATTI", "COOPER", "AVENATTI", "COOPER", "AVENATTI", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-141179", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2009-8-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/01/smn.01.html", "summary": "Microsoft, Yahoo Make Play To Topple Google", "utt": ["It started off as just a couple guys in a garage. But it became one of the biggest companies on the planet. Talking about Google.", "Mm-hmm.", "Pretty much dominates the online-search market.", "Yes. But is that about to change? Two powerful companies came together this year in hopes of taking over. Josh Levs with the story.", "Some are calling it Microhoo!, this combination of Microsoft and Yahoo getting together to try to challenge the dominance of Google. Will this change the way you search online? We're going to get some answers now. Steven Levy is joining us from \"Wired\" magazine. Steven, thank you.", "Thank you.", "All right. So talk to us. For a big picture here, do Microsoft and Yahoo really have a shot at challenging the dominance of Google as the ultimate way to search online?", "I think it's a real, real long shot to think that even in the long term, you know, this Microsoft-Yahoo combination -- right? It's more like ying, because it's Microsoft search engine Bing, which Yahoo is going to use. They really can't supplant Google in the -- the medium, or even long term, because Google has a lock on Web search. Seventy-five percent in the U.S, even more -- up to 92 percent in western Europe. Microsoft is now a strong No. 2.", "If they don't have a shot at becoming No. 1, why even go for it? What are they going to get out of it?", "Well, first of all, there's money to be made by being a strong No. 2. And they could inch up their share, particularly if they buy their way into it by buying placement on browsers. The second thing is, they're -- Google doesn't have permanence everywhere. There's different -- the Web moves fast, and there's different ways that search is going to go into people's lives. There's going to mobile search, video search, all kinds of other searches. So I think Microsoft puts itself in a strong position now to be a competitor in these future areas of search.", "Is there a place that a lot of people out there are saying, 'You know what? I like Google, except it keeps doing this thing wrong'?", "Right.", "Where is Google weak?", "Well, it's interesting; Microsoft actually tried to identify a few places, so they concentrated on a few areas, like health and travel. But it's very difficult to scale these things when you kind of pinpoint and take a rifle shot in search there. I think right now, the difficulty is going to be the delivering much more varied, multimedia results, and keeping the simplicity.", "In reality, for most people out there who sit down at their computers and search for information, are they likely to see any kind of sea change in the next couple years?", "Well, I think we're to see improvements. This is good for the -- the consumer. It's good that Google has a lot of competition now, and the competition's going to be focused really to -- to where it belongs, into the -- the -- the company which is most competitive with Google in -- in other areas. And then we'll search companies like Facebook and Twitter, in terms of real-time search of what people are doing now, and to search their social graphs. So I think the -- the consumers, you know, may not see like a -- a big sea change, a big bang. But they're going to see improvements coming from all directions.", "All right. Well, Steven Levy, \"Wired\" magazine, thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "All right, guys. Back to you.", "A recall you need to know about involves one of the most popular cars in the country, and one of these could be sitting in your driveway. And it's even -- the recall has to do -- it's a deadly defect even.", "Talking about Honda.", "Talking about Honda, yes.", "Still to come, we'll tell you what's going wrong with several of their models. Also, a question for you: is gang violence considered a public- health issue? One Chicago doctor I talked to this week says yes. I spoke with her and a young man whose life she saved, a gang member on Chicago's street.", "We're in a crew car headed from downtown Chicago to the city's southwest side. It's an area with known pockets of basically gang activity. And we're going to this interview; we're talking to a current gang member. He's willing to share his story about the violence in Chicago, but he's only willing to do it as long as we keep him in the car, we don't share his face and we don't drive into any other neighborhoods, any other gang turf, just to keep and our crew safe."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "HOLMES", "BALDWIN", "HOLMES", "LEVS", "STEVEN LEVY, \"WIRED\" MAGAZINE", "LEVS", "LEVY", "LEVS", "LEVY", "LEVS", "LEVY", "LEVS", "LEVY", "LEVS", "LEVY", "LEVS", "LEVY", "LEVS", "HOLMES", "BALDWIN", "HOLMES", "BALDWIN", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-210258", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2013-7-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/09/nday.04.html", "summary": "Mariah Carey Rushed To Hospital; Clooney Single Again?", "utt": ["Welcome back to NEW DAY, everyone. It's time for our pop four with Nischelle Turner. Good morning, my dear.", "I think I'm in such a good mood because of our number one story today.", "Tell me right now.", "I will in just a moment. I'm going to lead up to it. Our number four story this morning, a former \"Biggest Loser\" contestant is being sued for gaining the weight back. According to the suit, Costa agreed to do promotional work for a marketing company, but they claim seven months after the ink dried, she gained too much weight for them to use her in appearances.", "That is tough. You know what, I don't know how I feel about that, but I love that show. It's a win-win. You win the contest and are losing weight in the meantime.", "They also say she signed an agreement with one of their competitors.", "They were looking for an out.", "There was a little something more to that, something extra. All right, Mariah Carey is our number three story. The singer was rushed to the hospital after dislocating her shoulder. She fell while shooting a video for the remix of her song \"Hash Tag Beautiful.\" According to her rep though, she's doing fine and her husband, Nick Canon, directing that video. Our number two story, Randy Travis in critical condition this morning, the country singer was hospitalized for viral cardiomyopathy. It's a weakening of the heart muscles due an infection. He's been in the hospital since Sunday. Best wishes to him. Our number one story this morning, America's number one bachelor, he's single again. George Clooney, we're talking about. According to \"People\" magazine, George Clooney and his girlfriend of two years split after she realized she eventually wanted to have a family, he did not. The sources say the split was friendly. They quietly separated a few weeks ago. They are still friends and talk every day. I say I could be next, but here's the thing, it kind of feels like every woman that dates him has a shelf life. Don't you know that going in? He's a bachelor, doesn't want to be married again.", "Good luck. The guy that states Stacey after George, you've got to be like --", "Do you have a house in Italy?", "Going to be fabulous. Stacey is going to be fine.", "If he wants a family, he's what she wants. I have been feigning attraction to George Clooney all morning, but switch back to the real me, I think they have to leave him alone. Do with your life what you want. If you're not hurting anybody, leave him alone.", "He doesn't seem bothered by any of it.", "He doesn't. He likes being a bachelor and his life.", "Do you, George? We got to go, guys. We got to go. All right, Nischelle Turner, you can find her, call me, I'll tell you how to get her. Coming up next on NEW DAY, an incredible survivor story, three young siblings tell us how they escaped the San Francisco plane crash. It is a NEW DAY exclusive. They tell an amazing story.", "And this is big, big, big, the craze to a new level, croissant/donut combination. Two words, Oreo."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT", "BOLDUAN", "TURNER", "BOLDUAN", "TURNER", "BOLDUAN", "TURNER", "PEREIRA", "TURNER", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "TURNER", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-170590", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-8-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/14/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Indiana Stage Collapse Kills Five; Rapper Takes Heat for Tweet", "utt": ["Top stories now, tragedy at the Indiana State Fair. A massive burst of wind swept through a grandstand where hundreds of people were attending a concert. At least five people were killed and dozens more were hurt. Before the collapse concert goers had about a four-minute warning from a local radio station there to seek shelter because severe weather was on the way.", "In Indiana, the weather can change from one report to another report, and that was the case here. And it really wasn't the issue of the weather as it was with the high gust of wind. What's remarkable about this is virtually throughout the rest of the fairgrounds, the midway particularly, there were no damages to structures there, which is continuing to lead us to believe this was an isolated, significant wind gust that resulted in what occurred.", "The Indiana State Fair is closed today and plans to reopen tomorrow. And this is the house in Lahore, Pakistan where American Warren Weinstein was abducted at gunpoint yesterday. No group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping or issued any demands for his release. Warren Weinstein is an international development expert who works for a consulting firm headquartered in Virginia. Shreveport, Louisiana now, hometown to two of the U.S. Navy SEALs killed in last weekend's helicopter crash in Afghanistan. Family and friends of one of those SEALs, Chief Petty Officer Robert Reeves, gathered to honor him yesterday. And it is a welcome sight in Texas, rain close to an inch fell near the Dallas Fort Worth area and provided some relief for the relentless drought that has plagued the state. North Texas have been struggling with a near record breaking heat wave. Today, the forecast calls for the return of triple degree heat. Rain in other parts of the country is triggering a new worry for pet owners. Veterinarians are saying that they are seeing a lot of animals getting sick from toxic, wild mushrooms. Take the case of Champ, the puppy who got sick on a family camping trip.", "We're sitting around the campfire when we noticed that our 13 week old puppy was just acting really strange and it scared the heck out of us. Feet were going out from under him, he started drooling, and at that point we knew, obviously, we need to make a trip to a - a vet.", "We're seeing it fairly frequently, almost daily.", "Whoa. Well, vets say red-colored mushrooms can be lethal for pets and that poisoning from white or brown mushrooms can actually cause seizures or even brain damage. So was it a twitter prank or a PR stunt, or criminal mischief? That's what the L.A. County Sheriff's Department is trying to determine. Police say rapper \"The Game,\" who also goes by the alias \"Charles Louboutin,\" posted the phone number for the Compton Sheriff's Station on Twitter. His followers were told to call for a shot at a music internship. He has more than half a million followers. The sheriff's station was flooded with hang-up calls. When police asked the rapper to take down the tweet, another tweet was posted saying, quite, \"Y'all can track a tweet down but can't solve murders? That was an accident, but maybe now y'all can actually do your job.\" Well, it was hours before the phone number was finally tracked down and police say the flash calls interfered with their ability to answer legitimate 911 calls.", "Legitimately calling through with important calls would include two robberies, a spousal assault, missing person, hit-and-run.", "All right. Well \"The Game\" says his account was hacked, but police say so far they have not seen anything on Twitter to actually confirm that. All right, the pictures coming in from the stage collapse at last night's Indiana State Fair have been downright horrifying. One of our iReporters captured the moment leading up to the collapse and the terror that spread through the crowd as the stage fell. Let's take a moment to watch and listen.", "These terrifying moments were captured by CNN iReporter Jessica Silas. Jessica is on the phone with us right now from Indianapolis. So, Jessica, as we're watching these images, and moments before that collapse, there were people who were screaming in the background. So was there a sense that something very terrible was about to happen the moments before the stage collapsed?", "I don't think anyone actually expected for the stage to collapse, but when you hear the people screaming, it was because of the wind and the dust. In the beginning images of the video, you can see that the dust starts coming in. That's why I actually started recorded in the first place, is because I saw the people standing up and screaming and I saw the dust start coming. But no one - I - I can't imagine anyone expected that the stage would actually fall down.", "And apparently some representatives of a radio station got on the stage and told people that they have a four-minute warning before they may want to seek shelter. That's what one of the other eye witnesses we talked at the beginning of the hour said. Do you remember that kind of instruction and, if so, what were you and the people that you were with planning to do?", "I remembered that the person got on stage and said that there was severe weather in the area and that they were going to try to continue with the concert and if the weather got bad, they were going to try to resume afterwards. But I don't really remember him telling us that we were supposed to start evacuating. He said that we were going to keep going with the concert and see how the weather ended up and then five minutes later is when the stage fell.", "And it's amazing that you had the wherewithal to videotaping there and as we're looking at it right now maybe you should talk me through of what you were thinking and feeling. The stage collapses, you continue to roll. There were a number of people who started running towards the stage to help. Take it from there.", "Honestly, I don't even remember. I was pretty much in shock. I didn't expect the stage to fall. I was trying to film the weather actually, the lightning behind it and the wind. And all of a sudden in my camera screen, I saw that the stage had fallen and it was just chaos. People were screaming and yelling, my God, running and I was in shock. I just kept filming because, I guess, I didn't know what else to do. And then eventually my parents were with me and they started yelling at me to get going. And so I stopped recording and followed them out.", "There were thousands of people there. You can see that from your images. So clearly no one knew that this weather would be that dangerous? Had there been any kind of warning or any forecast of maybe not the gust of wind, but what weather might potentially be like that evening.", "About 20 minutes or so before I had noticed that the sky was getting a little bit dark. So I looked on my phone and saw that Indianapolis was in a severe thunderstorm warning. But other than me checking it on my phone, they didn't make a large announcement to the entire crowd other than that person getting on the stage five minutes before it fell saying that there was weather in the area and we might need to evacuate. But other than that, I didn't know of anything.", "Jessica Silas, thanks so much for your images and I'm glad you and your family are OK.", "Thank you.", "Appreciate your time. So perhaps you were at the Indiana State Fair last night. We want to hear from you. Send us your video and pictures and story to go along with it at ireport.com. So Indiana's governor is calling what happened at the Indiana State Fair a freakish accident, but even freak accidents really can be explained to a certain degree. Our Jacqui Jeras with us now to give us an idea of wow, she, Jessica tried to explain, you know, that there was some kind of ominous weather. But when we heard from one of the reporters early in the hour, they talked about near hurricane-force wind gusts that moved in.", "Sure.", "Might could there have been any warning for this?", "Yes, and there really was, actually. Part of it is upon yourself, you know, to educate yourself. She did the right thing, by the way, checking on her cell phone to say, is there any way I can get more information, you know, to keep yourself safe. There are so many applications. You can go to weather.gov, the National Weather Service home page and that will tell you if there's severe weather that's moving into your area. First of all, earlier in the day there was an outlook issue that included Indianapolis, it said, today, there's a slight risk that we could see some severe thunderstorms. Around 6:00 that night, the yellow box that you see right here, a severe thunderstorm watch was issued. You can see off here to the west and you have to pay attention, what is going on in areas around you. Severe thunderstorms are moving through Chicago that produced damaging winds and hail and that line held together and moved into Indianapolis. Now, where a little bit of the question comes in, it seemed like things were fine. It was dark off into the distance and this was the time that the storm hit. About 8:50, here's the fairgrounds right here, but look where the thunderstorms, where the heavy rain is, where most of the damaging winds are normally way back here. What happened is what we call a gust front. When winds come out ahead of the mainline of the storm and you saw all of that dust starting to kick up and some of that video. What happens is that kind of a situation is that in the downdrafts of the thunderstorm, normally we see it down here near the rain shaft. Sometimes it comes out ahead of the storm, mixes with that warm air and you really get a very strong advanced punch of those winds and we're getting any estimates of those winds, somewhere between maybe 60, 70 miles per hour. So what can you do? How many people at home have not been to an outdoor venue? You know, it's baseball games. It's concerts. It's festivals. It's fairs. What can you do? Well, educate yourself, plan ahead. Check the weather before you go. Is there a risk? And what are you going to do if that severe weather occurs? Make sure you find a meeting place. You know, when this happened, Fredricka, people lost their cell phones so they couldn't get in touch with each other. So you have to find a place where you can go and where you can stay safe. So scan the grounds there. Become familiar with your surroundings. Is there a shelter nearby? Is there a concrete bathroom maybe where you can get inside to a sturdy location. And then also be weather aware in terms of what county you are in. A lot of these people probably weren't from Indianapolis, Fredricka. So you have to know what county you are in for when those warnings are occurring. Yes, use your cell phone if you've got one to help monitor those warnings. A lot of automatic alerts can be issued that we'll tell you right away if severe weather is heading into your neighborhood.", "Wow. All right, great tips to keep in mind. Thanks so much, Jacqui Jeras. Appreciate that.", "Sure.", "All right, so with the surge of new gadgets gearing up for back to school, it's never been this cool. But it is becoming more expensive for parents. So up next, some tips to help you keep some money in your pocket."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "SGT. DAVE BURSTEN, INDIANA STATE POLICE", "WHITFIELD", "DAVID LYNN, PUPPY'S OWNER", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-300266", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2016-12-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/09/cg.02.html", "summary": "Giuliani Removes Name from Consideration in Trump Admin", "utt": ["So, let's talk about the fact that \"The Washington Post\" is reporting Trump has picked the president and COO of Goldman Sachs as his national economic counsel director. His pick for treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, worked at Goldman for almost two decades. Obviously, senior strategist Steve Bannon also worked at Goldman Sachs. Listen to then candidate Trump talking about Ted Cruz vowing that he would still take on Goldman Sachs even after taking a loan from them.", "So, the nice part about me is that I don't have any of that stuff. I don't have it. I'm putting up my own. I'm not into Goldman Sachs. I don't care about Goldman Sachs.", "There was a lot of stuff about Goldman Sachs, having to do with Ted Cruz and later on Hillary Clinton. Salena, you really know Trump supporters well. You have been covering them very well for months and months and months. Do they care? Can Donald Trump flip flop on the Goldman Sachs issue and upset them?", "There's very little he can flip flop on. You can to get inside their minds. It wasn't always what he said but how he said it and it was because he was not a politician. And they trust him at this moment. I mean, there's this sort of, you know, honeymoon period to be able to -- you know, to pick whoever he wants because they trust his decision- making at this point.", "He was so anti-Goldman Sachs in his last commercial, he actually had an image of Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs as an international cabal, boogie man.", "All roads lead back to Goldman Sachs and none of us are surprised. If you think about the voters who would be bothered by that or went to Bernie Sanders rallies and somehow brought themselves around to support Donald Trump, they're going to be disappointed in a continuum. What will happen with Trump is, he'll get an excuse here and there, and he'll flip flop here and there. And if it looks real swampy in a year, including his own business arrangements, then it could suddenly turn on him and people can say this is the system we always had, a new face pretending to have a new system. But this could pile up and become an obvious criticism later on that you always in the end are supporting people from Goldman Sachs and giving them good jobs and influence at the highest levels of government.", "We have been talking about Trump's cabinet. Tom Steyer was critical of a couple potential picks there. Do you sense any confirmation problems for any of his picks so far Susan?", "Yes. I think some of them will have problems because there is a vetting process. You don't just name someone to the cabinet. There is an investigative process that goes on that includes Democrats in the Senate as well as Republicans. And some of these figures have never served in public office before. They've never gone through this process before. I think always we find with a new administration somebody that has a problem we didn't expect and it's very -- turns out to be very daunting. Just think about Tom Daschle. Who would have guessed that Tom Daschle would not have been able to take a job he wanted to take at the beginning of the Obama administration because of something that came out through vetting. But that happened.", "I broke that story. And I'll just tell you -- one of the things is he was in trouble was because he had not paid the taxes from this free driver that he got from a rich friend. This is a whole cabinet full of rich guys and gals who I'm sure have lots of favors in there.", "There's a potential of something like that happening very easily. And I don't -- this is one of those instances where those kinds of things come out, Trump voters are not going to like that. They don't want someone that way. If this person can be someone that can lead the government or can lead the Treasury and help create jobs -- that's fine. But if they are someone who has this sort of entitlement or skirts the law just the way they perceived the Clintons did, then Trump has a problem with his picks.", "All right. We'll see what happens. To be continued. A.B., Susan, Salena, thank you very much. Have a great weekend to all of you. Russia claims there is a ceasefire under way in Syria. But the scene on the ground, that tells a much different story. We're going to be live in Aleppo, next."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP (R), THEN-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "TAPPER", "SALENA ZITO, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "TAPPER", "A.B. STODDARD, ASSOCIATE EDITOR & COLUMNIST, REALCLEARPOLITICS", "TAPPER", "SUSAN PAGE, USA TODAY", "TAPPER", "ZITO", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-2851", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-2-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/17/ee.01.html", "summary": "Cargo Plane Crash Near Sacramento Kills Three", "utt": ["We begin this morning with a spectacular cargo plane crash that sparked a massive fire near Sacramento, California last night. The plane was owned by Emery Worldwide and it went down shortly after taking off last night from Mather Air Field. The plane crashed in an automobile junkyard, sparking this huge blaze you see. Let's get more details on just what happened last night. CNN's Don Knapp is in Rancho Cordova near the crash site this morning. Don, we understand the pilot reported a problem before this crash.", "That's right, Leon. Just about 7:30 Pacific time last night, that DC-8 owned by Emery lifted off the runway here with a full cargo and was trying to gain some altitude. The pilot -- apparently, the pilot radioed the tower, according to the sheriff's department. He was having some trouble with the cargo. It may have been shifting, the plane without balance. He turned around 360 degrees and came back and attempted to land. Apparently, he fell short of the runway. He landed in an area -- in a light industrial area that is full of some used cars, some wrecked cars, wrecking yards, some light industrial buildings. There were a lot of flames. A witness passing by said that he saw the plane belly land, he saw the flames come up around. He saw the plane come through the flames and saw the nose of the plane, the cockpit pointing up in the air. And the plane sat there for a while, wavered, and then the flames engulfed the plane. On board that airplane, three crew members: a pilot, a copilot and a flight engineer. All of them perished in the crash, according to Sacramento County Sheriff spokesman, Lieutenant John McGinness.", "... very early on because of our own helicopter being in the area so quickly, it was readily obvious that there was no potential to save the victims, and it was simply a recovery effort. And that has not been undertaken because we're going to leave the evidence in place. In fact, that's our -- really our entire mission at this point is just to keep the scene as uncontaminated as possible until the federal authorities can get here.", "Sometime after daylight we expect those federal authorities to get here and take a look at the area. The bodies remain out there in the field until they can complete their investigation. And so it looks like this crash will have to be explained somehow, but apparently there were some problems with the cargo as the plane took off. Reporting live, Don Knapp, CNN, Rancho Cordova, California.", "Thank you, Don."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "DON KNAPP, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JOHN MCGINNESS, SACRAMENTO CO., SHERIFF DEPT.", "KNAPP", "CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-274450", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2016-01-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/21/ath.02.html", "summary": "Report: Putin \"Probably\" Ordered Hit on Spy", "utt": ["New this morning, a stunning twist in an already unbelievable spy story. British authorities for the first time are linking the death of a former Russian spy to the very top of Russia's government. The judge even saying Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved the killing.", "The findings say the actual killing of Alexander Litvinenko was carried out by a former KGB and former Russian army officer. Litvinenko died suddenly in 2006 after drinking a cup of tea laced with radioactive Polonium. Let's bring in senior international diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson. Nic, there's been intrigue surrounding this. This just puts it into the stratosphere.", "It absolutely does. It's always been understood here that this murder never could have happened without the sponsorship, if you will, of the Russian state. That's what this inquiry lays out. It falls short of saying, here's a direct link between President Putin and Litvinenko's murders. What it does say very clearly is this polonium, this radioactive material, can only be made in a nuclear reactor. The nuclear material in Russia can only be transferred through intelligence services with somebody who's above both the intelligence service and above the country's atomic agency. Therefore, they say, under past practice, this means most likely, very probably, that President Putin must have had a hand in this. This does kick it up to the stratosphere. We've heard from the British government saying the two men accused of the murder are now on an Interpol notice, their on E.U. arrest warrants, their assets are frozen. The Russian ambassador in London has been called in to have details of the report explained to him and also questioned about this report. And the wife or widow, rather, now of Litvinenko, has also spoken out about this, criticizing Vladimir Putin.", "Vladimir Putin and Nicole Patrushev, (ph) personally approved assassination. I'm, of course, very pleased that the words my husband spoke on his deathbed when he accused Mr. Putin of his murder, have been proved through an English court with the highest standards of independence and fairness.", "Now, she did also request that the British government check out all records on the Russian intelligence agents from Britain. Of course, the British government, this being an incredible sensitive issue, stopped short of doing that -- John?", "Our Nic Robertson for us in London. Thanks a lot, Nic. Intrigue. A mother in Flint, Michigan, said the water was so toxic, her son's teeth started crumbling and their cat started losing hair. There are new cries for the Michigan governor to step down after his office released hundreds of e-mails related to the water crisis.", "Moments ago, a big, new endorsement in New Hampshire for John Kasich. The Ohio governor is joining us live. That's coming up next."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR", "MARINA LITVINENKO, WIDOW OF ALEXANDER LITVINENKO", "ROBERTSON", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-155643", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-9-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/15/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Small Businesses Need Help; Device Tweets for Dogs", "utt": ["President Obama says it all the time: that small business creates two out of three jobs in this country, and last week the president announced a $350 billion plan to help those businesses. So what are the owners saying about it? CNNmoney.com's Poppy Harlow joins me now from New York. Poppy, the president says he wants to give $350 billion to small business. Surely small business owners like the sound of that?", "Yes. It's interesting. They want more aid, yes. When you heard the president make that announcement sort of mid-last week we wanted to find a company that could show us exactly what they were doing with government money, how much more they need. So we went into this small business. It's family owned. They started it in the 1980s. They're still up and running today, but they talked to us about the challenges and also the benefits that they face right now. Namely, what they think the government should stop doing. Take a listen.", "How hard is it to run a small business right now?", "It's not something that you can just take a back seat on. You have to always be involved in every aspect of the business. How much more do you have to do? This is your last box?", "We hear so often, nothing is made in America anymore. Not true. Your company makes paper tubes.", "Yes. Made in America. Materials are purchased in America and Canada, and our workforce are local people. We have the opportunity to add more jobs locally.", "Is the president's latest plan, a $200 billion tax break for businesses, is that what small businesses need right now?", "We need anything we can get. I would look into additional equipment to replace the equipment that we have now.", "Would that mean hiring more workers?", "It would. It would allow us to put on a second shift. We currently have about 27 employees now. I hope to have 50 employees within the next two years. I'd like to modernize our production lines and get into a larger building.", "What do you think the government could do that it's not doing for small businesses?", "I think that, as far as unemployment extensions go, they could limit the amount of extensions they put. We've had a \"help wanted\" sign out front for probably six months. People come in. They fill out applications, but ultimately we end up just signing their slip that they've been here, that they've looked for a job.", "To get unemployment benefits?", "Absolutely. They're telling me that they're happy with the unemployment benefits they're receiving now, and maybe when they end they'll consider it. There has to be a point in time where somebody starts fresh, gets back into a company, starting even if it's less than what they were making before, because there's plenty of upward mobility in my company. If you're an aggressive, hard-working person, there's plenty of opportunities for you.", "And you know, that's kind of a harsh reality, T.J., for some folks out there, the fact that, you know, here's a company that says they're willing to hire. People come in. They apply. They get their unemployment form signed. And then they're called back for a second interview at this company, and they say, \"Sorry, we'd rather get unemployment.\" That's not a popular thing to talk about, but here's a company that is clearly hiring even in this environment, and yet people would rather be on unemployment than making minimum wage right there. Not the norm, but certainly something that you have to take account for in a time like this.", "Yes, it needs to be accounted for. Because we hear so much from Democrats and Republicans. Good that you got out there, actually hearing from a business owner who could be affected. Poppy, we appreciate you, as always. Need to let you know, Poppy, of course, part of the best financial team on television out there. You can catch Poppy and, of course, all of our money team on \"YOUR $$$$$,\" hosted by Ali Velshi and also Christine Romans. Coming up here, you know, just about everyone plugging into Twitter for instant updates for everything from family to finances. Now you can add Fido to the list. Who knew this was coming? CNN's Gary Tuchman takes us to the \"Edge of Discovery\" with doggy tweets.", "Meet Roscoe. Thanks to his high-tech tag, he's learning a new trick. How to tweet.", "While I'm at work I'm able to hop on Twitter, and I can see what my dog is up to.", "These pups aren't pawing away at a keyboard, though. Their tags have a motion censor and microphone that can tell when they move or bark.", "Data is sent from the tag to the antenna and the software evaluates this data that's coming in and determines an appropriate tweet to send to your dog's Twitter page.", "So now you'll know now when your dog is taking a nap, chasing its tail or even chasing away the mailman. It might be a novelty toy, but developing it was doggone tough.", "We spent many days in many different homes with dogs trying these on, putting these on dogs' collars and having them sit still and run around. We would test the very little dogs, like Chihuahuas, on up to big dogs like Great Danes. And this helped us to tune the microphone to be able to pick up on this broad range of volume, decibel level.", "Cutting-edge technology that might end up a chew toy. Gary Tuchman, CNN.", "Well, some clerics have called it blasphemous. Some parents probably won't even give it a chance. A comic book series that promotes basic human values, but does it for the prism of Islam? We're talking to the creator of \"The 99.\" He's next."], "speaker": ["HOLMES", "POPPY HARLOW, CNNMONEY.COM", "HARLOW", "MICHAEL HORSBURGH, PRESIDENT, RIDGID PAPER TUBE CORPORATION", "HARLOW", "HORSBURGH", "HARLOW", "HORSBURGH", "HARLOW", "HORSBURGH", "HARLOW", "HORSBURGH", "HARLOW", "HORSBURGH", "HARLOW", "HOLMES", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "RACHEL COOPER, MATTEL", "TUCHMAN", "RON BAGLEY, DESIGN DIRECTOR, MATTEL", "TUCHMAN", "BAGLEY", "TUCHMAN", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-374605", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2019-07-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/11/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "Style And Platform Laid By Democrats 2020 Candidates", "utt": ["The leaders trying to differentiate themselves from each other and take on President Trump. Senator Cory Booker says this tonight to Anderson Cooper while ICE agents are planning immigration beginning Sunday.", "His fear-based politics is undermining the safety of communities all around this country where now you have immigrant communities who are afraid to even go forward and report crimes, sexual assault, violence, robberies to local police because they are afraid of being deported, afraid of dropping their kids off for school. This fear-based culture, it's a toxic thing that he's doing.", "The former Vice President Joe Biden who is leading in the polls slamming the president's foreign policy.", "The world sees Trump for what he is, insincere, ill-informed and impulsive and sometimes corrupt. Dangerously incompetent and incapable, in my view, of world leadership and leadership at home.", "Mayor Pete Buttigieg today unveiling details of his plan for racial justice which he calls the Douglass Plan named after abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Here's what he told Anderson tonight.", "Everybody running for office right now, everybody running for president, has a responsibility to explain what we're actually going to do when it comes to systemic racism in this country, not just describing the problem but actually talking about concrete solutions across the fields of housing, education, health, homeownership, access to capital and economic empowerment, criminal justice and democracy. These are all areas where it's as though we're living in two countries.", "And Senator Kamala Harris slamming President Trump's attempt to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census saying this tonight to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.", "So, what this president is contributing to is a faulty census that we'll have to live with for the next 10 years. It is highly irresponsible because it is yet another example of this president trying to interfere, and if not, weaken our democracy.", "Let's go big picture on the 2020 race with, let's put him up, dream team, and there they are. Keith Boykin, Angela Rye, Alice Stewart. So good to have all of you on. Good evening, everyone.", "Good evening.", "Good evening.", "Keith, we're seeing candidates announcing new plans almost daily, right? I mean, you heard Mayor Pete on Anderson he's talking about the Douglass plan that he's going to announce to combat racial inequality. He polled at zero percent with black voters in our latest CNN poll, but, you know, there's a real push for these candidates to aggressively go after the black vote.", "There is. It's important because the black community is a central part of the Democratic constituency, the Democratic base. If you don't win black voters, there's almost no chance you're going to win the nomination. So, what you see is Kamala Harris got a bump after her debate performance when she challenged Joe Biden on the integration issue. She got a bump from African-American voters which gave her a bump in the polls overall, so she's seeing a result of that. Now Pete Buttigieg is trying to make an effort to make a play for that vote as well. You see other candidates have been trying to do the same thing. If you don't do it, not just in South Carolina but on a national scale, it's almost impossible to conceive a way you can make a way to the nomination.", "Angela, I had Charlamagne tha God on last night. And you know him well.", "Yes.", "He was on the show last night.", "That's my brother.", "He's hosted eight candidates so far on the show. This is what he told me about some of them and then we'll talk. Watch this.", "I think Joe Biden fumbles all the time. Because Joe Biden suffers from old white male entitlement where he just can't simply can't say I was wrong. Mayor Pete is great. You know, with his -- the Frederick Douglass bill that he passed, that's a specific black agenda. I think Senator Kamala Harris is great, you know. I think Elizabeth Warren is good. I think this is the first time that these Democrats have had to present a black agenda. I don't think Cory has an identity yet. I don't know when I want it to be yet.", "You don't know.", "I think I want it to be Senator Kamala Harris only because I feel like, you know, Donald Trump is setting the stage for the first woman president specifically, a woman of color.", "So, well, Angela, where do we start? I mean, shall we start on Biden? He suffers from old white male entitlement. That's his words. Do you think that's right?", "Well, I think that anyone in this country who has benefited from systemic racism and oppression starting with slavery 400 years ago absolutely benefits from that, right? I mean, that's just real. We had white kids in court saying that they had affluenza (ph) like it's a thing. So, yes. I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on that but absolutely it's an issue. I think with all of the other things that he's raised; I think that we're in a position right now where candidates should have to present a black agenda. I'm not satisfied.", "Like Mayor Pete Buttigieg?", "Yes. I mean, he can call it the Douglass plan, but I would implore him, you know, to consider some of Frederick Douglass' speeches, right. Like don't pay homage by naming your plan. What did Frederick Douglass stand for, right? He stood for abolition in a very real way and black Americans are free yet 400 years later and I would argue no. So, I think that his plan needs to benefit from that substance. I know that Kamala Harris in her rollout at Essence talked about her black agenda and she referenced the black futures lab plan when they polled more than 30,000 Americans. You had Aisha on earlier, 30 -- more than 30,000 black people who had to talk about what their greatest concerns are right now. I think that's major and not enough attention has been given to that, not just by the candidates by us either. This should be all over everywhere.", "Yes, yes.", "Don.", "Alice.", "I think what we're seeing with the African-American community and the Democrats is very similar to social Evangelicals in the Republican community. You can't just call them up on a Friday night and ask them out for a date and then avoid them on Saturday morning for breakfast. They need to hear you want to take them out Friday night. You have an agenda for them, and you're going to follow it through. So oftentimes parties, Republicans and Democrats, will reach out to these different constituencies when they need them and not follow through. And as Angela said show them an agenda and follow through on that. I think that's really important. It's good to see a lot of these Democrats saying this is what I will do and I will follow it through. And it's critical not just to say here's what I plan to do but follow through, and I think that's what Donald Trump has successfully been able to do to say here's my agenda for the social Evangelical or my base, and he's followed through on that. And a lot of these Democrats I think laying out these plans, Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, a lot of them are saying here's what I plan to do, and the key is instilling the confidence in the African-American community but not just saying it today but that they will follow through.", "OK. Keith is about to jump out of his chair over here.", "No. I didn't --", "Me, too.", "I just didn't want to get off track on this conversation. I don't really care about the social Evangelicals. I think Donald Trump was completely hypocritical in his response to them and everything he did.", "Yes.", "All the pussy-grabbing and all the other crap he did is completely inconsistent and especially Evangelicals are not even relevant to this conversation. The point is, African-Americans are the base of the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party has relied on African-Americans for 50 years now to get elected.", "Yes.", "To presidential races and lower level races and the Democrats now owe something to the African-Americans. We've been -- we've been loyal to the party. Now let's have a chance to pay back what the party owes to African-American people.", "But I do get what she's saying.", "You know, Keith.", "Hold on, hold on, Angela. You'll be next. I do understand what she was saying though, is that if we're going to elect you, meaning Evangelicals --", "Yes, yes.", "-- then you make sure you get the person on the Supreme Court who is going to do this, and I think that's what -- but you're right about the completely hypocritical when you look at --", "Yes. I just didn't want to get off on that because we'd be having an argument for an hour about that.", "OK. Go ahead, Angela.", "Yes. I didn't mean to go in that point. Keith is right, but my point is I think they are actually saying, OK. Tell us this today or tonight, but --", "OK.", "-- give me some assurance that you'll follow through on that.", "Go ahead, Angela. What did you want to say?", "Yes, I think just quickly. I actually disagree that candidates have successfully done that. That was the exact opposite of my point. I think that there have been a few. It's not enough to Keith's point. We have been courted a long time two weeks before election day, and now I'm just starting to question frankly, Don, whether or not we are doing the work in putting demands forth, and I think my point about black futures lab was just that. This is for the first time when they said we're not going to decide what the black agenda is for black folks. We're going to talk to black people about what those needs are. And so, I gave kudos to some of the candidates that have done that, but I'm not seeing a black agenda for most of these candidates.", "OK.", "So, I want to be very clear about that.", "So, Keith, Senator Kamala Harris is hitting Joe Biden again. He's on with Charlamagne tha God tomorrow. Charlamagne was on last night. ABC News has this clip. Watch.", "I'm not going to let us engage on a debate stage for who is going to be the next president of the United States. I'm not going to allow us to engage in revisionist history, and I can't stand on that stage and allow certain conversations to be taking place because, remember, I didn't bring this conversation up about these segregationists. That had been going on for weeks. But I cannot be on that stage and not speak up to make sure that we are having a full accounting for American history on these issues.", "Is this something she should continue to hit Biden on?", "Well, it's something that Biden should just apologize for. He made a mistake.", "Yes.", "Let's move on, Joe, but the more he drags this on --", "You mean about the segregationist. He did apologize on segregationists.", "I mean, apologize in the sense of he's -- he's deflecting by attacking Kamala Harris and making this an issue and giving this story legs. It doesn't have to be. He wrote a letter to segregationist Senator James Eastland basically thanking him for his support of his anti-busing bill. This is not something that's debatable. Nobody wants to talk about what happened in 1970, but it does have some impact on what's happening on 2020 if the candidate who has that record doesn't at least acknowledge it, apologize for it and move forward.", "Here's interesting. I just want to put these polls up, OK? South Carolina, this is a new Fox News poll, among black voters who make up the majority of likely Democratic voters, 41 percent, Biden, 15 percent, Sanders, 12 percent, Harris, 4 percent Booker, 2 percent, Warren. New poll out tonight from CNN. There's a new poll out from CNN, Biden, 25, and then there's a tight race for second. You have Harris at 16 -- I'm sorry, say again.", "Don, I think --", "Yes, it's a CNN poll of polls, excuse me. And then we have Harris at 16, Sanders at 15 and Warren at 15, so those are the numbers. They are pretty close. There was a big bump after the debate, but it looks like it's leveling back out again.", "Don, I think the key is watching these individual states. Biden is still doing well in Iowa, South Carolina, New Hampshire, and these are state-by-state races for these primary, and I think that's the key.", "I got to go.", "We get a lot wrapped up in these national polls, but the state-by-state races are critical.", "To be continued. Thank you all.", "Thanks.", "Thanks, Don,", "I appreciate it. See you. It was one of the biggest shockers of 2016 and the 2016 campaign, and we'll go behind the scenes. What you don't know about how the Trump campaign reacted to the release of this tape.", "I just started kissing them, it's like a magnet. I just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN HOST", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-304847", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-02-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/07/nday.05.html", "summary": "Court to Hear Challenge to President Trump's Travel Ban; Congressional Republicans Talk about Repealing and Replacing Obamacare; Interview with Congressman Sean Duffy", "utt": ["Protests will get blown out of the water, and yet an attack or a foiled attack does not get coverage.", "This is madness and it's offensive. Even if there's a parallel universe, there is still reality.", "This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.", "Good morning, everyone, welcome to your NEW DAY. Up first, the Trump administration faces its first major legal test today. In just hours a federal appeals court will hear arguments on the president's controversial travel ban. The Justice Department says national security is at risk if that ban is not reinstated.", "You have two states suing the president saying the executive order is unconstitutional. You have amicus briefs, supportive briefs from a dozen attorneys general from different states as well. The president is countering the law by going after the media, now claiming falsely that we are under- reporting terror attacks. We are now in day 19 of the Trump presidency. Let's begin our coverage with CNN's Joe Johns live at the White House. This is new, Joe. Usually people say to people like you and me the presidents why do you cover these terror things so much? Now we are hearing the opposite, and from the president.", "Absolutely. And it's not true when you look at the record going back many, many months, Chris. But the direct question, the immediate question, the overarching question, if you will, in that hearing later today is whether the president's travel ban will be reinstated until the substantive issues get decided. That three-judge panel is going to take a look at it and decide the immediate fate of the travel ban.", "Three federal judges from the ninth circuit court of appeals will hear arguments from the Justice Department and from attorneys general from Washington state and Minnesota. These two states argue that the Trump administration has failed to show the country would be irreparably harmed by the suspension of the ban.", "I am in this for the long haul. I believe strongly and my legal team believes strongly the executive order is unlawful and unconstitutional.", "The president continuing to stoke fears, tweeting \"The threat from radical Islamic terrorism is very real. Courts must act fast.\" The Justice Department urging the appeals court to quickly reinstate the president's ban, maintaining the executive order is a lawful exercise of the president's authority.", "He has broad discretion to do what's in the nation's best interest to protect our people, and we feel very confident.", "The president using the legal battle over his travel ban to admonish the, quote, \" dishonest media for under reporting terror attacks.\"", "Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike out homeland as they did on 9/11. It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported, and in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that.", "Hours later the White House releasing a list of 78 attacks they claim the media ignored, but many of them were, in fact, heavily covered by CNN and other media organizations. During the visit to U.S. Central Command on Monday the president once again touting his election victory.", "We had a wonderful election, didn't we? I saw those numbers. You like me and I like you.", "And in an interview with FOX News Mr. Trump opens up about his relationship with former president Obama.", "I don't know if he'll admit this, but he likes me.", "How do you --", "I like him. Because I can feel it. That's what I do in life. It's called, like, I understand.", "Reflecting on the heated campaign and that historic moment, the two men rode together to the U.S. capitol.", "We said horrible things about each other, and then we hop into the car and we drive down Pennsylvania Avenue together and we don't even talk about it. Politics is amazing.", "So what is the president going to say or do next is anybody's guess, of course. We will have an opportunity to see him in front of the cameras three times today, including the first meeting around 9:30 eastern time with the National Sheriff's Association, including a number of people who have supported President Trump's policies. Chris?", "All right, Joe, appreciate it. President Donald Trump now says the replacement of Obamacare may not happen until next year, but Republicans are beginning to grumble about the repealing part of this process. CNN senior Congressional correspondent Manu Raju live from Capitol Hill with more. What are you hearing?", "Hey, Chris. The top goal of course of the Republicans for years has been to repeal and replace Obamacare, but what we know is that the party is not united on the policy or the timeframe. There are some Senate Republicans who believe this is going to take some time given the rules of their chamber, and could slip into next year. Some House Republicans believe they should move very, very quickly, and Donald Trump has sent conflicting messages to Capitol Hill, including in a weekend interview with FOX News saying that perhaps this could slip into next year. I spoke to one Senate conservative, Ted Cruz, a former Donald Trump rival about the talk of this slipping into next year, and this is what he said.", "The president has said he is committed to repealing Obamacare. Republicans of both houses have said we are committed to repealing Obamacare, and I look forward to delivering on that.", "Do you want to do it this year? Do you expect to be done this year?", "Absolutely.", "Would you be concerned if this timeframe slips into 2018?", "I think we need to move as expeditiously as possible. This was a promise made to the American people and we need to deliver on that promise.", "The challenge for moving quickly again is that there is no unity on a plan, and there's not going to be one plan. Republicans are talking about trying to replace the law piece by piece legislatively and also trying to do things on an administrative side when and if Tom Price eventually gets confirmed as the Health and Human Services secretary. But Alisyn, if this gets delayed into next year, they you bring midterm campaign politics into it, it gets a lot harder to cast very difficult votes. And liberals and the left planning to storm these town hall meetings the way the Tea Party did back in 2009. So you can see how complicated it gets the longer it waits Alisyn.", "Understood, Many. Thank you very much for that reporting. Joining us now is Republican Congressman Sean Duffy of Wisconsin. Good morning, Congressman.", "Good morning, Alisyn, thanks for having me on.", "Great to have you. Why is Mr. Trump saying the press doesn't cover terror attacks enough?", "First, I think you are playing right into his hand. We're having a conversation right now about a broader conversation on a pause on allowing individuals to come in from seven countries that are riddled with terrorists. In that broader conversation you are now airing on your network the greatest hits over the last couple of years of terror attacks that have taken place not just in America but in Europe. So the conversation on terrorism as it comes through you and other networks, Americans at the forefront of their mind is how dangerous terror is in their communities and why this pause might be important, why we take a special look at who is coming in to make sure they want to be part of the American dream, they want to be peaceful, and they don't want to do innocent Americans harm.", "You make such a good point, Congressman. So in other words, we are taking the bait.", "You are, well done. You are driving the conversation.", "Thank you.", "And reminding everybody.", "So in other words, this was put out by the president as a red herring to try and scare Americans?", "Well, not to scare, to remind. I don't know that for sure. I am sending out that proposition, because you do cover terror attacks. They are gruesome, they're horrible, and the American people need to know. But as you these, and they're not greatest hits. They are horrible hits from what has happened to terrorism, it does again remind America what is at stake here. And when you say on your network or others that there is no cause for concern, that we don't need to adequately vet folks coming in from these seven countries that are known hotbeds for terrorism, I think most Americans go, well hold on a second --", "Hold on, hold on, who is saying we don't need to adequately vet people coming in from other countries? Who is saying that?", "To adequately vet, and Mr. Trump would say, and this is a main theme of his campaign, that we need to adequately vet people who are coming into the country.", "Just one second. Refugees spend two years being vetted. They are vetted by a host of agencies from the U.N. to the Department of Homeland Security. They have by biometric fingerprinting. They have interviews. So what part isn't being adequately vetted?", "So two years. What is your concerned then to say, let's take a 90-day pause? Let's pause for 90 days and let the new administration actually analyze the vetting system and make sure that the people coming in are here to live the American dream. And by the way it's this president's responsibility, its this congress's responsibility to make sure we keep our people safe.", "And what part of that vetting are we not doing right right now?", "This is for the administration to determine. That's why they want to take a pause and say let's fully revamp and look at how we are vetting folks. And again, there's the conversation about is it a ban or is it a pause. If you look at the executive order, it's a 90 day to 120 day pause to analyze whether we are doing this correctly. It's not a lifetime ban. It's not a 10 year ban. It's 90 days to 120 days. This is simply, commonsense stuff.", "Not for Syrian refugees.", "Right. And until in Syria they figure out this conflict in the civil war and this hotbed for terrorism, we're going to have a longer term ban in Syria, you're. The six other countries --", "Yes, but arguably the refugees in Syria, the women and children there who we see from all of our reporting, luckily we have CNN correspondents who are brave enough to go there and report that they are under siege and being killed and on the front lines, so why can't they come in?", "I think the longer term ban -- I am speculating on the administration, they may think you need a longer time period to adequately vet the folks in Syria because you don't have a government, you don't have a paper trail. It takes far longer to actually make sure the people you are bringing are people who, again, are true refugees. We've heard from the terrorists themselves that they are going to try to infiltrate our refugee program, and that's going to come from the epicenter of is which is in Syria. So we should have a little greater pause about those who come in from these countries. I want to be very clear with you, Alisyn. I have a warm heart and open hands to those true refugees that are out there living in hell in these countries, as you mention, women and children --", "So how does banning them indefinitely help them?", "I don't know that it will end up being indefinitely. I think it's going to end up being longer to the 90 to 120 days, but I think the administration is recognizing that it's going to take a little longer time to figure out how do we make sure we are bringing in the right folks from Syria and not getting infiltrated from ISIS. Again, I think it's just more than that 120 day threshold.", "Congressman, look, what I hear you saying is that Americans should be worried, Americans should be very worried about terrorism around the globe. Now, you know that more Americans are killed by lightning strikes every year than by terrorism, so how much do you want Americans to worry about terrorism here?", "I would just tell you, if you go to the gay nightclub in Orlando and talk about what this means to that community, and you want to compare that terror attack to lightning, Alisyn, or you want to go to Boston for the bombing and talk to those in Boston who were bombed by radical Islamic terrorists, and say you want to compare that to lightning, I challenge you to have that conversation.", "We did go there. Let me be clear --", "Lightning may be random, but this is purposeful, it's death, and if the government could prevent lightning, you know what, from killing people, we would. But if we can prevent terror attacks, and we can, we should.", "Congressman, I did go to the Pulse Nightclub. I did spend days there. I did spend days there. I did interview dozens of people who were friends of those killed and people who were inside who were still struggling with the emotional scars of that.", "And they would not want you to compare that to lightning, Alisyn. They are two very different -- did you go to Nice. Did you go to Belgium or to Paris?", "I did. I did, congressman. I went to all of those places. And let me tell you what you told me. They did not want people to feel more divided. They wanted love after that. They felt that love was the answer. These are quotes I am telling you. They felt the only way to bring people together was through love, not by pointing to people about who are the enemy. And so don't you, as a leader, need to explain to people whether or not the fear is valid.", "Alisyn, I'm a lover. But Alisyn, listen to me. In that nightclub and at the Boston bombing and in Nice before that truck mowed down 80 something people, love didn't quell the hearts of these radical people. Love couldn't do that. And so we have to look and say what is motivating these folks who are taking up arms and trucks and knives and killing innocents. And so, again, what is wrong with a pause? We are having a pause for 90 days. Why is that so radical? Why is that so extreme that we can't say, Mr. Trump, you talked about this on the campaign. You are going to take 90-120-day pause. Good on you, Mr. Trump. If you want to analyze the vetting system that has taken place for two years, we will give you another 90 days. That's not extreme. That's not radical. If you can prevent another Boston or San Bernardino or Orlando, you're the new president, I am going to give you that space to do that. Why can't we as a country come together and as networks come together and give the guy a break. Let him protect us. Give him a shot.", "Congressman, why isn't the president talking about the white terrorists who mowed down six Muslims who were praying at their mosque?", "I don't know. But I would tell you, there's a difference -- again, death and murder on both sides is wrong, but if you want to take the dozens of scenarios where ISIS inspired attacks have taken innocents, and you give one example of what happened in Canada, I'm going to condemn them all. But again, you don't have a group like ISIS or Al Qaeda that is inspiring people around the world to take up arms and kill innocents. That was a one off. That was a one off, Alisyn.", "Hold on a second, congressman. You don't think there are white extremists? You don't remember Oklahoma City? You don't think this guy who was involved in the mosque shootings said that he was inspired by things that he read online?", "So you give me two examples, right? And in recent time we would talk about the one example. And there are radicals all over the world and here in America that will take up arms and do bad things. But if you want to compare this one person in the last ten years that you can give an example of, Oklahoma was, what, 20 years, Oklahoma City bombing, that's different than this whole movement that has taken place through ISIS, and inspired attacks. Are you going to compare the one attack up in Canada to all the death and destruction and Europe --", "How about Charleston, Congressman? He was an extremist. He was a white extremist?", "Yes, he was. OK?", "How about that? That doesn't matter?", "No, it does matter. It does matter. Look at the good things that came from it. Nikki Haley took down the Confederate flag, that was great. But you want to say I can give you a couple of examples. There's no constant threat that goes through these attacks. And you have radical Islamic terrorists and ISIS that are driving the attacks, and if you want to compare those two, maybe you can throw another one --", "You can.", "Look at Gabby Giffords. The Marxist, who took her life, a leftist guy, and now you see violence and terror in the streets all across America, burning and beating people with Donald Trump hats. The violence you have to look in, you're trying to use examples on the right. So, where do you, the left --", "Congressman, just to be clear --", "The left has to say violence is wrong, whether they look, love and peace, as you brought up in San Bernardino, why don't we look Berkeley?", "Orlando.", "Thank you. People get beat up for wearing a Donald Trump hat, \"Make America great again\" hat, again, or they get kicked, and stores get vandalized and they burn and they beat, and where does the left and CNN and MSNBC stand up and say this is wrong? If we're going to have peace in our hearts --", "Yes, it's wrong when Muslims are attacks as well, and when swastikas are spray-painted on buildings. We've been talking about --", "Alisyn, come on.", "Why do you think when it's a white terrorists, it's an isolated incident?", "What I am saying is you have a cell, a heart, a beat of ISIS that's inspiring people around the world. Do you deny that? And that's going to Europe and coming to America, whether it's lone wolves. So what is the heartbeat of the attack that you referenced in the mosque? Or what happened in Charleston?", "Extremism. Hatred. White supremacy.", "Can we vet that? How should we vet that to keep ourselves safe? I will join you in that effort, what do you do?", "Do you not think it was white supremacy? This is what the shooter said it was.", "Yes, it's horrible. So, what should we do? I mean, I'll join you, what do we do on the white supremacy front to make sure we don't have another attack like Charleston? I am with you on that, Alisyn.", "Speak out about it, and crack down on it, and talk about it as extreme violence much as we about --", "Yes, yes.", "-- terrorism that you call radical Islamic terrorism.", "So let's crack down on ISIS. Let's crack down to the seven terror countries that are riddled with terrorists and give Donald Trump 90 days to 120 days, give him a pause to make sure he can keep us safe. Because you know what? If we could have vetted that guy who went into the mosque in Canada or the guy that went into a church in Charleston and kept them from those deaths, wouldn't we do that? Wouldn't we take that step together? So, if we try to prevent those attacks in America from two examples you gave me, why couldn't we, if we can protect America from people who might come in to do us harm, why wouldn't we do that? The argument is the same on both sides.", "Yes, the only problem with your argument is there is that no terror attack that a refugee -- no deadly terror attack that a refugee has been responsible for, and --", "There has been in Europe and many in Europe.", "Right. But not yet --", "And this, but again, this is a pause, Alisyn. So, why not take a pause? Why not learn from Europe and say we can take a pause, and we can review, we can analyze and then we can bring those people in who are truly victims, and want to come in and need a refugee status and need a new home. I am with you on that front.", "OK, Congressman Sean Duffy, thank you very much for the debate. Nice to talk to you as always.", "Have a good one.", "We have a quick programming note for everyone. Be sure to join us tonight, Senators Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz will have their own debate. This one about the future of Obamacare. CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate this special town hall. It is tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern, only on", "All right. We do have breaking news. It is about terrorism or at least perceived terrorism from Afghanistan. Twenty people dead following an explosion outside the Supreme Court building in Kabul. Officials say 48 more were injured in the apparent suicide bombing.", "OK. We're also learning new details about the military raid in Yemen last month. A senior U.S. military official tells CNN that they were targeting Qassim al-Rimi. He was the head of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula U.S. Central Command disputes the official's claim, saying there was no intelligence suggesting that al-Rimi was there, but the al Qaeda leader released an audio message after the raid taunting President Trump.", "Terror, death, murder, is that all that's going on in the world? No, we got this as well. Former President Obama, you know what he's doing? Vacationing in the British Virgin Islands, accepting Sir Richard Branson's tropical physical challenge. What does that mean? Take a look. The challenge's objective: who could stand up the longest after Obama learned how to kite surf? And Branson tackled surfing on a foil board. The winner? Barack Hussein Obama. He kite surfed 300 feet, doubling Branson's distance.", "Oh my gosh. First of all, I feel like he's rubbing in his vacation, I feel like he's rubbing in his vacation, like, OK, you guys all take it from here.", "Knowing the man, I guess there's part of him that is dying inside that he is not part of these types of epic challenges to what America is. But --", "It doesn't look like he's dying inside?", "Because he's holding on for fear of his life. Have you ever been on one of those? I've been on one of those.", "I'm not a windsurfer, which is bad enough.", "I've been on one of those. You are holding on. You are focusing on nothing else. President Trump now seeming to cast doubt on Russia's role in the fighting going on in Ukraine. Why is he defending Putin? 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{"id": "CNN-221418", "program": "AROUND THE WORLD", "date": "2013-12-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1312/23/atw.02.html", "summary": "Second Spacewalk to Repair Pump Canceled at ISS", "utt": ["A second spacewalk to repair the International Space Station has been delayed until tomorrow. On Saturday, astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins successfully removed a broken coolant pump, but the pump prevents equipment from overheating and needs to be replaced.", "Yeah, the five-hour mission was actually cut short when Mastracchio complained of cold feet after water leaked into the spacesuit. Now, here to talk more about this is astronaut Ron Garan, joining us from Houston. You know, you've repaired that broken pump. How tough is that? You know, you've got 35-year-old space suit to blame for this, in a way. What kind of problems does that cause?", "Well, you know, when we go out on a spacewalk, our spacesuits are really self-contained spaceships, and there is a lot of moving parts. There's a lot of things that protect us, for one thing, but they also make our job a little difficult. One of those things is the pressure in the suit itself. Everything -- every time we grab something with our hand, every time we move, we have to fight against the pressure of our suit. And those suits when you put all the tools on it and all the equipment, they could be up to 350 pounds. Now, obviously in space, they're weightless, but we're still moving that mass around and we still have to deal with that. And it really is a very fatiguing, physically fatiguing, adventure out there in space when you're on a spacewalk.", "Ron, tell us about that, because you've actually had that experience. For those of us who couldn't even imagine what it's like, give us a sense why that is so important that you have that -- that the liquid stays out of the suit because you had the Italian astronaut nearly drowning after a space helmet filled with water. Describe why that's so important and what is it like.", "One of the things that we're concerned about on a spacewalk is keeping the astronauts cool, because you're doing all that work and there's nowhere for the heat to go. And, so, we have cooling systems within the spacesuit, and basically we're wearing long underwear with tubes that go through it. And in those tubes is cold water that keeps us cold. And in the case of Luca Parmitano's suit, we think -- there's not a smoking gun yet. We don't know exactly what happened, but we believe that some of the coolant, the water that was used to cool him, leaked out into the suit and ended up in the helmet. And that became a very dangerous situation.", "Yeah, they put a snorkel in now in case that happens. Again, something that I wasn't aware of and a lot of people might not be, there aren't that many of these suits. It's not like you get online to Amazon and get another one.", "No, exactly. We have a limited number of suits on board. Right now, the crew is basically mixing and matching and making sure that Rick Mastracchio's suit is properly sized for him when he goes out the door since they're switching him to a different suit.", "All right, Ron Garan, thank you so much. Really appreciate it. We'll be --", "Oh, my pleasure.", "-- watching tomorrow, see how this all goes. Thanks, again. We're also getting new information about the situation in South Sudan and possible U.S. military involvement in helping evacuate Americans. That's up next."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "HOLMES", "RON GARAN, ASTRONAUT", "MALVEAUX", "GARAN", "HOLMES", "GARAN", "MALVEAUX", "GARAN", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-309452", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2017-04-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/07/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Trump's Orders Missile Strikes Against Syria; Russia Condemns US Missile Strikes.", "utt": ["Welcome back to the program and just a quick reminder of the importance stories we're following and all two familiar whole mark of terror struck the heart of Sweden today when a truck drove into pedestrians on the busiest street in Stockholm at around 3:00 p.m. local. At least two people have been confirmed dead with many, many more injured. The Swedish Prime Minister is saying everything indicates a terrorist act. Police are now searching for the man that you see here. He has been described as a person of interest without any further elaboration as to why he is being sought. Now, in Syria it is less than 24 hours since multiple U.S. Tomahawk, cruise missiles, struck the Shayrat Airfield, that believed by the U.S. to be the base for war planes that carried out the chemical attack on a rebel-held town near Idlib this week. The Syrian government says nine people including four children were killed in today's attack. While Russia and China opposed to the use of force against the Assad regime, many countries including Turkey say they support the U.S. military action. Now Ibrahim Kalin, spokesman and advisor to Turkish President's Recep Tayyip Erdogan. They called the organized strike on Assad facilities a positive response to the regime's war crimes, and he joins me on the phone. Mr. Kalin, welcome the program, you have called it a positive response. Where do you think it goes from now and do you believe that it will deter any further use of chemical weapons by the regime?", "Oh, that's our hope. That's why we supported last night's air strike against the Shayrat Air Base, from home of Syria. Christiane, if you remember when the same regime, the Syrian regime perpetuated this similarly attack in Utah, Damascus suburb in 2013, the U.S. at that time had said to enforce what they call the -- what President Obama called the red line. Now, of course the Assad Regime has been permitting those war crimes with both chemical and dimensional weapons ever since then. So by retaliating against this Assad regime last night, President Trump has indicated the chemical attacks will not go unpunished. But of course there are other works that need to be -- other steps that need to be taken if they are to stop those work and prevent the Assad regime from committing further crime.", "So what do you think? What does Turkey, the presidency, the Prime Minister, where do you think these needs to go from now? Because you hear many Europeans leaders now this is repeating now the mantra that there's no future for Syria with Assad in power. But it doesn't look like there's going to be a whole say of change of strategy. Where do you think this is going to lead?", "Well, we have two processes as you know going on at the same time. One is the Geneva process and the other one is the Ostana process. And that their common goal is to initiate and hopefully complete their political transition process. At the end of which Assad will not remain in power. That's the general understanding. How that will be worked out? Obviously, it's a matter of time and a lot negotiation. [0:04:55] But I think by taking a clear stance against the war crimes with the Assad regime, at least the new administration, the Trump administration have indicated that if you are going to give any substantive value to the political process, it will have to be in a way that will force the Assad regime to, you know, give up on its claim to legitimate powers in Syria. And the second things of course, what our president has been calling and that is the establishment of safe zones and neutralized zones in Syria, they've been arguing for this for a long time and they have not been given any concrete reasonable argument as to why it cannot be done even though some security issues and logistical issues have been mentioned as reasons. But if we have this safes zones, neutralized zones, you know, in Syria followed by this chemical attack and other capacities within have taken place. So we are in thoughts with allies, with the United States, with international coalition, the developed countries, we are also talking to the Russians because we initiated the Ostana process together. And the recent attacks of the Assad regime, obviously around diskette (ph), undermining the Ostana process to which we are both committed, Turkey and Russia. So we are urging all parties including the international coalition, Russia, Iran, that have", "And finally, has your government spoken to the U.S. administration, to the U.S. Secretary of State today? And do you think paradoxically, because frankly, Mr. Kalin, these piece processes have so far produced absolutely nothing, do you believe that this current process will -- I know there will be some change now that there is this pressure on the Assad regime?", "Well, that's our hope. That's why last night's responds, retaliation I think is something that we have to take seriously and I've been following the U.S. response and position at the U.N. Security Counsel and other official statements. They are encouraging in the sense that they are ready to put really serious significant pressure on the Assad Regime, so that the political process move forward. You're right, number of the initiatives have been thrived in the past and they have unfortunately failed. And I think the lesson to learn from all of this is that we cannot fail again.", "Ibrahim Kalin, thank you for joining us by phone, you are on the road with campaigning for the constitutional referendum coming up in a week. Thanks for joining us with the view from the Turkish government. And we are going to turn to the military ramifications of the U.S. bombing in Syria, and as we said the Syrian air strikes have been loudly denounced by the Syrian regime. But we are joined now by Andrew Exum, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Policy. You have reached on about what's just happened. Where do you think this puts the west, the Turkey, or the people who are trying to get an end to this war?", "It well all depends on where we want to go next. I think that what Ibrahim Kalin just said is exactly right that if the Trump administration and its partners and the Geneva process, and want to use this as way to reinvigorate talks about the political transition in Syria, I think they can do that. One of the things we are hamstrung by frankly in the Obama administration is that we weren't going use force, and folks knew that. I think that the Trump administration is now proven, it is willing to use force but nobody knows where the Trump administration wants to go with this. It's not a strategy, it's just a strike and there seems to be some worrying signs that they are saying that, well, this is just one-off or this is just -- look this is not a big change in policy. That's worrying because I think that they could actually use this to jump-start some negotiations. But what I think is also weighing on their minds is they don't want this to interfere with the other fights that's taking place in Syria, which is the campaign against the Islamic state and they don't want this strike to be used as a pretext for Russia or the regime to interfere on that fight.", "Well, you did just hear Ibrahim Kalin say that his government is being in touch Russia, the two foreign ministers have spoken, we've just learned, presumably, to try to make sure that doesn't happen. How much stake do you put in Turkey and NATO member being able to convince Russia, well, first and foremost, you know, not to close its deconfliction channel and secondly, you know, frankly as David Phillip (ph) also said, too, what Assad has done can't be good for Russia either and to use this moment to get what everybody seems to want which is an end to this process. [0:09:57]", "Yeah. That's exactly right, first of, this is going to be embarrassing for Russia not just the strike on the Syrians but use of chemical weapons by the Syrian, but the use of chemical weapons by the Syrians themselves. Russia had, you know, had put themselves forward as kind of a guarantor that Syria wouldn't use these weapons. And then they have these weapons and had turned all these weapons over to the international community. So it's a bit embarrassing for the Russians. And it does perhaps present some leverage for Secretary Tillerson when he goes to Moscow. I'm not sure unfortunately and I -- we're deeply embedded to our Turkish partners for the role they've played and to fight against the Islamic state. But you remember that Turkey actually shutdown a Russian aircraft.", "Right.", "And hasn't really been flying in Northern Syria since then. So I'm not sure that they're going to be the best on-voice to kick start the deconfliction channel. I will say that I think Russia's move to spend that channel I think is largely petulant. I think that that channel benefits Russia as much as it does the United States, because it's in no one's interest for Russian and coalition air craft to be flying into one another or to be engaged in unsafe actions over Syria.", "Just put on that military hat again and try to explain how the international community, whether it's Turkey or Russia or the United States and its NATO allies can achieve an end to this by both cutting off and destroying in the words of a different administration, ISIS, and making sure that actually there isn't room for a dictator who uses chemical weapons. I guess I think what you just said is so important. The fact to this moment could be used to drive a wedge into that sort of feeling of lack of power to actually, you know, change the situation on the ground.", "That's right. I mean I figured there are really two problems but they're obviously closely intertwined. The first is containing the fight against the Islamic state, driving the Islamic state from Raqqa and then", "Fascinating. It could be a game-changer. We'll see. Andrew Exum, thank you so much indeed for joining us. And a quick update from Sweden, an important one. The Stockholm Police tells CNN that one person has been arrested in connection with this afternoon's attack. They have not given any more details at this time. We'll bring you what we have when we have it, as always. And after the break, we'll move from international reactions to the human victims of chemical weapons in this world. We'll talk to those who bear witness to the devastating reality on the ground in Syria.", "Welcome back to the program. For years, we've been speaking to Syrians, whose way of life has been shattered by this war. Many of them have witnessed war crimes firsthand and survived to tell the story. One of those people is the award-winning citizen journalist, Waad al- Kateab, who risked her own life to document the brutal siege of Aleppo and captured some of the most compelling footage of the war. I sat down with Waad recently and I also -- what it was like to film the victims of one of the many chlorine gas attacks? We're protecting Waad's identity for her own safety.", "I want to also play a piece which is equally important and may one day be used as evidence in trials. This is when you were in the hospital and they seemed to be the barrel bomb, the disposed chemical weapons.", "They're older than 4 or 5 years old. Her oxygen mask slips off. She tries to fix it herself but her hand is shaking too much. No one seems to notice in this Aleppo hospital. There are too many other patients needing urgent help. More are brought in, their clothes stripped off, their bodies hosed down. And it's chlorine they've been hit with. These doctors here suspect they need to act fast.", "I mean, it is so dramatic to watch that because we've heard for years now about the barrel bombs, about the chlorine gas, the chemical weapons and this is potentially evidence of that. Did you recognize what you were shooting, what you were filming at the time?", "Of course, yes. What we have to do that's everything was happening in Aleppo will be an evidence to what the regime was doing in Aleppo or in Syria all. You couldn't see blood. You couldn't see interrupted maybe hands or legs, but you see a lot of people couldn't to breathing. And you also, when you were in the E.R. room, you smell the smell, and it's very bad things. And there were many people that's injured by the chemical weapons. Especially in the last days of Aleppo, every day at the evening, there was chlorine gas attack. And that was very difficult.", "A vivid reminder that this week's chemical attack was by no mean the first. President Bashar al-Assad's office has spoken out against the U.S.'s air strikes, calling the action nothing but foolish and irresponsible behavior. So let us get the view from Damascus. The Syrian freelance journalist Alaa Ebrahim joins from there live. Welcome to the program Mr. Ebrahim. I guess that you all have been seeing what's happening, seeing how it's being reported around the world. What is the reaction from the officials there and all the streets?", "Well, for officials in general, they remain committed on that, which is -- that did not carry out in the chemical attacks against any other -- any place in Syria including the recent attack in Khan Sheikhoun. And as far as the people on the street are concerned, there is a great state of concern and we call it at some stage as panic among people because they're afraid that this new intervention and the Syrian conflict could further escalate bombings (ph), could further promote certain groups and certain rebellious actions to prolong the fight, feeling that they have the support now of the United States, especially after recent reports that they might be also receiving", "Can I just ask you to comment on some of the reporting we heard from Syrian state news agencies today, you know, that we are going to, you know, fix up the airfield, we're going to fly again out of it or -- and we're going to continue to do our work they would say. Have you any evidence that there have been any flights out of that airfield since this cruise missile attack?", "Yes. According to my enough resources, in the afternoon today, there has been Su-22 jet that tool off from one of the airfields in the airbase flew for 20 minutes and then came back to land in the airbase", "Can I ask you also? Just to give us a sense of how the people in the government controlled territory, those who you come into contact with the elderly (ph) civilians, were they even officials? I mean are they tired? Do they want to see an end to this war? Would they prefer to see, you know, the government actually, you know, making real steps just to some kind of solution around the negotiating table, because the government just keeps saying, \"Well, you know, these are terrorist and we can't negotiate with them.\"", "Well, this is not a fair collectivization of what's going on across the country. One thing that goes across boundaries and across frontlines, and on both sides of aisle in Syria, that both populations under the government", "And very finally then I wonder if you could comment on the interview that president Assad gave to the Croatian newspaper this, in which the headline was that, \"We will have to continue this war. We have no option.\" So, basically saying that, as far as he's concerned, this is an ongoing military campaign.", "Well, most of the areas outside the control of the Syrian government was controlled either by ISIL or by a coalition of rebellious actions. And in most cases where there's a coalition of rebellious actions, there is a strong presence for al Qaeda Syrian", "All right. Thank you so much indeed for joining us from Damascus. And when we come back, we imagine the incredible compartmentalizing act that the world leaders are often forced to perform, hosting the formal banquet for a fellow head of state while also launching his first presidential air strike. That's next.", "And finally tonight, imagine the world where America's first strikes on Syria coincide with the main course of steak and Chardonnay as President Donald Trump sat down to dinner for his first meeting with the Chinese President Xi Jinping at 7:00 p.m. in Mar-a-Lago, Florida estate (ph). He'd also just given the go-ahead for his first presidential active war. Less than two hours into that lavish meal, Tomahawk cruise missiles descended onto a Syrian airbase. Perhaps President Trump, took a lesson (ph) in the fine arts of high dining and high states military action from his predecessor President Barack Obama. Six years ago, he had just given the order for a Navy SEAL way to capture Osama bin Laden's compound, just before cracking jokes to the gilded White House correspondent's dinner where he also ruthlessly needled none other than Donald Trump who is in attendance.", "We all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. For example -- no, seriously, just recently, in an episode of \"Celebrity Apprentice,\" you didn't blame Little John or Meat Loaf, you fired Gary Busey. And these are the kinds of decisions that would keep me up at night.", "All these years later, who would have thought that President Donald Trump would be taking a page from the same playbook. It is breath taking to imagine a world of such high adrenaline action and the need to keep calm and carry on in public. That's it for our program tonight. Remember, you can always listen to our podcast, see us online @Amanpour.com and follow me on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks for watching and goodbye from London. 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{"id": "CNN-165610", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-5-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/03/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Study Wrong Amount Of Sleep Ages Brain", "utt": ["We're crossing the half hour. We want to get you updated on our top stories. They left with his body and a lot of actionable intelligence, perhaps -- hard drives, computer disks. U.S. officials now are going through what is being called the mother lode of intel that Navy SEALs were able to take away from bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. The White House is still deciding whether or not to release a photo of the dead bin Laden. They blew the levee to save a town. New pictures this morning of what looks like a war zone in America's heartland. The Army Corps of Engineers blasting a levee on the Mississippi River last night to let the flooded river flow into nearby farmland. The Corps predicts this will lower the river between three and four feet, sparing the town of Cairo, Illinois, and other communities upstream. Well, the South is still trying to recover after the worst tornado outbreak in American history. It is now official, NOAA estimates 312 twisters touched down in a 24-hour period that started last Wednesday. That is more than double the previous record of 148. Jacqui Jeras is in the extreme weather center right now. She's talking about all of the flooding in the Midwest this morning. And just these official numbers out of NOAA, was it just a fluke or do they have any reason why they had double the amount than they've ever seen before?", "Oh, I mean this was historic event. You know, I don't know if this was necessarily a fluke or wave of the future. Apart of it has to do with a lot has to do with more people being out there seeing some of these tornadoes as well. The big threat is changing now from rotation -- though, some isolated severe weather can be expected today -- to flooding. The rain has been so heavy. We've had the stationary front parked here which has brought in a tremendous amount of rain into the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys over the last two weeks. We're finally starting to see an end of this for you, from St. Louis, down towards Memphis. And it looks like we'll get a good couple days of break and we really, really need it. Take a look at this map. This is showing you the rain in the last two weeks and all of this bright purple and into the white area, that's between 10 and 20 inches in a two-week period. That's more typical of what you would see in this area in five months. Just to put in perspective. So, that's just an incredible amount of rain. Flooding is widespread and we're estimating that along the Mississippi River here, there's about 800 miles of flooding. This bright red area is where it is occurring. And this is having major impacts on homes, on businesses, on agriculture. A lot of these farmers aren't going to be able to plant at all this year. And keep in mind this is a farm belt, which is also going to have major implications for navigation issues along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, too. The flooding is going to stay extremely high. Lots of crests are going to happen this week, guys. However, we think the rivers will stay in flood here for at least a week beyond that. And we could be talking about almost a month before the river is back to normal as it crests and moves all the way down towards New Orleans eventually.", "Jacqui, that's some interesting information, and the fact it affects navigable rivers. So, that could affect things that you buy or get shipped to you, and the fact that's a farm belt, some of the farmers won't be able to grow things. We've already seen food prices pushing up. So, we'll keep an eye on that, as well as the flooding. Thank you, Jacqui. I want to show you a closer look at this compound that we've been talking about, where the most wanted man was hiding for the past few years. Let's give you a sense of the picture, Pakistan, Afghanistan. This is the area in the middle the sort of govern/ungoverned area. Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan. Now, let me just -- let me just go in there and we'll give you a 3D view of this compound. We've removed the houses from around it. This compound was about eight times the size of the surrounding compounds, the homes really. They weren't compounds around it. This is in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The front wall, let me just give you a sense of the gates first of all. There are two gates. This is the front of the operation. This is the back. There's a gate in the front and a gate leading to the back. Now, I want to show you the walls because again, this is why we're calling it a compound. It had these walls that were fairly high. Up in the front, you had a 10-foot wall, in the back, you had a wall that was 12 feet and then 18 feet and 13 feet, and had barbed wire on top of it. Now, this is the main building. Call it a mansion or a compound, whatever you want to call it. It had a seven-foot high protective wall on the upper balcony, presumably to protect Osama bin Laden, who by the way is 6'7\" -- so a 7-foot wall would take care of that matter. I want to give you a little more of a picture about these walls. That's the back wall. Let me show you what the front wall looks like. So, again, it's a 10-foot wall, one entrance along the front with a gate and then another 10-foot wall and then I'll give you a quick slightly better look at that house and the privacy wall. So, that's where the action took place in there. A nice big high wall, so if he wanted to get outside he actually could without compromising his safety. So, that's a look at the compound. We'll talk more about how those Navy SEALs got in there and what they did once they were in a special interview we've got coming up -- Christine.", "All right, Ali. The scene of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil looked like a V-Day celebration, hundreds of people have been gathering at New York City's Ground Zero to mark the death of Osama bin Laden. President Obama will join them on Thursday. He'll visit the site and meet with the families of 9/11 victims. Our Jason Carroll has been talking to family members and he joins us live from the World Trade Center site. Good morning, Jason.", "And good morning to you, Christine. You know, this morning, I actually spoke to a Lee Ielpi. He lost his son on 9/11, his son Jonathan was a firefighter from Queens. When I talked to Lee about what he was feeling, he said, you know, he's still trying to process everything that's happened. He said when we first heard about what happened with Osama bin Laden, he cried. And certainly, there was some tears out here last night. Also, some celebrations -- for the second night in a row, people coming down here, wanting to take part, and celebratory sort of activity that's happening. We saw a parade of bagpipers that made their way down Liberty Street, stopped in front of a firehouse that's located down here at World Trade Center. Many of those men were the first responders on that day and lost their lives. Those bagpipers stopped in front of the firehouse, played \"Amazing Grace.\" Also out here some of the families of the victims were here. I want you to listen to two women, both of those women lost their sons on 9/11, Christine -- both of their sons were fire fighters. I want you to listen to what they had to say.", "For us, it is, indeed, better late than never. I hope that Mr. Bin Laden had to experience the same type of brutal and prolonged death that nearly 3,000 people had to endure in the World Trade Center on 9/11. He will not live to inspire any more terrorists as a living person. And I must thank the United States military and the present administration and all those who assisted our country in apprehending Osama bin Laden.", "He was a coward. Osama bin Laden was a coward. The way he attacked innocent civilians was a cowardly act, and the way he was hiding out in caves in the years since, is a cowardly lifestyle.", "Quick point I wanted to talk about, Lee Ielpi for just another second, Christine. You know what he said this morning to me, he said, if he gets the chance to meet the president when he comes here on Thursday, what he'd like to do is bring him down here and show him a flowering pear tree located in the middle of the memorial. He said, to him, that was a symbol of hope and new beginning -- Christine.", "All right. Jason Carroll at Ground Zero -- thanks, Jason.", "Also new this morning, the search resuming for a Boy Scout troop that went missing on a camping trip in Arkansas over the weekend. They still have not found the six scouts and two troop leaders from Lafayette, Louisiana. Bad weather prevented police from conducting an aerial search. There's no cell service in the area. But, again, they're going to try to resume that search this morning.", "We told you before the break, Honda is cutting production on some popular car models like the newly redesigned 2012 Civic because of a shortage of parts stemming from Japan's earthquake and tsunami. The shortage will also delay the introduction of a new Honda CRV. That is the best-selling SUV in the United States.", "And computer hackers may have hit Sony a second time, getting personal information on 24.5 million user accounts.", "Unbelievable.", "That's on top of the people we were telling you about last week. The PlayStation network security breach was revealed last month in which personal data and perhaps credit card numbers from 77 million accounts were stolen. You add in 24.5 million more, you're talking about -- wow -- you're talking about 100 million people.", "I think the nerd hackers were all sitting around and saying we need a round number. The 77 thing is not playing very well.", "Every time you say nerd hackers, you get flamed.", "You know what? I do it specifically because of all of the nerd hackers who then tweet me and say, I can't believe you don't understand nerds, I bet you're not a gamer. I'm not a gamer.", "And I'm sure Ali understands nerds.", "You feel very strongly about this.", "Yes, I do. I do. I lost a lot of information last week. So I'm mad at the nerd hackers.", "So, you've changed your tune about the information -- about the -- you steal my information, just pay my credit cards, change your mind?", "All right. Well, then you'll make some of your other Twitter followers happy. All right. Well, coming up, we are going to be getting an inside look at what exactly it takes to conduct a mission, the likes of what we saw in Pakistan. The Navy SEALs, what they did in this operation that eventually nabbed Osama bin Laden. We're going to be speaking with Dick Couch, Navy SEAL expertise and his training and what was it like to be there -- coming up."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "VELSHI", "ROMANS", "JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CARROLL", "ROMANS", "CHETRY", "VELSHI", "ROMANS", "VELSHI", "ROMANS", "VELSHI", "ROMANS", "VELSHI", "ROMANS", "CHETRY", "VELSHI", "CHETRY", "CHETRY"]}
{"id": "CNN-37453", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2001-8-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/18/tonight.07.html", "summary": "A Hotel Fire in the Philippines Turns Deadly", "utt": ["Turning now to international news: An electrical short circuit in a hotel in the Philippines hotel may have led to a deadly fire there. Investigators are looking into what started the blaze which killed at least 75 people and injured 50 others. Many victims were trapped inside because of bars on room windows. CNN's George Bauer has more", "As firefighters continued their search for victims, Philippine President Gloria Arroyo met with the injured at a local police headquarters. She also comforted relatives of the dead, promising financial aid. Inspectors cited the hotel recently because fire exits were blocked. Investigators got right to work.", "We are going to conduct a very impartial and thorough investigation.", "The fire broke out early in the morning. Officials think it started in the hotel bar.", "We were sleeping and we heard some screams. We woke up and saw a huge fire but could not get out of the door. Three of our companions are still there.", "Most of the victims died of asphyxiation. The Philippine Bureau of Fire Protection says it is probably the deadliest hotel fire in the country's history. The hotel visitors were attending a religious conference organized by a U.S.-Based evangelist. Many Americans were at the conference, but official say all the dead appear to be Filipino. Just a day earlier, hundreds had offered prayers of hope and joy at their destiny conference. Now, they are offering prayers for the dead. George Bauer, CNN."], "speaker": ["STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR", "GEORGE BAUER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MAYOR FELICIANO BELMONTE, QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES", "BAUER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (translated)", "BAUER"]}
{"id": "CNN-289300", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-07-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/20/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Montel Williams: GOP Must Support LGBT Community", "utt": ["I can't remain silent when we direct hate towards an entire race of people, Hispanics, when we direct hate towards an entire religion, Muslims. I can't stand silent when we direct hate towards the LGBT community. We're hating our own daughters, our own sons, our own wives. It blows my mind that I put on a uniform to defend this Constitution against all and we have people right here who would actually take away the rights from as many as they could.", "Montel Williams speaking at an event held here in Cleveland by the American Unity Fund, calling on Republicans to do more for the LGBT community. Also speaking at that very event, Caitlyn Jenner, who's quite candidate about the difficulties of being trans and being Republican. Montel Williams, long time host of \"The Montel Williams Show\", joins me now. Good to see you, my friend.", "Thanks for having me, Brooke.", "My goodness. Talk to you about this morning. What's your message?", "Well, I looked into a room where I would think that probably ten years ago, you would never have seen that many different cultures of people.", "Yes.", "All Americans. From black, white, Hispanic, Asian, to people who were clearly straight, people who were clearly conservative, all there understanding that if we truly are the Party of Lincoln, we truly are the Party of Reagan, Reagan himself said in 1984, we are the party that includes all. We are not a party and there's no place for bigots, period.", "You feel like the Republican tent is not big enough?", "I feel like they've definitely shut the door and don't care. I think it's time to change that rhetoric. Again, I stepped away from the party when the party completely stepped away from me, and made me understand they didn't want me to be a part. I became an independent but that didn't change my conservative values. It didn't change the way I feel about issues. So I still like to lobby with, I want to be next to, I want to talk to. But why can't we even have a conversation? I was up this morning, I'm glad that there was a group of people there willing to listen.", "It's so interesting, you know, you've come on the show enough. We've talked politics, you are so passionate about the governor of this state. You wanted John Kasich to be the guy. You wanted him to be on the stage. Instead, he's not even in the building. You know, he is not showing up for Donald Trump. Where are you now? What are you feeling? Are you supporting Donald Trump?", "What I'm trying to do is get the rest of America to stop drawing lines in the sand and going along with other people --", "Who's drawing the line? Is Donald Trump drawing the line? Is Hillary Clinton drawing the line?", "You listen to rhetoric and don't study yourself, you draw the line. I would like to see America stop for just a second and start reading the truth. All this garage over Melania. First of all, I'd say that we all owe that lady herself an apology. I'm going to say, why? It's not her fault! She got thrown into this whole mess and had to read words that someone put in her hands. Who you should be going after is the party for having allowed that to happen. Yet today, I've not heard one person actually call out the people who led the party in the last two days and lied and lied. Let's talk about lies.", "Twenty minutes ago, where were you with my panelists? They were making that very point.", "Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. So, wait a minute. But that's not just to disparage one side. Just go back to say, I'm going to do my research. If we find that exactly what transpired, transpired is true, that will assuage my bad feelings. Then I'll look at the other politics. What I want to know is, what are you going to do for veterans? What I want to know is because when you say both sides say I'm going to contain ISIS, that means you need troops. You know how often I've been here talking about the fact that until we fulfill the debt we have with troops, how dare you even think about sending other children off to die.", "Chris Christie on Jake Tapper just a little while ago. He thinks Donald Trump gets some of the security briefings, he will send troops in. You think that's a good thing?", "Well, let's make sure we understand this and I want the rest of the American public to agree, when I went and joined the military in 1974, 83 percent to 84 percent of our Congress and Senate had served or had a family member that has done the same. Right now today, you have less than 16 percent. Somebody say, let's say it's less than 20 percent that have served or had a family member in the game. How dare you send the rest of the 85 percent or 80 percent of this country's children off to die when you wouldn't do it yourself? So, I'm just saying, before we commit more lives, let's agree to pay the debt we owe. What you've seen, Brooke, in the last three months, we have two clear cases of people who were soldiers who were suffering from PTSD. We have a ticking time bomb in this country. And I'm not disparaging my fellow soldiers because it is not their fault the debt has not been paid.", "Come back once you have gone off to marinate and figure out, I'm curious to see which way you go.", "Thank you. Thank you so much.", "Thank you, my friend. I really appreciate it. Montel Williams here in Cleveland. Coming up next, we do have new details speaking out about the deadly ambush in Baton Rouge. What the attacker there told friends and family about his own mental health and what he says he was doing days before the shootout. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["WILLIAMS", "BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "WILLIAMS", "BALDWIN", "WILLIAMS", "BALDWIN", "WILLIAMS", "BALDWIN", "WILLIAMS", "BALDWIN", "WILLIAMS", "BALDWIN", "WILLIAMS", "BALDWIN", "WILLIAMS", "BALDWIN", "WILLIAMS", "BALDWIN", "WILLIAMS", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-87629", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2004-9-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/01/lt.02.html", "summary": "School Hostages; An Update on Republican National Convention; Arnold Schwarzenegger Attends After-School All-Stars Event in Harlem", "utt": ["It is 11:00 a.m. on the East Coast, 8:00 a.m. on the West Coast. From CNN Center in Atlanta, good morning once again. I'm Daryn Kagan. We're going to start our hour with a chilling act of terror in Russia this morning. Armed attackers seizing a school in southern Russia. They are holding at least 100 people, perhaps as many as 400. Many are children back in class for the first day of school of the new school year. The drama is unfolding in the town of Beslan, not far from the border with the restless republic of Chechnya. Our Ryan Chilcote is following the developments. He is in Moscow this morning -- Ryan.", "Daryn, it's the first day of school here in Russia. And students, their parents and teachers had gathered in front of this particular school to attend a ceremony to kick off the school year. That's when more than a dozen armed men and women, some of them wearing suicide belts, belts with explosives attached to them, seized the school, forcing all of these people inside. Now, Russian authorities now believe that there may be as many as 300 to 400 hostages inside this school. Many of them students between the ages of seven and 17. Now, the hostage-takers are warning Russian officials not to try to storm the school. They say they will kill 50 children for every hostage-taker that is killed, if the Russians try to storm the school, or 20 children for every hostage-taker that is wounded if the Russians try to storm that school. Now, these hostage-takers are demanding that Russia pull out its troops, tens of thousands of them, out of the Russian region of Chechnya. There have been sporadic reports of fighting from the -- from the area. Initially, when the school was seized, there was some fighting, and some fighting after that. The most recent word on casualties is that four people have been killed so far in this attack, 10 injured -- Daryn.", "Ryan, this brings to mind what happened in Moscow back in October of 2002, when that theater was seized by Chechen rebels. Any connection or any similarities between the two incidents?", "Well, lots of similarities. It's an audacious act by these terrorists. They've seized a school with hundreds of people inside of it. And they've put the Russian government in a very precarious situation. The Russian president says that he doesn't negotiate with terrorists. But this is different here in Russia. These are children, primarily. Even the attack that you were mentioning, that Moscow theater siege, there was a relatively small number of children attending that musical then in that -- in that Moscow theater. This is primarily children. It's happening on basically a national holiday here in Russia, the first day of school. It's a big day for everybody. Everybody -- parents bring their children to school in their best clothes. So this is very similar to the Moscow theater siege. An audacious attack with connections to Chechnya. -- Daryn.", "Ryan Chilcote in Moscow, thank you for the update. It has been eight days of terror in Russia. A suicide bomber killed herself and nine others outside a subway station in Moscow on Tuesday. Authorities did not immediately say whether the woman was Chechen. But the bombing does fit the pattern of previous Chechen attacks. And 89 people were killed when suspected suicide bombers downed a pair of Russian airliners last week. The planes went down minutes apart after taking off from the same Moscow airport. Michael O'Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He joins me now from Washington to talk about the surge of terror across Russia. Michael, good morning. Thanks for being here with us.", "Good morning, Daryn.", "Let's talk about this particular incident right now. When you goo into a school on this first day of the school year and seize schoolchildren, it seems like some just terrible moral line has been crossed.", "Yes, I agree. Although it's not entirely surprising, unfortunately. If you look at the history of terrorism, there are terrorist groups that will try to pick their targets very carefully, even try to minimize civilian casualties, and certainly stay away from the elderly or children. There are other times where people just try for maximum devastation, and, of course, that's tended to be the trend in recent years, with many al Qaeda affiliates. Sometimes they've gone after, you know, the Pentagon or the World Trade Center towers, where it's mostly adult, symbols of power, people who are in positions of importance in the country. But other times, they'll try to bring down airliners, or just do mass suicide bombings on street corners. And so, unfortunately, in this day and age, any tendency of terrorists to be restraining in some way, or careful and selective in their choice of targets, has largely been lost. And this is obviously a deliberate attack to maximize the shock value of who is at risk here, because the Chechens have tried virtually every other tactic and it hasn't work for them.", "Well, and they certainly can't be going for sympathy with this.", "Exactly. They're going for sheer pain and agony, and hoping that the Russian people at some point will say, enough is enough, instead of continuing in this war, let's just let the Chechens do what they want. But usually what happens in this sort of a situation, at least in this conflict, is this make the Russians even angrier. And then they intensify their attacks or reduce their restrain and their tactics. And the whole thing is a vicious spiral. So I understand the logic. It's an extraordinarily tragic and twisted and perverse logic, but I'm afraid it's not likely to work. And it's just likely to lead to a worsening of the situation, not any kind of a positive outcome for the terrorists or anyone else.", "Michael, we're getting word that the Russian government is asking the United Nations for help in dealing with this crisis right now. What could the United Nations -- what kind of help could they provide?", "Well, of course it could be a cover if they wanted to negotiate with the Chechens and maintain some very strict terms, but say, listen, we're not going to give you independence, but we can start to have a political dialogue, it gives you some more autonomy. But I doubt that's what the Russians have trying to do. I think the Russians are probably just grasping for straws at this point. They're in a horrible situation. They have no plausible way to storm this facility that I can think of. Chances are they have to hope for a miracle. And that's what they're hoping the U.N. can somehow deliver. But it's not a very promising situation.", "No, it certainly is not. Michael O'Hanlon, thank you for your insight today.", "Thank you.", "We move on to Iraq. Authorities have been ordered to track down the militants who ambushed Ahmed Chalabi's convoy. The controversial politician escaped harm, but two of Chalabi's bodyguards were wounded in that attack. Another -- their convoy came under fire south of Baghdad as it was returning from Najaf.", "I went to Najaf to primarily -- to visit Ayatollah Sistani and to see -- to congratulate him on his safe return and congratulate him and thank him for the great initiative that he made to restore peace in Najaf and other parts of Iraq. And also to discuss the future, especially elections.", "Despite the attack, Chalabi made it to Baghdad for the swearing in of the National Advisory Council. He is a former Pentagon favorite but recently was accused of passing secrets to Iran. He denies those allegation. Also in Iraq, seven drivers for a Kuwaiti trucking company were set free today. This is six weeks after they were kidnapped by Islamic militants. All are now back on their to Kuwait. A man identified as an Egyptian negotiator told an Arab language television network that he was able to free the hostages with the help of Egyptian, Indian and Kuwaiti officials. And in Nepal, a wave of rioting against Muslims and other target over the cold-blooded slaughter of 12 Nepalese workers in Iraq. A curfew has been imposed on Katmandu, and the U.S. embassy is advising Americans to lay low for now. It is the largest mass killing of hostages since the toppling of Saddam Hussein, and it brings the confirmed number of hostages killed in Iraq to 23. Israel responds to a pair of deadly bus bombings. Early today, Israeli troops demolished the home of one of the suicide bombers. It's the policy of the Israeli defense forces to destroy houses belonging to suicide attackers. The militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for yesterday's attack that killed 16 people and wounded 94 others. The bombers blew up two buses within second of one another in the southern Israeli town of Beer Sheva. And a senior Israeli official says that government -- the government there has no plans to launch a major military offensive, but it does plan to step up operations against Palestinian militants. They may include targeting killers of Hamas leaders both inside and outside the Palestinian territories. In the past, Israel has attacked suspected Hamas facilities in Syria. Well, a live picture from New York City and Madison Square Garden. You see two senators there, Senator Rick Santorum, standing next to Senator Zell Miller of Georgia. He will be giving the keynote address tonight at the convention. Very big news because Senator Miller is a Democrat. More on that and the significance of his speech in just a bit. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger brought the crowd to its feet last night. A rousing speech by the governor. He declared that America is back because of President Bush's perseverance, character and leadership. Tonight, Vice President Dick Cheney steps into the spotlight. He addresses the convention after he is officially nominate for a second term. President Bush formally won the party's nomination last night. Land of opportunity is the theme for the convention tonight. And right now, we have an opportunity to check in with our national correspondent, Bob Franken, joining us from Madison Square Garden. Bob, good morning.", "Good morning. And as usual, the story of the convention here, in its third night, is competing with the story of all the security.", "While more protesters were arrested on the streets outside, the Republicans were keeping the volume up inside. Arnold Schwarzenegger left little doubt he had gone from movie star to GOP political star.", "And to those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say, don't be economic girlie men!", "Then it was time for the women of the president's family. First, his daughters.", "Our parents are actually pretty cool.", "The pretty cool mother, of course, had warm words about her husband.", "He's a loving man with a big heart.", "He arrives later today. First, the president visits with firemen in Elmhurst, a not so subtle reminder of the September 11 attacks just a few miles away. Then he settles in to watch first the keynote speaker, Georgia Senator Zell Miller, a Democrat who will not be making his party very happy. And then the acceptance speech by the very Republican vice president, Dick Cheney. He's accepting, by the way, his re- nomination, which is what President Bush does tomorrow.", "And as we saw just a moment ago, Zell Miller was checking out things on the floor, and looking around, and saying, \"So, this is what a Republican is.\" What's interesting, Daryn, is that 12 years ago he was a keynote speaker at the Democratic convention -- Daryn.", "Yes, and nominated President Bill Clinton.", "Bill Clinton. He's versatile.", "Absolutely. He is retiring and has -- people really expecting to hear some swinging words from him tonight, because he really has nothing to lose. He can say that he doesn't care about being loyal to his party, he doesn't care about a future in politics. So it's going to be rare form to hear what Zell Miller has to say tonight.", "And it's fair to say that many Democrats don't care that he's retiring either.", "Yes. From here in Georgia, I would say that does reflect many people's opinions. Thank you, Bob Franken. Well, from politics to the protests, thousands lined up along Broadway from Wall Street to Madison Square Garden this morning. Let's take a look at the pictures. The demonstrators formed a symbolic unemployment line, and they waved pink slips to protest President Bush's economic policies. The mostly peaceful demonstration lasted for about 15 minutes. By contrast, New York police say more than 1,000 people were arrested in protests yesterday. The total number of arrests since last week has now topped 1,700. Here is a lineup for tonight's convention coverage on CNN. It begins at 7:00 p.m. Eastern with a special edition of \"ANDERSON COOPER.\" That is followed by \"America Votes,\" convention coverage at 8:00, and \"LARRY KING LIVE\" from Madison Square Garden at 9:00. We're going to have Vice President Cheney's speech at 10:00 Eastern, followed by a special edition of \"NEWSNIGHT\" with Aaron Brown at 11:00 and Larry King at midnight. Well, people have died in a building collapse in one of Richmond's most historic districts completely under water. A state of emergency in Virginia. More on that is coming up next. Also, if you thought Hurricane Charley was bad, the worst may be yet to come for Florida. Frances is gaining strength and taking aim. We're following the latest developments out of southern Russia as well, where a school full of children is now under the control of armed terrorists. More on that story when CNN LIVE TODAY returns."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "RYAN CHILCOTE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "CHILCOTE", "KAGAN", "MICHAEL O'HANLON, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION", "KAGAN", "O'HANLON", "KAGAN", "O'HANLON", "KAGAN", "O'HANLON", "KAGAN", "O'HANLON", "KAGAN", "AHMED CHALABI, IRAQI POLITICIAN", "KAGAN", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "FRANKEN (voice-over)", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-224114", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-2-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/01/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Alleged Evidence Against Christie in Bridgegate", "utt": ["We are following the latest developments this hour involving the governor, Chris Christie. He should be glowing in the spotlight because the Super Bowl is taking place in his home state this weekend. But instead, he is on the defensive, fielding new claims of a former ally and long-time friend. A lawyer for David Wildstein says he has evidence that contradicts what Christie said he knew about the shutdown of the lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge. Those lanes in Ft. Lee, New Jersey, are a main artery between New York and New Jersey. And that September shutdown was allegedly political payback for the Ft. Lee mayor or the not supporting him. Now, Christie has fired a top aide over that shutdown and he has insisted that he knew nothing about it. Let's talk about this with two political commentators and CNN contributors, Ben Ferguson, sitting next to me here in New York, on the right; and Marc Lamont Hill, joining us from Philadelphia, who sees things from the left.", "Well, it is an eyebrow raiser. Maybe because there is nothing to it, which is I'm certain that the Christie administration would want us to think. <18:40:00> But also some dramatic entry into the 15-minutes of fame and he is milking it for all he can get from it, but the bigger point is that we can't overestimate what is in the information. Assume that everything that we see is true, but it does not mean that Governor Christie organized the conspiracy or that Governor Christie was acting out some act of political vengeance. It could mean that he did not tell us the whole truth of when he found out. But the bad part for Christie is that's enough to sink a presidential candidacy and probably enough to have your position as governor at least unsettled and compromised because you did not tell the whole truth.", "And that is an important point, because we cannot say it enough that we don't know what the purported evidence is. And until we do, no assumptions can be made. And, Ben, I feel like you and Marc agree. That is rare thing.", "Yeah.", "Well, he is right for once.", "Yeah.", "Yes. And when you look at where this is coming from.", "Well, you have to take it a huge grain of salt. This is a guy who pleads the Fifth, and he says I will not talk when he is asked under oath to talk about what happened with the lane closures. And so I automatically say, you won't tell the authorities what you knew when you knew it, but now you want to use a lawyer to come out the make these claims? And the other thing is that at the same time that the lawyer is talking to press, he says that we will tell you everything if we get immunity out of the deal, so I have no reason to believe --", "Well, they can subpoena.", "And the fact is that he is basically a guy going, you know what, I'm going down, and if I can hurt the governor, I'm going to do it, and I want immunity if I tell you everything. And, oh, by the way, but I'll plead the Fifth when you ask real questions about the lane closures, so I don't buy into more being here at all.", "-- an ally of the governor for a long time. Go ahead, Marc.", "Well, do not assume that somebody because they want immunity they are not offering the truth.", "It is equally plausible that Governor Christie was in it up to his waist, and this guy, and this guy is a rat trying to get out of the trap to tell the truth.", "Or maybe it is a guy that went off of the reservation, and he went out there and actually decided to do something stupid and the governor didn't know about it. And now he is in a bad situation asking for immunity and pleading the Fifth. Why would I trust that guy?", "Well, this is the part for you, Ben --", "Let me jump in here, guys.", "And I am going to say that the bad part for Ben or for the conservatives and certainly Governor Christie is that drawing out all of the scenarios and the implausible possibilities. And as long as we are talking about that, we are not talking about what Christie wants, which is how he could be president.", "And could be and should be. And let's talk about what is. Governor Christie is in the spotlight and he had a long press conference and answered all kinds of questions about this. Does he feed to come out again now? We have the statements from the team. Does he need to come out publicly now?", "No, he does not need to do that, but a he has already done it. He did the right thing by saying, all right, media, I'm here, and I will stay here as long as you want me to stay here, and I will answer every ridiculous or serious question, and repeated question. I don't think that there is any new information.", "All you have is a disgruntled employee who is angry at this point with no new information.", "And to your point, Ben -- Marc, you think that he should come out, but why should he come out the talk before anybody has any idea what this purported evidence is? Why get in front of it?", "Well, I am not saying that he should come out before the evidence comes out, but once the evidence comes out, he needs to respond it. And, Ben, you were having a good day today. You were saying so many things that are correct today. And you --", "Thank you. I'm glad that we agree on that today. I'm being brilliant.", "And, yes, until now. Because now you are going back into the normalville, because you are saying that Chris Christie, if there is evidence that contradicts the press conference, he should remain silent. That is going to make him look like a liar.", "No, I'm saying don't come out and have a press conference about information if you don't know the information. What would he say, I heard this guy says we know something, but we may not know something, and so I am going to talk about nothing. And I'm the governor of the New Jersey and having a great time at the Super Bowl. What would you do there?", "I think we're on the same page. My only point is, at some point, Governor Christie does have to respond and he can't do it through the staffers or the press releases, but the same way he came out --", "-- and talk, and he needs to come out and respond.", "And you know what, we will know a lot more Monday, because we are hearing that is the earliest when we will see what the evidence could be. And then, I think that we probably would hear from the governor if there is something to address, considering how he reacted the last time, and coming to have the long press conference. <18:45:01> We will see. Ben is just excited, because he is going to Super Bowl and has incredible tickets.", "You better believe it.", "We will talk about that coming up in the next hour. Marc, Ben --", "And they better hope that the Broncos better hope that they are not routing for him, because he is not very good for routing for the right team.", "I'm rooting for the Broncos. All the Broncos.", "Football -- football talk in the next hour, gentlemen. Stand by for me here. And I appreciate the insight on this as always. Let's head back to Super Bowl Boulevard, and Don Lemon. D.L.?", "That is the real matchup there. And you know what I deal with trying to corral Ben and Marc.", "Right.", "You know, Poppy, the difference between winning and losing an NFL championship could come down to a single kick. And I got some tips from the Super Bowl winner, Steve Weatherford. Wait until you see my kick. 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{"id": "CNN-280745", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2016-04-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/06/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "Sanders Slammed For NY Daily News Interview", "utt": ["Breaking news out of the Bernie Sanders in Philadelphia rally tonight. Sanders telling a cheering crowd that he doesn't believe Hillary Clinton is qualified to be president. Joining me now CNN Senior Political Correspondent Brianna Keilar. Brianna, I want you to listen to the comments of Bernie Sanders just made about Hillary Clinton.", "Secretary Clinton appears to be getting a little bit nervous. We have won seven out of eight of the recent primaries and caucuses. And she has been saying lately that she thinks that I am \"not qualified to be president\". Well, let me just say in response to Secretary Clinton, I don't believe that she is qualified if she is.", "Brianna Keilar, I know it's loud where you are. Why does he say that she's not qualified?", "Well, he had a whole laundry list of reasons on among them, he said, she's not qualified because her Super PAC. If she's taking money through her Super PAC, $10 million for special interests. He also said, and you know, if she has voters for a number of these trade agreements. But you have to put this in context. This has been -- he had this ... (", "... with interview with the \"New York Daily News\" editorial board where he stumbled over a series of topics, and Hillary Clinton really has made hay of that as her campaign did basically trying to charge that Bernie Sanders is not qualified to be president. So he came out to this crowd very supportive, 10,000 people were thousands more overflow. And he said, you know, there have been charges that I am not qualified. Well I don't believe you're qualified to be president if this and this and that. So that's the list of things that I just spelled out for you.", "Brianna Keilar in Philadelphia in a loud Bernie Sanders rally. So Brianna, thank you very much. I want to bring in now Ben Jealous, a Bernie Sanders surrogate and former president of the NAACP Oregon, also CNN senior political commentator, Bob Beckel, Bob Beckel and Maria Cardona, a superdelegate committed to Hillary Clinton. I have to ask you, Ben, first of all, what do you make of Sanders' comments about Hillary Clinton not being qualified to be president?", "Look, I think what we're seeing is that we are getting into there, you know a place where the race has really tightened up. We've won seven out of eight races. In a couple of days will be eight out of nine races. The Clinton campaign said last night that they were going to attack Sanders, so that they would go after, you know, my friend trying to discredit and disqualify and that's exactly what they are doing. They've chosen to go heavily negative. Bernie is from Brooklyn, and he will frankly defend himself.", "What do you make of it? What do it make of that Bob? Do you think he had been saying, Hillary Clinton is not qualified to be president?", "I think that's a bit of a reach, but, you know, I talked to Tad Devine today for some time, Sanders Chief Strategist who used to work for me, which is why he's so good. But he in the course of this and sort of pieced together a strategy. The four states that really matter to them. New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana and California. If they can win two of those or maybe three, they go to the convention, and here's the issue. Superdelegates. They can't get there by pledge delegates. So they get there and say she's not electable. How not electable she is? She is not and I think ...", "Yeah. As you find your microphone, I'm going to turn to Maria Cardona. And, Maria, I mean at first they were very cordial. But I mean, you know, they're going back and forth with each other now. She had an interview with our Chris Cuomo this morning basically again saying that, you know, Bernie Sanders is, you know, she's saying basically he's not qualified and now she's well, you know, what let's listen to the Chris Cuomo interview and then we'll talk.", "In the interview, it seemed unclear as to whether he understood how Dodd-Frank worked. How we would go about breaking up banks that were posing risks to our economy. So I was, I think, a little bit, you know surprised that there didn't seem to be a lot of substance to what he was saying.", "She was talking she was referencing the \"New York Daily News\" interview that many are calling disastrous and was asked, how do you plan to go about breaking up the banks and he didn't seem to have a consistent or concrete answer.", "Right. Look, I mean certainly, they are going into the New York Primary, which is going to be very rough and tumble. We all knew from the very beginning. But I think he has gone beyond the pail tonight by saying he doesn't think she's qualified to be president. She has never said that she think he is not qualified to be president. What she has been saying and will continue to say all along is to contrast her experience, her knowledge, what she has done for the past 30 years and say that she believes she is more qualified to be president. And it is a very different contrast when you say that.", "I don't know about that. I mean maybe she's not saying it so directly, but it sounds like she's saying it in the next sound bite we have. Listen to this.", "OK.", "Is that what -- OK where she talks about him and being in Congress and really not having consistent answers. We don't have that. So, I'll ask you -- Bernie, so Bernie Sanders is not some newcomer to government like Donald Trump he's been in Congress for 25 years. How can he lack detail on issues that have been the centerpiece of his campaign for months?", "I think that's exactly right that is", "That was for Ben, but go ahead.", "Oh, yes, sorry.", "Oh. Yes sorry Don. Yes, actually I think you said Bernie instead of Ben, it's like a little confused. Right. You know look, you know, that was a confusing conversation with the daily news. They have zeroing in on the Fed when they should have been talking about Congress. You know, if folks want to, you know, if folks are curious there's a great article in the \"New York Times.\" I said Bernie does precisely what he's going to do. There is one on Huff Post that says the same thing you can go to his speech on Wall Street. Now he's very clear about the actions that need to be taken in Congress frankly to go ahead and essentially restore Glass/Steagall and wants to update at some. But restore Glass/Steagall which ever since FDR put it in place had protected us from a second grade depression. Then, President Clinton, of course, you know, got rid of it. Watered it down and here came the great recession. And, so, you know, the bottom line is that he's the only one with a plan to do it. Hillary Clinton has no plan to do it. And, of course, she won't release her speeches to Wall Street and the bankers who were there so that she would, that she promised them she'd be as good as a managing director at Goldman Sachs.", "But Bob, if -- he's said it in these other interviews as Ben said as Bernie Sanders, if he is clear in the \"Huffington Post\", he's clear in the \"New York Times,\" then why isn't he clear in the \"New York Daily News\"?", "Well, that's a good question. Again this is a time in a campaign when applause lines at gatherings like Philadelphia. The press starts to ask specifics and you better be prepared for. But then let me finish out what Devine was talking about. If they can win two out of four of those big states and they go on to the convention unlike they know they'll not going to have a majority delegates, but superdelegates are clearly their target. And here is the reason why. Superdelegates are not bound. They make pledge themselves to somebody but that doesn't mean anything. They switch all the time. I've had them switch in the numbers of 50 or 100 at a convention. But they think that they are going to make the argument she can't win. She's a liability. The IRS I mean the FBI investigation could be a problem. And that they should switch. And, you know, they also don't have to vote on the first ballot. They can abstain. Put you but low the number you need to get a majority.", "When you said IRS I thought you were going to break some other news on this. So Maria ...", "No.", "... you're a superdelegate, despite all the criticism Sanders has that he has enthusiastic support and is on quite a roll now. So, why can't she put him away?", "Well, because here's the issue. What I think is going on in the Democratic Party in terms of this back and forth between Hillary and Bernie, up until now has been very good for the party. It has helped mobilize Democrats out there. It has helped mobilize our supporters. It has made Hillary Clinton a much better candidate. It has made Bernie Sanders a much better candidate. And from the beginning, Hillary Clinton knew this was not going to be a cakewalk. She knew this was not going to be a coronation. So the question about whether she hasn't or has or hasn't been able to put him away, let's look at the numbers. It is right now mathematically impossible, even if she loses every single state from here until the end of the calendar for Bernie Sanders to catch up to her on pledged delegates. And the problem with a theory about what they now want to do with superdelegates after they were talking about how undemocratic superdelegates were is that there has never been an instance where super delegates have overturned the will of the people. Meaning superdelegates have never gone and flipped to give the candidate with the less number of pledge delegates at the convention.", "OK.", "Their support so that they could get over the threshold. And that's not going to happen this time around either.", "But to Maria's point, Ben because, you know, Bernie Sanders campaign has been talking about this. Its one thing to imply this race is undemocratic to Hillary Clinton were only winning because of these superdelegates. But she is beating Sanders in pledged delegates as well. So right now your campaign is simply behind. Is that not the case?", "Look, we are behind. We're also catching up. We've won eight of the last nine. And frankly most of those by landslides. It's not impossible. It's a steep climb. It is not impossible. And, you know, what's -- you know, quite real is that, you know, we are going up against a candidate who has the highest negatives of any front-runner we've ever seen in the Democratic Party. Who -- performs the worst in head-to-head against any of the likely Republicans? And that's a real issue. So we need to be having a conversation about the voters in the states coming up. Really need to be thinking about not just who they think is going to win their state, you know, it tends to be us in the second half but quite frankly who is the best one to make sure that the Republicans do not get back in the White House and every poll says that that's Bernie Sanders.", "All right, stay with me, everyone. Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders claim a home court advantage in New York. But will that help either of them on our CNN Debate next Thursday in Brooklyn? 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{"id": "CNN-298222", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-11-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/15/cnr.05.html", "summary": "The Huddle Over Cabinet Picks; Obama Warns Against Crude Nationalism; Rogers Leaves Transition Team; Ryan on Same Page with Trump", "utt": ["Hi there and welcome to CNN NEWSROOM. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm Brianna Keilar. Now some of the biggest decisions that any new president makes comes weeks even months before he or she officially has the job. And so we begin this hour at Trump Tower in Manhattan, the site of a high-stakes huddle between the president-elect and his running mate, seen here. Also happens to be heading up his transition team. Sixty-six days before they are sworn into office, Donald Trump and Mike Pence are said to be matching cabinet positions with candidates. It's a process that as of yesterday was described by one source as a, quote, \"knife fight\" between Republican main streamers and outsiders. CNN's Phil Mattingly joining us now with what we know and also, Phil, of course, what we can't wait to find out.", "Yes, specific names, right?", "That's right.", "And specific answers on things. I think what's most interesting right now is the news that's developed over the last couple -- probably 48 hours, including over the last couple of hours. You mentioned \"knife fight.\" There is an individual who is leaving the transition team today that we've all probably heard of. His name's Mike Rogers. He is the former House Intelligence chairman. He's a former FBI special agent. He was on the transition team. A key player on the transition team on the national security side of things. And, frankly, when you talk to national security and foreign policy folks who are a little bit wary of the Trump campaign, the Trump transition team, Mike Rogers was seen as a good sign to them.", "They loved that he was on here.", "He was -- he was the sign that things would be OK. They were taking this seriously. Mike Rogers no longer on the transition team. Now, officially, he has thanked the transition team. He said it was time for him to leave. What we are hearing behind the scenes is, this was part of a -- kind of a systemic purge, if you will. A pushing out of top allies of Chris Christie. Now, you remember, Chris Christie was running the transition team. No longer. Has been kind of pushed out. Now top advisers to Chris Christie, top allies of Chris Christie, have also left the transition team. This is part of a power play is kind of the way it's being described to us. Now, the transition team officially is not commenting on this. But what we're hearing behind the scenes right now is this is a very difficult process. It is a lot of powerful people and power-hungry people that are battling back and forth. And right now, if you're allied with Chris Christie or you came in with Chris Christie, odds are you're moving outside the door.", "Are establishment Republicans freaking out about this?", "Yes, I think so. And I think it's -- there's an interesting element here, right, of Trump officials look at this and say, look, you weren't with us from the beginning. Why should we all of a sudden -- when you told us we were going to lose, we're going to get killed from the primary through the election, why should we all of a sudden listen to you? And there's nowhere this is more apparent than on the foreign policy side. How many Republicans in the traditional foreign policy camp, the traditional Republican foreign policy camp signed letters saying they're anti-Trump, signed letters saying they were never Trump. Those individuals right now, behind the scenes I'm told, are weighing very heavily, do we come in now and try and help for the good of the country, to be patriots? And the Trump team is saying, look, you weren't here from us from the beginning. Loyalty matters. We don't care what your resume says. We don't want you here.", "But what about people -- Ben Carson was very loyal --", "Right.", "And yet his associate is saying he was offered HHS secretary and he turned it down.", "Right.", "And what I found startling about Armstrong Williams, his business manager's statement, was he said that he's a neophyte and that it was a lot to ask. He ran for president, so --", "Yes. So apparently HHS secretary is less intense than being president of the United States.", "I know. Is that harder? Is that harder than the White House or --", "No, look, when it comes to Dr. Ben Carson, when it comes to Armstrong Williams, you always kind of take what they're saying with a grain of salt. But here's kind of what we know or what I've been told at least. Ben Carson was told that there was a place for him in the administration. Whether or not that was a cabinet secretary position. Armstrong Williams saying HHS was an opportunity for him. Ben Carson has decided that he wants to stay outside of the administration and advise from that capacity. It's --", "Where he can also make a lot of money.", "You can also make money. And Ben Carson has made a lot of money on the speaking circuit. But, again, it just -- it underscores that there are a lot of loyalists here that want big-time positions. There are a lot of people on the outside that want positions that are trying to figure out their way in. The baseline reality here is, as you noted, we are 60-plus day away. There are major decisions that need to be made for hundreds if not thousands of government positions right now and there is still a lot of dissention, a lot of tension inside the transition team.", "Secretary of state is so interesting. Let's take a look at some of the names that we have. Josh -- or, I should say, former Ambassador Bolton. We also have Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, Bob Corker, Richard Haas. What do you make of this?", "So, what we're hearing right now, what I've been told, is that Rudy Giuliani has a lead in this. And you've heard -- you might have seen some comments from Rudy Giuliani last night essentially saying that he thinks he's probably the best person for the job. There's one thing that I'm continuously cautioned of as we start tossing out names, and you can look at Treasury Department or Defense Department, or attorney general, and we're all getting names back and forth. Here's the reality. Until Donald Trump signs off on this name, it could change from hour to hour. So while we are hearing right now that Rudy Giuliani has the lead, Ambassador Bolton has a lot of Republican support with him as well. Bob Corker is always around. So keep that in mind. Also worth noting real quick before we close, Mike Pence showing up there is a very big moment. He's now running the transition team, but he is also somebody with definitive connections across the Republican Party. What he says, what he recommends carries a lot of weight, I'm told.", "That's really interesting. All right, Phil Mattingly, thank you so much for sorting all of that out. Well, President Obama is in Greece today as part of his last scheduled overseas trip before he leaves office. And at a news conference that you may have seen live here on CNN, he was asked more than once about the U.S. election. And here's some of what he had to say.", "I think at times of significant stress, people are going to be looking for something, and they don't always know exactly what it is that they're looking for and they may opt for change, even if they're not entirely confident what that change will bring. I do believe, separate and apart from any particular election or movement, that we are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an \"us\" and a \"them.\" And I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common, as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict.", "Fascinating comments after the president's press conference at the White House yesterday. Joining me now to discuss this is David Swerdlick, he's the assistant editor of \"The Washington Post,\" and CNN political commentator and CNN Politics executive editor Mark Preston. You listened to that. That was a warning in a way, guarding against tribalism. He talked about crude, meaning, he's -- he's talking about guarding against racism and some of the heightened rhetoric that we saw from Donald Trump and the support that he got from the alt-right xenophobic, anti-Semitic ideologues, basically. What -- this is interesting. He's saying this abroad, and it is a bit of a counterpoint to what he said yesterday, where he said, you know, basically he's giving Donald Trump a chance. He didn't take a swing at him.", "Yes. No, and I think President Obama is trying to do three things and weave them together right now with his speeches over the last several day. One is to, you know, sort of set the example for this peaceful transition of power, two, defend his own record, which he -- he did in the press conference yesterday just with a few key highlights, and then now, today, warning against -- that there is a potential for division and for a stoking of the -- of the divisions that were there in the campaign if both sides, if both partisans sides and if the new administration is not careful.", "He's speaking to concerns of Democrats it sounds like.", "Yes, no doubt. Not only Democrats, but also just folks who were concerned about a Donald Trump presidency and not necessarily Donald Trump or perhaps Donald Trump, but really those who he surrounds himself with and who is going to have his ear at the very last time to make those all-important decisions, whether it's domestic or whether it's dealing with foreign governments.", "Let's talk a little bit about the future here. What Donald Trump and those he surrounds himself with, what that's going to look like. The knife fight is what we heard this described as yesterday. Is Mike Rogers a casualty of this? He may have been someone who was aligned with Chris Christie, but is that the only reason why he's gone?", "You know, look, we're still learning why Congressman Rogers decided to pull himself out of it. Look, I think it's a disservice actually to the nation because we all know Mike Rogers. I mean he has -- he's worked here at CNN. He was very well respected on Capitol Hill. He was very well respected within the intelligence community. And not having his input and his mind and, quite frankly, his guiding force I think is a mistake for the Trump transition team. As you discussed, a knife fight is going on. And just to explain what the knife fight is, that means there's a lot of blood. There's a lot of blood being spilt right now.", "Yes, no, I agree with Mark. I mean when you have someone who was a respected committee chair, someone who's a former FBI special agent or a senior agent leaving the Trump transition team this early, even though he left -- you know, tried to calm the waters with his statement, it strikes me that this is a loss more for the Trump team than for Congressman Rogers.", "There's so many people who are really paying attention to who's going to be secretary of state. A huge job. And Rudy Giuliani is publicly campaigning for this job. But you look at -- let's just say his personality profile, right? He is -- he's not the most diplomatic guy. So what is the thinking here? What is the prevailing opinion on who's going to be secretary of state at this point?", "I think it's Rudy's if he wants it. Listen, talk about someone who has been very loyal to Donald Trump through all of this, who has been really his big cheerleader, has defended him on every count. Look, Rudy's got a lot of New York in him, right? He is very blunt. He says what's on his mind. And as you say, you are the top diplomat for the world. You are speaking for the leader of the free world. The question is, if he does become secretary of state, will he be able to temper that, because that really is a job. And Hillary Clinton did a very good job for Barack Obama in tempering it, not making it about herself.", "David, I want to ask you about John Bolton because the former ambassador is -- he is still not sorry about the Iraq War. Some people have -- you know, Donald Trump, obviously, tries to make the case that he was against it, even though we know he actually was not. How could he possibly pick John Bolton?", "Well, I think he could because Donald Trump likes a certain posture. Whether or not he and John Bolton agree on everything policy wise, John Bolton has been unapologetic. He has presented and aggressive face. He has the resume, right? He was the former U.N. ambassador. So you could see a situation where a foreign policy type could convince President-elect Trump to pick Bolton, even if they may wind up disagreeing down the road on how to approach Russia, how to approach Iran, how to approach other issues around the globe.", "A very good point. All right, David Swerdlick, Mark Preston, thank you so much. Up next, the Trump team isn't the only transition tango in town. House Republicans are set to elect their leadership team, while House Democrats still shell shocked over the Trump win just decided to delay their vote. 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{"id": "CNN-3863", "program": "Newsday", "date": "2000-3-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/06/nd.03.html", "summary": "Election 2000: McCain, Angry Over Negative TV Ads, Makes Last- Ditch Effort in California", "utt": ["Over the last period of time, we've been taking you to John McCain's speech out in California, also George W. Bush's speeches out in California, as the two of them head for the home stretch before Super Tuesday. California voting there, among the states up to bat. Jonathan Karl joins us now from the location where John McCain was speaking. Jonathan, last-minute strategy and attempts by John McCain to turn things around?", "Well, McCain making a last- ditch effort here in California. Most of his top aides say McCain faces an almost insurmountable uphill battle in terms of winning the Republican vote here in California. But they are still holding out hope that they can win that general popularity contest where Democrats and independents have their vote count out as well in California. Just finishing up an event here in Silicon Valley, McCain expressing anger over the fact that two of George Bush's allies from Texas, the Wyly brothers, have spent $2.5 million, running television ads, attacking John McCain's record on the environment. What John McCain is saying is that this amounts to an illegal contribution to George W. Bush's campaign of $2.5 million because the ads clearly intended to help Bush. The Bush campaign, of course, denying any involvement with those ads. But the McCain campaign planning on filing a complaint with the FEC over those ads. And, here in Silicon Valley, McCain had some strong words for George W. Bush and those two Texas supporters.", "We are going to send a message to two sleazy Texans who put two and a half...", "... who put at least $2.5 million, running attack ads against me, which nobody can account for -- could account for for a while, who are running attack ads, $2.5 million out of Texas into California, Ohio and New York. That is running for president in the worst way. And we reject that kind of politics in America.", "McCain moves from here down to Southern California to hit the two biggest media markets down there: events in San Diego and in Los Angeles, before going back to Los Angeles and waiting for those returns tomorrow -- Frank.", "John Karl. And we do want to reiterate that George W. Bush denies any connection between the Wyly brothers and that ad campaign you just heard Jonathan Karl talking about and his campaign."], "speaker": ["FRANK SESNO, CNN ANCHOR", "JONATHAN KARL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MCCAIN", "KARL", "SESNO"]}
{"id": "CNN-97623", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2005-9-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/13/lad.03.html", "summary": "FEMA Director Michael Brown Resigned Monday; Road To Recovery", "utt": ["The international markets are mixed this morning. Tokyo's Nikkei is up just over five-and-a-half points, the London FTSE down 33, the German DAX down about 66 points. Now back to Katrina recovery operations. The death toll from the hurricane officially stands at 512. But bodies are still being found around New Orleans. CNN's J.J. Ramberg joins us live from that flooded city. Good morning --", "Good morning, Carol. That death toll is expected to rise as people -- as the crews are able to reach more areas that had previously been hard to get to. They expect to find more bodies. And unfortunately, that number is going to rise. Officials are saying, thought, that probably within the next few days they'll have a better assessment of the totals. And on a positive note, when you drive around the streets here in New Orleans, we are seeing some progress of the cleanup efforts. You're seeing trees getting cut down. You're seeing the streets getting cleared. But there is still criticism that the progress is going too slowly, and people are hoping that some changes in Washington will speed that up.", "Under a mountain of scathing criticism over his handling of Hurricane Katrina, Michael Brown resigned from his post as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday. In his place, President Bush tapped David Paulison, a homeland security veteran best known for suggesting Americans stock up on duct tape and plastic sheeting after 9/11. Still facing questions about the federal government's slow response to the disaster, President Bush returned to Washington after his first look at damage on the ground in New Orleans. It was the president's third visit to the Gulf Coast region in the two weeks since Katrina devastated the area.", "I think it's very important for Congress to take a close look at what went on, what didn't go on, and come up with a series of recommendations.", "There's an ongoing attempt to find survivors in New Orleans who may need rescue.", "Our efforts are still being put to save human life. And, you know, we're still following up on any information that we get. We still have boats out, but it's not the large number that we had in the beginning.", "In a small move towards normalcy, the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans, which served as a field hospital for evacuees, will reopen today for a limited number of passenger flights.", "J.J. Ramberg reporting live from New Orleans this morning. Thank you. Three hours from now, acting FEMA Director David Paulison will deliver his first public comments since being named to the position. He and Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff plan to provide an operational update on Hurricane Katrina response and recovery efforts. And you can watch their news conference here live on CNN. As Gulf Coast residents pick up the pieces of their lives after Hurricane Katrina, many are getting down to the nitty-gritty with their insurance companies. President Bush got an earful from one storm victim as he toured the damage in New Orleans.", "She said, \"I want to ask you something, Mr. President.\" She said, \"How would you like it if your insurance company said, 'Ma'am, this is a flood event, and therefore I'm not going to cover your house?'\" I said, 'I wouldn't like it a bit.'", "Not many people would. So, how can hurricane victims make sure they get treated fairly by their insurance companies? Here to help us answer that question is Joanne Doroshow. She's executive director of the Center for Justice and Democracy. First of all, Joanne, is there anything the president can do?", "Well, sure. In fact, what he and FEMA ought to be doing right now is making sure -- pressuring these insurance companies to pay these claims right off and not delay. One of the issues that he just discussed was whether flood insurance or wind insurance or homeowners' policies are going to cover this damage. These claims need to be paid right now, and then the insurance companies and the government can figure out what the allocation should be. Flood insurance is covered by -- is underwritten by the federal government.", "Oh. We'll get to that subject a little later. But first of all, I want to talk about the numbers of people calling your organization complaining about their insurance companies. What are you hearing?", "Well, we set up a hotline under our coalition group, Americans for Insurance Reform. And we're already hearing from people who are having terrible problems even getting their agents or the companies on the phone to begin with. But also, most people under their homeowners' policies are entitled to living expenses right off to cover their hotel and food that they are purchasing right now.", "And they say they are not getting that money.", "Some people are not. You have situations, for example, with one company, Travelers. They have one office in Baton Rouge. They're asking all of their policyholders to travel to Baton Rouge to file these claims. You know, it's hard enough for anybody to do that, let alone if you're sick and elderly. So, they're unable to get the money that they should be getting right off. So, these are very, very difficult circumstances for people.", "I know. Let's get back to the flood insurance, because the insurance companies would say, if you didn't buy flood insurance, then we don't cover you for flood damage. Now, during a hurricane when the wind blows down your house, that's obviously hurricane damage. But if there's a storm surge, and your home is flooded, that's probably not covered, right?", "Well, there's going to be wind and rain damage to your home before the storm surge. So, whatever percentage would come under the wind damage should be paid by the insurance companies. But what we're saying is they need to pay these claims right now. Then figure out what the allocation is, instead of waiting and going through a long process. Meanwhile, these people are not going to get any money at all. You know, and there is...", "But you know there is going to be arguments. You know that a lot of homeowners will be emotionally distressed anyway. A lot of them will be stretched very thin financially. And they've got to, you know, look at this insurance agent and say, look, this damage was caused by the hurricane. I mean, what can they say? What should they say to get the insurance agent to understand their point of view?", "Well, what's very, very important, first of all, is for everybody to keep very good records of everything. Now, those people that are back in their homes or never left -- I mean, there are many people in damaged homes. They need to document everything. They need to immediately list what all of their possessions were, anything that was damaged. They need to get as much justification for that as they possibly can. And then, if the insurance agent or claims adjuster denies the claim, they need to ask exactly what in that policy is causing them to deny that claim or lowball it.", "So, what if they say, you know, you didn't have flood insurance; there's nothing we can do?", "Well, then -- you know, then we can complain to the -- if that's true, that's one thing. It may not be true. There may be all kinds of abuses going on. In fact, we're asking the government to step up and exercise some oversight here, because of the potential for abuse here. The reason there is potential is because if you're an insurance company, and you know the federal government is covering the flood insurance claim, and your reserves are covering homeowners, well, there's a real conflict of interest there. And you can see a lot of abuse where they're going to be over-declaring things as flood as opposed to wind damage. So, what we're doing is we're trying to maintain a database of complaints to make sure that these kinds of abuses don't occur, and report these abuses to state insurance departments. Keep the interest hopefully among the media in all of this, because I think having the oversight is the only way to keep them somewhat honest in all of this.", "Well, I'm sure in the weeks to come we're going to be hearing from many angry homeowners, because there's bound to be problems. Just out of curiosity, how many calls are you getting?", "Well, we opened our hotline yesterday, and we immediately got 30 calls. We expect that we're going to be getting many, many calls today and for the rest of the week. People are having a real hard time right now with their insurance companies.", "Well, we'll keep in touch. Joanne Doroshow, executive director of the Center for Justice and Democracy. Thanks for joining us this morning.", "Thank you.", "The latest Gallup poll is a poignant example of the racial divide in this country even in terms of perceptions. Gallup asked if the federal government was slow in rescuing the people of New Orleans, because many of the victims were black. Twelve percent of whites and 60 percent of blacks said yes, while a whopping 86 percent of whites and 37 percent of blacks say no, race did not play a role. The highest-ranking African-American in President Bush's cabinet is adding her voice to the debate. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tells \"The New York Times\" the images of the hurricane victims are evidence that -- quote -- \"There are still places that race and poverty are a huge problem in the United States, and we've got to deal with that.\" Rice says it's a vestige of particularly the Old South in this case. Your news, money, weather and sports. It is 6:45 Eastern. Here's what's all new this morning. It is day two of Judge John Roberts' Supreme Court confirmation hearings. And he could face some tough questions. Democratic senators want to know his views on some key issues like abortion and civil rights. In money news, Oracle says it's agreed to buy rival Siebel Systems for more than nearly $6 billion. The company said the deal should be done by early next year. In pop culture, Michael Jackson is lining up the talent for a song to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Among those on board, Mariah Carey, Snoop Dog, James Brown and Mary Blige. In sports, Barry Bonds is back after knee surgery, and the Giants fans could not be happier. Bonds hit a ground rule double in his first at bat of the season. And that was the only hit of the game. But the Giants still won 4-3 over the Padres.", "Oh, Carol, it was a home run.", "Well, but it was fan interference.", "Yes, but -- I don't know. I don't think he reached over far enough to get the ball. It should have been a home run. Give him -- oh, whatever. It could have been 704. I could have been a contender.", "You know, yesterday we were wondering what the New Orleans Saints were going to do for their home games. Well, now we know. The team says they will play three games at the Alamo Dome in San Antonio. That includes the game on the day before Christmas. But they'll keep four home games in their home state. For those, they'll play at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Of course, the first home game is scheduled for this coming Monday night at Giants Stadium in the Meadowland. Still to come on DAYBREAK, one of CNN Radio's correspondent, Ed McCarthy, is just back from the disaster zone. He'll share his stories of Katrina's aftermath."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "J.J. J.J. RAMBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "RAMBERG (voice over)", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "RAMBERG", "CHIEF EDDIE COMPASS, NEW ORLEANS POLICE", "RAMBERG", "COSTELLO", "BUSH", "COSTELLO", "JOANNE DOROSHOW, CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY", "COSTELLO", "DOROSHOW", "COSTELLO", "DOROSHOW", "COSTELLO", "DOROSHOW", "COSTELLO", "DOROSHOW", "COSTELLO", "DOROSHOW", "COSTELLO", "DOROSHOW", "COSTELLO", "DOROSHOW", "COSTELLO", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "COSTELLO", "MYERS", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-205410", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-4-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/22/cnr.12.html", "summary": "Widow's Lawyer Speaks To CNN", "utt": ["Want to welcome our viewers here in the U.S. and all around the world. I'm Brooke Baldwin alongside my colleague Jake Tapper. We are live on this Monday, from Boston. The 19-year-old bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is currently sitting in a hospital bed, handcuffed, and moments ago, we learned of the charges now filed against him, using, including the biggest charge of all, using a weapon of mass destruction, resulting in the destruction of property. And, of course, the deaths of three people, these three young lives, in addition to injuries, including more than 200 others who are standing around the finish line one week ago today. We are standing around that finish line one week ago today. Boston is a city still reeling after the deadly bombings. A terrorist manhunt, car chases, shootouts, and a city wide lockdown. Now we are minutes away from that moment of silence. We now know the White House, the president, will be pausing to remember the four innocent people who were killed in a week of violence.", "We're also following a group of runners who are determined to finish the race. They started last Monday. But now let's go to Chris Lawrence who has got more information on one of the suspects, the eldest brother, Tamerlan, had a child and a wife, Katherine Russell, you've spoken to her. Chris, you've spoken to her lawyer. What did they tell you and what are you learning from the folks there about her religious beliefs?", "Good question, Jake. Basically she is the woman that everyone has been wanting to know about. That's a federal agent passing by behind me right there, federal agents have been posted outside Katherine Russell's parents home, which is right here. This is where she's been staying for the past several days. Federal agents have been trying to speak with her, trying to determine what, if anything, she knew about what her husband was doing and who else he may have been affiliated with besides his younger brother. The attorney says basically that she understands their interest. She understands that it is a national security issue, and she feels very, very strongly about what happened to the victims of Boston. He also says quite bluntly, the family is a complete mess. He said Katherine Russell is distraught over what happened. He said she did not know anything about what her husband was doing, and says basically that right now her concern is with their 3-year-old daughter, who she now is trying to raise as a widow -- Jake.", "Chris, National Public Radio last week found three roommates of Kate Russell, of Katherine Russell, who lived with her in college, and said that they never liked Tamerlan, that once he came into their lives around 2008 or 2009, he started becoming belligerent, violent.", "Brainwashing words.", "Brainwashing, said that when she married him, she basically cut off all contact with all of her friends. This, first of all, would undermine the argument that he wasn't really radicalized until 2011, if he's violent and doing that brainwashing in 2008, 2009, but more to the point, what does the family say about her state of mind even before these attacks?", "Basically, Jake, she's known to her close friends as Katie, Katie Russell. She's young. She just graduated high school in, like, 2007. They were married in 2010 and basically she was raised as a Christian. She converted to Islam after becoming involved with Tamerlan, and we're told she is an observant Muslim, wears a head scarf and was wearing a head scarf when she was here earlier this morning.", "All right, Chris Lawrence in Rhode Island, following the developments with the wife of Tamerlan, who is holed up with her family in Rhode Island, I imagine it must be --", "Tough for the parents, I'm sure and just getting their little girl back. We're following that story. We're also getting as we have been reading this criminal complaint, new nuggets because we now know the charges have been read to the younger suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. We are going to Don Lemon who is standing outside of Beth Israel Hospital not too far from us here in Boston. We'll get an update on his condition. And as we're learning more, we will share some of these new details about the moments just about one week ago today. Again, we're waiting for also a moment of silence less than 20 minutes away now. You're watching special coverage here on CNN."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "BALDWIN", "TAPPER", "LAWRENCE", "TAPPER", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-11903", "program": "Newsday", "date": "2000-7-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/14/nd.02.html", "summary": "Senate Votes to Eliminate Estate Taxes", "utt": ["On Capitol Hill, the stage is set for an election year showdown with President Clinton over taxes. The Senate has just approved a bill phasing out estate taxes. CNN's national correspondent Bob Franken is on the Hill -- Bob.", "As a matter of fact, Judy, there's a second stage that's being set. A vote early next week expected on the marriage penalty tax as the Republicans try and line up their political ducks. But this one wasn't even close.", "On this vote H.R. 8, the Death Tax Elimination Act of 2000, yeas are 59, the nays are 39. The bill is agreed to.", "The Republicans love to call this the death tax. Its official name, really, is the estate tax, the more neutral term. Republicans, claiming that people who are small farmers and the like should not be penalized when they pass their property, etc., on to their heirs. The Democrats saying that all this is really is another tax break for the rich, that by phasing out the estate tax, they'll be costing billions of dollars in revenue just to help wealthy people. Because just about everybody else avoids an estate tax anyway. With the Republican convention coming up, the Republicans tried to make the most out of this politically.", "The good news is the Congress has repealed the death tax. The bad news is the president says he's going to veto it, but the good news is Bill Clinton is not going to be president next year.", "Which gets us to what this all about and what the timing is all about. The political conventions start in about two weeks. The president will have to make his final decision on a veto within that period of time. If, as expected, he does veto this as nothing more than a tax break for the rich, the Republicans will try and turn it around during the convention and make this, and probably the marriage penalty tax, political issues that they can hammer away at during the convention in Philadelphia -- Judy.", "Bob Franken at the Capitol."], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. SAM BROWNBACK (R), KANSAS", "FRANKEN", "SEN. PHIL GRAMM (R), TEXAS", "FRANKEN", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-115040", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-3-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/05/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Congressional Hearings on Conditions at Walter Reed; Vying for Votes; Atlanta Bus Crash", "utt": ["You are with CNN. You're informed. Good morning, everybody. I'm Heidi Collins.", "And I'm T.J. Holmes, sitting in today for Tony Harris. Developments coming in to the NEWSROOM on this Monday, March 5th. Her is what we have on the rundown.", "Happening now, Army outpatient care under the microscope. Congress questioning generals and soldiers about conditions at Walter Reed.", "From foe to friend? North Korea and the U.S. sit down for one-on-one talks today. Could American aid be far behind?", "And it's an illness that's often misdiagnosed. Living with Celiac Disease in the NEWSROOM. Army generals facing major questions this hour. What went wrong at the Army's premier hospital? Right now, live pictures. You see members of Congress are at Army Walter Reed Medical Center, holding a hearing. The focus, reports of substandard conditions for America's wounded warriors. CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr is following today's hearings. Barbara, I've been trying to listen in myself, but it's a little difficult to do. Tell us what has happened so far this morning.", "Well, Heidi, this is an extraordinary hearing this morning at Walter Reed. This is the first panel. We have two very badly injured soldiers, the wife of another soldier testifying on behalf of her husband. What Americans are seeing here, Heidi, is the side of coming home from war that is not about parades, that is not about music videos. The very painful side of trying to get the medical care that these troops need. Let's play for you just two comments that were made by these wounded troops.", "The system can't be trusted. And soldiers get less than they deserve from a system seemingly design to run -- and run, to cut the costs associated with fighting this war. The truly sad thing is that surviving veterans from every war we've ever fought can tell the same basic story.", "The conditions in the room in my mind were just -- it was unforgivable for anybody to live -- it wasn't fit for anybody to live in a room like that. I know most soldiers have -- they're just coming out of recovery. You have weaker immune systems. The black mold can do damage to people and the holes in the walls. I wouldn't live there even if I had to.", "Heidi, firsthand accounts from the soldiers at Walter Reed about the outpatient conditions that they were facing, the deplorable housing conditions for some of them, and their great frustration and pain in trying to get this post-op outpatient care that they needed. Now, to be clear, not every soldier faced this kind of frustration. There are many cases where soldiers moved through the system, went on, went back home, went back on to active duty. But for way too many troops, Heidi, this has been a very painful, very frustrating experience. And now, of course, later today we will hear from the top generals, who will try and explain how all of this happened without anybody seemingly noticing -- Heidi.", "Barbara, I have so many questions for you, but I know we need to keep it on focus here. What does BRAC have to do with all this, the Base Realignment and Closure list? Is that something that affects or affected the situation here?", "Well, some people are saying it does. Walt Reed Army Hospital is slated to close in the months ahead under the base closure system. There is a contention out there that once it was slated for closing, that things fell into disrepair, that many of the permanent staff left, that it was all handed over to contractors.", "Right.", "There haven't internal memos warning about all of this. But Army officials say that they did get enough staff finally on board. But the fact that this hospital was slated for closure, certainly I don't think anyone believes that that's a viable excuse for less than top-quality care for America's wounded troops. It still is a question that begs an answer -- how could these people have been living in an outpatient system, not on the hospital wards, not during that trauma care period, but once they became outpatient, once they were going for their medical appointments, for their rehabilitation, for their evaluations, how could America's most badly wounded troops be living in rooms with mold on the walls?", "Interesting, though I'm not -- right.", "Those are questions that still have to be answered.", "Absolutely, no question about it. A couple of other things here. Lieutenant General Kevin Kiley -- of course the Army's surgeon general -- his status at this point today is what?", "Lieutenant General Kevin Kiley, as we speak, remains the surgeon general of the Army. He is scheduled to testify at this hearing on the next panel. But make no mistake, Heidi. General Kiley is now the man in the crosshairs by all accounts. General Kiley was the commander at Walter Reed up until late last year when -- before he was promoted to surgeon general. He was in command at Walter Reed when many of these problems emerged. His replacement, General George Weightman, who had only been on the job several months, already has been fired. The secretary of the Army, the civilian head, Francis Harvey, already fired. Hard to see, frankly, how General Kiley will be able to keep the support and be able to stay in his current job. We are told that General Kiley will testify he wants to stay on. He wants to be part of the solution, he will say, but he clearly was in command when these problems developed. How he plans to stay in command remains something that will emerge over the next several hours -- Heidi.", "CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr. Barbara, we'll be watching this with you. Thanks so much.", "Sure.", "Well, they're not the only ones talking about Walter Reed today. The vice president also making some comments. Dick Cheney is actually delivering some comments to the joint opening session of the VFW national conference that they have, a national legislative conference that's happening in D.C., expected to talk about the war on terrorism. But he opened by making some comments and remarks about the issues at Walter Reed. Take a listen.", "Closer to home, there's serious concern about conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center here in Washington. Secretary Bob Gates and the Defense Department have moved quickly to ensure that our injured soldiers are taken care of. The secretary has formed an independent review group to investigate the situation and identify the necessary steps to make sure it never happens again. President Bush has made our administration's priority very clear to the Congress and to the country -- there will be no excuses, only action. And the federal bureaucracy will not slow that action down. We're going to fix the problems at Walter Reed, period.", "You hear the vice president there promising action to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The conference happening in D.C., promising that the bureaucracy, you just heard there, is not going to stop that action. So, a lot happening, a lot of talk, at least today in Washington, D.C., about the issues at Walter Reed. Now let's head back to Wall Street and check out the numbers right now.", "Courting the African-American vote -- a full-court press by the top two Democratic presidential hopefuls. We get the story now from CNN Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley, part of the best political team on television.", "Competing for the attention and votes of African-Americans, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spoke at churches within shouting distance of each other, each laying claim to the legacy that was Selma.", "It is the gift that keeps on giving. Today it is giving senator Obama the chance to run for president of the United States. And by its logic and spirit it is giving the same chance to Governor Bill Richardson, a Hispanic, and yes, it is giving me that chance, too.", "Don't tell me I'm not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama. I'm here because somebody marched for our freedom. I'm here because y'all sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders...", "This was two high-profile competitors, united by a cause giving roughly the same message.", "All the good speaking has been done by Hillary and Senator Obama today.", "Make that three high-profile people. Former President Bill Clinton, often referred to in the African-American community as the first black president, came along, too. Another sign of how fierce the competition is for the black vote. Consider John Lewis, who was beaten in the original march from Selma in '65. Sunday he was in church with Barack Obama and then walked holding hands with Hillary Clinton. Ask him who he'll support. REP. JOHN LEWIS (D), GEORGIA; Well, it's a very difficult position to be in, but it's a good position to be in. We have choices.", "Obama, Clinton, Clinton and Lewis walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge Sunday where 42 years ago marchers were stopped with dogs, and horses and police batons. This time only the cameras got in the way.", "CNN's Candy Crowley, part of the best political team on television. And if you want to hear more of the Selma speeches made by senators Obama and Clinton, just be sure to log on to CNN.com.", "And new developments this morning in that disturbing case out of Michigan where a woman was killed and also dismembered. And now the sheriff there says Stephen Grant has confessed to killing his wife, Tara Lynn.", "I think he understood there was a lot of mounting pressure. He understood that the investigators and the law enforcement were not letting up on this issue. And I think it led him to realizing, you know, I've got to get this off my chest, because, you know, I have to make some admissions or at least let you know exactly what took place. And he did just that.", "A human torso was found Saturday in the family's garage. Grant was then captured the next day about 250 miles from his home. He has been hospitalized for hypothermia and possible frostbite. The sheriff expects Grant to be released from the hospital later today and possibly face arraignment tomorrow.", "Looking for clues in a very tragic accident. Today, investigators focusing on a highway interchange here in Atlanta, while in the aftermath of Friday's deadly bus crash, a close-knit community in Ohio tries to make sense of the losses. Our Soledad O'Brien has more.", "Bluffton University baseball players and their parents returning home on Sunday from Atlanta, where four teammates perished in a bus crash on Friday. John Betts lost his son, David, a sophomore. He came home to Ohio wearing David's Bluffton baseball cap.", "He died doing what he loved and who he enjoyed being with. And I think that's a very important part for us as a family, to know that he was very, very happy in the last moments and seconds of his life.", "Three of David's teammates died, too -- freshmen Cody Holp and Scott Harmon and sophomore Tyler Williams. The bus driver and his wife, Jerome and Jean Niemeyer, were also killed. Crash investigators believe the driver mistook an exit ramp for the regular HOV lane on I-75. The charter bus apparently failed to stop at the top of the ramp, careening across the intersection before plunging on to the interstate below. Twenty-nine passengers were injured in the crash. Several remain in Atlanta hospitals, including the team's coach, James Grandey.", "About all he remembers, he remembers sitting -- what he called was on the median. It might have been the berm of the road, up against some concrete looking at the bus on its side and thinking, my goodness, we must have fallen off.", "Federal investigators are now looking closely at this highway interchange that has seen more than 80 accidents in the past decade.", "I personally believe that we should be talking to the state of Georgia to see whether there is any sort of interim steps, not necessarily a recommendation coming from us, but is there something that the state of Georgia could do to recognize that it shouldn't be business as usual at that intersection?", "Soledad O'Brien, CNN, reporting.", "Wounded in war, forgotten in treatment? Congress tackling the troubles at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. You're looking at a live shot of hearings that are under way right now in D.C. We are covering it here in the", "And when food hurts. Living with Celiac Disease, why some foods make so many so sick. It's all coming up in the", "And more scenes of carnage in the streets of Baghdad. A suicide bomber takes aim at a book market. Those details coming up.", "And just when you thought winter had loosened its grip, I have wind-chills in Maine coming up tomorrow 56 degrees below zero. It's going to be cold in New York City, too. The forecast coming up."], "speaker": ["HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR", "COLLINS", "HOLMES", "COLLINS", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "STAFF. SGT. JOHN DANIEL SHANNON, U.S. ARMY", "SPEC. JEREMY DUNCAN, U.S. ARMY", "STARR", "COLLINS", "STARR", "COLLINS", "STARR", "COLLINS", "STARR", "COLLINS", "STARR", "COLLINS", "STARR", "HOLMES", "RICHARD CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HOLMES", "COLLINS", "CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SR. POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D-NY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-322569", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2017-10-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/02/ip.01.html", "summary": "Las Vegas Police News Conference; Crime Scene Investigation Continues; Motive Behind Shooting; Shooters Homes Searched.", "utt": ["And we plan to engage her upon her return to the country.", "Do you have any idea how he was able to break through the windows? Was he able to open the windows or did he smash the windows or", "We believe he had a device similar to a hammer to smash the windows.", "Sheriff, so far I've heard a description of the suspect", "Well, obviously, we'll do that. We will run it down to the very end. But right now, at face value, we haven't been able to identify that.", "Sheriff, you said he checked in on Thursday, the 28th, to the hotel.", "I believe that's accurate.", "Did he have tickets to the concert?", "I have no idea.", "Do you know what he has done between checking in and last night?", "No. We're following up on that. There will be hours and hours and hours of video surveillance that we will have to recall with the cooperation of the", "The Fusion Center?", "Correct. There are cameras everywhere practically. Every inch of the city is", "Well, I don't understand what you're alluding to, how could it happen. This is an individual who's described as a lone wolf. I don't know how it could have been prevented if we didn't have any prior knowledge to this individual. It wasn't evident that he had weapons in his room. We have determined that there has been employees going to and fro from his room and nothing nefarious was noticed. At this point, that's what we know now.", "Sheriff, first responders were integral with stopping more deaths. Can you describe how a multi-agency effort and strike teams were able to find the suspect?", "Well, yes, you're absolutely correct. So any special event that takes place in the southern Nevada region, it's required by NRS to supply police officers to ensure security. The Mandalay Bay did a great job of hiring police officers. They had sufficient staffing for the concert. And when this individual decided to fire upon the crowd, which was approximately 22,000 individuals, it's very difficult to manage that size crowd. And you have to ensure you have the proper staffing. And as described, our officers responded immediately in conjunction with the fire department as soon as the fire department arrived, but they were able to identify where the weapon was being discharged from in a proximity. It's hard to tell what floor it is from the outside. But once they gain entry into the hotel, in conjunction with security and through phone calls from patrons, they were able to call it down to a possible floor. Once they made entry onto the hallway, they immediately knew what room was in question.", "Sheriff, there's some dramatic reports about what exactly happened in the room when the SWAT officers entered, that maybe there was so much smoke from the shells that the smoke alarms were going off. Is there any truth to any of that?", "I don't know. I haven't been told about any smoke alarms. But I know that his -- he had killed himself. And exactly -- we'll have to go through the -- our body worn camera and existing video whether we engaged him at the same approximate time or not.", "Sheriff, you said you didn't believe that this was connected to ISIS. Do you have any idea of what kind of motive you could be looking at, at this point?", "No, ma'am, I can't get into the mind of a psychopath at this point.", "Sheriff, the investigation that's going on right now between -- at the site of the shooting, how extensive is it and what are we talking about as far as Las Vegas Boulevard being shut down while the ballistics and the criminalists do their work out there?", "Well, I believe we've got most of Las Vegas Boulevard open. Directly adjacent to the Mandalay it still remains closed. We will ensure that we go out to the proper intersections to limit the hindrance of traffic. But we're looking at a minimum of 12 additional hours for documentation of the crime scene and the removal of the bodies.", "Do you know about how long he was able to shoot for and do you happen to know if there was ever any return fire from officers on the ground in any way?", "No, I don't -- I'm not aware of any return fire, nor am I aware of the timeline. But we did have SWAT officers discharge weapons at the room location.", "And do you", "Yes. The federal -- or the FBI and the ATF is helping us with that aspect.", "Sheriff, you mentioned --", "Do you know whether any (ph) injured or deceased come from the hotel? Were they all in the concert or were any of them in the hotel area (ph)?", "I'm not sure because we had people that were deceased and injured outside the vicinity of the concert area. So it would be hard to determine or make that determination at this point. We are, obviously, going to have to talk to all those injured individuals to make that assessment.", "How many people who were injured were shot and how many were injured running away?", "I have -- I don't know, ma'am. The people have been displaced in five separate hospitals. So it's going to require an extensive review of that communication with them to determine that. So, thank you very much. I appreciate everybody's time. And appreciate everybody here to the back of me and their support of our police department. And we will keep you regularly updated. I can't give you an exact timeline at this point, but we will keep you informed as we receive information. Have a great day. Thank you.", "Welcome to INSIDE POLITICS. I'm John King in Washington. You've been listening there to the Sheriff Joe Lombardo, Las Vegas, Nevada. A host of other Nevada officials, state officials, law enforcement officials, federal officials as well, updating us on the latest on this tragic investigation now underway in Las Vegas. At least 58 people now dead. More than 500 people wounded in a horrific shooting on the Las Vegas Strip. It's the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history. Police say a 64-year-old Nevada man -- you see his picture there -- named Stephen Paddock opened fire last night on a country music festival. He opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel across the street from the concert hall. Police say he was armed with at least 10 rifles from that vantage point. Country music star Jason Aldean was playing for thousands of fans, 22,000 fans, just after 10:00 p.m. last night, Sunday night, when the gunman began unloading hundreds of rounds into the crowd. A concertgoer captured the video of that moment. We need to warn you, of course, it's extremely upsetting both to watch and to hear.", "Some at the concert thought it was firecrackers. Some thought it was something wrong with the audio. They say it took them just a few moments to realize what was happening.", "Then there was a sound like it was pyro. Like it was pyro misfiring. And I was like, why was it -- why is there pyrotechnics going off now? It was like, ta, ta, ta, ta. And then a few minutes later -- a few seconds later, it was ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta. And when it didn't stop, we all realized what was happening. And the sounds -- not only was it the sound, but it was also the shells that were actually coming down -- bullets coming down on the deck of the stage.", "The eyewitnesses say the gunshots continued for 10, perhaps 15 minutes. Fans describe utter chaos in those moments. Panicked people desperately running for their lives, trying to find some place to hide. But the gunman just kept shooting from the broken window you can see in the picture there. That's floor 32 of the Mandalay Bay. Law enforcement finally able to break into that hotel room using explosives on the door. Police found the shooter dead, presumably of a self-inflicted wound. Police say they believe he was working alone. The FBI, just moments ago, saying no connection has been found between the gunman and any international terrorist group. President Trump spoke a short time ago calling this an act, quote, of pure evil, and saying so many families now just shattered.", "Hundreds of our fellow citizens are now mourning the sudden loss of a loved one, a parent, a child, a brother or sister. We cannot fathom their pain. We cannot imagine their loss. To the families of the victims, we are praying for you and we are here for you.", "The president also said he will visit Las Vegas on Wednesday. We're covering this story from every angle. Jean Casarez is live in Las Vegas near the concert venue. Kyung Lah is in the shooter's hometown of Mesquite, Nevada. Evan Perez with me live here in Washington, D.C. Jean, let's start with you on the strip. What is the very latest there as Las Vegas tries to come to terms with what happened?", "Well, we're here on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip, the Mandalay Bay is right behind me, You can see it's about a mile up there. And we have just really learned a change in emphasis of this investigation. We have confirmed, as the police said, that the search of the 32nd floor room of the shooter is now complete. So the emphasis has gone across the street, across Las Vegas Boulevard on the strip, to where that concert venue was where 22,000 country music fans were listening to Jason Aldean. It is now evidence recovery over there, crime scene interpretation, and it will be removal of the bodies we have just learned. Now, we also learned a little bit more about that 32nd floor room. We do know that the perpetrator checked in on September 28th, which would have been Thursday of this last week. We also know that he had 10 rifles. And we just learned that hotel staff, seemingly housekeeping, went in and out of the room for those several days he was in there and saw nothing at all that they saw out of the ordinary. We also heard that it was believed that he brought in all those rifles by himself. Now, how they can confirm that at this point of time so easily, I don't know. Obviously hotels in Las Vegas have immense security cameras going at all times. If there has been time to review all that, to learn that, but they do believe that he was solely responsible for this. We also learned that the female companion that he rooms with, they are still looking at as a person of interest and they do want to talk with her when she returns to this country. We also learned that this man has property in northern Nevada and they are now in the midst of searching that property. We're in southern Nevada. Northern Nevada is a long ways away. It's about a seven-hour drive from Las Vegas. And northern and southern is very different because they are so far apart. So it's interesting that they found more property. But the crime scene investigation continues. It will continue for some time. Days, they are saying.", "Jean Casarez live on the strip for us. Jean, appreciate all your reports throughout these past several trying hours. CNN's Evan Perez is with me here in Washington. He's keeping track of the investigation. ISIS has claimed the shooter was a convert, but the FBI, listen here, says just a short time ago, an FBI official at the thing said there's no evidence to support that. Obviously ISIS is interested in the propaganda here.", "Right.", "But from everything you are told by your sources, nothing.", "Nothing so far. And, you know, it's curious, as Jean Casarez just mentioned, they did a search of the hotel room. One of the first things that they do is to see whether or not there's anything that the shooter left behind, something to sort of explain what he did. They did a search of the hotel room. They did a search of his home in Mesquite, which is in another part of the state, several hours away. And, again, nothing really jumped out at them. And so, John, one of the things that they're doing now is they're going through looking -- looking at any computer, any social media perhaps that he may have done, that he may have posted beforehand. They're looking at the gun purchases. They want to know a little bit more about, you know, when he purchased these firearms. We're told by sources that he's got multiple gun purchases going back years in California. None of those appear to be the ones that were recovered there in the hotel room. The ten or so weapons that were recovered in the hotel room. They found a .223 caliber, a .308 caliber. But, again, they don't know whether or not these are the weapons that he used to fire off all these rounds at that crowd. And what people describe is automatic gunfire. Things you hear in a war zone. That's not the type of weapon you normally can just buy off the shelves. You -- perhaps he might have altered them. That's something that the investigators are now looking into as well. Again, the why is the big question at this point because he lives in a retirement community outside of Las Vegas there. Nothing really in his background. No criminal history to speak of explains what happened here.", "And I can -- we can show you, we're just -- as this investigation continues -- we're getting in some pictures of the shooter, Mr. Stephen Paddock. I think we can show you some of the pictures there. There's one image there. We had another one up earlier. How rare is it, in your experience, when you're going -- looking into something horrific like this, that hours into it you're talking to people who still say, we've got nothing in terms of a note, a neighbor, a friend, some social media, just some nugget of a clue as to what motivated him.", "Right. In this day and age it's very unusual simply because you -- people leave a lot of electronic footprints. I mean you post things on FaceBook or on other social media sites. It's very common. That's usually where they go right immediately and they haven't found that as well -- as yet. And, again, doing a search of his home, they -- police officers there said that in the search they found nothing unusual. The maids, the housekeeping there at the hotel saw nothing unusual over the last few days as he was staying in that hotel room. So, again, they're going to have to dig a little deeper here, talk to his friends, see if the behavior changed in the last few -- perhaps in the last few months, last few weeks that could give a clue as to what maybe was wrong in his mind. But what we found in doing a background search on him, we found that he did have a pilot's license. Again, that's something, that if you have a license, you have to get medically cleared in order to have that. So that's a big question that I'm sure federal authorities are going to be looking at, at this point.", "As well as searching that second home now in northern Nevada.", "Right. Exactly.", "We'll for that search as well. Even Perez, continue the reporting. Come back to us when you have new information. As Evan's just noting, authorities right now desperately trying to learn everything they can about the gunman in this massacre. They know he did live in the small town of Mesquite, Nevada. That's northeast of Las Vegas. CNN's Kyung Lah has been there and joins us now. Kyung, I watched you earlier questioning the police when they came and issued -- exercised -- used their search warrant there. It was remarkable listening to authorizes saying, this is a sleepy community. We found nothing unusual. Any new information that gives them any clue?", "We're still waiting to hear if they found anything beyond that initial we haven't found anything unusual statement. What is happening in the area that you see right over my shoulder, there is a barricade here. There are a number of vehicles that are coming in and out. And what we are seeing is a painstakingly slow process. That's the way it's being described to us by authorities here. They want to comb through the house. There was a lot of concern when they initially approached the house in the overnight hours, given the carnage that they saw in Vegas. What they want -- what they did was evacuated the immediate neighbors and they used a robot to breech the home. But when they finally got in, they did discover that. It was almost perplexing to the authorities. And they sounded almost confused when they said that it looked like a normal home. That this is almost a prefab community where you have homes that are all very similar, 55 plus community. Everything is manicured. It's nestled in the hills. And so there isn't a good reason, at least on the surface, why this occurred. And then, when you speak to the family, you hear very much of that same sort of confusion. Here's what the brother told us from Florida.", "He was my brother. It's like an asteroid fell out of the sky. He had no machine guns when I moved him from Melbourne to Mesquite. I mean to find out who gave -- you know, who he bought the machine guns from. And, once again, it's -- there's no blaming -- you know, it's just -- he bought the machine guns and he did this. I mean it was him who did this. There's no doubt about it because he was him. I mean he was --", "Completely out of character?", "He's never shot -- I mean he's never even drawn his gun. You know, I mean, it makes no sense. He's never hit anybody. He's never --", "Was he a gun enthusiast or just he had a few --", "Never. No, he had a couple of hand guns, I think. You know, he had a safe with a couple of hand guns. He might have had one long rifle, but he didn't have any -- I mean he had no automatic weapons when -- that I know -- I knew of at any time. I mean there's no -- it just -- it just makes no sense. I -- like I said, it's an asteroid fell. It doesn't --", "How is everyone in the family, I mean, other than the obvious?", "Good morning, Mr. Paddock. My name is Special Agent", "Oh, OK.", "I'm with the", "I guess -- yes, we'll see you later. We've got --", "Now, we have not run into too many people in this community who know the gunman or his live in girlfriend. But they are all, John, expressing that same sort of confusion, how a fellow senior citizen, a fellow retiree would commit this sort of crime. John.", "Kyung Lah on the ground in Mesquite, Nevada. Kyung, appreciate the reporting. Keep in touch with us as we're all trying to figure out. Police say there were about 22,000 people on the ground at this music festival when the shots rang out. Many who were there thought they were hearing fireworks before they realized, no, it was gunfire.", "I still don't know what's up. And I looked back and the girls that are singing behind us go down. And so then my bandmate grabs me and he goes, run.", "I put the baby on the ground and got on top of her. And when we heard a little break, we ran to the bleachers that were just behind us and I tried to tuck her in close to the end so she was as protected as possible.", "Just unrelentless bullets. And I think the only reason he went to take a break is so the muzzle didn't weld itself shut and so he could keep shooting.", "Remarkably, amid that chaos, police quickly located the hotel room where the shots were coming from. Once there, they blasted their way in.", "Copy. All units on the 32nd floor, SWAT has explosive breach. Everyone in the hallway needs to move back. All units move back.", "Beach, beach, beach.", "Authorities say the gunman apparently killed himself as they were coming into the room. They say he had at least 10 rifles with him, 10 rifles with him in that hotel room. Right now I'm joined by CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem. Also with us, CNN law enforcement analyst Chief Charles Ramsey and criminologist James Alan Fox. Evan Perez stays with me here in studio. Chief, I want to go to you first as a police chief who was in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. As you've listened to everything from the sheriff, every piece of information that has come so far, what is your -- do you have a biggest question, anything that comes to mind about either how this could have been stopped or what is going to have to be done tomorrow?", "Well, I don't know how you stop something like that. I mean the venue no doubt had adequate security. But who would have thought, almost a block away, someone would either shootout or break out a window at the Mandalay Bay and begin firing down on people. Obviously now we have to all rethink security measures going forward when you have these kinds of outdoor events. But I don't know how you prevent something like that. I mean this is just a highly unusual type of case.", "Juliette, this is a conversation we have all too often after big events like this. We've had it more prominently in the years since 9/11. But when the chief says nothing -- I mean there obviously are things. You could require every one of these hotels to have magnetometers. You could have every one of these hotels in the area, especially on days when you know 22,000 people are going to be across the street the next day, screen all the bags. But we simply -- is it that a cost thing, is it a convenience thing, a combination of those things?", "It's all of the above. I mean, John, we have, as a society, sort of made a calculation about how much security we want in our daily lives. And so it may be after this there's going to be a demand that there are, you know, reviews of what's in the suitcases, housekeepers are given, you know, the ability to look in if they view something suspicious. But I do think that we are going to find, over the next couple of days, if not hours, that there might have been some suspicions about what he was bringing into the hotel room or some things that were seen that maybe the housekeepers or whoever else did not feel empowered to express or say. So we have to look at that. But I will say, we're so focused on defense, right, that a part of security is minimizing the risk. And you will have others on air, but as a counter terrorism expert, I will tell you, whether he is motivated by ISIS or craziness or something in between, the access issue to weaponry in this country is now a national security issue, it just is, because you have to -- you have to minimize the capacity for someone who is either crazy or a terrorist, right, or in between to be able to kill that many people so quickly. That's the unique thing about this country. Terrorism and violence happens elsewhere. Here it's because of accessibility of a certain weaponry. So I'd be remiss not mentioning it now. I know it's highly political. But as a security person, this is -- I'm looking at the access issue and looking at these numbers and absolutely shocked and outraged that for some reason we're not allowed to talk about that.", "That's -- it's no question both the gun control and then, if you flip it, come at it from the other side, the security questions are things that do need to be discussed. Obviously the gun control debate in the hours after this is quite sensitive. Professor Fox, I want to come from your perspective. When you listen to the brother, this is like an asteroid striking. To the neighbors saying we had no clue. To police saying, maybe a traffic violation once or twice, but nothing in their history of the 64-year-old man. And so you see people on TV saying, oh, well, maybe he snapped or maybe there was this. From your experience, that's not exactly right, right?", "No. First of all, they don't snap. When you think about it, this is a well-planned execution. He checked into the hotel days in advance, brought all the weaponry in. If someone were to snap, why would they have all that weaponry with them? Mass killings are well-planned executions. As far as what the brother said, that's very typical. Mass killers generally do not have criminal records. They generally have not been treated in a psychiatric facility. It's surprising to everyone. And even if we now find some warning signs that were missed, even in the hotel room or back home in Mesquite, this is hindsight and hindsight's 20-20. There's no way that we can anticipate, there's no way we can predict. It's a very rare event, fortunately. And as far as -- one thing about the guns. Juliette mentioned the world uniquely American. Well, actually, this is unique in terms of the weapon. Mass killers generally use semi-automatics. Typically semi-automatic handguns, which are easy to conceal. This automatic weapon is quite rate. It's unfortunate because obviously that led to his ability to kill so many people.", "And, Evan Perez, as we go through this, and we'll continue the conversation later in the program too, there are more cameras in Las Vegas, Nevada, than probably anywhere in America.", "Right.", "You have now the outdoor concert grounds -- I called it a concert hallway -- it's an outdoor concert grounds where there are hundreds of shells that need to be retrieved from the grounds and, sadly, from the bodies as well. In terms of doing the CSI work of this, this will take weeks, if not months.", "Yes, it will take weeks and months in order to put together a picture of this guy. I mean this is one of the things that people do at the FBI especially, they do studies of people like this to try to figure out what they can learn for the next one. And, unfortunately, we know that the next one is studying what this guy did and we'll see that sometime in the future. Unfortunately, that is what the reality that we have here in this country. As Juliette pointed out, I mean it's very difficult to secure a place like this. For example, if the president was going to be there, obviously the hotel would have been searched. There would have been a magnetometers. There would have been a search and a search of every single renter of a hotel room there. They would know who those rooms were that faced the venue. There's a lot of preparation that goes in if you have a big event like this, if you have a VIP. But when you have average people going, you don't tend to do these types of things.", "And, Professor Fox, I want to come back to you on the idea of trying to put together the sketch of who this man is. From everything you have heard, sort of, you know, what would you be doing if you were sitting there trying to put together -- you're in an office. You've got a bulletin board or", "Well, there's not much we know now. And I have been through this kind of process. All we really can come up with, why did he do it? But that will put closure on the event for survivors, for the rest of us, but it will not help us identify the next mass killer. That's the problem here. These -- well, these are rare events, fortunately, but whatever we learn in the days to come will not help us spot the next one. And it's also important that as we try to shed light on this crime, that we not shed a spotlight on the criminal. All too often we humanize him by filling in the gaps and saying what everyone said about him, his favorite hobbies and what he like to do, what TV shows he liked. We have to not cross that line to make this someone into a celebrity for others who might see him as a hero.", "That's a great point to make as we close this conversation. We'll pick it up later in the program. But you're right, he's a coward who, for whatever reason, killed 50 people, 58 people, maybe more than that, injured 500, disrupted and caused shattering pain to so many families. He's a coward is what he is. Professor, appreciate that. Everybody stand by. 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{"id": "CNN-284351", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2016-05-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/17/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Breaking Records to Highlight Human Trafficking", "utt": ["How a human trafficking survivor says she smashed the world record for a series of triathlons to help empower others. Now her message to fellow survivors is clear: be relentless. Kyung Lah has more on her journey in this CNN Freedom Project report.", "We don't know if -- what's going to make the final cuts here.", "Hollywood would have a tough time matching the drama of Norma Bastidas' life.", "We were trying to interweave the triathlon with what's happening in human trafficking.", "The first woman to run seven of the planet's most unforgiving ultra-marathon on all seven continents received plenty of recognition for the accomplishment. But the world record-holder didn't quite feel complete until she came forward about her own violent past.", "I remember being drugged and beat up and almost murdered when I was 24.", "Bastidas was trafficked twice, once kidnapped and abused in Mexico City and several years later lured to Japan by a fake modeling agency.", "What I didn't know is just that I was being sold to the highest bidder, and I get bought by a prominent person and I become his property. It was hell. It was hell.", "The abuses suffered in her younger years might have broken most people, but it lit a fire inside Bastidas to do things others might think impossible.", "The next thing I know she's on the phone with me going, I want to do something big for human trafficking and to face this in my own life and to make it an anthem for other survivors.", "In 2014, Bastidas set out to break the Guinness record for world's longest triathlon. Over the course of several months, she ran, biked, and swam more than 3,700 miles -- traveling from Cancun, Mexico, to Washington, D.C., following a known route of human trafficking victims.", "Norma is one of the fiercest women I've ever met.", "Together with the anti-trafficking organization, iEmpathize, Norma's story is now the subject of a documentary called \"Be Relentless\".", "After all of this, from Cancun, Mexico City, to D.C., she did her final leg all through the night. 24 hours straight. Almost 100 miles. And I think what she was trying to tell everyone was sometimes you have to face new challenges, even when you've conquered old ones.", "Human trafficking is what happened to you. It's not who you are. Every single time we doubt that a victim has potential, we are saying, because of what happened it's your fault. And that's so wrong. We can prove that we can overcome anything. We're here. We're standing.", "And that might be the greatest ending of all. Kyung Lah, CNN, Los Angeles.", "An extraordinary woman and an amazing story there. Nearly five years in captivity, finally free. Now it is the first time Shahbaz Taseer, the son of a Pakistani politician, has spoken to any Western journalist. In this exclusive interview with CNN, never before heard details about Taseer, who was snatched off the streets by a brutal Islamist group in 2011. And here he describes his confinement and torture.", "My living conditions were abysmal and I was tortured for about a year in these extravagant Hollywood-style movies that they would make for my family to put pressure on them, to put pressure on the government. It started off with them lashing me with rubber whips, for my family. I think the first day was 100. It went up to 200. They would carve my back open with blades and throw salt. They would -- they sewed my mouth shut and starved me for a week.", "Some grisly details there. Now, Taseer went on to say that the silent majority in Pakistan, they need to mobilize against extremist violence. Turning now to the U.S. election and polls are open in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is one of two states holding contests in yet another round of presidential primaries. Kentucky already held its Republican caucus, so it is down to the Democrats this time. Oregon is holding primaries for both Democrats and Republicans. Likely Republican nominee Donald Trump may have fought off his rivals on the campaign trail, but now he is battling \"The New York Times\" over what he says is a false account of his past. A lawyer for Trump says he may sue \"The Times\" over an article portraying his treatment of many women as sexist. Now all this happening as some conservative Republicans question whether Trump really is the future of their party. They're now trying to draft their own third-party candidate. Phil Mattingly reports.", "Donald Trump changing his tone from bombastic --", "I went to the Wharton School of Finance. I was a great student. I built a fortune.", "-- to everyday American.", "I view myself as a person that, like everybody else, is fighting for survival. That's all I view myself as, and I really view myself now as somewhat of a messenger.", "As the anti-Trump movement is struggling to find a figurehead, unable to entice a candidate to join the fray with a third- party run.", "A third-party candidacy would be viewed as -- as kind of a silly thing and I don't think it's appropriate.", "John Kasich, the Ohio governor and former presidential candidate, telling CNN he won't take the plunge.", "I gave it my best where I am, and I just think running third-party doesn't feel right. I think it's not constructive.", "Billionaire Mark Cuban also contacted about a possible run, also in the no column.", "It's impossible for it to work. There's not enough time to get on ballots. The hurdles are too great. It's a ridiculous effort, so I passed.", "For conservatives like Erick Erickson and Bill Kristol, a very real effort with a very small window to get it off the ground. They need a candidate, donor commitments, and they need a legal pathway -- one that includes tens of thousands of signatures just to qualify for ballot access. All as deadlines loom -- or in the case of Texas, have already passed. Meanwhile, Trump is battling with \"The New York Times\" via Twitter over their front page article about his inappropriate behavior with women. Trump's attorney leaving the door open to filing suit.", "I think that is a distinct possibility.", "\"The Times\" standing by their story.", "Our goal was to pull back and say, how does he interact in the office with someone who he's dating or trying to date? And that was the purpose of our story.", "And that was Phil Mattingly reporting there. And as for the Democrats, Hillary Clinton is looking for a win against rival Bernie Sanders in Kentucky. Let's take a look how things are standing right now. Clinton needs an estimated 140 more delegates to shut out Sanders and thus secure the nomination, but he's been enjoying a string of big wins lately. Now, Clinton is hoping to dampen his momentum today. And do stay with CNN all day as Republicans and Democrats vote in Oregon, and Democrats make their choice for nominee in Kentucky. That's all day Tuesday, right here on CNN. Now, it's good-bye, China, and hello, India, for the CEO of Apple. Can Tim Cook work his charms and help the iPhone better compete in India's smartphone market? We'll have more on his trip. And while Apple woos consumers in India, start-ups in China are trying to get their foot in the door. 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{"id": "CNN-133462", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2008-12-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0812/22/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Investigation Begins on Continental Plane Crash; Obama Focuses on Job Creation; Calls for Cash for Obama's Inauguration", "utt": ["Jet plane, split in two. They were inside.", "The engine was on fire so I was worried, you know, about getting out of there. And then we had another guy yelling, \"Oh, the plane's going to blow up, you know. The plane's going to explode\".", "Evacuation desperation. Pushing, shoving, what went wrong? And when times are tough, the tough get praying and singing.", "As long as you have your faith, as long as you have hope, you can get another house. You can get another car.", "Plus, halfway around the world, get a priceless souvenir.", "She says I'm pregnant, I'm pregnant. And she's just -- you can feel the tears through the phone.", "The first in our special series, baby quest, the overseas baby creation vacation. But not the way you think.", "This is our dream.", "You're watching the \"Most News in the Morning.\"", "And welcome. Glad you're with us on this Monday, December 22nd. I'm Kiran Chetry along with Carol Costello. Good to see you this morning. John Roberts is taking some time off.", "You know, the Lions lost.", "The what?", "The Lions lost. The Detroit Lions.", "Yes.", "We talked a lot about this on Friday.", "So they're 0-16 now.", "No, 0-15.", "OK.", "They have one more game.", "So they've still broken a record, right? No other team has gone 0-15.", "Yes, Kiran, they've broken a record.", "Just checking. This poor Lions. I'm sorry. There's always next year.", "Thank you. OK. I guess we should get to the news now, huh? Topping the news this morning, serious news. Investigators resume the search for clues in a Continental Airline accident at Denver's expert this weekend. The flight data and cockpit voice recorders have been recovered from the plane. That plane crashed and burned as it veered off a runway and into a ravine. Thirty-eight people were hurt. The price of gas has not been this low in nearly five years. AAA reporting this morning the national average for regular unleaded is down to $1.66 a gallon. That's nearly 60 percent off the record high price of $4.11 back in July. And snowstorms and bitter cold conditions are making life miserable for holiday travelers today. From the Pacific Northwest all the way to Maine, the storm dumping almost six inches of snow in the Seattle area. As much as a foot and a half of snow fell in parts of New England. The big chill is gripping almost the entire country. In Atlanta, the wind chill making it feel like eight degrees. Oh and in Dallas, a wind chill of 18 and icy cold in Chicago. Wind chills making it feel like minus 23 degrees. Oh, that makes Atlanta sound balmy. Rob Marciano is tracking this extreme weather for us. What is going on?", "Oh, well, you know, just a few days ago, we're talking about how the eastern half, northern part of the country was under the cold, but it's pretty much the entire thing north of New Orleans. And you're looking at temperatures, this are actual temperatures. You show the wind chills, actual temperatures minus two in Chicago, minus 10 in Minneapolis. Today's daytime high is 27 New York, 11 in Chicago. It will be 39 in Atlanta, 37 degrees in Dallas. So everybody getting into the act here and it will be a few days before we start seeing things warm up. It feels like minus 28 right now in Minneapolis, minus 37 in and Bismarck. Dangerous wind chills and, of course, we've got the snow. Roll you through some video, we also have out of Wisconsin from the weekend a number of interstate crashes. A treacherous travel here. I-43 across Wisconsin saw a pileup that involved over 40 cars. Also down the road in Michigan, I-94 saw a massive car pileup with 30 cars there, and a total of 100 cars along the interstate in different crashes. So the Midwest certainly getting hammered in the travel. The biggest issue and, of course, a lot of people trying to get out on the roadways to get home. All right, what's going on right now? We have some snow across parts of Michigan and upstate New York. This is just lake-effect snow, so it's not going to be as widespread as it has been. But another punch of winter weather from Seattle all the way down to San Diego heading into the intermountain west so this is what we expect to see here. More snow coming into areas that don't really see it this time of year. It's pretty nasty. Carol, back up to you.", "Nasty. It's beginning to look like -- it's beginning -- well, it's beginning to look like Christmas, but not. It's too cold. Thank you, Rob.", "Just try to get yourself into the spirit for it. All right.", "I'm trying.", "Well now to that investigation in that terrifying runway accident at Denver's airport this weekend. Firefighters first on the scene say it was a miracle that no one was killed when Continental Flight 1404 headed to Houston, skidded off the runway during takeoff and caught fire. Now the NTSB is trying to determine how the flight went so horribly long. CNN's Susan Roesgen is in Denver for us.", "Well, you know, Kiran and Carol, the National Transportation Safety Board investigators will be talking to a lot of people. They'll be talking to the pilots, of course, to the flight attendants and also the passengers. And some of the passengers say that they thought there must have been some kind of problem even before the plane took off.", "The plane had just started to accelerate for takeoff, and among the passengers was a young couple with their 1- year-old baby.", "We were looking out the window to show the baby the lights. And he was going ooh, ooh, you know, like they're looking at some pretty lights. And then all of a sudden, it was just too much light.", "The Boeing 737 was on fire and skidding off the runway. The wheels were disintegrating as the plane finally stopped belly down in the snow. That's when passengers seemed to forget the right way to evacuate.", "Some people were trying to get luggage from their top and that the engine was on fire. So I was worried, you know, about getting out of there. And then, we had another guy yelling, \"Oh, the plane's going to blow up, you know. The plane's going to explode.\"", "Passengers shoved each other and scrambled over each other as the overhead luggage bins started to melt from the heat. At daylight you can see how the plane cracked right down the middle like an eggshell and how incredible it was that everybody made it out alive. Nearly 40 people were injured, two critically.", "The flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder, they were located. They were secured and they were intact.", "National Transportation Safety Board investigators will pore over every piece of wreckage and interview the crew to try to find out what went wrong with the plane and the panicky evacuation. They'll also talk to passengers who say they knew there had been a problem before they got on.", "I heard something over the intercom, you know, before you get on it they were having problems -- engine problems with the plane. And shortly after that they said everything's fine and that there's going to be an on-time flight.", "One more thing for investigators to explore.", "As I'm sure you can tell, Kiran and Carol, it is bitterly cold here in Denver, and that's going to be one of the challenges for the investigators as they pore over that wreckage. We may have some preliminary results in a week or so, but they do say that the entire investigation may not be wrapped up for a year -- Carol, Kiran.", "Susan Roesgen for us. Thank you. Well this morning, the parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann are ramping up efforts to find their daughter. They've released a new web video featuring previously unseen footage of Madeleine at home with her family in England. The 4-year-old disappeared during a family vacation in Portugal back in May of 2007. So far, a number of leads have turned up nothing. Portuguese police officially closed their investigation in July. And with Christmas just days away, retailers are counting on deep discounts to get you in the door. Stores like Macy's slashing prices up to 65 percent. Others are now open 24 hours. And with nervous customers keeping a tight hold on their wallets, experts say this could be the worst holiday shopping season in decades.", "President-elect Barack Obama expanding his plan to turn around the economy and meltdown. Advisers say he's now focusing on creating an additional 500,000 jobs in the next two years. That's on top of the 2.5 million he promised last month. Here's CNN's Ed Henry who's traveling with the president-elect who's on vacation in Hawaii.", "Aloha, Kiran and Carol. Call this a working vacation for the president-elect. He set a new goal of creating three million jobs after his advisers privately warned him this recession may be even worse than expected.", "Home to Hawaii for President-elect Barack Obama and his family. Twelve days of relaxation to ring in the new year. But there's no rest for his economic team, which has been ordered to think bolder after the president-elect received dire private forecasts suggesting the nation could lose four million jobs next year without drastic action.", "What we have learned is the economy is in much worse shape than we thought it was in. It is -- this is a spiraling effect there. There is no short run other than keeping the economy from absolutely tanking.", "So transition aides are now huddling with Democratic leaders in Congress to craft a stimulus plan of up to $775 billion to try and jolt the economy. Republicans are wary about the price tag on top of Friday's rescue of automakers, the latest in a string of taxpayer bailouts.", "What I'm concerned about when we hear these staggering numbers close to $1 trillion right now in spending, where is that going to take us over the long run?", "Team Obama argues the short-term spending will reap dividends long term. The emerging plan includes billions for backlogged transportation projects to beef up construction jobs and improve the nation's infrastructure. Modernizing crumbling public schools to create jobs while also investing in education and weatherizing one million homes, money to upgrade furnaces, fix windows and seal leaky air ducts to boost the industry while also cutting energy usage.", "If we don't do this, it will cost us even more. This economy is now in the worse shape since the Great Depression. And if we do not respond in a very firm way, it gets worse and worse and feeds on itself.", "There will be other business during this working vacation. The president-elect is getting daily intelligence briefings and this week, the transition team will release its internal investigation into contacts with the Illinois governor, a sensitive political matter -- Kiran, Carol.", "Pastor Rick Warren still trying to defend himself after the uproar he would carry out the invocation at President-elect Obama's inauguration. Warren is an outspoken critic of same-sex marriage and over the weekend said he loves everyone, no matter their sexuality.", "Let me just get this other real quickly. I love Muslims.", "Obama defended his choice of Warren saying it is impossible for all Americans to agree on everything except Mr. Warren loves everyone. Needs no argument.", "See that? See that? He said as the great theologian Rodney King said. All right. Well, the stage is being set for the president- elect's inauguration. And this morning, there are new calls for cash as the price tag to keep you and millions of other safe soars.", "Plus, Arnold Schwarzenegger says he wants to be president. Hear why the governator wants to run the country. It's 11 minutes past the hour."], "speaker": ["KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "GABRIEL TREJOS, PASSENGER ON PLANE", "CHETRY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHETRY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHETRY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CHETRY", "CHETRY", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "CHETRY", "COSTELLO", "CHETRY", "COSTELLO", "CHETRY", "COSTELLO", "CHETRY", "COSTELLO", "CHETRY", "COSTELLO", "CHETRY", "COSTELLO", "ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "COSTELLO", "MARCIANO", "COSTELLO", "CHETRY", "SUSAN ROESGEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROESGEN (voice-over)", "MARIA TREJOS, PASSENGER ON PLANE", "ROESGEN", "G. TREJOS", "ROESGEN", "ROBERT SUMWALT, NTSB", "ROESGEN", "G. TREJOS", "ROESGEN", "ROESGEN", "CHETRY", "COSTELLO", "ED HENRY, CNN SR. 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{"id": "CNN-263511", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2015-09-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/01/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Volatility Returns, Dow Loses 470 Points; IMF Says China, Commodities, Fed Shaking Markets; Market Volatility; Oil Prices Fall After Big Gains; Iran Could Add to Global Oil Glut", "utt": ["Turkcell ringing the closing bell on a terrible day on Wall Street, the Dow Jones off more than 400 points. Markets across the globe were sharply lower.", "A firm, but not exciting gavel to bring trading to a close on Tuesday, it's September the 1st. Fear is back. September starts with the stock markets around the world all taking a nosedive. There'll be bumpy roads ahead. Christine Lagarde of the IMF warns of more volatility to come. And as oil prices are sinking, Iran's oil minister tells CNN there's even more cheap crude on the way. Look at the markets, they are truly awful. I'm Richard Quest, and I mean business. Good evening. We saw good-bye to awful August, but unfortunately, it's replaced immediately with a stormy September, or at least that's way seems -- things seem to be moving on the first day trading of the new month. The global financial markets can't kick the volatility, and once again, it's China and the slowing economy there that's being blamed. Join me at the super screens as we head towards the Dow. Let's just stop and show you. All the Asian markets were down sharply, 3.8 percent, 2 and 1 percent. In Europe, the same: the Paris, the Xetra DAX, the FTSE, all down more than 2 percent. And in the United States, the broader market down the best part of 3, NASDAQ best part of 3, Dow Jones Industrials 2.8. And look at the chart. You'll see that the market opened lower, never really recovered, and almost at the lowest of the day. It was off 500 points at one stage. The 300 points at the beginning, 500 in the last half hour, and a close of round about 469. And looking around the world, not a single major market has closed in the black, with London hit with the worst losses, all exposed to commodities. After a three-day rebound, oil prices tumbled way down again. Look at that: West Texas off $4, Brent down $5. Joining me now from the New York Stock Exchange, Teddy Weisberg, president of Seaport Securities. Teddy, what happened? I mean, we got rid of August, and we thought September might be better, so what happened today?", "Well, I think we just -- reasserted the negative trend that actually started a couple of weeks ago. And in fact, if you -- you can go back almost to the last three or four months, we have seen continued weakness in commodities. Certainly in the energy sector. But way beyond energy, which basically was signaling slow growth, no growth around the world. And you know, it just -- things just don't happen in a timely fashion. It took a little time for all the negative things to pile up, and I think today was just reasserting the negative trend --", "Right.", "-- which began a couple of weeks ago. And I suspect we're going to be on the negative side of the equation for a while, unless something dramatically changes, which seems unlikely as we speak.", "As I looked at the market, the US market today, it traded in that range for most of the day. It never really tried to get its legs.", "Never. Never. I would agree. The screens we watched up in the office and on the floor were basically all red all day. Every once in a while, you'd see a little green, but you could count the green ticks on one hand. And they had them pinned down pretty good. And it was one of those days where there's simply no place to hide. And unfortunately, the way stocks trade now, because of all the rule changes, and there's so much --", "Right.", "-- momentum into the trading that it -- they're kind of throwing --", "All right.", "-- the baby out with the bath water.", "Now, let's look at the Dow 30. I mean, I know you prefer, obviously, the broader market, but if we --", "No, no, Dow's fine, Dow's fine.", "But if we look at the Dow 30 and the stocks that were in the Dow 30, I was very surprised to see Apple down 4.3 percent. Apple's the largest loser, seemingly, of the day. I can understand the China relationship to it, but Apple normally is quite resilient.", "Well -- but I think the issue, it's not about Apple. It goes back to just what we were talking about. It goes back to the fact that momentum takes over, there's literally no place to hide, and if people want to raise money, there's a tendency to sell the good stocks and keep the bad ones. Quite frankly, they should be doing the opposite, they should be selling the bad ones and keeping the good ones, because at some point, as history has proven, we'll get through this downdraft and get back into positive bias. But unfortunately, they don't ring a bell, and they don't tell us where that is. So, why is Apple down percentage-wise more than the market? First of all, the stock is over-owned and if you're nervous and you want to raise money, what are you going to do? You'll sell your Apple. Or you'll sell whatever it happens to be. General Motors or Ford. And there is just a tendency when people get nervous and scared --", "All right.", "-- and I don't know that we're there yet -- they sell the good ones and they keep the bad ones.", "Teddy, thank you for joining us. Good to hear your analysis. And you even had an audience in front of you as well.", "Yes, I know. Yes.", "Charge them money for it. Charge them money. Thank you, very much, Teddy Weisberg.", "You were standing right in the shot.", "That -- believe me, I've known Teddy for years on the Exchange, and Teddy's one man you don't want to get on the wrong side of. That's the way the markets traded, you've seen that. And one of the events that took place during the course of the day, the IMF's managing director, Christine Lagarde, has identified three factors triggering the volatility in the global markets. As we go around the world, I'll show you exactly those three that she talked of. The first is China. New manufacturing numbers show that this vital section is deteriorating at its fastest rate in six years, the so-called manufacturing, the PMI, Purchasing Mangers' Index, under 50 we know, but down the best of -- that's the worst performance it's had for some three years. And Christine Lagarde of the IMF says China's growth is slowing and the fallout is worrying.", "The transition to more market-based economy and the unwinding of risks built up in recent years is complex and could very well somehow be bumpy.", "Bumpy it may be, but if China is the catalyst, now let's get underneath and look at, say, for example, the commodities, and you'll see what I'm talking about. Because commodities are a huge reason. Weak demand in China helped oil prices fall as much as 7 percent on Tuesday. And remember, this time yesterday, you and I were talking about an 8 percent rise in oil prices, and now we're talking about an exact reversal by the same amount. So much oil sloshing around the world. Lagarde says falling commodity prices are here to stay. And to factor in and complicate it, Iran is now to join the party. The Iranian oil minister sat down for an exclusive interview with John Defterios, and the minister's promising Iranian oil will start flowing as soon as possible.", "Can we wait and not produce after lifting the sanctions? Who can accept it in Iran? Do you believe that the nation of our country will accept it, not to produce to secure the market for others? The first oil producer in the Middle East, can we lose our share in the market? It's not fair.", "So, you've got China, you've got commodities, and let us not forget the United States. Signs of the firming recovery, interest rates rise could be coming sooner rather than later. Janet Yellen and the Fed have signaled September at the earliest might happen still. September has begun. The meeting's not until a couple more weeks, and emerging markets are on edge. A rate rise could happen despite the recent volatility. All of this we factor in together to talk to Ed Lazear, the former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors under George W. Bush. Ed joins me from Stanford in California. I don't think I'm being over exaggerating when I say it's a mess.", "Well, it certainly is a mess, and I wish it were easy as listing three factors and using those as the explanation. Unfortunately, I don't think that any of them go very far to telling us what's actually going on and why prices have fallen so rapidly for such a significant amount of time now. Particularly -- let's go back to China. I think -- let's start with China, because it's the one that everybody talks about. Let me say two things on China. First of all, while we get a bit of new news every day on China, it's not the kind of news that is compatible with the kinds of changing that we're seeing in the market. But the more important point is this: if you look at economies like the United States -- and I'll turn to Europe in a minute, let's start with the United States. If you look at an economy like the United States and you say, how much could China contribute to declining GDP in the United States, the answer is about a half a percentage point of growth.", "Right.", "So in other words, the slowdown in China, even a very significant slowdown in China, could cost us direct effect and indirect effects about a half a percentage point of GDP growth. Now, that's not trivial, but it's certainly not something that would explain --", "All right.", "-- a 7, 8 percent decline in the stock market. So, that just can't be right.", "So, what do you --", "It can't -- the arithmetic doesn't add up there.", "What do you believe, then --", "Go ahead, please.", "Well, what do you believe is at the core of this? And what needs to happen?", "Well, I wish I could tell you what was at the core. Unfortunately, what I'm going to tell you is what actually is not going on. And to my mind, I always hate to outguess markets because I'm basically a believer that the market has better information than about anybody out there. So, I take my cues from the market. But I will tell you that if you look at the market right now and you say what is the market projecting for the United States, the market data are telling us that we have now gone from a projection of about 3 percent GDP growth over the next four quarters to about a 1 percent GDP growth over the next four quarters. So, that's significant. And you could argue that whatever they're seeing out there is causing the future growth to fall, and that by itself could be the thing that is causing the stock market to fall.", "And I -- let's talk about the Fed, because we're getting distinctly --", "Sure.", "-- mixed messages. Stan Fischer talks about --", "Yes.", "-- inflation.", "Absolutely.", "Dudley says there's no compelling reason. Other Fed governors seem to be --", "Yes.", "So, we've got an employment report on Friday. Do you believe September is still a realistic possibility?", "Well, I think it's a possibility. I personally would be surprised, given the volatility that we're seeing right now, if the Fed were to add new variables to what's going on. So, if I were guessing, I would think they'd push it to the end of the year. But again, you can't forecast what people are going to do very accurately. But I think that's probably what they would do. The reality is, had they done this earlier and had they actually engaged in raising interest rates, say, a year ago or so, they would be in a very different position right now where they could actually slow things down and perhaps reduce the amount of volatility in the market. Right now, they don't have a lot of degrees of freedom. There's just not a lot of room to operate because they haven't taken the steps in the past that perhaps they should.", "Ed, it's wonderful to see you. Thank you for joining us, giving us perspective. We appreciate it enormously. Thank you, sir. Now, as the price of crude oil nosedives down 7 percent, up yesterday 8, down 7, we'll have the rest of that exclusive interview with the Iranian oil minister in a moment. This is QUEST MEANS BUSINESS on a day when the markets, well, were very unhappy."], "speaker": ["RICHARD QUEST, HOST", "QUEST", "TED WEISBERG, PRESIDENT, SEAPORT SECURITIES", "QUEST", "WEISBERG", "QUEST", "WEISBERG", "QUEST", "WEISBERG", "QUEST", "WEISBERG", "QUEST", "WEISBERG", "QUEST", "WEISBERG", "QUEST", "WEISBERG", "QUEST", "WEISBERG", "QUEST", "WEISBERG", "QUEST", "CHRISTINE LAGARDE, MANAGING DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND", "QUEST", "BIJAN NAMDAR ZANGENEH, IRANIAN PETROLEUM MINISTER", "QUEST", "ED LAZEAR, FORMER CHAIRMAN, WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISORS", "QUEST", "LAZEAR", "QUEST", "LAZEAR", "QUEST", "LAZEAR", "QUEST", "LAZEAR", "QUEST", "LAZEAR", "QUEST", "LAZEAR", "QUEST", "LAZEAR", "QUEST", "LAZEAR", "QUEST", "LAZEAR", "QUEST", "LAZEAR", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-104457", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-3-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/30/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "25th Anniversary Of Reagan Shooting", "utt": ["There's an important developing story we're following. A passenger ferry sank off the coast of Bahrain a little while ago in the Persian Gulf, carrying about 150 people, including an unknown number of westerners, mostly tourists. Tom Foreman is here in THE SITUATION ROOM. First of all, show our viewers where this occurred.", "This occurred just in this area here, Saudi Arabia over here, Iran over here, Iraq up there. This is where Bahrain is. If you move in here off the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Bahrain, you see it's a small country, about 700,000 people. This is one of the principal areas of sea commerce here. This sounds like a tourist ferry, something that works around there, evening cruises, that sort of thing. They do have some tourist industry there. There are big ferries that go from here all the way over to Iraq. If you go to those position -- or to Iran. Excuse me. If you go across here, you're going quite a distance, about 150 miles. It can take 16 hours. It doesn't sound like it was one of those ferries, but we do know this. Today, the high temperature there was about 80 degrees, low about 70, so the water temperature would be relatively good for people who had to be in the water quite a while, to sustain life. Nonetheless, we're not sure what caused this accident. There was no wind today, bright, sunshiny day. We do know that just on the other side of Saudi Arabia two months ago, we had that terrible ferry accident over here where we ended up having close to 1,000 people die in that accident. So a terrible time for that region right now.", "We know in Bahrain right now U.S. Navy divers, U.S. Navy ships, helicopters, choppers are on the scene. They're trying to get involved in that rescue operation. Bahrain is the home of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf. We'll get back to you, Tom. Thank you very much. Other news, it happened 25 years ago today. John Hinckley fired shots that struck President Ronald Reagan and three others outside a hotel here in Washington, D.C. Ronald Reagan was nearly killed that day, and his Press Secretary James Brady was permanently disabled. It was just 70 days into Ronald Reagan's presidency. How well many of us remember that day. Here's how that stunning news first broke here on CNN.", "Details are very sketchy at this moment. We don't know precisely what happened. We don't know the sequence. First of all, the president is safe. We're told that shots were fired at his party as he left the hotel. The District of Columbia Metropolitan Police report that at least one police officer and one Secret Service agent have been injured. They were shot down. Their condition we do not know. We are checking both with the Secret Service and with people up at the hotel. We can report that shots were fired as President Reagan left the Washington Hilton hotel following that address we carried live here on CNN.", "Bernard Shaw, our principal anchor, reporting that news that day, 1981, 25 years ago today. The attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan had a huge impact on the White House, indeed on the entire nation. Our White House correspondent Ed Henry has been talking to some of Ronald Reagan's closest friends and advisers 25 years later, and he's joining us now from the White House -- Ed.", "Wolf, two Reaganites, Lyn Nofziger and Caspar Weinberger both died this week, right on the eve of today's 25th anniversary of the Reagan shooting. Making this week particularly emotional for the tight-knit group of Reagan alumni, especially Michael Deaver, the late president's right-hand man.", "The first of the six shots whizzed right past Mike Deaver's right-hand shoulder.", "The pop, pop, pop of it didn't register for a split second. But then I realized, because of the pandemonium.", "Press Secretary Jim Brady was hit bad.", "There was Jim laying on the ground in a pool of blood.", "President Reagan appeared safe and was headed to the White House until ...", "I said, what the hell? What are we doing?", "Spitting up blood, the president was rushed to the hospital. A bullet in his lung, he was near death.", "I had also lost more than half the blood in my body.", "A terrible surprise for Nancy Reagan.", "She turned to me and said, I thought you said he hadn't been shot. And I said, well, that's what I had been told.", "This was 1981. No cell phones or e-mail. Confusion reigned.", "As of now, I am in control here.", "On a random phone, he commandeered at the hospital. Deaver kept an open line to the White House. He had visions of the Kennedy assassination.", "What ran through my head when we were in that emergency room was Dallas, what it must have been like.", "But the tension was alleviated as the president cracked jokes such as telling the first lady, \"honey, I forgot to duck.\" Those iconic moments remind Deaver he's grateful that Reagan survived the shooting just two months into his presidency, and was able to serve two full terms.", "To me, it's the grace of the man. Even from the back, you can see how graceful he was.", "Deaver notes that the shooting drastically changed White House security forever, especially tighter restrictions on the media, because the shooter, John Hinckley, was able to exploit the media access to get close to Reagan, so it's pushed the media further back from the president even today. The shooter, John Hinckley, has been in a mental hospital in the Washington, D.C. area for now 25 years. A judge recently decided that he can get overnight visits with his parents. James Brady, as you noted, Wolf, still alive and one of the nation's most passionate advocates for gun control -- Wolf.", "Ed Henry, good piece. It brought back a lot of memories for me and I'm sure for a lot of our viewers. Thank you very much, Ed Henry at the White House. Coming up, the battle over immigration. It's being fought right now on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and it's going to be fought right here in THE SITUATION ROOM as well. That's coming up next in today's \"Strategy Session.\" Plus, John McCain here in THE SITUATION ROOM. The senior senator from Arizona joins us live to talk about the immigration wars, the conflict in Iraq, and lots more. Stay with us. 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{"id": "CNN-67809", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2003-3-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/10/lt.01.html", "summary": "Vote on Resolution Possibly Tomorrow", "utt": ["U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says the time for indecision is rapidly fleeting, and the United States is now within -- quote -- \"striking distance\" of winning U.N. support for war. Here is how the time frame is unfolding in the critical days ahead. The White House has told Security Council members to expect a vote by tomorrow on a new U.S.-British resolution on Iraq. The U.N. says Iraq has indicated it will submit a more detailed report, possibly this week, on the -- nerve gas and anthrax it claims to have destroyed in the 1990s, and the Washington-backed resolution would set a deadline of next Monday demanding Iraq's full, unconditional, and immediate cooperation in disarmament and disclosure. Let's begin with the diplomatic deadline at the United Nations. CNN Senior U.N. Correspondent Richard Roth is at his post with the latest maneuvers on both sides -- Richard.", "Yes, Fredricka. But first, that deadline only holds if the resolution is approved, and the United States, Britain, and Spain are working towards that goal. The U.S. said a vote could come as early as Tuesday, but diplomats here expect that to slip a day or two at least. Many countries are pushing the United States to give Iraq more time, days, weeks to comply with the weapons inspectors and their pursuit. The politics still goes on though, the hunt for votes. The French foreign minister Dominique de Villepin in Africa on a three- country swing of those undecided members who sit on the Security Council. Here he is arriving in Angola. Angola an oil-rich country, but wracked by decades of civil war. It gets a lot of assistance from France and the U.S., and it is going to need a lot more to get on its feet. But so, Angola being undecided. Its ambassador here on Friday telling us he didn't like the draft resolution because it didn't give Iraq more time to comply. Britain and the U.S. will keep the pressure on. There are consultations that are supposed to start here at 4:00 Eastern time, but no vote is expected. We may get some indications, though, on the timing of a vote -- Fredricka.", "All right, Richard. Thanks very much. See you soon. Now, let's get the view from inside Iraq. CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson is in the capital city of Baghdad -- Nic.", "Fredricka, another six Al Samoud 2 missiles destroyed this day. U.N. officials also saying three of the warheads for the missiles were destroyed as well. This has been a day not of high political activity, but certainly political rumblings here. President Saddam Hussein has met a Russian envoy, the speaker of the Russian Duma, Gennady Seleznyov, expecting their mutual cooperation between the two countries. Also, we've heard from Iraq's foreign minister today. He sent a letter to Kofi Annan, the U.N. secretary-general, criticizing the holes that have been appearing in the fence in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, saying that the buildup of troops inside Kuwait was a violation of the U.N. charter, and the very fact that Kuwait was hosting these international troops who appear to be waiting to invade Iraq, said that Kuwait should be criticized on that issue, again for violating the charter of the U.N. So, many smaller things happening here, also Iraq's foreign ministry complaining and criticizing about the United States' call to a number of countries around the world to expel Iraqi diplomats who the United States say have been essentially not involved in diplomatic missions, but have been involved in activities outside of that, possibly spying. Now, Iraq's foreign ministry confirming that one of their diplomats in Australia has been expelled, but also saying that they understand from their embassies not only in Austria, Belgium and Romania that their embassies there have diplomats whose role has been called into question, but so far those diplomats have not been expelled from those countries. Iraq's foreign ministry has characterized these moves as a hysterical effort by the CIA to get some of Iraq's diplomats to defect from Iraq. And Iraq has warned a number of countries against following United States pressure on this issue -- Fredricka.", "Well, Nic, let me ask you about one of the White House's latest accusations that there is this buried evidence that Iraq has this banned drone. What are Iraqi officials saying about that?", "Well, we've had nothing official at the moment from Iraqi politicians on that. What we do know is that in the past, Iraq declared that in its past weapons program, it was in 1988, developing drones that it hoped could deliver chemical and biological agents. Now, they say they gave up that program because they didn't think it was effective. We also know that Iraq declared in its recent weapons declaration back in December two drones that it said were capable of only going 100 kilometers. Now, that is inside the U.N. range of 150 kilometers that drones are allowed to fly. However, the U.N. says it has now discovered a drone with a wing span of 7.45 meters. This is a drone the U.N. says that Iraq didn't declare. Because Iraq hasn't declared it, the U.N. says, they don't know how far it is capable of flying. What they say they need to do, the U.N. says they need to investigate this specific drone, see what its aerial capabilities are, and if it is capable of going further than 150 kilometers, then it would be in violation of U.N. restrictions and regulations -- Fredricka.", "All right, Nic, thank you very much, from Baghdad."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "ROBERTSON", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-44263", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-11-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/23/lt.21.html", "summary": "Preliminary Tests of Lundgren's Home Negative for Anthrax", "utt": ["We hear today, and as we just reported -- that preliminary testing at Ottilie Lundgren's home in Oxford, Connecticut has so far turned up no traces of anthrax in her personal mail. The 94-year-old Lundgren died Wednesday of inhalation anthrax, and how she got it has been a mystery from the start. As we say, the governor of Connecticut plans a news conference that will begin momentarily. It is a mystery, but they're -- preliminary tests are showing no evidence, as we said, in that woman's mail. We're awaiting word from the governor on test results at the state capitol in Hartford. CNN's Michael Okwu joins us now in Oxford, where Ottilie Lundgren lived. Michael, what are you learning, what are you hearing there?", "Well I, just like you, Judy, was hearing this also from Eileen O'Connor that the mail -- preliminary test results show that the mail has come back negative in her home. We're hoping that when the governor speaks, of course, as you mentioned, at 1:00 this afternoon -- just any moment now -- and of course we will go to that -- that he will clarify for us whether or not these results also regard, or actually refer to the rest of the home. Now, we know that investigators have been there for more than 48 hours at this point, and so they have taken a number of tests. It could be -- could be -- that these initial test results refer to the fist set of samples that were taken. So that remains to be seen. Of course, Ottilie Lundgren died of inhalation anthrax on Wednesday morning, six days after she went to the hospital complaining about respiratory problems. It is, of course, Judy, a perplexing case. State police blocked access to Lundgren's remote home here in a wooded section of Oxford as investigators combed through her house inch by inch. They are also taking a very close look at the neighborhood around her, and specifically the church that she frequented. People at the beauty salon that she went to on a fairly regular basis have told us that representative from the CDC were on their way to that location. So whether they were going to be going there simply to conduct some interviews, or also to conduct some further tests at that location remains to be seen. Now, of course the governor is also going to be formalizing the -- essentially, the results of tests that were taken at two postal facilities that, essentially, distribute mail to this particular community. Postal facilities at Wallingford, Connecticut and Seymour, Connecticut. We are told by postal authorities that they will be watching the governor's press conference, just momentarily, on a big-screen television. They are taking that as a very good sign. And of course that seems to indicate, again, that Eileen O'Connor's information was quite accurate. We also understand that at 7:00 this evening, Judy, that there will be a town meeting. Area residents from Oxford, Derby and surrounding areas here will be at a community center where they will be talking to health officials and hopefully having most of their questions answered -- Judy.", "Michael, I don't know whether you've had time or an opportunity to talk to any of the people in that area; but I just wonder what they're saying about all this.", "Well, off and on we've been able to have an opportunity to speak to some people. And first they were very unhappy, of course, that Ottilie Lundgren, who was a long-time resident of this community, died. And, of course, they're shocked and surprised that something like this has come to this very sleepy, very quiet, very bucolic community. We know that, although people seem to be going through their routine -- their daily routine -- that it really belies a very deep concern that they have. Hospital officials have told us that since the news about Ottilie Lundgren become public, they have started receiving many more calls than they normally get about people experiencing respiratory problems. And they say it's perfectly legitimate if people are not feeling well to go to the hospital or to call their doctors and to make sure they are fine. But they do not suspect that anybody else has anthrax -- Judy.", "All right, CNN's Michael Okwu reporting from Ottilie Lundgren's hometown in Oxford, Connecticut."], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "MICHAEL OKWU, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WOODRUFF", "OKWU", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-400089", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-05-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/14/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Texas A.G. Warns Cities to Loosen Restrictions", "utt": ["Welcome back. These are images moments ago as Dr. Richard Bright enters the Capitol before his testimony. Note he's wearing a mask there as recommended by health officials. He's going to be speaking today about his whistleblower's complaint, talking among other things about being pressured to promote a treatment touted by the president, even though that treatment was unproven. When he speaks, we're going to bring those comments to you live.", "Absolutely. Meantime, tensions is escalating in Texas. State Attorney General Ken Paxton warning major cities in the state to loosen their restrictions that go further than state issued guidelines or they could face lawsuits. One of several things the A.G. takes issue with is the city of Austin, telling people to wear masks in public while the state is only encouraging people to do so. The mayor of Austin, Steve Adler, joins me now. Look, I read through the whole letter this morning. It's fascinating and the language and the word choice. The attorney general writes that your public health orders are not only sort of confusing the public, but he calls them unconstitutional and he says they trample on religious freedom. What do you say to him?", "It's not true and it's unfortunate because this is really the first real politicization of this virus crisis and, frankly, I'm just not going to follow the attorney general down that road. But the example that you gave, face coverings. Our governor and lieutenant governor have both been real strong advocates for wearing them. We had a policy and an order in the city that made it mandatory. The governor issued another order that even while he still said it's real important to do, he said the cities could no longer have a criminal or civil penalty associated with the failure to wear a face covering. Believing it's still real important, we have kept it mandatory here in Austin, but we have specifically said there's no criminal or civil penalty. We've seen the penalty is that more people are going to get sick and some of them are going to die and we're hoping that that's penalty enough. Effectively, we're at the same place that we're following the governor's order.", "Yes.", "But from a messaging standpoint, people in the community are confused. If it's important, then why is it that the governor says we can't enforce and", "Well, it actually does seem like the same message, it's just the difference in terms of semantics if you're not enforcing it in terms of arresting people or issuing a summons. But he says you're in legal liability here. I mean, it sounds like they're threatening to sue you. So what would you do?", "Then we'll respond. I'm confident that the order that we have in Austin is consistent and complimentary of the governor's order. In fact, our governor is trying to reopen businesses and if he's going to be successful in that, it's going to be due in part because the communities around Texas are being disciplined and vigilant about things like wearing face coverings. So, it's actually something that we believe furthers and supports the governor's order.", "Can we just talk about the economy there in Austin? And I know it's actually faring better than many because many of your residents can work and do have the ability to work from home? That's not the same for so many. But you I'm sure heard the comments yesterday from Fed chair Jerome Powell saying that if mitigation efforts are not done quickly, more aid from Congress, then the economic toll this is taking, some of it could be permanent on the U.S. economy. Can you just talk about the impact on small business in Austin? How many do you think are at risk of never reopening?", "You know, the economic hazard here is severe. You know, the number of people that are filing for unemployment -- we just had another iconic restaurant close that's been here for decades. We have lost several already. It is painful and it is -- it is hurt hurting. We may be doing better relatively than some other places and in that way, we're lucky and then blessed, but it's still real hard here and real hard for the people that live here. I think that we need to figure out ways that we can be reopening the economy. I'm just real focused on making sure that we do it in a way that maintains the public health.", "Yes, of course. Mayor Steve Adler, thank you. Thanks so much for your time. Good luck.", "Thank you very much. Be safe.", "Jim?", "Well, a Texas factory owner is set to testify soon that the federal government ignored his offer to make millions of masks. He says he has warned of a PPE shortage in this country for years."], "speaker": ["SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "MAYOR STEVE ADLER (D), AUSTIN, TEXAS", "HARLOW", "ADLER", "HARLOW", "ADLER", "HARLOW", "ADLER", "HARLOW", "ADLER", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "CNN-256284", "program": "SMERCONISH", "date": "2015-05-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1505/30/smer.01.html", "summary": "Interview with U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois.", "utt": ["Welcome back. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter spoke candidly recently about the weak state of Iraq's military, the country's deep rooted turmoil has had a significant impact on efforts to build a military leaving it in other disarray. This despite U.S. efforts to train Iraqi forces to better prepare themselves for the war against ISIS. Much of the discord however lies in the fact that the country doesn't even exist as a unified state due in large part to a deep sectarian divide. Let's get more on this from Congressman Adam Kinzinger. He served in the Air Force in both Iraq and Afghanistan and was among the first members of Congress to call for air strikes against ISIS. Congressman, I'm starting to have a humpty-dumpty view of Iraq. If you remember, all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put humpty together, again. Is the answer partition?", "I don't think it is. There's a lot of problems with partition. Number one, oil wealth is not spread uniformly through Sunni and Shia areas, as well as Kurdish areas. You know, there's a lot of differences. You have, obviously, some Shia in Sunni areas. Some Sunni in Shia areas. I think partition is probably an overly simplified way of fixing a problem that would only really make it worse. And plus, you think about the fact, too, other countries that are being held together and have different populations, what's going to do any sectarian in those countries? So, I actually think the problem could end up being a lot worse. This is a lot like '05 and '06, when we were sitting around and saying in Iraq that there was no way to fix this problem. This was just going to be a mess. We need to roll up the carpet and go home. Well, at the end of the day, we did see some success when we added 20,000 troops, yes, but it was mostly the engagement of the Sunni population, the disaffected Sunni population. So, I think there is still a way to salvage it. But again, every day that goes by, every, you know, Shia person that commits violence. Every Sunni ISIS that commits violence, it just makes that divide even greater.", "Isn't one of the differences between '05 and '06 where we are now is you have ISIS taking credit for bombings outside of Iraq and you have ISIS seemingly trying to govern and they have become the caliphate that they wish to be, no?", "They are doing, in essence, what al Qaeda did except now, again, it's projected, as you mentioned, outside of Iraq. We're talking now into Saudi Arabia. Potentially Jordan now is looking at concerns. Lebanon. This is a very big problem. That's why I think the answer to this is not, I mean, a lot of things we need to do in Iraq, but I think we have to deal a devastating blow to ISIS somewhere because what's happening right now -- you know, kids who are in their parents' basement getting radicalized on the Internet. They want to join the cause. They see a bunch of dudes shooting AK-47s, running around through a town and they want to do that for Islam. But if we show them that joining is does not mean fighting for a cause, it means a good chance you'll die, people don't typically join causes to be martyrs. They maybe willing to martyr themselves, but if they see that that chance of martyrdom is very, very high, they're less likely to join. So, that's why I think that's very imperative.", "How personally difficult is it for you, having fought over there to see these ISIS gains of territory, that Americans once thought to control?", "You know, it's devastating and frankly, it's heartbreaking. Just, you know, the Iraqi people are really good people actually. And they're folks just like our families, just want to raise kids and kids have dreams and hopes of becoming something when they grow up. It's the same in Iraq. And to see this happening is devastating. And to know, you know, so many thousands of soldiers that gave their lives and I just had a small part of flying an airplane in Iraq and doing what I could there. It's devastating to me and devastating frankly to the family who gave up loved ones to bring this kind of freedom to Iraq that unfortunately seems to be falling through their hands.", "Did you see evidence of a lack of will on the part of the Iraqis when were you there?", "I really didn't. You know, it took a while to organize the Iraqi military. I think we all understand we made mistake in the de-Baathification and disbanding the Iraqi military right after the invasion, but it seems like we put good leaders in place, we had Sunni and Shia leaders in place. And soldiers follow good leaders. And I think that's the untold story here. People say, you know, there's not a will of the Iraqi military to fight. Maybe that's true by and large. But the Iraqi ground soldiers are out fighting. A lot of times they are running out of ammunition, they see their leaders run away. And you know what? Even the United States military, if we saw our leaders running away, it would be hard to stay together and continue the fight. Thankfully, we have great leaders and great officers.", "Congressman Kinzinger, great to finally get you on the program. Thank you for that.", "You bet. It was great. Thank you.", "See you soon.", "You bet.", "Coming up, with Pope Francis's approval rating at an all time high among Catholics in American, he could have a major impact on the outcome of the presidential race. I'll explain."], "speaker": ["SMERCONISH", "REP. ADAM KINZINGER (R), ILLINOIS", "SMERCONISH", "KINZINGER", "SMERCONISH", "KINZINGER", "SMERCONISH", "KINZINGER", "SMERCONISH", "KINZINGER", "SMERCONISH", "KINZINGER", "SMERCONISH"]}
{"id": "CNN-256499", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-06-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/02/nday.04.html", "summary": "Apple Watch Sells 7 Million Since April.", "utt": ["Time for CNN Money now. Chief business correspondent Christine Romans in the money center. Hey Christine.", "Good morning. A couple big stories for you this morning. Goldman Sachs expanding its parental leave policy; the bank offering new fathers four weeks off instead of the previous two-week break, paid. That also applies to partners in same-sex couples. It's part of Wall Street's efforts to keep top talent from fleeing to Silicon Valley. The Apple watch is the company's most successful product debut ever. Look at that. Apple has sold 7 million watches since April. Compare that to 125,000 iPods in its first quarter back in 2001, or 1.1 million iPhones. The watch was the first product Apple released in more than one country on the same day, so that helps account for those bigger numbers, guys.", "Looks good on you.", "Ha. I tried on a $14,000 one, the rose gold one.", "Oh that looks really good on you.", "I only had $25 in my pocket so did not pick that one up.", "You make a $25 watch look like a $14,000 watch.", "Well played.", "Six months after making the controversial decision to shut down their football program, the University of Alabama Birmingham reversing course, announcing they will play football again. Camerota overjoyed. Andy Scholes has more in this morning's Bleacher Report as Alisyn is pulling out those old jerseys.", "Oh I'm sure, right. Yes, this is great news for fans of UAB football, Chris, but you got to feel bad for all those players that were on that team that was terminated. They all had to transfer and leave UAB to pursue other opportunities. Now the president of the university says the only reason that the program was able to make the comeback is because the school received millions of dollars from individuals and local businesses.", "We are moving forward and we are moving forward together. We wouldn't be here and we have never seen this level of support until we made the decisions that we could no longer afford to do it in a responsible way. So this support is new support.", "Now UAB will not be able to fill the seem in time for the upcoming season. It's not clear if they will be back in 2016 either, but their athletic director said their goal is to be back on the field as soon as possible. Devon and Leah Still will be honored next month at the Espys with the Jimmy B. Perseverance Award. Leah's pediatric cancer, it's in remission, but she did have a setback last week after having complications with a stem cell transplant. Good news, though, Devon posted this pic yesterday of Leah giving the thumbs up, saying that she is doing better. Chris, definitely good to see, because we all know she has been through quite the battle.", "Absolutely, an important update. Thank you very much, my man. All right, we have some major fallout after an investigation finds dangerous items were able to get past airport screeners. When you hear how often, you will be shocked. Perhaps the most alarming detail is how many different places they found the same problem. A look at the airports when we come back."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "CAMEROTA", "ROMANS", "CAMEROTA", "ROMANS", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "RAY WATTS, UAB PRESIDENT", "SCHOLES", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-47593", "program": "CNN RELIABLE SOURCES", "date": "2002-1-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/19/rs.00.html", "summary": "Coverage of Enron Scandal Examined", "utt": ["Welcome to RELIABLE SOURCES, where we turn a critical lens on the media. I'm Howard Kurtz. Just ahead, we'll talk to the only reporter who dared take on Enron a year ago, and find out how the energy company pressured her to drop the story. But first, it's been all Enron all the time in the media as the scandal grows each day with the drip, drip, drip of new revelations.", "Congressional investigators, some of whom spent the day at Enron's Houston headquarters, are asking Andersen for more documents. But a lot of documents are gone, shredded.", "New accusations hovering around bankrupt energy giant Enron now, and questions are swirling over its ties to President Bush's energy policy.", "Congressional investigators are back in Houston questioning Enron executives. On Wednesday, they questioned the fired Arthur Andersen accountant who had been in charge of auditing Enron.", "Bringing you the latest now on the Enron scandal; it just keeps getting bigger. The company fired its auditor, Arthur Andersen, for destroying those documents.", "Enron has been all over the front pages as hundreds of reporters dig into the bankrupt companies financial manipulation, its campaign contributions and its close ties to President Bush and other top administration officials. One news magazine this week trumped Enron as its cover story. And joining us now, Jake Tapper, Washington correspondent for Salon.com, and Rich Lowry, the editor of \"National Review.\" Welcome. Rich Lowry, you write that Enron isn't a political scandal, because the Bush administration, despite taking truckloads of campaign cash from these folks, believes in energy deregulation. So is this all being pumped up by scandal hungry reporters?", "Yeah. Well, this will test the theory of whether we can have a political scandal without any real political wrong-doing. And the fact is, all reporters sort of these days work off the \"All the President's Men\" model. It's follow the money all the time. So it's sort of this knowing and simplistic and tiresome cynicism where if the president of the United States says, you know, I believe we need more energy supply and we need to subsidize energy sources and drill more, because that's a good thing for the country, most reporters say, no, no, no -- that's not what he's really up to. He's been bought off.", "So in the world according to Lowry, Enron and companies like it give millions of dollars to politicians not because they're trying to buy anything like access, but because they're just being nice to their ideological soul mates?", "Well, Enron made a lot of bad investments, and soft money was probably one of them.", "Because as you were saying, it didn't buy anything. Jake Tapper, should reporters be suspicious despite what Mr. Lowry says here when the White House refuses to release all the document here, when Ari her isn't answering all the questions about the ties and the links and what happened with this company?", "Yes. I mean, I think it's our responsibility to be suspicious. I agree with Rich, that I don't think necessarily Enron's input into the energy plan is the scandal it's made out to be. They already agree -- the Bush administration agrees with energy deregulation. But there are questions. There was the story in \"The New York Daily News\" on Friday about Vice President Dick Cheney raising a debt that India owed to Enron in a meeting with an Indian public official.", "And President Bush was supposed to take this up with India's prime minister, except Enron went bankrupt in the meantime.", "Absolutely. But as you point out, one of the oddest things has been the White House's reaction. There was not full disclosure immediately. Cheney is still stonewalling, refusing to give information about his meetings with Enron. And then yesterday something very odd, which was Ari Fleischer to show that the Clinton administration had been just as at the beck and call of Enron executives, showed three examples where Mickey Cantor and Ron Brown and Bill Bailey did favors for Enron as well, as if the Clinton...", "In the Clinton administration.", "In the Clinton administration -- as if the Clinton administration is some sort of paradigm of ethics and like the Clinton administration is the model from which all presidencies should go when it comes to cozying up to corporate interests.", "But the way that the press is playing this -- you've got a lot of conservative media outlets that went wild over WhiteWater, that seemed to not be terribly exercised over this, and that seems to be to be, you know -- there's a certain ideological aspect to that.", "Sure. Well, look, this is obviously a much bigger business story than WhiteWater. WhiteWater, after all, was a couple of two-bit crooks and the governor of Arkansas. But the reason why WhiteWater was a bigger political story is that Bill Clinton was actually involved in the business dealings and arguably also the shady business dealings. Now, I would agree that this would be a huge political story if George Bush were actually a business partner of Ken Lay and were involved in setting up, you know, offshore accounts for Enron. But that is not the case. And, you know, what the White House is pointing out with the Clinton revelations is that all U.S. governments help these big corporations try to do business overseas. There's nothing corrupt about that. If you want to stop that, let's eliminate the commerce department, let's eliminate OPEC and the XM Bank (ph) and those are the sort of things the Congressional Republicans proposed in 1995 and were treated as radical and irresponsible for doing it.", "Well, there might not be anything illegal. That doesn't mean that there is nothing corrupt about the situation, where Enron gives $100,000 to the Democratic party and then like 10 days later they get some cozy business deal that they want. And then, of course, the same thing is going on with Republicans as well.", "If it's your position that the U.S. government should not help American companies get business overseas, I would agree with you. I don't think the government has any business doing that, because you end up creating all this exposure for U.S. taxpayers on business deals that may go sour, exactly the way Enron's did in India. But, you know, reporters -- no reporter is going to write front page stories about how we need to eliminate corporate welfare. It's all going to be we need campaign finance reform, because that's the story line reporters love.", "So you think -- and in fact, just last Sunday Bob Schieffer and Cokie Roberts said the way that Bush should respond to this would be to come out aggressively for campaign finance reform. You think journalists are using the whole Enron debacle as an excuse to push their favorite pet issue?", "Sure. It's the most tired cliche in the business. You know, and the reason why governments listen to companies like Enron is because big corporations are important. Any administration that crafted...", "But why do they give them all this money?", "They think it gets access. It gets you a nickname. It gets you nice notes. It does get you into the meeting. But the fact is, both administrations did things to help Enron, but both administrations did things that helped Enron that played to ideological type. The Clinton administration signed the Kyoto Treaty because their liberals. The Bush administration wanted to deregulate because they're conservatives. There's no scandal here.", "Jake Tapper, is there a media double standard? For example, the White House correspondent for \"The Washington Times\" told me he's not going to dignify all this innuendo about what the Bush administration may or may not have done to help Enron unless there's more facts here. It's the same newspaper that two years ago ran a front page headline \"Media Abuzz With Rumors That Clinton Fathered Boy.\" So, are we not seeing quite the same level of aggressiveness? I mean, there are unanswered questions here, at the very least, about the Bush White House.", "\"The Washington Times\" makes interesting decisions that I don't think necessarily represent the media or even conservative media in general.", "What about Salon? Salon's been aggressive. You had a story the other day about a new twist in this. Tell us what that was.", "OK, but we weren't talking about the Bush administration. My story was just a business story, because as of right now this is still much more of a financial scandal, which is just that there are a lot of individuals inside the company who were complaining about the shell partnerships. It came out earlier in the week that this woman, Sharon Watkins, had written a memo to Ken Lay and the Salon story that we had yesterday talked about a lawyer in Enron who actually went behind the back of the general counsel, retained outside counsel, this firm in New York called Freid Frank (ph), to find out what they thought of these shell partnerships. They said don't do them, and no more shell partnerships were set up.", "And my question is, isn't one of the problems with this story in terms of we're having America by the throat is that it's complicated. Lawyers and off the books partnerships and a lot of accounting tricks that are not easy to explain, for example, on television.", "That might be right.", "You're doing a good job, though, Jake. You were doing a good job.", "That might be my fault more than anything. It is a complicated story. And, yeah, it is much easier to explain to reporters and to the public if there were more of a smoking gun. I agree.", "I think that's an excellent point, Howard, because if we're going to cover this from a financial angle, you need to know what a derivative is, and it's really hard to understand what a derivative is if you're a political reporter. But if you're going to play it as a political scandal, what do you? You go to the Web site of the FEC or the Center for Public Integrity and pull up how many soft money dollars went to both parties and, bang, there's your big story. It's much easier.", "Well, who in Washington has not gotten Enron money? I mean, you have the top administration officials, you have lots of members of Congress, you have all these consultants and academics...", "And Arthur Andersen money, too.", "Exactly. And so, you seem to be taking sort of a narrow view of this, Rich, in the sense that if President Bush and Dick Cheney...", "I'm never narrow, Howard.", "OK.", "He's very broad-minded.", "If President Bush and Dick Cheney didn't do something specific to help them stave off bankruptcy, then where is the political scandal -- whereas the broad view, maybe journalists justifying the pursuit of the story, is about the relationship in which they would help Enron in many ways, not in any small part because of the campaign contributions.", "Well, no one can point to specifically anything they got that they shouldn't have gotten. And, you know, the fact is, Enron backed Chuck Schumer, the Democrat in the 1998 New York Senate race. Why? Because Chuck Schumer agreed with Enron on deregulation. Companies that support deregulation are going to give money to candidates who support deregulation. There's nothing inherently corrupt about that...", "So it's a journalistic yawn? The fact is, ideas and philosophy are much more important in politics than money, and most journalists can't wrap their minds around that.", "But by the same token, the SEC chairman, Levitt, at the time, in the year 2000, wanted to crack down on accounting firms that audited and also consulted, as Arthur Andersen did. And he was rebuffed by many senators, including Chuck Schumer. And I think money probably did play a role in that.", "So it's not clear at this point whether it's Watergate, WhiteWater, or no gate, as you might see it. Well, up next, we'll talk with the reporter who first raised questions about Enron's financial practices a year ago.", "Welcome back to RELIABLE SOURCES. And joining us now in New York is Bethany McLean of \"Fortune\" magazine.", "Hi, Howard.", "You started digging into Enron's financial problems a year ago when the stock was still up by 90 percent. What was the company's reaction when you started asking tough questions?", "I didn't start asking the questions until I had done a fair amount of homework. And I'd say their reaction was a little stronger than you usually get when you ask a company questions. But no company wants to be asked questions that are obviously tough.", "What did the CEO at the time, Jeff Skilling, say to you when you first called him?", "Well, Jeff Skilling has always had a reputation for getting frustrated pretty quickly and for not responding well to questions. And I think the same was definitely true in my phone conversation with him. He became pretty frustrated and pretty abruptly ended the phone call.", "In addition, Ken Lay, the chairman of Enron, called your managing editor, the managing editor of \"Fortune,\" Rik Kirkland, to complain about the story. So my question is, were you a little bit nervous that all these multi-million dollar executives, some of whom came to New York to tell you that everything was just great with this company, were putting their reputations on the line against a 31-year-old reporter?", "Of course I was nervous, that I was just missing something that was really obvious to everybody else, or that I was making a mistake. Enron's financials are very complicated, as everyone knows by now all too well, and when you're doing a lot of complicated calculations, you're always worried that perhaps you slipped up on one and there's going to be an error in the story. So yeah.", "What prompted you to look at Enron in the first place? And this was at a time when Enron was just getting glowing press because its stock price was way up, it was voted the most innovative company in America, and most financial journalists were basically asleep at the switch.", "Well, if you read Enron's financial documents, most notably the 10K filing, it was clear that it just wasn't easy to figure out how they were actually making money. And one tip for a lot of people who look at financials is earnings and cash flow. While Enron was reporting earnings that met Wall Street's estimates every quarter, their cash flow -- actual cash the business brings in -- was very erratic. And that's kind of a clue that perhaps something isn't making sense.", "So you wrote the story that was published in \"Fortune\" in mid-February of last year. You said that there were red flags here, that it was very hard to understand what this company did, that there could be a nasty surprise. Some pretty tough language. And the rest of the press kind of greeted it with a yawn. Why was there no follow- up from other financial journalists, other news organizations?", "Honestly, I don't know. I'm not a beat reporter, so at that time I moved on to other stories...", "Were you surprised that this didn't lead to other stories, at least raising the question of whether Enron was what it was cracked up to be?", "Not necessarily, because once one story has been done, unless somebody has something new to add to it, it's not likely that other reporters are going to write the same story.", "Well, as we're seeing in the kind of media frenzy that's going on now, everybody is chasing everybody else because this is the story of the moment.", "Well now no one has a choice.", "Nobody, obviously, even you, could have predicted that there would be an implosion of this magnitude...", "Definitely not.", "All these financial questions, all the employees, many of the employees losing large chunks of their retirement money. But what lesson do you draw from this, looking back at the kind of questions you raised about financial reporting and the kinds of scrutiny that journalists ought to provide? What do you take away from this?", "I think it's just really important, and I hope I keep this in mind going forward, to ask questions when you don't understand something. I think it becomes tempting, especially after you've done this a while, to just assume that you understand, or to not want to say, you know, I know this is probably a silly question, but I don't get it. And I think it's really important to just remember to ask the obvious question. In Enron's case, the obvious question, how does this company make money, actually turned out to be the right one.", "You know, everybody else in this system, the auditors, the board of directors, the Wall Street analysts who are often so bullish on stocks that later go south on people who've put their money into it, they were all saying that Enron was fine. Did that give you any pause, that putting your judgment up against all these so-called experts?", "Absolutely, but there is one nice thing about financial reporting, and that's that companies do have to file documents. And if you go through the documents and calculate the numbers and you write a story that is not based on gossip or rumors, that is based on actual facts coming out of the financial statements, well, perhaps you'll be wrong about the direction of the stock price, but your facts aren't wrong.", "Perhaps it would be good if more financial journalists took the time to go through the SEC documents and do the kind of work that you did. Bethany McLean, \"Fortune\" magazine -- thanks very much for joining us.", "Thank you.", "And turning our attention now to Jake Tapper and Rich Lowry -- so what does this tell us about the press culture? Here was a reporter who got out there, asked the right questions, poked some holes in the carefully constructed armor of the seventh largest corporation in America, and nobody else in the press cared.", "Well, she's extremely modest, first of all.", "Yeah.", "I mean, she did a tremendous job. The company was trying to intimidate her and, you know, if the auditors had been so honest and tough-minded, maybe a lot of this could have been avoided. But, you know, the press is partly just human nature. There is a herd mentality and she was riding a story that was extremely counterintuitive. And it takes a lot of courage to do that, and not all reporters can do that.", "Reporters are lazy. And reporters think in the pack mentality, as Rich said, and I'll bet a lot of reporters, when they read her story, because they didn't get it, they didn't break the story, probably a lot of people dismissed her. She's young, for one, she's 31 years old, and, you know, all the more reason why she should be proud of her big scoop. She is very modest. But I mean, it doesn't surprise me. I've only been a journalist for about three or four years now, and I have to say, I don't look around the room and think that these are, like, the most brilliant, aggressive and insightful, creative minds in the world. I mean, there's a lot of hacks in this business.", "No vote of confidence from Jake Tapper. But what amazes me is that even when the storm clouds gathered, the CEO Jeff Skilling, the one who hung up on Bethany McLean, he quit. The company restated its earnings to the tune of $600 million. The company declared bankruptcy in December. Even then it wasn't much of a TV story. It was only on some front pages.", "Well, Howie, there was another story going on.", "The war.", "The war and the biggest terrorist attack in the history of the world.", "So -- OK. So by December, the press can't walk and chew gum at the same time? We can't cover the war and this kind of collapse?", "Well, the timing is awfully convenient. I mean, there is a news hole now because the war has simmered down a bit. It isn't as exciting as dominating, so you have to do something. You have to fill the column inches and fill the time on TV, so you have Enron.", "I would say it's a huge story, even in a time of war. Now, we have about a minute left. Yesterday we learned that \"Talk\" magazine, the magazine founded by Tina Brown, who achieved such success with \"Vanity Fair\" and \"The New Yorker,\" is folding, a victim of financial problems, as many magazines are experiencing. Jake, you were a contributor to \"Talk.\" What did it do right and what did it do wrong?", "I think Maya Richon (ph), the new editor that came on over the summer, had really finally -- the magazine had gotten its editorial voice and had gotten its stride. But the problem is, it's really tough to launch a general interest magazine in general, and post-9-11, the advertising dollars are drying up all over the place. I think Tina is to be commended for the effort and I think Maya (ph) did a great job. It's a real shame.", "A lot of media critics tell me, Rich Lowry, that the financial situation aside, they had trouble understanding what \"Talk\" was, what was its identity. It seemed to be a general interest magazine without much of a mission.", "They ran some occasionally interesting political stories. They ran some nice pictures of pretty, sexy actresses. And besides that, I don't have much nice to say, so maybe I shouldn't say anything.", "You didn't think it worked as a magazine?", "No. It just never was a compelling read. I'd always kind of leave it on my desk and kind of look at the cover for a week or two.", "Except for the stories that I wrote for them.", "They were the interesting ones.", "So the stories about Gwyneth Paltrow didn't compel your attention.", "No. You know, they had a -- Tucker Carlson did a great story for them in their inaugural issue about George W. Bush and it was important and controversial, but it never really -- in my mind, that was the best issue they ever did.", "Miramax put a lot of money into talk, but Hearst magazines, which was the other partner, decided to walk away. They could not find another investor. \"Talk\" magazine dead at the age of 2 1/2. Rich Lowry, Jake Tapper -- thanks very much for joining us. And when we come back, the attack of the killer pretzel in \"The Spin Cycle.\"", "Time now for \"The Spin Cycle.\" The White House says it was a minor incident. The president chokes on a pretzel, faints, hits the floor, as if it happens every day. But what do we really know about Pretzel Gate?", "He's in great health and great spirits and I don't think there's anything to worry about.", "That, at least, is the official line. But not everyone in the media was swallowing the story.", "Is it possible that there was some hidden heart problem, and of course everyone will worry about stroke.", "Medical correspondents were probing for an explanation.", "Well, the episode itself is not so dangerous, and the issue is whether the president has another underlying problem other than what the doctors have said.", "The president, of course, tried to make light of the incident.", "My mother always said, when you're eating pretzels, chew before you swallow.", "But then why the cover-up? First Bush looked like this. And then the injury mysteriously seemed to vanish. They say Laura Bush was in another room, but where's the evidence? They say only Barney and Spot were there, but have Congressional investigators talked to them? And why won't the White House release key details? \"USA Today\" says the beleaguered pretzel industry is working overtime to find out what brand Bush was eating. Sources say it was a small, round pretzel.", "Enron was bad enough. Isn't it time for the administration to come clean? We at RELIABLE SOURCES will investigate every twist of this story, but we are trained professionals. Don't try this at home. Well, that's it for this edition of RELIABLE SOURCES. I'm Howard Kurtz. Join us again tomorrow morning at 9:30 Eastern. We'll talk about the administration's damage control on Enron with two White House correspondents and a prominent financial columnist. CAPITAL GANG is up next."], "speaker": ["HOWARD KURTZ, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KURTZ", "RICH LOWRY, \"NATIONAL REVIEW\"", "KURTZ", "LOWRY", "KURTZ", "JAKE TAPPER, SALON.COM", "KURTZ", "TAPPER", "KURTZ", "TAPPER", "KURTZ", "LOWRY", "TAPPER", "LOWRY", "KURTZ", "LOWRY", "KURTZ", "LOWRY", "KURTZ", "TAPPER", "KURTZ", "TAPPER", "KURTZ", "TAPPER", "LOWRY", "TAPPER", "LOWRY", "KURTZ", "TAPPER", "KURTZ", "LOWRY", "KURTZ", "TAPPER", "KURTZ", "LOWRY", "KURTZ", "TAPPER", "KURTZ", "KURTZ", "BETHANY MCLEAN, \"FORTUNE\" MAGAZINE", "KURTZ", "MCLEAN", "KURTZ", "MCLEAN", "KURTZ", "MCLEAN", "KURTZ", "MCLEAN", "KURTZ", "MCLEAN", "KURTZ", "MCLEAN", "KURTZ", "MCLEAN", "KURTZ", "MCLEAN", "KURTZ", "MCLEAN", "KURTZ", "MCLEAN", "KURTZ", "MCLEAN", "KURTZ", "LOWRY", "TAPPER", "LOWRY", "TAPPER", "KURTZ", "TAPPER", "KURTZ", "TAPPER", "KURTZ", "LOWRY", "KURTZ", "TAPPER", "KURTZ", "LOWRY", "KURTZ", "LOWRY", "TAPPER", "LOWRY", "KURTZ", "LOWRY", "KURTZ", "KURTZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KURTZ (voice-over)", "DIANE SAWYER, NETWORK NEWS ANCHOR", "KURTZ (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KURTZ (voice-over)", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "NPR-8043", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2018-09-23", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/09/23/650861610/after-decades-of-research-mre-menu-now-includes-pizza", "title": "After Decades Of Research, MRE Menu Now Includes Pizza", "summary": "Army field rations have lacked pizza as an option until now. NPR's Renee Montagne asks food scientist Michelle Richardson how the Army finally produced a palatable pizza for troops in the field.", "utt": ["An army marches on its stomach - so the saying goes. And for decades, U.S. forces in the field have relied on MREs - meal ready to eat - for sustenance. The compact, self-heating rations are not known for their Michelin stars. And the military has been working to improve the cuisine. The holy grail of MRE development - a palatable pizza. And now after years of research, it is on the menu. Michelle Richardson is a food technologist at the Natick Soldier Systems Center outside of Boston. She helped create the pizza and joins us now. Welcome to the program.", "Thank you.", "What is so tough about creating an MRE pizza?", "I think it's tough because the pizza is made up of different components. It has sauce, cheese, pepperoni. And then it has the crust. And they have different amounts of water. And so what happens is when - water likes to move and be equal in all parts. So if you had a crust that has a little bit of water and you put sauce on it that has a lot of water, then the water from the sauce is going to move to the crust, making it soggy. And the eating quality is not going to be there.", "I mean, that can be easily solved with a very hot oven, you know, for a fresh pizza. But this pizza, this MRE pizza, has to withstand - what? - something like freezing floods, blazing heat, maybe even a 10-story drop to the ground. And it's got to last for how long? - 36 months?", "Yup - 36 months at 80 degrees Fahrenheit without refrigeration.", "OK. Well, explain to us how a soldier would prepare it.", "He can eat it as is. All the MREs come with a flameless ration heater. So if he decides that he wants to have a hot pizza, he can actually heat it up. In less than 10 minutes, he'll have a hot piece of pizza.", "Of course, the key thing here is the taste. And I have to say I looked on YouTube and saw a critique of the pizza (laughter). And actually, it got high marks.", "Yes, it did. And we've done some field tests with the soldiers. We actually go there and ask them, you know, how does this look? How does it smell? How does it taste? And they ask - we actually ask them for ratings. And for the most part, it always has gotten high marks.", "So how much of that is psychological or context? - which - when a soldier is hunkered down someplace and bites into his or her pizza, it probably tastes sublime, given where they might be.", "Actually, this pizza taste very close to the pizza that you eat. But I think that when a soldier's out in the field, they don't expect the pizza to taste like they would get from a local pizzeria. So it's all about the expectation.", "Well, you know, I'm wondering now if there's any chance you'd be developing a dehydrated beer - hey - to go along with it?", "Yeah, I don't think they'll be putting any alcohol in the rations anytime soon.", "Maybe a non-alcoholic dehydrated beer.", "Now that you've conquered pizza, which was such a high bar for getting right, what's left? - like, shrimp scampi or chocolate souffle? What are your limits?", "Well, we really don't have limits because we're always looking for innovative technology. But they do like a lot of desserts. And so we're currently looking at a technology that will dry a cheesecake down so that it would last longer, number one, and that it won't be as heavy. And it still has the eating quality of a cheesecake that you can get at home.", "And the look.", "Yes, definitely the look. It has a nice color and texture.", "Michelle Richardson is a senior food technologist for the Army. She has helped develop a slice of pizza that can go in an MRE. Thanks so much for speaking with us.", "Thanks for having me."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "MICHELLE RICHARDSON", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "MICHELLE RICHARDSON", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "MICHELLE RICHARDSON", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "MICHELLE RICHARDSON", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "MICHELLE RICHARDSON", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "MICHELLE RICHARDSON", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "MICHELLE RICHARDSON", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "MICHELLE RICHARDSON", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "MICHELLE RICHARDSON", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "MICHELLE RICHARDSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-61891", "program": "CNN LIVE ON LOCATION", "date": "2002-10-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0210/18/lol.02.html", "summary": "FBI, CIA Warn of Terrorist Attacks", "utt": ["America's top security officials say al Qaeda is back up and running, poised to attack. U.S. interests at home and abroad are the targets. The directors of the FBI and the CIA offered that assessment yesterday before a joint congressional intelligence committee. More on the terror threats from our National Security Correspondent David Ensor -- David.", "Well, Carol, it was ominous language -- in particular, from the CIA director, George Tenet. Just to review the bidding, he said it is serious, al Qaeda has reconstituted, they're coming after us, they want to execute attacks. Now, why is the U.S. intelligence community so worried? Take the bombing today of a bus in the Philippines. Officials say they're not suggesting that al Qaeda is behind that, but they do have a lot of intelligence evidence that there may be attacks planned in the Philippines by al Qaeda-affiliated groups. Take the recent attack against U.S. Marines in Kuwait, where several were injured, at least one was killed. That caused a good deal of concern, and that is believed to have been associated with al Qaeda. Take the attack on a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. The tanker that's now believed was hit by a small boat loaded with explosives, much the same kind of attack as the USS Cole, and you heard al Qaeda officials in various statements taking credit for that, or associating themselves with that attack. And then there was the horrible, massive blast in Bali that killed hundreds. Tourists at a favorite watering hole of tourists in Southeast Asia. So there has been a lot going on. A lot of it considered to be affiliated with al Qaeda. Then of course, there were the tapes that came out recently of the Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the number two man in al Qaeda and of Osama bin Laden himself, warning that there are going to be additional attacks, calling on their supporters to go after economic targets in particular. Now, those tapes were taken by U.S. intelligence officials back to some of the senior al Qaeda prisoners that they have in hand. They then listened to what they had to say, and some of what they said increased the level of worry on the part of U.S. officials. That worry has been transmitted, obviously, to the homeland security people, to Governor Tom Ridge and to the White House. There's no decision at this point to raise the threat level from yellow to orange, but a memo has gone out, we are told, to state and local law enforcement officials and to some key officials at key parts of the infrastructure in this country, asking them to take some measures to increase the security of this nation against terrorism. Not quite going to code orange, but to increase the level above, yellow. So we're kind of at yellow-plus at this point -- Carol.", "David, though it feels very defensive. I mean, when you take a look at the sheer number of attacks that have been going on, I have to wonder, what is the intelligence community going to do to prevent these attacks from happening in the first place? Are they any further along in that area?", "Well, the important thing is good intelligence, and they do feel that they are getting a lot of good intelligence. Going into Afghanistan and capturing a lot of senior al Qaeda people has made a big difference in that regard, but they are also pressing, both intelligence officials and Bush administration officials, pressing the Congress to pass the Homeland Security Act. It doesn't look like it's going to pass in this Congress. A lot of officials say that's a big mistake, that we're leaving ourselves vulnerable in this country to further attacks, and that the government is not correctly organized to deal with them -- Carol.", "All right. Thank you very much. David Ensor with the latest on this developing story on the error threat."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID ENSOR, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "LIN", "ENSOR", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-311601", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-05-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/04/nday.02.html", "summary": "Stephen Colbert: No Regrets for Angry Trump Rant.", "utt": ["The \"Late Show\" host Stephen Colbert responding to criticism over a crude joke that he made about President Trump. Colbert implied that the president was taking part in a sexual act with Russia's Vladimir Putin. That rant, leading to a #firecolbert hashtag and calls for a boycott of his show. So, here's what Colbert said last night.", "Folks, if you saw my monologue on Monday, you know that I was a little upset with Donald Trump for insulting a friend of mine. So, at the end of that monologue, I had a few choice insults for the president in return. I don't regret that.", "OK. Let's discuss this with CNN media analyst Bill Garter and CNN senior media correspondent and host of \"RELIABLE SOURCES\", Brian Stelter. Great to see both of you. Well, first of all, you know, look, I love Stephen Colbert. I know we all do.", "Yes.", "However, I found this statement a little bit peculiar because President Trump didn't actually insult John Dickerson. He gave him a dismissive -- he dismissed him, as presidents do when they don't like a journalist's question. So, that wasn't anything unusual, I think.", "No, it wasn't over the top.", "He also likes to call Dickerson's show \"Face the Nation\" \"deface the nation\".", "\"Deface the nation\".", "Which I would say is insulting.", "OK. You're right. That is insulting. But in terms of what he directly did to John Dickerson. But furthermore, do you think, Brian, that it warranted such a crude joke on national television?", "I am surprised this joke made it on out of the writer's room. I'm surprised it made it on to the broadcast. I thought Colbert was sort of trying to have it both ways there telling his fans \"I don't regret it,\" but, but, but yes, the words were too crude. That's a bit of an admission maybe designed to make this go away. Remember, this happened on Monday night on this show. Tuesday, this was ripping through conservative media. It wasn't until Wednesday that he actually addressed it amid this #firecolbert hashtag.", "I think what one thing I'd say, Colbert worked in cable for a long time. They did this every night on cable.", "Yes. But network is different.", "They made jokes every night. It's different. It's very different. They have broadcast licenses. They are more responsible. They could be called on the carpet for it.", "That was vulgar. That was high level --", "It was. It was a very vulgar joke. Obviously, it's something that his audience that loves him doesn't mind, but other people can use it against them, and so it became sort of a weapon for them to strike against the guy they don't like. I don't think it has any impact.", "Right. A lot of it is tribal.", "It's tribal. You can see from his fans, he makes a joke -- I don't have any regrets, his fans cheer like crazy. So, it's not going to impact him that way with his fans. It's pointless for them to say, oh, he should be fired. That's all pointless. But I do think it will make him think more in the future maybe about this is a network show. You can't go quite the same.", "What if he had been removed? I mean, that's why, you know, you may like the joke. You may not like the joke, but he has every right to tell the joke. If he didn't, even on the broadcast side, if he didn't offend one of the FCC guidelines, then he can say whatever he wants.", "It does offend the", "We haven't heard that. You may think that.", "There are certain rules.", "There are, but the word was bleeped.", "The word was bleeped.", "Then it's OK.", "Let's give some credit to the Republican FCC chairman who was asked about this, who said, it's a free country, he can say whatever he wants, as long as he didn't violate those decency standards.", "That's right.", "He can say whatever he wants.", "If it weren't bleeped, it would have violated it, but it was bleeped.", "That's right. That's the whole point. So, you can judge it. I like it, I don't like it. That's fine. If he had been removed, I think you have an issue with it. Just so we don't go through it too fast, you guys are applying a Trump standard to how he treated John Dickerson.", "Wait, what's the Trump standard?", "A lower standard than normal. I have interviewed a number of presidents. I have never seen a president do what he did to John Dickerson. Never.", "Walk away?", "No. He went that's it, and he goes and sits down when he knows he is on tape. It's his right to do it, but let's not say, oh, that's not over the top. For him, it's not over the top. If President Obama had done that, forget about what you would have heard.", "That's the subtext of this entire conversation. This entire country is trying to figure out what the heck to do, how to talk about this president, how to cover this president as journalist, about how to joke about this president as comedians. There's a sense in we're in very unusual times, and we're seeing comedians go further than they would have gone with other presidents. Now, we can debate all day how high the bar should be for respect and civility. I think we would all agree we want it to be high, and, yet, as you said, they're cheering. His fans are cheering.", "That's right.", "And also, you have a lot of people who disagree with the notion about keeping the bar high. A lot of people want the bar low, and they're saying I don't respect the office, I don't respect the man. I mean, it's --", "But it has worked for Colbert. Colbert has done nonstop attack on --", "Right.", "And his ratings have gone up as a result.", "Exactly. He has found a voice, and it's because the country is extremely anxious about what's going on in this administration. There is a level of anxiety in the country, and they are responding to this kind of humor like I've never seen.", "They're now the ignored majority, right? We talk about Trump. The Trump panel voters. We don't have the non-Trump panel voters that are majority of this country, you know, and they're watching these shows and they are sending us messages, saying, why are you always talking about Trump folk? Why aren't you talking about us? The majority of the country is against him. So, Colbert is dealing with the majority when he's talking about Trump.", "I'm with Sean Hannity on this one. Hannity, and, by the way, I never said those words before.", "Wow!", "Yes.", "Hannity said, I don't support any kind of boycott because that's what the left is trying to do right now to people like Ann Coulter. Let's not try to shut down anybody's right to speak --", "Good for him.", "-- in this country.", "Yes, yes, look. Agreed. But you know, obviously, good judgment goes along with that.", "It does.", "So, there's always the balance that were always forever trying to rise --", "Indeed. Thank you, gentlemen, very much. And thanks to our international viewers for watching. For you, \"CNN NEWSROOM\" is next. NEW DAY continues right now.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "Good morning. Welcome to your NEW DAY. We do begin start with breaking news. There's a big announcement from the royal family. 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{"id": "CNN-302788", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2017-01-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/09/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview With Congressman Adam Schiff; Trump's Big Week; Trump's Son-in-Law Named Senior Advisor.", "utt": ["Happening now: Moscow meeting. A spokesman for Vladimir Putin says a meeting with Donald Trump will take place, as Trump dodges questions about Russian election hacking the U.S. says was ordered by Putin. Will Trump address the controversy at his news conference scheduled this week? Confirmation bias. The congressional calendar is jam-packed with confirmation hearings for Donald Trump's nominees. But some haven't completed background and ethics checks. Will Trump try to push them through without scrutiny? Menacing America. Iranian boats come within hundreds of yards of U.S. Navy ships, forcing an American destroyer to fire warning shots. The latest tense encounter between the two countries, is it Iranian backlash against warmer ties with the West? And caught on camera. New video of the shooting rampage at the Fort Lauderdale Airport, as the suspected gunman appears in court for the first time. Could he face the death penalty for the deadly attack? We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You are in THE SITUATION ROOM. With just over a week before he assumes office, Donald Trump is staying largely silent on the election cyber-attacks which U.S. intelligence says were ordered by Vladimir Putin to benefit Trump's campaign. Today, the president-elect dodged questions about it, promising instead to address Russian hacking at a long-delayed news conference scheduled for Wednesday. Tonight, we are learning Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will be a senior adviser to the president at the White House. Kushner will not be paid for his White House role and we are told he is resigning all his positions at Kushner companies as well as divesting a significant number of assets. Also tonight, there is new video of the shooting rampage at the Fort Lauderdale International Airport that left five people dead; 26-year- old suspect Esteban Santiago made his first court appearance and was told he could face the death penalty. As the Syrian civil war is about to enter its seventh year, I talked about failed U.S. efforts to stop the bloodshed with outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry. He calls the ongoing conflict deeply frustrating. We are covering it with our guests, including Republican Senator Cory Gardner. He's a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. And the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Congressman Adam Schiff. Our correspondents and expert analysts, they are also standing by. Let's begin with Donald Trump, largely silent on the issue of Russia's election hacking, which U.S. intelligence says was ordered by Putin in an effort to help Trump win the White House. Our senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, is joining us with the very latest. Jim, Donald Trump takes office, what, 11 days from now.", "That's right, Wolf. Donald Trump made a major announcement today, tapping his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as a senior adviser to the president. But he also dodged some important questions today on a range of important issues from Russia to his potential for conflicts of interest in the White House. But Trump promises those answers will come at his first post- election news conference on Wednesday.", "With Inauguration Day closing in, Donald Trump is trying to change the conversation away from the cloud of questions hanging over his looming presidency.", "We will talk about that on Wednesday.", "Asked by reporters about Russia's attempts to meddle in the election, Trump punted to his news conference Wednesday. A key question for Trump is just how much he buys into the U.S. intelligence community's report that concludes Russia directed hackers to tilt the election his way. Top transition advisers are not offering much clarity, indicating Trump believes some of the findings.", "He is not denying that entities in Russia were behind this particular hacking campaign.", "But suggesting it doesn't really matter.", "There's no smoking gun when it comes to the nexus between these hacking activities and the election results.", "Over the weekend, Trump tweeted: \"Having a good relationship with Russian is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only stupid people or fools would think that is bad,\" part of a softer tone on Moscow that worries Republicans.", "If after having been briefed by our intelligence leaders, Donald Trump is still unsure as to what the Russians did, that would be incredibly unnerving to me because the evidence is overwhelming.", "Trump is creating even more questions with transition sources confirming to CNN that his son-in-law Jared Kushner will serve as a senior adviser to president. Critics wonder how Trump will hand his businesses off to his sons while other relatives like Kushner are working in the White House. Not to worry, says Trump.", "We will talk about it on Wednesday. It's very simple. All I can say is it's very simple, very easy.", "Adding to the pre-inaugural drama, hearings for a slew of Trump's Cabinet picks are getting under way. And Democrats are howling over delays in background materials coming in to the committees.", "Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is making his case by reprising a 2009 then from then Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to the majority leader at that time, Harry Reid, outlining a series of standards that should be met before Obama were advanced by the Senate.", "They are almost exactly what Democrats requested. Mr. President, I don't bring this up to play gotcha. I am doing it to show that our requests are eminently reasonable and, in fact, have been shared by leaders of both parties.", "Now Senate Majority Leader McConnell insists there will be no holdup.", "Everybody will be properly vetted, as they have been in the past, and I'm hopeful that we will get up to six or seven picks of the national security team in place on day one.", "One name already generating heat is Trump selection for attorney general, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions. Gold Star parent Khizr Khan sent a letter to the Senate reminding lawmakers of Sessions' past battles with civil rights group: \"Thirty years ago, a bipartisan group of senators rejected Mr. Sessions' nomination to be a federal judge. His record since then does not give us any reason to believe that those senators were in error.\" Trump is standing by Sessions.", "I think he's going to do great. High-quality man.", "Now, a few more details on Jared Kushner serving as a senior adviser to Donald Trump. The transition says he will not be taking a salary when he's at the White House, that he is also divesting himself of his various assets and resigning from the various positions he has at his multiple companies. Wolf, as for daughter Ivanka Trump, she will not be taking an official job at the White House for now. She is also though resigning from many of her various positions, divesting herself of her assets. She will be in charge somewhat when it comes to that new Trump hotel in D.C., and when those matters come before the White House, Jared Kushner will have to recuse himself from those matters. But, Wolf, transition officials are insisting they believe Donald Trump has broad authority to select the team of his choosing. Jared Kushner falls into that category and they believe Jared Kushner will have a pretty free rein when it comes to most of what he wants to do at the White House -- Wolf.", "Jim Acosta over at Trump Tower in New York City, thank you very much. Now let's get some more on the meeting between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Our chief security national correspondent Jim Sciutto is working the story for us. Jim, a Kremlin spokesman says there are already plans in the works for this meeting. What are you finding out?", "That's right. In fact, the Kremlin spokesman, Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, saying this meeting between Trump and Putin is going to take place. They have not set a timeline. He said, in his words, it's going to be carefully arranged. What is interesting, Wolf, of many things about this upcoming summit would be the timing, because it will almost certainly happen, particularly if it's early in the Trump administration, while you have a continuing investigation on Capitol Hill or consideration perhaps of new sanctions against Russia for election hacking. Those are sanctions that have the public support now of both Democratic and Republican senators. The backdrop to any upcoming meeting is going to be very interesting where even members of Trump's own party back here in Washington will be looking at a tougher, rather than a friendlier approach to Russia.", "Also today, Jim, congressional Democrats renewed their call for an independent commission on Russia, the hacking and other issues. Where do you see this battle over Russia, intelligence, for example, going from here?", "This is a test, especially when you speak to Democrats, because they are interested in something that is independent or bipartisan. You and I know well, Wolf, that committee hearings on the Hill that are sponsored by one party as opposed to another party, they can have the whip of partisanship, no question. Right now, Republican leadership, Mitch McConnell among them, have said they would be satisfied with non-bipartisan investigations of this. So who wins this out? And do you then take a further step like we saw after 9/11 of not just having bipartisan congressional hearings, but something more independent that brings in outsiders? That's something that hasn't been decided yet. From Democrats' perspective, it will be a test of how hard-hitting, how thorough any investigation is.", "Jim Sciutto reporting for us, our chief national security correspondent. Thank you. Let's get some more on all of this. Congressman Adam Schiff of California is joining us. He's the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Congressman, thanks very much for joining us.", "You bet.", "One of the frustrating things about the declassified intelligence report that came out the other day was the substance, the backup, if you will. There were conclusions. They were very, very blunt, why the Russians did this. But the evidence backing it up was missing. I was frustrated as a reader. I'm sure a lot of others were frustrated as well. You are privy to sensitive information. And so we have to take your word and the word of others that they have the goods?", "Well, I understand the frustration. On the other hand, it was very important, I think, to get before the American people just what the intelligence community has concluded and, in fact, Putin's very direct role in orchestrating this, what the motivations were. But you can imagine the Russian intelligence services are now poring over that document, looking at every sentence, every comma, every punctuation point, to figure out, how do they know this? What is their source of information? The more that we share with the public, unfortunately, the more we are sharing with our adversaries. And when they try this again -- and one of the key conclusions of that report is, this was not a one-off, they are going to do this again, to us, to the Germans, to the French. We don't want them to know our sources of information. We have to protect it. One other, point, Wolf, this is why I think it is so damaging when Donald Trump denigrates the intelligence community and calls into question their work product, because he is going to come to rely on it. He is going to come before the country one day and ask us to believe what he is saying and what the intelligence community is telling them. And by impugning them, he is harming his own presidency.", "Because what also stood out was that two of the intelligence agencies, the CIA and the FBI, they said they had high confidence in these conclusions. The NSA, the National Security Agency, had what was called moderate confidence. Somebody who wants to know more and more -- and a lot of people I'm sure want to know more and more -- why do you think that they disagree on what level of confidence they should have?", "Well, that was only on one of the sub-conclusions.", "But a significant conclusion.", "A significant one. But even moderate confidence is a pretty strong finding on something of that key significance.", "But as sensitive of an issue as this, moderate confidence does not suggest complete confidence.", "No, it is not complete confidence. And, indeed, the intelligence community never talks about complete confidence.", "Why couldn't they release more of the background, more of the reasons, more of the information that led them to these conclusions? I understand you don't want to tip off the adversary in this particular case, Russia. But somebody who studies this, don't you think they could have released some more of the backup?", "I think over time we will release more. It is my hope that the investigation that goes forward in Congress will produce a public component, will have open hearings and will also public its own results so that, over time, we can disclose more. But the sole reason, the 100 percent reason why they didn't do more by way of disclosure is that they don't want to tip off the Russians. There is nothing the Russians would like more than that. And we don't want to inform our own public at our own expense. But it is obviously not a bright line. And they have to make judgment calls and that's why they made them.", "What's wrong with wanting to have better relations with Moscow? What's wrong with a summit meeting between the incoming president and Putin?", "Well, there's nothing wrong with it in theory. I would like nothing better than the mullahs to resign and have better relations with Iran. That's not likely to happen, because the Iranian interests are different than ours, just as the Russian efforts -- interests are very different than ours. And what we can't do is to allow Donald Trump to go to the Kremlin and be given a great big steak dinner and have nice things said about him and then persuade him he ought to change U.S. policy because he's being flattered by the Kremlin. That would be a terrible mistake. I think what the president-elect needs to do is say, look, I would like improved relations, but they have to be on terms that meet our national interests. And here's what our interests are. We need the Russians out of Ukraine. We need them to abide by the Minsk accords. We need them to stop bombing modern opposition and civilians in Syria. We need them to stop trying to tear down democratic institutions around the world. And we are going to push back on you hard in these areas. Where you want to work together on counterterrorism, we will work with you, but only when it is in our national security interest.", "I know you don't have a high degree of confidence in the president-elect, but what about his top national security team that he is putting together, General Mattis, the incoming, assuming he's confirmed, defense secretary, Rex Tillerson, secretary of state? What do you think of some of those people? I know you like Mike Pompeo, the congressman who has been nominated to be the CIA director. I wonder how you feel about Dan Coats, who is nominated to be director of national intelligence.", "With respect to Dan Coats, relieved I think is the emotion I first felt.", "You have confidence in some of these?", "I do. I think Dan Coats was a good selection. I think he is someone committed to the intelligence community and the work that they do. He is someone that is viewed as I think quite rational, not a partisan ideologue. I think he's a good solid choice. I like General Mattis. I had some initial heartburn over the fact that we need to grant a waiver. But, frankly, given the president- elect's other choices, many Democrats are putting their hope and faith in General Mattis to be a voice of reason within that Cabinet. But others, I have a lot less confidence.", "General John Kelly, secretary of homeland security, I assume you appreciate him too?", "I do. I do very much.", "It sounds like on national security, homeland security, intelligence, you are more positive than negative?", "Well, yes and no.", "Mike Pompeo, I know you like that.", "Questions that I have raised about General Flynn in terms of his temperament and judgment and problems he had at DIA, and he may be running the show there.", "There may be a real collision course between he and General Mattis. That concerns me a great deal. The degree to which Steve Bannon wants to get involved in national security and foreign policy, that concerns me a great deal. I do have profound concerns. And even with Mike Pompeo, who I like and respect, he is going to need to set aside some very strongly partisan instincts to do that job well. I think he can do it. And he is going to have to do it. And we will see the first test of that during the confirmation hearings.", "But on the whole, though, you are encouraged by at least most of these national security, the team that he is putting together?", "Most is probably stronger than I would say. I have very serious concerns about Rex Tillerson.", "What's your biggest concern about him?", "Well, that he won't be able to set aside a lifetime of work for a single company whose interests are not coincident with the national interest. Sometimes they are. Sometimes they are not. The fact that when he was asked not to engage in the Kremlin when we were trying to sanction them, and did nonetheless, some of the work that he did in Iran, for example, these are profound concerns. Will he be a vigorous champion of continued, indeed, increased sanctions on Russia over Ukraine when it hurts his lifetime callings at his former company? It is possible, but it gives me profound concern.", "Because a lot of people leave big business experience and when they take a job as a national security adviser or secretary of state, secretary of defense, they no longer represent in his particular case ExxonMobil. They represent the United States of America.", "Well, yes. But have we ever had a case where someone got a Special Friendship Medal from the Kremlin and whose whole life was devoted to a single company and who now must take on that very company and that friend who gave him that award? I don't think we have ever seen this kind of situation. And it ought to give Americans a lot of heartburn. He is going to have some very tough questions to answer and he should.", "The whole notion of the intelligence community though moving forward, you are frustrated that the Obama administration did not react more assertively during the campaign to the Russian cyber- attacks.", "I was frustrated about it. Senator Feinstein, as you know, took the extraordinary step in September, the month before the Intelligence Committee released their own attribution, calling out the Russians on what they were doing. I understand the reasons why the administration was hesitant. They didn't want to be seen as putting their hand on the scale in the American election. They didn't want to risk retaliation by the Russians. But, nonetheless, our experience with the Russians is, if you don't push back hard with, they view everything as an open door. I was urging that we take a harder line on Ukraine years ago and provide the defensive weapons and urge the stronger support response when North Korea hacked Sony. I think all of these things did contribute to a Russia that felt it had more of a green light than it should have.", "Would the appropriate response, a U.S. cyber-attack on the Russians or something else?", "That ought to be one piece of it, frankly. I think, in a covert way, we can make the Kremlin and Mr. Putin pay a price for their interference in our affairs. But much of the deterrent should come overtly and it ought to come in the form of working with our allies who are also the subject of Russian malign influence to sanction them. What Putin cares about more than anything else -- sometimes more than anything else -- is the perpetuation of his own regime. And the number one thing that threatens that is the poor Russian economy.", "Because President Obama has said the Russians are good in cyber-attacks, the Iranians are good, the North Koreans are good, the Chinese are good. But you know what? He says the United States is better than all of them. Is that true?", "It is true. It is true.", "If the U.S. wanted to launch a cyber-attack, let's say, against Russia and release a lot of embarrassing information about Putin, it could do that?", "It absolutely could do that.", "Would you recommend that?", "I would recommend that we take appropriate cyber-steps. We don't want to escalate all out of control and get in a very destructive cyber tit for tat. But I do think we do need to push back hard. And we have the capabilities of doing it. Yes, at one level, if we decide to get into cyber-warfare, there is nobody that has the capabilities we do, but we also have a lot at stake. We are more technologically integrated than any other country on Earth, so there are risks. But there are ways to show that two can play at this game. And if Putin wants to dump embarrassing information about U.S. political figures, there is a lot that he ought to be worried about that we could do as well.", "So, when President Obama last September at one of the international summits told Putin, cut it out, referring to the cyber- attacks, did Putin listen, did he cut it out?", "The administration has been making that argument. Frankly, I'm not fully persuaded by it. If what they mean by that is they didn't escalate further, they didn't try to affirmatively manipulate the vote count or the voter registration databases on Election Day, yes, they didn't do that. I am not sure that they were prepared to cross that line anyway. But if they mean by that they feel they have established enough of a deterrent to stop Russia from doing this again, I don't think that deterrent has been established.", "Congressman Schiff, thanks for coming in.", "Thanks, Wolf.", "Much more coming up. We will take a quick break and we will be right back."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "ACOSTA (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT-ELECT", "ACOSTA", "REINCE PRIEBUS, INCOMING WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF", "ACOSTA", "KELLYANNE CONWAY, TRUMP SENIOR ADVISER", "ACOSTA", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA", "ACOSTA", "TRUMP", "ACOSTA", "ACOSTA", "SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY), MINORITY LEADER", "ACOSTA", "SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), MAJORITY LEADER", "ACOSTA", "TRUMP", "ACOSTA", "BLITZER", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "SCIUTTO", "BLITZER", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-160443", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-1-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/06/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Mayor Cory Booker's Let's Move Challenge", "utt": ["You know, that's not video of NFL training camp. That's Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker. He put himself to work during last week's blizzard. In fact, he was pushing cars, shoveling snow. Actually responding to calls for help on Twitter.", "But even by the mayor's own admission, that was the first exercise he had done in a while over the past. The former Stanford football player put on a little weight. You know what we're going to ask him specifically - he's here. We're going to ask you how much weight you actually put on? Yes, Mr. Mayor, welcome, first of all. How much did you put on?", "I went from about 230 pounds in 2009 to being this year at 295 pounds was my high. So right now, this morning, I got - I was 284. I'm starting to come down. But it's really a bad situation to be a leader, to be Michelle Obama's co-chair of our national effort and to be sitting there telling kids you need to eat healthy and exercise when I'm not exercising and eating chocolate chip cookie dough and ice cream late at night.", "Did she get on you about that?", "No, she didn't. When she was just in Newark and the shame of it was, that day I still remember going to find a suit that actually fit me because I had gotten so big. So you know,", "We had a chuckle (ph) out of your - what you wrote about it. Because it was very candid. I mean, we've all heard these moments but you said, you're sitting there with the first lady. And you said \"my stomach was still trying to digest the French fries and the cookie dough from the night before. I hadn't exercises for more days than I could remember. I simply couldn't help feeling the shame of falling so short of my own words to the children.\" And it's interesting because this is sort of where we start in January with our resolutions and our proclamations to be better. But why is it that we fall so far off the wagon around the holidays?", "I think that what we do is we make promises to ourselves but what I'm trying to do by example, I'm trying other people to do it is make public commitment. You know, I've got over a million Twitter followers now and Facebook followers. I want all ourselves to put ourselves out there and hold each other accountable because America is going down a very dangerous road. If you're obese, you have much more costly lives. Shorter lives. Health problems. Obese children do worse in cool. This is really undermining the very core of our country. So I think that, you're right, willpower is a hard thing to muster. And I had a lot of great excuses. I was running a job around the clock. I had lots of stress. But at the end of the day if we're not taking care of ourselves, we can't take of our families, our communities or do our jobs as effectively.", "That was going to be my next question. I don't want to call you lazy. It's hard to call any public servant lazy. You guys keep heck a schedule so what was it? You just started eating? You said you had excuses there? What did you do?", "Anybody who was an executive in government from last year, from White House, state house, city halls, it was the most stressful year that any of us went through. Frankly, for our constituencies it's a most stressful year. So it was intense. We had a number of crises. You know, you don't think about what you eat when you're just ordering pizza, you're just grabbing what there is and we get these terrible habits. I'm one of those guys who comes home, and this is what I write about on my blog on Facebook - who plop in front of the TV at 2:00 in the morning, not feeling that I can sleep and just eat food mindlessly as I watch TV. So these are the kind of habits that I'm committed to breaking.", "You said you want to reach it by your birthday, April 27th, you want to get back down to your goal weight of 230. What are some big changes that you're putting into, besides shoveling snow?", "Well, you know, most of my days, I'm going to put out a blog of what I've done. So I've cut out TV. I'm not watching TV while I'm eating at all anymore.", "Except for the morning cable shows.", "This is the deal I made to myself. I'll only watch TV when I'm on my stationary bike.", "When are you on the bike?", "What's that?", "When are you on the bike? 6:00 to 9:00 Eastern?", "Exactly.", "All right. Just checking.", "You know, I've given up that and I'm making sure that I plan my meals out before, you know, because that stops me from just grabbing what there is. I've already thought this out. If my schedule as mayor is planned out for everything else if my professional life is important to my health, I should plan that out as well. So a lot of different secrets - well, not secrets, thoughts that I'm putting up on Facebook every day and the great thing is the response. I've had thousands of people reaching out, saying they're going to join me for this Let's Move Challenge, also giving me their tips. We, as a country, we can only go as far as we're willing to take each other. And so I'm hoping we can be much more mutually supportive because we have become a very obese nation and that is ridiculous for a country this strong and this great to allow us to get this bad.", "One more thing here. We talk about the weight here. And we kind of joked about the first workout you had was out there shoveling. And that got a lot of attention, no doubt. But when you juxtapose what was happening in your town, seeing a mayor out there all hours of the night, literally responds to Tweets, showing up at people's homes to help out versus the criticism here in New York, also in New Jersey with the governor there, as well. How did you see how other officials were handling their communities as you were handling yours in that way?", "Well, Mayor Mike Bloomberg is probably one of my mentor mayors. He's one of the best that's out there. And we didn't get it perfect in Newark, either. What we did do well, though, was our communication strategies. And it was great to have a mobile command center, as oppose to staying where I usually sit, was in City Hall and trying to work it out. I said, you know what, let's get into the streets, let's move around. And with BlackBerrys and other devices I could command sort of the operations, as well as most importantly respond to residents. And actually, being out there, for me, it affected me seeing people who were trapped without everything from diapers to people that needed to get to their diabetes services.", "Right. And, in fact, in New York they just -- the fire commissioner let go of the head of EMS because of that slow response time. I mean, do you think that in New York City, in particular, that people should lose their jobs over the response to the storm?", "Well, this is life or death. And folks don't understand that. Storms are life and death. And you got to get it right. We had a lot of snow-post (ph) mornings. We had a long meeting at City Hall just yesterday looking at what we did wrong and we helped people to account for it. Because if you're a resident stuck in your house in need of vital services and those don't arrive, there should be accountability. And so I don't blame anybody here in New York or in Newark, frankly, for holding their employees accountable for providing those services.", "Well, congratulations on those efforts. A lot of people gave you high marks for what you were doing out there and the video we saw. So, congratulations on that. And good luck. You look good. You don't look like you're 284 --", "If you let me, I'll come back in April and show you the results.", "Of course, you can come back.", "We'd love to.", "Thanks so much. Good luck with that.", "We won't get you a birthday cake. We'll get you some carrots and hummus or something, right?", "Sounds good. Sounds very good.", "Mayor Cory Booker, thanks.", "Thanks so much.", "Well umbrellas required down south, absolutely, they're getting hit. Plus, more snow is heading our way. Rob Marciano is going to have the forecast for us. 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{"id": "CNN-104678", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-4-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/06/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Senators Close To Compromise On Illegal Immigration", "utt": ["Zain Verjee has the day off. Carol Lin is joining us from the CNN global headquarters in Atlanta with a closer look at some other stories making news -- Carol.", "That's right, Wolf. The U.S. State Department is condemning a car bombing in the Iraqi city of Najaf. At least 10 people were killed when the bomb exploded near a sacred Shiite shrine today. A city-wide curfew is now in effect. The State Department says it will do everything possible to bring those responsible to justice. Now back in February, an attack on a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra sparked widespread sectarian violence. Well the military forces say the main Iraqi suspect in last year's kidnapping of an Italian journalist, has been captured. They say Muhammad al-Ubaydi was detained on March 7th in Baghdad. The former intelligence official under Saddam Hussein's regime is linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is believed to be the head of al Qaeda in Iraq. News of al-Ubaydi's capture was delayed until DNA tests could confirm his identity. Now the man who led New York City through the aftermath of 9/11 was on the stand at Zacarias Moussaoui's sentencing trial today. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani testified that it felt like an earthquake when the first World Trade Center tower collapsed. Jurors also saw a videotape of people falling to their deaths from the towers. The jury will decide if Moussaoui should be executed or get life in prison, Wolf.", "Carol, thank you very much -- Carol Lin reporting. Is the border battle about to end in a peace agreement? There's high-fiving and back slapping going on in Capitol Hill right now as U.S. senators say they are very close to a deal that would find a way for millions of illegal immigrants to become legal. Let's go live to our congressional correspondent Dana Bash, she has the latest. Dana?", "Well Wolf, since that high-fiving and back slapping earlier today, senators have retreated behind closed doors once again, trying to figure out how to bring that compromise to the Senate floor for an actual vote. But one thing is for sure. After days of thinking they may never get an immigration overhaul through the Senate, now they think they just might.", "Senate leaders from both parties rush to the cameras to celebrate.", "We had a huge breakthrough.", "After a late night of intense behind the scenes talks, a compromise that would allow millions of undocumented workers to eventually become U.S. citizens. Democrats were cautious but they were standing with Republicans and that said it all.", "And it's something that we can all take a swing at and drive in a run. What would that run be? It would be a run that would give the American people a victory.", "On the most contentious issue, how to handle the estimated 11-to-12 million illegal immigrants, the legislation envisions three categories. Those in the United States more than five years could stay and get on a path to citizenship. Those illegally in the U.S. between two to five years would have to briefly leave the country through designated sites to get temporary work visas. They would then be eligible for green cards and eventually citizenship. Illegal immigrants in the United States less than two years could not stay legally. Republicans are so divided on the issue, language matters as much as the details. Note Senator Lindsey Graham's effort to sell the compromise to fellow Republicans, who won't support anything that rings of amnesty.", "I think we've reached a plea bargain with 11 million illegal aliens.", "Still, some Republicans quickly rejected the plan.", "I'm not impressed. That's not -- I'm not going to now line up and say, oh, great, we have got a compromise.", "Now, Republicans, like Jeff Sessions, who are very unhappy with this compromise, as well as some Democrats, are now, Wolf, trying to talk to leaders from both parties to try to figure out how to offer amendments to this compromise. If this passes the Senate eventually, of course, as we have been talking about for days, the next big hurdle will be trying to come to some kind of compromise with the House of Representatives. The leaders there have opened the door to the idea of a guest-worker program, at least, the House speaker has. But, of course, many rank-and-file conservatives still are very much opposed to that idea -- Wolf.", "Dana, thank you very much. In today's \"Strategy Session,\" court documents in the CIA leak investigation show that President Bush may have authorized the leak of intelligence on Iraq. What is the political fallout from these new developments? Joining us now, our CNN political analyst Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, and Bill Bennett, the host of the radio program \"Morning in America.\" Scooter Libby, in these latest documents, makes a pretty stunning disclosure, that the president and the vice president basically said, go ahead and leak information from this national intelligence estimate, leak it to the press, while it was still classified?", "They can declassify it. The president can declassify it. The vice president can declassify it. They declassified it. Ten day...", "But -- but let me - let ...", "Ten days later, it was public.", "But, normally, before they do that, there's a committee that reviews classified information. It's highly unusual for the president and vice president simply to, on their own say, you know what, let's declassify this and leak it.", "We don't know that the committee didn't get together. But the president is the chief executive officer, elected by the people. This was an authorized release of intelligence. There seems to be a lot more excitement in the press about an authorized release of intelligence than about the unauthorized release of intelligence or release of confidential documents by the press. This, to me, is not stunning. And I don't think it's interesting.", "What do you think?", "Well, I think it smells like a hypocrite, because, on one hand, the White House is adamantly opposed to leaks, and now we see that this was a selective leak. The White House has a huge credibility problem. The president has said from day one, if he knew anyone who did -- who gave out this information, he would personally see to it that they were fired or dismissed. Now, I think the White House has a huge credibility problem with this. And while they are stonewalling the press now, and not coming out and talking about this, they will have to tell the American people exactly what happened.", "Let me -- let me weigh you in. But let me read to you...", "Sure.", "... what Howard Dean said, the chairman of the Democratic Party. He said, \"The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe.\"", "The president is not a clerk. The president is not a GS-13. The president is the president of the United States. The people who classify information are part of the executive branch. They work for the president. He has the authority to declassify. And he did. Again, I mean, I -- I'm not surprised at Governor Dean. I'm not surprised at the Democrats. But I don't know why there isn't more distress about the unauthorized disclosure of information. He's the authority of the executive branch. He can disclose whatever he wants to disclose.", "Let's talk about Cynthia McKinney for a moment. She went out on -- on the floor today of the House of Representatives and uttered this. Listen to what she said.", "I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all. And I regret its escalation. And I apologize.", "She apologized. A lot of people think she should have done that right away, from the beginning.", "Well, you know, it appears that, on the first day, that, when the cops went over to talk to her, that she was ready to put this behind her. And then it escalated. Look, it took -- in my judgment, Cynthia McKinney should have put this behind her days ago. And now that it's behind her, members of the Black Caucus are ready to talk about Katrina aid. They're ready to talk about renewal of the voting rights. They really became very tired about this...", "There are other issues. But is this a case, as she said here in THE SITUATION ROOM, of racial profiling? Here, she is a black woman, a member of Congress. She says she was inappropriately selected, if you will, and that she was manhandled by this police officer.", "Racial profiling is a major issue in this country, but I don't believe -- and I don't know the circumstances or the facts of this. But, as a former congressional staffer, I can tell you that those members of the police force, they are courteous. They go out of their way to try to identify members and staff and to protect the public as well.", "You think this is over with, now that she has apologized?", "Because there's a grand jury investigation.", "I suspect it's over. She apologized. There's -- crying wolf -- and crying wolf -- not Wolf Blitzer, but crying wolf is a bad idea.", "Crying wolf about race is one of the worst things you can do, because it's a serious matter. You don't take trivial incidents and call them racial.", "It looks like they are working on a deal to allow...", "Yes.", "... guest workers to remain in the United States, to make them legal residents of the United States. And it looks like Republicans, a lot of them, Senator Hagel, Senator Martinez of Florida, are joining with the president in saying, you know what, this is essential that the 10 or 12 million illegal immigrants right now get some sort of legal status and work their way, eventually -- at least most of them -- toward citizenship.", "I don't think it will fly. I don't think we will have legislation. This is not something that makes the Republican base very happy. All I hear on my show -- I think it's across talk radio -- is the rule of law, whatever happened to this, the notion of the flags here, that you can't fly the American flag. The American people, a lot of them, are very upset about it. And they're not happy with John McCain and the others who are signing on to this bill.", "What do you think, because there are a lot of, you know, Democrats, base Democrats, especially union workers, who are afraid for their own jobs? AFL-CIO not very happy about a guest- worker program.", "Well, what -- we don't have all of the details, but what we do know about this is that it's almost like a three-tier process, where, if you have been here for less than two years, you have to go home. If you have been here for a certain amount of time, you have to go home, and then you can come back. And, then, if you have been here for a long, long time, then you can stay. So, we don't have all of the details. But once the details are ironed out, then, the Democrats, I think, will decide whether or not they can embrace this approach.", "Secure the border. Secure the border. That has got to be done.", "We all agree on that.", "Everybody agrees on that.", "I think, once that is done...", "We agree on that.", "People want to see that before they see the other promises.", "Well, we both agree on that one.", "OK.", "All right. On a note of agreement, we will...", "Two out of four.", "... end the \"Strategy Session.\"", "Thanks to both of you guys.", "Thank you.", "Thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "And up next in THE SITUATION ROOM, President Bush may be the latest to authorize a high-level leak, but there's a long history of presidential disclosures. And only our Jeff Greenfield has the historic perspective to take a look back. He's standing by live. Are they the latest odd couple of American politics? That would be John McCain and Jerry Falwell. 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{"id": "CNN-112644", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2006-12-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/06/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Iraq Study Group's Suggestions; Spy Saga", "utt": ["And good morning, everyone. You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Tony Harris.", "And I'm Heidi Collins. For the next three hours, watch events happen live, on this Wednesday, the 6th of December. Here's what's on the rundown. Emergency exit -- the Iraq Study Group's suggestions on a way out of Iraq. The report now on the president's desk.", "Spy saga -- a friend of a poisoned Russian dissident also contaminated. He talks exclusively with CNN about a radioactive hit job.", "And taxpayers soaked -- double dipping washes away millions of dollars after Hurricane Katrina. FEMA's dark cloud, in THE NEWSROOM. Long-awaited, highly anticipated -- will the recommendations provide a road map out of Iraq? The report from the Iraq Study Group will be released two hours from now. It was presented to the president earlier this morning. We want to go straight to the White House now, live with our Suzanne Malveaux -- good morning to you, Suzanne.", "Good morning, Heidi. Well, President Bush got his hard copy about two hours ago. He was in the Cabinet Room with the Iraq Study Group, all 10 members. We're told that every one of those members went around the table talking about a different aspect of it. And when it was all said and done, the president said, and I'm quoting: \"Well, that was good.\" Now, White House officials are now confirming what is in that report and what our own Ed Henry broke late last night, the fact that there is no call for a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops. There is no call for some sort of immediate mass withdrawal. But the bulk of this report is really about changing the role of the U.S. military from on the front lines to embedded with the Iraqi troops, helping them train and move forward, so that they can be a part of the major combat. The report also calls for the Bush administration to engage in direct talks with Iran and Syria, to offer carrots and sticks, if you will, to make that actually happen. And the commission head, James Baker, also talks about the very important role of the Middle East, bringing peace between Israelis and Palestinians in order to bring peace in Iraq. President Bush reacting to this report just a couple of hours ago.", "I've told the members that this report, called \"The Way Forward,\" will be taken very seriously by this administration. It's a -- this report gives a very tough assessment of the situation in Iraq. It is a report that brings some really very interesting proposals and we will take every proposal seriously and we will act in a timely fashion.", "And, Heidi, one of the things that the report emphasizes is that there is a need in Washington for both sides to come together, a sense of bipartisanship. One of the members of the panel, Vernon Jordan, said, look, we put our partnership, we checked it at the door to come up with a consensus here. Lee Hamilton also telling the president directly, he said, \"Mr. President, you're going to get a lot of advice, but this is really the only bipartisan advice.\" That was very much stressed in this meeting, as well as in that text -- Heidi.", "And so hopefully, Suzanne, the idea is that because it is bipartisan, it will carry more weight, maybe even more credibility. But I have to say, without sounding like a naysayer, we have heard of a lot of these suggestions before. What is different? What will this change and where might Bush go from here?", "You know, it's uncertain what's going to change at this point. We know that the Bush administration is at least, on the surface, trying to give this impression that they are going to look at this, take this very seriously. This afternoon the president is meeting with Republicans and Democrats here at the White House from both the House and the Senate sides. Very important committees, we're talking about Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Armed Services. He's going to sit down with them, brief them on his NATO trip, as well as his discussions with the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri Al-Maliki. He is going to talk about receiving this report, as well. We know that tomorrow President Bush is going to be here at the White House with his greatest ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, again, to discuss these recommendations. And then later today, this Iraq Study Group is going to have a teleconference with Iraq's prime minister, Nouri Al-Maliki, about the way to move forward. So certainly there are signs that the Bush administration is taking this seriously. But it's a very good question, Heidi, whether or not this is going to carry enough weight to make real change.", "All right. Well, we will be watching very closely, as the rest of America, I'm sure. And at 11:00, we'll be hearing from the Iraq Study Group themselves. So it'll be a fascinating day. Suzanne Malveaux live at the White House.", "The U.S. military's top brass certain to have a keen interest in the recommended Iraq policy changes. We check in with CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr this morning -- good morning to you, Barbara.", "Good morning to you, Tony. Well, it is perhaps the case that none of the recommendations in this report are going to come to a huge -- as a huge surprise to senior U.S. military commanders. Everybody has pretty much long agreed that there are no new ideas that nobody has thought about in regards to Iraq. The question now is how to make any of these ideas really turn into military strategy on the ground in Iraq. One of the central recommendations about trying to turn the U.S. military into more of an advisory role by 2008 in Iraq, rather than a combat force, well, that's pretty much the track that the military has been on a part of President Bush's strategy that as Iraqi forces stand up, U.S. forces will stand down. But with the security at really crisis proportions in Baghdad and in the west, in Al Anbar Province, that has proven to be very tough. What the U.S. military already has been doing, we know, is accelerating the takeover of security to the Iraqis, increasing already the amount of training going on, doubling the size of some training teams in Iraq and also repositioning U.S. forces sort of to more rear positions, trying to push the Iraqis out front, get them in the front line combat position to become more of the advisers in the back. So, a lot of those is already underway in Iraq. So how to turn it all into real strategy...", "Yes.", "... how to turn it into military reality on the ground, Tony, unless security improves, it's going to still be a significant problem.", "All right, so let's sort of change gears just a bit here. Is the military concerned at all about how Iran may play a role in all of this on the ground in Iraq?", "Well, Iran is one of the major concerns. As we know, the report calls for direct dialogue with Iran. There is clear evidence, clear intelligence at this point, according to General Abizaid, that Iran is sending weapons, money, trainers into Iraq, supporting some of those Shia militia groups that are causing some of the sectarian violence. It is a significant problem now. What U.S. military commanders have told us, even if you took Iran out of the equation, there would still be a big problem in Iraq. But unless you deal with Iran, you're essentially not going to solve the Iraq problem. So there's very much a feeling on the part of the U.S. military that somehow Iran's influence must be dealt with. It will be President Bush's decision, they say, how to do that, but the military does feel it's something they have to address.", "Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr for us this morning. Barbara, thank you.", "The key to getting U.S. troops out of Iraq -- the ability of Iraqi forces to take over security. But are they up to the challenge? CNN's Ben Wedeman reports now from Baghdad.", "This is how it's supposed to happen -- Iraqi soldiers capturing insurgents, wresting peace and stability from the chaos that is Iraq today. But this is just a drill. More than three-and-a-half years after the U.S.-led invasion, the Iraqi Army and police are supposed to be increasingly taking the lead while American forces provide backup.", "And we're here to support you in your checkpoints. If you get attacked or you have a suspected terrorist coming through your checkpoints, we're here to support you.", "But the performance of Iraqi security forces has, at best, been mixed. The Iraqi police have failed to establish basic order, despite billions of dollars and millions of man hours spent on training. And the police force is widely believed to be infiltrated by the insurgents and militias and plagued by widespread corruption. The Army has fared only slightly better, suffering from high levels of desertion and lacking strong leadership, with many U.S. troops frustrated by what sometimes appears to be a lack of motivation.", "They didn't do too much work yesterday.", "About how much work...", "They didn't do too much work the day before.", "No. But...", "They haven't done too much work since they've been here.", "But, what", "The bipartisan Iraq Study Group and other reviews ongoing in Washington are trying to address these many strategy changes. But it will be an uphill battle in a country where the best laid plans have a way of going terribly wrong.", "Ben Wedeman joining us now live from Baghdad -- so, Ben, your assessment? You're there. Are Iraqi troops ready to take over?", "No, I don't think so, and nobody actually pretends at this point that they are ready. There's still a long way to go in terms of training them, equipping them. At the moment, by and large, it's the Americans that make the decisions on where troops are deployed and how they are used. But we heard from the senior coalition spokesman yesterday, saying that they hope that by next summer, the Iraqis will be in charge of what they call their battle space, that they will be the ones making the critical decisions on where to deploy their men and how to use them and that the United States and the other coalition partners would basically be providing backup where it's necessary, where the Iraqis feel that they need the help of the Americans and others. So we are looking at the middle of 2007 at this point, in theory, for some sort of total hand over with the Americans and others just providing support -- Heidi.", "Ben, I'm curious to know if the Iraqis are aware of and are interested in this Iraq Study Group.", "Well, we went out and asked some of them and by and large they were fairly skeptical about the ability of the Iraq Study Group to actually make a difference. Many of them saying look, the Americans have been here for three-and-a-half years, why are they coming up with this big plan now, when, really, it should have been something they did at the very beginning. They say that they have not seen their lives improve dramatically in any way and that, if anything, they say that things have simply gone from bad to worse, that now, of course, the City of Baghdad is divided between areas controlled by various militias, that there's crime, there's killing, there's destruction. So most people are aware of this study. They just don't think much is going to come of it -- Heidi.", "Well, Ben, when you speak with them, do they have suggestions? Do they have ideas about where they would like to see their country go?", "Well, those we spoke to were in agreement. They said they'd like to see the Americans get out. They say that at this point, there's really not much that they can do. They feel -- they have more confidence in their own forces, the Iraqi Army and police. They feel that if the Americans get out, the Iraqi forces will have no choice but to bring the situation under control. So they told us they want them out. And, in fact, the -- there was an opinion poll recently done here that basically said the same thing, that nine out of 10 Iraqis would like to see U.S. forces out of the country.", "Ben Wedeman joining us now live from Baghdad. Ben, thanks.", "Chad Myers is following a situation in the Midwest that is -- is just really trying right now. Another cold acc blast in a section of the country that doesn't need it right now -- Chad.", "A lot of folks here, still tens of thousands of people without power around St. Louis through Illinois and parts of Missouri, and this air is on the way.", "Still ahead, double dipping -- thousands of people claiming hurricane damage got their money from FEMA, and got it twice. The outrageous details -- you won't believe this -- straight ahead.", "A family stranded in their snow-bound car. The mother and two daughters rescued, but a father still missing. Details on a desperate search and a new clue, coming up. Plus, the report is in the president's hands now. So what happens with the Iraq Study Group's recommendations at this point? We'll talk with a former defense secretary. 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{"id": "CNN-192604", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-9-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/13/cnr.05.html", "summary": "New Stimulus from Federal Reserve", "utt": ["Just about an hour ago, Wall Street got the news it was looking for. There's going to be a third round of stimulus from the Federal Reserve. The Fed says it will buy $40 million of reserves a month. It will likely keep interest rates low until 2015. Alison Kosik has been watching all the moves before the New York Stock Exchange. So what does it mean?", "What the Fed is eventually doing, Suzanne, is taking risk in the form of mortgage debt off the banks shoulders, so it's going to go ahead and take $40 billion a month off of its own balance sheet, give that cash right to banks, take that mortgage debt off of their shoulders in hopes of pushing interest rates lower and incentivizing the banks to give out loans. In all of this, the consumers out there, the businesses out there, they have got to want to take out loans as well, so it's got to come both ways. Also the Fed promised to keep interest rates lower until 2015 instead of 2014 -- Suzanne?", "So what's trader reaction to today's news?", "The reaction is strong. The Dow right now is up 156 points. You know, we are back -- or at least stocks are back up to levels for the Dow that we haven't seen since December of 2007. That was right before the recession began. So this is what investors have been expecting. They have been expecting it since June. They have been bidding up stocks since then. So this comes as no surprise. Still, you've got investors buying in. We are watching bank shares, anywhere from 2 percent to 4 percent higher right now -- Suzanne?", "Do we think this is going to actually boost the economy, another round of stimulus?", "And that really is the money question, because there are two schools of thought. Critics say, you know what, interest rates are already low and you don't see a lot of loans being handed out. You don't see a lot of consumers out there and businesses taking out loans. Many question how this is going to help. Also there's a confidence issue, as far as businesses go. You know, what is going to make them want to take out a loan when they are feeling like the economy is not on solid ground? Also there's a lot of uncertainty involving the fiscal cliff. What are tax policies going to look like as of January 1? That can't give businesses much incentive either. What you'll find is, this discussion, even after the Fed made this move, the discussion is still going to turn to Congress and whether or not Congress will act on this fiscal cliff -- Suzanne?", "Alison, thank you. President Obama and Mitt Romney say they have plans to shrink the U.S. debt, but there are problems with both the plans. We have details up next.", "Hey there, everyone. Today on the \"Help Desk\" we're talking about the best way to tackle your credit card debt. A lot of people have this issue. Joining me this hour, Donna Rosato and Ryan Mack. Donna, this woman told me, when I talked to her, that she has $4,000 in debt. So take a listen to her question.", "If you've got multiple credit cards, you know, what's the best way to work out a plan where you can pay it off?", "Yes, I think she's wondering which do I pay off first?", "That's right. Well, there are two schools of thought on this. Generally it's better to focus on the highest rate card and pay that down as quickly as possible because you'll pay less interest over time and, of course, you want to keep paying the minimum payment on your other ones.", "Right.", "But a lot of people get a psychological boost by paying off the smallest balances first and just getting rid of them. That's very motivating. But the best plan is whatever makes you stick to it. Whichever one helps you, then that's the most important thing, just pay those cards down.", "You know, this question is important because it amazes me how few people actually write the debts on paper so they can see exactly what the debts are and see exactly what the interest rates are. Before you pay a cent, call each one of those credit card companies and be aggressive. Call them three or four times --", "Try to negotiate.", "Lower those interest rates. See if you can get more money in your pocket.", "A lot of people don't want to look at it --", "Right.", "But it's not going to go away. It's going to get worse.", "I keep on saying that it works.", "Absolutely. Guys, thank you. If you've got a question you want our experts to tackle, just upload a 30-second video with your question to ireport.com."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX", "KOSIK", "MALVEAUX", "KOSIK", "MALVEAUX", "POPPY HARLOW, CNNMONEY.COM CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MALVEAUX", "DONNA ROSATO, SENIOR WRITER, MONEY", "HARLOW", "ROSATA", "RYAN MACK", "HARLOW", "MACK", "HARLOW", "MACK", "HARLOW", "MACK", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-313930", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-06-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1706/07/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Intelligence Chiefs Testify Amid New Trump and FBI Probe Claims", "utt": ["-- both times with significant bipartisan support, Congress corrected this anomaly, restoring the balance of protections established by the original FISA statute. And although I will not go into great detail here regarding the legal framework for FISA's Section 702 I would simply note a few key items. First, the statute requires annual certifications by the attorney general and by the director of National Intelligence regarding the categories of foreign intelligence that the Intelligence Community will acquire under this authority. Second, the statute requires targeting procedures that set forth the rules by which the Intelligence Community ensures that only foreign persons abroad are targeted for collection. Thirdly, the statute requires minimization procedures protecting U.S. persons' information that may be incidentally acquired while targeting foreign persons. And finally, each year the FISA court reviews this entire package of material to make sure the government's program is consistent with both the statute and with the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. We have publicly released slightly redacted versions of all these documents including the most recent FISC opinion to ensure the public has a good understanding of how we use this authority. The Government Section 702 Program as we have said is subject to rigorous and frequent oversight by all three branches of government. The first line of oversight and compliance is within the agencies themselves whose offices of general counsel, privacy and civil liberties offices and inspectors general all have a role in FISA's 702 program oversight. The majority of the incidence of non-compliance that are reported to my office and to the Department of Justice are self-reported by the participating agencies. In addition, the office of the DNI and the Department of Justice conduct regular audits, focusing on compliance with the targeting procedures as well as on -- querying of collected data and on dissemination of information under the minimization procedures. Also, we have regular engagements with an extensive reporting to Congress about the FISA 702 program. For example, the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees receive relevant orders of the FISA court and associated pleadings, description and analysis of every compliance incident and certain statistical information such as the number of intelligence reports in which a known U.S. person was identified. And finally, of course, the FISA court regularly checks our work both through the annual recertification process and through regular interactions on particular incidents of non-compliance. Members of the FISA court who are all appointed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court represent the best of the best of our judicial community. They have vast judicial experience and are committed to the constitutional responsibilities of protecting the privacy of U.S. persons. We are particularly proud of our oversight and compliance track record. The audits of the program conducted by the ODNI and DOJ have shown that unintended error rates are extremely low, substantially, substantially less than 1 percent. Further, and I want to emphasize this, we have never, not once, found an intentional violation of this program. There have been unintended mistakes, but I would note that any system with zero compliance incidents is a broken compliance system because human beings make mistakes. The difference here is that none of these mistakes has been intentional. When do we -- and when we do find unintentional errors and compliance incidents we ensure that they are reported and corrected. This is an extraordinary record of success for the diligent men and women of the Intelligence Community who are committed to ensuring that -- their neighbor's privacy is protected in the course of their national security work. And with that I'd like it turn to the most recent compliant incident which resulted in a significant change in how the National Security Agency conducts a portion of its FISA 702 collection. A recent example of the oversight process at work, as a recent example, NASA identified a compliance incident involving queries of U.S. persons identifiers into Section 702 acquired upstream data. Upstream data refers to when NASA receives communications directly from the Internet with the assistance of companies that maintain these backbone networks. The FISC-FISA court was promptly notified and DOJ and ODNI worked with NSA and scope and causes of the problem as well as to identify potential solutions to prevent the problem from reoccurring. The details of the incident are publicly available and Admiral Rogers will go or can go into more detail during the question and answer session if you would like, but just allow me briefly to state what happened. NASA identified and researched a compliance issue. NASA -- excuse me, NSA reported that issue to DOJ, ODNI and ultimately the FISA court. The court delayed its consideration of the 2016 certifications on that basis until the government was able to correct the issue. NSA determined that a possible solution to the compliance problem was to stop conducting one specific type of upstream collection. So ultimately, we decided that the most effective way to address the court's concerns was to stop collecting on this basis that's called the abouts portion of upstream collection and by abouts collection I'm referring to NSA's ability to collect communication where the foreign intelligence target is neither the sender nor the recipient of the communication that's made, but is referenced within the communication itself. The FISA court agreed with our solution and approved the program as a whole on the basis of the NSA proposal. In short, what I'm trying to say here is, is that a compliance issue was identified and after a great deal of hard work, the Department of Justice and the Intelligence Community proposed to the FISA court an effective solution that took the relevant collection costs and compliance benefits into account and the court agreed with the proposed solution. That is how the process works and it works well. Before I conclude, I would like to speak briefly about an issue that has been the subject of much public discussion. There have been requests, numerous requests from both Congress and the advocacy community for NSA to attempt to count the number of United States persons whose communications have been incidentally acquired in the course of FISA 702 collection. During my confirmation hearing and in the subsequent hearing before this committee I committed to sitting down with Admiral Rogers and the subject matter experts in the Intelligence Community to understand why this has been so difficult. Within my first few weeks on the job I visited NSA, discussed with Admiral Rogers and his technical people and followed through on my commitment. What I learned was that the NSA has made -- this is hard for me to say. They have made extensive efforts. Herculean I think is the --", "Herculean.", "Say that again for me.", "Herculean.", "Herculean. Herculean. All right. I had to turn to -- you know what I mean? I mean really tough effort, all right? To devise accounting strategy that would be accurate and that would respond to the question that was asked, but I also learned that it remains infeasible to generate an exact, accurate and meaningful and responsive methodology that can count how often a U.S. persons communications may be incidentally collected under 702. I want to be clear here to determine if communicants are U.S. persons, NSA would be required to conduct significant additional research trying to determine whether individuals who may be of no foreign intelligence interest are U.S. persons, and from my perspective as the director of National Intelligence, this raises two significant concerns. First, I would be asking trained NSA analysts to conduct intense identity verification research on potential U.S. persons who are not targets of an investigation. From a privacy and civil liberties perspective, I find this unpalatable. Second, those scores of analysis that would have to be shifted from key focus areas such as counterterrorism, counterintelligence, counter proliferation, issues with nations in which such as North Korean and Iran, we need -- and Iran, we need continuous and critical intelligence missions. I can't justify such a diversion of critical resources and the massive critical resources that we would need to try to attempt to reach this peak even without the ability to reach a definitive number. I can't justify that at a time when we face such a diversity of serious threats. And finally, even if we decided the privacy intrusions were justified and if I had unlimited staff to tackle this problem, we still do not believe it is possible to come up with an accurate, measurable result. I'm aware that the Senate Intelligence Committee staff will be meeting following this public hearing in a classified session and Admiral Rogers has instructed his experts to address this issue in greater detail. Before I wrap up my remarks I want to provide one final example that I have for the purposes of today's hearing chosen to declassify using my authority as the director of National Intelligence to further illustrate the value of Section 702. Before rising through the ranks to become at one point the second in command of the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq in Al Sham, ISIS, Haji Iman was a high school teacher and imam. His transformation from citizen to terrorist caused the U.S. government to offer a $7 million reward for information leading to him. It also made him a top focus of the NSA's counter terrorism efforts. NSA, along with its IC partners, spent over two years from 2014 to 2016 looking for Haji Iman. This search was ultimately successful primarily because of FISA section 702. Indeed, based almost exclusively on intelligence activities under Section 702, NSA collected a significant body of foreign intelligence about the activities of Haji Iman and his associates beginning with non-Section 702 collection, NSA learned of an individual closely associated with Haji Iman. NSA used collection, permitted and authorized under Section 702 to collect intelligence on the close associates of Haji Iman which allowed NSA to develop a robust body of knowledge concerning the personal network of his -- of Haji Iman and his close associates. Over a two-year period, using FISA Section 702 collection and in close collaboration with our IC partners, NSA produced more intelligence on Haji Iman's associates including their location. NSA and its tactical partners then combined this information, the Section 702 collection which was continuing and other intelligence assets to identify the reclusive Haji Iman and track his movements. Ultimately this collaboration enabled U.S. forces to attempt an apprehension of Haji Iman and two of his associates. On March 24th, 2016, during the attempted apprehension operation shots were fired at the U.S. forces aircraft from Haji Iman's location. U.S. forces returned fire killing Haji Iman and the other associates at that location. Subsequent Section 702 collection confirmed Haji Iman's death. As you can see from this sensitive example, Section 702 is an extremely valuable intelligence collection tool and one that is subject to a rigorous, effective oversight program and therefore, allow me to reiterate my call on behalf of the Intelligence Community without hesitation, my call for permanent reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act without further amendment. Mr. Chairman, thank you for your patience and we would be willing to be open to your questions.", "Thank you, Director Coats. The chair would recognize itself now for five minutes of questions. In 2012 I mentioned in my opening statement the director of intelligence James Clapper and Attorney General Eric Holder wrote a letter to the congressional leadership asking the Congress to pass straight re-authorization of FISA. In September 2012 a statement of administration policy also urged the same. This would be to Director Coats, and A.G. Rosenstein. Has the ODNI or the Department of Justice position changed at all since the time of the February 2012 letter?", "No. We strongly support the 2012 letter and request.", "Admiral Rogers.", "We agree 100 percent.", "Great. This is to Admiral Rogers and to Director McCabe. Since Congress last authorized this authority in 2012, again, have there been any instances involving a deliberate or intentional compliance violation. Admiral Rogers?", "Not that I'm aware of.", "Director McCabe?", "No, sir.", "Admiral Rogers, this is to you. If FISA's 702 statutory authorities were to end or even be diminished, what would be the impact on our national security?", "I could not generate the same level of insight that the nation, our friends and allies around the world count on with respect to counterterrorism, counter proliferation. I could not, for example, be able to recreate the insights on the Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election cycle. Without 702, we could not have produced that level of insight.", "This is a jump ball. April 26, 2017, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court commonly known as FISC, Section 702 certifications including its targeting and minimization procedures are lawful both under FISA statute and the Fourth Amendment. As former director Comey testified last month the only reason our laws even require the certification to cover, and I quote, \"These non-Americans who aren't in our country is because their communications transiting U.S.-based networks and systems, yet others have suggested imposing a Fourth Amendment warrant requirement on foreigners who are located outside of the United States. This is really NSA and Justice, would imposing such a warrant requirement impact our national security tools to protect America?", "If I would be happy to take the ball. Yes, it would, Senator. I think what's important to recognize is that in the absence of Section 702 the Department of Justice and the Intelligence Community in every case in which we wanted to obtain foreign intelligence information to collect against a particular target, we'd be required to obtain a court order that would need to be supported by probable cause. The consequence of that is, number one, it would be very time consuming because these are very thorough investigations and we produce very lengthy documents. In fact Director McCabe and I spend a fair amount of our time every morning reviewing a stack of documents with our career agents and prosecutors in which they have determined that it's appropriate to seek those orders. So it would be time consuming. It would require significant commitment of resources and in addition to that, it would require showing a probable cause. And as you know, the probable cause showing which his required under the Constitution in circumstances in which privacy interests of Americans are at stake and it's required by the Fourth Amendment, that's a relatively higher threshold than we require for foreign intelligence information so we think it's important, Senator, that we not apply that Fourth Amendment constitutional standard to foreigners who are not in the United States.", "Thank you, Mr. Rosenstein. Admiral Rogers, this is to you. There's a lot of news reporting, much of it inaccurate, that characterize that Section 702 as a means of targeting U.S. persons. We know that targeting U.S. persons is prohibited. Is it -- as is, what is termed reverse targeting. Can you explain and clarify the reverse targeting prohibition and what does it prevent the IC from targeting and collecting?", "So reverse targeting is designed to preclude our ability to bypass the law, and what do I mean by that? The law is expressly designed to ensure that we are not using this legal framework as a capability to target U.S. persons. Reverse targeting is the following scenario. Say we're interested in generating insight on U.S. person A. We know that we can't get a title one. We can't get a FISA warrant. So under the idea of reversal -- reverse target the theory would be well, why don't you just target a foreign entity that that U.S. person talks to and then you'll get all the insights you want on the U.S. person, but you'll have bypassed the court process, you'll have bypassed the entire legal structure. 702 specifically reminds us we cannot do that. We cannot use 702 as a vehicle to bypass other laws or to target U.S. persons.", "Can you -- last question, can you please clarify for members and for the public what's meant by incidental collection?", "Incidental collection and the statute itself, if you read the law, the statute acknowledges that in the execution of this framework we will encounter U.S. persons. We call that incidental collection. That happens under two scenarios. Number one, which is about 90 percent of the time, we are monitoring two foreign individuals and those foreign entities talked about or referenced a U.S. person. The second scenario that we do -- that we encounter what we call incidental collection is we are targeting a valid foreign individual, and that valid foreign individual, a foreign intelligence target, ends up having a conversation with a U.S. person. That's not the target of our collection, it's not why we are monitoring it in the first place, we're interested in that foreign target. That happens of the times we have incidental collection, that scenario happens about 10 percent of the time.", "And were the incidental collection that happened, you have a procedure in place in both instances to minimize that --", "We do. The law specifically gives us a set of processes that we have to follow so we do encounter a U.S. person incidentally in the course of our collection. We ask ourselves several questions, number one, are we looking at potential criminal activity? If we do that we have a requirement to report or to inform the Department of Justice and the FBI and they make the determination if it's illegal or not. We are an intelligence organization, not a law enforcement organization. The second question we ask ourselves, is there anything in this conversation that would lead us to believe that we're talking about harm to individuals. In that case, we do report it. If we think we're dealing with something that is criminal or there's harm to individuals, we report it. Other than that, unless there is a valid intelligence purpose depending on the authority and the case of 702 we specifically purge the data. We remove it. We don't put it in to our holdings. If we don't assess that there's intelligence value and it's a U.S. person, we have to purge the data.", "Thank you for that. Vice Chairman?", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As I indicated I've got questions on another matter and Director Coats and Admiral Rogers, they'll mostly be directed at you gentlemen. Thank you for your testimony this morning. And we all know now in March then-director Comey testified about the existence of an ongoing FBI investigation into links between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. And there are reports out in the press that the president separately appealed to you, Admiral Rogers and to you, Director Coats, to downplay the Russia investigation and now we've got additional reports and we want to give you a chance to confirm or deny these, that the president separately addressed you, Director Coats, and asked you to in effect intervene with Director Comey again to downplay the FBI investigation. Admiral Rogers, you draw the short straw, I'm going to start with you. Before we get to the substance of whether this call or request was made, you've had a very distinguished career, close to 40 years. In your experience, would it be in any way typical for a president to ask questions or bring up an ongoing FBI investigation, particularly if that investigation concerns associates and individuals that might be associated with the president's campaign or his activities?", "So today I am not going to talk about theoreticals. I am not going to discuss the specifics of any interactions or conversations I may --", "Can you --", "If I can finish, sir, please. That I may or may not have had with the president of the United States but I will make the following comment. In the three plus years that I have been the director of the National Security Agency, to the best of my recollection, I have never been directed to do anything I believe to be illegal, immoral, unethical or inappropriate, and to the best of my recollection during that same period of service I do not recall ever feeling pressured to do so.", "In your course prior to the incident that we're going to discuss, was it in any regular course where a president would ask you to comment or intervene in any ongoing FBI investigation? Not talking about this circumstance, but any prior experience of that?", "I'm not going to talk about theoreticals today.", "Let me ask you specifically, did the president, from reports that are out there, ask you in any way, shape or form to back off or downplay the Russian investigation?", "I'm not going to discuss the specifics of conversations with the president of the United States, but I stand by the comment that I just made to you, sir.", "Do you feel that that -- those conversations were classified? We know there was an ongoing FBI investigation.", "Yes, sir.", "No pressure points.", "Yes, sir.", "I understand your answer. I'm disappointed with that answer, but I may indicate and I told you I was going to bring this up.", "Sure.", "There is -- we have facts that there were other individuals that were aware of the call that was made to you, aware of the substance of that call and that there was a memo prepared because of concerns about that call. Will you comment at all --", "I stand by the comments that I have made to you today, sir.", "So you will not confirm or deny the existence of a memo?", "I stand by the comments I have made to you today, sir.", "I think it would be essential, Mr. Chairman, that other individual who served our country as well with great distinction who is no longer a member of the administration has a chance to relay his version of those facts.", "Yes, sir.", "Again, I understand your position, but I hope you'll also understand the enormous need for the American public to know. You have the administration saying there's no there-there, we have these reports and yet we can't get confirmation. I want to go to you, Director Coats. When you appeared before SASC, you said and I quote, \"If called before the investigative committee I certainly will provide them with what I know and what I don't know.\" I have great respect for you. You served on this committee. I remember as well when we confirmed you. I was proud to support your confirmation. You said that you would cooperate with this committee in any aspects that we request of the Russia investigation. We now have press reports and you can lay them to rest if they're not true, but we have press reports of not once, but twice, that the president of the United States asked you to either downplay the Russia investigation or to directly intervene with Director Comey. Can you set the record straight about what happened or didn't happen?", "Well, Senator, as I responded to a similar question during my confirmation in the second hearing before the committee, I do not feel it's appropriate for me to in a public session in which confidential conversations between the president and myself. I don't believe it's appropriate for me to address that in a public session.", "Gentlemen, I understand --", "I stated that before, and", "I thought you also said at SASC if brought before the investigative committee you would, quote, \"certainly provide them with what I know and what I don't know.\" We are before that investigative committee.", "Well, I stand by my previous statement that we are in a public session here and I do not feel that it is appropriate for me to address confidential information. Most of the information I've shared with the president obviously is directed toward intelligence matters during our Oval briefings every morning at the White House or most mornings when both the president and I are in town, but for intelligence-related matters or any other matters that have been discussed, it is my belief that it's inappropriate for me to share that with the public.", "Gentlemen, I respect all of your service, and I understand and respect your commitment to the administration you're serving. We will have to bring forward that other individual about whether the existence of the memo that may document some of the facts that took place in the conversation between the president and Admiral Rogers, but I would only ask as we go forward, this is my final comment, Mr. Chairman, that we also have to weigh in here the public's absolute need to know. They're wondering what's going on. They're wondering what type of activities. We see this pattern that without confirmation or denial appears that the president not once, not twice -- but we will hear from Director Comey tomorrow -- this pattern where the president seems to want to interfere or downplay or halt the ongoing investigation, not only that the Justice Department is taking on, but this committee's taking on, and I hope as we move forward on this you realize the importance that the American public deserves to get the answers to these questions. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.", "Well, Senator, I would like to respond to that if I could. First of all, I'm always -- I told you, and I committed to the committee that I would be available to testify before the committee. I don't think this is the appropriate venue to do this in, given that this is an open hearing and a lot of confidential information relative to intelligence or other matters. 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{"id": "CNN-414039", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-10-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/22/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is Interviewed about Russia and Iran Interference", "utt": ["Welcome back. The director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, says that Iran and Russia are attempting to interfere in the election. He says both countries have, and this is key, obtained U.S. voter registration information with Iran posing as the far right group Proud Boys to send intimidating e-mails to Democratic voters. Joining me now is California Congressman Eric Swalwell. He serves on the House Intel and Judiciary Committees. Congressman, thanks for taking the time this morning.", "Of course, Jim. Thanks for having me back.", "Now, I know you've been briefed repeatedly on intelligence regarding foreign threats to this election. A headline here seems to me, beyond the politics, is that both Iran and Russia have obtained voter information. To -- without getting into classified information, is this public voter information that they've accessed or have they hacked things that are private?", "Well, you know, following what was said yesterday, you know, obtaining any voter information is concerning. Still trying to learn more and hoping to get briefed in the next 24 hours on this, Jim. We know that Russia, you know, sought to do this in 2016. I'm concerned, though, that the DNI, the director of national intelligence, Ratcliffe, continues to conflate Iran's scope, intent, preferences and capabilities with Russia. Russia had done this before. They had a preference to tear down Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump. We know right now they have a preference to help Donald Trump and to tear down Joe Biden and that they're going to continue to do that. So to put them in the same league would be like putting a serial killer and a pickpocket on \"America's Most Wanted.\" It just -- it's a different league that they are in.", "On the issue of how far a Russia might go in this election, or an Iran or a China, in 2016 the nightmare scenario was not just disinformation, right --", "Right.", "But accessing actual voting systems, whether it be registration or vote counting.", "Right.", "What is your level of concern, based on the intelligence you've seen, that Russia or another foreign actor will take that step and, you know -- and it doesn't have to be nationally, right, it could just be in a few targeted counties here and there.", "Well, we know that a few targeted counties here and there, Jim, could make the difference.", "Yes.", "And we know 60,000 votes in three states last time made the difference. And so what we have to be mindful of as voters is, the best thing we can do to outvote Russia is to show up ourselves with our feet at the polls. And so what we're encouraging folks to do is to not let voter, you know, interference by Russia stop us from achieving the result of showing up. We'll sort this out in a Biden administration. We'll hold Russia accountable. But right now the best thing we can do is to just vote with our feet, show up and make sure that Russia does not have, you know, a bigger impact on this election.", "I get that, but are -- but are -- is there a concern that Russia will take a step it didn't take on 2016, which is mess with vote counting, try to stop people from being allowed to vote, right, by messing with voter registration rolls?", "Yes, of course, that is still a concern. But if you don't have a president whose giving directives to the intelligence community to stop that, the best thing we can do is to encourage people to show up and vote because that could be the antidote to it, Jim. But they are interfering right now. They are laundering information through Congress. You know, this Andre Durkosh (ph) character who's been working with the president's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has had manufactured dirt on the vice president that he's been able to get Senator Ron Johnson to use in his committee hearings. So they're still actively trying to do that. I think the country's inoculated that -- inoculated against that in a sense that the president was impeached for trying to do this. But Russia's not going to stop trying to help Donald Trump.", "We -- former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, last night, said that even in the midst of the politics or alleged politics of the statements last night, that there is a positive note here that shows the intelligence community, agencies like the DHS and the FBI forward leaning on foreign interference in this election. There's a lot of concern among our viewers, understandably, that that kind of interference might make their vote not count. What level of concern should they have or should they be confident that, listen, even if the president's not talking about this, the FBI, the DHS has their back.", "Well, the president is the one behind the steering wheel with his, you know, hand on the pedal and -- or his foot on the pedal and the brakes and he steers this country and people may be in the car pointing to the president saying, don't go in that direction or go in this direction. But if he doesn't listen to them, he could take our democracy off a cliff. And so you could have the best FBI agents on this task, but if the president is not giving directives, the president is not telling Vladimir Putin, stop doing this. If he's not putting tough sanctions on Russia and having our allies do the same, then you're going to have uncertainty. And Russia looks at this president and they have a green light. And so they're going to continue to press against us. And that's why, again, we just have to outvote Russia and entrust that a new administration is going to make sure our democracy always belongs to us. So it's going to be a bumpy ride, Jim, but voter turnout is the best way to stop this.", "Final question. \"The Washington Post\" is reporting that the president, his advisers, have repeatedly discussed firing the FBI Director, Christopher Wray, for, among other things, not acting on this demand that the FBI investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, before the election in 12 days' time. Do you believe the FBI director's job is in jeopardy and what would your reaction be to that?", "I hope not. The FBI director has spoken truth to power. This president knows that in the last election, you know, while he was down in the polls, ten days before, he did get assistance from the FBI reopening an investigation. So I can see why he would want that. But the best thing we can do in a new administration --", "Yes.", "Post-Donald Trump is to really increase the independence of the Department of Justice so no president can ever seek to abuse it the way Donald Trump", "Congressman Swalwell, thanks for joining us this morning.", "My pleasure. Thanks, Jim.", "Well, the president's former White House chief strategist is pushing a conspiracy theory about the origins of COVID-19, but, again, it's just not true. The CNN investigation into that is next."], "speaker": ["JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR", "REP. ERIC SWALWELL (D-CA)", "SCIUTTO", "SWALWELL", "SCIUTTO", "SWALWELL", "SCIUTTO", "SWALWELL", "SCIUTTO", "SWALWELL", "SCIUTTO", "SWALWELL", "SCIUTTO", "SWALWELL", "SCIUTTO", "SWALWELL", "SCIUTTO", "SWALWELL", "SCIUTTO", "SWALWELL", "SCIUTTO", "SWALWELL", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-380304", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2019-09-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/13/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "Jerry Falwell, Jr. Allegedly Belittles Students and Staff", "utt": ["Jerry Falwell, Jr., the president of Liberty University under fire tonight by some students at the evangelical school in Virginia. They are questioning his leadership and they want answers about e- mails he wrote allegedly belittling students and staff members at liberty. Here's CNN's Martin Savage.", "Losing faith, an uncommon sight. Students protesting at one of the largest Christian colleges in the world, targeting the schools president, Jerry Falwell, Jr.", "He's not being a great religious figure. He's not being a great leader.", "Founded in 1971 by his father, Jerry Falwell, Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, today boast a student body of 110,000 students. But Jerry Falwell, Jr. is facing a backlash over the culture and business dealings at the school. And just this week, the revelations from e-mails over the past decade in which Falwell belittle his students and staff members.", "We want to know the truth. We want transparency through that process and we want accountability for Falwell himself. We want to know what the president is doing.", "Counter protestors were also on hand supporting Falwell.", "I think a lot of it has just been taken out of context to smear his name, personally, but I think some of it might be true. I think a lot of it probably is exaggerated.", "Reuters this week reported on dozens of e- mails, some of which contain offensive language. In one from 2010, Falwell reportedly called a then student emotionally imbalanced and physically retarded. In a 2015 e-mail reported by Reuters, Falwell is quoted as lashing out about students parking and private lots instead of paying parking fees to Liberty, \"These students need to learn to play by the rules or they can go to another college. I'm tired of this crap.\" In other e-mails reported by Reuters, Falwell calls a university official, a bag of hot air who couldn't spell the word profit. In another, Reuters says, Falwell calls another official a half wit and easy to manipulate. Speaking to CNN, Falwell confirmed the e-mails were authentic, but said they lack context saying, \"I would have to see the full thread to see what I was talking about.\" Falwell also told CNN that the e-mails had been stolen and that he's asked the FBI to investigate what he calls a criminal conspiracy saying that former employees and board members have leaked documents and e-mails in an attempt to oust him. Falwell's demands for a federal probe follow a political story based on e-mail and unnamed sources accusing him of presiding over a culture of self-dealing of the university including real estate transactions that would seem to benefit family and associates.", "When asked about his tumultuous week, Falwell replied, \"I really don't care what they say. In the end, they are going to look like fools. So, I'm actually very much enjoying this week.\" Don?", "Martin Savidge, thank you very much. Should accusations of assault and rape keep a player off the field? That's a question for the new England Patriots and star wide receiver Antonio Brown. What the league and his team are sating, next."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAVIDEG (voice-over)", "ELIZABETH BROOKS, JUNIOR LIBERTY UNIVERSITY", "SAVIDEG (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAVIDEG (voice-over)", "SAVIDGE (on camera)", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-382274", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2019-10-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/07/ctw.01.html", "summary": "China Cuts Ties with Houston Rockets Over General Manager's Hong Kong Tweet.", "utt": ["Half a billion, that is the number of people in China who tuned in to at least one NBA game last season, close to half the population. It is fair to say that China is a country mad about U.S. basketball. But a move by the manager of one NBA team has Chinese basketball fans mad for other reasons. The country's basketball association says it has severed ties with the Houston Rockets after their general manager Daryl Morey tweeted support for the Hong Kong protesters on Friday. CNN's David Culver has more on the story from the basketball courts of Beijing.", "China's passion for basketball can be seen in a neighborly game of pick-up. When he's not shooting hoops with his friends in Beijing, 15-year-old Erik Qu is closely following the", "Toronto Raptors.", "The Toronto Raptors.", "Yes.", "They're your favorite?", "They win the championship.", "But a team that's no longer on his preferred watch list, the Houston Rockets. Because of a now deleted tweet sent out Friday by team general manager, Daryl Morey. The Rockets' GM tweeting a photo that read, fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong. Referring to the month's long democracy protests under way in Hong Kong. Protests that have embarrassed and angered China's government. Over the weekend Morey's tweet unleashed a strong response in mainland China. The Chinese Basketball Association severing ties with the Rockets. CCTV, the Chinese state-run broadcaster, no longer planning to air upcoming games. And the Chinese tech giant, Tencent, suspending its deal to live stream Rockets games. The reaction led to an apology my Morey tweeting in part, I have always appreciated the significant support our Chinese fans and sponsors have provided and I would hope that those who are upset will note, that offending or misunderstanding them was not my intention. CNN was in Tokyo as the Rockets hit the court Monday. Rockets guard, James Harden echoing his GM's apology.", "You know, we love China. We love playing there. I know for both of us individually, we go there, you know, once or twice a year. They show us the most important love. So we appreciate them as a fan base.", "The NBA acknowledging Morey's tweet deeply offended many in China and called it regrettable. But that has lawmakers on both sides upset. Republican Senator Ted Cruz tweeting, human rights shouldn't be for sale and the NBA shouldn't be assisting Chinese Communist censorship. Democratic Congressman Tom Malinowski called the NBA's response shameful. Back on the streets of Beijing, Erik and his friends trying to see past the off-court drama. (on camera): Does it make you think differently about the Rockets.", "Just OK. I didn't change my opinion. I still like Harden and -- but maybe I won't watch them too often.", "Basketball has been a big deal in China for decades. But their love for the sport really intensified in 2002 when Yao Ming, one of their own, signed with an NBA team, the Houston Rockets. Yao today is the President of the Chinese Basketball Association. The same association that severed ties with the Rockets, his former team. David Culver, CNN, Beijing.", "Well \"WORLD SPORT\" up next. And Rhiannon, this is a big deal not the least because China of course is part of the NBA's global games initiative, right?", "Precisely, Becky. Six of the nine NBA preseason games this season are in Asia with teams playing in China as soon as this week. A particularly awkward timing for the league. And speaking of off grid. Another miserable weekend for some of the Premier League's top managers. More on that in just a moment.", "Yes, terrific. Short break, folks. You're watching CNN."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "DAVID CULVER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "NBA. ERIK QU, BASKETBALL FAN", "CULVER", "QU", "CULVER", "QU", "CULVER (voice-over)", "JAMES HARDEN, HUSTON ROCKETS BASKETBALL PLAYER", "CULVER", "QU", "CULVER", "ANDERSON", "RHIANNON JONES, WORLD SPORTS", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-228236", "program": "@THISHOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2014-4-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/11/ath.02.html", "summary": "Which Country Would Get Jurisdiction of Black Boxes", "utt": ["35 days into the search of flight 370. They could find the black boxes that might reveal what caused this flight to end. But which country gets jurisdiction over the flight data recorder. I want to bring in our Nic Robertson, at Malaysia's capitol of Kuala Lumpur, who was in a heck of a downpour just right there. He is on the phone. Nic, a lot of people would be ecstatic over the idea of finding these devices. It wouldn't occur to them that there would be a fight or conflict over the jurisdiction. What's the situation?", "John, They, Malaysia has jurisdiction. They say a normal investigation, although they are not leading the search, they are leading the investigation. They say the problem is that they don't actually have experts capable of extracting the data from the black boxes. So although they are going to need to turn to other experts, they didn't say which experts they would turn to. The Australians, the British the French are all involved. And some of the families would like French investigators involved in this. It is up to the Malaysians to decide. The black box will be under their jurisdiction and they will decide and they will get the data inside it.", "One would hope they would seek the help of other nations with experience. At this point, there are other countries involved in the search.", "I think, at the moment, we can reasonably expect the Malaysians to turn to the country that is capable of doing this. What would happen after that is that they would likely take control of it themselves. And they certainly are doing investigations of downed aircraft at Malaysian where several dozen were killed on that aircraft and that was investigated by the Malaysian authorities using the black box data recorder. They have to use the data, but police say whatever they are finding out on the ground here, it is important.", "Right, certainly there have been enough hiccups in this investigation so far. Nic Robertson, thank you so much for that reporting. Ahead for us @ THIS HOUR, the search area is much smaller now. We'll have much more on that. If it is so small, why are they still searching in two places? We'll answer that question after the break."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BERMAN", "ROBERTSON", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-342468", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-06-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/12/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Trump and Moon Speak after Summit; China Considers Sanctions Relief", "utt": ["Welcome back. I'm Anderson Cooper in Singapore. We're watching the world's reaction to the historic summit between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-un. We have a team of reporters across our -- across the region. Matt Rivers is standing by for reaction in Beijing. First, I want to get to CNN International's diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson, who joins us from Seoul. So, Nic, President Trump, South Korean President Moon Jae-in spoke today after the summit. What do we know about that conversation and about South Korea's reaction to what emerged here?", "Yes, the issue of not -- President Trump saying that it's going to end these big, joint military exercises has been a curious day in a way for President Moon here. He began by telling everyone here that he had had a sleepless night, an indication that he was sort of -- he did have some concerns going into this very important summit. He's been -- he's been praising President Trump through the day. Just after President Trump made that signing with Kim Jong-un, Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, called the foreign minister here. And the nugget in that phone call was, the foreign minister -- South Korean foreign minister said, you know, we would like to have closer cooperation in the future. Then, after that, that's when President Trump made that statement about ending the joint military exercises. And the Blue House here, the president's office, then issued a statement saying, well, we need to kind of figure out precisely what President Trump means here, the accuracy of that and what the intention is behind that. But then this evening, about two hours ago, we heard that President Trump had called President Moon while he was flying back to Washington. The call lasted about 20 minutes. The readout that we've had of that call between President Trump and President Moon doesn't make any mention of those joint military exercises at all. What it does, however, conclude is that it's a foundation for peace, the summit so far. But, again, that very important point that's emerging from the South Korean side is they want more and closer coordination and cooperation with the United States as they move forward. The president, President Moon here, has said that he's willing, you know, to take significant steps to achieve this better relationship between the United States and North Korea. But that strange silence now on the issue of these military exercises, Anderson.", "Yes, I mean, Nic, pretty surprising to hear President Trump call those exercises war games and say that they're provocative.", "It is. And when you consider that, you know, for the people of South Korea, for the governments of South Korea, in the past, these military training exercises, a large scale, they're hugely important. The military forces here are on a fight tonight ready standby. You know, they need to be prepared. Their skills need to be sharp. They need to be able to go into action in large numbers. Why? Because the threat from North Korea is close and its perceived to be real. So, politically, it's been important to have an army that's ready. And for the people of South Korea, important to note, that their army is ready to defend them from the North.", "Nic Robertson in Seoul. Nic, thanks very much. I want to go to CNN's international correspondent Matt Rivers, who is in Beijing. Matt, any reaction so far from China?", "Yes, overall the Chinese government pretty happy with the way things went here in Singapore for a number of different reasons. The government congratulated both parties and they used this summit as a way to bring up the fact that countries could start considering easing sanctions against North Korea, something China never really wanted to do. But it was two big things that the president said. He talked about -- even though it's not on the table at the moment, Anderson, he talked about his willingness to remove troops from the Korean peninsula, U.S. troops there. You know who else wants that? The Chinese government. They have want that had for decades now. They've always felt threatened by that. And then the other thing too would be the war games that President Trump brought up. Military people here, of course, would call them exercises. The Chinese hate those military exercises as much as the North Koreans because those exercises are conducted, not only with North Korea in mind, Anderson, but also with the Chinese. So when you take all of that in totality, a way to ease sanctions, a way to remove troops potentially in the future and stopping these military exercises, if you're an official in Beijing, you're looking at what happened today in Singapore and going, that's not a bad start.", "Matt Rivers, appreciate that. We'll be right back. More news ahead."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR", "COOPER", "ROBERTSON", "COOPER", "MATT RIVERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-279644", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-03-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/23/nday.02.html", "summary": "Deadly Terror Attack In Brussels; U.S. Hunting Terrorists Linked To Brussels Attack; Belgian Media: Arrest Made In Brussels Attacks", "utt": ["Everyone dropped to the ground. They were screaming.", "A massive manhunt is under way at this hour for the prime suspect.", "I'm so scared. I feel like it's the end of the world.", "I'm also very proud to have won Arizona tonight.", "The status quo is not working.", "The day after Donald Trump called for America weakening NATO, we see Brussels.", "If they can expand the laws I would do a lot more than water boarding.", "What Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and others are suggesting, it's dangerous.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. You are watching NEW DAY. I'm Alisyn Camerota. I'm live in Brussels at the Place de la Bourse. This is where the public has come out to celebrate the memorial for the victims of yesterday's terror attacks. Chris and Michaela are in New York this morning. They'll have much more on the results of the U.S. elections in just a few minutes but we do want to begin with Belgian authorities now identifying the two suicide bombers who detonated those two powerful explosives inside the departures hall at the Brussels airport. A massive manhunt is under way at this hour for the elusive third suspect who was captured on security cameras, the suspect to the right of this picture in the lighter jacket. His bomb, they believe, failed to detonate. The U.S. State department is warning of quote, near-term attacks throughout Europe. Belgium is set to observe a moment of silence here one hour from now. We have this story covered the way only CNN can. Senior international correspondent Nima Elbagir joins me now with the latest. Nima, great to have you here. What have we learned about these brothers?", "Well, Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui are believed to not only have been involved with the attack on the airport but it was their DNA that was found in that apartment in Forest that triggered all of this last week. They were found alongside a cache of weapons, but they're believed to have eluded capture from that premise. Let me just walk you through how this all unfolded. Take a look at this, Alisyn.", "This unidentified man, a key suspect, remains at large after coordinated terror attacks that rocked Brussels on Tuesday. Two of his accomplices captured on airport surveillance cameras are presumed dead. A senior Belgian security source tells CNN they are brothers known to police, suspected to have ties to the Paris attack. The pair, thought to be suicide bombers detonating two bombs inside the departure hall at the Brussels airport, the horrifying moments after the blast captured in this cell phone video.", "We saw doors flying, glass, ceiling coming down and smoke and everything.", "Officials say the man at large left behind a third bomb concealed in a suitcase that was later detonated by the bomb squad. Now investigators want to know if he then traveled just a few miles away to carry out the second attack at Maalbeek metro station an hour later. That blast charring a subway car, survivors desperately fleeing in the dark.", "I felt an explosion and the train stopped in its tracks. The lights went out, the power went out. Everyone dropped to the ground, they were screaming.", "The station just blocks away from a number of European Union landmarks, including the European Parliament. ISIS is claiming responsibility for the attacks. The first victim to be identified, Adelma Marina Tapia Ruiz, killed during the attack at the airport. Originally from Peru, Tapia Ruiz had lived in Belgium six years. She was at the airport with her husband and twin 3-year-old daughters.", "We will do whatever is necessary to support our friend and ally Belgium in bringing to justice those who are responsible, and this is yet another reminder that the world must unite.", "The world lighting up in Belgian colors, vowing never to let terrorism win.", "Of course, this is just what authorities believe they know now in the first 24 hours of the investigation, Alisyn. So much is still evolving and we are waiting to hear from the prosecutor later today.", "OK, we will talk more about your reporting coming up in a second but first, the major break in this investigation came from a taxi driver who had actually picked these men up. He recognized them in the airport surveillance picture that was released. He says he took the trio to the airport and that alert led to this new raid in Belgium. That's where we find our CNN senior international correspondent, Fred Pleitgen. He is live in the Brussels suburb of Forest outside the bombers' apartment. Tell us the clues that were found in there, Fred.", "Well, there were a lot of clues that were found here. There were weapons that were found inside here. The apartment that I'm at right now, Alisyn, is one that was raided by the police last Tuesday and in this apartment, what they thought they would find would be an empty apartment, but they did find was at least three people who were inside who immediately opened fire at them. Now the police say that when they came here, they weren't expecting anybody to be here. That's why they didn't take any sort of SWAT team. They didn't have many police officers, and that's why two of the people who were inside got away. It's now believed that the two people who were in the apartment may be the (ph) Bakraoui brothers who apparently conducted those attacks at the Brussels airport. So the police were very close to cornering these two people. They had them cornered, however they managed to get away. Now what happened after the attack in Brussels at the airport was that this taxi driver called up the police and said listen, the three people that you're showing now on the TV, these are the people that I drove. They had suitcases and they refused to allow me to let them help them take the suitcases out of the taxi when they reached the airport. He also said that when they went towards the airport, when he picked them up at the location in Schaerbeek, that they had way too much luggage with them and that they had to leave some of it behind. So he notified the police. The police immediately went to that location, conducted a raid that lasted about seven hours. I was on hand for some of it. There were choppers in the air with snipers hanging out of the chopper taking aim at that apartment block, and then in the end, they went inside. They say that they found a nail bomb in there, they found chemicals in there, they also found an ISIS flag as well. So it appears to the authorities here that apparently that apartment that was raided last night may well have been the one that was used to make the explosives that were used in the attack at least for the airport, Alisyn.", "OK, Fred, thank you for all that. Stick around. We have more questions for you. U.S. officials meanwhile are lending a hand in the manhunt for that elusive suspect behind, they believe, the airport bombing, and any others who might be linked to these attacks. CNN's justice reporter Evan Perez is live in Washington with more. What have you learned, Evan?", "Good morning, Alisyn. Well U.S. counterterrorism analysts are helping Belgian investigators dig into the backgrounds of multiple people believed to have a role in the attacks. Belgian authorities provided the names of people of interest in the past few hours and now those names are being run through databases of suspected extremists. Investigators want to know everything, including their past travel, their friends, and their associates, and today there is really a race against time to try to find as many members as possible believed to be part of a large network connected not only these Brussels attacks but to other terrorist plots including the Paris massacre. In the past few months since Paris, U.S. intelligence officials have repeatedly told me that they were expecting a major attack in Europe and there is even now a State Department travel warning for Americans in the region. A group of investigators and bomb experts from the FBI led joint terrorism task force including officers from the New York Police Department are arriving in Brussels this morning, Alisyn, to help with this investigation.", "OK, Evan, thanks so much for that. Heightened security across the United States in the wake of the Brussels terror attack. From Los Angeles to New York, police are guarding high- profile targets today. CNN's Brynn Gingras is live at New York's Penn Station, one of the busiest transit hubs in the nation. Brynn, what do you see there?", "Certainly it is, Alisyn. We actually just had a candid conversation with a transit officer for Amtrak and he basically said, there are five agencies working in concert just here in this building alone at Penn Station, so that definitely gives you a show of force here in this building, but of course as you mentioned, heightened measures all across the country at this point. Transit hubs, airports, train stations, and maybe the most notable here of course in New York City where the NYPD briefed CNN on all the measures it's been taking not just since yesterday but certainly it bolstered its efforts after the attacks happened yesterday in Brussels, and of course that includes many counterterrorism teams, that they are working together to sort of make a show of force but also act as a deterrent to anything that could happen since New York City as such always has a target on its back. And basically those units are moving about the city, working together, heavily armed, and many times they have canine units that can sort of sniff out bombs that maybe people have left in certain areas that are vulnerable but also possibly even sensing out vapors as people move as we saw in the Brussels attack, but the big thing to note, Alisyn, is that there is no credible threat here in New York City at this point.", "OK, very good to know, Brynn, thank you for all of that. Let's get the latest now on the investigation and the search for the elusive suspect. We want to bring in CNN senior international correspondent, Nima Elbagir, also for Clarissa Ward and Fed Pleitgen. Clarissa, I want to start with you. So Fred is at the location where there was this raid on Tuesday where they found a cache of weapons and other clues. Then (ph) Abdel Falah was arrested on Friday. It felt like things were ratcheting up. Is it fair to say, as some have said, that the Belgian authorities missed something?", "Well, I think the question everyone will be asking is about these brothers, the Bakraoui brothers, who now appear to have had some kind of a central role in this attack. It's not clear exactly if they were the ones who blew themselves up in the airport or whether one of them then went on to be involved in the metro station, but what we do know is that both of them had extensive rap sheets, and we're talking about violent crimes. We're not just talking about petty criminality. So certainly, people will be wondering how it is that if these men were on the radar, so to speak, and police were familiar with them and knew who they were and one can only guess, were aware of their links to certain extremist elements, why they weren't being monitored more closely. But at this stage, it's too early to say exactly how they fell through the cracks or what the situation was, Alisyn.", "Nima, I want to ask about the subway attack, because that one seems more mysterious. At least 15 people were killed there and yet we don't exactly know who we think was behind it. They say it might have been one of these brothers but those brothers might have blown themselves up at the airport. What do we know about what happened at the subway and who they're -- if they're looking for someone from that element of the attack?", "Well part of that is that authorities haven't released any imagery from that in terms of the surveillance footage, where as we have seen that still of the surveillance image from the airport, so I think that's part of the reason why there's a sense of almost secrecy around this. But we know that post-Paris, authorities here believe that the information that they were putting out into the public domain was part of the reason Salah Abdeslam was able to evade capture for so long. So they're being very, very careful about what they're sharing, but there is also the reality of the fact that these are so many interlinking networks. I mean, the Bakraoui brothers are a perfect example of this. There is evidence, authorities believe, to link them to the Paris networks. They're also believed to be part of this new network that Salah Abdeslam was thought to be building around him when he was captured, to potentially launch attacks here in Brussels, so you have all this kind of this lattice work of extremist cells and extremist networks and unpicking them is just so for authorities when they are in a race against time.", "Fred, it was interesting, yesterday the Belgian authorities asked the media not to disclose a lot of information about where the raids were happening and about their investigation. It reminded me that after Paris we watched live on television authorities raid an apartment. That's something we would never do in the United States. We would never have cameras trained on the raid. But there again, you are in front of the apartment that the bombers are believed to have rented and the clues that they found there appear to be the nexus between Paris and now Brussels.", "Yes, they certainly are. You're absolutely right. It is one of the things that the Belgian authorities did yesterday, is they told the media to refrain from filming or being present in any of these raids, but also I have to say that compared to when we were in Paris and some of these raids were taking place that were really almost taking place in real-time on TV, here in Belgium, they were a lot more restricted. They created a large cordon yesterday around that raid area of where they found that apartment where allegedly the bombs were made that were at least used inside the airport, and you know I was on hand there for quite a while and they had a chopper overhead for a very long time. They had snipers in that chopper. But you really didn't see very much beyond that. The cordon, I would say, was about two and a half miles in diameter. It was around the main railway station there and we really didn't see the street that that apartment was in. Now what the Belgian authorities do do is they do make that cordon a lot smaller very quickly because they wanted people to be able to go back into that area and so you could see some of the forensic work that was going on at that apartment. It was going on all night. They were bringing out bags of evidence. That was something that we certainly did see. But it has been a concern, as Nima said, throughout the investigation to the Paris attacks. Also, the search for Salah Abdeslam, that so much was appearing in the media, that they believe that it may have made it easier for some of these suspects to remain on the run for an extended period of time. If you look, for instance, at Salah Abdeslam, he was on the run for four months. There were about 100 raids that were conducted in some way, shape, or form connected to the terror attacks. Of course, also looking for him and in the end he was found literally one block from where he grew up with people that he had associated with since his youth. So it's been very difficult but certainly there are some who believe that a lot of the information that was made public made it easier for some of these people to evade capture.", "Just so striking to hear where he was found after all of that search. Clarissa, we keep hearing in Brussels just how many extremists there might be, just how many people who may have been radicalized. What is the focus now of investigators?", "Well I think the main focus is the man in the white jacket with the hat and the glasses. We have seen his image now over and over in that freeze frame from the surveillance video at the airport. We know that he arrived. He appeared to have some kind of an explosive device. He left the scene, the device didn't detonate. We don't know exactly why it didn't detonate or why he fled the scene but he is certainly the primary focus, I would say, at this stage, of this manhunt, but there's a secondary focus as well and that is the so-called Paris attack's bomb maker known as Najim Laachraoui. He's also used a pseudonym in the past. He is considered to be very dangerous because he does have these bomb making skills, and it's not clear exactly how he might relate to this plot and the Belgian threat, but certainly, authorities are desperately trying to find him as well.", "I'm getting new information. We do have some breaking news. It's just coming into my ear. They want you both to know that an arrest has been made of a man they believe is connected to the Brussels attack in the region of Anderlecht, the neighborhood of Anderlecht, but they're not saying who it is, exactly what the connection is, if this is the person that we see in the photo, I mean this just tells you, investigators have spread out this spider web of a drag net but -- every hour there is more information. What does this tell you?", "Well, the prime minister has been very clear from the beginning, they are searching everywhere. And some of these searches will be fruitful and some won't. But it also reflects back to what we were just discussing about how tight they are trying to keep it. So they will acknowledge arrests because they will know that that's in the public domain and it's a very delicate balance between trying to keep people informed and keep them feeling calm, but at the same time trying to limit what is out there that other people can benefit from.", "Nima, I want to talk about the victims for one second because here we are. This is the public memorial. In less than an hour there will be a moment of silence for all the lives that were lost and all of the people who were injured and this is where the vigil has happened overnight and you saw it. What were people doing here last night and what were some of the symbols they were leaving?", "People just started drifting towards this and you saw the candle lights just illuminating as it got a little darker. Overnight, there were these two extraordinary ladies draped in the Belgian flag who sat just behind us there and watched, making sure that none of the candles would go out. When we spoke a little bit to them, they said people cared enough to come here. We don't know, maybe some of these people who lit these candles lost someone. And they almost felt it was a duty to keep those candles lit through the night. It was only after sun break came that they packed up, they took their flags, and they went home. And again, this is becoming a focal point for people here. So many of those we were speaking to felt like, in a way, almost, there's been a spectre cast over the city for all these months and then it happened. And so it's almost this -- finally, the worst you could imagine has happened and you're still standing. And the messages, they've been washed away now because it's been raining, but you can see when we came, multi-colored short messages, we love you, we're standing together. Please don't let this divide us. It was really heartbreaking to see.", "Yes, and yet inspiring that everyone is out here and not cowered by the fear. Thank you very much. We'll check back in with you, obviously throughout the program. Chris, it is busy here at the square and it's not just here. Throughout Brussels, we've seen people getting back to normal life. We've seen people pushing, mothers pushing strollers. We've seen people taking their children to school, people are trying to get back to their normal lives here just one day after the attacks.", "All right, Alisyn. We'll be back with you in just a bit. We want an update on what happened in the election last night. Four of the final five candidates coming up winners on Western Tuesday depending on how you look at it. We're going to break down the results and what it all means for the campaign right ahead."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (D-VT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-208976", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2013-6-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/17/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Obama Vs. Putin:  Syria Showdown; NSA Leaker Speaks Out in Live Online Chat", "utt": ["Jake, happening now, a test of strength as President Obama and Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, face off over Syria. One wants to arm the rebels, the other is still arming the regime. The NSA leaker may be hiding, but that doesn't stop him from answering questions and making more accusations in a live online chat. And he's abroad, but President Obama cannot get away from some really poll numbers. Most worrisome for Democrats, is he losing the support of young people? Wolf Blitzer is off today. I'm Jim Acosta. And you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. They don't see eye to eye, and as you see in their body language in this video, they're not spending much time looking each other in the eye. President Obama and Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, in a showdown over Syria. It is dominating the G8 summit of key world leaders, most of whom want Russia to stop backing and arming the Syrian regime. Before the summit, Putin made it clear where he stands, warning against President Obama's plan to arm the rebels, who he says \"kill their enemies and eat their organs.\" That's a quote. That -- let's go straight to CNN White House correspondent, Brianna Keilar -- Brianna, not exactly a cold war, but it does seem like there was a chill in the air.", "That's right, Jim. There was no breakthrough. This was a meeting, though, that did last for two hours between Presidents Obama and Putin. The U.S., the biggest ally of the Syrian rebels, of the Syrian National Coalition. Russia, the biggest ally of the Syrian government. What the two sides did agree on was to push both parties in Syria to the negotiating table soon in Geneva. Here's what President Obama said.", "And with respect to Syria, we do have differing perspectives on the problem, but we share an emphasis in reducing the violence, securing chemical weapons and ensuring that these are neither used nor are they subject to proliferation and that we want to try to resolve the issue through political means, if possible. And so we will instruct our teams to continue to work on the potential of a Geneva follow-up to the first meeting.", "Now, the date is still to be determined. The conditions are still to be determined. If the two sides sit down, is it under the condition that Bashar Al- Assad will leave and there will be a transition to a new government? That's certainly not settled. So Presidents Obama and Putin not really moving the ball here, Jim. But you did comment on the body language there. It did seem a little warmer than some of that rhetoric you mentioned of Putin's yesterday, when he was in London, likening the rebels to cannibals. And if you compare it to a year ago, when President Obama and Putin last met in Mexico at the G20, this was much warmer. That was a very, very icy meeting that they had a year ago.", "It is good to have that perspective, Brianna. But we all remember last year, when the president was caught on that hot mic with Dmitry Medvedev, the former president of Russia, saying this. Let's take a listen.", "This is my last election.", "And after my election, I have more flexibility.", "More flexibility, as the president put it -- so, Brianna, they spoke for well over 90 minutes, it seems. Any signs they now have that flexibility and that they're using it?", "Well, that cer -- that had to do with missile defense, the US's European-based missile defense system. And the U.S. has eased some of the tension by foregoing the final phases of that. You also may notice the body language there seemed to be pretty good. But we're talking about President Obama with then President Dimity Medvedev. And what really matters is Obama and Putin, now the president and very much the one who's always been calling the shots. This relationship is one, Jim, that has really been tense here over the last year. And a lot of it has to do with Syria. These two sides are worlds apart on this, not just what Putin said in London about the rebels and that rhetoric, but also the fact that he doubts that -- Russian officials doubt whether the U.S. claim that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons is true. Russia is providing arms. They've threatened to provide anti-aircraft missiles should the U.S. and their allies try to put in place a no fly zone. So there are huge sticking points here. And, no, the ball was not moved today.", "Still many differences to resolve between those two leaders. Brianna Keilar, thank you. As world leaders grapple with the idea of arming Syria's rebels, we have disturbing new details about al Qaeda's involvement in Syria. The al Nasra Front is now said to be al Qaeda's best equipped affiliate. And may have as many as 10,000 fighters and supporters inside Syria. And one analyst tells CNN the group is making desperate attempts to get chemical weapons. That growing concern comes as Syria's regime is engaged in brutal urban combat with rebel forces. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen got a firsthand look on the front lines. You have to take a look at some of this video in Frederik's report.", "Jim, there's a lot of districts here in and around Damascus that are in the hands of the opposition, but they're hotly contested. And the government is starting pushes in most of them to try and get that back. Now, Yarmouk is the place that we went. And by many accounts, it's seen some of the fiercest fighting here in the Damascus area. We went along with a detachment of Palestinian fighters who are fighting for the Assad regime. They took us straight to the front line to see the house to house combat there.", "The urban combat is fierce. In Yarmouk, a suburb of Damascus close to the city's center, we're on the front line with Palestinians fighting for the Assad regime. Snipers do much of the fighting and death can come any second. (on camera): This is a pro-government sniper position. And this fighter here just told me he sees the snipers through his scope from here. So we'll wait and see what happens. (voice-over): The man said that shot took out a rebel fighter. Yarmouk, which was set up as a Palestinian refugee camp by the Assad regime decades ago, bears the scars of war. But the pro-government fighters tell me like on other front lines in Syria, they are now turning the tide, winning back ground. The commander's name is Abu Ihab (ph). I ask him who his enemy is. \"They are mostly Islamists from al Qaeda and Jabhat al-Nusra, he says, mostly foreigners from the Emirates, from Afghanistan and Pakistan, but also Syrians and Palestinians. A lot of the fighting happens inside the houses. And here, only a wall of sandbags separates the two sides. The pro-government militiamen say the rebels knock these holes into the walls when they own this turf and rigged some of the passages with explosives when they fled. (on camera): So the men tell us they've just recently retaken this house. And, as you can see, the fighters that left here, from the other side, they booby-trapped this entrance here with what looks like a hand grenade or something. So anybody who would have gone through there and triggered that wire there would have been killed. (voice-over): The pro-government fighters say they're angry at the U.S. after the Obama administration announcement that it will help arm the opposition. \"We will keep fighting until we get rid of Jabhat al-Nusra and al Qaeda,\" he says, \"and all other insurgents in Syria. And we're sure that God will be on our side.\" In breaks from combat, the pro-government militiamen sing the praise of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, emboldened by recent gains on the battlefield, but also worried what changes U.S. involvement might bring.", "And, you know, Jim, you go into these areas and you can just see why this conflict has, according to the United Nations, already killed up to 93,000 people you see the fierce fighting between the two sides. You see a lot of the houses there burned from the inside, a lot of destruction there. And still, even in that area, there are a lot of civilians who are caught between the front lines and have nowhere to go -- Jim.", "Thank you, Fredrik, for that eye-opening report. Now, forget about leaving notes in a hollow tree or even a secret meeting with Deep Throat in a parking garage, times have changed. The self-declared NSA leaker, Edward Snowden, is speaking out publicly again, this time in an extraordinary live online chat with \"The Guardian.\" CNN's Nic Robertson is in Hong Kong, where Snowden has been in hiding -- and one thing he did not reveal today, Nic, is his whereabouts, right?", "No, no clues on his whereabouts, although I guess we can take away from this that he does have decent access to the Internet. He was online chatting for about an hour and three quarters. He had about 2,000 questions lined up. He got through about 1 percent, 20 of them. He was asked about whether or not he was a traitor who was going -- whether or not he was going to give documents -- secret documents that he had to the Chinese. And I'll quote from what he said here. He said, \"Ask yourself, if I were a Chinese spy, wouldn't I have flown directly to Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a Phoenix now.\" That was an exact quote of what he said. So knocking down the idea that he's about to give secrets to the Chinese, which is a rumor that's been going around. And to Dick Cheney, and the former vice president, who's accused him of being a traitor, I'll read you here what he said back to Dick Cheney, as well. He said, \"This is the man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American.\" That was what Edward Snowden was saying this evening. He was really hitting back, giving details, but really pushing back and trying to get his narrative across here tonight -- Jim.", "And, Nic, he really seemed to be playing to his audience, I suppose. If there are a lot of Edward Snowden sympathizers out there, he certainly tossed out a lot of red meat to them, talking about Dick Cheney, although inexplicably, at one point, he talked about the Senate's Gang of Eight, which has more to do with immigration right now than surveillance activities on the intelligence front. Did he give any insights during this exchange -- a very lengthy exchange, Nic, what his next move might be?", "We really didn't get any clues for his next move. I mean he has indicated that he would be willing to sort of follow the justice here in Hong Kong. We've heard from state media inside China indicating that the Chinese in Beijing think that the Hong Kong authorities here shouldn't hand him back if they were asked by the United States. But he was asked why he came to Hong Kong. And the journalist who asked him that question clearly had an indication that he might have wanted to go to Iceland rather than Hong Kong. But the way that he answered this question, Snowden said that, you know, as an NSA employee, you have to give 30 days notice about traveling. So he could only travel at the last minute, only buy a ticket at the last minute. He was afraid of being interdicted on the flight. But he said, I had to go somewhere where I could get my message out. And that was why he says he chose Hong Kong -- Jim.", "And it did seem that, just reading between the lines, that a lot of planning has gone into what Edward Snowden is up to these days and what he might be doing in the future. Nic Robertson, thank you very much for that. From the time the news broke at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time here in the United States that Snowden would do a live chat, and for nearly the next four hours, there were over 17,000 mentions on Twitter of the hash tag \"asksnowden.\" That is how they asked people to ask questions of Edward Snowden on \"The Guardian\" Web site. According to the Social Analytics Company, Topsy, the United States had the most Tweets, according to that location. The U.K. came in second. Coming up next, FBI agents dig up a field near Detroit. It's the latest attempt to solve a four decade mystery. You're probably wondering who -- who exactly could that be? Perhaps it's Jimmy Hoffa. That's right. This time, will they actually find the former Teamsters boss? And ahead, another mystery -- did Russia's President Putin swipe a Super Bowl ring from the owner of the New England Patriots? We'll get into that, as well."], "speaker": ["JIM ACOSTA, CNN HOST", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KEILAR", "ACOSTA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "ACOSTA", "KEILAR", "ACOSTA", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "PLEITGEN (voice-over)", "PLEITGEN", "ACOSTA", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ACOSTA", "ROBERTSON", "ACOSTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-62575", "program": "CNN LIVE ON LOCATION", "date": "2002-11-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/04/lol.02.html", "summary": "A Look at Some of the Ways to Vote Tomorrow", "utt": ["Our technology correspondent, Daniel Sieberg, he joins us now. He's going to show us some of the ways to vote tomorrow. Not who to vote for, but how to vote. And this is a big issue for many people because the rules have changed and especially the technology.", "Right, exactly. Perhaps the most apparent evidence of the sort of turmoil with voting that happened two years ago. The evidence we're going to see now is all these high-tech voting machines that are being used around the country. And more and more counties are adopting this technology to use and to use for their voters. So we're going to start with one over here, that's actually of interest to everybody in Georgia, because it's made by Diebold. It's the only machine that is streamlined for the entire state. Georgia is the first and only state to adopt a uniform touch-screen technology. The idea behind is, when you go into the polling booth, you would have a smart card, you would slide the smart card in. Diebold actually makes ATM machines. So they tried to model it after that in a sense. You put the card into the machine. It then loads the ballot into the machine itself. And then there is a touch screen that you would actually manipulate once it loads it in. There are some instructions here. You would type there and then make all of your different choices using the touch screen here. When you're done, you would then cast your ballot. And the card pops up. You give that back to the polling station worker.", "What if you make a mistake?", "If you make a mistake, you can actually go back and change it before you cast the ballot. Just like you were on a paper ballot, you dropped it into a box, of course you can't go back and get it. In this case, as long as you haven't pushed the cast ballot button, you can go back and make any changes you want after that", "OK. So this is the state of Georgia, but not necessarily everywhere.", "Right. It's all over the state of Georgia. Every precinct in Georgia will have that Diebold machine. From there, we're going to go to another machine. This is from Hart InterCivic. And this is a little bit different because it actually doesn't have a touch screen device. What you've got here is a wheel that you actually turn to manipulate it. And instead of coming into the polling booth and having a card to access it, you actually get this four-digit code. Once you're given that code, you go into the polling booth and you finish typing it in using the wheel. Once you type that in, then, the ballot itself actually loads up. And you can see all the different choices that you would make. And then you would use the wheel to actually scroll through and make all your different choices, like so. A little bit different than the other one we saw. This isn't actually a touch screen machine. For some people, that may be a little confusing.", "And, you know, it looks daunting with this thing here. I'm a little confused already, myself.", "Well, you know, it does -- it may take a little getting used to for some people. And, you know, there are actually instructions and braille for the blind, we should point out, as well, in case that's even more confusing for someone who comes up to something like this.. They say -- the company says they do it to avoid calibration issues which you would run into for a touch screen, where you would make sure you have to touch the right place on the screen.", "Got it, OK.", "So, from there, we're going to go to another machine. This one is actually called the iVotronic from Election Systems and Software. This is being -- that one, incidentally, was being used in Houston and Charlottesville, Virginia. This machine is going to be appearing in counties that people can probably remember, Miami/Dade and Broward County in Florida. This will be showing up there. Again, you can also chose you languages on many of these machines. This offers touch screen. Instead of a smart card or a code, what you've got here is the cartridge that the poll worker has to physically insert into the machine before it brings the ballot up. Once it does that, you can then make all of your choices. You can also write-in, if that's something you wish to do. You know, they all look a little bit like a Palm Pilot on steroids, essentially, because they're so big. And the technology behind them is touch screen, though,as opposed to, you know, the ones we saw before where there's a dial wheel.", "Assuming you know what a Palm Pilot is.", "Right, a lot of people don't. Sure, they may not. A lot of this technology may be very new to many people. Next, we're going to go here to a machine from Sequoia. This machine, the AVC Edge, also uses a smart card. You would slide it in much the same way, like it's an ATM machine. Then it pulls it up -- and if you want -- Martin, if you want to touch the screen. You can choose your language and you can go through and make any sort of selections that you want, based on your candidates or your issues. And then finally at the very end...", "Now, it takes away the options once you make a vote.", "That's right. That's an very important point. Because it tries to eliminate overvoting. So you can't actually make two different choices and the voter intent is clearer when they're actually tabulating the results. You can also review all of your choices at the end and make any changes you want. And finally, we've got another machine from Sequoia, and this one is very different from the other machines. People might wonder why it's actually so large. The idea behind it, in certain places like New York, you actually have to physically see the entire ballot, as opposed to going page by page and screen by screen. And here, if you see, there are actually sensors on the back that register your vote as you push the screen. And then when you're done, you would cast your ballot like that. So it's a little bit different; not as high-tech necessarily as some of the touch screen ones. And again, you know, high-tech doesn't mean problem-free. There are still issues of people, humans, training and so on that's involved. We'll just have to wait and see if they hold up.", "And there will be people there to help you.", "Yes, the companies do promise there will be people there either from the company or trained by the company at the polling stations.", "All right, Daniel, thanks very much for the quick walk through.", "Thank you. All right.", "I hope it goes as smoothly for the voters.", "Right. 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{"id": "CNN-215291", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2013-9-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/25/lvab.01.html", "summary": "Is Syria Safe for Weapons Inspectors?", "utt": ["Almost all of the world leaders are here in New York talking about peace at the U.N. There are still a lot of people dying as we speak in Syria because that war still rages on, even though they are trying to fix it and the weapons inspectors are headed right to the middle of the fray, and it is not an easy place to go. Ivan Watson is live for us in Istanbul. How is anyone expected to protect the lives of these inspectors as they go about this critical job of looking for chemical weapons?", "That's a good question because the U.N. inspectors who were in Syria last month, one of their tasks, the U.N. says, is to go to a town called Khan al-Assal, and that is where one of the first alleged incidents of chemical weapons use came up around March 19 of this year, when more than 20 people died as a result of something - some kind of suspicious weapon that did not leave blood stains or cuts or obvious bullet holes on the bodies of the victims."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "IVAN WATSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-122466", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2007-12-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/28/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Martin Sheen to Campaign with Richardson", "utt": ["With less than a week to go until the Iowa caucuses, Mitt Romney is stepping up his criticism of Senator John McCain and in light of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Romney is also highlighting questions about leadership and experience. Let's go out to the campaign trail. Mary Snow caught up with Mitt Romney in between campaign stops out there and Mary is joining us right now from Iowa. Update our viewers on what happened.", "Well, Wolf, John McCain has said that the crisis in Pakistan really underscores the need for the next president to have extensive foreign policy experience. As you said, we caught up with Mitt Romney today and his campaign bus. We asked him about that. He took a swipe at John McCain.", "99 other people talk about issues and go and visit the world and have view points on issues and another thing to actually lead.", "Now, he is saying that experience is needed. It doesn't necessarily have to be experience in the senate. John McCain was on CNN last night and asked about these increasing attacks against him from Mitt Romney.", "I think he's in the tail spin. I'm familiar with those. Look, I have been involved in every major national security issue for the last 20 years. I understand the issues.", "And, now, Mitt Romney is also stepping up criticism of John McCain in a new ad that began airing in New Hampshire, where he is calling into question John McCain's stand on opposing President Bush's tax cuts in the past and also his immigration reform bill, trying to kind of portray him as being soft on immigration. McCain, on the other hand, is out with his own ad, touting his endorsements using the words integrity and principles in his advertisements and also any doubt what we're doing well Mitt Romney starts attacking. Mitt Romney today, I asked him about that, yes, indeed, John McCain is doing well, that it's a very tight race. He's not so much attacking, he's contrasting their policies. Wolf?", "Mary Snow in Iowa for us, thanks very much. Pre-caucus polls of Iowa democrats show a virtual toss-up among the top three, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards. Today, the candidates are trading some punches, only less than a week to go before the Iowa caucuses. Jessica Yellin is out there in Iowa. What are you hearing and seeing today, Jessica?", "Well Wolf, today I had a chance to sit down for an interview on Barack Obama on our CNN Election Express and he pushed back against comments by Senator Clinton and Senator Edwards. He responded to Senator Clinton's claims that his campaign had politicized Benazir Bhutto's death saying no it wasn't his campaign that did that. Let's listen.", "The Clinton campaign started pushing this notion that somehow immediately after this happened that somehow this was going to manage their campaign and one of my campaign's aides responded.", "He also told us, Wolf, that he does not share Senator Clinton's view that there should be an independent international investigation into Bhutto's death saying that we shouldn't suggest Pakistan cannot handle its own internal affairs. Now, he pushed back, as well, against some new comments by John Edwards who, himself, suggested that he, Edwards, was better able to take on special interests and fight for the working man. Obama, he takes issue with that.", "I think you look at the track record, you know, what John is talking about now is not what he was talking about four years ago. It's not what he was talking about eight years ago. On issue after issue he now says he made a mistake. But when he suggests that somehow he's going to fight more steadfastly on the behalf of the American people, then I have to point out that my track record of fighting on behalf of working families in America has been unwavering.", "Some pointed comments from a campaigner that made his every effort for the last few months to try to avoid these kind of personal distinctions that we're now hearing on the campaign trail from every direction from every candidate as they get down to the wire on this one. Wolf?", "It is down to the wire. Thanks, Jessica, for that; Jessica Yellin out in Iowa. An international investigation, democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is calling for it now in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination. I'll ask her why she thinks it's needed in an exclusive one-on-one interview. That's coming up. Plus, identifying the candidates. Can voters match the name, that is, to the face? We're going to show you. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SNOW", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SNOW", "BLITZER", "JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "YELLIN", "OBAMA", "YELLIN", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-217035", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-10-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1310/21/cnr.09.html", "summary": "Nevada School Shooting; Woman Blows Up Bus", "utt": ["The Obamacare sign-ups, a fiasco, a disaster, a total mess. Whatever you want to call it, the president himself is calling in his techies and we're talking to one of our own. The question we're asking: How will you fix it? I'm Brooke Baldwin. The news is now. A mom goes on national TV saying her daughter would never bully. But now, new video uncovers the mom's secret.", "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.", "A mysterious blonde girl found inside a gypsy camp. Abducted or adopted?", "Just about to kick off this party.", "Is Eminem getting a free pass for homophobic new lyrics. And --", "She loved SpongeBob.", "A family orders a special headstone for their daughter's grave, but the cemetery now says it's coming down. Hi, there. I'm Brooke Baldwin. We begin with breaking news on this Monday. Some horrific news to pass along out of Nevada, a deadly school shooting. Here's what we know right now. Two people are dead and police say their bodies were found when they arrived on the scene at Sparks Middle School. We also know two others right now are listed in critical condition. Press conference just began. Let's take a listen.", "Emphasize at this point that information is preliminary. I will confirm that there are two deceased and two individuals injured. I want to emphasize that the students are safe and the community is safe. There are no outstanding suspects. The students are in the process of being reunited with their parents at this time. Sparks Police Department will be the lead investigating agency, with the assistance of the Reno Police Department, Washoe County Sheriff's Department and the Washoe County School District Police. I want to thank all the agencies that responded so rapidly to this unfortunate situation. We really appreciate their assistance so quickly. At this point I'm going to turn it over to Chief Mike Mieras of the Washoe County School District Police.", "I'm Mike Mieras, the chief of police for the Washoe County School District. We've finished up our parent reunifications. Finishing up right now at Sparks High School. An excellent job by the Sparks High School staff of reuniting the Sparks Middle School students back with their parents. The -- two of the injured students have -- one has gone through surgery and is out at this time. The other individual is doing well. The one deceased is a - is a staff member of the school, of Sparks Middle School. The other deceased individual at this point in time appears to be a student/suspect in this case. The parent reunification, again, went very well. The school did an excellent job on going into their emergency management procedures. And if the parents do have questions or concerns, if they do want to call, I'll give out three numbers here that they can call, and we have counselors working those switchboards and working with parents. We are setting up, later on this week, we're setting up a parent - or a student service at the school, which we will have additional counselors there. So those numbers are, the first one is 789-3804. The other number is 789-3802. And 333-3786. Thank you.", "Good morning. First of all, our heart and prayers go out to all our staff, children that have been affected, and our parents. I want to thank the Sparks Police, the sheriff's department, the city of Sparks. We have our mayor here. We have our trustees here with us. This is just a very sad day for us. A very tragic day. We'll be working with our children and our parents throughout the week to try to get them through this ordeal. But again, I just want to thank the community for coming together behind - behind this tragedy. I'm going to have President Clark - oh, I'm sorry, Mayor Geno come and speak next.", "Thanks, Pedro (ph). And thank you all for being here today. Again, it's been sad. It's a tragic day for the city of Sparks. Our hearts go out to all those that have been affected, the students, the families, all those people involved. But I want you - I want to reiterate again that the city itself is very safe. This is just an isolated incident that I don't believe this is any kind of spree that's going to go on or anything like that, crime spree. Again, it's very, very tragic. I'm saddened to be here, saddened to have to come before you and talk about this. But it's happened. I want to thank all the local law enforcement. What a great response came from all these folks, all these folks all around. Not only from the Washoe County and Reno and Sparks, but the highway patrol was there. So everyone was very good in coming together to help us respond to this tragic day. So, again, I want to reiterate, the city is very safe. This is an isolated incident, and I apologize for having to be here today to speak about this, but it's one of those things that happens. Thank you. Barbara Clark.", "Hi. As president of school board, on behalf of my fellow board members, I want to say how tragic this is and how saddened we are. Our student safety and our staff safety is of utmost, paramount concern to us. And we are doing everything that we possibly can to assist the police, as well as our parents, our students and staff, by providing interventions and counseling, and we will be here and do whatever is necessary to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to have their needs met. I would like to say the governor has called as well and expressed his sympathy. We appreciate everything that the police have done. And we are going to pursue this to see what measures that we need to take. Again, our most heartfelt to all of our students and our families. Thank you.", "Another news briefing will be held at 4:00 this afternoon here at the Sparks --", "Clearly an incredibly difficult day for school officials, for members of law enforcement in Sparks, Nevada. Learning some new information there in that brief press briefing. The fact that they mentioned, this is according to the chief of police, those two who were injured in this school shooting at Sparks Middle School. They were both students. One of whom has just undergone surgery and the other is, quote/unquote doing well. As far as the two who are dead, according to the police chief, he said one was a school staff member, and the other, this is how he described this individual, appears to be a student/suspect. And just quickly, a little color from this newspaper from the \"Reno Gazette Journal.\" That a 13 to 14-year-old person wearing a Sparks Middle School uniform was the one, according to eye witnesses there at the school, firing the shots near the basketball courts. And, quote/unquote, fired a shot at the teacher. And this newspaper reporter asked, was he a young kid? And the answer was yes. We're keeping a close eye on this tragic story out of Sparks, Nevada. Stay tuned to CNN, we'll pass more information along as soon as we get it. Now this. A woman blowing herself up on a bus in southern Russia today, and the whole thing was caught on dash cam video. Here it is, the horrific moment this explosion rips through the bus. You see just smoke here. People running moments after the woman detonated this bomb. At least six people were killed, and more than 30 other were hurt, many of them critically. CNN's Phil Black joins me now from Russia. And, Phil, what exactly are we seeing in the video other than this smoke and this bus blowing up? And who is this suicide bomber?", "Well, Brooke, it shows the bus just moments before the blast on this dash cam video. A lot of Russian drivers have these. So you can see the bus. Then you see the moment of the explosion. The debris thrown across the road. The car with the camera slows, eventually stops. And further on down the road, where the bus stops, you can see the survivors fleeing from the vehicle, running away. Investigators here have said that one of those survivors told them that the blast took place just moments after a woman boarded the bus. So investigators believe it was a female suicide bomber. A 30-year-old from the Russian Republic of Dagestan. Now, Dagestan is in the northern caucuses region of Russia. This is a part of Russia where there is an ongoing Islamic insurgency. Where militants are fighting to try and establish their own independent Islamic state. And it is relatively close to the city of Sochi, where Russia will host next year's Winter Olympics really in just a few months' time, in February, Brooke.", "Phil Black for us in Moscow. Phil, thank you very much. Coming up, President Obama is mad, and he wants the entire world to know about this. Find out how he plans to fix the Obamacare rollout, and hear what one tech expert says is really the biggest problem with this website. This is CNN. Stay with me."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BALDWIN", "EMINEM (rapping)", "BALDWIN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BALDWIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHIEF MIKE MIERAS, WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MAYOR GENO MARTINI, SPARKS, NEVADA", "BARBARA CLARK, PRESIDENT, WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD (ph)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BALDWIN", "PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-94396", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2005-5-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0505/10/ltm.04.html", "summary": "Bush Wraps Up Four-Nation Tour; Florida Forces Man to Sell Land", "utt": ["Welcome back, everybody. Just exactly half past the hour on this AMERICAN MORNING. Coming up this morning, did police in California make a huge mistake when they opened fire on an unarmed man in an SUV? More than 90 bullets were fired in this one incident. Was there a good reason, though? We're going to talk with the sheriff of Los Angeles County about that.", "Also in a moment here, the real CSI Miami, compliments of our own Dr. Sanjay Gupta. He's been following the work of crime scene investigators all week long, and what he discovered in Miami shows a side of his job that would never make it into the real TV drama, so stay tuned for Sanjay.", "I would imagine that so much of it is like slow, painstaking, boring work that...", "Tough on the microscope?", "Which -- no one wants to watch six hours of that. That's just not gonna work. But we'll see. Let's get to the headlines with Carol Costello. Good morning.", "Good morning to both of you. Good morning. \"Now in the News,\" President Bush is on his way back to Washington after a four-nation tour of Europe. Earlier this morning, he was in the former Soviet republic of Georgia touting democracy there. Here's CNN's John King.", "Here in Tbilisi was the grand finale of a trip designed both to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II and to celebrate young democracies in what was once the Soviet Union. A crowd the government said numbered more than 100,000 crammed into Liberty Square, site of the Rose Revolution here just 18 months ago, to hear the president say the reformers who toppled that corrupt government are now an inspiration around the world, not only, he said in former Soviet republics but also as far away as Iraq and Lebanon.", "Now across the caucuses in central Asia and the broader Middle East we see this same desire for liberty burning in the hearts of young people. They are demanding their freedom and they will have it.", "Mr. Bush did not mention that regime change in Iraq came at the hands of U.S. and other coalition troops, not in a peaceful revolution like here in Georgia. Nor did Mr. Bush weigh too deeply into still-festering disputes between Georgia and Russia, though he did say he expected Moscow eventually to keep a promise to shut down two Soviet aeromilitary bases it still maintains here in Georgia.", "The territorial and sovereignty of Georgia must be respected by all nations.", "A president who often sees protest when he travels was clearly thrilled at the warm welcome. Georgia's president called Mr. Bush a freedom fighter and said the huge crowds were a demonstration of how grateful people here are at the steady U.S. support, despite frequent complaints from Russia that Mr. Bush is meddling in its backyard.", "This is not North Korea here. You cannot tell people to go out unless they don't feel like this.", "The White House believes the powerful images here go hand in hand with Mr. Bush's second term focus on promoting freedom and democracy and perhaps might help convince Russia's Putin that the spread of democracy in his neighborhood is irreversible and that he should embrace it, not resist it. John King, CNN, Tbilisi, Georgia.", "Atlanta courthouse shooting suspect Brian Nichols will be back in court today. He's expected to hear the charges against him. An arraignment could follow. Prosecutors are also expected to announce their intentions to seek the death penalty. Nichols is accused in a shooting rampage that left a judge and three others dead. Sources tell CNN actor Macaulay Culkin could testify as early as tomorrow in the Michael Jackson trial. Culkin is expected to refute claims anything inappropriate happened between him and the entertainer. The manager on Jackson's ranch is set to testify when proceedings get underway in the next two hours. And a firefighter in Phoenix almost missed out on winning more than $860,000 in this year's Kentucky Derby. Listen to this. The man bought the winning ticket in a block of 100 and then he lost it, lost them all. He spent hours searching through the trash. But the next day, the woman who sold the tickets found the missing winning ticket behind her cash register, and she was an honest person. She handed it over to him.", "Come on.", "She did.", "Come on. She found it behind her cash register?", "Yes. And she handed it over to him, and he's going to keep all the $860,000, which is $600,000 after taxes. No word on if she gets a cut, but maybe she should. Let's talk to that firefighter.", "Well, we first brought you a shocking videotape of a barrage of police gunfire on Monday. It started in Compton, a Los Angeles neighborhood, with reports that shots had been fired. Sheriff's deputies chased an SUV for 12 minutes, cornered it and then opened fire with at least 90 gunshots. Today investigators are trying to find out how a car chase ended with the unarmed suspect shot at least four times and a deputy sheriff slightly wounded. I spoke with L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca about the many unanswered questions.", "The explanation that I'm receiving preliminarily is that the vehicle was moving backward toward the deputies, and that the vehicle had been attempting earlier, prior to that stopped position shown, to get out of that containment that it was in.", "How many shots were fired? We heard some reports of 95 shots. Is that about right?", "No, I think it's more in the area of about 120 shots. It's interesting to note that, even as the video shows, there are simultaneous shots being fired independently, meaning the noise that you were hearing implies there might be even less, but the reality is it's around 120.", "Yesterday, when you were briefing reporters, you talked a little bit about the conditions under which deputies are trained to shoot, and you said, obviously, in self-defense and in the protection of citizens. Do you feel now -- and I know there's an investigation under way, obviously -- do you feel right now, though, that those conditions were met to open fire in an urban neighborhood?", "Well, I have to say this, that we have an extensive evaluation process. The district attorney's office is looking at this, our Office of Independent Review. We have a training component regarding tactics. Clearly, there's questions that need to be answered. I'll say this, though. In our system, in Los Angeles County, we have one-person cars. Once a person is contained, and in this case this vehicle was not fully contained, the communications questions have to be answered. How do people who work in one-person cars coordinate with each other verbally in an ongoing scenario that has high intensity? That's the biggest question that I want to get the answer to.", "As we mentioned...", "I don't think it's very easy, is what I'm saying.", "As we mentioned, deputy injured. The suspect injured. Homeowners were showing off bullet holes in their homes. Nobody was killed. Pretty remarkable, you have to say.", "Very remarkable, and thank God for that. And I'm glad that the suspect is not seriously injured, and his wounds appear to be minor.", "The suspect, 44-year-old Winston Hayes (ph), is said to be, in fact, in stable condition at a hospital. Sheriff Baca said Hayes has a record of arrests for drugs and assaults, but it is not certain what he will be charged with, if anything, in connection with this incident -- Bill.", "Well, want to open a story now we talked about yesterday. Convicted Atlanta murderer Wayne Williams -- this story goes back about 23 years now -- speaking out in an interview at a Chicago radio station. All this now, that word that police want to reopen his case. Williams insists that he is innocent, but does admit that he made mistakes over how he handled himself back in the early 1980s.", "My picture's in \"The New York Times,\" labeled, \"Atlanta Monster Seized.\" And what I did was a lot of 23-year-old young black men would have done at the time. I tried to lash out at the system. That's why I went on this so-called police chase to Maynard Jackson's (ph) house, because I knew Maynard. I said, Maynard, why are you letting this happen to me? You know better than this. I went to Reggie Eaves' (ph) house. I said, look, put an end to this thing. And what I didn't realize was that people took that the wrong way and said I was mocking the authorities and mocking police -- no, I wasn't. I knew these people on a first name basis.", "Williams was convicted in 1983, given two life sentences for murdering two men. Police said afterward that he was responsible for more than 20 other murders. He was never charged in those cases -- Soledad.", "A man in Florida has 160 acres of swampland in Florida that he doesn't want to sell you, but the state wants the land and they're paying him nearly $5 million to get it, whether he wants it or not. John Zarrella has the story.", "Down this winding gravel road, past the pine trees and palms, out here in the middle of nowhere, lives a man worth millions, a 69-year-old man named Jesse James Hardy, who doesn't want the money.", "I don't want the damn money. Please, please take the money back.", "Thirty-two years ago, Hardy paid $60,000 for 160 acres of rock, scrub brush and mosquitoes, nestled in southwest Florida, not too far from Naples. (on camera): Did you build on this by yourself?", "Yes, I did. It ain't much. I went to Miami and I got that tin for the roof.", "But by the end of November, Hardy has to move. The state of Florida wants his land. They call it the hole in the doughnut of the massive $8 billion Everglades Restoration Project.", "Please, don't b.s. me. I didn't fall off that turnip truck yesterday, you know?", "Hardy doesn't believe his land will ever be used for restoration. But after years of fighting, Hardy agreed last month to take $4.95 million from the state. Under its eminent-domain authority, he ultimately had no choice but to sell. Now he's rich, but miserable. (on camera): The one thing, obviously, when people see, they're going to say, people are going to say, Jesse, what do you want to be out here for?", "Oh, I love it.", "You have a great place.", "For what? You tell me what do you do? What do you do, sit around and watch TV?", "Jesse James Hardy would give anything to get out of the deal. He just wants too stay here. No electricity service, never had any. A generator runs the", "There's the motor. That's a nice", "His first phone was a cell phone.", "Technology -- technology put me in touch with the whole world.", "Hardy has no idea where he's going to live, but one thing is for sure, he's not leaving one minute before he has to.", "Thirty-two years shot to hell, 32 years shot to hell, you know?", "And all he's got to show for it is about $5 million. John Zarrella, CNN, Collier County, Florida.", "John Hardy has until November 30th to leave.", "From Philadelphia now, actually northwest of Philly, about 15 miles, small town called Conchihawken (ph) -- I hope I got that right -- there's a two-alarm fire at a church there in suburban Philly. It's the First Baptist Church, Montgomery County. Firefighters, you can see from the videotape here, a live picture, using tower trucks to pour water on that blaze. Luckily no injuries reported. Just want to bring you that picture now. Pretty smoke there northwest of Philly. In a moment here, parrot heads find a home on satellite radio. Andy explains that. \"Minding Your Business\" in a moment here.", "And in our \"House Call\" this morning, how does Hollywood's version of \"CSI\" compare to the real thing? Dr. Gupta finds out from a professional crime-scene investigator, up next on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "O'BRIEN", "HEMMER", "O'BRIEN", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KING, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KING", "BUSH", "KING", "MIKHAIL SAAKASHIVILI, GEORGIAN PRESIDENT", "KING", "COSTELLO", "HEMMER", "COSTELLO", "HEMMER", "COSTELLO", "O'BRIEN", "SHERIFF LEE BACA, L.A. COUNTY", "O'BRIEN", "BACA", "O'BRIEN", "BACA", "O'BRIEN", "BACA", "O'BRIEN", "BACA", "O'BRIEN", "HEMMER", "WAYNE WILLIAMS, CONVICTED MURDERER", "HEMMER", "O'BRIEN", "JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JESSE JAMES HARDY, FORCED TO SELL LAND", "ZARRELLA", "HARDY", "ZARRELLA (voice-over)", "HARDY", "ZARRELLA", "HARDY", "ZARRELLA", "HARDY", "ZARRELLA (voice-over)", "A/C. HARDY", "ZARRELLA", "HARDY", "ZARRELLA", "HARDY", "ZARRELLA", "O'BRIEN", "HEMMER", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-81937", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2004-2-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/09/lol.05.html", "summary": "Study Challenges Optimism as Boone for Cancer Patients", "utt": ["Can a positive attitude improve your chances of surviving cancer? Conventional wisdom suggests that it can. But a new study challenges that idea. CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has the details.", "So how much does being optimistic actually affect your outcome with regards to cancer? (voice-over) Well, a lot of conventional wisdom would suggest quite a bit. In fact, there were a lot of studies in the late '80s, early '90s, observational studies looking at attitude and outcome of cancer. Well, some researchers in Australia actually decided to put it to the test now. They looked at 179 patients with a very aggressive form of lung cancer called non-small cell lung cancer. One hundred and seventy-one of those patients died within five years, 96 percent. (on camera) They drew some conclusions after looking at this study. Very interesting. Talking specifically about optimism and attitude. (voice-over) First of all, found no evidence that optimism was actually related to survival in lung cancer patients. First point. Second point, even more interesting in some ways, was that encouraging patients to be positive may be an additional burden. Obvious question was why would being positive be an additional burden? (on camera) And a lot of oncologists weighed in on this particular topic. And again, the study was also talking about why being optimistic might in fact not only be helpful but possibly harmful? Take a look here. (voice-over) Optimism, first of all, not a form of treatment. Everybody knows that. They recognize that. But if it's done in lieu of treatment, that could potentially be a problem. Also, patients feel guilty that they're not doing enough. (on camera) Here is the case scenario. Patient has an aggressive form of cancer. They're trying to do all the right things. They're trying to be positive, but their course is still heading southward, not in the direction they would like. All of a sudden they start to feel guilty that they're not being optimistic enough. That can be a burden. (voice-over) And finally, it can get to the point where patients in fact start to deprive themselves of doing things that are useful, including seeking treatment and things like that. (on camera) A lot of doctors obviously are going to agree and disagree on this particular topic. One doctor says patients should always hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Is there no benefit to being optimistic? Probably not. There is certainly always benefits. It may have to do with your quality of life in your last few months or your last few years. But it's important to remember for those patients who are being optimistic about their cancer treatment it shouldn't be -- optimism should not be in lieu of treatment. Patients should not deprive themselves, and they should not feel guilty if things aren't heading the way they would like. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, ANCHOR", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-347841", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-08-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/16/nday.03.html", "summary": "Brennan Pens Blistering Op-Ed after Security Clearance Revoked", "utt": ["It appears obvious to me that this is a White House that feels under siege.", "Any benefits from consultations with Mr. Brennan are now outweighed by the risk posed by his erratic conduct.", "Revoking my security clearances is his way of trying to get back at me.", "You can be the former CIA director and a critic of the president. You just can't lead the resistance movement.", "What is to stop President Trump from suspending the access to classified information of Bob Mueller?", "The church was more interested in protecting its own reputation than protecting children.", "Child sexual abuse cannot be tolerated and must be eradicated from our church.", "What do you tell an institution that teaches morality, but has none?", "This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.", "All right. Good morning. Welcome to your NEW DAY. Alisyn is off. Erica Hill joins me for what has been a busy morning.", "It has been a little busy, hasn't it.", "A whole --", "And we're not done yet.", "A whole lot of people speaking their mind. President Trump telling us what he really thinks, and so is former CIA director John Brennan. Now, President Trump says he revoked former director Brennan's security clearance because Brennan was among the public servants who launched the investigation into the Russian attack on the U.S. elections. The president told \"The Wall Street Journal\" -- and he said this out loud -- \"Something had to be done.\" That sound familiar? Well, President Trump said something similar about firing James Comey because of the Russian investigation, and he said that to Lester Holt.", "And in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, \"You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.\"", "Well, Brennan is now having his say, as John referenced. A scathing new op-ed in \"The New York Times\" out just this morning. You see the title there. \"President Trump's Claims of No Collusion Are Hogwash,\" adding that the decision to revoke his security clearance is, in Brennan's words, an attempt to scare into silence others who might dare to challenge him. A reference to the president there. With that in mind, the White House has released a list of nine other former and current officials in the intelligence community and the Department of Justice whose security clearance, we're told, is now under review.", "Once of those people is James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, current CNN national security analyst. And former director Clapper joins us right now. Thank you so much for being with us. And we know more now about why the president revoked John Brennan's security clearance and why he is threatening to revoke yours. The president tells us, through \"The Wall Street Journal,\" and he said these words out loud, it's because of your involvement at the beginning of the Russian investigation. This is what the president said, just to be crystal-clear about this. He says, \"I call it the rigged witch hunt. It is a sham, and these people led it.\" He added, \"So I think it is something that had to be done.\" Something that had to be done, because you were part of the team initially concerned about the Russian cyberattack on the U.S. election. Your response?", "Well, I find this admission, candid admission, very disturbing, because first of all, the four of us that were involved in putting together the intelligence community assessment which we published on the 6th of January 2017. That is, Jim Comey, John Brennan, and Admiral Mike Rogers, then the director of NSA, and myself. And what we focused on was the Russian meddling in our political process, which continues yet today, as has been affirmed by the current crop of I.C. and law enforcement leaders. And so I find it very disturbing that here, we were in compliance with a request of the then-president of the United States to put into one document our insight and knowledge of the profound threat that Russia posed to this country. And now, apparently, we're being punished for this. John already has been, and apparently others of us that were involved in that. That is very disturbing. There was, just to be clear, nothing in that intelligence community assessment that said anything about collusion. And we did not draw on the dossier as a source for that report. Now, it's true that was the -- led to a sequence of events, and it did serve as a catalyst for the Mueller investigation. As to collusion, well, I've learned some things, as has John, about that, although from a legal standpoint, I think that's yet to be proven. Certainly, the president's exhortation to the Russians on the 27th of July f 2016 to go find the missing 30,000 e-mails, which as revealed in the latest indictment by Special Counsel Mueller against the 12 GRU officers, which reflects they did -- they complied with his request. After hours, that very day, they tried to find those -- those e-mails. Now, I don't know the legal definition of collusion or not. Certainly, the Trump Tower meeting reflected an intent to collude. And of course, why all these many meetings with Russian officials? That's why it's so important that the Mueller investigation be -- as John said in his op-ed, be allowed to continue and to finish without interference from anyone. We have to remove this cloud from this presidency and -- and this country. And there is a dark cloud over us because of all this.", "I want to go into much further detail about several of the things you just said. But just to be clear I see by the nature of how you're talking this morning that if it was the president's attempt to intimidate you or silence you about your critique of some of his actions, that hasn't worked.", "Well, no. As Mike Hayden said last night, I don't think it's -- doing this is going to affect what we think, write or say.", "All right. You brought up the president's statements during the campaign in 2016 where, again, out loud -- and so much of this has been out loud, from the campaign days to last night, when he told \"The Wall Street Journal\" that he wants to revoke these security clearances because of the launch of the Russia investigation. In 2016, he called on the Russians to go find Hillary Clinton's e-mails. Just listen to that again.", "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing.", "So, just moments ago, former CIA director John Brennan writes of that moment, \"Such a public clarion call certainly makes one wonder what Mr. Trump privately encouraged his advisors to do and what they actually did to win an election. While I had deep insight into Russian activities during the 2016 election, I now am aware -- thanks to the reporting of an open and free press -- of many more of the highly suspicious dalliances of some American citizens with people affiliated with the Russian intelligence services.\" And he goes on to say the president's claims of no collusion are hogwash. Your assessment of what the former director said?", "Well, I think John raises good points. And he is expressing an -- what I would call an informed opinion, which he is clearly entitled to do. I think in the end, though, there needs to be an official determination made about this, and that, I think, can only be done by the Mueller investigation.", "Based on what you have seen, whether you're willing to tell us what you saw while you were were director of national intelligence or what you've seen from the public reporting since, do you agree with former director Brennan that the president's claims of no collusion are hogwash?", "Well, I don't know that I'd use that word, but again, sort of in plain sight, things we've learned since we left the government -- and we weren't aware -- we weren't aware of the Trump Tower meeting. And we -- I wasn't aware, at least, of the Russian compliance with the president -- candidate Trump's request on the 27th of July. So, you know, whether that's -- meets the definition of collusion, which in itself is not a legal proposition. But I think in the end, and John's, his belief is there was collusion, and the president's denials are hogwash. And John is entitled to that. He's been a very harsh and open critic of the president. From my perspective, I think from a legal standpoint, whether there was a conspiracy here or not, that's not for me to say. I think that is up to the Mueller investigation.", "You call some of what former Director Brennan has said harsh. Do you believe, in terms of what you think and your opinion, has it been too harsh?", "No, I'm not -- I'm not going to render a value judgment there. I mean, John is entitled to his perspective. I think philosophically, we're probably in agreement. I might express things differently than John does or than Mike Hayden does, but I think, in the end, the -- our -- the broad outlines here is our genuine concern about the threats to the institutions of this country. And that's what I think motivates all of us. We feel a duty and an obligation to speak up about this. We may express ourselves differently, but I think in the end, we're pretty much on the same page.", "Much of what you say and are asked to comment on deals in the realm of national security and intelligence. Former director Brennan has branched out beyond that, and he was very critical of the president over the last few days for some of the comments that the president made that many people deem as flat-out racist. Former director Brennan talked about the president calling Omarosa a dog. And the former director wrote, \"It's astounding how often you fail to live up to minimum standards of decency, civility, and probity.\" Again, is it one thing to comment on issues dealing with national security, and should a former director of the CIA stay out of that other side of the discussion?", "Well, I think once you become a -- my view is -- and this is controversial, a lot of people don't agree with it -- but I think once you are not in an official position, you're free to speak your mind. And that's one of the great, at least in the past, it's one of the great strengths of this country. And I think there is such a thing as kind of loyal opposition here. I think we have great respect for the office of the presidency and great concerns about the current occupant.", "Well, there is such a thing as freedom of speech. Correct? It is something that is specifically protected. One is supposed to be able to share their views openly and freely and publicly. Correct?", "Exactly, and that to me is the larger implication here with the -- this revocation of John's eligibility and the threat for the others, myself included. It's -- it has not to do not with our access to classified information. I haven't had any access to classified information since I left the government. The larger implication here is the jeopardy to our First Amendment rights, and by extension, others. And by the way, there's a very chilling message here to people in the intelligence community. If you tee up intelligence that the president doesn't like, you may risk losing your clearance and, thereby, your job.", "In fact, that's exactly what the president said to \"The Wall Street Journal.\" Again, I'm going to read this again. He says, \"I call it a rigged witch hunt. It is a sham, and these people led it.\" He's talking about you, John Brennan, James Comey and others, who were at the forefront of the Russia investigation, the Russia attack on the U.S. election. He says, \"So I think it's something that had to be done.\" He's talking about revoking the security clearance of former director Brennan there. He doesn't leave any mystery about why he did it. Now, you say that you haven't accessed any classified information since you left. But you have been reached out to by the current intelligence community for your advice on things. Isn't that correct? You've had conversations with people who are still there?", "I've had -- yes, I've consulted with people in the administration, senior people. And obviously, I'm not going to name them.", "Right.", "To protect them. I don't -- and what they're drawing on is not access to current classified investigation. They're drawing on our history, on the corporate memory, as I did when I was in the government, and I consulted with prior DNIs, and I was an agency director twice for almost nine years. I drew on the expertise of those who had preceded me. Sometimes I asked why they made certain decisions that they made. Now, that's useful. I don't know that it was ever crucial. And that's the case here.", "Useful, sometimes, can mean a lot. John Brennan, famously, he was in the room. He was in the situation room during the raid on the bin Laden compound, where U.S. Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden. He was a key player in that. One could conceive, one could think of a situation, perhaps, dealing with al Qaeda now, associates with bin Laden, where the intelligence community might want to tap into Brennan's knowledge of that, update him on a current operation, and say, \"Hey, based on what you knew then, is there a connection here? Could you help us out?\" That's not inconceivable, is it?", "Well, that's quite possible, and I would just note that I was standing next to John in that same iconic picture taken by Pete Souza.", "Yes.", "And, you know, people want to draw on that experience and that expertise, they can. It's not essential, and it's not crucial, but it can sometimes be very useful.", "What statement does it make that the president is taking this official action without suggesting in any way -- and you didn't see it in Sarah Sanders's statement from the White House press room. You didn't see it in the document she produced, and you didn't even see it in the president's open admission about his justification to \"The Wall Street Journal.\" There's not a single accusation in any way that Brennan, or the others on this list, any of you, have done anything wrong with the classified information.", "Well, exactly. And I think Phil Mudd alluded to that in a previous segment, that that's typically why a clearance -- people's clearances are put in jeopardy, if they mishandle or divulge classified information. And I don't think there's been any -- you know, any evidence of that presented at all. We haven't had access to it.", "In fact, it was President Trump behind closed doors, as his prerogative, to give classified information to the Russians when he met with some of them early on in the administration. It is notable, if you look at this list, it doesn't include any loyalists to the president. Perhaps not surprising. What is surprising is that his former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, who had pled guilty to lying to investigators, and who made very political statements, not unlike some of the ones that have been made, probably much harsher, in fact, than the ones that have been made by most of the people on this list, he still has his security clearance. If John Brennan doesn't have his security clearance, Michael Flynn?", "Well, I don't know -- I actually don't know, John, what Mike Flynn's security clearance status is, so I don't know if he has it -- has one or not. I don't think he does. But all that, his omission from the list is simply proof positive, I think, of what this is really about. It's an enemies list to get at people that have been critical or who have taken actions that, you know, he didn't like. And that's -- that, to me, is a pretty chilling message.", "Former director of national intelligence, James Clapper, a man on the unwanted list, as it is now called. Thanks so much for being with us.", "Thanks, John.", "Erica.", "He's always wanted around here. We'll keep him on our most wanted list. Just ahead, \"New York Times\" columnist Frank Bruni says President Trump is being devoured by lesser Trumps. He'll explain, next."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SARAH SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "JOHN BRENNAN, FORMER CIA DIRECTOR (via phone)", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-128643", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2008-7-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/14/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Feds Reopen Failed Bank; Lobbyist Caught on Tape", "utt": ["Happening now, a busted bank reopens with federal regulators now in charge. Worried savers are lining up to trying to get their money out. But there's a hitch. We're going to find out how safe your savings are right now. A lobbyist caught on tape allegedly offering access to Vice President Cheney and other top Bush administration figures for a price. And a comeback for the Taliban and a setback for U.S. troops -- Americans and Afghan paying a heavy price in blood right now. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Worried customers lining around the block to pull their money out of the failed IndyMac Bank, which reopened today with a new boss, the U.S. government. A federal agency guarantees most of the deposits, but some fear their life-savings can be at risk. So how safe are your savings right now? CNN's Deborah Feyerick is standing by with that. But let's go out to Pasadena. CNN's Kara Finnstrom is standing by with what's going on Long lines. People trying to get their money -- Kara, tell us what the latest is.", "Well, some of these people are not getting all their money back, because it was not fully insured. And they're just now finding it out. So a very difficult day for them. We want to give you a quick look here at the hundreds of people -- the crowds out here. Some of these people trying to get shelter under these, you know, makeshift structures that they've put up. Others under umbrellas. Many of these people have been here for eight hours now and all of them want answers.", "The lines started building before sunrise -- customers coming to 33 branches of what was, less than one week ago, their bank. Now customers like Nasim Ahmed facing what can only be described as a nightmare, asking FDIC officials what happened to my money. Ahmed and his family drove from San Francisco overnight. Ahmed had his personal savings and numerous accounts for his business, a clinical research company, at IndyMac. When the doors opened, he was number four in line. Ahmed asked question after question. Two-and-a-half hours later, he came out.", "I'm surprised, shocked.", "Ahmed was told only the first $100,000 in each of his accounts is fully insured. Beyond that amount...", "And you will get 50 cents on a dollar. So that's -- that's pretty miserable.", "Ahmed said he was misled by IndyMac officials, who had assured him he had structured his savings in different accounts that would be safe. He may take a huge hit.", "It this is going to hurt me, but I will try to recover, stand again and try to do business as usual. But from now on, I will be better -- more cautious.", "Ahmed says he plans to fight for more of his money. But for now, he and his family are heading straight back to San Francisco.", "I've never dreamed of this one. I don't know. It's like a disaster to me.", "He says they can't afford to miss another day of work.", "And CNN has tried to contact bank officials with the former IndyMac, but those calls have not yet been returned -- Wolf.", "What a story. Kara, stay on top of it for us. Thanks very much. So here's the question -- how safe is your money? Let's go to Deborah Feyerick. She's watching this part of the story. There are a lot of nervous Americans out there. They have money, their savings, life-savings for a lot of them, millions of them in various banks. And I'll ask the question to you, what should they be doing? What's going on?", "Well, you know, Wolf, a lot of people find comfort having their money in one bank. But, really, after what happened to IndyMac, many are realizing they may have just dodged a bullet.", "It wasn't just IndyMac customers thinking about their money. Other people, too, were wondering if their bank accounts elsewhere might also be at risk.", "A bank failure is a wakeup call to anyone that has more money on deposit in a bank than is covered by FDIC insurance. Having that money deposited and not being fully protected is like driving around town without your seat belt on.", "Money experts say as long as your money is insured, $100,000 in an individual bank account, $250,000 in an IRA, there's no need to withdraw it -- even if the bank is failing because pulling it out creates other problems.", "Banks don't keep all this money stuck in a vault in the back. It causes a liquidity crisis.", "The FDIC took over IndyMac in part to make sure the troubled mortgage lender would not take steps that could trigger even greater economic instability.", "The bank will try to right itself. And sometimes what that means is that a bank can sell- off assets which are very valuable, which end up resulting in a greater loss to the FDIC than otherwise would be the case.", "The FDIC says only a small percentage of the 90 banks currently considered at risk will actually fail.", "At the end of the day, there will be some bank failures, but very few.", "And with $50 billion in its insurance fund, FDIC's chief operating officer, John Bovenzi, says that's more than enough to cover whatever might come.", "The bottom line -- given the severe housing correction, a small percentage of banks will likely fail. But as a consumer, as long as your money is on deposit, that is fully protected by the FDIC insurance, if the bank fails, then it's really the bank's problem, not yours. But if you do pull it out, make sure your new bank is financially sound. And can go to the Web site, FDIC.gov and to a section called bank bond and make sure that the bank is insured. No point pulling it out of one just to put it into another that might be at risk -- Wolf.", "Excellent advice, Deb. Deb Feyerick reporting for us. We're going to have more on this story coming up. But let's move on. A newspaper's sting leads to some stunning videotape -- a lobbyist allegedly offering access to Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other top Bush administration officials for a price -- a steep price. Let's go live to our White House correspondent, Ed Henry. He's working this story for us -- Ed, what's going on this story? Explain.", "Well, Wolf, the White House is basically denying that they knew any of this was going on. They essentially say that the lobbyist involved, Stephen Payne was acting alone. And Payne himself was in full spin mode, essentially telling CNN it was all a big misunderstanding.", "Promises of access to the president's top aides in exchange for contributions to the George W. Bush Library and some cold hard cash on the side for the man brokering the deal. The whole discussion caught on tape.", "...politician a couple of hundred? That would probably get the attention of the people raising the money.", "That's Texas lobbyist and Bush fundraiser Steven Payne, unwitting star of this shocking video, secretly recorded by the \"Times of London.\" Here, he tried to get a donation from a man whom he thought was representing the exiled former president of Kyrgyzstan.", "200, 250. Something like that's going to be a show of when interested, we're your friends. We're still your friends.", "Payne, who raised $200,000 for the president's re- election, is seen promising meetings with top officials, including Vice President Cheney. In exchange, big money for the future Bush Library.", "Cheney's possible. Definitely the national security adviser.", "The White House distanced itself from Payne's actions and suggested he's not an insider.", "There's categorically no link between any official business in the Bush Library. Steve Payne was never an employee of the White House. But we do use hundreds of volunteers a year, as you know, for helping us do advance work.", "The White House admits Payne helped with logistics on some foreign trips and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff did appoint Payne to an advisory committee. In a long written statement to CNN, Payne, president of Worldwide Strategic Partners in Houston, called the \"Times of London\" story \"got you journalism.\" Payne acknowledged mentioning that they might be able to make donations to think tanks, foundations and/or President Bush's library. But Payne stressed that in subsequent e-mails, which he gave to CNN, he made clear there could be no quid pro quo. In one of those e-mails, Payne wrote he would accept the 250 and pass it directly to the library, but noted he could not promise specific government action because that would be bribery.", "Now the key question, did Stephen Payne get any meetings for his clients here at the White House. Dana Perino said she was not sure. So I asked her whether the White House would release visitor logs to find out whether Stephen Payne has been here at the White House a lot. She said she'd check with White House lawyers, but noted there's been litigation in other matters dealing with visitor logs. So the bottom line, it's highly unlikely the White House will ever release those records -- Wolf.", "Ed Henry with an amazing, amazing story. Thanks very much. Let's go back to Jack Cafferty. He's got \"The Cafferty File\" -- \"got you journalism,\" that's what he called it.", "Well, and a quid pro-quo. They don't even -- that's the meaning of 90 percent of the transactions that take place inside the beltway. There isn't nothing for nothing down there. And, of course we'll never know, because the White House doesn't release anything, because they can get away with it because nobody in Congress cares and they won't force them to release this stuff by throwing people who refuse to answer subpoenas in jail. But that's another topic for another day. Former President Bill Clinton has a warning for all of us. He says the country is becoming more and more divided. He spoke to the National Governors Association. And he said even though the Democratic primary produced historic results, with the final two candidates being a woman, his wife, and an African-American man, he sees a larger problem. President Clinton thinks Americans are becoming more polarized as a nation. He says we're growing farther apart from each other and are \"hunkering down in communities of like-mindedness and it affects our ability to manage difference.\" Clinton says Americans are separating themselves by choosing to live with people they agree with. He used ideas from a book called \"The Big Sort\" by Bill Bishop for this speech to the Governors Association. Bishop found that in 1976, 20 percent of U.S. counties voted for Jimmy Carter or President Ford by more than a 20 percent margin. Just 20 percent. By 2004, nearly 50 percent of the nation's counties voted for John Kerry or President Bush by that same margin. President Clinton reminded governors that the issues they're dealing with today are similar to those confronted by Teddy Roosevelt a century ago -- inequality among the rich and poor, immigration, energy. But Clinton says he's determined that we will deal with these issues and eventually enter a period of light, not darkness. So here's the question: Do you agree with President Clinton that America is becoming more divided? Go to CNN.com/caffertyfile. You can post a comment on my blog. Karl Rove refused to answer a subpoena the other day. Did anybody do anything about it?", "Well, not yet.", "No.", "The answer is not yet.", "Yes, well, let's all hold our breath.", "Yes. All right, Jack. See you in a few moments. The cartoon that has lots of people talking, but not everyone is laughing. Does \"The New Yorker\" cover depicting the Obamas as terrorists cross the line? And Obama's plan for Iraq -- we'll talk about all of that with our political contributors James Carville and Bill Bennett. They're standing by live. Also, banks going under, a mortgage meltdown -- the New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg, tells us what he would do to try to solve the nation's financial crisis. He's deeply worried, also, about poverty in America. Plus, another near disaster at a major U.S. airport. What's being done about it? Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "KARA FINNSTROM, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FINNSTROM (voice-over)", "NASIM AHMED, INDYMAC DEPOSITOR", "FINNSTROM", "N. AHMED", "FINNSTROM", "N. AHMED", "FINNSTROM", "SHAMEEMA AHMED, INDYMAC DEPOSITOR", "FINNSTROM", "FINNSTROM", "BLITZER", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FEYERICK (voice-over)", "GREG MACBRIDE, BANKRATE.COM", "FEYERICK", "MACBRIDE", "FEYERICK", "JOSEPH LYNYAK, BANKING REGULATORY ATTORNEY", "FEYERICK", "JOHN BOVENZI, FDIC", "FEYERICK", "FEYERICK", "BLITZER", "ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "HENRY (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HENRY", "STEPHEN PAYNE", "HENRY", "PAYNE", "HENRY", "DANA PERINO, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "HENRY", "HENRY", "BLITZER", "JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-150502", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2010-5-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1005/01/lkl.01.html", "summary": "Celebrating the White House Correspondents Dinner", "utt": ["Tonight President George W. Bush.", "Look, Larry, I am a uniter. Not a divider. Seriously, I can't divide.", "President Bill Clinton.", "I'm more nervous than Dick Cheney's best hunting dog.", "Stephen Colbert.", "But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that -- that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality.", "And Wanda Sykes.", "Even the media, you know, you guys have been very favorable towards the president. You know, it's funny to me that they've never caught you smoking but they somehow always catch you with your shirt off.", "Next on LARRY KING LIVE.", "Welcome to a very special weekend edition of LARRY KING LIVE. The black ties and cocktail dresses are out in Washington tonight where the White House Correspondents' Association is under way, and as usual, we expect lots of great comedy, lots of laughs. And over the years, I've interviewed some of the best political comedians and impersonators around. In 2006, I sat down with Steve Bridges, remember him? His dead- on impersonation of George W. Bush at that year's gala gave us two presidents for the price of one. Great stuff.", "Members of the White House Correspondents' Association, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, here I am.", "Here I am at another one of these dang press dinners. Could be home asleep. Little Barney curled up at my feet. But no, I got to pretend I like being here.", "Mr. President.", "Hey, Larry, good to see you. Great to see you.", "Welcome aboard.", "Thank you, thank you, a pleasure to be here. It's -- thanks for having me. It's always good to face the media, set the record straight.", "You've had some differences with the media.", "It's true. You're darn right I have. You know, the media makes -- makes -- it makes me look like I'm not smart by emphasizing when I mis-announce a word. And that's just non-fair, you know? And it's a good thing, Larry, that I can turn a phrase. Because I can. I can turn it upside down, inside-out, down-side in, I can turn it. But usually when it's all said and done it comes out the way I want it.", "You're really getting into it. You feel that the media misrepresents you? \"", "Absolutely. Listen, listen, I never pretended to be the smartest -- the brightest bulb in the knife drawer, but I did attend an ivory league school. I just -- I never let it go to my head.", "You've faced with a lot of criticism, Mr. President, let's be frank about it. Your Medicare plan has come under major criticism, being too complicated.", "Listen, I know a lot of folks are confused about -- they're confused with the D section. But I can assure them that it's not a whole lot more painful than the old C-section.", "It's true.", "Do you still believe it's working?", "Absolutely, the Medicare plan is working. Listen, this is a substantial increase in Medicare coverage. And this increase will cover all of our seniors and senoritas. Let me just tell you something...", "Forgive me for laughing.", "Yes, that's all right.", "You have a way with words.", "Yes, yes. Let me tell you something, Larry, older citizens face the highest risk of death in this country.", "No kidding?", "Seniors die every day. I declare a war on natural causes. We're going after them.", "What are the accomplishments in the office, in your administration, that you are most proud of?", "Well, I'll tell you what, I have -- I have pushed this Congress to make -- to make a lot of changes. I urge them to abolish the marriage penalty. The marriage penalty is wrong. Being married is penalty enough.", "I know you're joking about the first lady. And speaking of Laura, does our first lady play a big part in your decisions?", "Hang on, let me give her a call and ask her.", "Speaking of marriage...", "Mm-hmm.", "... you recently tried to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage. Was this a political ploy, frankly, to rally the base?", "No, no, not at all, it was not political. My feelings are well-known on the issue of gay marriage. And let me just say this about gay marriage, Larry. You -- you can't make folks have a gay marriage. Sure, at first, there's the wedding cake and the dancing, but after that, it gets tough. Real tough.", "But you're against gays marrying, aren't you?", "No, I'm all for it. I think that a gay man ought to be able to marry any woman he wants. But let me just get back to something serious, to my proudest moment. You asked about my proudest moment. I think it would be maintaining a strong economy while spreading freedom all around the world.", "Well, the Fed is raising interest rates, once again. Is that a sign that the administration, frankly, is worried about the economy?", "No. Listen, Larry, as you know, I inherited a recession from my last administration, but I assure you that I'm all over this economy, both at home, globally, and abroad. We are. We're on it. I'm serious.", "Are you worried about national debt?", "No, don't worry about the debt.", "Don't worry about it.", "No, it's my problem. And I'm not worried about it.", "But we're facing an enormous national debt, do you have some sort of plan to deal with it?", "I do. I do. I'm asked every day. Mr. President, what about the debt? And I understand these concerns. I'm not worried, but I understand the concerns. And my plan is a proposal that I've just put before Congress to sell Canada. And...", "Sell Canada?", "They ain't using half of it.", "What about your border crisis with Mexico?", "Larry, I don't think it's a crisis.", "Hmm.", "We have a lot of folks sneaking across the border in order to find a better way of life. And upon seeing our gas prices, they're sneaking back. It's a win-win.", "Good point.", "Yes.", "But you welcome immigrants, right? You want them to come.", "Absolutely. It is my hope that foreigners just, like American citizens, can come to America, they find good jobs, good high-paying jobs that will eventually be lost overseas to China.", "Why did you decide to use armed National Guardsmen to watch the border with Mexico?", "Because Dick Cheney wasn't available.", "Seriously though, does the National Guard have the resources to handle the demand?", "Yes, there are plenty of guardspeople. I'm even putting National Guard troops along the border with Puerto Rico. I'm still not sure if they're a part of our country or not. I know they're -- they're sort of a state. They're not a state. It's weird. They ought to make up their mind. What's their deal?", "We'll be right back with the President of the United States.", "I'm absolutely delighted to be here, as is Laura.", "She's hot.", "Muy caliente.", "We're back with the 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush. You have made some changes in personnel recently. Are you planning any more changes?", "Who, me, what? No, I'm not going. I'm staying.", "Is Dick Cheney staying?", "Oh, yes, yes, Dick is staying, yes, yes, I think he is, yes.", "I don't think you two are allowed in the same place anymore, is that right?", "Really?", "Well, that's what I hear.", "Well, yes, it's true. I never know where Dick Cheney is, you know. If I'm the decider, he's the hider. Seriously, I never know where he is these days. There's days I'm sitting in the Oval Office, I just walk out into the hallway and yell, Marco.", "Now in your cabinet you're standing by Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense.", "Yes, absolutely, absolutely. I have absolute faith in our secretary of defense. Look, Rumpy (ph), people don't know, he's doing a good job. People don't talk about the progress that we're making in Iraq. I think it's important to remember that Iraq has now had free elections, not expensive ones like here in America. There's a big difference. And we're rebuilding Iraq, Larry, and we will continue to rebuild Iraq. Otherwise, there will be a space between Iran and Jordan.", "Never thought of that. Is Osama bin Laden still a big concern?", "Oh, we're going to get him. We're going to get Osama. We know a lot about him. He's a terrible man who thinks that this is just a game and this isn't a game. So, come out, come out wherever you are. That sucker can hide.", "You must be very pleased with the job that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is doing.", "I am. Condi is a fabulous secretary of state. She's a wonderful woman, very smart, keeps me informed, reads the newspapers.", "Some folks around the world see America as frankly a bit of a bully.", "Well, I dare them to come say it to my face. Look, Larry, I am a uniter, not a divider, seriously. I can't divide not worth a lick. But with Condi's help, a wonderful secretary of state, I have learned to adapt to different cultures. Now when I'm in Russia, I walk like a Russian. When I'm in Egypt, I'll walk like an Egyptian. I'm sensitive now to different customs. You know what they say, when in Rome do as the Romanians do.", "So you believe that we're making progress in the area of foreign policy?", "Absolutely. Look, 25 years ago there were 45 democracies. Today there are 122 democracies. Some of them I ain't even heard of. There's a Bulgaria and Sambuca (ph) and Utah and Costa Monica. We got all the icky-stans behind us, Larry, the icky-stans are here.", "You're still though, let's be frank, facing serious threats from North Korea.", "Yes, we are and we're going to deal with it. You know, one of the questions I face is, why can't we unite North and South Korea? And I say to people, be patient, we haven't united North and South Dakota yet, but we will. It takes time but we're going to. We're going to. And, tell you something else, we will bring Kim Jong Il to justice but the how and why is for the Iraqi people to decide. I feel strongly about that.", "Have you seen Al Gore's movie on global warming?", "No, I haven't, but I will. I'll take a look at it. Look, global warming is a tough sell in Washington, D.C. Nobody in political office wants to reduce the amount of hot air. In our nation's capital, that is our greatest resource.", "Back with more of President George W. Bush, or at least someone who looks and sounds very much like him, right after this.", "The media really ticks me off. The way they try to embarrass me by not editing what I say.", "During the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, you enlisted the help of your father and Bill Clinton.", "Yes, yes. Dad and President Clinton, they've done some great work for disaster relief. They spent a lot of time consoling people who have lost their homes. They both know what it's like to lose a home, the very same home.", "Does it surprise you they get along so well?", "No, no, no, it doesn't. It doesn't surprise me at all. It helps keep Mr. Clinton out of trouble. It's like sending your college kid on spring break with Mr. Rogers. I just think it's a kick in the pants. Mom calls it \"dad's inappropriate relationship.\"", "So, you've become friends?", "Absolutely. I respect President Clinton. I do. He was the first Democrat to win a campaign since Jimmy Carter. That's not an easy task. Democrats have lost more than the Jamaican bobsled team. But I do, I admire President Clinton. He was the first president not to improve health care, the first president not to put an end to lobbyists, first president not to catch Osama bin Laden.", "Have you been to his library?", "Yes, I have. I have, yes. I understand they call it the William Jefferson Clinton Library.", "Right.", "It sounded better than \"Bubba's Books.\"", "Are you worried about Bill Clinton helping Hillary Clinton in her campaign?", "No, I'm not. I mean, I think we all know that Hillary sort of wears the pants in the family. I mean, Bill has got pants, he just doesn't like to wear them.", "I'll get in trouble for that, just kidding.", "You bet.", "Shame on me.", "That will be in the papers. Do you talk to President Clinton regularly?", "We do. We do.", "Oh, good.", "Yes, yes, we swap e-mails. He's -- what's that? He's wildwilly1@aol.com.", "He'd love to hear from you.", "Mr. President, are you, frankly, concerned about your recent poll numbers?", "Look, my aides tell me I'm not very popular in the polls. I told them I'm not very popular with Americans either. Listen, I want to -- if I want to be loved with the polls, I would have run for president in Poland, ridiculous.", "Is it true that your brother Jeb might run in 2008?", "I hope so. He could lose a couple of pounds. He ought to start running right now. I'm in all sorts of hot water today.", "Do you believe that history, that great book of history, will be kind to you?", "Absolutely. I always did well in history. It's math and spelling that kick my butt. Listen, Larry, I will trust the judgment of the American people. I know I've done a wonderful job and when it's all said and done, I will leave the White House with my head held high. I'll do it and do it proudly. I'll tell you one thing, though, I ain't leaving the toilet seat down.", "The hugely talented Steve Bridges. He'll be back later this hour as President Clinton. But when we return, Stephen Colbert and some controversial comedy you will not want to miss.", "On this White House Correspondents' Dinner night, we want to take you back to the 2006 event and Stephen Colbert's appearance. Funny, yes. But not exactly a barrel of laughs for President Bush. Watch.", "Tonight it is my privilege to celebrate this president, because we're not so different, he and I. We both get it. Guys like us, we're not some brainiacs on the nerd patrol, we're not members of the factinista (ph). We go straight to the gut, right, sir? That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. Now I know some of you are going to say I did look it up and that's not true.", "That's because you looked it up in a book. Next time look it up in your gut. I did. I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.", "I believe that everyone has the right to their own religion, be it Hindu, Jewish, or Muslim. I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal savior.", "Most of all, I believe in this president. Now I know there are some polls out there saying that that this man has a 32 percent approval rating. But guys like us, we don't -- we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that -- that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias.", "So, Mr. President, please, please, pay no attention to the people who say that the glass is half full, 32 percent means the glass -- it's important to set up your jokes properly, sir. Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty because 32 percent means it's two-thirds empty. There's still some liquid in that glass, is my point. But I wouldn't drink it. Last third is usually backwash. OK. I stand by this man. I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound with the most powerfully staged photo-ops in the world. The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change, this man's beliefs never will.", "Next, President Clinton with a twist. Don't go away. And that was an executive order.", "Hello, everyone. Don Lemon here at the CNN World Headquarters here in Atlanta. A special edition of LARRY KING LIVE continues in just a moment, but first, I want to give you some of your headlines. President Barack Obama will get a firsthand look at the oil spill in the Gulf Coast when he heads to the region tomorrow. The fast- growing slick is closing in on fragile coastal wetlands and is already affecting the area's fishing industry. It's already the size of Puerto Rico. A state of emergency is in effect from Louisiana all the way to Florida. The governor of Massachusetts has declared a state of emergency after a catastrophic break in a pipe that supplies Boston with water. Officials warn that tap water in the entire area should be boiled before drinking, 8 million gallons are leaking out of the pipe every hour. As many as 2 million people may be affected by that break. Heavy rains and flooding are soaking much of Tennessee. The floods have forced several hundred people to evacuate their homes near Memphis. And Memphis police say many streets are impassable because of the high waters. At least five people have died in central Tennessee, in and around the Nashville area. Memphis looked bad, but the video coming in from near Nashville is really just incredible. Let's check in now with CNN's Jacqui Jeras for an update -- Jacqui.", "Yes, Don, it's actually really bad all across Tennessee. Since this morning, some locations have had more than a foot of rainfall. There you can see video. This is from I-24 in Nashville, and 70 vehicles were submerged in this area. And there you can see, an annex building which was washed away in the river, and then just crumbled apart as it hit up against this bridge and into these vehicles. We do know at a minimum three people have lost their lives in the flooding today across the state of Tennessee. And unfortunately, the situation continues to compound and will get worse, we think, throughout the weekend as more rain is in the forecast. Now this is very widespread. It's just not Memphis and just not Nashville. All of this green that you see here is where we have flash flood warnings. That means where warnings and flooding is already taking place, and watches that you can see into the darker green, which extends from Ohio all the way down to Louisiana. In addition to flooding, we've got tornadoes to talk about tonight. We've got a plethora of watches in effect. These two watches that you see right here are what we call PDS watches or \"particularly dangerous situations\" where we could see very large and violent tornadoes be very destructive and stay on the ground for long periods of time, much like the tornadoes that we saw last weekend in Mississippi. We've got multiple warnings. At one time this evening, we had almost half the state of Arkansas under a tornado warning. And you can see all of these purplish boxes where we have Doppler radar- indicated tornadoes, but nothing on the ground. There were some reports of possible damage north of Conway earlier this evening. We will continue to monitor this situation and break in as necessary. But, Don, this is one of those few rare high- risk nights that we have here across the Mississippi Valley and", "Jacqui, good advice. Thank you very much. As Jacqui said, we will break in if the situation warrants it. And won't you join us at the top of the hour for live coverage of the White House Association -- Correspondents' Association Dinner. We're going to have that for you. The president and Jay Leno will speak at the top of the hour, live. Meantime, LARRY KING LIVE continues right now.", "As our special presidential edition of LARRY KING LIVE continues, it's now our great pleasure to welcome the 42nd president of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton. Welcome back.", "Thank you.", "Mr. President, thank you for being on the show with us.", "Well, thank you, Larry, for having me. I'll tell you, I haven't been on TV in quite a while. So I'm more nervous than Dick Cheney's best hunting dog.", "You seem to though have done a lot of interviews lately, any reason for this?", "Well, I'll tell you what, I've got a lot of projects in the works and I want to be very clear on this one point. I am hiding from Hillary.", "I'm kidding you, man. I'm kidding you. She'd have loved to be here, Larry, if nothing else just to say hi and roll her eyes.", "I understand you're also busy on the speaking circuit right?", "I am. I am. I've been touring my one man show. Hillary calls it the \"Wizard of Is.\"", "And she approves of you traveling on the circuit?", "Well, early on I thought about being a motivational speaker, but Hillary frowned on my motivations. So now I just speak about my foundation. And then I hang around and I take photos. They're only 200 bucks apiece and they're 300 if you want them provocative.", "You seem to have mended your marital relationship. Have you found peace at home?", "Well, that's a good question. I'll say this. Hillary did spend a few months watching the movie \"Kill Bill.\" But we've reestablished trust with a lot of love and a lot of patience.", "What's the toughest part about being an ex-president?", "You know, the toughest part is losing the job title. That's the toughest part of all. I mean, without the title I'm just another Rhodes scholar named Bubba.", "Have you see Al Gore's movie?", "You know what, I have. And I think it's an important -- it's an important film to see. I think everybody ought to see that. I will say this. Al was a good vice president. And, if you will look closely at his record during his eight years in office, you'll see that he never shot a single American. He just invented the Internet and e-mail so we could all be spammed to death.", "Do you feel Dick Cheney should have been censored in some way?", "Not at all, no. I was a little miffed that he shot the only lawyer in America that I don't owe money to.", "But you know what, I understand Dick's dilemma. I hunted Dan Quayle. Boy, I'll tell you, back in the '90s I wish I'd have shot a few of them lawyers. I really do.", "So you don't resent the Republicans for their attacks on you while you were in office?", "No, no, I sure don't. I mean, maybe just a little bit, OK. Let's be honest here. The truth is my impeachment hearings were a dark, dark time in American history. But let's look at the good that came from it. C-SPAN had its very first PG-13 rating. They did good.", "You know what, I'll tell you, Larry, I have to respect the Republicans because what they want to do is they want to reduce the size of government. Now, I just don't think that indictments are the right way to do it.", "So, you have some compassion for George Bush.", "Oh, I do. I really do. You know, the job of president, it is a ton of pressure and there are no days off. There's days you just want to sit down, relax and Google your own name.", "Google your own name, that sounds dirty.", "It sure does. We'll be back with the 42nd president of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, right after this. Don't go away.", "I know we're here to honor you tonight because of the work you do, but this dinner is a pittance compared to the testament to your profession last week which opened its doors, called the Newseum. The Newseum, the Newseum. What really surprised me for any event in Washington, this opening actually got a lot of favorable press coverage.", "Evidently you journalists have a lot of friends in the media.", "Welcome back to our special presidential edition of LARRY KING LIVE. We're talking with the never dull President Bill Clinton. Mr. President, do you miss the attention that came with the job of president?", "Oh, I miss it. I do. I -- you know, everything, though -- I have to say this. Everything that I ever said during my eight years in office was always amplified in the media. And a lot of times it would just come back to haunt me. For instance, I was the one who coined the term \"new Democrat.\" I was also the one who coined the term \"nude Democrat.\" And remember how I always used to tell people -- I always used to look in that camera and I used to say \"I feel your pain\"? It turns out that was heart disease.", "Speaking of which, it was surprising how fast you recovered from the surgery.", "Yes. Yes. I'm taking much better care of myself. You know, what happened was it gave me a good perspective on life. I was shocked to hear the doctor say to me I had acute angina. I mean, I told him I was flattered, but I was already spoken for, so just back off.", "How did the surgery change your perspective?", "You know what it did, Larry, it taught me to appreciate the little things, like aspirin and bacon bits.", "I totally agree with President Bush's remarks about America's addiction to oil. I too was addicted to oil, also butter and grease and salt and mayonnaise and things like that. I don't know what I miss more, the White House or White Castle.", "But the heart surgery, I've got to say, hasn't slowed you down any, has it?", "No, it hasn't. In fact, tonight I want to let folks know that I am introducing my new ex-world leader diet plan. I call for Americans to eat less junk food. I'm calling it Just Say Whoa!", "The president's father seems to have become quite a good friend of yours?", "Yes, yes, George Sr., yes. He and I, we're having a great time. We're doing a lot of traveling together. We're helping people out. I tell you what, I feel like a college kid who's on spring break with Mr. Rogers.", "Oh, but we have gotten to know each other really well and do some really good work.", "You seem -- it's an unlikely but effective team, isn't it?", "Oh yes, it is. It is. Yes, he actually calls me his other son which is what he always used to call me, he just shortened it a little.", "I asked him if his real son, the president, was jealous of our friendship, and he said that George doesn't know the meaning of the word jealous. He was serious.", "In the meantime, what do you have coming up?", "Well, you know what, I'm just living a day at a time. I'm working to preserve my legacy. I don't want to be remembered as the man who built Rush Limbaugh's house.", "So you're traveling as a speaker, running a foundation. What do you do to relax?", "You know what I do? I spend a lot of time at my presidential library down there in Arkansas. You ought to come by. You should. You ought to stop by.", "I was there when it opened.", "That's right. That's right. Fantastic. As you know, we have the only book in a nine-county area.", "I'm going to let you in on a little secret here. Just keep an eye out for me next year on \"Dancing With The Stars.\" It's going to be fun.", "We'll be looking forward to that.", "Yes.", "Thank you so much for being with us, Mr. President.", "Thank you. A real pleasure. Thank you.", "Next, comedian Wanda Sykes. She had President Obama laughing out loud at last year's White House Correspondents' Dinner.", "I would like to welcome you all to the 10-day anniversary of my first 100 days.", "I am Barack Obama. Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me.", "Wanda Sykes was the featured entertainer at last year's White House Correspondents' Dinner. The first African-American woman to get that role. And she did not disappoint.", "It's hard to poke fun at the -- at the president, you know, because he's so likable. Everybody likes -- you know, his T- shirts and bumper stickers, and listening to the radio, and people are dedicating songs, you know? I'd like to send out, \"Always and Forever\" to Mr. President. People love you. You know, and even the media. You know, you guys have been very favorable towards the president. You know, it's funny to me that they've never caught you smoking, but they somehow always catch you with your shirt off.", "I know you're into this transparency thing, but I don't need to see your nipples.", "Is there a beach at Camp David? What the hell. You know, there was never a nipple portrait of Lincoln, I'm sorry.", "But this is amazing, you know, the first black president, you know, I know you're bi-racial, but the first black president. I mean, it's proud. You know, proud to be able to say that, you know, the first black president, you know. Well, that's unless you screw up.", "And then it's going to be, what's up with the half-white guy, huh?", "Who voted for the mulatto? What the hell? What? And I must say, Mr. President, I thought that, you know, that when you got into office that you would put a swift end to your basketball pick-up plan,you know, your pick-up basketball plan. You know, I mean, come on, first black president playing basketball, that's one step forward, two steps back.", "And really, are you any good? I bet you you think that your game is really nice right now, don't you? Yes, you really think that you've got good moves, huh? I mean, come on, nobody is going to give the president a hard foul with the Secret Service standing there.", "He's probably bragging and everything. You should have seen me today, baby, I was ballin', you know.", "What was that? You and Joe Biden out getting the hamburgers. The two of you can't hang out together. Whose idea was that? Nancy Pelosi's?", "Yes, why don't you boys go out and get a bite. You know she was a Hillary supporter. What's wrong with you? Oh, and God forbid if Joe Biden falls in the hands of terrorists. God forbid if there is ever a hostage situation. We're done. They won't even have to torture him. All they'll have to do is go, how's it going, Joe?", "He'll come back with stacks of information. What did you do, did you waterboard him? No, I just said, nice weather, and he's still talking. Can't listen to him anymore. It's like torture.", "Rush Limbaugh, one of your big critics. Boy, Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails. So you're saying, I hope America fails. Just like, I don't care about people losing their homes, their jobs, our soldiers in Iraq, he just wants the country to fail. To me, that is treason. He is not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden is saying. You know, you might want to look into this, sir, because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight.", "Come on, too much? OK.", "Next, Leno and Letterman get in on the act.", "To close it out, we'll leave you with two of the best.", "Of course, you all sense the sadness that President Clinton feels about leaving the White House. Believe me, Mr. President, there was no one sadder than I am that you are leaving.", "You bought my house, you bought my car. Everything I have I owe to you. I couldn't have done it without you. One of the things I most admire about President Clinton, he is the only president I ever heard of that went back to his high school reunion. To me that is very cool. To me that is the only reason I would want to be president, just so I could go back to my high school reunion. Just to walk up to that snotty cheerleader, and go, oh, still too busy for the leader of the free world? Hey, how is your husband's Amway franchise, how's that working out?", "See, that is very cool. And, of course, President Clinton had some wonderful, wonderful international triumphs such as bringing the Arabs and the Israelis together. Remember that day in the Rose Garden, remember when they were all in step. I have never seen anything -- show that footage. Take a look.", "Why do the ads always have to be so negative? These attack ads, the American public doesn't like. I am going to show you a couple of ads, local ads that ran in California for some fringe candidates. And here, you be the judge.", "He says he's not one of the fat cats. He denies his ties to the milk lobby. If that's true, what's he trying to cover up? Vote dog.", "Dog. He says he stands for family values. Does this look like family values? Haven't we seen this type of behavior before? Vote cat.", "I'm sorry. I had to do one. I'm sorry. I didn't mean it. I'm sorry, Mr. President. I had to throw one in. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I feel terrible. I just had to do one. I'm sorry, it will never happen again. Don't audit me. I don't want to go back to Cuba.", "The category tonight, \"Top Ten Favorite George W. Bush Moments.\" \"Top Ten Favorite George W. Bush Moments.\" Here we go, number 10. (", "Oh! Number nine.", "If it feels good, do it. If you've got a problem, blame somebody else.", "Number eight.", "The issue of immigration stirs intense emotions. And in recent weeks Americans have seen those emotions on display on the streets of major cities.", "Number seven. 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{"id": "CNN-219344", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2013-11-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/22/nday.05.html", "summary": "Kendrick Johnson: What The Tapes Say", "utt": ["Now for a story CNN has been following from the beginning. Brand new evidence in the death of 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson. You remember his body was discovered at his school rolled up inside a gym mat. His death was ruled an accident, but his family suspected murder. Soon, details suggesting sloppy forensic work emerged. It was discovered that Kendrick's body had his internal organs removed and replaced by newspaper. CNN obtained surveillance videos from school cameras, and our Victor Blackwell has been going through them to see what he can find. Victor joins us now from the CNN center. Victor, you brought those surveillance videos to experts. Talk about what they found in that gym.", "Well, three answers to the Johnsons and their attorney's questions. First, the Johnsons did not see a time stamp in any of the video to organize the hundreds of hours of video. Our expert found one. Also, the Johnsons and their attorneys were questioning the jumpy video. Now, our expert found that that's indicative of motion activated system. So, that was not indicative of editing. Also that single angle that showed where Kendrick Johnson was found dead, that image was blurred. The Johnsons thought that was done intentionally. Our expert said no. Now, answers to those questions, but he found an even bigger question.", "There are four cameras in the gym that records motion from when the lights turn on in the morning until when the lights are turned off at night except for the area of interest.", "The moments before Kendrick Johnson enters the gym, look at what happens to the recordings from these four cameras in the gym. The time is recorded with the video. The first camera captures images from the start of the day until 12:04 p.m., then, nothing. It picks up again at 1:09 p.m. There's consistent surveillance from the second camera until 11:05 a.m., then it stops and picks up again more than two hours later at 1:15 p.m. The third camera also drops at 11:05 a.m., it picks up again at 1:16 p.m., and from the final camera, there's surveillance until 12:04 p.m., no recording for more than an hour, then it picks up again at 1:09 p.m.", "I would absolutely expect there to be some record of that activity and we don't have any here.", "Here's why Fredericks would have expected the motion activated system to record during that time. During that hour and five minutes, several students are seen walking into and out of the old gym from the surveillance camera just outside the gym door. We count seven male students, and three of them walk into the gym within three minutes prior to Kendrick Johnson walking in.", "I can't tell you whether there was no information recorded in the digital video system or whether somebody made an error and didn't capture it or whether somebody just didn't provide it.", "We sent a long list of questions a week ago to attorneys for the school district, and the sheriff's office. No answer yet from the sheriff's office, but the attorney for the school district says no comment. However, that attorney has offered to make the hard drive, the original hard drive available to the court, Chris.", "Well, that's key, Victor. I mean, each one of these discoveries, you have to follow them down the road and the question here, I guess will be, can they find this video that fills in the gaps, anything on that, any suggestion?", "No guarantee, and Grant Fredericks, the expert you just heard from says that there's a possibility the video is gone forever. You know, this happened on January 10th and 11th. The attorney for the family didn't request that the hard drives being preserved until February 26th, more than 45 days later, and depending on the system's rotation, seven days, 15 days, 30 days, old information could have been recorded over long before that request came in, Chris.", "All right, Victor, thank you so much for staying on the story. Certainly demands answers, way too many questions. At least, we're starting to find our way in a direction. Thank you very much -- Kate.", "Sure.", "Thanks, Chris. It took him less than two seconds to reach the Kennedy's car during the presidential motorcade, but it took secret service agent, Clint Hill, 12 years to break his silence to \"60 Minutes\" about that fateful day in Dallas. Listen here.", "You couldn't have gotten there. You don't, you surely don't have any sense of guilt about that?", "Yes, I certainly do. I have a great deal of guilt about that. Had I turned in a different direction, I'd have made it. That was my fault.", "Wow. Now, on the 50th anniversary, Clint Hill has penned an insider account into the days before and after President Kennedy's assassination called \"Five Days in November.\" Clint Hill, former secret service agent to the Kennedy family, is joining us now this morning. Mr. Hill, thank you so much for your time.", "Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here.", "Of course. So, 50 years to the day, do you still feel that sense of guilt?", "Well, I have some sense of failure on my part because of the responsibility we were given to protect the president and we were unable to do so. The true sense of guilt has somewhat been alleviated and that's a bit helpful to me, especially since I've had the help of a young lady named Lisa McCubbon to write a couple books and the last one being \"Five Days in November.\" That's given me a chance to kind of unload the baggage that I was holding deep within me and it's been beneficial, cathartic to help me a great deal.", "Of course, no one would ever think that there was anything more that you could have done in those moments that no one could expect what happened. Fifty years later do you still remember it with the clarity like it was yesterday?", "Yes, I do remember it, every moment of it, just like it just happened.", "Can you walk us through what you saw? What was it from your perspective? What did you see that day as you were in Dallas near Dealey Plaza?", "Well, I was on the car immediately behind the presidential vehicle on the left-hand side running board in the forward position. We had been scanning the area as we proceeded down the streets, and when we got to the corner of Houston and Elm, we had noticed that there was this building in front of us, some of the windows were open, but there was nothing unusual there. We had faced that same situation all the way up and down Main Street in Dallas. The crowds kind of dropped off there on Elm Street. But I was scanning to my left and all of a sudden, I heard this explosive noise over my right shoulder. I didn't recognize it is a shot immediately, but I knew something was wrong, because when I looked toward that noise, I only got as far as the presidential vehicle. I saw the president react. He grabbed at his throat, he moved to his left. I knew something was wrong, so I jumped and ran, trying to get up on the back of the presidential vehicle to form a shield or barrier behind president and Mrs. Kennedy to prevent anything further from happening.", "And then when you saw the president's face, what did you see?", "Well, just before I got to the car, there was a third shot that rang out, hit the president in the head, and when that happened, because it was so explosive and caused eruption of material out of his head, Mrs. Kennedy got up in the trunk trying to retrieve some of the material. I got up there and pushed her back into the back seat, and then the president's body fell to its left into her lap with his head, the right side of his face was up, and I could see his eyes were fixed. I could see through the skull area. The brain matter was gone. I assumed it was a fatal wound and that he was dead.", "Do you remember what you were thinking in that moment when you saw what happened in front of you that had never happened before, no one would ever think that this could happen to any president especially someone as loved as him?", "Well, my thought process immediately was let's get to a hospital just in case he can be resuscitated or revived, but I was sure that that would not be the case. I was very upset and -- but I had a job to do and I placed myself up in a position to prevent any further damage from being done because I had no idea if there were going to be more shots fired, but I assumed there would be but there were not.", "And you saw the Kennedy family through their mourning even having to tell Robert Kennedy that his brother had died. You were assigned to Mrs. Kennedy's detail after the death of her husband. What was that like? How was she changed after that day, because you were in such close proximity?", "Well, I stayed with her for a full year after the assassination. And the spark until her eyes was gone, that wonderful smile she had was very, very few times you ever saw it again. So she changed remarkably. She really wanted to do whatever she could to make sure people remembered her husband and worked to establish a library up in Boston, in his name. So her primary focus was making sure the children are OK and making sure she did whatever she could to help the president's memory be retained by as many people as possible.", "And you did the very same. Clinton Hill, thank you for your service and thank you for your time this morning, a former secret service agent, also the author of \"Five Days in November,\" on this 50th anniversary, thank you so much.", "Thank you. It's been a pleasure to be here.", "Thank you very much. Coming up next on \"NEW DAY\", a wreath laying ceremony is about to begin at Arlington National Cemetery to honor President Kennedy. We're going to take you to it live right after the break."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GRANT FREDERICKS, CERTIFIED FORENSIC VIDEO ANALYST", "BLACKWELL (voice-over)", "FREDERICKS", "BLACKWELL", "FREDERICKS", "BLACKWELL (on-camera)", "CUOMO", "BLACKWELL", "CUOMO", "BLACKWELL", "KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CLINT HILL, SECRET SERVICE AGENT TO THE KENNEDYS", "BOLDUAN", "HILL", "BOLDUAN", "HILL", "BOLDUAN", "HILL", "BOLDUAN", "HILL", "BOLDUAN", "HILL", "BOLDUAN", "HILL", "BOLDUAN", "HILL", "BOLDUAN", "HILL", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-331227", "program": "HALA GORANI TONIGHT", "date": "2018-01-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/24/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Scotland's Ex-First Minister Charged; Pleitgen Interviews Sergei Ryabkov Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia; Ryabkov Dismisses Suggestion That Trump Is An Agent for Russia; Airbus Warns of Harmful Decisions In Case of No Deal Brexit.", "utt": ["Well, more on Venezuela's power struggle from another angle. Russia is a long-time backer of President Nicolas Maduro, whose legitimacy is now being challenged. Our Fred Pleitgen spoke with Russia's deputy foreign minister about Venezuela, among other things. Fred is joining me now live from Moscow. What did the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia say about what's happening inside Venezuela to you?", "Not surprisingly, he was squarely on the side of Nicolas Maduro. He said it's no secret Russia is an ally of Maduro. In fact, tonight there was a phone call between Vladimir Putin and Maduro. Once again, Vladimir Putin pledged his support for Nicolas Maduro and his government. So. it's no surprise that the deputy foreign minister criticized the United States for its posture and its position in saying that the U.S. was, quote, pouring gas into the fire. Let's listen in.", "Do you think that there's the danger that the U.S. could intervene in Venezuela, and what do you think that would mean?", "Yes, I truly feel there are dangerous signs of something going on along these lines. We warn everyone, not just the U.S., but some others who may entertain these ideas, from this type of action. The resort to military power would be catastrophic. It would be a huge -- another huge blow to the international system. We face now a scenario that may lead to that type of action. The resort to military power would be catastrophic. It would be a huge -- another huge blow to the international system. We face now a scenario that may lead to further bled shed -- bloodshed in Venezuela. We ask the international community to refrain from actions and try not to, you know, meddle. That would be a terrible thing. The government in Venezuela should be given the chance to continue dialogue. I know the situation is a dramatic one. But, so what. Is it just because of this that others should go there and think of using military power? I think it will only deepen the crisis.", "President Trump just recognized the head of parliament as the real interim President. Do you consider that meddling?", "For sure. I mean, it's just pouring, you know, gas on the fire. It equals to this. We have said what we think on this formally through the statement of the Russian foreign minister, which is out there. It is a strong statement. We, you know, do not try to sugar coat anything. This is a very, very dangerous moment, and everyone should show utmost responsibility.", "So, there you have the pretty clear position from the Russian side. Of course, there's a lot of influence in Venezuela. They even sent two strategic bombers over to Venezuela a few months ago.", "And also, in terms of influence, they have a lot of influence in Syria as well. And you asked him about Iran and how much -- and whether or not they consider Iran to be a Russian ally inside Syria. What did he say?", "Yes, that was by far, I think, the most surprising thing they heard from the Russians today. One of the things, of course, we've been hearing over the past couple of months, really years, was that Russia, Turkey, and Iran were basically going to be the countries that were going to decide the future of Syria and that Iran and Russia, of course, are fighting essentially on the same side. But the deputy foreign minister told me when it comes to security, they don't consider the Iranians their allies. Here's what he had to say.", "You're Iran's ally on the ground, aren't you in Syria?", "I wouldn't use this type of words to describe where we are with Iran. We are working together with them. They were very helpful when we convened a National Congress of the People of Syria in Sochi. But we do not see at any given moment completely eye to eye on what happens.", "So, they have a very clear commitment from the Russians, also to Israel's security. The Russians also claiming that the Israelis know exactly that the Russians stand behind them and say they're in communications with the Americans as well.", "And what I found interesting is you asked him that one question that I think a lot of people would want to ask anyone at a high level in Russia, which is, is Trump basically an agent of your country? I presume he denied it, obviously. But how did he respond to that?", "Yes, I mean, absolutely, of course he denied it. I wouldn't say he was taken aback by the question, but he did think that the thought of that was somewhat outrageous, as he put it. Let's listen in.", "Sort of questioning whether President Trump is an agent of Russia. What do you make of that?", "I mean, it's completely, completely out of touch with anything that could be conceived as, you know, anywhere close to the reality. I'm amazed. I'm embarrassed by what I see and hear from the U.S.", "The other thing I asked him, Hala, is, you know, with the fact that U.S./Russian relations are still so bad, despite the fact that President Trump obviously wants to improve them, whether Russians are disappointed in President Trump. He said they aren't. He said he believes a lot of the heat coming from America comes from those opposed to President Trump.", "Fascinating. Thanks very much. Fred Pleitgen with that exclusive interview in Moscow. We will hear more from Fred in the coming hour. One of the sharpest Brexit warnings to date has now come from Airbus. The aircraft manufacturer says it may move future business out of the U.K. if the country crashes out of the European Union. In the event of a no-deal Brexit, Airbus' CEO says, \"potentially harmful decisions would have to be made. It could impact business in the U.K. because, of course, it's a cooperative corporation.\" Our CNN business reporter Hadas Gold is in Davos at the world economic forum. Tell us more about what Airbus is saying. Are they essentially saying that if there's no deal, that the part of the company that has operated with the help of the U.K., that they would not hesitate to shift some of that activity away from Britain?", "Yes, Hala, this is a really unusual video message that was really strong from that CEO. He was pretty much threatening if there was a no-deal Brexit, they would leave the United Kingdom. This would be a huge issue because Airbus employees, at least 14,000 people in the United Kingdom, and thousands more based off of their supply chain. This is clearly putting pressure on Theresa May and all the politicians to get their acts together and really make a plan for Brexit. Tom enders say that he encouraged Theresa May and the other politicians to not listen to the Brexiteers' madness, which says they'll not move and always be here. He said they are wrong and that they would potentially leave the United Kingdom if there was a no-deal Brexit.", "And leaving as in leaving some of the manufacturing facilities, shifting them elsewhere?", "Yes, leaving their factories. He said that a lot of countries are clamoring, fighting to get their business, to have them move into their countries. So, he's really throwing out -- this is a really strong sort of threat that he's giving to the United Kingdom, telling them get your act together on Brexit, otherwise literally tens of thousands of people could be out of a job in the United Kingdom.", "Some hard-core Brexit supporters would call that project fear, but it's more and more often that we're hearing this from big business leaders. Ford is also saying a no-deal Brexit will cost them a lot of money and potentially hurt business.", "Yes, and Sony has also just announced they're moving their headquarters to Amsterdam because of the uncertainty over Brexit. We're seeing more and more companies -- just today we saw from Land Rover/Jaguar they're going to extend the shutdown of their factories for another week because of the uncertainty over what will happen with Brexit and their supply chains with the borders, customs checks. Things that could be held up. This is the business community really gearing up for a no-deal Brexit and steeling themselves, spending millions, billions of dollars on these preparations because they're taking it very seriously.", "But you're at Davos. You're around the big corporate bosses and the world's billionaires. Are they saying these things but then privately saying, oh, but the U.K. will never allow itself to fall off a cliff without a deal, or are they genuinely concerned that even if accidently, potentially, they could just slip into some disastrous scenario, like leaving the EU without any deal in place?", "Hala, I have to say they seem genuinely concerned. This is really something they don't like. They don't like the idea of a no-deal Brexit. They want to avoid it. In fact, they don't like Brexit at all. I haven't heard honestly one pro Brexit voice speak to me directly yet. In fact, an audience at a panel today was asked whether they would want a second referendum on Brexit. The answer was pretty overwhelming. Take a listen.", "I think the point I would make is there's a limited amount that many businesses can do to prepare for if there are going to be substantial delays on the logistical side. Obviously, these would eventually be worked out over time.", "That was the Governor of the Bank of England, who's issued many, many dire warnings before.", "Yes, and actually, there was a moment in that panel where the audience was asked whether they'd like a second referendum and, in fact, the entire audience pretty much raised their hands. Mark Carney abstained. He did not raise his hand. We're hearing from a lot of world leaders today. The Prime Minister, Angela Merkel gave a speech where she really was saying she was going to work until the last minute to try to keep this exit orderly. We've heard it described potentially as a rock rolling off the Dover cliffs. There's a lot of dire warnings coming out of Davos, coming out of these business leaders, these politicians, these academic leaders about what a no-deal Brexit could mean to the United Kingdom and could mean to really the economy across Europe and across the world. It's not looking very positive. This is all putting a lot more pressure on Theresa May and on the politicians in the United Kingdom to get everything together. As we know, time is ticking down closer and closer to March 29th.", "Absolutely. March 29th. And January 29th, which is next Tuesday, we will be anchoring a series of special programs. Perhaps you'll be back for that. Parliament will be voting on a number of measures. One of them could force the government to go to Brussels and ask for an extension. We'll see if that goes through. Hadas Gold, in Davos, thanks very much. Still to come tonight, we're just minutes away from a Senate vote that could end the U.S. government shutdown. We'll tell you why today's effort to get the government open again, though, might just be doomed. Plus this --", "I think it's a waste of time and money. And it's causing way more problems than it's helping anything.", "As the shutdown rolls on, are Trump supporters standing by their man? 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{"id": "CNN-141542", "program": "CNN SUNDAY MORNING", "date": "2009-8-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/09/sm.01.html", "summary": "Lawmakers Confront Recess Health-Care Protests; Sotomayor Takes Oath as Supreme Court Justice; Budget Cuts Threaten Sick Girl's Care", "utt": ["Well, hello, everybody. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, this is CNN SUNDAY MORNING, looking out over downtown Atlanta. What a beautiful site with all the lights. The sun will be coming up very shortly. It is August 9, and we do appreciate you joining us. Hello, everybody. I'm Betty Nguyen.", "Boy, the days are getting shorter already.", "I know.", "I think this time a month ago we'd maybe see a little bit of daylight already. But...", "Already, huh?", "Yes. Summer's almost over, my friend.", "Hey, I'm Rob Marciano, in today for T.J. Holmes. It's 6 a.m. here in Atlanta; 3 a.m. in Chino, California. Overnight, we've learned a fourth body has been found in the Hudson River after a tourist helicopter and a small plane collided. We'll have more on that.", "Also want you to take a look at this fire. It is inside a California prison where we are getting information about inmates rioting. Plus, the health-care debate.", "I read the House - the House health-care plan and have found that much of what they're telling me is not true.", "Members holding health-care town-hall meetings are getting an earful. But let's start with a developing story out of New York. That tragedy over the Hudson River and the search for victims. Nine people are believed dead after a tourist helicopter and a small plane collided.", "Three bodies have been pulled from the water. The body of a fourth victim in the wreckage of that chopper has not yet been removed. The search for the missing resumes this morning. CNN's Susan Candiotti has more.", "As the sun set, divers who could barely see in the murky waters of the Hudson promised to resume work in the morning, painstakingly looking for victims and wreckage in up to 50 feet of water.", "The ability to see is - is - is very limited, two to three feet at most.", "On a bright, sunny day, it was hard to understand why a small plane and sightseeing helicopter should collide over the Hudson River.", "I was just very shocked. I think I was screaming for a few seconds, and then two of us, we start calling 911.", "The small plane with one pilot and two passengers, including a child, took off from New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, and turned south over the Hudson. At the same time, five Italian tourists lifted off for a sightseeing tour in a helicopter.", "There was a plane, a small plane like a Cessna, cutting back towards the New Jersey side, the helicopter heading southbound, about 1,100, 1,200 feet. The plane rolled into the helicopter, hit the side of it. The helicopter went straight down into the water. There was, like, a poof of smoke, and like a bang. And the plane went further down, hit the water.", "Italian tourists who stayed behind waiting for their friends and family were stunned.", "They told me that they had some relatives, not friends, but relatives.", "But - so they're inside the wall right now?", "Yes, but we don't know anything. Because we asked, what - if they are alive.", "Right. But what did they say?", "No bodies.", "Were they crying? Were they...", "No, no, no. They are very sad, but they are not crying.", "The NTSB says that just before the accident happened, another pilot on the ground saw the plane approaching and tried to radio a warning to the helicopter pilot.", "There was no response from the pilot. He stated that he saw the right wing of the airplane contact the helicopter. He saw helicopter parts and the right wing fall, and both aircraft descended into the Hudson River.", "Because of darkness and a strong current, the search for more victims has been called off for the night. Two debris fields and a possible third have been located, as investigators try to find out why this horrific accident happened. Susan Candiotti, CNN, New York.", "All right. So we are told that all three of the recovered bodies were onboard that small plane. They've been identified as Steve Altman (ph), the owner and the pilot; his brother Daniel (ph) and nephew Douglas (ph).", "We're going to have a live report from Susan Candiotti in the next hour of SUNDAY MORNING. All right. Our iReporters also staying on top of this hour. This story - Jim Davidson sent us these photos from the scene. He leaves just a few blocks from the river on the Jersey side, and he says he heard what sounded like a car backfiring or - or some fireworks. He says he didn't think much of it at the time, until someone called to tell him about the crash. If you are an eyewitness to news, send us an iReport. Our address, to remind you, is iReport.com.", "Well, hot weather and some hot tempers. It is a make-or- break for health-care reform, and for once, the battleground isn't in Washington. In fact, it's right in your own backyard.", "Yes, lawmakers are holding town-hall meetings back home during the congressional recess. Some, mostly Democrats, are finding angry crowds ready to pounce over their plans to reform health care. Arizona, Texas, Iowa, Tennessee - states across the country with similar scenes yesterday.", "Yes. Town-hall meetings are usually quiet affairs. But now, it is hard for some lawmakers to even get a word out, as Iowa Democratic Senator Tom Harkin found out yesterday.", "It reads like something that was brought up in the early 1930s in Germany. It is not", "All right. Well, it was standing-room only for Harkin at a Des Moines medical center. And while reform opponents weren't the only ones in the crowd, they were perhaps the loudest.", "Yes, Harkin repeated the Democrats' line on these disruptions, that they're a coordinated effort by reform opponents. Conservatives have encouraged people to come out, but the Republican Party denies any responsibility. Many in the crowd will tell you they just want their voices heard.", "I think he heard that there is a lot of people out here angry that Congress proposes bills, doesn't read them. And then when the people out here read them, Congress gets angry that we're reading the bills.", "I think when people get the right information, and they know what we're trying to do and how this is going to all wash out - I'm not saying 100 percent of the American people will be for it, but I think the vast majority of the American people will see this as a good thing, to change the system that we have.", "Well, for the most part, town halls are going much smoother for Republicans. But Democrats who think they can skip these scenes all together might find protesters waiting for them in other spots. Mm-hmm. Jared Dillingham from our affiliate KTVK tells us why there may be no escaping the health-care debate.", "The group outside Representative Harry Mitchell's office was there to protest the current health-care bill.", "We're just mad as hell.", "Disdain for the health-care bill.", "They say the reform is too expensive and too intrusive.", "We are Americans and we should be able to make the decisions.", "I'm afraid that Obama's going to bankrupt the country.", "Others demanded Mitchell host a forum so they could air their concerns in person over the health-care bill.", "I think he might be leaning towards voting for it, but I - I don't know for sure. I'm just asking him to please listen to the people here and understand that we do not want this.", "Republican Representative John Shadegg did hold a town-hall meeting in Scottsdale.", "Good morning. Wow.", "Right off the bat, Shadegg warned the crowd, any disruptive behavior would not be tolerated. They listened, and many got to speak out against health-care reform.", "But to fight against it with everything you have.", "The mostly conservative crowd remained civil for the Republican congressman, unlike the crowds who've confronted and disrupted similar town halls hosted by Democrats in Arizona and across the country over the last few days.", "Wow, they're all in each other's face. Well, another tense scene in Memphis, Tennessee yesterday at a town-hall meeting with Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen. Police were called in for extra help to handle the crowd of about 500. Social Security and veterans benefits were supposed to be the topics, but health care wasn't even on the agenda. Still though, it was the only thing discussed in the end.", "Well, President Obama is heading south of the border for a summit meeting. He's leaving this afternoon for Guadalajara, Mexico. He'll meet with Mexican and Canadian leaders today and tomorrow. Tuesday, he holds a town-hall meeting on health-care insurance reform, this time in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. And on Wednesday, the president hosts a White House reception for new Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.", "Well, Justice Sonia Sotomayor took the associate-justice oath yesterday. And here's part of that.", "I, Sonia Sotomayor, do solemnly swear...", "I, Sonia Sotomayor, do solemnly swear...", "...that I will administer justice without respect to persons...", "...that I will administer justice without respect to persons...", "...and do equal right to the poor and to the rich...", "...and do equal right to the poor...", "Justice Sotomayor's mother held a bible while her daughter was sworn in as the nation's 111th Supreme Court justice. Chief Justice John Roberts administers the oath in one of the high court's conference rooms. And it was the first time the court has allowed TV coverage of a swearing-in ceremony.", "Look at all those cheers. Well, this is a viewing party in New York's Spanish Harlem. Sotomayor is the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice and only the third female to serve on the court. For Latino Americans, they are having an impact on our nation's politics, business, culture, many other areas as well. And coming up in October, CNN looks at that in our \"LATINO IN AMERICA\" special. It's only on", "And we continue to follow the helicopter and plane crash over the Hudson River, including more eyewitness accounts. I mean, can you imagine driving along and seeing debris from a plane landing right in front of you on the highway.", "Also this though: A tornado hits the Midwest, and Reynolds Wolf is tracking the storms for us on this Sunday. Hey there, Reynolds.", "...the chance of rough - some - some rough weather again today in parts of the Midwest and the Ohio Valley. And of course, in the Pacific, we've got Hurricane Felicia. We're going to give you the very latest on both coming up in a few moments, right here on CNN SUNDAY MORNING. See you in a few."], "speaker": ["BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR", "ROB MARCIANO, CNN ANCHOR", "NGUYEN", "MARCIANO", "NGUYEN", "MARCIANO", "MARCIANO", "NGUYEN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "NGUYEN", "MARCIANO", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "COMMISSIONER RAY KELLY, NEW YORK POLICE", "CANDIOTTI", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CANDIOTTI", "COLIN RICH, WITNESSED CRASH", "CANDIOTTI", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CANDIOTTI", "DEBBIE HERSHMAN, CHMN., NATL. TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD", "CANDIOTTI (on camera)", "NGUYEN", "MARCIANO", "NGUYEN", "MARCIANO", "NGUYEN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NGUYEN", "MARCIANO", "JOHN KURR, HEALTH-CARE-REFORM OPPONENT", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-298491", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-11-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/18/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Trump Meets Foreign Leader; Trump's Transition Team With New Picks", "utt": ["The Trump transition. The president-elect meets with a foreign leader and he's made a controversial pick for national security adviser. Also we're live in Berlin where the current U.S. president is trying to reassure European allies about his successor. And later, start your engines, Jeremy Clarkson races back to the small screen with a brand new show. Also ahead, the Swedish take on mansplaining. We'll explain. Hello and welcome to our viewers around the world. I'm Natalie Allen and this is CNN newsroom. Donald Trump has now met with his first foreign leader since becoming U.S. President-elect. It was an unofficial meeting Shinzo Abe Thursday. But the two had what the Japanese Prime Minister called a very candid discussion. Mr. Abe said he feels now the U.S. and Japan will be able to maintain a relationship of trust with Trump as President.", "Our Andrew Stevens is now live with us in Hong Kong with more about this. And the question, Andrew is, why is Shinzo Abe already keen to meet the president, is it curiosity, just want to be pals, or might he just be a little bit the nerves got the best of him considering some of the things Mr. Trump said in the campaign trail or all of the above.", "Absolutely. I think, yes. It's that celebrating there. Some of the things that Donald Trump was threatening to withdraw U.S. treats -- troops i Japan, threatening to let Japan and South Korea go it alone as far as creating their own nuclear deterrents against North Korea. These were comments which rocked Tokyo to its core. Because the alliance between the U.S. and Japan, Natalie, is at the core of Japan's decades-long prosperity and peace and it is a very, very close relationship and it's one that Shinzo Abe value -- values above all others as his predecessors have done. So when he heard Donald Trump making those sort of comments on the campaign trail he is doing everything in his power to get his case across to Mr. Trump and to convince him that the alliance is indeed the bedrock of a very, very important global strategic alliance. And to be honest, I think it's fair to say that many in Tokyo like many in any other capital were blindsided by the fact that Donald Trump won the presidency and hadn't really prepared for it. He, Mr. Abe rang Donald Trump. They had a 20-minute conversation. And during that conversation Mr. Abe suggested that they so meet informally before the inauguration which happened for 90 minutes yesterday. And Abe came away saying the right things certainly for the domestic audience that he thinks Donald Trump is a man he can trust and trust is the very center of this -- of a very successful alliance between the two. We don't know just how substantive those discussions were. Donald Trump has made it clear, Natalie, he does not support international trade agreements like the TPP which has been a bedrock of the U.S. pivot under Barack Obama. Something that Mr. Abe has supported strongly. We don't know whether that was discussed yesterday. One of Trump's senior adviser saying that the substantive discussions with Japan will come after the inauguration but the Japanese certainly seeing this as a very good start.", "All right. Well, that's a positive note. We'll end there. Thank you so much. Andrew Stevens for us in Hong Kong. Donald Trump is adding another name to his White House staff. A transition official says Trump has asked retired Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn to be his national security adviser. It's not clear if Flynn has accepted. Trump is also meeting this weekend with one of his biggest critics, 2012 republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. A senior source says they will discuss a potential cabinet post for him. CNN's Sara Murray has more on other key players Trump is considering.", "Joining the top advisers potential cabinet picks and family members coming to Trump Tower's revolving doors some new faces like Florida Governor Rick Scott and Texas Congressman Jeb Hensarling. Donald Trump also meeting today with South Carolina Governor, Nikki Haley, a sharp critic throughout the campaign.", "During anxious times it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation.", "Now, sources say she is under consideration for secretary of state. It's the latest indication according to Trump advisers that the president-elect is willing to look beyond past grudges as he builds his administration.", "It doesn't matter to him what your political party was or where you stood in the primary. If you were the best person for that job then he wants you as part of this team.", "All of this as Trump's top advisers say he is ready to deliver on one of his key campaign promises.", "We are going to Washington, D.C., and we are going to drain the swamp.", "Advisers say Trump will enact a five-year lobbying ban after executive branch appointees leave office and a lifetime ban on representing foreign governments.", "It's a major campaign promise that Donald Trump he's already delivering on it during transition as the president-elect.", "But it's unclear how Trump's team will define lobbyists and whether people will skirt the rules by choosing not to register as lobbyists and labeling them as consultants instead. One senior Trump adviser says ridding the government of lobbyist was the last draw in in Trump's strained relationship with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. After Christie presented Trump a transition memo peppered with lobbyist and establishment hires he was dismissed as head of the transition effort. And Vice President-elect Mike Pence stepped in. One outstanding question is where Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner will fit in the mix. A source says while Kushner will play a role in the Trump White House it's unclear whether it will be formal or informal. As Trump works to flesh out his government from New York, Pence was on Capitol Hill for meetings with members of Congress including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and House Speaker Paul Ryan who is tempering expectations on another of Trump's core campaign promising.", "It's too early to have the -- to know the answer to how fast can Obamacare relief occur. What we're focused on is how we get Obamacare repealed and what we replace it with so that we can get that relief to the American families as fast as possible.", "Now amid all the palace intrigue about who will actually serve in a Trump White House, Trump himself is making at least one offer. Asking General Michael Flynn if he would like to serve as his national security adviser. Now our source isn't telling us yet whether Flynn has accepted but in many ways it's a natural fit. Flynn has been by Donald Trump's side during throughout the campaign and also throughout the transition process. Sara Murray, CNN, Washington.", "CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein joins us from Los Angeles via Skype. Hi, there, Ron. Thanks for being with us.", "Hey, good to be here.", "Let's talk fist about an announcement from the Trump team about the proposed NSA leader Michael Flynn. What do you think about that?", "You know, a controversial figure even within republican circles. Someone who has had close ties to Russia, has also been strong in his language about the threat from Islamic terrorism. He is someone though, who, you know, was at Donald Trump's side and, you know, there is a certain inevitability to this. I mean, few people from the mainstream of the republican foreign policy world, in particular, even more than on the domestic side. A lot of Donald trump, as you remember, there were these two letters from dozens of former republican national security officials saying they did not believe that he was qualified to serve as commander in chief. So it is unlikely that, you know, any of those traditional names are going to end up in the marquee. And so there's a certain inevitability to this but it's going to be controversial even in republican circles, I think certainly with people like John McCain who already warned Donald Trump about his attitude toward Vladimir Putin.", "Right. So he'll be someone to watch. But you talk about people on the outside. Republicans did not join in the Trump campaign. One of them was Mitt Romney.", "Yes.", "But now he is being mentioned for possibly being on the team.", "Yes. This could be -- this could be a very important turning point for Trump. Because it is not clear at all, that many of the mainstream foreign policy officials in particular -- I mean, there's an issue on the domestic side, but even more on the foreign policy side. You know, you saw Elliot Cohen, who was a top adviser, a long-time conservative thinker on foreign policy, a top adviser in the Bush administration, wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post a couple of days ago, basically counseling republican foreign policy officials not to go into this administration that will compromise their integrity and their kind of professional honor. Obviously, if Donald Trump is able to persuade Mitt Romney to come in as secretary of state that would send a very different signal, it would also be extraordinary reversal given that Rudy Giuliani clearly is the most campaigning for the job openly. Stood with Trump all the way through. Mitt Romney condemned him as completely as I have ever seen a former nominee condemn a potential future nominee. So, it would certainly be a kind of magnanimous gesture by Donald Trump but one that would also I think give him more credibility to recruit others in the foreign policy as I said. His problems could be deeper at even on the domestic side.", "All right. Mitt Romney held a news conference to talk about Donald Trump. But certainly...", "And delivering (Ph) an incredible speech.", "Exactly.", "I mean, just incredible expropriating speech denouncing Donald Trump's character and, you know, essentially accusing him of dividing the country along racial and other alliance.", "So one could understand where it might be challenging for Donald Trump to build a team. It's always challenging for any government.", "Yes.", "There's a little disarray when one is going out and one is coming in. So how it going for Trump overall and certainly not going well for Governor Christie?", "Right. And look, it is a certain amount of chaos in every transition. I mean, even David Axelrod who was President Obama's top political adviser, you know, tweeted out that they had not made any of their major appointments by this juncture and their transition as well. I think what's more unusual and more revealing is the kind of palace coup who that happened almost immediately where Chris Christie, the Governor of New jersey, again, one of the few mainstream republican elected officials who endorsed Trump was forced out of his role as the head of the transition, replaced by the Vice President Mike Pence in a kind of palace coup, apparently engineered by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner who has a long standing feud with Trump -- with Christie. I think is revealing because this is exactly what we saw during the primaries. I mean, Donald Trump cycled through three campaign managers before settling on the team of Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon. He is someone who has not been able to kind of build stable structure around him. And I think the fact that that recurred again in the transition is more of a warning sign for what will be coming in the administration than the delay in naming major appointments. And look, it's hard. I mean, these are big decisions. No transition -- I covered the Bill Clinton transition in 1992. I remember that being accused of being chaotic. It often is but the fact that there was yet another shake-up after a campaign repeatedly interrupted by shake-up, so punctuated by shake-ups, I think that is probably something to watch going forward.", "Well, we thank you. Our senior political analyst Ron Brownstein from L.A. Thank you, Ron.", "Thank you.", "Well, meantime, President Obama is making some final trips as his time as U.S. President comes to end. Ahead here, the push he is making in Europe to keep relationships in place as Trump prepares to take office. Also, Donald Trump will soon have access to America's nuclear weapons. 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{"id": "CNN-207544", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2013-5-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/27/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Brooklyn Bridge Shut Down; New Arrest In Terror Case", "utt": ["OUTFRONT next, the latest from the terror attack in London the investigation there. Now 10 people have been arrested in connection with the brutal meat cleaver murder of a soldier there in broad daylight. Also, here we go again. The cruise industry takes yet another hit. A fire breaks out onboard a ship. We're going to show you some pictures today. Also, a Kentucky police officer gunned down in what authorities believe was a pre-planned ambush. Who is targeting our law enforcement agents? Let's go OUTFRONT. We begin with breaking news tonight. I'm Brooke Baldwin sitting in for Erin Burnett. You're looking at live pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge as New York police have shut down this bridge in both directions, as you can see on this Memorial Day evening, no cars going either way into the city or into Brooklyn. The issue has been this vehicle that we've seen some bomb squads responding to with protective gear because it was curious the fact that it didn't have license plate nor did it have a vehicle identification number. The bomb squad as I mentioned searching the vehicle at this hour. And CNN producer, Ross Levitt, is joining me now on the phone. Ross, I still see no traffic. Tell me the latest.", "Yes, that's right. Traffic is still shut down in both directions on the Brooklyn Bridge and so as pedestrian traffic, and also, not allowed to cross over the bridge right now. We are seeing some signs that this thing may be coming to a close, some of the vehicles leaving the scene. But apparently the NYPD not ready to open things up for traffic. So they must have a few items they still want to check out. It's tough to know how long that will be. But on this Memorial Day whether people, you know, generally like to cross over the Brooklyn Bridge. It's one of the fun New York things to do, not able to do that right now because of this suspicious vehicle that apparently had no VIN number on it, no license plate on it and so that raised a lot of suspicions. It was abandoned right on the bridge.", "We're looking at pictures right now. This was earlier tonight. I mentioned someone in a protective suit. This is the bomb squad. You saw the NYPD officers as well. Here he is very, very carefully going through this vehicle to try to figure out if there might be something possibly nefarious inside. Bottom line, Ross, as you say, maybe it will be clearing out. How long is the car been sitting there?", "We got this within the hour. So it hasn't been very long at this point. And from our experience in covering these things, generally as it goes past an hour, that's when you start to think gee maybe there really is something nefarious going on. But we're under that mark at this point. And so if at some point we do get an all clear here, you know, it will be a sign that things are OK.", "Ross, let me interrupt you.", "Traffic has backed off here. Folks trying to get on to the bridge are unable to pedestrians and vehicles so --", "Ross, I just got in my ear that the NYPD has now officially said all clear, all clear tonight. So soon enough we will start seeing traffic back and forth on this Memorial Day evening there on the Brooklyn Bridge. Ross Levitt, thank you so much. Also OUTFRONT tonight, a new terror arrest, number 10 here. Officers investigating the brutal killing of British soldier, Lee Rigby, have arrested another man for conspiracy to commit murder. So far, authorities have arrested 10 people in this case including one of the alleged killers who was captured on this incredibly gruesome video here. You see his two bloody hands in his left hand a meat cleaver and a knife. The murder has caused all kinds of backlash against Muslims in London, which is where we have our Atika Shubert tonight with the very latest on the investigation. Atika, tell me about this arrest, number 10.", "Well, he is the 10th person to be arrested. He is a 50-year-old man. He was arrested on the street by armed police. Now he didn't put up a fight. He was brought in like many of the others on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. Now we don't know the exact connection he had with the two main suspects. In fact, we don't know from most of these young men that have been arrested, most of them are between the ages of 29 and 28 what their connections are. Are they acquaintances, close friends or family? We just don't know. What we do know is that the two main suspects Michael Adebolajo and Michael (inaudible) remain inside the separate hospitals where they are recuperating from their gunshot wounds. They were shot and severely injured immediately after the attack, but we do understand that police have not been able to fully question them yet -- Brooke.", "OK, Atika Shubert tonight for us in London. I want to continue the conversation and bring in Phil Mudd. He is a former CIA deputy director of Counterterrorism, an FBI senior intelligence adviser. Also tonight, we have Fran Townsend. She is CNN's national security analyst, President Bush's Homeland Security adviser, formerly and a member of the CIA External Advisory Board. So welcome to both of you. And Phil, let me just begin with you because one of the suspects that Atika was mentioning, we know that who is in custody for the killing of this soldier in London, we know that he was arrested by Kenyan authorities back in 2010 for suspected ties to terrorist organizations in Somalia possibly Al Shabab. Also interestingly we've learned according to reports he was even approached by British intelligence. So this tells me he was known. What does that tell you?", "It tells me a little bit, not as much as you might think. The quantity of threat that the British sit on is substantial. It's a lot greater than the amount of threat I saw in the United States with the FBI. Communities in places like Leads, London, Birmingham, they are fermenting with Islamic extremism so the Brits have a big problem.", "What about, Fran, when I look at you I also think of -- recently talking to you when I was in Boston covering the marathon bombings and specifically when you think of the Tsarnaev brothers and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder brother, we know he was on terror watch lists. Sometimes there is a concern that one could get lost on such a tremendous list. But it sounds like that this individual, what was somewhat known, how do -- in terms of information sharing, how do we make sure that information is shared with the most important people in cases like this, i.e. local police?", "You know, Brooke that is the confounding thing about this. Look, the Tsarnaev brother lead came from the Russian government. The Russian government may or may not have passed it for its own reasons. And the FBI looked at it and developed -- couldn't develop very much about it. The interesting difference here is in the case of the London murderer of -- murderers of Lee Rigby, this was somebody -- this was their own information, the own domestic service, their version of the FBI, MI-5, had this information and we understand from other reports actually approached him because of his access in extremist circles. He was a known quantity to them and as you say, the question really becomes did they share it with Scotland Yard? If not, why not? What was the reason behind that and were they working together with Scotland Yard?", "So it's what did they know and now, Phil, it's the look at the demonstrations. You have the EDL, the English Defense League, you know, demonstrating this huge, huge backlash on the Muslim community. You have a mosque that was set on fire over the weekend. How concerning is that for you?", "I think it is the most disconcerting thing about the entire case. Aside from the tragedy of the murder, you go back to 12 years to 911, what you have is revolutionaries that is al Qaeda and it's sympathizers trying to create a clash of civilizations between the Muslim world, the United States and others. To my mind, the concern is that they're going to succeed. Society can't sit still and say look, let's not give them what they want. Let's sit still.", "So, Fran, what are your thoughts on that? I mean, this is a huge, huge part of the story.", "It is a huge part of the story and I don't think we've seen the end of it, Brooke, unfortunately. I mean, we've heard today that there were then counter sort of protests and defacing of war memorials in Great Britain. I think that we're just beginning to see this and it's an ongoing problem as Phil rightly points out. The extremist population and problem that the level of threat in London is tremendous and so I think you're going to see this over a period of -- a protracted period of time, which will be a real challenge for security officials in London.", "We'll continue following that, of course. Again, we're reporting the 10th arrest here in this case. Phil Mudd and Fran Townsend, thanks to you both tonight. Still to come, a fire erupts on a luxury liner forcing passengers to scramble to safety. How will the cruise ship industry respond to this latest PR nightmare? Plus, George Zimmerman's trial, set to begin in a matter of weeks. What his lawyers are doing to get it delays. And this is horrible, this couple murdered in their Alaskan home and their great granddaughter, 2 years old, sexually assaulted. An officer working the case joins us OUTFRONT tonight with an update. 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{"id": "CNN-42278", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2001-10-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/23/bn.02.html", "summary": "Anthrax Investigation: New Jersey Department of Health Briefing", "utt": ["We interrupt that report from CNN's Chris Burns to take you to health officials here, Ewing Township New Jersey. More information now on the testing of individuals in that area.", "... Diferdinando commissioner, New Jersey Department of Health, Dr. Eddy Bresnitz, New Jersey Department of Health, state epidemiologist, and also available, we'll have Dr. Christie Stevenson (ph), RWJ of Hamilton, their chief administrative officers, Dr. Phillip Bonaparte (ph), senior VP, medical affairs, Robert Wood, Hamilton, and Dr. Beth Vow (ph) of the CDC -- Commissioner.", "Today we're here to announce that one postal worker stationed at the route 31 mail processing center in Hamilton Township is now considered by the Centers for Disease Control and the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services to be a suspected case of inhalational anthrax. The patient is in stable condition, and is receiving antibiotics. Dr. Eddy Bresnitz will be discussing with you in a moment the particulars of that case. I will then come back and talk to you and talk to you about how this case changes, modifies the situation that we're in, and modifies any of our recommendations, and then we'll take some questions. Now Dr. Bresnitz will talk to you about the particulars of this case.", "Good morning. Again, I want to emphasize this is being considered a suspected case. This is a middle aged woman, a mail handler, who worked at the Hamilton Township mail processing center, who began to feel ill sometime last week, saw her physician Friday, the 19th, and was admitted to the hospital for evaluation and treatment. Initial tests did not support the diagnosis of anthrax. Physician contacted Department of Health and Senior Services on Saturday for consultation. In conjunction with the CDC team. We sent physician out to evaluate the patient on Sunday, interviewed the patient, gathered some samples and sent them to the centers for Disease Control and Prevention for further testing. Those arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on yesterday morning, and yesterday evening we received a word from the CDC that one of the tests indicated the person was a suspected case of anthrax, in the context of her clinical condition, where she worked, and the timeframe of when she became ill. Yesterday evening, we notified the physician of the results of those tests. The physician notified the patient and the family. They were very pleased to receive those results. Currently the patient is on a number of different antibiotics, which will address and cover her infection. She has been on those for five days now. Her condition right now is serious but stable. She is holding her own. Her temperature has improved. Although we don't have any isolation of the anthrax organism from any of the specimens, I should add that other islets that are done by the CDC suggests that what is infecting her is sensitive to the antibiotics that she is on. The family wishes to remain confidential, and the other three patients, I should add, that we previously announced, they are doing well.", "Last Friday, the Department of Health and Senior Services recommended that all postal workers in the Hamilton township facility and in the West Trenton facility see their physicians and begin a seven-day course of antibiotics as a precaution, while the criminal and health investigation of potential exposure to disease continued. Today, I'm modifying that recommendation, consistent with the recommendation of CDC announced last night, for treatment of the Brentwood facility in D.C. to now be a 10-day treatment of preventive prescription of Ciprofloxacin. We are also expanding the number of people who might receive that to other workers from other facilities that may have come into the plant to receive materials. This is an expansion of both the length of time of prevention, so that we can be consistent with the activities that are going on in the rest of the country, as well as an expansion of those who need to receive that. The most important message I believe of this conference, is that given this suspected case of inhalational anthrax, those workers who have not seen a physician or a nurse so far, absolutely need to see a physician or a nurse to receive this preventative prescription. For those who have received this prescription and have not begun to take it, they definitely need to begin taking this medication. And for any workers who have worked at this site or who have gone into the site if they have what is either a suspect -- something consistent with cutaneous anthrax or respiratory anthrax, clearly need to see a physician, a nurse, other health care provider as soon as possible. Mainly we're focusing right now on the clinical message we're trying to get out, messages of the further environmental testing of this site, messages of environmental testing around the state, other types of environmental messages. We're not going to be focusing on those right here. We're going to give you some follow-up information on those investigations later today. Right now, that message is that suspect inhalational anthrax case, the expansion of preventative treatment to 10 days, rather than seven, and then the expansion of those who need to receive this preventative prescription to those who came in and worked at the site. We do have one other point, and I'm sorry, I forgot about this one. I think it's important to inform you in a structured way of what we call active surveillance, that is trying to find, not just asking people to come in, but the efforts that the State Department of Health and Senior Services and the CDC are doing to actively go out and find cases. And for that, I want to turn things back to Dr. Bresnit to discuss active surveillance.", "I should emphasize that even just after the World Trade Center disaster, the Department of Health and Senior Services sent out messages around the state through our Health Alert Network, which is our e-mail system linking us with health care providers and public health officials around the state, to be on the alert for potential bioterrorism events, including anthrax. And we continue to send those messages out throughout that time period. As the situation developed with the anthrax outbreak, we reemphasized our message as well. So this is really a continuation of our public health alert to our health deliverers and our public health officials throughout the state. This morning, in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control Prevention. We sent out a public health alert to chief executives officer and infection control practitioners throughout the state, basically with the objectives of enhancing our surveillance efforts to date. What we are trying to do is identify any previous cases of human anthrax that occurred after September 11th that may not have come to our attention, and also to alert them we want to emphasize a surveillance to detect any future potential cases, both cutaneous as well as inhalational. And there are certain methodologies that we're using, basically certain criteria that we are going to be asking them to look for in their hospitals, both retrospectively and prospectively, that might tune them in to the fact that they have a case. In addition, we are going to reach out to our medical examiner to look back over the last six weeks to see whether there are any suspected cases. Obviously, medical examiners are always interested in unusual deaths, but in this case, we are going to again reach out to him and say, please look around and see if there is anything reported that might in any way, shape or form be relative to anthrax. And there are other efforts as well. We are actively reviewing the work records of the postal employees. That was done some what unofficially initially, because the records, many of them were in the plant. We were able to obtain more detailed records from the Postal Service, and we're combing through those to see if there were other workers that may have been absent that we are unaware of. One more thing. I just wanted to formally acknowledge the excellent work of Robert Johnson Hamilton. They have seen the vast majority of those who have come forward for preventative prescriptions. And I'll turn it over to you now.", "OK, we're going to take a few questions related to this topic. Just a reminder, the criminal investigation by the state police, FBI and postal authorities remains ongoing, and there will no further comment regarding that aspect -- Brian.", "I'm not sure if Dr. Bresnitz, Commissioner Bucant (ph) or is it Dr. Bell from the CDC can address this or perhaps all of you can, but considering the fact now that we have potentially four people in this facility, and the way this microbe is spreading itself, what assurance can you give us, or can you give us an assurance that this material did not pass from these hotspots within the processing plant on to normal, everyday letters and get out to the general public, whether it be in New Jersey or wherever those letters might have crossed the nation?", "This is a question that's under active consideration by -- at the federal level. Clearly, it's a question of great interest to all of us, but in terms of being able to document type of what you call cross contamination, we can't document cross contamination at this point. And it is of some intelligence in this situation that up until now, all of the suspect or confirmed cases have been people who have been workers. These have been occupational injuries so far.", "If I may follow up on that, this alert notification system doctors, are you asking doctors in general to watch out for cases of the general public with symptoms that might be consistent?", "Absolutely. The idea is for all physicians and advanced nurse practitioners and physician's assistant to consider cutaneous or inhalation anthrax. Sometimes the history is not taken of a worksite exposure. Sometimes it doesn't come up in the rush of the emergency room visit. So you can't always define those interactions between clinicians and patients quite so exactly. We don't know the answer to that question.", "You said you were going to have a number of different workers taking antibiotics. How many?", "We don't know. The Postal Service will be working on that. The message of this conference is for those who came in and worked there, you know, one option would have been to create a list of all of the workers that came in. Rather than sending the message out through the media, at this point, we are sending this message out prior to creating the list of all those who might have worked in there. So I do not have an answer for you either within New Jersey or within Washington of how much this broadens the number of people we're recommending.", "All right, the news out of New Jersey today, one case of suspected inhalation anthrax, a woman, apparently though the good news here, she is responding to treatment at this time. All postal workers in the Trenton, New Jersey area will be treated with Cipro as a precautionary measure in the event that others are infected as well. Let's get to Michael Okwu, also in New Jersey, with more information on this -- Michael.", "Bill, hello to you. Again, that was the officials from the CDC and from the New Jersey Health Department. And again, just to reiterate, one case of suspected inhalation anthrax, a woman at this facility, which is a major sorting and distribution center in the Trenton area, specifically Hamilton Township. She has been put on 10 days of treatment. They are encouraging other workers in the area to come in and get tested, and also to be put -- and treatment at this point we know that some 5,000 workers from this facility and abutting areas have been tested. Many of them are on Cipro. Again, they say that she is in serious, but stable condition. In their words, holding her own. Also the medical practitioners here, the health officials mentioned the fact they are going to be engaging in what they call -- quote -- \"active surveillance,\" essentially trying to put all public health officials and other health officials on notice to try to look out for these signs, to be looking for symptoms related to cutaneous anthrax and to inhalation anthrax. You may recall, Bill, that in other cases, specifically those cases having to do with the woman at CBS News, and the woman who contracted cutaneous anthrax at \"The New York Post,\" that those two women went in to see their private physicians, were put on antibiotics, without those physicians knowing of course, that it could have been anthrax, and it was only after the situations got worse, and they sought help from other health officials that they were prescribed Cipro. They are also trying to identify other cases that might be, of course, related in any way it anthrax. They are looking, they mentioned, to some of the workers who have worked in this site, as well as sites across New Jersey, trying to find out what their work records were, find out, of course, whether they might have come into contact with any anthrax spores. Back to You,", "And, Michael, I don't know the answer here, so give it to me, if you can. The mail that went to New York City, when we're talking about ABC News, CBS, \"Washington Post,\" would it have gone through the facility we are talking about today?", "We know at this point that three such letters were postmarked at this facility in Trenton -- the letter that went to Senator Tom Daschle, the letter that went to Tom Brokaw, Mr. Brokaw at NBC News, as well as a letter that was addressed to \"The New York Post.\" So we know those letters were passed through here, and were postmarked here, and that's why, obviously, this center is getting a lot of attention these days.", "Thanks for the clarification, Michael Okwu, there on the ground in New jersey. Let's bring in Dr. Sanjay Gupta now. Doctor, good morning to you.", "Nice to see you.", "The good news in New Jersey, suspected at this point, and is responding to treatment. The interesting thing that came out that almost kind of a search and find mission right now, doctors go out and try determine who might be infected, kind of a reverse method here at this point.", "It really is really interesting. We are seeing certainly individuals, but we're talking about trying to treat communities of people as a whole as well. Doctors actually going out and finding the patients here, sometimes the patients not knowing that they are patients, until they are deemed to be exposed and subsequently treated with Ciprofloxacin, a really sort of interesting cross section between medicine and epidemiology, Bill.", "I made the comment earlier that whoever did this must have been real pro, because they had to take the anthrax -- and many people don't know how it could be infecting postal workers. But simply, based on one theory, you could take the anthrax down to a size so small that it could leak out of the letters as they were processed, correct?", "Yes, you know, just for a sake of reference here, we are talking anthrax spores one to five microns. A strand of hair is about a hundred microns. That will gives you a little frame of reference. And most paper, the pores in the paper will allow the anthrax to get through, Bill, but you're point is well taken because we are talking about the right size spore here. If it is in fact too small, you might actually breathe it in and breathe it right back out. If it's too big, it may in fact never make it down into your lungs. We're talking about the right size spore here, one to five microns, and you're right, it very well may have been a pro.", "Some people wondering yesterday with the two deaths that we saw as a result of inhalation anthrax that was not seen in time. These people have passed away since then. Some are wondering why the doctors did not see it ahead of time. I think it should be fair enough to point out that 99.9 percent of doctors in this country have never seen a case of anthrax in their medical careers.", "That's right, we are seeing a lot of confusion, not only from doctors, but the public health officials, certainly potential patients, the two deaths in D.C.. Not yet confirmed to be anthrax, but everyone says most likely to be anthrax. I never saw a case of anthrax in medical school. We glossed over it in our studies, you know, just something that people are quickly preparing themselves for. But, Bill, you're absolutely right, I think we are not there yet.", "A curious thing there happened in Atlanta, Conyers, Georgia last night, just east of downtown. They held a seminar for doctors to come out, nurses to come out and ask questions, whatever they want know about anthrax. The education is one that is ongoing.", "Right, and the CDC did something similar last week. They had a sort of satellite course. They don't call it a specific tutorial, but sort of a primer on anthrax, and what to look for, how to diagnose it, and certainly when to treat it, when that's appropriate, and certainly something of a lot of doctors are sort of freshening up on once again.", "Quickly, when we talk about being treated by Cipro antibiotics, can everyone take this, or is it like penicillin when some people are allergic to it.", "There are allergies to Cipro. They are not quite as common as penicillin, and someone who has a penicillin allergy doesn't necessarily -- isn't necessarily going to have a Cipro allergy. But it is a very powerful antibiotic. It is a broad spectrum, meaning it treats all sorts of different bacteria, and it is not something to be taken lightly. 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{"id": "CNN-374890", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-07-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/15/cnr.19.html", "summary": "ICE Has Begun Raids To Round Up Undocumented Immigrants, Official Says; Former S. African President Faces Corruption Inquiry; President Donald Trump's Latest Social Media Rant; A Crackdown on Undocumented Immigrants; Backlash from a One-Sided Perspective", "utt": ["President Trump's latest Twitter tirade drawing scorn and criticism. He lashes out at several Democratic congresswomen, telling them \"go back to their countries.\"", "Plus, a crackdown on undocumented immigrants. The Trump administration saying its targeted roundup is underway, though it seems a far cry from the major blitz the administration had promised.", "And birthright has brought millions of young Jews to visit Israel. But it's also faced major backlash from a one-sided perspective. Now, one organization is offering a different view.", "We are live from CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. And we want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I am George Howell.", "And I am Paula Newton. CNN Newsroom starts right now. Now, the U.S. president escalated his anti-immigration rhetoric Sunday with an attack on four minority congresswomen using language widely condemned as racist. Now, it came on the same day Donald Trump's administration says it launched raids targeting thousands of undocumented immigrants.", "A series of tweets. Here's what he said, so interesting to see progressive Democrat congresswomen who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe. Remember, again, these are Americans. But the president added they should leave and go back to where they came from. Again, three out of the four women were actually born in the United States. The fourth, Ilhan Omar, came to the states as a child and became a U.S. citizen in 2000.", "And this was their comeback. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded, Mr. President, the country I come from and the country we all swear to is the United States. But given how you've destroyed our border with inhumane camps, all at a benefit to you and the corporations who profit off them. You are absolutely right about the corruption laid at your feet. And Ilhan Omar tweeted, you are stoking white nationalism because you are angry that people like us are serving in Congress and fighting against your hate-filled agenda. And she quotes Robert F. Kennedy, saying America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. Now, the president's tweets come during, of course, a lingering dispute among Democrats of border aid bill.", "Boris Sanchez reports the president's attempts to broaden that divide appear to have failed.", "President Trump on Sunday launching new attacks against key progressive Democrats, suggesting that some members of Congress should go back to their countries. He doesn't reference them by name. But the president was apparently referring to Representative Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley. They have had a rift with House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi. And the president writes that they can't leave fast enough. I am sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements. The president trying to exploit this rift caused by their opposition to a bill on immigration funding that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi helped to pass and Pelosi's criticism of their social media use. The president, though, may have had these tweets backfire, though, because these four congresswomen have launched attacks at him, and how House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tweeted out in solidarity with them. The House Speaker writing, \"I reject Donald Trump's xenophobic comments meant to divide our nation. Rather than attack members of Congress, he should work with us for humane immigration policy that reflects American values.\" The president, yet again, using the language of white nationalist to court supporters who feel uncomfortable about immigration and it is something that this president has frequently has used before, something that he is obviously very comfortable doing. Boris Sanchez, CNN, at the White House.", "And for more on this, James Davis is the Dean of the School of Economics and Political Science at the University of St. Gallen. He joins us now from Munich, Germany. You know, of course, we've heard the outrage and the contempt, and yet we shouldn't just dismiss it as that, should we? I mean, this is the president's political currency right now. It has to be said, you know, some argue even that this has actually gone much further than other things that he has said or tweeted. What do you think?", "Well, I think there are two aspects to these tweets that we need to focus on. I think the first is, of course, the attack on women. And I stress women of color in an attempt to sort of drive a wedge between Americans who may have a history, family history from Europe or other places, and these women who may, you know, three of them born in the United States. But, you know, some family history that comes from other parts of the world. So there is a sort of racist element to this. But there is also, I think, a very calculated effort to distract us from a debate over the content of his immigration policies and redirect our attention to the identities of those who are making the criticisms. And I want to remind you. There are a lot of white male members of Congress. There are a lot of African-American members of Congress, male, who are also criticizing these very policies. There are a lot of middle of the road Americans who are criticizing these policies. But the president has chosen to focus on four women of color. And I think there's something to that. But again, it's a distraction from the content of the policies that have many critics and a focus on the identity of just four of those critics.", "Yeah. And that is a good point to remember, of course. You know, there's been a big debate as to whether or not you can just call it out as racist. Let's remember the definition here. Racism is a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races. You could also perhaps say he was xenophobic. I mean, do those who support the president understand this and agree with it, or do they just choose to ignore it? Which do you think it is?", "Well, I think it's probably both. I think there is a portion of the president's base that feels that the America that they remember or they like to idealize is under attack. That's an America that probably never was the way they like to think of it. But it was a white America. It was a Christian America. It was an America of the 1950s. And now, we have a much more diverse society, a society that has people coming from all parts of the world. And many of them are now sitting in Congress. And that makes some of these people uncomfortable. When -- I think there is also an interesting fact that all four of these women that are being attacked represent multicultural cities. And there is sort of a city land dimension to this. You know, a lot of the base of the president comes from the countryside, from small town America, not from the cities where diversity is lived everyday and where people actually have come to appreciate the strengths of diversity. It's rather parts of the country that probably had very little interaction with people who look like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Ilhan Omar. And therefore, it's easy to stoke these fears of the other when it seems that the America you think you want to preserve is disappearing.", "You know we'll get to some of that reaction as well from his base. I want to remind you, though, of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker's reaction. And she makes a very fine point that she's taken up in the last few weeks. She says he reaffirms his plan to make America white again, in contrast to his slogan about making America great again. In terms of how this will frame the 2020 campaign for Republicans, again, it took Kellyanne Conway's husband -- she is an adviser in the Trumps' inner circle and happens to be married to a man who loves trolling the president. And he said what would likely happen if anyone, even a CEO, made such a racist statement in any workplace in America? Where are the Republicans? And let's put a fine point on it, right? Where are the Republicans from a place from, oh, I don't know, Florida?", "Yeah, Paula, you're right. The Republicans are hiding under a rock, because they understand that they're between a rock and a hard place. If they go out and criticize the president for this, the president's going to unleash a tweet campaign against them. The Republican members of Congress are fearful of anything that might resemble anything of a primary challenge from the right. But by the same token, I think most Republicans realize that the base of the country, not the base of Trump's America, but the base of the country is nowhere near this kind of racist language. Most Americans, I think, understand that the promise of the United States is the promise of inclusion. We haven't made it there yet. We're still working on it. It's an imperfect union, but we're trying to get there. And this kind of racially-tinged rhetoric, I think, in the end I think will drive away the voters that the president needs. And that's -- you know, the kind of moderate American voters in the suburbs who this time -- I should say last time were willing to take a risk or take a chance on Donald Trump. But I think are increasingly wondering whether that was the wrong choice to make.", "We shall see. Certainly, the president believes this is going to work for the campaign. James, thanks so much, really appreciate it.", "Thanks, Paula.", "Now to those raids that the Trump administration says are targeting undocumented immigrants across the country. Immigration officials say they are looking to track down some 2,000 immigrants ordered by the courts to be removed from the country in nearly a dozen major U.S. cities.", "OK. But so far, CNN has not been able to confirm any arrests. The New York Times reports the plans for the raids had to change. Instead of one large simultaneous sweep, they're actually going to be doing smaller raids over the course of this week. Now, since news reports tipped off immigrant communities about what to expect, that apparently was the change of plane.", "In Los Angeles our Paul Vercammen is watching for any immigration raid activity taking place. Here's his report.", "We were outside a detention center. We did not see any sort of targeted raids or anything unusual. The activists telling us that they decided they would not even put on any rallies or protests. They have been extremely vocal in their outright contempt and cynicism over Trump and the threatened raids. They basically have said that they accuse the U.S. president of trying to whip up his base by threatening these raids and trying to scare people, one even using the term poltergeist from the scary movie. What developed today was nothing. They have lawyers on the standby. And now, these activists say they are now crossing their fingers and hoping they don't see any such sweeps or raids in the coming days. But they're taking a very, very calm view of all this. They say, look, ICE raids in Los Angeles are common. There are some 500- something arrests per month. So that would equal 16 or 18 arrests per day. So they say this is all just routine.", "Paul Vercammen there. Thank you so much. And later this hour, we will speak with an immigration attorney about these raids and the rights of those immigrants who are being targeted.", "OK, moving on now. Iran's foreign minister says the United States is at risk of becoming a global pariah if it keeps making decisions that benefit only America. Javad Zarif spoke to reporters on Sunday. Take a listen.", "The Trump administration is isolated. In the global community, we've seen that in the meetings of the Security Council, in the meetings of -- including the meeting of Board of Governors of the IAEA. All of them called by the United States, all of them ended up condemning the policies, unilateral policies of the United States. So it is time for the United States to begin to return to the international consensus that we can only reach our goals through multilateralism.", "Javad Zarif there in meeting in New York for a U.N. meeting this week after having his visa personally approved by the U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. It all comes as tensions between the two countries are getting worse, although Zarif's visit could open the door to possible sideline talks.", "Now, earlier Sunday, President Hassan Rouhani said he's willing to hold talks with the United States, but there's one big condition.", "We are always ready for negotiations. This -- in this very hour, in this moment, we are ready for talks, provided that you stop your act of aggression, stop your sanctions, and return to the negotiation table and return to logic.", "Now, Mr. Rouhani says that because the Trump administration abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal last year, Iran is not violating it, even though they're enriching more uranium. France, Germany, and the U.K. are warning that the deal is at risk of total collapse. They're urging the U.S. and Iran to come back to the negotiating table as soon as possible. At the Cricket World Cup, England has made history. George, when I lived there, I have to tell you this was unimaginable. The team lifted that elusive championship trophy for the first time ever on Sunday. Who could believe it? Certainly not New Zealand, they beat New Zealand in front of a very passionate home crowd.", "It's a big deal. It was a nail-biting final that saw the first super-over tiebreaker in World Cup history. In the end, the English captured the title by scoring more boundaries over the course of the match. So it was interesting to watch, for sure.", "And who could forget what else was going on in London today? Another major sporting event, the men's Wimbledon final. And it was another win for tennis star, Novak Djokovic.", "The world number one earned his fifth Wimbledon title after beating Roger Federer in an epic match. He got the win by saving two match points in the fifth set tiebreaker. Djokovic now has 16 major titles, 4 away from tying Federer's on the men's side.", "I don't get the chance (Inaudible) -- it was truly epic. I've run out of superlatives.", "Great to watch.", "Coming up, the hurricane that hit the southern U.S. has thankfully weakened, but the threat from the slow-moving system is (Inaudible).", "It is something to watch, for sure. And, of course, trade pressure from the U.S. that appears to be taking a toll on China as its economy sees new signs of trouble. We have a live report ahead as CNN Newsroom pushes on."], "speaker": ["PAULA NEWTON, CNN ANCHOR", "GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "NEWTON", "HOWELL", "NEWTON", "HOWELL", "NEWTON", "HOWELL", "BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "NEWTON", "JAMES DAVIS, UNIVERSITY OF ST. GALLEN", "NEWTON", "DAVIS", "NEWTON", "DAVIS", "NEWTON", "DAVIS", "HOWELL", "NEWTON", "HOWELL", "PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HOWELL", "NEWTON", "JAVAD ZARIF, IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER", "HOWELL", "NEWTON", "HASSAN ROUHANI, IRANIAN PRESIDENT", "NEWTON", "HOWELL", "NEWTON", "HOWELL", "NEWTON", "HOWELL", "NEWTON", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-254051", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-04-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1504/25/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Cruz and Kasich Team Up to Stop Trump", "utt": ["What is talking about? She was their server. She heard what they were talking about. Understood where they were coming from. So she picked up the bill and left a note, saying, I can't imagine the day you've all had, let alone what you go through every day.", "Way to go.", "That's wonderful.", "You're stellar.", "That's great. All right. Time now for \"NEWSROOM\" with Carol Costello. Hi, Carol.", "Hi. Have a --", "Good morning.", "Good morning. Have a great day. NEWSROOM starts now.", "Happening now in the NEWSROOM, divide and conquer. Cruz and Kasich's new plan, team up to stop Trump.", "65 percent to 70 percent of Republicans nationwide recognize that Donald Trump is not the best candidate to go head to head with Hillary Clinton.", "I'm winning by millions and millions of votes. I'm winning by 300 -- almost 300 delegates.", "And is he about to rack up even more? Five states voting Tuesday. And Hillary Clinton looking ahead to November.", "When you hear what Trump and Cruz say, it's not only offensive. It's dangerous.", "But Bernie Sanders says she's got to get past him first.", "We are going to fight for every last vote until the -- until California and the D.C. primary.", "Plus --", "I have approved the deployment of up to 250 additional U.S. personnel in Syria, including special forces to keep up this momentum.", "More American troops. But they won't lead the fight. Will they? Let's talk. Live in the CNN NEWSROOM.", "And good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. A major twist in a political season that has already tossed aside the normal playbook. Donald Trump's Republican challengers are now joining forces for a single goal, to keep the nomination out of Mr. Trump's hands. The historic move explained by Cruz's campaign manager, quote, \"Having Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November would be a sure disaster for the Republicans.\" And adding, \"Having him as our nominee would set the party back a generation.\" CNN's Chris Frates live in Philadelphia at a Kasich event next hour. Chris, tell us more.", "Hey, good morning, Carol. This really is an extraordinary deal between John Kasich and Ted Cruz. It's essentially a nonaggression pact with a divide and conquer strategy against Donald Trump. Here's how it would work. John Kasich is ceding Indiana to Ted Cruz. And if you look at the polling there, you can you start to understand why. Donald Trump is leading both Cruz and Kasich in that state by double-digits in a three-way race. But if Cruz were not to compete there and Ted Cruz can go head-to-head against Donald Trump, it becomes a statistical dead heat. And that gives Cruz the opportunity to try to pick up all 57 of those delegates at stake. It's a winner- take-all opportunity, and that could help keep Donald Trump from getting that magic number of 1237 that he needs to clinch the nomination. Now similarly in New Mexico and Oregon, Ted Cruz saying he's not going to compete against John Kasich there so Kasich has an opportunity to pick up more delegates against Donald Trump. And that's because it's almost mathematically impossible for Ted Cruz or John Kasich to get to that magic number of 1237. So they want to be able to stop Donald Trump from getting there so they can go to Cleveland and come out of that contested convention. They both believe if it goes to a contested convention, they have a shot at that nomination. Now of course Donald Trump not too happy about this news. In fact he was tweeting just this morning, and I want to read you this tweet, Carol. He said, quote, \"Shows how weak and desperate Lyin' Ted is, when he has to team with a guy who openly can't stand him and has only one win and 38 losses.\" And, Carol, it also gives more ammunition to Donald Trump's complaint over the last few days that this system is rigged. In fact he's now saying that Cruz and Kasich are colluding. Here's what he said on the campaign trail just yesterday.", "Cruz is going, and he's wining and dining and dinner in hotels and all this stuff. He's bribing people, essentially, to vote. Now he can't do it in the first ballot because they're locked into me in the first ballot. I just read an article that Cruz is working really hard to -- I don't want to use the word bribe, but to bribe the delegates from all over the place.", "Now the only thing that remains to be seen here, Carol, is whether or not Kasich and Cruz supporters will follow their lead. Will Kasich supporters in Indiana vote for Cruz? Will Cruz supporters in New Mexico and Oregon go for Kasich? That remains to be seen and something that we'll be watching very, very closely, Carol.", "All right. Chris Frates live in Philadelphia this morning. Extraordinary, right? I mean, it's downright strange. Kasich and Cruz are asking voters to cast a ballot not for them necessarily but to deny Trump the nomination. With me now, CNN political commentator and Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord. I'm also joined by Robert McFarlane, he's a surrogate for John Kasich and a former national security adviser for President Reagan. Welcome to both of you.", "Hello.", "Good morning.", "Happy Monday, Carol.", "Good morning. Happy Monday. So, Jeffrey, I guess I'll start with you. Mr. Trump is accusing Ted Cruz and John Kasich of collusion. Why is he using that word?", "Well, that's what they're doing. I have to say, Carol, I am astounded at this. Between them, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump have gotten 60 percent to 80 percent of the vote from Republicans who have had it with the Republican establishment, and Ted Cruz, who has been remarkably good on this, up until now, talking about the Washington cartel and all of that kind of thing, all of a sudden switches sides. I mean, he's basically has sold out here in some sort of Republican Party Munich. I am really, really astounded at this. I think this is frankly going to backfire. I mean, it's just such a bad mistake on his part and it's going to hurt.", "Well, Robert, just -- it is just so strange. It's like this -- it's a divide and conquer strategy, right? It is odd. Kasich and Cruz have been bashing one another as recently as yesterday. Listen.", "A vote for Cruz or Trump, frankly, is a vote for Hillary Clinton. At the end of it all, I think when we're at the convention, the delegates are going to want to know who can beat Hillary. And these guys don't have enough time to turn around super high negatives.", "As we stand here today, there are two people, and only two people, that have any plausible path whatsoever to winning the Republican nomination. Me and Donald Trump. As I said, plausible path.", "OK. So bashing each other, you know, like yesterday. Now they form a partnership. Kasich by the way canceled all of his events in Indiana to pave the way for Ted Cruz but the Indiana primary, Robert, is a week from tomorrow. Isn't it a little late?", "Well, no. Popular misunderstanding is that the delegates at the convention are going to be pledged forever and ever. As you know, nobody will arrive there with a first ballot nomination number of delegates. And after that, it really depends on the work you have done beforehand. Right now and for the past eight months in the actual delegate selection process, Governor Kasich is confident his position in Indiana, in the actual delegates that he has engaged, is going to be very much in his favor at the convention on the second ballot and beyond if necessary. So there's nothing about collusion. It's about doing your homework before you get to the convention. It's going to be contested. I've been to four conventions, one of them contested. So this is a very much ground game that's played before you ever arrive at the convention and selection of delegates that are going to be with you on the second ballot and beyond.", "Interesting. So let me get this straight. So John Kasich is asking the voters of Indiana to vote for Ted Cruz to keep Donald Trump out. And once those delegates from Indiana get to the convention in Cleveland, they're still going to throw their support behind John Kasich. Is that right, Robert?", "Well, delegates are allocated in the states, in the primary, based upon who wins the votes in the primary process. But if that vote on the first ballot doesn't yield a majority for any candidate, then the state pledge originally made no longer governs the outcome. And people can be nominated. A second ballot made, a third, a fourth if necessary. And at that point, it is the judgment of individual delegates from each state that's going to determine the outcome. And that's why it's so important for a sensible candidate to have done the homework and hard work before you get there, making sure that delegates are selected who agree with your point of view. That's why Governor Kasich is in a very good position.", "OK. So --", "Carol?", "Yes?", "I'm talking to you from Pennsylvania where we'll have our primary tomorrow. And interestingly, the Trump delegates and the Cruz delegates are well out there, under their own names, campaigning for Trump and Cruz. I got three phone calls into this house from people identifying delegates only by name. And saying vote for these delegates and we are unaffiliated with anyone. They gave the name of the committee, however, which I looked up and lo and behold, they're for John Kasich. So in other words, they're playing a little cute here. They're trying to get you to vote for delegates without saying who they're supporting. When, in fact, if you do the homework they are supporting John Kasich.", "Interesting. OK, Jeffrey, I wanted to ask you about something else. And it's -- it involves one of the Koch brothers. The Koch brothers are big money men for Republicans.", "Right.", "Well, Charles Koch intimated over the weekend that Hillary Clinton might be a better president than any of the Republican nominees. Listen.", "So is it possible another Clinton could be better than another Republican next time around?", "It's possible. It's possible.", "You couldn't see yourself supporting Hillary Clinton, could you?", "Well, her -- we would have to believe her actions would be quite different than her rhetoric. Let me put it that way. On some of the Republican candidates we would have to believe their actions would be quite different than the rhetoric we've heard so far.", "So, Jeffrey, I nearly fell off my chair.", "Me, too, Carol. I can't wait until Harry Reid hears this. I would love to see Harry Reid explain why he is on the same side of things with the Koch brothers.", "Well -- but if Donald --", "Isn't -- in listening to Mr. Koch, right, is it possible that Donald Trump could ever bring the Republican Party together? If you have a hardcore Republican like Charles Koch intimating he might support Hillary Clinton for president.", "Yes. What Donald Trump is doing is the old Reagan formula of bringing in Democrats, independents and Republicans, who are conservatives. Donald Trump was here in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Thursday night at the Farm Show Arena. He had 10,000 people. And because I'm on your show among others a lot of these people came up and spoke to me, and explained exactly how they got there, why they're for Donald Trump, et cetera. He really is bringing in new people. So yes, I do think he can win.", "But, Robert, Mr. Trump may be bringing in new people but he's not bringing in enough women, he's not bringing in minority voters at all. So can Jeffrey really say that?", "Well, Carol, if you look at the polling for the past eight months, every time and every poll, the winner always comes out in a head-to-head race between Clinton and Kasich, with Kasich winning, and Cruz and Trump both losing significantly. And so when they get to the convention sensible delegates on the second ballots are going to make their choices on who is it that can win as demonstrated in polls for eight months now. So there's no real choice to be made except who is it that can win. And of course Governor Kasich has the record and the experience, the knowledge to govern sensibly. And so it's going to be an interesting convention. But the polls all tell you that second ballot and beyond, John Kasich is in very good position.", "I do think it will be an interesting convention. And I have to leave it there.", "The only state he's won, Carol, was Ohio.", "All right. I have to leave it there. Jeffrey Lord, Robert McFarlane, thanks to both of you. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, a major candidate for president says his party isn't being fair to him. And it's not Donald Trump. It's Bernie Sanders."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "PEREIRA", "CAMEROTA", "PEREIRA", "COOPER", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "PEREIRA", "COSTELLO", "COSTELLO", "SEN. TED CRUZ (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "COSTELLO", "HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "COSTELLO", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-128658", "program": "CNN ELECTION CENTER", "date": "2008-7-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/15/ec.01.html", "summary": "Flying Fiasco for People on Terror Watch List", "utt": ["It is a list nobody wants to be on, the government's terror watch list. The feds are taking names of people linked to terrorism, and at the airport, anybody on the list gets thoroughly searched and questioned. And a lot of innocent people with no connections to terrorism somehow get on this list, and face hassles, embarrassment, delays. And, as CNN's Drew Griffin reports, there's no clear way to get off the list.", "Washington Attorney Jim Robinson is a former assistant attorney general. He's a former U.S. attorney from Michigan. He holds a high level government security clearance, and he's a former law school dean, a husband, a granddad, and American. And he gets delayed if not stopped every time he gets on a plane. Why? Because Robinson is also one of the estimated one million names now on the terror watch list.", "So it seems, for years now, despite my best efforts to get off.", "Yesterday, Robinson joined the ACLU in Washington to mark what the group calls a ridiculous milestone. A million names the government believes match known terrorists. And according to the ACLU, 20,000 new names like Robinson's are added every month.", "That means there must be about 950 to 75,000 people who don't belong on this list, who are somehow caught in the mire of doing this.", "What does it mean? It means, because of his name, he can't check in to flights electronically. He can't check bags at the curb, can't check in at one of the new speedy airport kiosks. Every time he travels, he and a million others need to wait in line.", "And see somebody who then has to make a call, and determine that apparently I am not the James Kenneth Robinson who is the cause of my being on the watch list.", "Where are you going?", "I'm going to Chicago this morning.", "Don't think it can happen to you? It's happening to me.", "You are on the watch list.", "The watch list?", "So how did I get on this list? Well, the TSA is adamant it's not even me, even though it is me getting stopped at the airports. The TSA says it's the airline's fault. The airlines say they're just following the list provided to them by the TSA. And coincidentally, this all began in May, shortly after I began a series of investigative reports critical of the", "Eleven flights now since May 19th. On different airlines, my name pops up, forcing me to go to the counter, show my identification. Sometimes the agent has to make a call before I get my ticket.", "It's a hassle.", "What does the TSA say? Nothing, at least, nothing on camera. Over the phone, a public affairs worker told me again, I'm not on the watch list. And don't even think that someone in the TSA or anyone else is trying to get even.", "So if there's any thought or shadow of a thought that TSA somehow put you on the watch list because of your reporting, it is absolutely fabricated.", "Jim Robinson who served two Democratic presidents says he's trying not to think politics is involved, either.", "I don't feel safer because I have to go through this hassle, I can tell you that.", "The ACLU's technology chief, Barry Steinghardt, says the list is so secretive and yet so shoddily put together, it's hard to tell how it's being used or abused.", "The truth is we really don't know how much is bureaucratic ineptness and how much is, you know -- and how much is political retaliation.", "Even more frustrating than being on it is trying to get off. According to the TSA, you fill out a form online, which I did on May 28th. You then copy personal documents, fill out another form and send them to Homeland Security, which I also did on May 28th. And then, apparently, you wait. Robinson has been waiting now three years.", "On May 2nd, 2005, I filled out all their forms, made a copy of my passport, my driver's license, my voter's registration card, put it in a package, and sent it off to TSA. I never heard back, and it certainly doesn't seem to have done me any good at all.", "My wait has apparently just begun.", "Wow, Drew. Well, I don't know whether it's bureaucratic or whether it's political, it's ridiculous.", "Yes.", "And this is supposedly an FBI list, so, what's the FBI saying about all this?", "Well, the FBI says the ACLU made it longer than it is. There is a million names on this list, but a lot of these terrorists have aliases, so the FBI says it's not really a million people on the list. Most of them foreign, most of them living overseas. The FBI also said, though, though this is an inconvenience to some, it's an inconvenience we have to pay for for an anti-terrorism tool that works. The FBI, the TSA insist because of this list, terrorists are not flying and we are safer in the skies. And those of us on this list just have to put up with it.", "All right. So Drew, are you who you really say you are? Or is this whole -- this whole CNN job, it's an elaborate ruse?", "You know, CNN goes over my scripts very thoroughly. And they went over my hiring very thoroughly.", "We're going to watch you.", "So I think I am who I am. I'm not sure.", "All right. Drew Griffin, a great story. Thank you for bringing us that. Appreciate it.", "Thanks.", "Coming up in just a moment, Cindy McCain, and why her family's huge beer business is cashing in again. Her money, her company's influence and the politics. And the controversial cartoon of Michelle and Barack Obama on the cover of the \"New Yorker\" magazine. Well now, Barack Obama speaks out about it to Larry King, when the ELECTION CENTER returns."], "speaker": ["BROWN", "DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SPECIAL INVESTIGATION UNIT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JIM ROBINSON, ATTORNEY", "GRIFFIN", "ROBINSON", "GRIFFIN", "ROBINSON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GRIFFIN", "GRIFFIN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GRIFFIN", "GRIFFIN (on camera)", "TSA. GRIFFIN (voice-over)", "ROBINSON", "GRIFFIN", "VOICE OF CHRISTOPHER WHITE, TSA PUBLIC AFFAIRS", "GRIFFIN", "ROBINSON", "GRIFFIN", "BARRY STEINGHARDT, ACLU", "GRIFFIN", "ROBINSON", "GRIFFIN", "BROWN", "GRIFFIN", "BROWN", "GRIFFIN", "BROWN", "GRIFFIN", "BROWN", "GRIFFIN", "BROWN", "GRIFFIN", "BROWN"]}
{"id": "CNN-7560", "program": "Science and Technology Week", "date": "2000-5-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/06/stc.00.html", "summary": "IMAX Shows Jordan Like Never Before", "utt": ["The enormous screens and high resolution of IMAX movies have been used over and over to showcase the wonders of nature. But the newest IMAX film focuses on a different kind of natural phenomenon: an amazing athlete. Rick Lockridge reports on how the filmmakers put viewers in the middle of the action.", "He has always seemed larger than life, so maybe it's surprising that no one thought of putting Michael Jordan on an 80-foot-tall IMAX movie screen before Chicago Bulls fan Don Kempf did.", "I was sitting in an IMAX theater here in Chicago, and sitting in the back row, and all of a sudden I had this vision of Michael Jordan eight stories high, on-screen. tongue flying out, coming right at me.", "Three years later, that vision has been transformed into a 45-minute IMAX movie, \"Michael Jordan to the Max.\" The film is an unabashed celebration of Jordan's life up to and through his last title run as a member of the 1998 NBA Champion Chicago Bulls. Superfast IMAX cameras, which gobble six feet of 70-millimeter film per second, capture some of Jordan's most memorable moves as you've literally never seen them before.", "You see it at a different angle and with a depth that television can't provide and most film you see can't provide. It's just, it's overwhelming.", "Special effects include a scene where Jordan appears to hang in mid-air while en route to the basket, a green screen sequence that required 100 still cameras to click in perfect synchronization, a technique known as bullet-time photography.", "I was very impressed. Modern technology is amazing. I was just happy to be a part of it. That was one of my favorite parts of the movie, actually.", "Producers expect this movie to gross $100 million nationwide, a staggering sum by IMAX standards. In other words, they expect Michael Jordan to be as successful in this new arena as he's been in all the others he's played in. For SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY WEEK, I'm Rick Lockridge in Chicago.", "Thanks, Rick. And thanks for joining us, I'm Ann Kellan. Next week, the next big player in the world of computer games could be Microsoft. We'll check out its bid for the big time on the next SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY WEEK. We'll see you then."], "speaker": ["KELLAN", "RICK LOCKRIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DON KEMPF, CO-PRODUCER, \"MICHAEL JORDAN TO THE MAX\"", "LOCKRIDGE", "BOB COSTAS, SPORTSCASTER", "LOCKRIDGE", "MICHAEL JORDAN", "LOCKRIDGE (on camera)", "KELLAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-237184", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2014-08-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/22/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "The ISIS Threat; What Threat Does ISIS Pose?", "utt": ["Welcome back. Live from Ferguson, Missouri, tonight. Unrest here is not the only item on President Obama's agenda. Earlier this year, he said of ISIS, \"If a J.V. team puts on Lakers uniforms, it doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.\" And then just yesterday, the president's own defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, said that the ISIS threat is, quote, \"beyond anything we have ever seen.\" So just how powerful is ISIS? Joining me now to discuss, Juliette Kayyem, CNN national security analyst; Bob Baer, CNN national security analyst and a former CIA operative. Good evening to both of you. I appreciate you coming on to talk about this. Bob, you first. Really, the central question is, what's the best way to fight back against ISIS? Because U.S. officials are now telling CNN there are talks about increasing air strikes in Iraq and even the possibility of, quote, tailored air strikes inside Syria, against specific ISIS targets. But officials are stressing no decisions have been made now by the White House. So do you think that we have to go to Syria?", "I unfortunately think we do with air strikes. As long as we don't send troops in, you know, decapitate this organization. It is dangerous. It's the first time that an al Qaeda-like organization has actually owned territory and weapons. But what we don't want to do is get in a fight with Sunni Islam. So it has to be very limited, and ultimately, it's got to be the Iraqis and the Syrians who crush this organization.", "OK. So tailored and limited. Will that be enough, Bob? That's the question.", "I hope so, because I just couldn't conceive of the United States ever sending its military back into Iraq to go into eastern Syria. It would be horribly costly and probably wouldn't work. So let's keep our fingers crossed these limited air strikes slow this organization down and give the Iraqis and the Syrian forces time to crush them.", "Julia, I see you're shaking your head in agreement there. But I want to ask you this question. The former deputy director of the CIA fears that ISIS could carry out attacks in the U.S. Let's listen, and we'll discuss.", "If a ISIS member showed up in a mall in the United States tomorrow with an AK-47 and killed -- killed a number of Americans, I would not be surprised. Over the long term, I worry that this group could present a 9/11 style threat.", "Nine-eleven style, Juliette. I mean, what are the short- and long-term threats ISIS presents against the U.S. where he would say \"9/11-style\"?", "Well, I mean, the honest truth is, is that this is true of any terrorist organization. I think the FBI, the deputy director's statements were sort of completely over the top and not very helpful from the perspective of how do you plan to protect the homeland? Something is going on here where the generals are talking about expanding, you know, air strikes. There's fears within the homeland. What are we going to do? Every shopping mall could be attacked. The White House either needs to get the generals in line so that they are on the talking points, which is, there are no immediate plans to -- for anyone to attack the United States, or if this is part of some concerted effort to prepare the American public for expanded attacks or expanded military strikes in Syria, talk to us like we're rational adults. Some -- the split between what the generals are saying, sort of scaring everyone in the homeland, and what we're hearing about what the plan needs to be, consistent with what Bob was just saying, the split is confusing to the American public. So get the generals in line and stop all this talk about imminent threats and shopping malls.", "Juliette, I have another question for you, because Governor Rick Perry has indicated that ISIS could be coming to the U.S. through Mexico. Others say that is not likely at this time. I mean, do you think that they're already here?", "I don't know. I mean, look, we have porous southern borders, but -- and we've always known that. But the truth is, is that terrorists, at least sophisticated ones, don't want to do anything illegal before the big attack. So one has to assume that, if they're planning something in the United States, it's going to be as lawful as possible until the moment of attack. But there is at least no public acknowledgment of any imminent attack, anyone here who is affiliated or aligned with ISIS. And look, any crazy person can say they have allegiances to ISIS and show up at a shopping mall with an AK-47. That is, unfortunately, the truth of the kind of nation we are now. And we have to just decide our national security policy about what's best for our own security. Not what one individual could potentially do coming through the southern border. So I hope that we can get a consistent message coming out of the White House and make a decision about what's the best military strikes to disrupt ISIS in the future.", "Bob, I want to get this question in in the short amount of time that we have left. We don't negotiate with terrorists. We always say that. But President Obama agreed to exchange five Taliban detainees for Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. The GAO says that was likely illegal. So why didn't the administration work out a similar deal for the release of James Foley? BAER; That's a good question. They probably could have. But they judged this organization clearly less reliable, less rational than the Taliban. The Taliban, after all, is not an international terrorist organization. It has no intention of attacking the United States. It's not claiming a caliphate. It's almost, you know, a moderate compared to the Islamic State. And they're afraid to go down that route, because there's a -- there's a hostage exchange in Syria. And, you know, will that encourage taking more in this situation? It's a hard decision, but they probably made the right one.", "Bob, Juliette, appreciate it. Thank you very much. When we come right back, the unrest here in Ferguson has taken its toll, especially among the youngest residents. And I'm going to talk to the children of the embattled community, up next."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "BOB BAER, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "LEMON", "BAER", "LEMON", "MICHAEL MORRELL, FORMER CIA DEPUTY DIRECTOR", "LEMON", "JULIETTE KAYYEM, CNN ANALYST", "LEMON", "KAYYEM", "LEMON", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-331113", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-01-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/23/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Pence: No Pay of Hush Money from Trump to Porn Star.", "utt": ["Vice President Mike Pence is flat-out denying reports that, at the time, private citizen Donald Trump had an affair with this porn star and had his lawyer pay her hush money. While this porn star, Stormy Daniels, is capitalizing on her new notoriety, Daniels appeared at a strip club in Greenville, South Carolina, over the weekend.", "The owner won't tell us how much he paid her or how much she made but booked her as soon as he saw published reports on the alleged affair.", "Talked to her agent. They said the only thing she has open is this saturday night. I said done. At that point I didn't realize it was the inauguration anniversary or the other stuff going on. I'm not a showman. I'm a promoter. Tonight is a performance burlesque, if you will, a strip tease show, whatever you want to call it. There's no politics involved. I happened to be dumb lucky for when it's happening.", "Let's get to the political part. As for the alleged hush money, this watchdog group says it may have violated campaign laws pair of federal complaints to seek if Michael Cohen, president's personal attorney, alleged $130,000 payment was an unreported in-kind contribution to the president's 2016 campaign. We go to Mark Geragos for this, CNN legal analyst and defense attorney. Mark, the organization calling on the Justice Department and the FEC to fully investigate. The White House saying, meanwhile, all of this is baseless. Do you see signs of campaign violations here?", "The only way it's a campaign violation is if they used campaign funds or it was routed through the campaign. They don't have to go very far because Jared Kushner's lawyer is Abby Lowell, who represented John Edwards in his campaign finance prosecution over paying off his mistress. So, he's well aware of what the laws are. I know Michael Cohen apparent, if you believe what's reported, set up a separate LLC, routed the money, the $130,000. By the way, the $130,000 makes some sense. The reason that rings true to me is my guess is that she said I want $100,000 net into my pocket and her lawyer took the $30,000.", "Mark Geragos, I wish we had more time.", "Add a new job title for you."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "JAY LEVY, OWNER, THE TROPHY CLUB", "BALDWIN", "MARK GERAGOS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BALDWIN", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-3235", "program": "WorldView", "date": "2000-2-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/24/wv.02.html", "summary": "U.N. Security Council Approves Plan to Send Military Force to Congo", "utt": ["The United Nations Security Council Thursday approved a plan to send a large military force to Congo to monitor a fragile cease-fire in a war that involves various rebel factions and troops from several countries. CNN's senior U.N. correspondent Richard Roth has the story.", "There are only 83 U.N. military observers right now in Congo, home to what has been described by U.S. diplomats as Africa's first world war. By unanimous vote, the U.N. Security Council approved a deeper commitment, a force 5,500 strong.", "The fighting must stop now. International humanitarian law must be respected.", "Earlier this month, this massacre in eastern Congo. But the U.N. peacekeepers, as in Bosnia, will not be there to make a peace. In fact they wont even go to Congo unless a cease-fire agreement signed last year is finally lived up to.", "I hope that history will record it as a major step away from the brink of the abyss. But as the resolution states, implementation depends first and foremost on the parties.", "Before the print on the resolution was dry, reports from Congo said President Kabila wants U.N. forces stationed only in rebel areas. But at the council, Congo's ambassador was grateful.", "My delegation is gratified to see that after so much equivocation, the Security Council has heard the cries and lamentations of the Congolese people.", "The U.N. calls it a huge logistical challenge, observing a country the size of Western Europe, loaded with nine rebel groups and armies from at least six nations.", "It falls precariously short of matching the mission's mandate with the resources needed for it to succeed. None of us wants to risk repeating the mistakes in Srebrenica.", "This vote simply authorizes the dispatch of a force for Congo. Now the U.N. needs offers of troops, observers and helicopters from member countries. But needed most of all -- security guarantees from African factions on the ground. A U.N. official said, we're not naive. We know the risks. But in order to get to the next stage, full disengagement of the combatants, we need to go check it out. Richard Roth, CNN, United Nations."], "speaker": ["BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR", "RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "STEWART ELDON, DEP. BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO UNITED NATIONS", "ROTH", "RICHARD HOLBROOKE, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO UNITED NATIONS", "ROTH", "MWAMBA KAPANGA, CONGOLESE AMBASSADOR TO UNITED NATIONS (through translator)", "ROTH", "ROBERT FOWLER, CANADIAN AMBASSADOR TO U.N. (through translator)", "ROTH (on camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-379045", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-08-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/30/cnr.08.html", "summary": "DNC to Block Virtual Iowa Caucuses Due to Security Worry; Critics Say Bail Industry Is Profiting Off Underprivileged; Bail Bonding Companies Enlist Lobbyists to Thwart Bail Reform", "utt": ["Top 2020 Democratic hopefuls are promising a huge change to the criminal justice system. Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are among those calling to get rid of cash bail. They say it disproportionately targets the poor, where one arrest can mean a lifetime of debt, even if the charges are dismissed. CNN's Drew Griffin explains why change won't come easy.", "Two billion is roughly how much money the bail bond business reportedly takes in across the country every year. Who pays? Underprivileged people, under arrest who find themselves facing a decision. Sit in jail for months to await trial or pay a bail bonds man to get them out.", "Most people who are arrested are actually low-income or almost no income individuals. And when we put a ransom on their liberty, it has a dramatic impact on people.", "Here's how the bail system works. Let's say you're arrested and the judge sets bail at $50,000. If you have money, you can you pay it, go free and get it back when you show up for your court date. I you don't have the money you can sit in jail until trial or hire a bonds man to bail you out. The bonds man will likely charge you 10 percent, $5,000. That's a few paid to a bonds man that you will never get back. Even if you are not guilty, even if the charges are dropped. Add on interest from payment plans and fees. Often the debt can last for years. Iowa District Judge Robert Hanson says the system is flawed.", "The thing that I know is that monetary bonds do not guarantee that the bad people stay in jail. And monetary bonds do not guarantee that the safe people are released.", "Many states are making changes to move away from relying on money bail. But CNN found out the business that profits from the current system, the powerful bail industry is working hard to stop reform. It has derailed, stalled or killed reform efforts in at least nine states. One of the best examples, Iowa, a pilot program called the Public Safety Assessment Tool gave judges more information about defendants. And those deemed low risk could get out of jail without having to pay bail. Antwan Stewart arrested for stealing beer was able to walk to his job at a bakery every day while waiting for trial instead of sitting in jail.", "That's why I say it saved my life.", "CNN talked to more than a dozen officials in the Iowa justice system. Corrections officials, judges, public defenders who supported the program, but here is where Iowa's story takes a dark twist. Because in the middle of last year's state budget process, and out of the blue, this line was inserted into an appropriations bill which stopped Iowa's bail reform in its tracks, the public safety assessment pilot program shall be terminated. It turns out behind the scenes, there was an explanation, you just had to follow the money.", "Lederman Bail Bonds didn't like the program because there were defendants, people being held in jail that were getting out of jail without having to post any type of a bond. They were losing business.", "That was it?", "Market share.", "Lederman Bail Bonds, a huge bail bonds company in Iowa, with 150 agents across the Midwest and a drive through service just outside the gates of Iowa's Polk County jail. It's run by the Lederman brothers. This is Jacob in Des Moines who told us to talk to his brother Josh. Josh in Davenport declined interview requests. CNN did some digging and it turns out the Ledermans may have decided money would do their talking. Since 2017 Josh Lederman has paid a powerful Iowa lobbying firm more than $74,000. He's also donated more than $36,000 to Republican campaigns in 2018. That's more money donated in one year than he spent in the past 15 years combined. And Josh Lederman for the first time ever last year, made a donation to a Republican representative in rural Storm Lake, Iowa named Gary Worthan. Worthan's district had nothing to do with the pilot program but he submitted the amendment to the budget bill to kill the program. Worthan is co-chair of the Justice System Appropriations Subcommittee. (on camera): Representative Worthan, this is Drew Griffin with CNN, thanks for picking up the call. (voice over): Worthan would speak only reluctantly by phone. (on camera): Can you explain why you were trying to -- or why you did get rid of the Public Safety Assessment Pilot Program?", "Well, from your tone of voice you already decided what -- what direction this article is taking and I'm not here to be misquoted or having my comment taken out of context and this is why I don't want to be associated in any way with", "This year Gary Worthan once again included language in the budget bill making it nearly impossible the program will ever restart. Drew Griffin, CNN, Des Moines.", "Donkeys played a critical role in American history, helping to build railroads and other infrastructure but today they are often abandoned and abused. Well, this week CNN's Hero is trying to change that. He has saved more than 13,000 donkeys giving them a second chance at life and finding them forever homes.", "Donkeys speak to my soul. (on camera): That lip will come loose. Won't it? Donkeys are like dogs. They're amazing animals that nobody gets. I understand what they're thinking. And there are so many donkeys in so many places that need so much help. There is nothing cuter than a baby donkey. We're saving them, we're improving their lives. I want to see every donkey find its happiness, its happy place, its peaceful place.", "So see more of Mark's work go to CNNheroes.com right now. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "CHERISE FANNO BURDEEN, CEO, PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE", "GRIFFIN", "JUDGE ROBERT HANSON, IOWA DISTRICT COURT", "GRIFFIN", "ANTWOIN STEWART, RELEASED WITHOUT HAVING TO PAY BAIL", "GRIFFIN", "RICK OLSON (D) IOWA STATE HOUSE", "GRIFFIN (on camera)", "OLSON", "GRIFFIN (voice over)", "REP. GARY WORTHAN (R) IOWA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES", "CNN. GRIFFIN (voice over)", "CABRERA", "MARK MEYERS, DONKEY RESCUER (voice over)", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-286165", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2016-06-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/08/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Hillary Clinton's History-Making Moment; The Toll of the Iraq War on Children", "utt": ["I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to News Stream. Now, history rewritten in the race for the White House. Hillary Clinton declares victory becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee. We'll have the full breakdown on the final Super Tuesday. And now that the battle lines are drawn, Donald Trump promises supporters he will bounce back from a controversial week to take on Clinton. And the ever-growing danger of cyber warfare. We'll hear from a well- known hacker hunter about a fresh wave of digital threats. Hillary Clinton has secured her place in history. The former U.S. Secretary of State is now the first woman to be the presumptive nominee of a major American political party. She faces Republican Donald Trump, the billionaire real estate mogul who has won support of millions of Americans to become his party's presumptive choice for president. Now, a day ago voters in six U.S. states went to the polls for the nation's final Super Tuesday, and even before all the votes were tallied, Clinton tweeted this, quote, \"to every little girl who dreams big, yes, you can be anything you want, even president. Tonight is for you.\" Now, CNN's Jeff Zeleny was there when Clinton took the stage at her victory rally.", "Hillary Clinton's history making moment.", "The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.", "Savoring a triumph in her long Democratic primary fight exactly eight years after extinguishing her first trailblazing campaign.", "Tonight victory is not about one person. It belongs to generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed, and made this moment possible.", "Extending her hand to Bernie Sanders after finishing strong in the final round of primaries, wins in New Jersey and California.", "And let there be no mistake. Senator Sanders, his campaign, and the vigorous debate that we've had have been very good for the Democratic Party and for America.", "Sanders losing the big prize of California after spending 18 straight days campaigning there, effectively ending his argument to fight on.", "I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we will continue to fight for every vote and delegate.", "This as Sanders campaign tells CNN they plan to cut half their staff.", "The struggle continues.", "After a bitter primary duel, early signs of peacemaking. CNN has learned campaign manager for Sanders and Clinton, Jeff Weaver and Robby Mook, are talking behind the scenes. The end is near with Sanders heading to the White House tomorrow to meet with President Obama in hopes of bringing the party together, which Clinton says, she knows can be difficult.", "Now, I know it never feels good to put your heart into a cause or a candidate you believe in and to come up short. I know that feeling well.", "As we look ahead to the battle that awaits, let's remember all that unites us.", "The biggest point of teen for Democrats may well be defeating Donald Trump.", "We believe that we are stronger together. And the stakes in this election are high, and the choice is clear. Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president and commander in chief.", "She is making a full pivot to Trump, inviting voters who are skeptical of him to rally behind her.", "We won't let this happen in America. And if you agree, whether you're Democrat, Republican or independent, I hope you will join us.", "And that was Jeff Zeleny reporting. Now, it was a switch for Donald Trump, who ended Tuesday night by reading his speech. He normally doesn't do that. Now, a top campaign adviser called the speech important to recover from five bad days, that's after trump accused a judge hearing a case of being biased because of his Mexican heritage. That was called racism by the Republican House Speaker. Here is some of what Trump had to say.", "Now, I know some people say I'm too much of a fighter. My preference is always peace, however. And I've shown that. I've shown that for a long time. I've built an extraordinary business on relationships and deals that benefit all parties involved, always. My goal is always, again, to bring people together. But if I'm forced to fight for something I really care about, I will never, ever back down, and our country will never, ever back down.", "Now, the supporters of Democrat Bernie Sanders who say he will continue to challenge Clinton have become as target for both front- runners. Now, I'd like to bring in assistant David Swerdlick. He's an assistant editor of The Washington Post where he joins us now. David, welcome back. Good to see you again. Hillary Clinton, let's first start with her. We know she made history. She is America's first female major party presidential nominee. Politics aside, just how significant is this moment?", "Yeah, good morning from Washington, Kristie. This is a significant moment for Secretary Clinton and for the country. I think the Clinton campaign recognizes that if she is to win in November and become the first woman president of the United States, it will be a more significant moment, but last night they took the time in her victory speech to stop and acknowledge that it is a milestone in the United States. Look, other countries -- Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Pakistan, Turkey, have had women heads of government, United States has not -- Clinton is not there yet, but the fact in our two-party system she comes out on top as the nominee of one of the major parties was something that she did take a measured victory lap on last night.", "Let's talk about Bernie Sanders. He is simply not accepting the delegate math. He is fighting on right into the convention. Why? What is he thinking?", "Well, Sanders has run a campaign that has exceeded all expectations. Give him this -- he has won a number of primaries in the double digits in terms of numbers of states. He's won millions of votes. He still draws huge crowds and his campaign raised a ton of money. He has said to his supporters, I think it's reasonable that he is going to go through next week's Democratic primary in Washington, D.C., and finish it out, and press his leverage up to the Democratic convention six weeks from now in Philadelphia. What Democrats are saying behind the scenes, though, and I think it's right, is that it's becoming less and less easy for him to make the case that he can really divide himself from Clinton and say that he is some alternative to her in the face of the fact that she has won the primaries - - most of the primary, most of the votes, most of the delegates and most of the super delegates are pledging to support her. And so now the question is for the Sanders' campaign, how do they sort of bring his campaign in for a landing where they don't disappoint his supporters, but at the same time bring the Democratic Party together, and pivot to the idea that in his mind for Senator Sanders -- as he has said, although not very loudly, that he prefers Secretary Clinton to Donald Trump, the Republican alternative.", "Yeah, and speaking of Donald Trump, you know, last week he scored some, or recently he scored some major GOP support, right? Now, major GOP figures, they're calling his recent comments about a judge racist. How much unity is there between the party and Donald Trump? I mean, is the party in line together with Trump here?", "This is a problem for the party. And it's not clear now how they're going to resolve it. As you mentioned, Kristie, last week Donald Trump got the endorsement that he most wanted, the endorsement of House Speaker Paul Ryan, the sort of highest ranking Republican in the country right now. Within 24 hours, Trump started making his divisive comments about a federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel, which have set off this firestorm of controversy over the last four or five days. And Trump has doubled down and tripled down on those comments and forced people like Speaker Ryan and other top Republican elder statesmen to disavow Trump's comments. It's a problem, because, you know, Trump's campaign has succeeded in generating this \"us versus them\" friction. But now that he's going into the general election, Republicans are in a quandary about how to maintain that enthusiasm for Trump while also telling Trump especially, you've got to tone it down, you've got to stop making statements that are racially divisive, dividing people along gender lines, et cetera.", "All eyes on the general election in a crazy, unpredictable race so far. David Swerdlick of The Washington Post, thank you so much for joining us again here on News Stream. Take care. We'll talk about again. Now, turning now to the battle for Fallujah. Tens of thousands of civilians are caught in the crossfire as Iraqi forces take on ISIS. Now, many are trying to escape, but their ordeal doesn't end once they get out. Now, the UN says civilians are facing physical abuse by armed groups allied with the Iraqi government. And all of the violence is taking a heavy toll on children. I spoke recently to Peter Hawkins of UNICEF about the humanitarian situation in Fallujah.", "We estimate there are 20,000 children stuck inside Fallujah. And the reality for those children is they're at risk of either being killed or maimed by the conflict. They're at risk, especially young boys, of being recruited by the militants into the conflict, an adult war perpetrated by children. They're at risk of being traumatized by the whole experience of being caught up in a conflict, which they have, for the past two years been cut off from the extended world. So their educational requirements are not being met, their day-to-day requirements around psycho/social care are not being met. So we are really concerned that the 20,000 children who are stuck in Fallujah have either, being allowed to leave or be protected in some way or another.", "Now, thousands of Iraqis, including children, have managed to flee Fallujah, many of them are at this camps that have been set up to help them. I understand that UNICEF, and other aid groups, have visited these camps. What is the situation like there, especially for Iraqi refugee children?", "Well, the context is that over 60,000 are displaced, some multiple times have been affected in this Anbar region of which Fallujah is one of the main cities. There are transit camps. There are permanent camps. The transit camps, people come in a week, two, three weeks, then go back home before the conflict in their area has been reduced. There are permanent camps, where people have been there a year and a half, two years, and now that people are coming out of Fallujah, they go into those permanent camps. The camps are okay -- water is there, immunization is being carried out, food is there, health care is being -- is being given. The issue, though, is, one, the sheer numbers of people coming out. Can we cope with them all? We believe that we're coping at the moment, alongside the government in providing them services. But as the issue compounds, so it becomes more and more difficult.", "So the camps are becoming increasingly overstretched. So what is your appeal, then? What does UNICES need?", "What we're doing, and we have five people down there now today to try and improve the services to those camps, extend the camps as much as is possible, allow people to come out of the region if they're sponsored, to come into Baghdad or to other places to release the pressure on that area. And then, three, and most importantly, is invest in their long-term future. These people now are coming out, traumatized. Psycho/social care for children is critical now, not only their immediate needs, but their long-term needs. Invest in education so that they can catch up. They can look forward to going back home as and when the conflict in their particular area is over. So, it is really trying to prepare for not only today and tomorrow, but for the future.", "And that was Peter Hawkins of UNICEF speaking to me earlier. Now in Turkey, for the second time in two days, police were the target of a car bombing. The prime minister says at least three people were killed in the attack on a police headquarters in the southeast, more than 30 are wounded. Now, just a day ago, a police bus was attacked in Istanbul leaving at least 11 people dead. Four suspects have been detained in that attack. And turning now to Bangladesh where ISIS says it was behind the brutal murder of a Hindu priest, the 70-year-old man was hacked to death on his way to temple. And this is just the latest in a spate of similar attacks across the country. Recent murder victims include two LGBT activists, a Buddhist monk, a doctor and a Sufi spiritual leader. Witnesses are describing a terrifying scene in the capital of Papua New Guinea. They say police opened fire on student protesters at the University of Port Morseby. At least nine people were injured. The students were calling on the Prime Minister Peter O'Neil to resign over corruption allegations. Anti-corruption activists Noel Anjo told me it was supposed to be a peaceful protest.", "We were surprised by the police with about over 20 -- I mean, 15 to 20 police vehicles, you know, all in military armed gear, like paramilitary post, like going to war. But there was no war at the university, or there was not any -- you know, anything happening.", "Now, Anjo went on to describe the frightening moments after police fired on the students.", "We thought they were firing, you know warning shots to the air, but to our surprise, they be firing straight into students, and these students were, you know, deadly injured. (inaudible) as firing from all directions. Oh, this is unbelievable.", "Now, Prime Minister O'Neil blamed what he called agitators for instigating the violence. Now, still ahead right here on News Stream, Euro 2016 fans could encounter frustrations in France. How tight security, transportation delays and recent flooding have affected the tournament. Plus, technical issues prevent some from registering in the UK referendum. What British leaders are recommending voters do next."], "speaker": ["KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ZELENY", "CLINTON", "ZELENY", "CLINTON", "ZELENY", "BERNIE SANDERS, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ZELENY", "SANDERS", "ZELENY", "CLINTON", "CLINTON", "ZELENY", "CLINTON", "ZELENY", "CLINTON", "LU STOUT", "DONALD TRUMP, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTAIL CANDIDATE", "LU STOUT", "DAVID SWERDLICK, THE WASHINGTON POST", "LU STOUT", "SWERDLICK", "HAYES", "SWERDLICK", "LU STOUT", "PETER HAWKINS, UNICEF", "LU STOUT", "HAWKINS", "LU STOUT", "HAWKINS", "LU STOUT", "NOEL ANJO, ANTI-CORRUPTION ACTIVIST", "LU STOUT", "ANJO", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-217830", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2013-10-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1310/31/lvab.01.html", "summary": "California Nursing Home Abandons Residents", "utt": ["Welcome back. It's a necessary and sometimes dreaded task that more and more people are facing, placing an aging parent in an assisted living facility, not an easy decision. But once it's done, at the very least you expect that your loved one is going to receive the best of care, right? Not the case, at least in one assisted living facility in California. Not only were the residents allegedly not being cared for, they were outright abandoned. Stephanie Elam now with details of this astounding story.", "It was nothing less than chaos. Medics racing to rescue more than a dozen elderly residents after they were abandoned by the majority of the caregivers at Valley Springs Manor home. J.D. NELSON, ALAMEDE CO. SHERIFF'S DEPT.\" How do you do that? We're talking about human beings. How do you just abandon them? It's a bad situation.", "It's exactly what the state of California said was happening for years, according to this complaint from the Department of Social Services which was in the process of shutting the place down. Last Thursday the state suspended Valley Spring's license citing a long list of violations including insufficient employee training, failure to provide necessary medication to patients, not properly treating or reporting patient injuries, and poor maintenance and cleanliness. Once the government stepped in, the owners were not allowed near the facility. End of story, right? Wrong. Some patients were still there. By the close of business on Friday, anyone with any authority was gone, nowhere to be found. The residents were left in the hands of two caregivers and a cook who says they didn't have the proper training to do all that they were doing for the residents, but they felt compelled to stay. This man, Maurice Roland (ph) a cook, says he and the others took other and trained took over, trying to do anything they could to look after the residents who needed round the clock care. Did you feel overwhelmed with all you had to do for these residents?", "I was already overwhelmed by day two.", "Overwhelmed because they needed to help with everything from using the bathroom, to preparing their meals, and even taking medication, which no one was authorized to provide.", "I definitely wasn't the one that was supposed to be giving them their meds.", "Why did you stay?", "In my eyes I had to stay. I couldn't leave the residents. If so, no telling what would have happened.", "Roland says so many needed urgent care that he kept calling 911 for different patients.", "We kept finding people there with nobody there to care for. Paramedics and ambulance company got them all transported to the hospitals.", "What's more, the families of the people abandoned at the home didn't even know it had been shut down. Jean Pong (ph) paid the facility $3,000 a month to care for her sister, but she arrived to find she wasn't cares for at all.", "They should be held accountable. You can't just vacate and leave your residents without proper care. This is what we pay for.", "There were no answers at the facility when we came looking for the owner, Hilda Manuel. We also looked for her at her home. Nobody answered. So why did the Department of Social Services which wanted to close the facility just leave without making sure the patients were taken care of?", "Staff at the facility said they could provide care of the residents through the weekend. That should not have occurred.", "They say there's no doubt they dropped the ball. The owners failed these residents. I think there's no one who's going to doubt that part. Do you believe that the state also failed these residents?", "Again, like I said, we had procedures that should have been followed and they weren't and we're going to figure out why that happened, and we're going to ensure it doesn't happen again.", "I spoke to lawyer for the owner of this property and he says that authorities jumped the gun by removing all of the residents out of the property. He said they were working to fix some of the violations that had come up with the government. He also said the owner was not abandoning these people here but was working to find new homes for them in an orderly fashion. Stephanie Elam, CNN, Castro Valley California.", "All right, Stephanie Elam, thank you for that. Imagine being in labor for six hours without any doctors or midwives anywhere around and it just so happens your home is surrounded by that. Raging floodwaters. Coming up, how did the rescue teams get to that woman behind the wall of water in Texas? Also, these two people are accused of some very disturbing child abuse. They allegedly put a shock collar used for dogs on their child. Find out why and what happened to them straight ahead."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "STAPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ELAM", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ELAM", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ELAM", "MAURICE ROLAND, COOK", "ELAM", "NELSON", "ELAM", "JEAN PONG, SISTER", "ELAM", "MICHAEL WESTON, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, PUBLIC AFFAIRS", "ELAM", "WESTON", "ELAM", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-254819", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2015-05-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1505/08/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Conservative Party Wins U.K. Election", "utt": ["Tonight: live from Westminster, after 24 hours of unexpected triumph and political carnage, major political parties' scalps fell.", "... resigning as leader of the Liberal Democrats.", "I am standing down as leader of UKIP.", "The surprise, outright victors step forward.", "The government I led did important work. It laid the foundations for a better future. And now we must build on them.", "Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. I'm Christiane Amanpour, live outside the Houses of Parliament as the United Kingdom reels from the most dramatic political earthquake in decades. Thursday's unpredictable general election delivered an unexpected outright win for the Conservative Party leader, David Cameron, who's now returned to Downing Street to begin his second term as prime minister. He's speaking after a meeting with the Queen this afternoon, Mr. Cameron promised to, quote, \"make Great Britain greater still.\"", "I truly believe we're on the brink of something special in our country. We can make Britain a place where a good life is in reach for everyone who is willing to work and do the right thing. Our manifesto is a manifesto for working people. And as a majority government, we will be able to deliver all of it.", "Mr. Cameron's outright victory means that he won't have to enter into a coalition government with a rival party. His three closest rivals all suffered a night of brutal and shocking defeats. Those party leaders, including Labour's Ed Miliband, were left with no other choice but to step down.", "Earlier today, I rang David Cameron to congratulate him. I take absolute and total responsibility for the results in our defeat in this election. I'm so sorry for all of those colleagues who lost their seats.", "The Labour Party's was the Scottish National Party's gain. They had a triumphant night north of the border, winning an astonishing 56 out of 59 seats. The Conservatives may have won the most seats down south, but it was by a slim majority. Party Chairman Grant Shapps joined me outside the Houses of Parliament earlier today to discuss some of the many challenges the party now faces.", "Grant Shapps, welcome to the program.", "Thank you.", "Chairman of the party, did you even believe when the exit poll came out last night that you practically had a majority from the get-go?", "Well, I won't kid you. I was pleased to see the exit poll, but of course now we know we've done even better than the exit poll. Suggested we've got the overall majority, at least David Cameron is now back in Downing Street, preparing the government.", "What happened? Do you need to fire all the pollsters? Or did that 40 percent undecided create a last-minute tsunami? Were they shy Tories who didn't want to say they weren't voting Tory? What happened?", "Well, I do think there are a lot of people who were genuinely undecided in this election and they were leaving to the last moment. I met a woman at the polling station in my constituencies, in Hertfordshire, who I overheard her say to a teller, that's somebody official at the station, I overheard her say I just -- how do I do this? I've never voted before. I pulled her to one side and I said I hope you don't mind me asking. What caused you to vote? You don't have to tell me how. What's caused you to vote? And she said, I watched the debates. I've never voted before. But I just suddenly realized this election's really important and there's somebody I didn't want to see at Downing Street. I thought they would have messed it all up having made all this progress. I guess she was probably the perfect exactly of the way a lot of Britons felt yesterday, we got this far. Let's not mess it up. Let's not go back to square one. Let's finish the job.", "All well and good, let's finish the job. But it was, by all accounts, a pretty divisive election. Prime Minister Cameron has come out today to say, well, let's continue our economic recovery and let's gather the United Kingdom all together and let's be a party for the whole nation. How do you do that when so many people thought that playing on fears of the SNP and just generally playing on all sorts of divisive, negative politicking all around, was so prominent in this election?", "Well, I should just point out, for one thing, more people said the Conservatives had a positive campaign and a positive message than for any other party, so we certainly were trying to tell people what we would do. I'm sure it's one of the reasons people have voted for it. But the other thing I'd say is that we don't, the SNP", "What about the other promise he made towards the end of his Downing Street speech, that I will come forward with the pledges we all made at the time of the referendum to the three different nations in the United Kingdom, but especially Scotland, I will make it the most evolved government, including tax and others, in the world? Many people say, yes, about time. You all fled up there in September and you haven't fulfilled your promises. Is the pedal to the metal now on that?", "Yes, and actually, by the way, what people said at the time, the leaders from here said in that vow, so-called vow, is that we will create the draft legislation and publish in the third of the year, which is exactly what we did. But it would be for the next Parliament, i.e., the one that's going to start today, tomorrow, in order to put that legislation through into law. So so far it's exactly to the timetable it was described. Now we're going to put it in law. And at the same time, we're going to make sure that English people and people in other parts of our United Kingdom, Wales and Northern Ireland also get a fair deal, English votes for English laws, for example, let's make sure we have a balanced constitution that bits our United Kingdom, one of the most successful partnerships in the world as a nation, let's make sure it continues.", "Talking about in the world, one of the things the world looks at is whether it will remain a United Kingdom and people, whatever the SNP says, do not believe or can't trust that they won't seek another referendum, keep seeking independence and one of the challenges for David Cameron is to keep this United Kingdom. Can you do that?", "Well, the SNP themselves said this was a decision for a generation. And it seals the issue. It sealed the issue. I -- the SNP aren't saying --", "How come nobody believes it then?", "-- look, in the end, Scotland will have to decide what it wants to do. But I think you would be wrong to assume that people who voted SNP yesterday were voting for independence. No, they were voting because they were fed up with the Labour Party in Scotland, who happened to hold nearly all of those seats. By the way, we only have one Conservative seat in Scotland. But we held it. So we are unchanged in Scotland as Conservatives. And I think actually Conservatives will end up providing the real balance in Scotland. You're either, you know, SNP or I think in future perhaps a center right Conservative.", "One of the things that Nicola Sturgeon did say is that, yes, this is not a mandate for another referendum or independence unless things change significantly. One of the things that could be a significant change is if Great Britain gets out of the E.U. in this in-out referendum, that Prime Minister Cameron has promised. That's also a challenge for him, isn't it, to keep Britain in the E.U.? He's being pushed by his right flank, by UKIP, which has actually, you know, only got one seat; Nigel Farage has resigned. And now he's had to deliver on this referendum. Do you think you're going to stay in Europe?", "Yes, look, first of all, the Conservative position, David Cameron's position is we want to renegotiate with Europe. We think Europe's got too big, too bossy, too interfering. We don't think it's everywhere and actually we're a sovereign nation. We can look after most of these issues, many of these issues ourselves. So we have that renegotiation. We'll put the results of that renegotiation to an in-out referendum of the British people by the end of 2017. The British people can make up their own minds.", "You all have a big smile on your face today, again, this is an amazing result for you because just a few weeks ago, everybody was talking about, well, does David Cameron have the fire in his belly? He's already said he's not going to run again. People were talking about leadership challenges. What happened? Did he suddenly find the fire in his belly or what?", "I think there are two ways to kind of address that question. First is to say, look, I know David Cameron. He's always got a fire in his belly. And he's driven by trying to make this country the greatest country it can possibly be. In the last five years, we took it from being as bust as Greece. Look at Greece now; sadly, they're in the same situation as or worse than they were five years ago. Britain is the fastest growing economy in the world last year. We have unemployment tumbling. David Cameron has made sure that he's delivered that. You have to have a fire in your belly to do it. So that's the first thing. It's a long-term thing and we talked about our long-term economic plan for the next Parliament. It's one of the reasons we do vote on it. The other thing to say is actually a lot of people didn't make up their minds until the last minute. It was one of those elections where people wanted to balance all the contending arguments, look at the different leaders, look at the policies and then come to their decisions. It happened at the last minute. I suppose David Cameron's passion, I'm sure, in the last week or two of that campaign will have helped push people over the line.", "And on that note, thanks so much for joining us.", "Thank you.", "That was Grant Shapps, the chairman of the Conservative Party with me here earlier, and of course that party wasn't the only victor in Thursday's election. Eight months after rejecting independence, as we have said, the Scottish people have transformed their Nationalist Party from a minor political player to virtually the only game in town. So what does that mean for the U.K.? 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{"id": "CNN-369030", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2019-05-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/08/ath.02.html", "summary": "House Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing About Holding Barr In Contempt As Trump Asserts Executive Privilege Over Mueller Report. ", "utt": ["Look, this bears repeating. But let's make a couple of facts clear. The investigation, we don't even know if it's still ongoing. We haven't heard much about it lately. The lack of activity surrounding the investigations makes it clear -- the majority here is not interested in pursuing this for any legitimate legislative purpose. This is about scoring political points. The chairman's public comments around his need for the full report are almost exclusively focused on obstruction. But another important fact here, 99.9 percent of the obstruction volume is available right now for the chairman to view, but he hasn't done that. Only six lines in over 182 pages is redacted in the obstruction volume. This is not about seeking the truth, as we heard this morning. It's about raw partisan politics. Our Democratic colleagues have weaponized our critical oversight responsibilities. And moving today to hold the A.G. in contempt is not only premature, unprecedented and unwarranted, frankly, it is shameful. I think we believe the American people deserve better. I hope that they will review the facts. I hope they'll look at all this correspondence. I hope they'll get beyond this cloud of partisan politics and understand why we are taking the stand today that we are. I yield back.", "Mr. Chairman.", "For what purpose is the gentleman from Louisiana seeking recognition?", "Mr. Chairman, I would move to strike the last word.", "Gentleman is recognized.", "Mr. Chairman, I would just say that today is a very serious day. Today is a very regrettable day. Unfortunately, we have an administration that is choosing to have a temper tantrum that is designed to accomplish one thing, and that one thing is to never let the real facts of the Mueller report come to light, to never let the American people hear the whole story. The other side would have us congratulate them for telling 92 percent of the story. I wish, when I was a child, I could get away with telling 92 percent of the story to my mother. I would always tell the same good 92 percent. And I would leave all the bad deeds, lies and crimes in the 8 percent that I don't tell. So you get no profile in courage, you don't get the Nobel Peace Prize, and you certainly don't get any award for honesty for giving out 92 percent of the whole story to the American people. But the real story of what we're doing today is that the president needed something to hang his hat on to prevent anyone who had anything to do with compiling the report from putting their hand on a Bible and taking an oath to tell the truth. That's what we're going to ultimately have, the president obstructing the testimony of everyone involved in the Mueller report while tells the national people and continues to promote, articulate and push and offer lies and fake news of the contents of the report without ever letting the American people see the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But I will tell the American people that are watching today, that we have a solemn obligation to the Constitution. We have a solemn obligation to defend our democracy, to protect the homeland, to protect the right of the American citizens to have a free, open, fair election without the interference of any foreign countries, especially Russia. The bad news is that this is -- this will never be neat. This will never be clean. This will never be easy. This will never be convenient. This will be messy. But the one thing that the American people should know is that we are here at the right time to protect our democracy and that the Democrats are not going to give up on our constitutional duty. We're not going to run or abandon this country or our citizens. We will never run. We will never retreat when we're fighting to save our country. And for the messiness, it will be that way sometimes. But the fight is necessary to protect this great country and to continue to move it towards being a more perfect union. There are too many people in this country's history that have given their life, blood, sweat and tears to get us to be the great country that we are today. We will not let one administration, certainly not one person, we will not let one party be enablers to the criminal acts that we see over and over again. So just so I can deal and speak in facts so people won't think, there the Democrats go again, there have been 199 criminal acts that have come out of the investigation. There have been 37 -- 34 individuals charged with crimes. There have been three companies charged with crimes. So, let's just look at the orbit around this administration and see how fake this is. The former campaign manager in jail. The former national security adviser, in jail. The president's personal lawyer, in jail. This is not a witch hunt. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. And if it looks like obstruction, sounds like obstruction, smells like obstruction, it's obstruction. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back.", "Mr. Chairman?", "For what purpose does the gentleman from Arizona seek recognition?", "To strike the last word.", "The gentleman is recognized.", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We saw last week an attempt to change the rules of this committee that defied the historical precedent of -- by applying only impeachment proceedings to Attorney General William Barr and today we're zipping right along. We know my colleagues on the other side have the votes. They're going to try to hold this attorney general in contempt. But I'm interested to see the look on the judge's face when my colleagues from the other side present these facts. The court is going to say, what did you do? Were you in negotiations? Well, we were, but we scuttled that. Because we refused to hear from the attorney general because we changed the rules, Judge. We changed the rules so the attorney general didn't come in. He offered to let us view the less redacted report, but I didn't do that. I didn't even bother to go down there and look at that report. He offered to have staff members view the lesser redacted report with me. No. I said, no, we're not going to do that either. He permitted us to take notes on the lesser redacted report and we rejected that as well. He asked us to continue to negotiate to see if we could work out our differences, but I rejected that as well. We attempted to compel him to respond in spite of federal law on rule 6- E, the grand jury material we've heard so much about today. We knew that there was some other witnesses that were important that might have shed light on this as well but we didn't hold a hearing with DAG Rosenstein. We didn't hold a hearing on Mueller before we issued our contempt citation. We didn't seek closed-door, confidential, classified hearings with any of these individuals. In fact, judge, do you know what we did? We undercut our whole argument by making the argument to Mr. Barr saying, hey, look, Mr. Barr, why don't you just join us, why don't you just join us in asking the court to authorize release of 6-E material? What does that do? It says, quite frankly, that the folks that will be sitting there before a court, propounding execution of a contempt citation, they're going to have the great privilege of saying, yes, we put a sword of Damocles over William Barr. We created a Hobson choice. We said, guess what, Mr. Barr, you either get held in contempt or you violate federal law. Because that's just the way we do things in Judiciary Committee these days. That's just the way it is. That is unprecedented and will hold this committee up to derision. And as my colleague, Mr. Johnson, from Louisiana, said, there was a case that just came out last month, which said -- and this gets to my colleague from Georgia who said you can't be misled, there are exceptions. That's right. And the court said, you must fit within one of those exceptions before you can release rule 6-E material. But don't be misled because nothing we're doing here today fits in to the rule 6-E exceptions. There's not an authorization under the 6-E provisions right now. So there's going to be a problem. And I can't wait to see the judge, the look on the judge's face when these guys try to explain, well, we were trying to pigeon hole something into 6-E. And then I'll just close in this area. When I hear that the wrecking ball is being taken to the Constitution, that it's being trampled upon, that our continued breakdown of the constitutional order, these kinds of arguments made over and over again, I can't help but say, if you think this administration, this president is so dangerous, where's -- why aren't you acting on the many resolutions for impeachment you already introduced? Mr. Johnson was pretty clear, this whole thing is about impeachment. Well, take it to the American people, take it. File the resolution. You've already filed them. Act on them. With that, my time is up. Thank you.", "For what purposes does the gentleman from New York move to seek recognition?", "I move to strike the last word.", "The gentleman is recognized.", "I want to say that I expect when the court does hear this challenge, if it comes to that, I expect that she will rule in favor of the constitutional separation and checks and balances in our oversight function. I really don't understand the arguments that have been articulated by my colleagues. And as I under it, there have been three different reasons that have been suggested for opposing our effort to simply uphold our Article I responsibility as a separate and co-equal branch of government. One, that this whole thing is a politically inspired witch hunt. Nonsense. Two, they want to, all of a sudden, protect the reputational interest of innocent Americans. Nonsense. Three, this blanket assertion of executive privilege. Nonsense. Let's take all three. First of all, 17 different intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia interfered with our election, attacked our democracy for the sole purpose of artificially placing someone at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They were successful. And that's also what the Mueller report shows. This is not a politically inspired witch hunt. I'm confused. Every single person at the helm of this investigation is a Republican. The person who initiated the investigation, former FBI Director James Comey, Republican. The FBI director who replaced him and presided over the investigation, Christopher Wray, Republican. The person who decided to appoint a special counsel to preside over the investigation and then monitored it at the helm of the Department of Justice, the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, Republican. The person who actually conducted the investigation, a war hero, a law enforcement professional, Bob Mueller, lifetime Republican. Who is the attorney general going to investigate? The Republican Party? The notion that it's a politically inspired witch hunt is just one of 10,000 or more misrepresentations that have been spun out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It's a shame that you choose to adopt it and parrot it. Second thing, with reputational interests? Really? Many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle actually perpetrated a witch hunt as it relates to securing more than 800,000 documents from this very same Department of Justice without regard to the reputational interests of Americans who have served this country. You weren't concerned with the reputational interests of Hillary Clinton. In fact, the top Republicans said the sole objective was to undermine her, the former first lady and secretary of state. You weren't concerned with the reputational interests of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. In fact, you embarrassed those two. They made mistakes, but you embarrassed those two. You weren't concerned with the reputational interests of Andy McCabe. So don't peddle that phony argument to us. This very same Department of Justice turned over 800,000 pages of documents but they won't turn over a single page pursuant to a legitimately issued subpoena? And then you want to assert executive privilege. Are you kidding me? You can't assert executive privilege after the fact, when the closest advisers to the president have already spoken to team Mueller. Wait a second. Let's try to go through this. White House Counsel Don McGahn talked to Mueller. There's no assertion of executive privilege. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders talked to Mueller. No assertion of executive privilege. White House communications director, Hope Hicks, talked to Mueller. There was no assertion of executive privilege. It's a phony argument. The House is a separate and co-equal branch of government. We're not a wholly owned subsidiary of the Trump administration. We don't work for Donald Trump. We work for the American people. We have a constitutional responsibility to serve as a check and balance on an out-of-control executive branch. The attorney general is totally out of control. He will be held in contempt of Congress. I yield back.", "What purpose does the gentleman from California seek recognition?", "To strike the last word.", "The gentleman is recognized.", "Thank you. Mr. Chairman, this subpoena puts the attorney general in a legal catch 22. To comply with the subpoena, he must break the law. If he obeys the law, he must disobey the subpoena. Every person on this committee knows that the law forbids release of grand jury testimony. Congress is the law-making branch of government. If this committee feels it so important to see the grand jury testimony, it can change the law. But it cannot order the highest-ranking law enforcement official in our country to break that law. And the American people with plainly see what's going on here. For two and a half years, they have been force-fed a brazen and monstrous lie that the president of the United States is a traitor who's loyal to a foreign and hostile power. Robert Mueller was given extraordinary powers to investigate this. He appointed one of the most partisan and biased teams of investigators that has ever been appointed to substantiate these charges. They spent 22 months and $25 million in direct and component costs doing so. They employed some of the most abusive tactics, among them, perjury traps and threatening family members in order to turn up some shred of evidence to confirm this narrative. The Trump administration gave them every document they requested and even waived attorney/client privilege to make the president's personal attorney available for 30 hours of testimony. While the president had a clear constitutional authority to terminate and interfere with the investigation he did not. After all that, they were forced to admit there's not a shred of evidence to support this lie. We're now learning it was predicated on a fake dossier, fabricated by the Clinton campaign, and was used by the highest-ranking officials in the Department of Justice, the FBI, our intelligence agencies and perhaps even the White House, first, to try to influence the outcome of our election, and after failing that, to undermine the duly elected president of the United States and tear this country apart. Now that lie is laid bare for all to see. The left has now had to think up a new lie and think it up quick. Notice, in a heartbeat, the lie changed from collusion to obstruction. Even though the administration did nothing to interfere or impede the investigation, the president is guilty of obstruction just because he complained about the injustice of it all behind closed doors in words that amounted to no action whatsoever. They know this lie won't hold up under scrutiny either. So what to do? The answer to that question is before us right now. Even though there was no legal requirement for the Mueller report to be released publicly, the attorney general has released it with the sole exception of material he is legally forbidden to release, amounting to 92 percent of the document. He's offered the chairman and the ranking member of this committee the opportunity to review the additional redactions, that can be reviewed in a classified setting, leaving only about six lines out of 182 pages. But instead of reviewing that information or changing the law to allow for its public release, they ordered the attorney general to do what he legally cannot do and then charged there's a cover up. They imply the smoking gun is now in that six lines in over 182 pages that cannot be legally shared, safe in the knowledge they will never be called out on it. And they hope that there will be enough of a smoke screen to cover the perversion of our justice and intelligence agencies for political purposes under the Obama administration. One other point. Last week, the Democrats voted to change the rules of the committee to allow members to hide behind committee counsel to challenge the attorney general. Mr. Chairman, we don't hire people to speak for us on the House floor and shouldn't hire people to speak for us in committee. Only members of the House should speak in House proceedings. And there's a reason for that. We are responsible and accountable for what we say in public forums, in this public forum. Hired help is not. The only rightful exception is when we sit as a tribunal on impeachment because then we are sitting as a jury to hear evidence. Any exception from this makes a mockery of representative democracy based on the direct accountability that representatives of the people must have to those who elected them. I yield back.", "Gentleman yields back. Who seeks recognition?", "For what purpose does the gentleman from Rhode Island seek recognition?", "I move to strike the last word.", "The gentleman is recognized.", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to begin by thanking you, Chairman Nadler, for your extraordinary patience and determination and respectful manner in which you have sought to obtain the information that the subpoena requires. And I think we all recognize that you have extended yourself above and beyond to try to accommodate the attorney general. But we are here for one very important reason. I think people should recognize that this is a deadly serious moment. The rule of law and our basic institutions that have made our democracy the envy of the world are being tested. The American people are watching and freedom- seeking people around the world are watching. They are seeing whether or not our commitment to the rule of law, to the notion that we are a country of laws and not of men and women, and that no one is above the law, including the president of the United States. It reminds us that we fought our independence to be free from a monarchy so that we could live in a democracy. So we see the president who is attempting to destroy basic institutions of government by directing his attorney general and others in the administration to stonewall the American people. This is a crisis. Now, it's sad today that Attorney General Barr, who refused to comply with a lawfully issued subpoena, and that behavior is unfortunately consistent with his overt campaign to protect the president of the United States. President Trump wanted his Roy Cohen and he got his Roy Cohen. The attorney general has demonstrated that he understands loyalty to the president rather than the oath to the Constitution. The attorney general tried to shape the narrative of the Russia investigation from day one when he wrote a four-page document that was grossly misleading, where he took four pieces of four different sentences to capture a 400-page report. The report also directly contradicts several statements that the attorney general made during his press conference, which he had before a single person was allowed to read the report. He said the president fully cooperated. We know, of course, the president refused to be interviewed and his associates destroyed evidence relative to the investigation. He publicly cleared the Trump campaign of coordinating with Russia while entirely leaving out the critical finding in the Mueller report that the Trump campaign was fully aware and expected to benefit electorally from information stolen and released through the Russian campaign. Since Mr. Barr has -- since Mr. Mueller has completed the investigation, Mr. Barr has refused to release the full report to Congress even after the issuance of a lawful subpoena. He has also refused to provide any of the underlying evidence. In fact, he has refused to do anything other than provide political cover to the president. In fact, when he was asked directly about his four- page summary, he said that he wasn't aware of what Mr. Mueller's position was on his summary. We learned later that Mr. Mueller had written a letter criticizing his characterization and then had a 15- minute phone call doing the same, and Mr. Barr never shared that, as well. So we see an attorney general who has set out to protect the president at all costs. Now we learn this morning, in a letter from Mr. Barr, that he is working with the president of the United States to try to provide a legal strategy to further obstruct justice and stonewall the American people by evoking executive privilege retroactively in a context where he knows it is not applicable. Really an effort to say, can we work together to try to prevent the American people from learning the full truth. It is curious, the complete president said complete exoneration. You would think he would be rushing to get this report released if it really was a complete exoneration. We know it's not. So this is a question for us to decide as a committee. Are we going to allow the executive branch to decide for us what we will get to see in order to conduct congressional oversight? If it is a up to the executive branch and they decide what witnesses we can call, what documents can be produced, they will have effectively extinguished the right of congressional oversight. We cannot allow that to happen. We are, in fact, here on behalf of the American people to get to the truth, to gather the facts so we can make informed judgments on how to proceed next and what action to take next. We have a responsibility to ensure that people who are served with a subpoena comply with it, whoever you are, no matter how important you think you are. We live in a democracy and everyone must be treated the same. This is a search for the truth to demonstrate no one is above the law, including the president of the United States and the attorney general of the United States. And that individuals must be held accountable for their misconduct. So we have to gather up that evidence. I am saddened to hear my Republican colleagues when I think this is anything but that. This is our responsibility. We took an oath. Our constituents and the American people are watching us and the world is watching us. We must do the right thing. We must compel Mr. Barr to comply with a lawfully issued subpoena by this committee and get to the work of oversight, finding the truth, and demonstrating, most of all, in this country, no one is above the law, including the president of the United States. With that, I yield back.", "Mr. Chairman?", "Yes. For what purpose does the gentlelady from Alabama seek recognition?", "Move to strike the last word.", "The gentlelady is recognized.", "Mr. Chairman, we have heard over and over again how the attorney general has not accommodated this committee's demands. But let's walk through the time line. I ask unanimous consent that the full timeline be included in the record.", "Without objection.", "On March 22, 2019, the attorney general immediately notified the chairman and ranking members of the House and Senate committees on judiciary that he had received the confidential report from the special counsel. On March 24, 2019, two days later, the attorney general informed Congress of the special counsel's principle conclusions. On March 29, 2019, five days later, the attorney general updated Congress on the department's review and outlined the four categories of redactions that the department with the special counsel's assistance intended to make prior to the public release of the confidential report. On April 18, 2019, less than a month after receiving the confidential report, the attorney general made the redacted version available to Congress and the public. However, on April 18, 2019, the same day the attorney general released the confidential report and made the minimally redacted version of the confidential report available for review, Chairman Nadler issued a subpoena to the attorney general. On April 19, 2019, those House and Senate Democrats, invited to review the minimally redacted confidential report, wrote the department to refuse the attorney general's offer. To date, not a single Democrat, including Chairman Nadler, has reviewed the minimally redacted report. On May 1, 2019, the attorney general voluntarily appeared before the Senate Committee on Judiciary providing more than five hours of testimony regarding the special counsel's investigation and confidential report. The attorney general had previously volunteered to appear before both the Senate and House Judiciary Committees. On May 2, 2019, Chairman Nadler's extraordinary and unreasonable demand that congressional staffers question the attorney general, a cabinet secretary, in an oversight hearing forced the attorney general to forego the hearing. On May 6, 2019, less than three weeks after issuing the subpoena, Chairman Nadler introduced a resolution to hold the attorney general in contempt. Also on May 16, 2019, in an effort to accommodate the committee's interests, the department wrote Chairman Nadler emphasizing, quote, \"The Department of Justice's continued to engage in good faith with committee on these issues consistent with the obligations under the law,\" end quote. The Department offered to meet to, quote, \"negotiate an accommodation that meets the legitimate interests of each of our co-equal branches of the government,\" end quote."], "speaker": ["REP. MIKE JOHNSON (R), LOUISIANA", "REP. CEDRIC RICHMOND (D), LOUISIANA", "REP. JERRY NADLER (D), NEW YORK", "RICHMOND", "NADLER", "RICHMOND", "REP. ANDY BIGGS (R), ARIZONA", "NADLER", "BIGGS", "NADLER", "BIGGS", "NADLER", "REP. HAKEEM JEFFRIES (D), NEW YORK", "NADLER", "JEFFRIES", "NADLER", "REP. TED MCCLINTOCK (R), CALIFORNIA", "NADLER", "MCCLINTOCK", "NADLER", "NADLER", "CICILLINE", "NADLER", "CICILLINE", "REP. MARTHA ROBY (D), ALABAMA", "NADLER", "ROBY", "NADLER", "ROBY", "NADLER", "ROBY"]}
{"id": "NPR-10954", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2019-04-15", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/04/15/713387945/hbo-airs-first-episode-of-game-of-thrones-final-season", "title": "HBO Airs First Episode Of 'Game Of Thrones' Final Season", "summary": "Winter is here. At least on HBO's Game of Thrones, which premiered its final season Sunday night. It was packed with uncomfortable reunions — unleashing massive implications for the story to come.", "utt": ["Winter is here - at least on HBO's \"Game Of Thrones.\"", "The hit series aired the first of its six remaining episodes last night. And as NPR TV critic Eric Deggans reports, the highly anticipated season premiere was packed with uncomfortable reunions with massive implications for the story to come. And just a spoiler alert, this review is going to discuss many revelations from yesterday's episode.", "\"Game Of Thrones\" producers rewarded fans Sunday by reuniting characters they've waited many seasons to see together again in a story that mimicked the show's very first episode in lots of telling ways. In one scene, when Peter Dinklage's Tyrion Lannister approaches his ex-wife, Sophie Turner's Sansa Stark, we saw two characters meet who hadn't been together since the show's fourth season in 2014.", "Back then, Sansa was a naive, young girl, and Tyrion was trying to raise her spirits. Now, long after she ran away from him, Sansa feels wiser, sharper and smarter than both Tyrion and his sister/enemy Cersei, who's promised to send troops to aid them in a coming war.", "(As Sansa Stark) Apologies for leaving like that.", "(As Tyrion Lannister) Yes. It was a bit hard to explain why my wife fled moments after the king's murder.", "(As Sansa Stark) We both survived.", "(As Tyrion Lannister) Many underestimated you. Most of them are dead now. You have every right to be fearful of my sister. No one fears her more than I do, but I promise you'll be safe.", "(As Sansa Stark) Cersei told you her army was coming north. You believed her.", "(As Tyrion Lannister) I believe she wants to survive.", "(As Sansa Stark) I used to think you were the cleverest man alive.", "I'm thinking she doesn't believe that anymore. The first half of Sunday's episode is filled with well-crafted, uneasy moments like this. Characters split apart in the show's early seasons come together again in scenes filled with tension and emotion. Their relationships have changed because the characters have changed, tempered by time and often by tragedy.", "Newer fans convinced to check out the show by all the pre-finale hype might feel a little lost. It's tough to see characters having an emotional moment but not know entirely why it's happening. But for those who know \"Game Of Thrones'\" sprawling story, these were excellent moments conveyed with a minimum of dialogue and maximum of acting.", "The other big story here is the romance between the show's hero, Jon Snow, and the Queen of the Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen. When Jon brings Daenerys to his northern stronghold of Winterfell with her army and two dragons to help fight a zombie army, his sister Sansa has one question that Daenerys answers pretty quickly.", "(As Sansa Stark) May I ask, how are we meant to feed the greatest army the world has ever seen? What do dragons eat, anyway?", "(As Daenerys Targaryen) Whatever they want.", "The show's producers can be sneaky. In an episode that does a lot of table-setting, positioning characters and plots that will pay off later, we see Jon and Daenerys riding dragons together, falling in love. They seem the perfect power couple for this medieval fantasy world, with Daenerys poised to become queen of the realm with Jon's help. But there are hints that the Queen of the Dragons may be a little too ruthless a leader.", "Then John's closest friend Samwell drops news that viewers learned last season. Jon's actually the son of Daenerys' older brother, giving him a stronger claim to the Iron Throne that she has spent the entire series chasing.", "(As Samwell Tarly) You're the true king - Aegon Targaryen, Sixth of His Name, Protector of the Realm, all of it.", "(As Jon Snow) Daenerys is our queen.", "(As Samwell Tarly) She shouldn't be.", "(As Jon Snow) That's treason.", "(As Samwell Tarly) It's the truth. You gave up your crown to save your people. Would she do the same?", "Lovers may become rivals. Siblings have become enemies. And a gigantic zombie army is marching south to kill everyone. Seems as if this final \"Game Of Thrones\" is off to an exciting and well-crafted start. I'm Eric Deggans."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "ERIC DEGGANS, BYLINE", "ERIC DEGGANS, BYLINE", "SOPHIE TURNER", "PETER DINKLAGE", "SOPHIE TURNER", "DIINKLAGE", "SOPHIE TURNER", "DIINKLAGE", "SOPHIE TURNER", "ERIC DEGGANS, BYLINE", "ERIC DEGGANS, BYLINE", "ERIC DEGGANS, BYLINE", "SOPHIE TURNER", "EMILIA CLARKE", "ERIC DEGGANS, BYLINE", "ERIC DEGGANS, BYLINE", "JOHN BRADLEY", "KIT HARINGTON", "JOHN BRADLEY", "KIT HARINGTON", "JOHN BRADLEY", "ERIC DEGGANS, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-241750", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-10-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/25/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Goodell to Testify at Rice Appeal", "utt": ["Bleacher Report's Roshan Ali takes us through the case.", "Roger Goodell could be forced to reveal what he knew about the Ray Rice scandal and when he knew it. According to multiple reports, an arbitrator is telling the NFL commissioner he must testify next month when Ray Rice appeals his indefinite suspension. Both sides agreed to let former U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones hear the labor grievance hearing, which is not related to any criminal case. The NFL benched Rice after he knocked his then fiancee unconscious in an Atlantic City elevator back in February. Rice was originally suspended for two games, but his punishment was extended in September after a more detailed video was released showing Rice punching and dragging Janay Palmer. Goodell is expected to face questions about what they talked about when the two met over the summer. Rice's lawyers argued that NFL and the Ravens violated a collective bargaining agreement which prevents players from being punished twice for the same incident. Rice's appeal hearing is set for November 5th and 6th.", "All right, thanks so much, Roshan Ali. I'm joined now by sports attorney, David Cornwell, and in New York by sports business analyst and former ESPN senior editor Keith Reed. All right. Glad both of you can be with me. David, to you first, you used to be an attorney for the NFL. This is very rare to see the commissioner testify in this matter. What does this mean big picture?", "This means that we're going to get a window into the disciplinary process. We've never been able to see. I've been on both sides representing the commissioner and actually representing players asking that the commissioner be compelled to testify. We've never been able to see into the commissioner's mind regarding the disciplinary process. One thing with Roger -- Commissioner Goodell, he actually talks with a lot of people before he imposes discipline, but he's never had to testify.", "So, in this case, he is -- he is going to have to answer what was the difference between the two-game suspension when you saw that the fiancee was being dragged out the elevator and all that changed to an indefinite suspension once the internal elevator tape was revealed. He is going to be pressed on how much -- you know, have you seen this before, what did you think preceded the young lady being dragged out of the elevator and how do you go from two-game suspension to indefinite suspension?", "Here's where lawyers become lawyers. A single question. What did you think happened when you imposed two games and what was different when you saw the video of the elevator? Now that single question will take four hours. They'll be asking that question from every angle because it really is what this is all about. Seeing this young lady, Janay, being pulled out of the elevator unconscious leaves anybody to conclude that something happened in that elevator that rendered her unconscious. Now that we see exactly what happened, why are you increasing the discipline?", "So, Keith, what's also difficult here, perplexing maybe, to a lot of people is that punishment is really at the discretion of the commissioner. That is in the policy, so, if the commissioner says this is what I saw fit at the time, this is what I thought, you know, prior to the events of seeing the entire tape, so, you know, this is the way I see it and the policy supports my you know, discretion.", "Sure. And I've said since the beginning of this whole matter that the real issue with all of this in the NFL is the fact that the commissioner is judge, jury and executioner. He answers to no one. He's not used to answering to anybody in terms of the disciplinary decisions that he hands down and this is an instance in which he's been criticized over and over and over again for how arbitrary his disciplinary decisions have seemed to be and it's coming back to bite him. So much of this is about how transparent the NFL is not. And so much of this is about how fair the process doesn't seem to be when Roger Goodell and Roger Goodell alone hands out punishments for things and does not explain those decisions. This is the first time he's ever going to be compelled to have to actually explain it and that's going to be as interesting as what happens to Ray Rice going forward.", "So, David, is this a start of a transparency or is this just, you know, a blip on the screen, this is how it's being handled now but don't expect that every case from this point forward is going to be with this kind of transparency?", "So from our perspective, the media, you know, we look for one size-fits-all solutions. Roger's power, best interest of the game power, goes back to the 1920s and the Black Sox game. Every commissioner in sports has the best interest of the game authority, which is absolute. You don't have to answer to anybody. That's why you're the commissioner. That's not going to change. But what will change is the manner in which we deal with domestic violence. Perhaps the manner in which we review his decisions, but he will not nor should he give up his authority to act in the best interest of the game because that's why we have successful leagues in all of the sports, because of the commissioner's ability to lead based on his understanding of the best interest of the game. This is a private business. This is not Congress. This is -- we get to look at it like that, but it's a private business and he's responsible for leading it.", "So, Keith --", "OK, go ahead, Keith.", "You know, actually I got to challenge --", "And I wonder if the goal here is for Ray Rice to be reinstated, is this the path in which, you know, he must go in order for that to happen and then go ahead, Keith, on your comments what David just said.", "Sure. To answer your question, yes, this is the path that's brought up. They have to go through this arbitration process, although there's a big question as to whether or not Ray Rice will play again even if he does get reinstated because getting reinstated doesn't mean any team has to sign you. What I wanted to challenge a little bit earlier was this idea that the NFL is strictly a private business and that the best thing for the league is Roger Goodell acting on his own.", "OK.", "Listen, Roger Goodell acting on his own is the reason why we're here. Right?", "All right.", "He acted on his own and he didn't necessarily act in the best interest of the league. He didn't necessarily do the thing that was right for everybody involved and he hasn't acted on domestic violence in the way that he should have acted going all the way back to Jovan Belcher, who killed somebody and then killed himself.", "All right, Keith Reed --", "These teams get public subsidies and all kinds of things that you can't just look at them like they're a private business and we're totally hands off. That's a problem.", "All right. We'll have to leave it right there. David, you got a quick comment on that?", "Look, you know, again, one size fits all. All of these circumstances are different. That's why we have commissioners with plenary authority to determine what's in the best interest of the league.", "All right. David Cornwell, Keith Reed, thanks to both of you. Appreciate it. Wish I had an hour on this because boy, we've got lots to fill on that. All right. Thanks so much, gentlemen. I appreciate it.", "Thanks.", "Thank you.", "All right. And new information on those injured in yesterday's school shooting. That school shooting rather in Washington state. Why did a popular freshman shoot his cousins and peers? Next."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "ROSHAN ALI, BLEACHER REPORT", "WHITFIELD", "DAVID CORNWELL, SPORTS ATTORNEY", "WHITFIELD", "CORNWELL", "WHITFIELD", "KEITH REED, SPORTS BUSINESS ANALYST", "WHITFIELD", "CORNWELL", "WHITFIELD", "WHITFIELD", "REED", "WHITFIELD", "REED", "WHITFIELD", "REED", "WHITFIELD", "REED", "WHITFIELD", "REED", "WHITFIELD", "CORNWELL", "WHITFIELD", "REED", "CORNWELL", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-35089", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2001-7-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/19/bn.02.html", "summary": "Katharine Hepburn Hospitalized: Officials Say No Cause for Alarm", "utt": ["We want to update you now on a developing story this morning that we are following: Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn is right now hospitalized in Hartford, Connecticut. Hepburn is 94 years old and a four-time Oscar winner. Now, the hospital where she was admitted says that there is no cause for alarm. We're still trying to get the latest word on her condition. And we have been able to get this statement from James Battaglio, who is a spokesman for the hospital -- Hartford Hospital. He says that Ms. Hepburn was admitted to Hartford Hospital Wednesday evening about 6:00 p.m. She listed as stable condition. She was brought here from something called the Shoreline Clinic in Connecticut. Her physician had requested that she be admitted. She is listed as stable, as I said, and this morning is very comfortable. She is being treated here, hopefully, with the intent of discharging her sometime over the next few days, assuming she responds to her treatment. We will continue to track that for you. The hospital is not saying exactly what type of treatment Hepburn is receiving right now. She has had various health problems in recent years."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-360290", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2019-01-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1901/24/ip.02.html", "summary": "Biden Defends Working with GOP Ahead of Possible 2020 Bid.", "utt": ["Former Vice President Joe Biden back in the arena today after a week in which several new generation in unapologetic legal liberal Democrats jump in, in the 2020 fray. Speaking to a meeting of mayors here in Washington, Biden addressed the recent story noticed some Michigan Democrats are angry of him for his kind words for a Republican in last years midterm campaign.", "I get in trouble. I read in \"New York Times\" today that I -- that one of my problems is if I were to run for president, I like Republicans. OK, well bless me father for I have sinned. But, you know, from where I come from, I don't know how you get anything done. I don't know how you get anything done as we start talking to one another again.", "An issue there is \"The New York Times\" story noting that in October 2018, Biden did praise Republican Congressman Fred Upton. \"Times\" put it this way, \"Mr. Biden stunned Democrats and elated Republicans by praising Mr. Upton while the lawmaker looked on from the audience. Alluding to Mr. Upton's support for a landmark medical research law, Mr. Biden called him a champion in the fight against cancer, and \"One of the finest guys I've ever worked with\".\" So that common and like you see it, he did work with Fred Upton, but the question is with the party moving to the left, does it become a crime in the primary to have said nice things, to have worked with Republicans is that -- is that how you get at Joe Biden?", "I don't think that's going to kill him with actual voters is what I would say. I think he's general, he is probably more to the center than Elizabeth Warren or Senator Harris. And so I do think he probably has. And the question about where the Democratic electorate (ph) is there are more moderates and I think we appreciate. You know, we talked about the activism energies on the left but I think there are moderates. And I think Biden has like he's to be made, maybe I can unify the country in a way that Senator Warren can't. But I'm not sure if that's going to work in the primary and I suspect he knows that is why he's been kind of not sure about running or not.", "And with the Democratic activists in Iowa and New Hampshire, they're looking for a, you know, a liberal candidate. So, when there are so many, one of the things the primary has so many options and there are so many people out there. Do you want to turn to Biden or do you want to look at maybe 30 or 40 after people out there who might, you know, better fit your need.", "And if you're just looking at Iowa when you're Joe Biden, you're thinking Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton that I comment is the year of parent and, woops (ph) at the base says that's not what we want.", "No.", "But the Biden message would be, I'm a president. And nobody can question that I'm qualified to be president. They can question my position. We can have debate about this issue and that issue, but everybody can look at me and say he's ready to be president. Don't you want me up against Trump?", "I mean, unfortunately that was Hillary Clinton's message and it's shown not to have worked against Donald Trump. And so I do think that the primaries going to be about Democrats calculating what will work against Trump? And right now it seems like Nancy Pelosi is the only person who has really found that formula. But I certainly think that's going to be a heated topic in smoke-filled rooms among Democrats going into 2020.", "When they draft Pelosi movement starts, I will -- we will trace right back here. To that point about the party going to the left, this is Bernie Sanders in a GQ profile. He's an independent from Vermont. But he did as a PT vote against the big giant aircraft Hillary Clinton. He landed a lot of shots. And he says this, \"The ideas we brought forth in 2016 which were considered to be extreme and fringe and out of step with the American people are now what is in, by and large, the Democratic national platform and they're being adopted by candidates across the country. We have had more success in ideologically changing the party than I would have dreamed possible.\" It's hard to argue with that number one. And the question is part of the Sanders rationales I have to run again because otherwise maybe people will back away from it or has the cement hardened. And whether Bernie runs or not, he's moved the party left.", "Look at every candidate is out there right now. Medicare for all. The key issues that Bernie Sanders campaign down where there's minimum wage, Medicare for all and they're not all completely tied to one another but the key issue is issues that we're thought to be on the fringe issues that the Clinton campaign was very wary of embracing at all are now the sensual themes of every Democratic we've seen up to this point. And they have to answer to all of those positions and whether or not they back them. And I think, look, you've seen from the Biden team coming out and talking about how nobody can challenge is progressive bonafides. He's done things on LGBT on all sorts of issues that are unquestionably put him in a different place than how people are trying to fake him. But he is in a different lane than those individuals, the people who have backed on a lot of things, with people who have already started to run. I think the biggest question now that gets to it is, is that lane going to be a place where Democrats want to be and how are they going to figure that out. The policy stuff though, Bernie's right. You can't argue with that. I don't know if he runs and I don't know if he runs if he has a chance to win but what he did on the policy front for the party is very real.", "And Hillary Clinton said you can't sell that. Hillary Clinton's point in the primaries which show that, one (ph), you can't sell that in the general election. I think that's what 2020 is going to be about. Can the Democrats sell in more liberal agenda to the country?", "Well --", "This is totally high noted, the centers (ph) agenda that or either so good.", "That's a great point. You mean, the country is out ahead of Washington. God forbid.", "Yes.", "We should learn that lesson all of us. Thanks for joining us in INSIDE POLITICS. See you back here this time tomorrow, Brianna Keilar starts after a quick break. 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{"id": "CNN-230330", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2014-5-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/11/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Parting Shots: Austria Wins Eurovision", "utt": ["Your Parting Shots this evening out of the UAE. Well, meet the Eurovision winner, who has a face as distinctive as her voice.", "The winner is -- Austria!", "Known as the bearded lady, drag queen Conchita Wurst took the trophy for Austria. The diva won with the tune \"Rise Like a Phoenix.\" It's Austria's first victory in 48 years. As for how Wurst keeps her beard looking that grim, just ask 25-year-old singer Tom Neuwirth. He's the man under all the hair, and he created the alter-ego as a call for tolerance. Neuwirth started dressing as the character back in 2011. As for Wurst, well, she says winning Eurovision is a dream come true.", "This Eurovision family is a family I ever wanted to join because this project is based on tolerance, acceptance, and love. And so, it really felt like coming home, actually. And I know there is a different world beside Eurovision Song Contest, but I believe that also the people outside of the Eurovision are thinking hopefully in the way I do.", "Since Austria won the competition, it will host, of course, next year's contest. We wish them the very best. I'm Becky Anderson, that was CONNECT THE WORLD from the UAE. Thank you for watching. Your headlines, though, are next. Do stay with us."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANDERSON", "CONCHITA WURST, EUROVISION SONG CONTEST WINNER", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-205716", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2013-4-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/26/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Spain Cuts Forecasts; Greece Layoff Vote", "utt": ["Hello and welcome back. You're watching QUEST MEANS BUSINESS on CNN. Spain has softened its commitment to austerity. The government has decided to ease its deficit forecast for this year by nearly 2 percent. And it's also been given the go-ahead from the EU to postpone meeting its deficit targets not just for this year, but for two years to come. The government said that it needs to warn people in the market to expect a faster contraction this year than previously thought. We're talking about a level of minus 1.3 percent in total. We also saw the finance minister and deputy prime minister announcing these provisions. We're talking about Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, here, and she said that there was no need for major new reforms or taxes. Al Goodman joins us now, live from CNN Madrid with more on what the deputy prime minister had to say, and also to put this into context. So, Al, we've been talking about bad news for Spain for the last two days, because the unemployment record shot -- unemployment rate shot to a record yesterday. This is just two very difficult days for the Spanish government.", "This is really just a delay of the pain. There's been so much pain in Spain, and now, as you said, they're easing it off. They're postponing it until manana. And that's really what we have here. Because since Brussels has given them a couple extra years until 2016 to get the budget deficit down to 3 percent as a percent of GDP -- it was supposed to be next year -- that gives the government some breathing room, and that's what you hear the two key ministers announcing this day, that at the national government level this year, they're not going to apply any more real stiff austerity measures. But, they're still expecting the 17 regional governments and all the town halls to try to snip a little bit around the edges. So, there is going to be some pain, it's just not going to fall on the shoulders of the prime minister. Nina?", "And Al, how much of this has to do with the fact that obviously in the upper echelons of Brussels, well, the kind of austerity mantra seems to be changing its tune a bit. People are starting to realize that perhaps it hasn't worked?", "Well, the prime minister is right there at the top of the choir with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany on -- he was Mr. Austerity. But in recent days and weeks, we begin to hear the tune change just a little bit, first from the ministers, and then from the man himself, Prime Minister Rajoy, saying that we need some stimulus plans as well. But he doesn't really have anything in his pocket that he can throw in there as stimulus. So, it's basically been him keeping his hands off the pensions. That's what a lot of people fear is the next big cut, but we apparently are not going to get that. He has been able to sell, as you know, Spanish debt in the market. The interest rates have come down, they're not at those shocking 7 percent rates anymore. But they're still pretty high, especially when compared to Germany. So, they're far from getting out of the mess, and people in the streets are still very much feeling the pain here in Spain. Nina?", "OK. Obviously the lady behind you who is waving at us wasn't feeling the pain as much, Al Goodman, but you probably didn't see her during your report. Thank you very much for that. Al Goodman there on the streets of Madrid, bringing us the latest. Well, this weekend, Greek lawmakers decide whether to effectively sack 15,000 public workers to unlock nearly $12 billion worth of bailout loans. While they vote, protesters are planning rallies and demonstrations in Athens. Thousands of Greeks have taken part in anti-austerity protests and strikes. Some of those strikes and protests have actually turned violent. A little earlier, I asked the Greek minister for public order, Nikos Dendias, if he was expecting more unrest.", "Well, one always has to be worried about strikes, especially in an economy under crisis, such as the Greek one. But I have to say that the signs that the Greek economy is finally getting out of the crisis. We're approaching the summer, we are expecting a record number of tourists this summer. So, please allow me to have the hope that there are no more strikes forthcoming, and eventually that the Greek economy will be coming out of the tunnel of recession.", "But we're talking about a country that's been in recession for five or six years now, successively. And also, unemployment is in the double digits. For many people, they don't see the light at the end of the tunnel, and that raised the specter of social unrest.", "Well, you're absolutely right in mentioning that Greece has been through recession for the last six years, and that's a record for any country that I know of. And also, the rate of unemployment is more than 25 percent. And especially in the younger generations, it's close to 45 percent and maybe even more than that. Taking into account that sort of adversity, I think that the Greek society had performed with admirable courage and has survived the difficulties. But I think that there are signs that there is light at the end of the tunnel, and I think that the Greek society now has finally seen that light. So, I do not really expect any sort of social unrest in the future, of course provided that eventually that better days in the economy do come.", "Well, Greece has always been a gateway to Europe for migrants coming from the east, and a lot of them have become stuck there by Greece's ongoing economic crisis. That again raised the potential for xenophobia. We've already seen a number of unfortunate attacks on migrant workers in Greece. As the minister for public order, what are you doing about it, and how worried are you about it?", "Well, I am worried about it, but I have to say that in general, the Greek society is not xenophobic at all. Rather, the opposite. Having said that, I think that we have taken all necessary measures to protect any human being in Greece, migrant or no migrant. Because, really, that is what a human being is entitled. Apart from that, of course, illegal migratory flows present a huge problem to Greece. Please be kind enough to think -- to account that Greece is receiving more than 90 percent of full illegal migrants of all the European Union, which is a huge amount. And if you add that to the existing crisis in the economy, it really creates a very difficult situation for the Greek society.", "Now, I'm speaking to you from London, you're currently in New York. These strikes start in two days' time. Are you going to be going back to Athens to deal with that situation?", "Well, I'm going anyway back to Athens tomorrow afternoon. I have to be in Athens, there's a crucial vote in the Greek parliament -- Sunday evening, so I have to be there.", "And now, time for tonight's Currency Conundrum. Who's famous face will appear on a new British five pound note? Is it A, Winston Churchill? Could it be B, Margaret Thatcher? Or C, David Beckham. We'll have the answer for you later on in the program. Speaking of currencies, the dollar is down against the British pound, the euro, and also the yen. 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{"id": "CNN-200052", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-1-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/27/cnr.03.html", "summary": "A Night Club in Brazil Burns, Killing 233 People", "utt": ["It's 5:00 p.m. on the East Coast, 2:00 p.m. out West. If you are just tuning in, thanks for joining us. I'm Miguel Marquez in for Fredricka Whitfield. A tragic end to the summer in Brazil, at least 233 people died, many of them college students in an early morning fire at a crowded nightclub in the southern city of Santa Maria. The students were celebrating the end of summer before heading back to classes on Monday. Fire officials say the Kiss night club was over capacity when the blaze broke out about 2:00 in the morning. Let's go to CNN's Rafael Romo for the latest.", "Rafael, how about this break out? At 2:00 a.m. this morning, it was spectacular show that was going there. There was a concert. And part of the concert involved pyrotechnics. Of course, you can imagine the flames shooting up. They got so way out that they apparently touched the foam, the insulation foam on the ceiling and firefighters are saying this preliminarily, that might have been the cause of the fire. It spread throughout the building very, very fast, creating dense smoke. And people started frantically run to try to get out of building. The problem was authorities are telling us, there were enough exits. It's the emergency exits for rich people to get out of there and they end up going to the restroom and the situation go more complicated.", "A lot of bodies were found in the restrooms. Why was that?", "Because at one points, all of the emergency exits got blocked by people who were trying to get out of there. They got trampled. The authorities tell us the even security guards were at first trying to prevent people from leaving the place because they were afraid they wouldn't pay their tabs, which at that point, sounds ridiculous, but that's what happened. And so, people though that the second alternative was to go to the restrooms, and at least they would find water there but a lot of the people were also trampled there.", "Authorities combing now through what must be very grisly scene, but they are even affected. They are finding what down there as they go through this tough situation?", "Part of the testimony that we have been listening to is comes from firefighters who got -- some of the first ones who got to the scene who told us they saw shoes strewn all over the floor of this place and also a lot of cell phones were going off at different times. Of course, you can imagine people, families, trying to get to -- tried to get in touch with ones who died there and also some of the others who went to the hospital.", "Rafael, I can't even imagine. Our heart goes out. And Rafael Romo, thank you very much for keeping us updated on this story.", "Thank you.", "Appreciate it. The U.S. has had its share of deadly nightclub fires. Our Susan Candiotti joins us from New York - Susan.", "Hi, Miguel. You know, with so many advances in fire safety, these disasters should be easier to prevent. Here in the U.S., it's been nearly a decade since the last nightclub fire that caused mass casualties.", "In 2003, 100 people died at the station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, where the band Great White was performing. Pyrotechnics ignited soundproofing material. Smoke filled the room. In 1990, arson was the cause of the Happy Land fire in New York. It killed 87 people. Authorities said the Bronx Club was operating illegally, two years after it was ordered closed because of safety violations. In 1977, fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, killed 165 people. Among 2,400 waiting for entertainer John Davidson to perform, which believed to be an electrical fire went undetected at first. There were no fire detectors or sprinklers. At the time, they weren't required. The deadliest nightclub blaze happened in 1942 at the Coconut Grove club in Boston. Four hundred ninety two people were killed. The cause of the blaze, to this day, remains unknown.", "Among the questions investigators will be asking, how badly the club may have been overcrowded and why. Were there smoke detectors and a sprinkler system? As fire experts tell us, there is very little time to escape.", "Well, what happens is the fire burnt and burns very rap applied like goes up heat and smoke at the ceiling level and then starts to descend very rapidly and I believe in some of those fires, about a minute and a half into the fire, it was at head level, where you can't breathe that smoke or gas without suffocating.", "According to eyewitnesses and investigators, suffocation appears to be the cause of death for so many in that Brazil fire - Miguel.", "Susan, just terrible. Thank you very much. What kind of steps can we take when you're going out for a night, a club to dance, a concert, or some sort of crowded situation?", "Well, you know, there are a number of things that we all can do. We talked to safety experts who say you really have to pay attention to your surroundings. For example, if you see someone at the door to a club counting people who going in, that's likely a very good sign they are trying to prevent overcrowding. Also, look for sprinkler systems, smoke detectors, check out the exits, be sure to close to one. And at the first hint of trouble, get out do not hesitate to act. And if you don't see sprinkler systems or smoke detectors when you first arrive, you might think twice about sticking around - Miguel.", "Susan Candiotti, thank you very much. Turning now to the debate over gun control. Republicans and Democrats took to the air waves today. Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein laid out her case for banning military-style rifles on CNN's \"STATE OF THE UNION\" today. Meanwhile, gun shows across the country this weekend saw increased traffic. Those selling guns are finding more and more customers and some of the buyers are complaining that vendors taking advantage of the situation by raising prices. That arctic blast, it isn't over yet. Parts of the Midwest and northeast are being slammed with a mixture of freezing rain and snow, icy roads and poor visibility are making travel dangerous. The cold weather will continue into the workweek with some areas in northeast getting light snow. Some scary moments for a group of 50 hikers in Arizona. They got trapped in raging waters while trying to cross a river. Police rushed to the scene after getting many emergency calls about stranded hikers, officials say it was a challenge to find them but eventually, all those hikers were rescued. Action could be taken soon on one of the most controversial elements of immigration reform. We will tell you what lawmakers are doing to tackle it."], "speaker": ["MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN ANCHOR", "RAFAEL ROMO, CNN SENIOR LATIN-AMERICAN AFFAIRS EDITOR", "MARQUEZ", "ROMO", "MARQUEZ", "ROMO", "MARQUEZ", "ROMO", "MARQUEZ", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CANDIOTTI", "CANDIOTTI", "ANGELO PISANI, PROFESSOR OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, ST. 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{"id": "CNN-297370", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-11-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/01/es.02.html", "summary": "FBI Director Stands Firm Amid Criticisms; Clinton Defiant on Renewed FBI Probe; Trump Seizes on Abedin E-mails.", "utt": ["Overnight James Comey indicates he is standing firm. The FBI boss thinks he made the right call on Hillary Clinton's e-mail situation.", "But Clinton campaign doesn't. It is accusing Comey of a blatant double standard.", "Donald Trump and Mike Pence together on the trail today. They go to Pennsylvania with a message. Welcome back to EARLY START, everyone. I'm John Berman.", "And I'm Christine Romans. 31 minutes past the hour on this first day of November, folks. The breaking news, just one week to go until Election Day and a slew of developments in just the last hour. FBI director Jim Comey says he will not give an update. He will not give any update on the new e- mails that could be related to the Clinton investigation until his agents have reached a conclusion. Hillary Clinton maintains the investigation will amount to nothing, saying there is no case here. Donald Trump warns it could become a constitutional crisis for the country if Clinton is elected.", "All right. I want to start with the e-mail. At this moment the FBI says it is urgently searching the newly discovered e-mails from a laptop belonging to disgraced former congressman, Anthony Weiner. There are hundreds of thousands of e-mails on that laptop. We're joined this morning by CNN Politics reporter Eugene Scott.", "Good morning.", "Good morning.", "Eugene, Jim Comey, with the statement standing by his guns here. What is he saying?", "Well, he's saying that he's not going to update citizens and voters and the rest of the people who are paying close attention to this situation until the investigation is complete. He's been under a lot of criticism and I think he wants to keep that from continuing.", "So what are agents doing at this point?", "OK. They're going through all of the e-mails with the special equipment that's pretty comparable to some equipment that they have out in Quantico, and they're trying to isolate the e-mails first. Then they're going to look through the e-mails that belong to someone on the Clinton campaign, Huma, and to see if any of that information was classified. And I think perhaps, most importantly, they want to see if she knew that it was classified.", "Right. And the issue is that the e-mail program may go through it quickly, but once they identify e-mails that may be classified, if there are any, then humans have got to get involved, right.", "Right.", "And they have to figure out if they can release, you know, how classified are they, what's the situation there. So that's something they'll have to look into. All right, Huma Abedin, we did not see her on the campaign trail yesterday.", "We did not.", "She was notably not with Hillary Clinton. So what is she doing? What's she's saying?", "Well, she's been off the trail, as you mentioned, since this began, since this broke. But we do have a statement from her attorney. Her lawyers are saying, \"Abedin only learned for the first time on Friday from press reports of the possibility that a laptop belonging to Mr. Weiner could contain e-mails of hers. While the FBI has not contacted us about this, Miss Abedin will continue to be as she always has been forthcoming and cooperative.\"", "That is stunning.", "FBI has not contacted us, interesting.", "Interesting.", "That is so interesting.", "And to learn all of this from the press, I think that's very interesting as well.", "It just goes to show this was Anthony Weiner's laptop. They got it through the Weiner investigation, they -- you know, and it wasn't --", "It's completely unrelated, sordid and unrelated investigation.", "Very unrelated.", "All right.", "All right.", "Eugene Scott, thanks so much. Appreciate it.", "Thank you so much. The Clinton campaign is accusing James Comey of a blatant double standard. Campaign manager Robby Mook jumped on reporting by CNBC last night that last month Comey opposed naming Russia as the so- called state actor hacking Democratic officials, warning it was too close to Election Day.", "It's impossible to view this as anything less than a blatant double standard. That Director Comey would show more discretion in a matter concerning a foreign state actor than one involving the Democratic nominee for president is nothing short of jaw-dropping.", "We should note here, CNN, we at CNN do not have the same reporting on Comey and Russia. The FBI has declined to comment.", "All right. On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton says there's flat out no case here. She said that on the stump. In Ohio Clinton invited investigators to go ahead and dig into Huma Abedin's e-mails. She says they'll find nothing. CNN's Joe Johns has the latest from Cincinnati.", "John and Christine, Hillary Clinton kicking off the final full week of campaigning right here in battleground Ohio, trying to use some of the anxiety surrounding the latest controversy to get out the vote. At Kent State, making the case there is no FBI case on the latest e-mails that were discovered, and here in Cincinnati calling on the FBI to take a look at the new e-mails but predicting they won't find anything.", "You know, there is a new e-mail story about, you know, why in the world the FBI would decide to jump into an election without evidence of wrongdoing with just days to go? And that's really good question. But I want you to know, look, I've said repeatedly. I -- you know, I made a mistake. I'm not making any excuses. But I will tell you this, if they want to look at some more e-mails of one of my staffers, by all means, go ahead. Look at them. And I know they will reach the same conclusion they reached when they looked at my e-mails last year, right?", "It wasn't even a close call, and I think most people have moved on. They're looking and focused on, OK, who is going to be the next president and commander-in-chief?", "Traveling in Ohio, Clinton was not accompanied by her long- time aide Huma Abedin. Instead accompanied by Capricia Marshall who served as her chief of protocol while she worked at the State Department. Three stops today for Hillary Clinton, all in the state of Florida. John and Christine, back to you.", "All right, Joe Johns in Cincinnati for us. This morning Trump and running mate Mike Pence go to Pennsylvania to talk about Obamacare. They will be on the stage with senators, House members and Dr. Ben Carson, highlighting what the Trump campaign calls the disastrous increases in Obamacare premiums, and they will pitch Trump's call to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Trump is also certain to bring up Hillary Clinton's e-mail controversy as he did at two campaign stops in Michigan. CNN's Sara Murray has the latest.", "Good morning, John and Christine. While Donald Trump kicked off his week by spending the day trying to convince the American voters that the FBI was sure to find the worst in Hillary Clinton's e-mails and warning them that if they elect her, she'll be embroiled in scandal for years to come.", "We will be facing the very possibility of a constitutional crisis with many dimensions and, you know, this is so true, deleterious consequences should Secretary Clinton win this election. In other words, we're going to be tied up in court for the rest of our lives with this deal. She's not going to win the election, but I'm just saying.", "Now even though FBI Director James Comey has said it's too early to say whether anything significant will come out of these e- mails which came from a computer that was shared by Huma Abedin, a Clinton aide, and her husband, Anthony Weiner, that certainly hasn't stopped Donald Trump from seizing on it on the campaign trail. And it's given his campaign new hope that they may be able to compete in blue states that once seen out of their reach. He spent Monday barnstorming in Michigan and on Tuesday, he is hitting up Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Back to you, guys.", "Interesting is whether or not they have hope of flipping the blue states, he simply has to flip some blue states if Donald Trump is going to win. So it may be out of necessity more than actual hope. All right. The Trump campaign is distancing itself from a self- described white national supporter who paid for robocalls in Utah, going after a third party candidate. The calls to nearly 200,000 homes, they attack Evan McMullin, an independent doing well up there to perhaps turn Utah into a battleground state. The calls focus on McMullin's support for gay marriage.", "My name is William Johnson. I'm a farmer and a white nationalist. I make this call against Evan McMullin and in support of Donald Trump. Evan McMullin is an open border, amnesty supporter. Evan has two mommies. His mother is a lesbian, married to another woman. Evan is OK with that. Indeed, Evan supports the Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage.", "So this call also claims without evidence that Evan McMullin is a closeted gay man because he is single and in his 40s. The Trump campaign now condemns that call saying it has no connection at all to it.", "All right. Breaking overnight, Senator Richard Burr is apologizing for suggesting gun owners may want to put a bulls eye on Hillary Clinton. The North Carolina Republican made the comment in private over the weekend. In a recording of that comment obtained by CNN you can hear Burr talking about a visit he made to a gun shop the day before.", "Nothing made me feel any better than I walked into a gun shop, I think yesterday in Oxford. And there was a copy of \"Rifleman\" on the counter. It's got a picture of Hillary Clinton on the front of it. I was a little bit shocked at that. It didn't have a bulls eye on it.", "The Brady Campaign, a pro-gun control group that supports Hillary Clinton is calling on Senator burr to step down. Burr says the comment he made was inappropriate. The Clinton campaign has not commented. Open enrollment for Obamacare starts today. Premiums are up an average of 22 percent, costs, very widely depending on age, location and the level of coverage. Here is what people across the country are paying. These numbers are for a 27-year-old enrollee. The cheapest premiums are in New Hampshire, $217 per month. A little change from last year. There are much bigger increases in the middle of the scale like in Arizona. You can see that. Up to $422. A 27- year-old enrollee there will pay more than $420 a month. The highest premiums are in Alaska, $760 a month. The government says 85 percent of enrollees will get subsidies and three-quarters won't pay more than $100 a month. You know, that's based on income levels, depending on how many people are in the household. For a single policyholder it is $47,524. For a family of four, it's more than 92 grand. If you are enrolling in Obamacare, it's crucial that you shop around this year because there are some changes. Shop around for your level of coverage. And we've been hearing a lot about people who are really getting hit by some of these premium increases, but the Obamacare exchange officials point out that the vast majority, 85 percent, will pay less than or around $100 a month for their premiums.", "Because they'll get subsidies and when it's all said and done it will be less than $100.", "That's right.", "All right. Just seven days remain in this race. Both candidates out on the campaign trail. We're going to talk about the breaking developments overnight. 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{"id": "CNN-175017", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-10-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1110/31/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Close to 2.5 Million Without Power in Northeast After Snowstorm", "utt": ["Now for stories our iReporters are sending in from the nor'easter. I want you to check out the time lapse as the snow started to hit the region this weekend. So, an iReporter in Oak Ridge, New Jersey, took one photo every minute for eight hours outside his home Saturday. That's amazing. You can see how fast the storm rolled in just by looking at how the trees are actually weighed down. And this is what some neighborhoods look like in Putnam County, New York. An iReporter sent us pictures of giant trees knocked down by the heavy snow. Roofs, completely covered; roads iced over. And in Denville, New Jersey, an iReporter sent us this video of a tree knocked down by the storm. It's over the road, but people were able to drive underneath it. It's kind of a dangerous move with all those downed power lines. Now more on the freak October snowstorm socking the East Coast. We're talking about record snowfall. Hundreds of travelers were stranded, at least five people were killed. Our own Chad Myers, he is weathering the storm in York, Pennsylvania. Chad, I was out there this weekend traveling, had no idea this was going to hit. I was in Maryland. We were lucky. Just a little bit of snow. But where you are, more than two million folks still without power?", "Yes. It had started late on Friday, early on Saturday, and we were the first ones. We were the farthest south, really. We were the first ones to get the snow, but we were also the first ones to get the sunshine yesterday. Look at this. I was standing in 10 to 12 inches of snow 24 hours ago. It is completely gone. But when the snow was here, it was also there, over on those big trees over there. All of those trees still have leaves on them. And this is the problem. This is the rub with this storm. This is not so much of a record-breaking snowfall in December, this is a record-breaking snowfall when the leaves are on. And when the leaves are on the trees, the branches came down, and so did the power lines. That's how we got four million customers without power. Now those power lines are getting back up, but some of them are going to take a very long time when you have all of these power lines down -- and there are many. They're going to try to get as many people on line with one line as possible. If you get one line up, you get 200 people back on, that's a bonus. If you get one line up with only one customer back on, you are the lowest priority. So it's going to take a long time. The good news is now it has warmed up. I'll tell you, it may be, like, 50 degrees out here right now, but this morning it was 25. And some people were telling me that inside their homes this morning this morning it was 55 degrees and it was very cold. That's why people have now gone to hotels, and all the hotels in this area were completely full last night again for the second night in a row. Now, these are families that planned on not spending $125 a night for a hotel, and maybe planned on spending a little bit more for Christmas. So maybe their budget's going to be moved around a little bit, and they're thinking maybe four or five more days having to spend those nights in hotels, rather than spending it at home where it's essentially free.", "Yes. That's too bad. Yes. I saw you all weekend, Chad, out there in that cold weather. I understand that in Worcester, Massachusetts, they're asking folks to postpone trick-or-treating until Tuesday. So, in York, is Halloween canceled there?", "We're OK here. I'm telling you, because the sun came out so fast here, compared to Massachusetts -- which might have been 15 hours later for that sun to come out -- today it will warm up in Massachusetts, but yesterday it was warm here. All the snow is off, all the lines are down, all the trees are down and the lines are getting back up. That's not the case -- they're not to the point yet in Massachusetts. There are still many power lines down. They don't want the kids walking around those power lines. There are still trees that still could come down because there's still snow up there. They don't want those kids under those trees, so it's a safe bet to not trick-or-treat tonight, wait a couple days. The candy's not going to go stale in two days.", "All right. It's not going anywhere. They'll be OK. A couple days to wait. All right. Thank you, Chad. It is Halloween. Expect some strange things. Right? Well, just outside of Atlanta zombies -- yes, I'm talking about zombies -- took to the streets, but it was for a good cause. So, not the usual trick-or-treating that you see. This is the first annual Marietta Zombie Walk.", "We need all zombies inside the corral! All zombies make their way inside of the corral!", "Zombies are the new vampires. We're much cooler. We don't eat much. We don't glisten and glitter. We don't have love stories. We're zombies.", "The undead keep living forever.", "The idea was Gary Hasty loves zombies, so he wanted to do a family-friendly zombie walk in his neighborhood. And he wanted to team up with MUST to make it a food drive, because he knew that we were low on food in our food pantry.", "We were expecting for the first year maybe 50, 60 people show up. I think we had 300 or 400 or so.", "Crazy. White House hopeful Herman Cain, he's about to take on a roomful of journalists, and there are some controversial headlines. The accusations and what he's been saying so far."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "MALVEAUX", "MYERS", "MALVEAUX", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GARY HASTY, ZOMBIE WALK ORGANIZER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MEGHAN HILL, MUST MINISTRIES", "HASTY", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-343906", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-06-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/28/es.03.html", "summary": "Trump-Putin Summit in the Works; North Korea Upgrading Nuclear Facility.", "utt": ["President Trump on the verge of finalizing plans to hold a summit with Vladimir Putin. Details of his meeting with the Russian President are expected to be announced today. The President already revealing it is likely to take place after the NATO summit in Brussels in July. Let's go live to Moscow and bring in CNN's Fred Pleitgen. Fred, good morning to you. What are we likely to hear these two discuss?", "Well, we're likely to hear them talk about just some that the President, Dave, said yesterday. We're likely to hear them talk about Syria, about Ukraine as well. Of course, those two major issues. But then one of the things that the national security adviser John Bolton said at the press conference yesterday after his he meeting with Vladimir Putin is that, apparently, the meddling in the 2016 election could very well also be on the table. Now, the big question is going to be -- where is the summit going to take place? Right now, what we're hearing is that, most probably, it will be Helsinki. Although apparently, Vienna is still on the table as well. As you were saying there, the middle of July seems likely right now. The President, of course, in Europe in the middle of July. Vladimir Putin has to be here in Russia on the 15th for the end of the soccer world cup, but planning around that is what they seem to be doing. Of course, Dave, we always have to point out that President Trump says this meeting is absolutely necessary. He says it will be good for America and the world. Some of America's allies? Not so sure. They're a bit concerned about the fractured alliance that President Trump has had with them while, of course, embracing leaders like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, and then also the Chinese leadership as well, Dave.", "Yes. It should make for some fascinating optics. Fred, thank you.", "Brand new satellite images showed North Korea has made rapid improvements to the infrastructure at its Yongbyon nuclear research facility. The images captured last week reveal planned upgrades that were already underway before the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore, but this seemed to cast doubt on North Korea's commitment to denuclearization. CNN's Will Ripley is live in Beijing for us. And, Will, I mean, if you've got all those road improvements and new buildings and spruced up facilities, how does that fit into a path toward denuclearization?", "Well, it's interesting because I was looking at some pictures out of Pyongyang yesterday that show some construction of apartments in the city has ground to a halt, and yet you have the nuclear reactor. You have two new buildings going up. You have improvements to the cooling system of the plutonium production reactor. And you wonder why North Korea is investing scarce resources in a nuclear facility after vowing to complete denuclearization at that summit on June 12th with President Trump. Certainly, eyebrow-raising and really underscoring the need for an agreement, a verifiable agreement that the United States has yet to negotiate. The U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, presumably, will be meeting at some point with his North Korean counterpart to get specifics on a timeline for denuclearization. He has said it will take quite some time. He actually said there is no timeline now. That's dramatically different from their tone just a few weeks ago, saying it could happen in a matter of months. Pompeo is also saying that North Korea remains a nuclear threat, contradicting, by the way, President Trump who said that the nuclear threat from North Korea was over after his meeting with Kim Jong-un. North Korea is on the agenda in South Korea where the U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived overnight after his meetings here in Beijing. He has said, despite some disagreements with the President, that he does supports the U.S. decision to suspend joint military drills, saying that, hopefully, it will help to create a peaceful atmosphere and move forward this progress on denuclearization. But all the questions remain, Christine, especially given this satellite images we're seeing from Yongbyon.", "All right. Thank you so much for that. In Beijing, Will Ripley.", "OK, two words. Beer shortage.", "That's right. United Kingdom now rationing beer during the world cup. Why and how long it will last, next."], "speaker": ["BRIGGS", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "BRIGGS"]}
{"id": "CNN-373321", "program": "CNN RIGHT NOW", "date": "2019-06-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/26/crn.01.html", "summary": "Iran's Foreign Minister Hits Back; Mueller to Testify Before Congress; Democrats Subpoena Kellyanne Conway.", "utt": ["Iran's foreign minister is now hitting back. In a CNN exclusive interview, he responds to President Trump's threat to obliterate Iran if they attack anything American. We have CNN's senior international correspondent Fred Pleitgen. He is in Tehran with more of his exclusive. Fred, what did he tell you?", "Hi, Brianna. Yes, we caught up with Javad Zarif at the sidelines of an event here in Tehran. Of course the first thing I asked him was, how does he react to President Trump's threats to not only obliterate Iran, but again saying this morning that a war with Iran would be very short. Here's what the foreign minister had to say.", "What do you make of President Trump's threats of obliteration and that a war with the United States wouldn't last very long?", "Well, he's certainly wrong, but that statement indicates that the United States' intentions are certainly illegal. The United States is not in a position to obliterate Iran. They do not have the capability, other than using prohibited weapons to do this.", "One of the thing he also said, Brianna, was that Iran does not want a war with the United States. But really one of the other really interesting things that I thought is, he also seems to still believe that President Trump also doesn't want a war with Iran. He kept telling me that he thinks that there are people around President Trump, like, for instance, National Security Adviser John Bolton, who are sort of trying to push President Trump in that direction and he believes that President Trump is actually trying to walk things back, Brianna.", "Interesting. Fred, thank you so much for that interview. He's with us from Tehran there. And mark your calendars because three weeks from now we are going to hear from Special Counsel Robert Mueller. On July 17th, Mueller will testify publicly before members of two separate House committees. Both Republicans and Democrats will have a chance to ask him questions and you will hear his answers in real time, not through a transcript released later or a 400-page report that most people have not read. Let's go to CNN's senior justice correspondent Evan Perez. You have lived and breathed the Russian investigation -- you may have bled the Russia investigation, too, Evan, the last two years here. This is the day that Democrats and some Republicans and a lot of Americans have been waiting for. What are the most important questions that they're going to ask?", "Well, that's right, Brianna. And you could tell from the way the president is already attacking Robert Mueller and the investigation that he already is anticipating what these answers might be. So let's take a look at some of the questions that we still have outstanding at this point. One of them, do you support the president's claim that you found zero collusion? You know, of course, if you read the report, the report says that there was not enough evidence found that -- enough to bring charges against anyone of a wider conspiracy. That was the answer that was in the report. We'll see what Mueller says at this -- at this hearing. Number two, do you agree with the attorney general, William Barr's, overall interpretation of your report? You, of course, will remember that Bill Barr, the attorney general, has been attacked for the way he portrayed the report before the report was released. We'll hear from Mueller in his own words how he sees that. Was this probe illegal? If not, why not? And, of course, it's going to be one of the major questions from some of the president's supporters during those two hearings. So we'll see how Mueller answers that question. That's going to be a big one. And, number four, did you mean to put the onus on Congress to act on your conclusions? That's, of course, one of the big overarching questions that we have after this Mueller investigation. The question is, did you intend for Congress to actually take the action that you, as a Justice Department employee, as a federal prosecutor, could not do because the law says or the Justice Department says that you cannot indict a sitting president? That's going to be a key question for Robert Mueller on that day, Brianna.", "Yes, because he really seemed to put that in his report there that it, you know, is within Congress' purview to go ahead and do this. Why did he do -- why did he say that?", "Right.", "We want to know. Evan Perez, thank you so much. Add another name to the list of Trump associates who are facing subpoenas from congressional Democrats. This time it's White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway, who was a no-show at a House Oversight Committee hearing today. The panel, led by Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings, voted 25-16 to subpoena Conway. A federal agency has recommended that she be fired for violating the Hatch Act, which is a law that limits the political activities of federal employees. Walter Shaub is former director of the Office of Government Ethics. He's also a CNN contributor. So how much weight does this subpoena hold for Kellyanne Conway?", "So, you know, the subpoena's a serious escalation. And I -- but I think we can predict the White House is going to ignore it, as they have with others. I think, ultimately, this is going to have to be litigated in the courts. I think there's a very good chance the House is going to win this one. But, unfortunately, these things take time. And I think that's the broader strategy of the White House right now is resist everything across the board and stall, stall, stall.", "So she refused to appear on the advice of White House counsel. Executive privilege has not been exercised here, right? So what's the legal -- what's the legal rationale for this?", "So the White House is asserting sort of a strange claim that White House presidential advisers have absolute immunity to any kind of subpoena. That's not a viewpoint that either the Congress or the courts have endorsed at any point, which is why it's going to wind up having to be litigated. To be fair to the Trump administration, they're not the first administration to assert that. They are, however, the first one to stick to their guns on that and not accommodate the House and ultimately find some sort of compromise. At least not yet.", "Same thing with Hope Hicks when she testified last week. Everything that she said was not -- everything about her time in the White House, she would not speak to, for the same reason.", "Right.", "So President Trump, at this point, he's ignoring this federal agency's recommendation that Conway be fired. They said she should be fired for, quote, numerous violations of the Hatch Act. Explain -- explain how she violated this and explanation this recommendation?", "Yes, you know, interestingly, I sat in Henry Kerner's (ph) shoes. He's the head of the agency that recommended her firing because she violated the standards of conduct when I was leading the Office of Government Ethics. And just as the White House ignored me, they're ignoring Henry Kerner. The difference this time is Henry Kerner's a Trump appointee. So right there that makes it strange. The way she violated it is she's used her position to advocate for the success or failure of individual candidates and political parties while being interviewed on television and on her Twitter page, which the Office of Special Counsel, not related to Mueller, the agency that does this, found was essentially an official account because she tweets so much government information on it. The defenses from the White House have ranged from saying, oh, this is a violation of her First Amendment rights, which the courts have rejected, to now a new one saying that somehow the Hatch Act doesn't apply to senior White House officials. But these are actually rather extreme positions for the White House to take, and they're not going to be supported in any form, whether by Congress or in a court or anywhere else.", "Thank you, Walter, for making us smarter. We appreciate it. Walter Shaub. Just ahead, it's one of the largest online furniture companies, employees of Wayfair, are outraged after learning it was selling beds to furnish migrant detention facilities for children. What they're hoping -- now hoping that a walkout will do to spark change. Also, just in to CNN, prosecutors reveal a possible cause for a fire that ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral. What common, human habit may have started this blaze."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "PLEITGEN", "MOHAMMAD JAVAD ZARIF, IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER", "PLEITGEN", "KEILAR", "EVAN PEREZ, CNN SENIOR JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR", "PEREZ", "KEILAR", "WALTER SHAUB, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "KEILAR", "SHAUB", "KEILAR", "SHAUB", "KEILAR", "SHAUB", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-75610", "program": "NEWS FROM CNN", "date": "2003-8-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/20/nfcnn.02.html", "summary": "Bush Administration Considering Strategies Regarding U.N. Bombing", "utt": ["And for more now on that deadly terrorist attack in Baghdad and the effects it's having here in Washington, as well as in Texas, for that matter, we're joined by CNN's Barbara Starr. She's over at the Pentagon. Our White House correspondent, Suzanne Malveaux is near the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas. And retired U.S. Army Colonel Pat Lang, he's a former U.S. Defense Department intelligence official, he's here with me in Washington. Barbara, what's the latest on who might have been responsible for this bombing at the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad?", "Well, Wolf, officials here say of course they do not know who is responsible, but they certainly are developing a list of suspects. And topping that list of suspects is the radical Islamic group Ansar al-Islam, which operated in Iraq before the war. They believe it is continuing to operate there. A group that has links and ties to the al Qaeda. Now the reason that Ansar al-Islam is topping the list of suspects at the moment is, number one, the sophistication of the attack. The FBI now believes thousands of pounds of military explosives were packed into that cement truck. They are going to be looking very carefully to see if they can find the detonator. They want to see if it is something called a shaped charge. That would have been a detonator that would have forced the blast pressure in a single direction towards the building, causing this very extensive damage. And shaped charges are a hallmark, at least of al Qaeda or al Qaeda-trained operatives in some of the recent terrorist attacks seen around the world. The embassy bombings in Africa, the Cole attack in Yemen. So that is one reason Ansar al-Islam is a suspect. But another reason, Wolf, there had been intelligence reports in the last couple of weeks since the early August bombing of the Jordanian embassy that Ansar al-Islam was operating in Baghdad and was planning another major terrorist attack. So they are not sure yet; it tops their list of suspects. But they also warn that they do know there were members of Saddam Hussein's intelligence bureau that also had sophisticated explosives expertise -- Wolf.", "All right. That's all fascinating information. Barbara, stand by. I want to get back to you. I want to bring in Suzanne Malveaux, our White House correspondent. She's covering the president's so-called vacation. Not much of a vacation, he's got a lot of headaches on his agenda down there. What's the laysest as far as White House officials with the president, Suzanne? What are they saying?", "Well, Wolf, the president has been very busy, you're absolutely right. He's been on the phone. He called the president of Brazil yesterday to offer condolences about de Mello's death. He also was on the phone with British Prime Minister Tony Blair to try to assess where the United States, where the coalition is in all of this. He put in a call to the U.S. civil administrator, Paul Bremer, inside of Iraq, as well as U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, to offer some assistance. But essentially the Bush administration has a number of choices, some strategies here. First of all, whether or not U.S. troops should be increased in number inside of Iraq or whether or not the troops should be fortified, perhaps even transformed into lighter, more flexible type of units. This is something that senior administration officials say has not yet been decided. Also, of course, is the consideration of giving the United Nations a larger role in the security matters. Inside of Iraq, I spoke with a senior White House official this morning who says that he believes U.N. Resolution 1483 is sufficient. That is the one that essentially gives structure for countries to contribute inside of Iraq for reconstruction and humanitarian assistance. Bottom line is that the security would still be under the auspices of the United States. And finally, the third strategy, which we've already begun to see play out here, is putting more responsibility on the Iraqi people. Perhaps even trying to fortify some sort of civil defense group that would take on other security measures and security responsibilities. It was just yesterday that President Bush framed this attack as one against the Iraqi people and he called on their help.", "The Iraqi people face a challenge and they face a choice. The terrorists want to return to the days of torture chambers and mass graves. The Iraqis who want peace and freedom must reject them and fight terror. And the United States and many in the world will be there to help them.", "The senior White House official I spoke with this morning says he hopes that the bombing, of course, is really a way to rally support. That if you note the people, the victims of that bombing, Brazilian and American, as well as Iraqis -- Wolf.", "Suzanne Malveaux, stand by as well. We're going to be getting back to you. I want to bring Pat Lang in, the former Defense Department intelligence analyst. He's joining us here in Washington. We have a caller who has a question for you, Pat. Kieran, in Kentucky, go ahead.", "Yes, I was wondering if the United Nations was primary in their role and the United States were primary in bringing down Saddam Hussein's regime, why would they not consider the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad as a primary target?", "I gather the question is why aren't people thinking this was a natural target. Well, actually, I think they did think it was a natural target. In fact, the guerrillas and the insurgents in general on the other side, see this, I'm sure, as kind of unified target set in which some things are subject to sabotage and others to guerrilla attacks against our forces, other things to terrorism. And the U.N. target is an excellent target from their point of view, because it sends a very clear signal that no one is safe, that the populous can't be protected by the coalition forces, and that foreigners, whether they are non-governmental organizations, the U.N., the World Bank, they're not safe either. So this tends to impede the consolidation of the new government. So from their point of view, it was a very logical target.", "All right. We're going to continue this conversation. We want to take a quick break. Pat, stand by. We have an e-mailer who says maybe exactly the same point. Joan, who wrote to us, \"I would think that the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad would be the first place protected with high security. How could something like this happen?\" Joan, a lot of people are asking that exact question. We're going to take more of your calls, your e-mail, with our roundtable. That's coming up. E-mail us once again at wolf@cnn.com, or call us, you see the number, 1-888-CNN-0561. Also this hour, Israeli leaders debating right now their response to yesterday's deadly suicide bombing in Jerusalem. In the words of one official, their \"patience is running out.\" We'll go live to Jerusalem for the latest.", "Let's get back now to our roundtable discussion. Once again, CNN's Barbara Starr, she's joining us. She's over at the Pentagon. Our White House correspondent, Suzanne Malveaux, is near the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas. Retired U.S. Army Colonel Pat Lang, former U.S. Defense Department intelligence analyst, he's here with me in Washington. Barbara, when your sources suggest that Ansar al-Islam, a group loosely, I guess, affiliated with al Qaeda, may have been responsible, are they saying just for the U.N. bombing yesterday, but also for the Jordanian embassy bombing the other day?", "Well, Wolf, they clearly don't know for sure. In the Jordanian bombing, they're of course still investigating, and it's very early on in the U.N. compound bombing. But it is one of the groups that they suspect may be involved. And one of the reasons is they say that they know there were a couple of dozen operatives in the Baghdad area under the control of the leader that is affiliated with al Qaeda, a man named Zakwari (ph). They say there were a couple of dozen of his operatives in Baghdad during the war. And, as one official said, no one has called in every morning with a role call on those guys, but \"we have every reason,\" he says, \"to believe they are still in the Baghdad area.\" This bombing is going to prove to be quite interesting to them if, in fact, the cement truck was packed with a number of Iraqi military explosives. The question will be, who had access to that material, how did they know how to pack it? How did they know how to detonate it? Ansar al-Islam is a group they believe knows how to do that, but certainly not the only group.", "All right. Barbara stand by. We have a caller. Ovi, in California, you're on the air.", "Thank you for taking my call. According to your report yesterday on your Web site, you mentioned that apparently Syrians and Saudi Arabians are involved in some of the terrorist attacks. Does the administration have a political will to put further pressure on those two countries?", "Well, let me ask Pat Lang. Is there any solid evidence that Syrians or Saudis, or other non-Iraqis, not necessarily with any state sponsorship, have infiltrated into Iraq, are part of", "I don't really think there is any real firm evidence of that. There's a lot of sort of inductive reasoning from the fact that there are good reasons. For example, the Syrian government to want to cause us problems in Iraq and tie us up there. And that there are lots and lot lots of Wahabi jihad types in Saudi Arabia. But I don't think there is any really firm evidence of that as yet. So I -- and as for putting pressure on them, the Saudi government is under quite a lot of pressure as it is. And large parts of it are trying to reform themselves against considerable internal opposition. And Syrians are playing their usual complicated game.", "All right. Suzanne, we've got a question about the United Nations for you. One of our e-mailers sent us this. Easton (ph) in Toronto. \"America has marginalized the U.N.,\" he writes. \"This has damaged the credibility of the U.N. and made it a target of terrorists.\" Suzanne, what exactly is the Bush administration's position as far as the role of the U.N. in Iraq is concerned?", "Well, here's the problem that they face. It was just last week that the administration rejected a U.N. mandate that would essentially give its blessing to an international peacekeeping force. And there are countries like France, Germany and India that say we are not going to send in troops inside of Iraq unless we have this type of U.N. mandate. But the administration has rejected that because it really means that they would have to give up some of their power, their control over the security inside of that country. That the coalition would have to give up that, and that is not something that they are willing to do given that it is a dangerous situation. That they really do not want to have to make security decisions by committee here. So that is something they have rejected so far. It is going to be very interesting to see whether or not this changes. I did speak with a White House official and asked him just that question, are they considering expanding the role of the United Nations, and he said that right now this U.N. Security Council Resolution 1483, which essentially defines the role of all of these other countries that are involved and inside of Iraq, he said is sufficient, but hat's not to say that that won't change at another time. We'll just have to wait and see how this plays out in the international community.", "Here's an e-mail we got from Dave in Illinois. Let me put it on the screen. \"George Herbert Walker Bush is starting to look like a genius for not going all the way to Baghdad in the first Iraq war. Perhaps we should turn this whole mess we made in Iraq over to the Arab League and bring our troops home.\" That's obviously a very passionate point of view from Dave. But Barbara, over at the Pentagon, as far as the number of U.S. troops involved, I think it's hovering around 140,000 right now; another 20,000 or so British forces and a handful of other non-British, non- U.S. forces. What is the number that analysts at the Pentagon are telling you they think they really need to try to bring some sort of stability to the situation in Iraq?", "I have to tell you, Wolf, we have heard no change in policy in the very quick 24 hours or so since this attack happened. There's just no indication that they plan to send more troops. The view prior to this attack, even as the security situation was very difficult in Iraq, is that more troops would not solve the problem, that you could not put enough boots on the ground as it were to protect every building, every square inch, every mile of oil pipeline, every water treatment plant. It can't be done. They do not feel that more troops are the answer, or at least that's every indication that we have. They plan to stick with the strategy of having -- turning as much of the government as they can over to the Iraqi people, trying to get the Iraqi police force up and running, trying to get some capability of the Iraqis to provide security for key infrastructure. They think that is the way to go.", "All right. We've got another e-mail from Y.B. in Atlanta. This is for you, Pat. \"The lack of security in Iraq has allowed all kinds of terrorists to go in. Instead of reducing terrorism, the war in Iraq has increased it, giving the terrorists a new place to operate and target Americans.\" What is your assessment? Ansar al-Islam, al Qaeda, Fedayeen Saddam, these incidents, these terrorist attacks at the Jordanian Embassy and at the U.N. headquarters, are they part of the same operation or are they separate, very distinct different kinds of terror attacks?", "Well, it seems to me that what has emerged here is almost a kind of tacit agreement, you know? That we have told all the ultra- nationalists and Islamic extremist forces in the world that, if you wish to come to Iraq at the center of the Islamic world, we are there. And they're responding to that. So I think you're going to see an emerging mixture of nationalists and Islamic forces who will come to Iraq to fight it out with us there. If it's our intention to do battle decisively against these forces somewhere in the Middle East, we're going to have the opportunity, I think.", "All right. We're going to have to leave it unfortunately right there. Pat Lang, as usual, thanks very much for joining us. Barbara Starr over at the Pentagon doing an outstanding job for all of us, as usual, as is Suzanne Malveaux, our White House correspondent. She's covering the president's working vacation. I think it's fair to call it a working vacation down in Crawford, Texas. Thanks very much to all of you. Coming up next: what happens now as far as the Israeli- Palestinian peace process is concerned, if we can call it that? One Israeli official says it may have reached the end of the road. We'll be live in Jerusalem, the site of yesterday's deadly suicide bus bombing. Bombing>"], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-116421", "program": "CNN IN THE MONEY", "date": "2007-4-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/28/cnnitm.01.html", "summary": "The DOW at 13,000 and What It Means For You; America's Trailing in the Sciences", "utt": ["Hey I say A for effort. Go ahead, Mr. President. All right. A look at the top stories in a moment, IN THE MONEY is next, here is a preview.", "Thanks. Coming up on IN THE MONEY see what pushed the DOW to 13,000 and what it means for you. Plus tips on protecting your identity from a con man gone straight. And later find out what it means for the economy that America's trailing in the sciences. All that and more after a quick check of these headlines.", "Now in the news. In Karbala, Iraq a suspected suicide bomber targets people while they prey at least 52 people dead, more than 80 injured near two Shiite shrines, it is the second bombing in Karbala this month. At least 28 people dead, 44 wounded, all victims of a suicide bombing in Pakistan's northwest Frontier Providence. Among the wounded, Pakistan's interior minister and his son. So far, no claim of responsibility for the attack. A top U.S. state department official has resigned after admitting he was a client of an alleged high-priced call girl ring in the nation's capital. The state department official confirms to CNN that Randall Tobias stepped down because of the revelation that he used the escort service. We'll update the top stories at the bottom of the hour. Now time for", "Welcome to IN THE MONEY, I'm Ali Velshi.", "I'm Christine Romans. Coming up on today's program see what it means for America's money now that the DOW hit the 13,000 mark.", "Plus, what a reformed con artist can tell you about keeping your identity safe.", "And see if you earning what you deserve as we check the pay gap between men and women.", "Now the one place where the gap is, there's no gap, is when you are trading stocks on the stock market. Thirteen thousand, just a number in some ways, but it really is, it's a surge. It's a strong market. It's earnings results that show that people continue to buy things from America's businesses.", "Dow up what, 1,000 points in six months, up 5 percent from that horrific rout in February. The market doing well, you mentioned earnings,", "We saw earnings from the oil companies, of course. No surprise there. We saw Apple saying that they sold more than 10 million iPods in the last three years. Microsoft.", "Pepsi had good number, Amazon. Go down the list it was incredible. Someone on this program earlier this year, when everyone was belly aching about the Dow falling apart in February said, listen, we'll see 13,000 before you know it. A young man named Ned Riley.", "Ned Riley, who is the chief investment strategist at Riley Asset Management joins us now from Boston, Ned you said it at the beginning of the year. You keep telling people don't worry about it, you even think this market is going further. The question people are asking me what do I do now? Do I sell or do I buy?", "No, I'd buy right now and, Christine thank you for that complement. The young man, I'll go a long way with that one.", "I'll take it.", "No. I think people should be continuing to average in to the market. You know, people are too my optic, they are to short term oriented and they listen too much to Wall Street. Wall Street keeps crying about the fact that we need big corrections to move further. I don't believe that has to be the case. And as long as they continue on that kind of thinking, then I feel really good about the market. The more the skeptics are out there the better off investors are to put their money in. Old saying, buy when they're down and when everybody's complaining.", "Yes, but you know close your eyes and buy the highs to I mean we are right here at 13,000, that old saying on Wall Street, but GDP came in on Friday less than people expected. So much of this profit growth is coming from overseas, we're hearing a lot how the United States isn't growing as much as other places and these big companies have been sort of downsizing their responsibilities on benefits, they have been buying back their own stock. Not necessarily investing in their U.S. operations. Are those reasons to be cautious or at least to keep in the back of your mind?", "Well Christine you bring out some really good points there. My only position on that is that companies are learning to live in a much different environment, a slower growth environment. It isn't just organic growth in the tops eye. It is growth via cutting cost, growth via buying acquisitions and cutting costs out of those. The dollar, weak dollars helping multi-national companies. Many of them obviously have more than 50 percent of their revenue coming from overseas. So that is actually a benefit, not a detriment. And when you put it all together in terms of a companies focus, this still is going to be focusing on labor, and more labor costs. I, found fortunately for the American worker, may mean less, but the companies I think are going to maintain this record level of profitability, almost a record in terms of return on equity and an absolute record in profits. I don't know what people are talking about, 13,000. We are at record highs in all those and I don't see a recession in sight because the Fed's on the ball.", "What else could derail this market? Are there things that can derail this market? High gas prices, lower home prices, home sales? Inflation, what can set this thing off?", "Well, basically, I'm going to say it. Too much growth in the economy is obviously going to bring on inflation. I think the inflation number for the first quarter is history. That's what the market is saying, saying on Friday. Clearly, if we go forward, the slower the growth, the more it will prompt the Federal Reserve to take a look at interest rates. Watch the ten-year Treasury bond yields. If they start creeping down, and today, on Friday there were 457, I believe, people are looking for 5 percent and 5.5 percent. So the bottom line is long term interest rates are starting to indicate the economy is going to be slowing even further. That means high gasoline price, the housing market's going to cause problems undermine the growth but the bottom line is slower growth is going to get lower inflation, which will get lower interest rates which definitely isn't going to help the stock market.", "Ned we keep seeing the consumer, whether it pretty well -- you know you got record levels of household debt, Seven 1/4's of a negative savings rate, gas prices, some say they are going to reach you know almost maybe to $4 a gallon this summer. But the consumer just keeps on charging. Right?", "It does and the strange thing about this, Christine, they have leveraged up obviously in the last seven or eight quarters. But the net worth of households has also grown very rapidly. Even though we have had a retrachment (ph) in prices, we have $53 trillion of net worth in the consumer's pockets. When they start to look at the daily bills and things like that, I understand the leverage. But remember, those savings number that you see do not include home equity or retirement plans. So the bottom line is, the consumer's actually better off financially than, say, three to five or seven years ago.", "All right. Ned, I've been sitting around waiting to put my money in to something. The market you say continues to go up. What do I invest in?", "Basically for the investor that doesn't have time to look every day at their stocks and research them, I still believe in ETF, Exchange Traded Funds like index funds. And for people that want to at least do as well as the professionals, or maybe do better. You know, a Spider wishes that S&P; 500 Index Fund will simulate the market. So if the market's up 5 percent year to date, the Spider going to be up 5 percent and not to worry about the Intel's versus the Microsoft's versus the IBM's versus the Coke. The bottom line is I would buy ETFs, have diversity in the portfolio, like buy some QQQQs which is the Nasdaq 100 top stocks or if they feel adventuresome, buy financial stocks with what I call the XLF, basically, financial stocks in a Spider RNF, exchange rated funds.", "Ned do you buy them right here even after a record week in the Dow? You buy them now or you wait for a pullback?", "No, I would put my money in as I do, as I've done historically. Basically, put it in a more systematic basis.", "Right.", "When the market's down, it's great. When the market's up -- yeah. You've got the Dow cost average. I've done this too many years and I haven't found anybody that's consistently picked bottoms and tops in markets ever.", "All right. Ned Riley.", "Till after the game. Ned thanks a million. Always good to have you out here, putting your neck on the line. We'll be happy to tell people when you get right which is a lot of the time.", "And when you get it wrong --", "We'll tell them that too. Ned Riley is the chief investment strategist at Riley Asset Management in Boston. You know what's neat, is Ned always talks about the fact that we talk about gas prices every spring and going up to $4. There are forces that could make $3 gas something that we're not worrying about because we're worrying about $4 gas, $3 gas could end up looking like a bargain for you. So we're going to talk about that and we are also going to see where your salary stands as we learn about the gender pay gap. Stay with us on IN THE MONEY."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "IN THE MONEY. 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{"id": "CNN-166433", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2011-5-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/19/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Congress Demands Say on Libya Intervention", "utt": ["In Libya today, crowds danced and cheered in the streets of Tripoli in support of Moammar Gadhafi. The demonstrations apparently were in response to state TV reports that Libyan rebels are losing support in their stronghold in Benghazi. But CNN journalists there say they haven't seen any sign of a counter-revolution. Libya is responding to questions about possible defections within Gadhafi's family as well. Reuters is reporting the country's foreign minister, denying that Gadhafi's wife and daughter have fled to neighboring Tunisia. This, as President Obama had some very harsh words for the Libyan regime.", "The most extreme example is Libya, where Moammar Gadhafi launched a war against his own people, promising to hunt them down like rats. As I said when the United States joined an international coalition to intervene, we cannot prevent every injustice perpetrated by a regime against its people. And we have learned from our experience in Iraq just how costly and difficult it is to try to impose regime change by force, no matter how well-intentioned it may be. But in Libya, we saw the prospect of imminent massacre. We had a mandate for action and heard the Libyan people's call for help.", "A short while ago, a Libyan government spokesperson reportedly called President Obama -- and I'm quoting this Libyan official -- as saying, \"President Obama is delusional,\" adding that, \"Only the Libyan people can decide Moammar Gadhafi's fate.\" President Obama also getting some heat for members of Congress, at least some of them, about U.S. military action in Libya. Let's bringing in our senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash with this part of the story -- Dana.", "Well, Wolf, you know, there are few things that bring together the left and the right these days. But lawmakers in both parties are telling us that as of tomorrow, President Obama could be violating the law with military action in Libya.", "U.S. military action in Libya began 59 days ago. Now the president may be on the brink of breaking the law if he continues the mission without congressional approval.", "Bring democracy to Libya while shredding the Constitution in the United States.", "At issue, the 1973 War Powers Act which says if the president does not get congressional authorization 60 days after military action, the mission must stop within 30 days. The president formally notified Congress about the Libya mission in this letter March 21st, which makes tomorrow the 60-day deadline. Inaction is roiling lawmakers on the left --", "He cannot continue what he's doing in Libya without congressional authorization. And when a president defiantly violates the law, that really undercuts our effort to urge other countries to have the rule of law.", "-- with rare agreement from the right.", "I mean, no more important decision than sending someone to war who could lose their life, and yet we are going to have no debate on it? The people's representatives would not be allowed a debate on it? I found that really appalling, and it's a terrible precedent.", "To be sure, presidents in both parties often ignored another part of the War Powers Act, that the commander in chief should get congressional approval before military action. But it's virtually unprecedented for a president to continue a mission beyond 60 days without a resolution from Congress. The administration is deliberating what to do", "We are actively reviewing our role going forward. Throughout, the president has been mindful of the provisions of the War Powers resolution and has acted in a manner consistent with it. He will continue to do so.", "Angry lawmakers in both parties say part of the problem is that their own congressional leaders are not raising a stink.", "Very few people are talking about this. They are just letting the president do whatever he wants. And I think that's Congress abdicating the rule of law and abdicating constitutional restraints that they should obey.", "Some of my colleagues would just as soon not do our job because this is a difficult part of it.", "Now, with the clock ticking toward tomorrow's 60-day deadline, the administration could try to get around violating the War Powers Act in a few ways, Wolf. They could argue that the U.S. only has a minor role in what is NATO's mission. They could say that the U.S. will temporarily stop involvement there and then try to restart that 60-day countdown. They could even ask for an extension. But some Republicans we talked to, they say it is time for the Supreme Court to act. The Supreme Court has actually never ruled on the War Powers Act, and maybe it is time for them to do that -- Wolf.", "The U.S. military has already spent nearly $1 billion trying to deal with this situation in Libya as well.", "They have.", "Dana, thanks very much. Three journalists freed by Libyan officials crossed into neighboring Tunisia today. The location of the fourth journalist released yesterday is not clear. The four were captured and imprisoned by the Libyan military over a month ago and originally sentenced to prison for a year. A Libyan government spokesman says they were released early after paying a fine for entering the country illegally. We are following the breaking news. The ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn just granted bail, facing a number of alleged sexual assault charges against a hotel maid. We are going back to the courthouse for a live report. 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{"id": "CNN-342299", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-06-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/09/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Mesa Police Officers on Leave After Release of Disturbing Video", "utt": ["New body cam video of a teen's arrest has led to a second investigation of use of force by police in Mesa, Arizona. Days earlier, the police department was criticized over surveillance footage that showed officers punching and kneeing another man. And now there are two separate investigations with a total of six officers and one sergeant on administrative leave. Our Stephanie Elam reports the police chief there's determined to get to the bottom of this.", "Let me be crystal clear, I'm angry and I'm deeply disappointed by what I saw in those videos. It's unacceptable, and it needs to stop immediately.", "Videos of Mesa police officers making two separate arrests have put the department in hot water.", "All the way down. All the way down.", "Dude, they told you to sit down.", "Sit down.", "This is down, Bro. Down. This is down, Bro.", "The May 23rd arrest of Robert Johnson making national headlines as the video shows the unarmed 33 year old being kneed and punched repeatedly in the head until he is out cold. A police sergeant and four officers are on administrative leave while the incident is investigated. The department already changing policy in response to the video.", "Henceforth, any strikes are only authorized in situations where a person is actively fighting with us, actively taking a swing with us.", "That's not enough for Johnson, who wants the charges against him dropped.", "I want Mesa to be held accountable for what they have done.", "Before Johnson, on May 17th, Mesa police arrested a 15-year-old male who was charged with multiple counts, including armed robbery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. After he is in handcuffs, you hear the teen wail.", "Are you done talking?", "Yes.", "Are you done talking? Are you sure?", "Are you sure you're done talking? I'm trying to get ahold of my grandma. I'm trying to get ahold of my grandma. I'm trying to get ahold of my grandma.", "Two of these officers are now also on administrative leave.", "The level of force used by our officers was brought to my attention, and as a result, an internal investigation was initiated by the department.", "Mesa Police Chief Ramon Batista taking action, announcing a trio of investigations, including one led by the Washington, D.C.- based Police Executive Research Forum, which will examine the department's use of force over the last three years. Former Maricopa County attorney, Rick Romley, will conduct an internal affairs review to determine if disciplinary action is need.", "It's going to be hard inside the Mesa Police Department.", "My team and I will work every single day to make these -- to make sure these situations don't happen again.", "Stephanie Elam, CNN.", "Coming up, just days before President Trump and Kim Jong-Un meet face-to-face, the North Korean propaganda machine is ramping up, but with a surprising change of tone."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "RAMON BATISTA, CHIEF, MESA POLICE DEPARTMENT", "STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER", "UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER", "UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER", "UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER", "ELAM", "BATISTA", "ELAM", "ROBERT JOHNSON, BEATEN BY MESA POLICE OFFICERS", "ELAM", "UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER", "UNIDENTIFEID TEENAGER", "UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER", "UNIDENTIFIED TEENAGER", "ELAM", "BATISTA", "ELAM", "RICK ROMLEY, FORMER MARICOPA COUNTY ATTORNEY", "BATISTA", "ELAM", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-275171", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2016-01-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/29/acd.01.html", "summary": "Make Final Push Before Caucuses", "utt": ["As we said, Donald Trump says he made the right call boycotting last night's Republican debate, holding his own event instead, to benefit veterans. He also insists, what he did is nothing like what happened in 2011 when Mr. Trump cried foul. Here is what he told CBS News.", "In 2011 you were going to participate in a Newsmax debate. And you said of the Republicans who weren't going to show, you said, \"We're not seeing a lot of courage here, are we? And a lot of courage. These Republicans, they're supposed to be brave.\" Why can't that be said about you?", "Well, they should have showed because there was no reason. I was doing the moderation. I mean it was very Newsmax thing. And I just said, you know, if they asked me -- the owner is a friend of mine, Chris Ruddy, a very good guy. And he said, \"Would you do it?\" I said, \"I've never done it before.\" I just said, \"Do it.\" I wasn't even ...", "What about the bravery charge?", "No, no, but here's the difference. I was treated very unfairly by Fox. I was treated very -- but they weren't treated badly. I was treated very, very badly by Fox. They issued a statement that was an inappropriate statement. Now what happened is since then they've been nice and they tried very much to get me to do the debate. By that time, the event, my counter event had taken off. And, you know, you saw a thousands and thousands of people standing outside the building. It was amazing.", "What about this charge, though? I mean, it's a press release, like, he can't -- and you know ...", "It's OK. It's OK. No.", "... you know, but you were offended. But, isn't that -- are you being a little too politically correct?", "You know what I did? I went out and I raised $6 million for the vets.", "And Mr. Trump had released a list of 22 veterans groups that will share the money raised last night. As we said, he spent today campaigning in New Hampshire, slamming Ted Cruz's debate performance. Back now with our panel. It's interesting hearing Donald Trump's on being accused of being too politically correct essentially by Dickerson there. And this is the guy who prides himself on not being politically correct.", "And he prides himself on being the strength in this campaign. The reason he has skyrocketed is we don't have an ideological Republican primary like we often do. It's not a fight about who's going to cut taxes more, who's going to shrink government more. It's become a fight about who's stronger, who's tougher, who's the anti-Obama, if you will. Suddenly, there's no gray there's no nuances. Boom, I'm going to make decisions and people are going to listen to me. And so with that regard, this was a big turn-about. The tough guy walked away. You can make the case. Now, he's saying he did it for the right reasons. His opponents are trying to say he's not so tough after all. But, again, well every time Trump has done things that we find contrarian, they have worked to his benefits.", "Right.", "Well, see if this one does.", "I mean, again, I just think his instincts are pretty extraordinary. Whether, again, as he said, whether it was by design or instinct not to go to that thing but to have everybody ganging up on Cruz essentially and it was very effective in hurting Cruz.", "Yeah, and in the modern age too, often times, in these debates, you can judge the winners and losers based on what the atomized, sort of, sound bites they come out of it are. And what the headlines look like the next day. And if you looked all across Iowa this morning, the headlines were very bad for Ted Cruz at a very crucial time. And Donald Trump had equal billing. He's sitting there on the front pages of all the newspapers across Iowa saying that Trump raises money for veterans. So in that sense, it really did play to his advantage.", "You're right, Anderson. He is an instinctual guttural animal for these times. And so far, has been incredibly successful. And the reason why I don't think the charge of his being afraid or, you know, his not wanting to go because he was afraid of tough questions is going to stick is because who has done more interviews ...", "Right.", "... with more media outlets, right?", "It's harder to land that punch.", "... that -- exactly. Is there anybody else? And also, I think he can also make the point that, look, Fox News thinks that they can do whatever they want. They've now become part of the establishment because of what he's done? It's pretty incredible. And I think supporters are responding to that.", "This is, kind of, his superpower as a candidate, the ability to drill the exposed nerve on his opponents in a way that dominates the next on new cycle. It's a tremendous talent. But he is proposing a fundamental revision at the heart of Republican Party. Like, you know, the force expulsion of 11 million people, the exclusion by religious belief. This is a major reorientation of the Republican Party in a way that would cause a crisis of identity.", "Yeah.", "But instead ...", "That's very true.", "That could cause people to split off of the party. This in fact, has huge content to it.", "But he's doing that, at the same time he's saying that Ted Cruz is an anchor baby, right? So there is this kind of great dichotomy ...", "Yeah.", "... because on the one hand, he is splitting up the Republican Party. He's dividing a Republican Party. There is this civil war in the Republican Party.", "Yes.", "He's leading one faction of it, we think, although I'm not quite sure which one it is. And on the other hand, he's calling Ted Cruz names because he's a fighter and he understands that Cruz needs to win Iowa.", "I know which side it is. And it's in fact, much more comparable to a European right wing anti-immigrant populism of UKIP (ph) or the National Front. It does not come out of the Republican ...", "But let me ask you, because ...", "This is this something different and ....", "... so, all of you have worked with presidential candidates or Michael, with President Bush. Donald Trump and I again, I go back to this \"Wall Street Journal\" article that I just found it fascinating. Because the reporter spent three days with him, watching him as he made decisions. And she was with him and he decided in his plane sitting by himself, his adviser is in the other room, after reading polls and looking at television coverage to, he said, you know what, Cruz has been doing riding up high in the polls too long in Iowa. We're going to take him down and came up with this Canada thing. And it was this instinctual gut level thing. It wasn't after a big meeting. Is that rare for a presidential candidate or a president ...", "Right. It's incredibly rare.", "... to make those decisions with the gut?", "It's incredibly rare and the question that we're going to the test that this is going to undergo is whether or not, you can actually win the presidency with it.", "Right.", "... and can you be president doing that?", "John used the analogy last night. You know, a scrambling quarterback, every once in a while can make some amazing plays and shows up on ESPN the next day, you know, with the highlights. But is that how you want to run a country? Is that how you can run a party? Well, particularly, when parties at the heart of organizations, but their organizations of that are designed around ideas. This is a candidacy that is only organized around an individual and his ego. And that is where I think as Michael is right, the danger for the party is in the danger for the country lies.", "Right.", "But the other interesting thing to me is if he does become president, let's say, I mean, I don't know of any other candidate who watches as much television. I mean, you'll be doing an interview on this show or any other and he will start Tweeting you about what's going on.", "He doesn't care about Megyn Kelly and then tweets about her at 3:00 in the morning. You know like, that's theory.", "Right.", "So, I mean, he's constantly on top of this. If he wins this way, it will be an entirely new way to win the presidency.", "But then, as president, can he do that? I mean, can he be watching television and reading the polls and tweeting like this, or does ...", "Well, Lyndon Johnson did. Watched a bunch of televisions and then, you know, I don't know if it leads good decision through out ...", "Look, I...", "Yeah, I think ...", "... I think we would have to relearn I think ...", "He had certainly rewritten the rules, but I think these rules right now only apply to him. I don't think anybody that we know right now could get away with what he's done.", "And he talks about this in the art of the deal, right. This is his way. You have to be fast and loose. You can't have a whole lot of structure and he doesn't pack his day with a lot of meetings. I think the question is could he unlearn that as president or if he could be effective as president, sort of being this improvisational president.", "We got to take a quick break. We're going to have more from our panel. It is just fascinating times, a very busy night, three campaign events either under way or just wrapping up. As we speak, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, the entire Clinton family. Donald Trump in time as we have been discussing has been lining up support from all corners of Iowa. The question there, will his strategy actually bring people out on caucus night. We'll take a look. Now, Trump is rewriting the rules of the ground game, next."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN DICKERSON, \"FACE THE NATION\" HOST", "DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "DICKERSON", "TRUMP", "DICKERSON", "TRUMP", "DICKERSON", "TRUMP", "COOPER", "JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR, \"INSIDE POLITICS\"", "COOPER", "KING", "COOPER", "KEVIN MADDEN, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST", "MARIA CARDONA, 2008 SENIOR CLINTON CAMPAIGN ADVISER", "COOPER", "CARDONA", "MADDEN", "CARDONA", "MIECHAEL GERSON, PRES. GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-110234", "program": "CNN SUNDAY MORNING", "date": "2006-9-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/10/sm.01.html", "summary": "9/11 Anniversary: Are We Safer?", "utt": ["Tomorrow does mark the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and among today's many planned memorials is a wreath-laying ceremony this afternoon at ground zero in lower Manhattan. President and Mrs. Bush will be on hand for that event. Looking at live pictures of ground zero right now. You'll want to stay with CNN for extensive live coverage of today's memorial.", "Escalating violence in Afghanistan in the south NATO led forces say they have killed 94 Taliban insurgents. In the west more than a 100 Taliban fighters raided a government compound killing two policemen and the governor of southeastern Paktia Province was killed today in a suicide bombing outside his office. A report from Kabul is just straight ahead.", "A hurricane is churning off the eastern seaboard and Reynolds Wolf has the details of Florence is her name.", "Absolutely. This is one big storm, this is the largest storm of the planet this time and it has maximum sustained winds are at 80 miles per hour and it's forecast has strengthen to a category 2 storm overnight and into the morning. In fact as we make our way into tomorrow, it looks like I'm thinking around 8:00, 9:00 in the morning the storm should pass just to the west of Bermuda. We are going to give you latest on the storm coming up in just a few moment, plus we will let you know how your weekend will round out weather wise and what to expect for the work week ahead. Back to you.", "Like the sound of that. Thank you Reynolds. While British Prime Minister Tony Blair is trying to keep the peace in the Middle East, a short time ago he met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Yesterday he sat down with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The British prime minister says it is essential that both sides return to peacekeeping talks.", "Time for inspection aboard the space shuttle \"Atlantis\" today. Crewmembers used robot cameras to try and search for any damage that was suffered during the liftoff. NASA managers say there may have been three dings to the shuttles thermal skin. Don't believe the damage is close to the severity that doomed the space shuttle \"Columbia.\" We do run down the top stories every 15 minutes here on CNN SUNDAY MORNING with in-depth coverage all morning long certainly when need be. Your next check of the headlines is coming up at 8:15 Eastern.", "Take a look at this. It is tennis with a twist. We will show you the new heart-pounding way to hit the courts. Looks like a lot of fun. From the CNN Center this is CNN SUNDAY MORNING, September 10th, 8:00 am at CNN Headquarters in Atlanta and just after 4:30 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Good morning, everyone. I'm Betty Nguyen.", "I'm Rick Sanchez. We want to thank you so much for being with us this morning. Violence is heating up in Afghanistan once again. Taliban attacks in the east and in the west, while in the south NATO-led troops take on insurgents in a major offensive. Journalist Tom Coughlan is joining us live from the Afghan capital of Kabul to bring us up-to-date. Boy it seems like all of a sudden we're talking about the same thing we were four and a half years ago. Tom.", "That's right Rick. We are talking about the same thing we were talking about four and a half years ago. The situation in Afghanistan in the south of the country at the moment is pretty critical, that's according to the general in charge of NATO, General James Jones. He said that the country was facing decisive moments a few days ago. Four hundred and twenty Taliban have been killed in the south of the country in the past week, and some of the worst fighting we've seen since 2001. A major offensive led by NATO forces there in the south. Operation called Operation Medusa. That led to 94 Taliban deaths overnight, in heavy fighting, heavy exchanges of fire. We have also seen the death of the governor in central Afghanistan today to a suicide bomb and also attacks on more than a hundred Taliban fighters on a police station in the west of the country that was this afternoon.", "When we use the word resurgence, which all of us over here are using when describing the story we can't help, but think how can there be resurgence unless something happened to precipitate it. Perhaps military officials lowered their guard or something? Is there any way of putting our finger on what may have precipitated this resurgence?", "Well, there are many theories on this. One clear thing that you can point to in the redevelopment that's gone out here in Afghanistan since 2001 is that there was a big distraction from Afghanistan in 2003. Well that distraction continues today. That's the war in Iraq. Iraq is seen by many here as having drawn resources away from the redevelopment work here. The reconstruction particularly in the south of the country and could have energies from the world's super power, the United States, on Iraq and that's one of the results of that. One of the repercussions for that and may be the resurgence we now see in the Taliban here in the south.", "Yes the old too much going on all at once theory. Tom Coughlan we thank you for bringing us up to date on that situation there. Betty over to you.", "And if you are just joining us, President and Mrs. Bush will be in New York later today to commemorate the fifth anniversary of 9/11. It is one of many memorial events planned around the country. CNN's Elaine Quijano is live at the White House with the latest on all of this. Good morning to you, Elaine.", "Good morning to you Betty. That is right this afternoon President Bush and the first lady will head to ground zero for a wreath-laying ceremony. It's really the start of two days of somber commemorations of the 9/11 anniversary, but it's intersecting at an interesting time politically as well. We're just two month away from the congressional mid-term elections. Republicans and Democrats are both trying to convince American voters that their party can keep the country safe. Now already this past week we've seen President Bush layout his views in a series of speeches on the war on terror. He's defined the enemy and given a progress report in the terrorism fight and also urged Congress to pass legislation dealing with military trials for terror suspects. Well, today, amid Democratic criticism that the country is less safe, the president's Homeland Security adviser Fran Townsend insisted the administration has learned the lessons of 9/11.", "They were safer, but there's more to do. There's more to do to secure the country. We've made enormous progress, both giving the tools to the people who need them like the Patriot Act and the terrorist surveillance program, but the president has also enhanced the intelligence community and the law enforcement community adding resources where they're needed most to prevent the next attack.", "Now Democrats argue that the president and Republicans who supported him have mismanaged the terrorism fight. So as we go through the couple of days here Betty it's a delicate balancing act for the White House, which is mindful of trying not to appear as though it's politicizing the September 11th anniversary. As for the president and his activities after the wreath laying today he'll have a couple of activities in New York including breakfast with New York city firefighters, tomorrow he will go to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, as well as the Pentagon and of course tomorrow he'll deliver remarks in a prime time oval office address to the nation. White House press secretary Tony Snow says it will be a reflective speech and not a political address. Betty.", "Well let's talk about politics for a minute. Two of the most powerful Republicans in the Senate are headed to Guantanamo Bay today. Talk to me about their mission and what they plan to do.", "Well that is exactly right. The top Republicans in the Senate, Senator Bill Frist and Mitch McConnell are heading to Guantanamo to get what they say is a first-hand look basically at the detainee situation there, but it's coming at a time when they're trying to push through the president's legislation on detainees and how they should be tried, the administration feels in military courts. Now it has run into some opposition, the president's proposal has from some moderate Republican senators. Senators John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham. There are concerned about a provision that would bar detainees from being classified evidence against them. The White House says talks are ongoing but it's very likely, Betty that we're going to be hearing more about this in the days ahead. Betty.", "CNN's Elaine Quijano at the White House for us this morning. Elaine thank you. CNN's prime time coverage of the 9/11 anniversary begins at 8:00 eastern with \"Paula Zahn Now.\" Then at 9:00 Wolf Blitzer leads our coverage of the president's prime time address followed by \"Larry King Live\" from ground zero. And at 10:00 Eastern Anderson Cooper is live on the ground in Afghanistan with a first-hand look at what's really happening there in the war on terror.", "This weekend more than a thousand people visited the Pentagon, 184 people died there on 9/11. A solemn marker is posted outside that says we will never forget.", "A new CNN poll reveals growing pessimism in the aftermath of 9/11. The fifth anniversary of the attacks is accompanied by strong feelings, 85 percent of those surveyed confessed feeling sad, 74 percent are still angry, 44 percent are afraid and 43 percent say they harbor feelings of vengeance. The Bush administration likes to remind Americans that there hasn't been a terrorist attack in the U.S. since 9/11. Even so, significantly more people today believe the country will never be back to normal. The latest poll shows 70 percent now feel that way compared to more than 50 percent in the years immediately after the attack.", "One of the biggest changes after the attacks is the country's security, but is it enough? What do you think? Are we safer since 9/11? E-mail us at WEEKENDS@CNN.com and we'll read some of your responses on the air later in the newscast. Also \"Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer\" will tackle the issue of America's security coming up at 11:00 Eastern. Hear from U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, also see Wolf Blitzer's exclusive interview with Democratic Senator John Kerry. All of this beginning in less than three hours.", "Our coverage of the 9/11 anniversary does continue next hour. I'm going to talk with a counselor about the ongoing mental health problems for the first responders at ground zero. What is being done today to help them deal with tomorrow?", "The connection between a busy doctor's office and a new school year coming up at the bottom of the hour. Why you may be waiting longer to get that appointment with your physician.", "In just five minutes, tracking hurricane Florence. Find out if the storm will impact the U.S. Mainland."], "speaker": ["NGUYEN", "SANCHEZ", "NGUYEN", "WOLF", "NGUYEN", "SANCHEZ", "NGUYEN", "SANCHEZ", "TOM COUGHLAN, JOURNALIST", "SANCHEZ", "COUGHLAN", "SANCHEZ", "NGUYEN", "ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TOWNSEND", "QUIJANO", "NGUYEN", "QUIJANO", "NGUYEN", "SANCHEZ", "NGUYEN", "SANCHEZ", "NGUYEN", "SANCHEZ", "NGUYEN"]}
{"id": "NPR-573", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2019-01-22", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/01/22/687319714/morning-news-brief", "title": "News Brief: Government Shutdown, TSA Workers Struggle During Closure", "summary": "The Senate is expected to vote this week on a bill to fund the government. TSA staff are working without pay during the government shutdown, and about 10 percent of TSA workers called out sick Sunday.", "utt": ["So the Senate is expected to vote on a bill this week to fund the government.", "Yeah, the Senate Appropriations Committee released text of the package last night. It includes President Trump's offer to extend protections for DACA recipients for three years. And in exchange, he would get the $5.7 billion he wants for a border wall.", "That alone had Democrats calling the deal a nonstarter before it was even written. But it also adds $12.7 billion for natural disaster relief. This is something Democrats have pushed for. So could that sweeten the deal here?", "Well, let's ask that question, among others, to NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson. Hi, Mara.", "Hi, David.", "All right, so tell us more about what's in this bill that the Senate's going to be taking a vote on.", "Well, the bill has disaster relief in it, as you said, as a sweetener. And the big question is, could this proposal of the president's that will be on the Senate floor bring us any closer to the end of the shutdown? And it could. I don't think it's the final deal. But the president is now talking the language of compromise. He's come off the notion that the wall has to be 2,000 miles long. He's added relief for the DREAMers, young people brought here, sometimes illegally, by their parents.", "This is not the final deal. Democrats would need more. Trump has not said how much less money for the wall he's willing to take than $5.7 billion. But the first step is to see if this can get 60 votes on the Senate floor. Democrats say it can't. But then they'll have to keep talking.", "Will they have to keep talking? I mean, so far Democrats have basically said to the president, we're not going to talk, at least publicly saying, we're not going to talk until you open the government. But - but you think this is a window. I mean, Democrats are going to be forced to actually start negotiating and getting to some of the nitty gritty here.", "Yes, I do. I think that usually, in the past, when we've had these standoffs, there's a mechanism where the government is reopened week by week. They have to keep on voting while they keep on talking. Vice President Pence said on television yesterday this wasn't a final offer. He said the legislative process is a negotiation. That sounded so normal.", "(Laughter).", "But I do think you're going to hear more from Democrats about their vision of border security. If the argument is about border security, the president wins. If it's about a wall, the Democrats win. And I think that they are going to start talking more about their vision of what they want on the border.", "Mara, can I ask you more about what the president was offering on this - the DACA protection for three years? Because, I mean, most Republicans have been standing by him through this and supporting this deal. But some of his supporters are calling that DACA offer amnesty. Could that hurt him with part of his base?", "Well, that's always the big question. I think right now Republicans in Congress are pretty united behind him. And yes, the and cultures of the world, radio talk show hosts, are calling this amnesty. But Republicans in Congress want the government open because they're being blamed for the shutdown, so far more than Democrats are. Republicans I've talked to say that Trump's hold on his base is firm enough that he probably could get some relief for the DREAMers in here.", "The big question is, could he go all the way to a path to citizenship, which is going to be hard since that's been defined as amnesty by the vice president? Where is the sweet spot? How much less money could he get for the wall, and how much deportation relief would he have to offer for the DREAMers?", "Many questions to answer as we go forward and as that partial government shutdown for now continues. NPR's Mara Liasson. Thank you, Mara.", "Thank you.", "Let's talk more about this shutdown. More than 50,000 TSA employees have been working without pay since the partial government shutdown began over a month ago now.", "Yeah, and they're getting help from some unusual corners. Members of the band Kiss have been offering them free food at airport locations of their restaurant, which is called Rock and Brews. Here's Kiss band member Paul Stanley in a Facebook video.", "While the TSA continues to work on our behalf without pay, we want to make sure that we can at least provide them with a delicious meal to show our support.", "But more and more TSA workers are actually just calling out sick altogether, as many as 1/10 this past Sunday. TSA released a statement saying that many of those employees said they can't get to work because of financial limitations.", "Let's talk to NPR's David Schaper in Chicago. He's been covering this. Hi there, David.", "Good morning.", "So it's amazing. As I've been going through airports and going through security lines, it seems like every passenger says to a TSA employee, like, thank you for working without pay. And it sounds like it's now getting to a point where more and more are having to call out sick. What are they telling you about this decision?", "Well, as you guys just said, they're not actually saying (imitating cough) I'm sick; I can't come in. They're really not able to go in because of the financial limitations. You know, working without pay for a TSA employee is a difficult thing because they're among the lowest paid federal government employees. They make about 35 to $43,000 a year on average. That's about 17 to 20 bucks an hour.", "So a lot of them live just paycheck to paycheck or do just a little bit better than that. And so while the vast majority are still working their shifts, more and more of them are saying they've got to go do something else to make a little more cash. They've got to put food on the table.", "So they're going to pick up work elsewhere, working odd jobs, waiting tables, whatever they can find. Or they'll stay home, stay home with the kids so a spouse can pick up extra shifts or so they just don't have that extra expense of childcare during the day.", "So a lot of hard decisions, obviously, the shutdown clearly disrupting life for them, their families. What impact is this or could this have on travel and airports if this goes on?", "Well, at this point we're not seeing, you know, flights canceled, flight delays and people missing flights. But we are starting to see more and more airports closing security checkpoints because of a shortage of screeners and lines getting longer at certain airports. You know, there - there were a bunch of extra screeners added to airports in Atlanta, at LaGuardia in New York, at the Newark Airport.", "There were long lines, apparently, over the weekend in New Orleans, at Baltimore-Washington Airport because they had closed checkpoints. Houston's had some problems. It depends on the airport and how many employees in that - in that particular area are calling in. But it hasn't just grown to that point yet of where we're going to see canceled flights and huge disruptions to air travel.", "Is it just airport security employees? Or are there other employees at airports who are impacted by the shutdown?", "No, actually the FAA has hundred - has thousands of inspectors, technicians and safety specialists who inspect the planes, who, you know, do everything from licensing pilots to making sure that the air traffic control equipment is working properly. And they are working without pay. A lot of them weren't actually considered safety critical and essential employees when the shutdown began.", "But a lot of them got called back to work last week and are on the job now. But they're going to have the same sort of financial troubles soon if they have to to keep working and keep doing these important jobs without pay. And that's where the ripple effect could come, where - where air travel could be affected.", "NPR's David Schaper, talking to us from Chicago. David, thanks.", "My pleasure.", "All right, now we want to talk about the political turmoil in Venezuela and what's looking like an uncertain future for that country's leader.", "Yeah, officers in the National Guard in Venezuela basically went rogue and posted a video on social media early Monday morning.", "(Speaking Spanish).", "So in this video they are calling people to the streets to support their uprising against the president, Nicolas Maduro. The attempt is the latest in a whole string of calls to remove Maduro from power. The Venezuelan president was sworn into his second term earlier this month. But many, including the United States, have called Maduro's government illegitimate. He faces an opposition-run congress that is calling for the military to turn against him.", "And NPR's Philip Reeves is in Caracas covering all of this. And Phil, start if you can by telling us exactly what unfolded here yesterday.", "Well, it's not entirely clear. The authorities say that in the early hours, a group of National Guardsmen in Caracas took a police captain hostage, travelled across town in several military trucks, kidnapped four more officers, raided an outpost, stole a bunch of weapons and then were captured after some sort of confrontation just before that - that video was posted online calling on people to abandon Maduro. And other videos appeared too. And now the government says that 27 guardsmen have been arrested and will face what they describe as the full weight of the law.", "Well, talk to me about the broader political situation here because while this was members of the National Guard, some officers who turned against him, Maduro is focusing his criticism on congress, saying congress is trying to destabilize the country. What exactly is he talking about?", "Yeah, congress, or the National Assembly, as it's called here, is opposition-controlled. And it's long been opposed to Maduro and the ruling Socialist Party. In fact, Maduro and the party have stripped it of all its powers. But now it's launching a new drive to oust him, arguing that his second term, which has just begun, is illegitimate because it was the result of a fraudulent election.", "And in this, the National Assembly has the support of the U.S. and dozens of other countries who are also stepping up pressure right now on Maduro. And the National Assembly also has a new young leader. He's 35, Juan Guaido. And he has said that he's willing to be an interim president for a transitional period leading to new elections if the public supports that and, crucially, if the military supports that.", "Phil, I mean, we've talked about with you how hard it has been for people in Venezuela. This country has been through so much economic turmoil of late. I mean, how shaky is this political moment? Could Maduro lose his grip on power? And could there be a real period of chaos and uncertainty going forward?", "Well, the country is in terrible shape. But remember, Maduro still controls the supreme court. He still appears to have the support of the top military command. And he still has the all-powerful legislature that he created last year, the constituent assembly, which is packed with his supporters. He still has that at his disposal.", "But things do appear to be moving. The opposition's called for a nationwide day of protest on Wednesday. They're expecting a big turnout. We'll have to see. But there's a lot of buzz about it online.", "NPR's Philip Reeves this morning in Caracas, Venezuela. Phil, thank you.", "You're most welcome."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "MARA LIASSON, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "PAUL STANLEY", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED VENEZUELAN NATIONAL GUARDSMAN", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE", "PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE", "PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-11029", "program": "Showbiz Today", "date": "2000-6-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/30/st.00.html", "summary": "Rocky and Bullwinkle Come to Life on Big Screen", "utt": ["Hi, everyone. I'm Jim Moret in the heart of CNN Center in Atlanta. Laurin Sydney is in New York. Mel Gibson survived his first day on the battlefield. His film \"The Patriot\" opened Wednesday with $5 million in ticket sales. It's nowhere near the Wednesday opening gross of Paramount's \"Mission: Impossible 2,\" for example, which took in $12.5 million its first day, but it is considered a solid opening for an R-rated period drama. Two favorites from the world of TV cartoonland are hoping for a solid opening as well. \"The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle\" debuts in movie theaters this weekend, and once again, the lovable flying squirrel and his 6-foot moose friend will try to outsmart the bad guys from Pottsylvania. Bill Tush introduces us to the actors who make up this cast of characters.", "This movie's getting kind of...", "Don't say it.", "Two-dimensional.", "Some icons shall never be tampered with. This is the case of \"Rocky and Bullwinkle.\" The moose and squirrel are animated characters and will remain as such. Their enemies -- that's another story. (", "The expensive animated characters were instantly converted into even more expensive motion picture stars.", "Jason Alexander as Boris, Rene Russo as Natasha. And are you ready for this? Robert De Niro becomes Fearless Leader. (", "Have you liquidated moose and squirrel?", "It was just fun to do, you know. Not have to worry how far you go. The farther you go, the funnier hopefully it would be.", "So live action meets animation, and the makers of \"Rocky and Bullwinkle\" hope it will appeal to baby boomers who grew up with them, and those guys will take their kids. Rene Russo remembers.", "I remember being 6 years old when I saw it, and I remember loving Natasha and Boris and Fearless Leader. They were my favorite characters. I don't know what that says about me. (", "We tried to stop them, shoot them, smash them, smoosh them, crush them, bash them, mash them, squish them.", "I think I thought it was inevitable, actually. The way it was going, it was just a matter of time before I played a short squat guy with a bad moustache. It was -- it had to happen.", "With a Russian accent, no less. (", "Oh, thank you.", "A typical CNN question would be: Do you think the Russians will be upset?", "No, I think the Russians will be happy to -- to toss us right off and say, no, that's Pottsylvania, and they're led by a German guy, by the way, so...", "Oh, that's...", "You know, so all bets are off.", "Back to the German guy, who's really an Italian, De Niro, who in \"Taxi Driver\" gave us one of film's most memorable moments... (", "Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me?", "... makes fun of himself. (", "Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me? I'm the only one here, so you must be talking to me.", "You basically had the approval of whether or not you wanted to go ahead and kind of spoof yourself.", "Yes. Right, that's another thing about it. I thought about it and said: \"Why not? I'll do it here.\" It's the appropriate place to do it if I'm going to do it. (", "I have waited many years to face an enemy I could respect.", "Ow! Ow!", "And I'm still waiting.", "Bill Tush, CNN Entertainment News, New York.", "Well, squirrel and moose are heading into rough box-office waters this weekend. They're going against Mel and George at the cineplex. Mel Gibson heads to war in \"The Patriot\" while George Clooney fights the rough seas in \"The Perfect Storm.\" Lisa Schwarzbaum of \"Entertainment Weekly\" and Peter Travers of \"Rolling Stone\" fill us in on those two movies.", "Peter, we're here at Lowes 42nd street", "Well, what are you saying? That I'm all wet or all bloody.", "I'm saying that we just need to get through the 4th of July, because these are two big loud, noisy movies, as we always get. We're going to start with \"The Patriot.\" (", "We have to do something.", "I forbid you to go.", "I'm not a child.", "You're my child.", "That is Mel Gibson with his very, very blue eyes, and he plays a man of peace in 1776. He is a widower in Virginia. He doesn't want to get involved in the Revolutionary War, but strangely enough he must.", "Well, why does he?", "Because his family is threatened.", "And seven of them, just like Mel has.", "Seven, exactly right. So in fact, when Mel does get involved, he gets involved with a vengeance. (", "I'll fire first. Start with the officers.", "He brings out the tomahawk. He is slaughtering everybody. This is a rousing movie. It's very interestingly rag-tagged. I am very, very upset and disappointed...", "You don't like that violence, do you?", "... with its jingoistic, its right-wing stuff, the bombast, the blood. At the same time, people are digging it. You know, at least there's something to cheer for.", "Yes. I like the blood. You know, the stuff in the movie with the little...", "Oh, no, it's excessive. It's excessive.", "The stuff with the little mute girl, the stuff with the, you know, the black slave and the -- that was all very much flag waving, Hallmark...", "Hooey.", "Mel Gibson got into the dark side of the American...", "Yes...", "Roland Emmerich, the director, bringing us \"Independence Day\" and god forbid \"Godzilla.\"", "Yes, but that doesn't have to do with this. This is a whole other...", "The battle scenes are really rowdy. It's too long.", "It was \"Braveheart.\" It was...", "It's too long.", "It was \"Lethal Weapon.\"", "It's", "All right.", "The other movie, \"The Perfect Storm,\" is the movie I was most looking forward to. I love that wave, love that trailer. Had to see it.", "Love the wave.", "George Clooney, really like him. Mark Wahlberg, the same. They're doing a true story here. So this isn't Hollywood. This is six guys that went out on that Andrea Gail trying to catch swordfish and instead got a perfect storm, three storm systems that just pounded the heck out of them.", "Yes?", "Well, it doesn't work because the movie has no soul. There's no heart.", "I agree.", "The characters, we don't know who they are. The actors have nothing to play. What do you get? Effects: $140 million budget. Digital, it looked digital, Lisa.", "I agree. They do look digital.", "Lisa, listen to me, they're digital.", "It's a big wave, very digital. You can applaud that. I agree with you. They're set up for nothing. There's not enough tension in it. I'm sorry that \"The Perfect Storm\" turns out to be somewhat of a washout. Look, it's the 4th of July. You'll see something. Go. Happy Independence Day, and then let's look forward to the rest of the summer. I'm Lisa Schwarzbaum.", "Well, the swordfish in that", "How will the passing of \"Sopranos\" matriarch Nancy Marchand affect HBO's hit hitman show? And a special rooftop performance from Sister Hazel that's all for us."], "speaker": ["JIM MORET, CO-HOST", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE\") KEITH SCOTT, ACTOR/\"BULLWINKLE\"", "JUNE FORAY, ACTRESS/\"ROCKY J. 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{"id": "NPR-26098", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2014-10-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/10/08/354639700/judging-effectivenes-of-airstrikes-against-isis-remains-a-challenge", "title": "Judging Effectivenes Of Airstrikes Against ISIS Remains A Challenge", "summary": "There have been about 400 airstrikes so far in Iraq and Syria. We take a look at the impact in both countries, whether the Islamic State fighters have been slowed, and the way ahead.", "utt": ["Meanwhile at the Pentagon today, President Obama discussed the battle against ISIS with top commanders. The U.S. air campaign in Iraq and Syria has been underway for several weeks, yet little is clear about what effect it's having. NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman is here to fill us in on what is known. And Tom, first, what's the extent of the strikes so far?", "Well, Melissa, we're approaching 400 airstrikes so far in Iraq and Syria. The vast majority - roughly three quarters of all the airstrikes since they started in the summer have been in Iraq. And if you look at Iraq, most of the airstrikes have been to protect the Mosul dam in northern Iraq. It's what's called critical infrastructure because is supplies both water and power. And there've also been a lot of airstrikes around the northern city or Erbil. We have U.S. soldiers and diplomats working - hundreds of them, and the U.S. wanted to prevent that city from being overrun by Islamic State fighters.", "And then still another location for the airstrikes in Iraq was Sinjar Mountain, of course. That's where there was a potential humanitarian catastrophe in the summer with the Yazidi religious sect.", "OK, so those targets that you're talking about are all inside Iraq. What about in Syria?", "Well, in Syria roughly - just over 100 airstrikes so far - a lot of them around an area north-central Syria, the city of Raqqah, which is kind of the de facto headquarters for the Islamic State. The goal here in Syria is to cut off supplies - the supply line from Syria into Iraq. That's where we've heard a lot of talk about them hitting makeshift oil refineries, supply depots, military equipment trucks, headquarters - again, trying to stem the movement of those supplies and even fighters into Iraq.", "What about the bomb damage assessment in Syria, Tom? We haven't heard a whole lot about that. What have you heard?", "Well, you're not hearing too much. And now remember, the first night of the bombing they talked about targeting this group most people never heard of - the Khorasan group, a terrorist group officials say were planning to attack either the U.S. or Europe. We kept seeing pictures of damaged buildings at the Pentagon. We were told they were finance centers, command centers, key people were being targeted.", "But the problem is there aren't good sources on the ground to verify some of this stuff and talk about it like reporters or independent observers - even communications with fighters are limited. So we don't really have a good sense of the effects of the airstrikes. But what we do know, however, is that ISIS is still on the move in places in Iraq just west of Baghdad, and in Syria, places like Kobani along the border with Syria and Turkey.", "Right, and Thomas, as we mentioned earlier, ISIS appears to be close to capturing Kobani inside Syria, and there have been complaints that the U.S. has not been doing enough to try to protect that town - keep the ISIS forces at bay. What you learning about that?", "You're right. There were no airstrikes for a time. That's changed. Just in the last two days, the U.S. and coalition have launched about a dozen airstrikes to push back Islamic State fighters, but it's not clear why there was a delay. The U.S. was kind of just holding back. The town is inside of the Turkish border, so there's a sense that the U.S. had hoped the Turks would go in militarily and push back Islamic forces. That did not happen. So now the U.S. is launching the strikes, but there's still fighting in and around the town of Kobani. Now, the Pentagon - and we've heard Secretary of State John Kerry downplay the significance of this now. They say listen, it's not a strategic location - not a big city like Mosul in Iraq.", "Tom, as you talk to military planners - analysts, what do they say would change the dynamic in Iraq and Syria? Would airstrikes alone be enough to make a difference?", "No. Nobody thinks that. What you need is a competent ground force both in Syria and in Iraq. The problem is in Syria, you really don't have any ground forces to speak of. Small Kurdish forces in Syria are fighting. And in Iraq, we're told that half of the Iraqi Army units just aren't ready to fight. So it's going to be a long time before you can get an adequate ground force in both Syria and Iraq.", "OK, NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman. Tom, thanks.", "You're welcome."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE", "TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE", "TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "TOM BOWMAN, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-244590", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2014-12-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1412/04/ng.01.html", "summary": "Murderer, Cult Leader Charles Manson to Marry in Prison", "utt": ["Cult leader Charles Manson hits the headlines again over three decades after a murder spree that shocks the nation, including the murder of actress Sharon Tate. Tonight, the Sharon Tate family is furious mass murderer Charles Manson set to wed behind bars to a 26-year-old woman, a Manson groupie look-alike. And jail policy, he will get to kiss the bride.", "I am Charles Manson`s wife. Charles is not innocent because he sought out to influence others.", "Killing spree that left seven people dead, including actress Sharon Tate.", "Do I look like I have remorse or fear about anything?", "I hate to see any young person get sucked into this.", "Well, you see, I live in the underworld. You live in the overworld. I do a lot of things underworld that you guys don`t see.", "OK, the bride, Afton Elaine Burton, was raised in St. Louis by very devout religious parents, Baptists, I believe, and she was always a good girl until, apparently, she began experimenting with mushrooms and marijuana. Well, they did what any good parent would do and locked her in her room. Well, around age 16, she apparently got ahold of some writings of Charles Manson`s in which he espouses \"ATWA\" -- air, trees, water and animals. And she, a few years later, taken with his writings, knew what she had to do. She packed up her bags and moved to the maximum security facility that houses Charles Manson. Joining me right now, Alisa Statman, author of \"Restless Souls,\" who has literally written the book on Charles Manson. OK, Alisa, when so many people want to get married and they can`t, why is Charles Manson allowed to get married? Not only that, kiss the bride? I`m not even going to discuss the possibility of tongue, all right? Why? Why is this being allowed?", "You know, because it is a law in California, you know, and until we change those laws, these people, these killers are allowed to get married. These laws were set up to help the less heinous killers readjust and to give them a reward system. You know, Charles Manson was sentenced to death 45 years ago. Sure, his -- his sentence was commuted to life, but that`s all he should have the right to, to live, plain and simple, not to get married. And let`s remember, he`s not the first Manson family member to get married. We had Susan Atkins who got married twice, we had Charles \"Tex\" Watson who got married and was allowed to have conjugal visits, and they had four children out of those conjugal visits.", "Yes, I appreciate that, Alisa, but right now I`m talking about Charles Manson, the ring leader. The head of the organization that ended up murdering, mass murdering. With me right now is Vincent Bugliosi who prosecuted Charles Manson, author of \"Helter-Skelter.\" Vincent, it is an honor to have you with us and I would like your reaction to Manson being allowed to marry a 26-year-old behind bars and kiss the bride.", "Nancy, I`m honored to be back on your show with you. Of course like most people I`m disgusted by the upcoming marriage. It`s one more assault in the Manson case, on the whole notion of justice, and who knows more about justice than you, Nancy. And I`m sure you agree that Manson has not been brought to true justice. He was convicted of nine murders, may have been responsible for 35. And instead of getting the death penalty which he deserved and would have been true justice, he had his death penalty, as you`ve indicated earlier, set aside by the U.S. Supreme Court. And since then for over 40 years he`s been fed three meals a day, gotten free medical care, recorded two musical albums behind bars, has books to read and gets more mail, according to the \"L.A. Times\" than any other inmate in U.S. prison, the U.S. prison system. And now this. Now I said this was an assault upon the notion of justice. It`s also a terrible assault upon the feelings and sensibilities of the survivors of the victims who undoubtedly have had nightmares throughout their lives over what happened to their loved ones. I remember Sharon Tate`s wonderful mother, Doris, telling me, I live every day with Sharon`s screams and her begging for the life of her baby. Doris is gone now, but plenty of relatives still survive and this outrageous marriage just pours salt on their already deep wounds. It`s a travesty, Nancy."], "speaker": ["GRACE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MANSON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MANSON", "GRACE", "ALISA STATMAN, AUTHOR, \"RESTLESS SOULS\"", "GRACE", "VINCENT BUGLIOSI, PROSECUTED CHARLES MANSON, \"HELTER-SKELTER\" AUTHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-308743", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-03-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/29/nday.01.html", "summary": "Hillary Clinton: 'Too Many Women' Face Sexism.", "utt": ["Former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton back in the spotlight defending a journalist and a black congresswoman over too many women facing sexism in her most political speech since the election. Take a listen.", "April Ryan, a respected journalist with unrivaled integrity, was doing her job just this afternoon in the White House press room when she was patronized and cut off, trying to ask a question. Maxine Waters was taunted with a racist joke about her hair. Now, too many women, especially women of color, have had a lifetime of practice taking precisely these indignities in stride. But why should we have to? And any woman who thinks this couldn't be directed at her is living in a dream world.", "All right. Let's bring back our panel: Mark Preston, Errol Louis and Jackie Kucinich. Want to split the pieces of sound that led to this?", "Yes, listen, all right, so you have the Maxine Waters one first. She was giving a speech on the floor. Bill O'Reilly of FOX was sitting there listening with \"FOX & Friends\" crew. Here's what happened.", "Fighting for the democracy. We're fighting for America. We're saying to those who say they're patriotic, but they turn a blind eye to the destruction that he's about to cause this country. You're not nearly as patriotic as we are.", "So what does that mean, Bill? We've been listening all morning.", "I didn't hear a word she says. I was looking at the James Brown wig. If we have a picture of James Brown. It's the same...", "The same one.", "I've got to defend her on that.", "You are all wrong.", "I have to defend her on that. You can't go after a woman's looks. I think she's very attractive.", "I didn't say she wasn't attractive. I love James Brown.", "He wound up apologizing, I think, to the \"International Business Insider.\" He said he didn't mean it that way; she's welcome on the show. He likes her. But the point was made.", "Yes, what do you say to that? That's a horrible thing to say.", "But -- but let's bring it back to Hillary Clinton. Because Hillary Clinton is back with a vengeance. She's wearing her black leather. She's ready to rumble. And she has...", "Is that allowed, by the way?", "Black leather?", "Yes.", "She's going punk rock. OK? And so Jackie, what does this mean for her appearance back on the stage? Is this the beginning of something?", "It's hard to say with Hillary Clinton. Because you do hear -- you hear all sorts of rumors about how she's coming back. This very much was in line with the Hillary Clinton that we knew before when she was on the speaking circuit, before she ran for president, talking a lot about women empowerment. And that is her comfort zone. So it does make sense that she is coming out on this particular issue, because it's something that she knows a lot about. And she's frankly good at talking about it.", "What do you guys think? Does it mean something bigger? Do we know what's happening with Hillary?", "We don't know what's happening with her. But I would say this. And, you know, people will get mad at me for saying it. But I think there's something to be said about that Democrats should look for the next generation of leaders right now.", "Look, we did the debate for -- with Perez and Ellison and everybody, the DNC chair. Dana and I kept baiting them with questions about whether Hillary is the past or the future. They didn't want to touch it. I don't think that there's any -- new path.", "... politics. I mean, to be critical of her.", "You are saying that youth...", "I'm saying there's a voice for her, and she's certainly a leader and, quite frankly, is probably the leader in many ways and President Obama, who's still very young. The fact of the matter is for the Democratic Party to -- to rebuild and to battle back against Republicans, they have to look to a new leader.", "Really, there's a vacuum there. Right? I mean, this is the big news of the day. And anybody else could have found a way to put themselves in front of the camera and say something pithy or something that's right on target and start to try to redefine who's going to lead a -- the Democratic progressive side of politics in America. Nobody has chosen to do that. Tom Perez didn't do it. Nobody else did it. So Hillary Clinton will still be there, and that's always been the case. Let me just say real briefly about -- about that disgusting comment by Bill O'Reilly. I teach journalism part-time, as you know. Tons and tons of young journalists of color who are out there waiting and trying to get a break. For FOX News to promote that kind of garbage and to sort of leave it out there. It is not just discouraging, but I think it adds a lot of fuel to people who are really, I think, going to change this business over the next few years. Ten years from now, we'll be telling our kids and students then, you know, what it used to be like in the bad old days when people would kind of spew this kind of racist garbage on national television.", "It wasn't the only example in times of fuel for the fire. You have Sean Spicer. He is getting a lot of pick up for talking, making the silly comment about Russian dressing leading to more connections between Trump and Russia if the president uses Russian dressing. But he said something else that drew criticism and for good reason. Here it is.", "You've got Russian. You've got wiretapping. You've got...", "No, we don't have that.", "... on Capitol Hill.", "No, no. I get it. But I've said it from the day that I got here until whenever. There is no connection. You've got Russia. If the president puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow, that's a Russian connection. No, at some point, the facts are that every person who has been briefed on this subject has come away with the same conclusion. Republican, Democrat, so I'm sorry that that disgusts you. You're shaking your head. I appreciate it. At some point, April, you're going to have to take \"no\" for an answer with respect to whether or not there was collusion.", "First of all the reason I joke-called him Captain Credibility is because he's got some nerve saying that everyone who's heard these questions come to the same conclusion. What are you talking about? Jim Comey just admitted they have an open investigation into this. You have Adam Schiff thinking that there's something in this that should be before a grand jury. You have this whole deception play with Nunes. It's just without context for Spicer to say that. But then, Errol, he goes at April to stop shaking her head. What did that mean?", "I mean, it was one of the worse people that he could try and target. And I understand that the banter, you know, it can get intense in that briefing room. And so he'll get personal. That's his style. I don't think it particularly works. She's the last person you should try that with, because she's respected. She's a bit of an institution. She's a straight shooter. You know, in the back and forth, you know, she's shaking her head saying, you know, basically, \"I don't believe you.\" And for all of the reasons that you just suggested. He says things from the podium that are not believable. The reporters are there to challenge him. It gets -- you know, like I said intense. Sean Spicer is going to have to figure out somebody else to beat up on. She's not the one.", "This is the same week that he called a reporter from Politico an idiot. There just needs to be some professionalism, frankly, injected.", "You don't see it as a female issue? A race issue. You see it as just decorum between professionals?", "I mean, not really -- it really does seem respect has gone out the window at this point. It is too bad.", "It's actually not a race issue, and it's not a gender issue. I mean, I've known him for a million years. That's not the case. What it is, it is a respect issue, quite frankly. And where he lost it with the fork in the road. And he said the French dressing thing. Excuse me, Russian dressing. What he should have said is try to make a joke of it and try to go down that road. But he went down the other road, and it got nasty.", "Here's the good news. We have April Ryan on our program in the 8 a.m. hour. So she can tell us her impressions of that exchange with Sean Spicer. Thank you very much, panel.", "All right. Up next, very troubling face. More than 100 civilians killed in Mosul by a coalition airstrike. What a top commander is saying about the U.S. role and why he believes ISIS may also have blood on its hands here. We'll give you the facts, and you can decide."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "CLINTON", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "REP. MAXINE WATERS (D), CALIFORNIA", "BRIAN KILMEADE, CO-HOST, \"FOX & FRIENDS\"", "BILL O'REILLY, FOX NEWS HOST", "KILMEADE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "O'REILLY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "O'REILLY", "CUOMO", "KUCINICH", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "KUCINICH", "CAMEROTA", "PRESTON", "CUOMO", "PRESTON", "CAMEROTA", "PRESTON", "LOUIS", "CUOMO", "APRIL RYAN, JOURNALIST", "SPICER", "A. RYAN", "SPICER", "CUOMO", "LOUIS", "KUCINICH", "CUOMO", "KUCINICH", "PRESTON", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-87008", "program": "YOUR WORLD TODAY", "date": "2004-8-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/10/ywt.00.html", "summary": "Cohen Weighs in on Radical Muslim Cleric, CIA Appointee, Sudan Crisis", "utt": ["We're joined now by the former U.S. defense secretary, William Cohen, for our regular weekly discussion of events in the news. He now heads the Cohen Group, an international business consulting firm. Secretary Cohen joins us now from Washington. Secretary Cohen, good to see you.", "Good to see you again.", "Let's first start by talking about Iraq and what's going on in Najaf. If the Americans go into the shrine, they're going to have a problem. If they don't do anything, they're going to have a problem. It seems the situation's a win-win situation for al-Sadr. How do the Americans deal with that?", "I think the American forces are going to try and insist that the Iraqis play a significant role, that the Americans do not want to be in a position of going in alone, so to speak, and make this a unilateral effort on the part of the United States. That would only play into al- Sadr's hands. And so I think, under the aegis of the prime minister working with some of the Iraqi, be it police or some perhaps special forces or such, it would give them the lead with the United States softening up al-Sadr's militia but not taking the full load and all the consequences that would go with it.", "Al-Sadr has said, \"I will defend Najaf until the last drop of my blood.\" Something like that really resonates with -- with the Shias in Iraq, when you bring up especially that line that is an historical line of Imam Hussein when he was fighting and died as a martyr. And it brings out a lot of symbolism in the history of the Shia tradition. Do the Americans understand that, or are their actions really only fueling it and giving al-Sadr more leverage?", "Of course, the prime minister is a Shia, so what we have is a power struggle under way right now, with al-Sadr trying to demonstrate that he is the future leader of the country, certainly from the Shia point of view. And so that has to be resolved if the prime minister hopes to hold on to power. However, on an interim basis, he has got to show that al-Sadr's not going to be able to dominate the region or to spread his brand of radicalism. So it's really a showdown at OK Corral at this point. And there is not much time to resolve this. The longer this goes on, this works in favor of al-Sadr and not for Allawi. So it's important that this be resolved as quickly and swiftly as possible, understanding that there are consequences that will flow either way.", "Porter Goss, the man that Bush wants to head the CIA, he still has to be confirmed by the Senate. What do you think will change in the CIA under Porter Goss?", "Well, first, he's likely to run into some opposition in the Senate, but I don't think the Democrats are going to be able to really wage any kind of a rejection campaign against him. I think what they will do is raise the issue of the 9/11 Commission and put the test to Porter Goss as to whether he is willing to adopt all or most of the recommendations contained in -- in the commission's report. That would be, I think, the tactic that they would use. But I don't think they can afford to be seen as rejecting someone who otherwise is seen as quite capable, given his background, both working at the CIA and also in the United States Congress.", "Sudan. The international community, the U.N. has given Khartoum 30 days to -- to implement an agreement to create safe areas for refugees, to disarm the Janjaweed militia, and so forth. Do you -- are you confident that the government of Sudan will hold true to its word and implement what it says it will?", "Well, I'm not confident at all with the -- the government of Sudan. They have wavered. They have hesitated. They have promised. They've done very little to protect the lives of the individuals involved. Senator Bill Frist of the United States Senate indicated that he thought this was genocide. The E.U. has declined to classify it as such. But when you see the wholesale slaughter of people, the ravaging of villages, the raping of women, the pillaging taking place, it's hard to call it anything but that. So I think the E.U., the United States, everyone should keep the pressure on the Sudanese government, because they've had a lot of words and very little action.", "The Rwandans and the Nigerians have said, \"We're going to send troops to the Darfur region.\" But there's a feeling that there's been a delay on the part of the United States to take a position in organizing the money and the logistics to put those troops on the ground. The Netherlands is beginning to airlift some of the Rwandese troops in. That -- why is that delay, knowing the seriousness of the situation?", "Well, I think that Secretary Powell has certainly tried to organize immediate reaction. He has been very concerned about the situation there. The -- it's a question of money and logistics. I think the United States certainly should be taking a lead on this. And I can't explain any further delay. There's an imperative to take action here. And if necessary, the United States should take the lead. But we would hope that the E.U. and the United Nations would be really committed to this great humanitarian cause.", "Former U.S. defense secretary, William Cohen, joining us in our weekly segment here on YOUR WORLD TODAY. Thank you so much.", "My pleasure. Thanks. END TO ORDER VIDEOTAPES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF CNN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMING, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE THE SECURE ONLINE ORDER FROM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["ZAIN VERJEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "WILLIAM COHEN, FORMER U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY", "VERJEE", "COHEN", "VERJEE", "COHEN", "VERJEE", "COHEN", "VERJEE", "COHEN", "VERJEE", "COHEN", "VERJEE", "COHEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-197343", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2012-12-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1212/11/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Obama: GOP Will Not Hold Middle Class Hostage; White House, GOP Make New Fiscal Cliff Offers", "utt": ["OUTFRONT next, we are just now learning of new offers on the table from both sides to avoid the fiscal cliff. So big question, do they add up? Plus, it has been three months to the day since terrorists attacked the U.S. mission in Benghazi. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the administration has done everything possible but still, no one has been brought to justice. Where do we stand? Also, a new Hollywood movie highlights the work of a CIA analyst credited with tracking down Osama Bin Laden, but here's a big but, it also sheds some very serious light on in-fighting in the spy agency. You got to hear it to believe it. Let's go OUTFRONT. Hi, everybody. I'm Ashleigh Banfield in tonight for Erin Burnett. And OUTFRONT tonight, our top developing story, we are just learning now that President Obama and the White House or rather, President Obama and the House speaker have spoken tonight. Good news. This after they each fired another shot in the ongoing fight over how to resolve this fiscal cliff mess. CNN is now getting details about two new offers that were made and previously undisclosed, too. They kept a pretty tight lid on them. One of them by President Obama, that was yesterday, then a counteroffer by the speaker. That was today. All of this as the president tells ABC News tonight that he is confident that Republicans will not hold middle class tax cuts hostage. So there's a lot of news that's all of a sudden coming out after some relative quiet. Our White House correspondent Dan Lothian who is on the case joins me now by telephone. Because you've been working your sources, take me into the conversation. All of this breaking late today and it sounds good. It sounds at least like there's some movement, Dan.", "That's right. That's always been the issue, because as you know, it was just last week we were talking about the fact that there were no talks ongoing, not even behind the scenes. And now these latest developments and as you pointed out, we didn't even know the White House had submitted another offer yesterday but confirmation coming from a senior administration official that in fact, the White House did submit that offer yesterday to House Republicans. Today, there was a counteroffer from House Republicans, still waiting to find out details of that counteroffer then of course, President Obama having that phone conversation with Speaker Boehner this evening. Encouraging sign and as you pointed out, President Obama as well showing some optimism that in fact a deal will get done. The few details we do know, according to sources, is that this new offer from the White House had $1.4 trillion in revenue. That's down from the $1.6 in the original offer and also, according to sources, deals with real entitlement reform. But the one sticking point we're told by Democratic sources, remains and that is they won't budge on upper income Americans paying more in taxes. The president believing that middle class Americans should get relief, but not upper income Americans -- Ashleigh.", "OK, Dan Lothian, keep working the sources. Thanks for getting that to us immediately. It's wonderful. I want to bring in John Avlon and Reihan Salam to talk this through a little bit. First guys, immediate reaction to the fact that we -- we have at least some momentum. I don't know if we can call it momentum, serious momentum, especially since we are still getting some rhetoric, too.", "Yes, it's a little sad we get this excited to find out people are actually talking to each other in Washington. But it's a reality check, sign of the times. It's always better when the two top men who got to make the decision ultimately are getting in a room without cameras and moving proposals back and forth. It's a sign of progress. It's a sign progress in the next 48 to 72 hours. That's probably optimistic, but progress is being made because conversations are occurring. That's good news for the American people.", "I hate to say this because it's counter intuitive for a TV news person to say I was really thrilled that we weren't getting a whole lot the last two days, which signaled to me at least maybe these guys have decided it's not good to work this out in the court of public opinion, yet now we're starting to hear a little more. Good news, bad news?", "I think it's encouraging. I think that among House Republicans there's an emerging view that was earlier on championed by Representative Cole of Oklahoma, wait a second, what we can do very straight forwardly is pass one law that extends all the middle income tax cuts. And another one that extends the whole package including the high income rate reductions and then let the president veto one, let the other go through and we shield a large majority of American households from tax increases. Now, then you have a fight early next year that involves increasing the debt limit where Republicans will have far more leverage in which to make the case for structural entitlement reform. I think there are a lot of people including Senator Bob Corker this past weekend and others who have come to embrace that view. I think that it makes a lot of sense for Republicans partly because I think if we do wind up going over the fiscal cliff as they say, it's psychologically likely to have a big impact.", "Are you getting sources to tell you that's what's in the offers, great philosophy, it's great view, but on paper?", "Well, the thing is that mechanically would be the easiest thing to do because the trouble is if you do not take that approach, one thing we've heard, for example, is that President Obama might embrace a tax rate lower than 39.6 percent, 37 percent, 36 percent, 38 percent. But if you do that, then actually Republicans will have to put their stamp on such a deal, whereas if they actually just allow that part to expire, then they're saying you know what, we did our part. But we didn't actually embrace that increase, which to me makes a lot of sense.", "Let me throw out the speaker. He made comments earlier today. Since they came in so late we want to play what he had to say about the latest rounds of offers.", "We're still waiting for the White House to identify what spending cuts the president is willing to make as part of the balanced approach that he promised the American people.", "All right, so John Avlon, sounds like more posturing, but I wonder if while in quiet they negotiate, the political posturing goes on as part of the theatre to make sure that they quell all the frustration from their bases. So really, we were way closer to a deal than you or I or anybody else in the media knows.", "Look, there is certainly a lot of partisan kabuki here. The strategy that Reihan just laid out really is in part about making sure people can't get attacked from the right for saying, for example, they violated the pledge. No one voted for proactive tax increase. But John Boehner is very much the man in the middle here. He's a deal maker at heart. He's not an ideologue. So I think a lot of his statements are about nullifying the base of the Republican Party, but the question is where is that common ground? Look, his statement that the president hasn't put forward spending cuts or entitlement reform doesn't pass the credibility test because we know even in 2011, negotiations for the grand bargain that unfortunately for the country fell short. There were offers of significant spending cuts and entitlement reform, notably raising the Medicare eligibility age.", "So you are saying from past discussions?", "This negotiation, the president is offering raising the Medicare eligibility age. That is not nothing. That is a big deal, taking on some Democrat special cows. I think the president wants a grand bargain because part of Reihan the fact that we go into another debt ceiling debacle potentially early next year, that's what led to the downgrading of the credit rating. We do not need that again as country.", "Despite the fact he says I'm willing to let us go over the fiscal cliff. Just quickly, this is dovetailing what you said before. If the Republicans have to sort of take it on the chin with their base for talking about taxing the rich, could they be now discussing in broad terms how to at least say the Democrats, you're going to take the hit for Medicare, then? We're not going take that.", "Well, the deeper structural issue is this. This is not the first fiscal cliff. We have a fiscal cliff every year with renewing the AMT, with fixing the Medicare payment rate, the so-called doc fix. We make policy in a crazy way in this country. What I think Republicans are trying to do is say let's look at structural solutions that can lower the cost of these programs over the long term rather than doing a patch at the last minute every darn year. That's the way we make policy and it is absolutely crazy.", "Amen.", "Don't go out tonight. We could have further details breaking as we speak. Thanks to both of you, Reihan Salam and John Avlon for joining us. Coming up next, on OUTFRONT it's been exactly three months, three months, since terrorists attacked our U.S. mission in Benghazi and yes, you haven't seen a headline about an arrest and any justice in any form. Also, new information about that Navy SEAL who died during a daring rescue mission in Afghanistan. We will go to his hometown, meet the people who knew him best, hear more about him. Also, the nurse who committed suicide after falling for a radio prank, what the radio station is now planning to do to help her family."], "speaker": ["ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "DAN LOTHIAN, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (via telephone)", "BANFIELD", "JOHN AVLON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BANFIELD", "REIHAN SALAM, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BANFIELD", "SALAM", "BANFIELD", "REPRESENTATIVE JOHN BOEHNER (R), HOUSE SPEAKER", "BANFIELD", "AVLON", "BANFIELD", "AVLON", "BANFIELD", "SALAM", "AVLON", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-139933", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-6-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0906/30/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Apollo Theater Tribute to Michael Jackson; Michael Jackson's Money; Pride, Fear, Death on Iraq's New Day", "utt": ["All right. Let's take you live now to Harlem, New York. Michael Jackson fans lining up for his last show time, shall we say, at the Apollo. Doors open this hour for a very special tribute. We'll have more on that in just a moment. And Los Angeles police advancing the investigation there. They are now piecing together the singer's complicated medical history, trying to track down all the doctors who have treated him and all the meds that they might have prescribed. Also today, some last-minute updates from the Jackson camp on Michael's memorials and possibly his final will. We're following every angle for you. Correspondents live on both coasts. Well, some tears but a lot of smiles from Michael Jackson fans on the other side of the country. Thousands of people already lining up right now outside the Apollo Theater in Harlem for a very special tribute that's getting under way. And of course our T.J. Holmes is live outside the Apollo Theater, right there. You can probably see him in the middle of the crowd. Give us away,", "OK. You got me now, Kyra?", "I got you now, pal.", "You can spot me down here. But you get an idea of the scene. The Apollo marquee is right there. I'm just going to set the scene for you here. And just check out the crowd that has been gathering since actually last night. Not that many last night, but still, they started doing this last night. I've been here for the past few hours, and it has continued to grow. Now, this Apollo Theater is on 125th here in Harlem. If you start to take it -- Polly (ph) is going to pan to her right here and take you down the street. All the way down to the end of the street is Adam Clayton Powell, where 125th connects. The line goes all the way to the end of the street. And now we're not sure how many blocks up that it goes into Harlem. But the line literally is now wrapping around the block here. We don't know how many blocks it goes down. I see young and old, black and white. We have people here from Africa, from different parts of the states here in the U.S. Many people have driven to be here. It was important enough for them to be here to be a part of this moment. What they're going to be a part of, Kyra, a lot of people heard of the Apollo, maybe never been to it, but it is really a centerpiece of black culture and art. And it is the heart of Harlem where we are, an historic black community here. But this is where Michael Jackson made his New York debut as a part of the Jackson 5 back in 1967 at the age of nine. There's actually a lady in the crowd here who claims she was here for that first concert that he made. A lot of these people -- again, young folks love his music. The older folks love his music. But this is something that -- I saw a mother and daughter bonding over this. You know, it's often a generational gap, but this is one thing that brings folks together. I'm going to talk to Cathy here, Cathy Carter. Cathy, you saw a Michael Jackson -- a Jackson 5 concert not long ago. Well, I shouldn't say not long ago.", "A long time ago.", "But why be here? Why be a part of this today? It's hot out here, for one thing. And it's a madhouse, and fanatics and fans and whatnot. But why?", "Because I love Michael. And I felt I grew up with Michael from back in the '70s. When I first saw Michael at Memorial Field in Mt. Vernon, New York, and I was no more than a teenager myself, I felt since then I have grown up through the music with Michael. I'm not too much younger than him, about two years younger than Michael. And I appreciate his music, and I just love him. So I wanted to be here to honor his memory.", "How did you take it? That's the only other thing I'll ask you, just how did you take the news when you heard about his passing?", "When I heard about his passing, I was driving with my daughter and my granddaughter, and I just busted out and started crying. All I could do was cry because I felt like I lost a family member. That's how dear Michael was to me.", "Well, Cathy Carter...", "I felt I lost a family member.", "Well, she is one of several. Cathy Carter, thank you. But Kyra, again, she is one of several...", "T.J., where did Cathy see the Jackson 5? Where did she see the Jackson 5?", "She said it was at Mt. Vernon.", "Mt. Vernon. OK.", "Yes, Mt. Vernon is where she saw it, but she thought it was -- early '70s is when she saw him. So he was certainly a little older by then. But still, the Jackson 5 were still together. A lot of people here have those stories. They expect here, Kyra, to start letting people in around 2:00, which is right now. They are going to let them in, 600 people at a time. They get to see a video, other tributes. Music is going to be playing the whole time. You hear \"Ben\" playing behind me just from some store here in Harlem right now. But it's going to be a long day. It is expected to go to at least until 8:00. It is a hot Harlem day, as well. You see an ambulance there. It came because a few people are starting to get sick with all this heat. They've been out here for hours and hours. There's only so much water to go around. So, a long day, but a lot of people not giving up their spot in this line for anything -- Kyra.", "Now, T.J., when doors open and they get to start moving through there, do we get to go inside to the Apollo and see what it's like inside?", "Yes. We are actually the only network, the only camera that is going to be set up and can be live inside. So I am standing out here in the sun for you, Kyra, until it's time for us to go inside, until people start moving in. But really, this tells more of the story. I mean, you could show this picture and not even have to hear my voice and this would really tell you the story of what's happening in Harlem today. But yes, again, 2:00 is when they are supposed to start letting 600 at a time, we understand, that get to go in for a half an hour, 45 minutes, and enjoy it. Then they're going to shuffle the next group in, and that will continue until at least 8:00 tonight.", "Well, T.J.,. you would probably like to meet this guy I'm going to interview, Bobby Schiffman. His dad actually owned the Apollo the day the Jackson 5 played in the amateur show.", "Oh, wow.", "Yes. And they actually went up to Bobby's dad and said, hey, we don't have enough money for our hotel. You know, could we get another gig here at the Apollo? And listen to this -- so Bobby said that the Jackson 5 played 31 shows in one week to make $1,000 to pay for their hotel, and the rest was history.", "Wow. And the Apollo has come a long way since then. You talk about that in 1967, that was on an amateur night. That's been going on since 1934. And this Apollo still does amateur night every Wednesday night. It's happening tomorrow. It's going to be a tribute to Michael Jackson tomorrow as well. They are going to have a moon walking contest. So, that same spirit, that same thing that got the Jackson 5 started, continues to this day.", "All right. Are we going to see you in that moon walking competition, T.J.?", "You will not, Kyra. I knew you were going to ask. I was scared to even mention the competition.", "I'm sure you can find a few in that crowd. All right. We'll check back with you, T.J. All right. One of the many questions that has popped up in the days since Michael Jackson's death is how could an entertainer who earned hundreds of millions of dollars be drowning in a sea of debt? We've got more now from CNN's Gary Tuchman.", "A person with intimate knowledge of Michael Jackson's finances is very blunt, telling CNN the situation was just mayhem. The estimate -- that at the time of his death the \"King of Pop\" was roughly $400 million in debt. The 50 London concerts that were scheduled were going to bring in tens of millions of dollars for Michael Jackson. But that was only a fraction of the entertainer's debt. So, how did this happen? Only seven years ago \"Forbes\" magazine said he was worth $350 million. In part that was fueled by an extremely shrewd investment Jackson made two decades earlier.", "He bought a company called ATV Music Publishing which held, among other things, the copyrights to 251 Beatles songs.", "He spent about $37 million for the copyrights, and some say they may be worth more than $1 billion now, although Jackson sold half of it to Sony in 1995 to drum up cash. Up until his death, he was bringing in several million dollars a year in royalties and other fees from his own music. We talked with this man, Charles Koppelman. He was a financial consultant for Jackson between 2001 and 2004.", "We all know what an incredible artist he is but he's also was a unique businessman to make the decisions, and they were his, to identify assets and acquire them over the years. His Achilles heel unfortunately was his personal finances.", "And that's putting it mildly, the person with knowledge of the current financial situation said, Jackson was spending $2 million a month on what he called B.S. Over the year, Jackson bought the Neverland ranch near Santa Barbara for just shy of $20 million. He spent many millions more on amenities and maintenance. And then he spent staggering amounts of money on legal challenges, including $20 million to settle a child molestation lawsuit. A decade later, after spending millions in legal fees, he was acquitted in another child molestation case. Despite all of that, his former financial consultant said Jackson was in OK financial shape as recently as 2004.", "We took about two months or so, and we were able to restructure all of his various loans, et cetera. We did that and it was efficient and effective.", "But Jackson kept spending and spending, and the pop star who made so much money in his career churned through unimaginable amounts of it. With his death, his assets are still there, including his Beatles rights, but his spending is not.", "His untimely death as sad as it is -- and it is sad -- you know, to some extent there's a possibility that his children and his family will now be able to figure out how to maintain those assets for them all.", "And if that happens, it's the most pitiful way for it to occur. Gary Tuchman, CNN, Atlanta.", "And just in the last half-hour or so, the Jackson family confirming what's been reported about a 2002 will. It does exist, apparently, and the lawyers have seen it. We'll have more on that as we get it. Mega star, unforgettable hits. Dance moves that drove fans bonkers. A bizarre life, a premature death. So which king are we talking about here, the hip shaker or the moon walker? 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{"id": "CNN-220869", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-12-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1312/14/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Iran: Second Launch Of Monkey Into Space", "utt": ["China's newest spacecraft landed on the moon. The rover doing the work is called \"Jade Rabbit.\" People in China got to vote on the name. It will be on the moon three months, studying the lunar crust. And in a different voyage to space, Iran sent this monkey into orbit. They say it is the latest step to sending humans into space. They say it was a 15 minute mission and that the monkey returned safely. The U.S. says it can't confirm the launch and the State Department worries that Iran's space program could in fact be tied to the development of long range ballistic missiles. A new film hits the big screen next week, it is about legendary news anchor and his big come back. My colleagues, Wolf Blitzer, Chris Cuomo, and Anderson Cooper tell us what they think of this anchor man.", "Ron Burgundy.", "What hasn't been said about Ron Burgundy.", "He's a news legend.", "One of the most influential anchors in broadcast history.", "On camera, he is the best. But off camera, a bit of an --", "A major -- when we were coming up in the late '70s, Ron Burgundy got the lead anchor position at KVWN because his mustache was slightly bigger than mine. People found comfort in a mustache man delivering the news. I love my beard but I would trade it for that mustache in a heartbeat.", "When I first graduated from college and started reporting, I was doing my best Ron Burgundy impression, everyone was, the mustache, the whole persona.", "Burgundy and I hit the national spotlight about the same time. Today he has the most awards of any anchor, some of them honestly I think belong to me because they're literally mine. He just took them off my shelf right in front of me and acted like I didn't see it.", "The first job I had was as an intern for Ron Burgundy. They were the worst years of my life. He didn't trust any of the local dry cleaners so he made me learn how to dry clean. I had to buy a specialized machine, keep it in my studio apartment.", "When I started \"Anderson Cooper 360,\" Ron's shadow still loomed over the show. There was a cardboard cutout of him in the studio blocking one of our lights. He had it in his contract it could never be removed, huge pain in the --", "He was always the first to break big stories. That's because a lot of the times he caused them.", "I heard he suggested building a wall in Berlin just so he could deliver the news when it was knocked down.", "Before Mike Tyson fought Evander Holyfield, Ron told him in the locker room, I am quoting, \"Boxing isn't just about your fists, it's about your mind and your teeth.\" God, I wish I had thought of that.", "For three years I thought I had a huge story about an affair between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Turned out my insider source was Burgundy pretending to be Deep Throat. He deep throated me for years. It was really humiliating.", "To this day, he calls me Wolf Blister.", "He calls me Stoopy Andrews. It is not funny. It doesn't sound like my name.", "Won't call me anything. He refuses to acknowledge me as a human being.", "Ron Burgundy literally tried to poison me.", "So I'm celebrating the premier of \"NEW DAY\" at this news bar for anchors in midtown, Ron comes in all cocky. He walks to the back, goes into the bathroom, nothing really happens after that. That's the end of that story.", "Where do you even buy poison?", "We have all done regrettable things to get where we are today. He's just done them better.", "That's what makes him who he is. He is the most legendary news anchor in history.", "Real actual poison."], "speaker": ["SAVIDGE", "WOLF BLITZER, HOST, CNN'S \"THE SITUATION ROOM\"", "CHRIS CUOMO, ANCHOR, CNN'S \"NEW DAY\"", "ANDERSON COOPER, HOST, CNN'S \"AC360\"", "BLITZER", "CUOMO", "BLITZER", "COOPER", "BLITZER", "CUOMO", "COOPER", "BLITZER", "CUOMO", "BLITZER", "CUOMO", "BLITZER", "COOPER", "CUOMO", "BLITZER", "CUOMO", "BLITZER", "CUOMO", "COOPER", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-288279", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-07-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/06/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Baton Rouge Leaders Want Justice Department to Investigate, Officers Charged", "utt": ["Well, some leaders in the Baton Rouge community have not only demanded that the Justice Department open an investigation, they wanted both officers involved to be charged.", "I'm calling on anybody in the city with any backbone to go and arrest those two officers. If the system will work for anybody, it should work for them, too. Let a judge set their bond. Murder there shouldn't be a bond, period. Let those two officers be arrested and charged with capital murder. Let them hire lawyers. Let them try to weasel themselves out. Thank god for YouTube. Thank god for iPhones. Because without the iPhones, they might.", "And there are also demands for the police chief and the major to resign. Louisiana's governor says he plans to meet with the community and church leaders. He urged protesters to remain calm. And he did admit the graphic video was unsettling.", "I have full confidence this matter will be investigated thoroughly, impartially and professionally. I will demand that that's the way it's conducted. I know the people of Louisiana will join me in doing so. And I will say based on the information that I have obtained from law enforcement, but certainly the footage that I observed of the video that was made available, I have very serious concerns. The video is disturbing, to say the least.", "Joining me now to discuss, civil rights attorney and former New York prosecutor, Charles Coleman Jr; and Steve Rogers, a retired police detective lieutenant in New Jersey. Thank you both for coming on. Charles, why do you think they were so quick to turn over this investigation?", "I've had an opportunity to talk to a lot of folks. One of the things I've heard from repeatedly is there's a sincere lack of confidence with respect to police relationships with the community, particularly with the black community. So I think the governor as well as elected knew and understood to keep this investigation internal, when there's so much hurt and so much pain, so much difficulty and distrust between the community and law enforcement would not be a good thing. From what I'm heard, all the protests have been peaceful, but poignant, and they have been directed. If the governor wanted to keep that same tone, a peaceful protests, people not necessarily destroying property, or speaking out in respect to their anger and hate, what he needed to do was turn it over to an independent authority, and hopefully it's something that will be a remnant of justice for them.", "Steve, your response?", "Based on what we saw, obviously, it's very troubling. The key to this investigation is what we didn't see. What we didn't see was the right hand of the victim. These officers have to clearly articulate and prove their life was in imminent danger in order to take that deadly force. That's what we don't know. And as your guest just said, very, very justifiably and right, it will take an independent investigator who is unbiased, and there will never be allegations of bias when the FBI takes over, to get down to the bottom of it. But the use of deadly force is the last resort police officers take. We heard that one officer yelled \"gun.\" If there was in fact a gun there, and that gun was touched by the victim, you may have a different scenario going on.", "And on that note --", "Pamela?", "Go ahead, Charles.", "Steve and I have been on before and we've had conversations about these issues. I think the point he brings up is very important, particularly in light of Louisiana. Louisiana is an open-carry state. It is not illegal for someone who otherwise legally would be in possession of a firearm to have a gun on them without a permit. That is totally within the bounds of the law --", "Except if you're on probation, right?", "Except if you're on probation. But here's the thing. The officers didn't know that. When they approached Mr. Sterling, they did not know that. We have no way of knowing that they know that. They were responding to an anonymous phone call. We haven't heard from the 911 call yet to know that it was specifically the person she was talking about. Yes, allegedly, the 911 call says he was outside of a store and he had pointed this weapon and threatened someone. In terms of what you just described, they had no way of knowing that this was the individual or that the individual was on probation. So I think that also makes it a little dicey, when you talk about, you know, whether he should or should not have had a firearm. And at the end of the day, again, like Steve said, they have to be imminent threat of danger to them or someone else that they were responding to. Based on what we have seen, thus far, they can't do that, which is what makes this so problematic.", "Steve, how critical doing think that 911 calls is in this investigation whether an anonymous callers that apparently a man was threatening this person with a gun. How important is that in determining the officers' mind-set during the confrontation?", "Very important, because when you get a call of a person with a gun, the first thing you are thinking about is protecting yourself and someone else from becoming the victim of a shooting. But these police officers, when they arrived, it was hard to determine -- I didn't see their guns drawn, which amazed me. If he did and put his hands down, you see the officer tackling to the ground. It appeared that they had restrained him. But it's the right hand, the right arm we cannot see. If in fact, as my good friend just said, that individual grabbed the gun and in some way pointed it at the officers, then you have a whole different scenario. We don't know that. That's why it's important to have a full investigation and, may I add, that the police department be very, very transparent.", "And we know that the Justice Department is now investigating, so that is happening. Charles Coleman Jr, Steve Rogers, thank you very much. Do appreciate it.", "You're welcome. Up next, we'll turn to politics. Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich leaving Trump Tower moments ago. This is as Senator Bob Corker says he's bowing out as a vice presidential candidate. And just into CNN, the Trump campaign revealing news fundraising numbers after the month of June after being criticized for a record slow start. Did they turn it around? 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{"id": "CNN-13002", "program": "Special Event", "date": "2000-7-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/31/se.02.html", "summary": "Republican National Convention: Religious Conservatives the Most Faithful GOP Constituency", "utt": ["In just about 12 minutes, the gavel will come down, the Republican National Convention will convene, officially come to order. And as Bernie promised you just a moment ago, we are going to give you a look at the inside of the Republican Party. Who are these Republicans? Who are these delegates. And for that, let's go down to the floor to, once again, to Jeanne Meserve who's in the Florida section -- Jeanne.", "Judy, the delegates here are overwhelmingly white. They are predominantly male, middle- class, a lot of them are lawyers, and they tend to be conservative. Are they reflective of the party? Here's a snapshot of the Republicans.", "Pray that God will have his way.", "They have voted Republican by as much as 80 percent in some elections.", "They've gone from being a pressure group within the Republican Party to being the heart of the Republican Party, and certainly the most reliable part of the Republican vote.", "Republicans are strongest in the South, Southwest, Rocky Mountain and plain states. Polling tells us 95 percent of Republicans are white, 54 percent are male. They tend to have higher incomes than Democrats do and they are very often married.", "A married baby boomer with children at home. If you fit that profile, you're about 70-30 more likely to be a Republican than a Democrat.", "A few general principles unite Republicans.", "They come together because they're people that really believe strongly in freedom and limited government and individual responsibility.", "The majority of Republicans support the death penalty and oppose both abortion rights and stronger gun laws. But there are fractures within the Republican Party.", "There's been a fight for the soul of the Republican Party between the Christian Coalition, who are active in the primaries, and the moderate Republicans who feel increasingly disenfranchised by the representation they have in Washington. Bush was viewed as the consolidation candidate.", "Bush played heavily to conservatives during the primaries, but he is giving high priority to the issue most likely to bring the party together. (", "For me, tax cutting is not some abstract cause. I have a plan but I also have a record.", "Taxes is a red-meat issue for Republicans. And they're going to -- and the core of the party is going to love that George W. Bush wants to slash federal taxes.", "Bush has, however, been reaching beyond the boundaries that usually define his party.", "I like to be seen in neighborhoods sometimes where Republicans aren't seen. I like to fight that stereotype that somehow we don't have the \"corazon\" necessary to hear the voices of people from all political parties.", "He has made a point of talking to minorities. And with his compassionate conservatism, he has been making a bid for moderates, especially women whose votes are so crucial in this election. The thirst for victory may be enough to keep conservatives from becoming alienated, but it may not.", "They may not vote, and that could be a critical problem in some states.", "In the view of some analysts, Bush is trying to do more than change the image of his party. He is trying to reposition it by reclaiming the center and redefining who is a Republican.", "But there is a countervailing force and that is those conservatives. They still are incredibly powerful though their voices will be muted here at this convention. Back to the booth.", "And, Jeanne, perhaps the contradiction or the irony in all of that is that there is a \"New York Times\" poll this morning of the delegates comparing their views to the Republican Party as a whole. And as conservative as the party is, Jeff, these delegates are far more conservative. I noticed in one question, should government do more to solve the nation's problems? GOP voters overall, 21 percent, said yes. Only 4 percent of these delegates said yes.", "I think this is a mirror image of the Democratic situation. The rank and file of the party is more ideological than the voters at large and the delegates are more ideological than the rank and file. That's what brings them into the process. The interesting thing also I think is that one of the questions we don't yet know is whether or not this change in the tone of the Republican Party is that or whether it is like what Margaret Thatcher did in England with the Conservative Party and, to some extent, what Bill Clinton did with the Democrats, was to really change their argument -- or what Tony Blair did with the Labour Party. One of the questions is, has George Bush convinced the party that compassionate conservatism as a policy rather than a slogan is real? If only 4 percent of these delegates think that, what they're really saying is, Governor Bush, go ahead and say what you need to say. We want you to win and we will accept this different rhetoric because we think you're one of us at heart. And if you can reach the middle, that's so much the better. But whatever you do, win. Whether the Republican Party...", "And we will be quiet in the meantime.", "Yes, in the sense that Goldwater and Reagan changed the Republican Party at its root, I don't think you can say that about Governor Bush yet.", "It all starts happening in about six minutes. When we come back, a look at both the morning and the evening sessions at this 37th annual -- not annual but quadrennial Republican convention. Back in a moment."], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN FLOOR CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MESERVE", "GEOFF GARIN, DEMOCRATIC POLLSTER", "MESERVE", "ED GOEAS, REPUBLICAN POLLSTER", "MESERVE", "JIM NICHOLSON, RNC CHAIRMAN", "MESERVE", "STEPHEN WAYNE, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY", "MESERVE", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, DECEMBER 1, 1999) GOV. GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-185497", "program": "PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT", "date": "2012-5-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/04/pmt.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Cynthia Nixon; Interview with Jennifer Love Hewitt; Interview with Serena Williams", "utt": ["Tonight, sex --", "There are a lot of myths about gay people.", "Love.", "I dated great people.", "And basics (ph). \"Sex and the City's\" Cynthia Nixon defending gay marriage and taking on Mitt Romney and the right.", "I don't think we've seen an attack on women's health like this in the last 40 years.", "Also, Jennifer Love Hewitt's racy new role, a sultry suburban mom, on her hit show, the \"Client List.\" Tonight, she talks love, fame, her figure and her scandalous billboards. Plus, anyone for tennis? Serena Williams like you've never seen her before, in the Olympics, her emotions, her men, and heartbreak.", "I think that's tough to be in love, and then it, you know, it might not work out. And that's life.", "And talking of heartbreak, only in America special, Serena and I hit the court with the Wimbledon champ in for a bit of a nasty surprise. This is PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT.", "Good evening. Our big story, the race for the White House kicks of probably tomorrow when President Obama's re-election campaign launches in Ohio. It's a crucial battleground state for him and Mitt Romney. Social issues are front and center in the fight. And tonight we have the feisty Cynthia Nixon as she slams Romney on same-sex marriage and abortion. But she also has strong words for the president. That's coming up. Also, some risky business for Jennifer Love Hewitt. The turned as Texas mom in \"The Client List,\" offering more than the odd massage to make ends meet. I'll ask her about that controversial role and the uproar over a certain poster campaign.", "Living in L.A. for a really long time, I thought the idea was always to have bigger boobs --", "Yes!", "-- not smaller. It's quite shocking.", "And then match point with Serena Williams. My candid interview from a spectacular court inside Grand Central Terminal. We talk tennis, temper, and why she claims she'll never date again. Then, it's game on in a match that Serena may want to forget.", "Cynthia Nixon is best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes on \"Sex and the City.\" But early this week, she received a Tony nomination for her role in Broadway in \"Wit.\" And she joins me now. Cynthia, welcome. Congratulations.", "Thank you so much.", "It's not like you haven't had a few awards -- two Emmys, two SAGs, a Grammy, now a Tony may be heading your way?", "Well,", "Give me --", "-- I have one from before, so I'll --", "Oh, you do?", "-- I'll treasure that. Yes, I have one from before. Yes.", "Is there anything you haven't won?", "No, no Oscar. No Heisman.", "It's a great role that you play in \"Wit.\"", "Yes.", "It's an incredibly powerful role. At one stage, you're completely bold. You play a cancer victim --", "That died.", "-- who -- who dies. You know, you're naked on stage.", "Yes, I am.", "It's very raw and visceral, isn't it? And the parallel with your life --", "Yes.", "-- and your family, in fact, because your -- your mother suffered from cancer three times --", "Three times.", "-- but is still, thank God, with us.", "She's still with us. She's almost 82.", "Amazing. You --", "Yes.", "-- you had this battle with cancer in 2006. Tell me, how much of your battle with it did you bring to the role? Does it actually work like that?", "It can work like that. But I have to say that my -- you know, you call it a battle with cancer. To me, that seems such a big word. I mean, I feel like I -- I had a cancer diagnosis. I had a very small operation. I went through some radiation and then I was on a -- a particular pill for five years. So to me, it's not a battle. To me, it was like a -- a medical bump in the road that is not fun, you know, but you kind of grit your teeth and you get through it.", "It's scary, though?", "It's scary. It's scary, but having had my mother go through it, you know, at this -- at that point a couple of times previous and I saw how well she dealt with it. No, to me, I didn't -- other than my experience of being in the hospital, I didn't draw on anything. I -- I really, you know, I've had some friends who have died of cancer and I've had some friends who have died of AIDS. And so I called on those things much more. And also, strangely, childbirth.", "Really?", "Yes, because there is a point later on in the play when my character, Vivian, is in incredible, incredible pain. And my only experience with being in --", "Was childbirth.", "-- incredible pain was childbirth. So, yes.", "\"The New York Times\" described your performance as \"large and lucid and delicate.\" A great phrase, I thought.", "Yes.", "You must be very proud of the plaudits you're getting and now that the Tony nomination is up.", "Yes. I mean, it's -- it's an -- it's an amazing role to be given. And it's such a -- it's such a big canvas, as an actor, to paint on. And also, you get through -- you know, she has so much time on stage where she's hilariously funny, like bringing down the house kind of laughs. And so even though it takes an enormous amount of energy and focus, the -- you get fed so much by that -- by that audience response. It really -- it energizes you.", "And talking of energizing things, you've been quite active on the political front. Let's play a little clip from a promotional ad you've done for President Obama.", "2011, times were tough. Recession. Joblessness. So many of us struggling to make ends meet. But for women, times were about to get a lot tougher.", "The time has come to deny any and all federal funding to Planned Parenthood of America.", "I rise in support of the amendment to remove taxpayer dollars from Planned Parenthood.", "We remember who turned their backs on us, and who voted to keep us healthy. November is just around the corner. Soon, it will be our turn to vote.", "I mean, the pretty clear message from that was, look, you know, if you're a woman and you're thinking of where to vote in November, you should be voting for President Obama, not the Republicans.", "Absolutely. Certainly not Mitt Romney. Certainly not Mitt Romney.", "Do you think he's anti-woman, Mitt Romney? With the --", "That's a very strong thing to say. But I think he doesn't have a sense of -- of women's health, and I think particularly women living in poverty, about how difficult it is to have access to not just contraceptive health care, but general health care. And I think that President Obama said recently, it was so -- he said women aren't a special interest group. They're -- they're more than half of the population. And it's not like women are children, you know? Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care. We shouldn't be making these decisions --", "But will you --", "-- for them, but we should let women make their decisions for themselves.", "Right. I mean, were you a bit staggered, like many people, by the way the Republican race went in its rhetoric about women's issues?", "Absolutely. I don't think we've seen an attack on women's health like this in the last 40 years. Yes, I mean, I think these people certainly are -- they're -- they're -- we know they're anti-abortion, but they're also anti-contraception. But I think this attack on Planned Parenthood, you know, about 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortions. Ninety-seven percent is women's health. And like right now in Texas, Rick Perry is trying to shut down and stop all federal funding to Planned Parenthood. Well, 40 percent of the women living in poverty in Texas are served by Planned Parenthood. That is their primary doctor. So what you're saying, then, if you cut all this funding, half of the poor women living in Texas have no medical care.", "Being dispassionate, has Barack Obama done enough for women's health issues? I mean, it's obvious that the Republicans have taken a rather strange look at this. But has he done enough as president?", "You know, there are certain issues on which we can never do enough. But --", "Where would you like to see him being bold? If he gets reelected, where do you want to see a bit more grit?", "Well, I certainly would like to see a bit more grit in terms of gay issues, in terms of LGBT issues. I would certainly -- he has said repeatedly that he'll repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. And I think that that is something whose time has come. That is overdue.", "So do you think it would be quite nice to see the president now with eight states legalizing gay marriage, given this clear bandwagon heading that way, it's quite a moment for the president of the United States to stand there and say I support gay marriage. Do you think he's going to do that --", "I don't know if he --", "-- if he gets reelected?", "-- I don't know if he's going to do that. And that would be, certainly, an amazing thing if he would do that and I would applaud and I think people all over this country would applaud. But I -- the thing that I really want from him is the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, which he has said is unconstitutional. And I think that that is something that is very in his -- in his control. And that's for me, that's his task.", "You are engaged to be married.", "Yes.", "Now, you were with a man for a long time.", "For 15 years. We have two children together.", "Two children?", "Yes.", "And now you're going to be marrying a woman?", "Yes.", "And that's created a lot of interest and, as you would expect. You said this, which I thought was fascinating: \"The fight for gay marriage is often portrayed in political terms, Democrat versus Republican, liberal versus conservative. But for couples like us, this is about something simpler and more personal. I want to be married to my girlfriend. I want us to have a ceremony. I want all our friends and family to come. I want our kids to be there, just like that historic night last month from the subway platform, I want it to be a moment I will always remember, from death us do part.\" I like that.", "Thank you.", "It kind of took all the politics and the stigma away from the whole thing and said, you know what, we just want to do what other people do.", "Yes, I mean certainly it is a -- it is a political issue. But when you break down why gay people want to get married to each other, they want to get married for the same reasons that anybody wants to get married. They want to celebrate their love. They want to make a lifelong commitment. They want to gather their friends and family around them and -- and say this is the person I'm going to be with for the rest of my life.", "How have you found all the scrutiny on your life? Because you've been, I think, quite brave in the stuff that you've said.", "It's not been so bad.", "You've copped a little bit of flack, but a lot of praise, too. I mean it's one of those things, isn't it, where you -- you put your head over the parapet. Did you expect what was coming your way?", "You know, when -- when news of Christine's and my relationship broke, there was this tremendous, you know, we were on the cover of two New York daily newspapers. She had, you know, British -- her parents, who live on a little island off of Seattle, had British journalists in SUVs on their lawn. I mean, it was -- it was a wild explosion. But there was not really too much to say. And so, it sort of came and went pretty quickly. It -- the flame burned very high and then it pretty much has been a kind of a slow ember since then.", "When you look at the debate -- and I've had a lot of people in here. We had Kurt Cameron famously came in here and said some pretty outrageous things, I felt, using Christianity as an excuse. How do you wrestle with people who've got religious convictions about it?", "Well, you know, I think that the thing is that gay people, that there are a lot of myths about gay people, that they are -- they're sick, or they're -- they prey on children, or they're harmful to children, or they're causing the destruction of the -- of traditional straight marriage. And I think as people personally and on television and all this reading the newspaper, come to see more and more gay families and gay couples, I think that these myths are disappearing one by one, which is great. And now, we have a whole generation of children -- you know, they say that there are two million children living in the United States who have been raised by gay couples.", "I -- I had one of the leading, Zack Wahls came in --", "Yes.", "-- who's an extraordinary young man. And he had both his moms sitting in the audience, which I thought -- I thought was great. And as he said, you know, Kim Kardashian's marriage lasted, I don't know, however many hours it was.", "Yes.", "And he listed a whole lot of other things in his book, which I thought was a smart point to make --", "Yes.", "-- that, actually, it's respecting the sanctity of marriage is much more important, I think. Are you as happy as you've ever been in your life?", "I am definitely as happy as I've ever been. Happier, I would say, than I've ever been. So, yes.", "Life is pretty good for you, isn't it", "Life is pretty good.", "I can't let you go without a quick mention of \"Sex and the City.\" Let's take a little watch of you in action. This is great, this bit.", "So this is a big apartment to buy for just you.", "I have a lot of shoes.", "Oh. Maybe the boyfriend will move in?", "No, no boyfriend. Just me.", "I have a son who owns his own business.", "No thanks. I'll take it.", "I loved that character.", "Yes. She's great.", "Have you seen \"Girls,\" this new --", "I haven't, but I -- I am -- I want to very much. It sounds amazing.", "Everyone says it's the new \"Sex and the City.\"", "Yes.", "I've read that a few times.", "Yes.", "But it's getting a bit of traction.", "It sounds amazing.", "What do you think \"Sex and the City\" gave American women? What -- what would you like its legacy to be to American women, do you think?", "I think that \"Sex and the City\" showed that it was OK to be single, even if you were in your 30s, even if you were in your 40s, even if you were going to be single for the rest of your life. But that didn't mean you were sitting at home pining by the phone, hoping that somebody would call; that you could have a rich, full life. You could have a rich, full sex life. You could have fun and adventures and work and great friends. And just because you didn't have a ring on your finger didn't mean that your -- that you weren't happy.", "And you are living proof that it can all -- it can all come crashing to glorious utopia.", "Yes. Yes.", "Star of Broadway, blissfully happy in your life. The Tony Awards are on June the 10th, 2012. It's been a real pleasure, Cynthia.", "Thank you.", "Best of luck with it.", "A pleasure for me, too.", "I hope you win.", "Thank you.", "Good luck.", "Thanks.", "Coming up, my interview with the woman who's heating up \"The Client List\", Jennifer Love Hewitt."], "speaker": ["PIERS MORGAN, HOST", "CYNTHIA NIXON, ACTRESS", "MORGAN", "JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT, ACTRESS", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "SERENA WILLIAMS, PRO TENNIS PLAYER", "MORGAN", "MORGAN", "LOVE HEWITT", "MORGAN", "LOVE HEWITT", "MORGAN", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "I -- MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "MORGAN", "NIXON", "REP. MIKE PENCE (R), INDIANA", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-4888", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-3-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/21/ee.02.html", "summary": "Police Capture Former Black Panther Leader After Fierce Gun Battle", "utt": ["The former Black Panther leader once known as H. Rap Brown was captured last night after a fierce gun battle with authorities. Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin has been a fugative says he allegedly shot two sheriff's deputies in Atlanta last week, killing one of them. CNN's Brian Cabell is in Montgomery, Alabama this morning. He joins us now with an update -- Brian.", "Good morning, Leon. Al-Amin is in the Montgomery city jail this morning awaiting transfer later this morning to a federal courthouse where he'll face at least one charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. From there, we're told he'll be transferred back to Atlanta, probably later today, to face at least one murder charge. He was captured last night about 40 miles from here after he reportedly fired on agents in the town of Whitehall. He then fled into the woods there, according to authorities. Dogs were sent after him. A helicopter was called in as well. More gunfire erupted, but finally he was captured uninjured. No officers were injured, either. Authorities said he came there because he has friends there.", "He's got connections here from in the past when he was part of the radical Black Panther movement, and those ties go back a long way. He had friends and associates that certainly we're taking a look at. And as you can see from the traffic stop behind you, there are other people that we're taking into custody for questioning at this time.", "He's wanted back in Atlanta because of the shooting of two deputies back on Thursday night. The two deputies were trying to serve a warrant on him. One of them was killed in the shooting. The other deputy said that he apparently opened fire on them with an automatic weapon and then fled. Of course, Al-Amin is the former H. Rap Brown, the militant from the 1960s. He served some time in prison in the '70s and then came to Atlanta in 1976 and led a relatively quiet life until just recently; served as an imam, a prayer leader for a local mosque, and also ran a grocery store and was considered a community leader in West Atlanta. But now, as we say, he is in jail facing a possible murder charge. I'm Brian Cabell, CNN, live in Montgomery, Alabama", "All right, thank you, Brian. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web"], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BILL IMFELD, FBI", "CABELL", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-269303", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-11-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1511/17/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Paris Suspects Known  to Authorities", "utt": ["And good morning. I'm Carol Costello, along with Poppy Harlow in Paris. Thank you so much for joining me. There are many in France questioning where intelligence authorities aren't watching the Paris attackers more closely. After all, the suspected ringleaders was featured in an ISIS magazine back in February claiming he had traveled to Europe. At one point U.S. authorities raised the red flag. And then there's Salah Abdeslam who's on the loose. He was stopped at the Belgian border and questioned after the attacks. He was also subject to a routine check in Austria back in September. And in February he was questioned by Belgian investigators. This is a man who is believed to have been -- to have radicalized his 13-year-old brother. And then there's Samy Amimour. His parents went to authorities and actually told them their son had been radicalized. His father even went to Syria to bring his son back but was unsuccessful. In light of those possible intelligence failures, could such failures happen in the United States? With me now again from Paris, Poppy Harlow and CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruikshank. I'm also joined by CNN military analyst and former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Cedric Leighton. Good morning to all of you. Poppy, what are people saying in France about these possible intelligence breeches?", "Well, look, I think they're incredibly disturbed. I spoke with many, many people here since I've been on the ground since Saturday morning. I have family members who live here, who told me that they don't want to be afraid but they are afraid. The fact that this has happened twice in ten months, right after \"Charlie Hebdo\" happened. The fact that these terrorists are able to communicate via this encrypted technology apps like Telegraph, a Clarissa was telling us at the top of the program, that even the best intelligence in the world can't get ahold of or translate, if you will, is incredibly frightening. Look, when you look at French intelligence, it is among the best in the world. You've got U.S. intelligence, French intelligence is very, very strong. I will tell you that there are 150 -- 1,500 troops across Paris right now and also one of our correspondents witnessed plain clothed police officers earlier today going door to door with bullet proof vests on, with assault rifles, questioning people. This is a much more proactive force that you're seeing out there right now. They are not taking anything for granted. People are nervous and now it's about, what can they do on the street with brute force and what information can they get and what can they still not get, Carol, because of all of this encrypted technology that these terrorists are communicating through? I think that's the scariest part people on the street tell me here.", "Right. And, Paul, you know, after the \"Charlie Hebdo\" attacks, French intelligence services were greatly improved, but those improvements are still in process, aren't they?", "Well, look, I mean here's the unfortunate reality, Carol. The threat is just too big right now. Even if they triple the amount of manpower, the amount of resources, they would be nowhere close to having a handle on this. And they're going to be nowhere close to having a handle on this in -- for the foreseeable future. I mean the threat is just too big. We're talks about 6,000 Europeans that have travelled to Syria and Iraq, joined up with groups like ISIS. Fifteen hundred that have come back. Tens of thousands of radicalized individuals across Europe. The Syrian civil war, the declaration of this so called Islamic State has really electrified extremists here in Europe. It's led to a huge explosion in their numbers. These are people who are deeply angered that countries like France and Belgium and the United States are attacking their caliphate. And they believe that it's their religious duty to do something about it. They believe they're going to go to paradise if they do it. So they're willing to die. They're craving death. So this is the new normal, these kind of attacks. I think we're going to be in a lot more central squires in Europe in the months ahead because ISIS is the richest terrorist group in history. It's got all these European recruits. It's got training camps. It's got everything it needs to unleash a wave of carnage in Europe particularly. And all the evidence at this point, all the intelligence points to them launching a string of terrorist plots against the west, against France in particular and this ringleader, the suspected ringleader, Abdel-Hamid Abu Oud, all the intelligence points to him organizing a string of plots in recent months against Europe, Carol.", "OK. But, you know, we're trying to answer the question, is an attack like Paris likely in the United States. And of course it's a possibility. I just don't want to panic people here in the United States because I'd like to give them all of the information.", "Right.", "One of -- and, Cedric, I guess I'll pose this to you. The borders in Europe, they're much more porous than the borders are here. Syrian terrorists can come through Greece into France. They have to fly into the United States. So does that make it easier for American authorities to stop them?", "In a way it does, Carol, because what you're looking at is a mechanism of control at that point where the airplane, you know, lands and they get out and they have to go through U.S. customs. And when you watch U.S. customs and border patrol operations, they are pretty extensive. They're not foolproof, but they are very extensive and they work very hard to not only get intel from the different sources overseas, but they also work very hard to apply that intelligence to actually countering the movement of terrorists or alleged terrorists through -- through our area. And one of the ways that we do that, of course, is through the no fly list that we have.", "And the other -- the other point that I'd like to make, Paul, is, in the United States, extremists tend to be isolated, right? In Brussels, for example, you have hot beds of extremist communities. Here in the United States you have just one or two lone wolves attacking. It's not this big, coordinated attack. Does that make it less likely that a huge coordinated attack might happen within the United States?", "Absolutely right, Carol. I mean there are just fewer American whose are attracted by this ideology. The American Muslim community is really very well integrated. They -- the vast majority of them absolutely detest ISIS. They see it as a corruption of the religion. So you're seeing many fewer traveling to Syria and Iraq. And so I think that the bigger concerned is that it could be a kind of ISIS-inspired attempt that we may see in the following weeks. People who are radicalized by this ideology. It's become more difficult for Americans to travel. The numbers have actually decreased, the people traveling from the United States. But some of those people who have stayed behind may feel motivated to act. And, of course, you have all those massively powerful weapons that they can easily, legally buy in gun stores and that is a concern in the United States they don't have in Europe. They've got to go on the black market to find these things. The United States, hardly legal for them to go and get the most extraordinarily powerful weapons.", "Carol, I would just add one thing on the ground here, just speaking to the average person because I think you're so right to not try to scare the American public. It's a very different situation there than here. We heard Ash Carter, the defense secretary, coming out and saying today that, you know, lone wolves are the biggest fear right now for the United States. People here on the street in Paris tell me, we need to talk to each other more. We need to open dialogue. One woman even said to me, we need to know each other so we don't kill each other. And that's a really important fact. You've got a lot of isolation here especially -- and in Brussels, in Molenbeek, for example. And the more you can diminish that, the Parisians here are saying to me, the better things will get.", "All right, I have to leave it there. Poppy Harlow, Cedric Leighton, Paul Cruikshank, thanks to you all. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, Senator Ted Cruz defends the controversial religious test he wants to give Syrian refugees seeking asylum in the United States."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "COSTELLO", "PAUL CRUICKSHANK, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST", "COSTELLO", "HARLOW", "COSTELLO", "CEDRIC LEIGHTON, CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "COSTELLO", "CRUIKSHANK", "HARLOW", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-338949", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2018-05-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/01/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Ex-CIA Chief: Netanyahu's Iran Nukes Announcement \"Old News.\"", "utt": ["New tonight, what's going on in Iran? The top defense experts and lawmakers, some of them downplaying the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's dramatic presentation, the one where he claimed that there are new documents, hundreds of thousands that are obtained by Israeli intelligence, which prove Iran is lying about its nuclear program and it has no plans to honor its end of the nuclear deal. Here is Netanyahu and then the reaction.", "Tonight, we are going to reveal new and conclusive proof of the secret nuclear weapons program that Iran has been hiding for years from the international community. A hundred thousand files right here prove that they lied.", "I think this is fundamentally old news.", "I think there's actually less here than meets the eye.", "It's nothing new. This is really not ground breaking. We've known of this for some time.", "So, OUTFRONT now, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer. And, Ambassador Dermer, you heard that -- old news, less than meets the eye, nothing new from a former NATO commander, CIA director, and, of course, Senator Corker. Why are you calling this a, quote, smoking bomb?", "Well, first of all, the information is new. They don't have it. I respect all of those people, but they haven't seen the information. The only agency that has seen the information is the U.S. intelligence agency, the CIA. As of last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was the director of the CIA, and he said himself that this is new information. It was new to us. I don't know if Senator Corker or the other people who you showed on screen, if they had this information, it was certainly new to Israeli intelligence. It's a massive amount of information. We knew that Iran had a military nuclear program but we did not know the extent of it. And there are many things that the prime minister didn't show. Basically he's showing 30 PowerPoint slides. We have 100,000 documents, we have videos, a file the likes of which we've never seen. And when it comes into the hands of the other intelligence agencies like the United Kingdom and France and Germany and the IAEA, they will say that the information is new, I have no doubt about that. So, I think people should reserve judgment, let the experts look at the information. It takes many weeks to go through it because first you've got to know Farsi, because it's their documents.", "In Farsi, yes.", "And the other thing is you need to have the technical expertise. The prime minister actually showed some new things for people who are really in the weeds on this stuff, but it's new and very damning information that actually shows that Iran falsified all of their presentations to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and you heard the White House say today that the whole deal was based on this lie. And that's because when the IAEA had to sign off on this, in December 2015, Iran basically falsified all those documents. I should point out one other thing regarding a violation.", "Yes.", "And that is Iran moved this trove of information to this site recently, after the deal was signed. The action of moving this and actually making --", "OK.", "-- a positive action to hide their program is actually a violation of the", "So, I actually -- I want to talk to you about that location. But first, you know, the prime minister comes on and shows his 30- slide summary, right? The reality of it is, of course, Ambassador Dermer, we all know he has issued dire warnings before over decades with time frames about the Iranian nuclear program. And the Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif took to Twitter, as you saw, saying Netanyahu is, quote, the boy who can't stop crying wolf on the back of this presentation last night. And here's why.", "The most dangerous of these regimes is Iran. Only the United States can lead this vital international effort to top the nuclearization of terrorist states. But the deadline for obtaining this goal is getting extremely close. When I last stood here, I spoke of the consequences of Iran developing nuclear weapons. Now, time is running out. They're very close. They're six months away from being 90 percent of having the rich uranium for an atom bomb.", "That went back as early as 1996, 22 years ago, and 2012, six months away. And here we are. You're not saying they have one yet.", "Well, all I can tell you is thank god that the prime minister has been prime minister for 12 of those 20 years, because had we done nothing, had your intelligence agencies done nothing over the last 20 years, they would have had a nuclear arsenal a long time ago. And you can invite all the previous heads of the intelligence services, Israeli intelligence, U.S. intelligence services and other intelligence services around the world that did a lot to block Iran's path to the bomb. The problem with this deal, Erin, the fatal flaw and you didn't show that from the prime minister's speech to Congress in 2015 is the deal's restrictions that it puts in place, they're all temporary and they're all automatically removed in a few years. And a lot of people responded --", "Right.", "-- to what the prime minister said and they actually argued, you know, this just vindicates the need to have restrictions. Frankly, that's an absurd argument. If the restrictions that were in place were permanent restrictions, I can understand that.", "Let me just finish this point. I can understand --", "They're saying this is the best deal they could get. So, it was either no restrictions and no visibility or some restrictions and some visibility and a delay.", "Or --", "And that was your choice. It's not a permanent solution.", "No. Or ratchet up pressure on Iran and actually force them to accept the deal that is in U.S. national interests, Israel's national interests and the interests of the parties in the region. I mean, at the time you remember, Erin, people said if we don't do this deal, there's going to be war. Now look at what's happening in the Middle East. There's all the sanctions that were removed, as all the money has flowed into Iran, now you see Iran marching through the Middle East and the aggression of Iran has only increased because of this deal. It's a very dangerous situation that we have in Syria, that we have around us. And it's because of the sanctions relief that came from this deal. The important thing, the fatal flaw of the deal is that the restrictions are temporary.", "Yes.", "And what Netanyahu showed yesterday is when those restrictions are removed, Iran won't need to sneak in or break into a bomb, they can just walk in, go to those vaults, get the information they have, build a nuclear arsenal and that's very dangerous.", "I just want to make -- I want to ask you about that but I want to make one point on this, right? I was in Iran as the deal was being negotiated, before it was being negotiated. There were Germans there, there were South Koreans there, there were a lot of people doing things that were not in the spirit of sanctions, whether they were outright in violation or not, right? And the understanding was the U.S. and Israel had lost the rest of the world, right? You weren't going to get that sanctions pressure. It was going to go away anyway, so get a deal while you have some of it. You didn't have the option of full-on sanctions. Do you think you have that now?", "Well, first of all, we definitely had the option. There were crippling sanctions on Iran only for 18 months. The previous administration pulled the rug out from under the sanctions regime and agreed to a bad deal. They should have ratcheted up the pressures and forced Iran to fully dismantle its program which was the position of the international community until 2013. We can restore the crippling sanctions very fast and Iran is a very vulnerable regime. You saw the protests in Iran only a few months ago where the people of Iran are fed up with the regime, they're fed up with the adventurism in the region. And it was a big mistake to make this deal and we hope that President Trump will make the right choice moving forward. The right choice for America, for Israel and for the peace of the world.", "I want to give you a chance to respond to John Kerry, of course, the American who was arguably, inarguably I would say, the chief negotiator for the U.S. side for this deal. He tweeted, it's worth remembering that the early 2000s when his evidence comes from, referring to Prime Minister Netanyahu's, was the period where the world had no visibility into Iran's program. More and more centrifuges were spinning each month. The world was not united like it is now, there was no negotiating. All of that changed with the JCPOA, which is the Iran deal. Blow up the deal and you're back there tomorrow. Back there tomorrow? That's an acceleration in getting a bomb.", "Look, this deal puts us on cruise control heading over a cliff. And the people who say the deal is working are basically saying the cruise control is working. And no one is thinking about the cliff when all these restrictions are removed. The inspection regime in Iran, Erin, is a joke. It's not inspectors that found these documents in Tehran. It's Israel's intelligence that was able to obtain them. All the inspectors do is they look under the keys, under the light of the lamp post. But all the dark places in Iran they don't see and all the inspectors are doing are going into places where Iran is allowing them to go. That's not where they're going to have their secret facilities.", "And, Ambassador, quickly before we go, you had agents, Mossad agents who are in that warehouse in Tehran?", "I'm not going to comment at all on the operation. I think it's a great coup for Israeli intelligence, but it also tells you how much we failed in the past to have this information. Why didn't we have this three years ago? And I would not assume, Erin, that what we have is everything that Iran has.", "All right. Ambassador Dermer, thank you.", "Thank you.", "And next, as Trump and Kim prepare to meet, what do people inside North Korea think? An exclusive, unprecedented look."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER", "MICHAEL HAYDEN, FORMER CIA DIRECTOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SEN. BOB CORKER (R), TENNESSEE", "BURNETT", "AMB. RON DERMER, ISRAEL'S AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES", "BURNETT", "DERMER", "BURNETT", "DERMER", "BURNETT", "DERMER", "JCPOA. BURNETT", "NETANYAHU", "BURNETT", "DERMER", "BURNETT", "DERMER", "DERMER", "BURNETT", "DERMER", "BURNETT", "DERMER", "BURNETT", "DERMER", "BURNETT", "DERMER", "BURNETT", "DERMER", "BURNETT", "DERMER", "BURNETT", "DERMER", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-341465", "program": "HALA GORANI TONIGHT", "date": "2018-05-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/30/wrn.01.html", "summary": "White House Briefing Conclusion; Russian Journalist Back From The \"Dead\"; Browder Released After Police Realized Arrest Warrant Invalid; President Trump Responds To Roseanne Barr's Firing; U.S. North Korea Diplomats Continue DMZ Talks", "utt": ["-- massive drop in their prices. Is there any more you can tell us on exactly when this is going to happen and how widespread this massive drop in prices will be?", "No, I can't give any other details at this point, but we do expect some specific policy pieces to come out on that soon. Kelly (ph)?", "Has the president spoken to Roseanne Barr, who we know has been a longtime friend of his? And why did he choose to address the ABC apology instead of the underlying issue of concerns about a racist comment that she tweeted out?", "I'm not aware of any conversations that have taken place. The president's simply calling out the media bias. No one's defending what she said. The president is the president of all Americans, and he's focused on doing what is best for our country, and you can see that in the actions that he's taken. You can see where he's focused on unemployment being at the lowest since 2000, opportunity investment zones to encourage investment in underserved communities, an opioid initiative to combat a crisis that impacts all Americans. And, today, the president signed legislation to give patients the right to try medication that could actually save their lives. And I'd point out that, while the president signed that legislation and actually addressed America, two networks chose not to cover it, and instead covered something totally different in palace (ph) intrigue -- a massive piece of legislation that had bipartisan support, that was life-changing, literally life-changing for millions of Americans -- two networks chose not to cover the president's remarks on that. He's simply pointing out the bias. The president's pointing to the hypocrisy in the media saying the -- the most horrible things about this president, and nobody addresses it. Where was Bob Iger's apology to the White House staff for Jemele Hill calling the president and anyone associated with him a white supremacist? To Christians around the world for Joy Behar calling Christianity a mental illness? Where was the apology for Kathy Griffin going on a profane rant against the president on The View after a photo showed her holding President Trump's decapitated head? And where was the apology from Bob Iger for ESPN hiring Keith Olbermann after his numerous expletive-laced tweets attacking the president as a Nazi and even expanding Olbermann's role after that attack against the president's family? This is a double standard that the president is speaking about. No one is defending her comments. They're inappropriate, but that's what -- the point that he was making.", "Sarah...", "Matthew (ph).", "Thanks, Sarah. Does the White House have any evaluation of its own of the recently released study estimating that more than 4,600 people died in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria? And, if that number is accurate, does this indicate the administration's response to the storm was inadequate?", "Look, the president takes the situation in Puerto Rico extremely seriously, and the administration has been monitoring that from the beginning. We've been supportive of Governor Rossello's efforts to ensure full accounting and transparency, and those who have suffered from this tragedy deserve nothing less than that. The two Category 4 hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico were historic, and we've responded with the largest FEMA operation in history, and we're going to continue to work with the people of Puerto Rico and do everything we can to be helpful.", "April? Sorry, one question today.", "... any concerns or fear any risk in pushing China on -- continuing to push China on these tariffs in trade, considering their relationship with North Korea ahead of talks and what the president has said about that second meeting between President Xi and Kim Jong-un?", "The president continues to have a good relationship with President Xi. But what the president's concerned about is making sure he stops the unfair trade practices that China's engaged in for decades, stopping the intellectual property theft that China has been engaged in and making sure that we no longer allow China to play on a different playing field than the rest of us. He's not going to allow American workers to be taken advantage of. He's going to call that out and he's going to step up and make those changes. At the same time, we're continuing to work with China and continuing to have conversations when it comes to North Korea. And we hope that those will continue. John (ph).", "Thank you, Sarah. Given the turbulent political situation in Italy right now, is the administration monitoring it, as well the devastating effect it appears to be having on the markets in southern Europe? And will the president consider strong intervention in that situation through the IMF, very much as the previous administration did with Greece two years ago?", "Italy is one of our closest allies, and we look forward to continuing to work closely with the new government after it's formed. We recognize that Europe is composed of free nations, that, in the great tradition of Western democracy, are able to choose their own paths forward. I don't have anything about the United States' specific involvement, but certainly, we're continuing to monitor that and stay in very close touch with our allies. Jennifer (ph).", "(OFF-MIKE) the extension ends again soon. When do you think you'll have an announcement on what will happen next? And is there any chance that there will be another extension?", "We'll certainly keep you posted as we get closer to that date. Mara (ph).", "Yeah, can you just clarify the comments about Trey Gowdy? You said there's still cause for concern, meaning about the -- -- what the president says was a spy who infiltrated his campaign, or cause for concern in general about the FBI?", "I think both. The president still has concerns about whether or not the FBI acted inappropriately, having people in his campaign.", "And, certainly, the president has concerns about the overall conduct of the FBI when it comes to this process. Blake (ph).", "(OFF-MIKE) explain who was in the campaign? What is he referring to when he said they were in the campaign? What does that mean?", "Again, I'm not going to get into those details. But the president certainly has expressed very publicly his concern, as has his outside counsel. Blake (ph).", "Thank you. Something appeared to have happened on trade, because, last weekend, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said the trade war was on hold. Fast forward, a few days after that, there was the threat of tariffs, now, on auto imports. Fast forward, a few days after that, there's now going to be this $50 billion in tariffs. So what exactly happened from the trade war being on hold, to a week later, now, it appears the trade war...", "He didn't say it was on hold indefinitely. And, look, the president ultimately makes the decisions on trade. And, when we does, we announce them. And that's exactly what's taken place in this process. Philip (ph).", "Sarah, two things. First off, my young colleague here -- he has a very interesting question.", "Welcome.", "Second, I just wanted to know, how confident does the president feel that he's going to have an agreement on NAFTA before the summer?", "Look, we're continuing to have those negotiations, and we'll keep you posted if the -- they get a deal finalized. And the young colleague in the back.", "Well, thanks for the complement.", "Hopefully -- hopefully these aren't as tough as Bring Your Kids to Work Day questions.", "At my school, we -- we recently had a lockdown drill. One thing that -- that affects my and other students' mental health is the worry about the fact that we or our friends could get shot at school. Specifically, can you tell me what the administration has done and will do to prevent these senseless tragedies?", "I think that, as a kid and certainly as a parent, there is nothing that could be more terrifying -- for a kid to go to school and not feel safe. So I'm sorry that you feel that way. This administration takes it seriously, and the School Safety Commission that the president convened is meeting this week, again, an (ph) official meeting, to discuss the best ways forward and how we can do every single thing within our power to protect kids in our schools and to make them feel safe and make their parents feel good about dropping them off. Eamon.", "Sarah, you mentioned Bob Iger a moment ago, and asked where is his apology to the White House for criticism of the president in some of the instance (ph) that you cite. Has anyone at the White House been in touch with Bob Iger or anyone at ABC on those incidents in specific and the cancellation of the Roseanne program, specifically, as well?", "I'm not aware of any specific or direct conversations. Andrew (ph).", "(OFF-MIKE) George McGuire (ph) (OFF-MIKE) organization. The pre- infinite shore team (ph) is subject to discussion -- the main subject of discussion in Singapore. Does that include the positioning of U.S. nuclear bombers and submarines that aren't (ph) necessarily on the peninsula, but cover the peninsula, as it were?", "I'm not going to get into the details or negotiate that here. Certainly, our focus is going to be on total denuclearization of the peninsula and verifiable confirmation of that. Beyond that, I can't get into any details.", "... when you talk about that, you're talking about North Korea, though, not U.S. weapons systems.", "Correct. Yeah.", "And, last question, Sayer (ph).", "Sarah, has the president received any classified briefing on the details that -- of the intelligence that were presented to Trey Gowdy? And, if he still believes that there's cause for concern, why doesn't he just declassify the documents?", "The president receives a number of classified briefings, but I'm not going to get into those -- certainly not here, and not today.", "Sarah, (", "Thanks so much, guys. And we look forward to seeing you guys here in a few minutes at the sports fitness day.", "Sarah, where are the president's apologies for things that he's said over the years?", "The Press Secretary Sarah Sanders there today. She answered a few questions on North Korea. We will continue to shoot for June 12th in Singapore. She is essentially saying that the U.S. is ready if this summit can go ahead, but it will also be ready if it is delayed further. She was also asked about the Roseann Barr controversy after the actress tweeted some racist content on the social media platform after her show was canceled. She called out the media bias. She deflected to Trump administration achievements in her words that had not been covered. And then attacks again the media for not covering what they would like -- what they would like us to cover and listed people who she says had insulted the president without consequence, though, factually incorrect, mentioning Kathy Griffin, who, of course, was fired from her position and then now did not work in the United States in a sort of comedy show capacity since that picture of her holding that bloodied mask that looked like Donald Trump. So, there you have it. This is coming from the Press Secretary Sarah Sanders today and we'll continue to follow the very least on North Korea a little bit later in the program as well as the latest fallout from the Roseanne Barr show cancellation. But now to this in Ukraine, who needs spy novels when you have a real-life thriller like this? We begin with an absolutely stunning development that has shock the world. Today, we learned that a high-profile murder of a journalist was faked in order to prevent a real one, authorities in the Ukraine said. Just yesterday, Ukraine's prime minister accused Russia of assassinating a fierce Kremlin critic, journalist, Arkady Babchenko. You can see images there, mourners even laid flowers and (inaudible) as chilling details emerged about the murder. Authorities said he was shot three times in the back, found by his wife in a pool of blood. They said he died on the way to the hospital and even released a sketch of the suspected killer. So, you could imagine the utter shock today when Babchenko turned up on television very much well alive. He appeared at a news conference as Ukraine's Security Services admitted faking his death in order to foil what they called a Russian plot to kill him. Babchenko apologized for the rouse, but said he had no choice.", "Firstly, I would like to apologize to what you've all had to go through because I've buried friends and colleagues many times, and I know it is a sickening vomiting feeling when you have to bury your colleagues, your story that they've forced you to experience all of this. But in another way, it was impossible. Also, I would like to apologize to my wife for the hell she has been through in these last few days. (Inaudible), I'm sorry, but there were no other options.", "Ukraine officials say they've now arrested the suspect in connection with the attempted assassination plot. Moscow calls the whole thing Russophobic lies. Let's get more now from Frederick Pleitgen live in Moscow. How did they explain the fact that in their view there was no other way to do this than to pull this type of stunt?", "Well, they really haven't said very much as to why exactly (inaudible) the success of what they call this operation depended on them doing it the way that they did, and they said that they have the suspect in custody thanks to that. Apparently, arrested only a couple hours before then Arkady Babchenko went in front of the press and revealed that he was in fact still alive. And one other interesting things about this, Hala, is that it wasn't only the Ukrainian Security Services, but it seems pretty much all levels of the Ukrainian government in some way, shape, or form were involved in this. Even the prime minister came out and blamed the Russians initially with a very angry tweet on his Facebook page saying that he believed that they were behind it. That is also one of the reasons why the Russians are so angry. So, a lot of twists and turns in this plot. Here is what happened.", "Outrage last night in Kiev, Ukraine. Officials saying prominent anti-Kremlin journalist, Arkady Babchenko, had been gunned down in front of his house. Ukraine's prime minister writing in a Facebook post, quote, \"I am sure that Russian totalitarian machine did not forgive him his honesty and his fidelity to principal.\" Hours later, the twist, it was all staged, Babchenko alive. It was a special operation, he said as a result of which the man was detained today. He is in custody right now. Ukrainian Security Services safely discovered a plot ordered by Russia to kill Babchenko. To save him and catch the alleged assassin, they faked Bobcheko's killing.", "People told me that it was already ordered on me and the money had already been transferred $40,000. Well, that's not a bad price for me.", "Ukraine says a suspect in custody. The country's president calls it a brilliant operation by the Security Services.", "I would like to apologize to my wife for the hell she has been through in these last two days. (inaudible), I'm sorry, but there were no other options.", "This was the reaction from Arkady Babchenko's colleagues after he turned up alive on TV. Babchenko was critical of Russian actions in Ukraine and Syria, and left Russia in 2017 because of threats to his life. He wrote about his experience suffering what he called political harassment in Putin's Russia in an essay published by Britain's \"Guardian\" newspaper in 2017. Russian officials fuming after the Ukrainians revealed the staged assassination. \"Kiev in the situation with the alleged attempts to kill Babchenko committed a stupid provocation against Russia and is now disgraced in the eyes of the world,\" a Russian lawmaker said. While Moscow was angry, Kiev is celebrating what they believe was a successful intelligence operation and that journalist, Arkady Babchenko is still alive.", "And Hala, certainly, there is some criticism coming internationally as well. The committee to protect journalists has come out with a statement saying that the Ukrainian government now needs to explain why they believed there was no other option than faking the death of Arkady Babchenko to try and mitigate the situation -- Hala.", "All right. Fred Pleitgen, thanks very much. Let's talk more about this story. I'm joined by a high-profile critic of Vladimir Putin, who's had plenty of issues of his own with Russia, Bill Browder is the CEO of Hermitage Capital and author of \"Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, And One Man's Fight for Justice. Thanks, Bill Browder for being with us. Reaction first to this stunt because frankly everybody's jaw dropped when we saw him walking to that news conference in Kiev.", "Well, I mean, when I heard the news last, no, not another one, not another person, anti-Putin person being killed. He and I were both at the same time anti-Putin conference in March. And so, when I heard that he was still alive, it was just like you a gift, a gift of life.", "So, you know him?", "I don't know him well, but I know my reputation, and he is sitting on the same side of the barricade as I am when it comes to opposing Putin.", "The question now is, of course, will this in fact harm the cause of Putin and Kremlin critics who, if anything happens to them, or if they get in any kind of trouble, then the Kremlin and Putin supporters will say this is fake news.", "Well, they are going to say that anyways, but the most important thing is that some people were trying to kill him genuinely. That the Ukrainian security services came up with this idea and they arrested some people that we going to kill him who didn't kill him. And so --", "But we don't have any details. We don't know how that -- I am not exactly sure I understand how that all unfolded or how that make sense?", "I don't either, but the fact of the matter is that Arkady Babchenko is still alive, and that's the most important thing.", "So, you -- well, I mean, the Committee to Protect Journalists were saying, \"If there was any other way, it would have been nice for us not to now be accused of staging fake news story.", "The Committee for the Protection of Journalists should try to protect journalists, protected him, good for him.", "Yes. Now, let us talk about whether or not you believe he can be protected in the future because if Ukrainian authorities are saying they had to pull a stunt like this off in order to keep him safe, how can they keep him safe? They can't do this all the time.", "Well, I would say that other than Russia being the most dangerous place for an anti-Putin critic, Ukraine is probably the second most dangerous place because the Russians are freely moving in and out of Ukraine. They are doing all sorts of stuff. Lots of people have been killed, who have been anti-Russian in Ukraine. It's probably not the smartest place for any anti-Putin person to be living life.", "So, it is possible for him to go somewhere else again from your perspective, perhaps he should consider it.", "Yes, personally would not set foot in Ukraine because they'd grab me in a second.", "You had -- you are arrested today (inaudible). So, what I heard - - by the time I heard and checked, you'd already been released. But you were live tweeting the whole process from the back of a car, and then you photograph the arrest warrant. There you are in the back of a Spanish police vehicle. What happened?", "Well, so every time -- my -- one of my main goals is to get the Magnitsky Acts, Russian sanctions against Russian human rights violators pass for different countries. Every time that I do that, Russia goes to Interpol and issues an arrest warrant for me. When Canada passed Magnitsky Act, the Russians did it last October, and when the U.K. passed the Magnitsky Act last week, guess what? The Russians go to Interpol again. I was in Madrid --", "But on what charges? I don't understand what they --", "They've charge me with fraud, tax evasion, murder, whatever, whatever suits their fancy at that moment in time. And so today I was in Madrid. I was giving information to the Spanish prosecutor about money from the Magnitsky case that went to Spain. And this morning at 9:40 a.m., there was a knock on my door, in my hotel room and two policemen from the Spanish National Police showed up at the door and said are you Bill Browder? Let me see your identification. I handed him my I.D., and they said you are under arrest, come with us, sir. And they took me in the back of a police car.", "Did they tell you why?", "They said an Interpol arrest warrant from Russia and then they put on their sirens, and I was the back of their car and him. And we ended up at the police station. I sat in the police station. I was finally allowed to call my lawyer. I was live tweeting until they took my phone away and then they got a message from Interpol saying, this was an illegitimate arrest warrant, release him.", "It is confusing because then Interpol tweeted there is no red notice and there has never been a red notice. There it is for Bill Browder. Mr. Browder is not wanted by Interpol channels.", "So, this is total word game. So, there is no red notice. There is an Interpol diffusion notice.", "OK.", "It's the same thing. So, I don't know what game -- this is like fake news and what game is Interpol trying to play. I was arrested this morning on an Interpol diffusion notice.", "Well, you are released thankfully, but you are saying this happens routinely.", "This is the sixth time it's happened. Russia has abused Interpol six times and Interpol cannot get their act together and stop Russia.", "Bill Browder, thanks very much for joining us live on the program. They are reacting to this breaking -- to today's breaking news and also what happened to you in Spain. We appreciate it. Still to come tonight, after swift cancellation, now the fallout and the posturing from Roseanne Barr's racist tweet. President is among those weighing in. We'll tell you what he had to say. 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{"id": "CNN-377294", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2019-08-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/12/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "President Trump's New Conspiracy Theory Over Jeffrey Epstein's Death; What Is It About President Trump That Has So Many Evangelicals Supporting Him?", "utt": ["This is CNN TONIGHT. I'm Don Lemon. The Attorney General, William Barr, says he's angry and appalled that Jeffrey Epstein was found dead of an apparent suicide on Saturday while in federal custody in New York City. Epstein was accused of running a sex trafficking ring involving underage girls, some as young as 14. Barr says staff at the federal lockup failed to make sure that Epstein was adequately secure.", "We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation.", "And in the face of all that, incredibly, President Trump promoting an outrageous and completely unfounded conspiracy theory, attempting to link Epstein's death to Bill and Hillary Clinton. The big picture tonight, is President Trump degrading the Office of the Presidency? Lots to discuss. Adam Serwer, Lanhee Chen, and also -- Lanhee Chen, and also Tim Naftali, who by the way is the author of \"Impeachment in American History.\" Good to see all of you. Thank you all for coming on. Lanhee, I'm going to start with you. First, I'm going to ask you about Anthony Scaramucci. Moments ago, he told Anderson Cooper the GOP needs to move on from Trump from the 2020 election. Watch this.", "When you go to bed tonight and you're thinking about your country, don't focus on your wallet or your pocketbook. Focus on what's right for America and say, is this guy normal? Is this the right way to handle things in America? And I think when you do that, you'll get to the place where I'm at.", "Do you think Scaramucci is going to persuade any Republicans or swing voters?", "Yes, I don't know that he's going to persuade a whole lot of Republicans. Let me just say this. I've known Anthony for a long time. I consider him a friend. I think it actually took a lot of courage for him to come out and do what he did. You know, I wish his point of view were one that more Republicans would have, which is a critical examination of the president, of his record, of what he's done in arriving at a conclusion after looking at all those things. But that's not where the Republican Party is now, Don. You know that. I know that. So while Anthony might be optimistic about this, I'm far less optimistic in terms of how people are able to think critically about what's happening in arriving at a conclusion on the president that's separate and apart from what we might say about policy, where we might have agreements with him, but really saying what is the president doing in terms of the nature of the office and the nature of the presidency? I think those are the questions that are being asked right now.", "You know, Tim, David Frum is out with an article in the Atlantic, and he says \"this presidency shames and disgraces the office every minute of every hour of every day.\" I mean, this is after President Trump re-tweeted a conspiracy theory implicating the Clintons in the suicide death of Jeffrey Epstein. It's shocking but yet it's just not surprising.", "Well, it's what's painful is that it's not surprising.", "Yes.", "I think for historians, years from now, they'll look at Charlottesville, and they'll see with, you know, and it's now the anniversary sadly of that moment. When the president didn't understand this was a moment for course correction, then we learned a lot about what made Donald Trump tick. And, no, none of this is a surprise. I mean this is -- he has been trafficking in conspiracy theories his entire political life, and he's doing it again. What he's forgotten, or maybe he never understood, is that when you're a president, you're not just another American citizen with strange and wonderful and personal ideas. You are speaking for an entire country, and I think this is what he doesn't get. He says he's playing around. His staff talks about how he's joking. You can't joke about those things as president. Why? Because you're setting a tone in three different respects. One, you're setting a tone for the way we talk to each other as a nation, and you're representing us or not representing us. Two, you're enabling people who may not see those ideas as jokes. I suspect the president doesn't either. You're enabling them to act and think that way. And, three, the world is watching. The United States used to be -- I mean, arguably we weren't always living up to this ideal, but we would suggest that we were supporting liberty and freedom around the world. You now have a president whose rhetoric is contrary to that. All those three implications come from the rhetoric a president uses. He doesn't get it. He keeps thinking he's a billionaire who gets what he wants, and he happens to have a new home in Washington, D.C. temporarily, and he can continue to say and talk the way he did before. He can't. He shouldn't. And the effect on the presidency is corrosive.", "Adam, you know, it seems impossible that the bar gets any lower and lower, but there are so many examples. The treatment of migrants, caging of children, the use of race to divide. Do you think there's going to be lasting damage to the presidency?", "I mean, to be honest, you know, I hope so. I hope there is lasting damage to the presidency to the point where Congress asserts its traditional powers and stops allowing the executive branch to just do whatever it wants with no oversight and no check whatsoever on their power. I mean, to be honest, this is a guy who began his political career by forcing the previous president to show his papers. So, it's not really a surprise to me that he embraced a baseless conspiracy theory implicating his previous political rivals, which by the way, would also implicate him since it's his responsibility if the Clintons killed Epstein, then he's the one who let them do it. It's so ridiculous, and it's disgusting, but I mean in terms of causing human suffering, it's one of the least bad things that Trump has done. He's doing so many other terrible things every second of every day that, you know, it's -- I mean this is just another, you know, bale of hay in the barn.", "Lanhee, the New York Post is reporting at that exclusive Hamptons fund-raiser thrown by billionaire developer Stephen Ross on Friday night, the president also mimicked the accents of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South Korean President Moon Jae-in. I mean, there are leaders at some of our -- they're are most important allies. It's beyond embarrassing.", "Well, not only is it embarrassing with respect to important relationships, you're right. The Korean and Japanese relationships are two of the most important and vital relationships we have in the world. Indeed, they're the linchpins to our Indo-Pacific strategy to a large degree. But there's also this question, Don, of how Asian-Americans view it, how Asians in the United States who are part of the American body politic, who participate in our economy, who go to schools and are parts of communities all across the country. How do they feel about a president mimicking an accent or mimicking something which, you know, he's not a stand-up comedian as someone said earlier. He's the president of the United States. And what may have been banter in a locker room now is broadcast around the world, and I think that is deeply troubling and deeply problematic. And so, you know, it goes beyond just the geopolitical questions to really how people in this country interpret and see what the president does, and it is damaging. It is hurtful, and it is problematic to see.", "You know, it's not --", "I think Tim is exactly right. You know, the president is -- his treatment of people -- of foreigners reflects on Americans who share that ancestry here in the United States, and I think it's been quite clear that the president simply does not respect in the same way Americans of color in the same way that he does white Americans, and he makes that clear whenever he talks about foreigners, whether it's Latin American migrants, whether it's Japanese people or Korean people. It's always the same thing, which is that he does not consider them as worthy of the same kind of respect that people like him deserve.", "Interesting. You know, Tim, of course President Trump is not the only president who has said racist things. I mean, you unearth the shocking audio call in 1971 between President Nixon and California -- then-governor, right, it was Governor Ronald Reagan. Let's play that call and then we'll talk about it.", "Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did.", "Yes.", "To see those -- those monkeys from those African countries. Damn them, they're still uncomfortable wearing shoes.", "Yes.", "The difference is unlike President Reagan, President Trump says racist things in public, and he's not one bit embarrassed about it.", "Let's make clear that it's not good to say racist things --", "Either way. I know. But I know but he just says it in the open is my point.", "But this is the huge, huge difference. Richard Nixon, who was a racist -- I say this based on listening to lots of tapes. He didn't have hatred for African-Americans, but he thought them inferior. Richard Nixon understood that as president he couldn't say this publicly. On the tapes, you hear him talking about how there are certain things he can't say. For example, he had these cockamamy weird, ridiculous theories about the relationship between I.Q. and race. He said, we can never say this publicly. He believes it, OK? This is pseudoscience. He understands as president that this would be corrosive and damaging and poisonous for the nation to use this kind of language or even send these implications. This president doesn't understand that he has a set of responsibilities as a uniter. Now, Richard Nixon had some of the same ideas I think that Trump had. The difference is Trump doesn't realize he has a moral obligation to speak as a uniter. That's the difference. We've never had in the modern era a president who was willing to use publicly the language this president uses on a daily basis.", "Yes. Lanhee, listen, aside from the denigrating -- from denigrating the office, is the president's behavior affecting the way Americans treat each other?", "Well, I think that's the fear. That's the million-dollar question because so much of our civil discourse is tied up in politics now. You know, the way people address each other is a function of what they believe is permissible. If you think about what's happening in our political dialogue, it's become incredibly coarse. You know, I know there's a conversation about whether things are getting worse. And I think if you look back during the campaign, I remember when I was on this very program talking about some of the things that candidate Trump did on the campaign trail. Those kinds of activities and that kind of language, a lot of people said, well, if he becomes president, he's going to change. He's going to be a different person. This is the same Donald Trump that's engaging in the same kind of rhetoric, and I do think it has an influence on how people talk. I don't want to say he alone is responsible. I don't think that's true. But I do think as the president he carries a unique perch and a unique set of responsibilities.", "Lanhee, Adam, Tim, thank you so much. I appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "We've got a story coming up that's absolutely shocking. A handcuffed black man being led down a Galveston Street by police on horseback. I'm going to talk to the man's sister, also attorney Benjamin Crump, who is demanding the officer's body cam footage. That's next."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN HOST", "WILLIAM BARR, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL", "LEMON", "ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI, FORMER WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR", "LEMON", "LANHEE CHEN, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "LEMON", "TIMOTHY NAFTALI, CNN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN", "LEMON", "NAFTALI", "LEMON", "ADAM SERWER, SENIOR EDITOR, THE ATLANTIC", "LEMON", "CHEN", "LEMON", "SERWER", "LEMON", "THEN-GOV. RONALD REAGAN (R-CA)", "RICHARD NIXON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "REAGAN", "NIXON", "LEMON", "NAFTALI", "LEMON", "NAFTALI", "LEMON", "CHEN", "LEMON", "NAFTALI", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-18681", "program": "Crossfire", "date": "2000-10-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/26/cf.00.html", "summary": "Why Is Election 2000 So Close?", "utt": ["I'm going to tell the truth and they'll think it hell, but I need you to give them hell.", "We're coming down the stretch and I feel great about our chances.", "Tonight, with just 12 days to go, Al Gore and George W. Bush battle it out in the battleground states. Why hasn't Gore got his home state locked up and why is Bush working so hard in a state where his brother is Governor?", "Live from Washington, CROSSFIRE. On the left, Bill Press; on the right, Mary Matalin. In the crossfire, Senator John Breaux of Louisiana, a Gore supporter, and Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, a Bush supporter.", "Good evening, and welcome to CROSSFIRE. The crowds are huge, the speeches are hot, and the candidates are both hopeful as they come down the home stretch. Barnstorming battleground states, George W. Bush stumped with General Colin Powell, touting his brand of responsible leadership while blasting Al Gore's big-government proposals. The vice president grew heated over global warming and Bush's environmental record. Speaking of hot, Gore conceded to Queen Latifah his preference for lace over leather on a woman...", "Whoo!", "So tonight, so much battleground to cover, such little time. Why are so many states still in play? What will finally move those undecideds? And is there a lace vote? Bill, you're a leather man, aren't you?", "There is a lace vote, I want you to know. There is a lace vote, but it's a secret vote.", "I wish -- we've got three leather men here.", "Speaking, Senator Thompson, of secret, silent votes, there was an endorsement that came out this week. There was no press release, there was no news conference, there was no announcement. On its Web site, the NRA put out that it has endorsed George W. Bush. Why such a secret? Is Bush ashamed of being the gun lobby's candidate?", "No, I don't think so. As a matter of fact, I was struck by the fact that in the last debate I couldn't tell where Vice President Gore stood on that issue anymore. I mean, he came out strong early in the campaign anti-gun basically. He's seen that that's not working. There's some of these battleground states, like Michigan, for example, where that's cutting against him. So he's backed way off. I don't think Bush has talked about that much on the campaign trail, but's pretty clear where the NRA's support has been all along.", "Well, and it's pretty clear why, as one of their vice presidents said earlier this year, Mr. Kayne Robinson, said that if Bush wins -- quote -- \"We'll have a president where we can work out of their office.\" Forget the grammatical errors, I mean, it's pretty clear there's not going to be any gun control legislation if Bush ever wins that does not have the full support of the NRA, which means meaningless, right?", "I hope that neither candidate nor either one of us are held accountable for every statement that, dumb statement that somebody might make on the campaign trail. Legislation gets passed in the Congress. The president can propose, the Congress will dispose. And they're just like -- they're just like so many other groups. They'll have their voice, but they don't control anything.", "But it is clear, I mean, this is a candidate who opposed closing the gun-show loophole, who opposed mandatory trigger locks, who signed a law in Texas allowing people to carry concealed weapons even in the churches. I mean, this guy is owned lock, stock and barrel by the NRA, isn't he, senator?", "Bill, that debate is over as evidenced by the fact that Gore is running away from the issue. I mean, people in this country basically have decided that the criminals are the problem and not law-abiding citizens, and there are some reasonable restraints that you can place, and Bush has come out for some of those. But basically, if you're going to over-regulate, especially from the federal level, you're going to clamp down on law-abiding citizens and do nothing to deter crime.", "All right, senator, Al Gore has run away from the gun issue, but he was back on another one of his initiating issues today, the environment: very important issue in very many states. Let me show you -- show you a spot that the Michigan Republicans are running in that very important state. (", "Lee Iacocca.", "Hey, we're car people in Michigan. Our state has overcome some tough times to build the best cars on the planet. But Al Gore's extreme ideas about cars could cost a lot of Michigan families their jobs.", "You come from an energy state, a little bit different issue, but the Gore's environmental extremism, the energy taxes, the objection to oil exploration, the suffocating regulations: Are Louisiana voters supporting Gore? Let me ask this a different way. Is that why Bush is winning Louisiana, because of Gore's environmental extremism?", "Well, I think, Mary Louisiana is very much up for grabs. The polls are very, very close, and traditionally, a Republican has to be ahead by a large margin in a state like Louisiana because of the large number of undecided votes. I think Gore is in a pretty good shape in Louisiana. He came in New Orleans and talked about offshore development, and it's interesting that his position on offshore development in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana is exactly the same as vice -- as Governor Bush. Governor Bush opposes offshore development off California, he opposes it off Florida. Their positions on that type of issue from my state's perspective is exactly the same. I think people in Louisiana want a clean environment just like any other state.", "But don't Louisianians want environmental regulations that -- not at the cost of jobs? Don't they believe the two can work concomitantly?", "They want balanced regulations. I don't think anyone has heard Vice President Gore say he wants unbalanced regulations. He's emphasized clean air and clean water.", "Senator, he's not going to say it like that, but his regulations that have come out have not even been based on science. Let me run something else he's been talking about. As you've been listening to Governor Bush, you understand what he's saying about the 285 new proposals, new government programs that Gore has laid out there on the campaign trail which would require some 20,000 to 30,000 new federal bureaucrats, not to mention that they cost three times more of the spending that Clinton proposed. Now, this is what Gore had to say on the campaign trail. He pledged not to hire a single new federal worker. Let me use his words. He \"guaranteed\" -- quote/unquote -- he will not increase -- quote -- \"by even one position the number of people working for the federal government.\" Do you believe that, senator?", "Well, you look at the record, Mary. We've had 300,000 fewer federal workers in this administration. Gore headed up for President Clinton the reinventing government effort, straight out of the Democratic Leadership Council's play book. They have reduced the number of federal bureaucrats. They've said they would continue with that. They have a proven record doing that. And I think that's a pretty good indication of what's likely to happen in the future.", "Can I -- can I tell you what the Office of Personnel and Management says about those numbers? Eighty-seven percent of that -- of those job losses were in the veterans affairs of the military, which leaves a grand total of 1,282 fewer federal workers...", "Mary, that's pretty significant when you have the growth that we've had in this country.", "Twelve hundred federal workers when he's claiming 300,000?", "Even if we didn't have any reduction at all, just maintaining the status quo, with the growth we've seen in the country, I think it's quite an achievement.", "Senator Thompson, I want to come back to this issue that Mary raised about the environment, because there was a new report that came out today, this panel of U.N. scientists, saying there's more evidence about global warming and there's more evidence that it is caused by human activity. Duh, as if we didn't know that. I mean, don't you really have to be like a member of the Flat Earth Society to, you know, to believe there's no global warming problem today?", "Well, I think that most people do think that it's something we're going to have to deal with. The problem that we've had in this public debate over this, No. 1, is the Kyoto treaty would -- would not cause some of the greatest polluting countries to have to step up and do their part, China and other countries. And the United States cannot clean up the world by itself. So it's, again, it's a matter of balance. We're concerned about it. We're going to have to do something, I think, long range. But we've got scientific opinion all over the place on this issue, and we need to be -- we need to be thoughtful and careful as to how we approach it.", "Well, I'm glad to hear you say that, and I think you're like light years ahead of your candidate, if I may suggest. In the second debate, here's George Bush's profound statement on global warming.", "I -- of course, there's a lot -- I mean, look, global warming needs to be taken very seriously, and I take it seriously. But science, there's a lot -- there's differing opinions, and before we react, I think it's best to have the full accounting, full understanding of what's taking place.", "That sounds like exactly what I just said.", "But there are 2,600, 2,600 scientists, many of them Nobel Prize winners, on this U.N. panel. There are two scientists that we've ever been able to find here in this show in the United States -- one worked for the coal companies, the other worked for the oil company -- who say there is not global warming problem. And here's Bush saying we need more study. How long are you going to study this thing, senator? I mean, isn't it time to act and isn't Bush being irresponsible on this thing?", "Well, I think it's like Social Security and a lot of other issues. It's not -- it's not -- you don't need more time to understand that you've got a real problem down the road, but you do need time as to what to do about it. Sometimes these things have unintended consequences. I mean, government proves that every day with a lot of its programs. So I think that's where the thought and the study needs to come in.", "I want -- with the senator here, I want to point out, according to \"The New York Times,\" global warming -- here's the effect. Losing 30 percent of the citrus crop in Florida and California, 3,000 square miles of coastline and wetlands in Louisiana. You know what that means for the shrimp, for the crayfish, everything else down there?", "My state is disappearing.", "Ten thousand square miles of U.S. coastline. And we need more study?", "I don't know where that comes from, but it sounds to me absurd, those particular dire warnings that can be directly traced to that particular -- we've got all kinds of environmental problems. We've got...", "Raise the temperature 11 degrees, senator.", "We've got -- we've got -- we've got national parks that are more polluted than some of our cities caused by various factors, ozone and whatnot. We've got -- we've got an awful lot of problems. We can't put all of those in the global warming basket and expect some international solution where the major polluting countries are cut out of it. And that's been the proposal from most of these people to address the problem.", "It is the presentation of data like that, the exclusion of balancing data, which is what Governor Bush is suggesting should be put on the table. There are more than two scientists who think this thing needs to be studied further and what to do about it. But isn't it the presentation like that and all the other issues, and as we're coming down the home stretch, that Gore's even exacerbated that nature of approach that ends up giving him numbers like this. This is from our latest CNN/\"USA Today\"/Gallup poll. Who is more honest and trustworthy? Bush, 47; Gore, 33.", "Mary, we've got polls on everything. We've got polls of who's the best-looking, who dresses the best, you name the subject. But the final poll that's going to count is who the people feel is the most competent to become president of the United States. We're not elected the president of the class. We're not looking for who's the most popular, but who is most competent to have the awesome job and responsibility of being president of the United States. Quite frankly, when people see Governor Bush answer some questions, they become very unsettled, because they feel he's unsure of himself. And therefore, that makes him unacceptable to many of them.", "... show that. No polls show that. Not one poll shows anything other than Bush leads Gore on leadership. In every", "He's probably more popular, someone you'd like to spend the weekend with, but that's not what we're voting for.", "Leadership, not beer-drinking, buddy.", "No, that's popularity.", "Let me just say, on that same poll that Mary points out, understanding complex issues, Gore leads Bush by about nine or 10 points.", "And this is a pretty complex job we're talking about.", "The polls do show that.", "Trust and leadership.", "He doesn't understand the issues, according to the", "Trust and leadership.", "We're going to have to take a break. Senators, if you could just hold on there for just a minute. And -- well, here's your lucky chance. You know, you always wanted to debate with me. You're going to get your chance tonight. I'm going to stay around in the chat room, cnn.com/crossfire, right after the show. And when we come back, we're going to be talking about what the tipping point might be in this campaign and when are we ever going to see it. And as we go to a break, here's Governor Bush campaigning live, as we speak, in Toledo, Ohio: no rest for the weary. These guys are working around the clock. So are we. We'll be right back.", "Thank you all for coming. I've had a long day, but it's made a lot shorter by walking through these thousands of people. I can't thank you enough. It lifts my spirits to have you on my team.", "Welcome back to CROSSFIRE. We just saw George W. Bush in Toledo. We'd hoped to bring you Al Gore campaigning in Madison, Wisconsin, but he just left the stage, so we -- we'll catch up with the vice president another day here. Meanwhile in this election, we thought it was going to be settled by Labor Day, but it wasn't. Then we knew it would be decided by the debates. It still wasn't. Now, with the last two weeks to go, it's still up in the air, and Bush and Gore are still fighting for states they should have locked up a long time ago. How to win this darn thing? We look for answers tonight from two master politicians, Senator Fred Thompson, Republican from Tennessee, who's supporting the governor of Texas over Tennessee's favorite son, and Senator John Breaux, Democrat from Louisiana, enthusiastic supporter of Al Gore -- Mary.", "Senator, I'll tell you something else that's been going forever and forever, and that's reforming Medicare and Social Security. Today, the American Academy of Actuaries released a report saying that Gore's lockbox, lockboxing Medicare, is a quote -- their words, not mine -- \"imaginary solution.\" Quote: \"There are no structural reforms.\" You personally headed up a bipartisan commission. You worked very hard for very long, brought your colleagues together, including Senator Kerrey, who was on last night, and came up with a long-term solution for Medicare reform, which was kiboshed by this White House because, it was said at the time, they were urged by their Democratic compatriots on the Hill to leave the issue for politics, not to come up with a solution. If Gore didn't deliver a solution when he had eight years to do it, in the past, why should we believe he's going to work on it in the future?", "Well, the next Congress is going to deal with Medicare, and hopefully, we have to deal with in a bipartisan fashion. If anybody thinks, whether it's George Bush or it's Al Gore, they can do it by themselves, they are totally, absolutely wrong. I think both sides are trying to do it by ourselves, and we haven't been successful. It's going to have to a bipartisan plan in order to get signed by the president and passed by Congress. I think that our plan was the right plan when we offered it, and I hope they both come to that conclusion.", "Don't you think Bush's plan and approach is closer to yours in...", "On his Medicare plan, I think the only thing he said, he liked the commission, which I like him saying that, so I can't argue with that. But I think that Al Gore recognizes that in the meantime you're going to have to do something to provide prescription drugs up front to seniors, and I think he's going to have to do that in the short term. He suggest that. George Bush has suggest it as well. And both of them are trying to make the same arguments when it comes to Medicare and they both want to protect it.", "You know, listening to you, I'm put in the mind of the tone of this race. You are known here as the voice of reason, as the spirit of bipartisanship. You're an engaging Cajun and not a ragin' Cajun.", "Watch out, senator. Watch out.", "I know that fella.", "I have a soft spot, I concede, for you Cajuns. But in those waning days here, the vice president sent Ed -- sent Ed Asner out to scare seniors. He's sent the Cabinet out to attack Bush. The NAACP is running a despicable and racist ad. I mean, is this the kind of tone we need for the next four years?", "Well, all campaigns get negative, Mary, and this one is no exception, from both sides. But I want you to know that seniors should be concerned about George Bush's recommendations on Social Security, because while the idea might be moving in the right direction, he doesn't have the money to implement it. He's already spent the trillion dollars on the tax cut, and where I'm coming from, you can only spend $1 trillion one time. You can't spend it twice.", "Yes, I want to pick up there, Senator Thompson. As Paul Harvey says, \"Now the rest of the story.\" That American Actuaries report that came out today actually said both candidates' plans are flawed, both of them are incomplete, and it did say that George Bush's plan would mean bringing back the deficit, back to a time of deficits by the year 2015. That was today. Yesterday, the United States secretary of the treasury, Larry Summers, said -- quote -- that Bush's Social Security plans -- quote -- \"... reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the system. It's an arithmetic challenge that cannot be met.\" I mean, granted that Larry Summers works for Bill Clinton, but", "Yes, secretaries of treasury historically have been held out of the political fray. Secretaries of state have been. But they've been politicized here.", "He was asked a question and he answered it.", "He's also an actuary, though. He's a member of the actuary board.", "Along with the -- along with the attorney general, I might add. So, that doesn't surprise me at all. You're right. They criticized both plans to one extent or another. Here's the deal, everyone recognizes that we've got a broken system and we're going to have to do some things. John's done a lot of great work on that. We are on some of the same legislation to try to address that. Neither one of these plans go down the road totally in the way in which we might do it. What you've got to ask -- and he's right, and Congress will finally have to work it out and it will have to be on a bipartisan basis. But what you've got here is a different approach. The Gore approach to these entitlements is to keep on piling on to this broken system without any reform. What Bush is at least trying to do is recognize the broken nature of the situation and come with some kind of reform that countries like Chile and England and even some Scandinavian countries are moving toward.", "But here's the problem that Senator Breaux pointed out, it's basic arithmetic, right? I mean, Bush says he's going to allow people to take a trillion dollars out and invest in the market. That means you've got a trillion dollars less to spend on benefits for the people that are there. It doesn't add up, senator.", "Let's -- let's walk through that. If you take a trillion dollars out of the Social Security surplus, it leaves 1.4 trillion there. We have a surplus now. It's called -- that's why we call it a Social Security surplus. So, that money is there. Now eventually, it won't be there, but the return that you're going to get from the stock market by accident will give you more than the 2 percent and will more than make up for that. That's the theory. I think it's a sound theory, but there a lot of details that have to be worked out.", "Last week, on one day, the stock market crashed 400 points, and you're telling me and Bush is, you can invest in the stock market and it's a sure thing. Sounds like snake oil to me.", "You look at the worst worst-case scenarios historically speaking, and you'll get more by accident...", "Last word, senator.", "... unsettled, they feel he's unsure of what he's proposing, and that's why they find his proposal unacceptable.", "That's so unlike you.", "And don't forget, all your campaign 2000 questions are fair game with me tonight. Just go to cnn.com/crossfire right after the show. I won't duck any questions. Get ready to take me on.", "All right. Lace or leather? I'm asking you right now.", "I'm a leather man, but I do like lace. I -- my question to you, is this thing ever going to end?", "See, this is why Gore is a divider: You should like lace and leather. He can't even govern as a uniter, how is he -- can't campaign as a uniter, how is he going to govern?", "Why don't you call up your candidate and tell him to talk about that tomorrow. Listen, let me...", "Your candidate was talking about it today.", "Let me -- let me tell you something, Mary. You know, bad times here. Yesterday, there was a report that slams Bush's education record. Today, a report that slams his Social Security program. I think your house of cards is collapsing.", "And in both cases, those reports were distorted by your campaign. You're lying about what the reports were, you're taking them out of context. You have Ed Asner scaring seniors. You have that despicable spot scaring African-Americans. You have the Cabinet out there beating up on Bush. I will say it again in a more serious way: If he campaigns as a divider, how can he ever govern as a uniter? It's been a horrific campaign...", "The RAND Corporation, the American Association of Actuaries, they tell the truth. They're in nobody's pocket.", "The president of RAND really -- the president of RAND took exception to Gore's characterization.", "You don't want to accept that.", "And that's a lie.", "From the left, we're out of time. Too bad. Good night for CROSSFIRE. I'm Bill Press.", "From the right, get the facts. I'm Mary Matalin. Join us again tomorrow night for more CROSSFIRE."], "speaker": ["AL GORE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MARY MATALIN, CO-HOST", "ANNOUNCER", "MATALIN", "BILL PRESS, CO-HOST", "MATALIN", "PRESS", "MATALIN", "PRESS", "SEN. FRED THOMPSON (R-TN), BUSH SUPPORTER", "PRESS", "THOMPSON", "PRESS", "THOMPSON", "MATALIN", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE AD) NARRATOR", "LEE IACOCCA", "MATALIN", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-92315", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2005-2-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/21/lt.04.html", "summary": "In Europe, Bush Calls for Unity; Secretly Taped Bush Conversation Released; Rainstorm in California Kills 3 People", "utt": ["We're out of time here. Let's go down to Daryn and Rick at the CNN Center, they're going to take you through the next few hours. Good morning, guys.", "Good morning to you. People in California wishing they could probably shovel rain.", "Yes.", "Which they cannot.", "Among other things they're having problems with. We're going to be telling you about that plus a whole lot of other news right here. In fact, here's what's happening right now in the news. President Bush goes to Brussels, Belgium to address European leaders and somehow try and find common ground. This is a major speech he delivered about two hours ago. In it, he called for democratic reform in Russia and a two-state future for the Middle East. For more on how the president was received we're going to CNN's Robin Oakley who was there. We're going to do that for you in about a minute. But let's go through some of the other stories that are making news right now. First of all, eight Southern California counties are under a landslide advisory, as residents there prepare for another soaking. The incessant storms have already spawned tornadoes, waterspouts, rock slides and sinkholes. And at least two people have died in bizarre weather-related accidents. CNN's Miguel Marquez is going to be joining us live with the details from that story, and share some unbelievable pictures with us as well. We'll have that for you in just moments. Sixties icon gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson is dead. Family members say that he shot himself Sunday at his home in Woody Creek, Colorado. Thompson is known for his books including \"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.\" He was also the reluctant inspiration behind the \"Doonesbury\" character Uncle Duke. Thompson was 67 years old. A contentious right-to-die battle heads back to a Florida courtroom today. The parents of Terri Schiavo are expected to ask a judge to delay removing their -- pardon me -- their daughter's feeding tube. Schiavo is brain damaged and has been dependent on a feeding tube since 1990. Her husband could have it removed tomorrow. A little scratchy throated, but no worse for the wear. We welcome you back. I'm Rick Sanchez.", "Thanks for playing hurt.", "We appreciate it. Good morning. I'm Daryn Kagan. President Bush is trying to mend fences in Europe. And the president is stressing the ongoing importance of the U.S./European alliance on the first overseas trip of his second term. He is in Brussels today and will to Germany on Wednesday. The president will end his trip Thursday in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava. CNN's European political editor Robin Oakley joins us now Brussels with a look at the presidents' day. Robin, hello.", "Hello, Daryn. Well, President Bush's aides have been billing this as a fence-mending visit to Europe. And today, he certainly came up with a speech, which accentuated the positive in every way that he could, calling for a new era of transatlantic unity. And he said that no passing disagreement between governments, no temporary debate, no power on earth, could ever divide Europe and the United States and their firm alliance. He said that when Europe and America stand together no problem can stand against us. And there were a lot of points that he touched on which really satisfied the Europeans. He said he wanted to see a strong, integrated Europe because that would be a strong ally for the United States. The firmest commitment we've had from a U.S. president on that issue. He talked a lot about the Middle East, and E.U. leaders are very concerned about the Middle East. He said that was the strongest possible goal, great opportunity and immediate goal was peace in the Middle East. Words that they all wanted to hear. And on the part of the Europeans, President Bush made it quite clear that he was looking for support for them in other ways. He does want them to do more on Iraq.", "All nations now have an interest in the success of a free and democratic Iraq. Which will fight terror. Which will be a beacon of freedom. And which will be a true -- a source of true stability in the region. Coming much, Iraq's newly elected assembly will carry out important work of establishing a government, providing security, enhancing basic services in writing a democratic constitution. Now is the time for established democracies to give tangible, political, economic, and security assistance to the world's newest democracy.", "He called for Syria to pull its troops out of Lebanon. That one got applause in Europe. On Iran, where Europeans have been worried that he might be contemplating military action, the president said he was backing the European diplomatic efforts for the moment, though nothing was ever going to be taken off the table. So there is still the threat of possible military action at some stage there -- Daryn.", "Robin Oakley live from Brussels, thank you.", "So as the president focuses on the future ties with Europe, words from his past are being revealed as well. And in one of those conversations from his past with a friend, now selling a book, the president appears to acknowledge using marijuana. CNN's Elaine Quijano has the story.", "In the secretly taped conversations first reported in \"The New York Times,\" then-Texas Governor George W. Bush candidly discusses his reasons for not answering a question, did he ever use drugs.", "Well, Doug, but it's not -- it just doesn't matter, cocaine. It'd be the same with marijuana. I wouldn't answer the marijuana question. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I'd tried.\"", "Yes, and it never stops.", "But you got to understand, I want to be president, I want to lead. I want to set -- do you want your little kid to say, \"Hey, Daddy, President Bush tried marijuana. I think I will.\"", "Mr. Bush also discusses his religious faith and his dealings with Christian conservatives. At one point he bluntly states he will not give in to pressure to criticize gay people.", "You promised you would not appoint gays to office.", "No. What I said was I wouldn't fire gays. I'm not going to discriminate against people.", "CNN did not independently authenticate the tapes, a process that can take days. But Tom Owens, the expert that authenticated the tapes for \"The New York Times,\" says he spent eight days analyzing excerpts before reaching his conclusion.", "In listening to the tapes over and over, and listening to various samples of George W. Bush's voice at that time and later, I've concluded that it is the president's voice.", "The man who recorded the tapes, Doug Wead, has a book coming out. We could not reach Wead on Sunday, but he told \"The New York Times\" the recordings were carried out in states where it was legal. CNN could not independently verify his claim. Wead told ABC's \"Good Morning America Weekend Edition\" he made the recordings for their historical value.", "If I'd had a chance to tape record Gandhi or had conversations with Churchill, I probably would have recorded them too.", "But some say history will record the secret tapes as a betrayal.", "In a continuum of violations of personal relationship and personal confidence, this is probably the Super Bowl of them all.", "The White House issued a one-sentence response saying, \"These were casual conversations with somebody he considered a friend.\" Historians say there is value in the recordings.", "When presidents write their memoirs, they're carefully doctored and carefully tailored. So candid talk by presidents, even before they enter office, is like gold for historians.", "The tapes were reportedly made in 1998 through part of 2000. Experts say based on the excerpts released, they are far from scandalous and reveal a consistency: a man deeply religious whose private conversations echo his public positions. Elaine Quijano, CNN, Washington.", "Since Elaine filed that report we were able to talk with Doug Wead. It happened just a short time ago. He spoke with Miles O'Brien on CNN's \"AMERICAN MORNING.\" And in it Wead defended his use of the tapes.", "This isn't about money. I could sell the tapes. You've only seen little...", "Well, it's going to help your book, isn't it?", "Well, my book could have been released before the election; it would have been a runaway bestseller. It would have been driven by partisan sales. I insisted...", "But clearly, people are going to go buy the book today after seeing this. Right?", "My publicist said I lost $1 million by delaying the book after the election, where it would have been driven by partisan interest. But I hope it sells. I'm an historian and he's president. And he has to lead. He has to set an example. I had to write about the Roosevelt's, the Kennedys, the Bushes. I attempted to vet the stories with all three families.", "Wead tells CNN he still thinks of the president as his friend.", "Take you now to the diplomatic front once again and this new hot-button issue that we've all been talking, which is squarely focused on Syria and their occupation of Lebanon. Our senior international correspondent Brent Sadler staying on top of this story for us. Brent, the president got an applause in Brussels when he said Syrian troops need to get out of Lebanon. You're there in Syria. What's the reaction so far?", "Well, the Syrians are watching what President Bush has had to say very closely. Not just today in Brussels but in the many weeks before leading to this ongoing crisis. What you're seeing here now in Syria's next-door neighbor, Lebanon in the capital Beirut, massive pro-democracy, pro- freedom rallies taking place. the kind of thing you do not just see in this part of the world in the heart of the Middle East. These rallies coming up after the assassination exactly a week ago of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Now, the Syrians are concerned the way the political fault line has divided for pro-Syrian politicians in Lebanon and anti-Syrian politicians. They're looking at what President George Bush has had to say in the context of U.S. plans to reshape the Middle East, to bring democracy here. Syria very concerned about the upheaval, of course, of democracy on its doorsteps and these ongoing marches in Beirut. For the Syrians, a cabinet minister I spoke to a few hours ago says, it's not just a matter of what Syria does with it troops in Lebanon. Syria, they say here is attempting at being destabilized by U.S. policy in the region, attempting to destabilize Syria and its relationship with its weaker neighbor, Lebanon. Here's what the minister had to say.", "And the troops will redeploy and there was a plan, and there is a plan for the troops to redeploy. And for the elections, Syria said that we will not interfere in the Lebanese election. And I think, as I'm telling you, the issue is not here. It's not the troops. The issue is not the assassination of Hariri. The issue is to take Syria and Lebanon into a very unstable future and chaotic future. And this is what the people in the region fear most.", "Now, Syria is saying that it will remove troops from Lebanon in its own good time, under accords that ended the civil war. There have been several redeployments of Syrian troops have been in Beirut in Lebanon for nearly 40 years. Not in Syria's strategic interest to weaken its grip on its Lebanese neighbor given the over all picture in the Middle East right now -- Rick.", "So it sounds like what you're saying, Brent, is the possibility exists for Syrians to dig in even further, after hearing comments and remarks like those that the president has made this morning.", "Absolutely. Syria have to understand has contacts, has relationships, the U.S. says, supports terrorists. Not just here in Damascus, like Islamic Jihad and Hamas, both have representations here in the Syrian capital. But also Hezbollah, the U.S. says that organization is a terrorist organization, attacking Israeli troops at the foot of the Golan Heights that Syria wants back as part of a comprehensive peace deal. Loosens Syria's grip on Lebanon, warns Syria, and you risk plunging this region even more chaos and bloodshed -- Rick.", "Brent is following the story from Damascus this morning. We thank you for that.", "We are talking about California coming up. A scene that some residents are just too familiar with. And they are determined not get caught off guard this time. Still to come, bracing for the rain and mud. We will go live to California.", "Also, before you grab a beer and yell at the players, you should know the rules of the game are changing. What do we speak of? Stick around, you'll find out."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN CO-ANCHOR", "DARYN KAGAN, CNN CO-ANCHOR", "RICK SANCHEZ, CNN CO-ANCHOR", "KAGAN", "SANCHEZ", "KAGAN", "KAGAN", "ROBIN OAKLEY, CNN'S EUROPEAN POLITICAL EDITOR", "GEORGE W. BUSH (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "OAKLEY", "KAGAN", "SANCHEZ", "ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BUSH", "DOUG WEAD, BUSH FRIEND", "BUSH", "QUIJANO", "WEAD", "BUSH", "QUIJANO", "TOM OWENS, AUDIO VOICE AUTHENTICATOR", "QUIJANO", "WEAD (on camera)", "QUIJANO", "STUART ROTHENBERG, POLITICAL ANALYST", "QUIJANO", "PROF. 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{"id": "CNN-210728", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2013-7-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/18/ctw.01.html", "summary": "South Africans Celebrate Nelson Mandela's Birthday; Global Events in Mandela's Honor; Life Under Apartheid; Birthday Wishes for Madiba", "utt": ["You're watching CONNECT THE WORLD, I'm Becky Anderson for you. The top stories this hour. News just in: the US city of Detroit has filed for bankruptcy, making it the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. We'll, of course, bring you more information on this story as we get it. Also coming in, tech giants Google and Microsoft have both just posted quarterly earnings that badly missed expectations. Google recorded a second quarter with over $14 billion in revenue. Microsoft announced a quarterly revenue of $19.9 billion. Again, we'll keep on this story. After hours trade, of course, at this point, we'll find out what their shares are doing as we move through the hour. Western governments condemning the jailing of Alexei Navalny, one of the fiercest critics of Russian president Vladimir Putin. A Moscow court sentenced the opposition leader to five years in prison after convicting him of embezzlement. His supporters say the trial was a farce. Egypt's interim president is calling for calm and reconciliation on the even of a national holiday and Friday prayers. Supporters of the deposed president calling for mass demonstrations. Adli Mansour, the interim president, said Egypt is committed to fight to maintain security across the country. And Nelson Mandela is spending his 95th birthday in hospital in Pretoria. The former president has been hospitalized, as I'm sure you know, since June the 8th and remains in a critical but stable condition. Events have been held in South Africa and around the world to honor the ailing anti-apartheid icon. Well, for South Africans, today is particularly special, as you can imagine, honoring the man many consider to be the father of the rainbow nation. Huge crowds gathered outside the hospital where Mandela is, celebrating his live and wishing him well. Robyn Curnow is there, and she joins us now. The nation's celebrating, Robyn, and we are hearing that Mandela is doing better. Do we have any concrete details about his health at this point?", "We haven't, have we, Becky? All the way through this hospitalization and the many others he's had over the past six months, not a lot of detail, particularly medical detail. The presidency coming out today saying there's been a steady improvement, one of his grandchildren telling me today he's comfortable considering the circumstances. But still, no real underlying change to the fact that he's in a critical but stable condition in this hospital behind me. And as you saw those pictures, there were lots and lots of people here today, celebrating, partying, singing, balloons. There's just a really joyful atmosphere. It's quiet now, as you can also see. Everybody seems to have gone home. And I think many people reflecting on what was a really happy, fun day. With all this bad news over the past few weeks about Mandela's health, many people got together and really enjoyed celebrating him, even the youngest of South Africans.", "How old is Tata Mandela?", "He's three!", "He's three? Oh! Do you know he's 95? That's old, eh?", "Yes.", "Yes. How old are you?", "Ninety-five!", "These children, all of them abandoned or orphaned, might not know just how old he is, but they know Nelson Mandela deserves a party.", "Many of Mandela's grandchildren came to the SOS Children's Village in Mamelodi Township to hand out gifts and food in honor of their grandfather.", "This is where our future leaders are going to come from, so we thought that we would come here as cousins and as a family to come and contribute all that we can.", "All walks of life, untied in celebrating one man. In Johannesburg, they made a human chain, holding hands for the former president who held their nation together after apartheid.", "He's recovering, he's in my prayers, and he's the father of this nation, and without him, we didn't have anything.", "South Africans joined President Jacob Zuma outside Mandela's hospital to wish him happy birthday and to sing the national anthem. Inside, Mandela remains in a critical but stable condition.", "He's comfortable and he's doing well, as well as can be expected under the circumstances, but I mean, it's a huge milestone for us and the family.", "A milestone for a man born in 1918 and who's still here to give hope to his people.", "Mandela is here. Happy birthday to you!", "As you know, just to give some sense of what a big milestone it is, just think about it. He was born at the end of the first World War. He faced a death sentence at the age of 46, was put in prison for 27 years, emerged at the age of 72, became the president at 76, got remarried for the third time at 80. And of course, in the past few years, many people just thought, well, he might not make 95, but always the fighter, always the survivor, never capitulating, Nelson Mandela is still here fighting it out. And I think South Africans very proud, very thankful that they were here to celebrate that day with him today.", "Robyn, it's just exhausting as you list those achievements and events in his life. That little kid at the beginning of your report, so sweet. And if I look as good as he does at 95 -- and I know he's only 3, but idea that he told you he was 95, I will be absolutely delighted. Super stuff, thank you. A long day for you. We appreciate it. Robyn Curnow outside the hospital there in Pretoria. Around the globe, events have been taking place in Mandela's honor. Bill Clinton and Reverend Jesse Jackson were among those present at a special meeting at the UN. The US Congress held a ceremony on Capitol Hill, and people everywhere have been dedicating 67 minutes -- now, that's a minute for every year Mandela committed to public service -- to help others and give back to the community. It's been a big day for charity around the world. Well, many of us know the story of apartheid, but I want to give you an insight into what life was like back then, how separated people were just because of the color of their skin. The South African photographer Ernest Cole made it his life mission to capture the injustice of the apartheid system. Here's a look at a recent exhibit of his work at UCLA's Fowler Museum.", "The whites and the blacks were very differently treated, and it was very obvious with signs. The blacks, they could clean the stairs and the toilets, but they were not allowed to use them. But this was an area where blacks and whites had fun together. They drank together and they enjoyed themselves. Here, it -- they liked being together. So, for them, it was natural. But for the government, it was completely forbidden. So, that was the problem. Then, we had the black nannies. So, that's when people could be together, blacks and whites. And everyone had these black servants. And one thing I think Ernest is quite good at, that we can see in some of the pictures, are the gates. And looking at this small boy going with his nanny to school and realizing that a black photographer is taking his picture. When Ernest started to work at \"Drum\" magazine, then he had to travel, to commute every day, two and a half hours in each direction. And then he learned about how the train system worked or didn't work. The white trains were very frequent and very empty, but the black ones -- the black one was full and the trains were more than full. And the worst thing was that if they didn't catch the last train, they would be caught by the police, because they were not allowed to be in the cities. OK, so this one is one of his pictures from the forced removals, and there you can see how the bulldozers have just erased the area and the people were moved. This series is about mine labor, and the miners had about the same situation as the maids. And when they arrived to the mines, they had examinations and this one picture shows where the humiliating situation when they were really medically examined to -- they were herded around to different doctors and they were told yes or no. This is one of my favorite pictures, to see the little schoolboy being so concentrated and sweating, so for me, it's like an icon for schooling. They didn't have anything to write on, but still, eager to learn. I think it's -- important to show the new generations what has happened and to give them an understanding for their roots. And I think you can learn a lot of history in order not to repeat it.", "That really drums home how significant Nelson Mandela's vision of unity was, doesn't it? And why he is such an inspiration for people around the world. Well, here at CNN, we've been inundated with messages for Madiba.", "Happy birthday, Mandela. You're my favorite fellow. Hope you get well.", "Reporters -- iReporters from every corner of the globe have been sending in photos and messages. You can, too. If you'd like to send him a birthday message or say what you would do for your 67 minutes or, indeed, what you did do today, just head to our Facebook page at facebook.com/CNNconnect. Live from London, you're watching the show here on CNN. Some may like it hot, others are hoping for a little relief from the heat. Your global weather update is just ahead. And we introduce you to one man working to give us all a brighter future."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "ROBYN CURNOW, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CURNOW", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "CURNOW", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "CURNOW", "UNIDENTIFED CHILD", "CURNOW (voice-over)", "CURNOW", "TUKWINI MANDELA, NELSON MANDELA'S GRANDDAUGHTER", "CURNOW", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "CURNOW", "T. 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{"id": "CNN-309507", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-04-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/08/cnr.10.html", "summary": "Tillerson, Russia's Foreign Minister Discuss Airstrike; Nikki Haley Says U.S. Prepared to Do More in Syria; How the Syrian Uprising Ended in Carnage and Civil War", "utt": ["Targeted by dozens of American missiles and a harsh warning from President Trump's team. That Syrian air base was up and running less than 24 hours after that U.S. surprise attack. Syrian warplanes are even taking off and landing again. This video is new video and it comes as the Trump administration sends a blunt signal to Syria's President Bashar al- Assad that this is not over. I want to you hear what U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, told CNN's Jake Tapper.", "He won't stop here. If he needs to do more, he will do more. So really now what happens depends on how everyone responds to what happened in Syria and make sure that we start moving to a political solution and we start finding peace in the area.", "The U.S. strikes were retaliation for the brutal chemical weapons attack Tuesday in Syria that killed nearly 90 people including 33 children. Just today more bombs fell on that same town hit by that deadly chemical attack. Sources on the ground say at least 16 people were killed, and it's not clear who exactly is behind these new air strikes but Russian and Syrian planes have gone after rebel targets in that area recently. This comes as Moscow is sending a warship armed with cruise missiles to Syria's coast. And promising to bolster Syria's air defenses. All just days before Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is set to land in Moscow for his first visit in his new role. We have a panel of reporters and analysts covering every angle. I want to begin with senior international correspondent Matthew Chance in Moscow. And, Matthew, we know Secretary Tillerson called his Russian counterpart today to talk about Syria. What are you hearing about that conversation?", "Well, the State Department was very tightlipped of what the content, Ana, of that conversation was. But the Kremlin have been, you know, uncharacteristically open about what was discussed. They're giving us a readout saying that -- that the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Rex Tillerson that when you strike against the government that is fighting terrorism -- of course, that's how they regard the governments of Bashar al-Assad -- it plays into the hands, said the Foreign minister, of extremists. The Foreign minister also telling Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state, you know, that the allegations there was a chemical attack were without basis in reality. And that of course talks to the version of events the Russians are sticking to, not just that they support their Syrian ally but they deny their Syrian ally carried out any kind of chemical weapons attack, instead saying that the deaths that were witnessed and the chemical poisoning that was witnessed was as a result of rebel chemical munitions being destroyed by a Syrian air force air strike on a storage facility. And so, you know, a heated exchange. Different opinions obviously between these two figures, these two Foreign minister figures from Russia and the United States. And that conversation is going to continue next week when Rex Tillerson, as you mentioned, comes to Moscow for his first visit as secretary of State and we'll continue that conversation with Sergey Lavrov and meet the Russian President Vladimir Putin as well.", "And Ryan, I want to bring you in, has the White House sent any more messages to Syria or Russia today?", "Not specifically other than that conversation with Lavrov and Tillerson, Ana, but the public messaging on this issue is certainly walking a pretty fine line. I was in a briefing with Mitch McConnell who is the Senate majority leader and ally of the Trump administration, somebody that's been in close contact with the White House during this strike, and he said it was his impression that this was a one-time thing, that it was just designed to try and send a message about the use of chemical weapons and that we shouldn't expect much more. But then you played that bit of sound from Nikki Haley that's going to appear tomorrow on \"STATE OF THE UNION\" where she says that the president is prepared to do more in the event that Syria does not change their tactics there in the country. So the White House wants to make it clear that they don't want to have to do more if they don't have to but they also want to make it clear to the Assad regime that they're not afraid to if it comes to that point.", "All right. Ryan Nobles, Matthew Chance, our thanks to both of you. I want to bring in our panel now joining me. CNN global affairs analyst and Reuters national security investigations editor David Rohde, CNN military analyst and retired Air Force colonel Cedric Leighton, and our intelligence and security analyst, former CIA operative, Bob Baer. First I want you to hear more of Jake Tapper's revealing interview with U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley. Let's watch.", "Is regime change in Syria now the official policy of the United States?", "So there's multiple priorities. It's getting Assad out is not the only priority. And so what we're trying to do is obviously defeat ISIS. Secondly, we don't see a peaceful Syria with Assad in there. Thirdly, get the Iranian influence out. And then finally move toward a political solution because at the end of the day this is a complicated situation. There are no easy answers and a political solution is going to have to happen but we know that it is not going to be -- there's not any sort of option where a political solution is going to happen with Assad at the head of the regime. It just -- if you look at his actions, if you look at the situation it's going to be hard to see a government that's peaceful and stable with Assad.", "Well, of course it's hard to but is it the position of the Trump administration that he cannot be ruler of Syria anymore, regime change is the policy?", "Well, regime change is something that we think is going to happen because at all of the parties are going to see that Assad is not the leader that needs to be taking place for Syria.", "Now, Bob, I want to come to you first. Candidate Trump said again and again removing Assad was not his number one priority. Trump even suggested the U.S. fight ISIS with Assad. So how confident are you that President Trump will stick with this apparently new position on Syria now?", "Well, it seems to me a big shift here, this attacking Syria. We've never done that before in Syria's history, period. I mean, we've always avoided that country. There is an ethnic sectarian divisions there. We were always afraid to touch. This goes back to World War II, in fact. People -- just the French could never control that country. And, again, I go back to the fact that Assad -- Bashar al-Assad is merely a spokesman for the Alawite minority. You can remove him today and you might get somebody that's much worse. Much more ready to use chemical weapons. I don't think this administration, the Trump administration, understands the complexity of Syria. And you know, we are wandering into a quagmire here just enormous consequences with Iran and Russia on the ground. This is not going well.", "Colonel Leighton, the U.S. has opened this door with those U.S. airstrikes. Do you see any downside to having launched those strikes?", "Well, there are certainly downsides to it. I mean, the idea that you can act with force and do it in a very decisive fashion is something that's very attractive to most presidents, but there are possible downsides in that it could, if things go wrong, it could definitely galvanize the Syrian government against us and it basically already has. What's worse is if something had happened on the civilian side, if we had killed innocent civilians as part of this then, of course, the Syrian population, even those opposed to Assad, would have been against us. And as things ramp up, that is one of the big risks that could happen is that you get civilian casualties, unintended civilian casualties, and that could definitely be a downside. Other downsides would include, you know, some type of conflict with Iranian forces in Syria and Russian forces in Syria, so there are absolutely potential pitfalls here.", "Right. It's not just about Syria but about some of these other countries that you just mentioned, Russia and Iran, who are also backing Syria. David, at what point do you think President Trump needs to get Congress to sign off on some kind of military action in Syria?", "Well, I think if there are more strikes, you know, and it continued over a long period, you know, that would be the key. And one of the things that Ambassador Haley mentioned that struck me with that phrase about getting rid of Iranian influence in Syria, I agreed with both the other guests. I mean, it's really about the Alawite minority and Iran has backed them and sort of saved them with more ground forces than any other country. Iranian support has been much more important to Assad and the Alawites than the Russian support. That's a very ambitious goal that she mentioned. She may have misspoke. I don't want to overread it. But, you know -- so what is the policy going to be here? Is it to stop chemical weapons attacks? If it is, maybe this one strike has set a precedent. Is it to push Assad out and Iran out, that's much more difficult to do and much more complicated.", "As far as any retaliation from those missile strikes that the U.S. has already launched, it seems like there's been a lot of rhetoric, a lot of vocal pushback from people like the Russian Defense minister there that we know spoke today to Rex Tillerson, but how do you see the dynamics between the U.S. and Russia in light of the action the U.S. took, Bob?", "Right now the Russians are concerned. I mean, the Russians do not want to get into a fight with us in Syria. We have to deconflict the airspace there. There's a lot of American flights going east of the Euphrates. You know, at any time just like the Turks shut down a Russian airplane, we could, too. And that's the major concern. And that should be a concern at this point is we have to continue talking to the Russians. There's still an open channel with the Russians but the cooperation is not there. And the Russians right now, I do not see Putin in a position to withdraw, to stand out in the Assad regime nor will the Iranians. And don't forget there's the sheer precedent that they are in control of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. We are up against some formidable foes here and I agree with David, you know, talking about getting the Iranians out of Syria is a nonstarter. It's the road to conflict so, again, I'm very concerned.", "So, David, does the U.S. have any leverage over Russia or Iran in this situation?", "The only sort of thing it could do is to restart the CIA training program that was fairly effective and actually the Russians came in because, you know, the so-called moderate rebels were making gains against the Assad regime. But the Russians were -- you know, were quickly able to use airpower with Iranian support on the ground and most importantly Hezbollah fighters came in as well to help Assad. So you only win conflicts with force on the ground having, you know, willing to put in ground troops and have them die in large numbers. Iran is willing to do that. Hezbollah is willing to do that. Russia has risked its pilots. So is the U.S. ready to arm proxy force for many months and years to come to win this, you know, effort in Syria? That's the big question.", "Colonel, do you agree with that? I mean, does the U.S. need to put U.S. boots on the ground in Syria or is there another option if the U.S. wants to have a real impact on that country?", "Well, I think, Ana, if we want to effect regime change very quickly then the only way to do that is to put boots on the ground but having said that I think regime change comes about quickly may not necessarily be in our best interests and the best solutions are usually the diplomatic solutions, the solutions that would allow us to achieve some kind of accommodation with the Iranians and with the Russians that would allow for some kind of transfer to somebody else, but that somebody else would have to be agreeable to us in a way that would allow us to not necessarily control them directly but would somehow prevent them from using chemical weapons against their own people. I think if we could achieve something like that, that could be very different but that is perhaps a very idealistic position.", "David, back to the American appetite for more involvement in that region. Do you think Republicans like Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell would stick with Trump if he tries to go deeper into Syria?", "I think it depends on, you know, I think ground forces -- U.S. ground forces will be like a red line that many Republicans wouldn't support, but there is the -- you know, the one possibility here is where there's a use of military force to, you know, hopefully bring about a diplomatic solution. I'm not sure that would work in Syria. This would be possibly, you know, increasing this effort to arm the Syrian opposition, but your goal should be not to win a military conflict, not to drive Assad out or for the Iranians out completely. It would be just a way to pressure them militarily to bring them to the table. I'm not sure that would even work. But that's a much more kind of focused, limited effort than, again, as Ambassador Haley said, removing the Iranian influence in Syria. That will never happen. At best there could be some sort of compromise.", "All right, David Rohde and Colonel Cedric Leighton, as well as Bob Baer, thank you all for staying with us this evening. A quick programming note, you can catch Jake Tapper's full interview with U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley tomorrow morning on \"STATE OF THE UNION\" right here on CNN at 9:00 a.m. Eastern and Pacific. Coming up, new details about tensions in President Trump's inner circle. The message the president had for his chief strategist Steve Bannon and his son-in-law Jared Kushner."], "speaker": ["ANA CABRERA, CNN ANCHOR", "NIKKI HALEY, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N.", "CABRERA", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "RYAN NOBLES, CNN WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR", "HALEY", "TRUMP", "HALEY", "CABRERA", "ROBERT BAER, CNN INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY ANALYST", "CABRERA", "COL. CEDRIC LEIGHTON, CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "CABRERA", "DAVID ROHDE, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST", "CABRERA", "BAER", "CABRERA", "ROHDE", "CABRERA", "LEIGHTON", "CABRERA", "ROHDE", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-279504", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2016-03-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/21/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "China Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Not Afraid of Slowing Growth", "utt": ["Welcome back. Now, Apple is set to unveil a smaller iPhone and a new iPad in a few hours from now. The new iPhone is expected to be a little less expense with a design similar to the iPhone 5, but with updated circuitry to match the iPhone 6S. Apple is also expected to unveil a smaller version of the iPad Pro and new bands for the Apple Watch. But the company is not expected to show off the next generation of Apple Watch just yet. Now, one of Apple's main rivals in China is Xiaomi. But the young smartphone company has seen its once rapid growth start to slow. Xiaomi fell short of its target to sell more than 80 million smartphones last year in China, selling just over 70 million handsets in 2015. Well, earlier I spoke to Xiaomi's international vice president Hugo Barra, a former Google executive who says the company is doing just fine.", "2015 was the second year in a row where Xiaomi finished the year as the number one smartphone brand in China. And perhaps more importantly is the stuff that no one is talking about, which is how is our mobile internet services business doing? Xiaomi is an internet company first and foremost. We use phones as a distribution vehicle for the software and for the internet services that we layer on top of our software platform.", "To get that growth in internet services, you still need to be selling handsets. Are you at all concerned, though about the number of handsets that you are selling at the moment?", "As an internet company, of course, we need users, right, to whom we can deliver these services. There's room for growth in China. And we're also investing pretty heavily in other markets. India, in particular. India has just passed the U.S. and is now the second largest smartphone population in the world, only behind China.", "There is a global slowing trend of smartphone sales growth. Some people say that's because there is a lack of innovation. What do you say to that?", "So I have a contrary view on that. I think innovation in the smartphone industry is still accelerating. If you look, for example, at the size of batteries, batteries are shrinking still at a pretty fast pace.", "Is that what's going to be driving new consumers to buy smartphones, though? Is what is going to drive me to want to upgrade my smartphone?", "So, I think you're going to continue to see improvements in display technology and battery technology. A lot of growth, though, is going to come from developing markets.", "Is the day, or the era of the explosive growth in smartphone sales now over?", "Smartphone market in China, 400 million a year. That's potentially close enough to saturation that you could call that market a replacement cycle now. Southeast Asia, another close to a billion people. And it's still a market at its beginning to make stages of growth. India still super early on. We are still at about 100 million smartphones a year sold. It would probably peak at 300 to 400 million. So also early stages of growth. And in Africa, another billion people, it hasn't even started.", "It is more going to be going forward a much more developing world story than just a China story.", "Yeah, we have got to get the rest of the world connected.", "Hugo Barra there doing his best to connect the rest of the world. Hugo with Xiaomi. We spoke just a couple of hours ago. Now, despite their high profile, Xiaomi still doesn't sell phones in the developed market. I'm talking about the U.S. or Europe. And Barra says that is on the cards for the future, but he is not yet giving any specifics dates. It's the announcement which has animal activists cheering. SeaWorld's decision to end the breeding of orcas in captivity and now a former whale hunter is throwing his support behind that move. Jeff Foster shared these pictures with CNN's Ivan Watson two years ago. They show orcas squealing in panic hours after they were captured. Well, foster says he managed to change his ways. And he's glad the park is changing their ways too.", "I started a long time ago. And things have changed dramatically in the last 40 years. And I spent a lot of time in the field with these animals. I was just out in the field last week doing some tagging work and some research on the southern (inaudible) killer whales on the Washington coast. And we're learning more and more about these animals every year and what their needs are. And I think SeaWorld is -- you know, they have done an amazing job in the past. And they just need to change with the times. And it is now time for change.", "Time for changed indeed. And on that note, we shall say farewell for now. Thanks for joining me here on News Stream. I'm Andrew Stevens. Don't go anywhere. World Sport with Amanda Davies is up next. END"], "speaker": ["STEVENS", "HUGO BARRA, VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL, XIAOMI", "STEVENS", "BARRA", "STEVENS", "BARRA", "STEVENS", "BARRA", "STEVENS", "BARRA", "STEVENS", "BARRA", "STEVENS", "JEFF FOSTER, FRM. WHALE HUNTER", "STEVENS"]}
{"id": "CNN-26878", "program": "The Sporting Life with Jim Huber", "date": "2001-3-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/03/sljh.00.html", "summary": "Baseball Enlarges Strike Zone; Baseball Cards Make Small Items Big Business", "utt": ["Change is good. At least that's what people say. And with opening day Major League Baseball just around the corner, we're about to find out if that axiom is true. On this edition of PAGE ONE, it could be up, up, and away for major league hitters this season if they're not ready to swing away at the high strike.", "It's higher than what we've been used to seeing. And they call it a strike. Oh, man, it's going to be tough.", "There's going to be some complaining, some arguing.", "Big Mac is back, hungry to hit and healthy again after too much time last season in the trainer's room and not enough at the plate swinging for the fences.", "To reach 50 is good. Sixty is reachable. And I don't know about 70, but I'll stop at 60.", "And baseball cards aren't for bicycle folks anymore. It's big business for small items.", "My sister goes on eBay and buys all my cards. And I'm paying the bill. But some of those cards get damn expensive, I'll tell you.", "Hi, everybody. Thanks once again for joining us on PAGE ONE. I'm Bob Lorenz. For decade after decade, baseball has been a game of constants. Bases are 90 feet apart. Pitchers stand 60 feet, six inches from home plate. And the Cubs and Red Sox never win the World Series. But this year, there may be a fundamental change in the way the game is played as baseball throws the books at pitchers and hitters, the rule book that is, reestablishing the strike zone as it is written.", "Balls and strikes are normally as basic a part of spring training as working on fundamentals. But this year, the simple strike call is getting an adjustment.", "I think early games this spring, guys are going to be stepping out of the box shaking their heads wondering, how do I attack this?", "From Arizona's Cactus League to Florida's Grapefruit League, umpires have been staging demonstrations of the new high strike they have been instructed to call by Major League Baseball. Previously, the typical umpire strike zone went from the bottom of the kneecaps to the belt. But now baseball is mandating umpires follow the rule book, raising the upper limit to midway between the top of the shoulders and the top of the pants.", "We're trying to get a consistent interpretation of the strike zone. The pitch is still going to be the umpire's judgment. But we're all going to try to be on the same page with what we're looking for.", "A consistent strike zone. And I think it's all a pitcher or a hitter can ask for. As long as you give it some consistency and you know we know what it's going to be, we can deal with it.", "It's definitely going to be an adjustment. But we've got spring training. We've got a month to work on it. And hopefully by the end of spring training, we'll be all dialed in to the new strike zone. See, that's a pitch you'd take before. I mean, this might lead to more base hits, that guy swinging up there.", "One of the motivations behind the return of the high strike is that it should force batters to swing at more pitches, putting the ball in play more often. Baseball hopes that will help speed up games that averaged a numbing three hours, two minutes last season. However, the only pitchers who may dare to throw upstairs consistently are the flame throwers such as Pedro Martinez and Randy Johnson.", "You're probably talking about maybe three to five percent of the pitchers. And I think that it will be an advantage for some guys that have the good fast ball and can ride it up.", "For me, I'm a guy that stays down in the zone more. If I get up in the zone, that's when I get hit because I don't have the stuff to throw it by people up there.", "If I miss, it's just going to get 500 feet. So there's a fine line between pitching up in the strike zone and pitching farther up in the strike zone to be effective.", "In fast ball up there, unless you're a guy that throws over 90, 95 miles an hour, that's kind of a dangerous zone. So I'm happy about the opportunity that is high and not low. I don't want that move to a lower because lower is obviously a much tougher pitch to hit.", "Pitchers who work the corners may also be affected by the new strike zone. Baseball has told umpires to stop being so lenient with pitches off the plate, some of which were previously called strikes.", "That down-and-away strike, as the people in Atlanta know by watching Tommy Glavin (ph) and Greg Maddox (ph), that's the one where a lot of pitchers live off of. And if that's taken away and the umpires swear they will call only the width of the plate, nothing more, that's going to have a much bigger impact on the game.", "I don't care if they call a strike over the guy's head if they can reach it. Pitches that are six inches off the outside corner you can't reach. And if they're being called strikes, the pitchers have a huge advantage.", "But while pitchers consider whether to adapt their strategy on the mound, batters too face the challenge of adjusting their strike zones or risk getting rung up on pitches that were formerly balls.", "You've got guys working down and working in and out. And now they go up to the zone, and it's higher than what you've been used to seeing. And they call it a strike. Oh, man, it's going to be tough.", "The bottom line, the guy has to throw a strike. He has to try to throw it over the plate. And I've got to try to hit it. So that's the way I look at it. I just think it's just a big thing right now. And we'll just see where it goes.", "And that leads us to today's web poll, which you can find at CNNSI.com. How do you think the higher strike zone will affect baseball the most? Will it lead to a home run bonanza or more strikeouts? Or maybe it will just lead to more arguments. And if baseball gets its way, it could shorten games. We want to know what you think. So log on and vote. We will have the results later. So if you think of pitchers as artists, they have a different size canvas to paint on this season. And the top artist, if you will, for the Mets is lefty Al Leiter, who joins us now. And, Al, thanks for being here. You got a little feel for that last night against the Expos. Two innings, two hits. Two shut-out innings, I should mention. And talk about that new strike zone. How was it? What was the feel like?", "You know, actually yesterday, Bob, I was trying to get some opportunities to throw it up in the zone to see if the umpire would call it. And actually, I didn't get a chance. The Expos are a free swinging team. And as a matter of fact, one guy hit a ball that was neck high off the wall. So maybe it's not too good. But really I think what should be understood is it's not necessarily I'm hearing some quotes about guys saying that only three or four guys in the league can live up there. I'm not talking about guys living up there. I'm talking about getting the high strike and then carrying up the ladder, the old school of guys that used to go up the ladder, so to speak. And you don't have to throw 95 miles an hour to get guys to chase the ball higher than high. And, look, from the time when they lowered the mound and brought in the DH and several things to bring offense to it, I don't see anything wrong with it. This is going to help pitchers to get back to an even playing field. Hopefully, this is a good thing.", "Also gives the impression that that pitch is easier to hit. That might not be the case for some guys. Personally, though, for you, are you going to have to make any big adjustments because you like to live a little bit inside, a little bit outside? And supposedly the umpires are going to clamp down on the corners as well.", "Yeah, I throw what's called a cut fast ball or a slider. I live inside on the righties mostly. But still, there's mistakes that we view as mistakes that are high pitches that supposedly are going to be called strikes. And I think there's going to be a initial adjustment for hitters to have the shock value or looking back that normally has always been considered a ball, they're going to be called a strike. And now the guys that are able to carry that up maybe three or four more inches and have guys that now are swinging at pitches that are out of the zone, it will put the ball in play more. And hopefully we'll have quicker games and guys will be swinging more.", "Well, let me ask you about that. Baseball, that's one of the reasons they're doing it. They want to shorten the games, the average time about three hours, two minutes last year. Do you feel they need to be shorter, that games need to be shorter?", "I get tired of watching some long games too, especially when you see at the end of the game you've played a three-and-a-half- hour game and it was three to two. I mean, that's been the norm. It's not 10-nine games that are three-, four-hour games. It's low- scoring games. And if something has to do with that -- another rule coming, you're in the minor league, the free swinging minor leaguers. And then you get to the big leagues, you see more hitters that are more selective. The Yankees come to mind. They're a team that carry it deep in the count (ph), always make you throw so many pitches. And if you could eliminate each batter down to two, three, maybe four pitches in a bat, that's going to save 40, 50 pitches a game.", "Well, you know, the one thing is umpires -- maybe a good expression would be they're strong willed. Maybe that's a good way of putting it. Do you think the new strike zone will be enforced? Or do you think some guys are going to resist and stick with the way they used to call it?", "I absolutely think it's going to be enforced. I think the way baseball has come down on it, they've done more than just send out memos. They've had camps and clinics for these guys. We had Bruce Fromley (ph) in here telling us about the new strike zone. And Bruce has been considered one of the crabbier umpires in the game, and he's a very good umpire. But he said, \"I'm not going to have a problem calling that pitch a strike. If everybody's on the same page, both managers, both benches, everybody in baseball knows that that pitch that's generally viewed as a ball, that the catcher catches it a little above the mask is a strike, they're fine with it.\" And I think they're going to be able to do it.", "Let's talk about your team real quick. In the off season, there were hopes of signing Alex Rodriguez. He didn't go. Mike Hampton (ph), you wanted to bring him back. He decided to go to the Rockies instead. Some people might say, \"Well, nothing really happened for the Mets. They took at least a half-step back.\" What is your response to that?", "Well, I think anytime you don't get to sign Mike Hampton back it's definitely viewed as a big loss. And certainly Mike is missed. But I think by bringing in Kevin Napier (ph) and Steve Traxell (ph), it's certainly fortified our five-man rotation to be pretty formidable. I think our bullpen is as strong as ever. And yes, we didn't really do much on the offensive side. If you remember last year in the beginning of the year, we had Derek Bell (ph) and Wright (ph). And really other than not having Derek here, our offense is the same as last year's national championship teams. The nice thing too also about New York is knowing that we have an ownership and a general manager that's not afraid to pull the trigger, that there's always something that may be in the background to improve the team as we're playing the Dodgers today and the whole Gary Sheffield thing.", "That is a story in itself, Al. Thanks for being with us. Enjoy the rest of your spring down there.", "OK, thanks, Bob.", "All right, still to come on PAGE ONE, we're going to take a look at the annual pose down at spring camps. And when the Tops baseball card folks show up, you've got to have the look because you want that card to be worth something, don't you?", "I remember the head shot that I took because I almost got in trouble from Tom Kelly (ph). I was with the Twins. And the guy was trying to take my head shot. \"Let's go, Nagle (ph). You think you're special? Get over here with the rest of the group.\" We were just getting ready to start stretching and stuff. So I hurried up. I had to take a quick picture. My hat was on sideways and stuff.", "And later, one of baseball's biggest poster boys, both figuratively and literally. Big Mac, we'll talk about him, about his return, his hitting prowess, and the state of America's pastime. Don't go away."], "speaker": ["BOB LORENZ, HOST", "TONY GWYNN, PADRES OUTFIELDER", "ART HOWE, A'S MANAGER", "LORENZ", "MARK MCGWIRE, CARDINALS FIRST BASEMAN", "LORENZ", "MARK MULDER, A'S PITCHER", "LORENZ", "LORENZ (voice-over)", "GWYNN", "LORENZ", "JEFF NELSON, MLB UMPIRE", "MIKE HAMPTON, ROCKIES PITCHER", "TED BARRETT, MLB UMPIRE", "LORENZ", "MIKE SCIOSCIA, ANGELS MANAGER", "KENNY ROGERS, RANGERS PITCHER", "MULDER", "ALEX RODRIGUEZ, RANGERS SHORTSTOP", "LORENZ", "TOM VERDUCCI, BASEBALL WRITER", "HOWE", "LORENZ", "GWYNN", "MCGWIRE", "LORENZ", "AL LEITER, METS PITCHER", "LORENZ", "LEITER", "LORENZ", "LEITER", "LORENZ", "LEITER", "LORENZ", "LEITER", "LORENZ", "LEITER", "LORENZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LORENZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-245961", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-12-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1412/25/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Top Business Stories of the Year", "utt": ["Welcome back, everybody. Thanks for being here with us on this Christmas Day. Well, the Dow surging past the 18000-point milestone of course is a great holiday present for investors, but the markets' strong showing was not the top money story of 2014. CNN's Richard Quest and Christine Romans tells you what was in their top 10 countdown.", "Number 10: Pressure from protesters. Fast food workers take to the streets in cities across America demanding higher pay and better rights. It's working. Four states have voted to raise the minimum wage in 2014, and in the heart of Hong Kong's financial district, pro-democracy activists shut down schools, banks and businesses. That sent the Hang Seng stock index down nearly 6 percent in only one week.", "Number nine: U.S. companies turn in their passports for new headquarters overseas and a lower tax bill. The Treasury Department and President Obama fight back.", "It's not fair. It's not right. We don't want to see this trend grow.", "The administration issues new rules to stop these so- called inversions to stem the flood of U.S. companies cashing in on the tax loophole. The new regulation slowed some deals already in the works, but real tax reform is likely needed to close the loophole.", "Number eight, IPOs and mergers, they're back. The king of 2014 is China's Alibaba, going public on the New York Stock Exchange, and becoming the largest public offering in U.S. history. Nearly 300 other companies went public in 2014 and mergers and accusations came back roaring. The two biggest deals for U.S. consumers, AT&T's agreement to buy DirecTV, and Comcast merging with Time Warner Cable.", "Number seven: the taper is terminated. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen closes the fire hose that pumped billion into the economy through a bond-buying program. That Fed stimulus lasted six years with the final measures tapered down in 2014. The Fed says labor and housing markets have improved, risks of inflation have diminished. The big question now, when will the Fed start raising interest rates?", "Number six: Apple gets its oomph back. A new line of products including record breaking sales of the iPhone 6, new iPads, the Apple Watch and Apple Pay, they all refresh the company's product line. Its stock price hits a record high in 2014. And Apple's chief exec Tim Cook becomes the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company. He wrote in an op-ed, \"I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.\"", "Number five: jobs are back. The labor market hit two milestones in 2014, first, the economy gained back all the jobs it lost during the recession, 8. 7 million jobs. It took four long years to do it. Second, 2014 marks the best year in job creation since 1999, averaging about 240,000 jobs each month. The jobless rate now below 6 percent.", "Number four: this is the age of the hack. An exclusive CNN Money report finds more than half American adults had their personal details hacked in 2014. Mostly through retailers including Home Depot, Michaels, Neiman Marcus and Target. Celebrities became victims as hackers exposed private nude photos. The year ends with a giant hack in Hollywood. Sony Pictures is infiltrated. Movie screeners and embarrassing corporate e-mails -- they all hit the web.", "Number three, an auto safety crisis. GM recalls 30 million vehicles in 2014, the largest issue, faulty ignition switches.", "I am deeply sorry.", "GM is compensating victims as it tries to revamp its reputation. Another crisis later in the year, Japanese parts maker Takata ignores calls for a nationwide recall following several incidents of exploding air bags. Initially, one million cars are recalled by five automakers. Federal regulators say that's not enough. Two words tell this story: Record high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average racked up more than 30 of them in 2014. It's even more for the S&P 500. A brief pullback in October couldn't stop the bull run. The market has now gone more than 1,100 days without a pullback of more than 10 percent. Investors will be looking for one of those in 2015.", "And number one: the top money story of the year, oil's dramatic drop. After holding steady for the first half of the year, global concerns pressure the oil market and prices plunge. They dropped more than 40 percent from June."], "speaker": ["PAMELA BROWN", "RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ROMANS", "QUEST", "ROMANS", "QUEST", "ROMANS", "QUEST", "ROMANS", "MARY BARRA, CEO, GENERAL MOTORS", "ROMANS", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-248208", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2015-01-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/29/cg.02.html", "summary": "North Korea Restarting Nuclear Reactor?", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. In more world news, real fears today that North Korea may be taking more actions to further its nuclear weapons program, setting the world on edge. It turns out that while we were all talking about the Sony hack tied to that movie poking fun at dear leader Kim Jong-Un, the rogue nation may have had more troubling plans in the works. According to a U.S. think tank that monitors the regimen, satellite imagery seems to show recent activity of its main nuclear bomb fuel reactor, which was shut down, we thought, months ago. Take a look at these before and after pictures released by the U.S. Korea Institute of Johns Hopkins University. On the left, it shows aerials of the reactor from December 24th. On the right an image from just a week later, there are signs of steam there and snow melt on the rooftop. That seems to be an indication that something at the reactor was turned on, generating heat. I'm joined now by Gordon Chang, author of the book \"Nuclear Showdown, North Korea Takes on the World.\" He is a columnist for forbes.com. Gordon, thanks so much for being here. North Korea, as you know well, better than I, already has uranium enrichment sites all over the country. What do you think this might mean?", "I think they're looking for one of three outcomes. One of them is that the world doesn't stop them and they get to keep all this plutonium for their arsenal. The second is we pay them to stop producing plutonium. But the third one, that's the one that really concerns me. You got to remember that Iran has agreed to freeze its plutonium program in its discussions with the international community and the North Koreans have sold them fissile material in the past going back to 2002. I'm concerned that this plutonium will end up in the hands of the atomic ayatollahs.", "So you think that even though these are theoretically two different dealings with the west trying to stop the North Korean nuclear weapons program and stop the Iran nuclear weapons program, alleged nuclear weapons problem, do you think that they are completely related?", "Yes, they have been running a joint program since at least the turn of the century. Every time North Korea has detonated a nuclear device, the Iranians have been on site in North Korea. That Syrian reactor that the Israelis destroyed in September 2007, that was from North Korea. North Korean technicians were killed there and everybody thinks the Iranians paid for that reactor because the Syrians didn't have money. You know, you go back, there's a series of interactions between these two rogue states. So clearly they are working together.", "For those who aren't familiar with your work, Gordon, you have been critical of both the Obama administration and the George W. Bush administration. You think that the way they have dealt with North Korea has allowed them to develop ballistic missile and long range missile capability to develop a nuclear bomb. What should the west do now to stop this?", "Well, the first thing is to think of this not as two separate programs, but really as one program with a lot of coordination from Beijing. Until we do that, I think we are going to have piecemeal solutions that don't really help. Unfortunately, I think we are going to have to have much tougher sanctions against both of these regimes and very difficult conversations with the Chinese because if we don't get China on board, there is no point in dealing with Iran or North Korea.", "You said with a lot of coordination from the Chinese, from Beijing. Why would China want an Iran with nuclear weapons or a North Korea with nuclear weapons especially North Korea? That destabilizes Asia.", "One thing it does, every time North Korea acts up, we run to Beijing and ask for the Chinese to help and they extract concessions from us. This also keeps us off balance. With regard to Iran, the Chinese compete with the Russians for influence in the Middle East and they also want the Iranians to give them oil which is very important for the Chinese economy, but also because they don't want Iran to support the Muslims in China's northwest who really resent Chinese rule. There are a lot of reasons why China wants good relations with Iran and Beijing knows that the Iranians want nukes so the Chinese are willing to help them.", "Very scary. Gordon Chang, thank you so much. Really appreciate it. We are getting some new information now about that deadly explosion at a maternity hospital in Mexico City this morning. The mayor's office says a delivery truck driver and two assistants are currently in custody. A camera captured the blast. Authorities say that at least one woman and one child died in that explosion but little else is known right now. Rescue teams fear that more people, including possibly newborns, could still be at the very least trapped. Emergency officials say more of the hospital could collapse at any minute. The supply truck was delivering liquefied petroleum gas when a hose started leaking and caused the tragic explosion. When we come back, he is used to taking leaps of faith when it comes to his career but will Kevin Costner's personal investment in his latest film pay off? I will talk to him next."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "GORDON CHANG, AUTHOR, \"NUCLEAR SHOWDOWN\"", "TAPPER", "CHANG", "TAPPER", "CHANG", "TAPPER", "CHANG", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-170391", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2011-8-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/10/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Riots Across England; The Economic Impact of the Riots", "utt": ["Police across the United Kingdom are on alert tonight after the violence that began in London has now spread to cities across England. There have been copycat riots on Tuesday night, fires and looting in cities in the West Midlands and Northern England. Vigilante groups are now mobilizing across the country. The far right English Defence League has called on its members to turn out and provide what they say is physical presence against rioters. One of the cities hit by violence was Birmingham. Three men there were killed after being hit by a car, which police are treating the incident as murder. A cleanup is underway in London. The capital streets have been calmer. Sixteen thousand officers were deployed on Tuesday night. And the British prime minister, David Cameron, said it was time to get tough.", "We needed a fight back and a fight back is underway. Whatever resources the police need, they will get. Whatever tactics the police feel they need to employ, they will have legal backing to do so. What -- we will do whatever is necessary to restore law and order onto our streets. While they're not currently needed, we now have in place contingency plans for water cannon to be available at 24 hours notice.", "Dan Rivers is in Birmingham in the British Midlands this evening, in the England Midlands tonight -- Dan, let's just have an overview before we get to the causes and what's gone wrong. What's happening this evening?", "Well, right here now, it's very tense but -- but calm. This after the death of three British- Pakistani men who were killed by a car right here where the flowers are being laid. I don't know if you can see that. Mowed down by a car that locals say was being driven by a black man who they suspect was coming here to loot the area. The three young men were out trying to protect these local businesses. Now, we've got, as you can see over here, you know, a big crowd of people on the streets. The father of one of the dead men has spoken, appealing for calm. But obviously, this is a very delicate situation because there are fears, clearly, that this could be twisted and manipulated by extremists in both the black and Asian community into something about race rather than something about looting and criminality, which is how this all started. But at the moment, things, you know, are calm. They're -- they're staying here at the -- there are appeals from lots of people that -- you know, for both sides in this just to -- to stay calm and go home. There's no signs at the moment of any other violence or looting, which is great. And there are about 1,000 police out on the streets of Birmingham this evening, trying to -- to make sure that that continues.", "Let's talk on the wider issue, if we may, Dan. And I realize you're in a pretty spot where you are. The idea that this is some disenfranchised youth being affected by austerity and by the measures with no hope versus a bunch of wanton hooligans and criminality, where is the truth in both of those views?", "You know, I -- I think that the vast majority of the looting and criminality that we've been reporting on for the last three or four days, was just that, was looting and criminality and was opportunistic and -- and there was a lot of copycat crime going on. I think they were emboldened by the fact that they saw, initially on Monday, that the police weren't doing anything to stop it. They weren't intervening, perhaps because the police felt so thinly stretched and under -- under powered in some areas. And that emboldened the -- the looters to just go on a rampage. Very few of the people that we've talked about have mentioned that shooting in Tottenham. Very few of the people -- of the -- of the young kids in hoods have -- even know the name of the person, Mark Duggan, that was shot last Thursday. The issue of whether this is about social deprivation and feelings of alienation, well, maybe there is an element of that. But there is some sense that some of these people feel like they, you know -- you know, have been locked out of sort of mainstream society, there aren't jobs and so on for them. But there was a big element, as well, of sheer criminality and copycat violence, where they just were watching this unfold and thinking, this is my opportunity to go and steal something.", "Dan Rivers joining us from Birmingham this evening. Many thanks, Dan. Loose is -- looters and activists have done their worst to hurt businesses across the country. In some cases, the effects will be felt for weeks or even months. One warehouse that burnt down in South London may cripple some small British film companies, for example. Leone Lakhani reports.", "As the smoke billows from this warehouse, the economic costs of the riots that have swept across London are being counted. This site, operated by Sony, has 25 million DVDs and entertainment products owned by European film companies, as well as CDs and games. (on camera): This Sony warehouse was set alit on Monday night. Now, nearly three days later, firefighters are still working round the clock to put the fire out. Now, no one was hurt, but hundreds of thousands of DVDs, films were all stored here. They've all now been destroyed. And that's left many of Britain's independent film distributors reeling. (voice-over): David Wilkinson is one such distributor and says this is going to be a huge dent to his business.", "I had about 65,000 DVDs, across -- around about 70, 80 titles.", "Is that all your titles?", "That's all my titles, yes. Luckily, I wasn't holding as much stock as some people. I mean I have other labels that I know that were in there, they had 10,000 or 15,000 units per title.", "In a country devastated by war...", "All of David's video material, like the others in the warehouse, are insured. They will be replaced, but that may take weeks, even months. And for independent film companies, time means money.", "The day of the fire, I had one title that was due to sell 32 units to someone. Those 32 units are now lost. And you multiply that between every title I've got and then with all the different labels, we're all going to lose a lot of money.", "The British Film Institute, the UK's leading film body, says DVDs and Blu-ray discs are the industry's largest single source of revenue, bringing in more than $2 billion a year. For independent films, that's an even greater chunk of their profits.", "In terms of physical video, consumers in the U.K. spend around twice as much on video products than they do being -- going to the cinema. Now, for independents who were releasing films over the next, even a few months, any advertisement spending that they've done, any anticipation of revenue from that bit, is completely lost.", "One of many businesses paying the price. Leone Lakhani, CNN, London.", "When we come back, let me update you with the New York markets. And I do assure you, they're a lot better than they were."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "DAVID CAMERON, BRITAIN PRIME MINISTER", "QUEST", "DAN RIVERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "QUEST", "RIVERS", "QUEST", "LEONE LAKHANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DAVID WILKINSON, CHAIRMAN, GUERILLA FILMS", "LAKHANI (on camera)", "WILKINSON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LAKHANI (voice-over)", "WILKINSON", "LAKHANI", "RICHARD COOPER, IHS SCREEN DIGEST", "LAKHANI", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-109549", "program": "CNN LIVE SUNDAY", "date": "2006-8-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/20/sun.03.html", "summary": "Hussein On Trial For Second Time Tomorrow in Baghdad", "utt": ["Crisis in the Middle East. Here's what we know right now. Israel says it won't allow Lebanese troops near its border unless they are accompanied by U.N. forces. Those troops are not expected in the area until late this week. Meanwhile, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says an Israeli raid into Lebanon violated the cease-fire. Israel says the raid was aimed at preventing weapons from Iran and Syria from rearming Hezbollah. The Lebanese prime minister is vowing to crush any attempt by anyone on the Lebanese side of the border to break the truce. Despite heavy security, there was another deadly sectarian attack in Iraq today. Snipers on rooftops and gunmen on the streets opened fire on a huge Shia procession in Baghdad. At least 20 people are dead, hundreds more hurt. The attack came despite a weekend vehicle ban imposed to head off violence during that profession. Ian Finkenbinder was a soldier with a skill that's very much in demand in Iraq. He served there as an Arabic translator. But now he's out of a job and out of this service because he came out. CNN's Joe Johns first reported this story for \"ANDERSON COOPER 360.\"", "Wanted, a few good men and women who speak Arabic. For the U.S. military in Iraq, Arabic translators are absolutely vital. In some cases, Iraqis are preferred because they understand a lot more nuance, but there aren't enough to go around, plus Iraqi civilians generally cannot qualify for top secret clearances. So as of last year, the army had by one estimate about 1,850 Arabic speakers in uniform. That's right, fewer than 2,000 to translate for the tens of thousands of people it had on the ground in Iraq.", "I was collecting information on the streets with Iraqi civilians.", "At the start of the war, Ian Finkenbinder was in the army. A trained cryptologic linguist, intercepting and interpreting intelligence information, doing critical work in Baghdad.", "Location of weapons, caches, locations of insurgent headquarters, who was insurgents, et cetera, et cetera.", "He was so good that when his tour in Iraq ended, everyone wanted him to stay. So if Arabic speaking soldiers are so essential, why are we meeting Finkenbinder in this Baltimore coffee shop instead of a forward operating base in Iraq? If you guessed the answer, it's because Finkenbinder is no longer trying to hide it.", "I said that I was a gay soldier and would like to continue serving in the army as an openly gay soldier.", "And that decision to come out and finally say what everyone in his unit knew or suspected, forced his commander to kick him out.", "It's really a waste -- a waste of time, talent and money.", "Over a ten-year period, it happened to about 11,000 U.S. military personnel a study shows, at a cost of more than $363 million. Under the so-called don't ask, don't tell policy, gays in uniform have to keep their sexual orientation a secret, or they're out. Researcher Nathaniel Frank tracked this issue for years, he says a lot of people fired under the policy held sensitive jobs.", "800 of those have been mission-critical specialist. Over 300 have been linguists and over 55 of those have been Arabic linguists and we have a dire shortage of those. So we're really causing a brain drain here.", "The policy has always been controversial, but even now there are many who say there should be an outright ban on gays in the military.", "It's not just a matter of prejudice. It's a matter of not wanting to be put into those intimate situations with someone of the same sex who may be viewing you as a sexual object.", "Finkenbinder says many in his unit knew he was gay and there were never any problems, but there is a problem for the military. The policy is costing hundreds of millions of dollars and leaving the military short of Arabic-speaking soldiers in a region where understanding the language can mean the difference between life and death. Joe Johns, CNN, Washington.", "And that story from \"ANDERSON COOPER 360.\" Join \"A.C. 360\" weeknights at 10:00 p.m. Eastern. In Baghdad tomorrow, Saddam Hussein goes on trial for a second time. This time he and six co-defendants are accused of genocide and war crimes. The charges relate to an offensive against Kurds two decades ago. An estimated 100,000 people were killed. Survivors say mustard gas and nerve agents were used. That offensive was known as Operation Anfal, Arabic for spoils of war. We get more now from CNN's Harris Whitbeck in Baghdad.", "The cemetery near the village of Sewsaynan in Iraqi Kurdistan is a peaceful please. Grave markers carved from local stone are shaded by old, leafy trees. For the last 16 years, Gadin Mahid (ph) has visited the cemetery every two weeks. Six of her relatives are buried here.", "This is my husband's Optim's (ph) grave. This is my daughter's Asnin's (ph) grave. This is my other daughter's Gajal's (ph) grave, this is my son-in-law's grave and the other two graves are his parents.", "They all died the same day, March 22nd, 1988, killed by the mustard gas and Sarin, which prosecutors say Saddam Hussein ordered unleashed on some 2,000 villages in Kurdistan, part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing code named Al Anfal, the spoils. Just down the road in Sewsaynan, Mohammed Abdullah keeps the photos of the 13 members of his family he lost on that day. He remembers the attack as if it were yesterday.", "Two hours before sunset, a plane came over this mountain and it hovered around the village for 30 minutes. During dinnertime, this village was attacked by rockets. I was at my sister's house at the time. I still remember how women and children were horrified and how they were screaming.", "Mohammed was saved that day because he was upwind of the area where the gas was dropped but he was condemned to relive time and again the nightmare of what he saw. As Saddam Hussein and his top Baath party officials and military commanders face trial for the Al Anfal campaign, some of the survivors will testify and Mohammed hopes the trial will somehow bring him peace.", "I am happy with the trial, not only he but all Kurdish people are happy to see Saddam go through this trial. We are all ready to be witnesses against Saddam in this trial.", "The group Human Rights Watch say over 100,000 people died during the attacks, which lasted several weeks. Saddam Hussein and his officers are accused of being the first governments ever to use chemical weapons against its own people. (voice-over): The Kurdish survivors think this second trial for Saddam Hussein is a luxury he doesn't deserve.", "He should have been executed the day he was captured because he did many horrible things in his life.", "Saddam Hussein already faces a death sentence if he's convicted of crimes against humanity in his first trial. He faces the same penalty if found guilty in this one. Harris Whitbeck, CNN, Baghdad.", "Our in-depth coverage of Saddam Hussein's new trial begins at 6:00 a.m. Eastern and it will continue throughout the day right here on CNN. News in our \"World Wrap\" tonight. In western India, homes barely visible under flood waters, triggered by heavy monsoon rains. About 20,000 people have evacuated the area and the army has been sent in to help with relief work. A close call for about 1,000 tourists visiting a religious site near Izmir in Turkey. A fire tore through a wooded area surrounding the site and the tourists had to be quickly evacuated. Two firefighters were hurt. And Pope John Paul II says working too hard is bad for the spirit. Today the pontiff quoted a 12th Century saint as saying excessive work can cause a hardening of the heart and a loss of intelligence. The pope is heeding his own advice. Last month he was vacationing in the Italian Alps and he is spending the rest of the month at the papal palace in a lakeside town outside Rome. Carol Lin joins us now with a look at what's ahead on more of", "Well speaking of travel, Drew Griffin did a terrific investigative piece on the fact that 98 percent of commercial cargo in passenger planes goes unchecked. So I'm going to be talking with the former head of the Transportation Security Administration to talk to him about why. I mean, this happened on his watch.", "Frightening.", "Exactly. And at 7:00, we want to hear more from our viewers. Last night at 10:00 we were asking people, the question whether they thought John Mark Karr had anything to do with JonBenet Ramsey's death. So we're going to be asking, soliciting e-mail from our viewers. We got some really interesting answers what night. And a lot of people think that he did not.", "And everyone has a strong opinion about this case.", "You bet, and especially the more information that comes out, the more bizarre the tale gets. And so I just think -- we have some new information today, so viewers may have some feedback on it.", "We will be listening and watching. Thanks so much, Carol. Well from the rubble of the World Trade Center, a five-year mystery finally solved.", "For the last five years you basically told nobody about this.", "Correct. My mother didn't know the details at all.", "And how come you didn't tell people.", "I just wanted to put it -- I thought that mission accomplished, you know, job done.", "CNN's Gary Tuchman has the untold story of the unsung hero ahead on CNN, the most trusted name in news."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "IAN FINKENBINDER, FORMER ARMY TRANSLATOR", "JOHNS", "FINKENBINDER", "JOHNS", "FINKENBINDER", "JOHNS", "FINKENBINDER", "JOHNS", "NATHANIEL FRANK, U.C. SANTA BARBARA", "JOHNS", "PETER SPRIGG, FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL", "JOHNS", "WHITFIELD", "HARRIS WHITBECK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator)", "WHITBECK", "MOHAMMED ABDULLAH, FAMILY KILLED IN GAS ATTACK (through translator)", "WHITBECK", "ABDULLAH", "WHITBECK (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator)", "WHITBECK", "WHITFIELD", "CNN SUNDAY. 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{"id": "CNN-14127", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-8-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/17/ee.12.html", "summary": "Beaver: Russian Crew Could Have Survived Dual Explosions Aboard Trapped Sub", "utt": ["Now the viability of the British mini- sub mission hinges on a number of elements, timing being the most critical right now. Military analyst Paul Beaver joins us with some perspective. He has been following this story from his position at \"Jane's Defence Weekly\" in London. And Mr. Beaver, we thank you for taking time to talk with us this morning. I understand that you have been talking with a number of people, Russians and Norwegians who are involved with this operation, what have you learned?", "Yes. We've been in touch, not only with the Russians in Moscow and Murmansk, also of course, with the Norwegians and with the NATO task force, which has been there, and task force perhaps too great a word for it, there have been NATO ships that have been monitoring the exercise in which the Kursk was originally taking part on the weekend. Now, all the information we have is that it seems there were two explosions on Saturday night that were detected by a Norwegian spy ship about 20 kilometers away, about 15 nautical miles. What they detected was a small explosion, which would be characteristic of a torpedo, and then a much larger explosion, which would indicate that either some more of the warheads went off, or perhaps one of the cruise missiles, which is stored outside the pressure hull in the submarine, she carries 24 of them, that one of those warheads detonated. And the British tell us that they have also seen pictures which indicate a high-energy source, an explosion, took place. It looks as though it ripped through the first two main compartment, the torpedo compartment and the torpedo handling room, and probably even breached to the control room. So massive damage done to that submarine even before it hit the bottom on Saturday night.", "Well, considering that then, what do you think are the possibilities that perhaps all the crew perished in the blast?", "No. I don't think all the crew would have perished in the blast. You have to remember, these submarines are pretty rigidly built. The Russians know how to build nuclear-powered submarines to withstand explosions. So I would imagine everything after the reactor compartment, which is specially shocked-loaded so it doesn't get destroyed by torpedoes, everything after that, into the engineering space there, that should all be OK. Now the problem for the conscripts who man these engineering spaces is that there usually are very few officers there. So there's not a lot of command and control when it comes to escape. So, the good thing, though, is they have got an escape hatch there, it is of the sort that is fitted to all Russian-built submarines, and the LR5 has already docked a few years ago with a Polish submarine, which has a similar escape mechanism. So we are holding quite a lot of hope, if LR5 can get alongside, if the angle isn't too great, they can actually dock properly.", "Well, let me ask you this, finally, has an LR5 ever made such a docking in these kinds of conditions what with the weather and the surf there?", "Nobody has ever docked in quite this way in these conditions, with the currents running, with the problems above the surface. The advantage the LR5 has is it's an independent mobile vehicle so it can actually operate by itself, it doesn't need anyone on the surface, it can operate to degrees of 60 degrees of list, to 20 degrees nose down, the submarines out at the moment, it can do that. And it has the capability of mating onto any hull. So we are actually holding out quite a lot of hope for it reaching it, but what they find there at the end of the day, that is the big question.", "Exactly, that is the big question. Well, here's hoping they will make some history and come back with a happy ending of some sort. Paul Beaver, thank you very much for your expertise. We appreciate it.", "Absolutely."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL BEAVER, \"JANE'S DEFENCE WEEKLY\"", "HARRIS", "BEAVER", "HARRIS", "BEAVER", "HARRIS", "BEAVER"]}
{"id": "CNN-42663", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2001-10-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/28/tonight.02.html", "summary": "U.S.-Led Air Strikes Go Into Week Four", "utt": ["The U.S.-led campaign is going into week four. From the latest from the Pentagon, let's turn to CNN's Brooks Jackson -- Brooks. Oh, we are having a problem with our -- Brooks, are you there?", "... went a little more deeply into military operations. He said they are not being held back or getting bogged down. According to some accounts, the military operations are being held back deliberately to allow diplomatic efforts to assemble a broad Afghan coalition to replace the Taliban, but Secretary Rumsfeld told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that U.S. forces are vigorously aiding the Northern Alliance forces on the ground.", "We are dropping thousands of pieces of ordinance to assist them in addressing the Taliban forces that are arrayed against them, both there and over at Mazar-e-Sharif and down at Kandahar. The thing you're reading in the paper that the United States for some other -- some reason is restraining these people is just factually not true. We are providing food. We are providing ammunition to the extent we can. We are encouraging them. We are providing air ground support.", "Now, at the same time, Rumsfeld held out no hope for a quick end to the conflict. He said the Taliban has miles and miles of underground hideouts, and that even using 5,000-pound earth- penetrating bombs closing them will take time.", "There's no question but that we have been systematically working on the caves and on the tunnels and on their openings, and we have had some success. Now, the problem is there are a great many of them, so it's going to take some time to deal with them and make them less habitable.", "Now earlier, responding to a reporter's question, Rumsfeld said the three-week-old conflict is", "From day one, the president has said and I have said repeatedly that this will be a long, long effort. This is something that is new. It's different. It's not easy. It is like looking for needles in the haystack.", "He said the quagmire idea is one put forth by reporters who need a headline every 15 minutes -- Donna.", "All right. Brooks Jackson at the Pentagon, thanks very much."], "speaker": ["DONNA KELLEY, CNN ANCHOR", "BROOKS JACKSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY", "JACKSON", "RUMSFELD", "JACKSON", "RUMSFELD", "JACKSON", "KELLEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-323038", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-10-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/08/cnr.03.html", "summary": "A Police Body Cam Shows Shooting Of A Man", "utt": ["All right, new body cam video of a fatal police-involved shooting in North Carolina. And a caution for viewers, this video is disturbing.", "Put it down! Drop your gun! Drop your gun!", "Put it down!", "It appears in the video that the man was shot as he had his hands up. The officer yelled for him to drop his gun. However, it's not clear from the video whether the man was indeed holding a gun. CNN Polo Sandoval has been following this investigation. So Polo, what do we know about the 911 call that brought police there in the first place?", "Well, Fred, that's a key question that remains unanswered. So that's clearly making it more difficult for investigators who are looking into this case and also the family of this man who lost a loved one, who are trying to get answers of their own because the reality is, according to the information that I have here from authorities, is that they still have been unable to say exactly why Reuben Galindo had initially called authorities to his home in the first place in Charlotte, North Carolina. As we play that, again, that fairly graphic and disturbing video for you, there is that warning but also the importance of seeing this so that you can at least see for yourself what took place, all of this happening on September 6th. Authorities say that Mr. Galindo made a phone call. I listened to those 911 dispatch records yesterday and I heard that exchange between both the dispatcher and this 29-year-old man. And in it you can hear -- Galindo say that he does have a weapon, that he does have a gun, but he does not have ammunition. You then hear the dispatcher repeatedly ask him to store that weapon in a safe place until police officers arrive there, which as we see here they do eventually make it there. Officers did make it there. They did see this gentleman in the front door -- in his front doorstep. And as you're able to see here, his hands are up, but it's very difficult to make out whether or not he did have a handgun or at least a weapon in his hand. Authorities say he did. And that's what prompted this response, this reaction from police to fire, shooting and killing this man. So now there is a full investigation under way. These officers, as you enter procedure, they are on administrative leave as they try to find out a very key component in this all, Fred, will be the toxicology reports. They do have reason to believe that Mr. Galindo had either been drinking or under the influence possibly of some kind of drug, but authorities saying they cannot confirm that until those toxicology reports come back, and then they may have some of these answers.", "All right, Polo Sandoval, thanks so much. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WHITFIELD", "POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-104663", "program": "INSIGHT", "date": "2006-4-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/06/i_ins.01.html", "summary": "Silvio Berlusconi Campaigns for Reelection", "utt": ["Smooth operator. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is used to smiling for the cameras. After all, he owns quite a few of them. But will Italian voters pull the plug on this TV tycoons reelection bid? Hello and welcome to INSIGHT. I'm Colleen McEdwards. He is king of an empire and that title was self-made. But if Silvio Berlusconi wants to continue being Italian prime minister, he will have to earn it this weekend. Beginning Sunday, voters will chose between Mr. Berlusconi's conservatives or challenger Romano Prodi's central left coalition. On television, the campaign has been dominated by Mr. Berlusconi, the leader who really has the Midas touch in the media. Mr. Prodi is far less camera ready, but some think that is part of his appeal. The campaign has been close and contentious. Alessio Vinci has more now on Mr. Berlusconi, a man who basks in the spotlight of Italian politics.", "Berlusconi...", "Berlusconi...", "Berlusconi...", "Silvio Berlusconi knows how to steal the headlines. Hardly a day went by in this election campaign when the conservative prime minister did not say something that made Italians clap or cringe. He vowed to give up sex until election day, compared himself to Jesus and Napoleon, promised he would abolish taxes and homeownership, and branded those who would not vote for him as \"morons,\" using a vulgar Italian slang word for testicles.", "quite a few people are appalled. But very often, they are the people that are not going to vote for him anyway. But the man on the street says, \"Oh, he's a man of the people. Here he is, you know, he talks like us. He's afraid of getting bull (ph), as we are.\"", "The prime minister has been trailing in the opinion polls, but in January he began to narrow the gap by embarking on a month-long media blitz that put him on television almost every night, both on private networks he owns and on state channels his coalition controls. That was supposed to end in February when campaign rules impose equal television access time to all candidates, but observers like Paul Ginsborg, author of a book about Berlusconi's TV power, says the equal time rule, know here as", "Although there is no authority to control television broadcasting, it has no teeth. It is a completely toothless dog.", "News directors working for Berlusconi channels disagree. As commercial TV is surviving on advertising, they say, it's not Berlusconi who calls the shots, but viewers. Carlos Rossella leads Italy's TG5, the main evening news watched by millions every night.", "I am a friend of Berlusconi, but when I am the editor of TG5 and a journalist who works with TG5", "Enrico Montana used to lead the TG5 until he was replaced by Rossella a year ago. \"I was sent away precisely because I would have acted differently during this election campaign,\" he says. \"There is no doubt that the mass media, and television in particular, has paid more attention to Berlusconi than to his opponents.\" But Montana continues to work for Berlusconi's station and even interviewed him during the campaign. But, he says, the prime minister's opponent, center left coalition leader Romano Prodi, refuses to appear on his show, insisting Berlusconi's channels are biased against him. Prodi said that in 1996, the year he was elected prime minister over Berlusconi, the imbalance wasn't as deep. \"Back then, he didn't control public television,\" he says. \"Now, he owns private television and controls public television, so the imbalance has increased even further.\" But on Wednesday, Berlusconi backed out of a primetime appearance because Prodi refused an invitation to take part. At a rally in the evening, the prime minister lasted out at the opposition coalition for exploiting the equal time rule. \"When Prodi refused to appear tonight,\" he thundered, \"the TV station invited other opposition leaders. They refused. They even invited editors of leftwing newspapers, but the Journalist Association,\" he says, \"warned them not to go.\" But for all the favorable television access Berlusconi may have had, he's also gotten his fair share of rough willing (ph), which does not sit well with the prime minister. On one occasion, he stormed out of a television studio after being pressed on why his media company posted large revenues while others in the same sector did not.", "After five years of his power in Italy, the national public television ended up with minus 25 million euro in advertising, and his company plus 500 million in advertising. So I challenge him on that point.", "Is that because of the conflict of interest?", "If you are the major owner of a major television network, and you also are the head of the government, obviously there is some sort of a fatal attraction between you and the people who give money for advertising.", "Berlusconi's allies reject allegations the prime minister adopted legislation favoring his businesses and that parliament passed laws to help him avoid a trial on charges of false accounting. Berlusconi's office turned down numerous CNN requests for an interview.", "Italians are resigned to the idea that once you are in power, people are going to do their own interests and business anyway. That's an idea that goes back probably to the", "The media tycoon turned politician did not limit his campaign to television. Drawing from his own bank account, he spent 3 million euros to send this glossy magazine to 11 million families across the nation, featuring his successes at home and abroad, paying homage to the late Pope John Paul II and at one point claiming that U2 rock star Bono was grateful for Italian government efforts to aid poor countries. Days later Bono replied that Berlusconi had yet to fulfill donation promises. Analysts suggest that Berlusconi has spent close to 40 million euros on his campaign, nearly three times what his opponent has.", "The problem is that Berlusconi has lost the one thing that money cannot buy, credibility. You see, when he promises something, people think yes, but he has promised another thing four years or five years ago and he hasn't done it.", "Not so say Berlusconi supporters, like this former factory worker. \"With just a few words, Berlusconi does what he promises he'll do,\" says Luigi, who has always voted for the left until now. \"He has convinced me and I'm here to vote for him.\" (on camera): The country appears evenly split between those who like Berlusconi and those who loathe him. But his supporters here insist their man is the most credible politician Italians have to chose from, and they site the fact that he has led Italy's longest standing government since World War II as proof that his unconventional style of leadership ultimately works. Alessio Vinci, CNN, Rome.", "We're going to take a break, but when we come back, is the Italian public tired of its leader's glitz and gaffs? We'll have more on Silvio Berlusconi when we return.", "Celluloid Silvio. A new film is generating a buzz over the Italian leader, though not the type he would like. The movie is about a struggling producer who finds a script about Berlusconi's early life. The film was made by an acclaimed director who is not exactly a fan of the current Italian government. Berlusconi says the movie is horrible. Will the box office affect the ballot? Welcome back. People used to say that elections in Italy didn't matter much. The country was doing well economically, people were happy. But some observers say this time is different, this one really does matter, because Italy is facing economic competition from Asia and Europe like it never has before. Well, to talk more about Silvio Berlusconi's campaign and his prospects, we're joined by Senator Paolo Guzzanti. He is a senator in Mr. Berlusconi's party and also serves on Italy's Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. Senator, good to talk to you. You know, a lot of analysts and some opposition are saying that Mr. Berlusconi's outburst has made him seem almost more like an opposition leader than someone who's ready to lead Italy for another term. What would your response be to that?", "I think that Mr. Berlusconi is perfectly ready for leadership for five more years and, of course, I hope that it will happen. But what is the real point in this electoral campaign is that parts of the electorate, the Berlusconi electorate, which voted for Berlusconi in 2001 now is missing, deserting the polls, didn't pass to the other side because they are in some way frustrated. And the big bet in this election is to understand what is going to be their behavior on Sunday and Monday.", "That's interesting. What's the root of that frustration, that disillusionment?", "Well, I can give you just my explanation, being a member of the parliament in Mr. Berlusconi's party. And the point is that in Italy, what was expected by Berlusconi's government, by his part of electorate, was what we call liberal revolution, liberal in a different meaning of the American meaning, meaning just democracy, balanced democracy. Because Italy comes from a long, long Cold War still acting in Italian policy. Which sounds strange and old, maybe, abroad, but is very actual here. So what is part of the frustrated Berlusconi electorate is about what didn't happen in order to make Italy more like, similar to the United Kingdom or the United States of America, the vital democracies, and there is still strong resistance, for instance, about the media problem. I know it's impossible to believe abroad, but we've announced exactly the opposite of the problem as you showed it before. Meaning all the press -- all of the press, the Italian press -- is, was and will be against Mr. Berlusconi. And the public service in Italy is made by three different channels. One of them, channel number three, the third channel, is, was and will be only for the Italian left both when they are at the government and they are in the opposition. So there are many tricky things that you cannot may be catch being in America, yes.", "Yes, it's bizarre looking in from the outside, but still, I mean.", "Yes, it is.", "But, still, you have this disillusion, that you point out. But you also have Mr. Berlusconi, who had lots of access, who had a full campaign where he took every opportunity to stand up and, you know, compare himself to Napoleon, compare himself to Jesus Christ. I mean, why has he not done a better job in this campaign of selling his success?", "You know, his personality is, of course, flamboyant, and he makes gaff. He is sometimes over talking, his own personality. And this is also why he is loved. Don't forget that Berlusconi won in 1994 and he won the electoral vote even who he lost in 1996. And he won again in 2001. So there is something in his personality, of course, that is charming, attracting the majority of Italian electorate. You know, if anything that were said about Berlusconi was true, in this case the Italian electorate should be considered, I don't know, stupid or tricky, I don't know what. Actually, it's just normal people voting for Berlusconi because Berlusconi made a great job in the infrastructure, which is the reason -- Italy has such poor infrastructure, we have such poor industrial production because we don't have railways, we don't have highways, we don't have", "Let me ask you about that.", "Yes, please.", "How important is it, if Mr. Berlusconi wins again, how important is it to get down to the business this time of fixing some of those issues of infrastructure at a time when Italy is facing a whole new Europe, it's facing competition from Asia that wasn't there before?", "The reason is the industrial fabric in Italy is made of a kind of tissue made up of very small companies, which is the reason of the \"Made in Italy,\" old Italian style. It's made by small, small companies that cannot compete with the new coming Asian powers copying everything, especially things that are just made by style, the typical Italian style. And the big companies, like the car industry, Fiat, they never had a real competition in Italy and abroad. They always worked with the state, which is absolutely unacceptable in a modern democracy. So Italy is different, behind the other countries in Europe, and in some ways also ahead because there is a particular thing which is that \"Made in Italy,\" the kind of you want genius, or something, making the difference, and giving us the hope for a new past, a new jump ahead.", "A new future. Senator Guzzanti, I don't know how close you are to Mr. Berlusconi or how much access you have to him in the final days of the campaign, but it's not long now before voters go to the polls. Do you have a sense from him what he thinks the outcome is going to be? How confident he is? Because one of the things the opposition keeps pointing out, you know, they want people to believe that this is a desperate man saying desperate things because he thinks he's going to lose.", "Of course, if I were them I would say the same thing. I would say something equally nasty about Mr. Romano Prodi. But I won't. The point is, Berlusconi is a very determined man. He's a succeeding businessman, which is something absolutely -- no Italian could be more American style. He is a self-made man and he is very self-confident. He is really thinking -- I'm afraid. I think that possibly we can lose because it is very possible. But he is sure to be the winner, and I hope he's right.", "All right, Senator Paolo Guzzanti, we have to leave it there. Thank you. It's been a pleasure.", "Thank you.", "And coming up here on INSIGHT, equal time. A look at challenger Romano Prodi when we come back. Don't go away.", "There is a silver lining in this year's Italian elections. Voters must chose between 69-year-old Silvio Berlusconi and 66-year-old Romano Prodi. The people who study demographics say Italian citizens are getting a bit grayer themselves. Birth rates are low in the country and the average age is now 42-1/2. Well, Romano Prodi is the leader of a coalition made up of center left parties and a kind of a hodgepodge of other groups, including ex-Christian democrats, Communists and pro-Vatican moderates. The question is, can they win? Well, joining us now to try to answer this is Giovanna Melandri, a member of parliament from the Democratici di Sinistra Party. Ms. Melandri, thank you so much for being here.", "Thank you.", "We talked earlier about some of the missteps that have been made by Mr. Berlusconi. Mr. Prodi has had his share of them as well. Not to mention his perceived sort of flip-flopping on the issues of taxes. How well has the campaign handled the issues?", "Well, you see, I think the campaign has handled prior problems of Italian people, who in fact are, after five years of this government, much more insecure, poorer, have less trust and hope in the future. I think this is a very concrete feeling and very material, and also psychological feeling, that you can grasp in the country.", "Do you think your party and Mr. Prodi have tapped into that as effectively as they could have?", "Well, we've tried to do our best and, you know, to say that Italy needs a fresh start over again and this start, this new start that we need to introduce is made of, you know, a more secure welfare system, more investment in strategic resources that this country does have in abundance, you know, like research and beauty and culture and technology. The problem is that for five years this country has been governed by a man that treated Italy as if this country was his own company. And you can't rule a country like that.", "You know, Ms. Melandri, you know as well as anyone how easy it is to talk about what Italy needs going forward. It's a lot more difficult to put those policies in place and pay for them. How is Romano Prodi going to pay for some of the things he's promised to do?", "Well, first of all, we need to put under control the budget, which unfortunately has been left out of control in these days. And we need to do different policies. We need to invest more in welfare and in research, on education system. And less on other things. And certainly our economic policy and our fiscal policy is very different from what has been put in place in the past years. I think Italy has the resources and there are constraints and those constraints have to be accepted, but it's a question of strategic decisions.", "You know, Mr. Berlusconi's camp says Romano Prodi is going to raise taxes, he's going to hurt shopkeepers, he's going to hurt the self-employed.", "Which is not.", "Will you? Will the coalition do that if he wins?", "No, no. Look, you know, the whole issue of taxes, Berlusconi campaigned five years ago on the promise of less taxation for all, and the result is that only a very few rich, very rich Italians, have paid less taxes. Generally speaking, the middle class in this country and, you know, the big heart of the country, has paid just the same amount of taxes and has less resources in its pocket. So I think the question of paying taxes is very badly addressed. What we are saying is that everybody has to pay taxes according to his or her capacities. And what we cannot accept, which was very largely accepted by Berlusconi's government, was that people did not pay taxes and evaded the fiscal rule.", "Ms. Melandri, few would quibble with the fact that Mr. Berlusconi has been a master at getting media attention, particularly on television.", "Sure.", ". for the reasons that we well know. How difficult has it been for your party and for the campaign to deal with some of the really rhetorical statements that he's made, you know, saying Italy will be overrun by the Communists if Mr. Prodi is elected, likening himself to Jesus Christ in some cases? As a campaign, how difficult has it been to watch that sort of steal the headlines away from some of the issues?", "Well, let me tell you, I have a feeling that we've witnessed two parallel campaigns. There was one campaign played in the media by Senor Berlusconi. Overwhelming presence. I mean, he does, you know, own part of the Italian TV broadcasting system, and he controls the other part. And that was one campaign. The other campaign was out there on the ground with people, asking themselves if they were well and better off today than five years ago. And nobody -- I think his credibility is really going down the drain.", "All right.", "And I think that is the major issue here now at the moment.", "Credibility.", "The credibility issue.", "Giovanna, we have to leave it there. Giovanna Melandri, thanks so much. Appreciate it.", "Thank you. Thank you very much. Bye-bye.", "All right. And that is it for this edition of INSIGHT. I'm Colleen McEdwards. You're watching CNN. 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{"id": "CNN-179800", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-1-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/22/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Congresswoman Giffords Will Step Down From Congress This Week; Penn State Coach Joe Paterno Died of Cancer", "utt": ["Hello again, everyone. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. We're following two developing stories now. Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords is resigning this week. She says she's getting better, but wants to focus on her recovery. We'll talk about her legacy and what comes next. And an outpouring of grief for legendary Penn State coach Joe Paterno. Hours after his death, we're hearing from family, fans, players and people involved in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse investigation. We begin with the Gabby Giffords announcement. Giffords released a video statement online just hours ago saying she has to focus on her recovery.", "I don't remember much from that horrible day, but I will never forget the trust you placed in me to be your voice. Thank you for your prayers and for giving me time to recover. I have more work to do on my recovery. So to do what is best for Arizona, I will step down this week. I'm getting better.", "Let's bring in CNN's Athena Jones in Washington. So, Athena, what kind of reaction is pouring in?", "Well, we're getting a lot of reaction there was a lot of love and support shown to congresswoman Giffords after the shooting last year. And you remember in August when she returned to the house chamber to vote on the debt ceiling bill, she got a standing ovation from her colleagues. And so, today we have seen reactions from both sides of the oil. Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi released a statement saying in part, \"I join all my colleagues in Congress in thanking Gabby for the honor of calling her colleague and wishing Gabby and Mark great success and happiness.\" And house speaker John Boehner released a statement saying \"I salute congresswoman Giffords for her service and the courage and perseverance she has shown in the face of tragedy. She will be missed.\" And so, those are some of the kinds of statements that we're seeing. We also saw a statement from Arizona governor Jan Brewer thanking Giffords for her service. And now, as you mentioned Giffords' office released a statement to accompany this video and said in that statement that congresswoman Giffords, one of the last, will be to go and complete the Congress on the corner event she had planned to hold last January 8th at a Tucson super market and that event was interrupted by this gunman. He ended up killing six people, wounding 12 others in addition to Giffords. So, she'll be going back and having a private gathering with some of the people who had come to the event to see her and meet and greet her. One of the things she will be doing is that she'll be attending the president's state of the union address this Tuesday evening here at Capitol Hill.", "All right, thanks so much. Athena Jones.", "Thanks.", "So Gabby Giffords was elected in 2006 to represent Arizona's eighth district in the U.S. house. She was one of 13 people shot during that Tucson Congress on your corner event that Athena was explaining there at a grocery store. Six people died in that rampage. The alleged shoot, Jared Loufer in has been found to incompetent to stand trial. The prosecutor is expecting he will be restored to competency so that he can stand trial. If convicted he could face the death penalty. So, let's bring in our senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash. She's joining us on the phone. So Dana, you've been covering Giffords' career. Tell us what some of your sources are saying about her announcement. Did they see this coming?", "Well, I actually spoke with one of congresswoman Giffords' very good friends, the chairwoman at the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. She actually told me that she knew about this for a couple of weeks and that congresswoman Giffords effectively made this decision or this idea came into focus when she returned to Tucson for the year anniversary of the shooting, which, of course, as you mentioned was a couple of weeks ago. And it was then that she sort of realized that going full force in terms of approaching her recovery and also trying to do her job as a member of congress, she couldn't really do the two things at once. As congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said to me, Gabby doesn't do anything halfway. And she also, what Wasserman told me is that, that she realized the recovery in really doing it right will take, quote, \"years, not months.\" And so, that's why she decided to do this, to step down. Obviously, Athena was talking about the statements coming out from both sides of the aisle. Look. Politically, Republicans would love the chance to pick up a seat in the house that he is actually may do here. But nobody, even as partisan as things get on Capitol Hill, nobody wanted to see Gabby Giffords leave Congress this way.", "Alright, so courageous. Everyone of course wishing Gabby Giffords the best. Dana bash, thank you. We're also following the loss of a college football legend. Penn State students, alumni and supporters are mourning the death of Joe Paterno, paying tribute at a statue outside beaver stadium. Susan Candiotti has been there all day. Susan, what are people saying there? And I can see clearly they're leaving lots of flowers and mementos as well.", "They are. In fact, everyone here had someone inkling that something was going wrong that Joe Paterno's condition had worsened when the family put out a statement late Saturday night that his health had turned serious, over complications surrounding the treatment he had been receiving for his lung cancer. And then we received word this morning that overnight the legendary coach Joe Paterno had passed away. Ever since last night, people have been coming to this iconic statue of Joe Paterno ever since, leaving behind as you said flowers and candles and all kinds of mementos. The family issued this statement about their loss, reading in part, \"he died as he lived. He fought hard until the end, stayed positive, thought only of others and constantly reminded everyone of how blessed his life had been.\" Of course, all of this comes amidst that scandal that erupted here at Penn State, surrounding a criminal investigation of Paterno's former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky who is criminally charged with child abuse. That never touched Joe Paterno directly, but certainly indirectly and toward the end of his life, he had said that he wished he perhaps could have done more when he learned about suspected child abuse back in 2002. Yet many supporters here say they will always love him.", "He's more than a coach. His family is one of the families that aside from all that have happened, this is different. It is all the people that have come to pay respects to him and it is Joe -- Joe was Penn state. He made Penn state.", "We're still going to love him no matter what anybody else said. It wasn't Joe's fault. We're still going to love Joe Paterno forever and ever period because we are Penn state.", "We don't know about funeral plans as yet. And the university is also going to be scheduling a memorial for him at some point for the man who was considered to be the heart and soul of Penn state - Fred.", "Susan Candiotti, thanks so much. So Paterno's history with Penn state dates back more than 60 years. He was named assistant coach back in 1950. He became head coach in 1966. Over the course of his career, he logged 409 wins, more than any other division one coach in college football history. Under his leadership, the team won two national championships, 1982 and then again in '86. Paterno was fired last year amid child sex abuse allegations against his assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. So given all that history, it is no surprise the world of college football and the wider sports world are mourning CNN's sports Mark McKay is here to talk about Paterno's impact. We're talking about half a century in football, college ball.", "Known as JoePa fictionally enough by so many, you saw the emotion on the part of the fans and the coaching fraternity has spoken out, Fred. We heard from Nick Saban, the coach of Alabama, the national champion. He said, quote, \"Paterno was going to do what was best for college football. I think that should be his legacy.\" We have also heard from South Carolina's Steve Spurrier. \"It was sad how it ended, but he was a great person and great coach.\" It really does speak, Fred, to the dichotomy of this, such a world renowned person when it came to doing things right in the field, but toward the end, what he may have not done in such a wider scope is going to tarnish this legacy.", "And it really is interesting because it was difficult for a lot of supporters of Joe Paterno to come out shortly after the allegations surfaced because people were quite reserved. They weren't sure what his role was, how much he knew et cetera. However upon his passing, just a flood of sentiment, of people who are trying to talk about his football legacy and less about the fall from grace.", "Amazing that you said that. You and I have been a chance to talk that passed away. I just felt it today, since we knew about 10:15 Eastern time. We have seen sights like this. This is Indiana. They hosted Penn state in college basketball today. A moment of silence held for Joe Paterno. But, you know what he did, Fred? He did it right. He, on the field this was a team that, you know, he graduated the players. There was an incredible graduation rate. He had all Americans as well. So, when it came to a sterling program, on the field, there was nothing that anybody could say bad about Joe Paterno and his legacy on that side.", "Yes. Franco Harris among those who are talking about the loss of JoePa. Alright, thanks so much, Mark McKay, appreciate that. Meantime there is new audio coming from that deadly cruise ship disaster in Italy that we want to share with you coming up. You'll hear from the captain who is accused of abandoning ship. You'll hear what he said when asked if he would actually stay on board. And, after taking heat on the campaign trail about his finances, Mitt Romney sets a date to release the tax returns."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN HOST", "REP. GABBY GIFFORDS (D), ARIZONA", "WHITFIELD", "ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "JONES", "WHITFIELD", "DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (via telephone)", "WHITFIELD", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CANDIOTTI", "WHITFIELD", "MARK MCKAY, CNN SPORTS", "WHITFIELD", "MCKAY", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-126349", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2008-5-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/08/acd.02.html", "summary": "Up Close Interview with Barack Obama", "utt": ["Later, death and delay -- the exploding humanitarian outrage in Burma as the military dictators there keep cyclone relief to a trickle while thousands of bodies rot and survivors go hungry.Plus, \"Crime and Punishment,\" Charles Manson almost 40 years after he and his twisted followers painted southern California red with the blood of seven people; new evidence that the Manson family body count may be a whole lot higher. We'll take you to the ranch where more bodies may be buried. First, though, late moves by Barack Obama to solve the Democratic nomination and Hillary Clinton's last-ditch efforts to stop him. She's soldiering on, campaigning like there's no tomorrow. He is starting but only just starting to campaign like the nominee. Tonight, you can decide for yourself what kind of case he's making against John McCain and hear how senator McCain answers it. We'll be playing extended clips from Senator Obama's in-depth interview today with CNN. But first, we take you on the campaign trail. Candy Crowley has the \"Raw Politics.", "Colleagues, tourists, pages looking for a picture and press crumbs.", "How much longer will the race go on Senator?", "Barack Obama was on Capitol Hill this morning with the aura, though not the votes, of a presidential nominee.", "That's why I'm running for president, sweetie.", "And you'll win it too.", "So is she putting together an exit strategy? A Clinton insider replays N-O, exclamation point.", "This is like deja- vu all over again. Some in Washington wanted us to end our campaign, and then I won New Hampshire.", "The itinerary speaks to her current state of mind. Having made her case in West Virginia which has its primary next Tuesday, Hillary Clinton took off for South Dakota, very much in the race.", "So on June the 3rd, Montana and South Dakota will have the last word.", "She needs a 9.0 on the Richter scale to shake this up in her favor. Guess who is in West Virginia today waiting for an earthquake?", "She can still win this thing if you vote for her big. They're going to have to resolve Michigan and Florida, and when they do, she can win the popular vote.", "It's not a widely held theory. Some Clinton supporters are jumping ship. And Obama is still gathering up superdelegates. But one Clinton adviser says she's not campaigning in some kind of parallel universe. She doesn't think this is over. Clinton believes she's the best candidate to beat John McCain so the superdelegate courtship continues.", "I'm winning Catholic voters and Hispanic voters and blue collar workers and seniors. The kind of people that Senator McCain will be fighting for in the general election.", "Another source close to the Clintons adds there is more to this than the math. She has a loyalty to the history she and her supporters are writing.", "Too many people have fought too hard to see a woman continue in this race; this history-making race. And I want everybody to understand that.", "And it is her supporters, including millions of women, who give caution to many Democrats and the Obama campaign. They need those votes in the fall. They cannot be seen trying to muscle her out.", "I don't want to get ahead of myself here. Senator Clinton is a very formidable candidate.", "Privately, some party leaders are anxious to have this over. But one top level party honcho says we're talking three more weeks. Let it ride.", "Bill Clinton is waiting for an earthquake. Or they both are. What kind of earthquake, are they talking about; Florida or Michigan or are they hoping some sort of implosion in the Obama campaign?", "Well, you know, I think actually the thing that would help her the most is if there were some sort of implosion, some sort of Jeremiah Wright-like event that would give superdelegates some pause. Absent that, it is really very difficult. Now, you heard Bill Clinton say if they include Michigan and Florida, then she'll have the popular vote. They think that that's a superdelegate argument. That if at the end of the day she comes out with the most popular vote when you add all the primaries and some of the caucuses together, that she will have more popular vote and that will add to her argument that she's the most electable. First of all, it's questionable whether she will come up, even if you add in Michigan and Florida, with the most popular vote. And it's sort of questionable whether if he, meaning Barack Obama, comes on June 4th and has the most pledged delegates. It's going to be very, very difficult to deny him this nomination and if they do at this point, it really would cause an implosion in the party. We're going to have more with Candy coming around. We want to move on though to the interview with Barack Obama. And the winner is, that's what \"TIME Magazine\" is putting on their cover tomorrow along with a picture of Barack Obama. Tonight up close, his first interview since winning North Carolina; an interview which has in some ways outraged the McCain campaign. You'll hear why shortly. He sat down today with Wolf Blitzer and he was trying to walk a fine line, as you'll see, as the likely nominee, focusing on John McCain without appearing to underestimate or diss Hillary Clinton. Take a look.", "\" Here's the cover \"And the Winner is.\" That's a picture of you. What do you think?", "Well, I think, I don't want to be jinxed. We've still got work to do.", "It's almost like being on the cover of \"Sports Illustrated.\" Is that what you're -- you're nervous about that?", "Exactly. Exactly right. We've got six more contests left and then, you know, we've got a lot of work to do to bring the party together. Obviously, we felt very good about our win in North Carolina on Tuesday. I think we ran a terrific campaign in Indiana and it was a virtual tie. And, you know, if you look at where the race is at this point, I think we've seen voters across the country say they are ready for change. They are feeling real anxiety about the economy. And they've come to recognize that unless we change how Washington is done, it's going to be very hard to deliver on a smarter energy policy. It's going to be harder to provide health care for people who need it or make college more affordable. I think our campaign has benefited from it. So I'm looking forward to bringing this party together and going after John McCain in the fall and hopefully getting this country on the right track.", "It's been intense in the primaries. But you realize it's going to be much more intense in the next chapter, in the next phase, given the differences between you and John McCain? Are you ready for this next phase?", "I'm actually looking forward to it. If we're successful, I don't want to get ahead of myself here. Senator Clinton is a very formidable candidate. She is very heavily favored to win West Virginia. She'll win that by, you know, a big margin. She's favored in Kentucky. We'll probably split the remaining contests so she's going to be actively campaigning.", "We asked our viewers to send us in some questions and we got thousands of responses, as you can only imagine. I got a couple I just wanted you to watch one of those and get your reaction. A lot of people ask this basic question.", "It appears you do not have enough support among blue collar workers as Senator Clinton did. Would you consider just on that basis alone, considering her on a joint ticket as vice president?", "Dream ticket -- the answer to that question ahead when the interview with Barack Obama continues. As always, Erica and I are blogging throughout the hour. To join the conversation, go to cnn.com/360. We'll also tell you about the new war of words between Obama and McCain sparked by this interview. And later tonight, the crisis in Burma and the people trying to help in spite of the Burmese dictators. And the search for new evidence against Charles Manson. Digging for bodies that could begin shortly on a ranch where Manson and his follows lived near 40 years ago. Ted Rowlands investigates. Here's a preview.", "Gold prospector Emmett Carter knew Manson and his top lieutenant Charles \"Tex\" Watson. He says rumors about more Manson victims have swirled for years. Stories like the one that Carter says a Manson follower told him.", "This one girl didn't get along with Manson or Watson at all, and they took her for a walk. And they came back in a short distance and we never saw her again. I would hope that maybe they would find her."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER", "CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CROWLEY", "SEN. BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CROWLEY", "SEN. HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CROWLEY", "CLINTON", "CROWLEY", "BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CROWLEY", "H. CLINTON", "CROWLEY", "H. CLINTON", "CROWLEY", "OBAMA", "CROWLEY", "COOPER", "CROWLEY", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR, \"THE SITUATION ROOM", "OBAMA", "BLITZER", "OBAMA", "BLITZER", "OBAMA", "BLITZER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COOPER", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "EMMETT CARTER, GOLD PROSPECTOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-80725", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-12-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/30/lad.18.html", "summary": "One Iraqi Killed, Three Hurt in Attack on U.S. Convoy", "utt": ["Turning now to the U.S.-led mission in Iraq, literally under the gun now. We take you live to Baghdad, where CNN's Ram Ramgopal has the latest -- has news of the latest attack. Ram -- tell us about it.", "Well, Carol, indeed this attack happened early this morning, just before 9:00 in the heart of Baghdad in a district called Kurado (ph), which is chockablock with buildings, of homes, of shops, businesses. And it happened just before 9:00 as people were getting ready to go to work, children on their way to school -- a roadside explosion, which left at least one Iraqi dead and two others wounded. The police saying that the bomb was apparently intended for an American convoy, but it missed its target. And soon after the attack, a spontaneous demonstration on the streets of Baghdad of people protesting against the United States for not providing adequate security. Apart from this, Carol, overnight in the town of Baquba, which is about 40 miles north of here, people -- at least three people have been arrested in raids by the coalition in an area where they believe many loyalists of the former regime were holed up. According to the coalition, at least one top former intelligence official has been arrested. Back to you -- Carol.", "Ram Ramgopal reporting live from Iraq this morning. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "RAM RAMGOPAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-396186", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-03-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/27/cnr.22.html", "summary": "The World Pays Tribute to Health Care Workers.", "utt": ["So this is the scene across London a few hours ago as the United Kingdom came out into the streets to honor the national health service workers who are saving lives in hospitals around the country. Now those were actually just residents of one street in London. Doctors and nurses across the world are overworked and overwhelmed and overstretched. So no doubt they are very relieved to be getting that kind of support, but people around the globe are also trying to find other ways to say thank you as Issa Soares now reports.", "In lockdown, isolation or in quarantine the world is uniting briefly opening their windows and doors and honoring their health care heroes. The hundreds and thousands of men and women around the world putting their health and their lives on the line for all of us. They do it out of duty or calling or passion. But still, the world applauds. The tributes have been global from Spain, where the medical staff came out to welcome the recognition, to Italy, France, the United States, and right around the world. These are some of the faces of our health care heroes. The soldiers on the frontlines. And they have the physical and emotional scars to show for it. Their faces exhausted and bruised for wearing tight protective masks for hours on end. But the scars have all go deeper. Ruben Herrera (PH) is an emergency room nurse from Spain and tells me he hasn't seen anything like this in his 14 years in the job.", "(Speaking in Foreign Language) At this hour, really, I feel as if my chest is about to explode. I've spent most of my evening injecting patients in wheelchairs because there are no free beds available, not even to put out in the corridors.", "Across Italy medical staff say conditions remain dire.", "(Speaking in Foreign Language) We're working in a state of very high stress and tension. Psychological tension has gone through the roof. Unfortunately we can't contain the situation in Lombardy. There's a high level of contagion and we're not even counting the dead anymore.", "(Speaking in Foreign Language) All the doctors and nurses have been selected to give a hand in a situation that is something like a movie. If you didn't see this you wouldn't believe it.", "(Speaking in Foreign Language) It's hard above all to see people who are sick and don't have family close to them in this moment.", "And here in the U.K. experts say the peak could still be weeks away.", "I want to rest", "So to slow down the virus they're calling on all of us to do more than just clap.", "(Speaking in Foreign Language) I'm Francesco, and I want to say this. I'm getting applause when they see me because they know I'm an ICU nurse. That doesn't make sense. They way to thank us nurses is by staying at home.", "Isa Soares, CNN, London.", "So you can find out how you can help feed the hungry, protect health professionals, aid refugees and support service workers during this pandemic, please do go to CNN.com/impact. So that's the show for now. I will be back, though, with another hour of CNN NEWSROOM just ahead. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["CURNOW", "ISA SOARES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "RUBEN HERRERA, EMERGENCY ROOM NURSE", "SOARES", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SOARES", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SOARES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SOARES", "CURNOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-153888", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-8-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1008/03/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Clerk Uses Faith to Stop Robber", "utt": ["All right Kiran and John, good morning. Thank you very much. Good morning, everybody, I'm Don Lemon. Kyra's off today. I want you to take a look at three stories that we will have for you. That just gives you an idea right there of what life and death are like in Juarez, Mexico, the murder capital right next door. Drug cartel killers get more sophisticated and threaten at least one American lawman. The robber has got a gun, the clerk has got her faith. Clerk wins. We're talking to her about this life-altering experience. And you'd know if a man's role model is Tony Soprano, some bad things can probably happen. It could explain why this man is accused of killing up to 10 people. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. Boy, it is August and it is a meltdown. Much of the nation baking in triple-digit temperatures. We've seen record-setting heat already this week. And more of the same right on the way. Break out the sunscreen, pump up the air conditioner, keep a bottle of water handy. Of course, when the sun beats down like this it's not just uncomfortable it is downright dangerous. Tennessee is among the states that are really sweltering and sweating under all of this blanket of oppressive heat. It's so stifling in Memphis, in that area, a man actually died while mowing his lawn. And the Health Department says the high temperatures certainly played a role.", "And I tried CPR and I wasn't successful. The paramedics came within probably less than five minutes. I did -- I only got about 60 compressions in. He was a good man. He was a man of god.", "That man, 66-year-old Stuart Evans, is the ninth person to die of heat-related complications in the area so far this summer. Heading west now to Arkansas, high temperatures and no water. Faucets are running dry in parts of Van Buren County after a man -- after a main water pump and a backup pump both failed. So the Arkansas National Guard is trucking in thousands of gallons of water for thirsty residents there. CNN's Rob Marciano tracking all the extreme temperatures for us. Rob, what's on tap today?", "Well, I think similar to what we saw yesterday, Don. Check out these high temperatures. These are record highs and they are striking. And again, I say this all the time but it bears repeating. All these numbers are measured in the shade and they don't take into account humidity. So you go out in the sun, you include that humidity, and these numbers feel a lot worse than they are right here. Nonetheless, 108 degrees was the record-high temperature yesterday in Wichita, Kansas, Joplin, Missouri, 102, Portsmouth, Arkansas, 107, Little Rock got 106, 106 in Monroe, Louisiana. Memphis, Tennessee hit 100. Jackson, Mississippi, 105. And all the way into Alabama as well. So across the border, we're seeing some serious heat air and it continues today with the heat indices here going up at maybe as high as 118. Again, you factor in that humidity and that really limits the amount of evaporation off your skin, so you heat up real quick. And a lot of states not only under heat advisories but pink areas that excessive heat warnings and that is just dangerous, dangerous heat. So take the necessary precautions you need in order to get that wet. We're going to see a little bit of a cool-off but not really until the end of this week and the weekend. So the heat, I think, is going to be here to stay for a couple of more days.", "All right, Rob, thank you very much.", "You got it.", "There's some developing news to tell you about. New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission votes today on the fate of a building set to become an Islamic center and mosque. There's been a lot of heated debate leading up to this day. The issue is its proximity to ground zero in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood. CNN's senior correspondent Allan Chernoff is at Pace University. This is a few blocks from ground zero where the commission will vote. Allan, walk us through what's supposed to happen today.", "Well, Don, let's talk about first what's at stake here. Now what is at stake is the future of the building, not its actual use. So this morning the Landmarks Preservation Commission here in New York City is going to vote on whether to grand landmark status to that building on Park Place, two blocks north of where the World Trade Center used to stand. The developer intends to create an Islamic center there including a mosque. And as you know that has generated a tremendous amount of controversy. Now if the Preservation Commission does grant landmark status that means the exterior of the five-story building is protected. The developer would have to work with that exterior would not be able to touch it. However, if the commission votes against landmark status, the developer can just knock the building down and create whatever he wants. The plans have called for a building at least 13 stories high for this Islamic center. The takeaway here, the most important thing for people to recognize is that this Islamic center is going forward unless the developers and the people behind this initiative decide to listen to the protesters and do it elsewhere. But for now, they are planning to move forward. And Don, what's really interesting here is the fact is that for weeks now that building actually has been hosting Muslim prayers every single day during the workweek, from Monday to Friday. People today will be gathering there and praying, peacefully, two blocks north of the World Trade Center site -- Don.", "Allan, can you talk a little bit more about what developers have in mind for this Islamic center? It will be more than just a mosque, right?", "Exactly. Their basis -- their idea is to create an Islamic YMCA, which also, they say, would be a place to reach out to all the religions, other people, to basically make people understand what Islam is all about. They want to have a community center, a pool, perhaps a gym, and of course a mosque as well. But it's based upon the YMCA concept, they say.", "All right, CNN's Allan Chernoff in Lower Manhattan. Allan, thank you very much. We'll follow up on this story throughout the day. You know it is day 106 of the Gulf oil disaster and this could mark a turning point in shutting down the ruptured well. BP plans to carry out a test that will decide whether it can move ahead with the static kill operation that is the first phase of a two-step process to permanently seal the well. The static kill operation was delayed yesterday when a small leak was found. Scientists now say some 4.9 million barrels -- 4.9 million barrels -- of oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico. That new estimate is pretty close to what had been called the worst-case scenario. Mexico says it will sue BP and possibility the U.S. government even though no oil has been found in Mexican waters. Mexico has spent about $35 million monitoring the spill. A secret weapon that scared away a would-be robber.", "What?", "The Jesus I got before you leave.", "God bless you for that.", "I'm Christian.", "That woman you hear there, she came face-to-face with a gun and pulled out her own arsenal of faith. We talk live with the store clerk who credits her survival to a divine intervention."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "KEITH MCGOLDRICK, NEIGHBOR", "LEMON", "ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "LEMON", "MARCIANO", "LEMON", "ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "CHERNOFF", "LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NAYARA GONCLAVES, STORE CLERK", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GONCLAVES", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-213614", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-8-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/29/cnr.06.html", "summary": "White House Briefing on Syria; British Lawmakers Debate Syria; Case Against Military Action in Syria", "utt": ["The crisis in Syria has triggered intense debates in major capitals around the world, as you can imagine. British lawmakers took a stand against striking out just yet. I want you to listen to some of this debate. This is beginning with comments from the British prime minister himself, David Cameron.", "The question before the House today is how to respond to one of the most abhorrent uses of chemical weapons in a century, slaughtering innocent men, women and children in Syria. It is not about taking sides in the Syrian conflict. It is not about invading. It is not about regime change or even working more closely with the opposition. It is about the large-scale use of chemical weapons and our response to a war crime, nothing else.", "We have to assess, over the coming period in a calm and measured way not in a knee-jerk way and not on a political timetable, of whether the advantages of potential action, whether it can be done on the basis of legitimacy in international law and what the consequences would be.", "Listening to this speech, any reasonable human being would assume that the gentleman is looking to divide the House for political advantage. What has happened --", "What has happened to the national interests?", "I have to say that intervention is not worthy of the honorable gentleman.", "The move in the U.K. was driven by the public because lawmakers were flooded with e-mails and phone calls urging for some space to find out more events -- more about the events that are actually taking place inside of Syria. Right now, this is still a war of words but the U.S. seems to be inching closer to some kind of military action against the Syrian regime. In the capital, Damascus, things may look normal enough. Today, President Assad meeting with a delegation from Yemen, giving the impression that it is business as usual. This is the first time that we have seen the Syrian president since allegations of the chemical attacks against the rebels that surfaced last week. Also today, in an open letter from the speaker of Syria's parliament to Britain, he is warning against joining any kind of attack against the regime. He said it would, quote, \"automatically strengthen our common enemy, al Qaeda, and its affiliates.\" President Obama says he has not yet made a final decision on using military action against Syria. But he is convinced that the Assad regime gassed its own people and should pay.", "If, in fact, we can take limited, tailored approaches, not getting drawn into a long conflict, not a repetition of Iraq, which I know a lot of people are worried about, but if we are saying, in a clear and decisive but very limited way, we send a shot across the bow, saying \"stop doing this,\" that can have a positive impact on our national security over the long-term and may have a positive impact in the sense that chemical weapons are not used again on innocent civilians.", "So we have looked at why the U.S. might hit Syria but what would be the down sides of any type of military action? \"Reason\" magazine senior editor, Peter Suderman, has written a provocative piece called \"Eight Reasons Not to Go to War in Syria.\" He joins us from Washington. Peter, good to see you, as always. Map this out for us, the case you're making for us not to get involved.", "There are several reasons why we should be weary of any kind of strikes in Syria. One is there is really no end game. The White House just has not articulated a clear plan for what happens after the limited strikes that we've heard about. Another is that it is not clear what the actual effect of limited strikes that we've heard about would really be. You know, even President Obama admitted in the interview yesterday that it wouldn't stop the Assad regime from killing civilians in his own country. And the final reason is that it is really not clear that the United States has any interest in either side winning. The rebels here have close links to al Qaeda. The Assad regime is closely linked to anti-American forces in Iran and would increase Iran's influence in the region if they were to win. So the United States just doesn't have an interest in getting involved.", "So, Peter, explain to us here because the president says that there is this international norm, if you will, that it is unacceptable to gas its own people, to use chemical weapons in the case of Syria, and that there is a point to be made in that. Do you think that is legitimate here, that even sending a signal or a message is important?", "I notice he is talking about international norms, not international law. There are serious legal questions about strikes here as well. But remember, that this red line talked about of chemical weapons on civilians is really more of a gray area. As we saw at the White House press briefing recently, just a few minutes ago, the White House actually thinks that Assad has used chemical weapons before, so it is not clear why this instance would not deciding factor. It is very, very murky line to draw.", "The White House would argue -- I think Jay Carney and the president would argue it is on a much grander scale, a much larger, massive scale than previously seen. But I want to ask you this: What would be the alternative here? Do you think there is a plan where you would have, instead of sticks, carrots to the Assad regime that would bring him back to the negotiating table in some way with the Syrian rebels?", "It is really hard to say, you know, what the United States could do to help there, but the thing that we could do is not intervene in a way that would hurt, in a way that is not likely to stop the killing of civilians in the country, and it is not likely to further any clear American interests either. The thing that we can do is we can condemn the horrible actions we have seen, the killing of civilians, and we can look for alternatives rather than striking, which is likely to make the situation worse.", "Peter, do you think that the U.S. has any credibility, any kind of cache with either Russia or China to work more closely with them, to push them in some way to get involved because, of course, they are the strongest allies that the U.S. at least has relationship with to Syria?", "They may prove to be routes where we can at least get communication through, but the U.S. relationships with Russia is, of course, quite fraught right now, and any attempts to negotiate with Russia or to negotiate with Syria through Russia are obviously going to be pretty complicated.", "All right. Peter, appreciate your perspective. Still ahead, we all know texting while driving, not good, but now you can actually be charged even if you are not behind the wheel. We're going to explain up next. And here is a look at what you're going to see on Saturday in \"The Next List.\"", "This week on \"The Next List,\" we talk to two remarkable innovators. Ben Kaufman, the founder and CEO of quirky.com. Kaufman is passionate about giving would-be inventors a way to get product ideas to market.", "It is human nature to invent. What stops people is to actually do that and execute on all of those ideas. It is really freaking hard.", "He is using the talent of a half million online vendors to do it.", "You are now a Quirky inventor.", "And Saul Griffith, an inventor, scientist and winner of the coveted MacArthur Genius Award.", "Sometimes you just have an idea and you're like, oh, no, I've had the idea and now I have to do it.", "Griffith and his team are revolutionizing robotics and creating a whole new field of soft machines.", "When fully pressurized, an arm could lift a human an arm's length.", "This Saturday, 2:00 p.m. eastern on \"The Next List.\""], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER", "ED MILIBAND, BRITISH LABOUR PARTY LEADER", "UNIDENTIFIED BRITISH PARLIAMENT MEMBER", "UNIDENTIFIED BRITISH PARLIAMENT MEMBER", "MILIBAND", "MALVEAUX", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MALVEAUX", "PETER SUDERMAN, SENIOR EDITOR, REASON MAGAZINE", "MALVEAUX", "SUDERMAN", "MALVEAUX", "SUDERMAN", "MALVEAUX", "SUDERMAN", "MALVEAUX", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-157839", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-11-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1011/05/ltm.02.html", "summary": "CT Scan and Cancer: Promising Development in the Fight Against Lung Cancer; Don't Ask, Don't Tell, What Now?", "utt": ["Lung cancer kills 160,000 people each and every year. It's the deadliest of all cancers. And doctors say they could do much better with those numbers if they had a better way to detect the disease earlier. Well, the National Cancer Institute has just finished comparing the number of deaths in heavy smokers who were screened with standard chest x-rays against those who were scanned with sophisticated spiral CT scans. The results are compelling. Those who were screened with a spiral CT had a 20 percent lower rate of death. Joining us now live from Washington to discuss this development is Dr. Douglas Lowy. He's the deputy director of the National Cancer Institute. Doctor, these are pretty significant numbers when you look at the statistics. Twenty percent of 160,000 deaths is 32,000 people every year.", "Yes. But I don't think that we can yet be sure that the screening would be applicable to all of the people who get lung cancer. It's important to remember that the study that was conducted was really in a special group of high-risk people who have been smoking for many, many years. And although smoking occurs predominantly -- lung cancer occurs predominantly among heavy smokers, there are other people who develop lung cancer who have smoked much less.", "Right. You know, Dana Reeve being one of them. Could this be applicable, you know, if somebody like Dana Reeve, how do you assess their potential risk? But if somebody who's never smoked can die of lung cancer like she did, should everybody get screened?", "Yes, I think this is an excellent question. And it's the kind of question that's going to be addressed as more information from the trial becomes available. The problem is that there are potential downsides or disadvantages to having the screening, such as exposure to radiation. And there are also a lot of false positives because many of the abnormalities that are picked up turn out not to be cancer and yet they may result in surgery or biopsies that have their own complications. So as we go forward and get more information about the study itself, it will be then easier to try to make determinations. Who is most appropriate for screening, how frequently, and how -- and for how many years.", "There's also the issue of expense, as well. These things aren't cheap. And it makes you wonder, would insurance companies be willing to do preventive screenings on people annually?", "Yes. This always is an issue. At the moment, screening CT is not covered by insurance or by Medicare. Diagnostic CT, on the other hand, is, once you have identified an abnormality. It remains to be determined whether insurance companies or Medicare will end up covering it. But clearly as recommendations are made in the future by various groups such as the American Cancer Society, for example --", "Right.", "-- my expectation is that there will be coverage.", "Now, it's obviously very compelling research and very exciting for some people. One spiral CT advocate, Dr. Claudia Henschke, believes that these scans could be even more effective. The study was done over a period of two years and then the participants in the study were followed for an additional three. She says she believes that if the studies were done over 10 years and done on an annual basis, you could save 80 percent of people who would have otherwise died from lung cancer. Do you -- do you see that sort of promise in this?", "Well, I think that it certainly is possible that if people were continued to be screened as long as they were in a high-risk group that you might see even greater benefit. But the key point about this trial was to ask whether this procedure actually confers benefit by reducing mortality. And the trial itself unequivocally shows that the answer is yes. The trial will not answer all questions and these kinds of issues may actually require further research.", "So on a diagnostic level, what is it about spiral CT that is so much better than conventional x-ray?", "Well, that's a great question. What we think is going on is the ability to detect cancer at an earlier and more treatable stage. But the analysis within the trial has not been carried out far enough to actually confirm what we think is the most likely explanation. However, as the analysis is done over the next few months, we will be able to determine what are the real benefits and who benefits most from the CT scans.", "Well, we look forward to the results of that analysis. And let's get you back on in a couple of months to talk more about it.", "Well, thanks so much. A pleasure being with you.", "Appreciate it. Dr. Douglas Lowy of the National Cancer Institute.", "Very promising.", "Yes. You know, it could be anything, you know, to save people's lives is a good thing. But again, as he said, somebody like Dana Reeve, it was such a shock.", "I know.", "And not long after Chris died, she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Never smoked a day in her life, so how do you know? Well, crossing the half hour now and our top stories this Friday morning. A passenger plane carrying 68 people has crashed in central Cuba. There were no survivors. The AeroCaribbean flight was headed for Havana when it went down last night near the village of Guasimal. Officials in Havana say 28 foreigners from 10 countries were onboard that aircraft.", "A report says that BP's vast network of pipelines in Alaska get a failing grade for maintenance. At least 148 of BP's pipelines on Alaska's north slope received an F-rating, which means the pipeline walls are 80 percent corroded and could rupture at any time. The company spokesman trying to put a positive spin on the report says it means they have a higher priority repair plan.", "And Costco shoppers, listen up. If you've recently bought any, and this is any Dutch-style gouda cheese made by -- here's the manufacturer -- Bravo farms, do not eat the cheese. Return it to the store. Federal health officials say the cheese has been linked to an outbreak of E. coli bacteria. So far, 25 people have gotten sick. The cheese was sold in Costcos in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and San Diego. We're also finding out this morning that those Costco outlets were offering free samples of the contaminated cheese to its shoppers. So there are lots of folks out there who probably already have been exposed.", "Well, President Obama pledged to repeal the Pentagon's \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" policy toward gays in the military but so far has not. Now in the wake of the Republican control in Congress, he may have lost the chance and it cost him big time in 2012. Our Chris Lawrence is following that for us live at the Pentagon. How does the hand over of Congress to the GOP leadership now affect \"don't ask, don't tell\"?", "Well, Kiran, it gets the clock ticking. You know, some high-ranking Republicans on the new Congress have already said publicly they don't want to repeal \"don't ask, don't tell.\" You know, some of the troops that I've spoken with, they feel the same way. But this issue means something to a lot of gay and lesbian activists. And now the president's got about four weeks left with this old Congress to get something done for them.", "Some of President Obama's strongest supporters remember the leader who twisted arms and pushed hard for financial reform. But say that guy was nowhere to be found on repealing \"don't ask, don't tell.\"", "It's time for us to move this policy forward.", "I'm truly disappointed because, you know, when he was running and campaigning I was pro-Obama.", "This guy.", "Omar Lopez was kicked out of the Navy for being gay.", "Keep you promise, Obama.", "He says the president squandered a huge majority in Congress and had his Justice Department fight to keep \"don't ask, don't tell\" in place after an Appeals Court ruled it unconstitutional.", "Now, this is not a Bill Clinton administration law. Now it's turn into his law because he's pushing against it, you know, of lifting it and taking his sweet time. It's already been two years that he's been in office and hasn't taken any - any action.", "The old Congress has one more shot before the new one is seated. And Senator Harry Reid determines what bills get brought up and when. The senators begin the lame duck session November 15th to debate the repeal, pass it and reconcile with the House of Representatives could take three to four weeks. If Reid doesn't bring up the bill until after Thanksgiving, there's likely not enough time. The Pentagon's study on what troops think is due December 1st. So senators might have those results by the time they actually cast their vote. But again, they'll probably go home around the 22nd.", "If this bill gets brought up under less than optimal procedural position, that'll be Senator Reid's decision alone. If it gets brought up after Thanksgiving versus before Thanksgiving, that'll be Senator Reid's decision alone. So Senator Reid is a very important player in this.", "\"Roll Call's\" Ben Roth said what Reid decides now will impact President Obama later. Remember what Omar Lopez said?", "Now, this is not a Bill Clinton administration law.", "Gay rights supporters may punish him at the polls.", "I think again, it's going to be harder in 2012 when he's going to be really trying to build up his base. And some will say when you had 59 senators, I mean, you couldn't get this through, and what was the problem? And you waited too long.", "Yes, the key to this four-week session is going to be some of these moderate Republican senators who said they will wait to hear about the Pentagon study before making their decision. Folks like Scott Brown, Olympia Snow. They would have to allow this bill to go forward for now knowing that they would see the results of that study before they actually cast their vote next month. Kiran?", "We'll have to see what happens. Chris Lawrence for us this morning. Thanks.", "Thirty-three minutes after the hour now. And still to come, a mom in Missouri takes to her blog to vent after other mothers disapprove of her little boy's choice to wear a girl's costume on Halloween. Little did she know that thousands and thousands of comments and page views she'd get. She joins us coming up next on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["ROBERTS", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-317945", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2017-07-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/31/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Critics Decry Venezuela Vote; 100 Years Since Battle of Passchendaele.", "utt": ["Tonight, international outcry as Venezuela's president takes another step from democracy to dictatorship. The head of the Organization of American States joins me from Washington. Also, the governor of Iraq's Kirkuk Province tells why the country's Kurds want to move ahead with a referendum for independence. Plus, remembering the devastating Battle of Passchendaele 100 years on. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. I'm Fred Pleitgen in for Christiane Amanpour. Leaders from Brussels to Brazil are condemning the controversial election in Venezuela, which on Sunday chose a new legislative body to take the place of a current opposition-led national assembly. The criticism of the government of President Nicolas Maduro nominated all 545 candidates and that includes his own wife. The opposition, of course, boycotted the vote and all this comes after months of hyperinflation, food and medical shortages and of course those massive protests. Ten people died in clashes on Sunday alone bringing the death toll to 125 since April. Tonight, we're very fortunate to have our own correspondent Paula Newton on the ground in Caracas. And, Paula, many people were fearing mass protest and violence after the vote but it seems as though at this point in time still fairly quiet, right?", "Well, yes, and it does come to some relief. I have to tell you, Fred, the people here in this city and throughout Venezuela who are absolutely exhausted. That doesn't mean the fear has dissipated. And they are also wondering, even if you speak to people who support the opposition, they are saying, look, this is it. We're done with democracy in Venezuela. Now that this super body is in place, the Maduro government can do whatever it likes and that includes arresting people without cause, and that will also include passing any law they deem appropriate. Now the Maduro government says that is not the purpose of this new super body, but certainly no one is believing them at the moment especially with some of the heated rhetoric that's been flying in the last several days. Most notably from President Maduro himself in the early morning hours, I want you to listen to him talk about the Trump administration.", "The spokesman for the government of emperor Donald Trump said that they do not recognize the results of the elections of the Venezuelan ANC. What do we care what Trump says? What we care about is what the sovereign people of Venezuela say.", "So interesting here of course the Trump administration promise that if Maduro went through with his vote, which he did, there would be strong and swift economic action. We are awaiting that. Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. calling this whole election sham, and saying it's an illegitimate government. It will be interesting now, Fred, to see what those sanctions are are actually going to be put into place. The devil will be in the detail on how much it will actually hit the regime. And perhaps it may also, unfortunately, hit the people here. The people of Venezuela.", "Yes. And, you know, Paula, it was so interesting that you said that the opposition says we're done with democracy here in Venezuela. What's their next move? What can they do now?", "Yes, and such a good question, Fred. You know, it has literally been years since the opposition has been trying to coalesce around these issues. Get on in the street. Put more pressure on the Nicolas Maduro regime. It really hasn't work. Whether it's been peaceful, whether it's been protest on mass. And they right now are trying to figure out what to do. But the key is perhaps in the interview that you're going to have next, many people here have not felt that the international community has been enough. Certainly not strong enough to things like sanctions or pressure on this regime. That is another reason, Fred, that if you talk to people on the street that they are saying as fearful as they are with the kind of sanctions that the U.S. government can put into place and remember they control a lot of what happens here. Half of all the revenue in Venezuela comes from sales of oil to the United States. They also feel that it could be a new pressure points and that may finally make sure that this regime had some pressure put on them. Fred?", "The big question was sanctions, especially by the ones that Washington could lobby against Venezuela's. How do you put on sanctions targeting the government or whoever is in power and not the people? The big, of course, saying with the oil sector, what do people think that America could do, that America should do at this point.", "Well, the problem is once you start putting sanctions on that oil sector, it's impossible almost to detangle that from what will be a deepening humanitarian crisis. Again, more than 95 percent of all the revenue this sanction get from that oil sector, the Trump administration is weighing some very targeted sanctions which could help to that extent a little bit, but really will be quite painful in the short term for everyone here. What is interesting, though, is again just from the few people that I spoke to on the opposition ranks, how many normal everyday people like you and me, Fred, are saying OK, if that's the way it has to be, we have to put up with more of humanitarian crisis then so be it. We need this to change.", "Paula Newton in Caracas. Thank you very much for your reporting. Of course, we'll keep an eye on the situation there. And see if any protest materialized later on in the day. Thank you very much. And now from Washington, D.C., I'm joined by one of President Maduro's most vocal critics Luis Almagro, the secretary general of the Organization of American States. Sir, you saw how the election went down yesterday. There was a lot of violence. There are obviously many people calling itself into question. What's your reaction?", "Yesterday is the day that Venezuelans will mourn and will mourn forever. 16 people at least were killed during the demonstrations. And that is a big tragedy for the country. 16 people to be killed in one day. It's only -- we cannot see the war that only", "At what point do you think that the situation -- as you've noted, there had been 16 people killed yesterday. 125 at least killed since all this began. At what point does this threatened to seriously destabilize Venezuela.", "Venezuela is completely stabilized. And the country has completely fall into economic, social, political and financial crisis. The way it is to restore democracy in the country. We know what the people want. We know what the people think. And we know that the people will do whatever is necessary to achieve it. To restore the democracy today is the imperative of the international community about Venezuela on his, of course, the needs of the Venezuelan people.", "Nicolas Maduro for his part says that he is giving power to the little people in Venezuela and taking it away from what he calls the oligarchs. What do you make the statements of that?", "That statement is not right from the beginning until the end. The Venezuelan people are suffering like they can never suffer before. We have seen this social crisis, putting people to die because of lack of medicine, because of lack of food. And the rights of children mortalities are highest ever. They have appear disease that were eradicated for decades. So what we are facing is an incredible humanitarian crisis that we would have to need to resort in the future.", "I know that you have been trying your hand at diplomacy over the past couple months there in Venezuela. What power does the OAS now have to try and mitigate the situation? Somehow to, as you say, a return to democracy, but also to make sure that Venezuela itself gets back on track. Because it is a very dire humanitarian situation as you've noted as well.", "We have tools. The main tool to restore democracy in the country is applied in the American democratic charter. And for that, we need the support of the countries. We have been very loud about denouncing what is going on in Venezuela. We have taken away impunity from this dictatorship. We have been very clear in the way that we need to move forward in order that the institutions should start working again. That the restoration of power to the different branches of government is achieved. That means we need to increase international pressure and internal pressure also have to be increased -- form of international pressure assumptions.", "But when you say that, when you call for things to be restored, changes to make in Venezuela, you know that President Maduro and some of the others in the government are saying that the OAS and you particularly are biased. What do you do in that situation? Do you still have any sort of leverage? Any clout there on the ground? Can you actually still talk to this government of Nicolas Maduro? Are you talking at them right now without getting any sort of response?", "The government of President Maduro has been passing messages to me practically every week. We have been doing our answers to them. But the answers are very clear because in all our charters and conventions and agreements that you have in the framework of the organization, that the work ahead would have to be done also by all member states together. Our capacity to denounce, our capacity to take impunity away as I said, it is relevant week. I will have our capacity also to encourage sanctions against the Venezuelan dictators. And, of course, at the end of the day, some of the sanctions will have to affect the regime as a whole. Because, today, the money that they received from their natural resources is not by any means going to the people. In fact, people are not receiving anything. Nothing of this money. But that they are excessively receiving more repression against them.", "How important is America's role going to be? Because obviously America is by far the most powerful country in that region. I want to read you a tweet. Nikki Haley, America's ambassador to the United Nations sent out, saying, quote, \"Maduro's sham election is another step towards dictatorship. We won't accept any legal government. The Venezuelan people and democracy will prevail.\" What can America do now? And a lot of people are talking of possible sanctions against Venezuela's oil sector.", "First of all, the United States should stay attach to the principles, the principles of democracy and respect of human rights. The second thing is to take action and that those actions that can be taken, I have mainly can be derive as sanctions. These sanctions could be targeting of course the authorities of the regime. And also from where these regime is getting their revenues. And that should be the bottom of action that the United States should go, move ahead.", "Obviously, sir, if there's instability in Venezuela, that's something that can also threaten stability in the entire region, because you do also have some disagreements in the OAS as well. For instance, countries like Bolivia, siding with the Maduro government. How do you maintain stability now and sort of work as a united front?", "This was very difficult to maintain stability when we have a regime with these characteristics. That this completely disrespectful of the", "I'm afraid we're going to have to leave it there because we are running out of time. But I do want to thank you very, very much for joining us. I know that you will be continuing the diplomacy to try and get that situation there under control. Thank you very much, sir, in Washington, D.C. And of course, we do will continue to ask for a representative from the Venezuelan government to come on the show and join us in the program, but so far our quests have been ignored. And when we come back, another vote in another country. This time in Iraq where the Kurds are set for referendum of independence from Baghdad. Kirkuk's governor says now is exactly the right time for the votes. 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{"id": "CNN-358206", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-12-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1812/30/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Tabloids Take Aim At Meghan, Duchess Of Susse", "utt": ["The glamorous American TV star, who married a British prince, is now making headlines again. Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has become a favorite target of the British media. CNN's Max Foster has more on why the press continues to scrutinize her every move.", "Just seven months after her fairy tale marriage to Prince Harry, noted by commentators as a celebratory reflection of modern prism, the knives are out in certain sections of the British media.", "There's been almost shockingly quick turnaround. One minute, Meghan, it's her royal wedding. It's marvelous and fantastic. The next minute, there are all these negative stories in the press, stories about Duchess at war. It really is within a few months Meghan seems to have move from the nation's heroine to someone who is actually being discussed in ways almost make her seem as if she is the nation's villain.", "Sources close to Meghan and Harry tells CNN, they saw it coming. The wives at war narrative that they say speaks to female stereo typing in the media more than it does to the reality of royal family dynamics. Sad and predictable are two words I heard used for the coverage.", "In the past, you have seen a lot of criticism of people who marry into the royal family. We saw it particularly with Diana. And Diana, she suffered badly. The press criticized her, they criticized her weight, they criticized what she did, and they criticized her fashion.", "Elements of the reporting are undeniably true. The Sussex's are moving out the palace they share with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in London, a decision that seemed to have added to rumors of a rift. Other stories are completely made up according to sources. An article suggested that Meghan is a vegan when she famously revealed she was roasting a chicken when her husband Harry proposed.", "I think race is a factor in this. I think there's a lot of commentators and many parts of the British press that are saying, right, we're going to try to box her in. There's already a gender discount against this. So, there's already the classic stereo type which is, you know, if she is a strong woman, then she is strident woman, she is a bossy woman, she is a difficult woman. And of course, being a woman of color there on top of that is another layer of stereo typical cliches, you know, disadvantage which are. She is the angry woman. You know, she just doesn't fit in. She doesn't understand how we do things.", "Traditionally, British Royals don't respond to negative media coverage and their coaches can't speak on their behalf. So many of the more personal attacks on Duchess about her behavior, for example, has gone unanswered. The Duchess doesn't read all of the articles written about her. I'm told by sources here at Kensington Palace, she is far more focused on selecting charities that she is going to support going forward. She is renovating a new home and she is having a baby in the spring. The British monarchy is an ancient institution and the feeling behind palace walls is that this new latest storm is going to pass. Max Foster, CNN, Kensington Palace, London.", "You are live in the CNN Newsroom. I'm Ryan Nobles in tonight for Ana Cabrera in New York. Finally this weekend, some words from the president about the pressing issues facing the country today."], "speaker": ["NOBLES", "MAX FOSTER, CNN ANCHOR", "KATE WILLIAMS, CNN WORLD COMMENTATOR", "FOSTER", "WILLIAMS", "FOSTER", "AYESHA AZAREKA, POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "FOSTER", "NOBLES"]}
{"id": "CNN-55873", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2002-6-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/14/bn.05.html", "summary": "Florida Hostage Standoff Comes to Close", "utt": ["Want to update you on the developing story taking place in the Coconut Grove section of Miami. You're looking at live pictures there now of what appear to be people exiting a home where, not long ago, a believed suspect was inside holed up along with a woman and children. That person, the suspect who we saw escorted out of the building not long ago, was believed to have shot an off-duty corrections officer in the stomach in that Coconut Grove section, before running into a home, which we believe was chosen at random. Inside, children and a mother, presumably. You are seeing what appear to be -- at least a small child right now. Our Susan Candiotti has been following it. She's on the telephone with us now. Susan what do you know?", "Fredricka, it appears that at least three children have been brought out of the home. You're looking at that picture right now. Two children who are walking and one who is being held. You can see her being handed over now to someone else. We don't know the identity of the person who appears to be wearing hospital scrubs, and they're walking out of frame right now. Evidently, just moments before this, another individual, a male, was brought out of the house with his hands behind his back. Handcuffs were put on him. First he had his hands up, then his hands put behind his back, and he was put inside a police car. We don't know for sure whether that is the shooting suspect that is now in police custody or what his identity is for certain. But it certainly would appear as though these children who were inside the home are now safe and sound. We don't know who else, if anyone, remains inside the house or for sure whether that was the shooting suspect who was placed in back of the police car. It sure would appear that way, but we do not have that confirmed yet.", "Now, Susan, if you could one more time recap for us what we believe preceded this release of the children and the woman. You just did a great job explaining earlier. If you could just reexplain that.", "Of course. And it would appear now -- you just saw those children appear to be giving a statement to authorities. Actually you're looking at a scene -- can't tell if this is happening now or this is a replay -- yes, taped earlier of what occurred here. It started when an off-duty corrections officer had stopped in this residential neighborhood in the area of this house.", "And Susan, that is tape you are looking at.", "Yes, that is a tape replay of what occurred earlier.", "OK, go ahead.", "Sure. And this officer had stopped in his car to ask for directions. We are told by police that someone -- that appears to be a suspect who is being led away now in the upper portion of your screen. At any rate -- and he was handcuffed. Stopped to ask for directions, a suspect leaned into his car. A struggle ensued over a gun. The corrections officer was shot in the stomach, and the suspect got away. The corrections officer was able to drive himself to a nearby gas station and get help. He's currently under treatment. And yes, we are told by the police spokesperson for Miami that the suspect is now in custody.", "OK. And we're looking at live pictures right now, what appear to be sharpshooters that are still at attention and at the ready at an apartment complex presumably very close to the home, where the children and the woman, as well as the suspect were once holed up.", "Yes, that would appear to be the case here. And of course, I am sure that they are trying to make sure that everyone who might have been involved in this is now in custody and there is no one else remaining. But the police obviously are now taking statements from the children who were brought out of that home at this time. Clearly, they're in good enough shape to be able to do that, though clearly, they must be shaken up and frightened after what happened to them. But again, we don't know for sure whether there was anyone else inside the house at this time. We do have confirmed, to recap here, that a suspect has now been brought out of the house. He was handcuffed by the police, and he is now in custody.", "All right, Susan Candiotti, thank you very much, joining us on the telephone from the Miami area. Some very tense moments for that Coconut Grove community there. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "CANDIOTTI", "WHITFIELD", "CANDIOTTI", "WHITFIELD", "CANDIOTTI", "WHITFIELD", "CANDIOTTI", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-100978", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2005-12-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/23/lt.04.html", "summary": "Alito On Abortion; Troop Reduction In Iraq; Airport Crush; New York Transit Up And Running; Holiday Travel Tips", "utt": ["Be replacing Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, that critical, critical swing vote. I think this memo is going to be a major topic in the confirmation hearings.", "No question about that. Kendall Coffey for us this morning. Kendall, thanks for helping us out. Daryn Kagan's got much more on this story. She picks up the coverage now. Hey, Daryn, good morning.", "All right, Soledad, you have a great holiday weekend. You and Rick.", "Thank you. Likewise.", "Thank you so much. And we are going to talk a lot more about the new papers coming out concerning Judge Alito. First, though, let's go ahead and take a look at what else is happening \"Now in the News.\" And we do begin with the developing story out of Washington. Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito saying in a 1985 document that the landmark Roe versus Wade ruling legalizing abortion should be overturned. The document is one of 45 new documents on Alito that was recently discovered by the National Archives and released today. We will have a live report on the significance of this and put it into context for you coming up. Also in the news, troop reductions in Iraq. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today told troops in Fallujah that President Bush has authorized reducing the number of U.S. brigades in Iraq from 17 to 15. That's about 7,000 soldiers in all. Rumsfeld said that further troop cuts would be considered next year when Iraq's new government is in place. An investigation is underway to ensure the results of Iraq's parliamentary elections, that they are on the up and up. A U.S. diplomat tells CNN that Iraqi and U.N. electoral officials are examining allegations of fraud in the December 15th vote. Secular, Shiite and Sunni Arab groups are considering boycotting the new parliament if their allegations of fraud are not addressed. And Wal-Mart is fighting back. The retail giant says it will appeal a $172 million judgment that was awarded to thousand of employees who complained they were denied lunch breaks. A jury found Wal-Mart violated a state law that requires companies to give half hour unpaid lunch breaks to employees who work at least six hours. Good morning, everybody, on this Christmas Eve Eve and Chanukah Eve Eve. I'm Daryn Kagan at CNN Center in Atlanta. We're going to begin the hour with a new development surrounding Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito and the abortion issue. Alito apparently said in a 1985 document that the Roe versus Wade ruling should be overturned. Right now I want to welcome in David Oblon, an attorney in Washington, D.C., to help us put this in context and how this might play out in the confirmation hearings of Samuel Alito. And I don't believe that is the right video. We should be dropping that right now. Thank you very much. Okay. And the confirmation hearings begin on January 9th. David, good morning. Thanks for being with us.", "Good morning. Glad to be here.", "OK. Let's take a deep breath here and step back, because it's a very emotional issue. First of all, this was written in a recommendation to the solicitor general on filing a friend of the court brief. Let's talk about that kind of a document to begin with.", "OK. Well an amicus brief, or a friend of the court brief, is a brief that is filed by a party that's interested in outcome of the particular case that may not be a party. So, for this instance, Alito was working for the government and he was urging that the government get in and file a brief saying the United States of America supports overturning Roe v. Wade. And he was trying to persuade the court as a third party for the particular outcome.", "OK. That was not, obviously, successful because Roe v. Wade is still with us. Does this necessarily reflect a personal belief?", "Not necessarily. He was a Reagan attorney in the Justice Department at that particular point in time and Ronald Reagan was a pro-life president and his administration was following his policies. He was elected on that basis and he was acting as an attorney. I'm an attorney and I regularly represent causes that I don't personally believe in because I'm representing a client. And that's what he was doing in this particular instance.", "So do you think it would be a mistake to make too much of this?", "Yes, it's a mistake to make too much of it. I mean, I don't think there's a person in America who thinks that Alito is a pro-choice person who warmly embraces Roe v. Wade. But he was an advocate at that particular point in time. He has said that he would enforce the law. He has recognize the power of staredecisis (ph), of precedent, and that's 20 years ago that that decision at the Roe -- that that moment was written. And since that time there have been a large number of abortion cases that have further embedded Roe v. Wade into our jurisprudence.", "It will be one piece of information that certainly comes up when these confirmation hearings begin early next year on January 9th. David Oblon, thank you for your insight as the Washington D.C. attorney today. Appreciate that. Also, we'll be hearing from our Elaine Quijano who is at the White House for us today. Meanwhile, there's other news to get to today. Late last night, Congress punted its latest political football by temporarily extending parts of The Patriot Act that were set to expire at year's end. Virginia's John Warner was the lone lawmaker present as the Senate approved a five-week extension that was called for by the House. The House had earlier rejected a six-month extension by the Senate. President Bush is expected to approve that measure of the six-month extension. The Bush administration is firing back on another anti-terrorism initiative revealed and criticized lately, electronic eavesdropping in the U.S. The Justice Department released this memo late yesterday backing the president's authorization of surveillance without court approval. Let's take a look. It reads in part, \"there is undeniably an important and legitimate privacy interest at stake with respect to the activities described by the president. That must be balanced, however, against the government's compelling interest in the security of the nation.\" But former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, when helped draft the post-9/11 legislation, says this today in \"The Washington Post.\" \"If the stories in the media over the past week are accurate, the president has exercised authority that I do not believe is granted to him in the Constitution, and that I know is not granted to him in the law that I helped negotiate with his counsel and that Congress approved in the days after September 11th.\" Be sure to stay tuned to CNN for the most reliable news about your security. On to Iraq where there's word this morning of U.S. troop reduction. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld broke down the numbers in a talk with troops in Fallujah. Our Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr is here with details on that. Barbara, Good morning.", "Good morning to you, Daryn. Well, it's interesting that Secretary Rumsfeld chose the location of Fallujah, Iraq, where there had been so much heavy combat over the last months for U.S. marines and soldiers. Meeting with U.S. troops, he spelled it out and made it official. Indeed, President Bush has now signed the order canceling the deployment of two brigades to Iraq. Here's what the secretary had to say.", "President Bush has authorized an adjustment in U.S. combat brigades in Iraq from 17 to 15. The size and composition of U.S. forces, of course, will fluctuate as commanders continue to shift their focus to emphasize training and supporting the Iraqi security forces.", "So what we're really talking about is about 7,500 troops, two brigades, that were scheduled to go to Iraq in early 2006, now will not have to go. That will bring the troop level down below that magic number, if you will, of 138,00. That was the steady state of force levels in Iraq. A side note, another 20,000 that had been there for election security, they already were planned to be brought back to their home bases. But what is very interesting, Daryn, is, officials are emphasizing there is a change in strategy to look for here. That, overall, precise numbers of troops in Iraq will not be that important, they say, because some individual units may have indeed an increase in force levels. The units that do this security training assistance for the Iraqi forces. There's going to be more of that and less focus on U.S. troops in combat. So the troop levels are expected to still fluctuate a bit. Daryn.", "All right. Barbara Starr at the Pentagon. Thank you. Focusing now on a story back here at home. By planes and trains and automobiles, the rush is on for travelers to get to their holiday destinations. We're watching all of it. Look at these box. More boxes than under the tree. We have the roads and the airports and the weather that might affect your trip. Plus, we'll take you to New York where travel is back to normal following a three-day transit strike. So if you're ready to go, so are we. Our coverage begins at New York's LaGuardia Airport with the crush of holiday travelers and our Alina Cho. Alina, happy holidays.", "Happy holidays to you, Daryn. You know the good news if you're heading out to LaGuardia Airport at this hour, is that things are pretty quiet. You know, there was that morning crush at about 6:00 to 7:00 a.m. There's a bit of a lull now. Things will pick up in the afternoon once again. But things are moving pretty slowly -- pretty smoothly I should say here. Not slowly, smoothly. We're here at the American Airlines terminal and the lines at the ticket counter are pretty short. And again, one thing that you want to keep in mind is that, we've been reporting it all morning, make sure you call ahead to make sure your flight is on time and try to get to the airport early. Joining me now to talk a little bit more about the situation here at LaGuardia is Warren Kroeppel. He is the general manager here at LaGuardia.", "How are you?", "Made that mistake, not slowly, smoothly. I know you were saying that earlier.", "Yes.", "Give me a status report.", "It's been a very heavy travel day but we're very lucky that things are moving along well at the check-in lines and also at the screening points. And the other good news is, we've got some good weather today, so there are no air traffic delays. I was just out there myself. Things are moving well.", "We're looking at another record travel season for LaGuardia, aren't we?", "Over the 17-day period of this holiday, we'll have over a million passengers coming through here. It's about 3 percent over last year.", "I understand somebody got out onto the runway this morning.", "Yes, we have a little bit of a tradition. We have a few of our employees that go out there near the aircraft and they're dressed up as Santa, Mrs. Claus and elfs and the flight crews and the passengers just love it. They're out there waving now.", "A great little treat for the holiday travelers.", "It sure is.", "Thank you so much, Warren Kroeppel, general manager of LaGuardia Airport.", "Thanks a lot.", "You know, travelers around this time, Daryn, as you well know, get a little anxious, they get a little nervous because there are so many people here. But one bit of good news, at least locally, as you well know, the transit strike is now over. So one thing travelers do not have to worry about is how they will get to the airport. Daryn.", "Good news indeed. And we're going to have more on the end of the transit strike in just a moment. First of all, the manager of LaGuardia trying to get a jump on Chad there with the travel forecast. I guess things at least clear in New York City, Chad.", "You were hearing the transit strike in New York City, things are back rolling today. Let's check in with Chris Huntington who I'm sure was pleased not to ride his bike to work today. Chris, good morning.", "Good morning, Daryn. Yes, I managed to ride the subways in this morning. Quite a relief. And that's consistent with everything I've heard from everybody we've had a chance to talk to. I just want to show you the way the New York City newspapers are reporting it. \"The New York Post\" stating pretty much the obvious, \"It's Over.\" But \"The Daily News\" hitting to perhaps the harder truth, that really nobody won out of this situation. Of course, the Transit Workers Union and the Transit Authority are still negotiating behind closed doors underneath the media blackout. So, in theory, we're not going to find out much about what they are discussing. They are still leagues apart in terms of hammering out the specifics of base salary, health benefits and pensions, which was really one of the major sticking points that led to the walkout. But the fact is, the trains and buses for now are back and running and up to full speed. And that's a good thing because, as Mayor Bloomberg pointed out, the city has taken a huge economic height hit and he's certainly hoping that people can do some last-minute shopping. Here's a smattering of what people had to say. We talked to people on the street, people who rode the subways and also people who worked the trains as well.", "Glad to be back.", "Do you think the strike was worth it?", "It depends. It's too early to say.", "It's good. Feels good now. Yes, instead of having to fight the taxi cab gauntlet. It's been interesting.", "It's good to come back to work because we were taking the Long Island Railroad. But it's great to be back.", "Well, I've been commuting to Brooklyn from New Rochelle and it was simply a disaster. It took me about four hours each way and about $100 a day and now I can start saving some money.", "Have a happy, happy holiday. I'm getting on the I-north, baby. Downtown.", "Now, Daryn, we're outside of Penn Station here, which is a major transportation hub. There are trains that come in here that link up with the subway system. And we're also at a major shopping area. Macy's is only about a block away. Fifth Avenue a couple of blocks to the east of here. I have to say, the foot traffic on the street appears to be lighter than what I would expect for this being a full work day and also, of course, a major shopping day just a couple of days before Christmas and Chanukah. So traffic appears to be lighter overall here, but still a relief to everybody in New York City. Daryn.", "I bet. Chris Huntington in New York, thank you. So you think you have it hard this holiday season? How about this story. Eleven kids and your husband is in Iraq. A Cleveland woman talks about how she made it through a very long year. Plus, you've seen plenty of the aftermath but little of the storm itself. We're going to show you some dramatic home video of Hurricane Katrina coming ashore. And later, Mr. Moviefone joins us with your best bet for a holiday movie. 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{"id": "CNN-242934", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-11-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/11/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Michael Brown's Parents Addresses U.N. Panel", "utt": ["The parents of slain Ferguson, Missouri, teenager Michael Brown are taking their case to the world.", "We need the world to know what's going on in Ferguson and we need justice. We need answers and we need action. And we have to bring it to the union so that they can expose it to the rest of the world what's going on in small town Ferguson.", "This was Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, speaking with CNN jut a short time in Geneva, Switzerland. She and Michael Brown Sr. spoke this morning before the U.N.'s Committee on Torture. They said the shooting death of their unarmed son by a white Ferguson police officer and the way police treated protesters in the days after his killing violated the U.N.'s Anti-Torture Convention. In a 13-page statement, they said, quote, \"The United States must take steps to address the torture and/or cruel inhumane and degrading treatment of Michael Brown and other unarmed black and brown persons killed by law enforcement.\" While Brown's parents are all the way in Geneva, back home in Ferguson, people are preparing for the worst as a grand jury gets closer to reaching its decision. It could decide any day now whether to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen. The big concern is that if Wilson is not indicted the town will explode once again like it did are Brown was gunned down in early August.", "It's really a volatile situation based upon, you know, if he's indicted or not. People are pretty upset and feel like justice -- if he's not, that justice may have been derailed.", "Attorney Benjamin Crump is representing Brown's family and he is live in Tallahassee, Florida, with us this morning. Good morning, Ben. You just heard from this Ferguson resident. How concerned are you about more violence if Officer Wilson is not indicted?", "Well, the parents and our legal representatives put on record, Randi, we want people to be able to exercise their American Constitution First Amendment rights, but we want them to do so in a non-violent, constructive way. But we do expect people to react as Americans, not just African- Americans, but all Americans, because this process certainly needs to be fixed.", "The prosecutor meanwhile is saying that he is unlikely to file charges on his own or convene another grand jury if this one does decide not to indict. How do you feel about that?", "Well, Randi, that's what I was saying, I say this process needs to be fixed. There is a problem with this process that is toward police officers with alleged to commit brutality on people of color. That's why Michael Brown's parents were over in Geneva before the U.N. testifying about how their child was executed in broad daylight and had his hands up in the universal sign of surrender and he was laid out in the baking hot son for over four hours with blood pooling from his head. And as tragic as this sounds, this incidence of police brutality on people of color happen over and over again in America and the system continues to sweep their deaths under the rug and exonerate these police officers for killing our children. So, there has to be an American response that we have to do better.", "Getting pack to the grand jury, Attorney General Eric Holder sent a message to the Ferguson grand jury leakers to be quiet. Do you think that's going to have any effect on the leaks coming out of there?", "Well, I don't know, because I think people who leak information do it for ulterior motives and obviously the people who leaked this information in this process that we object to. We don't believe there ever should have been this secret proceeding of this grand jury. It should have been transparent as the American Constitution says and people would accept it more, Randi, if it was transparent, where we could trust the system that it works equally for everybody. There's a great air of mistrust in Ferguson as many cities of America, when people of color are killed by the police, you have the secret proceedings by these prosecutors who work with the police day in and day out. You can predict the outcome and that's what people are so concerned about in Ferguson and that's why people are reacting so hard.", "Meanwhile you're in Tallahassee. Michael Brown's parents are far away in Geneva. Do you think either of you are going to get a heads up before the grand jury's decision is announced and are they bracing for the response from the grand jury?", "We certainly expect to. That would be the decent thing to do, is to let the parents know that a decision is out before the rest of the world hears of it, but more so the parents have continuously said that they want people to respond peacefully and constructively. And they do want people to respond. Make no mistake about it. They greatly, greatly want justice for their child, any parent would want justice for their child who was killed in such a tragic manner.", "And do you plan to travel to Ferguson by the time this grand jury announcement is announced?", "Yes.", "You do.", "I'll be in Ferguson this evening, yes.", "Benjamin Crump, thank you for your time this morning.", "Thank you.", "And coming up later this hour, we will talk with former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik about the best way for police to handle the situation if Officer Wilson is not indicted."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "LESLEY MCSPADDEN, MICHAEL BROWN'S MOTHER", "KAYE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KAYE", "BENJAMIN CRUMP, MICHAEL BROWN'S FAMILY ATTORNEY", "KAYE", "CRUMP", "KAYE", "CRUMP", "KAYE", "CRUMP", "KAYE", "CRUMP", "KAYE", "CRUMP", "KAYE", "CRUMP", "KAYE"]}
{"id": "CNN-331706", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2018-01-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/31/acd.02.html", "summary": "Pro-Trump and Anti-Trump Weighs on SOTU", "utt": ["The breaking news in the New York Times, the headline, Mueller zooms in on Trump tower cover story. The allegation that Hope Hicks on a conference call said this about those e-mails Donald Trump, Jr. wrote, expressing his eagerness for political dirt from Russia. The e-mails, quote, \"will never get out.\" That's what the Times is reporting. Now former Trump legal team spokesman Mark Corallo will tell special counsel Mueller. They're sourcing it to three people unnamed. The e- mails, quote, \"will never get out.\" Now a lawyer for Hope Hicks denies Corallo's allegation. He said she never sail actually said that. The e-mails, of course, did get out. The panel is back with us. Joining us as well is Van Jones and Jack Kingston. Jeff, the Times piece makes the point that even if Hope Hicks was suggesting that the e-mails could be kept secret, it would have been too late because copies of them had already been requested and prepared to send to Capitol Hill. Does any of that give her wiggle room?", "Well, it certainly does. And in fairness to Hope Hicks, I mean, the fact that she says that they might never get out doesn't necessarily mean that she was talking about destroying them or hiding them.", "Right, could have been, just, they're not going to get out, they're not going to get released.", "Right. They're private e-mails on Donald Trump, Jr.'s personal server. I don't think that this is necessarily completely incriminating about Hope Hicks. But let's remember the big picture here. The big picture is, when this story came out, the Trump administration put out a false story about the -- about this meeting in Trump tower. They lied to the public about what was going on there.", "Right.", "What Mueller is doing, quite appropriately, is trying to do a biography of that lie. How did they come to lie about it. And is that relevant to a possible obstruction of justice claim. I don't think Hope Hicks is the issue here. The issue is the President of the United States and what role he had in putting out a false story.", "Carrie, how do you see this reporting by the Times?", "Well, a couple of things. So first of all, Mark Corallo is a well-known, very experienced P.R. official. And he was the spokesperson for the Justice Department in the Bush administration. So he understands how Justice Department investigations work and he understands something about the law. So I think that he will be a credible witness. The second piece is the new report's emphasis on the special counsel's focus on this June 2016 meeting might shed some light on why in recent days we have been hearing from the president's legal team, some new legal theories that they've been floating about why maybe the president can't or shouldn't or it's not appropriate for him to be interviewed by the special counsel. And that might be because if the special counsel's focusing so much on the June 2016 meeting, that events surrounding that would not be protected by executive privilege. Because, of course, he wasn't president then.", "Well, Chris Cillizza, the Times also makes the point that according to Corallo, he was concerned that Hope Hicks' statement was being made without any lawyer on the phone. And the president was on the phone. And therefore, attorney-client privilege could not be invoked.", "Right. I mean, I'm echoing Jeff here a little bit, which is it doesn't strike me necessarily as a giant legal problem. It just -- this particular tidbit. It just strikes me, as you read that piece and you think, this is really the gang who can't shoot straight. The idea that you would have a conversation like the one that the Times is reporting Corallo will relay without a lawyer on the phone, I mean, it goes to all of what we know about that meeting, that June meeting. Remember, I mean, it was primarily about a relatively obscure adoption law. Well, turns out it wasn't.", "Right.", "The e-mails will never get out. Well, it turns out they did. It wasn't -- there was nothing promised to the Trump campaign. Well, with turns out the reason the meeting happened was because there was dirt promised the Trump campaign. And so, you know, being incompetent is not generally speaking illegal, although I'll defer to Carrie and Jeff on that. But I mean, that's the sense that I get when you read that story, is, how is this even happening...", "Yes.", "... when this is someone who's the nominee or about to be the nominee to be the President of the United States.", "Yes. I mean, Jack, as a supporter of the president, to Chris' point, does it concern you that the people around President Trump did not see fit to realize, you know what, you probably shouldn't be involved in the crafting of a press release about a meeting your son went to that you allegedly know nothing about.", "Yes, it does. But I would also attribute this to the fact that this is a new team, a non- political team. They're not used to the nuances of politics, of the press, and the legal system and...", "Donald Trump is not used to the nuances of the press, you're saying?", "Well, I would have to say that they were acting like innocent people. If they were guilty and if there really was collusion and this was really a nefarious meeting, then there would have been a far more careful in the way it was handled. But I think what they were doing was, look, this wasn't a big-deal meeting. The guy was supposed to have dirt. Everybody looks for dirt on their political opponent, but you know, it looks bad to say that's what you were actually doing. Let's talk about adoption. But there was no crime here. And I think if they were doing something wrong, they would have been far more careful.", "Well, let me -- Jeff, let me go to you...", "Anderson, wait a second.", "Jeff, let me go to you. Because I remember distinctly you in the past saying, how many criminal defense attorneys in the world have argued about their client, there's no way my client would have done this, because it would be monumentally stupid.", "Right. Criminals do stupid things all the time. But what happened here is, you know, there was this meeting. They had to respond to questions about this meeting. What did they do? They lied about what went on at the meeting. That's exactly what criminals do.", "Not necessarily.", "When you ask them what happened, you lie -- they lie instead of tell the truth. So the idea that that's somehow exculpatory is crazy.", "But Jeffrey, I think -- and I've got to say this, because you know, I've been in politics for many years. I think what we can do, as we politicians, as a political class is you don't tell the full story. I think adoption was one of the topics. They didn't want to tell the whole story. But that's in my opinion this is what innocent people do.", "But Jack, you know adoption is not adoption. You know for Russians, adoption is not the issue.", "Well, I understand that.", "It's sanctions. It's a code word.", "But saying this meeting was about adoption still sound better than, listen, we were really hoping and looking for dirt on Hillary Clinton.", "Yes, that's right, that's why they lied.", "But I would argue very strongly, but if they were doing something really nefarious if there was this real collusion going on, the last thing they would have done was to have handle it in the way it was handled.", "Van...", "And as Hope Hicks' lawyer said is, the last thing that she would have done is said we're going to, you know, infer that they were going to hide evidence, these e-mails were going to disappear. Robert...", "But on the one hand, Jack, on the one hand you're saying they're political neophytes, they're not familiar with the media, so but she's so smart that there's no way she would have said that. I mean, you're arguing kind of both sides here. Van, how do you see this? Because I mean, what's interesting is, we don't know if the president knew about this meeting. We don't know if Donald Trump, Jr. told his father about it. It seems hard to imagine that Donald Trump, Jr. would not tell his father hey, you know what, I got these e-mails that just said that the Russians are actually backing you and we're going to set up this meeting. Donald Trump, Jr. has said he didn't talk to his father about it. We don't know what Robert Mueller knows. Does any of this -- what do you make of this new reporting?", "You know, sometimes things are exactly what they appear to be. And you can spin and you can turn and you can twist. Here is what happened. They were up to no good. They went to a meeting with Russians and they were up to no good. And then it turned out that they had to make a public statement about it, and the President of the United States was so concerned about it that he practically wrote it himself and what he wrote was a lie. You don't get involved in something and write a lie when there's nothing happening. And so, you know, it's amazing to me to hear this kind of stuff. If your teenage kids came home and said what Jack just said to you, here's what you know, your kids are on drugs or something. Something terrible is going in your family. Because this kind of stuff is not...", "Van, I'm telling you...", "No, I am telling you, sir...", "They would have lawyered up before they responded to the New York Times if they were guilty.", "No, no.", "Here's what we know, Van, let's get facts...", "It's so terrible.", "They did lawyer up, and their lawyers were not telling the truth either. Their lawyers went forward on television and said, no, Donald Trump Jr. wrote this thing and it was Donald Trump, Jr.'s lawyers. That wasn't true.", "Well, let me say this. For two years, nearly, all we've heard is collusion, collusion, collusion, there's nothing to it. And I think that this is just the New York Times is trying to distract what's going to happen probably in the next couple of days, is releasing the memos, which are going to show some real abuses of citizens right.", "You think this is a plot by the New York Times -- you honestly think this is a plot by the New York Times to distract attention?", "Anderson...", "You think they're not reporting on the Nunes memos? That they're like keeping that hidden?", "Anderson, listen.", "Go ahead.", "I may have a little bit of a republican paranoia in here, in me, but when you see 75 percent of independent voters approve of what the president said last night, I could have told you a year ago the next day the New York Times was going to write something like this.", "Jack, you sound desperate, man.", "No, I'm not.", "For normal people who don't believe in like conspiracy theories that you know, somebody is sitting around making up stuff just because the president gave an almost-decent speech, that's not what's going on. The president lied to the country. The president's son lied to the country. The president's lawyers lied to the country. The president lied to the country about a meeting with Russians. That is a big deal. You can spin that all day long.", "All right.", "He did not lie to the FBI. He has not lied in a legal context.", "Well, not yet. Not yet.", "He did not give all the information which the New York Times would have wanted.", "We don't know what was said to the FBI, I should point out. Anyway, just ahead, we have more breaking news on, yes, the Nunes memo. We're not hiding it, we're not ignoring it. The ranking democrat on the House intelligence committee now says the White House actually got a different copy of it than the one that the committee actually voted on. That changes were made by Devin Nunes without the committee's knowledge. We'll tell you the details on this. It's a brand new information we're getting right now. 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{"id": "CNN-346749", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2018-08-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/03/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Zimbabwe's Opposition Disputes Election Results; Iran's Major Military Exercise In The Middle East; Turkey's Prime Minister Warned Of Threatening Language Or Sanctions Is Not Productive; Mahathir Mohamad Calls The U.S. President An International Bully; Donald Trump Receives A Letter Kim Jong-Un; Mixed Reactions On Donald Trump's Role On The Korean Peninsula; Interview Cut-Off; Oppressive Heat; Zimbabwe Uncertainty.", "utt": ["I'm Andrew Stevens in Hong Kong. Welcome to \"News Stream.\" Disputing the outcome. Zimbabwe's opposition party thrashes the country's electoral commission accusing it of releasing tight results. Exam rigging. Japan's government calls for an investigation to reports of gender discrimination at a top medical school. And unbearable heat, the Iberian Peninsula braces for what could be record temperatures on the European continent. Zimbabwe's president is calling for a new beginning after he was declared the winner of the nation's first election since Robert Mugabe's ouster. But the battle over ballots appears far from over. The opposition is slamming the final election count as unverified and fake. Six people have been killed in violent clashes between security forces and protesters since Monday's vote. Well David McKenzie joins us now live from Harare, the Zimbabwean capital with the lightest. And David, opposition later Nelson Chamisa says the results are fake. How are his supporters reacting?", "Well so far the supporters haven't taken to the streets like they did a few days ago where you saw that tragic bloodshed in Harare, Andrew. Behind me they'll have a press conference from the opposition leader in the coming moments where we expect him to chart a way forward on how exactly they are going to dispute this election. Yesterday he said that they would use -- to me, he said they will use any legal means necessary, but there have already been an endorsement from the regional block SADC and from the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, congratulating Emerson Mnangagwa as the president of Zimbabwe. So they might face an uphill battle. I put the question to the E.U. observer mission (inaudible) this was a free and fair election.", "One of the biggest challenges this election faces is the lack of trust in all aspects. And I think now that the result is being given, what we stress very strongly is it needs to be fully explained how that result was ascertained, broken down by constituency, by polling station, so everyone can see exactly how the result was ascertained and be confident about that since it clears the gap is quite narrow.", "Well that a result came out of the very early hours of this morning, Andrew. There were some celebrations but you do get a sense of at least that many Zimbabweans on the street today here on the capital want to get on with their lives, but still this moment of uncertainty of how the opposition will deal with what they say is a rigged vote, Andrew.", "Interesting, your point about the people in Zimbabwe wanting to get on with their lives. It's obviously been very tumultuous recent couple of decades, really, for Zimbabweans. It has divided the community. It is a fractured place many people will say. How does the leader, the man who at this stage who has been named as the leader, how does he bring the country back together?", "Well, Zimbabweans have long memories and they know that Emerson Mnangagwa has a tortured past in this country. As a politician, he was the right hand man of Robert Mugabe for all those decades. Now, after those dramatic scenes that Mugabe was ousted in a coup in November orchestrated by Mnangagwa and the military, he is trying to make a clean break and trying to persuade Zimbabweans that he will bring in a new era when investment comes in. But the trouble is, is that the E.U., the U.S. and others will be looking to the way this election has been handled as to whether they are going to see sanctions on individuals in this country including senior members of Zanu-PF, the ruling party. So, he's trying to say that people should move on, obviously, that's in his self-interest. The opposition is saying, well wait, we don't believe these results are legitimate and they are crying foul, Andrew.", "David, thanks very much for that update and we will be monitoring Nelson Chamisa and that press conference and get back to David if Chamisa brings out some sort of evidence to prove that there has been tampering with that election. A U.S. defense official tells CNN that Iran is conducting a major military exercise in the Middle East. The naval operation is taking place in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Gulf of Oman. Now these exercises aren't unusual, but the source says it's the timing of the exercise that is concerning to U.S. officials. Let's go to our international diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson. Now, he is in the Persian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz and he joins us now. Nic, so what do you know then about the timing of this exercise by the Iranians and what is their intention here?", "It was very interesting because the moment the Iranians on even (ph) declaring that they are having these exercises. Normally, they would happen later in the year around November where they would use dozens of smaller boats and these training exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, which is a key strategic, vital global artery in the supply of oil. Twenty percent of the world's oil are traded or passes through that very narrow waterway, 30 miles narrow at it sort of closest point. So it's a major chokehold. So the very fact that they are being held at a different time of year, that unlike normal times when Iran would announce that it's having these exercises, it isn't right now. It comes on the heels of a couple of weeks that has been an increased in tension and rhetoric between Washington and Tehran. You have the head of the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who are in-charge of these military exercises, saying that if Iran cannot export its oil through the Strait of Hormuz, then no one else will be able to get their oil through there as well. And that has been echoed by Iran's president, by the supreme leader. We've had President Trump as well warning in an all caps tweet just a week or so ago saying that, you know, not to use threats like that and threatening serious consequences. So the war of words is coming up. The value of the Rial in Iran is going down. There were street protests in Iran. And in a couple of days more sanctions are going to come into effect on Iran that further threatened the economy. And in another 90 days potentially threaten these -- Iran's sale of oil. So, all of these things seem to be contributing factors, but again, unclear why Iran is doing it right now.", "OK, Nic, thanks very much for that. Nic Robertson near the Strait of Hormuz. Turkey's prime minister says that he's warned America's top diplomat that using threatening language or sanctions will not be productive. Now, the two met on the sidelines of the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Singapore. Ankara and Washington are locked in a dispute over detention of an American pastor in Turkey. CNN international correspondent Ivan Watson is in Singapore. He joins us with more now. So Ivan, strong language from the Turkish prime minister, what is the threatening language he's referring to Mike Pompeo using? What was he talking about then?", "Well, the Turks made it very clear they didn't like the fact that their NATO ally, the U.S. have imposed sanctions on two cabinet ministers in Turkey. They vowed an equivalent response in the run up to this meeting here in Singapore. And meanwhile, Mike Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, he came into the meeting talking tough saying that the Trump administration had put Turkey on notice, that they were demanding the release of this American pastor as well as others Mike Pompeo alluded to, presumably two Turkish citizens who work at U.S. diplomatic missions in Turkey who have been detained since October on terrorism charges. But, both sides came out of this quite short meeting here in Singapore. I was in the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The Turkish foreign minister was there for barely a half hour, that's where he met Mike Pompeo. And they sounded quite positive saying that they have constructive conversation and positive talks. Take a listen to an excerpt of what the Turkish foreign minister had to say.", "We've told the other side that using a threatening language or sanctions will not be productive from the start. We repeated this and we believe that they have understood this very well. Today in our meeting with Mike Pompeo, we talked about what steps can be taken to resolve our issues. In that sense, I can say that this was a positive meeting.", "To repeat a journalistic cliche, Andrew, it seems like both sides have agreed to disagree and try to work through this. I spoke with a senior Turkish official and I asked, hey, Turkey vowed an equivalent response to the US sanctions and he told me that the priority right now is on trying to resolve these differences and argued that the U.S. sanctions are quote, \"very symbolic\" since the two Turkish cabinet ministers have no assets in the U.S. that they are being stripped of. So, it appears at this time that Washington and Ankara want to try to resolve this rather than let this potential crisis in relations between these two allies get any worse, Andrew.", "Well, speaking of potential crisis in relationships, let's talk about the ASEAN meeting there. Mike Pompeo is there. Obviously, North Korea is going to be a big topic and Mike Pompeo is already talking about North Korea in the lead up to this meeting. What does he say about North Korea and what does he want from AEAN as far as North Korea is concerned?", "He sounds like he's taking a tougher line, Andrew. He said that he's going to focus most of his discussions here on thanking other ASEAN members for supporting the sanctions that the U.S. -- has led the sanctions regime against North Korea. He also told journalists on his flight to Singapore that quote, Chairman Kim made a commitment to denuclearize.\" It was demanded by United Nations Security Council resolutions and he argued that North Korea is behaving in an inconsistent manner according to those commitments and the demands of the international community, that it still in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions. So, we are not hearing the kind of gushing appreciation of North Korea coming from Mike Pompeo that we are hearing let's say, from President Trump who recently thanked in a tweet Chairman Kim for the release of the remains of 55 United Nations troops left over from the Korean War, and thanked Chairman Kim for a letter that was sent to him earlier this week and said, hey, basically I'll see you soon. Mike Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State seems to be taking a tougher line and calling for a tougher line against North Korea at this international gathering here in Singapore, Andrew.", "Ivan, thanks very much for that. Ivan Watson joining us live from Singapore. Now, en route to Singapore, Pompeop stopped in Kuala Lumpur to meet Malaysia's new prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad. In the past, Mahathir had a tense relationship with the United States as well as out (ph) west of the nations to put it mildly. So, how does he feel about the current U.S. administration? CNN's Anna Coren asked the 93-year-old leader about his impressions of the U.S. President Donald Trump in a recent interview.", "You described the U.S. president as an international bully. Do you still feel that way?", "More interesting he is not consistent. He can change his mind in 24 hours three times. He wanted to see the president of North Korea then he didn't want to see and then he wanted to see again. I mean, how do you deal with a person who's mind changes so rapidly? Well, America is a powerful nation, we know that, but if he chooses to fight China in our area, then we are going to be a price for him (ph). So, we don't want that kind of thing.", "The full interview with the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, that's on \"Talk Asia\" Saturday 1:30 p.m. Hong Kong time, only on CNN. Now, an intriguing correspondence has been confirmed by the White House. President Donald Trump received a letter this week from the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders says Trump responded with a letter of his own.", "He did receive a letter. I believe that he received it on August 1st. There is not a second meeting that is currently locked in or finalized. Certainly open to discussion but there isn't a meeting planned. We have responded to Chairman Kim's letter -- the president has and that letter will be delivered shortly.", "The U.S. president tweeted his thanks to Kim for the letter and said that he would, quote, see him soon. The two leaders met for the first almost two months ago at a summit in Singapore, June 12th. Donald Trump's efforts to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula are drawing mixed reviews, some were impressed by his approach to Kim, but CNN's Paula Hancocks reports other are not sure if it is the right thing to do.", "This says Koreans love the U.S. president. Older, generally more conservative, they show their support for Donald Trump on a regular basis. Others disagree Mr. Trump's talk last year of fire and fury, of totally destroying North Korea made residents sitting on the frontline of a potential conflict nervous. But Trump's tough talk on Pyongyang to South Korea's Parliament last November impressed many across the political divide.", "North Korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisioned. It is a hell that no person deserves.", "Words the won him the respect of Jeong Kwang-il who escaped North Korea 15 years ago. The human rights activists traveled to the White House last year to meet President Trump.", "At that moment he said I had great hopes and expectations. I thought it won't be long before I can return to my hometown in the north, I honestly believed it.", "Then came the Singapore Summit. Standing next to Kim Jong-un, June 12th, Trump's words went from Little Rocket man to this.", "I learned he's a very talented man. He love his country very much.", "Words that devastated Jeong.", "I completely lot my faith in him, he says. Trump even said things like Kim Jong-un loves his people. I couldn't sleep after I heard that. Anyone who is strongly against the North Korean regime no longer supports Trump.", "President Moon Jae-in and his cabinet have given the U.S. president the lion share of the credit for improving relations and lessening tensions.", "Clearly, you know, credit goes to President Trump. He has been determined to come to grips with this from day one.", "Appreciation that spreads partly to the streets of Seoul. This woman says, I think Trump's clever. At first, I rejected him. I thought he was a president that was bouncing all over the place. But when I saw Kim and Trump at the summit, I saw Trump in a different light. (on-camera): Even some here who are skeptical about peace talks working, have this nagging curiosity as to whether this unorthodox approach to Pyongyang may actually make a difference in the end. They may not support Trump, but they're not ready to write him off just yet. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.", "A top U.S. intel official say Russia is not done interfering in the U.S. elections, but does President Donald Trump agree? Plus, a Russian spy caught working for the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Detaisl on that when we come back."], "speaker": ["ANDREW STEVENS, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MARK STEVENS, EUROPEAN UNION DEPUTY CHIEF OBSERVER", "MCKENZIE", "STEVENS", "MCKENZIE", "STEVENS", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR", "STEVENS", "IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MEVLUT CAVUSOGLU, TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER (through translator)", "WATSON", "STEVEN", "WATSON", "STEVEN", "ANNA COREN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA", "STEVENS", "SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "STEVENS", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HANCOCKS (voice-over)", "JEONG KWANG-IL, (through translator)", "HANCOCKS (voice-over)", "TRUMP", "HANCOCKS (voice-over)", "KWANG-IL (through translator)", "HABCOCKS (voice-over)", "KANG KYUNG-WHA, SOUTH KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTER", "HANCOCKS (voice-over)", "STEVENS"]}
{"id": "NPR-47419", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2005-07-18", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4758863", "title": "Nelson Mandela Turns 87", "summary": "We share a birthday tribute to Nelson Mandela, the South African freedom fighter and former president who turns 87 years old Monday.", "utt": ["In South Africa today, Nelson Mandela celebrates his 87th birthday.      Mandela dedicated much of his life to South Africa's struggle against      apartheid. Mandela co-founded the country's first black law firm in 1952.      He also joined the opposition African National Congress party and helped      form that group's outlawed military wing.  Mandela and others tirelessly      fought the system and often were imprisoned.  This was Mandela 51 years      ago.", "I have churched the idea of a democratic and free      society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal      opportunities.  It is an idea for which I hope to live for, but my Lord,      if it need be, it is an idea for which I am prepared to die.", "Mandela spent most of his adult life in prison.  By February of      1990, when the government finally released him, most of South Africa's      segregation laws had been repealed.  In 1994, after he won the Nobel      Peace Prize, South Africans elected him president.", "Although Mandela has officially retired from politics, he continues to      speak out for AIDS awareness and against global poverty.  We wish a      hearty happy birthday to Nelson Mandela."], "speaker": ["ED GORDON, host", "Mr. NELSON MANDELA", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-43207", "program": "CNN THE POINT WITH GRETA VAN SUSTEREN", "date": "2001-11-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/05/tpt.00.html", "summary": "America Targets Terrorism: How Did Subash Garung Get by Private Security Workers?", "utt": ["TRACK BEING THE TERRORISTS, THE WORLD'S MOST WANTED. This man tried to get on a plane carrying knives, a can of mace and a stun gun.", "Did you not know that you're not supposed to carry those types of things through the security?", "Yes, I know that, but it just got in the hurry. I forgot all these things to do.", "How did he get by the private security workers? And why was he set free after the first time he was arrested?", "It's a wake up call for policy and procedure.", "Tonight's \"FLASHPOINT\" -- who dropped the ball? What about the rest of the 1,000 plus detainees? Should they be set free? Our POINT panel says they should. You decide. Whose bag is going in your plane and what's in it?", "I want them to make the same commitment of resources and place some importance on the security of their passengers.", "They do it in Europe. Is it time to start matching bags with passengers on U.S. flights?", "I am a developer. I have been here for 11 years and wow! This is America.", "Plus, a visit to Dearborn, Michigan where 58 percent of the population is Arab-American. But after September 11, can an Arab-American be elected mayor?", "I would not take it to", "TRACKING THE TERRORISTS. Now, from Washington, Greta Van Susteren.", "Didn't anyone learn anything? Not the guy who went through airport security with a bunch of knives, not the security agents who let him through, not the people who arrested him and then let him go. Just how confident are you in airport security? Don't answer until you watch this report by CNN national correspondent Susan Candiotti.", "The arrest of 27-year-old man from Nepal at Chicago's O'Hare Airport Saturday night reveals not only a disturbing security breach, it also raises questions about how the FBI handled the matter. The incident began when security guards hired by United Airlines confiscated two pocket knives from Subash Garung at a screening checkpoint.", "It just got in a hurry. I forgot all these things to do.", "It wasn't until Garung got to his gate that two United Airlines employees subjected Garung to a second check and according to police, made a frightening discovery -- inside his carry- on bag, seven folding lock blade knives with two-and-a-quarter to four inch blades, a stun gun and a container labeled \"tear gas.\" The items were packaged with a camera in a white plastic bag. Two additional knives were later found in his checked luggage. Garung told CNN affiliate WLS it was all an accident. He collects knives and the stun gun was for protection.", "I told you that I was living there in Chicago and I don't have any friend at the time. For two years, I was completely alone there and totally insecure and lonely there.", "Garung gave police this address, an apartment on Chicago's north side. By coincidence, it's the same apartment building listed among other addresses for Ayub Khan, a New Jersey man being held as a material witness in the September 11 attacks. Khan was one of two men taken off a train in Texas the day after the attacks with box cutters, a large amount of cash and hair dye. A government official tells CNN, Ayub Khan never lived in the building, but did get phone calls and credit card bills were paid for in there. But the building super tells CNN she no record of Khan, but she did remember Subash Garung.", "Because he stopped by Friday. He wanted a studio apartment. He used to live here with his brother until six.", "On Sunday, the FBI told CNN it interviewed Garung but insisted local authorities were handling the entire matter. Chicago Police charged Garung with two misdemeanors, released him on bond and ordered him to appear in court next month. After the story became public, the FBI rearrested Garung Sunday night. He appeared in federal court Monday on charges of attempting to carry a weapon on an aircraft. The FBI said Garung's story had been thoroughly checked out and in a statement added -- \"There is no allegation this incident involves any suspected terrorist activity.\" Hardly consolation to eight now suspended airport security employees who failed to see the knives, stun gun or tear gas. Those security guards work for Argenbright. That company denied their employees had violated company procedures or FAA guidelines, saying there is no rule requiring a search of carry-on luggage after finding knives during a body search. Argenbright has a history of run-ins with the Justice Department. The company is currently on probation after putting untrained people, some with criminal backgrounds, at security checkpoints. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta called the O'Hare incident \"a failure of dramatic dimensions\" and says the federal government will likely impose a substantial fine against United Airlines.", "We are going to hold the airlines and their screening companies accountable. The airlines cannot wash their hands of this duty and there should be no doubt as to our determination and our resolve.", "Mineta says United will be required to retrain its passenger screeners employed by Argenbright at O'Hare Airport.", "Argenbright, meanwhile, says it is now changing its procedures. From now on, hand luggage will be thoroughly checked if any suspicious item is found during a routine passenger search -Greta.", "Susan, Argenbright -- I mean it's interesting that they're making this change in policy. They've been under fire a lot. Are they the least bit concerned about it or do they just seem to think it's just sort of a mistake?", "Well, we tried to conduct an interview with Argenbright today, but they would only issue a statement to us. So those are some of the same questions we'd like to ask them, including, why it is that it's taken them only until now to revise its procedures that -- if for example, they find a pocket knife on someone during a body search, why is it only now that they are changing their policy to conduct a search of the hand carry-on baggage.", "How did these knives get through? I mean I get stopped with virtually anything when it goes through there. How did these knives get through?", "Well, they said that -- they did say that their employees saw something in his pocket when he passed through the magnetometer. And then the passenger admitted at that time that he had pocket knives, that he had these Swiss Army knives. And so, that's how they found that. However...", "But usually...", "... they stressed that they didn't find anything when -- in his carry on luggage when it went through the x-ray machine. It didn't show up -- any of those seven knives.", "Why did he get the second search? How did that happen?", "Well, we do know that when he got down to the gate, United Airlines employees did a hand search there. At first, we were told it was a random check, but now, we have also learned from aviation officials that something called the Computer Assisted Passenger Profiling System is also used that tends to flag certain passengers if, for example, they buy a one-way ticket -- this man did -- or if they paid for their ticket in cash or for some other law enforcement reason. So that also appears to have entered into this.", "Boy! Interesting story. Susan Candiotti, thank you very much for joining us this evening. Any other time, you might call this story a comedy of errors. But these days, airport security is no laughing matter. Tonight's FLASHPOINT -- who dropped the ball? Let's ask my guests -- in Miami, Florida is defense attorney Jayne Weintraub, former federal prosecutor Scott Mendeloff is in Chicago. He's a veteran of the Timothy McVeigh case. And Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz is in Boston. His latest book, by the way, is called \"Letters To a Young Lawyer.\" Alan, any outrage over this security breach?", "Well, I think who dropped the ball was Congress. Quite clearly, when you have profit screening and you have people motivated by the mighty buck, this is just going to happen over and over again. There's such an obvious resolution of this. There are many veteran FBI agents and Secret Service agents who are too old to do active duty. They come to my office every week and ask me questions about former students, which is an utter waste of time. They could send anybody to my office to ask me questions. These are the men and women well trained, highly skilled, who should be at our airports protecting our security under federal supervision, under federal employment. It's feasible. It's possible. The worst thing about what we heard yesterday is there are no rules that require a search of luggage if you find knives on the person. That's preposterous. And now we know that the bad guys have figured out ways of using ceramic knives and ceramic guns, which don't even show up on x-rays. Right now, we have the most porous security system in the world. I would hope that European countries would put up the kinds of posters we have that say, \"Don't travel to America. American security does not meet minimal standards of safety.\"", "Jayne Weintraub, any outrage and who dropped the ball in your mind?", "Who dropped the ball? Everybody has dropped the ball. The local officials dropped the ball by releasing him. Why did they let him go to begin with? Carrying a concealed weapon, it was still a misdemeanor. Why not consider the dangerousness to the community when releasing him? Again, lack of communication between local and federal authorities. Everybody is dropping the ball. We need to pick it up.", "Jayne, let me ask you about that question about releasing him. Do you think, if I went through security and had, you know, those two knives without -- forget about the stuff in the carry- on bag that the security never caught -- would I have been taken into custody?", "Probably not, no.", "Why?", "Because you don't match natural profile and because of who you are. And that's a terrible thing to say, but these are terrible times, Greta. And don't forget -- don't' forget what should happen or what would happen is different also. Should you be detained? Absolutely, you should be treated like anyone else. Don't you think you should be inconvenienced and questioned just a little bit after September 11? Don't you think that's worth you inconvenience and your -- to give up for security purposes? I think it is. I think that you should be detained you, even you, carrying two pocket knives.", "Scott Mendeloff, why was this man released when he was first stopped on Saturday night?", "Well, I, obviously, was not involved in it. But as far as I can tell, there was not sufficient communication coordination between the federal government with the information they had on the man's connection to Mr. Khan and the local officials. It was something that unfortunately does happen, especially in the case of this size.", "But Scott, you know -- I mean forget that. His student visa had expired. Wouldn't that have been a red tag?", "Well, you know, you have to think about the people who are concerned about civil liberties as well here. We're hearing many Americans very concerned about the thousand-plus people that are in custody. They don't want everybody who could be in custody to be in custody. Here, we have an example of the government going to the other extreme and letting somebody go that they shouldn't have.", "But you know...", "Greta...", "... here's -- go ahead, Jayne.", "Greta, I'm sorry. I mean what I was going to say is that we need to start focusing here on -- we need to prevent a terrorist act from occurring. We're not looking for fundamental fairness at a trial and what evidence would be presented. We need to stop and look in advance to prevent something from happening. What would have happened if this guy's visa had expired? Take a look at him, then his luggage would have been searched. What was he doing with a stun gun, mace and more knives?", "Alan, you know...", "Alan, there's, you know, some connection between this man and a material witness, a material witness who was pulled off a train on September 12 with box cutters. And the fact that his student visa has expired, is that enough for you to stop him or would you -- I mean to keep him or would you have let him go?", "Well, of course, I think there's no question that he is subject, at least to reasonable detention. He has committed a felony. There seems to be no doubt about that. His excuse -- that he didn't know that he had them on him. That's ignorance of the law or mistake of fact of that kind, which is unreasonable, is not valid, if he's out of status. But you know we're only touching the tip of iceberg. When you get on plane, even if they check everybody on the plane, do you know what's in the baggage compartment of that airplane, what's in the baggage compartment of that airplane? And we're one of the only countries in the world that allow this, are uninspected luggage not matched to people who are flying. Flying in America today is dangerous.", "But Al, what difference does -- I know, but difference does it make to match a bag when -- what was the terrorism on September 11 were suicide people, you know, people who are willing to take down a plane with other lives and kill people in buildings. So what if they match...", "Because not every -- because not every terrorist is a suicide bomber. And at least, you take two steps -- one, you try to prevent those who want to kill without being killed from doing this. You make it at least harder. And second, you subject every single bag to inspection, to x-ray inspection, to chemical inspection. Yes, it'll take a little bit longer. Yes, it'll cost a little bit more. But I think airline passengers are prepared to pay a little bit extra for safety. Right now, there is no exaggerating how unsafe our airlines are. The only reason we have not had massive terrorism on the airlines is because the terrorist have not yet opted to simply blowup airplanes the way they have in other parts of the world. If they...", "All right, Scott...", "... had decided to do with or without suicide bombers, we're in real trouble.", "Scott, is it enough of a connection that this man once lived at a building where a material witness had received, apparently, phone calls? Is that enough -- I mean -- or is it a weird coincidence?", "Well, we don't know that, Greta. And if you're going to investigate this thoroughly, you can't take that advance, especially when you're talking about hundreds of Americans who could be killed as a result of a terrorist attack like this. So this was a failure to let this man be released. They may have been -- as I say, before they may have been concerned about civil liberties but you go to -- you have to run down all the leads. And I want to echo what Professor Dershowitz said. Having spent a significant part of my life investigating cases of terrorism, I'm very concerned about the state of the American -- security of the American airports vis-a-vis baggage. The fact that today Secretary Mineta apparently indicated that one in -- only one in five bags that go into a baggage hole at O'Hare Airport is checked is just inexcusable. And I don't -- the answer that well, it's quite expensive to purchase these machines, is laughable in a country of our size and our wealth.", "All right, we're going to take a quick -- we're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we're going to talk about whether or not this baggage problem, as well as O'Hare Airport's security breach, is tip of the iceberg. Plus, are we at war so the rules are different? Stay with us.", "Ahead on THE POINT, in the wake of the Chicago security breach, is it time to make security workers federal employees? Plus, only in America, but what about this year?", "About six or seven young Arab kids ran out of the school during a recess and came up to my car -- \"Hammoud, Hammoud, we are with you.\"", "THE POINT is coming right back."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER:  THE POINT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SUBASH GARUNG, BREACHED SECURITY AT O'HARE AIRPORT", "ANNOUNCER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ANNOUNCER", "NORMAN MINETA, TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY", "ANNOUNCER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANNOUNCER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANNOUNCER:  THE POINT", "GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GARUNG", "CANDIOTTI", "GARUNG", "CANDIOTTI", "MARIE CSIFFARI, APARTMENT SUPERINTENDENT", "CANDIOTTI", "MINETA", "CANDIOTTI", "CANDIOTTI", "VAN SUSTEREN", "CANDIOTTI", "VAN SUSTEREN", "CANDIOTTI", "VAN SUSTEREN", "CANDIOTTI", "VAN SUSTEREN", "CANDIOTTI", "VAN SUSTEREN", "ALAN DERSHOWITZ, HARVARD UNIVERSITY", "VAN SUSTEREN", "JAYNE WEINTRAUB, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "VAN SUSTEREN", "WEINTRAUB", "VAN SUSTEREN", "WEINTRAUB", "VAN SUSTEREN", "SCOTT MENDELOFF, FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR", "VAN SUSTEREN", "MENDELOFF", "VAN SUSTEREN", "WEINTRAUB", "VAN SUSTEREN", "VAN SUSTEREN", "VAN SUSTEREN", "VAN SUSTEREN", "DERSHOWITZ", "VAN SUSTEREN", "DERSHOWITZ", "VAN SUSTEREN", "DERSHOWITZ", "VAN SUSTEREN", "MENDELOFF", "VAN SUSTEREN", "ANNOUNCER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANNOUNCER"]}
{"id": "CNN-189086", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-7-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/08/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Flash Flooding Washes Out Roads", "utt": ["This has been our breaking news now for a week we're talking about the nightmare weather, the heat wave consuming most of the country has broken all kinds of records 4,500 daily heat records have been broken in the last 30 days, 240 all time heat records are broken between June 23rd and July 5th and guess what? There is relief on the way. Well, sort of. A cold front is moving in, which is great because it's going to break that heat spell hopefully. But with that cold front comes more storms, more wind, hail and lightning. Not welcome news to all those who still have no power. As of today that's nearly 155,000 customers in ten states and D.C. The weather in Missouri causing a tragic death; a nasty storm blew through the town of Cuba last night. A new mother was riding out the storm in her car, she was talking to her brother on the phone. He was riding out the storm in car right next to her. Just then, flying debris crashed through her windshield and struck her in the chest. Can you imagine? While in Colorado now, they just can't catch a break there from fires to flash flooding, mud, branches, rocks washing out the streets in Ft. Collins. Meteorologist Bonnie Schneider here; Bonnie some parts of Colorado need the rain, but it seems that they are getting way too much at once. As they say, Bonnie, when it rains, it pours.", "It does and that's really the last thing that folks in Colorado want to have to deal with right now because when you're talking about an area that was just severely burned, there's no trees, there's no shrubs to slow down the rush of the water. So when you look at the rainfall totals across the fire zones, imagine an inch and a half of rain falling north of Ft. Collins in just 90 minutes. That's what happened last night, so three days we saw almost two inches of rain. This rain would have been nice -- over the past couple of weeks gradually, but all at once as you mentioned definitely a problem. And actually when we look at the radar picture you'll see there are still scattered showers in the region and that always runs the -- runs the risk of lightning anytime you have a fire danger area. But I think flash flooding will still continue to be a problem across that region today and tomorrow. Looking across much of areas further east, we have a new threat. Thunderstorms, severe thunderstorms with deadly lightning, large hail and very damaging wind; and these watch boxes extend all the way from Kentucky to the coast of Maryland and Delaware. So it's a pretty expansive area that we're looking at these thunderstorms. And I mentioned the lightning, unfortunately this weekend we had some deaths related to lightning strikes. So it's important to remember lightning is deadly and these storms contain a lot of it. You are looking at real time lightning strikes. So this is happening as we speak. I want to talk about the heat and some better news; I can't say it's great news because we still have a lot of advisories. But the picture is looking better at this hour than it did yesterday or for the past few days. The record heat just shattered many records as we've been talking about, literally, thousands of them for the past 30 days. But as you can see Don, we put this into motion, cooler air slowly but surely coming down. By the time we get to Monday and to Tuesday and Wednesday, we are going to see some improvements in the forecast getting a little more back to normal.", "All right, that's good news. Thank you Bonnie we appreciate it.", "Sure.", "Next --", "One of the fastest men on earth --", "You want to get up to speed as quickly as possible.", "-- reveals the secret to his success -- slavery.", "I was able to break the world record.", "Is he right? Does the color of your skin make you better, faster, stronger?", "You don't have to be in front of a television to watch CNN. You can do what I do. You can stay connected, you can do it on your cell phone or you can do it from your computer at work. Just go to CNN.com/TV."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "BONNIE SCHNEIDER, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "LEMON", "SCHNEIDER", "LEMON", "LEMON", "MICHAEL JOHNSON, ATHLETE", "LEMON", "JOHNSON", "LEMON", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-76882", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2003-9-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/13/smn.03.html", "summary": "U.N. Meets to Discuss Iraq", "utt": ["The situation in Iraq is the focus of a high level meeting under way at this hour in Geneva. Secretary of State Colin Powell is there and the White House is sure to be keeping close tabs on its progress. CNN White House correspondent Dana Bash joins us now live with more -- Dana.", "Hi, Stephen. Well, the president is keeping tabs, no doubt. He is doing so from Camp David this weekend. But he used an appearance with the 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia yesterday to suggest that it is the responsibility of free nations to aid the U.S. in securing Iraq, and that's the message he said he sent with Colin Powell to Geneva.", "Officials of the United Nations, he'll carry a message, no free nation can be neutral in the fight between civilization and chaos. Terrorists in Iraq have attacked representatives of the civilized world and opposing them and defeating them must be the cause of the civilized world.", "Secretary Powell is in Geneva at this hour, meeting with counterparts from the other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and the secretary general, Kofi Annan, to look for a compromise on a new resolution the U.S. hopes will bring more international troops and financial assistance to a mission much more tolling than Bush officials had anticipated leading up to the war. Now, most of the countries Powell is trying to convince opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq. And earlier this week, the president urged that all parties not get caught up in what he called \"past bickering,\" to look forward and not backwards. But what the secretary of state is trying to do is convince his counterparts, France in particular, to allow the U.S. to remain in control of the political transition as Iraqis write their constitution and prepare for elections. France and even Russia want a quicker timetable for turning over control to the Iraqi people, perhaps as short as a month, and greater U.N. involvement, and Secretary Powell says that particular timetable is simply unrealistic. But what Bush officials are saying is that unlike before the war, this time they are determined to find compromise and that is exactly what we are seeing beginning to unfold in Geneva today -- Stephen.", "So much to watch from the White House and from Camp David, too. Dana Bash, thanks for bringing us up to date.", "Thank you.", "United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, in fact, is expected to hold a news conference in about two hours and CNN will bring that to you live."], "speaker": ["STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR", "DANA BASH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BASH", "FRAZIER", "BASH", "FRAZIER"]}
{"id": "CNN-277407", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-02-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/24/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Clinton Courts African-American Votes in S.C.", "utt": ["Hillary Clinton heavily courting young African-American female voters right now in South Carolina. This in final days before Saturday's Democratic primary there. She is addressing the oldest black sorority in the country. Listen.", "I've been traveling around our country speaking about how we can knock down barriers, all the barriers, that hold including the barrier of systemic racism. I've emphasized that any view of black America that focuses exclusively as the press sometimes has a tendency to do on crime or poverty or other challenges is really missing the big picture. It's missing this event. It's missing the rise of the African-American middle class. It's missing the vibrancy of the black church. And it's definitely missing the power, strength, and sacredness of black sisterhood.", "Let's talk about all of this with Jay Newton- Small, Washington correspondent for \"Time,\" and also the author of a brand-new book, \"Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works.\" I love that title. Congratulations on the book. Let's get to the numbers here. You saw Clinton lose 82 percent of the young female vote in New Hampshire to Sanders. He got 82 percent of the young female vote there. You just wrote this article in \"Time,\" perfect timing, titled, \"The Speech Hillary Clinton Should Give to Young Women.\" You just heard a minute of it. What's your reaction? Is this the way you want to hear her speaking if you are a Clinton supporter?", "Certainly, there is a distinction between African-American young women and Millennials in general. In general, Hillary polls incredibly well with African-Americans of any age, whether Millennials or older. She is, indeed, talking a little bit about, you know, what I mentioned in the article for \"Time.\" And that is talking about sisterhood, talking a little bit about her history. She was talking earlier on, about her roots from the community and the women she has known and the activism she has done. That's what I have always argued she needs to do. Most Millennial women weren't alive when she was first lady. Most Millennial women don't remember that women couldn't wear pants in the workforce or it was frowned upon until she wore pants as the first lady in the White House. Just to talk about her experiences and connect the dots about why she would represent them better and why she would be a good president to represent them rather that dictating to them, you should vote for me because I'm a woman.", "There is a famous statement about women's rights that Hillary Clinton made back in 1995. It was in Beijing, and it's very short, to the point, but it has stuck with her throughout. Let's play that.", "Women's rights are human rights, once and for all.", "One of the key points that you make is that Millennials don't remember living through that. If they did, they were very young. And that's the crux of the problem as you see it for her.", "As I was writing my book I was teaching a class at Harvard University where I had Millennials. None of them didn't know about this speech. What they don't understand is how ground breaking that statement was at that time and how much things have changed since then.", "One of the things that you also write about is what you call this sort of unsung successes of the third wave of feminism. And you call that the Quiet Revolution. What is that? And how can she better tap into it?", "So the Quiet Revolution is really the revolution of the last 30 years where women have permeated the work force, increasingly. So my book looks at how we're getting to critical mass, a sort of a tipping point between 20 and 30 percent of any institution, how women really begin to change the way things are done. And if you look at this Quiet Revolution over the last 30 years where women have come into the workforce more and more, as we get to the tipping point, you hear their voices more strongly. I think you see that with Millennial women today. You have Taylor Swift saying, I want recognition for my work, and you better reward me for it, and Jennifer Lawrence demanding equal play. That Quiet Revolution is bursting into a not-so-Quiet Revolution anymore.", "Yeah.", "So there is this movement that Hillary and all this energy that she could tap, she could easily say I've been at the forefront of this for 30 years, you just don't know this. She never makes the connections doesn't make the connection and draw the dots.", "Jay, thank you so much for pointing that out. I appreciate you being on. Congrats on your new book. You should read her top \"Time\" column on this. As we do, Jay, let's listen in to more of Hillary Clinton speaking live in South Carolina.", "-- if we don't exercise the right to vote. There is a lot at stake in this election. I think it's one of the most consequential that we've had in time. All you have to do is listen to the other side. They want to turn back all of our rights, women's rights, civil rights, gay rights, voting rights. They want to just turn the clock back. Go back to a time that most of us were glad to see in the rearview mirror. We can't let that happen. But we have to do more than just stop bad things from happening. We have to make good things happen, too. We have to make those jobs and those rising incomes the centerpiece of economic growth. We've got to break down all the barriers that stand in the way of any American fulfilling his or her God-given potential. We need to reassert --", "Hillary Clinton speaking there live in South Carolina. We'll continue to monitor. Coming up next, much more on our breaking news, the battle to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. CNN now getting word that the White House is vetting a Republican, a Republican, to possibly nominate to potentially fill that seat. Much more on that. Also, I will speak live with a police officer representing a police union that is questioning whether officers should work to secure Beyonce's upcoming show after her Super Bowl performance and her latest video. We'll talk about the controversy over that, next."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "CLINTON", "HARLOW", "JAY NEWTON-SMALL, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT, TIME & AUTHOR", "HARLOW", "CLINTON", "HARLOW", "NEWTON-SMALL", "HARLOW", "NEWTON-SMALL", "HARLOW", "NEWTON-SMALL", "HARLOW", "CLINTON", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-153597", "program": "ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL", "date": "2010-7-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1007/26/ijvm.01.html", "summary": "Arrest Nearing for Missing Boy?", "utt": ["Tonight, is an arrest imminent in the disappearance of missing 7-year-old Kyron Horman? The investigation appears to be reaching a crescendo as cops focus like a laser beam on the three hours when Kyron`s step-mom claims she was doing errands. Police are studying surveillance videos of the stores she claims to have visited and the roads she says she traveled. I`ll tell you why cops say they are making significant progress. And a jaw-dropping twist in the case of missing little Haleigh Cummings, who disappeared on Misty Croslin`s watch. Now Misty`s parents have been arrested, accused of buying crack cocaine from an undercover agent. With the whole family in jail on drug charges, will somebody finally reveal what happened to little Haleigh? Then, Casey is cut off. Records of Casey Anthony`s jail accounts show she`s in debt because her parents haven`t deposited any money in months. Could this have anything to do with her defense team reportedly investigating her dad, George, or Casey`s shocking claims that her dad may have sexually abused her? ISSUES starts now.", "Tonight, fast-breaking developments in the Kyron Horman missing child case. A new search at Kyron`s school. Plus, there are new questions tonight about the whereabouts of Kyron`s step-mom on the day little Kyron vanished. Also -- this is big -- we`re learning a grand jury is hearing testimony on this case. And the sheriff`s department is saying, quote, \"Criminal behavior has occurred.\" They are set to hold a big news conference tomorrow afternoon. Are they on the verge of making an arrest here? Reports are step-mom Terri Horman has not said a word to investigators for more than a month, every since she hired an attorney. Tonight, she has still not been named a suspect.", "Do you know where Kyron is?", "Hey.", "Do you -- Terry, do know where Kyron is? Desiree and her husband are saying you know where he is. Do you know? Can you tell the world something? Can you tell the world something?", "Kyron has been missing for more than seven weeks now. Kyron`s step-mom, Terri Horman -- you saw her there just a second ago -- says she watched him walk towards his classroom on Friday, June 4 at 8:45 a.m. He never made it into that classroom, and cops cannot verify her story. Cops reportedly believe her explanations just do not add up. On the CBS \"Early Show,\" Kyron`s biological mom expressed complete frustration.", "I can tell you what I ate that day. And she can`t tell you where she was.", "And, tonight, the fight between Terri and her now estranged husband, Kyron`s dad, is turning into an all-out war. I am holding the divorce papers he filed right here. And there`s yet another stunner. Terri Horman reportedly forked out a whopping $350,000 for her attorney? Her soon-to-be ex wants to know where she got that kind of cash. Is an arrest imminent tonight? Why are cops planning this huge news conference for tomorrow? I`m taking your calls: 1-877-JVM-SAYS. That`s 1-877-586-7297. Straight out to my fantastic expert panel. But we begin with investigative reporter Michelle Sigona. Michelle, what is the very latest?", "I can confirm for the sheriff`s office that Terri Horman has not spoken with investigators since she retained counsel, Jane. Also, there have been 3,300 leads that have come in on this case. And over the weekend, just like you mentioned, investigators, specifically Lieutenant Lindstrand, just told me that they were, in fact, out near Skyline Elementary School over the weekend re-canvassing the area. She wouldn`t say for what specifically, but there was some sort of search that was definitely conducted over the weekend. In addition, we did learn from investigators, from questions and answers -- questions that they answered on Friday that they have ruled a number of people out in this case. And that they also have a lot of photos and surveillance, but they`re still asking the public for more. So if you do have any surveillance or photos or anything to help in this investigation in the Kyron Horman disappearance, please turn that over to investigators. And also, one last point: this is Oregon`s largest search that they`ve ever conducted in this particular area for any child or any person, for that matter.", "So many developments. Where do we begin? Well, I have to say that Kyron`s parents have publicly lashed out at Terri Horman`s good friend, DeDe Spicher, claiming that she`s been giving advice that is not in the best interest of the missing child. Well, now DeDe has hired an attorney herself and reportedly testified before an investigative grand jury here today. Here she is leaving.", "Do you know if Terri is hiding something? Were you with her on June 4?", "Her attorney says Spicher has been cooperative and met with investigators last week after her car and home were searched. By the way, we invited both of them to come on ISSUES and tell their side of the story. Her attorney says Spicher is no longer in contact with Terri Horman but would not comment on where Spicher was between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. when witnesses claim she abruptly left her job on the morning Kyron vanished. First of all, Debra Opri, what do you think about the fact that a grand jury has been convened?", "They`re gearing up for charges in an arrest. I mean, I`ve done criminal defense work. And frankly, she`s smart to have shut up and not spoken to anyone. And hiring attorneys don`t hurt whatsoever. If she`s spending -- if they`re spending money like they`re doing in terms of hiring an attorney and keeping quiet, I would just basically, as a defense attorney, say keep going down that road. But, Jane, look at it this way, you`ve got video surveillance. You`ve got people who are going to have seen that vehicle. A block of time is a long time in the life of a child. We need to know where this woman was. Point -- point in fact is, was she with the child on a rural road and why?", "Well, let`s get to this timeline, which is absolutely unbelievable. Cops reportedly have a problem with Terri Horman`s account of what she did on the morning Kyron disappeared. Again, 8:45 a.m. Friday, June 4, she claimed she watched little Kyron walk toward his classroom and then said bye-bye and left. The boy never made it inside the classroom. Terri told investigators she went to the gym at 11:39 a.m. and worked out for about an hour. So where was she during those crucial three hours that morning before she pops up at the gym? Terri told cops she went grocery shopping and took her 18-month-old daughter for a drive in the family truck to soothe the child`s earache. Cops are looking at grocery store surveillance tape and video from local highways. So far, nobody can corroborate her story. Here`s my big issue tonight. Mike Brooks, earache? Earache? If your child has an earache, do you resolve that by driving the baby around in the truck?", "That`s a new one on me. I`ve heard if you have maybe the child won`t sleep, you might take it out and drive it around a little bit. But usually, you have somebody else with you when you`re doing that. But I can tell you one thing, Jane. The cell-phone records of DeDe Spicher better add up to where she`s told law enforcement, if she`s told law enforcement or what she told the grand jury now of where she was. Because I guarantee you: that was one of the questions they asked her while she was inside that grand jury today.", "Pat Brown, criminal profiler and author of the fabulous book \"The Profiler,\" you heard about DeDe Spicher and so many people in this cast of characters. There`s two other friends, not DeDe, but two other friends who are reportedly cooperating with authorities and have taken polygraphs and passed. Supposedly, these women have had their houses searched. Well, one of them told a reporter that cops questioned her for hours. And in the process, they told her they had probable cause to arrest Terri in both Kyron`s disappearance and in an alleged murder-for-hire plot against her husband that she allegedly cooked up months before this child disappeared. What do you make of it?", "Well, I think that news conference tomorrow is going to blow this thing out of the water. They obviously have been only on Terri from the very beginning. So I mean, when they even went to answer those questions from the media, remember they said, has the media been helpful? And they said, \"Yes, we want to thank the media.\" And this is a recent Q&A.; Because they thanked the media. They could have used that opportunity to say, you know, \"We appreciate the media being out here. But, really, you`ve over-focused on Terri. We think that you -- you know, you`re making this into -- you know, you`re exaggerating things that aren`t necessarily true. We want to look at everybody.\" But they didn`t say that. They just said thank the media for all their help keeping the focus on Kyron. They`re looking at Terri Horman, Terri Horman alone, and I think tomorrow we`re going to find out exactly why.", "But Bruce McCain, you`re the former investigator. What I don`t understand is, if an investigative grand jury is meeting, doesn`t it leave it in the grand jury`s hand to issue an indictment? How can cops pop up and hold a news conference tomorrow when the grand jury is still meeting and say, \"Oh, we`re going to do X, Y, Z?\"", "Well, good questions, Jane. And not only did I used to work there, but I`m still practicing law in Oregon. So let me give you a little bit of background here, because this grand jury was convened, and it is clear that DeDe answered the subpoena. It`s not clear that she actually testified. In fact, I believe she did not testify, and she`s probably waiting for a grant of immunity. Under Oregon`s constitution, a grand jury can compel someone to testify, but they`re entitled to what`s called transactional immunity if they do so. They do have law with her. I wouldn`t be surprised if she went in and said, \"I`m not going to talk to you unless I get immunity.\" As for the press conference, that actually was scheduled last week for Tuesday. So the press conference may not have anything to do with the grand jury. We`ll find out tomorrow.", "But I mean, they can`t charge -- they can`t announce charges now that they`ve chosen to do the grand jury route, right? They`d have to wait for the grand jury.", "That`s -- that`s correct. That`s why I don`t believe tomorrow`s press conference is going to be announcing anything big. I really don`t. Because the press conference was scheduled last week for tomorrow. And now we`re just hearing about the grand jury proceedings part.", "But by the same token, Mike Brooks, when police go out of their way to call reporters on a weekend and tell them, \"Hey, there`s going to be a news conference on Tuesday,\" it makes it sound like something big is going to happen.", "It does. But again, you heard Mr. McCain say there`s a possibility that there may not. But the grand jury, they are not going anywhere, and they are a sitting grand jury. And they`re going to be seeing other people besides DeDe Spicher.", "All right. Barbara in California, hang on. We`re going to get to you right on the other side of the break. We`re taking your calls on all of this. And, plus, more of the Croslins locked up on drug charges. This time the parents of Misty, the last person to see Haleigh Cummings, are arrested for allegedly buying crack? Are you kidding me? Could this finally help put pressure on Misty to tell everything she knows? And much more to talk about in the disappearance of Kyron Horman.", "Unfortunately, I`m kind of at that point where I`m so angry I don`t even have words. I just really want her to do the right thing.", "No. I know she`s involved.", "Do you think she would have done this alone?", "I don`t believe so. Because honestly, she didn`t take out a contract on her husband alone. So I think that she would probably need help.", "What a wild story. Step-mom Terri Horman has not been named a suspect, but Kyron`s dad says months before the boy disappeared, she allegedly, according to cops, offered sexual favors to a landscaper in order to try to get someone to kill him. Kyron`s dad, her husband. Cops also say according to Kyron that she sent sexually-explicit photos of herself to her husband`s high-school buddy at the time that everybody was looking for Kyron right after her husband moved out. And she allegedly, according to Kyron`s dad, tried to abduct her own daughter from the gym where her husband, Kaine was working out. This is unbelievable stuff. Teams of Hollywood script writers couldn`t come up with these developments. Barbara, California, your questions or thought.", "Hello?", "Hi, Barbara.", "Hi, Jane. We love your show.", "Thank you.", "Yes. My question was, on the day that Terri brought him to school for the science fair and then he suddenly disappeared, and she said that she had to take him to a doctor`s appointment, was that ever confirmed by police or anyone?", "Michelle Sigona, investigative journalist.", "I did speak with Matt Shelby, who`s a spokesperson for the school district. He wouldn`t go into detail about that particular note, but there are reports out there that do indicate that she said that, on a Friday, that Kyron did have a doctor`s appointment, not stating whether it was that Friday or another Friday. So that`s something that investigators are looking into, as well.", "And it makes me wonder that, if the child was confused about, \"Wait, why am I not going to class?\" an explanation may have been given, `Oh, you have a doctor`s appointment, honey.\" That is, if true -- and that`s a big if -- really sinister and twisted. Kaine Horman wants to know how Terri is paying for her attorney. Here`s another huge stunner. I`ve got the divorce paperwork in my hand. Kaine claims he found out that Terri is paying $350,000 for her hot-shot attorney, Steven House. Kaine Horman file a motion in court this morning, demanding Terri disclose the source of that money. And he wants her to pay half of his attorney`s fee. Now, we didn`t hear back from Terri`s attorney. But if it`s true, Debra Opri, where in the heck did she get $350,000 to hire a hot-shot attorney?", "Well, first, you have to look at what they do for a living. Do they own any real estate? Do they have any collateral? What is their credit score? You also have to consider frankly, $300,000 that`s high by anybody`s standard for a retainer. So, frankly, I`d be curious as to where she got the money, too. Unless she made a media deal. Who knows?", "Oh, my God, a media deal? Pat Brown, that just made my jaw drop. But, you know, nothing -- nothing is impossible in today`s world.", "Oh, that`s absolutely true. What is weird, however, and we`ve been saying this forever, is that her -- if she did such a thing, again, what kind of woman does this when her stepson is missing, when she`s the target of an investigation? Her behavior is so peculiar that it keeps the focus on her. The real point is, what were her behaviors that day? And I`m really curious whether her story changed over and over and over when she was talking to the police and that`s one of the reasons all that suspicion came on her. She couldn`t keep those stories straight where she was during those hours when she was wondering about, supposedly in that truck with her car -- her child screaming his head off for an hour and a half because of an earache.", "Edna, Illinois, your question or thought, ma`am?", "My thought is that there is possibly a connection between the landscaper who was -- talked to about killing her husband, and the gardener who obviously was working or somewhere else in the gardening. It is, I think, every -- every landscaping job that was going on during the time of the little guy`s disappearance should be investigated.", "Whoa. Well, you raise a very interesting, fascinating issue there. Now, DeDe Spicher. OK, she`s the landscaper/gardener and who`s a very close friend to Kyron`s step-mom, Terri Horman. They`ve been friends for about seven years. And this is Spicher`s picture from what we believe is her Facebook page. On the Web site Blogspot, she describes herself as a fitness junky, med school wannabe and pet sitting veteran. Her common interests with Terri: fitness and body building. There`s Terri a long time ago. That`s - - wow, that is -- that`s wild. That is video of Terri. OK, the step-mom. And -- also they shared a passion for gardening. All right. Now we know that Terri is -- that Spicher stayed with Terri in the days after Horman moved out. I`ve got to ask you this, Mike Brooks. She`s a gardener. She leaves for whatever, an hour and a half, right?", "Yes.", "And then there`s this landscaper, but my understanding was the landscaper was a man. She`s not the landscaper?", "No, no, I don`t think there`s any connection between the landscaper in this murder-for-hire plot and DeDe Spicher. I don`t believe there`s any connection there. But what really is the connection and what was she doing in that time? That is the big question. And, you know, where was she in the days to follow that? So, I mean, these are all questions that I`m sure law enforcement already have answers to.", "We`re not done yet. We got more, next.", "You need to do what is right, not for me, not for Tony, not for Kaine, and not even for Kyron. You need to do it for Kiara, because she needs to see that you did the right thing to help bring her brother home.", "Kyron`s mother, biological mother, making a plea to his step-mom to tell everything she knows. Meantime, 30 investigators went back to Kyron`s elementary school over the weekend. What were they looking for? Of course, this is the last place anyone saw the precious boy. Here`s the picture of Kyron in front of his tree frog science product just minutes before he vanished. Sources say Terri Horman e-mailed a teacher later that afternoon to find out when she could pick up Kyron`s science project. Kyron`s dad finds that very suspicious, claiming Terri told him she planned to bring the science project home that morning and said that`s why she needed the truck that he usually drove. Mike Brooks, is the implication here that she tried to get a hold of that truck on that morning? And if so, why would the truck be significant?", "Well, the truck could hold -- hold evidence, but they have given Kaine Horman the truck back. Apparently, they did take it. They did forensic testing on it. And they have returned it over to him now. So, you know, that says to me that they probably didn`t find anything. Otherwise they probably would have kept that truck as evidence as they were building a case against someone, whom we don`t know yet. But they would have kept that truck if there was significant evidence in it.", "Yes. And again, she`s not a suspect or a person of interest at this point, although obviously the focus of the investigation. But hypothetically speaking, I`ve got to wonder, a truck, Pat Brown?", "Well, I don`t know if she took the truck for any particular purpose. It may -- may really be that, after something happened that day, she simply forgot about the project. She thought, \"Oh, my God. I was supposed to use the truck for that purpose, and I completely forgot. So now I`ve got to make up for that.\" So it may mean that the truck isn`t for any specific thing except for...", "Hmm. All right. . OK. June, Tennessee, your question or thought?", "Yes. I was wondering if they", "Interesting. Bruce McCain, again, the friend, DeDe Spicher, leaves her gardening job near Kyron`s home at 11:30, reportedly, according to witnesses, and doesn`t return until about 1 p.m. What do you think they should have done with that area?", "Well, obviously, they have searched that area, Jane. As far as the vehicle real quickly, you`ve got to remember, Terri`s other vehicle was a bright red Mustang with customized plates of red squirrel. So if you`re trying to hide in plain sight, you`ve got a choice: red Mustang, customized plates or nondescript white pickup truck. And again, real quick, I`d like to go back to the $350,000 issue, because there`s something very important here. Because I`m on the ground here in Portland. What`s happening in that divorce case is that Steven House, the criminal defense lawyer, he left himself, apparently, as the attorney of record on the divorce case. That allows Kaine now to go look at that $350,000 retainer and say, \"That`s now marital property. I`m entitled to half of it.\" And it has a second date. It also has another court date for Terri Horman. She has to appear in court and show cause. The criminal investigators cannot force her to talk. But Kaine now has got her dragged into court two times now coming up. She`s going to have to answer to a judge under oath.", "Well, again, if it`s true that she paid her lawyer $350,000 -- we don`t know that it is; we tried to reach him -- where did she get the money? Thank you, fabulous panel. Up next, more shockers in the Haleigh Cummings case. A cocaine sting leads to Ma and Pa Croslin joining Misty behind bars. You won`t believe it.", "Jaw-dropping twist in the case of missing little Haleigh Cummings who disappeared on Misty Croslin`s watch. Now Misty`s parents have been arrested accused of buying crack cocaine from an undercover agent. With the whole family in jail on drug charges, will somebody finally reveal what happened to little Haleigh? Then Casey is cut off. Records of Casey Anthony`s jail account shows she`s in debt because her parents haven`t deposited any money in months. Could this have anything to do with her defense team reportedly investigating her dad, George? Or Casey`s shocking claims that her dad may have sexually abused her. Tonight, mind boggling new misadventures in the Haleigh Cummings family drama: Misty Croslin`s parents have landed in the clink on drug charges. Police said Hank Croslin was busted in a cocaine sting Friday. Daughter, Misty and her brother, Tommy are already in jail on drug charges. Does the family that drug together stay together? In jail? It seems that way. Misty`s ex and Haleigh`s dad, Ron Cummings also face drug charges. Ron`s cousin Hope Sykes is also serving a 15-year prison sentence for drugs. What the heck is going on here? This is outrageous. Florida police say Lisa and Hank Senior tried to buy crack cocaine from undercover officers.", "They bought $20 worth of crack cocaine -- one rock.", "Hank and Lisa Croslin also allegedly threw the drugs out of the car window when they saw the cops were closing in. That earned them an evidence-tampering charge. Now, this isn`t the first time at the dance, folks. The happy couple are also accused of violating parole. I don`t think Misty is going to be turning to mommy and daddy for comfort anytime soon.", "I want out of here.", "I know, baby, I know it.", "I want out so bad.", "I know.", "What a mess. Misty was babysitting little Haleigh the very night she vanished nearly a year and a half ago. Police have ruled this case a homicide but a body has never been found. Nobody has been charged. Now that Misty and her whole darn family are behind bars, will Misty finally, finally, finally spill the beans about what happened the night Haleigh went missing? I want to welcome back my fantastic expert panel but first, to investigative journalist Art Harris, who`s all over this case. Art, what is the very latest?", "I can tell you that Hank and Lisa Croslin were cruising through a rough neighborhood in Palatka, Florida on Friday night looking for drugs, Jane. They pulled over to a drug house that they`re familiar with. Lisa is driving. Misty`s father gets out and goes and buys from an undercover cop. He did not know that this is a place they just busted and they were now playing dealer, selling to buyers who were driving by. This is a frequent thing they do down, you know, in a lot of places for drug busts. And right now so we drive off, Hank`s got a rock of crack cocaine. And just down the road, they pull over. In the meantime, the mother is seeing a blue light in the back. She throws the rock of crack cocaine out the window. Police never find it. And they`re charged with possession, with buying cocaine, evidence tampering in the toss of the rock and probation violation for previous charges, Jane.", "You know I heard somebody chuckling. And it would be funny because it`s so crazy and so self-destructive but except there`s a dead little girl at the heart of this. At least that`s what police think. They believe she was murdered, but we don`t know how or why or by whom yet. Now, here`s my big issue -- are you ready to ride into dysfunction junction? All aboard, Croslin family. It`s hard to believe the irresponsibility of Misty`s parents. Their kids are in jail facing the possibility of decades in prison. How do they respond to that? Let`s go get busted for drugs. Listen to this clip of Hank visiting his son, Tommy, in prison.", "I`m worried about Misty.", "Me too.", "She`s got herself in a mess.", "Yes.", "Me too.", "Yes, but not as big a mess, for sure.", "All right. Why allegedly offer police and prosecutors even more leverage against your own children? Got to go to Jim Werter who`s Tommy Croslin`s attorney. I mean this is -- these are the parents of your client. Is this a case of apples not falling far from the tree?", "Well, Jane, you have to understand that this is generations of drug addiction in this family. And if you`re talking crack cocaine, you have to know that this is a horrendous drug. I`ve never seen -- in 30 years, I`ve never seen the addictive quality of this kind of substance. And it`s just terrible. And they were hoping that Tommy would be the one to break the cycle.", "Well, I guess not. I guess not. Misty, Tommy, Ron and his cousin, Hope Sykes were all arrested last January in an undercover drug trafficking sting. Hope pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 15 years. Tommy pleaded no contest and he`s awaiting sentencing. Ron is reportedly close to a plea deal and will likely be sentenced to 15 years. Will Misty end up copping a plea too?", "Ms. Cummings, you`ve been charged with four counts of trafficking in hydrocodone out at Putnam County -- with a total of five counts of trafficking hydrocodone out of Putnam County and one count of trafficking oxycodone in St. Johns County.", "So Mike Brooks, you know it all comes down to Misty sort of holding the bag while everybody else is copping a plea.", "So to speak.", "Yes. How does this work -- how does this work to put pressure on her to really tell the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened to Haleigh?", "Well, you know, I thought maybe, Jane, maybe, there might have been some pressure when Tommy got locked up. You know, but with Hank Senior now, you know, I -- does he really know anything? Tommy should have been telling him on the phone, you know, put the pipe down, daddy. But do the Croslin parents know anything at all? Possibly not. And I don`t think really it`s going to really put much pressure on Misty. Investigators say from the very beginning that she was a tough nut to crack. And this was months ago we heard about this.", "You know what? If we all sound speechless, it`s because we all are speechless.", "It`s unbelievable.", "It`s really unbelievable every time you think you`ve heard the most outrageous aspect of this story, one that`s even more outrageous comes and takes its place. Jeanne (ph) in Texas, your question or thought, ma`am?", ": I want to go back to a time when I heard the little boy say that the kid seen something on the couch in a trailer. And I wanted to know did the police ever check for DNA on the couch in Ron Cummings` trailer?", "Ok. Good question. Art Harris, remember the little boy --", "Yes.", "Tell us about that.", "Junior said he saw a black man and the couch bouncing. Now, I know that police had a forensic psychologist interview the child and they have not been able to confirm it. He was under the age Jane of a child witness who could be credible in court. He may have seen it but we don`t know. As far as DNA, they have not released any information about any matches, but then again, any DNA in that trailer, there is an alibi for, Jane because they all live there. They all visit there.", "Now, I have another big issue tonight. Does all of this boil down to what the heck happened down by the river? It seems like there are several missing pieces to the Haleigh puzzle. Whatever came of the river search, whatever came of it? Whatever came of the cement blocks police dragged out of the river? Did they yield any clues in this case? Grandma Flo Hollars, remember her? She says Cousin Joe Overstreet killed Haleigh and Tommy helped him dump her body in the river. Let`s listen to this.", "She called me on Monday to let me know that Tommy and Joe had wrapped Misty -- I mean had wrapped Haleigh in a yellow rope and tied a brick to it and throwed her off the dock in the St. Johns River.", "Levi page, whatever happened to down by the river?", "Apparently the police didn`t believe anything that was told to them by the liars, Tommy Croslin and Misty Croslin who lied through their teeth since the beginning of the case. And they didn`t believe Tommy Croslin that Joe Overstreet was involved because if they did believe them, they wouldn`t have to harass him which they falsely claim the police did to him while he was in jail. They don`t harass people that are telling them the truth and giving them information that would lead them to find a missing child. And I disagree with what Mike Brooks just said. I think that what we`re going to see -- this will put pressure on Misty because her parents are the ones that have been giving her money to buy all of these little snacks in jail. They`ve been talking to her. And now that`s not going to happen now. She`s not going to get any money from her parents to buy, you know, all these Doritos and stuff that she likes, she picked 20 pounds in jail. She`s not going to get those treats anymore. She`s not going to have her nightly conversations with them. I think this will put pressure on her.", "I don`t think so.", "All right. We`ll agree to disagree. It`s just a bizarre, bizarre, bizarre clan down there. Right. All right. It`s no secret that I`m passionate about the environment. You know, really it`s up to us -- you and me keep this planet clean and beautiful. One easy way to start, do your part; just throw away the plastic. Instead of these horrible plastic water bottles, what about trading them in for a re-useable canteen? ISSUES wants to be part of the solution. So we have designed an ISSUES water canteen. I`m very proud of it, this little canister. We want to hear how you`ve made an impact on your environment, be it recycling, getting rid of plastic bottles or these terrible plastic grocery bags. We`re going to feature your stories live on ISSUES. And those who have made the most difference will receive one of these environmentally safe water canisters. I just love this thing. So start sending in your green improvements. Go to CNN.com/Jane. You`re going to be able find links to e-mail me your story directly or post your stories on my Facebook or twitter pages. People, let`s be part of the solution. Go green. Up next -- the Anthony family drama heats up. Reports that Casey is broke. Has Casey Anthony`s family finally turned their backs on her?", "Has accused child killer Casey Anthony`s family turned against her? Tonight, breaking news -- the Anthony family keeps their home and escapes foreclosure. I`m happy about that. I don`t want to see them lose their home. But Casey is going broke behind bars. Her jailhouse account is in the red. She is more than $41 in debt. The last time Casey did put money in her account was two long months ago. Casey`s parents have not given her a dime since top-secret jailhouse letters Casey wrote to a fellow inmate were leaked. In those letters, Casey said her dad, George, may have molested her. Her family calls that claim hurtful and false. George in fact raged in a letter to Casey, \"You are destroying the family.\" In those notes, Casey accused her brother, Lee, of touching her breasts. But Lee seems to have forgiven his sister. At Casey`s most recent hearing, he was called to the stand and mouthed, \"I love you.\" Take a look.", "Thank you. Please tell the court your name?", "Lee Alexander Anthony.", "I`m assuming you weren`t speaking to me just now.", "Absolutely not.", "I didn`t think so. How are you related to the defendant, Casey Marie Anthony?", "She is my sister.", "And just recently, published reports claimed Casey`s defense was investigating George. Could they possibly be trying to blame all of this on dad? George showed up at the hearing where Casey`s mom, Cindy, testified. They were still willing to stand behind Casey, vehemently insisting she`s innocent of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. But have they personally reached their limit? Are her parents now punishing Casey, taking away those little luxuries, the Doritos, the shampoo, the makeup? Maybe that explains Casey`s slimmed down frame. She hasn`t had any money to buy all of that junk food. George`s attorney has no comment. Straight out to the fantastic panel: HLN law enforcement analyst, Mike Brooks; family law attorney, Debra Opri; and criminal defense attorney, Mark Eiglarsh. Mark, I know, you`ve been tracking this case from the start. What do you make of her being $41 in the red?", "Well, Jane, let me just first say, I don`t know if you can see me, but I wanted to tell you something -- I love you.", "You know, I always felt that there was something.", "Go suck it up, Eiglarsh.", "Something between us that --", "Here`s what I really -- you know what I really?", "-- chemistry.", "Yes, it`s there. If you`re ever locked up, i`ll let you buy some Twinkies.", "I don`t eat Twinkies.", "That`s true. The challenge is anyone who sends her money now is going to be all over the news. It`s public record. So I think that -- even those who want to marry her and sent her marriage proposals, they`re hesitant because their names will become somehow synonymous with donating money with her. Her father? My thought is he said, \"Ok, dead body in the car, I`m still with you, baby. You lied to law enforcement about the whole Zany the nanny thing? I`m still with you. Wait, I molested you? Buy your own damn food, I`m out.\" Yes, possible.", "Yes. I mean seriously, we`re chuckling because these developments are so bizarre. But it`s not funny. This poor family, Cindy and George, they have been through hell. And I have to wonder is this family emotionally exhausted? Listen to what Cindy said when she testified about the chilling 911 call she made after she realized her precious granddaughter Caylee was missing. Check this out.", "You wanted them to keep searching for a live kid?", "Correct.", "And you`re clear about that?", "Oh, absolutely. I -- I still think Caylee is alive.", "Debra Opri, you`ve covered so many of the huge cases, you have to wonder, is this family, Cindy and George, are they at their breaking point because they keep defending a young lady who keeps betraying them?", "Look, Jane, I`ve known you many years and we covered cases together. And I`m looking at a family that is not only broken, they`re disintegrated, and you just buried the pieces right now. This girl in jail with an account of $150 paid by the dad in three days, it`s -- it`s ridiculous. She has a spending cap. He should keep her on a budget. The family is broke. They`re emotionally shattered. And the bottom line is they can stand by their daughter because as a family law attorney, I`m telling you, a mother and father will forever love their children. And they will always say I know she committed a crime. I believe she may have committed a crime. But she is my daughter. And we will love her till the day she dies. As far as this disintegrated family, and it is disintegrated, the bottom really is coming. It`s going to fall out very soon. And they`re going to get on with their lives, forever be shattered, scarred and there`s no way you can put this family back together again.", "No.", "We`ve spoken about that.", "And you know, Jane, I think that Cindy -- she may still be drinking that Casey Kool-aid a little bit. But George has had it up to here.", "Oh, no, no, no.", "No, no, no. I think so. But George, if I were George, I would say, no, I`ve had enough, I`ve had enough. But he puts on a good front.", "He`s a father.", "Now if Lee loves her so much, why doesn`t he make a deposit? Everybody would understand that. And where has he been. Where is Lee with the \"I love you\"? where has he been for the other court appearances. Now, nowhere to be seen. I`m not buying these guys either.", "Dolores, Texas, you`re question or thought, ma`am?", "Yes, ma`am. I was just wondering, has anyone every genetically tested Casey`s brother or father that they may actually be the father of the little girl, Caylee? Because I --", "First of all ma`am, thank you for your question but I have to go back to Mike Brooks on this. This has been some kind of urban myth that has floated around. And I think again these kinds of questions come up because of all these outrageous allegations that have been made by Casey. But there is absolutely no evidence of that. I believe that obviously investigators know that this is a mystery father, we have heard so many stories, maybe he died in a car accident. What do you know, Mike?", "No. You know, they really do not know right now or they have not said who the father of little Caylee is. And as you said, you know, it`s an urban myth. It`s been put out there, the brother, the father. But there is nothing, nothing at all to say that either one of them is.", "All right, thank you.", "A tragic mix-up, an unthinkable mistake gives one family hope and leaves another in mourning. After a horrific car accident, the Guerra family was told their 19-year-old daughter Abby was dead. With her body at the medical examiner`s office, they began planning a funeral for the promising young soccer star. What they didn`t know was -- Abby was actually alive, totally unrecognizable and clinging to life in a nearby hospital. Gathered around her bedside was Abby`s friend, Marlena Cantu`s family, holding vigil, waiting and praying for the girl they thought was their daughter to pull through and wake up. Nearly a week after the terrible crash, fingerprint records finally confirm that the two girls` identities had actually been switched accidentally at the scene. Marlena is dead. Abby is the one in critical condition with a brain injury, a broken back and a collapsed lung.", "You believe for a week that that was Marlena. Ultimately, it`s the hospital that told my dad. They came out and said your daughter is on the second floor and then that`s it.", "HLN law enforcement analyst, Mike Brooks. This is incomprehensible. How can something like this happen today?", "You know, Jane, I asked the same question as soon as I heard this. You know apparently this scene, I listened to the presser just a short time ago. Apparently the scene on I-10 out in the desert, outside of Phoenix, there was one-girl, one girl dead on the scene. There were four other patients taken to the trauma center. The Spokesperson for the hospital said, and the department of public safety, the highway patrol said it was just a chaotic scene. Now, the hospital said that they were going on the best information they were getting from people there. You know, they`re not talking about injuries or anything at all of the two girls. But that was the information that led them to give the information department of public safety who, one of the troopers, officers along with the chaplain went to tell the Guerra family that their daughter was dead. And you know, I just said, wow. But you look at how people are identified. One of the ways identifying marks, any scars, birth marks, broken bones that they may have had in the past. Then you have dental records, DNA and fingerprints. Are they going to take the person`s fingerprints right there on the scene in the emergency room? No. Are they going to take dental records? No. They`re going to look at identifying marks most likely, Jane and try to identify --", "Well, these girls --", "Yes, go ahead.", "-- look so similar.", "They do.", "That`s the thing. They could be sisters.", "They do.", "Guess what, Mike, this is not the first time something like this happened. Four years ago, Whitney", "Well, you know right away you are not probably going to go to DNA because that is going to take a long time. You go on fingerprints or dental records. And it`s up to medical examiner -- and they`re the ones who are actually -- they`re the ones where the body was taken to Maricopa County, in Phoenix. And they`re the one that said, wait a minute. They called the hospital.", "Got to leave it.", "The records we have don`t match the one you have in the hospital. And they`re the ones who found out.", "Our condolences to both of the families.", "Yes, absolutely.", "You`re watching ISSUES. 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{"id": "CNN-149840", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2010-4-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1004/08/acd.02.html", "summary": "Rainy Season Danger in Haiti", "utt": ["Saving Haiti. Well, they survived the catastrophic earthquake. Now more than a million people in Haiti face another kind of potential disaster. We've been telling you about it, really, about the threat for weeks now. It's the rainy season. It's putting families in not even tent cities -- tarp cities is what we're talking about -- in grave danger. Torrential rains could flood makeshift shelters. We've heard about the plans and the promises to relocate those at risk and to move them to new settlements. For months they were talking about that. We're told now that the first wave of people to be moved will start this weekend. But will the sites be ready? That's the question we wanted to know. And are the people willing to go? We'll talk live to Sean Penn about the situation in a moment. But first, Gary Tuchman reports tonight from Haiti.", "On this golf course in the hills above Port-au-Prince, there are no more greens or fairways. Instead, there are up to 60,000 displaced people in a place that regularly floods during rainy season. And it is now rainy season.", "We don't like living here. But that's the way it is.", "Any time now it could start raining for days on end. Because this camp is on a steep hillside, people could end up getting washed away. That's why, for many weeks, there has been talk of getting these and hundreds of thousands of other people in unsafe places out of Port-au-Prince to a safer place. And this is that safer place. It's an area called Corail (ph) where this weekend Haitian families are expected to be bussed in to start new lives. (on camera): This area is only about 45 minutes away from downtown Port-au-Prince. But for the mostly desperately poor, displaced people who don't own vehicles, and therefore never leave their densely-populated city, this could feel like being on the moon. (voice-over): Back at the golf course, Selena Destina knows that she and her children are not safe here, but she's never spent any time out of Port-au-Prince.", "I would like to go, but I don't know the area. I have to find out more about it.", "Actor Sean Penn started an aide organization to help earthquake victims. His organization oversees the golf course camp. He's trying to explain to people here that it's imperative they go someplace safer. (on camera): So basically when the rains start coming, this creek starts overflowing and it's dark. I mean, children could just drown and be carried away in the rapids.", "Absolutely. And you see these areas here. This all becomes very slick mud. And they're right -- they were right on the edge of that, all the way up and down this ditch, because they come out of their tents to see what's happening and they could slip right down into it. And they'd be carried away in the dark at this point.", "Everyone agrees people who can't go back to their homes need to be in safer places. But why is it taking so long? It's been talked about since the days after the quake, almost three months ago. \"Keeping Them Honest\", we asked a member of the Haitian presidential commission for reconstruction what took so long to declare eminent domain and buy these tracts of private land.", "It could have been done faster. But you have to coordinate it with the U.S. Army, the Corps of Engineers, with the U.N. people, with the European (ph) community, with the Oxfam, all bunch of actors, none of them working together.", "But it was a bureaucratic nightmare.", "That is rough. I've been involved with the task force, you know. We presented the government in the process of trying to sort out and making some planning for it. At the beginning -- now it's rolling. It's going to go faster.", "When people arrive here, they will be given tents, but ultimately, will have simple homes built for them. There will be food halls, medical care and opportunities to make money doing jobs in this new community. But has the word gotten out? Does the U.N. really believe thousands of people will leave Port-au-Prince for a place they know nothing about? (on camera): You expect -- you expect next week at this time that there will be thousands of people sleeping here, living here where we're standing right now?", "Yes. It's going to happen.", "Sunday is the target day for the new beginning. Gary Tuchman, CNN, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.", "Joining us now for the \"Big 360 Interview,\" Sean Penn, who you just saw in Gary's report. So Sean, your camp needs to move thousands of people. Today you all performed, I guess, a test run for the first relocation of about 100 families. How did it go?", "Well, in any case, this is going to be at this stage some level of organized chaos. You know, I find it bewildering that so many of the aid organizations are so overextended and that the completion of one project is -- is difficult to task. And we've got a couple of days to get things together, but in either case, the way that we're looking at it is the way that we struggle to focus people on, which is that this is very likely going to be a catastrophe if we don't make these relocations happen. You get people to safer ground. There's a lot of complicated mechanics to it and a lot of very skilled people, but in a circumstance where experience would be an arrogance. It's not something that anyone here has ever had to deal with in the complicated way that this disaster has played itself out in such a poverty-stricken zone.", "And I mean you go to these meetings at the U.N. I'm sure you spent many hours in these meetings. What are they like? I mean, how -- how big a problem is this bureaucracy?", "Well, it's a problem of bureaucracy, and it's also a problem of breaking through the glass in front of our own face and seeing just how real this concern is. There's -- there's always a balance between the arguments for the perfect plan versus a decisiveness. And I think that you could find me clearly on the side of decisiveness, that as long as we make all efforts to -- certainly to be very honest with the people, to let them know what their option is. Whether it relates to aid incentives or in terms of the danger, the risk that they are at by staying where they are, that at that point it is their option, that our prerogative is to provide an area where people may very well die if the rains get heavy. They have an opportunity to live and then a lot more organization will have to go into that to get to the future. But I -- you know, this is a disaster period where decisive action has to be taken. And this is a country that had minimal health care to begin with. And hospitals are being allowed to close, despite all the enormous funds that internationally and in the United States that people have put forward. And I think it's time that they demand of the agencies to whom they've given the money, that they release those monies and spend them decisively. It's a six-month period. It has to be looked at as an emergency.", "Why are hospitals closing now? I mean, you have all these people who underwent amputations, who need follow-on care. Why has that happened?", "Well, it's not only those that -- the follow-up care; it's also the care for the impending issues that are coming. The reason that they're closing is because, in general, when you have these kinds of funds, the organizations themselves will contract and spend money on evaluators. That takes time. The negotiations take time. And hospitals close while those negotiations go on before evaluations are ever made. And the hospitals run out of money after having not been able to pay staff that have been working 12- and more hour shifts for all of these months and months before the earthquake happened. And all of these agencies are aware of it, and they let it happen. They let it close. And if people die, the blood is on their hands.", "You know, what's the difference? I mean, you used to watch this stuff on TV and see this stuff in Katrina, that's what motivated you to go down there. You saw this in Haiti; that's what motivated you to go down there. You spent weeks and weeks there, longer probably than, certainly, any other well-known person, and you're running a camp of some 60,000 people. What is different -- I mean, what have you learned about, you know -- a lot of people look at the stuff, see it on TV -- over the last couple months, what have you learned about doing this, about how this -- how this actually works on the ground?", "I think that in disaster over-caution kills people is the likely lesson. And I hope that we don't learn it factually.", "Sean Penn, I appreciate you being with us tonight, again. Thank you very much. We'll check in with you again. Up next a look at a high school that others should follow; one where every senior is headed for college. Part of our news series, \"Perry's Principles.\" Education contributor, Steve Perry, has the story right after this."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator)", "TUCHMAN", "SELENA DESTINA, EARTHQUAKE SURVIVOR (through translator)", "TUCHMAN", "SEAN PENN, JP HAITIAN RELIEF ORGANIZATION", "TUCHMAN (voice-over)", "ABY BRUN, HAITIAN PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON RECONSTRUCTION", "FOREMAN", "BRUN", "FOREMAN (voice-over)", "GIOVANNI CASSANI, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION", "TUCHMAN", "COOPER", "PENN", "COOPER", "PENN", "COOPER", "PENN", "COOPER", "PENN", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-310703", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2017-04-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/23/ndaysun.02.html", "summary": "Russia's Massive Military Base Puts U.S. On Alert; Now: France Votes in Presidential Elections", "utt": ["Well, good morning to you. Twenty-six minutes past of the hour. So glad to have you onboard with us. I'm Christi Paul.", "I'm Victor Blackwell. Good morning to you.", "You know, at this hour, folks in France voting for their next president. Take a look the pictures we're getting in here. Close to 30 percent of French voters have already cast their ballot. And this is a crowded field. We're talking about 11 candidates to choose from. But there are five major contenders and only the top two after today's voting ends will face-off on May 7th for the final round of voting. This election is of particular interest to the U.S. because two of the candidates are on opposite side of the spectrum.", "Far right national front leader Marine Le Pen is anti- immigration and pro-Russia, and far left wildcard Jean-Luc Melenchon proposes withdrawing from NATO. And Emmanuel Macron is promising to boost the economy and improve security. It's going to be a bitter fight, one that might have far reaching global repercussions. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiling his plans to dominate the Arctic with a visit to a new massive military base there. CNN correspondent Brian Todd reports on Putin's future and intention for the region and what that means for the U.S.", "On a frozen wind-swept expanse in the Arctic, Vladimir Putin military ambition is on grand display. Painted like a Russian flag, it's called Trefoil for its three-cornered structure, a sprawling new military base that can house 150 troops and warplanes.", "This is a lot about the projection of the Russia status, right? Russia status is a great power, first and foremost. Second, the fact that Russia is an Arctic power.", "Sweeping in on a massive military transport, the Russian president recently visited the base. Putin made a show of traversing a glacier and hammering at the ice. Russian troops will be living under the harshest of conditions: 18- month deployments where the temperatures can dip well below zero.", "This is a base set up and perhaps the most inhospitable, if not the most inhospitable places on Earth. They're so cool short of living on another planet with no oxygen, this is one of the most dangerous and hazardous areas to operate.", "But Russians forces pride themselves in able to operate in the most bitter cold conditions, even training with reindeer. Much of the base is top secret but the Russian military does boast a virtual tour of some parts of the interior. This is part of Putin's plan to dominate the Arctic. The oil and gas reserves he has his eye on in the arctic are massive and experts say worth possibly ten of trillions of dollars, expected to be become more accessible if global warming continues.", "And they believe in the future there will be a contest for powers who gets access to them. There'll be a lot of economic and commercial competition. And the Russian view is this is a very difficult area to operate. It's going to take a long time for them to establish themselves there, so they want to get theirs first.", "Putin is aggressively navigating the region, even having a Russian flag planted on the Arctic Ocean floor. Russian has more arctic military bases than the U.S. and dozens more ice breaking ships perhaps as many as 40.", "And how many ice breakers do we have available?", "I believe it's one.", "One and a half.", "OK, 1.5.", "Russia's race ahead of the U.S. in cornering the Arctic, analysts say, is a sobering illustration of Putin's broader ambitions.", "For Vladimir Putin, the Arctic is a prestige project. It demonstrates Russian history and its greatness. Russia can conquer anything. It can plant a flag on the North Pole. It can build overcome nature.", "The Trump administration is being pressured by members of Congress and outside analysts to close that gap with Vladimir Putin and beef up America's presence in the Arctic. Will they? We pressed officials here at the White House, at the Pentagon, Northern Command and the Coast Guard for any specific plans to place more resources in the Arctic. We've gotten no response. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "All right. As we have been reporting, people in France are voting for their next president. Let's go to CNN's Melissa Bell who is live outside of polling station in Paris. And we are getting some numbers in showing relatively strong turnout today.", "That's right. The only official figure we have so far is the midday turnout rate and it is very slightly above what it was in 2012. And that is a good sign. There have been a big question whether there's very many undecided voters of which there are historically high numbers at this particular stage or in the run-up the last few days, whether they might just decide to stay at home and bewildered by the vast array of political choice that is offer here today. In fact, that appears not to be the case and everyone we have spoken to outside this polling station, the 18th district of Paris this morning, have spoken of their determination to come and mark their vote. France is really at a crossroads. You have 11 candidates but you can pretty well put them in two categories. There are those, and that include the populace like Marine Le Pen, but also many on the left who want a huge change with all that has gone before. They want to retreat within France's border. They want a certain dose of economic protectionism and really a huge that rupture with all that went before, and those on the country who represent more continuity, who would not bring into question of the European Union and that would essentially see France continue along the political lines that it has. So, this is really a test of what we have been following for many months now, that populist wave that has swept across the United Kingdom, that has swept across the United States, whether it ends here in this first round of voting today in France or whether it continues.", "Melissa Bell for us in Paris -- Melissa, thank you.", "And this is an important election worldwide. A lot of people are watching it. Three of the candidates opposed Western sanctions against Russia. Two would extract France from NATO military command. One would increase European defense cooperation to lessen dependence what he is says is an unreliable United States. So, we have the former French ambassador to the U.S. with us next to talk about what all of this means for the United States. Stay close."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MICHAEK KOFMAN, RUSSIAN MILITARY ANALYST, CNA", "TODD", "KOFMAN", "TODD", "KOFMAN", "TODD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GEN. LORI ROBINSON, COMMANDER, U.S. NORTHERN COMMAND", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROBINSON", "TODD", "HEATHER CONLEY, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTL. STUDIES", "TODD (voice-over)", "BLACKWELL", "MELISSA BELL, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-198405", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-12-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1212/31/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Short-Term Deal May Be Reached", "utt": ["Deal or no deal in the Senate. We're hearing about a lot of process and progress. Maybe not the kind of progress we were expecting or hoping for. CNN senior congressional correspondent, Dana Bash, is on the Hill. Dana, what are you hearing about a possible short-term deal, a push off of the sequester, which would create another mini cliff down the road. What's the drama around this?", "We have been hearing over the past hour from Congressional Democratic sources, Christine, telling us that Republicans are pushing to delay the sequester, which is at least in the first month, $110 billion in spending cuts, to delay it for three months. Democrats on Capitol Hill are saying that they don't want to do anything less than a year. They want to delay the sequester for at least a year. And what is fascinating about this is, what has happened over the past 24 hours or so, is when we learn about things when they hit a snag, it's for a purpose. It's to send a signal to somebody or to try to put the brakes on something. It appears to be the case right now. Specifically, congressional Democrats are concerned that the vice president, who is the prime negotiator right now with Mitch McConnell, that he's potentially prepared to cut a deal that delays the sequester, these spending cuts for three months, and that's something that Democrats here on capitol hill don't want. In fact, a congressional Democratic aid said to me, the emerging deal that creates another cliff in three months can't pass, meaning they believe it's a horrible idea because we'll be back where we are in three months trying to figure out how to find spending cuts.", "An interesting drama interesting intra-Democratic drama about how this is shaping up. The negotiators are talking furiously. By that, I mean, Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden, keeping people here on Capitol Hill in the loop. And some of what they are hearing, they are happy about, some not so happy. That's where we are right now.", "The Republican drama has been about raising taxes on anyone, even the very richest. As the day goes on, it looks as though they are coming to sort -- feels, I should say, because this is all emerging -- there's some resolution on the tax front. Now you're seeing that inter-party controversy happening on the Democratic side?", "That's right. This is one issue. But another issue we talked about earlier in the hour are just generally the progressives or liberals in the Democratic caucus making clear they don't like what they are hearing, specifically, the idea that households would keep their tax cuts in place up to $450,000. I should add, since we last talked, Jessica Yellin learned that the threshold they are talking now is households of $450,000 and individuals of $400,000. That's new since we talked. But in general, yes, we hear progressives, Tom Harkin, your home state Senator from Iowa, a leading liberal in the Senate, veteran Senator, he has made clear he does not want that. He told me he may try to block a deal to stop it.", "Unemployment benefits, the payroll tax holiday, the estate tax. The ANT, the doc fix. It's more than just rates that we're talking about here, and it's more than just the sequester. There's all these patches. Any clarity on those?", "You're absolutely right. There's so much. On the payroll tax, I have not heard anybody talk about continuing that. It doesn't mean it might not pop up at the last-minute, but what it means is that everybody will see a little bit of a bite taken out of the paycheck no matter what because the payroll tax holiday goes away. On the AMT, many of us working the story at CNN were told they're talking about patching that permanently. Then I got an e-mail from a Democratic source saying it's not true. The estate tax, keeping the low rate, or at least lower than it was, on the table, seems to still be on the table. All of these things are still worked out. You're absolutely right. There's so much here and that affects people where it matters most, in their wallets and paychecks.", "Parents, teachers, college students, every working Americans, doctors, I could go on and on forever. Dana Bash watching the emerging -- emerging --"], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BASH", "ROMANS", "BASH", "ROMANS", "BASH", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "NPR-39506", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2006-01-30", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5178274", "title": "Beijing Kicks Off Year of the Dog with a Bang", "summary": "Residents of China's capital welcome the Chinese New Year with pyrotechnics. To celebrate the Year of the Dog, Beijing officials decided to lift a 12-year-old ban on setting off fireworks during the celebrations.", "utt": ["Beijing welcomed in the Chinese New Year with pyrotechnics. To celebrate the Year of the Dog, officials decided to lift a 12-year old ban on setting off fireworks. The state media reported that 26 people were hospitalized in Beijing with fireworks related injuries. Here's NPR's Anthony Kuhn.", "In Chinese, firecrackers are called baozhu or exploding bamboo. Legend has it that before the Chinese invented gunpowder, they threw hollow pieces of bamboo onto fires in hopes that the explosions would scare off evil spirits. At one store, a merchant who would only give his surname, Jong(ph) is doing a brisk business, his store shelves piled high with Roman candles and colorful tubes and bricks of firecrackers.", "(Through Translator) These are called lightning blasters. They come in 12, 24 and 36 rounds. This is the Lion Dance King, a new product this year. I have strings of 1,000, 2,000 or 5,000 firecrackers. I have one with 5,888 firecrackers for good luck. The ones with 10,000 haven't come in yet.", "Beijing was one of the first Chinese cities to ban fireworks for safety reasons in 1993, and some 300 other cities followed suit. But the ban was highly unpopular and widely flouted. Now, most cities have rescinded their bans. Beijing resident, Joe Mong(ph) Fei(ph) was buying about $20.00 at fireworks at Mr. Jong's store.", "(Through Translator) Scrapping the ban has definitely added a festive mood to the holiday. Since the government's allowing it, I might as well buy some. I've been holding back for more than 10 years.", "The Lunar New Year is China's biggest holiday. For poor people, it may be the one time of year they get to eat meat or put on new clothes. For wealthier Chinese, it may mean a beach holiday in Thailand or a package tour of Europe. As the clock nears midnight, the crescendo of fireworks rises to a thunderous roar that seems to engulf the whole city. The sky is thick with acrid smoke and bursts of color. The pyrotechnics last late into the night, and by morning, the streets are a wash in bits of red paper.", "An auto mechanic who would only give his family name, Byo(ph), gingerly lays long strings of firecrackers in the street as his young son looks on.", "(Through Translator) It really is different this year. Before people had to just light fireworks on the sly. Now you can do it within designated times and places. As for the new year, I don't have any special wishes, but I'm sure each year will be better than the last.", "Many Chinese New Years traditions have died off. Some have made a come back and other have just changed. People still festoon their doorways with calligraphic couplets and prepared traditional foods. They flock to temple affairs to watch stilt walkers, opera and acrobats. And instead of paying holiday respects to friends and relatives in person, many now just send greetings by cellphone text message.", "Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Beijing."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, host", "ANTHONY KUHN reporting", "Mr. JONG (Store Merchant)", "KUHN", "Mr. JOE MONG FEI (Beijing resident)", "KUHN", "KUHN", "Mr. BYO (Auto mechanic, Beijing)", "KUHN", "KUHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-253550", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2015-04-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1504/17/cg.02.html", "summary": "National Guard Called Protesters \"Enemy Forces\"", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. Today startling new details out of Ferguson, Missouri, the guardsmen, who had been called in to preserve the fragile calm there last summer and last fall were briefed as if they had been headed into war. E-mails and other mission briefings obtained by CNN reveal Missouri national guardsmen labeled these U.S. citizens who demonstrated and other ones amidst them enemy forces and adversaries. Let's get right to CNN's Sara Sidner. Sara, these e-mails obtained by CNN showed these National Guard commanders knew that using this kind of language could be seen as potentially inflammatory. How are civil rights activists, people in Ferguson, responding to today's news?", "Very negatively and they feel like, you know, they are American citizens, and they say, look, there are so many people who are out of this protests for dozens and dozens of days on end, and most of the time they say they weren't violent. And to be called an enemy is just an absolutely wrong thing to call these protesters who went out every single day, just exercising their rights.", "This was the scene when the Missouri governor decided to call in the National Guard in Ferguson, Missouri, the first time. It happened a week after large protests had erupted twice into violence, looting and burning. And after the highly criticized actions of the St. Louis County Police Department, which many argued enflamed tensions using military vehicles and snipers with rifles pointed at protesters turning Ferguson streets into what looked like a war zone. Documents obtained by CNN reveal the way the National Guard saw the situation as they prepared to deploy a second time when the governor called them up again in November, as the grand jury prepared to make its decision in the police shooting case. They list, enemy forces to watch out for. General protesters are third on that list. Following the RBG black rebels and the Ku Klux Klan saying protesters have historically used Molotov cocktails, rocks and other debris to throw at police. Several small arms fire incidents have occurred and some they use militant tactics taught by that rebel group. Protesters, Rick Coyle, at enemy called enemy forces especially they when the majority of people protesting were not violent and simply exercising their constitutional rights as Americans.", "How am I an enemy? All I am is a 62- year-old grandmother who's worried that I'm going to leave my grandchildren in a world where I can't protect them anymore. I want to see change. I want to see real change.", "We are looked at as the enemy anytime we're vocal, anytime we're expressing ourselves, disenfranchised particularly in a black community.", "The National Guard itself worried about the words enemy and adversary. In the documents one colonel warned the language could be construed as potentially inflammatory. A couple of days later a notification was sent to commanding officers saying all reference of enemy were changed to state criminal elements. The head of Missouri's National Guard telling CNN in an e-mail, the documents used in the Ferguson, Missouri, case were a generic military planning format, utilized in a wide range of military missions so the term enemy forces would be better understood as potential threats. Ultimately, in the wake of the grand jury's decision not to indict the officer who killed Michael Brown, the National Guard was criticized not for its overtly military response, but the guards' lack of response. In November, when two streets of Ferguson went up in flames, they were nowhere to be seen, something that angered the mayor of Ferguson. (on camera): Did the governor do the wrong thing? When it comes to how quickly the National Guard was actually deployed on the streets?", "I don't know who made that call, but I do believe that the National Guard should have been out there much sooner.", "And so as you heard there, there were businesses there, really angry that the National Guard wasn't out in force when all of that burning and looting went down on the day after the grand jury decision. But the protesters say listening to this after they did hundreds of days of protesting peacefully, they really, really feel that something has to change and has to change fast -- Jake.", "Sara Sidner, thank you so much. Let's bring in Jeff Roorda. He is the business manager for the St. Louis Police Officers Association and a retired police officer. We should underline again this was not St. Louis Police office using this terminology. It was the National Guard. Jeff, using terms like enemy forces. These were Americans. Do you find this disturbing as all?", "Well, Jake, I understand why it is disturbing to hear these terms in hindsight, but let's remember, and I'll remind you that I was a state representative at that time, and I was briefed by the National Guard. There was clearly distinction in their mind between the violent elements within the protests that were shooting at police, that were flowing Molotov cocktails and the peaceful protesters who they were charged with protecting. I think we're making a little too much of the use of sort of standard military jargon here.", "Well, I mean, I was in Ferguson when the people in the crowds of protesters burned stores, looted, threw Molotov cocktails, rocks, even gun shots both last month and, of course, last fall. But there were many, many more people who were peaceful protesters. Now without question, it was a very challenging environment for law enforcement. But isn't using a term such as \"the enemy\" does that make it tougher for national guardsmen to distinguish between the bad actors and the larger crowd of peaceful protesters?", "Well, they should have departed from the standard language that they use in these sorts of deployments. I totally agree with that, Jake, but I don't think it changed the outcome. Just within the report that Sara just brought forward, I mean, you can see the no-win situation for the governor in deploying the National Guard. In one breath criticized for over-militarization by bringing in the National Guard. The next, criticized for not fully deploying them. It was a tenuous situation, and when you bring military into a situation like that, it's very dangerous. Remember, the L.A. riots over 50 people were killed. Many of them by -- by law enforcement in these riots, we were able to preserve life and to some extent, more property than a lot of us expected, a lot more arson and carnage that we saw.", "Jeff, I want to ask. The last time we spoke last month, it was right after two local police officers had been shot in Ferguson.", "Right.", "How are they doing?", "Thank you very much for asking, Jake. One is a very good friend of mine, you know. His recovery is going very well. He was the St. Louis county officer shot in the shoulder. He's doing remarkably well and handled this whole thing very well. The officer that was shot in the face, obviously, has a longer road to recovery, but he seems to be recovering well too. So thank you for asking.", "All right, our thoughts and prayers with your friends. Please pass that on, if you would, Jeff. Thanks so much for joining us. Appreciate it.", "Thanks, Jake.", "Coming up, the Pop Culture Lead, he might be on Oprah's list of faves, but Dr. Oz is getting called a quack by fellow doctors. Could it lead to the TV star getting pushed out of a prestigious position? And the Money Lead, how about a little cannabis with your kale? That's right. Pot is going gourmet. How the business of weed is reinventing the stoner diet. That's next."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SIDNER (voice-over)", "KATHERINE JACKSON, PROTESTER", "PAUL MUHAMMED, PROTESTER", "SIDNER", "JAMES KNOWLES, FERGUSON MAYOR", "SIDNER", "TAPPER", "JEFF ROORDA, ST. LOUIS POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION", "TAPPER", "ROORDA", "TAPPER", "ROORDA", "TAPPER", "ROORDA", "TAPPER", "ROORDA", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-115262", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-3-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/14/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Historian Discusses Second Presidential Term Curse", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Don Lemon live at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta.", "And I'm Kiran Chetry in for Kyra Phillips today. Well, they say love may be better the second time around, but not the White House. The historical precedence, of lame-duck presidents -- is there a second-term curse? You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. He has some explaining to do and he plans to do it. The fallout over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys keeps on growing today. And CNN has learned the man at the center of the controversy, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, is headed to Capitol Hill. He's going to go later this week and next week to further explain the firings. He's facing calls from congressional Democrats to resign. They also want to know just how involved the White House was and they're threatening to subpoena top presidential aides, including Karl Rove. Meantime, questions over the controversy followed President Bush to Mexico today, here's what he had to say, and then we're going to hear what Attorney General Al Gonzales told \"AMERICAN MORNING\" and Miles O'Brien.", "I do have confidence in Attorney General Al Gonzales. I talked to him this morning. And we talked about his need to go up to Capitol Hill and make it very clear to members in both political parties why the Justice Department made the decisions it made -- make it very clear about the facts and he's right, mistakes were made, and I'm frankly not happy about them, because there is a lot of confusion over what really has been a customary practice by the presidents. U.S. attorneys and others serve at the pleasure of the president.", "Do you feel it's time for you to step down?", "That will be a decision for the president of the United States to make. I think if you look at the record of the department", "Should you offer your resignation? Is it time for you to offer your resignation?", "That is a decision for the president of the United States to make. I'm going to be focused on identifying what went wrong here, correcting those mistakes and focusing on working for the American people.", "But the decision on whether to offer your resignation is yours, is it not?", "I'm focused on doing my job.", "The fired prosecutors say they were sacked for political reasons, even though Gonzales insists it was just part of an evaluation process.", "Well that prosecutor purge certainly isn't the only problem that President Bush is facing these days. And that leads us to ask a key question -- does the second term always mean huge problems for a presidency? It certainly seems that way for Mr. Bush and plenty of his predecessors.", "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.", "I'm not going to comment on that.", "I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.", "Well, so how do we explain this so-called second-term curse? Let's ask historian Richard Shenkman, I saw you looking at those sound bites and kind of smiling a little bit. It is interesting to see that, isn't it?", "It is. And you know you could pick out a sound bite like that from virtually every second-term president in American history. And if they had television in the day of George Washington, you could have had a couple of sound bites like that from George Washington.", "Yes, Richard, here's what I want to ask you, though, and this is the reason we are asking this and talking about this today. Just in the past couple of months, we've had Scooter Libby, we've had Dick Cheney, we've had Rumsfeld resign, we've had Alberto Gonzales just recently, Peter Pace yesterday, Walter Reed just, you know, in the last couple of weeks. Is this unusual?", "It's not unusual. It's referred to by historians as the second-term jinx. And it's for good reason that we talk about that. It's because every second-term president runs into this. And there are a couple factors. One is simply that over the course of a number of years, if you stay in office long enough, your enemies build up, every year you get more enemies and usually fewer friends, and eventually they're all coming after you. And after the reelection you're a lame duck under the constitution, so what happens is, they feel free to go after you without worrying that you are really going to have enough clout to go back after them.", "OK, but you know what Richard? It seems like, you know Nixon had Watergate, then there was Iran/Contra during the Regan years, but then it seems like there was one big issue. This seems like a couple big issues all happening in sequence, one right after the other, right after the other.", "Well, what's also going on here is that you have the Democrats taking control of Congress. For six years the president basically got a free ride from the Congress, because it was for most of that time it was in Republican hands, and this is also true of presidents. Most presidents come in with both houses of Congress being from their own party, and somewhere along the way they wind of losing one or both houses. And that changes the dynamics. President Bush has lost both houses. That changes the dynamic.", "Alright, maybe I am missing something. I sort of understand what you're saying, but because there's a Democratic Congress, what does that have to do with the administration and corruption or lack of taking care of troops who are sick? What does that have to do with the Democrats? I don't understand that part.", "Well, if the Democrats weren't in power right now on all of these scandals that have erupted over the last few months, you wouldn't be hearing very much about them. The Walter Reed scandal, certainly this attorney general scandal, the Republicans would have been able to shove under the carpet and basically make go away because you wouldn't have officials being subpoenaed, brought up to Capitol Hill, made to answer questions --", "Got it. You're talking about people holding their feet to the fire, and keeping them honest, as we say here on CNN. What about falling so close to the president himself, all of these issues seem to be, you know, falling really close, not just the administration, but really close to the president himself. Is that unusual?", "Well, go back to Watergate, very close to Richard Nixon, the Ram Contra (ph), very close to Ronald Reagan, the impeachment of Bill Clinton, can't get any closer than that. No, they always do tend to come close to the president. If they're not close to them, then you know what, you don't hear too much about them.", "Yes, so discipline as well. So, I would expect that we would see many more to come so, to you, you're say saying, you know what? Hey listen, this is just the second-term jinx that always happens once you're a president. It doesn't have to happen, but it somehow seems to, don't know why.", "Well, we do know why, and for some of the reasons I already outlined. Also, in addition, there's a couple of other reasons. One is that when presidents get re-elected, they tend to have what I call hubris, presidential hubris. And what that does is it forces them or leads them, inclines them to over-reach. President Bush over-reached with Social Security. He got slammed hard by the country, and that weakened him politically, making him more susceptible to further attacks.", "Yes, I see your point, kind of, as usual thank you so much, you always do a great job. Thank you so much, Richard Shenkman.", "Alright, thank you.", "Well, punks, bullies, all of you beware, because the next little old lady you try to pick on may be ready to rumble.", "If you can't make it the other other way, then you've got to fight. We've got feet, we've got fingers, we've got teeth, use them.", "She was talking smack, too, on top of that.", "Yes, a lot of trash.", "How about that? Well, ahead in the the NEWSROOM, a granny with some gumption, not to mention a mean left hook."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "CHETRY", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-2382", "program": "Crossfire", "date": "2000-2-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/10/cf.00.html", "summary": "Should It Be Legal to Buy Human Eggs?", "utt": ["Tonight, very special egg donor needed. An ad in a Stanford University newspaper offers $100,000 for the eggs of an athletic young woman. Assuming the offer is real, should it be legal?", "Live from Washington, CROSSFIRE. On the left, Bill Press; on the right, Mary Matalin. In the crossfire, in San Diego, Tom Pinkerton, an egg donation and surrogacy attorney, and in Boston, George Annas, a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Ethics Committee, and professor of health law at Boston University.", "Good evening, welcome to CROSSFIRE. So are you having trouble setting aside enough money for your daughter's tuition? Well, you don't have to worry any longer. If she has the right attributes she can just sell her eggs to the highest bidder. This week a half-page ad in Stanford University's student paper sets a record high: $100,000 for the eggs of a Caucasian college student, preferably with athletic abilities and under 30 years of age. Families 2000, an organization of Christian women which placed the ad, says, they're not kidding. \"This ad was placed on behalf of a client who would like to remain anonymous. Therefore, we are unable to disclose the identity of our client, but can confirm that the ad is quite serious.\" Indeed. According to Families 2000, 250 women have taken the ad seriously enough to volunteer, but the number of volunteers and the price begs the question, is this a good idea in the first place? Is it wrong to put a price tag on something so personal? Mary has the night off tonight, so back by popular demand, tonight's guest host on the right, Tucker Carlson of \"The Weekly Standard\" -- Tucker.", "Mr. Pinkerton, you help people purchase human eggs from donors. Aren't you buying into the premise of slavery, that human beings are merely commodities that can be bought and sold?", "You know, the idea that because eggs may be commodities, there's a fear that the children that are born from these eggs are going to be commodities, and the data doesn't suggest that at all. In fact, the bottom line is the parents we deal with desperately want to be parents. Infertility is a disease. This is a treatment. And the children are loved once they're born.", "But so you're admitting -- I think I heard you say that they are in fact commodities just like anything else, just like a new BMW, or a toaster oven, or anything.", "Well, there's no distinction in my mind between donating an egg -- excuse me -- donating an egg and selling an egg. Where we have to start off here is liberty, personal procreative liberty. Do we want to limit that? If so, why? The question we have to answer is where's the harm? That's the ethical question I think that has to be addressed here, and those harms I think are there whether the price is $1,000 or $1 million. We want to treat the donors with respect. We want to screen them psychologically and mentally. We want to adequately inform the parents, and once...", "Well, then...", "Go ahead.", "Well, answer this, then, why shouldn't parents be able to sell their children? I mean, look, let's say I am an infertile woman, I have the disease of infertility, I am in the supermarket and I see a handsome athletic looking 5-year-old who has all the characteristics I admire and I say to his mother, gee, you know, I'll give you a hundred grand for your baby, why shouldn't she be able to sell the child to me, wouldn't that be a cure for the disease of infertility?", "You know, trying to compare sperm cells and egg cells to human beings is a little bit farfetched.", "What do you mean it's farfetched? That's what they become, don't they? I mean, don't -- you're buying eggs because they become human beings, they don't become puppies.", "Well, first of all, the eggs are discharged every month by the woman. Maybe we should get a egg rescue committee going together to try to rescue those eggs. I mean, if you're saying they're the same, we don't treat them the same. The laws don't treat them same. They're not an organ under the law. And I say as long as the harm is protected against, you know, all situations, we should let the parties determine the price and that's what we do with our database.", "Professor Annas, there's a lot of talk about this $100,000, but before we get to the price I would like to talk to you about the basic principle involved.", "Sure.", "I can go to a blood bank and sell my blood or plasma, I can go to a sperm bank and sell my sperm, I can go to a wig maker and sell my hair. Why shouldn't a woman be able to sell her eggs?", "Well, blood, sperm, and hair are all renewable. It doesn't make any difference to you whether any of those three things...", "So are eggs. So are eggs every month.", "Eggs really aren't that renewable. You're born with all your eggs. And more importantly it is not a simple procedure. It's a major medical procedure to take hormonal drugs for three months then undergo a laparscopy (ph), either under anesthesia or not under anesthesia. It is a procedure that puts women at risk, risk of various diseases and possibly the risk of infertility itself. So I don't we can equate, whether you want to buy or sell them, egg sales with selling hair, sperm, or blood. On the other hand, I would be happy to outlaw the sale of sperm if that's the thing that hangs people up. They want -- men can sell their sperm, women should sell their eggs. Well, let's outlaw the sale of sperm, too.", "Well, let me be sure what you're saying. It is a difficult procedure, a painful procedure. We have talked about that before.", "Yes.", "Are you saying that a woman should go through this and get absolute no compensation, period?", "No. I think that it -- certainly if women are going to do this for love -- if they're going to do it for money I don't think you should do it period. But if they're going to do it for love, then I think they should certainly be comped, because I think it's important. I think they should certainly be compensated for their out-of- pocket expenses and whatever we think is reasonable for the discomfort and the risk, and so far, society has seemed to put a value on that of around $2,000 to $3,000, and I certainly wouldn't argue with that. But once we get over $5,000 or $10,000, even the American Society For Reproductive Medicine Ethics Committee, which here I sit on, has said that gets beyond compensating for services and starts paying for the egg and that's what seems to be wrong...", "Well, I think that...", "... because the egg -- if you buy eggs for certain characteristics, it's not a child, but you buy them only because it's going to become a child and that's the step toward commodifying children.", "It seems to me there's a basic inequity here. The doctor who is performing those procedures is getting a lot more than $2,000 for it. Why should the doctor be getting rich off this practice, or the attorneys be getting rich off this practice, or the people running these organizations, and the woman is expected to do it and as you say just get her costs covered? I mean, come on.", "Well, I understand that argument. It's the same argument people make for kidney donation. Why does everybody get paid except the kidney donor or the kidney donor's family? It's because we don't want to exploit people who would only donate eggs or only donate a kidney if they got a large amount of money, because we think that, that can only impact on vulnerable people. And as terms of the doctor, the doctor is in a very, very strange position here. I think if it's only money that the woman is taking in order to participate in this, in order to sell her eggs, then I do not believe it's ethical for any physician to put the woman's -- a healthy woman at risk of any harm in order just for the motive of money. I think that would make the thing wrong both for the woman and for the doctor.", "Amen. Now, Mr. Pinkerton, you've talked about this whole process as an exercise in liberty. You make it sound like voting, but there's actually more going on here. Let me -- I have here an egg donation profile, which is a question that women who would like to donate their eggs have to fill out. Let's take a look at what -- the questions it asks, have you taken an IQ test, date of test and score, willing to take IQ test? Then it has a whole section about the person's ancestry, here is the part on the maternal grandmother, race, ethnic ancestry, natural hair color, hair type, condition of hair, complexion, freckles -- and here's my favorite -- tanning ability. This is crackpot stuff, Tom. I am wondering why in the world anybody apart from say a Nazi or a eugenecist would want to know the answers to these questions?", "If you're a woman and you cannot produce a viable egg, the question is, should you have a choice to choose the characteristics that most match you. People -- women that go through infertility have gone through a lot of pain. They are trying to come to the realization that they can't have their own genetic child, so they want to try to master a child.", "Oh, please, Tom. Tom, wait on, hold on, tanning ability, I mean, come on? This is like, you know, when you order a car, I would like a CD player and Corinthian leather. I mean, this is utterly frivolous. This is yuppie frivolity at its absolute worst, and I can't imagine why you won't condemn it. Tanning ability? This is a child.", "Tanning ability, well, you know, did you go through the other questions, too?", "I certainly did. But there's -- I mean, the idea that you would be closely tracking a person's generic heritage just doesn't smack of something of Nazism to you at all?", "You know what, eugenics is a state coerced action to try to create a perfect race. Do you know in the United States over 100,000 women were involuntarily sterilized because they were retarded, and the Supreme Court of the United States authorized this statute, said that three generations of imbeciles is enough. Now that's eugenics. What we all do when we choose a spouse, maybe consciously, maybe not, is we're trying to marry someone who will provide us with a family. Do we marry someone who we like the looks of, who we think is intelligent, witty, honest, reverent, whatever the traits are -- those personality traits are inheritable.", "OK. George, just before we take a break.", "That's absolutely right, but we don't buy a spouse, make that clear, we marry a spouse for love, we don't go out and purchase a bride on the open market.", "True.", "That's what this is about, this is about the market.", "This is about the market and now the market -- it used to be $50,000, now the market is $100,000. It sounds like a lot of money. This sounds like a lot of money, except we are talking about Stanford University. I would like to show you what the cost of tuition at Stanford University is, George, in case you haven't checked it out lately. Tuition alone...", "I am sure it's a lot.", "Tuition alone for one year, this is not counting, you know, books and meals and living space: $23,058. For four years it's $92,232, which is just about $100,000, so by doing this, going through the procedure one time, a young woman could pay her entire college tuition. Why not?", "Well, you know, she can probably do a lot of things for a $100,000.", "That's better than a lot she could do, isn't it?", "Her -- well, you might say. It's certainly better than prostitution or organ selling. I guess that's right. But the point is it's not -- she's making a child. She's involved in making a child. It's a much more important decision than how do you pay your tuition or what kind of job am I going to get working in the library or something else, and that's what's missing in this whole debate. We keep talking about procreative liberty as if there's some magic to that mantra that means couples can do whatever they want if they have money to purchase eggs, and where's the logic in that? I mean, do we even know this is real? I mean, I think -- next week if someone else wanted to get on television they'd say, I am offering a quarter of a million.", "All right. Gentlemen, we have to take a break there, so please hold on.", "OK.", "When we come back, let's talk about the couples who are placing these ads, are they exploiting young women, or are they just desperate people who want to have a child? Get to that when we come back.", "Welcome back to CROSSFIRE. Sitting in on the right tonight, I'm Tucker Carlson. Babies for sale? A brisk market has emerged in human eggs, some offered for as much as $100,000. Prospective donors are screening for appearance, intelligence and race. Is this Nazi-like eugenics or simply a handy way to build a better baby? We'll ask Tom Pinkerton, attorney for egg donation and surrogacy, and George Annas, professor of health law at Boston University -- Bill.", "Professor Annas, last August the \"New Yorker\" magazine carried a story about egg donation and there was a profile of a donor there, in one part of that article they talk about the donor looking at these ads and she said, \"Gosh, these ads are really sad. Most people have to be really desperate before they will even try something like this.\" My question to you, isn't that true? I mean, these are people who have been trying a long time to have a child, they can't have a child naturally. If this is the only way they can do it, why deny them that opportunity?", "Well, first of all, I mean, it is true that there are desperate couples, but it's the desperation that's the problem, not the solution. And secondly, it is not true, ever, that this is the \"only way they can have a child.\" You can always adopt. There are other methods of having children using techniques I am not that fond of like surrogate motherhood. The real question to ask is, well, why wouldn't we permit them to put -- this fellow to put an ad in the paper that says \"I want to have sex with a woman with these characteristics and I want her to bear the child,\" would you think that's fine for $100,000? If it's not fine, why not?", "I see those ads all the -- by the way, I see those ads all the time. They're called personal ads and you can find them in the back of most weekly handout newspapers. But I want to come back to this couple.", "OK. Well, that's a good way -- that's not a good way to have a child. The ad is not to have a child. The ad is just to have sex.", "I'm not saying it is, we're not -- but don't mix that with couples who really legitimately -- they want to have a child. They're ready to love that child and care for that child. And also, by the way...", "But they could have a child that way too and I don't know why you think that's wrong and this is right, because it's the same -- you're paying for the sexual services of a woman in both cases that you need in order to have a baby.", "I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I can easily make a distinction between going out and having sex with someone else and having an egg donated or even having to buy it. And here's my question...", "But what is the distinction?", "May I ask my question before you jump in please?", "OK, give it a shot.", "If money is involved, I mean, maybe you don't like it, maybe I don't like it, but there have been cases, there was one not too long ago where a couple put an ad in an Ivy League paper, they wanted an egg donor, they got no responses at all. They put a price of $50,000 on there, they got hundreds of responses. George, this is America. I mean, wake up. That's how it works, right?", "This is America, it's one of the countries that thankfully abolished slavery and most others have too. We do not permit the buying and selling of children, and once you put a price on it, this is clearly not egg donation anymore. These aren't ads for egg donors. These are ads for egg sellers. And the question is whether we want to go across that line and sell eggs? And my answer to that is no, because it's too close to selling children. Your answer apparently is yes.", "What I haven't heard so far is the ethics of putting money in the mix. Where is the harm, and why is money a harm? George, I haven't heard you talk about that yet.", "The harm is to the child. The only reason you'd pay that kind of money is because you'd think you get a specific kind of egg donor, whether it's height, intelligence...", "Do you have any data?", "... or whiteness, whatever it is you want. And when the child is born you're very genetically naive to think it's going to have the same characteristics as the woman. Obviously, the genes mix with the man, and if it does not, the parents will by definition be disappointed in their child and will take it out on their child.", "You know, the data...", "Is there any data? There is no data, because the fertility industry doesn't keep data. They don't want to know the answer to this, is this bad for children, or bad for the women who don't \"donate or sell their eggs.\" That's why no data is kept, because...", "Let me tell you about a colleague of yours, George.", "... this is bad for children and bad for women.", "All right, George, let him respond, let him respond. Go ahead, Tom.", "Of course.", "George, a colleague of yours, Dr. Norman Faust (ph) -- do you know him? -- at the University of Michigan.", "I know him quite well. We disagree on most things, including this.", "He's the director of the medical ethics program, the academic program. He's the chair of the hospital ethics committee. And he's the director -- the director of the child protection team at the University of Michigan. He tells me that the limited data that he has is that people that use a new reproductive technology, such as surrogacy and egg donation, that the follow-up on these children is that they're very well-loved, very well-cared-for. The children that are neglected, abused, and not tolerated are the ones that are born, you know, quite by accident. So I think the data suggests just the opposite of what you're saying.", "Well, Tom...", "Well, of course it is. Tom, let me ask you a question here, Tom. Now, I can see why you would be supporting obviously the role of money in this, because you're getting -- by the way, what percentage do you take when you buy and sell children? What percentage do you get?", "We have a flat fee that we charge. We have a database of donors that came out of the $50,000 ad that we place for a client.", "Well, obviously you're getting well-paid. But let me ask you this: At a time when there are literally tens of thousands of children in America -- not all with good tanning ability, but children nonetheless -- languishing in foster care, waiting to be adopted, why should we support, apart from the fact it makes you rich, buying and selling babies on a designer boutique basis for yuppies? I mean, isn't that -- isn't that morally appalling to you?", "Well, first of all, we're not buying and selling babies. We are, if you will, buying eggs. You know, the fact that because there's another alternative for someone to have a child, to adopt a child, does that mean that the person's -- should be limited to only adopting children?", "It means you probably shouldn't be buying and selling children. We can't even establish that as a baseline, I guess, that that's wrong.", "Well, first of all, just to repeat that over and over again doesn't advance the argument of discussion about what the ethics are. It's not buying and selling children. It's...", "Let me ask Tom a question if I can, all right? I mean, you just said that you put -- you have a database of egg donors, which you developed from your $50,000 ad. It's been suggested by others -- let me suggest it now -- that that ad was a ruse just so you could develop a database, that you really weren't interested in paying 50,000. You wanted just to find a lot of women who would be willing to sell their eggs. Is that true?", "I...", "So you can make some money?", "Quick response.", "Unfortunately, because our clients have a high degree of privacy, you know, I -- there's no way I can prove it to you. I wish that some of them could...", "I'll take your word for it.", "... actually come forward and talk. But that's not the nature of the beast. This is a private matter.", "All right, gentlemen, that's got to be it. Our last word, because we're out of time. George Annas in Boston, thanks very much for joining us. Tom Pinkerton, thanks for joining us from San Diego. Tucker Carlson and I will be back with our closing comments.", "Tucker, you could never be a sperm donor, by the way. Your tanning ability, you know, is just not right up to par. But seriously...", "There are other problems.", "Yes. There are other problems too. Look, seriously, used to be people thought there was just one way to have a baby. If they couldn't do it that way, then they would adopt. Today, there are all kinds of other options: in vitro, surrogate parents, sperm donors, egg donors. Tucker, you're not going to turn back the clock. And if there's money involved, hey...", "And who would want to? And allowing women who are infertile to have children is one of the best advances science has come upon.", "But the idea that you would sell children is nauseating. And the idea that you would pick characteristics, like you're breeding dogs, is revolting. I mean, we need to go watch \"Boys From Brazil.\" That movie should be required viewing for everybody who's considered this procedure.", "You can say it a hundred times: Buying an egg is not buying a child. And if you can't see that distinction...", "Then why are you buying an egg if the child doesn't result.", "... abortion and murder.", "You make it sound like, \"Oh, an egg! Oh, my gosh! A child results. Can you imagine?\" That's the point.", "Every sperm -- wait a minute. By your logic, every sperm is a child.", "No, but when you buy an egg, you're doing it to become a child.", "Well, Tucker, then there you go.", "Oh please.", "From the left, I'm Bill Press. \"Every sperm is sacred.\" Good night for", "Sitting in on the right, I'm Tucker Carlson. 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{"id": "CNN-352814", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-10-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/21/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Mitch McConnell Heckled In Kentucky Restaurant", "utt": ["Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is the latest politician to be heckled while eating out. The Kentucky Republican and his wife, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, were at a restaurant in Louisville when this happened.", "Get out of here. Why don't you leave the entire country?", "Leave him alone. Leave him alone. Leave him alone.", "So you see folks are being outspoken and then also you have some people in the restaurant coming to McConnell's defense, telling the men who were confronting the lawmaker to back off. According to our affiliate, WKLY, one of the men actually threw the senator's leftovers out the door. The restaurant said it regrets the incident and wants everyone to feel safe eating there. All right, with me now to discuss all of this, former Republican congressman of Pennsylvania, Charlie Dent, and the former Democratic governor of Maryland, Martin O'Malley. Good to see both of you. All right, so Charlie, you first, you know, talk about the political atmosphere that we're seeing. People are feeling like they want to exercise their First Amendment rights by speaking their minds when they see a public servant. They want to give them, you know, a piece of their mind. At the same time, there are those who were saying you can go too far. What is this an example of?", "Well, that case with Senator McConnell, that individual went way too far. You know, I go to the grocery store too and I would regularly have people stop me and, you know, ask a question. They're almost always civil and that's fine and appropriate. But when people kind of get in your face like that in a public venue, I think it has the exact opposite effect of what you like to have happen. In fact, if you're really angry at an elected official, you know, go out and vote. That's how you should express your frustration of your anger rather than making some kind of a poll it seem, because I can guarantee you, it's not going to change the opinions of lawmakers. This is going to get their hackles up and it will certainly reinforce where they already are.", "OK. So we've seen it just recently with Mitch McConnell. We've also seen it with Sarah Sanders. Martin, take a look at just kind of, you know, a real litany of incidents that have happened in the public recently.", "Why do you support a man that abuses women? Shame on you, Ted Cruz.", "God bless you, ma'am.", "Shame on you, Ted Cruz. Shame on you, Ted Cruz. Shame on you Ted Cruz.", "Yes, we know where you live. We know where you live.", "Bump you out. Bump you out. Bump you out.", "Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame.", "Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame.", "All right, so, Martin, Charlie just said, you know, when something like this happens, it's not necessarily going to change the point of view of the politician. But for many of the folks who were actually expressing themselves, they are hoping that they're going to be influential. So how do you see it, Martin?", "You know, well, look, I think we all have a responsibility to defend and actually promote a level of civil discourse in our country. It's essential, you know. It's what you might call that spirit of moderation that allows us to disagree with one another but still find room for compromise. But -- so I would agree with everything that Charlie said. But I think we also have to acknowledge the fact that we're actually living in very polarized, very divisive times. I mean, the President of the United States just the other night in Montana praised the congressman for roughing up, assaulting a reporter. And this happens within about 72 hours of Saudis cutting off the fingers and killing reportedly a reporter of \"Washington Post,\" contributing reporter. So, well, as I've traveled around the country, what I actually see are not mobs, but I see a lot of moms and they're running for office. And their messages are the messages of opportunity, dignity, and decency. And that's what I see happening and we've been winning special election after special election. And I think that the way our candidates handle themselves, and let's keep in mind, Nancy Pelosi was harassed the other day by a crowd outside an event. And then --", "In fact, we have that. Let me show that. Well, since you've made reference of that -- O'MALLEY. OK.", "-- let's show that right now.", "Look at this piece of [bleep] Pelosi right here. [Bleep] communist. You don't belong here you [bleep] communist. Get the [bleep] out of here. Get the [bleep] out of here.", "So that was as Nancy Pelosi was walking in", "Yes. Well, good for Steve -- yes, good for Steve Scalise. I think all of us have to speak up and defend that, you know, the public discourse and some decency and some dignity in our country. It's hard. I mean, the President of the United States himself when those white Nazi supremacists marched in Charlottesville said they were good people. So this is a challenging time for all of us who's Americans. But the most important, you know, job in this election is the job of citizen. And I think that all of us have a role to play in elevating the discourse and treating each other with dignity and respect.", "Yes. And I wonder, Charlie, you know, it's a matter of striking the balance, right, because there are a lot of people who feel rather empowered to say something to speak their mind because they don't have another method in which to reach out to, you know, a public official. But at the same times, you know, same time, you hear public officials who are saying, you know, they have a right to privacy as well or maybe sometimes people are getting too close. How do you strike a balance here?", "Well, look, people should express themselves to elected officials and there are ways to do it. You know, I've often found that so many people who get in their face who said, I would tell them, hey, call my office. I will happily sit down and talk with you and me with you. And then sometimes those individuals would turn around and then say they didn't really want to meet and they just wanted a confrontation. So -- I mean, that's part of it. But I saw, Fredricka, on an earlier segment of your program, I think it was an elected official talking, we don't want people who are going to be capitulators in elected office. I mean, I think that's a big part of the problem. When some voters, you know, demand that their elected officials be inflexible, that they take a position and they hold it, any type of compromise seeking of consensus is considered a capitulation or surrender.", "Right.", "And I think that kind of attitude lends itself to these kinds of extreme positions. Some people will take it too far and they'll get into this elected officials face, disrespect their privacy, disrespect their families and think they are advancing a some kind of civic duty in providing a public service. They're not.", "OK. So in June, there was a rally. Maxine Waters, you know, called on her constituents to push back on the Trump administration and to, \"Tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.\" So, you know, Martin, what's -- how is that being deciphered if you are a public servant or even if you're a citizen?", "Well, there's -- I mean, I certainly think that all of us have a responsibility here and think that there are some things that is the Trump administration has done that certainly call for us to stand up, speak out, boycott and we're going to necessary, you know, call out shame and ostracize. But I think there's ways to do that without becoming violent. And I think that's the line here. I do believe that, you know, that there's goodness within our country that is longing to be called out and called forward in these midterms. And I think once we have the opportunity to go out and to vote, I believe that a lot of the anger in the air will start to dissipate. I think you're going to see a huge turn out and I do believe that there's going to be a very strong year for course correction and a restoration of that spirit of moderation that's more typical of our American journey.", "All right, we'll leave it there for now. Martin O'Malley, Charlie Dent, good to see you both. Appreciate it.", "Thank you, Fredricka.", "Thanks Fredricka.", "All right, meantime, we're continuing our series, taking the polls of suburban women. A key voting block that could tip the scales come Election Day, 16 days from now. CNN's Ana Cabrera spoke to five women in Minnesota representing different political views and parties about the Me Too movement, President Trump's treatment of women, and the dramatic Supreme Court confirmation fight.", "It did seem that Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation process fired up both bases, both Republicans and Democrats. How did you all feel about how that went down?", "It was embarrassing.", "I was so disheartened. And then things got better when they said they were going to investigate and then we found -- we learned that they only talked to nine people. And then -- and I'm in marketing. The message that came out that, \"Oh, I'm sure she was assaulted, but it wasn't him.\" I was disheartened that at the end of the day, they really did call her a liar.", "The message needs to be truthful, it needs to be to the man that they'll be held accountable for these actions and so the women, you know, they'll be heard and that they'll be advocated for. And, you know, that's the opposite message we received when Kavanaugh was confirmed.", "I don't know that it was their intention to send out a message to say it's OK to harm someone. I think all of us agree that people should be heard and it should be investigated. I don't believe that they just threw it out and said, \"OK, it's OK to have that behavior.\"", "I think what was really frustrating is that if we were to say that we believe women, all accusations against -- every single accusation against him would have been investigated.", "Exactly.", "And only one of them was.", "Does the Me Too movement factor into your vote?", "Absolutely. For me, it absolutely does.", "I'm curious for those who are voting for Democrats if you're also voting for Keith Ellison, because he himself is facing his own accusations of domestic violence.", "I am not voting for him. No", "What about for you, Mary?", "I am not voting for Keith Ellison and the reason is not necessarily his current issues. I think Keith Ellison is a little bit too far left of me.", "I've struggled mightily in the voting booth whether I would vote for him or not. I voted early. In the end, I did vote for Keith Ellison because I feel there is too much at stake for us to take a representative who is going to do a good job in that office. He himself had called for an investigation, which I think is admirable and I'd like to know the truth in that matter. I think it's so important that we take victims seriously and it's also important that we make sure that we don't have people being falsely accused.", "On the issue of Me Too, the President has said he is concerned for young men in this country being falsely accused. As parents, a godmother, who are you more concerned for, your daughter or your son on this issue?", "Both.", "My daughter.", "I have three sons and I'm not worried about my three sons.", "There is a one in three chance that my daughter is going to be sexually harassed. There is a one in five chance that she's going to be raped and that is terrifying to me.", "You know, I send my little girl off into the world every day and -- I mean, that just kills me.", "Just yesterday, the President is on the attack. He's on Twitter calling Stormy Daniels horseface. What's your reaction to that?", "It's completely inappropriate.", "It's abominable.", "It's absolutely unforgivable.", "He's such a bully.", "It's disgusting.", "Yes. It's -- I mean, it's bad when you can't even have public radio on in your car when your children are with you, because if they replay half of the thing that the President says, I have to explain to them what calling something a horseface means is or whatever else.", "He's the leader of the free world and to put a man in that position of power, a man who's had a number of sexual claims filed against him, a man that routinely bullies and demeans women, that normalizes the bullying behavior.", "Shirley, you've been quiet on this issue.", "I'm not making excuses for that because that's not my behavior, that's not my Twitter. I didn't call someone horseface. Just because I'm Republican doesn't mean that I am open to judge every single thing a politician does whether it's Trump or Paulson or my local representative that it's not encapsulating me.", "Do you take that into consideration, though, as you're going into the voting booth?", "Absolutely not. No. Our number one job as a President is to keep this country safe and he has done a phenomenal job.", "Do you feel this president respects women?", "Absolutely not.", "No.", "No.", "Absolutely not.", "Yes. I don't think he is trying to be disrespectful. I think he's -- that's just who he is. He's a downtown city construction Manhattan. He labeled people.", "Can you have it both ways? Can you call somebody horseface, call another woman Miss Piggy, another woman a dog and --", "I think it's very difficult to say --", "I don't agree with it. It's not me saying it.", "It's difficult to say he represents me as president on these slots, but he doesn't represent me as president on these slots. And I just don't think you can have it both ways.", "It is feeding into the divisiveness in this country. It is tearing our country apart when we have a president that is putting out these sexist tweets. I think its unacceptable behavior. It's embarrassing and I don't actually think he's made our country safer.", "We've chosen one guy, one guy to stand for who we are as the United States. As you mentioned, we are a united group of people and we need to stand behind this. It should be, you know, the apex of morals and the person that stands for us. And, you know, my children would be in time out if they called people those names. So why do we allow this from the President? It's appalling.", "All right, thanks to the ladies there talking to our Ana Cabrera. And don't forget to join us tonight as Andrew Gillum and Ron DeSantis we're off in the Florida governor's debate moderated by our own Jake Tapper. It starts right here on CNN tonight at 8:00 Eastern Time. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WHITFIELD", "CHARLIE DENT, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "WHITFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-10792", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-6-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/26/tod.02.html", "summary": "What Dangers Exist in the Genetic Age?", "utt": ["Today's announcement caps a decade of effort by U.S. and international research teams. Joining us from Philadelphia is Arthur Caplan, director of the Center of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. You've had some time now professor to think about what you knew was coming here. Some folks who are watching us today are having today to think about the implication of what's on down the road. What are the dangers here? We know about the immense powers for healing in the future for the medical community. But there is a downside, isn't there?", "Well, there are some dangers. They're dangers we can defeat, but we've got to start working on them too. When you get information about risk, if someone says you are likely to get colon cancer, or you're likely to suffer from Alzheimer's disease -- and that's going to happen at the doctor's office in say, three to five years -- that's something your boss, your insurance company, could also use. And they might say: We don't want hire you. If you're going to have high medical costs, we don't want to give you life insurance. So one of the issues that immediately confronts us is: Are we going to make sure that people have privacy of their genetic information? Another basic question becomes: Can you test someone without their permission? I can get DNA from a glass. I sip it. I leave behind a little bit of tissue there. And I can sample that, and you'll never know. We need to have a law, a federal law, probably an international law that says no testing without the expressed permission of the person. Same thing, by the way, if I die, I could take DNA out of a body, and find out facts. We've seen that with things like discovering whether the child that was alleged to the child of the Czar really was -- Anastasia. That could be done to anybody; and again, some combination of privacy, protection, and informed consent. We really have to get that moving now. Otherwise, we could have this information disempower us.", "We heard from an ethicist earlier today who said that the values of business are bound to trump certain medical considerations. That's the same criticism we hear with HMOs today. What are the dangers involved with the public and private tracking of the same project here?", "Well, these groups finally got together to make the announcement today that they had the rough map done. But the devil's in the details, as it often is, the commercial value of genetic information. It's not having, say, a map of the world. It's having a street map of Washington, a street map of Philadelphia, that lets you get around places and makes things. That's going to turn into a privatized, commercial area. And while we can argue, sort of when is that going to happen, it will happen. We're going to see drug companies, biotech companies, move in there, start to turn that information into genetic tests, start to turn it into drugs that are designed to treat particular people with particular genetic makeup. That's a good thing. In this country right now, no payment for outpatient genetic tests. We talk about testing. If your insurance plan doesn't cover it, it doesn't do anybody except the rich any good. So we've got to get coverage going there. And if these drugs turn out to be as wonderful as I think they're going to be -- say a drug that might be treat Art as opposed to Joe as opposed to Susie, well, again, somebody's got to make sure that everybody has access to that. Lou, another way of putting it is, we've got a health care system that has a lot of people on the outside looking in. And they're going to be on the outside looking in at the genetic revolution if we don't fix that health care system.", "Isn't money at the bottom line here? Even if we can get our genetic tests done, can we afford them? Can we afford the drugs it will take to fix the pieces of the puzzle that need fixing?", "We've got to get that money moving because the value of the tests, and the value of drugs that would say no more side effects, safer drugs, and much more powerful in terms of guaranteeing a response to your asthma, to whatever your high blood pressure problem is, this is just going to be so useful that Congress, the president, for the next couple of years, have got to fix that health care system to make access possible. I don't think we can put up with having a system with uninsured people, underinsured people, and just the rich getting all the bounty of this. After all, it was paid for by taxpayer money. We've got to make sure that it's affordable for everybody.", "Well, right now we have a problem -- Social Security numbers, for instance, are supposed to be used for Social Security purposes. And as we all know, they are not used just for that.", "Right.", "On down the line, we're going to have new laws, as you say. But right now, 35 states protect the privacy and the rest do not. How do you get -- you mentioned an international law.", "Yes.", "That seems like a very high hurdle here.", "It's a tough hurdle. But again, it's one we can get over if we just finally decide to put the political will into this. You don't want large databases building up of private intimate genetic knowledge. Remember, it's not just your diseases. I might find out that you're adopted. I might find out that you're a test-tube baby. I might find out facts about your relatives just from having DNA from you. So, in order to protect that privacy, we need a tough national law and then international agreements that say no movement of this genetic information without the expressed consent of a client. One more thing; we haven't heard much about it, but in the next census, I could imagine the government saying let's DNA test a sample of people, find out what racial or ethic group they belong to. That's obviously going to be very controversial, but you can use DNA information not just for medical purposes. We can use it for social classification of people. We know that's gotten us in trouble in the past. We've got to start thinking about that for the future.", "A lot to think about, isn't there? Professor Arthur Caplan, with the University of Pennsylvania, we thank you so much for...", "My pleasure.", "... helping us understand this story today."], "speaker": ["LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "ARTHUR CAPLAN, DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR BIOETHICS", "WATERS", "CAPLAN", "WATERS", "CAPLAN", "WATERS", "CAPLAN", "WATERS", "CAPLAN", "WATERS", "CAPLAN", "WATERS", "CAPLAN", "WATERS"]}
{"id": "CNN-210418", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2013-7-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/12/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Zimmerman Jury Wants Inventory of Evidence", "utt": ["Happening now, George Zimmerman is being judged by jurors. A verdict could happen at any time. Will it come down to the fine print of the law or will it come down to raw emotion? We're going over every key moment of this climactic day. Lawyers on both sides argued their cases one last time. Our analysts are standing by. They'll take a closer look at the critical points that the lawyers made and their clashing styles. And first on CNN, the defense attorney, Mark O'Mara, talks at length about the toughest and most controversial choices he had to make during the trial and how race has figured into this trial. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. In Florida right now, there's breaking news in the George Zimmerman trial. The court is compiling a list of evidence for the jurors. They just asked for it only moments ago, nearly two-and-a- half hours into their deliberations. The six women are trying to sort out what really happened on the night of Zimmerman's deadly confrontation with 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Jurors will decide whether Zimmerman is guilty of second degree murder or the lesser charge of manslaughter, or whether he acted in self-defense and can walk away from this trial a free man. The defense attorney, Mark O'Mara, spent more than three hours delivering his closing arguments today. He told the jurors that Zimmerman, is in his words, \"completely innocent.\" But he stressed that they only need to have reasonable doubt about his guilt to acquit him. And he hit at the heart of the self-defense claim, suggesting that Trayvon Martin didn't have a gun, but he did have a weapon.", "That's cement. That is a sidewalk. And that is not an unarmed teenager with nothing but Skittles trying to get home. That was somebody who used the availability of dangerous items, from his fist to the concrete, to cause great bodily injury. Not that it was necessary for self- defense, but great bodily injury against George Zimmerman. And the suggestion by the state that that's not a weapon, that that can't hurt somebody, that that can't cause great bodily injury, is disgusting.", "The prosecutor, John Guy, had the last word, delivering the state's rebuttal. He argued that Zimmerman acted, in his words, \"with ill will or hatred,\" the requirement for a second degree murder conviction.", "When a grown man, frustrated, angry, with hate in his heart, gets out of his car with a loaded gun and follows a child, a stranger, in the dark and shoots him through his heart, what is that? Is that nothing? That's not anything? Is that where we are? That's nothing? Well, that's not his call and that's not my call, that's your call.", "And right now, let go into the courtroom, because the judge has reconvened the attorneys. You see them over there. They're going over a list of the inventory of all the evidence that was presented during the course of the three weeks of this trial. The jury wants that inventory. They want a list. They want a number of each item, each piece of evidence so they can review it methodically, very, very carefully. Jeffrey Toobin is with us. Martin Savidge has been covering this trial for us. He's with us, as well -- Jeffrey, what do you make of this first request, this first question from the six women of the jury?", "It's actually a pretty typical first question for deliberations in a pretty complicated case. I would guess that there are probably close to 100 exhibits in this case and the jury wants to be able to take a look at what's what. These are fairly common questions, as I say. Sometimes jurors ask for pens and papers, they ask for a a black board, a white board. This is how jurors get organized. And it would not be a surprise, at a later point, to have the jurors ask to see some of the exhibits on the list that they are going to get shortly.", "What's surprising to me -- and let me begin Sunny Hostin and Mark NeJame into this conversation, as well -- Sunny, let me go to you. It's surprising a bit to me to see they don't have this already ready, a list, an inventory of the evidence. Wouldn't that be something that they would have ready to go? Why do they have to do it in the middle of deliberations?", "Yes, I mean I certainly always had an inventory list of my evidence. I'm sure Jeff did, as well, perhaps Mark. Sometimes you don't think you need it. Sometimes it's just not done. But I was surprised, as well. I will say this. A lot of people around the courthouse are saying, you know, verdict tonight, verdict tonight. That has never been my impression. But the fact that they wanted the inventory list so that they could see what evidence was in there and they could sort of pick and choose by number tells me what I thought. This is a methodical jury. They're going to look at everything.", "And what does it say to you -- Mark?", "I agree with that. I think they can look at whatever they want to look at and don't have to", "Hold on a second, Mark.", "Hold on a second. The judge, Debra Nelson, is speaking.", "-- a copy is being provided to them from Deputy Jarvis or do you want them to bring them in the courtroom and give it to them?", "We're fine with it being delivered, Your Honor.", "We agree, your Honor.", "OK. Thank you. We'll go ahead and have those six copies delivered and we'll be in recess.", "Yes?", "-- for our purposes, so we can get a couple of copies? And we'll probably want one of what was sent to them.", "Um-hmm.", "OK, thank you. Court will be in recess.", "There she is, Debra Nelson, the judge in this case. She's been doing a very, very significant job as the judge in this case. But let me go back to Mark NeJame. So the jurors, the six members of the jury, they're going to get a list of the inventory. The attorneys for both sides, the prosecution and the defense, they'll get the same list. You were saying to us what, if anything, this request from the jury for an inventory, does it give us a tip, a signal, a hint of what's going on behind closed doors?", "I really agree with Sunny on this. I think it's just an efficient way for them to hunt and peck for those items that they, in fact, want to go through. I do think it's a very steady jury. I think most of them were taking -- in fact, I don't think -- most of them were taking notes throughout. One, in particular, took -- probably is as accurate as any court reporter in there. She was writing nonstop throughout this whole thing. I think what the jurors are going to do is try to align themselves and see if they all can, at some point, agree with the evidence. If there's areas of dispute, they'll go through their individual notes. They'll go ahead and figure out where the disagreements are and then they'll reach a consensus. That way, they're at least dealing with common facts and common evidence -- or common agreement on the evidence -- so that then they can start working toward, you know, through their deliberations, toward a resolution. I think if there's a general consensus, we will have a quicker verdict. I think if there's a disagreement, somebody wants an acquittal, somebody wants manslaughter, that's where the back and forth will go, as they work through everything. If there's a general consensus, I think we could get an earlier one. But if we don't see a general consensus, I think we're -- we could be here for a bit longer, because there is a lot issues, a lot of passion and a lot of disagreements over how these facts unfolded for them to consider and then to have to agree to, because remember, it's got to be a unanimous jury.", "It's got to be 6-0, either guilty or not guilty -- Martin Savidge, you've been watching this from the beginning. There's a game plan, assuming, an hour from now or three hours from now or tomorrow or Sunday, they've got a verdict, they've got a game plan how they announce it, what they go through. It's pretty specific.", "It is. I mean we are told that we'll get at least, you know, a one hour heads-up. Now, that is a little bit different when it comes to today. The heads-up could be a little bit shorter because, you know, we've just started and the fact that everybody is right here and present. But the idea is that there would be a notification and that at least a one hour heads-up would be granted. And then, of course, everyone, including the media, would be back in the courtroom there waiting to hear the jury's verdict. I'd be interested to know from those that are, you know, the expert analysis here, is I would have assumed that once that jury went back there, they would have taken some sort of initial, so what do you think, how about a quick vote, are we all in agreement? And that if that has happened and we find out they're not all in agreement -- and there's only six of them, so it appears now they're going to have to go over everything. But I'll leave it to the analysts on that.", "Yes. A lot of times the jurors, if there's eight or 12 jurors or whatever, it takes them a little bit longer than six jurors. It may or may not. You never know. There could be a 6-0 decision one way or another. There could be 3-3, 5-1. They've got to be unanimous either way, guilty or not guilty. Everyone, stand by. A big gesture, strong emotions today -- how the prosecution played on jurors' sympathies and the defense tried to play them down. Also, first on CNN, the defense attorney, Mark O'Mara, answers a driving question during this trial, is George Zimmerman a racist? Martin Savidge's interview with Mark O'Mara -- that's coming up, as well."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, HOST", "MARK O'MARA, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "BLITZER", "JOHN GUY, PROSECUTOR", "BLITZER", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "SUNNY HOSTIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "MARK NEJAME, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "BLITZER", "JUDGE DEBRA NELSON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NELSON", "NELSON", "O'MEARA", "NELSON", "NELSON", "BLITZER", "NEJAME", "BLITZER", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-3736", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-3-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/03/mn.07.html", "summary": "Peter Travers Discusses His Favorite for the Best Actress Oscar", "utt": ["Sunday, March 26 is Oscar night in Hollywood. And in our countdown to awards night, we are taking a closer look at some of the nominees. Peter Travers is the film critic and senior editor of \"Rolling Stone\" magazine. He joins us from New York this morning. Hi, Peter.", "Hi, how are you doing?", "All right. We're going to get right down to it. Here we go, the nominations for best performance by an actress in a leading role: Annette Bening, \"American Beauty\"; Janet McTeer, \"Tumbleweeds\"; Julianne Moore, \"The End of the Affairs\"; Meryl Streep, \"Music of the Heart\"; and Hilary Swank, \"Boys Don't Cry.\" What are your favorites?", "Well, you know, this is the year where Meryl Streep got her 12th nomination, which is the record tied with Catherine Hepburn, so everybody is really excited about that, except me. Because I think this is almost her 112th nomination and it is time to just let a few years go by. So my favorite is Hilary Swank in \"Boys Don't Cry.\" This is a 25-year-old actress who, kind of, nobody heard of and then suddenly in this performance where she is playing a girl who wants to live as a boy, she has made everybody pay attention.", "All right, now this is your favorite, and we pulled a clip. So let's take a look at her performance.", "OK. (", "Cow, knows all about cows. Dad taught it to me.", "You're not going to sing it for me are you?", "No. I can't sing to save my life.", "Peter, let's talk some more about her performance. What do you think was so good?", "I think, right away, there's the stunt aspect of it. This is a girl playing a boy, and that's the hardest thing in the world to do without making it look phony. She didn't make it look phony for a second. We saw what was a woman about her, and we saw what was inside of her that was also a man. A really difficult thing to do.", "Julianne Moore, an up and comer, what do you think about her? Talk about her a little bit?", "I think Julianne Moore is one of the best actresses around. But \"The End of the Affair\" is not the movie. What you have here is I think one of the first steps and maybe two or three years down the line we are going to see her really make it.", "All right, well, we look forward to having you again after this is all over and talking about the result. Peter Travers, film critic and senior editor at \"Rolling Stone\" magazine, thanks so much.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "PETER TRAVERS, FILM CRITIC, \"ROLLING STONE\" MAGAZINE", "PHILLIPS", "TRAVERS", "PHILLIPS", "TRAVERS", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"BOYS DON'T CRY\") UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "HILARY SWANK, ACTRESS", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "PHILLIPS", "TRAVERS", "PHILLIPS", "TRAVERS", "PHILLIPS", "TRAVERS"]}
{"id": "CNN-81912", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2004-2-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/09/ltm.17.html", "summary": "Music Industry's Best and Brightest on Best Behavior", "utt": ["This year's Grammy Awards probably will be remembered more for what didn't happen than what did. The music industry's best and brightest were on their best behavior last night in Los Angeles. And just in case anybody had any ideas about misbehaving, broadcaster CBS was prepared. Kendis Gibson has this report from Los Angeles.", "The sights, the sounds, the threat of censorship. The 46th Annual Grammy Awards offered them all. The fallout from Janet Jackson's revealing Super Bowl flash prompted CBS to air the Grammy Awards using what the network calls a new enhanced tape delay system. Now, instead of just seconds, network censors had several minutes to alter any offensive sounds or sights that might occur on stage. But everyone behaved themselves. In a statement, CBS said, quoting here, \"Ms. Jackson and Mr. Timberlake were invited to participate in the show as long as they agreed to apologize on the air for what happened during the network's broadcast of the Super Bowl half time show. Ms. Jackson declined the invite. Mr. Timberlake accepted.\"", "What occurred was unintentional, completely regrettable and I apologize if you guys were offended.", "With her outfit, best female pop vocal performance winner Christine Aguilera had to be careful.", "I don't want to have the same thing happen that Janet had done.", "Despite the week long concerns of what might happen on stage, the music stole the spotlight, and not the network's new censoring system.", "I love the way you move.", "The contagious sounds of Outkast had them dancing in aisles. The rap duo walked with three Grammies, including the night's big prize, album of the year, for \"Speaker Box: The Love Below.\"", "Dangerously in love.", "R&B; queen Beyonce tied a Grammy record with her five wins, including best R&B; song, \"Crazy In Love.\" Evanescence took the best new Grammy and got a 50 Cent pat on the back to boot. The record of the year went to Coldplay's \"Clocks.\" All well behaved on stage. But before the night was over, something did get by the censors, a topless Outkast performing their runaway hit \"Heya!\"", "Shake it like a pony ride. Heya! Heya!", "Well, there's always next year. Kendis Gibson, CNN, Los Angeles.", "Traditional musicians weren't the only ones who took home Grammy hardware. Former President Bill Clinton and former Russian -- and Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev won in the spoken word album for children category. Easy for me to say. Their voices were featured, believe it or not, on a recognized of \"Peter and the Wolf.\" TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "KENDIS GIBSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE", "GIBSON", "CHRISTINE AGUILERA, BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL", "GIBSON", "UNIDENTIFIED GROUP", "GIBSON", "BEYONCE KNOWLES", "GIBSON", "OUTKAST", "GIBSON", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-63021", "program": "CNN SHOWDOWN: IRAQ", "date": "2002-11-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/14/sdi.07.html", "summary": "U.N. Reaction to Iraq's Acceptance", "utt": ["Iraq's defiant letter to the United Nations includes some harsh criticism of the United States, and it calls the British prime minister, Tony Blair, a \"lackey\" of the U.S. It also says the biggest and most wicked slander is that the U.S. believes Iraq is developing nuclear weapons. With the latest on the reaction over at the United Nations, let's once again go live to our senior U.N. correspondent, Richard Roth. What is going on at the U.N. today -- Richard?", "Well, everybody is waiting for Hans Blix and Mohamed Elbaradei to go into Iraq next Monday. They have seen letters before from Iraq, and they've have had to dodge them, deal with them, write back. They are well aware of Iraqi practices regarding the diplomacy with the United Nations. Norway's ambassador -- excuse me, I'm getting a little choked up about this event after 12 years, Wolf. Norway said, look, we get a lot of letters; let's see what happens when they're on the ground. Now, the Iraqi letter yesterday, though, had some very bad tidings, if you're looking at what kind of relationship this may turn out to be. Take a look at another portion of the letter. Iraq says: \"We hereby inform you that we will deal -- it doesn't say \"accept\" -- \"we will deal with Resolution 1441, despite its bad contents\" -- throw in another 4 there. \"If it is to be implemented according to the premeditated evil of the parties of ill intent, the important thing in this is trying to spare our people from any harm.\" So, again, not an out-and-out we intend to cooperate, though the ambassador in public here at the U.N. said they would. A second portion of the letter says there's going to be another letter from Iraq. The Iraqi foreign minister says he intends \"to forward another letter to you on a later date in which I shall state our observations, the measures and procedures contained in Security Council Resolution 1441\" -- that was the one passed Friday, unanimously -- \"that are contrary to international law, U.N. Charter, the facts already established, and the measures contained in previous relevant resolutions of the Security Council.\" So, what is in this letter? Will there be some more hedging? Will there be more conditions? The British, the United States, they're not just worried. They're kind of saying this is what we've been telling you. France, Russia and China were more eager to accept what Iraq said in saying they want the inspectors in. The divisions are still there. They're just waiting to re-erupt if Iraq plays its cards right regarding language and letters and cooperation on the ground -- Wolf.", "Can anyone really imagine, Richard -- I mean, I find it hard to believe that the Iraqi government would comply if Dr. Elbaradei, for example, said we want to take the head of your nuclear program and move him over to Geneva or to Cypress or some other country and interview him, and we want his family -- his wife and kids -- to come as well. Can you imagine the Iraqi government just saying, OK, sure, go ahead?", "It's hard to see at the moment, and that's why they've left it in Blix's hands. I'm not so sure he's going to be that eager to do it. The weapons inspectors say they like talking in person with people, which sometimes is a bit strange considering that Iraqi minders and officials are always around. But it's going to be in Blix's hands, and for the U.S., it might be better if he tries that, because Blix has to tell the Council, and the Security Council trusts Hans Blix a little bit more than the U.S. military plans. So, if it happens, it's going to be a big step forward, but it's hard to imagine Baghdad saying, people can leave and probably never come back.", "It's an amazing story that we're going to be watching, and fortunately, we have Richard Roth at the United Nations helping us learn more about this on a daily basis -- Richard, thanks very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "ROTH", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-323439", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-10-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/12/cnr.07.html", "summary": "U.S. Aid to Puerto Rico is Questioned; FEMA Isn't Present in Outlying Areas of Puerto Rico Where Suffering is Great", "utt": ["Welcome back, you're watching CNN, I'm Brooke Baldwin. President Trump's response to hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico is taking another twist in a series of tweets from the President this morning. He essentially threatened to cut off aid saying that the FEMA and First Responders are can't stay on the island \"forever.\" This is happening when the Island is still without power. The majority, 80 or so percent without power and people are still struggling just to find fresh water and food. Forty-five people have died, more than 100 are still missing. The President's tweets also curious because FEMA remains involved in relief efforts for disasters that happened years ago including 2012 Super Storm Sandy and Hurricane Katrina which hit New Orleans over a decade ago. So Jaime Harper is back with us today, celebrity makeup artist, Jamie it is so nice to see you again. Although I understand there are some tough updates from you. We talked a couple weeks ago. You know you were pleading for help for Puerto Rico. Your family suffered greatly. Their homes were destroyed, they didn't have food or water, and now, I understand, one of your uncles has passed away in a hospital. I'm so sorry for your loss.", "Thank you Brooke for having me. Yes, one of my uncles passed away in", "You wanted us to share this picture, let's put the picture up of supplies your mother received. Not from FEMA, you said this was from the Red Cross. Tell me what we're looking at and has she gotten anything from FEMA? Do they have also food, power, and water?", "As of five days ago that I spoke to my mom, she has still not received anything. She received that from the Mexican Red Cross. So I'm extremely thankful that they stepped in and they helped some of the areas where help was not arriving on time. There are some areas of Puerto Rico that are getting some help but it seems like the center part, Northwest of the Island, is still suffering greatly.", "So when you saw the President's tweets this morning, and especially the part saying, and we just heard from the Chief of Staff saying it is accurate, but, and I'm paraphrasing, that the first responders, FEMA, and military literally can't be there forever, but again bringing up issues of accountability and financial crisis of Puerto Rico, how did that sit with you?", "I always like to stay away from politics. It just-I find it hard to believe that that's really the President's words right there. That my family, my friends and loved ones, American citizens, a lot of people that are in Puerto Rico, they have fought for this great nation of America. And it's kind of like, did we hear from that from Texas, from the response of Texas or Florida? It is kind of-I still, I'm speechless because so I want our President to step in and to help our people in need--our American citizens waiting for help. Today I saw a video of this lady that was crying for help because there is no help. She still has not received any water and food. To this day, this is three weeks, three weeks is ridiculous. And she was saying that she asked FEMA for help to cover her house because it keeps getting flooded and she has elderly parents and a disabled kid. And FEMA told her she had to go online to do a request form. Mind you, most of Puerto Rico don't have cell phone services and they don't have power. They don't have food and water. So I just-I don't have any words. What do you say? And where is the help?", "Right. I'm so sorry for the loss of your uncle Jamie. We're going to keep staying in contact with you and sending more people down to Puerto Rico to shine a spotlight on what it looks like there. Jamie Harper, thank you for your time again.", "Thank you.", "Moments ago the White House and the State Department sharing details of this hostage rescue involving this American woman and her family who were held by the Taliban for five years, but the story doesn't end there. Why this husband is refusing to get on this plane to bring him home. That's coming up."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "JAMIE HARPER, CELEBRITY MAKEUP ARTIST", "BALDWIN", "HARPER", "BALDWIN", "HARPER", "BALDWIN", "HARPER", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "NPR-4497", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2018-09-06", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/09/06/645337087/indias-supreme-court-strikes-down-law-that-criminalized-gay-sex", "title": "India's Supreme Court Strikes Down Law That Criminalized Gay Sex", "summary": "In a landmark ruling, India's Supreme Court overturned a law that criminalized gay sex on Thursday.", "utt": ["LGBTQ activists are celebrating across India tonight after a landmark ruling from India's Supreme Court. The court overturned a law criminalizing gay sex that had been on the books since British colonial times. From the capital New Delhi, NPR's Lauren Frayer reports.", "Moments after the judges announced their unanimous ruling under India's Supreme Court's ivory dome, cheers erupted outside.", "There were dozens of plaintiffs in this case from Bollywood film stars to business leaders to a health worker jailed for handing out condoms to gay men. Such prosecutions have been rare, though. The law had been used more often as a tool by police to harass and blackmail homosexuals. Human rights activist and plaintiff Anjali Gopalan is surprised that the court went as far as to order civil servants to fight such harassment going forward.", "Not only has it decriminalized homosexuality, it is also about ensuring that this information goes to every police station, which means it's going to affect everybody across the country. The courts apologized. They apologized for the way that the community was being treated, which is unbelievable (laughter).", "Gay, lesbian and bisexual people rushed to the Indian capital today. They posted selfies with rainbow flags on social media from train stations and airports en route.", "And I want to dress as a gay. I just don't want to be, like - pretend, like, to be a straight guy and, you know, living two secret life. I want to be free. I want to be out. I want to be myself.", "That's Ayush Thakur, who was among those celebrating in front of the Supreme Court. He was with his American boyfriend, James Williams, who's originally from Alabama. Williams says the removal of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which banned carnal intercourse against the order of nature, could empower thousands, maybe millions of young Indians coming out to their families.", "Now 377 gets struck down. The power dynamic shifts. The conversation changes. Now the argument becomes the government evolved. The government used to think the way you did, and they changed their minds. Now they see me as a full, normal human being, and hopefully you can, too.", "Not all Indians agree with that, though. India is deeply religious and conservative. Very few polls have been published on homosexuality here, but those that have show a dramatic change in the past 30 years towards more acceptance. Still, it's not clear a majority of Indians would rule the way the Supreme Court has. Swami Agnivesh is a Hindu priest and social worker whose orange turban and age - 78 - stood out in the mostly millennial crowd gathered outside the Supreme Court today. He was born when the British were still in charge here, and he has watched his country change profoundly in the years since. Awareness of gay rights is new for many people in India, he says.", "(Through interpreter) It's been quick and drastic how the world has changed its thinking. Our society has changed, too. Personally, I don't think we should glorify homosexuality, but I respect people's privacy and the court's decision.", "Even one of the staunchest right-wing Hindu groups, the RSS, today issued a statement saying it no longer believes homosexuality is a crime. But it said same sex-marriage - that would be unnatural. Lauren Frayer, NPR News, New Delhi."], "speaker": ["ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE", "LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE", "ANJALI GOPALAN", "LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE", "AYUSH THAKUR", "LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE", "JAMES WILLIAMS", "LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE", "SWAMI AGNIVESH", "LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-401434", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-05-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/28/nday.02.html", "summary": "Weekly Unemployment Data Released Today", "utt": ["Later this morning, the government will release the weekly unemployment data, the numbers we've seen over the last 10 weeks. They have been unprecedented. Joining me now, CNN chief business correspondent Christine Romans. Romans, what do we expect this morning.", "Maybe another 2 million layoffs or furloughs in the week, John. It has been just a really terrible ten weeks. That would bring you to about 40 million, 40 million layoffs or furloughs over the past two and a half months. Something we have never seen before. Of those people who are being laid off, of course, when they finally get their first jobless benefits check, there's an extra $600 in there. So you have your state benefits plus taxpayers are kicking in $600 a week for people to try to at least bridge this gap here, this time right now of a cratering U.S. economy. That all runs out at the end of July. So maybe another 2 million, 2.1 million layoffs in the week. That would bring the grand total over the past ten weeks to 40 million, John.", "All right, Christine Romans for us. Keep us posted. In the meantime, Latin America is now the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic with cases there exploding, including a new high in the number of deaths. We have a live report, next."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "NPR-41687", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-11-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6457630", "title": "Rejecting a President's Leadership, Locally", "summary": "NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that Tuesday's Democratic election victories represent a repudiation of the leadership of President Bush.", "utt": ["Call it political pragmatism if you wish.", "NPR senior news analyst, Daniel Schorr.", "Today, President Bush was simply breathtaking in his ability to discard a position he took only a week ago: that he would retain Secretary Rumsfeld who was doing a fantastic job.", "Asked about that today at his news conference, the president explained that he didn't want to inject a major decision about this war in the final days of a campaign.", "The president acted today like a candidate who has lost his election and was now trying to come to terms gracefully with his defeat. In a sense, he was publicly abandoning hope his presidency would fulfill conservative hopes of ushering in a permanent Republican majority.", "He may also have been trying to hand off a Democratic move in the next Congress to conduct searching investigations of issues like military contracting. It's generally expected that there will be subpoenas flying when the Democrats take over committee chairmanships.", "What the election may have also brought home to Mr. Bush is how little support he enjoys from the American voters. In a Wall Street Journal poll, 56 percent of respondents said that America is seriously on the wrong track, and 58 percent disapproved of the way that President Bush is doing his job. The president said today he was aware that many Americans had voted to express their displeasure.", "What remains to be seen is whether Mr. Bush's conciliatory move will extend to heeding his generals and changing his policy on Iraq. The report of the Baker- Hamilton Iraq Study Group is due to be presented to him next week, providing him with an opportunity to review the cost of the war. The great unknown is what will be the effect of the election and Rumsfeld's resignation in Iraq.", "In Iraq, it could look like a display of weakness that could embolden the insurgents. At his news conference, Mr. Bush said to our enemies, do not be joyful. But for the president, having had to jettison Rumsfeld to keep the ship afloat isn't very joyful either.", "This is Daniel Schorr."], "speaker": ["DANIEL SCHORR", "MELISSA BLOCK, host", "DANIEL SCHORR", "DANIEL SCHORR", "DANIEL SCHORR", "DANIEL SCHORR", "DANIEL SCHORR", "DANIEL SCHORR", "DANIEL SCHORR", "DANIEL SCHORR"]}
{"id": "CNN-27384", "program": "Special Event", "date": "2001-3-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/19/se.01.html", "summary": "McCain, Feingold Hold News Conference On Campaign Finance", "utt": ["We've some breaking news. I want to get to Jeanne Meserve with more on campaign finance -- Jeanne.", "And Daryn, we're going to go right up to Capitol Hill. John McCain, Senator John McCain is speaking outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Let's listen in.", "Senator McCain.", "Down here.", "Oh, OK.", "All right.", "Watch your step.", "Here's Senator Russ Feingold speaking first. Let's listen to him.", "The RNC first and now we're at the Democratic National Committee where, unfortunately, the party of the people is now engaged in raising $100,000 $500,000, $1 million contributions from corporations, unions and individuals. This is not why I became a Democrat, and it is not the future of the Democratic Party. So we need to get rid of the soft money system and I am pleased, and I believe just about every member of my Democratic Caucus will be with us on the key votes, and that has to happen for reform to occur -- John.", "We came to the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee to send one message: that these parties are the parties of the people, not the parties of the special interests which they have become, and we hope that every Republican and Democrat will see the need to return the government to the people of this country and take it out of the hands of the big money special interests.", "Senator Feingold, you say this is a real test for Democrats. In what way?", "It's the truth test. Every Democrat in the Caucus has said on one occasion or another that they're for banning soft money, that they're for the McCain-Feingold bill, that they think we ought to do something about phony issue ads. I believe what Senator Daschle has said -- and he made very excellent statements over the weekend -- that he knows that we should do more campaign finance, but he said that we should at least do this. I think under his leadership, we will be able to pass the truth test on campaign finance reform.", "But three or four Democrats seem to be having second thoughts.", "Well, second thoughts are fine. It's how you vote.", "What do you think that they're saying behind you, Senator?", "Well, they say it to my face. They say they're worried. Look, every politician, when you take $500 million out of the system, is going to at least blink. You wonder what is going to happen to you. Most of us came into this job not even knowing what soft money was. So when you start taking it out of the system, everybody wonders what the consequences are. That's fine, and everybody should go through that thought process. But in the end, to have voted, as John as pointed out, five or six times for banning party soft money and then reversing would be an awfully hard vote for a Democratic senator to explain back home.", "Senator McCain, what is the biggest threat to final passage here? You say you have a gentleman's agreement on filibuster. Is the biggest threat added amendments, a White House veto -- what is the biggest threat?", "The biggest threat is that Russ Feingold and I do not have 51 votes to prevent us from moving on to other legislation. That's the biggest threats. In other words...", "If we didn't.", "In other words, if you go through an amending process and it starts -- which is their strategy, that it starts peeling off senators because they defeat our passage of amendments, and then we would lose below 51. Because as long as we hold 51, then we can prevent movement on to other legislation. You see what I mean? Does anybody understand that besides Russ?", "Senator, what are the odds that when something passes, it will remotely resemble what the both of you have proposed?", "Oh, wait, the fundamentals, we'd have to pass -- you know, we're eager to hear tightening of disclosure, addressing the millionaire situation and many others. But the fundamentals of McCain-Feingold -- soft money and independent expenditures, independent campaigns -- will be a fundamental part of it, if it passes. And I'm optimistic, but not -- look, we recognize we're asking incumbents to vote to change a system that keeps incumbents in office. And every special interest in this town that uses money in order to buy access and influence is apoplectic about the prospect of using that influence.", "This is a modest, bottom line bill. We are not interested in reshaping or reforming soft money. We're interested in getting rid of it.", "There are some great Americans up there, we're proud of them.", "OK. Thanks a lot.", "What about expanding the base of those small donors? A lot people are saying the Republicans just have this natural advantage, a lot of people who are willing to give smaller amounts.", "I can only quote Senator Daschle, who said that, \"We can win.\" They believe -- I don't agree with him-- but they believe they can win the battle of ideas and win the support of the small donors as well. I think that's where the battleground should be.", "We've done it in the past. When I came here in 1992, there were 57 Democratic senators and hardly any soft money. I liked that better.", "OK. Thanks. Thanks very much. Thank you.", "And there you have some remarks by Senators John McCain and Russ Fiengold. Joining them, Granny D., that campaign reform advocate. All of them on the front steps of the Democratic National Committee here in Washington. This afternoon kicks off the debate on McCain-Feingold bill which would ban soft money contributions. They acknowledge in their remarks here that the biggest threat are amendments. There are scores of them expected. What they are afraid is that those amendments will peel off their support. Right now, they have the votes they need to keep this debate going. They're afraid, McCain said, that they will go under that magic number of 51. Russ Feingold, the Democrat in this pair, saying that this legislation is a truth test for Democratic members of the Senate. Many of them have said in the past that they support a ban on soft money. But of course, incumbent politicians are a little bit reluctant to change a system which benefits them. Daryn, back to you.", "Jeanne Meserve in Washington, Jeanne, thank you so much."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MESERVE", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-147823", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-2-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1002/07/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Terrorism Ruled Out in Connecticut Factory Blast; Obama Seeks Republican Input for Health Care Reform; Eight Months Since Michael Jackson Death", "utt": ["Breaking news. And topping the news right now, at least five people were killed today when a gas line blew up at a power plant under construction in central Connecticut. The blast at the Kleen Energy plant in Middletown rocked the countryside for miles. It's not clear how many construction workers were on the site at the time. The mayor says 12 people were injured. The explosion was so powerful it could be heard and felt 20 miles away. Residents say it felt like an earthquake.", "All of a sudden there was a big explosion and the flames were higher than the stack, itself. I never want to see anything like that in my life.", "It felt like an earthquake but it was more of an explosion because we were able to see it, visually see the fire and the flames coming out of -- between the two towers.", "The flames were shooting up and it just rocked the whole place. Windows were blown out.", "The explosion came and we had pictures on the wall, that they were knocked on the ground and knickknacks and stuff fell on the floor. I thought my house exploded.", "Our Susan Candiotti is live from Middletown now. So, Susan, we heard from the mayor when he said five people and we also heard that dogs were searching for possible other people there. Do we know if they have everyone?", "We don't know anything more than we did at the press conference. There are so many questions we have, and that's one of them. One of the main difficulties here, according to investigators, is that they don't know exactly how many people were working that day because there are so many different contractors in part who have to know how many of their workers were at the site. And currently, they're trying to track everybody down and try to determine that. The other part of this, Don, is that the mayor also indicated that when they are purging the line as part of the test, ongoing tests they had before the whole plant goes online later in the summer time, is that they usually evacuate people who are in the plant, near the plant. That's also adding to the difficulty to determine how many people were inside and how many people were outside. They're not through looking, as you indicated. They plan to be here throughout the night and into tomorrow to determine whether there are other survivors or other fatalities -- Don?", "They said they were cleaning gas lines at the time. I guess we can rule out any foul play at this point, Susan, of terrorism or anything of the such?", "That's what investigators have said. They definitely have ruled out any kind of terrorism. But it remains to be seen, what did go on, because investigators say they have a terrific safety record at that particular location and construction site, and they've been working on this plant, I'm told, for at least three years.", "OK. And keeping families informed through the media or are they doing flyers, door to door? What are they doing?", "Well, they announced at the news conference that there is a number where people can call to find out more information about their loved ones. And also, at the city hall, the Red Cross is manning that. Take care of any relatives, friends, co-workers who have any questions and that includes grief counselors -- Don?", "Our Susan Candiotti at the scene of our breaking news story in Connecticut today. Thank you very much for that, Susan. Also topping our news at this hour, another developing story. President Barack Obama says he will turn to the Republicans to help make his health care reform plan a reality. A White House official tells CNN the health care talks are on for later this month. That will involve the bipartisan bicameral congressional leadership. Here's what President Obama said on CBS just moments ago.", "What I want to do is to look at the Republican ideas that are out there. and I want to be very specific. How do you guys want to lower costs? How do you guys intend to reform the insurance markets so people with preexisting conditions, for example, can get health care? How do you want to make sure that the 30 million people who don't have health insurance can get it? What are your ideas specifically? And if we can go step by step through a series of these issues and arrive at some agreements, then procedurally there's no reason why we can't do it a lot faster than the process took last year.", "Our Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry joins us now by phone. Ed, after the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, many said that the health care reform bill or at least possible legislation was over, and many might view this as a fait accompli by the president. What does it mean?", "You're right, Don. I mean, certainly, it does appear health care is on life support, if you will, but the president, in sort of a dramatic development, is trying to breathe new life into it. I think if you think back to the Scott Brown election, the other thing some analysts were saying as well, especially a line being pushed by the White House, is now the Republicans have 41 votes in the Senate. They can either block things or try to help pass things. The White House has been trying to push the line that the Republicans need to be held accountable and they have to show that they are really willing to work with the president in a bipartisan way, meet him halfway, if you will. So I read this, in part, as the president sort of trying to call the Republican bluff and say, OK, you say you want to work with me. I'm going to call you to the White House. And what I'm told by a White House official is specifically this will happen on February 25th. It's going to be a half day of negotiations. As you mentioned, both parties as well as both the House and the Senate. Also worth noting, these same leaders are getting together at the White House this Tuesday, in a couple days. They're supposed to talk about not just health care you about jobs bill and other, broader discussions. I think that's now going to set the table for what we see later this month. But the bottom line, as you noted, health care is still in deep trouble. This doesn't mean that it's going to pass. And I think that the president can call all the meetings he wants, but until he gets specific, until he tells these leaders what does he want and what is he going to do to get it done, this is still just going to be an important development but it doesn't mean the job is going to get done until he really sort of pushes along exactly what he wants. He still has not gotten very specific on it.", "Very interesting. You said calling their bluff. We shall see. We've seen the back and forth, Ed. We've seen him saying we have to watch our tone and work together. And now it appears he is trying to do it, at least for now. So we shall see. Our Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry. Ed, if you get any more information please let us know. Thank you.", "No doubt. Thanks, Don.", "We want to check more of our top stories. Federal investigators say they're going to rely on video, photos and witness testimony to determine what led to a fiery mid-air collision near Boulder, Colorado. IReporter Zach Mitchell heard the crash and grabbed these images with his cell phone. The two small planes fell to the ground, killing all three people onboard. One of the planes was towing a glider that managed to cut loose right before the crash. It landed safely and the three people onboard were unharmed. More top stories right now. The Haitian lawyer for ten detained American missionaries tells CNN he has resigned. The Americans face kidnapping charges for attempting to take 33 Haitian children across the border into the Dominican Republic without the proper documentation. The attorney, Edwin Po (ph), tried unsuccessfully to get the Americans released. They are scheduled to return to court on Monday or Tuesday. NASA will try again tomorrow morning to launch the space shuttle \"Endeavour.\" CNN will bring it to you live, of course. Low clouds at the Kennedy Space Center forced NASA to scrub this morning's planned liftoff. \"Endeavour\" and its six astronauts are carrying a new room and observation deck to the international space station. This time tomorrow, Michael Jackson's personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, is expected to be formally charged with involuntary manslaughter. There is a bit of a question, however, as to how Dr. Murray will end up in custody. According to the \"New York Times,\" leaked documents suggest police want to arrest Murray while his attorney wants him to be allowed to surrender on his own. You know it's hard to believe it has been almost eight months since Michael Jackson's death. So much has happened. CNN's Ted Rowlands takes a look back.", "June 23rd, Michael Jackson is rehearsing for his upcoming \"This is It\" concert series.", "Two days later, at 12:21 in the afternoon, a 911 call is made from Jackson's rented Los Angeles home.", "He's unconscious. He's not breathing?", "Yes. He's not breathing sir.", "Let's get back to breaking news. We're following Michael Jackson. The king of pop has been rushed to a local hospital.", "Michael Jackson was the patient on this 911 call that they picked him up and they took him to the UCLA Medical Center.", "My brother, the legendary king of pop, Michael Jackson, passed away on Thursday, June 25th, 2009, at 2:26 p.m.", "Look at these crowds developing outside UCLA Medical Center right now as word begins to spread that Michael Jackson is dead.", "Michael's body already in the medical examiner's office. There is the body right there, choppered, no freeway procession, no traffic jams, just a short flight across town. Now, in addition to the investigation the outpouring. As you look, there are the crowds gathering tonight in many places, outside the hospital in Los Angeles, at his home, and at the Apollo Theater here in Harlem in New York.", "This is something that millions of people will never forget. It's devastating.", "The death investigation quickly centered on Dr. Conrad Murray Jackson's personal physician who was with Jackson when he died. Listen closely for his voice in the background of the 911 call.", "Doctor, did you see what happened sir?", "Sir, if you can please...", "We're on our way.", "That night police impounded Murray's car and, over the next few days, investigators removed what we learned is medical evidence from Jackson's home.", "I said you had some concerns about the physicians and the people around him during the last moments of his life?", "Yes, I have. I have a lot of concerns.", "Dr. Murray retained a lawyer and met with investigators.", "I can say this. There's nothing in his history, nothing that Dr. Murray knew, that would lead him to believe that he would go into sudden cardiac arrest or respiratory failure.", "A source with knowledge of the investigation into Michael Jackson's death tells CNN that Dr. Conrad Murray gave Jackson the powerful drug Propofol within 24 hours of his death. Propofol is a heavy sedative typically used during surgery. Others who treated Jackson would come out and say that the singer asked them over the years for the drug to use as a sleep aid.", "I've never heard about this medication being given outside a hospital.", "That hearse which has the casket, the body of Michael Jackson covered in really beautiful flowers is making its way to the Staples Center.", "On July 7th, more than 30 million people around the world watched a public tribute with Jackson's casket on the same stage he rehearsed on the day before he died.", "Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just wanted to say I love him so much.", "On July 22nd, a search warrant is served on Dr. Conrad Murray's Houston clinic. Others would follow in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Murray, according to a neighbor, was in the house while agents searched the home. On August 18th, Murray releases this video statement on YouTube.", "I have done all I could do. I told the truth. And I have faith the truth will prevail.", "On August 28th, Jackson's death is ruled a homicide.", "They found that he died from acute Propofol intoxication.", "There, the hearse carrying the body of Michael Jackson.", "On September 3rd, Michael Jackson was laid to rest. Ted Rowlands, CNN, Los Angeles.", "Iran's president not mincing words about his country's nuclear ambitions. The defiant step he says Iran is taking, making western countries, including the U.S., hot under the collar."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "ELIZABETH WERKHEISER, WITNESS", "LYNNE TOWNSEND, WITNESS", "BERNADETTE NILAND, WITNESS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LEMON", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "CANDIOTTI", "LEMON", "CANDIOTTI", "LEMON", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "LEMON", "ED HENRY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "HENRY", "LEMON", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ROWLANDS", "DISPATCHER", "CALLER", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST, \"THE SITUTATION ROOM\"", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "JERMAINE JACKSON, MICHAEL JACKSON'S BROTHER", "WOLF", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROWLANDS", "CALLER", "CALLER", "DISPATCHER", "ROWLANDS", "LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROWLANDS", "ED CHERNOFF, DR. CONRAD MURRAY'S ATTORNEY", "ROWLANDS", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-246930", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-01-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/12/cnr.04.html", "summary": "One Flight 8501 Black Box Found", "utt": ["I don't think so, Carol. There's no evidence that shows anything about any kind of explosion. I think what they might be referring to if you look at the sides of the aircraft, it appears as though the top of the aircraft was opened up from the inside out, which would be indicative of a very hard, fast landing and it could have hit the water, thereby the differential pressure between the aircraft on the inside and the outside would have caused a rupture and rupture would be a much more adequate term to use than explosion certainly.", "So the air pressure inside the plane could have built up and that would have caused a rip in the fuselage?", "Well basically, if you think of any hollow object hitting anything very hard, that hollow object is going to change its pressure and kind of rupture on the top. That's kind of what I think they are referring to here. We don't have the black boxes. We don't really know how it hit the water yet. We can speculate a few things. There's been some investigators that have said that it looks like it did a steep spiral and may have exceeded the V&E which is the velocity not to exceed on the aircraft on the way down. If that happens, then the aircraft would have lost specific parts of the aircraft on the way down like an engine would have come off that sort of thing if it exceeded V&E by too much.", "Right.", "So they are speculating from that that the aircraft then hit the water. Some people are saying that it skipped across the water. I don't see that. I think that all the parts of the aircraft are located within about a mile of each other. And had the aircraft skipped across the water, that wouldn't explain how close they are together. To me it looks as thought it was a steep, hard impact and that thereby rupturing the air frame.", "Another investigator said the left side of the plane disintegrated. If that's true, what would that tell you?", "I'm not sure I would go down that road. There are parts of the left side of the airplane that are there. What it appears to me is left side of the aircraft buckled and you can see that evidence on the aircraft as you look below the windows. You can see that the aircraft buckled. Now, it's too early to speculate on that because it appears to me also that that's the type of damage you might see in retrieving the aircraft improperly or getting in too much of a hurry to lift it out of the water. Because as you do that, if it's not supported properly, it can cause damage as aircraft comes out of the water. So the people that are saying that this happened or that happened at this point is premature because we don't know if that damage was caused at impact or if it was caused during the retrieval process which is something that can happen as people get a little overzealous at trying to pull the aircraft out of the water it can cause some damage if it's not properly supported as it comes up even just from 100 feet.", "I heard what you said about the body of the plane. You expect it to be about a mile away from where they found the tail section of the plane. The families are very concerned that investigators haven't been able to locate the body of the plane but they pulled up the tail. They found one of the black boxes. So why can't they locate the biggest part of the plane?", "Well, that's a really good question -- Carol. There are still some questions in my mind as to why they haven't found it. I believe it's nearby. Investigators I'm speaking to on site have told me that they have confidence that what they are seeing right now is the rest of the airplane. They are still dealing with murky waters down there. They are hesitant to put out information that our sonar definitely found anything because as you remember before they said that and it turned out it was a ship wreck from before. There's a lot of other debris in the ocean. They are very hesitant to put anything out saying this is definitely what we have. They are pretty confident that they found something so it's a matter of some optimistic thoughts about it. But I think really at this point it's just -- they are being hesitant about being confident about anything until they literally see it and it's hard to see in those murky waters.", "Understandable. David Soucie, many thanks as always. I appreciate it. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, stand strong or get out. Some members of the Jewish community in Europe think it's time to go. The offer the Israeli prime minister is making next."], "speaker": ["DAVID SOUCIE, CNN SAFETY ANALYST", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "SOUCIE", "COSTELLO", "SOUCIE", "COSTELLO", "SOUCI", "COSTELLO", "SOUCIE", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-54410", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2002-5-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/18/smn.10.html", "summary": "Interview With Mountain Climber Ellen Miller", "utt": ["It is that time of year again, when people take tremendous risks, and spend tremendous sums, to try to attain the summit of the highest mountain on earth, Mount Everest. And we're going to talk to a woman who has just completed that task, and has done it for the second time. She's become the first North American woman to summit Everest from the north side and the south side. She joins us now from Everest Base Camp, at an altitude of about 17,500 feet. Ellen Miller, how are you feeling?", "Well, I'm glad to be back down to base camp.", "Yeah. What -- you sound like you had a harrowing experience. Can you give us a sense of it?", "Well, actually, I had a beautiful summit day. It was crystal clear, there were no winds, and it was quite a magical day on the top of the world. But it's -- you know, it's a long way up there. It's a long expedition. So, I'm just glad to be back down to base camp and to great food and to warmer temperatures and to more oxygen.", "All those good things. Kind of the luxuries of life. Little oxygen would do. All right, let me ask you this: I always wonder; when you get to the top, is it like -- you know -- you kind of take a look around, it's kind of like going to the Grand Canyon -- spend about 10 seconds there, and you start going back down?", "Well, no, this year we were very, very fortunate. The weather was so warm up there; I actually spent about an hour on the summit. And, I like to look around, take in the views of the Himalayas and when I'm up there, I always kind of squint out at the horizon to see if I can actually see the curve of the earth from up there...", "Were you able to?", "It was beautiful.", "Wow that would be...", "Yes, yes.", "You can? That's interesting. What else goes through your mind? Do you get philosophical at a moment like that, or do you have more practical matters, like making sure you still have some oxygen to breathe, and that sort of thing?", "Well, for me, I think a lot about my mom and my brother -- you know, my family -- my little niece. And, then, I obviously focus on getting back down safely. You know -- which is a big possibility...", "Is that kind of, in a way -- does that, perhaps taint the moment -- the fact that you're in such jeopardy, and that you're thinking about the possibility of just getting back down safely.", "It's -- getting to the summit is only half the trip. Obviously, many people have gotten in trouble coming down and I'm very aware of that. So, I always keep that in mind. That, you know, the trip isn't over until I'm back down the mountain.", "What was the scariest moment for you, Ellen?", "I think, actually, down lower, much lower, in the Khumbu Ice Fall, there's some technical climbing that we do through the Ice Fall, and that, to me, was quite nerve-wracking.", "Yeah. Was there any moment where you almost fell into a crevice or anything like that?", "Well, I heard some big creaks and groans and cracks in the Ice Fall, and those moments, to me, were pretty terrifying.", "Now, 50 years ago Edmund Hillary scaled the very place you're at. And, he's, of course, quoted as saying he did it because it was there. Why do you do it?", "I do it mostly for the sheer beauty of the mountains. I love to climb mountains and I'm very passionate about that. I'm also fascinated with men that have climbed Everest; working on a book project. So, I call part of it research.", "Research. All right. Ellen Miller, it's a long way from the library. Good luck on your research. Ellen Miller with the quote of the morning. \"Getting to the summit is only half the trip.\" Thanks for joining us at Base Camp, 17,500 feet, and I hope everything is safe for the remainder of the journey. Of course, the worst part of it is over. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "ELLEN MILLER, MOUNTAIN CLIMBER", "O'BRIEN", "MILLER", "O'BRIEN", "MILLER", "O'BRIEN", "MILLER", "O'BRIEN", "MILLER", "O'BRIEN", "MILLER", "O'BRIEN", "MILLER", "O'BRIEN", "MILLER", "O'BRIEN", "MILLER", "O'BRIEN", "MILLER", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-380189", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-09-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/12/cnr.05.html", "summary": "NTSB Has Just Issued A Preliminary Report On The South California Dive Boat Fire.", "utt": ["Breaking News from the California coast where the National Transportation Safety Board has just released its preliminary report on the Labor Day boat fire that killed those 34 people. The report found that the Conception dive boat did not have a crew member on roving overnight watch, which is required by its certificate. Meanwhile, you are looking at live pictures of the Coast Guard actually preparing to finally lift this boat out of the water. The last missing victim was located and recovered from the wreckage just yesterday. CNN Correspondent Stephanie Elam is live in Los Angeles. Also with us Josh Campbell, he is a CNN Law Enforcement Analyst and former FBI Supervisory Special Agent, so great on the investigation. But Stephanie, just first to you here. What did they find?", "Well, the big takeaway from this is just this preliminary report from the NTSB is they're not going to lay out findings, we are not going to tell you much of anything that's hard here yet, but what they do, do is give you an idea of what they have identified so far.", "And the big takeaway so far from this report is the fact that all five crew members who were up top were asleep. That's something we've been trying to narrow down because we know the U.S. Coast Guard has said that part of their Certificate of Inspection, which was up- to-date they said was that there should be a roving nights watch person to rove around the boat and make sure that everything is okay. We also know a sixth crew member is also supposed to be down in the bunk room, and we do know that that person was there and she lost her life in the fire. We learned that both of the exits from the bunk room were engulfed in flames when that one crew member woke up and tried to get to them. The other thing that we've learned here that was interesting, as well is that when they did dive off of the boat, the crew members, when they dove into the water, a couple of them went around to the back, got back on the boat to try to look into the engine room to see if there was something they could do. There was no fire there. That's another interesting thing that we've learned about this boat so far. What this doesn't help us to do, while it does raise I question, \"Could somebody have gotten there earlier if they'd seen this spark and had been able to rescue these 34 people?\" It doesn't answer and it doesn't give us any more clue as to what could have started this fire in the first place. That part is still not there. And this image that you're seeing here, they are working so slowly to bring this wreckage up because they don't want to lose any information, any evidence that may be there on the bottom of the ocean floor. So they're taking their time to slowly bring up what's left of Conception, get the water out of it, and then take it to an undisclosed location where they can then work on figuring out what may have caused this fire -- Brooke.", "Okay, as we look at these pictures, Josh, to Stephanie's point I'm reading part of this letter here from the NTSB, \"Crew members did attempt to access the salon and passengers below, unable to use the aft ladder which was on fire.\" It sounds like they tried to then swim around to the stern, get back on the boat, opening the hatch to the engine room, saw no fire, you know, we know that there were attempts -- As they lift this boat, of all of the things they're going to be looking at, what are the key pieces for investigators?", "So I think the easiest way to look at this is at the outset to understand that there are two investigations that are essentially underway at the same time. You have the NTSB, which is looking at this from a safety perspective. If you get to the cause of this fire, and that includes interviewing the crew members, which we know as Stephanie was mentioning, some of the information being gleaned there. But there's still information that we don't yet have and we won't have until that vessel is actually surfaced which is underway right now. So NTSB, well, you know, I've worked with them in the past as an FBI agent, they're very methodical. They don't rule things in, they rule things out. They'll go through this boat, you know bow to stern once it's actually surfaced and try to get to that root cause of the fire. Now the second aspect of the investigation that's going on right now, we've been reporting and talking to our sources that the Federal government, Federal officials are currently conducting an investigation, including the Coast Guard, the FBI and the A.T.F., they've done a number of searches looking at the operation of this company to look at whether this company was actually in compliance. Now, the NTSB is a lead right now, but if it turns out that there was neglect here, some kind of negligence on the part of the vessel or those who are on board, you could see some additional, you know, possible criminal charges possibly down the road. It is too early for that yet. We still have to get that vessel up and figure out what was actually the cause.", "Just how absolutely awful for these 34 families for this tight-knit dive community in Southern California. You know, we will totally stay on this. Stephanie and Josh, thank you guys, both of you very much on this NTSB report. Coming up next, a strong denial from Benjamin Netanyahu saying Israel did not plant listening devices near the White House. And it may be round three, but tonight Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are debating together for the very first time. What to watch. Next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ELAM", "BALDWIN", "JOSH CAMPBELL, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-194610", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2012-10-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1210/22/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Lance Armstrong Stripped Of Tour de France Titles", "utt": ["Tonight on Connect the World...", "Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling.", "Stripped of his Tour de France titles, Lance Armstrong's fall from grace moves up a gear.", "Live from CNN Center, this is Connect the World.", "Tonight, as cycling faces its biggest crisis to date with doping so common, we'll debate whether it should be controlled rather than banned. Also this hour...", ": I cry every day for the Syrians.", "Former UN special envoy for Syria Kofi Annan tells us why military intervention is not the answer. And from celebrity DJ to suspected pedophile, how this man is at the center of a growing crisis in the BBC. Once idolized by millions of fans around the globe, Lance Armstrong has lost the seven cycling titles that made him a legend. Let's bring in World Sport's Don Riddell. I mean, Don, in the end, was there any real decision to be made here?", "Well, there was a chance that the International Cycling Union would not agree with U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's damning findings. They don't have a particularly good relationship with USADA. But in the end, given all the evidence against them which is just so utterly damning, isn't it, I think you're right there really was not much of a decision to be made. But the UCI wanted to make it clear that they'd had time to review all the evidence. In the end their president Pat McQuaid and said that he was sickened by some of the testimony that he'd read and so as you say no real decision to be made. Lance Armstrong now stripped of the seven Tour de France titles and banned from the sport. And it was a difficult for the UCI, really, given that they tested Armstrong hundreds of times. They tested other riders hundreds of times and all of these guys passed these tests. So the UCI had a really difficult day. And frankly something of an apology to be made.", "The UCI always had a commitment to the fight against doping, always had a commitment to try and protect clean riders and to try and get cheats out of our sport. And if I have to apologize now on behalf of the UCI, what I will say is that I am sorry that we couldn't catch every damn one of them red handed and thrown them out of the sport.", "So the question, Fionnuala, now is what's going to happen to those seven Tour de France titles from 1999 to 2005. The UCI will meet again during the week and give us that verdict on Friday. But the Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme has said I'd rather you just didn't give them to anybody, put a line through it, because doping was so widespread during that era who can you give them to?", "It's really extraordinary, because you remember - I remember all the times that he won. And he was just an incredibly magnificent sportsman, but it seems he's got more to lose than titles, sponsors as well.", "Well, absolutely. Well, I think only the sponsors have now gone. Of course we had the big one with Nike last week, various other sponsors all kind of left him in the last few days. And then today the final straw, the sunglasses manufacturer Oakley, they left him behind as well. So his future earnings, really, are gone. And you now have to wonder about his past earnings. He won $4 million in prize money with the Tour de France in those years that I mentioned. I think they're now going to ask for their money back. What about all the bonuses he was awarded? What about all the money he was given through his endorsements? What about all the lawsuits and the libel cases he won, those guys might now come back and say, well, we think we're entitled to our money back now. This could run into tens of millions of dollars for Lance Armstrong.", "Civil suits at least. Thanks very much, Don Riddell, for that update. Well now that Armstrong has been stripped of his titles, new winners will need to be crowned, but that is tricky as Don was pointing out, because it also points to the sheer scale of doping in cycling. Consider this photo of the 2005 Tour de France podium, for example. Here you see Lance Armstrong on the podium with second place finisher Ivan Basso on the left and third place finisher Jan Ullrich on the right. Now Basso was given a two year ban for a doping related offense in 2007, Ullrich was banned for doping in 2006. The rest of the top seven in the 2005 Tour de France have also either been involved in doping scandals, or in the case of Michael Rasmussen seen here on the bottom right, been suspended for missing a doping test. Some have argued that doping is now so common it should be allowed, that is the view of Harvard University's Yascha Mounk who joins me now from CNN Boston. But the head of anti-doping UK disagrees. Andy Parkinson is live from CNN London. Thank you very much. My first question to you in Boston would be why do you believe that there should be at least a lifting of a ban on controlled substances?", "Thank you so much for having me on, Fionnuala. Well, first of all, I just want to say it's very clear that what Lance Armstrong did is wrong. As long as there are rules that ban performance enhancing substances in sports it's clearly very wrong for one individual to lie to all of the viewers and to get a competitive advance over his competitors. So we have good reason to be very disappointing with what Lance Armstrong did. But I think we have to make sure that we don't misdirect that anger at people who cheat when doping is illegal into thinking that we should always ban these performance enhancing drugs. From my perspective, it's very clear through what's happened with the sport of cycling and other sports in the last 10, 20 years that we're never going to have a completely clean sport. And it's also clear that the distinction we make between what supposedly a performance enhancing drug and what are drugs that we allow like aspirin or like caffeine is not as clear as some people would believe. So the simplest solution is to allow everybody access to safe drugs and the medical supervision, that way we have a level playing field which is what we really care about as sports viewers. And I think it will be a much better solution.", "Would we actually have a level playing field? Won't you have people trying to push the boundaries again?", "Well, I think that if the main drugs that allow people to perform better were to be allowed and were to be controlled, first of all the incentive would be much smaller, because with other drugs would give (inaudible) slower competitive advantage. So I think that once we dealt with incentives, no, that's not going to be the case.", "Andy Parkinson, presumably you're going to disagree. But could you ever realistically see the day when some kind of controlled substances might be allowed in sports such as cycling?", "Well, yeah, I think what we've seen over the last 10 years is evolution of what's banned and what isn't. And that takes into account firstly the health of the athlete. All right, here's a substance damaging to an athlete's health and secondly does it give a performance enhancement. And what we've really seen, the big evolution, actually, if you look at the United States Anti-Doping Agency's activities is that you've got governmental involvement and governmental ambition to try and clean up sport, which is something that we never had 10 years ago. So really what we need to be doing is working together to find out what are the substances that we genuinely care about that do damage athlete's health and do change the level playing field that was spoken about before and really target our efforts in that direction.", "And do you think, Andy Parkison, what's happened with Lance Armstrong in recent weeks and the scale of it is going to allow the evolution of what you would described where people come together and decide should there be controlled substances allowed and what should be banned?", "Well, it's already been happening for the last 10 years. And probably the most positive thing out today is with the cycling federation agreeing with the United States Anti-Doping Agency, that's a tremendous step forward because now we can start to plan what does cycling look like post Lance Armstrong. And I mean, we've got to take our hat off to the United States Anti- Doping Agency. They've done a tremendous job in presenting this case in a very thorough way.", "Yascha Mounk, if I could ask you, do you believe that Lance Armstrong still believes that he wasn't doping himself. But I mean, this is a difficult question, obviously, for you to answer in terms of speculation, but people might have different moral values when it comes to what they believe is doping or not.", "Right. I mean, I'm not a psychologist. I don't know what exactly is going on inside Lance Armstrong's head. I mean, given all the evidence that we've seen I think it's very, very obvious that he did dope. And it's difficult to imagine - he would have to be quite delusional to really think that he wasn't cheating. But I think this is a problem with performance enhancing drugs, right, that we're tempting people into this. We give them such strong incentives to cheat. And then all the conversation becomes about that. And so I think that we should really go quite far in saying drugs like EPO aren't necessarily dangerous in themselves, what's dangerous is elevated levels of red blood cells. And how you gain those elevated level of red blood cells doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether we do that through EPO or whether you do that through, you know, training in very high altitudes, and some cyclist have naturally high levels of red blood levels. So I think what really matters is that we make sure that only those athletes who are not at health risk compete in sports. And that we should think less...", "If I may jump in there. If presumably we're talking about the kind of medical technology available, also, to determine whether there is something in one's system.", "Yes, of course. So I think what needs to be - we need to have a panel of doctors who decide which kind of drugs should be legal in sports, because they're safe enough. And we should of course have tests for those drugs that are clearly unsafe. But I think by limiting our attention to those drugs that are unsafe, we can make more progress. If we see over the last 20 years there's been hundreds and thousands of tests of athletes and clearly nevertheless people were able to dope despite this. So I think it makes sense to target our efforts at those drugs that are really dangerous.", "Andy Parkison, a final word to you. If you could perhaps address this issue of can medical technology keep up with any changes that there might be made or lifting of certain bans on controlled substances in sport.", "Well, I mean, again what we've seen from the Armstrong case is that testing and analytical techniques are only one part of the fight against doping. If we can encourage law enforcement agencies and other agencies to help, then we've got a much stronger ability to tackle doping both at the grass roots level all the way up to elite level.", "We'll leave it there. Andy Parkinson and Yascha Mounk, thanks very much indeed for joining us both from Boston and London. And still to come tonight, a country on edge, the ongoing threat to Lebanon's stability. New images surface of Fidel Castro. But are they enough to stop rumors about his health? And a former TV presenter accused of sexual abuse, but did his employers know? All that and much more when Connect the World continues."], "speaker": ["FIONNUALA SWEENEY, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SWEENEY", "ANNOUNCER", "SWEENEY", "KOFI ANNAN,", "SWEENEY", "DON RIDDELL, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "PAT MCQUAID, PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL CYCLING UNION", "RIDDELL", "SWEENEY", "RIDDELL", "SWEENEY", "YASCHA MOUNK, HARVARD UNIVERSITY", "SWEENEY", "MOUNK", "SWEENEY", "ANDY PARKINSON, ANTI-DOPING UK", "SWEENEY", "PARKINSON", "SWEENEY", "MOUNK", "SWEENEY", "MOUNK", "SWEENEY", "PARKINSON", "SWEENEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-16046", "program": "Sunday", "date": "2000-9-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/17/sun.01.html", "summary": "Hurricane Gordon Weakens on Approach to Florida", "utt": ["We begin with Hurricane Gordon. Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for some Gulf Coast regions of Florida now. Those are regions expected to be hit by the brunt of the category one hurricane. The eye of the storm is swirling now about 75 miles off the coast, headed towards Cedar Key, where it's expected to make landfall within the next few hours. This storm is packing winds of 75 mile-an-hour, and it's already causing flooding in several cities, and officials say it could get worse.", "Road blocks are going up to keep motorists out of some low-lying areas. More than 200 people have already filed into temporary shelters. CNN's John Zarrella is standing by live in Crystal River, Florida, with an update for us now. John, what's it like there?", "Well, Andria, we are in one of those mandatory evacuation areas, and actually for about the past two hours there has been very little rain, very little wind. A little bit of a squall line kicking up now, you can see the boats here in Crystal River. There is a favorite area where you can go out and watch the manatees swim. The boats are all secured, they're tied down. One of the interesting features here is just how low the tide is. Now we've been talking about tremendous storm surge throughout the day today, perhaps six, eight, maybe even 10 feet of storm surge expected in this area. But with the direction of the wind as it is right now, the water's actually been pulled out of the bay that leads out to the Gulf of Mexico. So they're still very concerned here, the folks. As a matter of fact, about a dozen people gathered here earlier. They were watching the Tampa Bay Bucs and the Detroit Lions football game. You can see them there, they're still huddled around. They've been watching television all day and paying close attention to the reports of -- from the local television station, and their concern is still for storm surge. That's the big worry. It floods terribly here. During that no-name storm of 1993, which was a winter storm in March that came in, where I'm standing right now was literally underwater. And so this is one of the lowest lying areas in Florida, and they believe that between 6:00 and 8:00 tonight, there still could be some serious storm surge flooding problems . They're seeing the storm surge gradually progress up the coast. A little further south earlier today, in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area, there's been some damage from storm surge along the coast. Now up a little further into Duneden (ph), that storm surge moving in. That appears to be what the biggest threat will be. Again, you can see it's not blowing at all here, hardly any rain at all in this particular area right now and even periodically the sun trying to break out from the clouds. So hopefully for the folks here, the worst will be what storm surge they do get, and hopefully that won't be much, as Gordon moves ever closer, expecting to come very close to us. We're not that far from Cedar Key, which is supposed to be a spot where it could very well make landfall within the next three, four, five hours. So again, serious concern for water damage here, but it appears from wind and rain, at least, we may be out of the woods. This is John Zarrella reporting live from Crystal River, Florida.", "All right, thank you, John. And let's check in with the forecasters in our weather center who've been tracking Hurricane Gordon all day. And here is Jaqui Jeras with the latest.", "Well, Brian. the conditions of Hurricane Gordon have stayed relatively the same through the late morning and early afternoon hours, at least in terms of the speed that it's moving and the amount of wind gust that its been producing. Around 75-mile-per-hour gusts, we're seeing some beyond that. Here's the current position of Hurricane Gordon. It's 28.1 north, and 83.7 west. It's 90 miles south-southwest of Cedar Key Florida, and it's about 75 miles, about due west, of Tampa. It's pushing up to the north and to the east about 16 miles per hour, and that motion has been relatively steady. Again, those winds sustained at 75 miles per hour. Now we're looking at it just within the next couple of hours that we're expecting the eye of the hurricane to make landfall. Of course, the outer bands are already well on shore, producing some heavy rains, some strong, gusty winds, reports around 5 inches of rain. And we're mostly concerned about northern Florida, where we're going to see the heavy rainfall, and of course right here in the big bend and along the coastline is going to be where we're concerned about the storm surge and quite a bit of flooding because of that, pushing up into the northeast and will likely be downgraded as it hits shore. Because of tat resistance, it begins to slow down just a little bit -- Brian.", "All right, thanks, Jacqui. Don't go away. As the storm moves up the Florida coastline, all eyes that are not on the storm itself are on the National Hurricane Center in Miami. And the director of the center, Max Mayfield, joins us now live. Mr. Mayfield, what can you tell us about Hurricane Gordon? When is it expected to make landfall, and how bad do you think it will be?", "Well, the good news is it looks like it is weakening and will likely be downgraded to a tropical storm by the 5:00 p.m. advisory. The center of the storm is about 70 miles or so south-southwest of Cedar Key. In fact, I think you can see behind me the low center here. This is Cedar Key, and still headed towards the northeast or north-northeast, about 14 miles per hour. But you can also see these rain bands well out away from that center there, and that's -- the heavy rain's already spreading out across northern Florida and into southeastern Georgia. We also have a threat of some isolated tornadoes on these outer rain bands, well away from the center of the storm.", "Now, Mr. Mayfield, you mentioned how widespread the rainfall has been. But how widespread do you expect the flooding to be?", "I really don't think it's going to be that big a problem with the rainfall, In fact, some of the rainfall will likely be welcomed up there. The fact that it's moving relatively quickly toward the northeast I think will, you know, move the rain out before it gets really bad. That's not to say that you can't have some flooding and certainly some urban flooding on the roads and all, but I think our biggest concern is really going to be from the storm surge near and just to the south and where the center crosses the coast and also from these isolated tornadoes.", "Now there's a high pressure system, which has shot the East Coast. Do you expect that there's a potential for that to stall this system out at all?", "I really don't think it's going to do that. What we are concerned with is that pressure gradient, with the large high to the north and the storm coming in from the south. Right now, we have -- if you can look behind me here -- we have the tropical storm warning for the East Coast from Titusville up to the South Carolina-North Carolina border. And then we have a tropical storm watch out from there up to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. So if this system continues to skirt along the southeast coast near the water there, I think there's still a very good chance we could have some tropical storm-force winds all the way up to the mid-Atlantic coast.", "Mr. Mayfield, is there any danger it could pick up steam and become a hurricane again once it crosses land?", "I think there's always some possibility if it gets out of the water enough, but if it does that I think most of the strong winds will be on the east side, away from land, so I really don't envision us getting hurricane-force winds, you know, anywhere on the Atlantic coast right now.", "OK, thank you for joining us with that update and the good news about the storm weakening.", "You're very welcome.", "The director of the National Hurricane Center, Max Mayfield."], "speaker": ["BRIAN NELSON, CNN ANCHOR", "ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "NELSON", "JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "NELSON", "MAX MAYFIELD, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER", "JERAS", "MAYFIELD", "JERAS", "MAYFIELD", "NELSON", "MAYFIELD", "NELSON", "MAYFIELD", "NELSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-118285", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2007-7-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/13/acd.01.html", "summary": "Wolves Restore Balance to Yellowstone", "utt": ["Earlier this week, I was pretty far away from the city life you see behind me. I was out in the woods on the hunt for a killer at Yellowstone National Park, on the lookout for gray wolves as part of our \"Planet in Peril\" series. Now the wolves were once near extinction. They're now back at the park and thriving. And while they're killing other animals, they're also bringing new life to the ecosystem. Take a look.", "When you're watching for wolves in Yellowstone Park, there's a lot of running, hiding and waiting.", "OK, copy that.", "When you finally see them, if you're lucky enough to see them, they're usually eating something. In this case, a bison.", "That's the alpha male.", "The pack will feed on this bison for about 48 hours, and other animals will also enjoy the kill. And that simple fact represents a real change in Yellowstone. (on camera) The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone Park began in 1995. A total of 41 wolves were brought back here. Their numbers have increased steadily since then, and they've had a major impact on the ecosystem. (voice-over) Doug Smith is the leader of the Wolf Restoration Project in Yellowstone. He takes me to the site of another wolf kill.", "This kill is one week exactly.", "After the wolves are done -- after the wolves kill the elk and they eat a certain percentage of it, and then they leave and other creatures come?", "Correct. Actually, sometimes simultaneously. The ravens and the magpies arrive instantly. They're right here. Sometimes the wolves at one end, the ravens at the other end. And then the wolves feed and they can eat up to 20 pounds in one meal. They gorge themselves and typically move off. And then other animals come in. Coyotes, black bears, maybe even a grizzly bear.", "And it's not just the animals. The ripple effect extends to the park's plant life, too. (on camera) This is a stand of willows.", "Yes, it is. And this stand has grown up in the last ten years since wolves were reintroduced.", "So why is it that introducing wolves would have an impact on trees or on bushes?", "What we think is happening is that wolves pose a risk of predation to elk. And elk eat willows. And so having wolves back on the landscape after being absent for 70 years has changed elk behavior.", "Because of the wolves now, the elks have less time to graze, and also there are fewer of them. So the willows are growing. What impact do the willows have?", "Right now, Anderson, I'm sitting, listening to numerous songbirds in this stand of willow. There's a flycatcher there. I've heard a warbler, some sparrows. They're all using this stand of willows, for this type of habitat is very important to some songbirds.", "And the cascade continues. Doug says the reintroduction has increased the beaver population in one part of the park ten times over, and beaver dams create ponds, which support water foul and native trout and so on and so on. A single species reintroduced. A dramatic effect on Yellowstone's more than two million acres. Back at the bison kill, with the sun setting, there's a report of a battle between a bear and a wolf. (on camera) This is exactly what you had hoped for all along with the reintroduction, would be this kind of active natural cycle?", "Yes, absolutely. Wolves fighting with black bears is natural. And eating bison carcasses is natural. And it restores Yellowstone to what it used to be.", "Remarkable place. Up next, the tallest man in the world meets the shortest, a primordial dwarf. Enriched uranium and ramen noodles? All of them put together, believe it or not. Posh and Becks in L.A. A lot ahead.", "He's got the legs; she's got the Spice. Beckham and Spice, the newest British invasion, right here, right now. Also tonight, the picture of a perfect citizen. She voted. She ran for office. She won. Then this.", "It was heartbreaking. My whole world after that day, everything was just torn apart. I didn't know what to do anymore.", "How a secret from her distant past, that she didn't even know, turned her American dream into a nightmare. Next on 360."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "COOPER (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COOPER", "DOUG SMITH, LEADER, WOLF RESTORATION PROJECT", "COOPER (on camera)", "SMITH", "COOPER (voice-over)", "SMITH", "COOPER", "SMITH", "COOPER", "SMITH", "COOPER (voice-over)", "SMITH", "COOPER", "COOPER (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-90663", "program": "PAULA ZAHN NOW", "date": "2004-12-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0412/17/pzn.01.html", "summary": "Is Celebrex Dangerous? Uncle of Michael Jackson Accuser Speaks Out", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Glad to have you with us tonight. A pain pill caused a lot of pain today. And tonight, I will take your questions about Celebrex right to the top. The head of Pfizer, the company that makes the pill and is leaving them on the market, is among my guests. Until today, Celebrex has been one of the drug companies' biggest success stories, both medically and financially. But this example of better living through chemistry may have a downside. A new study says that some people on Celebrex may have more than doubled their risk of serious heart problems.", "We've seen the ads. (", "With Celebrex, I will not settle for part- time relief.", "Millions of you take the pill. Celebrex has been prescribed to 27 million Americans. They go for more than $2 a pop, so Pfizer makes a lot of money from them, sales of nearly $2 billion last year alone. And it's making even more, now that Merck's rival drug Vioxx has been taken off the market. In just October alone, Celebrex rang up $260 million in sales. Both Celebrex and Vioxx are in the same class of drugs, called COX-2 inhibitors. In plain English, they block an enzyme that causes swelling, which causes pain. But there may be a deadly side effect.", "One of the two studies that Pfizer is doing with the drug Celebrex shows that Celebrex doubles the risk of heart attacks. Other studies that Pfizer has done have not shown that.", "Pfizer sells a similar drug called Bextra. A government panel is set to review the current data on all COX-2 inhibitors early next year. Today's news gave investors a heart attack. Pfizer's stock nosedived more than $3 a share. Today's news also provoked a media frenzy, complete with doctors dispensing free advice.", "I think for people who are at high risk of heart disease, there's more of an immediate -- you know, they need to do something right away.", "We're not sure. We need to be in a wait-and-see mode here.", "So how do you know if your heart can take the wait?", "And the CEO of Pfizer, Hank McKinnell, joins us now.", "Paula, good to be with you.", "Thank you. So why, even with the evidence you released today, are you keeping Celebrex on the market?", "Well, let's keep the evidence we released today in context. We released the results of two cardiovascular specialists' review of two studies, one that showed in a large-scale, well-controlled study of two to three years continuous treatment at two to four times the recommended dose cardiovascular risk equal to placebo. That was a good study. We also reported the results of a second study with dosing also over two to three years continuous treatment at four to eight times the recommended dose that did show an elevated risk. But that's not consistent with the first study, nor is it consistent with the great body of evidence that we have of the safety and efficacy of Celebrex when it's used as recommended.", "But the bottom line is that Vioxx was removed from store shelves, and in the same day that happened, your company said -- quote -- in a press release -- \"Pfizer is confident in the long-term cardiovascular safety of Celebrex.\" That was 2 1/2 months ago. Were you not aware of this second study coming out that you've addressed today?", "We learned the results of this special review, which we encouraged with the National Cancer Institute, at 5:00 p.m. last night.", "So, are you telling me tonight that any patient taking Celebrex should feel 100 percent degree comfort level knowing that the studies are mixed?", "Paula, no medicine is ever 100 percent safe. Any agent powerful enough to do good is also powerful enough to do bad. It's that balance of risks and benefits that the prescribing physician, fully informed -- that's why we release this information as rapidly as we did -- with the patient decides what's in the best interests of the patient.", "I really want our consumers to understand what they're supposed to think. I know you think that the overwhelming evidence indicates that this drug is safe to take, but here you've got the National Cancer Institute doing a long-term study pointing to an increased risk of cardiovascular problems if you use Celebrex.", "At four to eight times the recommended dose for osteoarthritis and continuous dosing over a two- to three-year period. That's not the way these drugs are used by arthritis patients.", "Sir, how worried are you about how this might affect your company's bottom line?", "I have no idea what the impact of this will be on the company. I think that will be determined by the decisions of tens of thousands of doctors prescribing the best medicine for their patients.", "And you understand why they might be queasy about this tonight?", "Well, I'm queasy myself. But, Paula, in addition to being the CEO of Pfizer, I'm also a Celebrex patient. And I'm not changing my medication.", "Hank McKinnell, we very much appreciate your time tonight. Thanks for joining us.", "Thank you, Paula.", "And still ahead, I'll talk with a man who says he had a heart attack while he was taking Celebrex. The Food and Drug Administration has issued a written statement about the new research and the Celebrex controversy. Part of it says: \"Physicians should consider this evolving information in evaluating the risks and benefits of Celebrex in individual patients. The FDA advises evaluating alternative therapy. At this time, if physicians determine the continued use is appropriate for individual patients, FDA advises the use of the lowest effective dose of Celebrex.\" There's a lot more ahead, including the extreme lengths drug companies go to, to get your attention.", "Can I tell you a secret?", "They seem to know just where it hurts. (", "Why do I have to suffer with headaches like this?", "And they tell you exactly what to do. (", "Talk to your doctor.", "Don't let acid reflux eat at you.", "But are all these ads creating a nation of hypochondriacs? And the Michael Jackson case back in court. Could past allegations about sex abuse be used as evidence against him? That and more as PAULA ZAHN NOW continues."], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "ZAHN (voice-over)", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, AD) UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "ZAHN", "DR. JOHN ABRAMSON, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL", "ZAHN", "DR. MARIE GRIFFIN, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY", "ABRAMSON", "ZAHN", "ZAHN", "HANK MCKINNELL, CEO, PFIZER", "ZAHN", "MCKINNELL", "ZAHN", "MCKINNELL", "ZAHN", "MCKINNELL", "ZAHN", "MCKINNELL", "ZAHN", "MCKINNELL", "ZAHN", "MCKINNELL", "ZAHN", "MCKINNELL", "ZAHN", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, AD) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ZAHN", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, AD) UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ZAHN", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, AD) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, AD) UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-224253", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-2-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/04/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Microsoft Names New CEO; Interview with Natalie Tennant", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "Well, it's been in the works for quite some time. Bill Gates has stepped aside and Microsoft has a new CEO. Kind of weird, right? Let's head to New York with Christine Romans. Tell us more.", "Hi, Carol, a rare change of power at Microsoft. This would be the only third CEO in the history of this company. Steve Ballmer, of course, last fall told us he was stepping aside and now Satya Nadella, the board has named Satya Nadella, the new CEO, a consummate Microsoft insider. He has been there since 1992. Microsoft on its Web site right now introducing Satya to the rest of the world outside of those who have known him at Microsoft for many, many years. And as chairman of the board, we know that Bill Gates is now stepping down. So really it is sort of a new era at Microsoft. MSFT is the ticker symbol. It's not really moving, the stock is not moving very much right now. But clearly, Carol, only three CEOs since 1975. Satya Nadella, an insider of the company, will be the third -- Carol.", "And he has a lot of big challenges ahead. Right?", "He absolutely does. I mean Microsoft is a mature company in a world where tech changes and innovation and technology are moving very, very rapidly. Many are hoping that Microsoft, to get his mojo back, with some new leadership -- Carol.", "We'll see. Christine Romans, many thanks.", "You're welcome.", "It has been nearly one month since thousands of gallons of chemical seeped into West Virginia's water supply, and guess what? It ain't over. There are alarming new fears over tainted water there. But state official says it's likely residents have been exposed to traces of formaldehyde. A substance that can cause cancer following last month's chemical spill into the Elk River. Health officials say the claims are unfounded but people are still complaining of a licorice smell coming from their water and an aftertaste. The spill left 300,000 people stranded without tap water for more than a week. In less than an hour the U.S. said it will hold a hearing on the safety and security of the states' drinking water policies amid calls for tighter regulation. West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant will be called to testify. She joins us now live from Washington. Welcome.", "Thank you, Carol. Good morning to you.", "Good morning and thank you for being with us. It is unfathomable. The citizens of West Virginia have not trusted their water supply for a month. A lot of people are asking how can this be?", "And we're all asking that same question. You're exactly right, Carol, and that's why I'm here on Capitol Hill to tell the stories of West Virginia, to tell what the families are going through, the small businesses, the minimum wage employees who have lost money because of this. And that's what I'm asking for. I'm asking as the CDC tell us everything they know, tell us what they're testing indicates. How they're going there, testing, and make sure that we have the confidence back in our water in West Virginia. Because we can't get back to restoring our economy if we don't have trust in our water and we don't have trust in the system.", "It's not just the Centers of Disease Control that's causing confusion among the people in West Virginia, though, right? Health officials said with safe drinking water, but maybe we you better think about drinking bottled water, too. And that's caused a lot of confusion among West Virginia residents. Is anyone giving him a straight story?", "That's what I'm asking for today. We need those straights, we need that transparency that comes from this because you're right, so many people are still using -- you know, we -- the \"Do Not Lift\" or \"Do Not Use\" band has been lifted but many folks may be taking showers and washing their clothes but they're still using bottled water. <09:15:12> And those are the answers that we want. We are also asking -- I'm going to be asking today, to this committee that it's not just about now. It's not about these four weeks into this crisis that we've had. What about the 10 years from now? Because that becomes the concern. How do we prevent something like this from happening again? But really, how do we address potential health risks and I'm asking for a 10-year study that would study the effects of this score now and for our children in the future.", "The owner of the company responsible for this chemical spill, we still haven't heard much from him. Does that frustrate you?", "It certainly does frustrate me. And it frustrates me the fact that only a couple of weeks -- if you'll remember, a couple of weeks ago into this situation, they chose to file bankruptcy even before some people in West Virginia were able to use the water. So you want to talk about frustrating. I'm here on Capitol Hill standing up for West Virginians to say this is our story. We did not deserve to be treated this way. We want answers and we want ways that we can prevent this from ever happening again.", "What should be done to the owners of Freedom Industries?", "Well, we have many investigations that are taking place. The U.S. attorney's office has been investigating. And I know that there have been FBI agents on the scene where tanks are located. And you can see -- you know, this committee is a start. We obviously have legislation that's moving through the West Virginia state legislator that I'm happy to say that, you know, one -- I'm part of helping small businesses get back on track who have been hurt by this. And it would be telling those stories that one small business lost $40,000 in about a four-day period and continues to spend $500 a day on bottled water. Now that's certainly not giving it back to the employees or the workers at that restaurant or being able to hire new workers or grow your business. And so, you know, we have legislation that will have greater oversight of tanks and chemicals that are stored above ground. Both on the state level and this piece of legislation we'll be talking about today at this hearing. Natalie Tennant, the West Virginia Secretary of State, thank you so much for joining me this morning.", "Thank you, Carol.", "Still to come on the NEWSROOM, a pawn and a huge fight. That's what Woody Allen's attorney is calling new sexual absolute claims Allen's adopted daughter. What else he says this morning. Next."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "COSTELLO", "ROMANS", "COSTELLO", "ROMANS", "COSTELLO", "ROMANS", "COSTELLO", "NATALIE TENNANT, WEST VIRGINIA SECRETARY OF STATE", "COSTELLO", "TENNANT", "COSTELLO", "TENNANT", "COSTELLO", "TENNANT", "COSTELLO", "TENNANT", "TENNANT", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-21635", "program": "Breaking News", "date": "2000-12-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/13/bn.06.html", "summary": "U.S. Supreme Court, The Decision: Gore Suspends Recount Effort, Plans to Address Nation", "utt": ["Once again, word that Vice President Al Gore has suspended his efforts to have a recount in the state of Florida. Also receiving word here at CNN, that the vice president plans to address the nation between 8:00 and 9:00 Eastern tonight. This news fast breaking and developing. Getting reaction as we go. For reaction from the Bush camp, let's bring in our Jeanne Meserve from Austin, Texas -- Jeanne.", "Well, Daryn, formally no reaction at all as yet. The only on-the-record comment that's come out of this campaign since the Supreme Court decision came last night from former Secretary of State James Baker down in Florida, who announced Bush and Cheney very pleased and gratified. Of course they privately were saying they thought the Supreme Court ruling was a win, but they've been very circumspect in their public comments, and that will, I think, probably continue through the day today. I'm only guessing here because we have not gotten any official notification from the Bush campaign about what's on the governor's schedule beyond a couple of hours at his office at the state Capitol. But my guess is you will hear very little from them until you hear more from Gore or his campaign -- Daryn.", "Jeanne Meserve in Austin, Texas, thank you very much. We will keep you on standby if we get any more reaction there out of Austin. Meanwhile, we have our John King working the phones in Washington, D.C. Keeping an eye on you, John, while you're on the phone. Also our CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider joining us from Washington as well. Bill, good morning to you. Can you hear us? I don't think we can hear you.", "Well...", "There you go. Now we can you hear you. Good morning.", "OK.", "Good to hear you. Hearing that the vice president will address the nation between 8:00 and 9:00 Eastern tonight. As you listen to that speech, Bill, what kind of language will you be listening for?", "Well, a couple of things. One is will he in any way question the legitimacy of Bush's election if Bush -- if he decides to withdraw from the race? Will he raise any issues about whether Bush is a legitimate president, or will he accept it and say, he is our president, he is my president, we all have to rally around the president, because this will be a signal to Democrats whether they should be cooperative with the Bush presidency and essentially unite behind it, or whether there's still some lingering issues. Also, for Gore's own sake, I'll be listening to hear whether he defines a cause bigger than himself that he's fighting for here. He has been fighting, he says, for the principle that every vote must count. The Supreme Court last night said essentially, we agree with that principle, but we don't see any way to do it. The question is, will Gore essentially be able to say, this cause will endure, we will fight on, this wasn't just about me it was about you? And he we will define a bigger issue that he thinks defines this election.", "Because, Bill, he does have a tough balancing act to try to pull off tonight. He has to talk to those people who did support him, who did vote for him, and even for those people who still want him to fight on. And yet if he wants to have a political future and go out as the proverbial class act, he has to throw his support behind who will be President-Elect Bush.", "Not throw his support necessarily, but essentially say that we must unite...", "As an American.", "Yes, all Americans must acknowledge we have one president, he's the only legitimate president, and he doesn't want anyone questioning the legitimacy of this president because, for the sake of the country, we have to unite. Yes, I think we'll be waiting to hear those words from Gore. And every nuance, every word that he uses will be parsed very carefully to see if there's any lingering doubt or bitterness or questions that he puts on the table.", "All right, Bill, you stand by. Let's bring in John King. John, what do you have?", "Well, Daryn, I just asked a senior Gore adviser what the vice president would say tonight, and this adviser said, look, these words haven't been written yet. But he also said the vice president is resolved to move on here, and other senior advisers telling us that the vice president certainly understands, after reading this decision, after reviewing it with both his legal and his political teams, that there's no viable way to proceed. As Bill was pointing out, I would not look for the word \"concede\" tonight because it is the view of the vice president and those in his campaign that he has not lost. But I also would look and point to you to statements the vice president has made before this as this legal drama played out, that if in the end he were to come out on the short end, if the court were to rule against him, or if had he preferred the votes be counted, in his view, and he still be on the short end, that he would recognize Gov. Bush as the president-elect and urge his supporters to support a Bush presidency, rally around. So I think the vice president will go out of his way to try to make the case that the court has spoken and the American people should respect that -- not necessarily agree with it, but respect that. The key thing I think would be watching other key Democrats and other key Gore allies around the town, many of them already coming out and publicly criticizing this Supreme Court, one Democrat putting it this way last night: Here is a court that on Saturday stopped the counting, and then with just an hour and a half left before Dec. 12 expired comes out with a statement that says, well, we see no way you can finish the count by the end of the 12th and that's the deadline. The Democrats view that as a raw partisan move by the conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Look for that debate to continue as this one chapter comes to a close.", "All right, let's bring Frank Sesno back in -- Frank.", "I want to play right off of that point, Daryn, because we've been talking about how bitter the feelings are within the Gore campaign toward the Supreme Court, and it's unusual animosity that's been directed. I'm just getting an e-mail from Marc Ginsberg. He's been a senior adviser to Al Gore on foreign policy matters, and he writes as follows: \"I was willing to accept a loss on the merits. Indeed, I understood the issues of equal protection and due process. But after being up all night,\" he writes, \"and giving it a lot of consideration, I'm intending to resign today from my appointment to the Bar of the Supreme Court as a lasting testament to my belief\" -- this is Marc Ginsberg writing -- that a majority of the justices were more interested in the due process of George Bush over the due process of the voter. I'm ashamed to have any professional relationship with the court that I believe has dealt out injustice rather than justice. This is not a proud moment for either the Democrats or Republicans. The Supreme Court,\" he writes, \"has failed this country in one of its greatest hours of need.\" Now, that from Marc Ginsberg, a senior adviser, as we mentioned, to Al Gore. So this is the level of emotion. In talking to someone in the legal team, Daryn, just a few moments ago, hearing about the meeting that they had where they were told that the operation was being suspended. They'll be withdrawing about 30 lawyers and support staff from Tallahassee; dozens more for around the state. They'll be leaving within 24 hours. I was told there were no tears, but emotion and exhaustion at that meeting just a short time ago.", "Frank, I want to go back to Austin, Texas and bring back in Jeanne Meserve. Jeanne, we've heard a lot of talk of what a Bush presidency would do in terms of legislation, what the first move would be. Seemingly with a bitter, divided, partisan country, the first move has to be for George W. Bush to give the impression and the idea that he is the legitimate president of the United States.", "Obviously that is one of his first concerns. What the Bush campaign has said, that this whole question of legitimacy has been somewhat overblown. They have pointed out -- I know you've heard it a hundred times in the past month -- that they won the vote in Florida, they won the recount, they won selected hand recounts. Now they can say, we have the Supreme Court in our corner; they can say it is perfectly legitimate, this election. Of course he has this problem with the country and with the Congress of trying to unite, trying to bring together. You know that was a theme of this campaign. Over and over again we heard George W. Bush say, \"I'm a uniter, not a divider,\" talking about his record here in Texas of working with Democrats in the legislature. He hopes very much to be able to do the same with the Democrat in Congress. We know that today Dick Cheney is going up to Capitol Hill. He is meeting with some Republicans who have not been key players. They are the moderate Republicans. They're a small group, there are only five of them, but Dick Cheney taking the time to sit down with them today and hear their ideas, knowing that they provide the best opportunity for working across the aisle for delivering the bipartisanship, the cooperation, the unity that the Bush campaign has been promising -- Daryn.", "Jeanne Meserve in Austin, thank you very much. Once again, the vice president, Al Gore, will be addressing the nation between 8:00 and 9:00 Eastern tonight, talking about pulling out his support troops, pulling out and suspending his efforts for a recount in the state of Florida."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "KAGAN", "SCHNEIDER", "KAGAN", "SCHNEIDER", "KAGAN", "SCHNEIDER", "KAGAN", "SCHNEIDER", "KAGAN", "JOHN KING, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "FRANK SESNO, CNN WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF", "KAGAN", "MESERVE", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-393508", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-02-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/23/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Interview with Timothy O'Brien on Mike Bloomberg Campaign.", "utt": ["There are no do-overs, but after what was widely seen as a disastrous debate debut in front of a record-setting 28 million viewers, the former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg will get a second chance this Tuesday in South Carolina to put his mouth where his money is. He'll be on that debate stage in South Carolina. A reminder that he is still not on that ballot, nor was he over the weekend in Nevada. And so he is not going to be tested at the polls until Super Tuesday which is just after South Carolina. That's on March 3rd. So with that to contend with, and the current surge by Senator Bernie Sanders, how does Mayor Bloomberg immediately get back his momentum before it's too late? So to answer that question and more is senior Bloomberg presidential campaign adviser Tim O'Brien. Tim, thanks so much for coming in. TIMOTHY O'BRIEN, SENIOR ADVISER, Michael", "Sure thing, Alex.", "You probably just heard Mayor de Blasio there talking about what he considered to be a real failure in terms of the stop and frisk policy. This is what we saw the other Democratic candidates go after him for at that -- on that debate stage in Las Vegas. So how does Mayor Bloomberg change the narrative in South Carolina, again, on another debate stage on Tuesday?", "Well, I think we're going do what we continue to do on stop and frisk. Mike has apologized for stop and frisk. It was a mistake. He stood by it for too long. But it doesn't define the totality of his time as mayor. If it did, we wouldn't have legions of current and former mayors of color this campaign supporting Mike. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus supporting Mike. I think voters of color know that stop and frisk doesn't define the entirety of his time as mayor. Nonetheless, he has to continue to apologize for it. The reality also on the electoral stage is that only 4 percent of the delegates are in play in these first four states. There is a lot of horserace coverage of these states. But when the candidates come out of these states, they're going to discover that we have a campaign that is up and running in 45 states and territories. We have 2100 people on the ground. We know in a very intimate way how we're polling in all of the Super Tuesday states and we're more than highly competitive there. And I think voters will weigh in with their opinion on all of this when that time comes.", "Have you guys worked with him on a new answer to the stop and frisk question which he is going to get repeatedly on Tuesday night? And what other tweaks have you made in the wake of that performance?", "Well, I don't think it's a new answer. It's an answer he's been saying for a while. Again we will apologize for stop and frisk, but stop and frisk doesn't define the totality of his mayoralty. The idea that Mike Bloomberg was a white racist mayor shoving white cops down the throats of black people is just not the reality of what his entire time as mayor was. We've also been focusing on the bread-and-butter issues voters care about. Access to high quality public health, access to high quality public education, the climate crisis, and gun violence. The reality is Bernie Sanders has a horrible record on gun control. Bernie Sanders has a horrible record himself on criminal justice. He backed the 1994 Crime Bill, and that's gotten far less attention than Mike Bloomberg on stop and frisk. Mike Bloomberg cares about every progressive issue that Bernie Sanders cares about. The difference with Mike Bloomberg is he wants the math to add up. He wants to be transparent with taxpayers about how you fund these programs. Right now all Bernie Sanders is offering voters is seashells and balloons in terms of how you finance these things.", "You guys got into this race. Mayor Bloomberg got into this race essentially to be a counter to the other end of the spectrum in Bernie Sanders. But what we've seen --", "No, no, no, no.", "Well --", "No, no, Mike got into this race to defeat Donald Trump. We have said repeatedly that in giant electoral machine we're building is in the service of the Democratic Party. And in any of the candidates who are running, including Bernie Sanders, we've said that repeatedly. So that's just entirely wrong. We got into this race because there is a five-alarm fire in the White House.", "Right.", "And Mike Bloomberg is the most qualified candidate to take to it Donald Trump in November. If any of Bernie's supporters think that he is going to beat Donald Trump in a general election, they're going to be shocked when that doesn't come to pass in the fall.", "Right.", "And down-ballot Democrats across the country -- I've been in 12 states now, Mike's been in 24, they are petrified of a Bernie Sanders candidacy. For pragmatic, progressive Democrats and liberal Democrats don't want Bernie Sanders at the top of the ticket.", "But at the end of the day, he is a counter to Bernie Sanders. But what we've seen take place is a fracturing of the moderate vote.", "Right. Right.", "Which has allowed Bernie Sanders to essentially waltz straight to the head of the pack.", "Well, I think, you know, if you were to add up all of the different, you know, voting tallies that the moderates have had so far, it would outweigh where Bernie has been. That's totally true. And I think Democratic voters have to get very serious and put their thinking caps on about who they think they can get behind that, one, has a track record of actually governing and delivering real policy solutions to voters. There is no one who is competing right now who has Mike Bloomberg's track record and who can actually go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump in November and win. That is not Bernie Sanders.", "So what are you hoping? What are you expecting to take place on that debate stage on Tuesday? Do you think the other Democrats are going to go after the former mayor as they did in Las Vegas? Are you expecting them to focus instead on the frontrunner in Bernie Sanders?", "Well, I would hope that they'd focus on Bernie if they want to progress themselves politically. They didn't do it in the last campaign -- in the last debate. I think nonetheless, the burden is on Mike to do much better in the next debate than he did in the last one.", "Right.", "He owes that to his supporters and voters. We're optimistic that's the Mike Bloomberg that you're going to see. We're confident that's the Mike Bloomberg you're going to see. We're also confident that we are in the very early stages of this contest, and people are going to be very surprised when Super Tuesday rolls around and you see where Mike Bloomberg is.", "Super Tuesday coming just a few days after the South Carolina primary on Saturday.", "Right.", "Thank you, Tim O'Brien.", "Thanks, Alex, good to be here.", "All right, well, the intelligence community agrees. Russia is actively trying to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, but claims by the top U.S. election security official about who exactly Russian operatives are trying to help are now being walked back. We have new reporting. 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{"id": "NPR-207", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2019-02-25", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/697839176/pence-meets-with-opposition-leader-juan-guaido", "title": "Pence Meets With Opposition Leader Juan Guaido", "summary": "In Colombia, Vice President Mike Pence meets with the man the U.S. is backing in an effort to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.", "utt": ["Today in Bogota, Colombia, Vice President Mike Pence met with the man the U.S. hopes will replace Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. That's Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido. Pence and Guaido met after a dramatic weekend on the Venezuelan border with Colombia. Volunteers tried to bring food and medicine into the country. The military shot and killed at least four people. Two aid trucks were torched. Many people were tear-gassed.", "Today Pence and Guaido called on Venezuela's military to join the opposition. They hinted at military intervention if the military refuses. Reporter John Otis is in Bogota and joins us now. Hi, John.", "Hi, Ari.", "This weekend's actions by Juan Guaido seem to be a big gamble, trying to get aid across the border in hopes that there would be mass defections from the military. Those defections did not materialize. So what did he and the U.S. vice president suggest could be the next move here?", "Well, when the two men met, Pence suggested that it may very well be a long, hard slog to bring about regime change in Venezuela. Pence announced some new sanctions against four Venezuelan state governors who the U.S. blames for promoting some of the violence over the weekend. He said more sanctions would be announced. And he also said that the U.S. hasn't given up on moving food and medicine into Venezuela and that they're studying some new areas along the border where they might try again.", "But Pence also came out with some carrots. He urged Venezuelan military officials who are propping up Maduro to turn against his government and take up Juan Guaido's longstanding offer of amnesty. Over the weekend, about 150 officers and soldiers did defect. However, you know, as you mentioned, there weren't the massive military defections that Guaido's people were hoping for.", "OK, so one big question hanging over all of this is will the U.S. take military actions to bring about regime change in Venezuela. What did Vice President Pence have to say about that today?", "He said he hopes military force isn't necessary but that it remains an option. Now, this is something the Trump administration has been saying for a long time. So it wasn't really an escalation in rhetoric. Pence did make some quite interesting comments about Colombia, which borders Venezuela and was the launching point for that failed aid convoy. And let's listen to what he said.", "Colombia is our strongest partner in the region. And any who would threaten her sovereignty or security would do well not to test the commitment to our ally or the resolve of the United States of America.", "What Pence seems to be saying there is that the U.S. could be drawn into a conflict with Venezuela should there be any kind of major cross-border incidents with Colombia. And, you know, as we saw over the weekend, it's not that hard to imagine something like that happening.", "Pence is not the only foreign leader in Bogota today. There are also dozens of representatives of other countries backing Juan Guaido, including other Latin American countries. What's the broader feeling about the prospect of military intervention in Venezuela?", "Latin American diplomats are saying that they're open to things like tougher sanctions. Pence wants them to, for example, restrict visas to Maduro officials, to confiscate state oil company assets in their countries, to close off their banking systems. But even before today's meetings, Latin American leaders - including the vice president of Brazil - were explicitly ruling out military intervention in Venezuela.", "You know, right now there's a lot of unity in many parts of the world in terms of backing Guaido and isolating Maduro. And so there's a danger that this solidarity could break apart if there's a major push, either from within the Venezuelan opposition or the U.S. - or from some other country - to send in troops.", "And so what is Guaido's next move here?", "Well, Guaido's in a tough position. He has a lot of international support but no real power. In fact, it's unclear whether Maduro's even going to let him back into Venezuela. There are efforts to open up negotiations with the Maduro government for a peaceful transfer of power. But in many past attempts at talks, Maduro has used negotiations to stall for time.", "That's reporter John Otis in Bogota, Colombia. Thanks so much.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JOHN OTIS, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JOHN OTIS, BYLINE", "JOHN OTIS, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JOHN OTIS, BYLINE", "VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE", "JOHN OTIS, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JOHN OTIS, BYLINE", "JOHN OTIS, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JOHN OTIS, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JOHN OTIS, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-97443", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2005-9-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/05/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Behind the Scenes at Cirque du Soleil", "utt": ["And now the conclusion of our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT special report, \"People in the News,\" Cirque du Soleil. So what happened when the sultry circus decided to set up shop in skin city? Here again, CNN`s Heidi Collins for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.", "Las Vegas. In a town for its extravagance, Cirque du Soleil`s three multimillion-dollar productions, O, Mystere, and Zumanity, indulge audiences with pure imagination and fantasy. The Las Vegas-based shows are also some of the hottest-selling tickets on the strip, playing to more than 9,000 people every night. By next year, the three Vegas shows will account for almost 50 percent of Cirque`s estimated revenues of more than $500 million. Tapping into Las Vegas` burlesque roots, Cirque du Soleil reveals its naughty side in the troupe`s latest show, Zumanity. Titillating audiences with a mix of cabaret, striptease, and erotica.", "We need to reinvent our shows. We don`t like to repeat ourselves. Our challenge is actually not to repeat ourselves, to create a new hybrid.", "Cirque du Soleil continues to push its creative edge with four permanent shows, three based in Las Vegas, one in Orlando, and another in production.", "It`s nice to have a place to come home to.", "For the artists of Cirque du Soleil, joining a resident show in Las Vegas offers a circus life off the road. (on-screen): How does it feel to wake up in the same bed every morning?", "Oh, I love it. I love what I call the normal life, getting up in the morning, making breakfast, driving to work in a car that I own.", "At just 17, gymnast Danielle Roadenkirschen (ph), joined Cirque du Soleil`s traveling show, Alegria.", "I`m very close with my family. And I still am. But I was ready to kind of venture out on my own and do my own thing, and kind of figure out who I was. My biggest dream was to go to the Olympics. And when that didn`t really come through, I didn`t know what I was going to do.", "An audition with Cirque du Soleil in Montreal would change that.", "When I got the letter in the mail saying they wanted me to join the cast of Alegria, it was no doubt in my mind. I didn`t even have to think about it. As soon as I opened it, I was like, \"Oh, my God. I`m joining Cirque. That`s it.\"", "Now 28 and an acrobat in the Las Vegas show, Mystere, Danielle is considered a veteran performer. Cirque pays its performers a yearly salary, ranging from $30,000 for an apprentice to more than $100,000 for an established artist. After 10 years, Danielle wonders, what`s next?", "When I`m on stage and I think about these moments, about what I will do next, it`s those -- like the finale of the show, when you stand there, and the people are clapping, like, I`m not ready to leave this yet.", "For the artists of Cirque du Soleil, the mantra is, \"You must evolve.\"", "It`s only after a few years where you realize that the locomotive is going on that direction and you`ve got to keep up with it. You`ve got to hop on to it. You`ve got to change. You`ve got to adapt.", "Danielle`s adapted to the prospect of life offstage by taking a day job.", "I`m very lucky to do two jobs with Cirque du Soleil, both as an acrobat, stage performer at night, and, during the day, I do cultural affairs and work with artists in the community. And it`s taught me that there are other things out there besides just entertaining, and performing, and acrobatics.", "And as Cirque du Soleil has matured, as well, the brand has become part of our culture, even parodied in an Expedia.com commercial. Social satire and more. Just this year, the first unauthorized biography based on Cirque du Soleil was published.", "The circus has changed a lot.", "Montreal journalist Jean Beaunoyer`s book, \"Backstage at the Cirque du Soleil,\" explores the evolution of the Montreal circus. Throughout the book, there is much praise for Laliberte, now the sole owner of the billion-dollar circus. But Beaunoyer claims his rise was challenged by corporate in-fighting.", "At the very beginning, it was a family enterprise. But Guy Laliberte one day said to those people, \"It`s not a family enterprise any more. Now we are a business enterprise.\" And I think that there was a price to pay for that.", "At the beginning, it was tough. It was a lot of inside battling, you know, there was different people, want to bring the company in different direction with different philosophy or spirit.", "Twenty years later, there are still challenges. Cirque was accused of discrimination, after firing an HIV-positive gymnast. The company will later pay $600,000 to settle the case. In 2004, Cirque du Soleil continues to explore the idea of entertainment and merchandising, even expanding the brand into a future line of hotels. But Guy Laliberte is playing his biggest hand in Las Vegas. Cirque du Soleil unveils its newest show at the MGM Grand next year. And with a mega-budget of $150 million, it will be the largest entertainment venture the city has ever seen. As Cirque du Soleil celebrates 20 years under the sun, the little troupe that could from Montreal has transformed into a global entertainment company. But the one-time street performer turned circus entrepreneur refuses to forget where he came from.", "I want to keep the notion of fun. It`s a serious business, but I think it`s important to keep that notion of where we come from.", "But more than anything, Laliberte is committed to passing on a legacy of passion and creativity.", "I believe it`s a beautiful jewel here in Montreal and Quebec. It`s not about money. It`s about, you know, making sure the passion will still be there tomorrow.", "That was CNN`s Heidi Collins reporting for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. You can grab a copy of \"People\" magazine on newsstands now.", "Well, if you happen to be holding a computer mouse, there`s a place where you can decide who`s hot and who`s not, but you can only get in if you`re one of the pretty people. Will one of our own make the cut? Find out, next."], "speaker": ["HAMMER", "COLLINS (voice-over)", "LYN HEWARD, PRESIDENT AND COO, CREATIVE CONTENT", "COLLINS", "DANIELLE, PERFORMER", "COLLINS", "DANIELLE", "COLLINS (voice-over)", "DANIELLE", "COLLINS", "DANIELLE", "COLLINS", "DANIELLE", "COLLINS", "DANIELLE", "COLLINS", "DANIELLE", "COLLINS", "JEAN BEAUNOYER, JOURNALIST", "COLLINS", "BEAUNOYER", "GUY LALIBERTE, FOUNDER AND CEO", "COLLINS", "LALIBERTE", "COLLINS", "LALIBERTE", "HAMMER", "BRYANT"]}
{"id": "CNN-319438", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2017-08-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/20/ndaysun.02.html", "summary": "NASA Planning to Use Plastic Surgeon's Eclipse App.", "utt": ["So, plastic surgeon has invented this app that has helps you time out a solar eclipse down to the second.", "Yes. So, this app uses GPS coordinates to determine if you're in the path of the eclipse. Now, once you program your location, it counts down to the precise moment of the big event.", "So, Dr. Gordon Telepun is with us now. We are looking at this app, Dr. Telepun. I'll be honest with you. We are both going, we don't know what we're looking at. Help us in layman's terms understand what this app does and how it works.", "Sure. Good morning, everybody.", "Good morning.", "So, it's very simple. Mobile devices are extremely sophisticated with their ability to geo-locate and get your coordinates like for using navigation programs and things like that. So, my app takes that technology just to do your location and then in the app, itself, has the formula for calculating the contact times for the eclipse. So, once your phone knows your location, the app can calculate the exact contact times for first contact, second contact, third, and fourth contact. And then it will audibly give you announcements to tell you when those events are going to happen. So, it's actually quite simple for the first time observer. They tap one button to have their phone locate. They tap a second button to load those specific times into the timer, and then the timer will talk them through the entire eclipse. It's basically like having an astronomer next to you telling you what to look for.", "Which is great, because we understand from Allison Chinchar in weather that this isn't just an event that happens at one moment. It happens over a period of time. And nobody wants to be there with the glasses saying, OK, what am I looking at now? So, I understand that NASA has approached you about this app. How are they planning to utilize this?", "Yes. This is an interesting story. You know, I'm very fortunate because I love following the NASA program and I live next to Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. So I have, through time, been able to meet a lot of the NASA scientists, including the solar scientists, because I went to my first eclipse in 2001 and I've had contact with them. So they knew about my app. They are going to be running two main observing sites, one in Kentucky and one in Tennessee, where they plan to play my app through the P.A. system, so that all of the basic announcements are taken care of for them and they don't have to worry about making the basic announcements about observation for the change in temperature or the change in lighting and counting down to the exact contact times. And also, my app makes announcements for when it is safe to take your solar glasses off just after second contact, and a reminder to put them back on just before third contact. And that is very important. So, it just takes a little pressure off of the folks running those two observing sites to have that be automated.", "OK. We only have about 30 seconds left. But tell us about the solar bands, what are they? Why are they --", "Oh, shadow bands. Well, shadow bands happen just in the final 60 seconds before totality begins and the final 60 seconds right -- or right after totality ends. And you look on the ground, and you look for these very faint low contrast shadows that get created by that slit of light coming through the atmosphere. It's very exciting to see them. Not everybody will see them. But the app reminds them to look to the ground at 60 seconds before second contact, to look for these very faint shadows.", "My kids are going to love this.", "Yes.", "My little scientific girls are going to love this. Dr. Telepun, thank you so much. We appreciate you walking through it.", "Well, thank you. This is an exciting time for the country.", "All righty. Take good care. Listen, you know, it's been since World War Two. Well, now, the USS Indianapolis has been found in 18,000 feet of water. Next, the chilling story behind the shipwreck.", "And we look back at the life of pioneering comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, who died Saturday at the age of 84."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "DR. GORDON TELEPUN, SOLAR ECLIPSE CHASER & EXPERT", "PAUL", "TELEPUN", "BLACKWELL", "TELEPUN", "PAUL", "TELEPUN", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "TELEPUN", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-321951", "program": "SMERCONISH", "date": "2017-09-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/23/smer.01.html", "summary": "John Villasenor UCLA Professor and Senior Fellow at Brookings Institute Discusses College Students Perceptions of Freedom of Speech", "utt": ["Former FBI Chief James Comey received a rude welcome at Howard University yesterday. Students shouted him down for 15 minutes with chants like \"Comey's is not my homey,\" and continued to disrupt his entire speech. Comey then responded.", "I love the enthusiasm of the young folks. I just wish they would understand what a conversation is.", "College campuses have traditionally been safe havens for free speech, but that's no longer the case. At UC Berkley this week Ann Coulter, Milo Yiannoploulos, and Steve Bannon were supposed to speak at a free speech event, but coulter has withdrawn, Bannon is rumored to also be out, and the event seems to have fallen apart. This after more than 170 Berkley professors and students called for a boycott of classes and campus activities during the event. How far are protesters willing to go to prevent people they don't like from speaking? A new survey from the Brookings Institution suggests that students do not understand the meaning of free speech. Joining me now, the author of the study, John Villasenor is a senior fellow at Brookings and a UCLA professor. Thanks so much for being here. I want to put up some of the data from your survey. Let's begin with this does the First Amendment protect hate speech? Holy smokes, professor, 44 percent say no. you react.", "Yeah, this is a survey of 1,500 people who identified themselves as students in from 49 states, and among that responded group the responses were really, frankly, quite disturbing. There's a lack of understanding among respondents about some basic attributes of the First Amendment.", "The internals of this interest me. Look at the gender divide. I'm sure you took note of that. In other words, more women than men by 11 points, 49-38 are in that no category.", "Right there was -- again, among the 1,500 respondents to the survey, there was a significant gender difference there, as well as in some of the other, for example, men expressed much more tolerance for using violence to shut down speech they don't like than did women.", "Let's go on to another data set. So what's the appropriate response when there's a speaker with whom you don't agree? In this case 51% say that it's okay to shout them down, 62% of democrats, 39% of republicans, as I'm showing on the screen hold those views. Your reaction?", "Yeah, again, in the caveat it's within this particular group of respondents, but I think the reaction is, nobody's looking good here, right? 62 percent is not a good number, but 39 percent is not a number to be proud of either. And I think, frankly, this is the new normal.", "Within this particular group of respondents, but I think the reaction is, nobody's looking good here, right? Sixty-two percent is not a good number, but 39 percent is not a number to be proud of either. And I think, frankly, this is the new normal, and we've seen this just yesterday with the James Comey speech and we're going to see it, unfortunately, I'm sure throughout the coming academic year.", "I promise I'll get to the why question in a moment, but another, if I may put this on the screen, is it appropriate to use violence to prevent a speaker from speaking? 19 percent, let's call it 1 out of 5 of college students in America say, yeah, that's fine.", "Yes again, just to make sure it's accurately characterized, it was among my respondent group. And you know, to the extent that's representative, then that's the case. I also, it's important to emphasize that that question was referring to, you know, extremely offensive speaker, and I'm in no way advocating or supporting the answer of supporting violence. But it was phrased intentionally to gauge students' reactions to the most obnoxious and offensive of speakers, and a stunningly high percentage of the respondents did, in fact, say they were in agreement with the use of violence to prevent that speech, I find that a disturbing answer.", "Perhaps most disturbing of all is that the students are looking to the institution to protect them from harmful words. You gave two scenarios. Put the fourth slide up on the screen. And you asked them, you know, which option is the appropriate option, and I'll explain. Option one was that the university creates a positive learning environment for all students by prohibiting certain speech. Option two was that they create a learning environment where students are exposed to all types. 53 percent, slightly more than half said, please, prohibit the offensive speech, your reaction?", "Yeah, my reaction is that anyone who spends time on college campuses in the last year or two probably wouldn't find it very surprising, those numbers. There's really a burgeoning move towards expectations of censorship in that environment, and I personally find those numbers disappointing, but not particularly surprising in light of my own --what I've observed on college campuses recently.", "Okay, now the why question. Why is this the state of affairs?", "I think there's complicated question, certainly, we can't answer in just a few minutes and I don't know if I have all the answers. But I think there's this growing expectation, especially recently, that the bounds of permissible speech should be determined in large part by the potential reaction of a listener. And if something might be deemed offensive, then it perhaps ought to be deemed unlawful or blocked. And, of course, that is directly in contradiction with the broad scope that the First Amendment gives us with respect to freedom of expression and, of course, other things, as well. But I think that -- that's the underlying cause or one of the root causes here. Another briefly, if I may, there's increasingly this view that words are violence, or certain words are violence, and, therefore, if you believe that words are violence, you might then believe the appropriate reaction to words is violence. Of course, I strongly disagree, but that mode of thinking has also become more common than in the past.", "How about as a potential explanation the lack of a civics curriculum in high school the way that it was, well, in my era?", "Yeah, I'm a very strong believer in the fact we ought to do a better job of emphasizing teaching these incredibly important Constitutional principles early, in pre-college education. The challenge is a lot of these folks arrive in college having already perhaps not had enough exposure to this. And So I think most high school kids, for example, could tell you there's a bill of rights, but few of them could probably tell you more -- a lot of the details about the first amendment. We don't need to turn these people into experts on constitutional law, but I think we can do a better job of giving them some explanation of the contours of these fundamental rights like we have thanks to the first amendment and the incredibly important role it plays in our democracy.", "John Villasenor, thanks for the work. It was very interesting. We appreciate it.", "Appreciate the opportunity to be on with you.", "Here's more now of what you're saying on my twitter and face book pages. What do we have, Katherine? Young people don't respect the first amendment. Of course not, Smerconish, the internet's unregulated and abusive free speech turned public opinion. Patrick, that's scary. I don't know, though, if they don't respect it or they are not aware of it, because as I pointed out to the professor, there were multiple civics requirements that I had to fulfill in my k-12 public education. I don't think that's the case and maybe all this standardized testing in math and science, just a thought of mine, doesn't leave time for that in the curriculum.", "We keep hearing if only the U.S. had a health care system like they do in, say, Canada or in England or many other countries, but a new study compared them. So, who's the best and what can we learn from them?"], "speaker": ["MICHEAL SMERCONISH, CNN ANCOR", "JAMES COMEY, FORMER FBI CHIEF", "SMERCONISH", "JOHN VILLASENOR, SENOR FELLOW BROOKINGS INSTITUTE AND UCLA PROFESSOR", "SMERSONISH", "VILLASENOR", "SMERSONISH", "VILLASENOR", "VILLASENOR", "SMERCONISH", "VILLASENOR", "SMERCONISH", "VILLASENOR", "SMERCONISH", "VILLASENOR", "SMERCONISH", "VILLASENOR", "SMERCONISH", "VILLASENOR", "SMERCONISH", "SMERCONISH"]}
{"id": "CNN-412247", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2020-09-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/30/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Debate Commission To Change Format For Next Presidential Debate; Interview With Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)", "utt": ["Tonight, President Trump lashing out after the Commission on Presidential Debates says it'll be making changes to the next Trump Biden debate because of last night's debacle. The President tweeting, \"Try getting a new Anchor and a smarter Democrat candidate.\" There is no question though that the problem started with the President.", "How are doing? This guy paid ...", "Well ...", "... a total of $750 in taxes.", "It's wrong.", "How many ...", "Sir.", "(Inaudible), it's just a wrong statement.", "No, I understand. You've agreed to the two minutes, so please let him have it. I'd like you to ...", "And we will protect people with pre-existing conditions.", "... Mr. President, I'm the moderator of this debate and I would like you to let me ask my question and then you can answer (inaudible) ...", "Go ahead ...", "And by the way, my son ...", "Mr. President, wait a minute, Mr. President your campaign agreed to both sides would get two-minute answers uninterrupted. Well, your side agreed to it and why don't you observe what your campaign agreed to as a ground rule, OK, sir?", "OUTFRONT now Brian Stelter. So Brian, what are you learning, are they going to make changes at the next debate?", "Yes. This has been embarrassing for the Commission and they are looking at what to do differently, but they haven't announced anything yet. This is a gentlemanly, old fashioned can't we all just get along commission, but it exists in a bloodsport world and information war world, a shameless, cruel, ruthless world. They've got to make changes. So one area of focus is the microphone, will the mics be cut off if the candidates interrupt each other. But even that won't be a full solution, Erin, because even if we can't hear Trump at home, Biden will still be able to hear Trump. So that's one of the possible solutions being talked about, but so far they say no decisions have been made.", "And Chris Wallace told The New York Times today and what I thought was an incredibly self-aware introspective thoughtful conversation ...", "Yes, yes.", "... \"I'm just sad with the way last night turned out. I never dreamt that it would go off the tracks the way it did. I'm a pro. I've never been through anything like this.\"", "Wow.", "And by the way, he did also then go on to say he thinks cutting the mics is a bad idea, because one mic will pick up the other person's voice and just like you pointed out, the other people will hear it.", "Still hear it.", "He had all sorts of reasons why I thought that that was not going to be a good idea. But I have a lot of respect for Chris Wallace.", "Yes.", "Was there anything else or more he could have done to control it?", "Well, he could have set the tone more from the very beginning. Fox News says no moderator could have done it better than Chris Wallace did. Maybe that is true. But Wallace is admitting to a failure of imagination. He failed to imagine what Trump would do, how you would destroy the debate format. And that's been the problem all along, Erin, the Trump years have been a failure of imagination. I hope all of the election boards out there that are thinking about Election Day, I hope they don't fail to imagine just how bad it could get.", "All right. Brian, I thank you. And I want to go now to Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2016. Knows what it's like to deal with the failure of imagination and its consequences. So Senator, let me ask you, the Trump campaign, when these changes are coming out, whether they're going to do the mics or whatever they're going to do, whatever they're discussing. Their quote was, \"They're only doing this because their guy got pummeled last night. President Trump was the dominant force and now Joe Biden is trying to work the refs. They shouldn't be moving the goalposts and changing the rules in the middle of the game.\" What's your response to that? Oh, it looks like we just lost Sen. Kaine. So here's what we're going to do, I'm just going to stall for a second or two and see if we can get him back. If we don't get him back in a second or two, because we have a packed show with a lot coming up. We will take a break and we will come back because I'd rather have a whole bunch of stuff jammed in and out of order, so you get all the stuff rather than miss something. What did you say, Susie (ph)? We have Senator came back. OK. So Senator ...", "Hey, Erin.", "... OK. I'm sorry, we got you back. I wasn't sure whether I was going to have to have an unexpected commercial break there, OK. Let me just ask you, I don't know if you heard my quote, but Trump was saying they're only trying to change the rules because their guy got pummeled and they're now trying to work the refs, what's your response to that?", "Look, President Trump showed three things. First, as a president he can't be presidential, the challenger looked like the President and Trump looked like the desperate challenger, which was completely bizarre. Second, he, as a sitting president, said he wouldn't accept the outcome of an election if he was unhappy with the results. I lived in a military dictatorship in Honduras 40 years ago. That's a dictator behavior, not democracy behavior. And third, as you guys have covered well with Congressman Clyburn, he wouldn't condemn white supremacy, which we painfully know in Virginia because it was the same stunt that he pulled after the horrific killing of Heather Heyer and two-state troopers in Charlottesville on August 2017.", "So one thing that set last night's debate apart, there were many things, but there was name-calling and it was nasty. I was watching with my young children at one point having a conversation about how grownups could be acting like that, right?", "Yes.", "And some of them did come from Joe Biden. Here's a couple of examples.", "Folks, do you have any idea what this clown is doing?", "(Inaudible) ...", "Will you shut up, man?", "(Inaudible) ...", "You're the worst president America has ever had, come on.", "Hey, Joe, let me ...", "It's hard to get any wording with this clown. Excuse me, (inaudible) ...", "And let me just say, Joe ...", "Senator, that sort of trying to get in it with him did not work, it didn't work for Marco Rubio, remember the hands, they tried to handle that, Ted Cruz, it didn't work to get into the mud. Would you tell Biden to keep doing that or to pull that back?", "Erin, when you're debating against somebody who will break every rule no matter what they are and then just lie repeatedly, that is so tough. I mean, I know this, when you debate with somebody who can just look in the camera and lie, it's really hard. I thought Joe did a pretty good job in terms of kind of what a human can do in often rising above it and kind of shaking his head and laughing it off. But then at some point, you just can't let the blows land on your chin and not respond. And look and some of that was very sincere. You're the worst president we've had. There's a lot of evidence 200,000 plus deaths, millions of jobs lost, social division that we haven't seen since the 1960s. There's a lot of evidence for that proposition. It's a painful truth, but it doesn't mean it's not a true statement.", "So next, we're obviously going to see the vice presidential debate coming up and you, of course, debated Vice President Mike Pence.", "Yes.", "And I remember being there for that. Have you spoken to Kamala Harris yet and what are you going to tell her about debating Mike Pence, who is a very different, very professional debater?", "Erin, Mike Pence was a media personality for many years before he was in politics. He's good at this. So I'm not going to tell you what I'm telling Kamala, but I will just lay out a reality about this debate. In 2016, remember, both tickets neither were incumbents. So Hillary and Donald were both saying, OK, we're not president but here's what we'll do. So it was largely a campaign about here's what we want to do. But this is a different year 2020, the Trump-Pence ticket, they're incumbents. So a lot of the debate is about what have you done. Remember, on February 26th, Donald Trump asked Mike Pence to take on the most important job of his life, running the American response to coronavirus, being ahead of the task force. At that time, there had been no deaths in the United States, 200,000 deaths later, I think you're going to see a prosecutor and Kamala Harris, but the evidence on the table. Are you really saying that 200,000 plus deaths is a good response, millions of jobs lost or a good response, social unrest, that's a positive? And so I think what you'll see in this debate, which was very different than four years ago, is an incumbent ticket is asking to return and the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket is saying are you better off than you were four years ago? I mean, the answer is clearly no.", "All right. Sen. Kaine, I thank you for your time tonight.", "Absolutely, Erin. Good to be with you.", "All right. You too. And next, an alarming Coronavirus surge across the country and I'm going to talk to an ER doctor, head of the ER actually of this hospital who said the second wave is here. It's here with a vengeance. They've had people waiting in the halls. And Trump's former fixer, Michael Cohen, is OUTFRONT, why he says Trump was not misspeaking as his defenders claim when it comes to white supremacy and the Proud Boys, and what does he know about this.", "I paid millions of dollars in taxes, millions of dollars of income tax."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "JOE BIDEN (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "TRUMP", "BIDEN", "TRUMP", "BIDEN", "WALLACE", "TRUMP", "WALLACE", "TRUMP", "WALLACE", "TRUMP", "BIDEN", "WALLACE", "BURNETT", "BRIAN STELTER, CNN CHIEF MEDIA CORRESPONDENT", "BURNETT", "STELTER", "BURNETT", "STELTER", "BURNETT", "STELTER", "BURNETT", "STELTER", "BURNETT", "STELTER", "BURNETT", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-213273", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2013-8-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/24/se.02.html", "summary": "HBO Documentary: \"The Cheshire Murders\"", "utt": ["What's your emergency?", "My name is Mary Lyons (ph). I'm the banking center manager. We have a lady who is in our bank right now, who says that her husband and children are being held at their house. The people are in a car outside the bank. She is getting $15,000, to bring out to them. That if the police are told, they will kill her children and the husband. Her name is Jennifer Petit,", "OK. Is she still in the bank?", "Yes, she is. 911", "OK. She's being held -- or --", "Her husband -- 911", "Her husband and family is being held --", "Yes. 911", "-- at their house?", "Yes. They're tied up. She said they drove her here. I'm trying to look and see where she has gone. Wait, I see her walking now. She is petrified.", "Tonight, police removed the body of one of the victims after a home invasion leaves a mother and her two daughters dead. The suspects, 26-year-old Joshua Komisarjevsky of Cheshire, and 44-year- old Steven Hayes of Winsted were caught while trying to escape in the Petit's car. The only question that remains, why did this happen to the Petit family?", "There's not one word that I can use to describe our town. But it's a phenomenal town.", "It's known as the betting capital of Connecticut, for betting plants. It was historically a farming community, a lot of family farms. And as the state of Connecticut grew, as the cities surrounding the town of Cheshire grew, it ultimately became a bedroom community, which is probably the way most people think of Cheshire.", "Returning to tonight's top story, a mother and two daughters dead, their father severely injured, after a home invasion stunned the town of Cheshire.", "The suspects apparently set the house on fire, as well as some of the victims.", "Jennifer Petit, her cause of death, asphyxiation from strangulation. Her daughters, Hayley and Michaela, died from smoke inhalation.", "The Cheshire Murders", "I had a phone call here Monday afternoon from Billy's sister. And I said, Hannah, it's about the girls, isn't it? And she said, these two men came in, what they think was 3:00 in the morning, and they beat Billy really badly with a baseball bat. And his head's all split apart. And then they proceed to do all these awful things to the girls. And they tied them to their beds. About 9:00, Jen was made to go to the bank and withdraw money. And then when she came back from the bank, they set the house on fire and killed them all so that they could try to cover up their tracks, I guess. But they got the two guys. And all I could think was, who cares if they got the two guys? We don't have our loved ones anymore. And that's all we had. The hardest thing I think I've ever had to do in my life was to tell my parents that one of their other children, their only other child, was dead, and their two grandchildren, two of their four.", "She quickly told us that the home was set on fire, but Bill escaped. And we went to the hospital and got to see Bill for the first time. He was badly beaten, and he tried to apologize to us for not saving our daughter, and our grandchildren. And we had to convince him that he was in no condition to be able to save anyone. And we were grateful --", "That he was alive.", "That he was alive.", "Right.", "This is the last picture we had together. My sister, she was beautiful. And she was usually like the lead in the plays at school. She was on the homecoming court. She was captain of the Trojannette team. So she really was kind of like a winner person.", "Bill was a committed, dedicated doctor, would leave at 7:00 in the morning and not be back home until maybe 9:00, 9:30.", "When Jen was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Hayley wanted to raise money, because she felt if she didn't do anything, it was possible her mother could die.", "Hayley was able to raise a little over $50,000, being a spokesperson for the ms society here in Connecticut, receiving awards for that, although you would never know it.", "Michaela sometimes shied away from adults, but if she saw someone was having a difficult time, she went to them and tried to help with whatever she could.", "Their lives were just centered around a sense of socialability, justice, and if I didn't smile about it, I'd have to cry.", "Well, first of all, thank you for all coming out today to honor the memory of the girls. I would really like to say thank you to people from all over the state of Connecticut and all over the country. We have been surrounded with love and cards and flowers and prayer, from East to West, from North to South. I met Jen at children's hospital in Pittsburgh for med. She was a new nurse, and I was the know-it-all third year medical student. I was trying to correct Jen on how to take the blood pressure the correct way, since I had about three minutes of experience at that point. But it became clear pretty quickly that she knew more about pediatrics and how to care for kids than I had ever known.", "Joining me on the phone right now is Lt. Jay Markella, the public information officer for the Cheshire Police Department. Thank you for joining us.", "Thank you for having me.", "Very little detail coming out though about exactly what happened. Was it when police showed up that they found the house on fire and caught these suspects? Because they were caught leaving the burning house.", "Yes. It worked out so officers arrived on-scene just as the suspects were leaving the residence.", "OK, I don't know how far we should go back, but -- I'm a very detective-like person. I like to know details. And until I know the details around things, it's hard to figure things out. I would like to know why my sister and Steven Hayes weren't stopped at the bank. Why she wasn't held at the bank. There were some police officers that, off the record, said to people in the town that they heard the girls screaming in the end. Did they try to enter? Did they not try to enter? And why weren't there policemen looking in the windows? My sister had no blinds on her windows. I just want the facts. And nobody has told us what really happened.", "And today, a state prosecutor said he'll seek the death penalty for Komisarjevsky and Hayes. Today, the state charged the men with six counts each of capital felony murder.", "Right from the first time that we met, Steven Hayes was suicidal, depressed. Just doesn't really understand how this all happened. His record is lengthy. He's got all these burglaries. Most involve car burglaries. In this state, burglary includes the break-in of a car. And they were all daytime. He'd sit and watch, people would park their cars, they would go walking on a trail, break into their car and take a laptop or a radio or a phone. So, you were not dealing with someone who had the kind of classic history of violence and all of a sudden stepped into the big time in terms of the next level. You just didn't have it. There was no reason that anyone would ever look at that history and think, well, this guy is going to do something really bad one day.", "The first time that I found out about my dad, I was probably about 5 years old. He would, like, take me to the movies, and he really tried to be that father figure to me. But for whatever reason, he just couldn't stay out of trouble. And so when he went back to jail, like, he would write to me and I would write back. And that was our way of communicating. When I first found out about the incident, I just came back from the police academy. And my mind was just like -- I told him to call me if something was wrong. I needed to talk to him. I needed to get answers from him. What made him get together with this one guy and do what they did, whose idea was it, was it just one or was it both or did it just happen? It's just like there's no easy answer. And I might not like the answer I get. But it's all just why.", "The details of 26-year-old Joshua Komisarjevsky's past are more in depth and some say even more disturbing. His rap sheet --", "We were right in the kitchen here. And we got a call from my brother, Ben. And he said, I think josh has been involved in this home invasion. And I said to him, I said, home invasion? This was a murder. And Josh was involved? You see the name spelled out, the Komisarjevsky name. And you sit there, and you hold your head in your hands. And you can't believe it. And you want to cry. This young man is a monster. And that is not the way that we as members of this family behave. When we drove up to Cheshire, my brother's house was just swarmed with media, knocking on the door, trying to get statements from them. I think it's hard for anybody to be able to deal with that kind of a situation, but probably more so for them, because they were individuals who basically had withdrawn from many aspects of public life. They ultimately posted a notice on the outside of their door. But that was it. And from that time on, they have had nothing to say.", "It was so disappointing, because I knew I was the last person therapeutically that met with Josh, and to really paint a picture of him in a different light. I saw someone who created some beautiful designs, these sketches. I mean, this kid was amazing. How am I going to go in there and tell them that this was a good kid and that I was really close to him after what he did?", "Joshua was a little skinny, frail kid. I saw him behind the bars. He had on his cream-colored jail uniform. He was slight. He was polite. He's adopted. He went from regular school special ed to home school. This whole package didn't make sense to me. Burglary, burglary, burglary, burglary and burglary. Genius, and he is a genius, in some respects with a photographic memory and attention to detail that no normal mind could possibly retain. He told of every burglary he did. He knew every item he took, passports, what dumpsters he threw it in. Joshua could get into a third floor, steal things, know which denominations of bills he took a year later, two years later. Tell you where each wallet was, what kind of pants they were taken from, where the pants were, on the floor, bed post, closet. Stay there for hours, not get caught. Joshua used relatively sophisticated equipment for a burglar. Night vision goggles, latex gloves. After he'd rob the house, he would stay there on occasion, and listen to the people breathing. And go from room to room, listening to the occupants breathing, for no apparent purpose. That was the frightening part of it. He robbed state troopers' houses, which takes some guts. And I said, judge, he needs to be watched. This kid is sick. You're never going to see him again or he's going to be the worst criminal to pass through these doors, because that's the kind of mind he's got.", "Komisarjevsky was arrested for 18 home invasions. And the warning bells in there should have been ringing very loudly. Under a ten-year-old law, prosecutors are supposed to order a transcript evident of the sentencing proceeding and send that along to the parole board. I mean, I used to be a prosecutor. And I helped write this law I'm talking about. Because I knew that it's at the sentencing that you really find out everything you need to know about this offender and the crime. The problem is, none of this ever got to the Department of Corrections. None of this ever got to the parole board. So, from the point of view of the Department of Corrections, they got first time ever incarcerated inmate, young, white, bright, home schooled, remorseful, never identified as a person with high mental health needs because he didn't come across as that type of person. He was a real -- a manipulator. The typical sentence for the burglary is a maximum of 10 years in prison for each offense. Komisarjevsky could have been locked up for two lifetimes. It was possible. It didn't happen.", "Lieutenant, good morning, sir.", "Good morning, Dan. First of all, the Cheshire Police Department and the response to the initial call was absolutely outstanding. They did a stellar job. The chief and all those personnel and Cheshire PD deserve a lot of praise and credit.", "People are asking about a time line. You know, when did this occur, when did that occur. We don't detail that information. That's not something that really the public really needs to be concerned about at this point in time, and it has more of an impact on the case itself. You know, the type of injury, the scene that one may try to envision in their mind, we're not going to detail that. We're not going to discuss, you know, how someone died over and above, manner and cause, which we'll give manner and cause of death. But we're not going to get into great, graphic, detailed description. You know, we're not going to talk about assaults. We're not going to talk about weapons.", "It's starting to pan out, the state's claim is pretty strong, overwhelmingly strong. And that what's at stake at this case is life or death. You have the gasoline aspect of it, you know, the sexual assault, horrible crime scene photos. You have the right defendant. You have the right perpetrator. What do we do? Isn't this the case that death is warranted? And I can't accept that. Once you allow the death penalty to go forward, then the next case comes along, and it's okay for the next case, because that crime was horrifying. And what if that's a mistake, what's if that's an innocent guy? And this notion of that -- though if you execute somebody, you know, you'll save money. You know, that's the furthest thing from the truth. You know, we have pretty much a blank check. So I'm reminding everybody -- listen, Steven Hayes is ready to plead guilty to all of these charges and take a sentence of life without the possibility of release. It will be over now. You know, there would be -- the case would be done, there wouldn't be any appeals. We would stop spending all this money. We would not have to traumatize everybody with the facts of this case.", "As a united Methodist minister, I am a minister of a church at large that is opposed to capital punishment. That has put me between a rock and a hard place.", "We certainly don't approve of torture of people. But we feel that there has to be some justice in how people are dealt with when they are so inhumane in their treatment of others.", "You know, it just makes me want to cry. Jennifer, Hayley and Michaela, they were kind and they were sweet. They looked out for other people. They cared about other people and spent their time helping people. So, for them to suffer, you know, horrific, horrific deaths seems incredibly unjust. It would seem incredibly unjust for anybody. But obviously, they're the three people I knew and loved the best in the world. And it just -- contra -- contra -- the opposition of the just absolute evil that attacked us versus the goodness they represented. It's just worlds apart.", "A benign visit to the grocery store to get milk, bread, toilet paper. Oh, and \"People\" magazine. Because a family my brother killed is on the front cover. And my brother's picture is in it. He raped a woman. He choked her to death. He poured gasoline on two little girls. And he set them on fire. How does a person do that? They paroled him in November. He peed funny, so they threw him back and they paroled him five months later. Personally, they're stupid, because they don't get it. You don't care enough about the people in your society to put these type of people back out on the street. And I want to say that it's really tough for me to say, because one of those people is my brother.", "Who is Steve? He's manipulating, he's deceptive. And that's my brother. Monday, when I saw it on the news, all I heard was that there was the home invasion and what not. And it seemed like something Steve would do.", "But he never --", "Smashing of the police cars and the breaking and entering and stuff like that.", "But the killing, the raping and the burning?", "That could have been josh. I don't know who was the mastermind. Well, obviously, neither one of them, because they got caught. And they did something --", "Well, being a mastermind doesn't mean you don't get caught. Honestly, you know, it is. It's -- it is the equivalent of the perfect storm.", "Dear Caroline, good evening, sweetheart. When I wake every morning, the sun is just starting to rise. Its light dances across your picture, radiating your beautiful eyes and pretty smile. It's the best part of the day -- a calming mix of hope, beauty and tranquility. Take care, Caroline, smile. Someone is thinking of you. Strength and honor. Sincerely, Joshua. P.S., miss you. We called Joshua the hopeless romantic. That was the biggest side I loved about him. Joshua and I did have a very sexually active relationship. And he did like to tie me up. And, of course, you know, I was the submissive one. And sometimes I was the dominant one. But most of the time, I was submissive. Joshua always asked me, is this too tight? Are you OK? Joshua always was concerned. Joshua was definitely a soul mate, and that's what killed me the most.", "\"To this addict, drugs are not my main problem, I am my main problem, my self-destructive and behavior. What I like about getting high is to escape my feelings. I have self medicated so much, I don't know how to feel anymore.\" This is his own words. He's writing this. \"Unresolved anger controls me. It haunts me, day and night, sometimes to the point of obsession, even scary fantasy.\"", "A day or two before the crime occurs, Steven saw that his life was once again going downhill. And he says that he locks himself in a hotel room with crack cocaine and heroin and goes on this drug binge with a desire and hope he would kill himself. He leaves the hotel room feeling like he's failed at this suicide attempt, leaving him, in his view, more desperate. He shows up at an AA meeting in Hartford, and there's Joshua. And Joshua started talking to him about ways to make some real money.", "Good morning, everyone.", "Good morning.", "This is a continued hearing in a matter of complaint brought by Colin Poitras on \"The Hartford Courant\" against chief fire department, town of Cheshire.", "We applied through the town of Cheshire for more material right after the crime took place. We finally got new information yesterday, a complete transcript with the time of the initial call from the bank official regarding Mrs. Petit being at the bank, saying she might be held hostage, to the time the suspects were arrested outside the Petit household. And our review of this document, which is heavily edited, to protect potential witnesses of the town, has told us, raises the possibility that officers on alert could have maybe stopped this car with the suspect and Mrs. Petit as they were coming home from the bank. Perhaps could have beat them back to the house, could have separated the two suspects at that time. And maybe things would have had a different outcome. And what's still out there, no one knows what the initial 911 call said, what the bank official said to police when she called. What were they told? Was it clear? Did they know they had a hostage crisis?", "There's always more information that is yearned for, either in a journalistic sense, a due diligence reporting sense, and sadly, in a salacious sense. So, it is hard to say no, I don't have anything to tell you right now, over and over again.", "Upon arrival at the victim's residence, the first officer observed the private residence fully engulfed in flame.", "Yes, it worked out so officers arrived on-scene, just as the suspects were leaving the residence.", "I get really tired of the stories that say, oh, by the time the police showed up, the house was already in flames, and that's not true at all. When Billy came out of the house, he was pretty sure he saw men in the woods hiding behind trees, and we think those were all the police officers. And he was calling out to a neighbor, while hopping across the yard, tied and badly beaten. That should have raised the police eyebrows to say, what are they doing in there? We need to get in there and find out.", "That's why I wrote letters to the police. I felt like, and I expressed in my letter, that their goal was to catch the men, whoever were guilty, and above and beyond the saving of lives. And I felt that their priorities were very much askew.", "We have asked a lot of questions, written a lot of letters, but they have not sat with me and they have not sat with my parents to tell us what happened and what unfolded and why and how. I believe that truly they think they did something wrong. I have heard all kinds of things, that it was a small town, and they hadn't had the experience in the past. I think they were afraid.", "I just can't say enough good things about how proud I am of the extraordinary effort of our police officers and our firefighters. They're extremely well-trained, they're a great group of professionals, and I think today exemplified the finest of what the police and fire were all about in this community. And I can't thank them enough, because without their great work, this could have been a far worse tragedy. We were very, very fortunate.", "I was just literally shocked when I heard him say that, and that there were no further casualties or something. And I thought, you know, how bad does it have to be? I mean, I thought it was awful. And he was commending them on what a great job they had done. And I was sorry. But I didn't feel they did a great job. I mean, if they had done a great job, nobody would have died.", "As you look through this dispatch, you can't help but walk away thinking there was another tragedy within the tragedy that occurred to the Petit family here. Nine-twenty-one-twenty-eight, initial call comes into the police department, 911. And this is the call that was actually from the bank manager.", "I will watch and see what kind of car she gets in. I'm in the office with the lights off. My teller says she saw the driver. He had a black hood over -- a hoodie and a baseball cap on. 911", "I'm going to keep you on hold for a couple minutes, all right?", "OK.", "Some police officers were actually at the scene within second or minutes of when Steven Hayes and Jennifer Petit get back to the house. They had the phone number of the house early on. Nobody made a call. Nobody knocked on the door. Nine-fifty-six, two suspects are moving into Chrysler. Nine-fifty- seven, there is a fire also at the scene. Initial call comes in at 9:21. This is over a half an hour later. They were actually at the scene for 30 minutes. The strangulation of Jennifer Petit occurred. The rape of Jennifer Petit occurred. The pouring of gasoline occurred throughout the house and the actual setting on fire of the house. All of this is taking place while the police are watching the house, setting up their perimeter. It's really outrageous.", "State lawmakers are considering a bill to change the death penalty law in the hearing that Dr. William Petit gave his opinion in the same day of a hearing for one of the men --", "Death penalty opponents speak of the invaluable sanctity of life. They love slogans such as don't kill in our name and the like. Thus, I assume the death penalty opponents value the lives of murderers more than their victims, specifically to me as a victim.", "You know, if you are for the death penalty, this is the poster child, no question about it. If you are against the death penalty, like I am, this guy is the poster child for the death penalty. I mean, him and Saddam Hussein, right, you kind of hard to argue the case. But it's not a philosophical debate anymore. This is reality. And the ordeal you have to go through once it is a death penalty case is considerable. It is a guaranteed multiple years' ordeal just in terms of the trial. After the conviction, scores of years of appeals and frustration, an all of this time the focus is on the murderers and they become mini celebrities. You have to go into gruesome detail about what happened, because the prosecutor must prove that the aggravating factors outweigh the mitigating factors and the aggravating factors, unusually cruel and heinous. In other words, you have to prove that compared to other triple murders, this one is much worse. Once this gets under way, people are not going the like what they see, and it's just starting to get under way now.", "It'll probably be two years before they even start selecting of the jury. Getting pretty old, I hope that I live long enough that I can attend the trial. I want to see justice done.", "\"A thief in the night, I have come to steal not jewels and money, but your personal safety, privacy and security. I violate your inner asylum of intimacy, and I piss on your optical illusion of peace and innocence. I feast on your animosity. The Petit family passed through their fear and into the calm waters of abject terror, like mesmerized rabbits cornered by a spring predator. To see that fear, that emotional pain I feel every day manifested on another's face validates that this pain in me is real. Shock waves of myself's hopelessness reverberates its bitterness through my crocked (ph) soul at the realization that I crossed life's bridge of depravity. The awakening of my shadow repressed within reaching its zenith that morning with rapturous control of Michaela. Her age was insignificant.\"", "Roll the video.", "Sure.", "One, two, three, four, five. There are two suspects but Steven Hayes goes on trial first. He gets in court today but he looks very different from his mug shot. He's lost weight. He's in regular stripe shirt and pants. No handcuffs on him in front of the jury, and it is because the case has gotten so much publicity that picking an impartial jury could be difficult.", "Sunny, you were inside of the courtroom today, what sort of state that Komisarjevsky appeared to be in?", "He's much heavier now. He's sort of has a buzz cut.", "Komisarjevsky is dressed in his suit and engaged in the process, wondering how long this is all going to last, we're talking about several months. This morning, the judge told him --", "From the courthouse, I don't think that Cheshire is a 15-minute drive. Terry Nichols, Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bombing cases were number two and three. Komisarjevsky was number one. Talking to almost 2,000 prospective jurists, everybody had made conclusions based on the publicity and the conclusion was clear -- Joshua Komisarjevsky was guilty. Seventy-five percent also expressed the opinion that Joshua should die. I never had a jury selection where people would jump out of the seats, \"I'll kill him now.\"", "It is about 11:00 this morning, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time, and one of Steven's attorneys called. They wanted to check on him this morning, as he was unresponsive and Steven is lying in a coma induced by a medical team. They are not sharing why. You know, the attorney said that he could very well die. We are expected to be back in court tomorrow. They can't proceed without him in the room.", "Steven squirreled away nine or so doses of Thorazine and Klonopin, and you might question how this could happen. About a year before this, Steven Hayes had made a suicide attempt and one of the thing they found in his cell was a suicide note. I quote, \"I am sorry. All I want to do is die. It is the only way to end the pain I go through everyday 24/7 and more important the pain that trial will bring to others. Time to go to the last undiscovered country, although I am not the monster that Josh is, I am one nevertheless -- a coward, because I could not do what was right. Looking back on my life, I was nothing but a self-centered asshole who cared only of himself. But the ironic facet to this is that I have always had the ability to change, but cowards don't change. They become me.", "The judge actually toured his cell yesterday. It is called a safe cell which will protect him from harming himself. He learned a lot. He wears something called Ferguson clothing which is an inmate wears if they are in jeopardy of killing themselves, because they can't tear up the clothes and use it as a noose.", "It is surreal. The entire prosecution is geared to killing Steven Hayes. And so here he is trying to kill himself, and we won't let him do that, because we want to extract our pound of flesh. It is really a sick kind of process in my opinion.", "Tragedy at trial, front page. Tragedy at trial, front page.", "Right now, both sides are inside of this courtroom and all eyes are on what is going to happen in the opening arguments. Heavy, heavy security around Steven Hayes brought in by authorities on the convoy of vehicles.", "There is no cameras allowed in the courtroom so you won't see what is going on in there, but tweeting is allowed.", "A juror has been excused, because she said she could not be fair, because she heard news reports of Steven Hayes' suicide attempt.", "This jury will end up making two decisions. One is the guilt or innocence of the defendant, and if they find him guilty, then they would have to decide if he should get the death penalty for the crime.", "Going into the courtroom, Steven Hayes was off to my left. I look at him and I think, I still can't believe that you did this. I said as soon as I found out that my sister died, just come into me, and be a part of me. So I kept staring at him, and sometimes I think that is that a part of her saying stare at him and don't take your eyes off of him, like he cannot be trusted.", "I would like to say a few things to these guys. I would like them to answer me the question do they know what it is to be terrorized?", "After waiting more than three years the Petit and Hawke families are ready for this trial to begin. And our hopeful that justice will prevail and we think of Jennifer, Haley and Michaela of every second of eve every day.", "It is a system, you know. And you know people say that it's the best system in the world, but it's a maddening system at best. People spend at lot of time parsing words instead of really trying to get to what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil. But it is the system we have, and so we are hoping, hoping that the system we have will give us justice.", "Today's date is July 23rd, 2007, statement taking place at the Cheshire police department headquarters. Joshua Thomas Komisarjevsky, do you know why you are here?", "For home invasion that went terribly wrong.", "OK. You went to Stop&Shop; in Cheshire.", "I was waiting for a contractor to make payment. We all waiting I saw a mother and daughter, and for whatever reason I chose to follow the mom and the daughter to their house and saw that they went to a very nice house. I thought it would be nice to be there someday.", "On the night of July 22nd, Josh and Steven were texting each other. Steven texting Josh about when are we going to get going, and it was kind of like an excitement about going to burglarize this house. He drives down to Cheshire. He and Josh go to a bar. And then they start looking for this house that Josh knows about from when they were shopping at Stop&Shop; earlier. It has always been my opinion that he was attracted by the young girl Michaela rather than the money or the Mercedes.", "Josh was born into a family with a history of mental problems. That he was adopted by a family who had no ability to cope with me mental problems. And so, he was doomed by biology and then he was driven by fate. When Josh was 3-years-old, the family took into the home two foster children, a girl and a boy. And Josh underwent really horrible and extensive sexual abuse at the hand of Scott. I think that it started out playing a little sex games and having him pose naked and then proceeded to full-scale anal intercourse and to Josh being burn burned with cigarettes. Against the background of all of this, Josh is in a church in which it is taught that there is evil in the world, and probably the greatest abomination of all is homosexuality. And so, you have a 5-year-old, a 6-year-old, a 7-year-old listening to this, and thinking to himself that I am fundamentally evil. I have engaged in that kind of act activity and not really able to tell anybody about it.", "There's a theme that I saw in Steven's life of betrayal. Steven had been sexually abused as a child which led him to become more emotionally disconnected from people. The turning towards drugs and the desperate state of mind that he found himself in, all of this helped to explain how Steven could have done what he had done.", "Mr. Hayes and I made our way to the house and donned face masks and put on rubber gloves, and we noticed that the father was sleeping downstairs. I could see Mr. Hayes in the window motioning to strike him and get it over with. I hit him in the head with a baseball bat, and he let out this unearthly scream. I just kept hitting him until he finally backed up into the corner of the couch. Mr. Hayes and I proceed up the stairway. Mr. Hayes put his hand over the mom's mouth and shook her gently awake. I followed suit with the youngest daughter. I tied her feet and Mr. Hayes tied her hands. We put pillowcases over the occupants' heads so that they couldn't see us. Then I went into KK's room and sat down and we were talking about school and summer plans. I got her a glass of water. Did she tell you her nickname or whatever is KK or you made that up?", "No, that is the name that both her sister and her mother refer to her as.", "I met Josh when I was 13. Josh's parents started attending the church that we went to, the Evangelical Bible Church. And we dated. We were in a relationship for about two years. We started dating when I was 14 or 15, and then our relationship was ended by the church. Throughout the whole course of our relationship, we were always trying not to have sex. That was the goal. It felt deeply, deeply sinful. Our church community was our home school community and Josh's family and mine as well had a very specific idea of good and evil. The devil was understood to be an entity that you could know. So if Josh had anxiety, it was the devil. If he did something wrong, it was because he was being used as an agent of the devil. Josh spoke some to me about the sexual abuse that had happened to him, but there wasn't even a way for him to tell me without weeping. Josh had terrible anxiety attacks. His home was not ever safe for him. The safe place was being away and hiding in the woods. He was trespassing and sneaking around spying on people long before it was a criminal offense. I think that he envied people, and he would daydream about being them.", "They find beer in the refrigerator and drink throughout the night. Steven finds jars of quarters and coins. They found the bank of America book. And they are waiting for the morning. However, Steven worries that he is going to leave DNA evidence in the house, and he starts obsessing. Josh tells him fire destroys everything. We will get the people out and burn the house down and get them somewhere and then get the hell out of here. That is what Steven was thinking about.", "Steven goes into the garage. He finds containers and he starts driving to find a gas station.", "When Steven gets back with the gasoline, Josh had changed the clothes of Michaela because of the activity that he was involved with in terms of sexually abusing her and part of that occurred while Steven was out on the gas run because we know that, because of Josh's photographs that he took on the cell phone, before the bank. The first set of photographs showed Michaela they were leg shots and genital area shot, but they were clothed. The last shots at the bank were much more graphic, and really awful, awful, awful photographs and the kinds of things that you never forget. They become emblazoned in your mind. It shows the level of depravity of Joshua Komisarjevsky.", "Joshua was committed against the wishes of his parents, committed and spent two weeks at Elmcrest. He was clearly in terrible shape, suicidal.", "The records are very clear that Joshua wanted to try the medication, and Joshua wanted the therapy, but the parents rejected it. Not only did the parents reject it, but they immediately took him up to the Christian center.", "People would say that he was seeing demons and he believed that, and prayed that they would go away, and people would gather around and lay hands on him, and pray on him, and speak in tongues over him. Exorcism, that was part of our lives when it came to dealing with anxiety. He ended up breaking into my room at the discipleship house to come and see me. He was essentially excommunicated for doing that. His whole life, everything, it was just gone overnight. There was no addressing that perhaps this was a desperate kid who actually didn't, wasn't wrestling with the devil, but he had experienced trauma and was losing his grip.", "Morning rolls around. They untie Mrs. Petit, and Steven takes her to the bank. Mrs. Petit is at the bank, and it is taking longer than he thought.", "I went down to check on the daughter and I went into KK's room and one thing led to another. I ended up performing oral sex on", "You performed oral sex on KK?", "On KK? Her hands were tied but her feet weren't.", "Did you take pictures of her?", "I did. Yes. I had let her get dressed again, but before she asked to take a shower.", "You said you let her get dressed again. How does she can found undress because originally said she was dressed?", "I used a pair of scissors and cut her shirt off and her skirt off.", "No one disputes that he committed the crime, and eventually he tells the police officer that while Hayes is gone, he goes upstairs to sexually assault KK. At that point, the judge stops the tape. He says a juror is having problems with this testimony, with this evidence, and that he is going to stop it for the day and they will continue again tomorrow, a very difficult day in court here, La Toya.", "Komisarjevsky was calling my young niece KK like, you know, who are you to be using that term and calling. It is like term of endearment to we used. OK, you show me again that baseball bat that you hit Billy with, and I will show you how it feels. You want them to lose a daughter, you want their house to burn down, you want them to see how it feels, and other times, you think, who am I? Like this is wicked. How could I wish this on anybody?", "Steven is becoming anxious. He calls Joshua. Joshua e tells him that everything is going to be fine. The plan is going to work. After a period of time, Mrs. Petit comes out of the bank with money. When they arrive back at the house, Steven is under the belief that the crime is over. Now they can leave. But Joshua tells Steven that they have a problem. He had left DNA with one of the children, and he had to kill them and they are dead and Dr. Petit had died from the injuries and that now he had to get his hands dirty and killed Mrs. Petit.", "I believe Steven, but from the first time that Josh talked to the police, he tried to save himself by blaming Steven for all of the horrific stuff that occurred.", "Steven had come back to the house, and he had the money in his hands. He says very matter of factly, OK, you are ready? We have to kill them and burn the house down. I am like, we are not killing anyone. There is no way. Well, then, you know, I'll kill the two daughters and you can kill the mom. I was like, I'm not killing anyone. No one is dying by my hand today. And finally, he was like, I will take care of all three of them.", "Steven tells me that he felt betrayed by Josh. He felt dragged into this horror of a crime. And he also felt in a crazy way betrayed by Mrs. Petit, because he looks out the window, and he sees police cars. And he realizes that Mrs. Petit must have informed bank officials. He is triggered into this state of rage. He strangles Jennifer Hawke-Petit. Pulls down her pants, he pulls her legs up, and he vaguely rapes her after he strangles her.", "I hear a noise down in the basement.", "-- which is where the dad is.", "-- which is where the dad was. I jump up screaming to Steven that the father just took off. I could see behind Steve that the mother was lifeless on the floor and her pants were down around her ankles.", "Steven hears Josh telling him that they have to leave and spread the gasoline and let's get out of here.", "Then he went downstairs to get the bottles, I was like, you can't be seriously contemplating burn burning these two girls alive. I went to KK's room. There was no gasoline in there. She was still in her bed and I closed the door. Then I went down to the oldest daughter's room. I closed that door and I went downstairs.", "Why did you close the doors?", "I didn't even think about untying them.", "Empty bottles of?", "-- of gasoline.", "Of gasoline. So he went back up with another bottle of gas?", "With another bottle of gas. He is stumbling with this oversized pack of matches and I can still see the person in the grass watching him. And the entire kitchen just erupts in a sea of flame. I had already had my back turned and I'm running for the door. I fucked up. I got myself into this position but, they did what they were supposed to do. There is no reason for them to die.", "All of these family members who have had to relive the horror of what happened inside of that home the night. They were all tied up. It has been heartbreaking to watch inside of the courtroom. The images have been devastating of the crime scene.", "When it is all put out in front of you, it is very gruesome. It's insane to just hear. It has affected the whole town. It is like the whole town is just reliving it all again, and it is not easy for all of us.", "These are pictures of like the accelerant pattern that they showed how they went from like where Haley's body was upstairs into her bedroom and on to her bed and then down the hall and into Michaela's bedroom and on to bed. And when I finally put the fire detective on the stand, I saw Michaela was tied, and she had gasoline dumped on her while she was alive and alert. And that at least Haley I know was probably burning while she was breathing. And that was just a really hard thing to learn, because I never really knew if the girls were alive when they were burning or not. And it kind of was made true to us that that was the case with Haley that she had walked while she was on fire, because she fell down in the front of her which was more burned than the back of her. I was crying and I just felt like I wanted to get out of that courtroom and scream and just say, you know, I can't believe what is going on in there, you know. I just -- it is making me so angry, and I can't understand why somebody couldn't have ventilated that house for the girls while they were still alive. And I want it to be so different.", "Finally, seeing the defense giving tough questioning to the Cheshire police officers who initially responded to the call of that home invasion, the officers said they followed protocol. Dr. William Petit has always supported the actions of the Cheshire police department. One captain testifying that the incident did not make sense at first, and he said it still does not make sense today.", "Steven admitted to killing the mom. He admitted to raping the mom. He admitted to spreading gasoline, and so it is not like he was trying to get himself out from under it in any way. And I think that it haunts him, really haunts him as to why he didn't walk away. Steven is in an isolation cell 24 hours a day. He has nightmares. He has nightmares about his own kid burning. This is the way his incarceration will last forever. So, you know, I don't know why we have to kill someone who is in a position like that. It is like being buried alive.", "We, the defense team always believed that Joshua never had the intention to kill anybody. After he bashed Dr. Petit's head several times, later on he got a towel and wiped the blood away from Dr. Petit's head. He then got two pillows and put them behind his back and he got two cushions. And his explanation which is in his confession was that he did so, because he thought that Dr. Petit was not comfortable enough, and he was concerned about his comfort. What occurred with Michaela is absolutely unexplainable. Such a horrendous crime committed on such a young girl. People go the jail for a long time for crimes like that, but you don't get the death penalty. When Joshua was apprehended, when he was pulled from the car, he was straight with the police. When Steven Hayes was pulled from the car, he gave a phony car and when asked if anybody else was in the house, he said I don't know. When Joshua was pulled from the car, he gave his name and he said there is a woman inside. I believe she is dead. And upstairs, there are two girls and he expressed to the police that there was some urgency to the situation which was pretty obvious because at this time the house is burning. To me, these are things that are inconsistent with intending to kill somebody.", "I actually got to see Steve twice the past two Sundays. When I first saw him, I wanted to cry, because I have not seen him so long. But I just didn't want to cry in those circumstances, because you had all of the guards standing right on top of you. And you can't talk about the trial, because like you know that the phones are pretty tapped. And I know that family wants him to be dead, and it all to be over with, but like my side of the family, we just want him to like take responsibility for what he did without the consequence of the death penalty. That won't bring anyone back. What happened happen and his death is not going to bring about much justice.", "Steven Hayes walked into room 6A. For the first time he saw a familiar face. He was with his brother, Matthew, the first time that we believe a Hayes family member has been in court.", "Prosecutor Michael Darren said that these two beautiful girls and loving mother were killed because Steven Hayes wanted money. The defense attorney Thomas Ullmann argued that the death penalty is the harshest punishment Steven Hayes can be given.", "It is finally in the hands of the jury.", "State attorney Gary Nicholson did not mince words as he spoke to the jury in the closing argument s this morning saying that Joshua Komisarjevsky has pulled no shrinking violet. He played a starring role in the crime. Nicholson hammered the point that Komisarjevsky was the first in the house, the first to use violence and had plenty of opportunity to leave the home. He gave Hayes directions back to the house when he went to buy gasoline.", "It is not fair, is it?", "No.", "You know, all I think of is the impact of our girls could have made upon the world. And of course, none of that will ever come forth from Joshua Komisarjevsky.", "What's the jury weighing? Aggravating factors against mitigating factors. No verdict today, but we do expect a verdict by the end of the week.", "We are good. You guys come in.", "Lord, we gather around this table as family and friends. We stand at a place in the trial where we wonder what will take place. But we pray, God, that we will be able to be strong enough to accept whatever the outcome may be. That it would be your will that would be done. For we ask it in the name of Christ, amen.", "Amen.", "This is all about death and life without parole.", "Really, it does seem like the most, kind humane thing that you could do for a person is to allow them to just die. I thought of how, how much that challenges the jurors.", "A lot of pressure has been placed upon their shoulders. I'm glad I'm not in that room.", "Yes.", "Never get those pictures out of their heads for the rest of their lives.", "You know, it has been very traumatic for everyone.", "This is a case that has just rattled people. A lot of people say that if there is a case that warrants the death penalty, this is it. Wait a minute I want to read you something that we are getting -- we are getting word on and you might be able to explain it to us. The jurors are standing and the clerk is reading the verdict form. Count four, no statutory mitigators, both aggravators are proven, OK, the defendant is sentenced to death, Sunny.", "The jury returns.", "Death penalty verdict.", "Death for the monster who slaughtered the Connecticut doctor's family.", "Tonight, a Connecticut jury has done something very rare.", "They have recommended death for Steven Hayes. He is convicted of raping and murdering a mom, Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters Haley and Michaela.", "The verdict was devastating. Steven wanted the death verdict, and knew we did everything in our power to prevent that in spite of his own efforts to kill himself.", "This case gets attention in Australia. It got attention in Europe. You know, this is any town, America, and any family America, and when you saw just how it was shattered in a few hours, I think that it is kind of --", "Count five to death. I hope the second count, count five in murder of Michaela Petit is death. Did he intentionally cause the death of a person under the age of 16 years old? All right, count ten is death. That is that he intentionally caused the death of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, the mother. OK. Count 11 is death.", "A couple of marshals came up behind Joshua in cuffs and really no reaction at all.", "Given the public outrage to the horrendous crimes, we could not get a fair jury here, and that is why we filed a motion to change the venue and it should have been granted, and that is one of the main appellant issues. I believe that the death penalty is barbaric and in line for countries like China, Yemen, Iraq and Iran. I don't know what purpose it serves other than simply revenge.", "Walter Bansley III, thank you very much.", "Denise, of course, yes, we are going to have continuing coverage here of the death penalty that has been given to Joshua Komisarjevsky.", "We are satisfied that the defendant has been judge to be the murderer, the rapist and criminal that he is. And now, he is been condemned to the ultimate penalty. We have been criticized over the years that this is vengeance and blood lust, but this is about justice. We want to go forward with the Petit family foundation and try to create good out of evil and hope the defense did what they thought they should do. I thought a lot of it was particularly distasteful. I saw picture after picture after picture and every time the pictures went up I thought Charles Manson was a baby once. I'm not sure if this is particularly relevant.", "I would like to thank our justice system as well as the jury members, listening to things they would have much rather not heard and seen. I believe without our defense attorneys we could not have the outcome that we have. So, we have to even be appreciative that there are defense attorneys that will take cases like this and I believe God's will has been done.", "I don't want to answer any questions. I feel so sad. I don't know if any of the other defense attorneys --", "There will be automatic appeals. There will be appeals upon appeals; this will go on for years and years and years.", "We offered to plead guilty to every charge in the information against us so long as his death was not the result. So Joshua would have been sentenced to life without the possibility of release, would have happened three weeks after the crime had taken place. Josh would have disappeared into the great abyss of the penal system and would never have been heard from again. But that was not serious enough punishment for the state. And then, of course the state was being goateed on by Dr. Petit. And so we had to go through three years of haze and Joshua. And just forcing the people of Connecticut to relive that crime day after day after day, it coursed the social fabric of Connecticut. It would have been so much better just to throw those guys in jail and throw away the key.", "The most difficult thing that I had to do in my life was to bury my own child and two grandchildren. I don't think there will ever be closure for our family. Jennifer was too much of a giving, loving person. And I don't think that we will ever, ever, if we live another 100 years will ever want to forget her. So, if closure brings forgetting, I don't want that closure.", "The following is a CNN Special Report.", "What began with fire became murder and manhunt.", "The level of intensity is incredible.", "A best friend turned worst enemy.", "This gentleman that was a friend of ours for a long time has taken everything.", "Hundreds in desperate pursuit of one teen in grave danger.", "The amber alert, this picture of this blonde-hair girl. I said that is the girl we seen up on the mountain."], "speaker": ["OPERATOR", "CALLER", "P-E-T-I-T. 911 OPERATOR", "CALLER", "OPERATOR", "CALLER", "OPERATOR", "CALLER", "OPERATOR", "CALLER", "REPORTER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "REPORTER", "REPORTER", "REPORTER", "SUBTITLE", "CYNTHIA HAWKE RENN, JENNIFER PETIT'S SISTER", "REV. RICHARD HAWKE, JENNIFER PETIT'S FATHER", "MARYBELLE HAWKE, JENNIFER PETIT'S MOTHER", "R. HAWKE", "M. HAWKE", "HAWKE RENN", "R. HAWKE", "HAWKE RENN", "REV. STEPHEN VOLPE, PETIT FAMILY PASTOR", "M. HAWKE", "R. 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{"id": "CNN-167519", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2011-6-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1106/13/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Syria Isn't the New Libya; Fleeing the Syrian Crackdown", "utt": ["Jack Cafferty is here. He has The Cafferty File -- Jack.", "Wolf, President Obama was in Durham, North Carolina today meeting with his Jobs and Competitiveness Council, hoping to get some ideas from corporate leaders on how to boost the economy and create some jobs. now, there's an idea. He's going to need all the help he can get -- 9.1 percent unemployment right now. Things aren't looking so hot, particularly with the job situation so bleak for college-aged and college-educated young Americans. That's a demographic that widely supported President Obama in the 2008 election. According to one study, the median starting salary for students graduating from four year colleges in 2009-2010, $27,000 a year. That is 10 percent lower than what those who entered the workforce between 2006 and 2008 earned. A separate study found only about 45 percent of college graduates under the age of 25 are currently working a job that requires a college degree -- fewer than half. That number varies from major to major. Those who majored in education, teaching, engineering are much more likely to find a job with a college degree. And while engineering jobs are highly paid, education and teaching jobs have much lower earning potential. Here's a sobering thought, half of the 54,000 jobs created in May in the latest jobs report -- McDonald's. All of this reigniting the debate over whether a college degree is really worth it in this economy. Over the past 20 years, tuition and fees of public universities have jumped 130 percent. All the time, reel income for the middle class has actually declined. The latest figures showing median income for U.S. is $400 lower, middle income than it was in 1988. We hear a lot about dealing with a new normal in the wake of a great recession. Choosing against a four-year college degree may be part of that new normal for some Americans. Here's the question -- has the value of a college degree changed in recent years? Go to cnn.com/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog. Wolf --", "Fair question, Jack. Thank you. Other news we're following, the call for the United States and other nations to intervene in Syria, they're growing louder right now. The Syrian military's ruthless crackdown has crushed dissent in towns and villages near the Turkish border. Washington insists military action isn't on the table, at least not now.", "Is the U.S. pushing its allies to take some type of physical military action to stop what you're talking about and drum deed of abuses over the weeks?", "What we've been clear about is that our effort remains diplomatic and economic. We have brought pressure to bear on Assad through these sanctions both the E.U. and here in the United States. And the other aspect of this is that we are working through the U.N. Human Rights Commission so that he and his government will be held accountable for their actions. But, you know, speculating about military action, we're just not there yet.", "Syria's military is showing no reluctance in its campaign against civilians. Amnesty International says Syrian soldiers are following what they describe as a scorched earth policy, emptying villages, driving civilians toward the borders. Almost 7,000 refugees are now in camps. Many, many more are expected. CNN's Arwa Damon is joining us now from the Turkish side of the Syrian border with more. What are you seeing? What are you watching over there, Arwa?", "Well, Wolf, for the last few days, we've actually been watching the Turkish authorities putting up even more refugee camps. The flow coming across from Syria shows absolutely no sign of relenting. And speaking to a lot of these refugees about their experiences, they quite simply say that they cannot put the horrors that they saw into words. But here's an example of what just one man witnessed.", "A ride on his bike turned out to be this man's final journey. He was shot in the stomach in the coastal city of Latachia (ph) on his way to buy groceries for family. The circumstances of his death unknown and CNN cannot verify the authenticity of the video. But it is one of several clips that we were shown by a man who gave us only his first name, Mohammed. I witnessed this, he recalls. It was after the president's first speech to parliament, about 2-1/2 months ago. A month later, Mohammed took his family and fled from his hometown, starting a long and risky journey that ended here, at this refugee camp just over the border in Turkey. Now Mohammed sneaks between Turkey and Syria. I wanted to help the families that are crossing, he says, and the wounded and just to help the people on the border, to make a small difference. The Syrian side of the boarder is a small makeshift camp, close to an unofficial crossing. Mohammed films people as they take their final step to safety. Capturing moments like this, a woman whaling, my children, my children. All the people are my children. Imploring God to save them. He shows us the dismal life inside the camp, people living in crude tents, washing in the small river. Most of these people choose not to cross into Turkey because they were separated from family members in the chaos as they fled. They feel forced to stay there, Mohammed explained so they can keep getting news about Syria. They're afraid that if they cross into Turkey, they'll be cut off, not knowing if their loved ones were killed or detained. There are wounded here, too, after clashes in a nearby town. This man came last Saturday, Mohammed tells us. He was wounded in the demonstrations. The bullet hit his leg. He survived, but many others did not, as the military assault on the area intensified. The hardest times for me were at the border, Mohammed admits, when the wounded arrive and they are bleeding out and we see them die before the ambulance arrives. They die in our arms. On both sides of the border, Syria's tragedy continues to play out.", "Wolf, there are growing concerns amongst a number of refugees we've been talking to that the bloodshed is only going to carry on. And a number of residents have been telling us that they have been receiving reports that the Syrian military is inching even closer to the Turkish border.", "Arwa Damon reporting for us. Arwa, thanks very much. We'll certainly check back with you. Meanwhile, President Obama takes his push for jobs to a state with troubling high unemployment. But does he have what it takes to turn the economy around? Stand by. Thousands of pages of once top secret reports on the Vietnam War released today for the first time inside the Pentagon papers. That's coming up."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "JACK CAFFERTY, THE CAFFERTY FILE", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MARK TONER, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN", "BLITZER", "ARWA DAMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DAMON (voice-over)", "DAMON", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-189702", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-7-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/19/cnr.03.html", "summary": "GSA Burning Up Taxpayer Money", "utt": ["The GSA is supposed to be overseeing federal agencies and the spending of our tax dollars, so we were all pretty outraged when we found out that some of its employees ventured out on that now- infamous $800,000 Las Vegas conference. Now, it turns out that wasn't the only boondoggle. Our Drew Griffin investigates.", "It happened had here at the Culinary Center of Kansas City on a quaint street in Overland Park, Kansas, where GSA employees did not just get a free lunch. They got to spend most of the day making it.", "Cooking is not a mystery. Everybody can learn it.", "It's all about what the Culinary Center's own video calls \"team-building.\" Teams make entrees, make desserts. What did the GSA employees get out of this? This is one of those employees who says he's afraid to show his face because his boss will be mad.", "It was lunch. We had 25 minutes to get a recipe together, cook for three. I think there were roughly 25 or 30 people there. And then we were critiqued along the way by the chefs at the institute on what we could do better.", "And those GSA employees got the whole day off real work to do it. So this was the day's activity, learning how to cook?", "Yes.", "And it didn't just happen once. Since 2007, GSA employees came to the Culinary Center of Kansas City nine times for these team-building exercises. They cooked lunch. It cost you more than $20,000. That's the total amount for all those cooking classes. Granted, in the world of trillion-dollar government budgets, that's not a lot of money, but our insider says it is part of the free-spending culture that's gone on for years at the Kansas City regional headquarters.", "There's a lot of what I would look at as juvenile behavior when it comes to caring about what the taxpayers' money is used for.", "Our investigation into spending at the Kansas City office found, not only did workers learn how to cook lunch, the GSA hired an etiquette instructor to teach workers how to eat it.", "How to hold your napkin, how to use your fork, knife.", "He's not making it. The etiquette instructor who billed the federal government nearly a thousand dollars confirms she taught GSA employees about the place settings and the different courses, how they are going to be served, how to eat soup and salad, what to do with your napkin, how to butter your roll. To top it all off, we also found the GSA's Kansas City office awarded its workers with a $3,000 awards lunch, possibly to show off that newly learned etiquette. When we began asking about this we were directed to Washington, D.C., to the headquarters of the GSA, where we were told we could get answers in writing, but no one would be able to answer our questions on camera. So we showed up at this public ceremony back at the GSA regional headquarters in Kansas City to meet this man.", "Good morning.", "Jason Klumb is the politically appointed regional administrator of GSA's Heartland Division which covers four states. He's been in charge since February of 2010. In charge of three cooking classes, etiquette speaker and $3,000 awards lunch. (on camera): This is outrageous to people when they hear things like government workers going to cooking classes and not just one but very many over several years. Why was that allowed to go on?", "It was the culture, the old culture at GSA. And we saw it in all the news that was generated out of their western region conferences, the old culture.", "Why weren't you able to put a stop it when you came into the office.", "We've seen new leadership at the agency and that will affect my ability to put a stop to those kinds of things. But, absolutely right, it's not acceptable.", "Do you, as the administrator, have the power to stop that kind of stuff.", "When we see new policies put in place there's more authority that will be given to regional administrators to stop things like that.", "Do you not have the power now?", "Don't have it now.", "Really?", "Haven't had it. Yes", "One other thing Jason Klumb didn't have the power to stop --", "Scrooge, this is the ghost of GSA present. Let's take a look at you action.", "-- last year's holiday video contest.", "I'm the ghost of GSA past.", "It's another team building exercise. The team that came up with the most creative video about -- get this -- efficiency in the GSA, would win an ice cream social. All of what you're seeing was written, produced, acted, taped and edited on federal government time. (on camera): Will these videos make people better employees, improve the systems, improve the efficiencies of the office?", "No. They were just for see how cute they could be would be my estimation.", "GSA employees used to be able to watch the videos online. But when the news broke about that spending scandal in Las Vegas, that's when the holiday videos disappeared. Klumb, who says he didn't know about the cooking classes, couldn't exactly use the same excuse when it came to the holiday videos.", "I was one of the judges. Again, that was part of a culture that was pretty common throughout GSA. And absolutely something that is changing. I think you see a new day at", "GSA headquarters tells CNN in a statement, \"These events indicate a pattern of misjudgment, which span several years and administrations.\" The agency spokesperson went on to show that \"Under the new GSA leadership, these events would not have been approved. And only light refreshments like water and pretzels will be allowed inside a federal facility at future team-building exercises.\"", "We see a need at GSA. We see a culture shift and a new day. I'm very optimistic about that.", "If you're leaving the house right now, just a reminder, continue watching CNN from your mobile phone. And watch CNN live from your desk top. 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{"id": "CNN-2370", "program": "Special Event", "date": "2000-2-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/09/se.02.html", "summary": "Attorney General Holds News Conference on Computer Security", "utt": ["We are awaiting the start of a briefing by the FBI on the attacks that have temporarily shut down popular Internet sites over the past three days. Today, ZDNet and E*Trade were victimized. Some of the other sites that have been affected by so-called \"denial of service attacks\" are household names. They include eBay, Amazon.com and CNN, Buy.com, which just went public, and Yahoo!, the hugely popular Internet search engine which was the first apparent victim on Monday. These kinds of attacks are not new, but this scale and the coordination of these attacks is unprecedented. Rather than hacking directly into a company's computer system, its Web site is flooded with unwanted messages, often called spam -- that's like cyber-junk. Like a traffic jam on a highway, prevents customers from accessing the site, disrupting normal commerce and potentially causing losses in revenue for the company. So far, all of the targeted companies managed to stop the attacks and get their Web sites up again within a few hours, but, clearly, the scope of these cyber-attacks has caught the attention of the entire Internet community. Joining us from Boston with a look at this, Internet security expert Frank Prince of Forrester Research. Mr. Prince, we're awaiting this news briefing at FBI headquarters, and we know what these attacks are about, but we don't know who it is and we're getting indication maybe we may never know who it is. What's the -- who do you think it is that's responsible for this -- in a general sense?", "I understand. At this juncture, because the attacks are going to a number of different companies, there doesn't necessarily seem to be a pattern by industry, and because it appears that they're automated attacks, there's a good chance that it's people trying out the new tool kits that are available for carrying out these sorts of attacks, and usually people do that for bragging rights. As to whether you can go ahead and find out who, ultimately, is behind it, if you do something for bragging rights, one of the things that you have to do is brag and brag to somebody else. And what's more, if you keep doing this over and over and over again, sooner or later you'll be able to track it down. So I would expect that if people don't just take their rights and walk away, that there's a good chance that, ultimately, we'll find out who did this. If, on the other hand, they take a short shot at what they're doing, talk to just a few friends, don't get too widespread about it, we may never know, just as you said.", "That would be a concentrated effort you're referring to. But as I understand it, there are instructions on the Internet for how to do this, so it could -- anybody could do it, could they not?", "Well, anybody is perhaps a little bit of a stretch, but it's true that people who want to do the research and have the focus and the time to do it could, in fact, do it. On the other hand, if you get some cachet with your friends from throwing eggs at a building, after 50 people throw eggs at the building, it doesn't do you any good to be the 51st.", "So, I guess, now, what we're talking about would be implications. We know that the Internet is vulnerable and we've heard many experts and Internet providers say this is likely to go on for some time. What and who could it hurt?", "Well, there are a number of people that it could hurt, of course, but I'd like to make a note that this isn't particularly an Internet kind of crime. If you have a store who has it's front door blocked, you go to another store. If you have a whole bunch of stores who have their stores blocked, then maybe there's concern. We haven't seen that on the Internet yet. Now, relative to who it hurts, the companies lose business, for sure, during the period of the attack. They may incur some costs in order to keep themselves from having that attack as badly in the future, and there could be a PR damage associated with it. But if the attacks are, in fact, spread across a large number of companies, even the PR damage is minimized. You're just one of many victims in that case.", "Now, as we mentioned, the FBI's about to hold this news conference and usually the FBI will just say we're on the case and here's what progress we've made and here's what we can't comment on because we're in the middle of an investigation. But is not true that the FBI itself has been hacked? What can the FBI do about this, if anything?", "Well, the FBI provides a rallying point for a number of activities that are already in place, and it also provides a legal framework in which this activity can take place. We see the computer emergency response team, a number of agencies that have been set up over time who have the technical expertise, given enough information, to trace these kinds of attacks down, and we have the FBI to follow through and to coordinate those activities from a legal point of view. So while the FBI itself, they only provide some of the resources to actually discover who's the problem, there are other organizations that, through that kind of coordination, can in fact make a differences in finding who did the bad things.", "Are there -- could there be economic motives here? You mentioned the bragging rights motive, but we heard from our financial unit that business-to-business operations could be crippled in an economic sense if this were to continue in the future. Is it -- could there be an economic motive here?", "There actually could be an economic motive for perhaps some other attacks, but these don't appear, at this juncture, to have that kind of a motive behind them. And in point of fact, you don't attack a high-profile site like this for two hours and expect that it'll be more than a blip in the radar. If I remember correctly, the stock prices associated with many of the people who were attacked, in fact, went up.", "Are there -- what are the laws surrounding this type of activity? Say the FBI was to track someone down. Are the laws tough enough, or are there laws?", "There are laws. They are tough enough in general. My general sense is, though, that the rule of law, the process of finding out who committed the crime, what the jurisdiction was in which the crime will actually be tried, and going through the process of gathering enough evidence which to a jury is sensible, is by far the most difficult aspects of those rather than the laws themselves.", "We've heard repeatedly today that future success for the dot.coms will be in being able to keep these hackers away from their sites. Is there technology in the works? Do you see anything on the cyber-horizon that might give the consumer confidence? We've been assuring consumers all day that their credit card numbers, for instance, have not been stolen in this latest wave of access denial.", "Well, let's go back to that example of blocking the door. Just because you block the door to somebody's business doesn't mean that you've broken in and rifled through their files. So to that extent, this isn't hacking in the sense that many people think about it.", "All right, Mr. Prince, thank you. The FBI has begun so we'll switch over to Washington, FBI headquarters now and listen to what's going on there.", "... Internet crime, the attorney general of the United States, Janet Reno, for some remarks.", "Good afternoon. Over the past several days, Americans have experienced cyber- attacks on some of our nation's most popular commercial Web site. These cyber-assaults have caused millions of Internet users to be denied services from such sites as Yahoo!, Buy.com and eBay, just to name a few. At this time, we are not aware of the motives behind these attacks, but they appear to be intended to interfere with and to disrupt legitimate electronic commerce. That is the reason the FBI has initiated a criminal investigation into these matters. Specifically, personnel from the National Infrastructure Protection Center are working closely with FBI field offices around the country on investigative leads. They are also working with specially trained federal prosecutors, both in Washington and around the country, and with state and local law enforcement agencies. We are also working closely with the companies that are the victims. As many of you already know, preventing cybercrime is one of our top priorities. At the Justice Department, we have been well-aware that the technology has changed not only the way people do business. It has changed the way criminals do business too. To keep pace with cybercriminals of the new millennium, we have taken a number of steps. We have set up a system through the National Infrastructure Protection Center to better coordinate with private entities to ensure that cybercrime is promptly reported to law enforcement. We are developing the personnel and technical expertise to investigate and prosecute cybercrime, and providing local law enforcement with necessary tools as well. We are working with industry and others to promote security measures that reduce our vulnerability to this new type of crime, and we are expanding our computer response teams, which are dispatched to investigate computer-related crimes. Just this week, we announced a request of $37 million as an increase to fight cybercrime and to protect our nation's infrastructure. These measures will help address the cyberattacks of recent days, and they will help us deal with attacks in the future. We are committed in every way possible to tracking down those who are responsible, to bringing them to justice, and to seeing that the law's enforced. And we're committed to taking steps to ensure that e- commerce remains a secure place to do business and that the Internet and cybertechnology can be the true benefit for the future that we all think it is in terms of learning, communication, commerce, and the opportunity to bring the world together rather than split it apart. Thank you.", "My name is Ron Dick. I'm chief of the computer investigations and operations section at the National Infrastructure Protection Center here at FBI headquarters. Let me first introduce the people behind me: Mark (ph) Zerwillinger, who is the deputy section chief for the computer crime and intellectual property section, criminal division of the Department of Justice; Jan Filpott (ph) with the Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie-Mellon University; David Jarrell (ph), who's the director of Federal Computer Incident Response Center; and Mr. Tom Burke (ph), who is the assistant commissioner, information security, General Services Administration. I'd like to make just a couple of brief comments about what our current investigations are addressing. Basically, as you all in the media have reported, we are dealing with a distributed denial of service attack on various businesses here in the United States. Basically, what this is, as many of you know, is an attack on the network by multiple computers that generate network traffic that basically ceases or causes the servers and systems of these businesses to cease operations. The length of these attacks can vary. They can vary from a few minutes to several days, depending on the capabilities of those that are conducting this attack. These kinds of attacks are very analogous to things that happened on our telephone systems in the past, where systems get overloaded by a number of people dialing in to a particular number. And because of the volume of traffic, you get a busy signal on there, and therefore, you're not able to contact the people that you want to have a conversation with. In business environment, particularly with e-commerce, this is very critical, because this is how they're able to receive orders and be able to deliver goods and services to the people that they service. So this is very important to those, particularly those in e-commerce. Likewise, a denial of service attack is planned action by an attacker and causes the network, as I said, to become dysfunctional. We are working to try and solve these particular sequences of attacks that have occurred in the last couple of days. We are working very closely with our partners within the -- within Fed CERT, CERT CC (ph), the intelligence community partners as well as other partners in law enforcement and the United States Secret Service, as well as the military investigative components. There's been a number of public announcements concerning this type of attack. The Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie- Mellon issued a white paper that's called \"Distributed Systems Intruder Tools Workshop,\" which you can find on the Web site -- and I can give you that later -- which has some very, very good ideas as to how to prevent this type of activity. Now, one thing that we have to keep in mind that I think is very, very important, particularly in the world that we live in today, security in the Internet is a community effort. It is not something that can be done by any one organization, any one federal agency, any one -- the government itself. It is a partnership between all of us, and most important partner is the private -- the private sector itself. And your security or the security of systems within the private sector, or the lack thereof, can cause harm to others, as exemplified in the things that we've seen gone on in the last couple of days: because it's highly likely that the origin of these attacks on these business are not from witting or knowing individuals or businesses. They probably are unwitting people that their business or systems have been intruded into, tools by which to launch these attacks have been placed there without their knowledge, and someone at a remote location is controlling those tools to launch attacks against the victims that have been highlighted in the media here recently. While it is difficult to prevent these attacks, there are certain things that can minimize the impact on e-commerce and businesses and government itself. Many of the distributed denial of service tools currently are readily available out there on the Internet, that can be simply gone to a Web site, you can download them, and it doesn't take any particular technical knowledge by which to utilize them. So for those in the private sector and in government, the key to this is prevention. The key to this is implementing appropriate security measures such that you do not allow your system to be used in some of these attacks. You need to keep up-to-date with your patches and workarounds for certain viruses that are out there so that you are able to put your business in a position so as not to be a contributing factor. Intruders can use the source address by falsifying, or what they call spoofing, such that it makes it very difficult for us in law enforcement to identify exactly where the particular attack is coming from. Basically, they can hide their identity. For example, when we read the address of where the communication is coming from, it might say it's from the FBI, and when in reality the FBI may not know anything about it, because they've given a false address on the information being provided to the victim site. Because of your security is dependent on the overall security of the network, we urge sites, both in the government and in the private sector, to take appropriate means to secure them. During the millennium change, one of the things we were concerned with were two tools that we saw out there that -- identified as TFN and TRINO (ph). We saw them being installed on numerous systems throughout the United States and the world, and we got very concerned that this could be utilized in a concerted attack on various systems. Through the NIPC and our partners in the private sector, we were able to develop tools by -- which allows us to identify if those particular tools are on your systems. That particular tool is available free of charge on www.nipc.gov, and there are other tools out there that do similar-type identification on yours systems by Carnegie-Mellon and others. As I've talked about before -- and I re-emphasize -- that it's very important that the community takes responsibility for the systems and implements appropriate security measures to minimize this kind of activity. There are certain trends out there that we need to be mindful of in the environment that we live in today. The intruder community is actively developing tools by which to circumvent many of these security measures and take advantage of government systems as well as those involved in e-commerce. There are multiple categories of different kinds of intrusions and exploits and vulnerabilities that are out there. It is only through your efforts, or the efforts of government and the private sector to implement appropriate security measures are we going to be able to thwart this -- these -- these kinds of criminal activity. In a relatively short of period time, as I said, an unsophisticated intruder or unsophisticated computer user can take advantage of not only the U.S. government, but also e-commerce. We strongly urge that if you become victim of a denial of service attack, that you immediately report it to either your local FBI office or other local law enforcement agency, federal or -- or -- or federal law enforcement agency, or notify the National Infrastructure Protection Center: watch and warning unit at 202-323-3205. Any comments? We'll be happy to take any questions.", "Are we talking about one strain of VD of all school (ph)? Are their various tools being used, various strings being used? And are the victim sites, which are launching these attacks, the innocent victim sites which are launching these attacks -- are they in the United States alone, or are they floated?", "We are in a process of collecting all the logs from the victim's sites to try ad discern all of the information that you just described, and we're in the process of analyzing them and getting them in here at this time. And at this point, I cannot really comment on the specific sites. But historically, this is not just a issue. We inevitably wind up overseas, where a unwitting ISP is used as a launch pad for these.", "But have you identified what they apply to? What laws are there against this? What", "The law that applies is title 18, United States coast, section 1030, A5A. And basically what that says, is anyone that knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information code or command, and as a result of such conduct intentionally causes damage without authorization to the protected computer. A protected computer includes any computer used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication. The maximum penalty for this violation is five years, and a fine for the first-time offender, a minimum six months. For repeat offenders, it's 10 years and a fine. Fines can range from up to $250,000 dollars per count, or if the damage is more than that, the court can set the fine at twice the gross loss to the victim. In addition, the statute allows for civil penalties by the victim sites, who are suing the person that's been identified as doing this.", "(OFF-MIKE) ... foreign hackers?", "I'll defer to the Department of Justice, but I believe we do.", "In situations where a foreign hacker is using United States computer system, the penalties about a computer fraud and abuse act would apply.", "(OFF-MIKE) ... government computers have been used as host to the attack agents. And what efforts are being made to prevent government computers from being compromised and used as host?", "I'll defer to Mr...", "We have not identified any government computers at this point in time that are being used as a host to launch the attacks. Approximately, an hour and half ago, we sent out a revised advisory on these types of attacks, with special notes to the CIOs and the system administrators in the agencies, so that they could take any preventative action to identify the tools that Ron had mentioned earlier, and start the actions to ensure that the government sites are not the launching points for these attacks.", "Mr. Dick, question for you: Walk us through, if you could, how do you tracked down the culprits? What types of steps do you go through?", "Basically, not to get in a long, detailed technical explanation of this, but basically, it's not unlike any other crime where we do electronic surveillance, wherein we utilize the technology available to track our way back to the various ISPs until we get to the person that's behind the keyboard. I mean, that's a simplified version of that. But in essence, that's it. It's not unlike when you do a bank robbery, and you identify where the subject is, and you follow them back to where they are.", "Does it to be done in realtime? Or can you do it like, you know, in a bank robbery, after the crime has taken place, or do you have to actually track them while they're doing the crime?", "We can do both. But it's likely that a lot of times, like in any other crime we're working after fact. That's why it's very important that the ISPs maintain logs, so that when we go to them ask them for the evidence regarding the activity on their systems, which the law tracks, that we're able to see that kind of activity. Now the unfortunate part is a lot of time the logs, for a lot of different reason, are not maintained by the ISPs.", "... one of the most important things here in the prevention of -- that some of sites that had been attacked have highly sophisticated systems to try to prevent this sort of thing. The government doesn't seem to be offering them anything more sophisticated. So what should they really do? I mean, there doesn't seem to be -- the president himself said today he wasn't sure there was anything Washington could do about it. Could you comment on that as well?", "OK, you got to keep in mind, in a distributed denial-of- service attack, the victim can do some filtering, which a lot of them have done, so as to prevent, you know, when the packets start hitting on their doors, if you will, and knocking on the door, to prevent them from entering. However, the real solution to it isn't the victim site itself; it's like I talked about a moment ago, is the innocent third parties that are out there that haven't installed appropriate security measures to determine if those kinds of tools out there are present to launch those kinds of attacks through there. So and that's what I was talking about a moment ago: It's a community effort. The victims that have been identified here recently may have done everything in the world that they could possibly do from a security standpoint. But if you have certain private-sector businesses out there that have not, that have loaded those tools out there by which to launch them, it doesn't do any good.", "(OFF-MIKE) ,,, businesses that have not done what you're talking about?", "Well, you're absolutely -- hopefully, there are not millions, but there a lot.", "There is tens of thousands.", "And that's the point: This is a community effort. And for the Internet to be a safe place to do business and for -- out there, it is going to be incumbent upon the community to install appropriate security measures.", "(OFF-MIKE) ... attack, or is this just software you can get off the Internet? Is this a 15-year-old kid, or is this a 30- year-old hacker?", "There are tools out there, that as you described, that a 15-year-old kid could launch these attacks. This is not something that it takes a great deal of sophistication to do.", "Could you give us an idea of the scope of this?", "... a group of people doing single attack, doing the same thing over and over again, or is it separate attacks I guess?", "It's much to too early in the investigation at this point to discern that. We're just following every lead that we can.", "It doesn't sound like really you've got a very effective handle on who's doing this, who's going to be hit next, and how best we can defend ourselves from it, unless we go to the Internet, all of us, and download these tools and find out if these drones are attached to our computers somehow without our knowledge. It sounds like a wide-open door situation.", "That is one of the issues with the Internet. It is a matter of the community policing itself in a lot of respects. And you're absolutely right in that regard. We're going to need the help of everyone in the community to solve this problem.", "Has there been any indication why any communication from the hacker or hackers, why they did this?", "Not at this point.", "Do you think that you can determine the sites that were going to be hit for the denial of service, before they were actually hit, and contact those businesses?", "Not in this particular instance. If we would have -- if we had known that information we would have, but not in this instance.", "Does there seem to be any kind of strategic plan or profit motive, or does it appear, from what you know now, to be just vandalism?", "No, not that we've been able to discern a motive at this point in time.", "Can you tell how much is lost in commerce so far?", "No, it's too early to tell that.", "After every terrorist event, you have claims of responsibility. Has there been any credible claim of responsibility or any claim of responsibility from any purported group or individual to the FBI?", "None that I'm aware of. We are obviously conducting or reviewing intelligence base, and a lot of these attacks, as in any crime, people like to talk, and we're following every lead we can to discern that.", "Question for you: First of all, you'd expressed concern the NIPC had that the Y2K remediation could open the door to just this kind of attack. Is there any indication, first of all, that this may be tied to Y2K fixes that were done, and the opportunity taken to insert back doors or Trojan horses?", "No to your first; we have no indication this is tied to the millennium efforts whatsoever. And no to the second; we have no indication this has anything to do with Trojan horses or back doors placed during Y2K remediation.", "The second part of my question is....", "That is Ron Dick of the FBI National Infrastructure Protection Center. A lot of acronyms and cyber-words there, but essentially, what we have is a criminal investigation by the FBI, also including the intelligence community and the military, on this so- called denial-of-service attack within the past couple of days, denying access to several Internet Web sites because of the flood of data being put in there by someone or some group of someones. The FBI says its job is to track our way back, but it's too early for answers on who might be involved in this attack. It comes under the heading of the Fraud and Abuse Act, which calls for five years in prison for a first-time offender and also allows for civil penalties. The attorney general of the United States also was involved in this news conference, telling us that the -- protecting e-commerce is one of the primary concerns of the Justice Department, and more money has been requested for that fight, up to $37 million. More on all of this in the next hour here now. 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{"id": "CNN-219904", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2013-12-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1312/01/ndaysun.04.html", "summary": "Actor Paul Walker Killed in Fiery Car Crash", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "And welcome back. We are following breaking news of a Metro North train derailment in New York, just in the Bronx there. We understand that 100 firefighters are on the scene. And we are getting reports there may be some trains submerged in the water. Again, about 25 units or about 100 firefighters are responding to the scene. At this point, we don't have reports on injuries, but we are working to get more information.", "Now, this is -- this is a very busy travel day. But the commuter -- the line we're talking about is actually a commuter line. It's not an Amtrak line. Still, people are moving about after the Thanksgiving holiday. It is a Sunday morning. So, it could either go one of two ways. It could be a very empty train this morning or it could be packed with people, you know, getting back home and vice versa. So, we're going to keep watching this and bring you more details as we get them.", "Our New York affiliates there also on the story. We are waiting to get a signal from New York, and as soon as we get that signal, we will continue, obviously, to show you what's happening there and update you on the latest. But again, a Metro North train derailment in New York outside the Bronx. Now on to this other big story this morning. Actor Paul Walker, we know that he has died today.", "And we're learning more about the fiery car crash that killed him. We have new footage of the inferno taken by witnesses just moments after the crash. Here is a few seconds of that.", "All right. Overnight, CNN shot these images of figure eight tire marks and skid marks near the scene of that crash. We asked the L.A. sheriff's department if they were related to the crash. But at this point, we're told that they don't know.", "CNN entertainment correspondent Nischelle Turner joins us now. Good morning Nischelle.", "Hi.", "You know this is very hard for a lot of people to hear. I mean they woke up stunned to hear this news.", "Well, yes, because he was a part of one of the most popular franchises in the movies today and that's \"The Fast and Furious\" franchise. Paul Walker, 40 years old, beautiful, young, one of Hollywood's kind of \"it\" guys. You know, to wake up to the news to hear that he has died in a fiery car crash has left a lot of people in Hollywood and around the world stunned.", "Right behind you.", "One of Hollywood's most bankable stars, Paul Walker who has made a name for himself in the \"Fast and Furious\" movie franchise died in fiery car crash in Santa Clarita California. A second person also died in the accident. Both were attending a charity event for Walker's organization Reach out Worldwide. The event was intended to benefit the victims of typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The crash happened just north of Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon. According to his representative, Paul Walker was not driving the 2005 Porsche. When deputies arrived, the car was on fire, both people in the car pronounced dead at the scene.", "There's nothing -- we tried, we went through fire extinguishers.", "All that remains -- burnt, mangled metal and a light pole that's been knocked down. Authorities say speed was a factor. Walker wasn't just a car enthusiast on screen. Off screen, the actor competed in the Red Line Time Attack Racing Series. He had been filming the seventh installment of \"Fast and Furious\" at the time of his death and some of Hollywood's biggest stars are reacting. Co-star Vin Diesel said on his Instagram account, \"Brother, I will miss you very much. I am absolutely speechless. Heaven has gained a new angel, rest in peace.\" And another \"Fast and Furious\" co-star Ludacris tweeted \"Your humble spirit was felt from the start. Wherever you blessed your presence, you always left a mark.\" And fellow actor Tyrese Gibson said, \"My heart is hurting so bad, no one can make me believe this is real. My God, my God, I can't believe I'm writing this.\"", "And Tyrese also posted on Twitter and Instagram account, the last text message exchange that he had with Paul Walker on Thanksgiving where Tyrese told him how much he loved him and how he was thankful for him. And Paul answered him back with \"Hugs and XOs, XOs.\" And both of them apparently had a really deep friendship which is what we're hearing from a lot of people in Hollywood this morning. Condolences also guys going out to his 15-year-old daughter Meadow by many.", "A terrible situation. Nischelle Turner thank you so much for your reporting.", "And CNN's Nick Valencia joins us with more reaction of the people who knew Paul Walker the best. And we're seeing this outpouring of emotions and condolences from him.", "Yes. We are you know so many people even though the ones that didn't know Paul Walker personally are very moved by his passing. You see celebrities everywhere sometimes it just seems like you know them yourself. But we took a lot of tweets and Facebook posts, things on social media from fellow co-stars, friends and family. And Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson tweeting, he was co-star with Paul Walker in that \"Fast and Furious\" franchise, saying \"All my strength love and faith to the Walker family during this heartbreaking time. We find our strength in his light. I love you, brother.\" He was very well liked among his fellow cast mates. Michelle Rodriguez posted this photo on her Facebook page during Thanksgiving. It's a snapshot of when they -- were in the movies together in \"Fast and the Furious.\" All saying grace together a kind of fitting for the circumstances. Alyssa Milano adding, \"No. Real Paul Walker, No, no, no. Rest with the angels you sweet, sweet boy.\" Sung Kang also -- also co-starred along Paul Walker in that \"Fast and the Furious\" franchise saying, he -- one of his PR reps posting on the Facebook page \"On behalf of Sung, I would like to offer our deepest condolences and heartfelt prayers to the family and friends of Paul Walker. A man with true passion for life.\" And James Van Der Beek starred alongside Paul Walker in one of his breakout roles in \"Varsity Blues,\" one of my favorite movies growing up playing high school football back in 1999, \"I just remember him as being so effortlessly golden. He had that way about him, that thing.\" And that's what we're hearing from so many people. He just walked in a room and sort of lit up a room.", "He had quite a following.", "Yes he had a presence, he had a large following. It's very sad news this morning.", "We know a lot of people will be talking about this today.", "Yes. We got to go thank you so much.", "Thanks so much.", "All right still to come, this NEW DAY SUNDAY, Pope Francis puts the pageantry aside and he makes an appeal for a church that has been battered and bruised. We'll explain this new path for Catholics coming up next.", "And we're getting new details on that breaking news of a train derailment in the Bronx, in New York, we're going to have more on that next."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "HOWELL", "KOSIK", "HOWELL", "KOSIK", "HOWELL", "KOSIK", "TURNER", "KOSIK", "TURNER", "VIN DIESEL, ACTOR", "TURNER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TURNER", "TURNER", "HOWELL", "KOSIK", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KOSIK", "VALENCIA", "GEORGE", "VALENCIA", "KOSIK", "HOWELL", "KOSIK"]}
{"id": "CNN-59637", "program": "CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER", "date": "2002-8-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0208/25/le.00.html", "summary": "Brandon, Lang Talk About Anthrax Investigation", "utt": ["Welcome back to LATE EDITION. We're awaiting a news conference with the former U.S. Army scientist Steven Hatfill, whom the Attorney General John Ashcroft has described as a person of interest in the anthrax investigation. We'll go to that news conference as soon as it happens. We're expecting it to begin momentarily. First though, here is CNN's Fredricka Whitfield with a news alert.", "We're waiting for the start of a news conference in Alexandria, Virginia -- that's just outside of Washington, D.C. -- with the former U.S. Army scientist Steven Hatfill regarding his role in the anthrax investigation. Joining us now from Washington, two special guests: Pat Lang, he's a former Middle East analyst with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency; and Skip Brandon, a former assistant director of the FBI for national security and counterterrorism. Gentlemen, welcome back to LATE EDITION. Good to have you on the program. And as we await the start of this news conference, very briefly, Skip Brandon, tell our viewers in the United States and around the world why Steven Hatfill is viewed by the Attorney General John Ashcroft as a so-called person of interest in this anthrax letter investigation.", "Well, in the first place, I guess Dr. Hatfill has basically made himself a person of interest through his various public pronouncements. We'll have another one today. But it does appear that the FBI thinks and the Department of Justice thinks that he had knowledge of how to produce anthrax. He may have had access to what goes into making anthrax. They are conducting an investigation. I would say that he's certainly not the only one they're looking at.", "Well, he is only one, Skip Brandon, whose name has really become public, whose investigations are publicized, search warrants being released, being issued to go into this apartment. Why aren't other names out there?", "I guess none of us, at this point, know that answer. For whatever reason, right or wrong, the searches conducted of his premises did get publicity. That's a very serious question, the Department of Justice will have to answer how that happened. That's not normal procedure at all. But I do think, like I say, there are certainly other people they're looking at.", "After the news conference, Pat Lang, we're going to have a lot of time to assess, to analyze what we've learned. But going into the news conference, what's your take on this investigation of the anthrax letters?", "Well, I can well understand how Dr. Hatfill is in the universe of people of interest to the Department of Justice and the FBI. But as you say, it's curious that we don't know more about other people who are equally a matter of concern. And in particular, the continuous stories we keep hearing, about the fact that they keep looking for someone who is a source of domestic terrorism as the originator of these letters, all tends to play to the opinion on the part of the people of the United States there is something wrong with this investigation, and that it's dragging on too long, and that people just have taken positions that they may not be able to defend.", "All right. Let's go to that news conference. Pat Clawson is a spokesman for Stephen Hatfill and a good friend. He's beginning to speak. Let's listen in.", "... Hatfill, who is the Justice Department's so-called person of interest, whatever that is, in the anthrax investigation. Dr. Hatfill will be making a brief statement about what life has been like for him under this FBI investigation. He has quite a compelling message to tell the American people. I think you will all find it very interesting. Taking questions immediately thereafter will be Victor Glasberg, his attorney, and we'll try to answer any and all questions that you have. Over the last several weeks, Dr. Hatfill has been living a life of utter hell. It is important for the American people to realize that Dr. Hatfill has not been accused of any crime. He has not been named as a suspect by the Department of Justice. Instead, he is a so- called person of interest, whatever that means. He is going to tell you what that means from a firsthand viewpoint. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to introduce to you a great American patriot and my dear friend, Dr. Steve Hatfill. Steve?", "Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Two weeks ago, I reluctantly appeared before the TV cameras to defend myself against the bizarre allegations that were appearing about me in the news media dealing with last year's anthrax attacks. These allegations were fueled by ongoing leaks from the Justice Department, and those leaks continue to this day. Several days ago, the Justice Department representatives confirmed to the Associated Press that there was no evidence linking me to the anthrax attacks. Despite this lack of evidence, I am still hounded by the FBI, victimized in a never-ending torrent of leaks and general innuendo from the United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and unnamed others, all of which is then amplified and embellished by the media. This assassination of my character appears to be part of a government-run effort to show the American people that it is proceeding vigorously and successfully with the anthrax investigation. Today, I again appear before the TV cameras. I want to look my fellow Americans directly in the eye and declare to them, I am not the anthrax killer. I know nothing about the anthrax attacks. I had absolutely nothing to do with this terrible crime. My life is being destroyed by arrogant government bureaucrats who are peddling groundless innuendo and half information about me to gullible reporters who, in turn, repeat this to the press under the guise of news. I want to give you, the American people, an idea of what it is like to be named a person of interest by the attorney general of the United States. John Ashcroft has now twice publicly told the American people that I am a person of interest in last year's anthrax attacks. Most recently, several days ago at a news conference in Newark, New Jersey, the FBI says I am not a suspect, and then it does not use the term, \"person of interest.\" Mr. Ashcroft, however, continues to do this publicly, and I am here to complain about this and its consequences. My attorneys have filed an ethics complaint on Mr. Ashcroft's conduct, as well as that of others involved in this matter. And I will be very interested to learn how well the Justice Department will police itself. Mr. Ashcroft has repeatedly testified to his strong Christian values, and I highly respect him for this. Unlike many others, I was delighted when he was selected for his appointment to this high public office. In practice, however, by openly, repeatedly naming me as a person of interest, Mr. Ashcroft has not only violated Justice Department regulations and guidelines, which bind him as the nation's top law enforcement official, but in my view, he has broken the 9th commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness. I have never met Mr. Ashcroft. I don't know him. I've never spoken with him. And I do not understand his personalized focus on me. My lawyers can find no legal definition for a person of interest. I, however, have a working definition. A person of interest is someone who comes into being when the government is under intense political pressure to solve a crime but can't do so, either because of the crime is too difficult to solve or because the authorities are proceeding in what can mildly be called a wrong-headed manner. It then becomes unnecessary for the FBI and other authorities to produce a warm body, but since there's no suspect and the authorities have nothing on which to base a prosecution, they pick a serviceable target. This should preferably be a person about whom mysterious questions can be raised, someone with an interesting or colorful background. Then they give him a prejudicial label, \"person of interest.\" And they leak appropriate rumor and innuendo to the press. Then they sit back and an watch uncharged and presumptively innocent person be picked apart by journalists looking for hot stories. It soon becomes inconsequential that the stories have no bearing on the crime at issue. What is useful is that the FBI can be seen to be on the job. The press is hot on the trail and the public is satisfied, as Mr. Ashcroft continues to say without any explanation that progress in anthrax letter attacks is being made. God help us all if the FBI's pursuit of Mr. Ashcroft's person of interest -- me -- represents that progress. I would like to tell you about how Mr. Ashcroft's progress has played out in my life and that of my loved ones. When you become a person of interest to the Justice Department, they will make small but carefully orchestrated leaks to the press designed to drive news reporters into a frenzy, in an effort to uncover every minuscule, tiny detail of your life. The press will do the majority of work for the FBI, uncovering every item of personal information, no matter how scandalous, ridiculous or insignificant to the crime at issue. When the New York Times reported that I had access to a secret cabin in the woods, the FBI brought me in and questioned me about it. Then they interrogated my friend, a very prominent Washington, D.C., lawyer, who invites me to dinner occasionally at his modern three- bedroom home -- not a cabin -- in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Then they demand to search his house. A photo of the house then becomes featured prominently on the pages of a Northern Virginia daily, under a headline that says, \"Linked to Anthrax.\" Friends and neighbors of the lawyer then stop coming to visit him because they were afraid of catching anthrax or some other disease or simply did not want to be associated with the incident. I helped bring into being a useful bio-defense training program for first responders, police and fire departments. Because of this label as a person of interest, reporters have -- some reporters have placed a malicious and absurd interpretation on this, and suggested it's not a blueprint for this, but it's a blueprint for the anthrax attacks. Rising to the occasion, the FBI grilled me about this. Almost a quarter century ago, I lived in a city that had a suburb named Greendale. The FBI and some in media willingly linked this with a nonexistent Greendale school that appeared in the return address on four anthrax letters. ABC News even reported as a fact that I lived next door to that nonexistent school for four years, citing unidentified government gumshoes. My entire life history has been laid out on the Internet by reporters and conspiracy nuts. My daughter, a policewoman in Detroit, with a child, even found her name and home address published, a reckless and dangerous act that invites retaliation from criminals, as every police officer will tell you. Every misstatement, every minuscule wrong step, every wrinkle I've ever made in my life has become public, and I'm pillared for it. It is one thing to have your alleged faults and misdeeds publicly aired because you are seeking, as a candidate for a high office, but I am a private citizen, and one who has not sought the limelight. Remember your own travail, Mr. Ashcroft, when elements of your past were dug up by persons opposed to your selection as attorney general? I could dwell on this at length, but my principles bar me from doing so here. In any event, Mr. Ashcroft, you asked for that. I did not. And I wonder how you would cope, being on the end of a media frenzy that I have been enduring this entire summer. When you are labeled by the attorney general as a person of interest, presumptively responsible persons seem to lose all inhibitions in referring to you. When I first addressed the press, I pointed out my problems with Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a woman I do not know, I've never met, I've never spoken to her. Another person I've never met or spoken to and don't know is Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times. After transparently implicating me as Mr. Z, over a period of months he berated the FBI for not investigating me aggressively enough to suit him. He has never called me, checked his facts, asked for comment, contacted any of my representatives, anything, before he published. Following my first press appearance, Mr. Kristoff once again wrote about me. Once again, his column was inaccurate. He said, for example, that I had failed three successive polygraph examinations since January. This is a total lie. I have not taken, let alone failed, three polygraphs on anthrax since January. I had one polygraph session, which the FBI did administer to me in January, and I was told I passed and the examiner was satisfied that I had told the truth. In any event, Mr. Kristoff never called me about this allegation, nor did he call my attorney, nor my friend Pat Clawson, who's been helping me with this news media hurricane. Mr. Kristoff, why do you write such things? Why did you not at least check your facts or ask comment from me or my representatives? What have I done to injure you in this manner? I have another question, too. Why do you permit yourself to be used as a vehicle to leak irreparably damaging information about me to the public? Such as, for example, your statement that I was under constant surveillance by the FBI. It's bad enough that that statement is true, and I lived with the consequences. But must it be gratuitously broadcast so that others might keep away from me from fear of contamination? Why is it necessary, right or fair, Mr. Kristoff, for you to write these things? The answer, of course, is that I am a person of interest, as well as to Nicholas Kristoff and the attorney general, John Ashcroft. We are today distributing copies of my lawyer's communications with the Times and Mr. Kristoff about these matters, and will agree to publish an op-ed reply from me to what they have published about me for months. So far they have not agreed to do this, but keeping silent. When you are a person of interest, your home is subject to search based on statements in sealed affidavits which your lawyers are not permitted to see. The result is a search-and-seizure of your property, even as you stand with a hand of continuing cooperation extended to the FBI. Armed with a secretly obtained government search warrant, FBI agents can enter your home with impunity and take virtually anything they want, including your car registration, your tax records, your car keys, the deeds to your house, if you have one, your apartment, rental agreements, cell phone, pagers, unused bank checks, checks made out to you but not yet cashed, clothing. They can keep these items for as long as they want, unless you go out and retain and pay a lawyer and you can convince a judge that you should get your property back. It is definitely not good to be the girlfriend of a person of interest. My girlfriend was locked inside an FBI car and hauled off to FBI headquarters and interrogated for hours, without once being told she has the right to leave any time she wished. Her requests for a lawyer were delayed and made difficult. Her purse, although not on the search warrant, was taken from her and its contents examined after the interrogation process while she was being driven back to her residence. She was screamed at by FBI agents and told that the FBI had firm evidence that I had killed five innocent people. This was told to her by FBI agent Jennifer Grant and FBI agent Pamela Lane. Can you imagine that? The FBI trumpets that I am not a suspect, and the woman I love is told the FBI -- told by the FBI that I am a murderer. This is the life of a person of interest, Mr. Ashcroft. But that's not all. My girlfriend was told that she better take a polygraph examination and cooperate, or else. Her home checkbooks, computers, private papers and car were seized. As for her home, it was completely trashed, as is appropriate for the home of a girlfriend of a person of interest. Some of her delicate pottery was smashed. The glass on a $3,000 painting was broken. This painting was wrapped in bubble wrap, by the way. Neatly stacked boxes awaiting shipment to her new home were ripped open, instead of opened with due regard to their contents. Ladies and gentlemen, we have pictures of how FBI left this apartment, her apartment, which, at the time of the raid, was neatly prepared for a move to Louisiana, with all her belongings packed in nicely stacked boxes. This is one of the pictures. I refuse to allow my girlfriend -- to this treatment, as the girlfriend of a person of interest. She is not here today. I love you. I will not state her name here. And I ask the news media, please, for common decency, if you know it, please leave her alone. She will not make a statement. Let me return to my life as a person of interest. I am openly followed by the FBI agents and in cars and on foot, 24 hours a day. Going down to store for a pack of gum yields a parade of FBI cars sometimes following me closely as two to four feet from my rear bumper. And the FBI leaks for use by cooperative journalists the fact I'm being tailed 24 hours seven days a week. My closest, most personal friend was told by the FBI that they have firm evidence that I mailed the anthrax letters. He was asked by the FBI to confront me and have me confess this act to him in private. He tearfully asked me if the FBI's allegations were true. In complete violation of normal investigative procedures, the FBI have circulated only my photograph at a crime scene -- a photographic one-man lineup -- in an attempt to find someone to testify that they remember seeing me in the area almost a year ago. As a person of interest, you cannot win. The fact that you love and work for your country will be turned against you by means of the ridiculous suggestion that your patriotism prompted you to murder five innocent persons so that a statement can be made regarding our lack of preparedness against a biological attack. All this reminds me of Kafka's novel, \"The Trial.\" Perhaps that story is the source of Mr. Kristoff's Mr. Z. All the above is what it's like living as a person of interest designated by John Ashcroft, the attorney general, and I cannot do anything about it. I haven't been charged with any crime. Again, the Justice Department has told the press that there is no evidence that I've committed a crime. I have to contend with a moving target of rumor, innuendo, fantasy, half-truths, and now the super-duper bionic bloodhounds that the FBI recently pulled out of a hat. The Justice Department has repeatedly claimed it's making significant progress in the anthrax investigation. I sure hope so, because I want the anthrax mailer or mailers found and punished to the maximum extent our society will allow. But what does any of this have to do with me? We know that four anthrax letters were mailed September 17, 18, and October 8 and 9, 2001. On these days, as indeed for many weeks after September 11, I and my colleagues at SAIC were working overtime in our McLean, Virginia, office on national defense issues. My time sheets from the company, which are being distributed here, show that on these days I worked respectively 14 hours, 13 1/2 hours, 13 hours, and 11 1/4 hours at the office. Yes, I know, it's possible that time cards could have been altered. Well, I'll tell you SAIC goes to extreme lengths to ensure this process can't happen. In addition, the FBI long ago interviewed all of my colleagues at SAIC, and each confirmed that I was, like them, continuously hard at work in the office during this entire period. All right then, I could have driven or surreptitiously somehow transported myself to Trenton or Princeton or wherever from the D.C. area, mailed the letters and returned unnoticed. With any luck, I would not have been caught speeding on the highway, and maybe I could have made the eight-hour round trip in enough time to return to work unnoticed and exhausted and continued with another 13-hour day. I have little to say about the nonsense of this sort. If it pleases you to advance and research this theory, then please the more power to you. As for me, I was living and working in the D.C. area the entire time when the anthrax letters were mailed. Mr. Ashcroft knows this -- or he should know this, notwithstanding my status as a person of interest. He should know, in fact, that while the anthrax letters are mailed from New Jersey and the first anthrax incidents occurred in Florida, I did not set foot in either of these states in September or October of 2001. We know, by the way, that some of the 9/11 terrorists did. The FBI's focus on me seems to have eclipsed the need for appropriate inquiry into elementary, scientific aspects of the anthrax investigation. It took the FBI seven months after the letter attacks before they turned to assistance to Bill Patrick, the top dry-powder biological warfare expert in our country. How sensible is that? What inquiries have been made into who received the Ames strain of anthrax at any time prior to the fall of 2001? Until the mid '90s, regulation of the traffic in dangerous bacteriological pathogens was very poorly controlled and poorly documented -- in some cases, non- existently documented. Saddam Hussein received his weaponizable strains of anthrax from the United States, from the American-type culture collection formerly in Rockville, Maryland. In the mid '90s, one Larry Wayne Harris, a self-proclaimed member of the Aryan Nation, made up a phony letterhead on which he requested some bubonic plague bacteria from the American-type culture collection. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the organism that causes the black death. As I recall, he received some of it by mail. Largely as a result of this incident, policies and procedures governing the availability of forms of transmission of dangerous germs were strengthened. It is generally known that anthrax bacteria can live for decades in the soil or other hospitable environments. I don't think previous samples can be accounted for. Again, we still have to learn if the powder in question in the anthrax letters was prepared by sophisticated methods known only to select scientists or by more crude methods using information readily available on the Internet. Speaking of the Internet, the American people should know that the complete top-secret recipe for making smallpox into a sophisticated dry-powder biological weapon was recently posted by the U.S. government on the Internet by mistake for several weeks when a mistake at the U.S. Patent Office resulted in this material becoming open source. Thank God the document in question has finally been removed from the Internet, but not before anyone with an interest, foreign or domestic, would have had time to view it and download it. To my way of thinking, the lack of proper scientific input into this investigation is best illustrated by the fact that I am the one who had to suggest to the FBI the blood tests that they could perform on me to help rule me out as a suspect in this terrible crime. The test measures antibody levels, which would mark either my exposure to anthrax recently or a recent anthrax vaccination, not one that I've had two years ago. At long last, the government has agreed to my proposal, and I'll shortly be providing blood samples as I originally suggested. I hereby openly request the FBI make public the full results of these forthcoming tests, their conclusions based on these tests, and the scientific basis for the tests and the conclusions. I also proposed to give handwriting samples to the FBI so that they may draw conclusions regarding the likelihood that I wrote the anthrax letters. Here, too, I openly request the results of this examination, including all work sheets and analyses, be made public when completed. I ask the media to please monitor these tests, and the press, for their release if the government is not forthcoming. The one certain progress that the FBI has made in this investigation is its inability to find any evidence connecting me with the anthrax letter attacks. This is after an eight-month inquiry, and Lord knows how much taxpayer money has been poured into this effort to uncover my presumed guilt. I believe that sensible persons involved in the anthrax investigation have concluded that I have nothing to do with the anthrax letter attacks. But they are in a rough place. If the FBI does not have me as a person of interest, then what does it have? What it has is a stalled investigation, characterized by a lack of proper scientific investigation and expertise, its single-minded dedication to the use of so-called profilers. Remember, these are the folks that described the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, as a well-dressed manual laborer. It has a lack of the most basic understanding of the relevant biology by many frontline and senior FBI investigators. It has an investigation that is characterized by the apparent avoidance any of any major avenue of inquiry, except the one decided upon by the attorney general. Most importantly, it is driven by a compelling and overwhelming desire that the FBI look good at any cost, regardless of the price in individual freedom, due process, common decency and civil liberties. I believe that I may actually get arrested when all this is said and done, and if it occurs, it will have nothing to do with anthrax. It will have everything to do with my being named the national person of interest. This title will first have caused painstaking inquiry into my past, the peccadillos and all. Second, it will have given the authorities enormous incentive to justify their massive financial expenditure and the thousands of man-hours of effort arising out of their pursuit of me, and their heedless exposure to me and defamation as a murderer. For these reasons, even as I stand before you proclaiming my innocence of this terrible crime, I believe I shall yet pay a price for having been named a person of interest. If Steve Hatfill isn't the anthrax killer, well, he spit on a government sidewalk or littered in front of a government building somewhere, something he shouldn't have done. I should imagine that a great many Americans, including a host of our nation's political, social and intellectual leaders will be at serious risk of some sort of prosecution under these circumstances. This is the fate of a person of interest. In the end, I will be put at risk for things that inherently lack interest, but because I have been falsely smeared as a person of interest. Remember, please, that you heard this from me first. I fear what time will do, with the FBI's new powers under the 2001 Patriot Act. What will this country be like 10 or 20 years from now? Will it be like the America I love and would unhesitatingly risk my life to defend, or will it evolve into a suspicious society where uncharged persons of interest live in fear of damaging police and media intrusion? I never thought I would live to recite the slogan of the American Civil Liberties Union, but I must tell you, after what I have been through, I wholeheartedly embrace its motto: \"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.\" My story is not all sad and negative. I have been buoyed beyond words by the support of my family, friends, past and current colleagues, and even strangers, who, since my first news conference, have warmly greeted me on the streets or in letters. I thank my employer, Louisiana State University, for its incredible sensitivity in balancing its obvious institutional needs in light of my status as a person of interest with my own personal needs and circumstances. Thank you. As poorly as my own government and much of the press have treated me, those persons who mean the most to me have stood by me unflinchingly. For that, ladies and gentlemen, I am eternally grateful. Thank you.", "So there we hear from Steven Hatfill directly. He's, as he repeatedly said, the FBI's so-called person of interest. The attorney representing Steven Hatfill is now about to speak, Victor Glasberg. Let's listen to what he has to say.", "... received a number of complaints that have been filed. I've lodged them with all the known entities and individuals who are supposed to take care of government overreaching of the sort that we feel has been going on. You have them before you, and you can ask questions about them. I can characterize the complaints as coming down into three main categories. The first is, if you will, the utilization of very prejudicial terminology which has led to exactly the result that Steve Hatfill has been discussing. He's a person of interest. Let me suggest to you, ladies and gentlemen, he is a person of no interest. Look on your right and on your left. There's a person there. What do you care about that person? Well, if that person were a person of interest, you might care. I might care about that transcript that you submitted in school 20 years ago. And how about that nasty divorce you were in? And that dog that you kicked over there, I know about that. That juvenile offense? Watch out! We don't care about that, because so long as people do the jobs they're supposed to do, more power to them, and we leave them alone. But if you become named a person of interest, then everything is on the table. And everything has been put on the table for this gentleman. That has happened because of the terminology used. The terminology has no sanction in law, it has no meaning, except it is a basis to open up someone's entire life to the grossest type of invasion that is imaginable, and you've heard Steve Hatfill describe some of the consequences here. The concerns that he is addressing are not new and are not unknown to the law. Let me take a moment of your time to give you a little bit of legal history. One of the most important documents in the history of American law is a famous essay written by two lawyers in 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis. It's called \"The Right of Privacy,\" and I want to read a little portion of it to you. You have to deal with the 19th century prose, but it'll resonate. \"Recent inventions and business methods call attention to the next step which must be taken for the protection of the person and for securing to the individual what Judge Cooley calls `the right to be let alone.' Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the sacred precinct of private and domestic life, and numerous mechanical devices threaten to make good the prediction that what is whispered in the closet shall be proclaimed from the housetops. \"The press is overstepping in every direction the obvious bounds of propriety and of decency. Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and the vicious, but has become a trade, which is pursued with industry as well as effrontery.\" The article is thought of generally as being the first major articulation of the notion of a right of privacy in the United States, which right is recognized in most states in this country. That is the right that has been denied Steve Hatfill because he has been officially designated by the chief law enforcement officer of the United States as \"person of interest.\" That's the first complaint. The second complaint has to do with the leaks. The leaks are set forth in the complaints themselves. I won't review them with you here. I think you're aware of them. For all I know, they were made to you. They are intolerable, and they should not be permitted, and appropriate action should be taken. With regard to the leaks, let me give you a little sidebar here. I was interested to read in yesterday's Post the expression of grave chagrin by Van Harp, the head of the FBI office here, who is currently in charge of the anthrax investigation. As you can read in this article, Mr. Harp was soundly criticized in a report for -- by the report of the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility, claiming that he had engaged in substantial misconduct relative to the Ruby Ridge matter. Well, it turns out that this report ended up getting leaked, and here is Mr. Harp. In a written statement, Harp said that leaks about his role in the Ruby Ridge inquiries violate all sense of propriety. Well, I don't know if that's true. It may. But I'll tell you this: The investigation that Mr. Harp is conducting of Steve Hatfill has as many leaks as the Titanic going down. So he should take his own instruction...", "Victor Glasberg, an attorney representing Steven Hatfill, saying he's going to file formal complaints with the U.S. Justice Department in connection with the investigation of his client Steven Hatfill, a former U.S. Army scientist. He's been described by the attorney general of the United States as a so-called person of interest in the investigation. We just heard a lengthy, more-than-30-minute defense of Steven Hatfill by Steven Hatfill himself. The second time in two weeks he's now come forward and defended himself. He said, \"I want to look the American people in the eye. I am not the anthrax killer.\" A strong condemnation of the tactics used by the FBI in this anthrax letter investigation, which resulted in the murder of five Americans. We are going to continue to follow this news conference. We are also going to get analysis from two experts, when we come back."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BLITZER", "SKIP BRANDON, FORMER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FBI FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AND COUNTERTERRORISM", "BLITZER", "BRANDON", "BLITZER", "PAT LANG, FORMER MIDDLE EAST ANALYST, U.S. DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY", "BLITZER", "PAT CLAWSON, FRIEND OF HATFILL", "STEVEN HATFILL, FORMER ARMY SCIENTIST", "BLITZER", "VICTOR GLASBERG, HATFILL'S ATTORNEY", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-326568", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2017-11-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/21/ath.02.html", "summary": "Trump Golf Club Reimburses Trump Foundation for Lawsuit; Judge Blocks Trump's Sanctuary Cities Order", "utt": ["There is new reporting out today on questions about how President Trump's foundation actually used its money. One of Donald Trump's golf courses paid back $158,000 to the charity. The money had been used to settle a lawsuit against this golf club. The reimbursement happened after the state of New York launched an investigation into the charity. And it was David Fahrenthold who broke this story wide open from \"The Washington Post,\" and also a CNN contributor. David Fahrenthold, at it again. Let's start with the reimbursement. Tell me about that.", "This is a weird case we uncovered last year. I can tell you at the start one of the things you're not allowed to do as a charity if you run a charity not allowed to use the money to pay off your businesses' debts or legal settlements. The money in the charity is meant for charity. Trump's golf course involved in a lawsuit. A guy had one a hole in one prize the golf course took away. He sued the golf course and in settling the lawsuit the golf course agreed to pay the guy's charity money. But it wasn't the golf course that paid. It was the charity, the Donald j. Trump Foundation that paid the guy's -- the golfer's charity. That's the kind of thing you're not allowed to do. What they're doing here later is paying it back.", "So, you write, you know, in your piece about this reimbursement the $158,000 paid back to the charitable foundation but then there was another, David, chunk of change, the $62,000 that you say the foundation received? What was that regarding?", "It's hard to know because they don't -- the Trump Foundation, we know this because the Trump Foundation put out a tax filing yesterday. It didn't spell out what it's talking about. There were a number of cases we found where the Trump Foundation, Trump had used it to buy things basically shouldn't have bought, things he should have paid for with his money used the charity's money to buy, autographed Tim Tebow football helmet, giant portraits of himself, list a couple examples. The tax filing said somebody reimbursed the foundation for donations it shouldn't have given before. Was that the portrait the helmet or something else? We're still waiting for those details.", "OK. Between the portrait and the helmet and the money the political committees, which is a no-no to paying legal fees, did you come across anything authentically charitable about the Trump Foundation?", "The Trump Foundation is a strange foundation. It has Donald Trump's name on it, but he doesn't give it money. Gives away other people's money under his name. There are gifts to veteran charities made as a result of fund-raiser Trump had on the campaign trail for veterans in Iowa. A few other gifts. He gave $50,000 to his son's school in Manhattan. Gifts that have to do with his business or personal life. Those are real charity. But there's a lot of other things that have been questionable about this over the years.", "Which is what you have been spending much time writing about. David Fahrenthold, thank you.", "As always, good to see you. Another one of President Trump's executive orders has been blocked now by a federal judge. This one intended to cut funding from sanctuary cities in the country. And now the Department of Justice is firing back. We have those details next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "DAVID FAHRENTHOLD, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BALDWIN", "FAHRENTHOLD", "BALDWIN", "FAHRENTHOLD", "BALDWIN", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-345020", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-07-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/12/es.04.html", "summary": "Rescued Soccer Team Recovering in Hospital Isolation", "utt": ["Joyful tears flow as family members of that rescued Thai soccer team get to see the boys through protective glass. The boys recovering at a hospital isolation unit after spending 18 days trapped underground. Some details of their harrowing rescue only now coming to light. Matt Rivers has the latest from Thailand.", "Well, a lot of new video here that we're seeing for the first time coming out in northern Thailand, videos released by the Thai government. And let's start with the rescue attempt. The Thai government releasing clips from the video they shot inside that cave, which showed just an absolutely treacherous path for rescuers to try and carry these kids out. What you see in that video is rescuers braving very dangerous conditions, carrying boys out on stretchers. At some points, they actually have to hoist the stretcher up onto a pulley system because parts of that cave were so steep that rescuers couldn't carry the stretcher safely. So they actually had to hoist the stretchers up to get the boys out. You see running water, you see how murky it is, just an incredibly difficult task for rescuers. You also see them giving initial medical treatment inside that cave. So really good insight that we didn't have before into how difficult this rescue operation turned out to be for the brave volunteers and the Thai military and the international military that came here to get these boys out. So between video of the rescue attempt and video of the hospital, we are getting more and more insight into this situation overall here in northern Thailand -- Christine, Dave.", "All right, Matt Rivers. Thank you.", "OK. Croatia will make its first trip to the World Cup Final. They defeated England 2-1 in extra time in yesterday's semifinal in Moscow. Mario Mandzukic scoring the deciding goal. Need 109th minute, after the match he called the outcome a miracle. Croatia will meet France which last won the World Cup in 1998. And finally 11:00 a.m. Eastern time on Sunday.", "All right. Let's get a check on CNN Money. U.S. stocks fell yesterday. The Dow down more than 200 points. The U.S. announced new tariffs on China worth $200 billion. This time targeting a whole bunch of consumer goods. Beijing vowed to fight back, escalating trade tensions outweighed optimism for a strong earnings season kicking off this week. S&P 500 profits should be about 20 percent higher than last year. Right now global stocks in the U.S. futures are higher. If you are on Twitter, don't be surprised to see your follower account drop. Twitter is purging tens of millions of suspicious accounts. Most people will only lose about four followers, but big accounts like Dave's will see a more significant drop.", "Bad.", "Twitter said this move will make Twitter a more trusted service for public conversations. It's part of a broader effort to fight trolls, fake news and disinformation on the platform. Papa John's founder in trouble again. John Schnatter resigning now as chairman for using a racial slur on a call, a conference call designed to stop future PR disasters. Schnatter used the N word during a role playing exercise. He complained in this exercise that Colonel Sanders used the term without facing backlash. He used the term when he said that. He said that when he was growing up in Indiana racists drive black people from their truck. Schnatter's comments were supposed to show he is against racism, but the people on the call were offended. Schnartter apologized, investors were not impressed. The stock fell nearly 5 percent. Last year Schnatter stepped as CEO after he said Poppy John's sales will hurt by the NFL anthem protest -- remember that?", "I do indeed.", "He said that their pizza sales were down because of the way the NFL handled the players who kneel.", "A real man PR nightmare. A lot of people could not see what the connection could be between, you know, how many pieces you buy and whether a player is, you know, snapping. That Twitter story in connection to the president. All eyes on the president's Twitter account because he has 53.3 million followers but many feel that tens of millions.", "Yes.", "Could be gone as well as President Obama's Twitter account as well. EARLY START continues right now with the latest from the NATO summit.", "The president wrapping up meetings with the NATO summit today. Just a day after the president's tirade against --"], "speaker": ["BRIGGS", "MATT RIVERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-55146", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-5-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/31/lt.10.html", "summary": "U.S. and Britain Urging Citizens to Get Out of India Today", "utt": ["Up first here on CNN, a showdown in southeast Asia. The U.S. and Britain are urging their citizens to get out of India today. Clearly, the Bush and Blair administration of Great Britain are taking very seriously the possibility of a war between the nuclear neighbors, India and Pakistan. CNN's John King is at the White House this morning, where they're keeping a close watch on the tensions that are escalating in India and Pakistan. Hi there, John.", "Hello to you, Fredricka. And that's exactly right. A diplomatic effort by the United States about to get underway; but, first, both a travel advisory, a travel warning and an advisory. The travel warning goes to about 60,000 Americans who are in India, living in India, working in India. They are U.S. citizens. The United States has no direct control over them while they are in India, but the United States government issuing a travel warning today saying that they should perhaps consider whether they want to stay in India. Because of the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, the implicit suggestion is that they want to leave at least for the time being. An advisory also to the families of diplomats and those diplomats at the embassy in New Delhi, India,", "The secretary is -- both secretaries are analyzing what it would take to protect American lives if need be. Secondly, we are making it very clear to both Pakistan and India that war will not serve their interests. And we are part of an international coalition applying pressure to both parties.", "It was at that cabinet meeting that President Bush announced that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld himself would travel late next week to India and Pakistan. Goal number one: meet with leaders and his counterparts in those countries, convince them to stand down the militaries, to back away from the brink of war. Goal number two, though, to get a sense of how these tensions will affect the ongoing U.S. military campaign against terrorism. About 1,100 U.S. troops in Pakistan. Pakistan already moving some troops away from the Afghan border up to the Kashmir region, the disputed region between India and Pakistan that is the source of the tensions. Secretary Rumsfeld trying to convince these nuclear-powered countries to back away from war, but also trying to get a sense, as President Bush said just yesterday, how this will affect what he calls the \"patient effort\" to hunt al Qaeda down -- Fredricka.", "John, in relation to the Americans who are in Pakistani and Indian regions there, would the U.S. government in any way be helping to facilitate getting them out of that region?", "Yes, when you have a voluntary order, which is what happened today in India, those people are urged to take scheduled commercial flights out. If they are on the U.S. government payroll the government will take care of those travel costs, it is my understanding. If there are orders to get them out, at that point the government would first try to find commercial flights, and, if necessary, bring in transport planes. This order, an advisory today. The voluntary order today applies only to India, because such restrictions are already in place in Pakistan because of the ongoing tensions there, because of the violence there. Everybody, except non-essential personnel, have already been moved out of Pakistan.", "All right. Thank you very much, John King, from the White House. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Today>"], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KING, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KING", "WHITFIELD", "KING", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-179521", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-1-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/17/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Italian Court Orders Captain of Ship to Stay in Jail", "utt": ["Here's a run down to some of the stories we are working on next. What does an experienced seaman say about the Italian captain and how he handled the ship running aground? Then, which Republican has a better chance of beating Barack Obama? We're going to let you in on some new poll results. Later, New York City subway workers wants riders to do something really strange when they see rats. They've now turned this into a contest. We're getting a shocking account of what the captain did that was in charge of the Italian cruise ship that crashed. In his own words, he describes what happens. And we are hearing a conversation between this captain and the port authority. In it, he contradicts himself about whether or not he actually abandoned the ship and the passengers when it hit the rocks. The port authority asks, \"How come so few people? Are you on board\"? Schettino responds, saying, \"No, I'm not on board because the ship is keeling. We've abandon it.\" The port authority asked, \"What? You've abandoned the ship\"? Again, the captain says, \"No. What? Abandon? I'm here. All right, we're going to try to sort all this out. Joining us is Captain James Staples. He's captained cargo ships for 20 years. Captain, thank you for joining us. When you hear this exchange and -- first, he says he's not there and he's left and then he says -- he changes his mind and says, no, I'm here. What do you make of his explanation?", "Well, when I first heard this deposition that he gave on what happened, I was shocked. I was amazed that somebody who could be in command could leave the vessel like that and not have situational awareness of what was going on around him. This captain didn't even know how many people were on his ship. We're finding out there was well over 3,000 people. How can you not know that you have 3,000 people on board a ship that say and only say you have 100 to 200 people? I'm in disbelief. I can't believe the situational awareness of what was going on was that bad. I mean, this was terrible. And to leave the vessel in that situation and not know if everybody is safely off is delinquent.", "From one captain to another, is there a vow or an oath you take to stay with the vessel, stay with the ship and make sure everybody is OK in a situation like that?", "Well, as the captain of the vessel, your first priority is to save the lives of the souls that are on board, whether that be a crew on a smaller ship that carries 20, or you're in on a ship that carries 4,000 people. Your priority is to save those people, then the vessel and then the cargo. But always, always, always the safety of life at sea comes first. For the captain to leave like that is definitely a dereliction of his duties. A man like that should never, ever have been in command.", "Captain Schettino spoke to the Italian media about what caused the accident. Here's what he said.", "Even though we were sailing along the coast with the tourist navigation system, I believe the rocks were not detected as the ship was not heading forward, but sideways, as if under water there was this rock projection.", "So it sounds like he's blaming the ship's instruments. And you've seen the damage, you've seen this video here, how close that boat is to shore. Does that ring true to you, his explanation?", "You can't blame the equipment when you deviate from your original course line. He had a voyage plan that was laid out and set forth that he should have followed. The captain deviated from that and took the vessel in close to the beach. He even said on the news that he was within 300 meters of the beach. The ship is about 290 meters long. He doesn't even have a safe turning radius for that vessel being that close. So to start blaming equipment, no, I find that, again, dereliction of his duties.", "And Italy's Coast Guard located the black box from the ship. What can we learn from these recorders?", "These recorders are a black box that will have voice recordings in the sailings. They'll take digital recordings off of all the equipment so you'll have a date, a time, the helm orders that were being given not only in voice commands, but you'll be able to see what the helmsman was doing as he was steering the vessel. You'll have any type of current information from the engine. You'll be able to tell if there was a problem with the generation on board the generators, if there was a blackout or an electrical failure. You will be able to tell from this black block, what we call a VDR, a voice data recorders, the type of information that's on it that they can now use from the investigation. There's quite a bit of information that will be very detailed into his actions.", "Finally, quickly here, Captain, is there any possibility of survivors? We've been talking to folks who think that they could be in those cabins in air pockets. Is that still possible to find people alive?", "Well, there's always a possibility and we only hope for that. But you're going to have to know where these people were located, who they were and where their cabins were. And that would tell you, on the percentage of possibility, if they're alive. So if they were probably on the portside, I'd say there's probably a good chance of that. But if they're on the starboard side, then your hopes diminish. But we can only hope for the best. And hopefully, there are more people who have survived and are still stuck in the vessel.", "Captain Staples, thank you very much for your perspective. Appreciate that. Rating rats, yes, that's kind of weird. Think of it as a rodent reality show. That in New York, up next."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "JAMES STAPLES, CARGO SHIP CAPTAIN & MARITIME CONSULTANT", "MALVEAUX", "STAPLES", "MALVEAUX", "FRANCESCO SCHETTINO, CAPTAIN, COSTA CONCORDIA (through translation)", "MALVEAUX", "STAPLES", "MALVEAUX", "STAPLES", "MALVEAUX", "STAPLES", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-4972", "program": "", "date": "2000-3-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/22/aotc.07.html", "summary": "Fuel Key to Transport Recovery", "utt": ["As you saw, the markets rallied yesterday. It's Dow transports, though, that posted the biggest gain, 2.6 percent for the session. A lot of analysts predict oil prices have probably peaked.", "And that is great news, of course, for companies like FedEx, which reports earnings this week. Our Christine Romans joins us this morning with more.", "Hi.", "Hi, there. Well, as there is this perception in the markets that oil prices, perhaps, have peaked, at least for the time being, you're starting to see the Dow Jones transportation index bounce back. Now, it had been a really rough 1999 for the Dow Jones transports. If you look at a chart, you can see it was just a very steep decline for the transports, in large part because, you know, they have to put fuel in these planes and in all of these trucks and whatever it takes to move goods across the United States. And that has been a real problem for many of these. You can see that over the past 52 week, the Dow Jones transportation index is down 20 percent. But, look at that little red line at the end. That is the bounce that we've seen of late. And that's coming amid these expectations that oil prices perhaps have peaked. Now, fuel is the key here going forward. Depending on which analyst you talk to, 10 to 15 percent of airlines in particular, their bottom line is fuel costs. So, as these fuel costs come down, that should be better news for the airlines, although some analysts are saying their long-term worry for the airlines is labor, higher labor costs. And because, in terms of labor disputes, higher wages seem to be sort of the way that -- the direction that they are going in. But there are some values, some airline analysts are starting to say, perhaps, in the airline sector, names like Southwest, you keep hearing bantered about. But John Manley, our guest, who is going to come on later, says that he's not very interested in the trasport sector at all.", "Tell me something, because up from the anecdotal evidence from what I have read and seen, it seems like the transportation companies, be they truckers or airlines, anything but air freight, has had trouble passing along the higher fuel costs to the end users, but it's got to put a squeeze on profits.", "Exactly. Their margins are very, very thin, and, as John Manley was just telling me, they're very capital intensive. He said in airlines in particular, you know, the last couple of passengers to board a flight determine whether that flight's going to be profitable or not. And that's just a really -- that's a very close way to do business, for his taste at least. And -- but, there are people who say that these -- some of these stocks are so beaten down that there is some short-term value there. There is an analyst over at ING Barings who says that maybe there's a beginning of a two-month rally for some of these airline stocks, just given the levels that they are and its -- oil prices are going to come down.", "Now, all of this comes in advance of the OPEC meeting, which is coming up on Monday. And are we likely to see a sort of buy-on-the-rumor, sell-on-the-fact move?", "Well, that will be interesting. It depends on what comes out of that OPEC meeting because we -- I have, exactly as you said, we've already seen the market starting to anticipate that they are going to open the spigot; in fact, those stockpiles already showing that there are more oil on hand -- more reserves on hand than people had thought. So, that's definitely good news. But, you know, the way the markets work, you know, when you start to see the actual events, then, you know, you can start to pull back if there's already been some -- you know, earnings are going to be important going forward here, too. FedEx reports this week; that's a big one, sort of a bellwether in terms of the shippers. Good economy is good for FedEx. You can see that 34 cents a share is what they're looking for, compared to the 26 cents a year ago. And don't forget: oil prices have been rallying. So, it will be interesting to dig into FedEx's numbers when they come out, and see how they've been able to get by with the higher oil prices.", "Yes, these are a barometer of economic activity, tells us the same thing a lot of other indicators tell us, which is that nobody thinks the Fed is slowing anything down any time soon.", "Exactly.", "All right, Christine, thanks. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web"], "speaker": ["DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "MARCHINI", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MARCHINI", "ROMANS", "HAFFENREFFER", "ROMANS", "MARCHINI", "ROMANS", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "CNN-124086", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2008-2-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0802/27/se.02.html", "summary": "John McCain Battles Conservative Radio Talk Show Hosts", "utt": ["New polls show John McCain would have an edge over either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton but even so, conservative radio talk show hosts are not easing up on McCain. Joining me again to talk about all this, Ari Fleischer, Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Gloria Borger, from Washington. Welcome back, everybody. Let's talk about the poll numbers. I know it's ridiculously early to be talking about general election poll numbers, but why not? This must be making you happy, Ari. Yes.", "Well, it is meaningful and that isn't bad in Republican environment. John McCain actually can do as well as he's doing, and it's really telling.", "Why?", "Because of independents. The big problem John McCain has, he got through it. He couldn't win without conservatives. He got just enough to squeak through and win a primary, but he has an appeal across the center. Presidential elections, Campbell, are always determined by the center. They cast the tie-breaking votes.", "I think it's way too early. If this election has shown us anything, do not trust polls. I think this country deserves a big debate on whether we want to be a democracy or an empire. That debate will be a sharp one between John McCain and Barack Obama. If it is Barack Obama, do we want a president, John McCain, who wants us to stay in Iraq for 100 years when at the end of this year we'll be $800 billion as we head into a recession, which John McCain doesn't care that much about? It is an opportunity to rethink what security means and to take on a media, by the way, which has been way, it seems to me too kind to John McCain as the maverick straight talker. That \"New York Times\" piece stripped out the sex was on to something.", "Well, you know, one of Barack Obama's lessons is that polemics is important and the words you choose are important. The notion of an empire? We're always a democracy. It's our greatest strength. We have tested now and that --", "We have 800 bases, 800 bases ringing the world.", "OK. Let me bring Gloria into this.", "We need to reconstruct our country.", "Gloria, well, let me ask you to address the issue of Iraq, because we heard a moment ago, we played the sound that sort of battle war of words between Barack Obama and John McCain today, over the war in Iraq. Is John McCain staking his presidency, his candidacy or his candidacy rather?", "Absolutely, Campbell. He's, in fact, already staked his entire political career in Iraq. Not only for his support for the war in Iraq, but don't forget he was for the surge in Iraq before George W. Bush was for the surge. And what you're going to hear from McCain is real lines of distinction here. No matter who is the Democratic nominee, he's going to say that the Democrats want to surrender. You heard that from him a little bit today. He's going to say that he believes the war was prosecuted badly. That he was the only Republican out there saying fire Donald Rumsfeld. However, he supported the surge. He supported the war, and he doesn't think we can leave too precipitously. And that's going to be the basis for this debate, particularly given what went on at the Democratic debate last night, which was, OK, how long do you stay? How do you withdraw?", "Right.", "Those are going to be the questions that McCain's going to want to handle and the Congress is going", "Is that to both of you -- is that a winning strategy, given the poll numbers, how people still feel about Iraq?", "The issue is broader than that. It's not just Iraq or a surge. The issue is who do you trust to make America safe? That's what presidential elections often hinge on particularly in foreign policy errors like the one we're now back in. And that's a fair fight. Republicans have an uphill climb because of Iraq, but that's the broader issue. Barack Obama is wrong vulnerable on those issues.", "I think -- I think the broader issue is this has been one of the greatest strategic blunders of U.S. foreign policy history. Who's going to repair U.S. interest and reputation in the world and define security as not only the military? We've seen the limits of military power in Iraq. Security means rebuilding our country and engaging in the world in new ways.", "OK. Let me change the subject here. I do want to ask you guys about this. This is the conservative talk radio war going on with John McCain. At a rally yesterday, radio host Bill Cunningham repeatedly referred to Barack Obama as a hack. He used his middle name Hussein. This is something that McCain quickly denounced in statements. But now, other talk radio hosts are coming to Cunningham's defense. Listen quickly to Rush Limbaugh.", "Senator McCain should start pretending that liberal Democrats are conservative Republicans. And then he can cuss them out and throw them under his bus. If McCain was unhappy with what Cunningham said, there's a better way of dealing with this than to go out throw him under the bus this way. There's a better way of dealing with it.", "Does McCain still have a conservative problem?", "Well, John McCain shouldn't have apologized. I don't think that was so outrageous. And after all -- after all how many --", "By using his middle name, I mean, why?", "Did anybody criticize the Democrats when they called him George Herbert Walker Bush?", "Come on, Ari. Come on. Even I, I mean --", "-- cut from a different cloth.", "You know what's delicious (ph) --", "But for John McCain to apologize for this?", "What's delicious is to see Rush Limbaugh.", "That's making politics too petty.", "That surprises me.", "What's delicious to see Rush Limbaugh and his right wing talk radio hosts in a tizzy. This talk radio guy is very unstable. He went from supporting McCain to Hillary and then Ralph Nader in one minute. I think the key thing here is we're going to see a lot of surrogate smears in this campaign, and this is pre figure is one of the ugliest elections we may see. I would simply add \"The Nation\" reported last month that John McCain is now taking money from a group he denounced in last election's Swift Boat Veterans, and I think that's very sad because he was a maverick who stood up when they denounced John Kerry because he respected the military and now it's --", "Gloria -- Sorry, guys. I know Gloria -- I'm coming back to you on health care, I promise, but we're out of time...", "OK.", "... on this topic.", "OK.", "I appreciate you guys. Ari Fleischer...", "Thank you.", "Katrina, good to see you. Clinton and Obama spent 16 minutes parsing health care during last night's debate, so we are going to talk about it. It was so confusing, though, we decided we did need to do a fact check and that is coming up next."], "speaker": ["BROWN", "ARI FLEISCHER, FMR. 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{"id": "CNN-2241", "program": "", "date": "2000-2-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/07/aotc.03.html", "summary": "Horne: The Gloves are Off in British Banking Sector", "utt": ["A new player may be emerging in an unfolding British takeover battle: Retail banker Lloyds, as Todd was telling us earlier, reportedly is considering a hostile bid for the Royal Bank of Scotland.", "It's a pretty hostile play all across the board, in fact, in the U.K. From London, let's welcome Paul Horne. He joins us for a closer look at the players. He's the European equity strategist with Salomon Smith Barney there. And Paul, let's start in banking because, like the rest of Europe, many say this is an area ripe for consolidation, but financial services not doing too well with interest rates moving higher. What's your call?", "Indeed, good morning. Well, seen from an economist point of view, not a strategist point of view, it looks like a -- quite a complicated situation with Lloyds TSB bidding for the Royal Bank of Scotland, with in turn is bidding for National Westminster against other competing bids, very complicated. But it bears out what we've saying about financial services and banking in particular, this is a sector which is restructuring drastically, and this will continue with major cost- savings potential as we go through these different mergers.", "This is not the only sector that seems to be restructuring radically. In fact, the gentlemen's gloves are off when it comes to takeover battles, most notably with Vodafone AirTouch. Are we witnessing a complete rewriting of the rules of business for Europe?", "Well, that's right. Certainly in British banking, the gloves have been off for quite some time, and they continue to be. But in seeing Germany allow a hostile bid for Mannesmann, for instance, by Vodafone to succeed, that's really remarkable. And then we get the change in German tax law, which should open up the German corporate structure very substantially when they eliminate the capital gains on sale of German shares held by German companies. So Europe, continental Europe, really is starting to move in the restructuring sense.", "If Europe is for sale, does that include to, say, American bidders?", "Absolutely. American bidders have been very active over here. We will see much more of that, and it will particularly interesting if we see an American financial services group or bank, for instance, bidding for a German or French or Italian bank; that will be the big breakthrough.", "Deb and I were commenting amongst ourselves today, if you look at the indices this morning, again it is Paris which is standing out, and they've got a great restructure in play led there by corporate France, not by the government. Would you say, as a U.S. investor, that one should focus on some of the ADRs in France, because it is such a solid economy right now, Paul?", "Well, certainly, among the big European economies, France has got the fastest growth rate, likely to continue having the fastest growth rate this year and next year. Also, the government has been very acquiescent to the private-sector moves, both by French companies abroad, but also by foreign companies, German and Italian companies buying into the French corporate sector. France does look good from this point of view.", "The Bank of England meets on Thursday. The dollar has been strengthening pretty much across the board, absent today, where we see the pound a little stronger, but it's still under a $1.60. Do you think the Bank of England will raise interest rates?", "Yes, we do. Not really so much for sterling, which has been weakened a bit because of the Vodafone management arrangement going forward over the next couple of weeks, but primarily because the economy shows all signs of overheating. Housing prices, for instance, on a January-January basis were up 16 percent, very close to double what the Bank of England had been counting on in its own economic forecast for this year. So the bank has got to cool down both the housing sector and the consumption sector before we start seeing some signs of inflation.", "One final thought: I was looking at this -- a piece on the Spanish market, where Telefonica now makes up 35 percent of an index. We know how dominant Vodafone is. It's an interesting play. Is it too late for an American investor to play telecoms in Europe because of the consolidation we've seen in the last year in your view?", "Well, telecoms certainly is one of our preferred sectors in terms of the European investment area, primarily because of the restructuring, but also because you are seeing some of the higher value-added components of these big telecom groups being spun off and becoming very attractive in their own right. T-Online, for instance, from Deutsche Telekom, is one of those that will be spun off. Terra Networks, for instance, with Telefonica, both outstanding plays, and there will be many more these as we move forward this year.", "All right. I'm sorry to say, we are out of time. Paul Horne of Salomon Smith Barney, equity analyst, thank you so much for joining us live from London this morning.", "Thank you very much.", "Nice to see you again."], "speaker": ["DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL HORNE, SALOMON SMITH BARNEY", "MARCHINI", "HORNE", "MARCHINI", "HORNE", "DEFTERIOS", "HORNE", "MARCHINI", "HORNE", "DEFTERIOS", "HORNE", "MARCHINI", "HORNE", "DEFTERIOS"]}
{"id": "CNN-161007", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-1-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/19/cnr.08.html", "summary": "President Obama Meets With Chinese President; Dish on Tonight's State Dinner", "utt": ["Look, I don't need to tell you this, you know this. Congress has a lot to worry about -- terror threats, jobs, nuclear weapons, but you now can add football to the list of worries. Here's the deal, NFL owners want to cut back on players' salaries. Now players are obviously none too thrilled about that, so if both sides don't agree on something, Sundays will be quieter this year. And today, they are taking that fight to Capitol Hill. The players want lawmakers to intervene, the league wants lawmakers to steer clear of this discussion. Several players are meeting with congressional staff so we're going to have to see what happens next. Speaking of football, President Obama says he will go to the Super Bowl if his hometown team makes it there. Of course, hometown being Chicago, the Bears. If the Bears beat the Packers this weekend, they head to Dallas for the big show. And time now for a little \"Political Pop,\" keeping with the presidential theme here. We have some fun stuff on the slate today. Joe Johns is in D.C., as always, and we're been talking, Joe, a lot about this big state dinner tonight with President Obama and the president of China, Hu Jintao. And we now have some new video. This is just in here from inside the House. Want to walk me through it?", "Absolutely. Well, to the extent I can because I've gotten a lot of information myself.", "I can help you.", "Yes, we've gotten a brief e-mail from some of our producers over at the White House. We're being told, among other things, the little details. Dinner is being held in the Blue Room, Red Room and State Dining Room. As we told you yesterday, there's not going to be a tent where entertainment is. It's all going to happen inside the White House. There's 225 guests apparently coming to this thing.", "You see these pictures, Joe?", "Yes, very beautiful.", "I think this is obviously the Red Room with some funky red/pink lighting. Looks kind of lovely.", "Yes, fantastic stuff. These things are always Cinderella-like in many ways. Some of the other details we've gotten, we do know, according to our people over at the White House, that among the performers that are confirmed for this thing, the well-known, almost legendary jazz performer Herbie Hancock who has --", "Oh, wow.", "-- something like 12 Grammys, I think, as well as Lang Lang. There's also been a lot of buzz out there about a very, very well-known jazz performer, Diane Reeves is the name that everybody will know, along with pianist Peter Martin who apparently posted a tweet -- now these things are not confirmed -- posted a tweet earlier today talking about how he was getting a tuxedo for the big gig at the White House. This hasn't been confirmed, of course. Still waiting for an e- mail. The White House loves to keep all of this stuff under wraps until the last minute because it's supposed to create a special experience for the guests.", "OK, so perhaps then you won't be able to answer my next question, which is I just have to talk food when we talk state dinner. Do we have any idea what's on the menu or not yet?", "Not yet, I don't at least so far. I've been asking the White House for that information. We do know a little bit more about people we suspect will be guests at this dinner.", "Who is that?", "Jackie Chan, the movie actor.", "Oh, wow.", "Steven Chiu, the energy secretary. Interestingly, we heard Vera Wang, the very well-known designer was in town, but there were some reports she was just in town for the state lunch that occurred earlier today. Not clear as to whether she's going.", "Here's the menu. I'm going to jump in because I have my director in my ear, who's very excited about the poached Maine lobster. It' kind of hard to read. Orange glazed carrot cake. Continue, guys, I'm listening. Black trumpet mushrooms. Lemon sorbet. Dry aged prime rib. Thank you, Roger.", "It's very hard to read.", "Buttermilk crisp onions -- this is hilarious. This is how I get information from my director.", "Stuffed potatoes and creamed spinach. OK, let's stop, because you're making me hungry, Roger. So, that's the skinny, that's the latest as we're just now getting it here. So, you didn't get the e-mail, but we're getting the video. Apple pie, Angie is telling me, apple pies for dessert. That is a total slice of Americana. And look at everyone putting the final pieces together. You mentioned Cinderella. There's no glass slipper but there's glass chairs. I don't know. What do you think of the glass chairs, Joe Johns?", "As long as they don't fall over, fine with me.", "Wow. Pretty fancy schmancy. This looks like the kind of shindig you would be invited to.", "Oh, right. Not so lucky. Maybe one of these days.", "Not so lucky. Well, listen, before we let you go, do we want to show you the video? We have one of the little Obama girls along this rope line. It was so cute. We noticed this today. Do we have this video. I think it was Sasha.", "Yes, There she is.", "Is it Malia?", "Yes, it's Malia, apparently in the rope line with a group of small children, and she was holding an American flag, we're told. But during the time she was there and being observed by the media people, she actually traded and got a Chinese flag. So, the president walking along the rope line there with President Hu Jintao apparently pointed at -- his daughter out as one of the people as shaking hands with the leaders of these two superpowers.", "Yes, I think we just saw Sasha do the little switcheroo on the left-hand side of the screen from the old red, white and blue to the Chinese flag, but loved it. Joe Johns. I like that. Getting things on the fly. Getting my director to tell me what's on the menu at the state dinner. Excellent. Joe Johns. Thank you. See you back here tomorrow.", "There you go. Thanks. You bet, bye.", "Moving along here. A student bringing a gun to school. It goes off. Now a teen is fighting for her life. So how did this happen, and why are there suddenly more arrests in the case? That is next. Plus, it is already one of the most dangerous cities in the whole country. Now Camden, New Jersey, just got rid of nearly half of its police officers. So will criminals run wild? Lining up now, \"Reporter Roulette\" is next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "JOE JOHNS, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN", "JOHNS", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-254699", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2015-05-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1505/06/qmb.01.html", "summary": "EU Plans \"Digital Single Market\"; European Markets End Volatile Day Higher; US Markets Close Lower", "utt": ["The EU has a plan that will radically update its digital economy. The European Commission says it wants to create a digital single market by tearing down barriers that stifle competition, and that will free Europe's tech leaders to compete with the US. So, first of all, they want to end geo-blocking. You know what geo- blocking is. That's the really annoying bit that sends online shoppers to sites based only where they're located. Ending geo-blocking would allow consumers more choice. You could buy from the cheapest country, allows access to more goods, lower shipping fees. The EU thinks the single market could add nearly 500 billion -- 466 billion a year -- to the European economy. And the Commission has launched inquiries into competition in the tech sector, likely to target firms -- huge US firms, we already know about the investigations into Google. The Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, says he wants a wave of European start-ups, and he wasn't afraid to get hands-on with technology.", "Even techies like me know that technology has to be our future.", "Well, there we are. He's signing something digitally. Frederic Mazzella is the founder and CEO of BlaBlaCar, a ride-sharing app that's based in Paris. He joins me now. So, sir, you must welcome -- yours is a long-distance ride-sharing scheme -- you must welcome the digital proposals by the Commission. But what's wrong with them?", "Well, actually, it's very good news because it's a set of 16 measures that will help harmonizing, setting the new foundation, and boosting the European economy. So, we're actually super happy that this is happening. There are two measures which are really good for our expansion, is that the VAT is -- there is a legislative proposal to uniform, to make it more uniform, the VAT. And then there is also a comprehensive study that would be done for the online platforms which have to run all over Europe. Because when you grow a business from Europe -- and from the US, it's quite different. It's like comparing a hurdle race --", "Right, but --", "-- with a hundred-meter sprint, because -- yes?", "But, I see the point. And I'm slightly skeptical because I've heard all of this -- I've heard these sort of proposals before, and they take years to ever get anywhere close, and they get well and truly bogged down in European politics, because it is 27 countries -- 28, 28 countries.", "Yes, it is a complexity. It is a complexity that Europe has to overcome. We have to start somewhere, and we are really motivated to do it. And really, we are showing that now in Europe we are able to create the unicorns, like companies which are worth more than $1 billion. We've created more than 30 in the last decade. And then, we've created roughly three Europe unicorns per year now from Europe, when in the US it's about four. So, it's comparable. And we have great companies which have emerged from Europe. We are now able to build companies, tech leaders in their field, which can actually compete on the international level.", "They can compete, but frequently they don't. And that's as a result -- there's all sorts of reasons, everything from structural to cyclical, the same investment opportunities don't exist. And you're right, sir, there isn't a harmonized rule book. So, do you think the Commission's proposals go far enough?", "Yes, I think it's a very good start. I think it will help not only for the proposals and the study and the legislative proposals that have been done, but it's also in the spirit. And we have to all overcome this complexity. This complexity is also diversity, it's also richness. Because from Europe, when you have to develop with all those cultures, it also makes you more reliable and more ready to make a real international expansion into many, many cultures. Because as you say, when from the start you have to deal with 27 cultures, then you can draw in any other culture on the planet, because you are used to the change, you are used to adapting your labor laws, VAT rules, and you are used to adapting to everything.", "Thank you very much, sir, for joining us. Appreciate you talking to us tonight from Paris. Stock markets in Europe --", "-- had one of those sort of weird sessions. Have a look at the numbers and you'll see exactly -- there were four that were all up. Modest gains over the course, except in Athens, where, of course, you saw the market rising 2.8 percent. There was also factory data across Europe which showed the manufacturing was still expanding. To the US markets and, well, as you see there, they were off the lows of the day, but those lows had occurred quite late into the afternoon. So, a nice sort of early bit of green, but didn't last more than the long -- the length of an April shower. And there was a sell-off as the markets closed down. It momentarily went negative for the year. Overall, the Dow and the S&P were down around half of a percent at the close. Janet Yellen got investors nervous. She said stock values were quite high. And when you heard that, and of course, you see the result. Elections on knife-edge. If there's no conclusive result in the UK, what does it mean for the stability in BRIC? We'll talk about that after the break."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER, PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN COMMISSION", "QUEST", "FREDERIC MAZZELLA, FOUNDER AND CEO, BLABLACAR", "QUEST", "MAZZELLA", "QUEST", "MAZZELLA", "QUEST", "MAZZELLA", "QUEST", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-67894", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2003-3-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/12/se.02.html", "summary": "Base Commander Holds Press Conference", "utt": ["Right now, we have this news conference in Fort Drum, New York about the helicopter crash, the military helicopter crash -- let's go ahead and listen in.", "Chief Warrant Officer 3rd Kenneth Miller, Staff Sergeant Brian Pavlich, Sergeant John Eichenlaub Jr., Sergeant Joshua Harapko, Specialist Lucas Tripp, Specialist Barry Stephens, Private First Class Shawn Mayerscik, Private First Class Tommy Young, Private First Class Stryder Stoutenburg, and Private First Class Andrew Stevens. Currently in the Samaritan Medical Center here in Watertown are Specialist Dmitri Petrov and Specialist Edwin Mejia, and I just returned from visiting them. Nine of the soldiers that are deceased or injured in the accident were from 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment. Seven killed, two survivors. Three soldiers are from the 2nd Battalion, 10th Aviation Unit, and one soldier is from 1st Battalion, 10th Aviation Regiment. We will have a memorial service this Friday. We're also investigating why this tragic accident occurred. An Army Safety Center team is here now, and they'll conduct interviews, inspect equipment, review training records, examine personnel records, interview the chain of command, and review guidance and historical records. There are no real limitations to what the board can look at. My deepest heartfelt condolences go out to all the families of these soldiers. I'll take some questions.", "Can you tell us what the mood is like of the two soldiers that you visited in the hospital?", "Obviously, they're very grateful that they're alive, but they're heartbroken and traumatized by the loss of their brothers in this division and our army.", "Do they at all describe how they were able to live through this? I mean, how did they -- how were they able to escape death?", "They're convinced that it was the hand of God that saved them.", "What's their prognosis for recovery at this point?", "It is -- we're cautiously optimistic. I will tell you that Mejia has got some broken bones in his lower extremity. He has good spirits, and his recovery is progressing very, very nicely. Petrov is in critical condition. He's talking. He's got some serious injuries that he'll have to get over, but again the doctors and he are cautiously optimistic that he'll fully recover.", "Hi, general. Are the survivors able to shed any light on what might have caused this?", "They did talk about it, but I'm not at liberty to pass anything on until the Safety Team has an opportunity to interview them.", "And by calling this a tragic accident, does that suggest that it was indeed an accident, nothing involving sniper fire, something of that nature?", "By all indications, it was an accident. No indications of anything other than that.", "How long will the investigation take before you have some concrete answers?", "I don't know that. It will take as long as we need to to get to the bottom of this.", "Are Black Hawks flying now? Is there any", "They are flying. There is no indication that there was anything wrong with the aircraft itself, the Black Hawks generically. And so we continue to fly and train.", "Those are the ones you fly here. What others do you fly here?", "We also fly the OH-58 Delta Kiowa, which is a scout- recon helicopter that carries two, and we're flying those as well.", "Was there any history of problems with this particular aircraft?", "They've sterilized -- or taken the maintenance records and they've got those, and I have not looked at those, and I'm not privy to them until the investigation is concluded, so I can't answer that.", "General, are any of the men involved in the accident, were they -- have they been over in Afghanistan?", "That's a great question. Of the nine infantry soldiers from 4th battalion, 31st Infantry, over half were Afghan veterans, to include the two survivors.", "The two survivors were also Afghan veterans?", "Yes.", "Were they going to be deployed back to the gulf region?", "This particular battalion is on what we call a deployment order, and they're standing by in the event that they're called for to the CENTCOM area of operations, yes.", "Do you have any feedback from any of the other helicopters that were up in the air with this one?", "Only in my brief discussions yesterday. This was the trail helicopter in a serial (ph) of three, and the initial reports were that no one on board the first two helicopters were aware of the accident.", "Not that I'm aware of.", "Did the planes in the air talk with each other?", "I don't know.", "Could you describe more fully what a sling exercise is, what that entails?", "Well, this was not a sling exercise, loading heavy equipment underneath the helicopter. This was a continuation of some ongoing air assault training that this battalion and these aviators from this great aviation brigade have been doing, literally, for weeks. And it was very routine. It was a very short flight, originated at Wheeler-Sack Army Airfield right here at Fort Drum, was overflying the training areas, and was to return. It was a designated route that's been flown many times by these pilots in particular, as well as the rest in that aviation lift unit.", "We've been listening in to the latest from Fort Drum, New York, the Army base there. This is where the helicopter was based. That crash yesterday, 11 soldiers losing their lives. Two did survive. A lot of questions still about what went wrong in that training mission yesterday, also getting news that on Friday, there will be a memorial service for the deceased. 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{"id": "CNN-134869", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2009-2-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/09/ldt.01.html", "summary": "Politics of Fear; Stimulus Showdown; Classic Public Works", "utt": ["Wolf, tonight President Obama intensifies his rhetoric of fear, selling his huge borrowing and spending legislation. President Obama says delay will bring deepening disaster, as he put it, we'll have complete coverage tonight. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will be here to explain the Obama administration's position on the so-called economic stimulus bill. Ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, Senator Richard Shelby joins us to tell us why he believes the legislation could lead to disaster. Also tonight in \"Lou's Line-Item Veto\" what critics say is another waste of taxpayer money, a new headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security. We'll have all of that, all the day's news and much more straight ahead right here.", "This is LOU DOBBS TONIGHT; news, debate and opinion for Monday, February 9th. Live from New York, Lou Dobbs.", "Good evening everybody. Within the hour, President Obama will hold a primetime news conference to sell his so called stimulus legislation to the American people. Earlier President Obama used some of his most fearful language so far, abandoning the politics of hope for the rhetoric of fear. Speaking in Elkhart, Indiana today, President Obama declared that if Congress fails to take action the United States may face a crisis that may be impossible to reverse. Ed Henry has our report from the East Room of the White House where the president will hold his news conference within the hour -- Ed.", "Lou, good evening. We're told that the president will focus in an eight to 10-minute opening statement exclusively on the economy talking all about the financial crisis and that was the topic he addressed as well earlier today, as you mentioned, Elkhart, Indiana, his first town hall meeting since he took office. Aides say he picked that town because unemployment there has tripled from five percent to 15 percent in just the past year, and Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman said the whole point was to get outside the beltway, show lawmakers how much people are hurting and give the president a backdrop to once again call for urgent action to deal with the economy.", "We can't afford to wait. We can't wait and see and hope for the best. We can't posture and bicker and resort to the same failed ideas that got us into this mess in the first place. I can say with complete confidence that endless delay or paralysis in Washington in the face of this crisis will only bring deepening disaster.", "Robert Gibbs insisted the president is not back in campaign mode, but I can tell you this morning very early today Gibbs sent myself and a lot of other reporters some polling data from the Gallup Organization showing that the president has about a two-thirds approval rating among the American people in terms of how he's been handling this stimulus issue. Now Republicans have been firing back with other polls suggesting that the actual substance of the stimulus bill itself is not as popular as the president. That gap between the popularity of the president and his plan is part of the reason why the White House is putting him out there as a salesman, not just with the town hall meeting today. He's going back to Florida for another town hall meeting tomorrow, and then of course he has his prime time news conference right here in the East Room in little less than an hour, Lou.", "All right, I'm looking forward to it. Thank you very much, Ed -- Ed Henry. Well the so-called stimulus package as it now stands will likely cost somewhere around a billion -- $1 trillion. That would work out to about $1 billion a page for the legislation. Just how will it be paid for? Well, we'll have to borrow every dollar of it, much of it of course from communist China. Basically Beijing is now our principal banker. The interest alone on this legislation would amount to nearly $400 billion. Economists say the plan could at best save or create about three million jobs by the end of 2010. Based on the analysis of the House version of the legislation by Moody'sEconomy.com, the construction industry would see the largest gain in jobs, over six percent by the end of next year. Natural resources and mining, retail and leisure and hospitality would also see job gains. The overall employment impact of the stimulus would be felt most strongly in states that have been hurt the most -- principally, California. Arizona, Nevada and Florida could also be among the top beneficiaries. Economist Allan Sinai (ph) points out that the stimulus package is different than previous ones in our history. This one is fueled by government spending. Usually consumer spending leads the way out of recession. And as economist Peter Morrissey points out, once this money is spent and our deficit is even larger, there's absolutely no guarantee that our economy will not fall back into recession. The White House and Democrats tonight winning a key Senate victory on the so-called stimulus bill, senators voting 61 to 36 to end debate on the legislation and it moves to a final vote tomorrow. But even if the Senate were to approve the legislation tomorrow, there remains a huge fight ahead over how to convince House Democrats to support the spending cuts that have been proposed, if not put together rather obviously by the Senate. Dana Bash has our report from Capitol Hill.", "On its face, the Senate economic stimulus compromise, about $827 billion looks a lot like what passed the House, an $819 billion plan. But the reality is there are some major differences, setting up tough negotiations. Senate Democrats...", "This is a compromise across the aisle and it's the finest vision of the Senate.", "Versus House Democrats.", "If it stays the way it is, then it's all a little bit more challenging for us.", "In the Senate, the only way Democrats could lure Republican votes to pass the plan is by slashing some $100 billion in spending. But House Democrats are balking because a big chunk of the Senate's spending cuts are aimed at education. For example, the Senate sliced $40 billion in funding to the states, money for local officials to avoid cutbacks in education and other services. The Senate also eliminated $19 billion for school construction and cut Head Start early education funding in half from $2 billion to one billion. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned the cuts her fellow Democrats agreed to in the Senate do quote, \"violence to their economic goals\". Other House Democratic leaders agree.", "Sure, part of this compromise does violence. What's wrong with funding Head Start and so what's wrong with funding higher education?", "But here is the big problem, and that is that House Democrats do force any changes in that spending that may jeopardize support in the Senate from the three Republicans, the only three Republicans who voted yes today and those Republicans are opposed that President Obama really, really needs to keep this going and actually get this legislation to his desk. But for example, one of those three Republicans, Susan Collins, Lou, she told us that if some of those excess spending measures, what she considers excess spending, if that goes back into this compromise, she said she just can't support it.", "Well she may not be able to support it, but I can't find the cuts. It's $828 billion in the Senate version, 819 billion in the House version. Look, I'm -- Dana, I'm as used as you are to games being played on Capitol Hill, but when you cut 100 billion and I didn't perhaps do the best in my class in math, I know that the number should go down, not up by nine billion.", "You're right they should. And the reason why is because before those cuts, this bill in the Senate was well over $900 billion, Lou, and the reason is because they added some tax provisions, a tax for the so-called AMT, a tax that really affects middle income people, or at least it affects them more than I think the tax was supposed to be in the first place. But other -- two other things. One is a tax credit for housing and the other is a tax credit for people who buy American cars. Those are three things that weren't factored bud did pass the original Senate bill, so that's why those particular tax provisions are in and that's why it doesn't look like there are tax -- that there are cuts in the overall number, but there actually are.", "OK. I think we can leave it at OK. Dana, thank you very much -- Dana Bash. Well a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows only a small majority of Americans now supporting the president's borrowing and spending stimulus legislation, but that very same poll gives the president himself a much higher approval rating than the most recent other polls. The CNN poll shows 76 percent of Americans approve of the way President Obama is handling his job. At the same time, only 54 percent of those surveyed approve of the president's economic stimulus package. Forty-five percent oppose that legislation. Well Americans' opposition to the so-called stimulus bill is being driven in part by considerable outrage over measures that would do little or absolutely nothing to stimulate the economy or to create jobs. One example of utter waste is a proposal that would spend almost $650 million on a new headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security. Lisa Sylvester has our special report in \"Lou's Line-Item Veto\".", "Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security have been dreaming of a new headquarters for more than three years. The proposal, to consolidate DHS offices now spread out among 70 buildings to one campus located at the former St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. The only snag, money. But the stimulus package solves that, $646 million earmarked for the project, while proponents including Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton call it a classic public works project that is shovel ready and will put people to work, opponents like the National Taxpayers Union say it's a prime example of what should not be in the stimulus bill.", "The DHS headquarters will be a definite waste of money and certainly it merits consideration on its own rather than being stuffed into a larger stimulus package. This is a lot of money being spent on a federal facility.", "The Department of Homeland Security officials declined our interview request, but pointed us to a policy statement on the DHS Web site that says quote, \"once completed, this project will further unify our components, enhance communication and increase our mission effectiveness ultimately improving our security.\" Fiscal conservative groups warn though that future taxpayers are on the hook for any money spent.", "It's important for people to remember that this money isn't free. We're going to be borrowing heavily.", "Many Republicans complain that they haven't had much time to examine the stimulus package for items like the DHS headquarters because the legislation has been rushed to the floor.", "We're spending more money than we have ever spent in a piece of legislation in the history of the United States of America and we have only spent one week at it.", "And part of that compromise worked on by Senators Susan Collins and Ben Nelson trimmed $50 million from the original price tag for the DHS headquarters, but adds $646 million. The National Taxpayers Union says that still is way too much money for a new headquarters at a time when the country is facing a fiscal crisis -- Lou.", "And to hear Senator Jon Kyl talk about $1 trillion and a week's consideration, it would be one thing if indeed a full week had been spent, but hardly half of that time by most of the senators and their staffs . I mean it's -- and the administration demanding quick action because of again, just as George W. Bush said, Barack Obama is now claiming the sky will fall unless they vote on this legislation without further deliberation.", "Yes.", "The parallels are remarkable.", "Yes, Lou, this is truly an amazing thing for people watching this Democratic process. I mean here you have a Congress that's basically being said here vote on this bill. Many of them, as most of them probably have not even had a chance to read it and we're talking about $1 trillion here, Lou.", "Absolutely. Lisa, as always thank you very much -- Lisa Sylvester. The Obama administration has delayed an expected announcement today about the overhaul of the massive bank bailout plan. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner postponed that announcement from today until tomorrow. The Treasury Department says the Obama administration wants to focus on its economic recovery plan first. By one estimate the total cost of dealing with this financial crisis has now skyrocketed to almost $10 trillion, including all of the so-called stimulus spending, government lending and the trillions of dollars of loan guarantees. Bloomberg News estimating that that's enough to pay off just about 90 percent of the nation's home mortgages at full value as of two years ago. Of course it would be probably well over 100 percent of those mortgages given current market rates. Much more on the fight over the stimulus legislation ahead. A battle over whether to spend $2 billion on something called zero emission power plants. This is stimulus? This is possible? We'll have the answers for you in our special coverage \"Lou's Line-Item Veto\". And President Obama intensifying the rhetoric of fear on this legislation. Will the politics of fear work? Do those politics have any place in this discussion? The president's Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood joins me here next. Stay with us. We're coming right back."], "speaker": ["LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR", "ANNOUNCER", "DOBBS", "ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HENRY", "DOBBS", "DANA BASH, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SEN. MAX BAUCUS (D), MONTANA", "BASH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BASH", "REP. JOHN CLYBURN (D-SC), HOUSE MAJORITY WHIP", "BASH", "DOBBS", "BASH", "DOBBS", "LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "PETE SEPP, NAT'L TAXPAYERS UNION", "SYLVESTER", "ROBERT BIXBY, CONCORD COALITION", "SYLVESTER", "SEN. JON KYL (R), ARIZONA", "SYLVESTER", "DOBBS", "SYLVESTER", "DOBBS", "SYLVESTER", "DOBBS"]}
{"id": "CNN-120349", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-10-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0710/03/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Power Plant Fire; Gerri's Top Tips", "utt": ["And why did their fathers, sons, and brothers die? Relatives of the miners killed in Utah this summer speaking out this Wednesday, October 3rd. You are in the", "Trapped underground. A chemical fire at a power plant. Five workers dead this morning. Chris Lawrence is on the scene in Georgetown, Colorado, this morning. Chris, what does the investigation stand to gain this hour?", "Well, right now, Heidi, they're trying to still identify these men and figure out exactly what started that fire down about 1,000 feet deep into the tunnel. Now we know that this plant is run by a company called Xcel. That it was built about 40 years ago. But that these men actually were contractors from another company who were brought in to do routine maintenance. The plant itself was shut down yesterday for that maintenance and this team of men went into that tunnel basically to apply an epoxy that would prevent corrosion in the water tunnel. They were in a water tunnel probably no more than four feet in diameter. At about 2:00 in the afternoon, that fire broke out. Now, initially, some of the rescue crews had thought about going in from the top and repelling down to where the men were, but they decided against it because they would have had to climb back up about 1,000 feet with these men who may have been injured. So that was a reason. They had other reasons as well not to go in from the top.", "They made the determination pretty early on that because of the fire in the area and because of what they may not have known about the air quality, that they would go in from the ground. They had to determine, first of all, if the fire was out. So they spent in specialized crews from the Henderson Mine, which is up here, and we're very grateful for their participation as well, as all the other entities. And they went in there to see if the fire was out and they had determined at that point, I believe, that the fire extinguished itself. Determined the air quality was good. And we were going to be able to send people in from up top, but they weren't able to clear out the air quickly enough to get the crews in from the top. So they decided to go from the bottom.", "Yes, and about 45 minutes after the fire, they started shooting the clean air straight down into the tunnel. And at that point they had still had radio contact with these five men. The men said no one was hurt at that time. Now the big question is, what happened from that point, 45 minutes after the fire, to the time overnight when the rescue teams found those five bodies inside the tunnel. Heidi.", "Yes. All right. Still lots of questions, obviously. Chris Lawrence from Georgetown in Colorado this morning. Thanks, Chris.", "Well, the president makes good on a promise. Moments ago he vetoed a bill to expand the children's health insurance program. Why did the president veto this legislation? What happens next? Let's take those questions to Capitol Hill and our congressional correspondent Dana Bash. Dana, good to see you.", "You too.", "The first question. Why did the president, for folks who are just joining us and catching up on the story, veto this legislation?", "Well, the reason the president says that he vetoed it is because he sees what this legislation is. It's an expansion of the children's health care program. He sees it as the beginning of an expansion unnecessarily of government-run health care. And from the president's perspective, and the perspective of some Republicans here on Capitol Hill, they think that is best left to the private sector, not to the government, to give any American health care, but specifically to expand this children's health care program to more children even into those who may be perceived to be in the middle class. However, what the president is up against is a lot of members in his own party, Tony, who adamantly support the expansion of this health care bill. They have joined hands with Democrats. And so what you are going to see now is very intense lobbying efforts. It's actually already going on to try to get the votes to override the president's veto. So that bill is going to come back here to Congress. And what's going to happen is there's going to be a royal battle in the House of Representatives. Democrats trying to pick off enough Republicans to override the veto.", "Yes. So, Dana, it's not over for this legislation?", "Not even close. This is a galactic battle between Democrats in Congress and the president. And it is going to be potentially -- you know, every vote matters here, but what is going to be very interesting is to watch Democrats run as against some of these Republicans, pressure them behind the scenes in every way they can find. Because what they need here is just about 15 votes, Tony, to override the president's veto. They're hoping to get some -- a few Democrats who voted no last time to vote yes. But, you know, you talk to Republicans here, they admit full well, this is a very, very hard position to take, to oppose this kind of legislation. And Democrats are certainly not making it easy for them. We saw the lobbying push that they had publicly last week and it's going to continue on the air, in private. It's going to be certainly an interesting thing to watch. And also this vote is not going to happen until at least next week in order to give Democrats more time to have that lobbying.", "OK. Our congressional correspondent Dana Bash for us. Dana, thank you.", "Thank you.", "Well, polls show popular support for expanding health insurance for children. Results from an ABC News/\"Washington Post\" poll conducted just a few days ago. Seventy-two percent of those surveyed said they favor an increase in spending on the program. Twenty-five percent said they were opposed.", "Protests planned outside a Panama City, Florida, courthouse. Seven former boot camp guards and a camp nurse go on trial this hour. They are charged with aggravated manslaughter in the 2006 death of 14-year-old Martin Anderson. We're seeing some live pictures now inside the courtroom there on the left of your screen. Surveillance video on the right of your screen shows instructors kneeing and punching the teenager while the nurse looks on. The boy had collapsed earlier, but his drill instructors thought he was faking fatigue. Most of those instructors were white. Anderson was black. The NAACP protesting the selection of an all-white jury. The Michael Vick dogfighting case also back in court today. This time it's the state's turn. Lawyers for Vick expected at the hearing. Vick faces state charges of beating or killing a dog and endangering in or promoting dogfighting. He has already pleaded guilty to the federal charges. Vick is not expected in court today, but he did attend a recent class on preventing animal cruelty. It was taught by PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. A PETA spokesman says Vick was attentive, asked questions, and took notes during the eight-hour class.", "Nuclear diplomacy apparently paying off this morning. Two top administration officials telling CNN, North Korea has agreed to disable a nuclear facility by the end of the year. The deal worked out late last month during six party talks in Beijing. The facility in Yongbyon (ph) was shut down and sealed over the summer. Now the U.S. will be in charge of making sure North Korea really does disabled its bomb-making abilities there as promised. A U.S. team is expected to head to North Korea next week.", "Exclusive images for you this morning showing a brutal crackdown on protesters in Myanmar. A caution, some of these pictures might be disturbing to you. Witnesses risked their lives to smuggle these pictures out of the isolated country. They show soldiers attacking pro-democracy demonstrators in the streets. The video is at least two days old now. But today the acting U.S. ambassador reports military police are hunting protesters, pulling them from their homes and taking them away. Witnesses telling CNN, the military regime's campaign of intimidation is intensifying, but many say they will not back down. Want to tell you more now about the isolated country of Myanmar. The nation's leaders now call it Myanmar, but other countries and officials still refer to it as Burma. The military's been in control since 1962. The current regime came into power in 1988 after defeating a pro-democracy movement. That democratic push was crushed in a crackdown that left at least 3,000 people dead. In 1989, the National League for Democracy won the country's first free multiparty elections in 30 years. But the generals refused to give up power. Human rights activists Aung San Suu Kyi is the head of that party. She's been held in detention now for 12 of the 18 past years.", "Well, a search for a registered sex offender intensifying this morning. Police say Bill Mitchell abducted a 15- year-old girl he met on the Internet. Alyssa Frank was found yesterday at a Wal-Mart. Police say Mitchell apparently took the girl to the store to \"dump her.\" Mitchell is believed to be driving a 2000 model black Chevrolet Lumina, Florida tag number G025EL. At the bottom of the hour, are authorities getting any new tips or leads? We will talk with the Florida sheriff leading the investigation. An initial autopsy inconclusive. New information today about airline passenger Carol Anne Gotbaum. She died in police custody at a Phoenix Airport. Toxicology tests may tell more, but results are weeks away. Authorities say Gotbaum was not allowed to board her plane after arriving late at the gate. Police say she became angry and they handcuffed her. Police believe she lost consciousness while trying to get out of the handcuffs in her holding cell. A police officer says officers followed established policy in detaining the woman.", "Convenience store combat caught on tape. A gas station attendant goes up against a robber. Authorities say the thief was armed with a broken pool cue and a knife. The clerk tried at first to fend off the robber with a broom. You can see it all here. At one point the two are going at it hand-to-hand. The robber eventually drops the pool cue and breaks out through a locked door. He got away with $165. The story attendant was not hurt.", "And still ahead in the CNN NEWSROOM this morning, after the storm, suspected tornadoes leave damaged buildings and downed trees in the heartland.", "Also, federal bureaucrats flying in the lap of luxury? Most are supposed to travel coach, but many are upgrading on taxpayer dollars.", "And walking in their shoes. Immigrant day laborers on the street corner. Uncovering America in the NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "CNN NEWSROOM. HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TOM HENLEY, XCEL ENERGY SPOKESMAN", "LAWRENCE", "COLLINS", "HARRIS", "DANA BASH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "BASH", "HARRIS", "BASH", "HARRIS", "BASH", "HARRIS", "COLLINS", "HARRIS", "COLLINS", "HARRIS", "COLLINS", "HARRIS", "COLLINS", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "NPR-35984", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2010-02-19", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123898296", "title": "U.K. Reporter Admits To Euthanasia; Spurs Probe", "summary": "Police in Britain have been questioning a veteran TV reporter after he revealed that he had suffocated his lover who was terminally ill with AIDS. Ray Gosling, now 70, did not disclose the name of his lover or when the man had died. He said he had suffocated him with a pillow to end his suffering.", "utt": ["It's not every day that someone in the public eye admits on television to having killed someone. But that is exactly what happened earlier this week in Britain. The BBC aired a prerecorded show hosted by one of its veteran reporters in which he made a startling admission.", "NPR's Rob Gifford reports from London.", "Seventy-year-old Ray Gosling has been hosting programs on BBC television for decades. On Monday, in a documentary about death and dying, as he walked through a graveyard in his native city of Nottingham, he said it was time to share a secret that he had kept for a long time.", "I killed someone once. He was a young chap. He had been my lover and he got AIDS. And in a hospital, one hot afternoon, doctors said there's nothing we can do. And he was in terrible, terrible pain. I said to the doctor leave me just for a bit and he went away. And I picked up the pillow and smothered him until he was dead. Doctor came back and I said he's gone. Nothing more was ever said.", "After the program, Gosling said he had no regrets, that his partner had asked him to do it if the pain became too great and that he was surprised at all the fuss. The police did not quite see it that way, arresting Gosling and questioning him for 30 hours on suspicion of murder. Gosling's lawyer says he has still not named the man he killed.", "Meanwhile, the program has touched a nerve in Britain, which has been debating assisted suicide for some time. It's still illegal here, but more and more Britons are traveling to Switzerland where assisted suicide is allowed. Those in favor of changing the law say choosing when you die is just an extension of a person's general freedom of choice. Opponents say the law must stay as it is to protect the vulnerable, but that there is some flexibility for judges to show compassion.", "Dr. Peter Saunders is head of the group Care Not Killing.", "We think the law is very clear and right. It has, if you like, on the one hand a stern face, which deters abuse. On the other hand it's got a warm heart, which allows judges discretion in sentencing with a big range of sentences available.", "Ray Gosling is out on bail while the police investigation continues. Meanwhile, the British government is due to release next week new guidance on when prosecution should be brought for assisting suicide.", "Rob Gifford, NPR News, London."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, host", "MELISSA BLOCK, host", "ROB GIFFORD", "Mr. RAY GOSLING (Host, BBC Television)", "ROB GIFFORD", "ROB GIFFORD", "ROB GIFFORD", "Dr. PETER SAUNDERS (Director, Care Not Killing)", "ROB GIFFORD", "ROB GIFFORD"]}
{"id": "CNN-142209", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-8-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/25/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Michael Jackson's Death Investigation; Government Predicts Flu Could Sicken 30 to 50 Percent", "utt": ["Here now are some of the other stories we're watching right now. Four U.S. service members in Afghanistan are dead; victims of a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan. A NATO spokesman says they were patrolling in one of the most dangerous parts of the country. 42 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan this month. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani may be planning a run for governor. Republican representative Peter King tells the \"New York Daily News\" Giuliani is a 50-50 bet to run next year. He failed in his presidential bid last year. Home prices on the rise: a key new home price index shows prices were up 3 percent over the first quarter of this year. It's a small spike, but it's the first rise in three years. Prices are still down around 15 percent over this time last year. One drug after another administered within hours of each other. Preliminary findings suggest Michael Jackson died of an overdose two months ago today. CNN's Thelma Gutierrez has documents and what investigators believe happened.", "This 32-page document released in Texas reveals there was lethal levels of the powerful drug Propofol in Michael Jackson's blood at the time of his death according to preliminary findings of the Los Angeles coroner. The police affidavit says Dr. Conrad Murray, Jackson's personal physician told detectives he had been treating the star for insomnia for six weeks, giving him an IV drip with 50 milligrams of Propofol diluted with Lidocaine every night. Murray worried Jackson was becoming addicted to Propofol. In an attempt to wean him off, Murray put together other combinations of drugs that succeeded in putting Jackson to sleep for two nights prior his death. On June 25th when those drugs failed, Murray told detectives what he did hour by hour. He said around 1:30 in the morning he gave Jackson 10 milligrams of valium. At 2:00 a.m. he injected Jackson with Ativan, an anti-anxiety drug. And an hour later the sedative Versed. At 5:00 a.m. more Ativan. At 7:30, more Versed. Murray says he monitored Jackson's vital signs the entire time. According to documents at 10:40 a.m. after repeated requests and demand from Jackson, Murray administered 25 mg of Propofol and Jackson finally went to sleep. After 10 minutes Murray says he went to the bathroom and was gone for two minutes. When he returned he says Jackson was no longer breathing. Murray says he administered CPR until paramedics arrived but those efforts proved futile. (on camera): Dr. Conrad Murray's attorneys released a statement saying \"Much of what was in the search warrant affidavit is factual, however, unfortunately, much is police theory. Most egregiously the timeline reported by law enforcement was not obtained through interviews with Dr. Murray as was implied by the affidavit.\" Thelma Gutierrez, CNN, Los Angeles.", "Since Jackson's death, investigators have searched the house where he died, as well as the offices and home of Dr. Murray. Keep in mind, he has not been charged with anything yet and the coroner's finding does not necessarily mean a crime was committed. Our senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin talked with Anderson Cooper about what might happen next.", "It would be some version of manslaughter, an unintentional killing. But you can still go to prison for several years. Keep in mind though that these sorts of medical situations, it's very rare that they give rise to criminal charges. Malpractices suits, yes, losing your medical license, yes, but an actual criminal case resulting in a jail sentence, very unusual.", "In a statement, the Jackson family expresses \"full confidence in the legal process and commends the efforts of the L.A. County coroner, the district attorney and the police.\" New numbers to tell you about on the possible toll from the swine flu. A government panel has released a report saying between 30,000 and 90,000 people could die from the H1N1 flu this fall and winter. And more than 120 million could get sick. Senior CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen joining us now with more on this perspective, of course, important. So the numbers are alarming when you hear them, Elizabeth. The worse-case scenario is what we're talking about.", "Right, the high end of the ranges that you just mentioned, Heidi, those are the worse-case scenarios. So let's take a look at what this report found. This was found by the president's council of scientific advisors and let's put it in perspective of what happens every year with the flu. What this report found is that it predicts there could be 30,000 to 90,000 deaths from swine flu this upcoming flu season. To put that in perspective, every year 36,000 people die of regular seasonal flu. Secondly, the report found that 30 percent and 50 percent of Americans could become ill with swine flu, regular flu five to 20 percent of Americans become ill just from regular seasonal flu. So what you're seeing here, bottom line is that this will likely be a much worse flu season than other flu seasons because this year you have regular flu, plus you have swine flu on top of that. What they can't say is exactly how many people will die. You will see those ranges are huge, that's because, Heidi, nobody has a crystal ball. Everyone is just estimating at this point.", "Yes, of course, and trying to prepare. A lot of people are asking, in fact, where do we stand on a vaccine now? When will they really be ready? Because we're looking at fall, right?", "Right. We're looking at fall. I mean, they would like to start vaccinating for flu really in September. That's when the shots are often available, but for swine flu they don't expect the shots to be available until the middle of October and even then there won't be enough available for everyone who needs to get it, to get it all at once. However, there will be more doses available as the season progresses and not everyone necessarily needs to get a swine flu shot. Top on the list are pregnant women and, actually, younger people. Usually we talk about older people getting shots for flu, for swine flu it's actually younger people who are more vulnerable.", "Yes. Good reminder there. Also remind us of what we should be doing to prevent swine flu. A lot of hand washing and coughing in our elbow or arm, right?", "That's right. You just named two of them. There are really three basic things you should think about doing. First of all, you should think about washing your hands frequently with hand sanitizer or soap and water. Don't go out if you're sick. Don't go to work. Don't send your kids to school. You're just going to make the problem worse for yourself and for other people. Also cough or sneeze into your sleeve, not into your hands.", "Yes. Very good. All right. Elizabeth Cohen, our senior medical correspondent. Sure do appreciate that. President Obama taps one of his top money man for a second term now. Just last hour, the president nominated Ben Bernanke to remain as the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Bernanke has gotten mostly positive remarks for his handling of the financial crisis and the nation's worst recession since the 1930s.", "The Federal Reserve, like other economic policymakers, has been challenged by the unprecedented events of the past few years. We have a goal and deliberate circumstances demanded, but our objective remains constant. To restore a more stable, financial and economic environment in which opportunity can again flourish and in which Americans' hard work and creativity can receive their proper rewards.", "The Senate will need to confirm Bernanke, of course, into a second four-year term and then later CNN's Stephanie Elam is going to be talking with us a little bit more about Ben Bernanke. That will come your way on the back half of this hour. Homeowners take heart, we have some encouraging news to share. Just last hour we learned the U.S. home prices gained some ground from the first quarter of the year to the second. The first quarterly increase in three years, in fact. It adds to the optimism that the housing crisis may be easing, but we still have to give you this reality check. Last quarter's home prices are still down 15 percent from one year ago. We are following another money matter this morning, the national deficit. As an American how much debt are you and your grandchildren facing? Just in now the congressional budget analysts say deficits over the next decade will total $7.1 trillion. Christine Romans is part of the CNN money team and she's joining us from New York this morning. We have those numbers right, Christine?", "Well, look, what we are expecting they had for some time the White House had said $7.1 trillion will be the 10-year deficit. We expect them actually to raise that to about $9 trillion. So think of that 10 years, over 10 years a budget deficit of $9 trillion, what does that mean? Well, this is how you measure I guess the books of the country. The money that's going out and the money that is coming in.", "Do me a favor, Christine. Let's remind everybody the difference between deficit and debt. Because I'm not quite sure people totally get that and why it's important.", "The deficit is the difference right now between what our government is spending every month and what we're taking in every month. So what we know is that we're spending way, way more every single month than we are taking in. We are spending on a far-reaching expensive program to try to remake and rescue the American economy. The sky rocketing spending on unemployment benefits, health care, bailout programs and a lot of different bailout programs, frankly, a lot of different things. At the same time, revenue is plunging. The tax receipts that are coming into the government are plunging. So we're spending more. I mean, think of it what your own books look like at home. You know, money coming in is less because of the declining income and payroll taxes, those are declining and that is hurting the government coffers. All kinds of non-wage income, the recession has hurt and also the stimulus tax credit, people aren't spending as much on taxes because part of the stimulus was to give a big tax break there. So, the money that's coming in is far, far less than the money that's going out and over 10 years that deficit could be like $9 trillion. What's the debt? The national debt, this is all the money that we have already spent that we haven't paid for and that is about 11, more than $11 trillion, almost $12 trillion. I mean, it goes up by the second, frankly. That's a growing, growing number. That's what we have already spent that we haven't paid for as soon as we borrow that. We borrow that from ourselves and we borrow that from overseas lenders, from foreign governments. We issue treasury bonds and we pay interest on it. The worry is you borrow so much money, Heidi, and then in the future you pay so much on interest that it starts to limit the amount of investment that you can do in your own economy.", "Exactly this is why we talk about China so much.", "Sure.", "Interestingly, these numbers - this year's deficit will be less than what's predicted earlier?", "It's interesting, a little bit less, and the reason why is because we expected we would be spending a lot more money on the bailouts to the banks, frankly, that we actually had to. And that's the small - I can't even call it a silver lining, really, because when you're talking about this much red ink there's very little optimism about it, but we didn't spend as much as we could have on the banking rescue and on some of the other bailouts and so that's why the numbers, while still humongous and still a record will not be quite as bad as we had thought before.", "OK. All right. I understand what you're saying, I do. All right.", "It's a lot of money and the calculation that they're making right now is that we have to spend a ton of money right now to get this economy fixed so that it can grow again in the future. That's what the gamble is here.", "All right. Well, Christine Romans is watching all the numbers for us.", "Sure.", "We sure do appreciate that. In fact, we continue to watch the numbers as we check out the Dow Jones industrial average and you see there, up about 87 points or so, resting at 9,596. Pretty early in the trading day about 40 minutes, I should say. We'll continue to watch those numbers throughout the day. 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{"id": "CNN-292008", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2016-08-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/22/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Was Rio 2016 a Success?", "utt": ["Going out with a bang, well, several. Fireworks lit up the sky over Rio as the 2016 Summer Games came to an end. 19 days, 306 competitions and 42 sporting disciplines. These games have already made history as the first to be held in South America. Live from New York, you're watching CNN. This is Connect the World with me, Becky Anderson. Welcome back. The smooth running of the closing ceremony was a stark contrast to the troubled lead-up to the games, wasn't it? Rio 2016 organizers had to contend with an international doping schedule, not to mention fears over the Zika virus and worries over security at Olympic sites. By many accounts, Brazil seems to have carried it off. For his view, let's bring Christopher Clarey. He's the global sports columnist from The New York Times, and joins us from Rio as he winds up his work there for the time being. Before we talk, Chris, about how Brazil did, an update on the event that certainly served to cast a shadow over the games, but not one that the host country had any involvement with or control over. Speedo USA has announced a decision to end its sponsorship of Ryan Lochte, the swimmer who has been held to account for his, let's say, activities and the way he explained himself over one evening in Brazil. What's your response to Speedo's announcement today?", "It's not surprising at all. And I would say that, you know, in a way the Brazilians did effect this this, because they're the ones who so aggressively pursued the story and the claims after they were made by Ryan about there being a robbery and a theft. And I think their swift action, which was surely out of their own interest to show this was not the case, made a difference in this coming to light. And the fact that Ryan lost his sponsorships, considering how his reputation has taken a hit in the U.S. and globally, it's not surprising.", "All right. Let's replay just some of those scenes from that closing ceremony, which showcased Brazil's history and culture, a giant parrot float, an arresting sight for many. While an array of dancers and routines of various styles attested to Brazil's right and multi-layered artistic heritage, or certainly this was how it was explained, the ceremony even included a striking monochrome tribute to Brazil's lace making tradition. The host nation, it seems, seizing the opportunity to show itself off to the world. Carnival-esque is how your paper described the closing show. Even so, the stadium dotted with empty seats. And that was the story, wasn't it, during much of the event. Why did spectators stay away in Rio?", "Well, first of all, you got a lot of tickets to sell in an Olympics. It's a tough economic time here. And I'm sure they had a problem with the foreign tourism coming in because of all the negativity, and the drum beat coming in. So, I think all those factors played in. And I think where you really saw it the most was at the athletics, the track and field, half the stadium was full a lot of times at best. And it was because it maybe an out-of-the-way place, not a sport with a great deal of culture and back ground here in Brazil. So, I think all those factors played in. But it definitely hurt the competition.", "A wasteful event that worked out, the words of one local columnist reacting to a poll suggesting that over half of those asked actually thought the Olympics generated a more positive image of the country. Do you agree with that?", "You know, it's a really hard thing to judge right away. I think you need to take a look at maybe a few months, a year or two from now and get a real sense. But there's no doubt that considering how low expectations were and how much doomsaying there was this, Becky, I think that people would view it as a qualified success. I also feel like it's a bit of a pity that we've come to the point that disaster, not having a disaster is success. I mean, there was no major issue, major problem, but a lot of things went wrong here. But what didn't go wrong were the athletes and the sports. And that was mostly uplifting and some tremendous performances here over the last 17 days.", "Yeah, you're absolutely right. Look, Olympic closing ceremonies frequently a time of generous, if repetitive praise, for the host nations. I just want to go through what we've heard in the past, and how we might respond to them and some context. The Atlanta games in 1996 labeled by then International Olympic Committee chief Juan Antonio Samaranch (ph) as, quote, a most exceptional Olympics. But 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, also exceptional, it seems, a truly exceptional games. Those are the words of Jacques Rogge. IOC chief Thomas Bach got creative, but equally fulsome with his plaudits in Rio: these were marvelous games, he told the Maracana stadium on Sunday. Like, look, we wouldn't expect the heads of the IOC to say anything different. But looking at it with a little bit more detachment, we're suggesting that Brazil did get quite a lot of things right, and particularly the events themselves. Was there anything that future hosts might learn from all of this?", "I'm sorry. The last thing you said, Becky, again?", "What do you think future hosts might learn from Brazil?", "I'm more interested in what the IOC learns and what they can apply to future hosts. Because I feel like after Sochi and the winter Olympics and all the money that was spent and all the controversy that legitimately generated, and then what's happened here in Rio at a time of real crisis that nobody could have predicted, they need to look at their model. So, I'm curious what the IOC will learn from what's happened in the last two Olympics, winter and summer, and how they look at their own model -- financially, what sort of cities they want to take this to, whether they're going to go to a geographical rotation instead of taking it to new places and whether they'll go to a geographical rotation, instead of taking it to new places and new markets. It needs a real rethink. I've already started this with what they call the agenda 2020. But I think we need an agenda 2024, too, after this.", "And to that end, the Paralympics, of course, start in Rio in just over two weeks time. And they have been hit by very low spectator interest, amongst other issues. And there are an awful lot of other issues that the IOC needs to get to grips with. Just have a listen to this.", "What has affected the Paralympics in terms of financing was obviously low ticket sales, lack of sponsorship. We understand that with the success -- late success of ticket sales for Olympics, we will be able to sell more Paralympic tickets. So, it's yet to be found how much money will be needed for the Paralympics.", "Mario Andrada was speaking there. Christopher, what kind of shape is Paralympic funding in now?", "This is an unprecedented situation in the modern history of the Paralympics. And I think what's happening here is I think Rio, again, understandably to some degree has a big event fatigue here, both I think in terms of their energy levels and the public support and also in terms of the finances after the World Cup in 2014 and now this massive effort in Rio for the Olympics. So, it's a real shame what could happen. I mean, we're talking stadiums that could be a quarter full or less for some of these events. After the huge success of London, which took the Paralympics to a new level, it's a real shame we're coming to this. And I think it's definitely a byproduct of all the efforts that have been made and had to have been made behind the scenes in the last seven years here in Rio.", "With that, we're going to leave you to it today. Well, done. I'm sure you've enjoyed it, but I'm sure it's been tremendously hard work. And thank you for your time during the event on CNN. The latest World News Headlines are just ahead. Plus, for the first time ever, a jihadist stands trial in The Hague for destroying cultural sites. What he had to say about an attack on Timbuktu. Plus, we'll explain why simply doing this has this Olympic athlete saying he now fears for his life. The details on that are ahead. You're watching CNN. This is Connect the World with me, Becky Anderson, out of New York this week. 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{"id": "CNN-131960", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-10-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0810/29/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Interest Rate Cut Expected; McCain Fighting for Florida", "utt": ["All right. Let's see, a quick look at the markets, the New York Stock Exchange now and the Big Board.And again, it's been kind of a mixed day. We've been down, we've been up, but right now it's good news. We are up in positive territory, 38 points. We will get a market check with Susan Lisovicz a little later in this hour. With the markets jumping all over the place, and as the economy looks for some kind of direction, the Fed is eyeing another interest rate cut today. Live now to our Christine Romans in New York. And Christine, on the idea of an interest rate cut, on a percentage basis, what are we expecting today? And how much of a cut is the street looking for? We know those two numbers could be different.", "Right. Well, we're looking for on how many percentage points they're going to lower it. And most people expect either a quarter of a point or a half of a point. But keep in mind, we've seen moves already several times this year. We had that emergency rate cut, remember, October 8th, when they came out without even having a meeting and just cut rates pretty dramatically, a half a point. So we don't know for sure. We won't know for sure for two hours and 15 minutes, but the street is expecting another rate cut. So, what would the level be? About 1.5 percent, would be the fed funds target. This is what it is now, sorry, 1.5 percent is where it stands right now. The primary stands at 4.5 percent. The goal of a rate cut, of course -- why would it matter to you? Well, the goal is to make it cheaper to borrow. Businesses can expand and hire more people, can save on lower rates, and consumers are able to spend more. But that's it in theory. Remember, we've had pretty low rates throughout the year, and the concern here is not the level of interest rates being low, but that banks aren't lending, and people aren't lending, and the normal lending isn't happening. So, as cheap as the rates are, you're still not seeing the lending that they would like to see.", "Yes.", "But the intention of a rate cut, Tony, as we know, is to make borrowing costs lower, to make it easier to borrow, and to goose the economy. And we know the economy could use some goosing. We got more job cuts announced today from all different kinds of industries, from magazines to auto parts. You know, you saw Qwest Communications announce some job cuts today. Down the line you're seeing job cuts. And that's expected to continue. So pink slips for a lot of people at a lot different kinds of company. Enterprise Rent-A-Car, this was, like, yesterday. They're cutting some 200 jobs. They've never had what are called mass layoffs, 50 layoffs or more at a time, in the history of that company. So you're seeing the belt tightening at the office. How is the economy affecting where you work? Well, you're already starting to see it. In a recent poll, a survey, from Watson Wyatt Worldwide, showed that a lot of employees are expecting hiring freezes and more job cuts. In particular, a quarter of employers surveyed said they're going to lay off workers next year. About a quarter of them said they're going to be having a hiring freeze. They're going to cut training. Eighteen percent said they'd slash the holiday party. And look at this. Four percent of companies surveyed in this Watson Wyatt Worldwide survey said they were going to cut their 401(k) match, at least temporarily.", "Well, that's the reason a lot of us are involved in those programs to begin with, because we get the match.", "I know.", "It makes sense, but we love the match.", "We love the match. And so if you're an optimist, I think you're going to say it's a tough economy. And 96 percent of surveys said next year they're not going to touch their 401(k) match. But boy, if you're one of those employees that you will see a suspension there, that's certainly not good.", "Yes.", "We always say that that's the free money. You know, don't give up the free money. So...", "Yes.", "... most people are still going to get that next year. But you'll be looking at the office, Tony. You're going to see how companies are starting to cut corners. And they have a fine line to walk here. They have to keep morale up, because people are seeing a weak economy all around them. So they have to keep morale up, but they also have to cut costs where they can.", "Yes.", "So maybe that big, extravagant Christmas party and the holiday party, out the window maybe for a lot of companies this year.", "Bye-bye. All right, Christine. Good to see you. Thank you.", "Bye-bye.", "The energy crisis and how it contributes to our money problems. Just a short time ago in Ohio, Sarah Palin made her case for offshore drilling and the development of other energy solutions.", "Oil today is running at about $64 a barrel. That's less than half of what it was just a couple of months ago. And though this sudden drop in prices sure makes a difference for all of our families and our pocketbooks, and for our local communities' budgets and our state budgets, the danger still of our dependence on foreign oil is just as real as it was before this decline in oil and gas prices.", "Well, Palin says energy prices will stabilize when the U.S. has achieved its own energy security. And for more on the financial crisis, just go to CNNMoney.com. Six days to seal the deal. The candidates packing in as much as possible on their last lap of campaigning. Barack Obama coming to you live any minute now from Raleigh, North Carolina. And we will take you there the minute that he begins speaking. Last hour, John McCain wrapped up his rally in Miami. We brought you his speech live. McCain's got another big event coming up this afternoon in Palm Beach. It is critical strategy time for the McCain camp. Our Ed Henry reports from Miami.", "John McCain spending the day here in Florida because it is the mother of all battlegrounds. First of all, he's meeting with his national security team to try once again to raise questions about whether Barack Obama is fit to be commander in chief, but the rest of the day is all about the economy. McCain aides know that he's behind, but they still believe he can come back, and here's his emerging strategy. First of all, they say he has to hold states that George W. Bush carried in 2004, such as North Carolina, Virginia, and here in Florida. So he was holding an event here at this lumberyard in Miami, a \"Joe the Plumber\" event, it's called, where he was trying to level the charge once again that if Obama is elected, his tax plan will make the financial crisis worse.", "You see, Senator Obama believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs. He said that even though lower taxes on investment help our economy, he favors higher taxes on investment for \"fairness.\" There's nothing fair about driving our economy into the ground.", "If McCain does succeed and hold the states that George W. Bush covered in 2004, McCain aides say he could get to around 260 electoral votes, 10 short of the magic number of 270. So then he would have to do one of two things -- either carry Pennsylvania with its 21 electoral votes to put him over the top, or carry a combination of smaller states like Nevada, Iowa and New Hampshire. The problem, though, is in all four of those states: Pennsylvania, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire. McCain is behind in all those states in the latest CNN Poll of Polls. So this will be an uphill climb. Ed Henry, CNN, Miami.", "Ten issue, 10 days. Countdown to the presidential election. So far this week we've looked at the candidates' stands on the economy, taxes, energy, and health care. Today we turn to education. Let's look at candidates' plans for teaching your children. Barack Obama would increase early childhood education funding. John McCain emphasizes virtual schools and online education. Obama wants to expand mentoring programs and give scholarships to teachers. McCain favors bonuses for teachers who boost student performance. He also wants extra funding for states that recruit teachers near the top of their graduating class. Obama favors a $4,000 tuition tax credit. He also wants to expand Pell Grants and lower interest rates on college loans. McCain wants to simplify tax benefits and consolidate the government's financial aid program. Those are just some of the things the candidates are proposing. The high cost of college forcing teens to make some tough choices. I'll put a face on the problem for you in an interview with a very smart young lady from Brooklyn. Don't miss it at the bottom of the hour. Barack Obama's campaign spending has been at record levels, and now the way he's spending it is also a political first. And a live picture now, Raleigh, North Carolina, Barack Obama's event to start in minutes. We will take you there when it begins."], "speaker": ["TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "ROMANS", "HARRIS", "ROMANS", "HARRIS", "ROMANS", "HARRIS", "ROMANS", "HARRIS", "ROMANS", "HARRIS", "ROMANS", "HARRIS", "ROMANS", "HARRIS", "GOV. SARAH PALIN (R-AK), VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "HARRIS", "ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. 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{"id": "NPR-31037", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2010-08-30", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129522447", "title": "Flood Waters Begin To Recede In Parts Of Pakistan", "summary": "The massive floods that have devastated large areas of Pakistan continue to inundate southern parts of the country. In other areas of the country, the water is receding. Millions of people are displaced and officials are scrambling to provide relief aid.", "utt": ["The flooding in Pakistan has reached its final stage. On its way down the Indus River, floodwater displaced millions of people. And in the last parts of the river before reaching the Arabian Sea, the high water affected half a million more. NPR's Julie McCarthy traveled through the province of Sindh.", "A huge expanse of the delta area that flows into the Arabian Sea is now covered with water.", "While floodwaters are beginning to recede in other parts of the country, they continued to rise around us yesterday outside Thatta, a 700-year-old Delta city two hours east of Karachi. Furious residents blocked a road with stones and tree branches in a bid to force the government to stop the breaches in the canals, levees and embankments.", "The water surged into the town of Sujawal late yesterday, putting the city center under five feet of water. The southern Sindh farming town has been cut off from the rest of the province.", "Ninety-five percent of the inhabitants of the area had already evacuated. They joined the throngs of evacuees from the city of Thatta and its surrounding villages. They are massed - on roadsides, hillsides, rocks and in cemeteries - by the hundreds of thousands. They are collecting their own firewood. They are sleeping under the stars, their animals tethered to the same rickety canopies that are the only protection families have from the elements. But with the flow of the river decreasing, authorities expect the displaced to begin returning to their flood-ravaged homes within a week.", "Julie McCarthy, NPR News, Islamabad."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, host", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY"]}
{"id": "CNN-145648", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-12-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/02/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Stocks Climb to 14- Month High", "utt": ["Straight ahead on the Most News in the Morning. Senator John McCain has been urging President Obama to take the advice of his generals and increase deployment. So what does he think of the president's new strategy? We'll find out when he joins us live in about 10 minutes.", "Meanwhile, Stephanie Elam joins us right now. She's \"Minding Your Business\" this morning, and we're talking about the rally that keeps on rallying.", "Yes, the rally that just keeps on going. And for all those people who didn't get into the markets all year because they're afraid, this may hurt a little bit. I know that, but I'm going to tell you anyway. The Dow is at a 14-month high. Look at that. Since March 9th when we hit our market lows for the cycle of 6,547, which sounds really creepy now. Right? Remember --", "Look at the glass half full. If you stayed in, you stayed put. And you didn't do any...", "OK, yes. If you stayed in, you're feeling a lot better about things since we did see this rise of about 60 percent and getting us back to 10,471 that we hit yesterday. Yesterday, it just gets you wondering the Dow was up about one percent. So you take a look at these numbers and you could see that we've been on a tear since things turned around. The NASDAQ up 72 percent. S&P; 500 up 64 percent since that March 9th date. Things looking a lot better for people stuck around the house. Still, the high that we hit ever for the Dow was 14,000. A little bit over that. So we're getting closer. We're still not quite back there.", "So you can still jump in.", "You can still jump on. Get some of that money back. But yes, it just shows, though, why it's hard to stay -- you know, stay on the sidelines for too long. And take a look at what happened. The reason why we saw these sort of number jump, Dubai. Remember last week we talked about all the things that were going on there. This credit issue. Whether or not this was going to have any exposure to the U.S. markets? Well, it looks like, no. Looks like this is a very Dubai eccentric (ph) event. And so because of that, the markets here are calming down. The way they're handling it has also changed. Also pending home sales, rising for nine months in a row. That's helping out. But let me show you gold. We're just joking around here about all the things that would have happened, and our producer Brian is saying, why the heck didn't you tell me a while ago so I could jump into the gold back then? Well, yes, if only I had a crystal ball. But look at this. Gold hitting a new high. Some places never been before. $1,199 an ounce. And trading above that today. That was yesterday. So we're looking at some pretty stellar moves here, but overall, today we're looking not for a big move but that's typical after we see a day like yesterday. So keep your eyes peeled but overall the year coming back. The worst behind us. Looking much better since March 9th of this year, when it was just a very low number.", "It is amazing that we're still dealing with unemployment on one end, the bad news.", "Yes.", "And home foreclosures but we're seeing a rally.", "And that...", "A couple of bad quarters still ahead on that front, too.", "And that is a concern. A lot of people worry that if -- you know, the market's doing one thing and it is a leading indicator. One of the first things we look to. But if the jobs numbers don't get better, then people worry about a double-dip recession, or we slip back into it. So there'll be a lot of eyes on that to see what happens with the jobs numbers.", "That put so much nervousness last week about Dubai, too.", "Exactly. And it just shows you just how skittish the market still it.", "Exactly. Stephanie Elam \"Minding Your Business\" this morning. Stephanie, thanks so much. A lot of people watched the president's speech last night. What did they think about it? We put the speech to dial test. Our Jim Acosta with that coming up next. Twenty-six minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "CHETRY", "ELAM", "CHETRY", "ELAM", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ELAM", "ROBERTS", "ELAM", "ROBERTS", "ELAM", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-182233", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2012-3-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1203/06/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Chelsea Fires Manager Andre Villas-Boas; Oreo Cookie Celebrates 100th Birthday", "utt": ["It's time now for a sports update. And there was a big NBA showdown on Monday night between the defending champions and the team that's best in the west so far this season. Let's go to Alex Thomas in London with more on that and a look ahead to more Champion's League action -- Alex.", "Yes, Kristie. They may not attract as many headlines as Jeremy Lin, The Heat, or the Lakers, but Oklahoma City has the best record in the NBA's western conference. And their game against the Dallas Mavericks certainly got star billing. The deadly duo of Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant often get the Thunder rumbling. And here's Westbrook with three of his 24 points in the game. Oklahoma recovering from a half-time deficit to level it at 52-all. Durant kept up his high standards too, draining this three, part of his 22 points on the night. Although the highest scorer was on the Mavericks' team. Dirk Nowitzki with four 3-pointers in the fourth quarter alone as the German racked up 27 points in the game. It's almost tight right to the end. Dallas up by one when Serge Ibaka was fouled. He makes both of his free throws and the Thunder would stay ahead winning by 95-91, their 13th victory in a row at home. Now to Derrick Rose and the Bulls with the NBA's best overall record looking to avenge a home defeat by the Pacers earlier in the season. Here's Rose with a three as Chicago takes a six point lead. Later in the quarter Rose finds Luol Deng for the deep three and he makes it. Deng leading the Bulls with 20 points. And that's the same amount that Chicago outscored the Pacers by in the third quarter. Rose with another successful three. He had 13 points and a game high 9 assists. The Bulls could afford to showboat a little by this stage. Here's Taj Gibson with a huge slam and Chicago make it seven wins on the trot with a 92-72 victory. Now temporary Chelsea manager Roberto DeMateo admits the club has had a difficult 24 hours, but says the squad needs to move on after the sacking of Andre Villas-Boas. The first task for DeMateo is to lead the team into an FA Cup fifth round replay later against Birmingham City who are in the division below England's Premier League. DeMateo, a former Chelsea midfielder and one of Villas-Boas' assistants says he wants to see passion from his players and staff. AC Milan are expected to book their place in the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champion's League later. They've flown into London with a comfortable 4-nil lead from the first leg of the club's round of 16 clash. Milan manager Massimiliano Allegri says striker Zlatan Ibrahimavic, who scored a hat trick at the San Siro, is playing as well as Lionel Messi and Christiano Ronaldo right now -- quite some claim. Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger's backtracked slightly, having said his team had no chance in the immediate aftermath of his side's defeat in Italy, Wenger now thinks a comeback isn't impossible, although he only has two recognized midfielders fit enough to start. Tuesday's other Champion's League last 16 match sees Portugals Benfica host Zenit St. Petersburg. Benfica conceding a late goal to lose the first leg 3-2, but those two away goals could yet prove crucial. At the very least, Benfica looking forward to slightly more comfortable contitions in Portugal. Temperatures for the first leg in Russia dropped to minus 17 degrees at one stage. So, Kristie, it'll feel like a Hong Kong summer night by comparison. Back to you.", "That's right, putting it into perspective there. Alex Thomas thank you very much indeed. Now it is a fairly simple recipe -- two parts chocolate biscuit, one part cream filling, but who would have thought that the Oreo would become the world's top selling cookie, providing a century of crunchy goodness to desert lovers everywhere. Felicia Taylor has more on Oreo's 100th birthday.", "There's so much fluffy cream in between.", "Aren't Oreo kids lucky? Aren't Oreo mothers great?", "It's been an important part of childhood for generations, the venerable Oreo cookie, a product with such culture longevity that to this day people still talk about their favorite way to eat it.", "Tilt your head at a 45 degree angle to make sure you lick all the cream off.", "And take the cream and I like it down the middle. And there is now a streak that runs through it.", "The Oreo is one of the world's most popular brands with $1.5 billion in global annual revenue. It's now sold in over 100 countries. And it all began here in New York City at what is now the Chelsea Market. 100 years ago on this very spot the first Oreo cookie was made. This, of course, was the original Nabisco bakery, the parent company responsible for those classic chocolate wafers joined together by a vanilla cream filling.", "When Oreos began being sold 100 years ago, they were sold in tins like this in bulk. And the very first Oreo cookie sales were recorded in Hoboken, New Jersey on March 6, 1912.", "It's not just Oreos that have stood the test of time, Corn Flakes had been around since 1896, Campbells Soup was founded 1877, and Jell-O, this one is over 110 years old. Marketing experts say it takes skill for a brand to last through good times and bad.", "They've been able to balance consistency and change. It's original. It's authentic. But they've kept it fresh. They've kept pace with the change in times.", "Indeed, social media is now an important part of Nabisco's marketing mix. Oreo has its own Facebook page with more than 25 million followers. You made a mess.", "I did make a mess. I did.", "Kraft, the owner of the Oreo brand, works hard to keep the product fresh at its research kitchens in New Jersey.", "What you'll see here is a variety of different flavors. Ideas, some of them we've heard from our consumers over the years.", "Rainbow sherbet.", "Rainbow sherbet, you have toasted coconut, lemon, orange, tangerine.", "Kraft also takes care to cater to each new global market.", "It's a smaller pack size to fit the size of the smaller stores in China.", "But across the world, one thing stays the same, the classic way to eat an Oreo.", "Twist open the cookie.", "Twist open the cookie.", "You might want to lick out a little bit of the cream. And then if you're a milk fan, you can dunk it right in the milk.", "Who knew I'd be making an Oreo cookie.", "Thumbs up.", "This is better than straight of the package for sure. No matter how you make it or how you eat it, one thing is clear to last 100 years you must be one smart cookie.", "It's a good cookie.", "Felicia Taylor, CNN, New York.", "Now 100 years ago it was 1912, that means the Oreo was created around the same time the South Pole was discovered and the Titanic sank. Now here's another piece of trivia for you. Apparently about 50 percent of all Oreo eaters, they pull apart their cookies before consuming them, but women are more likely to twist them open than men. So perhaps it's simply a question of patience. And that is NEWS STREAM, but the news continues at CNN. \"WORLD BUSINESS TODAY\" is next. 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{"id": "CNN-72978", "program": "CNN LIVE SUNDAY", "date": "2003-6-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/29/sun.06.html", "summary": "Can Miracle Drug Stop Stroke, Heart Disease?", "utt": ["Heart disease and stroke are the biggest killers in America today. Could one pill a day change all of that? Our Dr. Sanjay Gupta has the facts on the polypill.", "On average most people in their 60s and 70s take five to seven pills every day. They take them to lower cholesterol, improve blood pressure, and generally promote good health. (on camera): But what if there was just one pill, a polypill? Instead of waiting until you got sick to start taking it, you took it every day starting at age 55 as a preventative? Even if you were completely healthy.", "In people who start taking the polypill at age 55, about one third would expect to benefit, and each of those individuals would, on average, gain about 12 years of extra life. Now, that is enormous.", "Researchers say that it can reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke, the biggest killers of men and women, by 80 percent or more. The pill would contain cholesterol-lowering statins, blood pressure drugs, folic acid and aspirin. The ingredients would work together to combat the four major markers of heart disease, including cholesterol and hypertension. Sound too good to be true? Well, the American Heart Association says that in theory the polypill should work, but probably only for some people, the high-risk ones.", "I think it would work in terms of providing some core medications that would clearly lower risk of second heart events in people who have had heart disease or stroke, and for selected patients who have elevated risk factors for heart disease. The combination is logical.", "A logical combination that might have risks in an estimated 8 to 12 percent of people, such as risks to the liver, stomach irritation, or just general fatigue. And the polypill is likely years away. Pharmacologists need to develop it, and researchers need to make sure it's safe. But it may prove the old adage true, an ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DR. NICHOLAS WALD, WOLFSON INST. OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "DR. RICHARD STEIN, AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION", "GUPTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-366043", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2019-04-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/01/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Whistleblower Says White House Overturned about 25 Security Clearance Denials; Democrats to Authorize Subpoena Full Mueller Report; Interview with Rep. Jim Banks (R-IND.), Armed Services Committee, on Security Clearances; Second Woman Complains about Biden; The Democratic Apology Trail; Rep. Elijah Cummings (D) Maryland: Whistleblower Says White House Overturned About 25 Security Clearance Denials, Feds: Software Fix For Grounded Boeing Jets Delayed For Weeks", "utt": ["Follow me on Facebook and Twitter @JakeTapper. You can tweet the show @TheLeadCNN. Our coverage on CNN continues right now. Thanks for watching.", "Happening now, subpoena fight: House Democrats plan to issue a subpoena after a White House whistleblower says 2 dozen denials of security clearances were overturned by senior Trump officials. And Democrats will also authorize a subpoena to obtain the full Mueller report. How Republicans are fighting back. Not a bluff: a top White House official says the president isn't bluffing about closing the border with Mexico as early as this week. But others at the White House say it's anyone's guess if the president will follow through, warning of dire consequences if he does. Second accusation: a second woman alleges that former Vice President Joe Biden touched her inappropriately, complaining that he rubbed noses at a fundraiser a decade ago. Former female staffers are coming to Biden's defense after an ex- political candidate earlier complained she was bothered by what she described as inappropriate touching. And delayed for weeks: Boeing 737 MAX airliners will remain grounded for a while longer. The FAA says Boeing's software upgrade will be delayed for weeks to allow time for additional work and a rigorous safety review. I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM.", "Breaking news right now. A second woman comes forward, alleging that former Vice President Joe Biden touched her inappropriately, rubbing noses at a 2009 fundraiser. That comes as female supporters are stepping up their efforts to defend Biden's record. Also tonight, a White House whistleblower has told congressional investigators that senior officials pushed through security clearances for some 2 dozen people who were initially rejected for reasons such as potential conflicts of interest and foreign influence. A source says the president's daughter, Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner are on that list. House Oversight Committee chairman Elijah Cummings says he'll issue a subpoena to find out why those concerns were overruled. And House Judiciary Democrats, they will authorize a subpoena, they say, this week to obtain the full unscrubbed Mueller report along with underlying evidence. I'll speak with Republican congressman Jim banks of the Armed Services Committee. And our correspondents and analysts, they will have full coverage of the day's top stories. Let's begin with our senior congressional correspondent, Manu Raju, he is up on Capitol Hill. Manu, Democrats say the White House says the whistleblower came through as a last resort. What are you learning?", "Yes, Wolf, this woman, Tricia Newbold, has worked for the White House in different administrations for the past 18 years. Now as part of the personal security office in the White House, she is alleging in a private interview to House and Republican and Democratic staff on the Oversight Committee that, since 2018, 25 individuals had their security clearances denied, only to be overruled by the White House. Now we are learning that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were on that list of 25 individuals. Newbold alleges to the committee that these individuals had their security clearances denied because of foreign influence, potential conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, even drug use. She alleges that lackluster safeguards are in place for security clearances and people had gotten interim security clearances who should not have gotten access to any classified data whatsoever. Now Elijah Cummings plans to subpoena an individual, Carl Kline, who served as a personal security director at the White House, who was overseeing this effort and who overruled this whistleblower on a number of occasions. But tonight, Wolf, Republicans are pushing back. They say that this White House official, her concerns are overblown. They call her an employee who was just not happy with her workplace environment. But nevertheless, Democrats plan to push forward subpoenas and plan to continue this as part of their investigation as the security clearance process -- Wolf.", "That's one fight. The other major fight playing out right now involves Democrats who say they will authorize a subpoena in an attempt to access the unredacted, nearly 400-page report from the special counsel, Robert Mueller. They want all the underlying information, as well. What are you hearing?", "Yes, ratcheting up the fight with the Justice Department, House Judiciary Committee Democrats plan to authorize a subpoena later this week for the full Mueller report and the underlying evidence. Their concern with Bill Barr, what the attorney general said in a Friday letter, that he would redact a number of areas of information, including grand jury information, including information, what Barr considers peripheral third parties, people who are not indicted but who may get their reputation --", "-- impugned by their name being included in this report. Now, Wolf, just moments ago, I had a chance to talk to Adam Schiff, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, who defended the Democrats' approach.", "We should get the entire report. And if the attorney general has any concern about grand jury material, he should seek the court's permission to disclose that. That's what's been done in the past. This needs to be made public, all of it. We're going to make sure that this doesn't get buried, so that the American people can form their own conclusions.", "Now he also suggested that perhaps they will even take this up to the Supreme Court. He said there will be a leadership call to decide how far to take this but he said this is a fight worth having. At the same time, Wolf, the House Judiciary Committee does plan to issue subpoenas later this week to five former White House officials, as part of their efforts to get the Mueller report. Those five former officials include Hope Hicks, Reince Priebus, Don McGahn, Steve Bannon, Annie Donaldson, people who worked in the White House. What the Democrats are contending is that those individuals can no longer claim executive privilege about their communications with the White House because of the way they interacted with the special counsel. They say essentially that privilege has been waived and they want records pertaining to their interaction with the special counsel. So all of this escalating what could be a major fight with the Justice Department. It could lead to court battles. Today we still don't know how the Justice Department will respond. But Republicans are saying why ratchet this up now when the Justice Department has promised to give as much transparency as possible and provide this report by mid-April. But it's safe to say that Democrats are not buying what the Justice Department is saying and are willing to issue subpoenas later this week.", "Yes, two big fights and they're about to escalate. Manu Raju, thank you very much. The Trump administration is focusing also right now on the southern border with Mexico and the president's threats to close it. The Homeland Security secretary today is stepping up a surge of officers to deal with an influx of migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico. And a source says the White House is considering appointing a border or immigration czar. Let's go to our senior White House correspondent, Pamela Brown. Pamela, is the president serious about shutting down the entire border with Mexico?", "Well, Wolf, White House officials I've been speaking with today say it's anyone's guess what the president will do with this latest threat to close the border with Mexico. One administration official I spoke with today said such a move would be catastrophic. And, Wolf, tonight, administration officials involved in carrying out the policies are closing watching the president's tweets as cues as to what he might do.", "President Trump tonight not backing away from threats to close the U.S. border with Mexico as soon as this week, tweeting, \"We have a major National Emergency at our Border. GET IT DONE NOW.\" Administration officials warn that the ultimatum he launched last week..", "We'll keep it closed for a long time. I'm not playing games.", "-- is serious.", "It's certainly isn't a bluff. You can take the president seriously and here is why. You're giving those metrics but he's looking at is that 4,000 migrants apprehended in one day recently. We're on track this month for close to 100,000. We have never seen a surge like this.", "Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney telling ABC News that something dramatic would need to happen to change the president's mind.", "We need the people from the ports of entry to go out and patrol in the desert where we don't have any wall. We hate to say we told you so but we told you so. We need border security. And we're going to do the best we can with what we have.", "The threats follow the highest month of undocumented migrant crossings in 11 years, according to Customs and Border Protection. Still, acting Secretary of Defense, Patrick Shanahan said, as of late Monday morning, the Pentagon had not yet been asked to support closing the boater.", "It's a very dynamic and fluid situation. I'll be having conversations with secretary of state today and, most likely, Secretary Nielsen.", "Aides also defending the president's decision to discontinue aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador for not doing more to help stem the flow of migrants.", "We need the Northern Triangle countries to do more about not allowing their people into Mexico. They could help us. We need them to do that. If not, it makes very little sense for us to continue to send them aid.", "President Trump also keeping up pressure on House Democrats to end their investigations into Russia meddling, now that special counsel Robert Mueller declined to recommend criminal charges against the president, tweeting, quote, \"No matter what information is given to the crazed Democrats from the no-collusion Mueller report, it will never be good enough. Behind closed doors, the Dems are laughing.\"", "We really do think enough is enough. And it's time to move on to other things.", "Acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, defending Trump after Democratic congressman Adam Schiff said Trump campaign associates' interactions with Russians were unethical.", "I think --", "-- the voters are going to decide about the ethics and morality of the people they vote for on either side. People liked Bill Clinton, even though they may not think he was that ethical. That's not the job of the House Intelligence Committee. It's not the job of the House Judiciary Committee. It's not the job of the House Oversight Committee. They're supposed to review the functioning of government. Voters make decisions about the candidates.", "And we have learned that the White House is considering appointing a border czar to oversee the immigration efforts. Now this has been something that's been entertained by White House officials, administration officials over the past year. But it's more recently been under can consideration as the situation at the border has worsened in the administration's view -- Wolf.", "Thanks very much, Pamela Brown at the White House. Joining us now, Republican congressman Jim Banks of Indiana. He's a member of the Armed Services Committee. Congressman, thanks so much for joining us. Let's get your reaction to this top story we've been covering. Does it worry you that the White House apparently routinely pushed through security clearances despite objections from intelligence and national security professionals?", "Wolf, good to be with you. At the end of the day, these are White House personnel decisions. Every president before President Trump has had the same privileges that he has to designate at the end of the day who can and should receive a security clearance on his staff. So I defer to the president of the United States, who was elected to this position on who he determines needs those clearances and I defer to that process.", "There's this professional whistleblower who came before the House committee, says that some serious issues were, according to this whistleblower, totally ignored by the White House. Among some of these issues, disqualifying issues for normal security clearances, foreign influence, conflicts of interest, issues concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, criminal conduct. Even if the president does have -- and he certainly does have the constitutional authority to give security clearances to anyone he wants -- is it a good idea for the White House to override these serious concerns from these intelligence and national security professionals?", "Well, the buck -- Wolf, the buck stops with the president. And if the president made that decision, then the people can judge whether or not he granted those security clearances to the right people. At the end of the day, it's his prerogative. Every president before him has done the same. The chairman of the Oversight Committee will bring in these players to question them. And if that chairman wants to spend valuable time in his committee to dig into security clearances in White House, then that's his decision to do so. We'll see what that -- what that hearing brings to light. I'm sure that we'll learn a lot more at that point.", "But you agree, it's part of a congressional oversight responsibility to look into these kinds of matters, to make sure that the right thing was done. If you want to give someone top secret security clearances and that person has a background, where that individual potentially could be compromised, either personally or by a foreign government, that's potentially a very serious problem.", "There's no question about it. It's important who receives a security clearance, especially at that high level. And you're right, the oversight function of the House Oversight Committee has that jurisdiction and the chairman is determined that he wants to spend his valuable time digging into these issues. He can do that. And we'll learn a lot more after that committee hearing commences and digs into those issues. But once again, just to be clear, these are White House personnel decisions that every president has had that same prerogative before. And this president has exercised it the same.", "I suspect if Hillary Clinton has been elected president and she were overriding what career professionals were saying about giving out security clearances, Republicans wouldn't be happy about that, either. But let's move on and talk about another sensitive issue involving the Mueller report. Democrats are pushing for the full Mueller report to be released by Wednesday. The House Judiciary Committee is planning to subpoena Mueller's findings as well as subpoenas for five senior White House staffers. You were one of 420 lawmakers who voted unanimously last month to make sure the full Mueller report is released. Do you support this effort by the Judiciary Committee?", "Look, Wolf, I've said all along, let's make this public, completely transparent. Republicans want that as well. But the fact that Democrats can't take a two-week break from their mission to overturn the election in 2016 and wait for attorney general Barr to go through the process to make this report completely transparent says a lot more about the state of the Democrat Party today than anything else. I think we can afford to wait a couple of weeks to the point that the attorney general goes through, whether it's the grand jury testimony or some of the classified parts of it, to go through that legal process, to make it -- to make it unclassified and available to the public. I think we can afford to wait. But the Democrats aren't willing to do that and that says a more about the disarray of their party than anything else.", "Let's get your thoughts, Congressman, about the president's threat -- and it's a serious threat to completely shut down the U.S. border with Mexico as early as this week. He's getting pushback not only from a bunch of Democrats but also from some fellow Republicans. I want you to listen to the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Mike McCaul of Texas.", "You seal the border, you're going to cut off significant trade and it will have a significant impact on the economy. And I think the president made that statement out of frustration and I don't think he's going to actually, you know, completely shut off the border.", "How do you see it, Congressman?", "Well, you heard Kellyanne Conway say a little bit ago that the president is not bluffing. And I take him at his word as well. But there's no question about it. Whether it's Ranking Member McCaul or the president of the United States himself, nobody wants to shut down the border. That's not the point, Wolf. But the president has made it very clear that his priority is to address the crisis at the border. This week you had Secretary Jeh Johnson, the Obama administration's Department of Homeland Security secretary, say himself that there is a crisis at the border. It needs to be addressed and this president is serious about doing that.", "He said it was a humanitarian crisis, in his words. You're on the Armed Services Committee. Is it logistically possible, though, for the United States military to deploy thousands if not tens of thousands of troops to shut down the entire border with Mexico?", "Well, logistically possible? Of course it is with the United States military --", "This week?", "Are they ready to move in thousands of troops, to completely shut down the border? Because the president says this week, it could happen.", "Yes, at this point, Wolf, this is all hypothetical. What does the president mean by shutting down the border? None of us know at this point. But what we do know is that the president is absolutely 100 percent serious about addressing the crisis at the border. There's no question about it. He's not bluffing about what it's going to take to do that. He doesn't want to shut down the border, neither does any other Republican that I know of in the Capitol or at the White House and his administration. But the president is serious about addressing a true crisis, a record-breaking level of illegals who are crossing the border. Something has to be done and this president is serious about doing it.", "Yes, he's serious. He also says he's ready to shut down that border unless Mexico takes direct action, the countries from Central America take direct action to prevent all of those thousands of migrants trying cross into the United States to seek political asylum. Congressman Jim Banks, thanks, as usual, for joining us.", "Good to be with you.", "Up next, female supporters step up efforts to defend Joe Biden's record as a second woman alleges he touched her inappropriately. Is this the latest stop on a political apology tour for Democratic candidates? And Boeing 737 MAX 8 airliners will remain grounded a while longer. 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{"id": "CNN-211309", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2013-7-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/27/nday.01.html", "summary": "Cairo Streets Explode with Violence; Life Plus 1,000 Years for Ariel Castro; San Diego Mayor Seeks Counseling; Storms Sputter in Atlantic & Pacific", "utt": ["New violence explodes in Egypt as police fight with Morsy supporters in the streets. One thousand injured and at least 75 dead. We're going to take you live to Cairo.", "The behavior I have engaged in over many years is wrong.", "Another day, another apology. But this San Diego mayor facing sexual harassment charges says he's not stepping down. You're going to hear his solution and you're going to hear directly from one of his accusers.", "And look who's celebrating a birthday. Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger may have reached a milestone, but still has those famous moves.", "Good morning, everyone. I'm Poppy Harlow. Thanks so much for starting your day with us.", "Got to love Mick Jagger, huh?", "Got to love him.", "I'm Suzanne Malveaux. It's 6:00 in the morning and this is NEW DAY SATURDAY. We begin this morning, however, with some bad news in Cairo. This is where violence exploded on the streets. It happened overnight. It was over dozens of people who were killed.", "Supporters of Egypt's deposed president claim that security forces gunned down protesters. Our senior international correspondent, Ben Wedeman, is in Cairo. Hello to you, Ben. Just dramatic developments overnight. Tell us what happened, because the latest we're hearing is the death toll has jumped to 75 from these clashes.", "Well, I'll get to the death toll in a minute because there seems to be some confusion over that at the time - at the moment. But what we understand is that out at the sit-in in northern Cairo, in Nassr City, where the supporters of the deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsy have been for weeks now, apparently late past midnight, they tried to block a major road through Cairo, the October 6th overpass, and there they clashed with security forces and, according to eyewitnesses, local residents as well. A battle ensued. Now, the Middle East news agency is quoting medical sources as saying that at this point the death toll is 29 with 649 injured. Now, earlier, there were claims by -- from the field hospital of the supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood of as many as 75 or more dead, but those numbers have yet to be confirmed. And we understand that the health ministry doesn't report on bodies until they actually arrive at a state hospital. So those numbers still very unclear. But what is as clear as day is that following these massive demonstrations, both before - for and against the Muslim Brotherhood, that the tensions have spilled into blood, that the call by the defense minister, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, for a public mandate to crack down on what he calls terrorism, that they're obviously now starting to make good on their threats against the Muslim Brotherhood.", "Ben, this is just what we had feared, really the worse in this situation here, those two sides not being able to keep them apart. In the meantime, you have Morsy who's still in custody, I believe, with the military holding him there during a criminal investigation. What is his status?", "Well, his status is really unclear. Nobody seems to know where he is, how he is being held. The military insists or has insisted until now that it was for his own safety. Now, he is being held - now he's going to be officially held for 15 days while charges are investigated into the possibility that he conspired with Hamas during the 2011 revolution to stage a prison break. He was being held at the time at a prison north of Cairo. During that break, some of the prison guards were killed, all of the prisoners escaped, and, therefore, that's -- those are the charges that he's being investigated for.", "All right, Ben Wedeman in Cairo. Ben, appreciate the reporting. Thank you very much.", "Today is the 60 anniversary of the truce that ended fighting in Korea. Well, the war killed more than 36,000 American forces. President Obama is going to mark the anniversary with an address at the Korean War Veterans Memorial. CNN plans live coverage from the National Mall in Washington. That is at 10:00 this morning.", "And the man who held three women captive inside his Cleveland home for a decade will never be set free again. Aerial Castro has agreed to a plea deal of life in prison plus 1,000 years, no chance of parole. He is going to be locked up behind bars for the rest of his life, just like those women were for 10 years. Lawyers say this deal is what his victims wanted. You know, it's interesting, Suzanne, I was out there covering this and, you know, we've heard from the three women in this that were just girls when they were abducted.", "Sure.", "And they talked about the fact when they put out that YouTube video that, you know, we are - we are -- this is -- we are making our own path now and they didn't want to talk about him, but about their future. And they didn't want to get on the stand and testify. And they may have had to do that if that went to trial. So the fact that this comes to a plea deal means they're not going to have to get up there and tell their horrifying story. But our Gary Tuchman has more. Listen.", "With glasses on his nose, a shuffling Aerial Castro walked into a Cleveland courtroom, shackles on his legs, handcuffs on his wrists and with plea agreement details in his head.", "Are you fully aware of the terms and the consent to that plea agreement?", "I am fully aware and I do consent to it.", "Do you understand that by virtue of a plea, you will not be having a trial?", "I am aware of that.", "One of Castro's victims, Amanda Berry, gave birth to a daughter while in captivity. Castro stunned the courtroom when he stated this during the hearing.", "I'd like to state that I'm - I miss my daughter very much.", "That daughter, named Jocelyn, is now six years old. The three women Castro victimized, Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, wanted to avoid testifying at the trial, scheduled to start a week from Monday. After the plea deal was reached, they issued a statement saying that they \"are relieved by today's plea and are looking forward to having these legal proceedings draw to a final close in the near future.\" The official sentencing will take place next Thursday.", "I don't necessarily --", "But on this day, Castro was fairly talkative and appeared uninterested, nonchalant and downright strange at times.", "When I first got arrested and interviewed, I told Mr. Dave (ph), I said - I said to Dave that I was willing to work with the FBI and I would tell them everything. I knew I was going to get pretty much the book thrown at me. There's some things that I have to - I don't comprehend because of my sexual problem throughout my whole years. I would like to state that I was also a victim as a child and it just kept", "OK, well those are issues - that's certainly something you can bring up at your sentencing hearing.", "Wow, our Gary Tuchman there. You know, Suzanne, that's the first time we've heard from him. He didn't speak in his other court appearances.", "And he sounds like he makes himself into a victim here.", "A victim. He says I was victimized as a child.", "I mean it seems like the judge is getting annoyed with him because he keeps talking about the fact that he's the victim in this situation.", "Right. But it's -- he's not. It's all about these girls. And now he's going to be in prison for the rest of his life. So I hope that brings them some solace and some comfort to their families. All right. Well, let's talk about the mayor of San Diego because he says he'll get intense counseling, but he's not stepping down from his post.", "There are plenty of women who want Bob Filner to take a walk, as you can imagine.", "Yes.", "Several women accusing him of outrageous behavior. CNN's Casey Wian is in San Diego with more on that one.", "Poppy, Suzanne, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner still disappointing his critics by again refusing to resign.", "Right after attending a routine city planning meeting, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner arrived at a hastily called news conference to address allegations by seven women who claim he subjected them to unwanted, aggressive sexual advances.", "I apologize to my staff. I apologize to the citizens and staff members who have supported me over many years. I apologize to the people of San Diego. And, most of all, I apologize to the women that I have offended.", "He acknowledged inexcusable and intimidating conduct and says he will enter rehab.", "I'm beginning, on August 5th, I will be entering a behavior counseling clinic to undergo two weeks of intensify therapy to begin the process of addressing my behavior.", "Alleged victims say the apology and rehab are not enough.", "That, to me, is a very bogus way of handling this. By not resigning and doing what we thinks we will all buy as, oh, he's really sincere, he's going to go to rehab, is just insulting.", "Minutes before Filner's news conference, a citizens group delivered a letter to the mayor's office demanding he resign by Monday evening or else face a recall campaign. Several powerful members of the mayor's own Democratic Party have also demanded he resign, but Filner's only talking about his future on the job.", "But when I return on August 19th, my focus will be on making sure that I'm doing right by this city in terms of being the best mayor I can be and the best person I must be. Thank you.", "What about all of the people who have called for you to resign, mayor? Do you think this is enough to be enough to satisfy them?", "As Filner again refused to answer questions about the allegations, the big question remains, can he hold on to his job?", "Just before his announcement, the San Diego city attorney's office says it served a subpoena on Filner, requiring him to testify at a lawsuit filed by his former spokeswoman, the first alleged victim to come forward. That testimony is expected to take place four days into the mayor's rehab. Poppy, Suzanne.", "All right, Casey, thank you. Appreciate it. And, folks, in just a few minutes, we're going to talk with a woman that you heard from in Casey's report, Morgan Rose, right there. A long conversation with her. Wait until you hear what she says happened to her by Filner in a San Diego restaurant. All right, two storms, one in the Atlantic, one in the Pacific, sputtering up and bringing a little bit of sigh of relief to Hawaii and to the Caribbean. So let's bring in meteorologist Jennifer Delgado in the CNN Weather Center. How are these looking? Not too bad?", "Not too bad at all, actually. They are actually looking pretty bad if you want to talk about it technically, Poppy. As we show you Tropical Storm Dorian right now. And it's well off the coast. You can see, not effecting land. Roughly about 800 miles away from the Leeward Islands. Well, not a lot of convection with it. You can see the maximum winds right now at 40 miles per hour. Again, this is a tropical storm. And what we're going to be looking at is this system getting into more convection. And as it does, it's just really going to fizzle out. By 36 hours tomorrow, we're going to be talking about this just being an area of low pressure. So, really, this is going to be a storm that's much ado about nothing. Now as we hop over towards the Pacific, we have another storm there. Tropical Storm Flossie. I must say, I do like that name. But the winds right now, just under hurricane strength at 70 miles per hour. And there is Hawaii all the way over towards the west. Now, briefly, we could see this becoming a hurricane. But, again, we're expecting this to pass to the mainland of Hawaii as we move into Monday. And with those winds weakening down to 40 miles per hour, this will be a tropical storm. Again, bringing with it some rain, of course, some rough currents. As we move closer to home, here is our cold front that's bringing some rain through parts of the upper Midwest and the Ohio Valley, even down towards the south. What this is going to do, it's going to cool things off. We'll get to that in just a moment. But rain for the southwest as well as the southeast. You can see for areas like Mexico, we do have a flood threat. But as I said to you, with the cold weather moving from the north, this is going to bring some relief with some of those typical summertime temperatures. Look at the highs for Chicago. Today, 71 degrees. Almost 15 degrees below average. And then for Detroit, high today of 71. You should be at 83. And the same for the Northeast. Guys, we're going to send it back over to you.", "Last weekend we're sitting here complaining about how boiling it was.", "It was hot and steamy and this time, hey, it's cool.", "I'm happy. I'm happy. But I love the heat too.", "Where is the sun?", "I love it too.", "I know. Hot in the summer. I enjoy the summer.", "All right. Thanks. True. Jennifer, thanks.", "You're welcome.", "All right. We're learning more about the investigation of this deadly train crash. This was in Spain. Why police have detained the driver now. What they're saying about the crime that he might have committed."], "speaker": ["SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR", "BILL FILNER, SAN DIEGO MAYOR", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "MALVEAUX", "HARLOW", "MALVEAUX", "HARLOW", "MALVEAUX", "HARLOW", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX", "WEDEMAN", "HARLOW", "MALVEAUX", "HARLOW", "MALVEAUX", "HARLOW", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ARIEL CASTRO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CASTRO", "TUCHMAN", "CASTRO", "TUCHMAN", "CASTRO", "TUCHMAN", "CASTRO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HARLOW", "MALVEAUX", "HARLOW", "MALVEAUX", "HARLOW", "MALVEAUX", "HARLOW", "MALVEAUX", "CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WIAN (voice-over)", "BOB FILNER, SAN DIEGO MAYOR", "WIAN", "FILNER", "WIAN", "MORGAN ROSE, PSYCHOLOGIST, SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT", "WIAN", "FILNER", "WIAN (on camera)", "WIAN (voice-over)", "WIAN", "HARLOW", "JENNIFER DELGADO, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "HARLOW", "DELGADO", "MALVEAUX", "HARLOW", "DELGADO", "MALVEAUX", "HARLOW", "DELGADO", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "NPR-967", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2016-05-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/05/08/477223936/how-best-to-eat-american-cheese-that-s-not-technically-cheese", "title": "How Best To Eat American Cheese That's Not, Technically, Cheese", "summary": "There's a huge surplus of American cheese in the U.S. The Sporkful's Dan Pashman and NPR's Melissa Block discuss what \"American cheese\" means and how it's best served.", "utt": ["The U.S. is sitting on a massive stockpile of cheese - 1.2 billion pounds of cheese, to be precise. Thanks to a number of market factors, European dairy products are cheap, so the U.S. is importing more butter and cheese, which means domestic cheese inventories are building up to their highest levels in more than 20 years. And more than half of the surplus is American cheese.", "That means the stuff sold shredded or by the block - cheddar, Colby Jack. But here in the office, when we heard American cheese our minds immediately went to that dubious processed cheese product sold in singles and slices. Turns out that's a different USDA category altogether.", "But whether we've got a mountain of it or not, people feel very strongly about American cheese product. I confess I am not a fan. But Dan Pashman, host of \"The Sporkful\" podcast at WNYC Studios, loves the stuff, and he's here to defend it. Dan, welcome.", "Hey, Melissa. How are you?", "I'm great, thanks. I guess I'm kind of a cheese snob, but I lost my taste for American cheese a long time ago. It isn't even really cheese, right?", "You're right. According to the USDA, most American cheeses do not have enough milk fat to qualify as actual cheese, which is why they're called cheese food product. But I just feel like it is a delicious food in its own right that has a place. According to USDA, if a food has been cooked, it is processed. So the word processed shouldn't necessarily scare us away from all foods.", "OK, so that shouldn't be a deal breaker.", "Right. Most cheeses, when you heat them they come apart and they turn greasy. American cheese will not do that because it has things like - for example, sodium citrate often is one of the things they add to it. That is a naturally occurring product. In fact, some of the leading molecular gastronomy chefs like Nathan Myhrvold, Heston Blumenthal, they say you should have sodium citrate on your spice rack right next to paprika.", "Oh, really?", "Right. So the idea - I mean, it's not like American cheese is full of DDT, all right? We need to...", "...Good to know.", "Right. We need to make distinctions when we hear the word processed or the word additives.", "OK, Dan, you're an American cheese fan. Tells us about some clever ways to incorporate American cheese into - that we might not have thought about.", "Well, here's a really easy example. A friend of mine's Italian grandmother - and I - by Italian grandmother, I mean she lives in Italy - she is famous for her risotto. Her secret, when she makes risotto - just before she takes it off stove she throws in a slice of American cheese.", "Oh, come on.", "I'm not joking, because it takes the creamy sauce and it brings it all together.", "And this - she's doing this in Italy?", "That's right.", "She's importing (laughter) American cheese singles to Italy, home of some of the best cheese on the planet?", "That's right. That's right.", "OK, what else can you do with American cheese if you want to incorporate it, you know, beyond the grilled cheese sandwich or on top of a hamburger? Give us some more ideas.", "Well, I'm a big fan of Korean-style ramen. You make ramen right out of the packet like you did in your dorm, Melissa.", "Uh huh (ph).", "Then you're going to crack an egg into the broth and basically poach the egg in there. Then you take it, put it in a bowl, you mix in a little butter, some sesame seeds or even sesame oil and some American cheese. I know it sounds strange to people who have not heard of this before. But chef Roy Choi out in LA, he says that this is the Korean-American peanut butter and jelly. This dish is...", "Really?", "...A classic comfort food.", "Do you have a favorite way to eat American cheese, Dan?", "I mean, it's - you can send me to the fanciest burger restaurant in America and I will put American cheese on my burger. To me, that is still classic...", "...No cheddar for you.", "No cheddar. And I will eat it with the cheese on the bottom, under the burger, to bring it closer to my tongue to accentuate cheesy goodness.", "(Laughter) Dan Pashman, defender of American cheese and host of \"The Sporkful\" podcast at WNYC Studios. Dan, thanks so much.", "Thank you, Melissa. And to any listeners who have any issues with sodium citrate in American cheese, you may direct your complaints in care of Melissa Block.", "(Laughter) Noted.", "(Laughter).", "This is NPR News."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "DAN PASHMAN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-372286", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-06-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/14/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Criminal Charges Dropped in Flint Case", "utt": ["This morning, outrage in Flint, Michigan, after a stunning legal reset. City leaders now planning a, quote, community conversation after state prosecutors announced they were dropping all criminal charges in their water crisis probe and beginning all over again.", "Why? I mean, three years of investigating, tens of millions of taxpayer dollars spent, blind-sided residents, some sickened by their own tap water, five years ago. I mean, sickened to the point of they can never fully recover from lead in the water. They are now left questioning if justice will ever be served. Our colleague, Jean Casarez, is on this story. And, Jean, you have been following this literally for years since we first learned about this four years ago. Why drop all charges against government officials at this point?", "Well, that's what people are asking right now. And the newly elected last fall attorney general, Dana Nessel, has dismissed all of the charges without prejudice, which means that they can be brought again. And the reason saying, investigative approach was flawed, the legal theories are not correct and they just can't continue on what they say was an incorrect foundation. Now, let's look right here because here's, you will see, what the -- what the charges were. There were 15 states and local officials that were originally accused of crimes, seven officials already took plea deals, eight officials, high top officials in the state of Michigan, were awaiting trial, charges, false pretenses, conspiracy, involuntary manslaughter, serious felony charges. We have spoken to some of the residents of Flint already and here are some of the comments we're getting. They're horrified. They feel blind-sided. They feel that they are -- have been re-traumatized in all of this. The mayor of Flint takes the other position, saying that she hopes that justice can be had in all this. Dana Nessel gave a statement to CNN. We do want to read that for everyone to see. She said, I want to remind the people of Flint that justice delayed is not always justice denied. And a fearless and dedicated team of career prosecutors and investigators are hard at work to ensure those who harmed you are held accountable. But, you know, Poppy and Jim, one interesting thing is the monetary aspect of all this because not only is the state of Michigan paying for the prosecution, they are paying for the defense also. And you start from square one and those defendants are going to have a right to start from square one, too. And so there will be more on this, I'm sure.", "Yes.", "Well, let's hope.", "And there's a limited -- sorry, Jim.", "Go ahead.", "I was saying, there's a limited amount of money. I mean I was there, too, when this stuff was going on and that money could also be used to replace the pipes to these homes, right, to take care of it. So the question is, what does this actually mean for the -- for the people who have suffered by (ph) it. All right.", "And at the end of the month, the attorney general is going to go to Flint to talk to the people. But as a prosecutor, you're bound by rules of professional responsibility. You can't get into the details of your case. You can't do it as a prosecutor.", "Right. Right, right.", "So will there be more questions than answers at the end of that?", "OK.", "Let's hope it's justice delayed, not justice denied.", "Yes.", "Jean Casarez, thanks so much. New polls show Senator Elizabeth Warren is on the rise ahead of the first presidential debates. Coming up, the state of the 2020 race among Democrats."], "speaker": ["SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "CASAREZ", "HARLOW", "CASAREZ", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "CNN-381498", "program": "CNN RIGHT NOW", "date": "2019-09-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/27/crn.01.html", "summary": "White House Acknowledges For First Time That Lawyers Directed Moving Documents To Highly Secure System; Trump Keeps Attacking Whistleblower, Suggests Punishment; Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Says, Attorney General Bill Barr Has Gone Rogue", "utt": ["The timing is changing on when the Justice Department knew about the whistleblower complaint involving President Trump and his call with Ukraine's president. Senior officials first told CNN the Justice Department learned of the allegations in the final week of August when the acting DNI reaching out to seek legal help how to proceed. The final week of August was the time the inspector general referred the matter officially to the Justice Department. Now we learn that national security lawyers inside DOJ knew about the whistleblower's allegations more than a week before the inspector general's official referral. The \"New York Times\" reports that the White House also became aware of it at that time. I want to turn now to Mary McCord, former acting assistant attorney general for National Security. She led the early stages of the Trump/Russia probe before special counsel was appointed. And you, Mary, are now legal director for the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center. Thanks for joining us.", "Thank you for having me.", "So, I mean, I'm curious about this timing, but first I want to ask you, just about the determination of DOJ lawyers, that this complaint did not reach the standard required to send it to Congress. First, let's talk about the idea of this not having to do with intelligence activities. What is your read on that?", "Well, certainly Michael Atkinson, the inspector general of the Intelligence Community, felt it did fall within that definition. And certainly sometimes on difficult legal issues, reasonable minds can differ, including reasonable legal minds, including those of the Department of Justice lawyers at the Office of Legal Counsel. Those lawyers wrote the opinion that the complaint, the topic of the complaint, did not involve the funding or administration of intelligence activities. And the subject of the complaint, that being the president, was not a member of the Intelligence Community. It was a very, I would say, sort of technical reading of the words of the statute to say that this is not something that is within DNI, is the director of National Intelligence's purview and requirement to send to Congress. Mr. Atkinson disagreed, was persistent, and continued to ask for guidance so it could get to Congress. He felt it was important to get to Congress and asked for guidance from the director of National Intelligence on how to ensure that this report would get to Congress.", "Does this complaint warrant a criminal investigation, in your view?", "So reading the complaint in combination with then reading the memo that was released, I guess it was yesterday, that is sort of a rough transcript of the call, the rough transcript itself I think is indicative enough to warrant further investigation. At least based on my experience, 20 years as a federal prosecutor and three more years over at the National Security Division. There are several, indications of several different types of crimes, not just campaign finance violations but also bribery and gratuities. And so I was surprised to learn -- and I still have friends and colleagues I respect very, very highly at the Department of Justice and I don't want to guess what their legal rationale might have been because we haven't seen it in writing. All we've done is heard from justice officials through their spokesperson I guess that they determined not to go further with the investigation, and that did surprise me.", "Do you worry that those lawyers are in a tough spot here? And that they could be influenced?", "I certainly think that there are lawyers in a tough spot at the Department of Justice. Certainly career lawyer who have made, you know, years and in many cases decades out of doing criminal investigations and doing other investigations, national security investigations. I think that these people are of utmost integrity and would stick by their viewpoints. But ultimately the report went up within the chain to political appointees and so the political appointees do ultimately have the final say on matters like this.", "Very good point. Mary McCord, thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "President Trump making threatening comments and accusing the whistleblower of treason. We're going to talk about the impact his war on U.S. intelligence agencies will have on U.S. national security. Also, Joe Biden, one of the president's targets here, says President Trump is trying to hijack and election."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "MARY MCCORD, LEGAL DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL ADVOCACY AND PROTECTION, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER & FORMER ACTING ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, NATIONAL SECURITY", "KEILAR", "MCCORD", "KEILAR", "MCCORD", "KEILAR", "MCCORD", "KEILAR", "MCCORD", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "NPR-33545", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2009-01-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99861103", "title": "Masked Gunman Kills Russian Human Rights Lawyer", "summary": "A top Russian human rights lawyer was shot dead last week on a central Moscow street along with a young journalist walking with him. Several critics of the Kremlin have been killed in recent years in cases that remain unsolved. Lawyers who have been fighting for human rights in Russia fear the latest shooting won't be the last. Mourners gather at the funeral of Russian human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov. ", "utt": ["And now we check in on Russia where a top human rights lawyer was shot dead last week on a central Moscow street along with a journalist walking alongside him. Several critics of the Kremlin have been killed in recent years in cases that remain unsolved. Lawyers who have been fighting for human rights in Russia fear the latest shooting may not be the last. NPR's Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer reports.", "Inside a cramped courtroom in an old 19th century Moscow neighborhood, a judge reads the accusations against three men. They're accused of involvement in the murder two years ago of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, but none of these defendants pulled the trigger or ordered the killing. Those people are still at large. Still, Karinna Moskalenko, a veteran lawyer who represents Politkovskaya's family, says she hopes the proceedings will uncover at least some of the truth - a process she says is obstructed by the official hostility toward human rights defenders like her.", "The authorities by doing this, create possible situation when people can be assaulted or even killed.", "It was one of Moskalenko's close colleagues, Stanislav Markelov, who was killed last week. He had opposed the release this month of a Russian army officer imprisoned for the rape and murder of an 18-year-old Chechen girl.", "(Russian spoken)", "Before his death, Markelov spoke at a Moscow rally to protest an attack against another client, a campaigning journalist who was brutally beaten and left for dead.", "(Russian spoken)", "Last week a masked gunman shot Markelov in the head in broad daylight within sight of the Kremlin. Markelov died on the snow-covered sidewalk. He was 34. Several hundred mourners trudged through slush under icy rain last Friday to attend his funeral, which they watched in stunned silence.", "(Russian spoken)", "Markelov's friend Irina Bagerleva says killers are carrying out political murders with growing impunity, despite the promises of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.", "(Russian spoken)", "Medvedev, a lawyer and a former law professor, promised during his lavish inauguration last May that establishing the rule of law and providing security to ordinary Russians would be among his top priorities. Critics say the promise was hollow. Human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov, who often worked with murdered lawyer Stanislaw Markelov, says the security forces are unable to protect society.", "(Through Translator) That's because they're required to spend most of their time cracking down on legitimate opposition groups instead of tracking down killers.", "Ponomaryov believes he was mistaken to take Markelov's courage to mean the young lawyer fully understood the risks he undertook. Now Ponomaryov and the other members of Russia's dwindling human rights community have been forced again to think who may be next. Gregory Feifer, NPR News, Moscow."], "speaker": ["LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host", "GREGORY FEIFER", "LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host", "GREGORY FEIFER", "LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host", "GREGORY FEIFER", "LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host", "GREGORY FEIFER", "LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host", "GREGORY FEIFER", "P", "GREGORY FEIFER", "LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host", "GREGORY FEIFER"]}
{"id": "CNN-286767", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2016-06-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/16/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview With Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy; Florida Mass Shooting Investigation; President Obama Visits Orlando; McCain: Obama \"Directly Responsible\" for Orlando Massacre; Man Detained in Shooting Death of British Lawmaker", "utt": ["Breaking news: the killer's words. We are hearing the Orlando attacker's voice for the first time and learning more about his final messages, including texts with his wife and threatening Facebook posts during the massacre. President Obama grieves. The president visits Orlando to honor shooting victims and comfort their families. Tonight, he is venting his frustration with America's gun politics and Donald Trump's proposals. ISIS intensifying. The CIA director is warning that the terror group is stepping up its efforts to attack the West. Is that grim assessment at odds with the president's claim of significant progress against ISIS? And political panic. Some Republicans are privately talking about ways they might be able to stop Donald Trump from officially claiming the nomination, this as Trump tells critics of his party to be quiet or he will dump them. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I am Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "The breaking news this hour, we're learning about the Orlando gunman's final communications with his wife during the hours he was holed up in that night club where he committed a massacre, a U.S. official telling CNN that over Omar Mateen exchanged texts with his wife asking if she knew about the attack. We're told she texted back that she loved him and tried to call him, but he didn't answer his cell phone. In Orlando tonight, President Obama says victims' relatives pleaded with him to do more to prevent further carnage from gun violence. Speaking a short while ago, the president said America's politics have made it easy for terrorists or mentally ill people to buy powerful weapons legally. The president says he is pleased that a Democratic filibuster in the Senate has set the stage for new gun control votes. Senator Chris Murphy says he has got assurances Republican leaders would work toward making those votes happen. Senator Murphy, he is standing by live. We will talk about if anything will actually get passed. And our correspondents, analysts, and guests, they will have full coverage of all the breaking stories. Let's begin with our justice correspondent, Pamela Brown. She's on the scene for us in Orlando. Pamela, what are you learning?", "We have learned, Wolf, from our law enforcement sources that the wife of this gunman, Omar Mateen, was frantically calling her husband during the shooting after news broke and she suspected that her husband may be responsible for it. She claims that she tried to dissuade him from going to launch an attack, unsuccessfully, as we know. She did not call police. And during the three-hour attack, Wolf, we have also learned the couple exchanged text messages.", "Tonight, chilling new video captured inside Pulse nightclub, clubgoers hiding in the bathroom, trying to keep quiet as the shooting was taking place. In the middle of the chaos inside Pulse nightclub, CNN has learned the gunman and his wife communicated. According to law enforcement sources, she was frantically calling him after news broke of the shooting. At around 4:00 a.m., he texted asking if she saw the news. She responded, \"I love you.\" She has told investigators she had a suspicion when he left the house on Saturday he was going to launch an attack, even though he told her he was going to visit a friend.", "Everybody is just out to get paid.", "And we're now hearing from Omar Mateen for the first time. This documentary from Big Picture Ranch about the BP oil spill shows Mateen working as a security guard.", "Once people get laid off here, it's going to suck for them. They want more disaster to happen, because where their moneymaking is.", "Sources tell CNN in the weeks leading up to the attack, Mateen began spending a significant amount of money, including to buy weapons used for the attack. A letter from Senator Ron Johnson to Facebook says Mateen searched the site during the rampage for news on the shooting and even allegedly posted: \"In the next few days, you will see attacks from the Islamic State in the USA.\" While the gunman was holed up in the bathroom, officers were pulling victims out as fast as they could. Hostage negotiators were able to make contact with him.", "There was kind of some speculation that he did have explosives and that he was eventually going to come out of the bathroom with explosives.", "And so what was running through your mind during that?", "Is the breach going to work? Are we are going to be able to get anybody out? What is he going to start doing? That kind of -- so, but our main concern is always trying to get those people out.", "A first-responder telling CNN about the harrowing experience.", "It was kind of dark. Had those disco lights still on. And I just began yelling, hey, guys, come on out, come on out, come on out, we got you, we got you. And just unfortunately it took a minute to realize that they weren't faking. It was just they couldn't get up.", "Investigators are still trying to determine motive for the nightclub attack and if anyone, including his wife, could have done anything to stop it.", "And, Wolf, we know a few weeks before the attack, the gunman attempted to buy body armor. We have learned from the store owner that an employee from that store, she called the local FBI office, because he was asking suspiciously when he went in there. At the time, they didn't know it was Omar Mateen. They learned that later after the shooting. But that's something of course that the FBI wants to look into, the fact that the FBI was alerted. Also, we have learned, Wolf, from our law enforcement sources that the gunman went on a spending spree in the weeks leading up to the shooting. As we know, he bought the guns he used in the shooting and other items, so all of this is under investigation. The question remains why didn't anyone speak up and why wasn't the gunman prevented from doing the rampage, Wolf?", "Those are important questions, indeed. Pamela Brown in Orlando, thank you. Now to the president's very emotional trip to Orlando and his renewed call for action against gun violence here in the United States. He said the idea that lives could have been saved if people in the nightclub were armed defies common sense. That's something Donald Trump, by the way, has suggested. Let's get some more on the trip to Orlando. Our White House correspondent, Michelle Kosinski, is joining us. Michelle, the president says he held and hugged those grieving family members. Update our viewers.", "That's right, Wolf. He spoke of indescribable grief and pain. He met with the survivors, first-responders, families of victims, and then he took their plea to the American public, saying that not doing more to prevent certain people from getting access to high-powered weapons is the same as choosing to let it happen again.", "Today, once again, as has been true too many times before, I held and hugged grieving family members and parents, and they asked, why does this keep happening? And they pleaded that we do more to stop the carnage. They don't care about the politics. Neither do I. Neither does Joe. And neither should any parent out there who's thinking about their kids being not in the wrong place, but in places where kids are supposed to be. This debate needs to change. It's outgrown the old political stalemates. The notion that the answer to this tragedy would be to make sure that more people in a nightclub are similarly armed to the killer defies common sense. Those who defend the easy accessibility of assault weapons should meet these families and explain why that makes sense. They should meet with the Newtown families -- some of whom Joe saw yesterday -- whose children would now be finishing fifth grade -- on why it is that we think our liberty requires these repeated tragedies. That's not the meaning of liberty. I'm pleased to hear that the Senate will hold votes on preventing individuals with possible terrorist ties from buying guns, including assault weapons. I truly hope that senators rise to the moment and do the right thing. I hope that senators who voted no on background checks after Newtown have a change of heart. And then I hope the House does the right thing, and helps end the plague of violence that these weapons of war inflict on so many young lives.", "We have seen the president make similar trips to this after mass shootings nine times before today. We have heard him angrier. We have heard more emotional. I think what came across today was his tiredness and disgust that, yes, this has happened again. He used very direct language to lay out a broad argument for why this is about more than fighting ISIS. When you look at this shooting and others, these are lone wolves, and he made the point that that requires some different approach -- Wolf.", "Michelle Kosinski joining us from the White House. Michelle, thanks very much. President Obama is urging Congress, in his words, to do the right thing, as the Senate now appears on track to hold new gun control votes after a dramatic Democratic-led filibuster. Senator Chris Murphy ended his nearly 15-hour marathon once he got promises from Republican leaders that they would move toward votes on two measures. But there are right now no guarantees anything will actually get passed. Senator Murphy of Connecticut is joining us here in THE SITUATION ROOM. And, Senator, thanks very much for coming in.", "Sure. Thanks for having me.", "Will there be two votes early next week?", "There will be two votes. It looks like Monday night or Tuesday morning, we will have two votes, one on closing the terrorist loophole, so that individuals who are on the terrorist watch list cannot buy guns, and the second one expanding the reach of background checks so that they penetrate not just sales at bricks and mortar stores, but also these online sales and these gun shows, where today about 40 percent of all gun sales are happening. The reality is, if you want to stop a terrorist from getting a gun, you have to first make sure that those that we know have terrorist connections are on the list of those that are prohibited. But then you have to make sure that those lists are sitting not just in gun stores, but in all the other forums where there would-be potential terrorists are trying to buy a dangerous assault weapon.", "So, there are 54 Republicans, 44 Democrats, two independents who caucus with the Democrats. How many votes will be necessary? A simple majority of 51 to pass this legislation or 60?", "Well, it is a deep frustration to many of us who want rules reform in the Senate that this is going to be another 60-vote requirement.", "Do you have the 60 votes to pass either of these two measures?", "I am skeptical that we have 60 votes to pass...", "So, all this has been for naught?", "No, I am skeptical that we have 50 votes to pass the background checks measure.", "Sixty votes.", "Sixty votes. But we may have 60 to pass the measure that makes sure that people who are on the terrorist watch list cannot buy guns. That is a non-controversial issue in the American public; 90 percent of Americans believe that if you are so dangerous that you're not allowed to fly on a plane in this country, that you probably also shouldn't be able to walk into a gun store and buy a gun.", "You think you have the 60 votes for that?", "I don't know. But I know that in the wake of Orlando, there are a lot of members of Congress, Republicans and Democrats, that are reassessing our laws relative to the ability of would-be terrorists to get expensive and dangerous weapons.", "I spoke last hour with Republican Senator Lankford of Oklahoma, who said, I want to work with Democrats and come up with a bipartisan piece of legislation. Have you been speaking with him?", "There are discussions right now happening relative to a compromise. And that would not have happened if we hadn't gone to the floor and forced this filibuster. Let's be honest. When we came to the Senate this week, the Senate leadership, Republican leadership, had no plans to debate any legislation that would have addressed the shooting in Orlando or made shootings in the future less likely. We forced a debate this week into next week on these measures. Maybe we will end up with a compromise. And that only happened because there were 40 United States senators that went down to the floor for 15 hours yesterday to demand that this debate happen.", "You know what your critics are saying, that even if what you're proposing now, this legislation, had been the law of the land, this terrorist in Orlando would still have been able to purchase that weapon, that semi-assault weapon that he got and the pistol.", "Well, first, we can't get into this trap in which we have to design a piece of legislation that is an exact answer to the latest mass shooting. There's no doubt that if you expand background checks, there will be less carnage on the streets of America. That's what data shows us. But let me say this. If Senator Feinstein's amendment, and she -- it is her amendment that is relative to this issue of stopping terrorists from getting guns -- it would give broad jurisdiction to the attorney general to put on the list of those prohibited from buying weapons anyone that they think is a threat to the nation. Now, Omar Mateen might not have been on a specific list today, but the totality of his contacts may have led the attorney general to put him on the list of prohibited buyers. And so I actually think that the amendment we will consider on Monday may have, if it was in effect prior to this weekend, stopped Omar Mateen from getting that weapon.", "Even if your legislation passes the Senate, it's still got to be passed in the House of Representatives, where there's a significant Republican majority. I want you to listen to what the speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, said today, because he has got concerns.", "As the FBI director just told us the other day, and I think he said this publicly, if we do this wrong, like the president is proposing, we could actually blow our ongoing terrorist investigations.", "You want to respond to the speaker of the House? Because he says that you could tip off a potential terrorist out there. If he wants to go buy a weapon, he is not going to be allowed to buy a weapon. He will then know he is under investigation and there could be some serious problems as part of the -- as the FBI is investigating that individual.", "So there's two responses to that. First, the Department of Justice supports the amendment that we are going to be voting on next week. And Senator Feinstein has worked with them to address...", "But you heard FBI Director Comey's reservations.", "Yes, he had reservations. They have been worked out. They support the bill that is coming before the Senate next week. But, second, I have never heard those reservations by Speaker Ryan raised with respect to the no-fly list. So, if you are trying to get on a plane and you are a known terrorist, well, if you're denied that ticket, maybe that might be a tipoff to you that you're on one of these lists. But the alternative is for that individual to get on the plane. The alternative to not prohibited to buy the gun is to get the gun. And so, yes, there maybe is some danger that if you got prohibited from buying the assault weapon, you might think to yourself, why am I being denied this purchase, but the alternative is perhaps more slaughter like we saw in Orlando.", "There are, what, about 300 million guns out there already around the United States. The argument is, you know what? There are so many guns out there, there's still going to be a problem no matter what you do up on Capitol Hill.", "Well, that can't ultimately be the answer. The data shows us city after city that when you have less illegal guns in communities, you have less gun homicide. And there's a small number of purchases every year that are attempted by individuals who are on the no-fly list. We're talking about 200 or so of these purchases. That's not an infringement on anyone's right.", "Senator Murphy, stand by. We have more to discuss. There are other developments happening right now. We will take a quick break. We will be right back."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "THE SITUATION ROOM. ANNOUNCER", "BLITZER", "PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "BROWN (voice-over)", "OMAR MATEEN, GUNMAN", "BROWN", "MATEEN", "BROWN", "CPT. MARK CANTY, ORLANDO SWAT COMMANDER", "BROWN (on camera)", "CANTY", "BROWN (voice-over)", "OMAR DELGADO, EATONVILLE POLICE OFFICER", "BROWN", "BROWN", "BLITZER", "MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KOSINSKI", "BLITZER", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-185150", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-4-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/29/cnr.04.html", "summary": "SUV Falls 60 Feet, 7 Die", "utt": ["An SUV filled with an elderly couple, young children and a baby plunges off the bridge, lands near a zoo, killing everyone inside. Driver error or dangerous roadway? That's what investigators want to know. The notorious warlord who sparked worldwide outrage and contributed to a filmmaker's very public meltdown may be closer to being captured -- thanks to the U.S. military. And bucket lists are so five years ago, not to mention they're usually for old people. Not this one, for a baby. It's a tear jerker gone viral.", "Hello, everyone. I'm Don Lemon. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. Thank you so much for joining us. We're going to begin with that horrific story out of New York where seven people, including three children, have died in a crash, their SUV flipped over a guardrail and plunged 60 feet to the ground. I want to go straight now to CNN's national correspondent, Susan Candiotti, standing by right now. What are police saying? Do they know what exactly happened, Susan?", "Don, they don't. You know, this was a beautiful, sunny Sunday afternoon and then something went terribly, terribly wrong. This SUV as you mentioned, with seven people inside, police say driven by a woman, 45 years old. There was another woman in the car, as well as an elderly couple, and three children, ages 5, 15 and 3, all of them wearing seat belts. But police say, for some reason, this woman traveling south, in a six- lane highway, in the left-hand lane, the high speed lane, for some reason lost control of their car, they don't know exactly how fast she was going hit the median concrete barrier, about two to three feet high. According to witnesses overcompensated, may a sharp left-hand turn and went sailing across three lanes of traffic, going in the same direction and went over a fence, a middle fence, about three feet high, sailing 60 feet into the air and then going 60 feet down. The car landed, flipped over, it was crushed, everyone pronounced dead at the scene. Don, an awful accident described as horrific by veteran investigators.", "My goodness. Any witnesses, did anyone see anything to figure out exactly what caused the driver to swerve and hit the median, Susan?", "They are talking to a number of witnesses, but investigators say right now it is far to early to say what might have caused this woman to lose control of this car, so many possibilities, possible mechanical failure, was she detracted by something going on in the car? Did she have some kind of a medical condition? All are, of course, there are many possibilities and right now, they'll have to obviously, do an autopsy, find out what happened. And as you saw a short time ago, they were able to bring that vehicle out of a heavily brushed area and they drove it out of the crash scene ands away for further investigation.", "All right. Susan, thank you. What we do know, it is terrible. This stretch of road is no stranger to bad wrecks. Back in 2006, six people were killed and almost exactly the same spot. I want to go now to CNN radio correspondent Steve Kastenbaum. He joins me now from New York. Steve, you covered the wreck near this site six years ago. Was anything done to your knowledge to improve safety of the road after that crash?", "Oh, Don, you know, as soon as I heard about this accident, I got chills because I remember standing at that very same stretch looking at the center median and thinking it was unusually slow. This was an old section of the Bronx River park way, one of the earliest park ways in New York. And because it was so old, the center median was a lot lower than most highways back in 2006 and it was a horrific accident there that resulted in five family members dying on that roadway, a six person died a few days later. And after that accident, they did make some improvements to the center median. In fact, I drove by that area a few weeks ago and I couldn't help but notice that the center median was higher than it was back on that day in 2006. But an eerie similarity between these two accidents, the Gardner family back in 2008, on July 9th, was heading to a basketball tournament in a northbound lane, it was an eye shot of today's accident actually. And for some reason, the car jumped the center median, slammed into a light post and it resulted in five deaths on that day and a sixth a few days later.", "Steve, I have to ask you. So you said there have been improvements in the median, in that center median to make it a bit higher. Is there -- is the Bronx River park way, right?", "Yes, it's the Bronx River park way.", "Is it a straight away? Is it a curve? Is there something maybe unusual about that particular spot that would cause someone to lose control?", "I'll tell you, in that section of highway, it goes from being elevated to back down at the street level. And in that elevated section, it's an old section of the highway, there's a part of it that has, as you can see in that picture there, there's no shoulder on that side of the elevated part of the highway. I believe that was the accident I was at, yes this was an accident from 2006. You can see in that area there was no shoulder and as a result it was an area that people tended to speed in because they knew there was no place for a police car to be sitting to catch speeders and there was talk that speed may have played a role in that accident back in 2006 and that's where speed was a factor here. But you can see in that shot that we just saw, that the center median back then was much, much lower than it is today and it was the reason why the car back then was able to ride up on to it and slam into the light post. But, again, I just couldn't believe that another accident took place in almost the same exact spot, almost six years to the day afterwards.", "What's interesting, though, when you're looking at those things, when you're driving, you're investigating right on top of it, you may not notice it. But if you're driving, it could be an optical illusion in that area, that throws you off as a driver. That you never know when you're approaching that area, you said, if it goes from being elevated to being flat. I have to ask you this, though, because out of 314 bridges in the Bronx, the Department of Transportation in New York says 235 were found deficient and that is a big number. But that doesn't mean that they're not drivable. It just means that they need improvement. Is this a bigger issue in New York state do you think?", "I think you hit upon something key here, Don. Back in 2010, this bridge was one of several in New York state that were determined to be functionally obsolete and not structurally -- the structural integrity of the bridge was called into question. But when we look deeper into the meaning of that, what that definition means, it doesn't mean that the bridges are necessarily unsafe, but it means that they don't meet today's standards, contemporary standards. So, these bridges needed to be brought up to date to meet today's safety standards. And this particular portion of the Bronx River park way, this bridge that this vehicle went off of today, it was declared in 2010 the functionally obsolete.", "Steve Kastenbaum, we really appreciate your reporting. Good stuff there. Thank you for keeping us up to date on this, Steve Kastenbaum. I want to go now to the Pacific coast where three people are dead, a fourth is missing, after an accident during a sailing race. The yacht was heading from Newport Beach, California, to Ensenada, Mexico. Race organizers say it likely collided with a much bigger vessel overnight Saturday near the Coronado Islands. That's where they found the three bodies and the wreckage. The Coast Guard and Mexican navy are searching for that missing fourth crewmember.", "For most Americans right now, we lived under the very real threat of terrorism, but that threat may have been lessened a year ago this week -- when U.S. commandos flew into Pakistan on a singular mission and get -- to get Osama bin Laden. And after a nighttime raid on his compound, bin Laden was dead. Today, President Obama's counterterrorism chief said the U.S. still has work to do.", "We're on the path to al Qaeda's destruction and the president has committed that we're not going to rest until al Qaeda is destroyed as an organization, in the Afghan-Pak area as well as in other regions in the world. It's a murderous organization that has killed many Americans as well as many other nationalities over the course of the past decade and more. And, so we are going to make sure that that organization is destroyed.", "And now, we're seeing recent evidence of that ongoing fight. On orders from the White House, the U.S. has expanded the use of drones against militants in Yemen, even when their exact identities aren't known. Operations can be green lighted based solely on intel that a target poses a threat against the U.S. In fact, this week, officials said at least 52 al Qaeda militants were killed in Yemen, including one of the terror group's top commanders. Coming up, I'm going to talk to retired General Spider Marks, a year after the death of Osama bin Laden. Are we any safer? Make sure you join me next hour, 7:30 Eastern, for unique and expert insight from General Spider Marks. It's coming up. Terror worries surround the upcoming London Olympics. Now, we have learned that missiles may be placed around the city. But, first --", "Mr. President, you remember -- you remember when the country rallied around you in hopes of a better tomorrow? That was hilarious.", "Jimmy Kimmel zings the president, but Mr. Obama had some funny lines of his own. Did you hear the joke he made about eating dogs? We're talking with our political junkies, that's next."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "LEMON", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "CANDIOTTI", "LEMON", "STEVE KASTENBAUM, CNN RADIO CORRESPONDENT (via telephone)", "LEMON", "KASTENBAUM", "LEMON", "KASTENBAUM", "LEMON", "KASTENBAUM", "LEMON", "LEMON", "JOHN BRENNAN, WHITE HOUSE SR. ADVISOR ON COUNTERTERRORISM", "LEMON", "JIMMY KIMMEL, COMEDIAN", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-53123", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-4-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0204/25/lt.03.html", "summary": "South African Heads to Space Station", "utt": ["While many of you were still sleeping this morning, a 28-year-old South African went off on a little business trip, if you will.", "Little field trip.", "That's right. He blasted off on a Russian rocket to become the world's second space tourist.", "Of course, we're talking about Mark Shuttleworth. He paid $20 million for the trip to the International Space Station. Our Moscow Bureau Chief, Jill Dougherty, has more on his trip.", "As the giant Soyuz rocket fired its engines, inside the Soyuz capsule, South African Mark Shuttleworth, the second amateur in space, looked cool and collected. On the ground, his parents embraced as mission control pronounced it a perfect liftoff. Ten minutes later, Shuttleworth and the two professional cosmonauts flying with him, Russian Yuri Gozenko (ph) and Italian Roberto Bitori (ph) were in outer space. Almost three hours into the flight, the crew reported to ground control that everything was going smoothly. Shuttleworth, a 28-year- old self-made Internet millionaire trained eight months for his eight day visit to the International Space Station. He paid a reported $20 million for his ticket. He thinks it's worth it.", "It's a very long story that goes back as long as I can remember, that I've known about space flights, it has been my dream to fly, and it's a great privilege, after many months of training to be sitting here with this great crew.", "The Russian space program thinks it is worth it too. Officials freely admit it needs the money.", "Shuttleworth's flight means additional finances for the development of our program on the International Space Station. And also, the whole new set of interesting -- even revolutionary experiments will be conducted during his stay on the space station. Besides additional finances, the Shuttleworth flight brings world attention and popularity to space exploration.", "On the International Space Station, Shuttleworth will perform experiments prepared by South African and Russian scientists, including tests on animal stem cells and methods of fighting", "He plans to talk live from space with schools in South Africa, telling students that just like him, one day they, too, may be able to fly. Jill Dougherty, CNN, Mission Control, Carolyov (ph), Russia."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN MOSCOW BUREAU CHIEF", "MARK SHUTTLEWORTH, AMATEUR COSMONAUT", "DOUGHERTY", "VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV, FLIGHT DIRECTOR", "DOUGHERTY", "HIV/AIDS. (on camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-134861", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-2-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/09/cnr.04.html", "summary": "President Obama Town Hall Meeting; Elkhart, Indiana Has the Nation's Highest Unemployment; Obama's Economic Recovery Plan Faces a Tough Hurdle in the Senate; Obama Gives a Speech in Elkhart to Push the Stimulus Plan", "utt": ["And hello, again. I'm Tony Harris in the CNN NEWSROOM. Here are the headlines from CNN for Monday, the 9th of February. Live pictures now from Concord High School in Elkhart, Indiana. Ordinary Americans are about to question the president on the stimulus plan. The Senate puts the stimulus bill to a test-drive today. Republican votes are needed to steer the legislation forward. President Obama on the road making a sales pitch for that massive economic stimulus package. He arrived in Elkhart, Indiana, a little while ago for a town hall meeting. It is a city most attuned to the nation's economic crisis. The area's 15.3 percent unemployment rate leads the nation. CNN's Dan Lothian is there now. Dan, all of those jobs lost, are they related to the auto industry?", "Well, here is what's to blame for the big impact on the R.V. industry. First of all, as you know, fuel prices that have just skyrocketed over the past year, in addition to that, the credit crunch. So people can't get the financing they need to buy these R.V.s. and in general, a lot of Americans are hanging on to their dollars. They're not going on vacations, so therefore, there's no need to buy these R.V.s. What's interesting about this area, is that 75 percent of the R.V.s that are made in the country are made right here in Elkhart. So you can really see how when that industry's impacted that the people here really are going through a very, very difficult time. I had a chance a few minutes ago to talk to the mayor, Mayor Moore. I asked him about this notion that the money, the stimulus money, would not help this city, because it really is designed for infrastructure and not for job losses in this kind of industry. He said, yes, specifically, that is true. But he said, if we can create some jobs in infrastructure, then we can get some of those folks from the R.V. industry who have a lot of different skills and transfer those skills over to infrastructure projects. He says right now they have about 17 shovel-ready projects ready to go and he says they can use that money and put it to good work. But it really is a struggle here. And you probably hear a lot of that from the folks who came to this town hall meeting as they will be asking questions at this town hall meeting. I'm told by an Obama official that they didn't prescreen these questions, that anyone who raises their hand, the president will pick on them. They can ask any question that they wish to ask. And by the way, Tony, 1700 people showing up here. All those tickets were handed out at various areas around this town. And they were all scooped up in about 45 minutes, Tony.", "Well, we're starting to see some people stand and rise there, so we may be getting close. So maybe I can sneak this question in for you, Dan. This isn't Obama's first visit to Elkhart, is it?", "It is not. He's been here twice before. The last time he came here was in August on the campaign trail. He came and visited. And again, the reason that he wanted to come back is because he wants to highlight an area that is really struggling through these tough economic times. And as you mentioned earlier, they've seen their unemployment rate here skyrocket from about 4.7 percent over the past year to more than 15 percent. 15.3 percent, to be exact. So this is, when you're looking at sort of all the various cities and towns across the country that are being impacted by this negative economy, this is an area that the White House really wants to highlight and show that, listen, while Congress is up there debating whether or not they should go with the stimulus plan, this is where the rubber meets the road. This is why they need to act quickly, or more of these people losing their jobs will continue to lose their jobs.", "Certainly. The president, during the campaign, he turned Indiana from red to blue, but he did not win Elkhart, did he?", "No, he did not win this area. But nonetheless, as I was talking to the mayor, he says we're very happy now to have him here. We feel like he's part of us. He's been here, now this will be his third visit. They really want that money. They believe if they can get that money here, they can put it to good work, it can really help to start turning this economy here around.", "Dan, thanks for doing the dance with me. I thought we were getting really close there, so we'll squeeze the picture in and keep folks posted on the arrival of the president. Our White House Correspondent Dan Lothian for us. Dan, thanks. Appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "We also want to remind you the president holds his first prime-time news conference since taking office tonight, 8:00 eastern, and you can see it here on CNN. A crucial test vote today for the massive economic recovery plan. If it clears that hurdle, a Senate vote on the plan itself is expected tomorrow. Then the tough job of hammering out differences between the Senate and the House bills. But back to today's vote. Congressional Correspondent Brianna Keilar, live on Capitol Hill. Brianna, I believe the debate this hour continues, correct?", "Yeah, debate going to be continuing here in the next hour, Tony. And this is key, because it's going to show us if that deal that was struck on Friday night between Democrats and a few Republicans, if it's going to hold and give Democrats enough votes to move this economic stimulus package through the Senate, out of the Senate with that other vote that's expected tomorrow. As you mentioned, after that, it's about hashing out the differences between the House side bill and the Senate bill, which is actually something already going on behind the scenes between staffers. This isn't necessarily an easy process. Why? Well, because in the Senate, Democrats had to agree to win over those Republicans and even a couple reticent Democrats to cut spending by about $100 billion. This included $40 billion in education spending cuts. It's been a bitter pill for Democrats I the Senate to swallow. It's going to be the same for the House side. We heard from Susan Collins, one of the three centrist Republicans who appears to be on board with this compromise plan, that if the House side throws a bunch of spending back on, she's not on board.", "And, Brianna, you hit the road recently and went to a small town where people are sort of tired of the talking. They're ready for some action?", "Yeah, they are. I went to Taneytown, Maryland. This is a small city close to Capitol Hill, a short drive, about an hour and a half. Like a lot of small cities and small towns, they are eyeing the stimulus, hoping to get a piece of the pie.", "Taneytown, Maryland, just 70 miles from Washington, D.C. Talk to folks in this rural community, and they'll tell you it's another world.", "I don't think government really realizes how bad it is out here.", "Unemployment here is the highest it it's been in ten years. Businesses have closed, and residents are facing tax hikes to fund the city's crumbling infrastructure.", "Our water system and our sewage system probably goes back 55, 60 years.", "Taneytown's mayor, Jim McCarron, has a plan to help this city. He's launched an all-out lobbying effort to get a piece of the billions Washington could spend to jump-start the economy. Drawing up a list of projects that could begin within 90 days, meeting with members of Congress, talking to the governor's office. (on camera): This is a full-course press, isn't it?", "It is, indeed. The old squeaky wheel theory. I've subscribed to that for many years. This is not fluff. This is not expanding the city or buying another staff car. This is stuff that affects everybody's lives and affects everybody's pocketbooks.", "On Mayor McCarron's $20 million to-do list, drilling a new well like this one for the city's at-capacity water system, replacing more deteriorating water pipes and building a road.", "This is Atrum Road. This is the extension.", "A plan to open upland that McCarron says will bring new jobs to the area. You would think more government spending would be a tough sell to people in this conservative stronghold, angry with the Wall Street bailout. But they see this economic rescue as Main Street's chance to get the help it needs.", "As long as it gets down to the lower levels, like to Taneytown and other small towns, it will be beneficial.", "Economists have said this infrastructure spending money needs to go out in the next 18 months in order to really stimulate the economy. And officials in these small towns, like Taneytown and like Elkhart, Indiana, where you saw president Obama now, they are savvy to this. For instance, in Taneytown, they're pitching a bunch of these projects, infrastructure projects, Tony, and not a single one does the spending go beyond that 18 months.", "Interesting. Very interesting. I know that town, Taneytown in Maryland. Good people there. Brianna Keilar for us on Capitol Hill. Brianna, thank you. Well, he is taking it to the people. President Obama's on the road pitching his stimulus plan to voters. And a just-released poll reveals what Americans think about it and about the president. Our senior political correspondent, Candy Crowley, joining us now from Washington. Candy, great to see you. Let me start with approval rating. How was the president's approval rating holding up during the sometimes rough and tumble debate over the stimulus package?", "Pretty well. Pretty well. I don't think you can argue with what we found in this poll. This is of course the CNN-opinion research corporation poll. 76 percent of Americans approve of the way that President Obama is handling his job as president. Now, let me tell you, because these numbers tell a story. That 76 percent approval rating does not necessarily go into the stimulus bill, because only 54 percent of Americans actually support the stimulus bill that he is now pushing here in Elkhart, Tony. I don't know if you want to go to him now.", "You just did it. Wonderful. Thank you, Candy.", "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Well, listen, everybody can have a seat. Make yourselves comfortable, we're going to be here a while.", "Thank you, President Obama. We welcome you to Elkhart with our whole heart.", "Thank you.", "And we're just -- we're so grateful that you've come here today.", "Thank you.", "My question to you is, sir, when you allocate the money for Elkhart, Indiana, will it come directly into Elkhart, or where -- is it going to have to go around somewhere else?", "Well, first of all, what's your name?", "My name is Helen Castello.", "Thank you, Helen. It's a good question. Look, we've got to get the bill passed, but we also have to make sure that the money is well spent, which means we're doing some thing that's are unprecedented to make sure that the money gets out quickly, but it gets out wisely. We're going to set up an independent board made of Democrats and Republicans to review how the money is being spent. Because we've got to make sure that it's not being wasted on somebody's special project that may not actually create help for people. So that's point number one. Point number two is, we're actually going to set up something called recovery.gov. This is going to be a special website that we set up that gives you a report on where the money's going in your community, how it's being spent, how many jobs it's being created so that all of you can be the eyes and ears. And if you see that a project is not working the way it's supposed to, you'll be able to get on that website and say, you know, I thought this was supposed to be going to school construction, but all -- I haven't noticed any changes being made. And that will help us track how this money's being spent. Now, in terms of how it's -- how it's being utilized, and who it's going to, it's probably going to depend on different aspects of the plan. Some of the plan will go to the state government. Because, for example, unemployment -- well, let me give you an example. Unemployment insurance is run through the state, not run through a city. And so that part of the plan will be going through the state. There are going to be other projects having to do with transportation, for example, in which we may be working directly with local municipalities and communities, as well as the state government, to make sure that the project is well-planned. And that's why we've got Secretary LaHood here, because he's going to be working with the local communities. Same is true on education funding. We may be working directly with the school superintendent, who I know is here, to figure out where are the schools that are in most need of help and where we can right away get some construction going and get some improvements going. So it will probably depend on what -- what stream of money we're talking about. But the key is, we're going to have strong oversight and strong transparency to make sure that this money is well spent. And, listen. I know that there are a lot of folks out there who have been saying, oh, this is pork and this is money that's going to be wasted and, et cetera, et cetera. Understand, this bill does not have a single earmark in it, which is unprecedented for a bill of this size. Does not have a single earmark in it. So we may -- we may debate, we can debate, you know, whether you'd rather have this tax cut versus that tax cut, or this project versus that project. Be clear, though, that there aren't individual pork projects that members of Congress are putting into this bill. Regardless of what the critics say, there are no earmarks in this bill. That's part of the change that we're bringing to Washington, is making sure that this money is well spent to actually create jobs right here in Elkhart. All right? OK. Gentleman up there, all the way at the top. You. That's right. But hold on a second. Let's get a mike to him. All right.", "Thank you. I also want to just be very thrilled to be in the presence of you because we've been looking for a change. We are truly tired of the economics that we have been getting that has got us into the position that we're in. That theory has been a trickle down. We need to trickle up. So I would hope in your philosophy of trying to kick start the economy, that the money is directed to the people who are -- have homes that are foreclosed. The people that have lost jobs. To try to give it to a bank and give a low interest rate and the person whose home is being foreclosed on don't have a job, don't help anybody. It's a sale that nobody can take advantage of because you ain't got no money. So I would hope, and I pray, that you would support the people who got you into the office. We the people, not the fat cat. We the people. To whereas the money is directly into the hands of the people who are hurting, to where we don't have to worry about going to the state, going to the federal government, standing in line somewhere, send that check to our mailbox. Amen. Amen.", "Let me respond.", "So we can take it to the bank and pay that mortgage. Thank you.", "Let me -- can everybody hear me? Testing. Hello, hello, hello? Can you hear me now? Hold on a second. Testing, testing. How's that? All right. The -- well, let me respond in a couple of ways. Number one, when it comes to tax cuts, you are exactly right. That instead of providing tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, what I've been pushing in this plan is to make sure that the tax cuts goes to working families. That is not only good for those families, it's actually good for the economy because when you give a tax break to working families who are struggling, they will spend it on buying a new coat for the kids or making sure that, you know, they get that car repaired to get -- that they use to get to work. When you give it to the wealthier families, they just put it away somewhere. And so it doesn't circulate into the economy. So tax cuts targeted to working families are the most effective means of stimulus that we can provide to the economy. Now, you're making another point, though, that has to do with a separate part of what we're going to need to get this economy moving again, and that has to do with the financial system and the banking system. And I just want to be clear that the Recovery and Reinvestment Act that is before Congress right now is just one leg in the stool of recovery. The other thing that we've got to get done is, we've got to get the banks stable and lending again. Part of what's happened in terms of the RV industry, for example, I was talking to Congressman Donnelly about this, is basically people who want to buy an RV can't get financing right now, even if they've got good credit. So what we're going to be trying to do is to set up a whole new mechanism for helping people get consumer credit. We're going to help small businesses and medium size businesses get credit. And instead of just pumping that money directly into Wall Street, we're going to make sure that a lot of that money's going directly to consumers. And the money that does go into Wall Street is going to come with strings attached. You cannot -- you cannot expect taxpayers to bail out banks that have made bad decisions when they are then using their money to give themselves huge bonuses. So one of the things that we've said is, look, we understand that the banking system is fragile right now. And even though those folks made bad decisions, it could bring down the entire economy and affect towns like Elkhart. So we're going to do something to strengthen the banking system. But, you know, you are not going to be able to give out these big bonuses until you pay taxpayers back. You can't get corporate jets. You can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers' dime. There's got to be some accountability and some responsibility. And that's something that I intend to impose as president of the United States. Right there. All right. Young lady right here. Right here. In the striped sweater.", "My name is Tara (ph). You've come to our county and asked us to trust you. But those that you have appointed to your cabinet are not trustworthy and can't handle their own budget and taxes (ph).", "No, no, this is a legitimate -- this is a legitimate question. Go ahead.", "I'm one of those that thinks you need to", "No, that's OK. That's OK. No, no, look, I think this is a perfectly legitimate question. First of all, I appoint -- I've appointed hundreds of people. All of whom are outstanding Americans who are doing a great job. There are a couple who had problems before they came into my administration in terms of -- in terms of their taxes. Look, no -- the -- and I think that this is a legitimate criticism that people have made, because you can't expect one set of folks to not pay their taxes when everybody else is paying theirs. So I think that's a legitimate concern. I will tell you that the individuals at issue here, I know them personally, and I think these were honest mistakes. And I made sure they were honest mistakes beforehand. And one of the things I've discovered is, if you're not going to appoint anybody who's ever made a mistake in your life, then you're not going to have anybody taking your jobs. So -- but -- but having said that, what I did acknowledge, and I said it publicly on just about every TV station, is something that you probably, you know, sometimes don't hear from politicians, which is, I made a mistake. And that because I don't want to send the signal that there are two sets of rules. Now, understand, though, I think something that should also be mentioned is that we've set up an unprecedented set of ethics rules in my White House where we are not -- we are not -- everybody will acknowledge that we have set up the highest standard ever for lobbyists not working in the administration. People who work in my administration aren't going to be able to go out the revolving door and start working for some lobbying firm and lobbying the White House. Republicans and Democrats have acknowledged that this is a very high bar that we've set for ourselves. We have not been perfect, but we are changing the culture in Washington and it's going to take some time. Now with respect to Sean Hannity, I didn't know that he had invited me for a beer. You know, but -- I will take that under advisement. Generally, his opinion of me does not seem to be very high, but I'm always good for a beer. So, all right. Let me -- let me get this side of the room and then I'll come back in. I want to make sure I'm not looking too biased on one side here. That gentleman right up there in the corner there. You. Yes.", "Thank you, President Obama. It's -- like everybody else has said, it's an honor to be here. My name is Jason Ward (ph) and I'm a local attorney here in town, but I've seen a lot of the effects that the manufacturing industries had here. And there's been a lot of discussion with respect to green jobs and environmental issues. And this area has been one of the areas that's been mentioned about maybe retooling to take advantage of the green revolution. And I guess the question is, with respect to the stimulus bill, are the provisions in there that address green job issues, improvement of environmental issues and those type of matters?", "Absolutely. Yes, it's a great question. And let me describe for you just some of the things that we have in there. Under this plan, we would double the production of alternative energy. Double it from where it is right now. So that's point number one. Point number two -- point number two, there is money allocated in this plan to develop the new battery technologies that will allow, not just cars, but potentially RVs as well, to be -- to move into the next generation of plug-in hybrids that get much better gas mileage, that will wean ourselves off the dependence on Middle Eastern oil and we'll improve our environment and lessen the potential effects of greenhouse gases and climate change. We also have put in money that provide for the weatherization of millions of homes across the country. Now, this is an example of where you get a multiplier effect. If you allocate money to weatherize homes, the homeowner gets the benefit of lower energy bills. You right away put people back to work, many of whom in the construction industry and in the housing industry are out of work right now, they are immediately put to work doing something. You can train young people as apprentices to start getting training in home construction through weatherization. And you start reducing energy costs for the nation as a whole. So there are -- there are billions of dollars in this plan allocated for moving us towards a new energy future. Now, I'll be honest with you, some of the critics of the plan have said that's pork. I don't understand their criticism. Their basic argument is, well, that's -- you're trying to make policy instead of just doing short-term stimulus. Well, my whole attitude is, if we're going to spend billions of dollars to create jobs anyway, then why wouldn't we want to create jobs in things like clean energy that create a better economic future for us over the long-term? That just -- that's common sense to me. That's common sense to me. And that is especially important for the Midwest because if you think about it, the auto industry, RV industry, transportation industry is so important to us here in the Midwest, if we don't use this crisis as an opportunity to start retooling, then we will never catch up and be able to compete effectively against Japanese automakers, Korean automakers, and we will find ourselves continuing to slide. This should be an opportunity for us to retool. And so, you know, I am going to make this a big priority over the next few days as we're trying to reconcile the House and the Senate bill, getting folks in Congress to understand that this is one of the best possible investments that we can make. Let me give you another example of long-term investments that are in this plan. I've been criticized because I suggested that as part of this plan we should improve information technology in the health care system. Now, here is the reason that I want to do it. Not only will it immediately create jobs in the health care industry, as well as in information technologies, people who are programmers, people who are information systems specialists, but it will also put everybody's medical records in a computerized form that will reduce medical errors and cut down the costs of health care over the long-term. One of our biggest problems is that health care costs keep on going up, even when everything else is going down. You know that in your own lives. The average family premium has doubled over the last eight years, even though your wages and your incomes haven't doubled. If we keep on going down that path, health care is going to gobble up everything. So what I've said is, look, if we're going to be spending money anyway creating jobs, why not create jobs getting these medical records set up in a way that drives down health care costs over the long-term? Some of my critics have said, that's social policy. That's not stimulus. Look, doesn't it make sense if we're going to spend this money to solve some big problems that have been around for decades? That's what we're trying to do. That's what's in this package. And that's why I hope Congress supports it. All right. It's -- it's a young lady's turn. This young lady right here. All right. Hold on one second. Let's get a mike to you so everybody can here you. We got a mike?", "I'm Kathy Whitaker (ph) from South Bend. And I work as a foreclosure intervention counselor. And there is a bill pending that indicates that they're trying to get the authority for judges to go in and mandate a change in those mortgages. Do you think that's something that will pass?", "Let me talk to you about the housing foreclosure issue, because this was raised by this gentleman as well. We have to give homeowners some help and some relief. You've got home foreclosures that have gone up astronomically during this recession, during this downturn. It is both a cause and effect of the downturn. If we don't do anything about stabilizing the housing market, it is going to be much more difficult for us to recover. So we are going to be unveiling a series of plans to help not only homeowners who are at the brink of foreclosure, but there are a lot of homeowners who are making their mortgage payments every day, but they've seen the value of their homes decline so badly that now their mortgage is more than the value of their home, which means that even when interest rates are low, it's very hard to refinance your home to take advantage of those low rates because a bank will say, well, you actually owe more than the home is worth. So we're going to be doing a lot of work on this. Now, one potential provision that has been discussed that I am supportive of, but is not in this package, it will be on a separate package, is the idea that right now, if you have a second home or a third home or a fourth home or a fifth home, and -- and you go bankrupt, then the judge can modify the terms of your mortgage on your second, third, fourth, fifth home. So if you're worth $100 billion, you bought all these houses, and suddenly you went bankrupt, you would still be able to protect your second, third, fourth, fifth home. But if you are like most people, including me, and you got one house -- now, keep in mind, the house I'm in, in D.C., I'm just borrowing that. That's the people's house. So I'm just -- I'm a guest in Washington in the people's house. My house is on the south side of Chicago that I own. But if you just have one house, it turns out that under current law, you can't modify that mortgage if you are in bankruptcy. And if you just can't make the payments, the judge is not authorized to modify that -- that loan so that -- let's say the banks have to take a little bit less, but you are still making some payments. Now, that makes no sense. What that's doing is, is it's forcing a lot of people into foreclosure who potentially would be better off and the bank would be better off and the community would be better off if they're at least making some payments but they're not able to make all the payments necessary. So this is a piece of legislation that I strongly support. We're going to try to make that part of our housing package so that -- remember I said this recovery package and reinvestment package is just one leg of the stool. We've got to deal with the credit crisis. We've got to deal with housing. There are a whole bunch of other steps that we're going to have to take, and this is one of them. All right? The gentlemen right back here in the tie here. Yes.", "Thank you, President Obama. I'm Bill Keith (ph) from Sunrise Solar. I manufacture a solar-powered attic fan right here in Indiana.", "Excellent.", "Believe me, a lot of people encouraged me to go to China years ago to manufacture my product so I could live a little higher on the hog, and I decided to keep my friends and neighbors employed and make it right here.", "That's right. Excellent.", "And I wanted you to know that we've got people in this row, Eric, Laura, Terry, Denise, Jesse Carbanda (ph) up in the balcony, and Gary Frymuller (ph), and these are people we're running dream companies right now that are employing American people on our soil and keeping jobs here. What we need is a little more friendly environment from the utility companies. So if I want to put a solar system on my house, I can get more than nine cents on the dollar for the electric I feed back into it.", "Yes.", "Some legislation like that would be helpful. And what my stance has been has -- if the federal government mandates that the utility companies have to produce at least so much renewable energy, then all of our rates are going to go up. So I've been trying to encourage my own state to be more proactive and adopt a renewable energy standard -- renewable electric standard on their own. What do you see in the pipeline for companies like mine? Because it's hard. I don't get any tax, you know -- those of you out there that think that the prior administration or someone gave us some kind of benefits for being a green company here, there are none. I mean, there's no real incentive for us to do what we're doing. So we're doing it out of passion right now. So we appreciate all that you're saying about renewables.", "Good. Well, let me -- three things that we can do. Just very specific and we can do them quickly. And then there's a fourth thing that we can do that will take a little bit more time. Number one is that we need to pass a renewable energy standard. And what that does is -- just for people who aren't sort of experts in the field, it's pretty simple. What it says is, to the various utilities, it says, you need to get 15 percent or 20 percent of your energy from renewable sources. And once you set that benchmark, then what happens is, is that people who are producing renewable energy, solar or wind or hydrothermal, what they're able to do then is count on a pretty solid market that they're going to be able to sell their energy to. And that means investors then will say, you know what, this is actually a pretty good thing for us to invest in. And, over time, what that means is, is that more and more people invest in renewable energy, which means the technology gets better, the research and development improves and you start growing that sector. So a renewable energy standard is very important. That's point number one. Point number two is, we should be providing tax credits and loan guarantees to renewable energy. That -- there are some in place currently that have -- are on the verge of lapsing. And we have to act much more forcefully in terms of making sure that those are in place. That's the second thing. The third thing that we should be doing is working with utilities all across America, including here in Indiana, to do what some utilities are already doing in California. And this is a really smart thing. What they do is, the utility is able to make money, not just on how much energy it sells, but it's also able to make money on how much energy its customers save. So you can structure how they charge your electricity bill so that if you started installing a solar panel, that you would actually, as you point out, be able to sell some of that energy back when you're not using it, you get to put some money in your pocket and the utilities are rewarded for encouraging you to do that. Right now they don't have enough incentive to do it because they're making money the more energy you use. Whereas what we want to do is make -- give them incentives so that they're constantly telling you how you can save energy. The fourth thing, and this is the thing that's going to take a little bit longer, is we've got to improve basic science, research and development. When it comes to solar, when it comes to wind, the price has gone down. But generally speaking, it's still a little more expensive than fossil fuels -- coal, natural gas and so forth. So we've got to improve the technology. And that's why I want to make sure that we're investing some money every year in the development of new energy technologies that will drive those costs down over the long-term. The country that figures out how to make cheaper energy that's also clean, that country is going to win the economic competition of the future. And I want that to be the United States of America. That's one of my commitments as president of the United States. All right. All right. This part of the room's been kind of neglected here. Let's get that young lady right there. Yes.", "Thank you, Mr. President. My name's Erin Mendoza (ph) and I kind of had a question that went along with the gentleman over there. What are you going to do about enticing companies to stay here in the United States once we have them? A lot of local companies have gone overseas, you know, since I was born, sorry. And the economy here in Elkhart was at a high and is going down because companies are enticed to leave. 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{"id": "CNN-240174", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2014-10-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/02/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Future Cities: Portland's Transit System", "utt": ["Welcome back. Now in our special new series, it's called Tomorrow Transformed, we take a look at how communication technology is changing the way we live. In this latest installment, Richard Quest introduces us to Portland, Oregon's cutting edge light rail system.", "A century ago, trollies and trams ruled the roads. That is, until the almighty automobile came along. Now, a younger generation of urban commuters, are reversing course once again.", "Most of my friends would like have mostly done away with their cars, used public transportation, kind of the new it thing to do.", "We look out in the future, we see a lot of people coming to our community. We've got to figure out how we get them around.", "Dave Unsworth is director of Project Development for TriMet, Portland's transit agency. In a city known for its love of the environment, transportation leaders have bet on light rail to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution. It brings a buzz and economic boost that comes from urban density, all those people downtown.", "We've got to do better about growing the place, making sure that we get the right uses in these places and serve them well with transit.", "TriMet says it's spent $4 billion to build the rail and it's paid off to the tune of $10 billion in new development around its stations. Light rail is still seen by some as the Cinderella way of getting around town. As long as cars are faster, a majority of people will take to their own wheels. See that bridge over there? About a year from now, transportation planners hope, it will change the equation. When it's ready, the Tillicum (ph) crossing bridge will be the first of its kind in the United States. Off limits to private automobiles. The bridge will gladly carry light rail trains, city buses, and there will be plenty of room for bike lanes and pedestrians. Cutting through rush hour is one thing. Many commuters still don't like to wait for the train or pull out their cards every time they need to go somewhere. Now to counteract the hassle, Portland has partnered with a local startup, GlobeSherpa, creating a commuter friendly app for the smartphone.", "I can validate my fare within 10 to 15 seconds as opposed to having to get my credit card out, put it in the machine, oh put it in the machine one more time. OK, now which buttons do I push again to make this work? That whole experience is completely eradicated with the mobile app.", "The app allows riders to pay for rail and buses without having to buy multiple tickets. What this really shows is that when governments think big, invests heavily for the future, and harness the power of technology, then when it comes to our journeys, tomorrow is transformed.", "You're watching News Stream. Still to come on the program, we head back to the heart of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests as the clock ticks down on an ultimatum demanding the city's chief executive to stand down."], "speaker": ["LU STOUT", "RICHARD QUEST, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "LOGAN GORE, LIGHT RAIL COMMUTER", "DAVE UNSWORTH, TRI-MET TRANSIT AGENCY", "QUEST", "UNSWORTH", "QUEST", "TONY TOM, EXECUTIVE VP, GLOBESHERPA", "QUEST", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-3711", "program": "Moneyline News Hour", "date": "2000-3-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/03/mlld.00.html", "summary": "PlayStation II Makes its Debut with Sony Stock on a Tear", "utt": ["On a day of big winners, many stocks hit new 52-week highs, including Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Morgan Stanley, Motorola and News Corp. In other corporate news, communications chip maker PMC-Sierra opened its coffers to buy two privately held semiconductor firms, AA Netcom and Extreme Packet Devices. The cost: more than $1 billion in stock. And Bank One warned of more trouble weighing on the bottom line. The country's number-four bank, which has been hit by weakness in its credit card business, issued its fourth earnings warning since last summer. And Healtheon-WebMD reported that its losses grew heavily in the last quarter. The online health-care company said the red ink swelled to $49 million in the fourth quarter, but revenues more than doubled. Checking those stocks: PMC-Sierra jumped more than 15 1/2. Bank One slipped nearly 1 1/4. And Healtheon WebMD sank more than 6 1/2.", "In tonight's \"Tech Watch,\" the crowds came out in force for the next generation of videogame entertainment. And anticipation that Sony will score very big with its PlayStation 2 has sent a host of high-tech stocks soaring. Steve Young reports.", "Japanese consumers lined up hundreds deep in Tokyo's Akihabara, or \"Electric City,\" two days before the hottest videogame console in the history of the industry was set to go on sale. Some analysts expect Sony to sell two million of them in the very first week. They're expected to be on sale in the United States next fall.", "PlayStation 2 is one of the no- brainer products of the century. I think Sony has a built-in audience. It's the perfect time in the development of console video game systems and the acceptance of video games in the game-playing public for Sony to come up with the next generation machines.", "For about $350, they deliver photo realistic games because PlayStation 2 packs the power of a 1980s supercomputer. And the price includes a DVD drive and much of the wiring that will eventually enable consumers to get on the Internet.", "It can also be your Internet hub for the house. You know, this is a couple of years down the line, but eventually there will be some box that is the center of all of those functions, and Sony wants PlayStation to be that box.", "The current PlayStation now generates about 20 percent of Sony's revenue, and because it's a high margin product, about 33 percent of Sony's operating revenues. Right now, Sony has about 70 percent of the game-console world market, trailed by Sega, Nintendo, and soon Microsoft. (on camera): At a game developers' conference next week, Bill Gates is finally expected to tip his company's hand about what's been dubbed Microsoft's X/Box Console. A Microsoft operating system already powers the next generation console from Sony's competitor Sega in the videogame shootout. Steve Young, CNN Financial News, New York.", "Not that much movement in Sony stock today, but shares that trade in New York have indeed surged nearly 300 percent since Sony hit its 52-week low.", "Don't forget, for more on tech stocks and the tech sector, log on to cnnfn.com. And coming up, the Republican front-runner weighs in on the Microsoft case. We will tell you what George W. Bush is saying, after the break."], "speaker": ["BAY", "VARNEY", "STEVE YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "WES NIHEI, \"GAMEPRO\" MAGAZINE", "YOUNG", "CHRISTIAN SVENSSON, CEO & EDITORIAL DIR., MCV", "YOUNG", "VARNEY", "BAY"]}
{"id": "CNN-57316", "program": "CNN WOLF BLITZER REPORTS", "date": "2002-7-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/10/wbr.00.html", "summary": "NBA Player Gives Sister a Kidney", "utt": ["Earlier we asked, which organ donation waiting list is the longest? The answer, kidney. More than 52,000 patients are waiting for a kidney transplant. And fortunately, both Greg Ostertag and his sister, Amy Hall, are doing well almost two weeks after their surgery. They join us now live from Plano, Texas. Thanks to both of you for joining us. You could put a little smile on your face. Everything seemed to have worked out quite well, didn't it, Greg?", "Oh, yes. Everything worked out really well. You know, surgery went well. The nurses were bothering me a lot. I was trying to sleep. But other than that, everything went really good.", "Tell us what the background was, why you were forced -- you wanted to give up one of your kidneys?", "You know, she called me up day and just said that she needed a kidney. I had known, you know, for a while that she was going to eventually need one. I didn't know she was going to need one, like, by the end of the summer, you know. But she called up and said, My kidneys are about to turn themselves off, and I am probably need you to give me your kidney this summer. I said that's cool. You know, just let me know what I need to do, what doctors I need to call, figure out what tests I need to get done, and it was on.", "Amy, you...", "That's exactly how he responded, too.", "You have a pretty amazing brother who, in the middle of his professional basketball career, is willing to take a risk like that in order to help you. How do you feel about that?", "Oh, I thank my lucky stars every day. He was wonderful, he has been that way since the beginning. Never thought -- never thought, I shouldn't be doing this. Never said, you know, Let me think about it. He has just been absolutely gung-ho about it from the very beginning and I couldn't ask for a better brother. Very thankful to have him.", "What did the doctors say to you -- what did the doctors say to you, Greg, about the risks for you and for your basketball career, and maybe even for your own life by giving up one of your kidneys?", "They said, you know, the risks were there for something to go wrong, that it may kill me, but the risks are real low. I mean, it's like three in 10,000, or something like that. I'm not really sure. But it's real low. But so -- and as far as my playing career, they didn't say it would affect me at all. I should be the same person, you know, be able to play as much as I did before, and more this year.", "Do you...", "The only thing now is that I have got to be -- go ahead.", "Are you going to be able to go to training camp and play this year? Did the doctors give you that clean bill of health?", "Oh, yes. They cleaned me right up. They said by the time training camp rolls around, I should be ready to go at 100 percent, without any problems. The only thing now is I have to worry about is making sure I don't cause any major trauma to my other one, trying to stay out of car accidents, falling out of trees, and stuff like that, while I'm home or something.", "But what about -- what about your game? Basketball and the NBA is pretty much of a contact sport. You have got some other power centers, power forwards, big guys who are bumping up with you all the time. You have got to be a little bit worried about that.", "Yes, but a shot to a kidney now, although it doesn't have to be really hard, it has got to be a pretty good shot. Basketball is a contact sport, but most of your contact is up around your head and your shoulders and your chest most of the time. There's probably a freak elbow every once in a while, but usually they are not hard enough to affect much. It's just not something I am going to worry about.", "So you're definitely going to go forward -- you are definitely go forward -- you are going to definitely go forward and play in the NBA this year?", "Oh, definitely. I mean, it's not something -- it's not something I am going to wake up every day and wonder if I am going to get hit. I just -- I don't even think about it now. I just -- I get up and do what I want to do and go. It's -- I'm perfectly healthy, and stuff like that.", "Amy, first of all, tell us who that young little guy behind you is.", "Who does he look like?", "He looks very cute.", "It's -- that's Greg's son, Cody.", "Cody is a cute guy. Tell us who you feel, Amy, and what the prognosis is for you.", "Actually, I feel almost 100 percent better. My -- all my fatigue has gone away, thank goodness, but they told me that would almost happen instantly, which it did. I'm just sorry I waited so long to do it, because I really didn't -- I didn't realize how bad I felt until I got the new kidney. My prognosis looks really good. Just have -- I'm taking a ton of medicine, which, in the reality of things, it's not that big of a deal. Of course, I will on medication for the rest of my life. But as far as my prognosis is, I have to go to the doctor right now three times a week, and that's for the first month. And then after that, it will drop back to like once a week, and then once a year. So, I'm looking forward to that, but I know I have to do this to follow-up, and make sure everything is working how it's supposed to, but -- organ donation is a great thing. I will -- I have to stress that. I can't stress that enough.", "You know -- let's talk about that just very briefly, Greg. This must have had an impact on this whole notion of organ donation and transplanting organs. You and your sister are uniquely qualified to receive each others' organs, obviously. But what has it taught you this whole experience?", "It's taught me, don't be afraid. It's not -- aside from the pain -- aside from the pain, the first week and stuff like that, it's really not a big deal. You have got to do a few tests, and get a little bit of blood drawn. But other than that, it's not as scary as everybody makes it out to be. It is just -- I was in an operating room for two and a half hours, and woke up, had a little pain for a week, and that was about it. So it's -- it's a big thing, and if there is an opportunity for you to do it for a family member, go right ahead. It's -- I don't think it's life-threatening at all, you know, so do it, if you got the chance. Except for some people.", "I know -- we all know you did it for your little baby sister. She loves you, and I'm sure that everybody is very, very impressed, totally impressed by your courage and your ability to do this. Congratulations to both of you, Amy and Greg. We'll be watching you play with the Utah Jazz this season, we will be admiring you on the playing court. Thanks to both of you for joining us.", "I appreciate it.", "Thanks.", "And there may be new ammunition in the war on terror and protecting you at home. Senator Bob Kerry will show us, next. 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{"id": "CNN-203088", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-3-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/15/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Portman in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage; Kakenya Ntaiya Starts School in Kenya, Empowers Young Girls", "utt": ["When it comes to same-sex marriage, Republicans continue to surprise. Senator Rob Portman who for years strongly spoke out against gay marriage now says he's for it. He dropped that bombshell in an exclusive interview with our Dana Bash, telling her that the change of heart has come because his 21-year-old son has told him that he's gay. But here's his response when Dana asked him: what do you tell your gay constituents?", "What do you say to a gay constituent in Ohio who says I'm so glad that he changed his position. Why did it take him learning that he has a gay son? Why didn't he as my representative care about that before?", "Well, I would say I had a change of heart based on a personal experience. That's certainly true.", "In a tweet, Senator Portman's son, Will Portman, expressed his joy declaring that he's, quote, \"especially proud of my dad today.\" Portman is joining a growing list of Republicans who have come out in support of gay marriage. Including Dick Cheney, the former V.P. whose daughter, Mary Cheney, married her longtime partner last year. Former First Lady Laura Bush, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and also Meg Whitman who originally supported a ban on gay marriage when he ran for governor of California in 2010, they've all reversed course. Portman's surprise comes as conservatives are holding their biggest event of the year. It's known as CPAC. Happening outside of Washington, D.C. Wolf Blitzer joins us to talk about that. Wolf, while we talk about what Senator Portman has said in his exclusive interview with Dana Bash. Gay groups are not even invited to CPAC. Is there still this disconnect among the larger Republican party?", "Well, there's still a major split in the country on same-sex marriage, equality as it's also called. And those differences are reflected not only in conservatives and liberals, Democrats and Republicans. Although the divisions have narrowed over the past several years, they're reflected in the public opinion polls as well. Though we have seen steady increases over these years, in the number of Americans who support same-sex marriage who want gay couples be allowed to get married. So that has clearly changed over the years. What Senator Portman is now doing, albeit, in part at least in large part because he discovered his own son is gay, is reflective of a much wider acceptance of gay marriage all across the country.", "So what about the issue of social policy? The evolving Republican party? The need to change? The effects of the last election, immigration, gay marriage, abortion all of these things? How much is gay marriage a part of this evolution if there is going to be such?", "Well, I think if Republicans and conservatives are going to be reaching out to young people, the overwhelming majority of young people in all of the polls we've seen are much more open to gay marriage than older Americans, more traditional Americans. And even as president -- former President Bill Clinton who signed the Defense of Marriage Act which maintains that marriage is between a man and a woman 17 years ago, he signed that into law. He now opposes the Defense of Marriage Act and thinks that gays should be allowed to get married just as any other American should be allowed to get married. So there's a generational gap, if you will. And I think that politically speaking, a lot of Republicans are beginning to say to themselves, you know what, since their stance opposing gay marriage is not necessarily popular with younger Americans, they've got to see the handwriting on the wall, if you will. But it's significant, very significant with Senator Portman. He does this on the eve of the oral arguments that will be made before the U.S. Supreme Court on the Defense of Marriage Act on gay marriage. That we expect a decision by the nine justices before the end of June. Look, these justices, while they try to just look at the law, they're also impacted by public opinion, I think it's fair to say. So his decision to express the support for gay marriage I think is significant.", "And we're within two weeks of those oral arguments, too. Wolf, great. Thank you so much. I have a reminder, too, we've got this terrific new program that's coming. We want everyone to take a peek. It's CNN's new show called \"THE LEAD\" with Jake Tapper. it gets underway on Monday afternoon at 4:00. How could not watch a very smart guy who likes comic books? Admittedly so. Jake's a good guy. This week, CNN, our hero, is giving young girls in her village a chance to go to school, a chance to challenge their destiny. She's doing to by challenging a cultural tradition that many people around the world as cruel and barbaric and yet it just keeps happening. It's called female genital mutilation. Even though it's outlawed in Kakenya Ntaiya's homeland of Kenya, it still goes on in some rural areas. An it affects, are you ready, 140 million women worldwide.", "I avoided the ceremony as far as I could. Most of the Maasai girls undergo this mutilation when they're 12. I really liked going to school. I knew that once I go through the cutting, I'm going to be married off. And my dream of becoming a teacher was going to end. My mind said to run away, but I had to face my dad and say I will only go through the cutting if he lets me go back to school. It was done in the morning, using a very old rusty knife with no anesthesia. I can never forget that day. Eventually, I was the first girl in my community to go to college in the U.S.. I am Kakenya Ntaiya. And I returned to my village to start a school for girls so they, too, can achieve their full potential. When girls start at our school, they are very shy, but over time, you see them very confident. How are you girls?", "Fine.", "They are doing very well. It's the most exciting thing. Our work is about empowering the girls. These girls say no to being cut, they're dreaming of becoming lawyers, teachers, doctors. Fathers are now saying, my daughter could do better than my son. Why should you work hard? To achieve your goals. I came back so girls in my community don't have to negotiate like I did to achieve their dreams. That's why I wake up every morning.", "Kakenya's school has 155 students. To enroll in that school, parents have to agree not to circumcise their daughters. To learn more about this program, or you can nominate someone you think deserves to be recognized go to CNNheroes.com and tell us about them now. The trial of two high school football players accused of raping a 16- year-old girl several times while she was dead drunk hits court with a fury. You won't believe some of the text messages that are coming out in evidence. I'm going to show them to you. And you can be the judge, coming up."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "DANA BASH, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. ROB PORTMAN, (R) OHIO", "BANFIELD", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "BANFIELD", "BLITZER", "BANFIELD", "KAKENYA NTAIYA, FOUNDER, KAKENYA'S DREA", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILDREN", "NTIYA", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-322648", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-10-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/03/nday.05.html", "summary": "Investigation Continues into Gunman Who Opened Fire on Las Vegas Concertgoers; Survivors of Concert Shooting Attack Interviewed.", "utt": ["To our viewers in the United States and around the world, you are watching NEW DAY. It's Tuesday, October 3rd, 8:00 in the east. I'm in Las Vegas. Alisyn is in New York. And we are looking at the despicable man who carried out one of the most evil things we've seen in this country, the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Right now we know 59 people have lost their lives, 527 have been injured, many of them are serious injuries. A murderer opened fire from a 32nd floor window, two of them, actually, at the Mandalay Bay Resort just behind us, the hail of bullets targeting thousands of concertgoers at an outdoor festival some 500 yards away. We saw one evil act. We have seen so many beautiful demonstrations of heroism and people choosing the love over hate. We saw it at the memorial last night, the victims being remembered, and so many of them are demonstrations of people that gave back to others -- teachers, nurses, police employees. So many lives lost in an instant and for no reason. Police say they found an arsenal in the killer's home and in his hotel room, some 42 guns they reported so far, thousands of rounds of ammunition, explosive materials in his car. At this point the police are still investigating why he did this, this 64-year-old gunman with no criminal past or apparent connection to any agenda or any reason that would have led to this madness. Now, the president is saying we are all united in the pain and the grief that is everywhere here in Las Vegas, and he's going to come to this place tomorrow. But in just minutes he's going to head to Puerto Rico where there is an entirely different type of grief on the ground there. There is a humanitarian crisis ongoing, and we have all of the news covered for you. Let's begin with Jean Casarez who is following the investigation here. Jean?", "Chris, there will be no trial here because the shooter is dead and they believe he acted alone, but the investigation continues on so many levels for so many reasons. But one of his reasons is the intent. Why did he do this? The amazing premeditation that went into this to target 22,000 innocent people.", "Authorities are learning more about the gunman responsible for the Las Vegas massacre, 64-year-old Steven Paddock. The retired accountant firing dozens of rounds onto thousands of concertgoers about 500 yards away from two hotel windows he smashed on the 32nd floor at the Mandalay Bay. Police searching floor by floor until they found Paddock's room. This video shot by an NBC journalist staying at the hotel. Paddock exchanged fire with police through his hotel room door, shooting one security guard in the leg.", "Everyone in the hallway needs to move back. All units move back.", "Breach, breach, breach.", "Police say Paddock took his life before a SWAT team stormed the room using explosives. Police recovering an arsenal of 23 weapons from Paddock's hotel room, including multiple rifles, some with scopes. Police say he had been staying at the hotel since last Thursday in a large suite. Investigators also finding another 19 weapons at his home in nearby Mesquite.", "Additional firearms, some explosives, and several thousand rounds of ammo along with some electronic devices that we are evaluating at this point.", "Investigators believe the guns were purchased legally, but according to law enforcement initial reports suggests at least one rifle was altered to function as an automatic weapon. A gun shop owner in Utah is certain he sold a shotgun to Paddock earlier this year.", "He didn't set off any of my alarms, anything that I felt like there's a problem in any way shape or form with him. He was a normal everyday guy that walks into my door 50,000 times a day.", "Police say Paddock wasn't on their radar with no criminal past and believe he acted alone. His brother Eric Paddock left stunned by the carnage, telling CNN he never exhibited any violent tendencies and had no affiliations with any terror or hate groups.", "He bought the machine guns and he did this, and he's never even drawn his gun. I mean, it makes no sense. He did not own machine guns that I knew of. This is something just incredibly wrong happened to my brother.", "His brother says Paddock was a successful real estate investor who owned and rented several properties across multiple states. He also had an affinity for gambling according to this couple who lived next door to Paddock for two years in Florida.", "He was a gambler and a speculator. And he told us that right up front since he was from Vegas, and he did a little online gambling and he also did it in Vegas.", "But the family has a troubled past. Paddock's father Benjamin was a convicted bank robber who escaped from prison in the late '60s and was on the FBI's most wanted list. Neighbors, shocked by the news, some even describing him as a gentle giant.", "You wouldn't recognize him as being anything out of the normal.", "We learned at the very last press conference last night that they in fact did find a computer in that hotel room. Forensic investigators will be combing it to look at what he researched, who he corresponded with, what they might know, and, finally, were there any writings that he made on that computer to say why he wanted to target innocent people. Chris?", "All right, Jean, thank you very much. Let's discuss the latest on the investigation. We have CNN law enforcement analyst James Gagliano. James, good to have you. So we don't know why. We don't know why and we're not going to know if it's terrorism because terrorism, while it feels like it just connotes a sense that this was a really bad, it's actually a term of art that shows that something was motivated to a purpose. We don't know the purpose so we can't deal with that. And in terms of what we have to look at here, how he got all these weapons, it could have been done legally and he modified them to be automatic fire. He didn't do it in a close time period. That's what the law allows.", "Chris, let's unpack what the responding officers had to deal with after hearing those sounds. We listen to the gun firing, just the volume, the rapidity of shots. The way that tactical resolution has been done in the United States, there were no SWAT teams prior to 1966. 1966 was the University of Texas clock tower, Charles Whitman, and that really was the genesis of SWAT. Let's fast-forward to 1998, OK. 1998, Columbine happens. We have Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, they attack a school. And at that point in time law enforcement was still dealing with what we call law enforcement clears, slow and steady. And there was never intermingling of local forces with state forces with federal forces. We learned that we can't do that anymore because responding officers aren't going to come from a homogenous unit. They're going to be a mismatched group. And that's what happened here. I looked closely at the timeline that you and I were discussing before, and it was 11 minutes from the first shots that took place at 10:08 Vegas time, then 11 minutes until a heterogeneous group of some security guards and police officers, sheriff's deputies arrived and were shot at. I think one of the officers was grievously wounded. It was then it was an hour and 15 minutes until the tactical team actually arrived with explosive breaching capabilities. This is critical because this is not a skill set. I served on the FBI's hostage rescue team, I lived in New York City FBI SWAT team. These are skill sets that only teams or full-time teams typically have.", "Let's also give some people some context for what they are dealing with in terms of atmospherics. Let's play the gunfire because you have to remember that you react to what you encounter. And listen to what they were dealing with.", "The last time I heard anything like that was I was in a warzone half a world away. How do you deal with that from a first responder perspective if you know that you are dealing with automatic weapons, gunfire?", "That type of sustained rate of fire, it's withering fire. And you are right, it's the sounds that we think of, those that have been in combat or those that have watched movies, war movies. For the responding officers, many of them that were armed only with side-arms, armed with pistols that just don't have the penetration power. And the fact that the subject could be on the other side of the door. These are steel frame doors, the hotels have heavy steel doors --", "Can't just kick it in.", "You can't just kick it in, very difficult to mechanically breach. They're just tough to do that. And that's why explosive breaching was used here. But also the subject had weaponry and ammunition that could have pierced those doors while the officers were trying to get in. And in hostage rescue or a barricaded subject situation like this, here are the four components you need -- speed, surprise, which they didn't have, they couldn't have, violence of action, and a fail-sale breach, and obviously getting him was the important thing, and that's essentially I guess when the subject ended up taking his life. He probably planned on committing suicide or committing suicide by cop.", "A lot went into that window that we're of examining in terms of multiple reports of things they had to deal with, having it at such a remote place, some 500 yards away, and then knowing you were dealing with a madman and a cannon essentially on the other side. James, thank you for taking us through.", "Thanks for having me.", "Time means different things based on the circumstances. The more we learn, the more you can help us understand. Thank you very much.", "You are welcome.", "All right, so we're dealing with that part of the investigation. And of course it matters, of course it matters how he got the guns, of course there's a discussion to be had. And you should have it in the moment like this because this is when people are listening. But who survived, how they did it, how they helped others, who was lost, those stories mattered just as much. How we survive these situations winds up being the legacy going forward. Lisa Fine was one of the people there. She was in the VIP section with her friends. She had to hide under the bleachers when she heard the gunshots. Imagine what she had to live through. She kept shooting the video that you are looking at right now. People running for their lives, helping us understand what was going on. Watch a little bit of it.", "It doesn't sound like a real gun.", "It is a real gun! That is a real gun!", "We are joined by Lisa Fine, as well as Brian Claypool. He was also in that VIP section of the concert and says he wasn't even supposed to be there, and now this is a moment that obviously is going to define his life for some time to come. But Lisa, while I have you, thank God you're both well. You have an explanation why you were shooting that cell phone video that I haven't heard in a long time, but, boy, does it resonate with me. You were shooting that video because there was someone you wanted to make sure who got to see what was going on. Tell us why you were shooting it.", "Yes, I decided that if I was going to die, I wanted my family, my kids, my son Brandon and my daughter Ashley, I wanted them to know what happened the last moments of my life if I was going to die. It was terrifying.", "That is heavy. You were there, you're hiding, you're shooting with that cell phone video. What were you telling yourself -- I get that you wanted people to remember where you were and give them something to help them understand, but what were you telling yourself about how you would get out of it?", "It was -- I don't know how I remained so calm, quite frankly. It was definitely an out of body experience, like this is really happening, this can't be happening. It sounded like a war zone and the screaming, and death was happening around me because the vantage point that I was at I could see people just going down as the bullets were spraying, and they were just running for their lives. And they were falling. And I just couldn't believe what was happening in front of my face, all those precious people. And we thought we were going to die. My friends and I, my instincts just kicked in, get down. The only chance we really have is to take cover any way we can. We were lucky we were at that particular spot that horrible night, and I just said get down, get down. What was frightening to me was that people were panicking and running, and I thought they are human targets right now. And it just took my breath away. There are really no words to describe that moment because you think you are going to die. You imagine the pain of what that would be like to be shot.", "Thank God it just stayed as an idea for you, because for so many it wound up becoming a reality, you and Brian. Brian, you are here. It is good to be able to shake your warm hand this morning. I see.", "I am having trouble watching that video.", "I know.", "I haven't really seen that video.", "I know. Look, I know it's hard. It's so helpful for people to understand what was survived. When you watch it, you know you made it through. But this stays with you, doesn't it?", "I am actually feeling a little guilty now. I have avoided seeing the victims and seeing pictures of the people that were killed, and I was there. And they're a lot younger than me, and they don't get to go home. I get to go home today, back to L.A. to see my daughter. And they don't. I am having trouble understanding that, comprehending that, and feeling a little guilty. I have heard heroic acts. And I'm now processing, did I do enough? I am going through some guilt now. Did I help enough people? Because everybody was screaming and yelling. I didn't know what to do. We didn't know where the shooter was. We thought he was going to jump over the fence. We thought there could have been one, two, three shooters. And then at one point, I ended up being put into a little room, I was running, there was a break after the first 30 seconds of shooting, and I ran. And this heroic young Hispanic man was, like, get in this room. I go in this room and I just keep seeing this image of the young -- I go in the room of the bleachers, and there's five or six young women like 20, 26 years old, and they were just on their knees, and they were in a corner and they were crying. I just -- I just want to hope that I did enough to help them stay calm, but at that moment, I'm feeling like it's not fair. It's like you are thinking, is it fair for them to die? Should I do? These are going through your thoughts. Like I felt like maybe I stood in front of them and I did that subconsciously. They were done and they were hiding behind this little corridor, with wheels on it. And I just stood out in the front and I'm thinking, maybe I should be -- you know what I'm saying? It's like who determines who gets killed in this? That's what I am having trouble with. Based on where you are sitting, where you're standing. I saw a woman in the general admission section, 15 feet in front of me get shot, she ended up dying. I happened to be in an area where I didn't get shot. So, I guess I have to go through the rest of my life wondering what -- why did some of these die and why didn't I?", "You are dealing with questions that are going to be so hard, and you're not going to get the answers to all of them today. But one of the things we know because we have all been bathed in so many of these events is there's only one person to blame for anything that happened that was wrong, and it ain't you, my brother. It is that monster who decided that somehow ending his life had to be connected to ending other peoples' lives.", "Yes.", "Everything you did was more than you should have ever been expected to have to do. You got to tell yourself that. Why you survived, and what that means for you to do with you life, those are beautiful challenges for you to take on now, and to pass on to your daughter, but don't spend a moment thinking about whether or not you were in any way in the wrong in a situation like that.", "I want you to know and your audience to know how beautiful those people were at that festival, that's what hurts the most, such a beautiful crowd of people. Everybody there was just celebrating life, taking a break from the everyday grind and struggles and such a beautiful crowd of people. Now I have to go home and I have been avoiding at looking at who was harmed and who was killed. And eventually, I'm going to see pictures of people that perished and I got to tell you, that is going to be the most painful thing for me to go through because I probably will have seen some of those people and maybe chatted with some of those people.", "But at the same time, you don't want the picture of that guy dominate of what people remember, and you don't want those lives to have stolen by that guy, without any kind of recourse, that their loved ones and the people that they touched in their lives remember that they were more than just the end of the guy's muzzle, and that matters, too. And for people like you to come forward and say you made it, you know, and say that that's not where it ends for you, and that your life goes on, that matters, too. Does that sink in at all?", "Yes, it creates a perception. It creates -- you know, I give you an example, I bumped into so many in the lobby a few minutes ago, and I noticed his wrist band, and I still my -- I don't -- I can't take this off for quite a while, and we're looking at each other, he recognized me, and I said, how are you doing? And he goes -- he hesitates, and he goes, I'm OK. He goes, we get to live. We get to live. And I just got in a van to come over here and I was like in tears coming over here, we get to live. So, it's a mixed blessing because I feel good about that, I get to go home and see my daughter today. Today is my birthday, that's why I was out there, thank you. That's why I came to this festival. But when he said that, I had mixed emotions again. Yes, we do, but -- you see what I am saying?", "I get it, I get it.", "What about these innocent people? Do you realize we were just at a country music festival trying to enjoy life? And somebody asked me the morning of the shooting, they had a great question. They said, what will you do differently now that you survived? What are you going to do differently? I struggle, Chris, so much with that question, because I was at that country doing what I thought I was supposed to be doing, take a break from the work -- I am a lawyer. Maybe I work too much. No, stay an extra day. I was supposed to fly back Sunday night at 7:50, but I was looking out of the 24th floor of the Mandalay Bay and I said, look at that beautiful venue, when am I ever going to be able to do this again? I'm staying an extra day. So, I stayed that extra day. When I was in that room, I have thoughts in mind. Am I going to die in that room because I made a decision to not fly on that 7:50 flight? I had to go through that as well. But --", "Look, we heard it before and it's always trite until it's true, which is everything happens for a reason. I don't have the answers for that. It's hard enough for me to come up with the questions after so many events that we see again and again, and we meet with the same frustrations, for people, for you -- like you, there's a blessing in these kinds of situations but you have to figure out what it is. And while you have been talking, it's such a relatable experience to Lisa. Lisa has been watching and I am being told that this is hard for you, and of course it is. You know, you were sitting there staring through your cell phone worried that this would be the last thing your kid sees, but he'll see you, and now, you have that going for you. So, what does that mean for you in terms of balancing it against what you know you live through?", "I feel like to see those heroes that stepped up and went out there while the bullets were just raining down on everybody, I saw two heroes that right in front of my face were risking their lives, and I will never forget that for the rest of my life. I still don't even know if they're alive. When I saw a truck, when we finally escaped with their lives, I saw a truck that had bodies in it, and they were just piled up. And someone was saving them, try -- I mean, I didn't know who was dead, who was alive. But my heart just breaks. I am completely numb. I have not slept since the event happened. And there's nothing that I cannot express to you what it was like and all those people, there were thousands and thousands of people there just living life. And it's just so frightening that you can just be anywhere and you just never know. And the biggest thing I take away from this, just do not let this horrible, horrible excuse for a human being be the person that stops us from enjoying life. But we just need to plan and just be prepared. That's all I can think about. You just never know. And I could have died and I was with my family last night and we were talking, and they said this could be a very different situation. And my friends and I, we got out alive. I still don't understand it and why. I mean, it was just the luck of the draw. If you were in the wrong place, you're dead. If you just -- I don't -- there are no words. It was horrific. It was a war zone.", "What does it mean to you when you are hearing Lisa? What do you want her to know about what you share now that you are both trying to figure out?", "I think it's important -- what I am trying to learn through this is that there are families that are going through so much grief right now. And this could be a great opportunity for us now to really minister to these families, to -- they need their faith restored in life, and this is an opportunity for people like you and I and you and people across this country to really get down and be supportive of these families, and let them know how much we hurt for their hurt, but there is going to be hope at the end of the day. I think that's what is going to try and help me get through this. I got to get through my own questioning. Did I do enough? Why am I alive? Why are they dead? Why are they harmed? I need to start transferring that now into what can we do as a group collectively to try and uplift these families? Because I just can't imagine -- look at what we are going through. It's nothing compared to those that have been really harmed and who are dead. So, this is an opportunity. We have so much divide in our country right now, and we have to use this as an opportunity, a platform to try and come together and work together. President Trump is coming. Fantastic. But let's let these families know how much we care and there is hope and we're going to live in a better time. That's really what I'm trying to take from this. Maybe I can make a difference.", "Lisa, what does that mean to you?", "Every single word he's saying is how I feel. And if I was with him right now, I would just hug him. And I just feel like the world is stepping up and being there for everybody. I mean, everybody knows Vegas is a Disneyland for adults, and we went there to just celebrate and have fun. He was so right. That crowd was a beautiful crowd. It was the most fun I ever had. And just to see the people that I was out there with, I was there for three days, and I probably walked past people that didn't know they were going to die. I just can't -- I can't continue to think about it because it hurts so bad. Those were families. They were dying. And it -- I feel what he's feeling. I just can't believe I'm alive. And I don't -- I don't get it. There's that sense of, you know, guilt and what could I have done, what could have -- I can't imagine anybody going through this and watching people die in front of their face. It is the worst thing, and the screaming. My heart goes out to them. I hope the world just embraces the people that lost their loved ones, and understand. I do want us to unite as, you know, a united people. And just not let this horrible man or people that do things like this win. We have to take a stand for this. Something has got to change.", "We've all lived through these before. You have seen this happen in different ways. Yes, this is the deadliest one that we've had to date. We all wish we never have to say that again. But what do you want people to know? You know, you've watched these. You've watched this as a viewer before. Now, you lived it. You are a survivor now, Lisa. What do you want people need to know about what these events mean?", "You know, I get asked that question, and it seems like -- I mean, it just happened. Haven't even processed it all. And I think the biggest thing is that I have always been a person that just loves life, and I always said to my loved ones, you know, tomorrow is not promised. That's something I always have said. And it means something completely different now because that statement is so real. Just love your loved ones, and be the best person you can be. That's all we've got.", "And hopefully that's more than enough. Lisa, thank you so much for sharing what you lived through, and sharing your videos so that people can understand what it was like to be there. Brian, you know, Lisa said she wanted to hug you. I don't do it for you, I do it for me. I am glad you are here and I hope you figure out what to do with the opportunity.", "Yes, thank you. And blessings to Lisa, too.", "As well, as well.", "Thank you.", "And all of you who made it through. That's why we are telling the story so people -- so people can take strength in your survival, and seeing that your lives go on and that there's meaning in that, and not just meaning to the madness, meaning to what takes us forward as well. I'm sorry you guys had to live through what you did to get this understanding.", "Thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "I hope you use it in a way that makes your life better. I really do.", "Thank you.", "All right. Thank you.", "Lisa, you be well.", "Thank you.", "We'll keep telling these stories and we'll stay in touch. I hope when you get home, it means everything to you and then some.", "Thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "All right. We are going to take a break here from Las Vegas. There's a big investigation going on. There are stories like these. There are people who aren't going to get to tell their own story, so we're going to have to tell it for them. Please take a moment and look at some of the faces that were lost."], "speaker": ["CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CASAREZ", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CASAREZ", "SHERIFF JOE LOMBARDO, LAS VEGAS METROPOLITAN POLICE", "CASAREZ", "CHRIS MICHEL, OWNER, UTAH GUN STORE", "CASAREZ", "ERIC PADDOCK, SUSPECT'S BROTHER", "CASAREZ", "DON JUDY, FORMER NEIGHBOR", "CASAREZ", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CASAREZ", "CUOMO", "JAMES GAGLIANO, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "CUOMO", "CUOMO", "GAGLIANO", "CUOMO", "GAGLIANO", "CUOMO", "GAGLIANO", "CUOMO", "GAGLIANO", "CUOMO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CUOMO", "LISA FINE, SURVIVED LAS VEGAS MASSACRE", "CUOMO", "FINE", "CUOMO", "BRIAN CLAYPOOL, SURVIVED LAW VEGAS MASSACRE", "CUOMO", "CLAYPOOL", "CUOMO", "CLAYPOOL", "CUOMO", "CLAYPOOL", "CUOMO", "CLAYPOOL", "CUOMO", "CLAYPOOL", "CUOMO", "CLAYPOOL", "CUOMO", "LISA FINE, SURVIVED LAS VEGAS MASSACRE", "CUOMO", "CLAYPOOL", "CUOMO", "FINE", "CUOMO", "FINE", "CUOMO", "CLAYPOOL", "CUOMO", "FINE", "CUOMO", "CLAYPOOL", "FINE", "CUOMO", "CLAYPOOL", "CUOMO", "CUOMO", "FINE", "CUOMO", "CLAYPOOL", "FINE", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-168284", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2011-6-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1106/29/acd.01.html", "summary": "Casey Anthony Trial Wrapping Up?", "utt": ["\"Crime & Punishment\" tonight, back to our breaking news. The defense says it's going to rest tomorrow in the Casey Anthony trial. After prosecution rebuttal, the jury will be hearing closing arguments. You could start deliberating Sunday night. Today the defense continued to focus on whether alleged sexual abuse by her father and brother can explain her behavior after 2-year- old Caylee went missing. But frankly, they haven't proved any sexual abuse occurred at all. George Anthony was in the witness chair again today, sobbing as he recalled hearing Caylee's body had been found. As he wept, you can see his daughter there, sitting stone-faced, listening. Later, she turned emotional when a grief expert testified that losing a child could lead to bizarre behavior, like telling lies and not showing emotion. We start tonight with a major surprise. This morning, for the first time in the trial we heard Casey Anthony speak in the courtroom. Martin Savidge reports.", "Eight-thirty a.m. As the court took up a critical issue of a possible mistrial, there sat Casey Anthony, completely alone. Her defense team was late. Not a single one of her attorneys was in the courtroom. And only one, Ann Finnell, was on the phone. The arrangement led Judge Belvin Perry to ask a question directly to Anthony. And it was the first time she would speak at her own trial.", "Ms. Anthony, do you want to ask that question now or do you want to wait until Mr. Baez and Mr. Mason and Miss Sims arrive?", "I can answer that now.", "OK.", "I agree with Miss Finnell.", "Thank you, ma'am.", "Thank you.", "The drama was just beginning. For most of the morning it was Anthony's father, George, who found himself in the cross hairs of defense attorney Jose Baez, who walked Caylee's grandfather from one emotionally charged subject to the next, including incest.", "You know, of course, that sex with a child under the age of 12 years old is life in prison, don't you, sir?", "Sir, I never would do anything like that to my daughter.", "My question is, you would never admit to it, would you, sir?", "Sir, I would never do anything to harm my daughter in that way.", "Only in that way.", "Then Baez took George Anthony, a former police detective, back to the smell in Casey's car, which the prosecution says came from his granddaughter's remains. The defense says it was something else.", "There's also a difference, sir, of saying it's human decomposition and not human decomposition?", "I didn't say anything about not -- I said decomposition. I'm going to clarify that again. I think I've done that very well. You're trying to take this joy of my life away from me, sir. And you can't do it anymore.", "Would you...", "I'm going to answer this to you, sir. The decomposition that I smelled in the trunk of my daughter's car on July 15, 2008 at Johnson's Towing smelled like human decomposition.", "Would you like...", "To me, sir. That's what it smelled like to me. I can close my eyes at the moment, sir, and I can smell that again. How dare you, sir, try to tell me that I -- that I did something different to what I did?", "The prosecution took Anthony back to his attempted suicide six weeks after Caylee's remains had been found.", "Why on that particular day did you decide to take your life?", "Why that particular day I picked, I really don't know. All I know is my emotional state even through today is -- is very hard to accept that I don't have a granddaughter anymore. But for that particular day, I don't know. It just felt like the right time to go and be with Caylee.", "But for George Anthony, the final emotional straw came when he was asked how he felt when his granddaughter's body was found.", "What effect did that have on you when you learned that Caylee's remains had been found?", "A deep, deep hurt inside. Tears. The whole gamut of just an emotional loss, a breakdown inside of me and seeing what my wife and my son went through.", "Up to that moment, had you held out the hope that Caylee would be found alive?", "Absolutely. Every day from July 15 until the day we were told it was Caylee.", "In January of 2009, you went -- I'll give you a minute.", "Do you need a break, Mr. Anthony?", "No, sir. I need to get through this. I need to have something inside of me get through this.", "Do you need a break?", "No, sir, I'm fine.", "Through it all, Casey Anthony sat stone-faced and emotionless. But that would change in the afternoon, when the defense put a grief counselor on the stand, trying to show that Anthony's partying lifestyle while her daughter was missing wasn't a sign of guilt but grief.", "They'll then act out because they've decided that they don't want anyone to be near them because everyone that's near them leaves them. And so -- and it doesn't -- know you all know that death isn't the only loss in the world.", "These are the final days in this trial. Each one, it seems, more emotionally strained, each one closer to justice for Caylee or Casey. Martin Savidge, CNN, Orlando.", "For more on what we can expect for the next few days, we turn now to Jean Casarez and Sunny Hostin, who's covering the trial for \"In Session\" on our sister network, TruTV. So Jean, the defense was trying to paint George Anthony as someone who was throwing his daughter under the bus, as they put it, but you say it actually ended up backfiring on the defense?", "You know, the defense tried so hard to get testimony out of George that could lend itself to help the defense. But it seemed like the harder they tried, the more it failed. Let me give you one example. A question was posed: you were walking in the woods around here, weren't you? And the response from George Anthony was, \"Yes, we were finding a new command center so we could try to find Caylee. At the corner of these two streets it is a wooded area, and that's where we set it up.\" At one point also he said, \"Look, I never wanted to believe that my own daughter was capable of killing her own daughter.\" That stunned everyone in this courtroom.", "And it certainly seems to verify what Gary Tuchman learned from his attorney days ago, that his attorney told our Gary Tuchman that the Anthonys do not believe their daughter is innocent. They didn't say what she was guilty of, but they just said they don't believe she's innocent. It was, Jean, an incredibly dramatic day in the courtroom to see George Anthony just breaking down on the stand like that.", "He was sobbing on the stand. And Anderson, in that courtroom the jury is so close to the witness. And the sobbing and the emotion, the distraught in that man. But then right across the courtroom was Casey Anthony. And she was not only stoic but she was -- there was an expression on her face of just disdain.", "Sunny, you said the defense made a mistake when they opened up the door for the prosecution to enter George Anthony's suicide note into evidence. Why?", "That's right. Because I think that argument cuts both ways. The defense started talking to him about this suicide attempt, and he did leave a note. And Jose Baez, the defense attorney, started saying, \"And that said suicide note, it showed a little bit of guilt, didn't it?\" Well, the prosecution then wants to open that door and put in place -- into evidence, rather, that suicide note. Well, that suicide note doesn't talk about anything of a cover-up. It doesn't say anything about his guilt. And one can assume that, if you're going to commit suicide and you're involved in this cover-up and you're involved in the death of your granddaughter, you would admit it at that time, right?", "The breaking news tonight at the top of our program was we learned that the defense plans to rest tomorrow. You believed that Casey would take the stand, because you couldn't imagine any other way for them to kind of salvage what they have to make the case of the sexual abuse.", "That's right.", "Do you -- do you -- it doesn't seem like she's going to take stand tomorrow. Do you think...", "I'm going to stick with my predictions, Anderson.", "Really?", "I think they have to, and that is because Jose Anthony [SIC] talked so much in his explosive opening statement about the fact that Casey Anthony was sexually abused by her father.", "Jose Baez.", "Jose Baez...", "Right.", "... the defense attorney. He also said in his opening statement that Caylee died an accidental death by drowning. In my view, there is no evidence of any of those statements in evidence, only the opening statement. How else does the defense bring that in front of this jury? And I think it really runs the risk -- the defense does -- by not putting Casey Anthony on the stand, not putting that evidence in, and the jury's been waiting for it for what? Thirty-one days? And so I'm going to stand by my prediction.", "OK.", "I think it's still possible that Casey Anthony saves herself by testifying tomorrow.", "Jean, do you -- because I think you had said, Jean, also you thought she was going to testify. Do you still think that if in fact they're resting tomorrow? And if they don't call her to the stand, do we know what witnesses they have left to call?", "You know, Sunny is so right. There is no evidence of accident. There is no evidence of sexual abuse by the brother or the father. But I don't think they're going to put her on the stand. I just don't. I think they may believe they have some strength in what they have done.", "It's going to be an interesting day. Another one of many. Sunny Hostin, thanks very much. Jean Casarez, as well. Thanks.", "Thanks.", "The breaking coverage continues with the defense resting tomorrow, the jury possibly getting the case Sunday evening. Up next we'll talk with Dr. Phil about whether Casey Anthony should take the stand. He has a strong recommendation on that, and a prediction on that. And he has a strong opinion on Casey Anthony's allegations that her father abused her. And later, \"The RidicuList.\" Elegance may be learned, but the countess apparently hasn't learned a lesson. \"The Real Housewife of New York\" is out with a new song, and it's on tonight's \"RidicuList.\""], "speaker": ["COOPER", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BELVIN PERRY, JUDGE", "CASEY ANTHONY, ON TRIAL FOR MURDER", "PERRY", "CASEY ANTHONY", "PERRY", "CASEY ANTHONY", "SAVIDGE", "JOSE BAEZ, CASEY'S ATTORNEY", "GEORGE ANTHONY, CASEY'S FATHER", "BAEZ", "G. ANTHONY", "BAEZ", "SAVIDGE", "BAEZ", "G. ANTHONY", "BAEZ", "G. ANTHONY", "BAEZ", "G. ANTHONY", "SAVIDGE", "JEFF ASHTON, PROSECUTOR", "G. ANTHONY", "SAVIDGE", "ASHTON", "G. ANTHONY", "ASHTON", "G. ANTHONY", "ASHTON", "BELVIN PERRY, JUDGE", "G. ANTHONY", "PERRY", "G. 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{"id": "CNN-304138", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-01-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/29/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Canada To Give Stranded Travelers Temporary Residency", "utt": ["America's northern neighbor is rolling out the welcome mat to those left stranded by President Trump' immigration ban. Canada's immigration minister is now offering temporary resident permits to refugees and foreign nationals impacted by the ban. I want to go live now to CNN's Paula Newton. She is in Ottawa. And tell us more about this, Paula, because this is certainly a statement coming from Canada.", "It is a statement, perhaps more subtle and symbolic than really substantive, the government wanted us to know that look so far, they don't know anyone in the situation. What kind of situation that they come to Canada for temporary residency? That's people who find themselves stranded because of the ban. And they wouldn't really elaborate more than that, only to say they would continue to work with their counterparts and see who fit within that category. A busy day today in Canada, well, in terms of people trying to work with the White House to try and figure out the ban. What's so interesting here, Brianna, is the man who made this decision is the immigration minister here. Mr. Hussen is Somali born himself. He came here as a teenager. For a while, the government was just trying to figure out whether or not that applied to him, this ban, in terms that he could not travel to the United States. The government clarified that. And what we got was a bit of a back story about the White House going back and forth with the Canadian government, which I'm sure they've doing with many other governments to say look, if you're a dual Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada, you will be vetted as usual at the airport but you will be allowed to enter the United States. Quite a crazy day.", "So you said that this is sort of subtle and maybe symbolic. How has the criticism, if any, been of President Trump? Has it been pretty low key? Are they being careful not to outright criticize him?", "I wouldn't describe it as low key and yet you hit the nail on your head right there. They continue to try and underscore the Canadian policy without condemning the actual ban. Again, the minister has been from Somalia himself was asked directly the question, why not just condemn the ban? It goes against Canadian values. And here's what he said, \"Every country has the right to determine their practices. I can only tell you that we will continue on our long-standing tradition of being open to those who seek sanctuary and also to view immigration as a great, great way to boost our economic growth and the prosperity of all Canadians.\" I'll give him a buy on the great, great, Brianna. I don't think he meant that as any kind of a humorous, you know, adjective there. But basically taking the stand and saying, \"Look, Canada remains open to people who have been persecuted. We will offer sanctuary, but absolutely not wanting to get involved in the controversy over this ban.\" The kind of controversy that you've been covering all day.", "All right. Paula Newton, thank you for that report. And while we've seen massive protests across the U.S., the travel ban is likely popular among many Americans. We're going to talk about that and the backlash next. You're live in the CNN newsroom."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR", "NEWTON", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-290823", "program": "IDESK", "date": "2016-08-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/08/id.01.html", "summary": "Delta Airlines Resumes Limited Departures After System Outage Grounded Flights Worldwide", "utt": ["Hello, and a very warm welcome. I'm Isa Soares. We begin this hour with a massive disruption to global air traffic. Delta Airlines is resuming limited departures after a computer system outage grounded flights worldwide. But cancellations and delays continue. Delta blames an overnight power outage at its Atlanta hub. For the latest on this developing story, we go to our Martin Savidge, inside Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, as you can see there, Samuel Burke outside London's Heathrow Airport. I want to start with Martin at this stage. Martin, at this point, do we know exactly what, whether the computer outage, what led to that? Presumably, they would have had some sort of backup generator.", "Yes, that's exactly what you would have assumed. We haven't had any more updates as far as what caused this rolling kind of problem for Delta, other than it occurred very early in the morning and that it was a power outage. Whether that was weather-related, because there were storms that were moving through the area, or whether it was something else, we don't know, and why there wasn't some sort of backup power system, and presumably, there was one that did not kick in, and then why weren't there other sort of redundant systems in other cities that were functioning to pick this all up? We don't know. But here's the effect. And this is actually just a small example, as you take a look, the line of people. And these are people who have already been told that, look, they went to the counter, they went to check in, and the kiosk clearly kicked them out and said, \"Oh, we've got a problem.\" And yes, they do have a problem. Let me show you something else, that's rather deceptive, and that's the flight boards here. The hub of Atlanta. You look at those flights, and there are delays and there are some pretty strong delays. But we've also been told there should be cancellations up there. There are hardly any cancellations. So you're not really sure if the flight board is being totally honest with you. And the same problem was apparently with the app. So that's why a lot of people still came to the airport, believing that they were going to go somewhere today. And that remains a big question at this particular hour, Isa.", "Absolutely, people looking in that flight board, perhaps wanting, hoping that flights may take off but being slightly confused. Martin, just stay with us because I want to go to Samuel Burke who is outside London heathrow. Samuel, what have you seen in terms of how passengers there have been affected?", "A very similar to what Martin is seeing in Atlanta, indeed the boards here are showing that flights are on time. But just after 7:00 a.m. London time, people were waiting and waiting and the lines started to grow. And they even describe them as chaotic lines because people didn't know what was happening. One thing that's interesting to note, this is affecting airports all around Europe but not just Delta Airlines. Some people, of course, are with the partner airlines. They have a ticket that says Virgin or says Air France, but in fact, the flight is actually Delta. And they're not able to get on the flights now. We do have word from Heathrow Airport that they expect flights to start taking off soon for Delta. The system is opening back up. But we do see cancellations across Europe from places like Malaga, in Spain and Madrid, that the flights are canceled for today. So there is going to be a knock-on effect as they try to get so many flights out. One other thing to note, a lot of passengers have told us via Twitter that even though they're not on Delta, their flights haven't been able to get out because the Delta flights that couldn't get out were stuck at the gate taking up the space that should have been for the other airlines, so there's knock on effect throughout the day at the very least here in Europe.", "Samuel, just stay with us I want to go back to Martin. Martin if you heard it from Samuel. Really a crippling effect globally. How is Delta responding today? I mean how long? I think -- can you give me any sense of how long they may take to clear this backlog?", "Well, there was one indication that came from the airline, and it's an ominous one. They are allowing passengers to essentially rebook, if you don't have to travel today, and they will waive your fee for doing that. They're doing that all the way through Friday, which gives you an indication that the cascading impact of this particular power outage could be days and not necessarily just hours. And also, there have been instances where they've actually had to feed passengers on planes that have been sitting in runways, for instance in the Hawaii there was a flight where the crew wisely thought ahead and said we'd better order some pizzas, which they did. And at least it forestalled than any kind of mutiny on board. But these are the problems that you're going to see. 5,000 departures everyday by this airline with a worldwide impact. Even a short disruption to their computer system is going to have a massive impact as far as delays, placement of crews and placement of aircraft. It's not an easy fix, but they say they're working as best they can.", "And I'm sure for many people behind you, Martin, the most important thing is that they are getting to their destination. This is August, a busy time for people right around the world, not just here in Europe, but also in the U.S. Martin, what is the mood there where you are?", "Well, the mood from most people is reasonable, although there was one guy I passed in the parking lot. Clearly, his app told him something, because he just let out a stream of words, and they were all words I couldn't tell you. And so, there are some passengers who right now feel like, \"OK, it's a delay.\" The real question's what's going on at the departure gates? And we can't get out there right now, because many people have already pushed through, and that's where they're really waiting and that's where the frustration could really be building. We'll have to rely on the people out there to let us know. Isa?", "Well, as soon as you know Martin or get a sense of what's happening at the departure gates, Martin as well as Samuel, do come back with Martin Savidge for us at Atlanta, Samuel Burke for us in London. Thank you to you both. Now anger over changing economy has fueled the U.S. presidential election. In just a few hours, Donald Trump will speak to the hash of that anger in a city that's seen those changes up close that's Detroit. And as Jason Carroll reports, in the shift and strategy after really a week spent focused on his rival.", "She is a totally unhinged person. She's unbalanced and all you have to do is watch her.", "Donald Trump stepping up his blistering attacks on Hillary Clinton, suggesting the former secretary of state is mentally unfit to be president.", "The people of this country don't want somebody that's going to short circuit up here.", "Trump using Clinton's own words against her. She continues to repeat a debunk claim that the FBI director said she was truthful about her use of a private e-mail server as secretary of state.", "So, I may have short-circuited it, and for that, I, you know, will try to clarify.", "Clinton's running mate, Senator Tim Kaine, coming to her defense.", "She said over and over again, I made a mistake, and I've learned from it and I'm going to fix it, and we're going to be real transparent, absolutely.", "Trump's ramped-up rhetoric against Clinton coming ahead of his speech on economic policy in Detroit, where he is expected to unveil his agenda for revitalizing the American economy, all this as the Republican nominee is coming off one of the worst weeks of his campaign that saw Trump repeatedly engaged in controversies instead of focusing on Clinton and battling slumping poll numbers in a number of key battle ground states.", "He's going to win parts of Ohio where people are really hurting. But I still think it's difficult if you are dividing to be able to win in Ohio. I think it's really, really difficult.", "And this morning, a new CNN poll of polls shows Hillary Clinton with a 10 percentage point lead nationally, leaving some in the party to say it's time for Trump to pivot his campaign.", "Yet to see Donald Trump change positions. He needs to change, and particularly change the tone and tenor of the debate sufficient to win the election in November.", "That was Jason Carroll reporting. Trump is set to speak in just a few hours. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is in Florida. She's set to speak on her in plan to boost growth by creating jobs. Well, of course will bring you that speech from Donald Trump in a few hours. We take you now Rio de Janeiro, where day three of the summer Olympics is in full swing. The U.S., China and Australia now lead the race for gold with three medals each, 14 more are up for grabs today. Amanda Davies joins now with the latest from Copacabana beach. I'm very jealous of that background, Amanda. And I was looking yesterday, what a busy day it was, a spectacular day, I should say of action. Michael Phelps winning the 19th gold. Surely soon, Amanda, he will run out of space in his trophy cabinet.", "Yeah, Isa there was pretty much a gold rush for team USA in the swimming pool yesterday. And what was fantastic to see was Michael Phelps celebrating gold number 19, Olympic medal number 23, basically as if it was his first. He held the U.S. 4 by 100 freestyle relay team to victory. He swam the second leg his 3-month-old son, Boomer, was there in the stands with his wife. And of course, this is a Michael Phelps who after London had announced he was retiring from the sport four years ago. He decided to come back. He's had a difficult couple of years. But you saw just what it meant to him. And then his USA swimming teammates somewhat younger teammate 19-year-old Katie Ledecky put in a fantastic performance as well. She gave us a taste of what she was capable of, breaking at the Olympic records in the 400 freestyle heat. And then smashed her own world record by nearly two seconds when it came to the finals. So, a first gold of this game for Ledecky to add to the silver she won in the relay on Saturday night. But both Phelps and Ledecky back in action today won somewhat more sour note to tell you about in the pool. There's been a lot of controversy about the Russian swimmer, Yulia Efimova. She was one of those Russian swimmers who was banned after that explosive McLaren report into the doping, state-sponsored doping across Russian sports. She was banned straight away because she had previously been suspended for a doping offense. She served a 16 month ban, which ruled her out. She fought that ban with the Court of Arbitration for Sport and has been allowed to compete. She was not only booed by the crowds at the Aquatic Centre when she came out to compete in the heat of the 100 meters breast stroke. What is now emerging is one of her fellow competitors, the America's Lilly King, actually was heard making comments, waving her finger at Efimova, say in saying, \"You're shaking your finger, number one, and you've been caught drugs cheating, I am just not a fan.\" Both girls take to the pool a little bit later on today for the final of that 100 meters breast stroke. And it really is becoming something of a theme which is continuing through the action here, Isa. We had the Russian beach volleyball men's team booed as they walked out on to the court at the volleyball venue just further down Copacabana last night because of the fallout from this report, which has been dragged out and dealt with, perhaps not in the best of manner manners.", "Amanda Davies there for us watching all the action from Copacabana beach. Thanks very much, Amanda. Now Russia's Paralympic Committee president's calling a ban of its athletes from next month's games a great breach of human rights. The world anti- doping agency supports the decision and now is raising questions about Brazil's team. Nick Paton Walsh has the details now for us from Rio. And Nick, is the blanket ban, first of all, from the paralympic team by the International Olympic Committee, how is it being received there in the country?", "Well, I mean obviously, the broader issue here is the double standards this ban appears to expose between the stance that the International Olympic Committee took, which was well publicized to extensive Russian reaction predominantly viewing the vast majority of the athletes who've gone through the complicated process of review that the IOC had suggested with subsequently going to be allowed to compete in the games. You hear from Amanda, day by day, increasingly one by one more in fact, 271 of the first count of 287, and number does appear to be growing, a contrast that starkly with the IPC's blanket ban, the terminology the IPC used, talking about disgust at the Russian doping program, referring how they valued medals over morals. And saying how the McLaren report into it was the darkest day in sporting history for quite some time. Now, of course, the Russian reaction has been sort of referred to this as a breech of their human rights. Who have some of the para-athletes themselves saying this is deeply unfair. And its holds part of a -- sort of broader picture you get from Russia politically, where they view this as a bit to try to keep Russia out of the games more generally or sideline done for political reasons. But still, you're left with the fact that the allegations made against the Russian team, Paraolympic and Olympic are the same, yet the IOC chooses this convoluted process that means about two thirds to three quarters of the original hopefuls are now at the games and the IPC bans everyone, Isa?", "And meanwhile, and Nick the allegations of doping now seem to be circling another team, and that the home team, Brazil. Tell us what you've uncovered?", "Well, it's basically a mystery, really, to some degree. Why is it that in -- mostly the crucial months ahead of the games in July, the Brazilian team gave about a third of the number of samples that they would normally have expected to have been given. Now, the Brazilian Ministry of Sport said any allegations of misconduct are ridiculous and absurd and point out the fact that they did give less samples because the laboratory they were using here to process those samples had its accreditation suspended by the world anti-doping watchdog briefly, but long enough for a delay in the testing. But still, that doesn't really seem to account for the fact that samples weren't taken at the level you would normally expect during that period. That effectively leaves a hole to some degree in the Brazilian team's record during that area of about two-thirds of the samples you would normally expect to be collected. So, there could potentially be a hole in the cleanness of their record, unless these samples are taken somewhere else and in the world anti-doping -- watchdog doesn't know about it, neither does the Ministry of Sport. So, a bit of confusion here and it paints a large question mark over the host team here, who of course, want to avoid scandal at all particular cost. As I say they deny any wrongdoing, but the world anti-doping watchdog has referred to this as an unacceptable practice. So, it is strange that we now -- whatever we do, don't appear to have enough samples in this period of time to satisfy the world anti-doping watchdog, Isa?", "Yeah, dark cloud still hanging over these doping allegations. Nick Paton Walsh there with that exclusive, thank you very much, Nick. Coming up right here, a suicide attack on a hospital in Pakistan leaves dozens dead. Many of them were lawyers. We'll have a live report for you. Plus, Japan's aging emperor speaks to his people in a rare televised address. His heartfelt message and fears about his health are next. Do stay right here."], "speaker": ["ISA SOARES, CNN ANCHOR", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SOARES", "SAMUEL BURKE, CNNMONEY BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT", "SOARES", "SAVIDGE", "SOARES", "SAVIDGE", "SOARES", "DONALD TRUMP, U.S. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TRUMP", "CARROLL", "HILLARY CLINTON, U.S. DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CARROLL", "TIM KAINE, U.S. DEMOCRATIC VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CARROLL", "JOHN KASICH, OHIO GOVERNOR, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CARROLL", "JEFF FLAKE, U.S. SENATE REPUBLICAN", "SOARES", "AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT", "SOARES", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SOARES", "WALSH", "SOARES"]}
{"id": "NPR-38835", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2006-05-04", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5381994", "title": "Limits on Sugary Drinks in School Aimed at Obesity", "summary": "Sugary soft drinks will no longer be sold during regular school hours. The deal, announced by former President Bill Clinton, is aimed at fighting the rising problem of childhood obesity.", "utt": ["Our business report begins with a ban on sugary soft drinks in schools.", "For generations of American students, taking a break meant hitting the soda machines. That will change in a couple of years under an agreement announced yesterday by former President Bill Clinton.", "Cadbury Schweppes, Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, and the American Beverage Association have agreed to new guidelines limiting the portion sizes and reducing the number of calories available to children through their products during the school day. Under these guidelines, only lower calorie and nutritious beverages will be sold in schools.", "That means companies can't sell sugary, high calorie soft drinks in the schools. Soft drink companies will be able to sell water, 100 percent juice drinks, and low fat milk. High school students will be able to buy diet sodas and sports drinks like Gatorade. Mr. Clinton says the deal is aimed at the growing problem of childhood obesity.", "If present trends continue, this generation of young people could be the first to have shorter life expectancies than their parents.", "Curbing soft drink sales won't hurt the $63 billion beverage industry, though. John Sicher is editor and publisher of Beverage Digest.", "All these companies have big portfolios of non-carbonated products, water. The main change will be substitution and a repackaging, and, in some cases, a reformulation of some products. But they will still have a very significant brand presence in the schools.", "In fact, the deal may be good business for the companies. Sales of carbonated drinks were down last year for the first time in decades, largely because consumers have shifted to bottled water and sports drinks.", "John Sicher says both categories grew at a rate of 20 percent last year.", "Some states had already limited sales of soft drinks in schools. Now, there will be national standards. Former President Clinton and other sponsors are hoping most schools will implement the new guidelines by the time kids begin school in 2008.", "The new rules will apply to beverages sold on school grounds during the regular school day. When it comes to outside activities, such as sporting events and band concerts, kids are welcome to drink as much sugary soda as they can get away with."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "Former President BILL CLINTON", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "Former President BILL CLINTON", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "Mr. JOHN SICHER (Editor and Publisher, Beverage Digest)", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-266302", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2015-10-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/08/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Russian Missile Reportedly Strikes Iran.", "utt": ["We're back with Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger. He served in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. We want to talk to him about new information CNN has learned about Russian cruise missiles fired at targets in Syria but actually hit a Russian ally, Iran, instead. Let's get the background. CNN's Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr reports.", "Russian warships firing cruise missiles at what it says are ISIS targets in Syria. But as the Russian leader celebrated his 63rd birthday on the ice rink, there are new signs of trouble for the Russian military campaign. CNN has learned at least four of the more than two dozen Russian cruise missiles launched from ships in the Caspian Sea crashed in Iran. No word from Moscow or Tehran. But U.S. officials say they believe there are injuries. A setback for the Russian caliber cruise missile billed as a highly precise weapon with a 1,000-pound warhead being used for the first time in combat. The Pentagon furious that the Russians gave no warning of the missile launches and of other Russian moves.", "It remains our hope that Russia will see that tethering itself to a sinking ship is a losing strategy.", "And an ominous prediction from the U.S. defense secretary.", "I also expect that, in coming days, the Russians will begin to suffer casualties in Syria.", "U.S. aerial drones monitoring the border with Turkey now have been shadowed by Russian aircraft on at least two occasions. And the Russians have flown into Turkish air space. Russia claims these videos show their attacks on ISIS. But the U.S. and Turkey say that is not Russia's main target.", "They have initiated a joint ground offensive with the Syrian regime, shattering the facade that they're there to fight", "A U.S. official tells CNN so far rebel groups have been able to thwart at least limited parts of the Russian and Syrian advances, even in the face of this brutal rocket system, essentially a giant flame thrower. But a top congressional Democrat says the U.S. has to do more.", "That might mean a no-fly zone in the southern part of Syria and sending a message that he sends up helicopters to barrel bomb people, we're going to take those down.", "Now, where do we stand tonight? The U.S. insists, NATO agrees, that the Russians are mainly striking targets of militias and movements that are against Bashar al-Assad, that Russia is not striking ISIS, not -- at least not in any large amount -- Wolf.", "Barbara Starr, thanks very much. Let's get back to Congressman Kinzinger. Congressman, if they miss their targets in Syria, hit some place in Iran, that could happen, they could hit some place in Jordan. They could hit some place in Israel. That neighborhood relatively pretty small. What happens then?", "Well, it's 100 percent true. I mean, look, they're new so-called amazing cruise missile system, by your report, has about a 20 percent error rate, which is pretty high. It could go into Turkey, a NATO ally. It could hit Israel, Jordan, into Iraq. I mean, we have troops stationed in Iraq, for goodness sakes. This is a very dangerous thing. And obviously, the Russians brought out their brand- new weapons system that really is not -- not living up to its -- up to its hype.", "It's a really dangerous situation. Congressman Kinzinger, thanks very much. We'll stay on top of this. We're getting some more breaking news into THE SITUATION ROOM right now. We have new details coming in of that chaos engulfing House Republicans tonight after their top candidate for speaker suddenly drops out of the race. Plus, my interview with Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson. He tries to explain his controversial remarks about the Oregon college shooting.", "Knowing that you were next to be killed and that they were going to continue to go down the line killing people, I would much rather go down fighting. And if all of us attack the shooter, the chances are very strong that not all of us will be killed.", "This hour's breaking news. Chaos up on Capitol Hill after Representative Kevin McCarthy, the majority leader, the man nearly everyone presumed would become the next speaker of the House, shocked everyone by suddenly dropping out of the race suddenly. Our chief political correspondent, Dana Bash, was up on Capitol Hill when McCarthy made his bombshell announcement. She joins us now, along with our senior Washington correspondent, Jeff Zeleny; our chief political analyst, Gloria Borger; and our CNN political contributor Ryan Lizza, the \"New Yorker\" magazine's Washington correspondent. Dana, you're getting new information now about a big push to try to get Paul Ryan to run for speaker.", "That's right. You know, we have been talking about the idea that so many people, just in the immediate moments after McCarthy made clear that he wasn't going to run, everybody's name -- the name on everybody's lips, rather, was Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan. Well, it goes up to the tippy top. I've just confirmed from a source familiar with the conversation that the current speaker, John Boehner, is even calling, trying to convince Paul Ryan, please, please reconsider. But, again, just confirming and reconfirming with sources who are familiar with Paul Ryan thinking that he is absolutely, positively a no. He saw what happened to John Boehner. He's been in the House for a long time. He knows the situation, knows the climate, and he is not interested in this job right now.", "All right. Everyone stand by. We're getting more on the breaking news. Joining us now, Republican Congressman Daniel Webster of Florida. He has been -- he wants to be the next speaker of the House. He's been endorsed by the House Freedom Caucus, an influential group of very conservative lawmakers. Congressman, are you still running for speaker?", "I am. Great to be on.", "What did you think of McCarthy's dropping out?", "I was shocked. I don't think anybody expected that. I think he definitely put something on us that we weren't expecting when we walked into the room.", "Why do you think he dropped out?", "I don't know why he dropped out because we just had a -- we had a member session where all the members came together and we and myself and the other two candidates were there, Kevin was there. And he was passionate about it. This was just an hour and a half before he announced he wasn't going to do it.", "So something happened obviously that convinced him. How many votes do you think you had? Because as you know he could get the majority among House Republicans, but the question is when it comes up for a formal vote at the end of the month you presumably didn't have enough to get the 218 you need. Is that the reason?", "I don't know if that's the reason. I felt like he had certainly the majority of the votes. I did believe that.", "You think Paul Ryan is going to run for speaker against you?", "That I do not know. I'm really not engaged with personalities. I'm working on what I believe to be a process problem that I have with the House. It's power based. I want it to be principle based. I did it in Florida when I was speaker there. And I know we can do it here. Makes everything different and the members engage themselves far more than they do under the current system.", "Congressman, Dana Bash has a question for you.", "Hi, Congressman. Nice to talk to you again.", "Hey.", "In the hallway earlier today you were saying that even you, a competitor to Kevin McCarthy up until a few hours ago, you thought it was what 99 percent sure that he would be the speaker. Talk about that, and also about if that's the case, why were you running against him?", "Well, it's just a matter of votes. And I was trying to get as many votes as I possibly could. And I had quite a few. But in the end the numbers are the telltale. But it didn't change the fact that I believe that we have a broken system. I think the public believes that having everything decided at the top of a pyramid of power by a few people doesn't work. And all I wanted to do is get the message out. And I'd like to serve as speaker to show -- because I did it there in Florida, we pushed down that pyramid of power, spread out the base, so every single member could be a player.", "Could you support Paul Ryan, Congressman, as speaker of the House? Would he be a good compromise candidate?", "Well, right now I'm a candidate for speaker. I don't plan on dropping out.", "But -- the question is, could you support Paul Ryan?", "Instead of myself? Is that what you're asking?", "Yes.", "No. I'm going to -- I would stay in the race.", "Why are you better than Paul Ryan or Jason Chaffetz, for example?", "Well, I've done it before. I've been a speaker of a House, and not only that I've changed the way it worked, the public noticed. Our numbers flipped right side up instead of upside down on polling. And I believe it's what's best for this Congress. We -- our numbers languish at 10, 11, 12 percent approval. And I think we can change that. If we do by engaging all the members in the process.", "Could you get all 247 Republicans to support you and keep that and try to get that Republican Party and the House, the Republican caucus as it's called, united?", "That would be phenomenal to get 247. But I'm certainly giving it all I've got.", "Here's also something intriguing that emerged today. Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina, he raised questions in a letter earlier this week suggesting any candidate for the party's leadership speaker, majority leader, any of the leadership positions, in his words, what, committed any, quote, \"misdeeds\" since being elected to the House of Representatives should step down. Do you know what he's referring to?", "I am -- I do not know what he's referring to. To me like I said I'm not into judging someone else. I'm into one thing and that is I want to see a principle-based Congress replace the old power- based system that we have.", "Since he's raised it, Congressman Walter Jones, have you committed any misdeeds since entering the House of Representatives?", "Maybe running for speaker. I'm not sure. But, no, I have not.", "If you become speaker of the House, what would you do as far as funding for Planned Parenthood or extending raising the nation's debt? Would you be willing to go so far as to shut down the federal government to do -- to get those issues resolved from your perspective?", "Well, those questions are for the old power-based system where the top of the pyramid of power made all the decisions. My job as speaker is to unite us and let the committee structure and the committee work and the members use that process that we have here now and take the rules that we have and produce product. That would be up to them. It's up to the members. It's up to a majority vote on the floor. That's what I support. I don't want to get trapped into these issues where we wait right until the last minute, the last end of the day. I want to take those important issues up first so we don't have this pressing deadlines all the time. And that's what I believe to be is a principle-based system.", "So you're not ruling out necessarily another government shutdown?", "No. I think we stay away from those by doing our work. And if we do our work up front, we don't even run into these government shutdown issues.", "Congressman Daniel Webster of Florida, wants to be the next speaker of the House of Representatives. What an exciting day today up on Capitol Hill, Congressman. Thanks for joining us.", "Great to be on.", "All right. Much more on the breaking news coming up. We'll get back to our panel. All the day's news including my interview with Dr. Ben Carson, the Republican presidential candidate. 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{"id": "NPR-39586", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2006-01-24", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5169664", "title": "Army Revises Death Penalty Rules", "summary": "The U.S. Army changes rules on capital punishment. Executions — rare in modern-day military annals, although more are in the works — could now be held outside Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Opponents fear executions in places far from the public eye.", "utt": ["NPR's John Hendren reports on why the choice of location has become a serious issue for some.", "The last time the military executed a killer in its ranks was in 1961 when Private John Bennett was hanged for the 1955 rape and attempted murder of an Austrian girl. The Supreme Court invalidated the death penalty in 1972 and reinstated it in non-military cases in 1976. It took the Pentagon until 1983 to reinstate executions for criminals in uniform. Eugene Fidell is the president of the National Institute for Military Justice, a non-profit group in Washington, D.C.", "The military doesn't like to execute people; the Marine Corps hasn't executed anybody since I think the 1840's, so we don't really have a particularly bloodthirsty tradition in terms of the death penalty administration and the armed forces.", "The Army meanwhile, recently revised its 1999 regulation on military executions. Lieutenant Colonel Pamela Hart, an Army spokeswoman at the Pentagon, says most of the changes are technical.", "The whole Army organizational structure has changed within the last seven years, so it was extremely important that we update that to be current.", "Death penalty advocates say the change in rules indicates that the Pentagon plans to begin carrying out executions again soon. Under the old rules that could only happen at Ft. Leavenworth. The new rule issued last week removes that limitation. David Elliott of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty says he worries that would allow the Pentagon to execute American troops far from the prying eyes of the public, in Iraq or at secret prisons in Eastern Europe.", "What if the U.S. military wants to conduct executions far from the light of day, for example in Guantanamo Bay. The death penalty should not work in a sequestered manner, where the public cannot see what's happening. We need to be able to debate these cases, we need to be fully informed and that means that, these things need to take place under the public eye.", "The Army's Pamela Hart says the rule was not designed to allow that to happen.", "This regulation does not have any bearing on the operations in Guantanamo or any other international site. It's specifically geared toward the execution of the inmates on death row here in the United States.", "There is also the issue of race. Of the half dozen inmates sitting on the military's death row at Ft. Leavenworth, notes Eugene Fidell, nearly all are black.", "It's been a concern really for many, many years. In fact if you go back and look at the records relating to the last execution, you can see in the files of the Kennedy library in Boston the memoranda calling to the President's attention the fact that there were potential racial implications. And there are continuing racial disparities that have gotten a hard look and they're going to continue to get a hard look, it is troublesome.", "The President is required to approve all military executions. The case of Pvt. 1st Class Dwight Loving is likely to reach Mr. Bush's desk first. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 1996 for killing two cab drivers a decade earlier. Death penalty opponents say they're especially agitated because the case comes at a time when the federal government is picking up the pace of non-military executions. ..TEXT There are three federal executions scheduled for May alone that would double the number of federal executions since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. John Hendren, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "JOHN HENDREN", "EUGENE FIDELL", "JOHN HENDREN", "PAMELA HART", "JOHN HENDREN", "DAVID ELLIOTT", "JOHN HENDREN", "PAMELA HART", "JOHN HENDREN", "EUGENE FIDELL", "JOHN HENDREN"]}
{"id": "CNN-360143", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-01-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1901/23/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Phoenix Police Arrest Suspect in Sexual Assault of Woman in Vegetative State; Pelosi to Trump: No State of the Union Until Government Reopens; Trump Responds to Pelosi on State of the Union", "utt": ["There's now been an arrest in the sexual assault in an Arizona long-term health care facility. Phoenix police say they found the Hacienda health care employee who allegedly raped and impregnated a patient who was in a vegetative state. The patient ended up giving birth. The suspect charged is this man, Nathan Sutherland. He's a licensed nurse who had been the woman's caregiver. All Hacienda employees were compelled by court order to take a DNA test. Sutherland was the match.", "I know our officers took this crime to heart. This is a facility that you should be safe in, and someone wasn't. And I really want to thank them for all the hours, hard work, and their dedication to making this case solved and keep us safe.", "CNN's Martin Savidge is following this for us. Finally, they found him. They think they found him with the DNA match and fired him, Hacienda health care. And what's just happened in court?", "He had his first court appearance. It was a bond hearing. The state is arguing he needs a half million dollars cash. That's what the judge decided upon. Also saying that if he does have the money to get out on that, he will have to undergo electronic monitoring. He has a defense attorney and the defense attorney actually says that there's no direct evidence linking him to the crime. He said, we know about the DNA, but we plan to refute the DNA and bring in our own DNA experts. There's been reaction from the family of the young woman who was assaulted and became pregnant. They say, the attorney says, \"The family and I are aware of the recent arrest of the Hacienda employee by the Phoenix Police Department at this time. Neither the family or I wish to make any comment.\" That's what they are officially saying. The family yesterday pointed out this young woman actually is not in a total vegetative state. She can feel and sense things and can sense and know things. A clear indication that this was much more horrific than even you might have first thought. That this young woman knew something violent and vile was being done to her and she had no way to communicate that to anyone. And that's one of the reasons that law enforcement in announcing the arrest felt that they were so obsessed in coming up with a suspect in this case. Here's what they had to say.", "The fact that this horrible crime happened was beyond reproach. When we heard about it, we were extremely concerned about it and we knew it was going to be our top priority. SGT. TOMMY THOMPSON, PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT; This was an employee rather than a stranger who made his way into the facility. This individual had access and was employed there. No indications there were other people involved, but this is an ongoing investigation.", "Not just really an employee, but this was one of the nurses that was primarily tasked to take care of this young woman. On so many ways and levels, it's vile. The Hacienda Health Care facility released a statement saying, \"Every member of the organization is troubled beyond words to think a licensed nurse could be capable of seriously harming a patient. Once again, we offer our apology and send our deepest sympathies to the client and her family.\" They have noted the moment this person was charged, they were immediately fired. But they are now going to be checking, and this is the investigators, to find out if there are other instances in which this nurse may have carried out similar crimes against someone else under their care -- Brooke?", "To think she was aware and couldn't do a thing.", "Yes.", "Martin Savidge, thank you.", "You're welcome.", "Back to our breaking story. Michael Cohen postponing his testimony before the House Oversight Committee citing threats from President Trump and Rudy Giuliani. Also we're following breaking news. A massive law enforcement response underway in Florida after an incident inside a bank there. We're told multiple people have been shot in a hostage situation. But now we're going to go back up to Capitol Hill to our senior congressional correspondent there on more breaking news. Manu, what do you have?", "That's right. The State of the Union on Tuesday not going to happen. This according to Nancy Pelosi, responding to the president's letter from this morning. The president said he still wanted to deliver the January 29th State of the Union, despite Pelosi saying she wanted to delay this annual speech because of the government shutdown. Pelosi just responded in this letter that we have obtained. She says that she's, \"Writing to inform you that the House of Representatives will not consider a concurrent resolution authorizing the State of the Union address in the House chamber until the government has opened.\" She has the power to do that. A resolution to approve it is needed and has not been done yet. Trump said that you invited me to come to speak on January 3rd when the shutdown was ongoing. She addresses that here in this letter. She said, \"When I extended this invitation for you to deliver the State of the Union address, it was on the mutually agreed upon date, January 29th, at that time, there was no thought that the government would still be shut down.\" She goes on to she reached out again after the shutdown would still be ongoing. They wanted to find that date after the shutdown is resolved. She makes very clear in this letter that there will be no State of the Union on Tuesday in the House chamber. So now the president is going to have to make a decision where to deliver this speech. Will he do it somewhere else? Even if he wanted to deliver it in the Republican-controlled Senate, that's most likely not going to happen either because they have to pass a similar resolution to do that there. They will need Democratic support to do it. They will have to find a spot off Capitol Hill to deliver this annual address. But a remarkable episode that really demonstrates where we are on the longest government shutdown in history, in which the two sides, Pelosi and Schumer and the president, have not had any discussions in the past two weeks about resolving this and competing proposals. The State of the Union not going to happen because Nancy Pelosi says open the government first and then we can talk about delivering this speech -- Brooke?", "Extraordinary times. Manu Raju, with the breaking news. Manu, thank you. Gloria Borger just sat down. And my goodness. I want to get into the possible other places he could still give it, but first your reaction to her response.", "Talk about hardball. This is it. And she didn't even talk about the security concerns really in this letter. She said the House is just not going to consider this resolution authorizing the speech until you reopen the government. Period. So now the conversation has shifted a little bit from security, which you could argue was a political point in the first place, to sorry, we're not going to have you here. You're not invited until the government is open.", "So Trump's other options if he doesn't go to Capitol Hill, hold a rally, what? The border and the White House?", "I guess. Talking from the Oval Office is not his strength. If you'll recall when he did that little speech on the shutdown, he didn't even like the way it went. He needs an audience to get his energy. He's not great at reading off the prompter. I think he knows that. But if you're going to do a pep rally, that's not a State of the Union speech.", "Even Trey Gowdy said, Mr. President, don't do it.", "Don't do a rally. This is for everyone, including people that don't agree with you. Including for Americans who will never vote for you. This is leader of the free world, the leader of our country addressing the citizenry. I would encourage him not to do it in a rally.", "He says no to a rally going on a deep-red district somewhere in the country.", "I think he makes a good point. A State of the Union speech is about the State of the Union.", "The United States of America.", "The president says the state of our country is strong, et cetera. And it is a speech not just for your base of supporters, but it is a speech for the entire country. And it is a time when you lay out your agenda for the next year. It is a little discordance to deliver an agenda on what you want to spend your money on and how you want to use government --", "While the government is shutdown, hello.", "That's a problem. And I think that the audience would realize that the president does want to give his speech as presidents give State of the Union speeches. And I think Pelosi is just holding the shutdown over his head and saying, not until we reopen the government. Period.", "Kaitlan Collins is over at the White House for us. Kaitlan, so we have the latest volley from Speaker Pelosi saying, no dice, Mr. President, you're not coming down here to give the speech. We're not doing this until the government reopens. Wow.", "This wasn't what the White House was expecting. They knew the Pelosi had essentially uninvited the president when she sent that letter citing the security concerns, the costs related to the government shutdown. But the White House's argument was we checked with the Department of Homeland Security and Secret Service. They say we're actually good to do the State of the Union address. Then Nancy Pelosi continued to make her argument that the president shouldn't deliver that address unless the government had reopened. That's a demand that we have seen Democrats stand firm behind. Even today, before Nancy Pelosi sent this latest letter. There was talk in the White House over recent days. The president giving this address next Tuesday still speaking on the day-to-day initially for the State of the Union but doing it somewhere else, maybe in Washington, somewhere at the White House, maybe a campaign-style rally. But as you showed the sound from Trey Gowdy --", "Hold on, we have President Trump. Let's watch.", "Administration officials told reporters that all options are on the table. Are you considering a military option?", "We're not considering anything but all options are object on the table.", "All options, always. All options are on the table.", "Mr. President, Nancy Pelosi just responded and said she will not consider a concurrent resolution to have you come to the House on January 29th to deliver the State of the Union. Your response to the House speaker?", "I'm not surprised. It's really a shame what's happening with the Democrats. They have become radicalized. They don't want to see crime stopped, which we can easily do, on the southern border. It's really a shame what's happening with the Democrats. This will go on for a while. Ultimately, the American people will have their way because they want to see no crime. They want to see what we're doing. Today, we lowered prescription drug prices, first time in 50 years. That want to see that. The Democrats would never have been able to do that. So we're all working very hard. We'll have to respond to it in a timely manner. Thank you very much, everyone.", "China wants to make a deal. We'll see what happens. I like where we are right now. We're doing great as an economy. They are not doing very well because of the tariffs. But as you know, fairly soon, that the deal that I made with them will come off. The tariffs will be substantially increased on China. They are paying billions of dollars to the United States Treasury. First time we've ever done that. First time we have ever had money coming the other way from China. It's always been a one-way street. But I have a good relationship with President Xi. And we'll see what happens. We're doing well in our negotiation with China. One way or the other, it doesn't matter. One way or the other, we're going to do well.", "He's been threatened by. The truth. He's only been. Threatened by. The truth. He doesn't want to do that probably for me or other of his clients. He has other clients, I assume. He doesn't want to tell the truth for me or his other clients. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much.", "Thank you very much. Thank you.", "So I have Gloria Borger and Kaitlan Collins with me. Gloria, first of all, I'm thinking of all the folks who aren't getting paychecks and to hear him say this will go on for a while is a bigger pill to swallow. Then the whole response to Nancy Pelosi, I'm not surprised and that shame.", "He's making the point as they have bye-bye making that this is the newly radicalized --", "Democratic Party.", "-- Democratic Party and that they don't care about drugs coming in across the borders, as we have said over and over again and our fact checks drug comes in somewhere else and largely at ports of entry, et cetera. And also, you know, you're seeing a frustrated president. He knows that the poll numbers are not with him. The public aside from his base is not with him on whether the government should be shut down over the wall.", "Let's remind everyone on the poll numbers. According to this new poll, overwhelming the majority of you, 71 percent, says the border wall is not worth a shutdown. That's not good news for the president. And half of voters say Pelosi is doing a better job negotiating on the shutdown compared to 35 percent say the president is. Talking to Josh earlier this week, who was doing reporting from senior administration officials, saying the president is aware of these numbers. He's paying attention, too. And he knows this is not a good report card for him.", "The worst thing for him is being told he's not a negotiator, that actually he sees himself as the \"Art of the Deal.\" That he's not doing a good job negotiating, that the Democrats are doing a better job. And I think he has met his match and then some, who is clearly not backing down. And where they are going to end up remains to be seen. The Democrats are apparently working on their own version of what a deal might look like. It's not going to include funding for a wall.", "Standby, everyone. That was just the president on this shutdown. We'll get his comments just now on Michael Cohen, now saying he won't be testifying. He'll postpone his testimony to House Oversight. How the president is responding, next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "THELMA WILLIAMS, INTERIM MAYOR OF PHOENIX", "BALDWIN", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JERI WILLIAMS, CHIEF, PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT", "BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "SAVIDGE", "BALDWIN", "SAVIDGE", "BALDWIN", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST", "BALDWIN", "BORGER", "BALDWIN", "TREY GOWDY (R), FORMER CONGRESSMAN", "BALDWIN", "BORGER", "BALDWIN", "BORGER", "BALDWIN", "BORGER", "BALDWIN", "KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER", "BALDWIN", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "TRUMP", "TRUMP", "TRUMP", "TRUMP", "BALDWIN", "BORGER", "BALDWIN", "BORGER", "BALDWIN", "BORGER", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-374415", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2019-07-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/09/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "Trump's Harsh Words For Theresa May", "utt": ["President Trump ramping up attacks on Britain's Ambassador to the United States. He's also had some harsh words for Prime Minister Theresa May. I want to talk about this now. Fareed Zakaria, the Host of CNN's \"FAREED ZAKARIA GPS\" joins me now. Good to see you. Ambassador Darroch, we're talking about the leaked cables, clearly hit a nerve with the president, because he tweeted this out today. He said the wacky Ambassador to the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we were thrilled with, a very stupid guy. I don't know the ambassador but have been told he is a pompous fool. It comes after he vowed that the administration no longer would even deal with him, then he went onto insult the British Prime Minister Theresa May on her Brexit -- failed Brexit negotiation. Why is he escalating this situation? What is going on?", "Well, I think it's his useful reminder in a way. Everything is about Trump personally. And, you know, what seems to have annoyed Trump so much was that the British ambassador's cables, the leaked cables, were about him personally. Not just about the administration. Look, ambassadors are meant to provide frank opinion and advice. Remember when the Wikileaks happened, you know, all these cables from American ambassadors all over the world. It was embarrassing. They said some very frank stuff. They said some very opinionated stuff. I was struck when we read through it -- just how opinionated they were. But that's good. You know, government depends on having their ambassadors tell them, look, this is what we think. You can't -- you know we were caught overhearing what Angela Merkel was saying on his cellphone. You've got to be -- you know, you can't personalize this.", "The cables say that he is -- his behavior is erratic and that he's thin-skinned by responding this way.", "I mean it does, because professionals in these situations recognize, look, these things happen. Everybody has their own opinions. And, of course, Trump has no real idea about whether he's a good ambassador or a bad one. It's also worth pointing out, Don, the larger point, the substantive point which Donald Trump claims is at the heart of the disagreement is that Donald Trump gave Theresa May advice on Brexit, which she says she didn't take. His advice on Brexit is essentially nonsense. I mean he says that Britain should have gone and sued the European Union. Now, one doesn't know where to begin. Where would you sue the European Union, on what grounds? The only place Britain could sue the European Union would be in the European Union's Court of Justice, which Britain is saying it doesn't want to be part of. And what would be the grounds for suing them since Britain initiated the action of Brexit? It would be -- you know, it's like you don't know where to begin. So, you know, the substance here is that Donald Trump was offering nonsensical advice to the British prime minister. She seems to have wisely didn't take any of it. And now he's upset that the ambassador is in someway reflecting that reality.", "I'm glad you mentioned her because this is what her office saying tonight, because they're standing by Darroch. And they're saying we have made clear to the U.S. how unfortunate this leak is. At the same time, we have also underlined the importance of ambassadors being able to provide honest, unvarnished assessments of the politics in their country. U.K. Foreign Minister, Jeremy Hunt, also weighed in on Donald Trump's comments. Disrespectful and wrong, he said. Your diplomats give their private opinions to -- at Secretary Pompeo and so do ours. You said the U.K.-U.S. alliance was the greatest in history, and I agree. But allies need to treat each other with respect, as Theresa May has always done with you. Is Darroch just doing his job, giving honest opinion based on his experience?", "Of course, of course. And look, it doesn't mean that Theresa May agrees with it. It doesn't that, you know, the British foreign policy will reflect that. We don't know what the American ambassador to Britain has said about Theresa May. He had may well have sent private cables saying, look, she's a weak prime minister. She's ineffective. And that's fine. That's, you know, that's part of the game. Everybody understands that. As I say, it's just that because it's about Donald Trump personally, he's gone ballistic. And he's jeopardizing the relationship with what he claims is our closest ally. We have meetings with ministers cancelled. There was a meeting between Wilbur Ross and his counterpart, the trade minister. That was cancelled, for what, because Donald Trump doesn't like a couple of words that were said about him. I mean grow up. You're the president of the United States. But as i say, I really want to get back to -- the substance of this is that Donald Trump was offering the most insane advice to the British about what they should do about Brexit. And they are wisely not taking it. That's what seems to be the thing that's really annoying him, is that they haven't realized his brilliance strategy for everything in life, which is to sue, sue, sue just doesn't apply in Brexit.", "Listen, I've got about 15 seconds left. These cables being released, why -- any idea why that would happen? Who would do that?", "Well, you know somebody who wanted to embarrass him for -- that happens in government always. You know, at least happened in government by the losing side of any policy debate. When you lose the policy debate inside, you leak it out outside.", "Thank you, Mr. Zakaria, Fareed Zakaria. And be sure to watch Fareed Zakaria GPS Sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Eastern. Ross Perot passed away at the age 89 today. We're going to take a look at how he shook up the political system and changed the course of our country. That's next."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN ANCHOR", "LEMON", "ZAKARIA", "LEMON", "ZAKARIA", "LEMON", "ZAKARIA", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-280621", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2016-04-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/05/ath.02.html", "summary": "Trump, Cruz Call on Kasich to Drop Out", "utt": ["So it went from telling him to get the hell out to calling him now downright stubborn. New calls this morning from Donald Trump for John Kasich to withdraw from the presidential contest, something Ted Cruz is also calling for. This is what Donald Trump said a few minutes ago.", "I think he has 32 losses and one victory. That had I spent another day in Ohio, I would have won, but I wanted to make sure I won in Florida. But we won really -- you know what I mean? It's pretty close. He's won 32. So I don't think he should stay. If you think of it, Jeb did better than him, right? Marco did much better than him. Many people did much better than him and they got out. He's a stubborn guy. Let him play the game. But I believe he hurt me than more than the others.", "That was this morning at a retail stop. CNN's Jim Acosta is joining us from Milwaukee. Jim, you don't see Trump doing a lot of retail politics. He's sure putting up a fight in Wisconsin is what that shows, huh?", "Absolutely. He's concerned about losing the race. On the scoreboard in the campaign, Trump has not lost a lot of primaries. He's loses came in caucus states. So if Ted Cruz pulls this off today, it does change the narrative of this race. It shows Donald Trump is a potentially weakened front runner. Conversely, if he comes from behind and wins the state of Wisconsin, hold onto your hats. This means he is essentially in control of this race and Ted Cruz and him are going to start wrapping things up. Speaking of hats, earlier this morning, Donald Trump was invited --- speaking of the campaign stop you just mentioned, Kate -- invited to put on a cheese head. Ted Cruz apparently declined to do that yesterday. Donald Trump did as well. Listen to the historical reasons that the real estate tycoon laid out for declining that invitation. Here's what he had to say.", "I've seen too much of Michael Dukakis.", "You understand?", "The helmet.", "That was one of the great mistakes of history, putting on the helmet. No, I'll take a pass.", "there you go. Trying to figure out what the big deal is.", "Do it. Do it.", "Kate, sometimes they're sensitive about the hair.", "Oh, my.", "This is one size too small.", "It doesn't fit on your head. That's how big your head is, Jim Acosta.", "It's just a crown.", "It's just a crown.", "I don't see what the big deal is. Why can't the candidates put it on?", "I don't know.", "I'm about to tweet that picture out. That's why.", "Jim Acosta, you are a brave man.", "I think it was on just long enough.", "I think you're right.", "Just long enough.", "Let the gifts begin.", "Winner of the Wisconsin primary. Jim Acosta, thank you so much. Appreciate it.", "Thanks, John.", "I want to bring in Trent Duffy. He's the national communications advisor and spokesperson for the Kasich campaign.", "Who's also going to put on the cheesehead.", "It might come to that. He knows what a political mistake that is all the time. Trent, how's John Kasich going to do in Wisconsin tonight. Is Kasich going to win?", "No, but he's going to win the state but he'll win some delegates, some congressional districts and further demonstrate where Kasich is completing and winning are those suburbs, swing districts that elect the president of the United States in a general election. That continues to be his path to victory by showing he's the only one that with can beat Hillary Clinton. We've got three more months to go, 16 states after Wisconsin. The map starts to favor John Kasich, who's returned to Pennsylvania and to the northeast and mid-Atlantic. And as he continues to get traction, you are seeing these two other campaigns calling for him to get out, so they have a free pass, which is a stark change from what they've been saying, which is let the voters decide. Apparently, they don't want the voters to decide. They want him to bow out and hand the nomination to Donald Trump. That's not going to happen.", "Well, Trent, the voters have decided in a lot of states already. You guys have a Midwestern governor running right now and you have not won in any states other than Ohio. Why haven't you guys been doing better?", "We have done pretty well in Michigan. The field has been very saturated up until now. I think in Wisconsin, you see the establishment, frankly, aligning behind Ted Cruz. But he's claiming to be the anti establishment candidate. We think John Kasich is the anti-establishment candidate because he's not getting big names like Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and the like. But going forward, since people get to see he has the only record, which is why Donald Trump and Ted Cruz wants them out, because they don't have a record like John Kasich, balancing budgets, streaming-lining government and making it work for the men and women of this country. That's why they want to take the spotlight off him and hope he goes away, and he's not going to.", "Let's talk nuts and bolts. We both have a hard time understanding how you win the nomination. Let's figure out how you win at the convention.", "Absolutely.", "How do you plan to do it? What ballot would Kasich win on at the convention?", "It's impossible to predict, John. No candidate is going to have that 1,237 we've been talking about for several weeks now. It's going to be very clear after today that Donald Trump's path gets really, really bumpy and then it gets tougher for Ted Cruz. He's not going to be able to do it either.", "To be clear, it gets more tougher for you than anybody. You say it's tougher for Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. You're trailing Marco Rubio in this campaign, and he's not running.", "That's right. I was going to get to it, which is we get to an open convention where the delegates who have pledged for John Kasich are for him and then there are others who are unbound, go to other candidates. There are others still to come where they're not bound and you get to a second, third, or some other ballot, and the party delegates, the people deciding the best path forward for the Republican party, representing its agenda, values, and which candidate can best win in November, you take a good hard look and that's John Kasich.", "Trent, going forward, does Kasich win any other states?", "We're certainly going to work hard to do that, Kate. He's going to Pennsylvania. We're tied for first there. I think you had a Trump supporter earlier --", "You think you can be the nominee if you only have one state heading into the convention?", "We feel good about going to an open convention and having delegates look at who's best able to represent the party, best able to represent our values, best able to unite Americans, get the country going again, and beat Hillary Clinton in November.", "Uniting Americans, what about uniting Republicans in a primary?", "They're starting that right now. Three candidates left. It's the first time John Kasich has had a platform, able to talk to people about this record of job creation, cutting taxes. That's just starting to get traction. That's why we're going to do well in Wisconsin and win some congressional districts and move on to New York and Pennsylvania and some other states. There's still a long way to go. Look what happened last week. I mean, you saw an implosion by Donald Trump, the front-runner. What is -- we still don't know about Donald Trump. He hasn't released his taxes. We still don't know a lot about Donald Trump. And I think as the race goes forward, the people are going to realize he's not the guy.", "Trent Duffy, come see us when you come to New York in the next two weeks. Appreciate it.", "OK, you got it.", "Thanks, Trent. It's not only a crucial vote today for Republicans, but it's also the battle. And the battle is on between the Democrats. Bernie Sanders' campaign has said a loss in Wisconsin would be, quote, \"devastating.\" How are they setting those expectations? How likely is that? Hillary Clinton isn't even in Wisconsin. What should that tell you? 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{"id": "CNN-295440", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-10-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/03/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Kim Kardashian West Robbed at Gunpoint in Paris; Britain to Leave E.U. in 2019; U.S. Wins Golf's Ryder Cup", "utt": ["A spokeswoman for Kim Kardashian West says the reality TV star was held up at gun point in Paris Sunday. CNN senior international correspondent, Jim Bittermann, joins us from Paris with the latest. Jim, we know Kim Kardashian is shaken but not hurt. What more are you learning about what happened here?", "Not a lot of information, but some things are trickling out. According to the interior ministry, about five gunmen came to where Kardashian is staying, an apartment residence known for housing a lot of stars when they come to town. It has a concierge. Apparently, they threatened the concierge and went to her room, tied her up, according to reports, and, in fact, stole jewelry worth up to perhaps $10 million. She said that, according to the police reports, any way, among other things that were stolen, was a ring that alone was worth about $4 million and some other jewelry in her jewelry box. No one was hurt in this. She was tied up during the episode. And according to her spokesman, she's shaken but not injured. So it was a close call, I think, as far as everyone was concerned but, apparently, it's over now. And police are investigating, trying to find out exactly who was responsible. Clearly, it was someone who was very clued in on her whereabouts.", "And, Jim, earlier, we had heard reports that this was a hotel. And now, as you say, it's an apartment residence that's used to having stars of this stature stay there. There was only a concierge there. Was that all there was in terms of security? That seems extraordinary.", "As far as we know, except that we also heard, according to reports, that she had her own personal body guards with her. This is not unusual in Paris. They have this confusion between hotel, because French use the term \"hotel particular,\" which means a kind of freestanding house or a mansion of some sort. It doesn't necessarily mean a hotel as such. So, in fact, it was not one of the named hotels in town. But it is a place that's pretty well-known to Hollywood stars who come and want to stay in Paris.", "Some might rethink that. Jim Bittermann, reporting there from Paris. Thanks to you. Britain's exit from the European Union could happen in 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May laid out a timeline for the process on Sunday for the first time since the Brexit vote in June. Our London correspondent, Max Foster, has details.", "Brexit means Brexit. That's all we've really understand about Theresa May's plan for getting Britain out of the European Union. We weren't sure how committed she was to the process at all. Today, we had some clarity on that. So Britain will be leaving the European Union, and the process to start that so-called Article 50 will be invoked at the end of March, which means Britain will leave the European Union by the end of the decade.", "It was right to wait before triggering Article 50. But it is also right that we should not let things drag on too long. Having voted to leave, I know that the public will soon expect to see on the horizon the point at which Britain does formally leave the European Union. So let me be absolutely clear. There will be no unnecessary delays in invoking Article 50. We will invoke it when we are ready, and we will be ready soon. We will invoke Article 50 no later than the end of March next year.", "When it comes to it, untangling Britain's relationship with the E.U. will be horribly complicated. Not least, all of those E.U. laws that currently apply in the U.K. Theresa May shed some light on how she sees that happening. And effectively, E.U. law applied to the U.K. will be enshrined in U.K. law. After that, the British parliament will have to decide for itself which bits it wants to get rid of and which bits to keep. That's complicated in itself. Before that, she's got all the negotiation as well with the European Union. It's going to be very tough, indeed. Effectively, she said she can't tell us much more because she wants a negotiating position and saying too much now will give that away. So there will be no running commentary on how she's going to handle these negotiations, but she has at least shed some light on how she plans to go into them. Max Foster, CNN, Birmingham.", "The U.S. has won the golf Ryder Cup. It's the first win since 2008. Ryan Moore clinched the victory on Sunday coming from a losing position. The final score 17-11. It was a sweet victory for U.S. Captain Davis Love III. He was at the help when and Europe fought back to win the Ryder Cup in 2012. Here is the celebration after the U.S. victory.", "CNN's \"World Sport's\" Patrick Snell, caught up with Team USA after the victory.", "It's amazing. It's a dream come true. First Ryder Cup I went out and felt like I was amazing. I got three- and-a-half points for the team. It felt so empty because I didn't win the team. You know, premier play for them to put me out first to go and, you know, go in and, you know, get the point and get the momentum for the team and watch the team play it hard like that and it means everything. Can't wait to go back support and, you know, celebrate.", "How does the crowd energize you? How do you feed off of them?", "It's easy. Listen to them now. That's how it was all week. Whether they had a good shot or bad shop, they're trying to pick up your team. It's awesome.", "It's very satisfying. Captain took advice and listened and asked all the questions to us and sort of good leader to us. Asked smart questions, gets all the information, and puts a plan together just like -- just like you're supposed to.", "It's been a fabulous year for you personally. What are you most proud of for this Ryder Cup win for the American team?", "We had a lot of pressure on us and we came through when we need to. Hats off to the other guys, they put on a great show and we put on a good show. It was a great week.", "It's incredible. I have no words to describe it. I have not been able to digest what's happened in the last week. It's been incredible to go where it feels like a month at this point and it's only been seven days. I can't be more proud to play with these guys, to play for these guys. They're amazing.", "We'll take a short break. But still to come, Syrian rebels in Aleppo are fighting for the bombed out city of is intensifying. The message the army is now sending to the rebels. We're back with that."], "speaker": ["ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR", "JIM BITTERMANN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHURCH", "BITTERMANN", "CHURCH", "MAX FOSTER, CNN LONDON CORRESPONDENT", "THERESA MAY, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER", "FOSTER", "CHURCH", "CHURCH", "PATRICK REED, U.S. GOLFER", "PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR", "REED", "UNIDENTIFIED U.S. GOLFER", "SNELL", "UNIDENTIFIED U.S. GOLFER", "RYAN MOORE, U.S. GOLFER", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-6804", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-4-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/25/mn.06.html", "summary": "Vietnam Revisted, 1975-2000: Senator McCain Commorates End of War 33 Years After His Capture", "utt": ["For the first time, John McCain arrived in Hanoi. He had just parachuted from his crippled Navy bomber. This morning, nearly 33 years after his capture, McCain has returned to the former North Vietnamese capital commemorating the end of the Vietnam War a quarter century ago this month. CNN's Tom Mintier explains.", "For at least six American families, the Vietnam War may finally be over. At Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport, the Vietnamese government formally handed over six small green boxes that contain the remains of possibly as many as six Americans. This solemn ceremony has been carried out nearly 80 times since the end of the Vietnam War 25 years ago. On hand to mark the occasion was the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam and U.S. Senator John McCain. Both men were prisoners of war here in Vietnam.", "Thankfully, it brings closure to the agony and uncertainty that many families have undergone now for more than 25 years, as much as 30 years.", "Just to have these individuals returned to their loved ones is something that gives a chill up my spine and an extra thump in my heart because it's real. It's a real feeling. And these are the ones we left behind. These are the ones now that we have been committed to.", "There are still more than 1,500 Americans unaccounted for or missing in action in Vietnam. Cooperation between the Vietnamese and the United States is currently described as a partnership by U.S. officials. (on camera): While part of Senator McCain's trip to Vietnam was to participate in the repatriation of U.S. remains, it also offered him a chance to take a stroll down memory lane. (voice-over): Possibly the highlight of his trip back to Vietnam will be the return to Hualop Prison (ph) where he was held after being shot down over Hanoi. It no longer fills an entire city block, but does remain full of memories for John McCain.", "A flood of memories comes back to me, but the most important memory that I have is the love and affection that I have for those who I had the privilege of serving with. I had the privilege of serving in the company of heroes. I observed a thousand acts of courage and compassion and love and I will always treasure that memory utmost over any other.", "For many Americans, Senator McCain has become a symbol of the ability to put the past behind you. He was at the forefront of renewing relations with Vietnam despite the harsh treatment as a prisoner of war. This was Senator McCain's eighth trip back to Vietnam, a place he first came to as a warrior and now as a peacemaker. Tom Mintier, CNN, Hanoi."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "TOM MINTIER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA", "PETE PETERSON, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO VIETNAM", "MINTIER", "MCCAIN", "MINTIER"]}
{"id": "CNN-93419", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2005-4-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/03/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Pope's Body Lies in State in Apostolic Palace", "utt": ["Hello from Rome. I'm Bill Hemmer. It is Sunday, April 3, 2005. Pope John Paul II, lying in state in the Apostolic Palace, where a private viewing ceremony is now under way. Official time of death, last evening Rome time at 9:37 p.m., 2:37 in New York City. The world is watching again today. Hello from Rome, everyone. I'm Bill Hemmer. Welcome to this special edition of CNN's AMERICAN MORNING, as we come to you live again today from Vatican City. A mass in honor of the pope has just ended. Well over 50,000 people in St. Peter's Square behind me have attended that mass, gathering today. It was quite a scene, and an emotional scene too. So much spirituality felt among the 50,000 who came to honor the life of the man who served as head of the Roman Catholic church for the past 26 years. The mass has now ended. And now we see the image of Pope John Paul II lying in state for the first time here in Vatican City. Also with me today, throughout the coverage here, in the Vatican, here's CNN's Aaron Brown, my colleague. And Aaron, you were on the air late into the night last night. And certainly, when the moment and the news came down, you were there to witness it as well.", "Well, we are -- yes, I mean, I think of all the things that you're privileged to report in your life. I don't think any of us who were involved last night will ever forget when the bells began to toll here in Rome. We had known for some time, of course, that the pope had passed. But that official moment, a moment where a life has officially ended and a ritual that is almost as ancient -- not nearly, but almost as the city itself, it starts to begin. And we're into that ritual now. The pope's body being viewed in a VIP viewing for lack of a better term, but it's the beginning of a nine-day ritual that will carry the attention of much of the world and will if you will, peak at about the middle of the week, when the dignitaries from around the world assemble in the city for the highest of the high masses that will be held. And now, a month or so a little less, perhaps, we will know who will succeed John Paul. But for now, we remember a life. And we celebrate a life as we also mourn a passing.", "The Apostolic Palace is this brown building, a four- story building that sits high, towering over St. Peter's Square. On that top level is the papal residence. And it is that window that we have seen for so many years, Pope John Paul II, come to that window and bless the pilgrims who gathered here to Vatican City below. There is a very interesting image that we can see today behind us, Aaron. That's the far right-hand corner. That particular window is his bedroom. And Vatican tradition dictates that those shutters are closed once the pope passes. And inside that building is where the viewing is now taking place.", "It struck me as a measure of the man, if nothing else, that the pope chose to die at home. In these last difficult days for John Paul, when his health was clearly failing, when a feeding tube was inserted going back a couple of weeks, a tracheotomy, that there was a moment where infection had taken his body. And perhaps doctors would have preferred to take him to the hospital, although there is plenty of medical facility in the Vatican. But John Paul made clear that he didn't want to go. And so perhaps he knew in what was not an unimportant day to him that his end, his death, which was so much a part of the lessons he taught Catholics, and because he was who he was, non-Catholics as well, that he would die at home quietly in the most dignified of ways. And that's what happened last night in Rome. There's some, I would say, minor controversy about the precise time of death. The notification came at, I think, at 9:37. We heard at one point yesterday last night that John Paul's death actually happened -- occurred perhaps as much as an hour and a half before that. But there's a formal procedure that had to take place. And that formal procedure did take place. And in the days ahead, because reporters do what reporters do, we'll find out more detail about those last minutes and those last hours, and who was with him, and hopefully what was said, and how peaceful this historic figure was.", "There were already Italian media reports that are indicating that his final record before passing away was \"Amen.\" Unconfirmed, but apparently a very close friend of his from Poland is reporting that. And throughout the day here, as we continue our coverage, we should get a better idea about those final moments inside the Vatican residence. John Allen is here too, also with us at the Vatican, our CNN analyst here. John, good afternoon to you.", "Hi, Bill.", "To give our viewers a better sense, perhaps, of what we can anticipate throughout the day today, and also leading up toward tomorrow, with the congregation of cardinals who are gathered here about 10:30 a.m. local time. And when that happens, we'll get a much better idea of the schedule when the funeral will take place and also the specifics for a burial. Vatican tradition dictates that opens are buried in Rome. But apparently, this pope may not have it that way. Could it be in Poland?", "That's right, Bill. Every pope leaves a last will and testament. And of course, we don't yet know what the contents of John Paul's will may be, but there has long been a sort of belief that he may well want to break with custom. Bear in mind, this is a pope who broke with custom in so many ways. The old custom used to be that the pope was in Rome and the world came to him. This pope went to 129 nations and so forth. He's not a man afraid to break precedent. He was in some ways, as Shakespeare said, a maker of man. And I think, therefore, it is entirely possible he may have made the decision to be buried in Poland. We should learn that in the days to come.", "Why would we not know that now?", "Well, because the pope's will is a private document. Probably the only person on earth, other than the pope himself, who knew what was in that document would be his personal secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz. And you know, those of us who covered the Vatican, too, you know that the one thing you never pry loose from him are the pope's secrets. But contents of that document will, of course, become public in the coming days, as we see his wishes being carried out. About half the popes of the Roman Catholic church -- and bear in mind, he was the 263rd successor of St. Peter -- about half of them are buried in the grotto of St. Peter's Basilica, which is the level below the main floor of the basilica. There is a space for his tomb. We are presuming that after the body lies in state, as least as a temporary matter, it will be taken down to that grotto. Whether it will remain there for all time to come or whether it will be eventually taken to Poland, still up in the air.", "Let me go back the last six or seven hours. From the moment he died, there is procedure and custom and ritual that goes on. Can you talk through as best history teaches us because I don't know how much reporting you've been able to do here, but as best history teaches us, what has already happened?", "Well, one of the first -- the very first thing that would happen would be the medical certification of death. There's a medical certainty the pope is no long alive. Then the Vatican has its own custom for certifying death. The camerlengo, or chamberlain who is the cardinal who governs the church in this interregnum period, what around here is known as the sede vacante, that is the seat of Peter is vacant, the camerlengo would come to the papal apartment if he wasn't already there, and he would perform this brief ritual to ascertain that the pope is dead. In centuries past, it involved tapping him on the forehead with a silver hammer. That practice was discontinued under John XXIII. What he does is he calls out his baptismal name, Karol, Karol, Karol, three times. And when, of course, the pope doesn't respond, then the camerlengo pronounces that the pope is dead. Il papa e' morto, in Italian. And from that moment forward then, some of the logistics kick in. The pope's body will be prepared for exposition during the lying in state. Typically that means that he is embalmed. In centuries past, although I don't know if this happened last night, in centuries past, the pope's organs are removed. They are taken to a church here in Rome, St. Vincent and Anastazio, the Trevi Fountain, where they're actually preserved. Whether -- again, whether that happened last night, Aaron, we don't yet know, because of course, it's been difficult to ascertain.", "Because I ask you these questions all the time. Why? Why preserve the organs? What is the theological history or reasoning?", "Well, Aaron, the most important organ, of course, is the heart. And in the world -- in the ancient world and the thought world of the medieval period when this practice grew up, the heart rather than the brain was understood to be the locus of someone's personality. So the idea is this represents the person, the soul. Of course, Catholics believe the soul is in heaven, but it represents the substance of the pope's personality. And therefore, it deserves an independent place of devotion.", "And is there a place now where the organs of preceding popes remain stored?", "Yes. Again, it's the church of St. Vincent Anastazio, which is a -- one of the old Roman churches that's located near the Trevi Fountain here in the heart of Rome.", "He's obviously been involved at this point. And we were talking last night at some point, the night was spent at the Sistine Chapel? Again, that's if custom held.", "That's what custom dictates. We -- there's been a little bit of confusion this morning about what actually happened. And as you -- as Bill rightly said, we'll find out in days to come. But yes, that would be the custom. And then, sometime this morning, presumably, if not late last night, the body has been brought to the Sala Clementina in the Apostolic Palace, which is a large reception room where the pope often has very important functions. For example, when President Bush on his last visit last summer presented the pope with the medal of freedom, that's the room in which the ceremony took place. I've been in that room many, many times, watching the pope deal with heads of states, visiting groups. I was there when he met with almost 100 rabbis just several weeks ago.", "Is it a grand room?", "Yes, it's a grand room. It's a large room with ornate frescos and tapestries. It bespeaks the majesty of the office. And that, of course, is why the pope receives visitors there.", "We are watching these images here. And I guess for the lucky ones today at the Vatican, they are able to view the pope lying in state. And what we have seen is a number of people come up and kneel. Separated by the body with a small rope there, coming up to kneel and pay their last respects of Pope John Paul II. He is dressed there in crimson vestments, wearing the miter on his head. And he will remain there for several hours. We can say that. But beyond that, it is unclear what the exact schedule will be for when the pope's body is brought to the main basilica, the main church, St. Peter's Basilica behind me here when the public will be allowed then to conduct the viewing there. We anticipate that, based on what we can tell from the schedule in the past, and what we've been told here in the Vatican, that that should happen sometime on Monday afternoon. Now the question is, how many people come out here to pay homage to the life of Pope John Paul II? There is one estimate given out about two hours ago. Police in Rome expect 2 million pilgrims to flood this city over the next several days and the weeks to come. Officially, the Vatican is in a period of mourning. The city of Rome declares three days. The Vatican declares nine days. And then after a period of 15 days, which is essentially two weeks from today, the cardinals will convene in the Sistine Chapel. And then they will begin the very democratic process of gathering together and casting their ballots. Once a two-thirds majority is reached, the next pope of the Roman Catholic church will be declared. Then all the world will watch to see what sort of smoke rises out of the Sistine Chapel. Will it be treated with this black chemical to give up black smoke, to indicate that a vote has been taken and no pope has come out with a two-thirds majority? Or will it be a white smoke? And the last time we saw the white smoke was in October of 1978, when the pope from southern Poland was elected to head the Roman Catholic church. I mentioned the mass earlier today. It was extremely moving to be down in that crowd. 50,000 strong and very quiet. Hushed words spoken. Nothing much more than a whisper between those who gathered here today. And there are four giant video screens set out through the square of St. Peter. And every time there was an image of Pope John Paul II, a small ripple of applause went through the crowd for those gathered below. Jim Bittermann was there as well. He's back with us again today down on what I guess you could say the street side level just outside of Vatican City. And Jim, we say good afternoon to you there.", "Good afternoon, Bill. In fact, on the Via Conciliazione here, this is the broad avenue that leads up to the Vatican, leads from the Vatican to the river here in Rome, that mass took place, as you say, just a few hours ago. It started just a few hours ago and finished a short time, about an hour ago. Angelo Sodano, the cardinal secretary of state, who is now no longer. I guess we should say the ex-cardinal secretary of state because like all the other Vatican officers, except three, he loses his post with the passing of the pope. He celebrated the mass this morning. He tried, I think, as best he could to comfort the faithful that came here. In his message, he said life is not taken away, but it's changed. An earthly home may be destroyed, but a more beautiful home is built in heaven. And he said, last night the angel of the Lord passed by the apartments in the Vatican, approached his faithful servant, and lifted him sweetly to the glory of the Lord, constructing a rather refined image there for the Catholic faithful, who gathered in mass this morning. Now just before that mass started, something we didn't know was happening was happening. And that was in the papal apartments Eduardo Martinez Somalo, the camerlengo, who was one of the key players in this transition period, the cardinal, was in -- the inside the papal apartments, along with several other high church officials and Dr. Renato, who's an", "Jim, thanks. Jim Bittermann with us throughout the day here again in Rome. And as we watch the pope's body now in front of a private viewing, a select number of people from the Vatican invited to come and pay their final respects in the Apostolic Palace, which is essentially the residence for the pope, a place where he has lived for the past 26 years of his life, leading the church here. Also, with me, my colleague Aaron Brown and John Allen, our Vatican analyst here, high above St. Peter's Square. And you know, John, numbers are so important in the Roman Catholic church. They all mean something. But I'm curious to know about this period of nine days of mourning. Upon what is that based? Why nine days?", "Because in ancient Rome, when an emperor would die or when a major public figure, a general who had been -- you know, had accomplished -- had won great battles for the people of Rome, there was a customary nine-day period of mourning, the so-called novem dialis. And of course, so much of the ritual and procedure of the Roman Catholic church is in a sense an inheritance from ancient Rome. The pope, for example, is known as puntifix, puntifix maximus. And of course, the puntifix was the priest or the ancient Roman cult. And so, it's an inheritance from the Roman empire.", "Interregnum is another Latin word we've come to know. That is the area where we are now officially...", "Exactly right. And of course, it means between reigns. That is, the period between the death of one monarch and the election of another. That is a term, actually, that's sort of in popular use, but the technical church term for where we are is the seda vacante. In other words, it means the seat, the seat of Peter is vacant. And it will remain vacant, of course, until that period when a new pope is elected.", "And there are some -- the day-to-day business of the church. And in truth, John Paul over the last months has not been able to do a whole lot of the day-to-day business of the church. And then there are important theological things that only a pope can do. Do they wait?", "Yes. That's quite right. And then chief among those important things that only a pope can do, for example, is appoint a bishop. You may have seen that the day before John Paul died, the Vatican actually announced the appointment of 17 bishops and archbishops in various parts of the world. These were nominations that had been in the pipeline. And obviously they, like the rest of us, saw that the end was near. And they wanted to make sure that was done before John Paul passed.", "To what extent has this -- what we're about to see over particularly the next four days, four or five days or so, to what extent is it been always so from the beginning? Or has it been modified over time as transport became easier, as communications changed, as Catholicism grew? Or is this as it has been?", "Well, you know, it all has a feel of eternity about it, doesn't it?", "Yes.", "Because we've been living with it for so long, you think it has always been thus. But in reality, Catholicism is a tradition that is so ancient and so deep, that there are sort of different geological layers, so to speak. I mean, for example, the custom of the conclave taking place in the Sistine Chapel really dates back to the renaissance, because only to the renaissance. And in Catholic terms, that is an only, by the way...", "Yes.", "That's 400 or 500 years as opposed to 2,000 because of course, there had to be a Sistine Chapel before there could be a conclave in it. As a matter of fact, conclaves have been held outside of Rome in many occasions. The last one was held in Venice during the time of Napoleon. It wasn't always the cardinals who elected the pope. In the very earliest period, the pope would nominate his own successor. Then it became the people of Rome who by popular acclaim would simply point to a man and say, that's our pope.", "And when did that end?", "That was in the first centuries of the church, the fourth, fifth century roughly. That came to a close. Then the election became narrowed down to the clergy of Rome, that is the priests who live here in Rome. And remember, Aaron, that each cardinal is titularly, at least, a member of the clergy of Rome. Each cardinal has a particular church in Rome, which is his church . And that's the way of connecting this modern practice to a very ancient custom. It has only been since roughly the 12th century that the election of the pope has been restricted to the college of cardinals itself.", "Some local newspapers here picked up early earlier today in Rome. One of the main newspapers here, \"La Stampa,\" it says essentially in Italian, the world cries for the pope. There's another one, well correct my Italian here, if you could, John. Essentially translates into \"our father, who is now in heaven\".", "Who is in heaven.", "Quite appropriate, too.", "And that, of course, is a play on the words of the Lord's Prayer. \"Our father who art in heaven\".", "Indeed. You know, when we think about what this pope meant to the world, that's one thing. But when we think about what he meant to this country, it could be an entirely different thing. And for us to suggest here that Rome has essentially stopped would be misleading our viewers. Granted, in this immediate area here, the Vatican City, all the attention is on the life of Pope John Paul II. If you get outside this area, though, life goes on. What was his relationship like with the Italian people, not just based on history, but also what his character meant to the people that he served?", "Life goes on and it doesn't. The closest thing to a civic religion in Italy after Roman Catholicism is soccer. And actually, even before the pope died, when the pope was still ill, the Italian soccer league made the decision to suspend matches out of a reverence and respect, of course, for this moment. The thing that's so striking about this, John Paul, of course, is the first non-Italian pope in 450 years. And there was fear when he was elected that it would be difficult for him to establish the kind of close intimate emotional relationship with the people of Rome and people of Italy that an Italian pope could. The reality is these people embraced this pope from the very first moment like one of his own. And the love relationship, I think, between this pope and the city of Rome and the Italian peninsula is remarkable, especially if you put this in historical standards, that the nation of Italy was born by destroying the papal states. And it used to always -- which was a swath of territory in central Italy over which the pope ruled as a secular monarch. This was the 19th century. This is not ancient history. The tension between the pope and Rome and the Italian republic has been very deep and very bitter over the years. Of course, after the Italian government and the Vatican made its peace in the early 20th century, that went away a bit, but it's still there in the background.", "But one of his first public appearances back on October 22, 1978, he was speaking Italian.", "Yes, in fact...", "Is that what makes the biggest impression on the Italian people? Or is it the character of the man?", "Well, I think it was both, Bill. But his grasp of Italian, of course, came out of his character. He was a man of the world. He read widely. He spoke many languages. Eight of them fluently and bits and pieces of a dozen others. When he stepped out onto that central loggia, St. Peters Basilica in October, 1978, his first words were, \"I'm going to speak in your\"- and then he stopped and said, no, no, no, our language. And if I make a mistake, you will correct me. And from that moment on, the electricity between that man and this people was established.", "He could woo a crowd from the very beginning, could he not?", "Well, he was an actor, let us not forget, Bill. He had an enormous sense of how to play his part on the stage. The just right gesture, the just right phrase. That's why we've called him over the years the great communicator. And he was marvelous to watch.", "It's a warm Sunday, early afternoon here in Rome. The pope's body lies in state for a select group of have visitors. So begins a series of events that will play out before, certainly, the largest audience who has ever witnessed anything, John, like this. We talked the other day about, that for half the world's population -- just think about this for a second -- not half the Catholics in the world. Half the people in the world have known but one pope in their life, this pope, John Paul. And this is a pope who understood how mass communications had changed the world and how the papacy itself had to change because of mass communication. And these ancient rituals will be broadcast to every corner of the world in much the same way that John Paul himself visited every corner of the world. And in some cases shifted the balance of cardinals to other parts of the world. John told me yesterday that of the 117...", "That's right.", "...117 cardinals who will elect the next pope, all but three were selected by John Paul. And that is one way a pope leaves his mark on the church.", "Yes, that's absolutely right, although it would be a mistake to infer from that that therefore these 117 cardinals are going to elect a man exactly like John Paul II. In fact, what history shows us is that colleges of cardinals appointed entirely by one pope, almost always elect a different kind of man as his successor. The logic for that being that what they're looking to do at the end of a very long pontificate, is to some extent, complete its unfinished business and correct what they would see as some of its weak points. We almost get a surprise. You know what the Italians say, Aaron, is that you always follow fat pope with a thin one. The idea is you always get change.", "And if they were to correct the errors or finish the unfinished business, not specifically who -- I've promised you, in fact, that I will not, as tempted as I may be, ask you ever who is the likely successor because one of the things that John Paul seems to me taught us is that such talk is foolishness. They will do the business that they intend to do for the reasons they intend to do it. And we'll try and figure out the whys of it as we go along. But do we have a sense because John Paul, in fact, changed the papacy, of the kind of person they'll see? Will they want a public pope, a pope who goes to rather than waits for the world to come?", "Well, to some extent, I think that's part of the unpredictability of this. There are some cardinals, I think, who believe -- well I don't think. I know, based on our conversations, that this pope perhaps traveled a bit too much...", "Really?", "...was perhaps a bit too much of a public figure in the sense that the price of doing that, obviously, every leader has to choose. De Gaulle once said that -- to govern is to choose. This pope chose to be an evangelist to be on the road, to take his message to the people. And the price of that was that he didn't spend proportionately as much time working on the internal affairs of the church, leaving that largely in the hands of his aides on many issues. Some cardinals believe the next pope ought to be, in the balance, that has to be struck, a bit more attentive.", "How would those of us who are not experts on this nearly see that deficiency? What is it -- if you don't spend time working on the internal affairs of the church, what is it that doesn't happen?", "Well, to take one recent example, a very painful episode in the history of the American Catholic church, would of course be the sex abuse crisis.", "Right.", "I mean, what you had was bishops whose, in some bishops we need to say in fairness, who were not as attentive as they should have been to what was happening with their clergy. And of course, to get a bishop to change practice, you need a pope.", "This is a city that's beautiful when it's raining. And when it's 65 and sunny with blue skies, it's an absolutely stunning place. And I think the world is going to see the beauty of Rome again, and the beauty of the greatest structures ever to rise under the Italian renaissance from 400 or 500 years ago. And that's right here in Vatican City. The room we're watching now, the Apostolic Palace is a stunning location. Is it frescoes? Are they murals? Are they paintings? Whatever is inside that room, and you've been there, John, perhaps you can give our viewers a better guide as to what we're seeing?", "Well, again, the room is called the Sala Clementine. They named it after", "Let me stop you right -- how big is the Apostolic Palace? I mentioned four stories. Is it bigger than that?", "No, no. It's the -- of course, the viewers can probably see it over our shoulder. It's that beige building looming in the background. And in terms of square meters, I don't know, but it is an enormous place. Let me tell you that when I and my colleagues in the press corps have gone up to the top floor to be in the pope's apartment when he receives a dignitary, as we have gone up the stairs, we have very carefully tried to follow our progress on maps to figure out precisely where we were. None of us can do it. It's a very complex building. But it is an enormous space. The room that the pope's body is in right now, as I said, is the Sala Clementina. It's often used for papal audiences, not with masses of people for the Wednesday general audience, but for special meetings.", "So then when President Bush, for example, would fly to the Vatican and meet and have his private audience with the pope, that's where it would take place?", "Yes. And as you say, it is an ornately decorated room, with frescoes and tapestries. And of course, all of that is intentional. It's intended to remind you of the deep historical roots of this institution and the majesty of the papacy. I would say that a room like that, Bill, is probably the best home court advantage that any world leader can possibly ask for.", "I imagine you're right about that.", "Who are the people who -- we've talked about VIPs have come in. Are these all religious people today who will come view the body? Are there local politicians here in Rome? Italian prime minister come by today? Who gets the invitation if you will?", "Well, we presume that even sort of towards the front of the line would be the Roman nobility, particularly the so-called black nobility. These are ancient Roman noble families that in that tussle between the Italian state and the papacy we talked about, sided with the pope. And have therefore have had traditional privilege of being sort of closest to the flame. Beyond that then would be the cream of the Italian political crop. We saw this morning at the funeral, Prime Minister -- President Ciampi, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the minister of the foreign affairs and John Fradancofini (ph). All of them. I saw Pierre Fassini, who was one of the leaders of the Italian left weeping as the funeral was proceeding. And we'd presume, of course, that all of those VIPs would, of course, be coming through the Sala Clementina embassy, the pope lying in state as well.", "Have important words been said today?", "Yes. You know, Aaron, what happens and of course in some ways, the wound of the loss of the pope is so fresh, that it almost seems a little bit disrespectful to be talking too much about what comes next, but of course, inevitably life goes on. And the next major moment in the life of the Catholic church will be the election of the pope. And so, what those of us who watch this unfold, because so much of the politics goes on behind closed doors, we tend to hang very much on all the public words that are spoken. Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the secretary of state an affect the pope's prime minister, delivered a homily at the mass we saw this morning. And it was striking to me, Aaron, when you know which code words to listen for in these things.", ": Yes.", "How Cardinal Sodano repeatedly used the Italian word speranza, which means hope. That John Paul II was a man of hope, that John Paul like the word of God himself, Cardinal Sodano said, came not to judge humanity, but to save it. Very much striking an optimistic hopeful tone. I think that's probably one clue to the kind of man at least Cardinal Sodano would be looking for.", "Is that to begin the process of framing a legacy?", "Well, I think it's both to frame the legacy of John Paul II. But it is also in a kind of indirect way to set the stage for the kind of man needed to follow him.", "You said two things there, John. I just want to contribute because we're just -- we're hearing some things on the wires as we scan them, as we go throughout our broadcast here. There's word from Dublin, Ireland today from a guy by the name of Bono, the front man for U2. He was quoted as saying that Pope John Paul II was the best front man the Catholic church ever had. A great show man, a great communicator of ideas, even if you did not agree with all of them, a great friend to the world's poor. And that is how we remember him again today. The other thing you mentioned were the tears. And if you go down to the square with the Vatican today, and if you talk to the people who have gathered here today, I mentioned this yesterday, when you ask them what the man meant to them, and why they came here today, almost to a person, they will pause first, before they give you an answer. Almost as if they're reflecting on his life. And earlier today, I was talking with a priest from New York City, in fact. And with tears in his eyes, he said the whole world loves the pope, whether you agree with him or not.", "Yes, Cardinal Roberto Tucci, who has organized virtually all the pope's trips, was once asked how Catholics in the developed world, at least, perceive the pope. And Cardinal Tucci's answer was I have the impression that they like the singer, but not the song. Meaning that they may not necessarily agree with every element of his program, but they loved the man.", "That's actually an incredible quality in someone to -- and this is a man whose reach extended beyond those of his faith. This is a man who had import beyond the world of theology. This is a man who could -- the word charisma sounds somehow sort of inelegant or almost crass in this moment, unless you spent a moment in his presence. And by that, I don't mean a small audience. I mean in a stadium where he was. You and I talked yesterday about when I saw him the two times, once in Fairbanks as a young man and in Havana when he was much older. And his ability to -- and it's the rarest of traits among humans, I believe, to look out on a crowd, a crowd of 100,000 people or more, and to be in that crowd and to believe somehow, and you do believe it, he is looking directly at you.", "Yes, that's absolutely right. I mean, the pope was a great believer and a great lover of people. I mean, he had this capacity to connect almost instantaneously. I recall, Aaron, the first time I met him man to man, so to speak, was on the papal plane coming back from Kazakhstan. And each of the journalists were brought up. And we had a couple of minutes to sit next to the pope in his front row seat, of course, in the papal plane. This is a man, by that stage, I had written probably a million words about, had covered him either directly or indirectly for years. And I had sort of expected that I would have something magnificent to say to him. And when I sat down for the first time in his presence, all I could choke out was \"it's a pleasure to meet you.\" And I was obviously struggling for words after that. And the pope leaned over me and patted me on the arm and said \"It's OK.\"", "Well, I told this story last night and I'll tell it again, about a young man, a middle-aged man I met yesterday. And he -- when he was 14, he had the opportunity to meet the pope. And if -- an experienced and hard boiled reporter like John gets a little flustered at a moment like that, you can imagine what that sort of moment's like for a 14-year-old. And so he is presented to the pope, this young man. And he, as he tells me the story, he's shaking inside and out. And the pope extends his hand, as the pope does. And the young man is expected, in the ritual of the church to kiss the pope's ring. And he is so terribly, terribly nervous. And so he -- the pope sticks out his hand. And the young man sticks out his and gives him a handshake. And the pope breaks into this broad smile and kind of cups him on the back of the head and gives him a hug, which is, I think, the equivalent of saying to a 14-year-old, \"I know, I know.\"", "Absolutely. I mean, and this was not just a kind of, you know, personal touch of a kind of award healer or politician, that capacity to look at one person and slap another on the back and kiss a baby at the same time.", "Yes.", "This was a man who meant it. And I think that's what people saw in him. Going back to that business about liking the singer and not the song, I think in this world, we can always disagree with one another. But if we look at another person and we see someone of integrity, someone, you know, who was a man for others in a me-first world, someone who meant what he said, I think that garners almost universal respect, acclaim and affection. And it's that affection we're seeing play out all around the world today.", "30 back in New York City on a Sunday morning. It's about 1:30 here in Rome, Italy. We are high above the Vatican today. And the pope is now being viewed, his body lying in the Apostolic church -- the Apostolic Palace, I should say, in the area of the building across the square behind us. And we do know a number of people have come to view his body today. A select number of people chosen by the Vatican to get the first chance to pay their final respects to Pope John Paul II. It appears, based on the information we had earlier today, even going back to yesterday before the announcement of his death, that this schedule is working faster than we had previously imagined. It took us all a bit by surprise just about an hour ago when on Vatican television, we saw the pope's body for the first time again inside the Apostolic Palace. He is clad in crimson vestments, wearing a bishop's miter on his head. You can see the rope that keeps the partition between the pope's body and also those coming to kneel at his feet for one final time. You will also see the Swiss guards, charged with protection, security, guarding the Vatican for so many hundred years here. And you will see these Swiss guards throughout the entire ceremony for today and into the lying in state when the public comes to view the pope, which we anticipate, based on again the schedule we were given and thought we were given earlier today, that that would happen about Monday afternoon Rome time. And oftentimes, you will also see the Swiss guards rather change and shift their position, just like you would see at any state funeral for any leader around the world when it has come for their time to end through their earthen journey here. Pope John Paul II, 84-years old. The official time of death given by the Vatican last evening at 9:37 p.m. And as we go throughout the day here, we may get more word from the Vatican regarding a possible statement about the final moments of his life. There were some indications telling us that there was a mass said again yesterday, which would have meant two masses said in his presence on the final day yesterday, April 2, 2005. Also, some reports indicating the pope is looking out of his bedroom window at the pilgrims who had gathered down below. But again, when that word becomes official from the Vatican, we will have it here. Now on this Sunday morning, we anticipate the first congregation of cardinals, the first official meeting for the cardinals to take place on Monday. Vatican law dictates that it takes place at 10:30 a.m. local time on Monday. It is during that meeting that all the rules will be set out for the schedule for the rest of the week, meaning we will get more information on a funeral, which is said to take place sometime between the fourth and the sixth day of the pope's passing. And then we'll get more information on the conclave, which is set to take place no sooner than 15 days after the pope dies. But again, as we mention this here in Rome, anything can change, based on this schedule. And Aaron Brown is with me too. And so is John Allen, our Vatican analyst. Am I right to say, John, that this schedule appears to be moving quicker than before? Or were you surprised, like I was, when we saw the pope's body about an hour ago?", "Well, to tell you the truth, having covered John Paul II for as long as I have and in many ways I feel he's still with us, this has been the pope of surprises. I'm surprised by nothing. I remember when we were in Greece, for example, in 2001, and then the Greeks were asking will the pope apologize for the fourth crusade. And I said, no, no way. It's not going to happen. An hour later, it happened. So I've learned from hard experience, you know, not to be too dogmatic to use a church term about these things. I do think, however, what has happened in the last 72 hours, taking in view the last few days of the pope's life and now again today, there has been a remarkable amount of disclosure of information and an openness that is a real departure from what is sort of typical Vatican practice. And I think that reflects not merely the sort of hunger of the world to know as much as we can. I think it reflects also a personal touch from John Paul. I'm sure he communicated to his aides that he wanted his death, as his life had been, to be a teaching moment.", "But you're not suggesting that the walls are now coming down at the Vatican here?", "No, of course not, Bill. This has all has been -- this is transparency and openness by Vatican standards.", "There's actually a -- there's a story you told us last night. One of the things if you do this for a living, you don't want to do, is misreport the death of someone. You don't want to misreport the death of anyone. And you do not want to misreport the death of the pope. That would be a very hard thing to live down, an embarrassing thing to experience if such a mistake were made. And yet, how did the official notification to the inter circle of reporters -- came how?", "Well, you know, a number of years ago, Joaquin Navarro- Valls, who is the Vatican spokesperson, set up this system where if he had something urgent to say, he would send a text message to your cell phone telling you there's an e-mail for you with a text attachment. And you open up that text attachment and there's the declaration. Now over the years, Aaron, the truth is that system has worked sometimes and not others. I mean, I've had experiences where urgent things bumped around in cyberspace for 48 hours before they arrived. So we all didn't really believe that it was going to work. And we had spent months trying to figure out how we would actually learn in the first moment the pope was dead. And in the end, miracle of miracles, the thing worked.", "So an e-mail was sent out.", "Yes, a text message on the cell phone arrived, saying there is an urgent declaration from Navarro-Valls. And then of course in this climate, we knew what that urgent declaration was. And it arrived shortly after 9:37 Rome time, when the pope is said to have passed on.", "And at that moment, which is at about the moment that I heard about it, I guess, and my first reaction was, as my first reaction tends to be in these sorts of things, are we absolutely sure. You were absolutely sure.", "Yes, because I, of course, received these things many times before. And I can distinguish authentic from unauthentic. It was crystal clear to me that this was the authentic message from Navarro-Valls.", "And even before that point, really over the last 72 hours or so, the change in tone in the Vatican was notable in not just the amount of information, but the emotion with which that information was given out.", "Yes, from March 11, when the pope was still in the Gemelli Hospital to March 30, there was not one bulletin, not one. Not one official scrap of information from the Vatican at all. Beginning with the notice that the pope was receiving nutrition from a -- with the feeding tube, on the other hand, it changed dramatically. And I recall the first day, when the crisis was upon us, at 12:30, there was a briefing with Dr. Navarro-Valls. This is a man who's worked with the pope for more than 20 years, a close, intimate aide, who delivered the information that the pope's condition was very grave. And at the end, we saw Navarro-Valls tear up and walk away from the podium. This is a man -- this is the coolest customer I'd ever known, Aaron. I have seen that man in situations that would fluster the best of us. And he has never lost his poise or his composure. When I saw him tear up, I didn't necessarily take the bulletin at face value. I took that at face value. I knew that the end was near.", "I think all of us, actually, about midweek, it was Thursday, I guess, I think we all sort of knew that we were in the final days. And maybe that would be 24 hours or maybe it would be three or four days. But I think all -- we all knew, just from the tone that was coming out of the Vatican, this was not another illness. This was the final illness of someone who had survived an awful lot, particularly over the last 23 years or so since the assassination attempt. And so when the announcement was made last night, it wasn't a sense of shock. There was no sense of surprise at what we heard and what we began reporting. But there was, and for a non-Catholic, and I suspect this is true of hundreds of my colleagues and millions of citizens around the world who are not Catholic, there was a tremendous sense of sorrow that we were telling the final chapter of one of the great stories and one of the most important stories of our lifetime. Now this final chapter goes on for some days, but it began in mid evening yesterday when the bells tolled here in Rome. And it was an unforgettable moment for all of us.", "We lost a good one. He came here to Rome to make a difference. And every minute of his papacy, he set out to do just that. The crowd that's gathered on St. Peters Square was very large just about 90 minutes ago, that had gathered there for a mass -- the requiem mass, the repose of Pope John Paul II's soul. Vatican law dictates that there will be a mass every day during this period of mourning, that we mentioned earlier will last about nine days. And the crowd has thinned a little bit since then, but we do anticipate throughout the day to trickle in and trickle out. That crowd down there will ebb and flow. And then perhaps a few days from now, we'll start to see the true wave of pilgrims who will descend upon Italy as we get ready for the funeral, which should take placed, based on the schedule we have, perhaps Wednesday at the earliest and no later than Friday. And being down there in the square earlier today, very stunning to see the children who come out.", "Yes.", "You can see the father who picks up his 10-year-old son and puts him on his shoulder so he can see everything out there in front of him. You can see the other father pointing to his daughter at all the statues that align, what I consider the great arms of Vatican City. If you take an aerial shot of the Vatican, you can see the Basilica. And many people think that that is the body of God, essentially. And then you have these giant columns that reach out, almost like they're two big arms around Vatican City, around the square, almost like God is taking the children of the world into his arms. And many people talk about that here at the Vatican, whether it's on a tour or whether it's through some sort of religious pilgrimage. Or as you say as a non-Catholic -- I happen to be a Catholic, but it's still an amazingly moving time I think for humanity to come here and to look at the reactions and the faces of people and to listen to the music that is so beautiful and stunning. And it rings throughout Vatican City.", "I wonder, because I tend to wonder a lot, there are 100,000 people at various points here last night. There will be several million people over the days ahead. But in every corner of the world in small churches on the plains of Kansas, where you grew up, or Catholic churches and non-Catholic churches as well, in cities in Minnesota, where I grew up and in Cincinnati, where you grew up, and in countries in Africa and countries in South America, and countries across Europe and Asia, people will gather today on this Sunday. And first in their thoughts, whether they're Catholic or not, I suspect, will be this man and this moment, which speaks to his power and his papacy and to modern media, its ability to bring moments like this around the world. So while there's a kind of physical representation that we can show you behind us of people who gather, it is by no means the measure of this moment. As you were talking, Bill, I thought, you know, if I had my daughter here, and last night I wish I had, I'd absolutely would have taken her down there so that she could say -- and I'm not even sure why such things are important -- so that she could say on the day that Pope John Paul died, I stood at St. Peter's. It places you in some respects no closer than it places our viewers, but it puts you among something.", "It's not an understatement to say that he is the most significant religious figure of our lifetime.", "Oh...", "Certainly the last half of the last century.", "He's almost undoubtedly the single figure who has been seen by the largest number of people in person in the history of the planet.", "You know, that's interesting you say that. The Vatican puts out this figure. If I think I have it right. They say he has touched or come into contact with 60 million people during his 26 years. Is that possible?", "Well, it's very possible. Actually, if you want my opinion, I think that's something of an underestimate. But I mean, if you consider that during his trip to Mexico in 1979, if you count the people along the route to the mass site and at the mass, there were some 9 or 10 million.", "Wow.", "When he was in Manila, there are 4 million. When he was in Poland the last time, there were 2 million. When he was in Ukraine, there was more than a million. I mean, the thing about this is, Bill, there are some events, there's a Hindu festival bathing in the Ganges every year that attracts about 10 million people. There are maybe 2 million people who came to the funeral of the Ayatollah Khomeini. There is no one in human history who has ever with the regularity of John Paul, drawn those kinds of numbers. I mean, he was an absolute magnet for humanity.", "Small crowd for him and a mass of 500,000.", "Yes. I mean, and the remarkable thing about this is, it wasn't just Catholics. You know, I was with the pope, for example, when he went to Azerbaijan. Bear in mind, there are all of 120 Catholics in Azerbaijan. I actually did a piece running the numbers. It would have been four times less expensive to fly all of them to Rome than to bring the pope to Azerbaijan.", "Stop right there. We're going to throw out a lot of countries and a lot of trips over the past 26 years. What did he believe as a -- crusader is not the right word here -- what did he believe in terms of his own commitment to spreading the Catholic word, not just the word of God or the word of Jesus, but the Catholic word to every corner that would take him?", "I think the right word, rather than crusader, is apostle. The pope had a sense of himself as not just the successor of St. Peter, but to some extent, the successor of St. Paul. That was the great evangelizer of the urban church, who took his show on the road, so to speak, in order to spread the faith. I think John Paul had the sense that this was a world, the sort of secular post Christian, post religious world was badly in need of hearing the word of God. And if they weren't going to come to him, then he was going to go to them. And I think that was the first instinct. The second instinct, we talked earlier, Aaron, about this pope's love of people.", "Yes.", "And this was a man who simply loved to be with people. I once said that actually, if you wanted to hasten his end, the most dire thing you could do to him would be to strap him into a chair in the Vatican and not let him come out, because for him, that was awful. I mean, he wanted to be with the people. I was talking to Cardinal James Stafford the other night, an American here in the Vatican, who is telling me that in Toronto at World Youth Day in 2002, we had a horrible rainstorm that morning of the mass. The pope was in the popemobile on his way to the mass site. And he ordered the windows of the pope mobile down. And Stafford said to him, but your holiness, it's raining. He said I know that, but they need to see me and I need to see them. And he went along the whole route with water absolutely pouring into the pope mobile. And he was about 15 minutes late coming on to the stage because they had to bring him dry vestments before he could walk out, because he was soaked to the bone. But that's how important it was to him to be present to the people.", "It's hard to imagine, in the world I guess the president of the United States would come close, a job that is potentially more claustrophobic in a sense than the papacy. The president and the first lady can and, in fact, do go to friends houses for dinner, go to restaurants. And there's -- goodness knows elaborate security takes place. But it's not like the pope, from moment he becomes pope, has in public at least any semblance of a regular life. I said to you only half kiddingly last night, I wonder if on a Sunday afternoon, like much of the rest of the planet, he flips on a soccer game. Or -- I mean, because he's not just one thing. He's, like, all of us, he's many things. And I think his overwhelming desire to get out among people is part of that overwhelming desire to break the bonds of claustrophobia that the job itself imposed on a man who was a wonderful skier, and a wonderful athlete, and who loved theater and so many other things.", "Yes, you know, there's a wonderful poetic art, the beginning and the end of this papacy, that I don't think anyone has noticed yet. Speaking at this point of how much the pope was a breaker of custom and how he wasn't shackled by protocol from being present, when he first walked out onto that central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, to deliver his first greeting after being elected pope, there was a moment when he had delivered the blessing when the chief organizer of ceremony, a cardinal by the name of Regilio Nole (ph), leaned in and took him by the arm as if to say holy father, it's time to go now. The pope brushed him aside and went on to speak directly to the people. Last Easter -- last Sunday, rather -- Easter Sunday, when the pope was at that window for 12 minutes and 17 seconds, struggling mightily to speak, there were two moments when his aides came up and attempted to roll him back. He brushed them away and said I'm going to be here with these people -- the beginning and the end.", "You may be seeing on your video monitors there at home now on television sets around the world for that matter. The Swiss guards paying their own respects now. They were -- they guard the body essentially in pairs, two at a time. And they will switch off between now and the point which the pope's body is moved again. And John, we mentioned yesterday or rather tomorrow, we anticipate the lying in state to become official. I don't think technically they consider this lying in state. It's perhaps paying last respects in the Apostolic Palace. But when the body is then transferred to St. Peter's Basilica, which by the way, is as stunning, stunning piece of architecture. They can hold up to 60,000 people at one time. This is where you find Catholics believe the remains of St. Peter entombed below the altar. One of the finest works of art in the entire world of Michelangelo's \"Pieta\" is just inside, off to the right. And when the public comes into this basilica, this will be another scene for the world to see in a way that we have not seen this church for -- I guess you have to go back to the late 1970s in 26 years.", "That's right, 1978, the last papal death, of course. There were two -- of course, as you know, there were actually two popes who died in 1978, Paul VI. 33 days later, John Paul I. The only thing that would come close, Bill, is that a couple of years ago, the Vatican was renovating the grotto, below -- the level below the main floor of the basilica. And they brought the body of Pope John XXIII, known as good pope John, up. And they laid it in state for about a day and a half inside the basilica. And of course, John XXIII was loved around the world, especially here in Italy. There was a massive, massive, massive turnout of humanity to see the body of the pope.", "Massive meaning millions?", "Hundreds of thousands, I would say. I would expect the turnout this time will, of course, exceed even that. But it is amazing to watch the magic of this office, the office of the papacy, to someone who knows how to use it. I'm reminded of a famous American Baptist minister once said of John Paul II, this is a pope who knows how to pope. Both John XXIII and John Paul II knew how to pope. And if you know how to use this office, how to use it as a tool of teaching, but also as a tool to communicate the faith, hope and love upon which the tradition is based, your capacity to connect with people, to form bonds that aren't just political, aren't just partisan, but are deeply emotional, with masses of humanity, is magic. And that is what we'll be seeing when the body is on state and those crowds file past to pay their respects.", "Aaron asked you earlier, I'm kind of curious myself too, how do you get an invite today? Who is there kneeling and paying respects? Cardinals or more than that?", "There will be high ecclesiastical dignitaries, of course. But this is a VIP viewing. And the classes we can be sure would be there. But again be the black nobility that is the Roman noble families loyal to the papacy to this century. The cream of the crop of the Italian political life -- any other political dignitaries who have already arrived in Rome, perhaps in preparation for a funeral. Select others who had some particular connection or relationship with the pope over the years. Obviously, we would expect his closest Polish collaborators, for example, to be in that room today inside the Sala...", "You're going to throw out a lot of things at us. And we're going to probably stop you oftentimes and ask you for better clarification. Who's the black nobility?", "The black nobility would be -- there is in Italian custom, there is a white nobility and a black nobility. These are ancient noble, Roman noble families, who down through the centuries sort of tussled for domination in Rome. The white nobility, during the 19th century battles, between the new Italian republic and the papacy, they sided with the Italian republic, the black nobility with the papacy. Hence, in these kinds of things, although those battles are long dead now of course. But in these kind of things, they still enjoy a kind of ceremonial privilege because well, to put it bluntly, they were on the right side.", "The winners write history. There was -- before this moment, there were -- there was a more -- there were more private moments where those who had most closely worked with John Paul, those who tended to him most closely on a day- to-day basis were with him. That would have been last night, perhaps early this morning. How large a circle of people are we talking about that surrounds the pope?", "Well, his most intimate circle would be made up of a very small number of people. You're talking about one archbishop, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, who was his personal secretary. Father Metic (ph), another Pole, who is a priest, who is Dziwisz's number two to so to speak. And then you're talking about four or five Polish nuns from Krakow, who on effect, administered the domestic side of the papal household. And the most important of which was Sister Tobiana, who probably appears off to the right in about 10,000 photos of the pope, because whenever he traveled, whenever he moved, she was always in the background with him, often seen carrying that black bag in later years, after the onset of the Parkinson's in which the pope's medicine was contained. So that very small group was certainly at his bedside when death came and undoubtedly would have been given a few private moments to pay their final farewell to this man who they loved so deeply.", "So you're really talking about a dozen, between a dozen and two dozen?", "Yes.", "People who were -- who would be the inner of inner circles? This is not so much an official group, as a personal group, the people he was most comfortable with? I'm struck by the number, just listening to you, the number of Poles in that group. So in that sense, he stayed close to his roots.", "Yes, as every pope does. I mean, for example, when a pope from Venice has been elected, the last time it was John Paul I, he of course brought his intimate retinue from Venice. It's more striking, of course, when they're from outside the peninsula in the case of John Paul", "John, you're not going far. And neither are we, because our coverage is going to continue on this Sunday, live above Vatican City for an awful long time. And in a moment here, we're going to bring you up to date on everything that's been happening and everything we anticipate happening as well. The images you're seeing here, Pope John Paul II being viewed now by various select group of people. And we expect this viewing to continue for several hours. And again, this is not the official lying in state. We expect that to happen sometime late on Monday afternoon. And as far as the firm schedule of what we can anticipate later today and again into Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, because I'm certain a lot of people are quite curious as to when the funeral will take place. Based on Vatican law, that will happen no sooner than Wednesday of this coming week. In no later than Friday this coming week. But all that information should become official about 24 hours from now, when the first meeting of the cardinals gets together here in Rome. And just quickly, one more time here to John Allen, is it quite likely they've already set this schedule up and it's just waiting for an official announcement tomorrow? Or do they need an approval of a group of cardinals to come here and say OK, this is good with us. And let's go with it.", "Well, obviously, I have a general game plan, which is what you just rolled out. But the specific decisions have to be made in that meeting of the first general congregation of the cardinals on Monday.", "OK. John, thanks. 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{"id": "CNN-207710", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2013-5-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/29/ng.01.html", "summary": "Killer Cop or Devoted Dad?", "utt": ["Breaking news tonight, live to Kansas. Hubby/cop and real, live CSI marries his high school sweetheart, has two boys, ages 2 and 4. But then it all goes sideways. Bombshell tonight. Police race to the family`s classic two-story home to find the home burned to a crisp, especially the couple`s bedroom. In the bedroom, Mommy dead.", "Did you murder her?", "No.", "Did you pull the trigger?", "No!", "Did you kill her?", "No!", "Prosecutors say former police instructor and sheriff`s deputy Brett Seacat was steaming mad after his wife files for divorce. Just days later, his wife mysteriously dead.", "Things are just not looking good, and they`re adding up to that you had something to do with this, Brett. We want to know why.", "Oh, no, there`s no why, OK? I didn`t do this. I love Vashti.", "Authorities say Seacat killed his wife and then set the family home on fire.", "Seacat claims Vashti killed herself.", "... that Vashti would set their Kingman home on fire with her two boys sleeping down the hall.", "... crawl into bed and then shoot herself.", "She told a friend a week-and-a-half prior to this incident happening that you threatened to kill her.", "What?", "You threatened to burn the house down and you threatened to make it look like she did it.", "That is bull", "And tonight, live to Orlando. A high-profile real estate broker with a married boyfriend boozes it up and guns him down. In the last hours, yet another Orlando jury says not guilty, even in the face of overwhelming evidence.", "Juror number one, his is your true verdict?", "Yes.", "Juror number two, is this your true verdict?", "Yes.", "Juror number three, is this your true verdict?", "Yes.", "Juror number four, is this your verdict?", "Juror number five, is this your verdict?", "Yes.", "And juror number six, is this your verdict?", "Yes.", "Caryn, why were you so confident? You were so confident earlier.", "Because I didn`t shoot him. I know that. 911", "Did you have the gun?", "I did, but it was", "OK.", "Caryn Kelley swears she didn`t pull the trigger.", "Really, really.", "Did you ever have any doubts?", "No. That`s why I didn`t testify. The gun went off. I`m, like, Oh, my God. I didn`t ever mean to do that. Is he OK? Is he living?", "Ms. Kelley, you have been found not guilty of these charges by a jury of your peers, and as such, you are released.", "What are you going to do next?", "Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight, live to Kansas. Hubby/cop and real-life CSI marries his high school sweetheart, has two boys, ages 2 and 4. But it all goes sideways when police race to the family`s classic two-story home. There they find the family home burned to a crisp, especially the couple`s bedroom. In that bedroom, on the bed, Mommy lays dead. We are live and taking your calls. Out to Justin Kraemer. He`s joining me at the courthouse, reporter with KSN-TV. When did the husband first become a potential suspect?", "Immediately, Nancy. Folks here in this small, quiet Kansas community woke to a raging house fire. Inside that home, Vashti", "Go ahead, Justin.", "I was just going to tell you that authorities out here questioned this story from the very, very beginning, finding it eye- rollingly ridiculous.", "You know, I`m very interested in the story, Matt Zarrell. So he is on the scene at the time police race to the family home. He is there. He`s managed to save the 2-year-old and the 4-year-old boy from the fire. But to me, timing is everything, Matt Zarrell. Isn`t it true that the victim in this case just absolutely stunning, Vashti Seacat, his high school sweetheart -- isn`t it true she just served him divorce papers a couple of days before?", "Yes, Nancy. It was three days prior to her death that he received the divorce papers from her, and she expressed concern to friends about what his reaction would be when he got those divorce papers.", "OK, I want to talk about the evidence. Everyone, husband/cop, a real-life CSI -- in fact, he teaches other people crime scene investigation. The family home burned to a crisp, especially in the bedroom. The police arrive. They go into the bedroom with firefighters and they find his young wife dead on the family bed, but not from smoke inhalation, not from asphyxiation. She is dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Now, Dave Mack joining me from Clear Channel WAAX, it`s my understanding he says that she had been extremely depressed, that she had talked about suicide before and that she shot herself that night. But what I don`t get is how could she shoot herself and start a fire, too?", "Well, you know, the amazing thing is, Nancy, that for somebody who was so depressed, she never mentioned it to anybody else. The only person to say she was depressed is her soon to be ex-husband. And you`re right, so she`s so depressed, but she`s able to get everything together so she can start a fire and then shoot herself through the neck. The story doesn`t make sense from get-go.", "Well, right there, before I -- I`m about to show you what he had to say when police first confronted him. He was very nonchalant. He said he was going along with the divorce. He was actually laughing and joking along with police as they were asking him about the night his wife died. But just very quickly, out to you Woodrow Tripp, former police commander. Woody, I don`t know if you have ever studied -- I introduced it into court many times when you were a witness in one of my prosecutions -- a book called \"Method and Assessment of Homicide and Suicide.\" It is extremely rare for a woman this age to commit suicide by shooting herself in the neck or head region with a gun. That`s very rare, Woody.", "It absolutely is, Nancy. And in fact, normally, because of vanity issues, women seek other methods. If it does come to a handgun, most times, it`s in the chest area. But it`s definitely not, for the most part, head, neck area.", "OK, let`s take a look at what we can learn from the police interrogation, if you can call it that.", "Did you murder her?", "No.", "Did you pull the trigger?", "No.", "Did you kill her?", "No!", "Things are just not looking good, and they`re adding up to that you had something to do with this, Brett. And we want to know why.", "Oh, no, there`s no why, OK? I didn`t do this. I love Vashti.", "She told a friend a week-and-a-half prior to this incident happening that you threatened to kill her.", "What?", "You threatened to burn the house down, and you threatened to make it look like she did it.", "That is bull", "There you are seeing him as he speaks to cops. Unleash the lawyers. Joining me tonight, death penalty-qualified prosecutor Eleanor Odom. Also with me tonight out of the Atlanta jurisdiction, former prosecutor turned defense attorney Peter Odom. All right, Peter, what do you make of his demeanor speaking with really his colleagues, other cops just like him?", "Well, I mean, he`s just being very emphatic. He`s denying it. So he -- evidently, he hasn`t made any admissions. It`s the kind of -- it`s the kind of demeanor that the cops would say he seems to be telling the truth.", "What? Whoa! You know, that`s so odd because I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder because that`s not what I observed at all. Let`s see it again...", "What a surprise.", "If you don`t mind, Liz, let`s see that again.", "Did you murder her?", "No.", "Did you pull the trigger?", "No.", "Did you kill her?", "No!", "Things are just not looking good, and they`re adding up to that you had something to do with this, Brett. And we want to know why.", "Oh, no, there`s no why, OK? I didn`t do this. I love Vashti.", "She told a friend a week-and-a-half prior to this incident happening that you threatened to kill her.", "What?", "You threatened to burn the house down, and you threatened to make it look like she did it.", "That is bull", "OK, out to you Eleanor. Weigh in.", "Well, I certainly disagree with Peter Odom. First of all, look at that finger he`s wagging around. That is just really bizarre, pointing at the other cop. Plus, he`s answering so -- when I first saw it, I was, like, That is just really odd. It`s really how his voice gets all high-pitched and he keeps going, What? What? Kind of like he`s trying to deny it, but think -- trying to give himself enough time to think of a better answer. Isn`t that exactly what it looks like? The guilty pointing finger.", "Well, you know, let`s see the lawyers again, please. What I`ve noticed very often in court is when people are on the stand, and you`ve kind of got them in a corner, they take very long pauses. I noticed it a lot with Jodi Arias. And when they`re having to think up an answer, there`s a long pause and they think. And very often, they use hand motions. And I want you to look one more time now. This is not an amateur. This is a veteran police officer. In fact, he teaches CSI. Now, he claims his wife had been depressed and that she committed suicide. Take a look at him under police interrogation.", "Did you murder her?", "No.", "Did you pull the trigger?", "No.", "Did you kill her?", "No!", "Things are just not looking good, and they`re adding up to that you had something to do with this, Brett. And we want to know why.", "Oh, no, there`s no why, OK? I didn`t do this. I love Vashti.", "She told a friend a week-and-a-half prior to this incident happening that you threatened to kill her.", "What?", "You threatened to burn the house down, and you threatened to make it look like she did it.", "That is bull", "Detectives found it preposterous.", "I love Vashti.", "Did you murder her?", "No.", "That Vashti would set their Kingman home on fire with her two boys sleeping down the hall.", "Oh, no, there`s no why, OK? I didn`t do this.", "Crawl into bed and then shoot herself.", "I love Vashti.", "Did you pull the trigger?", "No.", "Welcome back. For those of you just joining us, a courtroom set to explode as evidence comes in in the shooting death of a gorgeous young mom. On trial, her husband, a cop, in fact, one of the best. He`s no amateur. He actually teaches CSI. Straight back to Justin Kraemer joining me at the courthouse, Justin with KSN-TV. Justin, I understand the 911 tape was played in front of the jury. What happened?", "That tape was played earlier today, in the fifth day of this trial for Brett Seacat. In that tape, you can hear him talk breathlessly about the fire, the flames coming from the home, telling the dispatcher immediately, within the first 10 seconds of the phone call, that Vashti had shot herself after setting her home on fire. Now, the prosecution is saying this is just one more step in a cold- blooded, calculated plan to make her homicide look like a suicide.", "You know, it seemed to me that they had it all. Joining me right now is a special guest. This is Vashti`s brother, Richard, joining us, also in court today, the mother of two young boys. Richard, thank you for being with us.", "You`re welcome. Good evening.", "Richard, how are the boys?", "You know, they`re doing great. I mean, I guess it`s all relative. They`re doing good in so much as we`re giving them as much love, time and attention as we can. You know, what we`ve noticed as time`s progressed is it`s almost like it`s been a vacation to them up until about six months ago. And we noticed they did go through a phase now where it`s kind of like, OK, the fun`s over. We want to go home. We want to go back to our life, our white house. But I mean, they`re doing good, as could be expected.", "What do they say about Mommy?", "Mommy`s in the heavens. The youngest one, when this first went down, which was two years ago, would say she`s in the heavens. We released balloons when we had a memorial for her and indicated that the balloons were going up to where Mommy`s at. So we just kind of try to keep it, you know, along those lines for them for now.", "Richard, who has custody of the boys?", "At this point, my mother has custody of them. And then I have a sister that`s involved heavily taking care of them. But they`re primarily with my mother, with my sister driving up from Oklahoma a lot to spend time with them, with the thoughts that if we ever need to make a transition, you know, everybody`s been involved at this point.", "You know, Richard Forrest, everyone, is with us. Vashti Seacat, wife and mother of two little boys, ages 2 and 4, found dead in her bed, the home on fire. But Vashti didn`t succumb to smoke inhalation or asphyxiation. This young mother died from a gunshot wound to the head. Now, yes, people get shot every day of the week in America. But for a mom to be killed in her own bedroom with her two children in the home, a 2- year-old and a 4-year-old in the home, almost unheard of, statistically rare. Richard, I know you have so much you could tell us about your sister, but what I`m most interested in is about what kind of a mother she was to her little boys.", "She was a great mom. Sometimes my other sister and I would kind of laugh because she would go to such great lengths to do things for them. And by that, I mean -- like, I`ll never forget one time her and some of her friends were going to the movies, and they were almost late for the movies because it was late at night, and she had to find organic bananas so that she could hand-make their organic baby food because she wasn`t going to buy baby food from a jar. She had to make it and it had to be organic. She had them in the YMCA, in swimming lessons. In fact, almost weekly, every Saturday, was kind of the YMCA thing. So she was just a very involved, very conscientious, very health-conscientious mother.", "She told a friend a week-and-a-half prior to this incident happening that you threatened to kill her.", "What?", "They told Seacat that Vashti warned friends that Seacat had threatened her life.", "Just heard a booming sound that sounded similar to what I`ve heard down from the gun range downtown when the police are down shooting.", "Welcome back, everyone. The courtroom brewing, about to broil over, as a matter of fact, there in Kingman, Kansas. A police officer, a veteran police officer, marries his high school sweetheart. They seem to have it all, but then it all goes sideways. He is on trial right now for her death. He insists she was suicidal, that she was depressed, had been depressed, even points to her journal that shows she was depressed. But out to her brother. Richard Forrest, was Vashti depressed? Had she ever discussed suicide?", "No. She had not. She was very upbeat, had some several trips planned with her sister. They were going to go to Cancun. They were going to go to Hawaii for a birthday, had some concerts planned, really was kind of upbeat about, I guess, a new chapter, you`d call it, in her life.", "What do you make of the journal entries? Did she keep a journal as long as you knew her? And would she have written about suicidal ideation in those journals but yet kept it from her family?", "You know, I can`t really comment too much on that because I do think it`s part of the...", "Because of the trial ongoing. I understand -- I understand completely, Richard Forrest. The trial is going on right now, and you don`t want to compromise it. In all of your years -- you are her brother. You`ve seen her through growing up, through turning into a lady, getting married, giving birth, having two boys, filing for divorce. Her family stuck by her the whole way. Did she ever once say, I just can`t go on?", "No. And as a matter of fact, I talked to her the night of the 29th. And certainly, none of the conversation was about any type of depression, her not being able to function or move on. It was, you know, possibly some other people were struggling with some things, but it was never about her or her not being happy.", "Would a mother of two young children set her house on fire with her kids in it?", "You threatened to burn the house down and you threatened to make it look like she did it.", "That is bull", "His 34-year-old wife found shot to death following (ph) a fire to the home. Seacat claims his wife committed suicide.", "I love Vashti.", "Detectives believe Seacat went into the burning room and tried to move her body, since he had no burns nor blood on his clothes.", "Seacat`s wife committed suicide. How was the gun found underneath her dead body?", "Welcome back. For those of you just joining us, a police officer, husband, real-life CSI, now facing charges he murdered his wife with the two boys, ages 2 and 4, in their home. Their home seemed like a story book. The fairy tale come true, marrying your high school sweetheart, deeply in love. But then she files for divorce. And in less than three days, she is dead. Police race to the home to find this. The home up in flames, particularly the couple`s bedroom. On the couple`s bed, there is Vashti lying dead, but not from smoke inhalation, not from burning. She is dead from a gunshot wound to the neck and head area. We are taking your calls, straight out to Brenda, North Carolina. Hi, Brenda, what is your question?", "Hi, Nancy. I love your show. In many cases, the guilty party often shows up at the crime scene and watches the police investigation. Was he not at the scene when the police arrived?", "Brenda, he absolutely was. And that is a strange, twisted tale itself. Out to you, Matt Zarrell, explain.", "Yes. What Seacat tells investigators when they arrive, he said he fell asleep that night in his boys` bedroom.", "Wait, wait, they filed for divorce, why is he on the sofa?", "He is on the sofa because they agreed, or at least Seacat says he convinced his wife or soon to be ex-wife to let him continue to stay in the house so they can try to work things out. And in fact, Nancy, the police chief says that Seacat admitted he bullied Vashti into letting him stay for three months. Meanwhile he had just received--", "Back it up, back it up. Matt Zarrell, what do you mean he bragged to people he bullied her? The court says you have got to move out. He bragged to who that bullied her into letting him stay in the home?", "The police chief says that he convinced his wife to let him stay in the home for several months.", "You said bullied.", "Yes, he did say the word bullied his wife, by threatening to take the children to Mexico.", "Taking the children to Mexico. You mean moving out of the United States and going to Mexico with the children, he threatened that on his wife?", "Correct.", "So I guess she did let him sleep on the sofa. OK, then what happened?", "OK, so Seacat says he falls asleep in the boys` bedroom but sets an alarm on his phone so he can wake up and feed the dog and clean up from dinner from that night.", "OK, stop, stop, stop. What?", "Yes. He says that he set an alarm on his phone when he fell asleep in the boys` bedroom so he can make sure to wake up and feed the dog and clean up dinner before he went to sleep.", "OK. So he goes to sleep with the kitchen a big fat mess and sets his alarm to wake him up. All right. Unleash the lawyers. Don`t go anywhere, Zarrell. Peter Odom. Have you ever set your watch to wake up in the middle of the night to feed your dog and clean up the dinner table?", "I mean, I set my watch and people set their watches to wake up all the time.", "Not what I asked.", "Why is what I do relevant?", "So you`re not going to answer.", "Because it is ridiculous. It doesn`t make sense.", "It doesn`t make sense to you. It makes sense in their lives.", "No, it doesn`t. Really? You think so. It makes sense to leave the kitchen a wreck, and you have got to wake up and feed your dog in the middle of the night. You think that makes sense.", "I have left the kitchen a wreck on many nights.", "Did you set your watch to get up in the middle of the night to clean it?", "But I feed my dog (inaudible). I haven`t done exactly that, but that doesn`t mean anything.", "Have you done something similar to that?", "And the fact that I haven`t done exactly that, does that mean that he is guilty?", "No. And that is not what I asked you. It seems to me like he is making up a lie to cover up what happened. That is what it seems like to me. And I`m asking you. OK. If you haven`t done it, fine. Have you ever heard of anybody else that did do it? That sets their clock to wake them up in the middle of the night to clean up the supper table.", "I haven`t ever heard of anybody else doing exactly that. But I don`t think that that makes him guilty.", "Well, you don`t have to act so irritated about it. All right.", "It doesn`t mean he is guilty.", "Eleanor, explain the relevance. I don`t care if they never clean up the dinner table. What I care about are lies.", "Have you ever noticed defendants are always doing something what I personally call heroic acts when they are guilty? You know, when they are off committing the crime? Oh, I was just cleaning up the kitchen table. Probably has never done that and probably of course never done it in the middle of the night, but all of a sudden he is feeding the dogs, he`s cleaning the table. He is trying to give himself an alibi, oh, I couldn`t have possibly been killing my wife and setting the house on fire.", "You are bringing up a very interesting point. Out to psychologist Caryn Stark. Have you ever noticed that very often, after men kill their husbands -- kill their wives, they suddenly turn into neatnicks and they are doing the laundry and they bleaching the murder scene with bleach? And they are folding things up and putting it all away and sweeping? Remember Scott Peterson? Did the laundry, Jodi Arias put all the bed sheets from the bed in the laundry. Everybody suddenly wants to do laundry.", "They become very clean. Actually, a little obsessive compulsive. But Nancy, I want to tell you that this guy could very well have murdered his wife. He`s impulsive. Look at his answers. He says, no. No! No! Like emphatically. And it looks to me like he kind of backtracked. He had to come up with the story afterward, because after all he is a CIA. It is an absurd, improbable story that he came up with. So it seems to me he may have murdered her and then had to come up going backwards with what--", "I find his interrogation tape to be extremely confrontational, as well. Liz, let`s see the tape one more time. Take a look at Seacat as he`s trying to counter police accusations.", "Did you murder her?", "No!", "Did you pull the trigger?", "No.", "Did you kill her?", "No!", "Things are not looking good, and they are adding up to that you had something to do with this, Brett. We need to know why.", "There`s no why. OK. I didn`t do this. I love Vashti.", "She told a friend week and a half prior to this incident happened that you threatened to kill her.", "What?", "You threatened to burn the house down and tried to make it look like she did it.", "That is", "Did you murder her?", "No.", "Did you pull the trigger?", "No.", "Did you kill her?", "No.", "Prosecutors say former police instructor and sheriff`s deputy Brett Seacat was steaming mad after his wife files for divorce. Just days later, his wife mysteriously dead.", "Things are not looking good and they are adding up to that you had to do something with this, Brett. We need to know why.", "There`s no why. OK? I didn`t do this. I`m in love with Vashti.", "Authorities say Seacat killed his wife and then set the family home on fire. Seacat claims Vashti killed herself. Detectives found it preposterous that Vashti would set their Kingman home on fire with her two boys sleeping down the hall, crawl into bed and then shoot herself.", "She told a friend a week and a half prior to this incident that you threatened to kill her.", "What?", "And you threatened to burn the house down and you threatened to make it look like she did it.", "That is -- that is (EXPLETIVE DELETED]. There`s a fire! And my wife is -- she shot herself but she`s in the fire. There`s smoke everywhere. (inaudible). I`m trying to get a wet rag.", "Interesting, the gun was found under her body. Yet, he says she committed suicide. Out to Dr. William Morrone, medical examiner, forensic pathologist, joining me out of Madison Heights. What jumps out at you, Dr. Morrone?", "There`s two really big facts in this case. The first thing is, when women are really unstable and depressed, they don`t just kill themselves. They kill the kids first. And then, they can`t live with the grief and then they really do commit suicide. That`s why she didn`t do this. This wasn`t her. And the second thing is this is a famous gun. This is a .44 Magnum Ruger Redhawk. In 1971, Clint Eastwood made this gun famous with \"do you feel lucky\" -- women don`t use this gun. Women -- it is too big, it is too powerful. It is in the wrong place. She can`t handle it. She couldn`t have done this. Because of the physical facts and statistics. The science doesn`t add up.", "And plus, the location of the shooting, it was in the neck, I believe, going downward front to back.", "Exactly.", "Slightly right to left. That`s not how you shoot yourself. Even if a woman in her statistic grouping, when you look at sex, age and all of her other vital statistics, A, wouldn`t shoot herself with a gun to commit suicide. B, wouldn`t do it with her children in the home. C, wouldn`t do it in the face area. And D, wouldn`t be able to cover herself up with the covers after she shoots herself. Do you agree with me, Morrone?", "I do. Nancy, in 20 years of health care, I have only seen one woman suicide with a gun, and it was straight to the chest.", "To Robert Rowe, fire expert at a Pyrocop, Inc. Joining me out of San Diego. Robert, you have studied the case. What do you think?", "Well, you know, in the guide, there`s a guide for the standard care for conducting investigations. It talks about motives and it talks about various reasons why people set fires, and one of the motives in that publication is for cover-up of crime, such as a homicide, so it`s not surprising to me that the authorities were looking at, at the time of the investigation.", "Out to the lines, Tracy, South Carolina. Hi, dear. What is your question?", "Hi, Nancy. First of all, I wanted to say that last week, believe it or not, in Greenville, South Carolina, we had a similar case, a similar trial, where a man shot his wife, had two kids in the home, the same thing. He came up with the most outlandish excuse for it. And I just can`t believe that they actually think that we`ll believe the stories. Who is he? Harry Houdini? She set the house on fire which is a very, very painful way to die, and then she shoots herself in the neck? And then she`s laying on top of the gun. None of it makes any sense. It would be better if he would just come out and say, you know what, I was outraged from the divorce proceeding and I did it, instead of, you know, taking us through all these crazy measures when he -- it`s obvious. I mean, it`s domestic violence, and the way that people just kill people because they don`t want to be bothered with their BS anymore. To me it`s just outrageous.", "And I also learned, Tracy in South Carolina, that there is some evidence that he had installed a GPS tracking. He could tell where she went, he could tell, track all of her text messages, and he went out and set on fire the hard drive to his computer. OK? That`s not normal.", "Crazy. Like I said, these stories they come up with, you killed her because he was tired of it. You know, whatever they were going through. People just need to learn how to let people go, let them live.", "I want to go back to the lawyers on this one. Eleanor Odom, joining us, death penalty qualified prosecutor. What about taking his hard drive out? Burning, torching it, and then in another trash can, getting rid of cell phones.", "Nancy, you look at each step, and that shows premeditation. It showed his planning, it shows his motive, it shows his opportunity. It`s like a neat little package of evidence, and isn`t it great, Nancy, because why would somebody do that? Burning all this stuff in separate trash cans if it was a true fire set by the wife and he didn`t know about it, then all sorts of things would be burning. He would not be rushing out to put things in the trash.", "Peter, I would like to hear your counter to that, and Peter, I know you`re going to scream it`s irrelevant. But let me ask you, Peter, have you ever -- you get rid of a computer, what, do you set it on fire?", "I`ve never set a computer on fire, Nancy. It`s not my m.o.", "How about your cell phone on fire?", "I`ve never had to set my cell phone on fire.", "Just putting it out there.", "Never had a chance to do that.", "Peter, weigh in.", "Nancy, well, that`s hard evidence. If it comes in and it`s established that he was the one that did that, it`s hard evidence to overcome. The defense in this case has to try to tie that burning either to random burning as a result of the fire or show that somebody else must have done it.", "State of Florida versus Caryn Kelley.", "He was joking. But boom, it went off. He (inaudible). The gun went off in the house. My boyfriend died!", "On the heels of the tot mom Casey Anthony not guilty verdict, now an Orlando jury hands down yet another not guilty verdict, seemingly in the face of overwhelming evidence. Not so says Caryn Kelley`s defense attorney, joining us live tonight, Diana Tennis. Diana, your client decided seemingly again at the last minute not to take the stand. Why?", "Well, frankly, it wasn`t necessary, Nancy. The law enforcement had already acknowledged that it was a struggle and an accident. There was no evidence that there was anything other than a struggle and an accident that caused the discharge. We know that he entered the room, he crossed the room, he engaged with her physically, and a terrible tragedy ensued. So it just didn`t seem that having somebody testify two years after the fact when you had all of the statements that she made that we managed to get in front of the jury right there in the hours afterward, why would they believe those statements two years later if they weren`t going to believe what she said at the time?", "You know, Diana Tennis, I think that the jury was misguided, but I have to say, even so, you tried a heck of a case. And you were right. She didn`t have to testify. You managed to win the case without her taking the stand, and I will point out that that was pretty wise, because Jodi Arias, I don`t know if you followed that on the stand, 18 days, the jury just, you know, set them on their teeth listening to her for 18 days. She made a very wise decision speaking strategically. Out to C. Douglas Green. Represents Phillip Peatross`s family. I`m sure you disagree with Diana.", "Yes, I do. I thought there was more than enough evidence to convict Ms. Kelley. I thought her words alone and her statements alone immediately in the aftermath following the incident to the 911 and then with the cell phone --", "You mean changing her story five times?", "Yes. At a minimum of five times.", "And her own words when he left the home. She said, hey, don`t come back. I got a gun and I know how to use it.", "Yes. That absolutely made no sense to me, why would someone say that to someone they love, who`s been in their house, who`s lived in their house to a certain degree as far as slept there. You know? Even if they may have had a little rift to all of a sudden, you know, I got a gun. If you come back, you know, if you have come back, I have got a gun and it`s loaded. And so forth.", "To Deborah Roberts, news anchor joining me from Florida News Network. What happened?", "Nancy, I can`t tell you what happened. I am absolutely shocked by this verdict. I thought the words of the defendant Caryn Kelley alone would have been enough to certainly garner a manslaughter charge. I do believe that there were a few things brought up at trial that managed to create enough reasonable doubt in the jurors` mind that they felt a not guilty verdict was the best verdict for this case.", "Clark, she said, don`t come back. If you do, I`ve got a gun and I know how to use it. Am I wrong?", "No, Nancy. You`re correct. That`s the gist of what came out at trial, but there was no doubt in the minds of jurors, taking just one hour and 35 minutes before reaching their verdict of not guilty. In fact, Nancy, when the defendant left the court after being found not guilty, asked by reporters what she was going to do next, she replied, go to Disneyworld.", "We remember American hero Army Specialist Steven Dupont, 20, Lafayette, Louisiana. Bronze Star, Purple Heart. Parents Charles and Brenda, brother Robert. Steven Dupont, American hero. And now, back to the stunning not guilty verdict handed down by yet another Orlando jury. Clark Goldband, the evidence seemed to be overwhelming, especially the drunk cell phone video taken by police where she changes the story five times, admitting she shot him.", "Yes, Nancy. It starts on the 911 call and continues on the cell phone video filmed by officers at the scene and later during the police interview. The stories ranged from self-defense, accidental shooting, thought he was someone else, that he shot himself and was protecting her home.", "OK. Well, there you have it. Another Orlando jury hands down a not guilty. As we go to Dr. Drew, happy birthday, happy 17th birthday to friend of the show, Amari. Amari loves basketball, football and spending time with his family. He wants to be a professional chef when he grows up, and what does he love the most in the world? His mommy, Ms. Michelle. Dr. Drew up next, everybody. I`ll see you tomorrow night 8:00 sharp Eastern. And until then, good night, friend. 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{"id": "CNN-58636", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-8-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0208/05/ltm.06.html", "summary": "Terrible Year So Far For Airline Industry", "utt": ["Simply said, this has been a terrible year for the airline industry. United Airline stock is tumbling. That came out after the nation's second largest carrier hired bankruptcy lawyers right after September 11th. United is not alone. Losses for the first half of the year range from $264 million for Northwest, more than $1 billion for American. The bad news for the airlines but what will it mean for passengers? Joining us from Orlando this morning to talk about it, Michael Miller, president of Miller Air Group and an aviation consulting firm. Thank you for joining us.", "Hi, Daryn. How are you?", "I'm doing great. But let's see how United is doing, with the latest news that they hired bankruptcy lawyers. United is saying, hey, it's not that big of a deal, come on, but that's not what you would think about the stock price. So what's going on with United Airlines?", "Well, first of all, the stock price tumbled On Friday, after it was revealed by \"Business Week\" -- actually, I think the stock price tumbled more because it came out of \"Business Week\" than it came out of United. But I would suspect that nearly every major airline, with the exception of Southwest, has hired bankruptcy attorneys. They have to consider the possibility. The hemorrhages after September 11th have been horrendous, and it really is the worst of times for the airlines.", "That just might be the part of doing business right now. But, for the average consumer, the average traveler, do they need to be concerned? Is there a difference between a carrier like United hiring bankruptcy lawyers, and what we saw happen with Vanguard?", "Right, Vanguard is a good example. There are two scenarios that consumers should look out for. One is a small airline like Vanguard that can file for bankruptcy and shut down at the same time. That is unlikely, though, at the bigger airlines.", "Why?", "The bigger airlines, well, if you look at history, TWA, Eastern, Pan Am, everyone who has filed for bankruptcy has usually operated 100 percent of their flights at the time. That will probably be the case in the future. The biggest airlines can't afford to be shut down for any length of time, not even a day or two, or else all their passengers will go somewhere else. So you really don't have to worry about the biggest carriers totally shutting down right away. A chapter 11 filing could be a big bump in the road, but it wouldn't be the end of the road.", "So if you're looking at something -- we're coming about the time when people are starting to think, where am I going to spend the holidays? Do you need to consider that when buying the tickets?", "You need to consider a lot of different things. And actually, I would recommend that anybody who is buying a ticket to check out that carrier's Web site, look at the news, look at the pattern that they've been in. Have they talked about bankruptcy? Have they talked about shutting down? Have they talked about exiting markets? And for the most part, that's only the really -- the most struggling carriers. United and U.S. Airways are definitely among them. Those are two of the biggest airlines that have applied for government loan guarantees. If you go to the government for handouts, things must be desperate.", "They must be, but there's all these confusing messages, because you see like United losing over $2 billion. The airlines losing $1 million a day. And yet, there's still these screaming bargains out there for travelers.", "Right. Well, it's -- basically, the airlines are doing so poorly, because airfares are at a 15-year low.", "So it's our fault, the flying public?", "No, it's actually to our benefit, because airfares will probably never ever be this low again. The travel bargains are out there. Airlines are not going to disappear off the face of the Earth that quickly. If any of the big airlines goes through a bankruptcy, it will be a long, slow death, if it is a death, and I don't suspect that many of the big airlines will totally disappear.", "One of the problems might be for people in small towns. That would probably be the first people to see their service cut, no?", "Yes. Because if an airline right now is looking at cutting their service out of any communities, it's probably looking at some of the smaller communities, where they don't really have any profits. And if they're the only one serving that community, it could be detrimental for that community. But right now, we're really looking at loss of big market air service. You know, what happens in the future, who really knows? But big market air service has been curtailed, and small markets need to pay attention to the trends and not be driving three hours to the next down for the better airfare if they want people to fly to their community.", "So the immediate message right now for travelers is watch it, because it's a very fluid situation it sounds like to me.", "It's a very fluid situation, and the airlines really have to restructure. There's no way around it, and consumers just have to pay attention and watch the news.", "Very good. Michael Miller, thank you so much, and fly safe. Thanks for your insights.", "Thank you. 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{"id": "CNN-340540", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2018-05-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/19/se.10.html", "summary": "Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Married in St. George's Chapel", "utt": ["An exciting day for the British royal family. Perhaps a new day for the family. Today's royal wedding had all the trappings of a fairytale with a very modern twist. The American bride, Meghan Markle, bringing a taste of home and a new kind of history to one of the most tradition-bound ceremonies in England. Churchgoers listened to a rousing performance of \"Stand by Me\" by a gospel choir, and an impassioned sermon given by the American Bishop, the likes of which surely have never been seen in St. George's Chapel. Meghan and Prince Harry, a modern couple, so clearly in love, exchanging vows in front of the queen, the \"who's who\" of Hollywood celebrities, hundreds of guests, millions of people watching around the world. Quite a day. I'm Anderson Cooper. Thanks for joining us.", "I'm here with Don Lemon with more of CNN's special coverage of the royal wedding. So, it's been quite a moment. Harry and Meghan, who are now known as the duke and duchess of Sussex. I love the ring of that. There's something symmetrical. They capped their marriage outside with a kiss outside of St. George's Chapel. She wore a long-sleeved gown. It was modest. It was --", "Was it? You think so?", "Yes. It had a beautiful neckline. But it was -- this was a modest gown. It was designed by the first female artistic director of Givenchy. And a Queen Mary diamond bandeau tiara, lent to her by Queen Elizabeth. Harry wore his military uniform. And he was sporting a beard, Don, which was unexpected.", "Yes. The dress showed a bit of shoulder and I thought that might be controversial. This morning we were talking, and people were saying, no, she must wear sleeves. She has to cover herself. The queen wouldn't like it. But I thought that was modern and beautiful.", "This is very typical Givenchy neckline. Think back to Audrey Hepburn, perhaps Givenchy's most-famous client, a lot of the dresses she wore were this neckline as well. So very classic for the house.", "Yes. This has many echoes of Audrey Hepburn, right.", "Absolutely.", "After the ceremony, the newlyweds rode in the open-air carriage through the town of Windsor, celebrating their happiness. There were throngs of people lining the streets. Some had been there for days. I saw tents popping up along the route because people wanted to catch a glimpse of them.", "Yes.", "At this hour, they're attending the first of two receptions. This one hosted by the queen for about 600 wedding guests. Let's talk about the rest of their lives.", "And 600 wedding guests, right?", "Exactly. All of this wedding, which Richard Quest has told me not to get into the price today. But in -- OK, but in terms of the -- let's start with the moments, OK, that we just saw. There was very beautiful, romantic moment when she first walked down the aisle and she met Prince Harry. Everybody, of course, is reading -- OK. So we believe -- he looked at her. The very first thing he said was, you look amazing.", "Yes. That's love. That's love. I mean, he's -- he only sees one person and one woman. And she looked beautiful.", "It was terribly touching. They held hands nearly throughout the ceremony. They were both holding each other's hands tighter and tighter. As soon as they got in the carriage, they held each other's hands again. It's very bonding. It's very moving. And --", "You know him. You spent time with him.", "Yes.", "You had unprecedented access. What did you see when you saw Harry's face and reaction?", "I saw him when he went in. I thought he was incredibly tense. He kept wiping his upper lip with his white glove. And that was because he was sweating with anxiety, I think. Took the white gloves off and he sat down. He looked very tense to me as he talked to William. But the minute he saw her, you could just feel the relief in his face. This most-happiest moment, I think.", "I wonder if it had anything to do -- when he's wiping the military uniform because folks were wondered if he would wear a morning suit, but he wore the military uniform.", "The military uniform of the royals, which is the regiment of which Harry was in. William also in military. Interestingly, we got totally excited about the beard because whether or not you can have a -- you're not supposed to have a beard in military uniform, but he is the --", "Yes. This is the moment -- Richard, sorry to interrupt -- where they held hands throughout the ceremony. Very unself- unconsciously. They just held hands because they wanted to.", "That's what we were talking about. This is, in many ways, a nontraditional wedding ceremony for a royal wedding ceremony. They held hands. They truly love each other. You know, when I say this is not just about the pageantry. This is about love. So, you know, it's beautiful to talk about the gown and all of that, but this -- these two love each other. Let's hope they do make a difference.", "I think we really have to talk about what I call the \"buy one, get one free\" syndrome. With William and Harry, you are seeing a future monarchy unlike anything we've seen before. It's not like Margaret and Elizabeth. They have an agreement, a pact in standing that Harry will support William. And the British people are going to have, as I say, \"buy one, get one free.\"", "Here's the dress.", "I'm sorry to interrupt. This is the moment of the dress reveal when she got out of the car. And everybody who have been speculating for weeks and months, Kate, of what it would look like. Your thoughts?", "The most important part to me of this dress was the veil that had the most personality to Great Britain. There are 53 different flowers embroidered for the 53 different countries of the British monarchy. That felt very personal to England. Otherwise, clearly, she wanted to be modern, clean-lined. Some of us thought it would be beaded, embroidery, looking for a little more pizazz. I personally think it's a little plain. But certainly she -- you know, she's maintaining this modern, clean way of dressing. It will be knocked off like this.", "It'll be knocked off like this.", "What about having the first woman of Givenchy? Is that --", "I think that's important. I think that's a message. I think it's an unusual pick. Let me say that. Givenchy is classically French. You think of France. It's a lovely gesture, a nod to the first woman running the house. However, it's typically French. Again, I think there was thought behind it. This is very easy for other brands to knock off. I think it's going to be copied many, many times. We'll see this boat neck come back, the three-quarter sleeves. It'll be all the rage next season.", "I have the lunch menu.", "Breaking.", "All right. Please, tell us immediately.", "Guests will be served a selection of canapes, including Scottish langoustine served in smoked salmon, grilled English asparagus, garden peas, heritage tomato and basil tartar with balsamic pearls. Then a selection of bowl foods, including free-range chicken with morel mushrooms, pea and risotto, and 10-hour slow-roasted Windsor pork belly.", "There's no seating plans. Everybody has --", "It's going to be a real challenge if you have your glass in one hand and a bowl in the other.", "Are there no seats? No seating plan? Is it just so people can mill around and mingle?", "So everyone can mix and be friendly.", "That's fashionable in the U.K. at the moment, these small bowls.", "Is that something that's new?", "It's been around for 18 months, two years that people have food bowls.", "You basically have a standing buffet.", "Yes. So you can talk, you can mix with Prince Charles. It won't be a high table. Everyone can mingle. And very important. Really to suggest that the royal family is moving very quickly into this zone of change. I'm also anxious to see the cake. Apparently, it's not the usual cake we saw with William and Kate. It's going to be an art installation, is what I heard.", "A unique cake.", "You're right. Many of us may be underestimating the power of youth. This is a very young monarchy. Except for the king and queen, this is a very young, very modern, very hip. The cake is gluten-free. We keep talking -- again, I don't want to keep going back, but this is change. I don't think it's revolutionary, but I think we're moving in it is right direction.", "Meghan Markle is pushing them in the right direction.", "She's like an Instagram bride. She had a blog called The Tig. She's very savvy about being an influencer, a social influencer.", "There you go.", "These are things she saw and liked and took notes, as brides do, starting off on a Pinterest board or whatever. She's very modern in that sense.", "Yes.", "And the toast. She's going to, we believe, she is going to make a toast herself, which would be the first --", "To Harry.", "To Harry. Which would be the first time that's happened.", "She is trailblazing in that respect. Let's talk about the ceremony. I want to know what your thoughts were in terms of the flourishes that we think that Meghan brought. Obviously, we can start with everything from the minister and his service --", "I found it a little uncomfortable. I've been a royal watcher for a long time. I've watched the royal weddings over and over again. This, to me, was a little uncomfortable.", "What part? What part was uncomfortable?", "I love gospel singing. It's my favorite, actually, type of singing. But I just didn't think it fitted in there. This is a very English place and a very English institution.", "I thought it was great.", "See, that's the point. You and I are on the same page.", "Because we're Americans.", "No. That's because we are -- I think people are missing the moment. In is a middle -- this is the beginning of a revolution worldwide.", "Listen, I don't want -- I don't think the royal family's going to change overnight. But this is the beginning. Look at this ceremony. This ceremony was basically adapted around Meghan Markle. Everyone else had to adjust to it. I don't think Meghan Markle is concerned about her husband becoming the king or about her ascending to the throne. They don't have that worry and that pressure. So, she will be free to be who she is, to talk about policy, to tell people --", "No, I disagree.", "The royal watchers --", "They can disagree, but they cannot force them -- she'll have her voice. They cannot do that. Maybe with William and Kate. That's a different story.", "She wouldn't want to upset Prince Harry.", "She's already done -- said things that princesses have never said before.", "Not direct politics --", "Harry adores his grandmother, but he's not married to his grandmother.", "No, no. But I think he does adore his grandmother. He would not want to upset her. I mean, he's worked - he's told me he hasn't had a career because he wanted to help his grandmother and he has taken over a lot of responsibilities. How would she feel if he went somewhere and she really didn't like how they both did it? I think you've got to --", "Hang on. Hang on. Let me say. He doesn't want to upset her. He married a woman of color.", "That's different.", "All I will say is on this question-- all I will say on this question of Meghan involving herself in --", "Look at the pictures.", "Hang on a second.", "Yes. But what I will say on this question of Meghan involving herself in policy issues or questions of policy, it is this, every time a member of the royal family has done so, it has usually ended badly. Because half the people won't agree with you. And they're the half of the people also paying for the royal family.", "Let's look back at Diana. Diana was revolutionary in her time.", "HIV/AIDS was --", "It did not matter. To heck with the royal family. She did her thing and became the love of the world. Adored by the world. But they did get divorced, but she made her mark. It did not change her.", "But let's watch this. I want to get back to you, Angela, about what you said was uncomfortable because I know you can channel the royal family. There was this moment, this passionate sermon from this American bishop, Michael Curry. Let's listen to this and watch some of the royal family reaction. OK, so you don't hear the sound, but you see the reaction. Anything we should take from their faces here, Angela, where the bishop was talking in this passionate way? It was unusual for a royal wedding.", "I thought Kate looked as if she was holding herself back. The queen, you could never tell, but she's got the most incredible mask. She doesn't believe in revealing emotions in public. It's all stiff upper lip and duty. I didn't mind that, actually. You might be surprised. I thought that that worked. And I think a bit of passion around religion is a good thing. I was very happy with that. And I thought it showed both their interests in doing this in sort of a religious way.", "I thought it was uncomfortable but spectacularly uncomfortable in a good way.", "That Don likes.", "You saw some emotion that we don't see from the royal family. Maybe put people on the edge and didn't know where he was going to go. I loved it.", "I want all of your thoughts. But Nick Watt was watching from his vantage point. Nick, what were your thoughts with the crowd?", "I'm going to agree with Angela. I thought the bishop was spectacular. But I'm going to strongly disagree with her. I thought the choir was fantastic. Something Bonnie Greer said immediately after the service that really struck me. She said, there are people in that chapel who will have never seen a service like this. And she is dead-on right. I mean, I grew up in the Anglican Church. I have sat through dozens and dozens of dry, dusty weddings. At school, I went to church every single day. This was next level. Somehow, they managed to make it personal, profound. Listen, there are maybe a billion people watching this on TV, but they still managed to steal those moments, the lifting of the veil, as we talked about, just little bits of eye contact, the smiles. It was amazing. It was inclusive. It was powerful. It was profound. And I think it may have changed some people's minds. Listen, I can, and I will speak for maybe a chunk of this country. I can be a bit of a cynical old goat sometimes when it comes to the royal family, but this -- I had a tear in my eye. On Twitter, some people I follow say, what, in 20 minutes, we've all become royalists? It's not that fast but it's the start, a change. It is a sign, I hope, we hope, of things to come. Back to you, guys.", "Now to another --", "-- G-O-A-T, Richard Quest. What did you think of the bishop and the royals -- I know you were studying their faces and body language.", "Oh, it was wonderful.", "Not the service, but their reaction.", "Look, you have to put it into context. He was wonderful. They were uncomfortable. But they knew what they were going to get. Having said that, it is not the bishop's job to make the queen uncomfortable at a wedding in her own chapel. But she wasn't uncomfortable. Others might have been, but that's because it's different. There's nothing wrong with being different. It wasn't so different as to be off the reservation, no. This was a warm, welcoming, loving address that added a different tone to the day.", "Well, my -- I love the stand by -- I loved the choir. I loved them singing \"Stand by Me.\" And they were standing by each other, holding each other's hands. It might not have been the right place/of venue --", "But not there.", "We've had black people in this country since the 11th century, since they built St. George's Chapel. When Catherine of Aragon came over to marry Henry VII, she brought black attendants with her, people of color with her. We should reflect that. England's culture, Britain's culture is about black culture just as much as the dry, dusty sermons Nick Watt was talking about. It was incredible sermon, to hear. The aristocracy did benefit from slavery. And to hear the bishop talk about resilience of faith and slavery in the chapel, to many people who had benefitted from slavery, that is, I think, an unforgettable moment. Historians of the future will write huge books about this.", "Yes.", "I often thought this particular rendition was particularly heart-rendering.", "Yes.", "There were the flourishes that they put in there and the sort of pace. This is when I was starting to well up.", "I liked it. It was a London-based choir singing this Ben E. King. We all think of the movie. There's this melding of British and Americanism in this one song, in this one piece.", "People who are not necessarily interested, especially in the United States, in the royal family, they think it's all about pageantry and don't get it, are really tuned into this. They're dialed in. And they're looking to the royal family now, hopefully, Meghan and Harry, to change things to be transformational, transitional. That's, again, my takeaway from today. But, listen, there's lots of light and love --", "Can I add something about that?", "Yes.", "The words \"Stand by Me\" does epitomize what they both needed --", "Yes.", "-- since childhood. I mean, he has gone through a great deal as --", "With his mother.", "But he hasn't had the support of somebody he met years ago at university, like William had with Kate. So he's really tried to do it on his own, Harry, and he's done it through his charities. It's been really hard for him. He mentioned he had mental health issues. And he's wanted someone who would stand by him.", "Previously, when he dated -- the women he dated before didn't necessarily want to be part of the royal family.", "They couldn't take --", "They couldn't take the spotlight.", "And Meghan is standing by him.", "She's standing by him. And I think she needs him to stand by her because she's only had one member of her family there. It's been a very difficult week with all the half-brothers and sisters and fathers and all those things. And if they found a patch where they feel they both found the person who would stand by them for the future -- I'm getting quite emotional.", "It's so beautiful.", "I think that that makes the song OK. I don't mean to be mean about it, but I think be they possibly thought through and they both need and have found, which is just amazing.", "What did you think of \"This Little Light of Mine,\" did you like it?", "I did like it.", "I like music we can all sing along to at weddings.", "I'm not sure if they can do that.", "And wasn't the cellist incredible? 19-year-old cellist who won the BBC music awards. 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{"id": "CNN-288342", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2016-07-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/06/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "FBI Director to Face Congress; Clinton Changing the Subject?", "utt": ["Happening now: Called to testify. The FBI director will face members of Congress tomorrow morning about a stunning rebuke of Hillary Clinton's e-mail practices and the decision not to recommend criminal charges. This hour, I will ask the Republican in charge of the hearing what he hopes to accomplish. Changing the subject. Hillary Clinton is staying silent about the results of the investigation for a second day. She's choosing instead to trash Donald Trump's business record. Can she continue to ignore the e-mail uproar? Attack and praise. Donald Trump is firing back at Clinton and seizing on the FBI's findings. Is his message being overshadowed by his surprising rant about Hussein, giving kudos to the Iraq dictator for killing terrorists? And deadly encounter. Another video surfaces of an African-American man shot and killed by police while pinned to the ground. Tonight, new details on the case in Baton Rouge, as federal authorities take over the investigation. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. We're following breaking news tonight. Another video surfaces of a fatal police video in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as the Justice Department opens a civil rights investigation. A 37-year-old African- American was repeatedly shot while pinned to the ground outside a convenience store. The new video obtained by CNN raises serious questions about whether Alton Sterling threatened police with a gun. Also this hour, new backlash over the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton's e-mails. The FBI director, James Comey, will testify before a House committee tomorrow about the decision not to recommend criminal charges. There's still no public comment from Hillary Clinton about the FBI probe or its finding that she was extremely careless in handling classified information. Clinton went to Atlantic City today to showcase Donald Trump's failed casino and multiple bankruptcies. Also tonight, Donald Trump is defending his business record and narrowing his vice presidential search. He's campaigning with potential V.P. choice Newt Gingrich, while another contender, Senator Bob Corker, has taken himself out of running. Our correspondents and analysts, they are also standing by with full coverage of the day's top stories. Up first, let's go to our senior Washington correspondent, Jeff Zeleny. He's in Atlantic City with more on the e-mail controversy. Jeff, Hillary Clinton, she seems determined to try to move on.", "Wolf, she is trying to press ahead to define and discredit Donald Trump. Today's installment came right here in Atlantic City, where she's trying to draw that narrative of a string of bankrupt businesses that he's had over the years. But as she was raising those questions, Republican on Capitol Hill have questions of their own. They will be asking them tomorrow about the private e-mail server when the FBI director returns to Capitol Hill.", "Hillary Clinton is trying to keep a laser focus on Donald Trump.", "Donald Trump says he's qualified to be president because of his business record.", "Visiting Atlantic City today, she hoped to spotlight the fallout from a string of his bankrupt businesses.", "What he did here in Atlantic City is exactly what he will do if he wins in November.", "But her trip was overshadowed by fallout of her own over the FBI investigation into her handling of classified e-mails. House Republicans are calling FBI Director James Comey to Capitol Hill on Thursday, asking why he recommended no charges be filed against Clinton, despite saying she was extremely careless with how she handled some of the nation's top secrets on her personal e-mail server.", "We have seen nothing but stonewalling and dishonesty from Secretary Clinton on this issue. And that means there's a lot more questions that need to be answered.", "Speaker Paul Ryan said Clinton and her advisers should not be allowed classified briefings during the campaign.", "Given how she so recklessly handled classified information.", "Republican Jason Chaffetz, who chairs the Oversight Committee, called the FBI recommendation surprising and confusing. He said: \"The fact pattern presented by Director Comey makes clear Secretary Clinton violated the law.\" Trump also seizing on Clinton's e-mail issues, but Republicans in Congress suddenly feeling less helpless in the campaign, finding a fresh way to take on Clinton. A senior Clinton adviser tells CNN the campaign welcomes the hearing, noting Democrats will also be able to question Comey about why he recommended no criminal charges. While Clinton ignored the controversy for a second straight day on the campaign trail, her previous explanations are now drawing new scrutiny.", "There is no classified material.", "Even if information is not marked classified in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.", "He said eight chains of e-mail contained top-secret information, the most sensitive classification. On the boardwalk today, Clinton was fixated only on Trump, standing beneath the blazing sun, just to show the shadows of the failed Trump Plaza.", "Donald Trump once predicted it will be the biggest hit yet. Now it's abandoned. You can just make out the word Trump where it used to be written in flashy lights. He had the letters taken down a few years ago, but his presence remains.", "Trump pushed back, defending his investment on the Jersey Shore. He tweeted: \"I made a lot of money in Atlantic City and left seven years ago. Great timing, as all know. Pols made big mistakes. Now many bankruptcies.\"", "Now, just a short time ago, Wolf, the attorney general has released statement saying she will accept the recommendation from the director of the FBI. Let me read you the statement, Wolf. It says: \"Late this afternoon, I met with the FBI director James Comey, and career prosecutors and agents who conducted the investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton's use of a personal e-mail system. I received and accepted their unanimous recommendation that the thorough, years-long investigation be closed and no charges be brought.\" Wolf, no surprise here. She already said she would accept this recommendation, but by the attorney general saying this, this puts at least one close on it, but tomorrow on Capitol Hill, House Republicans have so many more questions And, Wolf, one final political note, that Bernie Sanders-Hillary Clinton first joint meeting, it may be coming next Tuesday in New Hampshire. Early talks are under way from both sides to have a joint appearance next week. These details are still being worked out. But I'm told that could happen as early as next week, Wolf. But, tomorrow, all eyes on Capitol Hill -- Wolf.", "And didn't Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama eight years ago have their first big event in New Hampshire as well? You remember that, right?", "I do, Wolf. It was in the small town of Unity, New Hampshire, a very, very small town, picked for a symbolic reason for the word unity. But you have to wonder if the time for exact unity has passed a bit. She's already been out with Elizabeth Warren. Yesterday, of course, she was out with the president. On Friday, Hillary Clinton will be out with the vice president. Bernie Sanders hardly getting top billing here, but they are eager to get him on their side. And one concession that was made. The Clinton campaign agreed today to that essential free college plan that Bernie Sanders has been talking about for so long. The Clinton campaign has been giving some as well here. But they are eager to unify this party and start taking on Donald Trump -- Wolf.", "Getting back, Jeff, to the statement that was just released by the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, no charges will be brought against any individuals within the scope of the investigation, because, yesterday, we heard from FBI Director James Comey he was recommending no charges be brought against Hillary Clinton, but now she seems to be going one step further. None of Hillary Clinton's aides apparently will be charged as well, right?", "Which is important, because some of those top aides from the State Department, Jake Sullivan, Huma Abedin, of course, a longtime adviser, are key advisers in the presidential campaign as well, Wolf. That is absolutely significant going forward here. Speaker Paul Ryan said earlier today that he believes the campaign should not get classified briefings. Those will automatically happen once she becomes the formal nominee after the controversy in Philadelphia later this month here. But just because Speaker Ryan says so, that does not mean anything at all here. She will get the classified briefings. It's key that her aides will not be charged as well there. That's one thing that she was holding out hope for, Wolf.", "Donald Trump, once he's the official Republican presidential nominee, he will get daily intelligence briefings as well. The exact same information they provide to the Democratic nominee will be provided to the Republican nominee. That's the tradition once the conventions are over. Once again, the headline right now, Loretta Lynch, the attorney general, she has accepted the recommendations of her FBI director that no charges be filed against Hillary Clinton or anyone else involved in this year-long investigation. The statement also says, Jeff, it was a unanimous recommendation of these career professionals who conducted this investigation. This is a pretty significant statement from the attorney general.", "It's certainly is a significant statement. But I think it's just sort of amplifying what the director of the FBI said yesterday, when he said these career prosecutors, including himself, who of course is a Republican and served in the last Republican administration, that he reviewed this, he said the credibility of the FBI is on the line here. She certainly was just accepting his recommendation, as she said she would. Wolf, legally speaking, this is over. That's a relief for the campaign. But politically speaking, it's not over at all. Those harsh words from the FBI director yesterday which we will hear again tomorrow on Capitol Hill are going to reverberate and cause political issues. I have talked to several top Democrats aligned with the campaign and supportive of the campaign who say they were taken aback by this. They just assumed that there were not classified e-mails in there. And in fact there were. Wolf, politically, this is not over at all. But legally speaking, it is over. And that's certainly important -- Wolf.", "All right, Jeff Zeleny with the latest news, breaking some important news for us. Thank you very much. Let's bring in our political experts right now, get reaction. Our senior political correspondent, Brianna Keilar, is with us, our CNN correspondent Sunlen Serfaty, our CNN political director David Chalian, and our senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. Very significant statement, Jeffrey, from attorney general of the United States. Let me read it once again for our viewers to digest. \"Late this afternoon, I met with the FBI director James Comey, and career prosecutors and agents who conducted the investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton's use of a personal e-mail system. I received and accepted their unanimous recommendation that the thorough, years-long investigation be closed and no charges be brought.\" Legal, from the legal standpoint, it ends it.", "Absolutely. And I think it's also very significant that James Comey is the one who really led the charge in this direction. This is going to be widely perceived as a Comey decision, not a Loretta Lynch decision, which I think is fortunate for Hillary Clinton, because there were a lot of ties, including the now infamous airport tarmac meeting between Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton. But it was Bill Comey -- it was Director Comey, not Loretta Lynch, who really made the decision here. He has a lot more credibility on Capitol Hill, especially with Republicans. They may try to attack him, but he's going to be a difficult target tomorrow.", "From the standpoint of charges, it's over with, legal charges, David Chalian, but from the standpoint of politics, it's by no means over?", "No. It's going to be with us all the way through November. There's no around that for Hillary Clinton at this point. And, quite frankly, it's already taken a pound of flesh in politics terms out of her abilities to answer this question about trust, honesty. These are issues that she, herself, has acknowledged she has problems with. Listen, tomorrow not only will Republicans try to sort of press Comey on why no charges, how can you have this scathing attack on what she did, but no charges, but you're also going to have the Democrats, tomorrow, start to begin, because they're going to get to ask questions too, to try to provide some cover for Hillary Clinton and put into context from their perspective some of the questions that remains. None of that will solve the issue that Hillary Clinton is still going to have to speak about this at some point. She hasn't done so yet.", "She will at some point. Presumably, she's waiting until after this hearing. James Comey, the FBI director, will testify tomorrow before this House committee. He will be asked some pretty serious, pretty tough questions. Presumably, after that at some point, she is going to have to meet with a reporter or reporters and start answering some of these questions.", "Absolutely. Without a doubt. She's been deflecting questions on the campaign trial when yelled in a rope line situation, a more informal situation out on the campaign trail. But very clearly the Clinton campaign understands they are going to have to put her out in some sort of formal interview process where she can point by point start to deflect some of these questions in a formal way, start to answer some of the questions and pivot to move on. That's what they're hoping for.", "What are you hearing, Brianna?", "The thing is for Hillary Clinton, though, she can't really change -- I don't think we will hear some entirely different way she's addressing this, because the original sin of her e-mail controversy was that it was a move that avoided transparency. When people are asking why isn't she more transparent about this, she can't be and it's of her own creation. Right? She made this move and she said from the jump that this was about convenience. She's going to stick to that. She's going to say that this was a mistake. She's going to say that if she had it to do over, she would have done it differently. The strategy is going to be contrition. She also struggles with that at times. But we have seen recently that she is trying to explain herself more. She's trying to go, really just to greater lengths to do that. Maybe you will see more of that. But I don't think her explanation will be a whole bunch different than we have seen.", "Jeffrey, explain from a legal standpoint, because you keep hearing now Hillary Clinton's critics, Republicans, saying she should have been charged of what's called gross negligence.", "Right.", "The FBI director himself said she was extremely careless in handling sensitive classified information during her four years as secretary of state. What's the difference between extremely careless and gross negligence?", "It's very hard to define the difference. The short answer is gross negligence is worse. But these are distinctions, frankly, that even lawyers have a hard time understanding. I think the more important point that Director Comey made was that if you look at all the circumstances and if you look at the history of prosecutions under this statute, he said in effect that the only cases that had been brought under this law were situations when an individual intended to violate the law, not gross negligence cases, cases where people knew something was classified, gave it to people who were unauthorized to receive it. Also, he said that the classic case of prosecution here involves people who made false statements, who tried to cover up the fact that they were involved in wrongdoing. That's what happened in the David Petraeus case. David Petraeus initially lied to the FBI, which is a very different situation from Hillary Clinton's position. That's really...", "Does it make any difference if you made false statements to the FBI? That's clearly illegal, but David Petraeus, the then CIA director, did, talking about his particular case, as opposed to issuing false statements to the American public?", "As a legal matter, it's a huge difference. There's no criminal penalty for lying to the American public. Can you imagine how full the prisons would be of politicians?", "But it is a crime to lie to the FBI, as Martha Stewart learned and many others who lied to the FBI and went to jail.", "Don't lie to the FBI. That's a bottom line. All right, guys, stand by. We're continuing to follow the breaking news. Also the breaking news that Jeff Zeleny reporting, as early as next week, there might be that joint appearance, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, of all places. 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{"id": "CNN-259027", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-07-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/07/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Bill Cosby Admits Plant to Use Drugs to Get Sex; Final Senate Vote to Remove Flag in South Carolina", "utt": ["Hello, again. I'm Ana Cabrera in for Carol Costello. Thanks for being here on this Tuesday. First up, the Bill Cosby bombshell. The man who starred in that long running top TV series \"The Cosby Show\" admitting under oath that he acquired drugs to give to women with whom he wanted to have sex but he did not actually admit to drugging any of them. This all coming from newly revealed court documents from about 10 years ago when the comedian was facing a civil lawsuit for sexual assault. Since then more than 25 women have now publicly accused the 77-year-old of assault or rape, but the comedian has never faced criminal charges. He's strongly and repeatedly denied all the allegations. I spoke last hour to attorney Gloria Allred who represents more than a dozen Cosby accusers.", "I think it's very important because there have been many allegations that he used Quaaludes to drug women and then his words are to have sex with them. I would say if he's -- if he's using this as a plan, which is what is so startling about what he said, that he actually had a plan to do this with a number of women, if he's doing that, then that -- and then he has sex with them afterwards, that is rape. That is sexual assault.", "Well, Sara -- CNN's Sara Ganim, that is, joining me now with more. Sara, for months we've heard denials, denials, denials from his lawyers. They've even accused some of these women of lying but now an admission from Cosby. In his own words.", "This is the first time we're hearing any kind of his side of the story. Right? I mean, he's been denying for years, forget about months, you know, anything related to this. This is the first kind of admission of anything, and what he says basically is that he got ahold of Quaaludes, he's got a prescription for Quaaludes in the 1970s with the intention of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with. He says that he gave them to several people. He only actually admits giving them to one woman that he did have sex with. I want to show you some of this deposition. He's very careful and obviously specific with his words. I want to read some of it to you. He's asked this question, \"When you got the Quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these Quaaludes for young women that you wanted to have sex with? Cosby answering, yes. Then later on he talks about a time that he met a woman in Las Vegas, and he says she meets me backstage. I give her Quaaludes. We then have sex. Now, later on, Ana, he's asked this question which was a really important question in the context of these allegations of rape. He's asked, quote, \"Did you ever give any of those young women the Quaaludes without their knowledge?\" And before he answers, his lawyer jumps in, he objects, he interrupts, he does not allow Cosby to answer that question, which, of course, is so important in the context of all of this. You know, many of these women don't just say that they were allegedly assaulted by Cosby, they also say that they believe that they were drugged, that they remember him --", "So many with the same kind of story.", "Right. That they remember him making him or making them a drink, and then feeling incapacitated before they realized that they had been assaulted. Now Cosby's attorney is giving a statement. He gave it to ABC this morning. He said, quote, \"The only reason Mr. Cosby settled was because it would have been embarrassing in those days to put all of those women on the stand, and his family had no clue. That would have been very hurtful.\" So he seems to be, you can surmise from that, addressing this --", "Worried about his reputation.", "Well, addressing this -- well, addressing this and maybe, you know, he's admitting to having affairs with these women but not necessarily to any of the allegations against him. That's what you could potentially take from the statement, that he didn't want this to come out because he did fight it for many years. Remember, this is a 10-year-old lawsuit. He did fight to be the documents --", "Tried to keep the documents sealed.", "He wanted these to remain sealed.", "Settled.", "For a lot of time, and his lawyer is explaining that away this morning.", "All right, Sara Ganim, thanks for the update on this. And for many of Bill Cosby's accusers this news comes as vindication of sorts. More than 25 women, as we mentioned, have publicly accused the TV star of raping or assaulting them over a span of about 40 years. Now Kristina Ruehli is one of the 13 Jane Doe's in that civil lawsuit we mentioned from 10 years ago. But her story is one of the oldest allegations against the 77-year-old, dating all the way back to 1965. Christina is joining me now from Boston. Thanks so much for being with us, Christina. How are you feeling this morning?", "Pretty good and pretty relieved. Pretty relieved that this is finally coming forward.", "I know your story, as we mentioned, marks perhaps the earliest case of alleged sexual misconduct by Cosby that has been made public. Take us back to what happened to you. This was back in 1965, right?", "Yes, it is. I wasn't supposed to be there actually. Cosby invited an actress and some other people from the agency where I worked in the legal department, but the actress asked me to drive her there because there was something wrong with her car, and when we got there, there was no one there, but he certainly was not interested in me. I had a second drink that he fixed while I was looking away, and lights out. I can't remember anything other than that about four hours later when the sun was starting to come up I was lying in bed mostly naked with Cosby, and he was attempting to force me into oral sex. Fortunately, I got really sick, and I ran into the bathroom and threw up, and when I came out, he was gone. I guess a woman who has thrown up a lot has -- is not a good candidate for oral sex, but the other actress was still there, met me in the entryway, and we drove home in silence. I think both of us making the wrong assumption about the other because what happened while I was out for four hours? That's the question I have to the other woman.", "Wow. And you know what happened to you, but you don't know what happened to her at that time then.", "Right. But there was --", "You never talked about it.", "There was a four-hour gap. I told someone about this contemporaneously, a boyfriend that I had, and he still remembers my telling him about it, so there's actually something that I couldn't possibly have made up that far ago. The other thing is that Quaaludes hadn't been invented to the best of my knowledge, so he must have used some other drug on me, something that made me very sick, but I had no hangover the next day.", "Interesting. I know you did reach out to Constand's attorney back in 2005 after you learned about her story.", "Yes, I did.", "That's really when you came forward publicly, and now hearing this admission through the deposition that was part of these court documents, what goes through your mind?", "Well, I had a saying in the beginning of the interviewing when I came forward, which was that by his silence, Cosby has ceded his power to the press and to the media, and that turns out to have been pretty correct. I think that more will be coming forward. I think for one thing we haven't seen the full deposition, only the petition by the lawyer to force him to answer questions, so I am relieved that this may be the punch to the gut of this liar that may choke up other things to validate, to vindicate the stories of there are actually, if you're keeping a list, more than four dozen of us.", "Kristina Ruehli, we appreciate you sharing your story with us and for spending some time today with us. Thanks.", "Thank you.", "The third and final vote in South Carolina's Senate to remove the Confederate flag from state house grounds there is getting under way this hour, and in Monday's preliminary vote lawmakers chose very overwhelmingly to remove the flag. It was 37 who voted yes, three against it, but, remember, a two-thirds majority vote is still needed in both the Senate and the House to get this bill on Governor Nikki Haley's desk. And of course the House is the big question mark here. Last hour I spoke to South Carolina State Representative Jonathan Hill. He wants the flag to stay where it is.", "I think that it is appropriate and that it's very important that we remember our state's history precisely because there's much to learn about the value of life, both from how slaves were treated as well as all the lives that were lost in an unnecessary war.", "CNN's Nick Valencia is joining us live now in Columbia, South Carolina, with the latest there -- Nick.", "Good morning, Ana. A major hurdle overcome for opponents of Confederate flag, those who want to see it permanently removed from state capitol grounds as senators voted 37-3 in favor of removing it. Another special session expected today and in my conversation with senators, they believe they have enough votes to send this bill to the House. One of those lawmakers I spoke to, Senator Gerald Malloy, whose best friend was the late Senator Clementa Pinckney. Malloy spoke to me about how the murder of his best friend led to the debate that's happening right now.", "I think that if Senator Pinckney was here, you know, he would say in that great booming voice, well done, well done, and that he would be very hopeful. I had a quote yesterday that he said that life should be prosperous and it's our charge basically to make certain that we leave this world better than we found it, and I think that what we'd be able to say with him is that you leaving this state and this world is a better place, and the good news is that his legacy will continue to live on because we'll continue to end up talking about the impact that he had not only on his church and his family and those victims' families as being the shepherd, but also on all of us over in the Senate. And so what we've done is we've decided to hang his portrait in the Senate, which is very unique, not done very often, so his spirit and his face will live on in the Senate chambers.", "After this bill gets passed the Senate, it goes to the House where it will need a two-thirds majority vote in order to become official. What we're hearing from lawmakers is that a final vote could come as soon as Thursday or Friday -- Ana.", "All right. Nick Valencia reporting live in Columbia, South Carolina. Our thanks to you. And still to come here, in for the long haul. President Obama warns the fight against ISIS won't be over anytime soon, but is the president's strategy working? Why some say the U.S. is battling a game of whack-a-mole."], "speaker": ["ANA CABRERA, CNN ANCHOR", "GLORIA ALLRED, VICTIM'S RIGHTS ATTORNEY", "CABRERA", "SARA GANIM, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "GANIM", "CABRERA", "GANIM", "CABRERA", "GANIM", "CABRERA", "GANIM", "CABRERA", "KRISTINA RUEHLI, COSBY ACCUSER", "CABRERA", "RUEHLI", "CABRERA", "RUEHLI", "CABRERA", "RUEHLI", "CABRERA", "RUEHLI", "CABRERA", "RUEHLI", "CABRERA", "RUEHLI", "CABRERA", "REP. JONATHAN HILL (R), SOUTH CAROLINA", "CABRERA", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "GERALD MALLOY (D), SOUTH CAROLINA STATE SENATE", "VALENCIA", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-46288", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-12-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/27/lt.10.html", "summary": "Look at Some Results from CNN/'USA Today'/Gallup Poll", "utt": ["A CNN/\"USA Today\"/Gallup poll taken from December 14-16 shows Giuliani as the third most admired man in America, right after President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell, and that same Gallup poll shows that about 3/4 of Americans think it is OK for women to fly combat aircraft and to do submarine duty. About half think the ground troops should include women. Here is Gallup poll editor-in-chief Frank Newport.", "Yes, majority support in general for women in various combat roles, but interestingly not quite majority support for including women in a draft, if there is going to be another draft at some point in the future. Let's show you the data from our latest CNN/\"USA Today\"/Gallup poll. We asked about four specific types of combat roles. You can see the results here. Should women be allowed to be in these roles? Flying combat gets the highest support. Women do that currently. Women are not in submarines at this point. But 3/4 of Americans say they should be. Special forces, 63 percent. And ground combat troops, that last one there, just a bare majority, think women should be in combat on the ground. Now the draft -- there is no draft currently, at least no active draft. If there is one, should women be included as well as men. This goes back to 1979, when we asked that question after Vietnam was already over. You can see it was 43 percent then. The other times we asked it, it was above 50 percent a couple of times. Now most recently back down a little under a majority, 46 percent support. Are there differences between men and women in terms of the issue of whether women should be drafted? This is very interesting. Depending on where you come from the question, some suspect women should be higher in thinking women should be drafted, or really lower, but really there is no difference between men and women whatsoever, absolutely the same in terms of thinking women should be drafted along with men, if there is a draft. By the way, the highest opposition to women being drafted is among young people of both gender. It's way down just in the 30 percent range. They're most likely to be affected. They don't like the idea of anybody being drafted. That's an update for you on American public opinion in women in combat in the U.S. Military. Now back to you.", "Thank you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR", "FRANK NEWPORT, GALLUP POLL", "CALLAWAY"]}
{"id": "CNN-172857", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING: WAKE UP CALL", "date": "2011-9-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/23/amwc.01.html", "summary": "Solyndra Executives Won't Testify; Jaycee Dugard Sues Feds", "utt": ["Good morning. It's Friday, September 23rd. Did I say it's Friday? It's Friday, September 23rd. This is your A.M. WAKE-UP CALL. I'm Christine Romans in for Carol Costello. I join you live this morning from New York. It's about 31 minutes past the hour. The big story right now, the markets. Wow! It was a rough ride on Wall Street yesterday, a really bad couple of days. Let's go to Carter Evans live at the NASDAQ MarketSite for the latest. Futures stabilizing a little bit, though, this morning.", "Yes. Looking a little bit better. I remember, yesterday, we were both in the newsroom kind of shaking our heads looking at the market.", "Yes.", "It was a rough day yesterday, you know, not just here, but all around the world. We are seeing some recovery today. European markets are slightly higher right now. We don't really have any big economic reports here today. So, investors are going to be on their own, but it looks like they're going to spend the day breathing a sigh of relief, maybe, recovering a little bit.", "Yes. Couple of bad. Those two days -- the two-day loss on the Dow was the worst since 2008. You don't like to compare anything to 2008. Meanwhile, over at HP, some big changes over there this morning.", "Very big changes. There's a new CEO over there. Her name is Meg Whitman. You might recognize that. She was the CEO of eBay before. Now, listen, HP stock is down more than 46 percent this year. The board was not happy with its current -- with its CEO, Leo Apotheker. Basically, they decided to let him go yesterday. He made some big changes at HP. He ditched his tablet just months after it went to market. He suggested that HP get out of the PC business altogether. Basically, a lot of people weren't happy with that. And the chairman said on the conference call yesterday that the board considered many candidates and decided that, together, Whitman was the right fit. I don't feel too bad for Apotheker, though. He's taking home a $25 million severance check.", "$25 million severance check. All right. Carter Evans, we'll check with you again in a few minutes. Thank you, sir.", "Sure.", "When the Republican candidates weren't treating frontrunner, Rick Perry, like a political pinata at last night's debate, they offered up ideas on how to fix the economy and deal with taxes. Listen.", "You should get to keep every dollar that you earn. That's your money. That's not the government's money.", "The people that have been hurt most by the president's economy, the Obama economy, is the middle class. That's why I cut taxes for the middle class.", "To lower that tax burden on the small businessmen and women.", "Nine percent business flat tax, nine percent personal income tax, and then nine percent national sales tax.", "We're not going to raise taxes. This is the worst time to be raising taxes, and everybody knows that. We need to grow.", "The fair tax which would absolutely reboot the American economy because it does away with the corporate tax to create tens of millions of jobs.", "Obama's socialist policies, class warfare, and bureaucratic socialism, we created zero in August. I believe, with leadership, we can balance the budget.", "We've seen these battles on the state level where unions have really bankrupted states from pension plans to here on the federal level.", "You have to deal with the Federal Reserve system, you have to deal with free markets, and you have to deal with the tax program and the regulatory system.", "That was the third Republican presidential debate in as many weeks. The next one is set for October 11th in New Hampshire. Top executives of the failed solar power company, Solyndra, will not be testifying before Congress today. They plan to plead the fifth. The justice department is investigating the government's backing of this failed company. Solyndra declared bankruptcy last month after it received a $535 million federal loan guarantee back in 2009. Kidnap victim, Jaycee Dugard, is suing the U.S. government, blasting what she calls an inexcusable lack of supervision of her captor, a convicted rapist who was out on parole. Phillip Garrido abducted Dugard in 1991 in front of her home, holding her captive in a California backyard then for 18 years. The complaint accuses the government of gross neglect in failing to properly track Garrido. He was under the federal government's watch until 1999 when California took over. California has already settled with Dugard for $20 million. We may learn more today about that deadly air race crash in Reno, Nevada last Friday. The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to release a preliminary report into that dramatic crash which was caught on tape. Eleven people died when the plane nosedived into the crowd. 28,000 students in Washington state head back to class today. Their teachers have voted to end an eight-day strike. They were picketing over class size, teacher pay, and educator transfers, but they've reached a tentative agreement with the Tacoma School District, one that leaves class size and teacher pay alone and will let a joint committee decide which educators end up at which schools. President Obama is offering up ways for states to work around no child left behind. Today, he's expected to announce opt-out for some of the toughest parts of the federal education law, but in return, states have to adopt some of the president's own education agenda and show that they're committed to closing achievement gaps in American public schools. Yemen's president returns from Saudi Arabia to a cheering crowd of thousands, but protesters have been working for months to oust him. We'll get the latest developments just ahead."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "CARTER EVANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "EVANS", "ROMANS", "EVANS", "ROMANS", "EVANS", "ROMANS", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-322610", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-10-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/03/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Trump to Arrive in Puerto Rico; National Guard Distributes Aid in Puerto Rico", "utt": ["All right. This just in. CNN has learned the mayor of San Juan will attend a briefing with President Trump today during his visit to Puerto Rico. The two, of course, have not been on the same page. They have traded barbs over and over again, over the mayor's criticism of the storm response and the president's criticism of her.", "Yes. This should be an interesting meeting to say the least. President Trump lands in San Juan to survey the damage on the island. As he left the White House this morning he was asked about the relief effort.", "In Texas and in Florida, we get an A-plus. And I'll tell you what I think we've done just as good in Puerto Rico and it's actually a much tougher situation. But now the roads are cleared, communication is starting to come back. We need their truck drivers there. Drivers have to start driving trucks. We have to do that. So at a local level they have to give us more help. But I will tell you the first responders, the military, FEMA, they have done an incredible job in Puerto Rico. And whether it's her or anybody else, they're all starting to say it. I appreciate very much the governor and his comments. He has said we have done an incredible job. And that's the truth.", "All right. CNN's Sara Murray in San Juan at the airport where the president will arrive shortly. Sara, what exactly is on the agenda today?", "Well, look, we are expecting him to arrive, we're expecting him to meet not far from here with the Puerto Rican National Guard to get an update on their efforts. As you mentioned, he will have a briefing with the mayor of San Juan but a number of other officials on the ground here as well. The governor of Puerto Rico who gave an extensive briefing to reporters earlier today as well as the three-star general who's been leading disaster relief efforts here, and Brock Long, the FEMA administrator, who has been on the ground since yesterday evening, is also expected to be traveling with the president and briefing him today. Their goal, of course, is to give him a sense of the situation on the ground here. What the president is likely to see is San Juan. This is a place where cell phones are working again, where the power is coming on, where restaurants have been opening. It is vastly different than what we are seeing play out across the rest of the island. Just 5 percent of Puerto Ricans have power here. About 40 percent have access to a cell phone signal and about half have access to clean water. So there are huge swaths of this population that are still entirely cut off from the basic necessities of life. And when we were speaking to the governor of Puerto Rico earlier today he was saying he's actually printing out photos of the devastation across the island to try to give President Trump a more accurate picture of just the magnitude of the devastation on a personal level and on a humanitarian level. I think that's what local officials want to leave the president with and certainly they're planning on asking him for a very significant aid package in the near future here and they're trying to justify to him why that is necessary. For Trump, of course, this is going to be yet another test of him as comforter-in-chief. What he says to Puerto Ricans here. He's expected to meet with survivors. We're still waiting for more details on where that will be and who those folks will be. Back to you.", "And it'll be a test of civility between the president and the mayor of San Juan also.", "Yes. Yes.", "As they're in that meeting. Sara Murray, for us in San Juan.", "Thank you.", "As you heard the president giving himself and the administration high marks for the response in Puerto Rico. What matters, though, is the reality on the ground. You can see the naval ship Comfort which has arrived in Puerto Rico today to start delivering medical supplies. Let's again talk about the reality in Puerto Rico. CNN's Leyla Santiago has been there since before the storm hit. Leyla, what are you seeing today?", "Well, we're actually in a distribution center right now in", "Now, on the move, help two weeks after Hurricane Maria. (", "So these are meals that are now being handed over from the federal government, FEMA, into the hands of the Puerto Rican National Guard. They are now on their way to remote areas on the western part of the island to get to the people that need it most. (", "After an hour and a half following the convoy, one truck veers off to Guayanilla, still bearing the scars of Maria in southwest Puerto Rico. Badly-needed water, food. It's the first time the National Guard has delivered aid straight from FEMA here according to town officials. But it's not all for here. The rest goes down the road to another community in need. The vice mayor in this town of more than 20,000 admits the lines are getting longer. (", "I'm asking him if this is enough.", "No.", "Frustration is growing.", "There are people here who need other people. Please do something.", "Is the government doing enough?", "Not enough. Let's be real. If this would have been the United States, none of this would have been happening. A lot of people have found --", "But this is the United States.", "Well, that -- no, a lot of people don't know that this is the United States and they don't treat it like the United States.", "The food sent by the U.S. government barely makes a meal. (", "There are 20 of these in one of these boxes. They are an emergency meal. And each one has crackers, raisins, granola and some Vienna sausage for these people to take home. (", "Less than an hour later, the announcement comes. There is no more food. (", "She says she's sad that there's no food left, but at least there's water that she can get now for later. (voice-over): Federal help is arriving, but it's not nearly enough for everyone in need. Here in Guayanilla, the wait continues now for more water, more food, and more help from FEMA.", "And just to give you a better idea as to how desperate they are becoming, the packages of water actually arrived when we were there, 32 bottles of water. The officials were actually cutting it in half so that they could reach more homes and distributing half to each person. And I've got to tell you about an exchange that I've just had just in the last 10 minutes. I spoke to the mayor of this town and he was holding back tears, holding back tears, as he told me from above, from the federal level, it may look like a lot is being accomplished, especially when stuff like this is getting out. But he is seeing people day to day, and he's saying the desperation is getting out of hand. I mean he told me yesterday, he had to deal with a gentleman who was about to commit suicide. I spoke to a doctor that was right next to him who told me that one of his patients is now eating dog food, eating dog food, patients eating dog food in a clinic. So on the ground, yes, FEMA, I'm seeing more of it. I'm seeing more of the aid. But there is still so much more that is needed when you just talk to people here.", "And Leyla, quickly before we go, first of all, thank you for bringing us this day in and day out and with the weeks you've been there. But it sounds like the president is not going to go far outside of San Juan that we know of. Is that a concern among people there? Do they want the president much further out seeing what's going on in those parts of the island that have a lot less help?", "Actually I just asked the mayor here that. I said, hey, you know, do you feel that the president is going to get an accurate reflection of what's going on and that was his concern. I mean he's worried that the president is not going to see the urgent need. When I asked him what's the message that you would give him he said this is urgent. People need help. And certainly on the other parts of the island, they're not even able to communicate. So, of course, people are worried that that may be a problem.", "OK. Leyla Santiago, again, thank you for your reporting, very, very much. Ahead for us, in the grips of unimaginable horror, in Las Vegas, our next guest says he saw humanity."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "BERMAN", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BERMAN", "SARA MURRAY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "HARLOW", "BERMAN", "HARLOW", "BERMAN", "LEYLA SANTIAGO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SANTIAGO (voice-over)", "On camera)", "Voice-over)", "On camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SANTIAGO (voice-over)", "GUSTAVO ADOLFO VEGA, RESIDENT OF GUAYANILLA AND VIETNAM WAR VETERAN", "SANTIAGO (on camera)", "LIZA MINNELLI PACHECO, PUERTO RICAN LIVING IN TAMPA, FLORIDA", "SANTIAGO", "PACHECO", "SANTIAGO (voice-over)", "On camera)", "Voice-over)", "On camera)", "SANTIAGO", "HARLOW", "SANTIAGO", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-39889", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-9-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/18/lt.01.html", "summary": "America's New War: Erakat's View on So-Called 'Cease-Fire'", "utt": ["We are going to focus back in on the Middle East once again. We have been reporting for the last hour or so the Israeli defense ministers said Tuesday that Israel was canceling all offensive operations against the Palestinians after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat reaffirmed his determination to honor a cease-fire. Joining me now on the telephone is Saeb Erakat, who is the chief Palestinian negotiator in Jericho. Thank you, sir, for joining us. I just got off the phone with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. He called Mr. Arafat's statement a very important one. He also said the two of them will sit down together. He could not name the exact location, but sometime in the next several days to negotiate. What realistically can you expect to come out of those talks?", "I think it's very significant what we heard from President Arafat today. I think it's very significant that President Arafat and Mr. Peres move ahead to meet and start putting the mechanisms of implementation to the Mitchell recommendations and to the Tenet plan. I think the next step is for the United States to send an emissary immediately, because the trust between the two sides is not what we hope it to be. I hope this can be done immediately, because both constituencies, Palestinians and Israelis, want to see these on the ground. I would like to add that the significant thing that President Arafat said yesterday, aside from extending his condolences and sympathies to the American people and the American president, is he said that he puts all his humble capabilities -- the Palestinian humble capabilities under the service of the U.S. president in the fight against terror. I think we have a very significant development here. I hope that the Israelis will move ahead to start lifting the closure and the siege and to take steps by stopping the bombardment of our cities and towns. There are 3.2 million Palestinians who are literally suffocating now. The most important thing is to provide a road map for the implementation of Mitchell, to provide monitors and observers who will follow-up the implementation, and above all I hope after President Arafat's (inaudible) meeting, that Undersecretary William Burns or somebody else from the American administration, the European will come immediately in order to broker the required steps to be taken in the near future.", "All right. You call for the need for an emissary. Who would you like to be the emissary?", "Well, I think we have seen here working with us, Secretary Powell and then Undersecretary William Burns. I think at this stage, we really do understand the importance of the needed step to be followed, in terms of implementing on the ground the Mitchell recommendation and the Tenet plan and to provide observers. And I hope that Undersecretary William Burns can come immediately, along with the Europeans, because of the (inaudible) of the trust level between the two sides is below zero. And what's needed now is to regain this confidence. What's needed now is to focus and not to lose sight of the significant opportunity, the promise that was presented by President Arafat today. And I hope that this will happen immediately, because at the end of the day, Israelis and Palestinians will judge on what they see on the ground and not from statements here and there.", "All right. If you would, sir, I'd like you to clarify part of Mr. Arafat's statement when he urged Palestinians to exercise maximum self-restraint in the face of what he called Israeli aggression and attacks. Does that mean Palestinian troops will not fire back if the Israeli troops fire on them?", "Paula, we're a people with no tanks, with no army, with no navy. As you're talking to me now, the city of Hebron in the south of the West Bank is being bombarded by the Israelis, heavy bombardment. And we urge, I really urge the Israeli side to stop this. I really urge them to come back to the negotiating table without any conditions. I really urge them to give a chance to what President Arafat declared and to what Mr. Peres described as a statement of leadership. What we need to see now is the implementation of the Mitchell recommendations and observers on the ground immediately.", "All right, sir, but you still didn't answer my questions. Are you telling me that Palestinians are being instructed, is that the understanding of the statement, not to fire back under any circumstances if they endure what you call Israeli aggression?", "Absolutely, Madam. I think, Paula, President Arafat's statement was very clear. He called on the Palestinians, even under attack, not to respond, to give the peace process a chance. And we really urge the Israelis to do the same, to declare to their soldiers to stop that and to start lifting the closure and the siege, and to put the Mitchell recommendations into implementation.", "All right. Mr. Peres just told me, quote, \"I think that there already is a cease-fire. That means no bullets, no bombs, no mortars. I will be careful with my tone, but it looks like it's taking place in reality. Two people will be entering a new age and we will start to negotiate.\" Do you trust the Israeli government at this point?", "Well, I want to trust the Israeli government at this point. I urged Mr. Sharon, who vetoed the meeting between President Arafat and Mr. Peres two days ago, to send Mr. Peres immediately to meet President Arafat. I really urge the Americans to send somebody in order to start putting the mechanisms of implementation on the ground. Because the cease-fire, you know, any Israeli, any Palestinian can undermine this effort, it's a very fragile situation, and we really need all the help we can get. And I think the first step after President Arafat meets Peres is to see an American, European emissaries working on the roadmap, the time line, the mechanisms of implementation to Mitchell recommendations and the tenet plan, and above all, to have observers to follow up and monitor the situation on the ground.", "Is Mr. Arafat at this hour in control of every one of the security commanders in every village, as he said in his statement?", "Paula, I think President Arafat is in as much control as any other president in the world. The situation of the Palestinians is extremely difficult. We have been living under total suffocation. When I describe to you that we cannot even walk between a Palestinian city and a town and the village, it is total closure, total siege. So we need to start coming back to reality of lifting these pains and this suffering of the Palestinian people under the Israeli occupation. And I hope that the Israeli government will come immediately to the negotiating table, immediately with no conditions, in order to start the process of reconciliation, the process of implementation of the Mitchell recommendation and the Tenet plan.", "Saeb Erakat, thank you very much for joining us so quickly after these new developments broke in the Middle East. We appreciate your time, sir. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAUN, CNN ANCHOR", "SAEB ERAKAT, CHIEF PALESTINIAN NEGOTIATOR", "ZAHN", "ERAKAT", "ZAHN", "ERAKAT", "ZAHN", "ERAKAT", "ZAHN", "ERAKAT", "ZAHN", "ERAKAT", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-233833", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2014-07-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/02/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Homeland Security Announced New Airport Security Measures; Tropical Storm Arthur Threatens Carolina Coasts", "utt": ["Welcome back. I'm Jim Sciutto, reporting from Washington. Wolf Blitzer is off today. We have breaking news out of the Department of Homeland Security concerning passenger screening at airports. We've just learned the Department of Homeland Security could announce new airport security measures as soon as today due to increased concern that terrorists are developing explosives designed to avoid detection by current security screening. We're told these would apply to airports in Europe, in the Middle East, elsewhere around the world, that are not up to this current threat. I'm going to bring in our justice reporter, Evan Perez, to talk more about this. This is a story you and I have been looking into for some time. How severe do we think this threat is, one? And two, how much of a change will it be for screening measures?", "Well, they're talking about additional screenings at these airports in the Middle East, and especially the Middle East and Europe. The concern is really AQAP, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as you know, Jim.", "And their famous bomb maker.", "And their famous bomb maker. And they basically been working on new bomb designs, the U.S. believes, and according to intelligence. They believe these bomb designs are possibly able to evade detection. So out of an abundance of caution, they're going to increase screenings at these airports. Now, this is not going to effect what passengers are able to bring on board their flights. But this is just something they want to do. Jim, talking to your sources, I'm sure, this is a big security threat, you know, and they know that these guys are working to -- changing their bomb designs to be able to defeat the procedures that are already in place. So they're trying to make sure they can counteract that.", "The concerns are direct flights to the U.S. The security in the U.S. only as good as the security at those airports. Mideast, Europe even, as well.", "That's right. These are airports that I think, you know, raise particular concerns because they believe these are the likely places where these threats could come from.", "I know you and I have talked about this. They know they're constantly trying to get past security measures. They know what the measures are. I'm sure they tested them out.", "Right. Right.", "How confident do you think DHS, the other counter-terror agencies are that the changes they make can counter the changes that we know the terrorists always make. This is a running battle they have to fight.", "This is a running battle. The thing is, you want to make these security measures strong enough to be able to deter, obviously, the terrorists. At the same time, you want to bring comfort and you don't want to cause too much disruption, prevent people from taking flight. It's a balancing act. They're really -- they're trying to strike here.", "No question. They always say it's measures you can see, measures you can't see.", "That's right. Right.", "All right, thanks very much, Evan Perez, our justice reporter. New changes, security measures to come. As we head into the busiest travel weekend of the summer, a major storm is threatening to make a mess the July 4th holiday for millions of people along the east coast. Tropical Storm Arthur, the first named storm of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, is churning off the coast of Florida now, and it's expected to bring heavy and fierce wind to the Carolina coast tomorrow. It could grow that a category 1 hurricane. That will likely happen, we're told, tomorrow. Wilmington, North Carolina to Nags Head will likely see the worst of the storm, including damaging wave, and dangerous riptides for swimmers. Officials in North Carolina are busy preparing for this storm and warning residents of the potential dangers. Joining us live from Kill Devil Hills on the Outer Banks, right in the cross hairs, we have Warren Judge, the chairman of the Dare County Board of Commissioners. Now, as you see it coming your way what are the biggest concerns about this storm?", "Our biggest concerns, Jim, are the road conditions on Hatteras Island.", "Now, so what do you tell people to prepare? I imagine, you're telling them, as the storm gets worse, stay off those roads.", "Well, we ask everybody, visitors and residents alike, to stay tuned to all of our news outlets here in the county, the county website. We have direct e-mail responses to any your inquiries. Telephone bank, newspapers. The local newspapers cover us, the radio stations. We ask everybody to get themselves -- to make themselves aware of what's going on, to listen to reports, and to stand by for instructions from us. Right now, residents and people's businesses -- we ask people to put up loose items and begin to prepare for the high winds that will reach us along around midnight thursday night. But today, we want everybody to enjoy themselves, have a good time, but keep an eye and an ear open as things develop. We have great means of getting information out, but we also need the folks to pay attention and to follow the advice of the emergency operations center.", "I always know it's a tough balancing act for you, because, on the one hand, you want people to be prepared. You want to prevent damage and injury. On the other hand, you want people to enjoy the weekend as best they can. How do you manage that now? Is it really just about giving the latest best information up to the minute? Is that how you get the word out?", "Absolutely. Our county manager and his team are well trained, experienced people that are taking care of all the mechanics behind the scenes. We have a dedicated top-notch public information officer who takes all of that information and gets it out to the public. We ask the people to do two things. One, to enjoy themselves, but more importantly, to be safe. And to listen to the warnings and to follow all of the instructions that will come over the next couple of days.", "All right, well, good luck to you. I know you've got a tough job in the next couple of days. Thanks very much to Warren Judge, Dare County Board of Commissioners.", "Thanks very much, Jim.", "Coming up next, Israeli police investigate the killing of a Palestinian teenager. Was it revenge for the deaths of three Israelis? We'll discuss what this all means for an already tense region. Later, the new \"secretary of defense,\" Goalie Tim Howard, comes out on top, even if the U.S. team didn't."], "speaker": ["JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR", "EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "SCIUTTO", "PEREZ", "SCIUTTO", "PEREZ", "SCIUTTO", "PEREZ", "SCIUTTO", "PEREZ", "SCIUTTO", "PEREZ", "SCIUTTO", "WARREN JUDGE, CHAIRMAN, DARE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS", "SCIUTTO", "JUDGE", "SCIUTTO", "JUDGE", "SCIUTTO", "JUDGE", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "NPR-21653", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2015-06-23", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/06/23/416736897/the-long-and-divisive-history-of-the-confederate-flag", "title": "The Long And Divisive History Of The Confederate Flag", "summary": "Renee Montagne talks to historian John Coski of the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va., about the history of the Confederate battle flag, and why it symbolizes so many different things.", "utt": ["A hundred and fifty years after the end of the Civil War, the Confederate battle flag is displayed widely in the American South, but it could soon come down from in front of South Carolina's state capital. In the wake of the killings at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, the state's Republican governor and its U.S. senators stood with a bipartisan group of other elected officials yesterday to call for the flag to be removed just over 50 years since it first was placed on top of the Capitol dome. That was in 1962 as a celebration of the centennial of the Civil War and as the civil rights movement was peaking. The symbolism of the flag has evolved over many years. To talk more about that, we reached historian John Coski. He's the author of \"The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem.\" Welcome.", "Thank you for having me on.", "What was the significance of the flag before the Dixiecrats, the southern party that was against integration, adopted it in 1948?", "From the end of the war until 1948, the flag was primarily used by Confederate heritage groups. To them it was a memorial of the Confederate's heroes and its debt.", "So there is some truth in this argument by defenders of the flag that it's a symbol of their heritage not primarily a racial division. I - there's an expression that gets used - heritage not hate.", "Exactly. That's the bumper sticker shorthand. And, yes, there's of course this truth to it, and it has retained that meaning even as it's acquired new ones.", "And among the meanings, it's acquired some new flags around it. Dylann Roof, in presenting himself as a white supremacist, he's posted pictures of himself with the Confederate flag, but also with the flags of former repressive white regimes in Africa - in former Rhodesia in South Africa. So in that context it does mean primarily white supremacy.", "Certainly in that young man's mind it seems to mean that, those associations. But just as in the civil rights era when people used the flag apparently as a symbol of segregation - and whether their motivation was states' rights and constitutional liberties or racism, the result was always the same. They were using it as a symbol of defiance to the federal government and in the face of African Americans marching for civil rights. So what were they to think when they saw the flag except that it was being used in the hands of people who at the very least wanted to deny them their rights?", "Why do you think it persists?", "Well, when faced with accusations that they are racist because some other people perceive the flag as racist, the people who don't push back. It's not a racist flag to me, they will argue, because - and therefore it's not a racist flag.", "Well, do you think now that there's a call from officials in South Carolina to take it down - also in Mississippi the speaker of the Statehouse is calling for the Confederate flag that's embedded in the Mississippi state flag to be removed. Walmart says it will no longer sell merchandise displaying the flag. Do you think this will change attitudes about the flag in places where it's still looked upon with pride?", "I don't - well, it will not change attitudes of those who look upon it with pride as a rule. I mean, there's - I think you have a strong core group of people who believe that it means pride and heritage and ancestry and is a memorial who will never waver from that because that's what it means to them, and I think there will be some degree of pushback from them - the people who were sort of the fence sitters, if you will, the people who have some Confederate ancestry may. It may change their attitudes. But really, the question of where it is on the landscape, where it's available for sale or where it's being placed and where it's allowed on the landscape - that is one of the questions for the last half-a-century or more that has been - has changed over time, and it continues to evolve as we collectively sort of deal with this question of what belongs on our symbolic landscape and how and who decides that.", "John Coski is a historian with the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va. Thanks very much for joining us.", "Thank you for having me on."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "JOHN COSKI", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "JOHN COSKI", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "JOHN COSKI", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "JOHN COSKI", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "JOHN COSKI", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "JOHN COSKI", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "JOHN COSKI"]}
{"id": "CNN-52751", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-4-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0204/19/ltm.08.html", "summary": "Amtrak Train Jumps Tracks, Four Killed", "utt": ["Now, on today's other top story. At least four people are dead after an Amtrak train derailed in northeastern Florida yesterday. Many of the passengers were trapped inside the wreckage for hours and scores were injured. And the 41-car auto train was bound for Virginia, when all but six cars jumped the track in Putnam County, Florida. Amtrak is still investigating the accident, and CNN's Mark Potter is on the scene. He joins us live with the very latest -- good morning, Mark.", "Good morning, Paula. Indeed, investigators are here now. The federal investigators arrived here a couple of hours ago. They are trying to figure out why this derailment occurred. We are told that they do not know yet, but there are some interesting facts that have come out so far. One, we were told, that yesterday morning, the officials who own the track actually inspected this area and found it to be OK, and this was hours before the derailment occurred. And most interestingly, the Florida Highway Patrol says that right before the derailment occurred, the engineer of this train performed a full emergency stop. In other words, he hit the brakes. We don't know why that occurred, but he is OK, we are told, and will be talking to investigators and maybe that information will come out later. Now, behind me, you can see the very dramatic scene here. This is the back end of the derailment area. The 14 cars derailed, and the bad news is that almost all of them were passenger cars filled with people. These are the diners, the sleepers, the coach cars, and they were filled with passengers, many of them elderly. And it was a terrible scene. The Amtrak numbers right now say about 453 people were aboard, 28 crewmembers, and as you said, the number now for those killed is four. There was some controversy about that. There was confusion about that, the number six overnight, but now we are told by the Florida Highway Patrol that that number is four; about 130 people injured and taken to area hospitals. The rest of the people were taken to a high school to be cared for, and then put in hotels. This was a major rescue effort. It ended at about sundown, and so now we are into the investigation trying to figure out why this very dramatic and tragic and deadly accident occurred -- Paula, back to you.", "All right. Thanks, Mark -- appreciate that live update. Let's turn to Jack now for more on this story.", "All right, Paula, thanks. The train is one of those that make a run between Orlando and Washington, D.C., and it's the kind that you can put your automobile on. So it's heavily used by families that go back and forth between Disney World and the tourist sites in Washington, D.C. And so, it's not unusual, although it might in this case be just a little early in the school year, but it's not unusual to have a lot of kids aboard this particular train as it makes that run to Disney World, you know, family attractions. Joining us from the scene of the crash, Lieutenant William Leeper, the Florida Highway Patrol -- Lieutenant, good morning -- nice to have you with us.", "Good morning.", "Can you describe what you were confronted with? You were one of the early people on the scene there. Give us a sense of what it was like walking into the middle of this thing.", "Well, you can imagine the mass confusion that took place after the derailment, a lot of people coming to rescue, a lot of agencies involved in the rescue effort from the surrounding counties. A lot of coordination had to take place, and everything ran smoothly. People remained calm, and everything went well.", "What's priority one when you come upon a disaster of this magnitude? I mean, how do you begin to get your arms around it?", "Of course, number one, you've got to take care of the injured first, and then preserve the scene and start your investigation to determine why it happened. We did that, preserved everything. NTSB has arrived, starting their investigation. So once that gets completed, then we can begin to remove the wreckage.", "Were there a lot of kids aboard this train?", "There were some children on the train. Most of the passengers were elderly. However, there were some small children and about three infants on board.", "How many people were trapped in these cars? Almost all of the cars went off the tracks and 14 of them actually tipped over. So you must have had a lot of people trapped inside them. There must have been a sense of panic among some of those who couldn't get out perhaps?", "Well, 14 of the cars derailed. Some of those got out, some of them were actually ejected out, and some had to be helped out of the cars that were overturned. So it was a very good rescue effort as far as those that got out in a timely fashion, orderly fashion, and not a lot of confusion took place at that time.", "How heavily populated is the Putnam County area where this happened? And I asked that question in the sense to what degree were the resources necessary to handle this available? How much did this tax the law enforcement, the rescue, the fire, the ambulance people who had to respond to this thing?", "Well, it's a rural area where the crash occurred. Government officials in this general area got on the scene very quickly. However, they had to call for help from surrounding counties, which it took a while for them to get here. But all of the surrounding areas pitched in, helped out, and it all went well.", "I assume this route is closed. Has anybody told you, or do you have any indication of how soon this wreckage will be removed and this run reopened to traffic?", "As soon as NTSB concludes their investigation, we'll get some cranes in to remove the cars that have been overturned, maybe look for other bodies. Hopefully, we won't find any. And then remove those cars and get the track opened.", "All right. Lieutenant, appreciate you being with us -- thanks very much. Lieutenant William Leeper of the Florida State Police -- thank you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "MARK POTTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ZAHN", "JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR", "LT. 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{"id": "NPR-22077", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2015-04-30", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/04/30/403231763/will-big-screen-movies-turn-astronauts-into-couch-potatoes", "title": "Will Big-Screen Movies Turn Astronauts Into Couch Potatoes?", "summary": "The International Space Station crew took delivery of a projection screen that measures 65 inches. It's supposed to be for video conferences only, but the other day the crew watched the movie Gravity.", "utt": ["Good morning, I'm Steve Inskeep. The crew of the International Space Station improved their entertainment options. The crew took delivery on a projection screen that measures 65 inches. Granted, many homes have TVs even bigger. But it's better than watching movies on a laptop. The screen is supposed to be used for video conferences but not only for that. The other day, the crew watched the movie \"Gravity,\" about spacewalkers desperately trying to survive in orbit. It's MORNING EDITION."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-381642", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2019-09-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/30/ath.02.html", "summary": "Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) discusses the Ukraine/Whistleblower controversy and Trump Impeachment", "utt": ["But I think, with the latest scandal, with this betrayal of his office, this gross abuse of power that involves our national security, you should see some cracks emerging in that cult of Trumpism.", "When do you think we'll see those cracks?", "Well, you quoted Adam Kinzinger just this morning. And we heard from Mitt Romney and we heard from Ben Sasse. I think a growing number of Republicans are going to be willing -- especially as the public starts to tune in and express its displeasure with the president -- I think a growing number of Republicans will be willing to part ways with the president.", "The White House we've seen ignore subpoenas before. Do you believe it will be any different this time?", "It is one of the advantages to be a clear impeachment posture because as they defy Congress, as they show their contempt for Congress, it simply adds to the count potentially of the articles of impeachment. That's a different place than we have been in the past.", "You said the facts are already in a large extent before us. Personally, what else do you need to learn and who do you need to hear from, or do you have anything you need today when it comes to impeachment?", "I think we have the basic elements of a clear impeachable offense. This president betrayed his oath of office, abused his power in the worst possible way in this Ukrainian scandal by urging a foreign leader to meddle in our election, to dig up dirt on his political opponent. It is directly against our national security interests. Those elements are clearly met. But we've still got to draw forward with the specific facts. That'll happen through hearings and first- person witnesses that'll be compelling in the days ahead. We'll see where this goes. I do believe that the elements and the facts are there to support the articles of impeachment.", "You are not on one of the committees investigating the president. But you're on two committees with major agenda items, infrastructure, climate crisis.", "Yes.", "The president has said this is all a distraction, this is going to keep a lot of that work from getting done. Can you get anything else done with impeachment as a focus?", "We can and we will. This House has already acted on just about all the elements \"For the People\" agenda. We have delivered legislation to the Senate on even something that previously have been hard to address, gun violence reform. We have addressed prescription drug pricing. We'll see a major bill on prescription drug prices is the days ahead. We are working hard on that. We are working hard on infrastructure, if we can get the president to agree with us on the pay-for and other elements of an infrastructure package. We have the opportunity to deliver that for the American people. There's going to be a lot of work going into delivering on that agenda. But we can do two things at once and I think we will.", "Congressman Jared Huffman, appreciate the time today. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Coming up, President Trump ramping up his attacks on the whistleblower as Congress gets closer to hearing directly from that person. A veteran intelligence official joins us to respond next."], "speaker": ["REP. JARED HUFFMAN (D-CA)", "ERICA HILL, CNN ANCHOR", "HUFFMAN", "HILL", "HUFFMAN", "HILL", "HUFFMAN", "HILL", "HUFFMAN", "HILL", "HUFFMAN", "HILL", "HUFFMAN", "HILL"]}
{"id": "CNN-371624", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-06-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/06/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Australia Police Defend Two Media Raids; George Pell Appeals Child Sex Abuse Conviction; Chinese and Russian Presidents Meet.", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. Australia's acting police commissioner is defending two raids in two days on the news media. Officers raided the Australian Broadcasting Corporation a day after they raided the house of a News Corp editor. Sky News reporter Charlotte Mortlock joins us now from Sydney with the details. Charlotte, it has to be said that Australia is not a country that usually witnesses raids on the media and it certainly has many people worried about the freedom of the press. How are Australian authorities justifying this?", "That's exactly right. The Australian federal police are justifying this by saying these raids stemmed, in fact, from basically the publication of classified documents, they say, that they have had separate referrals from agency heads linking the leaking of documents from the department of defense. Now as you say this is something Australians are not accustomed to. We do have a well regarded media industry and certainly this has come as quite a bit of a shock. The Australian prime minister Scott Morrison, he spoke this morning from the U.K. and said that certainly our --", "-- national security laws could be reviewed following fallout from this. As you say, it's now reached an international level and he's really having to come out and defend and distance himself from these raids.", "It is simply extraordinary, certainly as an Australian living overseas, watching what's happening there, it's hard to believe. What has been the reaction in Australia to these two raids on the news media?", "Well, Rosemary, I think, as you say, not many people can believe it. It's a shock; not only do Australians want the media to hold the government to account but they also expect us to do that. A lot of questions have been raised about the timing of this as well. The first story was published back in 2017 and that alleged that there was misconduct by Australian elite special forces in Afghanistan. The second story was released in April last year. Now keep in mind, we only just had our federal election a few weeks ago, so a lot of people are drawing lines to that. The prime minister has said that's absolutely not the case; not only did he not have any idea that the raids were taking place, he actually said that he was not involved at all and the AFP have said themselves that they acted independently and impartially in this investigation. The Labor opposition has said, however, they think the government was the one who referred these matters to the Australian federal police. You can imagine the opposition, they are saying they want a briefing now, potentially asking for a senate inquiry.", "Charlotte Mortlock, it's an extraordinary story, many thanks to you for bringing us up to date on the situation. Cardinal George Pell returned to a court in Melbourne, Australia, for a second day in the appeal of his sexual abuse conviction. He was found guilty of abusing two 13 year old boys when he was archbishop of Melbourne back in the 1990s. If the convictions are overturned, he could be freed. Anna Coren joins us now, live from Melbourne, with the very latest on this. Good to see you, Anna, part of Pell's appeal involves undermining the credibility of the victim in this case. How did the prosecution respond to that?", "Well, Rosemary, the Peel hearing has just wrapped up so it is now finished. We have just heard from chief justice Ferguson on the court of appeals, saying that the court will reserve its decision. No guidance as to when that decision will be handed down but it will not be today. She thanked both the prosecution and the defense for their oral and their written submissions. They will now go away, those three court of appeal judges. They will go away, review the evidence and then make a decision as to whether or not they will overturn the verdict for George Pell's crimes of child sex abuse and acquit him. So as it stands at the moment, Rosemary, George Pell will leave the supreme court in Melbourne and be taken back to prison. That is where he has been for the past three months, at the Melbourne Assessment, not far from where we are standing here in the central business district. That is where he will spend his 78th birthday. He turns 78 on Saturday. Today it was very much made up by the prosecution's legal argument. We heard from the prosecution's barrister, Christopher Boyce, saying that the witness, the sole surviving choir boy, was credible and trustworthy, which is why this jury of 12 Australians convicted George Pell of these five charges of child sex abuse. He said, quote, \"The complainant was a very compelling witness. He was clearly not a liar, not a fantasist. He was a witness of truth.\" Now some of the key points were that he knew the layout of the sacristy, where the event took place in 1996, 1997, when that surviving choir boy was sexually abused; his friend, molested. His friend, of course, died of a heroin overdose back in 2014. So the prosecution's case was hinged solely on the evidence and the testimony of the surviving choir boy. As we heard from the defense, from Pell's legal team yesterday, they said it was impossible for Pell to have committed these crimes. Late this afternoon before the proceedings wrapped up, we heard, once again, from Pell's barrister, who gave very strong reasons as to why the legal tests had been met for overturning the verdict. We also heard from one of those appeal judges this afternoon, saying that juries, most of the time, are right but not all the time. We don't know if that's --", "-- an indication as to where this is heading, whether or not they see that there is doubt in the convictions, whether this was unreasonable, the conviction of George Pell. But we spoke to some of the survivor groups here who have been attending these hearings, attending the trial of George Pell. And I put to them what will happen if he is acquitted and this is what they had to say.", "I think it would just be a further message that we have to keep fighting. It would be only an absolute disaster for survivors. It would bankrupt a lot of people's hopes and possibly send a few of them possibly to wanting to commit suicide out of despair. This is why the Catholic Church has operated cleverly for at least over 100 years.", "That was activist and survivor of child sex abuse Rob House, speaking to me a little bit earlier. But it doesn't end here, Rosemary. Either Pell's team or the prosecution, if they're not happy with the decision from the court of appeals, can take this to the high court. But as it stands right now, we do not have a decision on whether or not George Pell has been acquitted.", "Indeed. Of course, a lot riding on this. People watching this very closely, we will continue to follow it. Anna Coren joining us there from Melbourne, coming up to 4:30 in the afternoon there. Many thanks. Well, the presidents of China and Russia are meeting in Moscow to strengthen their economic and military relationship amid the Trump administration's ongoing trade war with Beijing. The leader's visit also includes some candid diplomacy, as our Frederik Pleitgen reports.", "Two self-proclaimed friends, Russian president Vladimir Putin and China's leader Xi Jinping, opening a panda exhibit at the Moscow Zoo. Another sign, they say, of an ever deepening relationship between Moscow and Beijing. Vladimir Putin earlier taking a not so veiled shot at a common adversary, the U.S., for exiting the INF treaty. \"Our views on global affairs aligned,\" he said, \"and the signed joint statement on strengthening global strategic stability in the modern era emphasizes the principle position of Russia and China, that it is unacceptable to destroy the existing system of agreements in the field of arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation.\" While Russia has long been facing sanctions from the Trump administration over meddling in the 2016 election and a range of other issues, China is now also involved in a trade war with the Trump administration. The two nations hitting each other with massive tariffs, neither side willing to back down. Meanwhile, Russia and China expanding their relations, signing some 30 agreements and contracts on the first day of Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow. The Chinese leader saying relations between Russia and China could improve even more. \"We are ready to work together with Russia in order to continuously increase the effect of our countries' high-level cooperation,\" he said, \"so that our cooperation could give our two peoples a bigger sense of achievement and so that we could promote a Russian-Chinese agenda in the international affairs.\" Russia and China continue to strengthen their economic ties. They're also expanding the military cooperation. Chinese troops taking part in massive drills with Russian forces last year, a clear sign to Washington that that pressure from the U.S. is driving these long-term allies even closer together -- Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Moscow.", "All right, I want to take you live to Normandy and the beach codenamed Gold Beach. U.K. prime minister Theresa May and French president Emmanuel Macron will soon arrive there. We are waiting for their arrival to pay tribute to the British troops who captured that section of the French coastline on June 6th, 1944. Now Gold Beach was right in the center of the Normandy coastline. Of course, all of these Allied troops landed on five separate beaches simultaneously. And American troops were to the west of Omaha -- sadly, that did not end well, a lot of lives lost there -- and Utah Beaches. And Canadian forces were immediately to the east at Juno Beach. You see there Prime Minister Theresa May, the outgoing British prime minister, she is turning up there in Normandy. She is shaking hands there with the dignitaries and will stand side by side with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, who will arrive very soon. And the two of them will honor those lives lost. Of course, as we were mentioning this is the beach, codenamed Gold Beach, where the British troops landed by air and by sea. And lives were lost, there were some 4,000 lives in all lost on that first day of the D-Day landings as we mark them on the 75th anniversary. And we will have much more on this, on the events that follow throughout the morning. Do stay with us. We're back in just a moment."], "speaker": ["CHURCH", "CHARLOTTE MORTLOCK, SKY NEWS CORRESPONDENT", "MORTLOCK", "CHURCH", "MORTLOCK", "CHURCH", "ANNA COREN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "COREN", "ROB HOUSE, SEXUAL ABUSE SURVIVOR", "COREN", "CHURCH", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over)", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-326712", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2017-11-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/22/ip.01.html", "summary": "Trump Defends Moore; Jones' Chances of Winning", "utt": ["Welcome to INSIDE POLITICS. I'm John King. Thank you for sharing your day with us. The president makes his controversial choice in Alabama's Senate race. He wants Judge Roy Moore despite allegations the judge once molested a teenager.", "Roy Moore denies it.", "But what about the women?", "And, by the way, he gives a total denial.", "What about the nine women?", "And I do have to say, 40 years is a long time. He's run eight races and this has never come up. So 40 years is a long time.", "Plus, a fellow member of the Congressional Black Caucus says Congressman John Conyers should step aside from a key committee post until the ethics committee investigates sexual harassment complaints against the longest serving member of Congress.", "He should step down as the -- as the ranking member, with the opportunity, if he defends himself and says and shows there's nothing there, that he could come back. But you can't, in my estimation, just in the scenario we're in, to be the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee at this time.", "And a Thanksgiving break but a packed agenda when Congress returns. Priority one for Republicans, navigating objections in their own party from lawmakers who say the current tax cut plan would hurt their constituents.", "That's a school teacher and a firefighter, a police officer and a nurse, a construction worker and a bus driver making $200,000 as a family income doesn't make them rich. That's middle income here. But that will result in eliminating those deductions for those hard working people. That will result in a tax increase for those folks.", "We begin the hour with a lingering question answered. For the president, Roy Moore's resume and his insistence that he's innocent are enough.", "We don't need a liberal person in there, a Democrat, Jones. I've looked at his record. It's terrible on crime. It's terrible on the border. It's terrible on the military.", "Mr. President, is an accused child molester better than a Democrat? Is an accused child molester better than a Democrat?", "Well, he denies it. Look, he denies this. I mean, if you look at what -- what is really going on and you look at all the things that have happened over the last 48 hours, he totally denies it. He says it didn't happen. And, you know, you have to listen to him also.", "The president is alone, off with his family in Mar-a-Lago, and will be isolated when he returns to Washington. The Republican leadership says Judge Moore should step aside. The president's own daughter says there's a special place in hell for those who abuse children. But, two weeks out from the special election, the president siding with the math that Moore's vote on Republican issues is more important than the women who say he pursued them when they were in their teens. CNN's Jeff Zeleny is in Palm Beach traveling with the president. Jeff, give us a window into the president's thinking before he made those dramatic comments.", "Well, John, one of the reasons simply I'm told by talking to White House officials is that it became easier to side with Roy Moore over the last nearly two weeks since this story first broke in \"The Washington Post.\" Of course, so many Republican leaders came out against him. But in the intervening time, so much has happened in this tidal wave of allegations of sexual misconduct that literally have rippled throughout, you know, the Hollywood, the media, politics. It simply became easier for the president to side with Roy Moore. They also believe, John, that he can win. And he's not likely to get out of the race at all. So why would the president, in the thinking of his advisers, try and stand up and, you know, push him out if he's not going to go anywhere? He's already been burned at one point by supporting Luther Strange who lost this primary campaign with Roy Moore. So why try and go against the tide on this. Simply go with it, John.", "And when you say go with it, Jeff, the president's argument was, not a liberal. Let's get Roy Moore. The biggest question for Roy Moore, if he wins that seat, for anyone who wins that seat, will likely be the compromise on tax cuts. Do they have an assurance that Roy Moore, despite his objections to Mitch McConnell, despite his constant fights with the Republican establishment, will vote yes?", "John, I think that is the central open question here. And, no, they do not have assurance of that. That's why this is so befuddling in some respects. The White House is saying, look, we need a Republican to vote on this. But Roy Moore was critical of the health care plan. He said he would not have voted for that. Roy Moore has been blasting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell again and again. So there are no assurances in the White House that Roy Moore would indeed vote for this plan. In fact, interestingly, the White House has said they wanted to reach out to Democrats to get their support as well. So Doug Jones, certainly, if he were to be elected, he would represent, you know, the most conservative Democratic constituency of anyone in the Senate. So it's interesting that the president has thrown his lot in and siding with someone who is, if he comes to Washington, could, A, be expelled, but, if not, could certainly cause so much trouble for the Senate Republicans, John.", "Jeff Zeleny with the president in Florida. Jeff, thanks for that reporting. And with us here in studio to share their reporting and their insights, Julie Hirschfeld Davis of \"The New York Times,\" \"The New Yorker's\" Ryan Lizza, Toluse Olorunnipa of \"Bloomberg,\" and CNN's Lauren Fox. An interesting controversial important decision from the president. His press secretary has been saying for several days, we're going to leave this up to the people of Alabama. The president essentially saying, I'm the leader of the Republican Party, I'm the president of the United States, but I'm going to stay out of this. Then, they made a clear and conscious decision, the president did, to do this. Why?", "Well, I mean I do -- I think that Jeff is right that, you know, they were sort of looking at the race and the fundamentals of the race and the fact that Roy Moore is not going anywhere. He shows no -- there's no evidence that he's going to step aside or change his position. He's denying the allegations. But I also think there's a fair amount of desperation going on in the White House right now at the thought that they could lose this race. And we saw the president came out for Luther Strange, Roy Moore's primary opponent during the race. That didn't matter. The people of Alabama wanted Roy Moore. They chose Roy Moore. And I think there was a worry that if the president didn't step in and sort of shore up that very narrow but still intense group of people that is very much in support of Roy Moore and feels like this is a witch hunt and it's unfair and it's the establishment coming after him, that they could lose that seat and that that would be -- that would make things even more difficult than they are right now on The Hill for the president's agenda.", "And so you had such a dramatic turn, that being the case, after just a week ago, Kellyanne Conway, who signaled the president's position before he did by going on TV and saying, well, Doug Jones is a liberal. We can't have that. She had said on the same program, \"Fox and Friends\" earlier, that no Senate seat is more important than a child. When she said that, was their assumption Roy Moore will win anyway so we can try to stay clean on this one?", "I think at that point they were still holding out some hope that maybe the Republicans could make a decision to get rid of Roy Moore, replace him with a write-in candidate or have some sort of intervention by the local leaders. But when the local leadership in Alabama said that they were going to support Roy Moore to the end, they decided that, you know, it's not necessarily easy to leave this Alabama safe Republican seat and have it go to a Democrat. So they decided to shift gears. And what the president did was he basically reinforced the defense that Roy Moore is making that this happened 40 years ago and that this should have came out earlier. And he referred to Roy Moore's denial as a total denial, not necessarily something that can be poked -- something where you can poke holes in it, as many Republicans have so far.", "And as the president spoke, supporters of Roy Moore were having a big event down in Alabama. Roy Moore has said this didn't happen. He says he doesn't know these women. He denies the allegations. If you watched Leigh Corfman on the \"Today\" show earlier this week, she gave a very compelling account. So has contemporaneous support from friends and family members that she told them back at that time. But I want you to listen here. This is a pastor friend of Roy Moore. Again, Roy Moore says this didn't happen. The pastor seems to have a somewhat different take.", "Judge Roy Moore or -- graduated from West Point and then went on into the service. Served in Vietnam. And then came back and was in law school. All of the ladies that -- or many of the ladies that he possibly could have married were not -- were not available then. They were already married. Maybe somewhere. And so he looked in a different direction. And always with the parents -- younger ladies. By the way, the lady that he's married to now, Miss Kayla, is a younger woman. He did that because, you know, there's something about a purity of a young woman. And there's something about something that's good, that's true, that's straight. And he looked for that.", "He's a friend of the judge making that case.", "Well, and I think what we've seen here is that Roy Moore, there was a pattern of behavior. I think one of the allegations against him was that, you know, there was a period of time where women who worked at the local mall were concerned when he would come into stores. There was a pattern of behavior here that he was pursuing younger women. And I think that, you know, that is not disputing, that claim. When, you know, even supporters are saying, look, he just liked younger women. And that's just how he was.", "And what does this say? We're going to watch the elections in two and a half weeks. In a moment I want to get to Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate, and the question of whether he can win this race anyway, and particularly in this environment. But what does this say about an already bad, dysfunctional, sometimes horrible relationship between the president and his own party in the sense that you have the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, on record saying, we have to find a way to prevent this from happening, who has had the lawyers doing all the research they can do, who has explored the idea that apparently will not happen now of trying to have a write-in candidate, somebody replace him. I mean they have essentially told the staff and the lawyers and everybody, you know, look under -- look in every law book, look under every rock. Is there a way to get away from this? And they have not taken off the table the possibility that if Roy Moore wins, they will somehow try to deny him the seat. So what does this say to the Republican establishment and, by the way, crickets from the Republican establishment since the president said this. What does it say about that relationship?", "It's -- I mean they are totally at odds, the White House and the Republicans in the Senate. Just about every single Republican senator has withdrawn his or her endorsements of Roy Moore. And then the president comes out, and after sort of not saying anything, fully backs him and says all the allegations are not true. And, you know, in the back of his mind, can't -- we can't know this, but he's been accused of sexual harassment and he's also denied it. So maybe he sees someone that was in a similar situation as him. But whatever the reason he decided to come out for Moore, the Republican position in the Senate -- Cory Gardner, who runs the campaign arm of Republican senators, has been very strong, very vocal and said, this guy needs to be expelled from the Senate if he gets to Washington. Now, there hasn't been as much conversation about that in recent days because their -- I think partly because of the way the White House responded. But that is still the defacto position of the Republican leadership as far as I know, that if he wins, they are going to start an expulsion process and kick him out of the Senate. And so that -- and, look, I think the White House's view is, they want tax cuts so bad, they don't care who has this seat as long as it's a Republican vote. Well, nobody wants that tax vote bill more than Mitch McConnell and the Republican leadership in the Senate. So they are not on the same page on this.", "And as you pointed out before, there is no guarantee that Roy Moore would vote for this tax bill as it is right now.", "Yes. Yes.", "I mean he is a person who has talked a lot -- I mean he has very populist themes in his campaign. He's more Trump than Trump in a lot of ways. And he could very well get to the Senate if he wins this race and say, yes, I think this is too much for rich people and the wealthy and for businesses and not enough for individuals and blow up a very, very carefully constructed and very tenuous situation right now with that -- with that bill. But it does kind of take you back to a little more than a year ago when the \"Access Hollywood\" tape came out and you had the Republican establishment sort of recoiling and saying, what do we do? And Donald Trump was obviously very, you know, he denied the allegations and he was very sort of belligerent about that this was an attempt to take him down and go after him. And people -- his supporters really rallied to his side after that.", "Yes.", "I think they're hoping that that's what happens for Roy Moore.", "Right at that moment, many members of the establishment sent the signal, some public, some private, that they thought Trump should withdraw from the race. And it didn't happen. So the question now is, and we'll spend a lot of time on this after Thanksgiving, the final two weeks of the race, is, can Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate, win. And he is a liberal. He is a liberal, if you look at his positions on issues. He's a liberal trying to run in a very red state. It's a tough challenge anyway. He had -- when these stories first broke, he had stepped back a little bit and said, I'll let the voters process this. I'm going to run my campaign. But here's a new ad with a clear shift.", "Jeff Sessions says, I have no reason to doubt these young women. And Richard Shelby says he will absolutely not vote for Roy Moore. Conservative voices, putting children and women over party, doing what's right.", "Quinnipiac polled this question, if a political candidate has been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women, would you still consider voting for them if you agreed with them on the issues, or would you definitely not vote for them? Twenty-seven percent said, yes, they would. Sixty-two percent said, no, they would not. Among Republicans, yes 43, no 41. Interesting data. It's one poll. The question is, this is going to play out for two more weeks. Is the Democratic candidate, does he have a chance to win this race?", "I don't think you can run this race if you're Doug Jones and not talk about the allegations that have been leveled against Roy Moore. They are so powerful. They are the only reason that we are talking about the Democrat in the race in Alabama right now. And I think that that ad was a very smart one. You know, he uses voices, well-respected conservative voices, like Jeff Sessions in that add. And I think it was very powerful.", "He needs moderate women in the suburbs. Go back to any election, any election. Go back to Virginia a couple Tuesdays ago. He needs moderate Republican women in the suburbs to vote for him. If they stay home, that might not even be enough, given -- just given the demographics and the vote turnout in Alabama.", "And some of those conservatives to just say, oh, forget it, I don't want to vote at all.", "Right. They -- they don't. Right.", "It's too -- it's too -- it's too ugly and just stay home. This Roy does -- Roy Moore does have this very passionate base.", "Right.", "And if he can depress that, obviously that helps.", "And he needs a little bit of the Democratic magic that we saw in Virginia and across the country earlier this month when there was this sort of wave of people coming out from the suburbs and from cities to vote against -- a lot of them said they were voting against the president. But he needs a mix of that Birmingham, Mobile, some of the Democratic strongholds really have to turn out in order to have a Democrat win. Democrats haven't won in statewide elections in Alabama in more than 20 years. So he would need a mixture of enthusiasm on his side and depressed enthusiasm among the Republicans as well.", "I think Senator Richard Shelby was the last and then he switched parties. There may have been somebody right after that, but I remember that -- I remember that story from a prior life. All right, we'll continue to cover this race in the days ahead. One of the big questions is, do national Democrats go down and try to help? Does Doug Jones want them to? Does he think that ruins the environment?", "Does Donald Trump go down and campaign for Roy Moore?", "He did not rule that out. He did not rule that out yesterday, which was, again, another stunning part of that statement. A quick break. When we come back next, an urgent search on Thanksgiving eve for three missing sailors."], "speaker": ["JOHN KING, CNN HOST", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "QUESTION", "TRUMP", "QUESTION", "TRUMP", "KING", "REP. GREGORY MEEKS (D), CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS", "KING", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-351715", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-10-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/08/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Unnamed Officials Say Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi has Been Killed at Saudi Consulate in Turkey; Turkey Asks to Search Saudi Consulate After Journalist's Disappearance", "utt": ["This morning, there are growing calls, urgent calls for the U.S. government to speak out about the disappearance and suspected murder of a \"Washington Post\" writer. Jamal Khashoggi; a Saudi journalist, outspoken critic of the Saudi government entered the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul last week to get a papers for his upcoming marriage. But his fiancee who was waiting outside, says if you could believe it, he never came out.", "Unnamed Turkish officials this morning say they believe that Khashoggi was killed inside of the consulate there, and now Turkey is asking Saudi for permission to search the entire building. So far, nothing. No comment from the president or from the White House. Although Cnn has learned that State Department right now is working to try to figure out what happened, actually quietly doing that behind the scenes. Joining us now is our journalist Jomana Karadsheh who joins us from Istanbul with the latest. So, the last time he was seen publicly was Tuesday. And now Erdogan's government wants to get inside of the Saudi Consulate there to investigate what they believe is the murder of a Saudi national and permanent U.S. resident inside. What else can you tell us?", "Well, you know, Poppy, over the past few days, we have been getting conflicting information from Turkish officials. You know, their official line has been that Jamal Khashoggi walked into that consulate on Tuesday at about 1:00 p.m., and he never left after that. You know, I spoke to the fiancee of Khashoggi who was out here in the days after that, still hoping that he would emerge from that building. And she was saying that he was really worried, he was reluctant about going into that building because of the crackdown that was going on in Saudi Arabia. He didn't feel safe, but he had no choice. He needed to obtain the paperwork that would allow him to get married, so he did do that and go into the consulate. And as you mentioned, you know, Turkey has maintained their line that, you know, they are investigating this incident, but over the past couple of days, we've heard these reports, allegations from some Turkish officials saying that he may have been killed inside the consulate. They haven't provided evidence to support that or explain how they reached that conclusion. And this is something that has been denied by Saudi officials, saying these are baseless allegations. People here are telling us, the United States needs to be doing more. END"], "speaker": ["SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-168802", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-7-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1107/10/cnr.06.html", "summary": "\"Slavery\" Language in Marriage Pledge", "utt": ["Atlantis arriving. Welcome to the International Space Station for the last time.", "High overhead, an historic moment we'll never see again. Space shuttle Atlantis is now docked with the International Space Station for the final time. The flight represents the end of the longtime U.S. shuttle program. The shuttle missions go. This one is fairly routine. Atlantis delivered supplies and spare parts. When it returns, it will bring back a broken pump and lots of emotional memories. Let's talk some politics now. This is one of the strangest arguments that you will ever hear about the sanctity of marriage. A socially conservative group called the Family Leader sent out a pledge to politicians asking them to sign it in support of traditional marriage. But listen to what the people originally -- the pledge originally had in the preamble. It read like this. \"Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the U.S.A.'s first African-American president.\" Two Republican candidates, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum signed that pledge. Bachmann's camp said she only signed the candidate vow part of it which didn't reference slavery at all. Here's a statement from her spokeswoman. \"In no uncertain terms, Congresswoman Bachmann believes that slavery was horrible and economic enslavement is also horrible.\" The Family Leader has since retracted that slavery passage. Now I want to bring back in now CNN contributor Errol Louis, political anchor for New York 1, and CNN's senior political analyst David Gergen. David, why was that slavery passage ever in the pledge to begin with?", "It's a total mystery. You got to be a real idiot to write something like that. That would be so obnoxious because the implication of that statement is it was better for children to be born into slavery than it was to be born today. I think everyone, especially Errol can speak to this much more eloquently than I can, would find that obnoxious, especially coming from a group that pledges itself to freedom.", "Errol, I will let you speak to that.", "Well, I mean, look, let's start with the fact that in 1860 marriage between people who were enslaved was illegal. So they actually picked the wrong year. If they wanted to make their point, it needs to be a year after 1865. But the level of ignorance and as David says sort of obnoxious tone to the whole thing is typical of what you get. I mean, frankly, if nothing else it makes it clear that candidates who aren't ready for prime time are going to be found out through this process. So, if there is anything good that comes of this, at least you get to see which candidates and which campaigns have their heads on straight and have their basic knowledge of history intact and which ones don't.", "David, did you notice in the signing of that -- and Michele Bachmann's, when she responded she said that economic enslavement was also bad. Was that a dig?", "I'm not sure. I want to part company with Errol on one point. I think the obnoxious part comes out of the group that wrote the pledge. As to the two candidates, you know, I think it's unfair to ascribe to them all this declaration. What this represents is incompetence on the part of their staff. They should have read this and understood it. But I think it goes a little step too far to say that that's actually what the candidates believe. What I think the larger pernicious quality that this points to is that pledges are proliferating in these political campaigns and people are being asked to sign up to things that -- in this case -- you know, are way out of bounds. But in other cases lock their hands so that they can't act. To go back to our earlier conversation, 230 members of the House have signed a no new taxes pledge. That means that they have promised while they're in Washington that they will never raise taxes. That makes it very, very difficult to try to reach and foster some sort of compromise to get us out of this debt problem.", "David Gergen has going to have to be the last word. Errol, thank you. Thanks to both of you, as a matter of fact. Coming up on CNN --", "Mr. Stone lost his life as a result of a tragic accident at Rangers Ballpark last night.", "The baseball community mourns the loss of a fan who fell over a stadium railing and died trying to catch a ball thrown into the stands. Is it time to improve security at baseball stadiums? That conversation is next."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LEMON", "GERGEN", "LEMON", "LOUIS", "LEMON", "GERGEN", "LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-157447", "program": "PARKER SPITZER", "date": "2010-10-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1010/26/ps.01.html", "summary": "Republican Civil War; Tea Party Racial Nuggets", "utt": ["Good evening. I'm Kathleen Parker.", "And I'm Eliot Spitzer.Welcome to the program.Tonight our \"Opening Arguments,\" civil war in the Republican Party. You know, Kathleen, still a week to go before the midterm elections, but already a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party.", "The Republican Party is always at war with somebody. They're either firing at the federal government or they are firing at each other.", "But normally they are disciplined, I thought. Normally the disciplined Republican Party knew what its message was, knew what its priorities were. Now even before they have their big win they're already counting in the bag. You know, the Tea Party is at war with the main part of the Republican Party. We don't know what they stand for anymore if they're going to be able to govern.", "Well, the Republican Party knows what it stands for, it stands for low taxes and cutting government spending. Come on, Eliot.", "Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. This is the Republican Party that has left us with the biggest deficits in history and economic cataclysm that Barack Obama had to clean up. Ronald Reagan, deficits, George Bush, deficits, George Bush II deficits, Bill Clinton, the one Democrat in there, surpluses.", "Oh come on, Eliot, you know I'm not a partisan and we do know that you are, but let me just clarify the record as a reporter. I have to, it's my duty to do this. This started with Freddie and Fannie under Clinton, you know that. Bush threw steroids at it.", "Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness, Kathleen. Somebody got to you. You are mouthing cheap little points.", "No, no, it's the homeownership society. We give Bush the credit for that or the blame for that.", "Where is that moderate voice of reason I've been talking to that understands Wall Street laid the foundation for this. The deregulatory policy of Ronald Reagan destroyed our economy. In 30 years, middle class income peaked when President Bill Clinton was president.", "You're lecturing again.", "The median income, the top, highest it's ever been. Suddenly things fell apart under George Bush. Come on, let's be real about solutions. I tell you, Fannie and Freddie are part of it, but don't say that...", "They're a huge part of it. It's all about giving -- no come on, the loans to people who couldn't afford mortgages, that's where it all started. You said that a million times.", "From countrywide, from all the banks, from the underwriters and the rating agencies. It was everybody. Don't buy into the notion...", "I'm not blaming everybody, but I mean, you've got to spread the blame around. You have to -- no, no. You blamed it on the Republicans, I'm the one that said no, that this goes across the board.", "Let's come back to where we started, though: Civil war. Civil war.", "You are losing so you want to bring it back another point.", "No, no. As we said the other night, go see \"Inside Job\" and then ask the question, who is at fault. That movie, we agreed, with the definitive statement.", "Systemic. Systemic. Systemic.", "OK, let's go back to the Tea Party. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but none the less, one thing we know, civil war in the Republican Party for Democrats, going to be fun to watch.", "But first, it's time for \"The Arena,\" and that civil war we've been talking about for the soul of the Republican Party, meet two of the generals. He's a conservative Republican from Virginia who is both governor and senator who many saw as a presidential possibility, George Allen.", "And one of the pioneers of the conservative movement who lately has been highly critical of George Allen and his fellow Republicans, Richard Viguerie. Welcome to you both.", "Speaking of which, Richard Viguerie, I want to read a quote from you. We love doing this with you.", "You start every show this way.", "Well, you're so quotable. OK. You said, \"It was President George W. Bush, Karl Rove and the Congress of George Allen's vintage who actually spawned the Tea Party. And anyone who thinks the Tea Party is a reaction to Obama is missing the whole point.\" You said, \"...they blindly and foolishly remain part of the problem.\" So is George Allen part of the problem?", "There are votes that Senator Allen would like to take back now. But a week before the election, the problem is not Karl Rove or Governor George Allen or anybody else out there. The problem is the liberal Democrats. People are angry, they're furious out there...", "Wait, wait, wait a minute.", "The people are ready to rise up and they will revolt next week. It's interesting that you want to deflect the conversation to a different subject.", "Let me interrupt you for one second. I love your party loyalty. I know it is a week before the election. But you took a direct shot right at George Allen who is former governor, former senator. We got him on the show. Governor Allen, I want to give you a chance to respond to what Richard Viguerie said. He's backing off a little bit, party comedy is nice. How do you respond to being blamed for the Tea Party?", "Well look, the differences that Richard and I have are minuscule. I've always admired Richard Viguerie from the days I first got involved in organized politics for heading up Young Virginians for Reagan when I was a student in 1976 at Mr. Jefferson's university. The difference if you read Richard's piece is that -- when did the Tea Party start? Well it galvanized last year, but Rich sard exactly correct that the antipathy and the movement and the folks getting upset with what's going on in government began before this year and, in fact, there somewhere things that I disagreed with President Bush on. Whether it was amnesty for illegal immigrants, I had questions about Harriet Miers as a Supreme Court justice, And then when you see the TARP bailouts and then the really thing that I think set a lot of folks off by President Bush was the bailout of automobile manufacturers and taking from one and giving to another. And that sort of approach of saying that, gosh, I want to save the free market system for -- by abandoning free market principles just doesn't make sense. So, I've spoken at a lot of Tea Party rallies. They've invited me to them, I've enjoyed it. And it's actually healthy to see that the people are standing up for the future of America and that's what this election in 2010 and 2012 will be about as the future direction of our country.", "I think it's great these two are having such a lovefest, here.", "I know you don't -- I know you all don't like that, but we're actually friends.", "We're all friends.", "We've go to focus on next Tuesday, Kathleen.", "All right, so what happens after that. You've declared war...", "You know, when I say that conservatives are like Governor Allen, myself will have a great time election night and maybe we'll sleep in the morning after the election, have breakfast in bed, read the papers, watch a little TV, but then the afternoon we battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party.", "Well, let's drill down on that for a moment. John Boehner who is, if you are correct and you win and, governor, you have predicted this as well -- if he becomes the speaker of the House of Representatives, he has said he would compromise on the tax cuts. He said, not many weeks ago, that he would concede the middle class tax cut extension and tax -- pass a tax increase on the wealthy. Would you go for that?", "Oh, absolutely not. And he's backed from that 100 percent. And there's though way that the Republicans in Congress in this new Congress are going to allow that.", "Governor, would you think this could happen as part of a compromise after the election?", "Absolutely not. I think the very first thing they need to do is prevent tax increases. And the tax cuts we passed in 2001 and 2003, which reduced taxes on income for families, small business owners, reduced taxes on capital gains and dividends, they need to stay in place. That would be the very worst thing that the government could do is raise taxes on our economy and would hurt jobs. The second thing I think they need to do is repeal and replace Obamacare with health savings accounts. They need to stop the spending accounts. And the fourth thing is take responsibility for energy policy and withdraw from EPA the power to regulate CO2 which would cause skyrocketing electricity, fuel and food prices and be a job killer, as well.", "Governor, I want to ask you a quick question. Mr. Viguerie has said that everybody is buddies until November 2, until after the elections, and then he's going to declare a war on those Republicans who aren't quite ideological enough. There's going to be a purge, in other words. Are you onboard with that purge?", "Kathleen...", "I never said \"purge.\" Nobody said \"purge.\"", "Well, I said, \"purge,\" but that's what we're talking about.", "No, Kathleen, you know, I know you are trying to stir things up.", "No, I'm just trying to get to the bottom of it.", "Here's what I'm going to be focused on and I think Richard will and I think more importantly, not just us four, but all Americans are going to want to see the Republicans in control and keeping their words, keeping their commitment to the American people. Whether it's on preventing tax increases, rational energy policy, stopping this out-of-control spending and the people clearly want to see a repeal of this Obamacare. And I think it's very important that we have a positive, constructive agenda to get America moving and ascending in the right direction. And that's what I think we're going to be focused on and we're going to have a lot of good, new blood in Washington. Some have been there before, like Senator Coats, and there will be other new ones like Marco Rubio from Florida and I think it's going to be an exciting time to get our country back in the right direction.", "Let me just say that we ought to add on to what Governor Allen said, you've got an administration, Kathleen and Eliot, that's moving significantly to the left. You've got a country that's moving significantly to the right. To paraphrase Mr. Lincoln, this House cannot stand divided. And we have a divided country right now. And something has got to give. And the American people are tired of big government. They want less government involvement in their life. And we're off to a big battle in this country.", "Well, I just want to come back to some numbers here because, Governor Allen, I think when you were in the Senate; you were in the Senate during the tenure of President Bush. He left us with the biggest deficits until that moment in history. There was absolutely no control of spending. You were part of that. Did you vote for his budgets?", "I did. And...", "And isn't that why Mr. Viguerie has gone right at you and said you are the problem. You're mouthing nice Tea Party words now, you voted for the biggest deficits in history until that time, didn't you?", "Well, those deficits pale compared to what we see now. I also...", "No, no, no, Governor, I'm going to hold your feet to the fire. You're trying to remake yourself as a Tea Party member.", "No, no...", "You voted for the single largest deficits in history. Did you not?", "I voted for those appropriations bills, and I also, if you want to get the full record there, Mr. Spitzer, is I tried to stop some of the spending. I actually...", "You voted for it.", "Well, you have amendments to bills. They even put in a bill to stop this spending. It was actually called that, \"Stop Overspending.\" And there were a few of us, about a dozen, who tried to stop the Republicans spending on the Bridge to Nowhere and for orchid gardens in Pittsburgh and indoor tropical rain forests in Iowa. And there's a lot of things that I tried to do. Unfortunately, there was only about 13 of us who stuck together with it. And I'm one...", "But I want to come back to the...", "...who believes we do need to have a government that is focused on its primary responsibilities, which are national defense and not meddling in a variety other things that are really to be left to the people in the states.", "But the point I'm making is the reason that Richard Viguerie, and we quoted the words, said you were the reason the Tea Party was upset, and you voted for the largest deficits in history when you were in the Senate.", "Yeah, and a lot of -- look, Eliot...", "We're talking facts, here.", "Lessons learned.", "Guys, we're talking facts on this show, not pabulum. And we're going to hold your feet to the fire on fact.", "Here's a slightly different question. Can the Tea Party and the Republican establishment Party co-exist?", "Well, no, I mean, this is a House divided. The Republicans lost the Congress in '06, they lost the White House and more congressional seats in '08 having, in my opinion, and most all Tea Party members, nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barack Obama. Had everything to do with George Bush, Karl Rove and the big government Republicans in Washington, D.C. And you're making too much of a fight between Governor Allen and myself. It was the leadership coming out of the White House and leadership of Obama -- excuse me, of Boehner and McConnell...", "Richard, Richard, Richard, Richard, we quoted -- you wrote the article, you put his name in it. You said he was responsible, his outrageous spending. You said his inability to control spending created the Tea Party. Now, you're trying to play nice a week before the election. That's politics. We're trying to deal with facts, here. He voted for the largest deficits in history. That's a fact.", "I'm shocked we've got politics between Spitzer and Richard Viguerie. Well, I'm shocked.", "We're talking facts.", "And I think Mr. Viguerie.", "And hold it. Eliot. Eliot, let me just say something. And in the event that I had voted against these appropriations bills you'd be saying oh, and you didn't fund the troops in Iraq and how can you not fund the troops in Iraq, so...", "No, I'm just looking for some consistency and we're going to, in a couple moments...", "There is consistency if you look at my record.", "We're going to come back in a moment to see what we're going to do to figure out how we balance the budget and how we actually control spending and I want your views on that because that is, according to you both, the Tea Party's primary mandate. Cutting taxes is the easy part. Controlling spending is where the rubber hits the road. As a governor, you did that and I think that's the conversation we have to have.", "We have to take a quick break from this fascinating discussion and we'll be right back with Richard Viguerie and Governor George Allen.", "Listen, I come from a state where Arnold Schwarzenegger is governor. I mean, only in California would you vote for a dude just because you like \"Terminator.\"", "Let's talk about that. I mean, how much fun would it be to have President Palin?", "It would not. I don't think it would be that. 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{"id": "CNN-39980", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-9-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/20/lad.06.html", "summary": "America's New War: Military Gearing for Battle", "utt": ["Time now to check in with Jeff Flock, who joins us from the Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri -- Jeff, what's going on there this morning?", "Well, a little quieter out here on the plains of Missouri, Paula. Indeed, we are outside the main security checkpoint here at Whiteman. Perhaps you can see, I want to give you some indication of the increased security here. Last I was here two years ago during the Kosovo conflict, nothing like this in terms of security. We had access much deeper into the base. But you can see out here heavy security outside Whiteman Air Force Base. Why is this important? Well, it's because this is home to the nation's B-2 bomber fleet. That is better known as the stealth bomber. The interesting thing about this, of course, is that it's not an aircraft, one of those aircraft that we've been reporting on that would be fully deployed to somewhere in either Europe or somewhere overseas. These bombers are designed to fly out of this base and this base alone and then to come on back. We have some pictures that we took the last time we were here, as we mentioned, the Kosovo conflict. That was the first successful bombing missing for the B-2 or the stealth. Two, a crew of two, a two man crew, I should say, flew one stealth bomber out of this base all the way to Serbia, dropped 32 2,000 pound bombs on Serb targets and then flew all the way back. It's a 31 hour round trip. And by our calculations, it would be an even longer flight onto either targets in Afghanistan or, as some have speculated, perhaps Iraq. But at this point we make it -- want to make it very clear we have no information to indicate that the stealth bomber would be put up as part of any coming air attack. This is an aircraft that they do not like to put up if they don't have to. One of the key elements of this asset it its stealth capabilities. Obviously, if there was an attack on Afghanistan without significant air defenses, it would not necessarily be necessary to put the stealth out there. There are other aircraft they can use. These planes run at about $2 billion, so if you lose one, it is a big loss, indeed. Of course, today throughout the day, Paula, we will be watching here at Whiteman for any indication, any kind of movement here. But as you can see right now, heavy security as this base gears up for the morning shift -- back to you.", "Jeff, have you had a chance to talk to any of the men and women based there to see what their reaction might be to potential deployment?", "I just talked to a base official just a short time ago. It is very interesting to note how much more tight the security is and the information flow is this time. I know from talking to these B-2 pilots the last time we were here that they are all very eager to do what they do best, but having talked to them, having not talked to any of them today, I don't know what their specific mind set is today with regard to this potential mission -- Paula.", "All right, Jeff Flock, thanks so much for that report."], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ZAHN", "FLOCK", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "NPR-34038", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2011-01-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/01/09/132788779/Southern-Sudan-Braces-For-Independence", "title": "Southern Sudan Braces For Independence", "summary": "Voters in southern Sudan cast their ballots in a referendum that will likely lead to the formation of the world's newest nation. The referendum is part of the peace deal that ended the 1983-2005 civil war between the north and south.", "utt": ["We're back with ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz.", "Southern Sudanese flocked to the polls today in a vote almost certain to split Africa's largest country in two, north and south, after 20 years of fighting that's left millions dead.", "In a moment, we'll have a report from the north, but first to the south, where NPR's Frank Langfitt met one voter who survived that country's brutal civil war.", "Batali Charles lined up at 6 a.m., two hours before the polls opened in Lanya, a market town amid Southern Sudan's vast expanse of brush and rocky mountains. He wore a pair of jeans, sandals and a smile.", "I'm much excited about the referendum.", "Charles and most Southern Sudanese voters were very excited. Today was one they'd dreamed of for years. After more than two decades of civil war, Southern Sudan will spend the next week deciding whether to become independent from the north.", "For most people here, it's an easy decision. The Muslim north and its Arab militias bombed and burned the largely Christian and animist south in what became Africa's longest civil war. Two million people died.", "Batali was just a boy when the north attacked Lanya. Like so many southerners, he and his family fled into the harsh countryside.", "During the war, you cannot stay in a place like this. You have to run and keep yourself somewhere in the bush.", "How long did you live in the bush?", "I lived in the bush for around 20 years.", "Twenty years?", "Yeah, 20 years in the bush.", "It's not an unusual story in Southern Sudan. Batali Charles is now 27 and has two children. Charles says independence will give them a better life. Like most Southern Sudanese, he says the north starved the south of resources, neglecting schools, health care and roads.", "What I wanted them to get in Southern Sudan in the future, they should really enjoy life, a life of freedom.", "There have been concerns that violence instigated by the north could mar the referendum. But today's polling appeared to be peaceful. Because of Southern Sudan's size and poor roads, polls will remain open into next weekend.", "Frank Langfitt, NPR News, Juba, Southern Sudan."], "speaker": ["GUY RAZ, host", "GUY RAZ, host", "GUY RAZ, host", "FRANK LANGFITT", "Mr. BATALI CHARLES", "FRANK LANGFITT", "FRANK LANGFITT", "FRANK LANGFITT", "Mr. BATALI CHARLES", "FRANK LANGFITT", "Mr. BATALI CHARLES", "FRANK LANGFITT", "Mr. BATALI CHARLES", "FRANK LANGFITT", "Mr. BATALI CHARLES", "FRANK LANGFITT", "FRANK LANGFITT"]}
{"id": "CNN-43348", "program": "GREENFIELD AT LARGE", "date": "2001-11-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/07/gal.00.html", "summary": "America Prepares for a New Kind of War", "utt": ["It used to be simple. When a nation went to war, it rounded up as many able-bodied young men as it needed, sent them into the armed forces, sent many off to fight, and to die. But this is a wholly different sort of conflict, where the targets and the need for people to serve, may be here at home. So what can and should this country ask or demand of its young men and women?", "Senator, could you us specifically what jobs are needed to be filled because of what happened September 11?", "Jeff, that hasn't been determined yet. But fully, one half of the new volunteers that would exist under our bill will be devoted to public security and homeland defense. And we're going to be coordinating with the office of homeland defense. Former Governor Ridge will help put together the list, the job descriptions and the specific missions that need to be accomplished. So that work is in progress now.", "But my question, senator, are you sure there's actually a need to fill a lot of these jobs?", "Well, about that, Jeff, I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever. The number of tasks that need to be performed in the aftermath of September 11 dealing with public security, national defense will be enormous. As a matter of fact, I have no doubt that every one of volunteers we proposed may be required and perhaps then some.", "All right, then let me turn the question on its head. If there's this urgent need for people to perform homeland defense of the most urgent kind, we got thousands of people dead a few miles from here, then why not do this on an emergency basis? I mean, you're talking about a program that goes through the Congress. We all know that Congress' speed is not always, you know, lightning fast. Isn't this something then, that's more urgent than the pace of a new bill and program can meet?", "I think we're going to see a continuum, Jeff. Some things need to be done immediately. Those things that present a possible clear, immediate risk to the public will need to be addressed right now. There's no reason for waiting. Others might be able to take a while longer. Just as the expertise required to fulfill these functions will vary. Some will require, full time, highly trained professionals in the military or in the police, fire services. Others may require only volunteers trained up to a different level, available on a part-time basis. And so, it's going to be very task specific, time specific, given the nature of the risk involved. And that is -- that process, as I said, is ongoing now.", "Do you have a sense, based on anything specific, that younger Americans are willing to enlist in this as the task.", "We've seen increase of 30 percent since September 11 of applications to Americorp. The current volunteer program that focuses upon a variety of important tasks, tutorials for children, helping with senior citizens, things of that nature. So there's been a -- some actual evidence of a wellspring of a willingness to volunteer. And based upon anecdotal evidence that I and others I've talked to have gathered, I think there's a great desire on the part of the American people, a surge of patriotism, civil management. The challenge here, Jeff, is to harness that emotional wellspring, into concrete ways people to help secure America.", "And yet, you alluded to this earlier, than in some ways, the most urgent slots that need to be filled of those, say of firefighters and police and people who've been called up in the reserves. You can't ask a 19-year, of the campus of the university to step in and be a firefighter. in the way you could say train that person to be a park ranger. I mean, isn't there inevitably wanting to volunteer. an enormous gap of time before those slots get filled?", "We need a crash program to fill the slots that you must mentioned, firemen, policemen, others that deal with the safety and well being of the public each and every day. Others, you know, look at the infrastructure challenges. Jeff, bridges, power plants, airports, port facilities, rail facilities, that the list is mind-boggling. Those kind of things over time may be able to be handled by folks who are on the volunteer six months or a year of their time and are trained up to a certain level. It may not require full-time, highly trained professionals.", "I think the numb of the final area I want to explore is this. You're talking about survival now. You're not talking about volunteers to make America prettier or to do kind of interesting ideas. What about the safety of the country? Why should that be left to volunteer? Why shouldn't that be matter where the government, if may paraphrase an old recruiting poster says, Uncle Sam wants you and Uncle Same is going to pick up. In other words, why not conscription for this?", "Well, we'll all need full-time professionals for those jobs that require it. There's no question about that. And if there are slots going vacant that involve public safety and security, we may need a crash program to fill those. It's only positions that can reasonable be filled by volunteers that should be filled. And I'm confident that there will be thousands and thousands of positions like that, where the most effective way and a very safe and secure way, will be utilizing volunteers. So -- and part of our proposal also, Jeff, is to beef up the military, to offer a whole new tract for people who want to enlist in the armed services, serve our country that way and then come back into civilian life.", "But bottom line, are you prepared to say that with respect to some jobs, they are so important to be filled so quickly, we may need compulsion, rather than volunteerism.", "I don't think we'll need a draft to fill the firemen and firefighter slots that you mentioned, there may need to be some crash recruitment program. I don't think we'll need conscription right now, even for that. But in the fullness of time, we'll need to see whether we can meet the important public safety needs with volunteers. I think there's going to be role for this type of effort in that regard. And I think President Bush may speak to some of that tomorrow.", "Indiana senator Evan Bayh. Thank you very much for joining us. I appreciate it. When we come back, we'll debate whether in fact the draft might be the right way to pursue homeland defense. That'll be right after this.", "We're back. We're going to explore the idea of a national draft, involving men and women, for the purpose of defending targets on U.S. soil against terrorist attack. One of the plan's proponents is Paul Glastris. He's editor of \"The Washington Monthly.\" Also in Washington, Jacob Sullum. He is the syndicated columnist. And he's the senior editor of \"Reason\" magazine, a magazine of libertarian orientation. From Los Angeles, we're joined by Andrei Cherny. He's a former speechwriter for vice president Al Gore. He's author of \"The Next Deal, the Future of Public Life in the Information Age.\" Mr. Glastris, you've just heard Senator Bayh say look, we got a lot of jobs to fill. We just -- we don't need conscription. We can do this with volunteers and a certain amount of incentives. Isn't that a much better idea than conscription?", "Well, I think it's a great idea that he has in general that we need to beef up our manpower for homeland security and that national service of some kind can fill the void. I think that's absolutely right. I think where we disagree is I think we're going to need a draft to do it. And I think that the evidence out there now suggests we will. If you look at the number of people who have, since September 11, signed up for the military, there's no net increase. So there are some things that you can do with volunteers, alas, but volunteers don't always fill uniforms.", "So but, your point is this is based on need. I mean, there are people who argue that universal service has some other benefits. If you could fill these jobs by volunteers, would that be fine with you? You wouldn't need a draft?", "I think a draft is a good idea regardless. And I have, and the magazine has for many years thought that it was a mistake to get away from it. So there are, in fact, a great deal of other benefits to a draft, in terms of pulling the country together and filling the void of public life that's been created over the last few decades since Vietnam. But the argument I'm making now is that I don't think we can avoid a draft, given the nature of the threat.", "Now Mr. Sullum, you know, it would seem that if there's anytime when the government is entitled to call upon citizens to do more than pay taxes, that is to provide themselves, it's in a time of a legitimate national emergency. Not some concocted one, but the kind that we went through September 11. Isn't this the kind of event that even a libertarian will say, \"OK, now the government has a legitimate claim on its people?\"", "Well, and I think the kinds of positions that we're talking about filling involve defending the entire country. And so, this is a burden that should be borne by everyone. I think it's fundamentally unfair to impose this burden on just one group, on 18 to 25-year-olds, when in fact, it's benefiting everyone. I think makes a lot more sense to fill these positions, simply by offering enough money so that people are willing to do these jobs. And I think the combination of offering enough compensation and people's desire to serve in these roles in defending the country will be perfectly adequate to fill these positions. I haven't seen evidence to suggest that anything like conscription would be necessary.", "Well, but the question is on -- I'm going to do the question the other way that I did to -- if in fact, the government could say look, we need these jobs filled. They are matters of national protection and defense. And we don't have enough people to do them, doesn't that make a case for conscription? Or are you saying philosophically, no way, no how?", "I'm saying that the current situation does not arise to the level of emergency that would be necessary to justify this sort of extreme measure. I mean, we're talking about a temporary form of slavery. We're talking about interrupting people's lives, telling them where to go and what to do, wrenching them from their current lives and their current livelihoods, the current education. That's a very serious step to take. And I think it would require something like a massive invasion of the homeland that actually threatened our existence, which was so imminent in an emergency, that you could not possibly fill these positions voluntarily to justify something like conscription. I don't think we're anywhere near that situation now. And I think, there is some amount of money that you could spend to fill all these positions. It may be higher than Paul is willing to pay, but the important point to keep in mind is that there is a cost to this that cannot be avoided one way or the other. The question is whether the cost will be borne fairly by everyone's whose being protected, or whether it's going to be imposed arbitrarily on one narrow slice of the population, which happens to not have very much political influence.", "Well, Mr. Cherny, you're of an age where you might actually be subjected to a conscription under Mr. Glastris' plan. Do you think it's fair to say to younger people, all right, we'll tax people, like me, but you're the guys whose bodies are going to be alive. Is that just?", "II think it is just. Look, we don't have either the psychological or the physical infrastructure to go to a full conscription plan overnight. But the fact is, there are huge needs out there. Certainly the needs that rose after September 11 are a big part of that, but they're not the only ones. We have high rates of child poverty. Many, many seniors who want to live on their own, want to live at home, and could, with this sort of help and this sort of program. After school care, child care, environmental protection, so on and so forth. Many different areas where we need things that are beyond just a government bureaucracy, beyond just a check from the government, but actually problems that only bends to people power. Greenfield: But Mr. Cherny.", "If I may, I can almost hear Jacob Sullum saying, \"See, that's exactly state as do.\" We start with an argument about protecting the country from terrorism. And now you're talking about caring for the seniors and childcare, and a whole list of programs that might or might not be good policy. But hardly just conscription. Right? I mean, isn't that exactly the danger of a conscription, that the government will say, \"Now we can take a 1.5 year of your life, not just to protect the Homeland from terrorists, but to do all these programs.", "Well, I think that's part of protecting and bettering this country. I don't see there's anything wrong with that. We had a draft in this country for, as you point yourself, more than 30 years, in times of war and in times of peace. And there was a universal expectation there that young people of all walks of life, of all backgrounds, of all colors, would come and serve their country. You know, they even drafted Elvis. Why not today, as we have the specter of September 11, but we also have the specter of huge, unmet needs in this country. Why can't we have young people devoting themselves to national service? We already see huge expansions of Americorp. We see huge numbers of young people involved in their communities, involved in volunteering, hungering for something bigger than themselves, something they could really devote themselves to. I think that this is not just about stateism. It's about really the idea that you have certain obligations to your country, that there is a basic bargain at the heart of what it means to be an American, that along with of the rights that we all celebrate, there are responsibilities. And one is to give back to your country. Greenfield: All right, now putting aside the issue that we might be wanting to -- drafting Britney Spears this time around, Mr. Glastris, are you seeing the draft as that, your idea, is that expansive?", "I think yes. And I think that the draft that I -- that Charlie Moskoss and I put forward, would give Americans what in this day and age 2001 they want, and that is choice. Everyone who is drafted for 18 months to two years would have a choice to serve in the military, to serve in homeland defense, or to serve in the national service capacity, like Americorp. Those who take the more dangerous duty serve less lengthy periods and get more at the end, interims of a bigger G.I. bill, but everyone serves.", "Mr. Sullum, I want to get a break, but I want to give you a chance to come in quickly. Does that sound like choice to you?", "No, I'm astounded to hear it described that way. This is not about choice. This is forced labor. Let's not pussyfoot around. We're talking about of slavery here, where you force people to do things. You're not giving them a choice. That's exactly what you're not doing. And as we see already that we're getting beyond the concept of security, which I think all of us agree is a legitimate function of the government into a whole range of social work and nice things for the community that you're going to conscript people to perform. I don't view citizens as the property of the state to do with what it pleases. We're going ask good idea or not is the draft politically possible. After this.", "Mr. Cherny, while you might think it's a good idea. Is it politically feasible, after 30 years, of roughly 30 years of no draft, to say OK, all you young people, we're going to sound rounding you up for 1.5 year or so, whether you like it or not.", "It's certainly not going to happen overnight. This is not something that we can snap our fingers and tomorrow, have a huge draft of 4 million young people a year or even more. The fact of the matter is, there are extremes of both parts, of the political spectrum are opposed to it. There are those on the left who believe that we don't really have any obligations to one other. That we have the freedom to say and do whatever we please. We could shout \"fire\" and any other four letter word beginning you with", "No if I may, I understand about the history. The question is, in this current climate, you're heading into a brick wall, I would think again.", "Well, I don't think so. Because I think what we have today is that we have a huge expansion of the number of young people who are interested in volunteering, in serving, in being a part of their community. 94 percent of 18 to 25-year-olds think that serving your country and serving your community is part of what's required to the other citizen. The number of 18 to 25-year olds who have been helping elderly neighbor in the past year, has increased like 50 percent, just between 1989 and 1999. There is hunger to get involved, to be part of something bigger than yourself. Volunteerism is a great. We should be encouraging it. We should be promoting it. But it's not the as the idea that you owe things to your country, that your country has obligations that it calls all of us to perform. I think that young people are demanding that. I think that's what's going to push the political process forward.", "Mr. Sullum, here's, I think, where people might a problem as Andrei indicated with the slavery idea. I mean, it isn't just for tens of millions of Americans, being drafted in World War II was part of the norm. It's almost sounds as if you're saying that if you were rewriting that inaugural speech of Kennedy's, it would go \"ask what you can do for your country, if you wouldn't mind too much. And we can pay you enough. And I'm trying to pin you down on whether or not there isn't this a notion that beyond paying taxes, under certain circumstances and certain times, and this is certainly as unusual a time as any of us have ever lived through, the government has a legitimate right to say we need you to help us and we need everyone in the same pool.", "Well, I think there's a certain amount of confusion going on here. First of all, you know, I'm not a right winger. I'm not sure where your guests got that idea. In any case, we're not -- we keep tossing the term country and the term community. I certainly don't deny that people have a morale obligation to their community and the sense of helping others. But the community is not the same thing as the government. And your country is not the same thing as the state. What I am denying is this idea which underlies these proposals, that people are resources for the state to distribute and use however it wants. This idea that if the state decides that even though you have chosen a particular career on Wall Street let's say, you better serve your country or your community by being a teacher or by being a social worker or standing guard at the borders. And that's what you're going to be compelled to do. I just think it's anathema to the American tradition of limited government and individualism. And I think it has no place in a free society.", "All right, Mr. Glastris, one of the things that comes up, when we talk about a homeland security draft, is the inherently inefficient, sometimes comically so nature of government bureaucracy. Libertarians have feasted on that and not without reason. So if we run into a situation where you need say 10 percent of the 18 to 25- year-old men and women in this country, just for openers. Remember what we through in Vietnam? How are you going to decide in a fair way, which 10 percent of them gets to have their lives completely disrupted?", "Same way you always have. And that's with a lottery. And the Selective Service rules that are in place don't allow for student exemptions. So that the wealthy and well connected can't get out of it.", "And -- but my point is that no matter how fair it may seem, if only one in 10 is needed, I think my own sense is that given the decades long nature of a nondraft system, the people who are conscripted, rather than volunteer, are going to scream bloody murder about this?", "I think that's an argument for making sure everyone gets drafted. And that's why I think National Service has to be part of the mix. Look, young people don't mind so much, if they are asked to give 18 months of their lives either before during or after college, say, to serving their country. What drives people crazy and why more people don't volunteer now is the sense of being a sucker. While I'm wearing the uniform, somebody else is having fun in getting ahead in their careers. If everyone's in the same pool, I don't think people wouldn't mind that much at all..", "Mr. Cherny, I want to turn to a -- we only have a minute or so left. The economic impact of this. They're taking hundreds of thousands or millions of people out of their work and putting them into a government program. In this time of economic weakness, is that really a great idea?", "I think it can be part of strengthening this country. A lot of our economic weakness comes from these unmet needs that we've been talking about. I think that what Paul said is true. As long as everybody is part of it, I don't think people are going to mind. And it's also going to bring people together. You know, World War II. John Kennedy on a PT boat, along with farm kids and immigrants and factory work errors and high school dropouts. And that was a great thing to bring this country together. People understood that we are all in the same boat. That, I think, would strengthen this economy and strengthen our country as we go forward in a really fundamental way.", "Mr. Sullum, we've got about 30 seconds left, which I realize if unfair. But if you don't want the President tomorrow when he speak of that Homeland Security, to fall a draft. And I'm clear you don't. What do you want him to say to citizens about what's on our shoulders?", "Well, I think we have a responsibility to support whatever measures are going to be necessary to protect our security. But I think that burden should be shared fairly. I don't think it should be opposed in just one group. I think there's also, aside from the issue of fairness, there's a question of efficiency here. I think if we do what Mr. Glastris is suggesting, and simply draft everyone, in the interest of being fair to at least all 18 to 25-year-olds, giving them all an equal chance to serve. You're going to run into the problem that they will be used in a very casual sort of mailer because the government doesn't have to pay for the right the use their labor. It's conscripting them. And therefore, you run the risk of them being put into positions that maybe aren't really necessary. You know, set up these make work jobs, simply because we've enforced to draft them all, lest we appear unfair.", "OK.", "That's the sort of problem you run into when you refuse to admit the cost that you're imposing on people.", "All right, our cost run in the time area, which we have spent all of. And I want to thank my guests. That was pretty clumsy. I apologize. I want to thank my guests Paul Glastris and Jacob Sullum and Andrei Cherny. And finally, no discussion of a draft would be complete without a brief look at the single most creative draft dodging scam ever perpetrated. It happened. History or maybe legend, but it really is history, has it in Brooklyn, New York during World War II. A local politician approached by parents seeking a way out of the draft for their sons would tell them, \"Look, there are four doctors at the local draft board. One of them is my guy. If your son gets to see my doctor, he'll be out. You owe me $500. If not, hey, that's life. But of course, you'll owe me nothing. The truth was Paul didn't know any of the doctors. He was simply relying on the laws of chance. If it happened that the kid was turned down for medical reasons, the grateful parents paid off. If not, no money changed hands. Would satisfied customers and without any actual act of bribery of any draft board doctor that scam went on for years. OK. so it won't make the next edition of \"The Greatest Generation.\" I'm Jeff Greenfield. Thanks for watching. Lou Dobbs MONEYLINE is next. 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{"id": "CNN-98197", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2005-10-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/01/smn.04.html", "summary": "New Orleans Residents Still Returning", "utt": ["And turning now to New Orleans. Some residents are getting their first look at the damage left behind by Hurricane Katrina and the overwhelming challenge of reclaiming the city is beginning to sink in. CNN's Dan Lothian is there and he joins us live. Dan, good morning.", "Good morning, Tony. Well, yes, yesterday some 200,000 residence, approximately, could move back in or at least return to their home. Some of them can move back in, others can simply return and maybe collect their belongings and begin the process of cleaning up. We picked up the newspaper this morning. Here are the headlines, \"Bittersweet Homecoming.\" And then inside, \"Returning New Orleans Residents Say They're Determined to Rebuild.\" Certainly, there is that determination, but it will be a long road ahead for many of them. In many areas, you still don't have electricity. You can't drink the water. And some of the structures are, if they haven't been knocked down completely, they're still not sound. In fact, some of them have been tagged, saying that essentially you have to repair the roof or you have to repair the foundation. You have to shore it up before you can move in because it's still too dangerous. There is that potential of the building collapsing. Yesterday, Mayor Ray Nagin said, in order for this city to rebuild they really will have to get the federal government's help.", "So in essence I'm saying help us. Doesn't give us a hand out, but help us to create the right environment and we'll take it from there. We don't want to be an undue burden on the federal government, but we do think that we contribute to this nation. We contribute mightily to this nation. And we deserve to be treated accordingly.", "Now, the help in the rebuilding efforts, yesterday the mayor announced a formation of a commission made up of some 17 members. These will be people who will be giving advice, ideas, not only to the mayor but to the city, on how they can go through this rebuilding effort. He hopes to have a final plan from them by the end of the year. But no doubt the rebuilding effort will take a very, very, very long time. Back to you.", "A long time. CNN's Dan Lothian in New Orleans for us. Dan, thank you.", "It was 10 years ago Monday that the O.J. Simpson not guilty verdict unleashed an emotional outburst nationwide. It almost seems like it was just yesterday, sort of.", "Yes, that's right.", "You know, not that long ago. Well, next on CNN SATURDAY, where is Simpson today? You just might be surprised.", "Plus, so far, 24,000 acres burned in California. The latest on the raging wildfires next."], "speaker": ["HARRIS", "DAN LOTHIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MAYOR RAY NAGIN, NEW ORLEANS", "LOTHIAN", "HARRIS", "WHITFIELD", "HARRIS", "WHITFIELD", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-343592", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-06-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/25/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Donald Trump on Immigration; Prince William in Jordan", "utt": ["Thank you for being with us. We're CNN Newsroom live in the United States and around the world this hour. I'm George Howell.", "And I'm Rosemary Church. Let's bring you up to date on the main stories we're following this hour.", "The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won re- election in Sunday's snap vote, this according to head of that country's supreme election board. With almost all votes counted, state media report Mr. Erdogan's coalition is also still in control of parliament. The opposition though is disputing those results.", "Prince William is in Jordan for the first leg of his Middle Eastern tour. He will soon meet with young Syrian refugees and visit an army base. Later on Monday, the Duke of Cambridge will fly to Israel, making him the first British royal to make an official visit to the country.", "The U.S. President Donald Trump is digging in on his tough stance on immigration. He tweeted Sunday that those caught illegally trying to enter the country that they should be deported without due process. No judicial involvement he says. Mr. Trump also said the U.S., \"Cannot allow all of these people to invade our country.\"", "Meanwhile, the U.S. Government has to deal with the more than 2,000 immigrant children in detention centers. Their job now how to reunite the families that was separated in April and made by the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy on illegal immigration. One migrant from El Salvador knows firsthand what it feels like to be separated from her child.", "Her 5-year-old daughter was taken from her when she arrived at the Texas border two years ago. She told her story to CNN's Scott McLean.", "It's hard to think of being locked up and separated from your child. But for this woman, it's a nightmare she doesn't have to imagine.", "It's very painful not only for us as mothers but also for our kids.", "She shared her story on condition of anonymity. Her case is still pending in court. It begins in early 2016 in her native El Salvador when a death threat from a local gang sent her running for her life. After traveling for almost a month, she reached the Texas border looking for asylum. Instead, she ended up losing her daughter. She was locked up in detention while the girl who was then just 5 years old was taken to a separate shelter for unaccompanied minors.", "I told them that they couldn't do that. We have to be together. And then she told me if I didn't let them take her, they were immediately going to deport us both.", "What was going through your mind at that point when you realized that you -- your daughter was being taken away from you?", "The truth is I thought that I wasn't going to see her again.", "She says it took two weeks to locate the child and it was almost three weeks before they connected by phone. What was that conversation like that first conversation with your daughter?", "I would say, my daughter, are you OK? And she would say, yes. I would say with God first, we're going to see each other again and she would just say, yes.", "After a month, the 5-year-old girl was turned over to a relative in the U.S. Her mother was released a few weeks later. Under the Obama administration, family separations were not widespread, but not unheard of either.", "Immigration laws --", "Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said separations were for health or safety concerns. A woman here had been deported alone once before. Her lawyer won't say why, but says the forced separation was unjustified.", "At that time it absolutely was not the policy. It was against policy.", "Not everyone in this country probably has sympathy for you. What would you say to those people?", "I can only say that this should no longer happen, that no kid is taken from their parents because it's a trauma the kids go through and it affects them and is impossible to forget.", "Mother and daughter are now living together in Western Colorado. But they will still have to convince a judge that they are in genuine need of protection and there are no guarantees. Does that scare you?", "Yes, for my life and my daughter's life.", "Scott McLean, CNN Las Vegas.", "Scott, thank you for the reporting. Now, let's get perspective with Scott Lucas, Scott, a Professor of International Politics at the University of Birmingham and the founder of E.A. WorldView live this hour via Skype in Birmingham, England. A pleasure to have you, Scott. Let's first talk about the president's suggestion that immigrants be denied due process as it stands now asylum seekers and even people who cross the border illegally. They had limited rights. The president wants to skip the judges, cut out the courts, and simply kick people out, your thoughts.", "This is not just a suggestion. This is a demand from Donald Trump and it's one that he has made before although he made it loudly on Twitter yesterday. Let's explain why. The Trump administration including Trump and advisers like Steven Miller see the courts as an impediment, not as an essential part of the American system. Remember that it was the courts that prevented them from implementing the Muslim ban in January 2017 on people being able to enter the U.S. from six mainly Muslim countries. Remember, it's the courts which had limited their ability in previous months to crackdown on immigration or carry out anti-immigration measures. Remember, it's the courts that could rule in this case that it is illegal to detain parents and children before they get to a port of entry and claim asylum. So in other words, the idea here is, you run over the courts. You bypass them and indeed it goes further because Trump also said yesterday that you will bypass Congress because what he effectively did is undermine Republican immigration bills and says, look, it's not worth passing these now. The Democrats will block them. The idea here is there should be only one source of power in the U.S. government, thus the Trump administration whatever the cost we see from this immigration policy.", "And Scott, let's just listen to what two lawmakers had to say when they were told that they didn't have permission to inspect a New Jersey detention center. Let's bring that up.", "You do not have permission.", "Yes, we now --", "Congressman entitled to do here --", "This is America. This isn't Moscow.", "And so Scott, we are seeing lawmakers turned away from these detention centers. One of them saying, this is America, not Moscow. What's going on here? On what basis are these detention centers allowed to prevent the access of lawmakers and of the media?", "There's, you know, there are certain provisions which regulate for example, when you're holding minors in, \"Shelters\", in this case detention centers. And that is for example, you may not be able to talk to these because these could be vulnerable children. There could be health issues about that. That is one reason why for example these children are being vaccinated. But let's be clear here. These aren't health and safety reasons preventing these basically visits. That is officials, officials answerable to the Trump administration don't want legislators, don't want journalists to see what is happening. Two weeks ago when they allowed limited visits albeit without photographs, that's when we first heard about the extent of the detentions. So why let them back in to continue to show us that in fact many of the children are not being reunited and indeed that many of the children are now effectively lost in the system because records haven't been kept.", "OK. Look, Scott, despite the images that we've all seen around the world of these detention centers despite the sounds, you know, the audios that -- the audio that we've all heard of the children screaming out for their mothers and their fathers. The president has indicated in Nevada this weekend that he sees the whole thing as a winning play going into the November midterms. Let's listen to that.", "And immigration, we have to be very strong. I like the issue for election too. Our issue is strong borders, no crime. Their issue is open borders, let MS-13 all over our country. That's what's going to happen if you listen to them.", "The emotion of what's happening set aside here, Scott, the question many voters they support what the president is doing, this aggressive approach toward immigration. Are Democrats underestimating his appeal here on this issue or is this enough to rally that base?", "Let's be clear. Some people support Trump. The question is whether it's many. It is the strategy of the key White House Adviser Steven Miller. It is probably the strategy shared by Attorney General Jeff Sessions as well as Trump which is if we continue to crack down no matter what the legal issues are, no matter what the cost is to children and parents, we'll win in November's congressional elections which means by the way, they're not going to apologize. They're not going to back down over what has happened in recent weeks. Connect that to the second issue. They think if they win in Congress in November that their belief, that the courts are not important, that you can go around Congress is justified. In other words, these elections now are much more than returning an individual representative or senator. It's even more than the immigration issue. It is a question about the extent of the Trump administration's power and I would go even farther. This is a battle for the soul of America coming up. It will be fought not over the next week, the next month but all the way through November and beyond.", "Scott Lucas, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it.", "Wow. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "All right. Let's take a short break. But still to come, a monsoon is bearing down on refugee camps in Bangladesh and it's feared hundreds of thousands of people may be in danger. 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{"id": "CNN-311191", "program": "WORLD RIGHT NOW WITH HALA GORANI", "date": "2017-04-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/28/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Trump Gives Campaign-Style Speech To Gun Lobby Group; Trump To Mark 100 Days With Saturday Rally; Tillerson Nations Must Downgrade Ties With North Korea; Comedy Show Spoofs Trump Ahead of 100-Day Mark", "utt": ["Hello. I'm Hannah Vaughan Jones sitting in for Hala Gorani live from CNN London and this is THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. Good evening and welcome. U.S. President Donald Trump is approaching a major milestone. Tomorrow marks 100 days since he took the oath of office, and the commander-in-chief is sending very mixed signals about how his term has gone so far. Just a short time ago, Mr. Trump spent part of his 99th day in office addressing the National Rifle Association. He is the first sitting president to address that powerful lobby since Ronald Reagan. Donald Trump took a positive tone to, again, reflect on his electoral win.", "November 8th, wasn't that a great evening? You remember that. It was a great evening. Remember that? They said, we have breaking news. Donald Trump has won the state of Michigan, Michigan. How is that -- Donald Trump has won the state of Wisconsin. Whoa. But earlier in the evening, remember, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, all the way up. We ran up the east coast. And, you know, the Republicans have a tremendous disadvantage in the Electoral College, you know that, a tremendous disadvantage. Then you go with Iowa, and Ohio, and all of the different states, it was a great evening, one that a lot of people will never forget.", "But in a Reuters interview, President Trump struck a more reflective tone and spoke candidly about his time in office. He lamented the lack of privacy and freedom and said he found the workload to be challenge. Take a listen.", "This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier. I thought it was more of a -- I'm a details-oriented person, I think you would say that, but I do miss my old life. This -- I like to work so that's not a problem, but this is actually more work.", "OK. Let's take a closer look at Trump's ups and downs so far. From Washington I'm joined by CNN's Stephen Collinson and our Nic Robertson is here on set with me in London. Gentlemen, welcome to you both. Stephen, I want to turn to you first. Let's talk about that National Rifle Association speech that the president just gave. He was very buoyant, looked very confident, but I suppose why wouldn't he be amongst his base?", "Yes. He was back in his comfort zone. We've had a week basically in which the president has had to endure repeated and grim assessments of his first 100 days in office particularly among the media and historians, who have basically pointed out that he has no grand legislative achievements. His attempts to do something big like repeal Obamacare, President Obama's health care law, they fought it actually yet again in the last few hours, and I think what he's doing now is going back to the places he feels most comfortable. The National Rifle Association, which is the powerful gun lobby which is hugely influential on American politics and where he won a lot of support. On Saturday, he's going to have a big rally in Pennsylvania, one of the states he mentioned there. This is about I think going back to where he feels comfortable and also saying, look, the people that supported me in that shock election win in November are still with me, and to the people who don't like him, and he's got the lowest approval ratings of any modern president at this time in his administration, it's almost like saying, tough, I'm not going to change, this is what you've got.", "We have to talk about the Reuters interview as well. Very, very candid there of President Trump, he's sort of saying -- well, he said it exactly that it's harder than it looks being president. Did you sense any hint of regret that he perhaps underestimated the scale of the task ahead?", "Well, I think it certainly raises the question of, is Donald Trump actually having a very good time being president, does he actually want to be president? It also raises the question of whether, you know, what he was doing running for president if he didn't have a good idea of what the most difficult job in the world many people say entails. It's not unusual for a president to take office and then find, wow, this is huge, everything comes out at me really quickly is really difficult. What's unusual, I think, is for someone to talk about it so candidly and so openly early on. Presidents often say things like this when they're headed out the door, but this is what Donald Trump's like. He's very personal. He talks to journalists in this sort of candid way and that's very unusual. And also I think underlines, you know, the great inexperience of Donald Trump. He has had no prior political experience. His learning curve therefore is much greater and the fact that he wasn't a politician was the reason he wasn't elected in the first place.", "And Stephen, just standby, I want to bring in Nic Robertson, who is in studio with me. Nic, a 100 days for Trump presidency, a 100 days of a lot of foreign policy as well. A surprise perhaps to Trump and to the rest of us.", "Yes. I think as we heard from the president, it's been 100 days of learning. I mean, look, he's learned a huge number of things. Number one, he came in and said China was an enemy and a currency manipulator. But he hasn't decided to call China a currency manipulator and said he can work well with the president there. He's realized he's learned on the job that if he wants to tackle the issue of North Korea, he needs the support of China. He's learned pretty quick as well with his cruise missile strike on President Assad's forces for using chemical weapons. When he did that, President Putin of Russia went from being a potential friend. Donald Trump had talked about, well, if he likes me, maybe that's going to be a good thing to overnight Putin become as foe because he backed Assad and the United States struck Assad's forces. So you know, there are some things that he's learned on the job there. There are other things that have been, you know, clearly some lessons to go. Angela Merkel, not doing the handshake in the oval office when she asked it. Angela Merkel at the press conference making a glib joke about how in his opinion they both shared somehow President Obama using the Security Services to eavesdrop on their phones. That was hugely embarrassing for the German chancellor. Doing that kind of stuff with big guests, that's people -- it's kind of a rookie mistake, but by his own words and what we see, there's an amount of learning, an amount.", "Theresa May as well clinging onto her hand as well. Slightly embarrassing perhaps for both of them there as well. I wonder what the rest of the world has learned from the 100 days. Do world leaders now have a better measure of the man?", "They're beginning to get one. Look, when he came in, he was unknown, untested. That was really unnerving for everyone. I think where people are at right now, there's a certain amount of unease about it. He's still unpredictable. This is a man who in his business like, the art of the deal if you like, a great disrupter going in to negotiate business negotiations and deals to hit the table hard, demand what you want, get your enemies off balance. The problem is his enemies like North Korea or President Putin or Russia who doesn't know what he's going to do next in Syria may be off balance, may be off guard, but at the same time his allies are off balance. They don't quite know what he's going to do next. We have Secretary Tillerson at the U.N. today saying that for the United States view, the international community should support the sanctions on North Korea. Diplomatically, that's great language that people want to hear, but what has President Trump done? What has the international community -- what has President Trump done? What has Secretary Tillerson done to engender that goodwill to now freely demanding and expecting to come from the international community? That's the sort of stuff that takes long-term diplomacy and skills to build up. They haven't put the box in place.", "Stephen Collinson, I want to go back to you. Everyone is going to have an opinion on how the 100 days have gone so far. His approval ratings, Donald Trump's approval ratings, I think we have some stats we can put up on the screen, they're at rock bottom at the moment. However, on the other hand, the markets are doing extremely well over the last 100 days. Do you think that Donald Trump in doing this interview with Reuters, in which he was so candid, he's basically reclaiming the narrative, getting on the front foot before everyone else seems to have an opinion?", "Yes certainly and he's reaffirming the sort of economic nationalism themes that were so successful for him in the campaign. The Dow as you said is on track, it looks like, to be at its highest percentage of any modern-day president since World War II in terms of, you know, increasing value during the first 100 days. I would say that a lot of that, though, is based on expectations. It's based on the expectation that Donald Trump can enact a generational tax reform plan. We've seen he's not had a great record so far in getting things through Congress. Tax is even more complicated than health care. So I think a lot of this is sort of frontloaded. The other thing is that we had first quarter growth figures today, which was somewhat disappointing (inaudible) 7 percent. For most of that period Donald Trump was president. So there are mixed economic signals. I think over the next 100 days and going forward Donald Trump is going to have to produce results if the stock market is going to continue to be high and that, of course, is going to have an impact on how Americans feel and ultimately on his approval ratings and his capacity to move legislation, to bend the will of lawmakers to do what he wants.", "Nic, final word to you on this. Tomorrow is Saturday. Tomorrow marks the 100-day milestone. What does Donald Trump do on a Saturday? He takes to Twitter. What do you expect?", "I think we are going to -- I think probably if you judge what we've seen this week, there'll probably be quite a stream of tweets from him. They may come early in the day as well. I have my alarm set on my phone. Every time he tweets, I hear it. Sometimes it seems that it's starting at 6:00 a.m. in the morning or somebody is for him. So you know, I think we will have a raft of messages to affirm what he thinks he's achieved, ignore the bad, and even perhaps harp on a little bit about the reporters are not giving him enough credit as he did with the NRA again today.", "Gentlemen, great to have you both. Our Nic Robertson in London and Stephen Collinson in D.C., thanks very much indeed. Now later on in the show, I'll be joined by one guest who says Donald Trump is gaining the respect of allies around the world and reinvigorating U.S. foreign policy. Plus a totally different political chat, the Simpsons weigh in on Donald Trump. I'll speak to the show's executive producer about how the president is inspiring comedy. That's all coming up on this show, THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. Now President Trump's rhetoric on North Korea's nuclear program has got even sharper as he approaches that 100-day mark. Here's what he told the Reuters news agency again on Thursday.", "Well, there's a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea, absolutely.", "The president forecasting a potential major conflict with North Korea, and today his secretary of state shared a special session of the U.N. Security Council where he steps up the pressure on members to distance themselves from a nuclear North Korea.", "We call on countries to suspend or downgrade diplomatic relations with North Korea. North Korea exploits its diplomatic privileges to fund its illicit nuclear and missile technology programs and constraining its diplomatic activity will cut off a flow of needed resources. In light of North Korea's recent actions normal relations with the DPRK are simply not acceptable.", "So how is North Korea reacting to all of this? Well, our Will Ripley is the only American television journalist currently reporting from Pyongyang. Take a look.", "Here in North Korea, the government watching very closely the outcome of this U.N. Security Council meeting chaired by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. President Trump ratcheting up the rhetoric saying openly that a major, major conflict could break out with North Korea which is really unusual a U.S. president to use that strong of language when dealing with a country like North Korea which responds in turn with its own rhetoric. In fact, there's a new comment out from the North Korean state media, KCNA saying, quote, \"In case a war breaks out on the peninsula, the U.S. will be held wholly accountable for it no matter who made the preemptive attack.\" They also in that commentary called the United States a gangster that's trying to turn the world against this country, but instead of backing down, they say they are speeding up their developments of nuclear weapons and missiles that could potentially carry them to the United States and other enemies. Speaking with North Korean officials here, they are defiantly opposed to any notion that they will buckle to international pressure. Even these new statements that are coming out of Beijing saying that the Chinese government is willing to work with the United States to try to find a solution to de-escalate the situation on the Korean Peninsula. China does have a considerable amount of economic leverage over this country with at least 70 percent of North Korean trade. They also control a major oil pipeline flowing into this country. If they were to cut that off, it could be a very severe situation for the people who live here. But in conversations with North Korean government officials they say they will not back down, they are not afraid, and, in fact, they only feel like they should work faster to build these weapons as fast as quickly possible to protect against what they view as the growing threat, perhaps the imminent threat of war with the United States. We have heard this kind of rhetoric before, but what we don't know, what is untested is how this is going to play out with North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Jong-un and President Trump, both who are clearly in this to win for their respective sides. Will Ripley, CNN, Pyongyang, North Korea.", "Will with that exclusive insight into what's going on inside North Korea right now. Richard Roth has been tracking today's special session on North Korea at the United Nations and joins me now with all the details. Richard, we hear from Secretary Tillerson that all options are still on the table, but reiterating it as well, what a military leader just a couple of days ago, that this is all about bringing Kim Jong-Un to heel, not to his knees.", "The idea was to put pressure on both North Korea and China, the main ally of North Korea on the international scene. Whether that's achieved, I don't know. It was a sobering matter of fact, the detailed series of remarks especially by the U.S. secretary of state. He said it's time for the Security Council to live up to all of its resolutions and that it's really time to move into a different era. Strategic patience is over and North Korea is now the one calling the shots and it's our turn in effect he was saying. China said there should be suspensions of activities. The U.S. and South Korea should stop its military maneuvers and North Korea would stop testing. The U.S. thinks it shouldn't work that way. That it really should be North Korea to take firm actions first before there is any talk of dialogue, which is what China favors.", "China makes two concerts efforts to address two urgent tasks. First, given the grave situation on peninsula China urges all parties to remain calm and exercise restraint provocative actions that would lead to miscalculation. There is and should be no double standard on this issue. Why we demand the DPRK to on serve the council's solutions. We also demand the U.S., the U.K., the other parties to refrain from or conducting exercises against the", "We will not negotiate our way back to the negotiating table with North Korea. We will not reward their violations of past resolutions. We will not reward their bad behavior with talks. We will only engage in talks with North Korea when they exhibit a good faith commitment to abiding by the Security Council resolutions and their past promises to end their nuclear programs. And that is why we must have full and complete compliance by every country to resolutions that have been enacted by this body in the past.", "The U.S. secretary of state, his Chinese counterpart meeting right now in the U.N. building. There was no resolution, Hannah, no votes. It was not expect at the end of this session. All eyes will be watching to see how North Korea behaves in the coming days and weeks ahead.", "Richard, we appreciate it. Richard Roth live for us there at the United Nations in New York. Stay with us here on THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. Still to come on the program, British police say they have foiled two potential terror attacks in 24 hours. We'll have the details. And Pope Francis becomes just the second pontiff ever to visit Egypt. We'll get a live report from Cairo coming up."], "speaker": ["HANNAH VAUGHAN JONES, CNN INTERNATIONAL GUEST ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "JONES", "PRESIDENT TRUMP", "JONES", "STEPHEN COLLINSON, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER", "JONES", "COLLINSON", "JONES", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR", "JONES", "ROBERTSON", "JONES", "COLLINSON", "JONES", "ROBERTSON", "JONES", "PRESIDENT TRUMP", "JONES", "REX TILLERSON, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE", "JONES", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JONES", "RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT", "WANG YI, CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER (through translator)", "DPRK. TILLERSON", "ROTH", "JONES"]}
{"id": "CNN-223788", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-1-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1401/27/nday.05.html", "summary": "Cruise Ship Mystery Illness; The Presidential Authority", "utt": ["The air hitting the Eastern half of the country today. Temps dropping 50 degrees in the South. What it will mean for school, commutes and the Super Bowl ahead.", "Mystery at sea. A fast spreading illness rips through a cruise ship. Hundreds sick. The trip ending early. The CDC now investigating and no one knows what's really behind it.", "True survivor. It was a parasailing trip that nearly turned deadly. Now one of those teenage girls in this terrifying video is speaking out about that moment and her amazing recovery. She joins us live this morning.", "Your NEW DAY continues right now.", "Good morning and welcome back to NEW DAY. It's 8 o'clock in the east and this morning you know it if you're experiencing it. Millions of Americans are going for another ride on the polar express; the severe cold has a firm grip on the Midwest and it's extending across the country in the coming days. Dangerous conditions in Minneapolis and Chicago are closing schools in both cities. So far more than 700 flights have been canceled nationwide. Let's get straight over to meteorologist Indra Petersons with the very latest on what to expect.", "I feel like the danger has returned again today, Kate. We're talking about temperatures this morning that feel like they are almost 40 below. Of course that's Minnesota, once again seeing Minneapolis now almost 38 below, Fargo 36 below but it's not just in the Upper Midwest. We're talking about this cold air really spreading into the Ohio Valley. Today down to the Southeast, even the Deep South and by tomorrow into the Northeast.", "Another round of frigid arctic air is already gripping the Midwest. Today it moves down the East Coast and by Tuesday it flows into the Deep South. The bitter cold system will bring another round of subzero temperatures. This morning schools in Chicago, Milwaukee and parts of Minnesota and Iowa closing their doors and asking parents to keep their kids home. Wind chills of 30 below in Chicago are forcing officials to action.", "There's too much of a danger of them getting frostbite or hypothermia.", "In northern Texas Mother Nature is leaving many with weather whiplash. It was in the 70s on Sunday and just 24 hours later temperatures expected to plummet around 30 degrees. These cities saw subzero temperatures way below average this month, and the worst has yet to come, a mounting concern for families in the Midwest who rely on propane to heat their homes. Shortages and price increases making it hard for 12 million Americans to stay warm.", "There are people that are down to 5 percent, 10 percent and with this cold weather coming up, they are going to be out.", "In New Jersey, the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks are arriving in the area for Sunday's Super Bowl game. The menacing winter weather has officials anxiously monitoring the forecast. They need to decide by the end of the week whether to move up the date of the game or change its time. As of today, the forecast says a chance of snow for the weekend, but just cloudy conditions during game time.", "So a lot of people have been asking, is this the coldest it has ever been? So I'll actually put up a comparison here for you. Minneapolis, yes, 15 below, but the record for today 23 below. So no, it's not the coldest it has ever been, but still there's a lot of perspective here. We keep talking about what does it feel like. In Alaska a comparison to the Midwest, I mean, Alaska's high today, 40. How unusual is this? And then we talk about Chicago today, their high being just 1. So definitely huge drastic comparisons when we talk about the temperatures across the country. What are we looking at? Again, today we're talking about these temperatures, the highs in Chicago expected to be 1 below and we know this cold air is spreading all the way down even into the Deep South where tomorrow morning we could be waking up with even snow in places like New Orleans. Definitely unusual winter for many of us.", "Boy, oh, boy, it's just getting worse and worse. I don't know what's going on with it. But everybody has got to prepare so we'll keep you informed. This morning we have new information for you. That deadly shooting at a Maryland mall over the weekend is raising familiar and terrible questions. Police say they have identified the shooter, but not what drove him to become a killer. The shooting left three dead, including the gunman. He's been identified now as 19-year-old Darion Marcus Aguilar. This morning police are digging into his background, investigating whether he even knew the people he gunned down. CNN's Erin McPike is in Columbia, Maryland with more. Erin?", "Chris, police said last night they found a journal in Aguilar's home that showed he was generally unhappy with his life, but they stress that they still have a lot of investigating to do to determine what led him to go this far.", "Howard County police identified 19-year-old Darion Marcus Aguilar as the shooter in the latest outbreak of gun violence to shock the country. Armed with a shotgun and what police say was a lot of ammunition, he terrorized Maryland's Columbia Mall, taking two other young lives before his own. Twenty-seven-year-old Chris came face to face with the gunman and described the scene but did not want to be identified.", "He shot her. Then 10, 15, maybe not even 10 seconds later I heard the second gunshot. I basically just like scrambled out of the store on my hands and knees right by the male employee, who was down on the ground, still alive.", "Those two victims are 21-year-old Brianna Benlolo and 25-year-old Tyler Johnson. Aguilar fired six to eight shots, investigators said, killing them both. Police still haven't pinned down a possible motive, though they say Aguilar lived in the same College Park, Maryland, neighborhood as Benlolo. Investigators raided Aguilar's home, taking away more ammunition, computers, documents and a journal.", "He does express some general unhappiness with his life. We have no known relationship between the victims and our shooter.", "Adding to the mystery, Aguilar was carrying a backpack with two homemade explosive devices which required extra cautionary measures to exam the crime scene including a robot. Surveillance videos, police say, revealed that Aguilar arrived by taxi at this upper level mall entrance around 10:15 Saturday morning, walking by a children's carousel. Over the next hour, they say he went downstairs and then back up into skateboard shop Zumiez, where the two victims worked. Before the rampage ended, the gunman injured another woman in the foot on the floor below.", "Kids were running. We -- you just ran. And you just run to the nearest place you could find.", "As witnesses tried to escape in the chaos, authorities say he then killed himself with the Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun, a shotgun the police say he bought legally.", "Now, the mall re-opens at 1:00 today. And officials here have been encouraging people to come and show their support, but they say they realize this community may never be quite back to normal -- Kate.", "I guess we can all understand that. Erin, thank you very much for that. Let's go to Washington now, though, following all of the new developments on the State of the Union address. The focus of the president's speech tomorrow is expected to move past his rocky 2013 and instead introduce a new plan to work around Congress and make use of his presidential authority. CNN's Brianna Keilar is at the White House with the very latest to give us a little preview. So what more are we learning about tomorrow's address?", "Well, Kate, we do expect a lot of this speech to be about reducing income inequality and this is an address that has been months in the making. CNN has learned that it was actually before Thanksgiving when aides first started working on this speech, and this is a monumental task for President Obama trying to salvage his second term.", "It's crunch time for President Obama. Making final edits on a speech he hopes will be the start of a turnaround.", "I think the public ended 2013 very frustrated.", "Obama's approval rating is slowly recovering. But he's still more unpopular than in any of his past State of the Union addresses, due in part to the botched rollout of his health care law. On Tuesday he'll tout a new plan to narrow the gap between rich and poor, even if he has to go it alone.", "He's not going to tell the American people that he's going to wait for Congress. He's going to move forward in areas like job training, education, manufacturing on his own to try to restore opportunity for American families.", "That means executive actions and public-private partnerships trying to get something done in a key midterm election year facing an uncooperative Republican-controlled House of Representatives.", "This is supposed to be a year of action.", "It sounds vaguely like a threat.", "The go-around Congress plan already rejected by Republicans, who say Obama is abusing his executive power.", "I think it also has a certain amount of arrogance in the sense that one of the fundamental principles of our country were the checks and balances.", "The one major legislative item Obama has his eye on is immigration reform. Despite House Republican opposition to a comprehensive plan. It was one of Obama's big agenda items in last year's State of the Union but it stalled along with expanding background checks on gun sales and increasing the minimum wage, which he'll push for again Tuesday night.", "Presidential power is something that's fought out every day and one speech isn't going to fundamentally change his position. But what he can do potentially is begin to lay out some themes to define the 2014 legislative and electoral battle.", "And that push will continue after the State of the Union, Kate, on a road trip that will take President Obama to Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Tennessee.", "Taking the show on the road, Brianna. Thank you so much. We'll talk to you soon. And also, of course, be sure to tune into CNN's coverage of the State of the Union address beginning tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. Eastern.", "Six hundred people on a Royal Caribbean cruise are sick. That much is known. But exactly what is it and why it's spreading so fast is not known and that is scary. CDC inspectors are on board, trying to figure out the malady as the ship heads home two days early. New this morning, there are clues about what might have caused the outbreak and why it's spreading so quickly. Senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is at the CNN Center. Elizabeth, we do hear about people getting sick on cruise ships, so many people, such a small space for so long. But what makes this different?", "What seems to make this one different is just the volume of people and how quickly it spread. As you said, these illnesses happened, but it's pretty unusual for a cruise to be cut short.", "Another cruise ship cutting short its planned Caribbean island hopping in a maritime version of the walk of shame. This one, Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas now heading back to home port after hundreds of passengers and crew members fell ill due to a fast-spreading virus whose origins remain a mystery. One passenger, Arnee Dodd, said her gastrointestinal symptoms came on suddenly.", "It was vomiting and diarrhea. It almost had no warning, I know, it was like high fever, chills, aches, dehydration.", "By the next morning she says the infirmary was packed with sick passengers.", "As soon as I got down there the nurse walked out and looked at everyone and said, if you're not sick you have to leave right now, because this is spreading faster than we can contain it.", "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still investigating why so many passengers got sick, but the typical cause is norovirus.", "You have all those people in a confined space over a long period of time and this is an easily transmissible virus person to person.", "Unfortunately, this cruise ship scenario has happened before.", "We were here with them two years ago, the same thing. The ship was overrun with this sickness.", "Last year according to the CDC, nine cruise ships reported illnesses among passengers. The year before that, 16. Royal Caribbean said in a statement that once docked, the ship underwent an extensive and thorough sanitizing.", "They were sanitizing the hallways. I mean they did ceiling to floor nonstop for about 24 hours.", "And infected passengers and crew were advised to stay in their cabins until they were well for at least 24 hours.", "Now you can go the CDC website to look at how each ship does on its health inspections. It's interesting; Explorer of the Seas gets really high marks. So it goes to show you that when a sick person, whether it's a passenger or a crew member, gets on board a ship it doesn't necessarily matter how clean the ship was to start with -- Michaela.", "It's a sobering thought, especially if you have a cruise booked in the next little while. Elizabeth Cohen, thank you for that, I think.", "All right. Let's take a look at the rest of your headlines. This morning new details on a U.S. airstrike in southern Somalia. The target is suspected militant leader. Officials say the target was a senior leader, affiliated with Al Qaeda and Al-Shabaab. The U.S. military has not confirmed if he was killed in the strike which they say involved missiles and no U.S. troops on the ground. This follows an aborted raid back in October when a Navy SEAL team tried to capture another Al-Shabaab leader in Somalia. Slow progress in the Syrian peace talks. New this morning, the Assad regime agreeing to allow hundreds of women and children to flee the war-ravaged city of Homs immediately. Armed guards have been reportedly preventing them from escaping. Talks between the government and opposition have been progressing slowly with today's session in Geneva focusing on a transitional government for Syria. New safety checks on hundreds of Boeing 767s are now being ordered by the FAA. According to \"The Wall Street Journal,\" there are concerns about a movable tail section jamming, an issue that could cause pilots to lose control of the aircraft. So far no planes have been grounded. The FAA is ordering new tests and the eventual replacement of the suspect parts over the next six years. Republican Senator Rand Paul slamming former President Bill Clinton for what he called the former president's predatory sexual behavior. Paul made those comments in response to Democrats' claims that Republicans were waging a war on women. The Kentucky senator says, quote, \"If Hillary Clinton decides to run for president in 2016, her husband's behavior should be investigated.\" I've got to show you this. Check him out. This 10-year-old boy was born with no arms but it has not stopped him from realizing his dream to play the trumpet. Jahmir Wallace from New Jersey says his older sister played the piano and he thought, I want to learn an instrument, too. His fifth grade music teacher worked with a local shop in order to build a stand for the horn so Wallace can use his toes in order to play. How about that?", "How about that?", "He's got some fancy feet.", "He sure does. He sure does. Nothing stopping him. I'm so impressed.", "No obstacles getting in his way. I love that.", "Makes the music a little bit sweeter.", "Going to take a break. Coming up next on NEW DAY, a billionaire's letter making some people's blood boil this morning. He compares criticism of the very wealthy to persecuting Jews in Nazi Germany. That debate ahead. And also this, remember this horrifying video of a parasailing accident. Two teens miraculously survive and we'll talk with one of them live about the unbelievable ordeal and her road to recovery."], "speaker": ["CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN HOST", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "INDRA PETERSONS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "PETERSONS (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PETERSONS (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PETERSONS (voice-over)", "PETERSONS", "CUOMO", "ERIN MCPIKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MCPIKE (voice-over)", "CHRIS, EYEWITNESS", "MCPIKE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MCPIKE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MCPIKE (voice-over)", "MCPIKE", "BOLDUAN", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KEILAR (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KEILAR (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KEILAR (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KEILAR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KEILAR", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "ELIZABETH COHEN, SR. 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{"id": "CNN-299120", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-11-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/27/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Separated Twins \"Ahead Of Schedule\"", "utt": ["Last month CNN got an exclusive look at the surgery that separated conjoined twins. Jadon and Anias McDonald were connected at the head and the world has been captivated by their story. CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, caught up with the family to see how the twins are recovering.", "When Nicole McDonald got to hold her son, Jadon, for the first time, it was as if she saw him for the first time.", "As a mother you know when you hold your child, you know every bit of their face, his face also encompassed to Anias is. So my first moment of relearning his face.", "Jadon and Anias are literally one in 2.5 million. They were born craniopagus twins, conjoined at the head, sharing between 1.5 inches to 2 inches of brain tissue. After over a year of planning, last month the boys were separated after a 27-hour long operation at Children's Hospital in the Bronx. The McDonalds have allowed CNN to follow their journey from surgery through rehab exclusively. (on camera): Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Hey, buddy. Hi! The last time we are in this room, they are on a --", "They were in one bed.", "You stick your tongue out at me.", "That's a new trick.", "For the McDonalds this entire month has been full of first times. The first time in separate beds. First time being held, first time seeing each other, but it has not been easy to get here. The boys have battled infections, fevers, and seizures. It's been particularly trying for Anias.", "Serious infections close to the brain. Skin involvement, they had to take, you know the bone out of Anias. They had to take skin out, for Anias, there is never a break.", "Despite all of that, the boys' doctors are so brazed with their progress. Dr. James Goodrich is the boys' neurosurgeon. (on camera): You said he was right or ahead of schedule even. Is there a schedule because it is so rare.", "They are just dealing with traumatic cases, people with injuries. Recovery times in months and sometimes years. We're at a month. This is one month out, this to me is incredibly fast.", "Do you feel like you have permission or do you allow yourself now to think about the future with regard to Jadon and Anias?", "I think about their future all the time. I think about the first time they go to a park, and getting married someday. And I thought through their whole future 100 times.", "It's not that I'm not optimistic, I guess, I'm just more curious what the future holds for them, but I guess I don't want to get my hopes up. I just take it one day at a time.", "But each day continues to bring more blessings. The day I visited, Nicole and Christian got to see Jadon without his head dressings for the first time. (on camera): What's that like? First time without the dressings.", "It is amazing. It's the most amazing thing, I can't believe it, look at his little hair on top growing in. So when I see them laying in their beds whole, and generally healthy, and I think mentally with it, and moving forward, I don't just see that miracle, that separation miracle, but the miracles that took place every step of the way.", "Fred, I think the images speak for themselves. It really brings a smile to my face, I'm sure yours as well. What you've seen is incredibly rare, one in 2.5 million pregnancies result in babies conjoined at the head. A smaller percentage making it all the way to delivery and even smaller percentage making it up to the age of 2. Then these boys have the incredible resources of a place like Montefore Hospital. Obviously many children don't have that. This separation is incredibly rare for all those reason and the doctor who performed the operation, the world's expert in this area said this was the most challenging separation he's ever done and now still one of the most rapid recoveries he's ever seen. So some good news in there. Fred, next stop for the boys will be rehabilitation. They are going to learn to sit up and learn to crawl and learn to walk. They are going to learn all of the other things they would have learned had they not been conjoined. In many ways it's a second birthday for them and they get a second shot at things. Fred, back to you.", "That is so sweet. So uplifting. Thank you so much, Dr. Sanjay Gupta for bringing us the incredible story. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "NICOLE MCDONALD, MOTHER OF JADON AND ANIAS", "GUPTA", "MCDONALD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MCDONALD", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "MCDONALD", "GUPTA", "DR. JAMES GOODRICH, NEUROSURGEION, THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT MONTEFORE MEDICAL CENTER", "GUPTA", "MCDONALD", "CHRISTIAN MCDONALD, FATHER OF JADON AND ANIAS", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "NICOLE MCDONALDS", "GUPTA", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-221560", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2013-12-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1312/24/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Gay And Lesbian Couples Line Up For Marriage Licenses In Utah; Pope Francis' Approval Rating Skyrockets During First Year of Papacy", "utt": ["It's a deeply conservative state and maybe one of the last places that gay rights advocates expected to see same sex marriage legalized but it has been, thanks to a federal court ruling and gay and lesbian couples, they are lining up they are ling up for marriage licenses in Utah. CNN's Miguel Marquez reports.", "For the gay and lesbian couples in Utah, those two little words mark the sound of victory.", "Now pronounce you bound together in the covenant of marriage, what god has joined together let no one put asunder.", "On Monday, a federal judge Shelby (ph) ruled same sex marriages are legal, denying the conservative state's emergency request to halt them, calling the ban unconstitutional.", "I never thought I would see this in my lifetime. I'm so grateful to finally have the protection of the state.", "This is it. It's go time.", "Hundreds of LGBT couples now ling up at clerk's offices, weathering frigid temperatures.", "Brave the cold all night long.", "And long waits to tie the knot, getting their hands on marriage licenses.", "Try number four for us.", "It's a victory nine years in the making, since the state's ban in 2004. Utah now joins the nation's capital and 17 other states that have legalized same sex marriage.", "It's a huge deal because for Mormons who have been spending these years fighting this battle, they have seen it happen across the country but really didn't expect to have it come to really their backyard.", "The conservative state refusing to back down. It filed an appeal in the tenth circuit court, the state's governor accusing Shelby (ph) of being quote, \"an activist federal judge\" and saying he's working to determine the best course to defend traditional marriage within the borders of Utah.", "It's going to be that much harder for conservatives to make the case that this can be stopped, when Utah, one of the most conservative states in the country, has now legalized it. Once the dominos start falling you wouldn't be able to stop it.", "You may kiss.", "Miguel Marquez, CNN, New York.", "Pope Francis signaled change when he said the catholic church was too focused on issues like gay marriage. That was really just the beginning. Since becoming pontiff in March, his words and actions have marked a break with the conservative papacies of John Paul II and Benedict, winning Francis fans around the world. CNN's Joe Johns is here with a closer look. I mean, just how popular is he?", "Very, very popular, Brianna. A new CNN/ORC poll shows Pope Francis with sky-high approval ratings that arguably make him the most well-regarded religious figure among Americans.", "He is greeted around the world like a superstar. Hailed as \"Time\"'s Person of the Year. And even though he's yet to come to the United States, Pope Francis has hordes of American admirers, Catholic or not. A new CNN/ORC poll shows 88 percent of American Catholics approve of the way the pope is handling his role as leader of the Catholic Church. And among all Americans, the pope enjoys a 72 percent favorable rating, a number that would make any American politician jealous.", "I think people feel that Pope Francis is a breath of fresh air and there's a newness in the Church.", "Dear brothers and sisters --", "From his first humble words after being elected, the pope has sought to address the issue of wealth and poverty through words and his own doings, turn down the palacial papal apartments for more modest quarters. Ditching the Vatican's luxury fleet, and even carried his own luggage. Americans approve of this pope of the people. SixtY-five percent approve of his comments on capitalism and the effects of a free market economy on the poor. Twenty-seven percent disapprove. He has been unafraid to confront social issues such as homosexuality.", "If a person is gay and accepts the Lord and has goodwill, who am I to judge them?", "The pope saying the Church is too consumed with gay marriage, contraception and abortion. Americans polled tend to agree with his positions. Only four percent feel he's too conservative, seven percent, too liberal, and 87 percent say his position on these hot- button issues is about right. He's also confronted one of the most profound issues facing the Catholic Church, pedophile priests, forming a commission of both laypeople and clergy to address this. Sixty-one percent of Americans polled say Pope Francis is doing a good job on this issue. Compare that with his predecessor, Pope Benedict, who garnered a 56 percent bad rating on this issue in 2010. From his Twitter account, which has millions of followers, to reports of him personally telephoning the faithful who have written to him, Pope Francis has endeared himself to people all around the world. But even a superstar cannot compete with a child for the limelight.", "Now, just to put the popularity of Pope Francis in perspective, we said just about 86 percent of American Catholics say he's in touch with the modern world. By comparison, more than half of American Catholics said Pope John Paul II was out of step with the times in 2003, near the end of his 26-year long papacy.", "Fascinating numbers. Joe Johns, thank you so much. Coming up at the top of the hour, a special on Pope Francis as he celebrates his first Christmas midnight mass at the Vatican. We'll see parts of the service. We'll talk about his extraordinary first year as pope. That's coming up at 6:00 Eastern, 3:00 Pacific right here on CNN. And just ahead, 200 miles above the earth, spate - space walking, I should say -- American astronauts carry out a risky repair job. Senator Bill Nelson, a former astronaut, will be joining us to talk about it."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARQUEZ", "COURTNEY MOSER. MARRIED PARTNER IN UTAH", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MARQUEZ", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MARQUEZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARQUEZ", "MCKAY COPPINS, POLITICAL EDITOR, BUZZFEED", "MARQUEZ", "COPPINS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARQUEZ", "KEILAR", "JOHNS", "JOHNS", "REV. EDWARD BECK, CNN RELIGION COMMENTATOR", "POPE FRANCIS (via translator)", "JOHNS", "POPE FRANCIS (via translator)", "JOHNS", "JOHNS", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-74256", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2003-7-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/25/lt.03.html", "summary": "Palestinian Prime Minister in Washington", "utt": ["While the president and the Palestinian prime minister meet in Washington, there are plenty of interested observers almost 6,000 miles away. They are waiting to see whether this meeting will help Israel and the Palestinians move down the road toward peace. Matthew Chance is live with us now from Jerusalem. He's got more from that particular perspective on these meetings under way in Washington. Hello, Matthew.", "Leon, thank you very much. As preparations continue for that meeting between the Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and President Bush, tragic events here on the ground underlining, once again, how urgent is the need for some kind of long-term solution to this Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Israeli and Palestinian officials confirming to us that an Israeli soldier has killed a 4-year-old Palestinian boy and wounded his two sisters, after opening fire on a car at a checkpoint in the West Bank. An Israeli army statement said a soldier fired at the car due to what they called an operational error at the checkpoint in the northwest -- the northern West Bank village of Barto (ph), which is close to the Palestinian West Bank town of Jenin. The statement said, a full inquiry into the incident is under way. The boy has been named as Mahmud Kabu (ph). He died immediately according to medical officials on the ground from a single gunshot wound. But one of sisters shot in the hand. His other sister was wounded in the leg, according to eyewitness his at the scene. Well, all this coming, of course, as the final preparations, as we've been discussing, are made for that meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and President Bush, where the Palestinian prime minister is expected to ask President Bush to put more pressure on the Israelis to fulfill their obligations under the U.S.-backed road map peace plan, to do things like release more of the more than 7,500 prisoners in Israeli custody, and to remove roadblocks, and as Chris Burns said earlier, to begin that the process of dismantling their settlements across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. But it is a symbolic visit, but also one the Palestinians certainly hope will produce real results on the ground as well -- Leon.", "Speaking of results on ground now, we hear Israel announced they'll be easing up restriction on the Palestinians. What can you tell us about that, Matthew?", "Yes, they've announced from the prime minister's office here in Jerusalem, they've announced that they will undertake a number of measures, in their words, to ease life for ordinary Palestinians. They're talking about removing a number of the very controversial roadblocks outside a number of key Palestinian towns that prevent Palestinians from moving freely throughout the occupied West Bank. They're also talking about sort of basically freeing up the roads that connect various Palestinian towns in the West Bank, as well as discussing the possibility of withdrawing their forces from at least two other Palestinian towns in the West Bank. All these measures, the Israelis say, aimed at easing restrictions on the Palestinians. The Israeli prime minister's office moving perhaps to preempt this meeting between Mahmoud Abbas and President Bush, but these measures unlikely at this stage to meet the demands of the Palestinians in Washington.", "Matthew Chance in Jerusalem. Thank you, Matthew. Appreciate that."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "CHANCE", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-46981", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-1-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/09/lad.09.html", "summary": "Six Dead After Gun Battle in Gaza", "utt": ["There is so much going on this morning. Before we get to the latest developments in Afghanistan, we want to bring you the latest violence from the Middle East. Four Israeli soldiers and two Palestinians are dead, killed in a fire fight earlier today at an army post near the borders of Israel, Gaza and Egypt. Our Jerrold Kessel is live in Jerusalem with the latest from there. Jerrold, take it away.", "Good morning, Carol. And this incident coming right along that border inside Israel at an army post on that -- on that Gaza-Israel border at this time. The Israeli security cabinet, it had been scheduled to convene for this irregular session, but it's now, we're told, being devoted to the implications of this attack by two Palestinian gunmen on the Israel army position. And we expect to hear what response the Israelis might be contemplating in the wake of this attack by the Palestinian militants. One government spokesman saying in advance of that meeting that this was so serious and incident that it simply could not be allowed to pass by.", "The Fatah is the party (ph) of Arafat, and under full control. And the Tanzim (ph), that's the military arm of the Fatah, they should be declared as terrorist organization, and the same should be done when it comes to the Presidential Guard, 417, which is the liaison with the Hezbollah.", "The Palestinian leadership under pressure from international leaders to explain. Here the European's top foreign policy man, Javier Solana, strenuously denies it was behind the arms smuggling attempt. Charging Israel is trying to derail the U.S. mediation efforts, the Palestinian leadership has promised a full scale investigation and welcomes, it says, international scrutiny.", "We want these four parties, the EU, the United States, Russia and the U.N., to participate in the investigation concerning this ship incident. We don't have anything to hide.", "With no let up -- no sign of a let up in the harsh war of words between Ariel Sharon and the Palestinian leadership, the Israelis are sending -- have sent a top ranking delegation of their intelligence officers to Washington to put the case to the United States that they have ironclad evidence of Palestinian authority implication in the boat -- arms boat affair. And now it's expected that there'll be more war of words over this latest attack across the Gaza-Israel border -- Carol.", "No doubt about that. Jerrold Kessel reporting live for us from Jerusalem this morning. Thank you very much. We'll let you get out of the rain. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ARIEL SHARON, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER", "KESSEL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KESSEL (on camera)", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-175004", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-10-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1110/31/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Cain Denies Sexual Harassment; Cain, Romney Still Lead Polls; Millions Without Power After Storm; World Population at Seven Billion; Cain Speaks at D.C. Think Tank; Cain Denies Sexual Harassment", "utt": ["It's the top of the hour now, 9:00 Eastern Tim. Welcome to more from the CNN NEWSROOM. Republican candidate Herman Cain this morning, he sits atop several polls and straddles a potential powder keg. As he is preparing to deliver a speech at a Washington think tank. He faces new questions of sexual harassment. According to Politico, two women filed complaints against him in the 1990s. And last night, the campaign issued a denial, but only after this awkward exchange with the reporter who broke the story.", "Have you ever been accused, sir, of harassment?", "Last one, guys.", "Last question, last question.", "Sir, have you? Yes or no? Have you ever been accused, sir, of sexual harassment? Have you, sir?", "That was the last question. Thanks. Thanks.", "Have you, sir? Yes or no. Have you ever been accused of sexual harassment?", "Well, Joe Johns has the details now, and Paul Steinhauser has the rest of the campaign fallout. Joe, let's go ahead and start with you. Do you expect Cain to address this issue this morning?", "Well, a million-dollar question, you know? He is the center of attention right now. A lot of people are going to be watching him. He is appearing at the American Enterprise Institute giving a speech. So questions are going to follow Herman Cain about this for quite a while. And at some point he'll probably have to say more. We need to be as transparent as we can about this story. We don't know a lot about the allegations right now. In fact, all we do know is that Herman Cain is the center of attention. Not in a good way. We've heard denials from his campaign. They call this rumors. Here's the quote. They say, among other things, that, \"Dredging up thinly sourced allegations stemming from Mr. Cain's tenure as the chief executive officer at the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, political trade press,\" they call them, \"are now casting aspersions on his character, spreading rumors that never stood up to the facts since Washington establishment critics haven't had much luck in attacking Mr. Cain's ideas to fix a bad economy and create jobs, they're trying to attack him any way they can.\" So that is sort of a non-denial denial there. Honestly, there's just a lot of questions. More questions than answers. Cain has been, he says, vaguely familiar with the allegations. So the first question is whether it's true that he's just vaguely familiar. The second question is pretty much about a nondisclosure agreement we're hearing about. This is the type of agreement all parties to an allegation sign in order to keep any of the information from going public. Where is the pressure point on that? Who signed the nondisclosure agreement? And now that Herman Cain is running for president, would everybody who signed that nondisclosure agreement give their consent to lift it so we can get at the truth? A lot of questions, Kyra, and we'll certainly be looking for Herman Cain to issue his own full and complete denial if all of this is simply not true.", "Sure. And just to reiterate, he is going to be speaking live any moment now. We will take that live. But, Joe, you know, through your sources, you've been on this beat a long time. Do you think right now that there really is enough here to cause him problems in this campaign?", "You know, it's very difficult to say. But you know as well as I do, Kyra, the arc of these stories is, you have an allegation out there, and you don't have a name associated with it or a lot of names, the first thing you look for is for the individual who made the allegation to come forward and talk about it. And if that individual does not come forward, it's very difficult to move the story forward. So that's the first thing. Let's see who's going to come out and talk.", "All right. And we're standing by for that. We'll take it live as soon as it happens. Joe, thanks so much. Meanwhile, a CNN poling -- another new poll shows that Herman Cain is still at the top in Iowa along with Mitt Romney Our deputy political director Paul Steinhauser with more of the story behind those numbers. And it's going to be interesting to see if indeed those numbers are impacted by these allegations coming forward -- Paul.", "Exactly, Kyra. Both these polls conducted obviously before the Politico story. We're just over two months away from the first votes in Iowa. Take a look at this. A \"Des Moines Register\" survey of Republicans who are likely to vote on those GOP caucuses on January 3rd. Look who's at the top there, Herman Cain and Mitt Romney. Basically a dead heat, 23 percent for the former Godfather's Pizza CEO, and 22 percent for Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who's making his second bid for the White House. Ron Paul, the congressman from Texas, at 12 percent. Everybody else in single digits. Let's go take a look at a CNN/\"TIME\"/ORC poll that came out middle of last week. And basically the same story. Romney and Cain, dead even just about at the top there. You know, Kyra, as Herman Cain has risen in the polls, remember, a dramatic rise, national polls and state polls, he's come under more scrutiny. His 9-9-9 plan which boosted him in the polls had been picked apart by his rivals for the GOP nomination. His -- every word he said on abortion has also come under scrutiny. And now this story from Politico -- Kyra.", "All right. And let's follow up as we are monitoring this and monitoring this live event where he'll be speaking at this think tank very soon. Rick Perry didn't stay out of the debates for very long.", "Yes. That was a storyline last week, right, would Perry go to all these upcoming debates? Remember his debate performances in those five debates in September and October did not help. It probably was one of the reasons why he went from the frontrunner in the polls much further down. And deteriorated in the polls. But over the weekend, his campaign and the candidate himself saying that he will take part in the four debates -- yes, there are four debates scheduled next month. Go to the calendar and all. Quickly go through them. On the 9th of November, you've got a CNBC debate in Michigan that's supposed to be entirely on the economy. You've got a CBS debate in South Carolina on the 12th. And a CNN debate on the 22nd here in Washington, D.C. Both of those debates supposed to focus on national security and foreign affairs. And finally, a CNN debate in Arizona, a state that's moved up its date on the primary calendar. That debate on November 30th. So a crowded calendar for debates. Rick Perry says I will be there. And he also says, Kyra, that he hopes by -- when this is all over he's a better debater.", "All right. We'll be following it. Thanks so much, Paul. And once again this morning, Herman Cain facing new questions of sexual harassment. He will be speaking live at a Washington think tank any minute. As soon as he begins, we're going to monitor that to see if he responds to those allegations while he is making that speech. All right. We're going to have your next political update in just about an hour. And a reminder, for all the latest political news, you can always go to our Web site, CNNPolitics.com. Now across much of the northeast, the workweek begins under a blanket of snow and misery now. From Maryland -- Maryland, rather, to Maine, this freak snowstorm dumped more than two feet of snow in a lot of areas. And that shattered snowfall records for the entire month of October. At least five deaths now blamed on that storm. More than 2.4 million homes and businesses are still without power, too. Those outages are scattered across the United States. Convoys of power crews are streaming into the disaster areas to clear the fallen trees, restore the service. But a lot of people will still face several freezing nights before their electricity is back on. CNN meteorologist Chad Myers is actually in York, Pennsylvania, for us this morning. So, Chad, describe the scene there for us.", "Well, this was a snowman Saturday afternoon.", "It's going to take a long time to get this back up, isn't it?", "Absolutely.", "How many days, do you think?", "I would say probably Wednesday.", "Wednesday.", "Yes. We've got a lot of crews coming in from other areas, other states.", "Here's the deal. We were down to about 25 degrees here. If you're in a house without power, and you can't turn on the furnace without power, because the blower won't go, the natural gas won't turn on, you should not just use your gas grill or your gas oven because that will bring carbon monoxide into your home. Another problem there, Kyra. So people are actually moving into hotels. All the hotels in the area were completely booked last night. I guess that's great for the hotels but bad for people that have now spent an extra $200 to $300 over the past couple of nights, that what they are telling me that was their Christmas fund in order to just stay warm. So although things are moving again today, it's not like it should be with a couple of million people without power for a few more days. It's still going to cost those people more and more money -- Kyra.", "We'll keep an eye on it, Chad. Thanks. And people are occupying Wall Street this morning despite the rough weather. Check out these pictures. It was at", "If it's trademarkable, someone is going to trademark it. And why not me?", "Our Poppy Harlow has that in the next hour of CNN NEWSROOM. And the world may seem a bit larger today. That's because the U.N. says the world population will hit seven billion people. Our Zain Verjee, she's not counting that high, but she is somewhat tracking that big number. Let's talk about the headlines, talking about how symbolic this number is.", "Yes, Kyra. You have to stop having more babies now because we are going to be --", "We have enough. Seven billion. We passed that mark today. Let me show you some of the newspaper headlines here. \"Gulf News\" in the United Arab Emirates puts the numbers out here. Here are all the zeros. Seven billion is its headline. And inside this paper there's an editorial that basically says that governments need to assess whether they have the right policies in place to improve the environment, protect natural resources, and have enough jobs for all these people. Take a look at the \"Dominion Post,\" this from New Zealand. It's actually kind of a cute headline with a cute picture. It says, \"How many people will Boo share the beach with?\" And that there, Kyra, is Boo. That's a baby temporarily named Boo actually. It's a story about the baby whose parents moved home to just escape all the people and wanted to bring her up in uncrowded waters near the surf. But it asks, what will Boo face in our world when she gets older? Finally, look at \"The National\". This is also in the United Arab Emirates. Again, seven billion, the figure, and it talks about, Kyra, the population of the world is growing and different countries need to find solutions to different strains on power, food, water, and resources around the world. Because that's really the question. Are we going to run out of resources to support seven billion people -- Kyra.", "Zain Verjee, it's really hard to kind of wrap your mind around that number. But I'm glad my twins got to contribute to it. And I'm stopping there, by the way. Thanks, Zain.", "All right. We want to remind you once again we are monitoring an event that's going to take place in Washington, D.C. at this think tank. Herman Cain going to be speaking live. And this comes just after he faces allegations of sexual harassment. We're going to see if he's going to take any questions from those within the crowd. We're monitoring that, and we'll bring it to you live. And JetBlue passengers spent eight hours stranded on the snowy tarmac with little food, little war, and backed up bathrooms.", "They're filled. They're totally filled. Nobody can go in them anymore. You just have to hold it.", "If you think passengers sound frustrated, just wait until you hear from the pilot.", "Tens of thousands, they started handing out the gear. Trying to get a good look. I believe his wife Elaine is --", "And how does St. Louis honor its new world champs? Well, it brings out the Budweiser Clydesdales, of course. 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{"id": "CNN-35016", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-7-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/18/lad.07.html", "summary": "Ask CNN: What's the Difference Between Stocks and Bonds?", "utt": ["Hi, my name's Clayton. I'm from Cartersville, Georgia. And my question is what's the difference between stocks and bonds?", "Stocks and bonds can both be part of an investor's portfolio, but they are different kinds of investments. When you buy stock in a company, you're really buying a little piece of that company. How much of that company you own is reflected by how many shares of stock you buy. Bonds are a different story. When you buy a bond, you're actually loaning money to the group that issues the bond, and you're getting interest in return. There are different kinds of bonds, depending on who's doing the borrowing. One of the most common types is the U.S. government's 30- year Treasury bond. Other kinds of bonds include corporate bonds, which companies issue when they want to raise money. There are also municipal bonds, which are for state and local governments, and for investors those are usually tax free, which can make them more attractive. So when you buy a stock, you're buying part of a company. When you buy a bond, you're loaning money and getting interest in return. Either way, you're making an investment. Good luck, and thanks for asking CNN. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CLAYTON, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA", "BILL DORMAN, CNN FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "NPR-22141", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2016-05-01", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/05/01/476380435/10-years-after-immigration-protests-what-has-changed", "title": "10 Years After Immigration Protests, What Has Changed?", "summary": "Jose Antonio Vargas of Define American, Fermin Vasquez of the SEIU and Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies discuss the legacy of 10 years of activism for immigration reform.", "utt": ["We're going to keep talking about immigration. As we mentioned, from March through May of 2006, mass immigration protests were held throughout the U.S. Some 500,000 people rallied in Los Angeles. All in all, protest and rallies were held in 140 cities and 39 states. So we wondered just what is the legacy of those marches on March 1, 2006? We've invited several guests to talk about that.", "Jose Antonio Vargas has become one of the most visible voices among activists seeking a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented. Fermin Vasquez is a DREAMer. He was brought to the U.S. without authorization when he was a child, and he helped organize the 2006 march in Los Angeles. And we're also joined by Jessica Vaughan. She's director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, a nonprofit group that advocates a more restrictive immigration policy. And I welcome you all, and thank you so much for being here.", "Thank you for having us.", "Oh, thank you for having us.", "So let me start with your memories from 2006, if that's OK. Fermin, you were just a teenager. Do you remember what gave you the idea to help organize the marches at that age?", "It was the first time I had come out to a march. And I did so because I thought it was important for young people like myself and my family to come out and - you know, not only to be heard but also to be seen on the streets. You know, you had folks promoting the march on the radio, on the streets, flyers, on social media. So it was a very vibrant march and a vibrant movement that was forming. But it was in response to the anti-immigrant legislation at that time.", "So Jose Antonio Vargas, what about you? When the 2006 marches happened, you were still not out about being undocumented. And in fact, I've heard you say that coming out of the closet as a gay man was less daunting than coming out as undocumented. So I was wondering back in 2006 when you were still not out, what was it like for you watching those marches?", "Well, actually, I was at The Washington Post. And, like, as someone who is undocumented but in the closet about it and not wanting to talk about it, I just really did not want anything to do with it. And I'm embarrassed to say that now by the way because I remember what a wake-up call that was. I mean, I have - you know, having grown up in the Bay Area in California, I mean, this was in many ways the first real visible flexing of muscle of the Latino community - not only the undocumented community but our U.S. citizen, you know, relatives, right? I mean, it showed how integrated undocumented people are in American life. What the marches did was start something which we have not been able to stop in the past few years, which is more and more undocumented people coming out in all facets of life.", "Jessica, what about you? Do you remember - as I mentioned, you're looking at this from a very different perspective. Do you remember where you were and what you were doing in 2006? Do you remember if you had any reaction to those marches at that time?", "Yes, I do. In 2006, I was working at the Center for Immigration Studies. So these protests were of interest, of course. But to me, it - they seemed pretty irrelevant to the policy debate at the time, except to the extent that they served to maybe harden views on both sides. You know, I really don't think the marches have made much of a difference in policy terms.", "Since they're still going on 10 years later and we still haven't seen policies enacted that the participants in the marches want to see, you know, I think it's pretty clear that they have not been effective in achieving comprehensive immigration reform.", "While they may have felt empowering to the people who took part, there were also people who had a negative reaction to these marches and were upset by the Mexican flags being flown. And, you know, of course - you know, that was a big strategic error on the part of the protesters that they haven't repeated since. People told them, like, look, you know, it doesn't do any good to march through the streets flying the flags of other countries if what you tell people that you're wanting is to become part of America.", "So, you know, I think there was actually some backlash as a result of the marches. And that persists today, where for a lot of people the marches are a symbol of our continued failure to enforce immigration laws.", "Immigration has always been polarizing in this country. And a lot has been said about the tone of the conversation right now. What does each of you think needs to happen to move the conversation forward from this point? Jose, do you want to start?", "Well, I would actually argue, you know, since coming out five years ago, I have done more than 600 events in 48 states across the country. The conversation is moving forward. It's moving forward in smaller communities, right, in all these different states. It's not moving forward nationally. But I think what I've realized is once people hear stories, once people hear facts, once people actually face you, right, there's a conversation that starts that moves people intellectually and emotionally.", "And I'm personally - you know, our work is focusing on that - on moving that - instead of doing the same old, same old D.C. conversation that happens...", "OK.", "It doesn't get us anywhere.", "Jessica, what do you think needs to happen going forward? Because it's clear that - you know, that really it seems to be kind of in stasis right now. What do you think needs to happen to get the conversation moving forward?", "Well, I want to say, first of all, that for me personally, the issue has never been that I didn't know that there were people like Jose and other hard-working, intelligent, motivated people who were here illegally who wanted to be able to stay. I've met Jose in person and many others who are involved in this movement and been very impressed with their dedication and their intelligence and motivation. That's not the problem.", "You need to do more than just march in the streets and chant. What you need to do is make a compelling case for your policy objectives. And that's really what's lacking. And so to move forward, what we need to do is get to a point with immigration enforcement where people are satisfied that the laws we have are going to be enforced and that any amnesty or expansion of immigration is not going to just provide more incentive for people to come here illegally. And it's only when we get to that point that people believe our immigration system has integrity that we can talk about an amnesty or changing the categories that we have.", "OK, Fermin, what about you? I'm going to give you the final word here, brief final word. What do you think needs to happen to get this conversation moving forward?", "For me, I think that we're stronger when we recognize the humanity of other people. We are stronger where we embrace other cultures and other people coming into our country. I think that's what's made America great. We are going to continue to march. We're marching for hope, not hate. We're marching to be recognized in this country and build a future based not on fear but on hope, a future based not on hate but on love. And that's our message to the American public that we're - this is our country. We're here to stay, and we contribute every day.", "All right, well, thank you for that. Thank you all so much for joining us. It was a rich conversation. We just heard from Fermin Vasquez. He's communications specialist for SEIU. He joined us from his home in Los Angeles earlier. We heard from Jose Antonio Vargas. He's the founder of Define American. It's a nonprofit organization which advocates for immigrants to tell their stories. He's also in Los Angeles. And Jessica Vaughan is director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, also nonprofit. She joined us from her home in Boston. Thank you all so much for speaking with us today.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Thank you, appreciate it."], "speaker": ["MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JESSICA VAUGHAN", "JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "FERMIN VASQUEZ", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JESSICA VAUGHAN", "JESSICA VAUGHAN", "JESSICA VAUGHAN", "JESSICA VAUGHAN", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS", "JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JESSICA VAUGHAN", "JESSICA VAUGHAN", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "FERMIN VASQUEZ", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "JESSICA VAUGHAN", "JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS", "FERMIN VASQUEZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-298836", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2016-11-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/23/ath.02.html", "summary": "Jared Kushner Gives \"Forbes\" Rare Interview.", "utt": ["We have some breaking new on the Donald Trump transition. Dr. Ben Carson tweeted moments ago, \"An announcement is forthcoming about my role in helping to make America great again.\" We don't know exactly what that role will be but the speculation was that he was offered the job of HUD secretary, Housing and Urban Development. And you think he wouldn't be tweeting about helping make America great again unless he was going to accept that offer. So, apparently, an announcement is forthcoming on that. Stay tuned. Besides Ben Carson, the most intriguing figure of the 2016 campaign, who doesn't give interviews, just gave an interview. How much does Donald Trump count on his son-in-law, Jared Kushner? So much that he now says that he might rely on the 35-year-old to help negotiate Mideast peace. Jared Kushner was a, if not the, central figure in the campaign. He spoke extensively to Forbes editor, Steven Bertoni, who joins us now. Steve, thanks so much for being with us.", "Thanks for having me.", "Jared Kushner made a point of saying in your interview that he didn't give interviews. So why is he giving one?", "I think there was so much press about him, even before the Chris Christie stuff, with stories in \"Esquire\" and \"Vanity Fair,\" kind of writing big pieces on him, but they never quoted him. I think after the Chris Christie stuff, when he was on the cover of all the newspapers, he decided to have his voice in the public market, and he spoke to us.", "He said the Chris Christie thing wasn't him. What was him was bringing in all kinds of new high-tech campaign practices to this. What did he do?", "He started from scratch. He's a real estate mogul, but he has a lot of tech investment. He wasn't an expert, so he said, how can I win an election? Donald Trump is a unique non-traditional candidate. How do we build a non-traditional campaign to make this work? Like an entrepreneur, he asked a lot of questions. He had no assumptions. And made -- they did things. They moved fast, broke things, made a lot of mistakes, but then they'd kill, and then whatever would work, they'd scale. They treated it like a consumer start-up, and that delivered -- helped deliver Trump to the White House. It wouldn't work with anyone else. It was custom made for someone like Trump, who was so nontraditional, so Twitter focused, so outside the normal bounds.", "He basically said it looked like the \"money ball\" of politics, for people that aren't baseball fans and don't know on base percentages. It's basically highest return on lowest investment.", "Yeah, they were saying that -- he went to the Electoral College. They said every Electoral College vote is worth the same amount of money, but you can buy them, so to speak, at different levels. They said New Hampshire very expensive just in terms of what it takes to get that vote. Let's avoid that and get things that are cheaper, maybe in Pennsylvania, maybe in Michigan. So, they looked at this as if a vote was a commodity and could they get the commodity at the cheapest price.", "As was sit here, and Hillary Clinton's popular vote lead grows to two million, that strategy seems incredibly prescient.", "It's like football. A lot of times, a team loses, gets more yards, but it's the team with the points. They went for the points, not for the yards.", "The Patriots know exactly what that means. Talk to me about the relationship between these two men? How much does Donald Trump rely on Jared Kushner and exactly why?", "Jared is just very - anyone you talk to about him, he's very polite and very even keeled, very quiet. People say he has an open mind. I've talked to people like Henry Kissinger, Peter Thiel and even Eric Schmidt, who is on the other side of the fence and who helped Hillary Clinton build her machine, and they said that, no matter your politics, you want Trump to have Jared in his ear. He's just trusted. He's rational. There's a lot of fear out there about this administration. And people like Eric Schmidt said, if you're scared of the Trump administration, it's good to have --- you want Jared Kushner in there because he's rational, he's centralist, and he's not - he might balance out the more extreme parts of this administration.", "Donald Trump told \"The New York Times\" yesterday that he might rely on Jared Kushner to help Mideast peace. When he said that, that sounds like an enormous task. But is it surprising to you that Trump said that?", "Yes. This has been a problem for so many years. It's so complex. I don't think any one person can do that, especially -- he has no international experience. But I think he saying that if Jared kind of takes that fresh look that helped him win the campaign, maybe that mind-set could help in Middle East peace. I don't think one person can solve this. This has been the biggest problem in the past 100 years.", "If nothing else, it does show how much Donald Trump counts on Jared Kushner and trusts him. Steve, thanks so much for being with us.", "Thanks for having me.", "A great article. And it's the only one of its kind because Jared Kushner has never really spoken like that before. Thanks for being with us.", "Thanks so much", "If we can put the countdown clock on the screen. In just over two hours and 45 minutes, President Obama will pardon either Tater or Tot. I don't know which is which, but the president does. He'll make that selection. Stay with us for that. Thanks for watching AT THIS HOUR. NEWSROOM with Pamela Brown starts right now.", "Hello. And welcome to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Pamela Brown, in for Brianna Keilar."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "STEVEN BERTONI, SENIOR EDITOR, FORBES", "BERMAN", "BERTONI", "BERMAN", "BERTONI", "BERMAN", "BERTONI", "BERMAN", "BERTONI", "BERMAN", "BERTONI", "BERMAN", "BERTONI", "BERMAN", "BERTONI", "BERMAN", "BARTONI", "BERMAN", "PAMELA BROWN, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-10278", "program": "Sunday", "date": "2000-6-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/18/sun.05.html", "summary": "Congress Criticizes Energy Secretary for Lax Security at Los Alamos", "utt": ["After lie detector questioning, the FBI is reportedly looking closely at only a few people who had access to two computer hard drives at the Los Alamos National Weapons Laboratory. The disks disappeared last month and mysteriously turned up on Friday. And while lawmakers in both parties have expressed concern for the nation's nuclear secrets, some Republicans are calling for heads to roll. CNN White House correspondent Kelly Wallace has a report.", "The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee did not mince words.", "It's time for Secretary Richardson to go.", "That call as the investigation at Los Alamos National Laboratory continues into whether two computer hard drives, similar to this one, containing nuclear secrets were compromised. Secretary Bill Richardson said no evidence of espionage has been uncovered and then answered his critics.", "I will not take a back seat to those that say I have put in strong security measures at all our labs. That has been my No. 1 priority.", "Richardson's security updates include ordering lie detector tests for some employees, that action after allegations surfaced early last year that Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee may have mishandled classified information. Months later, the Energy secretary said he had matters under control.", "I can assure the American people that their nuclear secrets are now safe at the labs.", "Richardson now says he did not take into account resistance from scientists at Los Alamos, but the Senate majority leader said the problem goes way beyond Secretary Richardson.", "This administration has had a cavalier attitude about security from its beginning.", "Republicans point to the disappearance of a highly classified State Department laptop and to former CIA Director John Deutch transferring secret documents to an unsecure home computer. Democrats had joined with Republicans in calling for a review of security procedures, some of which were put in place by previous administrations.", "Back in '92, President Bush issued a directive which relaxed the handling of secret as opposed to top secret documents, eliminated the need for register or handling.", "Secretary Richardson indicated he has no plans to step down, and the administration says it has full confidence in him. But his political future may be in doubt. His name has surfaced as a possible vice president candidate, but political observers think such a selection is now out of the question. Kelly Wallace, CNN, reporting live from the White House."], "speaker": ["GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR", "KELLY WALLACE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SEN. RICHARD SHELBY (R-AL), INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN", "WALLACE", "BILL RICHARDSON, ENERGY SECRETARY", "WALLACE", "RICHARDSON", "WALLACE", "SEN. TRENT LOTT (R-MS), MAJORITY LEADER", "WALLACE", "SEN. RICHARD BRYAN (D-NV), INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE", "WALLACE"]}
{"id": "NPR-11385", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2017-09-02", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/09/02/548075993/whats-up-with-the-subways", "title": "The Sorry State Of The Country's Subway Systems", "summary": "Subway systems in the U.S. have faced repeated breakdowns in recent months. Scott Simon speaks with UCLA Professor of Urban Planning Mike Manville about the state of America's subways.", "utt": ["It's been a tough summer for subway riders. Summer Of Hell some headlines have called it. The 112-year-old system in New York has been plagued by increasing delays, frustration and political finger pointing, which in New York, of course, is often the middle finger. Washington, D.C.'s metro system just completed a year-long series of maintenance surges to improve safety, but delays continue. Subway and rail transit in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco have also been plagued by service outages, delays, breakdowns and grousing from passengers. Mike Manville is a professor of planning at UCLA. Professor, thanks for being with us.", "Sure.", "Is something going on? Why are all these subway systems seeming to come apart at the same time?", "Well, there's no nationwide single cause. You know, these are all separate systems of course. I think that there's probably two things going on. In some of these systems, part of the delay is not a result of maintenance problems, but sort of the services being victims of their own success.", "You know, a big problem that's happening in New York is simply that ridership is at something close to an all-time high. And the more people who a ride a subway, the more time it takes for people to get on and off. And so delays start to add up. That's not the case in some of these other cities where ridership is maybe growing but not growing as fast.", "But I think that the common thread in a lot of these cities is just that these systems are old. The systems are old and maintenance has been deferred on them. And, you know, in different ways and at different times, that's starting to catch up.", "So it's part of the crumbling infrastructure problem in America?", "(Laughter) Yeah, you could say that. I mean, I think that, you know - and certainly, when you think about it, these are some of the oldest pieces of infrastructure we have. Often when we talk about the crumbling infrastructure, folks are worried about our highway system or our bridges and so forth. But as you said, New York subway system is 112 years old. Boston's is even older. The rail system in San Francisco is also quite old. So this is some of the oldest infrastructure we have. And so it's not that surprising that it's starting to give out.", "It's a special kind of horror to be delayed for, let's say, even half an hour or even five minutes, for that matter, in a subway car that's stalled that has no electricity that's well underneath the ground and the air is stifling. And that - just the fear of that happening is enough to drive people away, isn't it?", "Absolutely. And I think, honestly, it would drive more people away from some of these systems except that, in a couple of these cities, a lot of the folks who ride the subway - that really is the only option. If you're in New York or even in parts of downtown Boston or parts of downtown Chicago, switching over to driving is extremely expensive.", "And it also gets in the way of what's an important but also largely overlooked role of public transit in the United States, which is that it's an important social service. Particularly once you get outside of the New York cities and Bostons of the world, transit riders are disproportionately low-income. And this is a way that we move around people who can't afford the typical way of moving around for an American, which is owning a private automobile.", "Yeah. Any one or two things you'd like to recommend, professor?", "If we look to some other countries, you know - and London is a good example. London has been - has really been dramatically working to upgrade its own system, which is as old - actually, older than New York's. One thing London did that I think, ultimately, a lot of American cities are going to have to at least wrestle with is that they started charging drivers for the congestion they cause.", "And that those two things. One is that simply charging people to drive at busy times and in busy places accomplishes a goal that a lot of people want transit to accomplish but that transit can't accomplish, which is reduce traffic congestion. But it also generates a lot of money from a broad base. And some of that, not even all of it, some of that can go into upgrading the transportation system.", "Mike Manville, who's a professor of urban planning at UCLA, thanks so much for being with us today.", "Yeah, my pleasure."], "speaker": ["SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "MIKE MANVILLE", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "MIKE MANVILLE", "MIKE MANVILLE", "MIKE MANVILLE", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "MIKE MANVILLE", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "MIKE MANVILLE", "MIKE MANVILLE", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "MIKE MANVILLE", "MIKE MANVILLE", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "MIKE MANVILLE"]}
{"id": "CNN-180677", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-2-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/07/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Rising Number of Sex Offenders Not Registering", "utt": ["Here's a rundown of what we're working on next. We'll take you on a bus with U.S. Marshals tracking down sex offenders. CNN has rare access. Then invasion of the pythons. That's right. They've got a stranglehold on the Florida Everglades. And later, giant parade for New York's Super Bowl heroes. Check it out. Registered sex offender could be living right next door to you without you even knowing it. A new report shows that the number of registered sex offenders is now going up. And a lot of them are not complying with the rules that they have to comply with once released from jail. Sandra Endo, she went along with a team of U.S. Marshals to find out what is being done to make sure that these sex offenders are following the law. Sandra, let's start off with the basic question here, how big a problem is this?", "Well, according to this new report by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, over the past five years, the number of registered sex offenders went up 23 percent. Now out of the nearly quarter of a million registered sex offenders out there, actually there's three-fourths of a million according to this new report, 100,000 of them are in noncompliance with the registry. That means they give false addresses. They're not at the addresses they should be according to the registry. They flee the state. And that is why U.S. Marshals team up with local law enforcement to try to find these people who are in hiding. Now we got an exclusive inside look at a recent bust with marshals in Baltimore. We went to address after address, about seven locations, no luck. Not finding these registered sex offenders who were supposed to be there. Now finally after knocking on a lot of doors, there's a lot of investigative work that needs to be done, finally marshals got a lead on one alleged fugitive. They found him. They arrested him. They told us that this registered sex offender was convicted of statutory rape a few years ago. He has not been complying with the law, and he actually admitted that to us when we talked to him later after the bust. Have a listen.", "You have to notify officials where you move too. And you weren't doing that, right?", "No. I didn't do that.", "Did you think you could snide what were you thinking?", "No, I didn't think I could hide. I was trying to stall until I got money together. That was -- I wasn't trying to hide from the law or nothing. I was going turn myself in and everything --", "Why didn't you just register and comply with the law, let them know where you are?", "Because the last time I missed my appointment, they locked me up down there.", "He told CNN also that it's very hard to comply with the registry and that it's like wearing this -- a scarlet letter. And he'll have to do that for at least 25 years.", "Is there anything about this particular group that makes them able not to comply with these registries? How do they do that?", "Yes, it's something because law enforcement officials we spoke to, the U.S. Marshals say that this group of registered sex offenders are really unique because they are transient in nature. They can range from a very affluent person, who you may never suspect committed a crime like it, to somebody who's homeless. And that's what makes these numbers very hard to really nail down and have concrete numbers as to who's complying and who's not. Really, it's a cat-and-mouse game of chase. Trying to find these registered sex offenders to make sure they're in compliance.", "What should people do to protect themselves and their families?", "Really, you should be armed with information. All these registered sex offenders are listed on state data bases. Every state has a registry so you can look up on line where they're living. And there's a picture and name associated with their offense, as well. So even if they aren't at the address on the registry, you can be armed with information to know who to look out for because that name and picture are on the registry and on the Internet.", "All right. Sandra, thank you very much. And you can actually go inside that raid with Sandra and the U.S. Marshals. That's at 1:00 eastern in the newsroom. The slaughter in Syria intensifies.", "No one is spared as rocket fire and gunshots rain down. We've got a live report on what's next."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "SANDRA ENDO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ENDO", "ROBERT STANKIEWICZ, REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER", "ENDO", "STANKIEWICZ", "ENDO", "STANKIEWICZ", "MALVEAUX", "MALVEAUX", "ENDO", "MALVEAUX", "ENDO", "MALVEAUX", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-132497", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2008-11-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0811/18/ltm.03.html", "summary": "How the $700 Billion is Being Spent", "utt": ["00 right on the nose here in New York. A look at the top stories this morning. More than 100 retired generals and admirals are now calling for the military to repeal its don't-ask, don't-tell policy so that gay men and women can serve openly. That's according to a California Think Tank which supports the movement. Don't ask, don't tell was signed into law back in 1993. It stops the practice of asking potential service members if they're gay. But still require the dismissal of openly gay service members.And the White House planning to help with your holiday travel plans. President Bush expected to announce plans to open two lanes of military airspace to commercial planes this holiday season. The Air Traffic Controllers' Union is not impressed. It says that the White House did the same thing last year and it did little to ease congestion. Well, Ford is selling 20 percent of its take in Mazda in an effort to raise cash. The sale valued at $543 million. The shares will be bought by Mazda, along with several other business and insurance companies. The news comes on the same day that Ford's CEO will be on Capitol Hill to press for an emergency loan. America's number two automaker helped save the Japanese car maker from bankruptcy twelve years ago. Also new this morning, Washington gearing up for a showdown as Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke try to convince skeptical lawmakers that the $700 billion bailout will benefit you and the struggling economy. CNN's Jim Acosta is live in Washington. A big battle shaping up as they try to figure out, whether or not this is going to the places it was supposed to go and whether it's having the intended effect. Hi, Jim.", "Hi, Kiran. That's right. And with this lame duck session of Congress expected to wrap- up at the end of the week, there are indications Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson won't seek the other half of the $700 billion bailout. He is scheduled to appear at a hearing today on the handling of the program. One of the big questions, who is minding the bailout store?", "The bailout is one month old. Billions of dollars have flowed to the nation's biggest banks. But the government is just now getting around to naming someone to oversee the program full time. That someone is this man, Federal Prosecutor Neil Barofsky.", "I fully intend to keep you fully and properly apprise of significant findings and concerns.", "At his confirmation hearing, one senator compared oversight of the bailout to the Wild West.", "I would characterize the operation of this program now in terms of oversight as like Dodge City before the Marshalls showed up.", "The Treasury Department's inspector general who is unofficially keeping an eye on the bailout told the \"Washington Post,\" \"I don't think anyone understands right now how we're going to do proper oversight of this thing.\" The non-profit watch dog group, Taxpayers for Common Sense, points to the application for bailout funds. A form the banks must fill out to receive some of the money. It's just two pages, the group notes, shorter than the typical application for a mortgage.", "I mean, anybody thinks about the amount of credit they have applied for in their life, be it a student loan, a car loan, their house, anything. Lend credit personal business -- you know, it's more than two pages.", "A Treasury Department spokeswoman counters that banks must sign off on other supporting documents, as well. \"It's entirely inaccurate -- the spokeswoman says -- to imply this operation doesn't have oversight.\" Oklahoma Senator Jim Imhoff says he believes lawmakers were not told the truth about the bailout, adding \"Congress, doesn't know how much money Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has given away to anyone. It could be to his friends. It could be to anybody else. We don't know.\" Of the $700 billion in the bailout, only half has been authorized by Congress. Some key lawmakers say they're not quite ready to hand over the other half.", "We have learned now from what we have already seen that we -- we have to have some pretty strict oversight. Mr. Paulson has disappointed a number of us.", "Congress may be falling behind in its own oversight duties. It has just started making appointments to its own panel to oversee the bailout and its already missed a deadline to file a report on the program's progress. Kiran?", "So what does this application that the banks have to fill out for the bailout look like?", "Well, I have it right here, Kiran. And it's fascinating to look at. We pulled this right off the Treasury Department's Web site. On page one is the institution name, the address, the primary contact name and phone number. And then on page two, the CEO does have to put his signature down and date that signature. But that's it. Just two pages. There are some supporting documents that they have to sign off on. And when we talk to the taxpayers for common sense about this, they say this is an indication about how quickly the federal government wanted to get that money out to these institutions, Kiran.", "All right, Jim Acosta for us this morning, thanks.", "You bet.", "Well, happening now in Chicago. Aids to President-elect Barack Obama pouring over some of former President Clinton's finances and overseas links -- part of the vetting process for his wife, Hillary, as a possible pick for Secretary of State. CNN's Ed Henry is working the story for us live in Chicago this morning. Ed, just how serious a contender is she for the position?", "Well, good morning, John. Senior Democrats say with all this digging around going on by the Obama camp, they think that's a clear sign that she is a very serious contender for the job of secretary of state. It comes at a time when the President-elect seems to be reaching out to a lot of former rivals.", "This is a president-elect who believes in keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. Whether it's mulling Hillary Clinton for secretary of state or making nice with John McCain in Chicago.", "We're just going to have a good conversation about how we can do some work together to fix up the country, and also to offer thanks to Senator McCain for the outstanding service he's already rendered.", "The two former rivals privately discussed some controversial issues they plan to work on together next year as they turn the page on a bitter campaign. A senior Obama transition official told CNN they talked about trying to revive the immigration reform plan that fell apart last year, and finding a way to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Those are hot button issues that will be hard to find common ground, especially since their body language suggested it's not easy to heal their divisions.", "Hey, guys. What's up?", "This moment had awkward written all over it. So they did what guys do. Talk football.", "I noticed that yesterday's football.", "Oh, see there.", "Greeted with --", "Oh, they brought up the bears.", "They're trying to show they can bury the hatchet, but there are limits. People on each side insist McCain will not get a cabinet post.", "I'm not going to speculate or address anything.", "Speculation is only intensifying, however, about a place in the cabinet for another former rival. Two Obama transition officials confirm they have started looking at former President Bill Clinton's finances and post-presidential dealings, including his charitable foundation and presidential library to identify potential roadblocks to his wife being nominated as secretary of state. The president-elect has still not made a formal job offer, but senior Democrats believe the vetting shows he's serious about considering it.", "Now, the Web site, Politico, is reporting that there is exasperation in the Obama camp about the slow pace of turning over records from the Clinton camp. But I can tell you, senior Obama aids insist that is not true. They say they are satisfied with what they have gotten so far, but they do want more information. And they point out, look, Bill Clinton has also done a lot of good work with his charitable foundation and they don't want that to overshadow everything. And they want to get some records, but they also want to point out he has done a lot of good work, John.", "It's a great guessing game going on over there, isn't it, Ed?", "Absolutely.", "All right. Ed Henry for us this morning in Chicago. Ed, thanks so much.", "Barack Obama's energy plan. He campaigned on change, but will the falling price of oil actually cost some of his big ideas to hit the skids? Also, taking a page from Barack Obama. The president-elect changed the game online during the campaign. We're going to tell you which candidate on the other side of the world seems to have noticed. It's eight minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["KIRAN CHETRY, CNN HOST:  8", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN GENERAL ASSIGNMENT CORRESPONDENT", "ACOSTA (voice-over)", "NEIL BAROFSKY, INSPECTOR GENERAL NOMINEE", "ACOSTA", "SEN. RON WYDEN (D), OREGON", "ACOSTA", "RYAN ALEXANDER, TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE", "ACOSTA", "REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS (D), MARYLAND", "ACOSTA", "CHETRY", "ACOSTA", "CHETRY", "ACOSTA", "ROBERTS", "ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "HENRY (voice-over)", "OBAMA", "HENRY", "OBAMA", "HENRY", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA", "OBAMA", "MCCAIN", "OBAMA", "HENRY", "SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), NEW YORK", "HENRY", "HENRY", "ROBERTS", "HENRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY"]}
{"id": "NPR-24961", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2013-10-16", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2013/10/16/235186505/has-elite-interrogation-group-lived-up-to-expectations", "title": "Has Elite Interrogation Group Lived Up To Expectations?", "summary": "The man the U.S. alleges is the top al-Qaida operative who orchestrated the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania has pleaded not guilty to the charges at a federal court in Manhattan. The case has brought the High Value Interrogation Group back into the spotlight. It was created by the Obama administration to extract valuable intelligence from terrorists, but national security experts say there have been too few cases to judge its promise.", "utt": ["It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne.", "And I'm Steve Inskeep.", "The man known as Abu Anas al-Libi appeared in a New York courtroom yesterday and pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges over his alleged role in the 1998 U.S. bombings in East Africa. Al-Libi was snatched by U.S. Special Forces from Libya earlier this month. For a week, he was held on a Navy ship somewhere in the Mediterranean, while interrogators worked to extract information. Those interrogators belong to a special group created by President Obama to get intelligence out of al-Qaida-linked suspects.", "NPR's Carrie Johnson reports, national security experts say they are not sure that group has lived up to expectations.", "It's called the High Value Interrogation Group, and when the White House unveiled it back in 2009, officials sold the idea as a way to question the most dangerous terrorists while reserving the right to prosecute them later in American courts.", "Michael Allen, who worked on national security in the Bush White House and in the Congress, says the group has value because it puts experts from the FBI, the CIA and the Pentagon on the same page.", "The High Value Interrogation group, on paper, conceptually, is a good idea, in that it brings together all elements of intelligence power and law enforcement power to an interrogation of a suspected terrorist.", "A sort of all-star SEAL Team 6 for interrogations. So far, the group has mobilized for would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and, just last week, somewhere onboard the USS San Antonio, was Abu Anas al-Libi. He was indicted for his role in the 1998 Africa Embassy bombings.", "But Allen, a consultant and author of \"Blinking Red,\" a book on intelligence reforms, says there haven't been enough cases to judge how effective the interrogation group is.", "I think that what we're going to have to see is, ultimately, a judgment on whether it's been effective and whether bureaucratic problems have prevented its effectiveness. And so I guess the jury is still out.", "Two former government officials say the FBI-led group has gone without a director for long stretches of time, and that, in some cases, host countries have denied interrogators access to high-value terrorism suspects. Civil liberties groups, meanwhile, are uncomfortable about it for another reason.", "Hina Shamsi of the ACLU says there's no need to hold suspects in a sort of limbo.", "There appears to be this mythology that military custody and interrogation in military custody - even if by civilian agencies - is somehow going to be more effective or get us more different kinds of information than the criminal justice system.", "Shamsi says regular interrogations work just fine. She has doubts about the Obama model, where a detainee moves from military custody back into the criminal justice system, where a new team of FBI agents comes in to deliver Miranda warnings.", "And you have to wonder why it is that you would need a so-called High Value Interrogation Team that is followed by a clean team that apparently cleans up after them.", "Shamsi also takes issue with some of the methods the special team uses from the Army Field Manual, like prolonged isolation. It's not clear how much useful information interrogators got out of al-Libi. U.S. officials say they cut short the interrogation after only a week because al-Libi had serious medical problems, including hepatitis C that got worse after he refused to eat or drink on the ship.", "Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "MICHAEL ALLEN", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "MICHAEL ALLEN", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "HINA SHAMSI", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "HINA SHAMSI", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE", "CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-158652", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-11-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1011/24/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Opting Out of Body Scans; Latest Travel Info; Thank Your TSA Agent", "utt": ["All right. We got to take a look at some \"Odds & Ends\" here. All right. The second one you're really going to get a kick out of, I was kind of smiling and you'll see why when I show you the second one. The first one here, I'm going to show you an album. Take a look at this album here behind me. It's the last thing John Lennon ever signed, and it was on the day he was murdered. A closer picture of the autograph here now. Well, who did he sign that to? Mark David Chapman. That's the guy who shot and killed him a little while later. That album was just sold. The price, $850,000. Now to the other odds and ends I want to share with you here. TSA-proof underwear. Take a look at what you're seeing here. And maybe not the most stylish of things, but a Las Vegas man has designed underwear that uses strategically placed radiation-shielding fig leaves to cover your private parts. Now, you've seen TSA privacy controversies all over the news lately, so here is one way for possibly the travelers to fight back. And with that, let's head on to the top of the hour, shall we? Hello to you all. I am T.J. Holmes, in today for my good friend Ali Velshi. Let me tell you what we've got \"On the Rundown\" this next hour. Millions of Americans hitting the roads and skies, trying to reach their holiday destination. We're going to see what's going to be messing with your travel plans. It could be the weather. Could it be that planned protest of airport security measures? How is all that going to affect your commute? We're checking in all over the country. Also, those flaring tensions on the Korean Peninsula right now after the North and South pretty much came to blows. We're following the developments as the U.S. prepares for planned war games. Also, toddlers and television. What should they be watching? Should they be watching things that entertain them? Should they be watching things that teach them? Well, it's not as simple having one way or the other. A little of both is what they actually need. We're going to be finding out all about it in today's \"Chalk Talk\" But let's get back to what is the busiest -- could be the busiest travel day of the year. Maybe it will. Maybe it won't. No matter what, it is going to be busy. And it's not going to be easy for a lot of folks out there. Millions of people are starting to clog the roads, starting to clog the airports right now. They're trying to get to that turkey dinner tomorrow. We here at CNN, we are watching all the pressure points all over the country to see where the tie-ups are, the slowdowns are, see if those opt-outs are actually affecting you. Also keeping a close eye on the weather. Now, back to this opt-out, supposedly flyers who object to TSA body scan machines will opt for the much more time-consuming pat- downs. The idea here is to show some kind of protest and essentially slow down the airport on one of the busiest days of the year. But so far what we're seeing, not a lot of people are opting out, and it's not really slowing things down. So maybe not having the desired effect that some of those critics and protesters wanted it to have. To give you a big picture of what's happening today though, 42.2 million people are expected to travel at least 50 miles away from their own homes, heading to dinner somewhere. Almost everybody, though, is going to be driving. We get these forecasts from AAA. They say 94 percent of that 42- plus million are going to be driving. Just four percent are going to be flying. Still, that's almost 1.5 million people who will be flying out there. It doesn't sounds like the big chunk of us are going to be flying, of course, just four percent. But take a look at the picture. This is always an interesting one to show, this Flight Tracker map of planes that are in the sky right now. Pretty crowded out there, but you always have to keep in mind, it's a big sky and there should be plenty of space out there right now. Two at the top we want to turn to right now. We want to turn to CNN's Ted Rowlands. He is one of our many correspondents who have been traveling today to see what it's like. And we're looking behind you. It doesn't look too busy. I shouldn't let that fool me though, should I?", "No. Oh, yes, it doesn't look busy at all. There's nobody behind me. People come and go here. We're at one of the ticket counters. The security checkpoints have had a pretty steady flow of people. We started our day in Los Angeles. A lot of folks there. Early this morning, we were going through security at the different terminals at LAX, and what we found, talking to the TSA and talking to passengers, that there was really no evidence at all, T.J., to this opt-out. There were no delays caused by people saying, I don't want the full-body scanner, I want to be frisked, or I want a pat-down, and I want to do that just to make everybody mad so I could prove a point. No evidence of that at all. We arrived at San Francisco this morning as well, and we spent a lot of time watching people get patted down, if you will. And we talked to a lot of people with different opinions as to what they thought of the pat-downs. We heard people say, hey, it's all part of it, it's no big deal. We heard some other people that legitimately did say that they were upset by the fact that the TSA was doing this. They felt as though they were violated. Here's a sample of some of those different opinions.", "I had no problem with that. But once they started -- you know, they had come to the pat-down, and they're feeling all up inside you, and groping it, I just totally didn't like it. I totally -- I feel violated.", "What's your take on this whole controversy over the pat-down and the body scanners?", "I don't have any problem with profiling. I mean, I don't exactly look like a threat, first of all. But I think the body scanner is probably the way to go.", "It is amazing, actually, T.J. A lot of people have said to us that they wished that the TSA would profile more, make eye contact, and don't give a pat-down to an 87-year-old guy in a wheelchair. That really has been the recurring theme that we've heard. One of the things we should also point out with this whole opt- out, it really doesn't make much sense, because most airports don't have scanner-only checkpoints. So you have the magnetometers, the regular x-ray machines, then these scanners, and then the pat-downs. If you don't want to go through that scanner, you can just go through the old-fashioned x-ray machines and you don't have to deal with it at all. So that's what we really have seen at both LAX and San Francisco today and, quite frankly, around the country, no evidence that this opt-out has taken hold.", "Well, we're glad it's not disrupting things, at least on this day. I know a lot of other people are -- other ways to protest. And I'm sure we'll be hearing protests down the road. Ted, good to see you, as always. Glad you didn't have too many issues as you travel today. Well, a California man is being held on $5 million bail, accused of turning his home into a bomb factory. An investigation found three types of explosives, including PETN. That may sound familiar. That's the same stuff that was used by the shoe bomber and also the underwear bomber. It's the focus of today's \"Sound Effect.\"", "It's very sensitive, very powerful, and very dangerous. We have found in excess of nine pounds of this material, and that's significant.", "It's significant, and it is actually the biggest find of its kind ever in one location in the U.S. George Jacovac (ph) is an unemployed computer consultant and naturalized citizen from Serbia. He had been flying under the radar until his gardener was actually hurt in an explosion at the home last week. The suspect has now pleaded not guilty to more than two dozen explosive charges, as well as two counts of bank robbery. Let's turn to some other stories now we're keeping a close eye on. A family tragedy playing out in a Michigan courtroom. Taking the stand in a preliminary hearing, the survivor of a brutal stabbing attack that was two weeks ago. Mara Skinner calmly described how she and her husband woke up to a nightmare.", "The next thing that I remember is my husband shouting for me. He shouted, \"Hon! Hon!\" And at that same moment that he was shouting my name, I felt blunt forces to the back of my -- to my back and to my head.", "Did you see the person that was attacking you?", "No.", "Now, her husband, Paul, he died from his wounds. Their 17-year-old daughter accused of setting this whole thing in motion because her parents disapproved of her boyfriend. Now she, the boyfriend and another teenager being held without bond until trial. Also, police are again facing off against student protesters in cities across Britain. Some rowdy crowds in London. They tried to push past police lines in the latest round of demonstrations against college tuition hikes. To help battle this budget deficit, the government there plans to lift the current cap on tuition, which is about $5,000 a year, to as much as $14,000 a year. Also right now, much of the world still in shock over the deadly artillery duel between North and South Korea. Now U.S. warships are heading into those troubled waters, and shell-shocked civilians getting out of there. You'll see it all when we get back."], "speaker": ["T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROWLANDS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROWLANDS", "HOLMES", "JAN CALDWELL, SAN DIEGO COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT.", "HOLMES", "MARA SKINNER, SUFFERED 26 STAB WOUNDS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SKINNER", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "NPR-32811", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2011-07-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/07/08/137709662/sen-whitehouse-discusses-debt-talks", "title": "Sen. Whitehouse Discusses Debt Talks", "summary": "Michele Norris speaks with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, about the debt ceiling talks. He has said that the White House may not have the Democrats, depending on what is being proposed.", "utt": ["Joining us now to talk about this is Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. He's a Democrat from Rhode Island. He sits on the Budget Committee. Senator, thank you very much for being with us.", "Good to be with you, Michele.", "Now, what impact will the disappointing job numbers reported today have on these negotiations? And I'm wondering where there's room for compromise.", "You can have a balanced budget at 6 percent unemployment, and you can have a balanced budget at 16 percent unemployment. And we need to make sure we're keeping our eye on that ball, because we do not want to end up with a balanced budget at 16 percent unemployment. That would be a true failure.", "Let me ask you, senator, about proposed cuts in specific programs. President Obama said the country needs to look at cuts to some of the entitlement programs, the trinity that some Democrats do not want to touch - Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare. Is he right about that, will those programs have to be trimmed? And if so, where do you think the line should be drawn?", "I think the Republicans do the country a disservice when they throw Social Security and Medicare together under the term the entitlement programs. And the seniors that I see in Rhode Island who haven't had a cola in two years, who are living on an average of about $14,000 a year from Social Security, they really can't bear much more of a burden. And it's the wrong place to look for cuts, A, because it didn't contribute to the deficit; and, B, because those people really don't have anything to spare.", "So you're saying no cuts in Social Security?", "I think there should be no cuts to Social Security. I think that the Republicans have been eager to take apart Social Security forever. They have a real vendetta against it, and they're using this opportunity to kind of drive out of the road and up on the sidewalk and try to knock down Social Security because they want to, not because it's a significant part of our deficit problem.", "So you disagree with the president there. What about Medicare and Medicaid?", "If you leave those exploding cost factors alone and just throw seniors under the bus and take away their benefits, and you haven't done anything about the underlying problem, I think you've misdiagnosed what the problem is and you've done a real disservice to America and her seniors.", "You were quoted as saying, I think, it's a risky thing for the White House to basically take the bet that we can be presented with something at the last minute and that we will go for it. We, I think, in that case, meaning the Democrats. Is it possible that a compromise might happen without all the Democrats on board?", "I think that that is possible, and it's also possible that a compromise could fail and not get through the Senate because it doesn't have enough Democrats on board. And I think the White House needs to be watchful of those concerns so that we're not all caught by surprise as this thing comes really to the brink, and suddenly, they present us with something that is unacceptable and haven't bothered to sort out with us beforehand what's acceptable and what is not in the course of their negotiations. I think that is a real risk and a real danger that we have to be careful to avoid.", "Senator Whitehouse, it's been good to talk to you. Thank you very much for making time for us.", "Yeah.", "That's Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. He's a Democrat from Rhode Island. He sits on the Budget Committee."], "speaker": ["MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "SHELDON WHITEHOUSE", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "SHELDON WHITEHOUSE", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "SHELDON WHITEHOUSE", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "SHELDON WHITEHOUSE", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "SHELDON WHITEHOUSE", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "SHELDON WHITEHOUSE", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "SHELDON WHITEHOUSE", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host"]}
{"id": "CNN-71480", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-5-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/28/lad.03.html", "summary": "Big Roundup in Saudi Arabia", "utt": ["A big roundup in Saudi Arabia. At least eight terrorist suspects are now in custody, including the man authorities say planned the attacks in Riyadh. Those attacks killed 34, including 8 Americans. On our live line now, Walter Rodgers in Riyadh. Good morning -- Walter.", "Hello, Carol. In the last 24 hours, there have been indications of further arrests, both in Medina and Riyadh -- this, in response to the investigation of the suicide attacks on Western residential compounds in Riyadh earlier this month. Unofficial sources told CNN as many as eight Islamic militants were arrested in Medina last night -- this, after what was said to be a running gun battle. The Ministry of Information has not released information on any of these latest arrests, and there are conflicting reports about the numbers of those nabbed, ranging from three to five to even eight men. Reuters has reported one of those arrested was the alleged mastermind of the May 12 bombing, but again, there has been no official confirmation from the Saudi government. Robert Jordan, the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, briefing reporters this morning said there remains a continuing threat to Western interests and to the Saudi government from these Islamists terrorists. Ambassador Jordan said despite the efforts of the Saudis, it's very likely there are other terrorist cells operating in Saudi Arabia, most probably, he said, al Qaeda. All U.S. embassy dependents and non-essential personnel left Riyadh earlier this month, and the embassy is basically assuming the worst about future threats here. The string of bombings that occurred May 12 killed 25 people, including 8 Americans. Nine of the bombers were also killed. A 60-person FBI investigating team, which has been sifting through the evidence here, is returning to the United States toward the end of the week. Another much smaller FBI team is expected to replace it. Unlike previous investigations, however, of attacks on Westerners, this time the Saudis are getting very high marks from the United States for their cooperation  Carol.", "Walter Rodgers reporting live on the phone from Riyadh this morning. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "WALTER RODGERS, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-286173", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2016-06-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/08/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Will Republicans Unify?; Toned- Down Trump Trying to Reassure Anxious GOP", "utt": ["Anxious Republicans are hoping a tone-downed Donald Trump can move his presidential campaign forward from the uproar he sparked with his racial criticism of a federal judge. But some top Republicans are still keeping Trump at arm's length, while others are repudiating him. CNN's Phil Mattingly is joining us now. Phil, Donald Trump is trying to reassure his party. What's the latest?", "Well, that's right, and it's a party that really needs reassurance, Wolf. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke for just about everybody yesterday when he told reporters it's time for Trump to, quote, \"get on message.\" Now, that's exactly what Trump did last night. Wolf, I've been talking to top GOP officials, some lawmakers and donors today. One real question remains. How long will this last?", "I will make you proud of your party and our movement.", "Donald Trump is trying to turn the corner in the wake of widespread inter-party condemnation of his attacks on the ethnicity of a federal judge.", "I would like to be able to endorse Donald Trump, but he really has to change the approach that he has taken.", "Trump seeking to calm GOP jitters, offering this pledge Tuesday night.", "You've given me the honor to lead the Republican Party to victory this fall. I understand the responsibility of carrying the mantel, and I will never, ever let you down.", "This speech marks Trump's effort to end, or at least pause, two days of internal GOP heartburn and very public backlash over his attacks on Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing a lawsuit against the billionaire involving his now-defunct Trump University. Trump accusing the judge of bias because of his Mexican heritage.", "He's a Mexican. We're building a wall between here and Mexico.", "Trump's remarks, crafted by a close group of family and advisors, come after a day of back-channel phone calls, warnings and pleas from top GOP officials, sources say. Trump backer and defender New Jersey Governor Chris Christie among those who worked on Trump's remarks, which today earned high marks from some Senate Republicans.", "I think he's done a good job in the last 24 hours of realizing the impact of those comments. I think it shows leadership when he takes responsibility and walks those comments back.", "The more telegraphed approach comes hours after Trump released a statement saying his comments about the judge, quote, \"have been misconstrued as a categorical attack against people of Mexican heritage.\" But for some, it's too late. Republican Senator Mark Kirk, facing a tough reelection fight in his home state of Illinois, says Trump, quote, \"has not demonstrated the temperament necessary to assume the greatest office in the world.\" Conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt adding that the party should renew its search for a Trump alternative.", "It's like ignoring stage four cancer. You can't do it. You've got to go attack it. And right now, the Republican Party is facing -- the plane is headed towards the mountain after the last 72 hours.", "Others in the party are encouraging Trump to pivot to the general election and fast.", "Biggest thing for Donald Trump, to shift from the thought of the moment, spontaneously uttered, to a more disciplined way of running a campaign for president of the United States.", "And Wolf, it's important to note that this goes beyond just messaging. I spoke with one senior Republican donor this afternoon who made it very clear: not only are donors reluctant to associate themselves right now with Trump because of his tone; they're also wary of the complete lack of finance infrastructure his campaign holds. Now, this donor said Trump is facing a shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars compared to Hillary Clinton. That is a major problem. One Trump will take the first steps towards really addressing tomorrow, sources say, when he will personally meet with 60 donors here in New York City, Wolf.", "We'll stand by to hear from that, as well. All right. Thanks very much. Phil Mattingly reporting. Gloria, what does it say about the state of the party right now that the House speaker, Paul Ryan, calls Donald Trump's comments racist, then the next day confirms his support for Trump's candidacy?", "I think it's a mess, Wolf. I think what we're seeing is stunning, astonishing. I don't know any other -- any other way to put it. You had all of these people in Republican leadership, people running for re-election in the Senate, who twisted themselves in a pretzel, having endorsed other people or being on the fence to finally come around in the last month or so, to kind of coalesce around Donald Trump as the party's nominee. And, because they felt it was for the good of the party, party unity, and it was pretty good for down-ballot races, as well. And now what they're finding they have to do is distance themselves to a degree and say, \"Look, I'm for the Republican nominee, but I think what he said is completely inappropriate\" or, as Paul Ryan said, racist. And it -- it's a very difficult position for them to be in. You know, for Paul Ryan to say, \"Look, I believe what he said is racist. On the other hand, I continue to endorse him\" is -- is really twisting yourself into a knot that's kind of hard to get out of. And I think a lot of Republicans feel that same way. We saw Senator Kirk actually un-endorse, or renounce him, because he's got a tough re-election race in the state of Illinois. So at some point, as Mitch McConnell said yesterday, this -- this campaign has to get -- as he put it, \"I need to see some more professionalism\" and need to start acting like they're in a general election context and no longer in a primary context. And I think people are just kind of scratching their heads about this.", "Dana, are other Republicans in tight races going to follow Senator Kirk -- Kirk's lead?", "They might, but they're in a difficult position. Because the further they push Donald Trump away, the more they risk alienating some core Republicans in their states, depending where they are, and you know, kind of the backbone of their vote. They're not going to get people who are tried and true Democrats, so they need to certainly get their base out. And it's going to be difficult. In Mark Kirk's case, Illinois is a blue state, but he -- you know, look, he could lose some votes in southern Illinois, for example, where Donald Trump is likely much more -- much more popular. I just want to also add to what Phil Mattingly was reporting and underscore how much of a big deal this could be, in that Donald Trump seems to be having some trouble with fundraising. I'm told that there is a lot of concern about that, about the fact that he is obviously coming from a place where he has no infrastructure, as he was a self- funder during the primaries, and it is, like other parts of this campaign, pretty slow going. But this is -- this is the engine that funds the campaign: money. And so if he can't get that, if they can't get these fundraisers on the books, it's going to be a big problem.", "He said in that interview with Bloomberg today he doesn't need all that much money...", "Well...", "... because he can go on television and save a lot of money...", "... could be a test.", "... save commercials, just go out and do a whole lot of television interviews. Jeffrey, what do you think of Donald Trump's potential running mate list?", "Well, you know, it's so different than other candidates, because, you know, he doesn't have these prior relationships. He has said publicly that he wants an elected official. He wants someone not like himself who comes from the political system. You know, I thought for -- up until yesterday Senator Corker was the most likely candidate: a distinguished senator, chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, very established citizen. He also ripped Donald Trump about the Judge Curiel remarks. I -- unfortunately, the number of people who have not criticized him for those remarks is so small that he may have to swallow his pride and pick someone who has criticized him. But Senator Corker, Governor Christie, who has his own problems, seems like an unlikely choice at this point. But my money is still on Senator Corker.", "There are some who think he should pick a woman, especially since the Democrats now have a presumptive nominee who is a woman. Hilary, what do you think?", "Well, if he could find a woman who would run with him. You know, maybe Arizona, former Arizona Governor Brewer might be the only one. She's been out there. Although Oklahoma Governor -- Oklahoma governor Beth Brewer...", "... he publicly embarrassed Brewer with this whole circuit issue with the judge. And I think it will be tough when you have governors like Susana Martinez really insulted by Trump.", "New Mexico.", "Nikki Haley of South Carolina defending Susana Martinez. Look, this is not a message problem with Donald Trump, and that's bugging me, that these Republicans keep calling this a message problem. This is actually a problem with how he feels. And until he gets that more honest, more under control, I don't think any of these Republicans are safe going next to him.", "All right, guys, stand by. We're going to have much more on Donald Trump's criticism of Judge Gonzalo Curiel. Is he wading into very dangerous legal waters? Plus, breaking news, a terror attack: a mass shooting at a popular outdoor market."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MATTINGLY (voice-over)", "SEN. SUSAN COLLINS (R), MAINE", "MATTINGLY", "TRUMP", "MATTINGLY", "TRUMP", "MATTINGLY", "SEN. TIM SCOTT (R), SOUTH CAROLINA", "MATTINGLY", "HUGH HEWITT, CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO HOST", "MATTINGLY", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-367681", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-04-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/22/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Impeachment Not Off the Table; Final Day of a National Referendum Vote in Egypt.", "utt": ["Welcome back to viewers here in the United States and around the world. This is CNN Newsroom. I am George Howell with the headlines we're following for you this hour. In Egypt, people are preparing for the third and final day of a national referendum vote. The constitutional amendments would allow the president of that nation to remain in office until 2030 and they could give him more power over legislative and judicial branches. Critics say the proposals are a step toward authoritarianism. Police in Northern Ireland are asking anyone with information for help about of death of Lyra McKee, the fatal for people to come forward about that. The prominent reporter was killed on Thursday as she covered a riot in London Dairy also known as dairy. Two teenagers had been arrested in connection with her death. They were released on Sunday without any charges. Also the deadly bombings in Sri Lanka. Policy say they have arrested two dozen people since that wave of attacks. At least 290 people were killed in eight different blasts across the island. The U.S. State Department is warning its citizens to increase caution when traveling to the island. It says terrorist groups continue plotting other possible attacks. The Catholic Archbishop of Colombo says his churches were targeted in those blast but after the members of his congregation were killed, he isn't turning the other cheek.", "I would also like to ask the government to hold a very impartial strong inquiry and find out who is responsible behind this act and also to punish them mercilessly because only animals can behave like that.", "Again, that was Catholic Archbishop of Colombo speaking about the Easter Sunday bombings that hit Sri Lanka. Here in the United States, Congressional Democrats are considering whether to impeach President Donald Trump this following the release of the Mueller report. The House Speaker will hold a conference call with party members on Monday afternoon to discuss what's next. Our Boris Sanchez has more on the President's reaction to the fallout from report.", "According to sources, President Trump spent the weekend and Mar-a-Lago fuming over news coverage and details in the Mueller report from former White House officials that depict a White House in chaos. President Trump is an angry and paranoid president and aides who either refuse or ignore many of his orders. Meantime, the President's attorney, Rudy Giuliani took to the Sunday morning talk shows. He spoke with Jake Tapper on \"STATE OF THE UNION\" and did any press him on a question about the behavior of some Trump campaign officials and whether they behave ethically or morally. Listen to what he said.", "There is nothing wrong with taking information from Russians.", "There's nothing wrong with taking information --", "It depends on where it came from. It depends on where it came from. You're assuming that the giving of information is a campaign contribution. Read the report carefully. The report says we can't conclude that because the law is pretty much against that. Do you -- people get information from this person, in that person.", "The strategy being deployed by the White House is one that we've seen before, they're now calling into question the credibility of many of those that were interviewed by the Special Counsel. We should also point out, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to hold a conference call at 5:00 p.m. on Monday with the Democratic Caucus to discuss potential for impeaching President Trump. Impeachment was on the President's mind on Sunday evening when he tweeted this. He writes, \"How do you want to impeach a Republican President for a crime that was committed by the Democrats? Make America great again.\" Boris Sanchez, CNN, traveling with the President in Palm Beach, Florida.", "Boris, thank you for the reporting. Now, for context, let's bring in Peter Mathews. Peter is a political analyst joining us this hour from Los Angeles. A pleasure, Peter.", "Good to hear from you, George.", "Let's start with the President's Attorney, Rudy Giuliani essentially saying there's nothing wrong with taking information from Russians, he says, it all just depends upon where it came from. What do you make of that assessment?", "I think it's absolutely wrong because United States Democracy means that the Americans people choose the leader who will choose our policies not some foreign government's influence. That's against principle for sAUDIBLE) contribution is totally illegal. So he was way off. And Giuliani is striking off widely, by calling people hit men, you know, investigators for the Mueller team calling Andrew Weissmann a hit man. What kind of counter attack is this? He should just accept what is happening and let the procedures of regular investigations by the House of Representatives going to through", "Boris did point out in his report. Mr. Trump is angry about former staffers who according to sources describe a White House that is in chaos with some of his own people refusing to carry out his orders. He is angry about that apparently, but isn't that the case, Peter, that the actions of some of some -- of some of those staffers may have saved Mr. Trump from actual obstruction of justice?", "Exactly. That's the irony of the whole thing because for example, Mr. Trump ordered the White House Counsel Don McGahn to get in touch can sold on McGahn get in touch with to recuse himself, against the advice of other people who said not to do that. The fact is Don McGahn disobeyed the President and state the President's height, otherwise he would have been in big trouble and this would have been a clear quite obstruction of justice case. That's the kind we're talking about, it's very ironic actually but it is true.", "Now looking ahead for Democrats it does come down to the question of whether they should lean in into more investigations whether they should consider impeachment proceedings or whether they should focus rather on the issues that are important to people on Main Street ahead of the 2020 election. Republicans warned if they don't do that, Peter, it could backfire on them. Which hand do you see Democrats playing most aggressively in the months ahead?", "I think they should really try to play both hands because it's both their duty to pass legislation, the legislative branch after all but also it's important the executive branch which the constitution says they're the ones who supposed to investigate. The House represents clearly given the duty as being a grand jury to investigate that the president has committed so-called high crime misdemeanors. If so, they have to come out and vote for impeachment. But first of all, investigate I would say. Don't do it prematurely but investigate right now and then decide whether you can come up with an article of impeachment or not, will it need to. As far as the duty of the Congress, a very important duty of the House and the trial on the Senate for trial or removal of the President, that remains to be seen it can be done or not. But the Congress should not give up its duty just because of Trade cannot do it or cannot do in the next election. That's not very conducive to Democracy, George, in my view.", "OK. But when it comes down to public perception, here is the question, Peter, you know, obviously lawmakers on Capitol Hill, they are focused on many of the details of this report. Do people care about those details looking ahead at this --", "Well, I can tell you this. In the most recent polling after that report hit, the President has lot three percent of his approval rating, he's down to 37 President percent off from 40 percent because people saw this -- Mr. Mueller cannot clear him. Mr. Mueller came and report and said that he conclude that he cannot assure that no criminal conduct had occurrence. So", "Peter Mathews at Los Angeles. Peter, thank you.", "My pleasure. Thank you.", "And the note to viewers, you can hear five of the Democrats hoping to take Mr. Trump's job next year. Later on Monday, CNN is hosting back to back town hall meetings with Senators Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Mayor Pete rounds up. The five town halls. It all starts at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time in the United States, midnight London here on CNN. Eight years ago, a devastating earthquake Northeastern Japan. Unleashing a savage tsunami and a nuclear disaster. And now a soccer field reopened more than just half ways to kick the football though. It's a symbol of hope. We'll have that story ahead. Stay with us. Plus, a severe weather in Canada. It's brought deadly results. We'll bring you the details."], "speaker": ["HOWELL", "MALCOLM RANJITH, ARCHBISHOP OF COLOMBO", "HOWELL", "BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "RUDY GIULIANI, PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ATTORNEY", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "GIULIANI", "SANCHEZ", "HOWELL", "PETER MATHEWS, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "HOWELL", "MATHEWS", "HOWELL", "MATHEWS", "HOWELL", "MATHEWS", "HOWELL", "MATHEWS", "HOWELL", "MATHEWS", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-43082", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2001-11-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/03/tonight.04.html", "summary": "Karen Springen of 'Newsweek' Discusses Growing Presence of Women in U.S. Military", "utt": ["Switching gears now -- women in the military have assumed even greater responsibilities in America's New War. There are currently about 200,000 women in the military -- that's about 15 percent of all of those serving. And Karen Springen of \"Newsweek\" is joining us now from our Chicago bureau to discuss the growing presence of women in uniform. Thank you very much for joining us this evening -- this afternoon.", "Thank you for having me.", "You know, just 10 years ago women were not allowed to fly fighter jets. They could not serve on combat ships, but things have quietly slowly changed over the last few years, haven't they?", "Right, slowly but surely. They're still not allowed to do direct combat, but they can do combat aviation. They just can't be on the ground and about one in six women in the -- one in six people in the military now are women.", "Now in your article, which I enjoyed, thank you very much for that, it talks about how the mindset really has changed in the military about women. I think there was a quote about someone said that he was a fighter pilot in her Navy.", "Right. Exactly. Yes, there are women who are generals now and believe it or not the first women generals weren't named until 1970.", "Tell me what do you think the limitations still are for women in the military right now.", "Well, there are still a couple. I mean part of it is psychological where my own daughter says she doesn't think that moms should go to war and there are a lot of people who still feel that way. But they can -- actually they will deploy a new mother once her child is 16 weeks old. So I think most of it is sort of a public relations campaign. The women have to do the same physical tasks. They have to do a few fewer pushups and they don't have to run quite as fast, but they have to climb the same walls and do all the same physical tests to -- that the men have to do.", "You know, this time we have F-14 Tomcat pilots, female pilots dropping bombs in Afghanistan. This has to be Osama bin Laden's worst nightmare.", "Exactly.", "A female pilot in a regime that represses women so, don't you think?", "Exactly, and that is part of the -- some of the women have some emotions where one of them said to me that she hoped that one of the good things that came out of this is that the women over there might get some of the same rights that we have.", "Tell us where women are mostly serving now.", "Well in the olden days, as people know, from watching even movies like \"Mash\", the women were basically, you know, nurses. They served in personnel functions and that kind of thing. But now they're deployed all over the place. The Army is a great place for the women to go and they serve basically everywhere. They're out there. They're killed -- in the Gulf War 11 women were killed. So women are losing their lives and serving just about in everything except for in the special forces. They're not training -- you know they're not doing counter-terrorism and stuff, and they're not -- they're not down and near the hiding holes with the men with a single buddy.", "All right, well, there has to be some problems with these mixed troops. The high pregnancy rate in some cases, some sexual harassment?", "Right. We referred in that story that there was one boat, I guess during the Gulf War and ...", "The love boat.", "The love boat, because 36 women came home pregnant. But everyone we talked to swore up and down that they thought of the men as more like their brothers. That said, several of the women in the military I talked to said it just is a distraction to sort of just right next to the men. They also said, though, that it's hardly a romantic situation. In the Gulf War, the women sometimes didn't get to have, you know, showers, you know, except for every three or four days, and if they put lotion on their body it would attract sand and bugs. So we're hardly talking about a glamorous romantic situation with soldiers.", "Right and I spoke with an Army aviator of a Kia Warrior (ph) recently who is now -- who obviously wasn't able to fly in the Gulf War, but now is flying the Kia Warrior (ph), now teaching students to fly in battle and she says she has female students in her classes, but not nearly enough. What do you think it's going to take?", "Right. You know, some of it, I think, is just convincing the women that they want to serve our country in that way. I mean there are a lot of women who are moms who just don't want to be away from their families, who don't want to risk their lives in that way. And some of it's just going to make it a more attractive long- term career option. A lot of the high-ranking women who I talked to in the military didn't have children. So maybe that's true for a lot of professions, but that seemed to be true in the military.", "All right, Karen Springen of \"Newsweek\". Thanks for joining us today.", "Thank you so much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR", "KAREN SPRINGEN, \"NEWSWEEK\"", "CALLAWAY", "SPRINGEN", "CALLAWAY", "SPRINGEN", "CALLAWAY", "SPRINGEN", "CALLAWAY", "SPRINGEN", "CALLAWAY", "SPRINGEN", "CALLAWAY", "SPRINGEN", "CALLAWAY", "SPRINGEN", "CALLAWAY", "SPRINGEN", "CALLAWAY", "SPRINGEN", "CALLAWAY", "SPRINGEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-287130", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-06-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/21/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Trump Has Plan for Fundraising", "utt": ["When it comes to raising money for the general election, Hillary Clinton is crushing Donald Trump. We have the numbers. The Clinton campaign raised 27 million last month compared to 3 million by the Trump camp. Clinton's cash on hand at the end of May, 42 million. Mr. Trump, 1.3. But, Donald Trump speaking to NBC says he has a plan in mind to infuse more cash into his campaign if donations do not pour in.", "It gets to a point. What I'll do is just do what I what do to the primaries. I spent $55 million of my own money to win the primaries. 55. Now, you know, that's a lot of money, I mean, by even any standard. I may do that again in the general election. I have a lot of cash and I may do it in the general election. But it would be nice to have some help from the party.", "So we now know he will do that. Jake Tapper is joining me. CNN Chief Washington Correspondent host of \"THE LEAD\" and \"STATE OF THE UNION,\" he will be matching donations dollar for dollar with the next days with the cap of two million. But here's my question to you, my friend, you know, not so much is to whether or not into the self-funding notion but, you know, weeks away from Cleveland, from the convention, the fact that, you know, mega Republican donors are not writing checks. How concerning do you think that is for the campaign?", "It's very concerning although I should point out there are efforts now to raise that money. Mr. Trump has done something along the lines of, what is it, 10 events in nine days to raise more than $8 million and then there's a group called Rebuilding America now that is (inaudible) $32 million in pledges, they say. So there will be I think in the future at D.C. reports more money in the Trump and pro-Trump coffirs. But that said, of course, this is a big concern. You don't want to be outspent in the general election. Although, we should note that of course he was outspent quite a bit in the primaries that he did go on to victory. He does believe his ability to garner all sorts of free media will compensate for whatever chasm there is between what he's able to raise and what the Democrats are.", "OK. Just looking though at -- if it moves in his campaign within, you know, 24 hours, you have Corey Lewandowski fired. You have, you know, this fundraising, I know Senator Sessions when I talked to him last 24 hours, he did not want to call it a stunt, but whatever he want to call this matching donations for two days, you have that, and then, you know, his big speech tomorrow. How do you see this? Do you see this OK, makes sense, you know, team Trump pivoting towards the general election appropriately so or is this sort of panic time?", "Well, I mean, both. I think that after the last few weeks, look, Mr. Trump has had a very rough few weeks. And I think there is a recognition of that fact within the Trump campaign and certainly within the Republican National Committee and an effort to right the ship and get him to focus on the issues that were so appealing to so many voters when it comes to trade and immigration reform and the like, I do think that, of course, it's not unprecedented to get rid of a senior campaign person. McCain did it in 2008. Al Gore did it in 2000. And it's meant in some ways usually to send a signal to the donors and the party that everything is going to be OK. They're getting things under control and it's also -- generally also a substantive move to fix a problem to change something. Now what actual change will take place, I don't know. At the end of the day, Mr. Trump is Mr. Trump.", "He said this morning, he said, he will not change. Jake Tapper, we'll see you at the top of the hour on \"The Lead.\"", "Thanks Brooke.", "Thank you very much. Thank you. Meantime, libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson has been picking up about 10 percent of the vote in recent polls. And CNN is give you a chance to get to know Governor Johnson and his running mate, Bill Weld. If you're not miss libertarian town hall hosted by Chris Cuomo, it is live tomorrow night at 9:00 Eastern here on CNN. Coming up next, several scandals rocking the Oakland Police Department. Officers there accused of having sex with an underage girl, others sending racist text messages. Nancy Grace will join me live to sound off on this one, next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "DONALD TRUMP, (R), PRESUMTIVE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE", "BALDWIN", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "TAPPER", "BALDWIN", "TAPPER", "BALDWID"]}
{"id": "CNN-408306", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2020-08-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/14/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Teachers, Students & Parents Struggling With Remote Learning.", "utt": ["As students across the U.S. returned to school, many are doing it remotely because of the pandemic and that's posing challenges to teachers, students and parents. CNN's Brian Todd has details. And Brian, remote learning may be safer during this health crisis, but for some families, it's just not working, isn't that right?", "Jim, for many, it's not working, you know, between technical challenges, and kids and teachers just not connecting academically or emotionally. The start of the school year for some families just isn't going smoothly.", "Atlanta's Mayor tweeting this week, \"It's noon and I still haven't been able to get the twins logged in\". Keisha Lance Bottoms feeling the frustration of some parents across the country as they grapple with the challenges of remote learning with schools getting back in session. This week, technical problems have been especially worrisome like in Gwinnett County, Georgia.", "I went to the website tried to log into the eClass portal and was getting an error message for the most part.", "With many students and parents unable to log in this week, the Gwinnett County District asked them to stagger their attempts to access the program. Meanwhile, the superintendent of schools in Humble, Texas said a cyberattack on their district server blocked some students from logging into their first day of online classes this week. This comes as the debate rages over whether remote or in-person learning will work best during the pandemic.", "He just could really benefit --", "During a Zoom meeting with education specialists in recent days, one expert said a disadvantage of remote learning is that it doesn't always play to teacher strengths.", "The teachers who are the most effective teachers and are what we've had so far face to face typical situations, they may not be the most effective in remote environment.", "And some parents of students with special needs say their kids just aren't being served as well online. Like one mother who's suing California's governor over virtual learning.", "I have three boys, two with a diagnosis of autism. Without that team to do that hands on learning, they're just languishing at home. There's no type of education going on. My children cannot sit in front of a computer screen and do Zoom meetings all day long. It's just regression, it's profound and detrimental.", "One education expert tells CNN almost no state has a specific effective plan to successfully teach online. But a clear advantage to remote learning is that it's simply safer. A parent in one Georgia county who sent her son to school for in-person classes told CNN, it didn't start well.", "The second day of school, my son said to me, Mom, I don't think it's safe. We're not social distancing, there's no precautions being taken to keep us safe.", "And sometimes it appears remote learning can keep some top teachers in the fold. One chemistry teacher in Arizona told CNN he was given no option but to teach in-person. So for his family safety, he resigned.", "A lot of us would have stayed if we had had that option or if we'd even had some kind of hybrid option to where we had smaller class sizes we would have had a lot of a stand (ph).", "The issue is such a difficult one to resolve that it's pitted at least one school district against its own state government. The Hillsborough County Florida public school system first decided to offer four weeks of remote learning, to start the school year with four weeks of remote learning. But the district has now backtracked and is offering the option of in-person learning just one week after school starts back. That came after the Florida Department of Education warned Hillsborough County that money could be withheld in- person learning was not offered. Jim?", "All right, CNN's Brian Todd, an important story. A lot of parents are watching. Thank you. Breaking news next, the U.S. Postal Service warns it may not meet some mail-in ballot deadlines as President Trump opposes new funding and attacks mail-in voting."], "speaker": ["ACOSTA", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TODD (voice-over)", "LYNETTA FORD, PARENT", "TODD (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TODD (voice-over)", "CHERI FANCSALI, RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS", "TODD (voice-over)", "CHRISTINE RUIZ, SUING CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR OVER VIRTUAL LEARNING", "TODD (voice-over)", "BRANDY HEATH, PARENT", "TODD (voice-over)", "MATT CHICCI, TEACHER", "TODD", "ACOSTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-156928", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2010-10-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1010/14/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Brand-New Courteney Cox-David Arquette Split Shocker", "utt": ["Big news breaking today on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT - a brand-new Courteney Cox-David Arquette split shocker. Startling reports today that Courteney knew David was going to blab on the radio about their sex life and having sex with another woman. Was Courteney really fine with that? Jessica`s love mistake? Big news today that Jessica Simpson`s brand- new boyfriend is now officially divorced. The SHOWBIZ Flashpoint today - is Jessica setting herself up for another love disaster? Paula Abdul`s new \"Idol\" revelations. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT one-on-one today with Paula on the new \"American Idol\" judges.", "Your tactics don`t work on me.", "Today, Snooki responds.", "TV`s most provocative entertainment news show starts right now.", "Hello. I`m A.J. Hammer coming to you from New York City.", "Hi, there, everyone. I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood with big news breaking today - what did Courteney know and when did she know it?", "Yes, Brooke. That is the big burning question today following shocking reports that Courteney Cox knew her husband David Arquette would be revealing in excruciating detail why they were splitting up, including embarrassing revelations about their sex life or lack of a sex life. Now, Arquette has since apologized for going on the radio and going public with the kinds of things that are sometimes, quite frankly, better left unsaid, or at least left behind closed doors. But if Courteney did know David was going to do it, why would she not try to stop him? And is it even possible she wanted it all out there?", "Everybody`s so full of", "David Arquette`s TMI rant on \"The Howard Stern Show\" about his split from Courteney Cox has definitely put Arquette on the list of the most shockingly inappropriate rants by jilted exes.", "My sex with Courteney is kind of - you know, it`s scheduled to a certain degree.", "Arquette`s post-separation radio rant may be more bizarre than Heather Mills McCartney`s blubbering.", "I`ve had worse press than a pedophile or a murderer.", "More intriguing than that wide-eyed Internet sensation, Tricia Walsh-Smith, who bashed her rich ex on YouTube after he kicked her out of his New York apartment.", "I will let you know that you know we never had sex.", "And ironically, more than annoying than Courteney Cox`s TV brother, Ross, on \"Friends.\"", "We were on a break!", "Now, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you, today, we`re hearing something about David Arquette`s radio rant that may even be more shocking than the rant itself, that Courteney Cox may have known about it beforehand.", "We`re told that she was fine with that and that she was fully aware of everything that he was going to say.", "TMZ`s Nina Parker tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT David cleared his super- confessional interview with Cox.", "Now, we find out that he actually talked to Courteney right before he called in to Howard Stern and that he told her the things that he was going to discuss.", "And \"People.com\" is reporting today that Cox was anything but surprised by Arquette`s super-personal radio confession. A source tells \"People,\" quote, \"She knows who David is and what he`s like. Does she wish she could edit what comes out of his mouth? Sure. But nothing surprises her at this point.\"", "I really felt for her, because he went and started talking about, you know, not having sex. Why does anybody need to know that?", "The hosts of \"The View\" and lots of others are slamming Arquette for telling too much in that tell-all interview with Howard Stern. Details like the reasons for the separation -", "She said to me, I don`t want to be your mother anymore.", "And their lack of a sex life in the months before their separation.", "We have not had sex in quite a - like, at that time, a month or so. Since then, it`s been like four months or so.", "Plus, Arquette admitted that he`s already had a post-separation fling with someone else.", "I had sex with a girl once, maybe twice.", "All with Courteney`s blessing, of course.", "She`s like, \"Listen, I want you to be able to, you know, do whatever you have to do, you know, essentially free to see people.", "A lot of people were mystified as to why he would divulge so much information about his relationship with Courteney.", "So with today`s reports that Courteney may have gotten an early heads-up that Arquette was about to air their dirty laundry, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is asking, why does Arquette feel the need to apologize for it? In a Twitter posting the day after his appearance on the Stern show, Arquette writes, quote, \"I shared too much. It`s all right for me to be honest about my own feelings. But in retrospect, some of the information I provided involved others and for that I am sorry and humbled.\"", "A lot of people were wondering, why would he put out this kind of apology, it seems like, if Courteney knew everything that he was going to say.", "TMZ`s Nina Parker tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT whether or not Cox knew it was coming, Arquette may be afraid his over-sharing embarrassed his wife.", "Maybe he thought he shed a bad light on Courteney and he issued this on Twitter kind of as, you know, an apology to her.", "And with David telling everyone that he hopes to work things out with Cox -", "I`ve been begging Courteney to get back with me.", "Maybe he`s realizing now it would be smart for him to leave the post-breakup ranting to the professionals.", "We were on a break!", "Courteney and David`s over-sharing sex revelations are making this Hollywood marriage meltdown really one of the most bizarre splits that I can remember. And that brings us to our SHOWBIZ Flashpoint today - Courteney reportedly signs off on David`s sex tell-all -brilliant or nuts? Right now, in Hollywood, is Hyla. He is an entertainment journalist from \"5DollarPrep.com.\" Also in Hollywood, Rachel Zalis, who is a contributing editor for \"Life and Style Weekly.\" So here`s what I think. Courteney may have signed off on David going on the radio to set the record straight, and what he had planned to say, but I think even David probably went beyond that plan and didn`t intend to say a lot of what ended up being said, which is why he ended up apologizing. I could be wrong. Courteney may have been in on all of it. So, Hyla, if she was, to our SHOWBIZ Flashpoint, brilliant or nuts?", "Fantastic. Absolutely brilliant. I mean, here`s a woman who`s basically saying, \"Yes. You know what? I`m going to take all my insecurities and put them aside so we can work on our relationship.\" \"You want to be with other women? Fine, go ahead. You want to blab to Howard Stern? All right, fine. That`s me showing I`m committed to this relationship and I`m going to let you do what you need to do to make this work.\" She`s a phenomenal example and I admire both of them for dealing with this the way they are.", "And again, that is also assuming that Courteney was in on all of what he said. Because, again, David really spilled a bunch more than I think he had intended to, even more than Courteney may have known about. And one thing he was very passionate about in his tell-all was that he still loves Courteney. He doesn`t want to get divorced, and that`s not stopping people from taking sides, of course. We`re asking today in our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive poll - \"Courteney Cox and David Arquette`s Split: Whose side are you on? Team Courteney? Team David?\" Let us know at CNN.com/ShowbizTonight. All right. I must move on to the huge fireworks and the massive outrage on \"The View\" today. Brooke Anderson, I cannot believe what happened this morning on their set. It was unbelievable.", "Nor can I. It was explosive, A.J. And listen, yes, I know the ladies of \"The View\" love a good debate. But today, Bill O`Reilly really got under their skin. O`Reilly was explaining why he is against plans to build a Muslim cultural center just blocks from Ground Zero in New York City. So what started with shouting and finger-pointing ended with Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg storming off the set. Watch.", "Let me break this to you. Seventy percent of Americans don`t want that mosque down there, so don`t give me the \"we\" business.", "Where`s that poll? I want to see that poll.", "You want to bet on that? You want to bet? I`ll show you that poll in a minute.", "All I`m saying is I`m American too.", "Seventy percent don`t want it down there.", "But why is that? Why are we saying -", "Because it`s inappropriate.", "Why is it inappropriate when 70 families died? What are you talking about?", "Because Muslims killed us on 9/11.", "No! Oh, my god. That is such", "Muslims didn`t kill us on 9/11? Is that what you`re saying?", "Extremists did that. What religion was Mr. McVeigh? Mr. McVeigh was an extremist and he killed people -", "I`m telling you, 70 percent of the country -", "I don`t want to sit here now. I don`t. I`m outraged by that statement.", "You`re outraged about Muslims killing us on 9/11?", "They just could not even handle it. OK, so right after Joy and Whoopi stormed off the set, Barbara Walters basically said that should not have happened. And she demanded O`Reilly apologize for suggesting that all Muslims were responsible for 9/11 instead of Muslim extremists, so he did apologize. Rachel, I agree with Barbara. We should be able to debate, to disagree, but at the same time, be tolerant, be respectful of one another. Did Bill deserve what he got there?", "First of all, my ears hurt from all that screaming.", "It was really high-pitched there, the screaming.", "Honestly, if every time a host stormed off during one of those heated debates, there would be no ladies left on that couch. I was actually hoping for the split screen - remember the Rosie-Elisabeth thing?", "Oh, the Rosie-Elisabeth thing - classic.", "That would have been brilliant. But I agree, Barbara handled it brilliantly. Neither side was right in this situation.", "Hyla, what do you think? Did Bill deserve what he got there?", "The problem is, Whoopi and Joy lost the argument. Bill absolutely instigated it by even turning and saying, \"Hey, I`m going to teach you something here.\" And they just walk off. Whoopi was on the right path with the line of questioning to corner him and basically make him look like a jackass, which he is on this position, had an opportunity to educate people. But when you get up and leave and when something gets under your skin, you lose the argument. It doesn`t matter what happened. I am so disappointed.", "Yes. Obviously, they all let their emotions get the best of them. All right. We`ll leave it there. Hyla, Rachel Zalis, thanks.", "Moving on, Paula Abdul`s new \"Idol\" revelations to me today. Paula`s breaking her silence. I go one-on-one with Paula Abdul. And of course, I have to ask her what she thinks about the new \"American Idol\" judges, Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez.", "And my unforgettable exclusive with \"Avatar\" director, James Cameron. I was the only TV reporter to go up with Cameron in an airplane and experience what it`s like to be weightless in outer space. So why the heck is James doing this? I`m going to tell you. This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN news and views.", "Time now for the \"SHOWBIZ News Ticker\" - these are more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news today.", "Reality TV series about West Virginia miners to air on Spike TV in spring 2011. Rihanna debuts music video for her song \"Only Girl (in the World).\""], "speaker": ["A.J. 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{"id": "CNN-308548", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-03-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/27/nday.05.html", "summary": "Political Fallout from Failure of House Health Care Bill Examined; Interview with Congressman Ted Poe.", "utt": ["They are now moving into these areas in Mosul and Raqqah that are very densely populated. These are neighborhoods full of civilians, ISIS taking human shields, taking hostages. If you're going to continue to prosecute from the air, it is going to be very tough to determine who is who down on the ground on these streets in these neighborhoods. It is going to be a growing problem. We're going to be back here talking about it, I suspect, time and again. And even once they get Raqqah and Mosul back, the challenge for the Trump administration really now is to develop what the president promised, a plan to defeat ISIS. ISIS is still very much in small towns and villages up and down Iraq and Syria.", "He said he had a secret plan. He then asked the generals for a plan. He got that plan. It has not been revealed. It has not been debated, and yet American boots are founding their way to the ground in increasing numbers. Barbara, thank you very much. Molly, Arwa, please stay safe, thank you for the bravery and the reporting. We're following a lot of news. What do you say? Let's get after it.", "We were very close. Very, very tight margin.", "You can't threaten and intimidate, say I'll walk away. It's more complicated.", "There's no reason to gloat here. This program needs reform.", "This place was a lot more rotten than we thought.", "It doesn't solve the problems of Obamacare.", "I don't think the president is closing the door on anything.", "Can House Intel Chairman Devin Nunes truly lead an independent investigation?", "There's zero reason to cancel Tuesday's meeting.", "The events of this week call out the need for an independent commission.", "They're not going to come up with anything.", "President Trump is going to be proven correct.", "This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.", "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your NEW DAY. We begin with President Trump and the stinging defeat on healthcare. The president shifting the blame for the loss onto conservatives after first lashing out at Democrats.", "In-fighting is infecting the highest levels of team Trump. We're seeing it play out in public. The administration says they need a win to advance the president's stalled agenda. Should they be focusing on the wins or the policies themselves? And can they reach across to Democrats after all the acrimony? Lots to cover on this day 67 of the Trump presidency. We have it all for you. Let's begin with Sara Murray live at the White House. Good morning, Sara.", "Good morning, Chris. This administration needed a win last week. They did not get it. Today they're going to try to regroup and move on to the next major priority. They say that's going to be tax reform, but it may not be as simple as they're hoping.", "The White House desperate to move forward after a bruising defeat on healthcare.", "We are moving on to tax reform. We've got the budget coming up.", "The Trump administration turning its focus to the next battle, cutting taxes, which could prove even more challenging, that after failing to deliver on the president's promise to repeal and replace Obamacare despite Republicans having control of the House and Senate.", "If you analyze what went wrong with ACA, he repeats them in tax reform, they'll get nowhere.", "This as the finger-pointing intensifies.", "I think there's plenty of blame to go around. I think what happened is that Washington move.", "I think the House moved too fast. Eighteen days is simply not enough time for such major landmark legislation.", "President Trump shifting the blame from Democrats to the conservatives who stood in the way of the bill, tweeting they saved Planned Parenthood and Obamacare. As his chief of staff, Reince Priebus is leaving the door open to compromise.", "If Democrats come on board with a plan don't road, we'll welcome that.", "They have to reach out across the aisle, and Democrats have to say we will work with you to improve and fix this plan for people.", "Meanwhile, a longtime member of the House Freedom Caucus, Ted Poe, is resigning from the group over its role in defeating the bill. Poe writing in a statement, \"Saying no is easy, leading is hard.\" House Speaker Paul Ryan also under scrutiny in the wake of the healthcare defeat. President Trump tweeting to his supporters to watch a specific FOX News program, which began like this.", "Paul Ryan needs to step down as speaker of the House.", "The White House is insisting that Trump didn't know the FOX host would make these comments and that the commander in chief is standing by the speaker.", "He doesn't blame Paul Ryan. In fact he thought Paul Ryan worked really hard.", "Republicans also gearing up for another fight over Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch with Democrats vowing to filibuster his nomination.", "I am for the Republicans obeying the rules that currently exist and not changing those rules. And the rules right now, for good reasons, are 60 votes.", "We're expecting another announcement from the White House today. The president is expected to unveil his American innovation office. This will be led by Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and a senior adviser. It's designed to make the government leaner and meaner by adopting policies used in private sector. Back to you, Alisyn.", "OK, Sara, thanks so much for all that reporting. Joining us now is Republican Congressman Ted Poe of Texas. He resigned from the House Freedom Caucus over the health care defeat. Good morning, Congressman.", "Good morning, Alisyn.", "Why did you resign?", "Because the Freedom Caucus has always been the opposition caucus against the Democrats, and now when we are in the majority, it continues to be the opposition caucus against anything in the Republican Party. And we had not been included in the past, but we were included in the healthcare replacement bill. We spent an hour- and-a-half with the president of the United States, the vice president, members of the cabinet, talking and making compromise. And compromises were made, things were added to the bill based upon the input of the Freedom Caucus. But then at the end of the day, no, it was easier to vote no. And so I'm angry about that. I think it's time we lead and continue not to say no on everything that takes place when bills come forward in the House of Representatives.", "Since the president did make those concessions to the House Freedom Caucus, what did they want?", "There's some members, I think, that wanted some really stronger parts of the repeal in the bill. But it would move too far to the right where you wouldn't get any other Republicans to support it. So it's a compromise. And I think there was nothing that could be added to the bill that the Freedom Caucus would ever vote yes on. And so, you know, I got the opinion that there's some members of the Freedom Caucus, they would vote no against the Ten Commandments if they came up for a vote. So I think it's time that the Freedom Caucus worked together with other members of the Republican Party, have input, which we did with the speaker, the president of the United States, and then at the end of the day compromise to get something done. Now we have Obamacare. We promised for years we're going to repeal Obama care. We voted 60 times to repeal Obamacare. Then when it came down to repealing it, where it actually counted, people just said I'm not going to vote to repeal the bill.", "You were prepared to vote yes. Is that right?", "That is correct. I was going to vote yes. Its' not a perfect bill, but it's a start in moving us in a different direction to have more input into healthcare. You know, repealing the individual mandate, repealing the corporate mandate, reducing taxes that are in Obamacare. There were some good things in it. No, it was not perfect, but I was ready to vote yes because everybody had an input in the Republican Party, and yet some would continue to say I'm not going to vote for the bill.", "Have you spoken to the president since all of this happened on Friday?", "No, I have not. I have not spoken to him since we met with the president last week. I haven't talked to him.", "Congressman, the people on the House Freedom Caucus, I don't have to tell you, they say they stand for conservative purity. So how do you work with that? They say they're standing on their principles. So how do you ever get them to come more towards the middle?", "Well, nobody is as conservative as I am in the House of Representatives. You can have your principles. And then when it comes to voting, you have to compromise to get something passed. Is it a pure bill? No, it's not a pure bill. So they let the perfect be the enemy of the good. And you're never going to get a perfect piece of legislation that individual conservatives approve of in the House of Representatives because there are 215 other members of the House who are Republicans that we have to work with to move the ball forward to lead. We are in charge. Let us lead. And I'm upset about the fact that we had the chance to lead, to fulfill the number one promise that Republicans had to repeal Obamacare, and that at the end of the day people said they're going to vote to keep Obamacare. And that's very unfortunate.", "Congressman, do you think that you are a lone voice in feeling this way? Or do you predict there will be other defections from the House Freedom Caucus?", "I'm not a lone voice in this. But I can't speak for other members of the Freedom Caucus on what they will do, whether they will stay or leave. But I've talked to other members, and they are distraught and upset about the fact that the bill was not passed even though we don't agree with everything in it. But I've talked with other members, and they may or may not leave the Freedom Caucus. That is their choice.", "So what are your colleagues shares with you about what the future of the Freedom Caucus looks like?", "The Freedom Caucus, I think, will continue to be the opposition party in the Republican Party unless they change their concept. The issue was always the conservatives were not brought to the table in the Republican Party. Now we've been brought to the table. We talked to the president, we talked to the speaker, we talked to members of the Republican Party and we were brought to the table. We had our input. Changes were made. And they continued to vote no. So if the history is the same, it will continue to be the opposition party in the party, and they will continue to vote no. And that's very unfortunate. So that's one reason that -- the main reason why I left the Freedom Caucus, because we cannot be effective if we continue to vote no.", "Congressman Poe, here's the problem. The members of the Freedom Caucus get a lot of positive reinforcement in -- for being the party of no, if you will, back from their home districts. \"Politico\" has an article out this morning about how Chairman Mark Meadows is doing a victory lap in his home district. He's been given sort of a hometown hero's welcome. People say they're so happy he stood on his principles. So what do you do? How do you work with that?", "We have to make sure that even though there are many people who are glad the Freedom Caucus was no, step back and look at the country. We are in control. And we had our input. We had a lot of changes in the bill. And so we're not leading. At the end of the day, those people who are glad we voted no, well, we have Obamacare. We still have problems with Obamacare and the high taxes and people losing their coverage. And so are they glad now after all these years, the number one promise of the Freedom Caucus was to repeal Obama care that they voted no? So they didn't keep their word to the American public. And I think when Americans realize that nothing has been accomplished, that we have the status quo, I think they may change their mind about those who were voting no based upon, as they say, their principles.", "Congressman what does this do for President Trump's agenda? What can get done?", "We have the tax situation, which is next. I think that is going to be more difficult, to change the tax structure of the country, than replacing and repealing Obama care. We'll see that it's going to be very difficult. The president is going to have a plan. He's going to try to get as many people in the House of Representatives to support that plan. But whatever the plan will be, it would not -- it's not going to be as conservative as some people will want because the conservatives continue, unfortunately, to vote no, no matter what. And so there have to be other people in the House of Representatives, including Democrats, to change the tax plan if that is possible.", "Is there anything that is a slam dunk? Infrastructure?", "I don't think infrastructure is a slam dunk either because there's money that has to be appropriated to fix the terrible problem of infrastructure in the country, especially transportation. So we're going to have to vote for more spending. And I think there are going to be those in the Republican Party who are going to be opposed to spending more on infrastructure, even though that is absolutely necessary. So we've got to quit saying no. We have to work together in the Republican Party and at the end of the day come up with a plan where everybody had input and then support that plan. Even though it's not a perfect plan, vote for something that can help the country overall. It is so easy to sit back, cross your arms, and say no, not going to support that. And then what do we have? We have a situation where we're not making positive changes in the country or leading. And that's the problem we have. We have to lead. We're the party in power. We have to lead whether people want to or not.", "Congressman Ted Poe, you have your work cut out for you. Thanks so much for taking time here on", "Thank you very much.", "Nice to talk to you.", "All right, so this healthcare defeat looms large. There's no question that it was a painful experience for the president. Now, what did it mean for the speaker? There's a lot of intrigue about this. The White House seems to be trying now to backfill and say Ryan's OK. We're going to talk to somebody who used to be the former chief of staff for Ryan about how this will affect him and where we go from here, next."], "speaker": ["BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-322451", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-09-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/30/cnr.09.html", "summary": "Trump Bashes Puerto Rico, Brags Federal Help; Puerto Ricans Responds to Trump's Twitter Attack; HHS Secretary Resigns Amid Private Jet Scandal", "utt": ["You are live in the CNN NEWSROOM. Thank you for being here. I'm Ana Cabrera in New York. Breaking news tonight. President Trump attacking the Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico for, quote, poor leadership after she begged for more federal help to help save people from dying in the wake of Hurricane Maria. CNN's Anderson Cooper has just spoken to that Mayor. We will bring you that in just a moment. But, first, President Trump is saying the federal response is going great, but here is the reality on the ground 10 days after the storm. Ninety-five percent of the people don't have power. Only 50 percent have access to clean water. And communication remains a major problem with only 11 percent of cell towers working. Now, the President, who is set to visit Puerto Rico on Tuesday, tweeted this from his private golf club. The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complementary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump. Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan and others in Puerto Rico who are not able to get their workers to help. They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. Ten thousand federal workers now on the island doing a fantastic job. Results of recovery efforts will speak much louder than complaints by San Juan Mayor. Doing everything we can to help great people of P.R. Now, the Mayor responded by saying: the goal is one, saving lives. This is a time to show our true colors. We cannot be distracted by anything else. CNN's Anderson Cooper is joining us now from San Juan. Anderson, you just spoke to Mayor Cruz. What did she say?", "I did. I spoke to her right outside the building where she is based in San Juan. She clearly wants to try to move on from this. She doesn't want to get into a tit for tat with the President of the United States, but she did respond to my questions. Here is part of that interview.", "You woke up this morning to tweets from the President of the United States. What did you make of what he said?", "I smiled. I smiled, really. I have no time for small politics or for comments that really don't add to the situation here.", "He said that -- he talked about you, your leadership, and he said they -- I don't know if he meant they, the leaders, or they, the people of Puerto Rico, want everything done for them.", "I believe it -- you know, it was kind of funny because I got them real later -- late because we don't have internet. It's spotty at best. But he did say that we wanted things to be done, and, you know, the truth is staring us in the face. Just today, I was telling you, we had to evacuate yet another hospital because the generator caught on fire. So this is in another hospital that will not be able to work for another week. We transported 14 patients from one of our facilities. The dam in the eastern part of the island is two towns -- for the first time that I know of in my lifetime in Puerto Rico, two towns are being completely evacuated. People are still coming and saying -- the mayor of San Lorenzo, the mayor of Comerio, the mayor of Ponse, the mayor of Loiza are saying, you know, where's the help? We need it. Please, help us.", "Do you feel that your speaking out has been effective?", "I don't know. But if it has, you know, good.", "The President also said in a tweet early this morning that you had been nice to him early on, but that Democrats told you, you have to be nasty toward him.", "You know, I don't know. Maybe he's used to women who have to be told what to do. You know, that's not who we are here in San Juan. But really, you know --", "And have Democrats said anything to you --", "No.", "-- about how you should treat him?", "Not at all. Actually, I am not a Democrat. I share values with the Democratic Party in the United States, but I do not participate in the Democratic Party. So it's interesting.", "You also --", "Senator Marco Rubio sent representatives to here, so he -- he's not a Democrat. And I just think he's looking for an excuse for things that are not going well.", "Brock Long, the FEMA administrator, has said today about you --", "I'm sorry. I had a problem there with the end of the tape. But I was asking her about comments that Brock Long, the FEMA administrator, had said that she -- that there's a unified command and that's essential to organization here, and that she needs to go to the joint field office and basically kind of get linked in on what's going on. She certainly, you know, took issue with that. She says she has -- she is at a separate building, a separate office, than the rest of the government offices, the FEMA response. She said she has two FEMA envoys who are based in her office, and she felt that was satisfactory.", "So, Anderson, I know you spent a lot of time today, beyond talking with the Mayor of San Juan, you've gone to some of the other parts of Puerto Rico who have been affected, talking to those folks in those places. Are they still feeling that they are waiting for the help they need?", "Absolutely. I mean, I think everybody is waiting in one sense or another. People are waiting on long gas lines. People are waiting for fuel. People are waiting at ATMs because there's a shortage of cash, and they're desperate for cash because they can't buy things with credit cards in any places or with food stamps. People are waiting to get more supplies, waiting for stores to open so that they can use what cash they have to actually buy goods. So there is a lot of waiting, and there's certainly a lot of frustration. People are, you know, friendly and calm and being extraordinarily patient. I was in a Aguadilla, a town all the way on the west -- the western end of Puerto Rico today, and they're -- you know, they say they've had some FEMA people there who were basically kind of there to see what the needs of the community may be. They've gone to the hospital as well. I talked to the hospital administrator. He said he finally got the Army there yesterday, brought -- filled them up with diesel fuel, which he was very grateful for. But he's very concerned about the safety of his patients. There were some New York City Fire Department guys there who on their own, basically, had requisitioned some supplies, gotten a truck, and driven it to this town. And they were handing out MREs, and those were volunteers from the New York Fire Department. So, you know, people are grateful, but, you know, the idea that, you know, the President saying communities need to be involved, I can tell you, from what I saw today and from what I've seen yesterday as well, communities are involved here. It's communities who are cleaning up the streets. It's communities who are clearing the roads. It is communities who are cooking. You know, a group of people on a street are cooking in a house and feeding the people on that block as best they can. So the idea that communities are just sitting around is just simply not accurate.", "I know you've been speaking with first responders. And what is their feeling and your understanding of where the gaps are right now, the reason why they aren't able to help more people more quickly? Is it sheer numbers that are lacking?", "You know, look, they're certainly helping people, and they're -- you know, they're doing incredibly important work, and it's, logistically, a difficult thing. But, you know, this notion that all the roads are blocked and therefore that's a big thing, that's really not the case anymore. The roads to a lot of places are open. Like this fire -- these guys from the New York City Fire Department, they were able to get a truck of supplies in, really, on their own, and they were handing out. This was not a FEMA-authorized operation. And I've talked to a number of first responds today, about six of them talking off the record. And each of them, in separate places, said to me in different ways but using quite strong language that the organizational structure that they -- as they have seen, and these are guys at probably the bottom of the food chains. These are not leaders of the relief efforts. These are people who are here volunteering, who want to, you know, get out there, who want to do everything they can do, and use their skills. They're not able to get out. Many of them say -- of the ones who talked to me today said that they've been sitting around for days, just waiting for, you know, orders of where to go and what to do. And, you know, some of them are just kind of trying to volunteer and do whatever they can and take matters into their own hands and cut through the bureaucracy. But there's a lot of frustration, you know. And the word, the phrase, I kept hearing all day was effed up from these first responders.", "That speaks to the frustration indeed. Anderson Cooper, thank you for that report. Thank you for getting us that reaction, as well, from the Mayor. Now, in the last 24 hours, reporting on this Puerto Rico crisis got personal and emotional for CNN Correspondent Leyla Santiago. She is a Puerto Rico native, born and raised there on the island. Leyla's family still lives in a small town nestled near the mountains. Now, days ago, when Hurricane Maria struck, it battered Leyla's hometown with devastating force. This is Corozal, Puerto Rico. Homes there destroyed, power lines knocked over, water is still scarce. Leyla's family is OK. Her hometown is not. This is the moment she heard her family say, we survived.", "This is relief, seeing my family in Corozal for the first time, hearing them tell me they're OK.", "That's the relief I found in this small town, but it's far from the relief needed on this island.", "I want to bring in Leyla Santiago in San Juan, Puerto Rico. And, Leyla, what a beautiful reunion we just saw there with your family. Tell me, how is your family holding up?", "Well, Ana, I actually haven't been able to communicate with them since I left that part because communication still very much an issue. The island only has, as you mentioned, 30 percent of the communication infrastructure restored. So still a hard -- or just a challenge to reach family members. After I left, that was it. I haven't been able to call them, cannot reach them still to this point. But I'll tell you what I did see today that was very heart warming. I, just like Anderson, saw quite a bit of people, Puerto Ricans helping Puerto Ricans. I watched as aid was distributed, and it wasn't, in any way, from the government.", "She may need a walker and has an extra load, but the walk home is the easy part for Aracelis Negron. The 62-year- old was first in line for help when this package arrived in Toa Baja.", "She says she doesn't know what's in the box yet, but she knows that it's a blessing. A blessing but it's not from the federal government.", "You just got to make sure that people get the food in their hand.", "Rather a super star who calls Puerto Rico home. Musician Daddy Yankee and a food bank. Do you feel the government's doing enough?", "No, I don't think so. I don't think so. And that's real. You know, there's no time to play politics right now. This is a chaos. We are struggling right now.", "Struggling is exactly how Edwin de Jesus describes it.", "When Hurricane Maria whipped through town, he said he was able to get one pant, two shirts, and the radio he's got right now. He's also one of the lucky ones to receive a box, each with a week's worth of food. The food bank says this load from private donors is enough for 4,000 families.", "He says this is good because, at least, the help is arriving now. Beyond this, the only other help residents tell us they've seen here, 10 days after Maria struck he --", "She says some water has arrived here as aid, but that's it. She hasn't seen anything else. That's why she was first in line to get these boxes. For many, these boxes bring home a bit of hope. Aracelis doesn't understand English, so I'm going to read to her what this says. It said, better days are coming. Be brave and stay strong.", "And she adds, and have faith. Faith that more help like these will get here soon.", "And, again, Ana, all of that coming from private donations. Puerto Ricans going out into communities and delivering them themselves. I did see some of the members of the National Guard out there. They were from the Puerto Rican National Guard. And, again, I was told water had been distributed. But none of that, none of that aid that you saw there, came from the government. So it's easy to understand why so many seemed a little shocked, seem a little frustrated, when they are told that they expect everything to be handed to them.", "Leyla Santiago, thank you for that report. Good to see how people are coming together there, helping each other, doing the best they can. President Trump tweeting again about Puerto Rico just a short time ago, writing, I will be in Puerto Rico on Tuesday to further ensure we will continue doing everything possible to assist and support the people in their time of great need. Now, the first lady, we are learning, will accompany the President on that trip. CNN's Ryan Nobles is near the Trump golf resort in New Jersey where the first family is spending this week. And, Ryan, President Trump has been tweeting a lot today, but there was a period for about six hours or so when he didn't post anything. Do we know what he was doing during that time?", "No, we don't, Ana. And you're right, the President was busy today but those of us in the press corps that are here with the express purpose of making sure that what we -- we know what he's up to today, we never laid eyes on the President. Or we were never given access to him at all today. But we did read the 18 different tweets that he sent out about Puerto Rico. And you're right, there was a six-hour period where he stopped sending out those tweets. It was a little after 8:00 and then a little after 2:00 before he started tweeting again. Now, we know in the 2:00 hour that he spent some time on the phone with five different leaders from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, getting a sense of exactly what is going on in that region. Now, we expressly asked, did the President golf today? He was at his private golf resort for the third consecutive weekend. His aides could not tell us one way or another if that's how the President spent his day. So all we know for sure was that he spent some of his time tweeting about the situation in Puerto Rico, Ana.", "And, Ryan, I understand Vice President Mike Pence just commented on the President's assessment of the disaster. What did he say?", "That's right. Vice President Mike Pence was touring FEMA headquarters today. He did a local interview with a station out of Orland, Florida, and he backed up the President and, specifically, his criticism of the Mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulin Cruz. And this is what Pence had to say. He said, quote, well, it is frustrating, I expect, to millions of Americans to hear rhetoric coming out from some in Puerto Rico, particularly the Mayor of San Juan, instead of focusing on results. Our joint field operation is at -- beside of a convention center in San Juan has more than 1,000 personnel working out off a football field environment. The Mayor of San Juan has only visited our joint field operation just once. And the Vice President also saying that he will visit the U.S. Virgin Islands sometime next week. So the White House busy defending its response to the situation in Puerto Rico, Ana.", "All right. Ryan Nobles for us. Thank you. Coming up, Puerto Rico crying for help. Why is President Trump praising his response to the disaster while residents there are suffering?", "It hurts.", "You can't even believe what's happening here. I mean, she's -- there's no power. There's no water. She's a diabetic. She doesn't have insulin. She has an infection that could threaten her life. No ambulance will take her to the hospital. That's what's happening here.", "A lot of people can't even bring their cars here. They're just waiting in line in person with as many gas cans as they can. But this line, there are dozens of people, and it stretches all the way down here. And a lot of people here have been waiting for hours as well.", "This is their improvised method for trying to reach the outside world. We just spoke with a couple who had crossed this way and then walked two hours to the nearest supermarket to try to get bread and food and rice for their children and then had to walk two hours back."], "speaker": ["ANA CABRERA, CNN ANCHOR", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "MAYOR CARMEN YULIN CRUZ, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO", "COOPER", "CRUZ", "COOPER", "CRUZ", "COOPER", "CRUZ", "COOPER", "CRUZ", "COOPER", "CRUZ", "COOPER", "CRUZ", "COOPER", "COOPER", "CABRERA", "COOPER", "CABRERA", "COOPER", "CABRERA", "LEYLA SANTIAGO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SANTIAGO", "CABRERA", "SANTIAGO", "SANTIAGO (voice-over)", "SANTIAGO (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SANTIAGO (voice-over)", "DADDY YANKEE, MUSICIAN", "SANTIAGO (voice-over)", "SANTIAGO (on camera)", "SANTIAGO (on camera)", "SANTIAGO (on camera)", "SANTIAGO (on camera)", "SANTIAGO", "CABRERA", "RYAN NOBLES, CNN WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "NOBLES", "CABRERA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator)", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-261218", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2015-08-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/03/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore Enters Republican Presidential Race", "utt": ["Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore is the latest Republican to join the presidential race. He joins a very crowded lineup of contenders. You have 17 GOP candidates in all now. And Gilmore says he has experience with national security and the economy that other Republican candidates lack. Gilmore served as Virginia governor from 1998 to 2002. He's also served as chairman of the Republican National Committee and chairman of the congressional panel to assess America's capabilities to respond to a terrorist attack. This is a panel known as the Gilmore Commission. And he is a U.S. Army veteran. He's also here to talk about some of this. Governor, thank you so much for being with me.", "Thank you.", "There's this forum tonight in New Hampshire. You won't be there. You Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, won't be in attendance. Why not?", "I think we got into the race so late they could not make the preparations for us to be there tonight. But I've been to New Hampshire eight times, I visited every county in New Hampshire, I've been there multiple days on each trip and continue to go back because New Hampshire is important.", "You ran briefly in 2008. You struggled with fund-raising. You're back at it again. I wonder what lessons you learned and what do you think you bring to a crowded field that other candidates don't?", "I think it's the entire package, Brianna. I am a governor and governors are considered legitimate for this debate in this presidential campaign. A governor has run a state. He understands what is going on. But I have an additional component. The fact that I'm a United States Army veteran, a degree in Soviet affairs, that I chaired the National Commission on the Homeland Security for the United States, I was during t governor during the 9/11 attack so I have foreign policy credentials to go along with gubernatorial credentials and that combination doesn't exist elsewhere in the field.", "The Monmouth University poll of Republican voters, you have 77 percent of people who said they don't have an opinion of you. That means they don't know you. You have an uphill battle when you look at the numbers. And the fact that you aren't polling in the top 10, so you won't be in the main debate stage Thursday night, creates another challenge. How do you get people to have an opinion of you?", "I think it will be a long race. There's an opportunity to appear multiple times band in additional debates. Hopefully, I'll be in the debate on Thursday with FOX. It's a chance to talk about issues of importance to the people of the United States. After a while, the people of the country will say, \"Look, I'm tired of the circus. I want a candidate who understands my concerns, jobs, opportunities.\" And my real concern about the international threat. I'm addressing those issues and I'm capable of doing that.", "Your record is going to be looked at. A big legacy for you when you left the state of Virginia was you went in very well as governor, very well received. You got rid of the state vehicle tax, which voters told you they wanted. But when you left, unable to strike a budget deal, there was a big budget shortfall and that was part of your legacy. Knowing that your record will be scrutinized, if you are to gain more attention, what do you say to voters?", "I would say if I had -- Virginia only gets one term. If I had a chance to serve in the second term there wouldn't have been a budget shortfall. We would have constructed on a budget that delivered on the promise of the car tax cut. But it wasn't to keep a legacy it was to deliver a value to working people. A real tax cut. I'm telling you now, the problem we're facing in the United States today is that the economy is dragging and people don't the opportunities that they need and represent tax reform policy can revitalize this economy, get our growth up, get our wages up and give people a chance for a future.", "How do you take on an opponent like Donald Trump?", "I'm not concerned about Donald Trump. I'm more concerned about the opportunity, as you have said, to get my ideas out there, the idea of revitalizing the economy and the deep experience I have to address the international crisis. It's very real. The danger of the United States is serious. We have multiple challenges at this point because of the weakness of the Obama/Clinton foreign policy. The Obama/Clinton foreign policy has made a dangerous world more dangerous. I believe I can reverse the American decline and get America back on the upswing both in terms of jobs and opportunity and foreign policy.", "You say your executive experience as governor matters a lot. There's a number of governors in the race, including Jeb Bush. I want to ask you about his immigration proposal just out today. He says he would crack down on sanctuary cities, local cities that don't enforce federal immigration laws. He would beef up security at the border with more bases, new roads for patrol. He would kick out immigrants who have overstayed their visas and have a biometric exit system.", "I think he's right about sanctuary cities and I know we have to secure the border. I'm a little taken aback by his position that he wants to deport five million people who have overstayed their visas. His signature issue for years has been amnesty. Jeb has been about amnesty. So I think he's trying to have it both ways. This is both-way Jeb now. If he can take a signature issue he's cared about so much, amnesty for illegal aliens, then turn on a dime, what will he do as president? Can he be trusted to carry out the things he says he'll do? I think he's looking at Trump's numbers and he's seen the light but the light is Trump's poll numbers.", "Governor Gilmore, thanks so much for being with us. Appreciate it.", "Thank you, Brianna.", "To learn more about Governor Jim Gilmore and all of the presidential contenders, 16 more of them, head over to CNN politics.com. Up next, another near-miss reported in New York as a mystery drone flies too close to a packed passenger plane. We'll take a closer look at this next."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "JIM GILMORE, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER VIRGINIA GOVERNOR", "KEILAR", "GILMORE", "KEILAR", "GILMORE", "KEILAR", "GILMORE", "KEILAR", "GILMORE", "KEILAR", "GILMORE", "KEILAR", "GILMORE", "KEILAR", "GILMORE", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-159714", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-12-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1012/18/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Dr. Bill's Tips On Avoiding Weight Gain On The Holidays", "utt": ["Our top story this hour. The U.S. Senate approving legislation allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. The final vote to repeal \"don't ask, don't tell\", 65-31. Eight Republicans joining Democrats to vote for that; President Obama expected to sign the measure in the coming week. Five years after cracking up audiences as an electronics store clerk in the movie \"The 40-Year-Old Virgin,\" the actor Shelley Malil sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. He was convicted in California for stabbing his former girlfriend. During the trial, he claimed it was the knife that stabbed her, not him. Triple-A says the number of Americans planning trips during the holiday season is expected to jump 3 percent. In all, 93 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from their home by car or air. The snow out west could hamper a lot of those folks' plans, though. With Christmas just around the corner, lots of us are going to be shopping this weekend. Technology is being used, security cameras, to give retailers an edge. CNN's Mary Snow tells us how these devices are tracking you, in an effort to boost sales.", "This scene seems pretty ordinary, a woman browsing through a shirt rack. But for retailers keeping a watchful eye, this is considered valuable information. (", "You wouldn't be surprised to know there are security cameras like this one videotaping you. What you might not know is what's being done with those images. (", "As soon as you walk through the door, your movements are tracked.", "It's like getting really close without touching, right? I want to understand as much as I can without invading your space.", "Kathryn Howe provides technology to retailers hoping to boost sales by studying shopper's behavior. American Apparel allowed us to get a look at how it works.", "I want to say, all right, bring it a little further out and track people coming in who go to the coat display.", "Howe will look to see who goes to that coat display and for how long. Her job is to convert videos into information. Like this map, showing the stores' most trafficked areas. She also shows us how a camera captured shoppers inside a convenience store looking at a promotion sign.", "I could click on each of these and I would get a little video clip that would show me exactly their behavior as they approached it.", "Armed with that information, stores might move displays or change how merchandise is presented. In addition to cameras, this store attaches RFID, or radio frequency tags on clothes. John Brooks, with American Apparel, says his store uses them to track inventory, and insists they aren't followed once an item leaves the store. He sees another purpose for them in the future.", "Where somebody may go into a change room, we will have run-well, the system will have run a log rhythm that says with this particular item you're likely to also be interested in these items, and our sales assistants can then move to efficiently provide those products.", "As retailers try to gain an age on competitors, Paco Underhill, a pioneer in consumer behavior says there's an infinite amount of technology.", "I can put sensors on a shopping chart to track where that shopping cart goes and how long it stays for. I can key in to your cell phone and if it is turned on, be able to pinpoint where you are.", "What remains unclear, he says, is whether all this information is leading to something useful. But that is not the only question. (", "How aware are consumers about how much they're being watched? (", "John Brooks says most people know about security cameras, but has this message for consumers worried about their privacy.", "At the end of the day, our technology is driven towards creating a more rich and efficient in-store experience. And that is our primary concern. Information outside of that is really of no interest to us. And is unactionable, in terms of our business model.", "But the use of all this technology has made privacy advocates increasingly uneasy. As one attorney at the ACLU put it, analytics being collected are being dwarfed the information about you obtained online. Mary Snow, CNN, New York.", "Of course, a lot of us will be attending holiday events, parties this weekend and beyond, with plenty of food to eat and stuff to drink, and that means a lot of weight to gain. Dr. Bill joins us. Dr. Bill, I was reading ahead. You've got some very, very specific tips on how you can actually avoid putting on those pounds as soon as you walk in the door of a party.", "You're absolutely right, Drew. When you think of the holidays, if you want to preserve a healthy weight, you have think about it like an obstacle course. So between now and let's say, January 2, you've got to navigate your way around these parties. The first important tip that you think about is never arrive hungry at a party. A lot of people try to starve themselves before a reception, saying they can munch away when they get to the party, but it works the opposite. Follow your normal nutritional schedule and have a snack before the party and you won't eat as much. Here is another important one, Visualize yourself eating. Big research this week in \"Science\" magazine, researchers in Pittsburgh said if on your way to the party you think about eating those cheese cubes, you think about eating those shrimp, you actually go through the maneuver of eating those M&Ms;, when you go to the party, you'll already be full and you won't want to eat as much. Try that one, Drew, and let me know if it works. Also, arrive late. If you get there early, you have more time to graze. And think about using smaller plates when you're in line for that buffet. Take the smaller plate. Research has shown you'll eat less. And between every bite, put the fork down. When you force yourself to pick up the fork, you eat less. And limit the amount of alcohol you drink and you'll keep that calorie count down.", "Bill, I got to tell you, every time I visualize M&Ms;, I want to eat them. So that's not going to work for me. I'm going to try something else. You said something interesting, the 30 minutes you arrive, the first 30 minutes are the danger zone.", "Absolutely right. Because people want to be hospitable to their guests and they lay out all the good stuff. Again, if you arrive hungry, you'll get right in there. You know there is a kind of survival mentality that, you know, those shrimp may not last, those meatballs may go away, I better eat them now. When in fact, most good hosts, like you, will put the food out in stages throughout the party. Hosts need to be very sensitive to their guests. Make sure there's low-calorie dishes as well as the regular fair as well. So by getting their later and choosing the smaller plate, you'll consume far fewer calories. And start the new year at your target weight.", "There's an emotional problem wrapped up in a lot of people's Christmases, too. Their moods kind of go sour. Why does that happen?", "Well, Drew, we're not talking about somebody that has a diagnosis of a clinical mood disorder. These people need to be in the hands of health professionals. But a lot of healthy people do get down in the dumps when the holidays come. The answer is simple, too little sun and too much anxiety. Anxiety is linked to depression. If you're buried with woes about gift wrapping, going to the mall, and the economy, you're really not going to enjoy the holidays. Of course, there's always triggers that can bring you down. You have to be alert about your feelings. Now, don't wait till next weekend, now how are you feeling about the holidays?", "Let me ask you something else, Doctor Bill, because this was news to me. It was a great idea, that I had just never thought of. You say that holidays are a good time to get together with your families and try to assess, or organize a family health history.", "I think everyone should do this, Drew. Because we know that an accurate family history is one of the most powerful steps that physicians can use to get to a correct diagnosis. Now and in the future, for yourself, and for your children. So if you're having a family reunion, take a few minutes sit down and collect some information. Go ahead and build that family tree. And of course, with so many blended families, now that tree is going to have many, many branches. Get the names of all the family members and for those that have passed on, get the age when they passed away. Here's something very important. For those where you know an individual had a health problem, get the age of their diagnosis. Aunt Lucy went crazy. Well, maybe she went crazy when she was 90. But if she started having memory problems and started acting funny when she was 65, then maybe we ought to be thinking about that she had dementia or Alzheimer's disease and we can track that in the family. So the age of diagnosis is very, very important. And it is the holidays, so you want to probe gently. This is not the conversation to have over the dinner table. Find some time with the older relatives, get them aside, and see how much they can remember about your family health.", "You know, they generally like talking about their history, no matter what, good or bad, don't they?", "That's an important point. We don't know how anybody in the Lloyd family died. I ask my parents all the time. Hey, how did Uncle Bob die? We don't know. So this is a great opportunity to get that information. The reason is, if you have this information, and there's a family trait, you and your doctor can decide if there's a role for preclinical treatment, diseases like Alzheimer and Parkinson's disease. They're offering therapies now to people even before their earliest symptoms, if they have a strong family history. So by having this information for yourself, and for your children, the next generation of health care is going to change tremendously. This information will put you in the best place to have a healthier life and longer survivorship, as well.", "Dr. Bill Lloyd, always great, good advice. Thanks so much and happy holidays.", "We'll talk again soon.", "OK. Take care.", "Same to you.", "We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["GRIFFIN", "MARY SNOW, CNN FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "On camera)", "Voice over)", "KATHRYN HOWE, BVI NETWORKS", "SNOW", "HOWE", "SNOW", "HOWE", "SNOW", "JOHN BROOKS, AMERICAN APPAREL", "SNOW", "PACO UNDERHILL, AUTHOR, \"WHY WE BUY:  THE SCIENCE OF SHOPPING\"", "SNOW", "On camera)", "Voice over)", "BROOKS", "SNOW", "GRIFFIN", "DR. BILL LLOYD, SURGEON & PATHOLOGIST", "GRIFFIN", "LLOYD", "GRIFFIN", "LLOYD", "GRIFFIN", "LLOYD", "GRIFFIN", "LLOYD", "GRIFFIN", "LLOYD", "GRIFFIN", "LLOYD", "GRIFFIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-44102", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-11-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/20/lt.03.html", "summary": "White House To Release Public Service Announcement", "utt": ["Awaiting word from the White House. The unveiling, the debut of a new public service announcement coming up momentarily from the first couple to talk about getting Americans, encouraging them more to get out and volunteer. With that, John King's at the White House. Also watching the visit from the Filipino president today. John, hello again.", "Hello to you, Bill. The President focusing on charitable giving, volunteerism, as the the Thanksgiving and the Christmas holiday season approach. What the White House will release momentarily is a new public service announcement from the president and the first lady, urging Americans of all stripes to volunteer in their communities, whether it be the police department, the fire department, a local hospital or health care center, anything the first couple will say to help. But, they will say that volunteer help will help with the war against terrorism here at home. Mr. Bush also, today, visiting a local shelter for the homeless here in Washington. A program called \"So Others Might Eat.\" It feeds the homeless here in Washington. It is run by a local catholic priest. One of the faith based initiatives, one of the faith based programs the president says the federal government should support. And as the president announced, the amount of funding the federal government will provide to help the homeless this year, $1 billion in grants, he said, that's a record level. He thanked the American people for the outpouring of charitable contributions in the wake of the September 11th attacks, but he also raised concerns there is some evidence that Americans gave all of that money to help the victims, but are now giving less to traditional charities in communities. Mr. Bush says Americans need now, as the holiday season approaches, to dig a little deeper.", "I hope America, I encourage America, that as we head into Thanksgiving, to find a program that needs help. Or if have you been helping a program in the past, continue your help. The generosity of this country will say to the world that we are a nation that will not be effected by terror and evil. In fact, we encourage good to overcome evil through our actions and deeds.", "Mr. Bush also calling on the Congress, yet again, to pass its so-called faith based initiative, allowing federal government money to go to organizations that tied to churches and other religious groups. In making that call, a reminder of how dramatically the President's domestic agenda has changed since the events of September 11th. That legislation tied up in the Congress, in many ways an afterthought because of the focus on the war against terrorism here at home and in Afghanistan.", "John, I mentioned the visit from the Filipino president today. There has been talk and we have reported on it for the past couple of months now, Muslims extremists operating in that country in the south of the Pacific there. Do we know just yet how how much the U.S. government is willing to get involved in that operation if the Philippines?", "The U.S. government already is involved, Bill, in a very quiet way. President Arroyo gets very high marks from the White House and across the Bush administration for her effort to crack down on what is known as Abu Saif (ph) terrorist network. It is born in the Philippines, based in the Philippines. It has some links to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. At least it has in the past. You see here Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with President Arroyo there. She will also see the Secretary of State Colin Powell, and she will meet with President Bush here in the oval office. Three key visits here in Washington. A sign of this administration's thank you, if you will, for her leadership, the administration says, in cracking down against terrorism. And as she does so, using the resources of the Philippines government, we are told that there have been U.S. military advisers in the Philippines assisting with that effort. Much more needs to be done the administration says, but this is an example, the Bush administration says, of a country that is fully cooperating in the war against terrorism in a country that many say, a region many say, could be the next front on this war. Bill.", "Quickly, John. We talked about it last hour. A symbolic renaming of the department of justice today after the late Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Often times the president has compared the current war on terrorism, even going back to his speech for the joint session of Congress way back in mid-September, he said it was like fighting the mob -- fighting the Mafia.", "Like fighting the Mafia. Bobby Kennedy was -- when he was attorney general, was credited with leading an unprecedented effort to fight organized crime in this country. There was a move afoot in Congress already to name the justice department after Mr. Kennedy. The president taking initiative to do it himself. He will attend those dedication ceremonies today, paying tribute to the late Mr. Kennedy, also drawing that parallel to the war on terrorism, much like the war against organized crime some 30 years ago -- 40 years ago, now. Bill.", "John, thanks. More later today. John King at the White House with more from there. 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{"id": "CNN-48321", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-1-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/30/lt.23.html", "summary": "How Was Bush's Speech Received by Viewers?", "utt": ["President Bush told the nation last night that the best way to improve the economy is to support job growth. How is that playing with middle America? Our Leon Harris is in St. Charles, Illinois, with some reaction from workers there. Leon, hi.", "Hi, Daryn, and hello, folks. Yeah, we are out here gauging reaction to President Bush's State of the Union address last night. We figured why not go to perhaps the most patriotic place we can find, that of course is no place other than J. C. Schultz Enterprises, where as you can see here they are hard at work making American flags. We understand they are, like, number five in the nation in terms of making flags. And Janice here is the president of the company. And we have been talking off and on this morning about this speech last night, and you as a person who is running a company right now, based upon what you heard last night, are you satisfied that there is a plan in place and that there is enough good will between Democrats and Republicans to make it happen?", "I think so. I think everybody realizes that we need two parties, because that's important in getting things solved the proper way, and they also know they have to work together. I think 9-11 showed us that we can work together, parties, Republicans, Democrats.", "Did you hear enough about homeland security? A lot of your workers concerned about that.", "I think we are all concerned about homeland security. And yes, there is enough. I feel there is a plan in place and everybody is -- even the security at the airports now, you can tell it's greater and it's good.", "OK. Thanks, Janice. Let me hop over here, let me move out of your way, Jeff. Go back here, and Steve, we have been talking off and on about this morning about this speech, and you are perhaps the one person here that may have been the most critical about what you heard, because you wanted to hear more about jobs.", "Yeah. Because jobs right now is the only thing that's going to help the economy grow. I feel that if we get the unemployed employed and get the homeless homes and, you know, help out like that. You know, the tax cuts, the tax relief that he gave us, the checks, helped out a lot for people who were unemployed at the time, but it just seems that I don't know if he was like not trying to get too far in depth until the time came right, or if he was just, you know, just showing everybody that he knows about the situation, he is aware of it. But I think we need a little more assurance than just knowing that he knows about the problem.", "You think he actually cares about people like you more so than big business people? That's one of the criticisms that has been made in the past. UNIDENTIFIED MALE; I didn't see that last night. I didn't see that last night. It seems that he is still focused on helping the richer class get richer. I ain't saying that he's trying to keep the poor poor, but it doesn't seem like he's trying to help them as much as he's helping the rich right now.", "Thanks, Steve. As you can see, Daryn, we have been getting a lot of different reactions to people here. And this company, as we said, has just been going gangbusters because of the flag sales. But as you can see here, they are not just making American flags, they're also making some other things here as well. I want to see if you'll recognize this one, Daryn. How about that?", "Help me here. Grateful Dead.", "You got it.", "Did I?", "She got it. We thought we'd stump the chump, but now you figured it out. They are busy at work here, they're making all kinds of products. And the economy is so far looking good for this company, and they are all saying that they think a rising tide is going to float all boats. Back to you, Daryn.", "I guess that native Californian in me came through. I recognized a Dead head flag when I saw it. OK. Passed the test. Leon, you travel safely back here, and we look forward to having you back.", "You got it.", "All right, back to the president's State of the Union address. A survey finding that his address was very well received in American homes. A CNN-\"USA Today\"-Gallup Poll found nearly three- fourth of viewers saw the speech as very positive. Another 20 percent said it was somewhat positive. Only 5 percent responding negatively to the address. Our senior political analyst Bill Schneider joins us from Washington. Bill, good to see you.", "Good to see you, Daryn.", "Just what the president needed, even more positive numbers.", "That's right, and he did get them. I'd say he gave two State of the Union speeches last night, one of them was on the war on terrorism, the other was on the economy. Slightly different receptions. The war speech was an unqualified triumph, really. The speech on the economy was a qualified success, not quite as enthusiastic. When we did a poll, we asked speech watchers what they thought of his proposals to deal with each problem, and we found that a resounding 64 percent of those who watched the speech thought that the president's proposals to deal with terrorism would be very effective. A somewhat smaller number, 41 percent, felt the same way about the president's proposals to deal with the economy. So, as we just heard in Leon's report, there is still some doubts out there about his economic ideas, but certainly resounding support for his proposals on the war.", "Bill, let's look at what the president and the Republicans are trying to do versus the Democrats. It seems like the president is trying to couple the enthusiasm for the war on terrorism, bring that over to the economy, whereas the Democrats would like to do the opposite and decouple that, and maybe get some of their economic and domestic issues through.", "Well, the Democrats are trying to pry the two issues apart. They are saying, we support the president solidly on the war on terrorism. There is difference between us whatsoever. But when it comes to the economy, we have different ideas. They don't like his stimulus package. They think it has too many tax cuts for the wealthy, and they have some of their own ideas. What the Republicans are trying to argue is that it's not two issues, it's one, and they are inextricably linked. The president linked them last night in his speech, when he said part of the war on terrorism is a war against this nation's recession. Because the president knows he has solid support in terrorism and he wants to have the same kind of support on the economy. And his argument, which he's made around the country, is they are linked. Most Americans believe that what drove up the deficit, what sustained and prolonged the recession is the war on terrorism, or the attacks back in September, and that if we can restore the country's confidence about its physical security, then people will begin to spend money, they'll invest, they'll travel again, and that will boost the economy.", "Bill, I just want to drop this one on you. You have been talking all day about what was in the president's address. I picked up on some things that were not specifically, and I want to see if any of these jumped out at you. First of all, you didn't hear Osama bin Laden's name directly. You didn't hear Enron's name directly. The detainees at Camp X-Ray, those weren't spoken of either, and also the increasing violence and tension in the Middle East.", "That's right. The absence of any discussion of the Middle East was striking, because a lot of people think that this situation in the larger Middle East, including Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, cannot be resolved until the United States plays a stronger role in settling the Israeli-Palestinian controversy. The president didn't say one word about that, which a lot of people think was a serious lapse. Enron he mentioned only obliquely, when he called for greater corporate responsibility, without mentioning Enron by name. So there was a little bit about that. Osama bin Laden, that was an interesting omission. I don't think -- I think it was deliberate, because this war has been very strongly personalized. We still find that most Americans do not believe it's going to be over until we eliminate Osama bin Laden, we capture him or even kill him. Well, the president doesn't want the -- his success or failure in this war to hinge on our ability to do that. So he did not personalize it by mentioning Osama's name.", "Bill Schneider in Washington. As always, a pleasure, sir. Thank you for being with us. Appreciate it.", "Pleasure. OK. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "LEON HARRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HARRIS", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "HARRIS", "KAGAN", "BILL SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "KAGAN", "SCHNEIDER", "KAGAN", "SCHNEIDER", "KAGAN", "SCHNEIDER", "KAGAN", "SCHNEIDER"]}
{"id": "CNN-271770", "program": "STATE OF THE UNION", "date": "2015-12-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/20/sotu.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.", "utt": ["Showdown. New rivalries.", "Does Ted Cruz rule out ever legalizing people that are in this country now? Do you rule it out?", "I have never supported legalization, and I do not intend to support legalization.", "And new beefs.", "Donald is great at the one-liners. But he's a chaos candidate. And he would be a chaos president.", "But did the debate reshuffle the Republican deck? Candidate Rand Paul will be here live. Plus, Sanders and Clinton playing nice on stage, while their campaigns behind the scenes do battle.", "Does Secretary Clinton deserve an apology tonight?", "Yes, I apologize.", "The Sanders campaign, accused of dirty tricks, fighting back by saying the system is rigged for Clinton. Will it divided the Dems? And Trump lands Putin's endorsement. Other GOP endorsements may call the Russian president a gangster and a thug.", "I'm not afraid of a guy riding around on a horse without his shirt.", "But Trump warmly embraces him. What the budding bromance means for world affairs and the race to the White House. Plus, the top political minds will be here with insights from the campaign trail. Former candidate Rick Perry joins our roundtable.", "Hello. I'm Jake Tapper in Washington, D.C., where the state of our union is ready to rumble. A new war of words between Republican front-runner Donald Trump and rival Jeb Bush. Trump called Bush dumb as a rock on Twitter this weekend. And take a listen to Governor Bush on the campaign trail yesterday.", "I got to get it off my chest. Donald Trump is a jerk.", "Thank you.", "I feel better now.", "I just -- I just -- I gave myself therapy there.", "Therapeutic, perhaps, but it does not seem to be moving the needle much on the polls, which show with Donald Trump with a commanding lead after Tuesday's debate, a FOX News poll showing Trump leading nationally with 39 percent. His closest competitor is Senator Ted Cruz at 18 percent. But it's not all good news for Trump, who loses to Hillary Clinton by 11 points in a theoretical head-to-head matchup in the same poll. Last night, at a Democratic debate, Clinton disparaged Trump's plan to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. And then she gave her Republican opponents some new fodder by painting a rosy scenario about the war against ISIS.", "No. We now finally are where we need to be. We have a strategy and a commitment to go after ISIS, which is a danger to us, as well as the region.", "Joining me now, Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul. Senator Paul, thanks for joining us. You just heard Hillary Clinton saying we're finally where we need to be. What do you think?", "You know, I think the difficulty is actually trying to get a coalition on the ground that will fight ISIS, because I have said all along the only way to defeat them for the long term is to have Sunni Muslim boots on the ground. And that's easier said than done. You know, I would like to Saudis, Kuwaitis, Jordanians all on the ground fighting ISIS. But most of them still want to fight from the air and not from the ground. Also, it's difficult if the battle isn't joined by the sectarian Shiite army in Baghdad. I just don't think that there will be a long-lasting victory if takes a Shiite or an Iranian army either. So, really, no, I don't think we quite have -- I think that the concept is good. Yes, we need Sunni Muslims on the ground. But I don't think we quite have it in order yet.", "Let's talk about some of the politics from this weekend, Jeb Bush saying Donald Trump is a jerk for disparaging women, Hispanics, disabled people. That's a quote. Jeb says it's deeply discouraging that Trump remains the front-runner. Do you agree?", "Absolutely deeply disturbing that he's the front-runner. I think he will get wiped in a general election. It would be terrible for any of the ideas of limited government. I'm still not sure that Donald Trump is for limited government, for balanced budgets. One of the biggest things that he's been for in his last several years is using eminent domain for the government to take private property from one property -- private property owner and give it to himself for his casinos and parking lots. That's not a conservative notion. And, really, most of Donald Trump is nothing more than sort of bits of populism, but no consistent conservative philosophy.", "Back in July, you told me that you thought Donald Trump's popularity represented a -- quote -- \"temporary loss of sanity,\" I guess among voters. You said the party would come back to its senses.", "It's now five days before Christmas. Trump is as strong as ever. Is it a temporary loss of sanity, or do you think that the problem might be more permanent?", "You know, I think that we have all let the polls consume us too much. I don't think the polls are very accurate.", "In Kentucky, a week before the governor's race, the polls were off by 13 points. That's when they're supposed to be accurate. I think we have sort of \"American Idol\" type of polls right now, where one candidate is getting an enormous amount of time on TV, and people are saying, oh, yes, yes, I might vote for him. Well, these people don't get out and vote. About 10 percent of Republicans will vote in Iowa. So, you can be wildly off. And I guess what disappoints some of us who aren't as high in the polls is that, if we skew all the coverage toward the polls, it's a self-fulfilling prophesy. So, I think we need to examine other things and try to distribute the coverage a little better, so we could have maybe a chance of getting a better president.", "As you know, Senator Paul, we put you on TV all the time, so I know that that is not aimed at...", "Not complaining. Not complaining about CNN.", "Listen to Donald -- I want you to take a listen to Donald Trump's spokeswoman talking about the nuclear triad this week.", "What good does it do to have a good nuclear triad if you're afraid to use it?", "The subject of the nuclear triad, it was raised at the debate. And after the debate, Jeb Bush told me on air that he didn't think Trump understand what the nuclear triad was. What do you make of what you're hearing from the Trump team on this issue?", "Well, this is the worrisome thing. During the debate, absolutely, Donald Trump had no clue what the nuclear triad is, and he'd been asked the question previously by Hugh Hewitt on the radio and had no idea what it was. And so now that they have discovered what it is, they're ready to use it? No, I think this is what is very worrisome about not only Trump, but Christie and others on the stage who are really eager to have war, really eager to show how strong they are. And that gets away from the tradition we have of trying to limit power, trying to be reluctant to go to war. And it also gets to temperament. And that's why it very much worries me to have someone like Donald Trump or a Chris Christie in charge of our nuclear arsenal.", "On Monday, you're launching a new Web video. This one is focusing on Senator Ted Cruz. Let's take a look.", "It sounded like you wanted the bill to pass.", "The bill -- the Web ad describes him as a flip-flopper. Now, Cruz obviously describes himself as a -- quote -- \"courageous conservative.\" This ad and some other attacks we have seen against Senator Cruz depict him as a craven politician. Now, you have worked alongside him for several years now. Is that how you see Ted Cruz, as a craven opportunist?", "I think, on several things, he wants to have it both ways. On immigration, at the time, he supported an amendment that said, OK, we're not going to get citizenship, but we will allow illegal status. And he wanted the bill to pass. In fact, I was in the same category. I thought citizenship was too far, but the compromise would no citizenship, but give people a legal status. That's what Cruz was for. He was -- he's been explicit about it. And now he says never and that he never did it. And so I think he should just admit that he changed his mind, that he used to be for legalization, but he's not anymore. But he's done the same thing. He wrote an op-ed with Paul Ryan supporting Obama's trade authority, and now he's against that. He also said when he ran for office that he wouldn't support reauthorization of the Patriot Act, and then he voted to reauthorize the Patriot Act. So, I think, on a number of issues, he wants to have it both ways, depending on which audience he's talking to.", "Senator Marco Rubio had some tough words about you. Take a listen.", "He's the only person running that is trying -- that likes politics so much, he's running for two offices at the same time. I mean, he wants to be a senator and president.", "This is a criticism you and I have discussed before, the idea that you're running for president and also at the same time running for reelection for the Senate seat in Kentucky. If you haven't performed in the top three positions in Iowa, New Hampshire, or South Carolina or Nevada, do you think at that point you might have to focus your attention at the -- on your Senate race?", "Well, you know, the difference between Marco Rubio and I is, I show up for work. He's missed about a third to a half of his votes this year. And we had the biggest vote of the whole year, voting on a trillion dollars worth of spending, and he didn't show up. So, yes, I think he ought to resign or give his pay back to the taxpayer. But, as far as I'm concerned, yes, I do need to do well in the early primaries. We're -- we're in it to win it. We're not in it just to mess around. I'm not in it to place in the lower tier. If we're in the lower tier, obviously, we will reassess. But we don't plan to be. We have got a campaign that we think is going to shock people. And we're hoping that when we get done with this campaign and people see the votes happen, that we will begin discounting the pollsters, who, I think, have no clue as to what is going on in America.", "All right, we will see. Senator Rand Paul, a very merry Christmas to you and your family. Thanks for joining us.", "Thanks, Jake.", "Up next: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the campaigns -- their campaigns, in the middle of a nasty fight. But what happened when they met face to face last night? That when we come back."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "TAPPER", "JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "TAPPER", "QUESTION", "SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (VT-I), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "TAPPER", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-270637", "program": "SMERCONISH", "date": "2015-12-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/05/smer.01.html", "summary": "Karl Rove on Terror Attacks", "utt": ["That's going to do it for us, here. Victor and I, both back at 10:00 but do stay with us. \"SMERCONISH\" is next.", "I'm Michael Smerconish. Here we go again. That's what my colleague Brooke Baldwin said here on CNN Wednesday as the earliest news started trickling out of San Bernardino. She meant semi-automatic weapons, innocent victims, lockdown, manhunt, shoot-out, manhunt, fear, outrage. But here we go again, sadly, also applies to what came after. Politicians immediately suited up in their usual jerseys and resorted to the same old playbooks. Republicans again said it was time to pray. The \"New York Daily News\" run a controversial cover noting that God wouldn't fix this. Democrats again made calls for gun control. The \"New York Times\" tried something different, putting an editorial on the front page of this morning's newspaper, the first time they've done that since 1920, calling for outlawing of civilian ownership of weapons capable of mass killing. But will it make any difference? More telling is that my most popular tweet of the week by far was when I quoted a \"Times\" blogger wondering why the paper even has a comment section on such stories since it can used use \"the same ones each time there's a mass shooting in the USA.\" This morning, news broke that ISIS radio claiming the San Bernardino attack was carried out by supporters yet when we learned in the midst of the attack that the female shooter had posted a tribute on Facebook to the leader of the ISIS, that simply rebooted the tiresome debate whether to use the words radical Islam. Now you would think the presidential campaign season might offer an opportunity for the airing of detailed plans to combat ISIS, but no.", "I would handle it so tough, you have no idea. You don't want to hear, you don't want to hear how I'd handle it.", "Instead, sound bites get rewarded, especially that candidate whose deep thinking on ISIS consists of a platform to build a wall, create a Muslim database and kill the families of ISIS members. Look when 9/11 happened, the country rose above partisan politics. Now we're so polarized that in the words of columnist Reuben Naverret, quote \"we may not have to worry about our enemies defeating us, we're together a splendid did job all by ourselves.\" Now to talk about the impact of the latest shootings on the 2016 race, I'm joined by Karl Rove, he, of course, was a senior adviser to President George W. Bush. He previously was involved in more than 75 campaigns for president, governor, senator. And he's just published a very relevant book. \"The Triumph of William McKinley, why the election of 1896 still matters.\" Karl, I read and thoroughly enjoyed the book. I'll get to it in a moment. React, if you would, to my commentary.", "Well, I think you're right. The initial response to this was to fall back into the old pattern. But let's realize, this is not the old pattern. This is an internationally-inspired act of terrorism inside our borders. We had people who appear to have been radicalized over the internet. There may have been some seeds planted in Miss Malik's background, her upbringing in Pakistan and in Saudi Arabia. In Pakistan, it appears when she graduated from college in an area that's known to have sectarian strains, that she destroyed her personal computer telling family members that it contained personal information on it. So maybe the seeds of radicalization were there. But this is not an issue of gun violence or workplace violence. This is an act of terrorism inside our borders. And we should not freight this with either discussions in my opinion about gun control or about the efficacy of prayer. We ought to focus on why this happened and realize that America's future is at stake. If we do not resolve and fight them abroad, we're going to see more instances like this here. These people associated themselves with the Islamic state, apparently, not because the Islamic state is losing but because the Islamic state looks like it's winning in the Middle East. And until we push them back, until we make it, in essence, unattractive to be associated with the people who are losing strength, being killed. People losing power, people being wiped out, we're going to see more of these, not less of these.", "Well, let's talk about how it will impact the 2016 race. I've got some data points that I want to run through with you. A brand-new CNN ORC survey, just released this week although conducted before the attack in San Bernardino. There you see it, Donald Trump at the top of the heap with 36 percent of the vote. Karl, what I find of significance is that he wins all the internals, including when you ask the question regardless of who you're voting for, who is best equipped to handle ISIS, Trump comes out with 46 percent of Republican support followed by Ted Cruz at 15. Analyze that for me. Why is he being perceived among Republicans as the being best equipped to deal with ISIS?", "Because he looks the toughest. I mean, he is - loo , he has a sound bite. And the people attracted to Trump are not really interested in - you know, and policy statements, that are not really interested on the fact that he's been all over the board on this. Remember, it was a matter of weeks ago in which he dismissed the ISIS threat. He said leave it to the Russians to take care of. Then he said, you know what, let ISIS take out Assad in Syria. Now, he wants to bomb the expletive out of ISIS. So they really don't care the specifics of the policy. As long as he's up there pounding the podium and saying I'm going to be so tough there's an element inside the Republican party that is attracted to that strong man image. Now, whether or not it's enough to win the nomination is really up in the air. I'd be careful about reading too much into any one given poll. This particular poll is an outlier in terms of the sense of the strength. If you look at the real clear politics average he's seen there in the high 20s. 27, 28, 29. But he has shown an inability - there's been an episodic poll that has shown him lower and higher than that and some had shown him lower than that. But the average is in the high 20s and in resistance inside the Republican Party - look, he has the highest unfavorables and lowest -- excuse me, lowest favorables and highest negatives of any of any of the major candidates. Then you take him into the general election campaign, and his image gets even worse.", "But nevertheless, in the same survey I think it was echoed by the Quinnipiac data that came out this week, 52 percent say they believe he has the strongest chance to win the general election. I think Karl Rove just told me, you don't agree with that?", "Well, no I agree - that's what they think now. But if you go back to 2012 you'll find a period of time where people thought Herman Kane had strongest chance of becoming the nominee and Newt Gingrich had the highest chance of being the nominee. In the aftermath of the New Hampshire primary in 2000, people thought John McCain had the best chance of becoming the republican nominee. So you need to differentiate between the questions and the poll that ask people to comment as spectators and pundits and those that say what do you believe about what you're going to do.", "OK. So I'm asking you directly - what do you believe, do you believe that he's the republican who has the best shot of winning the White House? Yes or no?", "No.", "Who is?", "Well I don't know but think he has a high floor and a low ceiling. I think you have to look at the candidates who have higher favorables and lower knowing negatives who a lot more people could see themselves voting for than Trump. Trump has the strength that comes from being a strong definitive personality. He also has the weakness that that includes things like disparaging Latinos. That it involves mocking a disabled reporter. That it involves calling every one of his opponents a clown, a looser and a moron. These are not the kind of things that ignite the party. In order to win the nomination, a candidate has to unite the party at some point. You can't simply win the nomination by saying everybody else who is running against me is a jerk. So are there supporters in essence. You know, calling people and mocking people inside the party who are accomplished individuals, who have supporters and adherence to their own the kinds of things that he calls them is not, in my opinion, a winning recipe for either uniting the party or winning the nomination with the united party and carry it into the general election. You mentioned my book, we have a candidate in the 1896 campaign William Jennings Brian who excoriates most, a big chunk of the country. He announced that he's going to accept his - the party's nomination in New York. He announces at a train station in Lincoln, Nebraska, I go on to the enemy's country. And he attacks his opponents as tools of the Wall Street blood suckers and the money grubbers of Lombard Street and shylocks of the Rothschilds. I mean, he uses language that is designed to divide the American people and it helps divide the American people and it helped divide them against himself, particularly when his opponent, William McKinley uses language designed to draw the country together. In which he says, we're all in this together. We're a common country no east, no west, no south, quoting George Washington.", "Here's what I thought of as I read your book. I thought of - and I've got a slide to show you on this. I thought of the fact in 1988, Papa Bush, Bush 41, gets 59 percent of the white vote and it earns him 426 electoral votes. 2012, Mitt Romney same percentage, guess what -- it's only worth 206 electoral votes. Due to a variety of factors not the least of which is the changing demographic of the country. What I learned from your book is that William McKinley saw the need to build the tent. So who is the tent- builder in this array of GOP candidates?", "Well it's almost everybody except Donald Trump and to a lesser extent Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz says \"the way we can win this election is get a missing army of conservatives who have historically reliably voted Republican and then didn't do so in 2012 because Mitt Romney was a liberal. That's simply not true. You look at the exit polls there are 580,000 more self identified conservatives who turned out to vote in 2012 than the previous high in 2008. And 2.2 million more conservatives voted for Mitt Romney than voted for John McCain. You're right, 59 percent of the white vote went for Mitt Romney, 59 percent went for George W. Bush in 2004, 59 percent or thereabouts, in 1988. And in 1984, but what McKinley looked at was the changing demography of the country in which there were increasing numbers of Catholic industrial workers, particularly in our big cities, in the midwest. And people who were not from the historic places that we've got immigration before. We had for decades had immigration coming primarily from the British isles, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and from Germany and increasingly in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, we had increasing amounts of immigration from new places. Scandinavia, from the Ukraine, from Belarus, from southern Europe - from Spain and Portugal. And McKinley was smart enough to say \"my party's only going to be able to win if I can draw those people into my coalition.\" In which he did, he got 37 percent more votes than his predecessor had done.", "But respectfully, I don't see the outreach taking place today - I mean McKinley, as you document, was the first candidate to openly go campaign for black vote.", "Right.", "Where is the outreach? I mean, you say everybody but Trump and to a lesser extent Cruz. I don't see it happening with these other candidates?", "Well, Michael, first of all - remember, he does this outreach in the year of the general election after he's largely secured the nomination. So there's plenty of time left. But look at the language. Look at the people who acknowledge this is the issue and whether it is Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, John Kasich and others you find plenty Republican candidates who say we need to have the confidence in our conservative messages to carry to every community in America, young people, Latinos, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, people who have not voted for us before and it's been - I thought it was a good sign. When you have Rand Paul saying I'm going to go to Berkeley. And Jeb Bush saying why don't we campaign more in the Latino community. And Marco Rubio speaking Spanish to Spanish-speaking audiences, when you have all of these candidates acknowledging we need to broaden our party and grab this demographic because we ought to have confidence that they will be attracted to our conservative views, I find that heartening. And the question is going to be - do they do it in the general election. Right now, they're focused on the one of the nomination as McKinley was. But McKinley, when he secured the nomination and therefore was -", "I lost Karl Rove, what a shame because I was so eager to say to him and it's almost unfair to raise it \"are you saying that they can't make that case to expand the tent until after primary season?\" To be continued. What do you think? Tweet me @smerconish. I'll read some of the best at the end of the program. Coming up, in the wake of another shooting, Americans are on edge, but is our fear unfounded? A guest of mine thinks our reaction is overblown. But first, Karl Rove just mentioned Senator Rand Paul. Well, he's here to respond to today's front page editorial of \"The New York Times.\""], "speaker": ["CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "MICHAEL SMERCONISH, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SMERCONISH", "KARL ROVE, FMR. SNEIOR ADVISER TO PRES. GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-136775", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-4-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/07/cnr.06.html", "summary": "5.5 Magnitude Aftershock in Italy", "utt": ["Well, even as the searches continue and survivors mourn, the earth is still moving in central Italy. Live pictures right now. The L'Aquila area just feeling a very strong aftershock within the last 20 minutes or so. We're being told 5.6. The death toll has risen to at least 207 in and around that city. Search crews still hoping to find survivors in that rubble. More than 36 hours it's been since that initial quake. Chad, what can you tell us about the aftershock?", "It appears now, Kyra, that this aftershock may be right under the city there of L'Aquila. Now, this whole area has been shaking for the past couple of days. First, a 6.3, then a 4.9, then a 4.6 and then a 4.3. But here, this one was a 5.6. And if it's right under the city, this is the epicenter. And this is that bloom. That eight feet or eight miles' worth of dirt that's up against the crust is going to start to shake. Let me show you this, and I'm going to go ahead and take this Google Earth map. And I'm going to take you to the first quake and then I'll take you to the new quake. Now, sometimes these quakes move around a little bit as the seismologists look at the shake. But there, that one right there, that's the 6.3. That was the original quake. This one here in red, it's red because it's the latest quake, a 5.6. And look where it is in the town. Literally, Kyra -- I'm going to zoom right in -- it is right under the city itself, which means above that epicenter is where the most shaking went on. So, even though this was only a 5.6, it may have been shaking more like a 6.0 that was a little farther away, like the 6.3 we had. So this is probably going to cause some shaken nerves for sure.", "And we could have more aftershocks as well, right?", "No question about it. Back in 1997, they had three months of 5.0 and 6.0s for a three-month stretch. And it's just kind of that series. This is the Apennines Mountain range. They're at about 2,3000 feet. The mountains are still groaning and moving and stretching, and there's even a subduction zone there. So many forces right there in central Italy. There have been 2,000 earthquakes last year. Not all of them, obviously, this big. But this is an earthquake-prone area for sure.", "Well, and so you've got that initial quake, then you see this aftershock at 5.6. Now, an aftershock can be considered another little mini earthquake, right, or a tremor? Is the that the same thing or is there a difference between the two?", "Even though this a little farther away, maybe four miles from the original quake, I would absolutely think that this is an aftershock of the same quake that we had a couple of days ago.", "Got it.", "But, you know, if you can get -- if you get a 3.0, then all of a sudden it can be a foreshock, which means not an aftershock. It can portend something else to come. Now, because we've already had the 6.3, this wouldn't be the foreshock, this would be an aftershock because this is smaller than the original quake.", "Got it, Chad. Thanks. And for the very latest, let's get to CNN's Fionnuala Sweeney. She's right there on the ground in L'Aquila. Fionnuala was talking to workers last time we talked to try to find survivors in that rubble. Any more luck, Fionnuala?", "No, there hasn't been. Actually, let me -- I've just contradicted myself, Kyra. Within the last hour, a woman was reported to have been taken alive. But I have to say that right now, there's a lot of, let's say, enthusiasm in the atmosphere, because people are really energized following that tremor that we experienced about half an hour ago. Where we're standing here is at the piazza, one of many tent cities that have been established in the last 24 hours. This particular one, Kyra, was established just early this morning by volunteers. And the response of the Italian civil authorities has been really quite astonishing. And a few moments ago I was talking to the head of the Red Cross, who told me that two years ago, all the different civil protection agencies in this country got together to decide how they could best coordinate their response to something like this. The death toll, 209 now, as we know. We're just hearing, as I speak to you, that this tremor caused damage at the railroad nearby, but everybody is still obviously gathering information, as it only happened in the last few moments. But I think the thing to point out here is what is upsetting people is that 209 people died, and people believe that had the buildings been in better condition, that this death toll could have been much, much lower.", "Fionnuala Sweeney, we'll continue to talk. Thank you. Now, remember, there are many relief organizations on the ground actively helping victims of the earthquake in Italy. You'll find links to many of them on our \"Impact Your World\" page. That's at cnn.com/impact. Even as aftershocks rattle Italy, another big earthquake has hit in the Pacific. The epicenter of the 6.9 quake just east of Kuril Islands, which are claimed by both Russia and Japan. Fewer than 20,000 people live there. They're no strangers to seismic activity. It's part of the so-called Ring of Fire, as you know, a region that sees about 90 percent of the world's earthquakes. Hurricane season 2009, what does it hold? Well, the experts made their predictions and now they've changed their minds. We're going to find out what's going on from Chad Myers."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "PHILLIPS", "MYERS", "PHILLIPS", "MYERS", "PHILLIPS", "MYERS", "PHILLIPS", "FIONNUALA SWEENEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-237912", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2014-09-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/01/cg.02.html", "summary": "Campaign Season Kicks Off; Political Panel", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Dana Bash, in for Jake Tapper. The politics lead. While many Americans are enjoying a well deserved day off, in Washington, Labor Day echoes like a starter pistol's blast, signaling it's election season. And it's kicking into high gear.", "And they're off. Politicians are laboring hard today, the unofficial start of campaign season.", "It's good to be back with the people, who as that old saying goes, brung me to the dance. I appreciate it.", "Vice President Joe Biden laid on the charm in Detroit, making sure labor unions get out the vote for Democrats. The president touched down for more of the same in Milwaukee.", "Today is a day that belongs to you.", "But nevermind talk from politicians. What's Labor Day without a picnic? Democrat Charlie Crist attended this one today in Florida, where he's running for governor.", "I'd appreciate your vote.", "And if a parade is more your style, take a look at these photos from New Hampshire's Senate contenders Jeanne Shaheen and Republican challenger Scott Brown, who tweeted momentum is picking up. And these politicians are really only getting started for a sprint towards election day. All told, candidates in House and Senate races have already spent more than half a billion dollars on their campaigns. That's a billion with a b. An additional billion and a half is expected to be poured in before the final ballots are cast. There are just 63 days until the midterm election, but 799 days until election day 2016, the race for the White House.", "29 months left of President Barack Obama.", "But that hasn't stopped many probable GOP presidential hopefuls from kicking off the holiday weekend, politicking at the Americans for Prosperity event in Dallas.", "Just over 1,500 hours, we're going to retake the United States Senate. We're going to retire Harry Reid.", "From Ted Cruz to Rand Paul.", "If the president has no strategy, maybe it's time for a new president.", "But the landscape in the fight for the White House will be set by how things shake out this fall, whether Republicans will gain the six seats needed to take control of the Senate and dominate Congress for President Obama's final two years in office.", "Let's bring in our panel now. Our CNN political commentator and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, Republican strategist Doug Heye and national political correspondent for the New York Times and contributor for CNN's \"Inside Politics,\" Jonathan Martin. Thank you all for coming in on Labor Day.", "Happy labor day.", "I wish we had a barbecue in the green room, but I don't want to set off any fire codes. Let's start with the landscape, and what we're going to be looking at, with the real prize, which is the Senate. Right? Republicans need to pick up six seats, all told, in order to actually take control of the Senate. So what we're talking about, first of all, is we can show some pictures. West Virginia, Montana and South Dakota. Those are three states that are pretty much I think everybody agrees gone. They were Democratic senators, they retired. Republicans are likely to take those. That brings us now to 3 seats, just three seats Republicans are going to need. And they have a huge number of competitive Democratic Senate seats that they have the ability to take. Iowa, Arkansas, Alaska, North Carolina, Louisiana, Colorado, Michigan and New Hampshire. It's a lot. Now, on the Democratic side, there are really only two Republican seats that they're truly competitive to try to get, Kentucky and Georgia. And even that's going to be an upset if they get those. So given all of that, Donna, I'm going to put you in the hot seat here, give me a little Louisiana candor.", "Let me just say this. Four years ago, I was a lot more nervous then than I am now. Here's why.", "That's Louisiana candor?", "Well, you know, we're not out there -- we're not throwing in the towel, nor are we going to cook the leftovers until the election day. On the generic ballot, we're competitive, if not, we are in a better position than Republicans. Two, we understand that we have more seats in play this time than ever before, and that some of these seats are so-called ruby red. I think the Democratic Party has really done a great job in identifying those voters that turn out in presidential years, but often do not turn out in midterm elections. If we're able to mobilize these voters, I think we have a shot not just to retain the Senate but to also pick up seats. Look, the fact that Kentucky's still in play for the Democrats, Georgia is in play, I was in Georgia two weeks ago, I was in Colorado last week, I've been home more times than I can count, I believe we're going to do a great job. Here's one thing, Dana, that people are not thinking. The Republicans spent well over -- and Doug knows this -- they spent well over $130 million to defeat these so-called Tea Party candidates. You know what? We learned a lot about how to defeat the Republicans who eventually became victorious.", "Doug, I don't want to bring up a sore subject, but you also just recently, until recently worked for a Republican, who -- the leader, Eric Cantor, who was beaten by a Tea Party candidate.", "How about that? Yeah, I remember that.", "You remember that. But what I want to ask you about is does Donna have a point? In that you, your party, has seen the prize for two straight elections.", "Yes.", "And you have, you know, that prize has escaped you for various reasons. Is there a problem for Republicans in being overconfident that you could take the Senate?", "I don't think so yet. I think one of the advantages we have this time, frankly, we don't have some of the clown college candidates we had in the last two cycles. We left -- I mean, (inaudible) about it. We left points on the board in Delaware, in Nevada, in Indiana, seats that we should have won, seats that should have been no brainers for us, we lost, because we had terrible candidates who couldn't muster any kind of a real campaign. We don't have that in the Senate races this time, and that's something that we've got that's really going to be an advantage for us moving forward.", "Jonathan, how do you see it?", "I think the math this time around works for the Republicans, the math favors them, as you laid it out, Dana, on that screen. What gives Democrats some heart though is the fact that here we are on Labor Day, and unlike 2010, there's no race of the ones you showed on the screen that really seems out of hand for an incumbent Democratic senator. Yes, Montana, South Dakota, West Virginia are probably gone for Democrats. But in terms of the incumbent Democrats, they're all still in this game right now. All of them are still alive. This really feels like a fluid election. I talked to a lot of strategists on both sides of the aisle. They all said the same thing, this does not feel like 2010 or 2006.", "There's no way.", "You don't feel that kind of wave. It's more of a trench warfare kind of year. Both sides, a lot of money, a lot of tough attacks. Probably will come down to if Democrats can get their non- midterm voters out. That's really the issue.", "So let's talk about that. President Obama is not on the ballot, but President Obama, of course, is unofficially on the ballot. We all know that. He is in Milwaukee today spending time with union leaders. But he's essentially flying solo. Here's the irony of all ironies. He was met by the Republican Governor, Scott Walker, but the Democratic candidate for governor in that state, she was nowhere to be found, which is I think Scott Walker did that on purpose to show that. How much of a liability still is the president?", "I wouldn't -- let me just say this. I think I'm in a good position, because I've run a campaign when you had a sitting president of the United States, you use him strategically. This was an official campaign. This was not a rally trip. This was an official trip to Wisconsin. And I'm sure that the president will talk to Ms. Burke, and I'm sure that the Democrats will help her win. He's not going to be on the ballot this fall. These Democrats have to establish their own record with voters because voters need to know what they stand for. They know President Obama, they've made a position. And you know what? President Obama would see the bottom if the congressional Republicans were not standing in the way. They're more unpopular than anybody right now.", "Doug, I was just in Kentucky, and President Obama very much is -- a very much a part of the discussion down there. Mitch McConnell, the Republican senator and candidate, is making him part of the discussion. But for voters, he's part of the discussion. People are very invested in what happens, pro or con, in what happens in his last two years.", "Keep in mind, in 2012, Barack Obama in Kentucky won 38 percent of the vote. 37 percent of the vote in Arkansas, with two key Senate races. In Kentucky, Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democratic candidate, is distancing herself so far that she's saying I haven't even talked to Barack Obama. Which is frankly more than she said about Obamacare. She won't answer questions about whether or not she would vote for it, which is really telling in that race.", "Mitch McConnell is not popular. He still has to fight like hell.", "But Grimes is coming (ph) up (ph) there too, in terms of unpopularity. What's your take?", "President Obama is a serious handicap for Democrats in a lot of this country. However, the irony is, Democrats have to have his voters, otherwise, they can't win. The challenge for Democrats is how do they get the Obama voters out, while trying to appeal to swing voters who are soured on Obama. That's the crux of their challenge.", "The Republicans will help us with that, because this notion of suing the president on what I call impeachment lite, that will motivate Democrats to get out and vote.", "Donna Brazile, Doug Heye, Jonathan Martin, thank you especially for coming out on Labor Day. Happy Labor Day to you. Coming up on the money lead, it's like doing the time even if you didn't do the crime. How a law designed to punish criminals by seizing their homes is leaving innocent families out on the street. And later in the pop lead, nude photos of celebrities getting leaked on the Internet. And this hack job may even be terrifying, and it's easy to pull off thanks to a glitch in Apple's software. What you need to know to protect your private data."], "speaker": ["DANA BASH, CNN ANCHOR", "BASH (voice-over)", "JOSEPH BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.", "BASH", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BASH", "FORMER GOV. CHARLIE CRIST, D-FLA.", "BASH", "GOV. RICK PERRY, R-TEXAS", "BASH", "SEN. TED CRUZ, R-TEXAS", "BASH", "SEN. RAND PAUL, R-KY.", "BASH", "BASH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BASH", "DONNA BRAZILE, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BASH", "BRAZILE", "BASH", "DOUG HEYE, GOP STRATEGIST", "BASH", "HEYE", "BASH", "HEYE", "BASH", "JONATHAN MARTIN, CNN INSIDE POLITICS CONTRIBUTOR", "BASH", "MARTIN", "BASH", "BRAZILE", "BASH", "HEYE", "BRAZILE", "BASH", "MARTIN", "BRAZILE", "BASH"]}
{"id": "NPR-13432", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2017-09-04", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/09/04/548415509/whats-next-in-the-diplomatic-spat-between-the-u-s-and-russia", "title": "What's Next In The Diplomatic Spat Between The U.S. And Russia", "summary": "Mary Louise Kelly talks with reporter Charles Maynes in Moscow about ongoing tensions between the U.S. and Russia as the countries close diplomatic posts.", "utt": ["Just how bad are relations between the U.S. and Russia right now? Well, over the weekend, the U.S. took control of Russia's consulate in San Francisco. That follows a move by Moscow ordering the U.S. to slash its diplomatic staff in Russia by hundreds, which followed the U.S. throwing 35 Russian diplomats out of the country last year, which followed Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. You get the picture. On the line now from Moscow is reporter Charles Maynes. Hey, Charles.", "Hi, Mary Louise. Good to be with you.", "And with you. So start with this question. Does the diplomatic tit for tat end here, or might Russia retaliate against this latest U.S. retaliation?", "Well, you know, Russia hasn't made clear exactly what their response will be at this point. They say they don't want to give in to emotions. But, clearly, their anger is apparent here. They've been calling this state hooliganism. They've called it an act of hostility. I think beyond the anger over the compound seizure, the row seems now to be focused on what happens to these facilities now that they've been handed over to American officials. Russia has been accusing the U.S. of essentially letting the FBI sweep the premises, suggesting that they could be planting cameras or microphones or compromising materials. The State Department today said that's not the case. It's really a question, I think, of whether the Russians will take them at their word, the early signs being no.", "And we were quite literally watching smoke signals here in the U.S. these last few days, as smoke came out of the chimney in the Russian consulate in San Francisco. We don't know quite what was happening there. We do know that, meanwhile, we've got two new ambassadors at the helm, a new American ambassador in Moscow and Russia's new ambassador, who has just arrived here in Washington. This is Anatoly Antonov. What do we know about him?", "Well, you know, Antonov is 62 years old. He's considered a hardliner, a specialist in arms control. You know, essentially, he's a tough guy for a tough assignment. He's a former deputy defense minister. But that, you know said, he gave an interview to state television here before he departed for Washington where he really said kind of all the right things. He was very diplomatic, said he was very eager to engage the American press. He wants to end the sanctions spiral, says he prefers diplomacy to conflict. You know, and keep in mind that his predecessor, Sergey Kislyak, became, you know, if not a household name but close to it because of the Russia-gate scandals.", "Certainly, a man about town here in Washington, meeting with just about everybody, it seemed.", "Exactly. But towards the end of his tenure there, he really was sort of toxic. He couldn't meet anybody in the sort of American establishment - political establishment - without being outed by the press. And now Antonov says he wants to kind of change that. He wants to travel the country, engage Americans. He also says he's a big fan of jazz and country music. So, hopefully, he'll get to a club or two.", "(Laughter) OK. So he's got that going for him here in Washington. We do - against this backdrop, I just want to mention Russian President Putin has been in China. He met with President Xi last night. They talked North Korea. They apparently talked about how to deal with North Korea. Do we know what they may have agreed?", "Well, the two met last time in July in Moscow. And they've been pushing a de-escalation deal for the Korean Peninsula, the idea here being that the North Koreans would suspend their ballistic missile program, and the U.S. and South Korea would put a moratorium on military drills. Now, obviously, none of that's happened. Both sides have continued to push forward. But that's Russia's main message here - is kind of dialogue.", "Putin was in China. He said that threats are a road to nowhere. And it's important to note that Russia is also coming out against further sanctions against North Korea. Today, the deputy foreign minister said that they'd reached the limit of their impact and would just essentially break the North Korean economy. So, you know, it looks as though the Russians are essentially pushing for dialogue.", "All right. That's reporter Charles Maynes reporting us on all the diplomatic developments to do with Russia, talking to us from Moscow. Thanks a lot.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "CHARLES MAYNES", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "CHARLES MAYNES", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "CHARLES MAYNES", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "CHARLES MAYNES", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "CHARLES MAYNES", "CHARLES MAYNES", "MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST", "CHARLES MAYNES"]}
{"id": "CNN-27079", "program": "CNN Travel Now", "date": "2001-3-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/10/tg.00.html", "summary": "The Culinary Universe of Le Cordon Bleu", "utt": ["Paris is certainly world renowned for its cuisine and when it comes to dining out, your choices here are endless. But we wanted to find a way to bring the flavor of Paris back home with us. So we decided to learn to cook like a Parisian and what better place than Le Cordon Bleu?", "This school of the culinary arts is as regal and distinguished as its seal. So you can only imagine how exhilarating it was to register at Le Cordon Bleu.", "And your name is?", "Stephanie Oswald. (voice-over): Since 1895, these hallowed classrooms have been weakening the knees of some of the world's best chefs, including Julia Child. Now it was my turn to embark on a journey into the challenging world of the French sauces.", "Welcome to Cordon Bleu.", "This is serious business. With the help of interpreters, the learning begins. One of our two instructors, Chef Mark Tives (ph), quickly gives us some tips on breaking the bones for our brown stock.", "To make a large smile to your brochure.", "Of course, in order to make several different recipes, a lot was packed into one day.", "Un, deux, trois.", "After a few palate teasing tastes, we were on our way to the kitchen. Leading us was Chef Didie Chanteur (ph). Dressed for the part of a French professional, we await instructions and begin. Our first dish, chicken breast with sauce supreme. One important lesson, how to season to taste. (on camera): I think I put too much salt in it.", "No. More, yeah.", "More? OK, well, I thought there was too much salt in there but the chef just added some more so we'll see. (voice-over): As a vegetarian, I'll have to trust my colleagues when it comes to tasting this dish. (on camera): I'm going to put this into practice. I'm going to make dinner for my crew when we get back to Atlanta so we'll see. (voice-over): They're still waiting. But regardless of how it tastes, there are other rewards.", "The mystery of it, the mystique of it, the prestige, the length of years that Cordon Bleu has been renowned all over the world.", "You can either come anytime of the week and just sit and watch what they're doing or you can do what we're doing today and actually get your hands dirty and have a play as well. It's fantastic.", "It is fun, but maintaining the high standards of Le Cordon Bleu is quite a serious challenge.", "It's a little nerve wracking.", "I do take things at a little slower pace in my home kitchen, and plan to when I get home.", "You can't learn it as a book. You just, there's little touches about it that, you know, your mother doesn't teach you in America.", "When it's time for monkfish medallions with garlic cream and star anise, I'm finessing it, too. This is a dish I can eat.", "My special chopping technique. It's called cutting the shallot.", "Preparing the duck dish teaches us technique, this time with oranges. (on camera): It's so easy when he does it. (voice-over): With three successful recipes completed and one more to go, it's also easy to feel the satisfaction of a job well done. (on camera): This sauce, bordelaise, it's our last masterpiece. I think the most important lesson I've learned is that French cooking takes a lot of work and it's a lot harder than it looked up in the demonstration room. (voice-over): And for all this effort...", "We have to confirm and go past here so. Stephanie Oswald?", "Well, I don't know if my cooking skills have given me the right to wear this apron, but I think anyone who comes here should get a certificate just for having the courage to take on Le Cordon Bleu. If you want to learn more about these classes or anything else in today's program, stay tuned. We'll have that information right after the break."], "speaker": ["OSWALD", "OSWALD (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED EMPLOYEE", "OSWALD (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED EMPLOYEE", "OSWALD", "UNIDENTIFIED CHEF (through translator)", "OSWALD", "UNIDENTIFIED CHEF", "OSWALD", "UNIDENTIFIED CHEF", "OSWALD", "UNIDENTIFIED TOURIST", "UNIDENTIFIED TOURIST", "OSWALD", "UNIDENTIFIED TOURIST", "UNIDENTIFIED TOURIST", "UNIDENTIFIED TOURIST", "OSWALD", "UNIDENTIFIED TOURIST", "OSWALD", "UNIDENTIFIED INSTRUCTOR", "OSWALD"]}
{"id": "CNN-157796", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-11-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1011/04/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Off the Ballot, in the Running; You Are What You Watch", "utt": ["Coming up on five minutes to the top of the hour. Time now for some of the stories that had us talking in the newsroom this morning. You've heard that you are what you eat, but how about you are what you watch? A research group analyzed the personalities of television viewers and here's what they came up with. If you watch \"Madmen\" let's say, then you're a liberal, an intellectually-curious type, more dreamer than realist. People who like \"Dancing with the Stars,\" tend to play it safe. And if you watch \"Family Guy,\" you're more likely to take risks and want to break the rules.", "What if you watch all three?", "Wow. Then you have very complicated personality. What's your favorite show?", "My favorite show is AMERICAN MORNING. Have you seen it? It's fantastic.", "No.", "It goes from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time.", "Haven't (ph) heard of that.", "No, I love -- what do I like lately? \"Madmen\" is good. Dressed up for Halloween in little \"Madmen\" era costumes --", "Really?", "Yes, but I love \"Dancing with the Stars,\" too. I haven't been known to play it safe.", "\"Modern Family\" is my favorite.", "\"Modern Family,\" just from the clips I watched on YouTube, it's funny.", "It's hilarious.", "All right. It is the miner across America tour (ph). Edison Pena, do you remember him? He was the rescue Chilean miner, the one who love Elvis and ran for miles underground everybody. He's going to appearing on David Letterman tonight before he starts running in the New York City marathon.", "I know. He's planning to visit Graceland as well during Elvis' birthday celebration in January. After that, it's off to Las Vegas for a Cirque du Soleil show based on Elvis' music. So, he's going to be having a blast. Edison earned the nickname \"The Runner\" for running up to six miles a day through the mine's tunnel as exercise.", "I can't imagine. I just can't imagine doing that. All right. Here's the ahh story of the day. It's always a big story when you got a baby panda. Here's some video from Zoo Atlanta Panda Camp. A little bit difficult to see. Mom's hugging the camera here, but 13-year-old Lun Lun gave birth to her third cub yesterday morning. So far, the only giant panda to be born in the United States this year. She reached over, she picked the little thing up, she put it in her pouch, and then she was lying on her back. She was just very cute.", "She put it in her pouch?", "Yes, panda pouch.", "All right. There we go.", "Oh, look.", "So cute. So cute.", "She put it in her Louis Vuitton bag like people do with those dogs.", "Exactly.", "No. Just kidding (ph).", "All right. Three minutes until the top of the hour. Your top stories in just a minute."], "speaker": ["ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY"]}
{"id": "CNN-285091", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-05-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/26/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Remains of EgyptAir Flight 804 May Have Just Been Found", "utt": ["We are back now with breaking news just in to CNN. We are getting word that the remains of EgyptAir flight 804 may have just been found. Airbus has just detected signals from the Mediterranean Sea where EgyptAir flight 804 crashed last week. This is coming to us from Egyptian state media. And this means, this news means that the search grid has just narrowed dramatically. It's gotten so much smaller. And I want to go live now to Cairo and Nic Robertson. He is our CNN international diplomatic editor. And so Nic, to be clear here, these signals are not coming from the black boxes? What do we know?", "Well, we know that two days ago Egyptian officials were talking of a search area the size of Connecticut. Now they are talking of a search area of a circle, a diameter, radius rather at about miles. So hugely shrinking the search area. What the head of the investigation here in Egypt has told state television is that he was contacted by airbus and airbus told him they picked up a signal from the ELT, the Emergency Location Transmitter. Now, there are three of these on board an airbus A-320. They are designed to trigger and start sending out signals on impact. What is interesting here is that normally the batteries on these devices last only 48 hours. And here we are seven days later getting this information. But it -- but regardless of how long it's taken to get this information, it does for the investigators narrow the search. Means they can start dropping in those acoustic detection devices into the sea now to try to listen for the beacons that are being transmitted by the black boxes. So this is a major step forward for the investigators right now.", "All right, Nic. We will be following that with you. Nic Robertson for us in Cairo. Thank you so much. Next, he has done it. Donald Trump has completed his improbable trek to the Republican nomination. He has reached that magic number of 1,237. But instead of Hillary Clinton Donald Trump says he'll debate Bernie Sanders if 10 million goes to charity. Stay with me."], "speaker": ["BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN GUEST ANCHOR", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-51495", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2002-3-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/26/se.04.html", "summary": "First Flyers From Theodore Roosevelt Battle Group Return Home", "utt": ["Fresh from the fighting in Afghanistan, the first flyers from the Theodore Roosevelt battle group are returning home -- well, to their home base in Norfolk, Virginia, today. CNN national correspondent Bob Franken is there for the homecoming as we bring you the pictures there as we are waiting for the planes to come in -- Bob.", "Well, the wait is over, Carol.", "Bob, I'm sorry. We can't hear you above the plane noise there, but we are going to stay with the pictures. Bob has been talking with family members all morning long. These are wives and husbands, who are waiting for their loved ones to come back; their loved ones having been gone for Operation Enduring Freedom over Afghanistan for the last six months. Bob Franken, maybe we can hear you now.", "OK. Can you hear me, Carol?", "Barely.", "OK. Well, that's OK. I can barely hear you. The", "All right, Bob, don't mean to be rude. We are struggling to listen to you, but we are hoping that these pictures are worth, well, more than a thousand words. Bob really giving us a lot of background here on the air wing of the USS Roosevelt, the ship which is also returning home, but you are looking at some of the families who are able to greet some of their loved ones, the crewmembers of the air wing of these Navy Hawkeye airplanes. And you can just see the anticipation on their faces. And one of the shots we showed you earlier was the woman who gave birth to a baby, who is now six months old. The father returning home hasn't even seen his child. This was their second child, and she said it was a really anxiously anticipated second child. So that's going to be a really special homecoming indeed. OK, Bob Franken, we're going to give it another shot, you being so intrepid to try to get so close to those planes where we can hardly hear you. I think I can hear you better now.", "Well, you don't have to shout, Carol.", "Excuse me. I'm so sorry.", "A silence has descended on the airfield. It is broken up quite a bit, of course, by the cheers from the families. We have been talking throughout the day with the one in particular family -- you can hear the cheers right now. I think I just want to pause for a moment.", "Bob, that's the family of Mike Mahalec (ph).", "That's right. That's right.", "CNN's technical director there. We have a personal connection here...", "Well, look at that.", "... with Operation Enduring Freedom.", "Look at that. This is the Rasmussen family. Oh, we, of course, talked to them earlier.", "Oh. I don't suppose they are thinking about the fact they are making out on national television, now, are they?", "No, I don't think they are thinking about that at all. I think that they have been thinking about this moment for such a long time. And now you see Ken Rasmussen, who is looking at his baby, Morgan, for the first time since September 19, when he left. He is a lieutenant commander in his squadron.", "And lots of tears there.", "Oh, look at that.", "Oh, shaking hands like a good military man. All right.", "Well, these boys, I don't know if you saw them earlier, they are really -- how shall I put it -- quite lively. They have an awful lot of personality.", "Oh, Bob. How did these families get along without their husbands and wives all this time, Bob? It must have been really tough, especially for those who had just given birth.", "Well, as a matter of fact, we talked to a family earlier, and the wife said that not only was her baby born when her husband was away, but there were complications -- significant complications, as a matter of fact, where the baby had to be in critical care for just a while. That was Jonah, and now, however, the baby is healthy. The father is going to be seeing for the first time his child, his second child actually. It's going to be quite an adjustment, quite an emotional moment. And it's something that everybody is very excited about. We see now, Karen Rasmussen and of course, the father, Ken, holding his little one-year-old. We talked to them earlier, and we had the boys, Jeremy and Austin. Welcome home, Commander.", "Thank you.", "What a moment, huh?", "Oh, yes. This is awesome -- glad to be home.", "She seems to be taking to this all right.", "She seems to be doing pretty well. I'm just not sure if she knows who I am, but that will come with time.", "Well, it looks like she knows somehow.", "Yes, she does. It's great to be home, and I'm glad to do our part out there.", "Yes, but I bet you have thought about this time a long time.", "Yes, we have, especially the past few hours. We have been sitting out there waiting for the weather to clear up a little bit.", "I bet that was awful. Karen, you talked to us earlier.", "Yes, I did. I did. And this has just been really great to have him home. The wait was long, but it was -- you know, just the last few anxious moments.", "How do you guys stay in touch?", "A lot of e-mail, some letters and a few phone calls, but e-mail works out pretty well. So we kept in touch that way a lot.", "So how many seconds do you think it'll take you to adjust here?", "Oh, it's going to take me a few months, I think, to get back into the swing of things, and...", "There is a quick adjustment, and then a slow adjustment, where you get adjusted to living together again.", "Well, we have somebody here who wants to be on television.", "She does.", "Anyway, I want to congratulate you, and of course, a grateful nation thanks you. Thank you very much for the time that you spent with us too.", "Thank you.", "Congratulations.", "Thank you.", "Enjoy your reunion.", "Thank you.", "Glad to be home.", "Goodbye. And of course, this story, as we have been telling it throughout the day, is a story that is being repeated as each plane lands, and the families rush out to greet their loved ones. It's a beautiful sight. It's really something that you can't put into words, but I think it's something that just seeing it is what most of us would understand -- Carol.", "Bob, this is very different than a normal deployment, isn't it? I mean, these are families who are used to being separated for long periods of time, but this time around, it must have been really tough to let go September 19 when they left, deployed.", "Well, any number of people talked to us about that and saying that in the past for the most part, they were not being sent out under wartime conditions. Of course there have been sporadic exceptions but this one, because of the scale of the September 11 attacks and all of that kind of thing, put the fear into many of the people who might have gotten used to this. So, yes, this was the worst one, but of course, just the fact of the separation is a bit of a bit of a problem. And the fact of the matter is, that this separation lasted for a variety reasons a little bit longer than the normal six months. And then, of course, there were those extra couple of hours, those extra couple of hours when the planes couldn't land because of the fog. And that was probably the longest period of time for many of the people who are waiting here.", "The air wing that we are looking at right now, Bob, what was their primary mission in Afghanistan? Where did they find themselves?", "Well, they are what I would call mini AWACs. I am sure that the Navy people are not going to be happy to see them called that. These are Hawkeye planes. They are reconnaissance planes, surveillance planes. They are just loaded with electronic equipment, as what they like to call the pizza dish on top, or the screw top as this squadron was called. In any case, their job was a similar one, to penetrate some of the radio signals, all of the electronic kind of penetration that these planes are built to do, very expensive planes. This is, I will tell you, just part of the group of planes that is aboard the Theodore Roosevelt. Let's not forget that we are seeing here is a preview of coming attractions on a much larger scale, when the Roosevelt, which is a massive aircraft carrier, which has been gone from its port here since September 19, will be steaming back tomorrow about this time of day, maybe a little bit earlier. It is going to be steaming back to Norfolk, and there, it's going to be greeted by thousands of family members. 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{"id": "CNN-11634", "program": "Sunday Morning News", "date": "2000-7-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/09/sm.02.html", "summary": "Israeli-Palestinian Negotiators Prepare For Peace Talks at Camp David", "utt": ["Even before Israeli and Palestinian negotiators begin peace talks at Camp David, political defections are dampening the optimism. Early today, Israel's interior minister, a leading member of the coalition government, resigned his post in protest of the talks. That further weakens the eroding power base of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. CNN White House correspondent Kelly Wallace joins us with more -- Kelly.", "Well, Kyra, publicly and privately no one here at the White House is claiming there is any definite guarantee of success at this week's summit, the situation Israeli Prime Minister Barak facing at home another example of just how difficult these issues will be. But the administration says it concluded that the negotiations were at an impasse and that the only way to move the process forward was to bring the leaders together. And so Israeli and Palestinian negotiators begin arriving in Washington today for two days of so-called pre-summit talks. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the president's Middle East peace envoy Dennis Ross will participate in those talks. Then the leaders themselves make their way to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland. Israeli Prime Minister Barak is expected to leave Israel tomorrow. He told reporters last week he put the odds, the chances of success at this summit at 50-50. He will be joined at Camp David by President Clinton and also by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The issues for the two leaders to resolve, the most difficult and really the most emotional, questions such as what to do about relocating and compensating more than three million Palestinian refugees, questions such as what the borders of a Palestinian state would look like and perhaps the most difficult issue of all, the future of Jerusalem. The Palestinians would like to have part of Jerusalem as their capital, but the Israelis have been saying no way to that. The hope is that the leaders will break enough ground so that they will meet their self-imposed deadline of September 13 for a comprehensive peace deal -- Kyra.", "Kelly, how risky is this summit for the peace process?", "Well, it certainly is risky because, again, the two sides, there are still significant differences between the two sides when it comes to the most difficult issues. Also, you have a real time pressure going on here because Chairman Arafat has said with or without a peace deal he will unilaterally declare Palestinian statehood in September. The Israelis say if the Palestinians go ahead and do that, they will take their own unspecified steps. So while the White House won't say that this is the last opportunity for peace, White House officials certainly know that if there is not progress, the process could deteriorate. There could be turmoil in the region and that would make it much more difficult for the two leaders to make the tough decisions -- Kyra.", "All right, Kelly Wallace live from the White House, thank you."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "KELLY WALLACE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "WALLACE", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-246536", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2015-01-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/05/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "Update on Flight 8501 Search", "utt": ["It's already late morning Tuesday in Indonesia. Let's get an update on the search for AirAsia flight 8501 in the Java Sea. CNN's Gary Tuchman is live for us in Surabaya. What's the very latest on the search, Gary?", "Don, so far search conditions are relatively good, perhaps the best that we've seen since we've been here. But every day around midday, and right now we're closing in on midday, it starts deteriorating. But importantly, divers are in the water as we speak. That's very crucial because, we are being told this is not a surprise, but we have just been told that the feeling is they are not going to find many more bodies on the water. They believe that most if not all of the remaining bodies are still strapped to the seats in the aircraft on the bottom of the Java Sea and the feeling is that only divers will be able to get to it. It's only about 100 feet deep down, but the problem is when divers got down this weekend they said the visibility was zero. They're hoping the visibility is better today, and we should have a report as the day goes on if divers have been successful not only finding those bodies but also finding those black boxes, which so far have eluded them.", "CNN's Gary Tuchman. Gary, thank you very much. Joining me now David Soucie, CNN's safety analyst and author of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and also Mary Schiavo, the former inspector general of the Department of Transportation, she's now an attorney for victims of transportation accidents. David, I want to get your reaction to what Gary just reported, they don't think they'll find any more bodies, they believe most of the bodies -- remaining bodies are strapped still inside of the aircraft.", "We could make a conclusion on that. Actually, what I think is going on is that the bodies are still down there strapped in the seats. What they tells us is the aircraft may still have a large piece down there as opposed to if it had broken up into many little parts we'd have fewer -- or more bodies on top and fewer trapped down below. So, that may give us a clue as to what they should be looking for under the -- under the ocean.", "You -- you know, I had you on here last week, David, and you said that the search and rescue teamed said that they found the plane by sonar, but now teams are still looking. So, what happened? What do we know about the portions of the plane that have been found?", "Well, one is just the ability to get down there and verify what it is, Don. But, as that night we talked a little bit about this -- that Dave Gallo had mentioned to us that, we need to be cautious about what we say is down there because there's a lot of debris in this area of the ocean. There have been -- there have been wars fought there, there are ships that are sunken. Aircraft actually that have been downed in that area as well. So, just saying that we've seen a large piece of metal could just be just another piece of another ship from years gone past.", "Yeah, and we warned the viewers about that last week. Mary, you were here with us as well, your reaction to Gary Tuchman's news.", "Well, and -- you know, it's kind of a repeat, there was a number of years ago, Adam Air Flight that went down in the Java Sea, and that too was very difficult to find. And in fact, pieces of the plane and remains, other parts of the aircraft washed up on the shore. And then that helped them many, many weeks afterward to help trace back. So, while it's more shallow than other places where searchers are used to looking, it's proved to be somewhat elusive in the past as well.", "As I've been watching the reports throughout -- since we have been on last, there's been some, you know, consternation about whether the pingers are working or not. Whether they're getting signals from the pingers, from the black box. What's going on, Mary?", "Well, you know, in -- in many cases, I think there's an estimate of about a third of the time pingers don't work for various reasons. Sometimes the battery malfunctions, sometimes the pingers are damaged or knocked off in the accident sequence and sometimes they're just positioned under wreckage such that they don't pick up the sound unless they're literally right on top of it. So, it could any a factor of any of those or they just haven't gotten to the part yet. But when they get to the big piece of the plane, hopefully they'll still be there. But, in many accidents they just don't work. LEMON; Yeah, and just -- you know, and finding the bodies, of course, that is their first priority. But this black box, I mean, that's the most important, David, outside of finding the bodies, that's gonna tell them what happened to this plane.", "That's right. And the combination of the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder together is what paints the whole picture because you see not only what happened to the aircraft but you get a glimpse into what was going on in the decision-making of the pilots, and that can give you a real benefit as far as looking forward and trying to prevent these accidents in the future because, now you can start to understand the psychology and help the pilots understand things better as they get into difficult situations like this and thunderstorms.", "David, Mary, thank you very much. Coming up, the bizarre billionaire sex scandal, Britain's Prince Andrew and now Alan Dershowitz, facing accusations of sex with an underage girl. 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{"id": "NPR-34174", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2010-12-18", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2010/12/18/132168870/Week-In-News-Afghanistan-Review", "title": "Week In News: Tax Deal, 'Don't Ask'", "summary": "With two big legislative victories in hand — the tax deal and the repeal of \"don't ask, don't tell\" — President Obama is on a roll just a little more than a month after the midterm \"shellacking,\" says James Fallows of The Atlantic. He and host Guy Raz discuss that and the week's other big stories.", "utt": ["And joining us now is James Fallows of The Atlantic. He's with us most Saturdays.", "Jim, hi.", "Hello, Guy. Nice to talk to you again.", "First, to that vote on Don't Ask, Don't Tell. There was a lot of talk about President Obama, you know, fading into irrelevancy after the Republican victory in November. But since then, he's had two major legislative successes; this one, and of course, the tax deal.", "He certainly has. And I think, you know, there've been almost a fazzle(ph) degree of comparisons with Bill Clinton's comeback after the 1994 Republican sweep led by Newt Gingrich. This seems to me different in both a sort of temporal way and a strategic way.", "The temporal way is this is happening much faster for Barack Obama. It took several months after the election for the Clinton administration to sort of regain its footing. And the other is I think a difference in the way the Obama administration is approaching this, that Bill Clinton was famous for his triangulation, which you could think of as sort of taking some points from the other side's playbook and getting them and making them your own.", "And what strikes me is that what we've seen both with the tax cut bill and now with the Don't Ask, Don't Tell, is Obama's longtime identity as a conciliator or a mediator or somebody who believes above all to bring people together is the point of what he's doing in office.", "Now, we don't know whether that will apply in the next Congress when the Republicans control the House and the showdown over the government funding bill, which actually was blocked from Senate considerations, suggests some difficulties. But it has been impressive both in the timing and in the style of mind and governing that the president's reveal that it's happened this quickly.", "I know the thing that came out of the administration this week, Jim, was the Afghanistan review. It seemed to suggest a whole lot of paradoxes that success there depends on cooperation from forces and things that the U.S. can't really control.", "I think if you read only the administration's own documents, no outside criticism, no press report, you would see a very, very difficult situation, both intellectually and also practically.", "On the one hand, the administration says that success depends on cooperation of Pakistan. Without the intelligence support for groups who are operating in Pakistan, et cetera, then the effort in Afghanistan can't succeed, and also depends on what used to be called hearts and minds efforts of having Afghanistan people feel loyal to their government and to welcome rather than resist the presence of foreign troops. And so it says those two things are necessary, but also there is either very little progress or backward progress on both of them.", "In other words, success isn't happening - it depends on Pakistan, and actually, success can't happen. That's the message.", "I think there is an irresistible force and immovable object-type message that comes from the administration's reports. On the one hand, it says that \"success\" in Afghanistan is necessary and imperative. On the other hand, it's saying that it's probably impossible.", "So I guess the big test will come next spring when the administration has to decide, as its pledged, how many troops to withdraw.", "Yes. I think that how the administration can plausibly convince both its own party, the Democrats, and Republicans who are sort of prone to criticize the Democratic administration for weakness militarily, that it has a sustainable path ahead. It's, I think, the next big public presentation, both a decision the president will have to make in the way he explains it to us.", "Jim, in the context of Afghanistan, I think we'd be remiss if we didn't mention Richard Holbrooke, the special envoy and legendary diplomat who of course died this week.", "I think the tone that has come through a lot of the appreciations and assessments of him is that while we normally think of international affairs being affected by longtime historical trends and economic rises, falls and all the rest, the things that he accomplished showed how much could depend on a single person and his diplomatic skill and his vision and his ability to cajole and bully and persuade and charm. And in immediate term, it's going to be a big difference in Afghanistan policy the United States can no longer rely on Richard Holbrooke. And it's a reminder to all of us the difference a person can make.", "That's James Fallows. He's a national correspondent for The Atlantic. You can read his blog at jamesfallows.theatlantic.com.", "Jim, thank you.", "Thank you, Guy. 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{"id": "CNN-18076", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-10-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/17/mn.26.html", "summary": "Israelis, Palestinians Must Successfully Implement Cease-Fire to Facilitate Further Talks", "utt": ["More now on the crisis in the Middle East, the agreement to end the violence -- more on that now, CNN State Department -- Andrea Koppel joining us from the State Department. Andrea, part of this very fragile agreement that they came to in Sharm el-Sheikh would be that, within the next couple weeks, negotiators for the Palestinians and Israelis are supposed to come here to the U.S. and talk about talking, basically it seems like all they could agree upon.", "Well, we're not exactly sure, Daryn, if they're going to come here to the U.S. to resume peace talks. We're not even sure if, in fact, they will be able to resume peace talks. What they really need to see is whether or not what they agreed to, in principle at Sharm el-Sheikh -- that is, that there would be a cease-fire -- whether or not the two leaders, Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat will be able to implement this cease-fire on the ground. There are a number of steps that either side agreed to do once they got home and they are home now. Among them, Mr. Barak has said that he would withdraw all of his tanks and troops from within the Palestinian territories to the positions they had before. Both leaders were going to call for an end to the violence. Yasser Arafat, for his part, was going to rearrest more than 350 prisoners that he let out from Hamas and Islamic Jihads. And so, if they're able to do that, Daryn, if they're able to implement that on the ground then, I think, they'll perhaps be able to start talking about peace.", "One thing that's clear coming out of Sharm el-Sheikh today, whatever does happen, the Americans are going to be very much involved, both in terms of if these talks can get going against; also in terms of this fact-finding commission that the Palestinians were demanding. They wanted the commission, but it wasn't exactly an American- lead commission that they were looking for.", "Exactly, Daryn. Mr. Arafat had been pushing for this international fact-finding commission to look into the cause of what started the violence three weeks ago. And he had wanted it to be headed by the United Nations, wanted a very diverse representation on this commission. There was a compromise on that front and the way things stand right now, there will be this international fact-finding commission with the U.S. as, sort of, the head of it in consultation with the United Nations. They have yet to pick the members of the commission and that, presumably, will take place rather soon -- Daryn.", "Andrea Koppel at the State Department; thanks, Andrea."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "KOPPEL", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-114502", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2007-2-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/12/ldt.01.html", "summary": "Pentagon Charges Iran With Supplying Weapons to Shiite Extremists in Iraq", "utt": ["New charges tonight that Iranian weapons are killing our troops in Iraq. The Pentagon now says Iran's government is supplying Shiite extremist groups with sophisticated weaponry. Iran denies that. We'll have the report. Almost 20,000 Americans died from accidental drug overdoses in 2004. Nearly double that of five years earlier. Researchers say abusive sedatives, prescription painkillers a principal cause. We'll have those stories, all the day's news, and much more straight ahead here tonight.", "This is LOU DOBBS TONIGHT, news, debate and opinion for Monday, February 12th. Live in New York, Lou Dobbs.", "Good evening, everybody. American troops in Iraq are being killed by sophisticated weapons made in Iran, and the U.S. military says the Iranian government is behind it. Iran denies those accusations and, instead, accuses the United States of fabricating evidence. House Democrats are trying to stop President Bush from sending more troops to Iraq. Can they force the president's hand? The powerful chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Ike Skelton, will be here tonight. And Michael Ware is reporting from Baghdad tonight on what the U.S. is calling a growing body of evidence that Iran is killing our troops in Iraq. Suzanne Malveaux reporting from the White House, where Tony Snow says talk of war with Iran is just hype. And Andrea Koppel reports on the proposed non-binding resolution opposing the administration's reinforcements to Iraq. We begin with Michael Ware in Baghdad.", "In a background briefing in Baghdad that could not be taped, by three officials who cannot be named, the U.S. escalated its campaign of accusation against Tehran. The U.S. officials laid out what they call a growing body of evidence that a largely covert Iranian special forces unit, arms, trains and advisers, Shia insurgents, attacking coalition soldiers. That unit is an element of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Its elite Quds force which, the U.S. officials claim, takes its orders directly from Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself. Insisting the Quds force is systematically funneling insurgents, a range of arms from mortars to sniper rifles, grenades to machine guns, the American officials highlighted one weapon in particular they blame the Quds force for supplying, a roadside bomb pioneered by Lebanese Hezbollah, so powerful it punches through the heaviest American armor with ease. Called an explosively-formed penetrator, or EFP, the officials say the device has killed at least 170 soldiers since it first emerged on the Iraqi battlefield in 2004. But, like much of the declassified information released during the briefing, it's a claim U.S. officials have made many times before, insisting one of the bombs' key components needs fine machine tooling that could be traced back to Iran. As can markings on mortars and explosives found inside Iraq which show they were manufactured by Tehran. While admitting there is no smoking gun of Iranian complicity, a Defense Department intelligence analyst says this is a sophisticated Iranian campaign being fought through a host of surrogate groups maximizing Iran's deniability. If so, it's precisely the same kind of proxy war techniques America's CIA used so successfully with Islamic allies against the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.", "And it's armaments like these that the U.S. military is hoping to stop. These are the tail fins of Iranian-supplied mortars that CNN has obtained. The U.S. military used several of these as examples of the kind of munitions that the Revolutionary Guard Quds force is supplying across the border to Shia militias -- Lou.", "Michael Ware reporting from Baghdad. The White House today responded to those reports. The president saying he has no plans to go to war with Iran. Suzanne Malveaux reports from the White House -- Suzanne.", "Well, Lou, as you know, just how and when this evidence was released was really at the heart of the debate here for the last couple of weeks within the administration. Administration officials telling me last week that, look, on the one hand you had American diplomats inside of Iraq under tremendous pressure from the Iraqi and Iranian friends who say, look, give up the goods here, prove your case that Iran is meddling in Iraq's affairs. On the other side, you have NSC officials, White House officials very much concerned to release this evidence. It actually leads to a lot of criticism in Washington, including that of warmongering. And really a lot of concerns among Middle Eastern allies, as well. So, the compromise here was to release this information. No doubt, no names mentioned, of course, over in Iraq, not here in the United States. President Bush, as you can tell in the C-SPAN interview today, again, walking that fine line, the diplomatic dance he's doing regarding Iran.", "I guess I would just say that there is an endless chatter. A lot of people on TV expressing their opinion, which is fine, don't get me wrong. It's just part of the process. After all, I'm on TV expressing my opinion with you. But it's just a lot of chatter in Washington. A lot of people expressing themselves on a regular basis.", "And really make no mistake about this. They may be releasing this evidence, providing more details, but the White House is under no kind of illusion here that people are necessarily going to take this at face value. They say, quite frankly, they know they have a credibility problem, and that is because of the faulty intelligence regarding Iraq -- Lou.", "Suzanne, it seems the White House is in a peculiar position. The -- I would think the conclusion would be that the White House is fully briefed and encouraging these reports. And at the same time, if these reports are true and if the previous intelligence that Iran has been helping the insurgency kill our troops over the course of the past year or so, why has there not been a response? Either way the White House is in a very difficult position.", "And really, what the White House is trying to do, Lou, is build this case, to increase the rhetoric, make it hotter, and also to intimidate Iran. Essentially, to put as much pressure as possible so that Iran's elite and the young people in that country will ultimately say this isn't worth it. There is a public relations campaign that's against the Iranian administration that they don't want to deal any more with Ahmadinejad anymore, the Iranian leader, and that ultimately they turn their back on him. That is the strategy of the Bush administration. At the same time, you bring up a good point, which is the White House does not want to be very closely linked to this evidence. They want to put that out in Iraq with the American diplomats and try to deal with the Middle Eastern allies first.", "Suzanne, thank you. Suzanne Malveaux, from the White House. Insurgents in Iraq have killed six more of our troops. They were killed on a number of separate incidents in Baghdad and Diyala Province. Forty of our troops have been killed so far this month, 3,123 killed since the war began. 23,417 of our troops wounded, 10,397 of them wounded seriously. The violence against civilians in Iraq is showing no signs of easing at all. More than 90 people were killed, nearly 200 wounded in multiple explosions today. Those casualties the result of several bombings in commercial districts of central Baghdad. The violence comes on the one-year anniversary of the bombing of the holy Shia shrine in Samarra. Arwa Damon reports.", "Thick, choking smoke, flames raging out of control after three car bombs ripped through the clothing and perfume sections at Baghdad's main wholesale marketplace. Firefighters battled the blaze for hours, black smoke filling the capital skyline. The bombings coming shortly after a roadside bomb detonated in another crowded commercial area of the city. The four bombs killed scores of Iraqis and wounded more than 170 in just 20 bloody minutes. The impact devastating, further paralyzing a society already living in fear. Imagine a trip to the marketplace, or heading out to work, and then sheer carnage. \"I have a shop at Keni (ph) building,\" this shop owner says, \"a few meters away from the explosions. We felt the shock wave.\" Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki also heard the blasts, exactly at the moment he was calling for unity, during a speech on the anniversary of the bombing of the Al-Askariya mosque in Samarra, one year ago on the Islamic lunar calendar. A grim event that catapulted Iraq's sectarian violence to new levels. A second explosion heard. This time as Maliki was expressing his optimism about the new Baghdad security plan. (on camera): On the streets of Baghdad, little optimism about this new plan. Its impact, if any, has yet to be felt. Hours after today's bombings, you can still see the smoke rising from the scene of the attack. Arwa Damon, CNN, Baghdad.", "Democrats in the House of Representatives today proposed a non-binding resolution that disapproves the president's plan to send additional troops to Iraq. Democrats expect to have a vote by the end of this week. Andrea Koppel reports.", "Even before members debate the war on the House floor, the battle over the resolution is already well under way. Democratic and Republican leaders squared off over a decision by Democrats to block Republicans from offering an alternative measure.", "We're going to continue to bring change, and we're going to give Republicans the opportunity to fully participate...", "When? When?", "John...", "When? When? You've been saying that for a year.", "Instead, Democrats are pushing for a vote on their own resolution, which says simply, \"Congress will continue to support and protect U.S. troops serving in Iraq.\" And that \"Congress disapproves of President Bush's decision to deploy more than 20,000 combat troops.\"", "We disagree, and the president's commander in chief. And he has the obligation to do what he thinks is best to make this country safe, and that's what he's doing.", "Republicans concede the resolution will pass, but they're not giving up without a fight. Just off the House floor, they've staffed up a special room to offer members reports and speeches, talking points, as well as charts, graphs and visual aids. And during at least three days of debate, members will be encouraged to hammer away at key talking points which say the resolution weakens morale among U.S. troops and gives comfort to the enemy and that Democrats have no plan for victory. Still, North Carolina Republican Walter Jones, who co-sponsored this resolution, predicts at least 15 and perhaps as many as 25 Republicans will follow his lead.", "The AP ran a survey on the surge. Seventy percent of the American people said they were opposed to the surge. I mean, members of Congress have to do what they think is right, but they also -- certainly they do consider what the people back home want.", "And in an effort to tell those people back home that they've been listening and as a way to bolster their credibility opposing the president's plan to send more troops, Democrats plan to have a number of military veterans dating back to the Korean War kick off tomorrow's debate -- Lou.", "There must be some sense of considerable embarrassment in the Senate. This debate is taking place in the House rather than the Senate, which failed to find a parliamentary process that would lead to a very important debate on this critical national issue.", "Well, if not embarrassment, there is certainly a great degree of frustration on both the Democratic and Republican sides -- Lou.", "Andrea, thank you very much. Andrea Koppel from Capitol Hill. North Korea today tentatively agreed to shut down its nuclear weapons program. That deal still needs to be approved, of course, by officials of the six-country talks. That agreement would call for North Korea to end its production of plutonium in exchange for undisclosed amounts of energy aid. Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Christopher Hill said the talks would reconvene tomorrow. Coming up here next, House Armed Services Committee chairman Ike Skelton joins me. We'll be talking about the Democratic plan to tell the White House not to send those troops to Iraq. And what will be the consequences? Accidental fatal drug overdoses climbing at an alarming rate in this country. We're eating (ph) our young. We'll have a special report on what's behind this increase. And the president says his policies have made the economy strong, but America's embattled middle class is still seeing quality jobs heading overseas. We'll have a report for you and a great deal more straight ahead. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["LOU DOBBS, HOST", "ANNOUNCER", "DOBBS", "MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "WARE", "DOBBS", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W.  BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MALVEAUX", "DOBBS", "MALVEAUX", "DOBBS", "ARWA DAMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "DOBBS", "ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "REP.  STENY HOYER (D), MAJORITY LEADER", "REP.  JOHN BOEHNER (D), MINORITY LEADER", "HOYER", "BOEHNER", "KOPPEL", "TONY SNOW, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "KOPPEL", "REP.  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{"id": "CNN-15588", "program": "Both Sides with Jesse Jackson", "date": "2000-9-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/10/bs.00.html", "summary": "Does Faith Have any Effect on How Our Leaders Will Govern?", "utt": ["Welcome to BOTH SIDES. I'm in New York this week. The time when calls to restore morality to politics and dignity to the White House have been heard on the campaign trail, candidates have been compelled to voice their religious convictions. But these recent indications or expressions of faith have been cause for concern among those who feel there is no place for religion in public discourse. Is this display appropriate? How is it playing with the American voters? And does faith have any effect on how our leaders will govern? We're going to get two perspectives on this issue today. Joining me from Washington is Reverend Barry Lynn. He is the director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Also joining me is Richard Land. He is the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville. Welcome both of you to the program.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "We'll begin our discussion in a moment, but first some background from John Bisney.", "When Senator Joseph Lieberman was announced as Vice President Al Gore's running mate, he didn't just ask for help from voters.", "I ask you to allow me to let the spirit move me as it does to remember the words from Chronicles, which are to give thanks to God, to give thanks to God, and declare his name and make his acts known to the people.", "Unlike John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic on a national ticket, Senator Lieberman has not played his religion down but rather argued for its place in the political arena.", "And I feel as strongly as anything else that there must be a place for faith in America's public life.", "Governor George W. Bush has talked about religion, too. At a debate last December, he was asked to name his favorite political philosopher.", "Christ, because he changed my heart.", "But some are calling for less emphasis on religion, most notably the Anti-Defamation League.", "There is a time and a place for religion, we are a religious country, we are a religious people. It belongs in the church, in the synagogue, in the mosque. It belongs in the home, it belongs in the heart, but not stumped on the campaign trail.", "Others argue the real issue is how a candidate's faith would effect his policies once in office.", "Since we're dealing with theological issues, the devil is in the details, I suppose. And that is. will he, for example, support the restoration of voluntary prayer to the public schools? Is that an appropriate place for religion in our public life?", "What impact candidates professions of faith will have on the line separating church and state may be more clearly defined after voters head to the polls in November. For BOTH SIDES, I'm John Bisney.", "Rev. Lynn, is this political emphasis, now let's say, on religion, in the political campaign inappropriate? or has Senator Lieberman let -- opened the Pandora's Box?", "Yes I'm afraid that he has opened a Pandora's box. And I do think that no one is trying to argue that someone's religion should be hidden under a bushel basket, nobody suggests there's no place for religion in public discourse. But I think what we've seen is a kind of one-ups-manship being played by both OF the major political parties. In other words, once Governor Bush said, not only that Jesus was his favorite political philosopher, which many people had some theological differences about, I think many people view Jesus as savior, but not necessarily philosopher. Then he declared Jesus Day in Texas, on June the 10th. So he had done it. And now the Democratic Party does seem, through Joseph Lieberman, to want to be doing much the same thing. Proof texting, in other words saying: My prescription drug plan is better than the Republicans because it's more consistent with the Fifth Commandment to honor your father and mother. That's clever speechwriting, there's no doubt about it. But I think we've now reached a point where it enough is enough. We know these men's hearts, at least as much as any of us human beings can know it, we know they're spiritual people. Now let's get on with the business of telling us how we're going to fix the real problems in this country, including education, child poverty, Social Security, that's what we ought to be talking about in the next eight weeks, not quote more scripture. JACKSON; Richard, should this campaign be about religion? or public policy?", "Well, I think it should be about public policy, but I don't think it should be devoid of the religious perspective of the candidates, if they are indeed people of faith. I was a 14-year-old Southern Baptist in 1960, and I remember when John Kennedy came to Houston. My pastor went and was one of the pastors who met with John Kennedy, there in Houston. And basically extracted from him, unfortunately and sadly and shamefully, a promise that his Catholicism would not have any impact on his performance of his office. That is a shameful and unacceptable price to extract from a candidate, and we ought to be ashamed that we did it in. I think it's -- you know it's interesting, Reverend Jackson, it took a hard-core anti-Communist to go to China, it took a Democrat to sign welfare reform, and it may take an Orthodox Jew to restore religion to its proper place in public discourse in America.", "But -- are we talking about religious dogma and faith? Are we talking about a higher level of moral ethics in the public discourse?", "Well I think...", "In other words, should a Southern Baptist be proselytizing, should an Orthodox Jew be proselytizing? Or should they in fact be using the ethics of their faith to drive us to a higher level of moral discourse?", "Well, Reverend Jackson, I think that there's a very important distinction to make, candidates for office should not be proselytizing in public policy. We should never want government sponsored religion. But my personal hero, as I know yours is, is Martin Luther King Jr. And he preached the gospel as a Baptist minister in his pulpit, but then he took his Christian faith, as pastor of a church in Montgomery, and went out and started a bus boycott, taking the gospel and applying it to mean: Equal justice under the law. Those are two very different roles and these men are not preachers, these men are not -- you know Joe Lieberman's not trying to pass a law to make everybody eat kosher.", "Barry, what does Jesus Day in Texas mean to you?", "I think what it means is that we're going to give a special emphasis, because we think there are more Christians in Texas than any other religious groups, so we're going to give them some kind of a special promise, that is that we're declare their religious holiday to be more important than somebody else's. And I think that's the core of what I have so many problems with. When John Kennedy went to Houston he made a great speech, nothing to be ashamed of. Hears all he said, he said: \"I look forward to an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. Where no Catholic prelot (ph) would tell a president, should he be a Catholic, how to act. And no Protestant clergyman would tell his congregation for whom to vote.\" That's a great standard, and I wish we had candidates who were willing to talk about it today. Senator...", "I guess part of my concern is that Mr. Bush says his favorite philosophy is Jesus Christ, after the 140th execution in the state. Jesus said you tell the tree by the fruit it bears, not by the bark it wears. Is -- are we looking at the bark of religion or the tree of authentic religion?", "Well, we're certainly seeing a lot more bark, than the inner core. And of course I agree with you that ultimately it is what a man or woman does, not what he or she says, about which we should measure their commitment to morality. And I do think there is a difference, and Richard Land is talking about it, between morality and religion. There are many moral people in this country, tens of millions of people, who do not have a spiritual path that they follow, but who do in fact have moral principles. The excuse though this year seems to be, if you want to prove that you are moral, that you're not going to engage in the conduct of a President Clinton, or a Speaker Newt Gingrich, the easiest way to prove you are moral is quote the Bible. I want to see more than that. I want to see the walk and I want to understand the politics -- the policies, not so much hear more religious rhetoric. JACKSON; We're going to come right back in a moment, and talk about this distinction between the religion and faith, and its impact upon public policy.", "Welcome back. We're talking about religion on the campaign trail with Reverend Barry Lynn, director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Richard Land, hear this data. The recent \"Newsweek\" poll, 61 percent feels it is appropriate for a candidate for public office to discuss his own religion and religious beliefs during the campaign; only 33 percent feels it is inappropriate. What does this mean?", "Well, I think it means that Americans are increasingly beginning to understand, once again, that people of diverse religious faiths live in this nation and that they have a right to bring their faith to bear on important public policy issues. They are not always going to agree. I mean, after all, you and I are both Baptists and you know that Baptists, all Baptists seldom agree on anything. But they have the right to bring their faith to bear and to say to the voters: This is who I am. Joe Lieberman said, look, at the press conference, when he was announced, he said, my religious faith is at the core of who I am. And you can't ask me to separate that from how I fulfill my public office...", "Would you make this distinction between religion, in the sense of your religion, your ideology, your path to salvation, and a moral standard in an ecumenical society where you have Christians and Jews and Muslims and Buddhists, do you continuously affirm your religious dogma, which is very private? or do you affirm a higher morality for all people?", "Well, I think that what I would want to say is that I have the right to continue to practice my faith, in worship services and in my own life and in sharing my faith with others. But when it comes to public policy, I have a responsibility to try to apply, as I understand biblical truth, to public policy. And if I can convince enough Americans that I'm right, I have the right to...", "Barry Lynn, isn't that the point, that if religion drives you to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, set the captive, preach, study war no more. That's the moral taste, different than join my church, or join my religion.", "Absolutely, and I think one of the things that people frequently ask me here, as a member Congress says, I voted for some tax cut and then quotes a Bible passage, is that unconstitutional? No. But one would like to think that there was more understanding than simply a Bible verse, in order to justify a vote on any side of these issues. You know we are running a secular country here. These candidates are not running to be the preacher of the church. Some of the questions that George Bush and Al Gore, for example, have answered on this campaign trail are the kinds of ones I would want asked if I were on a search committee at my local church. But that's not what these folks are running for. I do think people in this country want a moral grounding in the next president and vice president. But they don't have to do that simply by promoting a specific religion.", "You know, my concern is we live in our faith, on our Bible, on our Koran, we live under the law. And historically, we've seemed to make that distinction between living in our faith, which is private, and under the law. I was asked when I was running for president how does religion fit in? I said, well, religion makes me political, my politics don't make me religious. My religion obligates me to certain ethical, moral standards, it does not obligate me to proselytize and convert everybody I see in public life.", "Well, and indeed I like that line, and I've probably stolen it myself several times. But I also think it's important to realize that what Senator Lieberman said, and I think one of the things that was so controversial last week was, he said it's time for Americans to re-new their faith in the one awesome God and for the country to do it too. Well, we've got 250 million or so of us that are religious, we've got a faith, but the country doesn't have a faith. The country is made up of people -- individuals with 2,000 different religious traditions and, of course, the millions of people who don't have any spiritual path they follow. So we...", "Why do you think...", "... have got to be careful about this kind of language or we're going to turn some folks into second-class citizens in their own country. JACKSON; Why do you think Abe Foxman raises -- I mean, do you think he raised it because he does not want the character factor is because of his fear, that if it's about religion that it could in fact incite anti-Semitism. Was his issue more about the fear of anti- Semitism being incited?", "You know, I talked to him about other matters, I did not talk to him before that statement was issued, or our own statement was issued on the topic. I think that Mr. Foxman, in recent years, has helped to move the Anti-Defamation League into a much broader program of activity, to fight for genuine religious liberty, which includes a separation of church and state. So, it didn't surprise me that he said it. I think that it was a strong statement. It did not suggest to Senator Lieberman: Hide your religion. It just said, you know, it's time to get on with it. Sen. Lieberman, himself...", "I am concerned about the overreaction. You know, when Jimmy Carter taught Sunday school he said nothing.", "Nothing.", "When Bush said that Jesus was his favorite philosopher, he said nothing. Bush says he was converted at his father's house and Billy Graham came there to preach and pray, he said nothing. Lieberman, quoted Chronicles, he feels the need to public to react, was forced to underline an agenda there?", "Well I think that there really is no double standard, some people have accused folks of that. George Bush has a long history of seeking the votes from religious special-interest groups, including frankly, the Christian Coalition and other religious right groups. He's been known to pander for the votes of certain kinds of Christians for years now. When Lieberman first made his statement, he said who he was, I was on this very network for the hour afterwards. I said, look, we got cut a guy some slack, I wouldn't have done it this way, or at this time, but he was largely unknown to the public. Now he's known, we know about him, we know about the other candidates, now it's time to simply move on. And I don't understand Richard Land, for example, what you expect to learn more about these candidates' religious faith, unless we ask them to explain their interpretation of the virgin birth...", "You know it's hard to stop you preachers from talking. We'll be right back in just a moment. We got to sell some secular commercials.", "Richard Land, Governor Bush has endorsed the GOP platform, which supports school prayer, sexual abstinence before marriage, opposition to abortion, opposition to homosexuality. Is this a part of his religious politics?", "Well I agree with him substantially on those issues. Although I would have some quibbles about some of the details. But, you know, Barry Lynn asked me to question: What do I want to know about these candidates and their religious faith? I guess my answer would be: Whatever they choose to tell me. They're the ones that are running for office. They're the ones that are asking for my vote. And I leave it to them to tell me how they feel that their personal faith applies to public policy issues. And if I like what they say, then I should vote for them; and if I don't, then I shouldn't. I think it's wrong to try to segregate religious speech from public policy debates. You know, Lincoln in 1860 was severely criticized for talking about slavery. And he said in Springfield, Massachusetts, my critics say I shouldn't talk about slavery in the pulpit because that's bringing politics into religion, and I shouldn't talk about slavery in politics, because that's bringing religion into politics. And so, according to my critics, there's no place where I can call this evil thing wrong, and this simple thing evil. And I'm glad he didn't listen to his critics.", "But my point is here, while we are discussing religion today, there are 42 million Americans who don't have health insurance, or 1,500 Americans die a day from cancer, or coal miners die from black lung disease everyday. We can't get to these...", "And 4,000 die from abortion.", "... issues of public policy.", "And 4,000 die from abortion.", "And 4,000 die from abortion. In the meantime, we cannot get to these issues, discussing which candidate has the most righteous line of Scripture. Is that not a divergent from the public policy debate?", "Well I don't think we're concerned about, as a society, about who has the most righteous line of Scripture. I think that what we want to know is who these people are, and how their religious faith, if it impacts their lives, how it impacts their lives. And if they choose to tell us that, I don't think they should be criticized for doing so. Now if they start trying...", "But don't we measure a tree by the fruit it bears? By its behavior? by its priorities? not just by its bark, not just by its stance?", "Absolutely. And Reverend Jackson, I would think that it's very clear to everyone in this society, that some people like oranges and some people like apples and some people like pears. It depends on which fruit you're looking for. And that's why we have a democracy in this country. And we ask the candidates to tell us what their values are and what their priorities are. And then we make a decision, and we all abide by the results until the next election.", "Yes, but, you know, the problem with that, it sounds great, but I think Reverend Jackson is absolutely right that if we get so involved in the question of religion and whose got the most, or the best understanding of a particular one, we lose the opportunity to talk about what are in fact the genuine moral issues of this day. You know, unfortunately, because of some of the misdeeds of politicians on both sides of the aisle, we've come to equate morality, with the question of sexual morality. I was once asked to be on a program about the moral nature of the country, and I said: Are we going to talk about the number of children in poverty? And the producer said: You think that's a moral issue? And I said: Well, if you don't, I guess you don't want me on this program. But we're losing sight of that as we get people who appear to be running for national preacher, tell us again and again and refuse to stop, unless they're using vulgar language, as we've seen one of these candidates do this past week, they seem to be more interested in that than they do in solving the nation's critical problems. and I think that is a great risk of all of this happening.", "In the end, we are a one big tent nation, under that one big tent many room for many religions, many races, many faces, many places, many languages; but one message. We'll be back in a moment with our final segment.", "Reverend Lynn and Richard Land, we thank you, you been very special guests this week. This issue of religion and morality and ethics will not go way, should not go away. Now I remind people that we live in our faith, in our many faiths, they are private. We live under the law, we live under a Constitution. In the end, we should be measured, our character should be measured, by how we treat the least of these, how we defend the poor, how we deliver the needy. Should we take our message to Appalachia? the Ozarks? the Indian reservations? Does everybody matter? Does everybody count? Let us express our commitment to morality and making this a nation of inclusion, which leads to growth, and make all people feel whole and as one. Well, thank you very much for being our very special guests this week, again, Barry and Richard. And thank you again for watching us this week on another segment of BOTH SIDES. Next Sunday 5:30 p.m. Eastern. Until then, keep hope alive."], "speaker": ["JESSE JACKSON, HOST", "REV. BARRY LYNN, DIR., AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE", "RICHARD LAND, PRESIDENT, ETHICS AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY COMMISSION", "JACKSON", "JOHN BISNEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-409237", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2020-08-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/26/se.01.html", "summary": "Third Night Of Republican National Convention; Hurricane Laura Nearly Category Five Hurricane", "utt": ["I appreciate your time. Thank you very much. And we all thank you for what you do. Please stay safe up there right now, as you said, just passing through that eye. Thanks to all of you for joining us as our coverage of that breaking story and our special coverage of the Republican National Convention continues now.", "Live pictures from historic Fort McHenry in Baltimore, one of the backdrops for the Republican National Convention tonight. It's about to get underway in the shadow of huge stories that are breaking right now. A curfew taking effect right now in Kenosha, Wisconsin as the city braces for what could be a fourth night of unrest following the police shooting of an unarmed black man, Jacob Blake. Tonight, a white teenager is under arrest in connection with a shooting attack on protesters in Kenosha overnight. And this new flashpoint in the fight for racial justice has sparked a boycott by NBA players on the Milwaukee Bucks. That has led to all three of tonight's playoff games being postponed. In addition, the six teams slated to play tonight in the WNBA announced they are standing in solidarity and won't play either. The protests spreading to Major League Baseball with the Milwaukee Brewers and the Seattle Mariners refusing to play their games. I am Anderson Cooper along with Wolf Blitzer in our special convention coverage -- Wolf.", "Anderson, we're also following a truly devastating Category Four Hurricane that is bearing down right now on the Gulf Coast. Laura is poised to strike with more power than Katrina and unleash a storm surge that could be un-survivable. All of this playing out as Vice President Mike Pence is about to get his big moment in the convention spotlight. We're told he will have very tough criticism for Joe Biden in his headline speech and portray Democrats is dangerous for America. The campaign official tells CNN that President Trump will join the Vice President at Fort McHenry to honor Medal of Honor recipients and other military veterans and first responders. We're covering it all with Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, and Abby Phillip. Jake, a lot of questions about how much we will hear from the Republicans about what's happening in Kenosha, and this new NBA boycott.", "That's right, Wolf. We're told that Vice President Pence will address one of those issues and I'm not sure how it will land exactly given the breaking news. We were told that Pence intends to try to tie Biden and the Democrats to the violence in Kenosha, the arson and the vandalism, despite the fact that just today, Biden condemned, quote, \"needless violence\" stemming from those demonstrations. And perhaps more importantly, last night, someone shot and killed two people at protests -- two apparent protesters. What if it happens that it turns out that the killer has far right or conservative beliefs? Now, we don't know that yet, but with so much up in the air, might that complicate what Pence and Republicans will say tonight about violence. I'm also interested as to what if anything we hear from Mr. Pence about the coronavirus on the day that we learn the White House is pressuring the C.D.C. into issuing weaker testing guidelines. Pence is of course the head of the Coronavirus Taskforce fighting a pandemic than under any objective measure. According to health experts, the United States has failed to contain in comparison with other Western wealthy countries. And Dana, Republicans seem quite eager to move on from the coronavirus pandemic, instead they are trying to focus on law and order.", "Of course, because Jake, they believe that it is one of if not the driving issue in the battle for votes in the suburbs, particularly women who could be the deciders in this election and Republicans argue that the violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin with that as a backdrop to their convention, that it plays right into their law and order message, no matter what. And tonight, we are going to hear from the head of a Police Union that endorsed the President and expect him to say that Mr. Trump is a defender of the police while acknowledging the need to hold bad cops accountable. And of course, Republicans will keep painting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as anti-law enforcement, which the Biden campaign insists, is patently false and a scare tactic. And Abby, this racial justice issue is so potent as a wedge issue, and we're seeing it on display today. This new NBA boycott and of course, we're going to look ahead to Republicans trying to double down on their criticism of athletes who started taking a knee -- what -- four years ago?", "Yes, four years ago to the day and Dana, we expect to hear multiple Republicans denounce athletes who refuse to stand for the National Anthem, and they'll try to tie Black Lives Matter protests to the anarchy they claim will unfold if Joe Biden is elected. We know the Republicans are featuring a few sports figures tonight including a former football player who is now running for Congress in Utah, Burgess Owens. He is expected to hit Joe Biden on race. And tonight, we are seeing a stark divide on display in America between the messages being delivered at the Republican Convention and the support for racial justice in the sports world. If anything sums that up, it may be this tweet by NBA superstar LeBron James saying, \"Eff this man. We demand change. Sick of it\" -- Anderson.", "Let's get the latest right now from Kenosha. CNN's Omar Jimenez is there for us. Omar, some very disturbing developments as the city is now under curfew for another night. What are you seeing?", "Well, right now, Anderson, we actually just finished up a press conference with the Wisconsin Attorney General, Josh Kaul who actually gave us insight into where we are in regards to the investigation over the officer that shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back a few days ago now. Now for one, he did identify the officer, Officer Rustin Sheskey, who is a seven-year veteran of the Kenosha Police Department here. We also learned that at the very beginning of what they put out to us, it was a little bit -- dispatched over calls of a woman's boyfriend who was on the scene who was not supposed to be there. Now, we actually asked the Attorney General whether that quote-unquote \"boyfriend\" was actually Jacob Blake and they would not answer that question. Now, another aspect that they honed in on when they gave us this new information. They also say, this is the Department of Criminal Investigation and the Wisconsin D.O.J. leading this, they say that Jacob Blake told them that he did have a knife in his possession. However, they did not elaborate and we do not know at what point throughout the interaction that we saw play on the cell phone video he either had one or didn't. They did say they did recover a knife from the floorboard of the driver's side of his car and then they also laid out the process of what we are looking at, at this point. The Attorney General's Office is the lead investigator on this case within the Department of Criminal Investigation. They are trying to get and complete one within 30 days, they tell us. At that point they will then refer it to the Kenosha County prosecutors or District Attorney's Office, at which point they will decide whether charges are to be filed or not. They also told us that the U.S. Department of Justice is also looking at the facts in this as well and potentially considering opening a parallel investigation to look at any Federal charges as well. But of course, all this comes after nights in a row of pain and emotion expressed to people in the community and even last night, at times, growing violent in the deadly form -- Anderson.", "Yes, two people dying. Omar Jimenez, more to come. We'll talk to you shortly. Also breaking, Hurricane Laura closing in on the Gulf Coast. It is an extremely dangerous and powerful storm. It is now nearly a Category Five storm with winds up 150 miles per hour. The National Hurricane Center is warning what it calls -- their word -- un-survivable storm surge of more than 15 feet that could push inland for up to 40 miles. Gary Tuchman is in Lake Charles, Louisiana for us, but first, the latest forecast from meteorologist Tom Sater -- Tom.", "Anderson, we're looking right now of an update in the last hour where the pressure has been dropping, which means Laura is still getting stronger, and the winds have increased from 145 to 150 miles per hour. That's only seven miles per hour away from a Category Five. But those that decided to hold out and hang through this are not going to know the difference. Laura is joining an elite group, a small elite group of hurricanes that are infamous for their tragic loss of life and property, taking the same path as Rita in 2005. Rita, took of course the loss of life, precious lives, but also left in its wake $18 billion worth in economic losses. That was 15 years ago. This is moving in with such a force still looking between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. It is going to change topography. It is going to alter the coastline. It's going to create inlets that dissolve away some of the barrier islands, but it looks like it's making its way just to the east of the border and again between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. I fear the pictures we see tomorrow morning, Anderson, are going to be absolutely jaw dropping.", "Well, we will be following this very closely all throughout the night. Let's go to Gary Tuchman who is in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Gary, what's it like there now?", "Well, Anderson, this was a tropical storm yesterday. Now, a catastrophic 150 mile per hour hurricane is on its way to Lake Charles, Louisiana. You know, people who live on the Gulf Coast, they are hurricanes savvy, but man, this intensification has been shocking. And frankly and understandably, people are very scared. Emergency officials are saying there can be catastrophic storm surges of up to 20 feet from the coast to our south to the Interstate 10 corridor to our north. That overpass over there, that's Interstate 10 to our north. This river right here, they are expecting record setting flooding levels on this river. We expect that this beach that we're standing on tomorrow morning will no longer exist. There is a mandatory evacuation order in effect here in Lake Charles, population 75,000. The fact is, though, and people are abiding by it, we don't see anyone wandering around, but we've never had in modern history, a pandemic and hurricane season at the same time. So many people are afraid to leave their homes. They're boarding up their homes. They're staying in their houses and they're hoping for the best -- Anderson.", "And, Gary, be careful. As we get closer to the start of the Republican Convention, we are getting new reporting about President Trump's response to the unrest in Wisconsin. Also hear how Vice President Pence frames the protests and attacks Joe Biden in his convention speech tonight."], "speaker": ["ERIN BURNETT, CNN HOST", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "ABBY PHILLIP, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "TOM SATER, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "COOPER", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-371321", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2019-06-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/03/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "President Trump Welcomed By The Royal Family; Sen. Julian Castro (D-TX) Is Interviewed About His Presidential Run And His Talking Points About Certain Issues", "utt": ["Now that is something worthy of repeating. Thank you for watching. \"CNN TONIGHT\" with D. Lemon right now.", "We were like, say what? Did he say if the president was more of a queen? You said more like a queen.", "More like the queen, D. Lemon, the queen. Look at you. Don't hurt yourself laughing at your own jokes, D. Lemon.", "Well, that would be better -- I mean, that would be better too. I mean, I feel the same way you feel, sorry.", "You are something. Listen, I'm just saying, I'm not a royal person, I'm not an Anglophile but I do think he could learn something, and he seems to love them. I just wonder if it's the right reason.", "I feel the same way about royalty. Like, I don't get the whole thing. I'm not enamored with it. I don't get it. I did enjoy going to Meghan Markle's wedding. I thought that was -- or at least covering it being over there. It was interesting. But I get it. I think it would be better, too, if he at least would show some dignity. He shows no dignity. He has no couth, he has no dignity, he has no class. Money does not buy class. If he did, he would not act the way he does. He would not -- he wouldn't be -- there wouldn't be a controversy about calling someone nasty. People with dignity don't do that. People with class don't do that. You don't say, omit her comments. Still, don't do it. You're the president of the United States, you should be above that. You shouldn't be calling people, like the mayor of London, what did he say, a total loser or whatever. I did that -- actually, I didn't do that. I knew people around me who did it in grade school. So, I just think it's --", "It's so unlike where he grew up too. I have to tell you.", "Really?", "We had A.G. Holder on, another Queens guy. Yes, they grew up in --", "Do you think --", "But it was -- it was Queens. And I have to tell you, I'm telling you, you did not run your mouth like that. If you were the big man, if you were proud of yourself, if you felt good about yourself, if you were confident, you never punched down. You never punch down. That's why I let you say whatever you want. I'm not going to smack you around like I could because, you know, it's not what the bigger man does. He never acts like the bigger man. Don't tell me you're scrappy again.", "By the way, I'm not going to react to --", "Don't react to because you're looking again --", "-- that you'd be looking for a reaction. I'm rubber and you're glue, I mean --", "Whatever.", "You know what I'm saying.", "What I'm saying is, he's going at the mayor of London. Why, why, why take that fight, you're president of the United States. One of you the most powerful man in the world.", "I don't even get it when he tweets about us. Like, why is he tweeting about us. Like, why would you, if I was president of the United States, I'd be like, who, that guy on CNN who has no fashion since in the toupee at 9 o'clock Eastern Time.", "That's me you're talking about.", "Yes, exactly. I would be like, I don't care what he says about me. Who gives a crap? I'm president of the United States.", "Chris Ruddy says that the president was standing next to the queen and start talking about coming on our somehow.", "yes, right next to the queen and he's like, go on the show. But then he disparages CNN because he gets there and he's like, wait a minute. He forgets the worldwide power of CNN, over 200 countries around the world, he likes to think that it's just like maybe the New York Post, which I'm not disparaging the New York Post, which is a local New York paper. He like to -- he probably thinks it's an American institution and then all of a sudden, he gets out of America and he is reminded of the power and the presence of CNN all over the world and he can't stand it. It drives him crazy.", "So much so that he calls for the boycott of a company. You know, we've not seen an American president do that before.", "Yes.", "There are certain examples of people doing things in wartime, but not like this. John Kennedy, President Kennedy did cancel his subscription to a newspaper because he was pissed off at what they were saying about him.", "Come on.", "But to boycott a company 268,000 people and they'll say he's just joking. When does the president have to be start being responsible for his own mouth, you know.", "Yes. Everyone is always making excuses for him. He didn't mean to say that. This is what it meant. They call it Trump-splaining. And we're going to talk about that a little bit more. Just good, old fashioned gaslighting. Thank you, my brother. I'll see you -- did you get your boat fixed?", "Nope.", "Nope.", "You love that, though, didn't you? D. Lemon --", "No, I felt bad for you.", "Right be up by me being towed.", "Can I tell you -- can I them what happened? So, we're coming back this weekend, and I'm driving back with my fiance and the dogs and we're like, is that Chris and he's got Sito (Ph) is pulling them into the harbor.", "They were great. Loved Sito. The guy was great. It was amazing how he throws my boat around like it was in his hip pocket. But man, that's --", "I haven't had to use them yet.", "It's not the biggest man in the room I met. I thought my son was going to jump into your boat. He was like, Don.", "No, no. It happens. Listen, it happens. And you should --", "Sucks when it's you.", "I was not happy seeing that.", "You were trying to be nice about it. You're like these are rich people problems.", "I can say that.", "It feel a lot worse. It's not like I got cancer. This sucks right now. Anyway, do your show, pal.", "I'll see you later. Take it easy. Have a good night. This is CNN TONIGHT. I'm Don Lemon. You know, for a president who would like to believe that he is royalty this trip has got to be right up his alley, the pomp, the pageantry, the president toasted by the queen herself.", "Ladies and gentlemen, I invite you all to rise and drink a toast to President and Mrs. Trump, to the continued friendship between our two nations and to the health, prosperity and happiness of the people of the United States.", "There may be no one this president would rather stand next to than the queen. He's been impressed by the British royals since he was six years old. In the \"Art of the Deal,\" as a matter of fact, Donald Trump tells a story of his mother, his mother who was an immigrant from Scotland who worked as a housekeeper for a time, riveted by watching Queen Elizabeth's coronation on TV. So, it's no surprise that the president would like to believe that he is a big hit on this trip in particular. Tweeting that. \"There were tremendous crowds of well-wishers,\" and that he didn't see any protests. OK, there's a reason for that, because the streets were cleared by security before the Trump motorcade passed through. But President Trump started his trip to the U.K. with insults. OK, in fact, before Air Force One even touched down the president tweeted an insult at London's mayor, calling Sadiq Khan a, quote, \"stone cold loser\" for being foolishly nasty to the visiting President of the United States. And speaking of nasty, there's more. Listen to what the president told Rupert Murdoch Sun's newspaper about Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex.", "Meghan, who's now the Duchess of Sussex --", "Right.", "Look, we've given her a different name. She can't make it because she's got maternity leave. Are you sorry to see her? Because she wasn't so nice about you during the campaign. I don't know if you saw that.", "I didn't know that, no.", "Yes.", "No, I didn't know that. No, I hope she's OK. I did not know that, no.", "She said she'd move to Canada if you got elected. Turned out she moved to Britain.", "Well, I think that, there are a lot of people moving here. So, what can I say? No, I didn't know that she was nasty.", "But you didn't hear him say that. The president would like you to believe that he didn't say what you heard him say about Meghan Markle, tweeting that \"never called her nasty.\" He did. Putting his people out to make excuses and trying to rewrite history. That should be no surprise if they're trying to gaslight you, after all, this is a president who told you this.", "And just remember what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening.", "And the president isn't the only one, OK, trying to gaslight you. Trying to convince you to ignore what you've seen with your own eyes and what you've heard with your own ears. So, this is his son-in- law. I want you to listen to his son-in-law, also senior adviser as well, Jared Kushner in an interview with Axios.", "Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez she calls, she has called President Trump a racist. Have you ever seen him say or do anything that you would describe as racist or bigoted?", "So, the answer is, no, absolutely not, you can't not be a racist for 69 years and then run for president and then be a racist. And what I'll say is that when a lot of the Democrats the president a racist I think they're doing a disservice to people who suffer because of real racists in this country.", "Was birtherism racist?", "Look, I wasn't really involved in that.", "I know you weren't. Was it racist?", "Like I said, I wasn't involved in that.", "I know you weren't. Was it racist?", "Look, I know who the president is and I have not seen anything in him that is racist. So, again, I was not involved in that.", "Did you wish he didn't do that?", "Like I said, I was not involved in that. That was a long time ago.", "Wow. That was a tap dance. I wasn't involved in that. Was birtherism racist? Of course, it was racist, Jared, you know it was, come on. It wasn't such a long time ago and, in fact, the president reportedly still believes the birther lie, behind closed doors, that's what we're told. Now, let's never forget, this is a president who said this about deadly white supremacist violence in Charlottesville.", "People that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group, excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did.", "The president who doubled down on it again and again. This is a man who danced around the question of whether he disavowed David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan.", "Well, just so you understand, I don't know what you think about David Duke, OK? I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So, I don't know. I mean, I don't know did he endorse me or what's going on? Because, you know, I know nothing about David Duke, I know nothing about white supremacists. So, you're asking me a question that I'm supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about. Honestly, I don't know David Duke. I believe I've never met him, I'm pretty sure I didn't meet him. And I just don't know anything about him.", "There is an interview from, I think it was NBC, years before where he talks about David Duke. But he doesn't know anything about him. This is the president who called African nations shit hole countries, who called NFL players who kneeled to protest racial injustice sons of bitches. And I could go on and on, but I only have so much show. Jared Kushner is trying to gaslight you, the president is trying to gaslight you. Remember when he told me this?", "Are you racist?", "I am the least racist person that you have ever met, I am the least racist person.", "Are you bigoted in any way?", "I don't think so. No, I don't think so.", "That's what the president wants you to believe, he wants to gaslight you. He's trying his very best to gaslight you. Are you letting him get away with it? Are you going to believe him or are you going to believe what you have seen with your own eyes and what you have heard with your own ears? Gaslighting. In the midst of all the royal pomp, circumstance, the president is really barging into British politics and breaking diplomatic norms and he's got another big day ahead of him. We're going to dig into that with Mehdi Hasan, Susan Glasser, and Michael D'Antonio, panel next."], "speaker": ["CHRIS CUOMO, CNN HOST", "DON LEMON, CNN HOST", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "QUEEN ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM", "LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TRUMP", "LEMON", "TRUMP", "LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "JARED KUSHNER, SENIOR ADVISER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KUSHNER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KUSHNER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KUSHNER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KUSHNER", "LEMON", "TRUMP", "LEMON", "TRUMP", "LEMON", "LEMON", "LEMON", "LEMON", "TRUMP", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-19481", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-11-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/07/ee.06.html", "summary": "Gans: Nothing in This Elections Should Turn 40-Year Trend of Declining Turnout", "utt": ["Despite millions of dollars spent in get-out-the-vote campaigns across the country, and a close presidential race, many political observers expect relatively low voter turnout today. To talk about turnout and its impact on the presidential race is Curtis Gans. He is a voter turnout analyst. And Mr. Gans, we thank you for coming back. We talked with you I believe it was last week about this. I don't know if you were able to hear of the comments that we've gotten from people with the campaigns. They were saying that they believe that voter turnout is going to be higher this time around than '96. You don't believe so.", "The answer is, you know, nobody knows. We have this one day every two years when -- and I think it's a wonderful thing -- when the American people will tell their story. All of us so-called experts are going to be on the sidelines.", "All right, so from where you have been, what are you seeing right now?", "You can't see anything. Somewhere around 11:00 tonight, we will be count votes against previous years' votes. All the long- term indicators point to lower turnout. But we do have this incredibly close race, and millions of dollars being spent on get-out- the-vote activities. I wouldn't be shocked if turnout went up 2 percentage points, I wouldn't be shocked if it went down 2 percentage points. We are getting reports from California's secretary of state that he expects the highest turnout in 20 years. We are getting reports from the Georgia election officials that they are likely to have the lowest turnout since the Voting Right Act. Nobody really knows. It is right now in the hands of the people.", "Well you said 2 percent either way. Is that considered to be a large margin or a large break either way?", "No, it is not a large break. I mean, we have had a 40- year trend of declining turnout, and by in large, unless turnout really surges, nothing in this election is changing that. Most people -- we have voter interest levels in the polls go at about the level of '96 and '88, which were our lowest turnouts, you know, since 1924. We have the lowest viewership of debates and the conventions. We have a South, which used to have -- be moving up in turnout, which is trending lower. All these indicators tend to point to lower turnout, but we do have this incredibly tight race. And maybe toward the end, it piqued voter interest, and maybe these mobilization activities in the 17 battleground states will have an effect on turnout.", "Let me ask you about the weather because, when we talked last week, you were saying that the Democrats are usually hurt when the weather is bad. From what we've seen in our reports this morning, of the seven or so key battleground states, it looks like weather is going to bad in five or six of them. Some of these states, though, are in the north. Do you think that theory is going to hold true there, even though these folks are a little hardier than folks down South are, and are more used to inclement weather?", "Actually I didn't put forward that thesis. By in large, I don't think weather has a lot to do with it, if people are motivated. In 1992, when people were motivated, people in Georgia spent two hours in the rain on line waiting to vote. The only place that I think weather will have an effect is in the Dakotas, where you are going to have heavy snow. By in large, if people want to vote, they will brave the rain. And I don't think it is going to have an effect either on turnout or on partnership, except in North and South Dakota.", "All right, we will see how things turnout. I apologize if I got your interview mixed up with another one. But, as you can imagine, we've done tons of these discussions about this kind of...", "I know.", "Well, listen, thanks much for your time this morning, Mr. Gans, hope to talk to you again later on.", "You're welcome."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "CURTIS GANS, VOTER TURNOUT ANALYST", "HARRIS", "GANS", "HARRIS", "GANS", "HARRIS", "GANS", "HARRIS", "GANS", "HARRIS", "GANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-68350", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2003-3-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/21/lt.08.html", "summary": "Evening Prayers Underway in Kuwait", "utt": ["Evening prayers underway in Kuwait tonight. Of course, it is nightfall in Kuwait. Gary Tuchman standing by in Kuwait City to share with us some of the conversations he's had with Kuwaitis and their reaction to the beginning of this campaign. Gary?", "Paula, hello to you. We've seen the reports. We've seen the video of protests outside of mosques throughout the Muslim world. That is certainly not the case here at the Al Shirazi (ph) Mosque, in downtown Kuwait City. Consider this obvious fact, this is the country that was invaded by Iraq back in 1990. This is the country that over the last two days has had nine frightening missile alerts. So, many of the people who went into the mosque tonight on this holy day, Friday to pray tonight, were very content. As a matter of fact, very enthusiastic in many cases about the war that's going on an hour and a half away from them, here in Kuwait City. With us two of those gentleman, Abdullah (ph) and Adil (ph). Abdullah (ph), when you just came out of the mosque, tell me what you prayed inside the mosque, regarding for this war?", "I pray to save Kuwait and the people of Kuwait and to save the troops, the American troops and British troops. And to let Saddam Hussein and his gang, and to liberate Iraq from these -- from this gang.", "You use the word gang. It is interesting, because Saddam Hussein and his government purposely use the word gangsters to describe the U.S. administration.", "So, they are a gang, seriously. And I hope that the people of Iraq liberated from them.", "Adil (ph), what did you, when you were in there praying, what did you pray for?", "I prayed Allah to save the people of Kuwait. And hopefully the soldiers of Kuwait and soldiers of the United States when they are fighting against the tyrant, Saddam Hussein. Hopefully to have a fast victory and shallah (ph).", "Huge protests outside of other mosques, in other parts of the Muslim world. What do you think about that?", "They are protesting -- I mean, there are very few people that are protesting against the war. But mostly we need this war just to get rid of -", "One other --", "We've lost Gary Tuchman in the middle of that report. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-362183", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-02-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/16/cnr.21.html", "summary": "Rising Popularity of Backcountry Skiing", "utt": ["It is winter in the Northern Hemisphere. The snow has been piling up all season. Ski resorts in North America but many are ditching the long lines for a unique experience.", "We know someone that just did that. Meteorologist Derek Van Dam found a way to turn his love of snowboarding in the backcountry into a really cool story for us.", "-- snowboarding with meteorology, right?", "Why not?", "Backcountry skiing and snowboarding is anywhere outside of the resort. You know, every time this time of year, I get excited about the potential of snow, how deep it will get. I'm not the only one out there. I found an answer to this winter addiction that I have. You need to see this. By the way, I'm the guy in the yellow and the brown jacket. Take a look.", "As a meteorologist, I thought I had the inside track on when the snow would dump. But here with the Steamboat Powdercats, they know when the big snow is coming. So we have perfect conditions for backcountry skiing and snowboarding. Come on.", "The allure of backcountry skiing comes from people's desire to skip the long lines at resorts while virtually guaranteeing the deepest, softest, powdery turns one can imagine. But traversing untouched mountainous terrain comes with its challenges. That's why Steamboat Powdercats enlists expert guides and specialized machinery to transport the customers to the best snow of their lives.", "I guess I'd liken a Sno-Cat to have a bulldozer on track so that we can move through deep powder without getting stuck so to speak.", "It is no coincidence that Northwest Colorado consistently receives some of the highest snowfall totals in the state.", "Buff Pass (ph) is known for having some really special orographics. It's one of the deeper snow packs throughout the state of Colorado.", "This is a trademark champagne powder they keep talking about, low density and high fluff and maximum fun.", "Nice.", "As if skiing perfect snow all day long wasn't enough, there's even a gourmet meal and a warm drink waiting for us at this private cabin deep in the wilderness. The 11 others who joined me on this adventure clearly knew what they were doing. Me, on the other hand, could have benefited from another day on the mountain.", "We'll be back after the break."], "speaker": ["HOWELL", "ALLEN", "DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "ALLEN", "VAN DAM", "VAN DAM", "VAN DAM (voice-over)", "BRITNI JOHNSON, STEAMBOAT POWDERCATS", "VAN DAM (voice-over)", "JOHNSON", "VAN DAM", "VAN DAM", "VAN DAM (voice-over)", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-114642", "program": "CNN IN THE MONEY", "date": "2007-2-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/17/cnnitm.01.html", "summary": "Green Activist Out to Break Link Between Poverty and Pollution", "utt": ["Welcome to a special edition of IN THE MONEY, uncovering America. A look at diversity in the workplace. I'm Carol Costello. Coming up on today's program. Turn up the heat; America is supposed to be the world's melting pot. See why is diversity in business is taking so long to sink in. Plus skin deep, the way your body looks can affect the salary you get. Kind of like things you can't control matter so much on payday. A breath of fresh air, meet a green activist who is out to break the link between poverty and pollution. We will hear about how she's changing a New York neighborhood. I'm here today with IN THE MONEY regulars, Jennifer Westhoven and Allen Wastler and I'm happy to be here. Because it is a cool show. American business has come a long way toward diversity in just a few short decades, but despite all that progress, companies are still falling shorts of the mark. If that's surprising what is even more remarkable, is that it is taking so long to do something so simple. For a look at what is going on we're joined from Atlanta by Beverly Daniel Tatum, she is the president of Spellman College, a clinical psychologist and the author of \"Why are all the Black Kids Sitting together in the Cafeteria.\" Welcome.", "Thank you, I'm glad to be here.", "I can't believe we're still talking about this, you would think by there time we have it together?", "Sometimes we overrate our own progress. One of the things we don't acknowledge very often but our society continues to be pretty racially isolated. People live in segregated neighborhoods and our students go to segregated schools.", "Beverly, being a white male on the panel, I'm going to go ahead and address this. When the subject of diversity comes up, intellectually I understand all the arguments, but there is a little piece of my psyche that gets a little bit defensive and a little bit angry about why are with talking about this? Is there something wrong with me? And I imagine that's a big factor in how America looks at the subject and how it is really addressed in the workplace. You're a clinical psychologist, am I nuts?", "No, I think your comment is right on the money in terms of what people often feel. Often it is the sense of what about me? Am I being left out? Where do I fit in? If I'm a white man where do I fit into this diversity conversation? But, of course, we all fit in because we all contribute to the diversity of the workplace. One thing we have to understand is how our own identity interfaces with those of other people and how we've been socialized to think about that. That's part of the conversation.", "How do you get away from the thought that companies are hiring an African-American just simply because they're African-American? In Michigan the voters voted against an affirmative action. Some people are really angry about this.", "First of all, I think it is important to say that companies are not supposed to hire somebody just because of their race. They're supposed to hire them because they have the qualifications for the position. Now certainly when you're evaluating candidates and you're looking for diversity in your organization and you find candidates that have the qualifications and then also add to your diversity, it makes sense to hire in that way. But I think that the vote in Michigan and other kinds of affirmative what we might call anti-affirmative action initiatives have often been couched in such a way that people don't always clearly understand what it is that they're voting for.", "Your book \"Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria.\" Does that also apply to the workplace? Are all the black executives sitting together at the cafeteria? All the Latinos executives sitting together? And is they are is that good or is that bad, what does that mean?", "Well certainly in a lot of workplaces, if you walk into the cafeteria you'll find people clustered along racial or ethnic lines. One of the things that people sometimes ask, is this a bad thing? I like to say it depends; it can be a positive thing to connect with people who are sharing your experience. Some companies create those opportunities intentionally. Whether it is the women's network or the African-American network, or the Latina Organization. Creating opportunities for people who have shared experiences to connect with one another is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact it can be helpful to retention, and recumbent efforts. But it is also important to create opportunities for people to engage across lines so they're working effectively in diverse groups, contributing to the bottom line of the business and its success.", "Well how are we doing right now, Beverly? Are we doing a good job of that. I mean Corporate America, is American business doing a good job of that or do we just have some isolated examples where companies do well and some others do so-so.", "I think certainly a range. Every year Diversity Inc. comes out with a ranking of universities and businesses that are doing a good job of diversity and those issues. But one of the things that I was going to say as it relates to that is that leadership makes a huge difference. When you have strong leadership at the top, you'll find that companies are able to make the changes that they need to be more effective in terms of the diversity efforts. Where the leadership is absent, you don't see such good results. It really depends upon the leadership. But one of the things we have to acknowledge, it is not just what happens at work, it also what happens at school and in the environment. Workplaces are, are reflection of what is happening in the wider society. Certainly businesses can be leaders and as we've talked about, they provide a unique opportunity for people to connect across racial lines because there are not that many opportunities outside of the workplace for that to happen in today's society still.", "Lots to mull over. Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spellman College thanks for joining us today.", "My pleasure.", "When we come back, cash for change. See how companies are spending to make the workplace more inclusive. 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{"id": "CNN-226480", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-3-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/11/nday.03.html", "summary": "Yanukovych Claims He is Still Ukrainian President; Putin, Kerry Do Not Meet", "utt": ["Welcome back. No backing down for ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. I (sic) spoke a little earlier this morning from his exile in Russia. He says he is still the president despite an interim government currently in place. Now, this comes as Russia's lower parliament says it will discuss Crimea joining the country. Crimea declares it's forming its own army to defend itself. Let's talk about this with Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent. So Christiane, first, just good morning to you.", "Good morning, Brooke.", "I want to get to this canceled Kerry-Putin meeting in just a second. But first, just on Yanukovych, we see him, you know, flanked in Russia by Ukrainian flags. Tell me, at this point, who is listening to him?", "Well, look obviously the Russians are upping the ante. I mean, again, Yanukovych is not in Moscow. We're not sure how much coordination between he and the Kremlin. But clearly with this whole upping the ante of the referendum being drawn up much earlier than anticipating with even more sort of Russian-based news and information being fed into Crimea, and with all these sort of illegal machinations around their parliament and all sorts of issues that they're doing, this is simply upping the ante. He came out today and incredibly said that he was still the president, that he would be going back to Kiev, he said, just as soon as humanly possible. This, of course, as the new interim prime minister of Ukraine, Turchynov, is going to be in Washington meeting with members of the U.S. administration tomorrow. So clearly these, you know, war of words and war of righteousness, if you like, being waged in public. And Yanukovych also said he threatened to bring his claims right to Washington, to the Supreme Court and members of Congress as well as the administration because he said that the Ukraine interim government is illegal and it shouldn't be helped by the United States. So this is the atmosphere.", "You mentioned the Ukrainian leader meeting with President Obama. That happens tomorrow. A meeting that did not happen, we've now learned, is between Vladimir Putin and also U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. That was supposed to happen yesterday. Hearing from Kerry, he was basically saying he needs to know that Russia's willing to come to the table, you know, take their diplomatic solutions seriously. So here we are. What's the next move?", "Well, this is an extraordinary development in the annals of diplomacy that both sides are being briefing and leaking against each other, and it seems now that the Russians are trying to humiliate Secretary Kerry in releasing and making public some of this conversation. Obviously, the United States and Europe are trying to figure out ways, not only to make it more difficult for Putin -- in other words, here in London today, members of the U.S. and EU officials are discussing increased sanctions on Russia but not on Putin, on other individuals and other entities. And also, they've got to figure out a way to try to get President Putin to climb down from this mountain of righteous indignation that he has managed to put across and attempt to claim Crimea. They have to figure out a way to makes sure that Crimea has enhanced (ph) autonomy, some kind of interim solution to make it less bad than it is right now. Because if indeed what happens during the referendum does happen, that's going to be much, much more difficult for the U.S. to then get all sides to pull back.", "Just quickly, let's assume that Putin will not climb down that mountain. I mean, what then? What greater overarching --", "Well, look. Let's be very frank. There's no massive measure to stop him. There's no military or martial measure whatsoever to stop him. There's only diplomacy and economic pressure. Vali Nasr, who used to be a State Department official is now dean at Johns Hopkins has written a very interesting article about pressure that could be brought in the energy front. For instance, the U.S. has all this natural gas and energy. Perhaps laws need to be rewritten to be able to export that. And yes, it might take time to get it to Europe, whose biggest producer and supplier is Russia. But perhaps you can do it on floating barges, et cetera. Plus perhaps Iran, if it comes in from the cold and this nuclear deal is signed, which is desperate to export its large, huge reserves of oil and natural gas, could make up for the Russian supply to Europe. This is what it's all about, Brooke. Putin thinks he has Europe by the short and curlies because of their dependence on oil and natural gas.", "Christiane Amanpour, we'll be watching all of these countries interwoven, the diplomacy, and, of course, again, the referendum in Crimea five days away now. Christiane, thank you so much. Chris?", "All right, Brooke, coming up on NEW DAY, has Obamacare reached turning point? Before you throw something at the television, hear what is in a brand new CNN poll on the topic. Plus, why is the president being interviewed by a comedian? Inside politics is next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "AMANPOUR", "BALDWIN", "AMANPOUR", "BALDWIN", "AMANPOUR", "BALDWIN", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-303573", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-01-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/20/nday.02.html", "summary": "Donald Trump Become America's 45th President; Trump TO Meet With President Obama At White House; Democrats Vow Threaten To Stall Trump Cabinet Nominees.", "utt": ["Only hours away, President elect Donald John Trump will meet with President Obama at the White House before the inauguration. The two men are going to ride together from the White House to the U.S. Capitol. It wasn't always that way but it is that way today. They're going to discuss in this historic moment, who knows. Let's discuss with Senior Political Adviser to President Obama, Dan Pfeiffer. This is an interesting day. You saw it on the other side.", "Right.", "You knew what it was like to come in and those expectations. So give us a sense of where the Trump people are when they come to this meeting. Because you know that side.", "Right.", "And then we'll talk about how you feel President Obama will leave this day.", "I think people don't fully understand what it's like when we have a transition of power for the White House staff. They will see their president -- their boss give a speech, accept the -- accept the Oath of Office. Get it in a -- go hop on a bus, go to the White House and they will walk in. It would be empty. They'll be logged -- first log with their password by the computer and they'll be in-charge of the worlds. And it is a -- like, you know that and they tell you that in the briefing but until you get there and realized that if something happens anywhere in the world; a natural disaster, international incident and economic problem. That's on you.", "What was the first thing you did when you sat down there?", "Try to log in to my computer.", "Successfully?", "Barely. Yes.", "I mean, that is staggering. I mean, phrasing it that way and helping everybody understand the weight of the world literally. That is staggering. What happens this morning when the new president comes to the White House and the old president welcomes him and the first ladies. What is that exchange? What did they talk about?", "I think it, you know, that White House will be basically empty. Almost all of the staff other than a tiny skeleton -- they had their last day yesterday. So, it would be -- it's mostly a social calling. And it's a moment that, sort of, soaking the history. That would be the last time that, you know, the Obama's walked out of that building, you know, as president and first lady. I think the president will -- I'm guessing here, but he will do what he (inaudible) continue to take the responsibility of the smooth transition of power very seriously. If Mr. Trump wants any advice, I think president would offer that. But, you know,to give -- they give him the support that George H. W. Bush gave President Obama when he came in.", "And where do you think the outgoing president's head is?It seems to be a little bit of feel of isolation. You know, he comes out. There's a conciliatory. We're doing everything we can and then he writes a letter. That seems to have more of an admonition in it. He seems to have feelings about what he doesn't want to see happen as much as what he does want to see happen. What can you say?", "I had the -- I had the opportunity to talk to the president about this on Thursday. A chance to go to the White House for our last day. See lots of former colleagues. And it - I mean, he -- and he was very -- what he's saying privately is what he said publicly in his speech in Chicago last week. Is he has very real concerns about surge in real threats to our democracy. Donald Trump is -- this is a symptom of those threats necessarily . Not the exact threat, not the threat in and out of itself. But having said that, it's very important for the president that the White Housework and the government work. And in order to do that he has to get all the support he can to help them succeed. Because we are -- there's going to be partisan battles on immigration,Affordable Care Act. But when a disaster happens, when something happens to the world. You need that building to work and for -- and government can't work if the White House doesn't work. So he has instructed -- he's taken that role with President-elect Trump. He has instructed his staff, take that role with their staff. To try to do what they can to give them the best start they can.", "I don't know, Dan. It's hard to know,I think, where President Obama's head is. Because he privately says things to you and he seems to be issuing an admonition. But then publicly, he also says it's going to be OK to America. He had said many times, \"Everybody is going to be OK. It's going to be OK.\" And it's hard to know if he's just saying that. If he feels that. He also said they had very constructive conversation. It would be great to know what those are.", "Well, you know, obviously I'm not going to talk about the conversation with the president and President-elect Trump as he's not talked about those publicly. I think those conversation had been more productive and constructive that you would guess given the history of this -- when the two men given the -- say the nature of the election. Look we-- you want America to succeed. You want to give -- you want President-elect Trump to have the opportunities to lead the country in a way that allows everything to work for the American people. We'll have ideological battles but George W. Bush and his team went out of their way in -- to do a transition in the most professional and classy way possible. And President Obama believes he owes that to President Trump.", "So on that note and with the nod towards history. What do you make of what's going on with the confirmation process right now?The Republicans will say, \"We gave you guys -- we gave the Obama people, seven, eight of their main ones within a day or two of him taking office. You're tryingto delay ours. It's not fair.\"", "Well, we had our paperwork in order, right? That probably the -- Trump had determine even the most (inaudible) source to say has been bumpy and best. And the ethics paper works -- Mitch McConnell laid down a set of very specific things, he wanted before our nominees be confirmed. We adhered to that. The Trump team has not done that. They're behind in that way and it's even more important in the sense that they have very -- that he's appointed people who have been very successful in business. They have a large number of potential conflicts of interest and that paperwork has not been done.", "So you think it's pro forma not political?", "I think -- look there's always politics in this town.", "Right.", "But there's a real substantive reasons for why this is proceeding at the pace that it has that are different from 2009.", "Dan Pfeiffer, a little bittersweet for you today.", "Absolutely. Absolutely.", "Thank you for the insight. Appreciate it.", "Thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "So when Donald Trump takes the Oath of Office. He will do so without most of his Cabinet in place. The Senate is expected to vote today on the confirmation of Mr. Trump'sDefense and Homeland Security Secretary. Let's discuss this and more. The Senior Congressional Correspondent for the Washington Examiner and host of the podcast Examining Politics, David Drucker and CNN Political Analyst and Washington bureau chief for The Daily Beast, Jackie Kucinich. Great to see both of you.", "Good morning.", "So, he won't have much of his Cabinet in place. Does that a calls for concern?", "I don't think so. Look, I think one of the things that works in his favor is the Democrats cannot filibuster his nominees. All right. They don't have the votes. They don't have 60 votes.", "Remind people why.", "Well, because a couple of years ago, 2014, then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, decided that they were tired of what they deemed as unfair Republican obstruction. And so they used what we called in town, The Nuclear Option. They broke the rules of the senate. Meaning they used fewer votes to change the rules than what the rules said. Now these are the rules of the Senate not the Constitution. So they were perfectly capable of doing so. And they changed the rules so that it only takes 51 votes to confirm an executive branch nominee except for the Supreme Court.", "Supreme Court.", "Thinking the tables would never turn back.", "They were very short sided. Right, Jackie? You remember those --", "That's what McConnell said.", "Right.", "How angry -- by the way, Republicans were not thinking to themselves,\"No big deal. We'll get our revenge in a couple of years.\" They were very angry about it and for the institutionalists on both sides of the alley were very concerned.", "ButMcConnell did give them a,\"You will rue the day.\"", "And they are ruing the day because had they not done that.", "Rue. Rue. Rue.", "All of these nominees that they think are so damaging to the future of the country that they have policy and ethical issues with. They could have had -- they would have the votes to blockthem, hold them up, force concessions from the administration and the Republicans they can't do a thing which is why most of them will sail through even though some of them do have a couple of issues.", "So sail is a little bit -- is a little bit optimistic. They are -- Democrats are going to try to delay this. That's the only thing they can do. They can make it harder. They can make it bumpier. So, particularly for someone like a Rex Tillerson, for example. He has some other arsenals even with Republicans. But there's -- but there's a -- and you saw this actually with Congressman Pompeo, the nominee to be the CIA head. He was supposed to be one of the -- like Kelly and like Mattis. But Senator has a problem with him. So now they're kicking him to next week. So, again, it's prolonging it and making it a little bit more difficult. But doing it right, I mean, at the end of the day.", "Does today help -- I mean, you know, we had a little bit of a bumpy start this morning. But even still there is a an excitement to this day. You know, inauguration comes from the word that means to consecrate. There is a sacredness to this. Forget about, you know, any kind of religious philosophy. This is religion in this country. It's us coming together under a common law. How big is this day?", "(inaudible).", "And could it change a little bit the dynamic once it becomes real entity. DonaldTrump is the President of the United States.", "Well, look, I think it is a very important day and it's a very really wonderful day. In terms of how our democracy works. And in how we celebrate it. And I think people will see President Obama just behind us with President Trump as he is inaugurated and to see the families together and to see the two leaders together, I think, helps diffuse a lot of tensions. However,as we saw eight years ago. It's back to business rather immediately. There are some unresolved issues both emotional and substantive from the campaign that are not going to go away. One area where Trump becoming the actual president today could make a difference is with his National Security Team. You want a president that be able to keep the country safe. Have his National Security Team in place and that could move quicker.", "God, thank you. We will rely on you all day long. Thank you very much. The stage is set on those steps of the Capitol where Mr. Donald Trump will make history today. The crowd are starting to build on the National Mall. 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{"id": "CNN-281243", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2016-04-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/12/ath.02.html", "summary": "The Relationship between Trump, Clintons; Paul Ryan Calling News Conference to Put Presidential Run Rumor \"To Rest\"", "utt": ["A new look this morning at the relationship between the Clintons and Donald Trump. This is a relationship decades in the making. It goes back. The Clinton Presidential Library just released nearly 500 pages of records pertaining to Trump, including birthday cards, briefings on Trump's possible 2000 presidential run, and even this, an autographed copy of \"The Art of the Deal\" addressed to a Clinton aide with the note, \"Your mom is the best.\"", "CNN's Jeremy Diamond is live at the Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas for more. Jeremy, you were there. You were able to see all the documents. What did you find?", "Well, what's really interesting is that President Obama is not the first president to have had to consider how to answer questions about Donald Trump. We saw a couple of briefing books from 1999, October '99. That's interesting because that's when Donald Trump actually announced he was forming a presidential exploratory committee to run, and his aides, the Clinton aides are advising him on how to field questions about whether Clinton's own scandals have contributed, essentially to the celebrity candidates now considering running for president. And we have an interesting one from a briefing book in 1999 where Clinton is advised to respond that this is kind of the way things are, that the media is going to cover it, how it's going to cover it, and that he trusts the American people to essentially sort out the chaff from the wheat. And he's essentially saying he's confident in the way Americans are going to consider candidacies such as Donald Trump.", "Bill Clinton giving media training to Donald Trump. Because Trump has been involved in the media for a long time. Any sense of how close the relationship was or the familiarity --", "That's always been a question.", "-- While Bill Clinton was in the White House?", "In 1996, we have some discussions between Clinton aides, considering whether or not to send a birthday note to Donald Trump just before his birthday in June of 1996. It's interesting because initially they're saying yes, and three days later, there's a note from Clinton's personal secretary saying cancel letter to Trump. It shows the long-standing relationship between them. And it's interesting to note that Donald Trump as he's gearing up for a fight against Hillary Clinton in January, he went after Bill Clinton, talking about him being one of the great women abusers of our time and essentially calling Hillary Clinton a, quote, \"enabler.\" It's interesting to see while Donald Trump had a long-standing relationship with the Clintons going back to at least the 1990s, today he's changed his tune as he's running on the Republican ticket and potentially going to run against Hillary Clinton.", "That relationship has clearly changed from the days of the birthday e-mails, the signed copies of \"The Art of the Deal.\" Jeremy Diamond, in Little Rock, thank you.", "Along those lines, you want a sign of the changed relationship, Donald Trump has a new line of attack against Hillary Clinton, calling her entire life, a quote, \"big, fat, beautiful lie.\" I don't think that Donald Trump will be getting a birthday card from the Clintons going forward. The head of the Democratic National Committee joins us to discuss. Coming up.", "Plus, moments from now, President Obama will be dedicating of a national monument dedicated to women. Don't miss this historic moment. I think we have now. Let's listen in.", "Thank you very much, everybody.", "Thank you.", "Everybody, please have a seat. Have a seat. Hello, everybody.", "Thank you for the introduction. It should be noted that today is Equal Pay Day, which means a woman has to work about this far in 2016 just to earn what a man earned in 2015. What better place to commemorate this day than here at this House where some of our country's most where this history needs to inform the work that remains to be done. I want to thank some of the leaders who have worked to keep this House standing. We have members of Congress, like Barbara Mikulski, who has fought to preserve this site for years and has been the longest- serving woman in the United States Senate.", "Our secretary of the interior, Sally Jewel, and her team as we celebrate the 100th birthday of the National Parks Service this year.", "One of our greatest athletes of all time, one of the earliest advocates for equal pay for professional female athletes and a heroin of mine when I was still young and fancied myself a tennis player --", "And the National Women's Party board of directors, Paige Herrington, the executive director of the House and the museum.", "Over the years, Paige and her staff have built a community, and cared for this House, repairing every cracked pipe and patching every leaked roof. We're grateful for their stewardship. I know it was not easy. Equal pay for equal work should be a fundamental principle of our economy. It's the idea that whether you're a high school teacher, a business executive, or a professional soccer player or tennis player, your work should be equally valued and rewarded, whether you're a man or a woman. It's a simple idea. It's a simple principle. It's one that our leaders of the Democratic caucus in the House, Nancy Pelosi, has been fighting for, for years. But it's one where we still fall short. Today, the typical woman that works full-time earns $.79 for every dollar a man makes. And the gap is wider for a woman of color. A typical black woman makes only $.60, a Latino woman, $0.65 for every dollar a white man earns. Now, if we truly value fairness, then America should be a level playing field where everyone who works hard gets a chance to succeed. That's good for America because we don't want some of our best players on the sidelines. That's why the first bill I signed as president was the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Earlier this year, on the anniversary of this, we began collecting data on pay by gender, race and ethnicity, and this action will strengthen the enforcement of equal pay laws that are already on the books and help employers address pay gaps on their own. And to build on these efforts, Congress needs to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act to put sensible rules in place and makes sure --", "And makes sure employees who discuss their salaries don't face retaliation by their employers. I'm not here just to say we should close the wage gap. I'm here to say we will close the wage gap. If you don't believe me, then --", "If you don't believe we'll close the wage gap, you need to come visit this House --", "This is the story of the National Women's Party whose members fought to have their voices heard. These women first organized in 1912 with little money but big hopes for equality for women all around the world. They wanted an equal say over their children, over their property, their earnings, their inheritance, equal rights to their citizenship, and a say in their government, equal opportunities in schools and universities, workplaces, public service, and, yes, equal pay for equal work. And they understood that the power of their voice in our democracy was the first step in achieving these broader goals. Their leader, Alice Paul, was a brilliant community organizer and political strategist, and she recruited women and men from across the country to join their cause. And they began picketing, seven days a week in front of the White House to demand their right to vote. They were mocked. They were derided. They were arrested. They were beaten. There were forced feedings during hunger strikes, and through all this, women young and old kept marching for suffrage. Kept protesting for suffrage, and in 1920, they won that right. We ratified the 19th Amendment, but the suffragists didn't stop. They moved into this historic House and continued their work. From these rooms, steps away from the capitol, they drafted speeches and letters and legislation. They pushed Congress and fought for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. They advocated for the inclusion of women in the U.N. charter in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They campaigned for women who were running for Congress. This House became a hot bed of activism, a centerpiece for the struggle for equality. A monument to a fight not just for women's equality but ultimately for equality for everybody. One of the things we've learned is that the effort to make sure that everybody is treated fairly is connected. And so today, I'm very proud to designate it as America's newest national monument, the Belmont Paul Women's National Equality Monument, right here in Washington, D.C.", "We do this to help tell the story of the suffragists. In these rooms, they pursued ideals which shouldn't be relegated to the archives of history, shouldn't be behind glass cases, because the story they're fighting is our story. I want young girls and boys to come here, 10, 20, 100 years ago to know women fought for equality. It was not just given to them. I want them to come here and be astonished that there was ever a time when women couldn't vote or a time when women earned less than men for being the same work. I want them to be astonished that there was a time when women were outnumbered in the boardroom or Congress or that a woman had never sat in the Oval Office. I don't know --", "I don't know how long it'll take to get there. But I know we're getting closer to that day because of the work of generations of active, committed citizens. One of the interesting things as I was just looking through some of the rooms, there was Susan B. Anthony's desk. You had Elizabeth Katie Stanton's chair. And you realize that those early suffragists had preceded Alice Paul by a generation. They had passed away by the time that the vote was finally granted to women. And it makes you realize -- and I say this to young people all the time -- that this is not a sprint. This is a marathon. It's not the actions of one person, one individual, but it is a collective effort where each generation has its own duty, its own responsibility, and its own role to fulfill in advancing the cause of our democracy. That's why we're getting closer, because I know there's a whole new generation of women and men who believe so deeply that we've got to close these gaps. I have faith because what this House shows us is that the story of America is a story of progress. And it will continue to be a story of progress as long as people are willing to keep pushing and keep organizing, and, yes, keep voting for people committed to this cause and full equality for every American. I'm hoping that a young generation will come here and draw inspiration from the efforts of people who came before them. After women won the right to vote, Alice Paul, who lived most of her life in this very House, said, \"It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the right for full equality won. It's just begun.\" That's the thing about America, we're never finished. We're a constant work in progress. And our future belongs to every free woman and man who takes up the hard work of citizenship to win full equality and shape our own destiny. That's the story this House tells. It's now a national monument that young people will be inspired by for years to come. It would not have happened without the extraordinary efforts of many of the people in this room, not only the active support of this House and preserving it, but also the outstanding example that they are setting, that you are setting. I'm very proud of you. Congratulations. Thank you very much, everybody.", "And with that you just saw right there, President Obama dedicating the Belmont Paul Women's Equality National Monument. This is a House that served as the head quarters of the National Women's Party for decades. See right there, him making this on an important day, Equal Pay Day. Let's talk about this with a man who worked for that guy. Let's bring in CNN political commentator, Dan Pfeiffer, formerly a senior advisor to President Obama. Dan, you were with President Obama for a very long time. Everyone remembers his first law he signed in taking office was the Fair Pay Act. From the conversations you've had with the president, why is this important to President Obama?", "For two reasons. One, it's a question of pure economic fairness. In all the years I worked for President Obama. This is an issue important to men. It affects their family income. Also more important to that to the president is he is the son of a single mother, the father of two daughters, married to an impressive, strong woman. These are issues that matter to him. Political movements that have inspired him in his life, whether it's the civil rights movement, you heard him au him talk about this today, this is inspiration to him as he thought about his campaign and the bottom up change that's part of the Obama movement.", "I have to ask you a question on a different subject. Moments ago, we learned that Paul Ryan has scheduled a speech later this afternoon at the Republican National Committee. Aides tell Dana Bash he's going to rule out that he would let himself be drafted at the Republican convention, and he wants to put this matter to rest completely. Your reaction?", "Look, I have always believed the Paul Ryan convention white-knight scenario was absurd. Paul Ryan is the walking, talking embodiment of everything the Trump and Cruz supporters hate about the Republican Party. He's pro Wall Street, pro trade, wants to cut Social Security and Medicare. These are the things that have -- he embodies the disconnect between the working class populism that Trump is using with the establishment supply side Wall Street friendly Republican party in Washington. And so he was never going to be president. He would have lost handily in a general election, and I think there would have been riots at the convention, maybe not real riots, but figurative riots if they picked an establishment figure like that after Trump and Cruz get the overwhelming majority of the pledged delegates. I think it was never going to happen, probably wise for him to put it to rest now and try to move on and be able to focus the next few months at least on whatever legislating he is still available in the remaining part of 2016", "You make an interesting point. Wise for him, or wise for helpful to Republican Party and the presidential race? What impact do you think -- even though he said I'm not going to be president, I don't want the nomination, but a not-so-quiet whisper campaign, rumor they were thinking about in the end to take the nomination, what is the impact on the actual race, on the dynamic out there right now?", "His -- his greatest interest in putting this to bed is for himself and his staff so they cannot answer a thousand questions. But for, you know, the never Trump movement, the stop Trump movement, whatever you want to call it, if Paul Ryan is not a solution to that, either because he doesn't want to do it or doesn't make sense it is best to take it off the table so people can come to terms with the real options. Basically accept Trump or take Cruz. If you want to focus the #neverTrump, or whatever you want to call it in to one vehicle is Cruz and taking the Ryan fantasy away may make people come to terms that Cruz is the only option.", "It would be important, the wording of this speech. How he says this. What he says. We will have more on the conversation on this in just a moment. Dan, stick with me. We will have more on the breaking news. Paul Ryan just announced the House speaker will be making a speech from Capitol Hill. CNN is hearing from aides he will put to rest speculation. He will not be the nominee for president if it comes to one of those scenarios at a brokered convention. More on this breaking news after this."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "DIAMOND", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "BOLDUAN", "DAN PFEIFFER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BERMAN", "PFEIFFER", "BOLDUAN", "PFEIFFER", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-150246", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-4-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1004/21/cnr.04.html", "summary": "'South Park' Creators Threatened by Radical Muslim Group", "utt": ["One person's satire is another's insult. The episode of \"South Park\" has roiled radical Muslims, prompting a warning to the show's creators. Here's Special Investigations Unit Correspondent Drew Griffin.", "Revolution Muslim says, despite their provocative posting, complete with the photo of a murder victim, the group says it's only issuing a call to protest, not violence. Contacted by CNN, the creator of the posting said Revolution Muslim only wants those offended to be able to voice their opposition by letters to the show's creators.", "Certainly, the comment on this Web site is very ugly, but it is certainly not specific enough to get anyone arrested at this point.", "Hi, Drew. How are you?", "Good. (voice-over): Last year, CNN interviewed one of the founders of this radical Muslim group on the streets of New York. Younes Mohammed chose his words carefully, telling us he saw nothing wrong with Americans dying in the 9/11 terrorist attack.", "I don't think it was wrong. I think it was justified.", "And then adding, he does not encourage any violence on U.S. soil. It's a word game, federal officials tell us, that allows Revolution Muslim to post support of terrorists, like the alleged Fort Hood, Texas, shooter, while the Web site itself is protected under free speech laws of the United States. Younes Mohammed told us he doesn't see anything wrong with his messages. He dislikes the United States. He yearns for a Muslim world.", "We're commanded to terrorize the disbelievers. And this is a religion, like I said.", "You're commanded to terrorize the disbelievers?", "The Koran says very clearly in the Arabic language -- language", "So, you're commanded --", "To terrorize them.", "-- to terrorize anybody who doesn't believe?", "It doesn't mean -- you define terrorism as going and killing an innocent civilian. That's what your --", "How do you --", "I define terrorism as making them fearful, so that they think twice before they go rape your mother or kill your brother or go on to your land and try to steal your resources.", "The clip on the site ends with the warning on a graphic directed at Parker and Stone that the dust will never settle down. Drew Griffin, CNN, Atlanta.", "And here's a response to the threat from one of \"South Park's\" creators.", "Are you afraid that if the network allows you to unveil (ph) the Prophet Mohammed, that you will be bombed?", "It would be so hypocritical against our own thoughts if we said, OK, well, let's not make fun of them because they might hurt us.", "And now the view of a Muslim author. She spoke with CNN's Anderson Cooper.", "I grew up as a Muslim, and growing up Muslim I learn you don't criticize Allah, the Koran, or the Prophet Mohammed. And you should participate in condemning and eventually killing anybody who does. So that is just what the religion tells us. That's what scripture tells us. There are some people who want to act on it and there are some people who don't. The majority of Muslims do not want to act on the scripture, but they're silent when fellow Muslims do.", "But, I mean, in \"South Park,\" this cartoon, whether you like \"South Park\" or not, they show Buddha snorting cocaine. You don't see death threats or warnings from Buddhists.", "And you don't see death threats from Jews when Moses is depicted in an unbecoming position. And you don't see threats from Christians when Jesus Christ is made -- you know, is put in a satire position. So it is only -- and this is the strong thing. The \"South Park\" episode of last weekend was not just funny, and it wasn't just witty, it was also -- it addressed an essential piece in the times that we're living. There is one group of people, one religion that is claiming to be above criticism. And I hope that in the aftermath of this that we discuss that. When", "We're also taking you up close and personal to the volcano causing travel delays around the world. And we'll get to the bottom of talk about a second volcano possibly springing to light? That's a big old question mark."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "DREW GRIFFIN, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "TOOBIN", "YOUNES ABDULLAH MOHAMMED, REVOLUTION MUSLIM", "GRIFFIN (on camera)", "MOHAMMED", "GRIFFIN", "MOHAMMED", "GRIFFIN (on camera)", "MOHAMMED", "GRIFFIN", "MOHAMMED", "GRIFFIN", "MOHAMMED", "GRIFFIN", "MOHAMMED", "GRIFFIN (voice-over)", "WHITFIELD", "QUESTION", "TREY PARKER, CO-CREATOR, \"SOUTH PARK\"", "WHITFIELD", "AYAAN HIRSI ALI, AUTHOR, \"INFIDEL\"", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "ALI", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-97957", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2005-9-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/23/lt.03.html", "summary": "Levee Breach In New Orleans", "utt": ["With Hurricane Rita on the way, big concerns in New Orleans about the levees. Can they hold? We're getting news that there's already a levee breach in New Orleans. With more on this, let's go right to New Orleans and our Mary Snow. Mary.", "Well, Daryn, this is what the Army Corps of Engineers was fearing. The rain is just really starting here in New Orleans. And as you mentioned, we are hearing word now from the Army Corps of Engineers that water is overtopping the Industrial Canal Levee. The Army Corps of Engineers is saying that this structure is still intact, but it has triggered some flooding in the ninth ward. Our photographer who is on the site is reporting about two feet of water in the lower ninth ward. Now, flooding had been anticipated, but not at this early stage. What forecasters had been saying or engineers had been saying is that they were expecting about three to five inches of rain over a couple of days. But the rain is just starting here and there is flooding already. We are being told that the Army Corps of Engineers has been monitoring these levees throughout the night and, of course, through today and crews in the past couple days have really been racing to shore up the levee structures and the canals leading into these areas. So this is the first task that these levees that breached since Hurricane Katrina three weeks ago that devastated this city and this is the first significant rainfall since then. Daryn.", "And the ninth ward, to remind our viewers, in is one of the hardest hit areas in the aftermath of Katrina and that flooding, Mary.", "Absolutely. We had flown over it just yesterday. We were there the other day. It is just decimated in that area. It is right off the Industrial Canal Levee. What had been going on there in the past couple days were search and rescue teams. They were recovering they were looking to see if anyone was there. They were mostly recovering bodies. They had to stop those efforts yesterday when it started raining. They were the only people in that area up to this point. So there's no one living there.", "All right, Mary Snow live from New Orleans. Once again, a levee breach impacting the ninth ward neighborhood. More on that just ahead. Mary, thank you. And we're going to take a look at what the Red Cross is doing. Is it overwhelmed by what it had to do with Katrina. What does it have to offer for the victims of Rita? We'll get to that after this break."], "speaker": ["KAGAN", "MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "SNOW", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-226509", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-3-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/12/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Malaysia Doubles Airliner Search Area; Reports Of Massive Explosion In Manhattan", "utt": ["Happening now in the NEWSROOM, anger, outrage, and a sea of frustration.", "The Malaysians have not been fully cooperative.", "They have done nothing right so far. They seem to have dropped the ball.", "This morning, Vietnam fed up and pulling back from the operation. The size of the search and questions about it almost doubling overnight. Using the latest technology --", "You can see doors or wings or engines or anything like that.", "Trying to connect the dots and clear the clouds of confusion over Flight 370. You are live in the CNN NEWSROOM. Good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. We begin this hour with the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Few clues and a puzzling level of confusion. After spending five days searching the area beneath the intended path of the Beijing-bound flight, Malaysian's military now says it may have radically changed course popping up as a blip on radar more than an hour later hundreds of miles away. That means the search doubles today. A development so baffling, Vietnam is scaling back search efforts until Malaysia gets it act together. Reporters aren't getting clear answers either.", "You are getting increasing criticism. You are searching east. You are searching west. You don't seem to know what you have seen on radar and it has taken you until five days later.", "That's not true.", "This is utter confusion now.", "I don't think so. It is far from it. It is only confusion if you want to be seen to be confusion.", "You know where you need to search?", "Yes, in this two areas.", "How desperate have things become? Well, a shaman or witch doctor said one Malaysian leader enlisted this spiritual ceremony to uncover any clues. He wasn't able to help either. No one seems to be able to help Malaysia's beleaguered government.", "They have dropped the ball at every level. It appears they have basically done nothing right so far. Even if the Navy was told about it yesterday, that's 48 hours after the fact. To me every minute counts here. That was such a key point if the plane was reversing course and was flying back over Malaysia. I mean, why wasn't that made known? Why wasn't an alert put out on that immediately?", "Good questions. The families of those missing want answers, but they are not getting any anywhere. They are not getting any answers. They are growing more and more frustrated. David McKenzie is in Beijing. I know you have talked to some of those families. What are they telling you?", "Well, Carol, they will are telling us that they are holding out on hope even though that has dimmed some five days after the planes vanished over Vietnam air space. These families are desperate and the frustration and anger is boiling over.", "The hours turn into days. The pain spills out. I can still call my son's mobile phone, this man cries out. You need to search for him quickly. Meeting with airlines officials are tense, at times angry. Hundreds of family members want answers. There are few to give. They cling to hope.", "It is not the final closure. Any ray of hope, however remote or improbable, many of these people will still hold on to it.", "Airline officials have pledged to send close family members to the stage area in Malaysia. Few of them want to go until the plane is found.", "I'm not going home until I know what happened. We have lost loved once. They need to answer our questions. When are you going to tell us and what are you going to do? We still don't know if they are alive or dead.", "As the extraordinary search effort continues, dozens of planes, boats, and nations haven't been able to give these family members what they want to know, an answer of any kind.", "All right, David McKenzie with that report. Apparently, we are going right to the breaking news. This is our affiliate WABC, out of New York City. There has been an explosion at a building at 116th in Park Avenue. That's in East Harlem residents had reported hearing this large explosion in an apartment building around 9:00 Eastern. Fire was reported in the building. The structural integrity as you can see was definitely compromised in this building. It is also affecting trains going in and out of Grand Central Station especially those headed from Grand Central Station to Connecticut so expect delays there. We don't know what caused this yet. Investigators are just arriving at the scene. Firefighters are trying to get things under control. Poppy Harlow is on the way to Harlem right now. When she arrives on the scene, of course, we will provide much more information for you. We are going back to the plane investigation, Malaysia Flight 370. We want to talk a little bit about the investigation because it seems so chaotic. Our Nic Robertson is in London and Robert Baer is our national security analyst. He is in Irvine, California. Welcome to both of you. Nic, I want to start with you because it is unclear who exactly is in charge of this investigation. Is it the Malaysian military or is it civilian authorities?", "It seems to me the civilian authorities. Certainly when you look at the press conference, there was the air force chief, the army chief, the minister of transport, the civil aviation chief and the CEO of Malaysia Airlines. It was the transport minister who was leading it. The military men standing there in uniform, I have to say, looked somewhat trite. At the moment, there are obviously questions marks about potentially why didn't they react to an unidentified aircraft flying back across the country and also questions on have they been able to interpret the data. They say that they have. That they believe it is the data of the aircraft making that turn and coming back across Malaysia and the issue it basically disappears off the radar. Nobody knows at the moment how far it has gone. It does seem the civil authorities who are in charge. We also heard the chief of the air force kind of walking back what he had reportedly sent to journalists the day before. Kind of an indication he was getting a wrap over the knuckles there.", "Robert, it seems as if the military ought to be able to answer some of these questions, especially as far as if the plane really did make that turn. Now, they are walking back on it. But it seems some people are leaking information that is incorrect. Then, they are walking back on it 12 hours later.", "Well, Carol, I don't think they know what they saw on that radar. It could have been another aircraft. The military in Malaysia probably wasn't tracking a civilian flight. Their information is unreliable. I think what the problem is there is just no debris field. If the plane had simply catastrophic problem on the plane and went down or there was a terrorist attack, there should have been a debris field in the ocean. We can speculate all we want. It almost looks now like this thing went down over land. Maybe it did make a turn. I think to the question of terrorism, as John Brennan said yesterday, the CIA director, we can't rule it out. A potential hijacking as well. Someone got in there and turned the transponder off right away. We don't know. It remains a mystery.", "I understand that Malaysian officials have called on the NTSB to help. How much of a role will the NTSB have in this investigation, do you think?", "And the FAA, we understand as well. I think the hope of the Malaysians appears to be that by drawing in more international experts that they may be able to interpret the data that they have. Did this aircraft really make a U-turn? It disappeared off the civil aviation radar and assumed that it was this plane or believed to be it was this plane picked up on the military radar. Someone has to drill down and interpret the data. That would be very sensitive for the military in any country. Offer up some information and say to some civilian agencies, come and interpret this for us. The sensitivities are there. The expertise appears to be what they need. The transport minister was saying, he welcomed the addition of these countries. One of the perhaps key indicators here of the confusion is that they are search in two seas, but also now that Indian has joined this --", "I think we lost Nic Robertson. Thanks so much. We got the gist of your conversation. Nic Robertson, Robert Baer, thanks so much. I want to get back to that breaking news out of New York City. There are multiple reports of a building explosion. There was some sort of explosion in the East Harlem section of Manhattan, around 116th and Park Avenue. Traffic between the 125th Metro North Station and Grand Central Station has been stopped. Information, as you might expect, is trickling in. This from WABC, our affiliate in New York City. We understand there has been at least one injury, but that injury is minor. Police called a level two mobilization for crowd control. Con Edison is also responding to shut off the gas in this area. These are Twitter pictures also coming into us. You see the smoke rising from that building at 116th and Park Avenue. We understand Metro North, as I've said before, has elevated tracks through that area. The New Haven line service into and out of Grand Central terminal is temporarily suspended until further notice due to this police activity. And of course, many, many firefighters are now on the scene getting a grip on what happened. I don't know whether this was an apartment building under construction. Whether there were people inside the apartment building. We just don't have much information as of yet. One of our producers, Adam Reiss, is on the scene right now. Do we have him on the phone yet? He is seconds away. Apparently, Poppy Harlow is also on her way to the scene. You can see this thick, black smoke pouring from the building. Very disturbing pictures. Adam, you on the phone now?", "Hello.", "Hello, Adam. Describe the scene for us.", "There are a number of firefighters here. I'm at 116th between Madison and Park. They are still making their way into the explosion. All buildings devastated, windows blown out. They have at least three or four hook and ladders up at the scene. Can I ask you what the latest is for their lives? Many cars covered in soot, cars with blown-out windows, doors with blown-out windows. We haven't seen this kind of smoke in a fire here in New York City in a very long time. Certain parts of the area are thinning out. Heavy smoke still covers at least a three-block radius here. That's about what I can tell you now. Most emergency personnel all have masks on because the smoke is so heavy. People are being evacuated from all neighboring buildings. They are still making their way into the explosion, the building where the explosion took place. I can't really tell due to the smoke exactly how much damage that particular building suffered. A lot of emergency personnel. Fire personnel putting out fires. A lot of damage on the street. Blown-out car windows, blown-out store windows and very heavy smoke coming from the building. The fire department is still trying to get under control.", "I probably have a better picture of the building than you do because you are probably not able to get very close. Police are obviously cordoning the scene. But it appears that it involves one building? Are you hearing it might involve other buildings as well, Adam?", "It's pretty focus and again very heavy smoke is still coming out of the building, very, very heavy smoke is what I can tell you from here. At least four fire engines with their ladders going into the building. They are being blocked by the heavy smoke. It's really can't tell what's causing such heavy smoke. All emergency personnel wearing masks here. Very heavy smoke. They are knocking out glass windows in stores and a lot of glass windows in some of the residents here as they evacuate all the residents and people that work in the stores along this street, along 116th between Madison and Park.", "Adam, this building where the explosion took place, was it occupied?", "I can't really tell because of the heavy and dark smoke, you can't tell what type of a building it was. I can't tell from my vantage point.", "WABC is reporting it was an apartment building. Poppy Harlow is also on the phone. Poppy, are you with me?", "Carol, I'm with you. Can you hear me?", "I can hear you. What are you seeing?", "I'm on 116th and Madison between Madison and Park, which is the block where firefighters are fighting this right now. I just spoke with a firefighter that told me it was multiple buildings, confirming, multiple buildings. We do not know more than that how many. We do not know if they were residential, how many people were inside of them. As Adam was just saying to our viewers, I have lived in New York City for 11 years. I haven't seen smoke like this anywhere in this area. We are east of Columbia University. We are in East Harlem, 116th Street and East Harlem. We are told that this explosion happened somewhere around 9:30 Eastern Time. Coming up here, listening to local news reports, witness accounts on the radio here, one woman called from Frederick Douglass Boulevard, which is about two to three avenues, which are long, long blocks from where I am. She said she heard the explosion this morning. So that gives you a sense of the magnitude, how big this was. Also, one of the main train lines out of New York City, called the Metro North, that runs right in this area. We would track it above ground. Another person also called in for the local news saying there was debris on the tracks. Just to give you the sense of the magnitude. I tried to walk up to the building and got about half a block away and was turned away by the police. As Adam said, everyone is wearing masks right now. Extremely heavy smoke. So much so that when I got even a block away, I was coughing. That's the scene. Are people seeing aerial pictures of this yet?", "We are. We have an aerial picture courtesy of WABC. We see a large hole in the middle of this large building on 116th. I can't tell whether the apartment building is occupied. Maybe they were evacuated. Maybe it was under construction. I don't know and don't want to speculation. WABC is reporting one minor injury. There could be more. It could be a gas line. It could be something else. Is anyone talking about that yet on the scene -- Poppy?", "They are not yet. But we literally just arrived. No comment right now. We are obviously making more calls. The fire department. I will take a minute and talk to some people on the street. There are shoppers and residents, all wondering what's happening. There are well over a dozen ambulances and fire trucks. What I am not seeing at this point, Carol, though, is any stretchers, any carrying anyone that may have been injured out. I am not seeing that at this time. That doesn't mean that hasn't happened. I am telling you, we are not seeing that from our vantage point at 116th and Madison and East Harlem.", "Do I still have Adam on the line? I have Adam on the line. Poppy, you go ask people questions and I will get back to you in a second. I'll let you do your job for just a second. We just heard from FDNY. Fire officials. There were 11 minor injuries. Poppy reported multiple buildings are involved in this. Some kind of explosion happened at 116th and Park Avenue in East Harlem. What more have you been able to find out, Adam?", "Nothing more. Some of this smoke does seem to be clearing on the streets. We still see heavy smoke coming from the roof or whatever was left from that building. I see some EMS units pulling out. Like poppy said, we haven't seen since we arrived any people coming out on stretchers. We see numerous ambulances, sitting there waiting for potential injuries. Thus far, from what we have got here, we don't see any. To repeat, heavy smoke still emanating from that building at 116th, between Madison and Park. Numerous fire personnel at the scene trying to make their way inside. I see a fireman making room to provide more water to the scene. As the wind shifts, the smoke is shifting. Right now, the wind is shifting to the west and we're seeing more smoke coming our way. More emergency personnel arriving. A lot of people talking about what they saw, what they heard. A very loud explosion that rocked the neighborhood. Poppy is talking to a few of them now. They didn't know what it was. Just trying to get a sense of how soon they can put whatever fire that is still emanating from that building out and the smoke will clear.", "They are pouring lots and lots of water. They are up on ladders right now, Adam. I have a different vantage point than you do with this live, aerial picture. You can see the firefighters pouring water in what was this building. They are on the roof of the building next door it appears. They are sort of checking things out right now. They are pouring a lot of water on the building. You mentioned before a lot of car windows blown out nearby. Describe the surrounding scene to us.", "A lot of glass all over the street here. The smoke is somewhat toxic. That's why you see a lot of the emergency personnel, fire department personnel. Several cars with glass blown out. I'm not sure exactly why that glass was blown out. It could potentially be from what appears to be a very large explosion as described by a lot of the residents here. I'm still trying to locate someone who can tell us what's going on exactly at the scene. The firefighters still there on three or four hook and ladders getting into that building. We are watching the fire department captain here opening up the hydrant for more and more water to get to the scene.", "All right, just to recap, some sort of explosion has occurred in East Harlem, in that building you are looking at right there. Poppy Harlow reports, multiple buildings are involved. Multiple buildings are damaged. The FDNY told us there are 11 minor injuries so far. There could be more. This is all taking place at 116th between Park and Madison in East Harlem. I am going to turn things over now to my colleague, Chris Cuomo. He will take over from here. Take it away, Chris.", "All right, thank you, Carol. We are going to monitor the situation carefully. Let's give you a reset if you're just joining CNN right now. You are looking at a live picture of Manhattan from our affiliate, WABC. In our partner in this story, it has been going on for half an hour. Here's what we understand. This was the site of two buildings, contiguous buildings, meaning that they joined with one wall. There is believed to be a major explosion in at least one of the buildings. Firehouses from around that area, at least four houses are involved, at least four. Firefighters say they have the situation under control. What is that situation? You see the obvious smoke. They are saying right now that a lot of the smoke is coming from their efforts to put out what seems to have been an explosion. There is a debris field that goes on elevated railroad tracks. The Metro North tracks there, service has been suspended. There are firefighters on top of the building on each side. Why? Because they want to make sure there is no damage of fire and continued burning that winds up contaminating or spreading to those buildings. The two buildings involved are pre-war, meaning they date before the 1940s. Older buildings, generally oil burning buildings. That could be a clue. There is not much more of a pattern to go on beyond that. However, these two buildings that were joined are called multiple use buildings. On the storefront level, at 116th street and Park Avenue, you will see these two buildings. On the bottom, one was a Spanish-Christian church. The other was a piano repair shop. On top of each were four or five levels of apartments, usually somewhere between 2-4 apartments per floor. That is fueling the immediate concerns about injuries. So far, there are two surrounding hospitals who are expecting casualties. The numbers right now are low. But firefighters are saying there are casualties. Control room, do we have a fire official on? We have Tom Van Essen, who is the former commissioner of the NYFD. Commissioner, can you hear me? It is Chris Cuomo in New York.", "Yes, Chris. I can.", "Now my understanding from the brothers on the street is that they have it basically under control. It is multiple houses responding. Do you have any fresher information?", "You can see how difficult it is for them as that smoke gets lighter. That part of the fire is out. Some of the other stuff, the darker stuff, is really nasty smoke. It looks like it is pretty toxic. They are having trouble getting that part of the fire out. They want to get in there as quick as they can. The people in there now will be seriously injured if they are. Hopefully, none of them are caught in the immediate explosion. They want to get the folks out of there. It will kill them if the explosion didn't. It is a tough job. Hard to get in there with all that debris. It looks like it has collapsed. Quite a few apartments above the ground floor. An awful lot of debris to get in there underneath.", "Now we are in a major trafficked area here. This is 116th, 116th and Park Avenue. Highly trafficked. The elevated railroad adjacent to it. These are contiguous buildings, kind of mother and daughter situation with a joint wall. Commissioner, store fronts on the bottom, multiple stories above pre-war buildings. What is the expectation judging by the smoke, the explosion and the level of collapse about what the possibilities of cause are here?", "Well, right away, you think it is gas, because it is just such a violent explosion. You see that the debris everywhere is probably where the minor injuries came from in the beginning. Anybody that was caught in the blast directly has probably got a lot worse than a minor injury. There are folks that are reporting the collapse. You can only hope they have enough air and oxygen to breath. They are not too close to the fire, which is pretty significant. It looks like the fire and parts of the building are getting worse. Probably because the water was just not getting down to it.", "That's an important factor. When you have a collapse and something is burning underneath it, the assumption, common sense, would tell you maybe it gets smothered. Often, that is not the case. That's something we learned very horribly in 9/11. Can you explain that to us?", "Yes, we sure did. You know, you can't keep thinking the water is getting to it. The water has the tendency to go in the easiest direction. If there is something that makes it run away or a big part of plywood or something like that blocking you from getting at the fire, that just builds up in intensity down there and it is getting hotter and hotter. Anybody close to it, smoke is coming in that direction. They are in real trouble. That's what the firefighters know that right now. You can bet from everything you see, you can bet that this guy is trying to get in from the back, the side. Park Avenue is very narrow there because of the railroad. You know they are coming in the back, digging in through the basement. There are probably guys underneath that right now taking enormous risk trying to find people where the water is coming on.", "It's an important, Commissioner, I got a quick message from one of the guys responding in the air. He said, you will see they are all up in the air. They have to stay a little bit of distance from it because of the nature of the smoke and also the heat. Obviously, heat rising and it much be incredibly hot for the guys in the buckets. Park Avenue, which is one of the boulevards that we have here in Manhattan, two lanes at least on each of traffic is choked off because of metro north. They couldn't get directly in front of the building. How long can they stay in those buckets dealing with that kind of smoke and that kind of heat? How often do they have to swap out?", "Well, the guys in the buckets are all fine. Those guys will stay there as long as it is necessary. The more water they put on there, the more difficult it is for the people that need to get in there. There are rescue units, special operation units, trying to work their way in, taking a certain amount of risk, because they believe there might be people in there. You have to weigh the amount of risk based on the opportunity you might have to save people. If it is too late in some spots, you have to think about the risk you are putting your firefighters in. All of that debris is all in there. You don't know how many boys are underneath, what the water is doing pushing things out of the way. It is really dangerous right now.", "They are understanding there is no advance warning of this. There is an expectation that people are trapped. There was evidence on the street level that guys were getting there. There may be people in distress. There is no further reporting about that. There is an unknown issue of how deep down the building did go as you are pointing out. What the basement structure of these buildings and the stability of that debris is. Now something you can explain for us. We are seeing a lot of ladders. We know there is heavy response. We hear that a fourth alarm was just called for. Will you explain what that means to firefighters? How much response does that mean? How serious does that make it?"], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COSTELLO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COSTELLO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HISHAMMUDDIN BIN HUSSEIN, MALAYSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HUSSEIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HUSSEIN", "COSTELLO", "REPRESENTATIVE PETER KING (R), NEW YORK", "COSTELLO", "DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MCKENZIE (voice-over)", "PAUL YIN, GRIEF COUNSELOR", "MCKENZIE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "MCKENZIE", "COSTELLO", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "ROBERT BAER, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "COSTELLO", "ROBERTSON", "COSTELLO", "ADAM REISS, CNN PRODUCER (via telephone)", "COSTELLO", "REISS", "COSTELLO", "REISS", "COSTELLO", "REISS", "COSTELLO", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT (via telephone)", "COSTELLO", "HARLOW", "COSTELLO", "HARLOW", "COSTELLO", "REISS", "COSTELLO", "REISS", "COSTELLO", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "TOM VON ESSEN, FORMER FDNY COMMISSIONER (via telephone)", "CUOMO", "ESSEN", "CUOMO", "ESSEN", "CUOMO", "ESSEN", "CUOMO", "ESSEN", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-209899", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2013-7-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/02/sbt.01.html", "summary": "New Hollywood \"It\" Couple: Kaley Couco and the Man of Steel", "utt": ["Look up in the sky. It`s a bird! It`s a plane! I forget the rest.", "All right, let`s get this thing over with.", "Tonight, in showbiz quick hits, is Penny dating superman? Well, big bang fans are buzzing about what some are calling the ultimate matchup. Kaley Couco and Henry Cavill reportedly Hollywood`s newest hit couple. Is this a match made in nerdy heaven? Welcome back. You are right smack in the middle of tonight`s big supersized showbiz quick hits. We are going to get to the superstar superman hookup in just a minute. But first, Eddie Murphy trying to make a comeback to music, not comedy. He just released a new reggae single \"red light\" featuring Snoop Lion. I want you to see if you love it or you hate it. And I have to tell you, our \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT\" producers who are just geniuses when they come to their musical tastes, they`re split right down the middle on this one. Let`s watch it.", "All right. Back with me from Atlanta, Kendra G. is \"Entertainment\" correspondent and radio personality for Atlanta`s V103. Kendra, are you feeling this musical comeback from Eddie Murphy or should he perhaps stick to comedy? Thirty seconds.", "OK. If I didn`t know it was Eddie Murphy, I would probably love this song. But because I know it`s Eddie Murphy, it`s hard to accept it because I look at it as a joke because that`s what he does, he makes me laugh. But the song actually is not bad. He can`t sing. I don`t think he needs the money. I think he is just having fun with this. But it`s hard to accept because I know Eddie Murphy as a comedian. I`m not really thinking about him as a reggae artist. Snoop dog is a reggae artist.", "Well, yes. That`s how a lot of people are seeing it which is why we are talking about it, in Hollywood as well. David Begnaud, the host of \"Newsbreaker\" on Ora TV is with us. So Eddie Murphy, Snoop Lion, you`ve got reggae love and some beats there. David, what do you think? Do you want more naughty professor or more reggae from Eddie?", "I want more reggae. And look, he is not even smoking a blunt like Snoop Lion appears to be doing. I actually like it. The last time he tried to sing it was a joke. I listened to this before coming on the air with you. I think I downloaded it. I dig it.", "But it party all the time was a serious attempt at a musical career for him. That wasn`t a joke. But that`s the thing. We thought it was a joke because he`s a comedian. We all thought it was a joke.", "Some of the singing he`s done in the past has been terrible, OK. It`s been bad. This, I kind of dig. I like.", "But the thing is, for me on this song, I`ll say it quickly, it`s an impersonation of reggae because he is not a Rastafarian. He is not Jamaican. All right.", "Good point,", "I like it.", "Superman has found his Louise Lane. New reports today, the big bang theory start Kaley Couco and the man of steel, Henry Cavill, Hollywood`s newest \"it\" couple. Penny and Superman. Kendra, I am thinking nerds everywhere are rejoicing every day. Can you imagine how this will play out in a sitcom? Thirty on the clock.", "I mean, this is an upgrade for him because she is just so hot. He looks good, too. But she upgrades. So, I`m all for it this, A.J. I don`t even need 30 seconds. I say go for it. But again, this relationship might be over in 30 seconds, because you know how Hollywood relationships last. They don`t last long all the time.", "Yes. Well, we wish them the best because I think they`re two very well loved stars in Hollywood. Nice to see some happiness potentials we are going on. All right, Kendra G., David Begnaud, great to have you here. I`ve got another story that is tearing across the internet in a flash tonight. This NFL rookie has just become a major You Tube star. Look at him running on a treadmill. It looks like he`s out of a cartoon, right? I`m revealing the pro football player with the superhuman speed in your moments of showbiz awesomeness. This is SBT, \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT\" on HLN."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HAMMER", "HAMMER", "G.", "HAMMER", "BEGNAUD", "HAMMER", "BEGNAUD", "HAMMER", "G.", "A.J.  BEGNAUD", "HAMMER", "G.", "HAMMER"]}
{"id": "NPR-11349", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2017-10-14", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/10/14/557745864/animals-forced-to-evacuate-california-wildfires-too", "title": "Animals Forced To Evacuate California Wildfires Too", "summary": "Christy Gentry evacuated to the Sonoma County Fairgrounds with her husband and 26 horses as fire threatened their ranch Sunday night. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to her about the animal rescue.", "utt": ["Northern California is burning. The state's been ravaged by the deadliest wildfires in its history. At least 35 people have been killed, and hundreds more are missing. Thousands of firefighters are trying to contain the flames. Clouds of smoke hover in the skies, even in San Francisco.", "This is a farming area with vineyards and stables. Christy Gentry lives there. Her house in Santa Rosa has been spared. But earlier this week, the fires billowed toward the stables where she works. She and her husband set out on a midnight operation to save the animals and bring them to the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. She joined us from Santa Rosa. Thanks so much for being with us.", "Absolutely. Thank you so much for having us.", "Christy, what was it like to rescue 26 horses in the dark of midnight and bring them miles away to the fairgrounds?", "So when we got to the barn, there was a glow on the ridge. We couldn't actually see the flames, but it looked pretty close and there was a lot of smoke and ash in the air.", "We started with the horses farthest from the main barn, where we were loading, brought them in. We had several volunteers, and within an hour and 20 minutes, all of 26 horses were loaded and on their way safely to the fairgrounds. It was amazing.", "And they were pretty calm because they're used to going to horse shows and stuff.", "Yeah, they're used to traveling. They were pretty calm. I also think we had a couple that were hysterical, one that we had to wait till the very end and we thought we were going to have to leave. You know, I don't think the horses can really see the fire, but they know what's going on. They know that there's danger. And he was quite hysterical. It took about 10 women - he got loose twice - to load him in. But we finally did get him in the trailer, and everyone was safe. Ponies were caught in vineyards. There's been some chaos to it...", "Yeah.", "...For certain.", "How do you get a pony out of the vineyard and into a truck?", "People go armed with treats and halters, and so they're able to catch them. And, you know, mostly, if you're calm, the horses stay calm.", "Horses eat a lot, don't they? How do you care for every one?", "Sure thing. Well, many of us were able to grab hay and some supplies as we were evacuating our barn. So we came with food and some items in hand. But the local seed stores have been donating all kinds of hay and shavings and pellets. So we have had, again, tremendous support from the local community, making sure that every horse here is fed.", "Can you smell the smoke, see the fire?", "There - while we cannot see the fire any longer from where we are, and it's very, very smoky. There's a ton of ash. There has been a ton of ash. Everyone's lungs are, you know, feeling constricted. The dogs are coughing because it's so thick in the air. So the scene itself is still dismal, for sure.", "But people are helping each other.", "People are coming together. You know, when there's an emergency like this, if the fire happens too fast and you can't get out in time, you have to set the horses free.", "Well, you got to put halters on, you got to label them. Those can burn off in a fire, so we actually handwrote with a Sharpie pen on all of our horses hooves the phone number. If there is some marking on the horse on - with ink, then we can identify, at least, who to call to find out where the horse will eventually need to be, or to let that person know that we have that horse.", "How do you fill your days there - all these people and horses staying at the fairgrounds?", "We're caring for other people's animals. Our neighbor's goats are here, their dog. We've got llamas. We have goats. So everyone just sort of has their sectioned area. And we take the horses out, we walk them, we feed them. And then we try to keep in communication with surrounding areas to see, are we going to be able to possibly go home at some point? We're - everyone's just sitting on pins and needles, to be perfectly honest.", "Christy Gentry at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, Calif. Thank you so much.", "You're welcome. Thank you.", "And tomorrow on WEEKEND EDITION SUNDAY, after wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, what's the best way to help? A close look at charities and where your donations go. That's tomorrow morning on WEEKEND SUNDAY."], "speaker": ["SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "CHRISTY GENTRY", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "CHRISTY GENTRY", "CHRISTY GENTRY", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "CHRISTY GENTRY", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "CHRISTY GENTRY", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "CHRISTY GENTRY", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "CHRISTY GENTRY", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "CHRISTY GENTRY", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "CHRISTY GENTRY", "CHRISTY GENTRY", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "CHRISTY GENTRY", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "CHRISTY GENTRY", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-285079", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-05-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/26/cnr.18.html", "summary": "ISIS Militants Infiltrating Migrant Trips From Libya", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. There is some significant damage right in the heart of one of Italy's most famous cities. A giant hole swallowed up part of a street near the (inaudible) River in Florence.", "Officials say a water main burst in the ground above gateway taking about 20 cars with it. Later, another ten meters of the city fell apart. No one was hurt. The two buildings were evacuated as a precaution. Warmer weather and calmer seas are luring more migrants to Europe and the results are being deadly. These dramatic images show what happened in the Mediterranean when an Italian patrol boat approached an overcrowded migrant boat to offer life jackets. The passengers rushed to one side causing the boat to rock violently before capsizing.", "The Italian crew lifejackets to the people who spilled into the sea. The Navy says more than 560 migrants are rescued, but five people died.", "These migrants making this dangerous journey and now facing another ominous risk.", "Yes, Libyan officials tell CNN ISIS militants are infiltrating the migrant groups so they can establish (inaudible) in Europe. Nick Paton Walsh have this exclusive report.", "This is the moment when desperate dreams come to an end. We are with the Libyan immigration police in a warehouse of migrant hopefuls that just raided right on the Tripoli beachfront. As Turkey and Greece closed their shores, the Libyan route to Europe has exploded again. Here among the squalor that a lifetime savings buys is where fantasies of a future in Europe falls apart. (on camera): Where are you from?", "From Nigeria.", "(Inaudible) fled ISIS loyal Boko Haram in Nigeria whose bombs killed his father and brother. He survived the desert trek until here. This is the smuggler's neighborhood and there is a new threat.", "(Inaudible).", "We leave quickly as this is the smugglers neighborhood, but there is a new threat here. Smugglers and police telling us that ISIS have hidden fighters among other groups of migrants bound for Europe. (on camera): This trade in human souls is awful enough until you think that perhaps ISIS are using this passage of human life into Europe to try and infiltrate with sleeper cells. (voice-over): Police tells off camera they've caught different other migrants with ISIS links and a top Libyan intelligence official warns us the threat is real.", "ISIS can be among the legal immigrants on the boats. They travel with families without weapons as normal illegal immigrants. They will wear an American dress and have English language papers so they cause no suspicion.", "There is a huge and un-patrolable coastline where smugglers rule. We talked to one who said in the past two months that ISIS has become part of the trade.", "About 2 weeks ago, a boat left the ISIS stronghold, Sirt (ph), among them were about 40 ISIS heading to Europe, but bad weather turned them back. Ten days later they tried again and I don't know if they got there. About a month ago, I got a call from a devout guy I knew was ISIS, he wanted a small boat for 25 people and was willing to pay about $40,000. I didn't take the deal. (on camera): Do you and other smugglers feel comfortable moving people who know maybe ISIS towards Europe.", "Smugglers only interested in smuggling, ISIS, anyone, they don't care. Only money matters.", "The Libyan state is torn apart by the in- fighting. Its coast guard is struggling to even find boats. (on camera): Fighting the migrant trade across this the whole coastline of the Libyan capital, Tripoli adjust six boats like this. It's not in particularly good service. You simply can't imagine how under resourced things are here so close to Europe. These are the desperate scenes as they tried to rescue some African migrants whose dinghy collapsed late last year. Smugglers now prefer these dinghies, vulnerable to the slightest weather change. Some are fleeing ISIS themselves only to find ISIS now seek to hijack their deadly journey to spread more suffering. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Tripoli.", "I want to delve deeper into ISIS now and the impact on communities. Our senior international correspondent, Arwa Damon is here. She is not in the field. She is here in the studio in L.A. Welcome. You know, Falluja in the headlines right now, with Iraqi offensive on the way to try and retake that city. And of course, we know tens of thousands of people are trapped in that city. The fear is there will be a humanitarian crisis if it isn't already underway. What are you hearing about the situation?", "This will give you a bit of an idea of how difficult it is. People can't get a cell phone signal very easily anymore. So to do that, they go to the roof of their homes to try to make a call or even reach our sources there. If you are spotted by ISIS on the roof of your home, they automatically assume that you might helping to direct coalition airstrikes so even that a phone call could possibly make you a target. People can't leave Falluja. ISIS will not let them go. Some have managed to escape and navigate their way at great risk to themselves. Some of them even fighting their way out to try to get to these alleged corridors that the government established. That's not easy. If people could flee Falluja, that would be the best case scenario. Right now, they are literally trapped, afraid they will get killed at any moment in the air strikes or in the clashes when they eventually do reach the city.", "So here is the situation right now in Falluja. If you are a resident there, the government said get out. If you try to get out and you are a Sunni and you make it to the outskirts, you are confronted by the Shia militia. They are going to shoot you. If you stay inside and put a white flag above your house. If you do that ISIS will shoot you. If you stay in town and do nothing, you will get killed by a U.S. air strike. About 50,000 people in a no win situation right now.", "It's a completely impossible situation. This is a city that ISIS has had years to booby trap and really entrench itself into. There is no logical situation for a civilian who wants to get out. There is no way to protect your family or yourself. The government has to be the entity in all of these different players that somehow tries to find a solution to this impossible scenario. There is no easy solution and way to ensure that you are going to protect civilians or attempt to because they are in the scenario. We saw ISIS doing this in some of the villages outside of Mosul where they took the civilian population in the village and put them in the home in the middle of the village and wouldn't let them leave. They were shooting at Iraqi Security Forces out of the same building. Of course, people are going to die.", "You were in Tikrit over a year ago after they retook it. You have seen firsthand what ISIS does to -- take hold of them basically.", "ISIS was only in Tikrit for a short period of time and they had managed to booby trapped buildings and roads. They had bombs and explosives just about every single corner of that city. That pales in comparison as to what they have in Falluja and then it's going to pale in comparison as to what they have in Mosul. My big concern is how much do we know about how far ISIS is willing to go to try to maintain control over these key cities because we know that they're willing to die for this fight. How many other people are going to have to die for it?", "And of course, all of this turmoil in Iraq and Syria and other places, a lot of Iraq is driving this migrant crisis that we are seeing in Europe right now. Last year, you were on the Hungary and Serbia border. You were live at the time and there was a rush to get across the border. This is what happened.", "The break out from the holding area in the field. These are all people that just managed to break out and they have been running now for about the last half hour, and they have been running through the sun flower fields, the cornfields. They are very afraid because you can see there, they are noticing that the police are over the side. We've been hearing sirens. The groups with the children -- the groups with the children are the ones that are falling behind. That's why you see them coming up along the end.", "You feel them being pushed away by ISIS and the little boy waving at the camera. Do you know what happened to those people? Did they make it through?", "That group probably did make it through at the time because the route was relatively speaking, open per se. They have all of these borders. That day was such an epitome of what these people are facing. They have been treated like garbage by the Hungarian police and they were made to wait in the sun. I have seen a lot, but never seen something as jarring as what I had seen in these European countries. When you get there, you are not supposed to suffer that much. They will have dignity and these people decided to break through the police lines because they couldn't take it anymore. They sacrificed so much to get to that point and couldn't allow themselves to be at the mercy of others who clearly at that stage were not treating them with the respect and dignity they thought they would find and had to make it. They literally snapped and broke through the line and ran.", "Out of desperation. Arwa, thanks for coming in.", "Incredible reporting.", "You were in town to pick up an award. You got another award which you really deserve.", "Very, very well deserved. We will take a quick break now. As world leaders gather in Japan for the G7 Summit, U.S. President Barack Obama is apologizing to the host nation. Details ahead.", "And also ahead, a possible casualty of the war on (inaudible). 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{"id": "NPR-2982", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2015-03-15", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/03/15/393133213/isaac-herzog-is-netanyahus-surprise-challenger-in-israel", "title": "Isaac Herzog Is Netanyahu's Surprise Challenger In Israel", "summary": "Isaac Herzog doesn't have the macho profile of recent Israeli prime ministers. But Ari Shavit of Haaretz tells NPR's Rachel Martin that he's emerging as a frontrunner to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu.", "utt": ["We're going to now hear from a critic of Prime Minister Netanyahu. Ari Shavit is a columnist and reporter for Israel's Haaretz newspaper. He's been reporting on the man best positioned to unseat him - Isaac Herzog. He's a cochair of the Zionist Union, a center left block that has emerged as a primary rival to Netanyahu's Likud Party. Shavit says Herzog is appealing to Israelis for a number of reasons, including his impeccable family pedigree.", "Mr. Herzog's grandfather was Israel's first chief rabbi. His father was Israel's president. His uncle was the legendary Foreign Minister Abba Eban. And it goes on and on. And yet, Mr. Herzog is a very surprising presidential candidate. So what we've seen in the last few months is really the real surprise rise of Mr. Herzog from a nice guy effective, efficient but really not a presidential figure into a real national leader.", "Why is this so? I mean, what is he running on? What is his platform? What has so endeared him to a segment of the Israeli population?", "Let's begin with Mr. Herzog's weaknesses. He's not a general. He's not a war hero. Unlike many of our previous leaders, he's not the kind of macho, national figure. He's not very tall. His voice is not very deep. He's not very charismatic. And therefore, what he offers this nation, which is quite striking, is a completely new kind of leadership. The secret of Mr. Herzog is that he's really a kind of 21st century leader in the sense that he works with networks. Throughout the years, he crisscrossed the country time and time again, and he built support among many people who are very different from him. And in this sense, his candidacy brings something new of the kind of multicultural, multi-tribal Israel.", "You have outlined some very significant stylistic differences that he has with Netanyahu and past leaders of Israel. But let's talk a little bit more about the substance. What is his platform? There are some very important issues on the table right now for Israel. Where does he come down on those?", "He definitely comes from the center left. But he comes from the center of the center left. So he wants peace. He would try to pursue peace. But he's a realistic. And he sees - he's aware of the failures of the previous peace attempts. First step in an interview I had with him just a few weeks ago, he said should he be elected, his first action would be try to meet President Obama and to open a new page in the relationship between Israel and the United States.", "His second step would be to go to Egypt to meet the Egyptian president and try to have the Egyptian moderate Sunnis have influence on the Palestinians so some sort of new kind of peace process can be created; one that builds an alliance between America, Israel, the moderate Arabs and the moderate Palestinians so we can gradually move forward.", "Benjamin Netanyahu is running for his third consecutive term. He clearly has a lot of support among the Israeli population. Why is that? Why does he have such staying power? And why hasn't the left been able to produce a viable alternative?", "Until the end of 2014, Netanyahu was perceived as a prime minister that was not very loved by many people. Even his supports were not enthusiastic about him. And yet, he was perceived as the only presidential figure in the country. The reason for that is a threefold answer - stability, stability, stability. Mr. Netanyahu managed to keep - maintain strategic stability with no wars or no people getting killed on a large scale while the region was chaotic. He managed to keep the economy booming while the world was going through an economic crisis. And he managed to keep - maintain political stability within Israel's dysfunctional political system.", "That changed with the Gaza war of last summer because suddenly the strategic stability disappeared, people did get killed, the economy is not doing as well as it used to, and his political coalition collapsed. So his stability factor disappeared. And what you see now is growing resentment towards Mr. Netanyahu. And this is why I think, for the first time, he's in real danger.", "Ari Shavit is a columnist and reporter for Israel's newspaper Haaretz. He joined us from his home in Tel Aviv. Mr. Shavit, thanks so much.", "Thank you so much."], "speaker": ["RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ARI SHAVIT", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ARI SHAVIT", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ARI SHAVIT", "ARI SHAVIT", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ARI SHAVIT", "ARI SHAVIT", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ARI SHAVIT"]}
{"id": "CNN-33334", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-6-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/25/ltm.10.html", "summary": "United Nations Holds Special Meeting on AIDS Epidemic", "utt": ["The AIDS pandemic is the focus of a special meeting now under way at the United Nations. Leading the group of more than 3,000 attendees is U.S. -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is calling for action and funds to stop the disease that has claimed an estimated 22 million lives and counting. CNN's Christy Feig has more on the devastating impact of AIDS.", "AIDS causes emotional pain, takes lives, tears families apart, but it's also a story of money -- not enough to fight it and money lost to the disease. Of the more than 36 million infected with HIV and AIDS and the estimated 22 million more who have died, the vast majority live in sub-Saharan Africa where neither the people or their governments can afford the medicines that save lives in the West. What sub-Saharan Africa is seeing now gives a glimpse of where other countries may be headed if the epidemic is left unchecked. Most deaths are adults between the ages of 20 and 40.", "What this means is effectively a hollowing out and the development of an orphaned generation at one end and a generation of older people who have no one to take care of them at the other end.", "It also leaves the country without its primary work force, leading to a decline in their economies. More than 13 million children have been orphaned because of the disease, a number that is predicted to triple within 10 years. Some say the mix of a declining economy and children without parents is a recipe for political instability.", "This may give rise to civil unrest and conflict. All that in today's global world means that it will affect ultimately any country in the world.", "It's that concern and the rapidly spreading epidemic that is bringing world leaders together at the United Nations. Experts say without treatment, India could be the next Africa. In China, cases have more than doubled in the past two years. They double every year in Russia. And the Caribbean has some of the highest HIV rates outside Africa. (on camera): Recently, the leaders of the United Nations created the global AIDS fund to help developing countries. But all agree money is nothing without the willingness of governments to fight the epidemic. Christy Feig, CNN, Washington."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTY FEIG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ALAN WHITESIDE, UNIVERSITY OF NATAL SOUTH AFRICA", "FEIG", "DR. PETER PIOT, UNAIDS", "FEIG"]}
{"id": "CNN-63109", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2002-11-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/17/bn.02.html", "summary": "El Al Security Personnel Foils Hijacking Attempt", "utt": ["We're just getting breaking news now into the CNN Center. According to Israeli police, we are hearing that an attempt to hijack El Al flight 581, it was a flight from Tel Aviv to Istanbul, that hijacking attempt has been foiled, apparently by security guards onboard that airline. We are just beginning to get details in. But once again, security guards on the Israeli carrier El Al have foiled a hijacking attempt on El Al flight 581, which was a flight originating in Tel Aviv and en route to Istanbul. Our CNN's Jerusalem bureau chief Mike Hanna is also working this story on the ground, but consider the events of recent days, we've been reporting earlier today of the death of 87-year-old Eban -- he was the first ambassador to the United Nations by Israel. More news coming out of that region. Also, activity in the West Bank territories. In Hebron, where there was a serious attack at a Jewish settlement, where 12 Israeli security guards, mostly security guards, died after Palestinian gunmen stormed that area. We do have -- do we have Matthew Chance now? Matthew Chance is joining us now. Matthew, are you in Jerusalem?", "Yes, Carol, I am indeed in Jerusalem.", "All right. Can you tell us what you do know? We're just getting some preliminary reports about this hijacking attempt on this Israeli carrier.", "Yeah, all we have at this stage, Carol, is confirmation from the airport authorities in Tel Aviv, that there has indeed been an attempted hijacking on an El Al flight to Istanbul -- the city, of course, in Turkey. We know according to these Israeli airport officials, that the plane left Tel Aviv Ben-Gurion Airport at about quarter past 8:00 local time in the evening here. That's about two and a half hours ago. We're told by these airport officials, and details are still very sketchy at the moment, that one passenger they told us on board the plane attempted, they say, to try and hijack it. Israeli security guards who were in place on site onboard the aircraft apparently overpowered the individual. We were told he was a male passenger. Managed to pin him to the ground. And according to the airport authorities, there was no -- there were no shots fired. He wasn't harmed in any way. None of the other passengers, they say, have been injured either. And the plane, the El Al flight, is now apparently safely on the ground in Istanbul. But details are still very sketchy at this stage, and details are coming through to us as we speak.", "Matthew, what was he armed with? And is there any idea how he was able to get through security? I mean, we all know, anybody who has traveled through the airport in Tel Aviv, security is extremely tight. It starts literally at curbside.", "It does, indeed. And it's not known yet whether there were any weapons involved. I mean, we have the statement from the Israeli airport officials saying this was an attempted hijack. But as you quite rightly say, security on El Al flights in particular, but also on any flights going out of Israel, but particularly El Al, Israel's national airline, security is extremely tight. Hand luggage, baggage is searched very thoroughly. Equipment is used to try and trace any kinds of explosive materials that may have -- may be -- your baggage may have come in contact with. You're questioned very vigorously by highly trained Israeli intelligence officers to try and, you know, sort of get some idea about what your intentions are, whether you're a genuine individual or not. And so, it's not clear how this person managed to slip past security and get himself onboard this El Al flight. We don't know at this stage whether there was any weapon involved.", "Right. And so far, we don't have, because the flight is now arrived safely in Istanbul, so we're waiting to hear some eyewitness testimony. But was there any characterization of the threat? I mean, it could have been just a hysterical passenger making threats without a weapon. They don't quite know yet what his intent was, or the nature of that threat?", "Well, no, indeed. And we're going to have to wait, I think, over the next hours or so to find out exactly what the nature of the threat was, the specifics of exactly what happened. As I say, Carol, all we know at this stage, all I have here in Jerusalem is a simple confirmation from the airport authorities in Tel Aviv. There was an attempted, what they're calling an attempted hijacking took place. And that the situation has been resolved and that the plane is safely in Istanbul.", "Matthew, has there been any linkage to the recent events in the West Bank territory, in particular, this attack on a Jewish settlement in Hebron, and the reoccupation of that city by Israeli forces to this event here on El Al?", "There's been no linkage made at this stage by Israeli officials. Indeed, in fact, I haven't heard any comment from political figures on this so far. But obviously, this is the conclusion many people are going to reach before the details, you know, are going to reach initially. But you know, really before the details come out about what exactly this passenger was all about, what exactly the threats made to the aircraft were, it's very difficult for us to draw conclusions.", "Right. Nor do we know anything about the man on the flight who attempted the hijacking, his profile at all?", "Not at this stage. But as I say, Carol, these kinds of details are going to emerge over the next hours or so when the flight is -- you know, when the investigation is thoroughly launched in Istanbul. I'm sure we're going to get a lot more of these kind of details over the coming hours.", "Is it likely that the suspect would be flown back to Israel for questioning?", "I would have thought that's the likelihood. I mean, I would have thought the Israeli security forces are going to want to question this individual. I think much will depend, though, on the -- I expect on the nationality of this individual. We don't know whether he's an Israeli, whether he was a foreign national. So again, it all comes back to this problem we have with the actual information, the facts we have at this stage -- very, very sparse on the ground.", "Right. I'm trying to remember the last time I flew El Al, whether the security onboard was undercover or was very apparent?", "Well, you get a mixture of both. I've flown El Al on a number of occasions. You get very stringent security on both of those levels. As I say, before you get onto the plane, before you even check in, you're getting a lot of security searches, you're getting baggage checks. Your hand luggage is searched very thoroughly. You're getting questions from the security officials about what your intentions are, whether you're a genuine traveler or whether you're not. El Al has also, of course, been tightening and tightening its security, particularly after 9/11, because it sees itself obviously as a prime target for terrorists intent on hijacking aircraft. Indeed, they've suffered many hijackings in the past over recent decade. But also, on El Al, you do get these covert security operatives, some of them armed on planes, in order to be a sort of second line, a last line of defense against any kind of hijacking threats. Israelis, of course, very sensitive to that possibility.", "Right. And for we Americans, who are just beginning to use -- get used to the heightened security at the airports, what Matthew Chance is talking about is standard operating procedure. When you even arrive at the airport in Tel Aviv, your bags are searched, not once, but twice. Matthew was talking about the level of questioning. They can get very detailed. They don't have a problem withholding you from your flight if they have any concerns or suspicions. And Matthew, while profiling is a big issue in this country, the sensitivity to not pull people from line just because of their appearance or ethnicity or their religious affiliation, in Israel that is really not an issue. Their concern, their top priority is security. And anyone they think might fit the profile of a terrorist suspect, right?", "That's absolutely right. I mean, they've not qualms at all about pulling people off flights, stopping them, making them miss flights even if they're not totally convinced that these individuals are genuine in their travel plans. Their prime objective, regardless of what criticism it may draw from human rights groups and just concerned passengers, people who have been inconvenienced, a lot of people have been inconvenienced who fly on El Al, but the prime concern of the authorities here is to make sure their flights are totally secure. Indeed, that's why that after 9/11 particularly, El Al has experienced a surge in passengers, because many Israelis believe it's the safest airline flying at the moment because of those stringent security measures.", "Right. So what would be the procedure at this point, Matthew? If they do bring the suspect back into Israel, what are the rules of engagement as far as detention? Can they hold him as long as necessary in order to figure out what happened?", "You know, I'm not sure exactly about what the legal ramifications of this, given the fact that this plane is now on the ground in Istanbul. I'm not sure about what legal procedures would have to be undertaken by the Israeli authorities to get this individual, this man back into Israel to -- for the investigation to be held. But I mean, I can pretty much assess that that is indeed what the Israeli authorities will be attempting to do. What exact legal procedures they're going to have to undertake to achieve it, though, I'm just not clear about at this stage.", "All right, Matthew Chance, thank you very much. You have tolerated my questions very well and given us a lot of information in terms of at least setting the scene. Matthew Chance, live in Jerusalem by telephone. Of course, Matthew and our team on the ground is going to be working the story. I'm sure we're making calls in Istanbul, Turkey. We will get more details for you, but if you just happen to be tuning in, we just broke into regular programming with breaking news that security guards on the Israeli national carrier El Al have apparently foiled what appears to be a hijacking attempt on flight 581, which was heading from Tel Aviv to Istanbul. So all is well. He is in custody, and sure to face some very tough questioning by the Israelis. I'm Carol Lin at the CNN center. More to come. But first a break.", "Good afternoon, I'm Carol Lin at the CNN center in Atlanta. We've had breaking news just into the CNN center. Reports which we have confirmed with the Israeli police that an attempted hijacking of the Israeli national carrier El Al flight 581, flight originating in Tel Aviv en route to Istanbul. There was a hijacking attempt by a man on board. We don't know what weapons, if any, were used, how this man got through very tight security in Tel Aviv. But we have CNN's Matthew Chance who has been working the story. He is live by telephone from Jerusalem. Matthew, for the viewers who are just joining us now, and we do welcome our international audience to this latest breaking news here, can you tell us what you do know about what happened?", "Well, we don't know a great deal at this stage. Details are still very sketchy about what exactly has taken place on this El Al flight en route to Istanbul from Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport. What we do know, though, is coming to us through airport officials and police who are confirming that one passenger onboard that El Al flight apparently, they say, tried to hijack the aircraft. They say that security officials who were in place onboard the aircraft managed to overpower the individual, who we were told was a male passenger, and prevent that hijacking from taking place. They say that the alleged hijacker was not injured in that confrontation, nor were any other passengers onboard that flight, which took off from Tel Aviv Ben-Gurion Airport at about 8:15 local time in the evening. That's just over two and a half hours ago from now. We know that the flight has landed safely in Istanbul International Airport. And an investigation obviously is under way to find out exactly what details -- what actually details were that led to this hijacking. We don't have those details at the moment, but that information is coming to us every moment.", "That's right, Matthew. In the meantime, I just want to let you know, Reuters wire service is reporting and they are quoting Israeli media there saying that the man was apparently an Israeli- Arab, so an Arab who was of Israeli citizenship. He tried to storm the cockpit of the plane before the security marshals on the plane caught him, so that he was physically getting down the aisle, trying to get to the cockpit, trying to get to the pilots in this instance. Any reaction there? Anything on that?", "Well, I mean, it's interesting that this individual was overpowered. It doesn't seem at this stage that -- no reports at least at this stage that there was any kind of weapon involved. And we've spoken a few moments ago about how tight the security is to get onboard El Al flights from Tel Aviv, extremely tight. People's -- passengers' baggage is searched very thoroughly. Not just the hand baggage, but also the luggage that goes into the cargo hold as well. Not just that, people are questioned very extensively about what their intentions are, to make sure that they're genuine passengers and they're not believed about to embark on some kind of terrorist act, such as this one. And so there are these very tight security measures that have been put in place by the Israelis. So it is quite shocking, I think, for many Israelis who will be listening to this, many people around the world as well, that even despite their security measures, there has been this sort of crisis in the air en route to Istanbul.", "And we don't know, certainly, whether this was politically motivated, whether this was just simply a crazy person who lost control on the flight, but obviously because it is the Israeli national carrier, that raises a lot of questions in people's minds as to what his intent was, whether there was a message in this action.", "Certainly. This gentleman, if those reports are accurate, he was an Israeli-Arab, may well be someone who sympathizes with the plight of Palestinians here in the occupied territories. So that's obviously the first conclusion that many people listening to this are going to jump to. At this point I want to stress that we don't have any accurate information about what exactly the threat was posed by this individual, to the passengers, or to the aircraft. So it's very difficult for us to make accurate -- draw accurate conclusions as to what his intentions were. But as I say, a very shocking incident for people who consider Israelis, particularly, who consider El Al to be among the safest airlines of the world, particularly because it sees itself, it acknowledges that it is a prime target for terrorists opposed to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories. And surprising, not least because of the stringent security measures, that El Al security officials of Israel put in place before passengers get onboard the flights.", "Right. And Matthew, we just want to show people a perspective on where this flight was actually headed. And the distance is not all that great, the flight between Tel Aviv and Istanbul. But is there anything to be read into the fact that this is the Israeli national carrier flying out of the capital city of the Jewish state into Istanbul, into Turkey, which is a relatively moderate Muslim country?", "It is indeed a moderate Muslim country. I'm not sure that we can make any -- draw any conclusions about the fact that this flight was en route to Istanbul in Turkey. I think it's more relevant, more significant that this was Israel's national carrier. As I say, El Al is a prime target for -- is believed to be a prime target for terrorists intent on carrying out these kinds of acts onboard aircraft. And I think that probably the very fact that it was an El Al flight rather than the fact that it was en route to Istanbul is the most significant of the two facts.", "Right. And the last time there was an incident involving El Al was actually right here in the United States. I believe it was at the Los Angeles International Airport where a gunman broke into the international terminal and opened fire with an automatic weapon, killing several people, including an El Al security guard who was posted right next to the ticket counter. In that case, the Israeli government was very quick to come out and say, this is indeed an act of terrorism, though I don't know whether it was officially linked, the man who was the perpetrator in that was killed by one of the security guards in that. But I'm going to put you a little bit on the spot here, Matthew. Do you remember the last time that El Al actually was involved in a hijacking, that was targeted by a hijacking?", "I mean, I know -- I can't remember the exact incident of -- or the last time this happened. I mean, this happened a lot in previous decades. El Al was a prime target for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, as it tried under the leadership of Yasser Arafat to put its political agenda into the international arena. El Al planes, El Al flights were frequently targeted by Palestinian militant groups, linked, and of course under the umbrella of the PLO for hijackings. And it's because of that threat that's emerged over the previous decades to the Israeli national airline, that Israeli security is so stringent on flights. And again, you saw this -- you mentioned that incident at the Los Angeles Airport involving the check-in desk of El Al. They had security guards heavily armed around the check-in desk at the El Al checking desk in Los Angeles. And so you can imagine how tight the security is here in Israel. People very concerned. The security forces very conscious that their airline is a prime target.", "So, Matthew, what is likely to happen next? We do understand that the flight was able to land safely. We haven't heard of any passengers being injured onboard. I'm going to presume that this man is in custody. Who takes custody of him? What happens next?", "Well, initially, I'd expect it would be the Turkish authorities taking custody of this individual. At least until the Israeli authorities can overcome the legal obstacles, the legal hurdles, or procedures rather, that they have to go through in order to get this individual back into Israel so that he can be questioned thoroughly. I expect also, though, that Israeli intelligence officers will be very interested in speaking to this individual. Whether that's in Turkey or whether it's here in Israel, I don't know what legal procedures would have to be gone through in order to secure his travel back to Israel. But given this information we have now quoted on the Reuters news agency, and again, I don't know if this is true at this stage, but if he is indeed an Israeli passport holder, whether he's an Arab or a Jew, regardless of that, that would obviously give the Israeli government much more jurisdiction over what he apparently is alleged to have attempted to do.", "Matthew, stay right there. We just want to bring our audience up to date, just in case you are joining us right now. We are in breaking news mode because we have learned and confirmed with Israeli police that Israeli security guards onboard an El Al flight originating in Tel Aviv and en route to Istanbul, they managed to foil an attempted hijacking. So far, no reports of any injuries. We understand, according to Reuters news agency, the wire service, they are quoting Israeli media as saying that a man, apparently an Israeli- Arab, tried to storm the cockpit of the airplane before security marshals onboard the plane managed to catch him. We're not hearing so far any reports of weapons used. Matthew Chance has been reporting extensively on how high the security normally is at the Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. My experience through that airport, it would seem virtually impossible for anybody to smuggle weapons. You go through several baggage checks, extensive questioning. They do not hesitate to profile and pull people out of lines, even if it means that you're going to miss your flight if they in any way suspect you of any sort of suspicious behavior. Matthew, we were talking about the procedures and what may happen next. If and when they do bring this man back for questioning, will they -- who will he likely be questioned by, and what will that process likely be like?", "Well, I mean, Israel has its own security forces, its own intelligence operators, of course. That will be focused very intensely on trying to find out not just what happened on this flight, on this El Al flight to Istanbul, but how he managed to slip through the very tight and stringent security in place at Ben-Gurion Airport. As we've discussed extensively over the past few minutes, the security at that airport, especially when passengers are getting onboard flights of Israel's national airline, El Al, is extremely tight. Luggage is searched, not just hand luggage, but also luggage that goes in the hold. Equipment, very sensitive monitoring equipment is used to sense whether any of the baggage has even been in contact with explosives material of any kind. Not just that; you have intelligence personnel on the ground asking many -- very many detailed questions about what the intentions of the traveler are, to make sure he's a genuine passenger and not somebody intent on carrying out some kind of a terrorist attack. There are two things that are going to be investigated very seriously. First of all, what exactly happened on this flight, how this passenger could have slipped through security. And indeed, what the failings were of that security, to allow a passenger like this to get onboard an El Al flight en route to Istanbul.", "Matthew, I'm getting several pieces of wire copy right now. And while we work our own reporting on the ground, which of course is the most reliable, I do want to share some information that Reuters news agency is getting from Israeli media describing very dramatically the scene onboard. Apparently, there were about 170 people onboard this flight from Tel Aviv to Istanbul. And a quote here from one of the Israeli passengers out of Istanbul. Quote, \"we heard people saying there was fighting and half a minute later it became clear that from row five or six, a man ran amok towards the pilot's cabin, attacking a stewardess and tried to enter the cockpit. We saw a stewardess running like crazy from the front of the place to the business section. She was terrified.\" This according to a passenger. There were apparently security guards throwing him to the floor with his legs spread and his face to the floor. I don't know what kind of jet flight 581 was, but I am going to assume that there wasn't much room to do this. There must have been absolute chaos on board. Fortunately, so far, no reported injuries, 170 people onboard. Matthew, I had talked with you about this earlier, but I just want you to set the scene for us there in Israel as well as the Palestinian territories. It has been a tense time for the past two years in this latest uprising. But in particular, a particularly gruesome event which happened at an Israeli settlement just this last Friday. We don't know if this attempted hijacking was politically motivated, but remind us again, set the scene of the events over the weekend, the attack at the Jewish settlement in Hebron and the reoccupation of that West Bank city and what the implications may be here.", "Well, there have been a number of events over the past week or so -- I mean, not just over the past week, but particularly over the past week or so, that have involved the killing of Israelis by Palestinian militants. First, last week, there was a gun attack, shooting attack on a kibutz (ph) inside of Israel in which five Israelis were killed, including two very young children. I think their ages were 4 and 5. That kibutz (ph) was inside Israel proper, you know, very close to the West Bank, but not actually a settlement on the occupied territory. But again, over the weekend, there was this other shooting instance in the divided Palestinian town, or city, rather, of Hebron, where a group of Jewish worshipers accompanied by a heavy troop escorts, I have to say, were set upon by a group of Palestinian gunmen. Those gunmen claim to have been members of Islamic Jihad. Islamic Jihad claiming responsibility for this attack. In that attack, 12 individuals were shot dead. Nine of them were Israeli soldiers. At this point, that's the understanding we have, nine of them were Israeli soldiers, including a very senior officer, a colonel, in fact, becoming the highest ranking Israeli officer to have been killed here, in this intifada. So in the last week or so have demonstrated, if any demonstration were needed, is that the relations between the Israelis and the Palestinians is extremely tense. We've seen a response from the Israelis to that Hebron attack. They've re-entered Palestinian areas of the city. And they spent much of this year inside that city. But they've re-entered it again now, imposing their rule -- imposing their occupation on the entirety of Hebron in response to that attack. And that's just an initial measure. The real response, heavy response, many people are expecting is yet to come.", "That's right. And now Ariel Sharon is talking about perhaps for security linking the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which would, of course, by linking them may displace even more Palestinians and increase the Israeli presence in the West Bank. What I find interesting about so far what we know about this attempted hijacking story is that according to Israeli media, the suspect is described as an Israeli-Arab. And I know for Americans here in the United States, the issue can get a little confused. We are used to hearing about Palestinian-driven attacks in Israeli territory, perhaps not as much awareness by Americans certainly that there are Arabs who are Israeli citizens living in the state of Israel. Sometimes it is a -- it's a nervous relationship between Israelis and Israeli-Arabs. But since Oslo, there's been much more interaction between these two populations, and there are those who might be surprised that an Israeli-Arab would perpetuate an attempted hijacking on the Israeli carrier.", "Well, the point with the Israeli-Arabs, I think, is, a lot of Israelis are very mistrustful of Israeli-Arabs. One of the reasons for that is that from the Israeli perspective, the distinction between Palestinians in the occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza and Israeli-Arabs, people, Arabs who have Israeli documentation, Israeli passports is in some ways artificial. Remember, Israeli-Arabs were Palestinians who stayed in Israel when the state was formed. Palestinians, the ones that were most like -- that we're most used to talking about, if you will, are ones who either lived in the West Bank or Gaza or left the state of Israel when it was formed, with the intention, of course, of coming back. There's a lot of interlinkage and relationship between the Israeli community, Israeli-Arab community, rather, inside Israel, and the Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. In some ways, their interests -- certainly you have Israeli-Arab politicians who are very sympathetic to the plight of their Palestinian occupied neighbors.", "Right. And once again, we don't know if this attempted hijacking was politically motivated. Matthew, while you were talking, we are just getting some Reuters video in from the scene at Ottoturk (ph) airport in Istanbul where we understand that all 170 passengers so far, no reports of any injuries in this attempted hijacking of El Al flight 581, which was heading to Istanbul out of Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, departing that airport nearly three hours ago when a man described by Israeli media as an Israeli-Arab tried to storm the cockpit of the plane before its security marshals managed to hold him down, managed to actually tackle him in the aisle. Matthew Chance, I'm going to ask you to please bear with us, stand by, please, and we're going to give you a little bit of a break here so that you can do some more reporting. Right now, joining me by telephone is terrorism expert Brian Jenkins, taking a look at this situation. Brian, we don't know much about exactly what happened onboard that El Al flight, but we are getting more reports in, hearing that apparently an Israeli-Arab tried to storm the cockpit. You, I'm sure, have been several times in the region. You know how tight security is held at Ben-Gurion Airport at Tel Aviv. How could something like this happen?", "Well, we don't know the details yet, so the fact is, all we know is that a person got on the plane and attempted to storm the cockpit. We don't know that he had any weapons at all. So he may not have, in that sense, gotten anything through security that he wasn't supposed to get. Now, we don't have X-rays for a person's souls, so we don't know what is inside a person's mind when they -- when he boarded the flight. El Al is very good at screening passengers, at really talking to them and -- here again, we have an Israeli citizen getting on a flight, routinely, and that will have -- that they'll have to examine. Whether their profiling system failed or not, but we don't know that there were any weapons that got through.", "No, we don't, and we don't know what his intent was. But El Al, when you talk about El Al is not just any other carrier. I mean, even at Ben-Gurion Airport, they have I would say stricter, far more stringent procedures than even the other airlines, because of the symbolism of this national carrier, an obvious target for opponents to the state of Israel. Tell us a little bit more about how distinctive their security system is.", "You know, the El Al system, there was an El Al plane that was successfully hijacked in 1968. In fact, it was one of the first politically motivated, or terrorist hijackings, where the hijackers were determined not simply to change the destination of the plane, but to make demands on the government of Israel itself. And it took a long time to resolve that episode. The government of Israel made a decision at that time that this was simply intolerable, that given the threat to the state of Israel, given the crisis that could be caused by a hijacking of this type, that they simply were not going to take any risks at all. And they began to implement what is recognized internationally as the most stringent set of security measures, measures that begin from the moment one indicates that one is going to fly on the plane, that is, from the purchase of ticket or making of reservation that goes right up through multiple layers of defense, interrogations, interviews at the point of boarding, application of all available technology, and further defenses on the airplanes themselves, what we would call in the United States sky marshals, security personnel armed on the flights. So it is tough to hijack an El Al plane. Probably one of the toughest planes to hijack in the world. Therefore, in this particular set of circumstances, we wonder if the -- we wonder about the motives. We wonder about the mind-set, in fact, the -- you know, whether this individual was not a disturbed individual that may be acting out something, but with absolutely no hope of succeeding.", "Do you think this was politically motivated?", "We don't know yet. I mean, obviously given the choice of target, given the action, the attempt to take over a plane, you know, certainly it is a presumption. At the same time, one wants to be a little bit cautious here and not take every act by every individual, including persons who may be clinically depressed, mentally disturbed, and say, this is an act of organized terrorism. The question will be whether or not this individual had links with any terrorist organizations, or was this something that he thought God told him to do, or he got in his own mind.", "Right, just some crazy motivation.", "Right.", "And yet, Brian, you take a look at the climate. I mean, here we've heard of yet another statement by al Qaeda with specific threats against Washington and New York City, directly talking about the Palestinian crisis and what is happening in Israel and blaming that in terms of the United States now focusing its attention on Baghdad, blaming Israel in collusion with the United States in attacking the Arab world. Increased chatter that the FBI is hearing around the world of different al Qaeda cells talking about attacks on Western interests. I mean, what do you make of the timing of this attempted hijacking, given the climate of what's happening? U.N. inspectors planning on landing in Baghdad tomorrow to start these controversial inspections.", "Well, there's no question that tensions are especially high right now because of the continuing campaign of al Qaeda, because of the confrontation with Iraq, because of the continuing violence in Israel and the Palestinian territory, that tensions are running extremely high. Within that, there are organized groups like al Qaeda, like Hezbollah, like Islamic Jihad, these various groups that have claimed credit for terrorist attacks, and we know, as we speak, they are planning new ones. But within this whole very, very stressful environment, that also has an effect on the general population. And reacting to whether it's inspiration or simply tension or resentment or hatred, a lot of people are really put under situations of extraordinary stress, and therefore, we find out at the -- at the edge a few who are pushed into individual behavior that is bizarre.", "Yes. And we're still learning, obviously, a lot more about this man. He is in Istanbul. We just want to bring our audience up to speed here. In case you are just joining us, we've been reporting about an attempted hijacking of the Israeli national carrier El Al, flight 581, heading out from Tel Aviv to Istanbul, when a man onboard, described by Israeli media reports as an Israeli-Arab, rushed to the cockpit door, screaming, according to a Reuters report, who is quoting an eyewitness interviewed in Istanbul, that he heard people saying that there was fighting, and a half a minute later it became clear that from row five or six, it could have been first class there, a man ran amok towards the pilots cabin, attacked a stewardess and tried to enter the cockpit before security guards onboard El Al managed to tackle him. Joining us right now, and I want to thank Brian Jenkins, our terrorism expert for joining us, and Brian, if you can hang on the line, please do, because as we get new information, I would love to check it out with you. But joining us also by telephone is CNN security analyst Kelly McCann. Kelly, what do you make of this story, this attempted hijacking, the timing of it, the methodology?", "It's interesting to note there has been an increase in tempo, operational tempo, I think, for the last three months. And that's inarguable. Now, whether they're all linked together, whether partially conducted by sympathizers or direct members or people who just believe in the cause is arguable. But it certainly is interesting to note, obviously, how quickly it was handled by El Al.", "Right. And in the questioning of this man, if he is an Israeli-Arab, he is an Israeli citizen. We do know that most people in the region are required to carry -- especially if you're Arab, to carry around paper documentation. And oftentimes these people are pulled over and questioned routinely by security forces around the state of Israel, and records are kept on people. So likely, if this man is brought back to the state of Israel, they may very well have a dossier on him, where he's traveled, who he has visited, who he really is?", "Absolutely. In fact, here in the U.S., the CAPS system, the computer-aided passenger screening system maintains records on our travel histories, et cetera. And CAPS, too, now, they incorporate up to 1,000 elements of other incidents available about all of us. But you know, we still can't discount, either, that in fact it's not related at all, and it is just a mentally disturbed person.", "That's right. So what would you look for -- I mean, what are you looking for in the reporting coming out of the region in terms of getting the big picture of what really happened here and what his motivations were?", "Well, the fact that the Israeli government will be slow to publicly state exactly what they've got, until they've been able to take away all the intelligence that they make from interviewing him. I don't think that anyone's going to make any leaps here. But I would expect also that when they do make a statement, saying that they know, for instance, that this person is related to a terrorist group, or they know that he's just a deranged individual, that you can take it to the bank.", "Brian Jenkins, are you still on the line with us? All right. We've lost Brian Jenkins for the moment. But Kelly, how quickly will they be able to find that out?", "Well, it will depend on, of course, the guy's state, and it will depend on the arrest procedure that was followed when they grabbed him. And if there's going to be a recovery period necessary. Obviously there was a physical fight. And, you know, it would be, even if the person wanted to buy time, say, you know, that he suffered some injuries, et cetera, or wasn't in a state where he could answer questions, so there's got to be a settling down time obviously first. And once that's undertaken, I think what they'll do is take his verbal answers to questions and then do exactly what you pointed out, go back to the records, see what his travel history was, see if he's been associated with any other known adversarial entities. They'll look at his history, and then put the whole picture together for public use.", "Kelly, do you know anything about the questioning methodology that Israeli police and other forces who might be involved in the questioning of this man, what can they do to bring out the answers in him?", "Interrogation and interview technique is an amazing study. I know that obviously before El Al when you travel, they ask provocative questions to get you to emote so that your physical behavior can then be observed, and then they make a judgment based on your reaction to questions, whether you should go into the line A, say, and depart, or whether you should go into line B for further screening. If something does happen, there are pretty standardized techniques worldwide, that even if you know the techniques, even if you know that, for instance, sleep deprivation may be a part of it, or that there may be a good cop/bad cop kind of thing, and some of them are much more complex than that, they're still very hard to overcome, because over time, when the situation is real and you're in the middle of it and there's a consequence, it has a cumulative effect that works to the interrogator's advantage.", "All right. Thank you. Kelly McCann, a CNN security analyst. We're always grateful for your expertise, especially on this breaking news. Kelly McCann, joining us by telephone. A quick recap here, in case you are just joining CNN. We've been reporting on a foiled attempted hijacking by El Al -- I mean, of El Al, El Al flight 581 from Tel Aviv to Istanbul, 170 people onboard. So far, all reported safe. The hijacker, the suspected hijacker is in custody right now. Kelly McCann was just talking about some of the questioning techniques that the Israeli forces may use with this man if and when he does get returned to Israel. We understand from Israeli media reports that he's described as an Israeli-Arab, who was sitting towards the front of the plane when eyewitnesses interviewed by the wire services in Istanbul said that they heard fighting and shouting coming from the front of the plane. Apparently, a man from row five or six running towards the pilot's cabin, attacking a stewardess and trying to enter the cockpit before security guards on that flight managed to stop him. He is in custody. 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{"id": "CNN-401025", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-05-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/24/cnr.06.html", "summary": "CDC, 11 States Say They Mixed Results of Viral and Antibody Tests", "utt": ["Welcome back. Health experts agree widespread and effective testing is essential to navigating life with coronavirus. But the reporting of testing results is not consistent across the nation which could be muddying the waters on tracking the movement of the virus. Back with us now is Dr. Esther Choo, an emergency room physician, associate professor emergency medicine and public health at Oregon Health and Science University, as well as cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Reiner who is also a professor of medicine at George Washington University. Dr. Choo, the CDC acknowledges that it was mixing together results from viral and antibody coronavirus tests on its Web site. And 11 states also confirmed that same viral and antibody test results, although a few now say they're separating out the numbers. Does it make sense to be lumping together diagnostic and antibody tests in reporting these numbers?", "No, not at all. I really did a double take when I saw that news come out because there's no reason to mix those. And in fact it's very confusing to do so. The viral PCR tests tell us what's happening -- it's kind of a snapshot of what's happening that week. What are the cases of people who actively have the disease? Whereas the antibody test tells us more what's been going on over the past, say, several months, how many people in total have already have the disease and it's behind them. Both of those pieces of information are important. But we've really -- when we talk about viral testing, we're really talking about on a week-to-week basis knowing how many new cases are emerging. I mean, that is the kind of information that's been driving our decisions to reopen. And we'll continue to inform the reopening decisions. It also is what we've been counting on as the denominator. In other words, when we talk about this is how much testing capacity we have, we've been kind of assuming that means this viral PCR were testing people for new disease. And so to hear that it's mixed makes us -- it just puts in a different place and it makes it seemed like I'm actually not sure how that happened but it really seems to inflate our testing capacity so now we need to sort of reset, take pause, make sure that we're separating out these tests before we can really state confidently how much testing capacity we have.", "Dr. Reiner, would a nationwide testing system be helpful here to make sure testing across all states is consistent and what would that look like?", "Some -- it would be incredibly helpful. Some groups have projected that in order to truly open the country and restore consumer confidence, we would have to do millions of tests per day. And you know, perhaps something like 30 million tests per week or more. A continued test and retest people across the country. We can do that. It just takes the will to do that. But what's happening is the federal government has shifted the responsibility of this to the states, so be fragmented the testing capacity and capabilities. The other net effect, by the way, of combining antibody testing with viral PCR testing is that it also has the effect of decreasing the percent positivity rate and the potential of falsely -- giving a false sense of reassurance that our positivity rate is dropping. So that was a very ill-conceived move.", "And right now we obviously don't have enough testing for a lot of asymptomatic people to be getting tested and the CDC this week came out with statistics saying they believe 35 percent of infection is being spread by people who are asymptomatic. And they also said 40 percent of people who are infected are out there spreading it before they come down with symptoms even when they do end up getting sick. So, Dr. Choo, you know, when we come back to talking about masks and how they have somehow become such a politically divided issue, and we're seeing people ignore the social distancing and the mask guidelines, do you think people are just simply also becoming complacent about other precautions that they need to continue to slow the spread of this virus like hand washing, covering their cough or staying home if they're sick?", "Yes. I have been noticing there's so much less discussion about hand washing and trying not to touch your face or touch other things. I think some of these things are just so common sense and they seem so minor that we forget that there is no one approach to this virus and preventing it from being spread. That we need to layer in all these little things that together will have a good effect in aggregate. So all these cases, the social distancing, the good hand hygiene, disinfecting surfaces, wearing face masks whenever you can but particularly when you're close in to people. None of these things cost us very much. They're so easy to do. And it's not about -- I just want to be clear having listened to the mayor of Daytona Beach. It's not about actually keeping yourself safe. It's actually what you do to keep others safe because of what you just mentioned. If we can spread it easily without even having symptoms, then it's -- you know, you cannot say when you need to wear a masks or when you don't. We all just need to be wearing them all the time. I wish it weren't so divisive because it really is a simple and easy thing to do.", "Yes.", "There's really fun and attractive masks being made. I think any barriers to mask wearing have really gone down. Let's just all do it knowing that that's something we do for our community, for our family, for our loved ones, for everybody out there. It's not just about us.", "Absolutely. Dr. Esther Choo and Dr. Jonathan Reiner, thank you very much. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "CHOO", "CABRERA", "REINER", "CABRERA", "CHOO", "CABRERA", "CHOO", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-379188", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-09-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/01/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Hong Kong Protesters Hold Airport Rally after Violent Night.", "utt": ["Protesters in Hong Kong are planning a rally at the international airport after a night of violence, described by some of the worst violence during the three-months long unrest.", "Police and demonstrators clashed in a number of train stations Saturday with police using batons and tear gas to disperse the crowds; 40 people were arrested in one station alone before the authorities called criminal damages and illegal assembly.", "Just as Hong Kong police dispersed one demonstration, down the road that way, we walked this way and found this. I thought we were walking --", "-- up to some sort of a rock concert or Burning Man. There were laser beams. You hear cheers from the crowd of possibly thousands of protesters behind this barricade of fire that they have set up in the heart of Hong Kong, one of Hong Kong's busiest streets here in Wan Chai, shut down by protesters, who burned an umbrella. They set up barricades. And obviously there was enough propellant there because this fire's been going on for quite some time. We have seen protesters use their usual tactics today, although this is one of the more dramatic things that we've seen. They've thrown bricks at police. They have hurled petrol bombs at officers. And officers have fired back. OK. Not sure what that was but we'll just get a little bit further back from the fire there. Police officers have used tear gas, something that's been a mainstay this summer, and they have also been using water cannons, shooting out water with blue dye to try to identify the protesters who might get sprayed with the water because, keep in mind, all of these gatherings here are illegal. Hong Kong police did not give a permit. Demonstrators came out anyway. Smaller numbers, not the families that we saw out at the park. These are the people who are out here ready to fight. And that's exactly what they're doing here on the streets of Hong Kong. I'm Will Ripley for CNN.", "With that we'll take you to a break. You're watching CNN."], "speaker": ["VAUSE", "VAUSE (voice-over)", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "RIPLEY", "VAUSE"]}
{"id": "CNN-14219", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-8-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/18/ee.02.html", "summary": "Thornburgh: News of Criminal Investigation of President Clinton 'Nothing New'", "utt": ["News of yet another grand jury to investigate whether President Clinton committed perjury and obstructed justice comes more than two years after Ken Starr first heard about the president and a White House intern. Is this a witch hunt or a search for justice? Well, Dick Thornburgh was attorney general under President George Bush, who faced his on scandal known as \"Iraqgate.\" Mr. Thornburgh joins us this morning from Washington. Thanks so much for being here.", "Good morning, Carol.", "As I recall, Iraqgate was an investigation whether President Bush helped illegally arm Saddam Hussein. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but repeated investigations found no evidence of any wrongdoing.", "That's right.", "Is there a similarity here in these two cases, do you think?", "Well, we don't know yet because the course that's being followed here is precisely the one recommended by the president's supporters during the impeachment proceedings. You may recall that one senator after another, including Senator Joseph Lieberman, one of the president's strongest critics, said that impeachment was not the proper course to follow, to remove the president from office, but that questions as to whether or not he committed any criminal offense should be left to the criminal justice process. And that's now what's going forward.", "Once began, though, accusations of leaks just as there were accusations of leaks during Iraqgate by the Democrats. Now the Democrats here are accusing the Republicans of some pretty bad timing, of having this come out during Al Gore's big day yesterday.", "Well, the news of the criminal investigation, of course, is nothing new. The independent counsel's office announced months ago that they were conducting this investigation to wrap up a determination as to whether President Clinton's conduct, in fact, violated any criminal laws. So whatever in the way of a so-called leak occurred yesterday, their timing was certainly deplorable. And any leaking of grand jury information is deplorable. That doesn't appear to be the case here.", "So, President Clinton is leaving office in just a few months. How long could this investigation take?", "Well, the independent counsel has obviously made a determination that a sitting president is not the proper subject of criminal charges. That's an open question. It's never been decided. But I think he's acted prudently in deferring any potential criminal charges until after the president leaves office, so that by impaneling this grand jury last month, the matter should proceed expeditiously so that a decision can be made just as quickly as possible upon the president's leaving office as to whether there'll be any charges or not.", "And when he leaves office, and if he faces charges, will he be treated like any other accused in the legal system?", "That's what the rule of law's all about. The president stands no higher or lower than any other citizen when it comes to having criminal charges against him assessed.", "All right, thank you very much, Dick Thornburgh, for joining us this morning.", "You bet."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "DICK THORNBURGH, FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL", "LIN", "THORNBURGH", "LIN", "THORNBURGH", "LIN", "THORNBURGH", "LIN", "THORNBURGH", "LIN", "THORNBURGH", "LIN", "THORNBURGH"]}
{"id": "NPR-31189", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2012-07-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/07/26/157444006/pa-town-chases-new-energy-dream-after-oil-bails", "title": "Pa. Town Chases New Energy Dream After Oil Bails", "summary": "Marcus Hook, Pa., had been a refinery town for 109 years. The plant shut down last winter but now the community's young mayor wants to reinvent the community as a hub for the natural gas industry.", "utt": ["Now to Pennsylvania, where one town is trying to transform itself after the closure of an oil refinery. Marcus Hook has been the site of a Sunoco refinery for more than a hundred years. But in December, Sunoco announced it would begin shuttering the facility. Now, as we hear from Emma Jacobs of member station WHYY, Marcus Hook is chasing a new energy dream.", "Almost everyone who lived around the refinery can tell you where, and when, they learned the news that the plant would shut down. Frank Changlione was in the Sunoco refinery, where he worked handling crude oil.", "I was shocked. I really was shocked. You know, I mean, I've never felt like that. And, you know, once they said that, all I was looking at was - you know, thinking about my kids, thinking about my wife, thinking about my house.", "Mayor James Schiliro also worked and had even fought fires in the plant. He remembers being at his desk early one morning, when he got a courtesy call from Sunoco.", "And it was like - I mean, what are we going to do? I mean, this is it. I mean, this refinery is Marcus Hook. If that leaves and nothing comes back, it's a ghost town. It's devastated.", "Schiliro says that in the weeks to come, he stopped sleeping. The town he governs is one square mile; the refinery campus covers half of that. On the borough's main drag, there is a laundromat, which used to launder the refinery's chemical suits. It's beside a corner store - where refinery workers bought their lottery tickets - and across from Marcus Hook Hardware, where the owner says contractors for the refinery bought everything from Gatorade to power tools.", "Schiliro says warning sirens still wail across town when the last workers inside the refinery, release hazardous chemicals. They're flushing the pipes, to shut the refinery down.", "I've got them on a time base now. It's like, you know, I wait a couple minutes before I get out of bed; and then if it doesn't shut off, then I get out of bed. (LAUGHTER) But they've got it down to like, three minutes. It's like a pit crew. (LAUGHTER)", "But there's also hope the refinery equipment can help Marcus Hook become an energy driven community again; this time, riding the growing natural gas industry in the region. The county commissioned a study on new uses for Sunoco's property, and the news was good.", "Today, we all stand here, and we look ahead at a new era.", "At a news conference, Congressman Patrick Meehan applauded news that the report had found seven activities that could all take place on the refinery campus. [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: The speaker is Tom McGarrigle, chairman of the Delaware County Council.]", "There's a lot of great opportunities for jobs, employment growth and construction, down at this facility.", "The politicians presented an optimistic vision of a buzzing campus processing natural gas from the Marcellus Shale, and other shale formations. There are almost 8,000 active wells in Pennsylvania alone. However, it will take time to see what companies Marcus Hook can attract. Fadel Gheit, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co., says repurposing will require big investments.", "The thing is, the money is really critical. It is somebody who's willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars, to transform the facility into a viable economic entity.", "But it's tough to bank on anything, which is why there are more for-sale signs in front of the brick bungalows in the borough's center. Frank Changlione, the unemployed refinery worker, tried to move away himself. He spent two months in Texas, but then he came back.", "This is where I grew up. This is where my family's from. At the time, I thought I was making the right move. And I woke up and said, this isn't what I want. I want to come back home.", "The whole community knows things will never be the same as when the refinery ran on oil. But there's a growing sense that Marcus Hook can find a place in the natural gas economy. For NPR News, I'm Emma Jacobs in Philadelphia."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "EMMA JACOBS, BYLINE", "FRANK CHANGLIONE", "EMMA JACOBS, BYLINE", "JAMES SCHILIRO", "EMMA JACOBS, BYLINE", "EMMA JACOBS, BYLINE", "JAMES SCHILIRO", "EMMA JACOBS, BYLINE", "TOM MCGARRIGLE", "EMMA JACOBS, BYLINE", "TOM MCGARRIGLE", "EMMA JACOBS, BYLINE", "FADEL GHEIT", "EMMA JACOBS, BYLINE", "FRANK CHANGLIONE", "EMMA JACOBS, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-80568", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-12-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/25/ltm.14.html", "summary": "Is Your House Making You Fat?", "utt": ["Tough to find a doctor on Christmas? Not here on AMERICAN MORNING. There was some interesting new research on whether or not your house may actually be making you fat. Dr. Sanjay Gupta here with some insights on this. It's interesting. What gives here?", "Well, a little interesting. People a little surprised by this. We talk about eating right and exercising. That's obviously important, what about your household could actually be contributing to making you fat as well? Some of these thing you may already know, but we're going to remind you of some of these things today. The concept is good. Talking about eliminating some of the things in your household. For example, keep this in mind. People respond to their environment. How so? Well, if you eat in front of the television, for example, probably a bad idea because you're going to eat for a longer period of time, usually for the length of a program. Don't eat standing at the counter either. That usually causes people to shovel food down their throats. Not a good thing. So the location associated with eating. Bring healthy food options into the house and put them out. Make them look appetizing, meaning, you know, have apples lying out on the counter. Make them look appetizing, not by putting caramel on them, but you know, make them -- presentation's really important there. All those sorts of things important in terms of...", "And all those things take discipline, too in the bottom line. What about the kitchen? What advice are you giving for that?", "There's some important things about the kitchen as well. A couple of things I want to point out. One of them is color. And I read this, and I was surprised by it, but I buy into it. First of all, take a look at these. Don't linger in the kitchen. That's obviously important. If you're going to linger in the kitchen, that's where the food is. Like you know, that's where the money is, the guys that rob banks. Same sort of thing. Blue suppresses appetite. You may want to paint your kitchen blue.", "Come on.", "We're going to have a bunch of blue kitchens after this segment, I guarantee it. Red, yellow and orange, they actually stimulate appetite. Also downsize dishware and glasses. You get glasses nowadays that are the size of pitchers. Too big.", "Yes.", "Eight ounces is what they talk about. That should be the size of the glasses.", "So many kitchens are white, though. I wonder what that says.", "Well, yes.", "Is that a good thing or a bad thing?", "It's kind of neutral, I guess.", "Yes. Stainless steel fridge, have you done that yet?", "We haven't gotten there yet.", "Rest of your home, what do you say there?", "Important things. Bedroom, really important thing. This is also a good piece of advice, because I buy into this as well. Talking about your curtains now, being able to let in natural light. You know, people put in those really thick curtains, which can be a good idea because it helps you sleep at night, blocks the natural light. Also causes you to go to bed earlier and wake up later. That's probably not a good idea. You maybe wake up with less energy as well. Lighter colors in the bedroom as well. Lavender spray tends to have a calming effect. I buy into that as well. I think it does.", "Yes, you buy into a lot of this stuff.", "I do.", "I thought you were giving the advice. I hope you do.", "Well...", "All right, what about music? Is there a connection there?", "OK, here's the thing with music. I buy into this, by the way. The -- if you're eating and you like to listen to music, so many people do, listen to slower music. Why? Because you'll tend to eat more slowly if you are listening to slower music. Here's a fact, though. This is true. When you're eating, it takes about 20 minutes from the time you eat for your brain to recognize you have eaten and that you're now full. What does this mean? If you eat a lot of food in 20 minutes, you've probably overeaten. Eat slowly, and you won't eat as much. Listen to slow music. That might help.", "Man, I'm hungry. I got to tell you. You have really work up my appetite. Good to see you. Merry Christmas.", "Yes, take care.", "See you later on our program. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER", "GUPTA", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-391999", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2020-02-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/06/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Trump, Emboldened By Acquittal, Attacks: \"It Was All Bulls***\"; Trump Gets Personal During Impeachment Rant, Attacks Romney For Invoking Faith In Vote: \"Used Religion As A Crutch\"; Trump Takes Victory Lap By Targeting Rivals In Vindictive Rant: \"Evil,\" \"Corrupt,\" \"Dirty Cops,\" \"Leakers And Liars\"", "utt": ["That was CNN's Lucy Kafanov reporting. What a horrible development all of this has been. And to our viewers, thanks very much for following us. I'm Wolf Blitzer in THE SITUATION ROOM. Erin Burnett OUTFRONT starts right now.", "OUTFRONT next, the President celebrates his impeachment acquittal by unloading on his political enemies and allies. Republicans claim he's learned his lesson, but he had something to tell them. Plus, the White House ramping up its attacks against Mitt Romney. They have just sent out a whole slew of talking points slamming him. And Pete Buttigieg hits Joe Biden on his biggest talking point. Will it work? Let's go OUTFRONT. And Good evening. I'm Erin Burnett. OUTFRONT tonight, exalting, unrepentant and vengeful. That's Trump today talking, and talking and talking. His victory lap starting this morning at a prayer breakfast with this scene. He was holding up newspapers with the headline acquitted. Funny how he hates that newspaper until he likes it. That simple celebratory moment, though, did not last long. In front of a crowd of ardent supporters in the East Room of the White House, Trump took dead aim and Mitt Romney for his vote to convict Trump and vote for his to be removed on abuse of power.", "You have some that used religion as a crutch. They never used it before.", "I am profoundly religious. My faith is at the heart of who I am. I take an oath before God as enormously consequential.", "And Trump's maligning did not stop today with Mitt Romney.", "We've been going through this now for over three years. It was evil. It was corrupt. They are vicious and mean. Vicious. These people are vicious. Adam Schiff is a vicious, horrible person. Nancy Pelosi is a horrible person. She said, \"I pray for the President.\" But I doubt she prays at all. People are very angry that Nancy Pelosi and all of these guys - I mean, Nadler - I know him much of my life. These people have gone stone-cold crazy.", "So Mitt Romney uses religion as a crutch and Nancy Pelosi doubt she prays at all. Trump lashing out his enemies tonight, but then he humiliated his allies. The same people who tried to say that his actions were wrong with Ukraine, but not worthy of ending his presidency.", "Think of it. A phone call. A very good phone call. I had some that said, \"Oh, I wish he didn't make the call.\" And that's OK, if they need that. It's incorrect. It's totally incorrect.", "It's OK, if they need that. But they are totally wrong because shocker, Trump says his actions were perfect. So who is this they? They. The Republicans who justified their votes to acquit, that's who they are because they said Trump learned his lesson.", "Are you confident that the President is not going to simply ask another foreign power to investigate a political rival again?", "Yes. I think there are lessons that everybody can learn from it.", "I think the message has been delivered.", "The President has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson.", "To not learn. Trump clearly did not learned his lesson. I mean, just listen to him today talking about the infamous call.", "I mean, it worked out. We went through hell unfairly, did nothing wrong. Did nothing wrong.", "Nothing wrong. John Harwood is OUTFRONT live outside the White House. So, John, what is the President's mood tonight?", "Well, Erin, as we saw in that rambling soliloquy he delivered in the East Room today, the President's mood is distressed, he's wounded, he's angry and he's lashing out. We got none of the grace notes that Bill Clinton delivered after his acquittal in an impeachment trial in 1999 when he came to - in front of the American people, apologize to them, apologize to the Republican Congress for putting them through the agony. President Trump thinks he himself is the victim here and so he's lashing out. You made the appropriate point about him mocking Mitt Romney's faith. By all signs, Donald Trump doesn't understand faith. He does not seem to be a person of faith. He does not recognize the values that faith teaches us distinctions between right and wrong. And so for him, this is a primal reaction to people who have hurt him and he wants to hurt them. He made that clear. And what is alarming about it, as you mentioned in the intro, is that Republicans in his audience today we're laughing and cheering along with him, even though as brilliant reporting by our CNN colleagues has shown, Ted Cruz told White House lawyers that 100 percent of senators believe there was a quid pro quo. In other words, they know that he did something wrong, yet they have made clear they're not willing to constrain him. So I think the question going forward is, to what extent is he going to try to use the power of his office to lash out against people, Romney, Biden, anybody else that he might target and will Republicans put any constraint on him, they haven't so far.", "All right. Thank you very much, John Harwood. Of course, what they've said is that he's learned the lesson which, at least verbally, he is saying loud and clear he has not learned, because he says there is no lesson to learn other than it was all perfect. OUTFRONT now Tim Naftali, Presidential Historian, former Director of the Nixon Presidential Library, Kirsten Powers, our Political Analyst and USA Today Columnist and Scott Jennings, the former Senior Adviser to the now Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Tim, so you heard what John was talking about Ted Cruz saying a hundred percent of the Republican senators know that there was a quid pro quo. But all of these Republicans who came out and said that the President has learned a lesson from this whole process, that he's not going to do it again, they were wrong. I mean, he is saying ...", "Yes. He's saying he hasn't learned a lesson. And one of the reasons why people were so concerned by the argument that the President's defenders made in the Senate trial about abuse of power was that if the President is given the impression he has a permission slip to abuse power, there's no reason to expect that Donald Trump won't abuse power again, and again and again. And today in two different speeches, he's made it clear that he's learned nothing from the impeachment crisis and that he is more than willing to do what he did before again.", "And so, Scott, look, as I described the way he spoke, he was exultant, he was vengeful, all of those words would describe him at various times today as he went on and on. So at one point he said, he doubts Nancy Pelosi prays at all, obviously, an insult among others. He called her vicious and mean and other things. Then he doubled down when he was asked about what he said about her and here's what he said.", "I had Nancy Pelosi sitting four seats away, and I'm saying things that a lot of people wouldn't have said, but I met every word of it.", "What do you make of that, Scott?", "Well, I don't know if you've noticed or not, but Nancy Pelosi has been trying to literally throw him out of office for the last several months and her entire conference has been trying to prematurely in this presidency since it started. So I get the President's little attitude today to punch back. And by the way, we're now in the heat of the election, voting has started, the impeachment is over and this is an electoral political battle. And so if this made anybody squeamish today, I'd advise you to look away because the election has just getting started. My suspicion is that this kind of tit for tat between Trump and Pelosi is only going to get worse.", "Kirsten?", "Well, I mean, let's also remember where he was saying these things. First of all, let me just say, I think it's childish the way he was talking about how he behaved at the National Prayer Breakfast. He's actually bragging to people about talking badly about another person at the National Prayer Breakfast. And the idea that because Nancy Pelosi tried to impeach him that somehow he's justified in the way he behaved at the National Prayer Breakfast, I just strongly disagree with. Bill Clinton, of course, was at the National Prayer Breakfast after Republicans tried to have him thrown out of office and he was contrite and spoke about how he had sinned and he asked for forgiveness. So you don't have to behave the way that Donald Trump behaved. I am a Christian. I'm somebody who takes my faith seriously and the National Prayer Breakfast is supposed to be a place where people from both sides of the aisle can come together and it can be a non- political event and people of faith can sit there together, and what do we have? We have the President of the United States actually attacking the faith of Nancy Pelosi, claiming that she doesn't pray, making quite clear he doesn't understand the Catholic faith. He doesn't understand that in the Catholic faith every week at mass you pray for your leaders, what the Bible says that you're supposed to pray for those who persecute you and bless your enemies, all of these things. And this is the person, Scott, that the Christian right has thrown their support behind.", "Scott, can I just play what Pelosi has said she prays for the President. She was very angry if anyone question that. She obviously has been a lifelong and very devoted Catholic. I want to play, again, what he said about that today. Here he is.", "She doesn't pray. She may pray, but she prays for the opposite. But I doubt she prays at all.", "You're OK with that, Scott?", "Look, I don't know what you want me to say. I mean, if you want Donald Trump to go on television after what just happened to him, after what's happened to him for the last three years and say nice things about Nancy Pelosi.", "Well, I'm just saying you gave him some latitude. I'm trying to understand is that in your 1910 latitude?", "I don't know why anyone would expect - I'm sorry, what?", "I'm saying when you said you gave him latitude today, did you mean that it's OK to say things like that or not?", "Look, I'm just saying I don't know who in the world would anticipate or expect Donald Trump to go out today and bend the knee to Nancy Pelosi or say anything nice at all after what she has done to him, what the Democrats have done to him.", "How about say nothing?", "It's not just the impeachment. You listen to what Adam Schiff has said, you listen to what these folks have said, they have called him everything but a good milk cow for three straight years.", "Yes, but ...", "And you want him to go out and make nice.", "And that's exactly what Republicans did to Bill Clinton.", "I mean, I don't understand.", "I was just going to ...", "It's exactly what Republicans did to Bill Clinton and Bill Clinton was able to stand up there at the National Prayer Breakfast and act like a decent human being. So I don't understand why ...", "So can I play for that - to your point ...", "... you think that Donald Trump shouldn't be required to be decent.", ".. for your point, Kirsten, I want to play, as I said, the President went to the prayer breakfast, he said these things. Then he came and spoke for over an hour, an hour plus and said more of these things. Here's what Bill Clinton said after he was acquitted in 1999. He spoke for two minutes. Here he is in his key part.", "I want to say, again, to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and on the American people. I also am humbled and very grateful for the support and the prayers I have received from millions of Americans over this past year.", "There are many, Tim, who would never forgive him for what he did or the dishonor he brought to the office and yet how he handled it on the other side is night and day from what we saw today.", "Well, it's night and day, and I would like to say that there is no excuse for a politician weaponizing faith under no circumstance. I don't care how angry they might be about how they were treated, there is no excuse. This president at the moment seems to want a cultural cold war. I'm not saying that one exists, but he seems to be feeding anger and to test people's faith on the basis of whether they support them and not, that's horrific. What we're going through now will be remembered as some kind of McCarthy iconic period. We are going to be so angry at the ugliness later when we look back at it.", "All right. Thank you all very much. And next, the White House is launching an all out assault against Mitt Romney. CNN just obtaining their new talking points and it is all aimed at taking down the Republican Senator. Plus, the Head of the DNC saying enough is enough when it comes to the Iowa debacle. Will the candidates accept the final outcome? And Joe Biden making a difference in one child's life by opening up about his lifelong struggle with stuttering?", "I felt like I have really like a close vibe between us, because he had like that same thing going on."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "ERIN BURNETT, CNN HOST", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SEN. MITT ROMNEY (R-UT)", "BURNETT", "TRUMP", "BURNETT", "TRUMP", "BURNETT", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. JOHN THUNE (R-SD)", "SEN. ROBERT PORTMAN (R-OH)", "SEN. SUSAN COLLINS (R-ME)", "BURNETT", "TRUMP", "BURNETT", "JOHN HARWOOD, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BURNETT", "TIM NAFTALI, FORMER DIRECTOR, NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY", "BURNETT", "TRUMP", "BURNETT", "SCOTT JENNINGS, FORMER SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-72326", "program": "CNN SUNDAY MORNING", "date": "2003-6-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/15/sm.09.html", "summary": "Weekend House Call: Men's Health", "utt": ["And welcome to WEEKEND HOUSE CALL. Today, a Father's Day special. We'll spend the next half hour focusing on men's health. But this isn't just a show for men. Research shows it's the women in the family who make the most health care decisions. And it's usually the woman that gets her man to go to the doctor. So our WEEKEND HOUSE CALL is for everyone in the house. And, Elizabeth Cohen, good morning to you.", "Good morning, Renay. Since you're the closest male to me at this moment right here.", "OK.", "We'll start with you. Do you go to the doctor for regular check-ups? Or do you just go when you're sick?", "OK, here's where I take one for the team here, folks. I have to admit that I have not started doing regular check- ups until the last couple of years. But I had a very good reason because I had a regular blood test. And it turns out that I had a high PSA count, prostate specific antigen. And there is a history of prostate cancer in my family. So the summer of 2001 was spent getting a lot of blood tests and I guess becoming aware just how important regular check-ups are. And I had just turned 41 years old. So that's the time when you start to thinking about things like that.", "Absolutely.", "So I am all for the reason to go ahead and go and get the regular check-ups, not just when you know, you feel like you're -- you have something wrong with you, or there's an illness, or there's an injury or something. Make them regular. I'm a big proponent of that.", "Absolutely. What if you hadn't done that, you wouldn't know.", "I wouldn't know. And I ended up -- did having to have a prostate biopsy because the PSAs were high throughout the -they were up near 5.0 throughout the summer. Everything turned out negative, though. And that's one of the things that you can kind of check off the worry list is not having to worry about that. I just have a high PSA count.", "There you go. Here's our real-life example.", "There you go. You asked. You're probably sorry you asked now, but there it is. Now you know.", "There you go. Well, one main reason experts believe that women live longer than men on average is that men don't go to the doctor for check-ups. So illnesses like heart disease and cancer aren't caught early enough. Our Christy Feig brings us that story.", "As David Neal says he started annual doctors visits about five years ago, when he was in his early 50s.", "I got real concerned about colon cancer. My family, my wife did, too.", "So far, his tests have come up normal, but since he sees his doctor every year, if it happens, he'll catch it early.", "Real important now. I went to live. And I've seen a lot of my friends pass away because of that.", "But Neal is unusual. Government studies continue to show in general, men tend to go to the doctor only when they're sick. And experts say that increases the chance of missing the top killers early.", "None of those three problems, heart disease, cancer or diabetes, give you symptoms when they are starting.", "Experts say the numbers back it up. Men have a higher mortality rate than women for the 10 leading causes of death and on average, die 5.5 years before women. (voice-over): So why don't men take their bodies in for a routine check-up, like they do their cars? Experts say men believe it makes them look weak.", "An annual physical is the dream. We would hope for that. We would hope that they would go for a simple check, whether it be blood pressure check, screening for routine chemistries including blood sugars.", "Adding tests for heart disease, colon and prostate cancer, at the appropriate age. In Washington, I'm Christy Feig.", "So what are the main health threats that men face? Well, the top five are heart disease, cancer, stroke, accidents and chronic lung conditions. If you have questions about these topics or any other men's health concerns, we invite you to call us now. Our number is 1-800-807-2620. International charges do apply to our overseas callers. Joining us in our discussion in our -- to help us answer our questions is Dr. David Gremillion from Men's Health Network, a non- profit organization dedicated to improving the health and well-being of men, boys and families. He's coming to us today from Raleigh, North Carolina. Good morning. Let's start -- show our audience some statistics that I'm sure you're familiar with. Only 43 percent of men get a complete physical once a year. Just 42 percent have their cholesterol checked annually. And for that all important PSA test to detect prostate cancer, only 53 percent of men over age 55 say they see a doctor for that. This, according to a poll in \"Newsweek,\" which leads me to our first e-mail. Paul in Connecticut writes, \"my dad refuses to go see his doctor. How do we get him the medical attention he needs? He is 77 years young.\" A great way to say it. Doctor, any advice for Paul?", "Seventy-seven years young. He really needs to see his doctor. Usually a gentle encouragement by family members, people who love and really care for this individual, is going to make the difference. At age 77, he is very likely to have a number of potentially complicating illnesses. And I would encourage him to have a PSA test, just like your co-host had recently. It's a very simple blood test but can lead to very early detection. He certainly needs to have a blood sugar check, blood pressure check, and a routine, overall health physical, but getting him there is the challenge. I would encourage a loving member of the family, a daughter perhaps, perhaps his spouse to encourage him to visit their doctor to familiarize himself with the health care setting.", "We want to start answering some of our viewer phone calls now. The first one is from Rob in Pittsburgh. Rob, thanks for joining us on HOUSE CALL. What's your question?", "I was just wondering. I heard you talking about a PSA test, and I've had a PSA test done over the past two years. And my PSA test was up around 20.", "Whoa.", "And they had done three or four biopsies on me. And they've all become -- they've all been negative. So how often is a high PSA test a false positive like that?", "Doctor, what do you think?", "Rob, how old are you?", "I'm 52.", "Rob, at your age, a PSA test in that range requires very careful follow up. We heard a wonderful story a few minutes ago from Renay, the co-host, about his high PSA. And we're reassured by that. But occasionally, an elevated PSA test is not very meaningful, but it does need follow up. At age 52 with a PSA in the range of 20, you should have repeat PSA tests periodically. And you probably should visit your doctor for what we call a digital rectal exam to determine if there are lumps or elevation in size of your prostate. And this may, in fact, lead to a biopsy. And I would encourage you not to be too concerned about the biopsy. It sounds ominous, but it's something that really should be on the horizon for you.", "And you know -- and I'll second that. You know, it took about 45 minutes for mine. And you know, it's walk in, walk out kind of surgery. But I do want to say that when I did get the PSA, I was given an original PSA. Then my urologist gave what was I think a more extended PSA, but there are other factors that can raise a PSA level or a PSA count. Aren't there, doctor?", "There are indeed. Certainly, inflammation of the prostate gland, prostatitis, we call it, is relatively common in men, occurring about one in three. And when that prostatitis occurs, it can elevate the PSA test. Certainly, sports activities, like riding a bicycle for extended periods of time can place extra pressure on the prostate and perhaps release extra", "Well, we have talked about why men don't want to go in for checkups when they are well, but there are many who still refuse to see a doctor even when they get sick or they've got an injury of some kind. We'll take up that issue next.", "Call us with your questions at 1-800-807-2620 or e-mail us at housecall@cnn.com. We'll be right back with more of WEEKEND HOUSE CALL.", "In last week's poll from Harvard and \"Newsweek,\" 83 percent of men said they considered their health to be good to excellent. Only 5 percent answered poor. And 90 percent are satisfied with their appearance. 9 percent said they wouldn't change anything. 11 percent said would like to have -- well, here's a shocker, they'd like to have a bit more hair. And 22 percent want to lose a little fat. You are watching CNN's WEEKEND HOUSE CALL. And we are taking your questions on men's health. Please call us at (800) 807-2620. Or e-mail us at housecall@cnn.com.", "Now before we go to the break, let's check our daily dose health quiz. On average, at what age do men go in for their first annual physical exam? We'll have that answer in 30 seconds. Stay with us.", "Welcome back to CNN's WEEKEND HOUSE CALL. In the race for a healthier lifestyle, women appear to be out in front of the men. Men are more likely than women to smoke and abuse alcohol. Men are less likely to have health insurance, see a doctor annually, or go to a doctor early in an illness. And with that in mind, we go to our next e-mail. Susie from California writes, \"Why do men act like babies when they get sick and women don't?\"", "Oh, man.", "Doctor, could you answer that question? I know many women have that question.", "I can relate to my own experience. I try to avoid a doctor. And again, men try to avoid appearing weak and vulnerable. They don't want to project that image. What we need to change is we need to show going to the doctor as a sign of strength, actually. Just as getting your car taken care of for a periodic checkup is really a sign of strength. But in fact, men are very, very much babies just like your e- mailers suggest. We don't like pain anymore than anyone else, but sometimes that's necessary to preserve good health.", "All right. We're going to go to a phone call now from Jim in South Bend, Indiana. Jim, welcome. What's your question?", "Thank you. I was wondering how many of these diseases that pop up in men are inherited? And how much just come up individually?", "Doctor?", "It's extremely variable, of course. Diabetes is an inherited condition, a prevalence to inheritance. In fact, I learned just this week that my brother was diagnosed with diabetes. So I'm going to have to have screening this next week for diabetes. Prostate cancer, we think, has a family predilection. And for African-American males in particular, there is a genetic component to earlier presentation and more severe disease upon presentation. Other illnesses, like hypertension, severe anxiety, chronic depression, which may lead to suicide in men, and it does more frequently than in women, these often have a genetic component. These are, of course, things that we can't alter. The genetics of an individual are basically unalterable. We can change how we respond to that by presenting earlier, going to see a doctor for screening, and by avoiding unhealthy lifestyles that may prevent those diseases from emerging earlier.", "We now have a phone call from Kelly in Mississippi. Kelly, what's your question for the doctor?", "Good morning, doctor.", "Good morning.", "My question is my husband -- his legs consistently are", "Leg cramping during the evening could be what we call restless leg syndrome. And there are excellent treatments for that, but I would worry a little bit more about clotication. What is your husband's age?", "Sixty-eight.", "Sixty-eight. He's very likely to have some vascular compromise to the large muscles of his legs. That vascular compromise can lead to cramping during the evening hours. That cramping can cause pain and just the types of symptoms your husband is presenting with. I would encourage him to describe those symptoms carefully to his doctor. There's some excellent treatments available for lowering his cholesterol and reducing his risk for stroke or further damage to his legs.", "We are talking with David Gremillion of the Men's Health Network. And Ella from Delaware has a phone call. Ella, what's your question?", "Well, my husband's older brother has prostate cancer and had surgery. And his father which is 90 years old still has prostate cancer. Of course, they won't do anything at his age, but I'd like for my husband to take it more seriously. How do I do that?", "I think you have every good reason to encourage your husband to go in. You have a strong family history. And even though both of these other two gentlemen in your life have had a reasonably good outcome, certainly, the 90-year-old father has a good survival with this illness. And that's not uncommon, by the way, with early detection. I would encourage your husband to get careful screening done early. And he can enter that group that has an excellent outcome.", "Doctor, stay with us, please. We've got some more questions for you, including this one. Do men go through any type of menopause or mid life change? That's one of the questions we'll tackle when we come back. If you have a questions about men's health on this Father's Day, please give us a call. The number is 1-800-807- 2620. We'll be right back with more house calls.", "Welcome back to WEEKEND HOUSE CALL. And Happy Father's Day, especially to my dad who has survived colon cancer, two angioplasties, and a quadruple bypass. And he's probably going to spend the day golfing.", "Oh, my goodness.", "At 72 years old.", "Wow.", "And he is, I believe now, shooting his age in terms of his game. So we're talking about men's health this morning.", "We've got lots of e-mails and calls coming in. So let's go right to our next e-mail from California. A viewer writes, \"is there such a thing as male menopause? Are there any treatments? Is there hormone replacement therapy for men?\" Dr. Gremillion?", "Well, there is what's called andropause. Unlike menopause, it's called andropause in the male. And during this era of our lives, we often have a reduced testosterone level. It can present with depression, with weakness, loss of muscle mass, and general inattentiveness. Now these symptoms, of course, can be caused by many other illnesses. So you would need to have a testosterone level checked. But beginning about the age of 40 to early 50s, it's very common for men to have that. Now interestingly, it is not described in the literature very well and there's been very little research on the whole topic of andropause. One of the things we do with programs like this is to try to encourage a greater level of investigation for men's health issues.", "Let's go to the phones now. Barry from Washington, D.C. has a question for Dr. Gremillion. Barry, what's your question?", "Good morning, doctor. I had a question about seriactive protein. I had a physical recently. All of my blood work was perfect. The cholesterol, the triglycerides, etcetera. And my EKG was fine. However, my CRP was 3. And the doctor talked about having additional readings, but also, perhaps having a test to measure the amount of calcium in my arteries. And I was wondering what you thought about that. Was it necessary at my age?", "The C-reactive protein story is one of the biggest stories of recent month. Basically for the rest of the viewing audience, when the C-reactive protein is elevated, one is at a greater risk of a sudden cardiac event. Because a lot of what happens in the coronary arteries is in fact inflammatory. It's not just atherosclerotic. So we have begun to measure C-reactive proteins. Unfortunately, it's not reimbursed yet because it's authentic long term value hasn't been proven to the people who pay the bill. It sounds like you're doing a great job in keeping your cholesterol down and in maintaining your risk factors. I would recommend that you have a repeat C- reactive protein and that you work closely with your doctor to follow up on that.", "We have a question now from Roger in Illinois. Roger, go ahead with your question for the doctor.", "Good morning.", "Good morning, Roger.", "I'm 67. No history of PSA or colon cancer in my family. PSA levels are good. The hemacults have always been negative. And what's your opinion on colonoscopies?", "A male should generally have their first colonoscopy in their mid 50s. Earlier if there's a family history, which there is none in your case, and certainly earlier if you have symptoms such as blood in the stool, progressive constipation, decrease in the size or caliber of the stool. Those would all be worrisome symptoms and signs that would have you get that colonoscopy earlier. But Roger, I think you're about ready. At age 67, a colonoscopy is probably the right thing to do at this time.", "Doctor, we talk a lot about, you know, you get to a certain age, you should start thinking about regular visits, colonoscopies or PSA tests, or things like that. Does a man's view of his body, you know, change as he gets older? I'm wondering if we're -- maybe we're sending the wrong messages to 20 and 30-somethings out there, you know, who should always, you know, think about regular checkups?", "You made a good point, Renay. In fact, men need to have regular check-ups throughout their life span. Your poll, as you started up this segment, showing that men have checkups beginning in their 40s to 50s, is of course different in the military where they get annual checkups as part of their military life. And interestingly, even during those check-ups early in life, a lot of significant disease is detected and treated early because of that. But we don't want to propose the false image that we don't need to have check-ups early simply because most of the callers and most of our attention is directed at late stage screening. I would encourage your viewers to go to menshealthweek.org and click on the screening icon, which will give them a nice list of things to do throughout the life span, in fact, beginning in the 20s.", "I actually have here that list, Dr. Gremillion. There's a list of about a dozen tests that men are supposed to be getting. Even from a pretty early age, I think many of them don't get it. So it's a terrific list to remind men and their families of screening tests that should be getting. When we come back, final thoughts about men's health.", "So a reminder, again, men get your regular checkups and the women in your life, I'm sure, will remind you to do that. Many thanks to our guest, Dr. Gremillion, for joining us to talk about men's health. Happy Father's Day to Dr. Gremillion. Also to my own dad, who's watching from Massachusetts. Thanks everyone, for joining us. That's all we have time for today. Our Dr. Sanjay Gupta will bring you health news every day at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time on \"AMERICAN MORNING.\" And be sure to join me for more health news, as we bring you \"DAILY DOSE\" each weekday at 11:30 a.m. Eastern, right here on CNN. Remember, this is the place for the answers to your medical questions. Thanks for watching. I'm Elizabeth Cohen. \"CNN SUNDAY MORNING\" continues now. 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{"id": "CNN-42648", "program": "CNN SUNDAY MORNING", "date": "2001-10-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/28/sm.17.html", "summary": "Two Israelis Killed in Drive-By Shooting", "utt": ["This news just coming to us right now: Two Israeli citizens, one soldier killed in drive-by shootings in the area of Hadera; that's on Israel's coast. We go live now to Jerrold Kessel in Jerusalem, who has more on this story. Jerrold, what can you tell us?", "Kyra, within the last hour, a shooting attack in the Israel coastal town of Hadera. Two Israelis shot and killed by gunmen from a passing car who drove at speed through the center of that Israeli town, shooting at random from automatic weapons into a crowd. People -- pedestrians and people waiting at a bus stop. Two killed, 16 people treated in hospital, been rushed to hospital. One reported in serious condition, the others in less serious condition. The gunmen were shot at by Israeli policemen -- plain-clothes policemen who happened to be on the site, and shot at them. And, according to the Israeli police, killed both of them in that car. Both are said to be Palestinian militants. The police are now looking into whether there is any connection with the shooting attack in this Israeli town, which is on the coast between Tel Aviv and Haifa, with an earlier drive-by shooting that -- about 12 to 15 miles away, near -- also inside Israel, but on a road very near the West Bank. And there a young Israeli who was sitting in his car was shot and killed by -- in a drive-by shooting. And police are trying to establish whether there was a connection between these two attacks. And all -- both of these attacks coming as the Israel government was considering whether it would now go ahead later this evening with a planned, first-phase pull-out from two of the six Palestinian towns in the West Bank, which Israeli forces had partially reoccupied over the last 10 days. The Israeli incursion taking place after the assassination of an Israeli Cabinet minister 11 days ago. And that partial pull-back had been postponed from yesterday. The Israelis saying that they would not go back while fighting continued in the Palestinian towns of Bethlehem and Bachalla (ph). There had been a lull in that fighting, and today at this morning's Israeli Cabinet meeting the defense minister said that the plan was that that first-phase pull-out would take place this evening. But now we understand that the prime minister -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is considering whether, indeed, to go ahead with that pull-back in light of today's attacks in central Israel -- Kyra.", "All right, Jerrold Kessel, live from Jerusalem. We'll continue to follow the violence that's happening in the Mideast just within the past hour. Thank you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-135354", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2009-2-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/24/ng.01.html", "summary": "Investigation Continues into Disappearance of 5-Year-Old Haleigh", "utt": ["Breaking news tonight, Satsuma, Florida, a 5-year- old little girl tucked into bed. Five hours later, she`s gone, vanished into thin air, the back door propped wide open. The father comes home from the night shift to find not a single trace of little Haleigh. Bombshell tonight. While members of little Haleigh`s immediate and extended family have taken multiple polygraphs and stated they passed, lead investigators say no one -- repeat, no one -- has been cleared. Also, across the country, Grand Junction, Colorado, is there a credible sighting of 5-year-old Haleigh there in a crowded mall? As police sift through over 2,000 tips, can Haleigh`s 4-year-old little brother ID the kidnapper? The boy ostensibly in the room, sleeping with his sister when she`s snatched, the little boy describing a grown man taking Haleigh in the middle of the night dressed in entirely in black. After FBI and police initially zero in on a local sex offender and girlfriend Misty Croslin`s cousin, police now clearing both of them. And what about that mystery vehicle that was seized for evidence? Investigators still refusing to reveal the make, model or ownership. As local police refuse to scale back the search, tonight, where is 5-year-old Haleigh?", "Investigators continue to comb for clues in the case of missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings, who was kidnapped from her own bed.", "I mean, I didn`t notice about Haleigh then until I seen the back door open, and then I go in the room and she`s gone! And that`s all I know!", "As the reward increases to $25,000 today, authorities say they are not planning on scaling back their investigation into what happened to little Haleigh.", "Investigators are still following up on leads. They`re still following through. Nothing has been cut back as a result of what`s gone on here.", "Police are interviewing anyone who had a connection to the child, giving polygraphs and even re-questioning family members when needed.", "They`ll probably do more interviews with the family simply because, as new information comes up, they re-interview to follow up on information.", "Questions still remain about what exactly Haleigh`s 4-year-old brother says he saw the night Haleigh was taken. According to the boy`s mother, the boy saw a man dressed all in black take his sister.", "All he said was, I want to find my sissy, and he said something about somebody in black took her. He said that he was all dressed in black. But I didn`t question him.", "Law enforcement experts have interviewed the boy but won`t elaborate on what he told them.", "I`m here to plead for the life of my daughter. I want her to come home. If you have her, please send her home.", "And breaking news tonight on another beautiful child, Caylee. Six months of searching culminate to skeletal remains found in a heavily wooded area just 15 houses from the Anthonys` home confirmed to be Caylee, manner of death homicide, a utility meter reader stumbling on a tiny human skeleton, including a skull covered in light-colored hair, the killer duct taping the child`s mouth, finishing off by placing a heart-shaped sticker over the mouth, then triple bagging little Caylee like she`s trash. Tonight, grandparents George and Cindy Anthony refusing to testify under oath in just 48 hours. Brother Lee Anthony says he will answer questions but that he knows nothing about the so-called nanny, never even met her. And tonight, is tot mom`s defense attorney back under investigation by the Florida bar? But with her family facing legal questioning, it`s apparently not affecting tot mom`s appetite. She`s loading up on treats for herself -- chocolates, expensive bottled water, headsets, beauty products, all for her use in her private jail cell. And hey, she can afford it! Strangers from all across the country sending money to tot mom`s bank account at the jail, including one California man who sends in five -- one, two three, four, five -- deposits.", "... to push me to smile at her and hug her. I miss that kiss on the cheek, that special hug.", "Grandparents George and Cindy Anthony are set to be deposed this week as part of a defamation lawsuit filed against the tot mom by the alleged baby-sitter, Zenaida Gonzalez. But the attorney for the Anthonys does not want them to give a sworn depositions and is trying to get a delay. Citing them as being emotionally fragile, attorney Brad Conway says George and Cindy need more time to recover before answering any questions.", "This family is incomplete. I`m incomplete!", "Also today, controversy is swirling over someone trying to sell a doll that looks similar to tot mom Casey Anthony. The doll, which was put on eBay and later taken down, is seen wearing an American flag as its clothing. Tot mom Casey Anthony wore the same outfit to the no-clothes party last May.", "I forgive whoever has her, and I just want her to come home. I just -- I just want my baby back.", "And tonight, a 14-year-old California girl on her way to school around 7:00 AM in the morning vanishing into thin air, last seen just one block from her school. A model student, she loves to read, excited about purchasing a little lamb for FFA, Future Farmers of America. She planned to name the little lamb Nannette (ph). Tonight, where is this little girl, 14-year-old Amber Dubois (ph)?", "I go to bed at night and just wake up and hope she`s going to be here! And she`s not!", "Police are looking through hundreds of leads in the desperate search for 14-year-old Amber Dubois. Amber was last seen heading to school the day before Valentine`s Day and hasn`t been seen since. Now a private investigator working on the case says another woman that looks similar to Amber told him that on the same day Amber went missing, a group of men tried to kidnap her near the same high school that Amber herself attends. While the girl told the PI that she was able to get away, Amber`s family says Amber would never leave on her own and they will continue to search for clues.", "Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. The search for a 5-year-old girl, Haleigh Cummings, in Florida. Has there been a sighting of Haleigh?", "As the search for missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings continues, authorities say they will not scale back their investigation as to what happened to the child.", "There are five detectives that are assigned to the case. This is their case. And I feel that those five will probably stay assigned to this case because it is important. Until we find Haleigh, it is important.", "Haleigh was last seen February 10th, when she was abducted from her own bed in the middle of the night.", "I`m trying to do everything to find her. You know, I`m answering any questions I have to because I know I didn`t do anything to that little girl. I would never hurt her.", "The reward has now increased to $25,000, with Haleigh`s family praying the reward could lead to the child`s safe return.", "That`s all I have is prayer and faith and hope.", "A team of experts met with Haleigh`s 4-year-old brother after the boy`s mother says her son told her that a man dressed all in black took his \"sissy.\"", "And he was, like, Somebody come in, they was all dressed in black, and took my sissy.", "I don`t feel like anybody should have said that. If you are that person and you feel like he could identify you, what would be your next move then, you know?", "Police officials will not comment on what information the boy provided them.", "If you`re watching, baby, I love you. That`s all I have to say.", "Straight to T.J. Hart, news director with WSKY 97.3. Mr. Hart, all the family is telling me they have all taken and passed polygraphs, some of them multiple polygraphs. So why is it, T.J., that police, the lead investigator, says that nobody has been cleared? T.J. HART, WSKY 97.3: That`s because the polygraph examinations are also sent elsewhere, too, and the results of those are never given, to my understanding, to the person who takes them. No one has been informed directly that they have passed or not passed. I don`t know why anyone would say that unless someone said, you know, We`re through here and it looks good...", "To John Lucich...", "... and they take that for something else.", "OK, great. To John Lucich, former investigator and author of \"Cyber Lies.\" John, typically, when you administer a polygraph, the person who`s administering can tell right then whether you passed it or flunked it.", "Right. But it`s up to them whether they want to reveal that, and it`s up to the policy of the department whether they want to reveal that. Somebody can actually pass a polygraph in some instances and still be lying. I think that they have, based on what -- the results that they have right now, they don`t want to release that information. But often enough, when somebody walks out from taking a polygraph, if they don`t get arrested, they have this feeling that they passed it.", "Straight to Marlaina Schiavo, our producer standing by outside the crime scene. What are you hearing from the family?", "Well, we spoke to both sides of the family today, Nancy, and right now, we`re sitting here with the paternal grandmother of Haleigh Cummings. And basically, investigators really don`t have much more information than they had yesterday. They are not scaling back the search at all, whatsoever. People -- there`s been rumors that they were scaling back the search because they haven`t been doing press conferences, but that`s mainly because they don`t have main areas to search right now. They are following up on at least 2,000 leads, we heard today from the lead investigator on the case, John Merchant (ph). And also, they are still interviewing this family.", "We are taking your calls live. We are there in Satsuma, Florida, bringing you the very latest -- police refusing to scale back the search for little Haleigh. Has there been a sighting of her clear across the country? Take a listen to this.", "When I got in for my visitation, first thing he said to me was, Mommy, I want to find my sissy. And I didn`t question him about none of it. And he was, like, Somebody come in, they was all dressed in black, and took my sissy.", "Did he say anything else identifying the man, anything at all, any characteristics?", "No. He just said that they was dressed in black, or he was dressed in black, whoever it was.", "Ms. Sheffield, have you taken a lie detector test?", "I sure have.", "And did you pass it?", "As far as I know. The man that did it told me he thinks I did, but they had to send it off to Washington to the...", "And did you do it voluntarily? Did you protest, or did you go along?", "Yes, I did.", "Everyone, Crystal Sheffield announcing tonight she has taken and passed a lie detector test.", "Straight out to Marc Klaas, president and founder of Klaas Kids Foundation. Marc, thank you for being with us. I recall distinctly when your child, Polly Klaas, went missing, you approached police to say, Polygraph me. Do it right now. Now, tell me something, Marc. Why were you so adamant that you be polygraphed immediately?", "Well, there were a couple of reasons. Number one, I wanted to eliminate myself as a suspect so law enforcement could then focus their full resource on whatever had happened to Polly. But more than that, we wanted to make sure that the focus stayed exactly on where is Polly and not tangential questions about the family, et cetera, et cetera.", "The investigators are still following up on leads. They`re still following through. Nothing has been cut back as a result of what`s gone on here. I mean, they`re just -- they`re working as hard as they have been. We never know when the one`ll come in that`ll solve the case. You just don`t know.", "Haleigh`s 4-year-old brother identified the man he saw who took Haleigh who came into the home that night.", "He said, Mommy, I want to find my sissy, and some man in black come in and took her.", "This is a huge clue! That means somebody planned this. That means they were probably scouting out this trailer park, and maybe, just maybe, somebody saw him.", "There is significant psychological trauma from the separation anxiety of losing a sibling, and that can be so severe, they can clutter (ph) their fears and nightmares with reality sometimes.", "The child has been interviewed by a team of people who deal specifically with children in situations similar to this.", "Crystal Sheffield is not mincing any words anymore for the person who has her baby.", "I hope you`re watching this every day and see how much it hurts our family. And I hope that", "Straight to Matt Zarrell, who`s been on the story from the very beginning. Matt, what can you tell me about this alleged sighting of little Haleigh?", "Well, on Monday, the Grand Rapids, Colorado, mall, the Mesa mall, that a number of employees that reported that they had seen Haleigh in this mall. Now, investigators went out to the mall. They took photos. They took information. They even took video. And in addition, they then went to the local hotels to search for the woman who was supposed to be with this girl. Then what happened is they spoke to the Putnam County`s sheriff`s office. They determined through evidence and what they learned that it was not Haleigh.", "A sighting that raised everyone`s hopes clear across the country in Colorado. The problem is it was a false sighting. That does not mean that authorities want you to stop calling in tips. Over 2,000 tips police are sifting through as they refuse to scale back the search, this as we learn the lead investigator says even though the entire family and extended family and friends have taken polygraphs, some of them more than once, no one has been cleared. Back to Marc Klaas, president and founder of Klaas Kids Foundation. Marc, when you took the polygraph when your daughter went missing, how many questions were you asked?", "Well, actually, they told me the questions that they were going to ask me in advance. And if I remember correctly, they probably only asked me somewhere between about 10 and 20 questions. And at the conclusion of the polygraph -- and mind you, this was done by a very experienced FBI polygrapher. At the conclusion of the exam, one of the agents came in and said, Well, that went very well. And that basically is as close that anybody came to telling me that I had passed the exam.", "Joining me right now, a special guest, Teresa Neves. This is the paternal grandmother of little Haleigh. Ms. Neves, thank you for being with us. Ms. Neves, I know that the lead investigator, John Merchant, came by to speak with you today and debrief you. What, if anything, did you learn?", "I learned that just because they`re not having a press conference does not mean that they`re not working some leads. They do have a few good leads right now that they`re working on. Basically, they`re not going to give us a whole lot of information, but he did say that they have some things that they are working on, so...", "Ms. Neves, why is the home still cordoned off, making the family live in tents and donated campers?", "Well, we do not have to live in a tent. My son will not leave here, and therefore, we stay here in the tent to be with him. The people who donated the RV were wonderful to give him a place where he can be alone with his son and actually be warm and almost comfortable. So that was great. What was your other question, Nancy?", "I was just wondering why, Ms. Neves, they still...", "Why they still have it.", "Yes.", "OK. That is because, in the event that they get a lead or a tip from somewhere -- you know, just for instance, you know, somebody says that there was a hole in the floor where somebody could have came through - - they have that still where they can go back and collect evidence, where if they release that home, then all that evidence is pretty much useless.", "You know what? You`re absolutely right about that, Ms. Neves. And your son says that right now, he can`t go back into the home anyway. Why?", "Because Haleigh`s not there. I mean, Haleigh is one of them children who fills up a home with smiles and laughter, and you just couldn`t be there without her!", "Everyone, the reward is now up to $25,000. Please take a look at this little girl, Haleigh. Phone number 888-277-TIPS -- 8477. Out to the lines. Amy in Illinois. Hi, Amy.", "Hi, Nancy. and I want to thank you for -- God bless you for, you know, trying to help all these lost children. And I just -- I want to tell the family to, you know, stay focused on Haleigh, and any differences they have, put it aside. But I was wondering, the little boy, you know, the man dressed in black...", "Right.", "I don`t know if they have -- if this information is all out, but I was curious as to -- if the little boy and his sister were in the same bed, and also, if this person with the black mask had his face hidden or anything, you know, like...", "Out to Teresa Neves. Let`s answer Amy`s question. Ms. Neves, was the little brother in the bed with Haleigh?", "No, ma`am. Haleigh`s bed is a toddler bed, and it is probably, I would say, somewhere around three feet from the bed where Misty and Junior were sleeping.", "And the guy...", "And they`re not in the same bed.", "The guy that he believes he saw, was his face covered?", "I -- I cannot -- that -- Nancy, that`s things that we", "And also, the family is not to be questioning the little boy, in case this turns up to be evidence at a future trial. Everyone, we are taking your calls live. Stay with us.", "From the heartfelt signs and drawings to the stuffed animals, the community`s love for Haleigh Cummings comes in many forms.", "The more comfort you can give them and let them talk to you and pray with them, I think it helps them. Gives them hope.", "I have granddaughters and it just kind of hit a nerve. And I needed to come up here and do something.", "To Allison in Florida. Hi, Allison.", "Hi.", "What`s your question, dear?", "Good talking with you.", "Likewise.", "When all the perv -- the pedophiles in the area -- when the sheriff went to each one of their homes, did -- why don`t they take a K-9 unit or a cadaver dog with them?", "Well, I don`t know that they did not. To Marlaina Schiavo, our producer standing by there at the crime scene. Marlaina, have they used bloodhounds in the area?", "Yes, they have, Nancy. Right from the beginning, they took articles of clothing of 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings and they had hounds all in the area. As a matter of fact, we heard from the maternal side today that a friend of Crystal also had a hound out here, as well.", "To Shelley in Kansas. Hi, Shelley.", "Hi, Nancy. It is such a pleasure to speak with you. You are just a joy.", "Likewise.", "My question is, the grandmother in her he last segment just clarified that Junior was sleeping with the baby- sitter/girlfriend. My question is, if he saw someone, why didn`t the girlfriend see anyone?", "Apparently, the girlfriend did not wake up. Is that correct, Ms. Neves?", "That`s correct.", "More developments today in the case of 2-year- old Florida toddler Caylee Anthony. The attorney for George and Cindy Anthony is trying to stop the grandparents from having to give sworn depositions this week in the defamation lawsuit filed by Zenaida Gonzalez. Attorney Brad Conway says the grandparents are fragile emotionally and need time to clear their heads before answering any questions about the tot mom`s case.", "Oh, man. Hearing her call out my name and telling me how much she loves me.", "To hear her call me Joe-Joe. Sure, I was grandpa, but I was Joe-Joe to her.", "Meanwhile, outrage. Someone was trying to auction off a doll that bears a striking resemblance to tot mom Casey Anthony. The doll which was dressed in an American flag was initially placed on eBay on Sunday but later taken down by the seller.", "I miss my daughter Casey. Do not form any judgments because I`ll tell you, you don`t want to be in any of our family`s shoes no matter what it is. Casey deserves prayer. She deserves understanding. She deserves love. She deserves letters. Take the time to write a letter to her. You could just say hi, Casey, I`m thinking about you today. You can do it for me, I would love it. If you could do it for my son, for Cindy. You can do it for Caylee.", "Tonight, the Anthony family refusing to answer questions under oath set down in just 48 hours. To Kathi Belich with WFTV, what is their reason for not wanting to answer questions under oath?", "Well, their attorney says that it`s just aimed at annoying, embarrassing them, causing further anguish that they are both emotionally fragile. Their attorney mentioned how everyone knows that George, apparently, tried to kill himself last month and that Cindy is just as emotionally fragile at this point. Both are seeking counseling to get them through this. He also talks about concerns over whether private information might go public. There is some sort of dispute over whether this proceeding is public. It`s Zenaida Gonzalez`s attorney`s belief that it is a public proceeding and that`s another reason why they`re trying to prevent this at this point.", "With me, Keith Mitnik, co-counsel for Zenaida Fernandez- Gonzalez, the woman that the tot mom named as the kidnapper of little Caylee. She has been cleared. Mr. Mitnik, what do you make of the Anthonys` claims?", "The claim that she can`t come suddenly to a deposition is very frustrating. We`ve had this case set. This deposition set for over a -- for a month and it was cleared through her lawyers. They said fine, we`ll bring her. You don`t even need to subpoena her. Now suddenly at the 11th hour, they can`t come. You can`t just stand in the way of the truth. This is a serious matter. It`s not a game that`s played to say I feel like playing today and the next day I don`t.", "What are the private matters they fear will become public, Mr. Mitnik?", "Yes.", "What are the private matters they fear you will make public, Mr. Mitnik?", "I have no interest in making anything public. I have an interest in doing what`s right for my client in these proceedings. I have no clue of what it is they`re so scared of, but I know it`s not my problem nor my client`s problem.", "To Drew Petrimoulx with WDBO, any idea which way the judge is leaning right now? Is he going to make these depositions go forward?", "Well, we could have an emergency meeting tomorrow where the judge would have to decide on that. As to what the judge will think, you know, it`s hard to say in this case. Before, he`s delayed hearings like this when they involved Casey Anthony. Whether he would be willing to delay them when they involved her parents, we might have to wait until tomorrow to see that.", "To Kathi Belich. Kathi, what about brother, Lee? Is he agreeing to go forward with the questioning under oath?", "As far as we know, he does not plan to fight the depositions. He`s scheduled for Friday morning at 9:00.", "To the lawyers, Raymond Giudice out of Atlanta, Alex Sanchez out of New York. Ray Giudice, do they have a leg to stand on fighting the depositions?", "I thought their answer for protective motion was very weak. It attached no medical evidence indicating that Cindy and George were not medically competent to testify. I do think that there might be some restrictions on the deposition and that the deposition may be private, not allowing the public and the media and sealed until used by court.", "And Alex Sanchez, there are rules that apply to depositions. You can argue against a question if it`s beyond the scope.", "Yes. All of these matters do have certain rules and regulations and if there`s some question that is improper and it`s placed to the parties, the person can object, and they can actually get a judge to intervene at that point to make a ruling whether or not the questioning should go on.", "So the Anthonys` arguments about not testifying under oath are getting weaker and weaker under the law. Joining me right now, Andy Kahn, director of the Houston Mayor`s Crime Victim`s Office. He monitors murderabilia sites all across the world. Andy, what do you make of this nutjob that is still selling Caylee Sunshine dolls, still trying to make money off Caylee bracelets, t-shirts and now we hear that there is a doll like tot mom draped in the flag for sale. When will it end, Andy?", "It`s not going to end. This is just the beginning of the merchandising and marketing of both Caylee Anthony and Casey Anthony. And you remember the nutjob that was on your show and the day after, they -- all of a sudden they said we`re no longer going to be selling the Caylee doll. Well, guess what? On February 28th orders will be shipped so that was a bold-faced lie, and as far as the other sellers of the voodoo dolls, this doll that was draped in the flag of the United States of America, from my perspective, they`re nothing but a bunch of parasitic vermin, and they`re turning murderers into godlike immortal figures simply to make a buck off of.", "You know, Andy, people ask me all the time how can it be stopped? We did have the Son of Sam laws until the U.S. Supreme Court in its wisdom reversed them. What about in Florida? But really, this cross estate boundaries. This isn`t just Florida. This is on the Internet.", "It`s on the Internet and the only way to do it is through public outrage. Unfortunately, you cannot legislate manufactured items or bad taste and until she`s convicted, the bottom line is, quite frankly, she can do whatever she wants and people can make money off of her. It`s just insidious and despicable that a tragic death of a 2-year-old girl is going to bring out some of the worst entrepreneurialship in American history.", "Joining me right now Leonard Padilla, bounty hunter out of Sacramento, California. Leonard, brother Lee Anthony is not refusing to testify under oath. Why is he going forward while the parents are saying they can`t do a depo?", "I don`t -- I don`t think Lee ever heard of Zenaida prior to possibly July the 15th or the 16th. He might have heard about Zenaida on July the 3rd, but I don`t think so. I think it was July the 15th or the 13th -- 15th through 16th and I don`t think he`s got any knowledge past that.", "To Lauren Howard, psychotherapist out of New York. Lauren, it would not have been difficult for the Anthonys to go to a doctor, to explain what they were going through and get a psychological evaluation, psychiatrist, psychologist to state they were in no shape to testify, but they didn`t do that. Raymond Giudice has pointed that out you`ve got to have a doctor`s note if you`re going to claim some type of an illness.", "It`s true, but the extent of the illness may be hard to document. I mean, yes, they`re under emotional distress. Yes, this whole thing is upsetting but that doesn`t mean that they can`t be part of the solution and seeing justice through. I`m not sure what kind of doctor would excuse them from being able to show up at a deposition. If anything, they should be happy to show up for a deposition to get this thing going down the right path of seeking justice and the right answer.", "What do you make of it, Marc Klaas?", "Oh, I completely agree. I think the Anthonys have to -- have to start moving forward on this thing. Poor Zenaida is just another one of Casey`s victims just like everybody else that is involved in this case and the quicker they can adjudicate her situation and get her out of the picture, the quicker they can move forward and everybody can finally seek final justice in this case.", "And Ray and Alex -- first to you, Ray, don`t they see how devastating this will be to the tot mom`s case when they all three say we never heard of Zenaida Gonzalez? She never came to the house to pick up the baby.", "Right, it may go to bolster the plaintiff`s claim that this was an intentional act by Casey Anthony to select Miss Gonzalez as the quote, unquote, \"kidnapper\" if they`ve never heard of her before.", "Alex?", "You know, I`m just wondering, what is the urgency to go forward with these hearings tomorrow or later on this week? I think the judge should grant them -- in this had case.", "It`s been seven or eight months now.", "I know, but this -- it`s absolutely indisputable that this family has gone through absolute hell. They should adjourn it.", "OK, so -- you know what?", "Give the family time to recover. There`s no emergency here.", "On that I agree with you. They have been through hell. Quick break. We are taking your calls. I want to remind you about the Joan Gaeta Lung Cancer Foundation, fighting lung cancer. Lung cancer claiming more lives than breast, colon, prostate, melanoma and kidney combined. Miss Gaeta, beloved wife, mom of five, a teacher lost her battle and her family is fighting back. For info or to donate go to ForJoan.org. And tonight, a special happy birthday to a Georgia friend of the show, Mike Lynch, the pastor to over 2,000 at North Star Church. Happy birthday, Mike. And tonight, please continue to pray for veteran New York defense attorney Richard Herman in the fight of a lifetime battling leukemia. Richard, please stay strong. We are thinking of you now.", "A private investigator working on the case of missing teenager Amber Dubois says another woman was attacked that same day near Amber`s school. Private investigator Bill Garcia says the woman looks a lot like Amber and told him that a group of men got out of the van and tried to force her inside the vehicle. She told Garcia she was able to get away from the men who tried to take her near the Escondido High School where Amber is a student. Authorities say Amber`s cell phone was turned on briefly the day after she disappeared, but hasn`t been turned on since. Police are not ruling anything out as Amber`s family waits and hopes saying their child would never try to leave on her own.", "This is a 14-year-old little girl. She`s a model student, loved to read, not all into Facebook and MySpace and that whole thing. In fact, she was thrilled to be going to school and swapped Valentine`s and was very involved in FFA, Future Farmers of America. In fact, she wrote a big long letter to her mother why she should get to buy a lamb, a little lamb, as part of a FFA project, a lamb she planned to name Nannette. This is a sweet, precious girl who has never run away. To Phil Farrar, news anchor and reporter with KOGO, what can you tell me, Phil?", "Well, Nancy, she was last seen on Friday the 13th and she was on her way to school and her mother said she was looking forward to that day, as you said. That was the day before Valentine`s Day, but it was also Friday the 13th and she was supposed to exchange these cards and gifts and this, we believe, was shortly after 7:00 in the morning.", "To Bill Garcia, a California licensed private investigator, he is helping the family in their search. Bill, what can you tell me about an attempted kidnap of a similar-looking person in the same area?", "I`ll have to make a slight correction. It actually occurred on February 2nd, and it was about 3:30 in the afternoon. This woman so much looks so similar to Amber that I asked if I could take photos of her, and she does. She looks like a high school girl of similar height and build.", "Now are you telling me the similar transaction occurred on February 2nd?", "The similar abduction occurred on February 2nd, yes, at about 3:30 in the afternoon.", "Correct, I was.", "Which was right about the end of school.", "Yes, I wasn`t sure what you thought you were clearing up, but in any event, what have you learned about the disappearance of little Amber?", "Well, we`ve learned that she`s not a runaway. Her family does not believe she`s a runaway. When we got involved in this case we did not feel she was a runaway. Correction, the Escondido police have stopped physical searches. You can`t do that. You have to keep searching for these children until they`re found and that`s -- that is the point that we got involved was Friday morning.", "Has the family been polygraphed?", "The family came forward immediately and volunteered to be polygraphed. The entire family has been cleared of anything with these polygraphs.", "Now she had a debit card. Has that been used?", "It has not. There`s been no activity on that nor has the check that she was given by family for the lamb been cashed.", "And where are police? Where have they been searching?", "Well, police have been conducting investigative situations. They stopped their physical search by utilizing their people and San Diego County sheriff.", "Why?", ". search and rescue people on Thursday. So there has been no.", "Why? Why did they quit?", "No new evidence. There was nothing to substantiate where she might be so they stopped on Thursday evening.", "Did little Amber have a cell phone? Has it been used?", "Amber did have a cell phone. She apparently had taken it with her and it was not found at home. Apparently the next day, there was a -- about a 30-second blast on it where they -- police were able to get one ping from one tower, but the location outside of Escondido has not been divulged.", "Out to the lines, Sharon in Virginia, hi, Sharon.", "Hi, how are you?", "I`m good, dear, what`s your question?", "I was wondering if there was any way that you could talk to this one girl who said that she -- someone tried to kidnap her and tried to think if it`s the same guy that got Amber.", "Well what do we think about that, Bill Garcia?", "Well, there have been a series of attempted abductions of teenage girls in the north San Diego County area and in most instances the description is an older model white utility van. No further description other than there has been reported to be at least one to three Hispanic men. In one situation within the last month a teenage girl was abducted. She was held for approximately 20 minutes before being released and this was reported by San Diego County Sheriff.", "To Dr. David Posey, medical examiner joining us out of L.A. Dr. Posey, thank you for being with us. Doctor, if she were forced into a van on her way to school which is extremely rare, 7:00 a.m. in the morning. It is very disturbing. What forensic evidence, if any, would you expect to find in that van?", "Well, I think trace evidence would be one thing we`d be looking for. Obviously, she may leave particles of clothing, there may be DNA from little flecks of skin coming off. If she accidentally cut herself, there could be some blood there, so there`s all kinds of evidence if a van could be found to tie her to the van. So those would be the things as an investigator I`d be looking for.", "To the lawyers, Ray Giudice, Alex Sanchez, a reward is up, Alex, by the family. Do you believe rewards have helped? Have they helped in cases you have handled?", "I think it will help. Because one thing about teenagers, they don`t keep secrets very well and they love money. And if there`s a kid out there who has any information, please go to police. If this young is watching the show right now, call the show and we`ll put you in contact with your mother.", "Ray Giudice, rewards help?", "They always do. Because every time the reward goes up, it goes on the media, it raises attention to the case.", "And to Lauren Howard, this does not sound like the kind of girl who would put her parents through this kind of pain.", "No, it doesn`t but it also doesn`t sound like the kind of girl who would just go -- just go off with a stranger. So it begs the question, did she know this person? It`s a tough one, Nancy. This is a tough one.", "Absolutely not. I don`t think she`s a runaway. She had too many things planned. There was nothing taken from the home. Usually in a runaway situation, I mean, they at least take a change of clothes. That`s not the case here. The little cash that she had was not taken.", "I went bed at night and just wake up and hope she`s going to be here. I`m trying to keep things positive. It`s really hard.", "There is nothing to suggest this little girl ran away. No clothes were taken. The money, the cash in her room that she had saved up was not taken. Her debit card or cell phone not used. Out to the lines, Deb in Illinois, hi, Deb. Deb, are you with me?", "Yes.", "Hi, what`s your question, dear?", "Are you sure that maybe she didn`t run away, by any chance?", "Marc Klaas, you have studied these cases so -- for so long, what do you think?", "Well, given the history of the little girl and everything that everybody says about her, I think the chances of her having run away are very, very remote. I think the only indication that that might be a possibility is the fact that some of her friends claim they have seen her, but again, that could always be something else as well.", "John Lucich, what do you make of it?", "No way. Absolutely not. There`s so much evidence that says that this girl was taken. She was on her way to school, end of story.", "00 in the morning with the check in her pocket. To Deborah in Florida. Hi, Deb, what`s your question?", "Oh, hello. Would the police let us know if there were cameras? There must be have been cameras on some buildings or businesses in the area?", "Good question. Bill Garcia, have they checked into the camera, surveillance video?", "Actually, there was cameras at the school, at the high school. There was also intersection cameras. We.", "Did they get anything?", "They did not. They were too grainy and it was a drab day so there wasn`t anything useful.", "Everyone, take a look at this little girl. 1-888-55-AMBER. Or www.bringamberhome.com. Let`s stop and remember Army Captain Robert Vallejo II, 28, Richland Hills, Texas, killed Iraq. A Texas University grad. Loved military science, jogging every morning at 5:00 a.m. Lost his life one day before his wife found out she`s having a baby boy. Leaves behind parents Robert and Juanita, three sisters, widow Hillary Ann and a baby son he will never meet, Robert. Robert Vallejo, American hero. Thanks to our guests but especially to you for being with us. I`ll see you tomorrow night 8:00 sharp Eastern. And until then, good night, friend. 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{"id": "CNN-78884", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-11-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0311/06/lad.05.html", "summary": "Bounty Hunter: Microsoft Creates Anti-Virus Reward Program", "utt": ["Well it's not the wild, wild west, it's the wild, wild Web. Microsoft is putting up a bounty of $5 million to catch virus writers. Carrie Lee has the story from the Nasdaq market site in Times Square. So that's quite a bit of money to do this.", "It really is any way you slice it, Heidi. However, if any company can afford to do this, it's Microsoft, which has over $50 billion in cash. So the world's No. 1 software maker announcing a $5 million anti- virus award program. And Microsoft promises to pay the first rewards of $250,000 each to anyone who helps authorities find and convict the authors of the original Blaster and So-Big Internet infections unleashed earlier this year. Those viruses really affected a lot of Microsoft PCs, PCs that run on Microsoft's Windows system. So Microsoft certainly has a vested interest in trying to curb this type of problem. The question, of course, will it work, and opinions here differ. Some say that to put a bounty on these authors' heads will pretty much increase their notoriety, also increase their egos. Others say, though, that the lure of riches could very well prompt people to call the authorities, get some information to them and get the money, $250,000 a pretty big incentive for some. Almost like the Web is the wild, wild west these days. One person says these authors are the gunslingers of the modern ago. So we'll see if this program, this $5 million program is effective.", "We will. And you're right, if Microsoft has that money, that is for sure. All right. Carrie Lee from the Nasdaq market site, we appreciate it this morning. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Program>"], "speaker": ["HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "CARRIE LEE, CNN FINANCIAL NEWS CORRESPONDENT", "COLLINS"]}
{"id": "CNN-408187", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2020-08-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/13/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Sixt Lays Out Plans For Post-Pandemic Growth", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Richard Quest. There is more QUEST MEANS BUSINESS in just a moment. U.S. markets are pushing the boundaries of records. We'll look at the moment -- in a moment, I'll speak to the former World Bank President Robert Zoellick to get his take on that. And Donald Trump says Israel and the UAE can now collaborate on tech. I'll be speaking to an Israeli tech chief executive on the benefits that Israel -- well, both sides can gain from collaboration and working in the future. All of that, all of it comes after I've briefed you on the day's events. Because this is CNN, and on this network, the news always comes first. The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an urgent meeting of his top leadership, following the U.S. announcing a peace deal between Israel and the UAE. While the deal requires Israel to suspend annexation of the West Bank, Palestinians have long urged Arab nations not to normalize ties with Israel, as long as the Israeli Palestinian conflict remains unresolved. President Trump is explicitly linking his opposition to funding the Postal Service to his criticism of mail-in voting. He says the Postal Service won't be able to get to handle the influx of ballots if it doesn't get an additional $25 billion in funding. And Mr. Trump opposes that funding, claiming Democrats want to sabotage the election. The Parliament chief is calling for sanctions against Belarus over its crackdown on protesters. Davis Sassoli says there should be consequences for using what he calls brutal force against demonstrators. Just 7,000 people have been arrested over rallies over Sunday's disputed presidential elections. The car rental giant Sixt has noted a 37 percent drop in first-half earnings of the year. And despite the drop, though, the company does say success. It does see some light at the end of the tunnel. The company is rolling out new initiatives and hoping they can get it back on its feet after the pandemic. The company's chief executive at Sixt joins me now from Munich. Erich, thank you, sir. And I'm not surprised that you've seen these down numbers would be remarkable if anything else, but how do you propose to get people renting cars again?", "Well, first, Richard, thanks for having me here with you. Well, look, yes, we just published our number. And I can tell you, we expected much worse numbers and we achieved if you imagine what happened in this crisis. And I think we're doing much better than our competitors are doing. We're good for us. One competitor went to -- into chapter 11. Another major competitor has now see equity on the wrong side of the balance sheet, where our company is financially extremely solid and can vessel heavy storms. And I tell you, we were expecting a much larger drop. But what helps us is that we have many, many downtown locations and that we offer to our customers a wide variety of mobility products. We are not only renting cars; we do car sharing; we do car ride, and we have a new subscription model, which makes it very, very interesting to not purchase a car or diesel car, but just pay for the time you use it. I think we will revolutionize this industry.", "Right. So, revolutionizing the industry is fair and good if people want cars, and I guess certainly in -- and I appreciate what you said about the new modes, as well, if people don't want cars full stop, because either they're not going anywhere or the pandemic has still got a grip on them, are you prepared for many more quarters of hard going?", "Yes, we do. We have 1-1/2 billion euros which is about 1.8 billion U.S. dollars equity. By far, it's the strongest in the industry. We could survive several years with even the drastic drop in traffic, but I'll tell you one thing. In downtown offices, we are already coming in Europe and the United States, very close to pre-corona times. In Europe, on some airports, we are already at pre-corona times hotspots like Majorca, like Sardinia in Italy, like the French Quarter", "Now, the way forward,", "I think, Richard, that's -- I think you're pretty, really smart. You see, it really helps us. It's a business consolidates. So, only a few car rental companies dominating worldwide markets, and luckily enough, we are one of them. And we are financially so solid. And we have been very careful with big acquisitions, very careful with big acquisitions. But if there are smaller possibilities, we grab them like we did in midst of crisis we purchased 10 major United States airports with a market volume pre-Corona of $3.4 billion U.S. dollars out of chapter 11 carefully speaking reasonable price. So, yes, we are always ready to look for opportunities. But we are careful and we never did it in the history of our company, acquiring big, big companies. Such a major risk because different cultures, et cetera.", "All right. Erich, it is good to see you.", "But we're looking at interest and following obviously", "Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Erich, it's good to see you. And apologies, of course, the satellite link -- or satellite link -- the link between myself and Munich, of course, there is a delay, which often does mean, it sounds like I'm interrupting unnecessarily. But Erich, thank you. I appreciate it, joining me from Sixt. Now, the markets, if you look at the numbers, you'll see what's happening. And the markets are fascinating, because they're giving a message of optimism, or at least they were. I mean, these are small losses, but we were at record gains. And even the NASDAQ was up by some half a percent or so. Bob Zoellick is with me, the former President of the World Bank, author of \"America in the World.\" He joins me from McLean, Virginia. And we'll -- Bob, we'll talk about the book in just a second. I want to get your take on the deal, the peace agreement between Israel and the UAE, and where you see the opportunities are for two very powerful tech economic -- economies by coming together?", "Well, Richard, first, it's great to be with you. I haven't seen you for a while. Glad to see you're doing well. So, on Israel and the UAE, I think this is a step that just codifies what we've been seeing happening in the region, in general. So, with the anxiety of the Gulf Arab States towards Iran and the dangers of Iran, which is a shared concern that Israel has, and also the dangers that it posed that Iran's militia posed in Lebanon or in Syria or others. This is a relationship that was occurring under the surface. And clearly, it's a significant statement about where both countries see their future challenges, but also their opportunities.", "So, to your book, \"America in the World,\" as somebody who's been around the seats of power for a year or two, let's begin -- and could you just -- can you support the reelection -- will you support the reelection of Donald Trump?", "Well, Richard, from the very start in 2016, I expressed my strong opposition to President Trump partly based on policy but quite significantly based on what I saw were some serious character flaws. And I was quite worried that he would undermine fundamental institutions and even the Constitution. So, it gives me no joy to say that I've seen that happen. And I think over this year, we've seen one other dimension I was worried about, which is competence and performance, because the United States' performance in this pandemic has been tragic.", "Isn't there a difference between -- I mean, the President talks about -- and I'm not making a personal political point here when I say, the President made talks about Make America Great Again. But I traveled a fair bit around the world, and probably not as much as you, sir, but I travel for a bit, the rest of the world in most cases is laughing of what they see is happening in the United States.", "Well, that's one of the sad aspects would you take if you cross the scope of U.S. history that U.S. has achieved a tremendous amount. Of course, it has to be a model at home, which it's not been today, but then also the role that it can play across the world. I think one fundamental difference, Richard, is President Trump is purely transactional. And it's just a very narrow view. Most successful American presidents and leaders have recognized that this is a longer-term process with your allies, with your partners, with the economic trading system. I mean, just take the fact that they negotiated a redo of the NAFTA agreement. And then, surely there afterwards, we're placing tariffs on Canada because Canada is a national security concern? So, underneath some of the tos and fros of diplomacy, it has to become some basis of trust and reliability. I worked as, you know, for President Bush 41 at the end of the Cold War. You know, his credibility, his reputation was critical in putting together coalitions, ending the Cold War peacefully. It's been part of the diplomacy I tried to exercise whether for the U.S. government or with the World Bank. And sad to say, we don't have that today. It gives me no pleasure to acknowledge it, but it's a reality.", "And we'll talk more, please, sir, now you've written your book. Come back and talk more, especially on any deal that there might be between any further deals with China. We'd love to have your on QUEST MEANS BUSINESS more often, sir. I appreciate your time with us tonight.", "Thank you, Richard.", "Bob Zoellick joining me. Now, still ahead, these are scenes in many of the lakes and ponds in India. One man gave up his corporate career to be part of the solution. His story is next on CNN's \"CALL TO EARTH.\""], "speaker": ["RICHARD QUEST, CNN INTERNATIONAL HOST", "ERICH SIXT, CEO, SIXT", "QUEST", "SIXT", "QUEST", "SIXT", "QUEST", "SIXT", "QUEST", "ROBERT ZOELLICK, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK (via Skype)", "QUEST", "ZOELLICK", "QUEST", "ZOELLICK", "QUEST", "ZOELLICK", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-177206", "program": "STUDENT NEWS", "date": "2011-12-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/06/sn.01.html", "summary": "European Leaders Work to Prevent Another Debt Crisis; Iran Claims to Have Shot Down U.S. Drone", "utt": ["Mr. Walker`s (ph) Hoover High School history class doesn`t want to \"force\" the news on you.", "But may the Azuz be with you.", "The Azuz is with you. Thanks to Hoover High School and our viewers from all over the galaxy. This is CNN Student News, bringing you headlines from near and far, far away. Leaders in Europe are trying to prevent another debt crisis with a new money plan, and this is needed because some European countries are spending much more money than they`re taking in. They`re running on huge deficits. And because many of them share the same currency -- the euro -- if one of these governments goes under, it could hurt all of their economies, the U.S. economy, and others worldwide.", "Here are two of the major players, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, getting out of the car here, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. These two leaders represent the two largest economies in Europe. They believe their new plan will prevent another major debt crisis and stabilize Europe`s economies. But it still has to be ratified by most members of the European Union and what`s unknown is if it will be and if it will work.", "Well, geography is playing a part in the latest disagreement between the U.S. and Iran. These two countries are not friendly, and Iran claims it recently shot down a U.S. drone, an unmanned aircraft used by the military to gather information. Iran says the drone was flying over its airspace. The U.S. says its drones don`t fly over Iranian airspace. Barbara Starr explains how else geography factors in and why this is bad new for U.S. intelligence if Iran is telling the truth.", "Iranian authorities say they shot down a highly classified U.S. unmanned spy plane over its territory along its eastern border with Afghanistan. Iran says the drone they shot down is an RQ-170. Now that`s one of the most secret drones in the U.S. military and intelligence arsenal, a stealth drone that can fly largely undetected, gathering intelligence and targeting information. So far the U.S., using the NATO alliance in Afghanistan to issue a statement, is only saying, quote, \"The UAV to which the Iranians are referring may be a U.S. unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western Afghanistan late last week. The operators of the UAV lost control of the aircraft and had been working to determine its status.\" That according to the statement. Now U.S. officials tell CNN the flight crew operating the drone did report a loss of flight controls before the drone went down. But they`re not saying it was shot down and they`re not saying it`s an RQ-170. The key question now is, shot down or not, do the Iranians have their hands on classified U.S. intelligence technology? If the Iranians do, the U.S. knows it`s not getting any of that back -- Barbara Starr, CNN, Washington.", "See if you can ID me. I`m a country located in southeast Asia just north of Malaysia. I`ve been in the news recently for months of historic flooding. My largest city is also my capital, Bangkok. I`m Thailand, home to the world`s longest serving monarch.", "That monarch is Bhumibol Adulyadej. He was formally crowned king of Thailand in 1950. That was two years before Queen Elizabeth began her reign in Britain. King Adulyadej is now celebrating his 84th birthday.", "Thailand is going to be celebrating this all week. It`s a chance for many people there to have a break from recovering from the floods and to be part of events that also include fathers` day and the pardon of tens of thousands of prisoners. Like Britain, Thailand has a constitutional monarchy, which means the monarch`s powers are limited, and that the country`s parliament has the decision-making power. Unlike Britain, Thailand`s constitution puts the king in a place of worship, and the people aren`t allowed to criticize him.", "Mail delivery could slow down in the new year. The United States Postal Service is losing billions of dollars. Some blame email for that; others blame bad planning in the organization. Bottom line: it needs money.", "So the USPS is proposing to cut costs by slowing down service. A first-class letter currently takes one to three days to deliver. It would take two to five days with more post offices and mail processing places closed. Twenty-eight thousand postal workers would lose their jobs by the end of next year. The service says the plan will save it more than $2 billion, but Congress would have to approve it.", "Well, the U.S.-led war continues in Afghanistan, but thousands of America`s troops are returning home from Iraq as the war there quickly winds down. And though the country they`re leaving behind has an uncertain future, the one they`re coming home to has its arms outstretched. You`re going to see what we mean in this report by Chris Lawrence.", "Dismissed.", "At the first glimpse of her father in nearly a year, Alexandria Frey showed us just how fast a 14- year old can move. She started high school while her dad was gone. Her mom had to do everything alone.", "It has been a very long 10 months. Glad it`s over.", "Is there any way to describe what it feels like to have your dad back after so long?", "No. I don`t know, it`s good.", "What did you miss most about him?", "He was more like my best friend, so yes.", "Now you`ve got your best friend back?", "Yes. I had more of a bond with him than anything, so, yes.", "Go enjoy your time.", "The last few hours of waiting were the toughest. Then, the plane full of soldiers finally landed, and the troops got a welcome home fit for rocks stars. Christmas wishes were answered, the fight in Iraq, finished. For Sgt. Maj. Erik Frey, it`s bittersweet.", "I guess, in one sense, I feel happy that it`s -- that it`s over with and that we`re getting all of our (inaudible) out. But then you kind of look back at the sacrifices that our -- that our soldiers have made and our family members have made.", "Both in blood and money.", "Watch out!", "At one point, the U.S. was spending $5,000 per second in Iraq. The war took nearly 4,500 American lives, and 32,000 troops came home wounded. But these are some of the last Americans to leave Iraq. And they won`t be going back.", "This was my third deployment, first one with both of these guys, and it was a lot harder, but it just makes it that much sweeter coming home.", "It`s a new blog called \"Schools of Thought.\" It`s about all things education. It`s a click away at cnnstudentnews.com. And it`s something you teachers are going to love. \"Schools of Thought\" includes perspectives that include policies, practices and people. It makes trending stories in your world of education as close as your computer screen.", "Robots are defined as machines that can do things for us, or in our place. We don`t often think of how they can influence us. For an interesting view on that, we`re headed to a high school in San Antonio, Texas, where it`s the robots that are helping build the students.", "Yes, I wanted to try something different, so I was like, you know what, why not robotics?", "It`s an opportunity for them to do something they`ve never done before. A lot of them are like, I`ve never worked with tools; I`ve never worked on a computer. And they found out, after six weeks, they can do it. And there`s nothing like getting a robot out there and seeing it do well, and the pride you have from doing something like that.", "It opens possibilities for others, so.", "And the wave of the future seems to be more folks are students that are educated in technology and science and engineering. You guys are already doing it, so thank you for at least accomplishing that much.", "This organization is all about helping each other, learning more, trying to become smarter as a group, as basically a community.", "Some of the students, it actually influences the jobs they do have. We`ve had students go to Lockheed and Boeing. We`ve had some that -- it can be as simple as belonging to a group. And, because of that, it`s important. I`ve already seen students` grades going up, their attendance going up, their leadership going up. And they don`t realize it`s happening until they get an opportunity like this.", "We`ve got lights. We`ve got tinsel. We`ve got ornaments. We hope we don`t have this:", "A snake in our Christmas tree.", "That`s exactly what a six-year old recently found in this Christmas tree. The snake wasn`t poisonous, but it wasn`t welcome, either, as you can hear by the screams. So they got it out of there before it could scare Santa. The family who sent in this iReport says the tree is artificial, but the snake wasn`t, so it now lives out in the woods.", ". though we hear the experience scared it out of its skin. The snake managed to hold its tongue through the ordeal, so we never got \"hiss\" side of the story. CNN Student News, back tomorrow. Bye-bye. END"], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GROUP", "CARL AZUZ, HOST, CNN STUDENT NEWS", "AZUZ (voice-over)", "AZUZ", "BARBARA STARR, CNN REPORTER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "AZUZ", "AZUZ (voice-over)", "AZUZ", "AZUZ (voice-over)", "AZUZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN REPORTER (voice-over)", "MICHELLE FREY", "LAWRENCE", "ALEXANDRIA FREY", "LAWRENCE", "A. FREY", "LAWRENCE", "A. FREY", "LAWRENCE", "LAWRENCE (voice-over)", "SGT. MAJ. ERIK FREY, U.S. ARMY", "LAWRENCE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LAWRENCE (voice-over)", "MAJ. 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{"id": "CNN-131674", "program": "YOUR MONEY", "date": "2008-10-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0810/19/cnnitm.01.html", "summary": "How Did We Get Into This Crisis?", "utt": ["Well the banks are on their way to getting their bail out, but the root of all the financial kasius actually could lie in the families who in many cases simply could not afford to remain in their homes. Before you start throwing things at me I'm not saying that they were necessarily at fault, but it does start with the home owner and their inability to pay their mortgage.", "Who can bailout the home owners when they need a capital injection of their own? The answer may surprise you. Carol Costello has a look.", "In the Macomb County, Michigan $150,049. There's a fire sale going on.", "$75,600.", "Hundreds of homes seized by banks are being auctioned off.", "$49,000.", "At bargain basement prices.", "That just breaks -- breaks my heart. It does. You know, seeing it like it is.", "The Ward's lost their home to foreclosure in 2007 after refinancing. They say they thought the interest rate was fixed. It was not. Today their lost family home sits empty, bought at auction by a bank for $20,000. It's not only devastating for the Ward's, but to their former neighbors who are seeing the value of their own homes plummet. It irks real estate agent Donna Caumartin.", "This home went up on the market and it was listed for $109,900. Now it's listed for $45,000. It's the same house. It's a tremendous loss to the bank. Why wouldn't they try to do a loan modification or something or refinance it at different terms?", "Why do you think the banks won't negotiate with people?", "I don't know. I really don't know.", "Groups that help troubled homeowners say it's because many banks don't own the mortgages. They simply handle the paperwork for investors.", "The servicers who the homeowners make their mortgage payments to, they're overwhelmed and they're not willing to staff up and frankly they have no skin in the game. So if someone goes to foreclosure, they don't lose anything.", "The Ward's did try to renegotiate with their lender, Washington Mutual, a bank seized by the federal government last month because it handed out so many bad loans.", "I spend hours, days on the phone with our finance company, our bank asking them what I can do, and the only thing they told me was they need, in the amounts of $20,000 up front and then they wanted to double our house payment also. On New Year's Eve at 4:00 in the afternoon a gentleman came and put a notice on my home that there was a sheriff sale on my home.", "Both presidential candidates want to help people like the Wards. John McCain wants to use taxpayer money to buy and refinance troubled mortgages. Barack Obama wants a 90-day payment break for struggling homeowners. But it's too late for the Wards. Their house has already been auctioned off. They rent now, nine blocks from their old home and yes, they found a way to cope.", "A lot of patience and a lot of love. It's the only way we can do it. Carol Costello, CNN, Macomb County, Michigan.", "So, is it the banks? Is it the home owners? Who's to blame? We turn once again to our panel; Stephen Leeb is president of Leeb Capital Management. Diane Brady is a senior writer with \"Business Week\" and Louis Barajas is a personal wealth adviser. You hear each of these individual tales and you get frustrated and there are millions of people out there who didn't get into a mortgage that they couldn't afford, that knew what was in the paperwork and you wonder about if we bail out home owners who have these bad mortgages, what about the people that play by the rules? It's a knot. You said it's a knot.", "I think it's easy to blame homeowners. I think there were a lot of deceptive marketing practices I can tell you when I went to get a mortgage, a 30 year jumbo; they pushed us to get an adjustable rate mortgage because the rates were better. People assumed values would go up, zero money down. I think the blame has to lie primarily with the people who marketed these loans to a very vulnerable population.", "I don't want to say Diane was smarter than I was because I did take an adjustable rate mortgage initially and then I said uh-oh, things are not going stay this way and I refinanced and got a fixed rate mortgage.", "You manage money for a living.", "I do.", "That's the story.", "The point is right now we're all blaming -- everybody -- somebody is responsible for all of this. We have to take personal responsibility because if people are in your home you have to do something, if the banks aren't negotiating go to the Internet and go to hope now. I would call that number, I would double check that somebody would pick up the line and they did.", "But there are a lot of people who don't qualify under the hope now provision.", "If you defaulted on a payment you don't qualify.", "The people who call us are in trouble and I go through that list with them on hope now, there is a bunch of criteria you have to meet.", "Right.", "There are a whole lot of people in trouble.", "OK, but we have to respond and we can't react. We're all panicking and responding. Look, if I can get help then we have to ask. Fear is paralyzing everybody.", "Here's a question. I think Carol Costello's point is right. Both candidates would like to somehow find a solution to this problem. I'm not sure if I'd get John McCain's solution entirely because it is going to mean renegotiating mortgages, and he wants to renegotiate mortgages at a rate that's reflective of the value of the home. Barack Obama would like a moratorium. I don't know what that solves because it sounds to me like that you get yourself 90 days more and then you got yourself in the same pickle. Diane you looked at these, is one of these the solution or does the solution lie somewhere else?", "I think there is probably a combination of the two. Obviously, we've seen the government take radical action in the last few weeks. They can take action to make sure we can renegotiate mortgages. People talked about how in bankruptcy court your primary home cannot be renegotiated, but your yacht can in terms of the loan. That can change. There's a lot of impetus right now in Congress to basically make sure that the homeowner gets some relief. You probably need some combination of the two. People will need longer to pay. That's why you restructure your debt.", "He said fear paralyzes and that's true. There are probably are people that no longer qualify for hope now, but there are a lot of people that do that are just sitting back just so fearful and they don't know where to turn. People are scared to death right now, and I have to say one thing, come November 4th, whatever happens, we're going to probably have someone, almost know is who will unfreeze fear to some extent because he will be much more popular than the current president. This has been one of the problems here. We have somebody with a 20 percent approval rating, deserved or not, I'm not making a comment on that. You can't inspire people with that kind of approval rating, so there is some hope out here.", "It's not just fear because in the last ten years Americans have overspent by $3 trillion. $3 trillion. We bought things we could not afford whether it was the flat screen TVs or whether it was the homes. There are a lot of people out there who simply cannot afford to live the lifestyle.", "Are we changing the behavior?", "As soon as the economy goes back up. They'll go backs to doing the same thing they have always done. I waited such a long time not to buy those shoes and they start getting them and going back to the old habits.", "It is not just the consumer, the government over borrowed and business over borrowed. So this is not just a question about the consumer. All of us were living this giddy, Rome is burning lifestyle and it's now come back to haunt us and we will have to pay and I don't think it will be over in six months.", "I actually, do and I think that over in the sense that we'll be out of a recession within six months because of the money being poured into the system and also because of the emerging economies will keep things going, but, you know, the consumer issue is a very difficult one because, one, people are taught that the American dream should be more and it's the fact that actual wages and income in real terms were not going up and people except expecting that to change, so I don't think that the consumer was really spending -- the consumer was living the American dream I don't think excessively.", "It was a dream, actually, an actual dream. It was an American dream.", "Wages were not rising in real terms and -- that, you know, was what went wrong in this country.", "Stephen Leeb, thank you so much. Diane Brady, Louis Barajas, thank you so much all of you for joining us.", "Well all signs indicate we could be in a recession. We'll tell you how you can start saving right now even if your wallet is stretched to the limit and how to protect your retirement money when we come back on this special how to protect yourself against a recession in this edition of YOUR MONEY."], "speaker": ["VELSHI", "ROMANS", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COSTELLO", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COSTELLO", "JENNIFER WARD, BANK FORECLOSED ON HOME", "COSTELLO", "DONNA CAUMARTIN, SCHULTES REAL ESTATE", "COSTELLO", "CAUMARTIN", "COSTELLO", "BRUCE MARKS, NEIGHBORHOOD CORP. IF AMERICAN", "ROMANS", "KEITH WARD, BANK FORECLOSED ON HOME", "COSTELLO", "K. 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{"id": "CNN-275878", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-02-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/07/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Poll: Trump Coming Out on Top of Rivals in New Hampshire.", "utt": ["We turn to the race for the White House now, just two days left until the New Hampshire primary. The latest CNN/WMUR poll shows Donald Trump coming out on top of his Republican rivals in the state, holding an 11-point lead over Marco Rubio. On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders is leading Hillary Clinton by a two to one margin. The Republican candidates duked it out in their final debate before Tuesday's primary. Frontrunner Donald Trump pitched his \"Make America great again\" motto. Saying he knows how to deal with China.", "We don't win anymore, our country doesn't anymore, we're going with Trump and people backed down with Trump and that's what I like and that's what the country is going to like.", "Mr. Trump, thank you.", "I deal with the Chinese of the time, I do tremendous -- the largest bank in the world is one of my buildings in Manhattan, I deal with them, they tell me, they have total absolute control practically of North Korea.", "That of course his response to the news about North Korea's rocket launch. Well, Chris Christie in the meantime fired away at this man Marco Rubio, criticizing his label of experience and knocking him for what he calls a memorized speech.", "I like Marco Rubio, and he's a smart person and a good guy but he simply does not have the experience to be president of the United States and make these decisions. We've watched it happen everybody, for the last sever years, the people of New Hampshire are smart, do not make the same mistake again.", "This country already has debt problem, we don't need to add to it by electing someone who has experience at running up and destroying the credit rating of his state. But I would add this, let's dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing, he knows exactly what he's doing. First your state got a massive snowstorm two weeks ago you didn't even want to go back. They had to shame you into going back. And then you stayed there for 36 hours and then you left and came back to campaign, those are the facts. Here's the bottom-line, this notion that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing is just not ...", "There it is. There it is. The memorized 25-second speech. There it is everybody.", "As we said, duking it out. I spoke earlier with CNN Political Commentator and a Trump supported Jeffrey Lord about the debate and who he thinks came out on top.", "Well I think Donald Trump did very well. I mean, at this point he's been through what? Five, six debates whatever it is. All he had to do basically is be there and express his point of view. Everybody knows pretty much where he is on these issues. What was interesting I though was that the governors, former Governor Bush, Governor Kasich, Governor Christie seem to be the one having a good night at Marco Rubio's expense. So, I think that Donald Trump did well. I think he's still in the lead here in New Hampshire although, you know, New Hampshire voters are notoriously independent. I'm a New Englander myself and I can attest that independence. The question is whether somebody will come in second to Donald Trump who is one of the so-called lower card from the earlier debates but, you know, it won't -- could Governor Kasich grab second or former Governor Bush or Governor Christie? If that did that would do real damage to Marco Rubio and Senator Cruz as well.", "A lot of Americans watching that debate in the past few hours. Well tomorrow, it's safe to say a lot of Americans will be watching football because it is Super Bowl Sunday here in the U.S., and what does that mean? Well take a look at the number. 114 million, that's how many people in the U.S. watched the game last year, making it the most watched telecast of all time. $5 million, that's the cost of a 30-second T.V. commercial for this year's game. Also record but, hey, they're always worth it. $4.2 billion is how much money is expected to bet on the game, most of it illegally according to the American Gambling Association. A bonus of $102 will be paid to players on the winning team. Losers will get just $51,000 each. And early $5,000, that is the average cost of a ticket to see Super Bowl 50 in person, making it the most expensive sporting event in U.S. history. And just to add, about $10 will get you some beer and chips to watch the game, that's the deal. Thanks for watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Natalie Allen. Erin Burnett, \"OutFront\" is up next here and your top stories right after this."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TRUMP", "ALLEN", "CHRIS CHRISTIE, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MARCO RUBIO, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CHRISTIE", "ALLEN", "JEFFREY LORD, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-173103", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-9-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/28/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Iran Sending Ships Near U.S. Coast; Trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's Doctor", "utt": ["Iran with a real attention getter. I'm Carol Costello. The nation planning a threatening move, putting navy ships off the U.S. coast. What is Iran trying to prove? And who are they trying to test?", "I'm Ali Velshi. Republicans were hoping to hear a big announcement. Chris Christie delivering a foreign policy address at the Reagan Library last night. Could have been the perfect place to announce a bid for the White House but the New Jersey governor is still keeping us guessing on this", "And good morning to you, it is Wednesday, September 28th. Christine has the day off.", "We have a lot of news to follow. We'll tell you about Chris Christie in a minute. But up first, some tough talk from Iran. The country is threatening to move a powerful presence of navy ships very close to American waters, saying the U.S. does the same thing to them. Barbara Starr has more on this from the Pentagon. Barbara, what's going on?", "Well, Ali, I talked to some of my sources here at the Pentagon about what they thought about all of this, and I have to tell you, I got some rolling eyeballs when they were talking about this announcement by Iran. Look, international waters are open to everybody. The U.S. Navy is happy to let Iran sail into international waters, not into U.S. waters, though. But these kind of maritime operations, international naval operations that Iran is talking about is a lot harder and a lot more expensive than you might think at first blush. They're going to have to, if they want to do this, they're going to have to have a very highly trained force and they're going to have to have ships and airplanes. They're going to have to be able to refuel, resupply and stay at sea for months. That's something they haven't had a lot of practice with in Iran. Earlier this year, they sent some ships through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean. That's about the farthest they've ever gone. So, if they want to do this, the reaction there at the Pentagon is, have at it. But it's going to cost you money. It's going to cost you a lot. And is it what you really want to do? What message are you trying to send?", "I was just going to ask you that. What is Iran's real goal here?", "Well, you know, a lot of the thinking is that Iran is very determined to be perceived as a power on the world stage -- their nuclear program, their political moves, their support for some bad actors in the region that they live in. But, you know, going all the way to the east coast of the United States, what does that really get them? Much of the thinking is that Iran will stick to its naval military strategy of being the power in the Persian Gulf. Their focus for so many years has been to be able to control those vital shipping lanes through the Gulf, that's what they might be a lot better suited to, according to a lot of Pentagon officials.", "All right. Intriguing story, Barbara, thanks very much for that.", "Also this morning, drama in the courtroom. Jurors at the Michael Jackson death trial heard chilling audio from the King of Pop just weeks before he died. Michael Jackson's barely coherent, he's slurring his words. It's part of the prosecution's case against Dr. Conrad Murray, who they say is to blame for Jackson's fatal drug overdose. CNN's Don Lemon, live outside the courthouse in Los Angeles. Tell us about this audio recording.", "It came from Dr. Murray's iPhone. That's according to the people, the prosecutors yesterday. And apparently, the investigators in this case got it off of his iPhone, a recording there. And according to someone who testified yesterday, they said that was shortly after Dr. Conrad Murray started to treat Michael Jackson. Let's listen, Carol, and then we'll talk about it.", "When people leave my show, I want them to say, I've never seen nothing like this in my life. Go. Go. I've never seen nothing like this. Go. It's amazing. He's the greatest entertainer in the world.", "OK. So, when they played that in court, we were wondering, what is that? Is that Michael Jackson? We couldn't understand it. We couldn't see the words up on the screen like you're seeing them there on the screen. And everyone just sort of looked around like, what in the world is that? And the family, as well. And then if that wasn't bad enough, Carol, this photograph of Michael Jackson in the hospital on a gurney, his lifeless body. We were aghast when we saw that. The family aghast as well. And then the jurors, the look on the jurors' faces when that picture popped up, Carol and Ali, it was just -- I can't even explain what it was like to you to be inside of that courtroom and to just -- you could hear a pin drop.", "I bet. And the reason behind the release of this audiotape by prosecutors and the release of this photo is to show that Dr. Conrad Murray knew that Michael Jackson was addicted to drugs. Yet, he continued to administer these heavy doses of drug to Michael Jackson.", "Yes, yes. Yes. And that's what the prosecutor said. Listen, I want to tell you, though, that the defense in this case said, hey, listen, you know, Dr. Conrad Murray gave Michael Jackson Propofol and these drugs for two months and Michael Jackson went on about his life and he functioned. It was when he stopped giving it to him when he took his life. That's what their defense is. That's what happened. But I have to tell you, you know, I mean, Ali and Carol, we all have parents. We all have families and this has nothing to do with the guilt or innocence of Dr. Conrad Murray. But imagine sitting there, as I was and many of the members of the press and jurors and having to witness not only that, but the family, the mother of Michael Jackson having to see that and to live this all over again. I mean, it was -- everyone was on the verge of tears. It was unbelievable to see.", "Don Lemon, reporting live from Los Angeles -- thanks. For complete coverage and analysis of the Michael Jackson death trial, check out our sister network,", "No one has seen it before but there's a 2008 jailhouse videotape of Casey Anthony reacting to the news that her daughter, Caylee, remains were found. This afternoon, in Orlando, the judge who presided over her murder trial will decide whether to release it to the public. A local TV station is fighting for it. The original judge in the case ruled three years ago that the tape could not be introduced into court because it would hurt Casey's chances of getting a fair trial.", "The accused Tucson gunman Jared Loughner due back in court today to decide whether he's fit to stand trail. Loughner is diagnosed as schizophrenic. He's been on suicide watch. He's been forced to take his meds in prison. He is accused of killing six people and wounding 13 others, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords seen here on the House floor on August 1st for the debt ceiling vote.", "And a Long Island college student and six former classmates are now under arrest in an alleged SAT cheating ring. Authorities say 19-year-old Sam Eshaghoff was paid as much as $2,500 to take the SATs for six students at Great Neck North High School. They he scored as high as 2,240 out of 2,400 for them.", "A follow-up now to a story we're watching yesterday. It was a cupcake sellout at a pay by your race bake sale on the campus of U.C. Berkeley. This sale is staged by campus Republicans. They say it was meant to get -- it was meant to be racist and to get people fired up about a bill on the governor's desk that would allow colleges to consider ethnic backgrounds in the admissions process. There was no violence, but neither side backed down.", "I think even before the bake sale started, we've already met our goal, which was to start discussion about this very politically insensitive topic. I think if we had any type of forum or discussion about it, it wouldn't have reached local news, national or international.", "I think it's very offensive. I'm offended. It's fine making a point, but you can make a point at our expense. People like me.", "Hundreds of students staged a mass lay down in solid protest on campus in opposition to the Republican bake sale.", "Well, President Obama reaching out to Hispanic voters in an online roundtable later this morning. He's going to be answering questions about issues that affect Latinos. The event will be streamed live on the White House Web site. President Obama will also be visiting a Washington, D.C. high school where he will deliver his third annual back to school speech to students.", "Someone at the White House needs a refresher course in geography. Take a look at the press credentials given to reporters who are covering the president's West Coast trip. See how the three highlights are highlighted there. He's visiting Washington state, California and Colorado. There's just one problem, that's not Colorado, it's Wyoming. This is the real state of Colorado, a little south and east. But, hey, they're both rectangular and have really pretty mountains.", "All right. He sure sounded presidential, but if Chris Christie has plans to run for president in 2012, he is playing it coy. A lot of Republicans were looking to hear a big announcement from the New Jersey governor when he delivered a foreign policy speech last night at the Reagan Library, but that's not what they got.", "Are you reconsidering or are you standing firm?", "Listen. I have to tell you the truth. You folks are an incredible disappointment as an audience. The fact that that took to second question -- shows you people are off your game. That is not American exceptionalism.", "All right. So, will he or won't he run? Let's ask John Avlon. He's a CNN contributor, and senior political columnist with \"Newsweek\" and the \"Daily Beast.\" And Maggie Haberman, senior political writer for \"Politico.\" Welcome to both of you. John, last night, while he was giving a speech you and I and your wife were together at an event and you were pretty convinced, as was she, that he's not going to run. But here's something interesting: this is the first time he's been asked where he has actually been coy about this, because he hasn't been coy. Listen to some of the responses he's given every other time he's been asked. Listen to this.\\", "I don't feel ready in my heart to be president. I don't feel like I'm ready to be president. I don't want to run for president. I don't have the fire in the belly to run for president. I'm not stupid. I see the opportunity. I see it. That's not the reason to run. I threaten to commit suicide. I did. I said, what do I have to do short of suicide to convince people I'm not running? Apparently, I actually have to commit suicide.", "All right. Last night was different. He was coy.", "Last night, he was somewhat coy but did go on to say, look, I just don't feel it and that's the true. I mean, I've asked him directly, sir, are you 100 percent saying you're not going to run? He said, yes, absolutely, 100 percent. Look, I feel like this headline, Chris Christie not running, it's like that old \"SNL\" skit, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still. He's not running. The story hasn't changes. I think his team is enjoying all the interest. He is a national Republican leader and gave a great speech last night and a lot of people would love Republican candidate, but he's not running.", "Maggie?", "I don't totally agree. I mean, look, I don't think he's running, but I do think he is considering it. And I do think his answer last night was very different than we have heard. This was is not the straight talk, I'll go lay down in the street and kill myself answer that we've gotten.", "That's right. This was, you know, I am hearing what you have to say. That woman who asked him a question at the end, he said he is listening to what people are saying to him and he is taking that in. That was absolutely not, I'm not ready, I'm not feeling it -- what he has said at every other turn. Now, again, I don't think this will end up in a campaign, but I think he absolutely is thinking about it and wants people to know he's thinking about it.", "It's not just folks at meetings like this, John. It's donors. There are people with money who have not put their money behind Mitt Romney. They have not put their money behind Rick Perry, and they are saying, get into this race and we'll back you.", "And that's the real news here. I mean, I think it's the highest level donors and party recognized, frankly, that it is a weak field, especially, there's no one representing the strong center right, someone who is a fiscal conservative, who is unabashed and taken on the issues. But isn't far right on social issues necessarily. And so, I think that's the real news out of this whole courtship of Chris Christie. It's been a fascinating process. They're coming around, again, and they're stirring up this pot because they want to pressure him through the media, as well.", "Literally not taking no for an answer, and repeatedly coming back month after month. I do think this is the final window for it, where he is giving it, you know, a moment's thought. Again, I don't think he'll run, but I do think last night was interesting.", "If he ran, how would it change the race?", "Oh, he would suck all the oxygen out of the room in two seconds. I think that the path is not totally clear, but he would -- you know, it would very, very problematic for Mitt Romney because they would draw from very similar areas, donors, supporters, voters, what have you. I think it would set up this epic battle between him and Rick Perry because Rick Perry is not going to gently go into that goodnight.", "No, but he doesn't overlap with the Bachmann/Perry/Palin aspect to the party. He would take support --", "He's not so interested on the social issues.", "No.", "Correct.", "But here's what's fascinating. You know, early on, one of the first indications he'd be a strong candidate was this October Richmond, Virginia, Tea Party straw poll which he won and he'd only be in office 10 minutes. So, he has an enormous amount of grassroots among the Tea Party because of his record in office. You listened to that speech last night, what was fascinating is he is talking about leadership, criticizing the president for failure of leadership, but also talking about the importance of compromise, principled compromise in Washington. And that's not the message you'll hear to appeal to the Republican base.", "Absolutely. And that was also not a message of, you know, sort of strict hard right moment that this party is in right now. He was talking not in the neocon vein of, you know, go out and attack everyone who we think is hurting our interest overseas. He was very much more pick and choose, much more Jon Huntsman-like, frankly, than what you see --", "Yes. The problem with Jon Huntsman is he can't move, he can't crack 2 percent poll.", "That is indeed a problem. And I think Chris Christie probably would do a little better than that, but Chris Christie is not tested either.", "Yes, but could he take one?", "The northeastern elite conservatives, including \"The Wall Street Journal,\" endorse Jon Huntsman or his economic --", "His plan.", "That's right.", "You know what I mean? The Northeast money that hasn't committed itself yet hasn't got itself a candidate and certainly hasn't got itself a candidate, a mainstream Republican primary voters seem to be interested in.", "And the real question, is this Chris Christie's time? He is sort of the un-Obama, he's unapologetic, he's unabashed, he's articulated his positions and it's all about strong leadership, unapologetic leadership. And so, that's a real question. He's only been in office two years and I think he realizes he doesn't feel ready, but is this his time?", "But the national stage is different, as Rick Perry is seeing. It's not the same, just no reporters.", "There have been concerns about his health. They popped up. He's quite overweight. He said he's trying to tackle that. But he's quite overweight and it seems to be something about breathlessness and heart asthma. Can this -- does that affect him? Can that change when he gets into a race. And does that guy have stamina and runs that busy schedule anyway?", "I think that he has stamina and would be able to do it. But I do think that was a blip that concerned a lot of people, especially those supporting him. And you never understand how rigorous a campaign is at a presidential level until you are in it. So, that would be in the back of a lot of people's minds, not the least of which would be his and his families.", "Does he do what Mike Huckabee did? Get in on some regimen, lose a lot of weight and show that as part of his drive.", "I think, you know, in 2016, you know, you can't play this far out. But I think you'll see the guy losing a bit of weight if he's serious about running for president. He owns it. He says, look, yes, I'm fat. Man up, deal with it. But that's part of what people like. He's an authentic guy. People want authenticity.", "He does actually deliver that. There's no question about that. Great talking to you both, Maggie Haberman and John Avlon. John has got a great piece, by the way, right now because of our in depth coverage on CNN about broken government. It's called \"Politics as ideological blood sport.\"", "You always come up with these good things. Blood sport. I like it. Chris Christie's funny. I think that's his biggest asset.", "That's very true.", "The man is funny.", "Yes. He makes people laugh. You're right.", "Still ahead, incredible video. An underground gas leak actually sets a road on fire. So, how do firefighters put out the flames and what exactly is underneath the street?", "Yes. And who's causing that? Plus, no more rain. Much of the country wondering his morning when we will see the sun again. Plus, new action in the tropics. Rob is all over that from a very special place in Florida.", "And love the skin you're in. That's the message from new children's book author and actor, Taye Diggs. Taye joins us live in our studio, and I'm pretty excited about that. It's 15 minutes past the hour."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "ALI VELSHI, CNN ANCHOR", "AMERICAN MORNING. COSTELLO", "VELSHI", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "STARR", "VELSHI", "COSTELLO", "DON LEMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MICHAEL JACKSON, KING OF POP", "LEMON", "COSTELLO", "LEMON", "COSTELLO", "HLN.  VELSHI", "COSTELLO", "VELSHI", "COSTELLO", "RONNIE KAZOOBA, U.C. BERKELEY STUDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COSTELLO", "VELSHI", "COSTELLO", "VELSHI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-148627", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-3-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/04/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Some Employers Doing Credit Checks of Applicants", "utt": ["The fabulous Christine Romans is my co-anchor on a show that we anchor ever weekend here on CNN called \"YOUR $$$$$.\" She also joins me every day. It's a long day. This is the end of the day for her and -- no, it isn't actually. It typically isn't the end of the day for you. It should be, given how long it is. But I'm actually -- I always ask you to stick around because we have great conversations.", "Yes.", "And one that we've had in the last couple ideas has been this -- this idea that there are states or efforts to try and curtail the use of your credit report, your credit history by employers to make a determination as to whether or not you should get a job. But it is a widespread practice.", "It really is, and I think most people don't even understand this. Eighteen states -- 25 different bills in 18 states in this legislative calendar, Ali, are trying to limit what your prospective employer can see about you. A job applicant goes and applies for the job. Human resources or the owner of that business can run a credit check as long as they tell you. Sixty percent of companies do this; 13 percent do everybody as a standard practice.", "Wow.", "They just run a credit check on everybody. Forty-seven percent just do for selected candidates. Most likely, Ali, people who are going to be touching money, who are going to be running a budget.", "Right.", "Forty percent of companies just don't do this at all. They simply don't run a credit history. But it can be done, and it is legal.", "You mentioned something. It's legal if they ask you and you consent. When you're in a job market that we're in now, most prospective employees, people looking for a job, don't think that they have the right or don't think it would be wise to say no.", "Right. And look, if you're -- if you're going for a job in a money business, it's pretty standard. Also, if you're going for a job in some things that are licensed like day cares or in different states. There are different kinds of jobs you have to have a license, where they have to do a criminal and a credit check on you just to know who you are if you're dealing with the elderly or you're dealing with young people. So, all of your information...", "Yes.", "You should assume all of your information is available to the person who is thinking about hiring you.", "You did some research into what you are most likely not to get hired for as a result of somebody checking your credit.", "Yes. OK, so this is a -- this is from the Society for Human Resources Management. So, this is a human resources firm. Look, you're not going to get hired because of a current judgment against you, a lawsuit, an outstanding order against you in the court of law; debt collection, uncollected debt, you've got a lot of debt out there. Bankruptcy, 25 percent of the hiring managers would look you over because of a bankruptcy. High debt-to-income ratio, much less foreclosure, even less than that. I was pleased to see education-related debt hardly even makes this list.", "Good.", "Just 2 percent were concerned about education-related. A lot of us have student loan debt, right? Medical debt, only about 1 percent. On Facebook and on Twitter, a lot of people were saying, \"Hey, wait. If you have a medically-induced bankruptcy, that's not fair to not be able to get a job.\" It doesn't look to me like hiring managers are not hiring because of that. That's ridiculous.", "OK, well, that -- that's a little bit of good. Let me just bring you. You just mentioned Facebook. We asked people about this. Let's get a couple of comments here. Lance says -- we were asking, \"Is it fair?\" Lance says, \"I say yes, it is fair. It's indicative\" -- it being your credit score, credit report -- \"is indicative of the type of person you are. If someone can't manage their own financial affairs, then I wouldn't want to hire them to manage anything for me.\" What do you think of that?", "Well, I think there are a lot of people who -- I hope Lance has a 750 credit score and has never done anything wrong in his criminal or credit history.", "Right.", "Because if he's looking for a job, people are going to know about it, right?", "Right.", "Look, the bottom line here is that a lot of people have a situation -- I will tell you that most managers look back six or seven years. VELSHI; Right.", "And they're also -- especially a big human resources department, Ali, I think that they can look back and they see the patterns. They see a divorce. They can see a judgment that was against you. They can see uncollected child support. They can see these sorts of things. And I think that they can piece together sort of...", "Right.", "They probably see a lot of different kinds of backgrounds, too.", "You make a good point, though.", "So maybe they're not so judgmental.", "This isn't the credit score. This isn't the few months snapshot of your credit. We're talking about your credit report, your -- your history of debt, judgments, things like that. Brook wrote on Facebook, \"I think it depends on the job being applied for. A position in the financial industry, like -- like banking, might be important. In order to get my\" -- sorry, we've got Allison's up there, but I'm actually talking about Brook's. \"In order to get my license as a mortgage loan originator, it was mandated so my employer would need to know.\" So she's making the point that there are some jobs where it does seem fairly obvious that you would need to have your credit checked.", "Right. And there are -- and there are many people who have tweeted us and e-mailed us and said, \"Look, you know, I'm in a hiring position, and I know for a fact that people who have very poor history with their own financial -- their own financial matters aren't good at running a budget. And if I'm hiring someone who needs to run a budget or I'm hiring somebody who's going to be literally a treasurer of a department, it's incredibly important that they have a personal life that their finances are in order, too.\" I will say that you are more likely to have a credit background check run on you if you're going for the big-dog job...", "Right.", "... if you're going for a job where you're running a department or you're -- where you're actually handling money.", "Yes.", "It's much less -- much less the entry-level, rank-and- file jobs that they're doing this on.", "OK, look, Christine's coming back to talk about this, so why don't you go to -- Christine, are you collecting these on your Facebook page?", "I am. I am.", "All right. So, go to Christine's Facebook page, Christine Romans's, or mine, AliVelshiCNN. We're going to check on this in another hour. The other thing I want to talk to you about when we come back, Christine, is the fact that so many times credit reports aren't accurate.", "Yes.", "So if you're subject to this, at least check your credit report.", "Yes.", "Log in on Facebook. You can always see Christine and me on weekends, Saturday at 1 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m. Eastern, on \"YOUR $$$$$.\" All right. Let me give you a check of the top stories we're covering right now. We call it recall redux. Federal safety officials say they've gotten ten -- ten complaints, I'm sorry, of sudden acceleration from Toyota drivers whose vehicles have already been repaired under the recent recall. Toyota says it's aware of the claims. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is reaching out to the people making the complaints. A new chairman is taking over one of the most powerful committees in Congress. Democrat Sander Levin will be the acting chief of the House Ways and Means Committee. That's the committee in charge of crafting all tax legislation. New York's Charles Rangel stepped -- stepped aside as chairman yesterday because of an ethics investigation. And a German court has convicted four men of plotting to attack U.S. targets and U.S. troops inside Germany. The two Germans and two Turks once trained in terror camps along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. They'd already begun making -- mixing explosive materials when they were arrested back in 2007. All right. Hollywood goes to war. You've seen it in many movies over the last year, and the Pentagon is not happy about it. 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{"id": "CNN-26752", "program": "Crossfire", "date": "2001-3-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/02/cf.00.html", "summary": "Do Beauty Pageants Exploit Women?", "utt": ["There she is, but is she really a winner? Tonight, as a new Miss USA is about to be crowned, are beauty pageants good for women or do they exploit them?", "Live from Washington, CROSSFIRE. On the left, Bill Press. On the right, Robert Novak. In the", "Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal, and in San Francisco, Miss America 2000, Heather French Henry.", "Good evening. Welcome to CROSSFIRE. Tonight: from pardon politics to sexual politics, and beauty pageants. It's probably the hottest thing to hit Gary, Indiana ever: tonight's Miss USA Pageant. You go, girl. A big 50th anniversary celebration, emceed by \"Star Trek's\" William Shatner, and broadcast live from Gary's Trump Casino, of all places. Residents of Gary say this is just the kind of big event needed to put their Rust Belt town back on the map. But some feminist organizations argue that beauty pageants, whether it's Miss USA or Miss America, are really symbols of decline, a throwback to the days when women were respected for how good they looked in a bathing suit and nothing else. So, what's wrong with women in bathing suits? That's our debate tonight: is it time to put an end to old-fashioned beauty pageants, or are they harmless reminders of old-fashioned values? Sitting in, again, on the right tonight: Julia Reed of \"Vogue\" and \"Newsweek\" magazine.", "Heather French, let me come to you first in San Francisco. Thank you so much for joining us. I realize it is immodest of me to quote myself, but I wanted to quote you something that I wrote about your pageant, the Miss America Pageant. Quote, \"The Miss America Pageant is a historic reminder of the days when men believed a woman's place was on a meat rack, not in a business suit. Miss America is a painful relic of a time when American girls believed the only way to success was to strut or sell their bodies.\" Heather, I wrote that July 23, 1984. I was right then, and I'm right today, aren't I?", "Bill, I'm shocked that you would write something like that, especially after I spoke at the Info '99 breakfast, which is a political breakfast in Washington,", "I remember seeing you there, meeting you there.", "That's right. And in fact, I'm pretty shocked that they keep calling it the old-fashioned days, when a Miss America, such as myself, currently has a piece of legislation named after them, called The Heather French Henry Homeless Veterans Act, which was authorized by Congressman Lane Evans from Illinois, to really be a comprehensive piece of legislation for homeless veterans. I really think we're heading in the right direction. We've made a lot of changes, just as government agencies make changes. Sometimes it takes a little longer, but we're offering a very positive role model for young women today, especially to get involved in politics.", "Well, I admire the work that you do for the homeless veterans, and I hear what you're saying that the organization has changed, and yet the events themselves don't seem to reflect that. Let me quote you something also that Mark Brown wrote just a couple of days ago in \"The Chicago Sun Times.\" Quote: \"We move as a society toward treating women with great respect, and then we parade them on stage to check out the body parts we respect the most.\" So...", "Actually, I have to correct you there. Bill: ... there's a bit of a disconnect.", "No, I have to correct you there. I know everyone's going to harp on the swimsuit part of the competition. Again, I will stress to you that the interview that no one sees is 45 percent of that score, and that's a 12 1/2 minute interview, and I will dare to say that really depicts who is going to be Miss America. Of course, I'm just talking from the Miss America organization standpoint, a nonprofit entity. And then also we have a talent portion of the competition -- 75 percent of that score goes on what the individual's independent choices are with her platform, with her position and what she wants to do in the future. And I will dare to say that if you saw my 12-and-a-half minute interview, I think you would find a very outspoken, independent, well- educated young woman, much like the thousands of young women that we feed into the system each year, while offering them a full-paid scholarship to school. I was the only 24-year-old I know at the time whose student loans were purely paid off by the Miss America organization.", "Before I came here tonight, I talked to my assistant at \"Vogue,\" and she is a very smart, very bright, well-educated 23-year-old woman who took women's studies classes at Duke University. And she said, when I told her what we're talking about, she said, hadn't that conversation been over? And I knew what she meant. Wasn't the feminist movement about empowering women to make whatever choice they wanted to, including parading around in bathing suits in beauty pageants?", "Well, let's face it: One of the first things the feminist movement did in this wave was to picket the beauty pageants in '68, and then again in the '70s. And one of things -- one of the reasons they have become a little more modern is because of our pushing. I mean, that's why the scholarships went up. That's why -- in fact, if you look on their Web site, the pageant even gives the feminist movement credit for emphasizing more the professional career of a woman. So, in reality, all of our pushing has helped. But one of the reasons why it's still important to discuss it is because we still face a time when many women in this country -- millions -- are uncomfortable with their body image. You have anorexia, you have bulimia, you have all kinds of pressures on young women, because we still judge them too much by how they look.", "OK. Now, I want to go to body image, because you've cited that a lot as criticism of these pageants. I mean, let's face it -- I mean, beauty pageants are a small, small part of the American culture that reminds us -- that points out body image. The magazine I work for, \"Vogue\" is one of them. TV -- but also, obesity is a problem in this country. I don't know why it's so bad to sort of strive for an ideal. But that's not really the point. It's still...", "No, no, no, not an ideal. Because actually, if you look at pageant victories -- the people who are crowned -- frequently they are so thin that they -- wait a minute.", "I'm sorry...", "All right, let's...", "But studies show that people who compete in the pageants are...", "I think that -- I know, but people are making a choice to compete in those pageants. There's a piece in \"The Washington Post\" today about Miss D.C., who is going to be competing later on tonight. She happens to have a degree in phys ed from George Washington University. She is a personal trainer. She has -- you know, she is very blessed, and she is a size two and five. Now, why shouldn't she use that great body of hers to pay for furthering her education, if this is what she wants?", "Everything is about choice, but she should also be informed. And what we are just -- what we're pointing out is what -- we are constantly pushing in this culture is almost anorexia. But let's even go from there. Of course, you have to worry about obesity too. But -- we all come in all different sized and shapes, and what we shouldn't be just judging women constantly on appearances.", "Heather, I know you wanted to jump in there -- remark something about that.", "Yeah, I'm sorry, Eleanor, I didn't mean -- I didn't know it was being miked, but I resort back to, you know, again, the swimsuit competition, which is less than 5 percent of the score, which is purely probably for entertainment value, and one -- I will tell you I publicly disagreed with it while I was competing. I think I was the only contestant to do so. But again, I think Julia is right. Miss America -- you know, the youth don't look at Miss America and say, I want to look like her, or I want to dress like Miss America. In fact, the 20,000 miles a month that I traveled, all the youth that came up to me were so impressed that a young woman my age who came from a family of a father who is a disabled Vietnam veteran, with low-income family, was the first to attend college in her family, and actually succeeded in walking the halls of Congress, pounding down on the doors of the Oval office to make the country aware of veterans issues, which was so long denied and ignored, and it took a 24-year-old fashion-designing Miss America to do that. So, I think what -- instead of combating each other, we should be working together, because we're essentially working for the same thing, which is empowerment. You work for a different target group of women, and we work for a different target group of young women by offering scholarship and the opportunity to have a spotlight, a podium and a platform in order to that. And I think helping 25 million American veterans can't be wrong.", "Elly?", "Well, let's face it, I'm glad that you're doing it, and we love the scholarship part, and we love the charity part, and also I hope you run for a political office. But let's face it, the more we push -- actually, we're working together, because we're creating more opportunity for women, and we're shaping and changing the culture. And one part of that culture is these pageants, and basically, if we can influence them to push more in the profession, more on the public service, more on the full person, then we are achieving something, because superficiality is costing a lot for women.", "But, Heather, I want to come back to these scholarships, which you've mentioned a couple of times. You know, we appreciate the fact they've got scholarships. Thanks to the efforts of Elly and others, the scholarships have gone up. But my question is, you know, why should these scholarships be limited to women that just have great bodies or great breasts? I mean, what's that has to do with it at all? Isn't it all about brains?", "Well, essentially, Bill, it's not about -- actually, if you have heard what I said before, less than 5 percent of the score is even swimsuit-oriented. So, we keep harping on the swimsuit competition, when they girls are only in their swimsuits for five seconds, and people are on a catwalk for a half-hour parading around, but no one seems to mind that.", "Well, you seem to be fixated on the swimsuit. I'm not just talking about the swimsuit. It's an evening gown -- it's the whole thing about strutting on the stage, and I'm -- I guess what I'm asking, if you're going to give a scholarship, then why shouldn't every young woman be eligible, even if she is a plain-Jane and has a hook nose, and, you know, is afraid to be seen in public?", "Well, we offer scholarship from the local, state to the national level. What the country sees is the final 51 who are well- poised. And I think that's what every -- you know, facet of the competition represents. You know, you may be right. And different parts of the pageant may need to phase out in the future. But again, instead of creating divisive issues that really divide women's organizations that are women oriented, you know, can we not stop combating each other and join together, because we feed hundreds of thousands of young women into the community that are actually making a difference. And so we feel we are empowering young women to be able to walk across the stage. Because for every one of us that will do that will do that, there're at least a thousand who hate to talk in front of people and who aren't involved in their community.", "Well, maybe you can join us in trying to get rid of some of these children pageants. I mean, one of the things the JonBenet Ramsey case did is show the exploitation of little girls. And how in some of these pageants, it's not like the first time they're doing this. They start 3, 4, 5. I mean, let's face it. This is now empowering, this is really taking advantage.", "Well the interesting thing there, I mean, has anybody seen a little league ball game? If someone is going to be a professional baseball ballplayer you would expect them to play little league. I have never seen the type of behavior that goes on in little league baseball, anywhere near our system. Again, of course, I can only speak for Miss America.", "I don't want to be out there for little league because I also sued and picket them so that girls could have -- I mean, we're equal opportunity picketers here -- so girls could have a chance at playing sports, but let's be real. That's nothing like a 3 and 4 and 5-year-old in a beauty contest like JonBenet Ramsey was.", "Well, I think the interesting...", "All right, ladies, I'm going to ask you both, if I can, Heather, just to hold that thought because we're going to take a break here. And when we come back let's pick up on that point. What about beauty pageants for little girls? Should they be encouraged? And let me just tell you, exciting news: both of our guests are going to be in the CROSSFIRE chat room tonight right after the show. You know how we get there. Log on to cnn.com/crossfire. We'll be right back with more CROSSFIRE about these beauty pageants.", "Welcome back to CROSSFIRE. I'm Julia Reed, sitting in on the right. Many feminists describe beauty pageants as demeaning to women and out of sync with the times, but more than 12 million people are expected to watch the Miss USA Pageant tonight, and thousands of women vie for a chance to strut their stuff in it. Why is it wrong to want to win or to watch? Joining us from San Francisco, Miss America 2000 Heather French Henry; and here in Washington, Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation. Eleanor, when Donald Trump bought the Miss USA and the Miss Universe rights, he said, you know, this is a great show. And that's why he's putting it on, people love to watch it. What's wrong with that? Why is it any different to want to watch the Miss USA Pageant than want to stand in line to get Rockettes tickets? And why is it any different to want to be a Rockette than wanting to be a pageant -- pageant winner.", "The Rockettes -- it's about as old-fashioned as the Miss America Pageant.", "Well, you know, but what's -- you're making a value judgment, it seems to me, on being in these pageants, as though someone is dragging them in. I mean, this is not like President Bush's new budget, you know.", "Well, let's face it, in the old days, it was one -- and about the only way you get to get a scholarship to go to college, and in fact, when...", "But it's not now!", "I know. And why? Because we've opened a lot of doors. And we should keep reminding people that women should not be judged principally on looks, and we still do too much of that. And these pageants -- she -- we can say all we want, and I'm very happy they are doing more charity, I'm very happy they're doing more political work and the scholarship program, but I wish they were doing more of that, and that we weren't judging women on how they looked, their shape. We're now down to a size zero, for God's sake!", "But Eleanor, I really have to break in here and tell you that, you know, that two-hour special that you see on television is nothing compared to what the title holders do. I got one day off a month. I flew...", "Well, why don't show some of that then?", "... twenty thousand miles. Well, we tried to get the press. It's people -- you know, organizations...", "You could make that interesting.", "And with veteran's issues -- with veteran's issues, I made it pretty interesting, I was very outspoken...", "It would be a great debate.", "... I'm in the controversy, and, you know, it's just -- we have got to raise scholarship money for the organization. The telecast, of course, which is different -- we are not owned by Donald Trump, we are a nonprofit entity ran by 300,000 volunteers and 20 paid staff, so our organization tries to focus as much as we can -- and we have to provide a little bit of the entertainment value to get the people to watch, but Miss America is out there, as well as the local representatives, working night and day, and we never get the credit for that, because people keep harping on the unimportant issues.", "Well, listen, I am on your side, but I think you're being too defensive. Let me go back to something that Eleanor's saying. Aren't you judging people on the way they look? Aren't you making a value judgment? If I -- listen, if I was a great pianist, which I wish I were -- I mean, I took piano lessons and I am no good at it -- just like I would not be good in doing what Heather does -- but Juilliard is not going to give me a scholarship, they are going to give the scholarship to the woman who can play the piano the best. Miss America is going to give a scholarship, Miss USA is going to give a scholarship to the woman who looks the best in a bathing suit. Why is that wrong? You tell me you were judging these women because of the way they look, not the pageant.", "No, we're not judging the women. We're saying we're hoping that more women succeed. We're not judging the woman. We're talking about a culture that is favoring a pageant for scholarship, not if a person is good at their profession. I mean, that's still looking at women one way, and this is just a symptom. This is not -- I agree with you that the pageant is not the whole of it. But I'm looking at -- I'm talking on college campuses, and I'm looking at colleges now where you have \"Eating Disorder Week.\" I'm looking at colleges where you have -- at the University of Miami and Ohio, when I was there not too long ago, there was a dorm -- the dorm has to change its plumbing rather frequently -- the first-year dorm -- because of the problem of bulimia. And what we should be, as a whole society, trying to figure out how we, in fact, don't judge people on the basis of looks, and do look at some more important qualities.", "Heather, I want to come back to you, and move on to this subject that Elly raised just before the break, which is whatever we think about Miss USA and Miss America, at least they're grown-ups, and they're making a choice, and they know what they're doing. Isn't that far, far different from these little kiddie pageants? There are about 3,000 of them in this country, there are over $1 billion industry, where these mothers put their little daughters on the stage, who hardly know what they're doing, and they dress them up very sexily, they teach them very erotic movements, if you will, and put them up on stage. Aren't these mothers sort of exploiting their daughters just for their own egos?", "Well, I have to tell you, Bill, my mother never pushed me into a pageant. In fact, I was involved in far more than just a pageant...", "I'm not talking about you.", "But I am part of that. And of course, I can't speak for all of those organizations, but you take one extreme cause or effect like the Jon Benet Ramsey case, and the press exploits it. The fact is, only grandparents and mothers or fathers are there to watch those tiny pageants. They are not on national television.", "I don't know about that.", "Well, I do -- I was in them.", "I don't know about that, because there's some concern about...", "And I was never pushed into a pageant. In fact, I actually got out of them, because I was a tomboy, but got back in when I was about 11, because I enjoy musical theater. I enjoyed being on the stage, I enjoyed being able to perform in front of audiences, so I'm not sure how much pushing is going on.", "But what age would you say is too young?", "I would say...", "And is three, four and five dressing them up as if they were 20 years old, is that wrong?", "I'll say it's too young when the contestant, or the young individual does not understand what it means just to have fun on stage, and it's not there just to win the title. You're not there about the crown. You're there to get the experience.", "But wouldn't you say...", "If parents are pushing any kid, whether it's Little League, whether it's musical theater, a sport or a pageant, you know, I don't condone that at all. It's the young person that has to make that decision for themselves.", "Here, I got a quick question. We are just about out of time. But Julia mentioned that 12 million people are going to be watching Miss USA today. That's the lowest that have ever watched it. Last year, the lowest audience ever watched the Miss America Pageant. This is not 1921, this is not 1965. Don't you think the American people are telling us, by tuning it off, that it's time to turn it off?", "Actually, not when we have shows like \"Survivor\" and \"Temptation Island\" and all of those realistic television shows. Actually, Miss America did rather well, from what I believe, last year. And I can't -- you know, I can't comment on the Miss USA system, because that's not the system that I'm not involved in. But we have increased our number of contestants and those involved because of the community service. You know, I would just like to have a future where maybe, you know, Elly and I can work together to really help empower young women even more. But with the power of the crown, you can get to a lot of places.", "All right, when you do work together, just remember where you met and where you joined forces, right here on CROSSFIRE. Elly Smeal, thank you so much for joining us. Heather French out in San Francisco, thanks for being with us. And when we come back, Miss USA and Mr. America will have some very appropriate closing comments.", "Don't forget, you can join both of our guests, Heather French Henry and Eleanor Smeal in our CNN chat room, the CROSSFIRE chat room, right after the show, at cnn.com/crossfire. You know, Julia, I remember a lot of things from the '50s. I remember the black-and-white TV, I remember the Edsel, I remember Chesterfield Cigarettes. They're all gone. I think it's time that the Miss America Pageant went, too.", "I think you're crazy. Looking at and listening to Heather tonight -- I mean, that woman was incredibly focused, very articulate. I wish I had gone through a pageant or two, I could have handled Eleanor a lot better.", "But not, but -- just to me, I think Eleanor was right. It just puts up -- focuses on the wrong image of women and just on how they look.", "Isn't that a woman's choice?", "It is a woman's choice.", "Nobody is dragging these women to Gary, Indiana.", "Well, I'm for RuPaul for Miss America. I think that would open up the whole contest.", "I'm sure there's a pageant or two that will take him.", "On the left, I'm Bill Press. Good night for CROSSFIRE. From the right?", "From the right, I'm Julia Reed. 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{"id": "NPR-9078", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2019-08-24", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/08/24/754052342/movie-jawline", "title": "Movie: 'Jawline'", "summary": "NPR's Michel Martin speaks with filmmaker Liza Mandelup about her latest movie, which follows a teenage boy in rural Tennessee as he strives to become a social media influencer.", "utt": ["Now we want to talk about social media influencers. You've probably heard a lot about them. Some are household names, like the Kardashians, and some are famous within certain worlds, like Logan Paul or the makeup artist James Charles. And you might have wondered, what exactly do they do? And why does anybody want to be one?", "A new documentary, \"Jawline,\" gives us an up-close and personal look into that world - but not the one of red carpets and big blowups inside luxury homes, although there's a little of that. This is the story of a 16-year-old boy who just wants to be somebody and get out of his small town. His vehicle is a so-called boy broadcast aimed at teen girls. The film is called \"Jawline,\" and it won the Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker at the Sundance Film Festival last year. Liza Mandelup directed the film, and she is with us now.", "Liza Mandelup, thank you so much for joining us.", "Thank you for having me. I love this show.", "Oh, I'm so glad to hear. So how did you get interested in this subject?", "I kind of started by thinking about my own teenage years. I went through a lot, and I wanted to tap into those emotions for a film. And my next train of thought was how different it must be to be a teenager today when so much of your life is lived through a screen, and everything you do is documented on social media. And I just started exploring things in that world. And I found what you see in the film, which are meet and greets. And once I looked up what a meet and greet was, it kind of all came out of that.", "OK, so meet and greets play a big role in this. I guess there are meet and greets for all kinds of influencers. But for these boy broadcasts, right, they play a particular role. What is that?", "So essentially, these girls are watching these boys all day, every day. But they can - this could go on for years without them ever having actually met them in person. And so the idea of a meet and greet was that I'm going to give you this in-person experience with me for the first time in your life. And these girls will travel far and wide to do that. And it's basically just taking that interaction off the computer and putting it into real life.", "Well, I think that for people who aren't familiar with what's going on with teenagers, you know, it might be confusing because I think people might understand the concept of, like, meeting the boys in your - the band that you like. But these guys, these young guys, these boy broadcasts - they're just guys, right? They're not selling, like, we're in a band. We're not singers.", "No.", "They're not performers. They're basically what - like online friends?", "Yeah. They're selling live my life with me. And so it's like you can wake up with me. You can eat breakfast with me. You can know my mom. You can know my dog. And these girls just, like, tune into that alone. And it's very strange, but once I started filming and talking to a lot of these girls, I realized it's a response to what's going on in their life. And all they want so desperately is for someone to care about them and someone that's a peer - like, you know, not necessarily their parents, but, like, they want to feel like they're walking down the halls of high school, and someone notices them.", "So let me just play a short clip from the film where you - where some of the girls talk about their connection to these boys who are the center of these boy broadcasts. And here it is.", "UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: The fact they're popular and they act like that, it's really incredible how they're so nice to us.", "UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Like, I feel like he's a friend, but he doesn't know yet that we're - we have connection, I guess.", "UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: I just feel like they're, like, family to me sometimes because, like, they always say, like, I'm there for you, and don't cut yourself. So then I stopped doing that because they told me to.", "So the level of influence that they have is - seems, you know, fairly significant, right?", "Yeah. I mean, they are aware that these are girls that feel insecure and unloved and lonely, and they're leaning into that, and they're saying, I can help you with that. I can make you feel better about yourself.", "So the focus of the film, as I said, is it started - as I understand it, it started out you were interested in these girls - like, why did they watch these broadcasts? But then you got really interested in this young kid, Austyn Tester, who's trying to make it. And he doesn't sing. He doesn't dance. He's just a nice young guy.", "I'm not famous right now. Hopefully, I'll be famous soon. And I'm just going to tell you this, guys - just whatever you want in life, go get it.", "What is his deal? Like, what's he trying to do?", "Yeah. I think - I mean, at first, I was it was interested in the girls, and I started there. But I I felt like they felt like they knew these boys so well. And I was, like, surely you don't because there's nothing that you receive online that's the whole truth. And they were being almost manipulated to think that they were getting this real version of the boys. And I just feel like when I was watching the broadcasts and stuff and also just when I - just sort of thinking about people's presence on the Internet - that is not them, even if that's what they're selling.", "And so I knew I wanted to find someone who had, like, sort of high stakes in terms of making it. And so I kind of felt like Austyn had a lot of the similar struggles as the girls, and he was also trying to escape something, and he so desperately wanted out and, like, some sort of social upward mobility. And I just felt like he would make for a good main character.", "One of the things that I think this film really shows is this is a grind. I mean, he's expected to post, you know, all the time. It's just not that easy, you know?", "No.", "And...", "It's not.", "And the other side of the film is, like, he's in a small town in Tennessee. And on the other side of the country, you have another character named Michael Weist, who is a manager. And that's a whole scene. He's living with his clients in this house in LA - kind of looks like a bit of a frat house. I'll play the short clip, and then people can kind of come to their own conclusions. But it comes off like he's bullying, goading them, like, into posting all day. Let me just play this clip, and then we can talk more about it.", "Yes. You're going to do the damn video.", "UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: I don't have a camera. My camera got stolen.", "We're going to find a camera. There - looks like there's the camera right there on the counter. You're going to use that.", "UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: Can we do something else? Like...", "No.", "UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #4: I was just on broadcast for 35 minutes.", "OK. I'm sorry you had to work for 45 minutes. Now you're going to film a video.", "OK. You know, all kinds of alarms are going off in my head while I'm watching this. Like, first of all, is this a typical setup? I mean, is this the way it works? Because I understand that a lot of people in order to kind of grow their social media presence do engage managers and people like that. But is this a typical setup?", "I mean, the thing that I found to be really weird when I was first starting this film was when I would look up different boys that were on tour, every single one of them had a manager. And so I immediately was, like, I need to put a manager in this film. And so Michael was actually just a very unique character to me. Like, he himself was a teenager managing these other teenagers, acting like a businessman and conceptualizing everything they were doing, running all their finances, making all the brand deals. And I just was feeling like this was a teenage world run by teenagers for teenagers.", "But again, like, all kinds of alarms are going off in my head here. Like, what is going on in that house?", "So the house that you see in the film is kind of like a concept house. So he invites all these boys to live with him. And they're teenage boys, so they leave their parents' house, and they live in this, like, mansion in Hollywood Hills. And they all have, like, social media presence. Like, they all have, like, a lot of followers. But then he also brings in some boys that don't have that many followers, and he grows the ones that don't have many followers. And the ones that do have a lot of followers - he gets them even bigger. And they're supposed to collab on videos, and they're just supposed to constantly turn out content.", "You know, it seems, though, that this - you know, this film is about, like, a phenomenon that's going on. As you said, it's like an economy. It's like a world run by teens for teens. And part of me thinks what this film is really about is, like, the American dream and how...", "Absolutely.", "That's not really accessible to these kids except through this.", "I love that you said that because the entire time I was filming, I was thinking of, like, this new American dream because we were all over America filming this film through - from casting to go into different shows to filming with different girls and different boys. And I just felt like every single person is a channel now, and every single person wants to use that channel to get famous. And the new American dream is overnight celebrity through social media. And so all these kids are growing up who are super tuned-in to social media feeling like they are really close to that dream. But it's an illusion. It's totally an illusion.", "That's Liza Mandelup. She's the director of \"Jawline.\" It's available now on Hulu and in select theaters.", "Liza Mandelup, thanks so much for talking with us.", "Thank you for having me."], "speaker": ["MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LIZA MANDELUP", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LIZA MANDELUP", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LIZA MANDELUP", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LIZA MANDELUP", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LIZA MANDELUP", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LIZA MANDELUP", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "AUSTYN TESTER", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LIZA MANDELUP", "LIZA MANDELUP", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LIZA MANDELUP", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LIZA MANDELUP", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHAEL WEIST", "MICHAEL WEIST", "MICHAEL WEIST", "MICHAEL WEIST", "MICHAEL WEIST", "MICHAEL WEIST", "MICHAEL WEIST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LIZA MANDELUP", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LIZA MANDELUP", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LIZA MANDELUP", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LIZA MANDELUP", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "LIZA MANDELUP"]}
{"id": "CNN-197201", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-12-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1212/09/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Supreme Court to Hear Same-Sex Marriage Cases", "utt": ["Stand still, it is movie. Stand Still, the movie. Just when you thought the fiscal cliff talks was at a standstill, so there is word that John Boehner spent today at the White House with Obama, and we like to spend our Sunday afternoons with CNN contributors L.Z. Granderson and Ana Navarro. Hello. L.Z., of course, is a senior writer for ESPN. Ana is Republican consultant and strategist. Good to see both of you. OK?", "Hey, there.", "Hello. Yes.", "So, John Boehner had some pretty tough words for the president on Friday. Let's listen.", "There are a lot of things that are possible to put the revenue at the president's seat on the table, but none of it will be possible if the president insists on his position, insist on my way or the highway.", "So Ana, he also said the White House has wasted another week, and now two days later, they are meeting again. Did Boehner's remarks make the difference?", "Good. Look, I think it's great. We cannot reach a deal if you are posturing and negotiating through press conferences. They need to sit in a room. They need to look at each other. They need to talk constructive debate and they need to move this ball forward. I think what happened today is a very good sign. Americans should be encouraged, it's a good thing when our congressional leadership and our president are actually capable of meeting and talking about the difficult issues that face this country. What a refreshing and new idea.", "Well, when you hear people like -- so you hear members of the GOP, Ana and L.Z.,", "Well, you know, they have to do the posturing in order to make sure the public stays on their side of it, and the constituents think that they are doing something at this that they are doing do whether behind closed doors, honest, absolutely correct. This is the only way they are going to get anything done, sitting in a room, hashing it out. And listen, both of these men are very, very pragmatic. They are both very caution guys. They are not as extreme as some of the voices in their parties happen to be. So, you have two of the most rational politicians in Washington doing what needs to be rushed to be done for the better of the country. I agree, I think it's a good thing, perhaps they both went to see Lincoln together decided we need to get something done like Lincoln did.", "There have you --- like a bromance going on - Ana.", "You know, Don, I think you know, Corker, Senator Corker brought up a very good point. This is not the end-all be all of, you know, negotiations. There's a lot of big hairy problems that are facing this country that President Obama is going to want to done. That Congress is going to want done. So, there's a lot of room and a lot of space and time, four long years for negotiations. Sometimes the Democrats will have more leverage and sometimes the Republicans will have more leverage.", "Right. And then everybody always said to, oh, it is not fair, when the other person has more leverage to the other team. It is not fair. it is not fair. Everybody does it.", "It's even not four years. I mean, we want to have a debt ceiling conversation in a few months. You have to remember that this is rapidfire. As soon as we get past the fiscal cliff, President Obama is going to have to meet again with Boehner again to talk about debt ceiling.", "Thank you, Ana. Thank you, L.Z.. Stephen Baldwin was arrested this past week. And when he was released he wanted to come on this show and explain himself. That's next."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "LZ GRANDERSON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "ANA NAVARRO, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "LEMON", "REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "LEMON", "NAVARRO", "LEMON", "GRANDERSON", "LEMON", "NAVARRO", "LEMON", "GRANDERSON", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-367825", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-04-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/23/nday.02.html", "summary": "Ran and Flooding Threats in the South.", "utt": ["The risk of severe weather and threat of flooding returning to the south central United States. CNN meteorologist Chad Myers with the forecast. Chad.", "Hey, John. Oklahoma City waking up right now to a lot of thunder. And that's going to be the case for a lot of the southwest over the next couple of days. This weather is brought to you by Shark self-cleaning brush roll. The vacuum that deep cleans now cleans itself. So where are we going from here? Right through Oklahoma City into Tulsa. And by later on today, if you're flying through DFW, you may get a slowdown or two. Big storms there going to be off to the west moving your way. This is springtime. This is what we expect. And very normal for the northeast. Temperatures even across New York City going to be in the 60s for the next couple of days, maybe even 70 somewhere around D.C., approaching 75 by the middle part of the forecast. Thursday, the severe weather gets into Mobile and also into New Orleans. We'll watch that. Really, this is more of a flood threat than anything else. There were places in Oklahoma yesterday with five inches of rainfall just in 12 hours. Look at this, New York City with some showers on Friday, 66, but normal all the way through the weekend. And sometimes you just have to be satisfied with normal. Alisyn.", "Yes, when it's spring, we're quite satisfied with normal spring. Chad, thank you very much.", "You're welcome.", "Satisfied with normal. If only. If only.", "We're shooting for higher, Chad.", "That's right.", "All right, thanks to our international viewers for watching. For you, CNN \"TALK\" is next. For our U.S. viewers, breaking news on the Sri Lanka terror attacks. NEW DAY continues right now.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "All right, good morning, everyone. Welcome to your NEW DAY. And we do begin with breaking news for you because a top defense official in Sri Lanka says the coordinated Easter Sunday bombings at catholic churches and luxury hotels were in retaliation for the New Zealand mosque attacks. You'll remember, of course, a white supremacist killed 50 Muslims inside of two mosques in Christchurch last month.", "The explosions in Sri Lanka have now killed 321 people, injured more than 500. Authorities there are under scrutiny for having prior knowledge that an attack was coming and seemingly doing nothing to stop it. At this moment, police in the country's capital, they are on high alert as they search for two new vehicles that might be carrying explosives. END"], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "CAMEROTA", "MYERS", "SCARBOROUGH", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "ANNOUNCER", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "NPR-11008", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2018-03-17", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/03/17/594537757/oklahoma-tries-a-new-execution-method-nitrogen-gas", "title": "Oklahoma Tries A New Execution Method: Nitrogen Gas", "summary": "Oklahoma has switched to nitrogen as its primary execution method. But first, as Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno tells Scott Simon, they must figure out how to use it.", "utt": ["The state of Oklahoma has announced it will now use nitrogen gas to execute prisoners who've been sentenced to death. The state hasn't carried out an execution in more than three years, and the last two executions were mishandled. The prisoners died, but suffered prolonged pain. State officials hope nitrogen will provide a more humane method. But first, they need to figure out how to use it.", "Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno joins us. Professor, thanks very much for being with us.", "Thank you.", "You're an expert on methods of execution. What should we know? What do you know about nitrogen gas?", "Well, I know very little, and I don't think anybody knows all that much either. It was adopted by Oklahoma with very little knowledge about it. It was - there weren't physicians who were involved in recommending the process or in doing - having anything to do with having it adopted. And it was basically came up with by two criminologists and a political science professor.", "How did they test it without really testing it?", "They said that they didn't. They wrote a report just summarizing how it's been used with animals, how people have died in a cockpit or something like that.", "I gather nitrogen is used in assisted suicides for terminally ill people where that is legal.", "Yes. I mean, it has been - I'm aware of Jack Kevorkian using it, and it's been promoted in some assisted suicide books.", "Many pharmaceutical companies, of course, no longer will sell states the drugs for lethal injections. Is that what prompted this change?", "It was one of the factors that prompted this change, in addition to the fact that the FDA won't allow states to import untested drugs. So states couldn't go outside of the country to get them anymore, and that was a factor as well.", "Does this have to be worked out legally, ethically, medically?", "Absolutely. Attorneys have to know how their clients are going to die. It's never just about the drug or the device. It's who's administering it. How is it going to be administered? You know, where is this going to take place? They haven't specified anything.", "Professor Denno, is there such a thing as a humane method of execution?", "I think firing squad is the most humane that we have on the books in this country. We do know that it's - heart death happens very quickly. There's relatively less pain. And the irony is the most humane method of execution we have on the books is considered the most barbaric by other people, even though this has been the most widely used method of execution across the world.", "I also think a lot of people wonder - so many beloved pets are put down, to use that euphemism, every year. Why is it not possible to figure out, for those states that insist on having the death penalty, some way of administering death that - well, it's hard for me to finish that sentence.", "Yes. I mean, I can see why it would be hard for you to finish it. I mean, again, another irony is that we have many people recommending and highly involved in how we euthanize animals because this is something the country takes so seriously.", "We don't, in any way, have such overview or such professional involvement when we start talking about the execution of human beings. So the paralytic that we use - still use to this day on human beings in most death penalty states you are unable to use on an animal. You cannot do that. So it's actually more humane to execute an animal than it is for human beings.", "Deborah Denno is the Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law at Fordham University. Thanks so much.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DEBORAH DENNO", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DEBORAH DENNO", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DEBORAH DENNO", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DEBORAH DENNO", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DEBORAH DENNO", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DEBORAH DENNO", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DEBORAH DENNO", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DEBORAH DENNO", "DEBORAH DENNO", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DEBORAH DENNO"]}
{"id": "CNN-214954", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-9-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/20/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Teens Trash Ex-NFL Player's House; Teens Tweeted Photos during Party", "utt": ["Brian Holloway battled in the trenches as an NFL offensive lineman for seven years. Now he's got a fight on his hands with the parents of teenagers who busted into his home to party while he was out of town. He had no idea who these teenagers were. The partygoers trashed his house and tweeted about it. Well, Holloway's plan to use the incident as a teachable moment is falling on deaf ears. Randi Kaye has more for you.", "It's Labor Day weekend. Brian Holloway is about 1200 miles away from his farmhouse in upstate New York when he learns there's a party going on there and he wasn't even invited. Confused? Holloway is, too, as he watches it all unfold in real time on his Twitter feed. Holloway is in Tampa, Florida, on this night when his son and a friend start funneling him tweets from the partygoers, mugging for the camera, taking selfie photos in the bathroom, and dancing on the kitchen counter. All from inside Holloway's house.", "We started listening to these tweets, I can't believe we're in the house, I can't believe how we trashed it, I can't believe how much alcohol is here, we're going to be partying for three days, I cannot believe she's passed out, look at her over there. This is an amazing night. I can't believe, you know, they're on meth, give me some of those drugs.", "Some of the more memorable tweets, \"Yes, it's like so trashed.\" \"Cannot get over this, did a keg stand.\" And \"Yes, mom, I went to a party and got drunk but hey, at least I'm not a meth addict, right?\" In all, 300 teenagers are at Holloway's home causing at least $20,000 in damage. They tear the place apart, punching holes in walls, spraying graffiti everywhere, scratching the floors with kegs, even urinating inside, and through it all, stupidly documenting nearly all of their antics. They also helped themselves to whatever isn't nailed down, including this statue of an eagle which had been on Holloway's grandson's head stone. Desperate to save his home, Holloway, a former NFL player with the New England Patriots, quickly called police, who rushed over. When they arrive, more tweets from the uninvited guests. \"Busted or not, it was still the best party in the 518 of the summer.\" \"Crazy ass night\" and \"Pigs showed up with K9s and I was out, yo.\" (", "What makes this even worse, Brian Holloway recognizes many of the teens partying at his house. They're friendly with his son and have been to the house before when Holloway was there and invited them. The teenagers slept overnight and Holloway would make them burgers and hotdogs and hundreds of pancakes in the morning. At those parties, he says, there was never any alcohol or drugs.", "The window, this window was just replaced today.", "Now back at his home, Holloway is getting it repaired, and you might say getting even. He's turning the tables on these teenagers and teaching them a thing or two about the power of social media. On his newly minted Web site, helpmesave300.com, Holloway posts tweets identifying about 200 or so teens from the party. It's not out of spite, he says, but a call for action, to turn the moment into a movement, create a dialogue about teens behaving badly and drugs. But some parents are actually upset with Holloway's postings.", "I don't really know how to respond to a mother that says \"You know I'm mad at you because you put my son's picture up there. I'm going well -- actually he's at my house and he's robbing and breaking in and drinking and doing drugs and you're upset with me posting the picture that he posted on Twitter.", "In another attempt at goodwill, Holloway invited the partygoers to his home to clean up and own up to what they did. Only one teenager showed up to help. Holloway said that was like a slap in the face. But on a bright note remember the Eagle statue that had been stolen it was returned so maybe after all of this, one of these teens must have discovered their conscience. Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.", "He's a much nicer man than, well, than I am, I guess. Wow. Still to come in the NEWSROOM some Dodgers celebrate their NL West Crown with a dip in the Diamondbacks pool. And boy, the Diamondbacks were not happy."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BRIAN HOLLOWAY, FORMER NFL PLAYER", "KAYE", "On camera)", "HOLLOWAY", "KAYE", "HOLLOWAY", "KAYE", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-36768", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-8-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/09/lt.11.html", "summary": "President Goes on TV Tonight to Reveal Position on Federal Funding for Stem Cell Research", "utt": ["President Bush is ready to enter a heated national controversy that has scientists battling abortion foes, and which divides even his closest supporters. The president goes on television tonight to reveal his position on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The broadcast will originate from Crawford, Texas, where Mr. Bush is vacationing, as CNN White House correspondent Kelly Wallace joins us from there with a preview. Kelly, hello, again.", "Hello, again, Stephen. Well, first, we can show viewers exactly where President Bush will be delivering that address this evening. He will be doing it from a place called the \"Governor's House\" on his property his ranch, not too far from here. And this is the old ranch house, the place where the president and Mrs. Bush lived before their -- until their new home was built. Again, that is where the president will be delivering this address. Aides saying it was the president who decided yesterday to announce his decision by talking directly to the American people in the form of a nationally televise address. We also know the president made his final decision yesterday, and I believe we're going to show you a picture of the president working several hours yesterday, with one of his top advisers, Karen Hughes. They were working, we understand, for a good part of yesterday, on this speech that the president will be delivering tonight. We understand that speech pretty much done, and that the president will be spending some time on this day reviewing that speech and of course preparing for tonight's announcement. Now aides saying that the president definitely views this as one of the most important decisions of presidency so far, and maybe one of the most important decisions of his entire presidency. But, also, Steven, Bush advisers know that the decision is important, but also the way the president explains his decision is very important. And so we are expected to hear the president talk quite a bit tonight about how he viewed the hopes, the promise of science, as well as the questions of ethics and morality. People know the president's words will be watched very closely. Again, Stephen, aides are trying to keep this, having the president being the first to announce decision tonight. Right now, only a small handful of advisers know exactly what he is going to do -- Stephen.", "Kelly, when aides say they are trying to keep this a tightly held secret, is there any way that we -- Kelly is back with us now. We had a little blip there. Kelly, sorry about that. You just mentioned how tightly they're trying to keep this a secret. But you know how to read comings and going of various people. Are there any clues coming out of the Texas White House?", "It's really hard to say, Stephen. There are a couple of clues that we have. We already know this president is against the cloning of human embryos for embryonic stem cell research. We also know, sources telling my colleague John King that this president of course very much against the creation of human embryos for this research. So that leaves the embryos that would be left behind at fertility clinics, and the question becomes, what does the president decide to do? If you at look what he said during the campaign and really just a couple of months ago, he said that he was opposed to federal funding of research that would involve the destruction of living human embryos. So a couple of questions. A, will be the president stick with that, those comments? B, will change those comments and decide to support it? Or three, is there some time of compromise here? Could he maybe try and find some middle ground, such as maybe only allowing federal dollars to use research on stem cells that have already at this point been obtained from human embryos? Again a lot of ifs, buts could, woulds. We just really don't know.", "And we know, Kelly, that he consulted with dozens of experts and also people he called just regular folks, as he was making his decision. What about consulting with people within the White House? How does the staff come down on this, or do they come down in one single way on this issue?", "Now they definitely, Stephen, as you probably know, don't come down on one single way. There is a bit of a debate in the White House. You have some strong supporters of this research. The biggest backer possibly the president's Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, who believes this research could lead to new treatments in the fight against various diseases, such as Parkinson's. On the other side, you have strong opponents. You have the president's top political adviser Karl Rove, who, number one, believes that this research really is the same as the destruction of human life, but being a political adviser, we understand he's also concerned about alienating Catholic and conservatives by a decision. This White House has definitely been trying to reach out to both of those groups for 2004. So a debate even within the West Wing as well as outside the White House as to what the president should do. We heard from many advisers saying it will indeed be the president's decision and his only -- Stephen.", "Indeed. Kelly Wallace standing there on a breezy day in Crawford, Texas, and the breezes are nothing compared to the winds of political storm swirling around the president today. Kelly, thank you. Among those awaiting the president's announcement tonight is Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle.", "In the hope of a broad bipartisan majority in the Senate is that the president will choose to allow this ground-breaking research to go forward with federal funding. To support federal funding for embryonic stem cell research is to come down on the side of hope for the millions of Americans suffering from diseases ranging from Alzheimer's to cancer to Parkinson's to diabetes.", "Senator Daschle, who made those remarks just moments ago, says he expected the Senate to debate stem cell research sometime this fall.", "While critics fear embryonic stem cell research will encourage abortions, many scientists think it will lead to important advances in medicine. CNN's medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen takes a closer look.", "Christopher Reeve is sure he's going to walk again.", "If you had the FDA involved and you had everybody working together, I am positive that in 10 years I'd be on my feet. And I would be -- I would not be sitting here in a wheelchair.", "What does Reeve think will do this magic? It's something called stem cells. They're blank cells that theoretically could be turned into any type of tissue in the human body and could be used to treat countless diseases. So, for example, in Reeve's case, where the spinal cord was damaged, doctors could take stem cells, convert them into nerve cells, and give an injection of healthy cells to repair the damage. The same principle applies to the heart. After a heart attack, some of the cardiac muscle dies. Stem cells could be made into cardiac cells and then injected, healing the heart tissue. (on camera): So where do you get stem cells? Well, that's where the controversy starts. One major source has been aborted fetuses. The other major source has been embryos from in vitro fertilization labs, embryos that are still in the lab because parents have decided not to use them to start a pregnancy.", "The root of the debate really comes down to the ethical question of what's the moral status of a human embryo: Is it a person or is it a piece of property?", "For many people against abortion, the answer to that question is clear: both for fetuses and for frozen embryos in laboratories.", "A frozen embryo who is destined to be discarded is a tiny human being, an embryonic child.", "That's not how Reeve sees it.", "You don't really have an ethical problem, because you are actually saving lives by using cells that are going to the garbage. And really, I just -- I just don't see how that's immoral or unethical. I really don't.", "There is hope that scientists will be able to get stem cells from less controversial sources, such as from umbilical cords, but some researchers say those kinds of cells might never be as medically useful as stem cells from embryos. And so stem cells remain a debate that can never end, because it all depends on when you think life begins. Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, Atlanta", "Now the two sides in this issue are so polarized. But in the last week or so, we've been hearing scientist say, hey, maybe's there's a compromise that we can do. Now let's hear what Deputy White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan had to say this morning.", "This is an issue that many people, many Americans will find the more they learn about it, the more complex it is. And stem cell research in many ways is the leading edge of the new frontier of science. And as we explore the science, we need to make sure that we do so in a way that adheres to the highest ethical standards.", "Now if you sort of read the tea leaves a little bit, you could read into what he was saying, is this is the new frontier of science, this is possibly a good thing, we need to figure out how to do ethically. So perhaps President Bush is thinking about compromise -- Donna.", "Have you heard what a compromise might be or how that might work out?", "Well, there are a couple of different scenarios, and let's talk about one that people seem to think would be the most likely, and that is that there are -- we're not sure how many, but maybe 50-100 embryonic stem cell lines already out there, in other words, 50-100 embryos that were already destroyed and used to make stem cells. Now what President Bush could do and what some people I've talked to hope he does is says, you know what, you can use federal funding on those stem cell lines, because they've already been made, or you can use those use for, say, another 100, but then you've got to stop, that he will put some kind of limit on it. So that's one scenario that could come up.", "Something that just occurred to me, and I don't know, we might have to check it. Can you make stem cells from stem cells, or once you have stem cells out you can them once for research and they're done?", "Actually, that's an excellent question, and it gets to the point of stem cell lines. If you have an embryo and you can make stem cells from it, you can make unlimited numbers. You could have millions upon million. The problem is, scientifically speaking, that those stem cells all the same, all genetically the same. If you need to do research with slightly different set of genetic parameters, that one embryo might not help you. Scientist said, we need lots and lots and lots to make cures for lots and lots of different people, that's why we need genetic variety. That's why some scientist I've talked to say, you know what, if he says no new stem cells can be made, then it will shackle research. Others say, you know what, I think it will be OK, at least for the time being. I think we could live with that. The other side the folks against embryonic stem cell research I think would be horrified by the compromise. They feel that even if an embryo was already destroyed and obviously can't be brought back to life, that no one should benefit from that, that you shouldn't use research from killed embryo because they consider that sort of akin to using the benefits of the research that the Nazis did. That's how they talk about it -- Donna.", "Elizabeth Cohen, thanks very much.", "You heard how complex and how involved this decision is. For an extended look at the medical and moral concerns surrounding embryonic stem cell research, we have asked two guests to join us now. Dr. Neil Theise is an associate professor of pathology at the New York University School of Medicine, and Bishop T.D. Jakes is the senior pastor from Potter's House Church in Dallas. He joins us from New Orleans. Bishop, doctor, thanks for joining us. Bishop let's go back to fundamental underpinnings, the religious objections to this. Is it because the Bible says that we can't use stem cells? Is there and kind of doctrine we go back to look at? I don't believe the bishop can hear us. While he's getting set up, let's turn now to Dr. Theise. Doctor, are you able to hear me OK?", "Yes.", "Your work with adult stem cells, right, which is often cited as one way to go to avoid the construction of embryos.", "Yes, that's what I do.", "And how is that working out, and would you favor then federal research for embryonic stem cells as well as adult stem cells?", "Absolutely. I don't think you find anyone more optimistic about what adult stem cells can do than I am. I won't be able to do that potential without the parallel work on embryonic stem cells. They are not independent either or propositions. They are linked parallel courses. We need both of them, to understand both of them, and to move forward.", "In other words, a sort of scientific way of covering all bets?", "Not only that. As someone just said on the program, embryonic stem cells can divide in unlimited fashion. Adult stem cells can't do that as best as we can tell you. If we can understand how embryonic stem cells do that, perhaps we can then use those mechanisms to get adult stem cells to do the same thing. Without the embryonic research, we're going to be walking around in the dark, making guesses as to how to get adult stem cells to do that. Embryonic stem cells already know how.", "What kind of conditions do you hope to provide therapies for with your work, doctor?", "Oh, the usual list that people mention. Some of the most common things, diabetes, Parkinson's. I think this is going to be useful for cancer research. I think it's going to be useful for autoimmune diseases, people with genetic diseases, metabolic diseases, all of these, may be amenable to this sort of therapeutic intervention.", "Let's include now Bishop Jakes who we believe is now better able to hear our comments, including those of Dr. Theise. Bishop Jakes, what's the fundamental, theological underpinning for opposing this kind of research?", "Well I think from the theological perspective, we haven't confirmed that the lives and well being of the unborn are being protected. And what complicates it even more than the theological issue is the political posturing that's going to take place in this decision. As we open the door, our concern is how wide will the door open and where will it stop. We don't want to see embryos harvested and their lives compromised for research. I think it's a very dangerous step for us to take.", "Is there a position in your church as to when an embryo becomes a human or is it the very earlier moment of conceptions, as it is, say, in the Roman Catholic Church?", "Yes, we believe that life begins at conception, and we've been very strongly advocates for the lives of the unborn, and I really feel -- I'm here in the middle of a woman's conference with 65,000 women, and I feel like I share the predominant opinion that these woman have, that the lives of the unborn be protected. We certainly are excited by the potentials, that there are many, many sick people who could benefit from the research. But we have not exhausted all of the other options that are afforded us before we go forward with the embryonic research.", "Let's ask, Dr. Theise about this. This seems to be a reasoned position where there's another way to go that does not offend certain sensibilities, doctor. As you and I just discussed, we'd like to keep going on all fronts.", "As I said, think that to keep going on all fronts is going to be necessary to manifest whatever therapeutic options we can have from either adult stem cells or embryonic stem cells. They're not independent. One doesn't substitute from the other. And I'd like to address the earlier question you asked about biblical sources. Their is a biblical test which the bishop didn't raise. And that's in Exodus, chapter 21, verse 22, where clearly the fetus, the only mention in either the Christian or Hebrew bibles as far as I know, is discussed in terms of being property, not an adult life. Two verses later, it says life for life, but in this particular verse, it say that a miscarried fetus, because a woman has been struck by a man, should be compensated by the husband of the woman as property. So there's a biblical text that I think supports the idea that embryos, while being life, are not the equivalent of adult human life, and are treated in the biblical test as property.", "But I want to respond to that. I don't think that that text leaves us with the liberty to harvest embryos for research. I don't think that that text was written nor intended to respond to this kind of debate that we're having. To isolate that one text against the preponderance of texts that support that life begins and conception, is of great concern to me and to many other of fate. I think it is a complex issue. I think that the president is wise to take council from all sides of the perspective dealing with it. But it's very, very important that we don't justify what we're about to do from one isolated text, because I think it's dangerous to represent all aspects of faith from one text that perhaps may be misinterpreted here in the doctor's comments.", "Well, I think what the comments from both of you reveal is the seriousness with which so many people come to this whole debate, and you can see how the president would be having a difficult time. And I'd like to thank you both now for these comments. And I know you with us will be awaiting the president's remarks tonight. Dr. Neil Theise, Bishop T.D. Jakes, thank you both very much.", "Thank you.", "Thank you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR", "KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FRAZIER", "WALLACE", "FRAZIER", "WALLACE", "FRAZIER", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-76690", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2003-9-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/09/lol.11.html", "summary": "Peter Ueberroth Expected to Withdraw From California Gubernatorial Race", "utt": ["Another Republican is getting out of Arnold Schwarzenegger's way in the California recall campaign. Peter Ueberroth is expected to make the announcement about an hour from now. And we will carry it live. But right now, we want to go to Bob Franken in Los Angeles -- Bob.", "According to a variety of sources, Ueberroth says he is not going to endorse a candidate right now, wants to meet with the other candidates to discuss job creation. That includes the Democrats, if they want to meet with him. Ueberroth is pulling out, however. He's been mired way down in the polls. As a matter of fact, a Field poll that was just conducted showed that he had 5 percent, vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger, for instance, at 25 percent. You can also see conservative Tom McClintock, the other major Republican, at 13 percent. So the question, of course, becomes, where will the votes for Ueberroth go? And the Field poll is going to put out a revised version tomorrow based on the same interviews which will try and answer that question. But there are reactions coming in from the other campaigns, starting with the Schwarzenegger campaign. A spokesman for Schwarzenegger said: \"We would like to accept Mr. Ueberroth's invitation to hold that meeting. He has been running a positive campaign based upon the issues. And Arnold looks forward to meeting him to discuss how the two can team up to create jobs and turn California's budget around.\" Now, the other Republican, who is the one who is considered the conservative, Tom McClintock, called Peter Ueberroth -- quote -- \"a decent, honorable man whose absence in the California gubernatorial race will be felt.\" And, yes, we do have a reaction from the campaign of Governor Gray Davis from the spokesman Peter Ragone, who says: \"It looks like the Arnold Schwarzenegger campaign is strong-arming other Republicans. And we think, if Republicans coalesce around Arnold and McClintock, Dems and independents are going to rally against the recall.\" The question is, exactly where will the votes go? We will probably have a better idea, Candy, when the Field poll comes out tomorrow. But, of course, this is such an unusual election, it's really hard to make any predictions -- Candy.", "Thanks very much, Bob Franken out in L.A. for us. Thanks, bob. With Peter Ueberroth getting out, Tom McClintock now is the main target of GOP pressure to call it quits. According to the new Field poll, look what would happen if the conservative McClintock were to drop out. Schwarzenegger moves into first place by a hair. While the Field poll shows support for the recall has dipped, a majority of likely California voters still favor ousting Gray Davis. Joining me now, the director of the Field Poll, Mark DiCamillo. Thanks so much for joining us, Mark. We appreciate it.", "Good afternoon.", "I want to ask you right off the bat about Governor Gray Davis' numbers. As compared to last month, those who seem to support the recall have faded a little. Is there a trajectory here that's positive for him or is that a blip?", "Well, we have taken four polls now. And this is the first poll where he has actually improved his standing. In each of the three preceding polls, in each poll, he was getting worse numbers. So at least he stopped the bleeding. It's a marginal gain, though. He has only picked up three points. It was 58 percent in August. It's 55 percent now. He's still got a ways to go. And most of the vote on the yes/no vote on the Davis recall is very solid. At least that's what voters are saying; 94 percent say they are very certain about their choice. They have a very strong opinion about Gray Davis. So it's going to be a challenge for him to make up the remaining ground.", "Now, let me ask you about Peter Ueberroth and his getting out and how that affects -- can you look at the polls that you took prior to the news that Ueberroth would pull out and tell us who that might affect most?", "We are going to do that this afternoon. We actually ask all voters in the polls who their first preference is and then if they have a second preference. And so we will look at those who supported Ueberroth as their first choice and look at their second choice and allocate his supporters among the other candidates. Again, that should be out tomorrow in the 6:00 a.m. hour.", "So tell me, when you looked at the numbers, what most struck you as different or unusual. Did anything sort of stand out?", "Well, even with the intense media focus on this particular race, I was struck by how stable the numbers have been. We only saw a three-point shift in the governor on the yes/no vote for Davis, from 58 to 55. And then, on the replacement ballot, we had a three-point Bustamante advantage in August. It's now five points, very similar kinds of numbers, not a lot of wild gyration going on, although with candidates dropping out, that could have an effect. Between the last poll and this poll, Bill Simon dropped out. What struck me was that Schwarzenegger didn't really benefit all that much from that. Actually, McClintock seemed to be more of a beneficiary of Simon dropping out than Schwarzenegger.", "Which may be why we see the Republicans pushing McClintock. I want to ask you about the poll itself and polls in general. You have never polled anything like this before in this race. Do you think sort of look at these polls and think, boy, here's how it is right this second? Or do you think that there's a chance that these polls are just dead wrong because we don't know who is going to come out and vote?", "Well, I think we have a pretty good idea who is coming out and voting. That's really part of the poll. We ask voters what their intent is, what their interest is, what their past voting history is. And, usually, those indicators are pretty reliable in terms of gauging with who is likely to vote. So, no, I think this particular election has some unique properties. I think there's this interaction effect which I have never seen before between how one feels about one side of the ballot and how one votes on the other side. Really, it matters how people feel about the replacement candidates as to how they will look at the first side on the yes/no. If they have an appealing replacement candidate in mind, I think they are more inclined to vote to recall the governor. And in the current poll, it seems that most of the voters think the replacement candidates would do a better job than Davis. If that continues, I think Davis has real problems.", "Thanks so much, Mark DiCamillo of the Field Poll. We appreciate your expertise. Governor Davis launches a new television commercial today dubbed \"Circus.\" The ad spotlights the characters in the race, from Schwarzenegger to pornographer Larry Flynt. It ends with the line, \"When the laughs are over, Californians will have to live with the outcome.\" The spot will run in Sacramento, Bakersfield, Fresno, and Chico. For the most part, we've seen the recall candidates meeting and greeting voters in California's larger cities. But how is the free- for-all playing in other parts of the state? CNN's Miguel Marquez went to Death Valley to find out.", "Take the government back.", "No on the recall! No on the recall!", "Death Valley, the mercury hit 128 this summer, maybe the only thing hotter, the California recall.", "I think the recall will hopefully make a difference. The way things are going, it's hopeless.", "Marta Becket knows something about hope. For 35 years, she scratched out a living by keeping an old hotel from disappearing and transforming an abandoned theater into an operatic oasis.", "You can make her do what you want her to. Just give her key a twirl.", "Her songs echo through Death Valley Junction, population two. Though Becket exists in an extreme landscape and gets by in a self-created economy, she believes the recall brings the promise of lower taxes.", "I don't look forward to big changes, that it will be great, but at least there's hope that there will be some changes.", "David Washum moved to Shoshone four years ago. He runs an Internet cafe. He says business is good, but the cost of electricity because of the energy crisis three years ago bites into profits.", "The power situation affects a small business like mine to the degree where my power bills are higher than my rent.", "Even if you aren't from Death Valley or even from this hemisphere, the recall is a common language.", "We know that Arnold Schwarzenegger is running for governor. And then we also heard porno actresses were candidates.", "We came here wondering if the heat of the recall was any match whatsoever for the blast furnace called Death Valley. What we found, the oddity of the recall may be best served when baked in California's largest oven. Miguel Marquez, CNN, at the lowest point in the United States, Death Valley, California."], "speaker": ["CANDY CROWLEY, CNN ANCHOR", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CROWLEY", "MARK DICAMILLO, DIRECTOR, THE FIELD POLL", "CROWLEY", "DICAMILLO", "CROWLEY", "DICAMILLO", "CROWLEY", "DICAMILLO", "CROWLEY", "DICAMILLO", "CROWLEY", "ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIFORNIA GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE", "CROWD", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MARTA BECKET, CALIFORNIA RESIDENT", "MARQUEZ", "BECKET (singing)", "MARQUEZ", "BECKET", "MARQUEZ", "DAVIS WASHUM, CALIFORNIA RESIDENT", "MARQUEZ", "LETTY CALLEBAUT, BELGIAN TOURIST", "MARQUEZ (on camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-272396", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2015-12-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/28/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Iraqi Forces Liberate Ramadi From ISIS.", "utt": ["Let's go back now to our top story. Iraq is claiming a major victory in the fight against ISIS. The Iraqi military said that it has retaken control of Ramadi which is about 70 miles from the city of Baghdad, recapturing a key government compound there in the center of the city. You may recall that Ramadi fell to ISIS earlier this year in what was seen as a major setback and embarrassment as well in this fight to contain the terror group. I want to talk it over now with CNN Military Analyst and Retired Major General, James Spider Marks and also joining us we have CNN Intelligence and Security Analyst, Bob Baer. So, Ramadi is really important, this is a route when you're talking about moving supplies from Jordan to Syria. How important is this in terms of a strategic value towards, I guess a victory or really pushing ISIS back even farther, Bob?", "I think it's important. I mean, Ramadi was a base that ISIS could launch attacks on Baghdad. Remember last year, there was a concern that they might actually move on Baghdad and that offensive is stopped. So, taking Ramadi is very important. It's an important road that goes to Jordan and if you continue up toward Mosul, it is a key target. I think what we're seeing is the Islamic State is starting to fail, you know, at least losing ground which is very important for this war.", "General, I wonder what you think about this and also, it seems in some ways listening to the Pentagon, they're being very careful in the how they acknowledge this in terms of the success. We know there are certain pockets of resistance still there in the city, but I just spoke with the spokesman to the coalition, and he seemed confident that this is going to hold, that the Iraqi military was going to be able to hold this, what do you think? * MAJ. GEN. JAMES \"SPIDER\" MARKS", "Yes, Brianna, I heard your interview with Colonel Steve Warren, he obviously did a very good job, he's very topical on what's taking place. The key thing is right now is the heavy lifting begins. Retaking Ramadi is the first step, what has to happen now is governance. Water has to be turned back on. There has to be confidence that the Iraqi government can provide security, and then from that, everything else is a derivative. And it's very, very important that it's residents return to Ramadi, and they feel that they can with the degree of security, get about their lives. This is the toughest step that has to take place, next. And I agree with, Bob, that the next focus has to be on Mosul, that's an entirely different picture however much tougher.", "How, yeah, why is that so much tougher? What are the challenges there that are so unique, general?", "Well, they've been in Mosul now over two years. Ramadi was a -- it fell about six months ago, Mosul now has its own identity that ISIS has been able to the create in terms of trying to provide for the citizens of Mosul good or bad, but they have created a form of governance up there that now has to be completely uprooted. It's also approximate to Syria, lines of support are easier to maintain up in Mosul from Syria. So, this becomes a much tougher task although the Kurdish fighters are capable and have demonstrated an ability to make success and achieve success in that part of the country. So, I would hope we could reinforce that.", "I want to get your opinion, Bob of this CNN/ORC Poll that we've been saying released today. This is really interesting, it shows that Americans are split on the use of troops on the ground the fight terror groups. Now keeping in mind, this was a poll that was done before this headline coming out of Ramadi. But when you are looking at that, and you see this sort of inclination towards even in limited numbers, seeing more troops certainly Special Forces, what do you think ground troops? I mean, what do you think those numbers tell you about the appetite for greater involvement?", "Well, Brianna, I think it's fairly simple in the sense that Americans don't trust the governments in Damascus or Baghdad or anywhere else there. Yes, our soldiers have never lost a battle in that part of the world, and we would win if we put ground troops but what do we get at the end? I mean, we did win in Iraq, a couple of times but what do you do about Baghdad? And as General Marks was saying, you know, governance is the key important issue here because if Baghdad does retake and hold Ramadi and they put in the government, they have to find the way to treat the Sunnis. That's a Sunni City, treat them well. They simply cannot revert back to their old sectarian ways of oppressing these people, otherwise this conflict this is going to go on for the next 30 years, and we have very limited influence on Baghdad. And I think Americans feel this. They just simply dot no trust the political solutions we've come up with trust the military but not the political solutions.", "All right. We will see Bob Baer and General Mark, thank you so much to both of you. And on this next story that we are going to talk about, I certainly want to warn you that the picture we're about to show is rather graphic. And you remember, it was gut-wrenching, a gut-wrenching image of a 2-year-old Syrian refugee's lifeless body that was being carried away on the Turkish coast. This is a photo that sparked international sorrow and it became one of the most powerful symbols of the growing migrant crisis where over a million refugees had fled to Europe this year. Family members of this toddler Alan Kurdi, are expected to arrive in their new home in Canada today after what's been a very long and a very painful journey from Syria, the country that has been completely taken over by civil war. CNN's, Paula Newton comes to us live from now from Ottawa. So, who, Paula, of this family, who's expected to arrive there in Vancouver today?", "Well, there Alan Kurdi, that little toddler, it is his uncle and his five cousins. And of course the arrival the arrival here in Canada is better sweet. They have been sponsored by Tima Kurdi who was the aunt of Alan. She have been trying to get her two brothers, their kids, any other family members that she could here to Canada. And Brianna she just said, \"Look, the red tape was exhausting.\" And because of that, because they just weren't getting anywhere, that is why Alan Kurdi found himself on that, you know, dinghy where he died, his brother died, and his mother died. The survival is Abdullah Kurdi, his father. He decided not to come to Canada but Tima Kurdi, their aunt has managed to get her brother here with the five kids. And of course, it's bittersweet, Brianna, but at the same time it really does show what has changed in the last few months, a few short month since Alan Kurdi died and the fact that governments and quite frankly, public opinion changed in terms of trying to sponsor these refugees and get them here even with perhaps all of the Ts aren't crossed and the Is aren't dotted.", "And this is an interesting case where you have a relative who's there in Canada and still facing as she put it, fierce red tape to try to bring her family members over. In general though Paula is Canada approaching this approaching this crisis differently than the US? Are we seeing some of the same public opinion that's really pressuring lawmakers there?", "There's not any pressure on lawmakers, although there is a diversity of opinion. I mean, you struggle to say that even a majority of Canadians thinks that we should take in tens of thousands. Right now Canada's committed to taking in about 25,000 by the end February. Brianna, you have to lay it on the table, that's nowhere near as many Germany is taking in terms of proportion to population. Having said that, there are a lots of charities here Brianna that have opened, you know, their facilities, opened them to legal help, financial help, shelter, everything. And the refugees that have come in, a few thousands so far are getting a very warm welcome knowing what's coming ahead and that this will be, you know, a difficulty you try and integrate. Key thing here Brianna is in terms of security, the Canadian government has guaranteed that they've done their security screenings in other countries and that when they arrive here they will be permanent citizens of Canada, and they believe that this people have been screened and that it is secure for them to come to Canada and that they will settle well.", "Yeah, giving some reassurances there. All right, Paula Newton for us in Ottawa. We do appreciate it. Coming up, two more shooting deaths intensifying the spotlight on an already troubled police department, we'll go live to Chicago next."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "BOB BAER, CNN INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY ANALYST", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN NEWS ANCHOR", "CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "KEILAR", "MARKS", "KEILAR", "BAER", "KEILAR", "PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR", "NEWTON", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "NPR-17762", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2016-11-23", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/11/23/503108911/why-a-teacher-appreciates-living-in-the-besieged-syrian-city-of-aleppo", "title": "Syrian Teacher Explains Why He Still Lives In The Besieged City Of Aleppo", "summary": "David Greene talks to Wissam Zarqa, who lives with his wife in rebel-held eastern Aleppo. The teacher and activist explains to David Greene why he wouldn't want to be anywhere else.", "utt": ["We're going to listen now to a voice from the rebel-held eastern side of Aleppo. Last week, the Syrian regime and its Russian allies resumed airstrikes on that part of the city. Witnesses are reporting that hospitals and schools have been hit. Wissam Zarqa is a schoolteacher who lives in eastern Aleppo with his wife. And we reached him via Skype. I asked him if this increased bombing has brought daily life to a halt in the Syrian city.", "No, no, like, even when a street is targeted, like, five minutes later, life would go back to normal somehow. People who live day by day can't stay at home. They have to work.", "And are you still going to work?", "I'm a teacher. Because of the heavy shelling, we stopped this week. Hopefully, we can start again next week.", "How old are your students?", "The youngest are 11.", "What have you been telling these young kids about the situation?", "In fact, they are telling me - not I am telling them. They know better. Most of them spent all of their life - most of their life in this situation. So usually, they would, like, start - at class, they would tell me what happened, who died and how.", "Wow, they actually just tell you who died, like, in a very straightforward manner, like this is just - that they're used to this life.", "The other day, a little girl in the seventh grade, she told me that she couldn't finish her homework because her brother was killed. It was in the same day, so I was surprised that her brother passed away but she came to school. So yeah, it's strange a bit. But this is how it's happening here.", "And you are living with your wife in eastern Aleppo right now. Is that right?", "Right.", "And she's pregnant?", "She was pregnant. And we lost our unborn baby about a month ago or less.", "Oh, I'm so sorry.", "Yeah, we don't know why exactly, maybe because of the terror around - like, it happens many times that we wake up terrified, especially when they started using bunker buster bombs - maybe because of the lack of the food she needs. I'm not sure why, exactly. Maybe, like, even if we were, like, in a normal life, maybe that would happen. But you never can tell.", "Why are you in eastern Aleppo right now? I know you wrote an article saying that many of your family members - your parents and your brother and friends - live in Turkey. Why have you and your wife decided to stay in eastern Aleppo?", "It's a duty. There are children here. There are young people who need education to go on. If all people who, like, have already finished their study run away, there would be no more life here - only death, only war. So I was in Saudi Arabia. I used to teach at university. It was comfortable there. But I didn't feel OK. I felt that there is something I should be doing, and I wasn't.", "Mr. Zarqa, let me just ask you - you know, our listeners hear day after day of how bleak and terrible the situation is in your part of Aleppo. I mean, what is your best hope at this point?", "No idea - like, as for me, I wanted to be here no matter what. Maybe we will be killed today, tomorrow - no big difference. So I prefer to die here, doing my duty. So I don't, like, have a lot of hopes about future. What I care about is the present. That all what matters.", "OK, Mr. Zarqa, all the best to you and your wife. And thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. We appreciate it.", "Thanks, David."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WISSAM ZARQA", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WISSAM ZARQA", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WISSAM ZARQA", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WISSAM ZARQA", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WISSAM ZARQA", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WISSAM ZARQA", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WISSAM ZARQA", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WISSAM ZARQA", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WISSAM ZARQA", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WISSAM ZARQA", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WISSAM ZARQA"]}
{"id": "CNN-338197", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-04-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/22/cnr.21.html", "summary": "Earth Day Highlights Environmental Crisis", "utt": ["Welcome back. I'm Natalie Allen. Here are our top stories.", "Sunday we celebrate the planet we all call home. More than --", "-- 1 billion people around the world observe Earth Day. And this year, they'll focus on plastic pollution. Look at that video right there to get a sense of how bad it is. It is a global problem that is much more than just not recycling a water bottle. Environmentalists say enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the Earth four times; 50 percent is used only once before being thrown away. And it can take from 500 to 1,000 years for plastic to decompose. Our meteorologist Ivan Cabrera is joining us with more on the plastic pollution wrapping our planet and it is certainly a huge problem.", "Happy Earth Day.", "Happy Earth Day. We have a long way to go.", "We usually do not have good news about it. You've got your reusable bag; we do what we can. But it's up to governments and corporations to --", "Some cities have banned plastic straws, won't use plastics --", "Australia has done that; California, no plastic bags, either, but we've got a ways to go and that plastic, by the way, also not only does it not degrade for 500-1,000 years but it does so slowly and as that happens, the particles become small enough for marine life to have issues here. Eight million metric tons we dump it into the ocean to add to the 5 trillion pieces of plastic that are already in the world's oceans. And about a million sea birds get killed annually as a result of that, about 100,000 marine mammals as well. Plastic does degrade and when it degrades to the point where you can no longer see it and it becomes microscopic, that's when marine life can ingest it. So fish will eat it, inadvertently, and then we eat the fish. And you know what happens there. So absolutely not only harming marine life but also us as well. Let's talk about where the garbage patches are. The word is a bit of a misnomer because it's not something you can see from space. Even if you were in a cruise ship it's not like it's a giant island of trash. It's widely dispersed, which is why it's difficult to get rid of. And the boundaries aren't perfectly circular. In fact because of waves and currents, they become diffuse. So this is the area that we know most of the concentration is at across the Eastern Pacific and across the Western Pacific. The problem is you get this convergence zone here, where the wind doesn't do much and so all that garbage just kind of sits there and accumulates to the point where we're now at 5 trillion pieces of plastic. As I mentioned, marine life has a very hard time doing so, but there is what we have here on this Earth Day 2018. We always focus on different things. There are so many things to focus on. How do you make plastic? You need oil. So there's that. CO2 emissions go up about 50 percent under the atmosphere and half of that goes into the world's oceans. We have had issues with marine life and also with coral, almost half of it at the Great Coral Barrier Reef in Australia is gone because of the bleaching there. The water temperature is going up.", "We are going to talk about a possible solution and talk with a plastic expert about what he thinks about that. Ivan, thank you. Despite the dangers of plastic pollution, there is some hope; scientists may have accidentally discovered how to break plastic up. Robyn Curnow has that for us.", "PET is found in everything, from plastic bottles to clothing. First developed in the 1940s, it is now a major part of our plastic problem. Euromonitor International forecasts that more than 600 billion PET bottles will be made next year alone. PET can take hundreds of years to break down in the environment. But now, scientists have stumbled upon a shortcut.", "To a couple of years ago, there was a Japanese group that have made this spectacular discovery of a bacteria that can digest PET plastic in a recycling dump in Japan. And what we've done is we've taken the enzyme that this bacteria produces --", "That enzyme is called PETase. It works, but it doesn't work fast enough to use on an industrial scale. Using this particle accelerator in Oxfordshire, U.K., begin along with his colleagues in Brazil and the U.S. examined the enzyme right down to the atomic level. They found that by tweaking it slightly, it could break down plastic at an even faster rate.", "The bacteria can break this down in a matter of days or weeks. But what we're hoping to do with the enzyme is just in the same way years, an enzyme and a biological washing detergent breaking down grass stains. These enzymes we hope can break down PET, ideally in a matter of hours. That's our goal.", "McGeehan says it was the scientific community that developed plastics. And now that same community must use all the technology at their disposal --", "-- to find solutions to problems plastics have caused.", "Let's talk about this issue with an expert on plastic. Dr. Marcus Eriksen is an ocean pollution expert and executive director and co-founder of the Five Gyres Institute. Marcus, thanks for joining us. It's good to see you.", "Thanks for having me.", "We just saw a story about technology that may help break down plastic, sounds like a hopeful step. There's a lot of innovation in this area. Will that help?", "You know, it's interesting technology and might have a place inside the middle of a landfill where it's already buried. But PET, there are already systems to get back PET bottles, redemption programs where bottles are a nickel or 10 cents a bottle are very effective to get those bottles back and keep them within a circular economy. That's what we are after. I have one hesitation for GMO organisms is that if you lose those out into the environment in the oceans, we have got boats and buoys and fishing nets and safety equipment and life jackets, all these things already made of plastics. I don't want those getting eaten by some organism that we invent.", "Yes, even whales are getting stuck in fishing apparatus and being killed. We see a lot of those videos on YouTube. Marcus, I know that years ago you built a boat made of plastic, called it Junk and sailed it from California to Hawaii to bring attention to the issue of plastic in our oceans. How many years ago was that? And are we getting the message in a significant way in this world?", "That was one thing that we did about 10 years ago. And that's when I saw that there wasn't a lot of attention to all of the other gyres in the world where plastic accumulates. South of the equator, the South Pacific, South Atlantic, Indian Ocean, the West Pacific, East Atlantic, are all unknown ocean regions. I've sailed through all of those five gyres since then and I'm finding all kinds of impacts from plastics. Like we typically find bottles in the middle of the ocean bitten by sea turtles or by trigger fish. Once", "That's unbelievable, by the way. Go ahead.", "Yes, it was so shocking to me. And he showed me five of these skeletons. Each one had a wad of plastic bags in its gut. And plastic bags are one of several single-use plastic items. What I'm seeing that's encouraging are more and more communities and states across the U.S. that are saying the single-use plastic, the concept of using material designed to last forever for a product we throw away is kind of nonsensical. So we're seeing more communities replacing those, like plastic straws with paper straws, plastic bags with reusables, plastic bottles with reusable stainless steel mugs. So we are seeing that cultural shift, where like cigarettes became taboo to smoke in public, we are seeing the same thing with single-use plastics, the straw, the bag, the foam polystyrene cup are becoming a bit taboo to have around because of their ability to pollute so easily.", "Is there one place that people begin to wrap here that can go on the Internet? What are the keywords they should put in so they can understand how to pull back on their use of plastic?", "I think if they go to 5gyres.org, that's the number 5-G-Y-R- E-S, there's a whole list of things that you can do in your home, your office, your school to get to a zero-waste culture. And that's what we're after.", "All right, Dr. Marcus Eriksen, thank you so much. We really appreciate your help on this one.", "Thank you. My pleasure.", "So Happy Earth Day, everyone, and good luck with that mission on plastic. Actress Allison Mack is known for playing Superman's friend on an American TV show. Now she is facing charges of sex trafficking for a mysterious organization. We'll have that story ahead here. Plus a record number of women are running for office in the U.S. this year and many of them say that one person is the reason for that."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "IVAN CABRERA, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "ALLEN", "CABRERA", "ALLEN", "CABRERA", "ALLEN", "ROBYN CURNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JOHN MCGEEHAN, PROFESSOR, STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH", "CURNOW", "MCGEEHAN", "CURNOW", "CURNOW", "ALLEN", "DR. MARCUS ERIKSEN, FIVE GYRES INSTITUTE", "ALLEN", "ERIKSEN", "ALLEN", "ERIKSEN", "ALLEN", "ERIKSEN", "ALLEN", "ERIKSEN", "ALLEN", "ERIKSEN", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-401027", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-05-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/24/cnr.02.html", "summary": "White House Adviser Says May Unemployment Could Be \"North Of 20 Percent", "utt": ["Around the country, we're witnessing scenes of crowded beaches with many people foregoing masks and social distancing. But this morning Whitehouse Coronavirus Taskforce coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx warned that just because we are reopening, it doesn't mean that people can stop taking precautions.", "Kristen Holmes joins me now from the White House. So, Kristen, with all 50 states reopening, we're seeing some early signs of regional COVID-19 surges. Does the White House have a plan for that?", "Well, not that we know of, and not really one that President Trump himself seems to know of. You know, we've heard from him as recently as this Thursday when he was at that Ford plant, he was asked if they were going to close down the economy again, close down the country if there was a resurgence, and he said, no. Now, this isn't surprising. This is the same storyline that we have heard from him or a narrative we've heard from him since the beginning of the pandemic. Remember, we were just talking over a month ago about how he wanted to reopen the economy and do it quickly. He wanted to override those governors and make sure that this happened very fast, and he doubled down on his own rhetoric this weekend himself in what he did. He went golfing this weekend. This is the first time he's really gone out. Definitely, the first time he's gone golfing since early March. So, clearly here, he is sending a message that we are back open and it feels as though the message is if you go off of what he said Thursday, that we're back open to stay. Now. Dr. Deborah Birx, it wasn't the only thing she said. She also expressed some concern that the country wasn't where it needed to be to prevent a resurgence. Take a listen.", "We have to do much better with proactive testing, not just count the number of tests we've done, that's great, but really ensure those tests are being applied in a way that we find the asymptomatic cases. It is much easier to find symptomatic cases because people are sick and when people are sick, they're often not out and about, particularly if they have a severe case of COVID with high fever. What I'm worried about is, what are we putting in place to find asymptomatic cases?", "So, if there isn't anything in place to find asymptomatic cases, and we see weekends like this where there are people who are not social distancing, it is likely in at least some places that there will be some sort of resurgence. And you asked me, Fred about if there was a contingency plan for the White House. Well, I want to make very clear that what we've learned in this process is that it's not going to be up to the White House. Even if President Trump, as he has doubles down, and says he doesn't want to close the country, these states, these governors are going to be the ones who have to make that decision based on what they're seeing in their data in their communities.", "Dr. Birx also addressed the question that came about the President. He wore a mask when visiting a Ford facility, but then he refused to allow the public to see him. What more can you tell us about -- you know what came of that?", "Well, look, you know, Dr. Birx was asked, should President Trump be wearing a mask? Should everyone be wearing a mask? And she was very, very clear. Everyone should be wearing a mask. There is science behind the mask and the reason why I'm using the word science is one, she used it, but two, we've really started to see this sort of cultural and political battle erupt over wearing a mask. If you're on one side of the aisle, you think you should. If you're on the other, you shouldn't. And we've seen these fights breaking out. I mean, obviously, you've spoken to our own reporters who were kind of heckled on a beach for wearing a mask and her point was clear that everyone should wear one, and that the science is again behind it. But President Trump himself this weekend not listening to that. We saw him leave for golf, both yesterday and today, not wearing a mask. And while he was doing some social distancing, he was in a golf cart alone at one point, on that green, he looked very close to some of his partners -- Fred.", "And, of course, you have now two Republican governors who have come out to say, wearing a mask should not be, you know, misconstrued that people are making a political statement. All right, Kristen Holmes, thank you so much. White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett telling CNN today he thinks the country's bleak unemployment picture is going to get even worse and May's unemployment rate could be, quote, \"north of 20 percent.\"", "My expectation is that since they're still innocent claim for unemployment insurance in May, that the unemployment rate will be higher in June, then in May, but then after that, it should start to trend down. So, I think we're very, very close to an inflection point in terms of business activity and probably about a month away in terms of employment.", "You think unemployment is going to be even higher?", "Yes, it's going to be quite a bit higher. And you know, there are some technical things they kind of messed up and on an economics lecture, we go into them, but it could be if they fix the numbers and fix the thing that they mischaracterized last time that you'll end up with a number north of 20 percent.", "Hassett also said Americans could still see double digit unemployment in October and November as voters prepare To go to the polls. New Jersey could soon be forced to make some major budget cuts unless the Federal government comes to the rescue. Governor Phil Murphy estimating that his state will have a $10 billion revenue loss, which could force him to lay off some frontline workers.", "We announced the budget on Friday for the next four months. We had to cut or defer over $5 billion of expenditures and this includes potentially laying off educators, firefighters, police, EMS, healthcare workers. This is not abstract. This is real. It's not a blue state issue. It's an American issue.", "So far, both the White House and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have resisted calls to provide Federal relief for states facing budget shortfalls. All right, coming up. Some parts of the country are seeing a rise in coronavirus cases with Arkansas reporting a new peak in cases. What are officials doing to prevent new infections and save lives? The Mayor of Little Rock joins me to discuss, next. And a reminder, join CNN's Fareed Zakaria as he investigates the moment a pandemic was born. CNN's special report \"China's Deadly Secret\" begins tonight at nine."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "WHITFIELD", "KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BIRX", "HOLMES", "WHITFIELD", "HOLMES", "WHITFIELD", "KEVIN HASSETT, WHITE HOUSE SENIOR ECONOMIC ADVISER", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "HASSETT", "WHITFIELD", "GOV. PHIL MURPHY (D-NJ)", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-298348", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-11-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/16/nday.02.html", "summary": "Backlash Growing Against Bannon Appointment; Trump: \"Very Organized Process Taking Place.\"", "utt": ["Continued changes on President- elect Donald Trump's transition team, Former Congressman and CNN Commentator Mike Rogers is out. We're moving a key establishment of national security voice from the planning process. So how will this shape, Trump's foreign policy agenda? Our next guest has a fascinating new article out on the cover, \"The Atlantic\" December issue, the title \"China's Great Leap Backward\". National Correspondent James Fallows is with us. Good morning.", "Good morning.", "Great piece, we'll get to it ...", "Thank you.", "... in a moment. We will. But, let's just begin to Mike Rogers being out. You say the reason here for part of this is it Trump has a really unique challenge. And that is it a lot of sort of the establishment, the base abandoned him either before or in the case of Eliote Cohen for example after the election. So he's got a smaller pool to pick from.", "Right. And I think it's important to keep emphasizing how unusual the process is that we're seeing right now because in most cases when a president-elect, you know, a day or two after election and once he's recovered, they're all this teams who have their briefing memos and they say here is the choices you have to be making next week, here are the leading candidates for this job. They're just -- it does not appear to be any of that on cap for Mr. Trump right now. And in addition, there's this -- I think unprecedented situation where a hundreds of people who have been the usual suspects for previous Republican administration said they're not going to work for him. So we'll see how that sorts itself out.", "How big a deal is Bannon in that influence on the minds of Republicans? We're thinking about whether or not to put both arms around the Trump administration.", "I think at the time when these letters were ripped mainly in June and July and August of this year, Bannon was -- he was already with the campaign. But I don't I think many people suspected he'd have a central White House role. So I think the fact that he's been given this job apparently reinforces the sense that maybe there's going to be something that if the dilemma that these Republican, life long or Republican have whether they want to serve. I think the note yesterday from Eliote Cohen ...", "Yeah.", "... who is a long time defense experts who wanted to approach the -- new administration said, wait a minute I'm not sure we can work with them. That's a factor.", "He actually said after meeting with the transition team, my recommendation has changed. He said they are angry, arrogant, and screaming new laws. I mean, he could have been more emphatic. Let's talk about John McCain who came out without using Trump's name in a statement made very clear who he was talking to. Speaking about what the active administration does with Russia. Let's pull it up. \"The Obama administration's last attempt at resetting relations with Russia culminated in Putin's invasion of Ukraine and military intervention in the Middle East. At the very least, the price of another reset would be complicity in Putin and Assad's butchery of the Syrian people. That is an unacceptable price for a great nation.\"", "I think there's a real split here, not only within the Republican Party but in the country as a whole of the international community. On the one hand, nobody wants actual hostility with Russia. You know, if you can get along with them fine, that's great, we're good, develop great powers. On the other hand, both in the Caribbean and in Syria and other places, you know, Putin is making big problems for the U.S. Plus there was the National Security Agency director comments yesterday.", "Yeah, Admiral Michael Rogers.", "Yes.", "Yeah, yes.", "Of that there would have been some kind of \"nation-state\" involvement directly in our election. So I think we'll see another schism between potentially Trump and some of the Republicans.", "So let's give people some brain food on a larger concern they should have. We're all obsessed with the micro right now around the election. But if you talk to national security officials and experts about what their biggest threat profiles order to the country, ISIS is like third or fourth. Terrorism is like third or fourth. China, South Korea, how you deal with those two agencies are seen as priorities. You are taking a big look at China and what they pose as a risk of stability on their own end, what do you want people to know?", "So the main point I want to get across through this article is that over the last 40 years, Nixon through Obama, there was more or less a constant policy from the United States which was that it was better to keep engaging China more and more. That they were -- it was better for us that they prospered than if they didn't. You know they'd be more dangerous if they were falling apart et cetera. And the question now is, people who have looked at China for a long time they're wondering if things have changed significantly enough and their internally with repression (ph) and externally in aggression that United States needs to basically rethink its policy. Not in the way that brings our new cold war, not that confronts China but just says there are things that are getting outside the normal band we expected over these past 40 plus years and what can we do to stir things back into a cooperative direction.", "You're right in this piece, one line has sit out to me, \"No sane American leader would choose confrontation with China.\" What are you ...", "So, you know ...", "That code.", "What is that code?", "What is that code, James?", "Well, I had -- I wrote this obviously when we didn't know who'd be the next president came out a day or two after the election. And China has a 1.4 billion people, it's a nuclear power. The two economies are essentially one in a lot of their function. Every university in the United States depends on Chinese students. Every company in the United States has both Chinese markets and Chinese supply lines. And there's not necessary tension between U.S. and China so it's not a fight you pick if you can avoid it. But there are also problems that are developing on the Chinese side apart from whatever problems maybe developing on our side right now. So it's a very important thing to manage for the next administration.", "They like TPP likely not going through.", "They're very much so because that was seen as an anti- Chinese flanking move.", "So, keep them in check ...", "Yes.", "... and now ...", "Exactly.", "... it's not going to happen probably.", "Exactly.", "There's a lot in the piece. People should read it for themselves. It's in the \"Atlantic\", its out right now, James Fallows is the author.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Pleasure to have you. So, there was a standing ovation for a United Airlines pilot for what he told his passengers about politics. What exactly happened? You're going to want to hear it. This is next.", "California Senator Barbara Boxer introducing a bill to scrap the Electoral College and determine the presidential winner purely on popular vote. This is in context of what we're seeing with Hillary Clinton right now. She is closing on an million more votes nationally than Trump. Now this disconnect between the college and the popular vote, it's just the fifth time we've ever had that happened. In an election last time, of course was in 2000 when Al Gore lose to George W. Bush.", "Meantime, a United Airlines pilot intervenes following a fight about Donald Trump on this plane, listen.", "I understand everybody has their opinion, that's fine. If you support him, great, if you don't I understand. However we're out here to go to Puerta Vallarta, we are supposed to be having a good time, and what I do ask is that as people we have the common decency to respect each other's decisions.", "A passenger says the feud broke out when a man said something racist to an African-American woman making her cry. The pilot immediately spoke up urging passengers to keep calm or choose another plane to get to Puerta Vallarta. He was met with cheers after issuing that ultimatum.", "All right, there will be quarterback controversy in Dallas. At least not for now and that comes from the former starting quarterback Hines Ward as more in this morning \"Bleacher Report\" unusual. Unusual, to hear the guy who got hurt come out and weigh in, in favor of the other guy.", "Yeah, very unusual. I mean, Tony Romo says that the Cowboys now belong to rookie Dak Prescott. Now, if you remember, Romo broke a bone in his back in the preseason and Dak -- while Dak take -- while he was taking over the starting quarterback job. Is this the end? The Cowboys have gone eight in one. Now Romo is healthy and ready to play but in a prepared statement yesterday, he said that Dak is the man in Dallas right now.", "He's earned the right to be our quarterback. It's hard as that is for me to say he's earned that right. He's gathered our team do an eight in one record and that's hard to do.", "And number 1 Duke taking on number 7 Kansas at Madison Square Garden. The score tied at 75 with 8.2 seconds left. Jayhawks' Frank Mason III race, the short jump and to take the lead. The little man came up big for Kansas but Duke inbounds the ball and he's up, a half court shot but no good. Kansas pulls off the upset 77-75. Now this is the eight win in over number 1 ranked team in school history. So, it's all good in Kansas. So, back to you, Poppy.", "Hines, thank you very much. We appreciate it. Coming up next. People versus the President-elect Donald Trump, facing dozens of lawsuits as he heads for the White House. We're going to take a closer look at his legal battles and how they could impact his presidency? What ends, what doesn't? 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{"id": "NPR-42208", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-06-30", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5525317", "title": "'The Devil Wears Prada' Wears Thin", "summary": "The new movie The Devil Wears Prada is set in the fashion world and features Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. However, NPR's Bob Mondello says it wears a little thin.", "utt": ["With nearly 100 films competing for summer box office dollars, Hollywood studios choose their opening date battles very carefully. Last week, the Adam Sandler comedy Click had the weekend virtually to itself. Next week, moviegoers will duck the firepower of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.", "But this week, despite the fact that Superman Returns is soaring over the competition on some 4,000 screens, another film opens on close to 3,000 screens. It's a comedy about the fashion industry specifically aimed at women. It's called The Devil Wears Prada.", "Bob Mondello says it's not quite ready to wear.", "BOB MONDELLO reporting:", "If you're telling a Cinderella story, you need a good wicked stepmother, and The Devil Wears Prada has Meryl Streep playing Miranda Priestly. She's the demanding, hard-driving editor of the fashion magazine Runway. And she enters the film at full stride, terrorizing her staff.", "I don't understand why it's so difficult to confirm an appointment.", "Unidentified Woman: I know. I'm sorry, Miranda. I actually did confirm -", "Tales of your incompetence do not interest me. Tell Simone I'm not going to approve that girl that she sent me for the Brazilian layout. I asked for clean, athletic, smallish. She sent me dirty, tired and paunchy. And RSVP yes to Michael Korr's party. I want the driver to drop me off at 9:30 and pick me up at 9:45 sharp. And then call Natalie at Gloria's Foods and tell her no, for the fortieth time, no. I don't want (unintelligible). I want tortes filled with warm rhubarb compote. Then call my ex-husband and remind him -", "Once wicked stepmother is in place, enter Cinderella, here called Andy Sachs and played by Anne Hathaway as a fresh out of college crusading journalist interviewing a bit cluelessly for the job of Miranda's assistant.", "Basically it's this or Auto Universe.", "So you don't read Runway?", "No.", "And before today you had never heard of me?", "No.", "And you have no style or sense of fashion.", "Well, um, I think that depends on what your -", "No, no. That wasn't a question.", "Andy gets the job despite the interview and when she spills something at lunch is taken under the wing of a fairy godmother of sorts named Nigel.", "Oh never mind. I'm sure you have plenty more polyblend where that came from.", "You think my clothes are hideous, I get it. But I'm not going to be in fashion forever, so I don't really see the point of changing everything about myself just because I have this job.", "Yes, that's true. That's surely what this multibillion-dollar industry is all about anyway, isn't it? Inner beauty.", "Could there be a business more ripe for satire than the fashion industry - outside of Hollywood, I mean? In both cases - fashion and Hollywood - the product is, by design, unnecessary but entertaining. The people making the product are, by nature, talented but obsessed with the superficial. The public face of both cultures is beautiful. The backstabbing behind the scenes, less so.", "It's a marriage made in heaven, no? So why does the movie feel so toothless? Well, partly because director David Franco hails from TV sitcoms and can't shake their rhythms. Partly because he's trying to turn Anne Hathaway - who's been groomed to look like Julia Roberts - into Mary Tyler Moore. And partly because he's way too fond of fashion montages.", "But the bigger problem is that his Cinderella is really hard to root for. To get ahead in a business she sneers at, she abandons her friends, disses her father, mistreats her lover, double crosses a coworker and generally turns into a shrew. Hathaway has a nice smile.", "But even with Streep stealing the picture from her at every possible opportunity, it doesn't take long before the Devil Wears Prada wears a little thin.", "I'm Bob Mondello."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, host", "MELISSA BLOCK, host", "MELISSA BLOCK, host", "MELISSA BLOCK, host", "MELISSA BLOCK, host", "Ms. MERYL STREEP (as Miranda Priestly)", "Ms. MERYL STREEP (as Miranda Priestly)", "Ms. MERYL STREEP (as Miranda Priestly)", "MONDELLO", "Ms. ANNE HATHAWAY (as Andy Sachs)", "Ms. MERYL STREEP (as Miranda Priestly)", "Ms. ANNE HATHAWAY (as Andy Sachs)", "Ms. MERYL STREEP (as Miranda Priestly)", "Ms. ANNE HATHAWAY (as Andy Sachs)", "Ms. MERYL STREEP (as Miranda Priestly)", "Ms. ANNE HATHAWAY (as Andy Sachs)", "Ms. MERYL STREEP (as Miranda Priestly)", "MONDELLO", "Mr. STANLEY TUCCI (as Nigel)", "Ms. ANNE HATHAWAY (as Andy Sachs)", "Mr. STANLEY TUCCI (as Nigel)", "MONDELLO", "MONDELLO", "MONDELLO", "MONDELLO", "MONDELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-119945", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2007-9-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0709/17/lkl.01.html", "summary": "Kathy Griffin Censored At Emmys", "utt": ["Tonight, the most outrageous Emmy winner of them all -- Kathy Griffin. Her first live primetime interview since her Emmy acceptance speech was censored. What did she say to drive Christian entertainers and the Catholic League crazy? What does she make of all these other stars getting bleeped last night? And O.J. Simpson's arrest. And Britney at the VMAs. Kathy Griffin tells all and takes your calls. And then...", "Don't let nobody out of this room.", "No.", "Don't let nobody out of here.", "That hotel room confrontation has O.J. Simpson sitting in a Las Vegas jail without bail. Now, one of his alleged robbery victims tells his side of what happened. Also, a primetime exclusive with one of O.J.'s co-defendants. Plus, reaction from Kato Kaelin, the one time Simpson house guest who testified at his murder trial. And Kim Goldman -- Simpson was found liable for her brother's brutal murder. Now her dad's published Simpson's book \"If I Did It\". It's all next on", "LIVE. primetime. And we begin with one of my favorite people, Kathy Griffin, the Emmy Award winning star of Bravo's hit reality program.", "Can you say it one more time, Larry?", "The Emmy Award winning Kathy Griffin...", "Oh, I love that story.", "She's appearing, by the way, at the Kennedy Center in Washington for three nights starting tomorrow night. She'll be at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on October 12th and she's doing two dates at Madison Square Garden in January, which I understand is already sold out.", "Yes.", "Kathy Griffin is hot. What was it like to win it?", "I couldn't believe it. I was absolutely floored. I wanted them to say my name over and over. I thought \"Extreme Home Makeover\" was going to win. So when America Ferrar handed it out and she said, \"And the winner is Ka\" -- I thought, well, it's not Ka streme (ph) Home Makeover\". Maybe I won.", "Ah-ha.", "So I was off and running.", "And since nothing ever goes easy with you...", "Yes.", "...the acceptance speech you gave when \"Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List\" earned the Emmy for outstanding reality program, it caused quite a stir. We're going to run the unedited version.", "What?", "And be warned for you people, you may be offended, maybe.", "Watch. (", "Now, look, a lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is suck it Jesus, this reward is my God now.", "All right. Are you surprised that...", "Can you -- can you see the Emmy?", "I see it.", "OK. All right.", "Are you...", "I'm sorry.", "Are you surprised at all the fuss?", "I love it. Larry, I have had the best week of my life. This is fantastic. As a comedian, I live for this stuff. Every...", "Did you plan this?", "Of course, I did, Larry. You know me from the breakfasts.", "You knew? You knew?", "I knew. I did the red carpet. I said I'm going to say something. I'm going to offend people tonight. And I had two plans, one if I lost and one if I won.", "Well, if you lost, you wouldn't have spoken.", "No, but guess what I was going to do? I was going to run up on stage anyway, steal the Emmy and take it back until security took me home or Emmy jail or wherever they take you. Have you ever been to Emmy jail? I'll bet it's nice. It's probably green this year.", "Yes.", "Anyway, so had I something planned if I won and, of course, I planned it all. So this is great. I've been in all the papers.", "Are you...", "Bill O'Reilly called me a pin head. That's a badge of honor.", "He did?", "Yes. Come on. I'm sir, come on. I'm on the Fox shows.", "Does Bill thank Jesus for his program?", "He should, you know what I'm saying?", "He should.", "And a lot of other people.", "Are you shocked at a little of the reaction? A little, at all?", "I just am loving it. I mean it's just -- it's in newspapers around the world and every article starts with \"Emmy winner Kathy Griffith\" and then the letters all just blur after that.", "All right. You meant it though, right?", "Of course.", "You weren't going to thank Jesus, even though you were raised...", "Well, what I was making fun of is I love these award show. I watch them. I have the gay boys over. We make popcorn, you know? Ring a bell, Lar?", "And, you know, we enjoy ourselves. And I -- I always think it's funny when the rappers and the starlets and the athletes -- and they get an award and they thank Jesus, as if Jesus doesn't have anything better to do than make sure that someone got their People's Choice Award or whatever. So that's really what I was parodying because I...", "Because he also wins football games.", "Yes. And he also helps if you're trying to get a three pointer from the line. And he helps if your premiere is going to make $10 million this weekend. Yes. Jesus is not busy in Darfur. He's very busy helping Hollywood celebrities win awards.", "Sally Field won best actress last night in a dramatic series, in the primetime Emmy show. Fox Network cut part of her anti- war acceptance. Here's what the TV audience saw. (", "I am proud to be one of those women. And let's face it, if the mothers ruled the world, there would be no...", "All right, now let's hear Sally Field uncensored. And we caution, some may find this offensive. Here's Sally Field, what she really said. (", "I am proud to be one of those women. And let's face it, if the mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamn wars in the first place. Thank you for this. Thank you so much.", "Since Fox is known for its political views, do you think they were...", "Sure.", "...do you think they were editing goddamn or they were editing the war attack?", "I don't know. But when you're censoring the flying nun, that's a good day for me. When Gidget is so shocking that you have to just cut through like a black screen, that's where I come in. I mean it's ridiculous.", "You think it was political?", "Probably. I mean that's a Murdoch thing, right? I mean, you know, I'm sure it was political and offensive and they're all nervous and all of that stuff. But that's what everyone is talking about today. And, also, Sally Field is a fantastic, amazing actress and people will continue to watch that show.", "So, in a sense, when you censor, you build up what you censored? In other words, there would have been no fuss today if you ran that.", "Well...", "But by censoring it, every network is playing.", "Then everybody's talking about it. I was sitting here going, \"What did she say? What did she say? I didn't know what she said at first. I thought, well, did she say something -- and then your mind starts to wander. I'm like oh, no. Did she say this word, that word? And then I'm thinking that's all she said?", "So censors create their own problems by censoring?", "I try to.", "Yes. We have an e-mail...", "I agree, Justin, and I'd like you to have -- to have you over for dinner next week, some time when it is convenient for you. I mean that's the thing, you know, when you watch these shows, I think you want a comedian to go in there and shake it up. That's why they all host the shows. That's why they all present, all that stuff. And this show, the Creative Arts Emmys, which I lovingly refer to as the Shmemmys (ph), because, you know, they're not the real -- do you have an Emmy or a Shmemmy?", "I have an Emmy.", "Oh, look at you. A big man.", "Anyway, this is like the week before. It's -- I'm up against like the key grip from \"Two and a Half Men\".", "And so this is a non-televised show. They show clips of it on E!. And so -- oh, Larry, I've got to tell you. I forgot to tell you. I now have my own \"E! True Hollywood Story\".", "What is it?", "Yes.", "Oh, there -- the", "It's scandal, Larry. It's scandal.", "They're doing -- you're an \"E! True Hollywood Story?\"", "Yes. But here's the best part. Before the scandal, it was only going to be a half hour. Now it's an hour.", "You're getting bigger.", "I'm thinking honey, outside the box.", "OK. Here's how bad it is. The Christian entertainers say -- and they quote you, where they're leaving out the...", "Right. Just some asterisks.", "One word. The award is my God now (ph) and they say that -- this is in response to comments given by Kathy Griffin that she accepted her Emmy. And: \"Dear America, we're actors, singers, dancers, crew and managers of the Miracle Theater in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and we're proud to...", "Hold on. Did they say dancers and crew?", "Yes.", "So I'm thinking there's a few of my gays in there somewhere that, you know, maybe need a helping hand. They can come out and enjoy themselves.", "And they say, \"They love their Lord and savior.\"", "And I think they like a lot of things. But, no, that -- a full-page ad in \"USA Today?\" That ad costs over 100,000. I've got to go work for them. Do you think Bravo is going to take an ad out for me for a hundred grand? Please. I bought my own billboard for \"My Life on the D-List\".", "We'll be right back with more of the Emmy...", "I bought my own billboard, Larry.", "Just a little later...", "Mr. King.", "OK. Hang tough. Just a little later, history repeats itself as news photographers catch a handcuffed O.J. In the custody of police. We'll check in with the memorabilia collector who says he's the reason O.J. Ph is wearing jailhouse jewelry. but when we come back, more with the Emmy winner -- that's right -- Emmy winner Kathy Griffin. As we go to break, comedy as only Kathy can do it, from her Bravo special. \"Kathy Griffin: Everybody Can Suck It\". Watch.", "And then in walks Lohan with a boyfriend. Right? And", "Lindsey, hi? It's Kathy. It's Kathy Griffin.", "It's Kathy. It's Kathy Griffin. What's up? It's Kathy. Hi.", "We're back with Kathy Griffin. What list is Kathy really on? Head to our Web site CNN.com/larryking and vote for yourself. And Miss. Griffin is our -- OK.", "O.J.?", "We'll be discussing it later. It isn't even a question.", "OK. Thank you. I'm so jealous. I mean the free publicity this guy has gotten. I'm going to let you in on something. I'm going to commit an armed robbery. I'm going to go to some like not very nice casino. I'm going to steal one of my old \"Suddenly Susan\" outfits back because I'm sure it will be auctioned off somewhere for tens of dollars. A couple henchmen, some guns. I mean this guy is -- what's wrong with him?", "What do you make of it?", "I don't know. But why didn't I think of that? Now I've got to go rob a bank or something to get back in the papers next week, because this thing is going to die down. I've got to go rob the mall or -- memorabilia is a very niche kind of robbery.", "But it is -- I'm curious. We'll ask the gentleman who had the memorabilia and then one of the men accused of", "Yes.", "Is...", "So he demanded his suit back? Is that it?", "Why...", "Because...", "Why...", "...", "Why not just go to the police and say these people have my memorabilia?", "Right.", "Get it back.", "And now it's on tape with him with the swearing and where they were brandishing weapons. And I would use just plastic ones. I would just to go like Toys\" R\" Us and get fake ones. The point is I'm going to do it, so be looking for me. I haven't decided where I'm going to rob. Some place -- maybe Sherman Oaks Mall. I don't know. But I...", "We'll look for it.", "I'll be bringing a crew with me.", "What did you make of the Emmys last night?", "I thought they were good. I love that stuff. I loved the Sally Field moment, of course. I didn't love the In The Round. It was a little Cirque du Soleil for me. You know, I thought Ryan Seacrest was just going to have a big beach ball and start speaking French with a French-Canadian accent.", "I didn't know what he was going to do next, frankly.", "In fact, we have an e-mail question in that regard from Lisa in Washington: \"What was it like being interviewed by Ryan Seacrest at the Emmys?\"", "Oh, he's such a tool. He is ridiculous.", "A nice guy.", "Larry, what's wrong with you? How can you like Ryan Seacrest and sleep nights? He's the devil.", "He's the what?", "He's the devil.", "He's the devil? What -- how could anyone...", "When the devil comes back, that's what he's going to look like.", "How hard -- how could anyone dislike Ryan Seacrest?", "I just -- it's just fun, to dislike him. What Ryan doesn't understand is that America craves to see someone take him down. And I'm the person for the job, because he admits he doesn't do anything. And last night he was doing nothing in the circle. He was just going round and round in a circle while celebrities said hello to him. I mean, really, what's the deal here? And I even wished him luck, against my better judgment.", "Your Emmy date was Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple. What's that about?", "You know, what's great about that, Larry? He has so much more money than you. It's ridiculous.", "I mean your money -- what do you have, tens of millions? Oh, wow! Impressive. I mean when you get into that billionaire club, I'll tell you something, it is great.", "Are you going with him?", "Yes.", "I mean is this for real?", "He took my dress off at the end of the night.", "You had sex with him at the end of the night?", "Yes, I did. And I had a billion reasons.", "Huh?", "Are you in love with", "What do you make, Lar? You make -- what do you make, like probably like some -- a few million a year?", "Are you in love?", "You know what? He craps that out for lunch. I mean this guy has so much money it is -- but I love him for his personality.", "How did you meet him?", "Who cares? He's got a billion dollars.", "How did you meet him?", "He actually came to see a show of mine in Saratoga. And he didn't know who I -- oh, I've got to tell you this. All right, he didn't know who I was, had never seen \"The D-List\" show. He didn't know I offended everybody. None of it. He saw me live and he said, \"And I heard you the LARRY KING show.\" And I said, \"Well, Steve, that's a television show.\" And he says, \"No. I listen to the pod casts. So he watches no TV. He listens to you...", "They invented the pod casts.", "I -- he kind of invented all of it, actually.", "I know.", "But it was actually really great bringing him as my date because it was great seeing all the Hollywood phonies just not know who he was at all and knowing that he could just buy and sell them all, and -- he did just a little thing called inventing the computer.", "He downloaded my private parts. Ba-da-bub. I have an Emmy. I apologize for that joke. That's how hackey (ph) that joke was.", "Do I like -- how do you...", "Do I like, like him -- or like him?", "Like-like.", "I boy-girl like him.", "You boy-girl like him.", "I like him in a boy-girl way.", "So this could lead to somewhere?", "If he's lucky. If he plays his cards right.", "What post-party did you go to?", "We went to the Governor's Ball and we went to the \"People\" magazine E.T. Party.", "Were you a hit?", "It was -- I was -- I have to tell you, a lot of people came up and said they liked my speech. A lot of people said it was funny, it was a long show, it was fun to wake us up. You know, there weren't -- I will admit there were not a lot of members of the Catholic League at the Emmys, believe it or not.", "What did Steve Wozniak think of the speech?", "He thought I looked very beautiful. No, actually -- oh, what was great is I made him do the red carpet with me for a couple of interviews, because he's actually pretty shy. And -- but I made him do the interview with Fox News Channel. So they would ask me a question and I would just turn to him and I would say, \"Honey?\" And he would answer. Because I thought how can you argue with a genius. He's like Einstein smart.", "Yes. One of the guys that are geniuses. But doesn't that blow you away, though...", "Yes.", "...because he's so much smarter than you, right?", "It's -- well, who cares, with that kind of cash? You know what I do? I lay down and say hello. You know, I mean what -- what complaints do I possibly have?", "Coming up a little later...", "Yes, he's a brilliant guy.", "...the audio tape that shocked America -- O.J. Allegedly robbing someone at gunpoint. Listen.", "Don't let nobody out of this room.", "No.", "Don't let nobody out of here.", "It's Beep-A-Vision. We'll talk to a man who says he was there and claims those are the sounds of him and some associates being robbed by \"The Juice.\" Alfred Beardsley will join me live from Las Vegas later in the show. He'll tell us about the event he'll never forget. But as we go to break, comedy Kathy Griffin-style. Here's a clip from her Bravo stand-up special, \"Kathy Griffin: Everybody Can Suck It\". Stay tuned. (", "I'm nervous about the whole velvet rope scene because like I said, I'm a child of the '70s, and I remember those Studio 54 stories where there's a guy at the velvet rope and he's saying OK, you're hot enough to get in and you're not. And I know I'm in the \"not list. And that's not fun for me.", "And you know what? When I go to Applebee's, I get a table whenever I want.", "We're back with Kathy Griffin. The last time you were here, you said you had been banned from \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show\". But you turned up as a guest last week.", "I got back in.", "How?", "The show called my publicist and they said Ellen saw the \"Life on the D-List\" show and she thinks it has a lot of heart and she wants to give you a shot. I said perfect. And that's what's great about that show, is people that think I'm mean and horrible watch that show and they go oh, well, she went to Iraq...", "But", "...", "...and being banned?", "Was I what?", "Did you express -- did you say to her, you know, I was banned from your show?", "Oh, no. I just kissed her butt and said thank you.", "Oh, I see.", "It's like you.", "I don't show my true feelings for you, Larry.", "You copped out?", "I just -- yes, I copped out. I sold out as quickly as I could.", "We have an e-mail from Pamela in Los Angeles: \"If a celebrity is going to be in your audience, do you ever get asked not to make jokes about them or is everybody fair game?\"", "Everybody is fair game, although I usually won't make fun of a celebrity if they're there because it makes the audience uncomfortable.", "Oh, really? You think -- they squirm?", "Yes. So if you come see me live, I'm going to have to take out my Larry King chunk, is what I call it.", "You have a Larry King chunk?", "And it's about 40 minutes and it's brutal. Ooh, you go down hard, Larry. I'm not going to lie. But that night I probably wouldn't do it. I'd go more into the baby Dannielynn material.", "Now, I'm going to be honest. It hurts that I'm -- some of my time is being cut for Kato. I mean that's a guy who knows how...", "We'll have you back. You'll get an hour.", "Yes, but still...", "This story broke.", "It hurts, Larry. It hurts that Kato is going to be coming on looking for a new apartment, I assume. What about your place? He can't stay there in the compound?", "Yeas.", "Is that correct?", "Yes, I loved it.", "How did you get it?", "She sent it to me. I know all the scandalous people. What are you looking at? They're not going to help you. You're alone with me.", "Is she...", "I have an Emmy right here, Larry.", "Is she tough on people?", "I loved it. I think it's like a conversation with her and, you know, I love her and I feel like people try to spin it like she's not popular and beloved, but she is. And she would say things on \"The View\" and get applause breaks all the time. And she says outrageous things. And, of course, I love that. But the book is great. And, you know, she's also kind to some people in the book, too. You know, they were saying she's so hard on everybody...", "Not -- but not so kind to Barbara Walters.", "Well, but she's kind to other people and there's some stuff that she left out. And, you know, it is her experience, you know?", "OK. Now we turn to Britney Spears. There are stories...", "Finally.", "...rumors around circulating of a possible death threat on her husband -- ex-husband's life.", "She's going to kill him.", "Do you think so?", "I think she should. I'd kill him if I could. Then I'd be on the full hour, am I right, Mr. King?", "Yes.", "Thank you. Fine. I will go kill Kevin Federline. Is that against the law, like saying you're going to kill the president?", "What did you -- I don't know. What did you make of her performance, which you see here?", "Well, I'll tell you, it was a bad sign when it started with the dirty, greasy hair extensions. I wanted to put her in a shampoo bowl right from that opening shot. And I thought all that money and she can't just wash her hair. And then we saw the rest -- the sparkly bikini, what have you. But I did enjoy when she was sort of laughing at her own bad performance. Like at one point she was like, I know, I'm terrible. Good night, everybody. I've got to go party with Diddy. And the reaction shots you couldn't buy. I mean showing 50 Cent and all these artists in -- and just like in the audience like this. I mean it's a live show. You can't edit it.", "What do you think happened, though? Why would she choose to do that?", "I -- I don't know. She must enjoy having people talk about her, I guess. I mean I like that part of her. But what I don't get is that night, later on, there's another crotch shot. Now, you'd think after like the 17th one, she would go oh, my skirt is up to my belly button. I'm slowly getting out of a car in a yoga position. Somebody might see this. So that -- you don't feel a draft? You'd think she would feel a draft and go wait a minute, something's familiar. It's that old draft again. And then the lights are there. So, I mean, she's got to know about that stuff.", "All right, what do you think of the new \"View\" -- \"The View?\"", "I love Whoopi and Sherri and I think they're doing a fantastic job. So I don't know, I think people might be looking for like a Rosie Hasselbeck type of fight. I don't think it's going to happen with this group.", "Well, Barry Manilow, I understand, says he won't go on because he doesn't want to be interviewed by Hasselbeck.", "Manilow's edgy? This is a new Manilow. It's a new day. That is great.", "It says he scrapped plans to be a guest because he didn't want to be interviewed by Elisabeth Hasselbeck. He called her \"dangerous and offensive.\"", "I love it. I now have new respect for Elisabeth Hasselbeck, because if Barry Manilow is coming down hard on you, then, you know, it's time to look inward and find your own Jesus.", "How are you?", "What?", "How are you dealing...", "Sorry, I was looking for my Jesus.", "How are you dealing with your success?", "Oh, I love it.", "I mean you're on a roll.", "I love -- I love -- you know what's so great? OK, so I go to the Emmys last night and -- you know, I bring my Emmy with me everywhere, right? Like I brought -- oh, I've got to say this...", "Do you carry your Emmy to the Emmys?", "Oh, look at you, you're so high and mighty. Yes, I take it to the bathroom when I go to the bathroom...", "Well, I just asked. I wasn't high and mighty...", "No, you said it in a hurtful and accusatory way.", "OK.", "All right. So I -- oh, I've got to tell you this. I brought it to a dinner party on Friday. So I get invited to a dinner party at Sue Manger's house -- who is the legendary agent, right?", "Oh. Right.", "I know. So I'm in. And because of the scandal, she sends me a letter that says, \"I'd be honored to have such a scandalous figure at my house.\" So I go. It's a small dinner party. And it's me, Jack Nicholson, Neil Diamond, David Geffen, Angie Dickinson, Natasha Richardson, this crazy crowd, right? So I bring the Emmy and I go up to Jack Nicholson and I go, \"Never had one of these, have you buddy? Take a good hard look. It's got to hurt.\" He looks at me like I'm from Mars. He's like, \"Who are you and what are you and when are you going to stop talking to me?\" But I got to meet Jack Nicholson at a dinner party.", "You really carry it around?", "Yes. And then -- oh, Tina Fey was there and she hid it in the bathroom, which was very frightening to me. Like it was a prank and I thought someone stole my Emmy. Nicholson, pony up.", "You're that...", "And it was just Tina Fey hiding it in the bathroom.", "You're that attached to this.", "I love it. I love it more than a person. More than anyone in my life in person.", "Ah, the key question. Do you sleep with it?", "Yes. I make out with it.", "Mmmmm, I love you, baby.", "When you went to bed with Steven, did you take the Emmy with you?", "It's a threesome. It was a super kinky threesome. There were wings everywhere. It was Golden Globes.", "Breaking news from Las Vegas just now. The A.P. Reporting that a third man suspected in the alleged armed robbery case involving O.J. Simpson has been arrested. And one question tonight -- will he be released on bail or should he be released on bail? Later, we'll talk to both sides of the case, one of his alleged victims and one of his accused co-conspirators. More with the \"D-List\" diva, the Emmy winning comedian, when we come back. (", "And the Emmy for outstanding reality program goes to \"Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List\".", "Do you believe this?", "I guess hell froze over.", "What's your type, Marty (ph)?", "My type? Pretty.", "OK, so you're shallow.", "Female.", "You're straight. You're a typical shallow straight guy.", "Shallow straight -- yes, basic shallow straight guy.", "Marty's a very sweet guy. He's not going to get my picture in a magazine. He's such a nice guy with a nice personality. Who has got time for that? What's he going to get me in, The Chicago Sun Times? BFD.", "Got a few minutes left with Kathy Griffin. Our poll is in, 40 percent still think an you're on the D list.", "Thank God. I have a job. Now who is the third victim in the O.J.? You just said the AP, is it the suit?", "There was no third victim, third accused person of going in with the group. It's one of the fellows...", "So it was a big who went in there? It was like a party.", "Anyway, let's take a call. Cincinnati, hello.", "Yes, my question is to Kathy Griffin. I was curious why did she say \"suck it, Jesus\" on the Emmys?", "Because one of my specials is called \"Everybody Can Suck It.\" And so people come to my shows and have T-shirts that say \"suck it.\" And I knew that Jesus would be in really good company.", "You didn't think he would be offended?", "I think he's OK. I think he's pretty busy in other places. So I think he's going to survive this one.", "So you've got to fly to Washington right now.", "Yes, I'm taking a red eye and then Kennedy Center and back on tour in Madison Square Garden. And I'm working all the time, I love it.", "You are fantastic.", "You are fantastic, sir.", "I wish you nothing but the best, lady.", "Aw, thanks, Lar. Oh, my Emmy, don't look at it. It's mine.", "Coming up, is this really an armed robbery caught on tape? Take a listen to the tape that was acquired by tmz.com.", "Alfred Beardsley is the man who says O.J. and company burst into his hotel room and robbed him at gunpoint. He's coming up later live from Las Vegas. Up next it, the O.J. Simpson house guest who got famous from Simpson's infamous murder trial, Kato Kaelin, don't go away.", "We now go to Las Vegas and welcome Alfred Beardsley to LARRY KING LIVE. Alfred is the gentleman who was alleged to have been the victim in the armed robbery involving O.J. Simpson. Simpson remains behind bars. There are now two other of the attackers who have been apprehended. Alfred, get us up to date here a little. What were you doing with this memorabilia? Give the clue.", "Well, Larry, how are you doing? I was contacted about a month ago by this Thomas Riccio who I know. He claims to work for Howard K. Stern and Tom Cruise and other persons. And I'm saying that he had a client that wanted some high- end O.J. Simpson items because they were big O.J. fans and would pay top dollar for O.J. items. So, of course, knowing some of the people around Mr. Simpson, I made a call to an individual, Mr. Bruce Fromong, asked him if he had any items and he gave me a list of items to give back to Riccio.", "And did you buy these items?", "I didn't buy them. You know, there's a lot of controversy going on about who is the owner of these items right now. The best thing I could say is I'd rather let a judge decide who is the rightful owner of these items because...", "But they were in your possession in that hotel room?", "Yes. They were in mine and Bruce Fromong's possession in that room, yes.", "Were you shocked when Mr. Simpson and three others came to the door?", "Larry, that's the best word and I've been using that word with your producer today. That's the only way I can describe it, is shock. When you're a victim of a violent setting like this, you just -- it's like somebody telling you that somebody in your family passed away. You know how you get the cold chill through your body? It was scary. And you just wait it out. See what's going to happen. And you know, see how the thing goes. And it was pretty bad.", "Tmz.com obtained an audiotape reportedly recorded while this was going on. Let's watch this and get your reaction.", "Don't let nobody out of this room, mother (expletive deleted)! Think you can steal my (expletive deleted) and sell it?", "No.", "Don't let nobody out of here. Mother (expletive deleted)! You think you can steal my (expletive deleted)?", "(expletive deleted) you. Mind your own business.", "Look at this (expletive deleted).", "Get over here.", "You think you can steal my (expletive deleted)?", "Backs to the wall.", "I was trying to get past you.", "Walk your ass over there.", "Think you can steal my (expletive deleted)?", "Mike took it.", "You, up against the (expletive deleted) wall.", "I know (expletive deleted) Mike took it.", "Search him.", "And I know what Brian is trying to prove.", "I'm cool, I am.", "Stand up.", "So, so...", "Get your (expletive deleted) asses up.", "Stand the (expletive deleted) up.", "Is that tape correct, Alfred?", "You know, Larry, I can say that is O.J. Simpson's voice. And that is my voice in one part, but I don't know if that tape was manipulated in any way by Tom Riccio, who made...", "Manipulated meaning what?", "May be edited for content. I don't know. But it needs to be looked at by the authorities if they haven't already. But that is Simpson's voice. That is him yelling.", "Did the people coming into the room take the items?", "Yes, they did, Larry. Yes, they did.", "How many guns were involved?", "I only saw, I know there were two. But I saw one. You know, this was a very small room in the seedy hotel that Riccio was staying at. And I only saw one. This guy came over and ordered me at gunpoint to pack the items up in the boxes we brought them in. I refused. And I was sitting in a chair and I was told to get the F up, get the F up. And I did get up. Now one thing I want to say, Larry, this guy that's going to be on your show in a few minutes, when he came through that door with his guys, he yelled out \"police.\" Now they came into that room like policemen or military-style people. They were well dressed. It was a takeover situation. And they knew what they were doing. And I thought they were involved in law enforcement or if it was the FBI, I just didn't -- didn't know what it was. But the guy's barking orders at me to pack the...", "Alfred, did you call the police?", "I did, Larry. I had to call 911. I mean, an armed robbery just occurred. You know, I was hot. I had to call 911.", "Gotcha. All right. Now, Alfred, you'll be back tomorrow night. We're going to devote the full show to this tomorrow night and give you a lot more time.", "Thanks, Larry.", "Alfred Beardsley, we thank you. We'll see you tomorrow night.", "Thank you, Larry.", "We now welcome here in Los -- thank you. Here in Los Angeles, Walter Alexander, who was arrested Saturday night in connection with this alleged armed robbery, and his attorney Robert Rentzer. You got bail, Walter?", "Yes, I did.", "Why hasn't O.J. gotten bail, Robert?", "It's a misnomer to say he got bail. He was released on his own recognizance.", "Walter was released on his own.", "Yes. I can't tell you why O.J. hasn't. I can tell you why Walter has.", "How did he get released on his own recognizance in an armed robbery case?", "Well, I spoke with the district attorney and I agreed that he could be debriefed on the condition that nothing he said could or would be used against him. By showing that cooperation, the district attorney in turn released him on...", "Recommended.", "You got it.", "What were you doing there, Walter?", "Well, I was there for a wedding. That's why I came to town, for a wedding.", "The rules for this interview are that we're not going to discuss the incident. But you can ask him if he was in Vegas. He has not answered that had for anybody else. But he will for Larry King. You can ask him if he spoke with O.J. before, during, after. He'll answer that for Larry King.", "You were in Vegas?", "Yes, I was.", "Did you speak with O.J.?", "Yes, I did.", "Before and after?", "Yes, I did.", "Did you speak with him when he got to jail?", "No, I haven't talked to him since he was arrested, no.", "Are you a friend of his?", "We've been friends for many years. Since he wrote the book, I didn't really consider myself his friend. Another situation happened where he proved not to be a friend in May. And I haven't really considered myself his friend in some time. But I was just there for the wedding.", "That's the wedding you see there.", "That wedding there which I didn't get a chance to make it there. I was being arrested and interrogated during that time.", "Now, Robert, he can't respond to anything that happened in the room or going into the room. Can he say whether he was in the room?", "Well, he's going to acknowledge that he was there at the time. You can draw your inference that he was in the room but he's not going to articulate that he was in fact in the room.", "I know exactly what happened in that whole situation from before, during and after.", "But you can't reveal?", "I can't reveal it at this time because it could be incriminating and used against me.", "Can you give -- somebody's talking in my ear going nuts. Can you give us an opinion as to whether O.J. is getting bum rapped or not?", "I believe he was set up. I believe the whole thing was a setup. You see it was taped. You know, I believe that it was a setup. It's very obvious that Thomas Riccio had intentions to set O.J. up and that's what happened, you know? Unfortunately, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and now I'm in the middle of this mess. And I hate that it happened.", "He has been charged?", "Yes, he was actually arrested. I tried to persuade the district attorney not to make an arrest and to wait it out. That fell on deaf ears. But we did get him released without bail.", "And he's back in Los Angeles, right?", "Well, he was on...", "... Nevada.", "He was on his way to see me. He was arrested at the airport. But now he made the trip.", "And normally we don't accept ground rules but we can't force you to answer. So -- but you can have your own ground rules.", "No, you can ask any question you want.", "You don't have to answer. This ain't -- the last time I checked, this was not a court of law. But we appreciate your coming. Do you think it is going to be resolved, Walter?", "I believe that he will wind up going to jail for this matter personally.", "You do.", "Yes, I do. I believe that he'll go to jail.", "Even though in your mind he was set up?", "Well, he was definitely set up. But I believe that the public -- there has been a public outcry for him to pay for possibly past transgressions and the book coming out and him saying \"If I Did It,\" you know, or I did it. I believe it will accumulate with him.", "Now you and O.J. were arrested. Now we've just announced tonight that a third man has been arrested. Do you know who?", "I did know all of the gentlemen, the black men that were there. I did know them. I don't know if it was one of them. They've been painted to be thugs. They were not thugs. They were people that were going to the wedding also. We were going to the dinner before the wedding.", "Did Mr. Beardsley say anything that you would say was wrong?", "You know, he was very accurate in the fact that he said he saw one gun. You know?", "I think you can leave it at that.", "I got you. All right. We're going to do more on this Robert. And if you can come back tomorrow night, we're having a lot of guests come back tomorrow evening, if that's possible. I understand, if you can't, you can't. I understand, because he's under restriction as to what he can say.", "Only by virtue of my having restricted him and it's moment to moment.", "You are the lawyer. If it changes, let me know.", "I'll do that.", "Robert Rentzer and Walter Alexander. Anderson Cooper is standing by to host \"AC 360.\" Anderson is back home. What's up tonight, Anderson?", "Well, Larry, we're going to stay with the O.J. Simpson saga. We're going to look into Simpson's many run-ins with the law since the trial that everyone watched to see if there's maybe something in a pattern here. Could O.J. Simpson in fact be a sociopath? Some have argued that. We'll get some expert opinion from Dr. Drew Pinsky. We'll also follow the money trail. Just how is this guy making an income these days? Is he so hard strapped for cash that he would he would actually commit burglary? You may be surprised by what we found. We'll also talk exclusively with Daniel Petrocelli, the attorney who won the $33 million wrongful death suit against Simpson, money that the Goldmans and Browns have yet to see. All that and more, Larry, at the top of the hour.", "Thanks, Anderson. \"", "00 Eastern, 7:00 Pacific. When we come back, Kato Kaelin joins us. Don't go away.", "Robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts. Assault with a deadly weapon, two counts. Conspiracy to commit burglary and burglary with a firearm.", "Great to welcome back to LARRY KING LIVE Kato Kaelin, a historic figure in the life and times of O.J. Simpson. A celebrity of sorts, 13 years ago at the trial, testified at both the criminal and civil trials, hosts \"National Lampoon's Eye for an Eye.\" And in Las Vegas, our erstwhile correspondent Ted Rowlands on the scene. All right. Kato, start with you. What do you make of this?", "First of all, Larry, I, from 13 years ago still have my house guest key. I'm going to hand it over now. I don't want to be shot. I'm giving it back. It will be here at your office. That's my house guest key.", "To O.J. Simpson's guest house.", "Yes. It's done. I don't want -- it's a collectible, I'm sure. There, so it's going back to you.", "What do you make of this.", "I think it's inevitable. O.J. is constantly in the news for things. We hear 911 girls. We've heard where his girlfriend Christie Prody, believed called it on him also, his daughter Sydney called. Ramming someone in a car incident two or three years ago. He keeps getting in the news for terrible things. I don't know why. It just...", "You know him. Why do you think?", "Does he like being adulated so much that that he has to be in the news? That's a possibility. He used to be -- fans used to call him O.J. this and loving him. I think now it has just gone that they don't care any more. And maybe he's trying to stay in the media. I don't know.", "This is hardly adulation.", "No, well, maybe he doesn't know that.", "Yes. Ted Rowlands, what can you tell us, the third man arrested tonight?", "Yes, Larry. CNN confirming from multiple sources that Clarence Stewart, a 54-year-old individual that was one of those men that went into that hotel room allegedly with O.J. Simpson was arrested today and booked here at the Clark County Detention Center. He is most likely going to make bail, according to sources. Whereas Mr. Simpson is being held without bail here. And that according to judge who made that decision because they consider him a flight risk because they said that he didn't have any Las Vegas ties and because of the seriousness of the charges. They're going to talk about that at a hearing on Wednesday though. So he may make bail after the Wednesday hearing.", "Consider him a flight risk. You think this other suspect will get bail?", "Most likely, considering that the -- Walter Alexander, who you had on the show, was able to get out on his own recognizance. It is likely that Clarence Stewart will probably also make bail according to a source within the police department.", "Kato, when did you last have contact?", "It was actually Dan Petrocelli, with him at the civil trial, during depositions. And believe it or not, it was in the restroom with O.J. the last time.", "What did he say to you?", "He said, answer your questions honestly and that was it.", "He lost that trial big.", "Yes, he did. He did. I hurried up and went out in the other room.", "Were you shocked at the criminal trial verdict?", "You know, I mentioned once before that the jury, they had a love affair I thought, my opinion. They had a love affair with O.J. Certain days he would walk in and they would be waving to him, he would wave back. I figured out that I think that they're going to let him go.", "You did think so.", "Yes, I really did from seeing that.", "And you make anything of the coincide with the book being published?", "Well, at least he has got another book out, \"If I Robbed It.\" You know, it's like he has got open opportunities now for more and more books. No, I don't think -- I think it just happened to be a phone call from someone that happened to be in Vegas. And I think what happened is that it's all coincidence. But oh, my goodness. The publicity. This is craziness.", "Ted, what is the press attention in Vegas?", "Extensive, as you can imagine, Larry. Media from around the country converged here. Basically on Friday when news that O.J. was involved in an armed robbery, then after the arrest, more people flooded in over the weekend. And people are monitoring every single detail of this. You know, you'd think he was accused of murder again the way people are treating him. But it's", "Ted, you will be back with us again tomorrow. Kato, if you can, can you come back tomorrow?", "I'm going to sure try to. I'm the biggest fan of yours.", "OK. We hope so. Well, that says enough. And I'll hold the key. Just last week, Kim Goldman stole O.J.'s thunder by releasing the book Simpson wrote about Ron and Nicole's murders. Is the timing of O.J.'s new legal troubles a mere coincidence? We'll get Kim's thoughts when we come back.", "We want to finish up with Kim Goldman, the sister of Ron Goldman who was murdered along with Nicole Brown Simpson in June of '94. The O.J. book, \"If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer,\" went on sale last week, it debuted at number one on amazon.com. What's your reaction to this latest caper, Kim?", "Caper, that is a good word. I was slightly elated. I'm not going to lie to you. It has been a weird couple days. My father and I both very emotional. We're just trying to not to get ahead of ourselves and trying not to jump to any conclusions. But I'm certainly keeping everything crossed.", "What do you make of being accused of participating in an armed robbery and being denied bail so far?", "I love it. I know that's weird. But you know what? I think karma tapped him on the shoulder. And I think -- you know what? He has believed that he is above the law and that he dances to a different beat and that he doesn't have to live by the same set of rules that we do. I hope that if in fact he did do that this, I hope in fact that he is held accountable for it.", "Admittedly, is it helping sales of the book?", "You know what? I have to no idea. I know it sounds crazy. But I haven't checked, I haven't been in contact with the publisher. I don't know. I have a little baby at home, I run a business. And so I've really just been in such a whirlwind the last couple of days. So he a morbid curiosity for a lot of people. So I think if people buy the book, it's to have an insight into him. I hope in some way it's for people to understand and support why we did this. But who knows how this will turn.", "Well, it can't be hurt by having his face on the front page everywhere.", "You know what, who knows. I mean, who knows if it does. I mean, I'm sort of sick of watching his arrogant, smug face as he waves to the camera as he's being hawked away in his handcuffs. But he is an interesting human being -- or monster as I quote my father.", "Did you and your dad have second thoughts about publishing?", "Absolutely. This was not an easy decision. When we levied on the book back in January to stop him from profiting from it, we didn't have any idea that it would get to this point. He forced it. He forced his sham company into bankruptcy. The court seized it. They ordered it to be monetized. We were awarded the rights and here we are. We're very sensitive to Nicole Brown's family. We were sensitive to the kids. But when we learned that they all knew about it and signed off on it, it made it a little bit easier. But the flip- flopping and being accused of being a hypocrite, it has been hard but I believe it was worth it in the end.", "Do you understand Denise's anger?", "Sort of. I don't understand why her venom is so, so directly pointed at my dad and I. I haven't really heard her talk about the killer putting us in this situation. I understand it's probably difficult for her to have any kind of anger towards her niece and nephew for signing off on the book deal. You know what, she's entitled to her opinion. She's a grieving sister and I -- she's entitled to it and I can't hold it against her.", "Do you lay claim to any of the items purported to be part of the memorabilia?", "I think it's a little premature for us to know exactly what was taken. Years ago after the civil verdict, there were items that were removed from his house before we were supposed to go in with the sheriff to take them to be auctioned off. These might be those items. There were some things that were awarded to us back in 2004. I don't know if any of them are in the loot. Only time will tell.", "With armed robbery, you could -- technically you could go to jail for life.", "Yes. Wouldn't that be interesting? He can't go to life for killing my brother and Nicole, but he will go to life for brandishing a gun and demanding his suit.", "So you get some sort of vicarious joy in this?", "Yes. He has walked around a free man, snubbing his nose at all of us. And we've allowed it to happen. And if this time he actually gets it handed to him, I will be forever grateful for that.", "Thank you, Kim.", "Thanks, Larry.", "Kim Goldman. We may see her again tomorrow night. Kim Goldman, the sister of Ron Goldman. Reaction to what's going on with O.J., the never-ending story. Tomorrow night more on the fascinating armed robbery case that involves O.J. Simpson. Later in the week, \"The View\" veteran Joy Behar will join us with her thoughts on everything from politics to her new co-host. Before we go tonight, a reminder to check out our Web site, cnn.com/larryking. You can download our current podcast, financial guru Suze Orman, answering all your money questions. She will also take part in our quick votes. Or e-mail upcoming guests. It's all at cnn.com/larryking. Right now Anderson Cooper. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.voxant.com"], "speaker": ["LARRY KING, HOST", "O.J. 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{"id": "CNN-148643", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2010-3-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/04/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Jessica Simpson versus John Mayer Showdown; The Johnny Depp Ultimatum", "utt": ["Now, on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, the stunning new Johnny Depp-Angelina Jolie drama. Reports out just today Johnny`s long-time girlfriend demands Johnny quit his movie with Angelina or else. She`s afraid Jolie might steal her man.", "I just did my interview with the wonderful and lovely Oprah and I`ve already gone through two snot rags. She`s definitely - I kind of lost it when I got back into the dressing room.", "The Jessica Simpson-John Mayer showdown. The fury and fallout today after Jessica gets emotional on Oprah over John`s sex-and-tell. The brand-new video. Plus, team Jessica, team John. Whose side are you on? And Simon the softy? The remarkable new interview out today with the \"American Idol\" judge. Why Simon now says he`s been too mean. Plus, more stories breaking from the \"SHOWBIZ News Ticker.\"", "TV`s most provocative entertainment news show continues right now.", "Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. It is 30 minutes past the hour. I`m A.J. Hammer, broadcasting tonight and every night from New York City.", "I`m Brooke Anderson coming to you tonight from Hollywood. And tonight, the Jessica versus John showdown.", "Yes, Brooke, a brand-new battle exploded today after Jessica Simpson`s extraordinary tell-all on \"Oprah\" about everything, including, of course, John Mayer`s totally out-of-line revelations about what he claimed was a wild sex life with Jessica. A lot of people actually took Mayer`s side today. And wait until you see the new backstage video of Jessica after her \"Oprah\" interview.", "I had to cry out a lot of stuff that I`ve been holding in. But Oprah is a very empowering person so I feel inspired.", "Also breaking today, new reports that Depp is in too deep. Johnny Depp`s long-time girlfriend and the mother of his two children is reportedly demanding he walk away from the movie he`s now shooting with Angelina Jolie. And the remarkable Simon Cowell confession today. Wait until you hear this. Simon is now saying, he`s appalled by how mean he is to \"Idol\" contestants. Say what? Joining me right now in New York is Carolina Bermudez who is a senior editor for \"In Touch Weekly\" and a co-host of the \"Elvis Duran and the Morning Show.\" And from Hollywood, it`s Hyla who is an entertainment journalist for \"5DollarPrep.com.\" Well, I must begin with the brand-new showdown over Jessica and John Mayer. It`s all over the Internet today after Jessica appeared on \"Oprah\" saying she was disappointed in John spilling the beans about their sex life in that \"Playboy\" magazine interview. Well, Jessica was clearly shaken up by doing this interview. Take a look at this brand-new video of her backstage after the Oprah show.", "I just did my interview with the wonderful and lovely Oprah and I`ve already gone through two snot rags. She definitely - I kind of lost it when I got back into the dressing room. I had to cry out a lot of stuff I`ve been holding in. But Oprah is a very empowering person so I feel inspired. Let`s go change the world.", "I mean, obviously, she was working out a lot of stuff, Carolina, by being on \"The Oprah Show.\" Are you feeling sympathy for Jessica?", "Definitely. I think this was the best thing for Jessica to do, not only for her career but our thoughts of her as a person. She`s been in the tabloid since she came out. I mean, basically, for the past 10 years, she`s been a tabloid queen. And so this showed us a real side of her. She showed us how vulnerable she was after those comments came out about John Mayer. So I think she painted herself in a really good light.", "A lot of us born-again Jessica Simpson fans today.", "Yes.", "But not everybody, Carolina. Some people not so much on our side. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT producers were scouring the Internet today. It really is incredible how divided people are and how many people are actually supporting John Mayer. Let me read to you something I found on \"ABC.com.\" Somebody said, \"I don`t blame anyone for being annoyed with someone who breaks trust. But I do think Jessica is overreacting just a bit there. He said she was hot in bed. Basically, wow, what an insult? Grow up, Jess. Stop your whining.\" Hyla, that is the sentiment on a great deal of what I saw on the Internet today. Do you agree?", "I agree 100 percent. It was a compliment. If someone says, \"Hey, you`re a good basketball player\" - thank you. If someone says, \"You`re good in bed,\" thank you very much. If that`s not the ultimate compliment -", "A real man doesn`t talk up like that, Hyla. Come on.", "He was fine. He did nothing wrong. It was a compliment. And you know what? Jessica is loving this. Let`s be real here. This is the Simpson family. They are all about publicity. Oprah fueled this entire episode based on promos from this conversation about John Mayer. She loved it. John loved it. It was good in bed - it was good for everybody.", "Hyla, I`ve got to say when I saw her crying backstage and we`re seeing her holding up the tissues from her crying, I think it was genuine emotion. I think she was actually pretty shook up and not loving it so much. But let me get to this because the debate raged on our Facebook wall as well. Here`s what Liz P. wrote, \"John Mayer is a creep for talking publicly about private situations. He has no respect and needs to grow up and find a brain.\" And I`m seeing as much as that on the Internet as the people who are now siding with John. No surprise.", "Absolutely. And I do have to disagree with Hyla. I mean, it may be a compliment to some people. But when you`re a professional and you`re out in the limelight, you don`t want people talking about your most intimate moments. He opened up a whole other area for people to think of.", "Carolina, you`re talking like people don`t have sex or something. They were in a relationship. Of course, they had sex. And he didn`t give any details.", "Of course, they did. And we don`t need those details, Hyla. We don`t need the details.", "He didn`t give details. All he said is that she was good. He didn`t say, \"Oh, she has a birthmark in a special place.\" Or she has this move with the banana -", "He called her sexual napalm. I mean, come on.", "All right. Hold on. Can we please bring in the voice of reason? Bring in Brooke Anderson for me? I`ve got to get you to weigh in on this, Brooke.", "Well, I think there is an unwritten rule, there is an unwritten code. You just don`t talk about such intimacy between two people. It is disrespectful. I think that Jessica was very gracious, very tasteful in what she said to Oprah. And I think that John could learn a thing or two about that from Jessica and how she reacted. I do not think she was whining. I think she had every right to complain even more than she did. But she took the high road and she didn`t do that. And we want to know what you at home think about this. We are asking in our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day, \"Whose side are you on, team Jessica Simpson or team John Mayer? Please vote, CNN.com/ShowbizTonight. E-mail us, showbiztonight@cnn.com.", "Yes. People are sounding off, Brooke. All right. I`ve got to move on to the brand-new report today that Johnny Depp`s long-time girlfriend and the mother of his two children, Vanessa Paradis ordered Depp to find a new gig after she learned that he would be sharing a very passionate love scene with Angelina Jolie. Now, Depp and Jolie are currently shooting a movie in romantic Venice. Well, today on \"The View,\" Sherri Shepherd really laid out what probably got Vanessa thinking. You`ve got to watch this.", "Laura Dern was engaged to Billy Bob Thornton. And then, he left Laura Dern for Angelina Jolie. And Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt did \"Mr. and Mrs. Smith\" and that was credited, kind of, with breaking up Aniston and Brad Pitt.", "So you think that perhaps -", "I think to let your man around Angelina is like giving Naomi Campbell a cell phone.", "All right. Very funny, Sherri. But Carolina, do you really think that Johnny`s girlfriend has anything to worry about here?", "Oh, absolutely. Come on. I don`t care if you`re the most secure woman in the world. Angelina Jolie - she`s got something there. We don`t know what it is. But I would be a little bit nervous and I`m going to make a prediction. Maybe he`s going to get hurt. Or there is going to be a reason why he can`t finish it off. But you`ll never know. Women are crazy.", "You think she`ll get her way in this?", "Oh, yes.", "Wow.", "All right. Well, I`ve got to say we did reach out to Johnny Depp`s reps today for comment. As of show time, we had not heard back. But we do have more big news breaking today. A brand-new interview that Simon Cowell did with \"America`s Got Talent\" judge, Piers Morgan for Morgan`s \"British Chat Show.\" I actually couldn`t believe this. Simon sorry for being mean on \"American Idol.\" Brooke, tell us what he said.", "I`ve always thought Simon was a big old teddy bear. But you know, I actually could not believe this was Simon talking. Here`s what he said, A.J, \"There`s many, many times where I`ve watched the show back and I`m absolutely appalled. You do the show. You`re not aware of what`s happening in the room outside. You know, somebody just said, `My dog Lassie died yesterday.` I`m in a bad mood and, you know, awful. And you see it in that context. It`s very, very difficult to watch.\" So Carolina, I think Simon has a heart after all. What do you think?", "There is some emotion in that cold black heart of his. But I think that Simon needs to stay the way that he is. Those are natural reactions and we do appreciate them because he is the most logical judge on the whole panel. Let`s", "All right. Well, you know. I don`t know. Love softens people, doesn`t it? Carolina, Hyla, thanks, guys. We appreciate it.", "Tonight, the bone chilling Dr. Drew death threat drama. It`s hard to even wrap my head around this story. Tonight, the horrifying details about a man who reportedly threatened to kill the \"Celebrity Rehab\" doctor`s entire family. We`ve got those disturbing details. And big news today about Marie Osmond as the beloved star struggles to deal with the apparent suicide of her son. Marie makes a big announcement about her future. And now, moving on to something I am thrilled to share. A.J. and I are going to be showing you the biggest, wildest, most provocative SHOWBIZ TONIGHT moments that you will ever see in one place at one time. We`re popping a bottle for five years of", "And we are psyched. It is a blockbuster for sure. But first, more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news today.", "Kardashian sisters slam tabloids for slamming their men. New comer Ke$ha slams Britney Spears for lip synching during concerts."], "speaker": ["HAMMER", "SIMPSON", "HAMMER", "ANNOUNCER", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "HAMMER", "SIMPSON", "HAMMER", "SIMPSON", "HAMMER", "BERMUDEZ", "HAMMER", "BERMUDEZ", "HAMMER", "HYLA", "HAMMER", "HYLA", "HAMMER", "BERMUDEZ", "HYLA", "BERMUDEZ", "HYLA", "BERMUDEZ", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "HAMMER", "SHERRI SHEPHERD, CO-HOST, \"THE VIEW\"", "BARBARA WALTERS, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND CO-HOST, \"THE VIEW\"", "SHEPHERD", "HAMMER", "BERMUDEZ", "HAMMER", "BERMUDEZ", "HYLA", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "BERMUDEZ", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.  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{"id": "CNN-31296", "program": "CNN WORLD REPORT", "date": "2001-5-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/27/wr.02.html", "summary": "Philippines Embroiled in Bitter Election", "utt": ["The Philippines are another country in the midst of political problems. Ousted President Joseph Estrada accepted a government plan this week to detain him in a hospital complex. And while former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo helped unseat Estrada in January, she is now trying to win his supporters. One dilemma facing her is whether to grant Estrada certain amenities and privileges, but that could alienate supporters who backed her in ousting the ex-president. Mrs. Arroyo's party continues to lead in the vote count of the May 14th congressional elections, elections that are carrying a heavy price tag, both politically and financially. ABS-CBN Manila has more.", "In democratic countries, the ballot box is a symbol of political freedom. Yet, in other countries, it might as well serve as a political weapon. In the Philippines, ballot boxes are made out of iron sheets, weighing five kilos. The box is divided in two compartments. The white one is for valid ballots; the red for spoiled ballots. At the close of election day, each ballot box is sealed with a self-locking metal tape, and as a further safeguard against fraud, the security tape is labeled with a serial number. It is the same serial number that is embossed on the side of each ballot box. The Philippines Commission on Elections reasons these precautions are meant only to guard the ballot against extreme weather conditions. Others, though, think it is a reflection of the character of Philippines elections.", "The commission cannot adopt America's use of simple cardboard boxes for election use. We Filipinos lack the political maturity to do this. Election, for us, is even a very big spectacle.", "Every year, the Philippines government spends millions of dollars on ballot boxes. For this year's elections, ballot boxes alone cost the commission on elections $5 million. And that does not even count in the padlocks worth, almost $1 million. But while electoral safeguards cost millions, this does not guarantee clean elections. Boxing up the will of the electorate has always been a tough task in the Philippines. But no matter how expensive and dangerous each election may be, Filipinos do not only voice their vote, but at the same time safeguard it. This is Melissa Lopez, ABS-CBN Manila, for the CNN WORLD REPORT."], "speaker": ["ASIEH NAMDAR, CNN ANCHOR", "MELISSA LOPEZ, ABS-CBN REPORTER (voice-over)", "PIO JOSON, ELECTION COMMISSION (through translator)", "LOPEZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-300463", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-12-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/12/nday.02.html", "summary": "Trump: Reports Of Russian Interference Are \"Ridiculous\"; Interview with Rep. Jim Himes", "utt": ["I think the Democrats are putting it out because they suffered one of the greatest defeats in the history of politics in this country and, frankly, I think they're putting it out and it's ridiculous.", "Just to be very clear, you have the president-elect there talking about the election. He lost the popular vote. The electoral margin, one of the lowest we've seen except for George W. Bush in the modern era. And yet he does question the intelligence about Russia's involvement in hacking during the election. One congressman is now calling out Mr. Trump for his criticism of the intelligence, even calling him unhinged, a new buzz word in politics. Joining us now is that Democratic congressman, Jim Himes. He is a member of the House Intelligence Committee. Congressman, thank you for being with us.", "Good morning, Chris.", "The idea that Russia was involved in the hacking during the election. How sure are you of that intelligence?", "Sure enough, Chris, to tell you that it's not an idea, it is fact and this is not a fact that is in dispute by any of our 17 intelligence agencies. I've been in the room, as have my colleagues. There is one person who believes that this is still in dispute and this is some bizarre Democratic plot and that's of course, President- elect Donald Trump. But there is I think no uncertainty on the part of the intelligence community, but that Russia was hacking this election. The question of course is why and who ordered it and all this we may never know the answers to. But the idea that Russia hacked our election is not open to debate anymore.", "So the motive is still unclear that's the disconnect between the CIA and the FBI. There is points for speculation there, but not about whether or not Russia was involved at all?", "That's exactly right. Look, this is intelligence, right? This is not law enforcement where they go into your house and get your phone records. This is intelligence where things are always a little uncertain. However that Russia hacked this election is not uncertain and this takes us back to President-elect Donald Trump who is, again, the one person out there who thinks there is -- well, actually soon actually, I shouldn't say that, right? And this is one of the sad things about watching the Congress right now, Speaker Ryan, Mitch McConnell and others are standing around Donald Trump who is not only disagreeing with the CIA, but actually criticizing the CIA. And, sadly, Speaker Ryan and Mitch McConnell and others are not standing up and saying the president cannot in the face of adversaries criticize the United States intelligence community.", "Well, under the category of politics, sometimes taking things a little too far. Your tweet said, \"We're five weeks from the inauguration and the president-elect is completely unhinged. The Electoral College must do what it was designed for.\" What does that mean, Congressman?", "Well, I'll stand by my characterization of the president- elect. Again, what finally pushed me over the edge is that when the president-elect of the United States criticized the CIA and the intelligence community. Can you imagine what the leaders in Beijing, Moscow and Tehran are thinking as they watch the next president of the United States delegitimize and criticize his own intelligence community and stand up for the defense of Russia, one of our prime adversaries. It's just --", "Are you suggesting that the Electoral College should take away the results of the election?", "The Electoral College, if you read \"The Federalist\" papers and understand why it is there, it is a group of people. It is not an algorithm. It is not a set of balance. It is a group of people that our founding fathers, you know, to whom supposedly we all sort of defer to pledge the idea that if somebody gets elected who has manifestly ill equipped to be president. And there's all sorts of phrases about the majority acting in a way that perhaps the electorates don't agree with that the Electoral College can step in. By the way, you as a lawyer will know, that will cause a lot of litigation. But Donald Trump since his election has done not one thing, whether it was criticizing the CIA or reversing decade's worth of policy with China, whether it was appointing people like Steve Bannon has not done one thing that would suggest that he is qualified to be mayor of a small town in Connecticut, much less president of the United States.", "By your definition as a Democrat, but the election, if nothing else, was almost a pure referendum on change. Somebody coming in from the outside and shaking everything up. People could easily suggest that's what he's doing. I get why you could criticize him. A lot of this will go on for the next four years at a minimum, but to suggest that the Electoral College should go the other way, and I suppose reward Hillary Clinton. Not only is that highly, highly unlikely and maybe illegal, but why would you even propose it as a solution?", "Well, I grant you that it's unlikely, but it's interesting that word you use referendum. If it was a referendum on anything --", "I know she won the popular vote --", "Three million votes.", "But you had a lot of people come out and vote for Donald Trump and they did it with a motivation that caught you guys by surprise.", "Absolutely.", "Those are people who want a voice. They're not deplorable, they are desperate --", "Absolutely.", "-- because they feel the system is against them and the realities are against them and (inaudible) to that and they matter, too.", "Absolutely. We've sat in these seats before and we talked about the election and the campaign and, boy, were the Democrats wrong. Boy, did the Democrats run a lousy presidential campaign and I was part of it and was I wrong and was everybody wrong. No question about that. But now we're past that and you're right. Under the rules President- elect Donald Trump won this thing fair and square. Right? We don't, apparently, as many Americans are learning have a one-person, one-vote system in this country. Despite a 3 million vote differenced Hillary Clinton will not be president and Donald Trump will. But we do have this thing called the Electoral College, which is a group of people. A group of people who come together to deliberate. If that thing exists and by the way, I'm of the opinion that it should not exist. The idea that a majority of Americans would vote for somebody who then doesn't become president is a profoundly problematic thing. But if it exists, why would it exist but for any other purpose than what it could do in one week, which is to say and something that I think the majority of Americans I think probably believe today which is that we're about to make a president who is dangerous. He is standing up for Russia. Criticizing the CIA. The Chinese flew a nuclear equipped bomber over the South China Sea because of a phone call that the president-elect made. This stuff --", "We don't know why.", "You're right. We don't know exactly why the Chinese did that, but coincidence that one day after President-elect Trump says we're going to review the one China policy, all of a sudden we have a nuclear bomber flying over the South China Sea.", "And also people on their own should do research, every state controls what their electors do. So you'd have a lot of legal hurdles. That's probably not a practicality. But let's talk about something that is. You have a bill that you want to put up to have Congress reclaim, is the word, its ability to declare war and conduct war ad resolve with the executive its role. Now this is part of a big dispute where Congress has been giving the presidents over time more and more power. I would call it, many critics would call it a real mistake. That Congress is abdicated out of almost coward us of giving the executive -- you want to take it back. Are you getting support, bipartisan support to take back congressional power over what the United States does militarily abroad?", "Yes, I think I will. I drop this bill on the last day of the Congress. I didn't have an opportunity to go out there and shop it amongst my colleagues, but you're exactly right. This will be portrayed as an anti-Trump thing and to some extent it is. Personally, I know that Donald Trump can't do a lot of what he talks about doing, building a well, setting up a list of Muslims without congressional approval. However, for all the reasons you point out, he could effectively get us into a war and that really worries me. And this bill is designed to not just address that, it's designed to address a problem of 50 or 60 years making which is since World War II, we haven't declared war. By the way, the presidents have taken that power because Congress has been cowardly about exercising the responsibility that is given to it in Article One of the constitution. Too many Congress just say that's a scary prospect war. I don't want to take responsibility for it. But, look, there is a reason why the framers did that. We need to deliberate decisions that serious.", "As you get more into it, we'll cover this. It's very important. Congressman, thank you very much. Appreciate it -- Alisyn.", "All right, Chris, U.S. intelligence agencies say Russia meddled in the presidential election, so, if Mr. Trump picks Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, what does that mean for relations with Putin and Russia? All of that is next on NEW DAY."], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT-ELECT", "CUOMO", "REP. JIM HIMES (D), CONNECTICUT", "CUOMO", "HIMES", "CUOMO", "HIMES", "CUOMO", "HIMES", "CUOMO", "HIMES", "CUOMO", "HIMES", "CUOMO", "HIMES", "CUOMO", "HIMES", "CUOMO", "HIMES", "CUOMO", "HIMES", "CUOMO", "HIMES", "CUOMO", "HIMES", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-92272", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2005-2-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/19/se.02.html", "summary": "Delegation of Senators hold live Press Conference in Iraq", "utt": ["...South Carolina, and Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin. We're each going to make a brief one-minute opening comment and then we will respond to questions if that's agreeable. We're very pleased to have the opportunity to be back, particularly after the really incredible election that was just held here, which displayed the Iraqi people's commitment to choosing their own leaders and determining their own future. We know that there is a long way to go. We know that there is still very bad people out there that want to destroy the Iraqi peoples' attempts at obtaining freedom. We are also very pleased with the process that is going on. We met with the prime minister, the deputy prime minister, the minister of finance, who have briefed us about their view of the process as it is proceeding. And they are also optimistic about the formation of a constitutional assembly and an ensuing elected government. So we're pleased to be here and also, by the way, we are also equally pleased to have the opportunity to meet with and congratulate our brave young men and women who are serving here, in Iraq, under many times very difficult circumstances. We're very proud of them. Senator Collins.", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is always a pleasure to go on a trip like this with Sen. John McCain, and I appreciate his inviting all of us to come to Iraq. I was last here in the summer of 2003. I'm struck by the many changes that have occurred since then. I believe that Iraq is at a tipping point, as a result of the recent elections. I believe that the path that was chosen with those elections is one that will lead to freedom and democracy for the Iraqi people. But it has been stressed to us in all of our meetings today that this is indeed a critical time for the Iraqi people. And that they continue to require American support and the support of other coalition forces. I, too, am so proud of the man and women of our armed forces, whom we met. We look forward to seeing more of them throughout our journey. They make us very proud as Americans.", "Thank you very much for giving us this opportunity for publicly state both our appreciation and pride in American military forces that have been here and are here now. And also our support for the people of Iraq and their elections, which will lead to a new government. I think that the impression that I take away from just this short visit after talking with not only government officials but some of our military and civilian leaders here in Iraq, is cautious optimism. Cautious, because there are so many challenges ahead; cautious, because there are neighbors of Iraq that are not necessarily enthusiastic about the success of the Iraqi people in creating and sustaining a multi-ethnic, multi-religious democracy. But optimistic, because the results of the election are a strong rebuke to those who did not believe that the Iraqi people would take this opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to their own future. And our hope is, with the formation of a new government, that all groups within Iraq will be included and that the establishment of this new government will be firmly rooted in the hopes and aspirations of the Iraqi people. I think it is fair to say that not only the administration of our country but the Congress of the United States have committed ourselves to doing what we can to help achieve that objective.", "I want to join everyone in the delegation in congratulating the Iraqi people on the successful election results and thank Senator McCain for including me in this congressional delegation. It is such an important time in the history of Iraq. My particular focus is on a number of things. Are our troops getting what they need to be safe and to be able to do their job? Are American taxpayer dollars that are being spent here, being spent carefully? Is there an ability to monitor that, on the part of our government and our people here? So that we can make sure that the American people can have confidence in that? And from a broader point of view, I am very interested in following up on the fact that our CIA director the other day said that Iraq has now become, instead of Afghanistan, the leading place of training of international terrorists. And what implications that has for Iraq and for our own safety and what we can do together with the officials here and in other parts of the world to make sure that what we're doing here, not only ensures that the people of Iraq have democracy but that this is consistent with the number one issue in America, which is making sure we deter the people that attacked us on September 11.", "I'm Senator Graham from South Carolina. This is my third trip to Iraq and I'd like to echo what my colleagues have said, to those men and women who are serving over here and who have served, this election is a direct result of your efforts and sacrifice. And not only just your efforts but coalition partners. There are other countries that have been involved in this effort and they've lost people. And we need to recognize them. And I see some heads nodding, from our American military folks out there. But the thing that I'm most encouraged about is I think the American people saw the Iraq people do something that was very hard; go to a polling station and on the way you saw graffiti that says, if you vote, you die. So, what I would like to say is that the people who are helping over in Iraq, they deserve it. And whatever sacrifice lies ahead for our country, I hope we will continue to make that sacrifice because it is in our best interest that Iraq be free stable and democratic. And the one thing that I've learned from this trip, is that we're a long way away from being able to leave. That if the Iraqi people want us to stay, we're going to be here for awhile, in large numbers; but it is worth it, we cannot leave too soon. This country faces many problems, many struggles, but they have convince me, and I hope they have convinced you, that their desire to be free, with help, will overcome the people who are trying to take them back into the darkness.", "Questions? Sir.", "I think there is a very good faith effort being made to try to spend the dollars wisely. There are challenges in terms of trying to review projects that are in areas that are not easy to be secure. And so this is something that I'm looking forward to the report that we get from the inspector general, next. The first report was a frankly disturbing report that had to do with some issues concerning Iraqi dollars and that needs to be fixed up. But the next report will be about American dollars and I've urged people here, and they're already on the job, to try to figure out a way to make sure that we have some accountability with regard to this spending. And I look forward to the results of those reports.", "Ma'am.", "... For the liberation of Iraq, but the election lead to the election of a religious group that are known have loyalty to Iraq.", "Well, we have no indication that the people who are elected have an allegiance to anything other than the Iraqi people and the formation of a free and democratic government. The fact that they may be of the same religious faith does not necessarily mean that they are in any way inclined to cede Iraqi sovereignty to Iran or any other nation.", "Well, obviously, we expressed some concern about that. And the future will demonstrate whether that concern is well founded or not. At this point, I share Senator McCain's opinion that it appears there is a good faith effort underway to form a government that is reflective of the aspirations of the Iraqi people. And I think some of the checks and balances that were written into the law, will help to create the best possible circumstances for that to occur. And it is something that we will continue to watch and hope that it does not cause any problem, that there is no divided loyalty whatsoever, within the Iraqi government.", "Each of the Iraqi leaders with whom we met stress the need for a coalition government that reached out to all parties, to all ethnic groups. I think that is very impressive. We have just come through an Iraqi election where the Sunnis population's participation was very low, which was regrettable. And yet, the leaders with whom we've talked with all talked about their efforts to reach out to the Sunnis as they put together a new government. I think that demonstrates an understanding on the part of these Iraqi leaders that the government must have Kurdish and Sunni representation as well as Shiite.", "Sir?", "Dexter Filkins with \"The New York Times\". I was just wondering if you could walk us through what you did when you were here and just let us know if you were able to get outside the Green Zone at all?", "The second answer is, no. We would obviously like to -- tomorrow, we are going -- excuse me, I'm not allowed to reveal our itinerary, I guess. But we will be going to several other places throughout the country. And today we spent most of our time with the Iraqi leaders and although we also had a long briefing with General Petraeus (ph), but tomorrow we will be spending most of our time with the American military in various places, at least three outside of the Green Zone. You're first question was?", "Just who you met when you were here, today, then?", "Today, we met with General Petraeus (ph), and then, we met with the prime minister, the deputy prime minister, and the finance minister. And also had a briefing at the embassy where the food was far superior to that of the Senate dining room. Sir?", "Tomash Ashzlov (ph), CNN. Senator Collins, you mentioned that you were here in 2003, in the summer, and you have seen a lot of progress. You know, I was here in 2003, in the summer also. At that time I was able to travel around the country. I see many of American soldiers having lunches in the restaurants, you know, this is suicidal today. Big chunks of the country, especially Baghdad, are still without electricity. There is a terrible security situation, terrible unemployment. How do you define success or progress? What did you see?", "First, let me say, that I didn't mean to imply that all of what I have seen represented progress. When I was here that summer, it was much easier for us to move around. We visited several cities around Baghdad. We were able to move more freely through Baghdad. And one impression I have is how much more fortified Baghdad is than it was during that summer. But on the other hand, at that point is was clearly the coalition forces who were making every decision and who were running the country. That clearly is not the case today. We've seen a true transition of power. We've seen the Iraqi people begin to control their own destiny, to chart their own future, and to make the basic governing decisions. One of the leaders with whom we met today said that back when the CPA was in charge that the Iraqi people could blame the Americans for everything. If the electricity went off, if the Americans' fault; he said, now we're making the decisions and shouldering the blame, as well as the credit. Although, it is disappointing to see that the violence that has ensued since my last visit has resulted in an Iraq where it is more difficult to move around, there is no doubt in my mind that the long- term future of the Iraqi people is far brighter and that the transition to power -- in the hands of the Iraqi people has, and is, occurring.", "We believe, hope and pray, that the dynamic has changed from Iraqi insurgents versus the U.S. and our troops, to Iraqi insurgents versus the Iraqi government. Under the second scenario, if it applies, then I think we have an opportunity to succeed. And I want to emphasize again, there are none of us who have visited here who wish to understate or under appreciate the enormity of the task that lies ahead of us. Ma'am, yes. We'll go to you, too. Go ahead.", "This is Fanas Fausti (ph) with \"The Wall Street Journal\". Senator Clinton, can you elaborate on some of your concerns about neighboring countries and what specifically concerns you? And which countries, please? Thanks.", "Well, I think that the concerns center on Iran and Syria. Iran, because of the size and influence of Iran in this region; because of some of the policies that Iran has followed; and, of course, because of some of the linkages that go back many, many years when Iran was not only fighting a war against Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, but was helping to support opposition to Saddam Hussein. With respect to Syria, it is an ongoing concern heightened by the assassination of Mr. Hariri (ph), in Beirut, that Syria has a agenda that has not only resulted in its failure to control borders, perhaps providing refuge to insurgents or leaders, Ba'athist leaders who have sought sanctuary there, but it tends to take a more aggressive posture in the region. So, I think that may not be the only set of concerns, but those are the two at the top of the list.", "Senator Graham, two questions. One is you said that you feel that the troops are going to have to be here for a while, do you feel like that is five years, 10 years, if you can give a timetable. And the second question is one for back at the States: Since the president has left the door open for raising the cap on Social Security payroll taxes...", "I thought surely 5,000 miles away you would avoid that question.", "Aren't you glad we had one more question?", "Yes. Thanks, John. As to how long? The answer is, until the job's done. Not one minute longer, not one minute less. And what is the job? The ability of this country to have the capacity to maintain its freedom. That just doesn't mean numbers with guns, that means institutions that work; judges and courtrooms that work for all Iraqis, regardless of your ethnic background or your religious differences. A finance ministry that can collect taxes and pay the bills. When you look at what is ahead for this country, there is reason to be very hopeful it could change the whole region. But as John said, to underestimate what lies ahead is a mistake. How long? I don't know, but to leave too soon would be devastating. To stay too long would be unnecessary. The Iraqi people have their fate in their hands but we're essential partners in that process. And I ask the American people to have patience because what happens here directly affects our security at home. Now, as to Social Security, speaking of our security. There is no Social Security without national security. But we have a challenge domestically as well as internationally. It is time for the country, as a whole, to make sacrifices for the common good. We're here sacrificing to make the world safer in light of people who want to take us back to the darkness, extremists who would have no role for a woman, other than to just be seen and not heard, and barely be seen. We have a chance, at home, in a bi-partisan way to address Social Security and permanently fix it. I'm a Republican. I am telling you right now that you cannot fix the Social Security System at home as a Republican Party. And the idea of asking people who make over $90,000 to pay extra for a permanent solution, I think would be well accepted by the country as a whole. I support that, and I will as my Democratic colleagues to reject rigid ideology and work with the president to find a solution that will save Social Security, sacrifice will be required.", "On the issue of withdrawal, let me just point out, I think it is a false argument. The key to our continue presence here is not how long we stay, it is the U.S. casualties. We've been in South Korea for more than 50 years. Americans are perfectly happy with that. We've been in Bosnia, we've been in all over the world, but we don't have casualties. If we can bring American casualties down as the Iraqis take over military and law enforcement responsibilities, then I think the American people will be satisfied to see significant progress. I think that is the key to it, rather whether we withdraw or not.", "Can I add one last thing?", "Yes, go ahead.", "Ronald Reagan was a pretty good conservative. Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil sat down together, going back to Social Security, and Ronald Reagan agreed to raise tax rates. Tip O'Neil changed the age limit from 65 to 67. They part their ideology and the focus on the common good. That is what we need to do now to save Social Security in a permanent fashion.", "Two great Americans. Finally, quick.", "John Burns (ph), \"New York Times\", for Senator Clinton and for you Senator McCain. Many people who come here after a absence of some time are shocked at the deterioration in security. Although, you have not been outside the Green Zone, you will have noticed the enormous elaborate security that is required, even to move you around within the Green Zone.", "We paid attention to your reporting, as well.", "So, I wonder if you could both give us your sense, what that means to you to come here? What are you going to be telling people -- not at news conferences, but what are you going to be telling the 42nd president of the United States -- in terms of Clinton -- when you get home, in your kitchen? What is your feeling about this?", "Well, it is mixed. Because I was last here at the end of 2003. And I was able to drive from the airport into Baghdad, for example. It is regrettable that the security needs have increased so much. On the other hand, I think you can look at the country as a whole and see that there are many parts of Iraq that are functioning quite well. There might be occasional problems but it is not the steady drumbeat. In addition, the concerted effort to disrupt the elections was an abject failure. Not one polling place was shutdown or overrun. And the fact that you have these suicide bombers, now wreaking such hatred and violence, while people pray, is to me an indication of their failure. So, while yes, it is somewhat disheartening that there is so much more security, that we ourselves are subjected to. On the other hand, I think that the election and the desperation of this so-called insurgency is becoming clearer by the day. And I'm hoping that the Iraqi government and the Iraqi security forces will continue to get stronger in the face of that challenge.", "I've said many times that we have made serious mistakes and we've paid a heavy price for those mistakes. And I have pointed them out a long time ago. But the fact is that the elections have taken place. The fact is, as Senator Clinton pointed out, there are many parts of this country that are functioning very well and very safely. And the consequences of failure are devastating and the prospects of success, not only here but in the entire Middle East are intoxicating. So, we have a long, hard, difficult struggle ahead of us, but I am far more optimistic than I was before the election, because the Iraqi people proved that they would brave the risk of their very lives in order to choose their government. To me that's very encouraging. Thanks very much.", "Thank you all invest. Very much.", "You have been listening to a U.S. Senate delegation which has arrived in Iraq. That delegation made up of Senators, McCain, Clinton, Feingold, Collins and Graham. While there they are going to be focusing on a number of different issues, including are, U.S. getting the necessary information and equipment needed to stay safe in Iraq. A lot of other issues as well, we'll be talking about within the next half hour. USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R) ARIZONA", "SEN. 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{"id": "NPR-36537", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2007-04-20", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9709429", "title": "Survivor Recalls 1998 School Shooting", "summary": "Mary Hollis Inboden was a sixth-grader in Jonesboro, Ark., when two boys opened fire on the playground of her middle school in 1998. Her best friend died along with three fellow students and a teacher. Inboden recalls the traumatic event.", "utt": ["Welcome to the program.", "Hi, Renee.", "We spoke with you a couple of years ago about how your community was healing from that tragedy. Now, how has watching the events at Virginia Tech affected you?", "Well, you know, it's quite bizarre, because the shooting at my school happened in 1998 and about a year after that - a year and a month - was Columbine. And we were just starting our healing process. And I'm college-age now. I'm 21, and again, I'm the same age as a lot of the students that are being affected by the Virginia Tech massacre. And it's very difficult, Renee, to try and move on when these horrible, horrible things keep happening.", "At the time, your school - your town - was under an intense media spotlight, as is Virginia Tech this week. How much did that affect you?", "Oh, it was absolutely horrible. They were giving us information faster than the school could give us information - a lot like what seems to be going on now at Virginia Tech. So we kind of relied on the media to give us that information, but you're also trying to see through the rumors of the media. And the media surrounded our campus until the end of the school year. The shooting happened in March and they were there until, you know, the beginning of June.", "Back then, in the media aftermath, what helped you to deal with that experience?", "You know, I think it's really important, Renee, that I had very good parents. They were there with me to support me and make sure that I was looked after. I also was very quickly surrounded by good people - you know, counselors and ministers that the school had brought in that said, you know, it's okay to be frightened and scared and confused and that is all part of this process of healing. And after a while I think I just decided, you know - and I can't remember how long it was after the shooting - but I decided that I wasn't going to be scared for my entire life. And that's actually what has led me to be able to do the things that I'm doing as far as theater, which is, you know, one of my greatest passions, and working and moving to different cities. And I moved to Memphis for college and now I'm in Chicago.", "One thing you did tell us when we spoke with you before, you said your mother at first had to help you get through every Tuesday.", "That's true. I would always fake an illness. That is the day that the shooting happened; that's the day that I associated with death. And what's interesting about that is even though I'm not particularly scared of Tuesdays anymore, now in my older age I am frightened of the month of March. It takes a little bit more for me to live and be happier, and emotions kind of flare up during that month more than any other, especially when something happens that is as horrible as the shooting at Virginia Tech.", "As you said, you're just about their age now. What would you say to the students at Virginia Tech still so close to this week's shootings?", "I'm not sure that anything that I say will offer them any kind of comfort right now. But in bad, ugly times we need people close to us. And definitely, definitely to keep the people who were there, who have been affected, close, because those are the people that you are going to share a very, very, very hard bond with for the rest of your life, and to have those people close will provide the students a lot of comfort in years to come.", "Thank you very much for talking with us again.", "Thank you, Renee.", "Mary Hollis Inboden survived the school shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas nine years ago. She now lives and works in Chicago."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, Host", "MARY HOLLIS INBODEN", "RENEE MONTAGNE, Host", "MARY HOLLIS INBODEN", "RENEE MONTAGNE, Host", "MARY HOLLIS INBODEN", "RENEE MONTAGNE, Host", "MARY HOLLIS INBODEN", "RENEE MONTAGNE, Host", "MARY HOLLIS INBODEN", "RENEE MONTAGNE, Host", "MARY HOLLIS INBODEN", "RENEE MONTAGNE, Host", "MARY HOLLIS INBODEN", "RENEE MONTAGNE, Host"]}
{"id": "CNN-404063", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2020-06-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/29/ctw.03.html", "summary": "Global COVID Cases Top 10 Million; Growing List Of Companies Pull Facebook Ads", "utt": ["Hello and welcome everybody. You're watching CNN. I'm Hala Gorani in London. This hour the world hits 10 million coronavirus cases. 31 U.S. states are on the rise and half way around the world 400,000 people go back under lockdown in China. We have live coverage from around the globe. Then, more and more companies are pulling advertising off of Facebook. Will they pressure the social media giants to handle hate speech differently? And later the White House in damage control mode after President Trump retweets a video of a man chanting white power. The number of global coronavirus cases has topped 10 million and more than half a million people have died of COVID-19. One out of every four of those deaths has been in the United States. And these maps show how much of the U.S. is going in the wrong direction. On the right the level of increases or decreases in cases in the 50 states from just after the Memorial Day holiday in late May. On the left the numbers from this past week. You can see all the red. 31 states are now reporting and an increase in new cases from the week before. Randi Kaye looks at this disturbing trend which experts warn will only get worse.", "A dire warning from one Trump cabinet member.", "The window is closing for us to take action and get this under control.", "As 31 states report an increase in new coronavirus cases over the last week, like here in Florida. The state reporting more than 8,500 new cases Sunday, after reporting a record high Saturday of more than 9,500 cases. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis blaming recent increases on a, \"Test dump,\" a backlog of tests that all came through at the same time. A former CDC director discounted testing as the source of most increases.", "I can tell you with 100 percent certainty that in most states, where you're seeing an increase, it is a real increase. It is not more tests. It is more spread of the virus.", "DeSantis conceding that there is reason for concern, particularly in the demographics of the uptick of confirmed cases.", "That positivity increase is really being driven by a big increase over the last three weeks in individuals testing positive throughout the State of Florida in younger age groups, particularly 18 to 44.", "The numbers forcing DeSantis to hit pause on the state's reopening plan, closing bars throughout the state. And even with no state order, Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties planning to have all beaches closed for the July 4th holiday weekend.", "It is an unfortunate result, but public health remains focus of the elected leaders of Palm Beach County. And, you know, unfortunately, this fourth of July will not be spent at the beach.", "In Texas, cases are still surging, with a positivity rate increasing to more than 13 percent in recent days, according to John Hopkins University. Vice President Mike Pence now urging people to wear face masks after weeks of saying concerns over the sudden surge were overblown.", "Wear a mask wherever it's indicated or wherever you're not able to practice the kind of social distancing that would prevent the spread of the coronavirus.", "At a church event in Texas with more than 2,000 people attending, Pence watched with a mask on, as a 100-person choir sang with no face coverings, only putting on masks when they were seated. The CDC has warned choir singing could be a super spreader event, highlighting a march choir practice in Washington, where just one symptomatic person led to 87 percent of the singers getting infected. Republican Senator Lamar Alexander stressing the importance of masks, arguing President Trump could be the key to convincing more people to wear them.", "I wish the president would wear a mask when it's appropriate. Because millions of Americans admire him. And they would follow his lead.", "Again, you heard there, the vice president urging Texans to wear face masks that is a markedly different tone. And then he took on Friday when he said pretty much that the country has flattened the curve.", "Still in the coming days the vice president will be visiting more states who are seeing surges in in cases including Arizona, and here in Florida. Hala, back to you.", "All right. Thanks very much, Randi Kaye. You can see in the U.S. wearing a mask or not wearing a mask has become a political issue less so in Europe. But there are still so many open questions. E.U. representatives have been meeting in Brussels to discuss lifting coronavirus travel restrictions. Very important to get parts of the economy going. They are crafting a list of approved countries for travel into the European Union. The United States is expected to be excluded so you'd have a U.S. passport. Most likely if this go through -- goes through you will not be able temporarily to travel to the E.U. Once the final list is approved by member states it will be formally presented. CNN has learned there are 15 countries on the list. Nothing is official yet, we're still waiting. People from countries that made the cut will be allowed in starting Wednesday. People from countries that have not made the cut will have to sit it out for a while if they want to come to the E.U. Fred PLeitgen is standing by in Brussels, Belgium just outside the E.U. ambassador's meeting. So that is, you know, the -- well, the big one would be the U.S., right? If U.S. citizens are excluded, what form might that take if there's a temporary exclusion against U.S. citizens coming into the E.U.?", "Well, I mean, it would simply mean that the U.S. wouldn't be on that list of 15 countries that is now being talked about. As you said, in the member states on a ministerial level. So in other words, the European Council has decided, yes, we're OK with this list of 15 countries. Again, we don't know which countries are on that list. And now every member state for itself is going to decide whether or not they are OK with that list. You're talking about different ministries in these countries. The health ministry, of course, will be part of that, the foreign ministry is the interior ministries as well because one of the things, Hala, we always have to point out is that The European Union cannot make a decision for all these member states. They each decide as citizens of which countries they would let in a to their own country. But of course, the E.U. wants to have a common approach to this. So, all these member states are going to be looking at this list and then most probably, we believe signing off on it. But of course, this this could have very big repercussions if indeed the U.S. is not on that list. And that's exactly what it's looking like right now. And the European Union has always said that all of this comes down to science. All of this comes down to the coronavirus situation in the countries of origin of people who want to travel to the European Union. And they say by and large, essentially, it's the amount of people who have coronavirus per 100,000 residents of these countries, but they say the situation has to be either better or the same as the average of the European Union. Of course, what we're seeing from the U.S., that's simply is what's happening there right now, Hala.", "All right. Fred Pleitgen, thanks very much live in Brussels. We'll wait to hear official word so many people watching us around the world very eager to learn whether or not they can fly into the E.U., what countries are on that list. Now as far as China is concerned, the government there has told 400,000 people near Beijing to stay in their homes and it comes after a cluster of coronavirus cases was discovered in Hebei province. The area is sparsely populated but health officials say the situation is serious nonetheless. David Culver joins us live from Beijing with the details. Tell us more about this lockdown in this new lockdown in China, David.", "And Hala, this is really reminiscent of what we saw now more than five months ago take effect in Wuhan. And we were there with the original epicenter went on lockdown and folks eventually were sealed inside their homes. A similar scenario playing out here about 90 miles from where we are here in Beijing, the capital city. And this is -- and as you point out a more sparsely populated area. It's kind of a rural setting. It's Yanshan County, it's within Hebei province. It's got 400,000 people and all villages, all communities shut down. The perimeter is not to be breached by any outside vehicles. So those that are not locally registered, if you will, they are letting people once a day choose one person from the household to leave to go to basic grocery shopping in necessity purchases. But aside from that, this is what we saw just several months ago in Wuhan and what also took effect in other parts of the country over the past few months as these hotspots and cluster outbreaks would come into fruition. And so what they're now hoping is that this will be in place for as long as necessary and that they can then put this one out and then resume life again. But it's something similar to what we saw even compartmentalized here in Beijing over the past couple of weeks as we saw that, yet again, another wholesale food market be the source of what they believe to have been that most recent outbreak here in the capital city, Hala.", "And how long will this all last? Because the impact on the Chinese economy is brutal right now.", "I mean, we're looking at potentially one percent growth for China, which is unheard of in many decades.", "Devastating for the economy. You're absolutely right. So with this, cannot linger more than it has to. And so that has been stressed by officials here. I mean, even going back to the original lockdown, I mean, that was something that President Xi Jinping himself said. He stressed two things, containing the virus and stabilizing the economy. So it is crucial that they do that. What's interesting is what you see in this most recent lockdown and entering county is not what happened here in Beijing over the past two weeks. There, they have locked down that entire region essentially, the 100,000 people. Here, you can out -- you really go on the outskirts of some of these compartmentalize lockdowns and life continues as mostly as normal as possible. And that's intentional, because even though there is a threat that some of these cases could have contact with individuals outside of those high risk areas, they still know that they need to keep the city up and going. They cannot do another massive lockdown because that would just crush the economy, Hala.", "Right. I think this is our future localized shutdowns. We're seeing localized shutdowns in parts of Europe and parts of the", "I guess you're right.", "Thanks very much for that. David Culver, yeah, live in Beijing. We'll speak soon. Now to the growing list of companies pulling ads from social media. Starbucks is one of the latest but it stopped short of joining the #StopHateForProfit campaign organized by civil rights groups. It's a campaign that urges companies to stop advertising on Facebook for the month of July. But as the sixth largest advertiser on Facebook, the move is still expected to make a dent. The amount of money that Starbucks spends on ad dollars on Facebook is a very high, almost $100 million. So what does Facebook stand to lose from this boycott? CNN's Richard Quest joins me now from New York with more. It's not just Starbucks, it's Unilever, Verizon, REI. What's the ad money here, total ad money that we're talking about?", "We're in the hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars, but Facebook's revenue is some 68, $69 billion. And most of that comes from small and medium-sized businesses, not the very large ones. And I think that's possibly one of the reasons we saw Facebook put out a long memo, in which they went through various details of their policies and their anti-hate policies. But underneath it all, there was a -- I don't want to use the word threat, but there was a reminder that from a senior executive that Facebook does not change its policies on the back of boycotts. They've been here before Facebook. Now, to be sure how this is marginally different in that the number of large companies is growing and the more of the Unilever's, Coca- Cola's, Verizon's, Bank of America's, you get, they create a very large umbrella for other people to shelter and join us well. But Facebook is saying somewhat arrogantly they would -- some would argue, look, we know we may have to do more. Zuckerberg said we're going to do more, but we are not going to buckle under the weight of money of boycotts, which we think won't really last anyway.", "So why is Twitter for instance, taking a different approach? Why is Facebook the holdout here?", "Well, Facebook's caught up on its own limb here. It's sort of taken the view. Zuckerberg has taken the view that there's a first amendment issue here, that the platform has to have a broad church of opinion. And that also involves pushing a boundary as to what is acceptable, if you're the, you know, his view is if you're the town square, there has to be people who object to what you're saying. However, that's not the view that Twitter has taken.", "But I guess, Richard, it's not -- it's not whether or not you have a different -- it's not just a different opinion. I mean, these are conspiracy theories, they're straight out lies, there is hate speech. You know, we're not here talking about having a civilized debate. Some of this stuff is by the standards of some people on unacceptable hate speech.", "And the problem Facebook has is managing that and they are constantly behind the curve in -- I mean, if you remember a few -- a few years ago, or few months ago they put in place tens of thousands of monitors.", "But that took them ages as a policy to get right and get in place. Now they've got to formulate their policy with this hate speech, whilst at the same time not alienating others, they are in exceptionally difficult waters here. But interestingly, Hala, probably economically until there's a boycott of users. And that has not happened in any significant sense, while the advertisers will eventually come back. I'm not being cynical. I'm being -- it's not being skeptical. I'm being realistic here. The advertisers will come back because that's where the people are by the billions.", "All right. We're going to talk more about this with Brian Stelter later as sort of the notion that Facebook is a content provider now and it's taken a clear position on what it plans to do or not to do with its content. We'll see you on \"QUEST MEANS BUSINESS\" a little bit later, Richard. Thanks very much. And coming up, it may seem like a remnant of the Cold War but reports of surface that Russia has put a price on the head of American troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. president says he wasn't briefed on it. Plus, a deadly shooting in Karachi's financial hub. The latest from Pakistan. We are live, next."], "speaker": ["HALA GORANI, CNN ANCHOR", "RANDI KAYE, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ALEX AZAR, UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES", "KAYE", "THOMAS FRIEDEN, FORMER CDC DIRECTOR", "KAYE", "GOV. RON DESANTIS (R-FL)", "KAYE", "MAYOR DAVE KERNER (D), PALM BEACH COUNTY", "KAYE", "MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KAYE", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-254721", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2015-05-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1505/07/ath.01.html", "summary": "Tom Brady Fights Back Against Deflategate Report; New Developments in Case of Freddie Gray", "utt": ["Brady fights back. Terribly disappointed. His agent blasted Deflategate report. Oh, my, what happens now?", "Will a nun take the stand in the Boston trial. A showdown brewing over the inspiration for \"Dead Man Walking.\" Why legal teams in Boston at odds over this.", "Is there a campaign to discredit the prosecutor in Baltimore. New links that prosecution against the six officers just doesn't add up.", "Hello, everybody. I'm Kate Bolduan.", "I'm John Berman. The report all but calls him a cheater, says he lied to investigators, suggested he traded shirts for softness. Now Tom Brady is fighting back against the NFL report on Deflategate, a display, perhaps, meant to show he has a big set of gripes.", "Oh, gosh.", "Just a few minutes ago Brady's agent released a statement that, frankly, I find startling.", "A long statement, too. Here is part of it. In it he writes this, \"The Wells Report, with all due respect, is a significant and terrible disappointment. Its omission of key facts and lines of inquiry suggest investigators reach a conclusion first and then determine so-called fact later.\" He also says this, \"suggests in his view that it may be more probable than not that the league cooperated with the Colts in perpetuating and perpetrating a sting operation.\" Let's bring in CNN's Rachel Nichols for more on this, as well Tim Green, former NFL defensive end for Atlanta Falcons, and also an attorney and \"New York Times\" best-selling author of \"Football Genius.\" Rachel, are you surprised, they came out swinging on this?", "This was not a modest, hey, we disagree with the report. This was punching big holes, bringing up the conflict of interest issue, which, of course, we know we've been talking about that on this show and all over CNN for months. Richard Sherman from Seattle Seahawks brought this up as well. Then they are saying basically there are huge parts of Tom Brady's testimony they didn't include in this report. So this is a big contrast or at least some contrast to the statement from Robert Kraft of New England Patriot yesterday. The owner also disputed the report. That part is similar. He said at the end, we will take whatever punishment the league hands out and we understand that is part of this investigation. What Tom Brady's agent is saying here, they want to fight this, at least in the court of public opinion if not all the way up to appealing, and they have a right to.", "Tim Green, I don't think the commissioner likes people who talk about. This doesn't just disagree with the report but does it in a cheeky way. More probable than not the league cooperated in a sting operation. Could Brady and his agent be making things worse before Goodell decides what punishment to mete out?", "Well, I think so. The corroboration between the investigator and the league doesn't make sense because the league has no interest in finding Tom Brady guilty, finding employees of the New England Patriot guilty. That just doesn't make sense to me. If you read the report, and Ted Wells is a criminal lawyer, so his standard of evidence is always innocent until proven guilty and guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. It's interesting to me that as an attorney, he uses evidentiary standard for a civil case in this preponderance of the evidence, more likely than not. I think Ted Wells seems pretty even handed and fair. He's still leaving some room for doubt, some room for Tom Brady and his agent to dispute and say, hey, look, I agree with the agent in that we don't see the full picture. There are things that Tom Brady, probably reasons and rational he has that aren't included in the report, where if it was a criminal case and on trial, you would have that opportunity, you would see both sides of the issue certainly going all the way back to Robert Kraft. He's disappointed, standing by his quarterback. In the end he's saying, look, we're one of 32 teams and I understand the importance of us just sitting down now, being quiet and taking whatever punishment the league hands out. I think most important is this --", "Excuse me -- is that Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick were found to not have any involvement in it at all.", "Tim, real quick. A lot of fans are really wondering as they read through this, how many page in the report?", "200 plus.", "236. You're a former player, you know the culture of the league, does this go far enough to establish Tom Brady is a cheater?", "Well, I guess, look, you think a reasonable person is going to say yeah. Tom Brady, at least he knew, probably knew or probably maybe even had some involvement. But if you read the text, I felt like I was in law school again, that 240-page report, there's a lot of things where they were talking about tom was upset because the balls were overinflated. They were talking about having to bring the pressure down. You could really build a cogent argument about how Tom Brady was not talking about deflating them beyond the rules but make sure they are not overinflated.", "This is not a court of law. It's the commissioner's office, the standard is more probable than not. Rachel Nichols, when you have terms that are frankly not too subtle like \"deflator,\" when somebody calls them selves the \"deflator,\" doesn't leave much to the imagination.", "That's your nickname around here.", "Let's focus on that.", "But, Rachel, what does Roger Goodell do now in now that he has the report, angry response from Brady and his agent, what and when are we going to hear from the commissioner.", "One thing that's important, he's sort of pushing off the sentencing for this, the executive vice president. Part of that is because Roger Goodell has come under a lot of criticism for his own dealing of punishment over the past year or so and the idea of having somebody else in the office do it is a way of distancing himself a little bit especially since he is so close to Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner. This has been a big question mark. By Troy Vincent being the one that decided the punishment, in Roger Goodell, Troy Vincent is the decider here, to bring up one of our political terms, he's trying to wade through this conflict of interest issue. We should say preponderance of the evidence, civil suit standard, that is in the integrity clause in NFL rules. That is set out all they have to prove, more criminal version of beyond a reasonable doubt. That's not something they were told to go find.", "Get ready to learn Jimmy Garoppolo. He's the Patriots quarterback that could be playing.", "Tom Brady will be sitting on the sidelines or maybe not. Tim Green, Rachel Nichols, thank you so much. Great to see you both. Let's turn to Baltimore now, new developments in the case of the death of Freddie Gray. CNN sources say major discrepancies are emerging between police investigation and the prosecutor's investigation.", "So what we are told, police findings could undercut make of the most serious charges brought by state's attorney, Marilyn Mosby, against six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray. It needs to be said the leaking of this information could very well be designed to undercut Marilyn Mosby.", "Good morning. It really isn't surprising you have these kinds of leaks coming from either the attorneys and some of the officers or other officials who have actually been able to see police investigation they did as well as the prosecutor's case that was laid out, the base for the charges against the six officers. There's a couple of things. These sources say they believe that the autopsy report does not support homicide. They also believe that the evidence the police have lay out a case for manslaughter, not second degree murder, and that two attorneys, for two of the officers, say they actually wan to see the knife that Freddie Gray had on his possession when he was apprehended, when he was tackled by the police initially because they believe that that knife is illegal for him to have. If they can show that knife is, in fact, the type of knife that is illegal, it gives them probable cause for that arrest. Therefore when you have the false imprisonment charge against those two officers, they are hoping that will dismiss the charge. Those are the things behind the scenes. Do want to tell you as well this morning what we did see on the corner of Pennsylvania and North Avenue, that was the scene just more than a week ago where CVS was burning down. It is now boarded up. We saw the mayor as well as community leaders stress a new initiative from the city. They are calling it one Baltimore. The mayor saying the recovery effort is so critical at this time that the cameras, media, many people will go away in the months to come but that the community needs to come together. That is what she is trying to accomplish. That is what we saw in the corner just moments ago as they wrapped up that press conference. As we move forward, later today, we're going to see a presidential hopeful Republican, Ben Carson, meeting with religious leaders. There are a lot of activists, politicians, even musicians getting involved in this. Monday Prince is going to be giving his own concert in support of some of these community organizations. Kate and John?", "Suzanne Malveaux, thanks so much. Up next, big news around the world. Russell Brand not exactly breaking records at the box office any more, so why is he a factor in a crucial election? Voters are making their selection right now. Plus sex, blackjack, escorts, this is not some bachelor party. It's Pentagon employees, charges on their credit cards. So how are they explaining themselves?", "And explaining themselves back home. And will one of America's most famous nuns testify on behalf of the Boston bomber. Right now, a showdown over the inspiration for the movie \"Dead Man Walking.\""], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "RACHEL NICHOLS, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "TIM GREEN, ATTORNEY, FORMER ATLANTA FALCONS DEFENSE END & AUTHOR", "GREEN", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "GREEN", "BERMAN", "NICHOLS", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "NICHOLS", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-328665", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-12-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1712/18/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Prince Harry Interviews Former U.S. President Barack Obama; \"The Last Jedi\" Blockbuster Opening Weekend.", "utt": ["They have had a transatlantic bromance for several years. Now, Prince Harry is showcasing his friendship with former U.S. President Barack Obama by interviewing him for BBC Radio 4.", "Yes. They recorded the interview back in September in Toronto at the Invictus Games. Before the interview started, there was a little, joking around.", "Do I have to speak faster because --", "No, not at all.", "OK. Do I need the British accent?", "But if you start using long pauses between the answers you'll probably going to get like the face.", "Let me see the face. Oh, OK. I'm ready. You guys have sound?", "You're sounding great.", "You're all good?", "Yes.", "It's fun. I'll interview you if you want.", "And there it is. CNN royal commentator Kate Williams joins us now from London. Kate, great to have you with us again. We can see the chemistry. We talked about that last hour. How was Prince Harry able to make this interview happen and what all do we know about their friendship?", "Well, this is -- Prince Harry is a guest editor of the \"Today\" program on BBC Radio 4 on the 27th. So this is our key flagship news program. It's where all the big political stories are broken. It really is to set the agenda. And as part of his work a guest editor, he clearly asked, really when he was in the Invictus Games, asked Mr. Obama for an interview and clearly, Obama and Prince Harry are good friends. We've seen lots of photos of them together. They get on. It was obviously a winner. But we've learned in the interview, which we haven't yet heard, we won't yet hear until the 27th and then we'll hear it in full in a podcast. It's going to be a lot about leadership. So, they share these joint ambitions to foster the leaders of the future.", "And what other things do they end up talking about in he interview? What are they hoping to achieve with this?", "The interview is going to be personal. Mr. Obama has talked about his last days in office, his memories. Also, his hopes for the future, what he hopes to do post presidential. And also the two of them wanting to talk about creating platforms. We don't know what kind of platforms yet. I'm sure we'll find out, but creating platforms for the leaders of the future. Perhaps scholarships, perhaps", "Yes, indeed. And wow. What a first interview for Prince Harry. Is this just a one-off or can we expect more of this?", "It doesn't seem like Prince Harry was a natural interviewer. Mr. Obama was saying how excited he was. Prince Harry said he was a bit nervous, but obviously, there are lots of exciting things said. It was very detailed. I don't think that we're going to see an awful lot of Prince Harry doing media interviews. But in terms of creating partnerships, creating networks, making -- working with people like the Obama Foundation and really pushing forward his own agenda about leadership, about veterans, about charities, and about conservation. I think now Prince Harry is married, we're going to see him moving to the next stage. And that is the next stage, really, of not just British royalty. Not just English royalty but an international player, and an international humanitarian which with Ms. Markle will be a pretty powerful twosome.", "Indeed. Kate Williams, many thanks to you joining us from London where it is nearly 9:00 in the morning. Thank you.", "The \"Star Wars\" franchise is still a powerful force at the box office.", "Yes, \"The Last Jedi\" brought in a staggering $450 million globally in its opening weekend.", "Earlier, Chris Brennan, the director of Australia's Star Wars Appreciation Society -- real title -- told us how the Aussie fan base is reacting to the latest episode.", "You've got two camps. You've got the love it and the hate it. And it seems to be a lot of the older fans in the, well, I'm not really sure how I feel about it camp at the moment. So, the younger fans are loving everything about it. They're loving the characterization. They're loving the effects of everything, but the older fans are a little bit slower to warm up to this I think.", "That's really interesting. And I heard that from some of the fans here in the \"Newsroom\" when I was preparing the interview and preparing to talk to you. And by the way, no spoilers please because obviously a lot of people haven't seen it yet. What about the humor in the film? I understand that could be one of the more contentious sides of it as well.", "I think there's a lot of humor in the \"Star Wars\" films anyway and it's always an underlying bit of humor and some of the bits in the last Jedi feel a little bit forced, if anything. And some of it may be in the wrong place, but the jokes that are there are good jokes. Don't get me wrong, but they just maybe need to be rehearsed a little bit more maybe.", "All right, Chris Brennan there from the Star Wars Appreciation Society in Australia.", "And they know in Australia, too. All right, before we go, we have been covering the impact of that power outage at the world's busiest airport. Thousands are still stranded but earlier in the day, travelers at Atlanta's airport found ways to amuse themselves.", "One traveler posted this video on Instagram, and this is how one staffer at the airport chose or maybe had to come down the elevator. He probably didn't have much of a choice given how many people were walking up.", "Right. It looks like he actually works there. He's got all of the tags. Thanks so much for watching. I'm Rosemary Church.", "I'm Cyril Vanier. \"Early Start\" is next for our viewers here in the", "And for the rest of you, the news continues with our Max Foster in London. Have a great day."], "speaker": ["VANIER", "CHURCH", "BARACK OBAMA, FORMER UNITED STATES PRESIDENT", "PRINCE HARRY", "OBAMA", "PRINCE HARRY", "OBAMA", "PRINCE HARRY", "OBAMA", "PRINCE HARRY", "OBAMA", "CHURCH", "KATE WILLIAMS, CNN ROYAL COMMENTATOR", "CHURCH", "WILLIAMS", "CHURCH", "WILLIAMS", "CHURCH", "VANIER", "CHURCH", "VANIER", "CHRIS BRENNAN, DIRECTOR, STAR WARS APPRECIATION SOCIETY OF ASUTRALIA", "VANIER", "BRENNAN", "VANIER", "CHURCH", "VANIER", "CHURCH", "VANIER", "U.S. CHURCH"]}
{"id": "NPR-36289", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2009-12-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121216164", "title": "Letters: Zou Zou, Miles Davis", "summary": "Michele Norris and Robert Siegel update a story reported Monday, on safety concerns about the must-have toy of the 2009 holiday season. They also correctly identify the composer of the jazz piece Nefertiti.", "utt": ["Time now for your comments, corrections and an update on a story we brought you yesterday. The subject:", "Zhu Zhu Pets, those little robotic hamsters that are one of the must-have toys of 2009. The issue: claims made over the weekend that one model, a model known as Mr. Squiggles, is unsafe.", "We reported that GoodGuide, an online safety watchdog group, had found excessive levels of the potentially harmful heavy metal antimony while testing Mr. Squiggles. Well, here's the update: After examining the toy and reviewing independent testing reports, the Consumer Product Safety Commission says that Mr. Squiggles does not violate federal safety standards, and GoodGuide has issued a correction, saying that they should not have compared their results to federal standards.", "We have our own correction to our Zhu Zhu Pets reporting. Some of you heard us characterize antimony as a chemical. We were wrong, and Harry Saltzman(ph), a classical musician from New York City, was one of many who let us know about it.", "He writes: Antimony is not, as your reporter kept repeating, a chemical. It is an element with the symbol Sb and the atomic weight of 51: Element Number 51. We've got it for future reference. It is right between tin and tellurium.", "Well, a gold star for Mr. Saltzman. We had another problem with compositions yesterday, although not of the chemical kind.", "In our review of \"The Complete Columbia Collection of Miles Davis,\" we credited the trumpeter with writing \"Nefertiti.\" Nope, the actual composer was tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, and you can hear him playing right along with Miles Davis on the recording.", "We always enjoy hearing from you. We also always enjoy hearing Miles Davis. Send us your comments at npr.org. Just click on contact us at the bottom of the page."], "speaker": ["MICHELE NORRIS, host", "MICHELE NORRIS, host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "MICHELE NORRIS, host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "MICHELE NORRIS, host", "MICHELE NORRIS, host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host"]}
{"id": "NPR-3927", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2007-07-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11749872", "title": "Holiday Leftovers: Updates to Recent Stories", "summary": "On July 5, we pause to finish off some leftovers. We look back at stories we've covered lately and give our listeners an update. We'll update the story of the town of Marlow, N.H., one of the few towns a presidential candidate had never visited... until now. We'll also take another look at two tuberculosis scares, and have some news about a man who now makes more money than Bill Gates.", "utt": ["This is DAY TO DAY. From NPR News, I'm Madeleine Brand.", "And I'm Alex Cohen.", "Today you may be noshing on food left over from a Fourth of July barbecue. On DAY TO DAY it's our post-holiday tradition to provide you with some leftovers too. Our leftovers are really kind of an update of some of the stories we've reported over the past few months.", "NPR's Karen Grigsby-Bates is here with us in the studio now to give us a couple of updates. So Karen, what's first?", "Well, Alex, you've probably heard a lot about Andrew Speaker in the last month.", "Ah, yes. Mr. Tuberculosis, right?", "Yeah, that's right. Mr. Speaker is the Atlanta lawyer who made headlines about a month ago because he has a particularly hard-to-treat strain of tuberculosis.", "And then he flew back from his European wedding and honeymoon on crowded commercial flights causing quite a bit of panic.", "That's the guy. The Centers for Disease Control had good news for Mr. Speaker when it announced on Tuesday this...", "Based on extensive testing of multiple isolates of the organisms that we have culture from Mr. Speaker, we have been able to demonstrate that he does not have XDR TB or extensively drug-resistant TB.", "It turns out he does have multiple drug resistant TB. It's still very serious, but it's not deadly. Speaker insists that he never would have flown on multiple planes to get to and from Europe if the CDC had specifically told him not to. He feels he's been portrayed in the press as a kind of modern Typhoid Mary, and he's hinting there may be legal action in his future.", "Hmm. DAY TO DAY also aired the story of another TB patient. That was back in April.", "That would be Robert Daniels. He does have XDR TB. It stands for extremely drug-resistant TB. When DAY TO DAY talked with him, he was in the hospital ward at the Maricopa County Jail in Arizona.", "They're telling me that I'm an inmate. They gave me a booking number, which is for what? For having TB booking number? This is just being all ridiculous.", "Remind us why Robert Daniels is in jail.", "Well, in the past Daniels has been what doctors call non-compliant. He hasn't always taken his medicine and he's gone out in public, which he should do very rarely, if at all, without a mask. So they're thinking that this is the only way to make sure that this really virulent strain of TB remains where it should be and not out amongst the populace.", "Why don't they just transfer Daniels to the same hospital that took in Andrew Speaker?  Surely they're equipped to handle these kind of disease.", "That's the National Jewish Hospital and Medical Center in Denver. And they can't take patients under armed guard. And apparently the CDC feels armed security is the only thing keeping Robert Daniels from wandering out amongst us. Again, the ACLU is challenging his lockup situation as a violation of his civil rights. So we're continuing to follow this case.", "Quite a story. Okay, Karen, what's next?", "A little quiz for you, Alex. Who's this?", "It means so much to me to announce my candidacy in California, the state that I was born and where I'm going to win this primary here in the state.", "Born in California but left quickly after that, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.", "Oh, you win a gold star. This week he journeyed to Marlow, New Hampshire and he told NPR's Robert Siegel why.", "This little town has never had a presidential candidate come. It's a town of about a couple of hundred people. And they made a big thing out of it, which caused my people to say, well, this is an opportunity, so I'm going to go to Marlow and hopefully in the primary I'll be the candidate that wins Marlow because I'm the only one that's been there.", "We had a story about a month ago about Marlow getting no visitors, and now the town's finally getting its turn.", "Congratulations, Marlow. Okay, Karen, what's next?", "Carlos Slim Helu. We did a story on him in April. Last week, Slim - as everybody calls him - edged out Bill Gates to become the world's richest man. Forbes Magazine says Gates is worth about 59 billion. As of the end of June, Forbes says Slim's fortune is around $67.8 billion.", "Got to go for the bad pun. That's certainly no slim fortune. Remind us how he made all that money.", "Ouch. Telecommunications. For the most part, Slim owns about 90 percent of all the land-based phone lines in Mexico and about 75 percent of the wireless. And he's diverse. He's got a lot of holdings in restaurants, cafes and retail businesses.", "Here's how reporter Jordana Gustafson put it.", "Slim's holdings are so vast he's created a sort of self-perpetuating wealth machine. One observer noted that diners at one of Slim's hundreds of chain restaurants can use a Slim wireless service to connect to Slim's Internet provider to do online banking at Slim's bank.", "And interestingly enough, Alex, for all this money, a couple of years ago the man was reported to be wearing a plastic watch.", "NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates. Thanks so much for catching us up.", "My pleasure."], "speaker": ["MADELEINE BRAND, host", "ALEX COHEN, host", "ALEX COHEN, host", "ALEX COHEN, host", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES", "ALEX COHEN, host", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES", "ALEX COHEN, host", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES", "Dr. CHARLES DALEY (Centers for Disease Control)", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES", "ALEX COHEN, host", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES", "Mr. ROBERT DANIELS (27-year-old Resident, Arizona)", "ALEX COHEN, host", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES", "ALEX COHEN, host", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES", "ALEX COHEN, host", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES", "Governor BILL RICHARDSON (Democrat, New Mexico)", "ALEX COHEN, host", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES", "Governor BILL RICHARDSON (Democrat, New Mexico)", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES", "ALEX COHEN, host", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES", "ALEX COHEN, host", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES", "JORDANA GUSTAFSON", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES", "ALEX COHEN, host", "KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES"]}
{"id": "CNN-114906", "program": "YOUR WORLD TODAY", "date": "2007-2-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/27/ywt.01.html", "summary": "Car Bomb Kills 18 Boys Playing Soccer in Ramadi; Taliban Claims it was Targeting Cheney in Afghanistan Bombing", "utt": ["Raising the stakes in Afghanistan. The Taliban claim a suicide bomber tried to target the United States vice president.", "Way too big, way too soon. A British boy's overeating could land him in foster care.", "The pyramids still exist until today as the symbol -- the symbol of the genius of the ancient people.", "Ancient wonder or modern wonder? The Great Pyramids of Giza are in the middle of a very large generation gap.", "And a lowdown on high heels. A new shoe pad could bring blissful comfort to potentially painful footwear. It's 9:30 at night in Kabul, Afghanistan, 7:00 p.m. right now in Giza, Egypt. Hello and welcome to our broadcast around the world. I'm Jim Clancy.", "I'm Hala gorani. From Kabul to Giza, London to New York, wherever you're watching, this is", "All right. We're going to have all of those stories for you ahead. But first we want to turn our attention to Iraq.", "Well, that's where there's been another bombing that may have targeted children playing in a park.", "It happened in the Sunni-dominated area of Ramadi. The news coming to us just a short time ago on a day of some optimism on efforts to try to stem the violence there.", "All right. We want to take you first to Baghdad. That's where Michael Ware is live with details first on that bombing in Ramadi targeting children, apparently -- Michael.", "Yes, Hala. What we're getting at this stage is early reporting from local Iraqi police in Ramadi, in Iraq's western Anbar Province. This is the province that the U.S. military, by and large, has conceded is at least politically controlled or dominated by al Qaeda. There, we understand, that shortly after 4:00 p.m., according to the Iraqi police, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive that killed as many as 18 children playing football --Hala.", "Violence -- amid all of this horrific violence, there seems to be at least a diplomatic effort in the works with regional powers, as well as European powers meeting in Baghdad. Tell us about that.", "Yes, what we have is, this is an Iraqi government initiative inviting its neighbors and the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council to a regional conference, as it's said, to look at ways to support the Iraqi government. The situation as we have it right now is that what it appears is that representatives of varying levels of the American, Iranian and Syrian governments at this stage are saying they're prepared to sit down together at the same table in the same room. Now, in many ways, this is hugely symbolic gesture. Yet, there's been back-channel communications between these three entities for some time, by and large, through the Iraqi government and other partners here in the region -- Hala.", "But the big question is, will it work? Will it make any difference when you say purely symbolic? I mean, that implies that it won't be as effective as some might hope it would be.", "Well, at this point, nothing can really hurt. I mean, the situation here is so frightful. Though we're seeing some improvement in the day-to-day sectarian violence in the capital here in Baghdad as a result of the temporary surge of the Baghdad security plan, things are still in a perilous state. And a few meetings are not going to change that. Indeed, we have Iraqi government officials saying this is merely conference to appoint a date for a further summit some point down the track. We've had a lot of talk before. It's not expected that anything substantive will come out of this -- Hala.", "All right. Michael Ware in Baghdad. Thank you, Michael -- Jim.", "Well, there was one measure of progress in some Iraqis' views. Authorities say they made an arrested in that attempted assassination on Monday of Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shia and one of Iraq's two vice presidents. They say both the suspect and Mahdi were injured from a bomb, and it was planted under chair -- planted just as officials were gathering for a celebration. Two ministry officials were among those wounded.", "Well, later on this program, we'll take a closer look at Iraq's oil reserves. Iraq has a lot of oil. Will foreigners be controlling the country's great resource? Jonathan Mann will join us with some insight.", "All right. The Taliban, as we said earlier, claiming responsibility for a suicide bomb attack outside Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. They say U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was their intended target. The blast killed at least 15 people. Cheney was nowhere near the explosion, but as Tim Ewart reports, it may be a sign of things to come.", "This was an ominous warning shot from the Taliban as they prepare for what's feared will be a big spring offensive. It happened at the Bagram military air base north of Kabul. The dead included one American and one South Korean soldier. But security at Bagram is strict, and the suicide bomber was far from his intended target. This is the man he wanted to kill, the U.S. vice president, Dick Cheney, in Afghanistan for meetings with President Hamid Karzai. Mr. Cheney, delayed at Bagram by heavy snow, said he heard a lot boom as the bomb exploded. There are now 27,000 American troops in Afghanistan. The highest number since the invasion in 2001. Britain is sending more soldiers, bringing its force to around 7,000. The Americans believe the months ahead will be crucial against the Taliban and its al Qaeda allies. The bombing at Bagram has underlined the Taliban's willingness to resort to suicide attacks. They were virtually unheard of until two years ago. Last year, there were nearly 140. Tim Ewart, ITV News.", "There was a mortar attack in Sri Lanka. It's injured the American, Italian and German ambassadors to that country, as well as nine others. Government officials say Tamil Tiger rebels fired on helicopters ferrying those diplomats to an eastern city. Rebel leaders say they weren't aware the envoys were on board and they blame the government for bringing them to an active military site. The delegation was reviewing developments in the area hit hard by the tsunami. The rebels have been fighting for a separate homeland for the Tamil minority for the past two decades. About 65,000 people have been killed in the violence in that time -- Jim.", "Well, turning now to Africa, where Khartoum is rejecting war crimes allegations that have been made in the U.N.'s court in The Hague. It says the body hasn't any jurisdiction to put on trial Sudanese suspects. Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court say a Sudanese government official and a Janjaweed militia leader bear criminal responsibility for war crimes. The conflict in Darfur began in 2003. The charges include murder, torture and rape. The ICC chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, detailed the investigation.", "The prosecution has concluded that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Ahmad Muhammad Harun and Ali Mohamed Ali Abdel Rahman (ph), better known as Ali Kushir (ph), bear criminal responsibility in relation to 51 accounts of alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes.", "Now, the United Nations estimates that the fighting, disease and hunger related to it have killed some 200,000 people or more and driven at least two million others from their homes.", "Let's check some other news we're following today.", "Well, it's a story that has captivated Britain and raised some serious questions about the rights of parents, but also their responsibilities.", "At the center of the storm, Connor McCreedy (ph). He's 8 years old and nearly 110 kilos. That's right, three times what most 8-year-olds would weigh. We get more from Alphonso Van Marsh.", "Snack time at Connor McCreedy's (ph) house, and weighing in at around 200 pounds, Connor is relishing every bite. A chicken drumstick may seem typical for a young kid, but Connor is just 8 years old. Almost four times the average weight for a kid his age.", "And where's my pork chop?", "Connor's mother says she's obliged to answer her son's constant demands for more food, but British authorities say they're very concerned the diet he is being fed could seriously damage his health. And now they're considering putting the child into care until he loses more weight. The implication, neglect.", "What if I neglected Connor? He would be a skinny kid? A skinny little runt?", "On a typical day, Connor he starts with chocolate cereal, followed by some toast with processed meat. Lunchtime means a burger and fries and sausages, or a pizza, a whole pizza. It's fast-food takeaway for dinner. And toss in four bags of potato chips. And Connor's family admits that in addition to all of that, he scarfs down cookies and other snacks about every 20 minutes.", "They love him. They actually love him to death, literally. In fact, not saying they can't care for him, what they're doing is, through the way they're treating him and feeding him, they're slowly killing him.", "Now, that meeting includes health workers, specialists in childhood obesity, social workers, even a police officer, as well as an official from Connor's school. The child has missed a lot of class due to health problems and bullying. Alphonso Van Marsh, CNN, London.", "Well, young Connor's situation brings us to our \"Question of the Day.\"", "Right. The question is: Do you think parents can control their children's weight? E-mail us at yourviews@cnn.com. We will read some of those comments on the air a bit later. Well, we hear about the daily violence in Iraq, but we don't hear much about other issues that have an impact on the future of the country, such as oil.", "Now, the country has one of the largest oil reserves in the world, of course. Now the government must come up with a way to share that among competing factions, religious and otherwise.", "And the ancient pyramids of Giza, they've survived into modern times. Does that mean they should top a modern list of the world's greatest wonders? Stay with us."], "speaker": ["HALA GORANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "JIM CLANCY, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GORANI", "CLANCY", "GORANI", "YOUR WORLD TODAY. 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{"id": "CNN-259287", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2015-07-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/09/cg.01.html", "summary": "Confederate Flag Coming Down in South Carolina; Remarks by Gov. Nikki Haley at Signing of Fag Removal Bill; Sources: Law Enforcement Thwarted July 4 Terror Plots.", "utt": ["Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to THE LEAD. We're going to begin with the national lead. It has been a flash point ever since the massacre of those nine innocent worshipers on June 17 at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the blue and red battle flag flown for the Confederate cause in support of slavery in the 19th century. It's coming down from capitol grounds three weeks after that horrific terrorist attack. South Carolina's governor, Nikki Haley, who called for the Confederate Battle Flag to be removed just a few days after the massacre, is moments away from signing the bill to do that. Overnight, South Carolina lawmakers, after a grueling debate, finally voted to remove the flag, which has flown at the state capitol for more than 50 years. The bill made it past the state Senate earlier this week, and landed in the state House of Reps, where the final vote was 94-20, above the two-thirds majority needed to make it to the desk of the Republican governor. Let's turn straight to our CNN reporters in South Carolina. Alina Machado is inside the state House in Columbia. Nick Valencia is outside, where that flag still stands. Alina, set the scene for us. What are you seeing where you are?", "All right, Jake, this place is packed with people who have gathered here to witness firsthand this historic moment. It's a moment that some here in South Carolina would say has been in the works for decades. And what we are about to see take place here in South Carolina is the product of Republicans and Democrats working together to remove this Confederate Battle Flag. You can see that there are already people gathered here. They're waiting for the governor to walk outside and sign this bill into law. As you mentioned, this flag has been flying on state capitol grounds here in South Carolina since the 1960s for several decades. In 2000, it was moved from the dome over to its current location, and now that was a compromise. But today this will all change, Jake. Today is the day that South Carolina will be officially removing that flag, at least on paper. The actual removal of the flag, Jake, is expected to take place tomorrow.", "And, Nick Valencia, who is standing outside right near the Confederate Memorial, where the flag still waves, this is a move being made despite public opinion in South Carolina and nationally, not because of it. CNN reporting and -- CNN polling, rather, shows that more than 50 percent of the American people still see that flag as a symbol of heritage, not of hate, but a significant percentage in the United States does see it as a symbol of slavery and racism.", "It's a monumental day here, let's make no mistake about it, for the state of South Carolina. It's one that people have come not just far and wide across the state, but across the United States to witness. I was just talking to a family from Maryland, who showed up here today, because they were under the impression that the flag was going to be removed today, and they say they wanted to come to see it before it was taken down. You mentioned that so many people here in the United States, they believe that this is a symbol of Southern heritage, of pride. I was talking to one Confederate Flag supporter who said that to him it doesn't symbolize racism or hatred. For him, it represents his ancestry and those ancestors that he said fought against a Northern invading army. Even still, there's the general consensus here in the state that this is an ugly part of history here in the South, that this represents a very painful part, and those that believe it should fly are having a selective reading of history. It's divided the community. You can still see behind that are still some holdouts, those that believe that this should -- flag, still others celebrating this historic decision that we saw happen at 1:00 a.m. after 13 hours of an exhaustive debate by lawmakers. And we cannot forget what happened to make this moment possible, that accelerated the debate, those nine innocent victims being shot and killed at the historic Emanuel AME Church. That event, that tragedy accelerated this conversation and led to this moment you are witnessing today -- Jake.", "That's exactly right. We should of course note that, that the racist killer who attacked the Mother Emanuel Church, Alina Machado, is -- he changed the debate. He wanted to have a race war. He didn't get a race war, but by appearing in pictures with the symbol of racism as he saw it, of white supremacy as he saw it, the Confederate Battle Flag, he changed the debate not the way he wanted to. Alina, you're inside the state capitol right now. A lot of people there have been fighting to get this flag taken down since 1961, when the Democratic Governor Ernest Hollings first put it up in the centennial celebration of the Civil War. A lot of them probably never thought that they would never see this day.", "It's funny you mentioned that. I spoke with a representatives who was very, very outspoken last night. She told me, she said, I never thought this day would come. I never thought this would happen.", "People are starting to cheer. It looks like we're just a few moments away from this historic moment, but this is a moment, Jake, that definitely a lot of people here in South Carolina never thought they would see. This representative in particular told me that she never thought she would see it in her lifetime. And as you can imagine, the kinds of emotions that must be coming through her mind as she's waiting for the governor to come out and sign this bill into law.", "And, Nick Valencia, one of the things that's so interesting -- is that Governor Haley? No, it is not. Sorry. One of the things that's so interesting, Nick Valencia, is that after the photograph of the racist killer came out with him and the Confederate Flag, and there was this groundswell of support to get the flag removed by Democrats and civil rights groups, what happened was the three leading Republican officials in the state, Governor Nikki Haley and Senators Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham, all three of them Republican, they bound together and they decided they were going to support removing it. They announced it. And it was almost as if the removal of the flag was a forgone conclusion, although, of course, there was very intense and serious debate by the state Senate and the state House, Nick Valencia.", "You saw a sea change in ideology. You saw Republicans who were going to have to go back to their constituents and face some very tough criticism, those who are really sticking their necks out for this vote, because it's not a vote of political convenience. It's a vote of convictions. It's a vote that people really wanted to see happen. There was immense public pressure for this to happen. Just a few months ago, the conversations were happening among the public, but not necessarily among the lawmakers. This was a gubernatorial candidate who ran largely on a platform to take down the Confederate Flag. He ended up losing to Governor Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley herself, just a few months ago, not mentioning support for taking down the Confederate Flag. And it wasn't until that we saw those images emerge of the shooter in the Charleston church shooting that you saw a lot of politicians here in this state far and wide and beyond the state of California -- South Carolina, I should say, really dig deep into their convictions, into their souls, I should say, and make this vote happen. And we saw a lengthy legislative process. The timeline that we were given, some lawmakers were saying that this could have taken a month, others were saying this was a filibuster by amendment. House Minority Leader Todd Rutherford, I interviewed him yesterday. And he was saying let's make no mistake about it. This was a filibuster by amendment. Every representative had an opportunity to introduce an amendment, and we saw more than 26 of them introduced. Even still, they stayed here for 13 hours at 1:00 in the morning. That's when that final vote came, an overwhelming vote, both in the Senate, a 36-3 vote there in the Senate. In the House of Representatives, you saw 94 representatives in the House here give their support for this bill. And I don't think that's something that you would have seen just a few months ago, Jake.", "If you're just joining us, we are waiting for the governor of South Carolina, Republican Nikki Haley, to come out and sign the legislation that will remove the Confederate Battle Flag from the state capitol grounds. We will bring that to you live. You are looking at live pictures from inside the chamber of the South Carolina Capitol. Alina Machado, where is the flag going to go? And when is it going to be taken down?", "So, our understanding is that tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m., there will be a ceremony to remove the flag from its current location. And then once it's removed from there, eventually they will take down not only the flag, but also the flagpole and the fencing around it. And once that's done, it will end up at a museum, the Confederate Relic Room that's also here in Columbia, South Carolina. And it's expected to be there. We know there is a joint resolution that was brought to the House floor yesterday, last night, and in that joint resolution, it's supposed to go into a little bit more detail about what they're going to do with the flag and also making sure that the museum gets some guidance and also funding to take care of the flag. That resolution is still in the House, and it's expected to make its way to the Senate, and eventually turn into something that could guide the museum in terms of how to handle that flag, Jake.", "My understanding is that it's specifically going to go to the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, as you mentioned, which is a few blocks away from the state House. This is a museum founded in 1896, which focuses on South Carolina's military history from the Revolutionary War until the present, not only the museum itself focused on the Confederate cause. Nick Valencia, you mentioned the deep emotions. One of the South Carolina Republican legislators with whom I spoke acknowledged that it took the event, the terrorist attack, the racist terrorist attack at Mother Emanuel for him to see the flag through the eyes of those who have been calling for it to be taken down for so long, and it sounds as though that was the prevailing feeling among most of the members of the South Carolina state House and state Senate.", "We saw a microcosm of that last night at 8:00 p.m. when Representative Jenny Horne took the floor, and she teared up. She couldn't contain her emotion. She herself is a distant relative of the former president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis. And a lot of people here see that moment on the House floor as being a turning point for so many here. We want to play part of that statement that she made on the House floor late last night.", "I cannot believe that we do not have the heart in this body to do something meaningful, such as take a symbol of hate off these grounds on Friday.", "Strong words from Republican Representative Jenny Horne, who took to the floor last night and addressed her colleagues. Some people were grabbing tissues after that speech. We saw her today as well, and she was still teary-eyed from what happened, that raw emotion still very apparent and evident on her face. And this has been a different decision for a lot of lawmakers here, Jake, also a dangerous one. You know, we spoke to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. And they told us a handful of representatives were getting death threats because of their position on this. I saw some of those letters that were being sent to these representatives here and senators. And they were very ugly. They're words that cannot be repeated on television, words certainly that I don't want to repeat, but it was a difficult decision for a lot of people and a dangerous one, one that was a security situation at times. And that cannot be underscored enough. This is an emotional thing, one that a lot of people are still holding on to. You can see some of the holdouts behind me. Let me just get out of the way here so you can see this crowd. The crowd that you are looking at there right now is the biggest crowd that we have seen all day. We have seen that one individual with a Confederate Flag and the U.S. flag upside-down all morning long. He's been joined by a few others, and now you can see also a crowd forming around him. Not quite sure what is happening there, but there are some state troopers. We have seen a very large presence of state troopers here because of a security situation. I understand now that the governor, Nikki Haley, may be approaching the table.", "Yes. She has come into the room. We're expecting Nikki Haley to speak right this minute. Let's take a listen.", "Everybody around us, I mean, that's the first thing I want you to take in, is just look at the shot. Can you all hear me on the mike? Press guys, are we good? One, two, three? One, two, three? We good? Can the TV guys hear?", "Yes.", "All right. I will yell as loud as I can. So, you know, it's hard for us to look at what is happening today and not think back to 22 days ago. It seems like so long ago, because the grieving has been so hard. But at the same time, we have all been struck by what was a tragedy that we didn't think we would ever encounter, nine amazing people that forever changed South Carolina's history. Having said that, I have to acknowledge the series of events that took place through all of this, because it is the true story of South Carolina. The actions that took place are what will go down in the history books. Nine people took in someone that did not look like them or act like them, and with true love and true faith and true acceptance, they sat and prayed with him for an hour. That love and faith was so strong that it brought grace to their families. It showed them how to forgive. So then we saw the action of forgiveness. We saw the family show the world what true forgiveness and grace looked like. That forgiveness and grace set off another action, an action of compassion by people all across South Carolina and all across this country. They stopped looking at each other's differences. They started looking at each other's similarities, because we were all experiencing the same pain. So, then you take that compassion and that compassion motivated action. That compassion motivated people wanting to do something about it. So, the action was taken by the General Assembly, and what we saw in that swift action by both the House and Senate was we saw members start to see what it was like to be in each other's shoes, start to see what it felt like. We heard about the true honor of heritage and tradition. We heard about the true pain that many had felt. And we took the time to understand it. I saw passions get high. I saw passions get I saw passions get hot. I saw passions get low, but I saw commitment never ending, and so we saw was another action, and that action is that the confederate flag is coming off the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse.", "Thank you, Governor.", "And these two are for me. So, with that, I will tell you thank you very much. Thank you for making it another great day in South Carolina. We are now looking forward to the future and the future of our children. Thank you very much. God bless you.", "An historic day in South Carolina, as Republican Governor Nikki Haley signs legislation to bring down the Northern Virginia battle flag, more commonly known as the Confederate flag or Confederate battle flag, from the capitol grounds. It all started, of course, 22 days ago with the racist terrorist attack at the Mother Emanuel Baptist Church. Governor Haley making a point she will give nine of the pens used to sign legislation to the families of the Mother Emanuel Nine. Let us take a moment to give their names -- read their names. Of course, there's the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who was also a state senator, Reverend Daniel Simmons, Reverend Sharonda Coleman Singleton, Reverend DePayne Middleton-Doctor, Cynthia Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lee Lance, Tywanza Sanders, and Myra Thompson. Nine victims whose lives are now going to be remembered in history for quite a long time. Let's bring in South Carolina State Senator John Scott, and Bakari Sellers, who's a CNN contributor and previously served in South Carolina's House of Representatives. Mr. Sellers, let me start with you. What did that event -- what will the removal of the flag tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., what will it mean to you?", "Well, it means a great deal. I'm trying to gather my words as we go, because of the heroes, and she- roes that lifted their voted and gave their lives so that I could be here today. It didn't start with legislators like myself, it started with legislators like John Scott standing to my right. It started with Kay Patterson. It started with so many of those who marched before us to take this flag down. And now, if we can come together in South Carolina, black and white, Democrat and Republican, to remove this flag, imagine what we can come together and do next. That is the vision, that's the hope. This flag is not the end of anything. It's just the beginning of another amazing journey that we'll take here in South Carolina.", "Mr. Scott, are you surprised how quickly it came down -- I guess quickly is the wrong word, given that people having trying to get it down since Governor Hollings put it up in 1961. But in the last three weeks, are you surprised at how quickly this came down?", "No, I'm not. Given what has happened, beginning with the families on June 17th, and watching South Carolina come together, with members above the House and the Senate saying we've had enough of this kind of behavior in South Carolina. We understand that the flag coming down has its own responsibility. There's a tremendous price, a lot of us have paid in the past for it. And going forward, it will have a lot of great responsibility for us to learn how to work together, learn how to take care of a lot of issues that affect Carolinians' jobs, economic development, health care, education so many issues. I'm just really happy about this beginning, but I don't want this beginning to just be a one-time beginning. I want us to really especially the state Senate to focus on real issues that help South Carolina, as we move away from those issues that have divided us, let us find common ground to take care of those South Carolinians who really need to do a lot of good things for.", "All right. State Senator John Scott, Bakari Sellers, former state representative and CNN contributor, thank you both. We'll have a lot more on this later on CNN. But let's now turn to other national news. U.S. officials admitting just how close terrorists came to striking inside the U.S. on the Fourth of July weekend. Some attacks were apparently thwarted at the very last minute. 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{"id": "NPR-27818", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2012-06-20", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/06/20/155411550/g-20-leaders-promise-to-promote-economic-growth", "title": "G-20 Leaders Promise To Promote Economic Growth", "summary": "Leaders of the world's biggest economies wrapped up the G-20 summit in Mexico Tuesday with a promise to work together to promote jobs. The meeting comes amid worrisome signs of slowing growth in the United States and elsewhere.", "utt": ["This is MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. I'm Linda Wertheimer.", "And I'm Renee Montagne.", "Leaders of the world's biggest economies wrapped up a G-20 summit meeting in Mexico yesterday with a promise to work together to promote jobs and economic growth. The meeting comes amid signs of slowing growth in the U.S. and elsewhere.", "Europe continues to be the biggest drag on the global economy. Leaders at the G-20 said they're determined to hold the eurozone together. How they will do that has to wait until another summit later this month.", "NPR's Scott Horsley was traveling with the president, and filed this report.", "European leaders were on the hot seat when they and other members of the G-20 countries gathered in Los Cabos this week. President Obama said after the meeting: Europe has the tools to solve its financial problems, and that European leaders have a growing sense of urgency.", "They understand the stakes. They understand why it's important for them to take bold and decisive action. And I'm confident that they can meet those tests.", "That's not to say it'll be easy. European countries might share a common currency, but each still has its own unique economy, its own culture of saving and spending, and its own independent government making decisions.", "Mr. Obama says it's no small task trying to build consensus among 17 different legislatures.", "That means that sometimes, even after they've conceived of approaches to deal with the crisis, they have to work through all the politics to get it done. And markets are a lot more impatient.", "Working out the details of a continent-wide economic policy is not something that's likely to happen in two weeks or even two months, Mr. Obama says.  But he argues European leaders could reassure nervous markets if they were at least able to sketch out a roadmap for where they want to go.", "Even if they can't achieve all of it in one fell swoop, I think if people have a sense of where they're going, that can provide confidence and break the fever.", "European leaders might develop such a roadmap when they meet in Brussels later this month. They offered a few hints of the map at the G-20 meeting, where their host, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, said one priority is a more integrated European banking system. That would include uniform bank supervision and some kind of FDIC-style insurance to prevent bank runs. Calderon's speaking here through an interpreter.", "(Through translator) If one had to summarize the attitude and the thought and the will that prevailed in the G-20 discussions, it is that the Europeans and we in their support want not less, but more Europe - not less integration, but more integration.", "Even as they try to knit their economies more closely together, world leaders are also investing in firewalls, in hopes of preventing one country's problems from spreading.", "The International Monetary Fund now has hundreds of billions of dollars it can use to douse financial fires, thanks in part to contributions from Japan, Germany and China.", "While the United States has not increased its own funding for the IMF, Mr. Obama insists the U.S. is invested in a European turnaround.", "Slower growth in Europe means slower growth in American jobs.  So we have a profound interest in seeing Europe prosper.", "While Europe's financial woes are getting most of the attention, developing countries like China and Brazil are also experiencing slower growth. And hiring here in the United States has fallen in each of the last three months.", "G-20 leaders called for collective action to boost growth. Mr. Obama renewed his call for Congress to pass his jobs plan, including stepped up spending on public works projects and money to help local governments keep teachers and firefighters on the payroll.", "Given that we don't have full control over what happens in Europe, or the pace at which things happen in Europe, you know, let's make sure that we're doing those things we do have control over and that are good policy, anyway.", "The United States also pledged to the G-20 to avoid going off the so-called fiscal cliff, with automatic tax hikes and deep spending cuts next year.  Avoiding that cliff will require a compromise that so far has eluded Mr. Obama and his own fractious legislature.", "Scott Horsley, NPR News."], "speaker": ["LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "PRESIDENT FELIPE CALDERON", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-41344", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2001-10-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/08/se.20.html", "summary": "Florida Officials Address Second Anthrax Case", "utt": ["We want to go to Palm Beach County, Florida, where they found a second case of anthrax. These are health officials speaking.", "... local officials, including the city of Boca Raton, the Delray Beach Police Department and many other agencies have been working together on this issue. Today, we have been working at the Delray Annex to provided medications and to gather information for the people who worked at AMI -- were also people who either visited or were involved with that facility. Again, I want to say that this is an issue that we have taken very seriously and have worked very hard in the last five days, starting from JFK Hospital and Dr. Larry Bush, all the way through to today and results from the CDC and the state. I would like to turn it over to the secretary of health.", "Thank you Commissioner.", "What's your name again?", "My name is John Agwunobi. And that is spelled A-G-W- U-N-O-B-I -- first name John. I have just witnessed something very moving, something that has me feeling very proud. We visited the Delray Health -- Delray Beach Health Center, where we saw state, local and some federal agency individuals working together in a coalition, working together with citizens and volunteers to help others. The public health system here in Palm Beach has really rallied around the task at hand. We have, as of yesterday, identified an individual who was found to have been exposed to anthrax. This is in addition to the previous individual, who, unfortunately, expired from anthrax, the clinical disease. We have also found anthrax within the AMI building, specifically associated with the workstation of Mr. Stevens. For public health reasons, in order to conduct further public health environmental testing and to pursue our investigation, we have secured the AMI building. Anthrax is not a contagious disease. But for obvious public health reasons, we have decided to evaluate, to investigate and to protect those individuals that work in that building, those individuals who may have visited that building for significant amounts of time. As a result, we have asked them to join us, to meet with us at the Delray Beach health center so that we can offer them prophylactic antibiotics, and so that our team can work with them, answering their questions, educating them, allaying their fears, assuring them that the risk is low, despite the fact that they worked in that building. We have a vigorous investigation ongoing from a public health standpoint. It will continue. We need your help. There are a few individuals who work in that building who we have yet been unable to contact. And if I can give you a number that I would like for you to please put on the air so that, if those individuals are watching, they can contact us, I would appreciate it. The number I have is a 1-800 number: 1-800-342-3557. Thank you. Dr. Jean Malecki, the county health department director.", "As we move forward continuing this investigation, our focus currently is, once again, looking at potential cases admitted to the ICU. So, prospectively, we are going to continue this investigation ongoing until we are all satisfied that we have covered all bases and uncovered all stones. Also, we will continue to monitor laboratory results coming in to our hospital setting. And most importantly right now is to continue the monitoring of the employees of American Media Incorporated, As you know, today we did a massive evaluation of not just employees, but some visitors, too, who attended that building. So moving forward with monitoring them and making sure they get the appropriate prophylactic medication is part of the moving forward with this investigation. Dr. Waresmith (ph), do you have any comments you would like to make?", "Available for questions?", "Available for questions?", "We've been listening to Florida health officials describe their efforts to get to the bottom of what has turned out to be a second case, diagnosed case of anthrax in the Palm Beach area. Just very briefly, you heard the state health secretary say that they have, as of yesterday, found the second person and that, right now, they have closed the building where the person worked. It happened to be the same building, American Media Institute (sic), where the man who died last week had worked. So, understandably, there is concern. They are now testing everyone who worked in the building and who has been there."], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DR. JOHN AGWUNOBI, FLORIDA SECRETARY OF HEALTH", "QUESTION", "AGWUNOBI", "DR. JEAN MALECKI, DIR., PALM BEACH CO. HEALTH DEPARTMENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MALECKI", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-185732", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-5-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/09/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Inside the John Edwards Trial; Zuckerberg in Hot Water over Hoodie", "utt": ["Checking some other news here. Mark Zuckerberg is in hot water over his hoodie. He wore his hoodie Monday during his presentation to get investors to buy Facebook stock just before it goes public next week and an analyst told Bloomberg TV that the hoodie shows, quote, \"a mark of immaturity for the CEO of Facebook.\" Still, that same analyst gave a buy rating for the stock. Queen Elizabeth, she spoke to Parliament today for the 57th time in her reign. The annual event is formally known as her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech. She spoke for about 10 minutes and echoed an ambition oftentimes heard on this side of the Atlantic.", "My minister's first priority will be to reduce the deficit and restore economic stability.", "Next month the queen celebrates 60 years on the throne. We hope you join us. Watch CNN starting Sunday, June 3rd, for full coverage of her diamond jubilee celebration. I'll be there. I'll see you live from London. John Travolta's lawyer called a lawsuit against the actor \"absurd and ridiculous.\" Two anonymous massage therapists said Travolta groped one and sexually assaulted the other. Travolta's attorney says once the suit is thrown out, his client plans to sue for malicious prosecution. The massage therapists, by the way, are asking for $2 million in damages. In Texas, this is tough to look at here, this horrifying moment, it's caught on camera. You see the city bus hits a University of Texas student. Obviously, we're telling you the story. He's OK. You saw the young man was able to walk away amazingly moments later with minor injuries. The Postal Service has backed off a plan to save half a million dollars a year by closing post offices throughout rural America. The agency wanted to close thousands of post offices that really just didn't bring in much money, but the public backlash was swift. It now plans to keep rural post offices open, but for fewer hours each and every day, and it will also force thousands of full-time workers into part-time jobs and offer buyouts to 13,000 postmasters nationwide. Hundreds of Occupy protesters showed up today. They're at the Bank of America headquarters -- this is Charlotte, North Carolina. Shareholders were in town, they were meeting and our affiliate there, WSOC, is reporting police did arrest five people. Protesters say they're against the bank's foreclosure practices and coal mine investments. And satellite images showing new activity have upped suspicions about a key Iranian military site. The International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, suspects nuclear weapons research has taken place at this complex. This is just southeast of Tehran. There are concerns this site is being cleaned before nuclear inspectors are then allowed in. You know Tehran continues to deny nuclear research has ever taken place there. Also this --", "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Burt Bacharach. (", "That is going to get stuck in your head for the rest of the day. Just as true now as when Burt Bacharach composed it back in 1965, tonight a special honor for the man behind such hits as \"\"What the World Needs Now Is Love\",\" \"I Say a Little Prayer\" and \"Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.\" President Obama is actually awarding Bacharach and his songwriting partner, Hal David, with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Well, we have now just gotten word what happened inside John Edwards' trial. A White House official took the stand. Yep, an aide from the White House. We're taking you to Greensboro.", "Top White House official on the witness stand today in the John Edwards trial. Joe Johns covering it for us. Hey, Joe.", "On the stand this afternoon, Deputy White House Press Secretary Jen Palmieri, who was also a communications adviser for John Edwards during his 2008 run for president and a close friend of the late Elizabeth Edwards. Palmieri said that when reports of Edwards having an affair surfaced, she told him, apparently speaking about the campaign for president, \"Don't think if it's true you'll be able to survive it, because,\" she said, \"the story got right to the heart of what people liked about him.\" Palmieri said she was summoned to a meeting at a hotel room in Davenport, Iowa, attended by both the Edwardses as well as wealthy trial lawyer Fred Baron and his wife, Lisa Blue (ph). Baron was one of the wealthy benefactors who gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to try to cover up the affair, though by the time of this meeting, October 2007, much of the story was in the process of being revealed. When she got to the meeting, Palmieri said Elizabeth Edwards was very upset because baron and blue had been in contact with Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter. Palmieri said that she learned that Lisa Blue had taken Hunter on a shopping trip on the West Coast. Palmieri said Baron and Blue tried to explain, telling her, \"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Rielle is a loose cannon. She could go to the media.\" A whole stream of prosecution witnesses expected on the stand the stand this afternoon. The prosecution saying it still hopes to wrap up its case by the end of the week.", "THE SITUATION ROOM with Wolf Blizter begins right now.", "Brooke, thanks very much."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF ENGLAND", "BALDWIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MUSIC PLAYING, \"WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE\") BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-332566", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-02-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/11/cnr.06.html", "summary": "President Trump Has Said He Is Eager To Talk To Mueller", "utt": ["Now to the dueling memos controversy. The President decision this weekend to block the release of the Democratic rebuttal to a GOP memo on alleged surveillance abuses at the FBI. A larger question though is looming over the White House tonight. And that is what should the President do about special counsel Robert Mueller's interview request. Agree or refuse? Trump has said he is eager to talk to Mueller. His lawyers are less than keen on this idea. Let's discuss with CNN presidential historian Tim Naftali, former director of the Nixon presidential library and Kim Wehle, former associate independent counsel in the whitewater investigation. So CNN's Marshal Cohen reports President Trump gave at least seven depositions in the last decade that were publicly released. And they all seemed to show a pattern that Trump is often ill prepared. Let's watch.", "What did you do to prepare for the case today? The deposition.", "I would say virtually nothing. I spoke with my counsel for a short period of time. I just arrived here and we proceeded to the deposition.", "Thank you. So you didn't look at any documents or --", "No, I didn't. I don't have my glasses. I'm a disadvantage because I didn't bring my glasses. This is such small writing.", "And then you look at again, Marshal Cohen, as he went through this in a 2006 deposition, for example, he Trump admitted that he lied or misled with some of his public statements some 30 times. And Tim, we know Mueller's investigation is no ordinary case.", "No, it is not ordinary case. And if you look at the deposition that Mr. Trump did in the Trump University case, he more often than not said I do not recall. I do not recall. I do not recall. And that was important because --", "Because he has such a great memory.", "Well, not just that. It is because he was selling the point of Trump University was that these were hand-picked experts in real estate. Hand-picked by Mr. Trump. And he was ask, do you know so and so? I think. I don't recall. I don't know. I don't know. So all these people - all these instructors that were apparently hand-picked by him, he couldn't recall a single name. His problem in this instance if he should go before Mr. Mueller's team or Mr. Mueller himself is that they are going to be well-prepared. They are going to have chronologies. They are going to have documents. They are going to be able to ask very, very precise questions. And OK, I don't recall about something that happened eight months ago, maybe that works. I don't recall about something that happened a year ago or less than a year ago, that doesn't work so well. So I think this well be a very uncomfortable situation for the President if he and his lawyers decide that he should do it. I just don't think he can do it.", "CNN's reporting, Kim, is that the President actually is feeling confident that his experience would help him handle this and based on previous losses testifying under oath from his real estate business that that actually is going to benefit him, he thinks. The source telling us he thinks he can work this. So do you think the President realizes just how high the stakes are?", "Well, it is hard to know what the President realizes. But you mentioned the stakes and there really is a difference between a civil deposition and testimony either before a prosecutor or even more seriously before the grand jury. I mean, the difference is that in the criminal context someone who lies can actually go to jail. And what they say can send them to jail for other actions. So I think in this instance, the President would be very well advised. And I'm sure his lawyers are telling him, this is a new day and new way. We need to thoroughly prepare. That said, I tend to agree with those who have suggested that a sit-down voluntary interview with Mr. Mueller's team doesn't benefit the President personally in any conceivable way. It only potentially makes things murkier for him. Although o do think for the American public that would be the right thing to do so we can move forward with this investigation which I think needs to be brought to conclusion notwithstanding all of the roadblocks that seem to be politically being thrown in front of it.", "Kim, let me ask you about this, look through the prism of another case you know a lot about, Whitewater. So CNN's preview decades of court records reviewing the details of how Whitewater independent counsel Ken Starr forced a grand jury appearance from President Bill Clinton. What do you think Trump's legal team can learn from this in terms of defending the President?", "Well, certainly they - and they already know that if it comes to a subpoena, there isn't really an objection. Historically at least legally that the President can make. I say historically because we are in a world where this President doesn't appear to respect the kind of processes and legal norms that we historically with prior Presidents have been known to enjoy and that's why I have said, you know, that this whole issue raises is really big separation of powers questions in addition to being, you know, former justice department lawyer as well as independent counsel, I'm a full-time constitutional law professor. And I think, you know, the issue here that might be different from Bill Clinton is Bill Clinton complied with the subpoena. And we just don't know what Mr. Trump would do. And if he challenges the legality of it, you know, it could really, really get extremely traumatic for the country.", "Tim, there is a new CNN piece out that just came out yesterday, legendary journalist Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein saying that they see what is happening now with President Trump as eerily similar to what happened with Richard Nixon right before the Saturday night massacre, which was the 1973 President Richard Nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating him. And then both the attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned. Well, I had a chance to speak with Carl yesterday. And we got his take on how he sees the parallels between these two different presidents given the investigation of each of them. Watch.", "We have no reason to believe almost anything that Donald Trump says. What is so extraordinary about him and his presidency is the incessant compulsive continual lying. This is not me sitting here as a commentator, saying this is demonstrable, reportorial truth. The number of lies, the consistency of lying by the President of the United States, it is extraordinary. We have never have a President who lies like this. Certainly in the modern era, even Nixon.", "Tim, you heard the former director of Nixon Presidential library. What do you make of Carl's characterization of President Trump's truthfulness versus Richard Nixon?", "Well, I think Richard Nixon was a much more careful liar. He did lie about the basic key issues in Watergate scandal which is why ultimately he had to resign. But he was a lawyer. He was trained as a lawyer. By the way, I think that makes his lies just as bad because he knew what he was doing. He would skirt the truth to protect himself. Even if it meant hiding a crime.", "He knew how to do it.", "He knew how to do it. He knew how to", "Didn't matter that point because he wasn't President any more?", "Perjury always matters. It just that I think the government was tired of going after him. The point though is that Nixon, President Nixon, was parsimonious in his lying until the last year of Watergate, when the White House just sent out a lot of information. This President is totally different. Because this President has no legal background and doesn't respect the norms of the presidency. Richard Nixon for all of his faults respected the norms of our constitutional system in the end. In the end when the Supreme Court said you have to turn over the tapes, he did. Even though the Supreme Court is a co-equal branch with the office of the President.", "All right. Thank you so much, Tim Naftali, Kim Wehle. So interesting, all of it. We will have you back, both back, to discuss as we move forward. Thanks again. Straight ahead, a commercial airliner crashes in Russia killing all 71 people on board. Details are still coming in. We will bring them to you live here in the CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TRUMP", "CABRERA", "TIM NAFTALI, CNN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN", "CABRERA", "NAFTALI", "CABRERA", "KIM WEHLE, FORMER ASSOCIATE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL IN THE WHITEWATER INVESTIGATION", "CABRERA", "WEHLE", "CABRERA", "CARL BERNSTEIN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "CABRERA", "NAFTALI", "CABRERA", "NAFTALI", "CABRERA", "NAFTALI", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-113666", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2007-1-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/12/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Cybill Shepherd Discusses Skinny Models", "utt": ["Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT for Friday night. This is TV`s most provocative entertainment news show. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York. It is time now for a story that made us say, that`s ridiculous? This one sure did. A Florida woman taking the law into her hands by shedding some light on the matter. You see, Calli Golespi (ph) claims drivers are just speeding down her block. So what did she do? She put up this flashing light to warn them to slow down. That looks straight out of the 1970s disco, doesn`t it? Police say most of the drivers don`t have a lead foot there and slapped her Calli with a 200 dollar ticket for get this, putting up an illegal traffic sign. So Calli`s light plan, that got burned, that`s ridiculous.", "It`s time now for the SHOWBIZ Weight Watch. Now this is where we cover Hollywood`s obsession with body image like no one else. Tonight, a stunning decision by top U.S. fashion designers. They`re saying that skinny model ban thing, not for us. The Council of Fashion Designers represents the biggest names in fashion and puts on some of the most fashion shows in U.S.. They tell SHOWBIZ TONIGHT they are not following the growing trend around the world to ban women who are scary skinny from the runway. Milan and Madrid have done that. Instead they are offering up recommendations, guide lines they call them, like not hiring girls under 16, and educating the industry about eating disorders.", "Someone who dealt with the intense pressure the fashion industry places on models is former model and actress Cybill Shepherd. Now, I had the chance to ask Shepherd, who makes her debut on Showtime`s \"The L Word\" this Sunday, if there needs to be a ban on super skinny models here in the U.S.", "I think we need to do something to curb this outrageously grotesque emaciated look in the models. I mean, I started as a model a long time ago, and I just happened to fit into this little window of opportunity where women were kind of a normal size and then that was gone and we`re back to the heroin chic and the emaciated. To me it`s painful when the young women walk down that runway, their eyes look dead. They need cheese burgers.", "But what do you think happened? Because what was it, 1968, you were model of the year and the standard of beauty then and now is almost diametrically opposed. And it just doesn`t make sense to me. What is appealing about these images that they are sending out? Do you get it?", "Before I answer that, I would like to say that in 1968 when I won model of the year, you were supposed to be very thin, but then I became -- my big success came in 1970, 1969, really 1969 was when there was a little bit of a window, but it didn`t happen until 1969. I think it`s just a devastating message to send to women and girls.", "Of course, this isn`t just coming from the modeling industry, we should be clear about that. It`s also coming from Hollywood and young starlets. You pick up any magazine.", "Starlets are young, excuse me for --", "I`m sorry, was that sort of repetitive, redundant to say young starlets?", "I guess so, but also, maybe a starlet is skinnier than a star, because they`re less.", "Why do you think this is so pervasive, this desire to look this way?", "I think we`re afraid to look as if we enjoy life and that we eat and that we`re afraid to have any bulges. Where there is a demand, of course, there is always going to be the need filled. So, yes, it`s not the model`s fault, it`s not these young women, but if we did set a different standard, and it goes right to the designers. Are you willing to have curves in your clothes? Women have curves. And, you know, there are so many things I could do my body and my face to make me look better, but I just don`t know where to begin.", "But I look at the women who are on \"The L Word\" on ShowTime with you now, and congratulations, by the way, being part of what I consider one of the best shows on", "And premiering this Sunday.", "You`re premiere is this Sunday.", "My debut episode.", "Playing a woman who is coming out later in life, some of the best acting talent, I think, on television in this show, but I have to ...", "Midlife, not later in life, mid life.", "I`m sorry. I`m messing up left and right here. I have to imagine Cybill Shepherd shows up on that set and people are just bowing in awe.", "You are so charming.", "Isn`t that what happened?", "You know, I was very nervous. Yes, they were all so wonderful. I`ll never forget when I went to the first table read and they announced that I was doing the show and everybody applauded. It was a really wonderful -- I was welcomed into the sisterhood. That was just the table reading, when I had to show up and do the part, I was very nervous. I didn`t know anybody.", "I have to ask you, because here we are, some more than 20 years after \"Moonlighting\" first went on the air and people are still buzzing about the possibility that you and Bruce Willis are going to get on the big screen and do a reunion. Can you kind of set the record straight for the reality of that and the possibility that that may actually happen?", "Well, Glen Gordon Caron, who created \"Moonlighting,\" can`t figure out how to do it. So that means he`s not going to be a part of it. I think that Bruce Willis and I should do something together, even if I`m forced to play his mother.", "And, just for the record, I did tell Cybill there`s no way she could ever play Bruce Willis` mother. She`s much too young for that. You can catch Cybill Shepherd`s premiere on \"The L Word\" this Sunday on ShowTime.", "The unbelievable story of TV`s Buck Roger, A.J. How he went from Hollywood heartthrob to dangerously obese. Gil Gerard reveals the dramatic steps he took to lose a ton of weight and save his life. We`ve also got this.", "Sometimes I have good days and bad days. Sometimes it brings back memories and it`s really nice and some days I just cry straight off.", "Steve Irwin`s daughter Bindi there. It is just amazing that she`s able to talk so eloquently about her father`s tragic death and how she`s dealing with it. Her emotional interview, along with her mom Terri, that`s coming up.", "And the stars who just can`t say I do. Just why are so many Hollywood couples afraid to use the C word, commitment? But first, we want to hear from you. It`s our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day, celebrity couples, is marriage no longer a must-do? Vote at CNN.com/SHOWBIZTONIGHT. Send us an e-mail. Here is the address SHOWBIZTONIGHT@CNN.com And don`t forget, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is the only entertainment news show that lets you express your opinion on video. Just go to our Web site, CNN.com/SHOWBIZTONIGHT, to learn how to do it."], "speaker": ["HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "HAMMER", "CYBILL SHEPHERD, MODEL AND ACTRESS", "HAMMER", "SHEPHERD", "HAMMER", "SHEPHERD", "HAMMER", "SHEPHERD", "HAMMER", "SHEPHERD", "HAMMER", "TV. SHEPHERD", "HAMMER", "SHEPHERD", "HAMMER", "SHEPHERD", "HAMMER", "SHEPHERD", "HAMMER", "SHEPHERD", "HAMMER", "SHEPHERD", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "BINDI IRWIN, STEVE IRWIN`S DAUGHTER", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-344344", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-07-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/04/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Trump Demands NATO Allies Spend More in Defense", "utt": ["The former Malaysian prime minister, Najib Razak, who has now been charged with corruption, accused of embezzling millions of dollars from a state investment fund which he created. Investigators allege some of the money was spent on expensive jewelry for his wife. Najib pleaded not guilty to the charges. The allegations against him apparently played a major role when he was voted out of office in May after leaving Malaysia for nearly a decade. Thousands have taken to the streets of Warsaw and other Polish cities on Tuesday shouting shame and free court. They're protesting government changes that will remake the judiciary. One of the most controversial will force a third of Supreme Court judges to retire unless they're granted an extension. The E.U. strongly opposes the overhaul which has been imposed by Poland's ruling party. More protests are expected on Wednesday. The former president says he will take part. British police are investigating what they call a major incident involving a couple who may have been exposed to an unknown substance. We're just learning that it happened Saturday in the English town of Amesbury, not from Salisbury. That's where Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned with a suspected nerve agent back in March. The couple in this incident are in critical condition. Just days before he heads to a NATO summit in Brussels, President Trump is pushing NATO allies to meet their defense spending promises. He sent very critical and harsh letters to Germany, Canada, Norway, as well as other NATO members laying out his demands. And he is warning if they don't, the U.S. may shift its military presence in Europe. More now from CNN Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr.", "President Trump sending scathing letters to America's closest allies, demanding they increase military spending to at least 2 percent of their economy, the NATO standard. Trump has been relentless that U.S. allies are not pulling their weight at", "If all NATO members had spent just 2 percent of their GDP on defense last year, we would have had another $119 billion.", "Mr. Trump's letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel had an especially frosty warning. It will, however, become increasingly difficult to justify to American citizens why some countries do not share NATO's collective security burden while American soldiers continue to sacrifice their lives overseas or come home gravely wounded. A senior German official points out that in Afghanistan, Germany is the second largest contributor of foreign troops. To Norway, a not so subtle reminder of Norway's risk since it remains the only NATO ally sharing a border with Russia that doesn't have a plan to meet the NATO spending target. NATO spending may be one area where there is agreement with former President Obama.", "Everybody's got to step up and everybody's got to do better.", "NATO's spending estimate shows the U.S. is well above the 2 percent spending standard at more than 3.5 percent of the U.S. economy going to defense. The U.K. is just over 2 percent while Norway, Canada, and Germany are all under. But Trump could go too far in criticizing NATO at the upcoming summit just before he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin.", "If he wants to scuttle the western alliance, there's a supposition that he does want to do that, then of course that could very well play into the hands of the Russians.", "The president also making additional national security claims, tweeting, \"just out that the Obama administration granted citizenship during the terrible Iran deal negotiation to 2,500 Iranians, including to government officials.\" It's a claim by an Iranian cleric that a former Obama national security official is pushing back on, saying the allegation is false and based on a Fox News report. Mr. Trump also tweeting on what he sees as success with North Korea, \"If not for me, we would now be at war with North Korea.\" Even though the Pentagon says there is no evidence Kim Jong-un is giving up his weapons.", "President Trump, of course, expected in Brussels next week at the heads of state summit of NATO, where relations with the allies and Vladimir Putin are expected to be front and center. Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.", "For more on this, political analyst and president of the Global Policy Institute at Loyola Marymount University, Michael Genovese, joins us now. Michael, thanks for coming in", "Thank you.", "OK. So, ahead of this NATO summit, the U.S. allies is still pushing in their own -- \"Bloomberg\" is reporting the Italian prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, told reporters in Rome that his country is contributing, but the forms of contribution aren't measured just in economic terms. Italy's home to U.S. naval, Air Force, and intelligence bases, and the country is involved in military missions in Iraq, Libya, Turkey, Kosovo, Somalia, and the Baltic states. There are ways to measure the value of NATO way beyond this sort of agreed to but not sort of compulsory 2 percent of GDP on defense spending figure, right?", "There are. That's why the crisis of NATO and of our alliance is basically caused by the U.S. I will say that the president has aired a beef that's legitimate. Europe does underspend. There's no question about that. It would be great to have them spend more. We should pressure them to do more. But having said that, how do you do that? Do you do that by sending nasty letters? Do you do that by publicly berating your friends and allies while you're praising your enemies? I think the president has it, as they say, bass ack wards.", "You know, Greece is one of the countries that meets the 2 percent, but only because its GDP has collapsed over the last 10 year, and the amount it's spending on its military has fallen dramatically. But because of this economic turmoil, it's met the threshold. So that's one area where this just seems to be kind of a bizarre, arbitrary number that doesn't actually hold much water.", "You can find your markers, and sometimes your conclusion precedes finding the markers. Here's what I want to find and that's what we look for and I think that's President Trump. Why he is so critical of the alliance which has been so valuable to the United States. So important in protecting our interests, not just our homeland interests, but our interests around the world. So, I think he's choosing to find things to criticize our friends and allies for while finding excuses for Russia.", "You know, in that Bloomberg article, an anonymous source is quoted as saying the president remains committed to the alliance. Putting to one side just the sheer bizarreness of actually having an anonymous source quote something like that, which, you know, in the previous administrations would just be something presidents say regardless, is it possible President Trump could actually pull the U.S. out of NATO? Could he make good on those threats?", "Well, you know, a comment announcing that we support NATO is like announcing that you support Christmas.", "You know, motherhood or ice cream.", "It's easy to say that. I would have said a year ago, the answer would be no to your question. Today, it looks like an open question. There is ample reason to be suspicious that the Trump/America first approach is America alone and that somehow picking fights with our friends helps us in the long run. I don't see how that's true. I don't see how that's possible. In effect, what I think he's doing is undermining our security by taking the great strength that we have, strength in numbers, strength in unity, and collapsing that. And who wants that more than anyone else? Vladimir Putin.", "With that in mind, is there anything else left on Putin's honey-do list for Donald Trump if you look at what's been happening over the last year and a half, this tension with NATO and possibly breaking up the alliance kind of the latest things?", "He wants a free hand in messing with elections not just in the United States but in the west. He wants to have a free hand in expanding his territorial --", "And Trump's given it a pass on the election meddling.", "Right. There are two people I think left in the United States, who believe that the Russians didn't meddle. They're Nunes and Trump.", "Right. So, I don't think Nunes believes it.", "Well, I don't know. I'm not going to give him that much credit to be honest with you. But that's kind of delusional. The question is, you know, how connected to reality are they about Russia and about NATO? It's quite alarming. Our allies are alarmed. I know when I speak to European leaders, I always say, be patient. He'll be there for just a few years. This is not who we are.", "Yes. The big question comes if he gets a second term, what does that say about the United States? President Trump is speaking in West Virginia a few hours ago. To your point, he touched on the U.S. increased spending on defense.", "A record $700 billion for our military, and next year, $716 billion, most amount ever. We're rebuilding our military and when have we needed it more outside of wars themselves? When? Think about it.", "OK, so the question, what does he mean by think about, what do you make of that? It's a little cryptic to me.", "It was kind of a throwaway line he often uses like we have to do it. We have no choice. It's one of the lines he ends a thought with because the thought itself seems a bit vacuous. We spent that money because we want to. We choose to. It's in our interest to do. So, it's not someone is holding a gun to our head and saying you have to pay this. We do that because we think it protects our interests. So, we have a self-interest in doing that, and a very important one and a good one. I think it's justified. But the point is picking fights is why you need more and more troops because you might have those fights break out into open conflicts.", "What if one of the NATO allies turns to Donald Trump and says, no, we're not increasing our budgets?", "It would be difficult to do that because we are so linked. While you have the big power flicking everyone in the head, those people who are at the receiving end of Donald Trump's diatribes, they need to be mature. They need to be responsible, and they need to say, look, in the long- term interests, we're going to have to put up with this guy who's doing these things that are against the interests of the west. But we have to be the ones who take some --", "The grown-ups in the room. On another note, the U.S. will be celebrating the July 4th independence holiday in the coming hours on Wednesday, and the president had a message for his supporters in West Virginia.", "Let us pledge to expand the blessings of liberty, prosperity, and justice to all of our citizens, and let us always remember that we are one people and one nation saluting one great American flag.", "But he also compared securing the border being like a war. He also -- he talked falsely about towns being liberated from the control of these foreign gangs. With that in mind, another Republican group is paying to have a message broadcast on the Fox News Channel, the conservative Fox News Channel, on July 4th. This is it.", "Through this golden door has come millions of men and women. These families came here to work. Others came to America, in often harrowing conditions. They didn't ask what this country could do for them, but what they could do to make this refuge the greatest home of freedom in history. They brought with them courage and the values of family, work, and freedom. Let us pledge to each other that we can make America great again.", "Is that Ronald Reagan Republican Party gone forever?", "Well, the party of Lincoln is gone. The party of Reagan is gone. This is clearly the party of Trump. And while there was a lot of resistance at first, I think a lot of Republicans have now said and a big part of that is the courts, that he's our guy. He's going to get our agenda passed. And the words that you had him reflected, really a wonderful sentiment. But he chooses not to be president of one nation, not to be president of a United States. He plays to his base, and he condemns his political opponents and adversaries. So, he is much more divisive than I think any president in modern times.", "It was another time with Presidents Reagan and Bush and Clinton, Obama, Bush W. Michael, good to see you. Next hour, we will talk about the Supreme Court and what that means to the Republican Party. So, come back. Thank you. And we'll take a short break. When we come back on NEWSROOM L.A., a new legal battle over affirmative action and university admissions. The Obama administration drawing back policies that tries to make colleges more diverse."], "speaker": ["VAUSE", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "NATO. 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{"id": "CNN-336906", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-04-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/05/es.04.html", "summary": "Trump Eases Off Immediate Withdrawal From Syria", "utt": ["Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria was a sore point for President Trump at a meeting with military leaders and national security aides. The president has repeatedly said it's time to withdraw troops from Syria. Sources tell CNN the president grew agitated at the Tuesday meeting when his national security team argued the battle against ISIS is not yet complete and immediate withdrawal would be a mistake. The sources say Trump backed down and said he's willing to keep American forces in Syria in the short-term, but the president said he wants Arab allies to take over and cover the costs of stabilizing the area. As President Trump plans an exit strategy for Syria, the leaders from Russia, Iran, and Turkey ended a summit Wednesday. All three countries are major players in ending the conflict there. The summit concluded with a commitment to achieving a lasting ceasefire in Syria. Notably absent though from the summit, the U.S. and representatives from Syria itself. CNN's Fred Pleitgen is live in Damascus, Syria with more. Good morning, Fred.", "Yes, good morning, Rene. And there's a lot of people here in Syria who essentially believe that the president has shown America's cards to all the players here in this country, both national and international, and that is that the U.S. wants to get out of this country as fast as possible despite the president's generals saying at this point in time it's better to still stay in. Now, of course, that has huge implications both for America's allies and for America's adversaries here on the ground. You were just mentioning Turkey, Iran, and Russia. Well, those are by far the most important and the most powerful players here on the ground. And it's one thing for them to have had a summit, as you just mentioned, but they're also creating military facts on the ground. The Russians and their allies here, the Syrian government loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, have made huge gains on the battlefield around here where I am in Damascus and in other places as well. And in the north of the country, the Turks are pushing their own military agenda, squeezing some of those U.S. allies who used to fight with America against ISIS. So, America's allies here on the ground have a big problem. On the one hand, they're not sure whether President Trump and the U.S. will stay in. And at the same time, they might have to cut a deal with the Russians simply to survive, Rene.", "Right, and all of us watching here as the president seems to not be in the same -- not be in lockstep with his own military advisers. Thank you so much, Fred.", "All right, 5:49. Let's get a check on \"CNN Money\" this morning. Global stocks rebounding overnight after the Trump administration's latest tit for tat with Beijing drove wild swings on Wall Street. Stocks plummeted early when China proposed tariffs on $50 billion worth of U.S. exports, a response from the U.S.'s own tariffs on Chinese goods. That stoked fears of a trade war. But stocks surged after White House official urged caution. The Dow jumped more than 700 points yesterday, erasing a 510-point loss to close up one percent. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 also closing more than one percent higher. Facebook's data crisis is getting worse. It now says it exposed millions more than originally reported allowing Trump campaign consultants to access the info of up to 87 million users without their consent. Previous estimates were 50 million. Facebook promises to inform those who were exposed starting next week. CEO Mark Zuckerberg accepting responsibility for the leak which has angered users, advertisers, and lawmakers. And now, Zuckerberg confirms he'll head to Capitol Hill next week to face questions from two congressional panels about how Facebook handles user data. That's on Tuesday and Wednesday. Well, if you travel on Delta Airlines -- if so, your payment info may have been breached. The airline says it was the victim of a cyberattack last fall. It involved Delta's online chat services provider. However, Delta said only a small subset of customers were impacted and that no other personal info was exposed. Delta promising to help any traveler whose payment info was stolen. They've set up a Website to update customers. And, Rene, that Facebook story is a huge deal -- 71 million Americans.", "Yes.", "Chances are most of you were impacted in some way if you're on Facebook. We need more answers and hopefully, Zuckerberg provides them.", "Yes, and he'll be on the Hill on Tuesday. Well, today is the deadline for expelled U.S. diplomats to leave Russia. We are live in Moscow, next."], "speaker": ["MARSH", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MARSH", "BRIGGS", "MARSH", "BRIGGS", "MARSH"]}
{"id": "CNN-279871", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-03-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/27/cnr.21.html", "summary": "The Human Brain and Politics; Corporations Oppose Anti-Gay Bills in North Carolina and Georgia", "utt": ["Welcome back. I'm George Howell in Atlanta. We will have more from my colleague Michael Holmes in Brussels, in just a moment but first other news we're following around the world. Breaking news in Syria. The country's military has retaken the ancient city of Palmyra from ISIS control. This is according to Syrian state TV. Government forces had the support of Russian airstrikes. The militant group took the key city last May and destroyed many of the temples at that site. It has been described as an irreplaceable loss to the history of civilization. Palmyra has key supply routes leading to the ISIS self-declared capital of Raqqa. And across the border now in northern Iraq, thousands of families have fled their towns, this as Iraqi government forces try to force ISIS out of villages. Officials say the families are being given humanitarian assistance. ISIS has been losing territory in Iraq, and the country's military says it is making progress south of the key city of Mosul, which is still in ISIS control. America's choice 2016, and among Democrats, voters in the state of Alaska, the state of Washington and Hawaii have all weighed in on Saturday. We're still awaiting results from Hawaii, but the caucus tallies from the other two states gave Bernie Sanders good reason to smile today. With 101 delegates at stake in Washington state, Sanders snagged 72 percent of the vote. And in Alaska, he won more than 80 percent. But Hillary Clinton is still far ahead of Sanders in the national delegate count. Right now she holds more than 70 percent of the delegate votes that she needs to win the Democratic nomination. Still, Bernie Sanders has reason to smile. He is optimistic. He told supporters in Wisconsin the trend is moving in the right direction.", "We knew things were going to improve as we headed west.", "And last week we won Utah with 78 percent of the vote.", "We won Idaho with 79 percent of the vote.", "And we won Democrats abroad with 67 percent of the vote.", "We are making significant inroads in Secretary Clinton's lead, and we have --", "And we have, with your support, coming here in Wisconsin, we have a path toward victory.", "And more information now. Bernie Sanders may have even more reason to smile. Now that we understand that he has won in the state of Hawaii. In the presidential preference vote there with 70 percent of the vote. We'll continue to monitor the details coming from Hawaii, but, again, it seems that Bernie Sanders has won there. And now a new twist in the Republican presidential race. It is emerging in a gun rights petition. More than 22,000 people have signed the call demanding that guns be allowed into the party's convention. Presently the venue for that convention in Cleveland forbids weapons inside the facility. This comes amid worries about security at the July convention and concerns even Donald Trump's prediction that riots could break out if he does not get that party's nomination. This year's presidential town halls and debates have prompted many viewers to shake their heads in a range of different emotions from anger to frustration, amusement and even disbelief. And now CNN's Brian Stelter shows us how one neuroscientist is studying viewers' brains as they try to take in this political spectacle.", "There are small little metal disks that are going to be directly touching your scalp. It's going to be sampling electrical activity.", "This is your brain on presidential debates. Sam Barnett is measuring brain activity as viewers watch the most popular show of the season. The 26-year-old is a hedge fund CEO by day and a Ph.D. student by night.", "A whole field of research that is really trying to make science fiction a reality.", "So he's studying neuroscience. (", "We're in here watching the debate. And what are you trying to measure from people's brains?", "We're trying to get a sense of where their waves are going to try to see what content is actually driving people to feel similarly about certain topics.", "In a room filled with equal number of Republicans, Democrats and independents, Barnett starts to study the data.", "So the introductions were pretty mild overall.", "He quickly notices one thing everybody's brain seems to agree on -- Donald Trump. (", "When Trump's on the screen, I see this data shoot up. What does that mean about Trump?", "You can see he's at 35.9, when these others candidates are in the 20s.", "Seeing Trump's face, hearing Trump's voice lights up the brain.", "The fact that you can make everyone feel, at least on a neural kind of fundamental basis, the same way is very interesting, because they might subjectively or consciously disagree with it, but something in their brain is ticking in the same way when that's happening.", "Maybe it's his unique television skills, perfected during a decade on \"The Apprentice.\" (", "So what you're showing here is that whether you're a Democrat or a Republican watching the debate, when Trump is on the screen, suddenly, your eyes are wide open, you're paying more attention.", "Yes. So everyone in the room is sharing some kind of neural bond. Everyone is kind of feeling the same kind of attention, the same kind of underlying passion at least.", "Afterward, Barnett's analysis found that Trump led engagement among Democrats, Republicans and independents, as well as the women in our focus group. He trailed Marco Rubio among men, but only slightly. And while Trump might not want to be compared to a four-legged animal, Barnett says there's no denying his appeal. (", "Are there other things you would compare this sort of heightened engagement to?", "Dogs have been known for a long time in advertising as, you know, this very popular kind of figure to include. And, you know, people of all difficult walks of life like seeing a dog in a commercial. It's cute, engaging and interesting, and, you know, maybe people are feeling similarly about Donald Trump.", "Trump was more engaging talking about immigration than about, say, education.", "This is one of the questions that Trump didn't perform as strong on. But we see this being a much stronger answer for John Kasich.", "But Trump was best overall at getting this focus group to really focus on his words. No wonder ratings rise when he's speaking on the air. Barnett uses this method to study advertising and he's applying it to his hedge fund investments as well. In the not-too-distance future, he expects campaigns to be strapping these contraptions onto people's heads to learn more about their neural reactions.", "I would imagine that people would learn from this and this would continue to shape more affecting messaging in the future.", "So whether your brain is aglow with enthusiasm or you're shaking your head with a headache there, you will get a chance to exercise those brain waves three days from now. CNN will host a town hall for the Republican candidates and you can see it live Wednesday morning at 1:00 a.m. in London, 2:00 a.m. in Paris only here on CNN. The series of bills considered discriminatory against gay and transgender communities have several major U.S. corporations threatening action against the states of Georgia and North Carolina. CNN's Nick Valencia has details on why and what's at stake.", "This is not over.", "This is not over.", "All these people are upset. They're angry. They have been left out of the democratic process.", "This week, outside of the governor's mansion in North Carolina, protests and arrests. The demonstrators are opponents to a newly passed state law that they say is devastating to the civil liberties of transgender people. The law strikes down a recently passed ordinance in Charlotte. It would have protected trans people and allowed them to select the restroom of their choice based on how they identify.", "The adoption of the ordinance by the city council in Charlotte was just crazy.", "Republican lawmakers like Senate Protemp Phil Berger were furious at the legislation.", "Allows grown men to share bathrooms and locker facilities with girls and women.", "In a special session, solely to consider the bill, Republican lawmakers pass the Public Facility's Privacy and Securities Act. It means transgender people in the state of North Carolina must use the restroom related to the gender on their birth certificate. North Carolina's bill, signed into law Wednesday, is the latest in a string of state's attempting to pass similar anti-LGBT legislation.", "In the courtrooms, you're seeing folks get their religious beliefs persecuted against.", "In Georgia, the controversial bill passed by the state house and Senate is called the Free Exercise Protection Act, one of the several religious liberty bills that have surfaced across the country. Governor Nathan Deal has until May to sign it into law. Senator Mike Crane is one of the bill's most adamant supporters. (", "Is this legislation a direct results of what the Supreme Court did last year in legalizing same-sex marriage, gay marriage?", "I think it's a result of many things but that was just another catalyst I believe.", "But many blue chip businesses around the nation say there will be major financial consequences to Republican efforts in Georgia and North Carolina. Disney and Marvel Studios have threatened to abandon production in Georgia if the governor signs the bill into law. The NFL says it could have an impact on whether Atlanta is selected as the host of the 2019 Super Bowl. And in North Carolina, the NBA says because of the new law it may pull the all-star game from Charlotte next year.", "Six major conventions have considers relocating if the governor signs the bill into law. Atlanta's Convention and Visitors Bureau said the decision could cost the state up to $6 billion and we should mention that the parent company of CNN Turner has joined the laundry list of big corporations to speak out against the legislation. Nick Valencia, CNN Atlanta.", "You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. Still ahead our live coverage from Brussels continues after the break. Many of the victims of the terror attacks there were foreign nationals. CNN spoke to a spokesman for the Belgian Foreign Ministry who explained where everything stands now. 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{"id": "CNN-170008", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-8-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/03/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Debt Deal's Impact on Jobs; Worrisome For Hospitals Throughout America", "utt": ["Top of the hour. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Let's get you up to speed. Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak will return to court in 12 days. He faces the death penalty if convicted of corruption and conspiring to kill protesters. The 83-year-old was right there, as you see him, wheeled into a courtroom on a gurney, then put in a cage with his sons for the first day of trial. Many Egyptians say he looked well and alert at the proceedings.", "I have got to wonder what kind of strings of public sympathy he is trying to pull today, because, as you say, he's on a hospital bed with an oxygen tank, but his hair is black. He's 83 years old. He's obviously dying his hair, so how sick is this man?", "And then this -- the crisis in Syria. It's worsening. A resident who fled the besieged city of Hama says corpses remain on the ground after tanks rolled in to crush growing unrest. We're told people are running out of food and being cut off from communications. U.N. Security Council members plan to meet for a third day to discuss the crisis. A human rights group says almost 2,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March. And bomb squad officers in Australia have secured the safety of an 18-year-old girl who was in a house with a reported suspicious device. The operation to free the teen lasted 10 hours. The girl is now back with her family. Police are examining the device which they described as a very elaborate and sophisticated one. Stocks fell sharply today before regaining some ground, but they are still in negative territory. Investors are worried about disappointing economic reports and concerns that the country could slip into another recession. The Dow is down for the ninth day in a row, down 105 points there, at 11,759. All right. In Washington, the Justice Department announces a major international porn ring bust. The online operation known as Dream Board involved pictures and videos of adults sexually assaulting children 12 and under. Right now, 72 people have been charged and 52 arrested. And parts of the northern Caribbean are bracing for possible floods and mudslides from Tropical Storm Emily. Right now, Emily is heading toward Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It's expected to dump up to 10 inches of rain on both countries and Puerto Rico. By tomorrow, forecasters expect Emily to be hitting the Bahamas, and by the weekend it could be skirting Florida's east coast. In Surrey, England, a very tough police officer was quite a story to tell. Check this out. Officer Dan Pascoe sets up a roadblock to catch a car thief. Yes, right there. Just after he gets out of his vehicle, a stolen car slams into his, tossing him into the air. He gets up and then runs after the suspect, as you see right there, eventually bringing the suspect down with a taser.", "I can't believe how lucky I am. Whenever I watch someone watching the video, yes, you can't understand how anyone can walk away from it, let alone run.", "All right. The last-minute compromise on a debt deal kept the country from defaulting on its debts, but there is still a lot of concern about what it means for the weak economy. Today, we're taking an in-depth look at how the debt deal could affect the stock market, your personal finances, unemployment, small business, hospitals, you name it. Right now the focus is on unemployment and whether spending cuts will mean more job cuts. CNN's Sandra Endo is at an unemployment center in Hollywood. So, Sandra, what are you hearing from people there?", "Well, Fred, people here are wondering, where are the jobs? At this job center, Fred, a lot of people here are spoofing up their resumes. They're searching databases to find those jobs. They've been out of work in some cases for months. And let's talk to Dave here, who has been looking for a job. How frustrating and how difficult has it been for you?", "I have been looking for work for a couple months now, and I have literally put in somewhere in the range of 75 resumes and haven't gotten a single call back.", "So this must be frustrating, the news out of Washington with the debt deal, cutting back on spending for programs. Do you think that will make it harder for you?", "I am certain it will, yes.", "So not confident that there'll be a lot of jobs out there, unfortunately, Fred, and that's what we are hearing from a lot of people out here. Let's talk to Steve, who runs this place. And you have been following the news in Washington. What do you think the debt deal will do for the workplace and for people out there looking for a job?", "Well, I think at present, it creates a lot of uncertainty for workers and employers, because employers don't know whether they're going to be able to hire people because they're uncertain of the buying power of people. And if there's less buying power, then they're not going to take on more individuals to do the work.", "And certainly the news of the cutbacks and spending on certain programs as well. What tips do you have for people? Because we have seen so many people throughout this morning come here looking for a job. What do you say to them?", "Well, I say while it is a difficult even environment, we certainly -- what they can do is access a center such as ours. There are 18 operated within the city of Los Angeles, and 13 within the county of Los Angeles, so definitely try to access the centers --", "So go to a local job center. What else would you say are good tips for people looking for a job?", "Well, also, identify in-demand occupations and train for those occupations. And also, to get a leg up within the industry that they are interested in, they might consider unpaid internships or paid work experience as well. And we offer those types of programs here, too.", "What are some of the in-demand industries that people should be really focusing on right now?", "Well, certainly two of the ones that I think of offhand are one in the health care industry, which is burgeoning right now. And there is a big demand for various types of occupations within those industries. And the other one is solar technology. And we do offer programs in those industries as well. And the other one is information technology. There are programs if you have the appropriate training.", "All right. Thank you for those helpful tips. Fred, as you here, there are a lot of people out here looking for a job, and the jobs report is coming out on Friday. And so far, there is no predictions that that is going to look anything pretty or have some optimism in it. So, clearly, people here bracing for the worst.", "Yes. It's a very frustrating time for so many people. All right. Thanks so much, Sandra Endo. Appreciate that. And we'll have more of our in-depth look at the debt deal and its impact later this hour. We'll talk with a small business owner about what it means for him and his company. And again, here is your chance to \"Talk Back\" on one of the big stories of the day. Today's question: Do we expect too much of our political leaders? Carol Costello joins us from New York with more, because they gave you lots to talk about.", "They certainly did. While the pundits argue over who won debtzilla, one thing is clear. If President Obama wants a second term, he has his work cut out for him. His approval rating is at 45 percent in the latest CNN/ORC poll. And in the swing state of Pennsylvania, things have sure changed since 2008, when President Obama got 55 percent of the vote. According to a Quinnipiac poll, 52 percent of Pennsylvanians say the president does not deserve to be re-elected. Independents, they're not happy with the president either. Joan Walsh writes on Salon.com, \"Obama's best hope for re- election is the fact that Generic Republican won't win the nomination. He'll be running against either a Tea Party extremist or Mitt Romney. And in most polls he beats both of them.\" None of this is so unusual. Past presidents had great swings in the polls and they managed a second term. And in fairness, Mr. Obama knew the road would be rocky on election night.", "The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be step. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.", "But are we willing to keep on climbing? With high unemployment and a stalled economy, Americans are impatient. And that sentiment seems bipartisan. Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the atmosphere is toxic.", "Many people in my party, the Republican Party, are unrealistic. And what they want is something that no one can deliver, and that's a candidate that is going to solve every problem in an election cycle.", "So, the \"Talk Back\" question today: Do we expect too much of our political leaders? Facebook.com/CarolCNN. I'll read some of your responses later this hour.", "All right, Carol. We look forward to that. Thanks so much."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "MONA ELTAHAWY, EGYPTIAN JOURNALIST", "WHITFIELD", "DAN PASCOE, SURREY, ENGLAND, POLICE OFFICER", "WHITFIELD", "SANDRA ENDO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DAVE BARMORE, LOOKING FOR A JOB", "ENDO", "BARMORE", "ENDO", "STEVE MAGALLANES, MANAGED CAREER SOLUTIONS", "ENDO", "MAGALLANES", "ENDO", "MAGALLANES", "ENDO", "MAGALLANES", "ENDO", "WHITFIELD", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "COSTELLO", "MIKE HUCKABEE (R), FMR. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "COSTELLO", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-252299", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-03-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/31/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Tricky Issues Loom on Deadline Day", "utt": ["Jim Sciutto is CNN's chief national security correspondent. He joins us now from Washington. I think probably some lawmakers agree with that poll and with the people of America.", "No question, Carol, and that's why what you'll hear from Secretary of State John Kerry. He said this for a number of months now. In the old negotiations with the Soviet Union, the saying used to be \"trust but verify\". What Secretary Kerry will say about these talks is \"verify but verify\". Yes, he will grant there's very little trust. There's been a lot of Iranian violation of previous agreement. So the intention is the administration -- the Obama administration says is to make sure that in any agreement you are constantly verifying and monitoring so that really trust in their view is not involved. You're going to show and watch and see that there is compliance with the deal. But listen, you know, this is a difficult thing to do. There are a lot of hidden sites that have been built to be hidden in the past; sites were not revealed in the past. There are real questions going forward. You see that reflected very much in just the view of the American people.", "So the Obama administration says there's a 50/50 chance that a deal could be reached. What are you hearing?", "Well, here's the thing. Anything can happen in the next seven and a half hours, before the deadline, midnight tonight, European time, Switzerland time. There appears to be momentum moving towards some sort of general agreement where you make a statement, you say we have made progress on these issues. We have the outlines of an agreement going forward. But in the so called technical phase between now and the end of June, you work out the issues that you haven't yet worked out -- kind of grant that there are things that still need to be involved. Now Carol, there's another word for that, I think you can argue -- an extension. You can call that another extension of the negotiations, if you're admitting you haven't worked out some of the key issues that are really standing in the way of a deal, but the argument might be, listen, we've made enough progress, everybody is invested. We can work the issues out. And just to give you an example, one of those issues is how quickly do you lift, for instance, the economic sanctions on Iran? Iran wants it right away. The U.S. and the West want to lift it gradually so that you can verify Iranian compliance with it. But, you know, that's not the only issue out there. It's also on there are indeed going forward, as you see up there on the screen, that first bullet point there, and how quickly those sanctions might snap back if Iran violates the deal. These are all big questions, and it looks like the momentum is towards some sort of general agreement where some of those big questions aren't answered yet. And that sounds to me like an extension. I don't know if you agree. But at least it seems that they might think they've made enough progress to move on.", "We'll see. Jim Sciutto -- I must say, I agree with you. Thanks, Jim. I appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Let's talk more about this with former ambassador Nicholas Burns. He's also a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Welcome, Mr. Ambassador.", "Thank you, Carol.", "How much is on the line for President Obama now to reach a deal?", "Well, this is a significant agreement for President Obama. If you think about his presidency more than six years now, I think he's focused more on Iran. It's been a higher priority for him than just about any other foreign policy issue, and the administration has put enormous time and commitment into these talks, designed to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons power. So the stakes are very high for the United States, as well as for Iran, of course.", "So it's safe to say if this deal doesn't go through, it will be one of President Obama's worst failures?", "I wouldn't say that. I think that, you know, frankly what the President has been able to do here, very much following, by the way, the actions of second term president George W. Bush is to sanction Iran and to force them to the negotiating table. The Iranian program has been frozen in place since November of 2013, which is a very important fact here. And they haven't been able to make progress for a year and a half in that journey towards a nuclear weapon. So I think the administration has done well, but of course, the proof is going to be in the pudding, and we'll have to see what the final deal looks like. As Jim Sciutto said, it looks like today will be a framework -- kind of a conceptual framework of how the deal would be put together with some of the major elements in place. But there's a saying in diplomacy, \"Nothing is over until it's over\". And that over will be June 30th of this year.", "Ok. Well, let's say they put that framework together. You know, Congress still has to approve this deal, so I'm sure the President and his men and women will start to kind of try to convince lawmakers to push this deal through. Do you think they have a chance of convincing lawmakers that this is good for America and good for the world?", "I think they have a chance. Obviously it's a highly partisan environment. Many Republicans already seem to have their minds made up, which I think is a shame. In our constitutional process, the President leads on foreign policy particularly when we are involved in a high stakes, very complex international negotiation. I really think it's proper, Carol, for Congress to let the President complete these negotiations, and not to interfere with those negotiations as those 47 senators did when they sent a letter to the Iranian government, just last month, in the middle of these negotiations. Congress has a role to play, of course. But that role will come after June 30th, when the administration has a deal or doesn't have a deal. And if a deal is arrived at, then of course, Congress will have to decide whether it supports it or not. One of the provisions will likely be that Congress would have to lift at some point some of the statutory sanctions that were put in place by previous sessions of Congress. That's the proper role for Congress, but not to interfere with the United States while we're at the negotiating table with the Iranians and others.", "Ambassador Nicholas Burns -- thanks for your insight as always. I appreciate it.", "Thank you, Carol.", "Still to come in the newsroom, for city employees in San Francisco, travel to Indiana is now off limits. The city's mayor taking action in the wake of that controversial religious freedom law. I'll talk with the mayor next."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "SCIUTTO", "COSTELLO", "SCIUTTO", "COSTELLO", "NICHOLAS BURNS, HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT", "COSTELLO", "BURNS", "COSTELLO", "BURNS", "COSTELLO", "BURNS", "COSTELLO", "BURNS", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-40304", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2001-9-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/24/se.06.html", "summary": "America's New War: Rumsfeld Says Terrorism is a Problem Worldwide", "utt": ["Here now the latest developments in America's New War. U.S. officials are in Islamabad today to outline the help the U.S. is seeking from Pakistan in the war against terrorism. The delegation is also going to sign papers lifting 1998 sanctions against Pakistan for nuclear testing.", "President Bush will put a financial squeeze on suspected terrorist groups today. He plans to identify terrorist groups around the world then sign an executive order freezing their U.S. assets.", "And Yankee Stadium became an outdoor cathedral yesterday, Sunday, when an interfaith prayer service for the victims of the World Trade Center attack was held there. A Baptist minister told the crowd we'll get through this because we are the United States of America.", "And the United States of America on the hunt now for suspected terrorists, in particular, Osama bin Laden. Conflicting reports as to whether anybody knows exactly where he is. CNN's Mark Potter standing by at the Pentagon with more intelligence information. Morning, Mark.", "Good morning, Carol. Well, U.S. officials spent the weekend once again preparing the public for a sustained campaign against terrorism. The Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that terrorism is not just an Afghan problem but is a problem worldwide. The al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden, for example, he says, is in some 60 countries and it's not just the only network. U.S. officials continue to demand of the Taliban leaders that Osama bin Laden be handed over. They've been unsuccessful so far, and the Defense Secretary calls laughable their claim that the leader and his associates can no longer be found.", "They're hardy, tough people. They have networks throughout the country and it is just not believable that the Taliban do not know where the network can be located and found and either turned over or expelled.", "Now as we enter a new week, more U.S. military deployments overseas are anticipated. Last week we saw the deployment of military personnel, B-1 and B-52 Bombers as well as the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier battle group which is based in Norfolk, Virginia. Secretary Rumsfeld said U.S. troops are being positioned around the world. Pentagon officials also expect the activation of more National Guard and reserve members for what they are calling homeland defense missions around the U.S. The Secretary says victory in the campaign against terrorism will be measured by the reduction of fear.", "The ultimate victory in this war is when everyone who wants to can do what every one of us did today and that is get up, let your children go to school, go out of the house and not in fear, stand here on a sidewalk and not worry about a truck bomb driving into us and be able to be free in speech and thought and activity and behavior and that's victory.", "Now at the Pentagon building here itself in Washington, D.C., which you can see here this morning, security remains tight as the search for remains continues. So far, 68 victims have been positively identified from the site where the attack occurred two weeks ago. A total of 189 people are listed as dead or missing here. And finally, the site that you are looking at right here has now been turned over to the FBI which is preserving it now as a giant crime scene. Agents are in there gathering evidence. Carol, back to you.", "Mark, evidence also that the United States is gathering evidence overseas in this war against terrorism, a report about a U.S. spy plane or a surveillance plane missing. The Taliban claiming that they shot it down. Is there any clarification there?", "Well, the clarification we got on that came from the Secretary Defense Rumsfeld on a talk show over the weekend. He conceded that a spy plane had been lost, but he said there was no evidence that it had actually been shot down. He said sometimes they just lose control of these things and that's all that he would say.", "And this is an unmanned drone, right?", "Exactly,...", "All right, not a manned plane?", "... unmanned.", "All right. Thank you very much. Mark Potter reporting live from the Pentagon. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "HARRIS", "LIN", "MARK POTTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY", "POTTER", "RUMSFELD", "POTTER", "LIN", "POTTER", "LIN", "POTTER", "LIN", "POTTER", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-303240", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-01-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/16/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Trump Promises Health Insurance For All; Wife of Pulse Nightclub Shooter Arrested; Trump's Cloud of Controversy.", "utt": ["Thank you for being with me. This is the start the most important week of Donald Trump's life, starting in a bit of a cloud of controversy, the president-elect now in a standoff with the head of the CIA, the leader of one of America's most critical allies, NATO, and also civil rights icon and Democratic Congressman from Georgia John Lewis. Moments ago, a major development on that front, the president-elect emerging from a meeting with the son of Martin Luther King Jr., his son, Martin Luther King III, weighing in on this latest war of words between Mr. Trump and Congressman Lewis, who once marched with Dr. King himself. Mr. Donald Trump has attacked Congressman Lewis saying he was -- quote, unquote -- \"all talk,\" after Congressman Lewis said he did not think Trump's presidency was legitimate.", "We did have a very constructive meeting. The seminal right of the modern civil rights movement was the right to vote. My father fought so diligently for it. Certainly Congressman John Lewis and many others, Hosea Williams, fought for it as well. It is very clear that the system is not working at its maximum. And through an op-ed that you may have seen, we provided at least a solution to begin to address a broken voting system. That was the dialogue, most of the dialogue that we talked about constructively. We believe we provided a solution that at least will give everyone an", "Representative Lewis still has the scars from the march on Selma. Were you offended by president-elect Trump's tweet that Representative Lewis is all talk and no action?", "Well, first of all, I think that, in the heat of emotion, a lot of things get said on both sides. And I think that, at some point, I am, as John Lewis and many others, are a bridge-builder. The goal is to bring America together and Americans. We are a great nation. But we must become a greater nation. And what my father represented, my mother represented through her life, what I hope that I'm always trying to do is always bring people together.", "Let's go to Jeff Zeleny, our senior Washington correspondent. And, Jeff, what more do we know about the meeting? What was discussed? Was it more than a photo-op?", "Well, Brooke, I think it was more than a photo-op, because Donald Trump, of course, did not come out with Martin Luther King III, as you saw there. We saw him getting out of the elevator, but then not taking questions. Donald Trump, clearly, I think did not want this moment to escalate into more questions about John Lewis and things. But you heard the topics there addressed in the meeting, voting rights first and foremost. I think you also heard Mr. King saying that, look, he pledged to be a president for all Americans, Donald Trump did, but he said we are going to have to evaluate that. So we know more about the meeting right now from what Mr. King said. Donald Trump, of course, didn't talk about it. His aides so far have not give a readout of the meeting. But I think it is clear that Donald Trump is aware of the fact that he is entering his presidency here with an issue with African-American voters by and large. And it's something that he wants to be liked. That is something I think we have to keep in mind here as we analyze his presidency. I think this is something he will work on. But the reality is picking a fight with John Lewis is not a very good way to start.", "We will have a conversation about that in a second, but onto the outgoing CIA chief John Brennan and this back and forth, the standoff. Trump is now suggesting it may have been Brennan who leaked that unverified dossier via a tweet. What did Brennan say in response?", "Brooke, so extraordinary here. We have seen this ongoing fight with the president-elect and all the intelligence leaders of this community. And John Brennan pushed back quite hard about what Donald Trump knows and doesn't know and about the fact, this suggestion he is the leaker. Let's take a listen.", "But what I do find outrageous is equating the intelligence community with Nazi Germany. I do take great umbrage at that. And there is no basis for Mr. Trump to point fingers at the intelligence community for leaking information that was already available publicly.", "John Brennan is clearly firing back at this, Brooke. The question here is four days from now, when Donald Trump inherits this intelligence community, John Brennan will be gone, of course. But the community still exists. So that is what is a potentially worrisome prospect here, when the new leader, the new president is really at war, at odds with his intelligence officials. It's something we have never seen before, Brooke.", "Yes. Jeff Zeleny, thank you. Let's talk about that. Joining me now, former longtime CIA Russian operations officer Steve Hall, David Andelman, editor emeritus at \"The World Policy Journal,\" CNN opinion contributor and columnist at \"USA Today.\" Great to have both of you on. And, David, let me actually just begin with you, just on the fact that the tweets from Mr. Trump implying that John Brennan may have been the one behind the leak. How dangerous is that? Certainly, as Jeff pointed out, it's unprecedented.", "It is unprecedented. And there's no question any time Donald Trump tries to drive a wedge between himself and the CIA and his intelligence officials, that's really bad. But that's only one of a series, Brooke, as I'm sure you aware, this weekend of tweets and interviews that he did that really have suddenly distanced Trump and potentially the United States from alliances and friends in Europe and all over the world that have gone back generations. So, it really is -- he is isolating himself, not only in the United States within his intelligence and national security community, but also with people who should be his friends, Angela Merkel, the Western alliance, the NATO alliance, and so on. This is a precedent that is very, very dangerous.", "No, I want to totally jump on how the public perception of his conversation with \"Bild\" and \"The Times of London\" could impact, right, Angela Merkel's standing. But, before I do, Steve, to you, still on this -- on Brennan and Trump. And we know Bob Woodward. He was on \"FOX News Sunday.\" And he said, you know, Trump has every reason to be upset for the release of this dossier. He said: \"I have lived in this world for 45 years where you get things and people make allegations.\" He said, \"This is a garbage document.\" And then he goes on, \"When people make mistakes, they should apologize.\" Bob Woodward is a very well-respected journalist. Does his point have merit, in your opinion?", "Well, there is a lot of questions obviously about this particular 35-page document, but it seems to me the response is not to make the kind of -- and, again, words begin to escape me in terms of outrageous, crazy, wacko comment about the CIA being somehow Nazi Germany or John Brennan. Look, I have worked with John Brennan for a number of years. I think he is an honorable guy. I doubt quite seriously that there is any leaking coming from him or the CIA. But, again, it is the reaction perhaps of a bully with a black eye. We know that Trump's sensitivity here is primarily with regard to the legitimacy of his election. So, when you poke at that, that's the kind of response that you are going to get. Interestingly, you don't get a response like that when you start talking about the comments he made with regard to NATO and that whole situation, the illegitimacy or the obsolescence of NATO. Why would he make comments like that? Again, the mind begins to boggle as to why these comments are coming out of our future president's mouth, at least in my view.", "That interview was rich, right? He talked about NATO. he talked about Russian sanctions and he talked, David, to your point, about Germany, our longtime friend, key figure in the Western allegiance. Let me just play some of this. This is what Mr. Trump said when asked who he trusts more, Putin or Merkel. Here he was.", "Who do you trust more if you talk to them, Angela Merkel or Vladimir Putin?", "Well, I will start off trusting both. But let's see how long that lasts. It may not last long at all.", "David, before I even move on, just let's just marinate for a second on response. What did you make of that, Putin and Merkel?", "Right. Well, first of all, it's extraordinary that he puts Angela Merkel and Putin kind of in the same basket, on an even keel. How is that even possible?", "He was asked the question, to be fair. They were put into the same sentence in the question, but still I hear you.", "Right. Right. Merkel is the foundation of the Western alliance and one of -- America's great supporter on the continent of Europe. And she's facing a very difficult election coming up this year for her future. If she goes down, the stability of all of Western Europe could certainly be affected. So, for him to equate and say maybe I will prefer Putin, maybe I will prefer Merkel, we will see, that is just an extraordinary statement to put the two of them in any sense on the same level, in the same playing field, strategically or even personally.", "She -- you know, she has had this open-door policy with refugees. Trump has taken her to task on that, calling her policy a catastrophe. But now we have some sound. Christiane Amanpour interviewed Secretary of State John Kerry. Here's his response to what we just played for you.", "Well, I thought, frankly, it was inappropriate for a president-elect of the United States to be stepping into the politics of other countries in a quite direct manner. And he will have to speak to that. As of Friday, you know, he's responsible for that relationship.", "Steve, how would you see this, you know, interfering in that election? David pointed out she has a fight to fight. She is standing. She wants to hold onto her job. But in terms of the U.S. relationship with Germany and also just public perception on this election, thoughts?", "Yes, that the part about the relationship with the United States and Germany, and indeed all of Europe, is absolutely the most important thing. I mean, this is nothing short of crazy talk, all right? You have got a relationship that has lasted over decades and decades, and I'm talking about -- I'm thinking, from my background, an intelligence relationship that has basically thwarted time and time again terrorist attacks against this country. You have nothing like that. As a matter of fact, arguably, you have got quite the opposite with Russia. And yet you have got the president-elect of the United States saying, yes, let me think about this, maybe NATO is obsolete, maybe that entire structure with our European allies, with whom we have done so much, not only on counterterrorism, but on a number of other different topics, to protect this homeland, and instead look at somebody like Vladimir Putin. I mean, it's just -- I am at a loss for words.", "Another piece of it was he was saying Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, who we now know will have a West Wing post, could perhaps broker Middle East peace, certainly something he has had no experience in. But, at the same time, as our smart CNN political director said, hey, he had no experience in helping his father-in-law win a presidential election. We see what happened. We have to leave it. We will continue. This is a massively important conversation just globally, David and Steve. I appreciate both of you very much. This coming Friday, of course, Donald Trump will become our 45th president. And CNN will have all-day live coverage from the swearing- in to the inaugural address, plus the parade, the balls, and the first couple's first dance. It all starts Friday morning at 9:00 Eastern. Coming up here on CNN, a major development today involving the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. We have now learned that the wife of that attacker has been arrested today in California -- those details ahead. Also -- quote -- \"insurance for everyone,\" president-elect Trump says a plan to replace President Obama's signature health care law is nearly complete with the goal of insurance for all. Who pays for it? We will talk about that. And a final chapter for the World Series champion team the Chicago Cubs, a visit to the White Sox -- to the White House with noted White Sox fan President Obama -- how a presidential pardon was involved here. 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{"id": "CNN-336304", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2018-03-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/29/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview With Congressman Ted Lieu; Russia Retaliates; CNN: Mueller Pushed for Trump Campaign Deputy's Help in Probe of Possible Collusion with Russia", "utt": ["This as a lawyer allied with the Trump team is making new claims that could potentially hurt the president's own case. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We have breaking news this hour on the special counsel's investigation of possible collusion between the Trump camp and Russia. We're getting new information on the role of a key witness who's now cooperating with Robert Mueller's team. That would be the former Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates. I will get reaction from the House Judiciary Committee member Congressman Ted Lieu. And our correspondents and analysts, they are all standing by. Let's go to CNN justice correspondent Evan Perez and our political correspondent Sara Murray. Evan, what are you learning about Rick Gates and what Mueller wants from him?", "Well, Wolf, this came between discussions of Rick Gates and special prosecutor -- special counsel Robert Mueller. And this is months before Rick Gates pleaded guilty to charges in the special counsel's investigation. According to sources who talked to Kaitlan Collins, a court writer, Mueller told Gates that he had plenty of evidence against Paul Manafort. Of course, Paul Manafort was the former campaign chairman of the Trump campaign and as well as Gates' former business partner. He said he had plenty of evidence against Manafort. What he needed Gates' help with was the core mission of the special counsel, which is the ties between the Trump campaign -- alleged ties between the Trump campaign and the Russians. And, Wolf, what this means is that the special counsel is looking specifically at making the case of Russian collusion, that it has not gone away, despite what you hear from President Trump and from his allies.", "From Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee. They just wrapped up their own investigation. Are there any indications of how this is playing out with Gates?", "Well, we're beginning to see a little bit of that. We don't know exactly what Rick Gates has told the special counsel, but we're beginning to see this in some court filings this week, Wolf, especially in a separate case against a lawyer who has pleaded guilty to lying to the special prosecutor. In that court filing, the special counsel said that Rick Gates was in constant contact or is in frequent contact with someone who was known to be a Russian spy, essentially. And so what this tells us is, now we're seeing Robert Mueller is connecting the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort, directly to Russian spies. This is again the central mission that Robert Mueller was appointed to, which was to look into whether or not there were any ties, any special -- any coordination, illegal coordination, between members of the Trump campaign and Russia.", "What is it, Sara, that Gates might know that might be of specific interest to Robert Mueller, the special counsel?", "It's clear the special counsel thinks that Gates is going to be useful beyond just his business ties to Paul Manafort, beyond just flipping on his former business partner, and that he may have information about potential collusion or coordination between members of the Trump campaign and the Russian officials. One of the things to remember about Rick Gates is, President Trump was never particularly fond of him personally. He was obviously very close to Paul Manafort. He was also close to Tom Barrack, who is a close friend of President Trump. So, when they were on the campaign together, Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, Rick Gates wasn't necessarily in every meeting, every top strategy meeting. But he made it his business to know what was going on. So, for instance, during that summer, where there was the meeting at Trump Tower with a number of Russians, he may not have been in that meeting, but he may very well have heard about it. He may very well have heard about whether those Russians who were there for that meeting met with anyone else in the building. And the other thing to remember is that Gates stayed on the campaign longer than Manafort did. Even after he got fired, Gates still stuck around and he continued to remain in the Trump orbit and went on to work on the inauguration with Tom Barrack.", "He was there during the transition as well. So what could all this mean for the president?", "Well, obviously, we have heard the president call this investigation a witch-hunt. We have heard him complain that none of the charges that have come out so far have anything to do with collusion, anything to do with him and Russia, because, of course, Rick Gates and Paul Manafort are facing criminal charges that have to do with their business activities before 2016. But the fact that you now have this link between Rick Gates, between Paul Manafort, between this other person with ties to Russian intelligence, that tells you that there really is an investigation into collusion going on. This is the first sort of big sign that that is still something that Mueller is looking into seriously that's going to take some steam, I think, out of this argument that Mueller is looking into a bunch of things that have nothing to do with Russian collusion.", "Very interesting and very significant indeed. Guys, good reporting, as usual. Thank you very much. Also breaking tonight, the embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions resisting a lot of pressure to appoint a new special counsel to investigate allegations of misconduct within the FBI and the Justice Department. Sessions opting instead to name a federal prosecutor to look into conservative claims of anti-Trump bias. Let's go to our justice reporter Laura Jarrett, who is working this story for us. Laura, tell us more about Sessions' announcement just a little while ago.", "Well, Wolf, Sessions has managed to sidestep really a growing chorus of calls from Republicans on Capitol Hill who wanted a special counsel in the vein of Robert Mueller, and instead Sessions has opted to name a prosecutor in Utah. He's a veteran career prosecutor, John Huber, who was first appointed U.S. attorney There in Utah under the Obama administration and then reappointed under Trump. And he received wide bipartisan support at the time, but things have clearly changed and he's now entering this fierce partisan battle, with Democrats saying anything that distracts from Mueller is illegitimate, whereas Republicans say the Justice Department simply cannot investigate itself. Now, Sessions spent at least four pages explaining his decision here tonight, Wolf, explaining that Huber is a career federal prosecutor, but also outlining the standards for appointing a special prosecutor and the extreme bar that there is to appoint one, and clearly intimating here the standard is just not met. Now, he didn't foreclose the door completely. He explained that Huber has the ability to come to him and say that the circumstances warrant appointment of a special counsel, but that's clearly not the move right now. At least at this point, Wolf, we haven't heard anything from Capitol Hill. No Republicans from Congress have responded to the news and neither has the president.", "And I'm sure there will. There will be a lot of disappointment among these conservative Republicans and some leading figures in the conservative news media as well who insisted that a second special counsel was needed because you can't trust the career Justice Department officials to really get the job done. That was their allegation. Laura, thank you very much for that report. Let's talk about all these breaking stories with Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu. He serves on the Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committees. Congressman, how significant is it that the second special counsel that so many Republicans wanted was denied today by the attorney general?", "Thank you, Wolf, for your question. I think it is significant. This is basically a signal from Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he doesn't think there's a lot there for the appointment of a special counsel. And the Uranium One scandal, whether it's a scandal or not, has been looked at repeatedly. The Republicans do seem like they want to spend a lot of time trying to impeach Hillary Clinton, but she is not our president. She is a private citizen. They're trying to distract from the special counsel's investigation, and that's what we really need to be focused on.", "On the other breaking news that we had at the top of the hour, the special counsel, Robert Mueller, he's looking into information from Rick Gates, who has pled guilty, as you know, on possible collusion, not so interested on what Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman did, but on possible collusion. How significant is that?", "That is very significant. Keep in mind that Rick Gates was also the deputy campaign manager for the Trump campaign. He could have seen and heard a lot. He also stayed on with the campaign even after Manafort left. He was in contact with a person known to be a Russian spy and he knew to be a Russian agent. Let's see what Rick Gates says. There's also reporting today by Reuters that says the Mueller probe is looking into Russian contacts at the Republican National Convention. It's very clear Robert Mueller is looking at the collusion issue actively.", "What questions do you have right now about collusion between -- the alleged collusion, I should say, between the Trump campaign and the Russians?", "Well, we know that George Papadopoulos had advanced knowledge that the Russians had Hillary's e-mails. Who else in the Trump campaign knew that? We know that George Papadopoulos was communicating with some of the highest levels of the folks at the Trump campaign. Did any of them know about Hillary Clinton's e-mails that Russia had and were going to release, and did they act on that? Because, if they did, then that's conspiracy, that's collusion.", "As you know, Reuters is reporting that the special counsel, Robert Mueller, is also investigating Russia's role and possible influence at the 2016 Republican National Convention, when the then Senator Jeff Sessions, now attorney general, met with the Russian ambassador, Kislyak, among others. What does that tell you?", "So, there's been 1,000 stories on Russia. It can be quite complicated, but there are three things that are not disputed. One is that the Russians interfered with the U.S. elections in 2016 and they benefited the Trump campaign. We know the Trump campaign benefited Russia at the Republican National Convention by taking out language favorable to Ukraine and unfavorable to Russia. And thanks to a free press, we now know there's been communications between the two sides. The issue now is, was there some sort of understanding or quid pro quo between the Trump campaign and the Russians that they would mutually benefit each other?", "And getting back to the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, now ruling out a second special counsel, at least for now, I want you to listen to what the president's allies have been saying in recent days. Listen to this.", "The chairman and I have looked real close at the FBI investigation of the Clinton e-mail scandal. And I have come away believing that it was shoddily done, that there were conflicts of interest, that there was political bias that may have resulted in giving Clinton a pass. The Steele dossier was paid for by the Democratic Party through Fusion GPS. Mr. Steele had associates in Russia that could have easily compromised him. And we believe the FISA warrant process was abused. And the reason we want a special counsel is, I think crimes may have been committed.", "I call on us appointing a special counsel, a second one, to investigate the investigators.", "You're supposed to give the court the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I don't think they gave them the truth, so this needs investigating. The only remedy is a second special counsel.", "The FBI and Department of Justice aren't going to be putting the handcuffs on themselves. So, we need a second special counsel.", "Sources telling us tonight that there is a very high probability that Sessions in fact will act and that he will appoint a second special counsel.", "Well, he did not do that today. Do you believe, Congressman, the attorney general can survive in light of all that?", "I do. I have looked at a lot of the same evidence that these Republicans are alleging, and there's just not a lot \"there\" there in terms of the scandal, in terms of Hillary Clinton's e-mails. Whether or not anything improper happened, it's been looked at repeatedly. And then when it comes to the FISA warrant, we know that, from the Democratic memo, the Steele dossier was corroborated by multiple independent sources. That just ends the matter. So it's not clear to me why we need a special counsel to look at that matter again. I think Attorney General Sessions did absolutely the right thing.", "Well, when you say it was corroborated, you don't mean all the salacious details, the allegations in there? Was that corroborated?", "The parts that were used in the FISA warrant were corroborated.", "But none of the salacious details in there?", "That's correct. But as we sit here today, no one has actually said the Steele dossier is false. What they have said is, it's salacious. And more and more parts of it keep getting corroborated as time goes along.", "What would you do, Congressman, if the president were to fire the attorney general, Jeff Sessions?", "That would be obstruction of justice. And the only reason he would be doing that is to try to meddle with special counsel Robert Mueller. That would be an act that would be violative of the rule of law. I think people would take to the streets. And I urge the president not to do it. And, by the way, Senator Lindsey Graham, who you had played, also said the president should not do that as well.", "You're talking about firing Jeff Sessions or firing the special counsel, Robert Mueller?", "Right. Both.", "Both. OK. Congressman Ted Lieu, thanks very much for joining us.", "Thank you.", "Just ahead, we will more on this new twist in Robert Mueller's investigation, what the special counsel, Robert Mueller, is trying to learn from a cooperating witness and former Trump campaign official Rick Gates. And a federal judge denies a move by Stormy Daniels' attorney to question President Trump and his lawyer, Michael Cohen, about a hush money deal with the porn star. Is it just a temporary setback?"], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "THE SITUATION ROOM. ANNOUNCER", "BLITZER", "EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "PEREZ", "BLITZER", "SARA MURRAY, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "MURRAY", "BLITZER", "LAURA JARRETT, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "REP. TED LIEU (D), CALIFORNIA", "BLITZER", "LIEU", "BLITZER", "LIEU", "BLITZER", "LIEU", "BLITZER", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA", "REP. MARK MEADOWS (R), NORTH CAROLINA", "REP. JIM JORDAN (R), OHIO", "REP. MATT GAETZ (R), FLORIDA", "SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS", "BLITZER", "LIEU", "BLITZER", "LIEU", "BLITZER", "LIEU", "BLITZER", "LIEU", "BLITZER", "LIEU", "BLITZER", "LIEU", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-311143", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2017-04-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/28/es.04.html", "summary": "General Flynn Warned About Foreign Payments.", "utt": ["All right. New trouble this morning for former national security adviser Michael Flynn over his decision to accept payments from Turkey and Russia after he retired from the military. We have new information that the Pentagon inspector general has opened an investigation into the retired Army general and that the Defense Intelligence Agency warned Flynn back in 2014 against accepting foreign payments.", "That's according to documents obtained by the House Oversight Committee, released by ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings. He says the documents raise grave questions about why Flynn concealed the payments.", "When asked about all of this, Press Secretary Sean Spicer says he thinks it's \"appropriate\" for the Pentagon to look into Flynn if they think there is wrongdoing but questioned why Flynn wasn't more thoroughly vetted. Spicer pinned that on the Obama administration.", "He was issued a security clearance under the Obama administration in the spring of 2016. The trip and transactions that you're referring to occurred in December of 2015. All of that clearance was made by the Obama -- during the Obama administration and apparently with knowledge of the trip that he took.", "One source familiar with the case admits Flynn did make a mistake, failing to fill out the proper forms seeking permission to get paid by a Russian state T.V. channel for that 2015 trip to Moscow. But the source strongly denies any effort to conceal the payment and says Flynn briefed the Defense Intelligence Agency before and after that trip.", "Boy, that story is far from over. Time for a look at what's coming up on \"NEW DAY.\" Chris Cuomo joining us this morning. Great to see you, my friend, and again --", "Always.", "-- no shortage of news for you guys.", "You know, it is true. There are a lot of headlines but it's interesting, Dave, how they're starting to weave together, you know. This is coming into what we're seeing as a rhythm and a pattern coming out of the White House and how we are posturing as America, at home and around the world. Just recently we've seen the president take an aggressive stance and now, there's a new high point to that with North Korea. We're going to be live in Pyongyang with reaction to the president's comments about how there really could be an imminent bad situation between the two countries and their leaders. Plus, we're going to talk to the reporters who did interviews that are creating these headlines with the president, getting inside those conversations. Plus, the future of the Democratic Party. It is easy to stand back and watch the difficulties going on within the GOP right now and the White House, but what should they be doing to forward the American cause? Senator Bernie Sanders is helping to shape that answer. He's going to be on \"NEW DAY\" to be tested.", "Well, and you wonder, Chris, who is the Democratic leader on all of this? You can say what you will about the bad news for Republicans but it's worse for Democrats, you might argue.", "Well, fair point. When you are the out party you usually are a little bit more formless, right, because you have commander in chief -- you have the presidency as a putative head of your party's organization efforts, but that's not an excuse. At the end of the day if you want to make progress, which the Democrats have been big on, right -- they said they would be different than the years of obstruction -- the proof is in the performance.", "Right.", "All right.", "And what's their agenda?", "They are the wilderness who's going to lead them out. All right, Chris. Thank you so much. Nice to see you.", "Happy Friday.", "Yes, you too.", "And to you.", "All right, if you have money in the stock market, President Trump's policies are helping you make money. The investor class doing wonderfully under the presidency of the guy who won champion of the working class. How do the gains in the stock market, though, stack up against past presidents? We'll check -- get a check on CNN Money Stream next."], "speaker": ["BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "SEAN SPICER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN HOST", "BRIGGS", "CUOMO", "BRIGGS", "CUOMO", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "CUOMO", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-56755", "program": "CNN SUNDAY MORNING", "date": "2002-6-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/30/sm.07.html", "summary": "Security Heightened For Fourth of July", "utt": ["As Independence Day approaches, there is a heightened security about the possibility of a terrorist attack. We begin this hour with CNN law enforcement analyst Mike Brooks. If you have any questions, you can e-mail to us right now. We're monitoring the computer here at wam@cnn.com. We'll bring them right to you, or actually we'll try to answer them right now as Mike and I are talking. Good morning.", "Good morning.", "All right, let's talk first of all about what's happening in Washington, D.C. You were talking earlier about that, just the heightened security and the extra patrols.", "We're just going to be -- you've got a number of different police departments, 21 different police departments in Washington, D.C. I can guarantee you just about everyone of them is going to be working that day. You'll have close to 2,000 officers on the Mall itself, and around the Mall in the U.S. Capitol building you're going to have double snow fences, you know, the little red finances you see all the time, usually in Washington. They're going to have about 20 checkpoints around the different perimeters they have set up. So, it's going to be -- people are going to have a lot of patience, they're going to be checking coolers, back packs. So if there's something you don't want to be found, don't bring it to the Mall on the Fourth of July. And you're also -- the FBI is also going to be prestaged. They're going to have some of their assets prestaged. SWAT, their national Capitol response team, they can monitor weapons of mass destruction: chemical, biological, radiological. And don't be surprised if there's also some monitoring going on of the air in Washington, around the -- around the Mall area. That wouldn't surprise me at all either.", "Well, on that note. This first e-mail that came across, and you and I were talking about this. It comes from Dale. He says, \"Hope you can pass this on to someone who can look at it, if they haven't already. Has anyone looked into fireworks as a way to spread weapons of mass destruction? Deliver them to people all over the U.S. at almost the same time, even though the effects may not be seen for days.\"", "Well, most of the fireworks companies that the government has been using for some of the large displays in the country, they've been using them for years. The Grucci brothers and then other companies such as that, are very small, independent companies. Also the days prior to that, when they're setting the fireworks up in Washington and New York city, the bomb squads from those police departments are there right along with the people from the fireworks company, making sure that everything is done properly, and making sure that they are safeguarded. And they're guarded -- once they bring it in, they put it them on the barges, they set them at the base of the monument. Also in New York city, on the barges, they're guarded 24 hours, seven days a week to make sure something like this does not happen.", "All right, e-mail No. 2. This comes from Dennis: \"How will the Civil Air Patrol, the Auxiliary of the USAF, be used in homeland security?\"", "That's a good question. The Civil Air Patrol is another -- it's a more eyes and ears in the air, if you will. I equate the Civil Air Patrol similar to the Coast Guard Auxiliary in the water. During the holiday seasons like this, you're going to see Coast Guard, and you're also going to see Coast Guard Auxiliary, which are citizens like you and me that have extra training, that possibly were in the Coast Guard before, that are out there helping to enforce some of the maritime laws, and some of the boating safety laws. But the Civil Air Patrol can also be used in the same way. They're used for search and rescue in areas like Arizona, Utah, Colorado, when planes are missing, people are missing. Again, they're another useful tool and a way that citizens can help to volunteer, as the president's been talking about. Volunteerism is strong, that's another way that people can volunteer.", "OK, Dan Black (ph) wants to know, from Chicago: \"Why are we soft on Syria, Lebanon, Iran and the Saudis?\" You spent a lot of time in Saudi Arabia.", "Yes, I spent time there in 1996 after the bombing of the Khobar Towers complex. And back then there was talk that the Saudis weren't being totally cooperative. Well, I have to agree with them on a certain extent. Now, I think we have been tough on Iran, we've been -- all the sanctions we have against them in Syria, Lebanon -- here in the United States, we've been trying to cut the funding of Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon. We've cut their funding, we've put sanctions against them, even put people in jail and deported them out of the U.S. for supporting terrorism in, you know, in Lebanon, Syria.", "Ken, United States Marine Corps, you know this is going to be hard core: \"I am very upset at all the talk I hear about stepping up security on the 4th. Security is a 24 hour, 365 day a year job. 9/11 was not a holiday. We're becoming complacent in degrading security. Why have we degraded security? Because nothing has happened in so long. We stood down the jets and could have had another plane crash. Why must we always be reactive instead of proactive?\" He makes a strong point.", "He sure does and I think on the proactive side of things, that's what we're talking about, with the reorganization of the FBI. But one of the things, too, you know, I say this all the time: Americans traditionally will become complacent if something doesn't happen -- if something doesn't happen six months to a year down the road after a major event, people kind of get lulled back into a false sense of security. I say that all the time. Sometimes we need to be poked with a stick. People in Europe, you know, in England they live with the threat of terrorism all the time. Same as in Israel. And I think things have changed since 9/11 and Americans are going to have to change the way they think things, and they're going to have to have more of a security mind-set. And complacency can get you killed.", "All right, Margaret wants to know: \"When are we going to stop issuing visas to persons living in countries on the terrorist watch list. According to the State Department, 50,000 visas were issued to Middle Easterners in the six months following 9/11.\" We can't confirm those numbers, but this is what Margaret is writing to us.", "Well, they're taking much more scrutiny on the front end of things, at the U.S. Embassies in the different countries. They're not just giving visas out the way they used to. They're also -- there's a number of countries where we had a visa waiver program, such as Germany, England. They still can travel freely within those countries, but they are scrutinizing much more -- much more scrutiny of the people they're giving visas to. And you look at the countries that are on the -- that are considered to be state sponsors of terrorism: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Sudan, North Korea and Cuba. You're not getting visas -- people from those countries are not getting visas to come to the United States.", "All right, when you think about what happened at the Olympics, now I can relate. This e-mail coming across from Candice (ph) right now: \"I'll be attending the Atlanta, Georgia, Fourth of July baseball game with the Braves.\" I'm going to be there, too. Candice I'll be looking for you. \"What are the chances of terrorists trying to make an attack against the stadium?\" It's true, we think about sporting events, gathers a lot of people...", "Sure, there have been movies made about it...", "\"The Sum of All Fears.\"", "Exactly.", "There you go.", "Exactly. And there's always that possibility. But it's just like at the Fourth of July celebrations, people are going to have to be vigilant, people are going to have to realize if they see something, an unattended package, to report it to the police, report it to security personnel there. Also, coming to the game, make sure you get there early, because I'm sure that they will be scrutinizing people's packages and backpacks. They tell you don't bring backpacks and coolers, and those kind of things. You know, just -- if there's any problem at all, go on the Web site for the Atlanta Braves and they can tell you what kind of items are prohibited and what not to bring to the game. And allow yourself enough time. And don't get mad at the security personnel and the law enforcement people, they're there doing a job and they are there to protect them.", "Good point. Also, a side note, you probably know about this, but last year I did a story on the weapons of mass destruction team with the National Guard, and they practiced -- they used the Braves stadium as a place to practice so, you know, that's even a little added bonus for the folks coming here.", "Absolutely, I know that morning -- I remember when it was going on...", "OK, you remember the training? It was incredible. The helicopters and the ground troops, the whole bit.", "The folks at", "All right, Mike Brooks, thanks again.", "Kyra, good to see you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "MIKE BROOKS, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "PHILLIPS", "BROOKS", "PHILLIPS", "BROOKS", "PHILLIPS", "BROOKS", "PHILLIPS", "BROOKS", "PHILLIPS", "BROOKS", "PHILLIPS", "BROOKS", "PHILLIPS", "BROOKS", "PHILLIPS", "BROOKS", "PHILLIPS", "BROOKS", "PHILLIPS", "BROOKS", "PHILLIPS", "BROOKS", "PHILLIPS", "BROOKS"]}
{"id": "CNN-335857", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-03-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/24/cnr.22.html", "summary": "Spending Bill Does Not Address DACA Dilemma; Ex-Playmate Speaks about Affair with Trump", "utt": ["Coast to coast and live around the world, you're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm George Howell.", "I'm Natalie Allen. Thanks for saying with us. Here are our top stories.", "The government has avoided a shutdown, at least until October, after President Donald Trump signed into law a massive spending bill to keep federal agencies up and running, emphasis on massive here because the bill is a 2,200-page monster.", "You wonder how many in Washington read it. It details $1.3 trillion of government spending. Mr. Trump had threatened to veto it just before signing it the president made this promise.", "I say to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this again. I'm not going to do it again. Nobody read it. It's only hours old. Some people don't even know what -- $1.3 trillion.", "Despite the president's misgivings, a large increase in military spending won him over. He also received $1.6 billion for border security.", "But the bill does not address the dilemma of so-called DREAMers. Their protection from deportation was taken away by President Trump last year leaving them in limbo. Yet the president said Democrats were to blame. Listen.", "DACA recipients have been treated extremely badly by the Democrats. We wanted to include DACA. We wanted to have them in this bill. 800,000 people. And actually it could even be more. And we wanted to include DACA in this bill. The Democrats would not do it. They would not do it.", "The Trump administration is once again trying to block transgender people from serving in the United States military. Last year an all-out ban against transgender persons was blocked in federal court. The new policy is directed at those who require surgery or medication specific to being transgender.", "Here is part of the White House statement. \"Transgender persons with a history of diagnosis of gender dysphoria, individuals who the policies state may require substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery, are disqualified from military service except under certain limited circumstances.\"", "No doubt, fair to say this is almost certain to spark another legal battle in the courts. The American Civil Liberties Union immediately denounced it as \"reckless and unconstitutional.\"", "Stormy Daniels' attorney says he has proof his client had a sexual affair with Donald Trump. He offered an intriguing hint at what that is. Daniels, a porn actress, is suing the president --", "-- over a non-disclosure agreement she says is void. Mr. Trump denies an affair took place.", "But then Daniels' attorney tweeted this image, an image of a disk. He didn't say what that disk contains. But read the tweet's caption, \"If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is this worth?\"", "That DVD contains evidence substantiating the relationship and the tweet is a warning shot. I want to be really clear about this. It is a warning shot. And it is a warning shot to Michael Cohen and anyone else associated with President Trump, that they'd better be very, very careful after Sunday night, relating to what they say about my client and what spin or lies they attempt to tell the American people.", "That is the attorney for Stormy Daniels. And a former \"Playboy\" model is speaking out about her alleged 10-month affair with the president. He denies this as well.", "Karen McDougal is suing the publisher of the \"National Enquirer\" tabloid, which she says bought her story just to kill it, thereby protecting the candidacy of Donald Trump. Her attorney calls it collusion.", "We're going to litigate and do what we need to do get to the bottom to the extent to which there was collusion between this quarter-billion dollar company that's owned by a personal friend of Mr. Trump, a lawyer that, not coincidentally, represented the players here, who are negotiating with Trump people and Michael Cohen.", "Let's talk more about the developments in Washington, D.C., involving the president. Many things to discuss. Amy Greene is a researcher of U.S. political science and author of \"America after Obama.\" She is live for us in Paris. Amy, good to see you, thanks for being with us. You're a political scientist. I don't know where this issue comes up in your professional career. But we'll talk about the two women, who say that they had affairs with Donald Trump many years ago and they are giving interviews on the record this week. Will this be an issue that catches up with him in any significant way, do you think?", "Stormy Daniels and now I think Karen McDougal is a slow-burning issue for the president. We've been talking about this for a week now, about the fact that this just won't go away for the president. Clearly Stormy Daniels is not going away. She is not threatened by the president. She is not threatened by this non-disclosure agreement, which many experts have questioned the authority of it, suggesting that it amounts effectively to a gag order. And so essentially you have this person, who is absolutely not afraid to persist, to continue to fight this battle in court, taking the risk that the judge might force her back into private arbitration but also with the potential victory from her of having this open to a public disclosure, you know, process. And so that could mean naming defendants, naming her that her party sees as responsible for this, potentially deposing the president. So this week has been a particularly whirlwind week in a series of whirlwind weeks for Washington. But this seems to be the slow-burning issue that isn't going away very quickly. At this point, I'm not sure that many people in the United States and public opinion actually doubt that this affair happened. But the legal ramifications of it are certainly not likely to go away anytime soon.", "Right. He has been very quiet over it. No tweets, no comment, and that's not characteristic. But let's move on to the next issue and that is the revolving door inside this White House. He is bringing in John Bolton as the next national security adviser to the president. The reaction in Washington has been swift. He is considered a dangerous person for this job because of his positions he's had in the past on Iran and North Korea. What do you think about Bolton being seated next to this U.S. president?", "This is a person who was questioned by the Republican Party as far back ago as 2005, when George W. Bush was seeking to nominate him, and somebody who inspires a degree of fear in terms of the opinion and proximity he will have to the president. Obviously as national security adviser, he is supposed to be the fair broker, filtering information coming in from the different defense and intelligence agencies, presenting to the president a host of options and function of that intelligence. So really this has to be a firewall for the president and, again, someone who will give him the honest truth about any number of issues but pulling from, again, the expertise of different agencies. One of the doubts, even the Republican Party mentioned and wrote about this more than a decade ago, is John Bolton's tendency to distort facts in order to paint a more bellicose picture of reality so as to prepare either leadership or the American people for --", "-- military conflict. So essentially what you have is President Trump, you know, filling his foreign policy team -- and you can talk about Pompeo and Haspel as well, with people who really are going away from what President Trump mentioned during his candidacy, which was less American interventionism. And what you have is a purely hawkish team. So going into these talks with North Korea, you can ask yourself the question, who is the president bringing along with him? And if you have advisers who are particularly hawkish toward North Korea, John Bolton called for a strike against North Korea before it had the opportunity to develop fully its nuclear capacities, you can wonder what message the president is sending. But in any case, one thing that we might be able to conclude or to deduce is that the president is effectively beginning now to surround himself with like-minded people rather than going through the motions of surrounding himself with fair brokers. You can say that he has more ideological compatible advisers and secretaries around him.", "You mentioned North Korea. What will this mean to the upcoming talks having Bolton in the picture? We'll wait and see. Amy Greene, we appreciate your analysis. Thank you for joining us.", "Thank you, Natalie.", "CNN travels along with the U.S. Navy as they prepare for joint military exercises with South Korea. We'll have a look inside -- aboard, rather, the U.S.S. Wasp -- ahead.", "Plus it's one of the most important ocean organisms you've never heard of. Why a tiny creature living in the waters off Antarctica is so vital to the environment. Our Arwa Damon reports -- coming up."], "speaker": ["HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "TRUMP", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "MICHAEL AVENATTI, STORMY DANIELS' ATTORNEY", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ALLEN", "AMY GREENE, SCIENCES PO", "ALLEN", "GREENE", "GREENE", "ALLEN", "GREENE", "HOWELL", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-218964", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2013-11-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/18/acd.01.html", "summary": "Flynt Shooter Set To Be Executed", "utt": ["Crime and Punishment tonight, on Wednesday, a convicted murderer is scheduled to die by lethal injection in Missouri. Now you may not be familiar with his name, Joseph Paul Franklin, you may not know the names of the 20-something people he killed, in the name of hate, of White Supremacy. You may have heard the name of one of the victims, Hustler's magazine founder, Larry Flint, who is actually now fighting to stop his execution. CNN's Kyung Lah spoke with Franklin on death row.", "I threw the magazine down on the coffee table, I said I'm going to kill that guy.", "The single unwavering drive in Joseph Paul Franklin, murder. His target, Larry Flint, infamous pornographer, founder and publisher of \"Hustler\" magazine, which in 1977 featured this controversial photo spread.", "I saw this photo of an inter racial couple having sex. It just made me sick.", "Franklin, his hair wild, his gaze unwavering, unblinkingly recalled from death row his murderous spree driven by a hate for Jews, blacks, any whites associated with them. He was a sniper, carrying his rifle and scope in guitar cases. In St. Louis, he gunned down Gerald Gordon. In Madison, Wisconsin, a young interracial couple. In Salt Lake City, Franklin killed two young black men who were jogging with white female friends. In Cincinnati, Ohio, children were not spared, 13 and 14-year-old cousins. Even civil rights leader, Vernon Jordan, shot with Franklin's sniper rifle, but survived. Larry Flint was a target for the white supremacist. (on camera): So you hunted him down?", "Yes, I hunted him down.", "You remember the shots ringing out?", "Yes, well, just sort of like a hot poker hitting me in my stomach.", "Flint will never forget March 6, 1978, as he walked to a courthouse where he was facing obscenity charges. The shots like most of Franklin's targets came from a distance. Flynt would barely survive the two bullets that struck him. He would never walk again. By the time the police finally arrested Franklin in September, 1980, at least 22 people were dead. Days away from his execution, Franklin spoke to me from death row about his three-year killing spree.", "Three years, the time Jesus was on his mission from the time he was 30 to 33.", "And what was your mission?", "Well, to try to get a race war started.", "Franklin showed me a tattoo, dated with time. You can still make out that it is a Grim Reaper. (on camera): Do you think you're a hero to those hate groups?", "Well, that is what they tell me, you know. I would rather people like me than not like me. I would rather be loved than hated.", "Even though they're the Nazi parties, and other hate groups.", "Yes, and they are not the only ones who love me though.", "Do you feel any hate looking at me?", "Looking at you?", "I'm not white.", "Yes, but I have no feeling whatsoever, hatred toward you, especially not a female. You know what I mean.", "You shot plenty of women?", "Yes, I know, I know, that is true. You have got a point.", "Franklin says he is no longer a racist, that he was wrong and sorry for his crimes. He now wants mercy, fighting his upcoming execution any way he can. There is almost no one in his corner, except? (on camera): If you could stop it would you stop it?", "Yes, I would say put him in prison for the rest of his life.", "Why? Principle, he is against the death penalty. Amazingly, Flynt has filed a lawsuit trying to stop his own shooter's death, but don't mistake all of this for mercy. (on camera): Is that how you see this? That you're forgiving him at all?", "I'm not showing him anything, if it was not Joseph Paul Franklin and some other person that shot me my feelings would be the same.", "And what does Franklin think about the man who he tried to kill but has never met and is now fighting for his life?", "My old pal, Larry.", "I'm pretty sure he wouldn't refer to you as \"your old pal.\"", "I like Larry.", "But it appears even Flynt's efforts won't stop what awaits Franklin.", "Most people out there are heading for a burning hell and they don't know it.", "Do you think something lies for you on the other side after November 20th?", "Yes, it is not a burning hell. I'm serving the Lord.", "I think we're about out of time.", "Well, let's not say that. You just --", "Time is important to you now, isn't it?", "Yes, yes, it has been for a long time. And maybe we'll meet again sometime.", "Kyung Kah joins me now. This is really fascinating that you were there. Did he seem sorry about the killings because he didn't seem to be during the interview?", "Yes, it was really apparent, he would say the words, but certainly he didn't show it. Now, he has had 30 years to think about it. But certainly that apparent sadness was not visible on his face.", "And I know you have news out of the governor's office regarding the execution. What have you heard?", "What we have heard out of the governor's office this evening, in fact, is request for clemency out of the governor's office has officially been denied. The court, he has filed with the district security, but as of this airing right now nothing is stopping November 20th. He is scheduled to be executed at 12:01.", "Kyung, appreciate the update. Thank you very much. Up next, confusion over new statin guidelines that could affect millions of people, Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins us next."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "JOSEPH PAUL FRANKLIN, DEATH ROW INMATE", "KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "FRANKLIN", "LAH", "FRANKLIN", "LAH", "LARRY FLYNT, PUBLISHER, \"HUSTLER\" MAGAZINE", "LAH (voice-over)", "FRANKLIN", "LAH (on camera)", "FRANKLIN", "LAH (voice-over)", "FRANKLIN", "LAH", "FRANKLIN", "LAH", "FRANKLIN", "LAH", "FRANKLIN", "LAH", "FRANKLIN", "LAH (voice-over)", "FLYNT", "LAH (voice-over)", "FLYNT", "LAH (voice-over)", "FRANKLIN", "LAH (on camera)", "FRANKLIN", "LAH (voice-over)", "FRANKLIN", "LAH (on camera)", "FRANKLIN", "LAH", "FRANKLIN", "LAH", "FRANKLIN", "LAH", "LAH", "COOPER", "LAH", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-209548", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2013-6-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/25/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Court Halts Key Civil Rights Law", "utt": ["Our second story, OUTFRONT, quote, \"our country has changed\" with those four words, Chief Justice John Roberts and four other Supreme Court justices struck down a key part of the voting rights act of 1965. Roberts cited census data that show this. The data showed that black voter turnout now exceeds white voter turnout in five of the six states that were originally covered by the voting rights act. The Obama administration quickly expressed its disappointment with the ruling.", "I am deeply disappointed, deeply disappointed with the court's decision in this matter. This decision represents a serious setback for voting rights and has the potential to negatively affect millions of Americans across the country.", "All right, what does this ruling mean for the civil rights movement? Our senior legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin is here. All right, Jeff, so they cite the census data, saying look, essentially the Voting Rights Act worked. We've got voter turnout", "Well, I think they're very different. I do think they really kind of punted on affirmative action case. They didn't really want to deal with it. They're leaving the status quo more or less intact for the short term. The Voting Rights Act is very different. That is a very big deal. The Voting Rights Act changed America like almost no law in history. And one of the key parts of it was, they said, look, this part of the country, essentially, the South can not be trusted to enforce the law. So we are essentially going to -- we are going to make you come to Washington when you want to do anything, any sort of change, and we are going to have to approve it first. That process is called pre- clearance. That is now over. They say they kicked it back to Congress. But this Congress, Republican House, is never going pass the Voting Rights Act again. So this is now over.", "But when they say the country has changed, obviously some things about it, abhorrently, have not. But some things have. It looks like voter turnout in the South is among them. So why should they have to get pre-clearance?", "Hovering over this whole case is an African-American president of the United States. Something that was so unthinkable in 1965 that it wasn't even something that people contemplated. So that is a big part of this case. But if you look at the statistics of who actually runs these states, and who makes the decisions about voting, and especially in recent years, you've seen so many efforts at voter suppression aimed largely at African-Americans and low income people that's what the civil rights community is so worried about about the fallout of what this may be. And you have already seen in Mississippi, in Alabama, in Texas, local officials saying we are changing the laws, and they're all in a direction to make it harder to vote.", "Fascinating. And of course, gerrymandering happens.", "Yes indeed.", "All over the country.", "All over the country. And that's -- and that now, the Justice Department will have to step in aggressively instead of having it come to them as a matter of course.", "All right. Well thank you very much, Jeffrey Toobin. Of course, let us know what you think about this hugely significant move out of the Supreme Court. Well now to the trial of accused Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger. Today it took a personal turn. There was testimony from relatives of some of his alleged murder victims. One widow giving testimony about the last time she saw her husband. He was headed to meet up with Winter Hill, which was Bulger's alleged criminal gang. But he never came home. Deb Feyerick is OUTFRONT. As you know, she has been in the courtroom covering this trial. Deb, this victim also had ties to showbiz royalty. I mean, this case just gets stranger and stranger.", "Yes, you know, it really is, Erin. And what is a mob trial without at least one reference to mafia darling Frank Sinatra? Today, one of the 19 victims Bulger allegedly killed was the nightclub owner Richard Castucci. Castucci was golf buddies with Sammy Davis Jr. And when Sammy got married, Castucci met Frank Sinatra, who was also at the wedding. Now, the photo was introduced to day in court. And the widow of the nightclub owner sobbed audibly and there was a huge, pregnant pause in the courtroom today. She testified, as you mentioned, that the last time she saw her husband alive, he told her he was on his way to meet with the Bulger gang. She never saw him again. It is important because a couple years ago, she filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the FBI and was awarded $2 million because she was able to show the FBI -- a crooked agent provided Bulger information that her husband was informing. And that's when Bulger allegedly had husband killed. So that was a key piece of testimony that the jury heard today, Erin.", "And Deb, before you go, yesterday you were talking about how Bulger was muttering under his breath with the f word, I'm not an f informant. I'm not - he was very agitated about the government's witnesses saying he was. Did he have reaction today?", "He was much less agitated today. One of the reasons is because his defense lawyer was the one in charge of the questioning. Part of their strategy is to basically look at his 700-page FBI informant file and try to convince the jury that in fact all of it was fabricated. That it was this crooked FBI agent who was basically taking bits and pieces of information and basically putting it into a file that was supposed to be Bulger's. Well, there's a lot of evidence to the contrary. A lot of information that Bulger indeed was an informant. But what they're really trying to do is they did get a federal investigator today to acknowledge that he did not verify each piece of information individually. But also they got him to acknowledge that in fact parts of the file were likely falsified. Not the parts when Bulger is talking about other people's criminal activity, simply when he is talking about his own criminal activity and that involved his relationship with this crooked FBI agent, Erin.", "All right. Thank you very much. Deb Feyerick, covering that trial. And still to come, the latest developments from the George Zimmerman trial tonight. This afternoon, the jury saw some very graphic photos of Trayvon's body. Plus, a flight from Zurich was - well, had $1.2 million on it, they say. But when the flight landed in New York, the money was gone. Clues next. And your digital life may be killing you. Proof of what your cell phone is doing to your brain right now."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "ERIC HOLDER, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL", "BURNETT", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST", "BURNETT", "TOOBIN", "BURNETT", "TOOBIN", "BURNETT", "TOOBIN", "BURNETT", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BURNETT", "FEYERICK", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-249788", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2015-02-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/20/es.01.html", "summary": "Spring Mosul Offensive; Obama: Muslim Nations Must Undercut Terror; Road Rage Arrest; Cold Snap Freezing Eastern U.S.", "utt": ["A surprising reveal from the Pentagon. Iraq's military planning to try to take back a key city in Iraq from ISIS this spring. So why are they telling us this so early?", "A shocking arrest in the deadly road rage case in Arizona. A 19-year-old suspect now accused of shooting his neighbor. The victim's husband expressing outrage saying his wife had tried to help her accused killer.", "And this morning, 185 million Americans feeling the bitter, bitter cold. Freeze warnings issued across several states. New warnings about dangerous road conditions. This one is cold and ugly. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm John Berman.", "And I'm Christine Romans. It is Friday -- Friday -- February 20th. It is 4:00 a.m. in the East.", "That was such a meek Friday.", "I know, but I mean, it's cold. It was a meek cold Friday. But it is Friday. New this morning, the Pentagon revealing plans to force ISIS out of Iraq's second largest city Mosul. U.S. military officials telling CNN some 20,000 to 25,000 Iraqi troops could be committed to retaking Mosul just months from now. This leads to the question whether any American troops could be involved. Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr tracking that story for us -- Barbara.", "John and Christine, the Pentagon offering details about an upcoming military operation in Iraq. Iraqi forces now getting ready to try to retake Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, ISIS capturing it last year. Now, the plan is for five Iraqi brigades, plus additional Iraqi forces, more than 20,000 troops to try to go to Mosul, perhaps as soon as early April or May. Pretty specific information. More than 20,000 troops. There were also Peshmerga forces who will try to cut off any ISIS escape routes north and west of Mosul. The big question, of course, is what role will U.S. troops play besides the ongoing coalition air strikes? Still on the table, not decided, no recommendation to President Obama, is whether there will be a small group of U.S. military advisers going to Mosul, functioning as target spotters, helping the Iraqi forces spot those ISIS targets on the ground. It's a populated area. The Iraqis may need help in figuring out exactly where ISIS is. Again, raising the specter in the minds of some that it will bring U.S. troops, perhaps, closer to a combat environment. The Pentagon says it's revealing all of this information to show the commitment that Iraqi forces have to the battle -- John, Christine.", "Thanks to Barbara Starr for that. President Obama continuing to walk a fine line in his summit on violent extremism. The president called on Islamic nations to work harder to undercut the root causes of terrorism. The president is pushing back against identifying terrorism -- his refusal to identify terrorism as Islamic. Senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta has the latest from Washington.", "John and Christine, he didn't use the words Islamic terrorism or extremism, but President Obama called on Muslim and Arab nations to start doing a better job of pushing back on what he repeatedly called lies from al Qaeda and ISIS. In a speech of his countering violent extremism summit to hundreds of world leaders at the State Department, the president said the U.S.-led coalition will continue pounding ISIS with air strikes. But he argued, the Islamic world must take aim at the underlying reasons for radicalism, from income inequality, to the lack of democratic freedoms. Of course, it should be noted, many of the countries where the problems exist also happen to be members of the president's coalition against ISIS. Still, the president did prod those Muslim partners to develop a more effective counter-message to the terrorists who are now all over social media. Here's what the president had to say.", "None of us, I think, should be immune from criticism in terms of specific policies. But the notion that the West is at war with Islam is an ugly lie. And all of us, regardless of our faith, have a responsibility to reject it.", "Now, all critics have pounced on the president's refusal to use the term \"Islamic terrorism\" or variations of that phrase. And as soon as the president wrapped his remarks today, Arizona Republican Senator John McCain jumped in on Twitter, saying the notion that radical Islam is not at war with the West is an ugly lie -- using the president's words there. The White House had hoped to make great strides this week in communicating an inclusive message to the Islamic world. But it's a message that had to battle against this debate over semantics that the president seemed determined to have -- John and Christine.", "All right. Our thanks to Jim. Breaking news this morning: two trains had collided north of Zurich in Switzerland. There are reports of many injuries, also carriages pushed off the train tracks. We're going to bring you more information as soon as it becomes available.", "All right. This morning, pro-Russian rebels maintain control of the crucial rail hub of Debaltseve in Eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian government calls the rebel's battle for the city is a breach of the cease-fire they agreed to just last week. So, the question this morning is -- will the separatists put down their arms now they have Debaltseve? Or will they try to grab more territory? For the very latest, let's bring in senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh, live for us from Donetsk, in Eastern Ukraine. Nick, what are you seeing this morning?", "It is strangely quiet here in the rebel strong hold of Donetsk. Last night, that was not the case -- intense shelling heard in the night and the day as well. And that begged the question, really, once we saw the separatists now fully in control of Debaltseve. That's a town that is being frankly brutalized by the violence that's been swirling this two week encirclement by the separatists until they force the Ukrainian army now. Now, the separatists have Debaltseve. Does that mean the violence stops? Well, it doesn't seem that was the case last night, both ingoing and outgoing rounds we heard here. That violence is still raging. We are almost a week now potentially into the supposed cease-fire, a remarkable situation that we still have world leaders referring to this as a truce despite that violence. And also questions for the government in Kiev. They made a clear decision to leave hundred if not thousands of troops in Debaltseve during the Minsk agreements, knowing perhaps that they would eventually be surrounded by the separatists, the far superior military force, because Ukraine and NATO, it is backed by the Russian military and staffed equipped by them. That fight was lost by them, but we don't know how many troops were lost in that fight at this stage. There are some preliminary figures coming out from the government. But suggestions from the rebels exaggerated. It has been a bloody period in the fight in Ukraine here. And they it happened during a supposed cease-fire. Back to you.", "During a supposed ceasefire. Nick Paton Walsh, thank you for that this morning from Donetsk, Ukraine.", "Breaking overnight: the government of Venezuela has arrested the mayor of that country's capital Caracas. A Venezuelan military source confirms that intelligence agents arrested Mayor Antonio Ledezma and raided his office because of his alleged involvement in the coup against President Nicolas Maduro. In a televised address, Maduro accused the U.S. of involvement in that alleged coup. But a spokesperson calls those claims baseless and false. This arrest comes on the one-year anniversary of anti- government demonstrations that really rocked that country, rocked Venezuela, leading to the arrests of the opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. Overnight, President Bill Clinton tweeted called for the release of Lopez and other political prisoners in Venezuela without delay.", "Police in Las Vegas arrested a suspect in a road rage incidents that left a mother of four dead. Nineteen-year-old Erich Nowsch taken into custody after a brief standoff with police at his house. His house just one street away from the home of victim Tammy Meyers. Meyers' husband Robert emotionally overcome during the standoff lashing out at the media for what he felt blaming his wife and son for escalating the confrontation with her accused killer.", "Are you all happy? You made my wife look like an animal and my son. There's the animal a block away! Are you happy?", "After Nowsch's arrest, Robert Meyers spoke out, revealing that his wife knew the suspect from a local park. He said she had tried to help him.", "My wife spent countless hours at this park consoling this boy. He is probably watching this right now and I know he's got to feel bad because she was really good to him. She fed him. She gave him money. She told him to pull his pants up and to be a man.", "Las Vegas police are looking for a second suspect this morning. They believe Nowsch was the shooter.", "FOX News Bill O'Reilly defending himself from what he is calling his Brian Williams problem. Left-leaning \"Mother Jones\" is calling him less than honest reporting from Argentina for CBS during the 1982 Falklands war. He was in Argentina, he never actually made it to the Falkland islands. Few reporters ever did. \"Mother Jones\" edited together its evidence posted it on its Web site and on YouTube. O'Reilly calls the article's author a liar and claims he never said he's actually in the Falkland. I encourage to read the story, read the accounts here, because there are statements where he said war zone and combat, things like that, never did say, as far as I can tell, he was in or on the Falkland islands, but it's an interesting read.", "All right. Ten minutes past the hour. The FDA issuing a warning about a deadly superbug. Health officials say improperly cleaned medical scopes inserted down the throat may be infecting patients with a deadly drug-resistant bacteria. Now, the warning comes after California hospital officials reported several people, including two who died, were infected with the superbug CRE which was linked to improperly sterilized scopes at UCLA Medical Center. A federal advisory board is urging the government to tax sugary drinks and foods. A report published by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee -- that's a flashy name -- recommends the consumers keep their added sugar intake to no more than 10 percent of their total daily calories. The report also says that the caffeine and few cups of coffee could actually be good for you. That's why I feel so damn good.", "And this last point, the committee also said they are backing off stricter limits of salt.", "You with the bag of potato chips and two cups of coffee over here.", "We are healthy. We are healthy.", "Good times here on", "All right. Time for an early start on your money. European stocks mostly lower right now. Today is the E.U.'s deadline for the debt deal with Greece after weeks of negotiations falling apart. U.S. futures really aren't moving very much yet. Rumors are flying this morning about the Apple car. Apple accused of poaching employees from a company that makes batteries for electric cars. And according to Bloomberg, Apple wants to start production of an electric vehicle by year 2020. It would compete with Tesla and electric vehicles in development by General Motors and others. Remember, Apple wasn't the first to make a digital music player, wasn't the first to make a smartphone, but Apple revolutionizes those products. Now, Apple could be attempting to do the same thing for electric cars. Watch this space.", "The unbearable cold weather hitting 30 states this morning creating dangerous conditions, icy roads. The police release this dash cam video showing, wow, just how dangerous it all is. 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{"id": "CNN-108522", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-7-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0607/21/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Israel Massing Troops Along Lebanese Border for Possible Ground Invasion; Lebanese President Vows Country Will Defend Itself Against Israeli Ground Invasion; President Bush, Condoleezza Rice to Meet With Saudi Officials; Haifa Residents Jolted by Rocket Attacks", "utt": ["Ali, thanks. To our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM, where new pictures and information are arriving all the time. Standing by, CNN reporters across the United States and around the world to bring you today's top stories. Happening now, it's 11:00 p.m. in Israel and Lebanon where Israeli troops and tanks are now massed along the Lebanese border. Is the start of a full-fledged ground war between Israel and Hezbollah? It's 4:00 p.m. here in Washington, where Condoleezza Rice warns against an immediate cease-fire and says she's looking for a lasting peace. This as the secretary of state packs for a diplomatic mission to the Middle East. And it's midnight in Baghdad, where there's been absolutely no let up in another deadly conflict in the region. Iraqis suffering through one of the bloodiest weeks since the fall of Saddam Hussein. I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Day 10 of open warfare between Israel and Hezbollah and critical new developments in the story today. There's now open talk of a possible full scale Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. Israel is calling up thousands of reserve troops and massing them along the Lebanese border. And Lebanon's president says his army is ready to defend against the ground invasion. Meanwhile Hezbollah rockets are falling on towns in northern Israel once again today, injuring at least 19 people earlier in the day in Haifa. Israeli officials say 34 people have been killed in the 10 days of fighting. Israel is responding with new air strikes on targets inside Lebanon. The Israeli Defense Forces report at least 40 such strikes in the last few hours alone. Lebanese officials say 261 people have been killed in the fighting in Lebanon. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she will leave Sunday for the Middle East to meet with key players. But she says she won't be pursuing an immediate cease-fire. She calls that, quote, a false promise. We're covering all angles of the story with reporters in all of the key locations. Standing by live in this hour for us in all of those locations. Ed Henry, standing by at the White House. Ben Wedeman is in Beirut. Christiane Amanpour is in northern Israel. Andrea Koppel is on Capitol Hill. Let's begin in northern Israel with Christiane. Christiane what happened today?", "Well Wolf, coupled with the idea that Condoleezza Rice is coming to the Middle East and is allowing this green light to continue, in other words hoping that Israel will do most of the work against Hezbollah before the proper diplomacy can actually get under way. Israeli forces and military leaders are extremely conspicuous now about what they're talking about being a potential ground invasion. What they're saying is that they have called up all of the reserves. They've called up all the active duties. They're moving active duties from certain areas, replacing them with reserves. Moving everybody, as they said to us today, the deputy commander of the northern command, moving all of the power towards Lebanon and towards this border. They already say that they have a ground operation under way. Although, the general wouldn't be drawn publicly on the exact number of troops. He told, other military sources told us that there was several battalions already operating inside Lebanon on a daily basis, going in and out, some staying, some one mile in, some a few miles in, and special forces even deeper inside. They're dropping leaflets. They're telling the residents of southern Lebanon to move back, presumably back beyond what is known as the Litani river, which is a sort of de facto border between southern Lebanon and the rest of Lebanon. It's about 40 kilometers, 25 miles away from the Israeli border. So, the push to move Hezbollah and disarm it is continuing, Wolf.", "Christiane, you said that the Israelis have called up all of their reserves? I had heard they called up significant numbers, but not necessary all of the reserves, because that would be a mobilization, virtually, of every man over the age of 18.", "That's right, they're calling up significant numbers. They told us, lots and lots of reserves are coming in and they're going, for instance, here's a scenario, they're bringing reservists to go over to the West Bank to relieve some of the active duty troops there, so that those active duty troops can come over to Lebanon. Other reservists are being mobilized here to the Lebanese border. So they're moving their troops around and trying to get, as they said, the maximum power, all concentrated on the Lebanese border here. But it's a very conspicuous declaration. It's a very, you know, public warning. It's not like they're doing this is in secret. We're getting lots of pictures of this mobilization. So I'm sure a lot of it is also to send a message to the other side.", "And that message to Hezbollah being, get ready, the Israeli forces are coming in with their tanks, and their armor and their heavy equipment. That would be a powerful message if they want to see the Hezbollah forces scatter, if you will, and try take advantage of that.", "Potentially, yes. They've already been in, as I say, in and out. And they say they have to go in to engage and to find some of the things that they just can't see from the air. For instance, bunkers. They told us, the general told quite a vivid story about how the ground troops were in there and it took, you know, several passes over one particular area before they moved some leaves, and brush and undergrowth and actually found a bunker, according to the general. In other words, illustrating that they cannot get the things that they want to get, the important things, many of them by air power alone and it will take some kind of ground operation, as I say, that is already under way. The question is, will there be a mass invasion of the country.", "We're going to watch together with you, Christiane. Thank you very much. Christiane will be back in THE SITUATION ROOM. Let's go to Beirut now, the Lebanese president there vowing his country will defend itself against an Israeli ground invasion. Ben Wedeman is on the scene for us. Update our viewers Ben, what has happened in the Lebanese capital today?", "Wolf, actually, Beirut has been relatively quiet. No reported Israeli bombardment of the Lebanese capital. Much of the action has taken place down in the south where Israeli aircraft and artillery have been very busy, especially around the area of Tyre, which is the largest Lebanese city near to the Israeli border. The residents there bracing for, as we've all heard, a potential Israeli ground invasion. Now, on the question of the ground invasion, Lebanese President Emil LaHood told CNN today that if Israeli forces enter Lebanon, the army, the Lebanese army will join the fight.", "Of course, the army is going to defend its land. And inside Lebanon, they can do a lot. They cannot be strong enough to be against Israel on the frontier, because they have much more stronger material and weaponry. But inside Lebanon they know the land and of course they would fight the invading force of Israel if it tries to come inside.", "And of course, while everybody is bracing for this potential ground invasion, the Lebanese and international relief organizations are busy to try to deal with the more than 500,000 people who have been displaced by the fighting in the south, and bombing of Beirut. Now, today, I was in a village on the mountains outside of Beirut. Normally the population there is 5,000. It's now almost 50,000. Local officials telling me that because of this sudden influx of people, for instance, the local reservoir has gone dry, so they have to truck in water from elsewhere. In Lebanon, Mercy Corps and International Relief Organization was up there today distributing food to some of these people who are living in private houses, in schools and government buildings and in hotels. Now, outside one hotel we went to, we encountered a large group of angry refugees. When they found out we were American journalists, they became very agitated. I tried to calm the group down, speaking to them in Arabic, trying to discuss the situation. However, at one point one man came barreling out of the crowd trying to beat me and my cameraman. So Wolf, the mood here is getting very resentful against the United States. Many people say the United States has given Israel the green light for its operations, that it's given Israel the weaponry to make this offensive possible. So the mood is turning rather sour and ugly.", "All right, just be careful over there Ben, you and all of our colleagues. Ben Wedeman on the scene for us in Beirut. President Bush and Condoleezza Rice will meet with Saudi officials, including the foreign minister this Sunday at the White House before the secretary of state heads to the Middle East. Let's go to the White House. Our correspondent Ed Henry has the latest details, Ed.", "Wolf the urgency increasing here at the White House. As you noted, a late add to the president's schedule for Sunday, when he returns from a weekend at his Texas ranch. He and Secretary Rice will be here at the White House on Sunday, meeting with the Saudi foreign minister as well as the head of the Saudi national security council, Prince Bandar. Then Secretary Rice, later on Sunday will leave for Israel and the West Bank. She's going to be meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Olmert as well as the Palestinian President Abbas, as well as a stop in Rome for a summit with various Arab officials. The White House is engaged in a real balancing act here. On one hand, they're really stepping up their efforts, amid criticism they have not move quickly enough to try to help end the violence, but on the other hand, they're also trying to downplay expectations. They know Secretary Rice can not just head to the Middle East and wave some sort of a magic wand. Here's Secretary Rice responding to critics who said this shuttle diplomacy would have started a lot sooner.", "I could have gotten a plane and rushed over and started shuttling, and it wouldn't have been clear what I was shuttling to do.", "Now, of course, Secretary Rice mindful that her trip will only raise hopes of some sort of peace deal coming out of it. She quickly tried to tamp down those expectations, noting that there will not be what she called a quick fix from this trip. And despite growing to -- for the U.S. to support a cease-fire, she quickly dismissed that idea.", "Any cease-fire cannot allow that condition to remain. Because I can guarantee you, if you simply look for a cease-fire that acknowledges and freezes the status quo ante, we will be back here in six months again, or in five months, nine months or in a year, trying to get another cease-fire because Hezbollah will have decided yet again to try and use Southern Lebanon as a sanctuary to fire against Israel.", "Now, the secretary said that there would need to be what she called a robust international peacekeeping force at some point on the ground in Lebanon, but she also said she does not anticipate that there while be U.S. boots on the ground needed in that peacekeeping effort. Also, in a preview what she can expect from her trip, she once again put the onus on Syria, saying they have a clear choice here; they're either going to side with extremists like Hezbollah or they're going to join what she's calling a new Middle East -- Wolf.", "It's going to be a hectic several days for the secretary of state, maybe much longer. Thank you for that. Ed Henry at the White House. Meanwhile a fresh barrage of Hezbollah rockets hit northern Israel, injuring at least 19 people in Haifa. Let's go live to Haifa. CNN's Fionnuala Sweeney is joining with more on this part of the story.", "Yes, indeed, Wolf. Five times they heard those air raid sires wailing across this city, shortly followed by five barrages of attacks, maybe three, four, five, Katyusha rockets, depending on what time of the day it was, and when those rockets fell. Thirty-nine people injured in all, three of them critically. And in fact, there were attacks not just in Haifa, Wolf, but across the whole northern band of Israel. And a reminder to the Israeli army, which acknowledged earlier today the difficulty of the challenge facing them as they tried to cripple, as they put it, Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon. According to the Israeli military, they say the difficulty lies because there is no front line as such, and every time they destroy one particular target, another one surfaces, which they feel they then have to destroy. But as I say here, it's now the Jewish Sabbath. It's just after 11:00 at night. All has been quiet for the last number of hours, and really Israelis have been lulled into a rather false sense of security, if that can be the right description, after a barrage of rockets over the last nine days or so. There hadn't been a rocket attack here for two or three days, and this series of rocket barrages really jolting people and getting everybody off the street -- Wolf.", "Fionnuala, thank you very much. Fionnuala Sweeney in Haifa for us, where the residents clearly were jolted earlier today. Let's go to Capitol Hill right now, where a House delegation is getting ready to leave for the Middle East, even as some Democrats now are criticizing the Bush administration's response to this crisis. Andrea Koppel, our congressional correspondent, is standing by with this part of the story -- Andrea.", "Wolf, in an interview with CNN, one of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's top Democrats, Connecticut's Chris Dodd, complained that for the last ten days, the Bush administration has been sitting on the sidelines, in his opinion. And he said during her trip to the region next week, Secretary Rice must -- in his words -- must engage with key players like Syria.", "I was in Lebanon in April. I wanted to go to Asir (ph), I wanted to meet Lahoud in Lebanon. I was specifically asked by the administration not to even talk to these people.", "Not to talk to the Lebanese?", "Not to talk to Lahoud, the president of the country. I agreed with it. If that's what they wanted me to do, I said fine. I didn't understand it. I said, I think it's a crazy idea not to be talking, carrying a message about our concerns to them. So that avoidance of any contact by anyone...", "Including Syria.", "... including Syria, I think has been a huge mistake. Somehow we're going to punish them for things they're doing wrong. You don't -- you know, when you're dealing with people like that, you have to engage them. That's what every administration has done for decades.", "Dodd also said that he hopes Rice will stay in the region for a while, Wolf, in order to diffuse the crisis -- Wolf.", "Andrea, thank you very much. This Sunday, by the way, we'll hear more from Chris Dodd and Richard Lugar, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Both of them will join me on \"LATE EDITION.\" That airs this Sunday, 11:00 a.m. Eastern. Jack Cafferty is in New York with \"The Cafferty File.\" Hi, Jack.", "Hi, Wolf, just -- I'm getting some feedback in my IFB -- just what a wartorn region needs. We've got a bunch of U.S. politicians on their way over there to assess the situation. House Speaker Dennis Hastert announced yesterday that he's a bipartisan congressional delegation to Israel this weekend. The group will be led by Intelligence Committee chairman Peter Hoekstra. Joining him, Democrat Jane Harman, Republicans Rick Renzi, Darrell Issa. Hastert says they will bring the message that the U.S. stands by Israel in the fight against terrorism. They're scheduled to meet with American, Israeli and Palestinian officials about the ongoing conflict, and to talk about ways to end the crisis. Here's the question, then. Is it a good idea for a congressional delegation to go to the Middle East? E-mail your thoughts to CaffertyFile@CNN.com or go to CNN.com/CaffertyFile -- Wolf.", "Jack, thank you very much. Two of those members of the delegation also will be joining us on \"LATE EDITION,\" Jane Harman and Peter Hoekstra, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee. Both of them will be on \"LATE EDITION\" from Jerusalem this Sunday, 11:00 a.m. Eastern. Coming up, will the fighting in Lebanon have a political impact back here in Washington? And out on the campaign trail, Bill Schneider is standing by with that story. Plus, is an international peacekeeping force crucial to ending this crisis? I'll spoke with a top U.N. diplomat just back from the region. And the other very deadly Middle East conflict. Stand by for a report from Baghdad, where Iraqis are suffering through one of the bloodiest weeks since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Much more of our special coverage on the crisis in the Middle East, right after this."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "AMANPOUR", "BLITZER", "AMANPOUR", "BLITZER", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "EMIL LAHOOD, PRESIDENT OF LEBANON", "WEDEMAN", "BLITZER", "ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE", "HENRY", "RICE", "HENRY", "BLITZER", "FIONNUALA SWEENEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. CHRIS DODD (D), CONNECTICUT", "KOPPEL", "DODD", "KOPPEL", "DODD", "KOPPEL", "BLITZER", "JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-20742", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-11-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/28/tod.02.html", "summary": "Election 2000: Bush Considers Cabinet Appointments with Chief of Staff", "utt": ["The court cases notwithstanding, the Bush team is moving full steam ahead with the privately funded transition. Let's check in now with CNN's Eileen O'Connor. She is in Austin -- Eileen.", "Well, Natalie, Governor Bush is back at his -- at the governor's mansion right now, and later on today, he will be going to his ranch, we're being told, in Crawford, Texas. He will also, perhaps, be joined there by Andrew Card, his chief of staff, who is been also meeting with him all morning. They have been discussing, as they call it, a varied list of Cabinet appointments. They are not speculating, they say, on any names thus far, but they are, as one Republican strategist said, you know joining in the imagery: This is a governor who is moving forward to transition, and basically, he is preparing, as they say, it would be irresponsible for him not to prepare for this transition. So now, as you know already, Andrew Card came out this morning. He did say that they're looking at people from all walks of life, as Secretary Cheney has already said. Aides to Governor Bush say that they will also -- that he is a bipartisan, that he has a history of bipartisanship, the governor -- and that, clearly, he'll be looking at even some Democrats who are -- who are perhaps -- could be -- have the likewise agenda, a likewise opinions, like the governor's. And they do believe that, Secretary Cheney has said, given the closeness of this race, given what's happening in Florida, that they do have to have a government that can reach out and try to unify the country. But, again, they are not going to talk or have any appointments announced while this contesting is going on. But again, the imagery is important, because this does go along with a public relations campaign that this is Governor Bush who has had the certified result and it is the vice president, Al Gore, who is trying to overturn those certified results -- Natalie.", "And yesterday, saying about -- talking about the limited time they have in their transition mode, that they're continuing in, to hire and to fill some hundreds of jobs. And here Bush is going now to his ranch. Is the Bush team saying how connected he is with Cheney, how often they're talking during this process?", "Well, as we understand it, in fact, Secretary Cheney will be coming here at some point later this week to go to the ranch in Crawford, and that is where they will, basically, be poring over these lists of names. As you said, there's 600 jobs that need Senate confirmation, and there's also 3,000 jobs within the administration that are important. And, of course, given that he is a Republican and has to come in to take over a Democratic legislation, it's the entire executive branch that he has to replace. So they already work from kind of a disadvantage than the vice president. They have floated a few names, but these haven't been names that have been long been floated. They're not floating them now. These are names that we've known about even before the election day. Condoleezza Rice as national security adviser. She has a foreign policy history. She was very helpful to the governor on the campaign trail, reaching out to women voters. Of course, General Colin Powell. Now, Governor Bush has said, on the campaign trail that he could see Colin Powell doing a great job in any Cabinet position, but he has long been thought as the most likely pick for secretary of state. Interestingly, Sam Nunn is a name that hadn't really been talked about as defense secretary. It is being talked about in Republican circles, but I'm being told by Bush aides that that's really wild speculation. It's likely speculation, though, because he is a conservative southern Democrat. He has a long history on Senate defense committees, and he is a well-known defense expert. And as a Democrat, ironically, he'd be replacing a Republican in a Democratic administration. As you know, William Cohen was a Republican senator that the Clinton administration picked. And then also, you have for attorney general, long name -- name that's long been mentioned: Oklahoma governor Frank Keating. A friend of Governor Bush's, he's known him as a governor. And now moving up and on the list is Marc Racicot, who we've seen, in recent days, coming out in defense of the Bush campaign's position on recounts, that they are not counting, but casting ballots. He is seen still, though, as a moderate Republican, and he also has some experience. He was a very experienced prosecutor, losing only two cases in 12 years. So these are all people, as I said, that are not exactly new names, they're just being floated out there and, again, the Bush campaign itself very careful not to talk specifically about names. They don't want to be seen as too presumptive -- Natalie.", "And finally, as we mentioned, we're about to hear from Al Gore -- will we hear from George W. Bush today?", "We are not sure. I just made phone calls to the Bush campaign, and, in fact, some of them hadn't known that the vice president was coming out. They are, obviously, monitoring all these events. But they have been focused on the transition and what's going on there. Some of them are even going to be moving to Washington to be dealing with that. So we do not know if Governor Bush will be coming out, although I think that is probably unlikely, unless this is some kind of dramatic announcement -- Natalie.", "All right, Eileen O'Connor, thanks so much, in Austin."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "EILEEN O'CONNOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN", "O'CONNOR", "ALLEN", "O'CONNOR", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-308877", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-03-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/31/cnr.19.html", "summary": "TOP NATO Diplomats Set to Meet in Brussels; Strong Support for Nunes Among Constituents", "utt": ["Welcome back, everybody. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm john Vause, here with the headlines this hour.", "NATO's top diplomats are set to gather in Belgium shortly, including U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. He's expected to tell NATO partners they have to boost defense spending in order to fight terrorism. His trip to Brussels follows his official visit to Turkey on Thursday. All this as a battle to drive ISIS from the Syrian city of Raqqa draws near. Our international diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson, is in Brussels for this NATO meeting and he's live with us. Nic, Tillerson's first NATO meeting. He may have some tough words for the folks at NATO, but it seems NATO has toughed questions for him regarding President Donald Trump.", "They certainly do. The message we've heard from Vice President Mike Pence, we've hear from secretary of defense, James Mattis, as well, and we've heard it from Donald Trump as well that NATO needs to pay more. 28 NATO nations, only five of them pay the 2 percent GDP. They're obliged to do it. That was agreed to the Wales NATO summit a couple of years ago. The NATO countries gave themselves 10 years to make good on that commitment. But the message Rex Tillerson is bring is that time line is not good enough, you need to pay up and pay up more quickly. But the message from the Europeans is very practical. For example, the French, who aren't one of those five, they have presidential elections in a month or so, so it would be hard for them to change course. The Germans, who are half way down the list of countries that don't pay the 2 percent of GDP, they also have major elections this year. Belgium, the country hosting and the home of NATO, they are almost, if you will, one of the worst offenders of not paying the 2 percent of GDP. They're at the bottom of the list. So there's practical issues of how do you change course on a significant thing like defense spending. But also for the European allies in NATO and the E.U., there are deep concerns about where President Trump is taking the United States and its relationship with Europe at the moment. They're turning more to themselves. One of their considerations is, well, if we're going to up our spending as we agreed, what's the best way for us to do that? For example, the United States produces one type of tank and in Europe you have 17 different types of tank produced. So NATO European allies could have more effective spending their money. However, it takes time to make those changes. So all of this undoubtedly on the table, and then the issue of terrorism, Rex Tillerson saying Trump would like to see NATO doing more on terrorism. And if you look at that statement from Wales, from that summit just a couple of years ago, of over 100 points on the final statement, terrorism was number 79. So you can see there is space to move that up the agenda.", "79 places to move it up, I guess. Nic, thank you very much. Nic Robertson, covering Tillerson's visit to NATO, which almost didn't happen. He was originally going to skip it. Thanks, Nic. For the past few weeks, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has been in the spotlight under sustained attack from Democrats and some Republicans. He's accused of being a human shield for the president, Donald Trump. But back home in his district in California, support for Devin Nunes remains strong. And Kyung Lah explains why.", "Pressure mounting, the hits keep coming for Republican Congressman and House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes. Hammered for his mysterious conduct and close ties to the Trump White House from both sides of the aisle.", "Mr. Nunes simply disqualified himself.", "He's gone off on a lark by himself, sort of an Inspect Cousteau investigation here.", "Something's got to change, otherwise the whole effort in the House of Representatives will lose credibility.", "That outrage from D.C. just noise to much of Tulare, California. Thousands of miles away from Washington, this is Congressman Nunes' home district.", "I know Devin personally is his integrity. If he was someone I didn't know, I would be wondering too. But knowing him personally all these years, his family, his background, he's a straight shooter.", "His constituents believe in the congressman here. Born and raised on a central California farm, graduate of the local high school, they watched him grow from a skinny teenager to now a central figure in D.C. Last election, Nunes won a whopping 68 percent of the vote. Danny Tristo grew up with Nunes and doesn't believe his should recuse himself.", "He's very direct. If he believes in something, he's going to make it right.", "The sharpest criticism of his conduct, that he's doing the bidding of the White House instead of leading an independent investigation.", "Chairman Nunes seems to be more of a partisan for the president than an impartial actor.", "That charge empty here where many people believe Nunes' ties to the White House only helps them. The congressman brought Candidate Trump to central California, say these farmers, who saw the connection up close.", "They really hit it off and I enjoyed seeing Donald Trump putting that confidence in the Devin.", "But not everyone believes in the embattled congressman. A resistances movement has sprung up and, as Nunes arrives home to California tonight, plans to let him hear from them directly.", "We see him as obstructing justice, as not participating properly in this investigation. He should have recused himself already from that investigation. There's so many signs and signals.", "Kyung Lah, CNN, Tulare, California.", "Still to come on CNN NEWSROOM, Venezuela's Supreme Court has stripped the national assembly of its authority, a move the opposition is calling a coup."], "speaker": ["VAUSE", "VAUSE", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR", "VAUSE", "KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "REP. STENY HOYER, (D), MARYLAND", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, (R), SOUTH CAROLINA", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R), ARIZONA", "LAH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LAH", "DANNY TRISTO, NUNES SUPPORTER", "LAH", "SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER, (D-NY), SENATE MINORITY LEADER", "LAH", "TRISTOS", "LAH", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "LAH", "VAUSE"]}
{"id": "CNN-135050", "program": "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS", "date": "2009-2-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/15/fzgps.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Afghan President Hamid Karzai", "utt": ["This is GPS, the GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I'm Fareed Zakaria. On the program today, an exclusive interview with Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan. Over the last year, it's become abundantly clear that the war in Afghanistan is going badly. In the last few weeks, many voices have been heard asking whether this is even a struggle that can be won -- or should be fought. In the story I wrote for Newsweek two weeks ago, we asked on the cover, is this Obama's Vietnam? Others have suggested we should simply pack up and leave. And then there are the specific criticisms. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls it a narco-state. President Obama describes the Kabul government as detached from what is going on around it. Now, there's one person who has not talked publicly about Afghanistan in recent months. It's President Hamid Karzai. The last television interview he gave, back in September, was to me on this program. We are delighted to have him back for an extended, exclusive conversation. So, stick around.", "So, let us begin. President Hamid Karzai joins us from the presidential palace in the Afghan capital of Kabul. Welcome, Mr. President.", "Good to see you. Thank you.", "Mr. President, let me ask you about your dealings. How will you deal with the Obama administration? Because you did get on well with Bush.", "Oh, President George Bush is a great person. I have a lot of respect for him.", "President Obama says that Karzai is in -- has a bunker mentality. He has said that the Afghan government seems detached from what is happening in the rest of the country.", "Well, I saw that statement, and I was surprised to see that statement. Perhaps it's because the administration has not yet put itself together. Perhaps they have not been given the information yet. And I hope as they settle down, and as they learn more, we will see better judgment.", "When you hear Barack Obama say the things he said about Afghanistan, what is your reaction? You've met President Obama. Do you think that you can work with him? Do you think he understands the region?", "I can certainly work with him. I can certainly engage with him very, very, very positively. It's part of what has been said by him during his election campaign. It's part of the things that's been said recently. I consider him a remarkably great person.", "But you don't think he understands Afghanistan.", "Surely he understands Afghanistan. Surely he's a very intelligent person as well. And given the right reporting by his administration, given the right figures by this administration, he'll figure out very quickly as to how things are in Afghanistan.", "What are the issues? What are the things that you think that cause it?", "Well, it's -- there's the question of civilian casualties. There's the question of arrests of Afghans. There's the question of home searches. These activities are seriously undermining the confidence of the Afghan people in the joint struggle that we have against terrorism, undermining their hope for the future. It's something that I've raised with my friends in the United States. And we hope to have a solution soon to this. We are talking about it. I have given my word to our friends in the United States -- to Hillary Clinton, to Vice President Joe Biden and to others -- that as soon as Afghanistan is assured that such activity would not take place in Afghanistan, that our homes will be secure, that the conduct of operations will be done together with Afghan forces -- and in consultation with Afghan forces -- the fundamentals will remain very strong between us, and Afghanistan will continue to be a friend, will continue to be an ally. But Afghanistan deserves respect and a better treatment.", "Do you think Barack Obama should send the two to three brigades more of American forces that some people within the government are advocating?", "What should have happened early on didn't, unfortunately, happen. Now, the country is not in the same mood as it was in 2002. So, any addition of troops must have a purposeful objective that Afghan people would agree with, that any addition of troops should effectively curb terrorism and terrorists crossing into the Afghan side, and that the Afghan people should feel secure. In other words, the war on terrorism -- as I've said many, many times before -- is not in the Afghan villages. So, any addition of troops, if agreed upon between the Afghan government and the U.S. government, must be in order to defeat terrorism and to protect Afghans, and not cause them casualties. So, this is a serious matter. And I think the U.S. government should discuss this with us and evaluate it. And then, upon agreement, we will decide about it.", "Do you mean by that, Mr. President, that any additional troops should really be focused on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, rather than in the heartland of Afghanistan itself?", "Definitely, the war on terrorism is not in the Afghan villages. It never was. Afghanistan was the victim of terrorists -- before September 11th, for many, many years, till September 11 occurred. And the world then began to pay attention to Afghanistan -- which was good. And the partnership between the Afghan people and the U.S. and others produced significant results, for us and world security. Now, when -- if there is a deployment, in consultation with the Afghan government, it should be in places where the fight against terrorism gets us a result, where terrorists are, where we see better security -- not in our villages. Definitely not in our villages.", "Let's talk about corruption, Mr. President. There are many reports -- and this is part of the reason that there is negative press about you -- there are many reports that your government is riddled with corruption. There are reports that, while you personally may not have been involved, certain members of your family, your brother, have been deeply involved in corruption. How do you answer those charges?", "Yes. These charges have been there for the last at least three years, three years and a half. And I'd like to talk about this now, publicly. There were charges in the \"New York Times\" in 2004, just about a month-and-a-half before the presidential elections in Afghanistan, that my brother was involved in drugs -- or rumored to be involved in drugs. Now, incidentally, Mr. Zakaria, this happened after I had a serious dispute with the U.S. and British ambassadors on a spraying from air on a poppy field in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. I considered that spraying, which was done without the permission of the Afghan government, as a violation of Afghan sovereignty and Afghan airspace. And when I protested to that spraying of chemicals on our country, the next day or the day after that, an article appeared that my brother was involved in drugs. And indeed, I, at that time, did not see the connection. But subsequent to that, when there was an incident of torture in Bagram and report in the press, and when I reacted to that -- again, within a day or two -- there was something again in the \"New York Times\" about my brother and a connection to drugs. And this kept repeating. Whenever there was a disagreement, this kept repeating. So, my conclusion today is that perhaps it was because of that.", "But let me clarify, because this is a very important point. You are suggesting that, because of political disagreements you have had, where you have objected to U.S. policy, some elements within the U.S. government -- perhaps within the U.S. embassy or in Washington -- have been spreading this rumor. Is that correct?", "My conclusion is that, yes, this was part of a political pressure tactic, unfortunately. But, well, I understand that, you know. For a country like us, and in a situation that we are in, that's -- we can probably understand it.", "But Mr. President, you're surely not saying that there isn't a problem of major and large-scale corruption in Afghanistan and in the Afghan government. That seems to be beyond doubt.", "Yes, corruption is there. Sure. Corruption in the Afghan government is as much there as in any other Third World country. This country was completely destroyed. Afghanistan is a...", "You've dropped -- you've dropped on Transparency International's corruption index...", "Yes, I'm coming to that.", "Mr. President. You've dropped on Transparency International's corruption index by 50 places...", "I'm coming to that.", "... in the last year or two.", "I'm coming to that. I'm coming to that. As any other Third World country. And one like Afghanistan that was completely destroyed by interventions from the Soviet Union, and then the neighbors, and then the subsequent abandonment of Afghanistan after the Soviets withdrew to complete misery and destruction. Daily, we have judges dismissed. Daily we have officials dismissed. Daily we have people imprisoned. We have ministers dismissed. We have governors dismissed. We have governors in prison -- done sentence terms. We have ambassadors dismissed. We have ambassadors held to accountability. It's going on on a daily basis. The problem is that we don't announce it. And that's why it doesn't become a knowledge for those of us in the international community. So, I guess we have to improve on that. But there is serious and systematic work going on in this regard.", "We will be back in a moment with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan."], "speaker": ["FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST", "ZAKARIA", "HAMID KARZAI, PRESIDENT OF AFGHANISTAN", "ZAKARIA", "KARZAI", "ZAKARIA", "KARZAI", "ZAKARIA", "KARZAI", "ZAKARIA", "KARZAI", "ZAKARIA", "KARZAI", "ZAKARIA", "KARZAI", "ZAKARIA", "KARZAI", "ZAKARIA", "KARZAI", "ZAKARIA", "KARZAI", "ZAKARIA", "KARZAI", "ZAKARIA", "KARZAI", "ZAKARIA", "KARZAI", "ZAKARIA", "KARZAI", "ZAKARIA"]}
{"id": "CNN-86384", "program": "JUDY WOODRUFF'S INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2004-7-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/20/ip.01.html", "summary": "Sean \"P. Diddy\" Combs Launches Youth Voting Organization", "utt": ["The Kerry campaign today released a new 30-second ad highlighting the senator's economic plan. Kerry speaks directly to the camera about his proposals to create new jobs and end tax incentives for shipping jobs overseas. The spot will be rotated into existing ad buys. Well, hip-hop impresario Sean \"P. Diddy\" Combs today launched an effort along with MTV and BET to motivate young people to vote. Citizen Change as it is being called hopes to target potential minority and young voters. Combs says that it will be nonpartisan. When I talked to him just a short time ago I started by asking why somebody who's a successful entertainer and has enough going on in his life would worry about getting people registered to vote.", "To be honest, I've been blessed with a talent to be able to market and communicate, to be able to synergize and energize young people and to be honest, my success is due to them, to young people and to the minority communities that have supported me over the years. And over the last couple of years I've been -- I've gotten educated myself on the election process. And I feel like this year is going to be one of the biggest elections of our lives and in history and it's important that issues dealing with the young people, 18 to 30, 18 to 34, if you want to even extend it that wide in the minority communities that really need the help, those issues need to be addressed but those issues will not be addressed if we don't stand up and vote. And it's really just, you know, hipping the young people, any minority communities to the way the political games are played.", "But you know the statistics as well as I do, I'm sure. The percentage of young people who voted in 2000 was something like half that of older people. All of the experts say young people don't feel they have anything at stake.", "Exactly, exactly.", "They don't pay taxes at the rate their elders do. So, how do you motivate them?", "One of the reasons why young people are so disenfranchised is because politicians don't speak their language. They don't deal with issues that deal with them. But now, all of that's about to change, because as you've seen in today's polls, it's neck and neck. So, this community has the power to be the deciding factor in who is the next president of the United States. And we're going to do this by a well-thought-out plan. We're going to use all of my marketing skills and my relationships to make sure that we make this vote relevant, that we make it something that's important and we make it cool and we make it sexy.", "Your friend, the music mogul Russell Simmons, has said that John Kerry is taking the black vote for granted. He said that's why people are giving a serious look at Ralph Nader. Are you looking at Ralph Nader?", "I think Ralph Nader has to be thrown into the equation. Anybody running for president has to be equally thrown into the equation. I'm not here -- this is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization. We're going to reach out, and we're going to motivate, empower, and educate the 40-million-strong voters. And I think Ralph Nader will be a factor, but I think none of the parties, none of the parties or candidates are paying enough attention to the minority vote. None of the parties or candidates are paying enough attention to the youth vote, and they will be the deciding factor. The last election was decided by less than 600 votes. We have 40 million strong. You do the math.", "You met with John Kerry just a few days ago.", "Yes.", "What did you ask him?", "Basically, I was in Philadelphia. I was doing some grassroots voter registration and he heard I was in town and he said he wanted to meet me and hear about what we were doing. And basically I told him that -- just the same thing I would tell President Bush. The people need help, man. I mean, you have to -- we have to stop making this a political thing. It's not about being politically correct. It's about helping the people and attending to their needs. And that I would caution him to really pay attention to this community, because this community will be the deciding factor. The forgotten ones will be forgotten no more on November 2nd. Trust me when I say that, that we know how to rile up and we know how to energize and we know how to motivate, we know how to synergize young people. We do it every day when we make clothing hot, we make cars hot, we make bling-bling hot, and now we're going to make this voting process relevant and hot by, most importantly, educating people to the process, to letting them know that if they vote they will be heard. And it may not happen overnight. I can't promise that. But you know, just like the civil rights movement, how we are reaping the benefits of that, this movement that we started here today, our children would hopefully reap the benefits of it. We're going to have a lot of fun. We're going to bring some energy into this election that's never been seen before. Because we're not -- you know, I'm not a stiff politician. I'm a fun guy. We're going to have fun on my campaign trail, and you can come along if you want to.", "The one and only Puff Daddy out there registering voters. Well, when we return: an insider's tour of the John F. Kennedy Library. A walk through history, including the 1960 race for the White House."], "speaker": ["WOODRUFF", "COMBS", "WOODRUFF", "COMBS", "WOODRUFF", "COMBS", "WOODRUFF", "COMBS", "WOODRUFF", "COMBS", "WOODRUFF", "COMBS", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-338059", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2018-04-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/20/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta; Music's Unlikely Duo.", "utt": ["Tonight, a rare interview with the president of Kenya on Trump, China and a troubling turn for democracy in his country. And also an intriguing collaboration from two of the music world's biggest stars. Newcastle, England meets Kingston, Jamaica in Sting and Shaggy's new album, \"44876\". Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. I'm Christiane Amanpour in London. Kenya once a shining example of democracy in Africa is losing some of that luster. Recent elections have been marred by irregularities and breakouts of ethnic violence. Uhuru Kenyatta is the current president. His father Jomo Kenyatta was the first president after Independence and he was known as the father of the nation. His son is now facing some criticism for his part in the turmoil and for shutting down TV networks when they broadcast a fake swearing-in held by the opposition figure Raila Odinga. But, incredibly, these two bitter rivals then surprised the nation when they posed for handshakes, smiled and they pledged to put their differences aside. President Kenyatta is attending the Commonwealth Summit here in London this week and he came into our studio to talk hope and change for his country. But I started by getting his take on the controversy over Britain threatening to deport children of the Commonwealth who were invited in during the 1950s. President Kenyatta, welcome to the program.", "Thank you very much.", "Very nice to have you here. And you are here to celebrate the 70th year of the Commonwealth.", "That's right. Kenya has been a long-standing member. I want to know what you make of the controversy while you are here of a very harsh immigration deportation action that is threatening to deport some of the members of the Commonwealth who came over in the 50s after the war at the invitation of the British government to rebuild this place. And some of your fellow Commonwealth countries, particularly Caribbeans are finding some very unfriendly deportation notices.", "I believe that there is need for all of us across the board to recognize that we need one another. And the most important thing is these people, unlike current immigration, which one would understand if there was a push towards that direction, actually, as you said, came here at the invitation of the British government to help support and develop this country, in line with our partnership as part of the Commonwealth. So, it's a bit depressing, I must be honest. And I appreciate the kind of steps that Theresa May is taking towards calming down that whole situation. And I hope that they, just as we in Kenya - postcolonial period, we started off very clearly that those who were of British national, who decided that they wanted to remain in Kenya and be Kenyans, we gave them that option.", "What do you make of the current Trump administration, particularly the comments that President Trump made about immigration from Africa, using a profanity for some of the countries, and about his policy of aid and development to Africa?", "Again, I say that some of his comments are unfortunate. And you know the reaction that many of us took and we were very clear that we hope that those words were not really words that are representative of American society, a society that itself has been developed and grew and built on the basis of immigration. We have had - as Kenya, for example - very good longstanding partnership with the United States. We have a lot of Kenyans who have contributed immensely in very many fields in the United States. And we are looking to see how we can deepen that partnership. And one of the things that I must admit is quite troubling is how we see today a growing tendency towards isolationism, moving away from globalization, which has enabled many countries in the West to reach the levels of development that they have and now constraining it when it comes to the African continent and not understanding that it is through deeper partnerships, deeper engagement that maybe some of the problem migration that is going on would stop occurring.", "So, with that in mind, everything you've just said, and knowing that President Trump almost in the first days after his inauguration talked about a very different kind of American relationship with Africa, a much more transactional relationship. If it's good for us, we'll help. We'll do business deals. We'll do those kinds of things, but not necessarily the development aid that has been traditional. Do you worry that that - I mean, do you feel you're getting enough investment even under this new paradigm from the United States?", "Well, he's talking about encouraging investment. We are keen - we are looking forward to that investment. That investment helps provide jobs, helps create opportunities, especially for our young people who probably would be the ones who would be more susceptible to migration. So, that is a quid pro quo. It works both ways. But at the end of the day, diplomacy is not just about those hard transactional items. It's also about the soft things, about being able to understand what are the core issues that concern people, what are the core issues that are creating problems. And we need to also be able to deal with some of those issues. We can't just push them aside and brush them under the carpet. It's about investment. It's about trade. But it is also about promoting certain ideals that we all share as democracies.", "Let's talk about the politics in your country. It's been a crazy, turbulent year. A lot of difficulties. An election that was nullified and then the opposition leader pulled out of the second round and then you were declared the winner eventually. And here you are reelected a second time. But it didn't come without a lot of pain on many, many levels. What can you say first and foremost to the parents of the people who were killed in the election violence, who still to this day, despite your handshake with the opposition leader, Mr. Odinga, feel that they have not had accountability, that their kids were not criminals in the streets and didn't deserve to die?", "Well, the first thing I'll say is that nobody celebrates death of any kind. And one of the things that we must also be clear about is that it is very clear that, yes, indeed there were unfortunate incidents and some of those unfortunate incidences were actually actively instigated by certain individuals for political end. And if I was to assess the situation that happened, as unfortunate as those who lost their lives did lose their lives, we are nowhere near, and Kenya has come a long way, from the problems that we experienced in 2010 when it was basically almost all-out war. We need just to continue to mature to a level where we must accept that competitive politics does not enmity. Just opposing ideas.", "Before I dig down more into it, I just want to know for the parents' sake, do you as president of Kenya offer an apology to the parents for the innocent death?", "I abhor all loss of life and to all those who were hurt on both sides of the political divide. As far as I'm concerned, we have no responsibility for those, given the actions that were taken. But as a parent myself, I feel for them, I sympathize with them and I give them my assurance that I will do everything that is in my power to ensure that this kind of thing never happens again and make available all channels to ensure that anybody who lost life or property is availed a channel to get justice. That, I put on the table.", "So, now let's talk about the election which was incredibly contested. You're saying all the right things about competitive politics and to be able to actually contest elections without violence, without censorship, without taking the media and television stations off the air. Presumably, you agree with that as well.", "We've got to be very clear. The only time during that entire period that the media was shutdown, and it wasn't the media, Kenya is a country that has over 70 stations operating, including CNN - over 70 - only three media houses were shutdown and this is after a detailed discussion prior to when the shutdown occurred with all those media houses, with all of us agreeing with our legal people that what they wanted to air was tantamount to treason. Them agreeing, them proceeding to air and we said, on that basis, those who do air that particular program will be shutdown in accordance with our laws. And we proceeded to do exactly that for that one single occasion.", "In that case, are you saying that this will not happen again because the free press is the basis of a democracy?", "As we have always said, free press - and there is no country with a freer press, and I think CNN can stand to verify that.", "Because people did say that those three channels that were shut down were because they were broadcasting opposition rallies and protests.", "They were shut down on a single day when Raila Odinga went and purported to swear himself as president of the Republic of Kenya. That was the only day. And you can do your homework and check, the only day that they were shutdown. And we said that those who are going to do that, this is going to be the action. And so, they were all aware.", "So, fast forward, suddenly you and Raila Odinga are shaking hands and speaking like long-lost brothers. I mean, people were actually very, very surprised by that. And let me just quote for you some of the things that you said that this marks a new beginning for the country, that we may differ politically, but you should and we should unite as Kenyans for the sake of the country. Raila Odinga himself said is that the reality is that we need to save our children from ourselves. That's pretty dramatic.", "It's more or less in line with what I've been telling you, Christiane.", "How did that happen from this pitched battles, removing television channels, all of that.", "Purely from the point of view, and I have always maintained that, that I am always ready, open for dialogue, for exchange on the basis of what is in the best interest of the people of Kenya. And as far as I was concerned, the competitive politics were over. There is a government. We acknowledge that there is an opposition. And we said, and I said it very clearly, that I have no problem reaching out to find bipartisan solutions to the issues that affect us, to the problems that Kenyans have. We don't have the sole monopoly of all the right ideas and answers. We need to open ourselves up to constructive criticism as well as constructive engagement. And that was the offer.", "One of the major issues, and it's a holdover from sort of colonial Victorian, is the issue of sexual preference in many African countries. In Kenya, to be gay, the LGBT community is illegal. They just want to have equal rights, the same privacy and equality as all other Kenyans do. Is that something that you aspire to for your country?", "I want to be very clear, Christiane, I will not engage in a subject that is of no - it is not of any major importance to the people and the Republic of Kenya. This is not an issue, as you would want to put it, of human rights. This is an issue of society, of our own base as a culture, as a people regardless of which community you come from. This is not acceptable. This is not agreeable. This is not about Uhuru Kenyatta saying yes or no. This is an issue that the people of Kenya themselves, who have bestowed upon themselves a constitution, right, after several years, have clearly stated that this is not a subject that they are willing to engage in at this time. And in years to come, possibly long after I'm president, who knows? Maybe our society will have reached a stage where those are issues that people are willing freely and open to discuss. I have to be honest with you. And that is the position that we have always maintained. Those are the laws that we have and those are laws that are 100 percent supported by 99 percent of the Kenyan people regardless of where they come from.", "So, I think you're going to get yourself into trouble because what you've categorically just stated is that this is not an issue for us, for the Kenyan people and you don't think that the idea of their privacy, their equality, their rights is important, but it's a global issue right now.", "It's important to them where they are.", "Why isn't important to you as the president of the country?", "I'm saying that it's not important to me as the leader of 49 million Kenyans. And after, if you want to ask me my personal opinion -", "What is your personal opinion?", "After I finish my process, I can talk about my personal opinion. But as the leader of the people of the Republic of Kenya, I represent that which our people are desirous to be and I have no choice, but that is my position.", "Would you publicly say that people who are LGBT, gay members of the Kenyan population should not be discriminated against, should not be violated, should not be abused?", "No Kenyan - no Kenyan should be abused, should be mistreated in any particular - every Kenyan is protected by law, every single Kenyan, but they also must recognize that their freedoms are also - must be taken into the entire context of the society that they live in because this is not a question of governments accepting or not accepting. This is a question society, right?", "Currently, that's a legal process.", "Yes. And that legal process is based on the society that you live in. And that's where laws are made. So, I think that's all I have to say about that particular subject.", "On that note, President Kenyatta, thank you very much for joining us.", "As always, thank you.", "The president being alarmingly frank on this controversial issue in Africa. And turning now from Kenya to Jamaica, the inspiration for a surprising new musical collaboration from two of the world's most popular musicians. Gordon Sumner aka Sting and Orville Richard Burrell known around the globe as Shaggy. They have teamed up for a reggae influenced album of original songs. It is called \"44876\" and you'll hear about why later in the interview. But, first, take a listen to their first single, don't make me wait.", "So, the album comes out today and they join me to talk about their possibly surprising collaboration and the bond between their diverse, but intimately-linked cultures. Sting, Shaggy, welcome to the program. It's not obvious this pairing. What brought you together? Or is it?", "Well, it's a surprise to everyone including us, but it was a happy accident. And we decided to make a record together just out of our friendship and our rapport. We realize, although we are very from different cultures and have very different voices, somehow our voices blend together in a way that neither of us expected. And much of the world is ready for this.", "Why not?", "I hope so.", "Well, it is a surprise. We started from one song. He walked in singing a song that I asked him to do. And once I heard our voices really connected, I was startled a bit. And once we started doing some other records, it was evident at that point we had a body of work and that it was a rapport that we built, that we really like each other's company and we really - because the studio sessions were filled with so much laughter. After a while, we're like let's shock talk the world. Let's put this out together. Let's swim our stream (ph).", "But, again, you're dancehall reggae. You are. But you'd also have some reggae sort of influence.", "Common ground, which is reggae because I was influenced greatly by reggae as a younger musician. So, that was something we had a common language there. So, most of the songs began in the basement with reggae and then we built this pop album above that.", "Yes.", "But it's kind of materialized around us by accident. And it's a conversation between two people from different cultures, talking about issues that concern us, but really we're just having fun.", "The song that we played a little excerpt of in the intro is more the reggae beat, but we want to play \"Dreaming in the USA\", which is more of the pop, more of the sort of dancy kind of - let's hear a little bit of that and talk about it because it also has a message.", "So, it really has a great beat, but it's also for the purposes of our conversation here, got a real message about America. And I know that you served in Desert Storm, the first Gulf War. You're an immigrant to the United States. You are a little bit of an immigrant, although I don't know whether you call yourself one. You live there now.", "Yes. I was attracted to America for good reason. We all love America for the right reasons, for the movies, for music, for art, literature, culture. And I also check that citation on the side of the Empire State Building - not Empire State.", "Statue of Liberty.", "Statue of Liberty very seriously. And so, I think a lot of those values that we were attracted to are under threat, this very febrile political atmosphere. So, I wanted to write a love letter to America, the America that we were attracted to. Both Shaggy and I share that.", "And for you because your mother came over to work in the United States and brought you over.", "As a kid, there was a dream of", "But there are DREAMers here. The Brexit situation is also another situation. What's happened in Syria is another situation.", "What do you want people to get out of this album because it is different? It's had actually a lot of very interesting reviews, very good reviews. They call it \"vibey and catchy.\" \"Unexpectedly likable album,\" some people say. Why do you think they say unexpectedly?", "This is unexpectedly.", "I like unexpectedly anyway. And I'll take likeable as well.", "I guess the unexpected is the element of surprise. And I think that's the first thing that gets everybody's - their surprise of the pairing. And then, when they listen to the music, they're like, wow, but it's not so surprising because the early Police stuff were heavily reggae influenced and I'm a reggae artist. And when you think about - but then we built on top of that and create this hybrid.", "Have you heard The Police growing up?", "Absolutely.", "Was that an influence?", "Absolutely. It was a big influence. The Police, they started as a pop band and morphed into somewhat of a reggae band. And they were like the gateway for mainstream music, to get reggae on the mainstream. And so, because of that, they were very popular in Jamaica. I remember as a kid hearing \"Roxanne\" screaming through my radio. Of course, they became massive superstars afterwards and \"Every Breath You Take\" and all these records became just incredibly popular. Undeniable.", "Do you think I dare ask Sting to sing for me a little Roxanne bar.", "Really? At this time of day?", "Yes, if you want to.", "Roxanne. That's the lower key.", "OK. And let's play a little bit then. I'm going to play a little bit of the actual record and we can talk about it then.", "I could only do it in", "No, he wasn't that far off.", "No, he was not far off, but the thing with him that still amazes me is how he still sings it on stage, strong at full voice every night. Blows me away.", "No, it is beautiful. Listen, I mean, obviously, no interview would be an interview without reading your some of the barbs because people are surprised. So, this is the NME. \"There's something weirdly enjoyable about this cheery abomination of an album.\" Camaraderie is palpable - this is the same ones who said it's weirdly likable. \"These are staggeringly beautiful un-self-conscious men insulated by success. Their hearts are in the right place even if their better judgment was sunning itself somewhere in Kingston.\"", "I'll take all of that. It's totally fine. I'm not going to argue with any of that.", "I like it. I like that people are just - they're surprised and we've caught them off-guard and it's against the grain and we're disruptive. You know what I mean? But they cannot deny good music. The music itself is timeless. It's the way it's made is in a timeless way.", "And little to the point, you're going to be, among others, performing for the Queen. It's her 92nd birthday at the Royal Albert Hall. Have you done that before? You've obviously performed in front of her.", "I've never performed in front of the queen before.", "Really?", "No. I'm not sure we are here real musical taste.", "I think the queen probably", "Let's find out.", "We are honored. And I'm the first of my country to actually perform in front of the queen like that. Definitely, in the end, it also is a big deal for me and I'm happy for the opportunity. And we're just going go there and really have some fun with it.", "\"44876\" is the name of the album. Why?", "44 is country code in Great Britain.", "And 876 is for Jamaica. And we were going to name it joint venture, but we decided -", "No, this is better.", "But it's out today. Everybody, go get it. For your uncle, your aunt, your sister, your pets.", "Everyone. It's a good listen. It really is. It's great. Thank you very much. Shaggy, Sting, thanks for being here.", "Thank you, Christiane.", "Thank you, Christiane.", "A really fun and great sounding collaboration. And that is it for our program tonight. And remember, you can always listen to our podcast and see us online at Amanpour.com. And, of course, you can follow me on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks for watching. And goodbye from London. 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{"id": "CNN-140449", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2009-7-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/15/acd.02.html", "summary": "Florida Double Murder Investigation; Abuse of Public Funds?", "utt": ["Continuing with our breaking news coverage in the brutal murders of Byrd and Melanie Billings in their home outside Pensacola, Florida during an outwardly clockwork, operation -- and chillingly so -- with robbery as the alleged motive, or an alleged motive. Just a short time ago, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan announcing the arrest of Pamela Long Wiggins, charged with accessory after the fact to murder. Sheriff Morgan joins us now. Thanks for your time tonight. You arrested a woman -- this woman, a local realtor, Pamela Long Wiggins an accessory after the fact. What was her involvement?", "Well, she has had a long association with one of our primary suspects, Mr. Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Jr. And that was why she became the person of interest because of that long-term association as a landlord and through her realty company. And she also was a very good family friend, transporting him and his wife and children around. And so that's how she became a person of interest. We wanted to find out exactly what is that tie between the two of them and of course, she was with him -- we've developed up on through the day of the murder and so one thing led to another. We will be holding a joint press conference tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. Central time...", "Right.", "...with the state attorney's office and he will release the specifics on that.", "Can you say if she turned herself in?", "Yes, sir, she did. She was located in Orange Beach, Alabama, at a marina there. We put out earlier today what's called a BOLO or \"be on the lookout\" order and the Orange Beach PD received a call-in tip. And also I want to thank you, Mr. Cooper and your station. You were one of the stations that published her photo and put it on the air. People are watching this newscast as well as others. And a maintenance man called the tip-in and so we managed to get to the Orange Beach PD down there. And she was held for us pending the arrival of our investigators and she complied -- I want to add. She complied in coming back to Pensacola, Florida.", "You say there is a distinct possibility there are more people involved, who are out there. Do you know specifically who they are -- I mean, you've been talking about looking for somebody who may have had knowledge of the security system because it seems that those who were -- the accused in this case believed the security system was off. It didn't. So maybe somebody was supposed to turn that off and did not fulfill that part of the mission. Is that correct? And do you know who that person might be?", "That's true -- that's true, Anderson. We have -- at this time we've developed two persons of interest along those lines. And again, at this point in the investigation, it's something that we could share with the press, with the media, I should say. And that, again, when you review this operation, the one gaping hole in this is why was that system left on? And we are of the opinion that they thought upon entering the Billings' compound, that in fact, the system had been disabled.", "Are you in touch with those persons of interest or are you searching it for them?", "No, sir. Not at this time. We hope to begin the interviews of these persons of interest very shortly and hopefully within the next day or so.", "But you know where they are?", "Yes, sir. We do.", "Ok.", "Yes, sir, we do.", "Now, we've looked at some of Byrd Billings business documents filed with county courts. And they indicate an intention to shield his assets from taxes. Is it -- there are those who believed he may have been hiding cash in that safe. A, can you confirm that? And B, was that what was taken from the safe?", "No, sir. We cannot. And I want to state here and refocus for the public what we have done throughout this investigation. People need to understand that the focus of our investigation has been the murder of Byrd and Melanie Billings, specifically that. Who are the perpetrators of this crime and we believe we've got the seven suspects that are involved this violent crime in custody today. We are working on those folks now that worked on the periphery of this who may have had some involvement that aided and abetted in some way the commission of this felony. We have not -- and I repeat -- not investigated any member of the Billings family for any crime nor have we even looked at that. We've received no complaints and at this point and juncture in this investigation, we have no reason to do that.", "In some interviews you've said that robbery was a motive, maybe it's just a syntax thing. You didn't say the motive. Are there other possible motives?", "Yes, sir. We believe there are. And again, we're developing those in conjunction with the state attorney's office.", "There are other -- there's also the DEA had said that someone had -- from your office or from a law enforcement had contacted them for help in this investigation. You've said you did not do that. Do you have any knowledge of any other agency that contacted the DEA?", "I believe, Mr. Cooper, there was some confusion in that. Last week we held a joint conference in my office, in my conference room where we brought in the bureau, the DEA, ATF, IRS, ICE, almost every federal investigative agency was there. During the conduct of this investigation, one of the things that was intriguing to us and also very frustrating was the amount and volume of information that we had developed on other individuals, other crimes that may have been committed, et cetera. And so I have both the legal and ethical responsibility to pass that information on to the appropriate agencies. Now, we have, in fact, briefed agencies along the way during the conduct of this investigation as a courtesy to keep them updated on our investigation. I think somehow it was confused that the DEA somehow was involved in our investigation. And I want to state here that to the best of my knowledge as a Sheriff of Escambia County, they are not.", "Ok, we've been getting a lot of emails from viewers who are kind of scratching their heads and say, if these folks were out to rob this couple, A, why kill them? And also, why have this military operation? We've got one question from a viewer from text 360, their question was why kill the parents if this was just a simple robbery? This is from Candace in Georgia.", "Well, again, if you're not present at the crime scene, or not involved with the crime, you're not really sure what spins out of control. I can tell you that in law enforcement there's many things that start out as a simple street buy on drugs that turns violent very quickly and a death occurs. So unless someone was actually in that home at the time of this robbery, you're only speculating as to why it devolved into a murder.", "Finally, at this point, do you feel like you have your hands around the overall -- I mean, what happened and why it happened and at this point you're kind of trying to just put the pieces together. Or is there -- and has that information been released -- or do you feel like there's more to this story that the public has yet to learn?", "There will be more to the story in Florida, sir, because we work with the prosecution at this stage in this case. We have basically deferred to the state attorney on the release of much of this information. But it will also come out at trial once the prosecution begins their case and of course, the defense also. And so the elements that we can't speak to today will, of course, come out during the trial. But what I want to assure the public of is this; we have the seven individuals that entered the Billings' compound and committed this violent crime. They're in custody in the Escambia County jail today. And again, we're working on those folks who may have had some peripheral involvement with this; who may have such as with the alarm system had a key component or element to play that chose not to but our community is safe from that perspective. We do not have any violent offenders associated with this case that are still at large to the best of my knowledge.", "All right, Sheriff Morgan, it's been a long couple of days for you. And I appreciate your time tonight. Thank you very much, sir.", "Thank you sir, it's an honor to be here.", "The conversation continues online. You can join the live chat right now at AC360.com. I'm about to log on myself. Just ahead tonight: journeying through Michelle Obama's past and that of countless African-Americans. She's descended from both slave owners and slaves, as the president pointed out during the campaign. Tonight, we'll show you the world of her great, great grandfather. Also, the video behind the picture, that picture. Never shown before, the video of Michael Jackson, his hair on fire. Did his injury set in motion the chain of prescriptions and addictions that may have led to his death? That and more, when we continue. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "MORGAN", "COOPER", "MORGAN", "COOPER", "MORGAN", "COOPER", "MORGAN", "COOPER", "MORGAN", "COOPER", "MORGAN", "COOPER", "MORGAN", "COOPER", "MORGAN", "COOPER", "MORGAN", "COOPER", "MORGAN", "COOPER", "MORGAN", "COOPER", "MORGAN", "COOPER", "MORGAN", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-152881", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2010-7-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1007/07/acd.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Massachusetts Congressman Edward Markey", "utt": ["Good evening again from the Gulf. Anderson Cooper is off. I'm Sanjay Gupta, filling in tonight. You know, it's been truly sobering what this pipe at the bottom of the Gulf has done to so many lives. I have seen it firsthand now. Yet, when it comes to measuring how much oil is leaking, where it's going, what it's doing, BP doesn't seem to want to know, even says it's not important to know. In a moment, you are going to hear from a renowned independent scientist. His name is Ira Leifer. He's a member of an all-star team of researchers who have come up with a plan -- it's called Deep Spill 2 -- to do all of the above, to measure the oil's impact. Now, two months ago, he proposed an early version of it to BP. He heard nothing. Then, on June 10, Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey got into the act, directing BP to contact Dr. Leifer. Still nothing. Then, last week, Dr. Leifer's team released a detailed proposal, 88 pages, $8.4 million to implement. You guessed it, still nothing. Now, bear in mind, $8.4 million fifteen-hundredths-of-a-percent of the $5.6 billion BP earned in the quarter before the spill. It's about four-hundredths-of-a-percent of the $20 billion BP set aside for spill-related claims. And it's about 2.5 hundredths-of-a-percent of the $33 billion Sanford Bernstein today estimated the spill was going to cost BP. You can decide for yourself whether that's a small cost for this company to pay. I spoke about it earlier with Dr. Ira Leifer.", "Now, Dr. Leifer, it's been more than three weeks since Congressman Ed Markey asked BP to give your group the green light to do this kind of testing, the kind of testing to measure the flow rate, to measure the impact overall of the oil on the ecosystem. There's a huge list of things you're trying to study. And, yet, you have heard nothing from BP is my understanding. Why do you think that is?", "I really don't know. I wish they would pick up a phone and just give me a call, so I could walk them through the proposal. The experiment is very important. I have gotten very good feedback from scientists within the government and so on. And I'm hoping that having the full technical proposal for their consideration, they will, too, recognize its importance and actually give me a call.", "The study that you're proposing, is it going to be of benefit to the people right now here in the Gulf, to the workers, to the residents of this community, the knowledge that you gain?", "The simple answer is yes. I mean, there are many things we just simply do not understand. We know there are plumes of oil in the deep sea. We don't know where we're going. We're don't know why. And, similarly, there's reports of submerged oil near the surface. And any time one finds that one has to say I don't know or we're not sure about why, what's happening, you cannot respond effectively. You cannot protect the resources that need the greatest protection first, because you're operating in the dark. And what science is all about is to shine a light on the darkness, so that we can actually do the best job possible to actually protect resources, people, fishermen, the ecosystem, lives, as well -- today -- as well as for our children.", "And, as a scientist, you say that this is a unique opportunity to be able to study the impact of an oil spill like this. And I keep coming back to the simple question, Dr. Leifer. And I think it's really at the core of this whole thing. Does BP, does the federal government want the American people to know what's really happening out there on the water, or don't they? I mean, because you're trying to find out what's actually happening, how much oil is coming out, and what the impact is. Why -- why can't we get that simple answer almost three months into this?", "I -- I -- I really do not know exactly why we are at the situation that we are in of still not knowing many very specific things. Part of it has been the response mentality, in that always dealing with the current problem, what's around the corner for the next two days, instead of actually having plans that try to address more forward looking, which is what our team has put together, so that we can actually make plans and get the data that's needed, while the tornado is happening. A good analogy here is that, if you study a tornado by looking at the broken houses, you don't learn how to build a house properly. You want to study it while it's happening. And, so, we're requesting, the team, that science be green-lighted, that science be brought to the fore to protect, because, when science is done, everyone wins.", "Dr. Ira Leifer, if -- if you do hear from BP or get some of the funding necessarily to conduct those studies, please come back and tell us about it. We would certainly be interested in hearing from you. Thanks so much for joining us.", "You're welcome. I hope I can have good news in the near future. Thank you very much.", "And, as always, we reached out to BP today, trying to get an executive to come on the program. And I watch Anderson say this almost every night. I guess it's my turn now, I guess, to say the same thing. We did mention Congressman Markey. He would come on with us, and we spoke a short time ago.", "Congressman Markey, you wrote a letter to BP back on June 10 requesting specifically their support and funding for Deep Spill 2. This is the study. First of all, has BP responded to your letter?", "BP has yet to respond to my letter. I have not heard back from them yet.", "Well, you know, as a starting point, Congressman, given the enormity of what we're talking about here and the impact really across the entire country, why do we need BP's permission? I mean, why doesn't the government, for example, foot the around $8.4 million bill -- I think that's how much it costs -- and let these scientists get to work to answer some of the questions that you're raising?", "Well, I think that BP should pay for it. I think that BP should stand for bills paid, and this is certainly something that BP should pay for. I think it makes a lot of sense for this experiment to take place, especially the use of fluorescent dye in order to measure accurately how much oil and natural gas is coming out of this pipe. And -- and I think, if it does require the federal government to pay for it, they should just put it on BP's bill, because, ultimately, BP doesn't want to know the answer to the question, because they have to pay a fine per barrel of oil. And if it's gross negligence at $4,300 a barrel, the difference of just 10,000 barrels per day for 77 days is $3 billion. So, perhaps we shouldn't be waiting for BP to be spending that money, because they don't want to know how big their liability is. They want to lower their liability. And, at the same time, the federal government, on behalf of the American people, have a stake in knowing just how big this problem is, so that the fine on BP reflects a punishment that is equal to the harm which they have inflicted on the people in the Gulf.", "And, again, they have not responded to your letter. But you're -- you're convinced that this -- this is complete obstructionism; they simply do not want to know the answers that a lot of people want to know?", "Well, right now, people say, BP says, experts say, that the flow could be 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day. Well, if it's 45,000 barrels a day, that's an extra $3 billion in fines. If it's 55,000 barrels, that's an extra $6 billion in fines. So, yes, there is a disconnect between the amount of scientific work that has to be conducted and finished, and BP's interest in actually conducting that research.", "Yes. As things stand now, Congressman -- I mean, I'm down here looking at the health effects -- do we know if there are any long-term health effects of this oil spill? Do we know what they are and when they are going to start to happen?", "Well, at the hearing in our committee, I demanded from Tony Hayward that he make accessible to the National Institutes of Occupational Health and Safety all of the information about all of the workers down there in the Gulf of Mexico. And, up until then, they had been equivocating. Up until then, they had refused to do it. But, the next day, they began to turn over all of this information. And there was, as a result, an increase in the transparency. But I think we're going to have to monitor this situation on an ongoing basis, because nobody knows better than you there are physical harms here, but there are also mental health consequences to -- to this event, because people's lives are being affected in a way that could change the whole course of families' histories.", "It is really remarkable being down here, Congressman, for the reasons you just mentioned. And that's exactly what we are going to be talking about today, the physical and mental toll that it's taking. Congressman Ed Markey, thanks so much for joining us.", "Thank you for having me.", "And there you have it. Let us know what you think, of course. The live chat is up and running, AC360.com. Just ahead: my conversation with the head of BP's medical response team in the Gulf and what he says about the number of cleanup workers they're treating. It surprised me. But up next: a 360 investigation -- a former Exxon Valdez cleanup worker is speaking up about the cleanup today. His concerns, his allegations, we're \"Keeping Them Honest.\""], "speaker": ["DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN GUEST ANCHOR", "GUPTA", "IRA LEIFER, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA", "GUPTA", "LEIFER", "GUPTA", "LEIFER", "GUPTA", "LEIFER", "GUPTA", "GUPTA", "REP. EDWARD MARKEY (D), MASSACHUSETTS", "GUPTA", "MARKEY", "GUPTA", "MARKEY", "GUPTA", "MARKEY", "GUPTA", "MARKEY", "GUPTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-229255", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-4-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/26/cnr.10.html", "summary": "Clippers Owner Accused of Racist Comments; U.S., President is on 4-Nation Swing Through Asia", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. Don Lemon here. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. Thank you so much for joining us. We have a big story that we want to begin with tonight that reaches way beyond its origin in the sports world. That's where it started. It goes much, much more difficult. It gets much more difficult than that, because we are talking about the important issues of race and equality here. The NBA tonight is investigating recorded remarks allegedly made by L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling. The comments obtained by the Web site TMZ includes a voice disparaging African-Americans, also telling a woman, apparently his girlfriend, to stop bringing African-Americans to Clippers games. CNN's Paul Vercammen joins us tonight from Los Angeles. Paul, you have a new excerpt to share with us from that recording. We want to hear it.", "Well, Don, let's just get right to it. This is Donald Sterling's alleged girlfriend talking to him over the phone. And again, we are trying to confirm that this is, indeed, Sterling's voice. Let's give a listen.", "People call you and tell you that I have black people on my Instagram. And it bothers you.", "Yes, it bothers me a lot that you want to promo -- broadcast that you're associating with black people. Do you have to?", "You associate with black people.", "I'm not you, and you're not me. You're supposed to be a delicate white or a delicate Latina girl.", "I'm a mixed girl.", "OK. Well --", "And you're in love with me. And I'm black and Mexican. Whether you like it or not.", "And here is what the president of the Clippers has to say about these recordings. \"We have heard the tape on TMZ. We do not know if it is legitimate or it has been altered. We do know that the woman who is on the tape who we believe released it to TMZ is the defendant in a lawsuit brought by the Sterling family alleging that she embezzled more than $1.8 million.\" And, by the way, Don, the net worth of Donald Sterling is almost $2 billion.", "And you know what? He goes on in that release from the president of the L.A. Clippers and goes on to say he is upset with the remarks that were attributed to him about blacks and also especially about Magic Johnson because he said Magic Johnson was a friend. But nowhere in that statement does he say, \"That is not my voice and I did not make those remarks\", correct?", "That is absolutely true. Nowhere in that statement do they say this is definitely not the voice of Donald Sterling. They also don't mention that, according to records here, Donald Sterling received an NAACP Award from the Los Angeles chapter for lifetime achievement back in the day, so Donald Sterling does have his defenders. But, of course, as we pointed out many times today, he has been sued several times, including four racial discrimination. He is one of the largest landowners or landlords or renters in the Los Angeles areas, with thousands of apartments. And in that suit, they said that Donald Sterling deliberately excluded blacks, and in many times, he favored Koreans, much of this in the downtown Los Angeles area -- Don.", "Also, I think, Paul, I think with the NAACP thing, I think what we are checking on is that he was set to receive a lifetime achievement award from the NAACP. I just want to get our reporting correct on that. But also from -- Charles Barkley was just on and we talked a lot about Doc Rivers. I think Doc Rivers is speaking out now. Can we listen to that and then we can talk about it, Paul?", "I'm sure you were made aware of the comments by Donald Sterling.", "Yes.", "Just wondering your thoughts and if you're surprised.", "I don't know if I'm surprised or not. I didn't like the comments obviously. To tell you now, I'm speaking on behalf of the team so the players are not going to deal with this issue. We had a great team meeting this morning about it. A lot of guys voiced their opinions. None of them were happy about it. This is a situation where we're trying to go after something very important for us. Something that we have all dreamed about all of our childhoods and, you know, Donald or anyone else had nothing to do with that dream and we are not going to let anything get in the way of those dreams. As far as the comments, you know, we are not happy with any of them. But we are going to let the due process, everything get handled and that situation will be dealt with later. Right now, our goals haven't changed. Our focus is on Golden State and it's going to state on Golden State.", "Doc Rivers, the coach of the L.A. Clippers, Paul. Clearly is really, you know, put an interesting position here being the coach. He is African-American. And then these alleged remarks by the owner.", "Yes. And, Don, you were talking to Charles Barkley. Of course, he said this is a black league and I just wanted to run down some of the statistics for you. Richard Lapchick from the University of Central Florida is known as an expert in this area. So, 76.3 percent of the NBA and 81 percent are people of color. The NBA has been lauded as opposed to other professional sports leagues with the hiring of African-Americans, 43 percent of the head coaches, including Doc Rivers, are African- American and some 45 percent of the assistant coaches. So, this is going to reverberate for a long time, if, indeed, these remarks are true and, of course, Charles Barkley, among other things, are saying that there should be an immediate suspension and a fine against Donald Sterling if these comments are, indeed, his.", "Paul Vercammen, appreciate your reporting. Thank you very much. And, again, he mentioned that the L.A. Clippers issued a statement and he read it in part. But, again, he is saying he is not saying the -- the head of the Clippers, whoever released the statement, not saying that it's not his voice. They are just saying that they are unhappy that it was attributed to him. Earlier, I talked about the Sterling conversation with TNT analyst and basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley.", "It is not the first time. He's, obviously, settled some lawsuits where he was discriminating in his real estate business against blacks and Hispanics. So this is typical -- he has done it before. So he has to be suspended by the NBA. This is the first major test from Adam Silver, our new commissioner, but you can't have an owner of an NBA team disparaging black people because the majority of its players are black. And also, any time you're in a position of power you can hire and fire people, you can't be racist. So, the NBA has to address this. In my opinion, he has to be suspended, plain and simple.", "Yes. And you notice on the statement that I read, he said he is sorry for that it was attributed to him, but he doesn't say it's not me. He never said these statements.", "Don, not just that. He has -- this is guy who has settled lawsuits about discrimination in the past. So, it's par for the course, to be honest with you. You know, the NBA let him off the hook in his real estate business when he was discriminating against blacks and Hispanics and they should have done something to him back then. So, this is habitual. This is not the first time. This is like the third or fourth time and this is the first time he has said something about black players but he was discriminating in his real estate business. So, the NBA and Adam Silver has to address this. And I feel bad for the players too because they are caught in no man's land. They're working for a guy who is an idiot and now, they are going to -- they are in the middle of a tough series against the Golden State warriors and before one of their big games, you have to be answering to this stuff.", "Charles Barkley talking about the situation with Clippers owner Donald Sterling. We'll continue to follow the story here on CNN. Meantime, we want to look overseas now for some more news. We're talking about President Obama. He's in Malaysia. It is third country he has visited on his swing through Southeast Asia. Since landing in Kuala Lumpur, his trip has been mostly ceremonial with the exception of the king and state dinner. But Sunday, you know, it is all work. CNN's Jim Acosta is traveling with the president. So, Jim, what pressing issues do the United States and Malaysia have to work on?", "Well, they are going to be talking about this big Pacific trade deal the president would like to see reached. He is not coming home with one, so they're going to continue to try to make progress on it and come together with a deal that all parties of that Pacific partnership would like to see. Not only here in Malaysia but also in Japan. And back in the United States, which is going to be a tough sell to the president's own party. But, Don, you mentioned the ceremonial aspect of this trip and I think that is really the case here in Malaysia. He is going to be visiting a national mosque later today, holding a bilateral meeting with the prime minister here before sitting down for a news conference with reporters. But, you know, there is an overall strategy here for this White House, for this president, for this administration, and that is countering China's rise not only economically but militarily. At the tail end of this trip, Don, he is going to be visiting the Philippines where he's going to try to execute a basing agreement that will allow more military assets to be placed in that country. And so, there is a strategy here that goes beyond the ceremony of visiting a country. This is the first president to visit Malaysia since 1966. And don't forget -- every step of the way, the president is dealing with the crisis in Ukraine and Russia. That has become a full-time job for this president.", "And the timing is very interesting, because, you know, Flight 370. How much of Flight 370, this mystery, is hanging over this visit? I mean, what has the president said about it?", "Absolutely. Well, he gave an interview to a major Malaysian newspaper in which he said that the U.S. is going to continue to contribute assets as part of the search for that plane and he also said -- it was interesting to hear this, Don, because we haven't really heard the president talk about this -- he said going forward, perhaps it's time to start looking at the lessons learned. A bit of an acknowledgment of the intense criticism that has been leveled against this government, not only here in Malaysia but internationally. So, it was interesting to hear the president say that. But the criticism, if there even was any in that comment, was very, very soft and it did not dissuade the king of this country, King Halim, from honoring the president and the United States and what they have contributed to this effort to find this missing plane at a state dinner last night. Here is what the king had to say.", "We wish to express our utmost gratitude for the U.S. unwavering support and cooperation.", "And so, Don, we are seeing this president play a role of consoler-in-chief that we are accustomed so seeing back in the United States, we might see and here more of that from the president as he makes more public comments to this country, but it's very much a similar case to what we saw in South Korea when the president honored the victims and the families of that ferry disaster outside of Seoul. So, the president continuing with that role of consoler-in-chief here in Malaysia, Don.", "Jim Acosta in Kuala Lumpur, thank you very much, Jim. You know, his government has been called liars and even murderers by the families of those aboard Flight 370 and things may be about to get a whole worse from Malaysia's prime minister. The details are next. And after this tornado in North Carolina, more dangerous storms are brewing across the country. We're going to tell you if you should be preparing."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GIRLFRIEND", "DONALD STERLING", "GIRLFRIEND", "STERLING", "GIRLFRIEND", "STERLING", "GIRLFRIEND", "VERCAMMEN", "LEMON", "VERCAMMEN", "LEMON", "REPORTER", "DOC RIVERS, HEAD COACH, LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS", "REPORTER", "RIVERS", "LEMON", "VERCAMMEN", "LEMON", "CHARLES BARKLEY, BASKETBALL HALL OF FAMER (via telephone)", "LEMON", "BARKLEY", "LEMON", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "ACOSTA", "KING ABDUL HALIM, MALAYSIA", "ACOSTA", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-222706", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-1-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1401/11/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Deadly Fighting Intensified In Iraq; Hunters Club Says Money Will Help Rhinos; National Zoo's Panda Cub To Debut Next Week", "utt": ["Now to Iraq where there's been a stunning surge in violence. At least 60 people have been killed and nearly 300 wounded since December 1st. The city of Fallujah is at the center of the fighting where al Qaeda-linked fighters are battling government troops. Michael Holmes is live for us now from Baghdad. So Michael, tell us more about the situation there.", "Hi, Fred. There's been a lot of sporadic violence off and on during the day in Anbar Province, as you said, Fallujah and also Ramadi are the two cities that have been at the center of this. Fallujah, of course, very familiar, resonating with Americans where a lot of Americans lost their lives fighting Islamists too. Now, what has been happening there is that the tribes, the Sunni tribes, many of whom, of course, feel disenfranchised by the government of Nuri Al-Maliki. They've been opposing the government for some time. That also allowed a situation where al Qaeda-linked fighters, the Islamic state of Iraq and Syria, have come into that area and that's where we've seen this fighting start. It all began actually when the government tried to shut down a protest camp in Anbar Province. It was protesting against the government. Well, today we have seen a various incidents inside Fallujah to Ramadi. It's been calm most of the day, but we've just been getting information there has been an Iraqi army strike on a guest house in Ramadi. This is according to Ramadi police, which hit this guest house owned by a Sunni tribal leader. Three people killed, seven wounded. There was a clash between Ramadi and Fallujah on the road there between these fighters and the army. There was also another incident where, according to people inside Fallujah we spoke to, Iraqi army vehicles were heading towards Fallujah, only a kilometer or so outside of that city, when tribal leaders there attacked that convoy, according to them. An Iraqi army tank, a Humvee were damaged or destroyed and there were injuries in that as well. So it's a very -- this all goes back to Sunnis feeling left out of governance in Iraq. That's sort of the origin of it all, but a lot of concern about where this could lead -- Fred.", "Lots of concern indeed. All right, thank you so much, Michael Holmes. Stay safe there in Baghdad. All right, tonight a group of hunters in this country will bid on a permit to kill one of the world's most endangered animals. The Dallas Safari Club says killing one black rhino will help save dozens others. Their auction is drawing a whole lot of anger and attention by the FBI. Our Ed Lavandera reports.", "Coming this close to a black rhinoceros is rare. There are only 5,000 left in the world. In the country of Namibia in Southern Africa there are only 1,700 still alive. Thousands of miles away in this convention hall in Texas, the Dallas Safari Club says it has a way of helping save this ancient beast. The group will auction off a permit from the Namibian government to hunt and kill one black rhino. The club's executive director, Ben Carter, says sacrificing one animal for the greater good is smart conservation.", "It's going to be able to raise more money than any other way you could do it to help provide for all the conservations needs that we need for the black rhino.", "The auction has sparked death threats, which the FBI is investigating along with a vicious debate over how to save this endangered species. Critics call the auction a sad joke. (on camera): Marcia, tell us where you're joining us from.", "I'm sitting in Namibia in Africa.", "Marcia Fargnoli is CEO of Save The Rhino Trust and works with the Namibian government to protect the rhinos. (on camera): Do you agree with this tactic, the way they are doing it?", "I personally don't agree. This is actually saying that one rhino is worth dead much more than it is alive.", "The black rhino hunting permit will be auctioned off Saturday night. It's a closed event. You have to have a special ticket to get in. No cameras allowed inside. Organizers say it's to protect the identity of the bidders. The Dallas Safari Club estimates the permit could sell for as much $250,000, even up to a million dollars. (voice-over): The Dallas Safari Club says all of the money will be donated to Namibia's conservation efforts to save the black rhino and that the government has picked a handful of rhinos that can be targeted by the hunter who wins the auction.", "They've already picked out two or three black rhino males that are old, nonbreeding males. They're not contributing to the population anymore. In fact, black rhinos are very territorial and they are very aggressive. They actually are detrimental to the population when they get old like that.", "But animal conservation groups say it would be better to keep the rhino alive and raise money through tourism, selling the opportunity to see these animals up close in the wild.", "I can't state strongly enough how perverse this is to say that killing this animal is the best thing for these animals. It is a critically endangered species.", "The black rhino is in the crosshairs of controversy and both sides say they're doing what's best for this wild beast. Ed Lavandera, CNN, Dallas.", "The Consumer Electronics Show is often where you find the next big thing in gadgets. We've got the best and worst of what the future holds, next. But first, Bao-bao, the baby panda getting ready to enter the spotlight, the public will get to see her at the Smithsonian National Zoo starting next week. Here's Tom Foreman.", "She's so warm.", "At just 17 pounds, 5- month-old Bao-bao is already a heavyweight in the world of conservation.", "It's 58 centimeters.", "A rare success in the long fight to preserve the giant panda.", "Pandas are notoriously difficult to breed.", "Laurie Thompson tends to Bao-bao and says there are many reasons. Pandas are naturally solitary and usually don't mate well in captivity. Artificial insemination is uncertain and even when new ones are born, they often don't make it.", "Unfortunately, they are very -- sort of in the first month or so, they are very fragile and you often don't know that there is anything wrong.", "The panda's American journey, however, has been key to the species' survival.", "So this is the crate that Ling-ling was shipped in in 1972.", "The first panda.", "Yes.", "U.S. scientists have helped the panda along ever since the first bears were sent here from their native China following a visit by President Nixon. Researchers in the National Zoo are now among the top authorities in the world for breeding them. Yet births like this remain rare.", "Every year you kind of hope for it and every year it's been a disappointment since 2005.", "Habitat loss has left only 1,600 pandas in the wild, some 300 in captivity. Small wonder, then, that this new arrival, this rare bear, is being treated with such care. 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{"id": "CNN-15047", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-9-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/01/mn.11.html", "summary": "Gallup Poll: American Public Favors National Missile Defense System", "utt": ["The decision on whether to advance a national missile defense system apparently will be left to President Clinton's successor. Sources tell CNN that Mr. Clinton will make that announcement next hour. The Republican-controlled Congress wants a system deployed as soon as possible, but critics say it would fuel an international arms race. Gallup Poll Editor in Chief Frank Newport joins us now. He has a look at how the American public feels about the matter.", "Frank, good morning.", "Good morning, Daryn. The bottom line is, the public in general favors the missile defense system just as they did back in the 1980s when they favored Ronald Reagan's Star Wars system. Let's show you the data. This is from about a month ago in July when we asked the public, favor or oppose a missile defense system? Fifty-three percent favor it, 36 percent are opposed. It is a partisan issue. Daryn, you mentioned that the Republican Congress had been pushing it. Well, rank-and-file Republicans across the country more likely to be in favor of it as well: 63 percent of Republicans favor it, Independents much more mixed, and Democrats is 51 percent. Those are some of the pressures, obviously, that Bill Clinton has been under. Let's show you from our Gallup Poll vault what we found back in 1986. We phrased the question different, used the term Star Wars. But here's what we found there for Reagan's system. At that point, about the same numbers as we find now: 52 percent of the public way back then favor this system as well. Finally, if it is left up to the new president, we think that George W. Bush has an edge over Al Gore because, consistently, when we asked the public who would better handle national defense, George W. Bush wins. He won in July, he won in August. And even after the Democratic convention when Gore did very well, that was the one dimension that Bush still has a considerable edge over Al Gore on. So if it's going to be left up to the new president, Daryn and Bill, it looks like Bush could probably argue to the public, hey, I could do a better job making that decision. That's where the public stands. Back to you.", "Thank you very much."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "KAGAN", "FRANK NEWPORT, GALLUP POLL EDITOR IN CHIEF", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-20045", "program": "TalkBack Live", "date": "2000-11-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/17/tl.00.html", "summary": "Election 2000: When Will it End?", "utt": ["On the limited evidence presented, it appears the secretary has exercised her reasoned judgment to determine what relevant factors and criteria should be considered, apply them to the facts and circumstances pertinent to the individual counties involved and made her decision. My order requires nothing more.", "The rule of law has prevailed. We now look forward to the prompt counting and reporting of the limited number of uncounted overseas absentee ballots, so that the process of achieving a final result to the election in Florida is not subject to further delays.", "To the extent that Judge Lewis' decision today is contrary to that, we believe it is incorrect, and we will be appealing it to the Supreme Court of Florida.", "It ain't over until it's over, and it ain't over yet. When and how will election 2000 end?", "Welcome to TALKBACK LIVE. Well, a big ruling today in the Florida recount opens the door to the possibility, just the possibility, that it could all end this weekend. But a lot can happen, as you know, in the next 21 hours. As you might imagine, Florida's Secretary of State Katherine Harris is pleased with this morning's court decision. She issued written statement saying -- quote -- \"I am pleased that Judge Terry Lewis has supported my authority to exercise the duties assigned by law to the office of secretary of state. We will continue to follow the election procedures provided by Florida law, and we anticipate receiving the certifications of the overseas absentee ballots from all counties by noon tomorrow. Acting again as our legal guide today is CNN legal analyst Greta Van Susteren, who is in West Palm Beach, and Roger Cossack joining us from Washington today. Hello, again, you guys.", "Hello, Bobbie.", "Rog, is your mike on. Can we hear you? Give us a test there, because I'm not sure I heard you. We're having a little trouble with Roger's mike, so we'll try to fix that. Great, tell us why you think Judge Lewis made the decision he did this morning?", "It wasn't a question, Bobbie, of whether or not he agreed with the secretary of state's decision to reject any hand- counted votes that are posted after Tuesday. It wasn't a question of whether he agreed with it. That wasn't what he was looking at. What the law was -- supposed -- what he was supposed to do is to look at it and see whether she exercised judgment, reasoned judgment, and he concluded that she did, and that's part of her job as secretary of state, and so for that reason, he agreed that she had the authority, and even though he may agree with her, I don't know. But even if he didn't agree, he said, he has the authority to do this. And so she made her decision, and that at least stays in the trial court. But as we know, going up to the Florida Supreme Court, and we'll hear finally what the final word is on this.", "Roger, hypothetically speaking, what would have constituted an arbitrary rejection?", "Well, that's a good question, because there doesn't seem to be any written standards that I have able to come across so far. But let me give you some hypotheticals on an arbitrary rejection. If she would have just said that, you know, nothing you can say would make me change my mind, or I don't care, I'm not going to take them, or it doesn't matter or something like that. What Greta said is really the key. The key is, whatever she articulated -- and remember, she required something in writing for them from the counties by 2:00 the next day and they gave their reasons, and what she said was, you know, those reasons just aren't good enough, and therefore, I'm the elected official that's in charge of making this decision, the people of Florida voted for me. I'm making the decision, and what Judge Lewis has said is, you know, the rational that you suggested is good enough. I mean, you have rejected what they said, and that's fine.", "You know, Roger, where I think she may get hung up, though. This is what my eye is on. And I don't know how the Florida Supreme Court is going to rule, but you had four counties that submitted letters to her. Collier County, which wasn't even asking for an additional hand count. It just wanted to add some more votes to its tally for another reason. Then you had Miama-Dade, which just basically sent a - letter, saying we would like to do it, too, us, too. And so there was no reason why Miami-Dade thought that they should be able to do a hand count. Then you had Broward, that said, look, we're a big county, we had more votes than we ever expected, we weren't ready for it, so we have to do hand count, not particularly convincing argument since they really -- you know, They knew the election was coming; they should have been ready for it, and that may not -- my Attention isn't so much on that. But in the county I'm sitting in, in West Palm Beach, they did the hand count on Saturday, and by law, they had to do 1 percent. of the precincts. They did that one percent, and 19...", "Greta, excuse me for interrupting, I'm sorry. We've got to switch over now to Miami-Dade County where Gore attorney Kendall Coffey is addressing, I think, the canvassing board down there.", "We seem to have lost our audio from this Miami-Dade feed. What you are watching Democratic and Republican lawyers make arguments before the canvassing board in Miami-Dade. Miami-Dade opted not to do a hand recount down there. And the Democratic lawyer, obviously Kendall Coffey, is trying to get them to reconsider that and to change their minds and do a partial hand recount in that county. Roger and Greta, your thoughts on what's going on down there?", "Well, I don't know what to say. What, Roger?", "I am going to give it to you because there's not much to say.", "I will give you a tidbit.", "Two lawyers doing a little whining. I know you don't have a monitor down there.", "As I was watching, I was saying, boy, these two would drive Greta crazy.", "Wait a second. Stop right there. Bob Martinez went to school with me. So, leave Bob Martinez alone.", "Hey you guys, actually, the one piece of -- the one little, tiny bit of news that came out because we knew this was inevitable, but he did confirm that the state Supreme Court is now considering Judge Lewis' ruling from this morning. So, we know that is underway. But we don't know when they are going to rule on that.", "Bobbie, is that for sure? Greta?", "Kendall Coffey said that.", "I don't know if the technical filing has been done. But Democrats have said over and over today they intend to file. So, obviously they have got to get their papers together. Filing a notice of appeal is a very routine thing. It should takes lawyers all of about 15 seconds. They file a line that says, I want to repeal this matter and be done with it and then you file. It becomes more complicated when you add briefs to it and say -- and you've got to explain why it is you think you should win. And it makes a lot of sense for the Democratic lawyers or any losing side when they make a request for emergency hearing that they don't simply submit the one-page line that says, I not simply submit the one-page line saying I want help fast. I want to file a notice of appeal that they actually present their argument explaining to the Florida Supreme Court why this is so important that they do it right now rather than sit and not -- rather than wait.", "You know, the timing on when they rule on this, Roger, is pretty important.", "Right.", "Is it going to happen before noon tomorrow?", "I would think so. I think that this is an issue that they clearly could have seen was coming. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they actually had research already prepared pending the briefs that, of course, will be turned in. I know, as Greta suggests, both sides have been preparing their briefs knowing this eventually is going to get here. And, you know, the interesting thing about it is this could be the end of this. If the Florida Supreme Court decides, whenever it does decide, today, tomorrow, that Katherine Harris was -- did not abuse her discretion, that could be the end of this whole discussion.", "Well, not exactly, though, Roger, not exactly, though. I think it actually puts it into -- you know, chapter, whatever chapter we're on. It moves it into a new chapter. Because remember, after certification in Florida, under the law in Florida is that a candidate can then contest the election, say I'm the one that should have won. So what it does is it puts us into another stage. But I agree with you. I bet the Florida Supreme Court has been researching this issue for three days. And we saw this sort of advanced notice, at least I think so, in the case earlier this week. On Saturday, the Republicans filed the request for an injunction in federal court. On Monday, the judge heard the decision and he said, I'm going to make -- I'm going to deliver a written decision in one hour. An hour later, he came out with 24 pages, which suggested to me that he was busy writing well before -- before he said was going to make the decision. So they anticipate this -- these issue and begin researching them.", "I've got a question from David here in the audience, who just happens to be from West Palm Beach.", "Hi, good afternoon.", "Hello.", "My question is if you could talk about state sovereignty as far as the legal, historical significance of states' ability to finalize this decision making in these matters of elections, and ultimately is this going to -- the decision by the Florida Supreme Court, is this going to be binding?", "Let me give you a rule of thumb...", "Well, I would think that presumptively it will be binding. Let me -- I'll give you a quick two minutes -- a quick one minute on state sovereignty. When it comes to these kinds of things, the Constitution as well as the law seems to be -- in fact, it's pretty strong that the states should handle this. They want -- the federal government should stay out of it. As long as the state runs an election that isn't contrary to our Constitution or doesn't violate any constitutional standards or statutory standards, then the Florida courts should handle this. Now, you know, there will always -- there can always be an argument that in fact something has happened which may violate the Constitution. This butterfly ballot is one that conceivably the a claim could be made. But I can tell you that generally -- and I know, Greta, you probably agree with me on this one -- presumptively it ends up in the state Supreme Court.", "Ditto.", "Oh, OK, you do agree.", "Wow.", "I agree.", "You do agree. OK, on that note then we'll let you guys go. We appreciate your time and once again...", "Thank you.", "... your time and insight on this. Thanks very much. As we go to break, a couple of e-mails. Sharon from Washington, \"Enough is enough. Please, Vice President Gore, concede with some dignity. Run again in 2004.\" Dan from California says, \"Katherine Harris is nothing but a hitman for the GOP. She's stealing this election for Bush.\" We'll be back and talk with two Florida congressman right after the break.", "Welcome back. Joining us now, Florida Democratic Congressman Peter Deutsch. His 20th Congressional District includes western Broward County as well as parts of Miami-Dade County. Also with us, Republican Congressman Mark Foley from Florida's 16th District. We're still getting him set up technically. Let me start with Congressman Deutsch. First of all, your reaction to Judge Lewis's ruling this morning?", "Well, you know, Judge Lewis in Tallahassee really said that he doesn't want to deal with a hypothetical set of circumstances, which is what he had said previously. Which I think he's really hoping that Kathy Harris uses her discretion the correct way and accepts these ballot, which none of us, I think, expect. I mean, she has ignored the law, in fact I think has really done extra legal things to prevent a fair and accurate vote count from occurring in Broward County and in the state of Florida.", "Let me get a reaction now from Congressman Foley. Are you with us now?", "... Gore goodbye, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, hey, hey, hey, goodbye.", "We're getting your audio from the background, Congressman Foley, but we're not getting you, I don't think. So we'll try to fix that and get a response from you in just a minute. Meanwhile, Congressman Deutsch, did the hand count -- OK, we've got Congressman Foley now. Can you hear me now, Congressman? Congressman Foley?", "Now I don't think he can hear me. Congressman Deutsch?", "Yes, if you want I can respond to the court case, another court case by the Republicans in an attempt to stop a fair and accurate count was thrown out by a judge in Broward County just a couple of minutes ago. You know, the lawyer pointed out a picture of people looking at the ballots and saying it's subjective. And Governor Bush has said it's subjective a number of occasions, Secretary Baker at this point probably has said it 100 times. If they say it 10,000 times, it's not going to change the results. Florida law provides for hand counts because they re more accurate. And they are more accurate because the computer cannot read the partially removed chads. And a visual inspection is what's needed for that to occur.", "Congressman...", "And we're not having constitutional debates over what a chad is, out or not, when there are people looking.", "And, Congressman Foley, you're with us now?", "Yes, I hope so, Bobbie.", "Yes, we've got you.", "Good deal.", "Your thoughts on these hand counts continuing. I mean, at this point are the -- if the state Supreme Court decides to uphold Judge Lewis's ruling, what happens to the hand counts?", "Well, I think they're ruled inadmissible basically. I think the secretary observing the law as it was written by legislators in Florida said, you had a deadline, 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. She's adhering to that deadline. And I believe that if Palm Beach County wanted to count ballots they should have done it last week. They're doing it now. They started, they stopped, there's subjective analysis of what is vote is. I mean, I've heard several different standards. Years ago in Palm Beach County, a dimple or a slight impression was never allowed within the ballot system to be counted as a vote. Just recently, eight weeks ago, Beverly Green, a Republican African-American in the primary, had a 14 vote margin of loss. She came to the board and asked if she could have a recount. She got one by machine, when she increased winning by one -- or not winning but shrunk her loss by one vote, she then said let's do hand count because it's so close. The Democratic board here, the canvassing board said absolutely not. You can't prove mechanical error or software error, we simply deny your request because it's not in single digits.", "Mark, I've got to jump in. That's not what they say. Mark, what you forget to tell people is that the number of votes was so small that that 14 votes was less than the statutory requirement of less than .1 percent of the votes required before there can be a manual hand count. You're just --- you know, that's why their wasn't a manual hand count. It wasn't provided under Florida statute. And Mark, the again, the reason that we have...", "Peter, Vice President Gore beat -- Vice President Gore beat Bush by over 125,000 votes in Palm Beach County. If the standard is close proximity, almost...", "But by 300 votes statewide. So 300 votes is obviously...", "Statewide.", "Right.", "Then why are you using Palm Beach County as a statewide barometer? It's not fair.", "The standard that was used in Palm Beach County...", "No, Mark. Mark, I listened to you. You can listen to me.", "Sure, I'll be happy to.", "The standard in the state statute provides for a recount going from that 1 percent to the countywide situation when it could have an effect on the election. Obviously, the 19 votes that they found with the 1 percent extrapolated over the country would be 1,900 votes, far in excess of the 300. And Mark, your other statement -- I really feel like we're beginning to be in \"Alice in Wonderland.\" The reason the hand recount wasn't completed is because the secretary of state ordered them to stop. And now she's saying, well you haven't done it yet.", "That was on Tuesday, Peter. That was on Tuesday. They had from last Thursday.", "Mark, they stopped in Broward.", "I've got to jump in here.", "Thank you, Bobbie.", "I've got to jump in here and take a commercial break. I have questions for the Congressmen when we come back.", "Question from Keith in the audience. Go ahead, Keith.", "Thank you very much. I have a question for Congressman Deutsch. I saw him on television the day after the election with a very impassioned plea about getting all these disturbing phone calls from his constituents in tears about how they might have voted incorrectly. But what came to light several days later, and I'm wondering why we didn't also hear was that these very same people had been phoned by Democratic phone banks planting fear in their minds on how they may have voted.", "Let me hold the answer on that, because we have to go live now to Judge Burton of the Palm Beach Canvassing Board, who's speaking.", "All right, Judge Burton of the Palm Beach canvassing board giving us an update there on how the recount is going. Slowly would be the operative word, I think, but they're doing the best that they can. Sounds like they have quite a ways to go, obviously. All right, Keith, you had a question for Congressman Deutsch.", "Thank you Bobbie. Yes, I'll just restate: I saw Congressman Deutsch on another news network, I think it was on November 9, making a very impassioned plea for his constituents, who had called in in tears, supposedly so upset because they were afraid because they were afraid that they had, maybe, punched the wrong hole on the ballot. And I'm wondering why we didn't also hear about the fact that it was a democratic telephone board that was calling these people, throwing them into this fear and this tizzy, saying to them, are you aware that this butterfly ballot may have led you to vote the wrong way.", "Well, you know, again, the issue of the ballot in Palm Beach County is really not exactly what we're talking about now. What we're talking about now is the actual manual recount which is provided under Florida law to get a more accurate result. I'm not sure if Vice President Gore would challenge that. In fact, he made a really Solomon-esque offer to Governor Bush a couple nights ago and said, hey, listen, let's just recount the state of Florida, even though, statutorily, you've missed the window to count some counties. And again, let me point out, at least one Republican county had been counted by hand and gained 100 votes for Governor Bush and the vice president at that point said, hey, let's just, for the good of the country, move forward. And, unfortunately, Governor Bush rejected that because, I think what's clear from his legal action and extra legal action and political action, he does not want a fair and accurate count in the state of Florida.", "Congressman Deutsch, if the Supreme Court, tomorrow, supports Judge Lewis' ruling and upholds that these late hand counts don't have to be counted, what recourse do the voters down there have, let alone the Gore campaign?", "Let me tell you, I would be shocked if the Florida Supreme Court does not, under the circumstances that have occurred over the last week and a half, where the secretary of state basically, you know, stopped the recounts and then, all of a sudden, we ran out of time -- her political actions directly, with the head of the Republican Party, which really questions -- and brings into very serious question her actions and activity. Florida case law is very clear as well as the statute, is very clear as well. We have manual recounts provided under Florida law. They're not unprecedented; we've had about a dozen previously. There was one in my county, in Broward County to elect a mayor. There was one in Palm Beach County to elect a county commissioner. There's a very strict circumstance when they're allowed to proceed and they're there to get a fair and accurate count. I would be shocked if the Florida Supreme Court, especially based on their opinion yesterday, does not allow that fair and accurate count to occur.", "Let me go quickly to our Washington bureau, to CNN's Chris Black who has an update on -- we're hearing that the Vice President may make an appearance in the next 15 minutes or so. Chris has a preview of that.", "Yes, Bobbie the vice president, according to his political advisers, will make a preemptive strike in just a few minutes. He will tell the American people that it is too soon to declare the election over. There is great concern within the Gore campaign that events may be spinning out of control today in light of Judge Lewis' decision earlier today and the fact that the absentee ballots are beginning to be reported in Florida and they do not expect to win those absentee ballots. But they say the vice president will say, wait a minute, take a step back, and he will say that it is Florida's highest court, the state Supreme Court that will be the final arbiter of this election -- Bobbie.", "Is he going to say, then, that the decision made the Florida state Supreme Court is the final answer, if you will?", "As far as the Gore campaign is concerned, that is where it will end up. They feel pretty good about the state Supreme Court in Florida. That court is the same court that issued an interim ruling just yesterday that allowed the recounts to continue in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. And they feel that, if they can make their case, present their case to the full court; and, in fact, the certification that they expect -- the certification of the votes that they expect the secretary of state to do tomorrow, will actually trigger the opportunity for them to present a full case before the state Supreme Court. And they're hopeful, still, that they can win that.", "All right, CNN's Chris Black, thanks very much for that update. Let me go back -- let me ask Congressman Foley because I know there was some discussion going on in the Bush camp about this earlier today -- if the certification is made at noon tomorrow that Governor Bush has won the state of Florida, is he prepared to claim victory?", "Well, I can't answer for the Bush campaign on that issue. I hope everybody will relax a bit and take their time. We still have to wait for, again, the absentees to be counted. If it goes in his favor I think he has every reason to claim victory. You just heard the judge say, who came out here on the canvassing board, last night there were too many people in the room, there was too much commotion and somebody dropped a stack of ballots. Now if you're a swinging chad or a hanging chads and all of these ballots fall on the floor, you may just have become eligible to be counted. So that's our concern: the confusion, the mayhem and the bedlam. And Peter Deutsch said earlier, which I have to refute -- he mentioned if the election is close, we have a right to count the ballots again. Well it would be correct if in palm Beach County the election was close, but it's not. So to take a statewide average and say we're within a margin of error and then selectively pick the counties you'd like to recount to get to your number, then I think you're using a non-objective standard.", "Let me mention to you that the vice president put on the table: recount the whole state. There were specific reasons why those four counties were chosen. One is, obviously there was a ballot problem in Palm Beach County; Volusia County, the computer stopped working; Broward County, we had over 6,000 under-votes, people whose votes weren't counted; and there were allegations in Dade County. So, you know, those counties were chosen for very, very specific reasons and the Bush campaign had the opportunity do that as well and they did it in Seminole County -- Seminole County was hand counted.", "Let me ask quickly about the -- yes.", "Bobbie, I'd urge your voters to go to the Web page of \"The Palm Beach Post\" because today, in their paper, they analyzed a number of counties who were using a single-page ballot. There is a huge number of uncounted or over-counted ballots in Florida, 173,000. So what they're saying is, is Palm Beach county an anomaly? It is not. Many, many counties have had to destroy ballots because they failed to either vote or they voted for two candidates in one race. So please stop representing that Palm Beach County is some wild Western town that can't figure out to do a ballot system.", "Well, again, I don't doubt what you said, Mark. There is always over-voting in elections, but Palm Beach County's over- voting was unprecedented and statistically certain. I mean, there are inner city black precincts in Palm Beach County where the over-vote was 20 percent; 20 percent of the people voted for Pat Buchanan and Al Gore. In the other elections -- in the other statewide election, there were zero over-votes or one or two. I mean, the statistics -- again, for several days, the Republican Party, even at the top levels, of the two spokespeople for the Bush campaign and the head of the Bush campaign have been spinning, hey, the exact same number of over-votes occurred in 1996. It was turned out that that was totally inaccurate. The anomalies in Palm Beach County are real. You can say as many times as you want that people in Palm Beach County disproportionally support Pat Buchanan, but the truth is you and I both know that there are Century Villages which are predominantly Jewish retirees that live in Palm Beach County in Century Village a couple miles away in Broward County. And they voted, in Palm Beach County, 10,000 times more likely to support Pat Buchanan. Now if you don't think that's a statistical certainty, I don't know what is.", "I have to take a quick commercial...", "All I can say -- come back to me, Bobbie, I want to finish this point.", "I'm sorry, I will, I'll come back as soon as we take this quick commercial break.", "We're back and I interrupted Congressman Foley. Go ahead.", "Thank you, Bobbie. The only point I wanted to make and Peter said no one in Century Village would vote for Pat Buchanan. I represent Century Village in West Palm Beach and I went through the precincts. I had a reform party candidate running against me that espoused the same values as Mr. Buchanan. In six precincts in Century Village, Mr. Buchanan got 50 votes, Mr. McGuire, my opponent, got 48. So in those precincts and in others I was able to show a parallel between votes on the butterfly ballot for Mr. Buchanan and then two pages later on a single page ballot where they voted for the Reform Party candidate McGuire. Now I will grant you not many Jewish- Americans would vote for that man, but in these cases they absolutely did, and it's demonstrated by the vote for Mr. McGuire.", "Mark, there Century Villages that are not in your district in Palm Beach County and didn't have that gentleman as an opponent that still voted at that percentage. And again, I didn't say no one in Century Village in Broward County voted for Pat Buchanan, but I did say, which is factually accurate, they voted 10,000 times more likely a couple miles away to vote for Pat Buchanan. Now, if you want to keep arguing what is patently absurd, you're welcome to keep doing it, but it is patently absurd.", "Peter, the only thing I can say -- go ahead, Bobbie.", "I was just going to try to move this along a little bit. We have a question in the audience about standards, voting standards -- Matt.", "I was going ask if either Congressman thinks it's time for the federal government to standardize the voting ballots for the presidential raise.", "Oh, amen. Not only standardize them for the presidential race but for every race statewide. I think we've got to come up, and this is a lesson to be learned. This is a sad commentary on the electoral process. We're in the 21st century and we're using pin pricks in order to vote for president. Clearly, there's a problem. But let me suggest to you we can solve it, and we must solve it. Louisiana, who is not known for their electoral success in the past, uses an up-to-date computer that will cancel out a vote if you vote twice in the same race. So we definitely can do better than we're doing today.", "And let me agree with Mark, and that's a hundred percent accurate. One thing I can guarantee is that we will never use this type of ballot again in Broward County, Florida and it really is an embarrassment for America. I mean, we have a voting system in many parts of the country which is inferior to many Third World and even Fourth World countries and unfortunately it took a crisis like this for us to really understand it.", "And a question or comment from Michael.", "Yes. How is the American republic supposed to respond when we talk about standards, but there seems to be absolutely none. No one can agree on anything?", "Well, again that's the concern today and why we're concerned. We are concerned about a hand count because there are no standards. Broward has a different one than Palm Beach. We have to set in law I believe from this experience a set of mandates so everybody is operating under the same script and the same direction because this is chaos. This is Bedlam and it's sad.", "It's not chaos and it's not Bedlam. You know, watch on C-Span or watch on the nightly news what's going on in Broward County. I'm sure Palm Beach is getting their act together as well. It's a very orderly process that's going on and it is not subjective. Again, Mark, you can say it's subjective. Governor Bush can say it's subjective. Jim Baker, I think -- I welcome the American people to watch on television and look at what people are actually doing. Again, the reasons we have manual ballots is because they're more accurate. The machine can't determine a partially detached chad. So you have people, the only way to determine that is a visual inspection. It is not rocket science. It's not brain surgery. They're not having Constitutional debates after each look.", "I've got to let that -- I'm sorry. I've got let that be the last word because we are running out of time. Congressman Foley, Congressman Deutsch, thank you very much. It was an interesting afternoon version of \"", "It sure is.", "Thanks, Bobbie.", "Thanks very much. We'll be back right after this break.", "And we are out of time here. With so much happening between now and tomorrow we know you don't want to wait until Monday to talk about it so TALKBACK LIVE will have a special Saturday edition tomorrow beginning at 3 p.m., Eastern. And by the way, Vice President Gore is expected to make a statement shortly. We will bring that to you live when it happens and we'll see you here tomorrow."], "speaker": ["TERRE CASS, LEON CO. 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{"id": "CNN-296599", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2016-10-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/21/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Luxembourg Wants to be \"Bridge to EU\" for U.K. Banks; Third Wave of Cyberattack Linked to Outage", "utt": ["Earlier we were talking about little Wallonia in Belgium and how that is having a major impact on a treaty. Every country large and small is working out the implications of Brexit. And even if we take little Luxembourg, the economy minister says if Brexit means U.K. banks loose pass-porting rights, well then welcome in. Come to Luxembourg. Pass-porting allows the banks to do business anywhere across the Union. Many European countries are rolling out the red carpet. Think about Frankfurt, think about Paris, think about Amsterdam, I asked Etienne Schneider if a planned trip to the U.K. was more than just a fishing expedition to reel in a bank?", "I was not happy about the Brexit decision, but we have to accept it. Secondly we're not going to Great Britain to do fishing and to convince companies to settle down in Luxembourg. We want to offer them Luxembourg as their European hub, and to be a partner and to be the bridge from the United Kingdom to the European Union. Especially in financial services but also in other businesses.", "But if you accept the Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, will all be fighting over the spoils, assuming pass-porting fails and a hard Brexit is the way forward, you want to be in that?", "Absolutely, I think we have good arguments to be partners of British companies or banks or financial institutions which are settled down in London. Not all of them will use Luxembourg as their bridge to the European Union. They will look at different kinds of business they do. So, for instance, if you look at the fund industry, the Luxembourg industry that is the most successful, in Europe and the second biggest in the world, of course maybe they will try to find funds in other places.", "Doesn't this create a conflict in a way? As the Brexit negotiations get underway, you have no interest in London maintaining their pass-porting rights?", "No, that's right, many leaders of the European Union say that. It will not be possible that there will be cherry picking. That --", "No, I'm not talking about whether or not it is possible or not. I'm saying you have no interest in it happening because if pass-porting fails, you'll gain.", "Yes, but you should not see it that way. We are interested in a strong partner and a strong United Kingdom even though they will not a member of the European Union any more. What we want is to be a partner of these companies in the United Kingdom which in the future will have problems because they don't have direct access to the European Union single market. We want to be the bridge and the partner for these companies. That is exactly what we want to do. So, we are not like the -- the French who said they would roll out the red carpet.", "Oh, you would, you would roll out the red carpet --", "If we would do so, we would just do it. The French is more difficult. They're always on strike. It would be more difficult from a technical point of view.", "That is certainly a diplomatic answer from the economy minister which I am sure will go down very well with his French counterparts. News I must bring you, we have an update on the cyber-attack that I told you about earlier, Samuel Burke is now back with us, you were talking about what happened with this DDOS, this cyber denial of service? But I believe it is happening again?", "Richard, Dyn, which is company, a kind of middleman facing these attacks confirmed there is a third wave of attacks under way right now. Each time this becomes more and more serious as we see this. Again, Dyn is this middleman company. Think of it like a telephone operator, you might have to call the operator to connect to your mom, well, this is the middleman between you and twitter. And what is happening the DDOS you described -- somebody is just bombarded by so much traffic from the hacker that it actually causes their system to go down and that's what we're seeing for a third time.", "The size and scale is pretty of the same ilk. Samuel, thank you very much, indeed. Come back when there is more to report on that. They will be finding exactly where they want to go. Coming up on QUEST MEANS BUSINESS.", "Here she is tonight. In public, pretending not to hate Catholics.", "The lead balloon of public speaking. Jokes turning to insults, laughter becomes boos. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. We have advice how they could have done last night's dinner. First, we need to make, create, innovate."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "ETIENNE SCHNEIDER, LUXEMBOURG ECONOMY MINISTER", "QUEST", "SCHNEIDER", "QUEST", "SCHNEIDER", "QUEST", "SCHNEIDER", "QUEST", "SCHNEIDER", "QUEST", "SAMUEL BURKE, CNN MONEY CORRESPONDENT", "QUEST", "DONALD TRUMP, U.S. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-344585", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-07-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/07/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Decade of Reality TV Reviewed.", "utt": ["Can you believe it was almost 20 years ago reality TV became a world of its own. In the 2000s, we were introduced to everything from \"Survivor\" to Snooki's antics on \"The Jersey Shore\" to the start of the Kardashian empire. CNN's Jeanne Moos takes us back.", "You know what's been a survivor? Reality TV starting with \"Survivor\" in the year 2000. Hatching memorable moments like winner Richard Hatch without clothes.", "Never get used to seeing Richard naked.", "Some of us managed to duck reality", "There's two types of people in this world, educated and uneducated.", "But this Nielsen chart of the decade shows reality in blue grows while sitcoms in orange become almost extinct and drama in green shrinks. Even if you didn't watch \"American Idol,\" you couldn't escape the worst vocalist.", "Thank you, thank you.", "The allure of train wreck TV. Be they real house wives or denizens of the Jersey Shore, from Snooki drunk to Snooki punch, to Kim flailing at Khloe.", "I'll hurt you. Don't do that.", "And they call this reality romance? You're pulling our leg, right?", "Katie.", "Most definitely.", "Oops.", "I forgot her name. That wasn't the girl I wanted to give it to.", "Who knew a future president would have reality show on his resume.", "You're all fired. All four are fired.", "Even if firing turned out not to be his forte in real life. Sure, there were reality flops. \"Are You Hot\" wasn't.", "Pectoral muscles, baby.", "I'm the hottest man because I have this to offer.", "And greatest American dog didn't do so great, even if Presley stood up to an elephant.", "Good boy. Stay. Presley, stay.", "In actual reality, pounds don't stay off.", "I'm giving you my best.", "No, you're not.", "And couples don't stay together.", "Karen.", "I thought you'd never ask.", "When it comes to reality TV, we tend to behave like a good dog.", "Sit, sit, sit.", "Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.", "OK, that looks great. Don't miss the CNN new original series \"2000s\" starting tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern and pacific only on CNN. I'm Joe Johns in for Fredricka Whitfield. Thanks for joining me today. CNN's Newsroom continues after this short break."], "speaker": ["JOHNS", "JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "TV. UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "JOHNS"]}
{"id": "CNN-201095", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2013-2-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/12/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Will the Catholic Church Look to Modernize?", "utt": ["Welcome back to the program. Now you don't have to be Catholic to care about who the next pope will be. The guessing game and the betting is on in earnest since Pope Benedict XVI announced yesterday that he'll step down at the end of this month, the first pope to do so voluntarily since 1294. And my next guest, Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, is near the top of many lists. Pope Benedict was long seen to be visibly tiring and today we learn that he's had a pacemaker and underwent surgery to replace the battery just a few months ago. Meantime, the Catholic Church is at a crossroads. Many amongst its flock of more than 1 billion people wanted to address life and faith concerns of the modern world, on issues that range from admitting women as priests to gay marriage, not to mention, of course, zero tolerance and full accountability for the crimes of the rolling priest sexual abuse scandal. Joining me now from Rome, a possible papal contender, Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson. Cardinal, thank you for joining me. I know you're laughing and smiling and I'm sure you're too modest. But do you think that it is possible that maybe it could be you?", "I mean, you know, it's possible for any bishop or any ordained minister in the Catholic Church, you know, to become a cardinal, to become a pope for that matter. And the group of cardinals who would gather in conclave, you know, would all go in there, recognizing that any of them can be chosen as a pope.", "So let me ask you this --", "So this is -- this is -- yes?", "Go ahead.", "Go ahead.", "OK. Let --", "Let me ask you, these are the perils of live television. In any event, it's great to have you from Rome. And I want to ask you many people are wondering whether, for the first time, the next pope will be from out of Europe, or at least for the first time in a long, long time, from outside of Europe. And they particularly point to Africa and even Asia, where the Catholic Church is growing the fastest. Do you think it's time for a new face, a younger face?", "It is. It is certainly possible to have a cardinal come from a certain part of the globe, from Latin America, from Africa or from Asia. I mean, in several places -- Latin America is (inaudible) well over 500 to 700 years. In several places in Africa and Asia, we've had a (inaudible) celebrate 58 (ph) anniversaries and centenaries. So we begin to see from all of this in our young churches mature prelates, mature churchmen, who are capable of exercising leadership in their church. So the possibility that a candidate or any of the guys (ph), any of the cardinals to be elected pope can come from the certain parts of (inaudible) is very real.", "All right.", "I mean, it may not -- yes.", "Not just the age or the place, now, but as I said, a lot of Catholics are looking for a more modern, you know, a more modern faith to satisfy the needs and requirements of today's modern world. What do you think? I mean, should the next pope have a different view on a woman's contribution at the very top levels? Shouldn't there be women priests? What about gay marriage, which is sweeping certainly the United States and parts of Europe, even amongst practicing Catholics and Catholic political leaders?", "Yes, I know all of that. I mean, so then, you know, I'll go one step further and probably interpret or understand your reference to modernity or modern priests as, you know, other as all of these manifestations. You know, (inaudible) that either it's a conclave and the cardinals go in there, and everything about what we are talking about now is about the leadership of a church, of a faith community. A church is a church because it's basically a faith community. And the faith continues to guide the life of the church, how it lives, what it believes and how it present, you know, practices its (inaudible) society. Therefore, we have (inaudible) over here to consider. We need to be true and faithful to the faith which made the church a church. And we need to be true to being relevant in society and fulfillment of the mission of a church. So we have these two, as it were, coordinates to, you know, to, you know, trace our trajectory true. We may not sacrifice one for the other. So while the church, yes, seeks to be relevant to society, responding to the various needs of humankind, variants in our lifestyles and all, we also need all the time to have a mind on, you know, what it is that a church believes or what a church consider its their posit of faith.", "All right.", "We may not, you know, we may not (inaudible). We may not sacrifice (inaudible).", "We may not sacrifice (inaudible) truth, otherwise, you know, we cease to be a church. I mean, if we need to be any group of -- yes.", "No, no, I hear you loud and clear.", "We're not just any group of (inaudible) society. (Inaudible).", "Of course, you're not. But as we all know, much of the gospel, much of what has been written in all faiths were written and handed down, you know, hundreds of years after the fact on Earth. And what I want to know from you --", "(Inaudible).", "-- talking to me now in the modern world is how can you justify the pleas, really, of faithful Catholic nuns, who simply are being driven out of the church by one reason or another, and many of them, particularly here in the West, in the United States, in Europe, say why on Earth would the top levels of the priesthood be banned to women? On what possible ground in 2013 can that be justifiable by doctrine, by morality, by ethics, by faith, in any form or fashion?", "OK, you know, I will not dispute, you know, the -- and I'll essentially make that hand writ (ph) and (inaudible) probably (inaudible) driven out of a church because over the issue of leadership or over the issue of exercise (ph) of, you know, ordination, ordained roles and powers within the church. But you know, I think -- I think, you know, in all fairness, you know, this is not -- I mean, if one does not have a chance (ph) to ordination, it's not that discriminate -- it's not any, you know, verdict on one's own nature or one's own character or one's, for that matter, one's own sex or gender. That's not the issue, I don't think. It is -- it is, you know, the various posts in consonas (ph) and infidelity (ph) with the deposit (ph) of faith have found all this. And John II, John Paul II, you know, studied this issue and, you know, believed that it will be -- you know, it will be truer to the deposit (ph) of faith to affirm their reservation of, you know, priest ordination to men.", "Well --", "I mean, if at any point in history, this was going to -- this is going to come up again, I this it's not a denial of rights or anything to anybody. It is just how the church has understood this order of ministry to be.", "As we know, those kinds of understandings can be eminently changeable. And I think you will probably continue to see these women and these nuns challenge the Vatican on these issues. But can I also ask you, on an equally serious subject, you know, in 2002, as you know very well, the priest sexual abuse scandal rocked the United States. Under Pope Benedict XVI, in 2010, it swept through Europe. Are you concerned that it could sweep and emerge through Africa and do you believe that the church has sufficiently held the guilty accountable?", "I (inaudible) do I believe that it can sweep through Africa? Unfortunately, not in the same proportion that I mentioned, as we've seen this in Europe, pobably because, in a way, Africa, you know, African traditional systems kind of protect or have protected its, you know, its population against this tendency (inaudible), because in several communities and several (inaudible) in Africa, almost (inaudible), or for that matter, any, you know, any effort between two sexes of the same kind are not -- are not anything -- you know, they are not countenanced in society. So that quarter, if you want a taboo, that tradition has been there. Except to keep this out. But here, the concern is there, and I think it has really impaired, if you want a credibility of the church of its ministers and pastors, and that is one big area that we still need to work on. We need to work on, you know, on healing and restoration of credibility to our ministers and pastors. And that would probably also mean that we do not only work on restoring credibility, but we also need to work on our houses of formation (ph) so that we do not have (inaudible) come out of our houses of omission (ph) any more. So there is -- there is a lot of work to do in that regard.", "Cardinal --", "What other victims are being sufficiently taken care of here, I mean, I don't have statistics now, but I know that in all Episcopal (ph) conferences, there are measures, you know, you know, set in place to deal with the victims of abuse and make sure that, you know, they're well taken care of in society.", "Cardinal Turkson, so much more to talk about. Thank you for joining me, and we'll be watching the conclave. 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{"id": "CNN-225945", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2014-3-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/02/ndaysun.04.html", "summary": "\"Nebraska\" Up For Six Oscars", "utt": ["How did you and mom end up getting married?", "She wanted to.", "You didn't?", "Bruce Dern in his Oscar-nominated performance in the movie \"Nebraska.\" This little black and white film has become so huge. Nominated for six Oscars, including best picture, which, of course, is a big one. And the academy award ceremony, well, gosh, at this point you can count down hours away. All eyes going to be on who takes that top prize of best picture.", "You got \"American Hustle\" and \"Gravity\" tied for the most nominations. You know, this year's Oscar ceremony is supposed to be, we're expecting it at least it will be jam-packed with star power and some amazing musical guests. CNN entertainment correspondent Nischelle Turner takes a look ahead.", "The 86th academy awards is set to be Hollywood's biggest party with Ellen DeGeneres as ring leader expect nominees like Meryl Streep and Matthew McConaughey to get their groove on with the talk show queen. Hollywood heavyweights like Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt are up for some of the night's biggest awards, ensuring it will be no shortage of star power.", "Got to be the best we've ever done.", "Nineteen seventy co-artists pitted against astronauts for the most trophies. \"Gravity\" and \"American Hustle\" lead the pack with ten nominations apiece. Facing off against \"12 Years a Slave,\" \"Philomena,\" \"Captain Phillips,\" \"Dallas Buyers Club,\" \"Nebraska\" and the \"Wolf of Wall Street\" in one of the tightest best picture races in Oscar history. Golden globe winner Cate Blanchett is the best actress contender, going head-to-head with the likes of Sandra Bullock, Amy Adams, Judi Dench and with a record 18th nomination, Meryl Streep. First-time nominee Matthew McConaughey lands in the best actor category against Christian Bale, Bruce Dern, Leonardo DiCaprio and Chiwetel Ejiofor. But this year could be all about the music. Idina Menzel, Pharrell, U2 and Karen O were set to perform the best original song nominees making the Oscars one of the biggest concerts of the year. With hot performances and a host like Ellen, it may not be the winners that get everybody talking. Nischelle Turner, CNN, Hollywood.", "So, count down to the Oscars tonight with CNN. Our Oscar special, \"Hollywood's Biggest Night: The Road to Gold\" airs at 6:00 p.m. Eastern. And then after the Oscars beginning at midnight join Nischelle Turner and Piers Morgan for our live post show \"And The Winner Is.\" But let's check in with CNN's John King for a look on what's coming up on \"Inside Politics\" this morning. Good morning, John.", "Good morning, Victor and Christi. Got the coffee, getting ready. Coming up now, Hillary Clinton's calculations about 2016. How will they be affected by the release of previously secret papers from the Clinton era White House? We're also looking ahead to the big test for the 2016 Republican hopefuls. Plus, who controls the Republican Party, the Tea Party or the GOP establishment? All that plus a glimpse at tomorrow's news today coming up on \"Inside Politics.\" Guys?", "Thanks, John. Watch \"Inside Politics\" with John King coming up at about, let's say, 35 minutes from now right here on CNN. Oh, Toronto's crack smoking mayor. He is getting us to Hollywood this weekend.", "Is he ever going to have a title other than that is the question. We're going to show you what happened when he landed, yes, at LAX, who he run in to a baggage claim, very curious here."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "TURNER", "BLACKWELL", "JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-25486", "program": "Sunday Morning News", "date": "2001-2-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/11/sm.09.html", "summary": "Lawrence Korb Discusses Defense Policy", "utt": ["For more perspective now on President Bush's national security policy, we're joined by Lawrence Korb, a former assistant defense secretary who's now vice president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Korb, thanks for joining us this morning.", "Nice to be with you.", "I know you're also a former captain in the Navy. Just quickly, before we get into the topic at hand, with regard to the sub collision, do you think this is any reflection on the needs in the military?", "No, I don't think so. I think either this was a mistake, where people weren't as carefully as they should be, or that some of the equipment didn't function. But I don't think this has any relation to what President Bush is saying about the bad state of the military.", "All right. Well, let's talk about the state of the military. President Bush says help is on the way. What do you think we're going to see this week? What can we expect from the president?", "Well, I think he's going to do three things. No. 1, he's going to talk about providing a little bit of money for pay and quality of life. Then he's going to talk about the most important thing on Tuesday, which is transforming the military, so that it can really get away from its Cold War orientation toward a 21st century type of military. And the third thing, he'll talk to the Guard and Reserve, who are becoming an increasing part of the -- of the military.", "Let's talk about the conditions: health care, living conditions. Do you believe in that -- that the military definitely needs more money for salaries and living conditions?", "The military doesn't need more money. They need to manage it better. I mean, they have a pay system which is oriented back toward the Depression rather than the 21st century. They really need to change the way they do things. During the campaign, President Bush and Vice President Cheney gave the impression, using that term that help is on the way, that they were going to come in and give them a lot of money. That would have been a big mistake. I'm glad that they're not doing it. But they did send a message that in fact they would do it. There's plenty of money. The problem is, are we going to spend it in the right ways so that we get the most defense for the dollar?", "Interesting that the president says -- tomorrow, he's going to announce, we've learned, a billion dollars will go toward salary increases, et cetera. All right. You don't think that's necessary. When we talk about handling the money better, what type of modernizing, what type of change is necessary for the military then?", "Well, if you take a look, for example, at the type of weapons they're building -- the F-22 fighter aircraft, the V-22 tilt rotor Osprey -- these types of weapons were conceived during the Cold War. They're very expensive. They would have been -- made sense to deal with a very sophisticated Soviet military. They do not now. And they're so expensive they can't replace the existing weapons on a one- for-one basis. For example, you spend over $80 million for an Osprey, you spend almost $200 million for an F-22 fighter plane, and so therefore some of the current equipment is wearing out.", "How about missile defense? Donald Rumsfeld came out and said this is definitely a moral issue. What do you think he means by that and what's your take on the necessary of missile defense and more funds for that?", "Well, this is -- it's not a moral issue. It's a theologically issue for Republicans, ever since President Reagan gave his famous speech back in 1983. This would be the worst thing to do. The technology is nowhere near ready to go. It will annoy not only our competitors, like China and Russia, it'll annoy the European allies. We've spend over $100 billion on national missile defense and we have nothing to show for it. I mean, this is something you ought to continue to do research and development on, but it's really not something you should rush into deployment. And this is something that President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld have said they're going to do regardless of what the rest of the world thinks.", "Lawrence Korb, former assistant defense secretary, thank you so much for joining us.", "Nice to be with you."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "LAWRENCE KORB, VICE PRESIDENT, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS", "PHILLIPS", "KORB", "PHILLIPS", "KORB", "PHILLIPS", "KORB", "PHILLIPS", "KORB", "PHILLIPS", "KORB", "PHILLIPS", "KORB"]}
{"id": "CNN-106153", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2006-5-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/19/lol.02.html", "summary": "FDA to Approve Cervical Cancer Vaccine", "utt": ["Well, you don't have to be a super spy to come up with this piece of intel. General Michael Hayden will probably be confirmed as CIA director possibly as early as next week. In yesterday's Senate hearing, Democrats questioned Hayden's judgment in developing that domestic surveillance program at the NSA. But majority Republicans strongly backed him up. A cancer prevention breakthrough. A new vaccine is the horizon, a potential life saver for thousand of women, even young girls. Our medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, has a closer look.", "We're all used to bringing our children in to get vaccinated against measles or mumps or chicken pox. But how about bringing them in to get vaccinated against cancer? Well, that may be happening in the near future to girls. Here's the way it would work. An FDA panel has recommended approval of a vaccine for cervical cancer. The full FDA has yet to consider it, but they will very soon. The way it would work is that they would vaccinate girls, perhaps as young as 9 years old. That's what they did in the studies to show that it was safe. The vaccine would protect against 70 percent of cervical cancers. That is, cervical cancers that are caused by two strains of the Human Papilloma Virus. The way this disease works is that a woman gets this virus from a man through sexual contact. And two strains of this virus cause 70 percent of cervical cancers. The vaccine would also help prevent against genital warts. Now one of the details that hasn't been quite worked out here is who would pay for this? This vaccine costs between $300 and $500. It's not clear right now if insurance would pay for it. Now some religious groups have had some problems with this shot. Because what this shot is doing is you give it to a girl before she becomes sexual active, and it's to prevent against infection from a sexual transmitted virus. And some religious groups feel that it's kind of telling girls that it's OK to be promiscuous, because they're protected against this kind of infection. However, so far, those voices have not been particularly loud, and this FDA panel has recommended that its use be approved. Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, Atlanta.", "Straight ahead, more on the GITMO clashes. Detainees at Guantanamo Bay attacking U.S. guards. We're on the story. The news keeps coming. We'll keep bringing it to you. More LIVE FROM next."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-342392", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-06-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/11/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Trump Clashes with G7 Allies on Trade Ahead of Kim Meeting", "utt": ["Just throughout the day, we've been learning more details of exactly what is going to happen 11 hours from now and perhaps the most important meeting is the one right off the bat, that one-on-one with President Trump and their translators.", "That will be the most important meeting, Anderson. That's the one to keep an eye on because the rest will essentially just serve as photo opportunities for both sides, but that is the meeting where we could find out what exactly these two leaders are going to come to an agreement on. We know right now they're going to sit down, shake hands and what comes next is still pretty unclear. The Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefed reporters earlier and though he gave a few outlines of what exactly the United States is looking to get from North Korea, he made clear that they have not received any firm commitments. The United States has not received any firm commitments from them on what they would commit to. So that is still largely up for debate. That's the question here. Pompeo said that he does believe this administration won't be deceived by the North Koreans, though, as he believes administrations in the past have been.", "The United States has been fooled before. There is no doubt about it. Many presidents previously have signed off on pieces of paper only to find that the North Koreans either didn't promise what we thought they had or actually reneged on their promises. We are going to ensure that we set up a system sufficiently robust that we're able to verify these outcomes. And it's only once the V happens that we'll proceed a pace.", "So he didn't answer exactly what the security assurances the United States would make to North Korea if they did commit the denuclearization would look like, including did not answer a question about what would happen to those 25,000 troops on the Korean peninsula. But back to tomorrow morning, you know, we're just hours away from this meeting now and we're learning a little bit more about what it's going to look like. We knew that Trump and Kim Jong-un were going to sit down one-on-one. Only their translators in the room with them. But now after that, they will go into an expanded bilateral meeting. That could include a few officials from the U.S. side, a few officials from the North Korea side and then they will participate in a working lunch. That is a lunch that's going to have a few more officials in it, including the National Security adviser John Bolton and the Chief of Staff John Kelly as well as a few other national security officials and the Press Secretary Sarah Sanders. But it all goes back to that first meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, something the president said he would be able to know in one minute what that meeting is going to shape out to be. But that's the meeting where the real progress will happen, where the real commitments could be made. But, Anderson, we have to note it's just going to be Kim Jong-un and President Trump in that room. So whatever account we get of what happened during that meeting is going to be coming from one of them, and whatever one of them says was said or what was promised, we won't be able to corroborate it with anyone else. We'll have to go off of their word.", "Yes. President Trump said he'll be talking to reporters at some point tomorrow as well. Kaitlan Collins, thanks very much. A lot to watch for.", "All right. So as he prepares for this summit with Kim Jong-un, President Trump is continuing to take aim at the United States G7 allies. Some of the president's closest advisers accusing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of stabbing President Trump in the back. Let's go to Ottawa, that's where our correspondent Paula Newton is with more. So the president left the G7 summit agreeing to sign this communique, gets on Air Force One, Trudeau holds a press conference, says we won't be pushed around, and then it just all fell out from there. Walk us through it.", "OK. Apparently the advisers, especially Larry Kudlow, says that, look, all hell broke loose. That at that point in time the president was incensed. And the thing that has Canadians reeling is that they say when he pushed -- pulled out of the G7 communique late on Saturday, they asked Larry Kudlow, what the heck happened? Larry Kudlow said he didn't know. And yet by morning television, Larry Kudlow not only knew what was going on, but obviously was channeling whatever President Trump had said to him on a phone call from Air Force One. Take a listen.", "He really kind of stabbed us in the back. He really actually, you know what, he did a great disservice to the whole G7.", "There is a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door.", "You know, special place in hell. Canadian officials were absolutely floored. They're trying not to react at this moment, Poppy. It is tough. The prime minister refused to answer questions about it yesterday, he's got a day off today. The Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland saying that, look, these personal attacks are not a way to do business. But what's clear here, Poppy, is that the president thinks that it is a way to do business. Larry Kudlow basically said that it was connected to the summit in Singapore and that his allies, especially Justin Trudeau, made him look weak in the face of that. At issue still, Poppy, are those important trading relationships, front and center is NAFTA. What the shame here is that both sides have told me that they did make progress on NAFTA and were supposed to get back to work later this week to try and work out a path forward. Poppy, it's no surprise to anyone that both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are watching this very closely.", "Yes.", "And wondering when and if they should get in the game here given really a new low in Canada-U.S. relations.", "We did hear from Senator John McCain, we'll wait to hear from others on it. Paula Newton, appreciate the reporting and let us know what we do hear from Prime Minister Trudeau. Anderson.", "Poppy, thanks. Joining us now, CNN global affairs analyst, Ambassador Joseph Yun, and Jean Lee, a veteran foreign correspondent and an expert on North Korea. Ambassador Yun, are you surprised that this one-on-one meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, which most people -- most observers say is probably the most crucial part of all this, that it's going to go on for as long -- it's scheduled for some two hours, which is a lot of time between two world leaders and just with their translators.", "Frankly, I'm a little surprised. It is so long. Usually this kind of meeting will be off schedule, you know. They wouldn't publicize so heavily a one-on-one meeting, also right on top, in the beginning. So typically one-on-one you place it in the middle, when you get stuck or at the end, to wrap it up. So, I mean, it does seem that one-on-one meeting is the main thing. An expanded bilateral working lunch is a side show. And, Anderson, I mean, we have to be concerned, you know, of the leaders getting together without real expert help. You know. Denuclearization is a serious issue. What steps they take is a serious issue.", "Well, especially with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talking about verification being so important, which is obviously it is.", "Yes.", "Verification is extraordinarily complex.", "I think you could say it is all about verification. If you don't know what they have, what are you negotiating? If you cannot verify what they have, what are you negotiating? So verification is very, very important. And so I would hope that -- I mean, I know, for example, President Trump has been following the issue. But, again, this is very serious issue. Let's hope they get some technical help because they will need it.", "Jean, what are you expecting for -- to really come out of this tomorrow, if anything?", "I'm expecting a historic photo-op, frankly. I do think that President Trump wants to get Kim Jong-un in a room alone, away from the aides. You know, he's been hearing from Kim Jong-un through his envoys, through the South Korean president. He wants to get him in a room and find out what he really wants and perhaps sit down with him and work out what they're going to tell the world. But to be honest, the North Koreans, what they want at most is a declaration of some sort, perhaps pertaining to the Korean War. They want to have this photo-op that is going to make Kim Jong-un look like a leader who has been legitimized as a fellow world leader, on the same level as the U.S. president, and perhaps he wants to get out of this without agreeing to too much, that he -- about when it comes to denuclearization. They will talk about denuclearization and he will certainly embrace the concept of denuclearization. Kim Jong-un has been very clear that he embraces the concept. But he's going to say, listen, I will give up my nuclear weapons when you give them up. So let's figure out how we're both going to do that.", "Ambassador Yun, has the U.S. -- it sounds like the language the U.S. is using is already moving toward the same kind of language that the North Korea has been using.", "I think this is a key point, Anderson, that over the past, I would say, two, three weeks, our position has changed quite substantially. And as you say, moving towards what looks like North Korean position. Initially --", "Does that concern you?", "It does concern me. Initially we wanted at least big deliverable big bang, you might say, all in one, and then we moved it back, it's got to be process, it's got to be progress. But I think to get away from what we've done in the past, at least we have to have sizable deliverable. And if we are too serious, Kim Jong-un seriousness, then we have to test it. So far I see no signs that we're seriously testing the hypothesis that he wants to denuclearize. And if we get into this action for action, little by little, it can drag on forever and in the end, we're going to have no progress. So I would like to see coming out tomorrow, from the declaration that Jean mentioned, some immediate steps that they will do. We do some security assurance, they do denuclearization. So it's fair. Fair is fair. You got to do a little bit of each. But let's see something that shows Kim Jong-un is indeed serious.", "Yes. Ambassador Yun, thank you very much. Jean Lee as well. Poppy.", "All right. Anderson, thank you very much. So back in the United States, our relationship with allies certainly on the rails from fair trade to free trade to fool's trade. What the president is saying this morning and what if means for the future of U.S. diplomacy. Also the Trump administration maintaining it is looking for complete denuclearization. We're going to take a look at how is that defined by both leaders and how it is accomplished ahead."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "MIKE POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE", "COLLINS", "COOPER", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LARRY KUDLOW, TRUMP'S CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISER", "PETER NAVARRO, TRUMP'S TRADE ADVISER", "NEWTON", "HARLOW", "NEWTON", "HARLOW", "COOPER", "JOSEPH YUN, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST", "COOPER", "YUN", "COOPER", "YUN", "COOPER", "JEAN LEE, DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR KOREAN HISTORY AND PUBLIC POLICY, WILSON CENTER", "COOPER", "YUN", "COOPER", "YUN", "COOPER", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "NPR-46237", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2005-12-23", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5067417", "title": "'The Nutcracker' Revisited", "summary": "NPR's Roy Hurst has a new appreciation for classical dance and the holiday favorite the Nutcracker. He gets some help from former ballerina Robin Gardinhire. Gardinhire is founder of The City Ballet of Los Angeles, a professional company designed to teach dance to black and Latino children.", "utt": ["There are those who believe that Christmas wouldn't be the same without      the seasonal ballet known as \"The Nutcracker.\"  But for producer Roy      Hurst, appreciation for this seminal work of art did not come easy.  In      fact, it only came when he met an African-American retired ballerina in      downtown Los Angeles.  But we'll let him explain this Christmas story.", "Every child should be exposed to \"The Nutcracker,\" at least that's what      I've been told.  Truth is I never really got into classical ballet, let      alone that famous cornucopia of sight and sound they call \"The      Nutcracker.\"  Once back in the '70s, when I was 11, I was forced into--I      mean I was exposed to a live \"Nutcracker\" production.", "I remember something about the music.  I remember a humongous      auditorium and comfortable seats and my mother slapping the back of my      neck as I tried to get in a good nap.  It wasn't the best experience.      But that's just me.  I was a kid who needed his \"Nutcracker\" to be what      the wiz was to \"The Wizard of Oz.\"  And didn't James Brown do something      with Tchaikovsky?  No, that's right.  That was Duke Ellington.", "Yeah, I might have gotten into something like that.  But this      particular production seemed to drag and all the animated toys and      mountains of sweets couldn't keep my eyes open.  But then again, maybe it      was just me. Robin Gardenhire had a different experience.  First of all,      her mother had more success introducing her to classical ballet.", "She always said, `My daughter's going to be a      ballet dancer,' and luckily, I liked it, you know.", "Back in the '70s, Robin's mother was looking to get her involved      in an art form that isn't stereotypically black.", "My mother put me in a ballet class because she was a      singer, you know, and all black people sing, you know, so she definitely      didn't want that.", "One day, her mom saw that the Los Angeles Ballet Company was      holding auditions for--What else?--but \"The Nutcracker.\"", "And she took me to the audition.  I got the job.", "Now's a good time to imagine Robin eating up the stage as a      little chocolate fairy.  And whatever it is, Robin had it.", "From there, they invited me to be on scholarship at the      school.  So that's really what began the whole process of becoming a      professional dancer.", "It was the beginning of a long career as a premier ballerina for      several reputable companies, including The Joffrey Ballet and      Baryshnikov's American Ballet Theater.", "And then there comes a time when every ballerina has to hang up      her leotard and point shoes.", "And then I looked around and I was like, `What am I      going to do with my life?'", "She came back to Los Angeles, got married and saw that the city      had no professional dance company.  The one that she had come up in had      folded long ago.", "I decided that I would build City Ballet of Los Angeles.", "The idea was to create a company that would develop professional      ballet dancers.  It would focus solely on ballet and it would be      affordable.", "So my thought was I would come to an area in which there      are kids that don't get the proper type of training, because those other      kids, you know, on the West Side or wherever that have money are able to      pursue this career with no problems, with no financial problems.", "That was five years ago.  Today, the City Ballet of Los Angeles      is a non-profit organization set in the downtown area known as Peco      Union.  Robin Gardenhire has a state-of-the-art studio tucked away in the      Salvation Army.", "Quiet.  Thump, thump, thump and...", "On this day, the studio is packed.  Adult company members stretch      and whisper among themselves as Robin works with a crop of very serious      and well-postured little people.  The kids here are mainly Latino and      black. Everyone is rehearsing for the company's very first production of      \"The Nutcracker.\"  A handful of proud parents peek in from the hall.      Juliet May(ph) is watching her daughter, Melanie(ph).", "She says she wants to learn how to      move, how to dance and she work hard.  Right now, she's in point shoes,      yeah. Yeah, she gets point shoes now.", "Robin has a great report with the kids and the parents appreciate      it. She's managed to mix discipline with fun.  And what's most amazing to      me is that these kids seem to know all that fancy terminology--plie and      tendu and shontsu(ph) and shontsee(ph) and I'd forgotten my ballet      handbook.", "How do you...", "PARIS(ph) (Ballerina):  Shontsay(ph).", "That's Paris, an adult ballerina who was so kind to work me      through it.", "...first positions.  Tondu is when your foot is pointed.", "Say that again?", "A tondu.", "A tondu...", "Your foot is pointed...", "I ...(unintelligible) describe Paris through the part she's      playing in \"The Nutcracker.\"  She is Coffee, an Arabian dance.", "Plie, when your knees bend.", "Uh-huh.", "Before all is said and done, ballet may just win me over after all.", "...the balls of your toes, your feet.", "A few days later, it's showtime, a full house at the Crystal      Ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel.", "It's nerve-racking just doing everything.", "By now, Robin has just about lost her voice.  She peeks out at      the audience from backstage.", "It's going all right.  Yeah.", "You nervous?", "I am so nervous.", "Then she gives one last pep talk to the youngest.", "Fairies, you'll be over here in this area, orphans will      be on the other side.  Got it?", "(In unison) Got it.", "Do we all feel good?", "(In unison) Yes!", "We say (foreign language spoken) in ballet, means good      luck, OK.", "(In unison) (Foreign language spoken)", "(Foreign language spoken)", "(In unison) (Foreign language spoken)", "Have a good performance.", "And then the show begins with marches and waltzes and the army of      the Mouse King and the Spanish dance and the Arabian dance.  The adults      are marvelous and the kids are adorable in all of their colorful costumes      and their precise coordination and their focus, and then it all ends.", "Applause.  I think they really loved it.", "It was a very nice event, even if I found myself wishing Robin      had chosen a holiday production of \"All That Jazz.\"  But while \"The      Nutcracker\" obviously isn't for me, it certainly does seem to have added      something to the lives of these young children.", "Doing \"Nutcracker\" I think is something that I think      every child should see, you know, participate in.  The kids these days      really don't get that opportunity to be in a fantasyland and to be young      ladies and young gentlemen, you know.", "Robin Gardenhire says even if most of her kids don't turn out to      be classical ballet material, she believes she's offering something they      can always use.", "I think that my training really is geared towards these      kids knowing how to behave well.  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{"id": "CNN-26768", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2001-3-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/02/tod.10.html", "summary": "Seattle Earthquake Damages Area's Major Airport", "utt": ["Seattle is slowly returning to normal, whatever normal is, following this week's earthquake. Officials say it could take weeks to tally up the damage from Wednesday's 6.8 shaker. Yesterday, President Bush declared six Washington state counties federal disaster areas, freeing up federal aid for recovery efforts. National correspondent Tony Clark joins us again from Seattle. We understand, Tony, that it's almost back to normal at the airport.", "It is. It is, Natalie. In fact, flights about 60 percent. You know, the control tower was damaged in the earthquake, and so air traffic controllers have had to move to a temporary tower, and what they're going to do tomorrow is raise that tower up to 80 feet, put it on containers, raise it up to 80 feet, put it on a berm, and that should help give the air traffic controllers a much better view. That is also expected to allow them to increase the number of flights coming in and out of Sea-Tac Airport. As I said, that will be raised to 80 feet. The old tower was 100 feet. A new tower that's under construction is 200 feet. So things should be helpful there. Also at Boeing Field, which is where a lot of the air freight comes in and out, one of the runways was damaged there, and that may take three to five weeks before that gets up and running -- Natalie.", "Tony Clark in Seattle. Thanks, Tony."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "TONY CLARK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-392148", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-02-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/08/cnr.02.html", "summary": "First American Dies In China From Coronavirus; Interview With Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA)", "utt": ["An American has now died in China from the coronavirus. The U.S. embassy in Beijing says the 60-year-old died in the city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak. China also suffered its deadliest day so far in the outbreak, reporting 86 deaths on Friday and bringing the total number of fatalities to 722. There are more than 34,000 confirmed cases worldwide. And now there are growing concerns about the virus spreading on several cruise ships in Asia. While a ship that is docked in New Jersey has been cleared for departure after some passengers were removed for screening. We have team coverage now beginning with Will Ripley in Yokohama, Japan and Polo Sandoval in New York. So let's first go to Will.", "Hi, Fred. Here in Japan, health authorities are really facing a major test. Just months before their most important sporting event in decades, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, this country now has the highest concentration of coronavirus cases anywhere in the world outside of mainland China. Of course, China is the epicenter of this outbreak, particularly the city of Wuhan which is where the coronavirus is believed to have originated from. And it is in that city where Chinese authorities say a U.S. citizen, an American of Chinese descent died. He died earlier this week. They say he's a man who is in his 60s. And we know that when it comes to coronavirus, the vast majority of deaths have been people over the age of 60. So he certainly felt right into that high-risk group. The Chinese government sending condolences to the United States. We also know that a lot of the passengers on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has been at port here in Yokohama, currently it's actually out a couple of miles out to sea. But a lot of those passengers are also over the age of 60. That's what a number of passengers we have been speaking with on the ship are telling us. And there was a operation over the last few hours to bring medication on board for some of those passengers who have been running out because they've been under quarantine for days. Also we know that there were coronavirus test kits that were taken off the ship by the Japanese military. Part of the reason why they did it out of sea, they don't want any risk of the virus spreading here on shore. But if more passengers do test positive, and we could get those results in the coming hours, well, that means that the isolation clock starts all over again and those 3,700 people who are on the ship are going to have to continue quarantine for 14 days. And that clock could keep resetting with more positive test results -- Fred.", "All right. Thank you so much -- Will. Polo Sandoval is with us now from New York. So officials screened 27 passengers from that ship in New Jersey and four were actually removed. But we understand that it will be allowed to leave port now?", "Yes, Fred. In fact the ship that they were traveling on yesterday was cleared to depart yesterday but officials with the Royal Caribbean Cruise line saying out of an abundance of caution and simply to reassure the next wave of passengers, they're waiting until CDC test results come back on those four individuals and they don't really necessarily have a reason to believe that they were infected with coronavirus. Now, you might ask why. Well, for starters, the Caribbean cruise line saying -- Royal Caribbean Cruise line saying that they did not exhibit any sort of symptoms associated with the coronavirus. They also hadn't travel to China, however, that was late last month. And also one of them tested positive for influenza. So they don't have any reason to believe that it could be anything else. In the meantime though, not only Norwegian cruise line but also this cruise line here in question, they are implementing stricter boarding protocols and that includes denying boarding to any individual that holds a Chinese or Hong Kong passport as well as other health screenings for anybody who's traveled to mainland China -- Fred.", "All right. Polo Sandoval -- thankyou so much.", "Thanks -- Fred.", "All right. Let's talk further with Congressman Ami Bera. He is a Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs committee and is a medical doctor. Good to see you-- Congressman. So you chaired hearings on Wednesday on the coronavirus and a lot has changed even since then. What have you learned in the hearings versus what you're hearing from doctors and scientists worldwide?", "Yes, this is a very fluid situation. What we learned in the hearing -- we had a couple of expert epidemiologists showing things -- is while it is ok to quarantine", "So thus far you're saying China will not allow CDC officials to come in who are volunteering, you know, to take a look at things, to bring their own research?", "You know, it's been about a month that CDC's been requesting to go. And we do have some personnel that are going in with the World Health Organization. But we've got to get more of our folks out there. We've got the best epidemiologists, the best scientists in the world. And we've got to figure out exactly what happened with this virus, how it's spreading. And then there may be a difference between what's happening in China because you're seeing many more deaths and much more morbidity and illness in China than you are in the cases around the world.", "One of the things that you talked about in hearings was, you know, the dangers of misinformation. And we know now, I mean China suppressed a lot of information, perhaps even colored it a different way, you know, based on what the real picture is now. So how concerned are you that, you know, you might not be able to make an impact as it pertains to what information or misinformation might be out there?", "Very much. I mean that's the reality of the 21st century now is misinformation with social media, with the Internet. What's true and what's not true? So we don't want to panic folks. And again, the risk in the United States is relatively low right now but we do want to be vigilant and we want to make sure people get accurate information. I mean look what happens in the anti-vaccine movement, you know, with misinformation.", "One American in Wuhan has died. What are your concerns about how adequately prepared the United States is?", "You know, in a bad flu season, our hospitals get overwhelmed. So we're in the middle of flu season right now. You slap coronavirus on top of that, if it in fact, does spread in the United States, you know, it will be -- it will overwhelm our health system fairly quickly. That's why we've also -- Congress has asked the administration what they need in terms of emergency funding, et cetera, to make sure that doesn't happen.", "Ok. I want to turn now to the race for the White House. You have endorsed Joe Biden for the presidential nomination. And, you know, he came in fourth, you know, in the Iowa caucus. Are you at all concerned -- even the vice president even said last night, I may not do so well in New Hampshire. How concerned or are you concerned at all about his potential showing in the races to come?", "You know, I was in Nevada earlier this week. I'm campaigning for the vice president. I was in Iowa a few weeks ago and there's a stark difference between the populations in Iowa and New Hampshire, which are overwhelmingly Caucasian. In Nevada you see the diversity of folks. And you know, Vice President Biden's broad base of support comes from that diverse coalition. So I think it will be ok in New Hampshire -- hopefully he comes in the top there, but when he gets to Nevada, when he gets to the South Carolina --", "What's the top to you?", "-- you know, the top to me would be, you know, somewhere in the top four. Maybe even in the top two.", "Ok. And he apparently in his campaign is spending a lot of time concentrating efforts on Nevada. What does that say to you? I mean is that, you know, smart long game or does that say that there's some dismissing of his potential to do well in New Hampshire?", "Well, Senator Sanders has the natural advantage in New Hampshire because it's right next to his home state. Elizabeth Warren has a natural advantage. Nevada -- plays to the Vice President's strength because of that broad diverse of folks; and in South Carolina he's always performs pretty strongly. And then you hit Super Tuesday and you have a lot of southern states, you have a broad, diverse number of states and I think the Vice President will do very well on Super Tuesday.", "All right. Congressman Ami Bera -- thanks so much for being with us this Saturday. Appreciate it.", "Thank you. Have a great day.", "You too. All right. Next -- two key witnesses in the impeachment of President Trump have been given their walking papers. 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{"id": "CNN-39658", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2001-9-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/15/se.01.html", "summary": "America's New War: Resolve and Remembrance", "utt": ["This is a special report: \"America's New War: Resolve and Remembrance.\" Calling on those in uniform to get ready, President Bush says flatly, America is at war.", "And we will do whatever it takes to smoke them out and get them running. And we'll get them.", "But is there a military solution? We'll hear from our correspondents. We'll speak live with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. And we'll be joined by Jeff Greenfield: Why Adversaries Underestimate the United States. As America begins burying its dead, a father's frantic search for his missing daughter. And we'll take you to New York's ground zero for a look at rescue crews searching for signs of life. And what they're up against. Who did it, the worldwide investigation. And, we'll hear how some hijackers learned to fly right here in the U.S. And we'll speak live with the man who ran their flight school.", "Good evening, I'm Wolf Blitzer reporting tonight from Washington.", "And I'm Greta Van Susteren.", "Over the next hour we will look closely at America's military options. What will and will not work to take care of the terrorists who cause Tuesday's deadly destruction.", "And we'll look at the state of the investigation. We'll follow the trail left by the hijackers and their accomplices.", "But first let's update the developments at this hour. Meeting this morning with his National Security Team, President Bush said the terror attacks will not stand. He called Osama bin Laden the prime suspect and said America is in a war which it will win. With security concerns high across the country in the wake of the attacks, troops were on the scene tonight outside the Pentagon to aid in the efforts to remove a suspicious package. The investigation into Tuesday's deadly attacks continues with an arrest warrant issued for a second material witness. And even as New York begins laying the first victims to rest, officials say hope is alive. Rescue crews continue their desperate search in the rubble of the twin towers where close to 5000 people are still missing. After tests of communications links, the Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange says all systems are go for Monday's reopening of both the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq. Police, fire and emergency representatives will ring the opening bell. Two of the four flights that were hijacked Tuesday, originated at Boston's Logan airport. Amid heightened security and jangled nerves, Logan reopened today. But Washington's Reagan National airport remains closed. Airlines are being allowed to remove stranded planes, but there is no word on when or if the airport which is near the Pentagon and the White House will be back in business. The airline business is hurting badly. Continental today furloughed 12,000 workers while urging Congress to help keep the industry going in the wake of the terrorists attacks. Continental's chairman says, the industry is losing up to $300 million a day. President Bush says the United States is at war and vows to track down those responsible for this week's devastating terror attacks. Officials are not ruling out the use of ground troops. Let's go live now to the Pentagon and CNN's military affairs correspondent, Jamie McIntyre for the latest -- Jamie.", "Well Wolf, those were the words, \"we're at war\" from President Bush today up at Camp David, where he met with his national security team to plot strategy, their next move. Bush seemed to be preparing the United States public for a sweeping and sustained military campaign. These were some of his strongest words since the Tuesday attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and he seemed to be preparing Americans for what could be a long campaign against those responsible for the deadly attacks.", "They will try to hide, they will try to avoid the United States and our allies, but we're not going to let them. They run to the hills, they find holes to get in and we will do whatever it takes to smoke them out and get them running. And we'll get them. And listen this is a great nation. We're kind people, none of us could have envisioned the barbaric acts of these terrorists. But they have stirred up the might of the American people, and we're going to get them. For however long it takes.", "The United States seemed to be also moving closer to naming Osama Bin Laden as the person responsible for these. Again President Bush calling him simply, the prime suspect. At that Camp David session, he was flanked by both Vice President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of State Colin Powell.", "What we have to do is not just go after these perpetrators and those who gave them haven, but the whole curse of terrorism that is upon the face of earth. And this is a campaign that we have begun this week, and we will stick with it until we are successful.", "And again, no one here is giving any indication of precisely what kind of military response may be in the offing, but again, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer today, that he did not rule out the use of ground troops. Wolf,", "Jamie, is there any indication from your sources over there, or elsewhere in Washington about the nature of the specific military action the United States might be preparing for?", "Well they are playing it pretty close to the vest, Wolf, but you get the feeling here of a couple of things. One, I have been talking to people at the Pentagon, I have a feeling that nothing is imminent, certainly not in the next couple of days. And two, you get the feeling that when they are talking about this sustained campaign, they are not necessarily talking about military strikes day after day, but a long campaign of pressure that would be punctuated by perhaps aerial bombings and even perhaps the use of special forces on the ground to try to snatch or kill Osama bin Laden. The big thing that's changed here is the so-called zero-casualty mentality. Before this, the Pentagon had to be sure that they were going to take almost no casualties in an operation. But now, with the number of casualties here in the United States mounting, public support will be behind the Pentagon, even if some of the troops lose their lives in the pursuit and the fight against terrorism -- Wolf.", "Jamie McIntyre, at the Pentagon, thank you very much. He knows as much as anyone about long bitter conflicts. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Vietnam Accord, and he invented Shuttle Diplomacy in the Middle East. Joining us now from Kent, Connecticut is the former Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger. Dr. Kissinger, welcome to our program. And let me just begin by asking you this. The United States had a bitter experience in a guerrilla war in Vietnam, the Soviets had a bitter experience in a guerrilla war in Afghanistan, what makes U.S. officials, perhaps even you, think the United States will have any better experience in Afghanistan than the Russians had?", "This is a different kind of war. In Vietnam we tried to control the territory and to preserve it from a communist attack. In Afghanistan the Russians tried to conquer the whole territory. The purpose of whatever operations are being considered now is not to hold any territory, not to occupy any territory but to get the terrorists on the run, as Secretary Powell said and to keep them on the run. And make it impossible for them to operate, and to destroy them if we can.", "So what is the best military and diplomatic step, if you will, that the United States can pursue right now?", "I would make a distinction between two kinds of actions. One is retaliation against the perpetrators of this outrage. And when we have identified them and I think we are near enough that Osama Bin Laden, whether he was behind this one or not, has been behind enough of them that he is clearly an international terrorist. Second is, to break up the networks that exist independent of Osama Bin Laden around the world. For the first, once we have identified the target, we should go after it by means that the Pentagon can describe better than I can. For the second one, I think countries have to be put on notice that safe haven will no longer -- for terrorists -- will no longer be accepted by the United States. These terrorists cannot undertake the actions that we have experienced last week unless they have a base from which they operate, unless they have an organization, communications. It takes a long planning, and we cannot permit them the period of quiet in which they prepare and which they strike us. So I think we should declare a policy that safe havens will not be accepted. And that therefore governments run the risk, not just from the terrorists whom they may be afraid, but of American and hopefully other countries' reaction. And it shouldn't be only military...", "Well let me...", "... countries that offer safe havens should be cut off from communications with other countries if at all possible.", "Well is that the extent of it. You say that safe havens should not be permitted, should the United States go to war against these countries?", "No, they shouldn't go -- technically -- to war, but the countries should be put on notice first that there will be severe penalties. Countries that tolerate terrorist bases on their soil, hopefully will be cut off from all visas, from all financial transactions, and from all economic reactions. Secondly, we and our allies should reserve the right to strike militarily at these bases, and at institutions that support these bases. That shouldn't be the first step, but it should be a step that is clearly available. Because now that this outrage has been committed, we should not stop until the back of these terrorists networks have been broken.", "Which leads me to my next question, Dr. Kissinger, the sensitive issue of assassination. The executive order on the books right now in the United States says this, \"No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in or conspire to engage in assassination.\" We spoke about ten days or so ago, before these terrorists attacks, about this issue in connection with the Israeli policy. At that time, you said -- and I'm quoting you -- \"It is the absolutely correct policy of the United States not to engage in assassination as an act of governmental policy.\" Is this an extraordinary circumstance that has now developed?", "I think as a basic policy, it is the correct policy of the United States. But, we may have to review a number of the restrictions that have been put on intelligence services to prevent a repetition of what happened, or anything like what has happened.", "And I think you would agree...", "And it would -- but that is a very extreme step which we should look at with extreme care.", "But a lot of experts have pointed out, and you probably will agree, that even if Osama bin Laden, who may or may not have been responsible for these acts were captured or killed, the problem would not necessarily be resolved.", "I think it would be a terrible mistake if we got, if we became so obsessed with Osama bin Laden that we would be satisfied with the destruction of his, himself, or of his own headquarters. This is now a wakeup call for a systematic attack on all terrorists groups of international reach.", "Dr. Kissinger, I want you to listen to the very strong, powerful words uttered today by President Bush. Listen to this.", "We are at war. There has been an act of war declared upon America by terrorists and we will respond accordingly. And I appreciate very much the American people understanding that.", "Do you have any fear that President Bush may be under too much pressure to respond quickly without a well thought out plan?", "I'm not going to second-guess President Bush. I totally support what he has said. I think the American people should support him. I hope and expect that there will be a plan that will not be satisfied with one retaliatory strike, but that goes to the heart of the problem. And I have every confidence through my knowledge of the people involved that that is what they will do.", "Dr. Kissinger, looking back over the past many years, how did the United States get itself into this current predicament?", "Well it is very difficult for a society like ours, which has such an ease of social contact to come up against people whose hatred is so deep, that they live off their hatred. That they are willing to destroy themselves and thousands of innocent civilians in order to achieve their fundamental objective, which is really to change the structure of societies. So what we have done up to now, when there has been a terrorists attack, we treated it as a criminal act, and we thought we'd concentrate on the individuals who did it, bring them to justice. And believe that that was a deterrent. But the ones we can catch are secondary individuals anyway. Or we would take, make a one-time retaliation, which was usually very ineffective. I understand that, it is very hard for a society like ours to understand the nature of terrorism. And in fact when allies of ours, like Israel were faced with terrorism, we always urged them to take a very measured response. Now we are faced with a situation where we have experienced it on our own territory. We've never faced an attack on the Continental United States, never been attacked with such magnitude. But the people who perpetrated this attack misunderstood America. And I believe we are now going to go after them and root it out, and that's what we have to do.", "Dr. Kissinger, it is always good to hear from you. Thank you so much for joining us.", "Pleasure to be on.", "Thank you, and President Bush says this will be, in his words, quote, \"A different kind of conflict against a different kind of enemy.\" To find out why, let's turn to our CNN national security correspondent David Ensor. David, tell us why this is different?", "Well, for so many reasons. The whole field is different, there are so many different reasons why it is, and let me go to them.", "We will find those who did it. We will smoke em out of their holes.", "But if Osama bin Laden is the culprit, revenge against him or against his hosts, the Afghan Taliban government will not be easy. Cruise missiles in 1998 missed bin Laden and may only have strengthened his image. Even if bin Laden is killed, many analysts say that would not stop terrorism by his followers. GEN. WILLIAM ODOM", "I would want to destroy as much of bin Laden as possible. I'm simply saying, that's like picking a wart off your neck or something. That doesn't do much, that's a very superficial blow against this kind of capability.", "To get rid of one man, or to launch any kind of revenge attack, isn't going to help. Revenge alone is not an answer. There has to be a complete eradication and elimination of all the training camps.", "But bombing alone would not likely achieve that, and there are indications those terrorists training camps in Afghanistan are today largely empty. Much of bin Laden's support is across the border in Pakistan in the area around Pishauer (ph). One reason the promise by Pakistani President Musharraf to help the U.S. against the terrorists could be crucial.", "We especially want to thank the president and the people of Pakistan for the support that they have offered and their willingness to assist us in whatever might be required in that part of the world as we determine who these perpetrators are.", "But can Musharraf convince his military, and intelligence services to stop their long and active support for the Taliban?", "Pakistan is supplying fuel, funding, infrastructure, training, arms and administer to help the Taliban. Without the Pakistani lifeline, the Taliban would not survive.", "Senior administration officials warn, none of this is going to be easy or quick, and that the United States can not do it alone. It could in fact take years, analysts say, of political, economic and military effort, before Americans can over come their newfound fear of mass terrorism on U.S. soil.", "We're talking about a war and it's a campaign. And in any campaign there are going to be a lot of battles. We're going to win some of these battles, we're going to lose some of these battles. There are going to be more civilian casualties on both sides. More Americans will die.", "Before it's over, many analysts believe that U.S. ground troops in the region may be required. For now though, the main effort of the Bush team is diplomacy, an effort to build a strong international coalition, much as the President's father did before the Gulf war, Will.", "Well, the U.S., the Bush Administration says David, they are getting good response from Pakistan. What's to suggest that there will be the appropriate follow-up in addition to just the...", "Well that's right, they have at least, first of all, been told that the first requests are possible. And one of those was overflights. So that makes it possible to take military action, flying over Pakistani territory. But of course if there has to be ground troops into Afghanistan, Pakistan is the obvious staging post. They would need that, and that would be very, very difficult for Musharraf to say yes to. It could lead to insurrection in Pakistan.", "Is that right, David Ensor, our national security correspondent, thanks for joining us. What kind of options does the U.S. military have? Our CNN military consultant General Wesley Clark joins us now. General Clark, when you were NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, there was a war in the Balkans, you got the job done mostly through air power. What are the military options in dealing presumably with Osama bin Laden and his network of terrorists.", "Well I think we have to start by following up on everything that has been said so far. Principally, we're in a diplomatic effort to build a coalition. When we get that diplomatic coalition built, then we expect support. We expect information, we expect action by police forces and interior ministry forces in these various countries. It may be their own forces going against the terrorists cells. We expect these people to be detained, we expect to get information about this that will help us crack open other terrorist cells and go after their headquarters. None of that necessarily involves the US military. And ideally, their will be no requirement for U.S. military forces. The ideal world is the Taliban would have a change of heart and turn in Osama bin Laden. Now that's not very likely. But that's the course of action that is the most desirable in this case. Whatever we do though, the world knows, it's backed up by America military might. And what we've got in this case is the full arsenal of the United States at work. We saw it in Kosovo.", "You're standing, General Clark, in front of a map. Show our viewers the complication in military action in presumably Afghanistan. We've done air strikes with cruise missiles in Afghanistan in the past in 1998. But, it is a long way into Afghanistan and I don't know exactly the route of the cruise missiles. But however they came, they came a long way. They take time to fly. We've got permission now to use Pakistan's air space if necessary. But cruise missiles are limited. You launch them, they're on a fixed target, and they are only going to strike facilities, a fixed point in the ground. So we've got other options. We could use manned bombers, they are more flexible. We've got options to put small teams in there who could direct the forces. We've got options to put slightly larger teams in there who could actually engage small groups of terrorists, detain them, bring them to justice or fight it out if that was necessary and extract them. And finally, we've got an option, if we had to, we could put larger forces in. But all of these options take careful preparation, staging and timing.", "General Clark let me interrupt for a second. If you look at that map, you see Pakistan, you see Iran, you see the former Central Asian countries of the Soviet Union. None of which seem to be a good staging point for US military force, if there is going to be ground force for example.", "This has got to be the toughest area in the world to go after. It is a long way from the ocean, we don't have the mileage scale on this. But this is hundreds of miles, this distance right here. And to get in there, we would probably stage through Pakistan. Other armies had followed this invasion route, the British did, up to Kabul, twice in the 19th century. It is a very tough route. We could stage through the states of Central Asia, the Russians have done that. That also is very tough. But remember, what we are going after here is a network of terrorists. We're not going to occupy a country, we're not fighting a state. In that sense, it is totally different than World War II. It's what the President means, it's a new kind of war. We've got the military muscle behind us, but the first line of action is diplomatic, intelligence, informational, and police.", "General Wesley Clark, thanks once again for joining us, we really appreciate your insight.", "Thank you.", "Thank you, and life goes on for many thousands who live near ground zero in lower Manhattan. But it is not life as usual. And likely never will be again. CNN's Brian Palmer joins us now with more on that -- Brian.", "Good evening, Wolf, tonight we're actually in Jersey City, New Jersey just across the Hudson River from what used to be the magnificent skyline of lower Manhattan. This afternoon we were walking around the neighborhoods just north of the blast zone and the contained zone talking to residents who fled the blast, but who are trickling back in to pick up belongings, but they are not staying.", "This morning, I'm standing by the door there and I hear the plane. And I look up and I see this huge explosion.", "Film producer Kevin Segalla saw the obliteration of a landmark from his terrace, with his one-year old son, Griffin. Segalla and his wife Michelle returned to their apartment for the first time.", "My life, the moment that plane went into the building, really pretty much stopped. I think everybody's lives have stopped. I don't live here any more. I haven't been to work again.", "This was the view from his terrace that day, this is the view now. The area around ground zero covers about five square miles, and was home to roughly 50,000 people. When the towers collapsed, the familiar rhythm of life stopped in this corner of Manhattan. The West Side Highway, one of the main roads downtown, now the primary route for the massive recovery operation, as well as a staging area for the effort, complete with a mobile animal hospital. On the once bustling street corners of fashionable Triabeca (ph), military checkpoints. 20 miles of high-voltage cable, all installed since Tuesday, snaked through the streets of lower Manhattan. Shuttered stores and a few reminders of the devastation just seven blocks away. Few shoppers, many curious passers-by and shell-shocked residents. Many moving in with family and friends north of the area.", "Everyone is so focused on the rescue that all of us in the neighborhood who are displaced, you know, are really secondary. And that's how it should be except we don't know what to do. So we're hoping to try to organize amongst ourselves.", "Every bit of activity out there is geared towards this disaster, and you walk out there and you can't get it out of your head if you are seeing it every second.", "Seeing it every second, living like this for months. Normal life as it was before, likely years away.", "Wolf, it was almost like people were apologetic about telling their stories, saying certainly their suffering couldn't match the suffering of those people who lost their lives or the people who lost loved ones. But I think these examples represent the ripple effect that such a horrific event has throughout a community, though out a city and then across the whole world. Wolf.", "Brian, I can't get over that view right behind you, that view that used to have the World Trade Center, the twin towers right there. You've spoken to people who have been looking at that view for years and now for few days of a very different view. What are they saying to you?", "Similar to the things you have been hearing all week, disbelief, people call it surreal. I just got up to this position about an hour ago, and I couldn't stop looking at it. Because it is almost like our idea of permanence has changed. These two solid and enduring landmarks just disappeared.", "Brian Palmer just across the river from Manhattan, thank you so much for being with us tonight. And a final farewell today in New York to three of the city's many heroes, firefighters who lost their lives in the Trade Center attacks. Hundreds turn out to mourn 68-year-old Franciscan priest Michael Judge, who had been the fire department's chaplain for 10 years. He died while administering last rites to a fallen fire fighter. The priest who eulogized him said, even at the end of his life, the chaplain commanded respect.", "I think it was beautiful. The fireman took his body, and because they respected and loved him so much, they didn't want to leave it in the street. So they quickly carried it into a church, and not just left it in the vestibule, they went up the center aisle, they put the body over the altar, they covered it with a sheet and on the sheet they placed his stole and his fire badge. And then they knelt down, and they thanked God.", "Also laid to rest today, former federal prosecutor and conservative commentator Barbara Olson. The wife of the U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson was among the 64 passengers and crew members on the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Pentagon. Barbara was eulogized by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who said she had a wonderful spirit. She was also a good friend to all of us at CNN. My colleague Greta Van Susteren is standing by here in Washington. For the next half hour she will focus on the investigation into Tuesday's terrorist attacks -- Greta.", "Wolf, investigators are connecting the dots, and the line still points at Osama bin Laden. President Bush today called bin Laden, quote, \"the prime suspect.\" But there are still plenty of unanswered questions about Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the U.S. CNN's Mike Boettcher is in Atlanta with the very latest on the investigation. Mike, let me first start right with the most important question: Is it all over -- the terrorism on Tuesday? Has it stopped, or should we still have fear? I guess we've lost contact with Mike Boettcher. When he becomes available we'll bring him right back. But as details of the terrorism plot unfold, ordinary people are discovering, to their horror, that they knew some of the hijackers. One man not only knew a couple of them, he helped teach them to fly. CNN's John Zarrella has his story.", "And this terrible act...", "Henry George is carrying a terrible weight, a burden he says he will carry to his grave.", "I don't have an extensive vocabulary where I can come up with words to express, you know, how you feel to have been part of this thing.", "Last December 29 and 30 at his Opa Locka flight training school, George gave two Middle Eastern men some basic lessons in a simulator on how to fly a jet aircraft. The to men was Mohammad Atta and Marawn Alshehhi. Federal law enforcement agents believe Atta and Alshehhi were likely flying the planes that hit the World Trade Center towers. The story they gave their flight instructor was this:", "They were on their way home and they wanted the exposure to jet flying, or an introduction to jet flying because they were hoping to get a job with their airline in their country.", "George says Egypt was mentioned once or twice. No less than 12 of the 19 suspected hijackers lived in south Florida for a time. Federal agents believe at least four of the pilots trained here, spending tens of thousands of dollars, mostly cash, on flying lessons. Florida made sense -- flight training schools are everywhere. It's a huge business. They could get all the training they needed and never spend too much time in one place. Atta and Alshehhi first surfaced at Huffman Aviation in Venice, on Florida's west coast, where they took lessons. That was six months before they showed up at Henry George's flight school, which wasn't their final stop. One of the two, Atta, as recently as three weeks ago rented this plane at Palm Beach Flight Training.", "He was a normal person, very well spoken. He just said he wanted to build 100 hours and he wanted to fly a low-wing aircraft. So I showed him our airplanes, and he decided that he wanted to fly this one right here.", "The Opa Locka flight instructor had a similar experience with Atta and Alshehhi. They were low-key, and in the simulator there was nothing special about their flying abilities.", "What I can recollect from my memories is that we mostly did turns and a couple of approaches. I don't think we did any more than that.", "What they didn't do, George says, is practice how to land. John Zarrella, CNN, Miami.", "Joining me from Fort Myers, Florida is someone else who has suddenly discovered you cannot tell a terrorist from an ordinary guy. Rudy Deckers is president of Huffman Aviation, a flight school that John Zarrella just mentioned. Rudy, which terrorist -- or which one of the suspected terrorists did you come in contact with?", "Good evening. I've spoken with Mohammed Atta and Marawn Alshehhi.", "Let me first talk about Mr. Atta. What was it -- was there anything about him that was unusual about him to you?", "The only thing that was unusual was when I saw him I didn't like him at all. He had a behavior that he felt he was above everybody. He was not acting normal by making contact with people. He was there, apparently, with our flight school to obtain training, and he was not socializing with anybody. As a matter of fact, he was rude to everybody.", "When did you first meet Mr. Atta?", "When did I meet Atta, is that what you said?", "Yes, when did you first meet him?", "He came into our facility July 3, 2000. He left January 3 this year.", "And Mr. Alshehhi, was there anything unusual about him?", "No, he was a likely (sic) young man. He was very friendly, laughing. He enjoyed flying. He was more normal, to say. Of course, we don't call him normal anymore for what they did. But they were not socializing with anybody else. The two stuck together and didn't socialize with any other students. We are used to that with Middle East students, though.", "When Mr. Atta was training did he get extensive training with you?", "When Atta walked into our facility and checked it out, he showed that he already had a private pilot license obtained with another school somewhere in Florida.", "So what did he want from you?", "I can't hear you.", "What did he want from you? What kind of training did he want from you?", "OK. They obtained both their private, commercial, single-engine, multi-engine training. They did the multi-engine training in a Seneca 2. It's a six-seater, two-engine; it's a very small airplane.", "Now Rudi, is the training that they received on a small airplane, was it enough to steer a big aircraft to a target?", "Well, no. I have said no, although I'm not a professional on the big airplanes, only on the small airplanes. We checked with some captains of airlines and they said no. We heard, indeed, that they went somewhere in south Florida to obtain more training in a simulator, and as I understand they trained in a 737. And that's where they got some more experience. But with our licenses they were only at the start to begin to fly with other equipment, but they needed to get training.", "Looking back, Rudi is there anything you think to yourself tonight, oh, I should have been -- this should have been a tip to me or a clue that there might be something afoot.", "No. We found nothing. Even now, we know what they did, we couldn't find anything that was -- a sense of anything. Atta was just not a likable person. We couldn't find anything. I heard you saying -- or one of your colleagues saying that they paid cash with our facilities. At our facility they had paid with checks as they were going. They paid $1,000 check, two weeks later another $1,000 check. There was nothing unregular (sic). All the students who come over to the facility from overseas, they come there to obtain the commercial license to fly back home in an airline. And there was nothing, absolutely nothing, that we had any clue what they were doing.", "All right, Rudi Dekkers, thanks for joining me this evening. This terrorists not only attended flight school in Florida, they rented cars there. Brad Warrick now knows he did repeat business with one of them. He joins me from Fort Lauderdale. Brad, with whom did you do business?", "Both Mohammad Atta and his cousin Marawn.", "And did you notice anything unusual about them?", "No, the funny part is everything was totally on the up- and-up. All their information matched. They had driver's licenses -- Florida driver's license, Allstate Insurance, addresses on everything matched. They seemed to be a normal customer with not a very heavy accent at all.", "Brad, now the first time you are rented a car, as I know, to Mr. Atta it was in August of this year. Is that right?", "That's right, August 6 was the very first time.", "How is it that you even remember renting a car to him, since I assume you rent lots of cars.", "Well, the funny part -- the funny coincidence is I was the person that rented the car to him each time he was in, and I closed the contract each time he was in except for the very last time on Sunday; I was not working that day, and somebody else took care of the cousin when the cousin returned the car. But other than that, it was myself all the time.", "Did you actually have a conversation with him, and spend some time talking to him while he was at the counter, or was it strictly business?", "No, we didn't engage in any personal conversation as to what he was doing or where he was going, other than he told me he was going over to the west coast; and he actually even called me from the west coast once when he was over there. But other than that it was all strictly normal business.", "Did he tell you his occupation?", "No he did not.", "Did you have any indication that there might bed something afoot with him?", "No, actually he spoke to be a very intelligent man and conducted himself as such. And I thought he was just a businessman that was doing some travel in the state of Florida. And also when he left one time he returned a car and said he was going up to New York and was coming back in a few days. He did, and started another contract. So I just thought he was another businessman.", "Was it weird that he started one contract, ended it and started another one? Was that unusual at all?", "No, because he left to go up to New York and he came back.", "What about the second car that he rented? I understand he put about 1,000 miles on it within about two weeks.", "Actually, no, he put 1,900 miles on it over the course of two weeks. And that was the car he took over to Venice. He called me from Venice to let me know that the \"service engine soon\" light comes on -- the car needed to be serviced, and wanted to know if that was something he should be alarmed about. I said, no, just let me know when you bring the car back.", "Is it unusual to put 1,900 miles on a car in that period of time or not?", "Well, a local person wouldn't be, but if it's a person traveling around the state like tourists do or business people do -- I mean, it's nothing to send up a red flag of any type of alarm, because some people do rent a car to do some traveling.", "What was your impression of him?", "My impression of him was, number one, he was a nice, polite man. I never had any problem with him. And he was very intelligent and appeared to be a businessman.", "When you read about the fact that his name -- at least people believe that he was one of the hijackers, what did you think?", "Well, I was shocked as the pieces of the puzzled started unfolding here and I realized how much we were involved in it and how much close contact I had with an international terrorist. Yes, it was quite shocking.", "And when he brought the car back, I assume there were no problems, nothing unusual whatsoever?", "No, he looked out for my best interests and let me know about a car that needed to be serviced. They didn't trash the cars or abuse them at all.", "All right, my thanks to Brad Warrick for joining me this evening.", "You're welcome.", "Joining me on the phone right now is Richard Serma. He owns a motel in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Some of the men suspected of being terrorists apparently stayed there studying flight manuals. Good evening, sir.", "Good evening.", "Can you tell me what you know about these suspected terrorists?", "They were nice people, average-acting, and fairly intelligent, I would say. And they kept to themselves.", "When did they first rent a room?", "They came in August 26 for one week; they paid. And then they paid again another week, September 2. They stayed until September the 9th.", "And how many men were there?", "Two in one room, but one extra visitor kept visiting them every single day.", "And do you know who that was?", "No. It never dawned on me to ask. One time he slept there overnight just before they checked out the next day, and my wife asked him, what are you doing here? But then, they were gentle people, so she left them alone.", "Was there anything left in the room after they moved out that was unusual?", "Just one utility knife. One of those razor -- box-cutter things. And some -- a box of frozen food that looked like spinach, but it was in Arabic, so I couldn't -- I didn't know what it was inside.", "When you say utility knife, could you describe it more fully please?", "It was kind of thin. The newer type, not the bulky one.", "Is it the kind of knife that you'd buy at your local hardware store, just a regular carpet knife or box knife?", "Yes, yes.", "And have you -- has that been turned over to the FBI?", "The FBI took it, put it in the bags.", "And have they done sort of forensic testing of the room? Have they fingerprinted the room and looked at it?", "Yes, they did. They sealed it off completely and they stayed here for three days, three nights dusting and putting some violet dye on it. There was also some things in the dumpster that they threw out. That was a thing I kept.", "Which was -- what else was in the dumpster?", "Well, there was flight manuals and a lot of maps from the eastern part of the United States. But they were nautical maps, and there was also a fuel tester. It looked like a giant syringe. And also there was a German-English dictionary and three marital arts books.", "All right, thank up very much for joining me tonight, sir.", "You're welcome.", "Now to CNN's Mike Boettcher in Atlanta with the very latest on the investigation. Mike, when I thought I had contact with you before, I wanted to know the answer to the question is the fear over? Has the terrorism on Tuesday stopped?", "Well, to tell you very precisely, Greta, on Wednesday I talked to several intelligence sources who said, quote, \"It's not over.\" And then David Ensor, our national security correspondent, took it a step further after that and he talked to his sources who said there are still terrorist cells in this country who may be trying to launch terrorist attacks. So the bottom line, Greta, is it's not over and it won't be over for a long time.", "When you say there are terrorist cells in this country, is there any more information in terms of geography -- where they might be, what they might attempt to do? Are we learning anything at all?", "What I am trying to piece together is the potential -- and I'm still working on this, but it appears clear that there was a concerted effort to insert cells over the past few years into this country. That seems obvious; but it wasn't the normal tit-for-tat sort of terrorism. This was a much more concerted effort. How many? Numbers? I don't know. These people operate in what are called sleeper cells, a lot of them. They go over somewhere else, overseas for training, come back here get additional training, like the pilots in this whole terrorist act, and then they lead normal lives. And then someone activates them and they commit their deed. So, you know, it's a tough thing for the FBI, for the CIA, for any of these people to try to know exactly what they're doing because it is so closely knit, these particular sleeper cells. And a lot of them don't know each other, anyway.", "Mike, what about the people who are in custody? What do we know about them?", "Well, there are two material witnesses now, one in custody, one not. The one in custody was arrested Thursday when the airport reopened at JFK. He was onboard an aircraft and he was caught with a fake pilot's ID. He wasn't in the cockpit, he was a passenger. And then you see the two people up here on the screen, they are two material -- they are not material witnesses, rather, they are two men who were taken off a train in Fort Worth, Texas, one of 25 people now held by the Immigration and Naturalization Service who are being questioned by the FBI. On these two were found box cutters. Now, similar weapons, authorities believe, were used in the hijacking of the four aircraft.", "Is there a certain strategy that the investigators are following in trying to track these people down?", "The strategy they have an adopted early on is to look to the past to try to figure out what happened this time, because bin Laden -- even though this is a much bigger operation -- bin Laden operates pretty consistently in the way he organizations his troops. There is this manual, which we have in our possession, that was introduced in the embassy bombing trials in New York. And they follow that pretty closely in terms of operations, communications, transportation. And so they've gone back to past cases like Kobar Towers. And they've also gone to the USS Cole bombing. And in terms of that, the Cole, they've found a connection between a couple of the people, the hijackers in this most recent incident and the Cole bombing. The CIA apparently had surveillance set up in Kuala Lumper on a suspect in the Cole bombing. One of the people who was the hijacker who crashed the plane into the Pentagon was seen in that surveillance video. A couple of weeks before Tuesday's incident, the FBI was told by the CIA to be on the lookout for these two -- for one guy and his associate; both of them were on the American Airlines plane that went down. And they've opened an investigation. Now, what happened after they opened that investigation, we don't know.", "All right, Mike Boettcher, thanks very much for joining us tonight. Almost 5,000 people are unaccounted for in New York. The crushing agony of not knowing what has become of them has paralyzed parents, families, friends and many Americans. CNN's Candy Crowley introduces us to one man who is living this nightmare.", "Yes, Dan? Yes, this is David Vincent.", "He's an Eastman-Kodak executive from Webster, New York, a man with a problem to solve; a man on a mission.", "The house is being set up so that I can make the best use of my time, because you're working a timeline here. You have to get to your daughter as fast as you can.", "Melissa is missing. She's a technology recruiter at Alliance Consulting.", "Be we know that they're -- that's 102nd floor of tower one.", "The enormity of what's happened in David Vincent's life shows on his face, but does not slow his step.", "The police take a picture, the police focus on the picture to the get her face out there so that...", "Working on three hours sleep and a couple of crackers, he protects his fondest hopes, battles his worst fears, and sometimes loses.", "I don't have any video of her. To be honest with you, Melissa didn't like to be videod. She used to holler at me every time I did.", "\"I'd give anything,\" he says, \"to have her holler at me right now.\" It's a rare lapse. Mostly there is a desperate monotony to his mission.", "I know she made a 911 call at 9:02:07.", "It's all that David Vincent knows about what happened to his eldest daughter. It's enough to hang hope on.", "When we went back to the cell phone provider, the only thing that we had that they could tell us is that there was a 911 made from that cell phone at 9:02, which was some 17 minutes after the jet had piled into the thing.", "he tells it to everyone he talks to. He clings to it for dear life because, of course, it is.", "I need to know where she was when she made that call because that will tell me whether she was downstairs just getting off the path and maybe in a void someplace downstairs or whether I have to understand that she was upstairs on 102 and have to wonder whether she was able to get out or not able to get out.", "By evening David Vincent has pretty much worn out the corner of 26th and Lexington, and his cell battery is fading, so he moves on. Craig Spitzer is CEO of Alliance. Seven employees; everyone thought to be in the building that morning are missing. He cannot, will not, bring himself to believe they're gone. (on camera): Somewhere in your head you know they're gone, right?", "I'm not going say that to you right now.", "You can't?", "No; and I won't. And I won't for myself, and I won't for the people in there.", "In there is a roomful of people who have loved someone too long to give up so soon. And what's left after hope is unthinkable. It is why they agreed to expose this rawest of human times to the glare of the camera lens, because maybe somebody out there has information about Roland (ph); something that will keep his brother moving,.", "I go to sleep with hope; I wake up at night.", "And perhaps somebody saw Eric (ph) in a stairwell racing to safety.", "We don't know. Maybe he's out there someplace, got hit on the head and he doesn't know who he is. You know, maybe he's unconscious and he doesn't have any identification on him.", "And as it turns out, nobody can say for sure that Melissa was in the office for that 8:30 meeting.", "I have too tell you, Craig, that's the best news that I could possibly hear, because what you're telling me is you can't confirm Melissa in that office space, and that's what I had to know. That what keeps me going.", "So if you know anything about Melissa, call her father. He'd give anything to hear her holler at him again. Candy Crowley, CNN, New York.", "There's no doubt about it: Americans are facing a tremendous challenge; not just mourning our dead, not just rebuilding our cities and getting on with our lives. There also is the matter of attacking global terrorism. Can we do all of that? CNN's senior analyst Jeff Greenfield is in New York to remind us we have before.", "Yes, Greta. It may be because of our wealth or our exuberant, often raucous culture, our love of material comfort, even our relative youth as a nation, but there is something about America that leads our adversaries over and over again to underestimate our resolve. In fact, sometimes we even underestimate ourselves.", "In Vienna Mr. Kennedy constructed his major adversary.", "In the early '60s Soviet Leader Khrushchev thought President Kennedy weak. Poet Robert Frost reported that Khrushchev had told him America was too liberal to fight. Khrushchev may not have said that, but he acted on that impulse when he put Soviet missiles into Cuba. The U.S. would never challenge that move, he thought. We did.", "To halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated.", "A later generation of Soviet leaders was sure America would not protect Europe with medium-range missiles. We did. And when Japan emerged as an economic superpower in the 1980s we told ourselves that we were so consumed by short-term thinking we would never preserve our evening supremacy. We did.", "And now we have new questions to answer: Can a nation where most of us have known only easy times cope with demands on our comfort, on our safety, on our families that we never imagined we would have to face? If history has the answer, we will -- Great.", "In other words, Jeff, are you saying that history has shown that American will can overcome -- can trump strategic obstacles?", "Indeed, and can trump complacency and can trump the things we're hearing today. Admiral Yamamoto of Japan, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor said \"I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant.\" And that is the history of this country, that we can drift into isolationism, we come drift into comfort, we can turn our back on the world, but when the world reminds us it is here, as it has done in horrifically historic ways this week, the history says America will respond. We're going to be talking about that with Senator McCain and some others later tonight. But the guide from history is pretty encouraging. The question, I suppose, is that I don't believe ever before have we gone through so sustained a period when we have faced, really, not much of a challenge; when we have been at peace, when we have been prosperous, when a younger generation has really not had much asked of it. That's the question we have to answer this time around.", "What happens to the critics, the dissenters, when that starts to appear on the horizon?", "See, I think actually that's an encouraging sign. I think the fact that, you know, through World War II for instance, people had this image that we marched in lock-step. There were plenty of political arguments, plenty of criticism of how Roosevelt was running the war. Roosevelt was very worried about the congressional elections of 1942 because there had been setbacks. There were some exercise in black market activity. There were -- not everybody pitched in. But the fact of the matter is that that very kind of dissension, that cantankerousness that's so much a part of America is actually, I think, a sign of our strength. I actually look forward to the first bit of political bickering that develops because it shows that we're feeling comfortable enough about who we are to remain Americans. And this is a country where political disagreements are, you'll pardon the expression, as American as apple pie.", "It's interesting for me, Jeff -- I didn't grow up in World War II, so I never lived through that -- sort of that Great Generation. I grew up in the Vietnam days where there was certainly a lot of criticism and dissent, and we certainly had a divided country. Now we have such a national threat that the country seems so united, seems so different.", "And I think that is really the difference between the Vietnam generation, and even when whole post-war era. Korea was not a war that was fought out of any unity. There was tons of criticism of President Truman at that time because the war was stalemated. I think the difference is that what has happened here in New York and in Washington is so over overwhelming that it does -- everybody has said it, and I think we started saying it Tuesday, it simply has changed us as a country. And that for once that's not an overstatement by the media, that's fact.", "And when you say isn't overwhelming, I mean, it is a fact that everybody across this country -- I had some reservists on last night, one from Milwaukee, one from San Antonio, and one from here in Washington, D.C. ready to go. I mean, it's not just a New York, Washington thing at all.", "We may find out that we have lost more Americans on this day even than in Antietam, when 7,000, I believe, died. There were 22,000 casualties in 1862. If the country doesn't change because of that, it never will. There's simply -- I don't know of any way to measure this, even, by history. History almost fails us as a guide, this is so overwhelming an event.", "As always, thanks to CNN's Jeff Greenfield. CNN's coverage of \"America's New War\" continues in a minute with \"LARRY KING LIVE.\" I'm Greta Van Susteren in Washington, and I will be with you again tomorrow night. We leave you, though, with the haunting sights and sounds of this sad, mournful September day in New York."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-363949", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2019-03-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/08/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview With Rep. Katie Hill (D) California; Trump Versus Cohen; Trump Communications Director Resigns; Trump Claims Michael Cohen Directly Asked For A Pardon; Cohen Responds: Just Another Set Of Lies By The President, Trump: I Feel Very Badly For Convicted Felon Manafort; George Conway: Trump Could Push U.S. Toward \"Banana Republic.\"", "utt": ["Happening now: pardon bombshell. President Trump claims ex-lawyer Michael Cohen directly asked him for a pardon and lied under oath about it. But with that tweet, could the president have set himself up for going under oath as a witness? Shine down. Like five others before him in the Trump administration, former FOX News Executive, Bill Shine, is out as White House communications chief. The president had been down on Shine for months, and a source says he questioned Shine's judgment on a number of issues. Witch hoax. President Trump says he feels very badly for Paul Manafort after his ex-campaign chairman was sentenced to less than four years in prison. The president taking the opportunity to once again slam the Mueller investigation. He's even coined a new phrase, calling it a witch hoax. And banana republic. The husband of White House Counselor, Kellyanne Conway is no Trump fan. Lawyer George Conway is known for his scathing tweets, but today he stood up and suggested the U.S. risks becoming a banana republic under President Trump. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "Tonight, in a stunning move, President Trump is claiming his former lawyer Michael Cohen directly asked him for a pardon and lied under oath about that when testifying before Congress. But with today's tweet, the president may have opened himself up to legal scrutiny and potential testimony in any case involving Michael Cohen. For his part Cohen, tweeted back, accusing the president of -- quote -- \"just another set of lies.\" Also tonight, former FOX News executive Bill Shine is out as White House communications adviser. One source says the president had questioned Shine's judgment on multiple issues recently, and the president has complained that Shine's presence at the White House did not result in better coverage. I will speak with Democratic Congresswoman Katie Hill of the Oversight Committee. And our correspondents and analysts are standing by with full coverage. Let's begin with our Chief White House Correspondent, Jim Acosta. Jim, Donald Trump always said he'd surround himself with the best people. But, one by one, they're ending up in a lot of trouble.", "It hasn't been the best week for those people, Wolf. That's right. President Trump is down in Florida for the weekend. He toured storm damage in Alabama today. But before he left the White House, he started a new war of words with Michael Cohen, which has the potential to drag the president into a possible perjury case against his former personal attorney. And today we heard the president start to merge some of his talking points when he referred to the Russia investigation as a witch hoax.", "After shying away from this subject for days, President Trump took aim at his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, accusing his one-time fixer of lying to Congress.", "It's a stone-cold lie. And he's lied about a lot of things. But when he lied about the pardon, that was really a lie, and he knew all about pardons. His lawyers said that they went to my lawyers and asked for pardons.", "The president is referring to this comment Cohen made last week under oath, when he testified that he had not sought a pardon for Mr. Trump, even though his own attorneys had done just that.", "And I have never asked for it, nor would I accept a pardon from President Trump.", "The president went one step further, alleging Cohen had sought a pardon personally, tweeting: \"Bad lawyer and fraudster Michael Cohen said under sworn testimony that he had never asked for a pardon. His lawyers totally contradicted him. He lied. Additionally, he directly asked me for a pardon. I said no.\" Cohen fired back, tweeting: \"Just another set of lies by the president. Mr. President, let me remind you that today is International Women's Day. You may want to use today to apologize for your own lies and dirty deeds to women like Karen McDougal and Stephanie Clifford,\" a reference to Mr. Trump's alleged mistresses. But the president's attack on Cohen could backfire, pulling Mr. Trump into a perjury investigation into his former personal attorney's remarks.", "We'd love to hear from the president about it. It does seem like one of these whimsical last-minute presidential inventions.", "Contrast Mr. Trump's war of words with Cohen with the sympathy expressed for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is headed to prison, but may receive a pardon of his own, as he stayed loyal to the president.", "I feel very badly for Paul Manafort. I think it's been a very, very tough time for him. But if you notice, both his lawyer, a highly respected man, and a very highly respected judge, the judge, said there was no collusion with Russia. This had nothing to do with collusion. There was no collusion. It's a collusion hoax. It's a collusion witch hoax.", "Just before the president viewed storm day in Alabama, the White House announced its communications director, Bill Shine, is resigning. Sources tell CNN Mr. Trump had soured on Shine, questioning his judgment on a number of issues. Still, the president released a statement saying: \"We will miss Shine in the White House, but look forward to working together on the 2020 presidential campaign, where he will be totally involved.\" Shine, a former FOX News executive, is the sixth person to take on the communications job, raising questions about the president's commitment to hire the best people.", "We are going to get the best people in the world. We're going to use our smartest and our best. We're not using political hacks anymore.", "The president may need a new communications director to help spin the latest unemployment numbers showing the economy only added 20,000 jobs last month. Still, the president said there's nothing to worry about.", "The economy is very, very strong. If you look at the stock market over the last few months, it's been great.", "The president is looking to put Democrats on the defensive, accusing them of going soft on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar after the House passed a measure condemning hate speech, a move sparked by the freshman Democrat's anti-Semitic comments.", "The Democrats have become an anti-Israel party. They have become an anti-Jewish party.", "But the president overlooked his own record.", "And you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.", "Now, as for the departure of the White House communications director, a source close to the White House said there were growing concerns about the administration's cozy relationship with FOX News, where Bill Shine was recently a top executive. Shine was partly responsible for the dramatic reduction in press briefings with reporters in recent months. Instead, we would see top officials routinely on FOX News, instead of in that Briefing Room. And the source of said it is -- quote -- \"dangerous\" to have Shine so close to the decision-making in the West Wing, but Shine is not going far from the president. He's going to be taking on a position advising the Trump campaign. So we will see more of Bill Shine out on the campaign trail -- Wolf.", "We will see what happens next. All right, Jim Acosta at the White House, thank you. Let's bring in our senior White House Correspondent, Pamela Brown. Pamela, we're also learning the president has been obsessed with his former fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen, fuming about him constantly. What are you learning?", "That's right. Our reporting shows that Michael Cohen and his testimony and all the fallout surrounding it last week has really been getting under the president's skin, and he's been distracted by it. My colleagues Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins reporting that, just minutes after national security meetings, President Trump has been bringing up Cohen and his testimony. After calling lawmakers, he will bring it up shortly after. It seems to be constantly on his mind. Not only that, Wolf, but our reporting shows that even in Hanoi, when he was there for the North Korea summit around the same time as the testimony, the president was bringing it up there. He was upset that a reporter asked him about Cohen. And on the way home on Air Force One, once again, the president was fixated on Cohen, bringing it up. So, clearly, this got under his skin. Cohen is one of -- the only associate of Trump charged by Robert Mueller who has really publicly gone after him in such a bold way, calling him a con, calling him a racist, and making these claims to Congress. Clearly, that's been upsetting the president. The question today is why, a week after the testimony, is he just now tweeting out that Cohen committed perjury, and that he asked for a pardon directly? That really is raising a lot of questions.", "Since the president claims, Pamela, that Cohen personally asked him about a pardon, is the president now potentially a witness in a perjury case?", "Well, that is the big question. I actually asked Rudy Giuliani, the president's attorney, whether he would be willing to be a witness in a perjury case and be interviewed by investigators. And basically he said that the president wouldn't need to be a witness because there are so many other witnesses. He said he included himself in that. But certainly the president is opening himself up for that, saying that Cohen directly asked him and basically saying he committed perjury to Congress. Now, as we know, Cohen and his attorney say that's not true. He didn't -- he was just talking about after the joint defense agreement had ended. But, certainly, it's brought more scrutiny on to the president of whether he would be willing to be a witness in any sort of perjury investigation -- Wolf.", "All right, Pamela, thank you, Pamela Brown reporting. Joining us now, Democratic Congresswoman Katie Hill of the House Oversight Committee. That's the committee that heard testimony from Michael Cohen. Congresswoman, thanks so much for joining us.", "Thanks for having me.", "What do you think? Is the president potentially opening himself up to becoming a witness, if there is some sort of perjury investigation of Michael Cohen, who said that he never asked the president for a pardon? The president said he directly asked him for a pardon.", "I mean, I think it's certainly possible. The chairman, Chairman Cummings, is very deliberate in all of this. I know he's reviewing with Mr. Jordan the entire transcript of what exactly was said. And they're going through that entire process. But the reality is that, to me, it doesn't really -- what we have to focus on is that, whatever was said previously, we need to focus on what was said in that testimony, from the point that he decided that he was going to be cooperating with us and no longer covering for the president. That's what really matters. And I just think that this is yet another attempt by the president and his allies to diminish what we know could be very credible. And I think that that's really where this...", "But if he did lie, Michael Cohen, before your committee under oath in open session about a possible pardon, that has undermined, further undermined his credibility. He is already a convicted liar, as we know.", "Yes, I mean, it's certainly not ideal. That's for sure. But I also think that we have a -- we're never going to rely entirely on his testimony, for whatever ends up happening from here. We know that that's something that can set the context, it can give us different clues of where to go next. But it's not something that you can rely on, in and of itself.", "Do you believe Cohen or do you believe the president?", "Well, considering Cohen was lying previously to protect the president, I'm more inclined to believe Cohen. I can't speak to whether he had different lawyers negotiating on his behalf. When he was -- when he was trying to cover up for the president, I would imagine, yes, there's probably something that was going on. Exactly what he said in the testimony in terms of like, I have never asked for a pardon, I don't know in terms of parsing words. That's not really what I was focused on. But I think that, at the end of the day, it's -- I'm never going to rely on just his words alone to be able to kind of come to the final conclusion on this.", "The chairman of your committee, Congressman Elijah Cummings, he says that President Trump is welcome to call him to discuss this. How do you think your committee is going to investigate? This is a serious, serious charge.", "Again, Chairman Cummings is incredibly deliberate about all of this. He is going to be looking into it. He is going to be looking at the different witnesses that are -- as Giuliani mentioned, I suppose, there are other witnesses that are possible, that are possibilities around this whole perjury...", "Do you think he will call the president and ask him to testify?", "I highly doubt that the president is going to take his call. But I'm sure that he will go whatever route he can in terms of getting to the bottom of this. But at the same time, we have to continue with the rest of the investigations that are taking place, including important investigations around the high cost of prescription drugs, around the census that's coming up. And we can't stop everything that we're doing. I think there's this tendency on the other side of the aisle and among the president's allies to say that, oh, this is all that the Democrats are doing, when that is so far from the case.", "And I know your committees also investigating security clearances over at the White House and the decision apparently by the president himself to grant top-secret security clearances to his son- in-law, Jared Kushner, his daughter Ivanka Trump. Axios, as you probably saw, is reporting that somebody at the White House actually leaked sensitive documents backing up the assertion that the president personally ordered the top-secret security clearances for his son-in-law and his daughter. Have you seen those documents yet? Do you know anything about those documents?", "I actually haven't yet. We have had a big day today. So, no, I haven't seen those yet. I'm sure I'll be catching up on that pretty soon. But...", "But do you know for sure that the committee does have these internal White House documents on security clearances?", "I don't know exactly what they have. Often, we will -- they're vetting all of that stuff before we get ahold of it. So they're making sure that it's legitimate and that it's protecting whoever the whistle-blowers might be. So I think it's a good thing that I haven't seen it.", "But you seem to be suggesting there must be something there?", "Well, what I do know is that there is certainly -- there are whistle-blowers who have provided enough that it is of a decent amount of concern to the committee that we need to further investigate.", "So you think that's why there hasn't yet been a subpoena for these kinds of documents, for these kinds of witnesses to show up and explain why the president decided to give top -- he has the right to do so under the law. He can grant security clearances to anyone he wants, but why they did it in an extraordinary way along these lines?", "Well, there were requests sent by the committee to get these kinds of documents. And so there was enough time. We provided time for the president and for the White House to comply. So if the compliance is not happening, then that's when a subpoena -- a potential subpoena...", "In addition to documents that may have been leaked, you're suggesting maybe there are whistle-blowers or a whistle-blower who provided additional information? Is that right?", "Yes, that was in the initial request for documents was saying that whistle-blowers had come forward...", "Plural, whistle-blowers?", "Yes, it was more than one. I don't know exactly how many.", "OK. Yes.", "But there were more than one that had come forward, suggesting -- raising serious concerns about how this entire process had gone forward with providing those security clearances to his family members.", "What happens if they don't cooperate, the White House? What do you do then?", "That's when we have to look into the subpoenas.", "And that's a real possibility if the president were to cite executive privilege, for example?", "I would say so, absolutely. And you just have to go that -- down that entire road. And, again, whenever you see a resistance on the part of the White House to provide information, I think that has to raise concern for us. There are a lot of options in terms of redactions that would protect individuals and their privacy, while still providing information on the process and how the decisions were made, and what kind of personnel information -- how we ensure the protocols were being followed to ensure the safety of our country. And we're not asking necessarily for the exact specifics of the people involved, and we certainly don't want to disclose that to the public. So I think that, if the White House is trying to hide that information, then we have serious reason for suspicions.", "Then you are ready to go to court? Because there could be a long, prolonged court battle.", "It's possible. It's absolutely possible.", "Let's talk about Paul Manafort's sentencing yesterday. He got almost four years by this federal judge in Northern Virginia. The president today said he feels very badly for his former campaign chairman. Do you worry that there's a possibility the president might grant Paul Manafort a pardon?", "I think there's certainly a possibility he will. I think you see the difference in someone who has cooperated with the president the entire time vs. someone who hasn't. You have got Cohen, who has said that he's no longer going to be protecting the president and that he's cooperating with the special prosecutor and with the Oversight Committee and the other committees in Congress. And then you have Manafort, who blocked that progress at every single turn. And, of course, the president is sympathetic to one, not sympathetic to the other. And I think that -- certainly, I could absolutely foresee him rewarding the behavior of the person who's trying to protect him.", "He has the right to do so, the president.", "Yes.", "He can grant pardons if he wants to do so. If he does that, grant him a pardon, what happens then?", "I mean, we don't have any recourse to that. But, again, I think it starts to build more and more of this case to the American people of, like, what? Are we OK with this? Is this the America that we want to see? Is this what we're OK with, sitting in our White House? This is -- I think it really comes down to the kind of questions that we're asking ourselves. Is this who we see as reflecting us, as the American people? Is this the kind of democracy that we want to move forward and to leave to the next generation?", "Where do you stand on the House of Representatives launching impeachment proceedings?", "I think that impeachment is a political process, as much as it is anything else. So, to me, what we're doing right now is, we are in a search for the truth. We are uncovering the truth. We are trying to paint the picture for the American people of what exactly has happened, because, for two years, the Republicans in Congress have tried to shield it, to hide the truth, and to make sure that it is not exposed at all in order to protect the president. So, ultimately, we're going to reveal what we can. And it's really up to the American people at that point, through their representatives, through the people's house. I'm going to see what is reflected in my district. Each of my colleagues is going to have to do the same. But what I can tell you right now is that my district does not approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing. They don't believe that he is fit for office. They don't believe that he is someone that we can trust. And I think that as far as this investigation continues, as this whole process continues to play out, we are going to need to have a fully robust case to be able to move forward on anything like that. And we're going to have to make sure that the American people are with us.", "Because you clearly have the votes, the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, for the House Judiciary Committee to launch impeachment hearings, impeachment proceedings. You may have a majority vote there. But in the Senate, you need two- thirds.", "Right.", "And if you don't have two-thirds majority, even if he is impeached in the House, like Bill Clinton was, he is going to be acquitted in the Senate.", "Exactly. That's why we -- that's why there's -- it's not helpful for us to just launch this impeachment proceeding if we don't have the buy-in of the American people that has to be reflected by the senators. I think -- again, I think this entire process needs to play out. We have to make sure that all of the facts are uncovered. We have to make sure that the Mueller report is exposed and that we don't just get this watered-down version that's reported as kind of the summary piece, and, hopefully, that we can get to the bottom of this. We need to show the security risks that are happening because of it. We know that the president's actions in terms of what is happening in the Middle East, in terms of pulling out in Syria and in Afghanistan, there are direct benefits to Russia from those actions. And so does that tie back to potential influences that he has from Vladimir Putin and from other foreign interests? Where does that tie together? And is he ultimately making decisions that benefit those actors, as opposed to the American people? And is he putting lives at risk? That's where, to me, the nexus of it all comes together.", "We hope you will stay in touch with us.", "Absolutely. Thank you.", "Thanks so much, Congresswoman Katie Hill of California. Appreciate it very much.", "Absolutely.", "Just ahead: Bill Shine is out as White House communications chief. Why was the president so down on the former FOX News executive? And there's more breaking news. 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{"id": "CNN-162982", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-3-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1103/07/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Gadhafi's Seige on Misrata; U.N.: Troops Blocking Aid; U.N.: More Carnage Ahead in Libya; Gas Prices Up 33 Cents in Two Weeks", "utt": ["We have a story just in from the U.S. Supreme Court. Just minutes ago the majority of the justices ruled that a death row inmate has the right to demand that some of the evidence can undergo DNA testing for the very first time. The case, of course, has widespread implications so let's get the latest from CNN's Bill Mears. Bill, what can you tell us about this?", "It was a 6-3 vote by the justices. It was a pretty narrow ruling and the issue was whether capital inmates had a basic federal civil right to have this forensic evidence reviewed late in the process. The justices said on that narrow question, yes. So it does buy some more legal time for Henry Skinner who was convicted back in 1994 of murdering his girlfriend and her two adult sons. He's been claiming for years that he did not do this and says that if the DNA testing is done on other bits of evidence it will clear his name and if put to death an innocent man would be executed.", "There was also a ruling today on birthers, the question of whether or not President Obama was born here in the United States or not. That apparently is not going to be heard by the Supreme Court?", "Not heard for the second time. The justices in January had rejected a request for the court to consider the claims to examine the birth certificate of President Obama, that he is not a natural born citizen. While the petitioners who lost that case, they asked the court to reconsider it and the justices for a second time have said, no, we're not going to get into this issue at least not now.", "All right, Bill Mears, watching those developments for us. Thank you, Bill. It's 10:30 in the east now, 7:30 in the west. Right now, we're watching flooding across Indiana. The water in some areas could be at their highest levels this year with more rain on the way this week.> How much will gasoline go up today? Right now the national average is $3.51 per gallon, a 33 cent spike in two weeks, the second biggest price jump ever. And Defense Secretary Robert Gates making a surprise visit to U.S. troops at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. All right, so imagine your boss is fired from his job and before he clears out his desk, he rushes through a big pay raise are for everyone. Well, that's what a new study suggests outgoing members of Congress did with your tax dollars. CNN's senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash on Capitol Hill here to explain, what is this all about, Dana?", "This is an interesting story in \"The Wall Street Journal\" where they compiled facts and figures from the watchdog group and what they found is that 96 lawmakers at the end of last year paid their employees a total of $6.7 million in the fourth quarter, that's important to note. That was a 31 percent increase over the first three quarters of the year. That's about twice as much as the fourth quarter of last year. Now the reason for that salary spike, it seems, is that people, members of Congress, who were defeated or who retired decided to give bonuses to the people who were losing jobs. Some staffers in their offices. Now, we should point out that this is not illegal. This is something that has been done by members of Congress in both parties, and it's also interesting to note that members of Congress, Randi, they get budgets. They get budgets averaging from about $1.5 million to $2 million. They can spend it any way they want. They can use it on paper clips, they can use it on toner, and they can use it to pay staffers if they choose to hire. So, this is up to them, at their discretion, how they use their money even if it is at the end of a year. But it also is noteworthy many members of Congress who are defeated or are retiring, they choose to give that money back to the Treasury, especially in times like these.", "So, even though it has a lot of people shaking their heads, you're saying that it's not so unusual. But a lot of members, do they look at this as a way to reward staffers who could be making more money in the private sector?", "They do seem to look at that. Let me show you some numbers in terms of how much people up here make. The average House staffer makes between - salaries range, I should say - between $20,000 and $168,411 annually. The average is about $60,000. Now let's be honest, a lot of people out there watching saying, wow, that looks like a pretty good salary to me, and it certainly is not a bad salary at all. But what members of Congress tend to think, some of them, is there are people working for them literally round the clock, especially those who were running for reelection. Some of their aides took vacation and really went to work on their campaigns, and this is potentially a way to reward those staffers. And let me show you one other statistic, and that is that there is a rule that says members of Congress' staff cannot make any more than $14,034 per month. So, that a means that this so-called bonus, if a member of Congress chooses to go this route with their aides, it's really capped, so there's only so much they can give their aides, especially those making the highest -- at the higher end of the salary range. But it certainly is a very interesting practice and an interesting statistics that we got here from, again, 'The Wall Street Journal,\" by way of Legistorm, which is a very, very interesting watchdog group that keeps track of what people get paid and what people do up here on Capitol Hill.", "Always interesting. All right. Dana Bash helping us all make sense of that, thank you.", "Thanks, Randi.", "All right. Let's quickly get updated on what's happening where in Libya today. Here's the country. Most cities and most of the people live on the Mediterranean coast. The capital, Tripoli, far to the northwest. And the oil-rich city of Benghazi to the east, not far from the Egyptian border. When we talk who is in control, we mean whether the city is firmly occupied by either anti-government rebels or officials taking orders from Moammar Gadhafi. Benghazi in rebel control. In fact, that's where budding government seems to be taking seed. Tripoli has not seen much street fighting, relatively speaking, still under government control. Now here is where it gets a whole lot less certain. The cities of Bin Jawad, Misrata and Zawiya, all scenes of clashes and battles over the past few days. Rebels say that they're in control there. People in Tripoli say not true. CNN, has no way, of course, of verifying either account. So, Misrata is not definite. Zawiya not definite. Bin Jawad, also not definite. We have unconfirmed reports of fighting there and in Misrata, where more than 40 people were reported dead just yesterday. And I have to tell you that we are getting this information from witnesses. CNN does not have independent confirmation of the fighting or of those casualties there. We're doing our best to confirm what we can on the ground. The unrest in Libya translates to higher gas prices here in the U.S. So, we thought we'd spend some time on the things we do to get better gas mileage and maybe save money. Of course, there are a whole lot of suggestions out there. Some are good ideas, others just plain crazy. Here to help us separate the facts from the myths, Robert Sinclair, Jr. of the New York AAA. Good to see you, Robert. Let's talk first about what are some things you can advise right off the top here to get better gas mileage?", "Well, vehicle maintenance is very important. We don't do tune-ups, per se, these days, but whatever you have to do to a modern vehicle to make sure that it's in optimum running condition, you should do that. Take it to the technician and let him do those things. Some things that motorists can do themselves include checking tire pressure. It's very critical that your tires be properly inflated. The government study found fully a third of us driving around on under-inflated tires. And for every pound per square inch that your tires are under-inflated you lose one percent of your gas mileage per tire. So, you want to check the little tag inside the driver's door jam and make sure your tires are properly inflated. The other thing is to change the air filter. If you imagine, a dirty air filter is like a marathon runner trying to breathe through a straw. The engine is going to use more power trying to pull that air past the dirty air filter. So, you should make sure it's clean. Some things like very simply taking the excess weight out of the trunk. A lot of people have the so-called \"junk in the trunk\" syndrome. And all that extra weight we are carrying around, extraneous weight, makes the engine work harder, makes you use more gasoline.", "Got it. So let's put some of the facts and the myths to a test here if you will. So, just humorous here. A lot of people probably think that they should put their transmission into neutral and maybe coast going down the hill. Is that a myth or a fact that that's going to save on gasoline?", "That's -- well, it will save you gasoline, but an infinitely small amount. What's really more important is the predicament it puts you in. Driving around in neutral isn't good. It might become an emergency situation where you have to accelerate, and that extra second or two that it might take to put the vehicle in neutral is going to be perhaps a second or two that winds you getting in a crash rather than avoiding it.", "All right. So, mark that one down as a myth. What about cutting through gas stations to avoid red lights? Is that going to save anything?", "yes, well, so-called hyper milers back in 2008 when they were coming up with all sorts of different things to do to try to advance your gas mileage came up with that idea. It's dangerous, number 1. It might hit pedestrians or other vehicles that are moving through a gas station. It probably is illegal in many municipalities where avoiding a red light is something that you can be cited for. So, sitting at a red light burning gasoline is not good, but the alternatives are worse.", "All right. What about driving without air conditioning? A lot of folks I know who do this. Is that going to save anything? Myth or fact?", "Well, six on the one hand, half a dozen on the other, driving without air conditioning. But then you'll have the windows open and that creates extra aerodynamic drag. With vehicle manufacturers build their vehicles, they design them to run with the windows closed, and that is a way that many manufacturers are getting better fuel economy these days by making the vehicles more slippery aerodynamically. So, if you drive with the windows closed but the air conditioning is on, the extra strain on the engine using the air conditioner uses more gasoline. But driving with the windows open creates extra aerodynamic drag. So, toss the dice, take a pick, whatever you want to do. Either one.", "All right. Well, I know you touched on this already, but it is worth repeating because it is important. Keeping your tires properly inflated. Myth or fact that that's going to help you out?", "Oh, that without a doubt is going to help you. If you've ever ridden a bicycle that had low tire pressure, and remember how difficult it was, and then you go to the gas station and pump the tires up and you go whizzing along, gliding along. It's so much easier. It's very important for gas mileage but also very important for safety. Your tires have be to be properly inflated so that they don't fold over in turns and that kind of thing. Very dangerous having underinflated tires. They can also blow out at high speeds, which is very dangerous.", "And what about planning your route? Myth or fact that that's going to help you?", "That will definitely help you, especially with GPS devices these days. When you are plugging in your destination, they offer you the option of, say, the fastest route, the shortest route, the shortest time, those sort of things. Generally the shortest distance -- like we say, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. So, pick the shortest distance if you're programming a destination with your GPS device. And that should cut down on the distance that you're traveling and thus the miles that you're going to travel.", "All right. Well, those are great tips. I'm glad we busted some of those myths wide open, and now we got the facts down. Robert Sinclair, Jr., thank you so much. So, what if I told you there was a group of people traveling the country right now warning that the end of days was just a few months away?", "Well, that's what some Christians are doing, and we tagged along on a leg of their trip to ask them why. So that got us thinking: the end of the world has been anticipated many times, of course. They've all come and gone. But we wanted to take a look at some of the most memorable. The book of Genesis in the Bible tells that God unleashed a massive flood that wiped out almost all life on earth. But humankind was saved by a man named Noah who built that ark that carried his family and two of every living creature to safety. In the 1830s Baptist preacher William Miller predicted the end of the world would occur between March 21, 1843 and March 21,1844. Well, when that didn't happen, the date was recalculated to October 22, 1844. Of course, we know that didn't happen either. So what are some other apocalyptic predictions from the past? 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{"id": "CNN-224773", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-2-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/12/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Obama Issues Executive Order To Increase Minimum Wage", "utt": ["We have some breaking news to tell you about right here on CNN. It involves a former mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, remember him during Katrina, that's when he came to prominence? Well, there was a corruption trial involving him going on down in New Orleans and, according to our affiliate, the verdict is guilty on 20 of 21 counts in his corruption trial. The claim was that he took bribes worth more than $500,000 in a string of alleged crimes that began before Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005 and continued during the recovery from a catastrophic storm. Again, Ray Nagin guilty in 20 of 21 counts in his corruption trial down in New Orleans. As soon as we get more information on that, we will bring it to you right here on CNN. A lot of news for you happening on this Wednesday and some of the hottest stories in a flash. \"Rapid Fire.\" Roll it. First up, Toyota recalling more than two million vehicles because of a problem that may cause cars to stop suddenly. The recall includes several models including Prius vehicles made over the last four years. And we're told the fix includes a software update.", "I want y'all to just take a look. Look at all the butter in this kitchen.", "Paula Deen is making a comeback, y 'all. The southern chef getting at least $75 million from a private firm to launch a new company. And we're told Deen is looking for deals with TV networks and retailers. And, keep in mind, it has been about eight months since Deen lost many endorsement deals and her gig on The Food Network after she admitted to using a racial slur years ago. It is no secret that President Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu haven't always seen eye to eye, but very soon they'll be face to face. The Israeli prime minister visiting the White House next month. On the agenda, Iran's nuclear program. Netanyahu, of course, very critical of the administration's interim deal with Tehran and the mere fact both sides are negotiating. Joined by a prominent Tea Party leader, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky filed suit today against the president over NSA data collection. Paul says he's not against spying and not against looking at phone records, but he and his backers charged the NSA is violating citizen's rights against unreasonable search. And we're going to talk about that coming up here on CNN. So make sure you stay tuned. I want to get back to the White House, where we told you the president is about to sign an order to raise the minimum wage paid to federal contract workers. The president doing as he promised during the State of the Union, using his power to act where Congress won't. Remember, he said, I've got a pen and I've got a phone and I'm going to do what I must do. On the left, you're looking at the room where the president is going to sign. On the right, of course, you're looking at the State of the Union, which happened just a few weeks ago. In the middle, of course, is me. The particular action goes to the widening wealth gap. And we did a poll just last week that found 66 percent support government action to narrow the widening difference in incomes. Gloria Borger is our chief political analyst, of course. Good to see you, Gloria.", "Good to see you.", "Hope you're staying warm up here in D.C. We're getting that ice that's down in the south.", "Yes, we're waiting.", "We're waiting.", "We're waiting.", "So the president's going around a deeply unpopular Congress to enact this raise and most people seeming to support. Is there any political danger for him here?", "Look, the political danger in so far as there is any, quite honestly, is that he could poison the wells some more with Republican, but I would argue that well is already pretty bad. And there are some Republicans charging that this is an imperial presidency, when, in fact, other presidents have done exactly the same kind of thing. I think what he's doing and what Democrats are pushing him to do, and this is a move really for the base of the party, is to lay down a marker for 2014 and say, we are the party that wants to help the middle class and raise the poor into the middle class. And this is one way for him to be able to do that with, as you point out, his pen.", "Yes. And as we - you know, the theme for Democrats, even especially the mayor of New York City, Bill De Blasio, income inequality, the president, Democrats, they've been talking about that. This particular order, though, will raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers beginning next year from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour. That's a nice raise, but only about a quarter of a million workers will be affected.", "Well -", "I wonder if it's going to push the private employers to follow suit, Gloria.", "Well, probably not. I think that employers don't generally raise wages this broadly unless they're told that they have to. And there are some employers who make the case, particularly small businesses, that if they were forced to raise wages, they would have to lay off people. So I think that argument, that political argument, is going to continue. But what you see happening here is not so much an emphasis on income inequality, although that is something the president has talked about an awful lot. But what you're going to see going into the mid-term elections is an emphasis on opportunity, because inequality has some bad connotations to it -", "Right.", "Because there are people who say, wait a minute, I worked hard for my money and don't portray me as a bad person just because I have some money. So what --", "Just because I've done well, I've worked hard for it, right?", "That's right. That's exactly it. So what the shift is going to be is to the sort of equality of opportunity. That you have to give people, wherever they are in the economic spectrum, an opportunity to get pulled up.", "And as you said, Gloria, of course you're always right and you're very smart, right. On the monitor right there it says \"opportunity for all,\" \"opportunity for all.\"", "Oh, well there you are. Indeed.", "Right? So you're exactly right.", "As if -- as if I had predicted that, right? Yes, no, that's the word. The word is opportunity. They're shifting. Yes.", "Yes. We got the two-minute warning while you were talking just a minute ago so we're going to -", "OK.", "So I'm going to hang with you, Gloria -", "OK.", "I want you to hang with me, I should say, until the president comes out. Do they, at some point, the Democrats, the president, look at the language and say, hey, you know what, this - we're actually creating a divide and many people are not happy with this because of that?", "Yes. And - yes. You know, and they've got a - they've got a bunch of Republican senators up in red states for reelection. And four of those incumbents were in states that Mitt Romney won. And so I think the language is really important here. When you talk about opportunity, it's something Republicans and Democrats clearly agree on. When you talk about income and equality, not that it doesn't exist in this country, but when you talk about it, it has a connotation of pitting one group against the other.", "Yes.", "And I think that that's something that won't work well, particularly in red states.", "And the president, when he does announcements like this, he and other presidents who made announcements, they will have, you know, average Americans who will come out -", "Sure.", "And will be sort of standing in the background and he will tell the particular stories and then he'll talk about that. Here is the president of the United States. Gloria, we'll get back to you as soon as we hear from the president. Stand by.", "Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States.", "Hello, everybody. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Everybody have a seat. Have a seat. Welcome to the White House, everybody.", "Thank you.", "I know - I know you had to come here before you go buy some shovels and some salt. The - it sounds like we may get a little snow, but I very much appreciate everybody being here. I want to thank, first and foremost, the workers who are with me here this afternoon. And I want to thank two champions for all hardworking Americans. We've got the secretary of labor, Tom Perez, who's in the house. Where's Tom? Right here. Tom's right here. I didn't know where he was. And we've got an outstanding congressman who's used to snow because he's from Minnesota, Congressman Keith Ellison. Now, it's been just over two weeks since I delivered my State of the Union address and I said this year would be a year of action. And I meant it. Over the past 14 days, I've ordered an across the board reform of our job training programs, to train folk with the skills that employers need and then match them up with good jobs that are ready to be filled right now. I've directed the Treasury to create something we're calling My RA, sort of like an IRA, but it's My RA. And that's a new way for Americans to start saving for retirement. And you can start with as little as $25, $50 and start building up a little bit of a nest egg and get tax benefits for doing so. You know, we've rallied the leaders of some of America's biggest high tech companies to help us make sure that all of our kids have access to high speed Internet and up-to-date technology in their classrooms so that they're learning the skills that they need for the new economy. We brought together business leaders who are committed to hiring more unemployed Americans, particular long term unemployed, who often times are discriminated against. You know, they're in a catch 22. They haven't had the job for a while and then the employer's not willing to look at their resume because they haven't had the job for a while So the point is, I'm eager to work with Congress whenever I can find opportunities to expand opportunity for more families. But wherever I can act on my own, without Congress, by using my pen to take executive actions or picking up the phone and rallying folks around a common cause, that's what I'm going to do. And so that brings me to the issue we're going to talk about today. After the worst economic crisis in generations, our economy has been growing for the past four years. And our businesses have created 8.5 million new jobs. Unemployment rate has come down. But while those at the top are doing better than ever, corporate profits have been high, the stock market has been high, average wages have barely budged. So you've got too many Americans who are working harder than ever before just to get by, but they can't seem to get ahead. They can't seem to make all the ends meet. And that's been true since long before the recession hit. We've got to reverse those trends. We've got to build an economy that works for everybody, not just the fortunate few. And we've got to restore opportunity for everybody so that no matter who you are and no matter how you started out and no matter what you look like and no matter what your last name is, you can get ahead in America if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility for your life. All right. So the opportunity agenda I've laid out is going to help us do just that. Part one of this agenda is more new jobs that pay a good wage. Jobs in manufacturing and exports and energy and innovation. Part two, we've got to train the folks with the skills to fill those jobs. Part three, you've got to make sure every child gets a world class education. And part four, we've got to make sure that the economy rewards hard work for every American. Making hard work pay off with economic security and the decent wages and benefits is what we're about here today. It means making sure women earn equal pay for equal work. It means making sure workers have the chance to save for a dignified retirement. It means access to affordable health insurance that gives you the freedom to change jobs or be your own boss and the peace of mind that it will be there for you when you get sick and you need it most. So if you know anybody who doesn't have health insurance right now, send them to healthcare.gov. The website's working. Sign them up. You can get health care for less than your cell phone bill for a lot of folks. But it also means that in the wealthiest nation on earth, nobody who works full time should have to live in poverty. Nobody. Not here in America. Now, it was one year ago today - one year ago today that I first asked Congress to raise the federal minimum wage. A federal minimum wage that in real terms is worth about 20 percent less than it was when Ronald Reagan took office. Twenty percent less. A fifth less. So this afternoon, I've invited some of the folks who would see a raise if we raised that federal minimum wage. They happen to join me here at the White House. And like most workers in their situation, they're not teenagers. They look like teenagers. Some of them are very young looking. But they're not teenagers taking on their first job. They're adults. Average age is 35 years old. The majority of lower wage jobs are held by women. Many of them have children that they're supporting. These are Americans who work full time, often to support a family, and if the minimum wage had kept pace with our economic productivity, they'd already be getting paid well over $10 an hour. Instead, the minimum wage is still just $7.25. And when Congress refuses to raise it, it loses value because there's a little bit of inflation, everything else starts costing a little bit more, even though inflation's been pretty low, it's still costing a little bit more each year. That means each dollar isn't going as far and they've got a little bit less. So over the past year, the failure of Congress to act was the equivalent of a $200 pay cut for these folks for a typical minimum wageworker. That's a month worth of groceries, maybe two months' worth of electricity. It makes a big difference for a lot of families. Now, the good news is that, in the year since I first asked Congress to raise the minimum wage, six states went ahead and passed laws to raise theirs. We appreciate that. We've got more states and cities and counties that are taking steps to raise their minimum wage as we speak. And, you know, a lot of companies are doing it too. Not out of charity, but because they've discovered it's good business. Two weeks ago I visited a Costco store in Maryland. Now, Costco is a very profitable company. Its stock has done great. It's expanded all over the place. But their philosophy is, higher wages are a smart way to boost productivity and reduce turnover. If employees are happy and feel like the company is invested in them, then they're going to do more for the company. They're going to go above and beyond. And, you know, when I was over at the Costco store, I was meeting folks who had started off as -- at the cash register and, you know, now are in supervisory position and have been there for 20 years and you can see the kind of pride that they had in the company because the company cared about them. I even received a letter the next day from a woman who saw my visit on TV. She decided to apply for a job at Costco. She said, let me apply for a job at Costco. They look like they do a good job. So across the country, owners of small and large businesses are recognizing that fair wages and higher profits go hand in hand. It's good for the bottom line. And as America's chief executive, I agree. So while Congress decides what it's going to do, and I hope this year and I'm going to work this year and urge this year that they actually pass a law. Today, I'm going to do what I can to help raise working Americans' wages. 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{"id": "CNN-183114", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2012-3-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1203/22/acd.01.html", "summary": "Developments in the Killing of Trayvon Martin; Who is George Zimmerman?", "utt": ["Erin, thanks. Good evening, everyone. We begin with breaking news on two fronts tonight. The coroner's report is back in the death of Whitney Houston. The bottom line, drowning, heart disease, cocaine, plus a cocktail of other drugs, legal and illegal, in her system when she died. We'll talk to Dr. Drew Pinsky and 360 MD Sanjay Gupta shortly. But we begin with a story unfolding before our very eyes tonight. After a day of major developments in the killing of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed African-American teenager shot by a neighborhood watch captain in a central Florida gated community. Tonight the outrage has come national, has come full circle. It has come home. You're looking at a rally tonight in Sanford, Florida. People gathering from all around the country, not far from where on the 26th of February Trayvon Martin was returning to his future stepmother's home with a bag of candy and an iced tea. That evening George Zimmerman, armed with a 9 millimeter automatic, mistook Trayvon for a would-be criminal, pursued him, allegedly confronted him, then shot him dead. Today after weeks of withering criticism about his department's handling of the case and a vote of no confidence by Sanford's city commission, Sanford's police chief temporarily stepped aside. He did not step down. Nor did Sanford's city manager fire him even though he has the power to do so. In a moment we'll ask him why. First, John Zarrella who's at -- who's at tonight's rally -- John.", "Anderson, some of the late developments today is that Governor Rick Scott, Florida's governor, has appointed a special task force to also contribute to this investigation. And it's being headed by State Attorney Angela Cory from the northern district of Florida. Now we assume that she'll get her group together and panel that task force pretty quickly on. We are here at this rally, as you know. Many thousands of people are here tonight, Anderson. We just heard from the Reverend Al Sharpton. We're now hearing from Trayvon Martin's parents. They are speaking right now. Earlier today they met with members of the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the U.S. attorney for the middle district of Florida. In those meetings they were told, look, please, give us patience. Have patience. This is going to take time. And they were also told that the investigation by the federal government, the Department of Justice, civil rights violations investigation that they are just getting started, just beginning the fact-finding, and they do not at this point have all the facts, or anywhere near all the facts -- Anderson.", "All right, John Zarrella, thanks very much. Now keep in mind that civil rights investigation by the federal government really may hinge on whether or not George Zimmerman uttered a racial -- racist slur on that 911 tape. We're going to play you an enhanced audio recording of that 911 tape. We ran it through with our best audio engineer here at CNN. We played it for you last night. We're going to replay that for you because it's critically important in terms of the federal investigation and the possibility of federal charges in this. It is worth starting tonight with Police Chief Lee's own words. Let's listen.", "I stand by the Sanford Police Department, its personnel, and the investigation that was conducted in regards to the Trayvon Martin case. It is apparent that my involvement in this matter is overshadowing the process.", "Chief Lee says he stands behind the investigation, but at almost every stop along the way, \"Keeping Him Honest,\" both his statements and the course taken by his department have come into question. It begins the night of February 26th when George Zimmerman says he shot Trayvon Martin in self defense. Acting properly he says according to Florida's \"Stand Your Ground\" law. Now looking at the police report you can see that at least initially police suspected the shooting may have been a crime. Take a look at the upper left-hand corner in the offense section. It reads homicide, negligent, manslaughter, unnecessarily killing to prevent unlawful act. Zimmerman was taken to police headquarters after the shooting. Further down the responding officer, Timothy Smith, writes, \"Zimmerman was placed in an interview room at SPD where he was interviewed by investigator D. Singleton.\" Now his gun was kept as evidence but Zimmerman was allowed to leave. We don't know anything about how the interview was conducted. Sanford City Manager Norton Bonaparte said he was questioned extensively and made to reenact the shooting. Whatever police did, we do know they concluded that Zimmerman was in the clear and there wasn't even probable cause to hold him on suspicion. Yet they already had one key piece of evidence that should have been very suspicious, evidence in George Zimmerman's own words that called into question his claims of self defense.", "Are you following him?", "Yes.", "OK. We don't need you to do that.", "OK.", "Well, police had access to that 911 tape from the very beginning. They only made it public last Friday under very heavy pressure from the Martin family three weeks after the fact. Earlier this week, Chief Lee publicly downplayed it, seeming to take Zimmerman's side, calling what the 911 dispatcher said, quote, \"not a lawful order that Mr. Zimmerman would be required to follow.\" Legally that is absolutely true, but it was unusual for the chief to say so given how quiet his department has been about answering any questions considering the case. So let's go back to the investigation. The family's attorney says police never asked neighbors if anyone was missing a child, which could suggest they suspected at least at the time that Trayvon was an intruder, not a kid visiting his dad in the neighborhood. Nor did they check Trayvon's cell phone. They say his phone was locked and they are waiting for records from the phone company. As of yesterday, however, they still hadn't contacted the last person to speak to Trayvon alive. He was talking to his girlfriend just seconds before his killing. The Martin family, on the other hand, did uncover the cell phone records, trace the girlfriend. She gave family attorney Benjamin Crump a statement recounting the call. Quote, \"He said this man was watching him so he put his hoodie on, said he lost the man.\" She went on to say, quote, \"I asked Trayvon to run and he said he was going to walk fast. I told him to run but he said he was not going to run.\" She said the man caught up to Trayvon. Quote, \"Trayvon said what are you following me for? And the man said, what are you doing here? The next thing I hear is somebody pushing and somebody pushed Trayvon because the headset just fell.\" So at the end of the day here's what we have. At least two key pieces of evidence casting suspicion on George Zimmerman's self- defense claim. Allegations the Sanford Police Department did a sloppy job, a vote of no confidence by Sanford City Commission. A Justice Department investigation, a big rally tonight and a national uproar. All of it, 25 days and counting since Trayvon Martin headed home from the store with a bag of Skittles and iced tea, and his whole life ahead of him. Now given all of that, given the national attention, the intense local pressure, a lot of people are asking not just at tonight's rally for two things, the arrest of George Zimmerman and the firing, firing of Chief Lee. He just stepped down today. One man tonight has the absolute power to do one of those things -- fire the chief. He's not exercising it. Sanford City Manager Norton Bonaparte. Earlier tonight I asked him why and why George Zimmerman is not in custody.", "Mr. Bonaparte, I heard you're doing an interview with Al Sharpton this evening on MSNBC and you said you want justice for the, quote, \"murder of Trayvon Martin.\" You used the word \"murder\" which is not a word one would use to describe an act of self-defense or justifiable homicide or anything under the \"Stand Your Ground\" law. So if you believe Trayvon Martin was murdered, why hasn't the man who shot him been arrested?", "What I have been told, Anderson, and this is a law enforcement matter, that when the police arrived, they handcuffed Mr. Zimmerman, they took him to the police headquarters, they questioned him, they brought him back out to the scene, they asked him to reenact what happened. And based upon what they heard from him and based upon the evidence that they saw at the scene, and based upon some information from witnesses, they could not un-corroborate the fact that he said it was self defense. What they have determined, at least at the scene, was that because of the Florida state statutes, they could not arrest him.", "So do you believe Trayvon Martin was murdered, though?", "I believe that he was certainly killed and it was unfortunate and it was a tragedy. No parent wants to have their child killed. Whether it's murder accident or anything like that. I think that what we need to look at is how we can get justice, and at this point, we're looking for the state's attorney to look at the evidence that the Sanford police has provided, along with the evidence that they'll get from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the grand jury.", "So your use of that word earlier \"murder\" was not to indicate that you believe it was not self defense?", "I believe that's up for the state's attorney and the justice system to look at. I am not going to be prejudging. We have a judicial system and I'm looking forward that justice is done.", "The police chief of your city, Bill Lee, steps aside temporarily today. He says he stands by the investigation into Trayvon Martin's death, is only stepping aside because he's become a distraction. Is that acceptable to you?", "Yes. I think it was very clear to Chief Lee that based upon the city commission's vote yesterday of no confidence and the uproar that's brewing not only in this city but around the country regarding the focus being on the police chief and not on the killing of Trayvon Martin, that he decided to step aside so that we can refocus on getting justice for the death of Trayvon Martin and that's through the justice system.", "Do you have confidence in the investigation thus far?", "I don't know the investigation. That's why Mayor Triplett, Congresswoman Brown and myself went to Washington, D.C. to ask the United States Department of Justice to overlook and to see -- for them to review and to share with us do they think there was a fair and impartial investigation.", "But clearly, I mean, if you went to ask for outsiders to look at the investigation, that would indicate a concern you have about the investigation?", "What I say is that because of the national attention and because of the tragedy of this place, the tragedy of the killing of Trayvon Martin, we want to have outside eyes look at this, fresh eyes, independent eyes of the Sanford Police Department so that we can have confidence in whatever they find.", "You said earlier on CNN, quote, \"If this took place in another city, certainly Mr. Zimmerman would have been arrested.\" What did you mean by that?", "I said that when I spoke to other law enforcement officials, one in particular in New York, indicated that if it had taken place in New York, Mr. Zimmerman would have been arrested. However, based on Florida's laws, he understood why the Sanford Police did not arrest Mr. Zimmerman.", "Trayvon Martin's parents have said this evening they want Chief Lee to be permanently removed. You have the authority to fire him. What do you say to Trayvon's parents?", "I say, I will remove him if I have reason to believe that he did something inappropriate. I am not rushing to judgment. I've called for a review. I want to know the facts. Did the Sanford Police Department do something they shouldn't have done or did they not do something that they should have done? Give that to me and then I can make a determination not only just about Chief Lee but about the whole Sanford Police Department.", "Do you have confidence in the investigation that Chief Lee oversaw?", "Right now it doesn't make a difference. What we really want is to make sure that the state's attorney has all the information they need so they can determine whether they should indict Mr. Zimmerman and they have provided -- we provided them with the police department but in addition to that they have information and the resources of Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the United States Department of Justice.", "So you don't want to go on record saying whether or not you have confidence in the investigation or not?", "What I go on record saying we want justice for the Martin family. And right now it's in the hands of the justice system through the state's attorney office. He's doing -- the one to determine what the fate of Mr. Martin is -- what the fate of Zimmerman is in terms of pressing charges.", "Mr. Bonaparte, I appreciate your time. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Let's bring in legal analysis, former federal prosecutors Jeffrey Toobin and Sunny Hostin. Jeffrey, clearly he doesn't want to take a position. I mean he's kind of just ducking all over the place.", "And I don't know what that heck that business is with taking a temporary leave?", "Right. So --", "What does that mean?", "That's the other question I wanted to ask you about.", "It doesn't mean anything.", "The police chief stepping down, does that really mean anything, taking temporary leave?", "No. What does it mean to temporarily step down? I mean is he still in charge of the police department except for this case? Is he just taking vacation? I mean it's just -- it seems like a -- it is either too much or too little, but it's a meaningless gesture, I think.", "And Sunny, the meeting today between Trayvon Martin's parents and the Department of Justice, what does that mean for the case?", "You know, I think they wanted to manage the family's expectations. I think they wanted to ask the family's patience so that they can continue the investigation. It's just the very beginning. And I think Jeff will agree with me, trying a federal hate crimes case, it's just very difficult to prove. I mean you have to prove specific intent, so you have to get into someone's head, and it's the highest level intent under our criminal law system. And I think they wanted to manage the family's expectations but make it very clear that they are there, they are on the ground, they are investigating but they aren't taking over the investigation because this, in my view, is very much still a local law enforcement case.", "I want to talk in a little bit about what was in his head and what we know about that based on what he said on the 911 tapes, whether he used a racist slur because that does have a key -- key impact on whether the feds can bring in charges. Before we get there, though, we know very little about the gun that was used. Apparently the police confiscated it. That's a big issue.", "It's an enormous issue because the ballistics and the autopsy evidence, they're not public yet and they will be extremely important. I mean, for example, Zimmerman told the story, we don't know the details, of how this shooting took place. Does the autopsy evidence match up with that? For example, he will say I shot him in the chest or I shot him, you know, in the arm or whatever. Does the autopsy evidence confirm that? Does the autopsy evidence show that he shot him in the back when he said he shot him in the front?", "Well, and", "I mean that's very important and we don't know that yet.", "And I think there's some crucial evidence missing because my understanding is that Zimmerman was allowed to leave the police station with the very clothes that he had on for the shooting. So if there is any discrepancy in terms of how far he was away from Trayvon Martin, that information is now lost, that forensic information is now lost.", "And --", "There's -- you can't have gun powder residue and that sort of thing because apparently it just wasn't conducted appropriately.", "And whether also there was no drugs --", "You know, now that evidence is gone forever.", "Right. Also, I mean, we know from at least two eyewitnesses Trayvon Martin was face down on the ground. Still, he could have been shot in the chest and the bullet could have spun him around. We simply don't know enough of the details.", "That was very -- when you interviewed those eyewitnesses that was a very striking image of him straddling --", "George Zimmerman --", "Zimmerman on top of him straddling him face down, which is just -- I mean the whole thing is bizarre, but that was I thought a very bizarre image. And you wonder how that could have happened.", "We've got to take a quick break. Jeffrey and Sunny, stay with us. There's plenty more on this and other stories at CNN.com. We're going to continue to talk about it right after this break. We're on Facebook, follow me on Twitter @Andersoncooper. We're tweeting about this case right now and having a conversation on Twitter about it. Up next, we don't know where the shooter, George Zimmerman, is tonight. We're also learning a lot about who he is or at least some more about his background. 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{"id": "CNN-65421", "program": "CNN CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT", "date": "2003-1-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/13/cct.00.html", "summary": "Couple That was Held For What Was Believed to be a Bomb Talk About Their Experience", "utt": ["Good evening. I'm Connie Chung. Tonight, how does a boot plus batteries plus a note equal a bomb?", "The real story behind a feared terrorist threat.", "On an X-ray, it looked very much like an explosive device.", "What one man put inside his suitcase that landed him and his wife in jail. The brothers Gibb mourn the loss of Maurice, but did he have to die?", "We will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline for the final hours of Maurice's life.", "How many more cases of wrongful conviction have to occur before we can all agree that this system in Illinois is broken?", "Convicted killers walk free, and death sentences commuted, while the families of their victims are outraged.", "He is, if anything, a coward and a liar, and that's what he'll be remembered as in the state of Illinois.", "Supermodel Niki Taylor was on top of the fashion world. But it all came to a screeching halt in a near-fatal car crash.", "The surgeons saying that they were holding, like, my liver in both hands.", "Tonight, Niki Taylor in a rare TV interview tells Connie how she's battled back, beating the odds. Another scene-stealing role by Oscar winner Kathy Bates. (", "People used to raise their eyebrows because I breast-fed him until he was almost 5, and I say, well, you just look at the results.", "Tonight, she tells Connie about her latest role. This is CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT. From the CNN broadcast center in New York, Connie Chung.", "Good evening. In a time of terror alerts and fears about our safety, why would someone go to so much trouble to, well, make trouble, or were Paul Donahue and Teresa Wood just trying to make a point about the price of our safety? Last week, they were arrested at Mineta San Jose International Airport for transporting what police considered a false or facsimile bomb in their bag.", "It was a boot. On top of the boot, there were some -- a large power strip with about five or six plugs, right directly on top of the boot. The power strip cord was extended, and at the end of that cord, was a package of batteries. And it looked very much, as I say, on an X-ray, it looked very much like an explosive device.", "In addition, the bag contained a note, reading, quote, \"To the uniformed puppet opening this bag, congratulations! You've just brought this once free nation one step closer to becoming a fascist police state.\" Prosecutors disagreed that the boot, batteries and power strip constituted a fake bomb and they dropped the charges. Still, some questions linger, which is why we've asked Paul Donahue and Teresa Wood to join us tonight. Thank you both for being with us. Mr. Donahue, what were you thinking?", "In putting the note in the bag? My wife and I travel quite a bit and I has been concerned since 9/11 that we were watching, one, our freedoms disappear one by one. We are being asked to wave more of our rights as citizens here in this country. And since I travel often, I am concerned about what happens to our bags once they're checked in. For us, this was going to be the last straw. We decided that this was going to be our last flight. And I've spoken to Transportation Security Administration officials when I had the chance, and since I was not able to speak to these officials in particular, and this was the first time our bags were going to be checked in such a way, I was going to make sure that they understood the strong feelings I have about this issue.", "And what you are talking about is your bags would be checked outside of your presence? In other words, after you check the bag, it goes through and a baggage handler can look inside. Now, the Transportation Safety Administration does have actually a reply to you. What the administration believes is that you are just playing games with the system and that you were trying to get a rise out of the system. In fact, you were trying to create a fake bomb.", "Well, that may be their feeling. I actually didn't ever see the image that was on the cat scanner. They waved it around a lot at us; I'll take their word for it that it looked like a fake bomb. It may very well have.", "Did you intend to make it look like a fake bomb?", "Oh, no. No. It was nothing like. And you know, to tell you the truth, I think if it looked like a bomb to them, they should have done their job and opened the bag. They would have been remiss not to have. But we had four bags, four pieces of checked luggage, and the same identical note was in all four bags. And I've heard numbers up to 30 percent of bags are going to be opened with this system because the machine does have a lot of false alarms. And I figured with four bags, the odds of at least of them being opened were fairly good.", "Teresa, didn't you say to Mr. Donahue that this is just, you know, it's crazy. We're going to get in trouble, and if anybody finds any of this it's just going to seem like this some terrorist plot?", "No. I never thought it was a terrorist plot. And the whole -- never in a million years I ever thought there would be any kind of bomb thing. It was just to be a note. Someone that the inspector might get irritated and hopefully think about what Paul is saying. I didn't think that there would be any big trouble like there was.", "You didn't think there would be any repercussions? Go ahead.", "No. It wasn't a threatening note. And no, I didn't think there would be repercussions.", "Well, it was written on the side of a cereal box. And I think it, you know, might have looked very suspicious to the baggage handler and to those who eventually arrested you. How many days did you spend in jail?", "Three.", "Three days. And you, Mr. Donahue?", "The same. A few hours more, but basically the same amount of time.", "Well, this is another thing that the Transportation Safety Administration said, and I want to get your reaction. They said, well, you know, if you think this is a joke, the 9/11 families certainly are not laughing.", "Oh, I don't think it's a joke at all. I think that security is a big issue and I fully support them screening bags. I think it's a good idea and I have no problems with them screening the bags and opening bags when they see suspicious objects. My only complaint is that, and I think many Americans would share this, that passengers would like to be present when the bags are searched, the same as with the check of the hand luggage. I think that's perfectly reasonable. I've submitted to that many, many times and had no problems with that.", "Well, sir, there's another side of the story, of course, and we're going to get it now from Robert Johnson. He is spokesperson for the new Transportation Security Administration, which oversees the nation's airport security. Mr. Johnson, thank you for being with us. Now, this couple believes that it really is an invasion of privacy. What do you have to say to that? Because there are many people out there who I'm sure believe that it is an invasion of privacy.", "Well, Connie, we do our best to try and balance all of those issues against what happened on 9/11. You know, we're not sitting there developing programs just on a whim. Congress responded to what happened a year and a half ago and decided that there were a number of loopholes that needed to be closed to terrorists, one of them was checked baggage and that's why our screeners did exactly what they should have done that night, last Tuesday night in San Jose. That image looked like a bomb on the screen and it's their job to resolve that. When they opened the bag, they saw the boot with the various pieces of electrical wiring and other things inside and made that information available to local law enforcement, which then took the action that you've been talking about.", "Now, felony charges were dropped. Do you think that they should have been prosecuted?", "We absolutely think that there should have been more consideration given to the notion of the recklessness, if you will, that occurred. If nothing else, that in and of itself is a problem. You know, you don't make jokes about hijacking an airplane or a bomb in your bag when you're at an airport, and the same ought to apply for people who are carrying things that are assembled in such a way that they could lead someone to believe that there is an explosive device inside. It's a fine line you have to walk between trying to maintain the right of privacy, which this administration obviously supports, and making the flights safe, you know? Nobody wants to be on a flight that has a bag underneath that's got a bomb in it. And again, our screeners did the right thing. They pulled that bag over, they took a look. When they found the, quote/unquote, hoax inside, they pointed that out to law enforcement, and then from there, the job goes to the local police department to determine what should be done next.", "Mr. Donahue, Mr. Donahue, why didn't you just write to your congressman or why didn't you hold up a placard up at Capitol Hill, or, you know, do some other type of protest, because indeed wouldn't you rather have your plane safe than have a terrorist plant a bomb on it?", "I am fully supportive of screening the bags. I have no problem with that whatsoever. The only complaint I have is that the passenger should be present when that happens so that they see what's happening with their bags.", "I see. Well, Robert Johnson, what about that?", "Well, Connie, actually, we do about two million bags a day. It's a huge number of bags to screen to make sure they're all safe, but they're all being checked with a variety of methods that Congress approved for us. And in most cases, those bags are being screened in front of passengers. The airports are pushing...", "Yes, I know, but what about the bags that aren't screened in front of passengers? Would that be possible?", "Well, they are screened outside of some passengers' view. Most airports, as I was about to say, are pushing to put those systems behind the scenes because they don't like the equipment in the lobbies. So we're in the process now of dealing with those issues on an airport by airport basis, and eventually, I think most airports would like that work done elsewhere.", "What do you mean elsewhere? Outside of the site...", "Well, yes, outside of the lobbies in a new facility or something that's behind the ticket counters after passengers drop those bags and go on down to the gate. So we are going to work our way through that. There are a lot of issues still to determine. We just don't think this was exactly the right way to make the point.", "All right, Robert Johnson, thank you. Teresa Wood and Paul Donahue, thank you both as well. Coming up, beating the odds in a rare one-on-one interview, supermodel Nikki Taylor talks about almost dying, waking up from months in a coma and her struggle to come back. Stay with us.", "Next, convicted murderers, condemned to death walk free in Illinois. Was justice served? Depends on who you ask. CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT will be right back."], "speaker": ["CONNIE CHUNG, HOST", "ANNOUNCER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANNOUNCER", "BARRY GIBB, MAURICE GIBB'S BROTHER", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-143194", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2009-9-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/22/acd.01.html", "summary": "Flooding Death Toll Rises in Southeast", "utt": ["The governor of Georgia is asking President Obama to declare a state of emergency in his state, that after days of heavy flooding have left parts of the Southeast under water. As of tonight, at least nine people have been killed. Others have been pulled from their cars and homes and communities devastated by some of the worst flooding in years. Look at those pictures. David Mattingly is live in Cobb County, Georgia, for more on the flooding. David, what you are seeing?", "Anderson, to give you an idea of how dramatic some of this flash flooding was in these Atlanta area neighborhoods, if I had been standing here last night, the water would have been up to here. Now, you can see it's gone down quite a bit since then, but it's now leaving behind all the damaged items that residents had to abandon when they evacuated here, like this -- this mud-covered vehicle right here. The water was all the way up to here. It's going to be a total loss. And it is just an example of what's waiting for the residents when they do come back here, because, when all this water recedes, that's when the real pain begins.", "Hattie Marcell took her children and ran. Now coming back to her flooded home for the first time, there are signs everywhere of the pandemonium she left behind. (on camera): This car right here, how high did the water come up?", "It was up under water.", "It was -- yes, it was up under water. The only part that you could see was just the top.", "This car is just one of the things her neighbors had to abandon when the water came pouring into their cul- de-sac. Inside the houses, it's worse. (on camera): I see the waterline right here.", "Yes.", "Right here. Oh, boy. What a mess. (voice-over): No one had time to save their belongings. Neighbors felt lucky to save themselves.", "I mean, I'm laughing and joking about it, but I'm really crying on the inside, because this is just unbelievable. I mean, when we left here yesterday, we got stuck in the field with three kids. And trying -- and we broke the fence down trying to get out of here.", "Historic flooding left its muddy mark all over Atlanta, sending torrents water over critical interstates, turning commutes into an ordeal. The water was so high in some areas, roller coasters at an amusement park almost disappeared. Hundreds had to be rescued by boat from densely populated areas that had never seen flooding before. To make matters worse, some flooded houses burned. State estimates place the damage at a quarter- of-a-billion dollars. And the cleanup has barely begun. (on camera): Did it float over here? (voice-over): Individual losses could be devastating. Hattie Marcell says her neighborhood was not in a flood zone. She did not have flood insurance.", "I don't want to have to deal with the -- you know, the heartache and pain and going through trying to rebuild. And I had just actually redone my house.", "Repairing the damage may not be an option. And she may have to move, one of the many painful decisions facing victims of a major flood in a major city.", "So many people now finding out they weren't quite prepared with their insurance, not having flood insurance to deal with anything like this, Anderson, so this disaster being very personal and hitting very hard in a lot of individuals' pocketbooks.", "Yes, good to see at least the water going down in the neighborhood you're in. David, thanks. Erica Hill is falling other stories making headlines tonight. Let's check in with her in a 360 news and business bulletin -- Erica.", "Anderson, President Obama joining other world leaders today calling for immediate and substantive steps to combat climate change. Speaking at a special United Nations summit, the president said failure to act now would bring -- quote -- \"irreversible catastrophe.\" He pledged the full commitment of the United States. Also today, the president meeting with Israeli Prime Minister -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He's pushing those leaders to restart Middle East peace talks. Palestinians are insisting Israel halt all construction of Jewish settlements and Palestinian territory as a precondition for resuming talks. Netanyahu, however, told CNN the settlement issue is something that should be raised in negotiations, and not before. In Massachusetts, the state Senate approving a bill today which allows the governor to name an interim replacement for the late Senator Ted Kennedy. The bill now goes bath to both chambers for a final procedural vote tomorrow, before it heads to the governor, who has said he would sign it. And some good news from General Motors -- the automaker adding a third shift to several plants in Kansas, Indiana, and Michigan. That extra shift is expected to add 2,400 jobs. Finally, Jenny Sanford, the wife of embattled South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, is writing a memoir. Mrs. Sanford is now separated from her husband, after he admitted to an affair with an Argentine woman. The publisher says Sanford's book is about maintaining integrity and a self of self during life's difficult times -- Anderson.", "Well, sadly, she knows a lot about that. Up next: new revelations about John Edwards' affair and why his wife, Elizabeth, does not want him to publicly say if he is the father of Rielle Hunter's baby. We have the \"Raw Politics\" on that. Also ahead: tracking the accused craigslist killer -- new insight tonight on how police used technology and a digital trail to track the prime suspect."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MATTINGLY (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HATTIE MARCELL, FLOOD VICTIM", "MATTINGLY (voice-over)", "MARCELL", "MATTINGLY", "BRANDE ALLISON, FLOOD VICTIM", "MATTINGLY", "MARCELL", "MATTINGLY", "MATTINGLY", "COOPER", "HILL", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-54900", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-5-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/27/lt.18.html", "summary": "At Least Two People Killed Outside Tel Aviv", "utt": ["We have been following some breaking news out of Israel as well today, where police say at least two people were killed by a suicide bomber outside of Tel Aviv. CNN's Martin Savidge is at the scene of the explosion, and he joins us now -- Marty.", "Carol, we're being told now that Hezbollah Television is reporting that the al Aqsa Brigade is the one that is claiming responsibility for this latest attack here in Israel; that is, associated with Yasser Arafat's intifada movement. Let's show you the scene in the background here. It took place at 6:45 PM Israeli time outside of what is an open-air coffee shop, really, located outside of a shopping mall. That time of day, that time of evening, it would have been very busy here. In fact, witnesses say it was extremely crowded. Lots of people; men, women and children. There were reportedly two deaths, not including the suicide bomber, and at least 28 people that were injured. Among the dead, authorities are saying now that one of the victims was a child, and in fact a short while ago they brought out what were the mangled remains of what appeared to be a child's stroller. There is a large crowd on hand. Members of the forensic team still working over the site, cleaning up and gathering evidence. But they already know, they say, that this was the work of a suicide bomber. There were said to be threats for this specific community this morning, however those were said to be general threats and, quite frankly, there had been threats all over Israel, literally hundreds of them, that the national police force has been dealing with. But right now, they have reality before them. This is another suicide bombing attack in what has been a string. Tempers are running high. At times the crowd shouting \"death to Arabs.\" Police working not only to control the scene, trying to make sure there are no more explosives, but also trying to control the tempers of those outraged by this latest suicide attack -- Carol.", "Marty, were you able to get any more details by talking to some of the investigators on the scene, how the suicide bomber approached, and was able to get so close to this cafe?", "Well, unfortunately, police are still investigating that. But what they think may have possibly happen was that the mall itself, the entrance, has had security. That is pretty much standard operating procedure here in Israel. However, it is not known if the coffee shop outside had their own security. If not, it may be that the suicide bomber, approaching the mall, saw the security, realized he could not get in, and thereby went for another target of opportunity, and that being the cafe in the background -- Carol.", "Thank you very much. Marty Savidge, reporting live, outside a cafe, near Tel Aviv, where we are counting up as many as more than two dozen injured, and now three people, including the suicide bomber, dead. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LIN", "SAVIDGE", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-40918", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2001-10-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/se.30.html", "summary": "Target Terrorism: Attorney General Holds News Conference With Canada's Solicitor General", "utt": ["I'm sorry, I've got to interrupt here, because Attorney General Ashcroft is about to speak with reporters, so we'll go there.", "Good afternoon. Allow me to express my deep appreciation to Solicitor General Lawrence MacAulay of Canada and to Canada's government for its both immediate and comprehensive assistance to the United States of America in relation to the tragedy of September 11 this year: the attacks by terrorists on the World Trade Center, on the Pentagon and, of course, on the flight which ended so tragically in Pennsylvania. Our relationship with Canada is one of the most satisfying relationships that could be anticipated between two nations. And the commerce which flows so freely between our countries is the basis for a substantial part of our success and our prosperity. And it's very important that we have the kind of continuing relationship, and the kind of openness between our cultures, and the kind of capacity for commerce and individuals to flow back and forth across our borders that sustains our relationship. The assistance on September 11 and since then by our Canadian neighbors has been remarkable. The attack on September 11 was not just an attack on the United States, it happened to have been an attack on every civilization that values freedom. I'm personally saddened by the -- deeply saddened by the 23 Canadian victims still unaccounted for in the World Trade Center attack. And I want to express publicly my condolences to the solicitor general of Canada and the citizens of Canada for their loss in this setting. As President Bush expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Chretien during their meeting on September 24 of this year, let me reemphasize again the urgent need to implement strong and sometimes difficult measures to combat terrorism. The vital assistance that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are providing to the United States investigators builds on a foundation of excellent law enforcement cooperation, something both authorities depend upon in the ordinary course of our relationship. In previous cases, Canada's assistance in our investigation of terrorist activity, especially the matter that was planned to coincide with the millennium's celebrations in the United States, that was facilitated by our relationship and which made easier the work of prosecutors from Seattle and New York in convicting Ahmed Rassam, known to have been affiliated with Osama bin Laden and other individuals -- that all took place earlier this year and was a result of our cooperation. In these extraordinary circumstances, all countries must implement measures aimed at dismantling terrorist organizations and preventing further and future attacks. And I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to express personally the gratitude of the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and other agencies regarding and participating in law enforcement in the United States, to express personally to the solicitor general of Canada our profound appreciation for their many acts of cooperation and for their participation in an investigation which has been self- initiated in many respects. Sometimes before we could ask, they were already cooperating to do those things they knew to be necessary in order for us to succeed. With that in mind, I'm very pleased to introduce to you the solicitor general of Canada, Lawrence MacAulay, and ask him if he cares to make any remarks. Friend, thank you.", "Thank you very much, John. First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Ashcroft for his leadership through these very difficult times. As the prime minister indicated, we will stand shoulder to shoulder with you and support you in these difficult times. We discussed the investigation, and I was pleased that Mr. Ashcroft and the FBI couldn't express enough pleasure in how support they have with CSIS and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and how important it is for the security of both nations. We also discussed legislation and what we plan to do in our country. We passed a resolution in our country today that freezes assets connected with terrorists, and that just extends the list and that will be also published. We also discussed the Canadian border -- the Canadian- American border. And I was so pleased that Mr. Ashcroft indicated and is also concerned about the free flow of goods and to make sure that the economies of both countries do not suffer and, in fact, more or less, do what the terrorists intended to do and that was hurt democracy. Again, I want to thank you. It's a pleasure to be here with you, John. And to have you leading this investigation and making sure that the people who are responsible are brought to justice and democracy, in the way that you and I and all Canadians and Americans and people who live in the free world live and wish to continue to live, and will live that way. Thank you very much.", "Mr. Attorney General, you said last week that the northern border has become a transit point, quote, \"for several individuals involved in terrorism.\" Has there been any evidence at all linking September 11 to terrorists who might have come across the Canadian border?", "First of all, let me say that the 4,000 miles or so of border between the United States and Canada are a model for the way neighbors ought to conduct themselves. I mean, it is a very substantial open border between two nations, the friendship of which couldn't be stronger in my judgment. But any time there are borders that are that open and that substantial, there are risks that people crossing the border could be individuals who are involved in very serious activities that could be troublesome. Without commenting on this investigation, let me just refer to you to one where the conviction has already been obtained. The Rassam bombing was a situation where, with the help of Canadian authorities, we apprehended him transporting significant explosives into this country. And those were for purposes of disrupting the millennium celebration. So that cooperation is important, the border is important, but obviously there is an exposure, and a potential for problems there, and that's what working together will help us curtail.", "Senator Ashcroft, the United States has shared some evidence with our allies about how the terrorism attacks are connected to Osama bin Laden. What can you tell us about what that evidence is?", "Well, obviously, our investigation is ongoing. And it's not in my position at this time to detail the evidence that's available. Let me just indicate to you that from very early stages in the investigation, we saw Osama bin Laden, the Al Qaeda network, which is a network that is a substantial group of individuals as well as organizations, as being a focal point of those responsible for this act of terror.", "Senator Ashcroft, do you think one of the solutions to the potential for trouble between Canada and U.S. in terms of crossing the border and the vulnerability there is a security perimeter around North America? Is that something you favor?", "Well, I believe that we can work together to improve the right kind of access on our border. It's in Canada's interest that they have an awareness of who's crossing the border from the United States to Canada. It's in our interest to have an awareness and a cooperative endeavor for us to know who's both leaving United States, and coming into the United States. These mutual interests will provide, I believe, the basis for a continuing cooperation. And it may be that we'll adjust the way in which that cooperation is achieved as a result of what happened on the 11th of September. But I believe that we'll continue to cooperate, and I think that it will facilitate our capacity to prosper in both settings.", "Attorney General, several of our allies have received what they call conclusive proof that Osama bin Laden is connected with the September 11 attacks. This information has gone to other countries. Can you share it with the American people now?", "I'm not prepared to share the evidentiary basis regarding parties responsible for these tragedies at this time.", "Mr. Ashcroft, as you know there was a good deal of discussion since Sunday about your comments on a couple of television shows -- whether you meant to say that another terrorist attack in this country is likely, as opposed to merely possible. Could you clarify or amplify on that for us today, sir? And if I may also ask Mr. MacAuley if there are any steps that the Canadian government is planning to take to tighten up on immigration into your country, sir?", "Well, let me just indicate that I believe that additional terrorists acts are possible. And I believe the kind of attack which we endured shows that the risks of such possibilities are substantial, and that we should be very much aware of those risks. I don't think the United States should retreat or should withdraw. There shouldn't be a cultural paralysis, which otherwise curtails our activities. The president's clearly stated that he thinks we should have a heightened awareness. And we've called upon Americans for their assistance in this heightened awareness. And I think the right balance and understanding that is what's important for us. We're not going to cease to be the free, open society that offers opportunity to Americans that we've been. But we're going to be careful, and I've asked the Congress very clearly for additional tools to reduce the risk of further incidents. And I believe it is time for us to understand that tools can reduce the risk of terrorism; talk won't. And we need to make sure that we curtail the risks of terrorist activities. Let me just finally say that terrorism won't happen based on what we decide the risk factors are. On September the 10th, we didn't have an understanding of how high the risk factors were. We need to be prepared and we need to understand that there is a possibility of additional activity, and act accordingly, but not surrender the freedom that we have. And I know you addressed a question to my counterpart.", "Yes, in Canada in the Senate of Canada we have an immigration bill, C. 11, that will tighten up our immigration rules. For an example, anybody coming into the country, there will be advance information on who they are and what they're about, and there is the possibility that they need an identification card. And John is absolutely right: Interception with our intelligence agencies -- we made a commitment that we're going to beef up that area; more funds for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; and to make sure also that our seamless cooperation with Mr. Ashcroft's responsibilities with the FBI and other agencies in this country continue, so that we provide as safe a society as possible.", "U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft meeting with the Canadian solicitor general, who's equivalent", "That's right. Well, what he said over the weekend, what concerns him, he said that he expected that there might be some chemical or biological attack, in one of the interviews. And so, that was like, whoa, wait a minute, he's taking one step further. He's going one step further than he's gone before. And today, I think back-pedaling just a little bit, saying, look, you know, we have to be on-guard. As a population, we need to be aware, as evidenced by September 11th, that these things can happen. So I know lots and lots of craziness over that, that statement, but he does seems to be back pedaling a bit. He was also asked about the evidence today that was given over to...", "Sharing.", "... sharing with our NATO partners and other allies. And he, of course, refused to comment on what that evidence was, but sources have told CNN that part of that evidence includes the fact that at least four of the alleged hijackers were -- they had connections to Afghan training camps. That is for sure, No. 1. No. 2, we know that several telephone intercepts have been provided between members of the al Qaeda organization. Money transfers, specific information on money transfers back and forth between the suspected hijackers and contacts in the Middle East and elsewhere. So, that -- that evidence, we do know that it was very specific and credible evidence.", "All right, Kelli Arena, our justice correspondent. Again, that information Kelli is describing coming from other sources, credible sources, but not from top-ranking officials in the U.S. government."], "speaker": ["BOBBIE BATTISTA, HOST, CNN'S \"TALKBACK LIVE\"", "JOHN ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL", "LAWRENCE MACAULAY, CANADIAN SOLICITOR GENERAL", "QUESTION", "ASHCROFT", "QUESTION", "ASHCROFT", "QUESTION", "ASHCROFT", "QUESTION", "ASHCROFT", "QUESTION", "ASHCROFT", "MACAULAY", "JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "KELLI ARENA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WOODRUFF", "ARENA", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-346531", "program": "CRIME AND JUSTICE WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2018-08-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/01/ptab.01.html", "summary": "Woman Forced To Eat Mom`s Ashes", "utt": ["Tonight an entire family is behind bars after investigators say they humiliated and tortured their young relative. Holding the 22-year-old against her will and turning her into their personal slave. And family may not be the best word to describe these people. A mom, a dad, and their three adult children accused of forcing the reportedly autistic young woman to do housework just for food and water. Like, get this, brace yourself. Lapping up a spill with her tongue, cleaning the septic tank with her bare hands, and they supposedly had her sleeping in a chicken wire cage with only a bucket for a toilet.", "That was what she had to lay on. This girl was eat up with the mosquitos, the bugs. It`s horrible. I mean, the damn dog got treated better than she did.", "Well, according to appalling new court documents, the family threatened to kill the young victim, who was preferred to as only D.P. And they assaulted her multiple times with everything from a hammer to a bb gun to a cigarette lighter. In one nightmarish accusation, they forced her to, get ready, to eat her own mother`s ashes. And if that is not enough, investigators say the family was planning on sharing the victim with others.", "They also had planned to bring her to another specific location for the purpose of her performing sexual acts on a large group of people in exchange for them, the captors, being paid money.", "I want to bring in my panel. On the phone, Matt Doyle, assistant news Director for Louisiana radio network. Also, retired FBI special agent Maureen O`Connell, and defense attorney, Kirby Clements. So where do I begin, Matt Doyle, with you?", "Well, this all began back in August of 2015, when the victim`s mother died and her care was transferred over to her relatives in the Knope family. She was allegedly abused for about a year by that family until authorities made their initial discovery and arrest in June of 2016. Raylaine Knope, Terry Knope and their children, Bridget Lambert, Jody Lambert, and Taylor Knope, have all been hit with a pretty serious set of charges, including forced labor, attempt sex trafficking, hate crimes which is held up in federal court among others. The victim is related to Raylaine, and authorities say the family engaged in these calculated abuse to try to maintain control of the victim for some manual labor and her SSI checks. They got about $8,796 worth of those SSI checks. They were being mailed to Terry Knope at the time. You mentioned a few of those details that were fairly disturbing. She was kept in the chicken cage at night, according to authorities. A few other ones that were mentioned, the fact that she was forced to take methamphetamine and that was used as blackmail to prevent her going to the police, also allegedly forced to eat dog feces that was spread on bread. This went on for about a year until authorities made that initial arrest.", "Maureen O`Connell, former FBI special agent. So, you were talking about federal crimes here. Explain why this is a federal case.", "Well, first of all, the good news is that the prosecutors and the police feel the same way about this victim that we do, and they hit them with every single solitary possible charge known to mankind, and thank you to that team that did that. It`s a federal charge for a number of reasons. It`s a hate crime. It took place in different areas. There were all kinds of things that bring it to a whole different level, which is why it was addressed by us, but the fact of the matter, and they were stealing money from her SSI account, and there were all kinds of little federal nexuses, but this -- what they did to this young person is absolutely probably the worst torture I`ve ever heard of.", "Kirby Clements, defense attorney, when they were forcing her to eat her mother`s ashes, with a spoon, as if it were like a broth of some sort, they stood by and they laughed. They found this rather amusing. As a defense attorney, where are you going to go with this, if you happen to have any -- if you would have ever been involved in a case like this?", "As a defense attorney, I would certainly hope my clients would be the younger one. The daughter, who I believe, one is like 21 and one 20, which would have put them at 17 or 18 when this all began, so I would argue they were subject to the influence of Raylaine and Terry Knope, who are the older people, that is they are the ones that were driving the boat. So, from a defense perspective, I would go with the younger ones and that is who I hope would be my clients, because I`d be able to argue that they were coerced into this or compelled to do this by their parents. And it was just a survival method for them.", "But Maureen, let me ask you as a long-time law enforcement person, is this like the mob mentality? How is it, where`s the moral compass, where is one member of the family that says, whoa, this is wrong?", "Obviously there`s no moral compass and the parents are bullies and that is just the beginning. I mean, these people like control, they wanted the money. I`ve seen children sexually abused, I`ve seen them murdered, I`ve seen them tortured, but the depth and breadth of this particular situation is beyond anything I can possibly imagine. There is no moral compass in the younger people, the young children, and their young adult children that are involved in this. They`re ruined for life, as well they should be.", "Absolutely. And so let`s hear from the sheriff, I believe, of this county about this case.", "The degree of trauma that somebody like this goes through is probably indescribable. And it`s something I can`t imagine. So I would certainly ask that we all, you know, keep her in our thoughts and prayers.", "Wow. So Mike Boyle -- excuse me -- Matt Doyle, tell me, they`re all charged, but one of the adults has a much lesser crime held against her, and why is that?", "Well, they have not released a lot of information on that specific area. This is pretty early on in the process. It would appear that maybe she was less involved with some of the other aspects of it, such as the sex trafficking, and that indicates reason why she may be having a lesser charge.", "All right. So, let me ask you this, we understand that this victim is autistic. Is there any information on the spectrum? Was she able -- what was her mental capacity? And I know that she tried to escape at least one time. So clearly she knew that she was living in a veritable hell.", "Well, she would have been verbal enough to communicate to guests and communicate to authorities, but at this time, they`re really not mentioning much of anything. All we have is the initials, and I think authorities are trying to keep her as protected as they can from the public. I can only imagine that would be incredibly detrimental to her development and they`re trying to shield her from a lot of the media attention.", "Kirby, I just have about 20 seconds, I would guess that prosecutors want to work one defendant against the other?", "In a case like this, you would probably work the younger ones against the older ones, but given the conditions here, as a prosecutor, I mean, from my prosecutor days, I would go after everybody hard and they`d have to give me a reason to want to cut a deal. Because the facts are so compelling.", "And Pat, I think it`s most likely that the one that got the lesser charge is the one that has been cooperating the most so far.", "Right. Let`s hope if there is a best case scenario that they all burn. Tonight -- if they`re guilty. Tonight in Waterloo, Iowa, hundreds of people are expected at a vigil for Mollie Tibbets as the desperate search for the 20-year-old college student continues. Two weeks ago, Mollie vanished after an evening jog and hasn`t been seen or heard from since. The night she disappeared, she reportedly was supposed to have dinner with her mom. And Mollie`s mom said the past 14 days have been a surreal nightmare.", "The first night she went missing, I was -- you know, I was -- I was distraught. And I knew her phone was dead, but I sent her a text anyway saying, you know, I love you, we`re looking for you, and we`ll find you no matter what. My greatest fear is that we wouldn`t find her. But I can`t go there right now.", "Police and the FBI have conducted more than 200 interviews without any solid leads on where Mollie is. She was dog sitting for her boyfriend and her brother when she was last seen and police have ruled them out as suspects. Tomorrow morning at noon Eastern, her family and crime stoppers of central Iowa will have a joint press conference about that search and HLN of course will bring that to you live. Everyone thought she was abducted when the cops found a missing mom`s car. Everyone but maybe her ex, who reportedly just made a big confession. What happened to Bellamy Gamboa? That`s next."], "speaker": ["LALAMA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LALAMA", "SHERIFF DANIEL EDWARDS, TANGIPAHOA PARISH", "LALAMA", "MATT DOYLE, ASSISTANT NEWS DIRECTOR, LOUISIANA RADIO NETWORK", "LALAMA", "MAUREEN O`CONNELL, RETIRED FBI SPECIAL AGENT", "LALAMA", "CLEMENTS", "LALAMA", "O`CONNELL", "LALAMA", "EDWARDS", "LALAMA", "DOYLE", "LALAMA", "DOYLE", "LALAMA", "CLEMENTS", "O`CONNELL", "LALAMA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "LALAMA"]}
{"id": "CNN-102311", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-1-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/30/sitroom.03.html", "summary": "Samuel Alito's Confirmation Expected Tomorrow", "utt": ["Thanks very much, Lou. And to our viewers, you're now in THE SITUATION ROOM, where new pictures and information are arriving all the time. Standing by, CNN reporters across the United States and around the world to bring you the day's top stories. Happening now, it's 5:00 a.m. in Pakistan, where just weeks ago, a U.S. airstrike targeted al Qaeda's No. 2 man. Now he's back with a new terror tape taunting President Bush and threatening Americans. It's 1:00 a.m. in Landstuhl, Germany, where a roadside bombing in Iraq has left ABC anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman, Doug Vogt lying, badly wounded, in a military hospital. What lies ahead? And it's 4:00 p.m. under the border between Mexico and California, scene of a sophisticated 2400 foot tunnel allegedly used by drug smugglers. Our Anderson Cooper is going to take all of us inside. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. We begin tonight with two prominent men who went from covering the war in Iraq to becoming casualties of that war. Right now, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman, Doug Vogt, lie seriously wounded in a U.S. military hospital in Germany. They were injured while riding with Iraqi forces when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. Let's go to live to Landstuhl, Germany. CNN's Chris Burns standing by with the latest -- Chris.", "Wolf, it was a day here of a testing, of examination. Families members arrived as well as an ABC executive. They put their heads together with the doctors to decide what the next step should be in treating these two men.", "At Landstuhl U.S. Military Hospital, two more cases that are all too come here: victims of a roadside bomb in Iraq. ABC news anchorman bob woodruff and Emmy winning cameraman Doug Vogt arrived with breathing tubes and heavily sedated. They're suffering from head wounds and broken bones after Sunday's blast in which a so-called improvised explosive device blew up outside the military vehicle they were driving in. Standing in the open hatch, they were hit by shrapnel and whatever else the bomb kicked up despite they're body armor and helmet.", "These are foreign bodies that can cause tremendous amount of injury to flesh and bones.", "So you've seen this pretty off, then?", "Unfortunately, yes.", "After U.S. military doctors operated on them in Iraq, they underwent CAT scans and other testing here. The hospital says doctors saw good early signs of reaction, signs of slow improvement. Thousands of American troops have gone through this medical center, the biggest of its kind outside the U.S. Each soldier, a tragedy for at least one family.", "And now two more casualties among thousands, but, then, one of them was beamed across America into millions of homes across America every night makes it even more real that Iraq remains a dangerous and violent place -- Wolf.", "Chris Burns on the scene for us at Landstuhl. Thank you very much. Doctors say they do see some signs of slow improvement. But Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt have an uncertain road ahead. Let's try to get a better sense of what they might be going through from our senior medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. He's joining us now from the CNN center. Sanjay, you're a neurosurgeon. You've covered military action. You've seen these kinds of head injuries. Obviously, we don't know the specifics of this case. But walk us through what might be going on.", "Yes. When you talk about explosions like this, there are several different factors. First of all, we doesn't know either how close they were to this IED, this improvised explosive device, nor how powerful the device was itself, so it's a little bit hard to say. But really, you think about three different waves of injury to the body and to the brain after an explosion like this. The first wave typically is debris that is actually launched by the explosive device itself or any debris in the area. The second wave really is this concussive type wave that you just see there, sort of moving the brain back and forth within the skull that can sometimes cause bleeding either within the brain or on top of the brain. And sometimes that just causes significant swelling. The third wave, Wolf, is when the bodies themselves sort of move around. But that's typically what happens in this sort of explosive device being so close to it, Wolf.", "It's like the shock waves really could cause some serious damage. How are these guys treated for these kinds of injuries?", "Yes. I mean, it's a good question. Again, don't know the specific types of injuries. But for shrapnel type injuries, for example, shrapnel can be launched at very high velocities as fast as being ejected from a gun or rifle. And if any of that has actually penetrated the skull, penetrated the skull, that would obviously need to be removed immediately. If it had caused any bleeding, for example, either in the brain or on the brain, those blood clots, those blood collections would have to be taken out. Also, Wolf, I have a brain here. I want to just show you this model. What happens sometimes, there's so much swelling from one side of the brain or the other that the bone here is actually removed and left off just to give the brain some room to swell, to give the brain some room and then hopefully that swelling will subside over time. That's another operation that might be done in this sort of situation. But there's all sorts of different operations, depending on the specific injuries.", "Are there other injuries we're looking at potentially as well?", "Yes. I mean, you know, we talk about any type you have a shrapnel injury, you can have all sorts of different organ systems involved. You have also got to worry about infection, you know, in the long run if you leave that bone flap off, for example, that could be a problem. But the biggest concern, really -- sounds like anyway -- is the injury to the brain either from that concussive effect or from the shrapnel itself.", "Sanjay Gupta. Thanks very much, Sanjay, for that insight. The kind of improvised explosive device that hit Bob Woodruff and his cameraman is dangerously common in Iraq. The U.S. military says more than one third of the 62 American troops who died in Iraq this month alone were killed by these IEDs. In our CNN security watch, he escaped a U.S. air strike aimed at a terrorist gathering in a remote mountain village. It didn't take al Qaeda's number two man very long to answer with a videotape letting the world know that he's still very much alive, still very much a threat. Let's go live to our senior international correspondent, Nic Robertson -- Nic.", "In fact, Wolf, this is essentially the quickest turnaround we've seen al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri or Osama bin Laden taking a specific event and responding to that specific event. This is the quickest turnaround of this type we've seen al Qaeda perform.", "It has been 17 days since the U.S. tried to kill him in a missile attack in Pakistan. Now Ayman al Zawahiri has fired back. His response delivered to the Arab language channel al Jazeera.", "Their claim was to target this poor man and four of my brothers. The whole world discovered the lies as the Americans fight Islam and the Muslims.", "The message, you missed me, you can't find me, clearly targeting President Bush. He adds taunts to what has become a diatribe against this administration.", "Bush, do you know where I am? I am among the Muslim masses enjoying their care with God's blessing and sharing with them their holy war against you until we defeat you, God willing.", "By far the quickest video to market yet for al Qaeda, complete with English subtitles. It's only been 11 days since Osama bin Laden's audio message offering a truce in Iraq and Afghanistan to the American public aired on al Jazeera. Zawahiri not only talked about that, but the U.S. government's rejection of the offer.", "Sheikh (ph) Osama bin Laden offered you a decent exit from your dilemma but your leaders were akin to accumulate wealth, insist on throwing you in battles and killing your souls in Iraq and Afghanistan and God willing on your own land.", "Well, the White House's response has been that al Qaeda is on the run. But it seems the very speed with which al Qaeda has turned this around that Zawahiri at least thinks that no one is close to catching him. Indeed, video trail of getting his message out isn't being traced back to him at this time, Wolf.", "Nic Robertson reporting to us. Thank very much. And as Nic just reported, the White House press secretary Scott McClellan says the tape shows al Qaeda leadership -- in the words of McClellan -- clearly on the run and under a lot of pressure. But he adds that al Qaeda is still very much a lethal and determined enemy. And says the Bush administration still takes the al Qaeda threat seriously. To our viewers, stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security. Moving on to another dramatic new videotape out today, this one of kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll. She seems to be distressed and distraught. The footage was aired on al Jazeera. CNN cannot confirm when or where the video was shot. In it, Jill Carroll is apparently crying. Al Jazeera says she's urged her family, friends and all Americans to plead to U.S. and Iraqi officials for the release of female prisoners in Iraq. Carroll's captors have threatened to kill her unless all female prisoners were set free. Last week, the U.S. military in Iraq released five female prisoners, but their release is said to be unrelated to the demands from Jill Carroll's kidnappers. Let's go to CNN's Zain Verjee at the CNN center for a closer look at some other headlines making news -- Zain.", "Wolf, the Senate is now on track to confirming Judge Samuel Alito after members overwhelming defeated a filibuster attempt by Democrats. 72 Senators voted to cut off debate on Alito and just proceed to a final vote tomorrow morning. That's 12 more votes than needed, virtually assuring Alito will be confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice, replacing Sandra Day O'Connor. The Bush White House says the president will deliver an upbeat State of the Union Address tomorrow night. He's trying to reclaim lost support among the American people. Mr. Bush will stress what one official calls kitchen table issues such as healthcare and energy. A special SITUATION ROOM coverage of the president's address begins as 7:00 p.m. Eastern tomorrow. And another major American company says it's going to lay off workers. Kraft Foods says it will cut 8,000 jobs. That's about 8 percent of its work force. Kraft is the nation's largest food manufacturer. The company says it will close up to 20 production plants. Kraft says it's part of an ongoing attempt to help save the company more than $1 billion. Back to THE SITUATION ROOM and to Wolf and Jack.", "Let's go right up to Jack in New York. Jack, with \"The Cafferty File.\"", "As long as they don't quit making that macaroni and cheese. Kraft macaroni and cheese is the best macaroni and cheese.", "Kraft.", "What?", "Kraft.", "Say excuse.", "Say schedule.", "Just what President Bush needs.", "Controversy.", "Stop. Tell her to leave him alone, Wolf.", "All right, Jill (sic), leave him alone.", "Jill? It's Zain.", "Zain, leave him alone.", "There. Now, you heard from the master. Hush. President Bush doesn't need this on the eve of the State of the Union Address. There's a new terror tape from bin Laden's right-hand man, videotape message aired on al Jazeera. Ayman al Zawahiri says he survived that U.S. missile attack in Pakistan. He directly addresses President Bush, calls him the butcher of Washington and a loser. Al Qaeda's number two says the president will bring, quote, \"more disasters to the American people,\" unquote, and vows to continue fighting the holy war. This comes 11 days after that new bin Laden audiotape. Taken together, these two tapes could make the president's job of talking up progress in the war on terror a bit more difficult. So the question is this, what does the new al Zawahiri tape mean for President Bush? E-mail us your thoughts, caffertyfile@CNN.com or go to CNN.com/caffertyfile. You ever eat that Kraft macaroni and cheese, Wolf?", "It's delicious.", "I love it.", "Good comfort food. Thanks very much, Jack. We'll get back to you soon. Zain as well. Coming up, the child of Saddam Hussein turns into a three-ring circus, at least that's what the critics are saying. His lawyers refuse to show up in court this week. I'll speak with one of them, the former U.S. attorney general, Ramsey Clark, he's here in THE SITUATION ROOM. And a secret tunnel into the United States from Mexico. Drugs and who knows what else coming in under the border. Our Anderson Cooper is there. He's going to show us what's happening on the scene. Also, homophobia at an Islamist Palestine. Hear why a senior leader of Hamas, the co-founder, is rejecting the idea of a secular Palestinian state. Our CNN exclusive. Say with us."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BURNS (voice-over)", "LT. COL. 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{"id": "CNN-179416", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2012-1-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/14/smn.03.html", "summary": "Italian Cruise Accident; Iranian Boats Attacking U.S. Vessels; Controversial Haley Barbour Pardons", "utt": ["And from CNN Center, this is CNN SATURDAY MORNING. It's January 14th. Good morning, everyone. I'm Deborah Feyerick. A luxury cruise ship on its side off the Italian coast after hitting a sand bank with thousands of people onboard. Three are dead, more than a dozen are hurt. Coming up, passengers describe their vacation nightmare. Speaking out on controversial pardons that has the whole country talking, former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour defends his decision to pardon more than 200 people. One of them is speaking out this morning, a convicted murder who says he deserves to be free. And it is almost there. Two ships now just off the coast of Nome, Alaska breaking through layers of ice to bring precious fuel to the cut off town. We have been keeping an eye on a rescue operation taking place off the western coast of Italy this morning. Here is the emergency. It's a crowded cruise ship that ran aground and is tipped over on its side. There are around 4,000 passengers and crew on board. We are now hearing that as many as 70 people are still missing. Journalist Barbie Nadeau is at the port where the survivors are being taken. Good morning, Barbie. Have you spoken with any of the passengers?", "Yes, I've spoken to a number of passengers and they all describe a very familiar scene. They had just finished eating dinner on their cruise, first night of the cruise and the ship's electricity went off and they felt what they describe as a shutter as the ship ran, literally ran aground onto the sandbar which caused a huge gaping hole in the hull of the ship. Right now, the ship I just saw is on its side, about 90 degrees resting on a bed of rocks and shallow water. You can see the gash in the hull of the ship. All of the passengers have been taken off the ship. There are still around 50 to 70 people they tell us that are unaccounted for. They are not sure if that's just a discrepancy in the passenger manifesto or if that's actually people missing in the water. All of the passengers are being brought to the Italian town of Porto Santo Stefano where they are processed and then sent either to Rome", "It's interesting. Were they able to get off the boat from what you can tell at least into the calm manner? You can see them preceding there because it doesn't seem that the ship began sort of listing until the majority of the passengers were off, correct?", "The people were on the ship that I spoke to. I spoke to dozens of people this morning in the reception center. Many of them said it was lifting before they called for the evacuation of the ship which means that the people on the boat definitely knew that there was a problem on the ship. Many of these were experienced cruise ship passengers. They knew exactly there was a problem when they felt that shutter. You got confirmation from the Italian Coast Guard that the ship never did call a may day signal. They never cried out for help. They also told the passengers who were on the ship that they were suffering an electrical or generator problem and that's why the lights went out. There's a lot of misinformation right now. People and passengers that they felt they were being given misinformation at the time of the disaster. People were never called. The passengers I spoke to were never called to the muster station which is where you go in the event of a disaster like this because they hadn't yet had that drill. They didn't know where they were supposed to meet up in the time of a disaster because the ship had just left shore about two and a half hours before the accident took place. It was the first night of the cruise. They had just finished their dinner. They hadn't really gone through the emergency procedures. People were settling in and this disaster happened.", "And very quickly, Barbie, do they have divers in the water searching for any potential victims? I know there's a 70 passenger discrepancy. Do they have divers, emergency personnel?", "Yes, they do right now have divers going around the base of the ship. The ship is now in very, very shallow water. Because of the size of the ship and just the placement of it, in this very rocky area, it's very difficult to see. It's a beautiful clear day. There shouldn't be a weather issue. Water is not particularly cold. But they have several dozen Italian Coast Guard divers who are checking out the perimeter and inside of the ship right now to see if they can find anyone there. The majority of the passengers who have been taken to the shore have already been delivered to points outside of this general area. They've been taken", "OK. Barbie Nadeau, thank you very much for bringing us up to date. Lots of great information there. We appreciate it. Thanks so much.", "Thank you.", "Take a look at this video. You are looking at a different ship as a matter of fact. You are looking at Iranian military speedboats on the trail of the USS New Orleans. The video was shot just over a week ago in the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. The U.S. Navy says Iran's military is getting more aggressive with those small boats. This was the first of two incidents like this last week. Here is Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr on \"ANDERSON COOPER 360\" last night.", "The thinking is that the Iranians really were not looking for a shooting match. They were going to break off but they were going to cause a little heart stopping action before they did that. One of the things here is look, the Iranians gained some intelligence by getting so close to U.S. Navy ships. They were able to gauge the U.S. military response as they came at those ships. That gives them valuable information if the next time it's not just a cat and mouse game.", "And Iran has threatened to shut down the Straits of Hormuz if international sanctions over the country's nuclear program are implemented. We have been following the progress of a fuel tanker and an ice breaker making their way through the frozen north to Nome, Alaska. They are almost there. The ships are just outside the harbor in Nome now. It's the first ever attempt to supply fuel to a western Alaska town through an icy sea. Nome is getting dangerously close to running out of fuel after bad weather canceled a delivery last fall. Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is now defending his decision to pardon more than 200 people. He's says he's surprised at the reaction. A judge has put a halt to the prison releases and the legislature is considering changing their constitution to take pardon powers away from the governor. Barbour says he didn't do anything wrong.", "Historic power of gubernatorial clemency by the governor to pardon felons is rooted in the Christian idea of giving second chances. I'm not saying I'll be perfect, that nobody who received clemency will ever do nothing wrong. I'm not infallible and nobody else is. but, I am very comfortable and totally at peace with these pardons, including those at the mansion.", "Now, you heard him mention the mansion. He's talking about prison trustees who worked at the governor's mansion. Four convicted murderers worked there. They were pardoned, including Anthony McCray, who was convicted of killing his wife in 2001.", "Everybody deserves a second chance in life.", "You think people should be angry at Governor Barbour?", "No, sir. He treats us like we his children.", "Judge Mike Smith presided over McCray's murder case. Our Martin Savidge asked him about the pardon.", "I was disappointed he was pardoned.", "Is there more to that or is that as much as we're going to say?", "I hope that the attorney general will be successful in having the pardon overturned.", "Now, here is more of what Barbour had to say about letting those convicted murderers go free.", "I have absolute confidence, so much confidence I have let my grandchildren play with these fine men. I have let them ride their tricycles out in the driveway with them watching out for them. I have no question in my mind that these five guys are not a threat to society. But, you know, people like you can say what if, what if, what if until the moon goes down.", "Now, in all Barbour says he granted clemency to 215 people. 189 of them had already finished their sentences. They were out of prison but they no longer have the record. Thirteen of the remaining 26 inmates have chronic medical conditions. Barbour says they were let go so the state wouldn't have to pay for their expensive medical care. A setback for four of the Republican presidential candidates. They have lost their bid to get on the Virginia primary ballot. A judge ruled that they waited too long to file claims to get their names added to the super Tuesday primary. That means Virginians can only choose either Mitt Romney or Ron Paul. The others sued saying that the ballot requirements were unconstitutional. To get on the ballot in Virginia, candidates had to collect 10,000 signatures including at least 400 from each of the state's 11 Congressional districts. Job creator or job killer? That's the debate over Mitt Romney's time at Bain Capital. We'll hear from people in South Carolina who were directly affected."], "speaker": ["DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN ANCHOR", "BARBIE NADEAU, JOURNALIST (via telephone)", "FEYERICK", "NADEAU", "FEYERICK", "NADEAU", "FEYERICK", "NADEAU", "FEYERICK", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "FEYERICK", "HALEY BARBOUR, FMR. MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR", "FEYERICK", "ANTHONY MCCRAY, PARDONED BY HALEY BARBOUR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MCCRAY", "FEYERICK", "MIKE SMITH, RETIRED MISSISSIPPI JUDGE", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SMITH", "FEYERICK", "BARBOUR", "FEYERICK"]}
{"id": "CNN-223994", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2014-1-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1401/30/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Actress Glenn Close", "utt": ["And now to our special series \"Kids in Crisis\", fragile minds. It's an OUTFRONT investigation into the mental health crisis in the United States. It seems like every day there is another story, a headline of a kid who didn't get help because of a failed system. Adam Lanza, 20 children murdered and six adults slaughtered at a Newtown, Connecticut Elementary School. Two months ago, Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds was slashed, stabbed and nearly killed by his son, mentally ill. His name is Gus and then Gus took his own life. The day before that attack, Gus had actually been released from a hospital because there were no psychiatric beds available. No beds available. No care to be found. It is shockingly and unacceptably common in this country. And the problem is getting worse, not better. Fewer beds now for kids than there were years ago. But it's an issue still that people don't want to talk about. Coming up in just a moment, I'm going to be speaking with actress Glenn Close and her sister. Together, they're trying to change the stigma associated with mental illness. But, first, we begin our coverage with OUTFRONT's David Mattingly. He has the story of a family who struggled to get the right care for their son.", "At 18 months, Teddy Shuman's curly blond hair and bright smile melted the hearts of his adopted parents. It took them years to see all the damage that was hiding underneath. (on camera): That first time, what did he do?", "First time he got, he was just completely out of the blue. He started yelling and screaming and he went after Bonnie.", "Thom and Betty Shuman say Teddy suffered from a variety of severe developmental problems. His birth mother drank when she was pregnant. Doctors also told them Teddy had been physically and sexually abused. Normally, a gentle and loving child in spite of it, about a year after this video was shot, Teddy began lapsing into uncontrollable violent rages. (on camera): Were you afraid of him?", "Yes, I was. And I was afraid of him for years. I loved him. He's just a neat kid.", "Did you think he could kill you?", "Yes.", "Accidentally, yes.", "Teddy's episodes lasted hours and got worse as he got older. Overwhelmed, the Shuman's looked for a place in their home state of Ohio where Teddy could live full time, where he wouldn't be a danger to others or to himself. What they found instead was a mental health system with public facilities that didn't have the room and private facilities that they couldn't afford.", "Insurance companies weren't prepared to pay for residential treatment. At the time our private insurance would have paid for 12 or 18 days per year. Well, you know, for someone who needed to be in care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, that's just an impossibility.", "Teddy was in and out of different facilities 20 times in three different states, always ending up back at home when money or space ran out. (on camera): The Shuman's greatest fear was that Teddy would one day end up in need of a lifetime of mental care either homeless, on the street, in jail or dead. Teddy was 20 years old when their worst fears came true. What was that phone call like?", "I mean, it was like, the worst thing in the world had happened.", "I just totally fell apart.", "In 2006, the Shumans placed Teddy in yet another residential facility. They tried to get him a private room but couldn't. Just six days later, he attacked and killed his roommate, strangling him with a belt.", "Mr. Shuman has absolutely no appreciation for what he did.", "A judge determined Teddy was mentally unfit to stand trial and ordered him to spend the rest of his life in a state residential facility. It was exactly the kind of place Teddy's parents had tried to keep him in for 16 years. (on camera): Looking back, this didn't have to happen?", "No.", "No.", "But was it inevitable?", "The way the system operates it was probably inevitable.", "Does someone have to die before the right amount of treatment can be available?", "That was the only way he got into where he is now.", "Yes.", "It's an incredible, incredible indictment of the system. What has life been like for them now that he is forever put away?", "Well, when you asked them that, they'll tell you they're no longer walking on egg shells because they don't live in fear of having him in the home and then suddenly going into one of his rages. They're able to see him about once a week, but this has really taken a toll on them. They are both retirement age, they have no savings, they're in debt because of the treatment they had to get for him over the years, and they're exhausted.", "And so, are things getting better or worse? Because I feel like we keep hearing the story, people say there's something wrong with their child, they try to get the help, it fails, something horrible happens and, there are fewer beds now than there were years ago for these children.", "Well, this is the whole point that the Shumans want to come forward and tell their story. They want to make sure this kind of care is more affordable and more available. But it doesn't seem like the right people are listening because in the state of Ohio actually fewer beds available for children needing psychiatric care today than there was six years ago.", "Just, as I said, horrible indictment system. Thank you very much, David Mattingly. And one of the biggest advocates for changing the sigma surrounding mental illness is actress Glenn Close. She started an organization to raise awareness about the misconceptions that are out there today.", "Hi there. Sorry to disappoint you if you were expecting a lunatic on a rampage. I'm Kalen (ph) and I've been living with schizophrenia for 11 years.", "It's time to start talking about mental illness. Start the conversation, and pledge to end stigma at bringchangetomind.org.", "OUTFRONT tonight, actress Glenn Close, who founded the organization Bring Change to Mind, and her sister, Jessie Close, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. And Jessie is joined by her service dog, Snick (ph). And I appreciate both of you taking the time and doing this together because it is a family issue, Glenn, as you've talked about so much. But let me first get your reaction to the piece you just saw. I mean, these parents, for years, tried to get help for their son. They said he would hurt someone. They didn't get help until he killed somebody.", "Yes.", "I mean, this strikes home to you.", "Well, it -- the thing that's unfortunate about that is that the percentage of people with mental illness who actually do violent acts like that is so -- is minimal. But whenever it happens, of course, we hear all about it and so it only feeds into the stigma that everyone who has a mental illness is going to hurt somebody. And that's just not true. I mean, four out of five of us are touched in some way by mental illness. So, I think these are the kinds of stories that get our attention, that we have to realize that there's a whole, whole huge other side to the story about mental illness.", "So, I want to ask Jessie about your experience, but you're with me, so let me ask you. What was it like when you were growing up with Jessie, how did you first learn or realize that she had a mental illness?", "Well, I think our family is like a lot of families. We had no vocabulary for mental illness. It never came up. Now that I look back and we luckily have more research into early intervention, Jessie would do things when she was little that would have been red flags if we had been more knowledgeable. Just little -- she used to rub her finger like this until it was raw and bleeding when she was little. And I remember that. I remember seeing that.", "You remember, something in your mind said that's not right. But you didn't ask questions?", "I didn't know. I didn't ask the question. My parents didn't ask the question. Jess was told to just, you know, get it together and go to school and pull up her socks and get a job. And it wasn't that my parents -- we just didn't know. We just didn't know. We just thought she was wild and irresponsible. So, when she was finally diagnosed, which was not until she was 50, she had lived a life which she needn't had lived. That didn't have to happen. And thank God she's still here, because she easily could not have been.", "So, Jessie, hearing your sister talk about you like this, I know that's got to be hard and painful in some ways. But what was it like for you to go through your entire life, your childhood, your adolescence, your young adulthood, your adulthood, and have this? What was it like to do that? How did it feel?", "Well, you know, I think I'll take it from the other end, when I was finally diagnosed, I went through a long period of grief, because I had so many instances where I was manic and not in my right mind. I was never able to really stick to what I wanted to do. I would get sick. It was -- it's a difficult thing to look back on a life when you're already 50 years old.", "So you feel like it took away the opportunity to be whatever person you might have been if you had the help?", "Yes, exactly.", "And, Glenn, that's the tragedy, because that's what's happening in so many of these cases, people get their lives stolen from them. But yet, we hear statistics like you just heard, and I heard a mother whose son threatened to kill her with a life and they have to accuse them of a crime to get them put in a bed for 10 days then he's back home. We have fewer beds today for children than we did a few years ago. How does this happen that this goes in that direction?", "Well, I think stigma has a lot to do with. Mental health has always been the least funded of all the departments in our government. I think that has a lot to do with ignorance and fear. And -- but I think, I was down in Washington last month with a bipartisan group who they -- it was the -- I have to read this because I want to get it right, the Excellence in Mental Health Act. What is so exciting about that is to make sure that there is adequate care, it has to be on a community to community basis.", "Right.", "It has to be something that towns and cities take care of by themselves. And with this act, they're going to set up, they're going to be able to get government funding for behavioral and mental health organizations that are already on the ground doing great work in their community. There's been such a cutback on funds for organizations like that that we are suffering from it. So, I think there's hope. I think everybody needs to make sure to let their leaders know this is vital for the country.", "Jessie, I want to give you the final word. I know you have Snick (ph), the infrastructure around you, the things that you need. But I know you have a child, who also suffers from a schizo affected disorder. Were you able to get the right treatment for your child?", "We were. We were. Luckily, he was living with his father up in Helena, Montana, and a locked ward (ph) was available up there in St. Peters, and luckily he got to go in there and was stabilized. When he came out, we searched for a place to put him and found McClain (ph) hospital outside Boston, and he was there for two years. But he now lives a great life. He's an artist. We speak together all over the country. He's in the PSA that you just saw. That's Kalen. And my other children are extremely supportive of both of us, and I think we're probably tighter because we've been through -- we've been through a war, a war on mental illness.", "Interesting way of putting it.", "Yes.", "Thank you both very much for taking the time.", "Thank you.", "\"ANDERSON COOPER 360\" is next."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "THOM SHUMAN, FATHER OF MENTALLY ILL SON", "MATTINGLY (voice-over)", "BONNIE SHUMAN, MOTHER OF MENTALLY ILL SON", "MATTINGLY", "BONNIE SHUMAN", "THOM SHUMAN", "MATTINGLY (voice-over)", "THOM SHUMAN", "MATTINGLY", "THOM SHUMAN", "BONNIE SHUMAN", "MATTINGLY (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MATTINGLY", "THOM SHUMAN", "BONNIE SHUMAN", "MATTINGLY", "THOM SHUMAN", "MATTINGLY", "BONNIE SHUMAN", "THOM SHUMAN", "BURNETT", "MATTINGLY", "BURNETT", "MATTINGLY", "BURNETT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GLENN CLOSE, ACTRESS", "BURNETT", "GLENN CLOSE", "BURNETT", "GLENN CLOSE", "BURNETT", "GLENN CLOSE", "BURNETT", "GLENN CLOSE", "BURNETT", "JESSIE CLOSE, DIAGNOSED WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER", "BURNETT", "JESSIE CLOSE", "BURNETT", "GLENN CLOSE", "BURNETT", "GLENN CLOSE", "BURNETT", "JESSIE CLOSE", "BURNETT", "JESSIE CLOSE", "BURNETT", "JESSIE CLOSE", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-129290", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2008-8-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0808/01/ng.01.html", "summary": "Missing Toddler`s Mom May Get Out of Jail on Technicality", "utt": ["Breaking news tonight. Police desperately searching for a beautiful little 2-year-old Florida girl, Caylee, after her grandparents report her missing, little Caylee now not seen for six long weeks, last seen with her mother. So why didn`t Mommy call police? Headlines tonight. In the last hours, real live \"CSI.\" Florida crime scene investigators show up at Caylee`s home, leaving with bags of evidence. And tonight: Will a legal technicality let Caylee`s mom walk free, walk free in just days, torpedoing any chance police will find ever the little girl alive, this while Caylee`s mom still stonewalling police? Photos emerge of her mom, Casey, celebrating at various nightclubs after Caylee vanishes. Police say point blank mom, Casey, not helping them find 2-year-old Caylee, the clock ticking on results from hair and fluid samples discovered in Casey Anthony`s car trunk. Will formal criminal charges be next?", "The Anthonys left their home at 9:00 AM sharp, headed for the sheriff`s office, apparently invited by investigators and unaware of what`s about to go down. While there, crime scene techs show up to an empty Anthony home. It`s the first time they`ve been back since they dug up the Anthonys` back yard. Moments later, detectives pull up with George Anthony in tow. With a look of dismay on his face, he opens the garage. Cindy Anthony is nowhere in sight. They quickly make their way inside the Anthony home, minutes later returning with two large paper bags of evidence. Then, as quickly as they came in, they left without saying a word.", "Do you think Caylee`s OK right now?", "My gut feeling? As Mom asked me yesterday and", "We know they took some evidence from your house. Can you at least talk about the bags of evidence?", "Back away from the car, or we`ll walk back in and get the deputies to come back out, OK? We`re late. We should have been out of here an hour ago. We`ve got to go to Daytona. There`s no story, guys.", "I told you my daughter was missing for a month. I just found her today, but I can`t find my granddaughter. She just admitted to me that she`s been trying to find her herself. There`s something wrong. I found my daughter`s car today, and it smells like there`s been a dead body in the damn car!", "Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Tonight, police desperately searching for a beautiful 2-year-old Florida girl, Caylee, now not seen for six long weeks. In the last hours, real live \"CSI.\" Florida crime scene investigators show up at Caylee`s home, leaving with bags of evidence. And tonight: Will a legal technicality let Caylee`s mom walk free in just days, torpedoing any chance police will ever find this little girl alive?", "Ms. Anthony, the court would say to you, Where is Caylee Anthony? But I can`t force you to answer that question. But that`s the question I leave. Do you understand? Your 2-year-old child, Caylee Anthony, with a person who does not exist at an apartment you cannot identify, and you lied to your parents and friends concerning your child`s whereabouts.", "Do you think Caylee`s OK right now?", "My gut feeling? As Mom asked me yesterday and", "These charges, I would say it is substantial. In fact, it basically includes a confession from her that she`s lying about the investigation. Not a bit of useful information has been provided by Ms. Anthony as to the whereabouts of her daughter.", "She`s leading you to a place, but she`s not telling you to the right exact location to which apartment it is because she`s afraid, if someone walks in, that something may happen to Caylee. There was a bag of pizza for, what, 12 days in the...", "I told you my daughter was missing for a month. I just found her today, but I can`t find my granddaughter. She just admitted to me that she`s been trying to find her herself.", "Straight out to Mark Williams with WNDB Newstalk 1150. What`s the latest?", "Well, the latest, Nancy, is the fact that crime scene investigators from the Orange County sheriff`s office returned to the Anthony home today. That happened late this morning. They went immediately to the back yard, to the little shed where little Caylee used to play. They took a couple of items described by police as personal items, some clothing items, and they put them in two big brown paper bags like you`d get at a supermarket back in the day, and they took them back to the sheriff`s office. They will not say what they really took. Also, the Anthonys met today with investigators at the sheriff`s office. You documented earlier the fact that they were down there at 9:00 o`clock this morning, and they stayed there for a couple of hours. They were questioned separately, George and Cindy Anthony questioned separately. Carlos Padilla, during his news conference this afternoon, said everything -- they`re cooperating, but the big key to this entire case is Casey Anthony, who has not said a thing about where little Caylee is. She says, In my gut, I know she`s close by. And that`s about it. So she is stonewalling investigators. She has for the past two weeks. And then the other development which came up just a short time ago is Florida`s 33-day rule. In essence, she is being held on three charges right now in the Orange County jail. One of them is child neglect. Now, if the state attorney does not bring any sort of formal charges within the next 17 days, in essence, the 33rd day after her incarceration, she could go scot-free on her own recognizance, which would really throw a monkeywrench into this entire investigation, Nancy.", "And to Brian Reich, deputy chief of Bergen County sheriff`s office. If we think she`s not cooperating now, when she leaves that jailhouse in 17 days, walks free, what can cops expect to get from her then?", "Well, I think it`s going to be -- I think it`s going to be difficult for them to get cooperation from her. She`s already been incarcerated. They`ve accused her, obviously, of lying. So she`s going to be very defensive. Her attorney`s probably not going to let her talk. You know, one of the interesting things when we hear that recording of her phone conversation, if you had a statement -- analysis expert on, he would tell you that a lot of the words that she used were really distancing herself from the child, and it`s very suspicious.", "Words such as what, Brian?", "Well, she said, In my gut, she`s still OK. She`s close to home. She -- she never used her name. If my kid was missing and I`m talking to a relative of mine, or my brother or my sister, I would use my daughter`s first name. I wouldn`t say \"she\" and distance myself. And a lot of people do that when they`re being deceptive in statements.", "You know, that`s very interesting. That`s a very interesting observation. Everybody, we are taking your calls live tonight. Bombshell developments in the search for little Caylee Anthony. Number one, real live \"CSI.\" Crime scene investigators show up at the Anthony home today, leaving with bags of evidence. Then, under a Florida technicality, it looks as if mom, Casey, may be set to walk free from jail. We are taking your calls. Out to Kristie in Texas. Hi, Kristie.", "Hi, Nancy. I was just wondering if the police had any information on questioning Tony Lazzaro about something I saw on the local news there in Florida, that he had picked Casey up from the abandoned car, that she had called him and told him that her father would take care of everything.", "Let`s go out to Mark Williams with WNDB. Do you know anything about that?", "No, that`s a new revelation to me. Again, as we`ve talked on previous shows, that Anthony Lazzaro is cooperating 100 percent with the police department. And they`ve searched his apartment. And they can`t find him", "To Nikki Pierce with WDBO. Nikki, have you heard any developments regarding the boyfriend, Anthony Lazzaro, picking her up from the car?", "I had heard about that, that Casey had called him and said that she had run out of gas and asked him to come and pick her up and said that her father was going to come and take care of the car and not to worry about the car. As far as anything else, we`re in the dark. But of course, we learned that that was not true. The car sat there abandoned until it was towed by the company, that had sat outside, and the Anthonys received a registered letter saying, Pick up your car. And that was pretty much what sparked this whole investigation.", "So clearly, she did not want her parents to come get the car. She never contacted them about the car. They only found out when they got a notice that their car had been impounded, towed away from where she had abandoned it, apparently with her pocketbook sitting right there on the front seat. With us tonight -- let`s unleash the lawyers. Joining us, veteran lawyer Gloria Allred, victims` rights advocate. Also with us, former prosecutor turned defense attorney -- no stranger to a courtroom -- Peter Odom, joining us out of the Atlanta jurisdiction, and New York attorney, defense lawyer Midwin Charles. Welcome, attorneys. Gloria Allred, weigh in.", "Well, I mean, obviously, it`s all very suspicious. I don`t know, Nancy, if it`s going to make any difference whether she`s free or incarcerated in terms of her being forthright about any information that she has because it sounds as though she`s just not going to provide it. She hasn`t provided it while she`s in custody. She knows that all of her telephone calls with her family and her friends are being recorded and then disseminated publicly. And it sounds as though she`s not ready to come forward with any information.", "You know -- to you, Peter Odom -- this 33-day rule -- in other words, right now, she`s not formally charged with anything. She`s been arrested...", "She`s only been charged with charges involving child endangerment.", "Correct.", "They`re not close to a murder charge, at this point, and they`re going to be...", "Yes. I haven`t -- I haven`t even thrown you a question yet, Peter. My question is, right now, she`s only been arrested, no formal charges. If she is formally charged, either on a misdemeanor or a felony, she`ll have to re-make bond or will she stay under the current bond?", "She will have to re-make bond, but the presumption will be that she will stay under the current bond of $500,000, which is ridiculously high for these charges.", "Well, you know, did you hear, Peter Odom, what the judge said? I played it for you at the opening of the show. He said, You were the last one seen with your daughter. You`ve taken police to meet the baby-sitter, who doesn`t exist, at an apartment complex that is not the right address where she lived. You have endangered your daughter, and she hasn`t been seen now in \"X\" number of days.", "Well, he`s just one of the people in responsible positions making very irresponsible comments. We have the Florida attorney general talking about thinking that this child may have been murdered. There is no evidence of that.", "Oh, really? Peter, as I recall, when you were a felony prosecutor, you put great faith in cadaver dogs, did you not?", "Yes. And even if there was...", "So now you don`t believe them anymore?", "I do. And in fact, even if there were a body in that car...", "So gee, if it wasn`t Caylee -- if it wasn`t Caylee, I wonder what body was in the Anthonys` back yard and in their car trunk? What do you think, Peter?", "Even if there were a body in the car trunk, that does not necessarily mean murder. Children die every day in this country tragically without there having been a murder, Nancy.", "And if that were true, Midwin Charles, why would she be lying about it?", "You know, I`m actually finding this case to be quite bizarre. I mean, for a mother to not be forthright about what`s going on about her daughter is actually quite bizarre, and I wonder whether a psych evaluation has been ordered on this young woman.", "Midwin, you`re on the money. Yes, in fact, the judge stated that as a condition of her release, not one but two psych evaluations must be done. And to my understanding, Gloria, at least one of them has been done, but it`s under seal. We don`t know what it says.", "We don`t know what it says, and we`re not probably going to know what it says, unless there`s a leak. And apparently, there are a lot of leaks in this case. And that`s kind of dangerous because we don`t know whether it`s fact or fiction. For example, Nancy, there was just a leak allegedly by one of the police about her attorney wanting to negotiate some kind of immunity for Casey. Now, her attorney doesn`t appear to be either confirming or denying that, but settlement discussions are generally not something that attorneys want to be leaked. So that will be interesting, to find out whether or not that`s, in fact, true.", "Well, when Baez was asked -- the defense attorney was asked point blank whether he asked for immunity, he did not deny it. And to me, if he didn`t do it, he would have said, No, I never asked for immunity. Out to the lines. Anna in Ohio. Hi, Anna.", "Hello, Nancy. I love your show.", "Thank you, dear. What`s your question?", "My question is, if the hair and the fluid that they`re testing turns out to be Caylee, would that be enough to convict her?", "In my mind, yes. Let`s go out to Lawrence Kobilinsky, forensic scientist, joining us out of New York. Koby (ph), if the fluid and the hair in the trunk of the car turn out to be Caylee, which I hope it is not -- if it does turn out to be a match to Caylee and there was a smell of a decomposed body -- Caylee`s missing, last seen with her mother -- what do you think about the possibility of a conviction on that alone?", "Well, I think that they should be able to get a conviction just based on that. We don`t need a body. And examining the hair -- there are sometimes telltale signs on hair as to whether the hair was post-mortem or not. There`s a band that forms nearby the roots. So they might be able to tell if this was a hair that came off post-mortem. Now, obviously, when you put the smell of decomposition together with some biological substance, which could very well be fluids of decomposition, and hair -- we don`t know how many hairs, whether it was a clump, whether it was pulled, whether it fell out. There`s a lot that we don`t know. But putting that all together, it certainly sounds very suspicious, and I think a good prosecutor can make a case out of this, even without a body.", "Koby -- with us is Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky, forensic scientist -- explain to us how you can tell, with a little more specificity -- how you can tell from a hair whether it`s in life or post-mortem.", "Well, there`s been some research done on post-mortem hair, and adjacent to the root -- obviously, the root is connected to the shaft of the hair -- there is a dark band that forms. How wide that forms, we really don`t know, but it does form. And so if that hair had fallen out after an individual dies, it would -- you would look for that banding pattern. That would be one good indication that it is a post-mortem hair.", "And Koby, how long does it take post-mortem -- after death -- for the band, the dark band, to appear between the shaft and the nucleus, the root of the hair?", "Well, there haven`t been very many studies, but it happens over a very short time course -- hours, and perhaps a day, perhaps two days. But it should form and they should be able to see it.", "Ms. Anthony, the court would say to you, Where is Caylee Anthony? But I can`t -- I can`t force you to answer that question. But that`s the question I leave. Do you understand?", "Yes, sir.", "You left your 2-year-old child, Caylee Anthony, with a person who does not exist, at an apartment you cannot identify, and you lied to your parents and friends concerning your child`s whereabouts.", "It`s frustrating because our desire has been from the beginning to locate Caylee Marie Anthony. As time passes by, we still want to continue to locate her. I think that her family deserves that, and right now, the community and the nation that has come to embrace this little child deserves that.", "Did you speak with Caylee over the phone at any time?", "I did one time, yes, and that was actually the day that Mom had called the police.", "OK. Do you remember what time you spoke to her?", "Around noon. It was through a private call.", "She`s leading you to a place, but she`s not telling you to the right exact location, to which apartment it is, because she`s afraid, if someone walks in, that something may happen to Caylee.", "Casey, you can go ahead and tell us now. Caylee missing is not really a secret anymore. The fact that they continue on and on -- out to Les Parrott, clinical psychologist and author joining us -- saying that Casey refuses to speak because she doesn`t want the real kidnapper to know that she`s gone to police -- we know about it now. It`s out there.", "Yes, we know about it, and it`s obviously the case that she has something that`s more valuable to her than this little precious child. It`s hard to imagine. I don`t think we`re dealing with something within the normal realm here at all.", "You know, Dr. Parrott, would most mothers that you have dealt with care more about finding their child or their own charges? I mean, if she found -- if the child was found unharmed, then the charges again her would most likely be dropped anyway, if her story is true.", "Exactly. And you know, that`s why I say this is not normal. I mean, we`re either dealing with something -- we`re trained as psychologists, sometimes, to -- you know, when you hear hoofbeats, don`t think of zebras. You know, don`t jump to the most exotic conclusion. But it`s difficult not to do that here. We`re probably dealing with a dissociative identity disorder or something that`s going on that is going to surprise us.", "Out to the lines. Karen in Nevada. Hi, Karen.", "Hi, Nancy. You are the guardian angel of all victims, and you are my CNN hero.", "Thank you. Thank you very much. And thank you for calling in.", "You`re welcome. I have a comment and then a question. I wish Lee would quit letting his sister make a fool out of him and insulting his intelligence. My question is, can they get a warrant to subpoena the Anthonys` home phone records, since she lived there for all that time and had the baby- sitter supposedly for two years? Most people, when they`re at home, use their land line phones, and it would be impossible to think that there`s not one call to her from that woman.", "Karen in Nevada, your point is excellent. We`ll pick it up with our detective when we get back. Stay with us.", "She`s a 22-year-old. You know, I was out to dinner last night. I actually smiled. Does that mean I`m not grieving for my granddaughter, that I`m not looking for my granddaughter? My daughter may have some mistruths out there or half-truths, but she`s not a murderer.", "... because my next thing will be down to child", "That`s not the way I want to play it.", "Well, then you have to...", "Give me one more day.", "No, I`m not giving you another day. I`ve given you a month.", "Today crime scene investigators swoop down on the Anthony home, leaving with bags of evidence. What`s in those bags? Don`t know yet. To answer Karen in Nevada`s question -- to Brian Reich. Certainly, the Florida police have already subpoenaed the phone records in and out of the Anthony home, and cell records, in addition to land lines, right?", "I would imagine that they`ve certainly filed subpoenas, at the very least, for the toll records, the detail calls that they`ve made on cell phones, on the land line, as well as probably looked into any of the computers that they have for remnants of chats or e-mails or other communications.", "Just remember that if you give it to the attorney,", "He can read it. Choose whether or not to take the chance, exactly, which is why I`ll do a secondary letter to make sure that it`s direct.", "Perfect. That would be -- I would encourage that 110 percent.", "It`s not the most scientific experiment, but it might shed light on the validity of the rotting pizza theory. We decided to take a basic Domino`s Meats-a-pizza and put the leftovers inside a locked car in the Florida sun.", "There was a bag of pizza for, what, 12 days in the back of the car full of maggots it stunk so bad. You know how hot it`s been.", "But our experiment doesn`t support the smelly pizza theory after temperatures in the 90s. After seven days in the trunk we decided to see what the pizza was like. Basically all the moisture is gone. It`s got the consistency of shoe leather and you got to get really close to smell anything and the only smell you can smell is pizza. Channel 9 managing editor Joel Davis volunteered his car for the experiment. (", "Have you opened it up every day and looked at it or.", "About every other day I`ve taken a look at it. You know for the first day, the first day or two when you opened up the trunk, Steve, you would have the smell of pizza from the trunk. But after that, nothing.", "Never a rancid odor?", "No smell whatsoever.", "Where is 2-year-old little Caylee? Her mom still stonewalling police behind bars. We are taking your calls today. CSI, crime scene investigators, show up at the Anthony home leaving with bags of evidence. Interesting, to Mark Williams, you stated that it was taken from behind the house. Where?", "Nancy, where the investigators went two weeks ago looking for evidence back there. That`s, of course, where the cadaver dogs hit for the very first time. But they took it from that little shed that they had back there that stays back there. And in the videotape, you can see them two weeks ago moving it back and forth looking for things under there. So, again, we don`t know what`s in those bags, but once that`s revealed, that`s going to be pretty interesting. It`s -- there`s probably some very damaging evidence in there.", "And to Nikki Pierce, with WBDO Radio -- Nikki, is it correct that after meeting with the Anthonys this morning, interviewing them separately -- that would be Cindy Anthony and her husband, the grandmother and grandfather -- it seems as if something in those interviews led CSI to go straight to the home and get something.", "It does seem to be that way. As a matter of fact, George escorted them -- the grandfather, George -- escorted them to the home and allowed them to search. Investigators said that this was a scheduled interview, that they had come in voluntarily, that they are really cooperating now and went out of their way to state that. But they did say there was one Anthony that is not cooperating at all, and that`s Casey.", "You know, I want to go back out to Brian Reich, deputy chief, Bergen County Sheriff`s Office. We were talking about the phone records being likely subpoenaed. The other day, Cindy Anthony, the grandmother, stated point blank that police had the phone records and they were not releasing them to the public. Well, the family has the phone records, too. What are we going to learn from the phone records, in a nutshell?", "Well, we`re going to learn -- we`re going to learn who`s speaking to who, who`s called who, if she`s placed any phone calls to this mysterious babysitter, if there`s -- in existence. And also, who`s the grandmother talking to, who are the family members communicating with? And if they can identify that maybe it will lead to some follow-up interviews.", "To Gloria Allred joining us tonight, if Caylee is not found soon, do you expect formal charges to come down?", "Well, it depends on what they find, I think, from the forensic evidence. But I`d like to also say something about the phone call, because she`s given two different versions. At one point she said it was a private call from the babysitter. At another point, Nancy, she said it was a call from a number that was no longer in service. Now it`s interesting that she would say a private call. Why would she even volunteer that? Is that because private calls somehow can`t be traced? And why is she being so I inconsistent?", "You know, back to Brian, private phone calls, of course, are when you have your call blocked and it won`t show up on caller ID but that will not stop it from being traced through police tracing.", "That`s right. When you get a toll order and you get the detailed record as a result of a warrant or a subpoena, you`re going to get that number. It`s not just like looking at your phone bill. But one point that, I think, is very interesting that maybe the stuff -- she stressed the word it was a private call and the number was blocked. If there`s nothing to hide, I think a truthful person would have just said she got a phone call. But she had to stress the fact that the number was blocked, almost coming up with an excuse for why she can`t articulate who this person is and the identity of the person.", "Yes, well, that -- nobody asked her and she just volunteered it.", "Yes, exactly.", "Let`s go back to the lawyers, Gloria Allred, Peter Odom, out of Atlanta, Midwin Charles, out of New York. And of course, Gloria, joining us from L.A. To you, Peter Odom, even when you get a phone call from a private number or a blocked number, if you pressed star 69, I don`t believe you can call the number back, can you?", "Actually, I`m not sure. But that number would still be recorded on the phone records that the police are no doubt looking at.", "Yes, that police get. Midwin, I don`t think you can dial back. I don`t think you can star 69 a private number. In other words, redial it. But what Gloria said really made me think, because she said, I tried to call it back but it was already disconnected. It was already out of service. I don`t think you can call back a private number.", "I don`t think you can. But, you know, like I had said earlier, she`s not particularly making any sense here. But I do want to adhere, Nancy, that these investigators need to do their job and need to make a case against her. Otherwise, that 33-day rule will have her out, and it should, because they need to do their job and make sure that they have enough evidence to hold her on any other charges.", "Midwin, could you foresee charges -- some type of a homicide charge -- even if Caylee`s body is never found?", "I can. However, it would depend on what additional evidence they`ve been able to find. I mean we saw that CSI went into this house, came out with two huge bags full of evidence. So you don`t know. It`s possible.", "Gloria?", "Well, yes. It`s difficult to say. And we don`t know what they`re finding from other witnesses as well. So, for example, she has indicated that this babysitter was referred to her by two other people who have children. I wonder if they`ve talked to those so-called two other people. Do those other people even exist?", "Well.", "So far they can`t find the babysitter.", "It`s interesting, Peter Odom, what Gloria just said. Again, the people that she stated hooked her up with the nanny, as she calls her, no longer evenly work at Universal. She hasn`t been there herself. She was fired two years ago. So everything she`s coming up with is a big lie.", "There`s no question that she has not done herself any favors every time that she talks. She probably shouldn`t have been saying anything. And, of course, you know, there`s going to be great pressure for the police to bring charges almost no matter what the evidence is. And I predict that we will see charges before that 33 -- charges involving homicide before those 33 days expire.", "Out to Bob in New Orleans, hi, Bob.", "See, I have a question. I would like to know if Caylee`s mother has submitted to or been asked to submit to a polygraph.", "She has not taken a polygraph. Mark Williams, do we know whether she was asked?", "I believe at one time, Nancy, she even volunteered a polygraph. But as you know, those polygraph results are not admissible in court one way or another.", "But, you know, Mark, yes, well, if both parties stipulate ahead of time before you take the polygraph that it will come into evidence, that`s the only way it can come into evidence in most jurisdictions unless it`s a civil case. This would be a criminal case. But regardless, Mark Williams, I mean, court is a long way away, if ever. Don`t you think it would aid police right now if she would take a polygraph test? I mean, when Marc Klaas was questioned when his daughter went missing, he said, here, hook me up, take a polygraph right now, rule me out so you can go find my daughter.", "Yes. And I saw Marc Klaas`s interview last night, of course. And thus far there`s been no polygraph given and there`s also been no really further talk. It came up at one time but then the idea was dropped. But I`d like to see it because of all of her inconsistencies, just as a journalist, to see what`s going on.", "Everybody, quick break. We are taking your calls live. And as we go to break tonight, at your request, pictures of the twins. I`ll put these on the Web tonight. There they are at sleepy time. That was their first swing-set picture earlier. There`s Lucy in her walker. There they are with my -- with my mom, their grandmother. John David learning to crawl, taking a nap. Little Lucy on the phone. Little Lucy enjoying a magazine and playing with the tiger. There`s John David sitting up. We did not stage these. They`re sitting up now.", "There`s some items that they felt was of interest to the case. However, we`re not going to be able to discuss as to exactly what was removed. But as you noticed, Mr. Anthony went with the detectives over there and, again, indicative of the cooperation that the family is having with us. I believe it was from outside the house, from somewhere in the back. Not exactly sure exactly where.", "You know they took some evidence from your house. Can you at least talk about the bags of evidence?", "Back away from the car or we`ll walk back in and get the deputies to come back out, OK? We are late. We`ve should have been out of here an hour ago. We`ve got to go to Daytona. There`s no story, guys.", "Where is 2-year-old Caylee Anthony? Out to the lines, Joyce in California, hi, Joyce. Uh-oh, sorry, lost Joyce. Sandy in Montana, hi, Sandy.", "Hi, thanks for taking my call.", "Yes, ma`am.", "First of all, I don`t believe a word out of this girl`s mouth. But on the off chance that she is telling the truth, why hasn`t there been a composite sketch done of this ghostly babysitter?", "Well, Sandy, believe it or not, it`s my understanding there has been a composite sketch drawn. And why is it, Mark Williams, that police are not releasing it?", "That`s a good question. Again, this is the first time I`ve heard about the composite. And it`s like the person at the Atlanta Airport a couple of weeks ago who said they saw Caylee. They supposedly came up with a composite sketch then. They didn`t release it then. Again no videotapes surfaced on that either. So -- and one thing -- and the other thing, Nancy, is the fact that investigators are working 24/7 on this case. They -- you know, they don`t even get a chance to see their families. There is a lot going on behind the scenes which they don`t release to us, nor are they telling anybody else. Everybody`s remaining tight-lipped. Now, I will guarantee next week`s paycheck the fact that they are out in the street 24/7 talking to a lot of people. And even the patrol officers, you know, they have their ears open just in case maybe they pull somebody over on a traffic stop and maybe somebody says, well, you know, I have that -- I have some information dealing with this case. Everybody`s keeping their ears open, because they want to solve this case real quick.", "To Nikki Pierce -- Nikki, why aren`t police releasing that composite of the nanny?", "Well, actually, it saw a limited release and there really wasn`t a lot heard after that. Fact is, the investigators have been, as Mark mentioned, working around the clock on this and they have not found this person. They have found several Zenaidas and not the Zenaida in question.", "Not the Zenaida she`s described to me. It is obvious to me the reason they`re not releasing it is because they don`t believe it. Remember nobody in Casey Anthony`s family, her friends, neighbors, boyfriend, nobody has ever talked to or seen the so-called nanny she left her daughter with. OK, let`s try Joyce in California again. Hi, Joyce.", "Hi, Nancy about.", "What`s your question, dear?", "I love your show so much.", "Thank you.", "You have a really great gift of passion.", "Thank you.", "I have a comment. How is she getting all this phone time?", "Interesting. To Brian Reich, how much phone time do you get in the jail?", "It depends upon the jurisdiction. You do have -- you have a right to communicate with people and use the phone. You have phone privileges unless you violate some internal rule, they`ll suspend it but then.", "Yes, we have just gotten the log of her guests, her visitors at the jail. They`re almost all attorneys. Back out to the lines, Carmen in Florida. Hi, Carmen.", "Hi, Nancy.", "What`s your question, dear?", "My question is the following. I`m just troubled. Why can`t they use the cadaver dogs to go into Casey`s personal closet? Maybe she still has some of those body liquids on her clothes and they can, you know, and the dogs can detect it.", "Mark, when the cadaver dogs came, did they go into the home?", "Not that I know of. The only video I`ve seen are the cadaver dogs, of course, in the backyard of the Anthonys` home in east Orange County. I don`t think they`ve ever been inside the house.", "OK.", "But that`s a good question.", "Mark, let me ask you. Now CSI came out and they came today, actually a couple of hours ago. And they took items from the backyard out of that little play shed. What? What do we believe was in the play shed?", "The only thing that they`re saying right now is what`s in there was clothing and personal items. That`s the only thing they`re releasing. They`re not releasing anything else, any specifics as to what they took out. It`s really tough to say. Who knows? This -- an event like this could have happened in the play shed and.", "OK.", "You know, things are buried there. Who knows?", "You know, to Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky, weigh in, Koby.", "Well, I think it`s pretty clear what they`ve collected. They need an exemplar of Caylee. In this case, they`re getting themselves a pseudo exemplar. They`re getting skin cells from her clothing, from toys that she touched. This is touch DNA, because, after all, if the -- if the stain in the trunk is biological and if they can get a DNA profile, they need to match it to something. So they`ve got to get these skin cells off of those play items or her clothing. That`s probably what are in the bags.", "And very quickly, touch DNA you mentioned?", "Touch DNA simply means that they`re developing a DNA profile based on analysis of skin cells. When you touch something, skin cells slough off your fingers and you can get a genetic profile if there are enough cells there to test.", "And you believe that they have taken things out of the play shed to get touch DNA on Caylee herself?", "That`s the likelihood. And, in a way, it`s -- I have a feeling that this stain in the vehicle is biological.", "Joining us tonight Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky, forensic scientist out of New York. But right now \"CNN HEROES.\"", "Here in South Carolina, HIV is a problem, particularly among African-Americans. After 27 years of AIDS, we are still combating a mentality of fear and shame. I`m Bambi Gaddist and I`m fighting to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS in South Carolina. Our organization has the only HIV testing mobile unit in the state. Our goal is to be in the community, testing at a nightclub, we`re there when young folks are out.", "It was my first time. Very first time. I`m glad I did it. It takes some explaining things, actually break it down.", "When people that are scared see a place like this, it might make them want to go in and get tested.", "We had a very good night and we had quite a few people decide to find out their status. We also have positives. When we get a positive, it validates why we need to keep doing the work. Did you get tested yet?", "I did.", "You already got them?", "Yes.", "OK. I sure appreciate you coming out. I joke about being a 70-year-old woman giving out condoms to the children. When it`s time, I want my obituary to say that I made a difference for someone and that I saved somebody`s life.", "July is the last month to nominate someone you know as a CNN hero for 2008. Go to CNN.com/heroes.", "CNN HEROES is sponsored by. Nominate someone you know at CNN.com/heroes for the chance to see them on as a CNN HERO.", "What a week in America`s courtrooms. Take a look at the stories and the people who touched our lives.", "We have new photos today of the mother of the little girl who went missing in Florida. The pictures were taken at an Orlando night spot five days after the toddler was last seen.", "It just keeps getting more and more bizarre. These are the photos we were telling you about. Photos that were apparently taken after little Caylee disappeared. This, I guess, is part of mom Casey`s search for her little girl there at Fusion nightclub.", "That there`s certain bond that you have with your kids.", "Right.", "And it`s -- you know it`s unexplainable. Absolutely.", "It`s unexplainable that bond you have with your kid, that bond that allows you to not report them missing for 31 days. She`s claiming that she swapped a SIM card from one phone to the next and that she must have lost one phone and she had another phone from AT&T;, and she doesn`t know where they are. And it must have fallen out of her pocketbook and her dog ate the homework, right?", "Let`s stop and remember Army Staff Sergeant Michael Elledge, 41, Brownsburg, Indiana, killed, Iraq, on a second tour. Awarded the Purple Heart, Army Commendation medal, also served marines as a team. Loved guitar, leading bible study, working as an aircraft mechanic. Leaving behind parents Lynn and Marion, two sisters, four brothers, widow Carlene, three children, Christopher, Caleb and Cassidy. Michael Elledge, American hero. Thanks to our guests but especially to you for inviting all of us into your homes. And tonight, a special good night from the New York control room. And good-bye to Liz, who`s taking her family away for a Hawaiian vacation in a little grass hut. I`ll see you in a couple of weeks and we`re really going to miss you. Everybody, I`ll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp, Eastern, and until then, good night, friends. 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{"id": "CNN-92991", "program": "CNN PEOPLE IN THE NEWS", "date": "2005-3-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0503/17/pitn.01.html", "summary": "The Life of Ashley Smith, Woman Who Turned in Atlanta Courthouse Murder Suspect", "utt": ["Up next on a special edition of PEOPLE IN THE NEWS, after years of struggling she was finally starting over.", "She was trying to get on the straight and narrow. She was trying to get her life back in order.", "She grew up in a deeply religious family, became a star athlete and student.", "She wasn't the kind to take the status quo. She always wanted to know why.", "But later, brushes with the law and her husband's murder sent her life into a tailspin.", "He died right there in her arms. She was weeping uncontrollably and it was horrific.", "Her road to recovery would collide with a killing spree.", "I told him that if he hurt me my little girl wouldn't have a mommy or a daddy.", "After a long night of fear and faith, she would emerge an unlikely hero.", "She said she became very aware that this was her moment to do something good.", "Ashley Smith, a hero's journey, now on PEOPLE IN THE NEWS.", "Hi. Welcome to this special edition of PEOPLE IN THE NEWS. I'm Paula Zahn. In a shooting rampage that stunned a nation, Ashley Smith went from hostage to hero in an instant, her ordeal with the accused Atlanta courtroom killer the stuff of Hollywood movies. And yet, what do we really know of this young woman, this young woman driven to courage? Well, over the next hour, a look at a hero's journey from the past she was fighting to put behind her to a day she could never have imagined. Here's Sharon Collins.", "Everybody off the sidewalk.", "We have now also confirmed Nichols is in custody at this location.", "As the drama unfolded during Atlanta's courthouse rampage and manhunt, there was an image that would leave a lasting impression, at a distance, a young woman sitting on the curb calmly talking to police.", "She was not panicked. She handled it very responsibly. She was a champ.", "She was literally unpacking for a new life in a new apartment, unpacking boxes, trying to get on her feet when suddenly she is thrust into this incredibly trying, taxing moment.", "Thank you for your prayers and may God bless you all.", "She would soon be hailed as a hero for the way she conducted herself during her hostage ordeal. But who was this woman and how did she escape harm from the accused gunman and bring a killing spree to a peaceful end?", "I told him that if he hurt me my little girl wouldn't have a mommy or a daddy and she was expecting to see me the next morning.", "Twenty-six-year-old Ashley Smith had been trying to get her life back together when Brian Nichols allegedly held a gun to her ribs and forced his way into her home. Suddenly, the man wanted for murder was face-to-face with a young widowed mom who had been battling her own personal demons.", "This child has had a few knocks. A couple of them she's caused herself, most she has not.", "Oh, yes, Ashley went the ways of the world for a while but when it was needed she hit a homerun for Christ.", "Raised by a devout Christian family, Smith had struggled with her faith during several brushes with the law and after the brutal 2001 murder of her husband Mack.", "She was devastated like anyone else would be.", "Ashley's life took a downward turn. In the last few years, she went through drug rehab twice.", "She went through some tough times, some dark times where I don't think her faith was very strong. It certainly wasn't strong enough.", "But relatives and close friends say Ashley began to turn back to God, which helped her move away from her troubled past. They say it was this renewed faith that gave her the strength and compassion to reason with the fugitive holed up in her apartment.", "She was able to relate to him as a person who struggled, has gone through tough times by someone who has come out of that and Ashley has.", "You know the stories about faith not ever giving up, not ever -- not ever thinking that -- that all is lost and she has always been that way.", "She was Ashley Copeland then born in 1978 in Augusta, Georgia. Ashley's grandparents, Dick and Ann Machovec had settled in Augusta after Dick retired from the Marines. Ashley's father walked out on them when she was two and in those early years she spent much of her time with her maternal grandparents.", "I had so many grandchildren around me right then. There was just so much going on there in the house and I pretty much thought poor Ashley. And then I thought well she'll be able to take care of herself and she has a level head.", "Life revolved around home and the Augusta Christian schools where Dick Machovec was headmaster.", "They were a very strong, close-knit family.", "Bonnie Colberg taught at Augusta Christian. She supervised Ashley on drill team, taught her Bible class.", "Ashley was passionate. She's independent. Ashley was a free thinker. She was the one that would come in and question why people were doing things that they were doing. She wasn't the kind to take a status quo. She always wanted to know why.", "Ashley was competitive too, played basketball for Augusta Christian and was named Athlete of the Year.", "She gave 110 percent when she played basketball. She was the number one person out there trying to make things happen.", "Competitive and questioning, Ashley was also trying to figure out what role faith and religion played in her life. Frank Page was the family pastor during those years at the Warren Baptist Church.", "When she was a teenager she gave her life to Christ and I baptized her and in our church that's a baptism by immersion. It's a symbol of death, burial and resurrection.", "But even as Ashley was professing her faith, she was struggling with more earthly issues that face any teenager or young adult and that conflict would mark the next decade of her life.", "Like many teenagers, she, you know, went through some rebellious times, difficulties at home or problems in her life.", "When this special edition of PEOPLE IN THE NEWS returns, rebellious times and tragic times for Ashley.", "He fell back and he died right there in her arms, right there in her arms.", "Welcome back to a special edition of PEOPLE IN THE NEWS, a hero's journey.", "She was a good student and a standout athlete at Augusta Christian. She had been baptized and pledged her life to God. But Ashley Copeland's teenager years were not easy ones. Her pastor, Frank Page, counseled her during those years.", "Well, there were times of teenage rebellion. There were times when she would move away from the Lord and be rebellious to authority just like most teenagers do.", "Ashley's first brush with the law came when she was 16, still in high school, a shoplifting conviction for stealing a shirt from the local Macy's.", "I think her faith has always been real since she was a teenager but faith for many of us, in fact probably most all people, sometimes has an ebb and flow and she went through some tough times, some dark times where I don't think her faith was very strong. It certainly wasn't strong enough.", "Ashley's rebelliousness led to more charges. There was an arrest for underage drinking. She lasted just one quarter at a local college before dropping out. Her stepfather at the time, Larry Croft, says that Ashley was a good kid who started hanging out with the wrong people and that she started drinking and using drugs. Croft and Ashley were close, even though he says she didn't always appreciate the tough love he and her mother tried to impose on her. When her life looked like it was getting out of control, he put her to work in his water purification business.", "She can do anything. The child is a brilliant, brilliant child and she would do things like bookkeeping, answering the phone, helping me with my closing sales calls, things like that.", "Ashley met a young man, Daniel Smith, \"Mack,\" who was trying to overcome his own troubled past.", "She saw him. She says \"I'm going to marry that man\" and sure enough they ended up getting married. It was tumultuous at first and then it began to level out because he started basically listening to her and I could see the change in him.", "The leveling out, Croft says, began after Ashley and Mack Smith's daughter Page (ph) was born five years ago.", "He had started his business. I had helped him get his business started and they were doing quite well, as a matter of fact. And, as a matter of fact, they had gotten a whole new", "The circumstances of that night remain unclear to this day but at some point in the early morning hours of August 18, 2001, Mack and Ashley went to the Applecross Apartments in suburban Augusta to confront some of Mack's former friends who had been hassling them.", "There was some animosity over the fact that they had befriended a sheriff's deputy that lived in their neighborhood and they were being accused of being -- what did Ashley say -- the guy called up that night and said \"You're a narc.\" I think that's the term that they used and that's basically what precipitated the fight between Mack and these group of savages that actually beat him severely and then two of them stabbed him to death.", "Ashley told police and her family she had been across the parking lot when the brawl began. She quickly called her stepfather for help but it was too late.", "He fell back and into her arms in the back of that truck and he died right there in her arms, right there in her arms and I was -- I got on the scene about, oh gosh, they hadn't even taken him away yet and she was just -- she was just, of course, I mean it was, it was horrible. She was weeping uncontrollably and it was -- it was horrific.", "Friends and family say Ashley went into a deep depression after Mack's death.", "She was devastated like anyone else would be. She had this small child that she was caring for. Her life had begun to get a lot better. Mack's business was growing and all of a sudden this was all yanked away and she was -- she was distraught.", "Just months after Mack's death, she was convicted on a DUI charge and went into a court-related rehabilitation program. Larry Croft brushes off an incident where she broke into his home but said he knew she needed help coping with drug addiction. He paid for her when she voluntarily went back into rehab last year.", "According to her family and to others she was trying to get on the straight and narrow. She was trying to get her life back in order. She was taking responsibility for herself.", "I think within the last two years is when she began to get very serious about growing strong in her faith.", "What was happening at that time in her life? Was that two years after her husband died? Was she out of rehab at that time?", "That is correct. Since coming out of that situation she has made a slow, steady progress toward stability and maturity.", "After drug rehab, Ashley went back to school. She gave up custody of Page to her aunt in Augusta and moved to suburban Atlanta returning weekly to see her daughter. Four weeks ago, her aunt gave her a copy of \"The Purpose Driven Life,\" a book that offered a Christian-based guide to living. Ashley, in turn, told her family not to lose faith in her.", "She told us this years ago. She says \"Papa and Mama, believe me, I'm going to do something that's going to make you proud of me.\"", "When this special edition of PEOPLE IN THE NEWS continues, Brian Nichols' story from his own church-going past to alleged killer and to his fateful encounter with Ashley Smith.", "At Baltimore's Ray of Hope Baptist Church this past Sunday, optimism was in short supply.", "We know that this was a hideous act, committed by a childhood friend of mine. I watched and I listened to the news but my mind could not comprehend how this could happen to one of our own.", "Pastor Charles Franklin, Jr. has known Brian Nichols since they were both five years old.", "But none of us would have ever seen this happening to someone that we know and that is so loveable, the jokes in the neighborhood and very intelligent and, you know, what point drove him to this?", "The question looms large over Edner (ph) Gardens, the quiet tight-knit Baltimore neighborhood where Nichols grew up. This was an area where middle-class families could escape the drugs and crime so commonplace in the inner city.", "People in this neighborhood and all around that has Christian and educational values that usually if the kids come up under this kind of system they -- they usually become very, you know, good kids.", "Nichols stayed busy as a member of both the basketball and football teams at Cardinal Gibbons (ph), his all boys Catholic high school.", "I remember him as a fun-loving person, laughed a lot, smiled a lot, liked to play, you know, liked to joke, really a typical young guy.", "An occasional class clown, he was serious enough about karate to earn a black belt as a teenager. Friends say he used to spend hours flipping through martial arts magazines and once thought it would be cool to be a ninja.", "He was an athlete, basketball, football, martial arts but never, never someone who used the martial arts on a negative note so it was always positive.", "Karate temporarily took a back seat to football in 1989 when Nichols left Baltimore for Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. Three hours away from home and away from the watchful eyes of his parents and neighbors, the 6'1\" linebacker started to get into trouble. Arrested three times, Nichols was charged with underage drinking and disorderly conduct. Although he was the son of two college graduates, Nichols dropped out of Kutztown after three semesters. By the time Brian Nichols got to Atlanta in 1995, he had matured.", "He was doing, I guess he was living good, you know, for a black guy his age, you know, and that position, an engineer at Hewlett Packard making six figures and living comfortable.", "He had a condo in an upscale neighborhood, a BMW, a long-term girlfriend and an active role in his local church.", "He really was in the church, you know. I had heard at one time he was playing the keyboard for the church, you know. He was going every week, playing the keyboard, you know. He used to tell me \"You need to get into God,\" you know, because I used to be into a lot of things, you know. He's like, \"You need to stop and you need to get into God.\"", "It seemed like he had everything going for him but neighbors say there was another side to Brian Nichols.", "He was one of those folks that just really didn't care, didn't have a lot of respect for the property.", "He had a mean, vicious dog and I didn't want to get anywhere near him. I always thought he looked mean and like someone I didn't want to talk to.", "Brian Nichols' world turned upside down in the summer of 2004. He was charged with kidnapping and raping his girlfriend of seven years and spent six months in jail awaiting trial. Jurors described him as calm, intelligent, and eager to tell his side of the story. The trial ended in a hung jury with eight of the 12 jurors wanting to acquit Brian Nichols of rape.", "There absolutely was not enough physical evidence to either support the alleged victim's story and her sequence of events that took place in her version of the story or to discredit Brian's story and his version and his sequence of events. The prosecution just didn't have quite the supporting evidence that was -- that really tied it all together and made her story 100 percent make sense to us.", "As the retrial got underway though, it became clear that things were not going as smoothly for Nichols' defense.", "There was a substantial difference between the first and second trials. There was a lot more evidence in the second case, mostly of a corroborative nature. There were claims that were made that were just uncorroborated during the first trial and the question was who's telling the truth?", "This time around, jurors said Nichols made them feel nervous and uncomfortable.", "Anytime any of us looked up, we saw him looking at our reaction and so it made us a little nervous and we always kind of looked the other way.", "But mayhem on the morning of March 11th would prevent the jurors from delivering a verdict. When this special edition of PEOPLE IN THE NEWS continues, a shooting spree, a manhunt and 26 hours of terror.", "As I was getting ready to give him my wallet and that's when he told me to get in the trunk and I knew this was serious.", "Welcome back to PEOPLE IN THE NEWS. Ashley Smith would have seemed the most unlikely hero just a week or so ago, a young widow, a waitress, a woman just trying to overcome her past. And then she was taken hostage amid a killing spree in Atlanta, an ordeal that would turn into a seven-hour saga of courage. Here again is Sharon Collins.", "Friday morning, March 11, it's a warm, sunny day in downtown Atlanta, the calm before the storm. Two people whose lives are heading in different directions find themselves on a fateful collision course. One of them is an alleged killer on the run, the other a single mom trying to put her life back on the right track. Their journey begins at 8:30 a.m., as Brian Nichols is on his way back to the Fulton County Courthouse to stand trial for the alleged rape and kidnapping of his former girlfriend; 30 minutes later, according to authorities, the 6'1'' Nichols, a martial arts expert, manages to overpower Sheriff's Deputy Cynthia Hall as she removes his handcuffs. Nichols shoves her into a holding cell, takes the key to a lockbox where the deputy has stored her gun. He gets the gun, then changes into street clothes and calmly walks away. But instead of easily escaping into the street, Nichols walks across the skyway and into the old courthouse. On the way, he briefly takes people hostage, including another deputy. Taking the second deputy's gun, Nichols walks into the eighth floor courtroom, enters from behind the bench, and allegedly shoots and kills Judge Rowland Barnes and court reporter Julie Brandau. Ashley Smith watches the events unfold Friday morning from her suburban Atlanta apartment while unpacking boxes. She had just moved in days before and is still unaware she is about to become part of the story; 9:15 a.m., Nichols dashes down a stairwell and into the street, where, according to witnesses, he shoots Deputy Hoyt Teasley, who is in pursuit. Teasley's wounds are fatal. Nichols disappears into a neighboring parking garage, then launches a series of carjackings.", "He walked toward me and, the next thing I knew, he hit me and I was on the concrete.", "Minutes later, Nichols is seen on these Turner Security camera images jumping into O'Briant's green Honda accord and driving off, or so it appears; 9:30 a.m.:", "Everybody off the sidewalk.", "As chaos reigns, Nichols is seen again on a different camera, but from inside that same parking deck, this time in a change of clothing and not driving, as police believed, but calmly walking away. What comes next is one of the most extensive manhunts in Georgia history. The dragnet of state and federal agencies flash alerts nationwide, urging motorists to be on the lookout for a green Honda. All alone, Nichols is completing the perfect getaway. He moves unnoticed across the street through a crowd, arriving a few minutes later at a commuter train station. He board MARTA and heads eight miles north to the Buckhead area of Atlanta. Nichols is now within 14 miles of a chance encounter with Ashley Smith. The violent rampage is not over yet. Later that afternoon, Ashley arrives to work at a nearby restaurant. She spends her shift in training as a hostess. The breaking news coverage is heard in the background.", "Murder in the court.", "Ashley's co-workers remember how tired she says she was from all the heavy lifting.", "She told me she felt like \"Sanford and Son.\" She said, you should have seen me going down the road. I had my mattresses strapped down on the roof of my car.", "Ten-forty p.m., Brian Nichols surfaces again, allegedly committing more acts of violence in an apparent sense of desperation. He allegedly assaults a woman as she is about to enter her boyfriend's Buckhead apartment. Sometimes later, but less than five minutes away on foot, Nichols allegedly kills again, his victim, David Wilhelm, a special agent with U.S. Immigration. Wilhelm had been working late on his new home, still under construction. Nichols takes his gun, his badge and his blue Chevrolet pickup. Wilhelm's body won't be discovered until the next morning. Nichols begins to travel further northeast. At approximately 11:00 p.m., back in downtown Atlanta, police realize they have made a mistaken assumption. The green Honda they have spent hour looking for turns up right beneath their noses. It's discovered in the very same parking garage from where it has been stolen, only one floor down. It's getting late. Police have lost their best lead. They have no idea where Brian Nichols is. Ashley Smith is back home from work. She begins more unpacking, but then decides to go purchase some cigarettes, a decision that could have proven deadly.", "It was about 2:00 in the morning. I left my -- I was leaving my apartment to go to the store. I noticed a blue truck in the parking lot with a man in it.", "Ashley arrived at this QuikTrip convenience store shortly after 2:00 a.m..", "I came back to my apartment about five minutes later and the truck was still there and he was still in it. And I kind of got a little worried then. So I got my key to my -- to my house ready. And I opened up my car door, and I got out and shut it. And I heard his shut right behind me. I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really scared. And he was right there. And I started to scream. And he put a gun to my side and he said, Don't scream. If you don't scream, I won't hurt you.", "Coming up, Ashley Smith's ordeal as hostage.", "And she has never lost her faith. And it will see you through the worst of times. And that's exactly what was going on the night that this fellow broke into her apartment.", "It was about 2:30 in the morning. Ashley Smith has just returned to her apartment after a late-night run for cigarettes. Waiting for her there, she says, a stranger with a gun. She did what he demanded. She unlocked the door.", "And he said, do you know who I am?", "She says she did not recognize Brian Nichols, the target of a multistate man hunt.", "And then he took his hat off, and he said, Now do you know who I am? And I said, Yeah, I know who you are. Please don't hurt me. Just please don't hurt me. I have a 5-year-old little girl. Please don't hurt me.", "How much impact would her plea have on the heavily armed accused rapist, the suspect in four murders?", "He said, I'm not going to hurt you, if you just do what I say. I said, All right. So he told me to get in the bathtub. So I got in the bathtub. He said, You know, somebody could have heard your scream already. And if they did, the police are on the way, and I'm going to have to hold you hostage, and I'm going to have to kill and probably myself and lots of other people. And I don't want that.", "Despite Nichols' assurance that he wouldn't hurt her if she cooperated, Ashley Smith feared the worst.", "And then he said, I want to relax, and I don't feel comfortable with you right now. So I'm going to have to tie you up. He brought some masking tape and an extension cord and a curtain in there, and I kind of thought he was going to strangle me.", "But then an odd request. She says Nichols told her he wanted to take a shower.", "He said, Well, I'm going to put a towel over your head so you don't have to watch me take a shower. So I said, OK. All right.", "After his shower, a turning point.", "He cut the tape off of me, unwrapped the extension cord and curtain.", "In a hostage situation, survival often depends on the victim's ability to come across as a person. Apparently, Ashley Smith did just that.", "I told him that I was supposed to go see my little girl the next morning at 10:00, and I asked him if I could go see her. And he told me no. My husband died four years ago, and I told him that if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mommy or a daddy. And she was expecting to see me the next morning. And if he didn't let me go, she would be really upset. He still told me no. But I could -- I could kind of feel that he started to know who I was, and he said, Maybe, maybe I'll let you go.", "Nichols was curious about her next request. She asked if he would allow her to read.", "He said, What do you want to read? I said, Well, I have a book in my room, so I went and got it.", "\"The Purpose Driven Life,\" a best-selling self-help book.", "It's all about God.", "The author is Baptist minister Rick Warren, spiritual leader of a Southern California mega-church. His message, you are not an accident. God has a plan.", "Most people are not purpose-driven. They are pressure- driven.", "Her choice of books was not out of character, say family members.", "She has never lost her faith. And that inner peace that comes with the saving grace of Jesus Christ, that's exactly what was going on the night that this fellow broke into her apartment.", "I turned it to the chapter that I was on that day, which was chapter 33.", "\"We serve God by serving others. In our self-serving culture, with its me-first mentality, acting like a servant is not a popular concept.", "After I read it, he said, Stop. Will you read it again? I said, Yes, I'll read it again. So I read it again to him. It mentioned something about what you thought your purpose in life was.", "By Smith's description, a man transformed, at least for the moment, a man on the run who wanted to rest.", "He just told me that he wanted a place to stay, to relax, to sit down, to watch TV, to eat some real food.", "Smith says she talked about her family and her life and that she asked her captor about his family.", "I asked him why he chose me and why he chose Bridgewater Apartments, and he said he didn't know, just randomly.", "Would his random choice be one more link in the chain of death? Despite Smith's faith that she was put on Earth for a purpose, she couldn't know how the night would end.", "But after we began to talk, and he said he thought that I was an angel sent from God.", "An angel sent from God. When we come back, Ashley Smith's flight to freedom.", "Welcome back to a special edition of PEOPLE IN THE NEWS, \"Ashley Smith: A Hero's Journey.\"", "Here's a picture of the man, 34-year-old Brian Nichols.", "Also, he was charged with false imprisonment, aggravated assault.", "... shot a judge, shot a court reporter.", "The fugitive from justice had disappeared, armed and dangerous.", "Talking about he was being tried for rape very recently.", "He was here telling Ashley Smith, a 26-year-old widowed mother, that she was an angel sent from God.", "He asked me what I thought he should do. And I said, I think you should turn yourself in. He said, can I stay here for a few days? I just -- I want to eat some real food and watch some TV and sleep and just do normal things that normal people do.", "Seeking to build trust, Smith says, she told him he could stay.", "He needed hope for his life. He told me that he was already dead. He said, look at me. Look at my eyes. I am already dead.", "Before dawn, Nichols decided to ditch the truck he had allegedly stolen from David Wilhelm, the Immigration and Customs agent.", "I knew that if I didn't agree to go with him, he would kill me right then or the police would never find him or it would take longer and someone else would get hurt. And I was trying to avoid that.", "And then she says she considered calling for help.", "I said, Can I take my cell phone? And he said, Do you want to? I said, Yeah. And I'm thinking, well, I might call the police then, and I might not. So I took it anyway.", "She followed him from her parking lot. He abandoned the truck. Then she drove him back to her apartment.", "And he was hungry, so I cooked him breakfast. He was overwhelmed. Wow. He said, real butter? Pancakes.", "Again, they talked of faith.", "I said, Do you believe in miracles? Because if you don't believe in miracles, you're here for a reason. You're here in my apartment for some reason. You got out of that courthouse with police everywhere. And you don't think that's a miracle?", "As the morning grew late, Ashley Smith's thought of her daughter and apparently so did Brian Nichols.", "Well, 9:00 came. He said, What time do you have to leave? I said, I need to be there at 10:00, so I need to leave about 9:30. So I sat down and talked to him a little bit more. He put the guns under the bed. Like you know, I'm done, I'm not going to mess around with it anymore.", "She says Nichols offered her money, $40.", "I basically said, you keep the money. And he said, no, I don't need it.", "This time, when she left, she made the call.", "Gwinnett Police communications.", "I told them that he was there.", "What is your address?", "And she asked me where I was. I said, I'm on my way to see my daughter.", "He's advising he is wanting to turn himself in to us at this time.", "The suspect is coming out with his hands up.", "Her seven-hour ordeal ended peacefully.", "Through one source, CNN is confirming that Brian Nichols, after this 26-hour manhunt, is in custody at this hour, where just a few minutes ago a hostage situation...", "Ashley Smith called her family.", "And she said, Brian Nichols was at my house last night. And it didn't register with me. And I said, who? And she says, the killer.", "The woman who had made so many bad choices, so many mistakes, had now done something very right.", "And she said she became very aware that this was her moment to do something good, to do something good for God, to do something that her daughter would be proud of, to do something that would really count.", "While the front-page story focused on the capture, Ashley finally made it to see her 5-year-old daughter, Paige.", "And they spent the day watching the Cartoon Network. And, at the end of it, rather than what we would expect, which would be that the daughter would fall asleep in the mom's lap, the mom, Ashley, fell asleep in Paige's lap.", "Though her future was uncertain, Ashley Smith had transcended her past. On this day, she had completed a hero's journey.", "It's natural to focus on the conclusion of any story, but my role was really very small in the grand scheme of things. The real heroes are the judicial and law enforcement officials who gave their lives and those who risked their lives to bring this to an end. Thank you for your prayers and may God bless you all.", "The day her ordeal ended, even with all that was going on around her, Ashley Smith actually took the time to call the restaurant where she worked to say she would not be in that night. And, in the understatement of the year, the restaurant manager said he understood. That's it for this special edition of PEOPLE IN THE NEWS. Thanks so much for joining us. Up next, \"LOU DOBBS TONIGHT.\" TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANNOUNCER", "BONNIE COLBERG, TEACHER", "ANNOUNCER", "LARRY CROFT, STEPFATHER", "ANNOUNCER", "ASHLEY SMITH", "ANNOUNCER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANNOUNCER", "PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SHARON COLLINS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CHIEF CHARLES WALTERS, GWINNETT COUNTY POLICE", "LARRY HACKETT, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, \"PEOPLE\" MAGAZINE", "SMITH", "COLLINS", "SMITH", "COLLINS", "CROFT", "DICK MACHOVEC, GRANDFATHER", "COLLINS", "REV. 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{"id": "CNN-29376", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-4-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/30/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Showbiz Today Reports: Eddie Van Halen Has Cancer; \"TIME\" Reporter Discusses Hollywood Writers' Strike", "utt": ["A veteran rocker has some sobering news, and there are fast cars at the box office.", "Michael Okwu is in New York to tell us about that and more in our \"Showbiz Today Reports\" -- Michael.", "Thanks, guys. And good morning to everyone. The front man for the rock band Van Halen has broken some bad news to his fans. Eddie Van Halen confirmed reports that he has cancer, but said he is beating the disease. The 44-year-old rocker made the announcement on the group's Web site, but did not identify the type of cancer. He said he is being treated by oncologists and head and neck surgeons in Los Angeles. Last year, Van Halen underwent what was described as preventive treatment for tongue cancer. Shifting gears now to the movies, it took some pretty fast cars to win the box-office race.", "\"Driven\" took the pole position in its box office debut and sped past last week's leader, \"Bridget Jones' Diary.\" The race car flick, starring Sylvester Stallone, finished in first place, with an estimated $13.1 million. Audiences still found \"Bridget Jones' Diary\" dear. The romantic comedy, which stars Renee Zellweger and is based on the best-selling book, brought in an estimated $7.5 million for second place. The family of spies got plenty of eyes again this weekend: \"Spy Kids\" landed in third place, with an estimated $5.7 million. Antonio Banderas plays pop to a couple of junior James Bonds. \"Along Came a Spider\" came along very closely after that, with an estimated $5.65 million. The thriller with Morgan Freeman and Monica Potter playing lead ended up in fourth. And in fifth place was \"Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.\" Paul Hogan's return in the Aussie-out-of-water adventure earned an estimated $4.7 million.", "Well, here's the latest, Michael. As you said, his lawyers will appear here in court this morning, and Robert Downey Jr. will not be here. This was to be the beginning of his preliminary hearing on the drug charges that stem from his arrest in Riverside County, over Thanksgiving weekend, in his Palm Springs hotel suite. The lawyers have filed a 300 page motion, and they are contesting the legality of the search of Downey's hotel room. They also are trying to get rid of one of those felony changes, felony position of Valium. At times, it probably seems like you need a scorecard to keep up with everything that's going on on Robert Downey Jr.'s legal fronts. We understand now that results of his urinalysis from his recent arrest in Culver City will be out by Wednesday. And in talking to corrections officials, if Robert Downey Jr. does stay in a treatment center for a long time, they will recommend that he be allowed to work. They say that's very much a part of his rehabilitation process. So let's say that, hypothetically, he's in the live-in rehabilitation center for quite awhile: There is a scenario where we could come to and from various shoots. We'll have to see what happens with that. Of course, shoots in Hollywood are very much up in the air because the other talk of the town right now is this possible and impending writers' strike. The writers negotiated with the producers over the weekend. It did not bear fruitful results. So far, there is no deal on the table, and the writers are set to walk out in less than 48 hours. We understand that they will stay at the negotiating table and try to hammer out some sort of deal well past tomorrow's strike deadline. So that is the latest here on several fronts -- the Robert Downey Jr. legal front and, of course, that impending writers' strike front. Now back to Daryn Kagan, in Atlanta.", "Paul Vercammen, thank you so much, We're going to talk to a writer for \"TIME\" magazine, James Poniewozik. He's been covering this and brings us the latest James, good morning.", "Good morning.", "I think we're about 30 days away from the deadline, which would be midnight Tuesday to Wednesday. Do you think the writers are going to strike?", "It's really a tossup at this point. I'd hate to be forced to bet on it. I do think it's at least a good sign that the writers have, basically, being locked up in negotiations, not talking to the media, not negotiating through the media. It shows that, at least, they're committed, but there still seems to be a substantial chance of a strike at this point.", "We refer to them generically as the writers. Really, we're talking about 11,000 people that are split into kind of into two camps: There are those that write, basically, for television and those that write for film, and they have very different issues.", "That's right: There are more writers for television, generally speaking, than there are for film. In film, there's more importance to certain sorts of symbolic issues, like the possessary credit.", "They want respect. It's kind of like Rodney Dangerfield. We write all this here for you guys, and we get no respect from this town.", "Basically. Particularly film is treated as much more of a director's medium. Directors get far more credit for \"creating\" a film than the person who writes the script. The writers in film want a greater share of that. In television, it's more about money, in particular residuals -- or in lay terms, the writers want more money for reuses of their material when they're sold overseas for videocassette on cable. That is the bigger, more substantive sticking point that they're haggling over.", "Let's talk abut what if. Let's say the writers do go on strike: What kind of world are we looking toward, then, when we turn on the television or go to the movies?", "You're looking, on television, at six different editions of \"The Mole\" on various networks.", "Oh, no, don't say it's so. A lot of reality television, you're saying.", "A lot of reality television and more news magazines and movies. You will also see a certain amount of new television even if there's a strike next fall, because some of the networks have banked a certain amount of new episodes in advance of a strike. But that can only last so long. There's going to have to be a lot of falling back on conscripted new programming. So count on a lot of reality television and news, in particular. In film, again, you have a bank of films. Hollywood has gone into overdrive making new films in preparation for a strike. At some point, that has to run out. The question is whether the greater hurt goes on.", "And of course, we're not just talking writers. We also have the Screen Actors Guild discussing a strike. As the writers go, do the actors? Is it pretty much a given that if the writers do go on strike, you can expect SAG to follow up?", "They're not operating, but certainly, the actors' deal is coming up at the end of June, and the fact is that if you have one element of the industry striking at a point, you have a greater deal of leverage to strike yourself. So certainly, that's looming and is a great possibility if the writers do go on strike and it's still unresolved at that point.", "Any way you look at it, it sounds like it might be time to get comfortable with a good book, or perhaps a good magazine, like \"TIME,\" or watch CNN -- we're nonunion. James Poniewozik from \"TIME\" magazine, thanks a lot.", "Thank you. 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{"id": "CNN-26895", "program": "Sunday", "date": "2001-3-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/04/sun.08.html", "summary": "Millions of Devout Muslims Make Holy Pilgrimage to Mecca", "utt": ["Well, millions of Muslims have converged on Mecca, Saudi Arabia to take part in one of Islam's holiest rituals, the Hajj. Today's prayers at Mt. Arafat marked the high point of the annual pilgrimage to the holy city in Saudi Arabia. The Hajj is considered one of the required duties of followers, known as the five pillars of faith. Able-bodies Muslims are required to make the trip at least once in their lifetime. And joining us to discuss the significance of the Hajj and what it means to be young, Muslim and American is writer and law student Asma Gull Hasan. Ms. Hasan, thank you for being with us.", "Brian, hello. Thanks for having me.", "Why don't you begin by explaining the meaning of Hajj for the many of Americans who are unfamiliar with it.", "Well, Hajj has a few different meanings, but the central one is the unity of all Muslims and humankind. So, when you go to the Hajj, you see -- you're there with two million other Muslims and you realized how we're all unified and in this together. One of the other themes that's very important is the equality of humankind. That's why when you see the Hajj pilgrims, they're all wearing white and they're required to because that's how God sees them, as equals.", "Now, what is the purpose of the pilgrimage of the Hajj itself as a physical location?", "Well, the Kabah, which is the black, square building that's in the center, which Muslims are walking around, we believe that's the first house of God that was built by Abraham and his son, Ismail. That's what Muslims believe. So, the return there is like signifying and commemorating Abraham's journey and his believe in God and his belief in one god.", "Now, all Muslims are required to make this trip at least once in their lifetime if they can afford it. Why is that?", "Well, God didn't want to put a huge burden on those who couldn't afford to or in doing so and going to Mecca would cause a serious problem for their family. So, they're all required to go if they're able, financially and physically able. And the reason they're required to go is because it's a chance to go and pray to God and ask for forgiveness and wash your sins away, and it's said that if you go with a pure and simple heart and you really have intent and mean what you're doing, when you're done with Hajj, when you come back, you'll be as free of sin as the day you were born from your mother.", "And for those who don't join the Hajj this year, how do they celebrate the occasion?", "Well, we commemorate it by praying and thinking about those Muslims who are there, and when we pray, also, we pray for the safety of those Muslims who are there, who are traveling. And then after the Hajj period ends, then we have our holiday, which is called Eid-al-Adha, and it's the feast of the sacrifice. And we commemorate the sacrifice that Abraham made of a lamb instead of having to sacrifice his own son, as God had originally asked.", "Now, let's talk a moment about the state of Islam. It's a religion with a multitude of followers. Is it a thriving religion today and especially in America? How is it doing?", "Yes, Islam is thriving around the world and I'm very excited about the thriving here in the United States, in particular, because there's a lot of young Muslims who are like me, who I talk about in my book \"American Muslims: The New Generation.\" And we're both American and we're Muslim and I think we're going to lead Muslims into this century and beyond and really show the rest of the world that Islam and America and Islam and Western culture are inherently compatible with each other.", "You speak about compatibility, let's take a look what is happening in Afghanistan right now. The Taliban is using Islam in what many of its neighbors say is an extremist way to justify all sorts of political ends. In this case, after some oppression of women, who are allowed work, they are now destroying antiquities dating back to the third century. Now, what is your view on that and is that compatible with the Koran?", "Brian, I'm very dismayed and disappointed at the Taliban's actions, both towards women and also what they've done recently, destroying the statues. They're using patriarchal, tribal culture and interpreting that to define Islam and how they practice Islam to justify a host of actions that are really not Islamic at all. If I thought Islamic was oppressive of women, do you think I would be a Muslim? Of course, you know, but unfortunately, Taliban is taking this culture that is patriarchal, that existed before Islam existed and using that, you know, to interpret Islam and coming up with very bad actions on that, you know, that basis.", "But in Afghanistan as well as elsewhere in the Middle East, there's an appearance or reputation that Islam is an intolerant religion.", "And that's very inaccurate. Islam teaches tolerance. Islam is a peaceful religion. In fact, Islam says that if you were to hurt a person and inflict injury on them, it would be as if you injured all of mankind. So, Islam is very much against any kind of violence, murder. So, when I see the actions of the Taliban that are oppressive and that are destructive of cultural artifacts, I'm very ashamed and it makes it hard for people like me to be Muslim because it gives us a very bad reputation. I wish I could sit down with them and say listen, if really read the Koran, you'd realize that these actions that you're doing are not justified by the Koran.", "Well, on this, the holiest day of Islam's ritual, the Hajj, we thank you for joining us, OK.", "Thank you, Brian.", "Asma Gull Hasan, a writer, joining us from New York. Appreciate it."], "speaker": ["BRIAN NELSON, CNN ANCHOR", "ASMA GULL HASAN, WRITER", "NELSON", "HASAN", "NELSON", "HASAN", "NELSON", "HASAN", "NELSON", "HASAN", "NELSON", "HASAN", "NELSON", "HASAN", "NELSON", "HASAN", "NELSON", "HASAN", "NELSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-7894", "program": "", "date": "2000-5-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/11/aotc.09.html", "summary": "Several Retailers Due to Report Earnings Today; April Retail Sales Numbers to Offer First Look at 2Q Consumer", "utt": ["Several retailers are due to report earnings today, including The Gap, Kmart and Nordstrom. We'll also get our first look at the mood of the U.S. consumer last month with the release of the April retail sales report.", "Reports due an hour before the opening bell. Christine Romans is here to give us a little preview, Christine, of what people are buying from what retailers and what it might mean for their stocks.", "Exactly. Well, it looks like discount retailers over and over, retail analysts have been telling us, they seem to be doing well, they seem to be positioned pretty well. We'll watch to see those earnings come in today. Gap and Kmart people we'll particularly be looking at because there have been some more pessimistic expectations on the Street about their earnings for both of those companies. So they've pulled down their estimates a little bit, some analysts have, we'll see if those companies can meet or beat the expectations or Wall Street. They have been pulled back just a little bit. And we get this government report on retail sales. Now this is the first look at the consumer -- really, the first big look at the consumer for April, thus the first big look at the consumer for the second-quarter. What -- they're looking for overall is up 0.4 percent. This will be the 20th month or so of expansion, so the consumer continue to chug along, moving over to the register and buying up products, excluding the auto sector, up 0.3 percent. Now, the analysts are telling me that consumers still believe that this is a good jobs market. Remember, we had that jobs report last week that showed 3.9 percent unemployment, something like a 30- year low. And they're also still believing in the economy. You have not seen consumer confidence dented too much by the increases in interest rates and the volatility in the stock market, although they're still watching that in terms of volatility in the stock market. Watch those retail stocks today, see how the earnings play out in that group. Watch to see the first hour -- we have an hour before the markets open, the stock markets open, to see any kind of reaction for retail sales. But remember, the bond market will be open, so it might be that the stock market takes its cue from the bonds today, if there is a big reaction there. So judging from yesterday's stock market action, I have to say that one great comment I got yesterday from Mark Cashen (ph) was -- we were talking about a light volume in the market and if you could sort of, you know, underplay what was happening in terms of the direction of the market. And he said: Christine, ships can sink even in a quiet sea. So we did have a pickup in volume yesterday. People are starting to say, be careful, you know, the market still goes down, even if it's on lighter than expected -- or a lighter than normal volume. It's still going down. I mean, your portfolio is still depreciating, so that can incite a little bit of concern.", "One of the things that's managed to stay up, even in the calm sea, where other ships were sinking, has been food stocks. What's the prognosis there?", "You know, they are a defensive play, they are seen as a defensive play here. They've been underwater for some time. It was just a couple of months ago, I was talking to the Sara Lee chairman, who was say that, you know, he thought that there was this tech- frenzy, people were really interested in tech stocks, and the big companies that had real products, that are usually seen as constant, defensive-type plays were being ignored. And he said that they would come back, and they are. So he was right. But he considers also going on there and talk about speculation about the merger environment. We know that Bestfoods got an offer last week from Unilever and has rejected it. There's talk now that may be BFO could attract a higher bid than the Unilever bid that is all the table. Also, the bidding deadline for NGH, that's Nabisco Group Holdings, is Monday. So we're getting close to seeing some sort of resolution, or at least know what kind of options are on the table, for Nabisco. Obviously, as you know, Nabisco shopping around its food unit there. So there looks like there could be some consolidation on the horizon here for this company, or this industry. We've been talking about it for some time. Analysts in this sector say, it's, you know, benefiting on two fronts. The S&P; food index yesterday closed up 1.49 percent, when the Dow was down 1.6 percent.", "I didn't know there was an S&P; food index.", "Yes.", "OK, thanks, Christine."], "speaker": ["DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MARCHINI", "ROMANS", "MARCHINI", "ROMANS", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "CNN-259471", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2015-07-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/12/ndaysun.04.html", "summary": "Iran Nuclear Talks: Kerry \"Hopeful\" Deal Will Be Reached.", "utt": ["Secretary of State John Kerry sounding pretty positive this morning about getting a deal with Iran on its nuclear program secured. He talked to reporters as he left his hotel in Vienna for another marathon round of talks there. Yes, he's still on crutches, still recovering from that bicycle injury. We want to get more on what Kerry said from CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robinson. And Nic is in Vienna. Nic, I understand the French foreign minister spoke as well. What are they saying?", "Yes, the French foreign minister just arrived here, been in Paris working on the Greece issue. He said he hopes they're in the last phase of the talks at the moment, that he hopes they can get the result that everyone wants to get. This is sort of the tone we've been getting and certainly this is something we heard from Secretary Kerry this morning as he left his hotel to go to church. Yesterday, he said that quite simply that tough choices remain. Now, he's talking as if there's some hope that a final deal could be in the works. This is what he said.", "A very good meeting, positive. I think we're getting to some real decisions. So, I would say, even as we have a few tough things to do, I remain hopeful. Hopeful.", "Christi, with all the deadlines that have come and done, 30th of June, 7th of July, 10th of July, now another deadline, 13th of July tomorrow, Monday. The feeling is here are they really going to make a deadline? Are they really going to come up with something by then? But I think the sense is, obviously for negotiations, it is about everyone being convinced that a deadline is a real deadline. We've blown through so many. You do get the sense that whatever happens in the talks today, that there will be something tomorrow. Whether or not it's a full agreement or some partial and the ball gets kicked down the road again. That's not clear.", "We understand too, Nic, that the Israeli prime minister is slamming these talks. What is he saying?", "Yes. He has done all along. What we've heard from Benjamin Netanyahu is in essence that the longer Secretary Kerry has stayed here, the implication is that it's had to concede to Iran's demands. The Israeli prime minister believes that Iran cannot be trusted. Supporters point to demonstrations just yesterday in Tehran where American and Israeli flags were being burned. He feels that the duration of time that Secretary Kerry has remained here involved in these talks means that he's conceded that it is not a good deal, not a good deal for the United States and not a good deal for the Israelis either, Christi.", "Iran had this new demand that the embargo be lifted. Kerry, as I understand it, said there's no way that's going to happen. Is that still one of the sticking points here?", "You know, as far as we can tell, it is. You know, we don't get a detailed read out of what happens inside the meetings. I spoke with an Iranian official earlier on today. He told me, from his perspective, it is only political decisions in the way of getting an agreement. Therefore, a lot of the technical details have been hammered out. But that is essentially a political agreement. We know for a fact that President Putin, the Russian side, the Chinese as well support Iran on getting those -- all sanctions including the arms embargo lifted. After all Russia does sell weapons and will likely sell more weapons to Iran if there is a deal here. So, you know, when you look at the P5+1, in fact, Secretary Kerry with the sort of you know, the Russians, the Chinese, the British, French and Germans, he's trying to maintain a united, unified position. But the clock is ticking on that as well, when you hear things like that from the Russian president saying that he believes all sanctions should be lifted, a matter of when and how, but fundamentally, he believes the arms embargo should be lifted -- Christi.", "All right. Nic Robertson, so appreciate the update. Thank you.", "You've got to see this video if you haven't yet. I mean, it's in the so much that this guy is driving the wrong way down this busy street in Los Angeles because he's gone the right direction. It's just backwards. Trunk first. Narrowly missing several cars, a pedestrian there, all caught on cell phone video. Now, the question is who's driving and who's in the passenger seat here.", "Well, you know, Los Angeles streets are difficult enough to drive on. But imagine doing it in reverse. Yes, watch this. This driver did it for miles on some of L.A.'s busiest roads. The curviest, too. Cell phone from another car caught it all on video. And now, L.A. police are looking for this driver. Peter Daut of CNN affiliate KCAL reports.", "Good evening, guys.", "You're looking at what the LAPD is calling some of the most reckless driving investigators have ever seen.", "Wow, dude.", "Cell phone video showing a car going backwards, all the way down Laurel Canyon Boulevard. Listen to reaction from a stunned witness who recorded what he could barely believe was happening.", "This guy's going backwards on oncoming traffic. Amazing.", "The driver of the Audi staying in reverse for several minutes, and along windy turns.", "Unbelievable!", "At one point the car appears to almost hit a pedestrian. Several times the Audi crosses the double yellow lines, narrowly missing oncoming traffic.", "Only in", "Watch what happens when the car eventually approaches busy Hollywood Boulevard.", "Wow! Look what he's doing. Look what he's doing.", "Still in reverse the driver moves around other vehicles, and into the left turn lane.", "Definitely was a shocker for me.", "Kevin Zanazanian recorded the video on his cell phone. The realtor says he first noticed the Audi around 4:45 Thursday afternoon, near Mulholland. He says there were two people in the car. A man behind the wheel, and a woman in the passenger seat.", "It was definitely like a movie, and I just think that either this individual had an argument or a fight or something, or possibly just want to be a cool guy.", "We showed the video to LAPD investigators, who say the driver could be arrested for numerous charges.", "Reckless driving, unsafe speed, crossing double yellow lines, failing to drive on the right half of the roadway.", "And given the numerous close calls, police say it's incredible no one was hurt.", "Imagine if your family member is being struck by someone doing something irresponsible.", "Hmm. Our thanks to Peter Daut of CNN affiliate KCAL for that report.", "Well, Donald Trump taking his stance on immigration to Arizona, where the presidential candidate gave a speech to thousands of people. I mean the lines snaked around the corners of buildings in downtown. And some of them didn't even get in. We're going to talk about how the GOP maybe reacting to this pretty significant turnout. Stay close."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE", "ROBERTSON", "PAUL", "ROBERTSON", "PAUL", "ROBERTSON", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "BLACKWELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PETER DAUT, KCAL REPORTER (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DAUT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DAUT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DAUT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "L.A. DAUT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DAUT", "KEVIN ZANAZANIAN, RECORDED VIDEO", "DAUT", "ZANAZANIAN", "DAUT", "SGT. TITO MARIANO, LOS ANGELES POLICE", "DAUT", "MARIANO", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-1112", "program": "WorldView", "date": "2000-1-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/20/wv.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Visas Issued to Cuban Refugee Elian Gonzalez's Two Grandmothers", "utt": ["A new development in the custody battle over the 6-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez. U.S. visas have been issued, so the youngster's two grandmothers can travel to this country from Cuba. CNN's Martin Savidge joins us on the phone from Havana airport with the latest -- Martin.", "Gene, there are a lot of conflicting reports here at the airport here in Havana as to what exactly is going on, but here is what CNN has confirmed. Cuban officials are anticipating the arrival of a charter plane coming from New York. On board is said to be a delegation from the National Council of Churches, including outgoing council president, Joan Brown Campbell (ph). The National Council of Churches has said for some time that it is willing to try and facilitate the return of young Elian Gonzalez to Cuba. Sources confirm to us that visas have been issued to Elian's two grandmothers to travel to the United States. Those visas were reportedly picked up less than a half hour ago, meaning the grandmothers could travel at anytime. According to the U.S. State Department, the plane with the grandmothers will return to New York tomorrow. The remaining question is, what's the purpose of the visit? The grandmothers and the Cuban government both have maintained that the only reason they would make such a journey is to escort Elian home. Reports out of Washington say the purpose of the visit is for the grandmothers to state their case. That had been something the grandmothers said they would not do. In the meantime, the charter flight for the National Council of Churches reportedly has been delayed. Martin Savidge, CNN, Havana."], "speaker": ["GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "NPR-17933", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2017-06-11", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/06/11/532503056/what-happens-when-a-leaders-vision-is-the-wrong-one", "title": "The Triumphs And Perils Of 'Going Big'", "summary": "Don Laub was a pioneering surgeon — one of the first in the U.S. to perform gender reassignment surgeries, but tragedy came when he traveled to Mexico to provide free surgeries to children. Psychologist Phil Tetlock thinks the parable of the fox and the hedgehog represents two different cognitive styles. \"The hedgehogs are more the big idea people, more decisive,\" while the foxes are more accepting of nuance, more open to using different approaches with different problems. ", "utt": ["We tend to like stories of leaders who have big ideas and strong convictions, the kind of visionaries who stop at nothing in pursuing their goals. But what happens when a leader's vision is the wrong one? NPR's Shankar Vedantam brings us the story of an ambitious surgeon who was a pioneer in his field and also made a grave mistake.", "From a very early age, Don Laub was driven by a big idea. He wanted to help people. He wanted to help a lot of people. As a small child, when kids in high school were asked to donate money to a charity, his classmates contribution a dime. Don worked in a vegetable garden an entire summer to raise a whopping $10.", "Now, I got a letter that my mother wrote for some of her friends saying Don has done something that nobody has ever done.", "Don's father feared his little boy was consumed with being a do-gooder and would turn out to be a failure in business. His father was right. Don Laub became a doctor. By the 1960s, Don was a young, ambitious plastic surgeon at Stanford University, very much in awe of his prize-winning colleagues. He was looking for a place to make his mark. One day, a colleague walked out of an examination room and came up to him.", "He said, Don, I want you to see a patient. It's a good case that you might not like it. It's a sex change.", "This was 1968 well before the modern transgender rights movement.", "I said send that patient away. I'm a Catholic boy from the Midwest, and I'm at Stanford. We don't do those things.", "Don's colleague insisted he meet the patient, and although Don initially blanched at the idea of gender reassignment surgery, he also felt a shiver of excitement. So he didn't send the patient away. Instead, he consulted with psychiatrists and the few surgeons around the world who performed this kind of work.", "It was a wonderful opportunity to do a big thing and to help a lot of people.", "Altruism and ambition were always tightly woven in Don's identity. He wanted to change the world. In other words, Don Laub was a hedgehog. Here's what I mean by that. Thousands of years ago, the Greek poet Archilochus said the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.", "That parable has been the subject of much debate over the last 2,500 years. What exactly are Archilochus meant.", "This is University of Pennsylvania psychology professor Phil Tetlock.", "Various people have offered various interpretations. Some people coming out on the side of the hedgehog and other people saying no it really means the fox is going to do better.", "There are different ways to think about the metaphor, but here's how I see it. If a fox wants dinner, it can chase down a hedgehog. It can find something else to eat. It can even go without food for a day. But if you're a hedgehog being chased by a fox, you don't have multiple goals. You have one. Don't get eaten. Phil Tetlock thinks this metaphor describes two cognitive styles of people. Foxes have different strategies for different problems. They're comfortable with nuance. Hedgehogs focus on the big picture.", "The hedgehogs are more the big idea of people who are decisive. In most MBA programs, they'd probably be viewed as better leadership material.", "In November 1968, Don Laub made a very hedgehoggy decision. He performed California's first gender reassignment surgery.", "And we were more than prepared for all of certain things that might happen.", "Don soon became one of the world's leading experts on gender reassignment surgery or what today is called gender confirmation surgery. His reputation grew, a reputation for being a good surgeon and a tough gatekeeper. One of his patients, Sandy Stone, vividly remembers an encounter.", "At some point, he asked me if I were 100 percent committed to wanting surgery. And I said, no, I'm not. I'm probably 99.9 percent. I think anyone who is 100 percent committed to anything is probably crazy. And Don said, well, in that case you're not eligible for surgery.", "It took a mediated session with Don's assistant for the two of them to resolve the conflict. But the incident revealed something about the way a hedgehog moves through the world. Hedgehogs are decisive. Don could not understand anything less than 100 percent commitment. Sandy underwent surgery in 1977. It was a success. When she considers Dan's influence on her life, she says it all comes down to the pursuit of a big idea.", "Do you go for the big one or do you accept something less? And many of us accept something worse because we don't want to take the risk, and then we may go through life maybe we'll be happy with our measure. Or maybe we'll say what if I had gone for what I really wanted? What would that have been like? Maybe I would have died, but I didn't. I beat the odds. And I went on to be gloriously happy. And Don brought that to many people.", "Don's leap into the unknown, his confidence in his own judgment, it had all paid off. But pursuing a big idea with determination doesn't always lead to victory. And when a hedgehog fails, the fall can be painful. Before Don became a world renowned gender reassignment surgeon, he had another big idea. It started this way. One day a colleague asked him if he could help with the surgery. The patient was a child from Mexico.", "This was a 14-year-old boy who had no other deformity than his cleft lip and palate.", "But because of it, the boy was shunned.", "He had not gone to school. He had no educational advancement. He had no friends.", "The surgery to repair the gap in his palate and lip was simple and quick, and it gave this child a real chance in life. Don felt this was the kind of patient he wanted to serve. He turned to the priest who had brought the boy to Stanford all the way from Mexico.", "I asked him are there other patients in Mexico like this? They said the place is full of them. So we bought an airplane ticket and went down to Mexicali and asked for a clinic.", "He soon found himself in a dusty border town whose main medical facility was an old, wooden home.", "It had a dirt floor part of it in. The back part of that clinic was used to raise fighting cocks.", "A rational fox might have calculated the odds and backed down, not Don. He recruited local health officials to get word out that they would be providing free surgeries for children with cleft palates and bone scars. The clinic was quickly packed.", "The first patient I saw was sitting there with a bag on his head with two little peep holes. I said what's with the - why the bag?", "Behind those peepholes was a little boy named Eugenio hiding his face in shame. Don asked if he could take a look.", "So he got the bag off and he had a burn scar that pulled this eyelid down, a simple thing to repair.", "Don repaired the scarred eyelid and still remembers the boy's first reaction.", "He had a very nice, huge smile.", "On a follow up trip, Don tracked Eugenio down.", "He shook hands and everything like that even as a young kid. And he said I have friends in school now.", "Don loved it.", "It's a real happiness. It's a source of happiness is the best description.", "Don's medical missions formally started in 1966. They grew quickly. One day, a woman arrived at the clinic with her young son Salvador. He had bilateral clefs two clefts rather than one. Salvador was a perfect candidate for surgery. That is until a doctor on the team gave the boy a thorough physical and listened to his heart with a stethoscope.", "His mother brought him in and the pediatrician listened and it was whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, the heart sounds.", "These were not normal sounds. The boy's heart had a hole in it. The risk of proceeding with surgery was small, but potentially fatal. They gave the mother the bad news.", "We can't operate because we don't have the equipment in Mexicali to do the heart catheterization or anything like that or even get an EKG today. So...", "I should say here that we're going only on Don's account of what happened. The medical records from that era are incomplete, and we weren't able to find the mother. A few months after sending the child away, Don and his team were back in Mexicali. The mother and her son were waiting. Salvador she told him was shunned. He had no friends. Other children called him the monster.", "The mother said this child has no chance in life. You've got to fix it.", "Don's heart went out to the little boy. He explained the danger again. The risk was small, but it meant things could go seriously wrong. So the answer again was no. More months passed. Don returned to the clinic. So did the mother.", "Por favor, please doctor.", "This was a critical moment. Don could again have said no. Medical protocol said that was the right call. But Don also knew that without surgery Salvador would always be an outcast. Could he have tried to take the boy back to Stanford where heart surgeons could have assisted with his care? Maybe but that would have been a drain on critical resources from the project in Mexico, resources that were helping hundreds of other children. So Don did what Don always did. He took a deep breath that said, OK, we'll do it.", "I feel like that's why I existed is for this judgment. I mean, I'm not there to take care of little pimples. I'm there to do the tough cases.", "The morning of the surgery, Salvador went through the standard pre-surgery lab tests and checkup. And then the boy walked by himself into the operating room.", "And he gets on the operating table himself because he trusts the whole world.", "The surgery began. First, Salvador was anesthetized then Don and his team began the surgery.", "When we were operating, everything was going perfect.", "And then just like that it wasn't.", "Anesthesiologist said, boys, we have no pulse.", "They tried everything - CPR, medicine to jumpstart the heart. Nothing what. The child was dead. Outside the operating room, the boy's mother was waiting anxiously for news of her son. Dawn told her they'd had complications that they tried hard but the boy had died. The mother began to sob. But then Don says she did something surprising. She asked him why he was upset.", "She said you should be happy because the child is seeing God with a complete face.", "Don expected accusation, anger and deep sorrow. Instead, he encountered a mother who leaned heavily on her faith. He was speechless, not just because of what she'd said but because he was struck by another thought. Salvador's face was not repaired. He died before the surgery was complete What would the mother say when she saw her son at the funeral? Don conferred with this team about finishing the surgery on the little boy.", "I said it's against the law, but I think in this case we should.", "The rest of the team unanimously agreed. Salvador was brought back from the morgue.", "The child came back in a body bag, and we did the whole thing as if the child was awake.", "I interviewed Don several times for the story. I pushed hard to understand why he decided to operate on Salvador.", "I thought this is what I am for. This is my purpose.", "Don still thinks about Salvador. He has turned the case over in his head in every possible way. I asked him over and over whether he felt regret.", "No, well, of course, I do. Of course, I do. Yes, I do.", "Here's the thing about foxes and hedgehogs. We tend to want the best of both worlds. We love bold visionaries who take big risks except when the risks don't work out, then we prefer the visionaries to be more cautious, filled with a little self-doubt. The day after Salvador died, Don Laub was back in the operating room. He remembers looking out the windows at the sky.", "It was he says a perfect azure blue. At 10:30, the time when Salvador was to be buried, everyone on the team fell silent and paused. There was no sound except for the whoosh of the anesthesia machine. 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{"id": "CNN-147104", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2010-1-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/18/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Victims of Haiti Earthquake Await Help", "utt": ["Tonight, victims in Haiti wait for help. We're going to dissect the logistics of aid. Markets and mergers, they were the talk of the town and the market. And a new year, and the balloons are back. We have a snapshot on the earnings season. It is the Q25. I'm Richard Quest. The start of a busy week, where I mean business. Good evening. Almost a week now since the earthquake in Haiti struck and some international aid is beginning to get through. U.S. officials say several thousand troops have now arrived on the island and thousands more are on their way. The effort is being hampered by bottlenecks within the transport system. The sheer scale of what is needed means it will take time to reach all the victims. The military says Port-au-Prince airport is operating at maximum capacity 24 hours a day, however, medical aid organization, Doctors Without Borders said its plane couldn't land, a cargo aircraft, couldn't land on Sunday. The plane, which was carrying an inflatable hospital, had to divert to the Dominican Republic. It is traveling the rest of the way by road. That will delay its arrival by one more day. A second plane sent by the same organization landed on Sunday. Haiti is, of course, in urgent need of police and troops, according to the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, who says he now wants 1,500 more U.N. police and another 2,000 troops to be on the ground.", "From my conversations with people on the street yesterday I heard a clear message from them. They said we need the United Nations. We need jobs, we need food, and water. Help has been arriving. More is coming. But for those who have lost everything, I know that aid cannot come soon enough.", "Well, you know, Richard, some people are saying aid is beginning to trickle in but you'd have to measure that trickle in the tons, in the hundreds of tons. What you are seeing is the inevitably slow start up to an immeasurably large operation. This is of a scale that obviously no one expected before the earthquake, and I'm not sure anyone has ever really mounted. Already today, and this is day six, the World Food Program, of the United Nations says it plans to distribute 200 tons of food, 95,000 meals, at eight different locations in the city. That is scaled up from what it was yesterday, more than it was the day before, and less than the World Food Program says it will be giving out tomorrow. But there is still an awful lot of aid sitting at the airport, an enormous frustration. But this here is what happens. The aid can be flown in, and even that was a bit of a problem, but the aid gets down in planes, at the airport, and then where does it go? To move food aid, out of the airport, to the people who need it, you need vehicles, the vehicles need fuel, the vehicles need security, they need drivers, and then the whole operation needs staff to make it happen. That, in essence, is why food in Haiti doesn't turn into full bellies in the streets of Port-au-Prince. Where we are people are still saying they haven't seen any sign of aid. They haven't seen any sign that the government or the international aid organizations are looking out for them. And the truth is they probably haven't. We are near the ruins of the presidential palace, in the center of the city. That aid is spread out throughout the city of between 2 and 3 million people, and so much of it is still waiting for infrastructure. Waiting for people, waiting for gasoline and trucks, out at the airport, Richard.", "OK, let's get into that issue, Jonathan. Because the question, and bearing in mind to some extent we are talking on a business program. But the question is, is it reasonable five or six days into a disaster of this scale, that only now that level of logistic support could realistically have been put in place? The critics who say otherwise, are they simply being unrealistic?", "You know, the critics may know a whole lot more about this than I do. I am struck by two things. The scale of this disaster, 250,000 people, by the government's estimate, who are homeless, and who as a result, obviously, are not carrying their kitchens or their cabinets around with them. A quarter of a million people who need the government's help for sure. Think of all the people in homes who know, six days after the earthquake have run out of food because there are no stores, there are no banks open. Some commerce is starting, but think of the enormous need. It could be that in some, in some universe, smarter people could have been ready to feed 300,000, or 400,000, or 500,000 in one of the world's poorest countries. But this country already imports, on a good day, before the earthquake, half of all the food it needs. That entire daily consumption of food has been cut off, because the imports are cut off. Add to all that, the people who needed food who didn't need it before, it is a disaster. It is a disaster of enormous proportion. Maybe smarter people could be doing this better. There are a lot of smart, hardworking and expert people who are doing the best they can from all over the world. If my wife or child was out there under the rubble, or if I was out there, without food or water for six days, I would be demanding answers. But from the looks of it, I can't imagine people doing dramatically better than they are doing now. This is just beyond anyone's scale to imagine or organize. And they are, after all, getting this organized; 95,000 people, through the World Food Program, will be fed today, Richard.", "Jonathan Mann, joining us from Port-au-Prince. And we continue that thought with Rigoberto Giron, who joins me from the CNN Center. Rigoberto is head of emergency response at CARE International, one of the charities working right now, in Haiti. And Rigoberto, the issue that we are trying to get to grips with, the people are saying the aid isn't getting there. The aid is slow. But there an inevitability in scale and size, particularly in an area where there is simply devastation. That it was always going to take a week to 10 days to get the operation up to size and scale?", "Yes, what we need to understand is the scale of the emergency in Haiti is one that happened in a very highly populated city. It is a city that was originally designed for 40,000, 50,000 people and now houses over 2 million. And the construction practices and all of that infrastructure, poor infrastructure, that it has does hinder an effective emergency response. At the time being, what you are going to see is an emphasis on getting the pipeline full. The airport being restored to operations, the port, hopefully at some point. And obviously creating a logistical hub out of the Dominican Republic.", "But so to -not putting words in your mouth, but if I understand you correctly, you are saying you are not surprised that it is, you know, five days on, and only now is that aid pipeline filling up.", "In terms of what we can expect, I think that what you are seeing is what the international community strives to do. Set up logistical operations in the very early on, you have a city that has been devastated and needs to be cleaned up. So, yes, I think we have seen this before in other situations. It reminds me of the Asian tsunami in 2004. And because of the contained nature of Port-au-Prince, this is what I would expect to see for a few more days.", "Now, one of the people from the World Food Program, WFP, is quoted as saying the confusion in the early stages of an emergency operation is normal. Now, it may be distressing, and it may -you know, God forbid, cause further loss of life. But short of taking further risks, what more can you do?", "Well, for the time being, obviously, what we want is to provide immediate life saving assistance to those in need. Food, water, shelter are the main needs at the moment. However, we also need to make sure that psycho-social issues are addressed. Those are often overlooked. There is a significant amount of trauma in the capital city. And also, vulnerable groups, like women and girls, pregnant and lactating women, in particular, need to be taken care of. And that is something that CARE, as an agency, is looking after.", "And finally, at what point, what point do you believe sizable and systemic aid that will make a difference will arrive and the pipeline be complete?", "I would expect that happening within the next few days. For instance, CARE is bringing in a plane load of relief supplies. We already have our logistical hub set up in Port-au-Prince. Staff that were outside of Port-au-Prince are coming back. Not only CARE but other agencies are also ramping up their efforts. So, I would see a significant amount of relief flowing out in the next few days.", "Rigoberto, many thanks, indeed for joining us. From CARE, at the CNN Center. A story that we are following for you, from Haiti. We are getting details of looting and violence breaking out in parts of the country. CNN's Anderson Cooper is on the line with the latest. Anderson, when we talk about looting or when you report this, what is actually taking place? What is being taken and for what purpose?", "Well, this isn't starving people, you know, trying to grab for food. This is in downtown Port-au-Prince, very close to the National Cathedral, in an area of shops where there are supplies and there are food stocks. And this happened to be a store filled with candles. Hundreds of people descended, on this, they have broken in through the roof. And they were basically stealing boxes of candles and they were selling them right there to women. A number of young men had gotten control of the rooftop, gotten control of the flow of goods in and out of this store. And they essentially were setting up a business. It quickly turned violent. It quickly turned very aggressive, as a number of people tried to maintain control. There was an American businessman there. A man by the name of Tony Bennett, who owns two stores. He is a young man who, he had a Glock in waist. He had two Haitian police officers with him. They would occasionally fire into the air via their automatic weapons. But the crowd would pay very little attention, they would disperse for a few moments. And then they would quickly run back and just start stealing again. You know, this is not - a lot of folks in Port-au-Prince do not approve of this. And just a few blocks away, people were saying to me, as I was running toward the scene. You know, this isn't right. This is not hungry people looking for food. This is young, you know, taking advantage of a situation and stealing what they can. It turned violent as more young men began to appear and the strong battled the weak. Someone would take out a burlap sack filled with goods and then a number of young men, four to five, would descend on that person trying to steal their goods from them. They started arming themselves with pieces of two-by-fours. I just heard more shooting now, in the distance, more Haitian police officers firing into the air, trying to control the crowd. But again, the crowd runs away for a short time, and then they come right back. These young men, I saw screwdrivers. I saw men with large knives. They started to hit one another. I saw people being hit with two-by-fours. I saw a young man being whipped by another young man with a belt. Then, finally, it got to the point where somebody on top of the store began throwing rocks from the top of the store, pieces of rubble down into the crowd. A young boy, I'm estimating about 10 or 11 years old, was hit in the head. He collapsed on the ground and was incoherent, as blood was pouring from his head. I was able to actually run in and get him and bring him out, because no one else was doing anything. Everybody was running away and not paying attention to this little boy.", "Anderson Cooper. And, Anderson, while you were giving us commentary on the events we were indeed looking at the pictures of that criminality at the candle warehouse. Anderson Cooper, joining me live from Port-au-Prince. Where, indeed, we can hear the gunshots being into the air. CNN's coverage will, of course, be complete and full in less than an hour. Christiane Amanpour will be talking live to the U.N. Secretary- General Ban Ki-Moon. It is his first interview since he traveled to Haiti over the weekend. \"WORLD ONE\" at 20:30 London time, 21:30 Europe. Fionnuala will look at the families still hoping to get word that loved ones survived, via our web site, CNN.com/haitimissing. Becky Anderson on \"CONNECT THE WORLD\" looks at why aid is still not getting to the people who it most. And with that our coverage continues with \"BACK STORY\", journalists as doctors. Our very own Sanjay Gupta talks about meeting the demands of two professions amid a tragedy. So, the news headlines, or other news headlines that you need to be aware of, we are grateful Jim Clancy is with us now, from the CNN Center. Evening, Jim.", "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS, in a moment, the markets. Now, one factor that was missing form last year's big share price rally, I hesitate to call it mega-merger, mega-mania, but something odd is going on, in a moment."], "speaker": ["RICHARD QUEST, HOST, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "BAN KI-MOON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, UNITED NATIONS", "JONATHAN MANN, CNN INT'L. ANCHOR", "QUEST", "MANN", "QUEST", "RIGOBERTO GIRON, DIR., EMERGENCY RESPONSE, CARE INT'L.", "QUEST", "GIRON", "QUEST", "GIRON", "QUEST", "GIRON", "QUEST", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "QUEST", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-50598", "program": "DIPLOMATIC LICENSE", "date": "2002-3-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/09/i_dl.00.html", "summary": "Will Such Action Alleviate International Tensions?", "utt": ["This is the backpack that 40,000 of them have been sent to Afghanistan for the first day of school. It's made in Pakistan, the backpack is, and it's filled with a little slate for every child along with other school supplies.", "U.S. first lady Laura Bush, her first time to the U.N. in that role, showcasing what school children in Afghanistan are receiving from the U.S. Agency for International Development. You saw a girl's school on DIPLOMATIC LICENSE two weeks ago. You know it, the kids need everything from pens to books. And in about two weeks, boys and girls start school, many for the first time there in Afghanistan. Laura Bush was at the U.N. Friday to mark International Women's Day. It's the first such celebration in Afghanistan in 13 years.", "On International Women's Day, we affirm our mission to protect the human rights for women in Afghanistan and around the world. And we affirm our support of all Afghans as they recover from war and injustice.", "I have carried the shattered and muted voices of my Afghan sisters for almost two decades, carrying with me their cries for justice. Our voices went largely unheeded until the grotesque arm of terrorism, first against us in our homeland, extended its arm to my country of exile here in the United States.", "Sima Wali represented women at the Afghanistan peace table. And that's DIPLOMATIC LICENSE. I'm Richard Roth in New York. Thanks for watching. END TO ORDER VIDEOTAPES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF CNN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMING, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE THE SECURE ONLINE ORDER FROM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["LAURA BUSH, FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES", "ROTH", "BUSH", "SIMA WALI, PRES., REFUGEE WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT", "ROTH"]}
{"id": "CNN-79367", "program": "PAULA ZAHN NOW", "date": "2003-11-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0311/19/pzn.00.html", "summary": "Was This a Bad Week for Democratic Presidential Candidates?", "utt": ["Here now to presidential politics. Haven't been a good week for the Democrats, many believe. The party has led the fight for Medicare and prescription drug coverage for decades and that may have been pulled out from under them this week. The economy seems to be getting better and then the decision on gay marriage in Massachusetts, which may create some problems for Democratic candidates, as well. Joe Klein from \"Time\" magazine, regular contributor of ours is here to talk about that. I want to talk about Medicare first because I think this is the big one. The Democrats are in, to my thinking, you've never been afraid to tell me I'm wrong, a terrible box here. The box got tighter when the AARP signed on.", "Yes, the American Association of Retired People. One of the biggest lobbies there and usually a fairly safe liberal lobby came out in favor of the prescription drug benefit which the Democrats have been for since before forever. In fact, they have used this issue to hammer Republicans in campaign after campaign after campaign.", "This is kind of Clinton-ish in a sense in the way that Clinton sees crime and welfare reform.", "That's right. That's right. You know, the Republicans this week, the Bush administration spending like drunken sailors between the Medicare bill and the energy bill, but in terms of Medicare, even if it doesn't pass the Senate, which it is likely to do, by the way, even if it doesn't pass, Bush will be able to look at five of the six main Democratic candidates and say, why did you oppose prescription drugs for seniors? And the reasons why they did is because they are against a reform of the Medicare system, which is now a fee for service plan which means anybody who want to go to the doctor can go to the doctor and get whatever they want. What's going to have to happen with Medicare because it is such an expensive program and there are so many of us. It's going to be the same kind of...", "There are so many of us who are getting old fast.", "Yes. Speak for yourself, but in any case, well, I'm -- in any case, what's going to have to happen is that Medicare is going to have to become like the rest of health care. It will have to be HMOs, PPOs, managed care if we're going to keep the cost contained. The Democrats are against that.", "Democrats, at best, lose an issue that would have been their issue. They gain one they'd rather not have and that's the issue of gay marriage. How big an issue do you think this is going to be? The Republican's like this issue, don't they?", "They like the issue but they can't like it too much. If they push too hard on it, people are going to be offended. It's the kind of thing where it will fly just slightly under the radar screen. The Democrats all are in favor of civil unions, which is a euphemism for gay marriage. And the polls right now say that the public doesn't like gay marriage by about 60/40.", "Do you think they can make the distinction between gay marriage...", "Yes. Yes. And say, well, no, what we're actually in favor of making sure that people who are in committed relationships, whether they gay or straight, have the same property rights and legal rights and that sort of thing.", "Look, I think there's a strong rational case to be made for that. And a case very popular among people under the age of 30 however, it's very unpopular among people over the age of 65. Those people tend to vote. The young people tend not to.", "Meanwhile, the economy continues to get better by all reports.", "By some reports, but we'll see how it goes. There are some conflicting signals.", "Good to see you.", "Good to see you.", "Joe Klein with us tonight. Thank you very much. As the United States continues its hunt for Osama bin Laden, some intelligence experts believe al Qaeda has gone underground. A strategy shift that could make the world a more dangerous place. We'll have a report coming up. And the changing face of women's magazines, perky and cheerful, vs. sour. What do women really want from the newsstand?"], "speaker": ["BROWN", "JOE KLEIN, PAULA ZAHN NOW CONTRIBUTOR", "BROWN", "KLEIN", "BROWN", "KLEIN", "BROWN", "KLEIN", "BROWN", "BROWN", "KLEIN", "BROWN", "KLEIN", "BROWN", "KLEIN", "BROWN"]}
{"id": "CNN-324077", "program": "WORLD RIGHT NOW WITH HALA GORANI", "date": "2017-10-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/19/wrn.01.html", "summary": "UK PM seeks urgency in talks over citizens' right; Varoufakis on Brexit, Brussels and the economy; White House chief of staff speaks on Gold Star family controversy", "utt": ["Well, it seems both sides in the Brexit negotiations can agree on one thing, it's all moving really slowly. EU leaders are meeting in Brussels again amid a deadlock. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel says there hasn't been in the talks so far to move on to the next phase. The British Prime Minister Theresa May says she needs other EU leaders to act urgently on the issue of citizens' rights. Bianca Nobilo is live in Brussels. She is covering developments there. So, where do we stand?", "We stand at an impasse at the moment. It's definitely a tense situation. The EU is united and this week in the UK has certainly been marked by division over Brexit. We've had prominent cabinet figures contradicting each other. Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, attacking his opposition on Brexit. Today, Theresa May arrived trying to be cautiously optimistic and she spoke to some journalists as she arrived here at the EU council building. Let's take a listen to what she had to say about her hopes for what these next two days might bring.", "This council is about taking stock. It's also about looking ahead to how we can tackle the challenges that we all share across Europe. That means, of course, continued cooperation, cooperation which is going to be at the heart of the strong future partnership that we want to build together. Of course, will also be looking at the concrete progress that has been made in our exit negotiations and looking at setting out ambitious plans for the weeks ahead. I specifically, for example, want to see an urgency in reaching an agreement on citizens' rights.", "That is going to be much tougher than Theresa May just made it sound. In fact, earlier today, Hala, I asked the president of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani if he thought that sufficient progress had been made to proceed to the next stage of Brexit negotiations. He told me definitely not, that the EU has not received enough firm details from the UK to be able to make that transition to the next stage of negotiations where they can talk about today and they can talk about the future relationship. That's a sentiment that has been echoed across all of the EU figures that have been speaking out. They really stayed on message. Meanwhile, the EU is quite divided. But, right now, as I'm speaking to, Theresa May is meeting with those EU 27 leaders at a working dinner to try and encourage them to get to that next stage of Brexit negotiations. So, hopefully, we'll have the outcome of that fairly shortly. It's definitely going to be a difficult pitch to those EU 27 for the prime minister, Hala.", "All right. I predict a lot of working dinners in Theresa May's future. Thanks very much, Bianca Nobilo in Brussels. Well, there is another person who knows a thing or two about prickly meetings at the EU and his name is Yanis Varoufakis. He served, as you will remember, as Greece's finance minister during the height of the country's debt meltdown. And he resigned after clashing with his Brussels counterparts. But Varoufakis is still talking about the economy and the world of finance. His new book is called \"Talking to My Daughter about the Economy.\" I started by asking him why he wanted to explain something like the economy to a 13-year-old.", "An attempt to understand it myself because we economists get all embroiled in these highly mathematical models and we miss out on that which matters. It's only when you try to explain these complicated concepts to a 13-year- old that you realize to what extent you are in possession of the facts.", "Last time we spoke, you said the Brits will understand that they are not negotiating with the EU. They are going to spend two years negotiating on how to negotiate.", "That's right. For their right to negotiate.", "The right to negotiate. Is that what's going on now?", "Isn't it?", "Yes.", "You can see that, firstly, the EU has made it absolutely, abundantly clear that this is what's happening. Remember, when Michel Barnier, the official negotiator of the European Union, put forward his agenda for the negotiations he said there will be two phases. In the first phase, Britain will give us everything we want. So, in fact, he arrives in these meetings with a checklist of things that Britain must give him and he just ticks boxes. He's not mandated to have -", "Is he holding all the cards? Because the British negotiators are saying, we don't understand, we keep making proposals and you keep sending us back, saying it's not enough.", "Well, what I've been saying, and I think we discussed this last time I was here, is that the greatest nightmare for the European Union bureaucracy and the heavily-armed politicians behind them, the greatest nightmare for them is a mutually advantageous agreement with Britain because, for them, a mutually advantageous agreement with Britain would signal to other constituent countries, like Poland, Hungary, Greece, whichever, that they can trigger Article 50, they can threaten to leave the European Union and get a good deal. So, a good deal is that which Brussels is trying to destroy.", "So, what's going to happen? Will Brexit happen at all? There seems to be a shift in public opinion. The latest polling has more people opposed to Brexit than supporting it in this country.", "It seems to me inexorable. The more progressives within the Tory government start making noises about the possibility of reversing Brexit, the more adamant the Brexiteers become. So, it's inaction, reaction. And also, there's another thing to consider. The European Union itself may not be interested in letting Britain stay even if there is a change of heart, even if there is a second referendum because, think about it, what message would that send to Poland that they can cross Brussels on questions of civil liberties, on judicial independence, on the independence of the central bank, whatever, and then they can increase their negotiating power by triggering Article 50 and then pulling back from exiting the EU within the two years.", "So, you're saying, which is kind of an interesting take because many people who are pro-remain in this country believe that, if the UK starts feeling the pain - we've seen inflation rise, for instance, because the currency has come down - that if Brussels makes it tough, tough, tough that they will every time send the negotiators back home, saying we are not satisfied, we are not satisfied, that maybe in this country there will be a reversal. What you're saying is possibly the EU wouldn't even potentially be interested -", "Precisely. This is why - I am a remainer, by the way.", "Yes.", "A radical remainer, but a remainer nevertheless. For me now, the way things have turned out so far, the only commonsensical solution would be for Mrs. May to end these negotiations and to file an application for a Norway-style agreement", "Right.", "For a period of five years after the end of the two-year period, so a total of seven years as a transition period during which businesses, citizens, both European citizens and British citizens, will have certainty. And a period during which the House of Commons will be given the opportunity that it has been denied so far to debate, in the fullness of time and without a ticking clock in the background, the future relationship between the UK and the", "But the impacts on the British economy, regardless of how you look at it, is going to be negative, you believe.", "Not under the Norway scenario. Under the Norway scenario, it would be steady as she goes. Under the scenario that they are moving towards, absolutely, there's going to be either hard Brexit or a very bad deal.", "Yanis Varoufakis there with his take on Brexit negotiations. Interesting that he believes that even if the UK changes its mind, the EU might not want the country back in the fold. Spain says it will move forward with suspending Catalonia's autonomy. Madrid's announcement came minutes after the Catalan president threatened a formal declaration of independence if the Spanish government doesn't take part in talks. In a statement, the Spanish government says it will trigger Article 155 of the Constitution, which gives the Spanish government the power to enforce the laws in the autonomous regions by any measures necessary. The Prime Minister's cabinet will meet Saturday to OK measures to \"restore the constitutional order\" in Catalonia, calm, though, it appears on the streets of big Catalonian cities right now. Now, we've been telling you this hour about the White House briefing by Chief of Staff John Kelly. His words hold a lot of weight in Washington. I want to get back to the White House. Kaitlan Collins is there with more. So, John Kelly did address the questions surrounding the president's phone calls to Gold Star families, notably the Gold Star widow of La David Johnson who was killed in Niger.", "Yes, that's right. It's created a lot of controversy over the past few days after those incidents, disputing over what exactly was said during that phone call and if the president struck a respectful tone when he was speaking of the widow of Sergeant La David Johnson. And instead of having the Press Secretary Sarah Sanders come out and address these questions from reporters today, they brought the Chief of Staff John Kelly. Now, this is notable not only because the chief of staff doesn't often speak to reporters, but also because Kelly lost his son in Afghanistan a few years ago. So, he came out to speak today about what it was like to lose someone like that and went through a very somber process about what happens to a soldier when they're brought back home. Listen to this.", "Some presidents have elected to call. All presidents, I believe, have elected to send letters. If you elect to call a family like this, it is one of the most difficult thing you could imagine. There's no perfect way to make that phone call. When I took this job and talked to President Trump about how to do it, my first recommendation was he not do it. He asked me about previous presidents. And I said, I can tell you that President Obama, who was my commander-in- chief when I was on active duty, did not call my family. So, when I gave that explanation to our president three days ago, he elected to make phone calls in the case of the four young men who we lost in Niger at the earlier part of this month.", "So, Kelly says there that he really coached the president on what to say during these phone calls. As someone who has experienced something like this, he was saying that there's really nothing that the president could have said that would lightened the burden that's been placed on these families. But Kelly also had some strong language for that Democratic congresswoman from Florida who was in the car when the president called Sergeant La David Johnson's widow to give her a condolence call. She's been very critical of the president saying that he said along the lines of Johnson knew what he signed up for when this happened and extremely critical of what the president said during that call. And John Kelly said just there, during the briefing just now, that he was stunned and heartbroken to see a member of Congress saying something like that and that he actually left the White House yesterday and went to Arlington Cemetery here right outside of DC and walked along - where all these soldiers that have died in battle are buried. And it was a very emotional press conference to say the least.", "Kaitlan Collins at the White House, thanks very much. Coming up, it happens at work, on the bus, even at home. We'll look at why so many women have united by saying Me Too. It's gone viral as they say. We'll find what is next. 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{"id": "CNN-196832", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-12-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1212/04/cnr.03.html", "summary": "New Photo Could Affect Trayvon Martin Case", "utt": ["A new image linked to the night of Trayvon Martin's killing is surfacing. Attorneys for George Zimmerman have posted a photo of Zimmerman online. The attorneys say it was taken by police the night Martin was killed. Zimmerman, as you know, has been charged with a second-degree murder in that February death. Martin was unarmed. Zimmerman says he shot the teenager in self-defense. George Howell has been covering the case for us. So why is this picture coming out now?", "Well, Carol, look, it's a new image but not really new. We have seen this image before. It was released in the first round of discovery as a black and white image so not nearly as impressive. I think we even have a side by side where you can look at the difference here. You see George Zimmerman here black and white, but when you look at that high resolution digital image, you can tell this is -- it's a powerful image. You can tell exactly how badly he was injured. You can tell that there was a fight. Now, the thing that we're looking at here, we know his attorney pushed for that image initially. He wanted to get this high resolution digital image. First he got the black and white. Then he got a color printout, but that's no comparison to what we're seeing here, and that's why the attorney says it's important to get it out.", "So there's been a lot of reaction to this photo. So give us some of the highlights.", "Sure. Really, when you look at this story, there are three sides. First of all, let's talk about Trayvon Martin and his attorney, Ben Crump. When you hear from Ben Crump, Crump says, look, had George Zimmerman not gotten out of his car, there would be no interaction here. But then when you hear from Prosecutor Cory, you know, what does this image mean to her? Well, this is an image that the state released clearly, and her case has always been this happened because George Zimmerman profiled Trayvon Martin. So that's where they stand on it. But when you hear from defense attorney Mark O'Mara representing George Zimmerman, he says this image is important. He spoke to -- on Anderson Cooper last night. Take a listen to what he had to say.", "It's frustrating because this type of evidence should have came out day one and quite honestly would have gone a long way to quelling all of the anger against George that was sort of prove pounded by some of the Trayvon Martin family handlers who just turned this into much more han it ever was in the beginning.", "Carol, really, that was the thing. Initially when this case first came to light, the question was, was there a scuffle? Well, clearly there was a scuffle, we've seen images. We've seen this latest image. I don't think that's really the question anymore. You know, now it comes down to how will this image play in court?", "Trial begins?", "June 10th. That's when we'll see what happens.", "George Howell, thanks so much. Talk back question for you today, is Cory Booker's food stamp challenge helpful for a pointless exercise? Facebook.com/carolcnn. I'll be right back."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "GEORGE HOWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "HOWELL", "MARK O'MARA, GEORGE ZIMMERMAN'S ATTORNEY", "HOWELL", "COSTELLO", "HOWELL", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-139506", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-6-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0906/16/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Iran Bans Foreign Journalists From Rallies", "utt": ["Four days after Iran's election and the protests seem to be growing more violent, foreign journalists banned, and recounts by the very government accused of rigging votes in the first place. Has anybody thought about this? What if Ahmadinejad really did win? Are Western media outlets getting this thing all wrong?", "Decades ago, they say they were beaten as boys. Now they are men, facing their accused childhood tormentor and looking for justice.", "When you spanked these boys with this leather strap, did you use all of your power?", "No.", "A CNN exclusive -- you will see it right here.", "I would like to apologize.", "And Letterman says he is sorry to the Palin family. Is this very public spat finally over? Your national conversation for Tuesday, June 16, 2009, begins right now.", "And good afternoon, everybody. I'm T.J. Holmes, sitting in today for Rick Sanchez. We have been following, of course, the developments we have been seeing in Iran over the past several days. We will continue that coverage today. But it is a little more difficult for us right now. It's a little trickier. Why? Because, today, there is no foreign press coverage allowed there. The Iranian government has shut us down, CNN and other foreign media, non-Iranian news agencies banned from coverage anything related to this election, CNN reporters and producers not allowed to leave their hotel rooms, some online services blocked, text and video services on the Internet blocked. We are, however, still able to get some video, get some things out of there through some other ways and other means. This is some video we have seen that was taken today. This was at a march for supporters of the opposition candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi. He is still disputing the election results. Those results that we saw of course that were put out by the interior ministry saw President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won, and won in a landslide pretty much. We have also seen some pictures that maybe Iran's leaders might not want the world to see. Take a look at what we are talking about here. What you are seeing here, amateur video, this was shot yesterday on a cell phone camera. This is in Tehran near Freedom Square. You have heard that several times over the past few days, where a lot of these demonstrations have been happening. We are told those were gunshots you were hearing there. We don't know if this scene is related to the death of seven people in Tehran, who allegedly attacked a military base. Now I want you to listen to President Obama today explaining why for now his position on Iran is watch and wait.", "It's not productive, given the history of U.S.-Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling, the U.S. president meddling in Iranian elections. What I will repeat, and what I said yesterday, is that when I see violence directed at peaceful protesters, when I see peaceful dissent being suppressed, wherever that takes place, it is of concern to me and it's of concern to the American people. That is not how governments should interact with their people.", "Well, I want to turn now to Octavia Nasr, who is here with me to join this discussion. She's our senior editor for Mideast affairs. We just got a bit of information here across the AP. You and I were just talking about it before we sat down, that the supreme leader now bringing in all sides and is calling for unity. Again, this is according to the AP we are just getting. Why would that be such a significant development?", "Because things got out of hand. All of those images that we are looking at, Iranians do not want this. Iranians wanted their vote to be counted. That's simple. And, right now, where things -- what's going on is that you have two sides inside Tehran, one side supporting President Ahmadinejad, another side supporting Mr. Mousavi. And what they're doing, they are demonstrating. The demonstrations were peaceful in the beginning, and then violence occurred. And then violence escalated. And Iranians are looking at this and saying, no, this is not acceptable. Now, for the supreme leader", "Yes.", "... that means they are trying to find some kind of unity, some kind of resolution. They want to stop the bloodshed.", "And, obviously, the people's movement, a grassroots movement, if you will, has been able to make their voices heard loud enough to force action by the supreme leader.", "Absolutely. This is a cyber-revolution. If you look at it, it -- it happened on the Internet. It mushroomed on the Internet. We watched it develop. We watched it develop during the campaign and then on Election Day and then after that. And we are watching it grow so fast and so bloody that it's making people very worried, very concerned right now. And when you talk about the all the stuff you have been reporting, a crackdown on the media, not allowing us, for example, to leave our hotel room, how are we going to report about what's going on in Iran? If all the reports coming out of Iran are filtered by the Iranian government, how do you trust those reports? So, what the opposition is doing, they are resorting to social media. They figured out a way to take pictures on their cell phones. That's why most of the video is either taking on a cell phone, amateur video. And they are uploading it on sites such as our own site, CNN's iReport, on YouTube, on Facebook, on Twitter, you name it. They're having all kinds of conversations online with people. You know, the Iranian government also blocked the Internet.", "Yes.", "So, they tried to hack these people, tried to stop them from communicating with the outside world. They figured out a way. As a matter of fact, today, for example, one way I have been talking to my contacts inside Iran is through GTalk or through Google messenger.", "Yes.", "And those -- both those are down today. But my contacts told me that they used a proxy in order to get around the blockage. And we were able to talk. We were able to communicate, and they were telling me what's going on today. So, Iranians are -- are very savvy.", "Savvy.", "And they are really using this technology to their advantage. Another thing, T.J., that is important is that the world is embracing this cyber-revolution, if you will.", "The world is standing there in support. You go to Twitter, for example, you see many people changed their profile pictures to green in solidarity with the green movement of Mousavi in Iran.", "You see people telling each other, please don't use names. Don't use user names. And, of course, CNN is going to definitely do that.", "We are going to protect people. We are not here to expose them or say their names on air or anywhere else.", "You know, no matter what, it is remarkable what we have been seeing on the air and in pictures as well.", "It is. It sure is.", "And we want to go now live to Iran, to Tehran. Our Reza Sayah is there for us right now, Reza, of course, one of the -- one of the many who have -- I guess, Reza, your movements have been restricted pretty much by the government there. So, we have been seeing these pictures, these protests, demonstrations and some violence over the past several days. Tell us what today was like and tell us what, I guess, is happening, is still possibly happening, even though it is late there right now.", "Well, a lot happening today, T.J., several major developments. One of them is not good news for CNN and other members of the foreign media, the Iranian government today pointing the finger to CNN and other foreign media outlets, saying, you are no longer allowed to cover these rallies, you are no longer allowed broadcast images of these rallies. Of course, it has been largely the foreign media outlets, including CNN, over the past few days that have shown pictures of the violent and oftentimes brutal crackdown against the supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the disgruntled presidential candidate. And, basically, today, the Iranian government said they have had enough. They have made it no secret that they weren't happy with the coverage, calling it biased and one-sided. And, today, they pulled the plug, making our job very challenging,", "Challenging, as you say, there. Is there any sense that today was much different than what we saw the past several days, which, of course, was several clashes? But does it seem like maybe -- and the word we are just getting now with the supreme leader maybe having conversations with all sides in the election, that maybe people are starting to wanting to move past, I guess, what we have been seeing in the streets the past few days?", "Well, I think the two sides want to move past the situation here, but in different directions. Indeed, the supreme leader did meet with representatives of all four candidates. And, earlier this week, he did call on the Iranian Guardian Council, the highest legislative body in Iran, to carefully review the vote. And Guardian Council did agree to do a recount, a partial recount, but that certainly not satisfying the Mousavi camp. They don't want a recount. They want a new vote. And, today, we did see more rallies on both sides. You had a pro-Ahmadinejad camp coming out with a very large rally. A couple of hours later, you saw the Mousavi supporters with a huge rally. And for a moment there, it had the makings of a very volatile, explosive situation, possibly, people feared, a collision course between these two rallies. But that didn't happen. So, what was different today, based on what we were able to observe, we were able to able to hear, not as much violence as we have seen in the past few days.", "All right. And we will take that right now. Reza Sayah, again, one of our journalists, our -- our reporters who is there in Tehran, but, again, like so many other foreign media, being restricted in what he can and can't do and where he can and can't move. Reza, thank you so much. Meanwhile, we are, of course, as always, here on Rick's show, want to share with you some of the video we're getting, some of the comments we are getting from you as well. Do want to head now -- we do have a comment up on Twitter from James Bowen, if we can turn there to that Twitter page and show you this, saying: \"What if Ahmadinejad -- win? What if he did win? Then he is who we talk to. That's all. Also, To the right there, someone else on MySpace, on Rick's MySpace, commenting, saying: \"This is awful. People should be able to voice how they fear without fearing for their lives. Sad, very sad.\" Thank you for sending your comments in. Continue to send them in. And our thanks once to Reza Sayah there in Tehran and also our Octavia Nasr, who has been -- who is sitting here with me, for her comments and really her reporting on what is happening there in the Middle East, specifically in Iran. Well, stay with us here. The massive protests, we're talking about, the international concerns, Iran's elections has sparked all of that. But what -- what if the results announced are accurate? Is that even possible? That's not necessarily what a lot of people are talking about right now. But I have got a guest coming up who says, not only is it possible that Ahmadinejad won; it is likely. And he has got numbers to back it up. Also, later, systematic, continual beatings at school, that's what a group of men say they were subjected to as children. Now, decades later, they're taking on the man they say was responsible."], "speaker": ["T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "HOLMES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HOLMES", "DAVID LETTERMAN, HOST, \"THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN\"", "HOLMES", "HOLMES", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HOLMES", "OCTAVIA NASR, CNN SENIOR EDITOR FOR ARAB AFFAIRS", "HOLMES", "NASR", "HOLMES", "NASR", "HOLMES", "NASR", "HOLMES", "NASR", "HOLMES", "NASR", "NASR", "NASR", "NASR", "HOLMES", "NASR", "HOLMES", "REZA SAYAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "T.J. HOLMES", "SAYAH", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-231871", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2014-6-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/03/acd.02.html", "summary": "Political Firestorm Over Freeing Bowe Bergdahl; Controversial Deleted Tweet by Bergdahl's Father; 25 Years Since Tiananmen Square", "utt": ["Hey, good evening. Thanks for joining us. We are following some of the especially dangerous weather in the Midwest in Great Plains right now. Forecaster's warning of a very long night ahead. Chad Meyers is in the Weather Center monitoring conditions. He's going to join us shortly. First, though, in the special second hour of 360, the political firestorm over the deal to free Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl from five years of captivity, there's Breaking News on that. We've learned that an early Pentagon fact finding investigation back in 2009 concluded that he left his outpost deliberately and willingly. The official who clued us in to that report says there was no definitive finding that Bergdahl deserted because that would require knowing his intent. That may become clear soon that when he's been debriefed which he hasn't so far. Whatever the answer is, whatever the conclusion, President Obama today stood by the steps he took to bring Bergdahl home.", "Regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an American soldier back if he's held in captivity. Period. Full stop.", "In the meantime back in Washington, the President's deputy of National Security Adviser calling Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee apologizing for not giving a 30-day notice of the deal as required by law. Unclear, she accepted his apology but crystal clear, she was not happy with the way this all unfolded.", "It comes with some surprise and dismay that the transfers went ahead with no consultation, totally not following the law. And in an issue of this kind of concern to a committee that bares the oversight responsibility, I think you can see that we're very dismayed about it.", "Our Republican lawmakers even more so, we're going to get a sense of just how politically toxic this is becoming. And David Gergen joins us. We'll as well from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and there's more. In addition to or perhaps compounding the political acrimony, a tweet, now deleted, that Sergeant Bergdahl's father, Bob, apparently sent to a Taliban spokesman. It reads, \"I'm still working to free all Guantanamo prisoners. God will repay for the death of every Afghan child, ameen.\" Ameen is Amen in Arabic. The Bergdahl family declined a comment on that tweet. Also today, more members of their sons unit weighed in. Most notably, his former team leader, Army Sergeant Evan Buetow, he tells the Lead's Jake Tapper that Bergdahl was seeking out the enemy.", "I was standing right next to the radio when they heard that there's an American in a village called Yahya Khel, which is about two miles from where we were at. And it's a village that has a very, very large presence of Taliban, that there's -- the American is in Yahya Khel, he is looking for someone who speaks English so he can talk to the Taliban. And I heard it straight from the interpreter's lips as he heard it over the radio. And at that point, it was like this is kind of snowballing out of control a little bit. There's a lot more to this story than just a soldier walking away.", "A lot more and a lot we should add that we simply do not know at this point. Joining us now to help fill in the gaps, Retired Army Sergeant Josh Korder who also served with Bowe Bergdahl. Josh, thanks for being with us. As I said, you served in the same platoon as Bergdahl in Afghanistan. You say you're upset when you heard that the U.S. had secured his release. Why? Explain that.", "I necessary wasn't upset that his release was secured. It was just more about the way it was done and the fact that there's, you know, more dangerous men out there that, you know, can basically terrorize people.", "Do you have any doubt that he was a deserter?", "There's no doubt in my mind that he deserted us.", "Explain that. How do you know?", "Just the way that he was acting. The way that he was talking. The way that he, you know, sent e-mails to his family, just everything he was doing showed that it had, you know, premeditation that he had the intent of leaving the army. What his intent upon leaving the army, I guess that's something only he knows but he definitely intended to leave and, you know, in a combat zone that's desertion.", "What were the circumstances that you know that that lead to his disappearance? I mean can you take me back five years ago that evening?", "From what I understand, you know, he'd gone very close to his Afghan counterparts. There was talk -- it seemed like because at the same time he disappeared, two Afghan soldiers disappeared and it seemed like he had made a deal with them to try and get out of the military, get to one of their families, get to one of their houses and that they were going to try to help him to, you know, get away. But it turned out that they basically turned him over to the Taliban and, you know, made some money off of it and that's how he ended up being captured.", "Do you remember when you heard that he was missing and what you immediately thought?", "I mean, I initially was approached by one of our team leaders and he said, \"Guess who's missing.\" And my battle buddy and I immediately said Bergdahl. We didn't even have to think about who it was that was missing when we knew that someone had disappeared.", "Because he had talked about what? Going off before? Or?", "Just because of anyone in the platoon that we knew of all these people that we fought with and knew all so well, he was the only person that we believe to be capable of that.", "Were you friendly with him before the disappearance? And if so, what was he like as a person?", "He was very strange. It was very difficult to talk to him. It was very difficult to find out basically what he was thinking. I mean, I learned after his disappearance, you know, they were telling on the news that he had a girlfriend. Well, one time I asked him, you know, \"Hey, Bergdahl, you got anybody that you're dating back home?\" And he told me, \"No, I'm not really into that kind of thing.\" And it just kind of took me aback and then, you know, when I find out that he did have a girlfriend, it was just kind of weird. Why would you say something like that?", "Do you notice any change in his attitude toward the war or toward the service while he was there?", "Absolutely. There are two or three major events that happened during our deployment that were very hard for all of us but he took a particular offense to a lot of things. But the thing was is that, you know, a lot of us got angry, you know. When something happens in the military, it comes from higher. It's a decision that's made above you and a lot of times we -- you kind of got to stand together and face it, you know, we're all in this together. But he started attacking those people -- maybe inside of his head or, you know, something like that out loud. He started attacking them and I think try to justify to himself why he just didn't need to be there anymore.", "I mean there are reports that six soldiers were killed during the search for Bergdahl. There's some people who -- whose, you know, same and not to be that cut and dry but do you hold Bergdahl responsible for their deaths?", "I wouldn't necessarily say that, you know, if there was like a shooting that he pulled the trigger. But I do think that the circumstances surrounding his disappearance and him being gone certainly messed up all of the plans that the army had and set the grounds for those people to be killed because they probably wouldn't have been there. They probably have been doing all their missions. Would they have survived through the deployment? I can't say. But I can almost tell you for certainty that we wouldn't have been in those towns.", "Well, Josh, I know it's a hard thing to talk about. I appreciate you coming on and talking with us tonight. Thank you. Let's dig deep now with Dan O'Shea, Former Navy Seal Commander and Former Coordinator at the Hostage Working Group at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, also Investigative Reporter David Rohde who was held captive for seven months by the Taliban before he managed to escape. You know, David, clearly we're hearing more and more from these men who served with Sergeant Bergdahl. You say many have no idea that his fellow soldiers may have lost their lives looking for him. When you were held by the Taliban, were you in complete isolation from anything happening in the outside world? How much do you think he may know about the last five years?", "It could be very little. I was isolated in the beginning but as time went on I was able to listen to BBC Radio Broadcast and other things. But again, I'm a civilian and I would think I would be treated much better than Bergdahl was. There was a critical thing in that last interview though about these two Afghan soldiers. There's a possibility one of the theories was maybe that Bergdahl was tricked into leaving the base or he did just walk off that base. There may have been a mental breakdown here. There's so many unanswered questions and, you know, the most important person to hear from is obviously Bergdahl.", "And we talked about this David last night but you believe he absolutely has a lot of questions to answer and needs to at the very least to the people he served with.", "Absolutely. These soldiers that are on tonight and the last couple of days deserved answers, you know. Whatever Bergdahl's intent was, you know, these young men, you know, suffered a great deal but there should be due process. We should sort of hear from Bowe Bergdahl innocent to guilty is what, you know, General Dempsey today. But there should be an investigation, I agree. Again, I said this last night, I don't think he necessarily left that base, you know, intending to harm anyone. I think maybe he didn't understand what was out there and I guarantee just based on my own time of captivity that he regrets that decision and, you know, he regretted it for everyday of the last five years and will regret it for the rest of his life.", "Dan, do you think it's conceivable that -- I mean that a soldier who's been through training, who, you know, he apparently read a lot about the conflict or read a lot about the Russians there, their experience that he would have walked off not realizing the danger that he was putting himself in, that he was theoretically putting other people in?", "Well, again, as we've said, the only person who can really answer that is Bergdahl himself. But, you know, the bottom line is when you go through training, boot camp and certainly advanced individual training before you deploy, you build bombs with the members of your platoon, in your company, and your squad that are generally inseparable. You know, you go back and any veteran who served a hundred years, I've met guys that served four years and 40 years later they're heads of industry and they recite to me that the most meaningful time of their life was when they were in an infantry squad as a young marine. So this was the most defining experience of his life to go to combat where literally in an outpost as small as this (ph) cop or combat outpost they might have had 12 soldiers. So literally, that rewind every man to do his rotation at three-hour watch that they were on for 24/7. A critical, critical situation for him to walk up the post. That's why there's so many levels of betrayal felt by these soldiers because it's so obvious to them what his actions, you know, potentially constituted which is desertion.", "It's also an issue again because I mean he clearly sought out service in the military. I read that account by Hastings in Rolling Stone. Apparently he had sought out trying to get into the French Foreign Legion and before that he wasn't able to do and ended up going to the army. So clearly he wanted to be -- have some form of military service. What, you know, Dan, the administration says they saw a window of opportunity in their negotiations and that they kind of -- they had to take it and they say they were also concerned about his health and his safety. It's not exactly clear what that means. We've been told he's in stable condition. You managed, I think, more than 400 kidnapping incidents in Iraq when you were there. Does that explain -- explanation ring true to you here? Did that happen that quickly in a negotiation like this?", "Well, listen, a hostage's life is always at risk in these environments but, you know, to say that he was, you know, we can't speculate that he had, you know, some heart condition or some disease. I mean in every single case when we've watched to analyze the videos of the hostages, these proof of life videos, we would denote, you know, that the age, you know, weight loss and a number of things to give us indications. But no, that's were used in every case why we want to rescue him the way we did because the timing of this just seems, you know, why would you negotiate if they know all this now, it's now coming out these facts which of course the government had to know that these charges of desertion are going to come up. They had to expect this fallout and then the fact that they've released five senior Taliban commanders that before U.S. troops have pulled out of Afghanistan and NATO troops, we're going to let this guys back on the battlefield again. So it baffles me that they're saying that it was a health issue that forced them to play the hand at the time that they did.", "Dan O'Shea, it's good to have you on again and David Rohde as well. Thank you guys very much. Dan by the way has written an excellent piece for CNN.com entitled \"Bergdahl still has a hard road home\" A quick reminder, make sure you set your DVR so you can watch 360 whenever you want. Coming up next tonight and yet more Breaking News in the story just talking about how the deal to free Bergdahl happened and over whose objections. Also, later the history of Americans taken prisoner and how we've gotten them back."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, AC360 HOST", "BARACK OBAMA, 44TH AND CURRENT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "COOPER", "SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN, (D-CA) CHAIR, SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE", "COOPER", "SGT. EVAN BUETOW (RET.), BERGDAHL'S FORMER TEAM LEADER", "COOPER", "SGT. JOSH KORDER, U.S. ARMY (RET.)", "COOPER", "KORDER", "COOPER", "KORDER", "COOPER", "KORDER", "COOPER", "KORDER", "COOPER", "KORDER", "COOPER", "KORDER", "COOPER", "KORDER", "COOPER", "KORDER", "COOPER", "DAVID ROHDE, INVESTATIVE REPORTER, REUTERS", "COOPER", "ROHDE", "COOPER", "DAN O'SHEA, FORMER U.S. NAVY SEAL COMMANDER", "COOPER", "O'SHEA", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-174980", "program": "CNN RELIABLE SOURCES", "date": "2011-10-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1110/30/rs.01.html", "summary": "'Human Events' Reporter Ambushes Biden", "utt": ["Jason Mattera is a reporter for the conservative publication \"Human Events.\" But on his Web site, Mattera portrays himself as an ambush artist. Here for instance, he initially acts friendly toward Congressman Barney Frank and winds up asking him about a 20-year-old scandal in which the Democrat had a relationship with someone who turned out to be a male prostitute.", "Congressman Frank, Jason Mattera, pleasure to meet you, sir.", "Where are you from, Jason?", "From Brooklyn, New York, actually. With the bad economy and all -- with the bad economy and all, can you give me advice on how to start my own brothel? I know you have experience in these matters. Maybe I can make some extra cash on the side.", "No, it's silly", "Too silly? You have one running out of your apartment.", "When Joe Biden was in a Senate hallway recently, Mattera started by asking the vice president for a photo.", "Do you regret using a rape reference to describe Republican opposition to the president's bill?", "I didn't use it. No, no, no, what I said, let's get it straight, guys. Don't screw around with me. Let's get it straight.", "You didn't use the rape reference?", "No, let me -- listen to me.", "So, was this a case of unethical journalism? Joining us now to talk about the Biden incident and the latest undercover involving James O'Keefe -- Glynnis MacNicol, media editor at BusinessInsider.com, and Paul Farhi, media reporter for \"The Washington Post.\" Glynnis, was that outright deception what we just saw by Jason Mattera?", "It sounds like it. I mean, he did have some sort of a badge that said he was a reporter.", "Not clear whether it was visible.", "We're not clear whether it was visible.", "He says it was.", "Right. He certainly presented himself as somebody who wanted a photo. But I think we're seeing this as sort of a repeated over and over again. They know they can get a good video clip from it. They know it can go viral on the Internet. They might get a prominent person in an awkward situation. So, yes.", "On the other hand, it was in a public hallway in the Senate, Paul Farhi. He asked an aggressive question, certainly. Did he sandbag the vice president?", "Well, it's kind of hard to sandbag the vice president of the United States. Joe Biden's been around for decades. He's a big boy, he can handle himself. And in this case, he didn't handle himself particularly well. The confrontation depends on getting a response that's a little outraged, a little angry so that you can make the clip and you can make the viral video that you're seeking in the first place. Biden gave it to him.", "Well, I didn't see anything particularly wrong with Biden's response. He got a little testy. But let's have -- let's hear what Jason Mattera had to say, he was interviewed this week by John King.", "Journalists can't take pictures with the vice president.", "I think it's unethical.", "I'm looking to get politicians who are used to spin and their messaging teams. I'm trying to get an honest reaction, a frank answer, a gut reaction.", "Amen. Amen.", "Especially because so much -- so much of the media is made up of drones who gave Biden a pass.", "So, the explanation seems to be that anything goes when it comes to penetrating the bubble that does indeed surround high- ranking public officials.", "Right. I mean, here's the thing -- you want to get a face to face with somebody. He's thinking the media is not questioning the vice president enough. I think it's -- I think the vice president actually handled himself fine. I watched that clip and thought, well, that's typical Joe Biden. We're not seeing a different person than we see every day.", "And how did Mattera handle himself?", "I don't find the sort of journalism sheds the greatest light on the reporter who's trying to implement it. You sort of think -- well, why can't you just find a better way to get face-to-face time with the vice president? So I just -- I always think they come off sort of looking unprofessional and silly. But --", "Unprofessional and silly. Was there anything wrong with Mattera's question?", "Not at all. In fact, Biden confirmed the substance of the question. It was a reference to a speech that Biden had made earlier. He asked him if he was using rape as a way to justify passage of the jobs bill.", "Basically he's suggesting that if the president's jobs bill did not pass Congress, crime including rape would increase. A number of journalists have asked about that, including Candy Crowley when she interviewed the vice president last week. And I didn't think the question was asked particularly rudely.", "I didn't think so either. And I thought Biden basically said, yes, you're right, I did use that reference. And I'm now telling you again that I'm using that reference.", "This story got a second life when there were a number of news stories that portrayed Biden's office as seeking perhaps to yank the credentials of Jason Mattera. I misstated something earlier this week based on stories that I saw which left me with the impression the vice president of the office had initiated this. In fact, our reporting shows that the Capitol Hill committee, the credentials reporters, was looking into this matter. Contacted, we actually got a statement saying no formal complaint was submitted by the vice president's office. But, you know, if the Hill contacts the vice president's office and says what happened, there were security concerns, of course you would answer questions. It was a misimpression, I think, that Biden was looking to retaliate against this reporter.", "But there were no security concerns. He was in a public place. He was in the Capitol building. There were Secret Service around. He was wearing a press credential. Would he have gotten the same interview if he had said \"I'm Jason Mattera from 'Human Events', I'm here to ask you an obnoxious question\" -- probably not. But the misrepresentation, very, very gray area.", "An omission. I mean, that's the thing -- you know, I think -- I don't think there are too many reporters who haven't try to sneak in somewhere and get themselves close to somebody where they can ask a question. But you would say \"John King, CNN,\" \"Paul Farhi, \"Washington Post\" -- he didn't say that. But, of course, as you say, Biden is not exactly new to this game.", "And in fact, if you look at what Mattera has done, he will walk up to people on the street, just as Michael Moore will, and say, I'm Jason Mattera, and then he will ask his obnoxious question, and he will get a testy answer each time. But it's a public place and it is fair game.", "So what is the goal here? Is the goal to get the public official, the target, to say something revealing? Or is the goal to draw attention to yourself so that you get to be interviewed by John King on CNN? You get to do a bunch of interviews with Politico, et cetera? And it is a way of making a name for yourself?", "Right. I think probably more the second than the first. But I think what we see over and over again is they're trying to create these embarrassing moments which then turn into these great viral clips that go everywhere and change what the conversation is about.", "When you say they, do you mean certain conservative activist journalists or do you mean journalists of varying political stripes?", "I would say more the activist journalists we've seen recently. But I would say a lot of people are interested in creating viral video clips now. It's sort of the easiest way to promote yourself, promote your argument, to get yourself out there. We're talking about it on a Sunday show right now. Clearly he's changed the conversation.", "It used to be you had to go and cover city hall, the state house for years and work your way up. Now you just have to have a viral video clip. This is what I'm hearing this morning.", "But I think (inaudible) -- I think you may remember Mayhill Fowler, who caught Bill Clinton in that off moment, and that turned -- during the 2008 campaign -- and that turned into a huge thing.", "She was a blogger for the Huffington Post and she did not (ph) identify herself - she also snuck into an Obama fund-raiser. The rules are clearly changing. Let's talk more about this on the other side. I've got to get a break. Up next, conservative activist James O'Keefe accuses a reporter of getting his sources drunk. I'm serious. The evidence pretty watered down."], "speaker": ["KURTZ", "JASON MATTERA, HUMAN EVENTS", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-76568", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2003-9-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/06/cst.07.html", "summary": "A Look Ahead At Movies Premering In Toronto, Venice Festivals", "utt": ["I see you", "You never know.", "From Miramax Films...", "Oh, boy. If there is Anthony Hopkins in it, it's probably creepy, huh? But good. It seems a little premature, though, to talk about Oscars right now, when they're not going to be handed out until next spring. But two film festivals are previewing the movies that could take center stage on Academy Awards night. \"In Touch\" magazine editor Tom O'Neil is in New York listening to the buzz being generated in both Toronto and Venice. Good to see you, Tom.", "Same here, Fredricka.", "All right. So we've got two festivals ongoing right now. One started a couple of days ago, the other one got kicked off this weekend. Why are the film festivals in Toronto and Venice so important to watch, especially when thinking about the Oscars?", "Because this is where movies like \"American Beauty\" break out of the pack and suddenly emerge as frontrunners, when they may not have been on the radar screen before that. And why this happens is because these two festivals not only come at a good time, September, just a few months before the big Oscar season begins, but also it's those rare times when the film industry leaders, the insiders, get together with the film critics and see these movies for the first time. So buzz is coming out now about some of these movies we'll talk about in a second here. That's very exciting.", "Do these two festivals attract very different films from one another?", "In a way, yes. The Venice festival has a lot more international films. And what really is happening at these festivals is that distribution deals are being made while these films are funded in their domestic countries. They want to make money, of course, beyond. So that's why they're showcased here. Toronto here in North America is easily the top festival. And then Sundance would be number two. But that's how important Toronto is right now. And it opened just last night.", "All right. Well, let's talk about the ones to watch then. We saw just a second ago as we opened up this segment with a clip with Nicole Kidman and Anthony Hopkins in \"The Human Stain.\" What's so compelling about this movie?", "This touches on a lot of issues, from race to religion. Anthony Hopkins plays a New England professor whose secret life comes out. And while his secret past is explained, not only that. He's having this affair with Nicole Kidman, who is not in the sophisticated role that we're used to seeing her. But she's very good here as kind of a floozy trailer park gal. And what's interesting is that this is the opposite that we've seen her in the past. But also, she's so good in this movie, she's generating a lot of Oscar buzz. And she may be competing against herself in the movie yet to be released called \"Cold Mountain.\"", "Wow. She's hot this year, huh, with \"After Hours\" as well?", "Yes, that's what it is.", "All right. Let's talk about Bill Murray. We usually associate him with images from like \"Caddy Shack.\" And now he's in something called \"Lost in Translation,\" and there's talk about him and an Oscar already?", "Can you believe it?", "No.", "Bill Murray, comedienne? But this is no joke. This movie is just taking critics and everybody's hearts by storm. He plays a has-been American movie star who goes to Japan to make a whiskey commercial. And he happens to have one of those all night affair encounters.", "And this is a Coppola film, isn't it? But Sophia Coppola?", "Yes. Sophia Coppola, daughter of Francis Ford Coppola. And of course her break-out movie a few years ago was \"Virgin Suicides.: So this is her follow-up to this, and it's even better.", "Wow. \"Matchstick Men,\" Nicholas Cage, always the quirky Nicholas Case. And this time he's getting attention for something rather bizarre, isn't he?", "Well, this time -- see, he's the same kind of neurotic character that we're used to seeing. But in this case, what's different is he's a con artist. He's not a heroic character, like we're used to seeing. And it's kind of a \"Paper Moon\" situation. He teams up with his young teenage daughter to pull off these scams. And so you have a very odd family bonding movie happening here.", "All right. Tom O'Neil, a lot to look forward to this fall, and that's good news, because I don't think a whole lot of folks were that impressed with the summer movie season. So maybe around Thanksgiving, Christmas, we'll all have a good reason to go to the theaters, huh?", "Yes. 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{"id": "NPR-24150", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2014-05-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/05/13/312046501/former-army-sgt-kyle-white-to-receive-medal-of-honor", "title": "Former Army Sgt. Kyle White To Receive Medal Of Honor", "summary": "Renee Montagne talks to Kyle White, who will receive the Medal of Honor for actions conducted during a 2007 battle in Afghanistan. He was with U.S. and Afghan forces when the Taliban ambushed them.", "utt": ["Let's take you now to a story of heroism on a battlefield in Afghanistan. It was November 2007. Army Specialist Kyle White was with his platoon and a squad of Afghan soldiers and their U.S. Marine trainer in a remote, mountainous part of northeastern Afghanistan. They were ambushed. And in a lengthy firefight with the Taliban, the 20-year-old White risked his life many times trying to save others, and did save the life of fellow soldier Kain Schilling. For those actions, he will be presented with the nation's highest military medal, the Medal of Honor. When Kyle White joined us, he described how that day began, when his group of soldiers went into a local village to meet with the elders.", "Normally, when we go to these meetings, there's, you know, a few, you know, the elders there, and they won't be too enthusiastic. But on this day, it seemed that every male fighting agent above was in attendance. And they were just gathered in a horseshoe-shaped formation around us, and just very close packed in together and very attentive to every single thing we had to say.", "Sounds like a good thing, but that unusual level of interest suggested danger. Their interpreter was also troubled by some chatter he heard on the radio. So, the group decided to leave immediately, and as they made their way back up the mountain, gunfire rang out.", "It started as a single gunshot, then two, and then it seemed the whole valley erupted. And it just was - the amount of fire, it seemed to come from every direction. And, you know, I fired my first magazine, and I loaded another one. That's when a rocket-propelled grenade hit right behind my head and knocked me unconscious.", "When you came to, what did you find?", "When I came to, I was face down in just a large piece of, like, shale rock. And as I picked my head up, an enemy round hit that rock and fragmented into my face. And that kind of brought me back to reality pretty quickly. And I remember putting my hand to my face and pulling it back, and my hand was covered in blood. And as I looked at Specialist Schilling, I could see him running behind a canopy of just one lone tree that was on the trail. As he was running, I noticed that he'd been shot in his right shoulder and was dragging his arm. I got up to go move to his position and put a tourniquet on his right arm.", "And then Marine Sergeant Philip Bocks was further down. And what - on the ground, hit?", "Yes. So, once I saw that he had been wounded, I yelled at him to, you know, use all your strength and try to get to me. You know, just use whatever you can. And he's trying to move, but he's kind of just - he's not making any progress at this point. And the fire that's coming in, it's just kind of like a hailstorm. I saw that he'd been wounded and he had helped, and I know that if the roles were reversed, he would have came out and done the same for me. And so I made the decision to just get up and go to him and try to drag him to where I was.", "And as I was running out towards Sergeant Bocks, every enemy fighter than was able to see me was firing at me, because the amount of bullets that were coming in, they were so close, you can feel the pressure from the round going by your face. They're snapping through my uniform. You see little puffs of fabric. And I just know that I got to get to him and I got to get back to my position. And so when I grabbed him and started dragging him, I realized that, you know, they weren't shooting at him before I ran out here. They're not really focused on him. They're focusing on me. And I knew the longer I sat there and dragged him, the greater chance he had of being wounded again.", "And so I made the decision to kind of draw their fire away from Bocks by running back to Kain's position - Kain Schilling, that's Specialist Schilling. And running back to his position long enough to distract them and have them follow me, and then wait a second and then repeat the movement. I did that about three or four times until I got Sergeant Bocks back to our location.", "He was badly wounded, right?", "Yes, he was. And so when I got him to relatively concealed location, I put a tourniquet on his leg and then dressed the wound that was on his left shoulder. But I found that there had been an exit wound in his ribcage. It was bleeding pretty profusely. So, I tried to stop the bleeding as best I could, but he died not long after.", "So, you knew Sergeant Bocks hadn't made it, but you still, you looked over and you spotted the platoon leader, First Lieutenant Matthew Ferrara, and he was in bad shape, too, as far as you could see, right?", "I saw his helmet and his assault pack he carried on his back. And it's just that the way the terrain was shaped, that's all I could see from where I was at. And I didn't know if he was alive or dead, but I knew I had to go out and check on him. And so I kind of just crawled out there to go check on him. You know, when I got to him, I checked his pulse, and he had already died.", "How much longer did this firefight go on?", "Well, the firefight lasted about four hours. It started 3:30 in the afternoon, and it pretty much ended when night had fallen. It seemed like we were on that hillside forever. I don't know the actual amount of time that had passed from, you know, when the ambush started till when we were actually medically evacuated out of there.", "You have described this so vividly. I'm just wondering - this is seven years later - how much it imposes itself on you, the thoughts and the memories?", "It's something you still think about every day. You know, I still have these images from that day burned into my head. But it's something, as time goes on, it gets easier.", "You've said that something - I'm quoting you now, I've read - you said that \"something changed\" in you that day. What changed?", "Even to this day, you know, I can't say if it was something good or bad. Just something changed after that day. And that was pretty much the reason why I decided to leave the Army, as well. When it came time to reenlist, I figured, you know, if I don't have, you know, my 100 percent, you know, heart and mind in what I'm doing here, when I go down back to Afghanistan and I have soldiers that are going to look to me to be a leader, you know, they deserve to have the best leaders they can have. And I didn't feel, at that time, I could give that to them.", "Well, you had already given your best, which was extraordinary.", "I just was literally doing the job I was trained to do. And I know that any of those guys there that day, they would have done the exact same thing.", "Six of the 14 Americans fighting on the mountain that were killed. When the Medevac helicopters finally arrived, Kyle White insisted that all the wounded be taken onboard first before he would leave. President Obama will award the Congressional Medal of Honor to former Army Sergeant White this afternoon in a ceremony at the White House. This is NPR News. 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{"id": "CNN-354807", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-11-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/15/nday.01.html", "summary": "Trump Said to be \"Pissed at Damn Near Everyone\"; Trump Continues to Push False Voter Fraud Claims; Broward County Finishes Election Recount.", "utt": ["This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.", "Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is NEW DAY. It's Thursday, November 15th. It's 6:00 here in New York.", "NEW DAY, same topics.", "You're looking at me expectantly like I have actually something --", "I was. I was trying to see what the new thing that you were about to tell us.", "OK. Are you ready?", "I'm ready.", "So, if the White House were \"Sesame Street,\" the letter of the day would be P and the number infinity, because the president, \"he's pissed at damn near everyone.\" Was that worth the wait?", "That was worth the wait.", "All right.", "Yes, it was.", "So it is a direct quote. It comes from a White House official noting that the president's mood is darker than normal this week. So dark -- would you like me to continue the children's theme?", "Please. Please.", "It's so dark that the president has ventured into the land of make-belief. He's inventing stuff about cereal and hats. We're going to have much more on that in a moment. His listed grievances includes -- I got more.", "I can see that.", "His listed grievances includes --", "You're on a roll.", "-- looking like a bossed around husband after the first lady publicly ordered the dismissal of one of his top advisers. This morning Deputy National Security adviser Mira Ricardel is out of a White House post, though she is expected to remain in the administration. Also nagging at the president, that trip to Paris that was something of a PR debacle. We're told the president is furious at Chief of Staff John Kelly for that. And then there are the election results which keep getting worse for the president. Two more House races were called to the Democrats overnight.", "I see your cereal, and I'm going to raise you some cereal right now. In a new interview with the \"Daily Caller,\" President Trump did not give a resounding vote of confidence on the future of Chief of Staff John Kelly or DHS Secretary Kristjen Nielsen. He only said that he will make a decision on Homeland Security soon and to expect some changes before the end of the year. Now the deadline for that Florida recount is today. And the president continues to make bizarre claims about voter fraud and cereal.", "Yes.", "For some reason people are carding President Trump when he tries to buy Fruit Loops.", "It's true. Seriously. He claims --", "I killed that.", "He claims you need a voter I.D. to buy cereal.", "You need an I.D. to buy cereal.", "Is that all kinds of cereal?", "I don't know. But we're going to get to the bottom of it. Joining us now CNN White House correspondent Abby Phillip, CNN senior political analyst John Avlon, and former Ted Cruz communications director Alice Stewart. Great to have all of you. John, it's already one off the rails so let's continue.", "That was just the most delightful opening to a show.", "OK. So what we're talking about with the cereal.", "Yes.", "Is that President Trump has come up with this scenario that he thinks that people are parking in vans outside of voting booths and going in with one outfit and coming back out and putting on a disguise, a hat, and going back in to vote again. And you believe this scenario is cribbed from a Hanna-Barbera cartoon.", "It has the feel of an old-school Hanna-Barbera cartoon. This is where the cat character would change the hat, put on glasses, maybe a shirt, and fool the storekeeper.", "The squirrel.", "This is the squirrel who's currently running the commissary in this particular scenario. This is just the sign of -- this is a deep unreality. This is land of make believe as John Berman said. Because the accusation of voter fraud is serious, particularly at a time when we're having recounts in one of our key swing states, and the president's explanation for the mechanics of it are land of fantasy. I mean, it's --", "\"Fantasy Island.\"", "A fantasy. And the serial thing is just like, you know, I don't even -- I mean, millions of Americans who buy cereal know for a fact it's not true and it doubles down on his line above the grocery store needing I.D. where he got slammed on that two months ago. So zero percent learning curve.", "I think John makes a good point, you know, integrity of our elections are critical and it's important and there are issues where we need to take a closer look at elections. But to the point of, you know, using an I.D. for a box of cereal, like I need an I.D. when I buy a box of wine at the grocery store but not a box of cereal. So I think unfortunately a lot of the seriousness of the issue of integrity of our elections get lost with statements like this.", "Yes, look, his flat-out making stuff up. Period. Full stop.", "Right. Right.", "The question is why. What's going on in his head? And there has been this three-day sort of rush of speculation and reporting, Abby, that his mood is incredibly dark. You know, we have the reporting this morning, he's pissed at damn near everyone. That's a direct quote there. He's mad at a number of things including what happened with his wife, basically firing publicly Mira Ricardel. She's gone this morning, right?", "Well, she's not at the White House. We don't know where else in the administration she is. But the president is upset. And it's not the first time he's been upset but this is particularly bad mood and we're seeing in public some of the public ramifications of that, which is that the president is sort of spinning into conspiracy theories in public. He is lashing out at his aides in private. He is in some cases seeming to not want to do certain parts of the job, not going out of his way to do certain things, like for example, on Monday spending the entire Veterans Day holiday at the White House holed up there. Look, this is all a lot of negative things for President Trump converging all at one time. We have the midterm elections, which didn't go his way. A Paris trip which didn't go his way and as we know an impending process in which he has given written answers to Robert Mueller about an investigation that he continues to think is a witch hunt. The problem, though, is that the president might be pissed at damn near everyone, but he is not ever really turning that inward, not looking toward himself to see if there's anything that perhaps he might have done to contribute to some or all of these negative headlines swirling around him. I mean, one of the points of contention over the weekend was the decision to skip the cemetery trip in Paris. Well, that's seen -- that seems obvious that he would have gotten some flack about that, but the president is apparently, according to our sources, really angry with John Kelly, his deputy Zach Fuentes, who apparently advised him that it would be OK to skip it, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. Look, John and Alisyn, I mean, I think this is just once again a president who is looking around him, at a lot of things not going his way, and trying to replace staff, trying to lash out at them, blaming them for a whole host of problems. But of course the one consistent thing about this administration from day one is that President Trump is the person leading it and never does that seem to ever be something that is on his mind as he's going forward on some of these issues.", "No. I mean, the president is the president, and this isn't a reality show. It's actual reality. And the president is creating his own problems whether he wants to admit it or not. One really just obvious example is he's upset about the optics and the press response to skipping the cemetery visit in France.", "Let me read you this quote. It's directly from CNN's reporting, and then you can keep going, John. \"Whiling away the empty hours at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Paris, Trump complained the entire trip to France was poorly conceived and executed. He longed discovered the events on Sunday would not include a grand military parade like the one he witnessed a year ago on Bastille Day leading him to wonder, what the point of the trip was.\"", "I'm delighted that you chose that paragraph because I was going to try to do it from memory. And that -- what's the point of the trip if there's not a big parade? This -- this really sounds like a petulant preteen who's upset about missing a parade. The point is obviously the 100th anniversary of World War I. The president skips the cemetery visit. He's upset about the response. And then in zero percent learning curve land, he spends Veterans Day in the United States not going to Arlington Cemetery. These are a series of compounding self-enforced errors but the president of course wants to last out to other folks.", "And you all know these foreign trips are -- it's all about optics. And there's three key ideas that you have to keep in mind when you're on these foreign trips, important policy things to keep in mind. Get up, dress up and show up. Pretty simple. That's all you have to do is show up and the optics are there. They kind of lay out for themselves. And the fact that that didn't happen, I think, understandably, I would be frustrated, too. It should have happened. But more importantly the bigger picture from this is what we're hearing with the frustration with Macron and the policy by tweet. The optics are one thing, we missed that opportunity, but from there on the tweets that he did with regard to really stoking the fires with our allies overseas were also unfortunate.", "OK. So here's one of the things, Abby, that, as we've discussed, as the reporting suggests, has really gotten under the president's skin, and that is the first lady exerted her wishes publicly. So she felt that -- I guess she couldn't get any hearing with John Kelly and so he resorted to trying to take out Mira Ricardel publicly. So here is the reporting. \"After his wife ordered the astounding statement be released Tuesday afternoon, Trump was furious that what had been an internal staffing matter was now thrust into public view leaving him to look like a bossed-around husband.\" I mean, I don't know what you do about that one.", "This is one part marital dispute in some ways and in another part a really serious development in I think United States public policy in which the first lady is now publicly weighing in on the appointment of a deputy National Security adviser. That's a pretty senior role in the National Security Council. This is a person who has an administrative role in the government and is not someone -- she's not a social secretary. This is someone who has actually -- an actual policy job. And apparently the dispute between Melania Trump and Mira Ricardel's office has to do with her Africa trip, has to do with some disputes over seating on the airplane, has to do with some disputes over Mira Ricardel's tone and her way of conducting herself within the government. Now those may all be legitimate disputes but the question is why did Melania Trump decide to go nuclear here. And it seemed that she couldn't get this done privately. She had raised it privately with her husband, with John Kelly, with John Bolton and she was being stonewalled on this issue, so she and her office decided to put out a really public statement, essentially cornering President Trump on this issue. The result was that President Trump was forced to do something. Now they tried to split the baby a little bit by saying OK, she's going to be out of this particular job but still in the administration somewhere, but clearly President Trump was really upset about how this played out. The White House -- the West Wing had absolutely no heads up that this was all coming down the pike. And again, I think we still -- even after all of this, still left with a lot of questions about what went wrong here, what is going on that Melania Trump simply can't -- her voice is not being listened to within the West Wing. Normally first ladies can get these things done quietly behind the scenes. Clearly she was not able to do it in this case.", "What was the phrase that you like to use about how normally first ladies can get these things done?", "That there's usually pillow talk. Yes.", "And every good marriage counselor would tell you never let a deputy National Security adviser get in the way.", "Of a relationship.", "Marriage counselors do say that.", "Wow.", "I want to come back to the president's state of mind in a little bit because I think there's a lot more to talk about, there's more from the CNN reporting about the president's appearance and his demeanor. But there is a significant policy development over the last 24 hours and I absolutely think we need to pay attention to it because the president has signed on to the First Step Act which is criminal justice reform which is one of the few things on earth that there is bipartisan agreement on, or some. This is an area where people have been working together, Van Jones and Jared Kushner among others. And the president came out yesterday in support of it. Let me just tell you some of the things that this legislation will do if it passes Congress. Reduce three strikes drug penalty from life behind bars to 25 years, it reduces sentences when a firearm is used during another crime, reduces the disparity in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine, and allows judges to issue shorter sentences for low-level crimes. This is significant. This is something that people on both parties have been working for for a long time and this might be something that only President Trump could get through.", "Yes. Yes. Look, this is the Nixon-in-China opportunity. The president's frustrated because he feels backed into a corner, and he doesn't see a way out for his presidency. That -- this announcement yesterday actually shows a path forward of how he can govern effectively with divided government by taking on some tough issues that other presidents haven't been able to get done. And criminal justice reform is one of them. Look, this was something that President Obama wanted to get done and couldn't. They were talking about coalition, Cory Booker and Rand Paul. Never materialized. But this president has got such sway to the base that he may be able to get something like this done. That's a vision to how to make the next two years productive for the country and his presidency. So he deserves applause.", "Well, there you go. And so quickly, Alice, I mean, that's the point. So whatever his dark mood is the effect that it has nationally I think is what we're interested in. The effect that it should have on Americans, and at the moment the fact that they're still able to get something done, it seems like OK, he can stew all he wants but something is still proceeding.", "Right. Right. And you need a check in the win column every now and then. This was a good check in that column. And this is, in my view, a good first step for the First Step. There's a lot that still needs to be done. I think we do need criminal justice reform. This is a good way to start the conversation. There are others, Tom Cotton, my former senator from Arkansas, said this is basically criminal leniency and we need to take a look at it. The one issue I'd take with this is that they claimed this makes neighborhoods safer. I take a little issue with that. I think that there are some concerns with just opening up the door on this issue, so we need to begin the conversation. I think is -- it's not the final step we're going to see in this because there are concerns and I agree with Senator Cotton on some of the it.", "And Senator Cotton is opposed to it, and the reason why President Trump's support of this is so significant is he might be able to bring more Republican senators who never would have been for this under President Obama or even President Bush. Trump can bring them along. Much more to talk about. We do have some breaking news. Moments ago election officials in Florida's Broward County, they finished.", "And went home.", "Their ballot recount. Look at this. They're done. They did the whole recount and in just hours machine totals from every county must be submitted to Florida's secretary of state. The results, though, from Palm Beach County, they may not be ready in time. Our Rosa Flores is live in West Palm Beach for the latest from there -- Rosa.", "John, what a roller coaster but here we are on deadline day and as you mentioned, most of the counties have already said that they either had finished the recount or they are confident that they will finish recounting except for Palm Beach County where I am here today, this morning. Now the supervisor of elections here has said from the get-go that she was probably not going to finish, and on top of that they had some serious issues with the machines. They are old, they overheated, they had to fly in technicians. And so they -- it's been quite a mess here in Palm Beach County. Reporters asked the supervisor of elections about these challenges and about the calls for her to resign and here's what she had to say.", "We're in prayer mode to finish on time, ma'am. I am working as hard as I can and I can't give anymore. You know what, this is our democracy and I am here to count every vote and I will take the time that's required.", "Except the time is up, and according to the secretary of state if those recounts are not submitted then the votes on record stand. Now that is probably bad news for the Democrats because they were hoping to gain some votes in this blue county. What is good news for the Democrats this morning is a partial win in court. The Democrats filed a lawsuit alleging that the state law that requires, that the signature in mail-in ballots match the signature that is on record unconstitutional, was actually deemed unconstitutional by a judge and a judge extended the deadline for those voters to cure their ballots until Saturday. Now, Alisyn, the big question is, well, will that actually have an impact because the margin between Nelson and Scott is about 13,000 votes and according to both parties about 4,000 to maybe 5,000 votes could be impacted by this judge's ruling, so is it enough? Not on its own.", "Yes, it does not sound like the math is going to necessarily work, but it's good to know that the system works. So, Rosa, thank you very much.", "It all come down to handwriting. It's actually a modern -- a story about modern times where people don't concentrate on their signatures as much as they used to because no one writes anymore.", "Mine is illegible now. Mine has become illegible because I blame my computer for so much. Democrats picking up more seats in the House but what is next? Does Nancy Pelosi have the support to be the next speaker? 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{"id": "CNN-82068", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2004-2-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/13/se.01.html", "summary": "America Votes 2004: Enlisting the General", "utt": ["We are standing by for a live event we expect to take place -- take place in Madison, Wisconsin, a key endorsement, a potentially important endorsement for front-runner John Kerry. Our Judy Woodruff standing by. Judy had a chance, I understand, to interview Wesley Clark yesterday. And any tips about what might happen at today's event?", "Well, Daryn, as candidates like to do, they don't like to make the big announcement until the day it happens. But what General Clark did tell me yesterday is that he would be seeing John Kerry today and he was looking forward to seeing him. That was the most he would say publicly. But we do have it confirmed, Daryn, that we will see an endorsement in just a few minutes by General Clark of John Kerry, the front-runner in this race. General Clark, of course, dropped out on Wednesday after probably the shortest campaign of all. He didn't get in this contest until last fall, but had a very tough time after he blazed across the top of the polls right after he got in, but then was ultimately unable to win a primary until he squeaked through and won Oklahoma. So he did decide to get out and he is going to be throwing his support to John Kerry.", "And let's talk about making this endorsement when we see candidates step out and then step back in to make this type of endorsement. Is this just because this is how you have to play nice in party politics or perhaps are we looking at a little positioning of perhaps a future ticket?", "You know I think it certainly is the former. Wesley Clark knows that in order to, I guess you would say, stay in the good graces of the party, he needs to be part of a unified Democratic Party and part of supporting the front-runner. You know we saw Dick Gephardt after he dropped out, he endorsed John Kerry. Some of the others like Bob Graham, we haven't heard from him, the senator from Florida. Does it mean that Wes Clark thinks he's going to be on the ticket? I'm not so sure. I'm not so sure that the Kerry campaign thinks that Clark would be the strongest running mate for him. But it very much is one more signal that this Democratic Party is starting to act like Republicans. They've decided they are going to be unified, they are going to get behind their front-runner and they're going to stay that way. Now, having said all that, Daryn, you still have a contest coming up on Tuesday in Wisconsin where this rally is being held, and John Edwards and Howard Dean are still in there fighting. They're running behind in the polls, but they are hoping for a miracle.", "Well, and I want to get back to your point about acting like Republicans, taking a page from the Republican playbook. The Democrats, especially the Kerry campaign, has really been stressing the military angle of things. And the man up at the podium right now, a Vietnam vet. Part of John Kerry's success so far has been this band of brothers that has been on the road with him campaigning for him and stressing his military record.", "That's right, Daryn, there is no question the fact that John Kerry has been able to tout his record in Vietnam as a war hero and to bring on board to his campaign veterans, like this man you see right here. I mean starting all the way back in Iowa, we remember well the veteran who not only showed up in Iowa but said that John Kerry had saved his life. He was the second of two Vietnam veterans who told a very moving story about what John Kerry had done. All of this, of course, has added to an image of a Democratic candidate who has strong national security credentials. This is what the Democrats believe they've got to have in order to have any sort of chance to defeat President Bush.", "And I think I'm getting word that they're actually coming up on the stage. There you go. You see General Wesley Clark and John Kerry to his side. I imagine we'll hear General Clark speak first.", "One would think. And -- but -- and the fact that General Clark being, you know, another war hero and a decorated Vietnam veteran himself, a four-star general retired, this is simply going to further burnish, I think, John Kerry's image as somebody who can stand toe to toe with the president when it comes to national security.", "Let's go ahead and listen in to General Clark. Well, they're moving the podium. OK, he looks ready to go.", "Ladies and gentlemen, General Wesley Clark.", "Our leader and the next president of the United States.", "And I also want to recognize all the veterans here, the Draft Clark people who are here, and all the others who rallied to my campaign and to our cause to defeat George W. Bush.", "I want to thank you for your faith in me and for your devotion to our country. And I ask you now to join me in standing up for an American who has given truly outstanding service to his country in peace and in war, Senator Kerry. I want to tell you how much I admire your service with the United States Navy in Vietnam. And I want to say,...", "... as I learned to do in my years of service, I want to say, as we come to the Navy we say, sir, request permission to come aboard, the Army is here.", "John, I'll do -- I'll work with you to do everything I can to help you take the White House back for its rightful owners, the American people. And I'll do everything I can to help you win back the future of opportunity and prosperity for all Americans, of jobs and health care and education for all Americans. And I'll do everything I can when the Republican mean machine (ph) cranks up their attack. And I'll do everything I can to help make sure that George W. Bush doesn't get away with playing politics with national security.", "George Bush has compromised America's leadership around the world. And the American people I'm sure know the truth that President Bush hasn't led America, he has misled America time and again and we have to put a stop to it.", "Senator, as you made clear, America simply can't afford three more years of George W. Bush. So I want to join with you in saying three words that George W. Bush will understand", "Working together, all Americans can make this country better. We want an America where we don't just talk about family values but where we actually value families.", "We want an America where everybody has a shot at the American dream no matter where they come from and where we include everyone, where we recognize that diversities are good and strengthened. We want an America where we understand the debate is a sin and questioning our leaders, and especially in time of war, is one of the highest forms of patriotism.", "And an America where being patriotic means using force as a last resort, not as a political tool.", "We want an America where we can look up to our leaders and we can trust our commander in chief, an America that the world listens to and admires once again.", "I'm here today because I believe that John Kerry has the right experience, the right values, the right leadership, the right character and the right message to bring this country forward effectively into the 21st century.", "We have been listening in to retired General Wesley Clark. Just earlier this week, he himself dropped out of the race for president in the Democratic nomination. Today he comes out and endorses the front-runner John Kerry. A bit of an audio problem there coming from the event in Madison, Wisconsin. We apologize -- well, see, they just gave him a new microphone. The basically the gist, the general using military jargon asking the senator for permission to come aboard his campaign, saying he will fight with him to win John Kerry the Democratic nomination for president. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SCHAFFLER", "WOODRUFF", "KAGAN", "WOODRUFF", "KAGAN", "WOODRUFF", "KAGAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GENERAL WESLEY CLARK, FORMER DEM. PRES. CANDIDATE", "CLARK", "CLARK", "CLARK", "CLARK", "CLARK", "CLARK", "CLARK", "CLARK", "CLARK", "CLARK", "CLARK", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-24906", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2001-2-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/02/tod.11.html", "summary": "Ask CNN: Why Are Fewer People Getting Married?", "utt": ["Hello, my name is Michele Dee. And I am from Hillsborough, California. And my question is: Why are fewer people getting married today?", "Fewer people are getting married today for the simple reason that they understand that our model of marriage is not working. We keep fixing it, so to speak, instead of getting back to the basics of truly knowing one another. Young people are avoiding marriage because they have alternatives. They're waiting later to get married. And fewer of them are doing it because they see the outcome is simply not what they want in their life. I've said many, many times before, I'd rather be healthy alone than sick with someone else. And I think a lot young people are deciding exactly the same thing. I'm optimistic that we're going to get this right, but we have got to start showing young people that there is a solid future to marriage."], "speaker": ["MICHELE DEE, HILLSBOROUGH, CALIFORNIA", "DR. PHILLIP MCGRAW, PSYCHOLOGIST"]}
{"id": "CNN-75928", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-8-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/26/ltm.05.html", "summary": "Terror in Baghdad: Higher Risks", "utt": ["Violence like the bombing of the u.n. headquarters in Iraq has put humanitarian aid organizations on edge. So how are organizations like the International Committee of the Red Cross changing their operations? Nada Doumani is the spokeswoman for the Red Cross, she joins us from Baghdad this morning. Good morning to you, Mrs. Doumani, thanks for joining us. A spokesperson for the Red Cross said that there was credible knowledge that the Red Cross might be a target of an attack. Can you be any more specific about that? Where are these threats potentially coming from, exactly what was the wording of the threat?", "Well, in fact, these were not threats, these were warnings from different sources that we have to take into consideration, and very seriously saying that we may be the object or the target of a potential future attack, and given the highly volatile environment in which we're living here in Baghdad and in the area, around Baghdad, around the Iraqi capital, we have to take them into consideration, and as you know, there have been recent tragic incidents, be it the attack on the U.N. compound, on the Jordanian embassy, or even one of Al Khalid, who has been killed on the 22nd of July.", "Do you think that the Red Cross is more at risk than other humanitarian nongovernmental organizations?", "Well, I don't know exactly. Of course, we are an international organization and we have been a major humanitarian player here in Iraq since 23 years. I cannot comment on what other NGOs do feel, but we have received, as you mentioned, information directed to us specifically.", "How much does the Red Cross plan to scale back operations?", "This is what we are trying to work out nowadays. I mean, what we are -- we really stand committed, and we firmly want to stay in Iraq and continue the essential services for the Iraqis. So we are trying to work out how we can do that with a limited number of personnel in order to reduce the risks.", "How many Red Cross workers are there in Iraq today, and give me a sense of how difficult it will be for some of your workers who are very committed to what they're doing in Iraq to have to pull out and leave.", "It's very difficult, as you mentioned. It was very difficult for the management of the ICRC. As you know, the ICRC is supposed to be in conflict areas, that's why we've decided to stay. We've been here during the latest war, throughout the latest war, so we're staying with a team sufficient to continue, as I said, the basic services. For those who have left, it was heartbreaking decision. It's very distressing to leave a country, to leave some people when you know your services or your presence is useful. But I'm sure, I'm confident that this will be a temporary measure, and that we who are staying here in Baghdad, we will continue our operations. At least for some of them, they will be in standby, but essential ones, like the visits to detainees will continue.", "Nada Doumani is a spokeswoman for the Red Cross. Thank you for joining us. Appreciate your time."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "NADA DOUMANI, INTL. CMTE. OF RED CROSS", "O'BRIEN", "DOUMANI", "O'BRIEN", "DOUMANI", "O'BRIEN", "DOUMANI", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-78927", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2003-11-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0311/07/lol.04.html", "summary": "Former Filipino Official Overtakes Control Tower of Manila Airport", "utt": ["Little more breaking news to tell you about. Just in now from Manila, Philippines. The former head of the Philippine version of the Federal Aviation Administration, it's called the Air Transport Office over there, has apparently seized control of the control tower at Manila's airport. He claims to have a dozen armed men with him. Joining us on the line right now with a little bit more on this is Judith Torres, a CNN producer who on the line with us from Manila. Judith, what do you know?", "What we know right now is that the officer, the former Air Transport Office officer, is Captain", "Judith, we do have some reports from the wire services here, from Reuters, that there have been some shots fired there. Can you verify that one way or the other right now?", "No, not right now. There have been conflicting reports about the number of men who have taken over the tower. What I have from the armed forces of the Philippines and the Philippine armed forces is that there is definitely the captain and two other armed men. As for the shots fired, yes, there have been those reports. But I haven't had any yet confirmed by the armed forces -- Miles.", "All right, Judith Torres, our producer in Manila working on that story for us. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Airport>"], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "JUDITH TORRES, CNN PRODUCER", "O'BRIEN", "TORRES", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-73049", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2003-6-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/30/lol.06.html", "summary": "Operation Targets Members of Saddam's Ba'ath Party", "utt": ["The Bush administration says that the Middle East peace process may be entering a new era. As Palestinian security officials took control of northern Gaza, sources say that Israel agreed to pull out of Bethlehem on Wednesday. And they say the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers plan to meet tomorrow in Jerusalem to discuss additional steps on the road map to peace. Now these moves follow yesterday's cease-fire announcement by Palestinian militant groups. In Iraq, U.S. troops arrested the interim governor of Najaf today on kidnapping and corruption charges as part of their mission to stop attacks on coalition forces. Earlier, insurgents fired a rocket- propelled grenade at a U.S. military vehicle in Fallujah, wounding a television news technician. The U.S. military's latest sweep against Saddam's loyalists has been called Operation Sidewinder. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says that those holdouts are resorting to terrorist tactics against American forces and the battle to stop them won't be over anytime soon.", "What one has to do is to keep putting pressure on all of those categories and know that no one raid or five raids is going to deal with the entire problem. The problem is going to be dealt with over time, as the Iraqis assume more and more responsibility for their own country and are able to have an Iraqi face on the activities that are taking place in that country which are for the benefit of the Iraqi people.", "CNN's Nic Robertson has more from Iraq on Operation Sidewinder.", "Commanders say they expect the operation to go on at least until the end of the week. The searches are going door to door, both north of Baghdad, south of Baghdad. Commanders say they are targeting houses they believe are occupied by former Saddam Hussein loyalists, former Ba'ath Party members, former members of the Iraqi army, people they believe are behind some of the recent attacks on U.S. troops. So far, they say they've detained 60 Iraqis, captured a number of weapons. One of those Iraqis they have detained they describe as a senior Iraqi official. However, they do say that some of the intelligence they're acting on has been bad intelligence, some of the houses they've been to, expecting to find key Iraqi officials, they've found that those people are long gone or at least being told those people are long gone. However, they say the population in many of the areas they go to, the civilian population, is providing them -- is providing the coalition with more intelligence information about the whereabouts of people that the civilians believe are loyal to Saddam Hussein. And the reason coalition officials say that this is happening is because they believe as they are moving into areas, providing security in those areas, they say that the Iraqi population there no longer wants Saddam Hussein's regime, no longer want his representatives around, and for that reason they're turning them in. Nic Robertson, CNN, Baghdad."], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "WOODRUFF", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-360904", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-02-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/01/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Senator Cory Booker Announces Presidential Bid", "utt": ["This is a criminal proceeding and not a public relations campaign. She acknowledged that Roger Stone has his First Amendment right to speak publicly, and said he was even justified in some of the pushback probably about this case. But she said it is her job to ensure that there's a fair trial, that there's an unbiased jury. And that's why she's considering this gag order. They have until February 8, both sides, to respond with their thoughts on this matter. And she cautioned that there are risks to treating these sort of pretrial proceedings like a book tour. She said that if Roger Stone is making inconsistent statements publicly, the special counsel's office could use those against him potentially in his trial. Now, the other thing they were discussing was, what is the timeline of this going to be? And, Brooke, it sounds like this could be going on for quite a while. The government said that they are considering a trial date somewhere in October. That seemed to take the judge by surprise. She said she was hoping for something maybe in the July or August range. So far, nothing has been set on that. Both sides, though, will be back in court in March.", "OK. Sara, thank you. Evan, I want to focus in on one of the bits that Sara reported from on this judge on the inconsistencies point, that the judge reminded him that any inconsistencies Stone has had when speaking publicly could be introduced as evidence during his trial. So, Evan, how significant is that?", "Absolutely true. And, look, we have seen this with some of the -- with some of the other cases that have been handled by the Mueller investigators. Obviously, now we see that the U.S. attorney's office in Washington is now taking the lead in the courtroom here in the Roger Stone case. But we have seen precedent for this where public statements are viewed -- and certainly if they're not in line with other statements that are made, that they could be used to show that someone is trying to deceive, someone is trying to perhaps guide other witnesses, to try to encourage witnesses who may come before this trial, trying to essentially guide them to also lie, to sort of line up their lies with Roger Stone's own alleged lies. So, I think that's what the judge is trying to make clear to him, that he is essentially endangering himself. Look, there's also the problem here that this judge, I think, realizes that she acted a little bit harshly in the Manafort case. I think she was very quick to gag in that case and even prohibited the lawyers from speaking. And I think, look, there's Supreme Court precedent that says a defendant has a right to defend himself and has a right to provide -- to produce a strenuous defense. And so I think the judge has to weigh both of those things. And I think that's what she's perhaps trying to figure out, how to reach a happy medium between what she did in the Manafort case in which she told people just shut up, and this one, where she, I think, is trying to figure out where she can do something short of that.", "Yes. We will find out February 8. Evan, thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "And now we go to the race for the White House. And Cory Booker and his supporters, the 2020 guessing game is finally over, because today New Jersey's junior senator is adding a new title to a pretty extensive political resume, Democratic presidential candidate.", "What my neighbors are concerned with and I have heard all around the country is that people in America are losing faith that this nation will work for them. They're beginning to believe that too many folks are going to get left out or left behind. They're beginning to believe that the forces that are tearing us apart are stronger than the forces that bond us together as a people, as a country. The people I admire are the people that lead by calling out the best of who we are, and not the worst. So I'm running for president because I believe in us, I believe in these values. I'm going to put them before the American people. Hey, and if that's not what they want, then I won't be the next president of the United States. I know I can do my job as a senator. I have been showing that. And I also know that I can answer the call of what I believe my country is right now, which is leadership that's going to bring us together, and not try to rip us apart. I'm grateful that New Jerseyans pulled together to make sure that that possibility is there. But my focus is running for president of the United States, and I will be running hard and going directly to the people, hand to hand, shaking hands, knocking on doors, in many ways, the way I started my career when I was running for city council. I'm going after the people, and I intend to be the next president of the United States.", "So, there he was moments ago speaking outside his home in Newark, New Jersey, the city where he used to be mayor. You heard him say he's taking his message directly to the people, and Booker is set to do that in a big way. He's expected to visit Iowa, South Carolina, and New Hampshire all in the next couple of weeks. And if there is any doubt about just how diverse this year's Democratic presidential field is, I have got a little flashback Friday moment for you. Look at this picture with me. This was the scene in 2015 during the first debate for the then 2016 Democratic candidates. So, from left to right, Jim Webb, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley, and Lincoln Chafee, four white men and one white woman. And, gee whiz, this was diverse, a woman. But that was then and this is now. And to those who have officially announced or launched exploratory committees for 2020, my, how things have changed. Michael Smerconish, he's the anchor for CNN's \"SMERCONISH,\" and he's with me now. Seriously, it's like, holy diversity, Batman. Like, look at what's happened now, finally.", "It's such a contrast to 2016, as that picture evidences. And I think, Brooke, Hillary Clinton in 2016 cleared that field. Nobody at the outset thought that Bernie Sanders would be able to hang in with her as late and as long as he did. But in contrast, now as we approach 2020, all the Democratic stars are coming out to play. And Joe Biden, perhaps the biggest star of all, is not even in yet. So it's really a remarkable field. And what's very difficult is to try and determine how many different lanes are there on the Democratic side of the aisle, and who will really be competing with whom? And that's very difficult to predict at this stage.", "We at CNN caught up with Joe Biden earlier in the week, and he was asked about obviously if he's going to jump in. Even he was saying it's still too early, so TBD on the former vice president. But let's jog back to Senator Cory Booker here, because he was actually just asked. When he was standing there announcing it on the front steps of his house in Newark, he was asked today if he would do away with private health care. And he said no. So now you have all these Democratic candidates, right, and they're all being asked about Medicare for all. So this is -- this is his stance.", "What I'm going to be fighting for is a system that is there for everyone. Now, I signed up and a big believer in Medicare for all, but I believe that because if we give people a quality public option, that we are going to be able to get more people into the system.", "And I'm curious, Michael Smerconish, do you think Senator Booker benefited from watching Senator Harris on CNN Monday night in Iowa? She answered the question, but then she had to kind of clarify her answer the next day. Did he benefit from that, you think?", "I think he definitely did. I think they're all benefiting from one another. And I have still not heard the complete follow-up explanation from Senator Harris as to Jake's question pertaining to insurance companies. I think Medicare for all sounds great in the abstract. It probably means different things to different candidates. And then, of course, you have got Michael Bloomberg there saying, hey, how are we going to pay for this? So there are a lot of competing interests within the Democratic Party this time, a stark contrast to four years ago.", "What about just reminding everyone, when Cory Booker was running for the U.S. Senate, it was Jared and Ivanka Trump who fund- raised for him? And do you think his Trump ties could be problematic?", "No more so than Donald Trump donating to Hillary Clinton became problematic for him. How quickly we forget that. And I'm sure from the Trump family perspective they will say it's all about business and maintaining relationships with officeholders that we need in order to transact our business.", "What about -- listen, we all want members of Congress, presidents to have the ability to reach across the aisle, the grace to do so. And so Senator Booker and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, I know, have actually really nurtured this close friendship. And this is what the former New Jersey governor actually just said moments ago about his friend Cory Booker's chances.", "Cory Booker, talented, smart, articulate, hope that he stays in this campaign to the roots that I saw him establish in New Jersey. He was someone who was pro-voucher, he was pro-charter school. He was somebody who was tough on crime in the city of Newark. If he stays in that lane and is the articulate, inspirational guy that he is, then I think he's got a legitimate chance to be a serious potential problem for the president in the general election. I like him. He's a friend. We have been friends for 15 years. He's a good person. And I like Cory Booker.", "So, Michael, glowing words from this Republican. But he also warned that Booker could go wacky left. Do you think this relationship, though, could help or hurt Senator Booker with Democrats?", "I can't help -- I can't help but watch the footage and think of the hug, although Governor Christie now says it wasn't a hug. I think that's what he says in his new book. But I'm referring, of course, to when President Obama in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy comes in New Jersey, and has that -- has that very warm moment with Chris Christie. And it was at a critical juncture, in the 11th hour of that campaign. And Republicans were like, hey, why are you so close to Barack Obama at this juncture? So it gets complicated, Brooke.", "OK. And then, lastly, I know you weren't really interested in talking about Senator Elizabeth Warren, fellow 2020 contender. The Cherokee Nation says she has apologized for taking a DNA test to confirm her Native American heritage. The tribe says that it is encouraged by her actions and it hopes the slurs and mocking will stop. I mean, when will this chapter for her end? Or will Trump make sure it never does?", "Trump will try to make sure that it never does. It should have ended, in my opinion, with an expose by \"The Boston Globe\" that definitively seemed to answer the question of whether she played that card in order to get hired at my alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Harvard Law School. And it was a really great piece of work. She cooperated with it. The faculty members cooperated in interviews. All of those documents pertaining to her hiring were revealed and published. And what they suggested, what they evidence was, that although she's held herself out as a Native American, as a Native American faculty member, she did not do so in order to get hired. Now, it required a 20-minute read-in to get to that conclusion. And in the sound bite world in which we live, it's very hard to convey that. It's much easier for a nickname, a moniker, to stick to her. But I'm an alumnus of that law school. I was very curious to know, when she got hired, was she hired because they wanted a Native American faculty member? And the answer, according to \"The Globe,\" was no. She's had a really hard time in communicating that.", "Michael Smerconish, we can't wait to watch you tomorrow morning. As always, a pleasure.", "Thank you.", "Watch Michael Smerconish 9:00 a.m. Eastern here on CNN. Thank you. Coming up next: President Trump says there is a good chance he will declare a national emergency in order to receive the money he wants for his border wall -- why he's calling the Capitol Hill negotiations a -- quote -- \"waste of time.\" Plus, an alarming assessment just in from the Pentagon about what could happen if the U.S. pulls completely out of Syria, and the chances that ISIS could regain ground. And, later, the \"Empire\" star who says he was a victim of a hate crime on the streets of Chicago is speaking out for the very first time -- what Jussie Smollett wants to say to people who have doubted him."], "speaker": ["SARA MURRAY, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "PEREZ", "BALDWIN", "SEN. CORY BOOKER (D-NJ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BALDWIN", "MICHAEL SMERCONISH, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BALDWIN", "BOOKER", "BALDWIN", "SMERCONISH", "BALDWIN", "SMERCONISH", "BALDWIN", "GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), NEW JERSEY", "BALDWIN", "SMERCONISH", "BALDWIN", "SMERCONISH", "BALDWIN", "SMERCONISH", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-224456", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-2-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/06/nday.06.html", "summary": "Terror Fears Cloud Start of Olympics", "utt": ["Welcome back. Right now, you are looking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. because we're waiting for President Obama to take the podium. And while we wait, instead of watching these guys, how about a little bit of the good stuff, all right? My favorite part of the show for me.", "We know.", "We've been happy to tell you about a lot of big tips in restaurants around the country. Recently this one just may take the cake, all right. Here's what we got. Three young waitresses working the Saturday breakfast shift in snowy Caledonia, Illinois were folding napkins, organizing silverware and just talking about what they call life stuff. Take a listen.", "We were talking about school and braces and loans and everything that we can't afford.", "Things that we all talk about, right? Need. Little did they know, a customer was listening. When she was done with her omelet, she asked the waitresses their names. She then took those names and put them on three checks for -- get this -- $5,000 each. That's right -- $15,000 for three young women just trying to get to the next stop. The waitresses, of course, were stunned.", "I work two jobs. I have a little boy at home, so maybe spend more time with him and do more things with him and get ahead of myself. And I hope that one day I have the amount to do the same thing for somebody else.", "Are you kidding me?", "That's the dream. Just being able to get just a little bit ahead, just a little bit of help.", "That really can make a difference.", "It certainly did for them. The donor remains anonymous. She didn't want her name to be known. She even tried to pay for her $9 omelet on the way out which, of course, the ladies refused.", "That's a good one.", "And, you know, the message to them was, she's anonymous. The donor is anonymous. The waitresses say they hope that some day they're successful enough to help somebody out --", "And they can do the same thing.", "-- in the same way. Because you know, it really is contagious. It's a big reason we do the good stuff --", "We sure hope it's contagious.", "-- is taking that stuff --", "The bad stuff sure is.", "Right -- one step out of the ordinary can often be the extraordinary for people and certainly we see that here. Of course, very few have $15,000 to drop on a situation like that. But it doesn't have to be the $15,000.", "Right, it's not the $15,000.", "Very often, it's just taking that opportunity to help somebody in a way they weren't expecting. It can really be contagious.", "I love it. This is so great. That was a really good one, Chris, thank you.", "Good, good stuff. All right.", "Right.", "A lot of news this morning as well. So we give you to the \"NEWSROOM\" and Miss Carol Costello.", "Thank you very much. \"NEWSROOM\" starts now. Good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thanks for joining me this morning. Topping the hour, security scares in Sochi. The last of the Olympic athletes are arriving amid new terror concerns. The Department of Homeland Security now says a terror plot could begin in a U.S. airport inside of an innocent looking tube of toothpaste. Washington this warning, airlines say terrorists could hide explosive materials there to detonate in flight or once they arrive at the games. Just minutes ago we heard from America's top Olympic official in Sochi.", "The safety and security of our athletes and our whole delegation is always our primary concern as the team behind the team here on the ground. We, as we always do, work very closely with our state department, our state department is in very close contact with the local authorities, and you know, we react to situations as they arise. But we also have a lot of planning exercises in advance and know these games are no different than any other games in that respect.", "CNN's Nick Paton Walsh is in Sochi, he has more for you.", "Any type of explosive, concealed explosive can be extremely damaging. It could be enough to bring a plane down.", "Airlines with direct flights to Russia on alert this morning. The Department of Homeland Security issuing another terror bulletin warning about the possibility that explosive materials could be concealed in toothpaste or cosmetic tubes on flights headed to the Olympic Games in Sochi. The possible devices intended either to be detonated on the flights themselves or smuggled into the Olympic village. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney who organized the 2002 winter Olympics discussed this threat with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.", "A real grave concern to hear a report of this nature. And you basically want to know more. Are we going to put in place immediately restrictions on any kind of tubes or any kind of cosmetics going in flights towards Russia?"], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "AMY SABANI, WAITRESS", "CUOMO", "SABANI", "PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "SCOTT BLACKMUN, CEO, U.S. OLYMPIC COMMITTEE", "COSTELLO", "REP. PETER KING (R), NEW YORK", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MITT ROMNEY, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE"]}
{"id": "CNN-399802", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-05-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/11/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Elon Musk Files a Lawsuit Against Alameda County; Shanghai Disneyland Takes Strict Screening", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. Well, in China, Shanghai Disneyland is reopening after being closed for over three months because of the pandemic. It's the first of Disney's theme parks to reopen in limited capacity. Tickets were listed online Friday and sold out within minutes. Visitors must wear face masks and follow other strict guidelines before they go in. CNN's David Culver has more.", "The happiest place on earth. However, some of the leadership here at Shanghai Disneyland say they are the most cautious place on earth as of now. Because they have reopened, albeit in a far limited capacity. Well under 30 percent, which is the cap of capacity that they had put. And they're testing this out in many ways. They've got a different procedure for folks who are coming in. For one, they require you to have the Shanghai local Q.R. code, which is the health code that essentially tracks your contact and prevents exposure to the virus. If you have a green one, they feel that they can assure folks you're coming in and that you're safe. They still do temperature screenings. And then once you're in here, while we're on an elevated platform right now, if you're on the ground and going from attraction to attraction you've got to wear a face mask. You'll also notice even as you get off the attractions, they have several different hand sanitizer stations. Some of the staff even go around with hand sanitizer to pump it into your hands. All of this is an effort to try to reopen from a business perspective but also try to maintain that health security. We spoke with the senior vice president of operations here at the park, Andrew Bolstein. He gave us an idea as to what else is changing here.", "In noticing that parade go by, obviously a distance --", "Yes.", "-- but you can still see the characters.", "Yes.", "Not the big hug and high fives, right?", "Exactly. More of a selfie moment and take the photos. But again, it gives the guests that ability to have an emotional moment and that connection. Every other table or so has a table card on it, which asks for the guests' understanding that for your health and safety the table is unavailable. So basically, we're asking the guests not to sit here, sit there. And again, it creates kind of that separation.", "one of the things stressed there by Andrew and some of the other leadership is that Shanghai and arguably China is in a very different place than the other parts of the world, particularly where the 11 parks are that Disney owns and operates. And for that matter they feel that they can cautiously embark on this reopening. It is a bit different. Takes a little getting used to. And yet at the same time it's still that escape to find a little bit of joy in what has been a very dark period. And that's one of the things they're trying to balance, is this celebratory mood while at the same time respecting and acknowledging where the rest of the world is at in fighting this outbreak. David Culver, CNN, Shanghai Disneyland.", "And that question of when and how to reopen is playing out everywhere right now, not least of course right here in America where almost every state has started reopening in one way or another. The rules are mixed to say the least. So now CNN's Natasha Chen takes us to Bristol, a town that straddles the border between Tennessee and Virginia to show us just how that's playing out and affecting people's businesses and way of life.", "I'm here on the Tennessee side of state street where restaurants, businesses can open at reduced capacity and we're seeing that right here on the marquee of this restaurant, saying that they're taking seating by reservation only, no walk-ins. And of course, they want to try and abide by those restrictions to keep a lower number of people inside their space. But once I cross the street, I'm in a different state. In Virginia they have not reopened anything quite yet. And now I'm in Virginia, where people can only get curbside pickup or delivery for food. And so that creates quite a dichotomy between the businesses on both sides of the street. Here are what two business owners told us about how they see the situation.", "I really would like to see the other side open. I know there are some businesses that are competitors, but it's good for everybody I believe if we're all open. You know, I want to see everybody do well.", "I just kind of wish the governor might come down here and take a peek at what we're doing down here and see if maybe the restrictions should be more about county, area code, region and maybe not statewide.", "The regional approach is an interesting idea. It's something that we asked the chamber of commerce here -- and by the way, the chamber is helping out both sides of the street because they are chamber of commerce for Bristol, Tennessee and Virginia. They said they've tried to advocate for the Virginia restaurants by talking to the Virginia government about maybe looking at a more local approach to reopening. And here's what she told me.", "It doesn't sound like there's any luck in letting one section of their state open first.", "That's true. We've been told he's not really interested in a regional approach for a number of different reasons. But for us here, I mean, when it impacts you at face value, you know, you have a restaurant who can look out the window and 30 yards across the street there are people walking into businesses, dining, shopping. And so that's a challenge.", "a group of leaders in northern Virginia actually wrote a letter to the governor asking for the same thing, a more regional approach, but for the opposite reason. They say they feel their population is not yet ready to reopen. So, a very interesting dynamic with people here in Bristol, Virginia hoping that they really can reopen sooner because one half of the town already has. We also talked to Chinese restaurants on the Virginia side called Shanghai. The owner's son there said he understands the governor's tough position of having to make a decision for the entire state. He said what's most important is the health of their customers and whatever they are told about the best decision in reopening they will follow those rules. Natasha Chen, CNN, now in Bristol, Virginia.", "And Tesla CEO Elon Musk is threatening to move his headquarters out of California. The carmaker filed a lawsuit Saturday night against Alameda County after officials refused to let Tesla reopen its factory. In a series of tweets Musk said he would move the company's headquarters to Texas or Nevada where shelter in place rules are less restrictive. So, let's talk more about this with CNN's John Defterios. He joins me now from Abu Dhabi. Good to see you, John. So, Tesla's CEO flexing his muscles here. Where is this all going and where's it likely to land?", "Well, it's extraordinary how fast the heat was turned up by Elon Musk, going to court on Saturday. He's saying that Alameda County, the local county around San Francisco, is making a power grab and almost ignoring what Governor Gavin Newsom is suggesting, if you can open one safety measures, which Elon Musk says tesla has done. Now, California is extremely innovative, especially around Silicon Valley and around this county in particular, but when it comes to healthcare matters, labor or environmental regulations it is a highly regulated area and some would say very progressive. So, they're not listening to Elon Musk. He's making it very clear -- and it almost sounded, Rosemary, he's already made his mind up that he's going to move his headquarters outside of California to more labor-friendly states like Nevada or Texas. But I would have to suggest here it's not helping Elon Musk if he hits these certain targets in 2020, he's due for a massive payout of some $700 million. You can see the David versus Goliath, California being a G7 economy on its own, and pushing the envelope here when it comes to health matters, wanting to reopen the factory. He's a factory of the future, if you will, because it's electric vehicles and of course California would like to keep the jobs there.", "Yes, we'll see what happens there. And also, John, White House officials are urging caution on any new stimulus package with Treasury Secretary Mnuchin warning unemployment could go as high as 25 percent. But how likely is it that they'll need to approve another package with those sorts of numbers?", "I think it's a when, not if, if you will, Rosemary. I think there will be more money allocated here. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin just saying we have $3 trillion in the system, it's not spent yet, why are we rushing to judgment. And we're not talking about months but rather weeks. He's saying let's way a few weeks. But how desperate is the situation here? Kevin Hassett who's an economic adviser to the White House and one of those who's been very blunt since the start of the coronavirus, is saying because people are so desperate for funds right now and they're running out of cash they're looking at food aid at the White House and getting that cleared on Capitol Hill. Even ensuring that everybody has broadband access because they can't pay for it and if they need to look for a job, they need to of course be online. And this is looking towards the third quarter when perhaps we see the economy starting to recover. However, we do have disagreement now because the House Democrats are saying we're not going to wait to draft the legislation, let's move ahead, this is something that's meeting resistance from Mnuchin right now. But in context the U.S. have $3 trillion, represents almost half of the money allocated by the G20 of $7 trillion. It's a lot of money, but it's being spent very fast.", "Yes, but we see people, they're really hurting and lining up at food banks. Trying to put food on the table for them and their families. It's a tough story. All here and across the globe as well. John Defterios, many thanks to you, joining us live from Abu Dhabi. I appreciate it. Well, the world's second oldest airline has filed for bankruptcy protection. Colombia-based Avianca filed its petition in U.S. court saying the decision was made due to the unforeseeable impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The airline says it's the most challenging crisis in its 100-year history. Avianca employs 21,000 people throughout Latin America. New developments in the shooting death of a black jogger here in the State of Georgia after threats against demonstrations supporting Ahmaud Arbery a man is under arrest. And that's not all. We have the latest coming up."], "speaker": ["CHURCH", "DAVID CULVER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CULVER", "ANDREW BOLSTEIN, SVP OF OPERATIONS, SHANGHAI DISNEY RESORT", "CULVER", "BOLSTEIN", "CULVER", "BOLSTEIN", "CULVER", "CHURCH", "NATASHA CHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHEN", "CHEN", "BETH RHINEHART, PREIDENT & CEO, BRISTOL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE", "CHEN", "CHURCH", "JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN BUSINESS EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR", "CHURCH", "DEFTERIOS", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-234409", "program": "@THISHOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2014-07-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/11/ath.02.html", "summary": "Prince George on \"Vanity Fair\" Cover", "utt": ["Welcome back. It's been almost a year since the little prince, Prince George, was born. The royal sensation made a huge impact on anything from baby style to the British economy. And he has certainly turned around public opinion about the royal family.", "George is like the secret weapon in the royal family, and they saw Kate step off the plane holding that baby and the monarchy is riding high again in terms of popularity.", "So we're talking about this 1-year-old like he has accomplished so much through grit and hard work.", "He looks darling in a Onesie.", "Now he's achieved something -- really, it's almost never in done. He's on the cover of \"Vanity Fair\" as a 1-year-old. Let's take our hats off to baby Prince George. He will turn 1 on July 22nd. Feels like just yesterday that he was born. And we were with, then, our royal commentator, Victoria Arbiter. She joins us now. Let's talk about Prince George. A handsome young man, strapping baby. He's sort of taken the world by storm.", "He has taken the world by storm it on the one hand, he's a baby. He's third in line to the throne. So you want to know, is all the hysteria worth it. But he's got people talking about the royal family in a positive light. We saw that really come to fruition in Australia. Kate arrives with George, suddenly he's on the page of every paper and they decide they want the monarchy a little longer. He might only be 1 years old but he's pretty powerful.", "We've watched out this happens in our own families. A new baby injects spirit and joy and energy into a family. We haven't heard a whole lot about them. They've done things their own way. We talked about that. They christening, at the wedding. Is there a sense of that in England, they're just sort of doing this their own way and keeping it under wraps, this child's' life?", "Very much so. I think William grew up in the fish bowl that is the royal family and he's going to want to protect George from it as long as possible. George stands to be the first monarchy of the 22nd century. He has a lifetime of service and duty. And so I think William and Kate, they understand that, to a degree, they are publicly bound, as far as duty's concerned, to share George with the world. But at the same time, they want him to have a normal childhood.", "You make an important point. I've been joking a little bit about all he's accomplished. He's a 1-year-old baby. But it is his parents and the family who have done this and managed this to an extent. I'm sure they want to raise him in the perfect way that any parent would. They're also raising a future king and a public figure.", "It was quite interesting to see him on the play date in Australia. There's this idea that they're closeted away at Kensington Palace and he can only play with upper crust babies. Yet, Kate plunked him down with regular children from regular families. George was stealing toys with other children. He was making them cry. He seemed very confident, very self assured. But what was nice for William and Kate, they didn't rush in and try to rectify the situation.", "They weren't helicopter parents.", "Right, they just let the baby be a baby.", "I think they probably do own a helicopter.", "He may fly helicopters.", "Talk of a second child in the \"Vanity Fair\" article.", "Michaela, talk of a second baby started the minute they left the hospital. This is just going to be Kate's cross to bear during her baby years. Yes, certainly, there will be another child at some point. William and Harry are two years apart. Kate and Pippa are two years apart. They're going to want their family to be close and enjoy each other's company. At the same time, I don't think there's any rush. They're enjoying George as he is right now. They've got a lot on their plate with the rest of the year in store. So perhaps the end of the year, they might start talk about another baby.", "What will he do next? What will this Prince George do next that will shock us all?", "\"Spotlight: The Little Prince\" airs tonight 10:00 eastern right here on CNN. I know you're checking it out.", "I like the royals.", "I know you do.", "And this prince.", "And the World Cup.", "Another big story we can't stop talking about. Germany faces off against Argentina on Sunday.", "Catholic fans, do they cheer for Argentina, the homeland of Pope Francis, or do they back Germany, the native country of Pope Benedict XVI?", "Both are big soccer fans. Earlier, Pope Francis, huge soccer fan, had this to say, it's going to be war.", "I can't wait to see. Maybe they'll be tweets.", "But Francis, you know, showed up to games. He was really into soccer when he was in Argentina. I want this for him.", "Wait, do you want that for the pope and you want the Cleveland thing for Jason?", "My statement is --", "I'm confused.", "-- I want LeBron to go to the Vatican.", "Thanks for joining us @THISHOUR. I think I need a weekend. I'm Michaela Pereira. I'm John Berman. \"LEGAL VIEW\" with Ashleigh Banfield starts now."], "speaker": ["PEREIRA", "VICTORIA ARBITER, CNN ROYAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "ARBITER", "PEREIRA", "ARBITER", "BERMAN", "ARBITER", "PEREIRA", "ARBITER", "BERMAN", "ARBITER", "PEREIRA", "ARBITER", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA"]}
{"id": "CNN-277589", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-02-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/26/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Rivals Attack Trump at GOP Debate; Syria Ceasefire to Take Effect this Weekend; Rivals Attack Trump at GOP Debate", "utt": ["Hello, we're live in Atlanta. I'm Natalie Allen.", "I'm George Howell, from CNN world headquarters. NEWSROOM starts right now. And a good day to you. We start this hour in Houston, Texas. What a debate, what a debate. The gloves officially came off in the CNN's Republican debate. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, they took no time taking aims at the current frontrunner, Donald Trump. Demanding his plan to replace Obamacare and they challenged his position on immigration and demanded that he release his tax returns.", "For most of the night Ben Carson and John Kasich struggled just to get into the conversation. Here are some highlights.", "First of all, I want people to think about what kind of leader and person do you want your kids to emulate, think about that.", "I get along with everybody. You get along with nobody. You don't have one Republican --", "You don't have one Republican Senator -- and you work with them everyday of your life -- although, you skipped a lot of time due to some minor details. But you don't have one Republican Senator backing you, not one. You don't have the endorsement of one Republican Senator and you work with these people.", "Senator Cruz.", "You should be ashamed of yourself.", "You know, he's right. When you stand up to Washington, when you honor your promises to those who elect you, and say enough with corruption, enough with the cronyism, let's stand for the working people of this country, Washington doesn't like it. And, Donald, if you want to be liked in Washington, that's not a good attribute for a president.", "I'm the only one on this stage that's hired people. You haven't hired anybody.", "If you build the wall the way you built Trump Towers, you'll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it.", "When I was leading the right against the Gang of Eight amnesty bill, where was Donald? He was firing Dennis Rodman on \"Celebrity Apprentice.\"", "I'm not going to talk about that. I was with this little 12-year-old girl came -- was at a town hall meeting and she said, I don't like all this yelling and screaming at the debates. My mother's thinking I might not be able to watch this thing anymore. I think we ought to move beyond that. I'll tell you what I think. My view is we need economic growth. Everything starts with economic growth and how do you get? Commonsense regulations, lower taxes for both business and individuals, and a fiscal plan that balance a budget.", "When you get rid of the lines it brings in competition, so instead of having one insurance company taking care of New York or Texas, you will have many, they'll compete and it will be a beautiful thing.", "So, that's the only part of the plan? The lines --", "You have many different plans. You'll have competition. You have so many different plans.", "So, now he's repeating himself.", "No.", "Talk about repeating, I watched him repeat himself five times four weeks ago.", "And I saw you do it five times five seconds ago.", "I watched him meltdown on the stage like I've never seen anybody. I thought he came out of the swimming pool.", "let's talk about your plans.", "It says five things, everyone's dumb, we're going to make America great again, we're winning in the polls and the lines.", "Every night, same thing.", "When you say crazy zealot, are you talking about you?", "Somebody attack me, please.", "Whoa. Whoa.", "Here's the guy that inherited $2 million. If he hadn't of inherited $2 million, you know where he'd be?", "No, no, no, no.", "Selling watches.", "Jonathan Swan is national political reporter with \"The Hill\" and he joins me via Skype from Washington D.C. Jonathan, we've seen many debates at this point in this race. What do you have to say about who may have come out on stop, and Marco Rubio really taking digs at Donald Trump?", "Some of the debates beforehand have been frankly quite ridiculous. We've had 10 people on stage. Pre debates, post debates and Donald Trump has really been able to get away with not having much detail, flaunting around and throwing a line in here and there. But tonight there were only five on stage and that really clarified things and what you saw tonight was some really extended exchanges which we've never seen before with Donald Trump and in many ways he came up quite vulnerable. So, Marco Rubio, the Florida Senator really pressed him on detail. He said what's your health care plan and instead of being able to give a one liner as he's done in the past, he actually -- Rubio kept coming back and because it was this small assessing, it seemed to rattle Donald Trump. It was very interesting to watch in that sense.", "Let's talk about Ted Cruz for a moment. The latest polls show he leads Donald Trump in his state of Texas by 15 points and this is a poll just shy of Super Tuesday, which is coming up. How much street cred does that give Ted Cruz leading into Super Tuesday?", "Well, again, there hasn't been very good polling done in a lot of these states. If Ted Cruz loses his home state, his campaign is dead. Completely finish. He has to win Texas, he knows that. He's spending a lot of time in Texas. The debate was held in Houston. As much as he was talking to a national audience, he was talking to a Texas audience. There's 155 delegates there, it's a big state and if Ted Cruz can win convincingly, I think it can take momentum away from Donald Trump and he really has underperformed in both Nevada and South Carolina. People thought Ted Cruz was going to do much better than he did in those two states.", "And we should say Kasich and Carson were there tonight.", "That's right.", "We'll give him hats off for that. Jonathan Swan, national political reporter, \"The Hill,\" thanks for being with us.", "Thanks a lot. Thank you. Thanks for having me.", "All right. Carson was pretty good with that one, wasn't he?", "Someone please attack me.", "Nobody did. That's a sad thing. If you missed any part of it, we'll air it again at 10:00 a.m.", "In his to visit to Mexico, the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says Republican candidates don't represent the views of the majority of Americans' views on Mexico.", "Biden was in Mexico City to meet with the president. He did not name names but said he thinks the Republican's rhetoric is disturbing and dangerous.", "There's been a lot of damaging and incredibly inaccurate rhetoric and I would argue I feel almost obliged to apologize for what some of my political colleagues have said. It's about Mexico, about the Mexican people.", "And former Mexican president, Vincente Fox, is slamming Donald Trump over his plans to build a wall.", "Fox urged Latinos in the U.S. to open their eyes or the country would fall into the hands of a crazy guy. Here's part of that interview, what FOX told Fusion's Jorge Ramos.", "I declare -- I'm not going to pay for that", "In a tweet, Trump called FOX's language horrible and demanded an apology.", "To Syria and a new peace plan, scheduled to go into effect in about 15 hours from now. The ceasefire agreement brokered in part by the U.S. and Russia has been met with a lot of skepticism.", "On Thursday, U.S. President Obama once again called for Syrian leader, Bashar al Assad, to drop out. He said the world has to try despite the possible pit falls.", "If implemented, and that's a significant if, the cessation could get food and aid to Syrians who desperately need it. It could save lives, potentially it could also lead to negotiations to end the civil war so that everybody can focus their attention on destroying ISIL.", "Let's go live to Ian Lee in Cairo, Egypt. Ian, good to have you with us this hour. This is backed by both Russia and the United States and we're hearing skepticism, maybe even doubt from the U.S. President about if it will indeed be effective because there's so much room for things to go wrong. What is the sense in the region?", "Definitely seems like almost everyone is skeptical that this cessation will actually the take place. We have them determining if they're going to acknowledge if they're going to confirm it, abide by the agreement which takes place at midnight tonight. So, about 15 hours away from when the ceasefire is supposed to go into effect. The real question is who qualifies as part of the opposition to take place to be a part of the ceasefire because if you look at this plan, is, as well as al Qaeda affiliate are not part of the ceasefire and Russia has been fairly loose on who they determine as a terrorist organization. So, both sides will be looking alit at the other side, watching waiting for them to break the ceasefire. But both sides really want the ceasefire to hold. Will it be able to hold really is the question.", "And as you point out, you have ISIS that are not part of this ceasefire deal and then it comes down the question of who is aligned with whom? These different opposition groups and Russia plans to continue against the terrorists but who are the terrorists. Talk to our viewers about what's happening there. Is there a sense that it will be better for people when the cessation of hostilities takes effect?", "You're exactly right. And it's really not just stopping the violence, the fighting which leads to loss of life but getting that crucial humanitarian aid into the places that there cut off, under siege, also getting medical aid because lot of these places don't have proper doctors. So too, get the help to the people, about 13.5 million people are in need of aid. Of some sort or another and so that is going to be the main effort during this cessation of hostilities is get food, medicine to these various besieged areas and help these people out. A lot of them have been under starvation conditions and so that's what the U.N. is hoping to do. Other than stop the fighting.", "The cessation to take place in about 15 hours. We'll cover it and have the latest on CNN. Ian Lee, live for us in Cairo, thanks for your reporting.", "Just after President Obama's briefing Thursday, Hala Gorani got a rare interview Robert Malley, Obama's top advisor on ISIS. Mali told Hala what the U.S. would consider a partial success in Syria.", "The situation a week from now will have to be markedly different from what it is today from the point of view of ordinary citizens. They shouldn't be subject to the air strikes from Russia. If we see that -- we don't expect it's going to go from black to white but if we can see real progress. We've seen some on the humanitarian side already but cities and individuals that have been deprived of food and medicine, people dying of starvation, we're seeing some trucks coming in and that's important. Again, we'll have to test it. We'll test it beginning on Saturday and it's going to take weeks to see whether this really can take hold. And as you said yourself, the last five years have given us every reason to be pessimistic but every reason to try to turn that pessimism into a reality that will surprise us.", "Live to Baghdad for optimism. A radical cleric has organized a million-man march in Baghdad. He says this peaceful protest is to demonstrate against corruption and to terrorize ISIS.", "Police say a gunman killed three people in a series on Thursday, ending at Excel Industries in Heston, Kansas. Officials say the suspect, an employee at the lawn care manufacturing company, wounded 14 other people, and the victims appear to have been targeted randomly. One eye witness describes the ordeal.", "We heard a pop, pop, and we thought it was just metal falling on the ground and then the doors opened, people started screaming coming out saying going to the front and they said no he's out front so everybody started going to the back over here.", "The gunman was shot and killed by police. The sheriff's office has not released the name of the suspected shooter but he has been identified as Cedric Ford by friend and co worker, Matt Gerald. Officials say the shooting was non-terror related. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. Still ahead, Apple refuses to help the federal government decrypt the phone of a terrorist. Now the company is taking that message to the courts.", "And Iranians are voting in a historically crucial election. Up next, we'll tell you why this vote could drastically change the direction of the country."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "ALLEN", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-198942", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2013-1-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/08/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Hugo Chavez Will Miss Inauguration; Three of Five Men Charged in India Gang Rape Plead Not Guilty; Gender Bias in Bollywood", "utt": ["You're watching CNN, I'm Becky Anderson in London for you. Time for your news headlines, and I want to get you back to a story that we've been following the past couple of minutes out of Venezuela. CNN has confirmed that President Hugo Chavez will not attend his inauguration for a new term this Thursday. For more on that, we're joined by Paula Newton in Caracas. Something that we were sort of anticipating. What do we know, and what's going to happen at this point?", "What we know is that the constitution, this blue book here, Becky, says that the president, in order to take his term, must be sworn in in person at a national assembly. The government has now said, look, that's just impossible, it's not going to happen. President Chavez is too sick. But what the government is saying now is that it doesn't matter what it says in this blue book, they think that this is all a formality and that Hugo Chavez, for all intents and purposes, will remain the president and that he can actually take his oath before the Supreme Court at a later date. And this, Becky, has us heading head-first into a political crisis in this country, the opposition here saying in no uncertain terms that look, this government's finished, it's over. These people voted for a president, a president that cannot be sworn in, and according to the constitution, it means that we must call elections in the next month. Becky?", "Yes, let's remind our viewers: Chavez undergoing cancer surgery, we believe, in Cuba. What do we know of his health situation at this point?", "Very little, and they've continued on that track here with the government. Late last night, we had an update from the government. Their discussion was so vague, saying that he remains in a delicate state, but that he is stable and that he continues to, quote-unquote, \"respond to cancer treatment.\" By all intents and purposes, though, this is a president fighting for his life. I don't think many people have tried to dissuade -- anyone from the government has tried to dissuade anyone from actually thinking that. We've been all over the city, Becky, and Chavez supporters are now praying for him. They do believe that his cancer is quite serious. The problem is because there has been no transparency about when he could ever take office again, whether or not he's ever going to return again to Venezuela to be able to take that oath of office, it's left this country completely in a stalemate, and there really isn't a lot going on. And again, Becky, just to remind our viewers, this is a country in a lot of economic trouble right now, and they really do need some leadership at the helm.", "The news this hour. Hugo Chavez will not attend the inauguration, which is scheduled for Thursday, where of course he would once again be sworn in as president of Venezuela. Paula, thank you. In other news, the UN's food relief agency warns of a deepening humanitarian crisis in Syria. It says there are serious bread and fuel shortages across the country and estimates about a million Syrians may be going hungry. Strong winds and record-high temperatures are creating what officials are calling, at least, \"catastrophic\" fire conditions in southeastern Australia. More than 130 fires are burning in New South Wales right now. The fire service says about 40 of them are not contained. And India says two of its soldiers have died in a firefight with Pakistani troops in Kashmir. The Indian army says a group of Pakistani troops crossed the line of control in what is a disputed area, but the Pakistani ministry says that's a baseless allegation. Tensions have been high since Sunday, when Pakistan accused Indian troops of crossing the de facto border and killing a Pakistani soldier. It's a case that has outraged the nation, and it could get even more controversial. Three of the five men charged in the gang rape and killing of a young Indian woman last month are to plead not guilty. That's according to their lawyer, at least, Manohar Lal Sharma. The five men appeared in a New Delhi court on Monday, where they were charged with murder, rape, and kidnapping. The next hearing will take place on Thursday behind closed doors. This sparked outrage. The brutal crime in New Delhi has sparked some serious discussion of gender bias in Indian society, specifically in the media. There are those who say the television and the film industries foster stereotypes by frequently portraying women as sex objects. Have a look at this report from Malika Kapur.", "Some say it's sexy. Others call it offensive. Not just the dance moves, but the lyrics, too. \"I am a piece of tandoori chicken,\" this actor goes on to sing in a popular Bollywood film. \"Wash me down with alcohol.\" Many in India argue that films portray women in a derogatory way, particularly in so-called item numbers, songs that have no relevance to a film's plot but appear in several commercial movies.", "You see fragmented images of a woman's bosom, of her swinging hips, of her swiveling navel, and it makes the woman lose all autonomy and surrender to the male gaze.", "Come and get me!", "This actor feels it's unfair to blame item numbers. Chitrangada Singh's upcoming movie is about sexual harassment. She says it's really about the way men think.", "When you buy a cigarette pack, it shows you what cancer looks like and people still buy it. So I don't think it makes so much of a difference what you see. It's what's in your head.", "But what's in the public's head is often colored by what it sees on screen, a subject that's being heavily debated in India following the New Delhi gang rape that has outraged the country and made it question how its popular culture portrays women.", "Bollywood and television serials play a huge part in shaping Indian society simply because they reach millions of people. Take a look at this slum. There's no sanitation, there's no running water, but almost every home has a television set.", "Entertainment channel Star Plus says it alone reaches 80 million households. Its serials center on women, often playing the role of a dutiful wife or daughter-in-law.", "You want to make it identifiable. We don't want to make situations in our shows which are alien to consumers, because then we simply don't get people watching them. But we want to show particularly how these situations change with effort.", "Azmi, who led a silent march of theater and film personalities to condemn the New Delhi gang rape, says it's time for the industry to reflect on its role", "But -- but -- we do not want the morality brigade to appropriate us. We don't want somebody else to tell us, \"You do this, and you do that.\" We have to indulge in soul-searching and talk about self- regulation.", "At Star Plus, the introspection could result in a new show, one that targets a male audience.", "How do we tell our male audiences, this is right, and this is wrong? And that's something that we haven't fully evolved a model for, but that is something -- that is something that we're reflecting on.", "TV and film folk say there's no point blaming their industry for recent events. The only people to blame for rape are rapists. Malika Kapur, CNN, Mumbai.", "Earlier, I spoke to Ira Trivedi, who's an author and former Miss India contestant, and I started by asking her how much she thought the media were actually to blame.", "I think we need to keep in mind that women are sexualized and commoditized the world over, so this isn't unique just to India. But if we go one --", "-- here, and when you impose this sort of portrayal on an extremely patriarchal society, it can only be detrimental.", "Why do you think this particular case has resonated with people in India?", "We have to understand, this is a youth movement. I was out on the streets in Delhi protesting, and everyone around me was young. And so we understand and I think why it resonated in particular was because the woman who got raped, the woman who died, she could have been anyone. She was a 23-year-old young woman. She wanted to work. She was ambitious. She didn't want to get married. She wanted to grow up and support her family. And we see so many young men and women could relate to that. She was coming back from watching \"Life of Pi.\" She'd gone with her friend to go watch a movie, and she was on her way home. So, when people saw this -- and she was very, very close to one of India's largest universities, IGNOU, that's where the rape happened, just minutes away from this university, so you can understand what went through the minds of these students.", "You were, as you say, on the streets protesting at the back end of 2012. Seven years ago, you were competing for Miss India in 2005. And to a certain extent, some people might criticize you as playing a part in the objectification of women at the time. My first question is, would you do that again? And secondly, would you buy that argument that you did women of India no good, but actually some harm, as it were?", "Becky, that's -- as to the first question, no, probably not. But I do think that a book was written, I did write a book out of my experiences, and I do -- I did that as a way to hopefully -- where people would read this book and understand what actually goes on behind pageants. But what's interesting to actually look at is that I think -- this is seven years ago, so when you -- at that point in time and earlier than that, as well, the Miss India pageant was actually kind of a very vanilla- coated beauty pageant. It was -- Miss India was a paragon of virtue, and that was what she was looked upon. There was on swimsuit competition -- swimsuit round in the Miss India competition. But now, the scene has changed quite a bit.", "Hand on your heart: do you think this case will change anything in India, or change the perception of women by men will prevent this sort of tumultuous numbers that we've seen of rape in India going forward?", "Being a young, single woman myself, I can tell you that I don't really feel safe on the streets of Delhi. I don't. So, not today. Not after what happened.", "You say that you don't feel safe on the streets of Delhi. Is it much worse, do you think, there as opposed to those other places that you've lived?", "Hundred and ten percent. Streets of New York, I lived -- I was at Columbia when I was in New York, so I was all the way up in Harlem, and I felt safer there than I felt safer here. And in India, I lived in central Delhi behind the president of India, and I definitely don't feel as safe here. When you go out to the streets, on the streets of Delhi at night, you only see groups of young men. You do not see any women. Even -- at 9:00 PM onwards, 90 percent of the people that you see on the street, in most -- in the best areas of town, will be groups of men.", "Ira Trivedi speaking to me earlier. You're watching CONNECT THE WORLD live out of London. Up next, a portrait of a lady, but forget Henry James. We're talking of a pioneering modern artist. 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{"id": "CNN-133889", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2009-1-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/06/sitroom.03.html", "summary": "Obama's Trillion-Dollar Problem; Access Denied to Would-be Obama Replacement", "utt": ["The surgeon general of the United States could have renewed visibility if President-elect Barack Obama CNN's chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta to the post. We have been reporting he's been approached. We're also getting some buzz right now that Time Warner's former chairman and CEO, Richard Parsons, could potentially be heading up the commerce department. Lou Dobbs is watching these appointment possibilities for us. What do you think, Lou?", "First of all, I think great for them. Sanjay Gupta, as you know, Wolf, a terrific colleague and friend. He's also a terrific doctor. I think -- it has a broad range of interest. I actually think, frankly, we probably should fight to try to keep from losing him. But he would be definitely an asset for the Obama administration. Now, Dick Parsons, we've already lost him. He's no longer our CEO, so we can be more supportive of his -- if he -- of his appointment as commerce secretary. Dick is an accomplished executive, former chairman, CEO of dime savings, co-chair of the president's commission on social security. And CEO of Time Warner here. He's a man of immense accomplishment, I think has some of the best judgment I've ever encountered in a business executive, a man I really respect. I think he'd be outstanding as commerce secretary.", "I echo everything you just said. Our parent company, Time Warner. Lou, thanks very much. See you in one hour.", "You got a deal, Wolf.", "And happening now: The president-elect puts lawmakers on notice about something he won't tolerate. This hour, Mr. Obama's $1 trillion headache, as he works to try to jump-start the economy. Plus, as you just heard, one of CNN's own approached for a possible job in the new administration. New questions about the Obama selection process, though, and what's driving some of his choices. The best political team on television is standing by. And the deadliest strike yet in the Gaza ground war, schools in the crossfire. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Right now, president-elect Barack Obama is facing a harsh reality, that his economic recovery package will saddle the nation with a mountain, a mountain of new debt. He met today with his economic team. But exactly two weeks before his inauguration, political and global conflicts are competing for his attention, distractions from the enormous problems he was elected to fix. Let's go to our chief -- excuse me -- our national political correspondent, Jessica Yellin. She's looking at all of this for us. Jessica, this is quite a mess out there.", "It is a real mess for Barack Obama, Wolf. And right now, he would like to stay focused on one theme. That is economic recovery. But with so much erupting all around him, that's a lot easier said than done.", "We got everybody?", "The president-elect's advisers predict a record high $1 trillion deficit this year. And that's before spending $775 billion on their proposed stimulus plan.", "What I have said is I'm going to be willing to make some very difficult choices in how we get a handle on this deficit.", "So Mr. Obama is promising that stimulus money will go to America's needs, not politicians' pet projects.", "What I'm saying is we're not having earmarks in the recovery package, period.", "But economic recovery isn't the only issue confronting the incoming president. There are the distractions not of his making -- violence in Gaza.", "I am deeply concerned about the conflict that's taking place there.", "And those his team created, like failing to inform the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee that he'd selected Leon Panetta to run the CIA before news leaked to the press. Even his vice president tells CNN that was a mistake.", "I haven't made a formal announcement about my intelligence team. That may be him calling now.", "We know who is not calling -- New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.", "It was my idea to withdraw.", "Obama's vetting team missed or overlooked a few red flags on the one-time commerce nominee. For now, the president-elect seems to have put some distance between himself and the investigation into Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. But there's this: the bizarre spectacle of Obama's would-be Senate replacement rejected by his own party. Today, no comment from the president-elect, who can only hope the problem goes away before he is asked to get involved.", "And, these days, Barack Obama is truly intent on steering the conversation back to the economy, no matter what else is in front of him. Part of the transition to power, it seems, would be accepting, Wolf, that, in the White House, diversions are routine.", "Yes. I think that's going to be very evident to the president-elect in two weeks, two weeks from today. Thanks very much, Jessica, for that. The Senate Republican leader, meanwhile, is raising a new red flag today about just how big president-elect Barack Obama's budget requests may be. Senator Mitch McConnell is one of the leading voices warning Democrats to consider carefully all the ramifications of a massive recovery package.", "We shouldn't be rushed into voting for a bill that, by any estimate, will be bigger than all 50 state budgets combined, especially when many of the jobs it promises won't even materialize for another year. If we're serious about protecting the taxpayer, these projects will be awarded through a fair and open process and allowed to compete with other priorities in the budget.", "Another new development, as Barack Obama counts down to his inauguration, transition sources saying CNN's own Dr. Sanjay Gupta, our chief medical correspondent, has been approached about the job of becoming the nation's surgeon general. One source says the Obama team is impressed with Dr. Gupta's communications skills, his work as a neurosurgeon, and his past work as a special adviser to Hillary Clinton. When she was the first lady at the time, he was a White House fellow. CNN has made sure Dr. Gupta, by the way, does not report on anything connected to the new administration since learning he was approached about the post. We're going to have much more on this story. John King is standing by. That's coming up this hour right here in THE SITUATION ROOM. Meanwhile, blood continues to flow in the Middle East. And it appears a top al Qaeda terrorist is blaming Barack Obama. An audio message just released reportedly from Ayman Al-Zawahri says Israel's actions at Hamas -- and I'm quoting now -- \"are a gift from Obama.\" The message, posted on an Islamist Web site, even goes further as to tell Muslims in the region that president-elect Obama -- and I'm quoting now -- \"is killing your brothers and sisters.\" No response from Obama's transition team. Meanwhile, two United Nations schools in Gaza hit today. CNN's Paula Hancocks is along the border between Israel and Gaza -- Paula.", "Wolf, dozens of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli artillery shells near a second U.N. school in Gaza. Israel insists it was returning fire, and there were Hamas operatives among the dead. As the sun sets over Gaza, a thick haze of smoke drifts across the whole strip. Day 11 of Israel's onslaught, ambulance sirens in Gaza have become background noise to the constant explosions. Within hours, two U.N.-run schools, both being used as shelters for hundreds of people, were hit. The U.N. in Gaza says three artillery shells landed near a school in Jabalia, killing dozens.", "We're demanding full accountability in accordance with international law and the duty of care that the parties to the conflict are obliged to adhere to. We don't care to pass judgment. We have to deal with the consequences.", "The Israeli military says it returned fire after mortar shells were fired from the school. Many Palestinians are caught in the middle. This man asks Israel, \"How can you let your army destroy everything, the young, the old, men, women, while everyone else is just watching us?\" The Red Cross in Gaza is calling it a full-blown humanitarian crisis. Israel's military believes it killed 130 Hamas militants since the ground operation began Saturday night. It has also lost six soldiers in that time. As troops advance on the outskirts of Gaza City, militants continue rocket fire into Israel, hitting farther than ever before. The town of Gedera, 36 kilometers, or 23 miles, north of the border, suffered its first hit. This policeman says: \"We knew it would come. We just didn't know when.\" E.U. diplomats are meeting and talking and calling for an immediate cease-fire.", "Any future arrangement has to prevent Hamas from continuing to re-arm, to get stronger and longer-range rockets. A vital ingredient is a total, total ban on any weapons entering the Gaza Strip.", "Talk of a cease-fire has certainly not yet reached Gaza, both sides showing no signs of letting up, even as the civilian death toll increases -- Wolf.", "Paula, thank you very much. And, just a little while ago, the office of the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, announced that Israel has now agreed to accept to set up a humanitarian corridor that would allow vital supplies to reach the people of Gaza. Let's go back to Jack Cafferty. He's got \"The Cafferty File\" -- Jack.", "It's very sad. Thanks, Wolf. Well, go figure this. Gas prices are actually down since President Bush took office eight years ago, true story. According to the Energy Information Administration, the average price per gallon last week was $1.59. And, when adjusted for inflation, that is 9 percent less than when President Bush took office, and considerably less than last summer, when you will recall gas was like $4 a gallon. Gasoline prices are starting to creep up a few cents now. Oil prices have been rising in response to the fighting in Gaza. And there are predictions that, after declining for five straight months, gasoline could cost around $2 a gallon by springtime. Meanwhile, consumers are only too happy to spend less at the pump, people now spending $25 a week on gas, instead of $75. And that translates to a savings of about $1 billion a day for American motorists, according to AAA. They say high gas prices contributed to the recession and that lower gas prices can help turn things around by leaving people with more cash in their pockets to spend on something besides fuel. The downside, of course, is that lower gas prices take the emphasis off developing alternative energy sources and ultimately breaking our dependence on imported oil. So, it's a double-edged sword, if you will. Here's the question. Are lower gas prices an asset or a liability for the United States? Go to CNN.com/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog -- Wolf.", "Jack, thank you. Access denied. The man who says he will replace Barack Obama in the Senate is turned away from taking a seat. Is a major battle next or will there be a deal? Also, might the president-elect be thinking twice about his apparent pick to head the CIA? You're going to find out why Leon Panetta may be giving him some headaches right now. And president-elect Barack Obama is possibly doing something to please both Democrats and Republicans. But can he really pull it off? We will explain right here in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, HOST", "LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR", "BLITZER", "DOBBS", "BLITZER", "JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENT-ELECT", "YELLIN (voice-over)", "OBAMA", "YELLIN", "OBAMA", "YELLIN", "OBAMA", "YELLIN", "OBAMA", "YELLIN", "GOV.  BILL RICHARDSON (D), NEW MEXICO", "YELLIN", "YELLIN", "BLITZER", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-75070", "program": "LIVE FROM THE HEADLINES", "date": "2003-8-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/11/se.09.html", "summary": "Interviews With Chris Filippi, Lawrence Kobilinsky", "utt": ["The remains of Laci Peterson and her unborn son washed ashore back in April. Now four months later, they're again under the microscope and under the watchful eye of Scott Peterson's defense team. KSBK reporter Chris Filippi is joining us now live from Sacramento with the latest. Chris, tell us what happened today.", "Well, Wolf, the defense team finally got to look at the remains of Laci and Connor Peterson. They've been waiting to do this for some time. They've brought in a couple of very well known forensic pathologists, Dr. Henry Lee, who you may recall from the O.J. Simpson case, and Dr. Cyril Wecht, who is also very well known for his work in this field. They did some very close examinations of the body. They spent about three hours at the coroner's office. Took some fluid and tissue samples that they'll do some more testing on. And really, this is part of the defense's effort to try and gather as much information as possible about the autopsy, because they're sure to attack it once the trial begins.", "How long did the whole process last, this second autopsy, if you will?", "Yes, it lasted about three hours. It had been decided a couple -- about a month ago that the defense would get a crack at seeing this body firsthand. And that was in fact today, the one day that they would be able to do this. So it lasted about three hours. Again, they did take some samples of the tissue and fluids from the remains. They also took some photographs and they used an X-ray machine. So they really went over things very carefully.", "We heard briefly from the lead attorney for Scott Peterson, Mark Geragos, afterwards. They're limited in what they can say, because of the gag order. They and now two forensic scientists as well.", "Yes, very much so, and you've really seen the impact of the gag order on this case. It's been in place for about two months now, and the leaks have really stopped. You don't see the nonstop reporting that you had before the gag order was in place. In fact, it's very rare at this point to hear about -- to hear from Geragos outside of the courtroom. He speak a little bit, just saying overall he was pleased with how things went. He felt like he got some good information. But he wouldn't tell specifically what that information is.", "Have we heard anything from Laci Peterson's family about this second investigation, this second autopsy?", "No. In fact, we have not, because they're covered by the gag order as well. Although I can tell you just from the leaks that we have heard, this autopsy, you have to remember, is under seal. We're not supposed to know anything about it. But I can tell you they were very upset about the leaks about the original autopsy report. I don't think they've really gotten over that, so they're not going to be very anxious to comment on this.", "Chris Filippi, thanks very much for joining us.", "You're welcome.", "Scott Peterson's defense is hoping there is something in remains that will clear him of the murders. Lawrence Kobilinsky joins us now with more on what that evidence might be that they are looking for. He is professor of forensic science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice here in New York. Professor, thanks very much for joining us.", "My pleasure.", "What are they looking for?", "Well, there are a number of questions that remain unanswered. We don't know the time of death. We don't know the cause of death. Interestingly, if you look at Connor, as has been reported, there is a nylon...", "The unborn son.", "The unborn son. There is a nylon tape that was wrapped around the neck. I think Henry Lee would be very interested in looking at that.", "Why?", "Well, it's a piece of physical evidence. If there is any resemblance between that and something that they would find in Scott's home, that would be a very important piece of information. There is also a wound on -- what was considered a postmortem wound on Connor going from the right side of the shoulder down the chest. What's very significant is the umbilical cord, which is about a half a centimeter long, and it is not clear whether it was cut or it was bitten off. The bottom line here is, people are going to be asking, was this child born and then killed, or was this the so called coffin birth that we're hearing about.", "Because of the satanic cult, the notion, the theory that's been out there, discredited by the police, by local law enforcement, the district attorney, but raised by presumably those who think Scott Peterson might have had nothing to do with this.", "Well, anything that creates reasonable doubt works for the defense. Laci is a whole other story. There is no skull, there are no limbs. The intestines are gone. So I don't believe that this team is going to be able to generate all of a sudden new information that is going to free Scott Peterson from this charge. They probably are taking tissues to do some toxicology, but I really don't have high hopes that there is going to be much new information.", "No bombshell, if you will.", "No bombshell.", "But they spent under three hours, Dr. Henry Lee, Dr. Cyril Wecht, someone very familiar to all of our viewers who watched this case and other cases over the years. What do you make of the fact that they spent under three hours?", "Well, you know, an autopsy can take a very short time or a very long time, depending upon the nature of the body and the condition of the body. Here we have two bodies highly decomposed. And it really makes it very difficult to generate information. I don't really think that they really have obtained a hell of a lot of information in the three hours. I think Geragos made a very smart move hiring two very well known scientists.", "Among the best in the business.", "Among the best in the business. But you know, science is science. And it is said that two people can look at the same item and come up with different conclusions.", "Very briefly on that very last point. Is it your sense that they did this because, A, they didn't trust the local forensic scientists who did the initial autopsy, or because they thought these guys were so much better they would glean some new piece of information that might help them in their defense?", "I really don't think they're going to glean anything new. I think that they had a choice. Either don't do it and then challenge the ME's office there, or do it and see if they can find fault with procedure.", "All right, Dr. Kobilinsky, as usual, thanks very much for joining us."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRIS FILIPPI, KSBK CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "FILIPPI", "BLITZER", "FILIPPI", "BLITZER", "FILIPPI", "BLITZER", "FILIPPI", "BLITZER", "LAWRENCE KOBILINSKY, PROFESSOR OF FORENSIC SCIENCE", "BLITZER", "KOBILINSKY", "BLITZER", "KOBILINSKY", "BLITZER", "KOBILINSKY", "BLITZER", "KOBILINSKY", "BLITZER", "KOBILINSKY", "BLITZER", "KOBILINSKY", "BLITZER", "KOBILINSKY", "BLITZER", "KOBILINSKY", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-98750", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2005-10-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/18/ltm.06.html", "summary": "Dam Threatens to Give Way in Massachusetts; Tropical Storm Wilma Bulks Up", "utt": ["Breaking news, quite literally, in Massachusetts. A dam threatens to give way. Thousands of people now being told to get out of town in Taunton. Tropical storm Wilma bulks up, gets more intense and threatens to slice toward South Florida. Chad Myers is watching Wilma. And we are watching Harriet Miers, as well. Did she or did she not tip her hand on abortion issues with a prominent senator? Who said what to whom, on this", "From the CNN broadcast center in New York, this is AMERICAN MORNING with Soledad O'Brien and Miles O'Brien.", "Good morning. Welcome, everybody. Boy, they are having a rough time of it in Taunton, Massachusetts. They have a big problem on their hands with that dam, which dates back to the 1800s. It's a wood dam. It threatens to give way. It really could collapse any moment.", "It's a swollen river, it's a timber dam and people are being told to get out of the way. Things pretty tense there in Taunton, Massachusetts this morning. Taunton about 30 miles south of Boston. You know all the rain they've gotten lately. We've been telling you all about that. Well, all that water has to go somewhere, of course, and it is threatening to bust through that dam and potentially flood the city. AMERICAN MORNING'S Dan Lothian is live in Taunton -- Dan, you're downstream. If that dam were to break, would you be in floodwater right now?", "Well, that's what officials are telling us. We are about a mile-and-a-half downstream from that 100- year-old wooden dam and we're told that if it does give way, it will send about six feet of water going through a nearby community of about 100 or so homes, and then into the downtown area. The concern, as well, is that there is this secondary dam, and if that all -- if the first one gives way, they believe the secondary dam could also give way, creating even more problems. The governor, Mitt Romney, arrived here a short time ago to be briefed by emergency personnel and he is speaking, I believe, at this hour. A few minutes ago he was in front of the microphones to kind of give an update on what he has learned so far. Obviously, there is a lot of concern here. So officials have gone door-to-door to evacuate residents. Some 2,000 residents in the area have been strongly advised to leave their homes. We are told, though, that some people are staying behind. And what engineers are doing at this hour, we're told, is they're continuing to monitor that dam, to see if it will hold or when it will break. They do believe it could break at any time. Now, there's good news and there's bad news. Already water is starting to come through that dam. They say that's good because it's relieving some of the pressure behind the dam. But of course it's bad because the integrity of that dam has also been compromised. So, right now it's in stand-by mode. A lot of emergency personnel have been activated. They're on stand-by, ready to move into position if needed -- Miles.", "Dan, stay there for just a moment. Governor Mitt Romney is addressing reporters even as we speak. Let's listen for just a moment.", "... looked at some of these dams. They were categorized in different groupings. Those that were considered high hazard were those which, if there were a significant failure, could lead to the loss of life or loss of a significant amount of property. This is one of those dams. They're to be inspected every two years. This dam was inspected, apparently on a timely basis, and was designated to be in fair condition. Certain repairs were requested and ordered, and those were apparently undertaken or completed. So I believe that we have a process which is generally working. But I think we're going to all take a very close look at it following the stress which our system has endured over the last week. We've had a number of dams that called for inspectors coming out and taking a close look. This is not the only one that's been at risk. It's the most severe risk given the number of individuals and the property that are entailed. But we've had a number of dams that have been compromised to a certain degree by the high water. And I think we're going to spend some time...", "Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney continues his briefing to reporters. We're going to continue listening to it, but we are also going to press on. He addressing that issue I brought up a little while ago about this whole issue of 100-year-old timber dams, whether that's an appropriate kind of infrastructure to protect our cities. He said it had been inspected, as all dams are in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts every couple of years. He said it passed with a fair grade, some repairs required. Obviously a story we'll be tracking for you. In just a few moments, we will talk to the publisher of the local newspaper. They had to evacuate their office building along the river, but we'll ask them about this dam and whether there was any move there to replace it, perhaps with something more long lasting -- Soledad.", "There are reports of other people who decided to stay behind. And we're going to continue to follow this story, obviously. Florida now. Florida could be staring at another hurricane in the next few days. Severe weather expert Chad Myers at the CNN Center with us for the very latest -- hey, Chad, good morning, again. Where is she, he, it?", "Wilma, it. Wilma is an it. Down in the Caribbean. Everybody likes to call the hurricanes hes and shes when you get boys' and girls' names, but, in fact, they are all its. Rain showers into Boston. I just wanted to show you this quickly, because that's where our reporter is right here. The rain has finally stopped and so the threat, I guess, of a little bit more runoff has stopped from that next little wave of rain. Here is the wave. It's a big wave now, a tropical storm, 70 miles per hour. The 8:00 update just came in. Kept it as a tropical storm. Did not move it up to a hurricane strength yet. But it is forecast to be a category one later today, and then, in fact, grow rapidly in this warm water right here, to a category three. And that's the potential for this storm. The rest of the potential is probably anywhere from, it could be Louisiana, all the way over to Florida. The Hurricane Center's forecast, you saw it. That line does move right over the west coast of Florida.", "Let's turn now to the Harriet Miers nomination. She apparently said something to Senator Arlen Specter about a very important court case. Exactly what she said, though, is a matter of huge disagreement. Congressional correspondent Ed Henry live for us on Capitol Hill this morning -- Ed, we're hearing some very careful wording on all of this, aren't we?", "That's right. In fact, after yesterday's private meeting, Senator Arlen Specter was unequivocal, twice saying that, in fact, during this meeting, Harriet Miers said that she believes the \"Griswold\" case was rightly decided. That's very significant because, of course, the 1965 case, \"Griswold v. Connecticut,\" basically laid the legal foundation for \"Row v. Wade\" and opened the door to legalized abortion in America. That's why conservatives oppose it so much, that case. And that's why, in fact, last night the White House was scrambling, saying, in fact, that they believe Miers did not say any such thing during this meeting with Specter and that he would be issuing a correction. But Specter's office later put out a carefully worded statement that did not exactly correct it. It, instead, said that after he commented to the media, \"Ms. Miers called him to say that he misunderstood her and that she had not taken a position on \"Griswold.\" Senator Specter accepts Ms. Miers' statement that he misunderstood what she said.\" So there again, Specter insisting she, in fact, said something, while the White House is saying she didn't say anything. A lot of confusion there. But basically conservatives cutting through that last night and telling me they believe this suggests that, in fact, eyebrows will be raised about the fact that Senator Arlen Specter, an expert on constitutional law, could not have possibly have been confused about what Harriet Miers said. This also is clouding, once again, an already stormy confirmation battle. If you look at the latest CNN/\"USA Today\"/Gallup poll, it shows that 36 percent of Americans say that Miers, the Miers nomination should be withdrawn. Only 46 percent say no, she should stick it out. Clearly not a Ray ringing endorsement there. And this episode with Specter is going to raise more suspicion in the minds of conservatives that perhaps Harriet Miers is really not on board with their views against abortion rights -- Soledad.", "Lots of questions certainly raised. Ed Henry for us this morning. Ed, thanks. The other top story this morning, fresh off the Iraqi vote now, the country's attention is turned to Saddam Hussein and his trial. Carol has a look at that, and other stories, as well -- good morning.", "I do. Good morning. Good morning to all of you. Saddam Hussein and seven of his top leaders are set to go on trial tomorrow. The group will face charges for the 1982 killings of nearly 150 people. It's the first of at least a dozen cases being prepared against the former dictator. In the meantime, election officials are holding off on the results from this weekend's constitutional vote. It seems there were an unusually high number of yes or no votes in some areas. Monitors now looking into that situation. The investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's name is reportedly focusing on Vice President Dick Cheney's office. That's according to sources cited by the \"Washington Post.\" It's not clear if the special prosecutor in the case has plans to charge anyone inside the Bush administration with a crime. Possible indictments could come down this week. It could be another wet morning for parts of southern California. Up to four feet of water in the area triggered a terrible mud slide in this Burbank neighborhood. Check out these pictures. Luckily, no one was hurt, but a few cars did get slammed by the rushing mud and debris. The area was also recently affected by wildfires. And now to the cutting edge of harvest sports -- the third annual Pumpkin Regatta in northeastern Ohio. A handful of brave souls paddle the giant hollowed out gourds, hoping they stay afloat...", "Oh my god!", "Each pumpkin weighs anywhere between 500 and 1,200 pounds. So imagine if you were just like, you know, like a kayak, go upside down in one of those things.", "Like that guy right there just did, almost.", "It's frightening. Luckily they're in rather shallow water. But it must be chilly in northeastern Ohio.", "Nobody held a candle to him, that's for sure. Oh, that's good. Oh, bring that back up, will you, Michael? That was classic. With the little electric motor, that's great stuff.", "Yes! Yes!", "That's cheating. Everybody else is paddling and he's got the motor on his pumpkin.", "I think he gets an ingenuity award, don't you?", "He does.", "The electric pumpkin. All right, thank you very much. See you in a bit. Still to come on the program, we continue to follow that story out of Taunton, Massachusetts. A dam there threatening to give way. We'll talk to the publisher of a newspaper in town there. They're not working. They had to evacuate.", "Also ahead this morning, the president's job approval rating keeps going down. A look at the latest numbers just ahead.", "And did a high school principal go too far in canceling the prom? Yes, the prom. We'll talk to him ahead on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "AMERICAN MORNING. ANNOUNCER", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "M. O'BRIEN", "DAN LOTHIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "M. O'BRIEN", "GOV. MITT ROMNEY (R), MASSACHUSETTS", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "S. O'BRIEN", "ED HENRY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "S. O'BRIEN", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "S. O'BRIEN", "COSTELLO", "S. O'BRIEN", "COSTELLO", "M. O'BRIEN", "COSTELLO", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "COSTELLO", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. 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{"id": "CNN-270047", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-11-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1511/27/nday.01.html", "summary": "Putin to Cooperate with U.S.-Led War Against ISIS; Shoppers Out in Droves for Black Friday Sales; France Honors Paris Terror Attack Victims.", "utt": ["Vladimir Putin saying he's ready to work with the U.S. on fighting ISIS.", "New details on Russia's retaliation against Turkey.", "These weapons could give Russia significant control of the skies.", "This relationship is deteriorating very rapidly. Neither side is backing down.", "Protesters tell us they're going to descend on the Magnificent Mile.", "Protestors, they do plan to come up. This is Lincoln Avenue.", "This is going to be a long, long, long battle.", "We'll get the game on here in about five minutes.", "An all-out battle at stores across the nation.", "I'm ready. I got my fist up to somebody tries to steal something from me.", "Good morning. And welcome to a very special edition of CNN NEWSROOM. It is Friday, my friends. November 27, 6 a.m. in the east. The one and only John Berman joins me. Up first, a potential game changer in the war on ISIS. Vladimir Putin declaring that Russia is ready to cooperate with the United States and its partners to wipe out the terror group. But this spirit of cooperation comes with a caveat.", "Putin says Turkey committed an act of betrayal by shooting down one of Russia's warplanes, and the Russian leader assists the Syrian people must decide Assad's fate for themselves. In other words, he's not going to do anything to push him out. All this as we learn more about the dramatic rescue of the Russian co-pilot who survived the downing of the Russian jet. Let's begin our coverage with CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr -- Barbara.", "Good morning, John. Well, is Russia going to join the coalition? Probably not anytime soon. Are they going to cooperate? Putin says they're ready to do that. But U.S. officials say there are a couple of big ifs out there. And one of the biggest is that S-400 anti-air missile system that we've now seen the pictures of. Russia says it's shipping these parts into Syria. This is a massive anti-air system. If the Russians actually turn it on, make it go operational, they will be able to control a large swath of Syrian and, indeed, Turkish air space. And for U.S. pilots, that's a big issue. They need to understand what the Russian intentions are here. They need to have some understanding that the Russians are not targeting them. They need to figure out if they need to change their operations to deal with what the Russians are doing. So while the political talk may look pretty conciliatory, on the ground, there are a lot of military issues to iron out before anybody can really talk about real cooperation -- John.", "Barbara, what are we learning about the co-pilot, the one that was rescued in that downed Russian jet?", "That Russian copilot, he has turned up now safe. And what both Russian and Iranian media are saying is that the Iranians were behind the rescue operations to get him. That a very well-known Iranian commander, a man named General Soleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, was commanding the operation to get him. Other troops were on the ground, but Soleimani behind it all, behind the rescue mission. That, again, a very significant step. It shows the Iranian influence, the Iranian ability to command-and-control operations. Something the U.S. has to consider. They also say that now they have basically taken control of that area, that territory, where the pilot was shot down, that they have killed or dealt with all the rebel forces on the ground. It just really underscores the complexity of what is happening there and a lot of difficulty in understanding whether or not all of these countries, all of these players really are ready to cooperate -- John.", "A lot going on in one very small country. Barbara Starr, thanks so much -- Michaela.", "Well, let's delve into some of that complexity. Joining us now is CNN political commentator and associate professor at City University of New York, Peter Beinart; and CNN military analyst and former joint chiefs of staff deputy director, retired Air Force colonel, Cedric Leighton. I appreciate both of you coming despite, I'm sure, a turkey coma from yesterday, gentlemen.", "Little bit.", "We want to sort of delve into some of these matters. And I think pressing right off the bat, I want to quick take from each of you the idea that Vladimir Putin says he's onboard to take ISIS out, to wipe them out, but with a caveat. What is your take-away from that, Peter? Do you trust that to be true? Because you know he's got a horse in this race.", "Right. Russia's No. 1 priority in Syria is maintaining Russian influence, and the person who gives them that influence is Bashar Assad, their ally. So it's not that Russia is -- doesn't have some hostility to ISIS, especially after the downing of that Russian jet.", "Of course.", "The problem is the -- America's agenda is to coalesce all of the rebels against -- ultimately against Assad, and that at the end of the day, is not what Russia wants.", "So Cedric, if the motives for both are very different, the United States coalition and Russia, even if they are trying to ultimately get to ISIS, if they're trying to back up -- prop up Assad, and Obama and Hollande both feel that Assad has got to go, can this work?", "I don't think so, Michaela. And you know, this -- the way that this is working is, basically, it's a piece of paper that Hollande and Putin, in essence, agreed to, but it is not reality on the ground; and it cannot work if they don't have the same goal. Nations have interests. They don't really have friends. And when the interests don't coincide, the agreements between them just don't work.", "Well, and that's the thing. I mean, when you think about ISIS, how much, Peter, is the fight against ISIS in Syria inextricably linked to Assad?", "It is. I mean, the problem is a catch-22. The Russians are saying, well, the strongest military force we have on the ground against Assad, and that's true. The problem is that, politically, Assad also pushes people towards ISIS, because he alienates Sunnis. He's alienated the Sunni population so deeply that he allows ISIS to be the kind of -- the champion of the Sunni. So you have a western strategy that is weak militarily, and you have a Russian strategy that's weak politically against ISIS. Neither really makes. A lot of sense at this point.", "So Cedric, speaking about trying to make sense of all this, did -- I mean, just to be frank, did Turkey mess up? Was this an overreaction that has now put them in a really dire situation? Because the fact is, Russia also holds a lot of purse strings to Turkey. We know that they're a major supplier of natural gases. we know that they are threatening to embargo products and service to that country. So was -- was this an error on their part?", "Oh, Michaela, I think so. You know, when you look at the natural gas situation, just as an example, 60 percent of Turkey's natural gas comes from Russia. And when you look at the amount of time that the Russian aircraft, the SU-24, was in Turkish air space, it's very minimal, compared to some other types of threats that could have been out there. So Turkey overreacted. And right now, not only is Turkey possibly paying the price for this, but there's a great danger that NATO, and through NATO, the United States, could pay a huge price for this, as well.", "Well, French President Hollande, obviously, on a tour, trying to build a coalition, trying to bring together world powers to combat ISIS. Speaking with Russia, with the president there. But also calling for cooperation between those countries, which I can understand. He has to ask for that. But again, as Peter -- Cedric was mentioning, on the ground, is that realistic? We know the complicated history those two nations have. Cooperation between Russia and Turkey, is that even feasible?", "Again, you have this fundamental difference, which is that the strategy to defeat ISIS from France and the United States involves getting Assad out and building up a more moderate rebel force. But the Russians don't like that strategy, because it leaves them without influence in Syria. And Putin's entire foreign policy agenda has been the restoration of Russian influence around the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union. So the problem is, there are a lot of people who don't like ISIS, but there are not very many countries who have defeating ISIS as their No. 1 priority. All these countries have other agendas in Syria, which has become a kind of battlefield for a whole series of regional and imperial conflicts.", "You have ten people in a room, and they all have different ideas about how to do something, right? I mean, this is just a bigger sort of global view of that. All right. To the U.K. We know Prime Minister David Cameron making a play to get support from his -- his nation to support airstrikes against ISIS. Do you think they have the political will to do that, Cedric? Final thought?", "I do. I think that they do have the political will. I think things have changed from a few months ago when David Cameron actually asked for the same power to go into Syria. Now they've got a reason, and that reason is what we see in France and the Paris -- you know, the Paris terrorist attacks. And so with that, that will open the door for possible British participation in this. And what really has to happen, Michaela, is that everybody has to realize that ISIS is ignoring the Syrian and Iraqi borders. And we're getting into a stage where there's a new world order forming in the Middle East. And what that's going to look like is going to be a whole different thing.", "All right. Well, we appreciate both of you coming in today on this Friday. Peter, Cedric, always our pleasure. Thank you -- John.", "All right. Breaking news. Two suspects under arrest in Mali in connection with the attack on a luxury hotel that left 20 people dead. The men, both from Mali, were found thanks to a cell phone left at the scene of the attack. Armed men launched a deadly raid at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital. That was one week ago. Hours later, commandos stormed the hotel, killing two attackers, freeing up to 170 hostages. Three Islamic militant groups have now claimed responsibility for this attack.", "More breaking news, ISIS now claiming responsibility for a deadly attack on a Shiite mosque in northern Bangladesh. At least one person was killed, three others injured when several gunmen opened fire. At least 20 people were in that mosque for evening prayers when the deadly incident unfolded. This is the second attack in a month on the country's small Shia population.", "This morning, a national ceremony in France, led by President Francois Hollande, honoring the 130 people killed, the 350- plus injured in the Paris terrorist attacks two weeks ago. The French leader reiterated his vow to destroy ISIS, calling it an army of fanatics with an insane cause. It was a display of grief, unity and resolve. This is a live look now at one of the memorials. We'll have a live report from Paris in just a few minutes.", "Back here at home, it is Black Friday. Shoppers are poised; they've got their sneakers on. They are ready to do some retail damage on one of the busiest shopping days of the year, or will it be? Many holiday shoppers apparently are getting a head start at stores that were open on Thanksgiving. I'm trying to add an air of mystery to this. Cristina Alesci, live at the Macy's flagship store in New York's Herald Square. Are people coming out? Is it going to be what people anticipated today?", "It looks like it is. It looks like it's actually the middle of the day. You wouldn't know it's close to 6 a.m. in the morning. Actually, there was a huge line behind me, just a few minutes ago, before H&M opened its doors, about 200 people. The first people in line here were here at 2 a.m. I could not believe that when I heard it. But you have all of the most major retailers in the country right here in Herald Square. We're going to see a lot of activity. Police are already out. Mainly, it seems like for crowd control reasons. So lots of people coming out. Eighty billion dollars, that's how much Americans are expected to spend over this holiday season. And obviously, Black Friday isn't just happening here; it's happening across the country. Take a look.", "Overnight, an all-out battle at stores across the nation. Just hours into the brutal chase for bargains.", "I got my fist up to somebody tries to steal something from me.", "In Louisville, Kentucky, Black Friday madness. Two men punching and tearing at each other's T-shirt inside a major city mall. Tempers flared at this Wal-Mart in El Paso. Holiday shoppers appeared to fight over flat-screen TVs, even taking on store security. The yearly stampede spilling into front doors, a welcome sight for retailers hoping to cash in on the holiday frenzy. Sales expected to reach $80 billion in the U.S...", "We made it!", "... the average American spending close to $400 throughout the holiday weekend, with some brick-and-mortar stores now handing out a select number of tickets to people in line for the hottest items.", "We're able to ticket numbers one through whatever we have. That way it stops a lot of the chaos from happening.", "Some shoppers camping out for days.", "We've been here since Tuesday night at 9:30.", "All in an effort to nab great deals, like this 50-inch flat-screen TV at Best Buy, marked down nearly 75 percent off.", "I think it's exciting. If it's something that you want and it's worth it, why not go and get it?", "So this is really the make-or-break time of year for retailers. And just a dirty little secret: about 75 to 76 percent of the money spent is spent on just one percent of products. And that means that these retailers have to have the right products in their stores to make their numbers. Back to you.", "All right. Cristina Alesci out there with the folks shopping, thanks so much, Cristina. In Chicago, protesters are going to use this day to draw attention to the video just released showing a white police officer killing a 17-year-old black teenager. In a few hours, they will walk along Michigan Avenue. That's the main shopping district in Chicago. CNN's Ryan Young live with the very latest. Good morning, Ryan.", "Good morning, John. It will be interesting to see how the rain plays into this, because it's raining right now. I can tell you, people will be marching for Laquan McDonald. We've been told for days this was going to happen. This is the Magnificent Mile behind me. We know Black Friday is huge here. People are telling us, they're going to march from the bridge all the way down. Of course, a few other -- a few days ago, they actually stopped in the intersection and blocked the traffic here. They are planning to do that again, and in fact, some of the religious leaders here have been very outspoken about what they want.", "And sit down in the street and block the street on Michigan Avenue with civil disobedience, peacefully, and say, \"You know what? Business as usual can't go on while our children are dying!\"", "Now we just learned some new information, just this morning. This just into CNN. Police here in Chicago have made an arrest in Tyshawn Lee's murder case. That is the 9-year-old who was actually lured into an alley and shot in the head. They have made an arrest, and this morning we just got this information, so we wanted to share with you this morning. Chicago police have made an arrest in the 9-year-old's shooting. We've been told by protesters, not only will they be out here because of the violence from police to people in the community, but they also want to be out here for the violence that's happening in the community, as well. So again, that just in the 9-year-old -- the suspect in the 9-year-old shooting death of Tyshawn Lee, has been arrested -- Michaela.", "That young boy lured into an alley and killed in cold blood. A horrifying story. That is going to be progress to the family to know that somebody's under arrest. Thanks for updating us on that. A newly-installed layer of sharp spikes didn't keep out a White House fence jumper. The Secret Service says Joseph Caputo scaled the North Lawn fence Thursday as the first family was inside celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday. Witnesses apparently heard him say, quote, \"All right, let's do this,\" before he took off. The Secret Service took him into custody seconds later. Caputo can expect some criminal charges to follow.", "Yes. They put in all these new measures. And he got over the fence; didn't get very far.", "Didn't get very far. Makes you think that maybe it's got to be even higher.", "All right. We're going to have much more on the Black Friday protest expected in Chicago this morning. What will it do to that city? How will they now be forced to deal with the problems inside that police department? We're going to break down what the protesters want, next."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "STARR", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "PETER BEINART, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "PEREIRA", "BEINART", "PEREIRA", "BEINART", "PEREIRA", "COL. 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{"id": "NPR-24162", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2014-05-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/05/09/310947507/driver-in-carpool-lane-pulled-over-for-suspicious-passenger", "title": "Driver In Carpool Lane Pulled Over For Suspicious Passenger", "summary": "Cars in that lane outside Boston should have at least two occupants. A mannequin's head doesn't count as a passenger.", "utt": ["Good morning, I'm Steve Inskeep.", "A state trooper outside Boston saw a car pulling into the carpool lane on I-93. Cars in that lane should have at least two occupants, but something caught the trooper's eye. He pulled over the car and that's when he discovered the driver was using the lane accompanied only by a mannequin head propped up in the passenger seat.", "The driver was ticketed despite the artistic effort used on the mannequin which had a mustache drawn on.", "It's MORNING EDITION."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-24422", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2001-1-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/26/tod.09.html", "summary": "XFL Set to Kick Off Next Month", "utt": ["If you are sad that the football season ends Saturday, take heart. The upstart XFL football league kicks off next week with a leaner and meaner version of the sport. Joining us now with more, CNN/SI's John Giannone, who is also down in Tampa. But first, a simple question, what in the heck is the XFL?", "Well, you know what, Lou, some people think the x stands for extreme, and that's what the owners of the league want you to believe. But those who have seen those TV commercials with the scantily clad cheerleaders say it stands for x- rated. It's basically a league started by Vince McMahon, who owns the World Wrestling Federation, popular yet controversial organization. He'"], "speaker": ["LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN GIANNONE, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-256491", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2015-06-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/02/lvab.01.html", "summary": "Secret Deaths of St. Mary's.", "utt": ["If you or especially your child might be in need of a serious operation, of course you're going to want the most skilled and experienced surgeon that you can find in a hospital with a proven track record. But the parents you're about to meet wanted those things too for their critically ill newborns in the state of Florida. Instead, though, of the facts, they got promises from a hospital and a doctor they now deeply regret having trusted. CNN's senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has a keeping them honest segment right now, an investigation, \"The Secret Deaths of St. Mary's.\"", "Just weeks into life, this tiny baby Layla McCarthy, needed heart surgery. Here at St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, Dr. Michael Black performed the delicate procedure to widen Layla's narrow aorta, a defect she'd had since birth.", "He just made it seem like he was the best person to do this.", "It was a - very like, no sweat, don't worry about it. You know, it's a walk in the park.", "But the surgery was a disaster.", "I looked at her, and her legs had started - they had stiffened up a lot and they started going in an almost table-top position.", "After the surgery, Layla was paralyzed. Here she is today. The McCarthy's had no idea that their daughter's tragedy had a disturbing backstory. One that no one had told them. Just three months before Layla's operation, a baby had died after heart surgery by Dr. Black. And five months before that, Alexander Gutierrez Mercado had died. And a month and a half before that, Keyari Sanders had passed away.", "It's horrible that you go into a program like that and they can be dishonest with you and they don't feel the need to tell you what has happened there before.", "One week after the surgery that left Layla paralyzed, Amelia Campbell died after heart surgery. Then Parish Wright a few months later and Landon Summerford (ph) eight months after that. St. Mary's keeps its death rate a secret, revealing a death rate, they tell CNN, could \"potentially lead to providing misleading information to consumers.\" But CNN has calculated a death rate based on these internal hospital reports, which include surgical caseloads. We calculate that from 2011 to 2013, the death rate for open heart surgery on children at St. Mary's Medical Center was more than three times higher than the national average. These are all parents who lost their babies after heart surgery by Dr. Black at St. Mary's. They hadn't met each other until they sat down to talk with us.", "He really sounded like he knew what he was doing.", "All I could do was believe in his words and it was the opposite of what he said.", "So your baby was transferred to a different hospital?", "They couldn't do anything for her. She was a vegetable. Her organs had shut down, everything.", "At the second hospital, did they explain what happened in the first hospital?", "The previous doctor, Dr. Michael Black, kinked (ph) her artery and that's why it wasn't getting any blood flow to the left side of her heart. NOIKA (ph)", "This is really difficult to hear. Just to hear what other mothers went tough and that the same", "St. Mary's, owned by Tenant Health Care, said CNN is wrong about the program's death rate but refuses to provide what it considers the correct death rate. The hospital and the heart surgeon, Dr. Black, rejected requests for an on camera interview, so we tracked down CEO Davide Carbone to give him a chance to explain.", "Hi, Mr. Carbone. It's Elizabeth Cohen at CNN. Hi, Mr. Carbone. It's Elizabeth Cohen at CNN. How are you, sir? Sir, we want to know why the - what the death rate is for your babies at the pediatric heart hospital in the - your program?", "He also wouldn't answer the parents' question, why did so many babies die at"], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CHRISTINE MCCARTHY, LAYLA MCCARTHY'S MOTHER", "MATT MCCARTHY, LAYLA MCCARTHY'S FATHER", "COHEN", "C. MCCARTHY", "COHEN", "C. MCCARTHY", "COHEN", "DANTE WRIGHT, PARISH WRIGHT'S FATHER", "MARQUITA CAMPBELL, PARISH WRIGHT'S MOTHER", "COHEN (on camera)", "RAMONA STRACHAN, KEYARI SANDERS' MOTHER", "COHEN", "STRACHAN", "CAMPBELL, AMELIA CAMPBELL'S MOTHER", "COHEN (voice-over)", "COHEN (on camera)", "COHEN (voice-over)"]}
{"id": "CNN-389707", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2020-01-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/07/ctw.02.html", "summary": "Iraqis Mourn Kataib Hezbollah Leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis", "utt": ["Welcome back. You're watching CONNECT THE WORLD with me, Becky Anderson. One country particularly caught up in the conflict between the U.S. and Iran is Iraq where General Soleimani was killed on Friday. Iraqi lawmakers have looked into expelling U.S. troops from the country. But a draft letter released by mistake on Monday suggested they might do that willingly. That was later denied by the Trump administration. But at the same time a report by \"The Washington Post\" suggests U.S. officials are preparing possible sanctions against Iraq if it expels U.S. troops. Arwa Damon is in Baghdad for you. What sort of sanctions might we be talking about here?", "Well, we're not entirely sure, Becky. I mean, there most certainly are plenty of options, all of which would potentially be damaging to Iraq's economy. It's already in a fragile state. Remember prior to all of this, one of the causes behind the anti-government demonstrations that have been going on for months here is rising unemployment and the fact that there is widespread corruption and basically that people are, to a certain degree, struggling financially or at least struggling more than they feel they should be, given their country's vast oil wealth. But we were out earlier, talking to people about the possibility of sanctions. And while a lot of those who we spoke to do remember what it was like in the 1990s and just how difficult things were, they say that, if it happens again, this time around it's not going to be the same. They make the point that Iraq today is not the Iraq of the 1990s. The country is not an international pariah, as it was to a certain degree under Saddam Hussein. They have friendly relations with Iran and that they did not have back then, either. So they don't feel that the impact will be the same as it was back then. But of course, it is going to impact this country at a time when many people here really feel like they don't deserve any of this. A lot of the times when you're out there talking to Iraqis, they'll tell you, enough, enough of using us as a battlefield, enough war. Enough of this tit-for-tat that's playing out within our own country. Just please leave us alone. And we hear Iraqis begging just to be left alone over and over and over again, Becky.", "Mike Pompeo tweeting about Iraq earlier on today, expressing outrage at Kataib Hezbollah, the group that fueled the siege of the U.S. embassy recently in Baghdad. He calls them Iranian-backed terrorists and asks when will the Iraqi government start protecting its own citizens? This was prompted by reports that two rockets hit near the U.S. embassy on Sunday. As mourners prepare for the funeral of Qasem Soleimani in southeastern Iran today, Iraqis also mourning the death of the militia leader known as Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Just how significant is his death and who are the military groups?", "Well, from the perspective of those who support what's known as the PMF, the Popular Mobilization Force, the paramilitary unit that is part of the Iraqi security forces, the death of the leader of Kataib Hezbollah, killed along the side of Soleimani, is extraordinarily significant. They view this and the Iraqi government views his death and the targeting of Soleimani as being aggression against Iraq itself.", "And look, this paramilitary group formed because the Iraqi security forces had by and large fled their posts back in 2014 when ISIS was sweeping through Iraq but almost nearly at the gates of Baghdad and hence this paramilitary force came into existence. But it was largely made up of former Shia militias, many of whom gained their experience fighting the Americans during America's occupation of Iraq. So they've always been a very contentious force. But they're powerful and influential.", "Arwa's in Baghdad for you with the perspective. Thank you very much for joining us. As the U.S. Congress begins its 2020 session, the I's have it. That's the letter I, as in Iran, impeachment and Iowa. Democrats still trying to find out more about that targeted attack that killed the Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on Friday. They're also battling Republicans over whether witnesses should testify at the upcoming Senate trial of President Trump. Remember that? And all this comes as Democratic candidates campaign in Iowa, the site of this year's first presidential contest. Here to put this together is a very good friend of this show, CNN's Stephen Collinson. Where do you want to start? We have three I's here competing for attention. The ball is in your court.", "Let's start with Iran, given that this is the most dynamic story as lawmakers come back to Washington. We have two main strands emerging. The first one is the administration's refusal or inability to provide evidence of these imminent attacks, that it said that Qasem Soleimani was planning on, which is the rationale for the decision by the president to kill Soleimani last week outside Baghdad. That is causing a lot of consternation on Capitol Hill. Not surprisingly, given the legacy of the Iraq War, when faulty intelligence led the United States into a quagmire in the Middle East. The other question pertaining to Iran is this rather chaotic scenario of -- or revelations about how chaotic the national security process is. We had an incident yesterday, where, for a few hours, it seemed as though U.S. troops were pulling out of Iraq. Then the Pentagon, the Defense Secretary Mark Esper came out and said that's not the case. There does seem to be as well in the presence warning he's going to attack cultural sites in Iran, if Iran responds to the killing of Soleimani, a sense in which the national security process of the U.S. government is trying to catch up with the erratic and unpredictable pronouncements of the president.", "So -- OK, that's Iran. I want to move us onto impeachment. But I'm going to wind in a character here, who would be equally as interesting to talk to Iran about while he's still around. Former national security adviser John Bolton, who has suggested that he would testify at President Trump's impeachment trial. Democrats would want to ask him about some testimony at the House impeachment hearings. Have a listen.", "Ambassador Bolton told me that I am not part of the -- this -- whatever drug deal that Mulvaney and Sondland are cooking up.", "Did Ambassador Bolton tell you that Giuliani was, quote, \"a hand grenade\"?", "He did.", "How likely is it we'll hear from John Bolton and how significant is his testimony, should we hear from him?", "I think it's unclear whether we'll hear from John Bolton. If you were of a conspiratorial mindset, you might argue the reason Bolton said he was willing to testify is because he thinks he won't have to testify. You know, the Democrats seized on this as proof that the Republicans are trying to cover up what really happened over Ukraine by stopping a key witness from testifying. And the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, the top Republican there, has said his position hasn't changed. So I think it's a political headache for the Republicans, just looking at the dynamics of what is going on in the Senate. It's not clear yet that Bolton's statement is going to break the dam and force Republicans to have Bolton testify. It may end up being a very good talking point for the Democrats when this is all over, when they say that the Republicans protected the president and covered all this up. As to what he might say, it's very unclear.", "John Bolton is someone who seems to want to have -- to continue to have influence in Republican politics. While he might throw Giuliani under the bus, I think there's a great deal of doubt whether he would necessarily put the president under there as well.", "Your 30 seconds on Iowa? What's the story?", "OK. Iran is very interesting, because Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders both seem to think the crisis could get them the nomination. Biden has portrayed himself as the commander in chief in waiting, saying this kind of crisis is exactly why he should be given the Democratic nomination. Sanders is tapping into this feeling of, oh, no, we don't want another war in the Middle East. So there's a real split in the Democratic Party here. It's interesting to see how this is going to play out.", "You did that in 29 seconds. You're a star. Thank you. I need to take a short break to pay for the show. Stephen, always a pleasure."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON", "DAMON", "DAMON", "ANDERSON", "STEPHEN COLLINSON, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON", "FIONA HILL, FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL OFFICIAL", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HILL", "ANDERSON", "COLLINSON", "COLLINSON", "ANDERSON", "COLLINSON", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-343330", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2018-06-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/21/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Childhood, Marriage, and Murder in Sudan", "utt": ["I want to take you to Sudan next of a story that set off a global outcry. Noura Hussein was just 15 when she was forced into marriage with a much, much older man. Now the Sudanese teenager is on death row for killing that man who she says raped her. But as Nima Elbagir discovered she is far from the only such case in Sudan. Take a look.", "I had no idea how I got there. I was still carrying the knife. He told my parents that he wanted to marry me. The first time I even saw him was a week after he proposed the marriage to my uncle. I told them I don't want to marry. I want to study. I was in the eighth grade. And they fooled me.", "These are the words of a Sudanese teenager Noura Hussein. For her safety, this is not her voice, but it is Noura's story in her own words.", "They did all the usual rituals for the wedding I was overwhelmed with anger. I didn't want this man. I sat in the hairdressers contemplating suicide.", "This is Noura on her wedding day. Noura is on death row, convicted of the murder of her 35-year-old husband. Noura's case has caused controversy across Sudan. A controversy Sudan's government has refused to comment on. Noura's husband's family have, we're told by activists, threatened violence against her supporters. They also refused CNN's request for comment. The badly kept secret here is that more than a third of marriages in Sudan are child marriages, a number that is rising. Aggravated by the financial realities in Sudan and a law that set it is legal age of marriage at ten. But some brave little girls are choosing to speak out. (on camera) (through translator text): Are you ready? How old are you?", "Eleven.", "This is Amal's story and Amal's own voice. For her safety, we're not showing her face. Amal is seeking a divorce from her abusive husband.", "he treated me horribly, I went to my father, but he sent me back to him. Then when he beat me again, I fled to my father, but he sent me back again. That last time he beat me, I went to the police station.", "When it's all over, Amal wants to be a doctor. Beside her, her father wipes away tears. And like Noura, Amal's father is here in support of her.", "Twice, she came to my home, twice and was terrified and frightened. I sent her back.", "The man is 38 years old and wanted to be married to an 11-year-old girl. Shouldn't you have been suspicious?", "Well, I'm regretful, regretful.", "Her father promises only to think harder the next time a proposal for marriage comes to his underage daughter. Nahed Jabrallah's office walls are adorned with art from rescued child victims. Her center SEEMA is one of the organizations fighting on Noura's behalf. It works to combat violence against women and forced marriage is spite of a regular diet of threats.", "Aren't you afraid when you talk about these cases?", "I think that we, at the SEEMA center and other organizations, do this as a conscious choice. Noura is just one of the 37 percent of girls married in Sudan under the age of 18, just one of the cases that has reached us. There are so many others that are similar, even down to the details.", "We arrived at the honeymoon flat. I locked myself inside one of the rooms. I refused to eat. I refused to leave my room. On the ninth day, his relatives came. His uncle told me to go to the bedroom. I said no, so he dragged me by my arm into the bedroom. All of them tore at my clothing. His uncle held me down by my legs and each of the other two held down my arm. He stripped and had me while I wept and screamed. I was bleeding. I slept naked.", "A familiar childhood ritual, part and parcel of growing up. Women and girls across Sudan are fighting for the right to a childhood against laws that legalize child marriage, laws that don't recognize marital rape, laws that empower their abusers. Noura still had the knife in her hands when she fled to her parents' home. It was her own father who handed her to the police. And it's there that she learned that she had killed her husband. She's now awaiting the results of her appeal.", "And Nima is in the studio here with me. What happens now to Noura? Her lawyers have appealed.", "We are still awaiting the results of the appeal. And we understand that pressure is being exerted on her deceased husband's family. Who unbelievably in this case, of course, is considered the victim to move on from their right and their claim that she be executed. But of course, that doesn't solve the bigger problem. The hole in the center of Sudan's justice system which allowed this to happen in the first place.", "Yes. And is there the beginning -- obviously, I have never been to Sudan. I wonder what is public opinion? Where does it fall on this child marriage issue?", "Well, what is been really extraordinary is that I think for a lot of the women in the urban centers, this came as a huge shock to them. But what has grown from that is that women, in spite of the government's pressure on them are speaking out. It is Sudanese women that are the reason that we even know about Noura's case in the first place. Honestly, I met some extraordinarily brave women out there fighting on behalf of Noura and other girls like her.", "And is the country ready for change?", "It feels like Sudanese women are going to drag the country there whether we're ready or not.", "Yes, kicking and screaming maybe.", "Kicking and screaming.", "Is it the same way in Sudan as it is in other parts of the Muslim world or, frankly, of not necessarily the Muslim world, parts of the developing world where you have a huge, huge divide between the urban areas and the maybe more rural parts of the country.", "It feels like as the economic situation continues to fall apart, that that is definitely what's happening. It's this chasm opening up. And that's what's fueling so much of this child marriage problem.", "Nima Elbagir, thanks very much for joining us there with this incredible report. And we'll be airing it throughout the day as well on my show a little bit later this evening. Thanks so much. Now, some 40,000 girls are forced into marriage every day worldwide. Some as young as eight or nine years old. And here are the countries where it is most common, 76 percent in Niger, 34 percent of girls married by the time they are 18 and Sudan. Bangladesh is the only non-African country in that list. And you can see more of Nima's reporting and read Noura's account of what happened to her, on CNN.com. It's part of our #AsEquals project. Which puts the spotlight on inequality and the fight against it around the world. We'll have a lot more after this. 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{"id": "CNN-103326", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2006-2-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/27/acd.02.html", "summary": "Katrina Survivors Facing Eviction; Unwitting Victims", "utt": ["Now, welcome back to the surreal scene in St. Bernard Parish. This shrimp boat which has been deposited by the storm here in a residential community, or what remains of a residential community. Human beings can usually help themselves and one another as well, but as we saw as the waters rose after Katrina, animals can do neither of those things. They're entirely dependent on people. Those were some of the scenes that we saw in those terrible days after Katrina. That picture I took myself, that dog in a tree. So many dogs on the roofs of homes, floating on debris, not sure what would happen to them. They have been taken care of by hundreds of volunteers over these last several months. One of the shelters in particular that we found here in New Orleans is about to shut down, and there are hundreds of animals there, still in need. Take a look.", "Cassie (ph) is one of Katrina's littlest victims. For the last several months, she's lived in a makeshift shelter, along with hundreds of other abandoned animals. Dogs and cats, birds, there's even a monitor lizard. On Tuesday, however, this shelter is closing. And the volunteers from Best Friends Animal Society, who run it, are desperate to find homes for all the pets.", "Is it hard getting these animals adopted?", "Sometimes. Sometimes it's hard with the pit bulls, sometimes it's hard with the animals that don't look, you know, so pretty.", "Some animals are particularly difficult to find homes for.", "This is Red, and Red is really fabulous.", "Red was partially paralyzed when he was hit by a car while wandering the streets. He's now in a wheel chair, but it doesn't slow him down. He still loves to play catch.", "This guy is -- he's friendly to people, he's great with kids. He's great with other dogs, I mean, even with little dogs. This skin condition makes him look a bit funny. And he got that from the water here in New Orleans and all the chemicals.", "Polluted flood water, lack of food, Katrina was tough on so many of the animals here. Some are still scared from their experiences. (", "So these two don't like to be separated?", "No, they don't. This is Bobby and that's Bobby and they were found on a construction site...", "So they're both Bobby?", "They're both Bobbys.", "Bobby the cat is blind, and follows Bobby the dog by listening for the sound of her collar tags. Juliet (ph), one of the managers of this shelter believes they must have come from the same house. She's hoping to keep them together. Juliet (ph) says the animals who aren't adopted, will be taken in by other shelters across the country or brought back to Best Friends headquarters in Utah. She promises none of the animals here will be put to sleep. As for Cassie, she's already spoken for. (", "What's going to happen to her?", "You want her -- trust me.", "And a lot of people want her?", "And she lives with me. She's my little girl and I got her after I had been down here for two days and I took her off the truck myself and she now basically runs my life and I just pay for it. And she's awesome. She has an incredible little spirit. And she is actually a beagle/datsun mix, but we don't say that loudly.", "Why?", "Because she likes to be known as a pit bull/rottweiler.", "A happy ending for one little dog. An uncertain future for many others.", "Well, we wouldn't tell you such a story without also telling you how you can help. In this case to see what you can do about the needy pets in New Orleans, you can visit bestfriends.org. \"On the Radar\" tonight, our story about the two schools, one mostly African American, the other largely white, brought together by the storm. A lot of people writing into the blog. Frank in Tustin, California, says, \"It is a bit sad that in the 21st century it took a disaster to bring these children together. But it is a VERY happy thing that they are finally getting to be in school together and make friends. We can but hope that their children won't have to think about that at all.\" And Stan in Baton Rouge, put it this way, \"You want to solve the race problems in American then just turn the matter over to our kids and watch them work. Race problems only occur when adults intervene and impose their adult feelings. It's a shame that so many adults pass their hatred on to their children.\" Well put. A lot more ahead, stay with us."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "COOPER (voice-over)", "COOPER (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "On camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER (voice-over)", "On camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-225886", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2014-2-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/28/cg.02.html", "summary": "President To Address Crisis In Ukraine", "utt": ["We are just getting word right now that the president is about to make a statement on the chaos in Ukraine. We'll bring that to you live as soon as it begins. And also of course, the Pop Culture Lead coming up, a break-out year for black films like \"12 Years A Slave,\" but is Hollywood still making it too tough for black actors to breakthrough.", "Breaking news from the White House where President Obama is getting ready to weigh in on the escalating tensions in Ukraine as we reported earlier today. Armed Forces identified as members of the Russian military are said to have surrounded airports in Crimea in Southern Ukraine and also surrounded a state-run TV station. This, as the country's ousted president, Viktor Yanukovych, came forward today vowing not to step down. Let's bring in senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. Jim, what are we expecting the president to say here?", "Well, Jake, I think we are going to hear the president back up what you've heard from Secretary of State John Kerry and other U.S. officials, including White House Press Secretary Jay Carney earlier this afternoon, that any moves by Russia to intervene in the crisis to perhaps invade that territory of Crimea would be a grave mistake, in the words of White House officials and according to Secretary of State John Kerry. One thing that we've been pressing officials all day long, Jake, is exactly who those forces are in the Crimea area. We're seeing forces with insignias that appear to be Black Andover or concealed. It's not clear who is on the ground in Crimea. So hopefully we'll get some advanced or at least some updated information from the president as to what that is. But Jake, make no mistake, this is, again, once again, another confrontation between the president and Vladimir Putin over what is happening. Those events on the ground in the Ukraine.", "Let's bring in chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto. Jim, I just was e-mailing with a senior official who points out that the Russians have a base and the question is whether what they are doing is out of line, crossing over what they should be doing. The administration not clear right now. But that is the biggest concern. What are you hearing from your sources?", "I'll tell you this, Jake. I'm hearing increased anxiety. I've been hearing it all day. More anxiety today than yesterday and more yesterday than the day before. So these moves have made them nervous. Yes, it's true they have a base there and there is an argument I'm sure they will make that they have a right to do what they are doing. Remember, you have some very stern public warnings from every single U.S. Official in lock step in verbatim rhetoric, really, don't do anything that could be misinterpreted, but clearly these are the kind of actions that we're seeing. Soldiers without insignias on their uniforms, more than a dozen planes landing at that air field. Troops surrounding a pro-Russian television station. So all of the moves that the U.S. officials warned Russia against making appear to be happening right now or things that could be easily interpreted as such. Remember U.S. officials have not confirmed yet publicly that these are in fact Russian forces.", "Barbara Starr at the Pentagon, if I could go to you right now, the president anticipated a much different relationship with Russia in his second term. Of course, we all recall when he told Medvedev then president of Russia that to convey to Putin that he would have more flexibility in his second term, we're not sure what exactly he was referring to it might have been missile defense. But in any case, clearly Putin is giving President Obama less flexibility when it comes to how to deal with these moves he's making.", "Well, that's really the problem, Jake. The only U.S. move is diplomacy and presidential muscle power, which were about to see about the power of the oval office. There is no talk about any type of U.S. military action, NATO military action. But I have to tell you, underscoring what Jim Sciutto just said. The anxiety at the Pentagon certainly rising throughout the day. The anxiety across the administration. And here's the reason. Putin has engaged in a very interesting military tactic. He has given the U.S. not any ability to have what they call warning time.", "Barbara, I'm sorry. I'm going to interrupt you. Right now we're going to go the United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power speaking live.", "-- government efforts with appropriate international assistance to bring about economic recovery and renewed hope for the future. Thank you. And I'd be happy to take a couple of questions.", "So who should be involved in this international media nation and has the U.S. communicated to Russia its concerns that it's greatly disturbed by these reports and it wants Russia to pull back?", "First, let me say that the president of the United States will be speaking on the issue of Ukraine later today. So you'll hear directly from him. In terms of the mediation mission that we think is urgently needed, I think what's important is that it be seen as independent, credible, obviously the secretary general has dispatched an envoy, Robert Siri, to Ukraine, he remains in Ukraine. He is a former ambassador to Ukraine as many of you know. The OSCE has historic connections, obviously, to many, many parts of the Ukraine and to the Ukrainian people. What we think is important, again, is that there is a mission at a time when the crisis seems to be escalating rather than de-escalating and we think that mission be carried out in service of the territorial integrity, sovereignty and unity of Ukraine.", "Can I ask you how you would describe the Russian military movement in Crimea. Do these count as an act of aggression?", "I'm not going to characterize the movements. Again, you'll be hearing from the president of the United States shortly. Beyond to reiterate the point that I've already made, which is that we are deeply concerned by these reports, deeply concerned by what we see as the facts on the ground. And we urge Russia to join us in helping Ukraine back on a path to a brighter future. Thank you very much.", "That was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, talking about the U.S. having grave concerns about what exactly is going on in Ukraine right now when it comes to the presence of the Russian military. We're expecting President Obama any moment now to walk into the Brady briefing room, you are looking at right there in the west wing of the White House and address his concerns specifically to President Putin and others in Russia about what is going on right there. Gloria, we were talking earlier -- Gloria Borger joins me now. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be rude there. Gloria, we were talking just a moment ago about what Russia is doing and I think it's important for people to have the context of, in 2008, Russia did actually invade Georgia. It was a completely different set of circumstances.", "Right.", "But Putin has done something like this before.", "Right. And that's why one of the reasons, of course, the president actually spoke with Putin about this during the Olympics and took the opportunity to say that they agreed that all sides needed to refrain from any kind of military intervention here. That is why you see the Secretary of State John Kerry going out very forcefully talking to journalists. Stressing that it would be hypocritical for the Russians to have any military action after they objected so forcefully to military action in Syria and military action in Libya. And what we seemed to be hearing from Samantha Power is some suggestion of some kind of international mediation mission, which you see the United States trying to make sure that they don't end up in kind of an east/west confrontation here, which really the last thing they want.", "We keep hearing that from the - Secretary Kerry saying this is not east versus west. This is not \"Rocky 4.\" President Obama saying we don't view this through a cold war chess board type thing. Barbara Starr, there have been questions through the last 24 or so hours about these armed individuals in uniforms and whether they are Russian troops or just allied with the Russians. Crimea, obviously, in Southern Ukraine is majority ethnic Russian, but you have some reporting on that. What have you heard?", "Jake, what we are hearing is the U.S. now does believe that some number of these troops are indeed Russian troops, that they have moved some of their forces. Let's keep in mind, they have forces at that naval base nearby in Sevastopol and they have had people moving around this region. The bottom line is they are moving people into the area and the question for the U.S. is very simple, did today Moscow make its move and try and takeover Crimea? That's what we are hearing. Has this now been the Russian takeover? This is the assessment that both the Pentagon, the White House and intelligence community is trying to come to this afternoon. They are very leery of talking about it in such absolute terms. They are still of the mind they don't want to escalate the situation further. But you know, make no mistake, you know better than anybody, putting President Obama out there is putting, like I said before, some serious muscle power of the oval office behind the diplomatic rhetoric. This is a direct message to Putin, we know what you're doing and cut it out. This -- the problem that the Pentagon has, that the intelligence community has, is over the last several days the Russians had been able to move faster, put their people where they want to put them, go to airports, go to bases, move around Kiev, move around the Crimea faster than the U.S. can react to it. And right now the intelligence community, the Pentagon is playing catchup, trying to figure out what Moscow is up to and Moscow so far is showing a very shadowy hand, not being terribly clear. And that's leaving the U.S. in a tough spot. Just what exactly are they up to and did they, in fact, move over to take over Crimea. There are people who are saying that is exactly what has happened -- Jake.", "Chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto, what are your sources telling you?", "This is the thing. We've been focused a lot in the last 48 hours on this question. Will Russia do a Georgia-style invasion in 2008 in Crimea today? In effect, that's an imperfect question, right, because they don't have to do that to exercise -- to carry out a military invention. The other options are smaller forces-led black ops, that kind of thing, and that appears to be what we're seeing right now. So Russia, the Russian officials, Sergey Lavrov, for instance, when he is speaking to Secretary Kerry or Putin, when he is speaking to Obama, can give assurances that they will not invade, not do a military intervention, but in fact what we see happening in reality is a smaller pinprick kind of thing distributed. Those troops in the airport, troops surrounding a pro-Russian television station. That appears what is playing out right now. It doesn't have to be a Georgia-style invasion to be a serious military intervention and I see officials in Kiev, Ukrainian officials saying that this intervention will have, in their words, serious consequences.", "And Jim Acosta at the White House, we're expecting President Obama to come out any moment and address this. This is a delicate dance for the White House. The president needing to assert his feelings and what the United States wants in terms of the Russians, but also not wanting to create more of a provocation than there needs to be. It is a battle of wills in many way between Putin and President Obama.", "That's right. And as you just mentioned a few moments ago, Jake. What the president said last week in Mexico that he doesn't view the situation with President Putin as an international chess match, but that appears to be what is taking place. So we've been asking Jay Carney all week, you know, you may not see it this way, the president may not see it this way. But Vladimir Putin may see it this way and what is your response to that and basically, Jake, this White House just doesn't want to play that game. So they are watching what Vladimir Putin is doing rarely. I will say that I did asked Jay Carney earlier today, what are the U.S. options if the Russians do go into Crimea and quite frankly, Jay Carney did not really have an answer for that. He said, we just don't want to speculate on what our options will be. So, you know, as Barbara was saying, this is putting the muscle of the presidency, the bully pulpit on stage, on the global stage to warn the Russians to stay out of there. But at this point, it's very unclear as to what options this White House would have. You heard Samantha Power talking about the United Nations. We heard Jay Carney in this briefing room earlier today saying that, you know, he was asked what is at stake for the United States when it comes to the Ukraine, when it comes to Crimea? Well, you know, there is there is such a thing as territorial integrity in international law in the United Nations was the response from Jay Carney. We may hear a bit of that from President Obama but, as you've been saying with Barbara Starr and Jim Sciutto and Gloria Borger, the president doesn't have a lot of options. What we're really looking for at this point, Jake, is some clarity. Just who those forces are on the ground in Crimea and does the United States view that as a provocative move by the Russians.", "I want to go now to Kiev, Ukraine. CNN's Ian Lee is there and joins us live. Ian, what are we learning if anything about these troops inside Ukraine? You've been reporting about them all day. What can you tell us?", "Well, Jake, as far as the Ukrainian officials are concerned, these are Russian troops making intrusions on to Ukrainian soil, the Crimea. They've talked about it all day saying that this is an armed incursion by the Russians. They are not mincing words. We've also had a Ukrainian official at the U.N. say that 11 Russian helicopters and 10 airplanes have landed in the Crimea. They are painting a picture of what appears to be a Russian takeover of the area. They've called the Russians to pull out their forces. They've also said that civil administration buildings as well as communication centers have been -- the Russians are trying to take those over as well and to block any of Ukraine's military in the area from activating. Now, the acting president here has called for restraint so far, saying he doesn't want to see any more blood -- Jake.", "Ian, as you know, Crimea was part of Russia until the 1950s when, I believe, it was Krushtev restored Crimea back to Ukraine because he was so fond of Ukraine. Most of the people in Crimea are ethnically Russian, are they, in your ability to discern from meeting individuals inside Southern Ukraine, are they supportive of the Russian government and any attempt to return Crimea to the Russian, for want of a better word, empire?", "Right. The Crimea is ethnically more or less, the majority of them are Russian. They have very close bonds with the Russian government. Russian officials have been in there trying to expedite citizenship for some of the people in there. The Russians are very keen on keeping this area. And as we reported earlier, you have a pro-Russian television station in the Crimea being protected by the Marines from the Black Sea fleet. So this is definitely an area that the Russians believe have a close kindred spirits with and the people reflect that sort of spirit, too. You see them on the streets. A lot of people with Russian flags waving them as well. There is a significant minority there that is very much anti-Russian and they shouldn't be overlooked. The ethnic majority there, who is Muslim, and they are very much anti-Russian or pro-Ukrainian. They are trying to voice their opinions too. But you're right. This is an area that is predominantly ethnic Russian.", "Barbara Starr at the Pentagon, what would have to happen for the U.S. To get involved in any way beyond sanctions or threats of sanctions or urging the International Monetary Fund to boost parts of Ukraine that are more pro-western?", "You know, we've talked to a lot of people about this over the last 24 to 48 hours. There's simply no appetite for U.S. military action and some of the experts we're talking to say maybe that's the signal that Moscow has heard, that the U.S. won't do anything about it militarily. They won't be stopped. Economic diplomatic pressure, that sort of thing. If Russia is now trying to take over Crimea, essentially, they have that largely sympathetic population there. That's one set of military facts. But if Moscow wanted to do something much more substantial across Ukraine, that's going to be very tough. They have a military challenge in front of them. They need supply lines. They need vehicles. They need rail lines to move in armored vehicles. They need airports that they can control. That's how you get the supplies in place to take and hold territory. That is a very different prospect for Vladimir Putin so the question that the intelligence community is looking at, is this what he wants? Does he just want Crimea? And what does the U.S. do about that? Because if you let that stand, the military relationship with Russia becomes very problematic across the board. The effort to get them to cooperate in Syria, the effort to get them to help deal with Iran and its nuclear program, the effort across the board to get their cooperation in any number of matters. This becomes -- this becomes much more of a global security issue and it becomes a big issue for NATO. You know, 50 years plus, 60 years plus of the NATO alliance, which was formed to try and stop the communist block and now Russia has moved its move. NATO is not able to do anything about it. So these are some of the stakes in place and many people far more expert than me will tell you this could provoke a financial and investment crisis across these sectors of Eastern Europe. This could be -- have much more widespread effects than we're even beginning to contemplate -- Jake.", "Senior national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto. We were talking about this earlier. Jim Acosta at the White House asked Jay Carney, the White House press secretary what exactly are the U.S. national security interests in this. Carney talked about human rights and territorial sovereignty. Explain what experts and sources are telling you, what is the interest the U.S. has in preventing Russia from making incursions into the Ukraine?", "I think you have a handful. Here is one. Stability. Ukraine is in Europe. This is not a million miles away. It's a country of 50 million people. The prospects -- I don't want to say civil war, but a civil conflict, an internal conflict, that close to Europe is inherently unstabilizing. That's one issue. Two, you have, you know -- the president says he doesn't want to play a cold war chess game here, but in fact you may see that playing out. Clearly, Russia at least has some cold war nostalgia for its fear of influence. It wants to claim back at least the western -- the eastern part, rather, of the Ukraine. That's a fact. And you see playing out in this country a push and pull between the east and west. The eastern part of the country leaning towards Russia, Russian system, Russian power, the Russian economy. The western part the other way. That's a real and divisive split with a lot of history and cultural divisions, which contributes to instability. Plus, this is an important relationship, U.S. and Russia. And I think you can see this relationship in peril. You have assurances from senior Russian leaders to the U.S. That they would not do something and that something appears to be happening right now. We deal with Russia on so many issues, Iran, Syria, you name it. If we can't trust each other or trust those assurances, that's a problem on a number of levels.", "That instability is key. I was interviewing the ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul just a few days ago. He is no longer the ambassador and he said he couldn't believe that Russia would engage in something like this because it would be so destabilizing. Gloria Borger, very quickly, because we have to throw it to Wolf, what does the president say?", "I think -- I think the president may have to answer the question about whose forces are moving into Crimea. Moscow has denied that it is in fact their forces and if the president believes that it is Russia that is moving in then - and his intelligence is telling them that then he has to say that and then direct what needs to be done next -- Jim.", "That's it for THE LEAD. I am Jake Tapper. Our coverage continues now with \"THE SITUATION ROOM.\""], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR", "TAPPER", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "SAMANTHA POWER, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "POWER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "POWER", "TAPPER", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL STRATEGIST", "TAPPER", "BORGER", "TAPPER", "STARR", "TAPPER", "SCIUTTO", "TAPPER", "ACOSTA", "TAPPER", "IAN LEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "LEE", "TAPPER", "STARR", "TAPPER", "SCIUTTO", "TAPPER", "BORGER", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-388847", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2019-12-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/26/cg.02.html", "summary": "WaPo: U.S. Developing Options to Combat Russian Interference; U.S. Military on High Alert for North Korea Launch", "utt": ["Now, the Pentagon is not confirming nor denying this report, essentially saying that, yes, Cyber Command does, in fact, help DHS and helps the FBI on operations, and also said that, quote: When authorized, it's taking action to disrupt or degrade malicious nation state cyber actors' ability to interfere in U.S. elections. So, yes, they are preventing outside actors from getting involved in U.S. elections, but not commenting on the specific nature of what \"The Washington Post\" has revealed in their reporting.", "Perhaps not surprising, right, in terms -- not surprising in terms of the statement. But, Nina, as Kylie pointed out, this is something that they've been working on for some time. Just put it in perspective for us. How sophisticated would an operation like that be?", "Well, make no mistake, Erica. The United States is one of the foremost cyber operators in the world. I think this is not beyond our capability, nor is it particularly something we should be surprised that is in our tool kit. I think what's important to note is that the United States has been reticent to take steps like this because it's become so politicized the last couple of years. What's worrisome to me is that we're only taking these steps in relation to elections. You know, we took similar steps, shutting down the Internet Research Agency, the IRA out of St. Petersburg, that infamous troll factory in 2016 during the midterms. But these are operations that are going on all the time. And in fact, the infrastructure for them is seeded and developed in into our election period. So, for three years, we've been sitting around kind of twiddling our thumbs, taking very few steps. And now, just -- you know, within a year of the 2020 election, we're finally starting to get our game together.", "Which doesn't instill a ton of confidence, it must be said. Kylie, as we look at this, would Vladimir Putin be a target?", "Well, according to the reporting from \"The Post\", that would be a little bit too provocative. He is not on the table for someone that they are considering targeting. Now, of course, things could change, given any intelligence that they're able to collect about meddling in the 2020 elections, which is something that U.S. intelligence officials have said that Russia wants to do.", "And Anita, what would be the response, would you imagine, from Russia?", "I don't think this will change Russia's response in the slightest, because you know what, we've got a huge disparity in the messaging that's coming from the White House and actions like this, that our national security administration is taking in the United States. We've got President Trump wondering if Russian influence and information warfare is even a thing and on the other hand, we've got these responses coming from the Department of Defense. So, I don't think Russia is going to be convinced by the fact that we're taking this action.", "Nina Jankowicz, Kylie Atwood, thank you both.", "Thank you.", "American and South Korean troops are on high alert after North Korea threatened to deliver a Christmas gift -- a threat deemed serious enough the U.S. military is purportedly flying spy missions over the Korean peninsula. CNN's Paula Hancocks is in Seoul, South Korea. And, Paula, I know sources tell the U.S. -- tell CNN rather, the U.S. is closely watching North Korea for a possible provocation. Has there been a hint of activity at this point and what would it even look like?", "Well, Erica, U.S. officials are quite puzzled at this point as to why there hasn't been some kind of test from North Korea. The Trump administration officials widely anticipated and expected that this Christmas gift would be some kind of weapons test. Many officials and experts here in South Korea agreed with that. Now, we do understand that there are intelligence indicators that show that some weapons components have been moved. We know that there are open source satellite imagery showing that there has been activity, at two of the key sites when it comes to the missiles program in North Korea. Now, one source with knowledge of North Korean thinking says that they believe some provocative test, like a nuclear test to an ICBM launch over the Christmas period would be unlikely, but we are also expecting and hearing from U.S. officials that the window's not closed. They're expecting this window to be open through January, which is Kim Jong- un's birthday as well. And, of course, there is that year-end deadline that North Korea has given the U.S. also. Now, a U.S. official tells CNN that there have been some contingency plans put in place, that there have been some potential military show of force options, that could be executed quickly if there is provocative test by North Korea, a fly over of bombers over the peninsula, for example, or even a ground force military drill, a ground weapons military drill that could be executed. Of course, we don't know what the red line is or what that threshold is, though -- Erica.", "Paula Hancocks live for us in Seoul -- thank you. The poll suggesting we could see a new record in the 2020 election. That's next."], "speaker": ["KYLIE ATWOOD, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY REPORTER", "ERICA HILL, CNN HOST", "NINA JANKOWICZ, CYBERSECURITY EXPERT", "HILL", "ATWOOD", "HILL", "JANKOWICZ", "HILL", "JANKOWICZ", "HILL", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HILL"]}
{"id": "CNN-158635", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-11-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1011/24/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Concussions Suffered By Football Players Can Have Long-Term Effects; Hard Hits, Dangerous Game?", "utt": ["All this week Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been examining the concussion problem in football from the pros on down.", "This morning in the last part of his special series, \"Hard Hits, Dangerous Games,\" Sanjay tells us about a former NFL star who paid a severe price for years of hard hits. And Sanjay joins us now from Atlanta. And you found out some stunning facts about the long-term impact of concussions and sometimes hits that would seem to be fairly innocuous.", "Yes. You know, it's interesting because the long-term impact is what researchers have been focused on for some time. And what they're finding is some players it can cause the sort of early, pretty early onset dementia, almost an Alzheimer's-like problem. If you look at football games, on average, for example, this season you have one concussion per game. That's why they're focused on what are the repeated concussions doing to the brain? They find people develop symptoms like memory problems, depression, and rage, eventually progressing into this early onset dementia state. Take a look.", "They are thrilling and terrifying. Watch a football game and you can't miss them -- the hits. But what is the real impact? What is happening to the player's brains?", "How many times did you take a hard hit playing football?", "It was one time when I had a real serious concussion. And it was so serious that I was dizzy for, like, you know, for, like, two or three weeks.", "Thirty years ago Fred McNeill was a linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings. He played for 12 seasons and in two Super Bowls. Relentlessly hitting opponents was his job.", "You got to be able the move, right?", "No question McNeill is robust physically. But you can tell his brain paid a price.", "What has it done to you?", "Well, impact is on memory. I meet people, and they talk about the conversation that we had, you know, two weeks ago or three weeks ago or a month ago or whatever. And I don't remember.", "If we saw each other again, would you remember me?", "Sanjay, I don't know. When I started out --", "The not knowing, it happens often. There was also rage.", "It got to where I would say things that really shouldn't upset him, and he would get angry really quick. His temper was very short.", "Followed by remorse.", "I think that was the biggest thing for my dad. He felt like it was all his fault.", "It wasn't, but there was no doubt he was different.", "It was a moment where I realized I wasn't living with the person that I knew and married.", "No one seemed to know what was happening to Fred McNeill until reports about other former NFL players who had been through similar issues. Like McNeill, they had memory problems, rage issues, and depression. Most disturbing, all died young. Could concussions, the common denominator, be to blame? Researchers at Boston University Medical School are looking deep into the brain and spinal cord of former athletes to find out. What they're seeing is startling. This is a normal brain, this one, a 45- year-old former NFL player. See the brown tangles? That's brain damage. It looks a lot like this 70-year-old brain with dementia.", "To see the kind of changes we are seeing in 45-year-olds is basically unheard of.", "It's called chronic traumatic encephalopathy. And here's the kicker. Those changes are directly associated with rage, memory problems, and depression.", "I was actually considering not living. I was actually considering that.", "You wanted to end your life?", "Yes. I was just thinking it would be so much easier.", "I can tell you it's hard to see Fred McNeill like that. He is doing better nowadays, but all those symptoms that he was just describing he attributes to concussions. We did reach out to the NFL to ask them about Mr. McNeill and other players like them. They gave us a statement specifically saying \"What we're trying to prevent is multiple concussion without recovery. We know there are a lot of long-term effects of concussions but they have not yet been fully characterized. The whole goal of the NFL is to sit them out when in doubt, sit them out and let them recover so there aren't long-term effects.\" But again, this is what a lot of researchers are focusing on, the long-term impact, as you asked, of all those concussions.", "It's just so frightening. So how common is dementia among ex-football players?", "Well, you know, this science is pretty new, Carol. And the lab that you saw there, they're looking at brains of former athletes, you know, obviously, after they die to figure out is there any objective evidence of these tangles and flax. They've examined 16 brains so far examined, and 15 so far out of 16 did have evidence of it. The youngest incidentally is 18 years old. So the process seems to occur and starting at very early age if it does happen.", "I have seen research, too, Sanjay, that suggest not just the big concussions that can have a cumulative effect over time. Sometimes it's the little hits just off the line where they come together.", "No question. The sub-concussive hits --", "Yes.", "-- and those have been harder to characterize and also John, you may have read that some people may be genetically predisposed to having their brain suffer the worse consequences of concussions. Who those people are exactly, that's another fertile area of research. So that maybe -- something people want to look into before they get in to a sport like this.", "You know, it brings up baseball because it's becoming a problem in baseball, as well with players getting in the head or getting hit in the head. Who's the first baseman for the Minnesota Twins? I cannot remember his name. It's not Joemar (ph), he's the catcher, the first baseman suffered a concussion sliding into second base and he -- he simply took the rest of the season off. He didn't want to take -- Justin Morno (ph) -- that's his name. But he took the whole season off. He didn't want to take a chance.", "Probably a good advice. If he did it on his own or his coaches, other players told him to do so, that seems to be the key. If you let the brain rest after a first concussion, that second concussion is not exponentially worse. Otherwise it is as -- as you saw yesterday with Max Conrad. It could be devastating if you get two concussions right next to each other.", "Well, it's great to see all of this research coming out and learning more of about what happens out there on the playing field. Sanjay Gupta, great to see you this morning.", "You too.", "Happy Thanksgiving by the way, doc.", "You guys -- you too, guys. Thanks.", "The key to making a buck and getting ahead in 2011? What is it? Are you out of a job? Will you get one next year? If you have a job, will your boss actually give you a raise or maybe a bonus? \"Money Magazine's\" Amanda Gengler (ph) is here to tell us what we can expect."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "ROBERTS", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "GUPTA", "GUPTA (on camera)", "FRED MCNEILL, FORMER NFL PLAYER", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "FRED MCNEILL", "GUPTA", "GUPTA (on camera)", "FRED MCNEILL", "GUPTA", "FRED MCNEILL", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "TIA MCNEILL, FRED MCNEILL'S WIFE", "GUPTA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GUPTA", "TIA MCNEILL", "GUPTA", "TIA MCNEILL", "GUPTA", "FRED MCNEILL", "GUPTA (on camera)", "FRED MCNEILL", "GUPTA", "COSTELLO", "GUPTA", "ROBERTS", "GUPTA", "ROBERTS", "GUPTA", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN GUEST ANCHOR", "GUPTA", "ROBERTS", "GUPTA", "ROBERTS", "GUPTA", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-47119", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-1-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/11/lad.06.html", "summary": "Some Prisoners in Afghanistan Do Not Interest U.S.", "utt": ["As the first batch of detainees head for prison at U.S. Navy Base in Cuba, there are still plenty of prisoners from the war who are not of interest to the United States. CNN's Lisa Rose Weaver visited a presi -- visited a prison, rather, in Kabul to hear various hearings why some are behind bars.", "Kabul Intelligence Services Directorate Three. The basement, temporary home for Pakistani nationals detained on suspicion for membership in the al Qaeda network. These are among some 50 men being held here now. No prison uniforms here, but the same accusation covers them all, bringing a violent form of jihad to the heartland of Muslim discontent. The men spend a lot of time praying, calling on the different names of Allah, perhaps for answers about why they're here. Most say they came to Afghanistan in the spirit of Islam, some acknowledge they came here to fight. Naseed Rachman (ph) was injured outside Kabul in fighting the U.S. backed Northern Alliance, then he was arrested. He says a Pakistani commander, not the Taliban led him to battle. NASEED RACHMAN (ph) (through translator): I was fighting infidels. We were told that the infidels have come to Afghanistan to torture the people, and so we should come and start a jihad.", "Prison authorities say they're still investigating the men's cases. Until then, they'll stay here, caught in the wrong place with the wrong cause, but officials say they came to cause trouble.", "If a person fights on the frontline, says the deputy chief of intelligence, that means they are fighting for a goal. They were trained from the outside.", "Mohammed Yasoof (ph), a food vendor working in Kabul claims he was arrested simply because he's from Pakistan caught in the confusion as the Taliban were fleeing the city. MOHAMMED YASOOF (ph) (through translator): Myself and all others want to be released and we are waiting to see what the government will do about this. I have no link with al Qaeda and no one can prove that I have, god willing.", "The detainees here have fallen through a diplomatic gap. There are no Pakistani officials here to represent them and maybe (ph) demand that they be allowed home. U.S. forces, in principal, have access to all detainees with suspected links to al Qaeda, but contact to the Americans likely wouldn't do these men any good. Lisa Rose Weaver, CNN, Kabul, Afghanistan."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "LISA ROSE WEAVER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROSE WEAVER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "ROSE WEAVER", "ROSE WEAVER (on camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-356770", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-12-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1812/11/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Trump, Democrats Clash in White House Meeting over Government Shutdown", "utt": ["The president says he's willing to take full ownership of a government shutdown. How does that sit with you?", "Well, I hope that's not where we end up. I understand it was a rather spirited meeting that we all watched. But I'd still like to see a smooth ending here and I haven't given up hope that that's what we'll have.", "Spirited. Spirited. That's one way to describe it. A contentious Oval Office photo-op with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi turned out to be quite the standoff today with the president. The Democratic leaders are pushing back on border wall funding as they try to ward off a government shutdown in 10 days, and they are far apart. You have Leader Pelosi and Senator Schumer offering up $1.3 billion for border security, but it's the president who says he wants the full $5 billion for his wall.", "None of us have said --", "You want to know something --", "You've said it.", "I'll take it. You know what I'll say? Yes, if we don't get what we want, one way or the other, whether it's through you, through military, through anything you want to call, I will shut down the government.", "OK, fair enough.", "We disagree. We disagree.", "And I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck, because the people of this country don't want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. So I will take the mantel. I will be the one to shut it down. I'm not going to blame you for it. The last time you shut it down, it didn't work. I will take the mantle of shutting down.", "And I'm going to shut it down for border security.", "Moments later Schumer and Pelosi said this outside the White House.", "The president made clear that he wants a shutdown. His position, if he sticks to his position for a $5 billion wall, he will get no wall and he will get a shutdown.", "Unfortunately, that the president choose to shut down a government, that we have a Trump shutdown as a Christmas present, a holiday present to the American people.", "Nadeam Elshami is the former chief of staff for Nancy Pelosi and is a CNN political commentator. Nadeam, nice to see you. You know Nancy Pelosi better than most. Thought bubble above her head? Go.", "Oh, boy, he really lost control of this meeting, that's what's going through her head. The second thing going through her head is, he doesn't have the votes to even pass the $5 billion in the House. Certainly she's looking at him and thinking, Mr. President, we're offering you a way out and you're saying no to both of them. You're shutting down the government and we're not.", "I was listening to Phil Mattingly on Capitol Hill. He was saying the congressional aides sort of expected something like this, some version of the Trump show. Oh, hold on one second. We've got Chuck Schumer, Senator Schumer speaking now on the Hill.", "We gave suggestions that would keep the government open. It's his choice to accept one of these options or shut the government down. You heard the president. He wants a shutdown. He said, quote, \"I'm proud to shut down the government.\" I'm going to read his quote, if any of you happened to miss it: \"I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck, so I'll take the mantel. I'll be the one to shut it down. I'm not going to blame you for it.\" That's what he said, plain and simple. No president should ever say he would be proud to shut the government down. Let me repeat that. No president should ever say that he would be proud to shut the government down. He's clinging to his position of billions of dollars for a wall. President Trump's position will not result in a wall but instead it will result in a Trump shutdown. The president has called for a shutdown at least 20 times since he came into --", "So, Nadeam, again, you have Senator Schumer reiterating what he heard from the president, something that I'm sure Republicans are doing a little, oh, why did he say that, right? Democrats are going to be playing that and reminding everyone on loop that the president of the United States said I'll take the mantel.", "That's exactly right. The president tried to set a trap for Democrats, he was going to bring them into the Oval Office and bring in the cameras and say, Democrats, you should pass this or I'm going to get this done. If not, I'll shutdown the government. It back fired on him. He looked like he was not in control, like he didn't have the votes. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are experienced. This just showed why someone like Pelosi needs to be in charge of the House Democrats. She stood up to the president. The president didn't really have much to say to that. This was unbelievable. It was astonishing. I've never experienced anything like this in public. I've been in meetings with the speaker and the leader at times with President Obama and even with President Trump and it gets heated at times and they push back, but nothing, nothing like this.", "But how much of it was a show, Nadeam? And I don't mean just the president but the two Democratic leaders.", "The two Democrats really wanted to go in and get this negotiation moving. They want to clear the decks before they start the next Congress. You go through the dance of, you know, we're going to have a productive meeting, we're going to talk about border security, we're going to talk about funding the government, we're going to look for bipartisan solutions to get this thing done, and then behind closed doors you do your business. I think Leader Pelosi and Leader Schumer were surprised by how the president proceeded. Look, I've been -- I've seen it before where, you know, someone says something, including a president, President Trump says something that is incorrect, you know, the speaker designate is not going to let it pass. She just doesn't.", "It's so rare that it's all caught on camera.", "Absolutely.", "With that, Nadeam Elshami, good to see you.", "Thank you.", "Thank you very much for your perspective.", "Thank you.", "Coming up, why is Russia sending bombers to Venezuela? The U.S. is furious over this move. This as concerns grow over Vladimir Putin's plan. Plus, a case that is sparking outrage on so many levels. A former college fraternity president accused of sexual assault gets a sweetheart deal. You'll hear the survivor's words for the court."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), SENATE MAJORITY LEADER", "BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY), SENATE MINORITY LEADER", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SCHUMER", "TRUMP", "SCHUMER", "TRUMP", "TRUMP", "TRUMP", "BALDWIN", "SCHUMER", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), HOUSE MINORITY LEADER", "BALDWIN", "NADEAM ELSHAMI, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BALDWIN", "SCHUMER", "BALDWIN", "ELSHAMI", "BALDWIN", "ELSHAMI", "BALDWIN", "ELSHAMI", "BALDWIN", "ELSHAMI", "BALDWIN", "ELSHAMI", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-117096", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-5-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/24/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Bush Invokes ISG Ideas on Iraq; Search for 2 G.I.s Continues; 9/11 Death Toll Rises", "utt": ["Every parent knows a child can hide almost anywhere -- oh no, this is something else. That's another thing, yes.", "No, you're getting ahead of yourself. But that beautiful piece of art on the floor that you saw a moment ago. It took two days for some Tibetan monks to pour sand and meticulously come up with a gorgeous design that this toddler just within minutes kind of destroyed as he walked beyond some police -- or I guess ropes, velvet ropes.", "How long had they been working on it? For days?", "Two days.", "They spent two days ...", "Look at that beautiful...", "... cross-legged on the floor, meticulously...", "Oh boy.", "... pouring the sand into an intricate design and expression of their Buddhist faith. And they're doing all this to raise money for their monastery which is in...", "And here comes mom scurrying in, oh, my God, junior, get out of here. That is one of my biggest fears, because I have got a 2-year-old, and oh my gosh, I could see him doing that.", "Oh, my gosh. Well, they said they're going to deal with it. They're work twice as hard.", "Yes. They were very understanding.", "They said, they don't get upset. The next hour of the CNN NEWSROOM starts right now.", "Hello everyone. I'm Fredricka Whitfield at the CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta.", "And I'm Don Lemon. Not plan B but BH. President Bush's term for the latest Iraq War strategy based in part on the Baker- Hamilton Commission. It's part military and part political. All subject to change.", "And more than five-and-a-half years after 9/11, one more death is laid at the doorstep of the pulverized World Trade Center. You're in the", "But first, we are going to start with some breaking news happening in the Chicago area. This is Harvey, Illinois, just south of Chicago. This is a fire and it was up to, at last check, five alarms. And according to officials there -- you can see we don't have control of that. That's a helicopter there from our affiliate WLS in Chicago. According to officials there, it broke out in a warehouse and then started jumping to some other businesses and they were having trouble keeping this fire under control or getting a hold on it because of the winds in the area. But again, this is just south of Chicago. A five-alarm fire. Spread through three buildings in an industrial area in Harvey. Ten municipal fire crews are at the scene of this fire and Chicago Fire Department is also helping out with this because it's just -- Harvey is a small town, just in a suburb of Chicago. This -- what you're looking at this earlier, was just going and raging right there. Larry Langford (ph), who is the fire department spokesperson there confirms that they are helping out as well with a number of crews and apparatus on the scene there. So this building warehouses a couple of different businesses, but, again, this fire still going in the Chicago area. We're keeping close watch on it as well as officials in Chicago keeping close watch on this fire -- Fredricka.", "All right. In the nation's capital. The hotbed issue, the war in Iraq. The defense secretary and the top U.S. general both speaking to reporters a short time ago at the Pentagon, just outside of downtown Washington. Straight to our senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre who was at that briefing. And, Jamie, any real headline?", "Well, Fredricka, the real question is whether or not this troop buildup of U.S. troops is actually accomplishing its mission of reducing violence. There are some indications, from the Iraqi health ministry, that the number of sectarian violence -- sectarian killings might be on the rise again. But the chairman of the joint chiefs, General Peter Pace, seen here coming in with Defense Secretary Bob Gates, disputed that, saying that from a high of about 1,400 deaths in January, 800 in February, that it had settled in to about the area of about 500. But he noted it's hard sometimes to tell the sectarian murders from the other deaths in Baghdad as well. One thing we heard from Defense Secretary Bob Gates is his own frustration that things in Iraq are not going better faster.", "What we have to do is look at this over a period of time and that, frankly, just requires patience, on our part. I mean, we're as inpatient for this to turn into a positive direction as anybody, maybe more so. And, you know, I'd give anything to have to stop doing as many of these condolence letters as I'm writing. It's a terrible thing. And people are suffering. But we can't turn around overnight and we just have to have the patience to let this play out and see if General Petraeus' strategy is going to produce positive results.", "And of course, there is great anticipation on what General Petraeus, along with U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker will report in September when they are due to give a progress report to President Bush about how things are going. Secretary Gates makes the point that this will be a very important factor in the president's decision, but it will not be the only factor that President Bush considers, as he decides whether another course correction is necessary. Meanwhile, of course, Secretary Gates is in consultation with General Petraeus as they refine the strategy going forward. The thinking now is that they need to spend more time trying to foster political reconciliation on the local level, much like has happened in Anbar province, and use that as a model, rather than put all of their eggs in the basket of a broad, national reconciliation -- Fredricka.", "All right Jamie McIntyre at the Pentagon, thank you -- Don.", "He was impassioned at times. He was pleading and refused to give an inch on issues ranging from the war in Iraq to immigration reform. You saw President Bush's news conference live here on CNN just a short time ago. And our Ed Henry was there, he joins us now from the White House. Ed, the big issue certainly was Iraq today.", "That is right. And there was a stark warning from the president, Don, where he was warning Americans, trying to give them a heads-up that he believes this could be a very bloody summer in advance of General Petraeus progress report in September, as you heard Jamie talking about. Everyone anticipating what will the commander on the ground say about the increase of troops on the ground. The president saying extremists will try to take advantage of that, try to increase the level of violence in advance of that, try to shake the will of the American people. And it was also very interesting how the president went back to his old play book, the one he used in the 2004 presidential campaign, really tried to shift this from Iraq to 9/11, the threat from al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. Take a listen to how he put it.", "David Petraeus called al Qaeda public enemy number one in Iraq. I agree with him. And al Qaeda is public enemy number one in America. Seems like to me that if they are public enemy number one here, we want to help defeat them in Iraq.", "And it's also very interesting that the president, several times, had very warm words for the Baker-Hamilton group, their Iraq Study Group report. You will remember, it came out in December. The president was cool to a lot the recommendations back then, but now with the slipping support for the war, given all of the challenges on the ground, you just heard from Jamie at the Pentagon, the president seems to be embracing key elements of that report -- Don.", "And the war was top of the president's mind. But immigration certainly would be the next biggest factor, I would imagine.", "That's right. I mean, Iraq is, obviously, overshadowing much of the domestic agenda. But the president, as the clock winds down, is trying to find legacy items. He sees what he calls comprehensive immigration reform as a key element in his legacy. He is trying to get that done but it's a tough divide right now, trying to bridge it, because it's splitting his own party, it's splitting the Democrats to some extent, and you could hear him pleading with conservatives to give this deal a chance.", "Our immigration problems cannot be solved piecemeal. They must be all addressed together. And they must be addressed in logical order. So this legislation requires that border security and worker verification targets are met before other provisions of the bill are triggered.", "So you can hear the president stressing border security there, trying to convince conservatives that this is not amnesty, that he believes the fact that illegal immigrants would pay hefty fines and penalties that it is not amnesty. But he is also trying to convince them that they need to be compassionate. There needs to be some middle ground here. But again, so far conservatives in his own party are not really buying it -- Don.", "Ed Henry at the White House, thank you, Ed.", "Well, now we know. A body found yesterday in the Euphrates river south of Baghdad is that of a U.S. soldier missing for almost two weeks now. Army Private First Class Joseph Anzack. His family in Torrance, California, got the news first. And this is how Anzack's friends and classmates are now remembering him today, with a very personal memorial to the 20-year-old graduate of South High School in Torrance. Anzack was one of three U.S. troops unaccounted for since a deadly ambush on their unit May 12th. The discovery of one missing soldier hasn't dampened the feverish search for the other two, specialist Alex Jimenez and Private Byron Fouty. CNN's Paula Hancocks has details now from Baghdad.", "After the body of one of the three missing U.S. soldiers has been retrieved, the search is still intensively going on. Now, we do know that that one body pulled out of the Euphrates River on Wednesday morning has been identified Thursday morning as Private First Class Joseph Anzack from California, a 20-year-old. His family has been informed. There has been forensic testing undergone on his body. But this search is by no means over. Four thousand U.S. troops, 2,000 Iraqi troops are still combing the area where this ambush took place two weeks ago. The area, south of Baghdad which has been nicknamed the \"Triangle of Death,\" a very dangerous area, very difficult for this search to continue as it is a catalog of canals feeding into the Euphrates River, very narrow roads and very high brush. But we have been hearing from the U.S. military that they believe they have at least four detainees that they believe are directly involved with this particular ambush. They also say they have an important al Qaeda figure in the region. And they say the more they talk to these detainees, the more tips and evidence they retrieve from the area. The closer they think they are to understanding why and how this ambush, what came about and also more importantly, with particular insurgent group could have been responsible. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Baghdad.", "One more name is being added to the 9/11 death toll in New York. Felicia Dunn-Jones, a government lawyer who died in 2002, has just been declared a casualty of dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center. CNN's Randi Kaye is in New York with more for us. Hi, Randi.", "Hi, Don. This is a really important day for so many would who say working on the pile at Ground Zero or simply running from the massive cloud of dust as the towers fell made them gravely ill. For the first time a New York City medical examiner has directly linked a person's death to exposure to World Trade Center toxins. Her name, as you said, is Felicia Dunn-Jones. She was an attorney with the U.S. Department of Education, just 42 years old, died five months after she had been trapped in the dust caused by the collapse of the first tower. The city medical examiner, Dr. Charles Hirsch, has ruled her death a homicide and her name has now been added to the official list of World Trade Center victims. Dr. Hirsch wrote this in a letter to the family: \"Accumulating evidence indicates that in some persons, exposure to WTC dust has caused sarcoidosis, or an inflammatory reaction indistinguishable from sarcoidosis. It is likely with certainty beyond a reasonable doubt that exposure to WTC dust was contributory to her death.\" Sarcoidosis is a rare and debilitating disease which causes lesions, most of them appear in the liver, the lungs, the skin and the lymph nodes. Now before this, only Ocean County, New Jersey, had tied a death to exposure one to the World Trade Center dust. A pathologist there concluded in April of last year the death of retired Detective James Zadroga, who was just 34, was directly linked to recovery operations. Zadroga had spent close to 500 hours sifting through debris and came down with brain and respiratory ailments. He died January 2006. Of course, this landmark decision could have a major impact on so many other outstanding cases. I interviewed two former detectives last year who were also sick from the NYPD, they are represented by a lawyer who has 10,000 other clients in a class action suit. Attorney David Worby says 500 of his clients have cancer, 120 of them blood cell cancers like leukemia. Already more than 100 of his clients have died, several from sarcoidosis. The two NYPD detectives, Rich Volpe and John Walcott, they worked for months on that pile. Volpe's kidney function is now down to 35 percent, Walcott had leukemia, but is now in remission. Both blame their illnesses on the exposure to toxins like benzene and dioxin and asbestos. And this is what Walcott told us during our interview.", "You would take a shower and my shower would be -- look like a barbecue grill. Solid black. And you wake up in the middle of the night with -- in the corner of your eyes and would drip on your pillow would be like black liquid. And you know, same thing, you like clean your ears out and you just -- chunks and chunks of black would come out. I mean, your teeth, when you scrub your teeth, you spit in the sink and it would be literally like a barbecue grill.", "Worth noting here that in this latest case, Mrs. Dunn- Jones died of exposure after just one day. Now imagine the impact on those like Walcott and Volpe and the others who worked down there for months on end -- Don.", "And aren't there programs in New York that are studying the effects on these people and treating people for this? Have you heard from them?", "We have. We have interviewed them, actually. There are treatment and monitoring programs. Overall, 20,000 people around the U.S. have been screened as part of the World Trade Center monitoring program. We visited the center at Mount Sinai Hospital here in New York where 4,800 people are in treatment, probably about 1,000 more in treatment at other facilities. That brings the number to about 6,000 but that doesn't even include the firefighters. Mount Sinai can't tell us how many people have died in their program. But here's the problem, the program received federal funding last fall but they do anticipate running out of money. In fact, we're told that a panel has estimated $150 million annually will be needed to continue this treatment and monitoring. And there is no federally funded program, Don, for people like Dunn-Jones, the regular people, not the first responders, just average citizens who happened to be caught up in the dust cloud.", "Let's hope they're planning to do something about that. Randi Kaye, thank you.", "Thank you.", "Well, we know you can't do anything about the price, but you can, perhaps, do something about how much you use. We're all about the gas here in the NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "LEMON", "WHITFIELD", "LEMON", "WHITFIELD", "LEMON", "WHITFIELD", "LEMON", "WHITFIELD", "LEMON", "WHITFIELD", "LEMON", "WHITFIELD", "LEMON", "WHITFIELD", "CNN NEWSROOM. LEMON", "WHITFIELD", "JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN SENIOR PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "ROBERT GATES, DEFENSE SECRETARY", "MCINTYRE", "WHITFIELD", "LEMON", "ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HENRY", "LEMON", "HENRY", "BUSH", "HENRY", "LEMON", "WHITFIELD", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JOHN WALCOTT, FMR. NYPD DETECTIVE", "KAYE", "LEMON", "KAYE", "LEMON", "KAYE", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-122514", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2008-1-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/01/acd.02.html", "summary": "Was San Francisco Tiger Taunted?", "utt": ["The mystery surrounding a deadly tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo deepened today, one week after the massive cat escaped from its exhibit and mauled three young men. The two surviving victims have yet to speak publicly about their ordeal. And their silence has only raised more questions about whether they may have actually provoked the attack by taunting the tiger. Tonight, a New York newspaper is reporting new and some provocative claims. Here's CNN's David Mattingly.", "Why did the 350-pound Siberian tiger named Tatiana maul three people, killing one? The answer may lie behind these doors. It is the home of the two survivors, brothers Paul and Kulbir Dhaliwal. They were released from the hospital on Saturday, but have yet to talk publicly about what exactly happened at the San Francisco Zoo. But new allegations suggest they have reason to keep quiet. A report in \"The New York Post,\" citing unnamed sources, says slingshots were found on both brothers after the attack, leading to speculation they provoked the tiger. The report also says an empty bottle of vodka was found in their car. Police have said they have no information to indicate the tiger was provoked. While questions stir about their involvement, the brothers have hired legal heavyweight Mark Geragos, with possible plans to sue the zoo for the attack. Meanwhile, the father of the victim, Carlos Sousa Jr., wants to hear from the survivors.", "Did you do this? Did you do that? What happened?", "Meanwhile, the San Francisco Zoo prepares to reopen its doors to the public on Thursday, nine days after the vicious attack. The outdoor tiger exhibit, however, will not be open until the zoo completes construction on new enhanced security barriers around the big cat grottoes.", "David, do we know if...", "No security improvements focusing on that wall that the tiger was apparently able to scale as it went on its rampage. That wall, 12-and-a-half-feet tall, is almost four feet shorter than what is nationally recommended -- construction on these safety improvements beginning and possibly ending some time this month -- Anderson.", "Recommended, not mandated by law, though. Do we know if the police have spoken to the brothers, the two that were attacked?", "The police have spoken to the two brothers, but we have not heard from police since last week. And they have not indicated what exactly they have heard from the brothers. They did tell us they had that one footprint that they were able to get that they found on the railing at the tiger pen. They want to know if the shoes of the three men possibly matched that footprint. They weren't able to tell us that was the case last week. And, so far, we have not heard from them. They do say that this is an ongoing investigation. And police were on the premises again today -- again, this zoo opening for business again on Thursday.", "Have -- have police said whether they -- these two young men have been cooperative? I had some read reports that, initially, they weren't talking to police, that they weren't giving their names, the name of the deceased young man. Do we know in general -- have the police said whether they were cooperative or not?", "Well, that was reported in the San Francisco media. But, when police were asked about that, they didn't respond to that question. They have not answered a lot of questions at all about this case. They come out. They give their news conferences, and then they go when they felt like they have talked enough. But, again, this is an ongoing investigation. They do not say that they have any evidence that the tigers were provoked. And we are waiting publicly now to find out what the police will say next.", "All right, David Mattingly, appreciate it. Digging deeper, one of the first experts we turned to after last week's attack was Jack Hanna, director-emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and hosted \"Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures.\" Now earlier today, we spoke again about these new developments in the story.", "Jack, there's a report from an unnamed source from one of today's papers, saying that the young men involved in this attack may have taunted the tiger. They had slingshots on them at the time and a bottle of vodka in their car. The bottom line is we don't know what happened. They're not talking, which is the most important thing for them to do. But what exactly would it take to provoke an animal like this to jump and attack?", "I'm -- I've said, Anderson, all along since you watched my first interview, and I apologized to the world about, if I'm wrong. But since it's the first time, that three boys that really didn't love animals on Christmas day at 5 p.m. when it's getting dark, going to a zoo, No. 1, there's something wrong with that altogether. No. 2, when you go across that fence, you have a fence here. You have a little bit of territory, what I call no-man's territory. Then you have a moat. When somebody crosses into that no-man's territory. What would somebody do if they came into your home or your yard. You would go, gosh, what's that? Now let's just say there was a slingshot or something involved. Can you imagine what that tiger was going through, sitting there getting pounded by two or three guys. I mean, give me a break, you know, the moat worked for 30-something years. I'm not saying that obviously the cat got out. If that's the reason then, you really had to provoke something to do that. Using the word taunting really isn't harsh enough as far as what this cat went through, if that's what happened. And I'll tell you, it's sick.", "It's remarkable that the young man who died, his father has come out and said he wants these two other young men, these alleged friends of his son, to at least call him and let him know what happened. They haven't called him. They haven't called to apologize. They haven't called to check in on him at all. And still to this day, they're not cooperating with -- they haven't been cooperating with police. Or are reluctantly cooperating, to the extent that they have. So the bottom line is, they should be the ones coming forward. And they're the only ones who know for sure what happened.", "I bet you'll find out, if they ever start talking, which I hope they do for that father's sake, as well as those new folks, that the world will then know what happened that night. But I said from the very first moment that this whole thing doesn't sound right to me after 40 years of doing this. And only one death, Anderson, in the last 45 years, we've been keeping record, in the last 40 to 50 years, one death in the zoo, and that's 2.5 billion- plus people in the country going to zoos. I'd take my odds any day of the week with 2.5 billion visitors to a zoo and we have one death. You know, something is wrong here.", "As someone who is affiliated with zoos and has been most of your life, there's clearly a responsibility on the zoo's part to keep visitors safe. It is a hard balance, though, I mean, if someone is taunting the animal.", "Right, Anderson. Obviously, the zoo is responsible. But, again, you know, what are we supposed to do? At NASCAR, if you have a fence and you cross that fence to go inside where the racecar are going at 200 miles an hour, and you get hit, you know, how high are we supposed to make fences? How high are we supposed to make moats? I mean, you know, we can only do so much in the zoological world.", "Do you think this is going to lead to changes in other zoos around the country? I mean, do you think other zoos are now checking their security barriers, checking the -- their enclosures?", "There's no doubt about it there's going to be some other -- there will be some changes made. People know what to do. They have to come to a zoological park and respect the animals. You know, the whole -- one word is respect. When someone comes to your house you respect it. When I go to the wild, like you do, you respect the gorillas and whatever. And I respect. People should respect that this is the animal's home.", "Jack Hanna. Appreciate your comments, Jack. Thanks for being with us.", "Thanks a lot, Anderson.", "A lot more on this story to still be learned. We're going to go up close when we come back. We're looking at what makes animals tick and what makes them attack.", "Even in the zoo, they were born to be wild.", "A wild animal is like a loaded gun. It can go off at any time.", "See what happens when animals attack and what sometimes happens instead. Later, the mystery deepening, claims of a cover-up growing. New pictures of a suspect. Who killed Benazir Bhutto and why? The latest on this global mystery when 360 continues."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CARLOS SOUSA, FATHER OF CARLOS SOUSA", "MATTINGLY", "COOPER", "MATTINGLY", "COOPER", "MATTINGLY", "COOPER", "MATTINGLY", "COOPER", "COOPER", "JACK HANNA, ANIMAL EXPERT", "COOPER", "HANNA", "COOPER", "HANNA", "COOPER", "HANNA", "COOPER", "HANNA", "COOPER", "COOPER (voice-over)", "HANNA", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-373533", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2019-06-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/28/ip.02.html", "summary": "Marianne Williamson's Pitch to Harness Love in 2020", "utt": ["Didn't speak for the first 27 minutes. But when Marianne Williamson finally got her moment, people noticed.", "My first", "As the debate ended it was Williamson who led the Google search trends. The only other top, two candidates in the top 10 search results were John Hickenlooper at number six and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand at eight. So, Jeff Zeleny, what do you think? I mean, she says one thing that slogans actually matter, that helped Donald Trump. Is she right?", "No question. I mean, I think in all the screaming and all the shouting and the food fight that was going on, she did stand out because she was talking in a, you know, a very unique voice in several respects and she's also not just on the debate stage. I was in Iowa a couple of weeks ago and I spotted a billboard in the east village of Iowa not far from the state capital and it has that slogan on it. It says, \"Turning Love into a Political Force. Marianne Williamson for President.\" So she's out there, she's campaigning somewhat. Look, I think I'm not exactly sure what she's up to. She's probably not likely to win here but her voice has stood out because it's softer and unique.", "Certainly unique indeed. Before we go to break, you could call it gridlock on Capitol Hill today when a Capitol subway train got stuck between office buildings. Senator Chris Murphy tweeted the alarm and a quick photo of his pal Senator Brian Schatz trapped onboard. Murphy tweeting, \"Brian Schatz, if you're not out in 30 minutes, text me and I will try to find help.\" I've been stuck in those trains, trust me I know. They could take a while. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MARIANNE WILLIAMSON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "RAJU", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "RAJU"]}
{"id": "CNN-203954", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2013-3-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/28/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "North Korea Puts Rockets on Standby; Boy-with-Gun Photo Sparks New Probe", "utt": ["Happening now, breaking news. North Korea's leader has just put rockets on stand by to fewer at U.S. targets.", "And a tiger attacks. We will have the latest on the victim and we will have a live report.", "We will also drive home the dangers of texting behind the wheel. As it turns out, get this, adults are the worst offenders. They are worse than kids.", "I'm Kate Bolduan.", "I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "Let's get to the breaking news right now, another provocative move by North Korea's strong man who has been stepping up his threats of war against the United States.", "CNN Pentagon correspondent Chris Lawrence is following this breaking news. So what's the latest, Chris?", "Kate, right now we've learned that the Korean, North Korean state TV has announced that North Korea's leader has signed off on a plan to put his rockets on standby for firing at U.S. targets, both in the Pacific, and right here in the U.S. mainland. Well, forget about the mainland. North Korea can't reach here. But there are tens of thousands of American troops in places like Japan, Korea, and Guam that are well within reach of North Korean rockets and artillery. This is just the latest escalating move in sort of a tit-for-tat measure between the North Koreans, South Korea and the U.S., and it seems like no one is willing to back down.", "Pentagon officials were in no mood to back down, Hours after flying a stealth bomber over the Korean peninsula.", "We will unequivocally defend, and we are unequivocally committed to that alliance with South Korea.", "The bombers can carry up to 20 tons of conventional and nuclear ordnance. On Thursday, two B-2's took off from an Air Force base in Missouri. They flew more than 6,600 miles to a training exercise and dropped inactive payload on a South Korean island. (on camera): Why do you think it's wise for the U.S. to respond and poke back at some of these North Korean provocations?", "I don't think we're poking back or responding. The North Koreans have to understand that what they're doing is very dangerous.", "But even the defense secretary admitted the U.S. is not sure how its actions are being interpreted in North Korea.", "There is uncertainty in that government, and in their leadership, and intentions.", "Pyongyang recently released intimidating new photos of its army and artillery. These are real enough, but North Korea is known to exaggerate its abilities. This shot of a beach landing exercise appears to be PhotoShopped. Some of the hover craft looked exactly alike. But there is genuine concern over a new missile North Korea unveiled at a parade last year.", "That rogue mobile missile would have the capacity to reach the United States. That's a different type of missile from the one that was tested back in December. And because it's road mobile, I think that it has raised concerns.", "Raised concerns, but yet North Korea has never tested that missile. So there's no proof, and really, no clear idea of exactly where they are in the development process. No one thinks that that missile was ready to go. But it is something to keep its eye on over the next several years -- Kate.", "Chris, every day this week, there's been another threat from North Korea, news coming out of that region. How serious are Pentagon officials taking this latest threat this evening?", "They take all these threats pretty seriously. Not so much some of the far-fetched ones, about you know, sending a nuclear bomb, or nuclear rocket into the United States. But localized attacks, they take very seriously. And I can tell you, amongst South Korean officials, after North Korea torpedoed that ship a couple of years ago and shelled some of those border islands, the calculus changed in South Korea. They would, a lot of times, let some of these provocations go. They're much less willing to do that now. And the U.S. officials are very invested in making sure that you don't see an escalation from one small attack around the Korean Peninsula.", "Yes, especially in recent comments from South Korea. They've shown no sign of backing down from their position either.", "No.", "Chris, thanks so much.", "In New Jersey right now, questions are being raised about an investigation that was sparked by this photo. It shows a boy holding a military-style rifle. His dad posted it online, and then authorities showed up at their door. Now the governor, Chris Christie, says he's concerned about the way the case was handled. Mary Snow is digging deeper into this story for us. What are you finding out, Mary?", "Well, Wolf, a New Jersey man and his lawyers say police went too far. But police say it was their responsibility to investigate a tip raising concerns about the safety of a child, and others that child may come in contact with.", "When Shawn Moore gave his son a rifle for his 11th birthday, had posted this photo on Facebook. What happened after that is now under investigation by New Jersey state officials. Police in the small town of Carneys Point say they received an anonymous complaint about the Moores, and so did the state's Division of Children and Families. A police report states, \"The caller believes the children in the home may be in danger from having unsecured firearms they could access.\" Moore took this photo when he arrived home and said police and agency workers were at his house, asking to see the firearms in his safe. He had his lawyer on speaker phone and refused to open the safe with no warrant. He expressed his outrage online and then went on \"FOX & Friends\" with his son to tell what happened.", "The Department of Child Services, also known as DICUS, started threatening to take my kids if we didn't do that. And they were asking if I had anything to hide. If I didn't, why wouldn't I open the safe? And they kept telling me they were going to come back with a warrant.", "Moore says after an hour of arguing, the police left.", "In light of some recent school shootings across our nation, the Carneys Point Police Department takes these types of calls seriously.", "The Carneys Point police chief declined CNN's request for an interview, because the matter is now being investigated by the state attorney general. That came after Governor Chris Christie wrote the A.G., saying public reports about the investigation of Moore raised, quote, \"troubling questions concerning the facts and circumstances surrounding the investigation, the manner in which the investigation was conducted.\" Moore's attorney specializes in Second Amendment rights issues and hasn't ruled out a lawsuit.", "This was such an overreaction, and it really taps on a lot of fears that law-abiding gun owners have, that they'll be subject to an irrational raid by the government. It taps right into that.", "Now, the police haven't filed any charges, nor does it say it intends to. And the police chief says he, himself, is a hunting sportsman and that the department is not out to infringe on anyone's constitutional rights. I also should add that the calls to the Department of Children and Families for comment weren't returned -- Wolf and Kate.", "Thanks very much. When we come back, a zoo caretaker attacked by a lion. We'll have the latest on this terrifying incident. That's next."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BOLDUAN", "BLITZER", "BOLDUAN", "BLITZER", "THE SITUATION ROOM. ANNOUNCER", "BLITZER", "BOLDUAN", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LAWRENCE (VOICE-OVER)", "CHUCK HAGEL, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "LAWRENCE", "HAGEL", "LAWRENCE", "HAGEL", "LAWRENCE", "SCOTT SNYDER", "LAWRENCE", "BOLDUAN", "LAWRENCE", "BOLDUAN", "LAWRENCE", "BOLDUAN", "BLITZER", "MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SNOW (voice-over)", "SHAWN MOORE, FATHER", "SNOW", "CHIEF ROBERT DIGREGORIO, CARNEYS POINT POLICE", "SNOW", "EVAN NAPPEN, MOORE'S ATTORNEY", "SNOW", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-410349", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-09-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/08/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Refuting Trump's Vaccine Timeline; Military Helicopter Trying to Rescue Dozens Trapped by Flames", "utt": ["You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm John Vause. From Big Pharma to the WHO, to his own health officials, all pushing back against the U.S. president and his promise to release a vaccine by Election Day. Fires are breaking uncontrollably across California, blaming the heat, bad weather and a horrendous lapse in judgment. Saudi Arabia hands-down punishment for the suspects in the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi, critics condemn it all as a sham.", "Big Pharma is pushing back against the U.S. president in his promised vaccine for the coronavirus could be ready by next month. On Monday, President Trump tweeted the vaccines are coming and fast. There is progress on that front but \"The Wall Street Journal\" reports at least 3 vaccine makers will issue a promise not to seek government approval until that extensive data and safety and effectiveness, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson. There are reports other big name pharmaceuticals could join those 3. Pfizer and BioNTech are cleared to start the next phase of their trial in Germany and it's the only vaccine maker that could have late stage results by October but that's not a given. The World Health Organization is also stressing the need for due diligence and says it will not endorse a vaccine before it is shown to be effective and safe. The former U.S. surgeon general says the Food and Drug Administration has no room for error and must learn from past mistakes.", "They've got to avoid making the same mistakes they made with convalescent plasma, hydroxychloroquine. They've got to let the science and scientists guide them in their decision-making here.", "The White House on Monday President Trump falsely claimed that the U.S. was \"an absolute leader in every way\" when it comes to dealing with the pandemic. He's clearly trying to tie the vaccine to the U.S. election.", "We're going to have it soon. So now, what they are saying is wow, this is bad news. President Trump is getting this vaccine in record time. By the way, if this were the Obama administration, you would not have that vaccine for 3 years. You probably wouldn't have it at all. We are going to have a vaccine very soon. Maybe even before a very special day. You know what talking about.", "Let me guess: November 3rd, Election Day. Democratic rival Joe Biden was asked if he would take the vaccine if it was offered before than. He said he would listen to scientists. He also warned about a lack of trust.", "One of the problems is when he's playing with policy, is he has said so many things that are not true. I'm worried if we do have a really good vaccine particularly before the election it's undermining public confidence. But pray God we have it. If I could get a vaccine tomorrow, I would do it.", "And then there is another federal official who is familiar with the Trump administration's so-called Operation Warp Speed. He says despite what the president has promised, quote, \"I don't know any scientist who thinks we will be getting shots into arms anytime before Election Day.\" In New York, France and the U.K., all reporting worrying increases in new COVID numbers. France has the 7th highest death toll in the world right now. There is a possible second wave in the coming months. Officials are looking at data to see what measures may be needed to help the country cope. CNN's Scott McLean has the latest from London.", "British schools are back in session. The government is urging businesses to send their employees back into the office. And now the government is also looking for ways to reduce the mandatory 14-day quarantine period for travelers entering the U.K. for most other countries. All of this, just as the U.K. records its highest single day of coronavirus case count since May. The British health secretary is blaming young people, particularly affluent young people for the sudden surge in infections. He is worried that if they don't follow the rules that they could pass on the virus to older, more vulnerable parts of the population. Now there's a similar trend across Europe, especially in Spain, which just became the first country in Europe to log half a million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. If there is any good news here is that European health care systems have not had the massive surge of patients that they saw at the height of the pandemic. For instance, in the U.K. today, there are 40 times fewer people on ventilators than there were at the height of the pandemic. In Spain, though, there is a worrying trend. Deaths there are on the rise. The country just reported its highest single day death toll since May -- Scott McLean, CNN, London.", "Mexico has the world's fourth highest virus death toll, now reporting more than 35,000 new cases on Monday, bringing the total to more than 630,000. But the official numbers do not tell the true extent of the impact of the pandemic. CNN's Matt Rivers reports from Mexico City.", "Some startling new information from Mexico's government. Over the weekend, health officials reported that during the period of March 15th through August 1st, Mexico recorded more than 120,000 excess deaths as compared to the same time period from other years, more normal years, non pandemic years. We know that of those excess deaths, more than 47,000 have been officially attributed to the coronavirus. But what about the remaining 75,000 or so deaths? I spoke to the director of a COVID unit here in Mexico City and a prestigious local hospital. He believes that, of all those excess deaths, the vast majority of them, are directly related to the virus. We know that Mexico's government routinely says that the actual death toll in this country is higher than what is officially reported. And part of the reason for that is that because many people going to hospitals with COVID symptoms simply do not get a test before they end up losing their lives. Mexico is one of the lowest testing rates in a country with a large population around the world. And speaking of the death toll, it continues to just steadily march higher. The official death toll roughly 30 percent of the total amount of deaths reported here in Mexico have been reported since August 1st -- Matt Rivers, CNN, Mexico City.", "Wildfires are burning in California and are labeled an unprecedented disaster. The officials report the Creek fire in their words is 0 percent contained. A military helicopter tried to reach dozens of campers and hikers who were trapped by the flames. But heavy smoke prevented the pilot from a safe landing. A second rescue attempt is planned with night vision goggles. This is the state's worst wildfire season, scorching more than 2 million acres or more than 800,000 hectares so far. The Creek fire is burning across the state. CNN's Dan Simon was there reporting from the scene.", "The fire is getting dangerously close to some of these mountain communities. The town of Auberry, which has about 2,500 people, had to evacuate as the flames basically took over. Hillside above that town, for the most part though, this fire is burning in the rugged here at national forest. But you do have of course a lot of campers who use this era for recreation. And that's' why you have all of those people who are at that boat launch, who had to be airlifted to safety, about 10 or so people suffered moderate injuries, but hopefully everyone will be OK. In the meantime, we are getting more information about that so-called gender reveal party in southern California, in San Bernardino County. You did have this couple that went to a nearby park to basically announce the gender of their baby. And they had a pyrotechnic device and you light it off, it goes pink or blue or any of that sent this wildfire emotion -- Dan Simon, CNN, Auberry, California.", "Just last hour we spoke with an official about the conditions on the scene of the Creek fire and the damage so far. Here she is.", "We have 65 structures that are destroyed and this goes on 2 different counties. It's on the Fresno County side and the Madeira County side. And today, obviously we've had stronger winds and it is more with upper level winds from the northwest and variable lower level winds, which helps the fire increase and growth.", "What do you know about that region where the campers are, Lake Edison-China Peak region. The problem seems to be that roads are closed because of the fires. People cannot get out. How common is that across the region right now?", "Right now what we've asked people to do is to shelter in place in a couple of locations like China Peak. You're absolutely right, there are fires on both sides of the road. It's very dangerous for people to either come in and go. So obviously that's why roads were shut down. We would rather have people shelter in place and be in a safe area as opposed to trying to get them out with all the fire.", "We are looking at the unprecedented disaster with the Creek fire. Clearly, the terrible heat wave which California is going through right now is not helping. It's making it worse. Are there any other factors in this particularly unprecedented fire season?", "All the dry brush is playing a big factor in that area. It's known for bark beetle infestation so we have a lot of dead and dying trees in that area. That's like 80 percent of the trees that are affected in there helps with that heavy fuel load. That is what we are seeing right now.", "To the White House now, where Donald Trump spent the Labor Day holiday launching an unprecedented attack on the military's leadership.", "I'm not saying the military is in love with me. The soldiers are. The top people in the Pentagon probably aren't, because they want to do nothing but fight wars, so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy. But we're getting out of the endless wars.", "This from a president who is also denying he made disparaging remarks about the fallen U.S. troops on a 2018 trip to France. Donald Trump is criticizing leaders he appointed. He continues to tout military spending as one of his biggest accomplishments. Ron Brownstein is a CNN senior political analyst and senior editor for \"The Atlantic\" with us from Los Angeles, We begin with a colleague of yours, David Frum, who pointed out a critical factor in this latest Trump controversy. He writes, \"Where are the senior officers of the United States armed forces, serving and retired, the men and women who worked most closely on military affairs with President Trump? \"Has any one of them stepped forward to say that is not the man I know?\" At least one administration official has denied the story; otherwise there's been a deafening silence, especially from people like John Kelly. What's going on here?", "John Kelly's silence is one of the most striking things in this whole episode. He obviously could deny the story. Jeffrey Goldberg's account of -- I think four different episodes of the president denigrating military veterans in astonishing language. John Kelly could deny that. He has chosen not to. I think that tells you an awful lot, both about the veracity of the story and what John Kelly thinks of Donald Trump.", "The president denials are continuing.", "Who would say a thing like that? Only an animal would say a thing like that. There is nobody that has more respect for not only our military but for people that gave their lives in the military.", "Yes, who would say something like the military veterans are losers and suckers? Good question. Who would say that? Here we go. Listen to this.", "I never liked him much after that. I don't like losers.", "John McCain's a loser. The president has made no secret about his views of those who served in Vietnam.", "Dating is like being in Vietnam. You're the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam. If you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam. It's called the dating game.", "So there's no one defending the president. They are his own words from the past. The president has lied 20,000 times since the inauguration saying trust me. Does any of this actually matter before November?", "It's an interesting question. Obviously, for the vast majority of people who are still with Donald Trump, they know exactly what they are getting. It's hard to imagine what revelation about him could cause them to break away from someone who is presenting himself literally as the human wall between them, many of his voters, and all of the changes in American life, demographic cultural, that they don't like. But it's really not the right question. The people who are still with Donald Trump today are not enough for him to win. He has to add votes at this point. I think that these kinds of revelations and the fact that he continues to kind of stir this pot just makes it tougher for him to do that. Among other things, we talked about before, he is on track for the weakest showing of any Republican nominee ever among college educated white voters, including college educated white men, who are usually much more Republican than the women. Those men pollsters will tell you are the single biggest consumers of current events and news. I've got to think that this is just yet another headwind for him as he tries to reverse that historic deficit that he is facing, which is now too big for him to win.", "As a side note, back in 2018, it seems the president had time to kill.", "It could be trivial in itself. But it is actually revealing on a much larger, more ominous and more momentous kind of shift, which is, as I had written a few weeks ago, Donald Trump basically is weaponizing every aspect of the federal government into a tool of personal and partisan advantage. It's one thing to treat the knick-knacks of the embassy as his personal property. It's another thing to act the same way about the criminal prosecutors in the Justice Department, about the inspectors general, about the census bureau, which he is using to try to tilt the census to a Republican advantage or even the Postal Service, which he has sought to undermine as a way to improve Republican position in the election. I talked to a number of scholars in the federal administration who said we have never seen anything like this ever, to basically view the entire federal government as an extension of your personal will and priorities. What is perhaps most striking about this, is how little complaint or blowback or resistance any of this has faced from Republicans in Congress, watching these norms get shattered one by one.", "Yes, and almost deafening silence from the Republicans on the military issue as well. Ron, good to see you. Thank you so much.", "Thanks, John.", "Still to come, justice Saudi style. Sentencing day for the suspects in the brutal killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, why some say it's just a mockery of justice."], "speaker": ["JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "VAUSE", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-227661", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2014-4-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/01/ng.01.html", "summary": "Drunk Mom`s Accident Kills two of her Children", "utt": ["Now live to Dallas suburbs. A mom of five admits she`s drunk off at least five mojitos -- that`s rum, lime juice, club soda -- when she plows her minivan into two cars, killing two of her own children.", "A crash that broke a family.", "We have some people... 911", "OK, they`re on the way.", "Firefighters work to treat a child, one of two that survived. Two others did not. Police say the driver, their mother, Crystal Suniga, was drunk. Police say Suniga admitted to drinking five mojitos that night.", "Out to PIO of the Irving police department, Officer James McLellan. Thank you for being with us. How do we know she had at least five mojitos?", "Oh, good afternoon, Nancy. Yes, that statement was made by her at the hospital during an initial...", "Oh, my...", "... interview", "... stars, Officer McLellan! I`m looking at the crash. Oh! Oh! OK, it`s bad. To Claire Cardona, reporter with \"The Dallas Morning News.\" How did she manage to plow into two cars? Everybody, the photos you`re seeing are courtesy of Eric Sorto (ph). Claire, how did this happen?", "She lost control of her vehicle and crossed over into the yard and crashed into the two parked cars, and then eventually, the car came to a stop on the -- it rolled over and came to a stop on the driver`s side, resting against the house.", "You know, it`s hard for me to take it in, Claire and Officer McLellan, how you can knowingly drink five alcoholic drinks, five mixed drinks. I`m not talking about lite beer over ice in two or three hours. I`m talking about downing five mojitos, then put all your children in your car and go for a joyride? What exactly is a mojito, Clark Goldband?", "Well, Nancy, the base of the drink is rum, six ounces of rum, according to one bartender I spoke with. We`ve also got mint leaves, simple syrup, fresh lime juice and club soda."], "speaker": ["GRACE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "OPERATOR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GRACE", "JAMES MCLELLAN, IRVING POLICE DEPARTMENT (via telephone)", "GRACE", "MCLELLAN", "GRACE", "CLAIRE CARDONA, \"DALLAS MORNING NEWS\" (via telephone)", "GRACE", "CLARK GOLDBAND, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER"]}
{"id": "NPR-40422", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2008-04-10", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89538128", "title": "U.S. Biodiesel Subsidies Anger Europeans", "summary": "The price of the raw material the U.S. biodiesel industry uses most, soy oil, has shot up, all but pricing the alternative fuel out of the U.S. market. A hefty tax credit and a big leap in exports to Europe are keeping the industry afloat, angering Europeans, who accuse Americans of flooding their market with artificially cheap fuel.", "utt": ["The U.S. biodiesel industry is in a jam. The cost of the raw material it uses most — soy oil — has shot up even faster than crude oil, and that's nearly priced the alternative fuel out of the U.S. market. Only a hefty tax credit and a leap in exports to Europe are keeping the industry afloat. But that's angered many Europeans who accuse the U.S. of flooding their market with artificially cheap imports.", "Frank Morris of member station KCUR in Kansas City reports.", "Big trucks loaded with soy are pulling into the Prairie Pride biodiesel plant on the green plains outside tiny Eve, Missouri.", "Gilbert Wilson bangs the side of his truck to dislodge every last little yellow bean.", "Wilson's soy is worth about twice what it was last year.", "Well, yes, it's a great price. This Prairie Pride situation here is going to be a big help for this area.", "A couple of years ago, Wilson and more than a thousand other farmers chipped in to build this $100-million plant. Farm commodities were a lot cheaper then and diesel was fairly high.", "National Biodiesel Board's CEO Joe Jobe says a rush of sorts ensued.", "You could pencil it out on a bar napkin and you could produce biodiesel and sell it at a discounted diesel fuel. And that stimulated a huge amount of investment and installed production capacity.", "But as production facilities mushroomed, so did the price of soy. Now the industry is running at less than a quarter of its capacity. At least 20 plants have shut down; brand-new facilities sit empty and unused.", "Inside the new ranch-house style office building at Prairie Pride, marketing director Kent Engelbrecht keeps a quote from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche scrolled on his white board.", "That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. And it's certainly become evident and worth getting stronger one way or another.", "For now, the only way to stay in business is to export fuel. All two dozen black tank cars lined up on the railroad track at Prairie Pride are bound for the Port of Houston. There, an oil company will add a little bit of petroleum diesel and pick up a $1-per-gallon federal blending subsidy. Then it's off to Europe. Mandates and tax breaks there ensure demand.", "Prairie Pride General Manager John Nelson says the domestic industry dies without the blending subsidy, but he says there's a problem with it.", "The real harm is where it gets abused when biodiesels made in South America and they do what they call the splash and dash.", "Argentinean biodiesel comes into U.S. ports. Blenders splash in a little diesel, ship it all off across the Atlantic, and collect the subsidy. Europe bought almost 300 million gallons of biodiesel from the U.S. last year — some domestically produced, some from Argentina, all of it subsidized.", "Dan Rotenberg, with the European Commission, says the subsidy undercuts European producers.", "Well, basically you have the U.S. taxpayer which is subsidizing European consumers and Argentinean producers of biodiesel.", "Rotenberg says biodiesel imports from the U.S. shut up tenfold last year. The E.U. is threatening sanctions that exports will probably ease next year anyway. That's when mandates kick in requiring U.S. oil companies to buy a certain amount of biodiesel — a billion gallons a year by 2012. Still, that's less than half the current U.S. production capacity.", "And while soybean prices have dropped recently, Iowa State University economist Bruce Babcock says all those mothballed biodiesel plants stand ready to deprive the industry of the low soy prices that help spawn it in the first place.", "If the vegetable oil price ever gets low enough, those plants will turn on and that creates a new floor price that is linked to the crude oil market, so we've really changed the way that crops are going to be priced.", "Still, with oil becoming harder and harder to come by and environmental concerns mounting, the folks at Prairie Pride say they'll be ready when demand for biodiesel catches up with their capacity to produce the stuff. They just don't know when that may happen.", "For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris in Kansas City.", "You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR NEWS."], "speaker": ["MICHELE NORRIS, host", "MICHELE NORRIS, host", "FRANK MORRIS", "FRANK MORRIS", "FRANK MORRIS", "Mr. GILBERT WILSON", "FRANK MORRIS", "FRANK MORRIS", "Mr. JOE JOBE (CEO, National Biodiesel Board)", "FRANK MORRIS", "FRANK MORRIS", "Mr. KENT ENGELBRECHT (Commodity Manager, Prairie Pride, Inc.)", "FRANK MORRIS", "FRANK MORRIS", "Mr. JOHN NELSON (General Manager, Prairie Pride, Inc.)", "FRANK MORRIS", "FRANK MORRIS", "Mr. DAN ROTENBERG (Counselor for Agriculture, European Commission)", "FRANK MORRIS", "FRANK MORRIS", "Professor BRUCE BABCOCK (Economics, Iowa State University)", "FRANK MORRIS", "FRANK MORRIS", "SIEGEL"]}
{"id": "CNN-357268", "program": "CNN RIGHT NOW", "date": "2018-12-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1812/17/crn.01.html", "summary": "Trump Unleashes on Investigation; Comey on Capitol Hill; Russia Used Social Networks", "utt": ["Thanks for joining us on INSIDE POLITICS today. Stay with us throughout the week, shutdown week. We'll keep track of it. Brianna Keilar starts right now. Have a good day.", "I'm Brianna Keilar, live from CNN's Washington headquarters. Underway right now, round two on Capitol Hill. In the ring, James Comey and House Republicans. And two damning new reports from the Senate detailing Russia's expansive campaign to get President Trump elected and keep him in office. Millions of Americans are at risk of losing coverage after a federal judge strikes down Obamacare, ruling it unconstitutional. And four days to go until a potential government shutdown. As of now, neither side is blinking. Up first, his legal jeopardy is increasing and so is his anger over the Russia investigation. President Trump is vending his rage, where else, on Twitter. After weeks of damaging court filings by Robert Mueller and other prosecutors, the president unleashed a new tirade featuring some familiar lines and factual inaccuracies. He tweeted, the Russian witch hunt hoax started as the insurance policy long before I even got elected. It is very bad for our country. They're entrapping people for misstatements, lies or unrelated things that took place many years ago. Nothing to do with collusion. A Democrat scam. Let's bring in CNN White House correspondent Boris Sanchez. And, Boris, indications in these tweet that the president may be concerned this investigation now touches virtually every aspect of his public life?", "That's right, Brianna. Just based on his recent tweets, you could tell that the Russia investigation is a major source of frustration for President Trump. And according to sources close to the president, in recent weeks he's been apoplectic, angry, frustrate, all sorts of adjectives that I would rather not repeat on television, when he watches news of former aides either pleading guilty or, in the case of Michael Cohen, for example, flipping against him. I did want to point out, Rudy Giuliani this weekend was trying to play cleanup on some of the Sunday morning talk shows, trying to discredit Cohen. Though, we should point out, at one point he contradicted the president. Giuliani was speaking about a written answer to a question from the special counsel regarding the president's awareness of Michael Cohen's conversations with Russians over a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow. He admitted that the president may have had conversations with Michael Cohen about that as recently as November 2016. As you know, that's right around election time. Previously we had heard from President Trump, who said that he didn't have any contacts or any dealings with Russians at all and neither did anyone on his campaign. Giuliani was also asked about a recent CNN report that indicated that Robert Mueller was still interested in sitting down for an interview with President Trump despite those written answers that were submitted last month. Giuliani joked about unpaid parking tickets. Listen to a part of his response.", "Yes, good luck. Good luck. After what they did to Flynn, the way they trapped him into perjury, and no sentence for him, 14 days for Papadopoulos, I did better on traffic violations than they did with Papadopoulos.", "So when you say good luck, you're saying no way, no interview?", "They are a joke. They're a joke. Over my dead body.", "Giuliani then said, but I may be dead. In a separate interview he was a bit more serious. He acknowledged that report. He wouldn't comment on it. But he did say that there was an agreement between the president's attorneys and the special counsel that would allow for more time for further discussion over more questions that the special counsel may have for the president. Brianna.", "All right, Boris Sanchez at the White House, thank you so much. You might call it Comey versus the Republicans, the sequel. Former FBI Director James Comey is back on Capitol Hill right now in another closed door hearing with lawmakers. Earlier this month, Republicans grilled him on issues ranging from Hillary Clinton's e-mails to the Russia investigation. CNN's senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju is covering this for us on Capitol Hill. Manu, what are we learning and what can we expect from this hearing today?", "Well, very partisan reactions from members as they emerged from this closed door interview that's been going on since about 10:00 a.m. This after that interview from about a week and a half ago when Comey did answer questions for roughly six hours. And Democrats emerging from this saying this is all essentially a waste of time. Republican in their final days in power trying to get any sort of dirt they can about the Russia investigation and the Clinton e-mail investigations and Republicans suggesting that James Comey has not been fully forthright, including Mark Meadows, who says that James Comey's testimony has been inconsistent with things from the past, including his knowledge about the Clinton campaign and the DNC's involvement in funding that Steele dossier research about Trump and Russia allegations.", "I can tell you that when you look at his public statements and also the testimony that he's given, those don't seem to reconcile.", "I just think it's a waste of time and resources of this Congress. But as you can see, this is the last gasp of the Republican majority in this House to paint this false narrative to protect the Trump administration and the Trump campaign.", "And the incoming Democrat chairman of this committee, Jerry Nadler, says he's going to end this investigation when the Democrats take power in January. But Republicans after today will continue with his investigation. They're going to bring in Loretta Lynch, the former Obama attorney general, to bring her in for questioning later this week, issue a report and raise concerns about the FBI's handling of those investigations. But the question is, what new will they learn today? We don't have any sense that yet. But we do expect James Comey potentially to answer questions again from reporters later this afternoon. Brianna.", "All right, we'll be waiting with you. Manu Raju, thank you. We knew the Russians meddled in the presidential race, but now two new Senate Intel reports are looking at the vast extent of it. These looked at the tactics used by Russia's Internet Research Agency. They found it used every major social network to support President Trump before and also after the election. And one of the revealing quotes from these reports, the 95 days with the highest volume overall are in 2017 and 197 of the 200 highest peaks are in 2017. Let's bring in CNN's senior national correspondent Alex Marquardt to explain all of this to us. Two reports.", "Two reports commissioned by the Senate Intel Committee. And what's really staggering, Brianna, is the scale and detail that we are learning from these reports about the Internet Research Agency, that troll farm that is linked to the Russian government, that has been indicted by Robert Mueller. As you noted there, the efforts are ongoing and there was a huge amount of actively in 2017. When it comes to the 2016 presidential campaign, it was clear, given the posts that they've now analyzed, that they were in support of the candidacy of Donald Trump and actively trying to undermine the candidacy of Hillary Clinton by doing things like promoting her opponent Jill Stein from the Green Party. This was a huge trove of data that was handed over by Twitter, FaceBook, and Google. Let's take a look at these numbers. They found that the IRA posted some 10 million tweets, 116,000 Instagram posts, 61,000 FaceBook posts and 1,000 videos. And then, on top of that, there were some 44 Twitter accounts that posed as U.S. related news organizations that collected around 600,000 followers. Now, even though the reports -- those who were doing the reports got this huge trove of data, they said that it was actually the bare minimum that these companies could have handed over.", "Wow.", "And, Brianna, one of the major headlines here is the activity, the nefarious and maligned activity that the IRA did in targeting the African-American population. In deploying what they say is voter suppression tactics on the black community. And the same they were actively fear mongering on the right. And we've talked a lot about the disinformation campaign, what's happened on these social networks. But what the -- these reports are now saying is that the IRA actively tried to recruit assets to do things that they wanted them to do, particularly, they say, within the African-American community. But one big example they also gave was, there was a Christian FaceBook group and they said there was -- they were posting saying, if you have a sex addiction, you know, you can call this line. And that would eventually open people up to some sort of black mail. Just classic espionage tactics. So very scary about what happened in 2016, what's ongoing, and, of course, Brianna, there's no sign of that stopping and so that doesn't bode well for 2020.", "Oh, my goodness. All right. Well, these reports are very interesting. Thank you so much for giving us the bullet points. We really appreciate it, Alex. For more I want to bring in my guest, Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen of Tennessee. He is a member of the House Judiciary Committee. Sir, thanks so much for being with us. We really appreciate it.", "You're welcome. Nice to be with you.", "I want to get your perspective on this -- these reports that you just heard about, specifically the fact that African-Americans were targeted so specifically by this Russian trolling operation. You are in a district in Tennessee where almost two-thirds of your district is African-American. I imagine that as you see these results, it really hits home for you and your constituents.", "Well, it's just dirty tricks and efforts to suppress the vote that have been done by state governments throughout the south. And that's why we need to look at reinstating the Voting Rights Act. We've seen it in North Carolina, Georgia, and we've seen other examples in other states. But what the Russians did was a very well thought out campaign to help Donald Trump win the presidency. To tamp down on Hillary Clinton's number one support group, African-Americans, to bolster her number one ideological opponent, Ms. Green, and then to promote Donald Trump. And I knew that they were doing this. We all knew they were doing it because Mr. Mueller had indicted these folks for their actions. But we didn't know the extent of it. And the massive number of tweets and FaceBook posts and other social media efforts on YouTube are astounding. And, in my opinion, there's no way that they didn't influenced enough voters to turn the election for Donald Trump.", "You think Donald Trump won because of this Russian operation?", "I think it's a combination of the Russian operation and Comey's reopening the investigation within the last 10 days, two weeks of the election of Hillary Clinton. And he feels terrible about it. I know he thought he was acting in the most appropriate and most restitutions fashion, but he was wrong. And the result is, whatever his intent, that plus the Russian activity definitely was what put Hillary Clinton under in the electoral votes. You know, she won the popular vote by three million votes, but she lost Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania close and the Russian involvement and/or the Comey investigation changed the election. And there's some information that there was an e-mail distributed to the Justice Department, possibly by the Russians, that helped cause Comey to go forward because it suggested Loretta Lynch was not actively pursuing the matter, as it was later called, against the Clintons. And he thought that because of that he needed to go forward. And that kind of got this whole investigation and Comedy's involvement into it. But there's been much information not proven yet because it's still within a classified matter. And I'm not privy to that classified information, but that the Russians might have sent this, because nobody who was on the e-mail chain knew anything about it.", "And you are certain the Russians sent that?", "Well, I'm not certain. It's been written in several areas. I've read it. And it's classified. I asked Mr. Comey about it in our hearing last week and he couldn't -- he --", "Meaning you've read it in -- you're read it open source -- you're read it -- you've read it in newspapers?", "Yes, in newspapers and mentioned it to James Comey and he couldn't make a definitive comment on it. He still thought it was legitimate, but nobody in the e-mail chain, which including Debbie Wassermann Schultz and one of the Clinton, Amanda Rentoria (ph), had ever participated in it. They didn't know Loretta Lynch. There was no way any of this would have happened. So it appears to me to be a -- to be a rouse.", "The -- Jim Comey is testifying today, as we speak, before your committee, a second day of interviews. The Republicans leading the committee brought him in before Democrats take over in January. You called for him to resign because of his handling of the Clinton e- mail investigation. You just said that you feel like that was a contributing factor. I do wonder, though, after you had very harsh words for him in 2016, now that you see him as this sort of foil for Republicans, you see all of these things that have transpired, his firing, he's been outspoken, certainly more to the benefit of Democrats than Republicans. Do you have a different assessment of that looking back on whether he should have resigned?", "Well, I said it, he should have resigned back in October, and it was on CNN. I'm not sure if it was your show or another, but I said at that time when asked that I thought it could cause Hillary Clinton to lose the election. And I think it did. And James Comey said he's just horrified at the prospect that he could have had anything to do with it. But he did. And that was wrong to get involved. I understand his position, but it was wrong, and I thought that when I called for --", "Would you -- would you have wanted him gone, though, congressman, under the Trump administration, or do you look back and feel like there was utility in having Comey there at the FBI at the time?", "No, I think he's -- he has this high sense of rectitude and tries to call him as he sees them, and generally he calls them right. But, in that case, he went against the policy of the Justice Department and acted kind of as a lone ranger. And afterwards, though, he was a perfect person to lead the investigation and to stand up to Donald Trump and not back down when he asked him to get -- not to be involved with Flynn and let Flynn go and to back off of the investigation, asked him to publicly say he had nothing to do, wasn't involved with Russia and wasn't a suspect. So I think Comey, after that, was a good person to be in that position and he was fired because Trump wanting to get rid of him because he wouldn't give him his clearance and continued to pursue the Russian matter.", "All right, Congressman Steve Cohen, thank you so much for being with us.", "You're welcome, Brianna.", "Up next, no collusion. It's been a rallying cry from the president. Now his lawyer says even if there was collusion, it's not a crime. We'll discuss that. Plus, the politics of health care as a judge rules Obamacare as unconstitutional. Some Republicans fearing massive repercussion on the road to 2020. And speaking of 2020, we have some fresh poll numbers telling us who Democrats favor to take on the president. 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{"id": "CNN-81767", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2004-2-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/04/lad.14.html", "summary": "Coffey Talk: Martha Stewart, Kobe Bryant Cases", "utt": ["Well the bombshell is expected to explode into the public arena today in the Martha Stewart trial. The prosecution's star witness will take the stand again. And in Eagle, Colorado, Kobe Bryant awaits a decision. Time for some 'Coffey Talk' now. Live to Miami and our legal analyst Kendall Coffey. Good morning -- Kendall.", "Good morning -- Carol.", "All right, let's start with Kobe Bryant. His attorneys want to throw out a taped police interview. Also, they want to throw out the results of a physical exam and a bloodstained T- shirt. I want to talk a little bit about the physical exam. Bryant's attorneys say it was illegally done because it happened in the predawn hours. What difference does that make?", "Well the Colorado rules require that it be done during daylight hours. But the problem for the defense is the rules don't say that if police mess up, and apparently they did, that the evidence is going to be excluded. So it's going to be uphill. A lot of times, Carol, police make mistakes, but it doesn't mean the evidence gets tossed out. And in this case, it is expected that while the police look a little bad, they didn't know what the rules were, the evidence is probably going to be allowed in with respect to the hospital exam.", "How important is that that it be kept in?", "Well it's pretty important in terms of the blood match, because that's the one really sizzling bit of evidence that came out during a preliminary hearing that the blood on the alleged victim matched the blood on Kobe Bryant's T-shirt. The prosecution really needs to keep that evidence.", "Interesting. OK, let's move on to Martha Stewart now. Doug Faneuil takes the stand again. He has already testified that his boss, this broker that's also on trial with Martha Stewart, told him to call Stewart to tell her the ImClone founder was dumping his stock. What more will he say today?", "Well he is going to directly incriminate Martha Stewart today. He is going to talk about the details of his conversation with her, which are basically going to, if believed, establish that she lied when she later told investigators that it wasn't because of any information she had about Sam Waxal but that the reason she sold her stock was a preexisting stop loss arrangement with Bacanovic to sell whenever the stock went down to 60 shares -- $60 a share.", "And apparently Faneuil asked Bacanovic if he could tell Martha Stewart that Sam Waksal was dumping his stock.", "And the other thing that was developing yesterday is Faneuil is coming off not so far as a lying rascal who is selling out his former boss and his former client in order to get a sweetheart deal with the government, but kind of almost a guy next door, almost a sympathetic gopher who was caught between two mega manipulators, didn't know what to do for a while and eventually decided to come clean and do the right thing with the government. So far he's playing pretty well in front of that jury. We'll see what happens when cross- examination begins.", "Exactly. I was just going to say that, he hasn't been cross-examined yet. Thank you very much. Kendall Coffey live from Miami this morning. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "KENDALL COFFEY, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "COSTELLO", "COFFEY", "COSTELLO", "COFFEY", "COSTELLO", "COFFEY", "COSTELLO", "COFFEY", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-82957", "program": "CNN LIVE SUNDAY", "date": "2004-3-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/14/sun.04.html", "summary": "NCAA Basketball Tournament Bids Coming In", "utt": ["If you follow college basketball, you are probably familiar with our next guest. He's coached some of the greatest names in the game from Michael Jordan to Vince Carter. But for most of his students, his lessons extend far beyond the basketball court. He is sharing them in a new book titled \"The Carolina Way.\" Joining us to talk about this year's NCAA basketball tournament is former University of North Carolina Coach Dean Smith.", "Hi, Carol. Thank you for inviting me.", "Well, St. Joe certainly deserves the number one seed based on their entire record. But we have to keep in mind that not many times do all the number one seeds arrive in the final four.", "That's true. All right. Let's take a look at the next bracket. Come up, Atlanta, Duke, Mississippi State, Texas, Cincinnati.", "That's a strong bracket, and certainly Duke should be a number one based on their team and what they've accomplished this year. And they certainly are, I think, they could be the national champion. They have a lot of tough ones there in order to get to the final four.", "All right. Next one up, St. Louis, Kentucky, Gonzaga, a nice Cinderella story there from before.", "It is. And, of course, Kentucky deserves the number one seed having won the regular season and the tournament. They certainly are a threat for the final four and the national championship.", "Wasn't there some talk that Gonzaga would get a number one seed?", "With whom? I couldn't hear that.", "I said that wasn't there some talk that Gonzaga would get a number one seed?", "Yes, I think I heard (ph) them only. They are certainly capable. I think we all admire what Mark has done with that team. But I do think that based on their schedule, it's a thing they always find. It's hard to say, we have a tough schedule, but they really are capable.", "All right. Then out west, Stanford, well deserved.", "What a great year. They probably don't want to play in the east, but Stanford had a great, great year. Extremely capable. I think the committee really did an excellent job in picking the number one seeds. Now all the others will try to prove they're wrong.", "Any Cinderella stories you're expecting this time around?", "That's what makes it great. That's why we have CBS's has work so hard for this tournament because everyone kind of cheers for at least one or two upsets early and, obviously, it has happened and probably will happen again.", "You have any picks for the final four yourself?", "Four seeds are hard to say no to, but there will probably be three of them there in the end.", "Were you disappointed that Washington didn't make it?", "No, Washington came on strong, but they lost five games early at one time, and in the conference, but they sure came on strong and are capable.", "What the heck happened to your Tarheels, Coach?", "We'll be there. We're young and maybe not this year, but who knows. We have a great coach in Roy Williams. Well, the best in my opinion, and from then on, I think these young guys, they've had every game but two have been down to the last minute, or with three or four more possessions, they could have had two losses and a number one seed.", "Well, my bruins are --", "The worst part is to play Air Force. I coached there, too. But they have a marvelous", "My Bruins are rebuilding as well, so...", "They are.", "We're in it together.", "They'll be back.", "So we hope. Thanks so much, Coach Smith, always great to see you. Looks like an exciting season.", "It surely will be.", "Fire officials say it could take days to discover what sparked a four-alarm fire that destroyed the oldest black Baptist church in Pittsburgh. Parishioners watched in horror yesterday as the 131-year-old church burned to the ground. Two firefighters died, 31 were wounded. Today the community is vowing to rebuild. Adora Udoji joins us live from Pittsburgh. It's great to have an inspiring story of hope Adora, especially after an inspiring sports story there with Coach Dean Smith. It's a tough transition to make.", "Good evening Carol. Indeed, this is a very determined group. The folks who belong to the Ebenezer Baptist Church here in Pittsburgh, as you said, the oldest black church in the city, 131 years old. They are taking away bits of it piece by piece now, not wanting it to pose a danger to anyone. Really, though, we talked to many of those who attend this church and they said they were most concerned today. Their thoughts were most on those firefighters who lost their lives yesterday. Two veteran Pittsburgh firefighters , in their early 50s were actually crushed to death in the church yesterday when it was -- they were fighting the fire. So many of the members of this congregation today saying their thoughts are with their families. But also today, they were meeting, worshiping at a nearby church that opened their doors to them today, and they talk a lot about rebuilding. They talked about the legacy of this church. Been in many families for five, six, seven decades, in this exact place. So they are saying that they have to rebuild. That, in fact, tomorrow morning they are going to sit down and start planning and also today, there was several other churches who gave donations, wanting to help the process along for turning the corner on this terrible tragedy here at Ebenezer Baptist church. But, again, many, many members of the congregation saying today was really a time to send their thoughts and prayers out the families of the two firefighters who were killed here yesterday. Carol?", "Yes, it's tough to see those bulldozers move in behind you Adora. Thank you very much. Well, that it is for us. Coming up at 7:00 Eastern, PEOPLE IN THE NEWS profiles Carlos Santana. At 8:00, CNN PRESENTS, inside the Dean campaign. 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{"id": "CNN-57774", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2002-7-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/19/bn.03.html", "summary": "Alejandro Avila Arrested in Samantha Runnion Case", "utt": ["All right, if you are just tuning into CNN, incredible news out of Orange County, California, news that no doubt many of you have been waiting to hear. Many people, especially in the community of Orange County, California. The sheriff, Mike Carona, from Orange County came out to say they made an arrest in connection with the kidnap and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion, that beautiful 5-year-old girl, who for the past few days we have had to report on the discovery of her body, brutally, sexually abused, and left on the side of the road. And you just were looking at the picture. The man that has been arrested, 27-year-old Alejandro Avila. We are told he fits the description. As a matter of fact, if you look at his picture here, and then you see the sketch that Samantha Runnion's playmate, the information that led to this sketch, from the playmate of Samantha Runnion, look at the correlation. it's eerily similar, but this man is in police custody, has been arrested in connection with the murder of this little girl. Very interesting news conference. If you saw it, you know. If you missed it, the sheriff came forward and made this announcement just after listening to the 911 call-in tape.", "At 9:55 this morning, we have made an arrest in connection with this case. At 9:55 this morning, members of the investigative team arrested Alejandro Avila, date of birth, 3-13-75, 27-year-old male, 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes.", "Bringing Lewis Hennessy back in, former D.C. homicide detective. He joins us this morning since we received this news. OK, Lewis, you obviously, former homicide detective, you have covered a number of murder cases. Explain to us, please, if indeed this is the man, Alejandro Avila, explain the mindset after person like this.", "Well, it's kind of difficult to tell. Everybody is different. But I think what the police are probably trying to do right now, is they are probably trying to put a timeline together on this guy, and try to see if he may be linked to other cases as well. Obviously, the number one case at this point in time is the case of the young lady, Samantha, that they found. But he may also be good for some other cases. And I'm sure they are trying to get their cases as tight as they can on the initial case, and they continue to work on it, to see if he could potentially be related to something else. A lot of these guys do this repeatedly, and people are creatures of habit. So that's something to watch closely the next few days, next few months probably.", "All pedophiles, though, they are not all murders, are they?", "No, they are not. Everybody is different. To lump them all together in one category is unfair. But people do tend to repeat acts that they get gratification from. And some people believe that pedophiles do get gratification from inflicting pain or death on their victims.", "So here is a man, if indeed this is the man that murdered 5-year-old Samantha Runnion, the body is found not far from where he is living. You would think that he would have taken off. Isn't it unusual for someone who has committed a murder like this to stay so close to where it happened, to be walking around and not change his or her appearance?", "Well, what I find unusual is that he went 75 miles to make the abduction. I think that's highly unusual for an abduction to occur in one spot and the body to be recovered such a distance away. People are going to stay in areas that they are familiar with, and I'm sure one of the things the police are looking at closely now is what ties and what affiliations he had in the area of the abduction, because that may help answer a lot of these questions.", "The forensic evidence that they are studying on the body and in the area, what type of forensic evidence are we talking about? The sheriff has come out and said there is lots of it, obviously. Tell us what they are looking at and what they are studying.", "It's hard it tell. One would have to assume they are probably looking at potentially blood, transferred fibers, potentially some type of seminal fluids, maybe saliva, possibly bite marks. It's endless to what could potentially be there. But I guarantee you, they will be looking very hard at this.", "Louis, how do you contain your rage in cases like this?", "In some instances, it's not easy. But you have to kind of understand that you are a professional, and just as a doctor would be treating that young lady, if she had survived her wounds and came into the hospital, he has a job to do, and regardless of what happened and how it happened, he has a job to do, just like the police do. Police are professionals, and they, in some instances, have a tough time containing their rage. But they have to in order to be objective and be thorough.", "Is it harder when it is a child, especially as a little girl as precious as Samantha Runnion?", "I think that child cases always strike a nerve with any human being. Just children are so vulnerable and they're so precious. And it's so unnatural to have one attacked, that I think it is a little more difficult. But it seems as though they have done a good job in this case.", "So you say they will be looking at a time line on Alejandro Avila. Tell me how they would do that. Are they going to go back and trace where he's been, where's he's been working. What he has done for a year, two years, three years. How does that work?", "I suspect that they are doing that as we speak. They probably have got a team of detectives that are going back to see where he's worked, where he's lived, where he's hung out, who his associates have been in different areas, for the last -- probably as far back as they can go, to try determine if there is other unsolved cases or other offenses that he may be responsible for.", "Are you surprised his mother opened up the door and started talking to reporters?", "No, not really. Unfortunately, the families are these perpetrators are victims in many instances as well. They don't understand that their loved ones are involved in this type of heinous act, and they have no understanding of their complicity.", "All right, Louis Hennessy, once again, we would like to ask to you stand by, stay with us, as this story unravel, as we get more information. we will bring our Rusty Dornin back in, who's live on the scene. Rusty, why don't you sort of recap where we are, and where we stand and talk about, I guess, pretty much how amazing this press conference was, definitely unusual for you, for me, for you'll of us here. It was done in a very unusual way.", "Very unusual. And as I said, Kyra, we have been trying to press the sheriff's department all morning to find out more information on this man, Alejandro Avila, and they would not tell us anything. They just kept saying that this press conference at 10:00, this press conference at 10:00 Pacific, you know, they would talk about something, and I guess we thought we would all be pressing him and hammering him with questions about the suspect. Turns out he wouldn't answer one question, played a very unusual tape of a man who discovered Samantha Runnion's body, very just heart-wrenching 911 call by a man who also had a 3-year-old daughter, and they played that, which was unusual. And it wasn't until after that that they ended up announcing that they had arrested this man, only less than -- you know, less than 10 minutes before he had made the announcement. It was five minutes to 10:00 when apparently the investigators did arrest him. Now the interesting thing is, they talked long, they detained people for questioning. This man was detained. His mother said that they had taken him to a hotel in Orange County, because they kept saying, there were no arrests, no one was in custody. Apparently, this man was taken to some hotel in Orange County and kept there until they figured out they had enough evidence to make an arrest, but they didn't want to make any kind of indication they were pinning this on anyone until they were absolutely sure. But he kept stressing all morning about the amount of forensic evidence, as you know, several experts have talked about, whether that is hair fibers, or blood or some kind of semen; there is definitely enough here that they are feeling very confident, because the sheriff, even though he wouldn't pinpoint this suspect this morning, he has been confident all morning long, saying that they were narrowing this down and that they knew -- that they felt like they knew they had Samantha's killer under detention that point. So very unusual. It's also a very unusual scene here, because some of the neighbors have been coming by, just to hear what's going on. They even brought their kids, you know, wanting them to know what's going on, because there's been a lot of fear in this neighborhood since this happened.", "So still at this point, even though there is a suspect in custody, they have made an arrest in connection, this Alejandro Avila, how is -- can you get a sense around you from the community? Are they feeling a little relieved? Have you heard anything yet? Have you seen people gathered to the area? Are there a lot of community members who have been hanging out at the press conferences, trying to stay up on the latest developments, Rusty?", "As you know, I have been standing in front of those cameras pretty much since the press conference, but folks have been coming here all along during the press conferences, and right after, even bringing their children, and saying, yes, there is a great amount of relief. But still, Kyra, remember this is Orange County, this is where Disneyland is, this is where Knoxberry Farm is. This is where families come for all-American fun. This is a place people want it feel safe that their children can play in the front yard, so this was a horrible thing to happen, that devastated a community and brought up fears that people really hadn't had before. So this is going to have obviously an impact for a very long time. But people are of course very relieved that someone has been caught quickly. This case moved along all along this week at a very rapid pace.", "How is Samantha Runnion's family doing? Grandmother, mother? I know we've interviewed the father in Massachusetts. Since the last time you have spoken to or received information on the family, how are they doing, and how are they involved right now?", "Well, only contact we'd had over the last 24 hours since the father spoke in Massachusetts, Derek Jackson -- he did talk about obviously how devastated he was. The mother has remained in seclusion here. She hasn't spoken to anyone about this. The sheriff did say they are holding up as well as can be expected in a case like this. But I imagine she is also very relieved that at least, there is any kind of closure in a case like this. Brings up some measure of relief. Obviously it doesn't bring her child back, though.", "Understandably. Rusty Dornin, live on the scene there. If you are just joining us, once again, an arrest made in the kidnap, and murder and rape of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion, Alejandro Avila, 27 years old, 6 foot male, 200 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes. Amazing comparison with the picture of this man, who's been arrested, and the sketch given to police not long after the abduction of little Samantha Runnion. Her playmate, who was with her out there in the apartment complex where grandma was baby sitting, this is the sketch that her playmate had given when the suspected approached the two girls, saying he had lost his puppy. It wasn't long after that, little Samantha Runnion was lured into a car, taken away, kicking and screaming. Now police have made an arrest, this man right here, Alejandro Avila, age 27. He lives not far from where the body was found. Little Samantha Runnion was found about 75 miles from the area where she was abducted. And when police went to arrest Alejandro Avila, he was living in an apartment complex not far from where the body was found. We had an interview with the apartment manager of that complex, that noticed he was acting very suspicious. He was pacing around and around and around a light green Thunderbird. And other people had noticed too, his suspicious behavior, while one thing led to another. Police had been in contact with the Avila family. And next thing you know, Alejandro Avila had been arrested in connection with the disappearance, kidnapping, murder and rape of little 5-year-old Samantha Runnion. Let's bring in Louis Hennessy again, former D.C. homicide detective, Joining us in Washington. I'm amazed at how quickly this happened. Is it surprising to you, Louis? I know I've dealt with homicide detectives before in cases that just take years in finding a killer, and this just happened so quickly.", "Well, obviously, they were very fortunate and they were able to get some information early on in the investigation that pointed them in the right direction. Sometimes the media attention really helps in a case, but at other times, it can hurt, as the sheriff indicated earlier. They had 2,000 leads in this case, and all of those leads need to be evaluated, and pursued in some way, shape or form. Apparently early on in the investigation, they got the right tip, and they followed this one up, and it proved fruitful at an early point in the case.", "How do you know when a tip is the right one? How do you decipher? Because I know you get so many phone calls, and letters and e-mails, you name it. How do you know when it is a solid tip?", "What the police look for is information that they have either gathered from, in this instance -- there was more than one crime scene. But information that they have gathered from either the scene of the abduction or scene of the recovery of the body, or any evidence that is recovered at any of the locations, which is unknown to the general public, but is part after tip that is provided to the police. Then the police immediately recognized that this is potentially very good information, and they'll start prioritizing their case, their tips, and go after that one with a little more vigor and obviously a lot sooner.", "When you were a homicide detective, did you solve most of your cases through tips through citizens?", "I would say we probably solved 90-95 percent of our cases with some cooperation with the community. Unfortunately, the police can't be everywhere. So it's the community that witnesses different events. Some of the events appear disjointed and don't even appear to be connected to a crime. But when they get to the police, and then we're able to put the puzzle together, to speak, they fit very nicely. And, yes, the public is very responsible for overwhelming majority of arrests and convictions in murder cases.", "Former D.C. homicide detective Louis Hennessy, thank you so much for sticking with us and continuing to give us insight on this breaking news story. Please, stay with us. We're going to move back over to Rusty Dornin, who's live on the scene, where the sheriff had just made the announcement not long ago, that this man, Alejandro Avila, 27-year-old Hispanic male, has been arrested in connection to the kidnap, murder and rape of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion. One question we've been asking, the pulse of the community. Are they relieved? Are they still concerned? Rusty Dornin has been speaking with community leaders. She joins us now live with more from there -- Rusty.", "Well, Kyra, I think it is mixed. Folks have been gathering and coming here for these press conferences. We have with us Angie Alvarez and her 7-year-old daughter, Genesis Baltran (ph). Are you feeling relieved to know that someone has been arrested in this case?", "To be honest with you, no, I don't feel any relief. I'm glad they found somebody, and maybe they can, you know, be able to pinpoint that it is him. But I feel scared still for the rest of the people out there always trying to harm your kids.", "You are saying that you brought your daughter here for what reason.", "I brought her here to get a sense of what happened to that little girl. I want her to understand why I'm always telling her whenever we go somewhere that I have to hold her hand. I have to know exactly where she's at all the time. And she hates it. She gets mad at me. She says I don't like to go shopping with you, because you tell me I have to stand right there; I can't go nowhere, I can't see nothing, so I would rather stay home. And -- but I want her to understand why I am like that to her.", "Angie -- can you understand how your mom is telling you things like this? What are you going to do?", "I'm going to change my attitude.", "How are you going to change that? What are you going do?", "I'm going to listen to my mom and do what she tells me do.", "OK, something that you never dreamed in this community.", "I never thought it would happen so close to home. You always hear it happen somewhere else. You never think it is going to happen in your neighborhood. You always try look for the safest neighborhood, where your kids can play outside, and you get to know everybody. But still, you can't trust your neighbor; you know, you don't know who will hurt them.", "Thank you very much for joining us, Angie Alvarez and her 7-year-old daughter Genesis Baltran, not relieved to find out that there has been an arrest in this case, still feeling like that just points out how dangerous, how unsafe that there are people out there like this that can snatch children in the middle of the day -- Kyra.", "Truly a reflection on the world with which we live. Rusty Dornin, thank you very much. OK, I understand we have Don Casper on the phone with us now. He's the freelance photographer who shot that interview with Alejandro Avila's mother. And, Don, can you hear me OK?", "I certainly can, Kyra. Hello.", "Very good. You know what,before we talk, maybe we can show a clip of that interview. Eric, are we able to do that before we talk with Don? All right, let's take a listen.", "He is not being charged. They are just investigating. He has a green card. But his card is Thunderbird.", "What were they looking for here?", "I don't know. Some type of evidence. They took a lot of stuff, I don't know. We don't know.", "What kind of stuff?", "Like, I had a serape on a rocking chair. They took that, because it as lot of hairs, and I told them it is the cat's hair. So they took it.", "Did they mention this little girl who was killed in the investigation?", "They gave me the search warrant, and it mentioned the little girl, yes. And I said, well, I don't think my son did it. But I was -- as long as he's cooperating. I don't have anything against that.", "You don't think your son would do something like that.", "No, no.", "Is that your son you are talking to now on the phone?", "Yes. Since he was detained -- he is detained for investigation, but he is not arrested. This is the first time I have talked to him.", "Where was he last Monday and Tuesday?", "Monday he was at the mall in Ontario. And Tuesday, he was -- I don't know, here with us. And then, he comes and goes. I just told him what I know.", "What I don't understand is, why, ask him if I may, why did they put him in a hotel in Orange County?", "They want to know why they put you in a hotel. Because he is not arrested.", "That is where he is staying?", "Because he is going to be there over the weekend. That's what they told me when they took the stuff.", "Where are they keeping him?", "In Orange County, in some kind of a hotel.", "Adelina Avila is the mother of 27-year-old Alejandro Avila. This is the man who has been arrested in connection to the kidnap, murder and rape of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion, a story that has pretty much shocked the nation, as we have been telling you about it,. for the past few days. John Casper is freelance photographer that shot that interview. He is on the phone with us now. John, kind of take us back. When did you decide to head over there? How did you know head over there? Kind of take us step by step.", "Well, Kyra, we of course tried it stay on top of this story, knowing that part of it is in Orange County, and part of it literally in our own backyard. And we got word that one of the local stations was out in the area, that something was about to break. So we headed down to lake Elsinore area, began looking for signs. It was a big area to look for. But we began looking for police helicopters, things like that. Eventually found something that pointed to the direction.", "So you didn't know exactly where to go?", "No, we didn't. When things like this happen, word travels pretty quickly. You know, it is always ask people in the area. They know what's going on, and they always point the way for you.", "So you knocked on the door, how did you finally come to the home of the Avila's?", "We followed a police helicopter that was over the area, and got their actually just in time as they were towing the car away. The car they towed away was not the much talked about green car; this was the white car, that had evidence stickers on the side, and they towed it on a flatbed trailer and towed it past us to take as evidence.", "When you interviewed the mother, I heard you ask if she was on the phone with Alejandro. Was she on the phone that moment with her son?", "Yes, she was, as a matter of fact. She had been talking to us through the door, and didn't want to go on camera. And while she was talking us to, the phone ring, and she indicated that it was her son. I thought it was a bit unusual her son would be calling her from jail, because that's where we all assumed he would be. While this was taking place, another reporter inadvertently leaned on the door bell, and when that happened, she opened door to talk to us with phone if hand.", "That's so bizarre. What did you think about what she today say? Did she seem calm, nervous, confident that her son is innocent?", "As a matter of fact, she did not seem very worried to me at all. A mother whose son was, you know, whose son will be going through something this traumatic, she didn't seem all that concerned. I didn't see any sign of tears. She didn't seem overly upset. And continued in a pretty conversational manner.", "So she didn't let you in, and you didn't see inside the apartment and how this family lived.", "No. Later we did step in the front door where she showed us a photo of her son, which I thought, you know, for a mother who's trying to protect her son, I don't know why she would want to put his photo out there, but that was her choice, and she seemed fairly confident that he didn't have anything do with. She would relay questions to him on the phone that she had in her hand.", "Was she asking him on the phone?", "Mostly like where are you hold, why do they have you there? Those are the questions we were asking she was relaying to him. Much of the conversation she had with him was in Spanish. and we couldn't keep up with that. So we began relaying the questions, and that's when we found out that he was not in jail, that he, in fact, was in a hotel. And we asked which hotel, and he asked somebody with him, what hotel am I in? Then the response came back, I can't tell you which hotel I'm in, I'm with some deputies here. I'm not free to leave, but I'm not under arrest.", "Did you ask her about if he had a criminal past, ever committed a crime before, had been arrested, put in jail?", "At some point she did volunteer information that he had never -- something along the lines that he had never been to jail before, or never done anything wrong before. That's the information she volunteered at the time. That, of course, is probably going to be a subject of much scrutiny.", "I'm sorry. I missed the last part of what you just said. I apologize.", "That of course will be a subject of something that will be quite closely looked at, is did he have anything prior?", "Were there any brothers or sisters living at home? Was it just mom and Alejandro?", "Well, in the same apartment complex, his sister lives directly across from his mother, and we observed them taking a lot of evidence out of the sister's apartment. We don't know -- we didn't see what was taken oust mother's apartment, although she did indicate there was a serape and possibly some shoes that were taken out.", "All right, John Casper, good job, I got tell you. Outstanding job getting that interview with the mother, Adelina Avila. It will be interesting to see whether that interview is used in other ways, if indeed Alejandro Avila is found to be the man that kidnapped and murdered 5-year-old Samantha Runnion. He has been arrested in connection with the case, 27-year-old male. This is a picture of him right here. 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{"id": "CNN-302907", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-01-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/11/nday.02.html", "summary": "Trump to Hold First Press Conference Since Election", "utt": ["In just a few hours, Donald Trump is going to hold his first press conference since winning the election. In fact, the last one was nearly six months ago and, boy, are there some big issues on the table -- this reporting about Russia, his actually conflicts of interests that he said he would secure before he took office. Let's bring back our panel -- Monica Langley, Errol Louis, David Drucker. This is one of the problems with when you delay addressing the press. He's got big things to deal with today. What do you think he comes out of the box saying? Do you think he wants to take the Russia allegations head on? And what is he saying?", "I think he's -- there is a gigantic backlog, you're right. I think he then gets the ability to maneuver and steer things down this black hole of these unconfirmed reports. My great fear is that a lot of time will be wasted on that, without any real light being shed on what happens, and then all kinds of other promises from the past about releasing his taxes, about disclosing his conflicts of interest and the resolution of them, about, you know, suing his accusers from back in the campaign. He has said a lot of different things. And if the press is diligent and official it may be able to get through a lot of that stuff but it's not in Donald Trump's interest to get through a lot of that. So, I think, unfortunately, we're going to see a lot of fuzz today.", "So, Monica, let's try to take it one by one.", "OK.", "What does he say? What does he have to say to mollify nervous lawmakers about any possible ties to Russia? Can he just dismiss as fake news?", "I think that's what he's going to do. I mean, we know Kellyanne Conway did that. We know he tweeted that. I mean, this is typical Donald Trump. It's not true, end of question. I mean, he may say that 20 different times today if you look at pounding, pounding, pounding, and then of course, all his followers, all of the people who voted for him will say this just shows the liberal media, they're pounding on him with the allegations have not been proven. So, I expect that. It is interesting that Donald Trump picked today and his people picked today for the press conference. One, because Obama spoke last night, and he wanted to change the new cycle to him, but also because he knew his cabinet nominees were going to be on the Hill and wanted to take heat off of them. Little did he know it was going to be this much heat.", "Well, let's stay with you for a second, because in a way, it's easier to deal with the Russian allegations because by definition, an allegation is an unproven suggestion. It's not fake news because these documents either exist or they don't.", "That's right.", "And in all likelihood, they do exist. It was not fake. It's about the implication. What is very real is more troubling I would suggest right now, which is his conflicts. He said he would come out and say how he's going to separate from the business.", "Right.", "It didn't happen. He said he put out his taxes when the audit was over. We don't even know if he is under audit. Those are big problems. Do you think he can fix them and will he suggest in a press conference?", "Well, I don't think they'll ever think he can fix them but he's planning to say he is going to remove himself from the business, as we know, and let his two sons run it. There was some suggestion for many months that he would put his assets in a blind trust. That was much maligned because how can you put assets --", "It doesn't work.", "Yes. So that's out.", "-- information about his business now because of these Russian allegations. Do people have to know more now?", "I think that's a really good question. I don't think that he's going to give that much detail about the real estate assets in his empire.", "Hey, David, you know, obviously, his critics won't like what he says. His supporters will like what he says. What about the middle of the road Republicans, the lawmakers on Capitol Hill who are trying to figure out how to navigate this new president? What does he need to say for them?", "Well, look, I think they would probably like a clue as to how he wants this agenda to unfold on Capitol Hill. You know, we have been talking a lot about repeal and replacing Obamacare and we still don't know what Donald Trump wants from Republicans on the Hill. What will he sign or what won't he sign? I think it will probably make a lot of Republicans feel better if he would come out once and for all to say that he thinks Vladimir Putin is not the nicest guy in the world and under his administration, we'll finally do something about cyber warfare and stop all of this hacking and take this stuff seriously. I think that would put his critics at bay. I think it would make Republicans on the Hill feel like he is starting to function as a president and not as a candidate. And I think that's what they're going to be looking for today. I mean, most of his nominees are going to sail through without the problems a lot of us thought they would. And it is in part, as we saw from CNN's reporting, because they're all saying the right things. And so, I think the issue is what is he going to accomplish with this news conference? There is so much information. When that happens, journalists ended breathing out of a -- it's like we're breathing out of a fire hose coming at us, and we can't hone in and focus on one thing. And so, I think it's going to be easier for Donald Trump in a sense to flood the zone and get away without having us drill down on some of these real important issues, whether it's ethics or Russia or anything else.", "Right. Except now, Errol, what he doesn't want to talk about goes to the heart of the most troubling questions, right? He's not revealing his business information and not revealing his taxes now goes to the heart of these concerns and the Russian reporting. Rex Tillerson gets in the chair today. Do you think his biggest problem is the Russian ties in light of his reporting? And also, have an answer for the fact that his business did transactions with countries that were under terror watch lists and they were banned from commerce --", "Well, there's a couple of those things. We can't know about the Russian ties except under questioning. So, hopefully, the senators will do a good job of getting to the bottom of that. Rex Tillerson, for whatever reason, the polls suggested he is more unpopular than any of the other nominees, even Sessions, as far as the general public are concerned. I don't know if that's because people don't like the people involved in the oil and gas business, they have to pay at the pump and so forth, or if there is something deeper there. What we do have to get from Tillerson, though, is some sort of vision of the world. I mean, he's seen it from a very interesting angle. But how do -- how do all the pieces fit together? That we haven't heard from him in any kind of comprehensive way. Today is the day we have to find out.", "Panel, thank you very much. It's going to be a very interesting day.", "Thank you.", "All right. A little bit of a weird story going on in sports. Knicks point guard Derrick Rose is missing from a game. He is now explaining his bizarre behavior. The question is obvious: why was he a no show at his team's game last night? He knows, in the \"Bleacher Report\", next."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "ERROL LOUIS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "CAMEROTA", "MONICA LANGLEY, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "CAMEROTA", "LANGLEY", "CUOMO", "LANGLEY", "CUOMO", "LANGLEY", "CUOMO", "LANGLEY", "CUOMO", "LANGLEY", "CUOMO", "LANGLEY", "CAMEROTA", "DAVID DRUCKER, SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT, WASHINGTON EXAMINER", "CUOMO", "LOUIS", "CAMEROTA", "DRUCKER", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-140764", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2009-7-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/23/acd.01.html", "summary": "Controversy Over Harvard Arrest Escalates", "utt": ["Good evening. Tonight, breaking news: what police found when they raided Michael Jackson's doctor's office. Also, the continuing controversy tonight over the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. Today, the police sergeant who arrested the professor speaking out about what President Obama said last. And the president is speaking out again today. Later, Geoffrey Canada and Soledad O'Brien from \"Black in America 2,\" along with NAACP president Ben Jealous on the state of black America. But we begin with the breaking news, Randi Kaye with new information about -- about -- about Dr. Conrad Murray. Randi, what have you learned?", "Anderson, I'm holding here in my hand the search warrants filed today at Houston district court. These show exactly what was taken from the clinic belonging to Dr. Conrad Murray. That, as you know, is Jackson's personal physician who was with him the day that he died at his house. We first reported last night that the clinic was searched. Well, now, tonight, we can tell you that wasn't the only place. We can tell you that a second search warrant was also served, not at the clinic, but at a private storage unit belonging to Dr. Conrad Murray. Both warrants say they are seeking information and evidence of the offense of manslaughter. There is a long list of items taken that we want to tell you about. All of it is inside here, including notices from the IRS, Rolodex cards and some drugs that may very well raise some eyebrows. And, Anderson, I will have much more on these warrants, what's in them, and how that might affect the investigation in just a few minutes.", "All right, Randi, we will come back to you. Now the policeman, the professor and the president of the United States and the continuing controversy, Cambridge Massachusetts Police Sergeant James Crowley arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. inside the professor's home. Was race a factor? Or did tempers simply flare? Did professor Gates provoke the sergeant? And, if he did, is that cause for arrest? All of it being hotly debated at this hour. Then, last night, President Obama saying the police acted stupidly, the blogs, talk radio erupting today. Now reaction from the sergeant, his boss, and even more from the president. Plenty to talk about. It's a nation divided. First, Joe Johns with the facts.", "Everyone, it seems, is weighing in on the story of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates' arrest for disorderly conduct, everyone including the president.", "The Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.", "That was last night. And the president had to reel that comment back in a bit today, with his press secretary saying, the president -- quote -- \"was not calling the officer stupid. He was denoting that, at a certain point, the situation got far out of hand.\" But Mr. Obama talked about it again today in an interview on", "What I can tell -- from what I can tell, the sergeant who was involved is an outstanding police officer. But my suspicion is, is probably that it would have been better if cooler heads had prevailed.", "The president didn't comment about the racial overtones in the case, but professor Gates certainly is. Gates, who is a friend of the president, claims he was the target of racial profiling. He's demanding an apology.", "But what it made me realize was how vulnerable all black men are, how vulnerable all people of color are and all poor people to capricious forces like a rogue policeman. And this man clearly was a rogue policeman.", "But the guy who arrested Gates, Cambridge Police Sergeant John Crowley, is now speaking out, too, saying the arrest didn't have anything to do with race. And when asked last night by WFXT whether he would apologize to Gates, Crowley said, forget it.", "Is this now and ever no apology?", "Yes.", "What if it means discipline or your job?", "It won't. I have the support of my organization, which I'm very grateful for.", "And, as far as the president goes, Crowley said, in a WEEI radio interview, that Mr. Obama didn't have all the facts.", "Of course, he is the president of the United States, and I support the president to a point, I guess. I think it's disappointing that he waded into what is -- should be a local issue.", "It turns out Crowley's got a good resume. He was handpicked by a black police commissioner to teach classes on racial profiling at a police academy. And, as far as the Gates case goes, the disorderly conduct charge was dropped. But the mayor says he wants to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again. (voice-over): And the Cambridge police commissioner, who expressed his firm support of how Crowley conducted himself, says, his department is launching an investigation and is clearly not happy about all the attention.", "This department is deeply pained and take its -- its professional pride seriously.", "The cost of a national debate over race and the police. Joe Johns, CNN, Washington.", "A lot to talk about. Let's dig deeper with political analyst Roland Martin, and Boyce Watkins. Dr. Watkins is a finance professor at Syracuse University and author of \"What If George Bush Were a Black Man?\" Appreciate all of you being with us. Roland, what do you make of this?", "Well, look, I mean, it is not surprising that what Skip Gates went through is un -- is -- is common for African-Americans.", "Do you believe this was a rogue police officer, like the professor says?", "No. No, first off, I cannot make an -- I cannot say that he was a rogue police officer. I cannot say he was racist. I don't know anything about him or his background. But, also, I think what we have to recognize is, what does the individual who is going through it, what are they experiencing? Here you are, an African-American, homeowner, in your home, white cop looking for a suspect. You provide your evidence. This says, I'm the owner of the home. I'm still considered a suspect, if you will. And, so, you have that dynamic. And, so, you have to ask yourself, what was the position that he was in? What was he feeling? That's really what the issue in terms of what Gates. Like, wait a minute, here, I'm the homeowner, and I'm still feeling as if I'm still a suspect. That's probably what he was speaking to.", "Boyce, what do you think?", "Well, I think what we have to do, which is what I have been saying from the beginning, is, we need to know all the facts before we go and accuse someone of doing something that might ultimately ruin their career. Imagine if you're a guy like Sergeant Crowley, who has had an exemplary career. You have even taught classes as an expert on racial profiling, and then you get accused of this. Now, I'm a friend of Skip Gates. I'm a friend of Roland. And I support President Obama. But I wanted to know the facts. I didn't say, oh, my gosh, what is going on? This guy did something outrageous. I said, well, what happened? And then I went and interviewed several police officers, and said, what's the standard procedure when you investigate a breaking and entering? And I found out a lot of things that the public doesn't know. For example, just because you show an I.D. showing that you belong in that house, that doesn't mean that you should actually be there, because one-third of all women that are murdered are actually killed by a former lover. And many of those men break into their own home to violate a restraining order to hurt their spouse. So, this doesn't mean professor Gates would do that himself, but it does mean that there's usually more to things that meet that -- than meet the eye. So, we have got to be smart about this.", "Anderson, he said standard procedure. Well, Massachusetts law states that when a citizen requests the name and badge number of a cop, they are to give it. Gates has said he requested that. The sergeant said he would not give it to him.", "But that's not what the police report says.", "Precisely.", "The police report actually says that the sergeant attempted several times to give him the information, but the professor spoke over him.", "Right. And the police report is the perspective of the police officer. It is his perspective. It's not infallible. It's not the absolute truth. So, he has a perspective. Gates has one. And I think it's important to recognize that there are two views as to what happened in this case.", "It's one of those situations, Boyce, where there are two diametrically opposed perspectives.", "I mean, clearly, the professor believes he has been wronged and that he's in the right. And, clearly, the police officer believes what he did was standard procedure.", "Well, I think that what we have to do as the American public is we have got to distinguish between the facts that are clear and the facts that are fuzzy. There are some things that are clear. We know that he was there. We know that there was a dialogue and a back and forth, and we know what happened on the front porch. But we don't know what happened inside that house. Now, I'm not accusing Skip Gates of being a liar or anything like that. But, when you make such a strong accusation to say that this guy was racially profiling, well, you know, the officer could also say, well, maybe you were racially profiling me by saying that, because I'm a white man arresting you, I must be doing it because you're a black man in America.", "Hey, Boyce...", "So, we have got to hold -- we have got to hold diametric accountability on this. We can't just say that every white officer who arrests a black man must be racist.", "I want to continue this discussion on the other side of this commercial break.", "Sure.", "So, Roland, hold your thought for a moment. Boyce Watkins will be right back. Roland Martin will be right back as well. A lot more to cover ahead in the hour ahead. Let us know what you think. The live chat is under way right now at AC360.com. I just logged on, a lot of people logging on about this. Later, more breaking news -- the Jackson developments, and a chilling look at Michael Jackson's state of mind and body in his final days and hours. Also, that peephole video of ESPN's Erin Andrews -- new information about who might have taped it and the disturbing new world it reveals, where technology allows just about anyone to invade your privacy anywhere you go. We will be right back."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "JOHNS", "ABC. 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{"id": "CNN-98676", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2005-10-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/15/cst.01.html", "summary": "Iraqis Vote on New Referendum; Millions More Movement; U.S. Ideas On Iraq War Might Change On Outcome Of Election; Father Angry After Son Is Killed In Iraq; Pakistan Devastated One Week After Earthquake", "utt": ["The polls are closed, the counting is underway as Iraqis decide the fate of their country. We're live on what's at stake for the Iraq and U.S. Waterlogged and ready for some relief: Will the rain stop in parts of the northeast? Plus, 10 years later, the Millions More Movement makes the way to the nation's capital. We'll go there live to show you what that's all about. Welcome to CNN LIVE SATURDAY, I'm Fredericka Whitfield. A busy hour straight ahead, but first here's some other stories now in the news. Bird flu is now confirmed in Eastern Europe. It's the first time the lethal strain is known to have spread beyond Asia. The Romanian government says tests detected the virus in wild birds found dead the Danube Delta. Asian flu doesn't easily infect humans but blamed for the deaths of 60 people in Asia. Officials fear it will mutate and become more transmissible among humans. Pakistan now says at least 38,000 people died from last week weekend's earthquake in the Himalayans with another 62,000 injured. Another 1,300 reported are dead in India. The quake has prompted rare cooperation with India and Pakistan which have fought three wars since 1947. Two other hugely contentious countries, Iran and the United States also are cooperating in the relief effort. In Texarkana, Arkansas, a train derailment prompts the evacuation of hundreds of home. Police say a Union Pacific train stuck -- struck, rather, a liquid propane gas tank early this morning. It caused an explosion and left a plume of smoke over the city. Our top story on CNN LIVE SATURDAY, a historic vote overseas. Iraqis by a millions make a critical decision, voting today to either accept or reject the country's draft constitution. Either way, the outcome will have dramatic impact on the country's future. If the constitution is approved, the document will be ratified. Elections for a permanent four-year parliament will be held by December 15 and a new government will be sworn in by December 31. But if the constitution is voted down, Iraq's parliament will be dissolved. New elections would be held by December 15 for a new interim parliament. That parliament would have to write a whole new constitution within a year and present it to voters in a second referendum. The constitution will fail if two thirds of voters in three or more provinces reject it. Polling stations closed just two hours ago and security was extremely tight. Joining us live from Baghdad with details now is CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour -- Christiane.", "Yes, indeed. Vote counting is underway. And although official results aren't due for several days, we will probably get some early word of how it's going fairly soon, perhaps within the next 24 hours if last year's election is anything to go by. There was very little violence, there was a huge security clamp down, and so far, what we saw was a steady trickle of people going to the polls. All we're waiting to see now is how they voted.", "It's Iraq's second time at the polls in nine months to vote a simple question or no on a complicated constitution that could shape their lives for generations. \"We are free now after 35 years of oppression,\" says Saba Marti (ph). \"We can vote, we can talk, we can do whatever we want. We hope this vote will bring all Iraqis a better future.\" Everyone hopes for a better future in Iraq, but not everyone agrees this constitution will guarantee that. Even these sisters are divided. How did you vote?", "Yes.", "How did you vote?", "No.", "Why?", "She says she worries the constitution doesn't guarantee Iraq's Arab identity. At this polling station, Jessica voted yes.", "I hope our future of the Iraqis get the rights, special the women.", "Her mother voted yes, also, but she is worried about the article stating Islam will be the base of all legislation.", "\"Everyone should be free to worship,\" she says, \"but we want a secular government, not a religious one.\" (on camera): Key to the success of this referendum will be its popular legitimacy. In other words, whether everyone, including the minority Sunnis, believes that they're included in the process, that their interests are represented. So far, they don't. (voice-over): A last-minute deal to get Sunnis to the polls did bring them out but...", "Oh. I vote no.", "Dr. Manjad Al-Naid (ph), a Sunni, and his wife, Amira (ph) fear the constitution will rip the country apart and leave them out in the cold. (on camera): You're worried an about the country splitting?", "Yes, of course.", "Amira wants nothing to do with this document. She worries the constitution gives all the political and economic power to the majority Shiites and Kurds who sit on the country's oil wealth. One clear sign of change, this time, Iraqi security forces are manning the polling centers; ambulances on stand by just in case, and American forces on stand by, too. Colonel Ed Cardone says political development here is crucial.", "Greatest thing to help us right now the development of a legitimate local governments. The governments that are here are -- were created by the old government and they're not a lot of them -- not seen as legitimate. And so, when the elections happen, when there's a legitimate local government, that going to help us a lot with the insurgency.", "For instance, says the Colonel Cardone, he could wipe out an insurgent cell but with no local government to take its place, another one can spring back within days. And as people cast their vote this day, their highest hope is for an end in sight to the violence.", "So, many people told us they were casting a vote, yet another vote, for peace. They really are totally fed up with violence and they really want to see an end to that. As well as joining a political process that determines their future and try to get some sort of political permanent solution to the rather traditional nature to the kind of leadership they've had over the last couple of years since the war. U.S. forces here tell us and U.S. commanders say that they hope that this referendum will start to split the insurgency and split the Sunni opposition, the rejectionist camp, but they say, people shouldn't hold out hope for that insurgency to be broken any time soon.", "All right. Christiane Amanpour, thank you so much from Baghdad. Well, President Bush insists the vote in Iraq is much more than a referendum on a constitution. Today, during his weekly radio address, he compared it to battle against terrorism.", "My by casting their ballots, the Iraqi people deal a sever blow to the terrorist and send a clear message to the world. Iraqis will decide the future of their country through peaceful elections, not violent insurgency. And by their courageous example, they're chartering a new course for the entire Mideast. This weekend's election is a critical step forward in Iraq's march toward democracy and with each step the Iraqi people take, al Qaeda's vision for the region becomes more remote.", "General Wesley Clark responding for the democrats calls the vote an important political event but he says President Bush still needs to spell out to the American people exactly how he plans to bring stability to Iraq. Well, many Americans are wondering how today's vote will affect the military operation in Iraq. Specifically, if the constitution is approved, does that mean U.S. troops will come home sooner? Joining me now, CNN military analyst, retired major general, Don Shepperd, just back from Iraq. Good to see you. Before the prospects of a withdrawal of U.S. troops, let's talk about what you observed when you were there. Did you expect that this day would come, knowing the kind of climate of volatility that you experienced, that you witnessed while in Iraq?", "Yes. I expected to see the elections go off. I expected a large turnout which you're seeing. I expect and predicted that the constitution will pass. I don't know if I'm going to right on that part or not. But basically what we did on our visit there we were visited with the top commanders, United States diplomats, including the ambassador, and Iraqi diplomats, as well, and we were supposed to meet with the prime minister, didn't meet with him. We got to meet with ministers, if you will. And then we visited the Iraqi security troops, got a lot of talking done with them and also with our own troops out there.", "And you were encouraged, or at least inspired, about the Iraqi troops and whether they will indeed be able to better secure their country? Because that is what, in part, is going to determine whether there is an U.S. troop withdrawal or at least when it is.", "I was very encouraged by what I saw of the Iraqi security forces. Now, we visited the military up at the 9th Mechanized Infantry Division, which is one of their best. Extremely encouraged with what I saw there. These guys are in the fight and they are ready and they are motivated. There are varying levels of -- of good and bad within the forces as within all forces out there. But most important what I did is talk to the Americans training and imbedded with these guys. They say they are good and they're getting better and they have a great deal of confidence in them and we're going to be able turn over major portions of the cities and country, over time, starting next year, to these people.", "However, you do echo the same concerns that the Colonel Cardone reiterated there in Christiane's piece, saying that a primary concern is about the government, the stability of the government, not necessarily the stability of the Iraqi forces. What do you mean? What does he mean?", "Yes, Fredricka, just like everywhere else, war is easy. Running a country is really hard and we found that out in Iraq -- fixing everything that's wrong there. But the most important thing in Iraq that's going on is not the security forces, not even the insurgency, it's being able to elected a competent government that is not riddled with corruption that gains the confidence of the people by giving them services over time and that is a tall order in this region.", "Now, when it comes down to the insurgency there were some sporadic attempts of violence. The president, as well as the Iraqi government, said this would indeed happen. Donald Rumsfeld said it would happen leading up to the referendum vote. The insurgents want to intimidate, but it seems that the voter turnout just might be trying to send a message to the insurgency.", "Yes. This insurgency is very, very complicated. We built them as 10 feet tall, they're certainly not 10 feet tall, but a defeat for American interests there would have been if there was a low voter turnout or if the Sunnis did not vote. The fact that the Sunnis are voting and there's a very substantial turnout, this is a defeat for the insurgents. It's been a bad week for the insurgents over there.", "All right. Good old Don Shepperd, good to see you.", "Pleasure.", "And in person. All right, well, CNN Presents takes and in-depth look at what's working and what is not working in the battle to bring stability to Iraq. \"The Iraq War: Progress Report II\" airs today at 2:00 p.m. and again at 5:00 p.m. Eastern. Well, more than a week of drenching rain and many wonder will it ever let up? We'll go live to Spring Lake, New Jersey. One of the hardest hit towns. And the Millions More Movement is drawing crowds of people to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. marking the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March. 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{"id": "CNN-312491", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2017-05-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/17/cg.01.html", "summary": "White House in Chaos; Did President Trump Commit Obstruction of Justice?; Officials: Trump Will Not Push Moving Israel Embassy", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "Welcome to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. We are going to begin this afternoon with some breaking news in our money lead. You're going to look right now at live pictures as we await the closing bell on Wall Street, the Dow plunging more than 300 points today, as controversy and uncertainty continues to swirl around the Trump administration. CNN's Cristina Alesci joins me now. Cristina, what do experts say is spooking the markets?", "Well, it looks like Jim Comey's excellent record-keeping is actually what has got investors nervous today. We're down on the Dow 376 points right now. This has been declining all day, and the major indices across the board, the Dow, the S&P, the Nasdaq, we're closing right now. You're hearing the closing bell -- 369, that is quite a drop, Jake. That is a big, dramatic move. I mean, just to put this into context, though, we're still up on the year. If you look at the Dow, the S&P and Nasdaq, major indices, we're up on the S&P and Dow about 4 to 5 percent, and on the Nasdaq, we're up about 13 -- 12 -- 13 percent. I haven't done the math on these numbers that just happened. But that's the general context, so we're not in freak-out mode yet, but there is a general nervousness around the fact that President Trump may not be able to execute on this very aggressive legislative agenda that he put forth, including tax cuts. Tax reform has been top of mind with all of the CEOs that I speak to on a daily basis. They want to get their tax bill down. They say they can put that money into hiring people, into making investments, and that will in turn boost economic growth, but you saw a lot of skepticism today, especially in the financial sector, bank stocks particularly hard-hit, because people think they won't get that economic growth that the president has been and his administration has been talking -- Jake.", "All right, Cristina Alesci for us, thank you so much. President Trump spoke to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's graduating class of 2017 earlier today, where the commander in chief complained about how unfair the world and especially the media have been to him.", "No politician in history -- and I say this with great surety -- has been treated worse or more unfairly. You can't let them get you down. You can't let the critics and the naysayers get in the way of your dreams.", "Let us forget for one moment that the service members in the audience about to put their lives on the line protecting our coasts might not actually feel that bad about a politician who has been criticized in some sharply worded editorials. Let us focus instead on why the president is where he is. It is not because of anyone in particular being unfair to him or bad staffing or poor communications or an aggressive media. It's because of things the president has said and things the president has done. Case in point, former FBI Director James Comey, whom the president fired one week ago today, Comey wants to tell his story, a source close to him tells me. Comey wants you to hear it in an open, not a closed, congressional hearing. And as of now, it's not clear where wand when that might happen, though the Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Oversight Committee have invited him to do so. Comey, the source tells me, kept detailed memos, ones he wrote contemporaneously, especially of encounters with President Trump -- quote -- \"particularly the ones that made him feel uneasy,\" the source tells me. That would include a memo that Comey wrote after a February 14 meeting in the Oval Office with President Trump who, after saying goodbye to the vice president and attorney general, told Comey -- quote -- \"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go\" -- unquote, according to the memo. That's according to the source who has seen the memo. This was one day after Flynn had resigned for lying to the vice president about the content of his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. And of course it is in the midst of this FBI investigation into possible collusion. Now, the president told Comey that Flynn had not done anything wrong. And Comey became, according to the source, concerned that the president was trying to stop the investigation. The source goes on to say that Comey hopes the president's threat that he has recordings of their conversations is true. Comey would love them released. He only wrote the memos to corroborate these uneasy situations with the president, but the source says, tapes would be even better. House Speaker Paul Ryan today said that Congress needs the facts, but also had a question for Director Comey.", "It is obvious there are some people out there who want to harm the president, but we have an obligation to carry out our oversight regardless of which party is in the White House. And I'm sure we're going to go on to hear from Mr. Comey about why, if this happens as he allegedly describes, why he didn't take action at the time.", "I asked the source close to Comey, why did he not take action at the time after the president asked him to let the Flynn investigation go? The source said -- quote -- \"Because it wasn't a very successful effort by the president and Comey thought he had pushed back on it. Living with this president is about standing up and pushing back. Comey was very sensitive to how difficult this was going to be to work with this president. He also thought he could do it\" -- unquote. At the same Coast Guard event today, President Trump was given a ceremonial saber and Homeland Security Chief John Kelly was caught on open mike recommending its best use.", "Use that on the press, sir.", "\"Use that on the press,\" Kelly said. I might recommend that anyone be careful when using a saber like that one, especially anyone who has a propensity for self-inflicted wounds. For more on this fast-moving story, CNN's Jessica Schneider joins me now live. And, Jessica, it does look as though we all may be hearing from Director Comey directly in pretty short order.", "Yes. You know, Jake, lawmakers are clamoring to get James Comey on Capitol Hill to speak publicly in an open hearing. And if James Comey accepts the invitations, we could hear from the fired FBI director as soon as next week.", "Sources tell CNN the former FBI director documented his February 14 meeting with President Trump detailing the president's plea this way: \"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He's a good guy. I hope you can let this go.\" The president's alleged request to shut down the investigation of Michael Flynn came just one day after General Flynn was fired as national security adviser, and sources say Comey documented several of his interactions with the president, particularly the ones that made Comey uneasy. It is well-known inside the Justice Department that Comey had a penchant for keeping records. E-mails leaked to \"The New York Times\" in 2009 show Comey wrote to then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales four years earlier arguing that torture tactics were a bad idea and that Justice officials would regret being pushed by the George W. Bush White House to approve them. Last week, when President Trump suggested there might be tapes of his January 27 meeting with James Comey, the former communications director for Obama Attorney General Eric Holder tweeted this: \"One thing I learned at the DOJ about Comey, he leaves a protective paper trail whenever he deems something inappropriate happened. Stay tuned.\" Now lawmakers want to see what Comey wrote down. Republican and Democratic leaders on the Senate Judiciary Committee are formally asking the FBI to provide all memos relating to Comey's interactions with his superiors in both the Trump and Obama administrations. Plus, they want White House counsel Don McGahn to hand over all White House records that show when Comey discussed either the Russia investigation or the Clinton e-mail server investigation with administration officials or the president himself. The Senate Intelligence Committee is also joining those calls for documents and asking Comey to testify publicly.", "I think we're going to have to take this sequentially. Let's see if the memos exist. Let's see if they are accurate. Let's hear the testimony from former Director Comey. He deserves to tell his story to the American people.", "House Oversight Chair Jason Chaffetz tweeted this afternoon that he wants Comey to testify next Wednesday. The last time Comey went before Congress earlier this month, he was specifically asked about interference from the Trump administration.", "Would you tell this committee if there is a lack of cooperation on the part of the White House?", "I won't commit to that.", "Now questions are emerging about whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy A.G. Rod Rosenstein knew about Comey's memos when they recommended firing the FBI director. Rosenstein is scheduled to brief senators behind closed doors tomorrow.", "And the president is meeting with four FBI director candidates this afternoon at the White House. On that list, the former Democrat-turned-independent-Senator-from- Connecticut Joe Lieberman and two other names that haven't been mentioned before today, Frank Keating, the former Republican governor of Oklahoma, also a former FBI agent, and Robert McFeely, a career FBI agent who once led the criminal and cyber-branch and retired in 2014. The president will also meet today with Andrew McCabe, who is currently acting director of the FBI. And, Jake, we do know that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has in fact spoken with all four of these candidates -- Jake.", "All right, Jessica Schneider, thank you so much. The White House just breaking their silence on the reported Comey memo for the first time. What did Sean Spicer have to say about what Comey claims in that memo? That's next."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR", "CRISTINA ALESCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "TAPPER", "REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "TAPPER", "JOHN KELLY, U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY", "TAPPER", "JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SCHNEIDER (voice-over)", "SEN. MARK WARNER (D), VIRGINIA", "SCHNEIDER", "SEN. RICHARD BLUMENTHAL (D), CONNECTICUT", "JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR", "SCHNEIDER", "SCHNEIDER", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-95379", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2005-6-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/16/lad.04.html", "summary": "Casualty Numbers Climbing in Iraq; Memogate Comes to Washington", "utt": ["It is Thursday, June 16. The casualty numbers are climbing. President Bush is shifting strategies and Democrats in Washington want to know how far in advance the war in Iraq was planned. The Downing Street memo has already made the rounds in Britain. Today, Memogate comes to Washington. Plus, is the huge tobacco trial settlement up in smoke? We could find out today. And later, was this unnecessary force? See the beating caught on tape that caused two police officers their jobs.", "From the Time Warner Center in New York, this is DAYBREAK with Carol Costello and Chad Myers.", "And good morning to you. We'll have more on those stories in a moment. Also ahead, the search of a judge's house in Aruba -- did it reveal any clues to Natalee Holloway's whereabouts? And what could have happened to Harry is the question being asked in Britain, as new tape of a royal security breach surfaces. But first, now in the news, in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, five U.S. Marines have been killed by a roadside bomb. The Marines, with the 2nd Division, were involved in a combat operation. In a separate incident, a U.S. sailor with the same Marine division also was killed in Ramadi. A car bomb goes off in the Iraqi capital, wounding six people. Five of them were Iraqi police on patrol. A police captain says the car was parked on a street and detonated by remote control. A six hour hostage crisis at an international school in Cambodia ends with at least one child dead. Two of the gunmen also killed. The end came as police rushed a van that had been delivered to the hostage takers. In Houston, Texas and surrounding counties, it has been a long night without power, a long hot night. Authorities are trying to determine if several house fires are related to the power outage. When power was partially restored, the surge caused sparks to fly, so to speak. And that's because, Chad, everybody had their air conditioner on.", "Right. Hoping for it to come back on.", "Right.", "The surge came and took it all out again. Yes, so, you've got to turn all that stuff off, although me telling them to turn it off doesn't do any good, because they can't see us.", "Exactly.", "So, you know, this is kind of a Catch-22.", "Battling identity theft is the focus of a Senate committee this morning. Senators will look at ways to prevent the stealing of data that costs you billions of dollars. A survey by a technology trade group shows many of you do not shop online because you fear identity theft. So, are you concerned about the government snooping into what you read? The U.S. House of Representatives is. It's voted to restrict federal investigators from using the Patriot Act to look at library records and bookstore sales receipts. President Bush has indicated he will veto the bill if Congress changes Section 215. A six day sweep in New England has netted nearly 200 illegal immigrants. The immigrants were supposed to have been deported for committing crimes, but had managed to avoid authorities. The number of such arrests could increase because the government is doubling the number of fugitive apprehension teams this summer. Is the Guantanamo Bay prison camp an international embarrassment or a vital part of the war on terror? That was pretty much the tone of discussion when a Senate committee debated that hot button issue. Republicans stuck to their position that detainees are well treated. Democrats rejected that, saying allegations of mistreatment have hurt the nation's image. The committee chair said both sides must be considered.", "While procedural due process is obviously important, we ought to be as sure as we can what steps are being taken so that we do not release detainees from Guantanamo who turn up on battlefields killing Americans. And what's the value of a promise not to bear arms against the United States?", "In the meantime, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin says he is not going to apologize for comparing the actions of U.S. soldiers at Guantanamo with Nazis, Soviet gulags and a mad regime like the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. President Bush plans to address how things are not going in Iraq. Looking at all time low poll numbers, White House aides have concluded an erosion of public support for the war. Bush will meet with the Iraqi prime minister for the first time next week, as well as focus on Iraq in several upcoming speeches. Which brings up Memogate. In Washington, House Democrats initiate hearings on allegations that intelligence was manipulated to justify the war in Iraq. The memo in question was prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The \"London Sunday Times\" published the leaked minutes of a July 2002 meeting in Blair's office. That's eight months before the war in Iraq. Here's an excerpt: \"Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.\" Walter Rodgers picks up the Memogate story -- Walter, what has been the reaction to the so-called Downing Street memo in Great Britain?", "Carol, one of the most interesting aspects about this memo is that no one, no one at Downing Street -- that is Prime Minister Blair's office -- no one in the British government is questioning the authenticity of it. The memo, among other things, says that the evidence against Saddam Hussein, both on alleged terrorism ties and on alleged weapons of mass destruction was \"thin.\" Now, the background for all of this is that Britain's top intelligence officer in July of 2002 went to the United States to meet with his American counterparts. And he -- Sir Richard Dearlove -- and he returned and essentially told the British government -- and that means Prime Minister Tony Blair, and that's the origin of this memo -- that the Americans had already decided to go to war and that President Bush may have been denying publicly that he was going to take the United States to war against Iraq, but privately it was the British intelligence estimate that the Bush administration's decision to go to war was inevitable and that was three months before the Congress authorized it -- Carol.", "How did this memo surface?", "I really don't know the trail as to how it became public. But, again, the most interesting thing about this memo is that it is out there. Not even Number Ten Downing Street is saying this is a fake memo or it's false. Everyone here accepts the voracity of the memo. And that is not good news, of course, for the administration in Washington. There are more than a few very interesting aspects of this. And one of them, which reflects on the Blair government, is that at one point in the discussions going into Iraq, the Blair government, Prime Minister Blair was told that the evidence against Saddam was thin and that they could not legally go to war on the basis of just regime change, that is, ousting Saddam Hussein, and thus the Blair government decided well, the conditions have to be created to justify the war and make it legal. And, of course, that's one of the great sticking points here in Britain, because the large majority of British subjects in this country have long believed this war was illegal and that, indeed, as the memo suggests, the policy created by the Bush administration drove intelligence reports as opposed to intelligence driving policy, which is the way things are supposed to work -- Carol.", "Interesting. Walter Rodgers live in London this morning. The American government's case against big tobacco is closed, but the controversy surrounding last minute changes to the case will continue. Democrats are asking for investigations and say that any planned settlement should be scuttled. CNN chief national correspondent, John King, has more for you.", "Democrats and anti- smoking crusaders charge politics is behind the Justice Department's decision to drastically slash the dollar amount it's seeking from big tobacco.", "It reeks. And it reeks of political interference. It reeks of an administration whose heart isn't really in this case.", "Sparking the outrage, a stunning twist in the government's landmark racketeering case against the tobacco industry. The prosecution's charge? For 50 years, cigarette makers conspired to get Americans hooked on nicotine, jeopardizing countless lives by deliberately withholding information about the dangers of smoking. The suit was filed during the Clinton administration, with Justice Department lawyers demanding a $280 billion payout, punishment, they said, for profits obtained through the alleged fraud. But in February, an appeals court ruled the government couldn't penalize the tobacco industry for past profits. So the focus shifted to getting the companies to fund future anti-smoking initiatives. A government expert witness estimated those programs would carry a $130 billion price tag. And that's what the Justice Department was seeking when, without warning, it scaled back its request to just $10 billion. Tobacco industry lawyers voiced confusion; anti-smoking advocates disbelief and skepticism, accusing the Bush Justice Department of going easy on the tobacco industry.", "The Bush administration and the Bush Justice Department is way too close to the tobacco industry. I don't have any proof that they've made these decisions because of campaign contributions, but they have a long history of opposing this lawsuit and it is inexplicable that they would undermine their own expert witness at the last minute.", "Justice Department officials argued the diminished reward request reflects the appellate court ruling that sanctions apply only to future cases of fraud by big tobacco. The $10 billion figure, they say, is just a jumping off point, an initial requirement based on the compelling evidence that the defendants will continue to commit fraudulent acts in the future. They add that all department lawyers involved with previous tobacco cases were recused from this case. But that doesn't appease critics, who strongly denounced the about face. Their hope now lies with the judge in the case, who can award any amount she sees fit if she finds the tobacco industry liable at all.", "There is no timetable for the judge's decision. In the meantime, the Justice Department says they'll investigate interference accusations brought by Democrats. An autopsy finally offers some answers about Terry Schiavo's sudden collapse 15 years ago. But some questions do remain. The coroner's report says Schiavo suffered heart failure. But the precise cause could not be determined. It also said she had massive brain atrophy and that no amount of therapy would have reversed it, and the vision centers of her brain were dead. That means she was blind. Schiavo's family says they don't know if that's entirely true.", "We would not dispute that she was significantly visually impaired. I don't think that she was totally blind. If she was totally blind -- and, again, they in their report believe that medically it would look that way -- I would indicate that she had an amazing sense of hearing, smell and sense, because she was clearly interactive and would clearly respond.", "Terry Schiavo's body was cremated after the autopsy, but her ashes have not yet been interred. Still to come this hour, a police chase ends with a scuffle caught on tape. See what -- well, you can see what cost two cops their jobs. And soldiers discharged from the U.S. Army. A new lawsuit brings back the old controversy of gays in the military. I'll talk to one of the attorneys involved in the latest case. And then some airlines are offering more than just a ticket online. But do you really need to buy their travel insurance, too? But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Tuesday."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "ANNOUNCER", "COSTELLO", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "COSTELLO", "MYERS", "COSTELLO", "MYERS", "COSTELLO", "SEN. ARLEN SPECTER (R-PA), JUDICIARY COMMITTEE", "COSTELLO", "WALTER RODGERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "RODGERS", "COSTELLO", "JOHN KING, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SEN. FRANK LAUTENBERG (D), NEW JERSEY", "KING", "BILL CORR, TOBACCO-FREE KIDS CAMPAIGN", "KING", "COSTELLO", "DAVID GIBBS, SCHINDLERS' ATTORNEY", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-101537", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2006-1-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/09/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Cheney Hospitalized; Baby Noor Surgery", "utt": ["Breaking news this morning. Vice President Dick Cheney in the hospital. Just about 30 minutes ago, we learned he had been taken there after experiencing shortness of breath. More on this in just a moment. A big day for baby Noor. The little Iraqi girl is set to undergo surgery here in the U.S. We'll have a live report. And the lobbyist scandal in Washington has many in Congress checking their finances. But should President Bush be worried? We'll take a look at that.", "You're watching AMERICAN MORNING with Soledad O'Brien and Miles O'Brien.", "Good morning. Welcome, everybody.", "It's Monday. Did you have a good weekend?", "I had a great weekend. How about you?", "A little skiing.", "Yes, me too.", "Snowboarding for the kids. They are black and blue. But they were laughing the whole time. So, it must be good.", "I never see snowboarders actually go down. I just see them fall down. That's it.", "Yes, pretty much it's a weavel (ph) kind of thing. We have some important news to tell you about this morning, breaking news. We just learned that Vice President Dick Cheney was taken to George Washington University Hospital in Washington this morning. He has a history, of course, of heart problems, as you know. He is experiencing shortness of breath. Elaine Quijano is on the phone with us now. Elaine, this appears to be unrelated, however, to his cardiac condition, right?", "That's exactly right. According to the information that we've been given by Leon McBride (ph), who is with the vice president's office. She says around 3:00 a.m. this morning the vice president went to George Washington University Hospital, as you mentioned, experiencing shortness of breath at the time. His doctors found that an EKG of his was unchanged, however, and they determined that he was retaining fluid as a result of anti-inflammatory medication that he had been taking for a foot problem. Now, we're told that they have placed him on a diuretic, and he is expected to return home later today. Now, of course, it was last week -- in fact, last Friday -- that we saw the vice president walking with a cane. And at that time the vice president's office said that was because of an old injury involving his Achilles heel. Now, the vice president's office said at the time that his left foot was being treated with anti-inflammatory medicine. And this morning, again, we are learning at 3:00 a.m. this morning the vice president went to George Washington University Hospital, apparently retaining fluid as a result of anti-inflammatory medication -- Miles.", "Elaine, what do we know about this old injury?", "We are told that apparently the foot problem was an osteoarthritis flare-up, something that he has had, a condition that acts up from time to time, we are told. It stiffens up. Usually it goes away after a day or two. So, it's a recurring condition. And that is why he was walking around with the cane. Again, at this point, although the vice president has had a history of heart trouble, it appears to be unrelated at this time.", "Elaine Quijano on the line with us from Washington as we follow the vice president in the hospital this morning. We'll keep you posted on his condition. As we get more information we'll bring it to you -- Soledad.", "Now to this remarkable story of baby Noor, the Iraqi infant who was born with a severe form of spina bifida. Well, doctors in Atlanta this morning are going to attempt to perform life-saving surgery on the baby. Let's get right to CNN's David Mattingly. He's in Atlanta this morning. Hey, David, good morning.", "Good morning, Soledad. The incredible journey for this little baby continues. It was just a little over a month ago that Iraqi doctors were giving baby Noor just 45 days to live. That was because they were not able to treat the severe form of spina bifida that she was born with. Well, she's in the United States now, and that is about to change for her here at an Atlanta hospital.", "Her name is the Arabic word for light. And even her doctors say they have been touched by the bright eyes and beaming smiles of tiny baby Noor. But they are now counting on that energy to bring the 3-month-old Iraqi through a series of surgeries needed to save her life. A severe type of the birth defect spina bifida left a portion of the child's spinal cord curled outward and exposed in a fluid-filled sac protruding from her back. Doctors will have to drain the fluid, cut a circular opening to reposition the spinal cord and then close the hole in her lower back.", "Once we take that sac off we're going to be left with a relatively large hole in the skin. We're going to close that with the help of a pediatric plastic surgeon.", "Neurosurgeon Roger Hudgins says baby Noor's condition is more complicated than most. The growth on her back is almost twice as large as he usually sees, and a layer of skin has grown over it. That skin has helped protect her from life-threatening infection, but it also makes surgery more difficult.", "First, from a technical standpoint, the first thing that we do in a surgery like this is find the spinal cord. Usually that's very easy, because it's right there on the surface and you know where you can and you can't go. In this situation, and looking at her large sac, I don't see the spinal cord, again, because it's covered with skin that's grown in.", "At the time she was discovered in her Iraqi home by members of the Georgia National Guard, doctors there had given baby Noor a month-and-a-half to live. The remarkable humanitarian effort to bring her to Atlanta for treatment is expected to save her life. But the life she will have will be far from normal. (on camera): Will she ever be able to walk?", "I don't think so at this point.", "A lack of response in her legs suggests permanent damage. Doctors also worry about a build-up of fluid on her brain, seen here in the dark areas of a CAT scan. A tube will likely be permanently inserted into her brain to siphon off the excess fluid. Other surgeries may also be necessary to address drainage problems with her bladder.", "All right. We're all watching it. David Mattingly for us this morning. David, thanks. Other stories making news. Carol has got that. Good morning again.", "Good morning. Good morning to all of you. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is starting to breathe on his own, a sign he is coming out of a medically-induced coma. Doctors announcing earlier today that they're lowering his sedatives. The prime minister has been in the hospital since Wednesday when he suffered a major stroke. Doctors say his condition is still critical. But a brain scan from Sunday shows improvement and his vital signs look good this morning. Randy McCloy, Jr., the lone survivor of the coal mine accident in West Virginia, could open his eyes soon. Doctors say the sedatives are starting to wear off, and he could come out of a medically-induced coma within the next couple of days. In the meantime, more funeral services are set for today in honor of the 12 miners who died. West Virginia's governor is holding a news conference later this morning. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito heading to the White House in the next hour. Judge Alito will join President Bush for breakfast before facing the Senate Judiciary Committee for his first confirmation hearing. CNN will have live coverage of that hearing. Join Wolf Blitzer for an extended edition of \"THE SITUATION ROOM.\" That begins at noon Eastern. And the bird flu may be spreading in Turkey. Health officials confirm five new cases of the deadly strain. Three children there died from the virus last week. A team from the World Health Organization is on the scene. Fourteen people in Turkey are now confirmed with the bird flu. Let's head to the forecast center in Atlanta to check in with Chad. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. It's so nice to see you're back.", "Thank you so much.", "Where were you?", "It's so much to see you're back on AMERICAN MORNING. Where have you been?", "I've been playing Mr. Mom. But my wife wanted her job back. So...", "Yes, and I bet you did too.", "Yes, I did actually.", "Nice temperatures. It's absolutely warm out there.", "Yes. And balmy as they say.", "Yes.", "Coming up, dare we say the \"R\" word? Are we heading to a recession? Andy is \"Minding Your Business.\"", "And then coming up after that, a series of political scandals on Capitol Hill. Will more big names be brought down? We're going to take a look just ahead as we continue on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "ANNOUNCER", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. 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{"id": "CNN-235490", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2014-07-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/28/es.02.html", "summary": "U.N. Urges Ceasefire; Russia Denies Involvement in Ukraine; Russian Economy Suffers", "utt": ["Breaking news overnight: the United Nations urging Israel and Hamas to stop the violence, calling for an immediate cease-fire at an emergency midnight meeting. This, as the blame game continues over who is responsible for an attack on a Gaza school. We are live in Jerusalem with those breaking developments.", "Also breaking news this morning. Russia firing back at accusations that it has been arming rebels in Ukraine and it might be in any way culpable for Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 going down. This, as fighting rages between separatists and Ukrainian military near the crash site. There is new hope this morning, though, that investigators will be given access to the scene. We have live team coverage just ahead. Welcome back to EARLY START. I'm John Berman.", "And I'm Poppy Harlow, in today for Christine Romans. It is 30 minutes past 4:00 a.m. here on the East Coats. We welcome all of our viewers both here in the United States and around the world. And we begin with this, breaking overnight -- fighting overnight continuing despite the humanitarian cease-fire. Hamas launching dozens at Israel Sunday. The Israelis conducting 40 separates attacks on Hamas. Meanwhile, officials in Jerusalem are denying responsibility for 16 deaths last week at a U.N. school in Gaza, although they are confirming there was an errant Israeli mortar that struck the courtyard, but say it was empty at the time. I want to bring in Martin Savidge with the latest from Jerusalem. Martin, first, let's talk about the information on the ground. There may have been talk, in a sense that there may have been a lull in the fighting between the two sides. Do you get that sense at this hour or not? It is persisting as heavily as it was in previous days?", "Yes, good morning, Poppy. I wish I had better news for you. But no, it appears the conflict is continuing on the part of both sides, Israel and Hamas. You know, there were indications yesterday that we might be inching to some sort of humanitarian pause, is the word that people have used. The Israeli cabinet, Saturday night into Sunday, have voted in favor of that, but Hamas rejected it firing rockets and mortars into Israel. And then, about 12 hours later, it was Hamas that said it was not ready to declare this 24 hours of temporary halt to violence. Israel did not find that to be a genuine offer and, in fact, it wasn't apparently because Hamas continued to strike Israel, 74 hit yesterday. Meanwhile, the terrible death toll continues to climb in Gaza. There are over 1,032 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict. So, unfortunately, it continues to grind on, despite outside of Israel and Gaza -- all this talk of trying to arrange a cease-fire, Poppy.", "And, Martin, if we could briefly talk about what Israel has come out in the last 24 hours, yesterday, coming out and saying, yes, indeed, an errant mortar did hit the courtyard of the school in Gaza used as a shelter. To say no one was in the courtyard at that time. So, there's a lot of discrepancy of who is responsible for the 16 deaths we saw there and many more injuries. What else do we know about that?", "Yes, this was the most detailed explanation Israel has given so far as to what happened on last Thursday, and it was horrendous. There had been many in Gaza, but this one stood up particularly because, as you say, it was a U.N. school. It was a place where thousands of people thought they would be safe because it was the U.N. Unfortunately, it turns out that Israel says it received missile fire on some of its troops from the vicinity of the school. It responded with mortar fire. One shell landed in the courtyard of the school. They released video from a drone flying high overhead. Hard to see clearly, but they say the imagery show the courtyard was empty. Thereby, they can't explain the deaths and so many wounded. We should point out, people at that time of day, the heat of the day would not be in the courtyard with the sun is, they more likely to be on the periphery to be in the shade, and the camera doesn't show them there. So, it is a back and forth. You're right, Poppy.", "Appreciate the update. Thank you, Martin.", "Thirty-three minutes after the hour, moving now to the crisis in Ukraine. The U.S. releasing satellite photo showing the Russian forces apparently firing across the Ukraine border in support of the rebels there. This would back the claims that Russia is directly involved in that conflict. Russia's foreign minister telling Secretary of State John Kerry is not contributing to the conflict, or responsible for the downing of Flight 17. The foreign secretary just held a news conference moments ago and reiterated those claims. Diana Magnay has details live from Moscow. Good morning, Diana.", "Yes, that's right. He repeatedly the claims that Russia does not have anything to do with supplying weapons for example to the separatists in eastern Ukraine and really outlining a position whereby the Russian side is following the part of reason and internationally agreed, diplomatically to try and resolve the conflict in the east of Ukraine. It was Kiev and the West that had consistently refused to bring the warring parties together at the negotiating table so they can sit down and talk to try to resolve the crisis in a peaceful fashion. As for the accusation that Russia is supplying weapons across the border to the rebels in the east, he didn't actually deny it outright. He said we invited OSCE monitors, monitors for the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, who have been active through this conflict, trying to assess what is going on, on the ground. We invited them to two border check points between Russia and Ukraine so they can see for themselves the situation there. That was two weeks ago and they still haven't come. So, in the telephone call with the U.S. secretary of state, Sergey Lavrov said that he hoped John Kerry would ask his subordinates, presumably the government in Kiev, not to hinder the work of OSCE and waive doubts to supplying militants in the east with weaponry. So, the position Russia is taking is still that it is in the position of right and reason, that there are thousands of refugees crossing from east Ukraine seeking refuge as a result of this crisis. That as for Russian shelling Ukrainian positions, he's said look at the shelling we experienced from our side with Ukrainians firing shells across the Russian border into Russia. So, it really is a very, very different picture from the one you will hear from U.S. State Department briefing.", "Not us, it's them, he says. The war of words continuing with the overnight news conference. Diana Magnay in Moscow, thanks so much.", "All right. Now, this update: a team of Australian and Dutch investigators on its way, as we speak, to the crash site of Flight 17. This is going on as Ukrainian forces launch a new offensive against pro-Russian rebels in that area. We have our Nick Paton Walsh, who's on the phone. He's on his way to that site, which is about an hour and a half outside of Donetsk. He joins us by phone. Nick, I know that OSCE monitors, those international monitors, have said in the last 24 hours they have struck some sort of agreement with both sides. They are hoping for access with the territory because they didn't get it yesterday because of the fighting. What are the Dutch and Australian investigators on the ground expected to be able to accomplish today?", "We have traveled with them", "Absolutely. Nick, you, your team, stay safe as you go with them. We appreciate the update. We'll get back with you later in the show as you get closer and to the crash site. Nick Paton Walsh, thank you so much. Right now to this. Here in the United States, there is a deal in Washington to try to fix the veteran's affair health system. Lawmakers from the House and Senate scheduled to meet details for veteran that is waited too long to get necessary treatment. This measure is expected to pay for visits to other, private doctors. We are told billions of dollars will be earmarked to hire new doctors or to treat the veterans that need so much help.", "Just days left for lawmakers to act regarding the crisis at the border, before Congress takes summer vacation, its recess. President Obama has requested nearly $4 billion in emergency funds. He will not get that much. Republicans, Michele Bachmann and Steven King spent the weekend at the border, condemning the way the president is handling the crisis. There are donations are pouring in to help the tens of thousands of children who are fleeing their countries in fear for their lives.", "These are our brothers and sisters who are suffering and many of whom are not being welcomed.", "National Guards troops sent in to secure the border do not have the right to make arrests. This is because they were deployed by Texas Governor Rick Perry, not federal officials. The governor can give them powers to make arrests, but insiders say he most likely will not.", "All right. Time now for an EARLY START on your money this Monday morning. European stocks are currently mixed in midday trading. In Asia, the stocks ended the day higher. In the U.S., futures are pointing lower this Friday morning after a lower close -- this Monday morning after a lower close on Friday. Also this, when you look at Wall Street investors, we have a ton of corporate earnings coming up. Also, some important readings on second quarter GDP and also on Friday, the July jobs report. So, really, a big week ahead. Both the U.S. and European Union are expected to announce tougher sanctions against Russia. That will come at a price. Take a look at this map. This shows trade relations between a number of countries. Further penalties hurt all three economies considering how tightly Europe is linked to Russia, especially energy-wise. The E.U. is Russia's largest trading partner and Russia is the E.U.'s third largest trading partner on the other side. German leaders warned over the weekend that coming sanctions could cost jobs in Germany alone. About 300,000 jobs directly depend on Russian exports. We'll see what transpires there.", "Other business news, Sarah Palin launching her own Internet channel. The subscription-based network promises direct access to the former vice president nominee and her supporters. This access will cost you about $9.95 a month of $99.95 for the year. The programming will include commentary on important issues and behind-the scenes look at Sarah Palin's life as a wife, mother, grandmother and just plain --", "Interesting business to see how many people are going to follow her footsteps.", "Indeed. She had a lot of followers on Facebook, a lot of followers on Twitter. A lot of people who hang on her every word. A lot of critics, too.", "People that like and don't like her may pay --", "May pay, exactly.", "All right. Well, a walk on the beach ending in absolute tragedy. A father and daughter not able to escape a small plane crashing from the sky. We're going to tell you the latest developments on that, straight ahead."], "speaker": ["POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "SAVIDGE", "HARLOW", "BERMAN", "DIANA MAGNAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "HARLOW", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (via telephone)", "HARLOW", "BERMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BERMAN", "HARLOW", "BERMAN", "HARLOW", "BERMAN", "HARLOW", "BERMAN", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-280538", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-04-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/04/cnr.17.html", "summary": "California Tech Company Behind ShotSpotter.", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. the tech world is joining the fight against gun violence in America. ShotSpotter listens for gunshots to try and direct police to crime scenes faster than a 911 call. Our Samuel Burke visited a police department in New Jersey to see how they are putting the technology to use.", "Gunshots in one of America's most dangerous cities: Camden, New Jersey. Within seconds, and without even a call to 911, the police know exactly where the shooting happened.", "The way it works is you have microphones throughout the entire city. They pick up on sounds of gunfire, and not a matter of hours or minutes but even seconds it will take that sound and triangulate it and send it to main system ShotSpotter, come back with a location and even give us a difference whether it was an actual gunshot or even a firecracker.", "And it's telling you all of that right here, in your car?", "We saw that information real-time and we are directed to, not within miles or blocks, but, you know, a matter of feet.", "California company, ShotSpotter, is placing its listening devices on rooftops and light posts in high crime neighborhoods. It wouldn't show us the microphones, hoping to keep people from finding them and disabling them. To be effective in the city how many of them do you need dispatched?", "We deploy (inaudible) rays of 15 to 20 sensors per square mile, depending on the environment that we're in.", "How can your system hear the difference between a gunshot and a car backfiring?", "We have trained human experts there, listening to these particular events and confirming that they are gunshots. Although, our machine algorithms are really, really good, they are not perfect. We know that humans, even though they're not perfect either, they are better than the machine. So we think it's a small price to pay, in terms of time. You're talking about 15, 20 seconds to make sure we're not pushing over false positives because that's a bit of a deal killer.", "With microphones listening in on a city 24/7, many police departments now realize just how much gunfire has gone unreported.", "Before, the community wasn't calling and telling us about the overwhelming majority of gunshots that occurred; but now, even when people were calling in, many times we were responding to the scene quicker than they were even getting the phone call into us.", "Some people worry about this technology. Okay, so it's telling you where crime is happening but has it actually changed the crime levels and brought them down, do you think?", "When you look where we initially started with ShotSpotter, the first square mile we utilized, it was, statistically, probably the most challenged square mile in the United States of America. We've been able to significantly drive down gun violence within that neighborhood. Now ShotSpotter has been a piece of a puzzle along with Community Policing efforts.", "What about privacy, when you start talking about listening devices in the lights it does make people fearful about Big Brother?", "As opposed to video surveillance, which, you know, looks at everything, even if nothing is going bad and then retaining that data for a long time. If you think about what we do, we're acoustic only. We're acoustic 30 feet up in the air. We do all manner of things to our sensors to essentially baffle ambient noise and pull out, you know, impulsive noise. We only keep the gunshot data, you know, the two seconds before and the four seconds after. Everything else gets thrown out.", "These systems are not cheap. ShotSpotter charges as much as $100,000 a year, per square mile of coverage. 90 cities across the U.S. are trying out the service now. For Camden, the fees are worth it; using technology to try and transform modern day policing. Samuel Burke, CNN Money, New York", "Fascinating report there. Well, thank you for watching \"CNN NEWSROOM\" live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay. \"World Sport\" is up next. You're watching CNN."], "speaker": ["SESAY", "SAMUEL BURKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (off camera)", "GABRIEL CAMACHO, CAPTAIN, CAMDEN COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT", "BURKE", "CAMACHO", "BURKE (off camera)", "RALPH CLARK, CEO, SHOTSPOTTER", "BURKE", "CLARK", "BURKE (off camera)", "J. SCOTT THOMSON, CHIEF OF POLICE, CAMDEN COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT", "BURKE", "THOMSON", "BURKE", "CLARK", "BURKE (off camera)", "SESAY"]}
{"id": "CNN-275473", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-02-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/02/es.01.html", "summary": "Ted Cruz Wins Iowa in Record Turnout", "utt": ["We got more evidence tonight, the Democratic party is moving left in pretty dramatic ways and this is going to be an issue for party for years to come, especially with young voters, who are challenging even what has been considered liberal policies. That will be a challenge for Hillary Clinton and the next Democratic president.", "A lot to watch for. I thank you all of you for joining us. Don't go anywhere. Our special live coverage continues right now with John Berman and Poppy Harlow.", "Hello, everyone. Welcome to a special \"it's not over\" edition of EARLY START. I'm John Berman.", "And I'm Poppy Harlow. Good morning to all of you. It is Tuesday, February 2nd. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. What a night.", "The breaking news is this, it is not over. It is 2:00 a.m. on the east coast, and the race for the Democrats is still too close to call, if you can believe it. We are still waiting for results from a few outstanding precincts. Those votes still being counted, still being searched for, frankly. As you can see from the tally right there, it's the tiniest razor-thin lead. A virtual tie between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.", "When you look at the Republican side, for the GOP, a blockbuster night as far as voter turnout. You saw the lines heading into the caucusing. Well, look what happened. As we see, Ted Cruz declaring victory, beating Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, no question. It's been a night of big surprises on the Republican side. Perhaps the biggest surprise of the night, though, is just how much we saw the Rubio surge play out. Now he's headed to New Hampshire, all eyes turn to New Hampshire. A lot to get through.", "I want to bring in Chris Moody, CNN Politics senior digital correspondent. He is in Des Moines. Chris, let's start with this bizarro world we are in at 2:01 a.m. on the east coast where the Democratic race isn't over. Explain to me what's happening right now.", "You couldn't have asked for a more exciting caucus night in Iowa on both the Democratic and Republican sides. If you talked to anyone several months ago, they would have said this is Hillary Clinton's year. She'll run away with this. Maybe she'll get a little bit of attention here from other candidates but not much competition. But that is not the case here in Iowa. Bernie Sanders virtually tied with her tonight. Surprising, not a lot of people that were watching this close recently, but certainly a couple of months ago. After the caucus results were rolling in, all of the candidates gave speeches. Let's listen to what Bernie Sanders had to say.", "Do you have details on the outstanding precincts and where the votes are and what they are doing to get them?", "It's just a couple of precincts that aren't reporting but it will come out a tie as far as the narrative of what people are saying about the Iowa caucuses. Here it's all about the expectation in Iowa. And the expectation for Hillary Clinton was high, that she would do very well. So Bernie comes out an expectation winner on a night like this because he has tied the person who is supposed to be the front- runner.", "It's interesting. We heard the head of the Republican Party in Iowa saying over the weekend this was about a lot more than just who came in first. This was about who could exceed expectations. By all accounts, that was Marco Rubio tonight. He gave a very powerful, fired up speech. Also we heard from Ted Cruz. What stood out to you most from what Ted Cruz, the winner, said tonight?", "Well, Ted Cruz has solidified himself as somebody who's going to be formidable coming up in the next few weeks and months. For so long before, it looked like that Donald Trump was going to be the person that we were all going to watch out for. Of course, he still has a lot of power going forward. But by Ted Cruz taking it by so many thousands of votes ahead of Donald Trump, he really came out on top. Also, Marco Rubio, of course, giving a stronger showing than anyone really expected. Not just in third place, but right behind Donald Trump, who was really -- a lot of people said was supposed to take first place. Let's listen to Ted Cruz and what he said.", "Tonight, thanks to the incredible hard work of everyone gathered here, of courageous conservatives across this state, we together earned the votes of 48,608 Iowans.", "To put it in perspective, your incredible victory that you have won tonight, that is the most votes ever cast for any Republican primary winner.", "Now I think that people are going to point to missteps along the way that Donald Trump had in the past. For example, here in October, listen to what he said about Iowans last year.", "Now if I lose Iowa, I will never speak to you people again. That I can tell you.", "He also said how stupid could Iowans be. Now he certainly has changed his tone tonight. Take in something we don't see a lot tonight with Donald Trump, and that's humility. Listen to what he told Iowans tonight after taking second place.", "We finished second, and I want to tell you something, I'm just honored. I'm really honored. And I want to congratulate Ted, and I want to congratulate all of the incredible candidates, including Mike Huckabee, who has become a really good friend of mine. So congratulations to everybody. Thank you. You're special. We will be --", "Certainly, a tough night for Donald Trump, somebody whose entire brand is about winning. And here he comes in second place. So he'll have to roar into New Hampshire to really have a strong showing going forward.", "All right, Chris. Chris Moody for us in Des Moines. The results again, Ted Cruz winning on the Republican side. Donald Trump in second. Marco Rubio in third. On the Democratic side, we don't know.", "We still don't know.", "They are still counting right now, looking for the votes from some precincts.", "Let's talk about this. A lot to digest on a night that is far, far from over. Let's bring in our panel, CNN political commentators, Tara Setmayer, Maria Cardona, Sally Kohn and Ben Ferguson, all with us, all very opinionated folk. Let's start with the Dems. The way that I heard, Tara, Van Jones describe it earlier that stood out to me was movement versus machine, right? Saying Bernie is the movement. Hillary Clinton is the machine. But actually we have no idea what took over tonight, movement or machine.", "Well, I think we do. There is some indication of that. The machine, the Clinton machine, is what the ground game was. They invested heavily in Iowa. She was embarrassed in Iowa in 2008 because they underestimated Barack Obama and did not invest in the infrastructure there. They tried to learn from those mistakes, so they started investing early on. With that said, we all say organization, organization is so important in Iowa. But then here you have Bernie Sanders, who came out of relative obscurity. I mean, a year ago, Hillary Clinton had 60. 5 percent, a career ago right now in Iowa, to Bernie Sanders at 6.7 percent. I'd say now you're looking at too close to call. That's a movement.", "Maria, what are you hearing from the Clinton team here? They wanted a clear victory.", "Sure.", "There's nothing clear as we sit here at 2:07 a.m. Maybe they'll squeak out the tiniest of margins.", "Sure. Yeah.", "What does this do going to New Hampshire where they're behind also?", "I don't think it changes their calculus of where they were to begin with. And absolutely, they would have preferred a clear win with a wide margin. But at the end of the day, if she wins, a win is a win. But even if she doesn't win, right, I mean, let's think about this from the calculus of all of the primaries and caucuses. It would have been strange if she would have run the table. And I know that everybody talks about how she was the prohibitive front runner. That is the biggest myth that was perpetrated by Republicans and the media. They -- the Clinton campaign sat down her allies from the very beginning, more than a year ago, before she even decided to run and said, look, you guys, this is not going to be easy. No matter who she runs against on the Republican side, she is going to have somebody run against her on the Democratic side. And it is not going to be easy. They knew this. This is cooked into their strategy. So moving forward, she's going to focus on trying to do as well as she can in New Hampshire, and then South Carolina, Nevada, Super Tuesday.", "Sally, to you, when you talk about the voters that came out, here's why -- let me counter-argue that Clinton perhaps should be worried. It was a lot older. The voters that came out to caucus tonight were older. That helped her when you compare it to four years ago and to eight years ago. You can't say that's going to be the case across the board in all of these other primaries. And she barely -- we don't even know if she's eked it out. How much did that help her tonight?", "There's no question that as Chris said earlier this is an expectations game in Iowa. And Bernie Sanders won the expectation game. No one expected him to do this well. That it is even close to a tie, whichever way it ends up, is a win for Bernie Sanders and his supporters. And the only maybe silver lining in all of this is that Hillary's camp has for a long time been trying to say they are not a front-runner because there is all kinds of political peril in being a front-runner. Also, I would note that Hillary is a better candidate as an underdog. In 2008, after she lost to Barack Obama in Iowa, from New Hampshire on, she was a stronger candidate. And by some counts, I believe, if I'm remembering correctly, she actually won more vote, not delegates, but votes from that point forward than Barack Obama. So she kind of gets a fire in her when she's an underdog. Maybe this turns around. But again, I think the larger issue here is she can't fight against what Bernie Sanders stands for, the politics he stands for, which shows the biggest deficit for Hillary Clinton as a candidate.", "Ben Ferguson, let's shift gears to the Republicans. We do have a clear winner in this race. Ted Cruz won the Iowa caucuses. This after Donald Trump told us that he was going to win so much we were all going to be sick of winning.", "Yeah. Donald Trump, I'll quote him tonight with one of his tweets from back in 2013, when he says, \"No one ever remembers who comes in second place.\" Well, tonight, everyone remembers who came in second place, and that's Donald Trump. And when you put the expectations where he did -- remember this whole week, people have been talking about Ted Cruz is in trouble. And even, you know, the front page of the newspapers, after the debate, you know, were saying how brilliant Donald Trump was to skip that debate and everyone went after Ted Cruz. And now Ted Cruz is in trouble. I have said this about Iowa before. It's proof last time with Santorum. Iowa voters do not like to be told what they are going to do on caucus night. I kept saying it all week long, you are underestimating the voters of Iowa. Not Ted Cruz. Not Marco Rubio. Not Donald Trump. You're underestimating the voters there. And what the voters said tonight was they didn't buy, for example, 2 Corinthians. They also said they really liked the authenticity of not only Ted Cruz but also I think Marco Rubio. And the big thing tonight is this. If you're Ted Cruz, you may have focused too much on Donald Trump and this war back and forth, because both candidates now, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, are in real trouble with Marco Rubio now. That's the big story coming out of there.", "Ben, stand by. We understand there is out-and-out glee on the Ted Cruz campaign plane. It's on the ground in Des Moines getting ready to take off to fly to New Hampshire. Our Sunlen Serfaty is onboard the Cruz express. Sunlen, set the scene. What's the mood like onboard?", "John, it is a festive atmosphere aboard this plane where Senator Cruz and his family and daughters are here, about ready to take off to Manchester, New Hampshire. Before the plane took off, the flight attendants here onboard popped champagne and served champagne to Senator Cruz, his wife, and members of his staff. His oldest daughter, Caroline, only 7 years old, is having a little fun with her dad being the man of the moment. She is seated right next to her dad, greeting each and every reporter as they got on saying, \"What's your name,\" and telling them to get to the back of the plane. It is a festive atmosphere. A party like atmosphere here on the Cruz plane. He will fly for three hours to New Hampshire, and then really hit the ground running. He tomorrow will have a town hall at 12:30 in Wyndham, New Hampshire. Then he'll go on, really wasting no time campaigning. Senator Cruz telling reporters as they got on the plane here tonight that he feels fabulous -- John?", "And it's Poppy here with John. When you think of the first line that Cruz said tonight, he said, \"To God be the glory.\" Then he went on to bash the establishment in Washington, the establishment in the media, and he said, this will be left up to we the people. How much is he thanking the evangelical vote tonight?", "Absolutely. That was a big part of his message in his speech tonight, Poppy. He opened and closed his speech saying god bless Iowa. That was a big message to evangelicals. He knows they propped him up in large part for his win in Iowa. He is looking to this support going forward, especially looking past New Hampshire, when the campaign looks for support in South Carolina and the southern states. They are going to lean again on evangelicals. Very conservative Republicans. They want them on their side. It's always been a big part of their strategy. They have not really tried to appeal to moderate Republicans as much. Really they have tried to go straightforward to the evangelicals, very conservative Republicans. And that seems to be the message that Cruz was sending in his victory speech in Iowa tonight -- Poppy?", "And now literally on to New Hampshire. Sunlen Serfaty, on the Ted Cruz campaign plane, a terrific report. Literally, popping champagne on board as they get ready to take off.", "Where's ours?", "We don't get any. We're on for the next 3.5 hours. We'll hear from Poppy (ph) when she lands in Manchester and find out how the champagne feels 3.5 hours later.", "Exactly. It's go time. Go, go, go. I heard Rubio has an event at 6:45 in the morning. No one sleeping tonight.", "You have to seize the moment.", "For all of them, if things go well. Look, Ted Cruz won. Everyone wants to say there is Marco-mentum. But Ted Cruz won.", "And he's the guy of all of them, I think, that has the right to pop the champagne. He's only one who's won so far. We don't even know who won the Democratic race.", "That's true.", "With all eyes turning to New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton will take part in a presidential town hall Wednesday night. They may announce the winners of Iowa during the CNN town hall in New Hampshire on Wednesday night. Anderson Cooper will moderate. Both candidates will take questions from voters themselves. This will be fascinating. Wednesday, 8:00 p.m., only on", "Coming up ahead for us, it is as we've been saying all night far too close to call at this hour on the Democratic side. What will the numbers bring in as they keep coming and coming throughout the night? 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{"id": "NPR-25215", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2015-01-29", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/01/29/382463466/to-protect-his-son-father-pushes-school-to-bar-unimmunized-kids", "title": "To Protect His Son, Father Pushes School To Bar Unimmunized Kids", "summary": "Melissa Block talks to Carl Krawitt, whose son Rhett is in remission from leukemia but still cannot be vaccinated for measles. Rhett attends school in Marin County Calif., where nearly seven percent of students are not vaccinated. Mr. Krawitt has asked the local superintendent of schools to \"require immunization as a condition of attendance.\"", "utt": ["And I'm Melissa Block. The recent measles outbreak centered in California is of particular concern to Carl Krawitt. His six-year-old son Rhett has been fighting leukemia. He finished chemotherapy a year ago and is now in remission. And Rhett can't be vaccinated until his immunity builds up. That's why Carl Krawitt is asking again that his son's school in Marin County bar children who haven't been vaccinated because of their parents' personal beliefs.", "We've made that - asked for two years. I mean before Rhett even started kindergarten, we've been having this same request.", "The school district says it's monitoring the situation, but hasn't made any further moves. Almost 7 percent of kids in Marin County aren't vaccinated. I asked Mr. Krawitt whether he's heard people say he's overreacting since there have been no confirmed cases of measles in Marin County.", "I think if you ask that question to the parents of the students whose communities do have a measles outbreak, you might have that same response - oh, it's an overreaction. I know what it's like to have a very sick child. I really feel for the parents that now have a child with measles or people with babies that have measles. And I'm saying why wait for it to happen before we take action? And I understand the position of the school district and the public health officers, and I hope somebody will champion this and have the courage to do more.", "Mr. Krawitt, do you have friends who don't vaccinate their kids by choice?", "I don't know. I do know that I have friends that do vaccinate their children because they have been extremely supportive. I do know that there - that I have friends of friends that don't vaccinate their children because I've had, you know, really engaged conversations and debates with some of my friends about why it's so important for me and my family and especially my son. Having said that, we have friends that have their children in private schools. Some of these schools have non-immunization rates as high as 20 - 30 - 40 percent.", "Wow.", "So I don't know whether or not their children are immunized. I don't know whether they will still be my friends, but, you know, I respect people as my friends. And I hope that we can have more conversations like this to educate people on why this is so important for the health and safety of our children. Somebody made a comment to me yesterday. They are not allowed to bring their dog to a dog park if the dog is not immunized.", "I'm curious if you've had any conversations about this - about measles in particular - with Rhett. He is only six years old, but does he know about this?", "Rhett does know that he is at risk of illnesses, and Rhett will make the statement, I know that if I don't get shots I could get sick. And he knows what it's like to get sick and be out of school for weeks and months at a time and have to wear a mask in public because his immune system is so, so low. I would hate for my son to go through that again, but more important I would hate for somebody else's child to have to go through what we went through.", "Well, Mr. Krawitt, thank you so much for talking with us, and we wish you all the best for Rhett's recovery. Thanks.", "Thank you for inviting me.", "Carl Krawitt is asking his son's elementary school in Marin County, Calif., to bar children who haven't been vaccinated because of personal belief exemptions. Seven percent of students at the school have that exemption."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "CARL KRAWITT", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "CARL KRAWITT", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "CARL KRAWITT", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "CARL KRAWITT", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "CARL KRAWITT", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "CARL KRAWITT", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-407230", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-08-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/03/nday.03.html", "summary": "Dr. Birx Says, U.S. in New Phase of pandemic with More Widespread Cases; Tropical Storm Isaias Strengthens Overnight, Taking Aim at Carolinas", "utt": ["Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is New Day. Erica Hill in this morning for Alisyn, good morning to you.", "Good morning.", "So, Dr. Deborah Birx tells CNN that we're in a new phase of the pandemic, a phase that's different from March and April, and she doesn't necessarily mean better, not at all. She says we're in this new phase, because the virus is so widespread. California just became the first state to reach a half million cases. Florida will likely hit that milestone this week. The daily death rate rising in 30 states now. The CDC predicts 19,000 more Americans will die in the next 20 days. And do the math, that could be a conservative estimate. For millions of Americans, enhanced unemployment benefits have expired. Extra money that so many have depended on is gone. Washington leaders have failed to reach a new deal on the measure. Negotiations will continue this morning, but they're pretty far apart. And with more than 150,000 Americans dead in this pandemic and an unprecedented health crisis, the president missed his own self-imposed deadline to announce a new healthcare plan he promised one more than two weeks ago. Yesterday was the deadline, deadline missed, unless he was lying about announcing a new plans in the first place.", "Well, meantime this morning, we are also watching a strong tropical storm bearing down on the Carolinas. It's forecast to become a hurricane today before making landfall tonight. Isaias has already brought powerful wind and drenching rain to Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Florida. There are tropical storm watches and warnings that stretch all the way up the east coast into Maine. We'll have the latest on Isaias' track in just a moment.", "All right. Joining us now is Andy Slavitt. He's the former Acting Administrator for the Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services for President Obama. Andy, great to have you with us this morning. Just so people can hear it, I want to play Dr. Deborah Birx in this really interesting interview with Dana Bash, explaining that we are in a new and not good phase of this pandemic.", "We are in a new phase. And that's why I really wanted to make it clear to the American people, it's why we started putting out governor reports, directly to the health officials and the governors in every single state, because we could see that each thing had to be tailored. This epidemic right now is different and it's more widespread and it's both rural and urban.", "It's interesting, Andy, because she suggested that five or six weeks ago, the administration pivoted and formulated a new plan given this new phase. What do you make of the quality of that new plan, if it, in fact, exists?", "We should be grateful that they now acknowledge that we have a problem in the country in the White House, because they should be working on it, but, you know, welcome to the rest of the country. States around the country has been worried about this and working on this for May, June and July. And it feels like the White House took those three months off. Five or six weeks ago, when she said they started working on this is when Vice President Pence published an op-ed that said that things were well under control, the media was blowing things up too much. So, this is a White House that clearly, politically, does not want to acknowledge this problem. You know, I understand that Deborah Birx is a scientist, is actually trying to make an effort here, but she's not making an effort to the point where she's willing to make any of the important steps. So in terms of the plan that they've put forward, they're not closing bars, they have not withdrawn President Trump's statement that every school in the nation has to open. And so I don't know how they're going to make things better when they're stuck in the reality that everyone else was a few months ago.", "It's interesting you bring up bars, because it makes me think of, as we heard from Dr. Birx saying over the weekend, emphasizing to Dana that rural areas are at risk. But we heard last week as we learned more about these tailored responses that the task force is putting out for different states, giving them to governors, a lot of them did include recommendations to close bars, and she talked about it. And two of the states that stick out, Tennessee and Kentucky, taking those recommendations very differently, which I think, to your point, Andy, really underscores that the lack of a national plan means there is no follow-through, necessarily, on even those scientific recommendations.", "And I think it's going to be an interesting case study to see what happens between Tennessee and Kentucky. I think, you know, they're being very careful to say, we have a pandemic, but don't do anything that harms economic activity. So they will not call for things that will hurt, what is perceived to be a better jobs report for the president. So they have not made this the most important thing, in my opinion. So, the fact that she says wear masks at home tells us that she knows this is serious. The fact that she says, wear masks at home, which means she knows it's very widespread, but won't suggest that people question whether or not they have enough data to open their schools on time, tells us that they are really not optimizing for public health yet. They are still trying to focus on the things that Trump says are important to his election.", "I'm so glad you brought up the wear masks at home recommendation, Andy, because that jumped out at me. It did seem to me in that interview, and I'm sure you listened to it even more closely than I did, and doing a forensic analysis, her level of concern was higher than I've ever heard it. It really was. You don't say wear masks at home, unless you're very worried about something. Yet, yet, she seems limited also in her recommendations.", "You're exactly right, John. I talked to some White House aides over the last few days, in fact, longer than I have in a long, long time. So, they're clearly worried about this. And from what I understand, Dr. Birx has spent a lot of time looking at this most recent JAMA study, which shows that kids carry just as much viral load. And she knows that kids, when they sneeze and they cough, are efficient spreaders. And so we know that she's very worried about this. What puzzles me is -- and I assume she's expressed those words to the president, and I assume that's one of the reasons why Trump hasn't renewed his calls for every school in the country to open no matter what. Having said that, they think it's a victory, his political aides do, if he doesn't tweet something bad in a given day as opposed to going back and correcting what he tweeted earlier, which is that this ought to be, perhaps, driven by local decisions. And so he gets it both ways. He gets to kind of wink at his supporters with his tweets and have his public health officials out there trying to be more careful and it's confusing to the public.", "There is a lot of confusion. Let's talk for a little bit about vaccines, if we could. A fascinating piece in The New York Times talking about vaccines and the politicization of it, right, and the political pressure. And they specifically note that Jared Kushner has been a regular participant in these meetings, and that there are questions asked about October, a date that hanging over -- that hangs over the effort. Trump campaign advisers privately calling this a pre-election vaccine, the, quote, Holy Grail. And the article also goes on to say that there are some questions about whether it would be unethical to withhold a vaccine, which is just fascinating to me. I mean, is that unethical to withhold a vaccine if you don't know if it's safe and effective?", "Well, the president was quoted as saying that the FDA has been great at my instruction, which is really concerning. Because right now, the thing we want the most is the FDA to be walled off from any political pressure, particularly with what happened with hydroxychloroquine, where that got an emergency use authorization, because of the president's push, when the scientists and the FDA clearly didn't believe it. For Americans to have a vaccine, they have to be able to trust it, they have to be able to trust that it's safe and effective. And with all due respect to the president, we need to hear from scientists who have reviewed the data and they need to put the data out very transparently, saying this vaccine is safe and here is why, this vaccine is safe and here is why, or here are the risks. And that can't appear come with any political pressure to it, or people won't trust it. It will set us back so far. And I don't care about the election. I want the vaccine to come when it is ready, whether it's September, October, November, December, January, February. When we have a safe and effective vaccine, let's put it out there. If we rush it a month or two because we're in the middle of a phase three trial, we don't have the data that the FDA said we're going to have. I do think there's going to be a lot of concern about the vaccine.", "Very quickly, Andy, because we have to let you go. Dr. Deborah Birx, again, and my forensic analysis also raised the issue of travel in a way that I haven't quite heard her say before. She said if you go -- first of all, she said, we're moving around too much, that there's a lot of travel in the country right now. And she said, if you go to any one of these states where there are concerns right now, you have to assume you are coming home with the virus and act accordingly. How concerned are you about travel?", "Well, you're getting on an airplane with people from all over, including high-spread states. I have a particular interest in Las Vegas because there are a lot of people going in and out of Las Vegas for just a couple of days. It's very hard to control the spread inside a casino. I think they're probably making efforts, and their economy is completely dependent on one industry, so I have a lot of sympathy. But we have hot spots. And what happens when people go to Las Vegas, those hot spots don't emerge in Las Vegas. They'll emerge when they get back home and interact with other people. So I think we should be very careful at this time.", "Andy Slavitt, terrific having you on this morning. Thanks very much for being with us.", "Thank you.", "All right. Breaking overnight, Tropical Storm Isaias expected to strengthen into a hurricane as it makes landfall near the Carolinas. That could happen tonight. Chad Myers tracking the system for us. Chad, what do you see?", "It better hurry up and strengthen if it's going to be a hurricane, because right now, I don't see it. Hurricane hunter now in the storm, pressure didn't get any lower, the winds did not go up and the satellite presentation doesn't look as good as it did six hours ago. That's the good news. Now, if you look at the Jacksonville radar, the storm has tried to form an eye a couple of times overnight and it has been squashed by this wind we talk about, by this wind from the southwest, we call it sheer, but it won't allow the circulation to be a circle. It wants to be a football and footballs don't get bigger. Circles get bigger and deeper. Still forecast to be a category one, making landfall in about 13 hours. Now, this thing is going to scream to the north as well, all the way up even into New York State and New England. But the big surge will be from above Pauley's Island on up to about North Carolina. And the rain onshore about four to six inches could, with that wind, bring down quite a few trees and power lines, so power outages could be fairly widespread. John?", "Yes, I'm very concerned about trees around where I live. Chad Myers, thanks so much for being with us this morning. So how are cities preparing for this storm in the middle of a pandemic? One mayor tells us what the situation is, next."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN NEW DAY", "ERICA HILL, CNN NEW DAY", "BERMAN", "HILL", "BERMAN", "DR. DEBORAH BIRX, WHITE HOUSE CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE COORDINATOR", "BERMAN", "ANDY SLAVITT, FORMER ACTING ADMINISTRATOR, CENTER FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES", "HILL", "SLAVITT", "BERMAN", "SLAVITT", "HILL", "SLAVITT", "BERMAN", "SLAVITT", "BERMAN", "SLAVITT", "BERMAN", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-381352", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-09-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/25/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Trump Holds Press Conference with Ukrainian President Zelensky; Report: Giuliani Says State Department Asked Him to Intervene on Ukraine; Biden Responds on Released Trump/Zelensky Call Memorandum; DNI Maguire Threatened to Resign if Trump Administration Did Allow Testimony on Capitol Hill.", "utt": ["What he's done is he wants to find out where did this Russian witch hunt that you people really helped perpetrate, where did it start? How come it started? It was all nonsense. It was a hoax. It was a total hoax. It was a media hoax and a Democrat hoax. Where did it start. And Rudy has every right to go and find out where that started. And other people are looking at that, too. Where did it start. The enablers? Where did it all come from? It was out of thin air. And I think he's got a very strong right to do it. He's a good lawyer. He knows exactly what he's doing. And it's very important. (", "41)", "The Democrats can't talk about that, because they have been taken over by a radical group of people. And Nancy Pelosi, far as I'm concerned unfortunately, is no longer speaker of the House. Thank you very much, everybody.", "Mr. President -- the attorney general --", "Mr. President --", "Thank you.", "OK. Last I checked Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the House. I have no idea what he was referencing there. Number two, we just need to know before we analyze all this that everything he said about the Bidens is 100 percent wrong. The accusations against the Bidens are baseless. There's no evidence of wrongdoing, including by Ukrainian prosecutors. Joe Biden is, indeed, on tape talking about withholding aid because the U.S. and Western nations wanted a corrupt prosecutor out. In fact, the goal of Western nations at the time, get prosecutors who would investigate corruption. So first and foremost, those are the facts. Christiane Amanpour is with me. And we're listening to this together. The money questions was to the president of Ukraine, whether or not he felt pressured. We've read transcript. Seen it all, read it, he basically says no one pushed me. Trump jumped in and said, there was no pressure. What do you think of that?", "The president of Ukraine is under enormous pressure right now. This is not the kind of spotlight he wants. He is a neophyte. He's not a political leader. He is a television personality. He is a comedian. He won in an extraordinary outsider come from behind races in Ukraine and he has now landed in one of the most dramatic political crises that his country could imagine, but also that the United States right now could imagine. He is desperately punting for every way he possibly can. Earlier today, he said to Ukrainian correspondents following him around that the only person who can pressure me is my 6-year-old son. We're an independent country and we will not be pressured into anything. The transcript, to an extent, speaks for itself. Right? President Trump talks about how he's been very helpful with military and how they've bought these Javelin defense systems, and then President Trump says, fine, but I want you to do me a favor. I mean, this comes right after. To the point in question, that they were talking about, this is the prosecutor in the Ukraine. President Trump, according to this transcript, says that he needs him to look into the issue of the prosecutor in Ukraine. And Zelensky says, \"I want to tell you about the prosecutor. First of all, I understand and I'm knowledgeable about the situation. Since we've won the majority now in this country, the next prosecutor will be 100 percent my person, my candidate, approved by the parliament and will start as a new prosecutor in September. He or she will look into the situation specifically to the company that you mentioned on this issue.\" So they are definitely talking about the same thing. And President Zelensky is talking about the request for a favor that President Trump made. And I think that, you know, the other thing that's really very interesting in this is that President Trump four times in this phone call mentions not just Rudy Giuliani but the attorney general --", "Bill Barr.", "-- of the United States. And says he wants Zelensky to work with the attorney general on this issue of the prosecutor. And you know and I know, from my previous reporting, my previous interviews with the previous president of Ukraine, that corruption was a main focus of the United States. U.S. ambassadors were desperately trying to eradicate and reform the corrupt business practices and judicial practices and legal practices that are rife in the Ukraine. That was certainly something the Trump -- the Obama administration was trying to fulfill. And one other thing that's really important. This idea that the Europeans haven't been helping. The Europeans have given in the region of $16 billion to Ukraine to help it in all sorts of ways. Democracy building, in terms of all issues it needs because Ukraine wanted to be part of the E.U. That's what started this entire issue and made Russia invade Ukraine partly. And, of course, you know, Ukraine needs a weapons systems and all the rest because it's at war with Russia right now.", "Which the question where Trump kept bringing up Putin, you should get along with Putin, and you know, we -- peace with Russia, and we were just -- looking at Zelensky's face he was like --", "I mean, look, a lot of tap dancing and punting going on here. Zelensky, look at the original beginning of the transcript --", "Yes. Trump is calling to congratulate. This is a one- issue conversation and about a domestic problem President Trump raised, that is to look into his main challenger for the 2020 race and that's Joe Biden and his son.", "Yes.", "Zelensky, though, starts the conversation on this July 24th call by essentially mimicking President Trump. Flattering President Trump. Saying we used your tactics --", "Drain the swamp, I stayed in your hotels.", "All of those things. Yes.", "You're a great educator.", "And even then trying to make Trump feel comfortable deflecting the limelight. And he's a pro in the spotlight. What he had done. He's a television personality.", "Zelensky?", "Yes. And President Trump. You've got a lot of currents conflicting here.", "OK. I'd like to, shall we -- shall I bring in Kyle? OK, hang on, Kylie. I'll come to you on Rudy in a second, Rudy Giuliani. Dana Bash joining us here also. And, Dana, one thing that struck me listening to the dialogue he said he would ask Rudy Giuliani why he's involved, but Trump himself on the call told Ukraine to get in touch with Rudy Giuliani, his personal lawyer, several times over.", "He knows why he's involved. He's involved because Rudy Giuliani has been aggressively telling the president, telling the press, telling the Ukrainians, telling everybody since last summer that he wants to and is actively working to, from his perspective, get to the bottom of corruption that he thinks that Joe Biden was involved in. And not just that. Allegations that the Democrats were working with the Ukrainians to influence the 2016 election, allegations which is we should underscore highlight and embolden, saying there are no basis for that. They are just allegations. So the president knows exactly what's going on. And you have to also remember the timing. That Giuliani back in the summer was not just telling the press but trying to go to Ukraine. And it was the day after the Mueller hearing, which at the time was seen as, you know, a mothing burger for the president. Felt he was in the clear and the day after he made that phone call to the man he was sitting next to today. As Christiane said, that was remarkable to watch. Couldn't have been a bigger elephant in the room with that transcript. And good for that reporter trying to get an answer from, from the Ukrainian leader and he smartly tried to deflect as much as he could. What choice did he have?", "Stay on -- thank you, Dana. Hang with me. Kylie Atwood, you cover State. Before we just listened to Zelensky and Trump, we played the clip from FOX last night. Rudy Giuliani, you know, saying, well, State Department asked me to reach out. Right? So can you -- did the State Department do that? What do you know from state?", "What we do know is that the State Department did connect Giuliani with an aide of Zelensky. Right? They admitted that, said that on the record to us. What we don't know is the extent to which the State Department was really involved here. Right? Did they set up a number of meetings or did they just make the connection? What Giuliani is saying, he was asked by the State Department to have these meetings. State Department doesn't go that far. They say they made the connection and are trying to essentially, according to sources I know that are familiar with Ambassador Volker, who is the top State Department official who handles Ukraine. He was trying to sort of clear his hands of this. Push it off the table. Push all the political stuff over to Giuliani so he could deal with the policy. But we saw that now the two are directly entangled in one another. We have President Trump on an official phone call with Zelensky talking about Giuliani repeatedly, who is his personal lawyer, not working for the White House. So that's where it gets complicated and still where there are a lot of answers that we still need from the State Department. But just there, the president also said that Rudy has every right to be looking at this. He still is standing by the fact that he wants Rudy Giuliani out on this mission for him. The question, has he implicated his own State Department in doing so.", "What do you think, Christiane?", "Look, the minute you start mixing personal with professional, State Department, policy with politics, you know, this is going to be a question and a matter of investigation for a long time to come. I mean, it is actually kind of incredible to think that after this entire couple of years of the Russia investigation, which was them interfering here, there's now an apparent appearance of interfering there for politics here. And it's going to be a really, really -- it's going to be very divisive and very difficult to get to the bottom of, and also in terms about the State Department. You know, this transcript shows that the president of the United States is trashing the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, and the president of Ukraine is also trashing the former U.S. ambassador, who was an Obama appointee but a career foreign servant.", "Doesn't she work for the state?", "Yes, career.", "OK, OK, OK.", "And President Trump, at one point, says, well, you know, things are going to happen with her. I'm not sure. Well, she's going to go through some things. Again, I will have Giuliani and the attorney general -- I mean, four times he brings up the attorney general of the United States. The attorney general of the United States.", "Who, by the way, is head of DOJ overseeing this whistleblower complaint. And I was talking to a member of Congress a minute ago saying there's a lot of issues, conflicts of interest. Thank you for that. Kaitlan Collins, do you have a second? You're on your phone. If I can jump in as we're getting this information. I understand team Biden responded.", "He's got a lengthy statement. I'll read parts of it. He's talking about this transcript really, gotten from the White House, the White House version of this call. He is saying it makes clear, in Joe Biden's word, quote, \"The president ordered delay of congressional appropriated military assistance to Ukraine, implored the president to work with his personal attorney to manufacture a smear against a domestic political opponent, and is using a malicious conspiracy theory,\" Joe Biden said, \"has been debunk universally.\" Then he says, quote -- this is interesting because of the focus on Barr in this transcript. \"We also learned he planned to involve the United States Department of Justice in his scheme, a direct attack on the core independence of that department and independence is essential to the rule of law.\" Joe Biden goes on to say he's not going to just focus on what Donald Trump is saying about him in these accusations but focus on his campaign, health care, those issues. But he says, quote, \"Congress must pursue the facts and quickly take prompt action to hold Donald Trump accountable.\" And said, essentially, in the meantime the House should do its job and he's going to focus on his campaign.", "Kaitlan and Brooke, it's interesting what Biden said. He skirted over it, the business about a conspiracy theory. In addition to the CrowdStrike comment made. Does Zelensky know what CrowdStrike is? That is a discredited conspiracy theory which posits that somehow Ukraine is in possession of the secret --", "Why would the president of the United States think they would be in possession?", "Because that's the -- the, that right winger. You know? The conspiracy theorist who says Ukraine has the secret server of Hillary Clinton. That was that he even brought up.", "That was the first thing the president brought up after talking about the military aid. The president brought it up and said I need you to do me a favor. Brought up the cybersecurity firm the DNC hired after the hack of the emails.", "Yes. And that's when the reporter said, do you think that Hillary Clinton's emails are on a server in Ukraine? The president essentially said, yes. Something he's argued before. You could see how clearly uncomfortable the Ukraine president was when asked, did you feel pressure by President Trump. He said noble pushed me but essentially you've read how this call went downed and can see what was said there and he's wants to stay out of American politics.", "Add one more voice, Gloria Borger, in Washington. You've listened, heard the Biden reaction, saw Trump and Zelensky. What say you?", "Well, that was kind of an extraordinary moment. Wasn't it?", "Kind of, yes.", "The thing that struck me about the whole press availability was the passion with which Donald Trump defended Rudy Giuliani. And he has done that all along. He did it during the Russia investigation when the other attorneys were rolling their eyes about Rudy Giuliani's TV appearances. And it seems to me -- and, you know, Kylie would know more about this from the State Department. But this is something cooked up by these guys, by Rudy Giuliani and his old buddy, Donald Trump, and, OK, you're going to face Joe Biden in 2020. Let's get to the bottom of the Hunter Biden story and let's figure out about the Hillary Clinton story and those servers and Ukraine, of course, is involved and let Rudy, send you over there, because you're my guy. And can you imagine being the American ambassador at that time, which the president totally dissed in this phone conversation, or being a member of the national security team trying to figure out why funding had been held up for Ukraine? Can you imagine not knowing exactly why you were told, well, I'm not sure, and, you know, you were given a song and dance about it? To me, looking at this, the president was so vociferous in his defense of Rudy Giuliani. And, by the way, Rudy Giuliani doesn't work for the United States government. Rudy Giuliani --", "Yes.", "-- is not paid by taxpayers to be an envoy to Ukraine. He is the president's lawyer. And I just -- you know, and the president was completely saying, that's fine. He works -- he works for me and I admire his passion, the president said. The reason the president admires it is because he shares it, and they feed off of each other. And I think that's -- you know, that's what's going on here. It's kind of, they feed off of each other and then Rudy goes off and does what he has to do and reports back to the president and then the president gets on this phone call and does what he does.", "There was an incredible piece from the \"Washington Post\" all about Rudy Giuliani's role and national security folks getting sidestepped for Rudy Giuliani. I want to quote it. It's from one U.S. official not named, told the \"Washington Post,\" \"Rudy, he did all of this. This -- show that we're in, it's him injecting himself into the process.\"", "Right. Always been the -- that's always been the case although the Russia team lawyers kind of like to use Rudy Giuliani because he became the Trump whisperer during the Mueller investigation. They would want to do something. Tell Giuliani and he would convince the president that maybe he ought to do it. Then go out on TV and they'd have a week of damage control on something else.", "Yes. Christiane?", "Just on the weapon, suspension of the weapons, you hear from the former prime minister, foreign minister, in fact, of Ukraine, has been saying, it's reported, it's out there in various newspaper accounts. When it was suspended, it was done without warning, without coming through any channels that they normally would have. They have had very, very good connections with the Pentagon for years since Ukraine became independent and then they just had no idea why it was happening. It was completely usual, because they always had this pipeline going. There was never any, if you do this or don't do that we're going to suspend this for that period of time. It was a complete surprise to them.", "How about the fact that we were all noticing when Trump brought up Obama again, and in talking about Crimea and Russia, basically blaming the Obama administration and not Vladimir Putin.", "Well, look, you know, President Trump does do a lot of that. I mean, many of his foreign policy, whether it's the Iran nuclear deal or Paris Climate Accord, whatever it is, it's in opposition to President Obama. The truth is the United States has some of the strongest sanctions on Russia despite what President Trump might say warmly about Vladimir Putin or not. Congress has ensured that very strong U.S. sanctions are still on Russia because of the Crimea and because of all the other allegations of interference into the election et cetera. Yes.", "All right. Christiane, thank you. Getting more breaking news just in to the \"Washington Post.\" The acting director of National Intelligence threatened to resign over concerns that the White House might attempt to force him to stonewall Congress when he testifies Thursday about an explosive whistleblower complaint about the president, according to current and former U.S. officials familiar with this matter. Go straight to Karoun Demirjian, the author of the piece in \"The Post.\" Karoun, tell us more.", "Basically, we know Maguire is coming to Capitol Hill Thursday and threatened he wasn't able to speak openly and if the White House tied his hand and made it so he couldn't say anything in this public hearing tomorrow morning he threatened to resign over that. It shows that there's trouble in paradise in terms of what is going on between the White House and the director of National Intelligence and DOJ. All of these conversations happening whether or not to release the whistleblower's complaint to Capitol Hill. It seems there's, tension there internally about what they should be doing.", "Let me just stay with you. I've been handed this and haven't had a chance to read it. Just tell me honestly, what else is in here that you wrote about?", "Well, basically, the fact that Maguire basically served notice he was, if he was not able to talk to lawmakers, if he just had to sit there and refuse to say anything he was going to resign. Basically, saying that he wants to cooperate to some extent with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. That's significant because he's seen resistance from the administration --", "Yes.", "-- to turning over the whistleblower complaint or letting anybody talk about it. Remember, the I.G. for the Intelligence Community who first flagged this to Capitol Hill couldn't give lawmakers details because he wasn't allowed to. Just talk how he thought it was urgent, credible and lawmakers should know but wasn't able to actually discuss details with them directly. The fact you're seeing now resistance from Maguire when it seems initially resistance was between the I.G. and Maguire, but Maguire doesn't like the idea being told he can't talk either. That indicates there's a difference of opinion, to put it lightly, between the various agencies we're talking about, which we know include the Intelligence Community and the DNI and also the Justice Department.. And so what will the end result be now? It doesn't seem the administration is doing this with a unified heart, even if thus far doing it with a unified voice in terms of resisting and turning it over.", "I got it. I got it. Karoun, thank you so much, with the scoop with \"The Post.\" Anne Milgram, on the legal, we've talked about all the stonewalling, not wanting to release information up on the Hill. We saw Corey Lewandowski on the Hill not willing to give up information. To see this man saying I want to speak freely to Congress. If you won't let me, I'm out. It's significant.", "It's extraordinary. We predicted he would be muzzled by the White House and Department of Justice.", "Yes.", "This is an extraordinary circumstance with the whistleblower. It's never happened before, even when the director of National Intelligence found something to not be an urgent concern it's always gone to Congress. The fact the DNI has not given a path for the whistleblower to go to wrong hasn't happened is extraordinary. I was assuming Maguire bought into this conversation and was a part of it. Now we're seeing he has not and in fact pushing back on it. This makes his testimony tomorrow so much more important.", "This guy has only been on the job about a month. Remember, Dan Coats stepped down, essentially, pushed out because he and the president clashed repeatedly. The president picked a new DNI in John Ratcliffe and he withdrew his name from the nomination. Essentially, people said this guy might not get confirmed, Senators were pushing back.", "Yes.", "The president hasn't named his next DNI. This guy is in an acting capacity and he's telling the White House, unless you make a specific legal argument why I can't say anything, I'm going to be candid if I'm there. I think that's interesting because we've seen the White House have people go there before, answer some questions, not others on the basis of privilege. And clearly, he didn't feel comfortable doing that without an explicit legal argument.", "And we saw evidence that this may be coming yesterday when the acting director put out a statement in which he acknowledged how long he has worked for the U.S. government, saying he had sworn an oath to the Constitution 11 times in his 36 years of public service. Saying that he wasn't willing to swear that oath and not actually follow through on that oath when he goes up and testifies tomorrow. And he went on to say, \"I am committing to protecting whistleblowers and ensuring every complaint is handled appropriately.\" So he there, just yesterday, was giving us a signal he was fighting back against this pressure coming from the White House.", "Yes. And now we know thanks to Karoun and her team at \"The Post.\" That's exactly what's happening. Dana Bash, to you, my friend. This is extraordinary. 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{"id": "NPR-7887", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2019-04-28", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/04/28/717970491/tiktok-explained", "title": "TikTok, Explained", "summary": "NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks writer Brittany Spanos of Rolling Stone to explain the new video sharing app TikTok.", "utt": ["These are the social media rankings according to my millennial niece Alex Uriarte. Facebook...", "Where I go to find, like, what my grandma's doing. What is Mema (ph) up to?", "Ouch. Snapchat - over it.", "It's the app that I open, like, every month or so to see if there's anything - and usually nothing anymore. I get a snapchat from, like, Team Snapchat on the holiday.", "Yikes. But there is something keeping her tethered to her phone.", "I have a new app addiction.", "OK. Show me.", "So this is TikTok. And the first thing is this...", "Oh, my God. What is this?", "...Cosplay - Minzy Dog (ph), a thing I've never heard of. But she's doing what is called the meow dance. And it's this - it's like a...", "(Laughter) It's ridiculous. I don't even know how to describe this. It is, like, so truly scary.", "But I find it hysterical.", "TikTok is taking the younger generations by storm. I'm not going to have Alex explain TikTok. For that, I'm bringing in Brittany Spanos. She's a writer for Rolling Stone. She spent a week on the app, and she wrote about it. And she joins us now to explain.", "Hello.", "Hi. Thank you for having me.", "All right. I saw TikTok. I have trouble explaining TikTok. Help me explain TikTok (laughter).", "Well, TikTok is kind of a culmination of every viral video app that's existed in the last five, maybe even 10 years - kind of going back to early YouTube. And it's comedy. It's music. It's sometimes makeup and sometimes monologuing. And it's a weird hodgepodge of every sort of viral thing that could happen in a short-form video app.", "And they're really surreal. They're these psychedelic videos, a lot of cosplay. What's the appeal?", "It's really a meme incubator. There's a lot of trends happening, a lot of trends around maybe songs or maybe specific styles of comedic video or different forms of making the videos. For example...", "The meow dance.", "Yeah. And it's just very easily digestible. I kind of like the weirdness of it. It was just very eclectic.", "As we heard from my niece there, social media is going through a massive transformation. Facebook can be used by everyone, even Grandma. But when I showed TikTok to my 20-something producers, they thought that they were too old for it. It feels distinctly for the very young.", "Yeah. It moves so quickly. And especially with the way that memes move now, the way that Internet content moves now, it moves just as fast as that does - for the user that is high school age that's kind of going through three to four to five different social media platforms at once and absorbing many different viral moments concurrently. And that's what TikTok is.", "What does that say about the social media future we will inhabit? I mean, do you think different generations will not be able to even understand each other and will be in these kind of completely different social media universes?", "Absolutely. I mean, that's been happening for years now. I mean, we're seeing so much stuff that's very aimed for a younger audience that's meant to appeal to them, that's meant to kind of give them this coded language of their own and reflect their certain interests. And so I definitely think it's going to only get bigger. And things like that are going to exist tenfold in the future.", "Which was your favorite TikTok?", "My favorite TikTok was one that was set to Adele's \"Someone Like You.\" There was a goldfish in a bowl. And then as the camera panned out, it was a live version of \"Someone Like You.\" So the entire audience was singing the chorus. And then there was hundreds of goldfish crackers surrounding the alone, live goldfish in a bowl.", "(Laughter).", "And it was great (laughter).", "Brittany Spanos, a writer for Rolling Stone, thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "(Singing) Never mind, I'll find someone like you. I wish nothing but the best for you too. Don't forget me..."], "speaker": ["LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "ALEX URIARTE", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "ALEX URIARTE", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "ALEX URIARTE", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "ALEX URIARTE", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "ALEX URIARTE", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "ALEX URIARTE", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "BRITTANY SPANOS", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "BRITTANY SPANOS", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "BRITTANY SPANOS", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "BRITTANY SPANOS", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "BRITTANY SPANOS", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "BRITTANY SPANOS", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "BRITTANY SPANOS", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "BRITTANY SPANOS", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "BRITTANY SPANOS", "ADELE"]}
{"id": "CNN-243117", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-11-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/13/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Wall Street Record Highs; Keystone Pipeline Vote; School Shooting 911 Tape", "utt": ["Happening now in the NEWSROOM, trapped, dangling in the sky.", "A scary moment, yes. Very scary.", "And just think about the guys, they are just hanging by a thread.", "Two window washers and their harrowing rescue. Plus --", "Blood is everywhere. I do not see the gun. I need help.", "Like -", "I need help now. He is wearing all black. I am staring at him right now, sitting next to him.", "He is a high school student. I do not know how old is he.", "OK. Do you know his name?", "I tried to stop him before he shot himself.", "A teacher turned hero. For the first time we hear the terrifying 911 calls from inside the Marysville-Pilchuck High School. And the National Weather Service hacked by the Chinese and why NOAA kept it secret from us for so long. NEWSROOM starts now. And good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. New day, new record. Stock futures have been up this morning, stirring hope that Wall Street's ride into record territory is not over. It has been a big turnaround. Less than a month ago we were talking triple- digit losses. CNN's Alison Kosik joins me.", "Those losses just a distant memory, Carol. Who remembers up that whiplash we were getting? Now we're back in record territory. You're seeing the Dow up just a little bit. We did see stocks take a pause yesterday. Investors kind of sat it out. Not such a bad thing, but yes the records could continue today. Interestingly enough, I talked with one analyst this morning who say, you know what, you look at these levels, they are not justified. Just look at what happened with the midterm elections. Guess why Americans threw everybody out of office? Because they're not happy with the economy, this analyst tells me. And he says no better than to look at what GDP is doing. And, yes, GDP is doing better this year, starting off negative, getting much better in the second quarter at 4.6 percent. Now the third quarter's showing at 3.5 percent. But here's the point that this analyst is making. We're five and a half years out of the recession and you're going to see GDP average out to only a little over 2 percent for the year. He says it's just not good enough. But what we are seeing, once again, are these asset prices, aka stocks, continuing on the rise. The problem here is that not everybody's invested in the stock market.", "That's right.", "Only 49 percent of Americans are and not everybody's feeling it. Hey, but if you've got a 401(k), that S&P 500 is up 10 percent so far for the year and your 401(k) most likely tracks that S&P 500. So things are looking good for you.", "OK, we'll concentrate on the positive -", "Yes.", "Because that's what we like to do in the", "You got it.", "Alison Kosik, thanks so much. In other news this morning, six years after the government began a review of the Keystone pipeline, lawmakers get a crack at it. The House is set for a vote tomorrow, the Senate next week. And two candidates locked in the Senate runoff battle are each hoping that passage can help their chances. CNN chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash has more for you this morning. Good morning, Dana.", "Good morning, Carol. What a legislative proxy war that we are going to see over the next week or so here on Capitol Hill. And it starts out with Mary Landrieu, the Democrat from Louisiana, who is in a runoff, as you said still, that won't happen until next month against a Republican opponent, so she's still hanging in the balance, not looking very good when it comes to the polls. But she threw, forgive me, a hail mary, so to speak, by pushing her Democratic leadership and the Senate in general to take a vote on something that Democratic leaders have resisted for years, and that is, as you said, approval of the Keystone pipeline. She is doing this for several reasons, Carol. Number one, she is now energy chairman. So she, by doing this, is proving that she has power in Washington, and power to, as she says, create jobs. But also, so many of these Democrats who lost, her colleagues who are not going to be coming back, lost because they were linked to the Democratic leadership and to the president. Republicans were able to say that they voted with the president 99 percent of the time. Part of the reason that they were able to do that is because Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, didn't put votes on the floor that would - that divided Democrats. Keystone pipeline is a perfect example. So, at this point, it's sort of, there's nothing to lose strategy. Republicans are going to do it anyway in next year if Democrats don't do it now, so why not take a chance, see if this helps Mary Landrieu and, of course, since Republicans run the House, her Republican opponent is a House member, they're going to try to one-up her by taking a vote there on the same thing probably tomorrow.", "All right, we're going to talk more about this in the next hour of NEWSROOM. Dana Bash reporting live from Washington this morning. A terrifying scene playing out 68 stories up. Two window washers were trapped when their platform collapsed at New York's One World Trade Center. The rig dropped from horizontal to nearly vertical after a cable gave way.", "A scary moment, yes, very scary.", "I'm just thinking about the guys, they are just hanging by a thread.", "I'm seeing two heads right now dangling over the scaffolding.", "They were in a bad spot. They had no options but they were professionals. They knew they weren't going anywhere, you know, so they weren't panicking, but they had no options.", "Rescue workers used a diamond saw to cut through three layers of thick glass to reach the workers and pull them inside the building. The operation took an agonizing 90 minutes. The workers were treated for mild hypothermia and they're OK this morning. That's just my worst nightmare. It's unbelievable. OK, time to get serious once again. \"I tried to stop him before he shot himself,\" words from a heroic teacher who came face-to-face with 15-year-old Jaylen Fryberg. Fryberg opened fire in the cafeteria of a Marysville, Washington, high school. Four students and Fryberg died. Now for the first time we're hearing the dramatic 911 tapes. CNN's Michaela Pereira joins me with more. Good morning.", "Good morning to you, Carol. It's so chilling, this newly released audio of the horrifying 911 calls from that deadly school shooting last month in Washington state. A teacher is heard on these tapes pleading for help amid all this chaos. Chaos caused by a student, a student armed with a gun, who took innocent lives, one by one, eventually taking his own.", "We have reports of gunfire.", "Chilling, newly released 911 calls capture those terrifying moments during the Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooting.", "I just ran out of the school. The door was right there, and I am out of the school right now.", "Students, teachers and staff flooding 911.", "I just left the cafeteria and guided students out the side door.", "As inside the cafeteria, freshman Jaylen Fryberg shot five of his classmates, injuring one, another died on the scene, three later succumbed to their injuries.", "We have many injured, Marysville-Pilchuck High School. We need emergency right away.", "And we're now hearing, for the first time, the heroic teacher who tried to stop Fryberg.", "Blood is everywhere. I do not see the gun.", "Before the 15-year-old turned the gun on himself.", "I need help.", "What -", "I need help now.", "he is wearing all black. I'm staring at him right now, sitting next to him.", "He is a high school student. I do not know how old he is.", "OK. Do you know his name?", "I tried to stop him before he shot himself.", "As word spread quickly around the community, frantic calls from parents began pouring in.", "I just got a phone call from my daughter from Pilchuk High School.", "Zoey Galasso's mother messaged her daughter, \"are you OK?,\" but the 14-year-old never responded.", "They finally - finally had to tell us that our child had passed at the school. And he took away one of the best things that I ever brought into this world.", "That mother you just saw there, Michelle Galasso, her daughter was one of the first to die in the cafeteria on that terrible day. I think what's really amazing is that she says she forgives Jaylen Fryberg, the shooter. And this is what she says, quote, \"I have to forgive because I cannot waste my life hating or being angry.\" What's even more amazing is, she said that when she saw Jaylen Fryberg, the shooter's mother, she went up to her, she hugged her, she told her she loved her because she realized that this was a mother who was grieving as well. We should point out, his cousin -- Jaylen Fryberg's cousin, who he shot and ultimately killed, he died a week ago, he's going to be laid to rest tomorrow on the Tulalip Indian Reservation. He was just 16 years old.", "that's just unbelievable and, you're right, it proves, though, there are wonderfully, great, good people in the world.", "And also this is going to help her heal. You can't live with that kind of anger, although nobody would fault you. Nobody would fault you.", "No. No, that's a special person.", "It is.", "Michaela thanks so much.", "Still to come in the NEWSROOM, a community on edge as a grand jury decides whether Police Officer Darren Wilson should be indicted in the shooting death of Michael Brown. What does the future hold if Wilson is not indicted? One of the city's state senators will join me with her perspective, next."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COSTELLO", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "DISPATCHER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "DISPATCHER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COSTELLO", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "KOSIK", "COSTELLO", "KOSIK", "COSTELLO", "NEWSROOM. KOSIK", "COSTELLO", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LT. 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{"id": "CNN-390181", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2020-01-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/13/ath.02.html", "summary": "Bloomberg Campaign Manager, Kevin Sheekey, Discusses Bloomberg Saying Early Primary States Hurting Democrats, Booker Dropping Out, Beating Trump, Trump Responding to Health Care Ad", "utt": ["Kate, happy New Year.", "Thank you very much. You, too. Lots to talk about with this op-ed. The breaking news at the top of the hour, I want your reaction to the fact that Cory Booker has dropped out of the primary.", "Well, I'm a big fan of Cory. I've known Cory, Senator Booker since he first ran for mayor. Mike Bloomberg was very supportive of his mayoralty and campaign for Senate. I think his campaign didn't get legs. There's not always a great reason for that. He's been a terrific Senator and was a great mayor.", "To the opinion piece that Bloomberg published this morning, you're trying to win over Democratic voters, of course, and saying here, and what I just read that the process that Democrats have set up is undemocratic. How is that winning people over?", "Well, let's talk about that we're trying to do. We're trying to remove Donald Trump from office. You're right, we should throw the whole thing out. We, as Democrats, spend a year living in Iowa, raising money around the country, moving people to Iowa, knocking on doors, getting to know those voters and investing every single dollar we can raise around the country in Iowa. The one thing that Democrat and Republican pollsters agree on is Donald Trump is going to win Iowa. We have thrown out a year of investment in a state that isn't going to make a difference in November. There are six states that are critical in November. And they're Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Florida, and Arizona and Pennsylvania. Those are states that Donald Trump is campaigning in every single day. Brad Parscale put out a tweet out last week where he talked about their efforts and the voters they have been reaching out to. And 80 percent of the voters they brought online, they're targeting, are in those states. We put ourselves at an enormous disadvantage to invest every dollar we can over a year in a state that won't make a difference in November. That should be an enormous concern to any Democrat.", "Have you heard anything from the Democratic Party chairman, Tom Perez, of the DNC, on this morning?", "I expect to hear some comments from my friends in Iowa. And I do have friends in Iowa, or at least I suppose I used to have friends in Iowa.", "Use to.", "Listen, this is too important. We have to come together as a party and nationally to fight the fight that needs to be fought to remove Donald Trump from office. And we've put ourselves at a disadvantage. What Mike Bloomberg said in an op-ed on CNN today that if he was president of the United States and the, you know, the head of the Democratic Party, he would reorder the primaries to reflect where the battleground states are. What you would do this year is you would lead with Wisconsin, with Michigan, with Pennsylvania, and then with North Carolina or Florida. Imagine the difference that we would be seeing today if, for a year, Democrats, 18, 24 different presidential candidates were knocking on doors in those states. We would be poised to win those states in November. Right now, if the elections were held in Wisconsin today, any Democrat loses to Donald Trump, according to the polls. That's something that this campaign is very focused on changing.", "So I hear that Bloomberg is saying that today. But last week, asked if Iowa should stay the first state to vote, Bloomberg said yes. Let me play this, what he told reporters.", "I think we've got a tradition here of four states, two with caucuses, two with elections. They work very hard. They love the attention. The system has gotten used to it. And I guess the Democratic Party probably shouldn't take it away.", "Shouldn't take it away. So what changed in a week, Kevin?", "I think, listen, Mike was trying to be respectful to friends of his as well in Iowa when asked on the road. I think, today, what he's saying is, I think any American should see and does see, which is we are faced with an existential threat and we can't be tied down by the rules of the past. We have to change the rules to win elections going forward. And we have to get into states where the battle is going to be fought. There's one campaign today that is fighting in those states and it is Mike Bloomberg.", "Bloomberg is also saying now, even if he loses the primary, he's going to keep the offices open, up and running to defeat Trump and campaign for whoever is the nominee. Even if the nominee is campaigning on something like Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax, that Bloomberg has called unconstitutional, he'll put money towards that?", "It is a remarkable pledge. I think it tells you everything about who Mike Bloomberg is. Listen, before he got into this race, you know, he was asked, repeatedly, about whether he would support Elizabeth Warren if she was the nominee, and the answer was simple for him, which is, hey, if Elizabeth Warren is running against Donald Trump, I'm supporting Elizabeth Warren.", "We'll see. First and foremost, let's see what happens with the primary. President Trump today is responding already to your newest health care ad that is out. In the tweet, he's name-calling Bloomberg and making a surprising promise that he says that the Trump administration is working to protect health care coverage for those with pre-existing conditions. The administration's efforts to date prove otherwise. Regardless of the inconsistency there, what do you say to President Trump because you're getting his attention.", "Well, listen, two things to say there. Part of this campaign in places like Wisconsin and Michigan and other battleground states, it is important to reach out and say that President Trump lied to them. A lot of folks don't understand how much the president acted against their interest and the interest of all Americans. The second part is Michael Bloomberg is getting under the president's skin. Mike will build the largest, most diverse, broadest campaign in American history and the campaign that I think is best poised to take Donald Trump from office. And I think they're figuring it out. Steve Bannon was quoted yesterday saying that Mike Bloomberg was responsible for impeachment. His argument there was -- and I think he said it on your network -- that Mike Bloomberg worked last cycle to support 21 Democrats running for office in Republican-held congressional seats. He elected 18 of them and 15 women. Steve Bannon's view was, hey, you've got to watch out for Mike Bloomberg and the atomic bomb -- his words, not mine -- about to go off on March 3rd. That's a warning shot for the president that Steve Bannon sees and I think the president sees now, too.", "Kevin, thank you very much for coming in. Appreciate your time.", "Kate, always a pleasure.", "Thank you. Coming up for us, a CNN exclusive. CNN goes inside Al-Asad Airbase and talks to U.S. troops about the chaos and confusion on the night Iran launched a missile attack. 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{"id": "CNN-107191", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2006-6-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/16/lol.04.html", "summary": "Human Rights Activists Criticize China for Organ Harvesting", "utt": ["Before the break we met Eric De Leon, a cancer patient determined to survive, even if it meant going to China for a high- cost, high-risk transplant of dubious origins. Why China? Plenty of donors, willing or otherwise, and a government happy that's happy to provide them, if the price is right. Here, again, CNN's Randi Kaye.", "For Eric De Leon, it is a race against the clock. Nine cancerous tumors are eating away at his liver. Chemotherapy hardly made a dent. And because his cancer will likely come back, doctors in the United States have taken Eric off the transplant list. But Eric is refusing to give up, refusing to die.", "I said I'm going to beat this. I am going to do whatever it takes to get this done. I'm not going to leave my family behind.", "Eric's doctors aren't nearly as confident. A transplant coordinator at Eric's California hospital wrote this note, \"I guess he is toast and he is looking to get transplant in China. Oh, well, life is sweet.\" A world away, after mortgaging his home, Eric finds hope. China is offering organ transplants to foreign patients willing to pay whatever it costs. It's called organ tourism. Eric finds a Chinese transplant service. Two weeks later, Eric and his wife are in Shanghai. (on camera) You were never given any indication that your husband's new liver may come from a prisoner?", "Not -- no, we weren't told beforehand that this is where it's coming from. We weren't told after.", "With more than 4,700 prisoners executed in China over the last two years, according to Amnesty International, there is no shortage of organs, but the organs may be coming from prisoners who did not provide consent. Critics say some organs in China are even taken before the prisoner is actually dead. (on camera) Remember, not any donor is suitable because of the risk of rejection. Blood and tissue types must match as closely as possible. In China, Eric and other would-be recipients provide a blood sample. Then Chinese doctors find a match. But for some activists and physicians, that raises the question about the timing of certain executions.", "Somebody was killed for me? Yes, I'd feel bad, but there's no way of knowing that.", "The Chinese hospital gave Eric a cell phone and instructions. He and his wife should enjoy the sites until the cell phone rang. That would signal a matching organ was available. Though nervous, a new liver seemed all but certain. They did enjoy being tourists. Then, just two weeks later the phone rang. After five and a half hours in the operating room, Eric had a healthy new liver, a second chance at life. U.S. doctors are seeing more and more transplant patients who have returned from China.", "Whatever that source might be one can speculate about. However, there is significant correlation between the actual number of executions that are done at any particular time and the number of transplants that are done.", "Some doctors, like New York transplant surgeon Thomas Diflo, believe what may be happening to prisoners in China is a gross violation of human rights. He refuses to treat people who have had surgery in China. Dr. Diflo recalls the first time he heard about it. It was a female patient. I said, \"Where did you get your organ?\" And she said, \"From an executed prisoner.\" Dr. Diflo was horrified. So what is the United States doing to stop organ tourism? Chris Smith and more than a dozen other congressmen wrote this letter to the president of China, demanding the practice be changed. No response.", "The Chinese government, unfortunately, is largely tone- deaf when it has come to human rights.", "The Chinese government refused our request for an interview but issued this statement to CNN. \"The reports about China's random transplant of organs from executed criminals are untrue and a malicious slander against the Chinese judiciary system,\" adding \"in China it is very prudent to use organs from death penalty criminals.\"", "The bigger the lie, the better people will swallow it. And this is a big lie.", "As for Eric De Leon, he says the answer is more donors in the U.S. More than 90,000 people are on the transplant waiting list in the United States today. Last year, 6,268 people died while waiting. Still, Dr. Diflo calls Eric's decision ethically irresponsible and unacceptable. Eric has no regrets. (on camera) What if they didn't consent?", "If they didn't consent, that's a hard question.", "Would you still want that liver?", "I don't think I would, but I don't think we'll ever know that.", "Everybody has the right to their own opinion. If you're not in the shoes that my husband was in, or my position where, you know, you're so close to home with it, it's very hard for you to even judge somebody or state what you would or wouldn't do.", "So while the foreign powers figure out how to come to terms on organ tourism, Eric's children celebrate their dad's recovery.", "I looked there and felt the liver.", "You felt the liver in his shirt? Did you hug him and tell him you loved him?", "Yes.", "What did you say to him?", "I love you.", "With a 90 percent chance his cancer will return and no spot on the transplant list, Eric is making the most of his time with family and quietly thanking the stranger who saved him, whether he did so willingly or not. Randi Kaye, CNN, San Mateo, California.", "And you can see more stories from Randi Kaye on Anderson Cooper's show. Catch \"AC 360\" weeknights, 10 Eastern, 7 Pacific. More than 30 years and billions of dollars later, Bill Gates is giving up the helm of Microsoft. The company's mega-rich co-founder is opting for a more philanthropic role starting in 2008. He believes with great wealth comes great responsibility, so he plans to oversee full time the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In light of that announcement, we wondered who benefits from that Gates Foundation and by how much? The answer is in today's \"Fact Check\".", "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is said to be the world's largest philanthropic organization, supporting work in more than 100 countries, they say, with an endowment of more than $29 billion. The foundation focuses on improving the lives of the disadvantaged through health and education initiatives. Roughly 70 percent of the foundation grants last year were directed toward global causes. The rest spent on initiatives here in the United States. According to the organization's web site, last year's total grant payments were a little more than $1.3 billion. Some of the foundation's biggest commitments, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations at $1.5 billion. Another $1 billion is directed toward the United Negro College Fund. On the local level, the Adult United Way of King County is getting $55 million from the foundation. In all, Bill and Melinda Gates say in the last 12 years they have given more than $1 billion to charitable causes.", "World Cup fever may finally be catching on in the United States, but that may not be such a good thing for employers. Susan Lisovicz live from the New York Stock exchange with that story. Hey, Susan.", "Hey, Kyra. You know, a lot of kids who played soccer are now entrenched in the workforce and so more Americans than before are watching the World Cup, and that means workers everywhere are sneaking peeks at TV screens and Web sites, faking cigarette breaks, even calling in sick to keep up with the tournament action. You know who you are. Experts are expecting a huge increase over the 3.9 million Americans who watched Brazil beat Germany in final of the 2002 World Cup. That's leading many U.S. companies, including Anheuser-Busch, McDonald's, Yahoo!, Coke, and MasterCard to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on official partnerships. But it could also lead to decreased productivity in many workplaces. For example, more than half of the TV monitors on some trading floors of Deutsche Bank's New York offices were tuned to the first U.S. game on Monday, which, unfortunately, the America squad lost 3-0 to the Czech Republic. Some employers are taking measures to keep workers focused. According to St. Bernard Software, 15 percent of companies are blocking Internet content related to the World Cup, but other companies are pandering, buying plasma TVs and throwing World Cup parties to boost morale and get employees to come to work. In any case, it's probably a good that the American team's next game against Italy is being played during the weekend. Tomorrow, Kyra.", "They'll be a lot of people watching.", "Doing it on your own time.", "Oh yes. Well, you know, the World Cup is always a huge event for betters. Which teams do you think are the popular picks on Wall Street?", "Well, you know, that is intriguing. There is this whole theory of stock picking for the Super Bowl. We report on that each year. Well, Goldman Sachs has come up with a method for picking the World Cup winners based on stock market performance, the index ranking the top team's based on how well their country's stock markets have performed since the last World Cup. Their pick -- Ukraine followed by Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, the Czech Republic, and Mexico. Argentina, the Czech Republic and especially Brazil and all are expected to do well in this year's tournament. But Goldman's pick for the winner may be a bit off target. Ukraine to Spain 4-0 in its first match on Wednesday -- Kyra.", "All right, Susan. Let's talk about all the other stocks there on Wall Street. How is it looking?", "Thanks, Susan. Well, eat your veggies and watch your waistline shrink. \"Fit Nation\" is just ahead on CNN, the most trusted name in news.", "My business uniform.", "Seventy-two- year-old Howard Cutter spends the days of his retirement exactly as he hoped he would, fine-tuning his craft as an accomplished woodworker. He built his dream workshop after a 37-year career with", "So I began maybe 10 years before I retired to say, what can I do if I could do whatever I wanted to do? And I'd always had a love of fine art and of design. Once I got the notion that I was doing pretty well, I decided I was going to build something a little more difficult. I tackled a rocking chair, which turned out to be a real challenge. And from beginning to end, it took me about three years to finish it. I started entering juried competitions and when I began to win ribbons, I started making things and putting them in several galleries. There's nothing that's quite as nice as when somebody sees something you've done and say I love it and can you do one like that for me? Absolutely I'm living my dream. It's a thrill to get up and come out here every day.", "Valerie Morris, CNN, New York."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "KAYE (voice-over)", "E. DE LEON", "KAYE", "LORI DE LEON, WIFE", "KAYE (voice-over)", "E. DE LEON", "KAYE (voice-over)", "DR. THOMAS DIFLO, TRANSPLANT SURGEON, NYU MEDICAL CENTER", "KAYE", "SMITH", "KAYE", "SMITH", "KAYE", "E. DE LEON", "KAYE", "E. DE LEON", "L. 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{"id": "CNN-232190", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2014-6-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/07/ndaysat.01.html", "summary": "\"Saturday Night Live\" Star in Critical Condition after Deadly Multiple Car Collision on New Jersey Turnpike; Sergeant Bergdahl's Recuperating In U.S. Military Hospital in Germany", "utt": ["Good morning, everyone, on a Saturday. Certainly not news anybody wants to wake up to. I'm Christi Paul.", "I'm Victor Blackwell. 6:00 here on NEW DAY SATURDAY, and the breaking news is happening along the New Jersey Turnpike in Mercer County where actor/comedian Tracy Morgan was involved in a very serious auto accident.", "Yeah, New Jersey officials just telling us that this is just actually very, very early in the game here. But, Jersey officials telling us that the star is in critical condition at a hospital. Details are still coming in. As I said, the word of this is just coming in to us here. Not clear whether he was traveling alone. We don't even know if he was behind the wheel. But Sergeant First Class Gregory William, New Jersey state police with us here to tell us more about this. Gregory, can you let us know more about what you have heard this morning? When did it happen?", "Yes. Well, it's all preliminary information, active investigation now. 1:00 a.m. this morning on the New Jersey turnpike, 71.5 northbound, which is I-95 here in New Jersey. Six-vehicle accident, two tractor trailers involved. Comedian actor Tracy Morgan was involved, he is in intensive care at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick. Looks like two tractor trailers, a limo bus, SUV, limo bus overturned. Tracy Morgan was in the limo bus, but he is alive, he is in intensive care. That Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick, preliminary right now, and it's possibly just one fatality. And the roads are closed. Heavy diversion at 7 at northbound. And this accident occurred between 7a and 8a northbound on the New Jersey Turnpike. And right now that's basically what we have, all we have.", "Sergeant, do you have any indication as to the cause?", "The cause of the accident, we do not have that. It's under investigation. Active investigation.", "Sergeant, the one fatality was that a passenger or the driver of this limo bus?", "Do not know whether or not it was a passenger or driver. Believed to be a passenger, also.", "But inside the limo bus?", "Inside the limo bus.", "OK.", "What are the kind of injuries do you know of?", "Well, seven people have been taken to the hospital, all injuries are unknown at this time.", "Are those seven people all passengers, drivers inside this limo bus?", "Unknown whether or not they are drivers or passengers, but just seven persons have been taken to the hospital.", "At this point, is there any way to know if alcohol was involved? If - we talked about cause, but if there's any element of being drunk or anything at this hour of the night?", "No, at this time, there's no way of really knowing whether or not alcohol was involved, as of yet. I do not have that information right now. The information that I have doesn't indicate that.", "Sergeant Williams, do you know how many people were in that limo bus with Tracy Morgan?", "Do not have the exact number on that, but seven of those persons were transported to the hospital.", "OK, so what - at what stage are you right now? What is happening there on the freeway as we speak?", "As we speak, the turnpike, northbound, is shut down. The road is closed for this investigation between 7a and 8a northbound on the turnpike.", "That critical condition characterization of Tracy Morgan's condition, at what hour did you get that? How old or new is that?", "This is the latest information that I received probably about 45 minutes ago. He is in intensive care at Robert Wood Johnson.", "All righty. And did you say it happened around 1:00 a.m.?", "00 a.m. is when the original accident occurred this morning.", "Do we know if he or any of the seven people taken to the hospital are in or are in need of surgery of any kind?", "I do not have that information.", "OK, but six vehicles you said were involved in this accident and again, two were tractor trailers?", "Yes. Yes. Six vehicles, two tractor trailers and that limo bus is also included in that.", "You said the limo bus overturned. Did any other vehicles overturn? I mean I'm just trying to get a good sense of what you are dealing with at the scene.", "Yes, the limo bus is the only vehicle that overturned. Looks like the tractor trailer may have - one of the tractor trailers may have rear ended that limo bus. It's all preliminary at this time.", "And are there three other vehicles that are involved, because we know the two tractor trailers, the limo bus, you say, a total of six, no injuries to any drivers or passengers in those other three vehicles?", "That is not clear as right now. I believe all the injuries are from that overturned limo bus.", "OK.", "OK.", "Do we know how many people were on board that bus?", "I do not have that exact number right now.", "All right. Well, again, listen, if you are just joining us, we want to get you caught up here. A very serious situation on the turnpike there in New Jersey between 7a and 8a northbound. The turnpike is closed because of a very serious accident involving six people - or six vehicles, I should say, rather. One of them was a limo bus where Tracy Morgan, you know him as an actor and alum of \"", "\"30 Rock\" as well.", "He's in critical condition right now and in intensive care in a hospital in New Jersey along with seven other people who were transported to the hospital as well. We do not know their conditions. There is not a cause, yet, given as this is an active investigation. And as I said, the turnpike is closed in that area. But, involving two tractor trailers and the sergeant there, Sergeant Gregory Williams, and we thank you so much for being with us, sergeant. Telling us that it is believed at least one of those tractor trailers may have rear ended that limo bus which then flipped over.", "One fatality in this accident. And we know that again, Tracy Morgan, comedian, well known for his work on the series \"30 Rock\" and \"Saturday Night Live.\" In intensive care right now at Robin Wood Johnson Hospital in New Jersey. Of course, we will continue to follow the story and get you the very latest on his condition that intensive care and critical condition status update is according to the sergeant 45 minutes old. So, the very latest after this 1:00 a.m. car crash. We'll continue to follow and get you more as we get more in. Also this morning, the big story that people have been talking about for a couple of days now and President Obama making some news just hours ago with this fire back at his critics on Capitol Hill.", "He actually told that NBC News that he would do the prisoner swap for Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl all over again, if he had to.", "By definition, you don't do prisoner exchanges with your friends, you do them with your enemies.", "That even though the Taliban, the release of five Taliban detainees, as you know, has sparked an outcry from Republicans and Democrats both including some of the president's staunchest allies.", "We are also learning dramatic new details about Bergdahl's five years in captivity. Let's go first to CNN's Erin McPike for more on President Obama's defense of that deal.", "President Obama returns to Washington from a whirlwind European tour facing a growing storm over last week's dramatic release of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. A key question in this NBC News interview, why didn't he tell Congress beforehand?", "We saw an opportunity and we took it. And I make no apologies for it, the main concern was is that we had to act fast in a delicate situation that required no publicity.", "Sources say the Taliban didn't threaten to kill Bergdahl as administration officials suggested to senators. And lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are skeptical including Democrat Dianne Feinstein who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee. She told Bloomberg News.", "I don't think there was a credible threat, that - but I don't know. I have no information that there was.", "What's more, lawmakers from both parties don't buy the administration's initial explanation that Bergdahl's health was urgently deteriorating. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is under pressure to release the proof of life video of Bergdahl from last December that the White House showed Senators to make that case. Despite the shifting stories and growing political backlash, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended the president telling ABC News ....", "If you look at what the factors were going into the decision, of course there are competing interests and values. I mean one of our values is we bring everybody home off the battlefield the best we can. It doesn't matter how they ended up in a prisoner of war situation.", "But even General Jim Jones, one of President Obama's former national security advisers has questioned the deal telling CNN ...", "I come down on the side that you don't negotiate with terrorists. I think that's a rock solid principle. And I think once you show that there's weakness there, that you open the door for possibly other bad things to happen.", "Erin McPike, CNN, the White House.", "Bowe Bergdahl is recovering now at an American military hospital in Germany. And doctors say he's in stable condition, continues to improve as well, but is not ready to travel back to the", "CNN senior international correspondent Matthew Chance is live from Landstuhl, Germany. Matthew, so good to see you this morning. Have doctors released any sort of gauge or time frame as to when Bergdahl may be able to head home?", "No. We have been consistently asking them, Christi, to give us some kind of time frame, just for a guidance, just for a logistical purposes. And they are not being able to do that, they are saying, look, there's no predetermined time frame, which they are operating on. It all depends on the pace of his healing, Sergeant Bergdahl's healing. On the pace of his reintegration. It's a very structured approach here at the Landstuhl regional medical facility, which is U.S. military hospital in southern Germany where Sergeant Bergdahl is being treated. A very structured approach to his reintegration, it involves very careful assessment of his medical needs, because of patient's privacy laws, they are not going into detail about what is wrong with him. Only saying that part of his treatment is to address the nutritional and dietary shortcomings that have emerged from being in captivity for nearly five years. With the Taliban, and also we can have any other issues. There's also the psychological issue they are looking at, clearly having been in such a difficult situation for so long. It will have had an enormous psychological toll. And until that comfortable, that is stabilized, they are not going to move to the third phase - reintegration would be Sergeant Bergdahl going back to the United States, Christi.", "There are always the scars one can see and those that one cannot see. Matthew Chance reporting for us this morning. Matthew, thank you. Also, police say it was very close to being a catastrophe. 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{"id": "CNN-140267", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2009-7-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/09/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Where's Jackson's Body?; What Killed Michael Jackson?", "utt": ["Two weeks since the death of Michael Jackson and his body remains unburied. In fact, no one knows for sure where it is right now, at least outside of the immediate family and their closest friends. The journalist and CNN contributor, Bryan Monroe, is joining us now to talk a little bit about that and what -- some other issues that are still out there. Lots of unanswered questions -- have you heard anything specific, Bryan, about the body -- where it is right now, where it might be buried?", "Well, it's a little bit unclear. From what I'm hearing, it could be in a mausoleum near or around Forest Lawn. There was even questions on how it made it back from Staples Center after the ceremony. But they've got a little bit of time. I think they're trying to work out where both -- there was an application for a temporary internment at Forest Lawn and that's on file with the state. And they may be holding it there for a while, until they can get, perhaps, the legal situation at Neverland together with both the state and the owners of the property -- the co-owners of the property, trying to clear it with the community near Neverland. So that's still an option.", "His brother, Jermaine Jackson, told our Larry King that would be his first choice, to see the body buried at Neverland, at that ranch. But there's a lot of legal paperwork you've got to go through to get permission for that to happen and that could take some time. Let's move on and talk about the investigation right now. There are some doctors who the authorities want to question, specifically. Give us some context -- some perspective of what they want to ask these doctors.", "Well, it's looking at what kind of medications were they prescribing him and for what -- what causes. And, also, I think the toxicology reports that will come out after the autopsy in a few weeks may confirm what, if anything, he had in his system. We know that Michael has had issues with prescription drugs. And, in fact, the report that came out that his sister, Janet, as well as Rebbie, the other sister, and Jackie and Randy, tried, even, an intervention with him back in the end of 2006, the beginning of 2007. And he shut them out in that process. So there was concern about using prescription drugs to sort of, as he says, bring himself down after a long day. There was never any sense that he was a recreational drug user at all, but -- but there was questions about was there an overuse of certain painkillers and even, you know, the latest report about the Diprivan or the Propofol, which was that short-term sedative that was very, very dangerous that could have been used to help him go to sleep at night.", "Yes. Our investigative reporter, Drew Griffin, reported on this intervention at the end of 2006, 2007 -- that Janet Jackson, when she saw her brother, apparently was so concerned, she wanted the immediate family members to get involved. And as you say, he rebuffed them. What kind of a relationship did Michael Jackson have with Janet Jackson?", "Well, they were -- they were close. And all -- all the brothers and sisters were close on different levels. You know, Michael saw, at the core, his family first. And while there were many friends and advisers and legal counsel and health counsel in and out of his life, his family was there forever. And so the flip side of that is when he would get tired of them or they would get too close to -- to something, he would turn them off and not return phone calls for a while. But he knew they would always come back into their lives. They weren't going anywhere.", "The -- the family, obviously, we saw Janet Jackson at that memorial earlier in the week. And she was really comforting those little -- little kids, especially the daughter, Paris. I assume -- and you know this a lot better than I do -- she had a pretty good relationship with those kids?", "Yes. She was -- she was a great auntie and still -- and you saw -- saw the image yesterday when -- when Paris leaned against her arm and Janet reached out to comfort her. And then, as Paris was beginning the speech, they were -- all the sisters, Janet, Rebbie and Latoya, were right there to support her, as well as all six of the brothers. And -- and even the other -- the other two children, Prince and Blanket, tucked in there, right in the center of that love and of that family. And I think as they work through the custody issues, they -- I think they should stay and remain inside that core Jackson family, with the grandmother, with the brothers and sisters, their uncles and aunts. And their cousins -- they have a whole host of cousins that really love them.", "And they have an incredible nanny who's been involved in their lives -- almost all of their lives, as well, by all accounts.", "Right. Yes, they call her Grace.", "Right, from Rwanda, I think, originally. All right. Listen to this exchange, Bryan, that Larry King had light night on \"LARRY KING LIVE\" with Dr. Arnie Klein, Michael Jackson's long time dermatologist. Listen to this. (", "About the children -- and this is hypothetical.", "All right.", "If you were the parent -- this is hypothetical.", "Yes?", "Would you go and talk to them? Would you do something about it? Would you let it ride?", "I'd spend every -- if I was the parent, I would spend every moment of the day with the children. I'd spend 24 hours a day.", "You'd become their father?", "Absolutely.", "It's a very strange story, because he's not completely ruling out that he's the biological father of the two older kids, as you know, Bryan. He's saying to the best of his knowledge, he's not. But, you know, he's leaving some wiggle room there. What did you make of this?", "Well, that was a fascinating interview he did with Larry King last night. I'd urge the viewers to go on CNN.com and check that out again. But he really -- he left a little wiggle room there. He did admit that he had donated sperm at one -- at one point, but was very ambiguous about it. But one thing he was clear about was how much he saw the love that Michael had for his children and how supportive he wanted to be in that process, no matter what he needed to do. But he explained the relationship and the relationship he had, both medically and personally, with -- with Michael. I thought it was a fascinating conversation.", "Yes, I agree. It was an amazing interview, indeed. And I watched it. Larry did an excellent job. It was just good, good television. All right. Thanks very much, Bryan. We'll see you back here tomorrow.", "Thanks, Wolf.", "A looming health crisis prompts President Obama to order a flu summit. The H1N1 flu, also known as swine flu, expected to come back with a vengeance in the United States in the fall. So what's the country doing to prepare? Plus, just released -- a dash cam video of Steve McNair's girlfriend being arrested for DUI only before the murder/suicide that took both their lives."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BRYAN MONROE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "MONROE", "BLITZER", "MONROE", "BLITZER", "MONROE", "BLITZER", "MONROE", "BLITZER", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM \"LARRY KING LIVE\") LARRY KING, HOST", "DR. ARNIE KLEIN, MICHAEL JACKSON'S DERMATOLOGIST", "KING", "KLEIN", "KING", "KLEIN", "KING", "KLEIN", "BLITZER", "MONROE", "BLITZER", "MONROE", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-113182", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2006-12-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/25/lkl.08.html", "summary": "Encore Presentation: Angelina Jolie, Matt Damon and Robert DeNiro Discuss \"The Good Shepherd\"", "utt": ["Merry Christmas, everybody. Larry King here, with a welcome back to our holiday cavalcade of stars on \"LARRY KING LIVE.\" We're looking back at our most special moments of the year, 2006, and you can't get more special than three Oscar winners on the set at the same time -- Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon. What an hour it was. Take a look.", "Tonight, Hollywood beauty and leading lady Angelina Jolie. She and Brad Pitt together one of the most famous couples in the world.", "Who's your daddy now?", "And a rare chance to talk with screen legend Robert DeNiro.", "Are you talking to me? Then who the else are you talking to? Are you talking to me?", "Yes, Bob, I'm talking to you. And I'm also talking with the talented Mr. Matt Damon.", "It's Tom. Tom Ripley.", "A blockbuster night with three of Hollywood's biggest names now all together in a sensational new movie, next on LARRY KING LIVE. Good evening. This Friday wide, as they say, an extraordinary movie is going to open. It's titled \"The Good Shepherd.\" Three of its stars and its director are all with us here in New York. They are Angelina Jolie, who has earned an Academy Award for best supporting actress for \"Girl Interrupted,\" and one of the stars of this film, as we said. Robert DeNiro -- what can we say about Bobby? He's earned two Academy Awards, best actor for \"Raging Bull,\" best supporting actor for \"The Godfather: Part Two,\" and he's the director and co-star of this film. And the incredible Matt Damon, who may be in every scene. He's earned an Academy Award for best original screenplay for \"Good Will Hunting.\" Bobby, how did this all come about?", "Well, I have been working on for about, I guess, close to eight years. I was -- Eric Roth had -- I'd read this script and -- I guess about eight years ago -- and I went and met Eric and I asked him if he would -- I was working on something of the same subject, but it was not -- it was just -- I wasn't too happy the way it was going and I wasn't sure what I was doing. So I went to Eric and said would you like to work on this. And he wasn't interested, but we agreed that if I directed it...", "But for you he did it?", "Yes, he did. Well, he -- if were ever so lucky, if I directed \"The Good Shepherd,\" then he would write the next installment.", "Part two?", "Yes, if we were ever so lucky.", "How did we get you in it, Angelina?", "It's really not a hard sell. It's an amazing, a really complex, interesting script. And to work -- and I love Eric Roth; and to work with Mr. DeNiro, and to work with Matt. And it's a great character.", "But it's a different kind of role for you?", "Yes. Yes.", "The good house wife.", "The not-so good. But yes. Yes.", "She's loyal and she tries her best.", "I don't know how perfect she is. I mean, she certainly trapped him into marriage. She's not quite perfect and she drinks too much and she's -- but, yes, certainly in comparison to me or the freedoms I have today, she's quite -- she is of a period in time married to the agency. And she is doing the best, I suppose, in my opinion, her way to just stay by her son.", "The film basically is all about the founding of the CIA. And Matt Damon is its -- you are it, right, running through? You are the CIA?", "Yes, well, yes. It's -- the character is in most -- in just about every frame of the movie. But, yes. Yes, so he kind of represents...", "That's the CIA answer.", "It was everything I hoped it would be.", "Is he tough?", "No, demanding in the right way, you know. It's hard work to -- and there was a lot -- it was something that he was really passionate about. And so to work that closely with him on something that he was passionate about was really great. But we really did feel that every single day was -- it was like the last day we were going to get to do this scene or this moment or that. And so we try to leave no stone unturned so that when he went into post-production he had all the material he needed to cut.", "Why do you generally resist talking about things?", "Well...", "Yes. It's like I've been trying 25 years or something? Why?", "I think it's easier. Well, like even the movie, if I had my way, I would just say, well, hopefully you see the movie, and that will be it, you know?", "You don't like talking about your work?", "Well, no, I don't mind. Maybe it's a little easier with the directing, only because there's more to talk about, with so many different aspects of it that you can talk about. And, yes.", "But generally it's difficult for you?", "I'm uncomfortable with it most of the time.", "You're not, are you Angelina?", "Me?", "Yes.", "No, I talk. That's why they stick us together.", "What took you so long to be here?", "To be on your show?", "To be on this show.", "I don't know. It -- I don't know why, actually. I'm, you know -- it's not like I've been hiding. They, you know, they get me on the treadmill for these things and I'm a pretty good soldier about it. So I'm surprised I haven't been here before. So it's...", "Does, though, Angelina as -- you're a spokesperson. You like coming out, right?", "No. I mean, I don't actually love talking about my -- the process of work or out there explaining a project. But I personally was just somebody who -- I wanted to be an artist because I needed to communicate more and I needed to understand life more. And I'm just that type of person. So when I've talked about my public life, my private life, it's never been to sell a movie. It's just been I'm a public person and I feel I've made a lot of mistakes. I've learned a lot of lessons, and I'm OK to share those things. And maybe it's more of a woman thing, that I feel that it's, you know, my experiences and I can share with other women, or whatever that may be. But it's not to sell a movie.", "It's the first time you worked with each other. What was that like, Matt, working with Angelina?", "It was -- it was great. It was strange. And if we work together again, it would probably be a completely different experience because of the characters that we played. It was a very bizarre. In fact, somebody told Angie that we had a lot of chemistry in the movie and we busted out laughing, because it -- there's absolutely no chemistry between these two. So it was interesting playing -- she's great in the movie and unlike anything she's ever done in a film.", "Correct.", "And very -- and utterly believable. And so to see her, I would just -- it would make me laugh sometimes when I was -- I would try not to bust her up when it was in her coverage. But I -- but she would be doing things that were so not her, or what I know of her, which -- I mean we don't know each other very well, but I mean, I do -- we know each other a bit. And it just struck me as -- it was just a really great performance, but -- but so unlike the strong individual...", "Yes, she's not Mrs. Smith...", "... that force of nature that is...", "She's not Mrs. Smith?", "Right. Exactly.", "We'll be right back with Angelina Jolie, Robert DeNiro and Matt Damon. The movie is \"The Good Hunter\" -- \"The Good Shepherd.\" It opens Friday. Why did I say Monday?", "Larry.", "\"The Good Shepherd.\" I'll repeat it for frequently, Bobby. Don't go away.", "We have a lot going on in our lives with our children and our work and our travel and all the things that are important to us. And we have many, many other wonderful things to talk about than what the world thinks of us.", "What about you Mr. Wilson? What do you believe in?", "Are you in school?", "You don't say very much, do you?", "When there's something worth saying.", "Oh. I think I'm going to like you.", "I've been telling the president about the need to create a new foreign intelligence service, one that would do in peacetime what OSS did during the war. Philip Down (ph) will be heading the agency. Richard Hayes (ph) will be his exec. And you'll be taking Division C, special operations that report only to the director. It would be limited to overseas, obviously, subversive operations, intelligence gathering and analysis. And I'd be interested in your thoughts about this.", "The movie is \"The Good Shepherd.\" It opens Friday. The guests are Robert DeNiro, its director, and two of its stars, Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon. They head, by the way, a great, extraordinary cast, a cast of characters all the way through. It's brilliantly done, and Mr. DeNiro is at the top of his form. We are sure that he'll be directing many more films. All of these people have to deal with public scrutiny. How do you handle tabloids?", "I ignore them.", "You ignore them? In other words, headline about Angelina Jolie, you don't read it?", "Yes.", "How can you walk right by?", "I don't go to those places. I -- you know, I get newspapers at the hotel or my house, delivered, and I don't -- I don't go to newsstands and, you know? It's actually not that hard to avoid. I don't watch those channels on TV. And I just don't.", "Always done that?", "I've never been overly interested in those headlines, whether it was me or somebody else. But I certainly make more of a point to ignore it now.", "Do you have difficulty with it, Bob?", "Yes, I agree with Angelina. That's what I do. I don't -- I don't read those -- those -- that material. And, yes, so I just avoid it, because I know it's not going to be -- it's sensationalizing something that's not -- not so, or partially so, or this or that. So I -- why buy into it?", "Do you think, Matt, that I -- meaning I or we, the collective we, have the right to your private life, once you choose a public life?", "Well, it's complicated. I think, yes, I think -- I think children being involved is different. I don't understand why they don't blur out the faces of kids in these -- in these publications, as I think they do in other countries. It's not a decision that they made. And so I think there's certain lines that are crossed. I don't know. I mean, personally, I don't -- I don't get it as bad as some. So particularly, I mean Angie and Brad...", "She gets it the worst.", "The worst of anybody in the country right now. And, you know, I've been around the world with Brad on the \"Ocean's\" movies and, I mean, you know, even George Clooney, who's a pretty famous guy, I mean, he marvels at what -- what it's like for Brad. And so when Brad and Angie are together, it's just -- you know, it's an absolute -- it's just a very -- it's a different thing than I would ever have to deal with. So...", "Brad's a friend of yours, though, right?", "Sure, yes. I mean, we've worked together three times now. And he -- what's interesting to me about it is that he does nothing at all to encourage it, nothing at all to encourage it. And neither does Angie.", "He's a good guy, right? He's just a regular good guy?", "He really is. I mean, he's just a terrific guy, just a very normal, regular person, as is Angie. And, I mean, I admire the fact that they -- they've taken this incredibly bright -- this bright spotlight that's on them and tried to turn it onto other issues that are of importance and are a better use of those resources that are being spent trying to figure out what goes on behind, you know, closed doors between -- between them. They've tried to shine that spotlight on areas around the world that they think are issues that are more relevant or important or a better use of that -- those resources.", "Angelina, do you get involved in each other's work? Like, do you rush to see his film? Will he...", "Brad?", "... quickly see \"The Good Shepherd?\"", "Yes, he'll see it tonight. And I did see \"Babel.\" I thought it was wonderful. I thought he was amazing. So, yes.", "Do you talk a lot about what people say about you?", "No.", "You don't?", "No.", "Well, I mean, you would think it would be normal to say --", "We have a very...", "... they're really rude.", "We have a very -- we have a lot going on in our lives with our children and our work and our travel and all the things that are important to us. We have many, many other wonderful things to talk about than what the world thinks of us.", "Let's go back to the movie a second. What do you like about directing?", "Well, it occupies my mind a lot more. I have so many things that I have to...", "It's your baby, right?", "Yes. And that is the -- I mean, it's a collaborative effort. And there are so many people involved, behind the scenes, around. The whole thing is like -- I'm amazed that it even gets done. And so that's -- you rely on all these people to help you get it done.", "When you're in the scene, how do you direct yourself?", "I talk to myself like this and turn around.", "It's really weird when you see it happening.", "You talk to yourself? No, with you it's possible.", "No. No, you know, just -- it's not so -- I'm not too thrilled by directing myself. It's hard. And I don't like to take too much time on myself, but I have to get it right, as right as I think it should be. And so I sometimes rely, say, the scenes that I did, on the script supervisor; Bob Richardson, the V.P.; anybody else -- Matt or Angie.", "You ask anybody's opinion?", "Yes.", "It's a little unnerving when he comes and says how was that?", "You know, what do you say?", "Great. You know, well, it was. But also Richardson was looking through -- he was actually, he was operating the camera. So that helps, too, when you have the guy who is actually seeing the movie.", "Your character is so low key. Is it tough to stay that way?", "Well, that was where -- I was directed to do that. And that's the greatest feeling for the group of actors that worked on the movie, to have Bob as the -- as the safety net, to be the minder of our performances, you know? That was -- I mean we all trust him implicitly, so...", "Did it help, Angelina, do you think, that he is an actor?", "Yes. Absolutely. I think at first we all had the feeling of, God, he could probably just tell us all exactly what to do and make these decisions himself. But because he's a great actor and a great director, he really helped us to find it ourselves. And -- but certainly he gives the best advice and has a real understanding of this, you know, how sensitive these certain situations are, moments or certain care, certain, you know, that actors need to get through different things and help us to find things or to not make us feel bad about the wrong choice, to help us understand the right one in a sensitive manner. And, yes, he guided us through it gently and it's strong.", "Our guests are Angelina Jolie, Robert DeNiro and Matt Damon. The film is \"The Good Shepherd.\" It opens Friday. We'll be right back.", "By the way, there's this -- someone called me today. Are you going to get married?", "Good night.", "Good night.", "How dare you speak to me that way?", "You are never to tell anybody what I do.", "How dare you?", "You are never to tell anyone...", "Those people are my friends.", "... what it is that I do.", "I don't have a lot of friends.", "Never. Do you understand?", "What do you do? What you do. I don't know what you do. You leave at 5:00, you're home at 10:00 seven days a week. You don't say a damn word to me. I live with a ghost. I don't know what you do.", "Satisfied?", "Not for years.", "We're back with the stars of the film \"The Good Shepherd.\" Robert DeNiro is also its director; Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon. Let's discuss how you pick what you pick. What is the basis of what -- of how you'll choose a film? Like \"Mr. and Mrs. Smith,\" let's say. You read that script. Did you like it right away?", "No.", "You didn't like it?", "No, I didn't think it was something I should -- I didn't know what I was looking for, but it wasn't something that obviously spoke to me. I hadn't done comedy or that kind of action comedy romance I didn't think was going to -- but I had somebody who was close to me who read and said she thought it was great. And I trusted the opinion of some people around me who said if you are ever going to do a comedy, this is probably the best kind for you to get to do. This is fun-and I could be in L.A. with my mom. And so it was decisions like that. It wasn't the film itself.", "Do you like action films?", "Sometimes. Yes.", "You've done them.", "I do, yes. And I like to break it up. But it's -- it gets you healthy. It's a fun-day on set. Yes.", "Back to DeNiro, the actor. How do you choose? What's your formula for I will do this?", "Well, it's either the director or the script, one of those two, at least. And who else is involved in it and has good intentions and so on. And I mean it could, I would -- if it's like Marty Scorsese, we have something that we want to do, we would work on. We don't have the script, but we have the idea, we have all the elements and we want to move forward and commit to making -- coming up with the story or the script and so on. Or another situation where the director -- I'm not sure of, but the script is great, and I know I had a lot to do with making that script great, well, then I would say, yes, you know?", "Do you have to be the star?", "No.", "No? You don't have to be the star. That's interesting. Matt Damon, what's your positioning for choice?", "Yes. No, I feel the same way. I go by director and script and the role is the third thing, if I was going to rate the importance. And so I end up in supporting roles a lot, but in movies that I really want to be in and that I like.", "Speaking of Scorsese and \"The Departed,\" did you like that right away?", "Yes. I mean that was a very easy decision. The fact that he was directing it, and plus it was set in Boston, where I'm from, and, you know, I know a lot about that stuff. So it was a great -- it was a great phone call to get.", "By the way does this -- someone called me today -- Are you going to get married? It's just interesting to know.", "No.", "I wish you lots of luck. Someone said that you're planning a Christmas wedding in South Africa.", "Ooh, no.", "You just blew it.", "You destroyed", "Thank you for your support if I was, but I'm not.", "You're not getting married on Christmas in -- not. The -- you're all parents. The impact of what you do on your offspring -- do you think it's great, Bob?", "Of course, yes. Of course.", "It affects their lives?", "Yes. It has to. Yes.", "There's a down side to that.", "Yes. Sure. That's -- that's something that is -- it comes with the territory and it's a double-edged sword. You know, that's...", "You're a father now, Matt, right?", "Yes.", "Five months, six months old?", "Six months old, yes.", "They can't be raised normal, right, Bob? By our standards of what would be normal?", "Yes. They're not -- they'll become aware of the attention that you get and then you would always hope that wherever they are, going to school and things like that, that people are sensitive to that. But you never know what people are going to say or do or what the parents say in front of other kids.", "It's not easy?", "No, not easy.", "The way you get treated, Angelina, you should have double worry.", "No, thanks.", "No, I mean, seriously, don't you?", "You know, yes. I'm hoping that as we get older, maybe we'll do less films, and it'll be less of -- we'll be less focused on, as our children hit their early teens, or at times when it's really, really on them. So this, hopefully, is as bad as it's going to get for us. And just to know, we don't raise our kids in Hollywood. They don't go to sets everyday. You know, they travel the world and we do many, many other things. So hopefully, they don't think this is just what their parents do for a living. They know -- they know many other things about who we are.", "But they are going to be fathered?", "Yes.", "That's something that's delicate to raise, right?", "Yes -- you, just -- yes. I mean it's -- they're restricted in the -- but they have a lot of other blessings and you just, like every parent, really, you just do the best you can with whichever situation you've got.", "The film is \"The Good Shepherd.\" It opens Friday. We'll be right back.", "If Hillary runs, will it be a", "Possibly, yes.", "Yes?", "He said that if it didn't work out between us that I could get my things and I could leave.", "Look into my eyes. Look in my eyes. You know me. Do you see anything in these eyes that makes you think I would ever let someone in your condition take my child away from me? Do you?", "It opens this Friday. They are Angelina Jolie, Robert DeNiro and Matt Damon. Celebrities and causes. Do you get involved, Angelina? Support political people?", "I haven't gotten out and -- I get involved in politics and global issues, but not specifically a one person -- I haven't done that yet.", "So you never come forward and say, \"Vote for ...\"", "No. Not yet.", "Bob? You were involved with Hillary, weren't you?", "Well yeah -- no -- I did a telephone message for Hillary, yeah.", "Have you supported others?", "I don't do it much but this year -- or the next presidential election, I feel that I'll be more active to hopefully make it right.", "If Hillary runs will it be she that you would endorse?", "Possibly, yeah.", "Do you think it's the duty of a person, actor or not?", "I think it is. Yeah. I mean, if you can help and I think it is, yes.", "Matt?", "Yeah. I've started working with the One Campaign to deal with the issues of extreme poverty in Africa and went to Africa earlier this year and I just kind of started down the road to kind of start getting educated about some of the issues that people face there. And I find it really interesting.", "Has George Clooney affected you in that regard?", "We actually started -- we kind of came around to some of the same stuff independently and we ended up talking about it after we had both been there. I mean what he did was very impressive -- going over to Chad and kind of sneaking in with his dad. It was very daring, actually, pretty incredible what he did and it brought to what's going on there.", "Back to \"The Good Shepherd.\" It is an anti-CIA film? You're the director.", "No, I never thought of it as being anti-CIA. I -- as a director you take the point of view of the characters to try and understand every one like -- as an actor I do the same so I wouldn't be -- it's just not ...", "Is it just a good story?", "It's a good story. You know, I would never be so -- for me, presumptuous or -- I don't want to say pretentious but about saying it's a political film about this. I just can't do that. People are going to take from it what they want.", "You don't see it as a film with a point of view?", "It might have a point of view that even I'm not aware of. That I'm just -- I do it. I would rather not even talk about it. Just see the movie -- I think -- I mean, I put myself into that film.", "Did you do all the casting?", "Yes.", "William Hurt. Great to see him back. Been kind of away.", "Yeah. He's a hard guy to find. I had to find him ...", "How did you like working with Alec Baldwin?", "Alec was great. I saw him on the show ...", "Yeah, he's a piece of work.", "Yeah.", "When you go into a party, Angelina, do you -- are you like him? By that I mean someone said about DeNiro he marinates a roll. He doesn't just act. He thinks it all through. It becomes part of him. From what the shirt the guy would wear.", "I don't think anybody is as detailed or does as much research as him. But in some small way I think we've all learned from him over the years and certainly I do a lot of research as much as -- and get into a character as much as ...", "Do you have to like her?", "No. Sometimes I think it's important not to like her.", "Really?", "I think it's important to like the piece and what the piece does and sometimes even if you're the person that's making other people look like the good people because you are the negative force in the movie, then that's important. You have to believe in what the piece entire says. So yeah, I didn't mind. I think in the beginning of this film she is a bit of a bad guy and -- so ...", "And then she becomes -- trying to be a mother, right?", "Yeah. Yeah.", "And the growth of, Matt, your child in this movie. It's a really interesting aspect to \"The Good Shepherd,\" don't you think?", "I do.", "The kid becomes formidable.", "Yeah. Yeah. It's really interesting. I really always loved that relationship between them in the script. And I don't want to give too much away, obviously, because it becomes pretty important to the plot, the whole relationship that unfolds with me and my son. So -- but yes, it's one of the many -- I mean, what Eric wrote was just -- the script was so -- there was so much happening in the script, it just -- it really -- it read like a novel.", "We'll be right back with the cast of \"The Good Shepherd.\" Don't go away.", "I have been able to bring attention to things I believe very much in. And -- and certainly it's impacted me as a woman. I've learned so much from refugees and become a better person because of them.", "That is unfair. That is unfair.", "You abandon people when they need you the most.", "I don't abandon people.", "You abandon people.", "I do not abandon people.", "It's true.", "I have stood by you.", "Stood by me?", "For 22 years, I have stood by you.", "You don't know what it is to stand by somebody.", "I have stood by you and I've stood by him. I have done everything to be a good father to him.", "You have done no such thing.", "I married you because of him.", "Angelina Jolie is a Goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commission for Refugees, right? You are it. And your humanitarian work is exemplary. Has it impacted your acting? Has it impacted your reaction to celebrity? What kind of effect has this had on you?", "I think just giving, you know, celebrities a very strange thing so they have some good use for it. It makes some sense out of it. You know, I've been able to bring attention to things I believe very much in. And certainly, it's impacted me as a woman. I've learned so much from refugees, and I've become a better person because of them. And I'm very grateful to them. And...", "What do you learn from people who have no homes?", "It's not just that they have no homes. They are the people that are there that (ph) accompany children, that have seen war. They are mothers that have lost their children. They're fathers that have been unable to feed or take care of or protect their own families, and they're broken and they're sad. So they are amazing survivors. And I've found them to be gracious and tough and funny. And just to be around that kind of -- those kind of human beings -- they've -- and so certainly when I wake up in the morning, I look at my own life, where I have my own moments of concern or thought for myself, I immediately remember all the reasons why we should all be so -- so lucky, everybody sitting around this table. And they have focused me in the greatest way.", "Well said. Based on international things and the like, do you think, Bob, that the world is a better place because of the CIA?", "I don't know. I think for our interests, we need an intelligence organization...", "So for America it's a plus.", "Yes. And you would hope that that would work for -- that would have a good effect on the rest of the world. If things are found out that can benefit other -- other places, or things can be avoided, especially these days -- I mean, I don't know what's going to happen with everything, but, I mean, my big concern is that so much of this nuclear stuff is going to get more easy to acquire.", "Like Iran.", "Yes. Well, Iran -- I mean, Iran is -- you know, Iran, that's one thing. It's a country that inevitably is going to have to do what they want. I mean, they have that right. And we can't tell them -- but we do have another problem which is much bigger, that things will get smaller and more dangerous. And god knows where it's all going to go. That's my concern.", "In \"Details\" magazine Matt, you're quoted as saying, \"I've worked very hard in interviews to portray a very polite and a boring person.\" Is the operative word portray? Are you -- do you try to be different when you're being interviewed? Are you conscious, I'm being interviewed and therefore I'm going to be different.", "Yes.", "Why?", "He's not.", "Because in reality there's -- for the most part -- for most of the interviews we do and I'll leave you out of this, but most of the interviews aren't particularly substantive and they're not looking. And they don't need to be for the purpose of selling a movie. And that's why they're occurring and you're kind of -- you sign up and you have to -- and it's different from when he was in the 70s and the films that they were doing. I don't think you guys had to do press junkets the way -- it's a different thing now. It's this whole ancillary business is built up next to the film business. And it probably drives more -- it sells more shampoo and it's probably more important in some ways, economically than the films themselves. And we're expected -- Angie and my generation, it's just part of the job. You go and you put on your nice shirt and you sit and you talk and that's -- but it doesn't have anything to do with making the movie and in reality is, as Bob says, it would be better if you could just put it up like a painting. And to talk about it is something -- it's very different from actually making it. And the skill set it takes to make something is very different from the skill set of selling it.", "\"The Good Shepherd\" opens Friday. We'll be right back.", "You sold the pictures of your baby, right?", "We did for charity, yes.", "Oh, it went to charity?", "Yes.", "How? Are they going to give you money?", "Yes, they're going to get that picture, they're going to get pictures of my kids unfortunately no matter what we do.", "Let me ask you something. We Italians, we've got our families and we've got the church. The Irish, they have the homeland. The Jews, their tradition. What about you people, Mr. Carlson (ph)? What do you have.", "The United States of America, and the rest of you are just visiting.", "Some other aspects of our extremely talented guests -- you have two adopted children, right? What's that like?", "It's the same as my biological child. They're -- I have three, and Maddox -- he's five and he's from Cambodia, and Zahara is two, almost, and she's Ethiopian, and Shiloh is six months. And they are all just like everybody. I love my kids -- they're funny, and they're magnificent, and --", "The late Bob Considine (ph) -- the Chicago writer -- wrote, \"I have four children; two are adopted -- I forget which two.\"", "That's right. You really do. And I honestly thought, when I was pregnant, I thought, god, I hope it doesn't feel different. Because I was worried. And it didn't feel different -- it doesn't at all.", "What do you make of the fuss over Madonna adopting a young African boy?", "I don't know all the details and we're not close friends, so I wasn't able to speak with her. I only understand that we all have to be very -- everybody who adopts -- it's a difficult thing, to adopt, probably more difficult in many ways than it should be. But it's great that it is out there. And you have to go through many levels in order to do that.", "It should be hard.", "It should -- it should be hard to be a parent, period. It should be -- you know, you shouldn't...", "They ought to have a test for it.", "I mean, yes, you're saying -- and I go through many, many things in order to adopt. I'm fingerprinted, I'm checked, I go through home studies. I go through everything to prove I'm a decent citizen, I'm a good human being. That doesn't -- that didn't happen to me when I gave birth. You know? So it's interesting that there's no background check on you when you bring a child into your home in that way. But -- but I think, you know, that there's -- it was a country that does not have foreign adoptions usually. And so I think she's I'm sure smart enough to know that that was going to be unusual.", "What's it like to be a new parent, Matt? How old now, six months?", "Six months today, yes. So -- it's kind of indescribable. I don't really know -- I wouldn't really know how to say it. You know, everybody said, \"Oh, your life's going to change. Your life's going to change.\"", "It's a girl, right?", "It's a girl, yes. And then she showed up and my life changed completely. But I had some practice. I have a stepdaughter. So...", "Your wife had a child?", "Yes. Yes.", "How old?", "Eight-years-old.", "Boy or girl?", "Girl.", "How do you get along with her?", "Great. She's a terrific -- I'm very lucky. My wife is a great mother, and her ex-husband is a terrific father. And so I'm, you know, the third -- I'm the third wheel.", "And Ben Affleck had a kid. How is she doing?", "Terrific, yes. Great. She's a year old now.", "He's a great guy.", "He is...", "You two have stayed friends through all this, right?", "Yes. Yes. Our friendship kind of transcends -- predates our professional, you know, success.", "It goes back to Boston, right?", "Yes, we grew up right around the corner from each other.", "Are you a Red Sox freak?", "Yes. Yes. Yes, which -- it's fun to be in New York.", "You sold the pictures of your baby, right?", "We did for charity, yes.", "Oh, it went to charity.", "Yes.", "What the hell? They're going to give you money...", "Yes, they're going to get that picture. They're going to get pictures of my kids, unfortunately, no matter what we do. So we...", "Why not?", "... chose to control it and give the money to charity, not to paparazzi.", "How many do you have? How many children do you have?", "I have five children and one grandson. And he's 3.", "How old is the youngest?", "Almost 9.", "What's it like -- I'm in the same boat -- being a little older parent.", "Well, you know, it's -- it's a lot of work.", "They run you ragged?", "Yes. Yes. And they're getting older. And, you know, they're boys.", "Faster.", "My daughter, who's the oldest of all the kids, and my four sons.", "OK. You're doing a film about Mariane Pearl, right, who's been a guest on this show?", "Yes. I've had to study that interview.", "A wonderful lady. His father-in-law I know very well.", "Yes.", "What's it like playing someone people have seen?", "It's hard. But I think harder than that, it's somebody that I know and respect. And so that makes it very, very difficult, because I don't want to in any way not honor this woman and do this story properly. So it was very -- it was terrifying.", "Who else is in it?", "Dan Futterman, who plays Danny, and many and many different actors from Pakistan and India.", "Is that where you're shooting?", "Yes, we shot in India.", "What are you doing next, Bob? You're always doing something.", "Yes. Well, I'm doing a movie with Barry Levinson from Art Linson's book who wrote \"What Just Happened\" about his experiences as a producer, a Hollywood producer.", "A comedy?", "Yes. Yes.", "Matt?", "\"The Bourne Ultimatum.\" It's the third...", "Oh, you're going to do another Bourne? The Ludlum books.", "Yes. Hedging my bets.", "You like this genre, huh?", "I do. Well, I like -- it's Paul Greengrass is the director and Frank Marshall is the producer. And, you know, you can't really go wrong with those guys. So -- in fact, Paul directed the last one, and the fact that he wanted to do another one made me -- made me -- it's the reason I did the movie.", "Some more moments with this great cast from a terrific film. \"The Good Shepherd\" opens Friday. We'll be right back.", "She's doing good. She's been battling -- you're the first person to ask about it. She has for about six years, and she's a remarkable woman. She's very, very strong. Great doctors, and she is just -- her spirit is unbroken.", "What if I had a punctured artery? What would you do? You'd just keep going about your rounds, ignoring my wounds?", "Lisa, stop it.", "Stop what? You", "That's enough.", "Take one", "Stop it.", "Lisa, your aorta is in you chest.", "Good to know.", "I'll make a note of that.", "We have a few moments left, and we'll cover them with Angelina Jolie, Robert DeNiro and Matt Damon. Angelina, it's been reported that your mom has been battling cancer. How is she doing?", "She's doing good. She's been battling -- you're the first person to ask about it. She has for about six years, and she's a remarkable woman. She's very, very strong. Great doctors, and she is just -- her spirit is unbroken.", "Cancer of what?", "Ovarian cancer.", "Ovarian. That's tough to lick.", "Yes. And she's amazing.", "Hanging in.", "Yes. Yes.", "How old?", "She is 56 now.", "Young.", "Yes, she's very young.", "Bob, how are you doing with prostate?", "It's -- knock on wood -- is there any wood here, Larry?", "We'll knock on anything. There you go. That's wood.", "How have you treated it?", "I had a prostatectomy. Is it a -- did I pronounce right? I just had the operation and...", "They removed it?", "... about three years ago -- yes.", "I know you told us once at lunch that you were very angry that your father didn't do anything.", "Right.", "Diagnosed, chose to let it go.", "Right. He -- I mean, as far as I'm concerned, he might have been alive today if he had faced it. And he was terrified. And at that time it was a little more different. You're told about an operation like that maybe -- we're talking 20 -- over 20 years ago, 23 years ago. He was -- I was with him when the doctor explained what he would do, and this particular doctor wasn't that sensitive. He was like -- he reminded me of the doctor from \"East of Eden,\" I think it was, with the nurse...", "Oh, yes.", "So, that didn't help the situation. Yes, so he didn't deal with it and things got worse.", "And you made a decision -- do you think that decision affected your decision?", "Absolutely. I was very proactive with it. I not only was -- since that time, I saw somebody since I was 40 and got tested every three, four months. And then even then I didn't -- I was OK. My PSA was below 4 -- like 2-something or 3. I still called a surgeon friend of mine and went and had it done. And the surgeon, he recommended somebody and he said, do it. And this surgeon said, do it, you have a 40 to 60 percent chance. So I would have done it, even if he had said you have a 20 percent chance. And they did find something.", "How old are you?", "Sixty-three.", "Everything's OK now? Did you get a PSA clear?", "(Raps on desk.)", "Knock all the wood.", "That's it for another hour in our LARRY KING LIVE Christmas marathon. Up next, television's new cream of the kitchen, Rachel Ray. First, let's check in for the stories making headlines right now. 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{"id": "CNN-270435", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2015-12-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/02/es.03.html", "summary": "Trump Rallies Supporters in New Hampshire", "utt": ["Donald Trump stepping up his campaigning, and standing by his apparently unfounded claim that thousands and thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheered the 9/11 attacks. Trump though struck a different tune Tuesday as he rallied supporters in New Hampshire. CNN's Jeff Zeleny was there.", "Christine and Alison, a much more subdued Donald Trump on Tuesday night in New Hampshire, as he took questions, a rarity for him in this town hall- like setting. For two months out, the first of the 2016 campaign, a very long campaign that is quickly moving into the next phase. But Donald Trump had a more serious tone, several voters told me, and a much more subdued tone as he talked to this crowd. One thing I was struck by, he says his voters are the most loyal regardless of what he says. Let's take a listen.", "You know, one of the things that comes out in the poll, that I have the most loyal people, that people say he can do anything. He can do anything. So, I don't know if that's right, but they say I have the most loyal people. You know, others, if you sneeze, they drop you. Me, I can sneeze, I can say things that I think are right. Like you notice what's happening in New Jersey? They're now finding a lot of people saying, yes, that did take place in New Jersey, right? I wasn't going to apologize. I wasn't going to apologize. A lot of things happened today where they were dancing and they were happy. There were a lot of happy people over in New Jersey, and I saw it and a lot of people saw it, and I'm getting hundreds of phone calls and a lot of other people are, too. And things are all of a sudden materializing.", "Now, of course, Donald Trump is still doubling down on that comment from 9/11. He said thousands of people were seen cheering on the New Jersey side of the river as the towers fell. No video evidence of that has ever come forward. Donald Trump brought it up again at his rally on Tuesday night. So, that clearly is going to be an issue. But I can tell you, the voters I talked to said that they are not interested in that. They are much more interested in his economic proposals, his terrorism proposals, his position of strength. The point here is, as he goes forward in this next two months of this campaign, will any other Republican rivals be able to stop him, will they be able to slow him? At this point, it is Trump largely versus the rest of the Republican field. And he is stepping up his campaigning. He has been in Georgia, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina and Iowa by weekend. He is stepping up his campaign. He clearly thinks he could actually win this Republican-nominating contest -- Christine and Alison.", "All right. Jeff Zeleny for us in New Hampshire. And while you were sleeping last night, a tweet from a Donald adviser we want to show you. This is what -- this is what Daniel Scavino Jr. tweeted. Nobody can deny Donald Trump uncovered a 14-year long 9/11 cover-up, re, celebrations on Jersey City rooftops.", "So, what he tweeted video of a CBS newscast right after 9/11 of a rooftop celebration.", "It shows the news report, a CBS news report of eight men detained by police for a rooftop celebration, eight men detained. The core of the fact checking of Donald Trump's claim is thousands and thousands of people were celebrating 9/11 in jersey. It was always that was an exaggeration.", "What is interesting the timing of this, you think our Alisyn Camerota that interviewed Rudy Giuliani, he said, look, Trump, prove it. I guess this is the sort of trickle of the Trump plan proving that there were celebrations.", "Rudy Giuliani said, look, yes, of course, there were here and there, a couple of people, eight people, ten people, who we were watching. But the thousands and thousands is simply an exaggeration Chris Christie says this didn't happen. Thousands and thousands of people, this didn't happen. But now, the Donald Trump adviser tweeting out overnight he has uncovered a cover-up that all these people must be a part of a cover- up of what Donald Trump thinks is the truth about thousands and thousands of people. This again, this is about eight people detained.", "Trump also making news yesterday, saying he regrets actually not joining the military. I want you to listen to a little of what he said yesterday.", "I didn't say it, frankly I have deferments because of college like a lot of people did, numerous deferments because of college and I had a foot thing. I had a deferment for that. At some point I probably would have. I was in the draft. I got a big number. I think 356. Can you believe that? So, what happened is I always felt a little guilty.", "Always felt a little guilty about not serving in the military. On that event yesterday, he was taking questions from people, he doesn't do that often. He was taking questions from folks. Also, you know, we heard yesterday from Jeb Bush. I don't know what Jeb Bush said was planned or a slip. Listen to what he said about his vice presidential candidate.", "And should I be elected president, I would have my vice president, I think she will be a great partner. I mean, did I say that out loud?", "I think everything that presidential candidates do is strategic and I think his little oops slip-up was strategic. That's a buzz word, gender equality.", "Let's talk about the Democrats here. Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton hopes to raise a fundraiser for her mom later this month, in New York, December 17th. The first Clinton event with Chelsea as a headliner. She's had a limited role in her mom's campaign. On the same day, Hillary Clinton will host a fundraiser featuring her husband.", "Looks like she may take a bigger role. All right. On a night Philadelphia said farewell to hometown boy Kobe Bryant, the Sixers did something they haven't done since March, win, they won. Andy Scholes with the details in this morning's bleacher report. That's coming up next."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ZELENY", "ROMANS", "KOSIK", "ROMANS", "KOSIK", "ROMANS", "KOSIK", "TRUMP", "ROMANS", "JEB BUSH (R), 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "KOSIK", "ROMANS", "KOSIK"]}
{"id": "CNN-174426", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2011-10-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1110/20/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Behind the Scenes with Rosie O`Donnell", "utt": ["Big news breaking tonight on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT - a SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive with Rosie O`Donnell. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT goes behind the scenes of her brand-new talk show. How does Rosie really feel about working for Oprah?", "I was nervous, and because it`s Oprah, I still wanted to do well.", "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT with exclusive backstage access to Rosie and her new show. The Kardashians reality war with the president? Michelle Obama reveals the president dissed the reality show. Tonight, are the Kardashians really striking back? SHOWBIZ reality secrets revealed. Two big reality stars spill the secrets to winning on reality TV. Padma Lakshmi from \"Top Chef.\" Louis Van Amstel from \"Dancing with the Stars.\" Tonight, Padma and Louis are right here revealing their secrets to winning on reality TV. It`s two must-see headline-making SHOWBIZ newsmaker interviews. TV`s most provocative entertainment news show breaks news right now.", "Oh, yes, A.J. She is blazing hot. You know, I talked to Rosie in her new digs in Chicago at Harpo Studios, the exact same spot that once housed the \"Oprah Winfrey Show.\" And I`ve got to tell you, A.J., I met a fresh, a re-energized Rosie who`s loving her new challenge and who`s still ready and willing to share with the world exactly what she`s thinking. So what does she really think about working for Oprah? Well, tonight, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT takes you behind the scenes for an exclusive look at Rosie`s new world. Oh, and move over Tom Cruise. Rosie has a new celebrity crush.", "Backstage?", "This is my dressing room and they had this whole thing prepared pretty miraculously. I looked at it like sometime in the summer and it had been the spa where all the staff members would get their nails done and get massages. Now, it`s my office.", "It feels really comfortable.", "Yes.", "I feel like I`m at home. I can jump on a couch.", "And you can.", "Take a nap.", "And this is", "Grab some Skittles.", "This is actually what my house looks like, so it`s pretty similar.", "Wow!", "And here is when the kids are here. They hang out here and watch TV and complain that the screen is too small.", "And I heard that the dog has her own bed. Where`s the doggy bed here?", "It`s probably in that room although it could be getting cleaned at the moment because I have a Pomeranian and Chihuahua, both four pounds. And the pee and poo situation - I need Cesar, the dog whisperer.", "Maybe he could be a guest on the show.", "He should be.", "You know, Rosie, this is a big move from New York here to Chicago. Do you feel at home? You know, big", "It`s going really well, you know what I mean? I was pretty nervous because you don`t know if at 49, you still can do what could do at 35, right? So I was nervous, and because it`s Oprah, I still wanted to do well. And I think we really found a kind of groove, right? And I think people are watching. And I really don`t know if this is like a marathon on or a sprint.", "So Rosie, just sitting on the show is incredible. It takes so much energy and you`re not taking a break during the break either. You`re talking to the audience and doing your thing.", "I always feel like I`m out there for an hour.", "You are.", "But when I work out - when I say hello, it`s my job for a full hour to entertain.", "At Baskin and Robbins, this woman says, \"Are you Rosie O`Donnell?\" I said, \"Yes, I am.\" She said, \"I didn`t know you was pregnant.\" Horrible. I didn`t know what to say. I didn`t want to embarrass her. I said, \"Yes, six months with twins. I`m going to name them Ben and Jerry.\"", "Let`s stick around for a little bit.", "Yes.", "This is a historic setting.", "Yes.", "Harpo Studios is the former home of \"The Oprah Winfrey Show,\" now Rosie`s home. Oprah appeared for the very first show last week. She has literally passed you that torch. How does that feel?", "Overwhelming. It`s hard to even articulate it. I have to tell you it really is. And the first time I walked in here, it still had the Oprah, like, it still - you know, they hadn`t transferred it over this. And I walked out and they were showing me the set designs. And I stood here and I looked and I thought, \"Oh, my god,\" like, I`m actually here and I`m doing this. You know, we signed the deal over a year ago - a year and a half ago, right? And the day that I stepped in here, it became real.", "Wow.", "You know, I really wanted to deliver for her.", "Russell Brand, your very first guest - your secret crush. Not so secret anymore. First of all, how does Tom Cruise feel about this?", "He knows. We`ve spoken. He`s all right with it. No, Tom and Russell did a movie together. That`s right before I met Russell. And so I would E-mail Tom and said, \"Tommy, it`s over. Russell is in. Speak to Katie.\"", "Tom has fallen to number two.", "He knows he`s number two, you know. We`re going to work it out. But I don`t know.", "That was quite a show.", "Hey!", "You look amazing and you seem happy.", "I am very happy. It took 49 years to get here, but I`m very, very happy.", "Yes, and you can tell, Kareen, that she`s happy because, number one, she looks terrific. I know she`s got some real love going on in her life now, too. That can`t be hurting either.", "Yes.", "And I know you have even more to share with us with Rosie O`Donnell.", "I sure do, A.J. In fact, Rosie and I also talked about her new girlfriend. Yes, and I`ve got to say I was really surprised at how open she was about her new love and love life. You know, A.J., she seemed like a young girl falling in love all over again and really rediscovering herself and learning about simple things like lingerie. I was also surprised about how, despite all her public struggles and the bad rap she got after leaving \"The View\" that she really seemed to have come out on the other side, so good for Rosie.", "Kareen, do you know where she and her girlfriend met?", "I sure do. I sure do. I`ll be sharing that with you later on.", "OK. All right. I won`t spill that because I happen to know as well. But let`s just say you can meet anybody in a coffee joint.", "It`s awesome.", "Kareen Wynter, I can`t wait to see the rest of it. We are bringing you that on Monday. It`s a SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive with Rosie O`Donnell, \"Life After the View.\" Make sure you`re here for it at 11:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific on HLN. Rosie also just revealed to Kareen that HLN`s own Nancy Grace is going to be a guest on Rosie`s show. Rosie is very impressed with Nancy`s performance on \"Dancing with the Stars.\" So what does Rosie want to ask Nancy?", "I want to talk to her about what it`s like to have twins and what it`s like to have them later in life. And you know, she`s very interesting to me. And she`s a very powerful woman and I`m so impressed that she`s on \"Dancing with the Stars.\"", "Have you been following her at all?", "Oh, yes. And you know, I would never do that show.", "I was going to ask.", "It scares the crap out of me.", "When are you going to sign up?", "They have asked me often and I`m like -", "Why not, Rosie? You`ve done everything -", "Honey, I would be terrified to do the pasodoble.", "I hope Rosie changes her mind. I think she would be great. Joining me from Hollywood right now is top \"Dancing with the Stars\" top pro, Louis Van Amstel. Louis, you`ve got to be on board with me. Rosie would be terrific on \"Dancing with the Stars.\" She`s got all that experience on the stage. They seem to have asked her and she has declined, according to Rosie. But as the dance pro, don`t you think she would be perfect for the show and probably could take it very far in the competition?", "She would be absolutely perfect and I would love to have her as my partner. And Rosie O`Donnell scared? I mean, she`s never scared. So why would she be scared of the pasodoble. Really?", "Yes. You know, that`s interesting. And you say - you make very good sense because this is a woman who has done a wonderful job throughout her life, I think, of jumping beyond herself and rising to the challenge every time. We`re going to have to wait and see if she ever makes it to the ballroom. Maybe we can get a letter-writing campaign going on or something.", "I hope so and she could lose her Ben and Jerry`s twins.", "Oh, there you go. Nice. Nice. She actually - you know, I`ve got to say, she looks even more fit than I`ve seen in a long time. I`ve heard her say recently -", "She looks beautiful.", "She`s working on it and she`s doing it all for that special love in her life that Kareen is going to tell us all about on Monday. But let`s talk about this season`s contestants, because here we are now, halfway through the season. And here`s what we asked in our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive poll. We wanted to know who you think will be voted off - Hope Solo, Chaz Bono or David Arquette, as the next person to be eliminated. The overwhelming vote was for Chaz Bono being booted next week, Louis. Chaz has a lot of fans. Part of this competition, as we know - it is a popularity contest. You and I have talked about this before. I know that Chaz has already outlasted your expectations this season, but do you think he now will be the next to be voted off? Or is he going to continue to ride along here?", "I love the fact that it`s so unpredictable each week. And Chaz and Nancy both had their best dance last week. And I thought they were going downhill. And then, suddenly, they went uphill. And I don`t know who`s going home next. It`s really up to Monday night for the celebrities to dance their asses off. And anyone can stay, but also, anyone can go, except for Ricky and", "Yes. And I know you had high praise when you and I spoke about Chynna Phillips who shocked everyone last week when she was tossed off the show, so you`re right. It is completely unpredictable. Of course, HLN`s own Nancy Grace still in the running. She`s doing a terrific job, don`t you think? The judges seem to be telling her, yes, you need to spice it up a little bit more, add a little more spunk to your step. And Louis, I actually believe you gave that same advice. So now that she`s remained in the competition, why don`t you give me a little secret tip I can pass along to Nancy. I`ll send her an E-mail or something. I really want to see her win this thing. What can she do starting Monday that`s different to help her win?", "I actually saw Nancy myself on Tuesday when Kareen(ph) and I performed and I talked to her a little bit. She danced her best dance. Her rumba was actually better than I expected. And she`s showing more natural movement, but I want to see that goof ball. And now, because she is in the top six, or in week six, she now has to bring that spunk that she has behind her own desk when she attacks people. That attack, combined with that goofiness that she has - she could be that couple in the final.", "Yes, that could be a winning combination. And quite frankly, I think she needs to keep the `80s hair she had from this week`s competition going, even, quite frankly, when the whole thing is over. I want to see that on her show here on HLN. Louis, I want you to stay right where you are because I`m going to get to you reveal even more secrets to \"Dancing with the Stars\" including how to go for the gold or the silver in this case and win that coveted mirror ball trophy. We`ll be back with you in just a moment. But first, tonight, the Kardashians face off with the Obamas. Now, Michelle Obama says the president is not a fan of the Kardashian reality show. Tonight, why the Kardashians may now be at war with the Obamas. Oh, baby. Bieber behind bars? Justin Bieber may have a bunch of hit songs. But tonight, he`s the one taking a hit. It`s Biebs locked up. I am going to tell you why. I love this story. The guy who quit his job by using a marching band.", "Guys, I told you, out right now.", "Jared, I`m here to tell you that I`m quitting.", "Oh, yes, you think he burned that bridge? You have to see why some people are calling this guy a hero tonight. This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN news and views. Time now for the \"SHOWBIZ News Ticker\" - more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news tonight.", "Steve Jobs tops most influential men list followed by George Clooney, Kanye West. Rihanna debuts new music video for \"We Found Love.\""], "speaker": ["A.J. 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{"id": "CNN-349578", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-09-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1809/08/cnr.09.html", "summary": "Interview with Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) on Cancelled Secret Taliban Meeting at Camp David.", "utt": ["Last night at Dover Air Force Base, a somber reminder that U.S. lives are still at risk in Afghanistan amid these discussions of troop withdrawals and peace deals. This is the dignified transfer of the remains of Army Sergeant 1st Class Elis Barreto Ortiz. Sergeant Ortiz, a 34-year-old soldier from Puerto Rico, died Thursday when a Taliban car bomb exploded at a checkpoint in Kabul. He became the 16th U.S. combat fatality this year in Afghanistan. He leaves behind a wife, two sons and a daughter. Now the president cited Sergeant Ortiz's death in his decision to cancel his secret meeting with the Taliban. Those tweets by the president were the first inkling that most Americans had of the President Trump's intent to meet with Taliban leaders at Camp David. That includes Republican congressman and Air Force veteran Adam Kinzinger, who flew missions over Iraq and Afghanistan. And Congressman Kinzinger is here with us now. Welcome.", "Thanks.", "You say you were sickened when you read the president's tweet last night. Explain why.", "You know, it's a couple of things. There's nothing wrong with negotiating. Every war in history ends in some kind of a negotiation. Where I've been very concerned in this process is the idea that the negotiation, you know, \"success,\" quote-unquote, is simply having the Taliban talk to the Afghan government. There actually needs to be a peace deal between them that's enforceable. But I think what really is beyond that and really struck me in really disbelief is the idea that Taliban leaders, in the week of 9/11, but even beyond that, Taliban leaders were going to come to really the area in the United States, not too far from New York, Camp David, that has been a place of such wonderful things that have happened in the past. You know, negotiations between nation states can happen there, but a terrorist organization that doesn't recognize nation states, that kills innocent women and children, that denies women the right to really even be in the same room as their husbands, is just a minor part of the terrible things that they do. To have them at Camp David is totally unacceptable. The president did the right thing by walking away. I'm very concerned, though, that we were really close to having Taliban leaders there.", "And to be clear, CNN's reporting is that the White House is still trying to find a date in time to perhaps have this kind of a negotiation in the future.", "Again, nothing wrong with a negotiation, but the president should not be negotiating with these really evil people. We can't forget what they did. We can't forget what they continue to do. And I think, you know, we're at a moment where Americans, they think about terrorism, but it doesn't seem like an imminent threat. And there's a reason for that. It's not because terrorists have gone away. It's not because their desires have gone away. But it's because we fight them over there now. We are sending our fierce U.S. military, these men and women that raise their right hand to protect and defend us, we're sending them over there to do the fighting there so we don't have to do them in the streets of America. I'd love if terrorism went away. I'd love if we could walk away from this fight. But we can't, though, because you may not be interested in war, but war may be interested in you. And that's the case when it comes to terrorism.", "I mean, think about this, 16 U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan so far in 2019. Even after the 15th death, the president was willing to bring in the Taliban for the first time ever to Camp David. On the 16th death, though, he's tweeting to tell us about this secret meeting no one knew about and drawing a line now? What do you make of that?", "You know, I don't know. I don't know if there's more to the story or not. Again, I think the president made the right decision absolutely by canceling them coming. They never should have been coming in the first place. But I think keep in mind this. You know, we're engaged in a war in Afghanistan. The president has said a number of times, it's almost like a peacekeeping operation. But this has prevented Afghanistan. I'd love to see them much further long. This has prevented them from becoming another safe haven for terrorism, the Taliban from resurging, from ISIS -- from even getting a stronger foothold there as well as al Qaeda. This is going to be a long generational fight. I wish it was a microwave war where we could be over in a week, but it's going to be generational. And when we forget that, we're only going to have to make sure then that the next generation's going to have to do the same fighting. Right now, this is the first war where a father and a son can be a veteran of the same theater. And if we pull out and watch that resurge, again, without a peace deal that's enforceable, it's only going to be the next generation having to do the fighting again.", "As someone who served in Afghanistan yourself, how do you think the troops on the ground are feeling right now about these new developments?", "You know, I think, probably, a little confused there, but they're fierce people. They're going to go deal what they're asked to do. They'll leave if they're asked to leave. They'll stay and fight is they're asked to stay and fight. Nobody wants to be there. I don't know any member of the military that enjoys being in Afghanistan or Iraq for that matter. But they know what their nation calls them to do. We have a generation. Every civilization is a generation of heroes away from extinction. And this is our generation of heroes that are willing to do what the vast majority of Americans aren't, and God bless them for being willing to do it.", "You've expressed skepticism in the past of negotiations with the Taliban, really, from the get-go. You're saying, you know, there are circumstances in which you would support those negotiations. But I just wonder, I mean, if it's -- if you can't trust the Taliban and you're expressing concern that, if the U.S. pulls out, that we're going to lead to a similar situation that we saw previously when the U.S. has pulled out early, I mean, how does the U.S. then get out of Afghanistan? What should be the goal? What would tell you there's enough stability to bring the troops home?", "You know, I mean, when you have to see it, you'll know. And the bottom line is this, I think you have to have a ceasefire that's lasting between the Taliban and the Afghan government. The Taliban have to agree that the Afghan government has a right to exist. And they can run maybe for political office in that future government, you know, as you see some cases where terrorist organizations become political forces. But to say, you know, that we're going to leave and that condition is just simply that the two are going to talk, Afghanistan and the Taliban government or the Taliban, are going to talk, is not going to be in any way enforceable, and they will resurge. And they've always had the saying, we've all heard it, where they say, America has the watches, but we have the time. The only way the United States will ever be defeated is by defeating our will. Because we have -- we win these fights. But if we defeat our will and we determine that it's time to just go away because we're tired, that generation after World War II was exhausted, but they stayed in Europe and ultimately defeated the Soviet Union. We can't act like we're tired right now. We have to continue to press this fight to victory.", "Before I let you go, as we were discussing in our last segment, there's a new GOP primary challenger for Trump in 2020, Mark Sanford, former congressman from South Carolina. That makes three now. Are you OK with states like South Carolina, canceling their Republican primaries?", "No, you know, I know Mark Sanford well. I like him as a friend. Trump's going to win the primary. I think every state should have a primary. Let people have their voices heard. That's a very American thing. And in the party, if there's people that are -- want to vote against President Trump, it will be their opportunity. And then they'll all unite behind him in the general. But, yes, I think cancelling a primary, it just sends a bad message and it takes away people's right to be heard.", "Does Trump have your vote in 2020?", "Yes, he will.", "OK. Congressman Adam Kinzinger, thanks so much for being here.", "You bet. See you.", "Coming up, the desperate effort to save hundreds of cats and dogs as Hurricane Dorian sent water pouring into a Bahamas animal shelter."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-280253", "program": "IDESK", "date": "2016-03-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/31/id.01.html", "summary": "Hundreds Recovering from Park Attack in Pakistan", "utt": ["You're watching CNN. I'm Robyn Curnow. Thanks so much for joining us. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad says he's ready to hold an early presidential election if that's what the Syrian people want. Now he made the comments to Russia's state-run Sputnik news. Mr. Assad has faced growing pressure to hold an election in hopes that will help end Syria's five-year civil war. Talks in reaching a political solution to the conflict are set to resume next week in Geneva, Switzerland. A French court has indicted a recently arrested citizen on terrorism charges; 32-year-old Reda Kriket was arrested last week for allegedly plotting an attack on France. Officials accuse him of being in the advanced stages of planning. The French prosecutor says police found a cache of weapons and bombmaking materials in his home. A Belgian court previously convicted Kriket in absentia for being part of a jihadist network. Meanwhile Belgian prosecutors say police carried out a new raid in Northwest Belgium in connection to Kriket's case. And Turkey's president says European countries are operating with blinders on when it comes to the threat of terrorism. Recep Tayyip Erdogan talked about that when he sat down with our Christiane Amanpour for an exclusive interview. He says Belgium missed an opportunity to avoid the attacks in Brussels, ignoring a warning from Turkey months ago about one of the bombers.", "Why do you think they did not pick up your intelligence and particularly, the Dutch say that your government did not alert them to the fact that he had jihadi tendencies?", "Of course both the Netherlands and Belgium, for someone having a jihadi intention or not, first they need to know what jihadi intention means. We have to identify whether these are foreign fighters or jihadists. The Netherlands nor the Belgians seem to have understood what jihadist stands for. We have been calling the nations for a common stance against terrorism and many of the European member states seem to have failed to attach the significance that this call for action deserves.", "You can watch the whole of Christiane's exclusive interview with the Turkish president coming up on \"AMANPOUR.\" That starts Thursday at 7:00 pm in London, only on CNN. And Pakistani police have arrested 17 suspects in connection with Sunday's suicide bombing in a local park. Intelligence officials and police began a series of raids late Wednesday. They say more arrests are expected. The Easter Sunday attack left at least 74 people dead, including many children. A Pakistani Taliban splinter group has claimed responsibility. The attackers said they were targeting Christians but most of the victims were Muslim. Almost 400 people were hurt in that bombing and, again, since the target was a popular park, many of the wounded were children. A warning now: some viewers may find the images in our next report disturbing. Saima Mohsin went inside one of Pakistan's hospitals, where people are recovering from traumatic injuries.", "A 3-year-old boy that can barely be held because he's covered in burns.", "Tears stinging his face, Shabalza's (ph) cries ring out across the ward. He's inconsolable, in extreme pain. Shabalza's (ph) mother is in intensive care with severe burns. His father, split between two wards, this man is a neighbor. He's been at Shabalza's (ph) bedside since the attack. Sharing the bed, his cousin, Bermina (ph), just 4 years old, shrapnel wounds on her skull. Her uncle tells me she has special needs. She doesn't know her father and sisters have died. \"I have lost count of how many family members have died,\" he tells me. Kiza's (ph) chest is peppered with ball bearings. He and his friends were just deciding which ride to go on when --", "I felt like something was on fire. And there was an explosion. My friend grabbed me and pulled me to the ground. He saved my life.", "His friend is lying in a bed opposite him. In each ward, we found friends, complete strangers, family, tending to their loved ones. \"He shouted, 'Mama,' down the phone. Oh, his voice,\" his mother tells me. \"My heart sank as he told me, 'A bomb's gone off. Please come to me. I'm in hospital.'\"", "You'll notice this is a mixed ward. Young children, men and women are being kept in together because the doctors are keen that these traumatized families are kept together.", "It was a horrible picture. There were about 137 patients within 20 minutes and with every patient we had 20 other people, who were well-wishers or their relatives. So we had to bring immediately about 30 doctors and 40 nurses and we had to open up 20 more operating rooms.", "Many of the patients agreed to talk to us but others are in intensive care. We didn't film them. They haven't regained consciousness since the attack.", "We had to open up the abdomen of these patients because sharp things had gone into them and we had interrupted their intestine. And we had about 10 patients who had serious head injuries because their brain had been entered by these sharp objects.", "Local people are coming together to deliver food and toys to the families and children like Shabalza (ph), who will live with the physical and mental scars of this bombing forever -- Saima Mohsin, CNN, Lahore, Pakistan."], "speaker": ["CURNOW", "CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST", "RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, PRESIDENT OF TURKEY (through translator)", "CURNOW (voice-over)", "SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MOHSIN (voice-over)", "KIZA (PH), ATTACK VICTIM (through translator)", "MOHSIN (voice-over)", "MOHSIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOHSIN (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOHSIN (voice-over)"]}
{"id": "CNN-1401", "program": "Moneyline News Hour", "date": "2000-1-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/25/mlld.00.html", "summary": "Laura Tyson on the Gore Economic Platform", "utt": ["Tonight we begin a special series leading up to the New Hampshire primary next Tuesday, \"", "The Candidates.\" We'll look at the platforms of five White House contenders, look at how their proposals would affect Wall Street, the economy, corporate America and your portfolio, and your pocket book. We begin with the Democrat who emerged from last night's Iowa caucus, with a huge victory, Al Gore. In just a few days, the current boom will break the record as the longest expansion in American history and the vice president has been in the White House throughout it. But how would he manage the economy if he becomes President Gore?", "If the upcoming election is strictly a referendum on the economy, Al Gore should win.", "The challenge for Gore is to share the Clinton administration's economic successes without being overshadowed by its scandals. In 1993, Gore cast the tie-breaking vote that gave the U.S. its biggest tax increase in history. As to future tax increases, Gore says, quote: \"I am ruling them out under circumstances that approximate what we have today.\" Gore proposes modest tax cuts: $250 billion to $300 billion over the next 10 years. His goals: double the standard deduction for couples to ease the marriage penalty; expand the earned income tax credit; create a 401 (j) account, to help people save for education; and make permanent the research and development credit that helps fund private sector innovation. A Gore administration would oppose cutting capital gains or estate taxes and support the temporary, though not permanent, moratorium on taxing Internet sales. It is the sweetest of dilemmas for a politician: How to spend a $3 trillion surplus. But a dilemma it is.", "All of the politicians now have crawled into a self- imposed straitjacket, vowing not to spend any of the Social Security part of the surplus.", "Indeed, Gore proposes setting aside more than $1.8 trillion to shore up Social Security.", "Early on in the Clinton administration, there were some decisions made to pursue a more market-oriented approach, to emphasize fiscal discipline rather than public investments.", "A Gore presidency would continue that emphasis, calling for modest increases in defense and education over 10 years. Gore talks the talk Wall Street likes to hear.", "I'll fight to maintain our fiscal discipline. I'll fight for free and fair trade to create more high-paying jobs here at home. And I'll invest in our people.", "A NAFTA proponent, Gore also supports Chinese entry into the WTO, though with caveats.", "Democrats are more and more firmly in the camp of wanting to condition future trade deals on environmental and labor stands.", "Endorsed by Robert Rubin, Gore has on his economic team, White House adviser Gene Sperling and former Fed Governor Alan Blinder. And he's a strong supporter of Alan Greenspan.", "I think you have to say that Gore would be a traditional Democrat on the economy, moving more to the center as Bill Clinton did, trying to keep the bond market happy. That is a crucial point: to keep Alan Greenspan and the bond market happy.", "Still, the temptation to propose ambitious new programs or sweeping new tax cuts may grow harder to resist. The Congressional Budget Office is expected to revise surplus estimates upward later this week by as much as a trillion dollars.", "Gore goes into this primary season with the financial backing of some big corporate names. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, top contributors include those with affiliations to Ernst & Young, Viacom, Bellsouth, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. Those connections have paid off handsomely. Gore has raised approximately $28 million and has a little more than $5 million cash on hand. In terms of economic advice, one key person on the Gore team, is Laura Tyson, former chair of National Economic Council during the Clinton administration, now the dean of the Haas School of Business at Berkeley. Laura, welcome back to", "Nice to be here.", "In your opinion, what is the single most important thing that Vice President Gore could do to keep this economic boom going and to build upon the record of the Clinton Administration?", "Well, the single most important thing is to keep the macroeconomic environment sound. And the two parts of that really are to continue on the path of fiscal responsibility, which Gore did cast the deciding vote for, and to continue to have very good relations with the Federal Reserve, which has been a very important part of the last eight years as well.", "And he has been quite a vocal supporter of Greenspan, as have most folks.", "Absolutely.", "It was interesting the \"Journal\" today looked at federal spending and suggested that President Clinton was the only post-war president to reduce real spending per capita. Is that something that Gore would likely continue, if elected?", "Well, you know, what the president and vice president did was they changed the trajectory of the economy. We were on a deficit as far as the eye could see. The idea was to cut spending and to change taxes in such a way that we generated these large surpluses. Now it's time to spend a little more on things like shoring up Social Security, shoring up Medicare, doing some more for education, but always within the context of a sustained surplus position in the government accounts.", "Still continue to trim defense spending?", "I think defense spending is an issue, as you notice, Vice President Gore is proposing to increase defense spending. I think everyone is proposing to increase defense spending somewhat always, though, within the context of other priorities as well. I would say defense, Social Security, Medicare, education are areas where we need to spend more and we can afford to spend more.", "Real quickly, we know that the vice president is a believer in the new economy...", "Yes.", "... and supports keeping the moratorium temporarily on Internet taxation. Temporarily, means what? does he have a plan for taxation on the Internet? does he think there should be taxation there?", "No, I think that what the U.S. position is, and what Vice President Gore has been pushing very hard, is to allow this new economy to really flourish. And the way to do that right now is to allow for a tax-free environment. As we move down this path, we'll discover more and more about how the new economy functions, but there's no hidden agenda here to increase taxes.", "You wouldn't rule out taxation in the future there?", "But there is no plan to increase taxation either.", "Laura Tyson, thanks for joining us. Tomorrow, the Republican victor of last night's Iowa caucus, Texas Governor George W. Bush, who spelled out his tax manifesto last month.", "We will take down the toll gate on the road to the middle class in America.", "But his rivals say otherwise, we'll look at whether the Bush platform would win votes on Wall Street, that is tomorrow night on MONEYLINE. Still to come, AT&T; beats the Street, but paints a gloomier picture for this quarter."], "speaker": ["BAY", "MONEYLINE 2000", "GREG VALLIERE, CHARLES SCHWAB WASHINGTON RESEARCH GROUP", "BAY", "VALLIERE", "BAY", "THOMAS GALLAGHER, ISI GROUP", "BAY", "VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BAY", "GALLAGHER", "BAY", "VALLIERE", "BAY", "BAY", "MONEYLINE. LAURA TYSON, GORE ECONOMIC ADVISOR", "BAY", "TYSON", "BAY", "TYSON", "BAY", "TYSON", "BAY", "TYSON", "BAY", "TYSON", "BAY", "TYSON", "BAY", "TYSON", "BAY", "GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BAY"]}
{"id": "CNN-352729", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2018-10-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/19/cg.02.html", "summary": "Haley Speech Fuel's Speculation About Her Political Future.", "utt": ["She's not even out of office. She's only days removed from that Oval Office goodbye photo op. But outgoing U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is already cracking jokes at the expense of her boss, President Trump and drumming up among the chattering class even more speculation about her political future.", "Actually, when the president found out that I was Indian-American, he asked me if I was from the same tribe as Elizabeth Warren.", "CNN's Jessica Dean's joins me now. And Jessica, Nikki Haley says she's not running for president. But as Maggie Haberman noted, that was a Trump joke disguised as an Elizabeth Warren joke.", "That's right. Jake, and this appearance as you alluded to has the political world buzzing. She told jokes, she also got serious about what she described as our toxic political environment. This speech is her first big public appearance since announcing her resignation, and it has only added fuel to that speculation she is gearing up for what comes next in her political life.", "It is my pleasure to introduce the next President of the United States, Nikki Haley.", "Didn't take long for speculation to swirl about Nikki Haley's political future, as she let loose at the Al Smith Dinner known for politicians unloading one-liners.", "Everyone in Washington called me with advice about this speech. They all said the same thing, \"Do not under any circumstances make any jokes about the president.\" So, good night everybody.", "She didn't shy away from teasing her soon-to-be former boss.", "The president called me this morning and gave me some really good advice. He said, if I get stuck for last, just brag about his accomplishment. It really killed at the U.N. I got to tell you.", "Haley did nothing to dispel the notion she is planning for the future, using the speech as a chance to introduce herself weaving in biography with jokes.", "People always wonder if I felt different or isolated as an Indian-American growing up in rural South Carolina. Actually, there was a benefit. It totally prepared me for being a Republican in New York.", "But she had more somber things to say about the current political landscape.", "We have some serious political differences here at home. But our opponents are not evil, they're just our opponents.", "A stark contrast to President Trump who's known to call opponents and media members evil.", "Was a disgraceful situation brought about by people that are evil. I've known some fellow Americans that are pretty evil.", "Haley who at times contradicted the president during her time as U.N. Ambassador, announced her resignation 10 days ago. Vowing to support the president during an unusual sendoff in the Oval Office.", "No, I am not running for 2020, I can promise you what I'll be doing is campaigning for this one.", "But with her time as a member of his administration coming to a close, she can now focus on what comes next.", "People ask me all the time what they should call me. Governor, ambassador, Nikki, you can call me anything. Just don't call me anonymous.", "And when she transitions out of the administration, she's going to have a greater ability to differentiate herself from President Trump, like what we saw with that comment about political opponents' not being evil. Jake, I think it's fair to say a lot of people wondering what comes next for her and we're just going have to see but a lot of speculation out there.", "Jessica Dean, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Be sure to tune in Sunday morning, \"THE STATE OF THE UNION\". My guests will be Republican Senator Ben Sasse. You can see that 9:00 a.m. and noon, Eastern. And Sunday evening, I'll be moderating the Florida gubernatorial debate between Mayor Andrew Gillum and Congressman Ron DeSantis in Tampa, Florida. That all happens live right here on CNN at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. Our coverage on CNN continues right now."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "NIKKI HALEY, UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS", "TAPPER", "JESSICA DEAN, CNN WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "JIM GAFFIGAN, AMERICAN STAND-UP COMEDIAN", "DEAN", "HALEY", "DEAN", "HALEY", "DEAN", "HALEY", "DEAN", "HALEY", "DEAN", "TRUMP", "DEAN", "HALEY", "DEAN", "HALEY", "DEAN", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "NPR-46163", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2013-03-17", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2013/03/17/174542919/american-church-connected-to-pope-through-prayer", "title": "American Church Connected To Pope Through Prayer", "summary": "Host Rachel Martin talks with Father Mike McGovern of the Church of Saint Mary in Lake Forest, Ill., about what the new pope means to his congregation, starting with the homily at Sunday's Mass.", "utt": ["This past week, we spoke with spoke with father Mike McGovern. He is the pastor of the Church of St. Mary in Lake Forest, Illinois. He told us what the pope means to the church at large.", "I think that in the minds and the hearts of most Catholics in the world and certainly here in the parish, the Holy Father is very important because they understand that when Christ established the church and he made Peter the Apostle the first pope that Peter is the shepherd of the whole church and his successors are that sign of unity. So, I think all the people in the parish, they feel good that there is a shepherd for the whole church globally, just like I'm their local shepherd here in my parish.", "Did any of your parishioners come to you with concerns or worries after Pope Benedict stepped down?", "Well, people, we all - I think felt a little funny because nobody had any experience of a pope resigning. And when people are trying to absorb, well, why did he resign, what does this mean and what will he do, there was a lot of questions in the air for at least a week when people were wondering, well, what does this mean? I think really, to be honest, Rachel, it's only with the election of a new pope that people, I think, have the kind of stability and security to wrestle with, now, what is the role of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI?", "So, it's been an exciting week, as you have mentioned but you still have your own pastoral duties to take care of. Do you know how you will incorporate this event, the election of Pope Francis, into your homily, if at all?", "Absolutely. So, preaching this weekend, the second record, the Epistles from St. Paul writing to the Philippians, and the talks about, you know, I have accounted all as rubbish so that Christ may be my wealth and I may be in Him. And so that sense of where do you find your true treasure in life, you know, there's a wonderful story about a woman in Buenos Aires who came to Archbishop Bergoglio asking for his help. She had not baptized her children. And because she felt like she needed to have a social get-together afterward, but she couldn't afford it - she was too poor. So, he said, well, I'll baptize them, and he did, and then he provided, Bergoglio provided the sandwiches and soda pop afterward so they could have this little get-together. And the woman said to him you make me feel important.", "So, I think that's a marvelous anecdote about our new Holy Father, and also that sense of recognizing the dignity of people who maybe they're poor or destitute but their human dignity is always there and we're meant to cherish that dignity and to affirm it.", "And I have to ask, do you think you're going to get better than usual attendance at Mass this weekend?", "Well, I think part of it will be it's St. Patrick's Day too and part of it's the snowbirds coming back. But I think there is a kind of renewed pride with the new Holy Father. Even people maybe who've lapsed a little in the practice of the faith, with all the news, I mean, it's been an incredible amount of publicity in these last weeks where people will say, well, I want to make sure I make it Mass on Sunday, I want to make sure I make it to church because this is a new moment. And also it's a moment happening just as we're getting a little bit closer to Holy Week and to Good Friday and to Easter Sunday.", "Father Mike McGovern. He is pastor of St. Mary's in Lake Forest Illinois. Thanks so much for talking with us, Father.", "You're most welcome. Thank you. God bless you."], "speaker": ["RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "FATHER MIKE MCGOVERN", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "FATHER MIKE MCGOVERN", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "FATHER MIKE MCGOVERN", "FATHER MIKE MCGOVERN", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "FATHER MIKE MCGOVERN", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "FATHER MIKE MCGOVERN"]}
{"id": "NPR-31165", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2010-08-06", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129021140", "title": "'Wildest Dream' Retraces Mallory's Everest Climb", "summary": "British mountaineer George Mallory wanted to be the first man to conquer Mount Everest, but his 1924 expedition instead ended in his tragic death. Mallory's body was found 75 years later. The movie The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest,retraces Mallory's expedition.", "utt": ["Now let's go to an even higher altitude. Even if you have never heard of mountaineer George Mallory, you have probably heard what he reportedly said before he launched an expedition to Mount Everest in the 1920s. There's a new documentary about him called \"The Wildest Dream.\" Here's Los Angeles Times and MORNING EDITION film critic Kenneth Turan.", "Why climb Mount Everest? For British mountaineer George Mallory, the answer was because it's there. Mallory wanted to be the first man to conquer Everest, but his 1924 expedition ended with his tragic death.", "Did Mallory manage to summit Everest before he died? That still unsolved question was personal to American climber Conrad Anker. He discovered Mallory's body on the mountain in 1999.", "I was curious. I stopped, turned around, and there was a patch of white. It wasn't snow. As I got closer, I realized this was the body of one of the pioneering English climbers, frozen onto the mountainside.", "To reach the summit, Mallory would have had to free climb a rock face known as the Second Step. This obstacle is so difficult that mountaineers argue whether or not it was physically possible.", "Anker wanted to find out, so he and National Geographic organized an expedition to recreate that 1924 climb.", "Anker and Mallory turned out to have more in common than a passion for Everest. Both had been on previous expeditions where friends had died, and both had wives who were understandably concerned about their husband's fate.", "(as Ruth Mallory) We ought to live together all the time and share thoughts and joys and sorrows. And we can't apart, as we can together.", "\"The Wildest Dream\" uses interviews, newsreels and beautiful color footage taken on Everest to tell the story of both expeditions. Anker's expedition is interesting but it is Mallory's that stays with us longest. There have been a lot of Everest stories, but Mallory's was the first and remains the most compelling.", "Kenneth Turan reviews movies for MORNING EDITION and the Los Angeles Times. We review more of the week's openings, including Will Ferrell's new buddy cop comedy at npr.org."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "KENNETH TURAN", "KENNETH TURAN", "CONRAD ANKER", "KENNETH TURAN", "KENNETH TURAN", "KENNETH TURAN", "NATASHA RICHARDSON", "KENNETH TURAN", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host"]}
{"id": "CNN-116276", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2007-4-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/23/acd.01.html", "summary": "Virginia Tech Shooter's Roommate Speaks Out; Suicide Car Bombing Kills Nine Americans in Iraq", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone. We begin, sadly, with breaking news out of Iraq: a suicide car bombing, with heavy loss of American life. Let's go right away to CNN's Michael Ware in Baghdad. Michael, what's the latest?", "Well, Anderson, all that we know right now is exactly what you have said, is that a suicide car bomb struck what's called a patrol base somewhere in Diyala, taking the lives of nine American soldiers and wounding 20 others. However, of the 20 wounded, only five currently remain in hospital, according to the U.S. military. Now, this has been a bloody day in Diyala Province. This is a province the size of Maryland. It's just north of the capital, Baghdad, because we saw also yesterday another suicide car bomb targeting the provincial council. This is a provincial council that was essentially suspended. It was unable to function for many, many months. And, most council meetings, they don't get enough members attending to even have a legal quorum. So, this has been yet another awful day in a province that has long been plagued by wretched violence from al Qaeda, Shia death squads and all sorts of violent groups -- Anderson.", "Michael, you just came back from an embed in Diyala Province. The security situation, how bad is it there? What did you see?", "Well, what's going on at the moment, Anderson, is that this, in many ways, has become the new front line against al Qaeda. Way back last year, al Qaeda started shifting its operational focus away from the western deserts of Al Anbar Province and moved into Diyala`. Diyala has been an al Qaeda stronghold almost since the beginning of al Qaeda's presence here three years ago. Indeed, if you recall, the al Qaeda in Iraq leader, Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, was actually killed in Diyala Province. We have seen U.S. forces there. The brigade that is currently there, about 5,000 troops, arrived at the end of last year. They have been just there six months so far. Now, the brigade before them, in one full year, lost 19 people. If you include these now nine further soldiers, this new brigade has lost 50 in six months. The level of violence in this province is almost double what it was one year ago. The difference, however, is that, one year ago, it was Iraqis being killed, civilians. What's happened is, we have seen a shift in the violence targeting coalition forces and Iraqi security forces. Now, the brigade commander up there, the leader of the Grey Wolf Brigade, the 3rd Brigade Combat Team from the 1st Cavalry Division, with many other units attached to it, has said that he is aggressively targeting al Qaeda. He is going into their safe havens. In Diyala Province, al Qaeda has training bases. It collects taxes. It has entire regions which are firmly under its control where it has Sharia courts. It has declared much of Diyala Province as part of the Islamic state of Iraq. And this combat brigade is attempting to wrest it back by going into the al Qaeda strongholds, battling with them in blazing, pitched fights that go for days and weeks, at enormous cost of American life, trying to take this province back.", "So, has anything in Diyala changed because of the increase in troops, of American troops, in Baghdad? The what was one time called a surge or an escalation, is that occurring also in Diyala or is it simply in Baghdad?", "Well, what we saw with the introduction of what's now almost 30,000 additional combat troops to the war here in Iraq, focusing on the capital Baghdad -- as you say, it's the surge -- is that we saw a furtherance of a trend that had already been well under way in Diyala Province. Yes, when more troops dime Baghdad, more al Qaeda went to Diyala to join the others who had already moved there. But let's not forget, this has been an al Qaeda stronghold for years. It ebbs. It flows. The level of activity changes, but they have been the preeminent insurgent force in that province for quite some time now. Indeed, when the American brigade commander arrived there, he described the situation that al Qaeda considered that America owned the roads in that province, but they owned everything else. Well, he's been taking the fight to them. And this would be one of many acts of retaliation from al Qaeda.", "All right, Michael Ware, appreciate the latest from Baghdad. Just to reiterate, nine American service members killed in a suicide attack, a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, or a VBID, as the military calls them. We don't know exactly where it was in Diyala Province. We are going to trying to get more details. We will bring that to you as warranted. Now to Virginia Tech, the first day of classes since the shootings last week. As you might imagine, it was not an easy day. But ask the students, and many will tell you, it would have been even tougher for them to stay away. CNN's Gary Tuchman is there.", "On the day Virginia Tech students went back to school, a bell to symbolize the exact moment a week ago horror gripped Norris Hall, the classroom building that remains shut down, 32 white balloons in place, one for each life lost.", "About every 15 seconds, one bell for each victim, followed by the release of one balloon. There was utter silence, a ceremony elegant in its simplicity, as thousands of Virginia Tech students honored their fellow students and faculty members killed by Seung-Hui Cho. Amid this intensely emotional tribute, classes resumed. But, while the buildings were familiar, the feelings inside them were very different.", "It's not really school, I would say, not yet at least.", "Chido Obidegwu is a sophomore majoring in finance. He was in the dormitory where the rampage began. (on camera): And what was it like being in economics this morning?", "It was just -- the focus wasn't on economics today. Just everyone was just trying to get through this thing together. We just all talked. And some people had certain things to say. They just kind of opened the floor for anybody who wanted to talk.", "In many ways, the school day did appear normal. The campus was crowded with Hokies lugging their books to class.", "It's a very nice, quiet place to study.", "Prospective students and their parents went out on tours of the scenic campus on this beautiful sunny day. But, for many current students, the classrooms today were rooms for therapy and companionship.", "The professors were definitely just going through the same thing we are. So, we aren't quite in the mood to learn yet, and they're not quite in the mood to teach yet.", "David Gerhardt (ph) is a junior. His morning U.S. government class had three seats left open. They were seats that Reema Samaha, Matthew La Porte, and Nicole White used to sit in, three of the students who were killed.", "It was sad just knowing that, last week at this time, Monday 8:00 a.m., you know, those seats were filled with students learning, having, you know, normal lives, continuing about what they were doing, and, this week, knowing that those seats are empty because of what happened.", "When the morning memorial ended, 1,000 balloons in Virginia Tech colors were sent to the sky in a symbol of Hokie unity. As you squinted in the sunny horizon, they looked like orange and maroon tears.", "Gary, the school gave the option of a lot of kids -- a lot of the students there, they didn't have to go to class. They could just take the grades that they had already earned. Did most of the students show up?", "Classes were very full today, Anderson. But you're right. The university anticipated that some people wouldn't come back this week. The school year, after all, is ending in just a few weeks. Graduation is May 11. And some seats were empty. But the university is being flexible. They are telling students, as you just said, that they can take the final grade they have right now, and not take final exams, or they can withdrawal from the class with no penalty whatsoever. It's all because of a most unusual and very sad end of the school year here.", "Amazing, that they were giving tours to prospective students on campus. It must have been a difficult tour, indeed. Gary, thanks very much. As the campus began adjusting today a new kind of normal, fresh details kept coming about the crime and the killer. And, as they did, more lives, young lives, were remembered at funerals across the country.", "Tomorrow would have been Austin Cloyd's 19th birthday. This weekend was her funeral. Jarrett Lee Lane was also buried this weekend. So was Jarrett Lane, Waleed Mohammed, Partahi Lumbantoruan, G.V. Loganathan, and Minal Panchal. And, today, more funeral, more tears for Ryan Clark, the resident assistant, Reema Samaha, who loved to dance, Matthew La Porte and Matthew Gwaltney. As the grieving continues, so does the investigation. Here's what we have learned from the autopsies. The 32 victims suffered more than 100 gunshot wounds, many of them defensive wounds, suggesting those who died tried to shield themselves. As for the gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, he killed himself with a gunshot to the temple. Seven days later, the most painful question remains, why? What made Cho, a virtual ghost on the Virginia Tech campus, go on the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history? Blood samples from Cho's body are being tested for drugs. But it will be weeks before the results are in. Meantime, investigators are still searching the cell phone and e- mail records of Cho and his first victim, Emily Hilscher, looking for any link between them. Investigators are looking into Cho's online purchases; eBay say his bought empty ammunition magazines through its Web site, magazines that match the type of gun used in the massacre. State police earlier said he used the Internet to buy one of the guns used in the attack. There were questions in the Senate today as well at a Homeland Security hearing.", "The spotlight is shining squarely today on college presidents and senior administrators. And that question is before us: How safe are our campuses?", "In the case of Virginia Tech, at least, last Monday, the answer was not safe enough.", "Well, still plenty of students did come back today, as Gary Tuchman just said, including Andy Koch, who shared a suite with Cho. He's what he said to CNN's Gary Tuchman in an exclusive interview last week about an apparent stalking incident, with Cho pursuing one of Andy's female friends.", "I I.M.ed her and told her, this guy, you know, he is messing around with you. Here's his name. And you should kind of ignore him and just stay away from him. Then, the other time, the cops responded again. And Seung became upset about that. And he had told me that he might as well kill himself. And, so, I told the cops that. And they took him away to the counseling center for a night or two.", "Well, that was Andy Koch last week. He sat down with Gary again today.", "You and your roommate John did so much. You alerted the authorities here at Virginia Tech to the fact that he wanted to kill himself. He sent you the instant message saying that. You told them. They sent him away for counseling. But he came back. Do you look back now and say you wish you were more strident with them: You better not bring him back to us?", "We -- I wish, maybe, like we had pushed maybe to get him moved out. But I don't think it would have changed. He was obviously angry, and something wasn't right. I don't know if pushing him would have -- it would have happened somewhere else, or -- I don't know. You...", "... play that game all day.", "Right. The fact is, they took him away for a couple days. He came back to your room. Were you surprised that he was back? Did you think about it?", "You wouldn't have missed him if he was gone, because it was -- he wasn't really there to begin with. He didn't talk. So...", "Did his attitude change at all after he underwent this counseling and was brought back -- brought back to school?", "He was calmer. And there was no more of the extreme -- there was no more of the extreme stories and the incidents, as far as we know.", "So, did you think perhaps that whatever counseling had worked a little bit?", "Yes. Or I thought maybe he was more careful what he was doing, so that we wouldn't see it, maybe.", "One of the things you were telling us last week is that he wrote on the walls. And you were concerned about it, because you could get charged when you write on the walls. What did he write on those walls?", "It was lyrics from a Nirvana song, \"Smells Like Teen Spirit.\" And I remember it's: \"Load your gun. Bring your friends.\" And there's another line, \"It's fun to pretend.\"", "So, when he wrote about loading your gun on the wall, did that concern you at all?", "No. It -- it -- not at the time, it didn't concern me. I was just, you know, more mad that we would have to pay for the walls, you know? I didn't think much of it.", "But you were telling us you never saw him with guns or talking about guns. But now that we look back at it, this is the only mention that you ever know where he mentioned guns.", "That's the only time I have ever seen him, yes, interested in guns, or even say it, I guess, a couple of times.", "The university says he stalked two girls, but you know of three girls he stalked, right?", "Right.", "And one of the issues is, none of these girls pressed charges. Is that your understanding of it, too?", "Right. Mm-hmm.", "I guess, now that you're looking back at it, too, you -- we all wish they did, right?", "Right. I wish somebody had done...", "Did you know why they didn't? Did you ever ask them why they didn't?", "As far as, like, I can tell, from my own thoughts, they probably just didn't want to cause trouble. It was annoying. It wasn't -- they probably weren't scared. They were just extremely annoyed.", "The thing is, if you have, in your room at this university, drugs, what would happen to you?", "It's zero tolerance. You're out.", "You're out of -- you're out of the dorm?", "Yes, out of school.", "But this guy stalked girls, was sent away because he sent an I.M. he wants to kill himself, never talked, teachers that didn't want him in his -- class, and he was left in your dorm the entire year. Does that anger you, when you look back at it, that you don't think there's a contradiction there or some hypocrisy?", "It doesn't anger me. It's scary. And it's -- there was never a system in place, that all the information from us, from his teachers and from, I guess, the police could be put all in one place. So, if it had been -- if there had been a system -- I don't think there's a system anywhere, but, if such a system existed, something may have been able to be done.", "Can you still believe that this guy who you lived with for a year is the same guy who killed 32 people?", "No, not even close to believing it yet.", "Gary, what did Andy say about the video that Cho sent to NBC?", "Andy was shocked and repulsed by it. I mean, so are we, the viewers who didn't know this guy, Cho. But Andy knew him, and knew he was strange and weird and bizarre. But Andy and his roommate John, who we talked to last week, never thought he was dangerous to other people. So, when they saw this, and they saw him holding the guns and saw him holding the hammer, and speaking the way he spoke, they just couldn't believe it. I mean, they knew he was a problematic person, but certainly not that problematic. And one other thing, Anderson. As Andy told us, he never heard this guy, Cho, in the entire year he lived there say more than eight or nine sentences in an entire school year. And, during this manifesto that he sent to NBC, I mean, he spoke and spoke and spoke. He didn't know he could talk that much.", "Fascinating. Gary, thanks. We spoke with John, another former roommate of Cho's, last week. Today, he sent us this e-mail, saying -- quote -- \"I would like to make a statement thanking all of my family and friends for their unending support during this difficult time. It's hard to concentrate on classes right now. But every new day is a step in the right diction. While this past week has been difficult, with all of the sadness on campus, I feel right in moving forward.\" Many of Seung-Hui Cho's victims were just started their adult lives. Others had accomplished great things in their careers. Here's the raw data. The four youngest victims were 18 years old, the oldest, 76. Eighteen of those killed were men. Fourteen were women. Five were faculty, the rest, all of them, students. They all, of course, left behind families and friends who love them. One other note on how you can help: The university has set up what it's calling the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund. Donations will go to help victims and their families pay for grief counseling, memorials, and other related expenses. We have -- we have put a hot link to it on our blog, CNN.com/360blog. You can just page down, click on the link. Again, that's CNN.com/360blog. Still to come on the program tonight: It sound likes a Hitchcock nightmare -- an American in a strange country who says he was railroad for a crime he wasn't even around to commit.", "Was it mob justice? An American in Nicaragua convicted of killing the local beauty, with no physical evidence and 10 people who said he was somewhere else. Justice or injustice? You be the judge. Crow and Karl Rove? Why did the president's brain just about run screaming from Sheryl Crow? He says/she says, and a touch from a rock star that freaked out the president's right-hand man -- when 360 continues."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "WARE", "COOPER", "WARE", "COOPER", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "TUCHMAN", "CHIDO OBIDEGWU, VIRGINIA TECH STUDENT", "TUCHMAN", "OBIDEGWU", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "COOPER", "TUCHMAN", "COOPER", "COOPER (voice-over)", "W. 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{"id": "CNN-335992", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2018-03-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/26/ip.02.html", "summary": "Trump Signals He's About to Boot V.A. Secretary", "utt": ["-- general flying on expensive flights, other matters, but the V.A. secretary certainly seems to be the one who is going to be replaced first. Now the president controls the timing on all of this. So he has been visiting with some potential successors but we are -- have not heard from them exactly when he plans to make this switch. So it is something that is expected. Of course, you see the firings and departures every week for the last several weeks. At least the last five or six weeks, there has been a major departure and shake-up here. So it might happen this week or we don't know. Up to the president. He does not have much on his public schedule. Today, he's having lunch with the vice president as we speak. So certainly staffing changes and issues are on his mind. We'll see when he decides to make a move on this, Brianna.", "What about with his legal team? The top lawyer on his legal team when it pertains to the Russian investigation out last week, then you had a new lawyer or two coming in, and now that's not happening?", "Right, that was certainly a big change over the weekend. Joe diGenova who of course, you know, has been very active on Fox News and other places, you know, blasting the Russia investigation was certainly someone who appealed to the president. So he was announced last week that he was coming to join the president's team of lawyers, but that ended up changing on a Sunday after they had a meeting late last week. The president now is essentially left with one lawyer who is handling all of the Russia investigation. Of course, leading up to the question, will he testify with the special counsel or not? We're a couple weeks away from a potential decision there. So it's not one of the most sought-after positions, if you will. We've talked to many lawyers here in Washington and elsewhere who certainly do not want to come into the administration. It's a difficult case for sure. It's bad for business in some respects. The president, of course, pushing back over the weekend saying he's happy with his legal team, but we've heard that before. So it certainly is one of the many things weighing on this White House today, Brianna.", "He said he was happy and then his top lawyer was gone. So we will see. Jeff Zeleny, thank you so much. I want to talk more about this with Bloomberg Political Reporter Sahil Kapur with us now. So Sahil, this morning, we heard that from the deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley, he said, this point in times, Trump has confidence in Dr. Shulkin. But, it seems like that means nothing because if you look back at a lot of these other dismissals or resignations or what have you, firings by Twitter or however, there's always a statement that comes out, so this doesn't mean much.", "Right, the key word there is at this point in time or key phrase I should say. I think -- I mean, every day, every week with this White House in terms of personal matters is like a game of Russian roulette. You never know who's going to stay or who's going to go. A lot of this -- you know, the president is the man with the red pen and he can makes all the decisions but he can very indecisive, he be mercurial and change his mind. Sometimes a firing or departure will come out of the blue, like former FBI Director James Comey. Sometimes, someone will be rumored to go for months like the case with Rex Tillerson or Gary Cohn before it actually happens. So, you never know where the president is going to go. With the vase of the V.A., we know he's been upset about this for -- you know, this situation for a while. He's wanted a replacement. The key thing people need to know there is, this is not a coveted job or a glamorous one. This is a massive bureaucracy with about 3,000 employees, the successors are not well-understood or appreciated where is the failure has become a national scandal. Who can the president find who will adhere to his campaign promises to take care of our veterans which the United States is not doing? Who the president likes and trust to see replace Shulkin? Hard to know.", "No, that's a really good point. According to the Washington Post, and you mentioned sometimes there are rumored departures for months, even H.R. McMaster, we saw that took -- there was a lot of discontent from the president with him before he left. So the Post says that several people close to the president say a dramatic move like this would be an effort to change the narrative, take it away from all this focus on the Stormy Daniels case. Do you think a staff shake-up is in response to negative coverage? Do you believe that idea?", "Absolutely. It's not -- it wouldn't be the first time the president layer over one controversy with another controversy or layer over one crisis with another crisis. We know he's very uptune to news coverage of him. He watches a lot of cable news and he tries to control the narrative and he's frankly very good at it. He can do it with a single tweet. So, yes, I'm sure that factors into his overall thinking, but I don't think that's the only thing. A move like this I think will weigh on him very heavily. If there's a problem or another scandal today after he makes the decision to fire someone who he currently he can say is an Obama administration holdover, that will weigh very heavily on him and I think he understands that.", "V.A., it is such an important job, but like you said, maybe high risk and low reward, right?", "Yes, exactly.", "All right. Sahil Kapur, thank you so much, really appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Now next, they marched for their lives here in Washington and across the country, but will young people march to the voting booths come November? How the gun control issue could shake up the midterms, next."], "speaker": ["JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR", "ZELENY", "KEILAR", "SAHIL KAPUR, NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER BLOOMBERG", "KEILAR", "KAPUR", "KEILAR", "KAPUR", "KEILAR", "KAPUR", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-10845", "program": "WorldView", "date": "2000-6-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/27/wv.04.html", "summary": "A Look at How Things Are Going Now in Southern Lebanon", "utt": ["Last month, Israel pulled its troops out of Southern Lebanon, allowing the long-divided country to reunite. Our CNN Beruit bureau chief Brent Sadler tells us how things are going.", "In the once war- ravaged heart of Beirut, thousands of young Lebanese assemble in Parliament Square. It's no ordinary outing since most of them come from the former Israeli-occupied parts of South Lebanon, visiting their nation's capital for the first time. The festival is part of a campaign to help a fractured and often feuding society reintegrate.", "If she is a Christian, if she is a Muslim, why, because we are brothers, we are from the same nation, so let us take this discrimination we have.", "The campaign is also aimed at heeling psychological scars of war, especially among older teenagers.", "These people have seen the war, with its blood, with its cannons. Some of them have seen people dead in the streets. I think these people need some time to overcome what they have witnessed and what they have seen, and that's what we're working on. Member of parliament Bahiri Hariri (ph) is at the forefront of helping Lebanese youth overcome social divisions. Five years of efforts so far, including a song and dance spectacle in South Lebanon itself, used to build bridges of understanding between rival communities.", "I've learned how to talk to people, and like many friends, I have many friends now, and I've learned how much my country is working for me.", "In Beirut, though, a sign of discontent, because in the wake of Israel's troop pullout, many southern Christians fled to Israel and haven't come back.", "All the people say we are happy, we are happy, we are happy. No, we are not happy. We are happy and we are free, yes. But we need more of my friends. I need my friend. I know all the people (ph).", "Still, they're being encouraged to expect a brighter future in the hope it will erase memories of a bitter past. (on camera): Torn apart by years of civil war and Israeli occupation, Lebanese society may take generations to recover. Events like this seem to be a promising start, but there is still a long way to go. Brent Sadler, CNN, Beirut."], "speaker": ["BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR", "BRENT SADLER, BERUIT BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SADLER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SADLER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SADLER"]}
{"id": "CNN-69310", "program": "CNN INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2003-4-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0304/13/ip.00.html", "summary": "Is Battle for Tikrit Over?", "utt": ["7:06 a.m., General Tommy Franks tells CNN six or seven U.S. soldiers have been found in Iraq and are apparently in good shape. 7:52 a.m., CNN's Bob Franken embedded with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit provides more details on the release and sends back exclusive video. He says seven American troops arrived by helicopter at a base south of Baghdad today, and were immediately transferred to a C130 transport plane which reportedly took them to Kuwait City. 9:16 a.m., Matthew Fisher, a Canadian reporter embedded with the Marines reports that the battle for Tikrit has begun. 10:02 a.m., the family of Ron Young, Jr., one of the seven freed this morning receives a visit from the U.S. Army representative who tells them their son is safe. The Youngs already knew this because they had seen Ron, Jr. on CNN before the official notification. 11:41 a.m., Shane Parker calls CNN to say his family got confirmation that his brother Patrick Miller was among one of the rescued POWs. Parker says he just wants to see his brother. 11:53 a.m., Matthew Fisher, the Canadian reporter, tells CNN that it was totally an accident that the POWs were found. He said an Iraqi policeman had approached the Marines asking if they had come for the prisoners. The policeman then led the Marines to a nearby building where they found the seven Americans still under guard by the Iraqis.", "All day we have seen the families and friends of the newly freed American POWs rejoicing at today's dramatic news. It sure shows, however, that after the initial excitement, the transition back to freedom can be difficult for former POWs. For more, I'm joined by our military analyst, General Don Shepperd. Don, let me ask you, obviously we have got these young men and this young woman coming off, pumping their fists, and there's got to be a real high there, but I imagine it sinks in later and they deal with difficult things.", "They do, indeed, Candy, this is euphoric for the people involved, for the families and for all of America, and of course for the people that rescued them. But they face some difficult days ahead and they don't even realize it. The euphoria quickly is replaced. If our experience is with these POWs like it has been other wars, by guilt, by doubt, and also by problems they don't realize they have. The military has become very, very good at handling the psychological aspects of POWs. This is learned the hard way from looking at the experiences of families and POWs themselves in the various wars we've been involved in, and the problems caused within the families, and to the members themselves. So we're getting good at this, and they'll get very good care, Candy.", "What have they learned throughout sort of the wars that have gone on about what POWs go through? Is there anything similar between, you know, five and a half years, as John McCain had in Vietnam, to 33 days, or three weeks? Or do they go through similar things?", "Yes, it is very interesting. Experts tell me a lot depends on the individual's psychological makeup. For instance, John McCain, who was in captivity for five and a half years, terribly tortured, basically says he doesn't have any reaction, he doesn't have any nightmares, and others were in captivity for a short period of time say they do have nightmares. So it depends on the individual. What they have found is that they go through similar experiences, doubt, guilt, did I do something wrong that caused me to become a POW, did I do something wrong that caused others to get killed? All this self-doubt can be handled by real professionals that explain what they have been through, the experience of others, and help them cope with it, Candy.", "Obviously, General Shepperd, it's not over yet. I want to just sort of turn the corner and talk about the ongoing battle, but first I wanted to play a bit of Wolf Blitzer's interview with Tommy Franks.", "I wouldn't say it's over, but I will say we have American forces in Tikrit right now.", "And is there any resistance -- organized military resistance?", "When last I checked, this force was moving on Tikrit, and there was not any resistance.", "What does that say to you? The Republican Guard, the special republican guard, the special security organizations, all of Saddam Hussein's military and police have crumbled?", "One would like to think that. But I think we would be premature to say, well, gosh, it's all done, it's all finished.", "So, General Shepperd, this is not a man who is going to count any chickens before they're hatched, but what really is the biggest problem ahead for U.S. troops?", "General Franks is very careful with his words. And when D Company of the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion securing the left flank of the Marine advanced toward Tikrit, came across these POWs this morning, their other elements on the right flank and in the center were advancing on Tikrit and they were coming against fire, even armored fire. So basically, I think what General Franks is telling us is even when Tikrit is gone, there will be pockets of resistance in Baghdad and some of the southern cities, in cities they have not been to throughout the country. We may see several weeks or months of this, and then security will gradually take over as the citizens themselves point out remaining pockets and the country is disarmed and new military is formed in the country, Candy.", "You know, General Shepperd, but then it becomes a very different kind of war, doesn't it? When you don't have units moving to the right flank and left flank, this becomes three Marines verses a sniper. Isn't that totally different eventually?", "It does, indeed. Military operations are fairly straightforward. You have a plan, you have objectives, you move forward to take those objectives. You fight your way in if necessary, or bypass them if required, and there's a victory over the objective, if you will. You move on to the next objective. Peace is much more difficult, and an extended peace in Iraq, where there are many hidden arms and hidden caches around the country, many hard feelings will be existing for a long period of time. We know that there will be suicide bombers involved here. It is going to be very difficult and it is going to require patience, and it is going to require understanding of the American public and the world community, Candy.", "Thanks so much. Our CNN analyst, General Don Shepperd, we really appreciate it. As we have reported, five of the seven POWs found today are from the 507th Maintenance Company, the same unit as Private Jessica Lynch. Private Lynch arrived back in the U.S. yesterday and was taken to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington to continue her recovery. She was rescued by U.S. forces in a dramatic overnight operation on April 1. Private Lynch was welcomed to the U.S. by Major General Kevin Kiley.", "I spoke with her last night on her arrival. I said to her, Private Lynch, welcome home and welcome to Walter Reed. We are glad to have you here. And her response was, I'm glad to be here, too, sir.", "Private Lynch is said to be in good spirits. General Kiley says her stay at Walter Reed could stay could be as long as a few weeks. We have a reminder to stay tuned tonight for CNN's special coverage of the recovery of the seven former American POWs. That is tonight, 8:00 p.m. eastern, 5:00 Pacific. When we return, we'll check the hour's top headlines, plus we will go live to Baghdad with our Christiane Amanpour where widespread looting continues to plague the city."], "speaker": ["CROWLEY (voice over)", "CROWLEY", "MAJ. GEN. DON SHEPPERD (RET.), CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "CROWLEY", "SHEPPERD", "CROWLEY", "GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS, COMMANDER, CENTRAL COMMAND", "BLITZER", "FRANKS", "BLITZER", "FRANKS", "CROWLEY", "SHEPPERD", "CROWLEY", "SHEPPERD", "CROWLEY", "MAJOR GENERAL KEVIN KILEY, U.S. ARMY", "CROWLEY"]}
{"id": "NPR-42695", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-03-12", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5258990", "title": "Vietnam-Era Decision Makers Reflect on Then and Now", "summary": "Presidential decision makers, leading historians and public policy experts gathered in Boston this weekend to take a look at the Vietnam War and the presidency, and how the decisions made then affect the current war in Iraq. Monica Brady-Myerov of member station WBUR reports.", "utt": ["Nearly 31 years after the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam war remains a key historical reference point. Today, as the nation grapples with its role in another war, Iraq, the men who led the U.S. into and out of Vietnam gathered in Boston this weekend to consider the lessons of that conflict. WBUR's Monica Brady-Myerov attended the Vietnam and the Presidency conference at the John F. Kennedy library. She has this report.", "The conference brought together Senior Advisors to Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Ted Sorenson, Special Council to President Kennedy, said Vietnam was not central to Kennedy's presidency.", "Vietnam was a low level insurrection at that time. There was no pitched war with North Vietnam yet.", "Kennedy dispatched three missions to Vietnam and all three advised him to send troops. But he overruled them. Instead, he deepened U.S. involvement by sending 5,000 advisors and support troops. That eventually grew to 16,000 advisors. In 1963, the Viet Cong, the communist guerillas operating in South Vietnam, defeated the South Vietnamese army and President Diem was overthrown and assassinated. President Kennedy ruminated about this on tape.", "President JOHN F. KENNEDY: Monday, November 4th, 1963. Over the weekend the coup in Saigon took place, culminated three months of conversation about a coup.", "Kennedy goes on saying he felt the U.S. bears a good deal of responsibility for the coup, even though it had no direct involvement. Kennedy was assassinated a few weeks later. President Johnson vowed not to disrupt any policy Kennedy had in place. And historians say he believed Kennedy would have increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In taped conversations such as this one, with Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1964, Johnson agonizes over the war.", "President LYNDON B. JOHNSON: I don't want to pull down the flag and come home running with my tail between my legs, particularly if it's gonna create more problems than I got out there. And it would, according to all of our best judges.", "Special Assistant to Johnson, Jack Valenti, says Johnson feared a domino effect. Conventional wisdom at the time was if South Vietnam fell to communists, other countries would also succumb. With hindsight, Valenti says this wisdom was wrong.", "Eisenhower believed it, Kennedy believed it, Johnson believed it. I don't know about Nixon and Ford. But it turned out to be a piece of defunct mythology.", "Another senior presidential advisor took issue with this perspective. Henry Kissinger was President Nixon's National Security Advisor.", "And one cannot pretend that there are no consequences to the defeat of a country on which the security of so much of the free world depended at the time.", "More than 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam. One audience member asked if there was anything Kissinger wanted to apologize for.", "Were mistakes sometimes made? It's open to a lot of debate. But that sort of question, it sort of implies that there's some horrible guilt that people ought to be allowing when they face a situation of 500,000 Americans, in fact, withdrew those 500,000 Americans.", "Many panelists made comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq. Kennedy's advisor, Ted Sorenson, says the enemy is similar.", "In Vietnam, we were facing then and in Iraq we are facing now a people determined to throw out foreign troops and it's almost impossible to defeat those insurgents.", "Alexander Haig, who held high level positions under Presidents Nixon and Ronald Reagan, was critical of the incremental military approach in Vietnam and now in Iraq.", "Every asset of the nation must be applied to the struggle to bring about a quick and prompt successful end or don't do it. Because we're in the midst of another struggle where it appears to me we haven't learned very much.", "Henry Kissinger said he supported the U.S. led invasion of Iraq because, he says, the consequences of a failure in Iraq are enormous.", "We are facing a jihadist radical Islamic challenge. And if the United States fails in Iraq then the consequences in every country, Islamic or non-Islamic, in secular Islamic countries and in other countries that have significant Islamic minorities will move towards the radical side.", "In other words, a domino effect in the Islamic world. 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{"id": "NPR-20962", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2016-09-01", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/09/01/492288835/white-house-considers-steps-to-protect-voting-systems-from-hackers", "title": "White House Considers Steps To Protect Voting Systems From Hackers", "summary": "Given the threat of cyber attacks, the Obama administration may designate U.S. election systems as \"critical infrastructure.\" But not everyone thinks that's a good idea.", "utt": ["The Obama administration is weighing steps to protect the nation's voting systems from hackers. That comes with word this month that at least two state voter databases in Arizona and Illinois may have been compromised. One step the administration is considering is declaring election systems part of the national critical infrastructure. But as NPR's Brian Naylor reports, not everyone thinks that's a good idea.", "There are some 9,000 state and local governments that run elections. The federal government is not involved. Still, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says there is a vital national interest in protecting the election process, and therefore...", "We should carefully consider whether our election system, our election process is critical infrastructure like the financial sector, like the power grid.", "The federal government has designated 16 such critical infrastructures which also include food production and transportation. It means they are considered vital to national security, economic security or public health and that the federal government will work with the owners and operators to help strengthen them from physical or cyber threats.", "In the case of voting systems, any federal involvement would likely be an advisory role, says former Homeland Security official Bruce McConnell.", "This just puts them in the position to give advice and assistance. It doesn't give DHS any regulatory authority.", "But there is some skepticism about Washington's motives when it comes to the election system. Brian Kemp is Georgia's secretary of state.", "I think it would give the opportunity for the federal government to stick its nose under the tent, if you will, of state election systems. So that's a big concern that I have.", "Kemp, a Republican, says he's open to sharing information with other states and Washington to better secure election systems but that running elections should remain a local responsibility.", "The Constitution was set up to give the states this power. There's value in having the states doing that because you have multiple systems and multiple jurisdictions. And you know, elections is not a one-size-fits-all operation that I believe to be run by the federal government.", "California's Secretary of State Alex Padilla, a Democrat, says he understands that concern but does see value in having some federal input.", "I think there's a lot to be gained here. Nothing is more critical for maintaining the integrity of our democracy than the public's confidence in our voting systems and in the election results. So if the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice or any other federal agencies can help us fulfill that, I certainly welcome the dialogue.", "Whether or not the nation's voting systems are critical infrastructure, Joe Hall with the Center for Democracy and Technology says they certainly are neglected infrastructure.", "The voting systems out there in general are 10- to 15-, 20-year-old computer systems, which means they can't really protect themselves in the modern sort of risk and threat environment that they're in right now. And because of that, they are quite vulnerable.", "The positive side is that few voting machines connect directly to the internet, but there are other ways of hacking them. It's unclear when any designation of voting systems as critical infrastructure might occur. The White House says an active discussion is underway. But a Homeland Security official says such a designation would not take place before this upcoming election. Brian Naylor, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "BRIAN NAYLOR, BYLINE", "JEH JOHNSON", "BRIAN NAYLOR, BYLINE", "BRIAN NAYLOR, BYLINE", "BRUCE MCCONNELL", "BRIAN NAYLOR, BYLINE", "BRIAN KEMP", "BRIAN NAYLOR, BYLINE", "BRIAN KEMP", "BRIAN NAYLOR, BYLINE", "ALEX PADILLA", "BRIAN NAYLOR, BYLINE", "JOE HALL", "BRIAN NAYLOR, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-168051", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-6-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1106/24/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Lexus, Honda Top Best Cars List; America's Best High School", "utt": ["The best of the best. \"Newsweek\" studying more than 1,000 top high schools to determine which ones are best at producing kids ready for college and life.", "Drumroll, please. They put Dallas School of Science and Engineering at the very head of the class. Joining us now from Dallas is the school's principal, Jovan Wells. Congratulations, the best in the country. Tell us what is the secret in your sauce, because we need it all over the place.", "Thank you so much. I guess the secret is a combination of several different things, but the one thing that stands out. Of course, you have to have great teachers and teachers has are willing to go above and beyond and willing to train throughout the summer and willing to stay long hours without being paid. And we have an abundance of this at the school of science and engineering, and they really make the difference. And they are there for the students.", "Yes. You also have great kids. Tell us how you get into your school there in Dallas and how you select these kids.", "Well, we do select from the entire city of Dallas. The students have to meet entrance criteria, of course. We look at their ITBS scores, we look at GPA. And because we are a math and science school, we also have on-site math assessment and essay and interview to assess their interest in our school because it's a school of choice and they have to be interested to want to go through this rigorous process. And so we look at those scores and we also make sure that it's even and across the district. So we're taking, you know, students from the entire city of Dallas. So it's very representative of our district.", "These are kids that have shown some success and selecting into math and science program, magnet program. Tell me about the time that they spend in the classroom, because you talked about the extra while the teachers go. This is not your typical 8:50 to 2:50 school day, is it?", "Not at all. Our school hours are actually 9:00 to 4:00 and they have been adjusted to 9:15 to 4:15 for the next school year. However, we started about 7:30. We have teachers arrive there and a zero period for students in tutoring and a night period that lasts until 5:00 and we have several students that participate in that, as well as after-school tutoring. It's maximizing the time on task and students are there before and after school just as if it was the entire school day. I mean, they are there working and really taking advantage of that extra time available to study and work with the teachers.", "Jovan, so many parents are watching this and might be feeling bad, because, number one, they don't live in Dallas. Number two, their school district doesn't have this kind of magnet opportunity that you are giving them. And they are trying to figure out in their own little education plan how can I make my kid a success given the school we're at now? What would you say to those parents as the one or two things they need to be doing to get success on an individual basis?", "Well, as a parent, myself, you know, I look at the things that these students are doing and it's just very good foundation and always actively involved in things like chess camp or math camps or something that keeps them on their toes. So whether it's, you know, supplementing what they are being offered at the schools in their areas with programs that are available at the university level. You know, there's several programs available there. There is always something that can help students to achieve if they get that extra push. So I would just research some areas if there are local universities and what kind of programs are they offering to help assist the students what they are doing at their local high school.", "What's interesting, both of you, higher expectations are something. So your school, Jovan, has higher expectations the very get go for these kids. They have a certain GPA and already shown that they have some dedication to the subject matter. But parents could do that, too. Higher expectations all up and down the expectation process for our kids. These kids, for example, their GPA, 86 seniors graduated all of them, all of them going on to college and average SAT scores 1786, and that compares to 1509 for the rest of the country. So these are great kids. Good stuff.", "Great stuff. Jovan Wells, congratulations to you and your school and your teachers and your kids. Thanks for being with us.", "Thanks so much for having me.", "Still ahead the constant noise, the pollution, people everywhere, stress in the city. It turns out living in a city does more than stress you out. It messes with your brain.", "Obviously."], "speaker": ["GRIFFIN", "ROMANS", "JOVAN WELLS, PRINCIPAL, THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING MAGNET SCHOOL", "GRIFFIN", "WELLS", "ROMANS", "WELLS", "GRIFFIN", "WELLS", "ROMANS", "GRIFFIN", "WELLS", "ROMANS", "GRIFFIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-226897", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2014-3-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/19/lvab.02.html", "summary": "Families React to Lack of Information of Missing Flight 370; Pilot of Flight 370", "utt": ["And before we bring you that moment, we want to show you the chaos that ensued as our own Kyung Lah got caught in the middle of this crush.", "What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? Back off, back off!", "Aah!", "The picture of that grieving mother as she is being taken out of that room by officials is absolutely heart-wrenching. She was one of two women who were there to plead for some solid information on the whereabouts of their loved ones. The translation is on the bottom of your screen, and you can read it for yourself. Have a look.", "I don't care about what your government does. I just want your son back soon. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (speaking in foreign language) : I am Li Le's mother. My son was on the plane. My son -- I just want my son back. My son is Li Le.", "We have been here for 10 days, no single piece of information. We want media from the entire world to help us appeal (ph) that Malaysian government to give us information as soon as possible. We need media from the entire world to give us information as soon as possible. We need media from the entire world to help us find our lost families and find the MH370 plane.", "Can you speak English?", "We have no information at all. They only say, \"keep searching\" from South China Sea to Malacca Strait to Andaman Sea. I just don't know where the plane has gone to?", "Can you speak English?", "We some 20 families aren't satisfied with Malaysian government's inaction.", "But they say they have been accompanying you guys?", "We don't need to be taken care of. What we need to know is the truth, to know where the plane is. We have had enough. Malaysian government are liars. We hope media all over the world keep pressing Malaysian government and find our families and this plane. They can't just be gone like this. We are in terrible mood. Every day we sit here waiting. We will keep waiting and will never leave.", "It's important to remember that these are the people who are so acutely affected by what is going on in these last 12 days. That woman was dragged out of that room by officials -- officials -- the same officials who when questioned said there weren't two women in the room. Kyung Lah, our Kyung Lah, even asked the question, and was remarkably told there weren't two women in the room. There were hundreds of cameras recording them, however, so ultimately, the Malaysians had to answer the question. And this was the reaction from Malaysia's acting minister of transportation.", "I fully understand what they are going through. Emotions are high. And this is something that I discussed with the French delegation this morning in dealing with the families.", "It's a little hard to hear that, that he fully understands. Because I'm sure everybody watching that thinks, you didn't lose a loved one in that plane crash. You can't possibly understand what those people are going through. Only a few people in the world can actually comprehend what it's really like, like the passengers of Air France, their family members. Air France 447 crashed on June 1st, 2009, and there were 228 people who were killed in that disaster. Took them five days to find the first bodies and the wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean. Today CNN's Samuel Burke reported on the German association of the families of Air France 447 who wrote an open letter to the families of Flight 370. And that letter reads in part, quote, \"Like you, we are completely dismayed about the vague and partially contradicting information policy by the Malaysian government. \"As MH-370 is an international flight and booked by passengers from various countries, you, as families, should feel entitled to approach your respective national governments to put pressure on the Malaysian military and civil authorities to speed up the investigations and to care for quicker release of findings.\" I'll remind you, three Americans were on board Flight 370. Sarah Bajc's partner, Philip Wood, was one of those passengers and she is holding out hope that he is still alive, possibly because he's being held hostage. And last night on \"ANDERSON COOPER 360,\" she made an emotional plea to whomever could be responsible.", "The reality is, whoever has done this has been successful. They have fooled all the experts and all the governments in the world. They have made a very serious point. But I think they can accomplish their goals without hurting people. Because in the end, the families and the god of whoever is doing this could forgive them creating this crisis. It's a terrible thing they have done, but I think they couldn't forgive if they took innocent lives, and so I'm just hoping. I'm hoping and I'm asking, please, to not hurt the people on the plane. You know, find some other way to accomplish what you're trying to accomplish, but don't hurt the people. Let Philip come back to me, please.", "These emotions are so fresh for Sarah, but there is one woman who watches her and knows all too well what she went through. Heidi Snow went through it, too. She lost her fiancee in TWA 800. She's formed an organization to help people like Sarah. And very much like Sarah and those other people we just witnessed in that horrible melee, she was in those hotel rooms during those briefings where people just lost it. She is going to explain huh this is like, in just a moment."], "speaker": ["ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN", "BANFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (speaking in foreign language)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (speaking in foreign language)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (speaking in foreign language)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (speaking in foreign language)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (speaking in foreign language)", "BANFIELD", "HISHAMUDDIN BIN HUSSEIN, MALAYSIAN ACTING TRANSPORTATION MINISTER", "BANFIELD", "SARAH BAJC, PARNER WAS ON FLIGHT 370", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-336018", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2018-03-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/26/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Trump Orders Expulsion of Russian Diplomats; Stormy Daniels Sues President Trump's Lawyer for Defamation.", "utt": ["You can follow the show on Facebook and Twitter on @TheLeadCNN. That is all for us today. I'm John Berman, in for Jake. Now time for Wolf Blitzer in THE SITUATION ROOM.", "Happening now, breaking news. Expelled. The Trump administration expels 60 Russian diplomats identified as intelligence officers and orders the closure of a Russian consulate in response to the nerve agent attack in Britain. Russia says the United States is making a grave mistake. So what's the next move? Rebound. Our new poll is out, and President Trump's approval rating rebounds to its highest point in nearly a year, but that's still only 42 percent. Apart from the economy, the reviews are negative; and most Americans say they believe the women alleging affairs with Donald Trump, although only 21 percent believe the president. And Stormy sues. Porn star Stormy Daniels sues the president's lawyer for defamation, accusing Michael Cohen of calling her a liar. As Daniels goes public about her alleged affair with Donald Trump and says she was threatened, the White House says the president still denies an affair and rejects her claims. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "Breaking news. As President Trump orders the expulsion of 60 Russians in response to the nerve agent poisoning in Britain, the White House says it's not closing any doors on direct action against Russia's President Putin. And while the White House says the president still denies the claims by porn star Stormy Daniels, a new CNN poll finds just 21 percent of Americans believe the president's denials of the affair. I'll speak with Senator Richard Blumenthal of the Judiciary Committee and Armed Services Committees. And our correspondents and specialists, they're standing by with full coverage. First let's go straight to our chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. Jim, the expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats sends a strong message.", "It really does, Wolf. The Trump administration abruptly changed course on Russia today, getting tough with this announcement that Russian diplomats will be expelled from the U.S. But the president was oddly silent on this subject, as he was on another matter, Stormy Daniels. But sources tell me, Wolf, that the president was advised to avoid commenting on Stormy Daniels, because he, quote, \"knows the stakes.\"", "It's the kind of move critics of President Trump from both parties have been demanding. In response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy on British soil, the Trump administration announced 60 Russian diplomats are being expelled from the U.S., as well as the closure of a Russian consulate in Seattle because of its close proximity to a submarine base. The White House held out the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who's suspected of ordering the attack on the ex-spy, could be sanctioned himself.", "I wouldn't close any doors. I wouldn't preclude any potential action, but the president doesn't telegraph his moves.", "The administration's retaliation against Russia was somewhat unexpected after the president neglected to mention the poisoning to Putin during a phone call last week. White House spokesman Raj Shah didn't really answer why that didn't come up in their conversation.", "The president has made his position and the country's position pretty clear.", "The expulsions are also aimed at showing solidarity with more than a dozen another countries taking similar steps, as the British prime minister again scolded Moscow over the attempted murders.", "Sergei and Yulia Skripal remain critically ill in hospital. Sadly, late last week, doctors indicated that their condition is unlikely to change in the near future, and they may never recover fully.", "Russia's ambassador to the U.S. indicated Moscow is likely to retaliate.", "I am sure that time will come. They will understand what kind of grave mistake they did.", "But even some of the president's critics welcomed the news, with GOP Senator Ben Sasse saying in a statement, \"Good, this is kind of strong and unambiguous message the United States ought to be sending.\" Still, the president did not tweet about the expulsions, instead opting for another attack on the media: \"So much fake news. Never been more voluminous or more inaccurate. But through it all, our country is doing great.\" That appeared to be a swipe at the \"60 Minutes\" interview with porn star Stormy Daniels, who has alleged an affair with the president and a payoff to buy her silence. The lawyer says more is on the way.", "It is just the beginning. We have a whole host of evidence. This is not going away. And Mr. Cohen and the president better come clean with the American people, and they'd better do it quick will.", "A new CNN poll finds most Americans believe the president is dishonest. Still, the White House wants Americans to trust Mr. Trump and not Daniels.", "The president doesn't believe that any of the claims that Ms. Daniels made last night in the interview are accurate.", "Now, the White House did confirm one thing in connection with the Stormy Daniels story, saying that over the weekend, the president's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who allegedly paid off Daniels, did in fact, have dinner with the president at his resort at Mar-a-Lago. And as for the perpetual White House chaos we've been seeing over that we've been seeing over the last several weeks, Wolf, we should also point out that the White House did not exactly give a ringing endorsement to David Shulkin, the secretary of veterans affairs. When asked about his future, the White House spokesman here said there are no cabinet announcements at this time, Wolf. Of course, it's only Monday -- Wolf.", "Yes, not exactly a ringing endorsement, indeed. Thanks very much, Jim Acosta at the White House. Let's bring in our chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto. Jim, how significant is this move? And what kind of message is the U.S. now sending to Russia?", "It's significant. It's interesting. You here that even from members of the Obama administration. I spoke to Lisa Monaco short time ago, and she said this is a significant move and a change from the Trump administration, which as you know and we've spoken about this a number of times, has not been particularly forward leaning in its criticism of Moscow, particularly from the president himself. So significant in that sense. Big statement from the U.S. Significant that it came from multiple western allies at the same time. So these are dozens of diplomats, quote unquote, diplomats who are really intelligence officials, operatives in these countries who can no longer be able to operate there and gather intelligence. That's a big deal. Now, on the flip side, of course, Russia's going to pay back, right? It's going to expel Americans. It's going to expel British diplomats, et cetera, so there will be a payment, in effect, a cost to this. But significant it's happening at the same time. The finer point I would make is this. When you look at this attack, this was an attack, not just on that former Russian spy and his daughter walking through the streets. But as Theresa May, the U.K. prime minister, noted today, there are dozens of bystanders, citizens, passersby who were contaminated, as well, with what is a nerve agent. This was, in effect, a chemical weapons attack on British soil by Russia. And in a very top-heavy organization in Russian, where you would have to guess that this, to some degree, had the approval of the president, the Russian president himself. It was a significant attack, and that's why you're seeing this significant response.", "Yes, 48 Russian diplomats -- quote, \"diplomats\" -- here in Washington and their families. Another dozen at the Russian mission to the United Nations. They're shutting down the Russian consulate in Seattle, Washington.", "Yes.", "But as you point out, Russia will retaliate and do the same thing to American diplomats in Moscow and elsewhere and probably shut down a U.S. consulate, as well. That will reduce U.S. intelligence- gathering capabilities.", "Absolutely. And you note the move in Seattle. Why Seattle, folks at home might say? There's a major U.S. submarine base there. There's a big competition going on under the waves around the world. We did some reporting on this, and it appears to be sensitivity about the possibility of Russian surveillance of that base may lead to that connection with those expulsions there.", "A lot of high-tech companies in Seattle, as well, that the Russians presumably are interested in. Jim Sciutto, thanks very much. Joining us now, Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. He's a member of the Judiciary and Armed Services Committees. Senator, you've been a critical of the Trump administration's treatment of Russia, suggesting it's been too weak. Do they deserve credit now for a tougher response?", "This response is significant, no question. Not only because it involves 60 intelligence agents expelled out of 100 that there are estimated to be in the United States, probably a low figure, but also because it's coordinated with our allies. Remember that president Trump has been very dismissive of NATO, of our allies. And this coordinated response is significant. But the president's silence speaks volumes. Because his failure to use the White House as a bully pulpit against Putin, against this Russian aggression against the continued, concerted attack on our democracy, is profoundly significant, maybe even as significant as the expulsion.", "The Russians have promised, as you know, to respond in kind. How do you think Putin will retaliate?", "I think Putin will retaliate by expelling some of our diplomats, some of our intelligence agents. But remember, what Putin did here -- and there's no question he did it personally -- was order a chemical attack, poison military-grade chemicals, on the soil of one of our closest, maybe our closest ally. The U.K. was attacked by the use of this military-grade poison. Imagine what past president Ronald Reagan, for example, would have said about that kind of attack. Or any of our Republican, Democratic president. The president's silence, I think, is aimed at maybe reducing the significance of the response by Putin. What we should be doing right now is preparing to use sanctions on the oligarchs, attacking financial institutions as well as using cyber. We have a lot of tools at our disposal, regardless of what Putin does in response.", "When the Russians expel -- and I assume they will -- several dozen American diplomats, and some of them presumably will be CIA clandestine officers, spies, how much damage to U.S. intelligence capability do you think will be impacted?", "It will be damaging. But at this point, without going into classified briefings, there are a lot of means we have to do surveillance and intelligence gathering through cyber and aerial surveillance, space, and other means, that are important to us. But obviously, the human intelligence is very important, as well. So it will degrade our intelligence gathering activities but by no means cripple them severely.", "As far as we know, Senator, the administration still hasn't taken any direct action against those Russia agencies responsible for election meddling here in the United States. What specific steps does the president, from your perspective, need to take, in addition to what was just done today?", "There are some very clear steps that need to be taken. No. 1, to crack down on the financial dealings of his oligarchs, the Russian business people who actually finance the Internet Research Agency that was the agency attacking our democracy. So using the kind of sanctions on finance institutions that so far have not been imposed. They were authorized by Congress. The president has not used them in the degree or dimension that he should. Second, the use of cyber, which really, we have been very laggard and lax in applying. We have the tools, but we simply haven't used them. They're using cyber against us. I've raised this issue repeatedly in Armed Services Committee hearings, as have a number of my colleagues. John McCain has been very vocal on this topic. And so I think steps in those domains and defining what is an act of war. In my view, the Russians actually committed an act of war. They said it was informational warfare, and we need to respond much more robustly.", "The president's incoming national security adviser, John Bolton, as you know, he's a hard liner when it comes to Russia. Do you think he'll be able to change the president's thinking, the president's words? Will we see the president actually say something personally critical of Putin, start tweeting about the Russians?", "The Russian policy of the United States must change. John Bolton can be a change agent, and that may be one of the bright spots of his appointment. His hawkishness and warmongering with respect to North Korea and Iran, obviously, are extremely concerning and I think will be met by strong and vigorous opposition on both sides of the aisle in the United States Congress.", "Senator Blumenthal, thanks for joining us.", "Thank you.", "There's more breaking news we're following. The porn star, Stormy Daniels suing the president's lawyer, Michael Cohen, for defamation, saying he cast her as a liar for alleging an affair with Donald Trump. That comes after Daniels goes public, saying she was threatened.", "I was in a parking lot going to a fitness class with my infant daughter. And a guy walked up on me and said to me, \"Leave Trump alone. Forget the story.\" And then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, \"That's a beautiful little girl. It would be a shame if something happened to her mom.\" And then he was gone.", "Your took it as a direct threat?", "Absolutely."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "THE SITUATION ROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-141918", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-8-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/18/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Gastric Bypass Surgery and Insurance", "utt": ["Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez here in the world headquarters of the CNN NEWSROOM. You probably heard stories like this one that I'm about to share with you. People who have insurance are rejected by their provider for some type of treatment or some type of procedure. This time it's about a 22-year-old man who weighs more than 600 pounds. It's a unique story, we know. But he says that he could die if he doesn't get gastric bypass. He also says his insurance is not going to foot the bill for him. Should he get it? Well, here's Elisa Jaffe from affiliate KOMO in Washington State.", "He's always been a chunky little monkey. He never had a chance. You know, it's like he never had a chance.", "Jake Paikai doesn't own a scale big enough to handle his weight. Best guess, he's 650 pounds. The 22-year-old can't reach his own shoes, sit in most chairs or fit behind a steering wheel.", "I can't drive. I can't go on planes. I can't step on a bus. There are very few cars I can ride in.", "Jake's mom, Mimi, drives him to class at Pacific Lutheran University. She knows what it's like to be morbidly obese. She weighed more than 500 pounds before her stomach stapling.", "Every night I go to sleep, and I wonder if he's gonna be there tomorrow.", "Jake worries tomorrow might not come.", "You know, I really can only go about 20 feet before I'm completely winded.", "And together with his friends, he's asking for the public's help.", "This is the homepage of mybypasssurgery.com.", "They've launched a foundation called mybypasssurgery.", "I need help. And obese -- and other obese need help so let's do something about it. The goal they say is raising tens of thousands of dollars to cover gastric bypass for Jake, and eventually others who can't afford the pricy procedure.", "We've got great insurance and it's not covered.", "At college, Jake has a 3.9 GPA. But weight stands in his way of bigger dreams. Jake doesn't just want to walk. He says he wants to run.", "Run through this life with the same kind of hopes and dreams that other folks have.", "In Tacoma, Alisa Jaffe, KOMO 4 News.", "Also, what do you think? Men, we're getting a ton of reaction on those. Let me take you right to the Twitter board here. \"If he has a medical condition that makes him obese and has tried various diets and plans recommended by his doctor, then, yes.\" But down here, look at Viking. I'll bring it right up. Viking21, \"I think it's case-by-case. First 600 pounds guy needs to prove that he's tried reputable weight loss programs. Weight watcher.\" And then JCSpears (ph) says, \"Look, since his health is at risk, I think they should.\" Now, Elizabeth is going to be joining us in just a little bit. She's going to be talking about this, and discussing with us what are some of the preventive measures that might help, might actually help the rest of us save money by covering someone like this because of what he would cost to all of us down the lines, speaking communally. Also, we've got a lot going on in the next hour of the CNN NEWSROOM, including more on the gastric bypass discussion. First, let's start with that as a matter of fact. Elizabeth, you there?", "Hi, Rick. We'll be continuing discussion in this hour about gastric bypass surgery and whether insurance should pay for it. And also would health care reform change anything? Would it force insurance companies to pay for it? I'll have that at the top of the hour.", "I'm Poppy Harlow in New York. If you're thinking about buying a foreclosed property, you got to move pretty quickly. People are snapping them up, sometimes in less than even a day. But, of course, there are a number of risks you have to look out for. We'll explain at the top of the hour.", "And I'm Susan Lisovicz at the New York Stock Exchange, where the Dow is trying to rally back from its biggest loss in nearly two months. I'll have the numbers on that and those connected to the biggest credit card breach in U.S. history. More on that, Rick, in the next hour.", "All right. We'll look forward to it, and that's the web. Thanks, everybody. Two lawmakers who have a say in what type of health care plan if any passes Congress face off right here in the NEWSROOM. We're going to have one from the left and we're going to have one from the right. And they're going to talk about the public option up for debate."], "speaker": ["SANCHEZ", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ELISA JAFFE, KOMO REPORTER (voice-over)", "JAKE PAIKAI, PROBLEMS WITH OBESITY", "JAFFE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "JAFFE", "PAIKAI", "JAFFE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "JAFFE", "PAIKAI", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "JAFFE", "PAIKAI", "JAFFE", "SANCHEZ", "COHEN", "POPPY HARLOW, CNNMONEY.COM", "LISOVICZ", "SANCHEZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-279144", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2016-03-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/17/acd.02.html", "summary": "Michigan Governor Grilled On Flint Water Crisis; Michigan Gov. Testifies About Flint Lead Poisoning; Lawmakers To Mich. Gov.: You Need To Resign; Flint Mom Outraged Over Capitol Hill Hearing; Flint Mom: \"I Don't Feel Like We Got Straight Answers\"; Flint Mom Confronts EPA Chief Face-To-Face; Flint Mom: \"EPA Lied\"; Flint Mom: \"We Will Never Trust A Water Source Again\"", "utt": ["Well, some of the adjectives used to describe today's testimony in the questioning blistering, withering, unrelenting. It's a fair description of the grilling of Michigan's Republican Governor faced today on Capitol Hill. Governor Rick Snyder he was there to testify, of course about the lead contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan. A man-made public health crisis, and that's important to remember this was a man-made crisis. It happened on his watch. A disaster that state officials really ignored for 18 months. Even in the face of growing evidence. Also testifying before the House Oversight Committee, the head of the environment protection agency. Now from the start we should point out this hearing was incredibly contentious. Here's Sara Ganim.", "Governor Rick Snyder desperately trying to hang on to his job.", "And I kick myself every single day about what I could have done to do more.", "But members of Congress were not sympathetic.", "Plausible deniability only works when it's plausible. And I'm not buying that you didn't know about any of this until October 2015. You were not in a medically induced coma for a year. And I've had about enough of your false contrition and your phony apologies?", "We have no evidence of you traveling to Flint for seven months, Governor. I'm glad you're sorry now. I'm glad you're taking action now. But it's a little bit late for the kids in Flint.", "The chief-of-staff told you about these concerns and you did nothing or he didn't tell you and you are an absentee Governor. You need to resign.", "It wasn't just Governor Snyder who faced blame. Republicans mostly focused their sights on President Obama's EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy.", "Well, you just don't get it. You just don't get it. You still don't get it.", "Not only am I asking you to be fired. If you're not going to resign, you should be impeach.", "Snyder and McCarthy face often the contentious hearing often bickering over who is more to blame.", "Administrator McCarthy just get on the phone and call me. This is that not technical compliance again. This is that culture that got us in this mess to start with. Where is common sense?", "I will take responsibility for not pushing hard enough. But I will not take responsibility for causing this problem. It was not EPA at the helm when this happened.", "McCarthy deflected several questions about whether the EPA did anything wrong.", "With common sense not have told you, hey, stop drinking the water.", "Not at that point in time.", "Not that that point in time, and what point in time?", "As the questions continued, Flint residents protested in the hallways like they have been for months. E-mail show Governor Snyder's top staff members knew of problems four months before action was taken and the public was warned. Some members of the committee weren't buying Snyder's claim that he wasn't looped in.", "There's no doubt in my mind that in a corporate CEO did what Governor Snyder's administration has done, he would be hauled up on criminal charges.", "Sarah Ganim, CNN, Washington.", "Now should point out at the Democratic debate in Flint, both Democratic candidates, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have called for Governor Snyder to step down. Also said that they wanted to see the results of investigations that hearing room today was packed. They needed overflow room to hold everyone who came to watch it, including dozens of people, as you saw in that report, from Flint. Now among those people was a woman named Leann Walters. Now back in January, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta met Walters' 4-year-old twin sons. And like thousands of children in Flint, they drank the lead-tainted water. One of the twins is much smaller than his brother. His mom says he's barely grown at all over the last year. Medical experts agree that there's no safe level of lead for children. A local doctor found that lead levels in Flint kids doubled and even tripled in some cases. Is hard to imagine after the city switched its water source to the Flint River to save money. Leann Walters joins me tonight. Leann, there was obviously a lot of anger and a lot of finger pointing from politicians. Do you feel you got the answers you wanted?", "No, I really feel like there should have been some more in-depth questions that were asked today. I mean I'm grateful for everything that they did ask, but I really feel like there needed to be more timeline questions that were asked today. Is trying to get us closer to the answer to what happened.", "Do you think there was enough of a focus on what's going to be done to actually help you and other families?", "No, I don't. I don't think we got any really straight answers on that today. One of the things that Snyder had talked about today that really stuck out for me was when he was talking about the water infrastructure money that is put to the side for the whole state of Michigan. That is completely unacceptable.", "Now you are saying Flint should be the priority? The people of Flint have been poisoned. That should be priority number one?", "Oh, absolutely. You know, you didn't change the water source in Michigan for the entire state. You changed it for the city of Flint. Therefore, as, you know, Snyder had final approval on that. The money needs to go to Flint first and foremost, then once our infrastructure is fixed, then the rest of the state.", "You confronted the EPA Chief Gina McCarthy today after the hearing. What did you want to hear from her or hope to hear from here?", "Well I don't agree for the fact she would not take any responsibility on the EPA shoulders today for what has transpired. I mean the MDEQ is primarily at fault for this but EPA plays a part it to and does share blame. And I actually confronted her face-to-face about some of her testimony because what she was saying was a lie.", "The lie is what, that they knew and they are not really owning up to it?", "Well the lie was that when she was talking about -- when Miguel's report came out in June, that the reason why they didn't step up and move faster was because they said it was localized to one specific area. That is a lie. Knowing there was no corrosion control in place at that time, you cannot definitively say it was localized to one area because you're breaking a federal law.", "Who ultimately is to blame here in your eyes? I mean, who do you feel holds the most responsibility or is frankly there a lot of blame to go around because there were a lot of hands in this?", "There is a lot of blame to go around to all levels of this. But essentially, you know, she was making -- Gina McCarthy was making Governor Snyder look good today by the fact of what she was doing. And it's sad because as the leader of the EPA, the good people that work for the EPA, the people in region five that are on the ground in Flint really trying to do good and make a difference are the ones who are going to suffer for it was blow back today from what she said. And the way she presented the EPA today.", "We heard from the Democratic candidates when they were in Flint. Both now think Governor Snyder should resign. Do you think he should?", "Honestly, I truly believe at this point, you know, we should use his guilt to get what we need in regards to our infrastructure. Why not use it to get the people what they need.", "That what if somebody came in his place, he might not feel it that same sense of personal failure?", "Well, not so much that. It just that with him already being so neck-deep into this, he's got the guilt of what's happened. And I really feel it would hinder us time wise to, you know, have him resign or to have him be recalled in getting things done. It would make things go even slower than they are already going and they're going slow enough.", "And just finally how is your family doing?", "My family is dealing with some serious health issues. My son is still not growing. My boys have speech issues and hand-eye coordination issues.", "Can you drink the water in your home now or do you still have to go travel, get bottled water to bathe to drink?", "We still do bottled water. We will never trust the water source ever again just because we're told to.", "Leanne, thank you so much for being with us. And I'm so sorry for what you and your neighbors are going through.", "Thank you.", "Hard to imagine what the people of Flint are going through and still are. Coming up, the Secretary of State, John Kerry says, ISIS is responsible for genocide in Iraq and Syria. An exclusive look inside rebel-held Syria, the damage on the front lines."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "SARA GANIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SNYDER", "GANIM", "CARTWRIGHT", "REP. GERRY CONNOLLY (D) MASSCHUSETTS", "REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS (D) MARYLAND", "GANIM", "REP. JASON CHAFFETZ, CHAIRMAN, HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE", "REP. PAUL GOSAR (R) ARIZONA", "GANIM", "SNYDER", "GINA MCCARTHY, ADMINISTRATOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY", "GANIM", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-165258", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-4-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1104/24/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Hijacking Attempt Thwarted; Homes Blasted to Splinters; The Bombing of Tripoli", "utt": ["Right now on CNN. A crude reality.", "We are alive, our neighbors are alive, and our son is alive. And so, we are OK.", "Surviving a fierce tornado, now the aftermath. Flattened homes, decimated lives and a trail of destruction. And witness to revolution.", "Tracer fire is flying in the air.", "My one-on-one with CNN's Nic Robertson back from a region in turmoil. His up close and personal on what has happened and where it goes from here. Plus, meeting Jesus.", "He had really pretty blue eyes.", "An 11-year-old boy says he not only met the son of god, but he's been in heaven and back. My conversation with him and his father. Plus, truth or dare? With the Donald Trump called on the carpet accused of lying about his voting record. The man who broke the story joins us live. I'm Don Lemon. The news starts right now. And we begin with breaking news. Some frightening moments tonight aboard an Alitalia flight, reportedly an attempted hijacking. Flight 329 took off from Paris en route to Rome. And reports say an agitated passenger attacked a flight attendant demanding the flight be diverted to Tripoli, Libya. Italy's state-run news agency says the attacker is a man from Kazakhstan who attacked the flight attendant with a nail clipper. Some news agencies are reporting it was actually a knife, though CNN has not confirmed that. But Alitalia did confirm to CNN that other flight attendants immobilized the attacker and the plane and its 131 passengers landed safely in Rome. The attacker was taken into police custody. The flight attendant was taken to the airport emergency room for a check-up. CNN's international editor Azadeh Ansari joins us now with the details. So Azadeh, it's early morning in Rome now. Lots of investigating to be done, but do we know anything, anything about this? Does it have to do with the unrest in Libya?", "Well, right now, Don, it's still at the early hours and we cannot make that parallel and we can't draw those conclusions. However, we do know based on the statements that was released from Alitalia that this apparently agitated passenger did approach a flight attendant and asked for the flight from Paris to Rome to be diverted to Tripoli, Libya. So that's all we have, and that's based on the statement that Alitalia released themselves. Now, again, all 131 passengers have arrived in Rome, and they are safe. And, again, according to the state media reports, as you said, Italy's state news agency, also they are saying that he was from Kazakhstan and he apparently attacked the flight attendant.", "And there's some discrepancy about whether it's a nail clipper or a knife, but that reporting will be worked out when Rome starts to wake up. It's early morning there.", "Correct.", "Do we know anything else about this man except him being from Kazakhstan?", "Not at this stage. We don't. But, again, this is a story that's evolving, and we should have more details as we go on into the hours here.", "All right. Azadeh Ansari from our international desk. Thank you.", "OK.", "Now this.", "Get out. Get out. Go back inside.", "This is our other big news on CNN tonight. Panic inside the terminal at the St. Louis airport, running for cover as a powerful tornado bears down. The damage crippled Lambert Airport for a time. But tonight flights are coming and going again. One of the concourses is still closed so it's not totally back on schedule. Still, it's a lot better than Saturday when only a handful of flights landed. Crews are still working to get everything back online. And, you know, it's been a very long weekend for people who live in the tornado's path. This is what winds of 166 miles per hour or more can do. Lots of cleanup today, and in the weeks ahead in these neighborhoods. 750 homes were damaged. But despite the loss of property, there was no loss of life. There are no reports of deaths or serious injuries. Our Dan Simon has been talking with tornado with tornado victims in Missouri all day long. For many of them, as Dan tells us, the cleanup is just beginning.", "An emotional Marcy and Kevin Baker see their home for the first time since the tornado hit Friday evening. They have a 15-month-old baby, who slept in what was a nursery on the second floor.", "We are alive, our neighbors are alive and our son is alive. And so we are OK.", "They are OK because the Bakers were out of town in Texas. Today, they grab some boxes, pack up what they can and begin to think about what it will be like starting over.", "We have a dining room table, couch, love seat, chair, TV and stereo.", "Across the street, Laura Walter can't believe her bad luck. She shows us why. Pointing to the sign in the front yard; the house was for sale and had gotten a buyer. (on camera): When were you supposed to close?", "Thursday, this coming Thursday.", "And has that person been informed?", "I have no idea. I haven't really had much time to do anything but clean up here.", "This is the St. Louis suburb of Bridgeton, a tornado cutting a path down this entire street. (on camera): Tell me about your house.", "Gone. Our roof was sitting on the vehicles out on the street. Inside the house was open to the storm. The back porch and the house was blown out.", "Ironically, Chuck Green lost his emergency service business, too, since he worked at home.", "Today is calm down my wife, have a good meal and regroup Monday morning. Start all over.", "As if you needed more evidence on how powerful this storm was, I want to show you this. This is one of the most unusual things we've seen. This is from the frame of a house, this a two-by-four piece of wood driven right through the radiator of this", "You know, until you see it in person, I think it's even more devastating.", "One person finds humor in all this misery, a \"For Sale\" sign in front of a destroyed vehicle. Dan Simon, CNN, Bridgeton, Missouri.", "And from tornadoes to wildfires burning across Texas. Up next, we meet a family who has lost nearly everything, but they still have hope for the future. And many of you have been asking for information on social media. 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{"id": "CNN-108422", "program": "GLENN BECK", "date": "2006-7-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0607/19/gb.01.html", "summary": "Why are Democrats Abandoning Lieberman?", "utt": ["All right. Before the break, I asked the question, Winston Churchill, is he even around? Who`s listening to him if he is? We`re looking for the kind of people that stand up for what they believe in, no matter who might disagree with them, no matter what the consequences. Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman may be that kind of guy. You know, I`ve had my differences with Joe Lieberman. Joe and I are friends. We`ve known each other for an awful long time. I`m a conservative. He is a Democrat, but I live in Connecticut and voted for the guy. You know, part of my problem with Joe Lieberman is he is an absolute loyal foot soldier, man. He`s been a champion of the state of Connecticut for 18 years. He was also Al Gore`s running mate in 2000. He disagreed with a lot of what Al Gore said, but he was a good foot soldier. You don`t get more blue state than this guy, yet, he disagrees with his party on a pretty big issue, and that is the war in Iraq. The Democrats are going nuts. There is a campaign now started by the radical left trying to get Lieberman to lose his primary August 8. What kind of big tent is that, man? Joe, come on out of the Democratic Party if that`s what -- how they`re going to treat you. In the other party, the Republicans, they`ve got Log Cabin Republicans. You`ve got a bunch of conservatives and homosexuals together. How does that work out? That`s the way it`s supposed to be, a big tent. If you`re a Democrat and you don`t fall in line with the rest of your party, here`s the message they`re currently sending you: you`re finished. You tell me who`s wagging the dog here. Political analyst Steve Gill joins me now. Back in `92, Steve, you were with the White House -- you were appointed to White House fellowship and served with both Bush and Clinton.", "The Clinton administration is still embarrassed by that fact, I think.", "Lieberman is losing ground.", "Yes. I`m not sure I see the connection between him and Winston Churchill. He`s too skinny and doesn`t drink enough and isn`t, clearly, as colorful as Winston Churchill.", "Right.", "And yet you have a whole cast of characters, I think, also vying for the roll of Neville Chamberlain in this war on terror that most on the left are denying even is a war. I do thing that Joe Lieberman, like Winston Churchill, though, is a voice in the wilderness saying let`s be reasonable here. In the past foreign policy has ended at the nation`s shores. We don`t quibble about defending our country, and for that sin the Democrats are trying to throw Joe Lieberman out of the party.", "On my radio program, it was right after the Democratic convention the last time around. I made a comment and got all kinds of heat for it. I said the Democrats have lost their soul, and that`s the -- the moment was when they put President Jimmy Carter in with Michael Moore. And I really truly believe there are a lot of the people in the Democratic Party thought they were using people like Michael Moore, and what happened was at that point Michael Moore and that -- and the extreme left was using the Democratic Party. They have lost their soul to the extreme left.", "I don`t think they`ve lost it. I think they`ve sold it to the extreme left, and here`s the sad thing. You have a situation now where the Democratic Party, at least the extreme wing of the Democratic Party, the mantra that they worship is who hates Bush more. Joe Lieberman does not hate George Bush enough for the left in Connecticut. That`s why they want to throw him out. And when the only test of your loyalty to a party now is how much do you hate the president and his enemies are our enemies, you have what we seem to be seeing, which is the left being willing to even align themselves with terrorists because, well, Bush is against the terrorists, so we must be with them. Bush is with Israel, so we have to oppose Israel. And it has really pushed them way off the cliff on the left.", "Is it true that Hollywood is actually financing a good portion of money for his opponent?", "They`re shifting a lot of money behind Ned Lamont in Connecticut, which is kind of interesting. You know, the left hates rich people unless it`s people who didn`t earn their money and get rich by earning it. They love the Kennedies. They know Ned Lamont because they inherited money and got rich the old-fashioned way. If you actually earn it and get rich, they hate you. If you get it from other people, maybe become a trial lawyer, take it from people after they`ve earned it, the left loves you. And that`s what they`ve got in Ned Lamont, a guy that can fund his own campaign and still is down a few points to Joe Lieberman, but certainly, with the money he`s able to throw into that race could catch up. Here`s a great irony for you. What if Ned Lamont beats Lieberman in that Democratic primary and then Joe Lieberman runs as an independent and gets elected in the fall? Does he then vote with the Democrats who have just been bashing him to get them out of the party, or does he do what -- the opposite of what Jim Jeffords did when he became an independent? Does he vote at least operationally with the Republicans to put them back in power?", "To me, that`s too much war gaming. No, no, seriously. I`m a guy who, I`ve got a life, man. I don`t care about politics for politics sake. I want to have these guys to actually do something, you know? I mean, that`s what I like about Joe Lieberman. On this particular issue, he`s very, very clear on what he knows and what he believes, and he`s not going to take any crap for it. I will tell you this. And this is one of the reasons why I bring it up. Democrats, I got news for you, and the Republicans. Let me say the same thing to you. You both have sold your souls. The Republicans, I don`t even recognize you anymore. You have all these spending programs, and everything is giant government and this is the first day that Bush pulls out a veto? I don`t even know who you people are anymore. Stand up for your values. And the same thing with the Democrats. My grandparents died Democrats, because they just could not leave the party of FDR, and I got news for you, man. FDR is spinning in his grave like a lathe right now, a country that -- that has a bunch of politicians that don`t even want to stand up and defend themselves.", "And as you mentioned at the outset of the show, we are in World War III. What`s going to be the Duke Ferdinand moment? I was actually over in the Middle East just a few weeks ago. Let me give you one example. What if all of a sudden we put troops in and get Osama bin Laden, but that knocks Musharraf out of power in Pakistan? Taliban, al Qaeda takes over? All of a sudden we`re in World War III big time.", "Steve, thanks a lot. We`ll talk to you again.", "Thanks.", "You know, I do live in Connecticut. And you know, the people who are running against Joe Lieberman -- because it really is. I mean, the charges are just like -- it`s like eighth grade. You know, you listen to listen an eighth grade election. Who`s going to be the president of eighth grade? Well, here you go. We`ve got an ad for you. Go ahead; run this one.", "Joe Lieberman wants you to think that his 18 years of service as a U.S. senator actually means something, but here`s what he doesn`t want you to know. Senator Lieberman likes to eat paste. Lieberman actually had cooties, twice. Joe and George sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. On August 8, vote for anybody but Joe.", "Joe who?", "Joe who?", "Joe who?", "Joe Mama.", "Hello. I`m Senator Joe Lieberman, and I`m actually offended by this message."], "speaker": ["BECK", "STEVE GILL, POLITICAL ANALYST", "BECK", "GILL", "BECK", "GILL", "BECK", "GILL", "BECK", "GILL", "BECK", "GILL", "BECK", "GILL", "BECK", "ANNOUNCER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ANNOUNCER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE"]}
{"id": "CNN-99865", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2005-11-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/22/acd.02.html", "summary": "The Ongoing Investigation of Frozen Airman Offers Closure To All Four Possible Families As They Await DNA Testing", "utt": ["We hope you are as intrigued as we are by a story that we've been following, an unfolding mystery. A frozen airman whose body was recently discovered in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. His remains were buried in the snow for 63 years. Question is, who is he and can he be traced to family members who lived a lifetime without him. CNN's Thelma Gutierrez reports.", "It the ultimate cold case dating back to World War II. Forensic detectives are turning to the most advanced scientific methods to solve it. This mystery began just last month. The body of a young airman is discovered by climbers at the base of a glacier, 13,000 feet high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. His uniform and unopened parachute, reveal he's been dead for more than a half century. How did he get here? And who is this mystery man who died at the prime of his life? After weeks of studying his remains military scientists have narrowed down the possibilities. Out of more than two dozen training flights that crashed in the Sierra during World War II, scientists say this airman his one of four men who died there. On November 18, 1942, three young cadets and their lieutenant, all in their 20s, were on a navigational training flight with their plane disappeared in the Sierra Nevadas. On board, Glen Munn, Melvin Mortenson, Leo Mustonen and Lieutenant Bill Gamber. Five years after the crash in 1947, hikers found some plane wreckage but not the bodies. Then last month, 63 years later, climbers discovered this airman frozen in ice. But who was this airman? Scientists found some clues. He carried 51 cents in his pocket, a plastic hair comb and three leather-bound address books. Forensic evidence also suggests he had straight teeth with a small gap and was between 5 foot, 9 and 6 foot, one inches tall.", "This is backing, so that was attached to the collar.", "The airman wore no dog tags, a corroded name plate revealed a few letters. But even if scientists had found a name they still could not make a positive identification because that evidence is merely circumstantial. At JPAC, the Joint Prisoner Of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command, in Hawaii, experts have not choice but to turn to the hard science of", "We would go out and seek to find some of their maternal -- their relatives, so we could get a DNA sample.", "The DNA of a maternal relative, because it is the easiest to match. So scientists send a piece of the airman's leg bone to another military lab for DNA testing. And they begin searching for a living relative of the four men.", "Now, I'm going to be drawing two tubes of blood.", "We followed the scientists trail from the Sierra Nevadas in California, where the airman was found, to Pleasant Grove, Ohio, and Fayette, Ohio; from Jacksonville, Florida, to Seattle, Washington. And all the way to Ogden, Utah, to meet the families.", "You remember having a brother missing in action and we're doing a DNA testing.", "In Pleasant Grove, Ohio, Sarah Zaire and Jean Pyle have their blood drawn. They are the sisters of 22-year-old cadet Glenn Munn. While Munn was blond and had straight teeth, he was also 6 foot, 4. Maybe too tall to match the airman's height. Even so, the sisters are tested to make sure. In Fayette, Ohio, the nieces of Lieutenant Bill Gamber are also tested for", "I think its exciting. Just to know that something that happened so long ago, is just coming to the forefront now. It's terrific.", "Like the airman, Gamber was in his early 20s when he died and had extensive dental work. But Gamber also had very dark hair, perhaps too dark to match our airman.", "My brother --", "In Seattle, 95-year-old Ruth Mortenson also had her blood drawn. The years have clouded her memory, but she still remembers her baby brother, Cadet Melvin Mortenson.", "I know he went to the university. He finished.", "Another possible problem here, scientists say the airman was in his early 20s when he died. Melvin Mortenson was 25. On to Florida, to the only known family of 23-year-old Leo Mustonen. Louella Mustonen and her two daughters, Leane and Onalee.", "He had a little gap between his front teeth.", "Like the frozen airman Mustonen also had a gap in his front teeth. He was blond and at 5 foot, 9 he falls within the height range of the airman. But again, this is only circumstantial evidence, scientists need more. But with the Mustonens they hit a DNA dead end.", "None of us ever knew what happened actually.", "Louella Mustonen is Leo's sister in law, so neither she, nor her daughters meet the criteria for a DNA comparison. So the only hope for identifying the airman as Leo Mustonen is if DNA tests eliminate the other three families.", "I was too young to really know him, it's brought a closeness to him.", "Carol Benson of Ogden, Utah, told me the discovery of the airman has lead to a discovery of her own.", "Dear Anna, You're last letter reached me at Santa Ana.", "The barracks are all long, the quarters are also air conditioned. All in all, it resembles more a summer resort than an Army camp.", "In an old box, Carol found this letter, written by her uncle Melvin Mortensen, before he died. Carol and the others told us the letters and photographs of the young crewmen sat in boxes untouched for decades. Each of the families say that in learning about the frozen airman, they've learned about their own lost airman and a little about themselves. And they say that even if DNA proves the frozen airman is not their relative, it is OK. Because all the families will have found closure after so very long.", "It's fascinating how so many of the immediate relatives have died off and yet these families are so deeply involved in this search.", "Well, you know, that was the thing that really struck me. Is that you sit down, you talk with these people. They have not heard of that relative for 63 years. The parents have died off and in many cases the siblings have died off, and yet you sit and you talk to them, and they well up with emotion because they've been carrying around that question for so very long. And I think that's the thing that really struck me the most. They have probably another month to wait. By the condrial (ph) DNA tests still in the works right now. And we think we may have word sometime in January.", "Let's hope. Thelma Gutierrez, thanks very much. Coming up on 360, hairless and fearless, remembering Sam, who for a time ruled the world as the ugliest dog on the planet."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GUTIERREZ", "DNA. DR. ROBERT MANN, FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST", "GUTIERREZ", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GUTIERREZ", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GUTIERREZ", "DNA. BILL RALSTON, GEMBER'S NEPHEW", "GUTIERREZ", "RUTH MORTENSON, SISTER OF MISSING AIRMAN", "GUTIERREZ", "MORTENSON", "GUTIERREZ", "LUELLA MUSTONEN, SISTER OF MISSING AIRMAN", "GUTIERREZ", "MUSTONEN", "GUTIERREZ", "CAROL BENSON, RELATIVE OF MISSING AIRMAN", "GUTIERREZ", "BENSON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GUTIERREZ", "COOPER", "GUTIERREZ", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-181692", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2012-2-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/25/smn.04.html", "summary": "Two Americans Killed in Kabul; Nelson Mandela Hospitalized", "utt": ["We're following breaking news out of Afghanistan where two American troops were killed today. It happened at the Afghan interior ministry in Kabul. Let's go straight to Nick Paton Walsh who is in Kabul. Nick, what can you tell us? Why did this continue to escalate?", "We don't know much about why this incident happened right now. We know from a senior Afghan police official that the two dead were Americans. The suggestion by the same official is this attack occurred on a separate part of the interior ministry where a small number of westerners work. Now, I should bring you some other breaking news. We have just had in an email statement from the Taliban's", "And Nick, you mentioned that the Taliban is claiming responsibility for this. Are they using this unintentional Koran burning, are they using that as a lightning rod to really just get public anger and focus it on U.S. troops that still remain there? Are they the ones who are fermenting all of this?", "There is that concern. The Taliban very early on demanded that the Afghan people rise up against foreigners because of this Koran burning. They have in the past fairly frequently tried to claim responsibility for attacks in which Afghans attack Americans. Instances like this, they come up with the name of the attacker early on in a bid to show as evidence that they are right and that their explanation is correct. This is still very early days here, but yes, certainly this will suggest the man they refer to as one of their brave Mujahedeen, as always hard to work out exactly how much involvement the Taliban and how these things while they were being prepared that this man is in fact responsible, Deb.", "And, of course, Nick, we know it's murky and we know it's difficult to get information, but", "Well, to be clear, this incident with the two dead Americans occurred in Kabul in the interior ministry. One you would think one of the safest places where American advisers could work in Afghanistan. That will spark a huge concern, I think, amongst normal ISAF officers. Where do they feel safe? We don't know exactly why this incident occurred, but I'm sure that's going through the minds of many Americans at this particular point. Separately, yes, you referred to", "OK. Nick Paton Walsh with breaking news there out of Kabul. Thank you so much. We'll check in with you a little later. Thanks for giving your insights and your guidance. Appreciate it. Well our other developing story this morning. Nelson Mandela is in the hospital. We now know that the 93-year-old former South African president had a hernia operation. Officials have said it was an abdominal problem. The family tells CNN that Mr. Mandela is doing well and could be out of the hospital as early as Monday. And our very own Nadia Bilchik joins me now for more on Mandela. First of all, Nadia, you're from South Africa?", "I am from South Africa --", "You have connections with family members there. You have introduced him at event -- explain why this is so crucial. He is beloved in South Africa.", "He is", "Of course.", "That would never have happened without Mandela. And just the way he treated people, continues to treat people, just extraordinary. So we hope his makes his July 18th, 94th birthday.", "And it's fascinating because you see him almost like a Gandhi figure, a spiritual guide of South Africans, but also a significant political leader. And is it fair to say that his death would on some levels the equivalent of the deaths of George Washington, somebody who redefined what a country was supposed to be?", "Right.", "-- to do what very few people have ever done. The way I look at Mandela, is he managed to turn a nightmare into a vision, a vision into a dream and a dream into a reality.", "Absolutely. All right. Well, certainly a hero to so many people. Even South Africans have used the word panic that he's in the hospital, really shows you just how much they love him. Nadia Bilchik.", "And I spoke to the children this morning, the grandchildren, they said he's stable, he seems fine, and I think nobody wants to even think of him being ill.", "Of course. Of course.", "Let's hope he is very well and has many more birthday celebrations.", "Nadia Bilchik, thank you so much for bringing personal insights. I really appreciate that. Well, Syria's military is now pounding anti-government forces again today.. As many as 17 people were killed in Homs already. The Red Cross was trying to get into one neighborhood in Homs, trying to get the wounded to safety, but the constant shelling has kept their ambulances away. Syria's president, Al Assad, he is ignoring new calls for him to step down and to allow humanitarian aid into places like Homs. And the race for Michigan is getting a little nasty. Front-runners in the Republican race are there today. Hear what word Rick Santorum is now calling Mitt Romney, that's coming up next. Plus, meteorologist Alexandra Steele is standing by with your weekend forecast. Alexandra.", "Oh, hi, well you know, wind is certainly the biggest factor. We'll talk about where the strong winds will be and how much snow is left in the season around the country? We'll deal with that, as well. It's all coming up right after three."], "speaker": ["DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN ANCHOR", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "FEYERICK", "WALSH", "FEYERICK", "WALSH", "FEYERICK", "NADIA BILCHIK, CNN EDITORIAL PRODUCER", "FEYERICK", "BILCHIK", "FEYERICK", "BILCHIK", "FEYERICK", "FEYERICK", "BILCHIK", "FEYERICK", "BILCHIK", "FEYERICK", "BILCHIK", "FEYERICK", "ALEXANDRA STEELE, AMS METEOROLOGIST"]}
{"id": "CNN-306653", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-03-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/02/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Russia Reacts to Drama in Washington", "utt": ["Welcome back. More on our breaking news. The U.S. Justice Department says Jeff Sessions, who was a top advisor to presidential candidate, Donald Trump, spoke twice with Russia's U.S. ambassador during the campaign. But Sessions did not mention those contacts during his confirmation hearing.", "Sessions has responded saying he never with Russian officials to discuss the campaign. More now from CNN's justice correspondent, Evan Perez.", "In addition to the September meeting, there was also one on the sidelines at the RNC in Cleveland. There was an event held by the heritage foundation, and apparently according to the Justice Department, there were about 50 or so ambassador there, and one of the people that was on the sidelines of it and who met with the now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions was the Russian ambassador. Now, the context of all this, and obviously, the Russian post, my friends, Gregg Miller, did a great job on the story, but the context here is that the Russian ambassador is considered by U.S. Intelligence to be essentially their top spy in Washington, and not only their top spy but top spy recruiter. This is the reason why, when Mike Flynn was in routine and seemingly routine contact with him, and then lied about it and misled the vice president about meeting with the Russian ambassador, that's one reason why the FBI was concerned, because they felt that if you meet with the guy and not recall or mislead when you are asked about it, then that raises some questions. Again, this is a case considered to be the top spy recruiter for the Russians in Washington, and that's one reason why that is a concern.", "Back with us now, Republican consultant John Thomas; and Democratic strategist, Robin Swanson.", "And from Moscow, CNN's senior international correspondent, Matthew Chance.", "Before the break, we talked about the implications in terms of perjury. This is a tweet from the former ethics lawyer to President Bush. And this is what he put out on Twitter, \"Misleading the Senate in sworn testimony about one's own contacts with the Russians is a good way to go to jail.\" John, that is from a Republican. And just in the past, Sessions, back in 1999, made it clear that anyone who committed perjury should be removed from office. If we get to that point, would that same standard apply to the attorney general?", "I imagine it would. There's no way getting around it. Now, put that tweet in contacts. There's riffs between the Bush and Trump clan. Probably enjoyed tweeting that, but it's a fair point.", "Robin?", "Jeff Sessions was out front criticizing Bill Clinton in the day and wanted to impeach him for similarly misleading, so far. I just think that hypocrisy is there.", "Bill Clinton lied under oath.", "He's under oath talking to the Senate as well. This is the same thing.", "Does this just overtake the White House for the next 24 hours?", "Absolutely. I think they have not been able to control a news cycle. They really wanted to be able to do the -- just to have a ticker-tape parade for the great speech, but that's not going to happen, and I would say more than 24 hours that the Russiagate, as it's being called, is going to extend for many months if not the entirety of his presidency, because that's what he's outlined.", "Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, no fan of Russia. He was asked about the situation with Jeff Sessions in a CNN town hall. He was asked if he believes there's a need for a special prosecutor, and listen to Senator Graham.", "If there is something there, and it goes up the chain of investigation, it is clear to me that Jeff Sessions, who is my dear friend, cannot make this decision about Trump. So there may be nothing there. But if there's nothing there that the FBI believes is criminal in nature, then for sure you need a special prosecutor. If that day ever comes, I'll be the first one to say it needs to be somebody other than Jeff.", "John, last night, 24 hours ago, I asked you how -- the night before last -- how long can the administration resist the push for a special prosecutor. You said they can resist it for a long time. Now that the Republicans like Graham and others are inching toward that position, does it get harder?", "Much harder. Republicans have to tread lightly. Their integrity in this process of sniffing out what happened has to be beyond reproach. Senator Graham made the right call. He's not jumping to conclusions, but we have to make sure the process is transparent and conflicts of interest are weeded out. The American people have to trust that no matter what Congress or the investigators find is the truth.", "Who leads the charge for the Democrats in the days ahead?", "Well, I think they're all jumping on board. I think Nancy Pelosi was one of the first out of the box calling on Jeff Sessions to resign. So I think we'll see more of that. And I think this is one of the rare occasions where I can say I agree with Senator Lindsey Graham.", "With day 42 into this administration, we've had the national security adviser resign with another scandal involving Russia. On Tuesday, in the president's address to Congress, he never mentioned Russia at all. Senator John McCain said that was disappointing.", "I would have liked to have a lot more about Russia. Russia is the country that tried to change the elections in the United States. I don't think they succeeded. Right now, they're affecting or trying to affect the elections in march. They've dismembered Ukraine and the list goes on. Vladimir Putin is hell bent on the destruction of the European Union. I would have appreciated hearing the president's views on these pressing initial security issues.", "Let's go to Matthew Chance live in Moscow. Matthew, there is another scandal involving Russia and the U.S. administration. They White House is actually using its own investigation. It is a story which, as much as this administration would like for it to go away, it keeps getting bigger.", "Yeah. The Russia issue just won't go away from the Trump administration. Already a couple of people who have had to leave his administration because of the links with Russia, and now the questions over the attorney general as well. From a Russian point of view, it's all concerns as they watch this political drama unfold in Washington, because they're concerned about what impact this is going to have on U.S. policy when it comes to Russia. They were expecting, of course, a President Trump who was going to be sympathetic to the Russian point of view on a range of issues from Ukraine to NATO to Syria. But because the Russia issue has become toxic in American politics, that started to change, certainly the language is starting to change from Trump administration officials, particularly at the united nations security council and other areas as well. Being more critical than people in the kremlin expected. Specifically, on the latest allegations, there's been no reaction to the specifics of the alleged conversations between the Russian ambassador and the U.S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions. But there has been pushback on this idea that the Russian ambassador is the top Russian spy in the United States. Do you think this is the media bottom post the spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry or does the media have further to fall? A strong pushback there from the Russian foreign ministry on the suggestion that the Russian ambassador is a spy.", "Thank you, Matthew. Matthew Chance, senior international correspondent with us live from Moscow.", "John, do you expect President Trump to weigh in on this personally in the hours ahead? Do you expect him to go to Twitter?", "I should check my Twitter.", "If he uses the fake news, that will get old. (", "Especially when people of his own party are calling him out.", "The problem is people are jumping to conclusions before knowing the facts. That's the fake part.", "That's true. Good point. Stay with us.", "There's more news to get to. Stick around.", "Can't wait.", "You'll love it. President Trump later claims in the speech to Congress. We'll see if they add up, next, here on NEWSROOM L.A.", "And also thank Matthew Chance in Moscow. Thanks, Matthew.", "Thanks, Matthew."], "speaker": ["VAUSE", "SESAY", "EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "VAUSE", "SESAY", "VAUSE", "THOMAS", "VAUSE", "SWANSON", "THOMAS", "SWANSON", "SESAY", "SWANSON", "VAUSE", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, (R), SOUTH CAROLINA", "VAUSE", "THOMAS", "SESAY", "SWANSON", "VAUSE", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R), ARIZONA", "VAUSE", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRSEPONDENT", "VAUSE", "SESAY", "THOMAS", "VAUSE", "LAUGHTER0 SWANSON", "THOMAS", "VAUSE", "VAUSE", "THOMAS", "SESAY", "VAUSE", "VAUSE"]}
{"id": "CNN-270648", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-12-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/06/cnr.01.html", "summary": "CNN/ORC Poll: Terror Is Key Issue With Registered Voters; Candidates Talk Terror Ahead Of Obama's Address", "utt": ["Tonight President Obama will give a rare address from the oval office on terrorism. This comes in the wake of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 people. Investigators have evidence those attacks may have been inspired by ISIS. Obama is expected to provide an update on the FBI investigation there, discuss the threat of terrorism in the U.S., and reiterate his pledge that ISIS will be defeated. Tonight's speech will be only the third time in his entire presidency that he has addressed the nation from the oval office. And you can watch it right here live on CNN at 8:00 Eastern Time. Our coverage is beginning at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Terror has become the number-one issue with registered voters according to a new CNN/ORC poll. Ahead of the president's address to the nation tonight, candidates went on the Sunday talk shows giving their opinions on fighting ISIS and terror in the wake of the California attack.", "We are definitely in conflict with ISIS, and I think we need a new update of military authorization. The AUMF, which was passed after the attack on 9/11, should be brought up to --", "Why not declare war?", "Well, declare war is a very legal term, as you know so well. I think what we want to do is make sure we have every tool at our disposal to, number one, destroy their would-be caliphate in Syria and in Iraq. Number two, do everything we can to dismantle this very effective, virtual jihadist network that they are using on the internet.", "We've got a growing crisis on our hands in the Middle East with ISIS. So I think it's important that the president begin to outline how they're going to be defeated. Air strikes alone aren't going to do it, certainly not the limited air strikes that are happening now. Apart from air strikes there must be a ground force put together to continue front them and it must be made up primarily of Sunni Arabs from the region, including Iraqis and Syrians but also a contribution of troops from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt. The UAE has expressed some willingness to provide ground troops to such an effort.", "All right, joining me from Virginia, Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. All right, so Larry, you heard two of the candidates, Clinton saying updating a military authorization is one route. You heard from Marco Rubio talking about the president and a need to outline a strategy that involves both air and ground forces. Do you expect that the president will be that specific about military operations tonight from the oval office?", "Fred, I doubt it. It's so much easier to be a candidate for president than to be president. A president's responsible for all of the consequences that come from every action, whereas candidates of course can propose anything and bear no responsibility for the consequences. That's one of the advantages of being a candidate.", "OK. And underscoring that, let's talk about Donald Trump and his point of view here, because a new CNN poll showing that among Republicans Donald Trump is far away considered the best to handle ISIS at 46 percent. And this morning Trump has some advice for President Obama on fighting ISIS. Here it is.", "Look, we are having a tremendous problem with radical Islamic terrorism. I mean, you can say it or you don't have to say it, and we have a president that won't issue the term. He won't talk about it. So we're having this tremendous radical Islamic terrorism, okay. A lot of people don't even want to say it. Not a lot of people. We have one person I really know of called President Obama. Until he admits this is a problem we're never going to solve the problem.", "Larry, your point of view on that, is it about semantics, language?", "There is a kind of semantical fetish in the Obama administration about using the term, Islamic terrorist. Trump's great advantage is not just being a candidate, not responsible, it's also that by his very nature he comes across as extremely tough. And in the wake of Paris and San Bernardino, that's actually what post people want. And the president may have learned a little from this. He may show that tonight. Let me tell you something, Fred, you know this, from all the speeches given before by empting presidents, whatever President Obama says the Republicans won't like it. It will not go far enough. They will have another approach, and that's, again, the advantage of being the out of power party.", "And I wonder in answer to that kind of criticism coming, you know, from that candidate and maybe other candidates on the GOP, the president needing to sound more firm, more authoritative on it and with specificity?", "That's absolutely the case. The president has got to go far beyond the comments that he's made so far, really ever since Paris. He's focused more on gun control than he has on terrorism. And right now people want to hear about terrorism and what he's going to do about it, both the international version and the domestic version.", "And what about as it pertains to the candidates? Do you see that now the campaign trail will be dominated by discussions about terror, foreign affairs, et cetera?", "For the time being it's going to be, particularly on the Republican side. Now there is 11 months to go until the general election, we know how the agenda can change pretty rapidly. For the time being and for the initial caucuses and primaries on the Republican side, I think you're going to see a lot more discussion about national security and foreign policy than you will about domestic policy.", "Larry Sabato, thank you so much. Appreciate it, from Charlottesville, Virginia. Straight ahead, Americans on the U.S. terror watch list cannot fly, but apparently can buy a gun. Senator Chuck Schumer wants to change that by closing the terror gap on background checks. What that means next."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CLINTON", "SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "WHITFIELD", "SABATO", "WHITFIELD", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "WHITFIELD", "SABATO", "WHITFIELD", "SABATO", "WHITFIELD", "SABATO", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-233558", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-06-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/29/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Georgia Authorities Release More Information on Infant Death; Severe Weather Slamming Much of the Country; Flash Flooding in Memphis, TN", "utt": ["We begin with a dramatic twist in the case of a Georgia toddler who died after his father left him in the scorch car for hours. Turns out his father, Justin Ross Harris, is not the only family member who researched child deaths in hot cars. Police say the boy's mother also did research on children dying in hot cars. Leanna Harris has not been identified in a suspect in her son's death. Her husband is charged with murder and second degree child cruelty. Little Cooper Harris was buried yesterday in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His mother told the church full mourners that her husband's a wonderful father and she loves him. National reporter, Nick Valencia is tracking this emotional story. Nic, what else did you learn from the new police affidavit?", "Very limited details. Good evening, Randi. A day after Leanna Harris def defended actions of her husband, she may have to defend her own actions. As you mentioned there, Leanna Harris also researched child deaths in hot cars. Yesterday, I was at the funeral, little Cooper Harris' small red casket placed in front of hundreds who came to pay respects.", "Under a light summer rain in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 22-month-old Cooper Harris was laid to rest at a funeral service attended by hundreds. Not present, his father, Justin Ross Harris who is accused of killing the toddler. But he did call in from jail to thank funeral guests for supporting his son and apologized for not being there. While he was on the phone, his wife Leanna said that she is absolutely not angry at her husband. She called him a wonderful father and said that the truth would come out. Harris could be heard sobbing over the phone as the crowd inside gave him a standing ovation. Earlier Saturday, new starling details emerged about the 33-year-old. According to search warrants obtained by CNN, Harris told police, quote, \"that he recently researched through the internet child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur.\" The police officer went on to say, quote, \"Justin stated that he was fearful that this could happen.\" What remains unclear is exactly whether that search was done. Friends and family say the man police paint as a murderer is not the man they know.", "I want that he would be able to forgive himself.", "Family friend, Carol Brown.", "It's just seems out of character for Ross and I know people change. It's been 15 years or so since we've had contact in the church. So, you know, people change. But -- it's just hard for me to imagine that that is the Ross, the sweet Ross Harris, sweet little funny boy that we knew.", "A lawyer has instructed Harris's family not to speak to the media. Those who have spoken off camera say a man with the moral fiber of Harris would not be capable of killing his son. Left for seven hours in his father's car under the blistering Atlanta sun, Cooper Harris died. What is still unknown is what could have motivated Harris as police say to kill his only child. Outside the university church of Christ, friends and family grieve as they wait to find out if baby Cooper's death was a terrible accident or something more sinister.", "And in the search warrants released this morning, Randi, it was not said when Leanna Harris actually made that search for child deaths in cars. She stood in front of the church yesterday, near capacity, about 400 people in the crowd, and she defended her husband. They hope that the truth will come out and defend them -- Randi.", "Nick Valencia, thank you very much. Such a tragic story. In New Orleans now, gunfire in the French quarter early today left nine people wounded. One is in critical condition, another underwent surgery. The other victims are in stable condition with nonlife threatening injuries. The shooting occurred about 2:45 a.m. on Bourbon Street, in an area popular with tourists. Police do not yet have a suspect or a motive. Possible tornado threats could develop later tonight in the nation's midsection. Right now, flash floods are the problem in fem Memphis, Tennessee. Some drivers have been stranded in a trailer park flooded. Police are warning people to stay off roads until the rain subsides. So let me bring in meteorologist, Alexandra Steele, has much more on tonight's forecast. Alexandra, what can we expect?", "You know, Randi, national weather service calling what you just saw there in pictures earlier today a flash flood emergency. Those were the images and these are the numbers, just since yesterday, 10.3 inches of rain in little Dixie. This is Arkansas, Howell, 9.6. Memphis, 7.6. In areas around Memphis, they have a month's worth of rain in seven hour alone. So, here the estimated rainfall totals, you can see six to 10 inches right in this quadrant from Little Rock to Memphis, this is the i-40. And predominantly (ph), this is cotton and soybean farms. And right now, at the beginning of the squaring process. So really, could do some harm there hindering this squaring process, you know. And the problem is, we've got more rain to come, believe it or not. Another three to five inches potentially coming in this area. Also Chicago, severe weather potentially for you, two to four inches of rain. So a few big weather stories happening around the country. One, of course, the flooding here in the south. The other, the setup we're going to see for severe weather tonight. Biggest cities impacted about 20 million could see severe weather. But Omaha, Des Moines, this is where the moderate risk tonight is for isolated tornadoes. Tornado watches have just been put up until 11:00 tonight. Hail as well. And even some gusty winds. And of course, those isolated tornadoes and downpours to boot. Also, the third story, what we are going to see, Randi, here is it, it could be an area of low pressure right now off the gulf stream. So it's kind of sucking in all of the warm water. There's potential here, 60 percent within two days it becomes our first tropical depression, tropical storm first in the Atlantic. And these are all the potential trajectories of it. All of the models very consistent. This could be July 4th weekend, Randi, all of the beaches along coast could be impacted by some tropical entity with an awful lot of rain. So, this is certainly a storm we are going to keep an eye until the next couple of days.", "Yes. A whole different kind of fireworks, I guess.", "That's right.", "Alexandra Steele, thank you very much. Appreciate it. $2 billion, that's how much the White House could request to tacking the immigration crisis on our border. But money alone is not going to solve this problem. Many immigrants live in limbo in the U.S., part of our society, but separate. Ahead, one woman tells her own story what it's like to live like this."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "VALENCIA (voice-over)", "CAROL BROWN, FAMILY FRIEND", "VALENCIA", "BROWN", "VALENCIA", "VALENCIA", "KAYE", "ALEXANDRA STEELE, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "KAYE", "STEELE", "KAYE"]}
{"id": "CNN-394915", "program": "HALA GORANI TONIGHT", "date": "2020-03-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/10/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Kenyan Women Fights For Girls' Education.", "utt": ["Well, girls in Kenya are often forced into marriage, but one woman is fighting to show that all Kenyan girls deserve to be educated and to be free. CNN's Farai Sevenzo has her story.", "If girls went to school and they finished and they were 13, what are they expected to do?", "To be married.", "At 13?", "Yes. Most of them 13, 14, 16. When I saw all my sisters got married, it was like all our dreams are coming to be shattered. And I had to stood out by myself and prove them that is also girls need to be educated. My parents didn't allow me to go to school so they always tell me you have to do home chores. Why are you going to school? School is only meant for boys. I convince them by waking up very early in the morning like 3:00 to 4:00, that will allow me to finish my chores so that I can rush to school.", "At first, Faith's father didn't agree.", "For us, we wanted girls to get married.", "Faith's father now has 20 granddaughters.", "I wish they all go to school if they get a chance like Faith did so that they can excel.", "As girls like Faith pined for the freedom education offers and opportunity arose, a Canadian charity called We created a program in the area. We charity is a global organization founded with a mission to end child labor. Having graduated just months ago from a We college in the field of tourism, Faith takes the time to return to her old school. It provides everything from uniforms, to books, to teachers in a partnership deal with the community. The organization started a secondary school where faith was given a place, enabling her to continue to high school education. In this rural population of over 6,000 people, more than 900 kids are now in schools built by We charity. This despite the distances and other obstacles. In a seasonal rains and flooding, this is their school run.", "Efficiently now during the rainy season, when the roads are flooded, I can see parents they are lifting their children from this side to the other side so that they can cross the water and go to school. This really makes me happy because this is what I really wanted to see in my community.", "Farai Sevenzo, CNN Freedom Project, Narok, Kenya.", "Well, tomorrow's the fourth annual My Freedom Day. CNN partners with young people to act against modern-day slavery, and you can share your story with the #myfreedomday. I'm Hala Gorani. I'll see you next time. Amanpour is next. END"], "speaker": ["GORANI", "SEVENZO (on-camera)", "FAITH CHEROP KIPKEMOI, FOUGHT FOR EDUCATION", "SEVENZO", "KIPKEMOI", "SEVENZO (voice-over)", "TEXT", "SEVENZO", "TEXT", "SEVENZO", "KIPKEMOI", "SEVENZO", "GORANI"]}
{"id": "CNN-270103", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-11-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1511/28/cnr.21.html", "summary": "Belgium City Seeks to Change Jihadist Reputation", "utt": ["Welcome back. Now for the latest on the terror investigations in Europe. Belgium authorities say they have arrested and charged one person with links to terrorist activities; two others have been placed in detention. In Brussels, the city's threat was lowered to serious, the second highest ranking after it was in lockdown last weekend. The small town just outside the Belgian capital was once called the \"city of jihadis\" after dozens of its citizens left for Syria. But since taking office, Vilvoorde's mayor has taken some extraordinary steps to change the city's reputation, including a deradicalization officer for the town. Alexandra Field reports.", "The fastest-growing town in Belgium is small. Vilvoorde's population is just 42,000. So when it started feeding fighters to Syria, things spiraled quickly but then stopped suddenly.", "The exodus started in the summer of 2012.", "So in those two years, from 2012 to 2014, had 28 people leave here to go to Syria. Where are they now?", "Some of them are still there. Some of them are killed.", "Mayor Hans Bonte took office in 2013 in the middle of the crisis. At the time he says Vilvoorde was called the city of jihadis.", "I've heard it, young boys telling me, my dream is to be killed.", "Today the mayor is cautiously declaring at least a measure of victory for his deradicalization and intervention efforts.", "Radicalism, you win it or lose it on the corners of the street.", "Counteracting messages from recruiters has taken the work of a coalition, the police, family, a lot of community members and outreach workers.", "We try to send social workers towards the houses, engaging into the families and tried for the first time providing help.", "The proof of success, they say, is that no one has made it to Syria from Vilvoorde since May of 2014. But nearby in Brussels, raids to root out anyone with ties to the terror cell that perpetrated the Paris attacks continue, making it clear there's still a second front in a bigger battle across Belgium, a country that is proportionately the largest supplier of foreign fighters to Syria. What to do about those who come back?", "In my opinion, someone who has left Belgium to go over there to fight in Syria, he can stay there.", "Seven of the 28 who traveled from Vilvoorde to Syria eventually returned to the town, Bonte says. Most were sent to prison, but the mayor says those who weren't are carefully and constantly monitored by the police and the community.", "Most of these people who came back, I don't think they are risky but you only need one fool.", "He insists everyone must watch to keep anyone from falling through the cracks -- Alexandra Field, CNN, Vilvoorde.", "Now we're learning more about one of the men behind the Paris attacks. Samy Amimour was amongst three attackers hits on the Bataclan concert hall two weeks ago. Amimour then blew himself up. Now his sister is speaking out exclusively to CNN. Our Hala Gorani spoke with her in French and the woman asked us not to show her face or use her real voice.", "He was one of the terrorists responsible for the worst terrorist attack in France in half a century. One of three shooters at the Bataclan concert hall on November 13th, his name revealed days later, Samy Amimour. For the first time on international television, his sister is speaking out.", "At what point did you learn that your younger brother was one of the attackers?", "At first I was shocked. I was screaming in despair and sadness. And when I gathered my thoughts, I thought this information was wrong, that there was a mistake, that it was impossible.", "A man who grew up to be a mass murderer but whose --", "-- life, according to his sister, started very differently. She shared personal pictures of her brother with us.", "The Samy you knew, you're saying was a nice guy.", "Exactly. He was a nice person, a sensitive person, a bit shy, somebody you can rely on, a generous person, someone nice who loved to laugh and joke.", "But then that man disappeared, she says, literally, traveling to Syria to join ISIS. His father reportedly went after his son to try to convince him to come home, to no avail. Amimour's family actually stayed in touch with him while he was in Syria. The last message from him was sent in August of this year.", "In your last contact with him, was it just an ordinary conversation?", "Yes.", "With absolutely no sign that anything like this could happen?", "No. No sign. Totally normal conversation. I asked him how he was. And he told me, listen, I am very well, I have a lot of things to deal with at the moment. So I will call you very soon. Send kisses to everyone and to my cat.", "How do you reconcile the -- your brother, who says, kiss the parents, kiss the cat, you know, I'll call you soon, the little boy you grew up with, with the man who so coldly murdered dozens of helpless people in a concert hall?", "To me, there's no link. It's almost like it's not him. There's no chance. I know it's real but...", "So what happened to a man who worked as a bus driver, led a seemingly normal life in the northern Paris suburb of Drancy, that turned him into a mass killer and suicide bomber?", "It started with the Internet. He visited websites that were sort of controversial. Then it continued with videos and then it stayed that way. Then beyond the world of the Internet, there was also the real world. People came to talk to him.", "Where?", "In the area, here, below the house. They came to talk to him more and more and told him that he should attend the sermon at the mosque more regularly, that he should be more devoted to his practice of Islam. Then they led him towards mosques that were more radical.", "These are some of the pictures of Amimour's victims, some of the 89 people ruthlessly killed that night. Does his family feel any responsibility for Amimour's actions?", "Of course, there's part of us that says maybe it's our fault. Maybe we should have done something different. Maybe, just maybe.", "If you had an opportunity to speak to the family of one of the victims, what would you say to them?", "Sorry for your loss. We're sorry, because we didn't want all of this. We understand the pain they feel and we know that nothing will bring their families back, whatever we may say. So we just hope that they can mourn their dead.", "Hala Gorani, CNN, Paris.", "Still to come on CNN NEWSROOM, Miss Canada can't get into China for this year's Miss World competition. Why the beauty queen says the country is punishing her. 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{"id": "CNN-67773", "program": "CNN SUNDAY NIGHT", "date": "2003-3-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/09/snn.01.html", "summary": "Balance of Power Shift in Turkey; Iraq Insists It's Being Unfairly Maligned by U.S., Britain", "utt": ["Our top story right now, a still developing one out of Turkey. So far, the developments have Pentagon planners delighted. Remember the Army's fourth infantry division based at Fort Hood, Texas? It has 62,000 soldiers cooling their heels there, waiting for a green light from Turkey to deploy for a possible war with Iraq. Well, suddenly prospects for that green light appear a little brighter. CNN'S Harris Whitbeck is in Turkey where the balance appears to have shifted during several crucial hours today. What's the latest, Harris?", "Hello, Anderson. Political changes here might make Parliament reconsider its earlier decision on allowing U.S. troops to base in Turkey, maybe because there might soon be a new prime minister here.", "Traditional celebrations of a political victory that might well change the course of Turkish politics, U.S.- Turkish relations, and the possible war with Iraq. Justice and development party leader Tayyip Erdogan was elected to parliament. And as chief of the ruling party, he is expected to become Turkey's newest prime minister. The change in government U.S. officials say has raised hopes that Turkey will reconsider letting some 62,000 U.S. troops establish a ground attack against Iraq from the north. So much so that U.S. ambassador Robert Pearson spent more than three hours meeting with the ruling party leaders on Sunday fine-tuning the proposal that parliament turn down once.", "I think this gives a very positive stimulus to our efforts. And we will continue to work as -- and give this our very best efforts to see if we can finalize all the details.", "Analysts say a second motion should have a better chance of passage. Recent demonstrations against Turkey and Kurdish controlled northern Iraq have many Turks demanding a say should war break out. The fear is that Iraqi Kurds would try to establish an independent state, riling up Turkish Kurds who have fought for independence in Turkey as well.", "I think has made blood boil a little on the Turkish side. So you know, now there's the notion that, you know, something's going to happen there. Turkey was very right in wanting to be -- establish a presence there. And therefore, this is why the motion must pass.", "While the United States has already been moving military equipment to border staging areas, it needs the authorization for troop movements to come quickly.", "Now Tayyip Erdogan did say in an interview with our sister network CNN Turk just a few hours ago that he would wait to see what the U.N. Security Council has to say when it meets to vote on the U.S.-Iraq issue next Tuesday -- Anderson?", "Well, Harris, tell me a little bit about public opinion there? I mean, we have been hearing a couple days ago that, you know, upwards of 90 percent of the Turkish population were against the notion of U.S. troops using Turkey to launch an attack on Iraq. Has that somehow changed? And if it hasn't, how did this guy win an election?", "Well, public opinion on the Iraq issue really hasn't changed. And Erdogan won this election not really using the issue of U.S. troops in Turkey as part of his campaign. What he did run in was in a very small -- by election in one particular province in southern Turkey. He's very popular there. His wife is from there. And he was running more on a platform of economic change by continuing democratic change in Turkey. And that's what got him elected to parliament. Since he is a leader of the ruling party, that is what would make him become prime minister. Now he has been very cautious. And he was very cautious during this interview with CNN Turk last night here -- a few hours ago here, not wanting to really address the issue or say, you know, how we would go on that issue so soon after his victory.", "And the bottom line is how quickly might a decision be made, if in fact this takes place?", "Well, the first step is for him to actually become prime minister. That could happen as early as Wednesday or Thursday of next week. After that, he would have to present the motion to parliament. So I'd say we're talking at least a week.", "All right, Harris Whitbeck, I appreciate you staying up late for us. I know it's been a long day. I appreciate it. Thanks very much. Well, you have no doubt heard that U.S. troops in Turkey would allow for a northern front against Iraq, but what would an attack from Turkey look like? How will it go down? Retired Air Force General George Harrison joins us now with some thoughts. General, thanks for being with us.", "It's a pleasure.", "So what is this potential invasion force from the north going to look like?", "Well, the invasion force is being assembled of course as pretty clear in the nature of the force depends upon the access that's granted by Turkey. As you know, if we can bring up the first map here, as you know, we've been flying patrols over this area circled here for the last 10 years. That's been Operation Northern Watch and Operation Provide Comfort. So we have a good idea of the kinds of Air Defenses, the kind of situation that exists in there militarily in that particular area. Obviously, and we can move to the second -- the next graphic if you will please, obviously this entire area we're interested in bringing a thrust down into this area so that Saddam has to split his forces. We'll see another thrust coming in from the south, possibly in areas like that. So that means that he has to split his forces. And that's a very important aspect of the way this entire campaign operates.", "And the first wave of this campaign probably be from the air, some sort of artillery or munitions. What are we talking about? What kind of technology do we have?", "Well the first wave, of course, and it may be simultaneous with the ground assault, but the first wave is defense suppression. We'll see F-16 CJs. I think we got an F-16 coming up now in the next graphic. The F-16, and there are several versions of it, but the version that will be key to this operation will be the version with high speed anti radiation missile. The Harm missile, which we'll see in the next graphic, is an anti radar missile. The purpose of the Harm missile is to home on radiation from air defense artilleries, air defense artillery sites, the kinds of things that threaten our Air Forces, both high speed and low speed aircraft.", "And let's talk land invasion or other technology we have, both in the event that we -- the United States is able to use Turkey as a base and that they are not?", "Well, if we're not able to use Turkey as a base, if we can bring up the next map, we might see air assaults coming up. That would be primarily with using the UH-60 helicopter. We might see, for instance, a vertical envelopment launching out of some of these areas in here. Or we may have to go all the way across neutral territory to get forces on the ground in these areas. If we do have land access, if we can move forces across the border on the land, I think we'll see a considerably heavier force. We'll see M1A1 tanks, Abrams tanks, Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. I think we've got a couple graphics on those kinds of systems that we can bring up.", "Yes, we're looking at the Abrams right now.", "Okay, I'm not seeing it on my monitor. So I'm working a little bit blind here.", "Yes, well, we're now looking at the Bradley fighting vehicle, the M2A3.", "And the Bradley, of course, supports the infantry, the tankers, the tanks on the Bradleys work together, so that they can move in a coordinated fashion moving south. We've shown a couple of population centers in the maps that we've had up.", "All right. It's interesting. You know, obviously a lot depends on whether or not the situation does change in Turkey. It's obviously a situation we will continue to monitor. Retired Air Force General George Harrison, as always, appreciate you coming down. Always interesting to talk to you. Thanks very much.", "Pleasure to be here.", "For its part, Iraq continues to insist it is being unfairly maligned by the U.S. and Britain, basically accusing the two countries of a conspiracy of lies. CNN'S senior international correspondent Nic Robertson has more now on that from Baghdad.", "At his weekly media briefing, General Hussam Amin, the head of Iraq's national monitoring directorate, the group that deals with the U.N. weapons inspectors here, said that Mohammed Elbaradei, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency had told the U.N. Security Council effectively that Iraq did not possess any nuclear weapons and was -- had no intention of developing such weapons at this time. He also indicated that the very fact that it had now been proven that the documents that had indicated that Iraq had been trying to procure uranium, enriched uranium, the very fact that these had proven to be false was another indication that the United States and Great Britain have been lying all along.", "Mr. Elbaradei declared clearly that the accusation attempt to -- of attempt to import uranium from", "Iraqi officials also say they believe their position, that they have no nuclear weapons, has been vindicated as well by Mohammed Elbaradei's speech at the U.N. Security Council because they say it shows that they were only importing the aluminum tubing to re or back engineer some missile components, that these had nothing to do with centrifuges and uranium enrichment. And they say the same thing about the magnets, the magnets that it had been suspected could be part of the uranium enrichment process. They say the very fact that the International Atomic Energy Agency does not believe these have any connection with a nuclear weapons program shows that Iraq has not been lying, and that it is only the United States and Great Britain that have been lying about Iraq's intentions all along. Nic Robertson, CNN, Baghdad.", "Well, still on this story, \"Time\" magazine reports that Iran, right next door to Iraq, is close to completing a facility for enriching uranium. Now that, of course, is an ominous sign of the country's nuclear intentions. Secretary of State Colin Powell says it is an object lesson of exactly the kind of thing the U.S. wants to avoid in Iraq.", "Here we suddenly discover that Iran is much further along, with a far more robust nuclear weapons development program than anyone said it had. And now the IAEA has found that out. We've provided them information. They have discovered it. And it shows you how a determined nation that had the intent to develop a nuclear weapon can keep that development process secret from inspectors and outsiders.", "Well, we are staying focused on this entire showdown in the region in the next couple of minutes of our broadcast. Right now, we're going to check out -- talk more about the relationship with Iran and what it might mean if they are in fact developing nuclear capabilities. Iran, of course, is no friend of the United States. That has been abundantly clear since the Carter administration. So does the U.S. need to worry about a nuclear Iran, the same way it's worried about Iraq? We are joined now. Former U.N. and nuclear inspector, David Albright, who joins us from Washington, along with CNN's senior political analyst, Bill Schneider. General, thanks for being with us late on this Sunday night. David Albright, how alarming is it, this news that \"Time\" magazine is reporting?", "Well, the story's been around for several months. I mean, the -- Iranian opposition group actually broke the story last summer. And the IAEA used that information to find this uranium enrichment plant. And Colin Powell had the order a little reversed. The United States didn't tell the IAEA about this plant. The IAEA actually found it and then sought help from the United States to identify it as uranium enrichment plant. What was surprising when Mohammed Elbaradei, the head of the IAEA went there a couple weeks ago was that the Natanz site, where the uranium enrichment facility's under construction, had operating centrifuges, almost 200 operating centrifuges. Now they don't have any uranium in it. And so Iran actually, as far as we can tell right now, has not violated any treaties, but it's very serious development. And it surprised that it does have these operating centrifuges at Natanz. And Elbaradei has characterized it as sophisticated program. And so, Iran is joining a club of about only 10 nations that can actually enrich uranium.", "Well, Bill Schneider, it is obviously a club the Bush administration wishes Iran would not join. Politically, this has got to come at the worst time for the Bush administration?", "Or, Anderson, conceivably the best time because the argument that they're making is one of the reasons why we need to disarm Iraq is so that it will not acquire the capability of developing nuclear weapons. So far, the Atomic Energy Agency's inspections have not indicated that there's evidence that they're doing that. They've clearly expressed the intention of doing it. And they had a nuclear plant once before that Israel bombed. I think it was in 1987, a long time ago, but they clearly have the ambition to become nuclear. If they became nuclear, they'd be North Korea, which is trying to blackmail the United States. And Iran, if it becomes nuclear, would be in the same position. They could blackmail the United States, a rogue nation like any of those on the so-called \"axis of evil\" with nuclear weapons is in a much more threatening and powerful position.", "But it's interesting, you're saying it's actually may strengthen the Bush administration policy toward Iraq?", "Yes, because the argument is we don't want Iraq to acquire that capability. That -- because then they'd be more dangerous probably than both North Korea and Iran because they harbor a longstanding grievance against the United States. Imagine what would happen if Iraq developed nuclear weapons the way North Korea is and Iran may be doing. That's one of the arguments they use for disarming Iraq.", "David Albright, what is the way that this is probably going to be handled? I mean, based on your experience, I guess there are several ways to go about it publicly, sort of taking it on, making a big stink about it in public? Or trying to sort of through diplomacy behind closed doors deal with it, I guess by the U.N., by Elbaradei? What's your take on how it's going to play out?", "Well, the first thing is that international community is going to really insist that Iran open up its nuclear program, reveal all of its facilities, talk about what it's doing at those facilities, allow inspections to happen at all those facilities. And that -- and it's still not clear if Iran's going to do that. The other thing is the United States is going to be pressing countries like Russia to cut off supplies and materials and equipment to Iran, to try to choke the program, particularly the uranium enrichment program. But the United States is in a very difficult position. Iran has done something very clever. In a way, it's using transparency to further its national security. It's saying to the United States don't think if you're going to march north to Baghdad that you can turn right and come to Tehran. And yet it's doing it under the cloak of openness and declaring a much broader civilian nuclear program than we thought existed, all the while denying that it has nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons ambitions. And yet, the message that it could get nuclear weapons is unmistakable.", "That's right.", "Go ahead.", "But look at what North Korea's doing, Anderson. North Korea was even more open. They admitted it. Of course, we had the goods on them when they did, but they admitted it because they are explicitly using their nuclear capability to try to blackmail the United States.", "Bill Schneider, do you think we're going to hear any more of the term \"axis of evil?\" I mean, if you know, it was a term he used, you know, basically sort of launching this speech, but if ever there was a time to revive that, this would seem to be it. I mean, you know, all of a sudden, the three countries he's named are now coming forward, you know, talking a nuclear weaponry.", "Yes, I don't think that this is the time to go provoking other nations, especially nearby nations like Iran. If we deliberately provoke Iran by saying you see, we called them the axis of evil. They're more evil than we thought. There is always this danger that if we go into Iraq and let's say Turkey goes into the northern area of Iraq, Iran will say we have interests in Iraq as well, protecting our Shi'ite brethren in the south. And there is always the possibility that they can go into southern Iraq and open a new front. And that would be very dangerous for the United States.", "Indeed, we're going to have to leave it there. David Albright, Bill Schneider, appreciate you joining you joining us on this Sunday night. 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{"id": "CNN-345339", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-07-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/17/nday.03.html", "summary": "Tidal Wave of Condemnation Faces Trump after Putin Summit; Russian Woman Charged with Being an Agent.", "utt": ["This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.", "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your NEW DAY. And it is a big day. John Avlon joins us here, as well. The president chose Russia in front of everyone. He chose Russia. And today the White House, the Republican Party, the country and, in fact, the world are dealing with the ramifications of this stunning decisions. The Russians attacked the 2016 presidential election, and the president of the United States says the Russian version of what happened has as much weight as that of U.S. intelligence agencies. Republican Senator John McCain calls it one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory. Newt Gingrich, a huge Trump supporter, says it is the most serious mistake of his presidency and must be corrected immediately.", "So, what will the White House do today in response? Thus far, not much. They did put out some talking points that were obtained by CNN, and they show that White House allies will falsely claim that President Trump has spent the last year and a half, quote, \"repeatedly believing\" his intelligence community. That is not the message that has come loud and clear from President Trump. So we'll see if they can successfully spin their way out of this today. Let's begin our coverage with CNN's Abby Phillip, who is live at the White House. Any movement there yet, Abby?", "Well, good morning, Alisyn. The White House is really struggling this morning to explain the president's behavior at that press conference with Vladimir Putin. It is extraordinarily telling that while the Kremlin is celebrating the summit as a resounding success. The White House has remained largely silent. And they've issued those talking points that you just mentioned that are directly contradicted by the president's own comments himself yesterday.", "Mr. President, why didn't you confront Russian President Vladimir Putin?", "President Trump returning home to blistering condemnation after publicly siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin over U.S. intelligence.", "I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial. He just said it's not Russia. I will say this. I don't see any reason why it would be.", "The president blaming both countries for eroding U.S.-Russia relations.", "I think we've all been foolish. We should have had this dialogue a long time ago.", "And refusing to condemn Putin, instead pivoting to his election victory and the Russia investigation.", "It was a clean campaign. I beat Hillary Clinton easily. It's ridiculous what's going on with the probe.", "Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle aghast.", "The president put what's best for him over what's best for the security and wellbeing of the United States.", "President's comments made us look as a nation more like a pushover.", "I've seen the Russian intelligence, you know, manipulate many people in my career. And I never would have thought the U.S. president would be -- would be one of them.", "Director of national intelligence Dan Coats reportedly bypassing the White House to rebut the president, writing, \"We have been clear in our assessment of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and their ongoing pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy.\" Former CIA director John Brennan calling the news conference \"nothing short of treasonous.\" House Speaker Paul Ryan stressing, \"Russia is not our ally. There is no moral equivalence.\" Newt Gingrich calling it \"The most serious mistake of his presidency.\" Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, labeling the press conference, \"One of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory.\" President Trump insisting he has great confidence in his intelligence people as the White House scrambles to do damage control, sending out talking points and the vice president to reassure supporters.", "President Donald Trump will always put the prosperity and security of America first.", "Meanwhile, Russian officials hailing the summit as a resounding success and applauding Putin's performance.", "President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election? And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?", "Yes I did, because he talked about bringing the right U.S./Russia relationship back to normal.", "Putin, later confronted by a FOX News journalist, refusing to examine the Mueller indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence officers for their role in the election hacking and penetrating America's election system.", "May I give this to you to look at, sir? Here?", "Putin also downplaying the attack.", "It wasn't some forgery effect. That's the important thing that I am trying to point I'm trying to make. Was there any false information planted? No, it wasn't.", "President Trump today has a meeting with Republican senators at the White House about taxes. And that meeting is closed to press at the moment, but we'll see if they decide to open it up and use it as an opportunity for the president to speak up about this. Meanwhile, there is no White House press briefing on the schedule, just another sign of how this White House is really, you know, battening down the hatches right now. They are under siege, for sure -- Alisyn and John.", "Abby, thank you very much for setting all that up. Joining us now, we have CNN political commentator and former Republican congressman Charlie Dent and Julia Ioffe, a former Moscow- based correspondent who has been writing about Russian politics for more than a decade. And John Avlon joins us at the desk. Congressman Dent, people have been wondering, Democrats primarily, for the past year and a half, what would be the breaking point for Republicans in Congress? When they would reach the Rubicon. And I'm just wondering, given all the response that you've heard from Republicans now, but most of them are people who have already criticized President Trump. But you do have Paul Ryan in there who have said that this is so unacceptable for a U.S. president on foreign soil to blame the U.S. for the election interference. Do you feel like this is the moment?", "Well, I certainly hope it's the moment. I mean, you just run out of words, adjectives. You know, disgraceful, shameful. The one word I wouldn't use is \"surprised.\" I mean, the president has been talking this way about Vladimir Putin for a very long time. I cannot understand why the president of the United States continues on this blowtorch tour, seeking to destroy western institutions, whether it's NATO, the E.U., the -- you know, condemning or criticizing center-right governments in the U.K., in Germany. I mean, where does -- where does it end? I think my colleagues have to stand up right now. I mean, I thought the trade issue might have been the one to force many of them, you know, to push back on the president, but this, you know, the president of the United States failing -- failing to stand up for western values and institutions, throwing his own intelligence community under the bus. I mean, at what point -- at what point do we say, you know, enough is enough? We've got to stand up for what we believe in. This is dishonoring the sacrifice and the service of all these people since the Second World War who built this great order. And the president seems to want to trash it.", "Well, when you run out of words, it might be time for actual action, John. And color me skeptical. Color me skeptical that Paul Ryan, when he has a news conference today, you know, will say after he gushes about the tax cuts and the economy will promise to actually do anything about this.", "I think that's exactly the question that people need to confront. This is not simply about tweets. I think it's great that Republicans are standing up and realizing they need to confront the unavoidable fact of yesterday's disaster. But words are insufficient. And I think the question becomes, for example, will there be a vote, however symbolic, to say we support the intelligence community's assessment of the election, not the president's repeated assertions and not buying into this B.S. from the White House, these talking points that try to ignore reality and obfuscate as they like to do. They cannot spin their way out of this one. But it's going to be up to Republicans to show that this really is about country over party, folks. This is not a partisan issue anymore.", "Julia, you are a fascinating guest to have on today, because your last story out of Moscow in 2012 was about a strange young woman trying to get Russia to legalize firearms. Her name was Mariia Butina. That rings a bell. She was just charged yesterday by the Justice Department for acting as a foreign agent and infiltrating the NRA and trying to create back channels with the Trump campaign and trying to get Vladimir Putin invited to the 2017 National Prayer Breakfast. So, since you interacted with her and now you watch all of this unfold, what do you make of everything that happened yesterday?", "Well, I'm kicking myself, because she reached out to me several times after moving to the U.S. wanting to, you know, hang out and get coffee. And I just thought, \"I don't know. I don't have time for this.\" And could have been a good story. Instead I just have this story about her taking me shooting at a former KGB shooting range back in Moscow in 2012.", "Not for nothing.", "Yes, good.", "But just very quickly, one point on that. Did you sense she was trying to make inroads into the U.S. and, you know, get some sort of policy changed?", "Well, this was back in 2012. She was still based in Russia. And she came to my attention, because basically, the Russian opposition tends to be kind of more libertarian because there is so much, you know, of the government in everything. And some of them go really, really far, and they want firearms are not legal. There is no Second Amendment in Russia, and she was trying to get, with the help of Alexander Torshin, who was then sitting Russian senator and with connections to the NRA, trying to legalize firearms in Russia. So to me it was more about Americans and American groups like the NRA trying to push their agenda inside Russia. So, that's the other thing. I think we have to keep in mind that this is a porous border. That these are things that go back and forth. There was a -- also a lot of American influence on Russia, you know, a lot of right-wing Christian fundamentalists, evangelical groups trying to push a kind of family values agenda in Russia, trying to get the Russian government to ban abortion, for example. So --", "So Charlie, one of the things that happened over the last 24 hours is the way the president spoke standing next to Vladimir Putin has caused a lot of people to reassess their view of this relationship and their view of exactly what Russia may or may not have on President Trump. Steve Hall, former Moscow bureau chief, was just here with us and says, \"You know what? He was dismissive of the idea of kompromat, but he can no longer dismiss it. And you say, Charlie, you look at this now, and you wonder if there might be something there, there might be something that Russia does have on the president.", "Yes, it certainly forces one to speculate that there may be something. Maybe some kind of a financial entanglement, because it's simply inexplicable and indefensible for what the president has just said. It just -- it seems to me that the Russians must have something. What else is there? And by the way, what Congress should do on this matter, if I were in Congress right now, I'd recommend that they put a resolution on the floor of the House, you know, condemning the president's comments and reaffirming support for the intelligence community. Maybe even put something on the floor in a binding nature. Maybe you say on trade that the president couldn't impose tariffs without the consent or approval of Congress or all kinds of things they can do right now to reclaim their Article I powers and -- and try to refrain this agenda.", "Or protect the integrity of the Mueller investigation. I mean, that's something that's been called for that is still necessary. I think the president has gotten certain constraints that are now self-made. The fact that Charlie is saying, a former member of the Congress, that he's concerned about compromise. And I think it's important also to say this is not the salacious stuff. This is about follow the money, folks, that that needs to be dealt with seriously in the wake of yesterday's diplomatic --", "Could I -- could I just jump in here for a second?", "Yes.", "So I think that we're all -- the money, I think, is part of it. There might be something more salacious, but you also -- not that you shouldn't, but you don't have to dig all that deeply. A lot of it has been staring us in the face and screaming for the last two years. You had the current president during his campaign say, \"Russia, if you're listening, go and hack and find Hillary Clinton's missing e- mails.\" You have this meeting at Trump Tower in which Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son and namesake, was more than willing to accept help from a foreign government to win the election. There is so much stuff that is out in the open that leads me to believe that the kompromat or blackmail, as it's called in English, is -- is staring us in the face, which is that Russia helped Trump win the election. That's what they have on him. And of course, he's not ever going to say, \"You know what? You're right. They helped me win. My win is illegitimate. And therefore, my presidency is illegitimate.\" No sitting president, especially one as thin-skinned and vain as this one, would ever admit that.", "Vladimir Putin told us yesterday, he was asked flat-out if he wanted Trump to win, and he said yes.", "Yes, that was the --", "We knew that.", "I know, but it's interesting to hear him say it.", "And we also know from the most recent Mueller indictment the day Donald Trump turned to the cameras and said, \"Russia, if you're listening\" was also the day, coincidental or not, that Russian hackers broke into the servers that Hillary Clinton had used. So that's pretty extraordinary.", "Charlie, as Lyndon Johnson might have said when President Trump loses FOX News, he's lost middle America. And for the first time, Charlie, yesterday, there have been people who have been real cheerleaders of President Trump on FOX News who sounded shocked and stunned by the fact that he would stand up there and blame America for the election hacking. So listen to their confounded response afterwards.", "This was the time and place for the president to look Putin squarely in the eye and said, \"You will be punished for what you did in 2016, and don't ever think about doing that again.\"", "But he didn't. And that's what made it disgusting. That's what made his performance disgusting. A U.S. president on foreign soil, talking to our biggest enemy, is essentially letting the guy get away with this and not even, you know, offering a mild, a mild criticism.", "This was clearly not his best performance. He's done a whole lot better than this. He should have defended us. He should have defended his own intelligence community.", "Was not a very forceful presentation from President Trump with Putin standing right next to him.", "I don't know. I'll give the benefit of the doubt to maybe jet lag and time differences, but holy tamale.", "Hey, Charlie, I mean, what of that, if -- will that get Republicans in Congress, will that get their attention?", "Well, when the amen corner does not say \"amen,\" all we can say is hallelujah. Let me tell you, this is unbelievable. Look, if anything -- if nothing else happens, maybe people will now back off of Mueller and Rosenstein and let them complete their work uninterrupted. I mean, this Russia investigation has to go on. And if yesterday's events didn't make that clear, nothing will. So I hope those, you know, who have been the amen corner, the hallelujah chorus, you know, get some -- get some manners right now. They have to stand up and do what's in the best interests of the country. And that's -- it's as simple as that.", "I saw Julia nodding \"no\" there, because she knows that the Freedom Caucus yesterday was talking about going after Rod Rosenstein. Again. It's just happening.", "All right. On that note, thank you all for sharing all of your personal experience and perspective with us.", "We're going to have a Republican lawmaker on with us next. The issue is this: what are they going to do? Will they take action? We want to know the answer to that question. Stay around."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PHILLIP (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "PHILLIP", "TRUMP", "PHILLIP", "TRUMP", "PHILLIP", "SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY), MINORITY LEADER", "SEN. BOB CORKER (R-TN), CHAIRMAN, FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-337020", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-04-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/06/nday.04.html", "summary": "Growing Trend Of Vaping Among American Teenagers; Trump Threatens China With $100 Billion In New Tariffs", "utt": ["There is a very serious health story around the country that doesn't get enough attention with all the political news, an epidemic among middle school and high school students known as vaping. These same kids who would not smoke cigarettes are turning to e- cigarettes, commonly known by the brand-name JUUL, to vape. It's having serious consequences, particularly with regard to addiction to tobacco and nicotine among these kids. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has more.", "In Milford, Connecticut, high school principal Francis Thompson is desperately trying to snuff out a problem that teachers are having all across the country.", "They would come in here and you'd have four or five kids at a time congregating and they'd start to vape.", "It's a trend that many parents are not even aware of, but e- cigarette use or vaping has grown an astonishing 900 percent among high school students in recent years according to the Surgeon General. And a 2016 National Youth Tobacco Survey found nearly 1.7 million high school students and 500,000 middle-schoolers have used e-cigarettes in just the 30-day period before the survey was taken. In Wrentham, Massachusetts, assistant vice principal Spencer Christie says he, too, is overwhelmed by this new and pervasive epidemic.", "These are JUUL pods. Now it's moved to students vaping in hallways, vaping in classrooms.", "In the back two desks in the corner they had their hands kind of up like this and there was a blue light coming from between their hands.", "The most popular item, which is the JUUL, and as you can see it looks like a flashlight but it's not. And then, the kids can just tuck it away when they're done. So --", "It's not just the design of these products. Critics say all these flavors also entice kids to start vaping. One study out of Harvard found some of these artificial flavors contain diacetyl. That's a chemical linked to severe respiratory disease.", "The kids that I talk to believe that there is nothing in there that's dangerous. They don't think there's anything more than water.", "It's not water. It's called e-liquid and when heated by the coil it changes to an aerosol. Columbia University researchers, using this machine, found the vapor has toxic metals like chromium, nickel, zinc, and lead. And as we know, there is no safe level of lead. With very little regulation, people are not fully aware of what they're consuming. I sat down with the FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, and asked him about this e-cig phenomenon.", "Youth use is deeply concerning to me. We're going to be taking some enforcement actions very soon to target companies that we think are marketing products in ways that they are deliberately appealing to kids. I'm going to be having conversations with some of these companies trying to inspire them, if I can, to take more corrective actions on their own.", "Don't forget, nicotine is one of the most addictive substances out there.", "I think it's the next epidemic among teenagers.", "Sanjay, thank you for turning your attention to this. It is a hideous problem. These tobacco companies --", "Yes.", "-- as you point out, are marketing this to kids by having those flavored pods. That's outrageous when they say what they're really trying to do is help smokers try to cut down on smoking. To get to the heart of it is --", "Yes.", "Not only is this so easily undetectable but it is the gateway, right? I mean, it is the getting -- if you smoke a JUUL -- if you -- one pod is the equivalent to two packs of cigarettes in terms of the nicotine delivery. What is the impact on getting kids hooked on nicotine and then where does it go from there?", "That is the exact rub. I mean, you know, if you talk to experts within the government they're saying look, there may be some evidence that it has decreased smoking among adults. If you remember, it was marketed as a smoking cessation tool but you've seen these staggering numbers -- a 900 percent increase among youth. We know that among youth, combustible cigarette consumption has gone down. But of the new cigarette smokers who are smoking actual cigarettes, a quarter of them, roughly, start off by using e-cigs --", "Right.", "-- so there does appear to be that sort of gateway thing. It may have had an impact on adults but now we're paying the price with regard to youth. That's the real concern.", "But, Sanjay, just so I understand because my kids haven't encountered this yet -- God willing, they won't -- but is it the same as when teenagers smoked in the seventies, and eighties, and nineties? Or is vaping, somehow because of all the metals that you talked about, somehow worse?", "Well, it's -- you know, this is a totally unregulated thing. Amazingly, cigarette smoking has been totally unregulated as well. Now they're talking about putting upper limits on the amount of nicotine in regular cigarettes. But with this, there's -- with these e-vape -- e-cigarettes -- vaping, they think there's all these other substances in there and we just don't know what they're going to do to the body long-term.", "Including pot. I mean, that's the point is that there are ways to get pots that have the THC content in there and they get high from the nicotine --", "That's right.", "-- because it's so concentrated.", "That's right.", "Sanjay, thank you for sounding the alarm about all of that.", "You got it. Thank you.", "A really important story. All right, time for \"CNN Money Now.\" President Trump is threatening steep new tariffs on China as the White House prepares for the release of the March jobs report. Alison Kosik is here with more. Hi, Alison.", "Hi, Alisyn. So fears of a trade war are rattling investors yet again and that's after President Trump threatened China with $100 billion worth of new tariffs. We're watching the Dow. It's set to fall about 250 points at the open and that's actually off the lows. Dow futures tanked 400 points initially. So some investors are really hoping that the threats we're hearing are just a negotiating ploy that won't actually result in a full-blown trade war. The March jobs report could also add more volatility today. Economists are predicting 185,000 jobs were created. That's a slowdown from February. Still, it would mark the 90th-straight month of job creation, a historic run of 7 1/2 years. The jobless rate could also dip to four percent. That's a fresh 17- year low. Wall Street also watching how fast wages grew. Two point seven percent is the prediction. Anything stronger could raise fears of inflation and higher interest rates -- Alisyn.", "OK, thank you very much.", "So, the focus at the AT&T-Time Warner merger court battle with the Justice Department turning to another media merger. How a past deal is playing a big role in this case, coming up next."], "speaker": ["GREGORY", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "FRANCIS THOMPSON, PRINCIPAL, JONATHAN LAW HIGH SCHOOL, MILFORD, CONNECTICUT", "GUPTA", "SPENCER CHRISTIE, ASSISTANT VICE PRINCIPAL, KING PHILIP REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, WRENTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS", "JENNIFER WALDEN, TEACHER, KING PHILIP REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, WRENTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS", "THOMPSON", "GUPTA", "THOMPSON", "GUPTA", "DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB, COMMISSIONER, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION", "GUPTA", "THOMPSON", "GREGORY", "GUPTA", "GREGORY", "GUPTA", "GREGORY", "GUPTA", "GREGORY", "GUPTA", "CAMEROTA", "GUPTA", "GREGORY", "GUPTA", "GREGORY", "GUPTA", "CAMEROTA", "GUPTA", "CAMEROTA", "ALISON KOSIK, CORRESPONDENT, \"CNN MONEY\"", "CAMEROTA", "GREGORY"]}
{"id": "CNN-10472", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-6-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/21/tod.02.html", "summary": "Climbers Stranded on Oregon's Mt. Hood Owe Rescue to Two Young Boys", "utt": ["Two climbers stranded on Oregon's Mount Hood owe their rescue and a big thank you to two young boys. Kelly Day (ph) from CNN station KION has the story from Sandy, Oregon.", "Unable to move, they cry out for help and two children in McMinnville hear them. Good evening everyone, I'm...", "That's us.", "That's 7-year-old Fletcher and 5-year-old Park Wold. They were watching a movie at a friend's house and heard the call for help on their walkie-talkie.", "We heard a guy talking to us real scratchy.", "People was on the mountain.", "The voice on the radio said something about Mount Hood and Fletcher knew there was trouble.", "Yes, I could tell because if he wasn't injured he wouldn't be calling.", "You sensed there was trouble of some kind.", "Yes, my bones could smell it.", "Well, his bones were right. A rock slide hit the two climbers as they were climbing Mount Hood on the Sandy Glacier. Twenty-three-year-old Ian Morris of Portland suffered injuries to his hand, but his partner suffered a fractured hip.", "Can you hear me? over.", "Yes, Roger, go ahead.", "After Fletcher and Parker told their dad about the problem, he took over the radio and started talking to the injured climbers on Mount Hood 81 miles away.", "We bought these radios at Radio Shack that are advertised for a two-mile range. But, you know, they're like a VHF radio: line of sight, they'll go pretty much as far as you can see.", "Mike Wold called the Clackamas County Sheriff's Department. That's when the 939th Rescue Wing moved in and, at 7,000 feet, safely airlifted the climbers to the hospital.", "It's just lucky that the boys heard them, you know, really lucky.", "Hello, daddy, hello. Can you hear me? Makes me feel good that I helped someone. That's not something to lie about.", "That's amazing.", "Lou's making notes...", "Yes, I am.", "... because we're talking with Fletcher and his dad in our next hour because we like this story.", "Way to go, Fletcher.", "Yes."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED ANCHOR", "FLETCHER WOLD, RESCUER", "KELLY DAY, KION REPORTER (voice-over)", "F. WOLD", "PARKER WOLD, RESCUER", "DAY", "F. WOLD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "F. WOLD", "DAY", "F. WOLD", "MIKE WOLD, FATHER", "DAY", "M. WOLD", "DAY", "M. WOLD", "F. WOLD", "LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "ALLEN", "WATERS", "ALLEN", "WATERS", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-153835", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-8-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1008/02/ltm.03.html", "summary": "NASA Discovered 700 Possible Solar Systems", "utt": ["A new discovery way out the galaxy causing a real buzz here on the third rock from the sun. NASA's deep space eye in the sky found several planets that are similar in size to earth. But just because they are earth-sized doesn't mean they are earth-like.", "Yes, scientists don't think the new planets can support life as we know it, but this new find could be the tip of the iceberg. Here to tell us more is William Borucki, principal investigator with NASA's Kepler Mission. Thank you so much for joining us this morning.", "You're welcome. I'm glad to be here.", "This is exciting, the deep-space probe discovering some 700 bodies, some could be new planets. Describe what they found and what it could mean.", "Well, Kepler mission is basically a spacecraft that orbits the sun, it measures the brightness of stars, and it has found 700 candidates. And candidates are systems that show dips in the brightness of the stars as a planet where the object crosses them. But on the other hand we know 50 percent of the time they are really false positives. That's to say one small star is crossing another star, two stars in the background. And so we need to look to the candidates with ground-based telescopes and find out which are really planets and which aren't. And so right now we have some 700 candidates, but we don't have 700 planets. What we have in the past -- I'm sorry, go ahead.", "I was just going to say, Bill, you have actually confirmed five planets all of them sort of being described relatively to the size of Jupiter, anything from half the size of Jupiter to twice as big. It is pretty generally held that planets of that size are gas giants and wouldn't be capable to sustain life. But have you found anything the same size and orbit as earth, something that could potentially sustain life?", "No, we haven't. It takes about three years of observation before you see enough transits. Orbits of a planet like the earth in an inhabitable star like the sun, we have not seen anything like that. The mission has only been operating for one year. And so if we are going to find anything, we have to wait three years. We have to wait two more years. But we find a lot of candidates that are three times the size of the earth, twice the size of the earth. We actually have one candidate that's 1.6 times the size of the earth. But these are in very short period orbits, so they are very hot. It's only after we -- Yes, go ahead.", "There are just so many factor that is go into it. One is the size, and a lot of them are too close to the sun so they probably wouldn't be able to sustain life as we know it. But what are some of the other positives you found out of this that could yield information and discoveries that we have not seen before?", "I think the biggest thing is the fact that we find so many candidates. We have over 700. We believe about half of those will probably turn out to be planets, and that is dramatic. The other aspect is that many of these were much smaller than Neptune. Neptune is about four times the size of the earth. So that means we are talking about candidates, possible planets, that would mean much closer to the size of earth than we've ever seen before. And that's -- that's the dramatic (ph) -- a lot of them and they're smaller than Neptune.", "Right, you know Bill, even if we found something that was the same sort of relative size of earth and the same sort of orbit that might be capable of sustaining life, the distances we're talking about here are so great, that we'd never be to go there and actually check it out. So -- so what is the net effect of all of this research here on earth? Does it -- does it increase, let's say, the maybe factor when we are talking about life on other world?", "It's certainly the first step in doing that. We'd like to understand the extent of life on our galaxy. And if it turns out there are a lot of planets that are inhabitable zones (ph) of stars, and we think there may well be, then there's probably a lot of life in our galaxy. And they are just waiting for us to call up and say hello, we'd like to participate. If we find nothing, that means we might be alone. So it gives us a feeling of the extent of life -- of possible life in our galaxy. When we get the numbers, are there many earths or not?", "Right. And that's what continues to fascinate all of us. William Borucki for us, the principal investigator with NASA's Kepler Mission; thanks for joining us this morning.", "You're welcome.", "You know too, when you talk about contacting life on other planets, every time you look out into the heavens you're looking back in time as much as tens of thousands of years. So even if there was somebody out there, would they be in a position to be broadcasting to us because you're looking at things coming from ten thousand years ago. It's all very fascinating, though. Severe storms soaking the Midwest; 100 degree-plus heat across the south. Rob Marciano has got the travel forecast coming right up for you. 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{"id": "CNN-196590", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-11-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1211/30/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Joe Biden's Adventure at Costco", "utt": ["Well, he is a heartbeat away from the presidency, but every now and again, you know the Vice President's got to get out of the office for a little bit and Joe Biden went to the grand opening of Costco's first store in the nation's capital, probably bought a lot more than he intended or maybe that's just me. By the look of things, he came ready to shop. Here's CNN's Jeanne Moos.", "Say it aren't so, Joe. The Vice President invades Costco.", "We are going to cut through the liquor section.", "Forget driving a sleigh, Joe Biden didn't even drive his own cart. A Costco employee seem thrilled to do the honors. His consumer confidence was high as the VP flashed his Costco card. Joe Biden had the press pack in tow.", "You guys, if you would keep walking backwards please, if you guys go to the bakery session, please.", "Imagine shopping for a watch with the press watching from behind every counter as Vice President Biden called his daughter.", "Getting some guidance.", "he looked at a $1,200 watch but we don't know if he bought any watches. We do know what he ate. Every free sample in sight in the bakery section where he bought an apple pie. (on camera): It's a dilemma if you want to shake hands or do you want to eat.", "Made locally by a local bakery.", "He shook and ate, he put a package of crackers in his cart. Costco cost the Vice President a lot of calories.", "You get fat just walking through this store.", "Vice President Biden came to promote extending middle-class tax cuts and it probably didn't hurt that the co-founder of Costco is a big Obama contributor. Before he left, the VP used the phone of his cart driver, Ivy Stewart, to call her grandmother and leave a message. Ivy was so moved by the whole experience, she wiped away tears.", "Thanks for shopping with me. And I know you won't tell anybody what I bought for Christmas here.", "Here's a hint from Nat King Cole's classic -- on the dirt flame -- \"The Huffington Post\" held a caption contest for Joe Biden's checkout photo. Our favorite, \"Stopped by for some fire logs, went home with a flat screen TV, 32 inches\". Jeanne Moos, CNN --", "-- New York.", "Well, that just ruins the Christmas surprise about that television, but looking for love? When the politics are against you. We're going past the party lines in search of romance."], "speaker": ["FEYERICK", "JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "BIDEN", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "BIDEN", "MOOS", "BIDEN", "MOOS", "MOOS", "FEYERICK"]}
{"id": "CNN-1505", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-1-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/26/ee.01.html", "summary": "North Carolina Struggles to Come Out From Under Heavy Blanket of Snow", "utt": ["From the Carolinas to Maine, people are digging out from a classic nor'easter. It packed strong winds and dumped heavy snows, and even though the snow has stopped falling in some places problems may persist for days to come. In Boston, schools are closed, and Logan International Airport is expected to have more delays after being closed for three times, yesterday. The fast-moving storm produced more than a foot of snow in some areas before turning into sleet and then into freezing rain. Heavy snows swirled by high winds brought up to a foot of snow to parts of Connecticut during rush hour, while other areas slipped by with just a few inches of slush. CNN's Eric Horng is in North Carolina, this morning, the hardest- hit area and the least-ready area to deal with it.", "Central North Carolina averages about five inches of snowfall each winter. Tuesday, parts of the region received more than three times that amount in just 12 hours.", "We don't get snow like this around here.", "The storm dumped a record 20 inches in some areas of the state, closing schools and businesses, shutting down the Raleigh- Durham Airport, knocking out power to tens of thousands and drowning roads and interstates in a sea of white.", "I tapped my brakes, another car hit us from behind and we slid into that one.", "Officials mobilized 150,000 National Guard troops to help stranded drivers. All this while much of North Carolina's snow removal equipment sat unused in the state's western mountains which was spared the brunt of the storm.", "Traditionally we've had our worst snowfalls up in the mountains, so most of the National Guard Humvees, for example, are up there, expecting to get several feet of snow as we have so often.", "For the people of North Carolina, this storm is the latest in a string of weather woes. The state baked in drought conditions last summer, followed by devastating floods brought on by autumn hurricanes, and now this.", "Our emergency folks, we've been tested with Floyd, so I think we can handle anything that comes our way.", "Much of North Carolina resembles a ghost town, this morning, Governor Jim Hunt issuing a state of emergency, urging everyone to stay in their homes today, and if you take a look behind me you'll see precisely why: a blanket of snow covering virtually everything in sight, inundating cars, homes, businesses, trees. It is a wintry mess here in North Carolina. Leon, back to you.", "Well, Eric, you hit the cars, the homes and the trees, how about the roads? How are they, this morning?", "They're still pretty bad. Most of the major thoroughfares, interstates, are passable, very slick but passable. Most of the back roads, however, and residential streets are not. So, that is precisely why officials are urging people to stay in their homes today.", "All right, thanks. Eric Horng reporting live, this morning."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "ERIC HORNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HORNG", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HORNG", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HORNG", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HORNG", "HARRIS", "HORNG", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-355203", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-11-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/20/nday.05.html", "summary": "Reporting Indicates Ivanka Trump Used Private Emails for Government Business; Judge Strikes Down President Trump's Executive Order on Immigrants Seeking Asylum.", "utt": ["-- of the rules, which does beg the question, how could someone who was alive in 2016 and someone who likely heard the chants of \"lock her up\" not be aware of the rules surrounding e-mails? For more on that let's bring in Josh Dawsey, \"Washington Post\" reporter, part of the team that first broke this story overnight. Josh, thanks for being with us. How many e-mails are we talking about? And about what exactly?", "So we're talking about hundreds of e-mails, John, to cabinet officials, to West Wing aides, to others in the government about business, about initiatives, about scheduling issues on her private e-mail for many months in 2017. Eventually, as you said in the lead-in, that was curbed when White House Counsel's office, others in the White House grew troubled about the number of e- mails that she was sending and had a conversation with her. Initially she pleaded ignorance, that she did not know the rules that she was not allowed to use personal emails for government business, and was rebuked. Her lawyer, Abbe Lowell, and his spokesman say that she has since stopped doing that and it is no longer a problem, and we're still continuing to look into the issue.", "Your story cites White House sources as being surprised her excuse was she didn't know the rules. And we had Marc Short, who was the director of legislative affairs a short while ago, and he said that everyone should have known the rules coming in.", "Right. Well, there was a campaign where the central chant, as you mentioned, was \"lock her up\" about Hillary Clinton's careless use of e-mails. And there were a few differences here between Ivanka Trump and Hillary Clinton's e-mails, to be fair. Hillary Clinton sent a lot more. There was a private server in her basement. Some of hers had classified material. Defenders of Ivanka Trump would certainly say that the scope of what Hillary Clinton did was far worse. That said, as Marc Short said on television, a lot of her critics are seizing on this as rank hypocrisy after the 2016 campaign that was and the criticism that her father gave toward Hillary Clinton.", "And some of the e-mails were scheduling, forwarding on to some of her own personal staff. But some of the e-mails apparently were exchanges with cabinet secretaries, correct?", "Right, which is also an interesting role for her to play in the government. You have the daughter of the president, the senior adviser role, for the first few months she wasn't even official in the government and she was e-mailing cabinet secretaries and giving input, advice, getting involved. Then she became an unpaid adviser, obviously, in the government, and was mainly given more. So there were lots of exchanges between her and Linda McMahon at small business services, Treasury Department officials, folks who can go across a vast apparatus of the government were getting correspondence from Ivanka Trump's personal email account.", "And there are plenty of differences between the Ivanka Trump situation and the Hillary Clinton situation, but one similarity is the role of the private attorney here. In this case, Abbe Lowell, a well- known attorney, he is the one, or his office is the one that went through the e-mails and chose which ones should be considered personal and which ones should be considered government e-mail. I remember during the campaign that Republicans had a big problem with the fact it was Hillary Clinton's own e-mails which sort of filtered the process.", "As you said, Abbe Lowell is one of the most respected white collar attorneys in D.C. And he actually came in an filtered the emails. And why that drew criticism is because is it really up to her private attorney to decide which e-mails should be analyzed and preserved or not? Should a White House official not be involved in that? What her defenders say, John, is that there are lots of personal e- mail in her correspondence, maybe some private things, maybe things that are not related to the White House and are sensitive, and she needed someone who she could trust and who had client-attorney privilege to do that. But certainly, it did draw criticism because he's not representing the White House. He's not representing the government. He's representing the taxpayers. He's representing Ivanka Trump.", "So Josh, I always read your articles very, very carefully because they are so rich. But one of the things I was trying to detect inside this article was whether or not there were people inside or close to the administration being critical of Ivanka Trump. In other words, whether there was a feeling that the daughter of the president, who is an assistant to the president, is operating under a different set of rules.", "I think that's fair to say, that there are a lot of former and current officials who would be concerned about her e-mail use. As we quoted in the story, one former U.S. senior government official said to us she was the worst offender in the White House. There certainly was real frustration when advisers to the president approached her and said, hey, this isn't OK, and she kind of pleaded ignorance. It was a sense of, how could she be ignorant of these e- mail rules? We just ran a campaign on this.", "Josh Dawsey, scoop machine, let me also ask you about another story you wrote overnight, which gets to the idea is president is said to be planning at some point soon perhaps, a trip to the war zone, whether it be Iraq or Afghanistan, which he has resisted to this point. And in your article you note one of the reasons he's resisted is because he had opposed to different extents the military action in those two countries. And you quoted a senior official who said he was afraid to go.", "Right. Well, there's several reasons he hasn't gone. He has told White House aides, John Kelly, Mattis, the defense secretary, others that he just detests both the mission in Iraq and Afghanistan. He thinks these are horrible mistakes. He doesn't want his name associated with them. He doesn't want to be there. He's also expressed some safety concerns, John, and some frustrations with the long flight that it would take overseas. This is a president in the first two years who has not gone into a war zone. You know, George W. Bush did it. Barack Obama did it. Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, really presidents for decades and decades have typically gone in when active duty service members are overseas, often around the holidays, often around Thanksgiving. You remember George W. Bush going in 2003 and served turkey during the first year of the war. It's typically done. This president has not done it and has not shown much interest in doing it. We talked to a number of officials in the White House who said in recent days, when there's been more criticism of him skipping the ceremony in Paris, not going to Arlington National Cemetery for Veterans Day, for his fight in the last couple of days with a Navy Seal in the Usama bin Laden raid, there's been more and more sense that he needs to do this two years into the presidency, and we'll see if he actually follows through or not.", "Josh Dawsey, great reporting on several fronts. Thanks so much for being with us.", "Thanks for having me.", "Joining us now to discuss the overnight court ruling and so much more, we have Jeffrey Toobin, we have \"Politico's\" Rachael Bade, and Ian Bremmer, the president of the Eurasia Group and the editor at large of \"Time.\" Great to have all of you here in studio with us for this conversation. Jeffrey, let's start with the federal judge knocking down President Trump's executive order. Here's what the judge said about asylum seekers. \"The rule barring asylum for immigrants who enter the country outside of port of entry irreconcilably conflicts with the immigration and naturalization act and the express intent of Congress. Whatever the scope of the president's authority, he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has expressly forbidden.\" Why does the president keep getting executive orders wrong? If he believes that the border is being overrun, as he has convinced his supporters, and they do feel that way, why aren't there people around the president who can have an executive order written that passes muster if he wants to change something?", "One principle that all presidents run up against is what is the scope of presidential authority, and it's not necessarily clear in every case. And they always want to push it as much as possible. Here, obviously immigration is a tremendous priority of his. He has not been able to persuade Congress to change the immigration laws, so he's trying to use his power under the law to the maximum extent possible. He failed in the first two versions of the Muslim ban. He succeeded on the third version. He failed here, at least so far. And it's just indicative of his priorities as president to crack down on immigrants in various different ways, but that presses up against his authority that at some point Congress's laws are always going to Trump presidential authority.", "It's not that I don't think he wanted the executive order to not go through. I think he wanted the executive order to be enforced. However, Ian, I also don't think he minds the fight here. He doesn't mind battling with the courts over this. He doesn't mind highlights the fact that Congress hasn't taken action here on this.", "Sure. We do need to recognize that even know president Trump has authoritarian impulses, he's governing in a democratic state. And he was enormously constrained domestically even when the Republicans ran the table in Congress. Now that the Democrats actually control the House, divided president is not meant to empower a president. It is meant to stop things from happening. So as a consequences, if you want to see where Trump really matters, it is on the international stage where the stroke of a pen really does lead to military action or pulling out of an international agreement. Domestically, what he can do is posture. He can posture significantly on a bunch of issues that matter politically to his base. Immigration has clearly been one of the most significant examples of that.", "And so let's just talk about, Rachael, for a second, where the so-called caravan really is. Let's give our viewers an update, because things have happened. So now 3,000 migrants have reached the border. They are in Mexicali applying for asylum. And 2,200 have reached Tijuana at the border. They are going to apply for asylum. And they want to make it into the U.S. What Marc Short, former legislation director of the White House, just told us is that in the past 10 years, according to him, the asylum application for 5,000, he said in the past year, it's 100,000. So a 20-fold advance growth. So Congress does have to deal with this. So the president can keep passing executive orders that get shot down. Is there any appetite in Congress after the midterms and after all the hue and cry about the caravan to deal with this?", "The caravan, not per se, and even the president has brought troops home. There was a story posting overnight that he was bringing military people from there.", "In \"Politico.\"", "Yes, exactly, in our publication. And I think that stands to show that the whole caravan issue was very political for him. We talk about the asylum ban that he instituted. That might have been signed after the election. But that was actually set in motion before the election. So again political, he's trying to rev up the base and trying to get Republicans out to vote. But when it comes to Congress, they have been talking about immigration reform for years, at least since I've been up there, and they have never been able to do anything. If it's something bipartisan, the conservatives strike it down. If it doesn't go far enough for Democrats, they are not going to just give the president his wall. There is a deadline, though. There's one other thing we should mention, and that is the government runs out of money for Homeland Security on December 7th. And the president has said, as we explained this weekend, that now is the time for a shutdown. And GOP leaders have promised him after the election we will give you that fight. So we'll have to see. It is going to be a game of chicken. Will Democrats give him $5 billion of wall money that he's talking about right now. He's probably going to ask for more changes to asylum, all these other immigration policies. But again, I'm just very skeptical that we're going to see anything.", "But remember, it's worth remembering that asylum is different from economic migrants. You are not allowed to come to this country just because you want a better life. That might be a good thing or a bad thing, but the law is -- but asylum is for people who have a well- founded fear of persecution.", "But the president has conflated them, because what he says, and this may be true, is that the 5,000 people who are now waiting at the border use asylum, though they are really escaping abject poverty, they use asylum, and he claims it overwhelms the system.", "The numbers are not that different from what they have been. The numbers of people who are being admitted into this country are not that different. So I don't think the system is necessarily overwhelmed.", "It is what types of people and how they are coming here that's different. There are more people seeking asylum. There aren't more people necessarily historically crossing the border, and you can argue which is a bigger tax on the system or not. Ian, to you, you are among the people who felt that Hillary Clinton's e-mails was an issue that was being blown out of proportion during the campaign. Now you think Ivanka Trump's e-mails, you think it is a giant deal and they should hold weeks and weeks of hearing on Capitol Hill.", "Absolutely, because it is Ivanka, so it's the other side. That's the whole point, right, is that we know that the reason that Hillary was seen as vulnerable on this issue is because of the sense that when it comes to the Clintons, the rules don't apply to them. They are somehow, whether it is about Monica Lewinsky or whether it's about the e-mails or it's about the foundation, somehow they're going to lawyer up and they're going to have the inside track. Now, to be clear, President Trump's entire administration is about the rules not applying to them, whether it's about conflicts of interest in the Trump Organization and the ability to work inside while you're also making money on the back of your brand. And while I think objectively what we're talking about with Ivanka, there is no implication that we're talking about classified e-mails that were handed out. She was not serving as secretary of state at the time. She probably would have reason to not pay as much attention to the rules as someone who had been a senator and secretary of state and wife of the president, all of these things. And, yet, the staggering hypocrisy on this issue is of course going to bring out the Democrats like nobody's business. And yet we also know that it's kind of non- issue.", "I would say that I wouldn't think House Democrats are going to go after this in a way that perhaps Republicans went after Clinton for this issue. And the reason is there is already talk about what are they going to prioritize next year in terms of investigations. Clearly Russia, obstruction of justice, or potential obstruction of justice. There's a number of policies that they're going to go after, potential hush money payments. That is what they're going to focus on next year. And I know there has been even a debate about whether they should even look at Brett Kavanaugh. Should they look at him for potential perjury when he testified before Congress. That was something some Democrats were talking about doing. And they're being told, let's not go that far. We don't want to overreach. This, I think, some Democrats will argue, including probably all the way up in House Democratic leadership, that this is not a key priority for them, I would suspect.", "And yet, oh, to be a fly on the wall in Hillary Clinton's house this morning.", "Right.", "I mean, the staggering hypocrisy as Ian just said, as Marc Short has called it hypocritical, as Anthony Scaramucci has called it hypocritical. So the next time we hear \"lock her up\" chants at a Trump rally, which we will --", "Who will they be talking about?", "Crooked Ivanka.", "Crooked Ivanka, no. I mean, it also underlines what a bogus issue the e-mails were from the beginning. And it chose the Trump's don't even care about the e-mails because they recognize that people mix their personal and their business e-mails. They probably shouldn't do it, but they did it any way. Hillary Clinton did it. Ivanka Trump did it. Jared Kushner did it. And it's not that big a deal. It was turned into a big deal in the 2016 campaign.", "It possibly settled her campaign for presidential --", "I don't think there is any doubt that it was a major, major factor in her loss. And that is what makes this so maddening, that, you know, we all know it's sort of bogus. You know, I said this before. I spent time as a journalist talking about e-mails in 2016, and I think I spent too much time on it.", "I think it's important that we take some responsibility for our behavior.", "We all feel some culpability. Certainly, if we're going to turn away tomorrow and not cover Ivanka, because we all think feel some culpability. But I'm sure that is cold comfort this morning for Hillary Clinton.", "Ian, you wanted in?", "I was going to say you are turn on the caravan and turn off the caravan on a dime after the elections are over for midterms. The thing that was interesting here, they didn't turn off Hillary Clinton and the e-mails. They just kept playing it over and over, despite the fact they won the election two years ago. So, maybe they'll play a little --", "I think that's the interesting thing. I think it will be if the Republicans continue to try to use it or they realize the loss of it.", "And that's why it's hard for the Democrats to let this go.", "No, I think they will seek out against --", "I think it will be hard for them to do.", "Jeff, Rachael, Ian, great to have you here.", "Thank you, guys.", "Thank you very much. Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Democrats found a path to take back the House, but will the lessons learned the midterms lead to votes in 270 electoral votes in 2020? Harry Enten breaks down the numbers, next."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "JOSH DAWSEY, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "BERMAN", "DAWSEY", "BERMAN", "DAWSEY", "BERMAN", "DAWSEY", "BERMAN", "DAWSEY", "BERMAN", "DAWSEY", "BERMAN", "DAWSEY", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN CHIEF LEGAL ANALYST", "BERMAN", "IAN BREMMER, PRESIDENT, EURASIA GROUP", "CAMEROTA", "RACHAEL BADE, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "CAMEROTA", "BADE", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "TOOBIN", "BERMAN", "BREMMER", "BADE", "CAMEROTA", "BADE", "CAMEROTA", "TOOBIN", "BADE", "TOOBIN", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "TOOBIN", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "IAN BREMMER, PRESIDENT OF EURASIA GROUP", "BERMAN", "BREMMER", "BADE", "BREMMER", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-402276", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2020-06-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/09/ebo.01.html", "summary": "George Floyd Is Laid to Rest", "utt": ["You're looking at live pictures from New York. A large group of protesters taking to the streets near city hall just hours after George Floyd was laid to rest, buried next to his mother who he called out for as he was pinned down by police in Minnesota. Hundred of friends and family members filling a church in Houston today to demand justice and honor his legacy. Sara Sidner is OUTFRONT.", "A fourth and final farewell for George Floyd, a man whose death has sparked new life into a movement. His family members breaking down in front of the casket just before his body was sealed inside forever.", "Let justice run down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.", "I love you, and I thank god for giving me my own personal Superman.", "No more hate crimes, please. Someone said make America great again, but when has America ever been great?", "We must commit to this family all of these families, all five of his children, grandchildren, and all, that until these people pay for what they did, that we're going to be there with them because lives like George will not matter until somebody pays the cost for taking their lives.", "Unlike most, you must grieve in public and it's a burden, a burden that is now your purpose to change the world for the better in the name of George Floyd. .", "Among the 500 family and friends of Floyd inside the Fountain of Praise Church in Houston, the black American families who know their pain all too well, their children killed by police too. The family of Ferguson's Michael Brown, New York's Eric Garner, and Dallas' Botham Jean attended the services, offering their support. Protests around the country pushing cities around the nation to consider police reform after two weeks of nationwide demonstrations. The Houston police chief himself demanding reform from the inside out.", "The community recognizing bad policing when they see it, and there are still too many instances where bad policing is tolerated. So, we need to -- we need to say no.", "The Houston mayor going further, announcing at Floyd's funeral an executive order to ban chokeholds among other reforms.", "In this city, we will ban chokeholds and strangleholds. In this city, we will require de- escalation.", "In Minneapolis, a judge approved a restraining order to stop police there from using neck restraints and chokeholds. In Los Angeles, official announcing a moratorium on one type of chokehold. In New York, a promise by the mayor to cut some police funds and move them to youth and social services. Back in Texas, a procession following Floyd's casket to its final resting place. His body to be laid to rest next to his mother whom he cried out for in his final moments.", "The family has been a three-city sojourn and had to hold their -- the family has been a three-city sojourn and had to hold their heads up high in four memorials. They are now going to that final resting place for George Floyd where he will be buried next to his mother and he will be in the last mile of that taken in a horse-drawn carriage so that the public can line the streets and say their final good-byes as well -- Erin.", "Sara, thank you very much. And I want to go to Tiffany Cofield now, one of George Floyd's close friends. Tiffany, I know you were a teacher in Houston's third ward where George Floyd grew up. You had him mentor your students. I know you were at the funeral today and hard day. We're looking at pictures of you all together. What was it like being in that room with so many people honoring a person that you held so dear?", "It was so good to be surrounded by the love for him and people from all different walks of life, people that knew him", "So, Tiffany, you know, now, to all of us, you know, he -- he is a symbol of something happening in this country and around the world, of people -- people standing up and protesting for justice. But, you know, on a personal level, tell us about him. I mean, I know you would ask George to come speak to your students, students who lived in the projects in the third ward because he grew up there as well. He was a role model for them. I mean, tell us about that. Tell us what he did, what kind of a role model he was.", "Well, he would never ask me to do something he wouldn't do himself. And we would do various community events with", "Well, Tiffany, I am so sorry for your loss, you know, your personal loss, your real deep personal loss. But I appreciate you sharing this with everybody because it's important that someone be known for who they were on that deep personal level, even though, of course, he is -- he is now a symbol to so many of something so big. Thank you, Tiffany.", "Thank you.", "And next, Congressman James Clyburn has some advice and a warning for his friend Joe Biden. Congressman Clyburn is OUTFRONT. Plus, we travel to where Trump's base to find out what they think of the president's handling of two crises.", "Sometimes you look at him and you go, OK, that may have been crossing a line, but he means well. He loves our country."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "SARA SIDNER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "REV. GUSTA BOOKER, GREATER ST. MATTHEW BAPTIST CHURCH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BROOKE WILLIAMS, FLOYD'S NIECE", "REV. 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{"id": "CNN-280452", "program": "SMERCONISH", "date": "2016-04-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/02/smer.01.html", "summary": "2016 Race: A Criminal Act?", "utt": ["Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is facing a misdemeanor battery charge in Florida, and by now, everybody has seen the video of the incident of Lewandowski grabbing reporter Michelle Fields as she tried to ask Mr. Trump a question. Still, the tape has become a Republican Rorschach test. People see in it what they want to see. But how is it going to play in court? And how might the actions be defended? Joining me now, two sharp legal minds, criminal defense attorneys Mark O'Mara and Danny Cevallos. Hey, Danny, I want to", "OK, remember, Michael, we're looking for an intentional, part one, part two is the touching, and part three, that it was nonconsensual. There you go, you see her jerk back. You don't see his hand -- at least I don't see his hand on her body, but one might reasonably infer that she was grabbed because she suddenly jerks back. But under the statute and in most states, the standard for criminal battery, simple assault, whatever it's called in your particular state, is a very low threshold. You need that intentional, the touching and the absence of consent. That's the black letter law, Michael. Now, let's take a step into the practical world of criminal defense. Would most police detectives in your town be interested or prosecutors be interested in wasting judicial resources on a case like this? It really depends on the individual law enforcement unit.", "Well, Mark O'Mara, I hear , Danny, say that intentional is a required element here. What's the alternative, that he instinctively or reflexively had that kind of reaction?", "Well, it's not just the intentional act itself, he obviously touched her on the arm. What we have to look at is what's called in our business the mens rea. What is the criminal intent? So, when I push past you to get on a subway car, that is not a crime under any set of circumstances. So, what he's going to say, what I would say as the criminal defense attorney was, look, I was reacting to the moment. It was a reporter who was trying to say something to my candidate, and my boss who we were trying to get out of there. No intent, no criminal intent towards her. As a matter of fact, if you look at his face right afterwards, look at the second, half a second after the supposed battery and there's no anger, there's no animosity. There's no scowl. He's literally moved her out of the way and moved on in what he was doing, trying to get Mr. Trump out of there. This would never be prosecuted if this was on a subway platform or at a baseball game. It's only a focus of attention because of the absurdity of what we're in with the political scene today.", "OK. But wait a minute, you guys are so good, it's why I carry each of your phone numbers in my wallet in case I ever get jammed up. But, Danny, isn't the response from the prosecution going to be, take a look several frames thereafter where Mr. Lewandowski continues walking and catches up to Donald Trump. If he really believed that she was a threat, he would have stayed and neutralized that threat. Isn't that going to harm him?", "I'm going to put on my defense hat for a second and the way that I anticipate them defending this is using something the great Mark O'Mara is very familiar with, is Florida law on defense, self- defense and defense of others. And it only requires that you reasonably perceive some application of force and that you used the amount of force reasonably necessary. In essence, you're meeting force with commensurate force. You never want to answer somebody's fist with a howitzer or a bazooka. So, the idea is if he perceives her about to touch Mr. Trump, then perhaps Lewandowski saw himself as using reasonable force to counter the perceived force. That may be what we see in terms of self-defense or defense of others.", "Mark O'Mara, do you agree there's a Zimmermann aspect of this incident?", "Here's the problem with that. If you're going to use self- defense and defense of others, you have to acknowledge the act, and the intentionality of the act. So, Lewandowski would have to go in and say, oh, I absolutely did that. I grabbed her by the arm and threw her out of the way, did whatever I needed to do because I was defending Mr. Trump. Very dangerous ground to be on. I think I would sit back and say, look, this is a virtual scrum in this arena. This is what we do. We're trying to get Trump out of there. She's throwing out another question like everybody else does, and I wanted to get her out of the way, get Mr. Trump out of the venue. I would sit back and focus on the lack of criminal intent to begin with and simply saying, this is the way things happen in this scrum that exist in our political arena.", "Hey, Danny, what I'm hearing Mark say I think is that context matters. I've heard him make repeated reference to where this happens and the raucous nature of these events. I want to ask you a practical question. If Lewandowski, when it was all said and done, whatever it was, apologize and took ownership of it, would we be having this conversation now?", "Maybe. That depends on this individual reporter and how she perceived the interaction and maybe it's a broader political question, which is a little beyond my personal pay grade. But in a case like this, you know, look, the way we write our criminal statutes in the states, we have such low thresholds. And Florida's a fantastic example. All you need is intentional, the touching and absence of consent. Florida courts have specifically said, you do not need injury, you do not need harm. One case I read involved a student throwing ravioli at another student and it caused no harm. But yet, that contact, that intentional contact without consent, was enough under the law.", "Lewandowski right now wondering, which one should I call, O'Mara or Cevallos? Thank you, guys.", "Call O'Mara.", "I appreciate you being here.", "Thanks, Dan.", "Up next, I'm going to talk -- this is not a laughing matter. I'm going to talk to the mayor of a small city hard hit by heroin and a controversial plan to keep addicts alive by allowing them to bring their drug use out into the open. 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{"id": "CNN-144312", "program": "ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL", "date": "2009-10-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/23/ijvm.01.html", "summary": "What`s Causing Growing Problem of Drunk-Driving Moms?", "utt": ["In the spotlight tonight, the national crisis of drunk driving. Now, the focus is on females, women like Diane Schuler who drove drunk and high, in the wrong direction, down the Topanac (ph) state parkway, killing herself, four children and three men. Eight total. Mind- boggling. Then there`s the horrific case of the allegedly drunk mom, Carmen Huertas getting behind the wheel with seven little girls, losing control and killing an innocent 11-year-old. And just today, she was indicted on charges of manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and assault. Millions of women suffer from drug and alcohol abuse in this country. One fantastic group helps women recover from these destructive addictions. It`s called Friendly House. Joining me to talk about this growing epidemic is the president of the board of directors at Friendly House, Wendy Slavkin. Wendy, is it my imagination or are we seeing more drunk-driving moms?", "No. It`s not your imagination. In fact, there are statistics that show that from -- in the last seven or eight years, the percentage of women driving drunk has grown -- has increased to over 30 percent what it was before. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that women now are the bread winners. There`s more stress on them, more pressure to achieve and to be on top. But no, you are not -- that is definitely what`s going on here. But there are places that women can go to recover. And I think a lot of women don`t know this. That there are specific places that are just for them. Friendly House, which you mentioned, is one of them, which is one of the oldest houses for women, residential treatment programs for women, recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction in the United States, having been first started in 1951. Has two houses, one of which is on Normandy. That was our original house. That was built in about 1918. And we have another house that was given to us by the grace of William Shatner. That`s in the Castle Heights area.", "Well, you know, these -- I`m looking at these videos right now, and these are actually beautiful places. Some people are so afraid, women are so afraid of going into rehab. Look, it`s a great environment. And consider the alternative. Consider that, if you don`t do this, you could kill someone. In the case of drunk-driving mom Diane Schuler, her husband has insisted that she was not a drinker, despite the tests that show she was very drunk and she was high.", "I go to bed every night knowing, my heart is clear: she did not drink. She is not an alcoholic. Listen to all that. She is not an alcoholic, and my heart rests every night when I go to bed.", "Wendy, this guy may be in denial. Are there cases where wives and mothers are battling addiction in secret so that their husbands don`t even know?", "Well, absolutely. The disease of alcoholism and drug addiction is a disease of denial. So the fact that it would carry over to women that are moms or soccer moms is absolutely the way it is these days. We have women that come into Friendly House every day, whose husbands, whose boyfriends, whose loved ones had no clue what they were doing behind closed doors. They were -- they were closet alcoholics or closet drug users. We -- we see this all the time. And I think that it`s an epidemic in the sense that the percentage of women drinking and using is increasing, and they`re not getting the help that they need, because there`s so much shame attached to it, or they don`t want to tell their husbands until something like this happens where people are killed, people are injured. Then all of a sudden, oh, well, maybe they should have done something about it. So we`re here to offer women a safe place to go. We don`t turn anybody away for lack of pay.", "All right. Wendy, excellent advice. Listen to her. Get sober if you`re a drunk. Another sex scandal, next."], "speaker": ["VELEZ-MITCHELL", "WENDY SLAVKIN, PRESIDENT, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, FRIENDLY HOUSE", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DANIEL SCHULER, HUSBAND OF DRUNK-DRIVING MOM", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "SLAVKIN", "VELEZ-MITCHELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-54735", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-5-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/24/lad.04.html", "summary": "Bush and Putin Sign Major Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty", "utt": ["President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a major nuclear arms reduction treaty just about an hour ago in a ceremony seen live right here on CNN. But another nuclear issue also took focus in the news conference that followed the signing. CNN Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty is covering Mr. Bush's trip to Russia. Good morning, Jill.", "Good morning, Carol. Well, it was a dramatic setting, the Katherine Hall of the Kremlin and dramatic words coming from President George W. Bush. He called it a new era of relations, an historic and hopeful day. The two leaders as expected signed two agreements. One, an arms control agreement that cuts nuclear warheads by two-thirds over the next 10 years. They also signed another agreement, a broader one that deals with a broad strategic relationship between Russia and the United States. Then came the questions and answers. One question from a reporter to President Bush: Why in this new era of relations do you need 1,700 warheads filled pointing at each other? President Bush said, Well, you have to remember where we came from.", "Who knows what future presidents will say and how they react. If you have a nuclear arsenal, you want to make sure they work. And so, one reason that you keep weapons in storage apart from launchers is for quality control.", "So the real fireworks, however, came over another issue, and that is Iran. The United States claims and charges that Russia, by building a nuclear power plant in Iran, is actually helping their nuclear program. Now, President Bush just as when he was asked about that said that President Putin understands this issue, and that he, too, President Putin, worries about Iran. But when Mr. Putin answered that question, he turned the issue on its head.", "I'd like to point out that cooperation between Iran and Russia is not of a character which would undermine the process of nonproliferation. Our cooperation is exclusively as regards to the energy sector focused on the problems of economic nature.", "So President Putin also added that Russia has proof that actually some of this technology has come from the West. And he added, there are other countries that the world should be worrying about, and specifically he named Korea and Taiwan. So obviously, Carol, in the midst of all of this, and albeit an agreement, an important agreement on arms control, there are still some issues that separate the two sides.", "They seemed to be talking in circles quite a bit during their press conference today. Jill Dougherty reporting live from Moscow, thank you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN MOSCOW BUREAU CHIEF", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "DOUGHERTY", "PRES. VLADIMIR PUTIN, RUSSIA", "DOUGHERTY", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-271163", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2015-12-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/12/ndaysat.01.html", "summary": "First Freddie Gray Trial Coming to End.", "utt": ["Well, Baltimore is ramping up security precautions as the first of six Freddy Gray manslaughter trials nears an end here. The police commissioner even canceled leave next week for all officers and scheduled them to work 12 hour shifts to ensure that men and women on duty ahead of jury's - the jury's ruling on the fate of officer William Porter. CNN's Jean Casarez has the latest for us.", "The defense has rested and now on Monday jury instructions and closing arguments in the criminal trial of Baltimore police officer William Porter. Porter is one officer, one of six charged in the death of Freddy Gray. It all began on April 12th when Freddy Gray in West Baltimore was arrested and put into the police transport van. Defendant William Porter was an officer there that it was there that day and the heart and soul of the prosecutor's case are the six stops that that transport van made with Freddie Gray inside before it got to the police headquarters. Somewhere along the way, Freddie Gray suffered a catastrophic neck injury to his spinal cord. And it's the prosecution's theory that especially on stop number four when William Porter said to Freddy Gray, \"What's up?\", and Gray said either \"Help or help me up,\" and then the defendant asked him \"Do you need a medic?\" And Freddy Gray said yes. William Porter didn't call for a medic and did not put a seatbelt on to restrain Freddie Gray. Prosecutors say that is criminal negligence right there, and a reasonable police officer in the same position would have called for a medic and would have put a seatbelt on Freddie Gray. The defense is saying that Officer Porter knew Freddie Gray, knew him from the street and saw him almost every day and that Freddie Gray when he was arrested never wanted to go to jail and would say anything he could to get out of it. Jean Casarez, CNN, Baltimore, Maryland.", "We have with us CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson. Joey, good morning to you.", "Good morning, Victor.", "So, let talk about this final day of the defense's case. They put Captain Renault of the Baltimore Police Department on the stand - and he actually helped to write the department's policy. He says that, at least told the jury that transporting officer is responsible for people taken into custody, and Officer Porter was not the transporting officer. Does that absolve him of any responsibility here?", "Surprise, surprise, Victor. What happens commonly in cases is, defense attorneys in building their case often point fingers at others. And so, in this case you saw the defense point fingers at really two people. One of which you mentioned, was the driver. And of course, since the driver of the van is transporting the prisoner, it's his responsibility to do so, not mine. In addition to that, there was also pointing fingers at Sergeant White. He told a supervisor, I'm an officer. Once I do that it absolves me of responsibility. Unfortunately, though, it's not really that simple, because there is a collective responsibility shared by officers who are actually, you know, in charge of the custody and control of that particular inmate. So, it's a question of really what the jury buys in terms of facts of what Porter knew and when he knew it. Was Freddie Gray in dire medical condition, such that he needed to respond immediately, or as Porter and his team described it, it wasn't that serious and I did all I could do under those circumstances.", "The defense also put on the stand Porter's mother, a woman who described Porter as a grandson - so there was two women up his character witnesses. In this type of trial, what's the value, what's the impact of that testimony?", "Well, when you're talking about someone's reputation for peacefulness, someone's reputation for truthfulness and whether or not they are actually a good and quality person, then of course, character witnesses can be extremely important. Obviously, if it's the mother, you know, a mother, the problem is that there's an inherent bias, obviously, with the mother's testimony. I think what the prosecution was trying to do, Victor, is say to the other character witnesses, you know he's a good guy, you know him to be a good guy, he has a great reputation for peacefulness and truthfulness, all that you are right, but you never worked with him, did you? And so, what they were doing, of course, is saying, hey, at the end of the day you really don't know how he is as he walks that beat and what he did in this particular case.", "Relatively, quick proceedings here. Just a few days from each side here. How long do you expect or is there any indication of how long these deliberations will take after the closing argument and instructions to the jury?", "You know what, there's always a wild card. Because remember, in any case you have two professors in the courtroom, you have the prosecution saying, you know what, there are two issues here, and it's easy for you to decide. He should have gotten a medic and he should have known that Freddie Gray was in a terrible condition. He didn't do it. And he failed to seatbelt him. The defense, of course, had a lot to say about that he acted reasonably and he acted responsibly. And that's what a jury is going to have to conclude and who knows how long it will take them to make that final decision.", "We know going into this Christmas break that vacation time has been suspended for Baltimore police officers, potentially for any reaction after this jury deliberates and comes back with a verdict. Joey Jackson, always good to have you.", "A pleasure, Victor. Thank you.", "Coming up next hour -- look at this brawl breaking out. You're going to hear gunshot. One teen dies. Six others are injured and nobody was charged. Why a judge said go ahead and ....", "Plus, they've been chummy for months but now Donald Trump is launching his first attack against Ted Cruz. He questions his appeal to evangelical voters. Here have to be a heated showdown for what Donald Trump classifies, rather, as a two-man race, at least in Iowa. Plus, one of the hottest ticket items for Christmas this year. This hover board, as it's called, but it's on the wheels. It doesn't really hover. Everybody come down. It's also on a no-fly list. We'll tell you why."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLACKWELL", "JOEY JACKSON, CNN ANALYST", "BLACKWELL", "JACKSON", "BLACKWELL", "JACKSON", "BLACKWELL", "JACKSON", "BLACKWELL", "JACKSON", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-300026", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-12-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/07/cnr.09.html", "summary": "Trump Names Homeland Security Nominee.", "utt": ["How do you think it came to be him vs. some of the other names that had been floated for this position, Rudy Giuliani, Representative Michael McCaul?", "It's interesting. If I had to guess -- hard to get inside Donald Trump's mind, but that issue of the southern border, him talking about that in 2015, raising the concern about a need for greater security there, and this, of course, was one of Donald Trump's, continues to be one of Donald Trump's signature issues, although, from his perspective, more on the immigration issue than the terrorism issue. But that's one issue. Also, and in Donald Trump's public comments, here's another general's general, soldier's soldier. He's done his time. He has enormous respect and, crucially, respect of both parties, so a position, when you look forward to the approval process, when he's nominated and when Senate and House get their chance to vote, not someone that is likely to face a difficult confirmation process.", "All right, Jim Sciutto, thank you for that reporting. Joining me now, CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger, CNN senior Washington correspondent Jeff Zeleny, Lynn Sweet, the Washington bureau chief for \"The Chicago Sun-Times,\" and CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem. We're going to talk about this and many other Trump-related topics in just a moment, but, Juliette, let's start with this breaking news, the nomination of retired Marine General John Kelly to be homeland security secretary. I know you have said that longtime employees of Homeland Security Department are relieved over this pick. Why?", "This is a relief. Look, there is the issue that this is another general, another Marine, another white male. But putting that aside, the other names that were being floated were terrifying senior career members of the Department of Homeland Security, whether it was Giuliani, Kris Kobach. Those were men that were going to come in without a clear understanding of what the department does and for sort of ideological reasons. Look, the department does a lot of different things. And so I think having a general who understands the border, who he also understands disaster management because of Southern Command, is something that is important to the career staff. So there is a -- I mean, I would call it a sigh of relief at the Department of Homeland Security right now.", "And, Gloria, Kelly's son was killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2010. He is a Gold Star father. Could choosing this father, bereaved father, perhaps start to heel the rift from Trump's summertime clash with Khizr Khan, Ghazala Khan, that Muslim American family who also lost a son in combat?", "I think sure. It might. It depends if it's spoken about or not. I think that his larger qualifications are not only as were just stated, but also that he's somebody who's a known quantity to Congress, to people's -- to people in the Department of Homeland Security, although I must say, sort of to echo Jim Sciutto a little bit, there are questions being raised about the generals, the notion that the candidate who said he knows more than the generals is now appointing an awful lot of generals to keep policy positions. And that sort of pushes aside the notion of civilian control of the government. And I think that those are questions you're going to hear from Democrats. But, yes, absolutely, will it go some way to healing this rift? Hopefully, potentially, because there shouldn't have been one in the first place and we will see whether the general addresses it or whether Donald Trump addresses it.", "Let's turn to some other news coming out of Trump Tower today. Lynn, we know Donald Trump met with Chicago mayor, President Obama's first chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, and Emanuel delivered a letter today from more than a dozen mayors from all over the country basically urging Trump and trying to convince him to keep DACA in place, the dreamers act in place, allowing undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children with their parents who are undocumented immigrants to have still some kind of legal status that allows them go to college, to get jobs and so forth. What more are you learning about some of the buildup to this meeting?", "Well, we have learned that the seed of this meeting started a few weeks ago, when Trump and Rahm Emanuel talked over the phone. President-elect Trump told Rahm to drop by Trump Tower if he was ever in New York. And Rahm is in New York today. He's meeting with some bond houses. He's on an East Coast swing. He will also be in Washington later this week to deal with Chicago's financial crisis. So he dropped in Trump Tower. He had a few messages. One very strong one that he wanted out most publicly is the dreamer situation. He also said that he talked to Trump about how to organize a White House. Just as a quick aside, Mayor Emanuel has said that he will keep Chicago's sanctuary city status. Trump has said that he doesn't want to give any federal funds to any cities that have that. And a quick aside, all these mayors in the letters are Democrats, but we should be looking for Trump's softening his position and letting these dreamers stay, because that's what he's been saying as most recently in a new interview in \"TIME\" magazine.", "Softening his position and yet immigration being such a huge part of his campaign. Let's talk about \"TIME\" magazine. He was just named person of the year. Donald Trump gave an interview after he received the distinction. And Trump pointed out how much he actually likes President Obama. He values his opinion, a stark contrast obviously since Trump pushed the whole birther lie for years, Jeff. What are you thinking about this evolution?", "I think the charm offensive is under way by President Obama. He is eager to charm some visitors and Donald Trump is eager to be liked. So, I think that combination fuses at least into a public example of how they're getting along here. Now, look, they have many, many, many differences, the birther issue, of course, first among them. I would love to know if they have ever addressed that directly. I don't know the answer to that. I hope to find that out. But I think that, look, the president has one sort of top task here, and he has told all of his advisers in the West Wing to help the Trump administration wherever they can for a seamless transition of government here. And that starts at the top. It starts with him. So, of course he's eager to give him advice. And we also know from Donald Trump he is eager to take advice and often acts upon some of the final pieces of advice that he hears. So I think that there probably will be more conversations here. But the president clearly is trying to influence his successor here. We will see on the margins how much how possible that actually is here, and once he actually is sitting in the Oval Office, we will see how much they talk after that. But for at least right now, I think it's also a signal to some of his skeptics out there that he is trying to respect this president, and that's something that he's not shown much of in recent years.", "I want to show -- oh, go ahead, Gloria.", "No, I was just going to say, one of the issues the president might have actually had some impact on Donald Trump is the issue that Lynn just raised, which is dreamers. Donald Trump had pledged during the campaign that he was going to reverse the president's executive orders on immigration, one of them being about dreamers. And in the \"TIME\" magazine today, Donald Trump sort of waxed on about what a difficult thing that would be for those young people. And Rahm Emanuel came in today saying, look, you can't do this to these kids. They have given their addresses and their phone numbers to you. So that's going to be a huge thing for us all to watch as the new president is inaugurated to see just what he does.", "And to see the reaction of people who thought he said exactly what he meant.", "Right.", "Well, let me show you something, because I feel like it kind of speaks to the changing times. Look at these pictures if you have a monitor there in front of you. This is \"TIME\" magazine's covers over the course of this past year, from the meltdown to total meltdown to president-elect and now \"TIME\"'s person of the year. Jeff, when you look at that, it really speaks to sort of this narrative that has been changing and we're also seeing a change within the man at the center of all of this media attention. Let's show a portion of his rally from last night and just a change in tone that we're seeing here. Watch.", "This has been a great, great movement, the likes of which they have never seen before, the likes of which those folks back there that write the stories...", "No. No. No. I will tell you -- and they're saying it, that they have never seen anything like this before.", "Jeff, you were at that rally. Did that moment strike you?", "Well, certainly a lot of people in the crowds at all of these events are not pleased at the media. That's part of the shtick here that he's been building up for a year-and-a-half or so. But it did surprise me when he said, no, no, no, let's see if they will write the truth. But I think we have to watch a couple more rallies here.", "One rally where Donald Trump kind of calming the crowd I don't think changes the whole narrative of what he's been doing. But, look, I talked to a lot of voters, a lot of his supporters in the crowd last night. They're watching him very carefully. And I think that is much more interesting than talking about our reaction to this. It's their reaction to him. And some of them, frankly, are disappointed that he has not gone after his former rival in terms of lock her up. Those chants were still there last night. They're watching him very carefully here. So enough about the media, enough about how he was calming his crowd. Let's talk about their reaction to him and that of course is the question here, how his supporters will be watching him along the next four years. And he said a very true statement last night. He said the script going forward is not yet written. That is so true. He will be very -- he will be evolving in office and that's something that we're all watching very carefully.", "And yet, Gloria, it seems like he just can't let go. \"Saturday Night Live\" even suggested that, you know, it's going to end, it's going to end when he becomes president.", "Well, I think that may be one thing that he probably doesn't have much of a say in is the audience, if it keeps rating well, yes, it is going to do well. But I think this whole notion of which Donald Trump we are going to see emerge post-inauguration is what his supporters that Jeff is talking about are going to be watching. And they're going to be watching immigration because that was his signature issue. So what he does on the issue of dreamers and what he does on the other presidential executive action on immigration are going to be watched very closely. What he does in appointing in his secretary of state, Mitt Romney not a popular figure among his supporters, what he does on that appointment and how he explains it all to his voters, because I think more than anything else Trump sees him as a salesman. So even if he does something that angers his supporters, I wouldn't be surprised if he takes it right to them and says let me explain to why I did this. And then you can be mad at me if you want, but this is why I did this. And look at what else I'm doing for you. So this is season two. Season one got finished and now he's casting season two and we will have to see how it turns out and what the plot is.", "And, finally, Juliette, do you think all these generals are going to keep Trump in check?", "That's not my worry. He's the president and will be the president. My worry is Flynn. I think it's outrageous that Flynn is the national security adviser. Most people, Republican or Democrat, agree. So the good news of having competent, powerful Cabinet secretaries is that they're likely to essentially assert their authority over Flynn. And I would not be surprised if Flynn does not stick around for very long in this administration.", "We covered a lot of grown there. Gloria Borger, Jeff Zeleny, Lynn Sweet, Juliette Kayyem, thank you all for joining us. Up next, a CNN special report, the legacy of Barack Obama. How will the nation's first African-American president be remembered? Fareed Zakaria joins me live next. Plus, we are watching Capitol Hill, where Vice President Joe Biden is set to be honored on the Senate floor. We will take you there live when that happens. You're watching CNN. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["ANA CABRERA, CNN ANCHOR", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "JULIETTE KAYYEM, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "CABRERA", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "CABRERA", "LYNN SWEET, WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF, \"THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES\"", "CABRERA", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "BORGER", "SWEET", "BORGER", "CABRERA", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT-ELECT", "TRUMP", "CABRERA", "ZELENY", "ZELENY", "CABRERA", "BORGER", "CABRERA", "KAYYEM", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-155200", "program": "RICK'S LIST", "date": "2010-9-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/03/rlst.02.html", "summary": "Hamid Karzai's Brother Makes 'List U Don't Want 2 Be On'", "utt": ["Man, we've got some folks visiting with us right now, and they're going to watch us as we do -- you guys, raise your hand if you know about \"The List U Don't Want 2 Be On\" when you watch -- yes. See? Yes, I knew, you guys, I'd get a chuckle out of that. It seems to be one of the most favorite parts of the show. So let's do it on your behalf. Ready? All the time we hear politicians say that America sets the standard, that other countries look up to us and what we do. Well, guess what? It's true. So true, in fact, that we may now be a role model for even what we don't do so well. Time now for \"The List U Don't Want 2 Be On.\" This is Mahmood Karzai. He's the older brother of, you guessed it, Afghan President Hamid Karzai. You ready for this? He is asking you -- you out there -- give me a shot of these folks. Raise your hands, folks, out here in the audience. You ready? Go ahead. Raise your hands. Yes, you. He is asking you for a bailout. Another one. You heard that right. You see, Afghanistan's biggest bank is in trouble. And the top two executives, the largest shareholders of Kabul Bank, quit this week. They're accused of making hundreds of millions of dollars in shady loans to themselves and government insiders. Yes, allegations of corruption involving the government. The bank denies everything and the U.S. insists American taxpayers will not be propping up this bank as we've done with so many others. Here is what you need to know. The Kabul Bank is very important to Afghanistan. It handles paychecks for thousands of Afghan soldiers, police, public workers. But you say, I know, haven't we done enough for that country? And now Afghans are rushing to withdraw their money out of fears the bank is about to go under. Another problem. So Karzai's brother is telling a reporter that it would help if the U.S. could support the bank to the very last penny. Yes. Full disclosure, he is the third largest shareholder in the bank. Of course he wants that. So he's got a stake in this. Are you kidding me? The Afghan people are suffering at the hands of many people in power. We've seen the corruption. As for us, we're already giving our blood, our time, our billions of dollars. And now you want a bailout amid allegations that the bank ripped off its own people and has shown corruption through and through? Outrageous. We've done enough, most Americans would say, bailing out so many banks in this country. And it's why on this day Mahmood Karzai sits highest on \"The List U Don't Want 2 Be On.\" Wolf Blitzer is standing by now. He joins us to let us know what the heck is going on in \"THE SITUATION ROOM.\" And there's been -- I'll tell you, the last couple of days, we've just been brimming with breaking news, Wolf. What have you got coming on?", "Yes, a lot of news. But you know, Mahmood Karzai, what he says about that bank in Kabul, Rick?", "What does he say?", "He says it's too big to fail.", "Let's see. Where have I heard that before?", "Right.", "I'm not quite sure. Good God. All right.", "I don't think American taxpayers want to spend $100 million or $200 million bailing out that bank, especially after they bought all that real estate in Dubai that went down in value. That's obviously not going to happen.", "Well, no. And I think, too, when you look at this, it's very likely that this White House, this administration would let it happen, because they know that as soon as it does, guys like you are going to be talking about the story and the American people aren't going to -- and especially now with the midterms coming up. So what else you got? What's big today?", "Well, there's huge stories happening today. We're going to pick up where you're leaving off, this hurricane. We're going to watch that, obviously, Hurricane Earl, the earthquake in New Zealand, this plane crash, this 747, UPS crash in Dubai. We've got these horrible job numbers that keep coming up month after month after month. You look for some silver lining. There is a little silver lining, but it's still not good, 9.6 percent unemployment. We're going to speak to Mark Zandi, the economist. And guess what? More bad news. He says -- and he's an economic forecaster -- he says that 9.6 percent in the next few months is going to be above 10 percent, approaching 10.5 percent unemployment. So it's not very encouraging.", "Wolf Blitzer is coming up in \"THE SITUATION ROOM,\" and may I say that he looks very dapper today.", "Thank you.", "So this should be a very good newscast. Thanks, Wolf.", "Thank you.", "I love it when I get him to smile. As we move on, this woman's attacked by a stranger, her face horribly scarred. And now she is appealing for help. Find the person who threw acid on her. What a story. Remember when we let you hear what she had to say yesterday? This is a big update on this story, and it's coming up in just a little bit. Stay right there. This is RICK'S LIST."], "speaker": ["SANCHEZ", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "SANCHEZ", "BLITZER", "SANCHEZ", "BLITZER", "SANCHEZ", "BLITZER", "SANCHEZ", "BLITZER", "SANCHEZ", "BLITZER", "SANCHEZ", "BLITZER", "SANCHEZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-232912", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2014-06-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/19/lvab.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Decision on Iraq Pending; Obama to Take Podium After Meeting with National Security Team", "utt": ["Is the United States ready to take action in Iraq? President Obama is about to take to the podium as soon as he wraps up a meeting with top-level national security team members. Wait till you hear of the list of the people he is in a room with at this moment. We're going to take that live as it happens. And also this hour, two men living in the middle of Texas and accused of conspiring with Middle East terrorists, both under arrest this hour, preparing to face a federal magistrate. Who are they? What were they up to? And better question, why? Hello, everyone, I'm Ashleigh Banfield. It's Thursday, June 19th. And welcome to LEGAL VIEW. Combat troops, no. Special forces, well, that's a big maybe. A very big decision on the United States' involvement in the bloody upheaval in Iraq is expected to come this hour, just about 30 minutes from now in fact, from the president himself. CNN has learned that the Pentagon has drawn up plans to send as many as 100 special ops, green berets, Army rangers and/or Navy SEALs, all in the effort to help shut down the onslaught from ISIS in Iraq. ISIS, of course, the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, which has blasted its way from the Syrian border to the far outskirts of Baghdad, all in barely a week. The president is said to be meeting with his top-level national security team members as we speak. And, of course, we're going to bring you his public comments live at the bottom of the hour just as soon as he takes to the podium. In the meantime, I want to bring in my CNN colleague, Nic Robertson, in the Iraqi capital. We're also joined by CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr and White House correspondent Michelle Kosinski. And joining me here live in New York, CNN military analyst and retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona. He also worked for the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency. And also with me from Denver, Christopher Hill, the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, now the dean of the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. First to you, Barbara Starr. More on this plan, more on this idea from the Pentagon of 100 special ops potentially en route just as soon as the president gets a signature on the documents. What is the likelihood of that?", "Well, let's be clear, the president still has to -- we don't know if he's decided, but if there is a decision, it would still have to be made public. Let's try and sort this all out. What we do know is the Pentagon now is ready to send up to 100 special forces. That means green berets, Army rangers, Navy SEALs. Not the more covert type like Delta Force and SEAL Team 6. These are going to be, if it happens, small teams, 12-man teams of military advisers that will go to Iraq, and they will be placed, we are told, in Iraqi brigade headquarters around the country. They will advise Iraqi forces, but they will do more. They will help gather intelligence about what ISIS is up to, where it is, how it's moving, what weapons it has. I think it's safe to say this is one of the reasons we're not seeing airstrikes. The U.S. just simply does not have that fine granular intelligence to understand fully the ISIS picture. You look at the videos, the tape, the pictures, you see that ISIS moves around in vehicles, individuals with AK-47s and machine guns. Very difficult to target from the air. So the big question now, if this plan proceeds, if you start seeing military advisers around Iraq in brigade headquarters, does that mean ground forces? Are they ground forces? Are they in combat? Well, it's not like it's a maneuver force. It's not like it's an armored division or an infantry battalion -", "Sure.", "But these guys are special forces and they've -", "Yes, and they're in harm's way. If they're on the ground, Barbara, they are in harm's way. No matter what you call them, they're in the line of fire. You know, can you hold that thought for a second, because I want to go to the line of fire, to where Nic Robertson is standing by, live in Baghdad. Nic, there's some mixed messages, it might seem, if you're hearing it from your perspective and what the Iraqis are hearing. Number one, the Americans might be considering sending help. Number two, the Americans are also saying, we're not so crazy about your government and we really want to change. How is all this settling on the ground there?", "Well, that line about wanting to change the government is not settling well, as you can imagine. We had a statement from Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki's office saying they have not received an official statement from the United States saying that Nuri al Maliki should step down as a condition to providing troops or airstrikes or whatever. So there's a very strong pushback there. But talk to many of the politicians and quietly to diplomats here, they will tell you Maliki is a spent force. He's the one that created the sectarian tensions. His response to the current crisis has alienated any potential political partners. The question is, how do you get rid of him? It won't be the army. They support him. It won't be his own political party, even though they're the most popular, because they're not powerful enough. You have the politicians internally. They say it would have to be the religious leaders here. And, frankly, we're not seeing any hint of that coming at the moment, Ashleigh.", "So, again, the breaking news, I just want to remind our viewers if you're turning in, we're waiting for the president to take to the podium for a live address, fresh out of a meeting with his top- level security -- national security advisers. All of this on the news that somewhere around 100 special ops forces are, you know, drawn up at least and ready to go according to the Pentagon, if the president puts his signature to it, at an advisory and an intel-gathering capacity. Our Michelle Kosinski is live there at the White House. And, Michelle, I'm just getting this list of the people that the president is -- I'm assuming still in a meeting with. And it is -- and they don't get bigger or more important than this. The vice president, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the chief of staff, the national security adviser, the U.N. representative, America's U.N. representative, the director of national intelligence, the director of the CIA, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. I just hit half of them, Michelle. It sounds big. Is the announcement going to be bigger than just yes or no to the Pentagon's plan?", "Yes, this is a big deal. And when you look at that plan that Barbara Starr laid out, that would be or would seem to be at least a logical step to what has been discussed behind the scenes over the last several days. That, yes, we know publicly that airstrikes have been an option, but Department of Defense officials saying kind of out of the spotlight, well, we don't have the intelligence, we need that first, if that is to be an option. So this would not be a big surprise. But this is a big announcement. It is essentially U.S. boots on the ground if that's what comes to pass. But the White House keeps emphasizing they would not be in a combat role. So yes, this is a big deal, this meeting. It's been going on for about a half hour now. You could say, well, if this was not going to substantially change the footing of the U.S. role in Iraq at this point, why would the president be coming out at 12:30 and making an announcement?", "Sure.", "However, you know, you look at this meeting that he had with the four top congressional leaders yesterday. And when they came out, they said, well, actually, no, even though it had been speculated for days, this wasn't an opportunity for the president to lay out these specific options and to start to discuss them, pick them apart, start to make a decision. They said it was more an assessment, an update of how the president views the situation. Nancy Pelosi said it was informative and interesting. But they're saying there wasn't news there. There wasn't something along the lines of leading up to the brink of making a decision.", "So, Michelle --", "So could this be simply an update? That's what we're waiting to see.", "And a lot of people are going to really hinge (ph) much of what they hear on boots on the ground. And effectively what we're learning is that these special ops teams aren't just going to the green zone, they're not just going to Baghdad, that they would be placed in the headquarters of Iraqi military brigades all around the country gathering intel on ISIS and then advising the local forces as well. I want to bring in the former ambassador to Iraq, Christopher Hill. Ambassador Hill, I have to ask you - I think a lot of people listen to this. They are frustrated. They are annoyed. They are fatigued by everything they hear that has to do with Afghanistan and Iraq, quite frankly. And at the same time, they're saying no one's burning effigies of President Obama in Iraq right now. Why draw attention to Americans again?", "Well, I think the president and his advisors have looked very carefully at the situation. They seem to have concluded that there's not real scope for air operations, but they want to stabilize it. I mean, after all, we have this ISIS horde, in effect, coming in. They've used all kinds of sundry other people to move. And I think the potential for huge number of civilian casualties is very much there. And so I think, understandably, the president is looking around for some options. And he's settled on a fairly low-profile option, that is a few soldiers who presumably have a lot of experience in Iraq from before, working at the brigade level in the Iraqi army, which seems to be the real point of the spear there, and seeing if they can stabilize the situation. Of course, the other issue is the political issue, where Maliki has clearly had problems engaging the Sunni community, although I would say the Sunni community has clearly had problems engaging the fact that there's Shia rule in that country. So a lot of things going on, and I think the president has tried to thread a needle and it's not been easy.", "And that needle, for a lot of people, still I come back to it is, let them deal with their own needles and perhaps keep a better eye on who the victor is. When we come back after the break, I want to have Rick Francona weigh in on what's next then. Maybe it's 100 special ops now, but then what? What if they need help? Something called mission creep. We've been there before. We've seen it before. The president is about 20 minutes or so away from his big announcement. We are assuming it has to do with the proposal from the Pentagon to send these special forces. Will he? Won't he? And is there more to it? And our own Anderson Cooper is also standing by live in Baghdad. He's going to give us a special report in just a moment as well. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "BANFIELD", "STARR", "BANFIELD", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BANFIELD", "MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BANFIELD", "KOSINSKI", "BANFIELD", "KOSINSKI", "BANFIELD", "CHRISTOPHER HILL, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-279437", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2016-03-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/21/se.01.html", "summary": "The Final Five: Interview with Gov. John Kasich", "utt": ["And welcome back to our interviews with the final five candidates. Coming up, we're going to hear from Secretary Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Senator from Vermont. And you'll also going to hear from Donald Trump coming up in just a few minutes. Well, let's get some quick thoughts from our panel. So far, we've heard from Governor Kasich, we've also heard from Senator Cruz, Gloria.", "Well, I think neither these guys are getting out any time soon. And, you know, Kasich believes he's the most electable. Doesn't sound like Cruz actually wants to be on the ticket with Donald Trump when Wolf was talking to him ...", "Kasich either, doesn't he?", "No, Kasich -- well, and these things can change, you know, of course. But Cruz in particular seemed to be really belittling Donald Trump's grasp of foreign policy tremendously.", "It's interesting, John King, because Cruz is much more willing to go after Donald Trump than John Kasich is.", "Yes. Kasich has decided, I'm going to be the nice guy and I'm going to somehow try to parlay my Ohio win into more delegates. Tell me where he's going to win. They do hope when the schedule, his schedule is west this week, Arizona, which is winner take all, Trump is favored, he gets those, his path continues. But Utah could be the most important state whether Ted Cruz can get above 50 percent, he get about 50 percent, he get all those delegates. Kasich is waiting on Pennsylvania. He says only the plan on Wisconsin which is on the 5th's, a few weeks from now, right, to two weeks from Tuesday. Where is he going to win? I don't know. But, they all seem to hope, they all keep hoping for this moment and they're hoping this meeting of AIPAC, all of the candidates who set Senator Sanders a year, the pro-Israel group AIPAC. And I hope that there is this moment where someday people say, Donald Trump is not up to it. He's not ready for it.", "Hasn't happened yet?", "Hadn't happened yet.", "Nia?", "No, I mean, you look at our poll and for instance, 70 percent say, listen, Kasich should probably drop out of this race. And you also just look at the trajectory of Donald Trump, something in like 12 percent in June. He's at like 47 percent now and all along the way they've have this hope and dream and plan to -- that he would implode or that something would happen that the anti-Trump or never Trump movement would work and it never has.", "Right.", "Yeah. And I was actually at AIPAC this afternoon and there's no question John Kasich gave a very rousing speech. He had the entire place, which was tens of thousands of people on their feet applauding. He gave a speech really like I haven't been before and Donald Trump did as well. And the whole room was ...", "Donald Trump actually gave a speech.", "He gave his speech from a teleprompter. And the room just sort of didn't know what to do with it, because that was not the Donald Trump that they were used to seeing on their television for six months. But one thing I would say about what John Kasich said to you was about the fact that he believes, firmly believes that once he gets the convention floor, if there is no nominee that the delegates will turn around and look at the poll that you just showed that he is the most electable and that that's why he's going just buckle in and wait until it get to ...", "Coming up next, the Republican front-runner weighs in. Donald Trump joins us here in the CNN election center, that interview right after this quick break."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST", "COOPER", "BORGER", "COOPER", "JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "KING", "COOPER", "NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER", "COOPER", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "HENDERSON", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-74580", "program": "LIVE FROM THE HEADLINES", "date": "2003-7-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/31/se.15.html", "summary": "Interview with Senator Pat Roberts and Senator Evan Bayh", "utt": ["Paul Bremer, the man in charge of rebuilding Iraq, has repeatedly said it will take years to establish democracy there, until this morning.", "It is certainly not unrealistic to think that we could have elections by midyear 2004. And when a sovereign government is installed, the coalition authority will cede sovereignty to that Iraqi government and my job here will be over.", "Is this a major shift? And, if so, what is the cause behind it? I'm joined by any Senator Evan Bayh, a member of the Armed Services and Intelligence committees, and Senator Pat Roberts, the chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence. Welcome, gentlemen. Glad to have both of you with us tonight.", "Senator Roberts, I'm going to start with you this evening. Why do you think Mr. Bremer changed the timetable here? And is it realistic?", "Well, I'm not sure he had a timetable that you could really pinpoint on a several-year period. But we have made some progress in Iraq. Obviously, we're still suffering casualties. But we just had Dr. Kay and also General Dayton before the Intelligence Committee and the Armed Services Committee today. And they're predicting that, hopefully, they're making some real progress on finding the WMD. I don't think it's unreasonable to predict that it might be possible that, in the next year, they could hold a constitutional convention and we could see a lot more stability.", "Senator Bayh, there are members of your party tonight suggesting that this shortened timetable was announced publicly to silence some of the administration's critics. Do you subscribe to that?", "Paula, I don't. I think this is an inexact science and the date of the election is going to depend upon events over the course of the next year. If we're able to build up the Iraqis' several authorities to the point they can assume control in the country, well then, the sooner the better. But obviously, we don't want to do that prematurely and have anarchy come back. So regardless of when the election is, whether it's next summer or a little later than that, I think even when Paul Bremer is gone, as my colleague, Dick Lugar from Indiana has pointed out, we're going to be there for several years.", "Do you really have confidence that a government, Senator Bayh, when you say maybe next summer or after that could really become stable during that period of time?", "Well, Paula, I hate to tell you I don't know, but so much just depends on events. Are we able to apprehend Saddam? Do his diehards in the Baathist Party decide to throw in the towel? Do some of the foreigners that have come into the country to create havoc, are we able to eradicate them? What about the attitude of the Iranians? And many of these things, I think we're just not going to know. My best guess for you is things will gradually get better, and that perhaps by sometime next year we can turn over a large chunk of authority to the Iraqi. But again, it's inexact science, and the last thing we want to do, as desperately as we would all like to leave Iraq, is to pull out prematurely and have everything that we fought to accomplish go down the drain.", "On to the issue of now of weapons of mass destruction. Senator Roberts, you were quoted as saying that you never expected investigators to find a smoking gun, but you also said...", "I believe I said a smoking missile.", "Smoking missile.", "Right.", "Oh, I'm sorry we switched that on you. But let me ask you this. You also, if we have this correct, said that you suspect there will be some WMD surprises. What do you expect to happen?", "Well, basically, I'm quoting Dr. David Kay, who indicated that the surprise may be -- that there will be a surprise to the American people. We have the best and brightest as part of this Iraqi survey group. I think they're making progress. They have a better criteria now than they've ever had before by getting, really, some help from the Iraqis in determining where the weapons of mass destruction may be and the program that was devised and also Dr. Kay is moving very, very slowly, step by step, and so he says that the criteria have to be there, the evidence has to be there, and the physical evidence has to be there. He is quoted in the press in thinking that hopefully they can put that together in six months or less time. It was a very good hearing today. They were forthright. They were very candid and they were consulting with Congress, which is what they ought to be.", "And Senator Bayh, you were at the same hearing, I understand. How did you learn about how much closer the United States might be to finding weapons of mass destruction?", "Paula, we're making progress. And as much as we would like to find a barrel of the stuff tomorrow, I think it's just going to take a little while. You know, before the war there was a very strong case based upon circumstantial evidence. Now that's being fleshed out, little by little, in terms of more direct evidence. As the chairman mentioned, in terms of personal eyewitness accounts, document -- documents substantiating that. And then hopefully, physical evidence. So it's just going to take some time. But ultimately, I think that we're going to find that he did have a program in place and probably weapons as well.", "Senators Bayh and Senators Roberts, thank you so much for joining us tonight. It's nice to have some collegial members of Congress side by side from Capitol Hill.", "Good to be with you.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL BREMER, U.S. ADMINISTRATOR IN IRAQ", "ZAHN", "ZAHN", "SEN. PAT ROBERTS (R), KANSAS", "ZAHN", "SEN. EVAN BAYH (D), INDIANA", "ZAHN", "BAYH", "ZAHN", "ROBERTS", "ZAHN", "ROBERTS", "ZAHN", "ROBERTS", "ZAHN", "BAYH", "ZAHN", "ROBERTS", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "NPR-10959", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2019-04-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/04/13/713097755/in-algeria-and-sudan-protesters-reject-of-military-rule-in-regime-transitions", "title": "In Algeria And Sudan, Protesters Reject Military Rule In Regime Transitions", "summary": "NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Abderrahim Foukara, Al Jazeera's Washington, D.C. bureau chief, about the recent regime changes in Algeria and Sudan.", "utt": ["Over the course of just two weeks, two longtime autocratic rulers have been driven from power - Omar al-Bashir in Sudan and Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algeria. In both cases, the question now is, what comes next? And will these countries see full regime change or just more of the same? We wanted to take up that question with Abderrahim Foukara. He's the Washington, D.C., bureau chief of Al Jazeera, and he's with us in our studios now in Washington, D.C., to help us understand the regional picture.", "Abderrahim, thanks so much for joining us.", "Thank you, Michel.", "So how do you understand what's happening in the region right now?", "Well, I understand it as a continuation of what started happening way back in 2011. A lot of governments in the region thought that at some point after 2011, things started to go back to normal. But obviously, many of the reasons why we had the 2011 uprisings in the first place have not been solved. And obviously, everyone in the region, whether they are peoples or governments - they're watching to see where the region goes to from here in light of what's happening in Sudan and Algeria.", "And what do you think message the demonstrators are drawing from the events of 2011 - and also, what message you think the governing bodies are drawing from the events of 2011? Because, for example, in Sudan, the defense minister has said that a military council will rule for the next two years before any democratic elections are held. You know, it's hard to see that the protesters will find that acceptable. So I'm just wondering what you see. Like, what are both sides drawing from the sort of recent past about what the path forward should be?", "The protesters in Sudan - they say they've learned a lot from what happened way back in 2011. They've learned not to trust the military. They've learned to say that the military's role is basically to secure the border and to maintain stability - not to run the people's affairs. To what extent will the military in Sudan and the militaries throughout the region actually watching what's happening in Sudan will be convinced by that remains to be seen.", "Could you talk a little bit more about what the roots of this are? Because I think many people with even a cursory understanding of the region will know that these leaders have been in power for many, many years, that economic stagnation has been the rule, not the exception. So what are the sparks? Like, what is it that finally caused people to say, enough?", "Well, I mean, in the case of Sudan, the Sudanese, they've had two revolutions. They had one in the '60s, and they had one in the '80s. And in each one of those, obviously, the developments yielded a civilian government, but then the military took over. The protesters - they tried to avoid that same fate for a third time. Life is hard in Sudan, as it is in many other parts of the Middle East and Africa. Prices are high. Bread is not always easy to come by. Salaries are very low. There's a lot of unemployment. There's a youth bulge. Not many jobs are available. And add to that the issue of freedoms. A lot of people are in jail. A lot of people have been in jail in Sudan and other parts of the region.", "This spark, obviously, this time round was bread, higher - high bread prices. You know, the government was squeezed for funds - although its critics are saying there's a lot of corruption, that there's a lot of money that's been embezzled and stolen. But here we are. Now Bashir is gone. A military council has taken its place, and the Sudanese are trying to fumble the next step into their future.", "And what about in Algeria? What about with Bouteflika? I mean, he's been suffering health problems. He hasn't been visible. What is the spark there?", "There are similar reasons in terms of the hardships of daily life. And in the case of Algeria, the spark was that the former president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who to all intents and purposes - I mean, when you see him in - on TV, he's in a wheelchair. He doesn't always seem to be conscious. And yet, it was announced that he was going to run for a fifth term. Algerians took to the street to say no. We cannot have that. He must be just a puppet. There are other players behind him trying to manipulate the situation for their own advantage. That's how it started.", "In each of these cases, in Sudan and in Algeria, is there a sort of an opposition figure like we've seen in Venezuela, for example, where Juan Guaido has sort of - has become recognized as the face of the opposition - like, the preferred leader? Is that the case in either of these places?", "That has been a unique characteristic of all these revolutions throughout North Africa and the Middle East since 2011. They have not actually produced a particular figurehead, so to speak, to lead them. And maybe that was done by design because the people who have risen against their governments - they don't always trust the conventional opposition, and they often feel that it's in cahoots with the regime that they're trying to topple.", "But we have seen the downside of that in terms of these protesters needing somebody to rally around and, you know, make their word heard much more forcefully than it would have been otherwise. In the specific case of Sudan, that's also - definitely that has been the case of a lot of protests, a lot of protesters, but so far, we haven't seen one person who can take all these events and galvanize them to actually help push for change. And the opinion is different whether that's a good thing or or a bad thing. It depends who from the protesters you talk to.", "And so, finally, what is the U.S. role in all this? Or how has the U.S. responded? I mean, in recent years, you know, obviously, Sudan has been an international pariah because of its treatment of the - because of its conduct in Darfur, the military's conduct in Darfur. But the U.S. has been cooperating with Sudan on intelligence in recent years. So what's the U.S. role now? Or how is the U.S. responding?", "Well, the stakes for the U.S. in all these places are very high. They are higher in Sudan than they are in Algeria, for example. Algeria is much more tied to France and so on. In the case of Sudan, there's the issue of Darfur. There's the issue of relations between North Sudan and the young South Sudan. And, you know, the U.S. was very supportive of the independence of South Sudan.", "But there's also the issue of terrorism, and the U.S. is very invested in that. Sudan was under sanctions, but the U.S. did get to a point where it was working with Bashir very closely in combating terrorism. So it's obviously a very complex situation. Sudan is a central country to different regional groupings and central to a lot of issues that are of interest to various players, including the United States.", "That's Abderrahim Foukara. He is the bureau chief of news for Al Jazeera in Washington, D.C., and he was kind of to join us in our studios in Washington, D.C.", "Abderrahim, thanks so much for talking to us once again.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ABDERRAHIM FOUKARA", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ABDERRAHIM FOUKARA", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ABDERRAHIM FOUKARA", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ABDERRAHIM FOUKARA", "ABDERRAHIM FOUKARA", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ABDERRAHIM FOUKARA", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ABDERRAHIM FOUKARA", "ABDERRAHIM FOUKARA", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ABDERRAHIM FOUKARA", "ABDERRAHIM FOUKARA", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ABDERRAHIM FOUKARA"]}
{"id": "CNN-56994", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-7-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/05/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Reporter Discusses Fight for Holiday Box Office Receipts", "utt": ["Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are back in black.", "(sings \"I Will Survive\")", "Frank! Bring your head in this window before I roll it up in there.", "I liked Frank in the last movie too. \"Men in Black II\" is now in theaters, and the alien action is expected to top the $100 million mark by end of the holiday weekend. Joining us now with the more on what's hot and what's not in Hollywood, entertainment reporter Susan Campos. Good to see you.", "Good morning.", "All right, what's the word on \"Men in Black\"? I kind of expected this one was going to be a big one coming in. When you see the trailers and you see the effects, it's hard for this one to be a loser.", "It is so big, actually. On Wednesday, it did $19.2 million. So that indicates it will do, as you said, about $100 million. The last \"Men in Black\" was also opened on a five-day July Fourth weekend, and it did just under $80 million. So their audience is building. And it's such a fun movie.", "Is the story as good, though, because I have heard different reviews about that.", "You know, I just think it's fun. And I love the two of them together. So if you just going to have fun, it's good. A lot of, you know -- it has gotten a lot of bad reviews, but the audience is going.", "So this one you figure is going to be good all summer, or is it just going to be a big bang right now?", "I think that it will hold. I think it will have legs. Also, \"Mr. Deeds\" is doing well. It also did well on a Wednesday. It came in right after \"Men in Black.\"", "But you know what, Mr. Deeds is not like this one and \"Spider-Man,\" that came out earlier, with the comic book theme. What do you make of that?", "Well, I think Hollywood has always tapped into the comic books to get material: \"Batman,\" \"Men in Black,\" the upcoming \"The Hulk.\" But \"Spider-Man\" just created this frenzy. And companies, like Marvel, that publish these comic books, suddenly they have everybody calling them and saying, What do you have, I need something. But it doesn't mean just because it was successful comic book that suddenly it's going to be -- can I say \"success\" -- but basically, \"Howard the Duck\" did not do well, \"The Phantom.\"", "That one did kind of stank.", "Right. So it doesn't always work.", "You know what else doesn't happen with the comic books, though? You don't see any women, because the comic book heroes are pretty much all male characters. Does that mean this is going to be a summer with no women, basically, being at the top of the box office?", "The summer, basically, isn't for women in Hollywood. It's a time for action pictures. And that started with \"Jaws,\" back in the '70s. It just started with all this action, and all these roles go to men. And you hear women complain we can't get any good roles unless you're Julia Roberts. But Julia Roberts doesn't even have a big movie this summer. So the good news is, basically, you have \"Charlie's Angels,\" which they're making a sequel to. So women are breaking into action. And Cameron Diaz will get $20 million for \"Charlie's Angels 2,\" so she'll join Julia Roberts. And then you have Angelina Jolie for \"Tomb Raider II\". But other than that, you don't really have women in action films.", "You know what, though, in a way -- speaking only as a guy here...", "Oh, no. I don't know if I want to hear this.", "Speaking as a guy -- Daryn's already got her ears perked up -- that makes sense to me, because during the summertime, chick flicks probably wouldn't do very well, because...", "You're right. Because it's teenage boys.", "Yes.", "It's all -- and teenage boys drive the box office.", "You got it. And also, guys have other things to do in the summertime. If their girlfriend says, Come on, let's got watch this tearjerker, or let's go hit the beach, which one would you rather do?", "I know.", "In the wintertime, it's a different story because you can't really go out and do those kind of things.", "The fall is when you have a lot of chick flicks.", "OK.", "Yes, that's what they're called. And that's basically when you have them. Because a lot of movies that were actually going to come out in the summer, they moved when they saw all these big blockbusters, coming to say we can't compete.", "All right, how about kid flicks? There was another big one that came out: \"Powerpuff Girls.\" My daughter Laurin (ph) is at home -- Laurin (ph), if you're listening, get ready, here it comes.", "Is she dying to go?", "She loves the pink one. I don't even know what her name is. She loves the pink one.", "This is a very popular cartoon. And I thought this was great counterprogramming against \"Men in Black.\" I have to say Wednesday numbers looked a little bit weak, but that doesn't mean it won't do well, because I think Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, when everybody's off work, that's when maybe the parents will be bringing their kids to see this. But it should do well, and I think it's great counterprogramming against \"Men in Black.\"", "Yes. And the other thing too about it, it's a cartoon -- it couldn't have cost nearly as much as \"Men in Black\" to put together.", "Oh, no. \"Men in Black\"...", "Do you know how much it cost to make it?", "I don't know how much it cost, but that's why these big- budget sequels have to make over $100 million to make their money back, because you also, in addition to making the movie, you have advertising, which is half your budget as well.", "Yes. And speaking as a parent I can also say the kids rule the wallet, especially in the summertime. So even if it isn't that great a movie, the kids will go see it any way.", "Look at \"Scooby-Doo.\"", "Perfect case in point. I...", "I mean everybody said that that was a horrible movie, but the kids flock to see it.", "The kids love it, exactly. And there's always DVDs.", "Exactly.", "You wait till that thing hits the stores. Susan Campos, good to see you.", "Good to see you. Thank you.", "Nice to meet you finally face to face.", "I know. Thank you.", "You're just as cute as I thought you were too. 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{"id": "CNN-224566", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-2-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/08/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Suspected Militants Killed In Dagestan; U.S. Clinches First Olympic Gold Medal; Olympic Sponsors Back Equality For All", "utt": ["All right, we have much more straight ahead in the NEWSROOM and it all gets to restart right now. Hello again, everyone. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Here are the top stories that we're following in the CNN NEWSROOM. Russia carries out a deadly raid in the shadows of the Sochi Olympic Games. The crackdown in Dagestan straight ahead. And firing back, Woody Allen writes a column in \"The New York Times\" addressing allegations he sexually assaulted his adopted daughter. Hear his side of the story and his daughter's response straight ahead. Plus, key testimony is underway right now in a murder trial that has made headlines across the country. A Florida man kills a teenager after getting into a fight over loud music being played from the car. Was it self-defense? Our legal guys weigh in this hour. Russian forces aren't letting up on their intense security operations surrounding the Olympic Games. A Russian security source tells CNN Special Forces carried out a deadly raid in the Republic of Dagestan targeting a group of suspected militants. Our Ian Lee joins us now live from Sochi. So Ian, what more are you learning about this operation?", "Fredricka, five militants were killed in the operation and one person was captured. This is part of the militant group that was tied to the bombings that we saw last December in Volgograd where over 30 people were killed by suicide bombers there. And this just highlights the ongoing security operation around these Olympic Games. Here in Sochi, you're not hearing anything about these raids. Russian TV is all about the Olympics. There's somewhat of a media blackout going on, but the Russians are taking security serious and Dagestan isn't that far from where we are right here. The Russians do not want to see anything that happened in Volgograd happened here and thus, we're seeing these sorts of operations take place -- Fredricka.", "So, Ian, apparently, there is a lot of concern over you know cybersecurity. How athletes or even tourists might be protected against hackers. What more is being said about that or what at least is the strategy?", "Well, the U.S. State Department has said that when you come here to Russia, just expect that all your communications, whether it be phone calls, any Internet activity is going to be monitored by the Russian authorities. The Russian authorities have said, you know, this is something that is going to happen. They say that it's because of this ongoing threat of terrorism. That they want to make sure that these Olympic Games are secure. And just kind of give you the highlight of what they're monitoring. That is going on. Earlier, a Russian official has said they have videos clips from hotel rooms of people leaving the water on and destroying their rooms. This highlighted a lot of privacy concerns that the Russian officials were monitoring guests. They said it's not the case, but there is a lot of concern about privacy here at these games.", "All right, Ian Lee, thanks so much in Sochi. And some big news on the medal front, the U.S. actually won its first gold medal today. Sage Kotsenburg clinched first place in the snowboard men's slopestyle event. That is one of the new snowboarding events. He tweeted this, \"Wow, I just won the Olympics, bringing back the first gold here to the USA.\" And then this is what he told reporters later.", "It feels like a dream right now. Just winning a gold on the first day and the first event of slopestyle ever being in the Olympics is seriously the craziest thing ever. You know, like, I thought about it a little bit, but I never really, I don't know. I didn't really think it would happen.", "Well, here's a look at the medal count, where it all stands right now. We'll have of course more on all the Olympic events, the winner, losers and all the highlights later on this hour. Of course, you can always get complete results at CNN.com. All right, if you're someone who pays attention to commercials, then you definitely caught this one perhaps last night. So, this is the new ad for Chevrolet. The first to feature gay families during an Olympic broadcast according to GLAAD, this comes at a time when a fairly new Russian law banning gay propaganda has drawn international criticism. And Chevy isn't the only U.S. corporation sending a message of equality. Our Erin McPike has the story.", "Amid the spectacle of the opening ceremonies, the United States sent a message to Vladimir Putin that Russia's antigay propaganda law is wrong. In the U.S. delegation, two prominent former and openly gay Olympians, figure skater, Brian Boitano and hockey player, Kaitlin Cahow. President Obama drove the point home on", "We wanted to make very clear that we do not abide by discrimination in any forms, including on the base of sexual orientation. One of the wonderful things about the Olympics is that you were judged by your merit.", "Around the world, activists are demanding that big corporate Olympic sponsors go further than the general support for LGBT rights they've expressed so far and specifically condemn the Russian law. And they're pressuring NBC to cover the controversy. (on camera): Groups like the Human Rights Campaign are keeping a close watch on the network during the two week event and ramping up the pressure on the game's sponsors.", "I think Coca-Cola and McDonald's, several of the IOC corporate partners have been leaders in the movement here in the U.S., but they've been silent when it comes to defending LGBT rights in Russia.", "They're praising AT&T; for calling the Russian law, quote, \"Harmful to LGBT individuals and families and it's harmful to a diverse society. They point to Google, which changed its home page to a rainbow theme and posted the Olympic charter, calling for every individuals to have the possibility of practicing sport without discrimination of any kind. Madonna and other celebrities have spoken out. Back state side in Washington, gay rights groups are holding fundraisers to keep the momentum alive for their counterparts in Russia.", "All we're worried about is when the lights are out in Sochi and the athletes go home, it will be a terrible time for LGBT people in Russia.", "And we reached out to both McDonald's and Coca-Cola, and both of these corporations provided statements to us saying that value diversity and they do not condone discrimination of any kind, but they didn't go so far as to specifically condemn that Russian antigay propaganda law that stirred up really so much controversy, but I would say that gay rights groups have viewed this as a big opportunity over the next two weeks to really push their message -- Fred.", "All right, Erin McPike, thanks so much in Washington. Joy and relief in a New York courtroom, after more than two decades in prison, we'll tell you what a set of convicted murders, what set them free and what they're feeling. 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{"id": "CNN-294105", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2016-09-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/15/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "Trump Promises 25 Million Jobs and 4 Percent Economic Growth", "utt": ["Donald Trump speaking today at the Economic Club of New York claiming his proposals will boost the nation's economy to an annual growth rate of 4 percent and create 25 million new jobs over the next decade. Here to discuss, Andre Bauer, he's a Trump supporter, who's a former lieutenant governor of South Carolina, and William Cohen, the contributing editor at \"Vanity Fair\" and the author of the \"Price of Silence,\" he joins me via Skype this evening. Thank you, gentlemen. So let's go through and talk about this. Here is -- he gave his economic speech. Donald Trump, a major economic speech today. He is promising 25 million new jobs, massive tax cuts, as I said. Listen in, and we'll discuss.", "We're a nation that came to the West, dug out the Panama Canal and won two world wars and put a man on the moon. It's time to start thinking big once again. That's why I believe it's time to establish a national goal of reaching 4 percent economic growth.", "And my great economists don't want me to say this, but I think we can do better than that. Now they're upset. They'll be very upset, but I think we can do and maybe substantially better than that. In working with my economic team, we put together a plan that puts us on track to achieve that goal. Over the next 10 years our economic team estimates that under our plan the economy will average 3.5 percent growth and create a total of 25 million new jobs.", "OK. So, William, he's promising to do the -- you know, the tax cuts and all this major growth, without touching entitlements. Is that realistic?", "Don, you're talking about a guy who supposed to be graduated first from his class in Wharton who is supposedly a billionaire. His economic plan is somewhere in fantasy land. This is completely unrealistic in every aspect of it. You're not going to have growth substantially in excess of 4 percent.", "OK.", "You're not going to create 25 million jobs. I mean, I hate to be pessimistic. But you're not going to do those things. This is a trickle down, Republican, Reagan-esque plan. We've seen that these types of things don't work. He's cutting taxes for everyone. He's shrinking the deficits.", "OK.", "He's doing everything under the sun and it's not going to work.", "All right. I want to get Andre in. Andre, do you think that these policies will actually produce these results?", "Well, we saw how bad they were for the Reagan years. You know, you're talking about a young guy that walked into New York City and at 27 years old he said, I'm going to change the skyline in New York, and people scoffed. They laughed. You can either pick somebody -- you know, this is a big election. You can pick somebody --", "But specifically these policies, Andre. And most specifically, do you think the policies that he proposed today --", "Sure.", "Do you think that it's going to -- that he can do that? Will they work?", "This is what -- as a business person, I'm a business person. Today I spent all the day working on my taxes, because being the deadline again. He's talking about cutting taxes. That creates job. People like me invest more. Reducing regulations. I've got a project held up right now, stopping through my project because the Army Corps of Engineer is stopping my project over one letter, stopping jobs, stopping building. He talked about unleashing American energy. Again things like Keystone Pipeline that we fought over for years. He's talking about tapping into that energy. Well, we don't buy energy in foreign soil. We do it right here and we create jobs. Scrapping job-killing trade deals. What he's talking about is getting us out of the ditch. And if these won't do it, I don't know what will, but this is what business people come up with. You can get these lifelong politicians -- I hope he starts talking about term limits, kicking the bums out of Washington as well, because stale ideas will not fix these problems we've had for decades.", "OK. William, do you agree with his assessment? He said, you know, basically saying it's bureaucracy in part.", "Well, you know, that is one thing I do agree with him. We are an overregulated economy. That there's too much bureaucracy. We need smart regulations, not ridiculous regulations. But look, if you're -- you know, Donald Trump likes to claim he's not a politician but he's acting just like a politician. He is promising all of these pie-in- the-sky things, economic policies, he's making people feel like he's going to deliver on these things and there's just no way that you can -- the math just doesn't add up.", "And so --", "You cannot create 25 million new jobs. You cannot grow this economy 4.5 percent, cutting taxes and cutting the revenue of the federal government so that these deficits are going to be huge and it's not going to balance even though he claims it is.", "The other -- the other thing that he's promising --", "He's not going to deliver on.", "Andre, the other thing he's promising is that he's going to put miners and steelworkers back to work. I mean, that is a pretty big task when a lot of the jobs just don't exist anymore. How is he going to do that?", "Well, Don, I would reference right in Myrtle Beach where they're shutting another coal-burning plant down because of this current administration's regulations. They shut down a plant that had been there I believe since the '30s but that plant is now being shut down and disassembled that's creating jobs temporarily. He -- look, he unleashed a bold plan. I want a leader with a bold vision. I'm not looking for somebody that can tell me how they've done it for the last 40 years in Washington. I want a business person --", "But is he going to do it this time, was the question. How is he going to do that, how is he going to bring back those jobs that may no longer exist?", "Well, right off the bat, Don. I don't think anybody can argue that there are trillions of dollars with American companies sitting offshore. He said flat out. You bring that money back to the United States of America, flat 10 percent tax to repatriate that money. Who would argue with that? That's trillions of dollars coming back into our shores to invest in new jobs and new factories and new opportunities not only for the 10 percent we get in tax revenue, but the other 90 percent that goes into the states to create new opportunities.", "All right. I've got to run. Thank you, Andre. Thank you, William. I appreciate it. Coming up, Hillary Clinton has a strong response to the Trump campaign's statement that President Barack Obama was born in this country."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "TRUMP", "TRUMP", "LEMON", "WILLIAM COHEN, AUTHOR, \"THE PRICE OF SILENCE\"", "LEMON", "COHEN", "LEMON", "COHEN", "LEMON", "ANDRE BAUER, TRUMP SUPPORTER", "LEMON", "BAUER", "LEMON", "BAUER", "LEMON", "COHEN", "LEMON", "COHEN", "LEMON", "COHEN", "LEMON", "BAUER", "LEMON", "BAUER", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "NPR-3218", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2010-12-24", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2010/12/24/132311758/Tallying-Americas-Tweeters", "title": "Tallying America's Tweeters—The Feathered Ones", "summary": "Every year, volunteers throughout the Americas grab their notepads and binoculars to take an inventory of local birds for the National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count. Greg Butcher, Audubon's director of bird conservation, talks about this year's tallies and species to look for.", "utt": ["This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow.", "It is the most wonderful time of the year, and to that I mean when birders all over America get out their binoculars and their notebooks and their warm clothing to talk up all the birds they see for Audubon's annual Christmas bird count.", "And then we always like to check in on the count at this time of the year to see how the purple finches, the red-breasted nuthatches and all their pals are doing.", "And we want to hear what you've seen too. Spotted anything good, or maybe you're a little bit mystified by something you saw fluttering through the trees? Maybe we can help you figure it out. Give us a call. Our number is 1-800-989-8255, 1-800-989-TALK. You can always tweet us @scifri, @-S-C-I-F-R-I.", "Joining us now is Greg Butcher, director of bird conservation for the National Audubon Society in Washington. Welcome back.", "Thanks a lot. Hi, Ira, how are you doing?", "Hey, how the bird watch going?", "Oh, it's going great. You must have been doing your homework because red-breasted nuthatches and purple finches are the big news in the East this fall.", "No kidding?", "Yeah.", "Wow, tell me about that.", "Well, those are eruptive species. So some winters we don't see any, and some winters we see a bunch. So this is a relatively good year for both those species.", "Any guess why that is?", "Well, these are birds that sometimes they winter in Canada, if there's a good enough food supply for them. But this year there doesn't seem to be enough seats to keep them all happy in Canada, so they come visit us in the states.", "Now, the bird count isn't really a complete census, is it?", "Well, no. If you think of a complete census, like they did - the Bureau of the Census just did for the country, we don't try to count every bird. It's really just a sample of what's out there every year.", "And it goes on all over the country, correct?", "Oh, my goodness, we have more than 2,000 places every year where we count birds, all across the U.S., southern Canada, and most of the Western Hemisphere.", "Is it too late to get in on this?", "Oh, not at all. We go till January 5th. So you can actually go on our website. If you Google Christmas bird count and you can find a location near you. We've got a location finder.", "And so what kind of results have you gotten so far this year?", "Well, the results are we've had some record counts. So it's interesting. Even though where I am in Washington, D.C., it's pretty chilly, it's kind of concentrating the birds. So we've seen some record numbers.", "Wow, and in any part of the country where you're seeing more than others?", "Well, basically it's good all across the country, and every state kind of has its own special birds this year.", "Now, you were just down on a count in Ecuador, right? Tell us about that.", "Oh, I was on a birder's dream. I couldn't believe it.", "I went to the number one Christmas bird count in the world. So I got to go to Mindo, Ecuador, and I was within inches of the equator, in the Andes Mountains and in the place where they see more birds on Christmas bird counts than any other place.", "Wow. Let's go to the phones, to Darcy(ph) in Kansas City. Hi, Darcy.", "Hi, I'm in Kansas City, Kansas. How are you doing, Ira?", "Fine.", "I love your program.", "Everything's up to date today, right?", "Something like that.", "Yeah.", "I put out birdfeeders every winter because I like to see little birds come and get what they need to survive over the season. And, oh, I've seen flickers, a tufted-headed titmouse, various(ph) sparrows, male and female downy woodpeckers. But I've also seen a golden flicker. He's come back.", "A golden flicker(ph).", "Yes.", "What does it look like besides being golden? Is it a big bird, small bird?", "Okay, it's a smaller - it's a little bit bigger than a woodpecker. They have a butter-yellow breast, and the back is kind of tannish gray. And the males have a little orange-reddish cap.", "Greg, what do you think of her golden slicker(ph)?", "Oh, it's a great bird. It actually is a type of woodpecker, and they often will feed on the ground. And it's one of the few birds in North America that will eat ants. And they will come in to birdfeeders.", "I put up (technical difficulties) for my woodpeckers, and I've got a regular seed feeder.", "Yup, and the flickers will often come to that suet. So it's a great bird you have. The normal name people use for it is Northern flicker, but in the East they have what they call yellow shafts, and in the West they have red shafts. So what they're seeing in Kansas City is one of the eastern kinds of flickers.", "Thanks for the call. Let's go to Rachel(ph) in Huntsville, Alabama. Hi, Rachel.", "Hi.", "Hi there.", "We saw seagulls, a flock of seagulls, in Huntsville, Alabama.", "Wow, they're a little far from home.", "Yes, they are. I just wanted to know what you made of that.", "Ornithologists don't tend to call them seagulls because you can see them anywhere in the country. And what you've probably got in Huntsville, Alabama is ring-billed gulls, because those are the species that like the inland areas more than, say, heron gull or a great black-backed gull, which is more likely to stick close to the sea.", "All right, there you have it, Rachel.", "Okay, thank you so much.", "Have a happy, healthy New Year and Merry Christmas.", "Thank you.", "Greg, have you noticed with the count any species that used to be very common that people are just not finding anymore?", "Well, unfortunately, there's quite a few of those. And one of the strangest things happened in the East United States, is in the 1980s we had huge flocks of evening grosbeaks, and now there's almost no flocks of evening grosbeaks, and they're a beautiful yellow and black bird and we used to complain about them every year because they'd come in big numbers and eat up all our sunflower seeds, and now we're complaining because they don't come anymore.", "Wow, that's too bad. Let's go to Jennifer(ph) in, well, I think we'll go to Jennifer in Lansing, Michigan. Hi, Jennifer.", "Hi.", "Hi there.", "Well, I've participated in our local Christmas count for, ooh, probably close to 30 years now. I do the same section with a friend of mine every year.", "This year, we found that the numbers were actually down overall, except for crows. I was there at sun-up when the flock of crows came out of the woods, and there had to be, oh, probably 4,000-plus.", "Wow, that's a lot.", "Yeah.", "I'm thinking of \"The Birds,\" that movie.", "Well, especially in Michigan. You know, 20 years ago, they didn't have that many crows in Michigan, but that's one of the species that's been wintering farther north over the last 20, 30 years.", "Yeah, when I was a kid, crows were pretty uncommon.", "Thanks for that report, Jennifer.", "You're welcome.", "Let's see if we can get one more quick one in from Phil(ph) in Fort Lauderdale. Hi, Phil.", "Yes. I was wanting to report a change in behavior in rather large water birds. I live on a lake where I see white herons (unintelligible) and we see them feeding in the waters and canals frequently. But lately I've noticed them moving into urban areas, where hedgerows and shrubs and bushes - and they seem to stalking some of our small, gnolly lizards.", "And I've even observed one, you know, catching them. So in an urban area, these large birds seem to be adapting their feeding habits, much like the little cattle egrets, which are a pasture bird, have done the same thing.", "Huh, what do you think of that?", "Well, that is a first for me because I was thinking, as he was telling the story, that it probably was a cattle egret, because we've seen them do that. They're called cattle egrets, of course, because they follow behind cows and kick up whatever insects or lizards or whatever follow the cows.", "And so as the listener said, they came into the urban areas first and started taking advantage of whatever food we had in that area. And we know the great blue heron, you know, will eat almost anything too. So I guess it's not too surprising if a great egret might do so as well.", "All right, thanks for the call. Greg, I've got a couple of minutes left. You said your number one birding goal is to see male birds of paradise displaying at a breeding. Like, why is that number one for you?", "Well, I think the male birds of paradise are sort of the pinnacle of evolution. They're big birds. They have gorgeous colors on them. And then they have real strange long tails or wild feathers. And they can create some of the strangest postures you've ever seen.", "So I've been able to see them on David Attenborough's nature shows, but I want to see them out in the wild. And they display to the females in a group. And so they make wild calls and these wild displays.", "And when I was down in Mindo, I saw these little miniature birds of paradise. They're called - oh, and they're (unintelligible) as well.", "And where would you see, if you wanted to go see these birds of paradise, where would the best shot at seeing them be?", "Well, the birds of paradise are in New Guinea, primarily.", "A-ha.", "And then the little birds I saw in Mindo were manikins, and they're little tiny birds, and they're not related to birds of paradise, but they also do wild displays (unintelligible). So I got a little mini version of it this winter already.", "I got a quick tweet from UrsulaV(ph), who says: The best bird this year was a yellow-billed cuckoo. Pittsboro, North Carolina.", "Now, that is a very unusual bird in the United States. They breed across the East United States, and some out West as well, but they're almost all gone in the wintertime. So it's a very unusual species to be staying put.", "Wow. So we can still use our backyard birdseed feeders to watch for birds too, could we not?", "Oh, it's a great time for feeding birds because the cold and the snow really brings them into the birdfeeders, and just unbelievable surprises can come into feeders.", "A lot of people are feeding hummingbirds in the wintertime, and now along the Gulf of Mexico a number of these hummingbirds are wintering where they used to just stop off on migration.", "That's one of my great unsolved mysteries, how to get a hummingbird into my birdfeeder. And I've tried for many years, but...", "Well, keep at it.", "I've grown all the plants - that's another story. We haven't got time for that.", "It'll work.", "Thanks, Greg.", "Good talking to you, Ira.", "Good luck to you. 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{"id": "CNN-375415", "program": "S.E. CUPP UNFILTERED", "date": "2019-07-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/20/SECU.01.html", "summary": "\"New York Times\" Columnist To Dems: The Revolution Can Wait", "utt": ["Trump was mad at a lot of folks this week, including New York Times Columnist Thomas Friedman. Why not? Friedman published a piece titled, Trump's Going to Get Re-elected, Isn't He? This was his thesis. Dear Democrats, this is not complicated. Just nominate a decent, sane person, one committed to reunifying the country and creating more good jobs, a person who can gain the support of the independents, moderate Republicans and suburban women who abandoned Donald Trump in the midterms, and thus swing the House of Representatives -- swung the House of Representatives to the Democrats and could do the same for the presidency. But, please, spare me the revolution. It can wait. So should Democrats listen to him? Well, joining me now to discuss are former senior aide to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, Joel Payne, and former RNC Communications Director, Doug Heye. Joel, I have been saying this for months, maybe even a year. Democrats pushing unpopular policies like decriminalizing the border and abolishing private health insurance are going to get Trump re- elected.", "Everyone, just take a breath, breath. These are primaries. Primaries are for contrast. They're for inner party squabbles like this. There's nothing wrong with having a robust discussion about healthcare, about Medicare for all versus extending Obamacare.", "Correct me if I'm wrong. Every person on the stage raised their hand to say they would decriminalize the border.", "Yes. Listen, these are things the party will sort out here. By the way, I got to say, I disagree with Tom Friedman a little bit when saying that a Democratic nominee should focus just on moderates and pulling from swing voters. Yes, that's important. They also have to energize their base. That's probably the reason why Hillary Clinton lost three years ago, is because not enough people turned out in a standard, you know, expected Democratic stronghold. So that's also a part of it. So the energy is also very important.", "Doug, can Democrats get out of their own way.", "No. And this is --", "Joel is not worried. Are you?", "This is what we've seen so long, and it's not just the Democrats who are running for president. They also have a problem called the squad, which pulls them and the conversation further to the left on everything. But I'll tell you, the day after the second debate, I bumped into a friend at lunch who works for one of Trump's super PACs and said, we won re-election last night. I think that's overstating things.", "Yes, of course.", "But they had a very good reason to feel good about Trump's prospects because of eliminating private insurance and the raising of hands for decriminalizing the border. And, ultimately --", "Historically great economy, he has 45 percent approval rating. I am not concerned.", "You should be concerned. Because the further they go to -- the further conversation is where Donald Trump wants it to be, the more problem Democrats are. So if the nominee is Elizabeth Warren and she says --", "Let's be clear, this is a bad for Donald Trump.", "It was a bad week for Donald Trump. He's had a lot of bad weeks, but he can still win. And as long as the conversation is where Donald Trump wants it to be, meaning if he is against Elizabeth Warren, and she says, here is my 12-point plan for revitalizing and restructuring the American economy and Donald Trump says, hey, that's great, but I am going to save your plastic straws. Donald Trump wins all that conversation.", "I mean, to his point, Elizabeth Warren, she has got a lot of plans. She's not the only one. A lot of the Democrats running for president want to talk about policy. You saw what happened to the news cycle. It was hijacked by Donald Trump this week. It was awful. But I think, for him, fairly successful. He is not talking about policy. He is energizing the cultural energy in his base.", "Well, was this a good week? I don't think it is a good week. Also, there is this idea that Donald Trump is a master strategist. He is not. This was all accidental. This -- yes, I'm sure his campaign can spin this in to something positive for them. But this is not a winning week. It's not a winning issue. He tried it 2018 with the caravan. It didn't work. I don't think it's going to work this time around either.", "A Republican Jamaican immigrant from Queens is challenging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez next year. On Twitter, Sherrie Murray wrote, I was hopeful when AOC won. She took on a Democratic political machine and won but nothing has changed since. Why, because she's only been focused on fame and politics of division and hate. We deserve and expected better. That's why I am running. Your thoughts?", "I'm not concerned or whatsoever for AOC's standpoint. The only thing I will be concerned about for AOC if someone is challenging her from the middle. She's not going to get outflanked on her -- on -- you know, obviously, on her left, and she's not going to have to worry about a general election challenge from this woman. What she probably should worry about is being overexposed, because most members of Congress in their first one or two terms are probably concerned about being seen as a national voice and not worrying about local issues.", "Yes, they keep their heads down, right.", "So that's the only thing I'd be worried about. But she's very popular. I'm sure she reflects her district. AOC has got", "A very popular district, but she's also fairly divisive. And Trump is all too happy to make her the face of the party.", "He is. But for her purposes in getting re-elected or for the other members of the squad, the more Donald Trump makes them the face of the opposition, the more safe they are in their own re-elects. If they are coming from far-left districts or, you know, Democrat plus six districts or, you know, whatever those numbers may be, that helps them in their re-elect, because they are enemy number one for Donald Trump, and that's a good thing for Democrats.", "Well, a number of House Democrats complained to CNN unanimously this week for a report that they thought the squad was distracting and distracting from policy and conversations about policy. We'll see if any of the squad members hear that. Take that to heart. We'll see. Joel, Doug, thanks so much for coming here. I appreciate it. 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{"id": "CNN-348203", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-08-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/21/cnr.20.html", "summary": "President Trump Rattled by Latest Mueller Move; Trump Tells Reuters He Is Worried About Perjury Trap; Trump's Evolution Worries Old Guard", "utt": ["The pope finally speaks out, a full week after a report that 300 predator priests had prayed on children at Catholic churches and Pennsylvania. Plus, the U.S. has nicknamed the Mueller probe a witch hunt and now says he could run investigation if he wanted to, just the latest on Donald Trump's attacks on the special counsel. And later, the lucky few, some families torn apart by the Korean War are reunited for a few hours of joy. Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from around the world. I'm Rosemary Church, and this is CNN Newsroom. The pope's message on the churches sex abuse crisis is unprecedented, but some survivors groups say it's just not enough. In his letter to all Catholics, the pope admitted with shame and repentance, the church's failure to take action against clerics abusing minors. His message follows last week's grand jury report in Pennsylvania. The report detailed decades of alleged abuse by predator priests. Barbie Nadeau joins us now from Rome with the latest on this. And Barbie, there has be a lot of criticism over the time it's taken the pope to respond to this grand jury report, and to too many words and too little action?", "That's right, Rosemary. I think the victims groups especially wanted to see something a little bit more concrete coming from the pope on this, He does speak about trying to get rid of that culture that provides opportunities for bishops and cardinals to move around, those predator priests. He's talked, you know, getting rid of the culture or stopping the culture that allows the abuse to happen in the first place, but he doesn't talk about how he is going to do that. One of the things that victims groups have been demanding is that the Vatican here in Rome and that the various diocese across the world open up their secret archives, because they've got complaints they say from the parishioners throughout the years, and that is something the victims really want, and that's something the pope failed to mention, Rosemary.", "And we know that in the United States, about 2800 Catholics have signed an online petition to call on the pope to get the resignations of the bishops here in America. How likely is it that he would even consider that?", "Well, you know, in the past, this pope has accepted resignations, we saw in Chile, we've seen in other places but he hasn't demanded resignations, and I think those victims groups would really like to see a strong action like that for the pope to say listen, you cardinals you bishops who were complicit in the cover up need to step down now, instead of waiting for them to do the right thing and resign. And that's may be a small talking point, but it would mean a lot to the victims, Rosemary.", "Does the pope himself in his letter, he mentioned the need to change the culture within the Catholic Church, but he didn't say exactly how that might be done, could we expect to hear more from him on this topic? His visit of course to Ireland won't make this go away?", "That's right, and you know, I think he is really looking at trying to defuse some of the scandal of the situation in the United States before he goes to Ireland, because he has a whole set, different set of problems to face there within the Irish Catholic Church, which has its own problems. And you know, for the pope to lay out some sort of new plan, and how the church is run, seems very, very unlikely at this point. This is not what this visit is about, and it's really not how this pope does business. He has a group of cardinals he considers his closest allies, and no doubt that's where that kind of direction would come from, that they would come up with a plan, a new set of protocols, a new set of rules in order to try to stop this cover- up, try to stop the secrecy, and try to allow some transparency. Rosemary?", "Barbie Nadeau bringing us up to date on the story from Rome, where it's just after nine in the morning, thank you so much. Well, years of allegations on the church's inaction have shaken churchgoers, as well as abuse survivors' faith. Shaun Dougherty's abuse by a priest in Pennsylvania began when he was just 10 years old. He says his faith was based on his parents believes.", "My faith was more I would say a hope, I was taught, I went through theology classes so I was certainly taught the gospel. I certainly went to church every Sunday with my very devout Catholic family. However, mine is more of a hope. I just I really can't wrap my head around how not only how people question that I question my faith. I question that the church leaders question the faith, how can these men possibly believe that they are going to stand in judgment of God one day? I find it hard to believe sometimes, you know, so I struggle with something that is question constantly in my life.", "And later in this half hour, we will hear from Father Thomas Reese, of the religion news service on the calls for punishment for the bishops who covered up the abuse. We turn to U.S. politics now. Donald Trump says he would consider lifting U.S. sanctions on Russia if they did something that would be good for us. It's just one of several headlines from an Oval Office interview with Reuters News Agency. The U.S. president says so far, he has decided to stay out of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the U.S. election, but Mr. Trump says he could run the investigation if he wants. CNN spoke with Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason about that interview.", "He talked about the probe, he said again that it was a witch hunt, in fact, he interrupted us when we started the question, to be clear that that's how he viewed it. But his, I mean, this quote is getting a lot of attention, with good reason, but he actually the run-up to that quote as he said he was staying out of it, and that it was better if he did. So it's interesting, he was making it clear that he viewed it as a decision, and that he made the decision to stay out, but it wasn't the only option that he had.", "And joining me now is CNN legal analyst and criminal defense attorney, Page Pate. Always good to see you. PAGE PATE, CNN LEGAL ANALYST Thank you.", "Now we learned from President trump's exclusive Reuters interview that he is worried he could be caught in a perjury trap if he agrees for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller, a concern that his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has raised many times. Why would he be concerned about being caught in a lie if he just tells the truth?", "Well, it does seem simple. That I think every lawyer would advise their client not to sit down for an interview like this, if there is even the possibility that someone ether in your administration or in your campaign, who has already been interviewed by the investigators may have said something different. Now it's not easy to prove perjury in federal court. You don't just have to show that the person made a misstatement or said something incorrect, but that they intended to lie and then have that lie and pay the investigation in some way. So while perjury is difficult to prove it's always the safest course for the lawyer to say hey, don't go in there and submit to the interview unless you absolutely have to do it. So, I know Giuliani said the truth isn't the truth, and of course it is, but you can have very different versions of a particular meeting or a phone call, and if the president is not going to be prosecuted for collusion, and the big concern is obstruction, I think it is smart legal strategy not to agree to an interview.", "Right. And the president did not say whether he would agree to an interview with Robert Mueller, and of course, it doesn't sound like his legal team wants him to do it, how likely is it that Mr. Trump will ever sit down and answer Mueller's questions?", "I don't think he is going to do it, Rosemary, and I've been saying that for a while. I mean, not only do we see his lawyers advising him not to do it, but we see Trump in the media and on Twitter criticizing the investigation, trying to undercut the credibility of Robert Mueller and the other people on the special counsel's team, so that he'll have cover. At the end of the day, when he says look, there was nothing to see here. The whole thing was a witch hunt, why would I submit to additional questions, when we have been so cooperative? We provided documents. They've talked to my White House counsel for 30 plus hours. So I think he is been building a defense for himself to say at the end of the day, he does not want to sit down for an interview.", "Right. And Mr. Trump has accused Mueller and his team of being biased, but he declined in this exclusive interview to say whether he would stripped Mueller of his security clearance, as he did with former CIA director John Brennan and as he has threatened to do others. What would happen if he did go ahead and strip Mueller of his security clearance, does he have the power to do that?", "He has the power to do it, yes, just as he has the power to fire the FBI director. The issue in this entire investigation is he using that power in an inappropriate way? In other words, does he have a corrupt intent? And that's the heart of an obstruction case. So if now he is trying to do something to impede Mueller's investigation, or something to retaliate against Mueller, even proactively, that could be construed as obstruction. So, I think doing that presents more jeopardy than simply letting the investigation continue and draw to a conclusion at some point.", "Right. We'll see what happens there. And of course, both Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen are in legal jeopardy. What impact will their legal parts likely have on the president going forward?", "Well, we'll see, and perhaps sooner or rather than later. I mean, Paul Manafort's jury is still deliberating the case, there is always the possibility that if Manafort is convicted, there can be an attempt for him to cooperate and provide information to the special counsel even after the trial. Now that's very unusual. But this is not the only trial that Paul Manafort faces, he has another trial here in D.C. coming up almost as soon as the one in Virginia is over with. So there's more exposure for Manafort, he still has the opportunity perhaps to cut a deal and testify. The same for Michael Cohen, who may very well be charged later this month with financial crimes that relate primarily to his private business, but the government I believe is also interested in the time he spent with the Trump campaign. And so, if he has information there that he can use to perhaps help himself, lower his potential sentence, he may very well try to strike a deal and testify, or at least cooperate against the president.", "Page Pate, always great to have your legal analysis. We appreciate it here at CNN. Thank you.", "Thank you, Rosemary.", "Well, source say the president is privately rattled about what his White House counsel, Don McGahn, may have told Robert Mueller's investigators. CNN's Kaitlan Collins has the latest.", "President Trump rattled after learning that White House counsel Don McGahn spoke with investigators from the special counsel's office for more than 30 hours, but never provided a full readout of what he told them. Trump attempted to downplay the revelation on Twitter, noting that he approved the sit down, as he had lashed out at Robert Mueller for questioning McGahn for so long. Writing, \"Anybody meeting that much time when they know there is no Russian collusion, is just someone looking for trouble.\" Sources tell CNN Trump wasn't aware of just how long McGahn's interviews lasted until the New York Times published a report this weekend detailing his extensive cooperation. While publicly blaming Mueller, Trump privately complaining to allies that the report made him look weak. McGahn is at the center of several incidents Mueller is examining, including Trump's attempt to fire the special counsel last summer. Trump has often blurred the line on what McGahn's role is, believing at times that he is representing him, when really he is representing the presidency. Asked today if the meeting were a mistake, McGahn staying silent.", "Mr. McGahn, was it a mistake to have you speak without limits to special counsel Mueller?", "The president's agitation growing after the legal team is scrambling to figure out what McGahn said, since he has never asked for a full debrief. Rudy Giuliani admitting he is relying on what Trump's former attorney John Dowd told him.", "I'll use his words rather than mine, that McGahn was a strong witness for the president, so I don't need to know much more about that.", "But Dowd resigned from the legal team five months ago. Chris Christie blasting the decision to allow McGahn to sit down with the special counsel voluntarily.", "This shows what a C-level legal team the president had at the beginning, in Ty Cobb and John Dowd, once you waive that privilege, you turn over those documents, Don McGahn has no choice then but to go in and answer everything. Every question they can ask him. And this is not in the presidents interests.", "With all the news about McGahn, the White House is attempting to portray the relationship between President Trump and Don McGahn as ironclad, but President Trump himself dictating a statement that Sarah Sanders issued that the two of them have a great working relationship. In reality, it's been much more tortured than that going back between when the president complaining about Don McGahn, and the two of them going months without speaking to each other one-on-one, and weeks without speaking to each other at all, so the president complementing McGahn and liking the work that he is done with the courts. But the bottom line is this is the White House struggling to get on top of the message, that even President Trump himself doesn't know all the details of. Kaitlan Collins, CNN, the White House.", "Well, Microsoft says it has foiled a hacking attempt by Russian military intelligence targeting the U.S. Senate and conservative think tanks. The company says a group known as Fancy Bear was behind the attack, that's the same group that hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016. Microsoft president Brad Smith said this in a statement, \"Attackers want their attacks to look as realistic as possible, and they therefore create web sites and URLs that look like sites their targeted victims would expect to receive e-mails from or visit. The site is involved in last week's order fit this description.\" Well, as the world waits to see whether the Taliban will agree to a holiday ceasefire, we are getting reports of an attack in the Afghan capital. We'll have details on that on the other side of the break. Plus, it is the meeting of a lifetime, emotional Korean reunions are happening now, but only for a lucky few. The head of the U.N. would like to see that change. We're live in Seoul after the break."], "speaker": ["ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN HOST", "BARBIE NADEAU, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHURCH", "NADEAU", "CHURCH", "NADEAU", "CHURCH", "SHAUN DOUGHERTY, ABUSE SURVIVOR", "CHURCH", "JEFF MASON, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, REUTERS", "CHURCH", "CHURCH", "PATE", "CHURCH", "PATE", "CHURCH", "PATE", "CHURCH", "PATE", "CHURCH", "PATE", "CHURCH", "KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COLLINS", "RUDY GIULIANI, PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ATTORNEY", "COLLINS", "FORMER GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), NEW JERSEY", "COLLINS", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-165693", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2011-5-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/04/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Did Waterboarding Help Catch bin Laden?; Left Behind in Bin Laden's Compound; Bin Laden's Escape Plan?; No Release of Osama bin Laden Photos; U.S. Demands Answers From Pakistan; Afghans Mourn Osama bin Laden's Death", "utt": ["The White House says the U.S. Navy SEALs who raided bin Laden's compound had the authority to kill him unless, unless he offered to surrender. CNN has new details to suggest bin Laden may have thought he could get away, if and when he was finally tracked down. Lisa Sylvester is joining us now. She's looking into this part of the story. And you're coming up, I should say, with some fascinating details.", "That's right, Wolf. You know, Osama bin Laden and those closest to him, they made sure that they covered their tracks. They had high privacy walls, they even made a point of burning their trash. But bin Laden also seems to have had a contingency plan, cash and contacts on him at all times.", "Sewn into Osama bin Laden's clothing, we're told, was 500 euros, roughly the equivalent of $745 in cash. He also had two telephone numbers on him. This, according to a congressional source who attended to classified briefing. Clearly signs that he was prepared to make a quick getaway. It might not seem like a lot of cash, but former CIA operations officer and current Heritage senior fellow Peter Brookes says it would have been enough to use for bribes and transportation.", "In that part of the world, that's a significant amount of money. It's very interesting that it was euros and not dollars. But foreign currencies can be traded for much more off and on the black market. But that amount of money, between $750 and a thousand dollars probably would have gone very far.", "Bin Laden was able to avoid capture for almost 10 years. Representative Luis Gutierrez, who is on the House Intelligence Committee, says bin Laden kept an extraordinarily low profile. He didn't have a lot of security at the compound and he may have been counting on key Pakistani sources to tip him off if U.S. forces were closing in.", "So if he was expecting someone in the intelligence services, which could be -- you could figure he must have had some friends there to inform him. Guess what, since we didn't tell them, they couldn't tell him. We did it the right thing, we did the smart thing. We got Osama bin Laden.", "The two phone numbers also allegedly sewn into bin Laden's clothing could now be valuable clues, along with a treasure trove of other information found at the compound, computers, hard drives, and documents.", "Extremely important and it might not just be the leaders within the al Qaeda organization within Pakistan or parts of Afghanistan. There's a strong possibility that it can be to some other franchises, places -- maybe places in Yemen and north Africa.", "Now, the fact that Osama bin Laden had this cash on hand suggests that he thought he would have had some time to get away, he had a plan and that he would have been receiving some outside help. Representative Gutierrez says the U.S. government should now press the Pakistani government to try to root out any individuals who might be secretly working with the al Qaeda network, Wolf.", "And the clock is ticking because this information can move very, very quickly and some of the bad guys out there can take steps to prevent them being captured or go ahead with some sort of terror plot. Lisa, thanks very much. Let's dig a little bit deeper now on the cash and the contacts, the other evidence found on bin Laden's body. We're joined by CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank. What does this say to you, that he had 500 euros or about $750 stashed in his clothing?", "It sounds like, Wolf, this is enough cash, perhaps, to get to a second safe house. And it shows that bin Laden wanted to carry on living, to carry on providing strategic direction to the al Qaeda organization.", "These two phone numbers that he had sewn into his clothing, I'm sure whoever is the recipient of that number, they probably disappeared because they are scared out of their minds right now, but what does that say to you?", "It's unclear who do these phone numbers belong to. Are they fellow members of al Qaeda? Are they people within Pakistan, a support network over there, Wolf? And this, of course, brings up the whole question of Pakistan's involvement in all of this.", "Well, what does it say to you, Pakistan's involvement or lack of involvement? Were they, as Leon Panetta has said, incompetent or were they part of the problem?", "Well I was on the phone just recently with the former head of German intelligence and he said to me that from his perspective, it was almost impossible that elements of the ISI did not know where bin Laden was, given he was killed in a settled area of Pakistan. And this former director of German intelligence also said to me that he thought that probably the head of the ISI would also have know where bin Laden was. This is, obviously, some startling analysis here, Wolf.", "If in fact that is true, where does that leave the U.S. right now and European allies and others? Pakistan, remember, they have a nuclear arsenal, probably at least a hundred nuclear bombs. What do you do? You walk away from Pakistan, you forget about this? What do you do?", "That leaves the United States really between a rock and a hard place, because it's obviously and key alliance in terms of counterterrorism. Westerners are still going to the tribal areas of Pakistan, they're training with al Qaeda and they're trying to launch attacks back in the West. We saw just last week a plot broken up by al Qaeda against Germany. We saw the Pakistani Taliban in the last two days threatening to have revenge for bin Laden's death by launching an attack in the United States. So there's a still big terrorism problem coming out of Pakistan and the United States really needs the cooperation of the Pakistanis. So it's very, very difficult navigating this, Wolf.", "Will the Pakistani intelligence services allow the U.S. either to have access to those who have been detained and are being interrogated, individuals who were at the bin Laden compound? Will they provide the information to the U.S.? Can the U.S. trust any information the Pakistanis may provide? These are tough questions, Paul.", "These are very tough questions. And this former director of German intelligence said that relations between his agency and the ISI, really, they broke down a lot. They were very, very frustrated with the cooperation they were getting from the ISI. And I think for the Americans, the feelings in private behind closed doors are much the same right now, Wolf.", "Paul Cruickshank, thanks very much. The war on terror which led to the killing of bin Laden has been a massive campaign of global resources for the United States. Bin Laden was located 3,493 days after the war in Afghanistan began back in October, 2001. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost the United States $1.3 trillion and counting. Some estimate, by the way, it's much larger than that. Certainly as far as the overall impact on the U.S. economy, at least double. Some say triple. It involved help from 60 countries, although the United States certainly carried almost all -- most of the burden, I should say. More than 7,200 U.S. and coalition troops have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some members of Congress think the president made a mistake today by refusing to release photos of Osama bin Laden's body. It's a source of heated discussion right now. And the question many Americans are asking, did Pakistani officials know about bin Laden's hideout? Did they help him in any way? The latest thinking on whether Pakistan was involved or incompetent. Much more on this part of the story coming up."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SYLVESTER (voice-over)", "PETER BROOKES, FORMER ASST. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "SYLVESTER", "REP. LUIS GUTIERREZ (D), ILLINOIS", "SYLVESTER", "MARCO VINCENZINO, GLOBAL STRATEGIES", "SYLVESTER", "BLITZER", "PAUL CRUICKSHANK, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST", "BLITZER", "CRUICKSHANK", "BLITZER", "CRUICKSHANK", "BLITZER", "CRUICKSHANK", "BLITZER", "CRUICKSHANK", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-12000", "program": "Your Health", "date": "2000-7-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/15/yh.00.html", "summary": "AIDS in Africa: A Continent in Crisis", "utt": ["Today on a special edition of YOUR HEALTH, AIDS in Africa, a continent in crisis. Scientists from around the globe meet in South Africa to discuss the world's fastest-growing epidemic. One new weapon in the battle, the first trial of an AIDS vaccine. But it's too little, too late.", "What I find really devastating is the fact that (inaudible) is a special child who -- his (ph) dreams won't be realized.", "It's estimated that one in four sub-Saharan Africans will die of AIDS, and experts say it's creating a generation of orphans and wiping out another generation of workers. We'll look at the search for answers, from transmission, to new drugs, to what it all means for the rest of the world. I'm Eileen O'Connor. Welcome to this special edition of YOUR HEALTH. The 13th International AIDS Conference was held in Durban, South Africa, this week. We're at the King Edward's Hospital. With one in four infected in this region, this is the epicenter of a pandemic experts say must be stopped.", "No, no, no more...", "In an emotional televised opening ceremony, South African President Thabo Mbeki defended his questioning of the source of AIDS, saying for Africa the answer lies not simply with the HIV virus.", "The world's biggest killer and the greatest cause of ill health and suffering across the globe is given the code Z-59-5. It is extreme poverty.", "Twenty-four and a half million adults and children are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in sub-Saharan Africa. It is estimated that one in four here will die of the disease, now the leading cause of death. Over 2 million died in the last year alone. Experts say that AIDS is wiping out an entire generation, affecting the workforce, killing trained doctors, teachers, engineers, leaving orphans who cannot afford to go to school or who cannot find someone to educate them.", "There will be for the first time more people in their 60s and 70s than people in their 30s and 40s.", "Worsening already dire economic conditions. Three billion dollars is what experts say is needed worldwide just for prevention. That doesn't even take into account the tens of billions more that are necessary in Africa to build the infrastructures required to deliver the necessary treatments -- investments American officials say are in everyone's interest.", "Anyone who thinks that AIDS in Africa can be restricted to that continent alone is living in a dream world. You can't (inaudible) -- you can't build a Berlin Wall around a single continent and keep a disease on -- inside it.", "Still, some health officials here say the president's attempt to focus attention on poverty's contribution to the spread of AIDS may have backfired in his own country.", "In my training session (ph), people, people have thrown the condoms in the bin (ph). They seem to be not interested in your HIV awareness messages.", "AIDS experts here say it is up to African leaders like Mbeki to match word with action, shifting resources away from building armies and into building clinics, and speaking out frankly on social customs in these male-dominated societies that are also fueling the spread of AIDS. But AIDS activists also accuse the developed world, particularly the pharmaceutical companies, of not doing enough.", "The infrastructure argument is bull (expletive).", "Infrastructure, yes, is important as (inaudible). Thank you.", "Manufacturers of AIDS drugs and their supporters came under attack despite announcements that Merck Pharmaceutical and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will jointly send $100 million to fight AIDS in Botswana, a country where nearly one in two are infected with HIV, the virus that causes", "This is a complex problem, and we're all trying to do something constructive to improve access.", "Abbott Pharmaceuticals announced they too would spend millions helping orphans in Tanzania. Even with that and an agreement to lower the cost of antiretroviral AIDS drugs, AIDS activists accuse Western companies of not doing enough.", "At what point in time will the industry agree to provide antiretrovirals to those countries and programs that request them at the marginal costs of actual costs of actual production?", "But this is a country where many don't have access to clinics, the means to get the drugs regularly, and treatments for side effects. In addition, the numbers of infected are estimates based on those who actually do get tested, which is a minority. That is why health officials here say even free drugs would not be a cure-all.", "You need to invest in, an estimation has been made of a figure of about 15 billion rand between now and the next 10 years to actually make sure that you can build our infrastructure.", "That's $7 billion in South Africa alone. Yet other experts say that is not an excuse to deny these drugs to those they can reach.", "We need to figure out how to get those drugs more widely available, at the same time making sure that the infrastructure is there to be able to provide access safely and effectively.", "And that takes political will and resources, both of which have been lacking here and in the developed world. But AIDS experts say it will take joint action to battle this crisis. Coming up, a promising new vaccine from an unlikely source. Stay with us.", "Experts here say the way to end this pandemic is through prevention, and they heard some good news on that front. A new vaccine is set to begin phase I clinical trials, a vaccine with promise.", "I believe I slept with men who have slept with my colleagues who died.", "That makes Simon a unique gift to science, to doctors trying to develop a vaccine for", "I think there are about 80 to 100 of them that -- who we observe that were resistant to HIV infection.", "Dr. Omu Anzale is director of a clinic in Nairobi studying HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. For some prostitutes here, their initial exposure to HIV had not infected them but protected them.", "What it did is to prime the immune system in producing the part of the immune system we call T-cells.", "It's those T-cells that fight HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Usually the body doesn't recognize the virus quickly enough to produce enough of the T-cells needed for an effective defense. Knowing that a little HIV exposure could produce T-cells meant a vaccine, usually a mutation of the virus, could be effective.", "Our hope is that once somebody has been given the vaccine, they will respond vigorously by producing the T-cells.", "Vaccines created by studying these prostitutes may also become vital in treating HIV. A lab in Italy has developed a vaccine worn in a patch which joins a mutation of the virus with another virus that the immune system recognizes and responds to. The goal is to teach the body's own natural defenses to hunt down the HIV virus and kill it itself.", "And after you vaccinate these patients, we are hoping that they develop this immune response and they can stop antiretroviral treatment and control HIV in the absence of therapy.", "Government officials say they would put to use even a vaccine that was 40 percent effective. With all those currently in trials, one could be in use within five to seven years.", "At that point we will know which of those seem to have an effect, and therefore we can make improvements from those to create our final vaccine.", "Health workers caution you only have to look at history to know a vaccine is not a quick fix.", "The problem with vaccines is they may make people feel too safe and engage again in risky behavior like unprotected sex. In addition, it's important to remember, it was over 100 years from the creation of the smallpox vaccine until that disease was eradicated. Here in South Africa, it's estimated that nearly half of the p under the age of 20, some 8 million, will die of AIDS before they reach the age of 35. Many of them have children. Up ahead in YOUR HEALTH, we'll take a look at a place that's trying to create home and family for the orphans of AIDS. Stay with us.", "Welcome back to YOUR HEALTH. I'm medical correspondent Holly Firfer with this week's YOUR HEALTH headlines. Researchers gathering at this week's World Alzheimer's Congress are reporting two key developments in the fight against the disease affecting some 12 million people in the United States. Scientists say initial studies suggest an experimental vaccine designed to fight the disease appears to be safe in humans. In earlier studies in mice, the vaccine halted and in some cases reversed the plaque buildup associated with Alzheimer's. Researchers also believe they're close to a consensus on exactly what causes the disease and how it progresses. Debate has centered over which comes first, the characteristic brain plaques or tangles. Most scientists believe the amyloid plaque forms first, followed by the tangles, leading to brain cell death and the patient's gradual loss of the ability to think and remember. And those are this week's YOUR HEALTH headlines.", "Coming up on YOUR HEALTH, new ways to prevent transmission of the HIV virus from mother to child. But first, this week's YOUR HEALTH quiz.", "One of the tragedies here in Africa is how many pregnant women are infected with the HIV virus. Doctors are trying to come up with ways to prevent them from passing on the virus to their newborns. But social stigma, tradition, and economics stand in the way.", "How's your baby?", "She's doing fine.", "She's doing well.", "Busisiwe Zlulu is 15 years old and a first-time mother. She's also HIV-positive.", "How did that make you feel?", "I feel (inaudible) bad.", "Zlulu says she only had sex once with an 18-year-old man who ran away as soon as he heard she was pregnant, before she could tell him that she and he were carrying the virus that causes", "I didn't think that he has HIV-positive.", "Why?", "Just -- he looked normally to me.", "Yet she is one of the lucky ones. Access to clean water enables her to bottle feed Nadzu (ph). That and doses of AZT means Zlulu's daughter may escape her mother's death sentence and remain free of the disease. (on camera): South African officials here at this AIDS conference say they are prepared to widen the use of drugs like AZT, especially Naveripine (ph). Studies show just two doses of that drug, one given to the mother at the onset of labor and one to the baby immediately after, can cut mother-to-child transmission rates in half. (voice-over): Dr. Glenda Gray, director of the clinic here in Soweto, says until now, she has had to enroll these young women in clinical trials just to access the medications. Because these drugs were never that expensive, she believes the South African government could have made this move earlier but didn't, sending this message to the mothers she treats.", "I don't think that I value your life enough to give you a drug that costs four years' (ph) dollars, that costs 24 rand. You're not important to me, and I rather let your child die of", "It's a feeling 15-year-old Busisiwe Zlulu knows all too well.", "If you're HIV positive, no one wants you, no one treats you the way they (inaudible). It's like they hate you.", "Dr. Gray says Zlulu is special because, unlike many here, she is willing to talk about her disease in the hope that by breaking the silence, she can prevent others from suffering her fate.", "What I find really devastating is the fact that (inaudible) is a special child who you -- his (ph) dreams won't be realized.", "Dreams that included watching her own child grow.", "Too often here, babies like Nadzu are left alone, orphans. But some lucky ones have found a haven, and sometimes a family.", "Many of them come as abandoned infants in hospitals, so many have never had a mother or don't know a mother or never had a home.", "Father Angelo D'Agostino founded Nembani after seeing how HIV-positive infants were left untreated at local orphanages. As the need grew, so did Nembani, from a small rented house with three children to a larger property designed around 10 family-style units, each with an assigned mother. For the 70 children they now take in, this is all the family they know.", "When the parents die, the relatives don't want them around.", "By their ninth month, three out of four HIV-positive babies turn negative, losing their mother's antibodies. Disease free, some, like Sarah (ph), are adopted. Others are not so lucky. Rose Gashere (ph) was just 9 when she died of AIDS. Found on the streets at age 4, she spent three years in a juvenile detention home before the Sisters of Charity took her in, malnourished and HIV-positive. Because AIDS drugs cost $300 a month per child, only those Father D'Agostino can find sponsors for receive the medication. Rose was not one of the lucky ones. He and others in Africa welcome the Clinton administration's promise not to prosecute drug makers or buyers of cheaper generic AIDS drugs for breaking the intellectual property rights of the U.S. drug companies that developed them. Having buried 16 before Rose, Father D'Agostino cannot help feeling frustrated knowing a faster way would be for U.S. companies to simply price the drugs more cheaply themselves.", "It makes me furious and ashamed of being an American, really, to know that this is mainly American companies that are so greedy that they're withholding the medicine they could bring on to prolong these children's lives.", "Prolong them long enough to answer his prayers for a cure.", "That wraps up this special edition of YOUR HEALTH. If you'd like to know more about AIDS and this 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, click on our Web site at cnn.com/health. It's produced in conjunction with WebMD. From the entire CNN health team, I'm Eileen O'Connor. 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{"id": "CNN-369108", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2019-05-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/08/cg.03.html", "summary": "House Prepares For Contempt Vote; School Shooting Rocks Colorado; White House Exerts Broad Executive Privilege Over Mueller Report.", "utt": ["He declined to speak to reporters moments ago as he left the White House for Florida. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Thank you for being with me today. \"THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER\" starts now.", "President Trump asserts executive privilege to block further release of the very report that he claims clears him of all wrongdoing. THE LEAD starts right now. President Trump blocking Congress from getting the full Mueller report, unredacted and all, as this hour Democratic lawmakers get set to hold Attorney General Barr in contempt of Congress for not turning it over. It's a widening partisan chasm that could lead to a true constitutional crisis. Then, another week, another deadly school shooting, and another student killed when he rushed the shooter to stop the carnage. This is the reality of classrooms in America today. This hour, the parents of the young hero who sacrificed to save lives. Plus, strange bedfellows, the private conversation, previously private, between actor and comedian Tom Arnold and President Trump's former fixer, Michael Cohen, candid talk from Cohen about the Democrats, President Trump, Kim Jong-un, even a Charles Manson cameo.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "Welcome to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. We begin today with breaking news in our politics lead. Any moment, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee will vote to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over the full, unredacted version of Mueller's report and the underlying evidence. This comes amid an escalating showdown between House Democrats and the White House. President Trump today exerting executive privilege on the full, unredacted version of the Mueller report and all underlying materials subpoenaed by House Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. In a letter released today, the assistant attorney general wrote -- quote -- \"As we have repeatedly explained, the attorney general could not comply with your subpoena in its current form without violating the law, court rules and court orders and without threatening the independence of the Department of Justice's prosecutorial functions.\" That is an apparent reference to top-secret grand jury testimony and other materials that had been previously redacted. This all comes as the White House has made something of a stonewall strategy to refuse to comply with any of the requests made by House Democrats as part of their oversight responsibilities, including trying to get the president's taxes, trying to find out more information about his finances, and, of course, the attorney general's refusal to testify before a Democratic-led committee. CNN senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju is on Capitol Hill. Manu, what are the next steps here for House Democrats?", "Well, Jake, we do expect the House Judiciary Committee to vote sometime this afternoon or evening to hold the attorney general in contempt along party lines after a bitter partisan fight has consumed all day, Democrats and Republicans sparring over the meaning of the Mueller report, and Democrats engaged over the White House's move to cite executive privilege, and some Democrats now talking about impeachment.", "A dramatic escalation in the war between the White House and House Democrats. President Trump invoked executive privilege to prevent Congress from getting the full, unredacted Mueller report and its underlying evidence. The move came moments before the House Judiciary Committee scheduled a vote to hold the attorney general, Bill Barr, in contempt for defying the subpoena to turn over what the special counsel uncovered.", "This is unprecedented. If allowed to go unchecked, this obstruction means the end of congressional oversight. As a co-equal branch of government, we should not and cannot allow this to continue.", "If it weren't for him being president, he would be in prison with Michael Cohen today as Individual 1, and he obstructed justice.", "Some Democrats, in a move to defy Congress on all fronts, means the House should start to move towards impeachment.", "Do I think we're inching closer to it every day that the president has a blanket privilege or just saying that he's going to obstruct the congressional investigation? Yes, for me, we're inching towards it.", "Do you think this committee should start talking about another thing, impeachment?", "I think we have to talk about it.", "In a letter to Congress, the Justice Department argued it could not comply with Democrats' request without violating the law and said the president has asserted executive privilege over the entirety of the subpoenaed materials, a position the White House strongly defended.", "As long as Congress and this committee continue to ask the attorney general to commit a crime, the president and the attorney general will continue to actually uphold the law.", "House Republicans defended the president.", "I think -- I mean, it's an appropriate move at this point in time.", "And attacked committee Chairman Jerry Nadler.", "We're manufacturing a crisis.", "Saying Nadler acted in bad faith after refusing to review a less redacted report authored by the judge, which has already publicly released the vast majority of Mueller's report.", "I think it's all about trying to destroy Bill Barr because Democrats are nervous he's going to get to the bottom of everything. He's going to find out how and why this investigation started in the first place.", "Now, after the committee votes to hold the attorney general in contempt, the full House will take up the matter soon, and then expect a prolonged court fight. And, Jake, Democrats wondering what kind of chilling effect this effort to invoke executive privilege could have on their investigations going forward and also questioning whether or not Bob Mueller will come before this very committee, the House Judiciary Committee, this month, as Democrats had hoped -- Jake.", "All right, Manu Raju on Capitol Hill, thanks so much. Let's talk about this with my experts here. Shan, you're a former federal prosecutor. Legally, now that the White House has exerted executive privilege, is it likely that's it for Democrats being able to get these materials?", "Oh, definitely not. I don't think the courts are going to go with the idea that it's a complete blanket protection. First of all, it defies common sense. And, second of all, they're going to parse it down. They're going to break it down and look at, for example, any waiver issues and also in terms of the subjects. So, like a no-brainer point would be issues that arose prior to him becoming president don't seem like they were be subject to executive privilege. So there's a whole lot of parsing that's going to still go on.", "And, Sara, Republicans argue, look, most of the Mueller report has not been redacted. Most of it is there. And for people like the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jerry Nadler, he can go to a private room and see almost all of it, not all of it, but almost all of it.", "Yes. And it sort of raises the question of whether this was the best strategic decision for Democrats to decide to move forward on this contempt issue and essentially goad White House into pushing for executive privilege, because it is true, if you go through the Mueller report, there are very few redactions. There are certainly more in the collusion section, but on the issue of obstruction, very, very few redactions. The committee can obviously see more of this. And some of it has to do with ongoing investigations, and so these things are redacted for a reason. And the reason is not necessarily to protect the president. I mean, on the other hand, it is Congress' duty to do oversight. And if they want the underlying investigative materials for that reason, I think they're making the argument that they should see them. And ultimately this may be up to the courts to figure it out.", "And take a listen to Congressman Hank Johnson, Democrat of Georgia, earlier today saying -- confirming for what a lot of Republicans, they think this is really all about.", "We have lawful responsibilities, constitutional responsibilities to engage in, one of which is possibly impeachment. How can we impeach without getting the documents?", "\"How can we impeach without getting the documents?\"", "Wouldn't have been how I would have phrased it. But, look, I think the person who is leading this effort in determining the strategy is Nancy Pelosi. She's gotten a lot of criticism from the left wing of the party, people who want her to move more quickly, but she is listening to not just the American people, looking at the polls. She's also listening to her constituent -- or, you know, the members, many of which are hesitant about this, especially when they are in vulnerable seats. But what they're also doing strategically is they are trying to make the public case. And they are trying to bring the public along with them for impeachment. If we were all sitting here with Nancy Pelosi and a glass of wine and chocolate or whatever, she would love to impeach Donald Trump. Of course she would, probably more than almost anyone else. But she wants to do in a way that will be successful. And that's what I think she's trying to do. So, no, I hope that other Democrats don't repeat exactly how Congressman Hank Johnson said that. I think, though, his intention and where he's coming from is representative of where, sure, a number of people are, even those who don't say it publicly.", "David, the other context to this is that the White House has decided as a strategy to just not comply with anything that House Democrats are trying to do as a matter of oversight, which is a responsibility of the House of Representatives. Take a listen to Congressman Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.", "The administration has announced loud and clear that it does not recognize Congress as a co-equal branch of government, with independent constitutional oversight authority, and it will continue to wage its campaign of obstruction.", "What do you make of that?", "So, look, I think the administration's made the deal -- made the decision there's oversight, and there's overkill. And this is overkill, not oversight. There's really -- I believe they think -- you started -- the president say this is harassment. And I think they have taken the political measure. They -- since the Mueller report came out and all these -- this ongoing investigation, the president's poll numbers have tracked upward. They have gone up, they have not gone down. And at the end of the day, I think the Democrats make a marked political judgment of making this president actually look sympathetic.", "... stonewalling is just happening with the Mueller report. And that's not true.", "No. No.", "I mean, it's happening on all fronts.", "It's with every...", "And if it were a Democrat sitting in the Oval Office, and it was a Democratic president that was doing this to a Republican Congress, you bet you would be sitting on this panel and your head would be on fire and you would be singing a different tune.", "Since I don't have any hair, that'd be a feat in and of itself.", "Well, that's an alternate universe. But take a listen...", "Yes, alternative universe, you have hair.", "Take a listen to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders today.", "Chairman Nadler is again trying to violate the law. The president and the attorney general are the ones that are actually upholding it. And as long as Congress and this committee continue to ask the attorney general to commit a crime, the president and the attorney general will continue to actually uphold the law.", "This is her making the argument that the grand jury materials are not allowed to be released. But she's -- again, you talked about people going far. She's saying that the attorney general is being asked to break the law by Chairman Nadler.", "Yes.", "I mean, my first reaction, as somebody who served in a White House for eight years, is how sad it is that you can go out there and be a serial liar and represent an administration, Republican or Democratic. And we watch that every day. And I rooted for her from the beginning. I will say, in this case, Nadler is -- I hope he's not following the rules, yes, the legal rules, but we need to be more rule-breakers on the Democratic side, and not play by the game that has always been played, because we're dealing with Donald Trump, and we're dealing with an administration that is not always playing by it. He was pretty tough today, I think. And what he's trying to do is...", "Nadler was?", "Nadler was. And he's trying to make clear that he is not going to stand by, as the chairman of this Judiciary Committee, and accept not sharing documents, not being transparent with information. He's going to keep pushing. And he doesn't want to give any leg on it, because, otherwise, they're going to push back.", "So, I think -- look, I think, as Sara pointed out earlier, right, I think a lot of Americans see this and they say, you can read 92 percent of the report, a lot. The chairman can actually see the entire report, select members of the Congress.", "Almost the entire report.", "Exactly, the stuff that's not protected by grand jury or other ongoing investigations.", "Right, 99.8 percent, Nadler can see.", "OK? And so I think a lot of Americans look at that, and the Republicans say, he hasn't even seen it. He hasn't heard from Mueller. Jim Jordan makes a good point. Mueller is going to come up there. Let's see what he has to say.", "Yes, but shouldn't you be prepared to question him?", "That's the counter, right?", "And Nadler had a good comeback, when he said to Jim Jordan, you want this information too. We want to have this information before we interview Mueller. That's what he said.", "Everyone, stick around. We're going to keep talking about this. The one thing President Trump is not doing today after new questions about his taxes come to light, what is it? 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{"id": "CNN-382663", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-10-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/11/cnr.08.html", "summary": "U.S. to Deploy Additional 1500 Troops to Saudi Arabia; CNN Crew Gets Access to American Base in Northern Syria; Turkish Artillery Fire Comes Close to U.S. Forces In Syria; What Trump's Cussing and Cutdowns Mean for The Country; House Democrats Say State Department Tried to Block Ex- Ukraine Ambassador from Appearing Before Congress.", "utt": ["More breaking news. We have just learned that Turkish artillery fire has landed dangerously close to U.S. forces in Syria. Barbara Starr is at the Pentagon. Barbara, what do you know?", "Well. The first reports are just coming in. But we've talked to an official, Brooke, who has seen the initial information. It does appear that Turkish artillery rounds have landed near a SOF, a U.S. Special Operations Forces base in northern Syria. U.S. special operations forces have been based there. This is near the town of Kobane in northern Syria that has come under Turkish shelling since all this activity began. Nobody else firing artillery in that region so widely believed to be Turkish artillery. It is exactly what the Pentagon did not want to see. They have been very concerned about the security of U.S. forces in addition to the Kurds. But the security of U.S. troops in this region. They do not believe at this point that the Turks deliberately targeted the U.S., and the rounds did land several hundred meters away from the U.S. position. But even if it's inadvertent, even if the Turks are not capable of precision fires, the concern for the Pentagon now we know will be the safety of U.S. troops. Because just a short time ago we had a press briefing here where they updated us on security of U.S. troops in northern Syria. They told us -- the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs told us that the Turks know down to the satellite point on the ground where U.S. forces are located. They know to stay away from U.S. forces, and if U.S. forces come under attack, the U.S. does have standby plans to evacuate U.S. troops out of Syria, if they simply are unable to be safe to stay there. So now for the first time U.S. Special Operations Forces having Turkish artillery land dangerously close to them in northern Syria -- Brooke.", "Barbara Starr, thank you very much.", "Sure.", "Keep us posted on everything happening in northern Syria. Meantime, words matter. The words I use. The words you use, and certainly the words uttered by the President of the United States. Words can unite and inspire and also intimidate and divide. And I just wanted to take a moment today to call your attention to some of the language President Trump has been using as of late. And just before I do, keep in mind, this is the man who holds the most sacred office in our country. Whose revered position is one our children should look up to. Here is President Trump speaking at a rally last night in Minneapolis hurling insult after insult starting with the city's mayor who had warned Trump to pay his bill in full for holding this event in his city.", "Minneapolis. Minneapolis, you got a rotten mayor, you got to change your mayor. A got a bad mayor. She's either really stupid, OK? Or she's really lost it, or maybe there's a certain dishonesty there in there somewhere. Hunter, you know nothing about energy. You know nothing about China. You nothing about anything, frankly. Hunter, you're a loser, and your father was never considered smart. He was never considered a good Senator. He was only a good Vice President, because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama's ass.", "Just adding to that, just in the last week we have also seen the President call a sitting U.S. Senator Mitt Romney a pompous ass on Twitter. He called the investigation into his Ukraine phone call, and pardon my language, but I'm just directly quoting the President, \"bullshit\". And when he saw a Fox News poll yesterday that he didn't like, he singled out the pollsters in a tweet with two words, \"they suck.\" Again, this is the President of the United States. And again, I come back to our nation's children, because they are plugged in. They are watching. They are listening to the President and to their parents. And so I want to leave you with this image of a little boy presumably being held by his dad at President Trump's rally last night. And do you know what his dad was teaching him, according to the Yahoo White House correspondent who was there and snapped these photos? He was teaching him how to boo the media. And that little boy can't be older than -- 6? And if you look really closely on his t-shirt. It reads, oh, the places you'll go. The name of a popular book by Dr. Seuss, a book with a message of hope and inspiration. And just left me wondering, whose words will be more enduring? Joining me now former senior adviser to President Obama, David Axelrod, host of \" THE AXE FILES\" right here on CNN. David, what do you think?", "Oh, I'm thinking, way to warm it up for me, Brooke. Listen, everything you say is obviously true. You know, the profanity, the sort of -- the, you know, the gruffness with people. The mischaracterizations of people and the nasty characterizations of people. But this is all, has been from the beginning, fundamentally endemic to the Trump political project. In certain ways his willingness to flout these norms are like his willingness to flout all the other norms. It is to his supporters at least a signification of his authenticity that he's not politically correct, that he'll say the things that nobody else will say, and he gets quite a reaction for it.", "But don't you think his language has gotten worse? Just in the last -few weeks.", "It has gotten worse. But I mean I think that he is, he is generally moving in a bad direction, because he's under tremendous pressure, and now I think he feels pressure to try and torque up his base. I think as bad as all of the language is, is the -- what is worse is the inclination to, to try to make the case that he and his supporters and his supporters in particular, he as their emblem are under siege. It's almost a war-like rhetoric. You know, he's talked about the civil war, if he's removed from office and so on. It's all really disturbing but it's coming from a President who flagrantly violates rules, norms, laws, and institutions and believes that anybody who observes them is a sucker. So it's all part and parcel of the same thing.", "And part of this whole conversation you know also filed this under what's been disturbing, is just watching Republicans say nothing. Right? I mean, you talked to Harry Reid about this for your show. What did he say?", "I mean, Harry is an institutionalist and he had relationships with Republicans. Even as he was seen as a very partisan figure, he had relationships with Republican Senators and high regard for them. And so he expressed some real disappointment with the unwillingness to speak up about things that are, you know, that are so fundamentally wrong, and I mean it was really interesting. He was almost lamenting the loss of what once was.", "We'll watch for your full interview with the former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on \"THE AXE FILES.\" That is coming up of course this weekend. David Axelrod, thank you very much, tomorrow 7:00 p.m. Eastern here on CNN. 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{"id": "CNN-167762", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-6-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1106/18/cnr.07.html", "summary": "New York is Battleground for Same-Sex Marriage; Supporter, Opponent Debates New York's Same-Sex Marriage Bill", "utt": ["Look at that. This is one of those -- New York -- maybe the rest of the country, maybe the rest of the world. New York is the new battleground in the national debate over same-sex marriage. As we're talking about this topic, tweet me some stuff because I'm going to ask our guests and you may give me some information I need. Supporters say they are close to passing the law, possibly just one more vote in the State Senate would push it over the top as soon as next week. But opponents really are not giving up. I want to talk about this with two key players in this debate. Daniel O'Donnell is a key sponsor of the bill in the New York Assembly, where the bill passed earlier this week. I don't think he'll mind us saying, Rosie O'Donnell's brother. Brian Brown is against the bill. You saw him in Mary Snow's report just before the break. He's part of the National Organization for Marriage. Again, listen, Mr. Brown, we have already said you're against it. If you're against it and you're one vote away, you have Republicans who are supporting this new bill, are you worried? Are you nervous about it?", "Well, obviously, it's crunch time right now. Again, in 2009, we heard from the lead sponsor, Tom Duane, that the votes were there, and the bill ended up being defeated, 38-4. So the notion that this is a done deal is wrong. What we're doing right now is, there are thousands of calls going in to Senators. The legislature should not be deciding something as important as the future of marriage. The voters of New York should have the same ability as 31 other state. Every single state that this has been put to a vote, the voters directly have all said, no, we know what marriage is, we know it's unique and special, and we do not want it redefined. The voters --", "OK, but listen to this though. You say the voter will decide. But 58 percent -- this is a recent poll here. 58 percent of New Yorkers support same-sex marriage, while more than one-quarter of voters say the measure, along with extending rent regulation laws -- it's a big deal here in New York -- is one of their top-two priorities. 58 percent. Are you sure you want to take to it the voters?", "Absolutely sure. We saw polls just like this in California and in Maine, polls that were worded in a very biased way. I have absolutely no double that if the voters of New York had a free and fair vote and they could vote on the issue of marriage, they would vote to protect it.", "OK. All right. Let's go -- let's give Daniel O'Donnell a chance to talk here. Daniel, what do you think? It's going to be Gay Pride in New York new weekend. On Sunday is the big parade. Do you think people will be celebrating then?", "Absolutely. I am confident that, with the governor's leadership, we're going to get this done. No one ever asked me in 2009 whether or not it would have passed, but I would have told you it wasn't going to pass. This time it is going to pass and I'm proudly part of the process that's expanding the rights of New Yorkers.", "So listen, there is one Senator here, State Senator who is on the fence. I think it's Greg Ball, a Republican State Senator who's on the fence. But all of these talks and negotiations with the governor here, we're hearing that it may just sort of be a cover, because if one person is the one who decides and they won't get support in an upcoming election, so they're trying to get maybe more than 32, maybe 35 or 36 or more, and that is the negotiation tactic going on. What do you think about that Mr. O'Donnell? Is that true? And then I'll be asking you as well, Mr. Brown. Go ahead.", "I know Greg Ball very well. Greg Ball is my colleague in the New York State Assembly. There's nothing Greg Ball likes more than attention about Greg Ball. Whether or not he's actually seriously considering this issue, I don't know. I've never spoken to him. I can assure you I have spoken to many Senators and the truth is that the vast majority of New Yorkers want this resolved. No one has ever been able to make case that my ability to get a license from my state has any impact on anyone else. And finally, we're on the precipice of that happening. So whether it's Mr. Ball or one of the other Senators, I don't really care. We only need one and we're going to get one.", "Brian Brown, same question?", "I don't think that they're close to getting another Senator, necessarily. And I think that to say that redefining marriage won't affect anyone -- but, Danny O'Donnell, you're absolutely false. If we can look at the consequences of same-sex marriage, we don't have to guess at them. When you're shutting down Catholic Charity's adoption agency in Massachusetts --", "Wait, wait, wait. Hang on. Hang on.", "I know what you're saying.", "Hang on. Let me just say about that because --", "Hang on.", "-- to do with this bill. It's about licenses issued by the state. It has nothing to do with adoption agencies.", "Hang on. Mr. -- Daniel, let me talk to Mr. Brown about that. Because there are many people, especially legal experts, who say that is a red herring. That religious institutions and adoption agencies won't be shutting down and they're already going against the state's law as it is.", "So why are you saying that when people, legal experts say it's a red herring?", "There was a letter just published by three of the greatest legal scholars of our time, Mary Anne Glendon, at Harvard; Robbie George, at Trenton, and a number of other folks who actually support same-sex marriage. None of them deny that there are major unintended conflicts of same-sex marriage. And in Illinois, we heard this same arguments. It's not going to affect anyone other than the couples getting married. Wrong. In Illinois right now, there are three lawsuits because the Catholic Church, its adoption agencies are being told they have to shut down if they will not adopt children to same- sex couples. It's as simple as that.", "I'll let you have the last word, Daniel. But there were lawsuits, too, when they overturned desegregation and all of those things. And if it had been put to a vote -- let me ask you -- Producers, I'm going to need a little bit longer for this. So let's figure out -- Brian Brown, this same thing, if you had taken that to a vote to the people, then we wouldn't have equality among races and even gender here, as well. Do you know that?", "You're comparing apples and oranges. Laws against interracial marriages were about keeping the races apart. Marriage is about bringing the genders together. And that's why African-Americans have some of the highest opposition to same-sex marriage. Somewhere around about 70 percent of African-Americans in California voted against same-sex marriage. And frankly, I work with a lot of African-American leaders. I think they're tired of the civil rights movement being hijacked in the effort to redefine marriage. It's simply wrong.", "So you don't look at this as a civil rights issue, right?", "It's not a civil rights issue to try to redefine our most fundamental and most basic institutions. No.", "OK. All right, Daniel, go ahead. I'm sorry I cut you off there.", "Well, the Supreme Court has ruled that marriage is one of our fundamental rights. In the end, this is not a question about anything other than equality. The state issues licenses. And they issue licenses to people and they're called marriage licenses. I'm not seeking a marriage in a church. I'm not seeking a pew in a synagogue. I'm not seeking anything from any religion. The cases that they have constantly referenced are not cases under the marriage law. There isn't marriage in Illinois. And so if, in fact, people want to change the human rights laws or the discrimination laws, they should make proposals in legislative bodies to do that. Me getting a license has no impact on that, and they know that.", "Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Daniel, finish, and then Brian -- it's going to have to be quickly because I'm going way over here.", "OK.", "Wrap up your point, Daniel.", "They know that and there's no impact.", "OK, Brian, go ahead.", "Brian, go ahead. It's the last word.", "-- impact. I encourage people to go and read the letter on our web site at nationformarriage.org. This is an impact. There's a huge impact on religious liberty. And, look, this isn't a question of expanding marriage. This is a question of fundamentally redefining marriage and saying that people like me and our organizations are the functional equivalent of pagans.", "OK, listen, we've got to go.", "We've got to go. I'm sorry, Brian and I'm not cutting you off for any other reason except for time. So Brian and Daniel, we can continue this conversation for a very long time. But I appreciate you both coming on. Thank you so much. I hope our viewers learn from this. It's going to be a really huge issue coming up on Monday. They're going to vote on it. And when we come right back, we'll take you to beautiful Aspen, Colorado, for the Food and Wine Festival with one of the world's most top chefs."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "BROWN", "LEMON", "BROWN", "LEMON", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-78064", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-10-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0310/15/ltm.11.html", "summary": "U.S. Convoy Bombed in Gaza", "utt": ["We want to get back to the Middle East right now, the bombing this morning of a U.S. convoy in northern Gaza. At least three Americans were killed, another American injured, said to be in critical condition. No group has claimed responsibility. The Palestinians strongly condemning that attack, and when U.S. officials arrived at the scene, they were stoned by people who had gathered nearby. The bombing now closely monitored by the White House. That's where Suzanne Malveaux joins us this morning. Good morning there. What are they saying?", "Good morning, Bill. Well, President Bush just left the White House for his trip to California. He did not take any questions on the bombing. But we have been told that the president was notified of the attack early this morning, and that the White House is gathering as much information as possible, that they're monitoring this situation. As soon as they have a better idea about the facts on the ground, they will be releasing a formal statement later today. But I can tell you that a senior administration official confirmed to us that three Americans were killed, one seriously injured, that this convoy was part of a mission, routine business that they were doing when they were traveling into Gaza, that no U.S. administration official was killed or harmed in this attack, but rather these were -- those were being employed by the U.S. embassy for a security detail. Now, several sources are telling us that U.S. Enjoy John Wolfe, who is normally in the area involved in negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis, was not there in the convoy, but rather in Washington. Now, Bill, you know, it comes really at a very difficult time for the Bush administration, really a critical juncture for this Middle East peace process. The administration has been trying to get the Israelis to stop building a security wall in the Palestinian area in the West Bank. They have also been trying to get the Palestinian Authority to crack down on terrorist organizations, and trying to get the international community to dismantle and cut off the funds, as well as the political influence of Hamas. A very difficult situation for the Bush administration. We do expect that they will say, however, officials will come out saying that he is still committed to the peace process -- Bill.", "Suzanne, thanks. We saw the president leaving earlier today. Hopefully later today in California possibly reaction on this. Thanks, Suzanne. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-299898", "program": "WORLD RIGHT NOW WITH HALA GORANI", "date": "2016-12-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/05/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Italy's President Asks Prime Minister To Delay Resignation; Aleppo Peace Plan Vetoed at Security Council; Independent Candidate Wins Austrian Presidency; The E.U. in Populist Roller Coaster; Manuel Valls Announces Presidential Bid.", "utt": ["Welcome back, everybody. We are live in Vienna, Austria. Thanks for being with us. All right. Let's get you up to date on some of our top stories this hour, and we start with what's happening in Italy. The Italian President has asked the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to delay his resignation in that country until the country's budget is passed. In fact, that would be just before Christmas so he has a few more days left as Prime Minister. Mr. Renzi suffered a huge defeat in Sunday's referendum when voters rejected constitutional reforms that he spearheaded. Also, among the top stories we're following, at least 36 people -- 36, a huge toll -- now known to have died in Oakland, California after a fire tore through a warehouse where a party was happening Friday. Many parts of the warehouse is yet to be searched, and authorities say the death toll will, sadly, almost certainly, rise. Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for the halting of attacks in Aleppo. Once again, the resolution proposed a seven-day peace plan. Right before that, representatives from the U.S. and Russia verbally faced off. That as an aid group says aerial attacks and artillery shelling has killed at least 32 people in Aleppo. Our Fred Pleitgen filed this report from the war-torn city.", "Driving through a destroyed wasteland that, until recently, was one of the main battlegrounds in Syria. Aleppo's Hanano district was in rebel hands until last week when government forces moved in with crushing fire power. Thirteen-year-old Uday where a rocket landed next to his house and describes the fear he felt (inaudible) raged. \"We were very, very frightened,\" Uday says.", "Normally, we would hide in the basement, but luckily, that night, we slept in the first floor because that's when two rockets hit right over here. Uday's little brother, Abdul Kareem (ph) is clearly traumatized by the horrors he's witnessed and still weak from living under siege for weeks with almost no food and water available much of the time. As the rebels lost their grip on this place, many residents fled, trying those escape with their lives and not much more. Now, they're coming back. Some haven't seen their houses for years. Khaled Chobello left in 2012 when the rebels took this district. Now, he's trying to salvage any belongings in what's left of his apartment. \"I am very sad because everything is either destroyed or ransacked,\" he says.", "We found these pictures under the rubble. Even the walls are destroyed, but we will come back here and rebuild.", "The battle for Aleppo is far from over, but Syrian government forces clearly have the upper hand, taking about half the rebel's territory in the past week alone and continuing to push their offensive with massive fire power.", "Like in so many districts that have been taken back by the Syrian military, there is massive destruction in this part of eastern Aleppo, but there's no denying the shift in momentum in favor of the Syrian military and also the boost in morale that many of their soldiers have gotten. Troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad they believe they could capture all of Aleppo, Syria's most important battleground very soon. \"The rebel headquarters was right here,\" he says.", "So the loss of this district was a big blow to them. You can see how our shelling is pounding them, and that shows that they're morale is collapsing.", "Rebels left behind a makeshift cannon when they fled here last week. So far, the opposition hasn't found a way to shore up their defenses in the face of this massive and possibly decisive Syrian government offensive. Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Aleppo.", "Well, we return now to the election hear in Austria where the population's desire to remain a part of the E.U. apparently outweighed a populist agenda from the far-right. The left-leaning Alexander Van der Bellen said he would be pro-European President who is open to the world. E.U. leaders must have breathed a sigh of relief as the man he defeated was the anti-immigrant and Euro skeptic Norbert Hofer. The Secretary General of the Austrian People's Party, Werner Amon, is here in Vienna with me. Thanks for being with us, sir.", "My pleasure.", "Just your initial reaction when you learned of the results of the vote on Sunday, was what?", "Actually, I believe that it's quite a good signal to the Austrians and to the world that we decided to elect a president who is open to the world, who is pro-European. He is pro-European Union. And this is, from my point of view, a good result.", "So you were happy with the result. However, I want to say 47 percent, just about, of Austrians voted for Norbert Hofer. The Freedom Party is quite popular in opinion polls. There are elections in 2018. This isn't finished, isn't it?", "This is true. I mean, polls are one hand and real elections are the other hand. And with this real election, we saw there is at least now a difference from about 8 percentage and this is quite a good result, I guess.", "There's still a degree of dissatisfaction among Austrians. Unemployment is low compared to other western European countries or, I should say, compared to western European countries like France, Italy, or Spain, but it's still higher than Austrians would like. There is still dissatisfaction with the number of refugees that this country let in. How will things need to change, do you think, in order for Austrians to sort of feel a little bit happier with their government?", "Actually, the government has to do more constructive positions and deliver more good results to the people. As you know, we do have a coalition government with Social Democrats and the conservative People Party, and it's not that easy. The one come more from the center left and the other came from the center right, so it is not always that easy to bring all the positions together.", "Yes.", "On the other hand, you a tendency all over the western industrialized world that the people are not that satisfied, I guess, with the establishment, with the so-called establishment.", "Clearly, the parties that are currently in charge of the government, neither of those produced the presidential candidates, one of whom ended up winning. What's going on there? Why such a rejection of establishment parties? Where has the failure been from them?", "This is a very difficult question. If it were that --", "But it's the only question.", "Yes, but it's not that easy to answer that question.", "Yes.", "From my point of view, it has to do that we really have reached a very high level of social security, and present governments cannot really promise anymore that we get something on the top on this very high level that we already have reached in social security, especially here in central Europe.", "OK. I've got to ask you one last question about the E.U. You saw what happened in Italy. There was a rejection of Matteo Renzi's reform proposals. You saw what happened with Brexit and all this anti- establishment far-right candidates from Marine Le Pen all the way to Nigel Farage saying, you know, that they want Austria to go in that direction against Europe? Are you concerned for Europe as it projects?", "Actually --", "Will it survive?", "We should not concern too much. We should be brave, I guess. And I guess we should force the European Union and its institution to concentrate on the things, what should be really done on this multilateral level, not to focus on, you know, tiny things, what they're going to go regulate in each country, for example. So I really believe that the European Union has a future if the Union is concentrating --", "It will survive? Will it survive?", "Definitely, there's no doubt about it.", "OK. Thanks very much, Werner Amon, the Secretary General of the Austrian People's Party, for joining us on CNN. We appreciate it. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Well, the result in the Austrian presidential elections gave a rare glimmer of hope to the leaders of the European Union. We were just discussing that. However, just hours later, Italy's pro-E.U. Prime Minister Renzi said he would resign after losing a referendum on his country's constitution. The move sparked fears, once again, over the rise of populism, this time in the Euro zone's third largest economy. Nic Robertson takes a look at all of Europe's political turmoil.", "Italy's Prime Minister resigns. Europe's roller coaster relationship with the E.U. takes a dive. Trump-type populism shaking up Europe's politics. Hours earlier, Austria elected a new president. Europe leaders rejoiced. Austrians rejected the nationalist candidate with Nazi connections. France's President declaring the Austrian people have chosen Europe. What they Austrians chose, though, was no mainstream politician. Alexander Van der Bellen is Western Europe's first ever Green Party president, is pro-E.U. But this is the first time neither of Austria's two principal political parties have not held the presidency. In Italy, Renzi, who tried to reform the country bloated bureaucracy and boost the economy, is victim of leftists and nationalists who won out of the European Union. France's hard right nationalist, Marine Le Pen, who is running for president next year, was quick to grab gains for her own campaign from Renzi's losses. She tweeted, \"The Italians have moved away from Renzi and the E.U. We must listen to this thirst for freedom and protection of nations.\" At E.U. H.Q. in Brussels, finance ministers dismiss worries of a hit on the Euro, but Italy's struggling banks may yet need Brussel's help bailing them out. And for Italy's populace, that's a contentious issue. Meanwhile, here in London, more discord. The Supreme Court is deciding whether or not British lawmakers could potentially block Brexit. It'll add to the growing uncertainty about the future of the European Union. Passions here, for and against Brexit, are high and every indication now, similar sentiments are spreading. Nic Robertson, CNN, London.", "Well, the populist sentiments that are spreading across the West that Nic Robertson was speaking about continue to bring uncertainty to the global economy, among other things. Ian Bremmer is an expert on how political changes affect market and he joins me from New York. First of all, I want to ask you about, there was really just two different scenarios that played themselves out in Europe. On the one hand, Italy with the rejection of Matteo Renzi's proposed reforms. But on the other hand, Austria, pretty decisively, rejecting the far-right candidate. What did you make of both results?", "Well, I guess, I'd spin them a little differently. I'd say in Austria, with the first presidential elections several months ago, you'd already had the rejection of the two main establishment parties. This was populist either way, frankly. They didn't go at the extreme far-right candidate, but they certainly rejected the establishment. And you have an independent former Green that now has that post in Austria. In the case of Italy, you know, frankly, it's not usual that we can rely in history on a strong decisive Italian leader. We got one with the former Mayor of Florence and Matteo Renzi, but, you know, his ability to maintain strong populist support for a decisive set of political and economic reforms would have been extraordinary at any time in Italy, never mind the time now when you have such strong populism. He tied it to his own popularity. He lost. Now, Italy's going back to a caretaker government. You're going to have a status quo ante of a series of very weak Italian coalition governments. So I do think the headlines are a little bit misleading on this one.", "OK. But let me ask you about the reaction, though, because there were predictions, dire predictions, that a \"no\" win in Italy would lead to, you know, bank stocks tanking, to the Milan Index taking a dive, to the Euro, this and that and the other. It didn't happen at all. In the same way, markets didn't necessarily react negatively to a Donald Trump win last November. Initially, they did but then they quickly recovered and now, they're again record territory. What's going on there? Investors don't seem concerned.", "No, no, no. I mean, investors are very near term. Investors don't mind that Donald Trump might be subverting U.S. leadership and the world are having problems with global trade or the U.S.-China relationship. That's later. Investors don't mind that, in several years' time, you have could have a disaster from the actual Brexit conversation. For now, things are OK. The Italian banks, you're going to have a government that will be able to recapitalize if they for individual problems. So, I mean, there's nothing imminent and urgent that I think the stocks need to react to. And certainly, in the case of the United States where we're hitting this record highs, domestically, the economic team for Trump can walk and chew gum, maybe not simultaneously, but at least one after the other. And, you know, they are very pro-market and pro-industry, so I don't think we should be surprised that the markets are up. The question is, what's the longer- term trajectory and sustainability of the government policies that we see as a consequence? And you don't look to the markets for that. You have to look to the livelihood of the people.", "Let's talk a little about the long-term outlook for the U.S. I mean, we're seeing the President-elect already break every single diplomatic rule, not least with his conversation on the phone with the President of Taiwan very much angering China, tweeting out attacks against the press, and threatening U.S. companies with 35 percent tariffs on their goods if they move their factories overseas. Looking just at the first few days of post-President-elect Trump victory, what should we expect in the future?", "So in the same way that the expectations are reasonably positive, at least short term, on the economic side, when you look at international relations, you have to be unnerved and there, go around the world. If you talk to the foreign ministers and the heads of state of American allies, they're deeply concerned that they can't count on the United States, and particularly a United States lead by President Trump. They were worried about this under President Obama. Those worries have grown, certainly in terms of international trade, certainly in terms of his calls for America first and that allies need to do more or the U.S. isn't going to be there, and now also in terms of potentially picking a fight with the single most important bilateral relationship in the world, that of the United States with China. And while it's pretty clear that Trump didn't really know what he was doing when he spoke to the Taiwanese President, because Kellyanne walked it back, his senior adviser, and said he wasn't trying to make policy, but still the tweets that came on the back of that saying, hey, these guys are manipulating currency, you know, so they're putting taxes on our products, and they're expanding their military. I mean, everything that we've seen from Trump, not just on the campaign but since he's become the President-elect, seems to be goading to pick a fight with these guys before he has either Asia's strategy, American allies in the region on his side, or a Secretary of State designee, I would say that's giving a lot of people great cause for concern.", "All right. Ian Bremmer, as always, a pleasure having you on the show.", "You're welcome.", "Thanks so much for your analysis.", "You're welcome.", "All right. To France now and we were talking about important elections. We had the referendum in Italy and, of course, here in the Austrian presidential election where there's a big important event on the calendar next year, and that is the presidential election in France. The Prime Minister there says he is ready to become the country's next president. Manuel Valls has announced his bid to become the Socialist Party's candidate in the general election. He'll first face off with the members of his own party in a January primary. And this all comes days after President Francois Hollande announced he would not seek a new term. Valls has a tough task ahead. He needs to unite his party after Hollande's unpopular administration. Now, remember, Hollande's popularity rating, at one point, dipped to 4 percent, a record low. Now, he listed, Manuel Valls, what he wants to see in France's future. Listen.", "I want an independent France. Independent, inflexible on its values when facing the China of Xi Jinping, the Russia of Vladimir Putin, the America of Donald Trump, and the Turkey of Recep Erdogan.", "All right. Positioning himself internationally there, Manuel Valls. Don't forget to check out our Facebook page, facebook.com/holagoranivienna, and for some of the show's best content. We'll take a quick break, and when we come back, we have more live from Vienna. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["GORANI", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UDAY, ALEPPO RESIDENT (through translator)", "KHALED CHOBELLO, ALEPPO RESIDENT (through translator)", "PLEITGEN (voice-over)", "PLEITGEN (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PLEITGEN (voice-over)", "GORANI", "WERNER AMON, SECRETARY GENERAL, AUSTRIAN PEOPLE'S PARTY", "GORANI", "AMON", "GORANI", "AMON", "GORANI", "AMON", "GORANI", "AMON", "GORANI", "AMON", "GORANI", "AMON", "GORANI", "AMON", "GORANI", "AMON", "GORANI", "AMON", "GORANI", "AMON", "GORANI", "AMON", "GORANI", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR", "GORANI", "IAN BREMMER, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, EURASIA GROUP", "GORANI", "BREMMER", "GORANI", "BREMMER", "GORANI", "BREMMER", "GORANI", "BREMMER", "GORANI", "MANUEL VALLS, PRIME MINISTER OF FRANCE (through translator)", "GORANI"]}
{"id": "NPR-976", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2007-08-22", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13873061", "title": "Songs from the School Days", "summary": "This week, News & Notes producer Devin Robins remembers three of her favorite songs from high school: \"Bust a Move\" by Young MC, \"Vision of Love\" by Mariah Carey, and Bel Biv Devoe's \"Poison.\"", "utt": ["It's time again for our staff song pick of the week.", "Right now, we've got NEWS & NOTES producer Devin Robins. Hey, Devin.", "Hey, Farai.", "So what do you have for us?", "Well, this summer was my high school reunion.", "When did you graduate?", "Well, I'd rather not give that information out. I thought it would be more fun to have you guess. I have a few clues to help you out. Are you ready to play?", "Absolutely.", "All right. George Herbert Walker Bush was president of the United States.", "Okay.", "And clue number two, I grew up in Los Angeles, as you know, and right around my senior year in high school, the Rodney King riots erupted. You remember that?", "Absolutely. And those riots started when four police officers, accused in the videotape of beating a black motorist Rodney King, were acquitted by a predominantly white jury.", "Well, I got a third clue here for you, and this one will test your pop culture knowledge.", "(Singing) In the city, ladies look pretty. Guys tell joke so they can seem witty. Tell a funny joke to get some play, then you try to make a move and she says no way. Girls are fakin', goodness sakin'. They want a man who brings home the bacon. Got no money and you got no car, then you got no woman and there you are.", "So, Devin, I love that song.", "Me, too. And whenever I hear Young MC, I think of high school.", "Give me one favorite exciting moment of your time in high school.", "Dances. Dances were big. Particularly, I liked to slow dance. And there's one song that I remember. Slow dancing with my high school boyfriend, Joel(ph).", "(Singing) Treated me kind. Sweet destiny. Carried me through desperation to the one that was waiting for me. It took so long, still I believed…", "Mariah Carey was just coming on the scene. And that year, she won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single, \"Vision of Love.\" And, you know, Farai, I've got one more song that just screams high school.", "(Singing) Girl, I must…", "(Singing) Warn you.", "(Singing) I sense something strange in my mind. Yeah, yo. Situation is…", "(Singing) Serious.", "(Singing) Let's cure it 'cause we're running out of time. Tell 'em Rick.", "Oh, my gosh. I think I remember some really strange pants from this era, you know, like, those bizarre pants. Who is this and why do you like him?", "Well, not only did Bel Biv Devoe wore some strange pants but they also had some really tall hair. Now, Bel Biv Devoe, this song \"Poison\" was also big when I was in high school. And for me, where I grew up, this sound was fresh and new. I didn't have a lot of exposure to rap artists like Young MC that we heard earlier or to R&B artists like Bel Biv Devoe. And I think it opened up a new musical genre for me. And when I hear these songs, I think back to the fond memories I had of high school.", "Well, Devin, thanks for sharing this with us, and it put me in a time capsule, too.", "So do you know what year?", "'92?", "Close. But I can't tell.", "Love that. That was NEWS & NOTES producer Devin Robins with three of her favorite songs from high school - \"Bust A Move\" by Young MC, \"Vision of Love\" by Mariah Carey, and \"Poison\" by Bel Biv Devoe.", "(Singing) 'Cause in some…", "(Singing) Portions.", "(Singing) You'll think she's the best thing in the world. She's so…", "(Singing) Fly.", "(Singing) She'll drive you right out of your mind. Steal your heart when you're blind. Beware she's schemin'. She'll make you think you're dreamin'. You'll fall in love and you'll be screamin' demon.", "(Rapping) Poison, deadly, moving it slow. Looking for a mellow fellow like DeVoe. Getting paid, laid, so better lay low. Schemin on house, money, and the show. The low pro hoe should be cut like an Afro. So what you're sayin', huh, she's weighin' you? But I know she's a loser.", "(Rapping) How do you know?", "(Rapping) Me and the crew used to do her.", "…for sharing your time with us. To listen to the show and your wonderful music like this or subscribe to our podcast, visit our Web site: nprnewsandnotes.org. No spaces, just nprnewsandnotes.org. To join the conversation or sign up for our newsletter, visit our blog at nprnewsandviews.org.", "NEWS & NOTES was created by NPR News and the African American Public Radio consortium.", "Tomorrow, the economics of publishing black writers.", "Kool G.: (Rapping) Poison, poison. Poison, poison. Poison, poison. Poison.", "I'm Farai Chideya. 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{"id": "CNN-391746", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2020-02-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/03/se.16.html", "summary": "Decision Day In Iowa Where Voters Are Taking Part In Caucuses; Some Caucuses Already Underway At Satellite Locations In and Outside Of The State; Awaiting Results From Caucuses.", "utt": ["It's decision day in Iowa where voters are taking part in caucuses. You're looking at some live pictures coming in from one of the caucuses in Des Moines, caucuses that could shake up the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. I'm Wolf Blitzer in the CNN Election Center. We're closing in on the official start of the first contest of the 2020 election. Most caucuses begin across Iowa, about two hours from now. Eleven Democratic candidates are hoping to stand out from the pack, only one will come out on top. Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, they are the leading contenders in Iowa. They're bracing for a close battle tonight. Some caucuses are already underway at satellite locations in and outside of the state. We're awaiting results from caucuses happening right now in Des Moines, Iowa, St. Petersburg, Florida, also in Queen Creek, Arizona, that's near Phoenix. Let's go to Jeff Zeleny. He's in Des Moines at one of those so-called satellite caucuses. Are you getting some results, Jeff?", "We are, Wolf. And what we're seeing now is a realignment in real time. There were two candidate preference groups, the Warren campaign and the Sanders campaign who were viable here. Those were the only two candidates who were viable. So now, there are other supporters who are moving around and seeing where they are going to go. We should point out, Wolf, this is a snapshot in time. This is one location, this is one satellite caucus. Not indicative, as far as we know, of what is going to happen tonight. It is just one location. But it's clear there's a lot of enthusiasm for the Sanders' campaign, not surprising. They're closing the campaign strong, no question. But we are watching now the realignment. You can see some people moving back and forth. There's a little bit of discussion going on, as you can see, with the Bernie Sanders supporter, perhaps trying to convince supporter for Pete Buttigieg to come on to their side. The Buttigieg campaign in this particular satellite caucus was not viable. It took 11 people to be viable. They had around 9 or so under a preliminary count, so now there is some conversations and horse trading. Let's look over here to the Warren campaign, also some conversations going on here with some Sanders supporters and Warren supporters. Wolf, again, just a snapshot in time as these satellite caucuses are unfolding. We'll come back to you when we have the numbers from the Drake Fieldhouse. Wolf?", "You know, before you go, Jeff, I want you to explain what a viable candidate means and what realignment means right now, because we're going to be hearing a lot of that over the course of the next several hours.", "We are, indeed. And in a satellite caucus, the rules are slightly different. So let's talk about the rules of the caucuses overall tonight. The rules are that a candidate has to have 15 percent support in most caucuses in the room to be viable. If they are not viable, if they don't have 15 percent support, then the second choice begins to be incredibly important. And what that means is, if -- like here, this afternoon, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg was not viable, so then some of his supporters were going to other places. I can see right now, Wolf, follow me here with my photojournalist, Andy, can come with me, there are some people going over to the Sanders campaign, so that's where some of the conversations and horse trading comes into play. This is just a preview of what we're going to see tonight on a much larger scale here. At this very location, there are going to be perhaps more than 500 people gathering and all the campaigns are certainly working to organize that. But viability and second choice, so important, we are keeping an eye on those second choice decisions tonight, for candidates who aren't viable. That could boost someone --", "All right, hold on for a moment there, Jeff.", "So just a snapshot here, a bit of a test run.", "We've got the results from the first round over where you are. And you could take a look at this. Bernie Sanders, 60.6 percent, Elizabeth Warren, 21.1 percent, but everybody else below that, 15 percent margin, Pete Buttigieg, 11.3 percent, Andrew Yang, 4.2 percent, Klobuchar, 1.4 percent. So those who support Buttigieg, Yang and Klobuchar, they have options right now. They're not going to be viable, these three candidates. They're not going to go to the second round. At this one caucus only, Jeff, explain what's happening now. What are their options, those who went for the non-viable candidates?", "So what is happening now, if you are supporting a non-viable candidate, then you make another choice. So just eyeballing some of them, some of them went over to Senator Warren's campaign. We will find out here in a short period of time what the count is in the second round of counting to see where they all went. But there was -- the interesting part about this is the persuasion aspect at these caucuses. These precinct captains have been trained by these campaigns to approach someone whose favorite candidate did not make the cut, and try and win them over. So you can see, you know, a lot of the discussions, I'm trying to go have a conversation with the one person who is standing for Joe Biden. Let's see if we can chat with him for one second. Hey, Jared (ph), excuse me. If I can talk to you live on", "Sure.", "So you were supporting Joe Biden. You are the only person in your row. Who did you realign with?", "Well, Mayor Pete, but we're one short right now, and we're not sure that there's anyone we can take from with the new rules. So --", "Right, right. So why did you decide Mayor Pete on the second round? Why?", "I'm more of a Moderate Democrat. I care about foreign policy and I think both Biden and Mayor Pete are the two strongest on foreign policy in my view.", "Right. Thank you very much. So, Wolf, that is just a snapshot here of the conversations going on. They are trying to make the Buttigieg campaign viable by getting up to 11 people in this precinct. So, again, consider this a test run, if you will, a preview of what we'll see tonight in nearly 1,700 precincts across the state of Iowa, when there are these conversations going on, back and forth. Again, second choice, so valuable, one of the most important positions and certainly a weighty position here. So, Wolf, we'll send it back to you as we await this realignment here to see if anyone else becomes viable. As of now, after the first round, certainly Bernie Sanders strong in this precinct. But again, we should point out, this is one satellite caucus, not indicative of the state as a whole. Those caucuses start this evening. Wolf?", "From what I saw, a lot of young people there. Quick question, Jeff, we see Buttigieg, 11.3 percent. He's not viable. He didn't reach that 15 percent threshold. What about the Yang supporters and the Klobuchar supporters. I assume they're trying to attract them. And if they get together, they could potentially make Buttigieg viable?", "Indeed, they could. And that's -- they're one person short. And actually, I heard someone say they were looking for that Andrew Yang supporter. And that is the other key thing to watch tonight. If you're non-viable, do you stay in the room and go with someone else or go home, do you leave because your candidate was not viable. So that is an important thing to keep an eye on here. But we should point out that this is -- certainly some young people here, but these are, you know, intended for people who have jobs this evening. So we are expecting, since we are on the campus of Drake University, more students coming tonight. And the Andrew Yang supporters actually won the mock caucus, a trial run earlier in the week. So again, we should point out that -- what's happening now is not necessarily foreshadowing what's to come here tonight, Wolf.", "Important point, all right. Stand by, we'll get back to you. I want to get to Dianne Gallagher. She's over in St. Petersburg, Florida. It looks, Dianne, they're just beginning right now this process in St. Petersburg. The voting continues.", "That's Right, Wolf. And I'm back here right now as we're trying to kind of keep the area quiet as they pass out these instructions. They have just now given out those preference cards to the 104 voters, Iowa registered Democrats here in St. Petersburg, Florida. We had a bit of a delay dealing with the location that we were at here. They have since gotten that figured out. We're in the room and expecting to be starting relatively soon. They got most of the procedural stuff out of the way at this point. We've been speaking with some of the voters here. A lot of them who spend part of their time in Florida, because the winters are cold in Iowa, but there are also college students who are here, as well as people who happen to be visiting family. They were on vacation. So this is something that as you can listen to them right now, as they're trying to get through. They voted to go ahead and move into their positions first, before they hear from any sort of voters or representatives from the particular candidates, campaigns, and then they're going to listen to those speeches before they decide if they want to go ahead and move again. So this has been pretty orderly, as it goes right now. Again, they have a pretty large number of people who have chosen to come out to this. People I talked to were so excited. They were taking selfies and were waiting to get underway in the next couple of minutes here, Wolf.", "Looks like a bunch of snowbirds down there in St. Petersburg. Dianne, we're going to get the results of that caucus, 104 Iowa voters in St. Petersburg, Florida. Much more of our coverage right after this."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "ZELENY", "BLITZER", "ZELENY", "BLITZER", "ZELENY", "CNN. 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{"id": "CNN-404450", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-07-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/03/cnr.22.html", "summary": "Police Unions Accused of Shielding Brutal Cops; FedEx Asks Washington Redskins to Change Team Name.", "utt": ["Nationwide protests against police brutality in the U.S. are putting pressure on local law enforcement leaders to reform their departments, but it is the police unions that ultimately shields many misbehaving officers from accountability. Our senior investigative correspondent Drew Griffin has our report.", "The words coming out of the San Antonio police officer's mouth are awful.", "You know what's", "A young black man in a San Antonio Texas mall in 2018 is being arrested for trespassing. When he asked why, the officer says this.", "For being a", "As shocking as it sounds, the bigger shock is the officer is still on the job.", "You can get out. But don't run. Do something.", "So is an officer who uncuffed a man and challenged him to a fistfight.", "-- often I'm going to beat you out. That's what I'm going to do.", "An officer who tried to give a homeless man a sandwich made of feces had his firing overturned. It took a second poop incident to get rid of him.", "You react, I react.", "These officers and many others were fired and all of them got their jobs back thanks to a police union contract and state law that leaves final punishment of law officers in the hand of an arbitrator who is often chosen in a way that favors the police. San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg has had enough.", "Now these are crimes of moral turpitude. And you would expect that in any profession that bears the weight of public accountability, that this would be a one-and-done type offense. Yet, the cases in which the chiefs' discipline has been cleared, have been overturned in these arbitration hearings, and people are rightly outraged by it.", "Fired San Antonio police officers were able to get their jobs back in 42 percent of the cases that went through arbitration. That includes one cop who was reportedly fired six times.", "It's egregious.", "San Antonio is one of the most deferential to law enforcement interests.", "Loyola University professor Stephen Rushin analyzed more than 650 police union contracts.", "We have across the country and many cities made bad deals with police unions. Bad deals that make it difficult for us to investigate police misconduct.", "The bad deals, according to Rushin, include giving the officer 48 hours or longer before being questioned, allowing officers to see all the evidence before being questioned, ignoring an officer's past disciplinary actions, and in some cases, banning any discipline where complaints aren't filed in a timely fashion.", "And frankly, police unions have much more protection than other governments or other public unions.", "Case in point, Minneapolis. The officer charged with murdering George Floyd had a long history of complaints but was still on the force. A CNN analysis found just 1.5 percent of the thousands of complaints filed against Minneapolis police in recent years resulted in any serious discipline.", "I have seen too much.", "Former Minneapolis mayor, R.T. Rybak fought his city's police union for years.", "So it's the time right now for elected officials to stop treating them like a traditional union.", "The unions, of course, tell a different story. Detective Mike Helle is president of San Antonio's Police Officer's Association.", "Is police reform necessary? Sure it is. Do we need to have transparency? You bet we do. We should always have transparency in our police departments. But the thing that we or and have negotiated for and we continue to hope for is that we just have a fair process, right?", "Helle believes the current contract is fair, the state protections for police are balanced, and told us there is currently not a single bad cop on the San Antonio police force.", "There's nobody that wants bad cops on our department.", "Do you believe him? That -- that the union doesn't want these bad cops on the force.", "I want to believe him. But until these provisions change, then we are left in the situation where it looks like the union politics is against the general public's best interest.", "There is already a push to change both state and federal law in regard to police reform, but experts say changing police union contracts is much tougher, requires lots of public and local political support. In Minneapolis, that is taking place right now. San Antonio's contract is up next year. Drew Griffin, CNN, Atlanta.", "Shipping giant Federal Express is asking the Washington Redskins to change its controversial team name. The move comes after a group of investors sent a letter to the FedEx CEO calling on the company to cut its business ties to the NFL franchise. FedEx has a long-term contract to put its name on team's stadium. The letter calls the name Redskins -- the mascot name -- a dehumanizing word and a racial slur with hateful connotations. Pepsi and Nike, the team's drinks partner and uniform supplier receives similar letters. Neither has responded to CNN's request for comment. 20 Saudis are now on trial in absentia in Turkey in connection with the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The former security official and a former aide to the Saudi Crown Prince are among those charged. Khashoggi was last seen in October 2018 after visiting the Saudi consulate right there in Istanbul. He's believed to have been killed inside. He had gone there to get documents for his wedding. Khashoggi's fiancee took to the stand at the proceedings a short time ago. Next here, as many parents have discovered, working from home with children can be, well, difficult. Two moms shared their new normal with the world."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRIFFIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRIFFIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRIFFIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRIFFIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRIFFIN", "RON NIRENBERG, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS MAYOR", "GRIFFIN", "NIRENBERG", "STEPHEN RUSHIN, PROFESSOR, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY", "GRIFFIN", "RUSHIN", "GRIFFIN", "L. SONG RICHARDSON, U.C. IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW", "GRIFFIN", "R.T. RYBAK, FORMER MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR", "GRIFFIN", "RYBAK", "GRIFFIN", "MIKE HELLE, PRESIDENT, SAN ANTONIO POLICE OFFICER'S ASSOCIATION", "GRIFFIN", "HELLE", "GRIFFIN (on camera)", "NIRENBERG", "GRIFFIN", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-140648", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-7-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/20/cnr.05.html", "summary": "NASA Retires the Shuttle Next Year", "utt": ["And our world just hasn't been the same since. The moon, well, it's still pretty much the same. 40 years ago astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took one small step for man leaving the first human footprints on the moon. Look where the path has lead. Astronauts from the space shuttle \"Endeavour\" commemorating the anniversary, showing off their fancy foot work with a spacewalk just outside the Intentional Space Station happening right now. \"Endeavour's\" crew is hooking up spare parts outside of the hulking, floating observatory. And for shuttle, astronauts hit the second spacewalk in three days. Inside the space station, another tricky issue, a broken toilet. It's not like you can call Mr. Plumber some 220 miles above the earth. But the station has another one for the six astronauts on the outpost and \"Endeavour's\" seven crew members are doing their business in the shuttle's flue. We got that cleared up. Now, if you're in a certain age, the Apollo program is just something that you read about in the history book. Soon the shuttle program will follow in its footsteps. NASA's moth balling late next year on the program. So what's next? John Zarrella looks at NASA's future.", "Three, two, one. Booster ignition and liftoff of Endeavor.", "And now there are seven, the number of space shuttle flights left. Nearly 30 years of flying astronauts in a reusable space plane, soon just a chapter in history books.", "And it just makes me want to cry to think that this is the end of it.", "When the last shuttle flies in September 2010, it leaves a gaping hole behind. Because of NASA budget cuts, the next generation vehicle, the Ares rocket and Orion capsule, key components of the Constellation program, won't be ready to fly astronauts until 2015. Until then, NASA has to carpool with the Russians to get to space. Thousands of shuttle workers not needed for the new vehicle will lose their jobs. Workers who are needed may not be around if more budget cuts spur the delay of the next generation of spacecraft. And further delays are possible. An Obama administration ordered blue ribbon panel is reviewing NASA's direction after shuttle ends, i.e., the Constellation program, which Leckrone says is fuzzy on direction.", "And I just don't see that if that organization, within NASA, this producing Constellation, doesn't begin talking to their customer, potential customer base, they're doing to end up with something that no one is interested in using.", "Precourt says Constellation is clearly visionary.", "It behooves us to build an architecture that can serve a multitude of missions for those next 50- plus years. And that's where this was first envisioned was to think about space station, lunar asteroids, beyond maybe to Mars.", "Built as less expensive than shuttles, safer for astronauts, the Constellation program is supposed to be everything shuttle is not. (on camera): Funny how perceptions change. For decades, the shuttle program was maligned as too costly, too complicated a vehicle, too risky, too unreliable. Now what do you hear? Too bad it's over. John Zarrella, CNN, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.", "And the first guys to walk on the moon think mankind's next giant leap should be a mission to Mars. Apollo astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins are big supporters of a trip to the red planet. They are actually in Washington today, and they're urging President Obama to boldly go where no man has gone before. Armstrong and his crew mates are scheduled to meet with the president next hour. President Obama and his guests have something in common. They've all been subject to some classic conspiracy theories. Ahead of today's Apollo 11 anniversary, all the folks who think the lunar landing was a hoax have come out of the wood work. Some of their favorite reasons why it couldn't have happened, no star is visible in NASA's pictures and video, and no reason the American flag should have been rippling since there's no breeze on the man. Professor Robert Thompson tackled that one on CNN's \"AMERICAN MORNING.\"", "Well, it was waving. And the reason it was waving was not because there was wind. Because as we say, there's no wind on the moon, there's no atmosphere. However, to make that flag stand out and go straight, you got to have to this little have ribbing to make it go. Because it's not going to fly straight when there's no atmosphere. And every time they touched that little pole, it sent vibrations through the ribbing. And then, therefore, the fabric so it actually looks like it's vibrating. I actually think the flag is the biggest argument against the moon landing being a hoax. Because if you go back and watch the coverage of them trying to get that flag to stand up, it looks like keystone cops that can't get it in the ground. It's a joke if you were going to fake it, you wouldn't make your astronauts look so silly.", "So in other words, Professor Thompson saying stop the lunar lunacy, folks Striking the Taliban where it hurts. What U.S. Marines found in southern Afghanistan and why they blew it up."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "DAVID LECKRONE, HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENTIST", "ZARRELLA", "LECKRONE", "ZARRELLA", "CHARLIE PRECOURT, ATK LAUNCH SYSTEMS", "ZARRELLA", "PHILLIPS", "ROBERT THOMPSON, PROFESSOR, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-412034", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-09-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/28/cnr.22.html", "summary": "Judge Says TikTok Can Still Be Downloaded in U.S. for Now.", "utt": ["A federal judge says TikTok will still be available in U.S. app stores for now at least. It is a temporary win for the social media giant which was set to be banned from the U.S. just hours before the ruling. TikTok's Chinese parent company is working to sell part of its U.S. operation to American companies in order to appease the Trump administration. So let's get more on this with Selina Wang. She joins us live from Hong Kong. Good to see you, Selina. So, TikTok safe for now in the U.S. but where's this all going?", "Hi, Rosemary. That's right. This is just a short term win for TikTok. This really doesn't stop or halt's impending November 12th restriction set for TikTok. But what this does do is provide a little bit more time for TikTok to reach this potential deal with Oracle and Walmart and get approval from both U.S. and Chinese authorities. If successful, this entire ban can be avoided altogether. But sticking points still remain around this deal especially when it comes to the question of ownership. Trump has said that he's not going to approve a deal unless Americans keep control of this company. But there's disagreement even from their own companies about what that's going to look like. Oracle says ByteDance will not have any stake in this new entity. ByteDance says it's going to have an 80 percent stake. But Rosemary, all of this back and forth and drama around this deal really gets away from the underlying concern that started this whole mess in the first place. Which was Trump's worries about the national security risk that TikTok poses. And the experts I speak to say that this isn't the right approach to solving that problem. Instead, Trump should be more focused on creating standards and legislation that govern app collection, data collection from companies around the country, around the world including from the United States. And even other large tech companies are criticizing the Trump administration's approach. NetChoice, which is a trade group that represents big tech companies like Facebook and Google said that quote, there is no previous example in U.S. history of a complete ban on a media platform that deprives 1/4 of the U.S. population access to information on that platform. This group also warned that this ban could give foreign governments a reason to prevent American companies from accessing their markets basically providing a blueprint for how to make life difficult for American companies abroad. So the stakes here, Rosemary, are incredibly high. The outcome of this deal is going to shape U.S./China tensions moving forward, as well as potentially altering the course of the global internet landscape.", "Yes, a lot of young people watching this very closely. Selina Wang, joining us live from Hong Kong. Many thanks. Well, some NFL history was made Sunday when not one, not two, but three women worked in various sideline roles. The Cleveland Browns taking on the Washington football team with female coaches on both sidelines and a female official on the field. It was a first for a regular season game but for these women being first is not new. Back in February Washington hired Jennifer King as a coaching intern making her the first black woman to coach in the NFL. In 2015 Sarah Thomas became the first full-time female NFL official and three years later Callie Brownson was hired by the Cleveland Browns as their chief of staff. And thank you so much for your company. I'm Rosemary Church. \"EARLY START\" is up next. You're watching CNN. Have yourselves a great day."], "speaker": ["CHURCH", "SELINA WANG, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-366419", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2019-04-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/05/ip.01.html", "summary": "Pelosi on Medicare for All; Pelosi Redirects Party on Impeachment", "utt": ["The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, today again finds herself trying to steer her party away from the demands of its most vocal activists. Medicare for all is her topic this time. Her nudge to the liberal base came in an interview with \"The Washington Post.\" And it's clear, just like her recent \"don't' go there\" message on impeachment, that Pelosi is worried about giving 2020 messaging gifts to President Trump and the Republicans. \"They,\" meaning the president and Republicans, called Medicare for all socialism. Well, here's Pelosi's take. Quote, I'm agnostic. Show me how you think you can get there. I think it's the Affordable Care Act. And if that leads to Medicare for all, that may be the path. You can't get to Medicare for all unless you have some of the resources of the Affordable Care Act. Rachael Bade was part of that interview with the speaker. Now, you can read that and just look at the words and it's more of an, oh, let's see. Or you can read that, as I read that, as, slow down, everybody. We're not doing -- we're not brining to the floor a big, sweeping, disruptive overhaul of the American health care system. That would be a gift to them. Let's just strengthen and fix Obamacare.", "Yes, it's definitely the latter. And Pelosi has -- she's been doing some really interesting things in the House over the past few weeks in that she really is throwing up this caution sign to the entire party in the 2020 presidential field and saying, look, guys, you can't go too far to the left or that could potentially hurt us in taking out Trump, or upend their majority in 2020 in terms of keeping the House. What she was saying about Medicare for all I thought was interesting because the word \"agnostic\" stands in stark contrast to, you know, the presidential candidates sort of tripping over themselves to try to say that they are the biggest proponent for Medicare for all. But she doesn't think that Medicare for all will actually help Americans in the same way that the Affordable Care Act. And, remember, just a few weeks ago Pelosi sought -- brought in some big guns when she brought president -- former President Obama to talk to some of these new, high-profile freshmen who are supporting Medicare for all and his caution to them was, listen, you've got to look at the price tag. You've got to be honest with voters about how much this is going to cost. And you have to realize that even though you might have a liberal, bold idea, when you actually look at what it's going to cost to pay for something like that, you might not have support from the far left wing of the base.", "And so there's two ways to look at it. The policy perspective, if it's big and huge and disruptive, if you could do it -- number one, the Republicans still control the Senate, so Nancy Pelosi is kind of like Mitch McConnell in the Senate, don't make us vote on these things, Mr. President, because it's not going to happen anyway. The other thing is, Nancy Pelosi lost her gavel and the Democrats lost the majority when they passed Obamacare. Ten years later, Obamacare is actually an asset for the Democrats if you look at the 2018 election results. Her point is, let's stick with what we just proved works.", "Yes, Nancy Pelosi lost over 60 House seats in 2010 over this issue. So she -- she has really sacrificed to get that legislation intact and to become a permanent feature of the health care system. The other thing is, the Democrats can end -- Pelosi can already see how President Trump is using this issue in the early days of the campaign. He's saying the Democrats themselves think Obamacare is flawed. They want to replace it with Medicare for all, and that's socialist. Meanwhile, the president has also stepped on it on health care and said, we're going to replace Obamacare, even though Republicans don't have a plan. So I hear Pelosi saying, let's keep the focus on Trump and the fact that he's calling to repeal Obamacare, even though Republicans can't themselves unite behind a plan without creating a distraction ourselves.", "And what she's also trying to say to the candidates and to her own members is, don't decide what do based on Twitter. Don't decide what to do based on how the activist base that is emailing you and calling you. Think about the entire country. Think about the big map. But look at the 2020 candidates. If you go to their websites, those who are all in on Medicare for all, Congresswoman Gabbard, Senator Gillibrand, Senator Harris, Senator Sanders, Senator Warren, Marianne Williamson, Andrew Yang. Supporting at least a version of Medicare for all, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Castro, Inslee, O'Rourke. The three Democrats who say, no, no, it's too much, it's too liberal, or the country's not ready for it, Delaney, Hickenlooper and Senator Klobuchar. So you have seen this already playing out in the field. Pelosi's trying to put this train on a different track.", "She also knows who brought the majority back, and it's not at the liberal members, it's the members from these seats that are middle of the road. Trump -- seats Trump won in 2016. So -- and they're not going to go full on into Medicare for all. Actually, you heard them when this -- when these plans first started coming out and when you -- I think Kamala Harris was the first one to really make it explode into an issue, those members, those blue dog new Dem members were like, ah, I'm more ACA, let's slow down.", "And someone she's been, so far, she's been able to manage this. Rashida Tlaib still says I'm going to introduce my impeachment resolution. The speaker says, fine, it's not going to go anywhere. You can go on cable television and talk about if you want, you can introduce it, the committee's not going to act on it. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, listen to this exchange here. Here's the speaker on impeachment and one of her most prominent liberal members.", "They wanted me to impeach President Bush for the Iraq War. I didn't believe in it then. I don't believe it in now. It divides the country. Unless there's some conclusive evidence that takes us to that place.", "I know a lot of members in the caucus have a different opinion, but that's why we caucus.", "You have a different opinion?", "I -- I -- I happen to, yes.", "We watched this play out when the Republicans were in charge and it was the Tea Party and the other conservative challenges to John Boehner and then to Paul Ryan. Is she managing in this better so far in the sense that she has many critics within the conference, but so far she seems to still be in charge. There are often questions about whether Boehner or Ryan were actually in charge.", "She does seem to have more control over her caucus than Paul Ryan ever did. But I think the problem for Pelosi here is that as the 2020 election cycle heats up for the Democratic primary there, it's a race to the left. As, you know, as you said, it's not really those far left seats that are going to be ever in trouble. It's the moderate candidates that she has to keep in mind. So just balancing what's going on, on a national stage, with what's happening on a district level, is something that's going to get harder and harder for her to imagine.", "The other thing that I think will be challenging for her is that whoever emerges as the Democratic nominee will inevitably become the party's chief messenger.", "Yes.", "And that could really drive the House Democratic caucus -- conference to the left.", "That might -- that might make it more interesting. As we go to break, I just want to quickly -- John Delaney's a former congressman. He's running for president. I just want to show you this shirt. He says -- it's a t-shirt. This debate plays out on the front. It says, I'm not the socialist. On the back it says, I am the Democratic capitalist. So this is a -- this is an issue out on the campaign trail for the candidates well-known and not so well-known. Up next, a good jobs report makes for a happy president, but does the president have a reason to worry about the economy as he heads into 2020?"], "speaker": ["KING", "BADE", "KING", "JOHNSON", "KING", "KUCINICH", "KING", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA)", "REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY)", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "OCASIO-CORTEZ", "KING", "PARTI", "JOHNSON", "PARTI", "JOHNSON", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-48158", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2002-1-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/28/se.03.html", "summary": "Flag Raising Ceremony as Afghanistan Embassy in Washington", "utt": ["Want to go back to the Afghan Embassy right now. Hamid Karzai", "It's a thrilling moment for us to have Afghanistan recognized again as a nation-state, as a government, and to have all of you distinguished ladies and gentlemen here to watch the raising of the Afghan flag at the Afghan Embassy. This flag and the ceremony today is raised not without costs; without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free, sovereign and good Afghanistan. An Afghanistan without the presence of threat of terrorism, an Afghanistan without the presence or threat of practicalism and all evil that both of them brought together. To the people of Afghanistan and to the people of the United States of America, the Afghans share that pain with the American people because Afghans have gone through the same pain so they know what it is. We have had some distinguished sons of our country lose their lives in this struggle. As was mentioned, one of those sons was Ahmed Shah Massoud...", "...who struggled to defend his country and who was martyred by terrorists themselves, directly -- very directly. They whipped him and killed him there. We've had other sons of this country as well who were martyrs, millions of them. One of them was Commander Abdul Haq who was killed by the Taliban in a brutal way. It's because of sons like this that Afghanistan had whose memory will be forever that you're capable of standing here today and to raise this flag. I'm thankful to the American people, to the government, for giving us this opportunity for helping to rebuild this embassy and for helping us organize this event. Let's hope that this flag will be there forever, and that the partnership between the American and Afghan people will be forever. That is what the Afghan people have been asking for and I, too, am asking for that. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.", "Hamid Karzai at the Afghan Embassy there in Washington, D.C. In a moment we're going to see the flag go up. You can see it to the right there, the familiar black, red and green colors that were so common during the days of the former king, Zahir Shah, when he was sent -- exiled back in 1973. We can tell you, that flag is quite prevalent in different parts of Afghanistan today, certainly the capital city of Kabul. It's also quite present in Kandahar and also at the air base where the U.S. military and its coalition partners are operating out of. That flag right there, raised again in Washington, also raised every morning when the sun comes up and taken down every night, when the colors are altered and changed at the close of every day in Kandahar. From here, Hamid Karzai will meet with the president. Certainly, they will have a lot to talk about. Certainly, rebuilding Afghanistan is chief on that list. But also is Afghan security throughout the entire country. We know pockets of resistance still exist. Once again we saw that earlier today, again at that hospital in central Kandahar, exclusive videotape by CNN. Six al Qaeda fighters, holed up for months there, in a shoot out with Afghan forces and U.S. special forces on the ground there."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "HAMID KARZAI, AFGHAN INTERIM GOVERNMENT CHAIRMAN", "KARZAI", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-108518", "program": "PAULA ZAHN NOW", "date": "2006-7-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0607/21/pzn.01.html", "summary": "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Heads to Middle East; Interview With New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson", "utt": ["And welcome back. An important part of our \"Top Story\" is the global reaction to the crisis in the Middle East. In streets across the Muslim world, people are carrying red and white Lebanese flags and green Hamas flags, but they are burning U.S. and Israeli flags. In Damascus, Syria, a man tears apart an Israeli flag with his teeth. In Egypt, protesters carry posters of Hezbollah's leader. And, in Malaysia, signs label President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair as war criminals. Now, with passions running so high, one of the most surprising turns in our \"Top Story\" coverage is the U.S.' diplomatic approach to the crisis. Critics say it is nonexistent. Finally, after being accused of standing on the sidelines for days, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is going into action. White House correspondent Ed Henry picks up the \"Top Story\" coverage with this dramatic change on the diplomatic front.", "Announcing plans to leave for the Mideast Sunday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had a sharp answer for critics who say the Bush administration should have engaged in shuttle diplomacy much sooner.", "I could have gotten on a plane and rushed over and started shuttling, and it wouldn't have been clear what I was shuttling to do.", "But mindful her trip will raise hopes of a peace deal, the secretary downplayed expectations by admitting she still is not sure what can be accomplished.", "I know that there are no answers that are easy, nor are there any quick fixes. I fully expect that the diplomatic work for peace will be difficult.", "What the secretary is certain is, despite growing pressure, the U.S. still does not support a cease-fire.", "A cease-fire would be a false promise, if it is simply returns us to the status quo, allowing terrorists to launch attacks at the time and terms of their choosing, and to threaten innocent people, Arab and Israeli, throughout the region.", "She called for a robust international peacekeeping force on the ground in Lebanon, but suggested, the U.S. would not contribute boots on the ground.", "I do not think that it is anticipated that U.S. ground forces would -- are expected for that force.", "In a sign of the growing urgency, President Bush's schedule has been shaken up, to add a rare Sunday meeting at the White House, where he and Secretary Rice will host top Saudi officials. Then, the secretary heads to Israel and the West Bank, followed by a summit in Rome with Arab leaders, where she will keep the heat on Syria to stop supporting Hezbollah.", "The Syrians have to make a choice. Do they really wish to be associated with the circumstances that -- that help extremism to grow in the region, or are they going to be a part of what is clearly a consensus of the major Arab states in the region, that extremism is one of the problems here?", "Democrats charge, the White House moved too slowly, and are now urging the president to appoint a special envoy to the Mideast. But the White House says, it is already sending its top envoy, Secretary Rice, to the region, and says it will take time to achieve a sustainable peace. Ed Henry, CNN, the White House.", "So, is the U.S. getting into the diplomatic game too late? With Israeli tanks poised at Lebanon's border as we speak, can diplomacy possibly work? Next in our \"Top Story\" coverage: a veteran diplomat who handled the Middle East and other thorny issues when he was the U.S. ambassador at the United Nations during the Clinton administration. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson joins me now. Always good to see you, sir. I don't know whether you heard our interview at the top of the hour, an exclusive one, with the president of Lebanon, but he says there is absolutely no diplomacy that can stop this invasion. So, does that mean Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is wasting her time?", "No, she is not wasting her time. In fact, the United States should have had a special envoy permanently. But that is another story. I think she can make a difference. She is skilled. She represents the United States. She should immediately persuade our European allies to put sanctions on Hezbollah and make sure that they are sanctioned, no visas, frozen assets. And she should be very firm with the president of Lebanon, that, basically, there is going to be isolation and sanctions, if they continue this effort to not just back Hezbollah, but stir things up in Lebanon.", "All right.", "But I do believe, Paula, that the American presence, shuttling around, with Israel only trusting the United States and being a major player, that we should be there.", "All right. But , Governor, Condoleezza Rice said today that, basically, you can't have any kind of truce that would lead to another conflict here. Do you think she has made a mistake by not joining in a call for an immediate cease-fire?", "No. She is right on that score. I fault them for not being there and getting engaged, but you can't just have a cease-fire, without anything else. I think what has to be established is the scope of an international peacekeeping force. Hezbollah has got to get sanctioned. And there has got to be an agreement that, eventually, they will be disarmed.", "Well, that -- that's the issue.", "Syria and Iran have to be persuaded...", "Do you think that that...", "They have to be persuaded...", "... is possible?", "Let's -- let's talk about the international...", "Well, yes, I...", "... peacekeeping force. They obviously have to have the ability to disarm Hezbollah. That hasn't been done, after the U.N. leaning on Lebanon to do just that for two years.", "Well, but you have to have an international peacekeeping force. If you can't authorize it through the United Nations, through a resolution there that promises sanctions, sanctions and an international peacekeeping force, Secretary Rice, Muslim countries, and European nations should do one. We're eventually going to need one. And I believe that should be some effort to get that constructed, at the same time that you are talking cease-fire, and a simultaneous cease-fire. You have got to do both of them at the same time. But I do agree that just having a cease-fire, without any infrastructure in place, is not going to work. The main point, Paula, is, an American secretary of state, the country with the most leverage in the Middle East, trusted by Israel, and major military power, with the Europeans, can make a difference. And...", "All right.", "... I just believe we should have been there before.", "Well, we always appreciate your perspective, Governor Richardson. Thanks for your time tonight. Now a reminder...", "Thank you, Paula.", "... that we are keeping a very close eye on the Israeli- Lebanese border. Our live crews are standing by, in case Israel's army starts moving into Lebanon. We are told they are ready. They are just waiting for an order. Now, even without an all-out assault, thousands of Lebanese civilians are suffering, and suffering deeply. Next in our \"Top Story\" coverage, our own Dr. Sanjay Gupta makes his way inside a Beirut hospital. He will have an amazing report about how lives are being saved, as a city burns. Also, we are going to take you to an Israeli emergency room in a city that has become a target for Hezbollah rockets. What is that like? We will return with both of those reports on the other side."], "speaker": ["ZAHN", "ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE", "HENRY", "RICE", "HENRY", "RICE", "HENRY", "RICE", "HENRY", "RICE", "HENRY (on camera)", "ZAHN", "GOV. BILL RICHARDSON (D), NEW MEXICO", "ZAHN", "RICHARDSON", "ZAHN", "RICHARDSON", "ZAHN", "RICHARDSON", "ZAHN", "RICHARDSON", "ZAHN", "ZAHN", "RICHARDSON", "ZAHN", "RICHARDSON", "ZAHN", "RICHARDSON", "ZAHN", "RICHARDSON", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "NPR-27588", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2014-04-07", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/04/07/300282830/in-ncaa-finals-two-recent-champions-on-unlikely-rides", "title": "In NCAA Finals, Two Recent Champions On Unlikely Rides", "summary": "The Kentucky Wildcats and the Connecticut Huskies take the court in Monday's NCAA men's college basketball final. NPR's Tom Goldman talks to Melissa Block about what to watch for in the game.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.", "And I'm Melissa Block.", "It's Huskies versus Wildcats as the Men's Division I college basketball season comes to an end tonight. Facing off are two recent champions: the University of Connecticut, who won in 2011, and the University of Kentucky who won in 2012. They've both had improbable rides to tonight's title game.", "For more, I'm joined by NPR's Tom Goldman who will be covering the game in Arlington, Texas. And, Tom, let's talk first about this match up, give us a few things to look out for.", "Sure, Melissa. Let's start with guard play. OK?", "OK.", "And the UConn guards, Shabazz Napier and Ryan Boatwright, against Kentucky's Harrison twins, Andrew and Aaron. Now, the UConn guys each are about six inches shorter than the 6'6\" Harrisons, and can Napier and Boatwright utilize their quickness to get steals and generally harass. Now, nearer to the basket Kentucky is a big dominating team that usually out of rebounds opponents, with 7 foot center Dakari Johnson, 6'9\" 250 pound Julius Randle.", "UConn's forward Deandre Daniels is a wisp by comparison, 6'9\" 195, but he's quick and agile, a good shooter. He scored 18 points or more eight times this season. UConn won all those games. So if he has a good game offensively, good things can happen.", "Now one other thing, UConn head coach Kevin Ollie says he wants his team to make Kentucky shoot from the outside. Of course, what he doesn't want is a close game at the end and Kentucky guard Aaron Harrison shooting from the outside. Harrison is, of course, on this never before seen streak, three straight games where he's clinched the victory with a last second three point shot.", "And, Tom, there's been a lot of talk about the fact that this is an unlikely match up, a seventh seed UConn going up against an eighth seed in Kentucky. What does that really mean though?", "Yeah, it mainly means that your top seeds, the ones and twos, the supposed best teams are long gone. Seven and eight are pretty low. Although most people think the teams, especially Kentucky, were under-seeded. Still, it is a match up few if any predicted.", "I will give you a personal example. I just happened to win my March Madness pool. And it had about 70 entrants and I didn't pick the two teams playing in the championship. And I don't think that's ever happened, in our pool at least. You get most points for picking the finalists and the champion, but I won without doing it. I have to say I'm ashamed...", "...about that but someone has to win.", "And a match up that might not have been predicted if you looked at how poorly both of these schools were doing at various times of the season.", "Absolutely. Kentucky started with visions of a perfect season. They were a team loaded with top high school talent but they struggled, as freshmen do. Coach John Calipari struggled. By own admission, he made bad coaching moves trying to figure out this team. Less than a month ago, the Wildcats had even fallen out of the Associated Press poll of the top 25 teams.", "UConn also fell completely out of the poll. Earlier in season, the Huskies were up and down, lost to Louisville three times, including an 81-48 shellacking at the end the regular season.", "And if you look back at last season, Tom, neither of these teams even made it to the NCAA Tournament.", "Yeah. In fact, tonight is the first time since 1966 that the finalists weren't in the previous tournament. Kentucky wasn't very good. Kentucky lost in the National Invitational Tournament, the NIT. UConn was banned from March Madness because the basketball team had a low academic rating. The Huskies now are meeting the standard, although reportedly they still have a pretty low rating. They're digging their way out.", "Tom, we should mention, too, that the Connecticut women's team will be playing in the NCAA title game tomorrow night. What about a quick appraisal of that game?", "UConn versus Notre Dame, the combined records this season are 76 wins and no losses. Notre Dame is missing a key player in forward Natalie Achonwa. The rest of the team is going to have to pick up the slack. It's going to be a tall order to do against a fantastic UConn team.", "OK. NPR's Tom Goldman in Arlington, Texas tonight for the men's college basketball championship.", "Tom, have fun. 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{"id": "CNN-396466", "program": "FIRST MOVE WITH JULIA CHATTERLEY", "date": "2020-03-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/31/fmjc.01.html", "summary": "Cash Crunch Payments Come Due As Moody Says Millions More In The U.S. Out Of Work; A Glimmer Of Hope In Coronavirus Growth Rates From Italy And Spain; Zoom, The Video Conferencing App Under The Pressure Over Privacy.", "utt": ["Live from New York, I'm Julia Chatterley. This is FIRST MOVE and here's your need to know. Cash crunch payments come due as Moody says millions more in the U.S. out of work. Slowing infections. A glimmer of hope in coronavirus growth rates from Italy and Spain. And a Zoom bomb. The video conferencing app under the pressure over privacy. It's Tuesday. Let's make a move. A warm welcome as always to our FIRST MOVErs around the globe. We have a jam packed show for you today and I'm glad to say, it's full of innovation in times of crisis. Plus a look at the quarter that was. What a journey the last few months have been, ending of course with the global war against the coronavirus. Let me bring you up to speed because we began through a record top in mid- February and the Dow at 30,000. The NASDAQ, 10,000 within striking distance. Then, we saw the fastest descent into bear market territory on record. Truly, one of the most tumultuous three months in Wall Street and of course health history, too. At the moment, we're looking at a lower open for U.S. stocks after Monday's three percent advance. Europe has turned mostly lower, too, but all eyes on China's data first today as they begin to kick start their economy. Chinese manufacturing survey data bounced from a record low in February. Any number just to give you above 50 means that manufacturing is what we call in expansionary territory. Now, I've read plenty of skepticism about these numbers, primarily because they're from China, but let's just be clear, they don't reflect the level of business activity, simply the direction. So a small rebound from last month will give you this kind of lift. The bottom line is that the rebound that we're hoping to see will take time, but business is resuming, and I do think that's key to recognize here. Now, during the Asia session, Hong Kong and South Korean stocks were the out performers yet on the quarter. The Nikkei fell some 20 percent. The Hang Seng was down 16 percent, and Chinese stocks, in fact with a relative outperformer, down just -- and I say just under 10 percent. China remains a beacon of hope for those elsewhere and they continue to fight the virus. And of course, as we watch the economic costs amount up. Let's get to the drivers as Christine Romans joins me now. Christine, that data from China is one thing, this week, particularly if we hone in on expectations for the claims for unemployment benefits in the United States, some estimates now -- Moody's Analytics saying four and a half million people, an additional to the 3.3 we saw last week.", "Millions and millions of Americans are out of work, are losing their jobs. They are being laid off. They're also being furloughed. You look at some of the companies with furloughs, Gannet, Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, Macy's and Kohl's. The interesting thing about those furloughs is they keep their healthcare through their company and the government will pay their unemployment benefits as close to their full salary as possible for four months. So the U.S. government has designed a rescue, a Band-Aid package here to keep people, as many people as possible kind of running in place, at least over the next few weeks and months. So those layoffs and those furloughs are just devastating, but the government is trying to get the money out there. Now this week, you're absolutely right. I mean, the money isn't out yet and people are out of work. The bills are due. It's the end of the first quarter, companies have bills at quarter end, and tomorrow is April 1st, rent and mortgage is due.", "Yes, it's painful. Most of the data though this week is from a parallel universe before we saw the lockdown happen. So it's why I sort of reiterated that claims number, even the payrolls on Friday not really of relevance because the timing period of when the data is collected, it brings to mind the Goldman Sachs report that came out and they've been scrambling to keep up to speed with their predictions here. Their Q3 estimates look incredibly rosy in my mind.", "IT looks like a V, not a U. I'm hearing a lot of U-shaped recession, you know, a gradual recovery. But Goldman Sachs is saying a nine percent contraction in the first quarter of the economy of the U.S., 34 percent in the second and then a bounce back in the third of some 19 percent or so. And, you know, we've got a really big unemployment rate, too, you know, for the middle of the summer. I think that the unemployment rate targets at this point, Julia, are anybody's guess. They're going to be big. We're going to have a historic summer after a historic quarter, quite frankly, something we've never seen before here. These numbers are going to be ugly in the near term. Stimulus is going to be key here. And I'm sure you're hearing the chatter that this $2.3 trillion, it hasn't even gone out the door yet, there's going to have to be more on top of that.", "Yes, if this is the stabilization part, this money, this is to try and hold things together, what ultimately kick starts the recovery. Once we get the other side of this, and hopefully we've mitigated too much damage in the interim, whether or not we need more money, I think at the back end is an open question, and as you and I seem to agree here, more will be required.", "Yes, we are just going to have to beat the virus first and then try to figure out what the new normal is going to be. We don't know what -- the economy that comes out late fall, it will be a different economy than a year ago, don't you think? I mean, you're going to have a reassessment of consumer patterns, and as you've pointed out so many times, confidence is key. We must be competent in the health situation before the economy can come back.", "Absolutely. Christine Romans, great to have you with us. Thank you. All right, now to the latest on the battle against coronavirus, the world's biggest outbreak in the United States is getting worse. The country record its highest daily death count overnight. The total now stands at more than 3,000 lives lost. New York is driving the surge, almost half the country's fatalities are recorded in the state in the scramble to increase hospital capacity. New York City has set up extensive care units in Central Park and that's what you're looking at right now. In Belgium, authorities reported the death of a 12-year-old girl, this amid numerous reports of the virus striking younger people. New Zealand says 26 percent of its patients are in their 20s. As the U.S. and Europe grapple with quickly rising death toll, a glimmer of hope seems to be emerging. New infection rates in Spain and Italy appear to be slowing since the shutdown measures went into place. Spanish health officials say the peak may be close if it's not already here. Elizabeth Cohen joins me now on this. There's so much information there, Elizabeth. Let's hone in to what we're seeing in in the likes of Italy and Spain. Are we suggesting that the growth rate here in the number of cases is slowing?", "Right, Julia. That is possible. That is what they're hoping they're seeing. They see the peak maybe soon, but they're not actually sure. And I want to stress here. This is new territory for everyone. And so when you hear these projections, remember that they are projections and that nobody has a crystal ball. But that is certainly what they're thinking. They're thinking that all of this social distancing, all of these rules may be finally paying off.", "Yes, it's hope. We're just looking for glimmers of hope wherever we can find them. Elizabeth, I want to turn to the number of counts of younger people that we're hearing. It's certainly a topic of conversation here in the United States in particular. And I just -- my mind went back to a discussion that we were having a few months ago about an epidemic of vaping, of use of things like marijuana in this country, is that in any way perhaps connected to what we're seeing among young people? It is a lung disease after all, or are we grasping at straws here?", "You know, Julia, we really just don't know. Is it possible? Yes, it's possible because anything that damages the lungs is going to put you at a higher risk for getting very sick or for dying in this outbreak. Let's look at France, for example, they've had about 30 people under the age of 44 end up in the ICU, about half of those have had underlying conditions and half of them haven't. Underlying conditions are things like obesity or lung problems or heart problems. Now, the interesting question is, why are people ending -- why are young people without underlying conditions ending up in the ICU? And the answer is that we sort of have to turn to, for example, flu. Every flu season, we report on young people, children, people in their teens, their 20s, 30s, 40s, who end up in intensive care or who sadly end up dying. And when you ask Infectious Disease experts, why? Why this person? They were perfectly fine beforehand. They say we don't know. All we know is that some young people do have very robust immune systems, and that it actually comes to hurt them. It's not even so much the virus, in this case, coronavirus that kills them. It's actually their response to it. It becomes sort of overblown and that ends up hurting the body. We're not sure that that's what's happening here with coronavirus because no one has had time to study it. This is so new and happening at such a frantic pace. But that may be what we're seeing here.", "Yes, it is so hard to study the data when you're so busy trying to save lives. Elizabeth Cohen, great to have you with us. Thank you so much for your insight.", "Thanks.", "All right, there are signs that the world's second largest economy is restarting its engines. Chinese government data suggests manufacturing activity has rebounded in March. John Defterios has all the details for us.", "John, I mentioned earlier on the show, what's not captured here is the amount of activity, but the change in direction i.e. a kick start to the economy is captured, and that's crucial.", "It is for planning and the order books going forward, at least in the domestic economy, I think we have to be careful about what the demand will be in China on the ground there on the Mainland, and then outbound and I'll explain that in a second. But we're coming off their worst performance since they created those figures back in 2005, Julia, so 52 is above the line, a positive nature in terms of purchase orders going forward, but I wouldn't call it a V-shaped recovery. We're expecting a contraction in the first quarter since 1976 when they had the Cultural Revolution that caused some chaos for the economy. Now, my hesitation here is because of export orders, they were down 17 percent in February, we'll get the data in mid-April, but you have to think because of the state of play in the United States and Europe right now, we're going to see a similar contraction for export orders. So I'm not very confident. Xiaomi, the telecom equipment manufacturers suggesting though that they are about 80 to 90 percent of capacity right now in terms of manufacturing. So that is a positive. The one thing I'm surprised by so far, at least, the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance not announcing anything, in terms of the scale of what we've seen within the G-7 in terms of stimulus, when do they decide to bring out the big guns after they see the data throughout April here and say, look, we need to give it a lift, going into the second quarter and the second half of 2020 or not. We're waiting for that.", "You raise such a great point there as well though, about who they ultimately sell to, if their production internally is for others internally, then that growth is reinforcing, but with the rest of the world seemingly struggling still with the virus and in lockdown, who can they sell to, at least in the short term, which is such an important point. The other issue here for nations around China is when China slows down, everyone feels that they have a voracious appetite for all sorts of things, including commodities and some very stark warnings from the World Bank today about the poverty risk in other nations as a result of China slowing.", "Well, it's a great point to bring up here because the World Bank is putting into paper what we were talking about for the last couple of weeks, Julia. The slowdown in China, the impact of the coronavirus showing up in the numbers that they're outlining for all of 2020. We had an East Asia growth of better than six percent in 2019. The base case scenario for the World Bank is just over two percent. They're saying the worst case -- get this -- 0.1 percent or a contraction. So a swing of six percent. No surprise it is going to have an impact on poverty going forward. And quite a swing here, Julia, 46 million, see if I can explain it correctly. They're expected to see 35 million come out of poverty in 2020. As a result of the coronavirus, that could expand the poverty, it will grow by 11 million. So that's the swing of 46 million right now. Let's not bury the headline here. They had an outlook on China, which grew just over six percent in 2019. They're expecting above two percent, which is awful to say, and worst case scenario 0.1 percent for 2020. And they're saying and I think this is very difficult for the developing countries like Indonesia and Philippines, step on the healthcare, move into urgent action. That's very hard to do when the crisis is in your face already.", "Yes, but John, to your point as well about China, we're always a bit cautious about them over stimulating the economy. Now is not a time to be shy, particularly in targeted areas like that, for example. John Defterios, great to have you with us. Thank you so much. Now from G-20 world leaders reportedly using it to kindergarten kids, it seems. Just about everyone is using the video conferencing app, Zoom to bridge the gap in our social distancing age. But as a previously unknown company becomes a household name, some say we may be forgetting the privacy risks familiar for more traditional social media. Clare Sebastian joins me now. Clare, what are you hearing about the potential privacy risks here associated with Zoom?", "Yes, Julia. An increasing number of questions are being asked as this app surges in popularity. The stock price by the way, up some 120 percent this year, even as the rest of the market as you know, has cratered. Right now, you know, there's a class action suit that was launched Monday in California where an individual alleges that Zoom, as it has grown in popularity is failing to safeguard the personal data of its customers. It says that when you log in, it discloses certain information to third parties like Facebook. Now, this is something that Zoom has addressed. They put out a blog post last week where they admitted that if you log into Zoom via Facebook, it does share some personal information, things like your device model, your IP address. But they released an update, they say they patched it. They encourage users to download that update. The class action, though says the damage is already done to people and to their trust. So this is something that zoom is increasingly facing. They are at a sort of a defining moment for the company, as you say the G-20, things like U.K. Cabinet meetings are being held on it. They've made it available to a lot of different schools.", "And meanwhile, we've seen security issues, a phenomenon known as Zoom Bombing, where hackers have sort of dropped in uninvited to meetings and displayed graphic content and things like that. So even as Zoom increases in popularity, they are under increasing pressure to try to deal with these issues that come out of this popularity -- Julia.", "Yes, so not necessarily as we're showing you pictures there of the G-20 meetings, not necessarily dropping bombs in those G-20 meetings all reportedly there of course on the use there. Interesting times, and of course, very much tied to the fact that so many people are working from home now including big corporations, and a vast majority of their staff. Clare Sebastian, thank you so much for that. All right, Amazon has fired the employee behind Monday's walkout at a New York fulfillment center. Amazon say Christian Smalls was supposed to be at home under quarantine with pay after he was in close contact with another employee that had tested positive for coronavirus. Smalls had demanded the facility be closed and sanitized. He says he is being punished by Amazon and that it reflects the company's culture. Much more ahead on FIRST MOVE. Coming up, a race to make ventilators. A growing number of companies joining the effort, including an aerospace firm. Plus, one of the largest 3D printing companies in the United States is now helping to make medical supplies. Innovation in times of crisis, coming up."], "speaker": ["JULIA CHATTERLEY, CNN BUSINESS ANCHOR, FIRST MOVE", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "CHATTERLEY", "ROMANS", "CHATTERLEY", "ROMANS", "CHATTERLEY", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHATTERLEY", "COHEN", "CHATTERLEY", "COHEN", "CHATTERLEY", "CHATTERLEY", "JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN BUSINESS EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR", "CHATTERLEY", "DEFTERIOS", "CHATTERLEY", "CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "CHATTERLEY", "CHATTERLEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-110596", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2006-9-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/23/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Continuing Violence in Iraq; Is The U.S. Military Stretched Too Thin", "utt": ["Here's what's happening right \"Now in the News.\" Osama bin Laden, dead or alive? Saudi intelligence sources dispute a French newspaper's report that the al Qaeda leader has died. More on this developing story straight ahead. Economic sanctions are apparently prompting North Korea to hasten its nuclear weapons program. A senior North Korean official says his wants to force the U.S. back to stalled bilateral talks. Strong storms have spawned flooding in parts of the Midwest. And in the deep south, the flooding has proved fatal. There were at least six storm-related deaths in Kentucky as well. Our top story, conflicting accounts on the health of Osama bin Laden. Here is what we know right now. A French newspaper is reporting the al Qaeda leader is dead. The article cites a confidential French intelligence report that claims bin Laden died from Typhoid in Pakistan. But Saudi intelligence sources tell CNN that bin Laden is alive and has been stricken with a waterborne illness. There is plenty of doubt on the credibility of the French report. Let's get to CNN national security adviser John Mclaughlin in Washington for his take on the latest development, and former acting director of the CIA. All right, John, well how do you verify this kind of rumor? Whether he's dead or alive or afflicted by Typhoid?", "Well I've been checking with sources all over Washington today and some overseas and you're quite right, there is universal skepticism about this report. That said, in my old business, you got a dozen reports a day that are very sensational and you have to run every one to ground. So the way you check this one out is the way I'm quite certain the U.S. government is checking it out and the French government. You go to the sources. The Saudis ought to be pretty authoritative on this, given that bin Laden's family is still in Saudi Arabia and you would assume they would get word somehow if he was seriously ill or if he had died.", "Except has it been really clear whether his family members do have, you know, direct communications with him? If he is somewhere in the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, are his family members in Saudi Arabia, his birthplace, still in contact with him?", "Well, we don't know that for sure. But I suspect some way a word would get back on something as serious as a death. I'm sure they don't have some sort of way to track his daily activities or what he's doing minute by minute, but on death, I would expect they would hear it. Now, that said, it takes a number, you know, in recent times we've had four audiotapes from him in the last year. And most of them have taken, we judge, about three weeks to get from wherever he is to broadcast. So he is on a long supply line now.", "But apparently no new video images of him in two years.", "No we have not.", "At the same time, would it seem plausible that bin Laden supporters wouldn't want the public to know of his death, if indeed he died? So that perhaps the power of al Qaeda would still be going strong? The network of al Qaeda would still be going strong even though the public, you know, wouldn't be aware about his death?", "Well there would be some people who would take that approach in al Qaeda for sure. But I think that American intelligence and Pakistani intelligence, those two in particular, would pick up some indication of his death, largely through supporters who would hear about it and would be lamenting his passage. I don't think that we would be in the dark very long if he were to die.", "Interesting so --", "It would be important if he did die, of course, obviously. It would be a major, major blow to the movement in many ways.", "Well in what way? Let's talk about how it would be a blow to the movement. Because would al Qaeda need Osama bin Laden to continue functioning the way it is, given that it's tentacles are reaching all across the globe. Is he really just a symbol? Does he really help direct each movement of al Qaeda?", "I don't think he does anymore, in the sense that he did direct very carefully the 9/11 attack. And I think we are past the point where what I would call a decapitation strike would take this movement down. You know, if the plotters who tried to kill Hitler in July of 1944 had succeeded, it probably would have ended World War II. It wouldn't end the terrorist movement to kill bin Laden, but here is what I think would happen, particularly if a successful strike or capture operation took down both bin Laden and Zawahiri, his deputy. It is important. That's an important point because Zawahiri, really, it runs the movement day to day, is sort of the brains of the movement. Bin Laden is the spiritual leader. Zawahiri is the operational CEO, if you will. If you took both of them out, I think it would be a fractious thing within the movement. You would have debates about what they are to do next, what are their next targets. Bin Laden is the one who, along with Zawahiri, focused them so intently on what is known as the far target, that is the United States. So, it would be important to take him out.", "OK, and of course the questions to follow that would be, how would that impact the war on terror, particularly there in Afghanistan? John Mclaughlin, former acting director of the CIA and now an analyst for us, here at CNN. Thanks so much.", "Thanks very much.", "And this program reminder, our two hour special investigation \"In the Footsteps of bin Laden\" airs at 10:00 p.m. Eastern, right here on CNN, the most trusted name in news. Well they have exceeded recruitment goals but U.S. military units in the field are still being stretched to the limit, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army may need more help from outside its ranks. Here is Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.", "New fears that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may stretch the force more than anybody expected. In Iraq, the military now plans to keep about 145,000 U.S. troops in place until Spring, at least.", "We're not comfortable right now with a reduction in the size of our force.", "In Afghanistan, there are now no plans to bring home any of the 20,000 U.S. troops in the foreseeable future. With simultaneous wars, and no immediate prospect of cutting force levels, how long can the military keep it up?", "These guys are running as hard as they can on the conveyor belt, simply to keep up with the pace of operations.", "The Pentagon had hoped to bring 30,000 troops home from Iraq by the end of the year. On Capitol Hill, concern about the new reality.", "We need to be sure that we have a game plan for Afghanistan, as we need an end game plan for Iraq. Our military needs further support.", "The key problem? Army active duty and National Guard forces already are being sent back to the combat zone, sometimes within months of coming home. The solution? Either increase the size of the army, or call up the National Guard more often or send troops back to the frontline with even less time at home to rest and train for the next round of combat. But even if more troops are sent, usable equipment is in short supply, thousands of vehicles and weapons are worn out. The Army and National Guard say they urgently need $38 billion to fix or replace vehicles, weapons and gear. The Marine Corps says it needs $12 billion.", "A lot of pressure placed on individuals, leaders, equipment, units and on the force.", "That was Barbara Starr reporting. Pentagon sources tell CNN a new round of deployments is likely after the November elections. So how might this affect the National Guard? Christine Wormuth is with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and joins us now. Good to see you, Christine.", "Thanks very much Fredricka.", "Well are you seeing a mixed message being sent here, that the Army is saying that this year's recruiting goals have been met. Yet at the same time, the National Guard may be called upon because the Army is stretched too thin, because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?", "Well it is not so much a mixed message. The Army did have a good recruiting year and that's good news, considering what a tough year 2005 was. But essentially the problem is the recruiting targets that we're surpassing are for an Army that is fundamentally too small for the challenges we're facing and that's why we're going to have to, it looks like, perhaps go back to the National Guard a second time.", "And so you underscore that the previous year's recruiting wasn't so strong. So you have to wonder did the Army perhaps lower its expectations and so that's why the recruitment goals are being met? Not necessarily because there is a greater interest for people to enlist.", "Well the army did a number of things. It did change some of its standards. It raised the age limit so you can join a little bit older. It has accepted people with slightly lower aptitude scales than it has in the past. But it also put forward a lot of recruiting initiatives, in terms of giving people bonuses. So it did a number of things to help it meet that recruiting target. It also put a lot more recruiters on the street to go out and talk to people.", "And so while there may be more recruits then, at the same time you have to train folks. It doesn't necessarily mean that they are equipped and ready to be shot out of the cannon right away. That's why perhaps National Guardsmen and women are being called upon?", "That's definitely part of it. Part of it is that the active Army side right now is literally going overseas for a year, coming home for a year and then going back overseas for the year. Usually the active Army stays home for two years to train up and get ready. So to try and avoid putting even more pressure on the active Army, which is already going as fast as it can, they're going to need to look to the guard.", "So how concerned are you about other potential conflicts? Yes, we've got Afghanistan, Iraq right now, but the U.S. is always being called upon in many different forms to help out militarily. How concerned are you that the U.S. military is able to spread out in a continued kind of pace it does?", "Well, I think it is fair to say that right now, it is going to be challenging to find a lot of rested, ready Army units if some other conflict breaks out overseas. Certainly, we're exercising all of our diplomatic efforts to try and make sure that doesn't happen. But if something surprising were to occur, we would have to make some tough choices about which theaters to focus on.", "Are you optimistic?", "I see right now the future looking okay. I mean, I think we have a lot on our plate we need to focus on.", "All right, Christine Wormuth, senior fellow with the Center for strategic and International Studies is joining us from Washington. Thanks so much.", "Thank you.", "His trip to America captured world headlines. Put now, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is back in his homeland. We have the latest on how Venezuelans are reacting to his controversial speeches here in the U.S. That's coming up.", "We chose Williamsburg, Virginia, as one of the best places to retire because it is such a unique place. It is one of the most historic cities in America, if not the most historic city. The whole place is a functioning, living museum and lots of the people who assume roles of 18th century British colonials are actually retirees. Williamsburg is a city of 11, 800 people. The tax burden is very low. The cost of housing is low. Sales tax is 5 percent. The property taxes are very low because the tourism industry generates so much revenue. There are plenty of golf courses nearby, boating on the river, and the ocean is not far away either."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER", "WHITFIELD", "MCLAUGHLIN", "WHITFIELD", "MCLAUGHLIN", "WHITFIELD", "MCLAUGHLIN", "WHITFIELD", "MCLAUGHLIN", "WHITFIELD", "MCLAUGHLIN", "WHITFIELD", "MCLAUGHLIN", "WHITFIELD", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GEN. PETER PACE, CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF", "STARR", "TOM DONNELLY, CTR. FOR STRATEGIC AND INTL. STUDIES", "STARR", "REP DIANE WATSON (D), CALIFORNIA", "STARR", "GENERAL PETER SCHOOMAKER, U.S. ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF", "WHITFIELD", "CHRISTINE WORMUTH, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTL. 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{"id": "CNN-251635", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2015-03-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/20/acd.01.html", "summary": "Pat Deegan on Police Training to Handle Mentally Ill People", "utt": ["We are taking a closer look tonight at how police officers decide whether to use deadly force specifically during encounters with people who either might be or known to be suffering from serious mental illness. The recent killing of a mentally ill Dallas man named Jason Harrison, really underscores the issue. He was shot and killed by police at home holding a screwdriver in front of his mother who'd called them for help getting him to the hospital. A police body cam captured what happened. Now, before showing it, we should warn you, the video is very graphic and obviously disturbing to watch. It all happens very quickly, but a highlight just how quickly a police call can turn deadly. And critics say how much more officers need to learn about the kinds of situation you're about to see.", "Hello. What's going on?", "How you doing, what's going on?", "I need to stop ...", "Who's that?", "Bipolar, schizo.", "What's going on?", "Drop that for me.", "Jay!", "Drop it!", "Jay!", "Drop it.", "Jay!", "Drop it!", "Jay! [shooting ] [EXPLETIVE DELETED]", "(screaming)", "Well, Jason Harrison suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. His mother had specifically requested officers who were trained to deal with the mentally ill answer his call. Now, the attorney for these officers tell us they did have that training. And they said the man lunged at them with the screwdriver. The victim's brother calls a video perfect example of what not to do. Well, tonight we are going to show you a novel way that some officers in certain forces around the country are learning to experience the world the way many schizo - people with schizophrenia do. Pat Deegan designed it, and you'll hear from her shortly, I'm going to interview her. She's a clinical psychologist who also happens to live with schizophrenia. Now, here's how it works. For three quarters of an hour, you listen to voices through headphones while trying to do everything from puzzles to simply interacting with people on the street. I tried it myself last summer when we first reported on it, and it's a fascinating experiment. Take a look.", "You are going to put these earphones. I try to do a series of tests. So now hearing some whispers and voices in my head and the first test is some number puzzles.", "You suck and they know it. Did you get this right?", "OK. So I did this test for three minutes and I did not get a single one. It's very hard to concentrate when, if it's like music or something constant, it's easy but. People talking to you is very difficult. So now I'm going to be asked a series of questions by our producer who's in, and these are basically a series of questions that a person would be asked in, and they would be admitted to a hospital.", "Can you tell me what day it is?", "Yeah. It's Sunday, June, I don't know, like, 7TH?", "So I'm going to say five numbers and then I want you to repeat them after I'm done.", "OK.", "Five, 23, 67, 2, 76.", "5, 23, 67, something, 76.", "I'm going to say five words. You don't have to repeat them. But just listen to them. Cat. Look. Cigar. Damage. And rain. Can you name the last four presidents of the United States?", "Barack Obama, George Bush. Bill Clinton. And George Bush.", "Say these five words I said before. Can you remember any of them?", "No. It's hard when, because sometimes the voices are like whispering and sometimes they're aggressive and sometimes they're kind of comforting. And with people kind of talking to you all the time, it's -- it's hard.", "It's OK, don't worry.", "So, I'm going to try to make a boat origami following these instructions.", "You'll be OK."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE"]}
{"id": "CNN-5003", "program": "WorldView", "date": "2000-3-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/23/wv.01.html", "summary": "India and Pakistan Remain Divided Over Kashmir", "utt": ["In India, United States President Bill Clinton on Thursday shifted from high-stakes diplomacy to tourism. With his daughter Chelsea, Mr. Clinton toured a national park and came face-to-face with two endangered Bengal tigers. In the capital of New Delhi, however, regional tensions played out in the streets. Protesters blamed Pakistan for Monday's massacre of dozens of Sikhs in disputed Kashmir. Mr. Clinton travels to Pakistan Saturday. Officials there are mincing no words on the issue that has previously led to war between the two neighbors. CNN's John Raedler reports.", "Pakistan celebrated its national day with a display of military might. President Mohammad Rafiq Tarar and military ruler General Pervez Musharraf watched the display, which ranged from horsepower to airpower. Thousands of spectators watched the parade of personnel, and some cheered the procession of Pakistan's latest missiles. \"I promise that as far as we can,\" President Tarar says, \"we should make Pakistan stronger and stronger, but we do not believe in an arms race.\" As the display of military hardware continued, the president addressed India's rule of part of Kashmir. \"Today the Kashmiri nation is in the battlefield,\" he says, \"carrying coffins for their freedom and fighting for freedom, and enshallah (ph), they will win the battle and Kashmir will win independence.\" Later, General Musharraf announced plans for local elections to be held, starting in December. His statement contained little more than he has said before and he gave no timetable for a return to democracy at the national level. John Raedler, CNN, Karachi, Pakistan."], "speaker": ["BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN RAEDLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)"]}
{"id": "CNN-251924", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-03-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/24/nday.05.html", "summary": "Germanwings Plane Crashes in France; Airbus A320 Considered \"Work Horse\".", "utt": ["Do you attribute that to the information they got from the cockpit or just the simple fact of where this plane went down and it probably could not have been a controlled landing that high up in the mountains?", "I think there was an assumption made by the president and others here that because of where this is, a very difficult area even for hikers to get into -- it's a recreational area sometimes in the summertime for hikers to go to, but the fact is it's a pretty remote area, and I think that the assumptions that they've been making. One of the reasons the president may have spoken so quickly on this, he has the king of Spain in town today, it's an official visit by the king of Spain as it happens. As well, he's been in close contact with Angela Merkel over economic problems in Europe. So he really is kind of in the middle of it. and this unfortunate crash has put him in a spot where he probably wanted to respond right away.", "All right, Jim Bittermann, we thank you so much for that. Want to turn to Fred Pleitgen who is in London. You know this route well. We also know that not only air bus but Lufthansa and German Wings are all European companies. We understand German Wings is set to hold a press conference. Have they confirmed that this flight went down, because earlier we were hearing that they were aware but had not confirmed it themselves?", "The most recent information we have comes from Lufthansa themselves, which is of course the parent company of German Wings. And they so far are saying that they're still trying to get information. They say at this point in time they cannot confirm exactly what happened. However, they also say if their worst fears come true that this would be a very dark day for them and of course for German and for European aviation. But you're absolutely right, these are some of the biggest aviation companies in Europe. German Wings itself a direct subsidiary of Lufthansa. It was founded by Lufthansa in the early 1990s to compete on the growing market of low cost carriers. There was another big kid in town in German called Air Berlin that basically revolutionizing air travel in Europe at the time. Those low cost carriers were still fairly new, and Lufthansa wanted to get in the market. And one of the claims that Lufthansa always made or one of the things it did to advertise German Wings, it said it's a low cost airline but it has Lufthansa safety track record behind it. The one thing that people always talked about with German Wings is they know the planes get serviced by Lufthansa Technique which does plane servicing for companies around the world. It's one of the most well-known and one of the most trusted servicers, technology companies for aircraft. And so that was actually one of the big sales that they made. They said this is a very, very safe yet low cost airline. And flights show 17 destinations in Germany to various places around Europe, also the Middle East, also flights to places like Egypt. And it does have a full airbus fleet. All of their planes to my knowledge are of the A3- 20. So you would have A3-20 model itself, that A3-19, a sort of small version for shorter routes, and then maybe a couple of A3-21 aircraft for longer routes. They don't generally fly long haul. But also we've been saying that Lufthansa was planning to rebrand this airline.", "It is just a two-hour flight as you mentioned. You also pointed out to us, and it's important to reiterate right here that we're getting closer to Easter, families traveling. So obviously this will be a great deal because we cannot, cannot forget the human cost. And 148 souls are believed to have been lost between Barcelona, perhaps even Paris, and, of course, Germany, and who knows where other cities people were connecting to. A great deal of tragedy there. Do we know, do we have any idea about the flight manifest? It's probably too early to tell that, Fred?", "It's interesting because the French authorities have come out and they say they're trying to identify the passengers at this point in time, which obviously means they're looking at the flight manifest. They want to see who these people are, who their relatives are. I have heard from some people I know at German broadcasters that apparently there are some relatives who are making their way to Dusseldorf Airport. That's still very early information of course. At this point in time the airline hasn't even confirmed that it knows very much about what happened. But it seems as though all of this is slowly sinking in. And people who would have known a relative or friend who might be traveling from Barcelona to Dusseldorf today, they would be very worried right now. And as far as the human cost is concerned, Angela Merkel apparently has already spoken with the French president, with Francois Hollande. They've talked about this. She's set to give a speech in about an hour or so to talk about this as well. But of course this is a gigantic tragedy for German aviation. It is one of the biggest if not the biggest crash at least in German airline history. There was one that was worse that happened in Germany in 2005. However, Lufthansa itself has had two major incidents in its entire history. One of them was the first ever crash, by the way, of a 747 that happened in 1974 and one of its plane skidded off a runway in Poland in 1992. That was also a model of the Airbus A3-20 as well that it was on an icy and wet runway that it went across and six people died in that. But they've never had anything like this happen yet.", "OK, Fred Pleitgen, if you can stand by for us. We'll check back with you. We want to bring in now David Soucie, our CNN aviation analyst. David, you're always so helpful at crunching the numbers, looking at the data, and helping us understand is it. So let's just go through what we know. And it's incredible that we do all know now the altitude and the speed because of all these online flight trackers. And one of them here that we've been looking says that something about half an hour into the flight. This flight took off at about 9:55 or 10:00 a.m. local time in Barcelona. Then at about 10:30 something starts to happen where the plane that had been flying at 38,000 feet begins gradually descending each minute over the course of about seven minutes 24,000 feet. Is that alarming? Can planes make that sort of altitude climb and dip normally, or does that mean something half-an- hour in bad started happening?", "Well, I think there's an indication that something bad happened about a half-an-hour in. But the gradual decent is not really that gradual. At 3,400 feet per minute you know you're going down. It's faster than an elevator at that point. You're feeling it down. It's pulling you down. So you can sense that. You do know what's happening. But it is a very controlled manner from what we know. You've mentioned the fact that we do know this. It is fascinating the technology that we kind of for granted right now. The ABSB system which reports this altitude, and this is what companies like Flight Aware and these companies that we look at right now, what they're doing is they're receiving information from the ADSB which is one of thousands of pieces of information that's being sent to the airline, but this is public information that we can get. And so it analyzes it on every flight. You can go there and track any flight at any time and understand exactly what's going on in real time. So the technology that is available right now is just really spectacular, and it allows us to get information very quickly so that we can get people out there right away and make some determinations as to whether this is a, you know, search and rescue or if it's just a search and retrieval of what's left at the accident scene.", "So in addition to what we know about the altitude of this plane, we also know some interesting things about its speed. What did you see in those numbers?", "Well, what's interesting about the speed, the air speed, is that there was a rapid decline in the speed at one point, but after that the speed was maintained entirely throughout the flight including during the decent. So what that tells me is it was a controlled descent. So we're looking at 3,400 feet per minute downward, which typically the aircraft can speed up during that time. So it tells me that the controls, probably the auto pilots, the flight controls, there are seven computers on this aircraft. All are rechecking with each other to make sure everything is going well. So at this point it tells me that most likely those computers were operating normally or that the pilot at least was cognizant and aware of what was happening so that he could control that speed as you go down, because when you start that descent, the aircraft wants to speed up, of course. It wants to go fast. And so the fact that the air speed maintained while that descent went on tells me there was a lot of control, it was a controlled descent, and there was something that had gone wrong that he had no control over or he would have controlled it at that point.", "We also know the pilot did know something was going wrong because somewhere after 10:30 a distress call was made from the cockpit. We understand what was said was, \"Emergency, emergency\" and then the flight lost contact with the tower at about 6,800 feet. And, of course, we also understand that the debris in that area of southern France has been found at 6,500 feet.", "Yes. The \"Emergency, emergency\" is a response. There's something going on. He knows obviously there's something wrong and that he won't be able to do much about it. The fact that there was no information -- if you remember just recently the Harrison Ford accident when Harrison said, you know, \"I've got to go back to runway 22. I've got to make a return, return to the airport, I've got an emergency situation.\" You can see how much information is available to the air traffic controller at this time. In this case we didn't see that. It was just simply \"Emergency, emergency,\" indicating that something very rapid, very quick that the pilot had to address and take care of. Also the fact that he didn't squawk an emergency. He didn't turn on to his transponder and squawk in 7700 and said, hey there, I have this problem, I need some help, because that means that he just -- all he had time to do was say I have an emergency. So whatever happened here, this anomalous thing that happened in the middle of this flight, which is incredibly rare to happen in the middle of the flight, that it happened then and that all he had time to do was say, \"Emergency, emergency\" yet controlled the aircraft, so that tells me he was focused on flying the aircraft, which is the number one thing when something goes wrong, you have to control the airplane. And he was making every attempt to do that from what we can tell of the information that we have at this time.", "David, what is it that you always tell us about the priorities for a pilot in order, that it's navigate and then, you know, before communicate. What is the order?", "It's after aviate, navigate, and communicate. He was definitely aviating and navigating from what we can tell, as much control as he had over navigation, because at this point you're going to go down. You're just trying to look for a place to safely put down the aircraft. He was close to an airport but he obviously wasn't close enough. And so this is where I think also because it was a controlled move, I think that he had possibly been making an attempt to land at that Grenoble airport because he was very close to that.", "We do understand that Grenoble airport is somewhat proximate to where this was. But again the terrain, largely mountainous, 6,500 feet is the latest report of where they found debris. And obviously there wouldn't have been a safe landing area there. The big concern, of course, the 148 souls aboard, this 142 passengers and six crew members. So let's get to Jim Bitterman now in Paris. We have more information about the breakdown of who was on this plane. What do we know, Jim?", "Well, in fact from Madrid we're hearing that there were 45 Spaniards among the 148 passengers, crew on board the plane. So they are likely victims of this crash. We understand now that in fact a temporary morgue has been set up in a small town gymnasium, a school, a small town which is about 10 kilometers from the crash site. There are a number of helicopters in the air ferrying what we believe to be the remains and bodies of the passengers back and forth from the crash site to the school. So I think the officials are preparing for the worst. We heard from both the prime minister and the president this morning that they have in fact called a crisis meeting. This is the worst crash here, Chris, on French soil since the Concorde went down in 2000. There were 113 people killed out at Charles de Gaulle airport. And ironically, those passengers were mostly German. They were German tourists aboard the Concorde on an exploratory flight that caught fire right after takeoff. The plane tried to land but crashed short and all aboard were killed. So that is the worst crash that they've had in recent years here in France. I think for the government officials it's a real crisis. They are sending not only the interior minister but also the transport minister and the environmental minister down to the crash. We also hear from the German authorities that the German transport minister is on his way to the crash scene.", "And at this point everybody is dealing with this as if it were an accident or something that went wrong with the aircraft. We've heard no credible reports of anything else. Lufthansa early on said they were hoping to find survivors. That is seeming more like an empty hope at this point because the French authorities have been increasingly setting the expectations very low, Jim, in terms of this being anything by the worst, true?", "Absolutely. Where this took place is a mountainous region that's know if by anybody it's recreational hikers and whatnot because it's really a fairly bleak, remote area of small villages and whatnot up in the mountains. The crash scene we understand is somewhere around 6,000 feet up in the mountains, which would tally with the kind of altitude data that we have been hearing about from these various sensors aboard the aircraft. So it's a very tough area for anybody to work in, the rescuers, the other people that are on the scene have to hike in a fair distance as we understand it. So it's not an easy one, Chris. I should have mentioned, by the way, earlier when I was talking about the Spanish victims that the king of Spain is in Paris just coincidentally today on an official visit. Spanish flags flying up and down the Champs-Elysees here. And it wouldn't surprise me that either he would cut short that visit or that we would see him appearing with President Hollande here at some point. But at the moment there's been no sign of that.", "Jim, we understand that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has actually spoken with the French President Hollande, and she is said to make a statement shortly, so we'll watch for that. I want to bring in another one of our aviation analysts and experts, Les Abend, who has become a familiar sight here on CNN. He joins us by phone now. Les, I'm looking at some information from the \"Wall Street Journal\" about the safety record of the A3-20 which is the plane that was involved in this crash there in the French Alps. They're talking about 0.08 crashes per million flights according to AirSafe.com. But it's also interesting, Les, this is the same aircraft model that was involved in the AirAsia jetline flight over Indonesia, 8501. We covered that here on CNN. And, of course, the Miracle of the Hudson back in 2009. Yet, this is a model that has a really good safety record.", "Yes, good morning. Absolutely. I mean, there's no disputing the fact that this airplane, you know, as it's been stated, a workhorse. It's been very reliable. You know, that safety record is pretty exemplary. There's aspects, you know, about the airplane that are a little different than other aircraft manufacturers according to the electronics. But it, indeed, is a safe airplane. And they're just kind of echo Dave Soucie with reference to his explanation about it seemed to be a controlled descent with this airplane means that this crew was flying this airplane at least, you know, in a controlled descent situation, that we can speculate, but something went wrong for them to want to -- or have a desire to lose all that altitude quickly. It's not a rapid rate of descent which could be indicative of a potential engine failure. It could possibly be a slow depressurization. There's all sorts of scenarios that could occur. We're all speculating at this point in time, you know, why there is a sighting that we've been told by a helicopter that shows wreckage. Let's not jump to conclusions.", "No.", "It could be something else. So, you know, let's be certain that it is the airplane and let's tell the people that are listening to us across the world that there's always the possibility of survivors even in the worst circumstances.", "We always want to keep hope alive and we've told those stories of miracles here on CNN before to be sure. But we do know that there was a distress signal sent out. We talk about the rate the plane descended. And there was a rapid ascension and descent again. We heard about it going off radar at about 6,800 feet and then the grim proposal of where we're told debris has been found at 6,500 feet. A controlled descent into a mountain sounds like a very difficult proposition, Les.", "It is. I mean, this is -- this is certainly not the goal of any of us as crew members. What it says to me, although we've been getting reports there was no weather issues. After looking at the weather chart, there was -- there is a cold front that has progressed on its way through that area in Europe and it did indicate that there was some precipitation. So, there may not have been weather at altitude, however, at lower altitudes as they were beginning the descent their visibility may have been obscured, which is not -- not a really big or nonprocedural issue. But the weather may have deteriorated as they descended possibly being a factor. As we all know from the coverage that we've had here on CNN is that there are many factors --", "Yes.", "-- to an airplane accident.", "There are initial reports that weather was not a factor in this situation or at least weather was not reported in the area, Les. It bears repeating for those that are just tuning in now, is that you are a commercial pilot. I think to get your perspective on a situation like this and an emergency, we talked with David Soucie a moment ago about the importance of navigate, aviate and communicate in those moments when something is going wrong. Help us understand, too, what else are the priorities when something, it doesn't matter whether it's mechanical, structural, if there's an incursion of the cockpit -- talk to us about the mind set of a pilot in those emergency moments.", "Yes. The actual acronym is aviate, navigate and then communicate. Your main concern is flying that airplane. When something goes wrong the first thing you do is you have to recognize the situation. It's very important to know what you have in front of you. More than likely an electronic airplane like an Airbus, you'll have some sort of electronic warning. Whatever that warning was telling you, what does that mean to you? It has to register. And then what are your actions? Most likely, the actions are some type of emergency checklist that has to be found on the Airbus. They have an emergency checklist that's electronic that they will go through and literally click off what procedures have to be done for that appropriate emergency. So, your main concern is to make sure that that airplane is stable, under control, and, you know, it's flying properly. Then the next part of it is, let's navigate. And navigate is important because in the terrain situation, you want to stay on airways. There are certain altitudes on certain airways to maintain your clearance above the terrain so that's very important. Then, of course, once you have everything established, people are safe, airplane is safe, then the next step is let's tell somebody that we've got a problem. Now, these don't necessarily have to happen in those particular orders. It depends upon the priority and the severity of the emergency. But it appears that an emergency was -- something was declared. Some sort of distress occurred. How it was said is very important. The tone of that particular crew member's voice, whichever pilot reported it. You know, more than likely if it's a serious emergency, most likely, the pilot that's flying is first handling flying the airplane, and the other pilot is doing the checklist.", "Trying to communicate. Sure. And we do know, Les, to add a little bit, that someone was able to say, \"Emergency, emergency\" to the tower before it crashed. Les, stick around for us for a second. Please stand by, because we want to bring in CNN correspondent Fred Pleitgen. Fred, this crash happened half an hour into the flight -- meaning that there were problem no friends and relatives yet at the airport at Dusseldorf. Perhaps they are waking up or turning on their television, I should say, and hearing the news of this crash on CNN or on their media. You have some information about what the airline is doing for family members right now.", "Yes. It's interesting, Alisyn, because the airline itself says it's still trying to gather information, but it seems as though even with them, it's becoming evidently clear this is a big catastrophic event. So, what they've done, both the airline and the airport itself has started a hotline for family members of those believed to be on board the plane. There is one of Germanwings. Germanwings also said it's going to hold a press conference in about one hour and forty minutes from now. But there is a hotline that is in place right now. And some of the information I'm getting from some friends I have at German media, which is also concentrated in the Cologne and Dusseldorf area, where all this happened, they say that they have indications, that there are people who are showing up at the airport who might be family members or friends of some of those people who might have been on the plane because at this point in time, it is very difficult, of course, to discern. There have been tweets for instance from German politicians saying they understand that many people right now will be very worried about loved ones who they think might have been on this plane because it's absolutely unclear to many of them where their loved ones are at this point. Again, this plane was supposed to take off at around 9:30 local time. So, at that point, many of the friends and relatives will be at work. We're not sure whether or not these people have access to news. Certainly, we do know that in Germany and specifically that area, this is the top news story obviously at this point in time since as it's shaping up right now, it is at least for German aviation company, the worst airline disaster in their history, certainly in Lufthansa's history and any German aviation company. There was a big crash that happened in Germany in 2005 when there was a mid-air collision. That involved a Russian plane and a DHL aircraft that collided over the German skies. However, as far as German aviation companies are concerned, this is certainly shaping up to be the worst that's ever happened.", "Fred, 142 passengers on board, six crew members. We do know that 45 of those passengers were Spaniards. Do we know anything else about the passengers?", "Well, at this point we don't have the numbers. We do know that the French authorities have come out and said that they believe because of the destination of this plane, that most of the -- or the majority of the victims will be German. Of course, there's 45 Spaniards on board. That, of course, is something that also is very important. There is a lot of travel between Spain and Germany. Spain is by far the biggest tourist destination of most European countries or at least northern European countries, but of Germany, specifically. There's a lot of Germans that go back and forth. There's a lot of flights. And especially from this area, from Dusseldorf, from the Cologne area, most densely populated area in all of Germany, or on all of Germany, or at least Dusseldorf is the airport, the biggest airport within that most densely populated area. There's a lot of flights going back and forth. There are a lot of Spaniards who are living in that part. There were big waves of migration of Spaniards going to Germany incidentally in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and then again right now, because, of course, you have the economic crisis in Spain. Many people are seeking work in Germany. So, there is a lot of travel back and forth. It's also the beginning of the Easter holiday time which also, of course, is something that increases travel as well. So, it shouldn't be a surprise why there were so many people taking that flight this morning.", "All right. Fred, we know you're going to jump on a plane to continue your reporting. We'll check in with you when you get situated. Thank you for being with us this morning. Let's bring in Mary Schiavo. And just to reset for our audience in the U.S. and around the world, we are talking about Germanwings Flight 9525. It has been reported to have crashed. It was supposed to go to Barcelona to Germany -- Barcelona, Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany. And as you see, this was the intended path. It didn't make it. It crashed in France in the Alps. Mary, 148 souls on board. The French president came out very early, saying he did not expect survivors. Lufthansa, the owner of Germanwings, said they were hoping to find survivors. But now that we're learning this plane went down at about 6,500 feet in the French Alps, it looks like a very bleak situation?", "Well, it is a very, very bleak situation. The information we have gotten over the last half hour or so about the mayday call, there was clearly something wrong, the information from the radar, that it make a steep descent but controlled descent from 35,000 down to 27,000 means something was going wrong with the plane, the control of the plane. You know, an Airbus did this last November, made a sharp descent and the plane did it itself. The crew was able to get it under control and land it. So, I'm sure that the airline is in contact with Airbus as they are sorting through what preliminary information suggests, but from that 27,000 level on down, it must have been a very quick event.", "And we see on the tracking data here that that descent was over the course of just a few minutes in the middle of this flight. You've pointed out this morning that 95 percent of crashes happen either on takeoff or landing and, obviously, all of these points of curiosity but what matters most are the lives that may have been lost aboard the plane. We do have pictures now of family members and friends starting to gather around Dusseldorf airport in Germany. That was of course where this plane Flight 9525 of Germanwings was supposed to go, Mary. And when we start looking at these numbers to tell the story of what happened here, takeoff seemed to be fine. The takeoff time of this aircraft was delayed. But there could be a million reasons for that. Doesn't seem there was weather in the area that would have been a particular hazard.", "No.", "The course that seems like the long way to go going out east into the water before coming back we now know is the normal route that was taken, so there was no detour. But as we start looking at the data, which is available online as this flight was being tracked, we do start to see training things as you were referring to. What is the biggest point to you right now?", "The descent. The biggest point of interest to me was the mayday call and the descent. And there you got clearly a pilot that still has control of the aircraft, but a very rapid descent. That descent is certainly a bracing one. It does not suggest that the plane had stalled and was literally falling out of the sky. When that happens, it can either fall like a leaf, or it can shudder and kind of fall off into a dive. I would suspect that would be much faster. In a controlled descent, I mean, if there was something gone wrong and the plane itself had put itself into a descent, that happened last November, November of 2014. I'm trying to remember exactly where in the world it happened, but an Airbus 320 like this did have a very rapid descent that the plane put itself into. There the pilots were able to get control. It appears they leveled off for at least a little bit according to the radar at 27,000 feet, so it looks like perhaps the pilots were fighting the plane or fighting to keep control of that plane, but at least at that point they were still able to communicate and to fly the plane. So, to me, it still suggests some kind of a mechanical with the plane. I would think if they got a mayday call out and they were on fire they would have said they were on fire.", "And just to be clear, not the French authorities, nobody involved with the airplane, no credible reporting at this point is calling this anything but some type of accident that happened with this plane --", "Correct.", "-- in the air? There's no reason to believe anything else right now. When you start looking into this --", "Right.", "-- distress call, there is confusion about that on the reporting side but French authorities are saying they got one and it seems credible because it's coming from them and they know language that was used. Now, when they say the last words used were, \"emergency, emergency\", is that pilot jargon? Is that what is supposed to be said?", "Well, yes, that can be -- that can be a huge clue, and what we need to know is -- what we need to confirm is what code they were squawking. Now, when I say squawking, there is an indication that they put some kind of a code on their transponder and there is a code for -- there is a hijack code. And we're not allowed to say what that is. That's secured information. But if we learn what the code they were squawking was, then we might know what was going on."], "speaker": ["CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "JIM BITTERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "PEREIRA", "PLEITGEN", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID SOUCIE, CNN AVIATION ANALYST", "CAMEROTA", "SOUCIE", "CAMEROTA", "SOUCIE", "CUOMO", "SOUCIE", "CUOMO", "BITTERMANN", "CUOMO", "BITTERMANN", "CAMEROTA", "LES ABEND, CNN AVIATION ANALYST (via telephone)", "PEREIRA", "ABEND", "PEREIRA", "ABEND", "PEREIRA", "ABEND", "PEREIRA", "ABEND", "CAMEROTA", "PLEITGEN", "CAMEROTA", "PLEITGEN", "CUOMO", "MARY SCHIAVO, CNN AVIATION ANALYST", "CUOMO", "SCHIAVO", "CUOMO", "SCHIAVO", "CUOMO", "SCHIAVO", "CUOMO", "SCHIAVO", "CUOMO", "SCHIAVO"]}
{"id": "CNN-86373", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2004-7-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/20/lad.03.html", "summary": "Filipino Hostage Released; 'Today's Talker'", "utt": ["Released from his captors after days of tense negotiations, the Filipino hostage in Iraq is set free. It's Tuesday, July 20, and this is DAYBREAK. Well, good morning to you from the CNN global headquarters in Atlanta. I'm Betty Nguyen in for Carol Costello. Now in the news, a Filipino truck driver held hostage for nearly two weeks in Iraq is now waiting to go home. Angelo de la Cruz has been released by his captors and is at the Philippine embassy in Baghdad. His release comes one day after the Philippine government pulled its last troops out of Iraq. President Bush is spending most of the day on the campaign trail. After a morning meeting with economic advisers, he heads to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for a re-election rally. Later, he'll attend another rally just outside Saint Louis. And on the Democratic side, presidential candidates are lying low today -- or the presidential candidate. Senator John Kerry is in Nantucket, Massachusetts and has no public events scheduled. His running mate, John Edwards, is in Washington for the day. And in just a few hours, music mogul Sean P. \"Diddy\" Combs is expected to take the microphone to announce more details about his national voter registration drive. Combs has said the goal of his Citizen Change drive is to register at least two million young voters. People are returning to their homes in Southern California. Weekend wildfires forced the evacuation of more than 1,600 houses in Santa Clarita. Residents have returned to all but 350 of those homes. Firefighters have been able to surround the Santa Clarita fire, which is now about 45-percent contained. Keeping you informed, CNN, the most trusted name in news.", "Let's get more now on the Filipino truck driver who has been released in Iraq. Angelo de la Cruz is at the Philippine embassy in Baghdad, and CNN's Matthew Chance joins us from Baghdad with more on the release. Hi -- Matthew.", "Thanks, Betty. And he spent the last two weeks with the threat of brutal execution hanging over him. But now, Angelo de la Cruz is a free man. He's in the custody of Filipino diplomats, and he's on his way home via the United Arab Emirates, where we're told he will be receiving medical checks. But this release came at quite a high price. It comes just a day after the Filipino government ordered out and actually evacuated out, withdrew out its 51-strong contingent of humanitarian troops that had been working as part of the coalition here in Iraq. The fate of the hostage depended on that, and his hostage-takers said that they would decapitate him, behead him, if those troops were not withdrawn. The United States, as well as the Iraqi interim government, has been expressing its concern. The U.S. working very hard behind the scenes before this withdrawal took place to get the Filipino government to change its mind, concern that it may send the wrong message to hostage-taking groups in the future. The interim Iraqi government also expressing its concerns, saying it sets a bad precedent. But this has become such a hot political issue in the Philippines itself, the fate of Angelo de la Cruz, that the government decided clearly that it didn't have any choice. And the two countries, Iraq and the U.S., are having to respect that decision now.", "Matthew Chance in Baghdad this morning, thank you. Samuel Berger, the national security adviser in the Clinton administration, is in trouble this morning. It's the result of preparations he made for an appearance in March before the commission investigating the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Berger is under a federal criminal investigation for allegedly taking classified documents and handwritten notes from a national archive screening room. Berger released a statement, saying -- quote -- that he \"inadvertently took a few documents.\" He goes on -- quoting here: \"I also took my notes on the documents reviewed. When I was informed by the archives there were documents missing, I immediately returned everything I had, except for a few documents that apparently I had accidentally discarded.\" Well, what does America think? Today we look at politics, obesity and even a notable moment in outer space. And for a look at some opinions, let's join Gallup Poll editor-in-chief Frank Newport this morning. Frank, we want to start with politics, and both candidates have been trying to court minority voters. How are their efforts working out so far?", "Well, let's show you the data. We just finished our Gallup's annual update on minority views of the world, including politics. And we can break out the projected vote. This is through June for Bush or for Kerry by non-Hispanic whites. Bush is ahead there. Among blacks, overwhelmingly they will support Kerry. That's not a surprise. It's very rare that a Republican candidate will get a lot of the black vote. It may explain why Bush did not show up at the NAACP convention a week or two ago. But among Hispanics, it still tilts to Kerry, but you'll notice the 38 percent of Hispanics nationwide already say they would vote for Bush. That's why Bush, indeed, has been out there looking at the Hispanic vote in a state like Florida, where he recently was eating at a Cuban restaurant, trying to get the Hispanic vote.", "Allan Greenspan, he testifies on Capitol Hill today on the state of the economy. Are Americans starting to become more positive about the economy?", "Well, it's kind of interesting. Yes, consumer confidence is going up a little in our Gallup measures. But overwhelmingly, Americans do expect to see more interest rate increase and more inflation. You can see, in fact, 78 percent in our recent update said they expect within the next six months interest rates to go up. Inflation a little lower at 62 percent. That could be bad news. Americans may be worried about it. In fact, those are higher numbers. Fifty-eight percent say there will be growth and 46 percent say the stock market will go up. So, look at these in context. What are Americans expecting most out of the economy? Increased interest rates. And, again, that may be dampening some of their optimism about the economy.", "Very interesting. We've also reported about the problems with obesity in American society, and last week the government decided to start classifying obesity as a disease. What does your polling show about that issue?", "Well, we just asked exactly that question. Overwhelmingly, Americans say nonsense. It's not a disease. It is an issue of personal eating style and choosing the wrong foods. See the numbers there? Seventy-five percent say it's a lifestyle choice. Only 21 percent say it's a disease. So, the public totally disagrees with the government on this. By the way, Betty, even those who are overweight are no more likely to say it's a disease than those who claim their weight is about right.", "And finally, Frank, today marks the 35th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon. We know President Bush wants to return to the moon. But are Americans willing to pay for it?", "Well, Americans like the idea. All of the polling shows by Gallup that if you just say if you would go back to Mars and the moon with humans, yes. Americans say good idea. We're in favor of it. But the question we asked: What about spending billions and billions, as Carl Sagan once said about doing it? Only 31 percent say yes. So the bottom line here, Betty, is, great concept to send humans back into space. The idea is where is the money going to come from?", "Absolutely. It's all about the money. Frank Newport, thank you very much. There is still more to come here on DAYBREAK, so please stick around."], "speaker": ["BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR", "NGUYEN", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "NGUYEN", "FRANK NEWPORT, GALLUP POLL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF", "NGUYEN", "NEWPORT", "NGUYEN", "NEWPORT", "NGUYEN", "NEWPORT", "NGUYEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-76749", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2003-9-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/10/lol.04.html", "summary": "NYC Mayor Asks Cheney Not to Come to 9-11 Ceremony", "utt": ["Vice President Dick Cheney will be notably absent from the ceremony at World Trade Center tomorrow on the second anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Here with more details is CNN's Maria Hinojosa in New York. Hello to you, Maria.", "Hello, Heidi. Well, Mayor Bloomberg's office here in New York and the Secret Service say that they have been working together to find a way to have the vice president attend the second anniversary official ceremony, while at the same time keeping the event focused on the needs of the family members of September 11. Now Mayor Bloomberg's office is saying that the amount of security needed for the vice president would simply be -- quote -- \"an inconvenience for the family members of the victims.\" The mayor has asked that the vice president attend a smaller memorial for the fallen Port Authority employees, but Mayor Bloomberg was careful to say he did not disinvite Cheney, noting the president didn't come to the primary memorial last year because of security concerns. Bloomberg also said that Cheney himself thought his presence would take away from the family's ability to mourn.", "The vice president is coming to New York tomorrow, and I'm going to be with him, as is the governor, as he pays his respects in the morning. It's just because of the logistics of a very big area, it's virtually -- it turned out to be so complicated to provide the security that the vice president's Secret Service agents wanted, that in the end, he thought that it would take away from the families, the family focus and ability to mourn.", "Vice President Cheney was to have taken part in a moment of silence, observing the time the first plane struck the north tower at 8:46 a.m. Now CNN has been told that the vice president understands and accepts the mayor's recommendation, but all of this comes after a scathing front page \"Daily News\" story that had the president skipping the event altogether and sending the vice president instead. Many family members felt that was a slap in the face. Others told the mayor's office they didn't want any politicians at a memorial they felt should have no political dimension at all. One family member of a September 11 victim told \"The Daily News\" that the president may not want to come to New York because of sagging poll numbers and for fear he might have been booed at the site. And at this point, it looks like neither President Bush or his vice president will be in New York at the official commemoration ceremony to mark this day of horror in New York -- Heidi.", "Maria, has there been a response from the White House about those allegations, saying that President Bush wouldn't be coming to the celebration because of the poll numbers.", "No, at this point, we have just heard from the vice president's office, saying that they understand what the mayor has asked for. But at this point, no response officially that we have heard regarding those allegations -- Heidi.", "All right, Maria Hinojosa in New York for us today. Thanks so much, Maria. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "MARIA HINOJOSA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MYR. MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, NEW YORK CITY", "HINOJOSA", "COLLINS", "HINOJOSA", "COLLINS"]}
{"id": "NPR-15417", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2017-04-04", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/04/04/522554644/suspect-sought-in-russian-terror-attack-in-st-petersburg", "title": "Suspect Sought In Russian Terror Attack In St. Petersburg", "summary": "Rachel Martin talks to Guardian correspondent Shaun Walker about Monday's bombing of a metro train in St. Petersburg that killed 14 people. Another device was found unexploded at a nearby station.", "utt": ["There's new information this morning about that bombing on a subway in St. Petersburg, Russia, that left 14 people dead. Authorities say the suspect is a Russian citizen who was born in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin last night to express his condolences for the attack.", "For the latest on the investigation, we go now to Moscow and Shaun Walker of the British newspaper The Guardian. Shaun's been following all of this. Good morning.", "Good morning.", "What more do we know at this point about this suspect authorities have named?", "Well, you know, we've had really conflicting information overnight. And, you know, we do now seem to be honing in on this 22 year old who was born in the south of Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet Republic from which, you know, hundreds of thousands of workers come and work in Russia. And as far as we know, he had a Russian passport. He'd been living in Russia for several years. But so far, we've only got confirmation of this from Kyrgyz intelligence. The Russians haven't actually confirmed that this is definitely the person behind it. So, you know, a lot of the details still sketchy.", "We don't even know - you know, we think that he was a suicide bomber, but we haven't had official confirmation that he did actually die in the blast or, you know, possible still that he could have left the bomb on the train and detonated it remotely. So some of the information is falling into place, but a lot of details are still quite sketchy.", "Yeah, questions still. So there have been attacks like this since the breakup of the Soviet Union against Russia. How does this attack fit in with that pattern?", "Well, I think, you know, obviously at this stage it's all a lot of speculation. But I think whereas, you know, earlier if you remember those kind of attacks and the school siege in Beslan or the theater siege in Moscow back in 2002, you know, a bunch of terrorist acts that hit Moscow over the years. And they were often tied to the Chechen independence cause which gradually took on more and more of a kind of Islamist bend to it. But in recent years, I think the Chechen cause has kind of morphed into, you know, we've seen a lot of the Chechen commanders go and find Syria, pledge allegiance to the Islamic State.", "And then we've also seen people from those poor republics of Central Asia like Kyrgyzstan, also hundreds of them ending up fighting in Syria and pledging allegiance to the Islamic State as well. And we've also had reports of people perhaps not dissimilar to the suspect here of the young Uzbek or Kyrgyz men who come and work in terrible conditions in Russia and end up actually getting radicalized inside Russia. So, you know, again, bit too early to tell. But that might sort of turn out to be something that - a similar case here.", "So how does that feed President Vladimir Putin's message about how he is fighting the so-called war on terror, the war against ISIS? I mean, do attacks like these strengthen or weaken Vladimir Putin?", "Well I think, you know, it probably depends a little bit on your view of him to start with. So, you know, the people who are skeptical of Putin's actions, for example, in Syria, you know, the Russians wading into that conflict in 2015 would say, well, look, you know, you said you were going into Syria to make Russia more safe. And this is the response, you're targeted by the Islamic State. And that's kind of blowback to Syria actions.", "On the other hand, Russians who are sort of supportive of what Putin's doing in Syria would say, well, you know, look, everybody is fighting terrorism. This is no different to what's happening in other Western capitals. And, you know, this is proof that what we're doing in Syria is right. And we have to fight this. So I think, you know, opinions will differ on that one.", "Yeah. Shaun Walker is Moscow correspondent for The Guardian newspaper. Thanks so much for talking with us.", "Thanks."], "speaker": ["RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SHAUN WALKER", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SHAUN WALKER", "SHAUN WALKER", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SHAUN WALKER", "SHAUN WALKER", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SHAUN WALKER", "SHAUN WALKER", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SHAUN WALKER"]}
{"id": "CNN-229870", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2014-5-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/05/es.01.html", "summary": "Crisis in Ukraine; Searching for Flight 370", "utt": ["Outrage in Odessa. Protesters storm a police building, setting prisoners free as Ukraine's violence spreads from the east to a major poor city now. The government says Russia is to blame as civil war grows closer. We are live with the very latest.", "Expanded. The search for Flight 370 now covers a wider part of the ocean floor. But first, a whole lot of preparation. Australia, Malaysia and China planning what comes next, promising this jet will be found, even if it takes years. We are live with the latest on the hunt, missing now for nearly two months.", "On trial again. Oscar Pistorius returns to court in South Africa after a two-week delay in his murder case. His defense determined to show he shot his girlfriend accidentally, but prosecutors, they have other plans. Good morning. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans.", "And I'm John Berman. It is Monday, May 5th. It is 4:00 a.m. in the East. And up first, Odessa under siege. The bloodshed and violence in Ukraine's third largest city escalating dramatically. Now hundreds of pro-Russian militants storming a police station Sunday, freeing dozens of their own. Nearly 50 people are now dead after three days of violence there. The bloodshed in Odessa really upping the stakes in the deepening struggle now in several parts of Ukraine. So, let's get the latest now from Arwa Damon live in Donetsk. That is in eastern Ukraine. Arwa, what can you tell us this morning?", "Well, that violence in Odessa most certainly has served to harden people's emotions here in eastern Ukraine, where up until those clashes broke out in Odessa, that fire breaking out in that building that killed a vast majority of those people, Odessa had been relatively calm. A lot of the violence, a lot of the standoffs that we've been seeing between the pro-Russian camp and the pro-Ukrainian camp had been centering here in eastern Ukraine, and we're still seeing that continuing, despite the fact that the Ukrainian government has launched a so-called antiterrorism campaign. The military has been moving in on some of the key cities of Slaviansk and Kramatorsk. They have yet to make any sort of significant gains. When it comes to the pro-Russian side, they continue to dig into the various locations that they hold, taking over even more buildings than they have in the past and even clashing with riot police with ministry of interior forces. But at the end of the day, the pro-Russian side always ends up winning. The Ukrainian forces forced to negotiate in a number of these instances, forced to retreat, and effectively, meet the demands of the pro-Russian camp. Of great concern, of course, in all of this is the fact that Russia itself has tens of thousands of troops perched right on the border, everyone watching what they're going to be doing incredibly closely, everyone, especially NATO allies in this region, very concerned that this country could be moving towards a full-scale war.", "Yes, no doubt, Arwa, a crucial day there after the violence we've seen of the last few days. Arwa Damon in Donetsk -- thanks for being with us this morning.", "All right. This morning, we're getting a closer look at a terrifying accident during a circus in Rhode Island and a warning to you this morning, this is graphic what we're about to show you. This cell phone video shows what happened at the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey performance. That's an apparatus holding these acrobats by their hair. It obviously failed, all of them crashing to the ground. Eleven people, including all 9 of those acrobats, were hurt.", "First, I thought it was the act. We see them, they were doing acrobats with their hair.", "I was worried for the people, for their welfare.", "We asked everybody to, you know, pray for the girls and everybody on the act.", "This shouldn't happen, and we'll get to the bottom of why it happened and make sure it doesn't happen going forward.", "Now, the circus says it takes the health of its performers seriously and carefully inspects all of its equipment and it is working with the city of Providence to try to figure out exactly what happened.", "We have breaking news overnight to tell you about. Six people hurt on a us airways jet flying from Philadelphia to Orlando. The airline says the plane was climbing after takeoff, when it hit severe turbulence and had to return to the Philadelphia airport. I want you to listen to a passenger describe this ordeal.", "And it was a crazy experience. We were just up in the air, lifted out of our seats, seeing things flying all over the place. I got sick from it. There was people injured,", "Nice to see her smiling at least. Four passengers, two flight attendants were injured. The flight attendants were later released. It is not clear at this point the nature of the other injuries. But one passenger said a woman hit her head on the ceiling, which is kind of common in this type of turbulence. The other passengers continued on to Orlando.", "All right. If search teams ever hope to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, they're going to need more sophisticated equipment to get a better look at the ocean floor. Officials from Malaysia, Australia and China announcing an expansion and a new direction for the mission, while they insist they still believe they are looking for the plane in the right place. Let's go to Kuala Lumpur and bring in Will Ripley. Good morning, Will. Expand -- they have to expand this search, and they really have to refocus here.", "Absolutely, Christine. And before they can expand the search, what they're going to do -- and this is first time that we're hearing this -- is that they're going to take a second look at all of the data that has brought them to this particular spot in the southern Indian Ocean, and we're not just talking about the satellite data and those underwater pings that were detected, but everything that was recorded in the last eight-plus weeks. The Bluefin-21's underwater scans, any visual evidence which was jotted down by the planes and the ships, because if you think about it, Christine, it is really remarkable, if you think about the effort -- 4.6 million square kilometers searched, more than 300 planes, more than 3,000 hours in the air, some 29 aircraft, 14 ships, and yet, not one single piece of the plane, a point touched upon by Australia's deputy prime minister.", "It is disappointing that we've had no debris that has led us to this wreckage. It's also interesting to note that the search in the area we have concentrated on began quite a number of days after the aircraft had disappeared. The likelihood that if there was debris floating, it had drifted to the bottom of the ocean before we even began our search.", "So, in other words, perhaps by the time they began looking in the right place, there was nothing to be seen, at least on the surface. So, that's what makes this underwater search so critical. On Wednesday, not only will they be meeting to take another look at the data, but they'll also be talking about the different kinds of technology they're going to bring in there. It's remarkable to think there's more technology to go into space than to go down to the bottom of the ocean. The search chief, Angus Houston, said you can count on one hand the number of devices in the world that are available that can do this kind of work.", "Wow, ships in Bangladesh, they're looking for the ship in the Bay of Bengal. Any updates on that for us this morning, Will?", "We learned over the weekend, there are three ships total from the Bangladeshi navy, including a survey ship, one of them had side- scan sonar. They've been looking, haven't found anything yet, Christine.", "Will, thank you so much. Nice to see you this morning.", "Meanwhile, divers in South Korea are closer to recovering all the bodies from that capsized ferry 20 days after it sank. The death toll is now up to 260 with 42 people still missing. South Korea's president visited with family members in Jindo on Sunday, meeting with relatives who have yet to learn the fate of their loved ones. Many of those, of course, on board were high school students. The investigation is now focused on whether human error by the crew was to blame for this tragedy.", "The president of Nigeria is vowing to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls abducted last month by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram, which opposes Western education, especially for girls. Protests have erupted in cities across the globe, criticizing Nigeria's response to the crisis. The campaign \"Bring Back Our Girls\" now going viral. President Goodluck Jonathan admitted Sunday he doesn't know where the girls are but criticized their parents for not cooperating fully with police.", "A rescue effort to dig out more than 2,000 people buried in a landslide in Afghanistan has come to an end. Local officials in the rural northeastern province have now declared the site a mass grave. President Obama called Afghan leader Hamid Karzai Sunday to express his condolences and offer continued support. The landslide is believed to have buried some 300 homes, claiming up to a third, a third of that village.", "All right, it is back to court today for the former Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius. A long break now over as the defense argues why Pistorius is not guilty of murder. We're live in Pretoria, next."], "speaker": ["CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ARWA DAMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WARREN TRUSS, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER, AUSTRALIA", "RIPLEY", "ROMANS", "RIPLEY", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-57313", "program": "CNN TALKBACK LIVE", "date": "2002-7-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/10/tl.00.html", "summary": "Jackson Announces Lawsuit Against Inglewood Police", "utt": ["Now Meesha (ph), what were you telling us during the break?", "If U.S. citizens are bound by certain laws that if we attack or assault someone, we are punished with jail time and excessive fines, why can someone say that a police officer is any different than the rest of us? They should be bound by the same laws and rights that the rest of the American citizens live by.", "Thank you very much. And welcome back everybody. We are talking about the police beating caught on tape of 16-year-old Donovan Jackson, and I wanted to let you know that we had to let Congresswoman Waters and Congressman Barr go vote, and also Lieutenant Deeley from Los Angeles had to leave us as well. But Joe (ph) is still with us on the phone from Ohio and you have what to say Joe (ph)?", "Thank you. One, two comments real quick. Obviously I don't condone any type of brutality like that. It's very bad, but the other comment I have to make is if this young 16-year-old boy had been a white boy, would the networks do this much showing and showing over and over again of his brutality if he was white, and I can see the Congress people already jumping on the bandwagon. This is going to become a political ticket as well, and that's the part that bothers me more. We're making it one person, only this poor black boy that got beat up, but if he was white, I don't think we would have received 10 seconds of this on television.", "I think the reason being, Joe (ph), that a lot of times, apparently we don't see that happening to ...", "Well I hope we never do.", "Exactly. I certainly don't want to, you know, advocate that happening to any kind, anyone, young ...", "I don't either.", "... white males or black males ...", "I don't either.", "... but I think that is why it does stand out. But thank you for calling in Joe (ph).", "Well, thank you for taking my call.", "Of course, and Tonya (ph) you were shaking your head when Joe (ph) was talking.", "Yes. He was black, right? And I would think that maybe he, the police officer had something against African-Americans.", "We don't know that at this point, but that's your opinion?", "Yes, that's a good possibility.", "OK, thank you for standing up. Now in the meantime the Inglewood Police Department has received a second complaint and here to talk about it, CNN's Thelma Gutierrez. She joins us live from outside the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. Now, Thelma, is this latest allegation against the Inglewood Police Department or Officer Jeremy Morse?", "Arthel, attorneys for 32- year-old Neilson Williams, this the second person who is making those allegations. His name is Neilson Williams. He is 32 years old. He is a resident of Inglewood. He did name Officer Jeremy Morse in a complaint that was filed with the Inglewood Police Department, but again, they have not detailed Officer Morse's involvement in that particular beating. They claim that it happened two weeks before the Chavis incident. Now Neilson Williams, the person who's making that allegation said yesterday, at a news conference, that he only had a gut feeling that it was Officer Morse that was involved in his beating, but he couldn't identify him outright. He just said a gut feeling after he saw the Jackson tape. Now Williams says that Inglewood police beat him up when he was walking home from a community gathering at a local park. He says that it happened two weeks before the Jackson incident. He says the beating put him in a coma and here's how he described it.", "I was pretty much encountered by a fleet of Inglewood police officers who pretty much had no respect for me, anything I was trying to tell them, and they just basically beat me to a pulp and almost beat me to death.", "Now Inglewood police have released a statement. I'm going to read some of it to you for their side of the story. They say that Williams was drunk, that he was belligerent, that he appeared to be under the influence of drugs and alcohol, that he resisted and he began to fight with officers, that he was put in some kind of a neck hold and in handcuffs and that it was at that point that the officers realized that Williams was unconscious and later he was taken to a hospital. Now, again, Williams claims that he was just walking home. He did nothing to provoke the officers and that the officers attacked him - Arthel.", "OK, Thelma, thank you very much for that update on this story. And joining me now to talk about the lawsuit and this second police beating complaint are criminal defense attorney Geoffrey Fieger, former New York prosecutor and criminal defense attorney Pamela Hayes, and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania District Attorney Matthew Mangino. I want to welcome all of you to the show.", "Thank you very much.", "Absolutely.", "Good to be here.", "Now, Matthew, does this latest allegation have any impact on your disposition towards this story?", "No it doesn't because I believe that a prosecutor's responsibility is to look at the specific facts in a given case. Now what we know right now is what we've observed on a videotape -- a videotape that is only part of an entire incident. I don't think that we can rush to judgment. I don't think that we should, as far as a criminal prosecution, be looking at other instances of possible brutality or anything else or assault of behavior by a police officer. I think as a prosecutor you've got to focus on this specific incident and what you can learn about what happened.", "Pam Hayes, how do you see it?", "Well I see it as a starting point. When you start looking at the entire scenario, they had a witness who saw this entire event. She was able to get the man who did the camera work to videotape it. What I would want to do is I would want to talk to her. I would want to talk to the police officers, and I would want to talk to the victims. But just looking at what happened is the shades of Rodney King whereas we're still in a culture where police have not learned how to effectively be professional.", "Geoffrey Fieger.", "This shouldn't be a surprise to anybody. These incidents happen repeatedly across the country every single day. The only unique thing about this incident is that it was videotaped and thankfully the injury isn't very serious.", "OK, I have Charlie (ph) here in the audience from Florida. What do you say Charlie (ph)?", "Well there's no doubt that these policemen should be tried in full extent of the law. I'm just a little concerned about another aspect of our existence here in America, and that is the fact that we're -- the world here, with Afghan, the Middle East, the stock market, we've got so much trouble in this word and we're just highlighting something that could be taken care of perhaps with one showing, but this is constantly being shown, and I feel for the young man, I really do, and I just feel that that's my opinion.", "So you feel that because of everything that's going on in the world, that we shouldn't repeat this videotape on the air?", "Repeat showing it?", "I would show it. There's no question about it, but we can overkill, and that's my problem.", "Can I respond to that?", "Absolutely.", "I think you're wrong for another reason. The purpose of showing this videotape over and over again is to deter other police officers from engaging in this type of behavior, and that's a good thing. While we've got everything else going on in the world, we're out there in the rest of the world holding ourselves up in our society as an example. Well if this is the example we show the rest of the world, then we're not sending a very good example. So it's a good thing to show this as much as possible so that every police officer who even would think of engaging in this behavior, would be deterred from doing it in the future for fear that they might get caught on tape or even better yet, for fear that they might get caught at all, and that they shouldn't do it in the first place.", "In the first place. Shirley (ph) from Illinois.", "I have a question concerning code of ethics. I know when policemen are trained, they're also trained in integrity and character. This was not displayed with this particular police officer. He was acting more like a thug on the street. I really have a concern about the integrity of the individuals who are representing the police department across this country.", "Well ...", "Pam Hayes.", "That ...", "If I could respond to that.", "... was one of the things I was talking about. You have to be able to train police officers how to respond professionally, even though we know what that officer did was wrong, it was not professional. So we have a lot of talk about OK, we're going to prosecute him. We're going to put him away. The culture is still alive because we haven't changed it, and therefore, the other young officers or old officers, they still think they can do this. This guy has been on the force three years. This is 10 years after Rodney King, 10 years after riots where people got killed, and he still thinks he can act out. Jail is not the answer. It might be one of the solutions, but we have to change the thinking process.", "OK, Pam Hayes ...", "We also ...", "... hang on for me guys. I need to switch gears. I'm going to take a break here, but when we come back, we're going to talk about another legal case that is just heartbreaking. We'll be back. Still ahead, fatal error, bad judgment or felony murder? What do you call it when a mother leaves her children locked inside a hot car for three hours?", "They probably sweated and sweated until eventually, unfortunately probably lost consciousness, and as their body temperature climbed even higher, they eventually just succumbed and died.", "A tragedy or a crime? You decide right after this."], "speaker": ["NEVILLE", "MEESHA (ph)", "NEVILLE", "JOE (ph)", "NEVILLE", "JOE (ph)", "NEVILLE", "JOE (ph)", "NEVILLE", "JOE (ph)", "NEVILLE", "JOE (ph)", "NEVILLE", "TONYA (ph)", "NEVILLE", "TONYA (ph)", "NEVILLE", "THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "NEILSON WILLIAMS, ALLEGED BEATING VICTIM", "GUTIERREZ", "NEVILLE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NEVILLE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NEVILLE", "MATTHEW MANGINO, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, LAWRENCE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA", "NEVILLE", "PAMELA HAYES, FORMER STATE PROSECUTOR", "NEVILLE", "GEOFFREY FIEGER, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "NEVILLE", "CHARLIE (ph)", "NEVILLE", "NEVILLE", "CHARLIE (ph)", "FIEGER", "NEVILLE", "FIEGER", "NEVILLE", "SHIRLEY (ph)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NEVILLE", "HAYES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HAYES", "NEVILLE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NEVILLE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NEVILLE"]}
{"id": "CNN-200459", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-2-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/02/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Dan Marino Admits to Extra-Marital Affair and Child", "utt": ["Welcome back to the CNN Newsroom. I'm Miguel Marquez in for Fredricka Whitfield. Here are the top stories we're following. A man who led thousands of American Catholics has been sidelined by the archbishop in Los Angeles over his mishandling of the sex abuse allegations against priests there. In a move activists say is unprecedented retired cardinal Roger Mahoney has been relieved of all his public administrative duties. The current archbishop disciplined Mahoney after a judge forced the church to release thousands of documents revealing how the archdioceses handled allegations of priest sexual abuse. If you have a Twitter account, the social media site has been hacked and about 250,000 accounts are compromised. The company says it discovered the breach earlier in the week. With all the talk about the Super Bowl, another veteran of the big game Dan Marino has become the talk of the town in the city where he once ruled. But it's not for any of his football feats.", "I was shocked to read about Dan Marino. He was the most respected sports hero.", "Shock over news that the beloved hall of fame football idol feathered a child out of wedlock.", "For 17 years, he was the signature player of the Dolphins, an iconic athletic figure.", "An icon who, according to the \"New York Post,\" had an affair in 2004, a child born in 2005 and millions paid to keep it all quiet. In a statement Marino said \"This is a personal and private matter. I take full responsibility both personally and financially for my actions now as I did then. We mutually agreed to keep our arrangement private to protect all parties involved,\" a private affair that people here seem willing to overlook.", "He has done incredible things for this community with his foundation, his charitable work, the stuff that he did for the Miami Dolphins, the only NFL team he ever played for, by the way. He's legendary. His records are still out there waiting to be broken. Hey, we all stumble along the way.", "Marino and his wife Claire married since 1985 have six children. His reputation and work as an all-around good guy has afforded him lots of forgiveness.", "The last time he was in here, he signed 700 footballs to donate to charity, which raised a ton of money.", "Last week in the stadium, he knows inside and out, it was the Dan Marino Foundation Walking on Autism in the spotlight.", "Raising $1.4 million in three years is just, it's amazing to me. It's mind bogging. It's not only awareness for autism and for kids with developmental disabilities, but we're affecting their lives in programs and different communities here in south Florida and just -- I'm very proud to be part of it.", "Marino's son Michael, diagnosed with autism 22 years ago, prompted him to establish the foundation. They've raised money for a medical center that treats children with special needs, and in 2014 the Dan Marino College for young adults with disabilities is scheduled to open. Marino is also known for his support of the Make-a-Wish Foundation during his football career, one of their most sought after professional athletes. He's granted about 40 wishes to kids with life-threatening medical conditions. Dan Marino isn't the first sports star to admit to an extramarital affair, but he may win the award for fastest and fullest forgiveness.", "Dan Marino will be working the Super Bowl tomorrow, broadcasting for CBS. Here's what's trending around the web. The White House is releasing a photo of the president skeet shooting at Camp David. The president said last week that it's one of his hobbies, but critics question his statements, saying they hadn't seen any proof. And Burger King admits some of its patties in England and Ireland were tainted with horse meat. The fast food chain says those patties came from its supplier Silver Crest Foods and were never sold in restaurants. But the admission has prompted a twitter campaign and threats of a Burger King boycott. And in Russia, the government is trying to get people in the mood with this.", "I don't know. That's Boyz to Men. \"The Moscow Times\" reports the Russian president Vladimir Putin has hired the R&B; group to perform in Russia as part of a fertility campaign. Nice. The campaign hopes to give Russian men inspiration before Valentine's Day. Right. An Arizona woman is on trial for brutal murder of her ex-boyfriend, and if she's convicted she faces the death penalty. We'll take you behind prison walls to show you what her life will be like on death row."], "speaker": ["MARQUEZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARQUEZ", "DAVE HYDE, COLUMNIST, \"SUN-SEMINAL\"", "MARQUEZ", "RICK SHAW, QUARTERDECK RESTAURANT PATRON", "MARQUEZ", "JASON HORTON, QUARTERDECK RESTAURANT MANAGER", "MARQUEZ", "DAN MARINO, FORMER DOLPHINS QUARTERBACK", "MARQUEZ", "MARQUEZ", "MARQUEZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-337850", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-04-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/18/cnr.06.html", "summary": "NTSB: Metal Fatigue Found on Southwest Engine", "utt": ["Unfortunately, one woman did die, passenger, Jennifer Riordan (ph), from New Mexico, a Wells Fargo executive, a wife and mother of two. Riordan (ph) was nearly sucked out of the plane window after the explosion shattered it. Meantime, Southwest Airlines just announced it is, quote, unquote, \"accelerating\" its existing engine inspection program relating to the CFM56 engine family. We are also expecting an update from NTSB officials at some time this afternoon. The chairman says investigators found signs of metal fatigue on the left engine that failed. And they released this video showing investigators examining the engine. Its edges just totally torn and ripped apart. There was also a fan blade missing from the plane's operating engine. The FBI is asking anyone who finds plane debris to contact the Philadelphia office as soon as possible. With me is Alan Armstrong, a pilot and aviation attorney who represents crash victims. He is standing next to a jet engine similar to the one on the Southwest 737. Alan, thank you for joining us from Georgia.", "Brooke, you are very welcome.", "This is a similar plane. Tell me what kind of plane you're standing next to and walk me through the anatomy of an engine first and foremost.", "OK. A jet engine has been called a cylinder of spinning sabers. So here's your cylinder and your spinning sabers are the blades. There are the blades. The air rushes into the engine, the air is compressed by the blades. As the air is compressed, there is I.G. natinition and that gives you power to the aircraft. In commercial aircraft, there is a containment belt to keep these blades from penetrating and flying out the nacell. Apparently, the belt may have failed but we don't know that for certain. The questions are how did this happen? You have these engine components spinning at a tremendous rate of speed. If there is a fatigue crack possibly due to centrifugal force --", "Alan, can I jump in, sir?", "Yes.", "These are the blades and a preliminary look shows one of its 24 fan blades missing and there was this evidence of metal fatigue, which from what I read is not obvious to someone doing maintenance on the external piece, right? Explain metal fatigue for me and how you detect it.", "OK. An aircraft engine works on principles of heat. The engine is cold and then it gets hot and you shut it down and it gets cold again. The metal is expanding and contracting, expanding and contracting, expanding and extracting, getting larger and smaller, and that can cause pressure to the engine. We don't know what this part was. We don't know what part this was. One thing we do know apparently is that it had a fatigue crack and it departed the engine by virtue of centrifugal force.", "A lot of people watching you right now are thinking could my next aircraft be at risk? Are other airlines, other planes -- could the same risk exist?", "Brooke, they're all at risk. They're all at risk, Brooke. Every one of them is at risk.", "So how do we make sure this doesn't happen on any of the planes in the future?", "Flying is risk assessment and mitigating risk, Brooke. We cannot completely eliminate the risk if we're going to operate aircraft. We can inspect, survey and examine but we cannot guarantee.", "Wow. And as a pilot, Alan, what do you make of this pilot who really saved the day?", "Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. My hat's off to her. Great job. Great job.", "Alan Armstrong, I appreciate you. Thank you very much for your expertise, just walking us through what might have happened. This flight, no question, terrifying. Next, we'll speak to a passenger who was buying time on the Internet as the plane was going down, and live streamed this experience, desperate to make contact with the outside world, perhaps to say good- bye thinking he wouldn't survive."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST", "ALAN ARMSTRONG, PILOT AND AVIATION ATTORNEY", "BALDWIN", "ARMSTRONG", "BALDWIN", "ARMSTRONG", "BALDWIN", "ARMSTRONG", "BALDWIN", "ARMSTRONG", "BALDWIN", "ARMSTRONG", "BALDWIN", "ARMSTRONG", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-87272", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2004-8-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/19/lad.01.html", "summary": "Felines May Find Manhattan Cafe the Cat's Meow", "utt": ["Owners of the NBA's Orlando Magic are donating $1 million for disaster relief for hurricane-damaged central Florida. And they're also shipping ice from Michigan - 80,000 pounds of it. The ice trucks are heading for places in Florida where Charley's victims still have no refrigeration and no relief from the heat. Many of those victims are elderly, and many absolutely refuse to leave the wreckage of their homes. CNN's John Zarrella has more for you from Punta Gorda.", "Gary Paro spent the day struggling to sift through the sun-scorched remains of his mobile home. Paro has been living in his car since the storm passed. (on camera): It's got to be awful hard on you in (ph) this heat.", "It's not easy. Life's not easy.", "His daughter, Terry (ph), came to help him sort through what little is left. She's tried to get him to leave. He won't.", "He's guarding his rubble.", "For the elderly here in Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte, life after Charley has been particularly difficult. A third of Charlotte County residents are over 65. The Red Cross and other relief agencies are desperately trying to get those left homeless by the storm into shelters.", "If they can at least come in at night, get some sleep in an air-conditioned space, get hydrated, get some food, let us assist you. We have a lot of able-bodied young people that are just waiting to help them that will go to their homes with them.", "Sonny and Stella Luninfeld (ph) did come in. They are among about 200 elderly people here at this Red Cross shelter. Stella was suffering from heat exhaustion when they got here.", "They told me we were going to die and, of course, that's going to build up your blood pressure and staying out in that heat until we finally came here.", "Health care professionals worry that elderly people refusing to leave their homes and suffering through the heat will add to Charley's death toll. Many are running short of medications.", "Two hundred and seventy-five scarves, one set of dentures.", "Bobbi Houseman (ph) is 72. Her husband died six years ago.", "And I'm tired. I don't know what to do. I don't have no idea what to do next.", "Houseman is like many of the elderly. Memories lay in that rubble. Bobbi's engagement ring is in there somewhere. She managed to find a box of valuables.", "This is what I've got. It's all I've got. I'm going to go to the clubhouse that's down here this way.", "John Zarrella, CNN, Punta Gorda, Florida.", "Your news, money, weather and sports; it is 5:47 Eastern. Here's what's all-new this morning: Senator John Corzine says he won't push to run for New Jersey governor in a special election. Some Democrats hoped that Corzine's agreeing to run would help pressure Governor James McGreevey to resign earlier than planned. But McGreevey is not budging. In Arkansas, the search for 7-year-old Patricia Miles resumes for a fifth day this morning. In the meantime, the family friend arrested on kidnapping charges in the case will be in court today. In money news, Google goes public today. Stock in the Internet search engine will sell for 85 bucks a share. Look for trading under the ticker symbol GOOG on the Nasdaq. In culture, Paris Hilton's dog Tinkerbell has been found after being missing for a week. The chihuahua, decked out in puppy-sized sneakers, has made regular appearances on Hilton's", "Oh my goodness. In sports, the incoming coach of the L.A. Lakers say he believes Karl Malone will stay in L.A. The coach met recently with the 40- year-old Malone. The mailman injured his knee in December - Chad.", "Those are the latest headlines for you this morning. There is a new eatery in New York where etiquette does not involve elbows on the table, but rather paws. And as CNN's Jeanne Moos reports, you and your favorite feline can order from the very same menu.", "Oh waiter? There's a cat on my table.", "OK, Calvin (ph). This is - what's the catch?", "The catch is that you open a cat cafe, but you can't force them to eat.", "Mommy brought you all the way here and you don't want to eat?", "You'd be annoyed too if you couldn't read the menu, which featured items like fillet meow for cats, and it's counterpart,", "There's 83 million cats in America and they have nowhere to go.", "Cats don't want to go out of the house!", "Ah, I disagree with that.", "So the CEO of Meow Mix set up a temporary cat cafe on New York's Fifth Avenue.", "I think it's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I really do.", "Meow Mix calls it experimental. The company hopes to franchise the cafes in cities around the world.", "A nice big smile.", "Forget the smile. We want to hear Eartha Kitt growl.", "You never get sick of making the cat noise?", "No. Everybody knows it's Eartha Kitt when they hear a", "Give me a good one.", "The cats all survived the cafe experience, though one kitty was injured when he poked his eye on a menu. Humans passed the time playing hairball toss. (on camera): You know, there already is a Meow Mix.", "Yes, but that's the wrong Meow Mix. And they are in violation of my trademark. But we love those people too. (voice-over): Those people at Meow Mix, one of New York's best- known lesbian bars.", "I go down there and I go to the bar from time to time. I have a few drinks.", "You are a cool cat. (voice-over): But recently the lesbian Meow Mix closed down. A bad omen perhaps for the feline Meow Mix?", "Maybe you're too realistic. (voice-over): From the looks of it, you might need a doggie bag at the cat cafe. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN MIAMI BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over)", "GARY PARO, PUNTA GORDA RESIDENT", "ZARRELLA (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ZARRELLA", "CHERIE DIEFENBACK, VOLUNTEER NURSE", "ZARRELLA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ZARRELLA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ZARRELLA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ZARRELLA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ZARRELLA", "COSTELLO", "COSTELLO", "COSTELLO", "JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "MOOS (on camera)", "KITT", "MOOS", "MOOS (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS (on camera)", "MOOS (on camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-221510", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-12-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1312/24/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Washington Says Goodbye to 2013", "utt": ["McDonald's tells employees, get this: don't eat fast food. That's the advice posted on an employee Web site. I'm not kidding. It promotes raw vegetables and says things like, pass on the pickles, less salt. The McDonald's site has been in the headlines before. Alison Kosik --", "I know it's a head scratcher. It's a bit of a head scratcher. So, this is all emanating from its internal Web site called McResources. It basically provides resources to its own employees. Yes, it kinds of shows me they are mcclueless because telling McDonald's employees stay away from fast food, the very thing that they are selling. In fact they say fast food is typically high in calorie, fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt and puts people at risk for becoming overweight. Now, I agree, saying its own food is the unhealthy choice versus the healthy choice out there. We can understand that because fast food isn't the healthiest. It's a little odd they are telling their own employees this, especially when you think of business 101, you don't really want to push people away from the very staples that you sell. Now, McDonald's is defending the posting, putting a statement saying that portions of this website continue to be taken entirely out of context. This Web site, McDonald's goes on to say, it provides useful information from third parties. McDonald's agrees with this advice. One thing to keep in mind it's not McDonald's running this site. That it's an outside company that seems to be running it. The company is also noting it has added healthier menu options in recent years, including oatmeal, egg whites and real fruit smoothies -- Carol.", "So, McDonald's hired an outside company to write to its employees and the --", "Yes. I just -- it doesn't seem like the right hand is talking to the left. I mean, this isn't the first time this internal Web site has come under fire. It's one stunning problem after another. This Web site had a financial planning guide, allotting only $20 for health insurance and no money for food, kind of making the company seem out of touch with its employees especially with McDonald's advice on how to get out of holiday debt, telling its employee if you want to get out of holiday debt, get a second job. Here's a cherry on top. It even put out one installment in this Web site, put out an etiquette guide to employees on what to tip pool boys and masseuse, and if you got an au pair, how to tip them. But these are people who are on minimum wage, $9 employees at best. So, it kind of -- it's a real head scratcher as to if they are really thinking about who their audience is in reading this.", "Maybe they should hire their own PR person and have their own employees -- no that would make too much sense. Alison Kosik --", "Maybe, maybe they are listening.", "I don't know. All right. Take a dysfunctional Congress, the line derailed presidential agenda and never ending battle over Obamacare and what do you have? A year in politics of course. CNN chief political analyst Candy Crowley has a recap.", "It was the year of living angrily.", "Sit down and shut up!", "Stand up for your country or do you want to take it down!", "This place is a mess.", "I resoundingly reject that allegation.", "White hot rhetoric, icy cold relationships.", "I, Barack Hussein Obama --", "That said, 2013 started as inaugural years often do --", "So help me God.", "-- nicely enough.", "My fellow Americans we are made for this moment and we ill seize it.", "And he was popular president with an ambitious agenda, revamping the tax code, reforming schools, better job training, a new energy policy, improved voting process, immigration reform and gun control. None of it has happened. Turns out January was the kindest month. The president ends the year with an approval rating that has gone south and focused on saving the health care reform he won in the first term.", "There was a time when I was a young invincible. After five years in this office, people don't call me that any more.", "Another year like this and they will call him lame duck. Paul, Cruz and Rubio, sons of the Tea Party, newbies in the block, 2016 rising. This son of Cuban immigrants catapulted to star status, pushing his reluctant party for immigration reform.", "And I simply wasn't going to leave to it Democrats alone to figure out how to fix it.", "Libertarian at heart, Republican by party, Rand Paul blocked a presidential nominee to get clarity on the use of drones.", "I'll speak can I can no longer speak.", "A politician from the Lone Star State.", "Keep up the good fight.", "Thank you very much.", "Ted Cruz staged an overnight filibuster to make the case against filibuster, filling time with a bedtime story for his kids.", "I do I not like green eggs and ham I do not like them Sam I am.", "Welcome to New Jersey.", "In a moment all his own, another of the 2016's rising, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wins a landslide re-election and sounds like he's opening a presidential campaign.", "I know that if we can do this in Trenton, New Jersey, maybe the folks in Washington, D.C. should tune in their TVs right now, see how it's done.", "Also in a league all her own, the former first lady, former senator, former secretary of state, left Washington for something else, but not without a few choice words.", "The fact is, we have four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is --", "Hillary Clinton's Benghazi moment. If she runs for president, expect Republicans to make it a TV-ad moment.", "I now declare you spouses for life.", "Number five brought to you by the U.S. Supreme Court. Less a 2013 moment than a page in history for gay rights. Under the cover of boring, Senate Democrats blew up the status quo with the first major rules change in more than three decades, banning filibusters for all presidential nominees except the Supreme Court, and sending Republicans into orbit.", "And let's not forget about the raw power, the raw power at play here.", "The change will essentially give any president with a Senate majority the power to reshape the lean of federal courts. This 2013 moment, another one for the ages. Coming in at number three --", "Further proceedings on this motion will be postponed.", "-- the moments that didn't happen, work left undone, mega problems unaddressed. Gridlock, it's not just about traffic anymore.", "The Senate stands adjourned.", "The first government shutdown in 17 years, and people -- read that \"voters\" -- largely blamed Republicans, producing the Democratic talking point of the 2014 election, Republicans as obstructionists.", "If we don't have our own way, we are going to shut government down. You and that attitude are a luxury this country cannot afford.", "By year's end, Republicans had a counterpoint, the president's Affordable Care Act. ObamaCare got off to a troubled start with the Web site from hell.", "If you like your health care plan --", "And his broken \"you can keep your insurance\" promise.", "When we get to January 1st, it will be clear that more Americans will have lost their health insurance than will sign up under the new ObamaCare policies.", "As it happens, the final moments of 2013 are the tee-up for the politics of 2014, shutdown versus meltdown. Let the midterm elections begin. Oh, and happy New Year. Candy Crowley, CNN, Washington.", "Whoo-hoo! You can vote on what you think 2013 top sports top stories. Go to CNN.com/yir. Voting open until this Friday. We'll have the results December 30th, 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time. This just in to", "Hamas security sources say Israeli air strike killed a 4-year-old girl in al Qassam brigade's camp in Gaza. Three other people living in that same house were wounded. The airstrike follow as shooting earlier today of an Israeli citizen. That incident success blamed on a sniper in Gaza. More information in the hours to come on CNN. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "KOSIK", "COSTELLO", "KOSIK", "COSTELLO", "CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPODENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D), CALIFORNIA", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA", "CROWLEY", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CROWLEY", "OBAMA", "CROWLEY", "OBAMA", "CROWLEY", "OBAMA", "CROWLEY", "SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R), FLORIDA", "CROWLEY", "SEN. RAND PAUL (R), KENTUCKY", "CROWLEY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SEN. TED CRUZ (R), TEXAS", "CROWLEY", "CRUZ", "GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), NEW JERSEY", "CROWLEY", "CHRISTIE", "CROWLEY", "CLINTON", "CROWLEY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CROWLEY", "SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R), MINORITY LEADER", "CROWLEY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CROWLEY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CROWLEY", "PELOSI", "CROWLEY", "OBAMA", "CROWLEY", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-327875", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2017-12-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1712/07/es.04.html", "summary": "Donald Trump, Jr. Faces House Intel Committee; Democratic Senators Call On Franken To Resign; Trump Recognizes Jerusalem As Israel's Capital.", "utt": ["Donald Trump, Jr. refusing to tell the House Intelligence Committee about conversations he had with his father over that now-infamous Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer.", "Senator Al Franken expected to make a big announcement this morning. Dozens of his colleagues urging him to resign amid sexual misconduct allegations.", "Firefighters in Southern California racing against time and intense winds as all of L.A. County is now under extreme fire danger warnings. This is a terrifying situation out there in California. We'll go live there shortly. Good morning. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm Dave Briggs.", "Good morning. I'm Alison Kosik. It's 30 minutes past the hour. And, Donald Trump, Jr. on the House Intel hot seat for eight hours, and it's what the president's son refused to tell House members that's raising eyebrows this morning. The main focus of Wednesday's closed-door session, a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Don, Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and a Russian lawyer, designed to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. House investigators pressed Trump, Jr. about his father's knowledge of that meeting but he refused to tell them what he and his dad discussed, citing attorney-client privilege.", "President Trump did participate in the crafting of his son's initial response to reports of the meeting. That statement turned out to be misleading, suggesting it was about Russian adoptions while failing to mention the purpose was to gather information on Clinton. Here's the ranking member of the House Intel Committee, Adam Schiff.", "He acknowledged discussing that matter with his father but refused to answer questions about that discussion on the basis of a claim of attorney-client privilege. In my view, there is no attorney-client privilege that protects a discussion between father and son. This particular discussion revolves around a pivotal meeting.", "All right. Schiff, by the way, is going to be live on \"NEW DAY\" this morning, so tune in for that. And for more on Donald Trump, Jr.'s testimony let's turn now to CNN's senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju.", "Good morning, Alison and Dave. Now, Donald Trump, Jr. had a marathon session with the House Intelligence Committee talking about his interaction with the Russians during the campaign season. And one thing that they focused on in particular was that June 2016 meeting in which Donald Trump, Jr., we now know, was promised dirt on the Clinton campaign from Russians and was informed that Russians -- the Russian government wanted to help his father's campaign. Now we are learning that Donald Trump, Jr. did have a meeting with his father after the reports were published but he did not tell the committee yesterday what he and his father were talking about. In fact, he cited attorney-client privilege, saying that because attorneys were in the room there was no reason for him to disclose this information because it was covered by attorney-client privilege. That's something that Democrats balked at. Now, at the same time he was asked about the response that initially was misleading about the Trump Tower meeting when the White House -- when Donald Trump, Jr. said it was mainly about Russian adoptions -- well, it turns out that the White House was involved, at least to some extent. Donald Trump, Jr. said that he texted with Hope Hicks who is now the communications director for the White House. Did not talk to his father about that response, but talked to Hope Hicks about the response. And given the fact that we now know that was not a fully accurate picture about what happened, it is raising a lot of questions among investigators about whether or not the White House was trying to work to mislead the public and potentially even the investigation. We'll see what the White House has to say later today -- Alison and Dave.", "Manu Raju, thanks. Meanwhile, an unidentified whistleblower claims former National Security adviser Michael Flynn told a business colleague sanctions against Russia would be quote, \"ripped up\" and he did it will President Trump was being inaugurated. The whistleblower telling his story to Congressman Elijah Cummings. He claims Flynn texted his associate that a plan to build nuclear reactors with Russia in the Middle East was quote, \"good to go right after sanctions against the Kremlin were dropped.\"", "The whistleblower's account is the strongest claim to date suggesting the administration was focused on unraveling the sanctions that President Obama had just imposed, and that Flynn had a personal motivation to make it happen. Last week, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with a Russian ambassador.", "As calls for his resignation mount, embattled Minnesota Democrat Sen. Al Franken expected to make an announcement today, presumably about his political future. Thirty-two of his Democratic colleagues in the Senate, including party leader Chuck Schumer, now say Franken should step down. It comes as a sixth woman accuses Franken of inappropriate touching. Let's go live to Washington and bring in \"CNN POLITICS\" reporter Tal Kopan. Tal, good morning to you.", "Welcome back, Tal.", "Good morning.", "Kirsten Gillibrand has really been out front in all of this. Here's what she said about no longer tolerating sexual harassment in Congress.", "Obviously, there were new allegations today and enough is enough. We need to draw a line in the sand and say none of it is OK, none of it is acceptable, and we, as elected leaders, should absolutely be held to a higher standard, not a lower standard. I do not feel that he should continue to serve.", "All right, credit where it's due, albeit a bit slow. They have drawn that line against sexual harassment. Franken appears to be on his way out. John Conyers, longtime Democratic congressman, is out. But it is Washington so you have to view this a bit skeptical. Is it, perhaps, a political play claiming the moral high ground with Roy Moore, perhaps, on his way to the Senate and Blake Farenthold staying put in Texas despite an $84,000 sexual harassment lawsuit and Republicans saying nothing? Is this a political play?", "Well, I don't think you can say it's only a political play. Certainly, you know, it took Democratic senators a while to get here and actually -- I watched Gillibrand speak the day before she came out against Al Franken and it was almost torture watching her say she wasn't ready to call on him to resign that day, even as she was saying we can't tolerate any of this behavior. So, you know, certainly, you can say this is a matter of Democrats getting their house in order and saying if they want to have a no- tolerance policy they have to start with themselves. And yes, one of the effects of that is that they then have the ability to call on their Republican colleagues to have the same level of scrutiny of their members. So I think it's all a swirl of these factors. But certainly, if you're a party, you can't call on the other party to close ranks around a member if you aren't doing the same with your own members.", "We certainly haven't heard the last of this as we approach 2018.", "Oh yes, you said it. OK, let's stay on Capitol Hill for a moment and where the tax bill is still being hashed out between the House and the Senate. So the ink's not even dry and we're already seeing the GOP kind of -- kind of focus on something beyond the tax bill, and we're talking about entitlements. I want you to listen to what House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Ross Kaminsky's talk radio show yesterday. Listen to this.", "Frankly, it's the health care entitlements that are the big drivers of our debt. And then, welfare reform, too. We think it's important to get people from welfare to work. We have a welfare system that's basically trapping people in poverty and effectively pay people not to work, and we've got to work on that.", "OK. Then, Bernie Sanders pounced. He tweeted this. \"There it is. Paul Ryan just admitted that after providing $1 trillion in tax breaks to the top one percent and large corporations Republicans will try to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and help for the most vulnerable Americans.\" Have at it, Tal.", "Yes, this is going to be tough for Republicans, there's no doubt. I mean, this has been a third rail of American politics for quite a long time. You typically -- once a benefit is given to the public, don't take it away. It's a very difficult lift just on its face and Democrats are going to hammer them on this, without a doubt. And especially use President Trump's own comments from the campaign trail saying he didn't want to go after Medicare and Social Security. It's going to be incredibly difficult and, you know, Republicans have not shown a particular ability to muscle through very difficult bills. Their tax cut bill is still not done and signed yet. So, you know, this may be aspirational -- we'll see. But if this is what they turn to next it's going to be a heavy lift.", "Yes. It's important to note -- to point out that President Trump did say that he wouldn't cut Social Security, Medicaid, or Medicare.", "And he hasn't weighed in on this. It just becomes difficult when you consider that the tax bill adds a trillion and a half, at minimum, to the deficit to then return to concerns of a debt and the deficit, but we'll see how they make that pivot. Speaking of, the president has been relatively quiet on Twitter the last couple of days. I recommend he stay off of it this morning because of the hashtag #DentureDonald. #DentureDonald is trending on Twitter across the country. Here's why.", "And God bless the United States. Thank you very much.", "President Trump is wearing dentures, people. I know that this is just a theory right now but we need to get to the truth. So I say forget the Mueller investigation and bring on the molar investigation. We know what's happening, people.", "Yes, the molar investigation. You are not a dentist, a doctor -- you are not a lawyer. We asked you not to weigh in on privilege, but what's happening here? Any thoughts on that?", "Well look, I think it's evidence of how once you're in that hot seat and you're in the presidency, people look at everything you do. And, you know, it sort of comes with the territory. You have to be prepared for people to analyze every move. And, you know, it is also understandable for the American people to be concerned about the health of the commander in chief. And while we have no idea if there are any issues here, that level of scrutiny is going to happen. And, as you say, his Twitter has been quiet lately. But you have to wonder what he might say about Trevor Noah if he sees that clip.", "Thanks. Thanks -- I couldn't resist. Tal Kopan, thank you. We appreciate it.", "Thanks so much.", "All right.", "What's coming up?", "A state of emergency in California as firefighters are battling four wildfires and thousands of residents are fleeing. We're going to go live to Southern California, next."], "speaker": ["DAVE BRIGGS, CNN ANCHOR", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIGGS", "KOSIK", "BRIGGS", "REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA), RANKING MEMBER, HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE", "KOSIK", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "KOSIK", "BRIGGS", "KOSIK", "TAL KOPAN, REPORTER, CNN POLITICS", "BRIGGS", "SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND (D), NEW YORK", "BRIGGS", "KOPAN", "BRIGGS", "KOSIK", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-196086", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2012-11-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1211/21/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Turkey Asks NATO for Missiles", "utt": ["We'll get back to Wolf in Jerusalem in just a moment, but first, disturbing new signs the deadly crisis in Syria is escalating. Our Lisa Sylvester's monitoring that and other top stories in the SITUATION ROOM right now. Lisa, what do you have?", "Hi there, Joe. Well, Turkey is asking NATO for patriot missiles to help bolster its air defenses after violence from Syria. A letter to the alliance cites threats the crisis poses to Turkey's national security. Last month, Syrian artillery shells hit a Turkish border town killing five civilians. NATO says it is convening to consider the matter and will send a team to Turkey to look at possible missile deployment sites. And Illinois Democrat, Jesse Jackson Jr. is resigning from Congress. The son of the civil rights leader, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, has been out of the public eye for months being treated for what he calls several serious health issues. He's also being investigated by the FBI and the House Ethics Committee. Jackson submitted his letter of resignation to House speaker, John Boehner, today just a little more than two weeks after winning re-election. And an extraordinary moment in basketball. A great game would be a player scoring in the high double digits, but what about scoring in, get this, the triple digits? Well, that's what Grinnel College's Jack Taylor did Tuesday night, smashing an NCAA record.", "His teammates kept passing him the ball. Grinnell College sophomore, Jack Taylor, kept sinking it. Again and again and again. 138 points against Faith Baptist Bible College topping the national record that has stood for more than five decades.", "Coming into the game, my teammates and my coaches wanted to get me some more shots to try to get my confidence going before we enter conference play. And so, I knew I was going to get a few more shots than usual.", "At halftime, he had 58 points. His second half even better with 80 points.", "There's a point in the second half where I hit seven or eight threes in a row on consecutive possessions. And at that moment, I kind of knew something special was happening.", "Taylor thanks his teammates for their unselfishness, but you can also credit Grinnell's coach and his signature coaching system. It includes going heavy on the three-pointers and not worrying about giving up a two-pointer on the other side. In fact, the losing team's top scorer had 70 points, a high scoring game that caught the eye of American university's head basketball coach.", "Very few teams can score 138 points, but you know, for an individual to score 138, that was pretty remarkable.", "Does he expect a repeat performance?", "I doubt it. I think this might be a once in a lifetime experience where, you know, I was just in the zone for an extended period of time.", "That's certainly an understatement. Well, even the Lakers superstar, Kobe Bryant, was impressed with Taylor's performance. And I asked Jack Taylor, OK, so, what's next? After he graduates, he would like to play professional basketball maybe, possibly with one of the overseas leagues. So --", "In the zone. That's one way of putting it, I guess.", "A 138 points for one individual. And you know, 80 points, that was just the second half of the game.", "That's incredible.", "Yes. Pretty impressive.", "Wow. Thanks so much, Lisa. All right. We're going back to Wolf in Jerusalem. New details of what the U.S. had to promise before Israel signed on to the ceasefire with Hamas."], "speaker": ["JOE JOHNS, CNN ANCHOR", "LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SYLVESTER (voice-over)", "JACK TAYLOR, POINT GUARD, GRINNELL COLLEGE", "SYLVESTER", "TAYLOR", "SYLVESTER", "JEFF JONES, MEN'S BASKETBALL COACH, AMERICAN UNIV.", "SYLVESTER", "TAYLOR", "SYLVESTER (on-camera)", "JOHNS", "SYLVESTER", "JOHNS", "SYLVESTER", "JOHNS"]}
{"id": "CNN-13513", "program": "Special Event", "date": "2000-8-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/08/se.01.html", "summary": "Folk Rock Singer Jewel Warms Up Crowd Ahead of Official Gore- Lieberman Debut in Nashville, Tennessee", "utt": ["The man of the hour on this very busy news day, Al Gore. And the other man of the hour, Joe Lieberman. The Democratic ticket in election 2000 will make its official debut in about 15 minutes in Nashville. And CNN's John King is there watching and waiting -- John.", "Well, Lou, the crowd gathered behind me. For the first time in campaign 2000, signs that read Gore- Lieberman. The two candidates themselves due on stage about 15 minutes from now as Vice President Al Gore officially introduces his new running mate, the Connecticut Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman. Both men in their speeches, we're told, will make reference to the ground-breaking part of this event today, Mr. Lieberman the first Jew to be on the major party national ticket. Both will make reference of that. Both also will make the case that the Democratic ticket is more in tune with working families. They'll also talk about their own family histories today as they try to get a bit of momentum heading into the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles a week from now. Warming up the crowd -- that probably not the right term on such a steamy day here in Nashville -- is Jewel. We can listen in a second.", "I can do mouth-to-mouth if you need it. Oh, you are listening. I had no idea. Now, I have two fans. That's nice.", "OK, she's checking in on the crowd. It's so hot here, they're distributing cold water bottles throughout the crowd. Again, the Democratic ticket due on stage in just a few minutes. The vice president hoping his choice of Joe Lieberman helps him close the gap now and cut into the lead currently enjoyed by Governor George W. Bush. John King, CNN, reporting live from Nashville."], "speaker": ["LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KING, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JEWEL, FOLK ROCK SINGER", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-72548", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-6-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/20/ltm.08.html", "summary": "Two U.S. Soldiers Injured in Attack in Fallujah", "utt": ["We go back to Iraq, where two U.S. soldiers have been injured in an attack in the town of Fallujah. Our Ben Wedeman is in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, and he joins us now with a live report and the very latest on the details there. Hello -- Ben.", "Yes, hello, Leon. Well, it was another night of gunfire and explosions in the hot spot of Fallujah. That is a town about 35 miles to the west of Baghdad, the scene of frequent unrest as well. Now, there, an American patrol came under fire from unknown assailants using rocket- propelled grenades. Now, according to one Iraqi eyewitness, he saw an American Humvee hit by these grenades and saw several American casualties. However, a U.S. military spokesman said that there were two injuries sustained there, one slight -- one soldier was slightly wounded and another received bruises. It's unclear exactly what the circumstances were. Now, the attack took place in the general vicinity of a power plant, which serves the city. Apparently, that power plant also hit by those grenades causing a massive fire there and also electricity to be cut to a major part of that city of about 75,000 inhabitants. Now, this incident underscores the increasing frequency of sabotage attacks against the infrastructure in areas controlled by the coalition, underscoring, once more, the kind of overwhelming problems that the coalition authority is facing here in Iraq -- Leon.", "Ben Wedeman reporting live from Baghdad. The situation there still not quite yet 100 percent settled. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CAIRO BUREAU CHIEF", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-282833", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2016-04-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/30/se.02.html", "summary": "Washington Goes Hollywood, For Laughs", "utt": ["You're looking at live pictures from inside the hall of The White House Correspondents' Dinner. That is the NPR table, you're looking at Nina Totenberg's hair. The News is next. We're here all night watching this coverage. This is the President's final White House Correspondent's Dinner. CNN's Sara Murray is down there, and she is joined by some of our most fabulous CNN colleagues. Sara?", "Chad (ph) we have our very astute (ph) panel with us here, we have May Breslin (ph) of Sienna, and we have Margaret Hoover, Republican commentator, and also formerly of the Bush White House, and John Avlon, Editor in Chief of the Daily Beast. All right. Let's talk a little bit about nerd prom --", "Nerd prom.", "... about Washington with Hollywood. May, I want to start with you. Because how does Hollywood even react to Donald Trump? He's a celebrity in and of himself.", "Absolutely. And that was such an interesting question, originally. It was, \"would Donald Trump have any sort of cache out in Hollywood. Because of all of these entertainment connections, The Apprentice, and instead, if anyone is supporting Donald Trump in Hollywood, it is way, way undercover. We saw, over the last couple of days, obviously the state convention has been out in California. You saw the protests, pretty violent, in Orange County. And also people rushing him into the hall. So it's fascinating that he -- Mister Entertainer himself, is going to be heading straight into California. This incredibly critical primary that will field this yield (ph) for his campaign. And no one in Hollywood can stand up --", "I'd still not fight half these wars under Trump.", "OK, that's potentially a future White House Correspondents Dinner. Let's talk about the one we're living right now, John, this is President Obama's last -- what's going to be different this time around?", "One of the thing -- the significant things about this President is that he has taken the fourth quarter of his presidency, and he has taken it as a YOLO moment, right? He has gone all out. There is no lame duck approach to this presidency. So I think this President, who is arguably the first GenX President, has had a much more sarcastic, edgy approach to his humor. And I imagine you'll see all that -- see that dialed up to 11. He's got nothing to lose, and a lot of rich political targets out there.", "I would just like you to know you're getting a pretty fierce side-eye from Margaret right now.", "That sometimes happens at home. So that's OK.", "I think -- look, I think that there is this perception that only Democrats know how to kind of roll with the jokes at The White House Correspondents' Dinner. And Obama has made this hip again. What do you think, I mean, can Republicans make the White House Correspondents' Dinner great again?", "Right? I know. Hashtag make everything great again. Look, I don't think you're totally ...", "America's already great?", "President Obama is not GenX. He is a baby boomer, technically --", "No, he's the youngest GenX, but --", "He is the youngest GenX. And he -- while everybody, you know -- look, Conservatives and Republicans know Democrats are cooler, right? Celebrities like Democrats.", "Are you acknowledging this on national television?", "Yes. I'm not saying they're cooler, it's just that celebrity, Hollywood, pop culture all like Democrats better. We all know this to be true, OK? And Conservatives ...", "Reagan --", "... definitely accept this. Right? What we do is we accept it. But what's, but what's --", "He has brought in so many young people ...", "Exactly.", "... who are watching. And who are engaged, and want to see what's happening.", "They're watching Bernie Sanders that way, I mean ...", "OK ...", "... those -- or Millennials are really, really watching Bernie Sanders --", "... let's just play, let's play a fun game. Let's say that Donald Trump does win in November, and that this is Donald Trump's White House Correspondents' Dinner next year. Do all the celebrities come? Or do none of them?", "No, headline; \"D-listers for The Donald.\"", "Yes, no, now they I have a very ...", "This is going to be D-list the first time through (ph).", "... I think I may have hit it on the head. I think I have a very hard time understanding -- look, it was never as glamorous as this in the Bush administration, either. I mean I worked in the Bush administration. While there were still celebrities that come, it's the office, people come because it's the White House Correspondents' Dinner. You have the Kardashian's come, Justin Bieber has come, you know a very, very sort of, Babe (ph), Babe (ph) what do you think? Are the Biebers, are the Kardashian's and the Biebers going to come out for The Donald, if he wins?", "I think they absolutely would come out for The Donald. It's the occasion, the event, the synergy of Washington and Hollywood. And the thing is, is that Donald Trump, more than anything else, has been seen as entertainment by a lot of people ...", "Right.", "... and there is no way that all of these Hollywood folks are going to miss their moment to mix and mingle with everyone else at the dinner. Regardless of who's at the head table.", "You do very much see a principled stand against Donald Trump, though. He -- like, especially amongst A-list celebrities, and ...", "Well but, the power has a way of turning people from their principles --", "That is, that's true. Power, power trumps all.", "The power trumps all.", "The power trumps all.", "And so, and so D-listers for The Donald. Even Richard Nixon had some celebrities show out at his dinner.", "All right, all right, we're going to have to leave it there. All right, John, there you have it. The prediction for a potentially a Donald Trump dinner, next year. Who can say? Back to you.", "All right, Sara Murray, thank you, and thank you to John Avlon's cowboy boots, as well. Our continuing coverage of the White House Correspondents' Dinner continues all night long. We're waiting to hear from the President. He will deliver his speech soon. Larry Wilmore of \"The Nightly Show,\" as well. 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{"id": "CNN-139957", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-7-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/01/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Ousted Honduran President Vows Return", "utt": ["Twenty-eight minutes after the hour. Checking our top stories. Investigators say they believe they have found the flight and voice data recorders of Yemenia Flight 626. A French official telling a CNN affiliate the location of the so-called black boxes has likely been pinpointed but they're not very accessible. The plane carrying 153 people crashed yesterday off of southeastern Africa. And we now know the sole survivor was not a 5-year-old child as previously reported. It is a 13-year-old French girl.", "North Korea keeping us guessing. One of its ships that the U.S. has been tracking for more than a week making a U-turn. The U.S. suspects it could be carrying illegal weapons. Two U.S. officials tell the Associated Press that vessel had been moving very slowly in recent days, something that could signal it was trying to conserve fuel.", "Al Qaeda is threatening to take revenge on France for its position on women covering themselves head to toe with a burqa. That's according to a statement posted on radical Islamist Web sites. The statement appeared after French President Nicolas Sarkozy's controversial comment that the traditional Muslim garment was not welcome in France. The posting responded by accusing French women of being poorly dressed and nude.", "And a nurse who says she treated Michael Jackson is breaking her silence. Speaking just moments ago to AMERICAN MORNING, Cherilyn Lee telling us that Jackson begged for the powerful sedative Diprivan, saying that he felt it was safe and that he would pay a doctor anything so that he could have it to get some sleep.", "He said, yes, I know exactly what it is, I've had it before. And I said, this is not a safe medication. He said, no, my doctor assured me that it's safe. There's no side effect, he said. It is safe. He asked me, he said, can you find me a doctor? I don't care how much money they want, I don't care what it is they want, I want this drug.", "Well, our Dr. Sanjay Gupta tells us Diprivan is sometimes used in low doses as a sedative, but most often it is used during surgery.", "Well, the message is clear -- leaders from nations in North and South America are telling those behind the recent coup in Honduras, put your deposed president back in power. President Jose Manuel Zelaya is vowing to return. So what does it mean for the future of Honduras and Central America? Joining me with more is Kevin Casas-Zamora. He's a senior foreign policy fellow with the Brookings Institution, also recently served as the vice president of Costa Rica. Kevin, it's good to talk to you this morning. So, President Zelaya is vowing to return. Originally, it was going to be tomorrow. Now it looks like he's not going to go back until at least Saturday. But Roberto Micaletti, who has assumed the presidency there says if he sets foot in Honduras, he's going to be arrested, tried and thrown in jail. He's really playing hardball here", "Thank you for having me here, john. My sense is that President Zelaya's idea of returning to Honduras immediately is probably a bad idea, and it's likely to make a bad situation worse. I think that some groundwork needs to be laid out before that happens. And by groundwork, I mean that the return to Honduras of President Zelaya won't solve anything, in and of itself. There's got to be some kind of political deal brokered before the underlying issue is tackled, and the underlying issue is how to make Honduras governable. Because in the end, it was not governable when President Zelaya was in power, and it is not governable now due to the immense international pressure that the new authorities in Honduras find themselves under.", "Yes. He was seeking changes to the constitution. He was trying to write them himself. He wanted another term in power. He has pledged that he's not going to pursue that any longer. Do you think that that might open the door for his return? Or is Micaletti hanging on so hard and fast to power he's never going to even let him back in the door?", "My sense is that President Zelaya made all the right noises yesterday when he spoke at the general assembly of the U.N. and he indeed opened some avenues of dialogue and it remains to be seen whether the new authorities in Honduras are willing to respond in kind. If they don't, my sense is that the international community will keep cranking up the pressure and I really doubt that the new authorities in Honduras will be willing or able to pull off the North Korean or the Myanmar card...", "Right.", "And remain as a pariah state for even seven months until the new government takes over. I don't think they'll be willing to do that.", "If they do, what's the effect in Central America? The president says he is very concerned about what happened there, he's called for President Zelaya to be reinstated. He says that we have to be careful about or worried about moving backwards to an area of military coups that changed governments in central America. We all remember what was going on during the 1970s and the 1980s, Nicaragua now taking a step backwards from democracy. So if the coup holds in Honduras, what's the net effect for central America?", "It will be a terrible precedent. It will be a terrible precedent and that explains the very strong and coherent reaction that you - that we've seen all through the Americas, not only in Latin America. Because this is not only a question of Chavez, as some people have said, coming out very strongly against the coup. It's also President Lula from Brazil, President Calderon from Mexico, even President Obama, and that's quite remarkable because my sense is that this poses a golden opportunity for the U.S. to make a clean break with the past and come out very strongly on the side of democracy. So, yes, I mean the problem is that this situation in Honduras adds to a very volatile political situation in Central America. In Central America, it is really unraveling politically, in Honduras, in Nicaragua and in Guatemala, particularly.", "All right. We'll definitely keep watching very, very closely. Kevin Casas-Zamora, it's good to talk to you, sir. Thank you for joining us this morning.", "Thanks for having me.", "Next to Michael Jackson's situation, one of the things that a lot of people have been asking about is what of this memorabilia, I mean so much memorabilia...", "There is tons and tons of it, isn't there?", "Right. What's the value now after Michael Jackson's untimely demise and passing?", "More than it was before.", "Absolutely. We'll we're going to talk more about that coming up. Thirty-five minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "LEE", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "KEVIN CASAS-ZAMORA, SENIOR FELLOW, BROOKINGS INSTITUTE", "ROBERTS", "CASAS-ZAMORA", "ROBERTS", "CASAS-ZAMORA", "ROBERTS", "CASAS-ZAMORA", "ROBERTS", "CASAS-ZAMORA", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY"]}
{"id": "CNN-22393", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-12-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/25/tod.01.html", "summary": "San Francisco Man's Humanitarian Efforts Help AIDS Patients in Africa", "utt": ["This Christmas, one man's humanitarian efforts will help people dying of AIDS in Africa, where the cost of drug treatment often exceeds a patient's yearly income. CNN's Don Knapp has the story.", "From his cramped, one-bedroom San Francisco apartment, Lee Wildes almost singlehandedly takes on one of the biggest problems in the world: AIDS in Africa.", "Through her work, she was able to send us an e-mail saying that she was needing refills.", "Refills of AIDS drugs, surplus or leftovers from U.S. clinics or hospitals, or from the survivors of those who died from", "I knew, having been a nurse, that I had thrown away millions and millions of dollars worth of drugs, and that no nurse likes to do it.", "Five years ago, after learning he was HIV-positive, Wildes took a vacation in Africa and saw first hand the scale of its AIDS epidemic. When he returned to the United States, he learned new drugs were prolonging lives of those with AIDS and began a personal campaign to get the drugs to Africa.", "We're not just putting medicine in a box helter-skelter and God hope it gets to the same patient.", "Consulting with African doctors by mail, e-mail and telephone, Wildes acts as case manager for 100 patients in six African countries...", "Forty milligrams a day for three months.", "... carefully filling doctors' prescriptions and documenting the medications. Once a year, he goes to Africa to work in clinics.", "This man was so confused and disoriented and so sick, I was certain that he wouldn't make it. And right now, he's a metal worker doing heavy steel work, doing work that I couldn't do.", "What Wildes is doing is illegal, dispensing drugs without a license, but it's not likely he'll be prosecuted for his humanitarian effort. (on camera): With more than 25 million Africans infected with the AIDS virus, Wildes' 100 patients may seem like a small success. But it's a success admired by those trying to fight AIDS on a global scale.", "In the face of the enormity and horror of the epidemic, and in the face of such little action, it's very natural that individuals who really care about this problem become motivated and active to try and do something about it.", "Wildes says he's not only helping a few, but creating a treatment model he hopes will show governments and drug companies what can be done. Don Knapp, CNN, San Francisco."], "speaker": ["LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "DON KNAPP, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "LEE WILDES, AFRICAN AIDS NETWORK", "KNAPP", "AIDS. WILDES", "KNAPP", "WILDES", "KNAPP", "WILDES", "KNAPP", "WILDES", "KNAPP", "RICHARD FEACHAM, UCSF INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH", "KNAPP (voice-over)"]}
{"id": "CNN-97189", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2005-8-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/25/lad.01.html", "summary": "Three Members of Army's 3rd Infantry Division Killed During Explosion in Baghdad", "utt": ["It is Thursday, August 4. Loved ones in Ohio struggle to grasp their loss after a second attack in Iraq hits too close to home again.", "He thought that they were the most respected and he belonged there.", "His mom talking. Nineteen Marines from one Ohio battalion killed this week in the deserts of western Iraq. We'll take a look at the lives lost. Also, new this morning, travel warnings for U.S. citizens visiting Britain. And Honda minivan owners listen up -- there's news of a recall affecting thousands of you.", "From the Time Warner Center in New York, this is DAYBREAK with Carol Costello and Chad Myers.", "Good morning to you. We'll have more from Iraq in just a minute. Also ahead, are you a parent who's having a hard time letting go even when your kids head to college? There is a name for your condition. Your diagnosis is ahead on DAYBREAK. And if you're looking for help at work, where do you go? Is your H.R. department really a resource for you? We're going to revisit this topic. We've heard from one side, now it's turnabout time. But first, now in the news, President Bush back on the ranch. Later this morning, he welcomes Colombia's president for a little home spun diplomacy. The two will talk about illegally drug trafficking and a bothersome Latin American insurgency. A possible roadblock for New York City police dealing with potential terrorists. The New York Civil Liberties Union plans to file a lawsuit today challenging those random searches of bags and packages on the city's subways. An attorney for the organization says the searches are unconstitutional and ineffective. Bermuda expected to take a glancing blow today from Harvey. Let's head to the forecast center to talk more about this -- Chad.", "Sixty miles per hour right now is the storm, Carol, tropical storm Harvey, the H storm. The next storm, Irene, as it comes out here. There's the storm. There's the island, very, very close. The latest wind gusts to about 55 miles per hour there on the island. That's not really enough to do a lot of damage here, so I think Bermuda probably did pretty well with this storm. Obviously, there still could be some wind damage at 55 miles per hour. That's pretty close to a severe thunderstorm here in the States.", "We start this morning in Iraq. New violence against American soldiers there. Three members of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division were killed during an explosion in Baghdad. That attack came just hours after 14 Marines were killed in the volatile Anbar Province. CNN's Aneesh Raman joins us from Baghdad. He has more details for us -- hello, Aneesh.", "Carol, good morning. Those three members of Task Force Baghdad, part, as you say, of the 3rd I.D. based here in the capital, we're told were killed last night around 8:00 p.m. local time. We really know nothing more than it was the result of a bombing of some sort. It does, though, come a day after, as you say, 14 U.S. Marines were killed northwest of the capital, near the town of Haditha. It is a deadly week so far for U.S. forces. Those 14 Marines killed after what must have been a massive improvised explosive device detonated alongside their assault vehicle. The video of the scene in the aftermath shows how big that crater was, how big that explosion must have been. It brings, Carol, the total number of U.S. military personnel killed in just the past three days to 24. And it brings the total number in the past 11 days to 46. These numbers underscoring how dangerous parts of Iraq remain and superficial, as you mentioned, that Anbar Province in northwestern Iraq. It remains, as some have called it, the heart of the insurgency, a hotbed of terrorist activity. There are a number of operations there trying to prevent the flow of foreign fighters in across that Syrian border, as well as to try and suffocate and isolate the insurgency there. But as the Pentagon said yesterday, the enemy remains lethal, adaptive, and as we've seen this week, incredibly resilient -- Carol.", "I want to talk about this bomb that this armored personnel carrier ran over apparently. This flipped a 25-ton vehicle. I mean how many explosives had to be packed inside that thing to do that and to create that crater? There was virtually nothing left of this vehicle.", "It is -- it hits home the point that a lot of the terms we use out here, like improvised explosive device, become numbing after a while. But that term is incredibly vague. It covers anything that could be put upon a road that would get hit by a vehicle. It goes from a small -- as a small bomb that'll be hidden underneath some trash that could just sort of disturb the vehicle to what we saw yesterday, what must have been just a massive bomb, either a mine of some sort or incredibly sophisticated packed explosives that hit at precisely the right moment. And it is this increasing sophistication that is worrying forces on the ground as well as the Iraqi government, because the sophisticated attacks are coming in the area where most of these operations are going forward -- Carol.", "Aneesh Raman live from Baghdad this morning. President Bush says the sacrifice by those Marines will be honored with the completion of the mission in Iraq. The president also repeated his stand that there is no timetable for the troops to come home.", "It makes no sense for the commander-in-chief to put out a timetable. We're at war. We're facing an enemy that is ruthless. And if we put out a timetable, the enemy would adjust their tactics. The timetable is this -- and you can tell your Guard troops and Reserve troops and mothers and dads of those serving. The timetable depends on our ability to train the Iraqis, to get the Iraqis ready to fight. And then our troops are coming home with the honor they have earned.", "And in this morning's \"Wall Street Journal,\" one defense expert says a timetable may actually escalate the violence by insurgents. Retired Marine Colonel Thomas Haynes says the fighters may try to convince the Iraqis that the Americans were chased out by the insurgency. A Pentagon official, though, says that is unlikely. But the fact remains, more than 20 American service members still lost their lives this week in Iraq. CNN's Keith Oppenheim sat down with a father.", "I was at work Monday evening and was notified by my wife that two Marines were at our house.", "On Monday evening, Jim Boscovitch would find out his 25-year-old son, Jeffrey, was missing in action. On Tuesday, he would learn his son was killed, one of six Marines who died from sniper fire near the city of Haditha, one of 20 Marines who died in Iraq this week.", "And this is Jeff on a gunboat. He was on the Euphrates River.", "Jim Boscovitch showed us pictures. And he talked about who Jeff was and who he was to be. In the past, the son had convinced the father that the war in Iraq was worth fighting.", "Months ago, my son -- and he's done this more than -- on one occasion, has corrected me and straightened me out about why he's over there.", "And in the future, Jim told us, his son was to be a police officer. He planned to get married this fall to his girlfriend Shelly. And Jim said his son was due back home in September.", "But there isn't a minute that I don't stop thinking about him -- when he was growing up, before he left for Iraq, his -- what we were going to do when he got back, looking forward to a wedding, you know, being a part of his life.", "All that's in the past?", "Yes.", "As much as he is sad, Jim Boscovitch says he's angry, too, especially at reports his son may have suffered a violent death. And he is mindful there are other families in Ohio going through the same emotions. (on camera): Is it harder that more have died? Does it change your emotions?", "Of course. Of course. I wouldn't wish what I'm going through on anybody.", "It may be several days before Jeff Boscovitch's body is returned to his family. Jim Boscovitch says it will only be then he will feel the weight of his oldest son's death.", "You have to try to work through it. And that's what we're trying to do as a family right now.", "Keith Oppenheim, CNN, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.", "Certainly there are no words to express the grief these military families are feeling this morning. But we want to meet two more of the Marines who paid the ultimate price. CNN's David Clinch reports the fallen Marines were proud to serve.", "He was a Marine to the core. Sergeant David Collard knew he wanted to be a Marine since he was 9 years old and he was determined to serve in combat. On Christmas Day, after waiting 10 years for active duty, he told his family he'd volunteered to go to Iraq. His stepfather says Collard wanted to be in battle to do what he was trained for. The 32-year-old Connecticut native was his mother's only son. As a single mom, she says she felt compelled to do things with him that a father might do. So she took him to target practice and took a hunting course with him. On Sunday, Collard sent his mother an e-mail from Iraq, letting her know he was safe. It ended with, \"I love you.\" That would be the last time she heard from her son. He died while on sniper duty one day later. Lance Corporal Brett Wightman was also born to be a Marine. He'd dreamed of being one since he was just 3 years old. His family says he would play with G.I. Joes and vowed to grow up to be a Marine, and he did. Wightman enlisted in 2002, after graduating from high school just outside of Dayton, Ohio. His aunt says Wightman believed in what he was doing. After a mission in Iraq, he wrote to his family that he'd rescued some children from a house. \"The looks on their faces made it all worthwhile,\" he wrote. Corporal Wightman planned to re-enlist in the Marines in October. His family says he wanted to rise to the top of the service. He died in Iraq, age 22, fulfilling a lifelong dream.", "Since the beginning of the war in Iraq, 1,824 U.S. troops have been killed. More than 500 of those have been Marines. There are currently around 138,000 U.S. troops now serving in Iraq.", "Americans are being warned this morning there could be more attacks in London. It was four weeks ago today that England's capital was rocked by a series of explosions. As you know, 52 people died that day. Today, there are an unprecedented number of police officers on patrol. For the latest, let's head to London and Chris Burns -- good morning, Chris.", "Good morning, Carol. We haven't seen this kind of police presence since World War 2. That's what they're telling us here. And the U.S. Embassy is telling Americans here to exercise \"extreme vigilance,\" in their words, especially when taking public transit. And that goes without saying. Everybody, tourists and Londoners alike, looking over their shoulder, looking warily at any bags that might be suspect. And, over my shoulder, you can see the police are in full force here right here. They've been checking bags of people coming in and out of the subway. So a lot of concern. And we talked to the deputy transit police chief earlier today. He says they're doing everything they can.", "Well, of course, it could happen again. London is at a high level of alert. It's four weeks on from that first attack. But we've got every resource we can possibly find out here on the underground and the over ground system today. All the police forces of London are all working together to keep London safe.", "But keeping London safe is also wearing down the police force, where some police are saying look, we're working six day weeks, 12 hours a day. How much longer can we do this -- Carol.", "A couple of more questions as it relates to the United States, Chris. The NYPD, the police department here, held this news conference and they let go some information about how these bombs were made. And it turns out they weren't sophisticated explosives. In fact, you could buy the ingredients, what, at any drugstore, supermarket?", "A drugstore or, yes, or army supply store. Just hydrogen peroxide, which is used for all kinds of stuff, and also heating tablets. And using cell phones as the triggers, as the timers. Much simpler than what was previously thought or previously published. The British authorities, however, are not very happy about all these details coming out. They're keeping their cards very close to their chests as they try to get to the bottom of this investigation. But, on the other hand, of course, U.S. authorities are concerned enough to pass it on so that people are on the lookout for that kind of thing -- Carol.", "Good idea. The other thing is that, you know, were these bombers really so sophisticated if they made the bombs in these ways? What more could you tell us about the suspects in this case?", "Well, Carol, that is a very big question. The authorities here are trying to get their hands on a couple of people who are outside of the country. There is one who is in Zambia who authorities there say are going to be deported, Harron Rashid Aswat. He, according to the British media, had some phone contact with a number of the bombers of July 7th. Those were the deadly attacks that killed more than 50 people. There's also, out of Italy, there is a hearing set for extradition on August 17th of Hamdi Issac. He is believed to be one of those in the botched bombings of July 21st -- Carol.", "Chris Burns live in London this morning. Your news, money, weather and sports. It's 6:16 Eastern. Here's what's all new this morning. NASA says a fourth space walk might be needed. Yesterday's repair to the underside of the shuttle went off without a hitch. Now, mission managers are deciding if a torn thermal blanket should be fixed before the Discovery returns to Earth on Monday. Martha Stewart will have to stay home for a little while longer, and she'll be wearing that lovely ankle bracelet. That's because her house arrest sentence was lengthened by three weeks. It had been scheduled to end next Wednesday. No official reason for that extension given. In money news, Rupert Murdoch is back at the helm of the \"New York Post.\" The media mogul returned to his former job as the paper's publisher after one of his sons abruptly left the \"Post.\" Murdoch was publisher once before, from 1976 to 1986. In culture, worldwide sports star David Beckham is getting a big settlement from a British tabloid. The paper alleged Beckham made harassing phone calls to a former nanny who cared for his children. Beckham, of course, is married to the former Posh Spice. The tabloid also said we're sorry for that story. In sports, some top lawmakers say they're going to investigate whether baseball star Rafael Palmeiro lied under oath to Congress about steroid use. He said in March that he never, ever, ever used them, but, of course, two days ago, Palmeiro was suspended for steroid use. Rafael Palmeiro says he will fully cooperate -- Chad.", "Who are they going to ask, Canseco?", "Hey, he's looking like the only one who told the truth now.", "Good morning. Carol there.", "Ever heard of a \"helicopter\" parent? It's a parent that hovers a lot. It might be necessary when you've got a preschooler, but what if little Johnny is going off to college? And H.R. is there to help you, right? We'll get the real scoop on the mission behind your company's human resources department.", "Time now for a little \"Business Buzz.\" Honda is recalling about 85,000 Odyssey minivans because of potentially faulty sensors. The company says the problem could make a warning light on the instrument panel stay illuminated. Honda says it will replace sensors on vans from the 2005 model year. The mayor of Salem, Massachusetts calls it a corporate merger. He resolved a despite between two grade school boys running a lemonade stand and a rival vendor, who had their unlicensed operation shut down. This was a grown up sausage vendor. He didn't like the boys' competition. Well, the mayor hammered out a subcontractor agreement and it keeps everybody happy. The back to school season is upon us and Carrie Lee is here to tell us how some states are trying to encourage people to get their shopping done early.", "Too beautiful words, Carol -- tax-free.", "Oh, OK.", "You have to love this. They've done this at some times in the past. New York certainly has. What's happening now, several states are offering tax-free shopping to give back to school shoppers a break. Starting tomorrow going through Sunday, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas are all offering a tax holiday, according to \"USA Today.\" But every state's plan is different. Some waiving just taxes on school supplies, $15 or less, like New Mexico. But Massachusetts is eliminating taxes on most retail purchases below $2,500. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., Iowa, New York have upcoming tax-free days. Tennessee and Maryland plan to add tax-free days next year. But if you live in Florida or Georgia, you've already missed the boat this year. So, at a time when a lot of states are struggling with tight budgets, why are they willing to do this? Well, experts say the states can break even on tax collection because the programs stimulate the local economies. When people go back to -- shopping for back to school supplies, they usually don't stop there, buying other taxed items, as well. Who knows? You can home with a whole new wardrobe. It kind of justifies it.", "I know I would.", "Yes.", "I definitely would.", "It's easy to stick to a budget. Some people put a list together and say I'm just going to buy what I really need. But obviously other people don't do that.", "I know. I wish I was one of the former people. A quick look at the futures?", "Yes, things looking a little bit weak today. Stocks a little changed yesterday, despite the fact that oil prices came down more than a dollar. So we could see a little bit of selling at 9:30 today.", "You know, speaking of going back to school, a lot of young people are headed to universities across the land.", "Yes.", "And their parents are hovering.", "It's a beautiful time.", "It is a beautiful time, but it's...", "Hovering? I'd think they would want them out the door. Go.", "Exactly.", "Go to college.", "But that is just not true. I mean have you heard about this, parents who are sending their kids off to college but just can't seem to stay out of their lives? Some people call them \"helicopter\" parents and you know who you are, because you're always hovering. Our guest, Jill Hoppenjans, knows all about this phenomenon. She's an assistant director of student life at the University of Vermont. Good morning, Jill.", "Good morning.", "We all found this so hard to believe, that so many parents hover. And when we say hover, we mean suffocate. Is that fair? *", "Well, at times. I think parents are more involved in their students' careers and they want to know what they're going to be experiencing in college and they want to know how they're going to register for classes and where they're going to do their laundry. So they are more interested and want to be more involved in the experience. *", "And, Jill, when you talk about interest, we're talking about parents going to orientation with their kid.", "Yes.", "I mean at one point there were more parents in orientation than kids.", "Yes. We do our orientation in June and we had 100 more parents than students at one of our sessions. And it's hard to explain who those people were exactly, but parents are -- parents and family members are certainly coming and are getting more involved.", "But isn't that harmful to the kid?", "Well, I don't think so. I think it could be, but I think that parents are really well intentioned and they just really care and they're out for their best -- their students' best interests.", "I don't know, Jill, because the University of Georgia, there was a quote in the \"Wall Street Journal,\" actually. And, actually, one of the administrators says the cell phone has become the world's longest umbilical cord because during registration for classes, like say a kid would go up and the classes were full and they wouldn't know what to do about it. So the person working that particular table, the kid would just hand them the cell phone and say here, talk to my mom. She'll work it out.", "That was a brilliant quote and it's actually -- you're right. Like that kind of stuff or parents who can't quite let go when they need to, that -- I don't know that it's harmful, but it doesn't allow students to grow. It doesn't allow them to learn. It doesn't allow them to learn how to make mistakes and then correct it. Even things like registering for classes, even if a student registers for the wrong class, those things can be changed. And students, I think, need to learn how to make mistakes, how to make decisions on their own and then know how to correct them as necessary.", "Well, I know there's such a thing as P.R. in your world, Jill, but come on. I mean it has to be more beneficial to the kid and harmful to the kid if you work out all of their problems.", "I don't know. I think at times it hinders students from developing and becoming adults. And it is -- it does show up when parents -- when students say ohm, I don't know how to do this. They get to a problem and they don't know how to get around it. And that's a lot of the rest of the work that I do is helping students cope with everyday problems. And I think you're right, they're used to depending on their parents and used to their parents solving all of their problems for them.", "Jill Hoppenjans from the University of Vermont, joining us this morning. Thank you so much. We'll be right back.", "From the Time Warner Center in New York, this is DAYBREAK with Carol Costello and Chad Myers.", "And good morning to you. Thank you for waking up with us. Chad will have your forecast in just a minute. Also coming up this half hour, more on the tragic week in Iraq. We'll talk to a retired Marine general about how the Corps deals with the loss of so many men while staying on dangerous duty. And trouble in the workplace -- is human resources really the place to turn for help? We'll get the other side of the story. 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{"id": "CNN-144884", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2009-11-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0911/09/lkl.01.html", "summary": "D.C. Sniper's Ex-Wife Speaks Out", "utt": ["One person dead, no suspects, no motives. This morning, 7:41, shot and killed. Again, no suspects. 8:12, another shooting at the Mobil station across the street. 8:37, another shooting, Hispanic female, shot and killed.", "There you saw a quick reminder of life back in 2002 in Washington, D.C. and environs. Joining us now in Washington is Mildred Muhammad. She's the former wife of convicted D.C. sniper, John Allen Muhammad. Her ex-husband is scheduled to die by lethal injection tomorrow in a Virginia prison. Mildred tells her story in a riveting memoir titled \"Scared Silent.\" Well, how do you feel tonight, Mildred? What's going through you?", "Well, what's going through me right now is the welfare and the emotional stability of my children. When I think of John, that is who I think of first, are my three children.", "How are they coping?", "They are coping one moment at a time. Certain emotions are starting to come up. But overall, they are doing well.", "How old are they?", "My son John is 19. My daughter Selina is 17. And my daughter Taliba is 16.", "Have they been able to visit their father?", "Unfortunately, they have not. So they have resolved their minds that they are just going to move forward and remember him the way that they did before. And that will be enough for them.", "Do they love him?", "Yes, sir, they still do. They just wish that he was...", "When's the last time...", "...still a part of their lives.", "Yes, that this hadn't happened, I mean. When was the last time that you saw or had contact with -- with your husband?", "My ex-husband? September the 4th, 2001 at an emergency custody hearing in Tacoma, Washington.", "So not -- not since all that time since then, since found guilty and since imprisoned?", "Yes, sir.", "Did you try to contact him in prison?", "No, sir. I didn't have a desire to do that. I had emotionally detached from John when I asked him for a divorce. And my emotions were severed when he said that you have become my enemy and as my enemy, I will kill you.", "You -- you have said that you think he was out to get you. Is that right?", "Well, when ATF knocked on my door October the 23rd, they took me to the police station to question me when was the last time that I had seen John. And I told them the same information that I told you. That is when they informed me that I was the target. First, they said they were going to name him as the sniper. Then they said, well, didn't you know that you were the target? He was shooting people all around you. His friend from Tacoma, Robert Holmes, called the task force during the shootings stating, \"I don't know much about your case, but you may want to look at John Allen Muhammad, because he is over that way to hurt his ex-wife.\" So I'm not the only one that feels that he came to this area to kill me. There are others who have stated this publicly.", "You testified at his sentencing. Was that hard for you?", "Yes, sir, it was very difficult for me. I actually went online to look at the courtroom to find all of the exits so that just in case he was able to get loose, then I would know which way to run.", "So you have no -- and I don't want to put words in your mouth. You are not -- you're not sad over what's going to happen tomorrow?", "I am sad for my children. My children love their father. And just like any child who is about to lose a parent, they feel anxieties that they are not aware of. And myself and my husband, Rubin, are here for them, as well as other friends who have come together to help them to go through this transition, because this is a difficult walk for them. And we need to be there for them, to help them through this.", "Mildred Muhammad, we'll be right back with her. Her book is \"Scared Silent\" When the One You Love Becomes the One You Fear.\" The other ex-wife and son of convicted D.C. sniper, John Allen Mo -- John Allen Muhammad, are speaking to us exclusively. And they're going to share some personal letters and their thoughts about what's coming up. But first, more with Mildred, right after the break."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KING", "MILDRED MUHAMMAD, JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD'S EX-WIFE", "KING", "MUHAMMAD", "KING", "MUHAMMAD", "KING", "MUHAMMAD", "KING", "MUHAMMAD", "KING", "MUHAMMAD", "KING", "MUHAMMAD", "KING", "MUHAMMAD", "KING", "MUHAMMAD", "KING", "MUHAMMAD", "KING", "MUHAMMAD", "KING", "MUHAMMAD", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-17237", "program": "", "date": "2000-10-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/05/aotc.01.html", "summary": "'Financial Times': Oil Stocks Only Slightly Lower on Falling Prices; European Markets Rally", "utt": ["Well, we've got the price of oil sliding in European trading this morning, but the market for stocks are not doing so. Nicholas Leonard, of the \"Financial Times,\" joins me know from the \"FT\"'s London newsroom. And Nic, how much of a toll is the price of oil taking on oil stocks?", "The oil stocks are lower, but they are not really falling as substantially as the oil price looks like doing, because a good deal of the likely decline in the oil price is already factored into their capitalizations. What we have is that the Brent from November delivery has fallen below the psychologically-important $30 a barrel level, down 20 -- down 75 cents, and that reflects the release of reserves in the United States and in Japan.", "All right, the markets also appear at first blush to have shrugged off an important earnings warnings from personal computer maker Dell. Is that the case?", "Very much so, yes. The markets are taking their cue from the rally of nearly two percent in the Nasdaq overnight. They're not really focusing on the Dell profit warning, they're looking at the more positive aspects: Vodafone is up again on the hopes for its Hong Kong and Chinese expansion taking a stake in China Mobile; we have Marconi, the telecom manufacturer, up nearly 5 percent on a major outsourcing deal, around 2900 employees in the U.S. and in Europe will be moved to other employers in order to cut costs and operate more efficiently.", "We also have word this morning that a merger between EMI and Warner Music is been called off.", "EMI and Time Warner have found so many problems, Deborah, trying to get a way of obtaining approval from the European Commission to merge at the time when AOL is merging with Time Warner itself. They offered numerous concessions in informal discussions. Today they have given up the effort. And what they've said is they're abandoning the current merger proposal. They are going to continue to talk about other possibilities. And if there is another deal, they will come back to their shareholders for separate approval. EMI shares fell more than 2 percent on the news, but they have rallied on the view that, in its own right, EMI may now be a more valuable company because the concessions that were being talked about could have undermined the rationale of the original merger proposal in the first place.", "And I understand there are some developments in the tobacco business this morning.", "European Court of Justice has annulled the decision by the European Union to ban all tobacco advertising from the year 2006. I think this is a temporary setback. The opponents of tobacco advertising are going to move forward again, but it's being greeted with modest relief in the London stock market, British American Tobacco has gone up a few pennies, and also Imperial Tobacco.", "All right, I want to thank you very much, Nicholas Leonard from the \"FT.\""], "speaker": ["DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "NICHOLAS LEONARD, \"FINANCIAL TIMES\"", "MARCHINI", "LEONARD", "MARCHINI", "LEONARD", "MARCHINI", "LEONARD", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "CNN-148253", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-2-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1002/20/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Tiger Woods Back in Rehab", "utt": ["Tiger Woods is back in rehab today. Yesterday he publicly apologized for his sex scandal and what he is calling his irresponsible behavior. He apologized to his wife, family and fans but gave no indication when he will return to golf.", "I was wrong. I was foolish. I don't get to play by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone applied to me. I brought this shame on myself. I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation, and kids all around the world who admired me. My wife's family -", "Woods made his comments in a tightly controlled televised event attended by a hand-picked crowd including his mother there who you see him hugging. So will Woods' apology help him regain some of the endorsements that he lost during the sex scandal? Rick Horrow, specializes in the business aspects of professional sports and earlier I spoke with him about that.", "This was a classic mea culpa on steroids. It's the biggest apology in the history of spokespeople. It's going to write a lot of textbooks over time.", "But why was it really necessary at this juncture? This was maybe a statement that some think should have happened much earlier in the game, but now months later. Why?", "Well, you have to do it sooner or later to move on. Not just move on psychological but move on in the business. And for example, for corporate America, we have Accenture and we have AT&T; who dropped him. We had Gatorade and other companies putting him on hold and you have Nike and EA Sports who are saying we're sticking by you. Nike's representative was there in the press conference. And so this begins the rehabilitation of Tiger Woods from a corporate perspective as well.", "All right. Rick Horrow's point of view earlier today. And if you missed Woods' statement, you can watch in its entirety at our web site at cnn.com. And now to the Olympics. One athlete has dreams of stardom that go beyond the excitement of winter games. Speed skater Katherine Reuter hopes to one day trade in her speed skates for a spotlight on Broadway. Here's CNN Mark McKay with more on her story.", "Some day Katherine Reuter wants to see her name in lights. Right now she's aiming to become an Olympic star. But after that, Broadway?", "That would be a pretty good dream job for me. I do like to sing and act and dance, and you know, speed skating always got priority over everything in high school but it's something I really wish I was able to do more of.", "That Reuter would want to prance on the stage is a bit of a surprise. Sure, she sometimes sang the national anthem to crowds before her competitions but she long ago left the dainty world of figure skating for the rough and tumble of short track speed skating. No grace required.", "I just had no fun figure skating. I wasn't interested in doing spins and twirls and all that.", "So she spent her teens going in circles on the ice and off it, including two years worth of weekend training trips t St. Louis from her Champaign, Illinois home. A six-hour drive roundtrip, usually made on consecutive days.", "When it got to the point we were doing it every weekend it just turned into a super long commute, because I didn't want to be away every weekend, and it ended up being cheaper to just pay for gas and to pay for a hotel room and didn't want to wear out the hospitality anywhere.", "I had calculated it out and I had an old car and I wasn't worried about putting the miles on it.", "Pretty soon it was just normal to be driving. There and coming right back.", "Going the extra miles wasn't a problem. Reuter was used to being told to do just that by the man who is both her coach and her driver.", "My dad taught me everything I know about being a good athlete.", "You look back and you say, gosh, if all my ideas worked out this well, you know, it's really - it's been hard but it's been great.", "She eventually got a professional coach and now stands as a three-time national champion, hoping to follow in the multiple medal winning footsteps of the sport's biggest name, Apolo Anton Ohno. Of course, as you might expect, she's just as interested in Ohno's footsteps as the footwork of the former \"Dancing with the Stars\" champion.", "I certainly don't want to take away from the amazing dancer that he is, but I do love to dance. I think I could pick that up pretty quick.", "It sounds more like you'd be made out for \"American Idol.\"", "Oh, I hadn't even thought of that. Great idea. All right. Okay. Simon Cowell, here I come.", "From Vancouver to Hollywood to Broadway, Reuter is raising to wherever the lights shine brightest.", "All right. Mark McKay with us now, out of Vancouver. All right. Let's talk about another skater, Apolo Ohno tonight and all eyes are once again on him.", "No doubt about it. We heard, I mentioned Ohno in that piece. He will be skating tonight as will Reuter. She is in the women's 1500-meter speed skating event, a short track event. But, yes, all eyes indeed, Fred, on Apolo Anton Ohno looking to win his seventh winter games gold, or medal overall. He would love that gold for sure. But he has a gold, silver or bronze after tonight's event, he will become the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian, passing Bonnie Blair. We'll keep an eye on that as this unfolds. Fred, no fewer than six gold medals being awarded today on the ninth day of competition. One has already been awarded in Whistler in the women's Super G race. It was considered to be Lindsey Vonn's best race. But she wasn't best on this day. Lindsey Vonn picking up bronze as the Austrian skier Andrea Fischbacher claims gold.", "Wow. All right. I know it was exciting to watch.", "No doubt about it. A great race, Fred.", "All right. Mark McKay, thanks so much, and a very sunny Vancouver. Beautiful weather today.", "Beautiful, beautiful.", "All right. We're going to talk more about Olympics. We're going to talk about skating of another sorts. We'll ask Olympic skater Elvis Stojko what he thinks about the man who brought home gold, the American right there - who brought home gold in Vancouver, and her dancing was a revelation. Coming up I'll talk with one of the most influential dancers and artistic directors of our time. 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{"id": "CNN-218192", "program": "AROUND THE WORLD", "date": "2013-11-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/06/atw.01.html", "summary": "Toronto Mayor Admits Smoking Crack, Refuses to Step Down", "utt": ["After his bombshell admission that he smoked crack, people are now calling for the mayor of Toronto, Canada, to step down and seek some help.", "These allegations are ridiculous.", "After months of bold-faced denials --", "I did not use crack cocaine nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.", "Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's confession was as riveting as it was blunt.", "Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But no, do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, approximately about a year ago.", "And there it was, the sordid truth that this mayor could no longer outrun. Months of secret police surveillance of Ford was made public last week in connection with the mayor's arrest. Police say, so far, the mayor isn't charged with anything. Police did confirm that they have the video, the one that allegedly shows Mayor Ford smoking crack cocaine from a pipe. And Mayor Ford says he wants to see it.", "I want everyone in the city to see this tape. I'd like to see the tape. I don't even recall there being a tape or a video. I know that, so I want to see the state I was in.", "But now Mayor Ford says he's put it all out there. He's looking for forgiveness.", "I have nothing left to hide. I embarrassed everyone in the city, and I will be forever sorry.", "He had a lot to say except the words, I'm stepping down.", "I was elected to do a job and that's exactly what I'm going to continue to do.", "He intends to run for mayor again, next fall.", "Not only is he running, many people here in the city say he actually has a good chance of winning again, if he runs. You know, he has a strong base of support here and it has been a movement some people call it the \"Ford nation\" of people in the suburbs, really deciding that they want city hall back here to get their act together. And that means reducing taxes. It doesn't have anything to do with people's personal lives. Many people here today, Suzanne, still telling me, this is the best mayor the city has ever had. Hugely controversial and I can promise you, the story isn't going away. Suzanne?", "Unbelievable story. And Pope Francis is taking a survey, and he's asking Catholics, what do they think about gay marriage and divorce. The Vatican survey on the modern family, pretty amazing stuff, coming up."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "MAYOR ROB FORD, TORONTO, CANADA", "PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FORD", "NEWTON", "FORD", "NEWTON", "FORD", "NEWTON", "FORD", "NEWTON", "FORD", "NEWTON", "NEWTON", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "NPR-38450", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2008-10-28", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96231029", "title": "GM Seeks Government Loan To Buy Chrysler", "summary": "General Motors is asking the government for a loan that would make it possible to acquire rival carmaker Chrysler. There is a growing list of industries that would like to be included in the Treasury Department's financial bailout and it's not clear yet how Treasury will respond.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is All Things Considered. I'm Robert Siegel.", "And I'm Michele Norris. First this hour, General Motors is seeking billions of dollars from the federal government to stay afloat. GM needs money to pay for a possible merger with Chrysler.", "In a moment we'll hear from someone who says it's time to let American car companies fail. First to what GM says. NPR's Frank Langfitt gets us started.", "GM officials have been making the rounds in Washington. The company is tearing through cash and looking for a lifeline. Greg Martin is the company's spokesman.", "We have for quite some time now been talking to a variety of officials, just as other companies and industries have been doing during these very difficult times. We believe government should employ all the tools that are available to it to support an industry that's in distress and is important to the economy.", "One tool GM is looking at is the Treasury Department's $700 billion bailout fund. The money was originally designed to buy toxic mortgage-backed securities. Now it's being used to pump money into banks. Treasury spokeswoman Brooklyn McLaughlin described the kind of firms that qualify.", "The Capital Purchase Program is available to federally regulated banks and savings institutions.", "OK, that does not sound like General Motors. But GM does have a loan financing arm, GMAC. And Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has proved creative as the credit crisis has spread to a variety of industries. Another place GM is looking for money is the Department of Energy. The agency has $25 billion set aside for the auto industry. But that money is designed to promote fuel-efficient vehicles, not mergers. Haley Baumgardner, a spokeswoman for the agency, would not confirm any conversations with GM, but she added this from a statement.", "The Department of Energy has always had an open line of communication with the automakers, an industry we highly support as part of our Advanced Vehicle Technology program, among others.", "Baumgardner said the agency is still writing the rules for the loan program. She also said it hasn't received formal applications yet. Whether General Motors can get any of this money, there's no question it needs it.", "GM is currently burning through cash at about a billion dollars a month.", "That's Aaron Bragman. He's an auto analyst with Global Insight, the financial analysis firm. The credit crisis and an apparent recession have destroyed consumer demand for cars. Bragman says GM needs cash just to survive.", "Sales are down such to the point where they're just basically not making any money, and they're really losing their shirt in the market. So they have to try and find new sources, more people that'll lend them money.", "That's one reason GM is eying Chrysler. The smallest of the Detroit three has lots of problems, but as of a few months ago it also had $11 billion on hand. The other reason GM wants Chrysler is some valuable brands, including Jeep and the Dodge minivan. But Aaron Bragman acknowledges that combining the firms won't be easy.", "It's basically taking two sick companies and putting them together and trying to make one healthy company out of it. And that's not going to happen without a lot of cutting and a lot of slashing and a lot of burning.", "GM would have to get rid of many competing Chrysler brands. It would also have to lay off many thousands of workers. Bragman says the company would probably use some federal money to pay severance to United Auto Worker members to avoid a strike.", "Do you have any reason to believe that a merger would work?", "That's a very good question. There are far more obstacles, frankly, in terms of making this merger work than there are chances of success.", "Indeed, recent history is not encouraging. An earlier union between Chrysler and the German firm Daimler was a disaster. Maryann Keller, a longtime auto analyst, says mergers often don't work out as planned.", "All kinds of things that are, you know, in the realm of the unexpected, torpedo your very best assumption.", "But in the current crisis, General Motors faces dwindling options. As Aaron Bragman put it, the big question may not be what happens if GM merges with Chrysler, but what will happen if it doesn't. Frank Langfitt, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "MICHELE NORRIS, host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "FRANK LANGFITT", "Mr. GREG MARTIN (Spokesman, GM)", "FRANK LANGFITT", "Ms. BROOKLYN MCLAUGHLIN (Treasury Department Spokeswoman)", "FRANK LANGFITT", "Ms. HALEY BAUMGARDNER (Energy Department Spokeswoman)", "FRANK LANGFITT", "Mr. AARON BRAGMAN (Auto Analyst, Global Insight)", "FRANK LANGFITT", "Mr. AARON BRAGMAN (Auto Analyst, Global Insight)", "FRANK LANGFITT", "Mr. AARON BRAGMAN (Auto Analyst, Global Insight)", "FRANK LANGFITT", "FRANK LANGFITT", "Mr. AARON BRAGMAN (Auto Analyst, Global Insight)", "FRANK LANGFITT", "Ms. MARYANN KELLER (Auto Analyst)", "FRANK LANGFITT"]}
{"id": "NPR-2866", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2018-10-22", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/10/22/659611064/whats-behind-turkey-s-investigation-into-jamal-khashoggi-s-death", "title": "What's Behind Turkey's Investigation Into Jamal Khashoggi's Death", "summary": "NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with The Brookings Institution's Amanda Sloat about Turkey's possible motivations amid the investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's death.", "utt": ["Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he'll make a big reveal tomorrow. He'll give a speech detailing what happened to Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2. Now, all along, Turkey has accused Saudi Arabia of killing the journalist. The Saudis acknowledged it only Friday after denying it for weeks. They say the country's rulers knew nothing about the operation, a claim viewed with skepticism outside the kingdom.", "Now, to understand the aims of the Turkish government, we're joined by Amanda Sloat. She's a senior foreign policy fellow at Brookings. She just got back from Istanbul. Welcome to the program.", "Thank you.", "So to give us some context, there was a rift between these two countries - right? - that predates this incident. What's going on there?", "Yeah, absolutely. Some of this tension goes back to the Arab Spring of 2010 when Turkish president, then-Prime Minister Erdogan assumed that like-minded governments led by some of these Islamist parties would come to power. This fell apart for him in 2013 in Egypt when the Muslim Brother-elected leader Morsi, who was an ally of Turkey, was overthrown in a coup by Sisi, who was seen as a foe by Turkey and backed by the Saudis.", "So essentially Turkey has some enemies in the region now - right? - including Saudi Arabia. So what are they trying to gain in exerting basically pressure on the Saudi government?", "I think there certainly has always been a challenge and a struggle for a balance of power there in the region. I think what we are seeing with Erdogan right now is particularly directed against Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS.", "And this is the crown prince right now.", "Absolutely, absolutely, who King Salman designated as the heir in 2017. Erdogan, I think, never has really trusted him. I think he thought that the West was buying into his reformist image while he was engaging in crackdowns. He's 33, which means he's likely to be in power for a number of decades. And I think Erdogan always saw him as being particularly unfavorable to Turkish regional interests. And so I think what we are likely to see from Erdogan in his speech tomorrow is continued efforts to try and impose maximum damage on MBS.", "Meaning he wants him replaced, a new heir called.", "Ideally I think he would like MBS removed or at least weakened in terms of removing his de facto powers on the foreign policy side.", "So is this speech directed really at President Trump, the U.S.? Is that the nation that could bring this pressure to bear?", "Erdogan certainly recognizes that Turkey doesn't have the potential to do this on its own, and so it really is going to be, as you say, the United States that is going to have to do this. Erdogan has been quite quiet over the last week and a half. And a lot of the information that we've seen coming out has been leaked from Turkish government sources. And I think it's not in Turkey's interest to have a complete rift with the Saudis.", "But I think this weekend, when there was a very weak admission from the Saudis about what happened and, as you noted, some questions about their claims about what happened, the effort has shifted from showing that it was a premeditated murder by a professional team who came to Istanbul to providing possibly in Erdogan's remarks tomorrow more evidence of a direct link of these operations to MBS himself, which then would put further pressure on Trump in terms of his response.", "As we said, you just got back from Turkey. What are you hearing in terms of what we're expecting tomorrow?", "It's unclear how much detail there's actually going to be in Erdogan's remarks. I think we'll continue to see some of these more specific details coming out from government officials. I think Turkish prosecutors are likely to come forward with their case in the next couple of days. What was particularly interesting in Turkey was there was an initial assumption early last week that perhaps what Erdogan was looking for was a financial bailout from the Saudis given the financial crisis that we've had in Turkey. But that attitude really started to shift in the latter part of the week with an increasing sense that this was being targeted at weakening MBS himself.", "That's Amanda Sloat. She's a former State Department official, now a senior fellow at Brookings. Thank you for speaking with ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.", "Thank you for having me."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AMANDA SLOAT", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AMANDA SLOAT", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AMANDA SLOAT", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AMANDA SLOAT", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AMANDA SLOAT", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AMANDA SLOAT", "AMANDA SLOAT", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AMANDA SLOAT", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AMANDA SLOAT"]}
{"id": "CNN-237515", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2014-08-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/26/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Palestinians, Israel Agree on Cease-fire; U.S. Approves Syria Spy Flights; Release of Inspector General's Report on V.A. Hospitals; Israelis Agreed to Send Delegation Back to Cairo; U.S. Ready to Strengthen Moderate Rebel Forces; Spy Flights over Syria", "utt": ["Right now, Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza say they've reached a deal with Israel. A new cease-fire is now underway. If it holds, it puts an end to more than seven weeks of fighting. Also, right now, President Obama approves U.S. reconnaissance flights over Syria. Are air strikes over ISIS targets in Syria the next step? And might the U.S. actually end up working with Bashar Al Assad's government in Damascus? And right now, we're only minutes away from the release of the inspector general's report on V.A. hospitals across the United States. Did excessive wait times lead to the deaths of some of America's veterans? Hello, I'm whole Wolf Blitzer reporting from Washington. We've got some breaking news right now. We're following breaking news about a breakthrough in the fighting between Israel and militants in Gaza. Within the last hour, Palestinian and Egyptian officials announced a news fire -- a new cease-fire has been reached. And Israel, only a few moments later, said it has accepted the truce. Our Correspondent Reza Sayah is joining us from Cairo right now where the negotiations led by the Egyptian government have been taking place. So, Reza, walk us through the details. What do we know about this cease-fire?", "Wolf, I think what's important to stress is this does not address the core demands, the core issues that have been the source of this", "And the Israelis have agreed to send their delegation back to Cairo to resume these indirect negotiations with the Palestinian delegation which includes, of course, representatives from Hamas Islamic Jihad, some of the other militant groups as well. The -- there's been some confusion, Reza, about what time the cease-fire goes into effect. Some suggest it's already in effect right now. Others, midnight Gaza-Israel time which would be 5:00 p.m. here on east coast of the United States. Is the cease-fire now technically in effect?", "It is. And we're going to clear that up for you. State media here in Egypt falsely reported that the cease-fire would begin midnight local time which is in several hours. But the Egyptian senior official that we've been talking to, and Palestinian officials, have told us that the cease-fire is already underway. It started at 7:00 p.m. local time which is about an hour ago -- Wolf.", "Yes, all right. Reza Sayah, we'll watch it closely. We'll stay, obviously, in very, very close touch with you. We'll see how these negotiations take place. Let's hope it stays quiet now between Gaza and Israel. In just a few minutes, we'll get some more on the implications of the cease-fire. Our Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour will join us live. Stay with us for that. Let's get to some other news right now. The latest on the fight against ISIS. The U.S. taking fresh aim at the militant group. This time, though, in Syria, officials telling CNN President Obama has given the go ahead for reconnaissance flights over Syria. Flights meant to gather intelligence on ISIS militant positions there. This comes a day after the Syrian regime said it was open to help from the United States and other countries in its own battle against the ISIS forces. Barbara Starr is joining us from the Pentagon right now. Barbara, I want to play a quick comment from the president. Just a few moments ago, in his speech before the American legion about U.S. interests in Iraq and Syria. Listen to this.", "So, we're strengthening our partners. More military assistance to government and Kurdish forces in Iraq and moderate opposition in Syria.", "All Right. So, he's basically lumping in the moderate opposition forces in Syria to the Kurdish forces, to the Iraqi military forces. What are you hearing about what the United States will do to strengthen what he calls these moderate opposition forces in Syria in their own battle against ISIS as well as against the Bashar Al Assad regime?", "Well, Wolf, as you'll recall, several weeks ago, the U.S. said that it would begin supporting, once again, these moderate rebels, trying to provide perhaps some weapons, perhaps some training. But this has been problematic for years now, you know, trying to figure out who the so- called moderate rebels really are and what can be done for them. Right now, I think it's fair to say ISIS is on the front burner for the Obama administration at this hour. The president has authorized reconnaissance flights over ISIS targets, try and get a better understanding of exactly where they are, where their troop formations, their training camps are, to prepare to go in with air strikes if he makes the decision to go down that road. They need much better intelligence. They need real-time intelligence. All we've seen so far are ISIS strikes, as you see, across the border in Iraq. Those air strikes, officials tell us, have had some effect. They've stopped the ISIS momentum, in parts of Iraq, and that's what they're hoping to replicate in Syria. If the president makes the decision, go after ISIS in that northern area of Syria, up against the Iraqi border, and try and stop ISIS from its momentum in that area -- Wolf.", "So, we know the president has approved these reconnaissance flights over Syria. Have they actually started yet?", "Interesting question. The Pentagon is getting very closed mouth about all that. We do not know, at this hour, if there has been the first reconnaissance flight into Syrian airspace. Let's be very clear about that. But the U.S. has continued to fly drones near the border on the Iraqi side. That's something that has been going on as part of the reconnaissance program over Iraq for some time. And officials tell us they do have the capability to see somewhat into Syria, you know, making that decision to actually go into Syrian airspace a very big deal because it would be a violation of the sovereignty of the -- of Syria. Will the U.S. coordinate with Bashar Al Assad? Don't count on it. Many U.S. officials, many U.S. military officials, telling us they have no intention telling Assad anything about what they may be up to -- Wolf.", "All right, Barbara, thanks very much. Barbara Starr at the Pentagon. And she raises an important question about cooperation with the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al Assad. He has offered, by the way, to partner with the United States in his own fight against ISIS. ISIS representing a major threat to his regime. Let's go to Nick Paton Walsh. He's joining us now from London. So, what's the likelihood, as remote as it might sound, that there could be this alliance, if you will, a partnership between the U.S., the Bashar Al Assad regime, and their common battle against ISIS?", "I think nothing really in public, Wolf. I mean, you've got to bear in mind, a year ago, they were in the middle of accusing the Assad regime of using chemical weapons and killing 1,200 people on the outskirts of Damascus and contemplating whether or not they would launch airstrikes against Assad. Many argue, too, that the 10s of thousands of civilians killed by often indiscriminate bombing in northern Syria is actually the crucible in which the radicalism of ISIS was formed. That people were so infuriated by the absence of western intervention and the brutality of this Assad regime that, in fact, they found ISIS a better potential better alternative. Hard to imagine but what many argue in these circumstances. So, to suddenly turn around, even given the threat ISIS poses and have Washington and Damascus reach an open entrant (ph) agreement seems highly unlikely. Perhaps, tacitly, they may allow each other wriggle room, operating space. But I think it's going to be very difficult, in the words of former General David Petraeus, for them to, in fact, to become the Assad regime or even the Iraqi government, Shia government air force, and carry out missions to assist their fight on the ground. Often against Sunni rebels which, I should point out, ISIS most certainly are as well -- Wolf.", "Nick, you heard the president say in his speech, at the American Legion a little while ago, that the U.S. is ready to strengthen the moderate rebel forces, opposition forces in Syria. But I know, from my own conversations with U.S. military and intelligence officials, they're very worried if they were to supply sophisticated weapons, whether tanks or armored personnel carriers, anti-aircraft missiles, for example, to these moderate rebel forces, these opposition forces, in Syria, those weapons could wind up in the hands of ISIS. How serious is that fear?", "Well, certainly, you have to bear in mind what Syrian moderate rebel groupings. They have been decimated in the past few months. This is the fourth or fifth time the White House has said they will assist those groups. And that it's constantly been stymied by infighting between the groups and now, most particular, the fact that they are being heavily hit by ISIS advancing towards them on the outskirts of Aleppo. Now, of course, they have to be in a much better position to be able to take complicated weaponry like", "And we know the U.S. military has been badly burned by the loss of a lot -- huge amounts of sophisticated weaponry the U.S. left behind in Iraq for the Iraqi military, which the Iraqi military simply abandoned as they ran away from the incoming ISIS forces in Iraq. And that has left a very, very bitter taste in the U.S. military's mouth. And, as a result, they're very worried about what could happen in Syria if they were to leave stockpiles of weaponry for the moderate opposition forces in Syria. Nick Paton Walsh reporting for us. Thanks very much. Up next, we'll have much more on the president's decision on Syrian flyovers. Our own Christiane Amanpour standing by to weigh in on that decision as well as the cease-fire now announced in Gaza. And the sound of gunfire caught on tape. Newly released audio said to be from the shooting of Ferguson, Missouri. An audio expert tells us what he hears."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "REZA SAYAH, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "SAYAH", "BLITZER", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BLITZER", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "STARR", "BLITZER", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "WALSH", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-302739", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2017-01-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/09/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Planned Parenthood President Vows to Fight for Funding", "utt": ["Welcome back to the program. Tonight from New York, in just 11 days, Barack Obama will hand over the presidential baton to Donald Trump. And the country, indeed the world is bracing for major change. One organization in particular is worried about his very existence and that is Planned Parenthood. A non-profit group dedicated to providing reproductive health services across the United States. The Republicans in power are threatening to pull federal funding because it provides abortions. Though by law, no government money is used to pay for them. Its president Cecile Richards tweets that she won't be going down without a fight and she's joining me now from Washington.", "Cecile Richards, welcome to the program.", "Thank you. Thanks for having me.", "You know, we broadcast to an international audience and I think that people around the world would be very, very bemused and alarmed to know how much of policy in the United States revolves around abortion. Can you state, you know, state for the record Planned Parenthood does or doesn't provide abortions based on money it gets from the federal government?", "Well, as you said, Christian, the federal government in the U.S. does not provide funding for abortion services. Hasn't for years. We think that's wrong, but that's the law. And so what we're talking about now in fact and what Paul Ryan, Speaker Ryan, said the other day, is now they're going to end access to Planned Parenthood preventive care. That means birth control, cancer screenings, well- women visits. We provide health care to 2.5 million people every single year and that health care is now at risk.", "Cecille, you know, this is so political and it's not really about thinking about people's health. Give me an idea, you've just had the issues that will be at risk. How many people -- give me the stats of you're able to achieve with Planned Parenthood.", "Well, it's extraordinary. I mean, we've been around 100 years. We're the primary women's health care provider in the United States of America. And, frankly, under Obamacare, one of the most popular benefits we fought for was birth control coverage for women. Now 55 million women get it at no co-pay. That is at risk. But as a result of the work we've done, we are at a 30 year low for unintended pregnancy in America. And so the crazy thing is, Christian, about this new effort to end that access to family planning at Planned Parenthood, it is the very thing that is reducing unintended pregnancy and the need for abortion in the United States. It's really a problem when politicians put their politics ahead of women's health care in America. And I can tell you this is not what voters voted for. This is not even what Trump voters voted for. They are shocked to find out that this administration would consider ending access to Planned Parenthood.", "You say that, and I was actually going ask you because, you know, 52 percent of White American women did vote for Donald Trump versus 43 percent for Hillary Clinton. And, you know, politics as you say is being played with this. What do you think the result will be? What do you think the effect will be on women around the country, in other words in terms of will they fight back, what can they do? Is this really going to go through, do you think?", "Well, I absolutely -- women are fighting back. Not only women, but men, as well. And as you know, there is a big march on Washington coinciding with the inauguration. What we have seen at Planned Parenthood has been extraordinary. The largest outpouring of support particularly among young women and men. We've had a 900 percent increase in women trying to get into Planned Parenthood to get an IUD, because they are desperately concerned that they might lose their access to health care and they know that Planned Parenthood is the place that can provide it. So women in this country are absolutely not going without a fight and the majority is with us.", "Cecile, your mother was the world famous governor of Texas. And you, apparently, according to your bio, became an activist at the early age of 12 years old. Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader in Congress, has once said that you could have been president if you had run. Are you going to be at this march? How important is this march?", "I am going to be at the march. I'm proud to be there. I think that hundreds of thousands of folks will be and all around the country. But I think, Christian, what we're talking about is more than a march. I think what's important is that women and men who are concerned about the future of women's rights and women's health in the U.S., that they make their voices heard in whatever way, whether they march or whether they call their member of Congress, call their senators. These are votes that are going to be taken very, very soon. And the access to not only the Planned Parenthood services but to women's health care is very much at risk. It's incredibly important that the grass roots of America that did not vote for this rise up and make sure that people in Washington hear them.", "And do you think that voice will be heard? I mean, let's face it, I mean, this kind of assault on Planned Parenthood and the services provided has been going on for years all the way back to the Reagan administration and it even affects funding to other countries, the whole Mexico City rule and all the rest of it. How much of an international impact does this politicking with health care have?", "Well, of course, we're concerned that any rights that women lose in the U.S. will have a cascading effect around the globe. And it's important, Christian, abortion has been legal in the United States for more than 40 years. It is accepted law. It is accepted right. And so it would be obviously enormous -- it would be devastating to the women of America to overturn Roe vs. Wade or for women to lose access to basic family planning. I don't think that's where we're going to go, but it's going to take people in this country speaking up and speaking out. And as you said earlier, this is not a partisan issue. The women who come to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings or for family planning services, they're of all political parties, they're of every walk of life and it's important that the one in five women in America who have been to Planned Parenthood make sure they speak up right now in Washington.", "Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, thanks for joining us and you have a real fight on your hands. Thanks for being here.", "Good to see you. Thanks.", "So Hillary Clinton as we know was a big supporter of Planned Parenthood and vice versa. At a rare post-election sighting yesterday, she attended the final night of \"The Color Purple,\" a play here on Broadway. And she received several standing ovations. She was with the former President Bill Clinton. And that of course was in striking contrast to what happened to Vice President-elect Mike Pence two months ago, who was booed by patrons when he went to see the smash hit \"Hamilton,\" while the cast besieged him to protect everyone's civil rights. Next from stage to the big screen, imagine Hollywood taking on Trump. And Meryl Streep's starring role in the latest flare-up of the culture wars. That's next."], "speaker": ["AMANPOUR", "AMANPOUR", "CECILE RICHARDS, PRESIDENT, PLANNED PARENTHOOD", "AMANPOUR", "RICHARDS", "AMANPOUR", "RICHARDS", "AMANPOUR", "RICHARDS", "AMANPOUR", "RICHARDS", "AMANPOUR", "RICHARDS", "AMANPOUR", "RICHARDS", "AMANPOUR"]}
{"id": "CNN-382916", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-10-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/14/es.04.html", "summary": "Black Woman Fatally Shot Inside Texas Home; Search Resumes For Missing Worker.", "utt": ["The family of a black Texas woman who was fatally shot inside her Fort Worth, Texas home by a white police officer is calling for an outside agency to investigate. An attorney for the family of 28-year- old Atatiana Jefferson says she was playing video games with her 8- year-old nephew early Saturday morning when an officer shot her through a window.", "The officer observed a person through a rear window in the residence and fired a shot at that person. The officer did not announce that he was a police officer prior to shooting. What the officer observed and why he did not announce police will be addressed as the investigation continues.", "Here is Polo Sandoval with more.", "We went from a welfare check to a woman being killed by the cops.", "Outrage is building over the actions of a Fort Worth, Texas police officer. Saturday morning, just before 2:30 a.m., police were called to the home of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson after neighbors noticed her front door was open. Heavily-edited body camera video released by Fort Worth police picks up what happens next. After police peer through the front door, they walk the perimeter of the property when suddenly, police say, an officer spots someone standing near a window.", "Put your hands up. Show me your hands. (Gunshots)", "The medical examiner identified the woman who the officer shot as Jefferson. She died at the scene. James Smith says he's the concerned caller who first alerted police.", "I feel guilty because had I not called the Fort Worth Police Department, my neighbor would still be alive today.", "In a statement, Fort Worth police said their officer drew his weapon and fired the single shot after, quote, \"perceiving a threat.\" In addition to the body camera footage, investigators released this still photo showing a firearm inside the house. CNN legal analyst and criminal defense attorney Joey Jackson cautions not to jump to any conclusions.", "You're going to release the fact that she has a gun in the home as perhaps what, to suggest she had a gun and that we were perhaps fearful for our life? There's no indication where that gun was. There's no indication she had that gun. There's no indication that she should not have had the gun.", "CNN has requested the unedited body camera footage. A police spokesperson said nothing additional will be released at this time and that the department, quote, \"...shares the deep concerns of the public and is committed to completing an extremely thorough investigation.\" Police have not named the officer who joined the department in April of last year. Polo Sandoval, CNN, New York.", "Rescuers are still trying to find a worker trapped in the rubble of a deadly construction collapse in New Orleans. Two people were killed Saturday morning and at least 30 others were injured. CNN's Rosa Flores has the details.", "Dave and Julia, this weekend was a race against time as first responders and search and rescue teams rushed to the scene to try to save lives, and families rushed to the scene hoping and praying that their loved ones had made it out alive. Take a look over my shoulder at the black crane. It weighs 110 tons and it was brought in on Sunday to stabilize the structure to allow the search and rescue teams to further their search. The body of a least one deceased was recovered on Sunday. Now, the dramatic moments of the collapse were caught on camera, showing the floors of the building flatten, a cloud of dust -- plume -- and workers run for their lives. Now, the cause of the collapse has not been determined yet but OSHA is on-scene and ready to investigate -- Dave and Julia.", "Thanks. Tomorrow, 12 Democratic presidential candidates face off in the next primary debate. The Trump-Ukraine scandal has put former vice president Joe Biden at the center of the news cycle over the past month. Can he turn that to his advantage tomorrow night or will someone else break out? Jeff Zeleny with a preview.", "Good morning, Dave and Julia. Democratic candidates heading here to Ohio for their fourth presidential debate. It is going to be on the campus of Otterbein University in the suburb of Westerville, Ohio. Of course, all eyes will be on Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren, as well as on Bernie Sanders, who is recovering from that heart attack, but other candidates as well. Now, several candidates were speaking Sunday night at an Ohio Democratic Party dinner rallying the party faithful. But it's also questions that Joe Biden is bringing into this debate about his son, Hunter Biden. On Sunday, his son, Hunter Biden, said if his father was elected, he would not serve on any foreign boards or work with any foreign governments, clearing trying to move beyond the controversy that President Trump has been stirring up, largely without evidence. But clearly, this is a defining moment for these Democratic candidates who will be sharing the stage -- 12 of them in total -- on Tuesday night here in the pivotal battleground state of Ohio -- Dave and Julia.", "OK, Jeff -- thanks. You can see the CNN-New York Times Democratic Debate live from Ohio tomorrow night, 8:00 Eastern time, right here on", "A defining moment we'll see. All right, let's get a check on \"CNN Business\" this morning with a look at the global market picture. As you can see, a strong rally for Asian markets overnight, supported by that U.S-China trade deal. Japanese markets, though, closed for a holiday. What about on Wall Street right now? Well, we're tilting to the downside, off around half a percent, as you can see, taking back some of the gains that we saw in Friday's session as investors cheered progress on that U.S.-China trade deal. The Dow closing up some 319 points on Friday. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closing higher as well. But a disappointment, perhaps, filtering in on the details of that deal. More is needed. Now, meanwhile, investors preparing for a flood of earnings from America's biggest banks this week, too, and they may not be all that pretty. Investors hearing from Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo on Tuesday. Earnings may have been brought down by lower interest rates. The Federal Reserve, of course, cutting interest rates in July and September, making it harder for these banks to eke out returns on loans. Stocks, though, have held up reasonably well this year despite the trade war and the slowing global economy. But weak corporate results could give investors a reason to pull back here.", "Are you kidding me?", "Millions of kids are staring at this. A special event to end the 10th season of Fortnite seems to have ended the game altogether, at least for now. On Sunday, players logged on to participate in, quote, \"the end\" as the game prepares to launch its next situation. But at around 2:00 p.m., a rocket blew up the landscape and dragged players into a black hole. About 20,000 people are still watching a livestream of the black hole on YouTube -- wow. There is no official word on how long the blackout will last.", "A black hole forcing kids to realize there is sun outside, perhaps. The American League Championship Series all tied at one game apiece after the Houston Astros' dramatic 3-2 win in 11 innings over the Yankees.", "Talking to the home plate umpire, Cory Blaser. Here's a fly ball to the right -- back at the wall. This game is over.", "The game is over, the series is tied. That's Carlos Correa, first pitch of the 11th inning, into the right field seats for the walk-off winner. The series now shifts to New York for game three tomorrow night. Is the Pope a New Orleans Saints fan? That's what it appeared to his 18 million Twitter followers Sunday. The Pope tweeting this Sunday morning. \"Today we give thanks to the Lord for our new #Saints,\" not realizing the hashtag would automatically generate the New Orleans Saints fleur-de-lis logo. After beating the Jags Sunday afternoon, here is the Saints' official account. \"Couldn't lose after this. #Blessed and highly favored.\"", "That's cool.", "We don't believe the Pope is a Saints fan but if he's going to root for an NFL team it's got to be the Saints, right?", "Divine intervention -- I think that's what you call that.", "Exactly, my friend.", "Some Fortnite will be hoping for the same, I think, on the black hole situation.", "It'll come back, kids. It'll come back. Go play.", "Go and play some sports, yes. That's it. Thank you for joining us. I'm Julia Chatterley.", "I'm Dave Briggs. Here's \"NEW DAY.\"", "A disturbing, meme video of a fake President Trump shooting, assaulting, and stabbing members of the media and his critics were shown to a pro-Trump conference last week.", "A huge week on Capitol Hill. On Thursday, we're going to see the former ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, testify.", "Donald Trump released the entire transcript of his supposed phone call, but there was no quid pro quo. The haters are going to hate.", "There clearly was a strong arm. The result is the president will be impeached.", "This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.", "We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is NEW DAY. It is Monday, October 14th. END"], "speaker": ["BRIGGS", "LT. BRANDON O'NEIL, FORT WORTH POLICE DEPARTMENT", "BRIGGS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "POLO SANDOVAL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "POLICE OFFICER", "SANDOVAL (voice-over)", "JAMES SMITH, NEIGHBOR WHO CALLED POLICE", "SANDOVAL (voice-over)", "JOEY JACKSON, CNN LEGAL ANALYST, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "SANDOVAL (voice-over)", "CHATTERLEY", "ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "CNN. 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{"id": "CNN-340347", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2018-05-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/16/cg.02.html", "summary": "U.S.-North Korea Meeting Falling Apart?; Should WH Have Seen N. Korea Threats Coming? Tillerson Appers To Troll Trump On Truth And Facts.", "utt": ["In our world lead: After North Korea threatened to withdraw from talks, President Trump is trying to manage expectations, saying of the potential summit, maybe it will happen, maybe it won't. But North Korea experts say, based on prior actions, the White House should have seen this coming. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.", "I think we're looking at the Libya model of 2003-2004.", "That statement from National Security Adviser John Bolton sent alarm bells to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who the CIA has long thought is only worried about his own survival, Kim knowing full well the fate of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who was killed by rebels after he gave up weapons of mass destruction for sanctions relief. Pyongyang now quickly returning to the classic North Korean style of provocations and demands, threatening to walk away from the historic Trump-Kim summit. A top North Korean official called Bolton's comments \"an awfully sinister move to impose on our dignified state the destiny of Libya or Iraq.\"", "We shouldn't have been surprised. This is not an uncommon tactic for North Korea. It's something that Kim Jong-un's father would do, in the run-up to a major dialogue or an event, to all of a sudden to throw roadblocks or obstacles or even just to try to renegotiate a better lot for himself at the table or at the event.", "The administration is playing a wait-and-see strategy.", "We haven't seen anything. We haven't heard anything. We will see what happens.", "Some experts questioning if Kim, trying to exert leverage over Trump, may have overplayed his hand.", "I was a little bit surprised by it occurring this time, because it doesn't make sense from North Korea's point of view. They had created this euphoria in the South, this love of the North, and they turn around and I think they're going to lose a lot of support.", "So the question now, is Kim Jong-un bluffing? Is he playing Donald Trump at his own game in trying to make the best deal he can, Jake?", "All right, Barbara Starr at the Pentagon, thanks so much. My panel is back with me. You heard National Security Adviser John Bolton mention the Libya model, which apparently and perhaps understandably, rubbed North Korea the wrong way. To that, North Korea responded, \"It is essentially a manifestation of awfully sinister move to impose on our dignified state the destiny of Libya.\" They went on to say -- quote -- \"The world knows too well that our country is neither Libya nor Iraq, which have met a miserable fate.\" A mistake, David, to invoke Libya, given the fact that Gadhafi was massacred and the country is now ripped apart by terrorism?", "Apparently, he didn't get the seriously, but not literally model. Right? He didn't get the memo, right...", "Where is Salena Zito when North Korea needs him?", "Exactly. No, look, it's obviously I think there are some -- they are perhaps overly sensitive. And John Bolton was there, and the architect of the Libya model. And I don't think that's -- that they're apropos. And he even admitted on the show there that they weren't exactly an apples-to- apples comparison. And so I think the North Koreans perhaps overreacting a bit on that.", "Angela, take a listen to Sarah Sanders, the press secretary at the White House, asked about this Libya model from John Bolton. This is earlier today.", "I haven't seen that as part of any discussions. So I'm not aware that that is -- that is a model that we're using.", "That is not administration policy currently, the Libya model?", "Look, again, this is the President Trump model. He is going to run this the way he sees fit.", "Trying to walk it back, but is that enough? Does the Trump administration need to do more to make it clear, look, we weren't talking about we want to see your country look like Libya when this is all over?", "I think that is a tough sell David, it's interesting, because you said it's -- they're being overly sensitive. I don't know a human being on this planet that wouldn't be being compared to what has happened in Libya. It is disruptive. It was horrible.", "Right. I think they're talking about denuclearization, right? They gave up their arms...", "But I think the reality of it is, is we know that this is a sound bite culture, not just here in the United States. Globally, that's what they hear. And the reality of it is, you are going to get defensive when you know that people were brutally killed.", "And this -- and one of the issues here, of course, Amanda, is when you are Kim Jong-un -- I know it is tough for us to identify with Kim Jong-un.", "Yes.", "But when you are Kim Jong-un and you look at Libya and Gadhafi and you think he gave away his arms, he gave away his nuclear weapons, and look what happened to him. He got ripped apart by his own people. His country is a hellhole now. And then you could look at Iran, and say, well, they entered into a nuclear agreement. And then President Trump walked away from it. Again, I'm not trying to identify with Kim Jong-un, but from their perspective, to try to be fair, maybe the United States, if they want the summit to happen, needs to be a little more careful.", "Yes, but don't we as Americans also need to know what we're getting into?", "Sure.", "Yes, the North Korean perspective is important. That is playing out. But I also want to know what we're getting out of this deal. But what worries me is that I don't think the Trump administration is in control of events. It seems to me that the North Koreans are dictating the terms of this agreement and this meeting right now. I'm not sure what Trump is asking for. I see that the North Koreans have got a meeting. I see they may humiliate the Americans by walking away from that meeting. I have yet to see what the greatest deal-maker we've ever seen is going to produce for the", "I'm not certain that anybody is getting humiliated if this doesn't take place. I mean, this is -- North Korea has played you know -- excuse me, Lucy moving the football on numerous occasions so I don't think anybody is getting humiliated. I think this President is looking out for Americans and American best interest. I think the best interest is a denuclearized Korean Peninsula. I think that the Chinese are being involved in this. There's going to be lots of parties involved and I think this President cut the deal with that. I think there's a lot of other moving parts you see with the ZTE comments and some other things so a lost things at play here.", "But Angela, listen to President Trump who has been boastful about how he has managed the North Korean threat as opposed to Obama, Bush, Clinton, et cetera.", "I started a process and when I did, everybody thought I was doing it absolutely wrong. But in the meantime for 25 years people, people have been dealing and nothing happened and a lot is happening right now. I can tell you that, Jeff. A lot is happening. And I think it is going it be very positive.", "Angela?", "So a couple of things. I think -- I remember during the campaign when he was asked about leaders, world leaders he admired and respected, Kim Jong-un was one of them. You know, this is -- this is a problem. This is somebody that he admired for potential bullying behavior. He identified with this person. It's also interesting to note he hasn't taken him at his word. He's constantly moved the ball. It's very difficult to --", "Who's moved the ball, Trump or --", "Kim Jong-un, like he's -- yes, with other administrations. And so what I'm saying is why would you think that it would be different? He's so caught up in trying to differentiate himself from President Obama that he doesn't believe that an apple is a apple and a fact is a fact.", "If the worst thing that happens is President Trump at the end of this doesn't get a summit but got these three hostages back. That's not such a horrible thing.", "Right, without a doubt. I think we should rooting for President Trump but let's not forget Otto Warmbier who got a terrible condition. That said, the hostages are great but I wonder who wants this meeting more for the right reasons. And I'm happy the hostages came home but I question the judgment when he jumps in the camera shot at 3:00 a.m. I wonder if he's looking out to the United States or his own personal legacy.", "Listen, we have the Korea -- North Koreans that are talking, they're not lobbing missiles across the sea of Japan, across our allies. It's a huge win.", "We're all hoping -- we're all hoping for the best. Coming up next, firing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sharing how he really feels about the current political environment. Is he talking to anyone in particular? 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{"id": "CNN-255306", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-05-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1505/16/cnr.05.html", "summary": "ISIS' Source of Revenue Examined", "utt": ["All right, hello again, everyone, and thanks so much for joining us. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Our top story, a U.S. special operations raid overnight in Syria overnight killed a key ISIS figure. U.S. officials tell CNN that Abu Sayyaf, a Tunisian citizen, was the equivalent of ISIS' chief financial officer, also involved in military operations. A source tells CNN that he may have had contact with ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. Sayyaf's wife was also captured in the raid. An official saying that she and Sayyaf were suspected to be involved in or have deep knowledge of ISIS hostage operations. ISIS operates all over the world, and to maintain those operations, it needs money. Last year alone the group made nearly a half a billion dollars. But where does that money come from? Here now is CNN's Miguel Marquez.", "It's the best-funded terrorist organization in history. ISIS controls big territory in Syria and Iraq, and it runs its pillaging machine like a business to fund its ultimate goal -- one ginormous Islamic state. Let's follow the money. At its heart, ISIS is a criminal enterprise. In 2014 the U.S. Treasury Department says it made at least half a billion dollars from seizing banks in norther and western Iraq. But banks aren't the only target. ISIS fighters loot houses, they steal cars, chop them up for parts. They trade weapons and people. It's a revenue stream that thrives on territory. The more they control, the more they can steal. There's a reason ISIS has been compared to the mafia. It extorts protection money from the people it lords over. You want to move a truck down the highway? Pay a tax. You're want to move money out of your own back account? It will cost you. You're a farmer with 100 sheep? ISIS takes five. The extortion game earns it several million dollars every month. ISIS has made millions selling oil from fields it controls in Syria and Iraq, as much as $100 million in 2014. It's less now that the price of oil has fallen and the U.S. and its allies started bombing refineries. But ISIS doesn't need refineries to make money from oil. The unrefined crude it pumps out of the ground is worth plenty. ISIS fighters smuggle it in barrels across the border or in containers small enough to fit under a truck. A middleman buys it the crude or whatever ISIS has managed to refine and sells it on the black market. Kidnapping for ransom also big business. In 2014 ISIS made at least $20 million that way. The United States says it won't negotiate with terrorists, but some European countries do, and so do wealthy Arab families whose relatives are targeted. ISIS has taken sledgehammers to ancient artifacts, but it also makes money looting and selling stolen treasures. A giant sculpture of an Assyrian idol might be destroyed while a gold Babylonian coin is sold because the coin was never worshipped. And that's how ISIS makes its millions.", "All right, joining me right now with more, CNN global affairs analyst Kimberly Dozier. Good to see you. So the significance of Abu Sayyaf's connections to ISIS' oil and gas operations really can't be overstated. As we just heard, that group earns millions of dollars because of black market oil or various ways. But can it bow that that kind of revenue is really what keeps this operation afloat?", "Well, that kind of revenue is key to paying the ranks of recruits that have been coming in, thousands month by month, to Syria and to northern Iraq joining the cause. It also pays for weapons, ammunition, and for keeping the peace in the towns and cities that ISIS holds sway in. They have to -- you know, they hand out traffic tickets. They keep the lights on. They keep the water running. All of that needs money. So ISIS does need this constant influx of cash to keep its operations going. So if you get the guy who's been managing that money, he is the one who's been writing the checks to all those people. And that is part of what U.S. officials used as their key argument to President Obama, to say this is an intelligence-rich target. It's worth the risk.", "And then on the black market, who is buying this oil, because it's not like you just buy enough for your vehicle or, you know, for fueling your home, but it has to be in sizeable quantities in order to make a dent, to really earn any money, right?", "Well, yes and no. You've got a lot of local consumption in northern Iraq, in Syria. Large parts of that country are cut off from the outside world, and even in remote parts of Turkey. So you do have a ready source of people to sell this to. Now, but the more important part of this raid, I think, was his connections to military operations. They also believe that his wife was an active member of ISIS. So interrogating her, looking at the laptops and the cell phones that they got from the compound, that is intelligence they hope to exploit that may lead to future raids very soon by the U.S. or by its allies in this fight.", "All right, Kimberly Dozier, thank you so much. Appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "And be sure to tune in to CNN tomorrow, 7:00 p.m. eastern time, to see Fareed Zakaria's CNN special \"Blindsided, How ISIS Shook the World.\" Also coming up, just weeks after protests and rioting shook the city of Baltimore, the Preakness is getting under way. And there's new tensions over the Freddie Gray case."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "KIMBERLY DOZIER, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST", "WHITFIELD", "DOZIER", "WHITFIELD", "DOZIER", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-33802", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-7-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/02/lad.09.html", "summary": "Alexandria, Virginia, Rich With History", "utt": ["Here at home, 225 birthdays in honor of Independence Day. For the next three days, we're going to visit some of the places on America the Beautiful, the America the Beautiful tour.", "That's right. And today's site is Alexandria, Virginia, a few miles from Washington and rich in history. CNN's Elaine Quijano is there this morning. Elaine, where in Alexandria exactly are you?", "Well, we're about six miles south of Washington, D.C., in Market Square, Colleen -- the heart of Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia. During Colonial times, this is a wealthy seaport town, known for exporting tobacco, sugar and wheat. It was also a very busy social center, and it's that history that the city of Alexandria has preserved for visitors today.", "In late 18th-century Alexandria, Virginia, weary travelers and locals would gather at Gadsby's Tavern, where they could get a hot meal, see live entertainment, and hear the news of the day. George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and others could be found here having dinner or a drink as they were mapping out the future of a new nation.", "The philosophizing, the political wheelings and dealings -- that's where it was going on.", "Today, in these same buildings, weary travelers and locals alike are still served, more than 200 years later. Just a few blocks away, the 18th-century well-to-do attended the Christ Church, completed in 1773. Not much has changed, visitors can still worship and sit in the same pew as George Washington.", "Christ Church as an Episcopal Church. It particularly drew many of the elite, planters who would come in from all the surrounding plantations.", "More than 250 years since its founding, Alexandria and the area known as Old Town have flourished. Its quaint boutiques, red brick sidewalks, and rich history draw more than one million visitors every year.", "It's a respite in the rest of Washington, but truly bringing you back to the beginning of the nation's capital that you really can't achieve any place else.", "Here now is a live look at another place worth visiting here, in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia. The Stabler Ledbeater Apothecary, established in 1792, served customers like the George Washington family, James Monroe, and Robert E. Lee. Tourism is big business here in the city of Alexandria. City officials estimate that last year alone, tourists generated about $469 million in revenue. We're live in Alexandria, Virginia. I'm Elaine Quijano. Colleen, back to you.", "Thanks so much, Elaine. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR", "ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "QUIJANO (voice-over)", "PAM CRESSY, CITY OF ALEXANDRIA", "QUIJANO", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "QUIJANO", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "QUIJANO", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-343290", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-06-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/21/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Former McCain Manager Leaving the GOP; Trump Touts Denuclearization", "utt": ["This morning, a poignant, new cover from \"Time\" magazine taking on the current crisis at the southern border. Take a look at this. The photo illustration shows a towering President Trump staring at a crying child with the message, welcome to America. The young girl you see here is a two-year-old Honduran child crying for her mother. This is from an actual photo that was taken of the girl and then, of course, this is an image that they've super imposed of the president there. Joining me now, CNN's senior political analyst Ron Brownstein, CNN political analyst Rachael Bade also with us. Thank you both for being here. And, Rachael, let me begin with you. You've got that image, right? And then you have the president saying, as he signed that executive order yesterday, quote, I didn't like the sight or the feeling of families being separated.", "Right.", "But this was his policy -- this was his practice. I mean he knew that when instituting zero tolerance, this is what would happen.", "Yes.", "So what is it that the president is now saying he doesn't like about it?", "Well, clearly he got the message from his party that this was not acceptable and he's feeling the burn and trying to backtrack. And he tried to blame this on Democrats and the reality was that a lot of Republicans on Capitol Hill came out and said, Mr. President, this isn't a Democratic proposal, this is yours, and you can stop it. And so obviously he was backtracking. I think on The Hill there was a lot of relief when he signed this, but there's also a feeling that this battle is not over. Secretary Nielson -- Homeland Secretary Nielson was on The Hill the other day telling lawmakers yesterday afternoon that even though they have this executive order in place, it's a matter of time before it pretty much blows up and so they need to act now, get to address this issue. The problem with that is that even if Congress passes something addressing this matter, I'm told that -- from somebody who is close with the president, that he has not come around to this idea of signing a very narrow immigration bill fixing this issue at the border. And so that might be the next turn in this battle.", "You know, Ron, when you talk about the party and the impact on the party and a party divided over this, right, the Republican Party, you have a long time Republican strategist who worked for -- managed John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, Steve Schmidt, and he said over this stuff he's leaving the party. Here's what he wrote, 29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and become a member of the Republican Party, which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery, to stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump. Is that a one-off or is that something that the party should be concerned about moving forward?", "Yes, well, first of all, the analysis is connect. I mean, you know, there was no reason for the White House to think that this was the moment at which House Republicans would balk because they have followed Trump step-by-step into his redefinition of the party around these themes of racially infused nationalism. I mean they -- the opposition to the wall during the -- during the primaries was -- is gone. I mean even the compromise bill fully funds it. Every Senate Republican voted to deny funding to cities that don't fully cooperate with ICE. All but seven House Republicans vote to deny funding. The compromise bill would create a new right of action for individuals against cities and states who don't fully cooperate with ICE. So they have fought -- you know, they have marched themselves into this quagmire by acceding at each step to Trump's nationalism, not only by the way on immigration, but also on trade and alliance. And the risk they face is that while this is very popular with their older and blue collar base, I mean this is majority opinion in the Republican Party supported the idea of the separation.", "It is.", "But it is much less popular among their younger and college educated portions of their coalition and obviously less popular still among younger and college educated voters outside of their coalition and that is the risk they are facing -- they are taking by following Trump in this direction.", "And, Rachael, we know from that same polling that Ron is pointing to, the CNN polling this week, that it's opposed by three out of four women. And it is those suburban white women that helped, you know, secure the presidency for President Trump. And if they are opposing this in areas that are more dangerous for the party and for him, that matters a lot.", "Yes, I would say, Republicans, you know, has objected to this on moral grounds. But, you know, privately they're all -- they were also freaking out about the politics of this. You mentioned women. You know, a lot of women in suburban, educated districts, this is the battle -- the ground zero for the battle to take the House for Democrats. They are targeting these suburban, educated districts and women there are already skeptical of Trump. And so this policy obviously is not sitting well with them. It's also not sitting well in Hispanic populated districts. And there are a lot of swing districts in the House that are currently controlled by Republicans that are key targets for Democrats and it doesn't play well there either. So, politically, this was just a disaster, a huge miscalculation on the part of the president when it comes to protecting his party's majority.", "What do you make, Ron, of the calculation the president has made this week to attack his own, I mean to attack Mark Sanford. Granted, he lost the primary. But to attack John McCain at the rally in Duluth, Minnesota, last night, talking about him with the thumbs down on the health care vote, going after him again as John McCain is battling terminal brain cancer.", "Yes, look --", "I just don't understand the strategy of the president. One of the people in the crowd, a Trump supporter, screamed out last night, but he's a war hero.", "Yes, interesting. Look, I think, you know, the president -- it is not a bug. It is a feature of the presidency to attack an endless series of targets and to constantly portray himself as fighting against all comers, all elites on behalf of his coalition. And it is producing, I think, you know, an electoral landscape that has to be seen as very bifurcating. It's not simple. If you look at the polling, for example the CNN polling, roughly two- thirds of non-white Americans want a Democratic controlled Congress and about 55 percent of college educated whites want a Democratic controlled Congress. I was -- that was roughly the number in CNN, Pew and Quinnipiac yesterday. On the other hand, this is a kneeling or solidifying the Republican hold on a lot of blue collar and non-urban America. Fifty-five percent of non-college whites said they want a Republican Congress in the CNN poll. And it is entirely possible that we end up with an election that consolidates the Democratic control in metro areas that are dense -- you know, densely populated, diverse, moving into the information economy, and Republicans remain really strong outside of that in the less urban areas and are more rooted in manufacturing and ag and resource extraction. And the divide between the two is even more glaring and confrontational after November than it is today and certainly that's what we're -- looks like we're headed for in 2020 as well.", "Except some of those voters, the rural, you know, farmers are opposed --", "On trade --", "Opposed, yes, on the trade.", "Yes, on trade. Yes, trade. Yes.", "But also like the Goodlatte bill, what it would do to legal immigration and what that would mean for their workforce. So, all right, Ron Brownstein, thank you. And Rachael Bade, nice to have you both. The president touting North Korea's denuclearization last night at a rally. Listen to this.", "They stopped all nuclear testing. They stopped nuclear research. They stopped rocketry. They stopped everything that you'd want them to stop and they blew up sites where they test and do the testing.", "Hours earlier though, Defense Secretary James Mattis said he's not aware of any concrete steps that the North has taken to denuclearize. So, which is it? Let's go to the Pentagon. Barbara Starr is there for more. This is a very important divide among two people that really should be on the same page on this.", "Well, Poppy, I think that the defense secretary once again in the awkward position of batting cleanup for the president.", "Yes.", "In fact, Secretary Mattis telling reporters here at the Pentagon yesterday he's seen no evidence so far that the North Koreans have done anything to denuclearize. And, in fact, he said that the negotiations to make all of that happen have not begun yet, so you wouldn't even expect it. The negotiations not beginning with the North Koreans on this is a very key point. The two sides have to sit down, talk about, what is denuclearization? What sites are you going to dismantle? What are you going to blow up? How are you going to get inspectors in there? How are you going to verify all of that? So the president's statement that they've done everything perhaps just a little bit in advance of actual reality on the ground. And this is the position that we see Mattis in time and again. The president says something and the secretary has to sort of put that heavy dose of reality on there. The bottom line right now is, any military or intelligence officials you talk to will tell you that so far they see no evidence of North Korean denuclearization. Poppy.", "Barbara Starr fact checking it for us from the Pentagon. Appreciate it this morning. Thank you. President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin planning to meet, we've learned this morning, in mid-July. It's happening during the president's trip to the U.K. and the NATO summit. One official saying Vienna may be the location for this meeting. No official announcement, though, has been made. Images like this of a scared child on the southern border are spurring national outcry. Now major questions about what other pictures the Trump administration may not want out there to the public. We'll talk about it ahead."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "RACHAEL BADE, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "HARLOW", "BADE", "HARLOW", "BADE", "HARLOW", "RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "BROWNSTEIN", "HARLOW", "BADE", "HARLOW", "BROWNSTEIN", "HARLOW", "BROWNSTEIN", "HARLOW", "BROWNSTEIN", "HARLOW", "BROWNSTEIN", "HARLOW", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HARLOW", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "STARR", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-229672", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2014-5-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/02/acd.01.html", "summary": "Police: Massacre Plot Foiled; Deadly Violence In Ukraine", "utt": ["In crime and punishment tonight, authorities in Minnesota say a 17-year-old planned to kill as many students as he could in a school massacre. The plot they say, involving guns and bombs and would have begun with a high school junior killing his parents and sister. They said the plan was thwarted on Tuesday, thanks to some quick-thinking young women who some are calling heroes tonight. They say they spotted the suspect to acting suspiciously as he headed for a storage unit so they called 911. I spoke to one of them this evening.", "He walked right through our back yard full of water. So we were like, what is he doing? And then we saw him going to the storage and it took him like 10 minutes to get into it. But we thought he was just breaking in. So my cousin was going to go and knock on the door. But I told her not to. And I just told her to call the cops and have them deal with it because I didn't know what he was doing. So then the cops came and a few minutes later he was hauled away.", "Just word on why we're not mentioning the name of the suspect, it is because stories about mass killings and would-be mass killings should not be about the subjects, we believe. It should be about the people who likely would have lost their lives or saved lives. Here is Susan Candiotti with the latest on the investigation.", "It was right there in a notebook, tucked away in a guitar case. On those pages, police say, plans to kill and blow up as many students as possible at Waseca. Minnesota high school.", "We have escaped what could have been a horrific experience.", "A 17-year-old student is now accused of plotting a mass attack, meticulously writing down his every move starting last July. Somehow police say he managed to accumulate an arsenal including explosives, seven guns, ammo and three bombs found in his home and three more bombs and even more ingredients in the storage unit. Authorities say a friend's mom rented it for him. (on camera): Police say it was supposed to go down like this. The teenager plotting to shoot and kill his parents and sister at home. Then go to a nearby field set off a big fire to distract first responders, then rush to his high school to kill as many students as he could with bombs and bullets.", "He intended to set off numerous bombs during the lunch hour, kill the school resource officer as he responded to help, set fires and shoot students and staff.", "Originally the planned attack was set for the anniversary of Columbine. But because it fell on Easter Sunday this year, the plot was delayed. The police say the accused teen idolized the students behind the Columbine School shooting, even though he was only 2 years old when it happened. In the journal, police also found notes on the shootings at Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook Elementary School. The investigators even recovered a pressure cooker, the same kind of bomb used to maim and kill at the Boston marathon.", "We can either believe that this occurred as a result of a lucky break or as I do, choose to believe that God was looking out for all of us.", "Investigators credit two young women who became suspicious when they saw someone wearing a backpack going into this storage shed and called police.", "He shut the door and I thought it looked funny because normally we see people come here and it doesn't take 10 minutes to open up a storage shed. So that is why I called it in.", "Inside that shed, police confronted the teenager, confiscated an array of bombs and other ingredients for even more, foiling the plot.", "It has not really sunk in yet. Like we have been getting flowers and people are mentioning us on Facebook. I'm glad we did what we did.", "At the time, not knowing they may have saved countless lives. Susan Candiotti, CNN, New York.", "Incredible. There is a lot more happening tonight. Randi Kaye has a 360 Bulletin -- Randi.", "Anderson, police in Nigeria now say more than 200 girls were kidnapped at a boarding school more than two weeks ago. Authorities say dozens escaped from their captors. Nigeria's militant Islamist group, but over 223 girls are still missing. At this rally Thursday, the crowd called for their safe return. In North Eastern Afghanistan, an official fears of 2,700 are dead after a massive landslide. So far the official death is 350. And Bill Gates no longer Microsoft's biggest shareholder after selling nearly eight million shares of stock over the last couple of days, he now owns roughly 330 million shares, just behind the company's former CEO, Steve Balmer, his famous is on his foundation -- Anderson.", "All right, Randi, thanks. We have more breaking news now, the crisis in Ukraine, which has only gotten much bloodier in the last 24 hours. Deadly street fighting in Odessa. Choppers gunned down elsewhere. Russia and the west squaring off diplomatically. President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussing tougher sanctions. Mr. Obama warning Russia not to further militarize its dispute with Ukraine.", "If in fact, Mr. Putin's goal is to allow Ukrainians to make their own decisions then he is free to offer up his opinions about what he would like the relationship to be between Ukraine and Russia, and I suspect that there will be a whole lot of Ukrainian leaders who will take those views into consideration. They can't be done at the barrel of a gun. It can't be done by sending masked gunmen to occupy buildings or to intimidate journalists.", "Well, joining us now where some of those masked gunmen. Arwa Damon has more. Arwa, what is the latest?", "Well, Anderson, at this stage it seems that the situation has slightly calmed down. But just a few hours ago the Ukrainian forces that were positioning themselves out of the city of Slavyansk, that is where they made their push this morning came under attack by pro-Russian militants. According to the government at least two Ukrainian soldiers were killed. And then of course you have the violence that flared up in what was previously a fairly calm area. Odessa in the southern part of the country. Clashes breaking out between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian camps. There, at least four people were killed initially. And then a fire broke out in the main administration building. More than 30 people killed because of smoke inhalation, others because they tried to jump out of the windows. But Anderson, the situation is growing incredibly grim here by the day.", "And just the other day they say they were helpless against the armed separatists. Now they seem to be pushing hard against them. Does the government have a plan? Are they capable of projecting force?", "Well, they have the military troops in position right now outside of Slavyansk. It seems as if those troops are under orders to simply hold the outskirts, the perimeter of this city. We need to see if another force may move in and re-take the buildings. That is going to be incredibly difficult, Anderson, because of where they're located in the very center of these cities. As you mentioned here where we are in Donetsk and Luhantsk, regaining that in Ukraine will prove to be very difficult. And if they do take the military option, potentially very bloody.", "All right, Arwa Damon, stay safe. Thanks very much. Up next, Raphael Sollecito speaking out tonight on CNN regarding the case of Amanda Knox and what he has to say about the case, the new allegations. Also ahead, a very mysterious and deadly virus believed to have originated from the Middle East, turns up for the first time in the United States. I'll talk to Dr. Sanjay Gupta how worrisome this development is and what you need to know about it."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "KATIE HARTY, SAW TEEN SUSPECT (via phone)", "COOPER", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CANDIOTTI", "CAPT. KRIS MARKESON, WASECA POLICE DEPARTMENT", "CANDIOTTI (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CANDIOTTI", "CHELSIE SCHELLHAS, WITNESS", "CANDIOTTI", "KATIE HARTY, SAW TEEN SUSPECT", "CANDIOTTI", "COOPER", "RANDI KAYE, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "COOPER", "ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "DAMON", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "NPR-9179", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2019-04-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/04/13/712996988/georgetown-students-vote-to-fund-reparations-for-schools-slavery-connections", "title": "Georgetown Students Vote To Fund Reparations For School's Slavery Connections", "summary": "Georgetown University students voted to set up a fund to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves sold by the school. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Hannah Michael, who helped organize the effort.", "utt": ["In 1838, Georgetown University sold 272 enslaved people to pay off a debt. Over the last several years, there has been a reckoning on campus as the school wrestles with its ties to slavery. It renamed several buildings that had honored people involved in the slave trade. Some descendants of that original group of enslaved people are now enrolled at the university.", "This week, Georgetown undergraduate students voted to set up a fund that would pay reparations to descendants of slaves the school owned. Hannah Michael helped write that resolution. She is a sophomore, who joins us now from campus. Ms. Michael, thanks so much for being with us.", "Thank you for having me.", "And how would the money in this fund be used?", "So the referendum proposes a $27.20 fee added to the cost of attendance semesterly at Georgetown University. It's designated by five students and five descendants, who would be democratically elected. And they would utilize the funds to work on projects or initiatives meant to empower and support descendant communities - things like eyeglass exams, things like Internet access, paving roads.", "So we included things like that as recommendations so that they're nonbinding in order to allow the descendants and students on the board to really sit down and to analyze the needs of descendant communities and to collaboratively come up with the best way to address those needs.", "You're a student at Georgetown in 2019. Why was this important to you?", "It's important to me because this university's modern existence is possible because of that 1838 sale. It's important to me because as an American citizen, I know that this country was founded upon the labor of enslaved African-American people. So to me, this is really my way of using the resources that I have to empower others - resources that I have because of the ancestors of descendants.", "Let me ask you a question I gather some of your fellow students have asked. Why should today's students, including African-American students, whose families already have to pay tens of thousands of dollars in tuition, have to pay to support a fund to try to compensate for sins that were committed 180 years ago?", "I think that what's been helpful is recognizing that while the university committed moral sins and should go through the process of morally rectifying that history, that slaveholding legacy, Georgetown students, as beneficiaries and members of the Georgetown University community, also have a similar obligation.", "This week's vote, as I don't have to tell you, was nonbinding. The board of trustees would have to implement it. I wonder if you've spoken with anyone on that board, have any idea how they're inclined.", "I think that there's a lot of uncertainty about what will happen next. I think that this is a really great opportunity for the board of trustees to move from dialogue to action because all they have to do is empower and validate the work that has already been done by students by allowing for this resource, this board, to exist.", "About a third of the students voted the other way. What would you say to them?", "I would encourage them to develop a personal connection with Georgetown University's slaveholding legacy. This isn't about punishment. This is not a punitive measure. This is about using resources, giving back resources. I think that once students really make that connection, it's actually really beautiful to see how empathetic and to see how compassionate a lot of Georgetown students are on this issue.", "Hannah Michael, who is a sophomore and activist at Georgetown University, thanks so much for being with us.", "Thank you so much."], "speaker": ["SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "HANNAH MICHAEL", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "HANNAH MICHAEL", "HANNAH MICHAEL", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "HANNAH MICHAEL", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "HANNAH MICHAEL", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "HANNAH MICHAEL", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "HANNAH MICHAEL", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "HANNAH MICHAEL"]}
{"id": "CNN-204971", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2013-4-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/13/smn.01.html", "summary": "Chinese Teen Makes Masters Cut", "utt": ["Bottom of the hour now. Welcome back. I am Alison Kosik.", "I'm Victor Blackwell. Let's start with five stories we're watching for you this morning. Up first, the plane crash in Bali, Indonesia. New video coming in just to CNN. This is the scene there, 101 passengers, seven crew members. I know the video is a bit shaky. You see the raft coming out of the plane there. This is a Lion Air jet when it missed the runway at the Bali International Airport. We know what caused this year. But you see, the people are taking the short journey from this plane back to the shore on these inflated rafts. You can see some people headed out to the plane to bring people back in. This is the good news, everyone survived, 101 passengers and seven crew members. There are 50 people who have been sent to hospitals after the crash here. As soon as we get more information, we're going to pass it on. But again, look at these pictures. There's a crack in the fuselage. Passengers are being rescued from this plane as it sits in the sea, people climbing out of the door as they head to Bali. More information and video coming as soon as we get it. So, keep it here for the latest.", "Number two, Secretary of State John Kerry is in China this morning. He's talking with his Chinese counterparts about North Korea and what China can do to stop the threats. One option sure to come up is stopping the flow of money from China to North Korea. China is North Korea's biggest trading partner.", "Number three, tensions with the North did not stop a huge concert by the South Korean Internet sensation. Right now, he is holding a concert. This is live concert at Seoul World Cup Stadium. It's being broadcast on YouTube. You know, he became a YouTube star, the most downloaded video. He is performing the follow-up the \"Gangnam Style\" in front of sellout crowd. This is \"Gentlemen.\"", "Number four, NASCAR is getting a track with the National Rifles Association. Tonight's sprint cup race at Texas Motor Speedway is being sponsored by the pro-gun group, and one senator is calling for FOX Sports to not cover the broadcast, to cover the race itself. NASCAR says it has no position in the gun rights debate.", "Finally, rapper, record producer, occasional actor and husband to Beyonce, Jay-Z already has a handful of jobs. But now, he's applying to become an agent for Major League baseball players, and part owner of the NBA's Brooklyn Mets, but he will have to sell his share, so there are no problems with the players' association.", "So, there's a Chinese teenager has done something no other person on the planet accomplished.", "Yes, he is 14 years old, and he just made the cut in the Masters, the youngest ever to do so. Let's go to Patrick Snell. He's live in Acosta. Patrick, he made the cut, but there was that one stroke penalty. What was that for?", "Victor, good morning to you. Yes, it was all about controversy on hole number 17 at the Masters. What happened was basically, being put on the clock, he had a warning. He was told to speed things up and he took more than 40 seconds on one of his shots as he tried to engineer his way on the green there at a critical stage in his round, and he was -- yes, an official came over and said one shot penalty, that's the way it goes kind of thing. He took it in grace, and said he respected the decision. And that took him to four over par for the championship that could have been crucial. But he has been playing, Victor, so well over the last couple days, he has done enough. The good news is, everybody wanted him to be around for the weekend and he is going to be around for the weekend. That's the good news. He will play Saturday. He will play Sunday. He survived the cut. Here's now the view of one former champion on that controversy ruling.", "I feel bad, but I also feel like they just don't go around handing out one-shot penalties here and I don't know even of anybody who has gotten one, so it feels hard to give a 14-year-old a penalty, but he is in the field and beat a lot of guys yesterday whatever the hell age he is.", "There you go, Fred Couples having his say on the controversy issue, and basically couples himself and playing himself into contention as well, while all this was going on. He's a former champion, and he knows exactly what it takes to win here and he'd love to get his hands on another coveted green jacket. People here absolutely loves Fred Couples. There's tens of thousands out on the course, rooting for him to do well as well. So, it's a question as how he will fair and how he's going to perform. And here now, his thoughts on how he's doing. He feels like he is right in the mix.", "If you won again, you're something different?", "You asked me that last year, I said I would quit when I win this thing. I'm going to quit when I win this thing. I swear to God. I am going to retire. It's probably not ever going to happen, but I'm going to retire.", "I don't believe Fred Couples at all, and I don't think he would retire. But one moment where he could win, and it would give him a renewed appetite for success -- Victor.", "I'm sure it will. Hey, we're going to will check in to see on how Tiger is doing a bit later. Patrick Snell, thank you so much, from Augusta.", "Tiger Who?", "Yes, we've got Couples, we've got a 14-year-old, but his a number one player in the world. So, we've got to find out. Hey, pop star Joe Jonas, he knows how to turn down a date. We'll show you the special message he made for a lucky fan. That's coming up in the E-block next. That's next."], "speaker": ["KOSIK", "BLACKWELL", "KOSIK", "BLACKWELL", "KOSIK", "BLACKWELL", "KOSIK", "BLACKWELL", "PATRICK SNELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FRED COUPLES, TIED FOR SECOND AFTER 2ND ROUND", "SNELL", "REPORTER", "COUPLES", "SNELL", "BLACKWELL", "KOSIK", "BLACKWELL"]}
{"id": "NPR-24338", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2014-03-10", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/03/10/288492858/search-goes-on-for-jetliner-that-mysteriously-disappeared", "title": "Search Goes On For Jetliner That Mysteriously Disappeared", "summary": "Authorities continue to piece together scant clues as to why a Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared over the weekend. The plane was headed from Malaysia to China with 239 people aboard.", "utt": ["And more and more countries are joining the effort to find a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet that went missing early Saturday morning. The flight was headed from Malaysia to China with 239 people onboard.", "NPR's Anthony Kuhn joins us from Beijing to discuss the latest details. Good morning.", "Hello, Renee.", "Now, this is a massive search, yet it still seems like this flight has just disappeared. I mean, what have they found so far?", "Very little, Renee. There are about 40 ships and more than two dozen aircraft from around nine nations in the area, all looking for traces of the plane. They started at the last-known location of the plane, and they're searching in an area around 50 square nautical miles from that. Over the weekend, there were several reports of debris sighted in the area. The Vietnamese, for example, said they saw something from a military plane that looks like it could have been the airplane door of the missing flight. Malaysian civil aviation authorities have come out and said no. So, none of these sightings have proved conclusive. None of these sightings of debris or anything can be positively linked to the missing plane.", "Well, let's talk about what seems like unusual activity among some of the passengers. We've heard that two are believed to have boarded the plane with stolen passports. I gather also five passengers checked in, but they did not board. What is that all about, and what's the latest?", "On the flight's manifest were listed an Italian and an Austrian passenger. Neither of those two people boarded the plane. They were later found elsewhere. But people using their passports, which were both stolen in Thailand, did get aboard the plane, and Malaysian authorities are using surveillance camera video footage to try to determine who they are. Those two passports were on a database belonging to Interpol. Interpol said Malaysia Airlines never checked with them about these stolen passports. Now, they're going over all of the passports used to board that plane, to see if there were any more that were stolen. Also, we learned this morning from the Malaysian civil aviation authorities that five people checked into that flight who did not board. Now, those people's luggage was taken off the plane, and nothing was found to be amiss. None of the luggage from those people stayed on the plane. But there have been some irregularities, and these are things they have to check into to make sure there was no foul play.", "Well, does this suggest that Malaysia has unusually lax security at its airport?", "Well, they have come in for some criticism, particularly from passengers' families, the media and Interpol, who says that actually a lot of airports are not checking passengers' passports against their stolen documents list. Now, here in Beijing, Malaysia Airlines officials have come for some pretty tough questioning from Chinese media, who I think are reflecting the concerns of the passengers' families who are here in Beijing.", "And what about the passengers' families? How are they holding up under this unique ordeal of not knowing at all what's happening?", "Obviously, it's been very difficult for them, Renee, as you can imagine. At some point, passions have boiled over. Today, people saw water bottles being hurled at Malaysia Airlines officials. Others have gone to the Chinese government to demand a meeting and ask for explanations. And they're divided as to where to go from here. Some of them want to go down to Malaysia. Malaysia Airlines has offered to take them there. Others feel they're just not getting any information at any rate, so there's just no point in going. So, it's a very hard situation for them to know what to do with.", "Well, we'll be following this story, of course. And thank you very much, Anthony.", "You're welcome, Renee.", "That's NPR's Anthony Kuhn, speaking to us from Beijing."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-410770", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2020-09-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/12/ndaysat.02.html", "summary": "Hot, Dry Weather Fueling Western Wildfires", "utt": ["Let's turn now to the dangerous and destructive wildfires that are burning across the Western", "Yes. We're talking about more than 100 large fires burning across 12 states. Look at the map there, 28,000 first responders and support personnel are battling those wildfires in the West right now. In fact, fires in California, alone, have burned more than 3.1 million acres. That's an area, just to give you some perspective here, that's twice the size of the state of Delaware. And we also know at least 26 people have died in those fires just since last month. So, officials are preparing for the possibility that there will be more.", "And it's not just the fires that are creating the problems there. Almost the entire West Coast is under air quality alerts. And now, there's a warning from medical professionals. The smoke can make you more susceptible to COVID-19 and other ailments. CNNs Camila Bernal is joining us now from SDK to Oregon. More than 500,000 people across that state have been told to evacuate. Show us around for as much as you can with that thick smoke and tell us what the situation is this morning.", "Well, look, Victor, the situation is really all about smoke at the moment. As you mentioned, the air quality is pretty bad. It's what the governor, Kate Brown, says is the worst in the world. And I'll try to show you, I know it's dark out and it's hard to see, but this is not anything other than smoke, a gigantic permanent cloud of smoke. And so it makes it hard, not only for people who are in this area, because it irritates your eyes and it makes it hard to breathe, but it makes it really difficult for firefighters, they're not able to be up in the air. They're not able to, in many times, even see the fire line. And so their job is made difficult because of this smoke. On top of that, you have reports of dozens of people missing at the moment. So, of course, the governor, Kate Brown, also very concerned about that, and then also seeing just the massive destruction that these fires have caused. It is just unbelievable to really realize how big these fires are. You guys, earlier, spoke to the city manager in Talent, Oregon, that's about five hours from where I am, and the damage there is also extensive. Take a listen.", "It's going to be a very difficult search process. The areas that were impacted are, we're not talking about half-burned buildings or smoldering ruins. We're talking about utter devastation with simply twisted metal and piles of ash.", "Now, the weather is improving, but keep in mind, that this fire is zero percent contained. So, the work ahead is going to be long and difficult. They say the smoke is also going to stay in the air for at least a couple of days. So, really, it is going to be difficult for the firefighters and for the many people who've had to evacuate and that don't know it when they if and when they come back, they're going to find their homes again. So, of course, just so difficult and heartbreaking for so many residents here in this area. Victor, Christi?", "Camila Bernal, we appreciate it so much. Thank you. Let's bring in CNN's Allison Chinchar because we know that strong winds and dry conditions have fueled this thing. How does it look for the firefighters out there who are -- who are battling this? It's a tough call.", "It is and the conditions aren't ideal. But at least a little bit of bright news is the conditions this weekend are improving slightly, winds are starting to come back down, at least compared to where they have been, temperatures not nearly as hot. Again, it's not ideal conditions, but we're making improvement. But the biggest concern with all of these fires is the smoke. And the problem is it's widespread. You have four different states that are looking at air quality alerts right now. You've got Idaho, you've got Washington, Oregon, as well as California. So, it's not just one state, but notice a couple, it's the entire state that you're dealing with those air quality alerts. Now, one thing to note too, they desperately need rain, that's the biggest thing. And then not only would it help the fires, but also drought. Take a look at how many of these areas are under drought in the western half of the country. So, obviously, rain will significantly help that but there really isn't much in the forecast until at least Monday, but that's the short term. What about the long term? Because on Thursday, NOAA released that we are now under a La Nina advisory. And basically what that means for the continental U.S. is you're going to continue to have dry, warm conditions for much of the southern U.S. That includes the southwestern U.S. where, again, as you notice from that last map, we already have drought conditions. Now, as again, as we mentioned, on Thursday, they upgraded us from a La Nina watch up to an advisory because they are now seeing that those La Nina conditions are present. Now, another thing that that has an impact on is hurricane season. Typically, in La Nina events, the Atlantic Ocean ends up having more hurricanes than a normal season. And a lot of that has to do with the systems that come off of the coast of Africa. A lot of that leads to more favorable development those. And take a look, this is right now, this isn't a typical La Nina. This is what is happening right now. Look at all of these systems that are out there. Some have names, some don't, but all of them are actively being watched by the hurricane center. But the one that has the biggest imminent threat to the United States is this, Tropical Depression 19 sustained winds of 35 miles per hour. And, again, Victor, Christi, the main concern here is going to be the rain because this is not a fast-moving system at all. So, over the next several days, this is likely going to dump a tremendous amount of rain along Florida and the rest of the Gulf Coast.", "It's remarkable that we are this far into the alphabet for storms this season, and we're not even at mid-September, that we could soon see the S storm named. Allison Chinchar, thanks so much.", "Thanks, Allison. So, here's a quote for you, being with you today was truly amazing. Those are that -- those words are from newly-revealed love letters between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-un. We say love letters because that's how the president characterized them at one time. What the new book by Bob Woodward reveals about the President's relationship with dictators."], "speaker": ["BLACKWELL", "U.S. PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "CAMILA BERNAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SANDRA SPELLISCY, CITY MANAGER, TALENT, OREGON", "BERNAL", "PAUL", "ALLISON, CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-114891", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-2-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/27/cnr.03.html", "summary": "News Conference on Boy Abducted for Ransom, Later Rescued", "utt": ["And good morning, everyone. You're with CNN. You're informed. I'm Tony Harris.", "And I'm Heidi Collins. Developments keep coming in to the NEWSROOM on this Tuesday, February 27th. Here's what's on the rundown. The Taliban reportedly targeting the U.S. vice president. Dick Cheney, safe after a suicide attack at a base in Afghanistan.", "Open wide, San Francisco. A landslide sends tons of dirt and boulders crashing down on to an apartment building.", "Well, it certainly spices up the kitchen, but a new study says it won't make your cholesterol go down. Garlic bummer in the NEWSROOM. Quickly want to take you directly to Florida now, where we are awaiting a press conference on the situation -- actually, under way. Want to get to it quickly. Just reminding you of the story. Thirteen-year-old Clay Moore, who was abducted at a bus stop by gunpoint, it happened on Friday. He saved himself. He was found 20 miles from where he was taken. And let's go ahead and listen in now to Sheriff Charlie Wells. You see Clay Moore by the side of him there. Let's listen to what he has to say.", "Clay has chosen not to speak with you. And -- but I think we have some interesting stories that the family will share with you. And we've gotten his permission to talk about that. Tim Moore is his father. He's right here. He will speak to you first, followed by his mom, Traci Kelle, and then his stepfather, Steve Kelle, seated there. His uncle Greg is here as well some place. Greg is here. But what they would like to do is simply this -- they'd like to kind of get back to a normal way of life, as you might expect. Get Clay back in school. He hasn't been in school since this happened. And so they have chosen to sort of bring you, the media, their story now, and then they would ask that, you know, you let them go. There's been a lot of people approaching them or calling them by the members of the media. They're not bothered by that. I don't mean to imply that. They'd just like to get back to normal. And I think any family would like for you to honor their privacy. And so we ask that you do that. In addition, they're not going to take any questions. They don't want to take any questions. They'll simply state what they have on their mind. And, so if you would honor that, we'll be available. I don't know that I have too much in the way of updates in the investigation, but we'll be available to take whatever follow-up questions you may have. So, Tim?", "Good morning, everybody. First and foremost -- Clay. I just want to say once again how we as a family are proud of Clay, how he handled the situation. His bravery. I mean, in all reality, when you think about, he's the one that saved himself and got him to where he could get help and, you know, the law enforcement could bring him back to us. And I just want to say, once again, how proud we are of you. Next, I mean, of course, you know, I'd like to thank god for, you know, keeping -- keeping him strong. And next from that, Charlie, law enforcement, all the agencies involved, any -- any capacity, I can't say enough about how they've handled this. And it was amazing the show of people out there within 30 minutes of this thing breaking down. The media, I'd like to thank all of you all. We'd just -- like I said, once again, just give us our privacy when this is done. We appreciate you all getting the story out there. You know, all the family, friends, calls, prayers, we appreciate everything. And really, that's all I've got to say. I'll turn it over to Traci. Thanks again.", "First and foremost, I thank god that Clay's home and he's safe. I also want to thank everyone for their prayers and their thoughts. And Friday morning, it was really terrible. I can't put into words how absolutely horrifying it was when we received the news. But I have to say, when I got his phone call, it was the best thing that had ever happened in my life. I was so -- I'm so proud of him. He was, you know, very smart and he kept his head on him. He's a good kid. An average 13-year-old boy, you know, wants to do things and whatnot, but we want to go back to having a normal life. He is doing great. He's got good spirits about him. He's wanting to play with his friends and things like that. We want to thank the sheriff and everybody in law enforcement for being there and helping and keeping on this and getting this guy. We ask that if anybody has any, any information, please come forward. We don't want this happening to any other child or any other person, ever. Again, I'm just so proud of him. He did a great job. And, you know, thank you.", "I might repeat some of the stuff they've already said. But we just want to make sure that we cover everything. We definitely want to thank god, who we know all things are possible through. And without him, you know, I don't think we'd be standing here today. We'd also like to thank the sheriff's department and all the other law enforcement people that were involved, FDLE, the FBI, and the surrounding areas that really chipped in and helped. We'd also like to thank everyone who sent prayers. I think it made a big difference. It made the difference in getting Clay back to us. We'd also like to thank all the people who provided tips and information out there. From what we've been told, it's really been a great help, all the tips and information that's been given in. Again, we'd like to thank the media for you guys helping to get the information out as quickly as it did get out. We know that was a big deal. And from what we've been told, enormous amounts of people were out looking for him, just by the help of you guys getting the information out there. We'd also like to thank family and friends and all the support we've been given. We really appreciate all that. Again, we'd like to ask for some privacy to kind of let Clay and his little brother kind of get back to being boys. They just want to go outside again and ride their bikes and play in the street with their friends without having to be worried about people coming up behind them, asking them all these questions. We also continue to ask for help with information, anything out there, to really help catch this guy. And about Clay, we are truly proud of Clay. He did an incredible job on his own. He kept his head about him. We're greatly -- we're thankful, we're grateful that he is back home with us. We believe he did the right thing. He really kept his head about him and did everything he was supposed to be doing. And that's why he's here with us today. He is doing well. He's ready, like I said, to get back to playing with his friends, to get back to school, and kind of return to his 13-year-old life. One of the last things I'd like to share is, there's been a lot of questions about his safety pin. And so I'm going to share a little bit about that. At MSA, they are required to wear uniforms. And so this was a -- he has a uniform jacket, a long-sleeve hooded jacket. Inadvertently, he had ripped a hole in his jacket, and instead of buying him a new one, we told him basically, pin it up because it was kind of his fault. So he had to use a safety pin to keep his sleeve intact. He told us that on his way over to where he was left, he was extremely nervous, as you could imagine. And in that, he played a lot with it in the car and, actually, he says that he broke his -- broke the safety pin and kind of ripped through his jacket a little bit more. As they got to the place where he was left, he was taken out of the truck and then walked out to where he was left. And on his way out to this place, he had the forethought to put the safety pin in his mouth. I asked him last night as we were kind of going over the story, \"What made you think to put a safety pin in your mouth?\" And in his words, he said, \"Just thought it would be helpful.\" So as they were out in the location where he was left, he was bound. And it's come out before that one of his socks was placed in his mouth. And then he was -- well, he was bound. He was then left there, which is truly unimaginable even to us today. He says that after a while it was quiet. After a while he felt that the guy had left for a while. And so he pushed the sock back out of his mouth. He said he was grateful it was hot and sweaty, so how he was bound kind of helped slip off of his mouth. So he pushed the mouth -- the sock out of his mouth, and in doing that, the safety pin actually dropped to the ground. Again, it was sweaty, he says, and so it helped get the things off of his eyes so he was able to see where it was. So, he actually maneuvered himself around and grabbed a stick that he used to pick the safety pin back up off the ground with his mouth, incredibly enough. So after he picked it up with the stick, he dropped it back into his hands. And then he used it to free himself from what he was bound with. And then once he was free of that, he pulled -- he used his mouth and his hands to free himself totally. He said once he was free, he ran out of the woods and across the field and found the farmer in the fields with a phone. And then I got a phone call that I will never forget. It was a phone number I didn't know. I almost didn't answer it because I had been receiving a lot of phone calls that day. But I went ahead and answered it, and I heard a voice as calm as if he was calling from a friend's house. And he told me, \"Steve, it's Clay, and I've been kidnapped.\" And it went from there, and we found him and he was safe. So -- I think I got the story right. OK. But again, we are grateful he's home and are grateful of all the help that was given to us, and the support and the prayers. And again, we'd ask if we could try to get back to some normality to help us continue to cope with it and to continue on with our lives. And thank you.", "What's your name, sir?", "Steve Kelle.", "Steve, can you spell Kelle.", "Kelle is", "K-E-L-L-E?", "And is Traci with an I or a Y?", "With an", "Well, I found that story totally fascinating. And that's -- I think now you are beginning to understand why I said some of the things that I've been saying about Clay over the past several days. By the way, I want to challenge you to do something. I did this. I want you to take your little Duct tape and tie it around your arms and see how easy you can get out of it. Try that sometime. And I think you'll appreciate a little bit more what Clay went through. It's not easy. Even with a safety pin. And so I think it was just remarkable what he did. And we're so -- we're so thankful. We got a lot of breaks in this case, but I think the biggest break of all was him being able to escape and get the call to us, to his mom. So that was the biggest break of all by far. And in all probability, saved a life here, which we're grateful for that as well. Friday morning, the first thing I did was I walked in our command bus and I saw Traci's face, and the grandmother, I might add. And several of our victim advocates that are here, they saw that same thing. I'm glad I did that, because that just -- that gives you this incredible adrenaline and motivation to press on, because every moment of the day, the rest of the day, Friday and Saturday, I saw that face. And so did our deputies. And so we knew we -- we knew we had to do what we had to do. The family, as I stated earlier, has chosen not to take questions. And I don't know if we have any questions that you're interested in, but I don't know, you've heard the story.", "Did the first go call go to Steve or to Traci?", "The first call went to...", "Steve.", "It went to the house, right?", "It was my cell phone.", "Charlie, can you explain how (", "Well, can you explain that?", "He was -- he was Duct-taped, as was said. And then he was -- he was bound. He used the safety pin to free himself by picking at it, and more or less untying what was binding him. And then he used that and his mouth, once he was free, to pull the Duct tape off.", "Was he bound from front or behind?", "In front.", "He was bound in front. And I've got to stop right there. Keep in mind, our case is still under investigation. And so it will become clearer, a little more clearer. We've given you about all the clarity that we can right now. But in days to come, you'll see even more of how the safety pin came into play.", "How long did it take...", "I'm sorry?", "How long did it take for him to be able to do that?", "He didn't have a watch. But he's guessing, just by guessing in that state of mind, anywhere from half an hour to an hour long it took to free himself.", "OK. So I'm going to excuse the family now before I stand here and blow our case.", "Are you convinced he's in Mexico?", "That's part of our -- the investigation is at critical mass right now. I mean, critical mass. And so I don't want to speculate or elaborate on where I believe he is, because I don't want to minimize our chances of being able to apprehend him. And me saying where he is might do just that. And it would have been much -- well, I'll let it go at that.", "But it's fair to say you don't believe he's in the country?", "All right. You have been listening to -- this is Sheriff Charlie Wells now. He is saying that the investigation in the Clay Moore case, the little boy, the 13-year-old boy who was able to free himself after being kidnapped at the bus stop, at gunpoint, with a safety pin, he's saying the investigation is at critical mass. That suspect still out there. Want to go ahead and put the full screen up there, again, one more time if we could. You are looking at Vicente Ignacio Beltran- Moreno. He is 5'5\", a Latino, 140 pounds, goes by the nickname of \"Nacho.\" He's 22 years old. And there's a phone number there on your screen -- 941-747-3011. That's the Manatee County Sheriff's Office if you have any information whatsoever. That man still on the loose. But boy, what a great story. Clay Moore apparently used a safety pin from his uniform, his school uniform because he had ripped it and his parents said, hey, that's your fault, you've got to wear a safety pin on it. We're not getting you a new win. And that safety pin that he put in his mouth as he was being taken from the truck out to the woods by this man for whatever reason, he thought it would come in helpful. And boy, was he right about that. An incredible story. So good for Clay Moore and his family. Very, very happy to see him, as you can imagine.", "And this just in to CNN. A horrible outcome to a story where, again, young people, children, targeted. This story coming out of Ramadi. Iraqi TV reporting that a bomb exploded on a soccer field, a soccer field, killing 18 children who were playing there. The location of this attack, the western outskirts of Ramadi. Ramadi, as you know, is the capital of the Sunni-dominated Anbar Province. Again, 18 children killed, according to Iraqi television, by way of a car bomb. As you know, we've been reporting throughout the morning that suicide bombers, car bombers, seem to be changing, attempting to shift their tactics in response to the government's new security plan. This is something that we haven't seen before today -- children seemingly deliberately targeted at play this time, on a soccer field. We will bring you the first pictures as soon as we get them here to", "And check out this video now coming to us from San Francisco. We showed it to you a little bit earlier, but we can't, you know, get enough of it. It's amazing. Residents there woke up as the earth moved and the landslide threatened to swallow their apartment building. About 150 residents of the city's North Beach area have been evacuated.", "We've got a very steep hillside. The mud and rock has slid down and there's some more that's sort of precariously perched. The engineering folks from the city and some people that they've brought in have assessed that there are a few buildings that are in danger. So, at this point, we've had evacuations from one large building above and two smaller buildings below, plus three more that are kind of on the side.", "Very curious to know what the stability of that earth was before the buildings were constructed upon it. That's for sure. But meanwhile, the foundation of at least one of those buildings teetering precariously. Remarkably, nobody has been injured. We'll keep following this one for you.", "And once again, let's take you just outside of Baltimore, Maryland -- Pikesville, Maryland, Baltimore County, Owings Mills Maryland, if you know that area. This is 695. The cleanup continuing on Interstate 695. Two vehicles, two tractor-trailers involved. But as you can see here, there was at least one other vehicle involved in this horrific accident on 695, the Baltimore beltway, I-795, another major interstate close by. As you can see, as WBAL's chopper widens out the view a bit, this has caused a tremendous traffic backup there on 695. Both sides of the Baltimore beltway closed down right now. It is going to take considerable time for that situation to be cleaned up. Maybe we still have those pictures. Dan, do we have the pictures from earlier of the fire when those vehicles were fully engulfed in flames? If we do, we'll loop them in here in just a second. But this is quite a scene right now on the Baltimore beltway. And if you know that area at all, the Baltimore beltway circles the city. And this is the area between Pikesville, Maryland, and Owings Mills. And that is a scene we will follow because that will be a traffic nightmare throughout the day and probably in to the afternoon rush hour. And still to come in the NEWSROOM, close enough to hear the boom. Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly the target of a suicide bomber. The story in the", "It may ward off vampires, but what about bad cholesterol? New research on garlic in the", "And there he is, jazz great Wynton Marsalis, using his awesome talent to help his hometown. Saving the heart and soul of New Orleans in the NEWSROOM.", "Deadly new developments out of Iraq this hour. We are just getting word of a bloody attack involving a group of children. Iraqi state television reports a bomb exploded on a soccer field in Ramadi, killing 18 children. Also, just a short time ago, the Pentagon reported three U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb. Another soldier was wounded. It happened southwest of Baghdad. Meanwhile, at least 10 deaths now reported today in bombings in the Iraqi capital. A car bomb exploded in a parking lot. A suicide car bomber rammed into an ice cream shop and the hidden bomb went off inside a restaurant. All of the attacks in central Baghdad. Also in Baghdad, officials say they have arrested a suspect in yesterday's attempted assassination of one of Iraq's two vice presidents. Adel Abdul Mahdi suffered minor injuries when a bomb killed a dozen people at the Public Works Ministry.", "A Taliban strike. Their reported target, Vice President Dick Cheney. A suicide bomber detonated outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan. Almost three dozen people dead or wounded. Cheney was safely inside Bagram Air Base but heard the blast. Earlier on CNN's \"AMERICAN MORNING,\" we heard from a reporter who is traveling with the vice president.", "The vice president was preparing to leave. His party was assembling. They were preparing his aircraft and people were heading toward the plane. The plane itself was on a tarmac near the flight line, very well inside the base and quite removed from that main entrance that was attacked. The first indication we had of an attack was we heard the sirens of the base fire station. They were ringing. We were very close to the fire station. The trucks sped out, and the public affairs spokesman for the base, Colonel David Asetta (ph), told us that there had been a direct attack at the gate and the base had gone on code red because of this.", "An hour after the blast, the vice president appeared with Afghan president Hamid Karzai. According to wire reports, the Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack and confirmed Cheney was the intended target. The Bush administration has repeatedly warned that the Taliban are mounting a comeback in the region. Before heading to Afghanistan, Vice President Cheney sat down with Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf. A friendly visit or arm twisting? CNN's Brian Todd reports.", "A high-stakes visit to a key ally in the war on terror amid reports that the Bush administration is applying pressure on Pakistan's president for better results in his campaign to crack down on al Qaeda, reports that are being downplayed by the White House.", "We have not been saying it's a tough message. What we're saying is we're having -- the vice president is meeting with President Musharraf because we do understand the importance of making even greater progress against al Qaeda, against the Taliban.", "Analysts say the United States has reason to complain about increased attacks in Afghanistan by militants from just over the Pakistani border.", "One of the reasons the situation is deteriorating in Afghanistan, a critical reason is because of what is going on in the tribal areas on the Afghan/Pakistan border where Taliban and al Qaeda are regrouping.", "But Pakistani officials insist they're committed to hunting down the militants in the border areas where they have been supported by local Pakistanis.", "There are problems in Pakistan, we're fighting them. We are fighting it on multiple fronts. I think we need your sympathy other than accusing us of not doing enough. I think we are doing more than anybody else.", "Even if the Pakistanis could be doing more, the political situation is delicate. How much pressure can the United States put on Musharraf without it backfiring?", "He has to walk a pretty fine line. He has to be supportive of cracking down on al Qaeda as possible. At the same time, he has got to watch himself that he doesn't find himself under attack again so we can apply pressure only so much pressure. (on camera): But more pressure will almost certainly be applied if Osama bin Laden or other high-value al Qaeda targets are spotted inside Pakistan. There's already been tension for months over Pakistan's refusal to allow U.S. forces to cross into Pakistan to pursue bin Laden if he's located. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "And tonight, on \"ANDERSON COOPER 360,\" the man who says the U.S. didn't finish the job with the Taliban, and now it is deadlier than ever. The 360 investigation, tonight at 10:00 Eastern.", "Through the ages, garlic has developed a reputation as a remedy of sorts. Now, new research is rejecting a modern theory. Our medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is here. What? Garlic isn't the cure-all?", "No. Are you shocked? Well, many people think it is. Many people think that it's good for all sorts of things. In fact, the ancient Egyptians, they said that it was good for your heart. And in modern times, it's one of the best-selling supplements in health food stores. One of the many claims that is it will help lower cholesterol. So researchers at Stanford decided to put it to the test. They put some people on these supplements you see here, and other people they just ate raw garlic. It was in mayonnaise on a sandwich. They didn't just eat the actual garlic. So the raw garlic, people on supplements, people doing nothing. So they looked at what happened to their cholesterol, and this is a big disappointment. What they found is that garlic did not lower bad cholesterol. In addition, the garlic did not increase good cholesterol. So there you go. It just didn't really seem to have an impact on cholesterol. Now, I have to say, this is a small study, fewer than 200 people. It is not the final word. But if you were taking garlic because you thought it was going to help your cholesterol and you have very high cholesterol, you should think about perhaps take a different route, see your doctor, exercise, eat right, get a prescription.", "So is it good for anything?", "Well, there are other claims out there about garlic, and there have been some studies that show it might possibly do some other things. For example, it might lower blood pressure or it might work as an antiinflammatory. It might fight infection. But those are all mights, those are all possibilities. And people are studying these. Garlic is now a very highly studied substance because so many people are taking it and have faith in it.", "Yes, you know, it seems like it takes a while for these things to really figure out what the benefits could be. And if you're already on the supplements, should you stop taking them or keep taking them?", "You know, we asked one of the study authors doing this, and we said, what do you do if you're taking garlic, because it might not be doing you any good. And he said if you're taking garlic and you're enjoying it and you feel like it's doing you some good, keep taking it. It's not going to hurt you, but Certainly don't take it if you think it's a treatment for a serious health problem. You should be seeing a doctor for that. But if you're taking it because you think it makes you feel better or something else, you know, it's not going to hurt you.", "All right, I'm sorry for my garlic breath.", "Oh, that's OK.", "Elizabeth Cohen, thank you for that. I want to let you know, too, if you would like a daily dose of health news online, just log on to our Web site. You'll find the latest medical news, a health library and information on diet and fitness. The address CNN.com/health.", "Let's throw all of that talk out of window. Daily dose of health news? How about this 00 donut lovers, how about this? Have you dreamed for years of those healthier sweet things to eat? Well, Krispy Kreme says it's got them for you. The company selling a whole wheat caramel flavored version of its original glazed. But before you rush out to buy one, know this, it's only slightly lower in calories, fat and carbs. Still, the company hopes the public will sink their teeth into them.", "We're hoping it will catch on fast and quick. We also have a sampling area where the customer can get a free whole wheat donut to try and see how they like it.", "Because they're free, I'll sample, that's for sure. The company also hoping the new donut boosts sales. The low-carb diet craze trimming the company's bottom line in recent years. Final food for thought? Dietitians liken the new donut to a nutrient-packed energy bar, only without the nutrients.", "That's good. And you know what I'm going to say.", "What are you going to say?", "Still a lot of gluten. Gluten-free donuts, that's what we need in this world.", "We're working on it. We've got the beer, right?", "Hey, now this is something that I know you love. So what a musician. He toots his own horn, in fact. Do I have to talk, because I want to keep listening to him play. Wynton Marsalis, you know him, planning to bring the beat back to New Orleans. He's live right here in the NEWSROOM.", "Want to give you a quick look at video we've been following here today coming out of Baltimore. Look at this now. There has been quite a traffic accident. This is known as the Baltimore beltway, I-695, at least three vehicles that we know of. And they are really, really burnt and obviously smashed up there. It was a semitruck, a garbage truck and a passenger car involved in the -- every one of those vehicles caught fire. The problem is this, look -- incredible backup. We have no word at this moment on injuries involved in those first three car there's you see. But the traffic tie-up is going to go on for quite some time. Again, this is the Baltimore beltway, I-695, both sides of the freeway shutdown right now, trying to get all of those emergency vehicles in place. And we'll continue to follow it for you and give you the latest just as we learn it. Jazz greats and New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis trying to bring music and culture back to his embattled hometown. Hurricane Katrina's impact is still overwhelming New Orleans, and Marsalis is a key player in trying to preserve the city. So there he is. How about a week from now he is out with a new album, \"From the Plantation to the Penitentiary.\" Wynton Marsalis with us now from New York. Good to see you, sir. Thanks for your time this morning.", "Hey, it's a pleasure, Tony. Thank you.", "Hey, I've got to tell you, last week we were having a great time last week with Mardi Gras. And I'm wondering now, thank goodness you're here today, that we can talk about New Orleans, otherwise I'm not sure that we would today. Are you a little concerned that your city might turn into kind of a two-trick pony, Mardi Gras and the big jazz festival and not much in between?", "No, because our city, there are so many people who are citizens. We grew up in the city. And people are not going to let the city just go. We're having a lot of trouble with our system. But you know, we have trouble with our governmental systems and agencies all over this country. We're not going to give up on democracy. If anything, it's actually going to strengthen our belief in it more and make us look for a deeper truth and participate more, so that's what we're...", "Are you finding that deeper truth? That's an interesting way to phrase it. Are you finding it?", "Yes, I find it. I find it all the time. First, I find it in the response of the country in the aftermath of Katrina. And I find that many people are still concerned and still involved. And it's still just the problem a lot of times is, systems that are put in place to handle masses of people begin to abuse the people. And it's a thing that we have to work in our culture. And I think that the New Orleans situation is really bringing it front and center so we can see it. And it exists in a lot of our national life, not just in the disaster situation.", "Are you a little disappointed, I don't want to put words in your mouth here, but are you a little disappointed, is that what I hear you saying, with some of the governmental structures that have been put into place that may not be working as efficiently as we'd all like them working to help people in the aftermath of Katrina?", "I'm not a little bit disappointed -- I'm very disappointed. And a lot of us on many levels worked on the mayor's commission to bring New Orleans back, and we came up with documents and papers, and we went all over the country doing interviews, and you know, we came up with all kinds of suggestions, and at the end of the day, we're all wondering what happened. And yes, I'm very disappointed in New Orleans in many things that I see.", "The culture committee, which you are part of, believes that New Orleans culture can be a catalyst to the city rebounding. I know you're a part of that. Do you really believe that?", "Well, I believe the culture is the most important thing you have for the centrality as a human being. And I think that the culture or cultural solution is important for our nation as a whole. When you understand who you are, you understand what you're doing. When you don't have a sense of who you are culturally, what are you out here for? What are you doing? What direction are you going? What do you give to your kids? How do you relate to your earlier generation? So I think culture is important to all of us.", "Yes, but you've got to get the infrastructure right, don't you? You've got get the homes. You've got to get the jobs, which puts New Orleans in a strange situation. It is a city so dependent on tourism dollars. You've got to almost take the posture of build it and then they will come, don't you?", "Well, you know, even down to what you choose to build, what you build is a manifestation of your culture. So for me, culture is the very first thing, it's your identity, your sense of self.", "OK.", "So of course we need homes.", "Right.", "And we some people working on it. We have the systems of the", "Well, let me asking something on the heels of that. Will the city and state, in your mind, have to subsidize the arts and artists, maybe to a greater degree than the city and state ever have, in order to bring folks back?", "Well, I think the city and state should subsidize the artists much more in New Orleans than any other place in the country, just because our calling card is the arts. And we don't really support it as much as we should. And I think that the country as a whole needs to have a ministry of culture, and we need to have a minister of culture in the sense of the importance of codifying things that are American to help nourish our young people and realize who we are in the world.", "Wynton, if you would, take a moment to talk about this new CD that is going to be released next week, \"The Plantation to the Penitentiary.\" When you look outside your door, at your world, what are you seeing? What is the critique that you're offering in this new CD?", "Well, I'm looking at all of the things -- the systems, the homeless situation that we had, the kind of continuation of the plantation system, for putting people in jail for having some dope or something on them, kind of corruption in the legal system, many systems that we're all a victim of. It could be something as paying a bill being overcharged, or being charged on a charge for another charge, many things that we have all as citizens just accepted. We pay our tax dollars and they're used in any kind of just unimaginable ways. So I'm looking at all of those things, and I critique our country from the inside. I traveled around the country. I believe in democracy. I believe in this country. I think it's -- I've been to many other places in this world. I understand what a jewel we have in our system and in our country.", "You're making a statement with the cover art as well, aren't you?", "Yes. We have a good package on this album. A young lady named Jessica Benjamin did a lot of very interesting artwork. It's very powerful, to kind of convey kind of the feeling, yes.", "It really is. Wynton, great to see you. Thanks for your time this morning.", "Man, it's my pleasure. Thank you.", "And the best with the", "All right, thanks a lot.", "And your efforts in New Orleans.", "All right, y'all take care.", "Speaking of music -- musical chairs in the White House briefing room.", "I can shout from any place.", "Helen Thomas moves back, and it's apparently all our fault? See why, coming up in the NEWSROOM.", "The queen of the White House press corps is losing her throne, thankfully not her head. CNN's Jeanne Moos with moving day for Helen Thomas.", "From celebs in courtside seats to the front row at fashion shows, editors may hide behind sunglasses. But Helen Thomas isn't hiding on the front row of history.", "My question is, why did you really want to go to war?", "It is not as if she didn't warn the president against calling on her.", "You're going to be sorry.", "And often they were.", "Hold on for a second -- excuse me for a second, please. Excuse me for a second, Helen. Excuse me.", "She's used to putting them on the hot seat. But now it's her seat that is hot. The legendary reporter turned columnist is losing her front-row perch. The White House Briefing Room is closed for renovations. But when it reopens, Helen will be relegated to the second row. (voice-over): So who would have the nerve to bump Helen Thomas from the front row? Well, actually, it's us. CNN and FOX News. Both of the networks want to move up. And the only way for that to happen is for Helen to move back. (voice-over): Since CNN has seniority, we would have probably gotten a front row seat anyway, but for FOX to also get one, Helen had to move. After more than three decades in the front row, is Helen livid?", "What I would like to know is why am I the story? There's a war going on.", "And she doesn't mean a war on her seat.", "Are all of these stories untrue? Why...", "Let me finish? Ma'am, let me -- ma'am, please let me finish the question. I can't thank the president enough for his hospitality. He didn't need to do this.", "Yes, he did.", "She's used to challenging authority, not seating charts.", "I don't belong there in the front row. I can shout from any place.", "One of Helen's books may need a new title \"Second Row at the White House.\" The White House Correspondents Association determines the seating and its president declares: \"We love her and we'll take care of her.\"", "Wowie.", "She's the only person to have a plaque with her name attached to her seat. President Bush once said of sparing with Helen...", "It's kind of like dancing together, isn't it?", "She has danced with nine different presidents and made a cameo and a funny video Bill Clinton made for a press dinner.", "Any questions? Helen?", "Are you still here?", "She'll still be here, probably causing a row from two rows away, this cookie...", "Let me put my cookie down here.", "... doesn't crumble. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.", "I'm Susan Lisovicz at the New York Stock Exchange where an Asian contagion is one of the culprits sending stocks sharply lower. I'll have details when NEWSROOM continues. You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news.", "CNN now confirming a tragic event in Iraq. Want to let you know, Iraqi TV earlier reported that a car bomb exploded on a soccer field killing 18 children who were playing there. Once again, CNN has confirmed that this car bomb did go off on the soccer field. The location, the western outskirts of Ramadi. That, of course, the capital of the Sunni-dominated Anbar Province. Eighteen children killed playing on a soccer field. More on that later and coming up on \"YOUR WORLD TODAY\" at noon. And now to the stock market. A big sell-off on Wall Street. Susan Lisovicz at the New York Stock Exchange to explain why the market is reeling today. Hi there, Susan.", "I'm just going to keep my eyes shut. All right, thank you, Susan.", "You can't read the thing. You can't look at the camera.", "No, I jut go like this.", "You have it all memorized, anyway, don't you?", "Oh, yes, three hours.", "Don Lemon here.", "Are you guys doing all right? A lot coming up at 1:00. Talk about a rude awakening. Scores of San Francisco residents jolted from their sleep this morning as a hillside collapses and sends huge boulders rolling into at least one apartment building. We'll get the very latest on that. Then, it's a mother versus the British government in the bizarre custody dispute.", "Where's my pork chop?", "Connor McCready (ph) is just 8-years-old but weighs nearly 200 pounds. Now, British officials are threatening to take him into protective custody for the sake of his health. And we want to hear from you on this one. Obese kids, should local officials get involved? Send your thoughts to cnnnewsroom@CNN.com and tune in at 1:00 p.m. Eastern with Kyra Phillips and me in the", "All right, thanks so much, Don, we'll be watching. And as Don says, CNN NEWSROOM continues just one hour from now.", "\"YOUR WORLD TODAY\" is next with news happening across the globe and here at home. I'm Tony Harris.", "And I'm Heidi Collins. Have a great day, everybody."], "speaker": ["TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "HARRIS", "COLLINS", "SHERIFF CHARLIE WELLS, MANATEE COUNTY, FLORIDA", "TIM MOORE, CLAY'S FATHER", "TRACI MOORE, CLAY'S MOTHER", "STEVE KELLE, CLAY'S STEPFATHER", "QUESTION", "KELLE", "QUESTION", "KELLE", "K-E-L-L-E. QUESTION", "KELLE:  K-E-L-L-E. QUESTION", "T. KELLE", "I. WELLS", "QUESTION", "WELLS", "T. KELLE", "S. KELLE", "T. KELLE", "QUESTION", "OFF-MIKE). WELLS", "T. KELLE", "QUESTION", "T. KELLE", "WELLS", "QUESTION", "WELLS", "QUESTION", "T. KELLE", "WELLS", "QUESTION", "WELLS", "QUESTION", "COLLINS", "HARRIS", "CNN. 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{"id": "CNN-313240", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2017-05-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/28/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Trump Returns to Controversy over Kushner; White House Addresses Sanctions on Russia; Flight Disruptions Continue at Heathrow and Gatwick", "utt": ["Problems for the president. New allegations Mr. Trump's son-in-law discussed creating a secret channel with the Russians. Fresh off his first foreign trip, we look at how the American commander in chief is settling back into the White House amid the growing controversy. Next, we are live in Washington and Moscow. Also, the investigation into last week's bombing in Manchester continues, the city is mourning and trying to get back to daily life. We'll take you there. Plus, taking flight. British Airways is working to clear the backlog of passengers after an I.T. problem caused them to cancel all flights from London on Saturday. A travel update for travelers is just ahead.", "Hello and welcome to CONNECT THE WORLD. I'm Robyn Kriel in for Becky Anderson. It's a holiday weekend in the United States but for a White House trying to dig out from stories involving the Russian investigation, this Sunday is an active work day. Fresh off his whirlwind foreign tour, President Donald Trump is expected to talk strategy with his senior advisers. He set off for a barrage of tweets a short while ago accusing the media of, quote, \"fabricating lies,\" but he has yet to directly address the latest allegation that his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, sought to set up a secret line of communication with Russia. Our Ryan Nobles has the latest from Washington.", "President Donald Trump is back in Washington after his lengthy trip abroad and even though his team feels confident the trip was successful, he returns to plenty of controversy, including a number of issues that involve his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner. Kushner has yet to respond to reports that he attempted to set up a secret backchannel line of communications with the Russian government during the transition. Kushner's connections to the Kremlin through a variety of means, continue to be a specific line of inquiry by investigators looking to Russia's attempt to intervene in the U.S. elections. Now, despite these issues, a White House official says that Kushner isn't going anywhere. He does plan to keep his head down and keep focused on his wide portfolio of responsibilities in the West Wing. In the meantime, the White House is shaking things up, creating a war room designed to quickly rebut the attacks that pour as a result of this ongoing investigation. The president's children are getting involved as well. Donald Jr. and Eric Trump and his wife, Laura, spent the last few days in Washington meeting with groups including the teams at the RNC and PAC the American Priorities which supports the Trump administration. The goal of these meetings was to get all of the teams on the same page ahead of the 2018 midterm elections and the president's own re- election bid in 2020 -- Ryan Nobles, CNN, Washington.", "Russia's foreign ministry is dismissing the Kushner story and our Clare Sebastian joins us from Moscow with the latest. Clare, thank you. We know there are many things about this type of back channel that would be of great concern to U.S. intelligence. What's the Russian perspective?", "Robyn, the idea of a back channel is not foreign here in Moscow. It's happened with previous U.S. administrations and transition teams, like the Nixon administration and with the then-Soviet Union. But the detail reported by \"The Washington Post\" that Jared Kushner suggested using the facilities of the Russian embassy in Washington to set up this channel would be very unusual here and would potentially even raise security concerns. And there's another element that Russia would find disturbing and that's the fact that it got out in the first place. These back channel relationships are secret and they're not supposed to leak out and that's their very nature and that's why we don't often find out until years later that they happened. And certainly, we see that reflected in the response that we got from the foreign ministry early on Saturday, calling this McCarthyism, essentially suggesting that the whole topic of Russia is simply being used by Trump's opponents to try to discredit him. And the same spokesman for the foreign ministry warning the U.S. media in the week not to spread lies about Russia's ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak. So I think we may see this leak escalate about Russia as this story develops -- Robyn.", "The Trump administration, before they entered the White House, campaigned for improvement of --", "-- relations with Russia, even the potential lifting of sanctions. What's the likelihood of this happening now and what's the view from Russia on that possibility?", "You know, I think there's real concern, Robyn. On the one hand, we have the exasperation as you saw, from the prime minister's response to the Kushner story about all the Russia-related controversy and, on the other hand, real concern about where the policy of the Trump administration is going. As you say, Trump campaigned on the idea that he might be open to lifting sanctions on Russia. And then just on Friday, we get this comment from the director of his National Economic Council, Gary Cohn. Take a listen.", "We are not lowering our sanctions on Russia. If anything, we would probably look to get tougher on Russia. So the president wants to continue to, you know, keep the sanctions in place.", "Sanctions are a critical issue for Putin's government and this kind of comment getting a lot more coverage here than the Jared Kushner story, for example, but it's interesting they are still holding out some hope, it seems, that this relationship will develop. Russia has avoided overtly criticizing Trump himself even as the stance of his team towards Russia appears to be hardening -- Robyn.", "All right, thank you so much, Clare. Let's stay with that story of Jared Kushner. Let's get some analysis now. Lynn Sweet is Washington bureau chief of the \"Chicago Sun-Times\" and she joins us live from Washington, D.C. Lynn, thank you. Plenty of opinions on this Kushner story. Pundits and former Obama officials expressing themselves online, on Twitter on Sunday morning here in the U.S. Let's start with what Ben Rhodes, the former deputy national security adviser of President Obama had to say. He said the State Department and Department of Defense are skeptical of Russia and tend to toughen talking points would be worth a lot to the Russians to have a channel excluding them. Lynn, you traveled with the president on foreign trips before. What does Ben Rhodes mean by this tweet?", "Ben Rhodes is still working for former president Barack Obama. He is working in the post-presidential office space in Washington, D.C. He travels with him. So when he says something, I take it with significance as to messaging of what the Trump administration is up against. People are not just believing, not all of them, that this is fake news and there is something to this. That's why the tweets that President Trump put out this morning expose him to danger at this point because he is facing questions about obstruction of justice. And even though he has lawyers, who probably should or will soon be telling him to not tweet, he has not been helping, I think, his own case by saying everything that's out there about his White House is fake. If there's an explanation, offer it. If Jared Kushner has something to say about this story, say it. So far, they have not.", "Let's talk about what President Trump was tweeting earlier today, Lynn. He said -- we've got some of those tweets. He said, \"It's very possible that those sources don't exist but are made up by fake news writers.\" He says, \"Fake news is the enemy.\" Now park that, one of his other tweets congratulated the -- Greg Gianforte of Montana for his win. He said he is accused of assaulting a British- based \"Guardian\" reporter just a day before he won with that election and just days before that, there were jokes from the Texas governor about shooting reporters. Now Trump once again reiterating that the news is the enemy, that the fake -- that the news is fake and that these sources are made up. What's the problem with these sorts of statements, other than the obvious, coming from the president and other senior officials?", "We are seeing something develop in the United States and that is the journalism organizations are standing stronger and firmer, doing its job with a new, you know, with a new sense of purpose which is the job that most of us have been doing anyway. I think, in this case, President Trump is talking to his base. There are three investigations going on, one in the House, one in the Senate and one by a former FBI director, special prosecutor Mueller, right now. So this controversy is not fake. If the White House wants to ignore it or have President Trump tweet at it, he does so I suppose at his peril because what he set up today is another day of distraction about talking about fake news, which brings us right back to talking about the controversies and the Trump administration, rather than his week ahead, where he might want to deal with the showdown over raising the debt limit in Congress. His budget came out last week, while he was overseas. And by the way --", "-- what happened to that health care bill in the Senate after it passed the House?", "Speaking of him not talking about issues, President Trump also refusing press conferences during his overseas trip and that is unusual, I believe, and then refusing questions when he landed and now he's being vocal on Twitter. When is he going to start talking to reporters? And does he need to at some point?", "Well, I don't think he has to. No president has to talk to reporters. It is theirs to decide. Of all of the criticisms about President Trump, I suppose, his decision not to have a press conference overseas or when he might have one here next is something you have to just say he's entitled to have his own approach and his own style. Reporters always want more access and reporters always have more questions. Clearly, in Europe, though, if you're talking about the standing of the United States' president and the ability to explain what the United States wants to do, he -- I don't see how he helped make the case stronger, what to watch for this week and what the European allies will be looking at is whether or not he pulls out of the Paris climate agreement. Certainly, there will be a clamoring for a press conference for him to explain himself on that. So everyone's entitled to their style. And I think that's where you have to just give the president his ability to communicate when and how he wants -- in this case, directly to the people on Twitter. We'll see if he can sustain this for a while. We also will see what happens with what had been regular press briefings before he went overseas and we'll see if they pick up the pace again.", "We'll certainly keep an eye on that. Thank you so much, Lynn Sweet, live from Washington, D.C. Moving on, British authorities have made another arrest over Monday's bombing in Manchester, bringing the total in custody to 12 and they are searching another property. Britain's home secretary is warning that some members of the network behind last week's Manchester attack may still be at large. Amber Rudd told the BBC that no one can be sure until the investigation is complete. Britain's terrible threat level was lowered this weekend from severe to critical but Prime Minister Theresa May says the public needs to remain vigilant; 22 people were killed in last week's terror attack. CNN's Muhammad Lila is in Manchester with the latest. Muhammad, things are moving quickly in terms of the investigation and the raid. Tell us what you know.", "Well, Robyn, just a short time ago police announced that they conducted another raid in a part of the city called Old Trafford. They say they made their 14th arrest in connection with this investigation. With those 14 arrests, two have been released over the course of the last several days. So we understand 12 people remain in custody as a result of this investigation. Also, you mentioned British home secretary Amber Rudd talking about how they could potentially be more suspects out there but saying there's no way to know for sure until the investigation is complete. And one big milestone, if you will, in the investigation, police believe they have located and identified the apartment that the suspect was using. And that's very important because they believe that that apartment is where the final explosive was assembled. And we've been talking about the possible sophistication and expertise involved in putting that explosive together. Now they're going to be combing that apartment, looking for forensics clues and looking for residue of any explosive material that could help them determine just how sophisticated it was and possibly point them in the direction of other people who may have been collaborating as part of this terror network.", "Muhammad, you are at a marathon and it sounds certainly as if it is very festive, definitely a change of pace and a change of scenery from the last few days, where you've been at such a somber environment. Take us through the atmosphere there and is it one of defiance and resilience?", "Let me just set the scene, I'm right at the finish line of the Manchester run and I have to apologize because it is so loud here. You hear music, you hear people laughing, cheering and clapping. And this is a very festive mood and it's a very celebrative mood and the end result of that is this is the city of Manchester's way of saying that they won't let terror stop them from living their lives. This was an event whose status was up in the air just a few days ago because there were concerns that it would be a target of another terror attack. But the city said, no, we want to do this and hold this to show the U.K. and the world that Manchester is recovering. And of course, while I say that, there is a much heavier security presence here. There are armed officers patrolling the streets, heavily armed officers, some of them carrying semiautomatic rifles. In the U.K. that's a rare sight because police generally don't usually carry firearms. But that is the case here right now. Police are not taking any --", "-- chances but we can report there have been no incidents today related to this marathon. So far, so good.", "Thank you so much, Mohammad Lila, showing us that Manchester is recovering. That's the message. Moving on, an old symbol of Manchester is taking on new life since Monday's terror attack. People are lining up to get bee tattoos. The bee has long been a symbol of Manchester, signifying a hive of activity in a historically industrial city. Now it's being used to raise money for attack victims. The Manchester tattoo appeal was started in a show of solidarity and the idea has quickly spread beyond the U.K. Some flights remain canceled, at least two of London's busiest airports has disruption in a second day. A worldwide I.T. system power failure hit British Airways Saturday, leaving all flights grounded and thousands of people stranded. British Airways says all of its long-haul flights are operating out of Heathrow. Gatwick is nearly fully operational but there are delays. Nina dos Santos is at Heathrow Airport for us.", "Robyn, life is gradually returning to normal, both at Gatwick and also at Heathrow, where planes are taking off. The majority of services of the busiest", "Yes, a nightmare. We'd booked a lot before. We'd actually gone to Vegas. So we pre-booked concerts and pool parties and the whole shebang and we've missed it all. Basically, they told us that we can go to a hotel. They gave us sleeping bags and wash facilities. Obviously we've been able to freshen up and shower this morning, which has been fantastic, to be fair. But, yes, we slept in sleeping bags all night and that was it.", "So, Robyn, that brings me to the issue of compensation. While obviously British Airways, like is standard in many of these cases, probably won't be expensing passengers like that one for her concert tickets and the fact that obviously the start of their holiday has been severely impacted by this, they will be reimbursing people for what they call appropriate, adequate expenses, reasonable expenses. So accommodations for travel, food and drink. People are urged to keep the receipts for that because if they want to submit something for compensation, they will need them. And passengers who've been caught up in all of this have until November the 17th to move their ticket to another day or ask for a full refund. Remember this is a crucial bank holiday weekend also a busy time for children to be traveling with their parents because it's the", "Nina dos Santos there. Still to come, an upbeat U.S. president Donald Trump is back on home turf. We'll look at the ground he covered and the feathers he ruffled on his first trip abroad. And if all that weren't enough, one major Muslim --", "-- rights group is accusing Mr. Trump of provoking racism and bigotry in America. We'll ask them about that claim ahead."], "speaker": ["ROBYN KRIEL, CNN HOST (voice-over)", "KRIEL", "RYAN NOBLES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "KRIEL", "CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KRIEL", "KRIEL", "SEBASTIAN", "GARY COHN, NATIONAL ECONOMIC DIRECTOR", "SEBASTIAN", "KRIEL", "LYNN SWEET, \"CHICAGO SUN-TIMES\"", "KRIEL", "SWEET", "SWEET", "KRIEL", "SWEET", "KRIEL", "MUHAMMAD LILA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KRIEL", "LILA", "LILA", "KRIEL", "NINA DOS SANTOS, CNNMONEY EUROPE EDITOR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "DOS SANTOS", "KRIEL", "KRIEL"]}
{"id": "CNN-309037", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-04-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/02/cnr.22.html", "summary": "The Rise and Fall of Michael Flynn; Russian \"Fake News\" Network Uncovered", "utt": ["-- Natalie Allen. Our top stories right now.", "The U.S. president's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, did not include thousands of dollars in payments from three Russian companies on a government financial disclosure form that he filed in February. Flynn did include the fees in an amended disclosure form, which he then filed on Friday and in a just released statement, his attorney says that Flynn acted properly. CNN's Randi Kaye takes a closer look at Flynn's political rise and fall.", "Ladies and gentlemen, I want to introduce the next President of the United States of America, Donald Trump.", "He was a lifelong Democrat, yet during campaign 2016, General Michael Flynn found himself on the trail stumping for then Republican nominee, Donald Trump.", "As a kid who grew up in a very strong Democratic neighborhood up in the state of Rhode Island, I don't recognize the Democratic Party that I learned about.", "So when he first met Donald Trump, Flynn was impressed.", "I felt the conversation that we had was enlightening to me.", "Flynn is a retired three-star lieutenant general who holds three college degrees, including an MBA. He has 33 years of military experience, serving as a commander in both Iraq and Afghanistan and later as the director of intelligence for U.S. Central Command. And President Barack Obama nominated him to be the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's main spy service, in 2012. He was forced out of that role two years later, he says, for publicly questioning Obama's narrative that Al Qaeda was close to defeat. He later told Politico, \"That was Obama's big lie, that the enemy was on the run and we were beating these guys.\" Flynn felt he still had more to give to his country. So come 2016, he aligned himself with Team Trump.", "Get fired up. This is about this country.", "In July last year, at the Republican National Convention, Flynn delivered a fiery speech.", "We are tired of Obama's empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric. This, this has caused the world to have no respect for America's word nor does it fear our might.", "He also had harsh words for Hillary Clinton.", "Lock her up. That's right. Yes, that's right. Lock her up.", "That same month, Flynn was scrutinized after he retweeted a message bashing Jewish people. It was in response to comments the Clinton campaign had made about Russia hacking the Democratic National Committee. He retweeted this controversial comment that said, \"The USSR is to blame. Not anymore, Jews, not anymore.\" Flynn later apologized.", "After Trump won the election, he named Flynn as his national security adviser. No one could have predicted Flynn would only hold that job for 23 days. That's right, 23 days. Flynn resigned after misleading the vice president and others about the substance of phone calls he'd had with the Russian ambassador.", "I talked with General Flynn yesterday and the conversations that took place at that time were not in any way related to new U.S. sanctions against Russia.", "Turns out, that wasn't true. Secret transcripts of Flynn's intercepted calls showed Flynn did discuss sanctions, a potential violation of federal law. After Flynn texted Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak on December 25th to wish him a Merry Christmas, the ambassador texted Flynn three days later, asking, \"I would like to give you a call. May I?\" The next day they talked by phone --", "-- the very same day President Obama ordered extra sanctions on Russia.", "The evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation and a series of other questionable instances is what led the president to ask for General Flynn's resignation.", "Flynn later wrote this letter of resignation, explaining he'd inadvertently briefed the vice president and others with incomplete information. Flynn also raised eyebrows in August 2016, during a speech when he referred to Islamism as a, quote \"cancer in the body of Muslims.\"", "We are facing another ism, just like we faced Nazism and fascism and imperialism and communism. This is Islamism. And it is a vicious cancer inside the body of 1.7 billion people on this planet. And it has to be excised.", "As Flynn's lawyer likes to say, his client has quite a story to tell -- Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.", "And General Flynn recently seeking immunity. Again, as Randi Kaye points out, his attorney saying he has quite a story to tell, immunity in exchange for testimony. But that has not been taken up yet.", "This week experts testify before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee that the Russian government had an army of Internet trolls that tried to dupe the country during the 2016 election.", "In some cases, it worked, in fact. Brian Todd shows us how.", "It started with several tweets alleging a terrorist attack at the Incirlik airbase in Turkey last summer. Russian state media outlets, RT and Sputnik, posted variations of the story. Soon, even Donald Trump's campaign manager apparently thought it was true, repeating it on", "There's plenty of news to cover this week that I haven't seen covered. You had the NATO base in Turkey being under attack by terrorists.", "No attack had in fact occurred at the base. Researchers say it's an example of fake reports spread online, on purpose, with the help of pro-Russian users in what's believed to be a disinformation campaign supported by Vladimir Putin, all designed to influence elections and sow dissent and confusion in the West.", "They have a coordinated information campaign and a deliberate strategy. So they pick their objectives in the information space.", "In another case, a leaked email from Hillary Clinton's campaign in which she asked a question about a treatment for Parkinson's disease, was spun into a fake story alleging she was sick, triggering allegations and chatter that the Democratic candidate had the disease. Researchers say the story was shared and reposted by pro-Russian sites and read 8 million times, evidence, experts say, of how Russia was trying to throw last year's election.", "How easy is it for them to spread bogus stories?", "Once they build an audience with their accounts, it's very easy to do that just through amplification. Anytime you have the ability to promote a story hundreds or thousands of times, than that puts into trending feeds. Once it's in a trending feed, it takes on a life of its own.", "Experts who researched Russia's fake news campaign testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, explaining how Putin's government uses an army of trolls, online critics, who push their agendas to confuse and frighten audiences in the West, an idea that played out dramatically on the Showtime series, \"Homeland,\" a troll factory, where hundreds of employees toll away, hosting fake tweets under fake names. (", "Iraq Bob. That's me.", "Navy Wife. That's me, too.", "Their marching orders, post phony stories and tweets and spread them as widely as possible.", "On a newsstand, talking points in your folders. Get outraged.", "Experts say the real-life troll factories used by Russians may not look as slick as the TV version but they are real. They say paid trolls who spread fake reports can amplify their impact using botnets, thousands of other people's computers infected with viruses and harnessed to do their bidding. Analysts say Putin's goal is to create distrust among Americans and their allies in their political systems.", "They didn't just want to discredit U.S. elections, they wanted to discredit Hillary Clinton. Sowing division within the European Union, these are all things that are part of the Russian agenda.", "When asked about accusations of Russian interference in America's elections, Vladimir Putin said, quote, \"Read my lips, no.\" But experts who testified before Congress say we can expect Putin's government to continue to support fake news campaigns. They say, for Putin, it's easy, it's effective. And best of all for him, it often can't be traced directly back to him -- Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "Brian Todd giving us a very good explanation of what fake news is. But just so important to point out the difference, the distinction between fake news and the dedicated men and women, the people who are really committed to good, quality journalism, who got into this profession to give people the news.", "And what's so important is that they say, you know, when people, the citizens are ill informed or uninformed, you no longer have democracy. It's very, very scary --", "-- what is going on and people can't decide what is credible and what is not.", "I know here at CNN, we are all committed and dedicated to pushing forward with news.", "We certainly are. Coming here, once the ancestral home of many Christians, one Iraqi town has basically been abandoned. Wait until you see what ISIS did to their church. That's ahead.", "Plus Pope Francis heads to Northern Italy to bless the rebuilding of a city ravaged by a deadly earthquake. Details ahead as CNN NEWSROOM continues."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "GEN. 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{"id": "CNN-206024", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-5-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/02/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Eating Healthy vs. Eating Cheap", "utt": ["We all know eating healthy is the very best choice, but a new study highlights the fact it is hardly the cheapest choice. Christine Romans joins us now from New York. It's expensive.", "You know when you're feeding kids and you're busy, you have two parents who are working, you know. You can see why the grocery bill goes up and up and up. But the USDA has these new figures, Carol. Looking at, what it costs to feed the family every week. A family with two school age kids, this is what -- this is what the USDA said; for the thrifty plan -- about $146 a week. For a more expensive diet, $289 a week. Now, you look at those numbers and you say wait a minute, maybe those are too low for me. Or maybe I'm right in the middle of those. Why are they important? Because the USDA uses these number to calculate how much money to give to in assistance for people who need supplemental nutrition assistance, SNAP, or food stamps is what we used to call it. 46 million Americans receive food stamps. One out of seven people get government nutrition assistance. And these are numbers that the governor uses, $21 a day to eat for a family of four based on the lowest estimate carol.", "So how do you keep those costs down? It is interesting because the government actually has some ideas for this. They have a web site called choosemyplate.gov and they give you even some menu ideas for healthy things that aren't too expensive. They say don't buy precut, prewashed food. That tends to be more expensive. Try canned or frozen vegetables be careful though of the sodium in the canned vegetables, I should. Cook meals that stretch like casseroles and soups. And make a monthly -- a weekly meal plan, that can help you save. Don't by instant stuff, and cheaper fruits and vegetables the government says, carrots, greens potatoes, apples and bananas tend to be the cheapest fruits and vegetables. Focus on those. You know make food that stretch, like stir fry for example. Put as many on sale vegetables as you can in there. Again it's choosemyplate.gov. And there's some kind of some interesting stuff on there. The point here is to try to get fresh fruits and vegetables in your diet, not break the bank. Planning is a big part of that, the government says.", "It's like another job, right? You know, you're a mom.", "You know me. There's nowhere on here does it say my $2 Target pizzas; nowhere on here living there.", "But now we know. Thanks for that tip. Christine Romans, thanks so much. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN HOST", "COSTELLO", "COSTELLO", "ROMANS", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-227669", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-4-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/01/nday.04.html", "summary": "Transcript Reveals what Pilots Told Controller", "utt": ["As we welcome you back to NEW DAY, want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the globe. This morning, we're getting a new look at just what the pilot said before Flight 370 went missing. A transcript showing their final words were not \"all right, good night\" as previously thought, but rather \"good night, Malaysia 370.\" That as 11 planes and nine ships are scouring the Indian Ocean looking for debris that has been spotted on satellites. What should they be looking for? That's the question. Joining us now is a man who knows very well, satellite imagery analyst and former CIA intelligence officer, Steven Wood. Really great to have you here with us. We know that satellites are playing a big role in the search. We know it's a tool certainly. Let's recap the objects spotted on the 16th, 18th, 23th, 24th, all this in search area. They then refined their data and moved the search area up here. Have we seen good data from satellites in the new search area?", "It is continuing to be collected. In fact, I was just looking right before this morning began, imagery was being collected yesterday, I know. The imagery looked good, from what I could tell.", "Not too cloudy?", "I know there's still weather in the area. Weather has continued to be a challenge as it has from the very beginning.", "I think it bears repeating, how is it that the data is analyzed, deemed credible and then scuttle the crews out to try and get those items.", "It's a great question. The answer is, it's complicated. This is a good example. These are coming from multiple countries. It's the United States, China, France, Thailand, each of these of nations have their own analysts. They're volunteers scouring the oceans now looking at this imagery to see what they can do.", "Teamwork.", "Absolutely. It's really a variety of people.", "You say that we can learn from -- we know that we can learn a lot from the Air France disaster about the investigation this time. But you say the satellite imagery can teach us some things. This is a map of where debris was found. Tell us what your thinking is?", "Interestingly enough, this actually came from here. A number of the guests that had been on your show repeatedly, David Soucie and Jeff Wise, were all talking about this about a week ago and saying what lessons could we learn from what happened last time?", "Sure.", "As David and Jeff were asking me, I said of course, the first thing you do in an investigation from my perspective analytically I want to go back and see if I have any other examples. So the first thing we did we started going back to see what happened with the Air France crash back in 2009. This map, it came from French Civil Aviation, their safety report that came out afterwards. This is a map showing all of the debris that was found floating after the Air France plane crashed. So this is in the Southern Atlantic, different area, obviously, compared to the Indian Ocean. But you can see the distribution --", "We should point out, we figure that this area from side to side is about 300 kilometers. Are you surprised that we haven't spotted any field this big?", "Here's the critical point, look how tight the circle is. People knew where to look.", "They had the ACARs transmission.", "That's right.", "OK. Let's look at the satellite comparing that. This is from Air France.", "Right. Let me caveat a little bit. This is taken by a U.S. imaging satellite. It's actually looking now for the missing Malaysian airliner.", "Sure.", "Fifty centimetre resolution is about 2 feet. In hindsight of course, we can go back and say there's an object here that lines up with that debris map.", "And it was debris.", "So we can start coming up with a better signature, if you will, or fingerprint of what aircraft debris on the ocean looks like on a satellite.", "You're pretty comfortable seeing these French satellites and Thai satellites of debris fields. We don't know definitively do we that these were not -- because we never got to them.", "It looks like objects. We have been unable to conclude they were from the missing Malaysian airliner.", "An untrained eye like myself would say, well, if we know that that was a plane that sure looks a lot like what we've seen over there.", "So this is the critical part. Now we can start looking at this more carefully. We have a much greater confidence that this was part of the aircraft from Air France, the shape, the size, the scale of it then you start mapping it up and you now have something you can train analysts with. You can start looking at your computer programs and training them more effectively. This is all part of that methodical process you have to go through to learn some of those lessons from the past. One of my colleagues was on a couple nights ago and he said that same thing. If we don't actually learn that lesson and do something different, it's just an observation.", "Steven Wood, always a pleasure, thank you so much. Really great information for us -- Kate.", "All right, coming up next on NEW DAY, is an apology enough. GM' CEO Mary Barra is about to testify on Capitol Hill. What will she say about those faulty ignition switches? 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{"id": "CNN-317840", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-07-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/29/cnr.22.html", "summary": "Owners of First Tesla Model 3s Get Their Keys; The Mooch Mirrors His New Boss.", "utt": ["Welcome back. We're reporting on a milestone for the U.S. electric car company, Tesla. It displayed the first 30 copies of its new Model 3 cars at its plant in California and CEO Elon Musk introduced the employees who will the proud first owners. The Model 3 itself is a slightly stripped-down version of Tesla's earlier cars and it is cheaper as well at a mere $35,000. Tesla is trying to create a mass market for its cars and has half a million orders for the Model 3s. It is not yet clear when they will go on public sale.", "The new White House communications director has been on the job now for just a few days. But Anthony Scaramucci or the Mooch, as he's known, is already taking some cues from his new boss. Jeanne Moos has this report.", "Anthony Scaramucci won't have to scrounge for a nickname.", "The Mooch.", "The Mooch. The Mooch. Ehh.", "Stephen Colbert said it 13 times...", "The Mooch. The Mooch.", "-- in a nine-minute segment about the new White House communications director.", "The Mooch is ready to smooch.", "Smooch the president's behind.", "I love the president. I love the president. I love the guy. I love the president.", "Let us count the ways.", "The way I know him and the way I love him.", "But Scaramucci isn't saving all his love for the president. He's got love left over for Sean Spicer...", "And I love the guy.", "-- for other White House --", "-- staffers...", "I love the hair and makeup person that we had.", "-- tweeted one critic, \"Is there anyone, anywhere or anything you do not love?\"", "Next thing you know, he'll say he loves the fandango. (", "Actually, Scaramouch is a clown character in Italian theater and the fandango is a Spanish dance, not yet danced at the White House. Scaramucci may not be a Bohemian but he rhapsodizes about love.", "I love the president.", "He even uses the same line as the president.", "We're going to win so much, Chris.", "We're going to win so much.", "You're actually going to get tired of winning.", "You're going to get tired of winning.", "We're going to win so much.", "You are going to get so sick and tired of winning.", "And they don't just talk the same.", "The Mooch himself re-tweeted this bit from \"The Daily Show.\" Even when he merely likes someone, his feelings grow as he speaks.", "I like the team. Let me rephrase that. I love the team.", "Anthony Scaramucci is the Barry White of the White House... (", "-- right down to blowing the press a kiss -- Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.", "There is a lot of love to go around, that's for sure. And that wraps this hour of CNN NEWSROOM. Thank so much for your company. I am Hannah Vaughan Jones in London.", "And, Hannah, loved being with you as well. I am George Howell here in Atlanta. For our viewers here in the United States, \"NEW DAY\" is next. For other viewers around the world, \"AMANPOUR\" starts in a moment. We thank you for watching the cable news network, CNN, the world's news leader."], "speaker": ["JONES", "HOWELL", "JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SETH MEYERS, COMEDIAN", "STEPHEN COLBERT, COMEDIAN", "MOOS (voice-over)", "COLBERT", "MOOS (voice-over)", "COLBERT", "MOOS (voice-over)", "ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI, INCOMING WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR", "MOOS (voice-over)", "SCARAMUCCI", "MOOS", "SCARAMUCCI", "MOOS (voice-over)", "MOOS (voice-over)", "SCARAMUCCI", "MOOS (voice-over)", "MOOS", "VIDEO CLIP, QUEEN, \"BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY\") MOOS (voice-over)", "SCARAMUCCI", "MOOS (voice-over)", "SCARAMUCCI", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SCARAMUCCI", "TRUMP", "SCARAMUCCI", "TRUMP", "MOOS (voice-over)", "MOOS (voice-over)", "SCARAMUCCI", "MOOS (voice-over)", "VIDEO CLIP, BARRY WHITE, \"CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF YOUR LOVE, BABE\") MOOS (voice-over)", "JONES", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-87136", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2004-8-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/14/se.16.html", "summary": "Hurricane Charley: FEMA Will Assist Hurricane Charley Victims In Florida", "utt": ["Well, President Bush will be making his way to view for himself the damage in several parts of Florida tomorrow. CNN's Dana Bash is at the White House with the latest on that effort -- Dana?", "Hi, Fredericka. Well, ever since it became clear how strong Hurricane Charley would be, the White House has been very careful to say that the president has been engaged. He's been in touch with local officials, including his brother, the governor of Florida. And the president came out very quickly yesterday to talk about how he was thinking about the state of Florida. And even as the hurricane was making landfall, he declared the state a federal disaster area, freeing up federal funds for that state. Now less than 48 hours later, the president is going to head to Florida to tour, for himself, the devastation. He talked about that at a campaign stop earlier today in Iowa.", "Tomorrow I'm going to travel down to Florida to visit with those whose lives have been hurt by Hurricane Charley. I just want them to know that our federal government is responding quickly. We have got aid stations in place. FEMA federal officials are on the ground working with state and local officials. Many lives have been affected by this hurricane. And I know you join me in sending our prayers to those people who look for solace and help.", "Now, there are 79 days until the election, and it is very hard to look at what is going on there without looking at it through a political lens because, of course, Florida's 27 electoral votes are so crucial this election year. Now Senator John Kerry, the president's opponent, was in Oregon today. He told reporters that he also expresses his sympathy for those affected by his hurricane. But he instructed his staff there to help with whatever recovery and support efforts as much as possible that they can help with. He did also tweak Mr. Bush a little bit for going to Florida so soon saying that he, himself, is not going to go now because the response personnel in Florida should not be diverted by a visitor like him. That was essentially what Senator Kerry said. Now usually that is a big concern for President Bush. He oftentimes does not immediately go to a place that has seen devastation from a hurricane or tornado even a fire just for that reason, because he's worried about sucking up resources that his visit always sucks up. But this time the White House is saying that the president is going to go, of course, and he will try to minimize whatever disruption his visit might cause -- Fredericka?", "All right, a change in strategy, but I'm sure a lot of the Floridians will be glad to see him nonetheless. All right, Dana Bash, thanks so much from the White House. We're going to take a short break right after this.", "The latest on Hurricane Charley straight ahead. But first, here's a look at what's happening now in the news. Overseas in Najaf, Iraq, there has been a total breakdown in peace talks between Iraqi officials and forces local to Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr. Iraqi officials say, as a result military operations will resume. U.S. military officials say 360 members of Al-Sadr's army have been killed in 10 days of fighting. Former U.S. congressman Bill Ford has died. The Michigan Democrat spent three decades in Congress. Ford died today of complications from a stroke he suffered six weeks ago. He was 77 years old. Pope John Paul II is in Lourdes, France along with thousands of other pilgrims. He prayed at a cliff-side shrine where Catholics believe miraculous cures have taken place. The 84-year old pope told the pilgrims he shares in their suffering, an apparent reference to his struggle with Parkinson's disease. At the Olympics, American swimming sensation Michael Phelps has captured gold. Today he won the 400-meter individual medley. And in the process, he broke his own world record. Phelps eventually hopes to win an unprecedented eight goad medals. Keeping you informed, CNN, the most trusted name in news. Our special coverage of Hurricane Charley continues right now. Officials in Florida have confirmed five deaths from the hurricane that slammed the state's west coast at category four strength, but no one knows yet how many people may have died totally. Wind gusts of up to l80 miles an hour demolished much of Punta Gorda. Florida governor Jeb Bush says the storm damage will be in the billions of dollars. He calls Charley Floridian's worst fears coming true. Charley made its second landfall near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina today causing minor damage there. It is now inland and considered a tropical storm moving northward. Well let's see what you can look forward to if you're in the storm's path in the northeast, particularly. Meteorologist Orelon Sidney is in the weather center -- Orelon?", "Thanks a lot, Fredricka. Indeed, Charley is now a tropical storm, 75 miles south-southwest of Norfolk, Virginia. This is the update from the National Hurricane Center that came out at the top of the hour it, 36.0 north, 77.0 west. The winds are holding since the 11:00 a.m. update at seven -- 70 miles an hour. I wish it were seven. Seventy miles an hour, it's moving north-northeast now at 30. So we're continuing to see it sort of hold itself together, but you know what? It's going to go downhill. It really doesn't have any choice. It is starting to move continually over land. And if it moves out over water now, the water's here are cool. It's just not going to have the type of fuel that it needs to regenerate. So we've seen the end of Hurricane Charley. Tropical storm Charley is still with us. If you're in Norfolk, here is what was the eye of the storm. Area of low pressure here to the south, still pretty good evidence of it here on the picture. We are seeing these thunderstorms now heading towards Norfolk. Some of the heavier rain bands, the heaviest actually, starting to rotate in to your area. Things will be getting better for you in about two hours. But for now, you have to deal with some very gusty winds, at least up to tropical storm force. And you also have to deal with the potential for some tornadoes. Tornado watch box now in effect until 9:00 p.m., but you notice that this box is really getting squeezed northward. So you're probably going to see a new watch box come out from the storm prediction center that will include the Chesapeake Bay probably on toward southern New Jersey. That will probably be coming out pretty shortly here as the storm continues to work to the northeast. So we'll be watching that, as well. Flooding, well may not be as much of a problem as we earlier thought. Thank goodness. The reason for that is the storm is moving so rapidly. It's expected to continue moving about 30 miles an hour and even accelerate over the next several hours. So any areas that get rain, it's going to have to be really quick. It's not just going to sit there and soak the region with heavy, heavy rainfall. We still have tropical storm warnings, but they've been adjusted a bit from Cape Lookout now, Cape Lookout, North Carolina northward to the Merrimack River, you still have a tropical storm warning in effect. South of Cape Lookout, advisories are no longer in effect for that area. I did want to quickly touch on Florida. You've got a little bit of thunderstorm activity there for the central part of the state. Here's that old boundary, that old trough that's left a little bit of a boundary down here in the gulf. You've got plenty of moisture riding up from it. And so that combined with some daytime heating has kicked off some thunderstorms for you. That's going to be with you, unfortunately, at least until the sun goes down. Probably going to lose a lot of its energy once the sun sets because the heating is what helps to kick off these air mass type thunderstorms. Looks like there may be a little disturbance riding there through there, too. So look for some potentially heavy rain. Unfortunately, you'll probably see this the next couple of afternoons until that trough starts to fill out to your west. And we hope that's going to get going on Monday. Then your thunderstorm activity will become much more scattered across much of Florida -- Fredericka?", "So Orelon, back up to the mid-Atlantic area and further north, when you talk about this storm likely moving very fast, which means we may not see the kind of flooding that would ordinarily be associated with a tropical storm, is there a feeling that, you know, this is kind of good news for people up there, that you see a light because it will move so fast...", "Oh, yes.", "... they are not likely to experience that?", "I think that's excellent news as a matter of fact. I mean you just don't want to get a storm that sits over an area. Beulah, I believe, back in Texas -- this is really showing my age now. But Beulah, I remember, generated lots of tornados and kind of slowed down across parts of the southern plains and just drenched much of the state of Texas with rainfall. And we have that many times. When you see a hurricane dying along the eastern seaboard, sometimes it will just sit and continue to rain, and there will just be just be terrible flooding. But the good news is the unseasonably cool weather in the East, that cold front is what's taking and pushing the storm rapidly to the northeast. So we probably will have minimal flooding problems from this particular system.", "Wow, OK. And in North Carolina, folks won't forget how Floyd did just that. It kind of sat, and it really caused some nasty flooding there.", "That's exactly right.", "All right, Orelon Sidney, thanks so much.", "You're welcome.", "Well, while Charley's winds devastated many homes and buildings, the storm surge took a toll, as well, flooding some coastal areas, particularly down south in Florida. But not everyone has flood insurance there, so what do you do if you don't have it? Don Beaton is with FEMA, and he is the acting chief of risk insurance branch. And he's heading down to Florida on Monday, but he's joining me right now from Washington. All right, good to see you, Mr. Beaton. So the hardest hit area of southwest Florida, Punta Gorda, many of them trailer homes, trailer home communities, about 31 of them, it's likely most of them did not have insurance. So what can you all do to assist them?", "Well, we have individual assistance available to homeowners who do not have flood insurance. They can contact FEMA through an 800 number, 1-800-621- FEMA or on our Web site at www.fema.gov. For those who do not have access to phones or Internet at this time because their homes are destroyed, we will be setting up disaster recovery centers in the area as soon as we are able to get in there.", "And now herein lies some of the other complicated factors that happen when an area is hit by a natural disaster. Oftentimes they go to a FEMA office or an emergency management of their state office and they are asked to prove their place of residence. But guess what, their home has been blown away or they don't have those kind of documents. So what do you advise people to do?", "Well, we try to work with them. You know, hopefully they will have at least their driver's license, something like that they were able to take with them, and we work with that as best we can.", "Don't you run into that quite often, though?", "Yes.", "That really ends up being a major obstacle in people trying to get some relief quickly?", "I think we are able to work through that rapidly and not to hold them up unduly in establishing their claim.", "All right. And as you all make your presence known in those hard-hit areas, do you fan out trying to reach as many homeowners, residents as possible or do you wait for them to come to you?", "We use a combination of media to get the word out. And we do have people going around to areas doing damage assessments so that we know where to set up our disaster recovery centers that are closest to the affected areas so they don't have to go as far.", "What is your expectation when you get down to the southwest portion of Florida -- your expectations on the kind of damage that you're already hearing your colleagues report and the need that residents will have, those who don't have insurance, home insurance or flood insurance?", "Well, our immediate problems are food, water, shelter, medical attention. Those are the primary things that we have to establish right away. And we're working with the state of Florida and the local communities to do that. We provide a support function to the state and local governments. After that, it's a matter of setting up our disaster field, disaster recovery offices and providing whatever assistance we can. We do that through a combination of grants and low-cost -- or excuse me -- low interest loans made available through the small business administration to homeowners, and those are based on need.", "Yes, for example, Charlotte County, Florida, which was a hard-hit county, 151,000 residents there. Are your expectations fairly high that a good number of those residents do not have insurance, or do you think that number's fairly small?", "In Charlotte County, I checked before I came over here today, and we have about 34,000 policies, flood insurance policies in Charlotte County.", "That's not very big.", "So I'm hopeful that those people will be well taken care of.", "OK. All right. Well, I know you all have a huge job ahead of you as you all are continuing to try to assess the damage there and the kind of needs that are there in Florida and other parts. All right, Don Beaton, thanks very much for joining us from FEMA and safe travels on Monday.", "Thank you.", "Well, central Florida is also digging out from the storm. Actual damage costs in Orlando are sketchy right now. It's not the kind of destruction that we've been seeing in southwestern Florida, but it is a mess nonetheless. Our Gary Tuchman is in Orlando with more on the assessment there -- Gary?", "Fredericka, hello to you. We come to you from the second floor of this motel, the Knight's Inn motor lodge in the east part of Orlando to give you an example of the very typical kind of problems and destruction we've seen in central Florida during this hurricane. Right above me, the roof, you can see this part of the roof, a top part of it is gone. This part is OK. But this is what we've seen all the way between Orlando and Daytona Beach. On many businesses, motels gas stations and homes, parts of the roofs disappear. We've seen many trees down. We've seen power lines down. And indeed in central Florida, tens of thousands of customers are still without power. Now we can tell you, we spent the evening last night in Daytona Beach on the Atlantic coast. The hotels there almost all virtually full because people evacuated Daytona to get out of the way of the hurricane, they ended up in it because that is where Hurricane Charley exited in to the Atlantic Ocean. We had the wind gusts up to 95 miles per hour, sustained at 90 miles per hour for about an hour and a half, and there was a lot of damage also in Daytona. And that was one thing so unusual about this storm because usually when we go cover hurricanes, we're in places where people are expecting the possibility that it will arrive. But yesterday morning even, if you talked to people in Orlando and Daytona Beach and told them there may be a hurricane coming your way, they never would have thought about it. They came here to get away from it and instead they jumped right into it. But obviously, they know they're a lot luckier than the people in southwest Florida. There was one fatality here near Orlando, a little girl killed in a car accident when a truck blew over from the wind on top of her car. Other than that, though, there have been no serious casualties. But there is a lot of property damage here in central Florida. Fredricka, back to you.", "All right, Gary Tuchman in Orlando, thanks so much. Well, while two million people were evacuated along the Florida west coast, there were a handful of people who decided to stay, in fact, even a couple who decided to head straight for Charley and they didn't even have to. Storm chaser Jim Reed is someone I talked to a little bit ago, and he explained why he decided to go toward the eye of the storm.", "OK, right now the time here is roughly 4:37. We are watching a neighborhood disintegrate. This is Hurricane Charley. For the past five minutes or so, we have been experiencing winds in excess of 100 miles an hour. It is tearing off roofs. Behind you! Category four hurricane. I hope I'm recording. This just came in on us right here. Hurricane Charley, August 13, 2004. If you want to see what it looks like inside a category four hurricane, this is it. I'm wondering if we got hit by a tornado. I don't know. Straight line. Yes, I'm all right.", "Jim Reed. Well, why does he do it? He says to learn more about hurricanes. He lives in South Carolina during hurricane season and then because he still is very fascinated with weather patterns, he lives in Wichita during the spring to keep watch of the tornados during tornado season. And we'll be right back.", "Charley lashed Florida's west coast with winds of up to 145 miles per hour. The Charlotte County sheriff's department found itself directly in the path of the storm. Jason Wheeler of CNN affiliate WINK has the deputy's details.", "Piece by piece the Charlotte County sheriff's department was taken by storm. About a half dozen deputies and the sheriff himself now faced with a personal emergency.", "Everybody together.", "How to deal with a roof that was disintegrating. We joined them as they searched for a safe room in their own building.", "We're all hold up in here. It's the only place that seems to be holding together. If the eye passes, we're going to make a run for the main door.", "Our ears popping from a drop in pressure, we listened to the storm roar by outside inviting the roof to join it. Communications were hampered, too. The situation had become serious. Finally, the call was made to notify others of who we were and where we were just in case the worst was to come.", "I'm going to give you the names of everyone with us.", "Finally though, the worst of Charley passed, and the men and women who were just hanging on for survival began to inspect the damage.", "When we were in there, would you have imagined that it would have been this bad?", "Never.", "Not only to their building but also to their community, what they found was astounding. Friday the 13th has been unlucky indeed, for this area. As far as the eye can see here, it appears that no place has been spared. Charley went through here quickly but left a lasting impression, to say the least. People here walking around in a daze say they can't even begin to think about cleaning up right now because the damage is just too overwhelming.", "And that report from Jason Wheeler of WINK. Well many Floridians went back to their homes and businesses today only to find there isn't a whole lot to return to. Ken Suarez from CNN affiliate WTVT has the story of one family dealing with Hurricane Charley's aftermath.", "It's hard to see what's taken you years to build up fall down right before your very eyes. Chow Mei Scott just did when a restaurant called Big Mama's began to fall in to pieces trapping her inside.", "This is my life. I depend on every penny. I work here. I open 6:00 to 4:00 every day. I work 18 hours here everyday. Everybody know that too.", "Hurricane Charley didn't care about her or her daughter. The storm took away her daughter's job, but it took away something much harder to replace from Chow Mei who's well into her 60s.", "It's been her life since she came to America when we were, you know, my dad suggested that they get a restaurant. And for me to see this and know that basically my mom's life is gone for the time being is really hard.", "Chow Mei was preparing for the storm when it whipped through. When the roof ripped off, Chow Mei frantically called her husband for help who rushed over.", "My husband said come to the backdoor! So I hurry, run from the front to the back and the ceiling started. And I thought maybe going to be, I don't know, just a small piece. I thought maybe the whole ceiling going to collapse?", "Pieces did, but it held out.", "Hey, mama. You OK?", "Long-time customers have been stopping by at what use to be the place in Eagle Lake.", "The food is just fantastic. The price is reasonable.", "And her?", "She's great. She's just a great host and hostess.", "Now she's a woman who's thankful to be alive but wondering how she's going to get the money to live.", "And that was Ken Suarez from CNN affiliate WTVT reporting. Carolyn and Anderson Cooper are up next to continue our coverage of Hurricane Charley. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Thanks for joining me for the last two hours. Then coming up next at 9:00 Eastern, \"LARRY KING LIVE.\" For the most-to-minute developments as the storm makes its way up the Eastern seaboard, stay right here on CNN."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "DANA BASH, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-37121", "program": "CNN NEWS SITE", "date": "2001-8-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/14/ns.05.html", "summary": "Dozens of Sharks Congregate off Florida's Anclote Key", "utt": ["We told you about this a little bit at the top of the hour. Law enforcement officials northwest of Tampa have sent out warnings concerning the number of sharks in the water around there. It may be in the hundreds of sharks. We showed you some of the pictures before. Now, we want to get a live report. Judd Chapin of CNN affiliate WFLA is flying over the scene and has a report right now.", "OK, we're over Anclote Key here off of Tampa Bay, and what we're looking at right now are a few sharks that are still left in the area. This morning, there were literally hundreds of sharks of all different varieties pooling around this key. This is on the very north side of Anclote Key, which is also a wildlife sanctuary. But right along this -- this key, there are hundreds of sharks schooled here. It looked like any", "All right, Judd. It makes you wonder: Where did all those sharks go? Judd Chapin is with our CNN affiliate WFLA down in Florida. This is an awfully pretty picture down there at Anclote Key."], "speaker": ["JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR", "JUDD CHAPIN, WFLA REPORTER", "CHEN"]}
{"id": "NPR-47561", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2017-12-22", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/12/22/572791710/emoluments-lawsuit-against-trump-dismissed", "title": "Emoluments Lawsuit Against Trump Dismissed", "summary": "A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that President Trump is violating the Constitution's foreign emoluments clause. The judge said the plaintiffs lack standing to sue.", "utt": ["A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against President Trump. The suit charged that the president is violating anti-corruption provisions of the Constitution. Now, the judge did not actually rule on those accusations but did set the case aside. NPR's Peter Overby reports.", "Judge George Daniels in Manhattan said the heart of the plaintiff's case, the Constitution's Foreign Emoluments Clause, was something they couldn't even sue over. The Foreign Emoluments Clause bars federal officials from taking gifts or rewards from foreign governments unless Congress consents. But last January, Sheri Dillon, one of Trump's lawyers, told reporters that the Emoluments Clauses don't apply.", "No one would have thought when the Constitution was written that paying your hotel bill was an emolument. Instead, it would have been thought of as a value-for-value exchange, not a gift, not a title and not an emolument.", "So Trump has never asked permission of Congress, and Judge Daniels said it's up to Congress, not citizens, to act on the Foreign Emoluments Clause. Congress is not a potted plant, he wrote. The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, sued Trump last January on his first work day in the Oval Office. CREW's joined in the case by three other plaintiffs from the hospitality industry in Manhattan and Washington, D.C. Deepak Gupta, representing the plaintiffs, said there will be an appeal.", "We are not going to walk away from this serious and ongoing constitutional violation. The Constitution is explicit on these issues.", "The Justice Department is defending the president. DOJ spokeswoman Lauren Ehrsam said last night the department appreciates the court's ruling and its conclusion. The Emoluments Clauses were little noticed until Trump was elected. He's the first president to own a global business empire. Critics say foreign governments and others seeking to influence him could funnel money through his hotels, restaurants and golf clubs. The Emoluments Clauses are seen as important safeguards against corruption. This case appears to be the first emoluments lawsuit ever in federal courts; two others are pending.", "The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia have a domestic emoluments case. They claim their public facilities, such as convention centers, are losing business to Trump-owned enterprises in Washington, D.C. There's a preliminary hearing in that case next month. And more than 200 House and Senate Democrats allege that Trump is violating the Foreign Emoluments Clause by failing to ask for congressional consent.", "Two of the Congressional plaintiffs, Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, said the decision by Judge Daniels reinforces their argument that Congress ought to be involved. Peter Overby, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "PETER OVERBY, BYLINE", "SHERI DILLON", "PETER OVERBY, BYLINE", "DEEPAK GUPTA", "PETER OVERBY, BYLINE", "PETER OVERBY, BYLINE", "PETER OVERBY, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-162292", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2011-2-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1102/19/se.01.html", "summary": "CNN International Interview of H.H. Shaikh Salman Bin Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain", "utt": ["Today, we have seen the army pull off the streets, the police pull off the streets, the protestors get to Pearl Roundabout. What's happened? This seems like a reversal.", "What has happened is that we have, under the leadership of His Majesty, decided that the best way to handle this situation without any further loss of life or injuries is through dialogue.", "Who are you engaging with dialogue now?", "All political parties in the country deserve a voice at the table. His Majesty, last night, issued a decree charging me with leading that dialogue. And my role has been to diffuse the situation, to reach out to all of the political parties and to make sure that trust is built between all sides. So what happened today was a first step in building that trust. I think there's a lot of anger, there's a lot of sadness. And on that note, I would like to extend my condolences to all of the families who lost loved ones and all of those who have been injured. We are terribly sorry and this is a terrible tragedy for our nation.", "Yesterday, people saw the pictures of a group of men walking towards the roundabout with their hands in the air saying, \"Peace, peace, peace.\" There was a volley of shots and a number of them were seen immediately afterwards on the ground, one apparently -- at least apparently dead. What happened? Who is responsible?", "Well, nobody has died yet from that, but one is very, very, very critically ill. It was a terrible tragedy. When I heard that news, I hopped into my car and drove straight to the TV station and spoke to the nation and appealed for calm. How that happened will have to be discussed and studied and understood. There is a lot of tension on the streets. The net effect, of course, has been making our job much harder. But what we must do is extend our hand to all of those who would like to reach out across the aisle to one another from all sects, from all political ideologies and say enough. This is not the Bahrain I know. I never thought I'd see the day that something like that would happen.", "Has there ever been a moment so tense and dangerous in Bahrain's history as today?", "I don't know what the soldiers in Northern Ireland felt or Ohio (sic) State in America, but this is our tragedy and we will have to commemorate it some way.", "And now the protestors are back in Pearl Roundabout. What will happen? Will they be allowed to stay there?", "Absolutely. We are working to get them to a safe place. Our big fear -- the protestors in Pearl Roundabout represent a significant proportion of our society and our political belief, but there are other forces at work here. This is not Egypt and this not Tunisia. And what we don't want to do, like in Northern Ireland, is descend into militia warfare or sectarianism. It is our role to build enough trust with the moderates in the country that we can transcend this problem in any future roles (ph).", "The reforms that the people are calling for, reforms that will bring, they say, equality, better housing, better jobs, can you guarantee at this stage that these are going to be on the table and are achievable for all these people?", "Absolutely. And because all of us will be involved in making them happen, I'm not going to exclude anyone from the process of rebuilding our national identity. We almost lost our soul yesterday. It was a very difficult day.", "And to the people who say reforms were started ten years ago and we saw nothing, how can we trust the -- the government now?", "Well, I mean, nothing is a far cry from what was achieved. People wouldn't have been able to have conversations about political issues ten years ago, there were no political societies -- societies ten years ago. There was no Social Security guarantees, there was -- I mean, massive -- there was no vibrant press as there is now, there was no Internet freedom, although I could argue that needs more. But what is certainly the case is it wasn't enough and we need to do more and I pledge myself to that task to the best of my ability. END"], "speaker": ["NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "H.H. SHAIKH SALMAN BIN HAMAD BIN ISA AL-KHALIFA, CROWN PRINCE OF BAHRAIN", "ROBERTSON", "AL-KHALIFA", "ROBERTSON", "AL-KHALIFA", "ROBERTSON", "AL-KHALIFA", "ROBERTSON", "AL-KHALIFA", "ROBERTSON", "AL-KHALIFA", "ROBERTSON", "AL-KHALIFA"]}
{"id": "CNN-239255", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2014-09-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/19/cg.02.html", "summary": "Alibaba IPO: Bigger Than Google And Facebook", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. The Money Lead now. It is the biggest company that maybe you never heard of and it just made history. Alibaba, the Chinese mash-up of Amazon and eBay hit the New York Stock Exchange trading floor just before noon today. Shares soared, nearly $30 above the IPO price, which was bigger than Google and Facebook's debut prices combined. The company is a relative unknown outside of Silicon Valley and Wall Street cirles. It was started by former school teacher, Jack Ma, more than a decade ago. Finally, long lines and the stench of technological superiority in the air, must be iPhone release day. Today's release of the iPhone 6 conjured up familiar images, long lines snaking around city blocks, rabid fans. One of the folks to get a first bite at Apple's new phone almost had his day ruined when he fumbled the newer, sleeker, model on live television. Don't worry, the phone survived. Apple's website went down and Apple stores couldn't handle all the orders. But despite those difficulties, industry leaders expect Apple to best its last phone debut and move well more than 9 million phones. Make sure to follow me on Twitter @jaketapper and also @theleadcnn. Check out our show page for video, blogs, extras. You can also subscribe to our magazine on \"Flipboard.\" That's it for THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. Have a great weekend. I now turn you over now to Wolf Blitzer. He is right next door to me in \"THE SITUATION ROOM\" -- Wolf.", "Jake, thanks very much."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN SITUATION ROOM HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-276485", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2016-02-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/13/ndaysat.02.html", "summary": "Jeb Bush Looks For Boost from His Brother in S.C.", "utt": ["Guess who you're going to get to see again? George W. Bush on the campaign trail. The former president is making his debut in support of his brother Jeb. It happens Monday in South Carolina. This is the first time the two brothers have campaigned together after coming fourth in New Hampshire, of course. It's a critical week for Jeb Bush. Our Athena Jones looks at how his big brother could offer a bit of a boost.", "I know Jeb.", "George W. Bush is back.", "Experience and judgment count in the Oval Office. Jeb Bush is a leader who will keep our country safe. He respects the military, he honors their families.", "And Jeb Bush couldn't be happier about it.", "He's the last Republican that was president. He's the most popular Republican alive. I'm a proud brother of George W. Bush.", "Bush, whose campaign logo doesn't even include his famous last name and who begin his run as, quote, \"his own man\", has been embracing his family more with each passing day.", "I'm Jeb, exclamation point. Proud to be a Bush.", "His mother Barbara Bush joining him on the stump in New Hampshire. The brothers will be campaigning together for the first time Monday. Until now, W. has been helping out behind the scenes.", "This is the first time he's really kind of stepped out in the political realm since he was president. I think there'd be a lot of interest in what he has to say.", "It was once thought that the younger brother had the head for politics but his older brother beat him there, winning a governorship first, and later, the White House.", "I, George Walker Bush, do solemnly swear --", "Eight years during which Jeb Bush has said he never disagreed with his brother on policy.", "Not one time did you call up and say, you know what, don't do that?", "I'm not going to start now. It's just -- till death do us part.", "The assist from W. won't come without criticism.", "Your brother and your brother's administration gave us Barack Obama, because it was a disaster those last three months that Abraham Lincoln couldn't have been elected.", "You know what? As it relates to my brother, there's one thing I know for sure, he kept us safe.", "Donald Trump has repeatedly bashed the elder brother's decision to go to war in Iraq, and the GOP front-runner says he'll be ready with some more choice words for the Bushes in the coming days.", "Now, he's bringing in his brother. I won't say anything. I'm going to save that for after his brother makes his statement, because there's plenty to say about what happened.", "Athena Jones, CNN, Washington.", "All right. Let's bring back, CNN political commentator, Errol Louis, Justin Sayfie, Republican strategist and Bush supporter and Barry Bennett, former campaign manager for Dr. Ben Carson. Justin, I want to start with you. Former President Bush will be on the trails at the start of the week. What do you expect his role will be beyond, you know, supporting his brother, especially on national defense? Will he go after any of the opponents directly?", "I don't expect him to do that. I expect George Bush to talk about what he -- the man he knows to be his brother Jeb Bush. As was mentioned in that opening piece there, George Bush is very popular in South Carolina. I think it's very risky for Donald Trump to start attacking as he did Barbara Bush last week and now if he's going start attacking George Bush. Look, Jeb Bush is his own man, he has his own record. He was an incredibly successful governor in the largest swing state in Florida. His record speaks for itself. He's a member of the Bush family. His brother is going to come campaign for him there in South Carolina. I don't expect George Bush to be attacking other Republicans. I expect to see him talking about the man that he knows Jeb Bush to be.", "Errol, I was at a Venus Restaurant, a Bush event in Florence, South Carolina. There was a man who heaped the Bush love and praised the family and Jeb Bush but then said he was a Trump supporter because he was tired of Republican politicians coming cycle after cycle saying the same thing and doing nothing. Is the love in South Carolina strong enough for the Bushes that it outweighs that sentiment that we're seeing not just in South Carolina but in all the states of the cycle?", "Barry, before winning the nomination, you've got Rubio, you've got Kasich, you've got Bush who are trying to win this primary within the primary, the more traditional, the establishment vote. Is there a front runner in that lane now?", "You know, I don't think there is. I think they're all kind of bunched together every time we have what we think is a front runner in that lane, something happens. I mean, Marco Rubio came out of Iowa as the front- runner. Kasich comes out as the front-runner and I don't know what will happen here.", "So, Barry, what are you looking for tonight?", "In the debate, I mean, you know, look, this is the eighth or ninth. I don't know. I'm losing count.", "Ninth.", "I think the very deaf information of insanity is to do the same thing and expect a different outcome. So, I don't think there's going to be much movement coming out of the debate tonight. You know, the vote here in South Carolina is surprisingly settled. The public polling that I've seen recently, the undecided vote is very small. It's not like New Hampshire where there's a lot of breaking at the end. It's going to be a turnout game, it's going to be a ground game, and, you know, you've got to love where Donald Trump is living right now. He had 13,000 in Baton Rouge the other night, 11,000 in Tampa, over 100,000 people in South Carolina have come to a Trump rally. He's doing something right.", "Justin, Governor Bush has -- who is that trying to jump in there? Was that you, Errol?", "That's right, Victor.", "Go ahead, Justin. Go ahead.", "I just wanted to say, look. We saw what happened to Marco Rubio after that last debate. And four years ago, Newt Gingrich won the CNN debate and ended up winning the South Carolina primaries. So, I don't want to set expectations too high for the debate tonight, but we have seen both four years ago in South Carolina and last week in New Hampshire, the debates can be impactful.", "So, what does Governor Bush have to do tonight?", "Well, I think Governor Bush needs to continue to talk about his record, talk about his vision for the future. He has the most extensive policy plans on his website, Jeb2016.com, and he needs to take on Donald Trump and show that he's -- and show Donald Trump for what he is. I think that's what you're going to see, because you can't win the nomination unless you're willing to take on the front- runner.", "Well, you're certainly going have some incoming from Senator Rubio who said this week that your candidate, Governor Bush, doesn't have any foreign policy experience.", "Yes. Well, that's interesting to come from Marco Rubio who's been in Washington. And, look, Governor Bush has assembled a terrific panel of foreign policy experts, and his plan that he gave at the Reagan library to defeat ISIS, I'll put up against other over candidates plan to defeat is. Let's let the voters look at the plans they have to address foreign policy challenges like defeating", "Justin Sayfie, Barry Bennett, Errol Louis, thank you all. We are counting down the hours until the, we're keeping track, ninth GOP debate tonight in Greenville, South Carolina.", "Thank you.", "Thanks, Victor.", "It's not going to look like anything we receive before because we have whittled down candidates here.", "Yes.", "All right. Diplomats working to secure a ceasefire in Syria today. Will it be too late to help the folks in Aleppo? We have a live report on the site of those talks. Also, he wrote all those songs on an album while he was grieving the loss of his daughter. She died at Sandy Hook elementary. Well, Monday, Jimmy Green, could be a Grammy winner. We're talking to him in just a moment."], "speaker": ["CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT", "ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "G.W. BUSH", "JONES", "JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "JONES", "J. BUSH", "JONES", "J. BUSH", "JONES", "G.W. BUSH", "JONES", "INTERVIEWER", "J. BUSH", "JONES", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "J. 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{"id": "CNN-91286", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2005-1-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/11/lol.05.html", "summary": "Interview With Senator Joseph Lieberman", "utt": ["A U.S. appeals court judge who served as Republican counsel in the Whitewater investigation is President Bush's nominee for homeland security secretary. Mr. Bush today announced his pick of Judge Michael Chertoff to replace Tom Ridge, who is bowing out. Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman helped write legislation creating the Homeland Security Department. He is the senior Democrat on the committee that oversees that department. He joins us from Hartford, Connecticut. Good to have you with us, Senator.", "Good to be with you, Miles. Thank you.", "A surprising choice, wasn't it?", "It was surprising in the most literal sense that nobody mentioned Judge Chertoff as a possibility, so I was surprised. I know him somewhat. I respect him. He's very widely respected as a lawyer, law enforcer and now for a short time as a judge. And I think what the committee will want to judge is his suitability to manage a department of this size, because he hasn't had a lot of administrative experience in his past that I know of, but that doesn't mean he's not very qualified for this job.", "Well, sometimes resumes can be misleading in some ways. And there could be talents that don't show up there, but you're right. It's not like when you get a governor, somebody who has been a chief executive of something as difficult to manage as a large state. It's a little different than being a sharp legal mind. His resume almost reads like somebody who could be an attorney general or a Supreme Court justice.", "Yes, it does. I will say, though, in fairness two things. One is that being the assistant attorney general of the criminal division involves significant administrative responsibility over all of the U.S. attorneys and others that serve under him. Secondly, the Mike Chertoff I know is not only very smart; he's very tough. And this department, which I was proud to play a part in helping to create, has been gotten up and running under Tom Ridge, and he's begun to bring it together. But I think Tom Ridge would be the first to say it still has significant management challenges ahead. And Mike Chertoff is going to have to take over and continue the unification of these diverse agencies, fight for enough money to fund the programs, and just do a good job at protecting the American people from terrorism here at home.", "Yes, I think it would be very hard to weave together a coherent management style for this cobbled-together patchwork. He said today -- this is Judge Chertoff -- said: \"Tom Ridge leaves some very big shoes to fill. If confirmed, I pledge to devote all my energy to promoting homeland security and all our fundamental liberties.\" We'll take that at face value for now, but that's a tightrope to walk, isn't it?", "It is, but that's been the American way. Throughout our history, there's been, at times of war particularly, a tension between security and liberty, but ultimately America is about liberty. That's what defines us. And I appreciate that Judge Chertoff said that in coming in to this office. This office is really about raising our guard and developing a homeland security strategy. There are still areas of our infrastructure that we just haven't had the time, the department hasn't, to adequately protect the telecommunications, our ports, some of the nonaviation transportation sectors. And I hope that he'll really focus on that, because, unfortunately, we're up against an enemy that will strike at the vulnerable. And, in an open society, there's a lot that's vulnerable.", "Final thought here. Do you expect he'll run into much trouble as he faces confirmation on the Hill? He does have a link to the Whitewater investigation, of course, and there's probably some lingering aftertaste among some Democrats about that.", "I'm sure that's true, but I will say on his behalf that he's been through three Senate confirmations, I believe all three of them since then, one as a U.S. attorney, another as the assistant attorney general of the criminal division, and then third as a circuit Judge. So, I think any of the lingering concern about how he conducted himself in the Whitewater investigation, frankly, has been dealt with. And people are going to move on and I think focus on his suitability for this particular position. The Congress, the Senate, as part of its advice-and-consent authority, I think usually defers to the president and gives the nominee the benefit of the doubt. So, I think we'll ask some tough questions, but my guess is that this nominee is off to a successful confirmation. And then I look forward, as everybody will, I'm sure, to working with him to improve our homeland security.", "Senator Joe Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, good to have you with us today.", "Thank you Miles. Good to be with you.", "You're welcome.", "Have a good day.", "Betty.", "Well, the trading day is drawing to a close. We'll get a final check of the markets right after this break. Then, you would think people living in Alaska can handle the cold weather, but this may be too much for anyone. It's well below zero and one village just lost its own source of power. That story is coming up."], "speaker": ["O'BRIEN", "SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (D), CONNECTICUT", "O'BRIEN", "LIEBERMAN", "O'BRIEN", "LIEBERMAN", "O'BRIEN", "LIEBERMAN", "O'BRIEN", "LIEBERMAN", "O'BRIEN", "LIEBERMAN", "O'BRIEN", "LIEBERMAN", "O'BRIEN", "NGUYEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-10908", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-6-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/28/mn.02.html", "summary": "Kobliner: Small Investors Should 'Shut Their Eyes'", "utt": ["Making the most of your money always important. We know that and we can all use good advice about our personal finances. Our guest today has been writing and speaking on personal finances for more than 10 years now. Beth Kobliner, author of the best seller \"Get a Financial Life.\" I wish I could. Good morning to you, Beth. Nice to see you in Atlanta.", "Good morning. Nice to see you. Great to be here.", "What do you tell small investors who are on this Fed watch, who are checking their 401(k), watching their portfolio, their stocks and mutual funds? what advice do you have for them who are waiting for a decision such as we have seen here with the Fed.", "Well, I would say, for the vast majority of small investors, they should shut their eyes, turn off their television, except for CNN of course, put down their papers, and not pay attention to this. Look, people should be having, particularly for their 401(k) money, this long-term money, money that they should have in a diversified portfolio of stocks, and not pay attention to the blips, ups and downs. This is concern for the day traders, and it is concern for people who are shopping for a mortgage because they are see whether their interest rates go up. But otherwise, I say people shouldn't pay attention to it.", "Easier said than done, huh? If you listen to Alan Greenspan talk, he gives a lot of attention to the employment report. That's due out next Friday, is this a bigger indicator next week than what we are watching today with the Fed meeting?", "I think that's one, certainly, a big indicator. But the Fed looks at so many different parameters. You know, they are looking at unemployment, they are looking at the economy, the growth, the productivity. So I think that's one area that is certainly to watch. But again, for small investors, I think we have to step back, take a deep breath, and figure out what we are doing with our portfolios, not watching the minute by minute changes of the Fed.", "Six straight rate increases from the Fed, do we know if the it is working?", "Well, it is hard to say. You know, inflation is still pretty low, and there are concerns about what it is going to be -- mean long term. I think we don't know. I think we are watching and people are very anxious today, and will be in terms of the numbers coming out.", "All right, it is 9:20 a.m. on the East Coast, five hours away, 2:15 Eastern time. Beth Kobliner, thanks again.", "Great to see you.", "\"Get a Financial Life.\" We certainly will. Again, the Fed announcement 2:15 later today Eastern time. We have live coverage when it all shakes down then. Beth, again, thanks."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "BETH KOBLINER, FINANCIAL JOURNALIST", "HEMMER", "KOBLINER", "HEMMER", "KOBLINER", "HEMMER", "KOBLINER", "HEMMER", "KOBLINER", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-413734", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-10-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/19/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Trump Calls for Reopening Wisconsin", "utt": ["Of just 10 states that reported their highest single day case count on Friday.", "And yet the president still holding a campaign rally there. Just the kinds of events, crowded, no social distancing, very few masks, that doctors say are dangerous, help spread the virus. Dr. Paul Casey is medical director at Bellin Health Emergency Department in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Doctor, good to have you on the program again. More than half -- I mean this figure really caught my attention here. More than half of all positive coronavirus tests, infections in Wisconsin, have been reported since September 1st, just in the last two months, less than two months. You heard the president. I just want to quote him for our viewers. Here's what he said about the outbreak. Have a listen.", "We're rounding the corner. You'll see it. We're rounding the corner. But you've got to open up. You got to go open up. You've got to get the place going.", "Are you rounding the corner in Wisconsin and do you agree the answer to what you're seeing there now is simply to open up?", "Absolutely not. We are not rounding the corner. Over the last 30 days we've seen an alarming rise in the number of coronavirus cases. On Friday, as you mentioned, we had the highest single day count of 3,800 new coronavirus cases in our state. We know that 6 percent of those patients will ultimately need to be admitted. So that's just from one day. So in two weeks, when people typically need to be admitted, we're going to have 228 patients across the state who are going to need to be admitted. We are not seeing -- we're not rounding the coroner in this area.", "This will seem like a dumb question to you maybe, but if I'm wondering it, I think other people might be wondering it. When you look at Wisconsin and they are battling the worst coronavirus outbreak in America right now, at least as of Friday, there was a reporting glitch over the weekend where we don't have their weekend numbers. Why -- why in Wisconsin? Why now?", "So there are several reasons. One -- unfortunately, there's an alarming lack of understanding about this disease. And, unfortunately, a lot of people still think it's a hoax. So 50 percent of the population refuses to wear a mask and we know the current wave is being spread in small family gatherings, lunches with friends, that type of thing. So the biggest thing we're battling is people just understanding that this is a deadly disease and you can catch it very easily. It's highly contagious. That's the biggest thing we're battling right now.", "And as I understand --", "Oh, Jim, I was just going to say, as I understand it, reading this weekend, the Republican lawmaker -- there are Republican lawmakers in the state that are still backing a lawsuit fighting the mask mandate, Jim. I just thought, given what we just heard, that was shocking.", "No, it's just amazing that months in, you know, you still have to battle for people to accept the facts of this.", "Yes. Yes.", "Dr. Casey, I've been asking folks, because we try to look ahead here, right, I mean because the sad fact of the current situation we're in, I mean it's -- it's not -- the president's not going to change his rhetoric it seems and the numbers are rising. What would you recommend on November 4th to either a newly re-elected President Trump or a new president-elect in Joe Biden that's necessary for Wisconsin to get a handle on this?", "Jim, it's not only Wisconsin. We need a unified national response to the worst global pandemic we've seen since 1917-1918. Part of the problem has been that we have not had a uniformed response. States have been disorganized. The federal government has been disorganized, leave it to local public health departments to battle for their communities. So it would be wonderful if we could have a unified national response to the worst health crisis we've seen in over 100 years.", "Yes.", "Yes. What about the field hospital? I mean we were reporting last week that you guys were setting up a field hospital on the state fairgrounds. And you've talked about, you know, beds being placed in the hallways of other hospitals to handle the load.", "So the field hospital is set up to take care of COVID patients when hospitals become overwhelmed. We have not yet reached that point in our hospital. We look at our daily census, though, and identify patients who might be candidates to go to that hospital. A couple problems with the field hospital. The first is it's 120 miles away. We are facing difficulties with transportation by ambulances. We had a patient yesterday who needed transportation to Frater (ph) Medical Center down in Milwaukee for a different reason and we were struggling to find an ambulance to take that patient. They were estimating it would take five hours until they could come and pick that patient up and take that patient to Milwaukee. So that's going to be a challenge as well. The other problem with the field hospital is they -- really they can't take the sickest patients. Patients have to be ambulatory. They have to be able to check their own blood glucose. They can't do all the fancy treatments we do in the hospital. So although the bed capacity is helpful, it's somewhat limited in the services they can provide there. So we will use that if we need to as a last resort, but there's some difficulties with the field hospital.", "We've got another holiday coming up and the data is very clear that holiday weekends over the summer, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, people traveled more, and infection rates went up. Thanksgiving. What do folks need to know going into this holiday? What would you recommend they do and don't do?", "So family gatherings, as I've mentioned, are currently the biggest thing we're seeing as vectors of infection for COVID-19. So, I mean, Thanksgiving is an American tradition. We all look forward to it. This year is different. And people just need to understand, if you get together with 20 people who don't live in your household, there's a very good chance that one of those people who does not have COVID symptoms may be infectious and several people in that gathering could get infected. And the stats are rather staggering. Currently we're seeing a lot of elderly people admitted. We know that one in three patients above the age of 70 who contract COVID will need to be admitted. And then one in three of those patients who do get admitted will die over the age of 70. So those are pretty staggering statistics in my mind. So I urge families to think long and hard about holding personal gatherings around Thanksgiving because there's medical risk to that.", "Well, Dr. Casey, we appreciate you giving the unvarnished advice there. Thanks so much for joining, as always.", "You're welcome.", "A growing number of Republicans are quietly, just a small number, quietly edging away from the president a couple weeks before the election amid fears that he might lose. Perspective from inside the president's party and Capitol Hill, next."], "speaker": ["POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SCIUTTO", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-391913", "program": "HALA GORANI TONIGHT", "date": "2020-02-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/05/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Businesses Facing Huge Losses As China Fights Virus; Cathay Pacific Asks Employees To Take Unpaid Leave", "utt": ["I want to return now to the other major international story we're following, the global fight against coronavirus. While the lives lost and people sick are the major headline in the virus story, it's also having a significant impact on the lives of ordinary people, because it's having a significant impact on the global economy. The parent company behind luxury brands like Versace and Jimmy Choo, says it's closed about two-thirds of its stores in China and obviously employees who work in those stores are affected. The ones that remain open are barely doing any business at all. It expects to lose more than $100 million of Chinese business this quarter. Disney says its parks in Shanghai and Hong Kong could remain closed for at least two months. Imagine all the employees there and the families they support. The shutdowns that could cost the company $175 million will also impact ordinary people in that part of the world. And Hong Kong airline, Cathay Pacific, is asking its 27,000 employees to take three weeks of unpaid leave in coming months. Cathay has cancelled 90 percent of its flights to Mainland China. Let's get more on how this is all impacting the global economy. Our business correspondent, Clare Sebastian, is there. So talk to us -- with us in New York. Talk to us about these brands. Because China is really a big driving force in terms of these luxury brands, profits, their revenue. There's this new emerging middleclass there. There's Chinese people with money now to spend on these big luxury brands. And if that side of the business is suffering, it's really going to hurt them a lot.", "Yes, Hala. Many of these businesses have actually been expanding in China only now to see this stoppage. Capri Holdings, which as you say, is the owner of Versace, Jimmy Choo, Michael Kors, all very popular brands in China, they say that 150 of their 225 stores in the country are still closed. And as you mentioned, seeing much reduced traffic at the other ones. Those 225, by the way, that's about 17 percent of their global store base. So this is not an insignificant part of their business. And they are saying that revenue for the full year and for this quarter will be lower. Store closures, Hala, also affecting brands like Nike, like Adidas, also heavily dependent on China. And there's a sort of double whammy for some of these companies. Nike, for example, produces about a quarter of what they sell in China. So we are seeing supply chain impacts as well. That's impacting companies like Airbus which has a final assembly plant in Tianjin, which is also closed. Hyundai, the South Korean carmaker is suspending some of its production lines because of disruption to supply of parts from China. So this is rippling through a whole variety of different businesses and big multinational companies having to make difficult announcements to the market.", "And, Clare, Cathay Pacific asking its employees to take unpaid leave. How is that going to work?", "Yes. That's sort of the first of its kind of announcement that we've heard where personnel are being directly impacted, Hala. They are being asked, all of the 27,000 employees of Cathay Pacific have been asked to take three weeks of unpaid leave between March and June of this year. So they won't all be taking it at the same time. Cathay says it has to try to preserve cash as this crisis unfolds. The last time they did this was in 2009 after the global financial crisis. They also did it during the SARS outbreak in 2003. And don't forget, Cathay is already struggling and it's already decided to cut capacity this year after they were impacted to quite some degree by the pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong last year. So a very difficult time for that company.", "All right. Difficult for the employees. I guess the only very small silver lining is they're not layoffs. This is unpaid leave. So hopefully they'll be able to get back to work and make a living very soon. Thanks very much, Clare Sebastian. Still ahead, a first lady accused of murder. We have the story that captivated Lesotho. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["GORANI", "CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "GORANI", "SEBASTIAN", "GORANI"]}
{"id": "CNN-362458", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-02-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/19/es.03.html", "summary": "16 States Sue to Block National Emergency; Pragmatic Klobuchar Makes Pitch for Democratic Nomination", "utt": ["Sixteen states sue to stop the president's national emergency declaration. From coast to coast, Presidents Day protests against this president's border move.", "The actual legislation you do, we know there's going to be compromises. I am not for free four-year college for all, no.", "Senator Amy Klobuchar is willing to say no. It may anger progressives but can it win over centrist Democrats?", "Plus, screen time for infants has more than doubled. But what device they're watching may surprise you.", "Just a year after walking off the job, West Virginia teachers hit the picket lines again. Why the union says it had no other choice. All right. Good morning, and welcome to EARLY START, everyone. I'm Christine Romans.", "Presidents Day's protest -- that was a tough one.", "I'm sorry, I put that in, I read it and I'm sorry.", "Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Boris Sanchez, in for Dave Briggs. It's Tuesday, February 19th, 5:00 on the East Coast. And we begin with the escalating challenges to President Trump's national emergency declaration. Protesters took to the streets coast to coast Monday, rallying against the plan to use billions from federal programs mostly from the Department of Defense to build his border wall. And last night, 16 states filed a lawsuit seeking to block the emergency declaration.", "Led by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, the states argue the president is using the pretext of a manufactured crisis.", "Well, it's pretty clear that the president is trying to usurp Congress' authority. The president does not have the power of the purse. The president can't decide to shuffle money around once Congress has allocated it. That's only for Congress to do. Otherwise, presidents for the last 240 years would have been doing the same thing, when they don't like where Congress puts the money. Simply because Donald Trump fabricated a crisis and called it a national emergency doesn't mean that he can violate the separation of powers of the Constitution.", "The suit specifically addresses this remark by the president on Friday where he all but admitted the situation at the border is not exactly an emergency.", "On the wall, they skimped, so I did -- I was successful in that sense, but I wanted to do it faster. I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this, but I'd rather do it much faster.", "This is the latest in a wave of expected litigation, though fighting it in court will likely be difficult and time consuming. The president has broad discretion over what constitutes a national emergency.", "And challenges are also expected from Capitol Hill. A resolution of disapproval to block the emergency declaration is expected in the House, it could even pass the Senate, though if the resolution passes the president is expected to veto it. There's also still no word from the pentagon on an important detail, exactly what military funding sources are going to be diverted to build the wall.", "All right. Amy Klobuchar is making her pitch as a pragmatist in the 2020 Democratic field. The Minnesota senator appeared in a live CNN town hall in New Hampshire last night on topics for Medicare- for-All, to a Green New Deal, to free college. Klobuchar separated herself from her party's progressives offering no sugarcoated promises. Instead, she struck a practical tone.", "What's your reservation about supporting Medicare-for-All?", "Well, I think it's something that we can look to for the future, but I want to get action now. And I think the best way we do is something we actually wanted to do back when we were looking at the Affordable Care Act and we were stopped was trying to get a public option in there.", "When you were asked about the Green New Deal, you were quoted as saying it's an aspiration.", "The actual legislation you do, we know there's going to be compromises. It's not going to be exactly like that.", "Would you be to say to my generation and end the student debt crisis by supporting free college for all?", "My idea is to make it easier to refinance, to start with your two-year degrees, the community colleges being free. I am not for free four-year college for all, no. If I was a magic genie and could give that to everyone and we could afford it, I would.", "She got several rounds of applause. That kid looked disappointed, though. Senator Klobuchar was also asked to respond to allegations that she mistreats her staff.", "Am I tough a boss sometimes? Yes. Have I pushed people too hard? Yes. But I have kept expectations for myself that are very high. I've asked my staff to meet those same expectations. And that the big point for me is I want the country to meet high expectations. We don't have going now.", "Not the first time she has had to address this. I cannot recall any other candidate, male candidate, ever having been asked about what kind of a boss he is.", "Especially one who is so renowned for his ability to fire people in a boisterous way.", "No, but I'm just saying. Anyway, another Democratic contender set to release a sweeping universal child care plan today, Senator Elizabeth Warren says her idea guarantees child care from birth until the time a child enters school.", "The costs of child care are just crushing families. Families are just buckling under the weight of it. It holds people back. They decide that they can't work because they're worried about the cost of child care.", "How does she propose paying for it? From the wealth tax plan she rolled out last month, targeting Americans whose network exceeds $50 million.", "The child care proposal calls for a network of public and family run centers. Care would be free for families of incomes below 200 percent of the poverty level. That's about $51,000 for a family of four. Those earning more would pay a subsidized fee that's based on income. And get this -- all signs pointing to a big announcement today from Bernie Sanders. CBS says it has a revealing interview with the Vermont senator this morning, the big question, of course, will he run in 2020?", "Will he run? CNN has learned that the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is set to leave the Department of Justice in mid-March. Now, we previously reported that Rosenstein planned to step down after the Senate confirmed Bill Barr as attorney general. A justice official who confirmed the more precise timing disputed the idea that it had anything to do with the latest revelations from Andrew McCabe.", "Now, the former acting FBI director claims that Rosenstein suggested wearing a wire to secretly record President Trump and that he talked about a strategy for ousting the president under the 25th Amendment. Yesterday, Mr. Trump shared his feelings about McCabe and Rosenstein, saying that they were planning a very illegal act in a, quote, illegal and treasonous insurance policy. Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham says that his panel will investigate those comments from McCabe regarding the 25th Amendment.", "All right. Big questions swirling in Washington this morning, is the director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, the next top administration official to go? Long time Trump ally Chris Ruddy, the CEO of the conservative news site Newsmax, he says he spoke to the president and other officials personally this weekend at Mar-a-Lago. This was his impression.", "I think you have a classic example here where Director Coats is trying to make policy and not inform policy. I'm hearing from sources around the White House there's just general disappointment of the president with Director Coats. There's a feeling that maybe there needs to be a change of leadership in that position.", "At a hearing last month, Director Coats contradicted President Trump on U.S. intelligence involving North Korea, ISIS and more.", "Long time Trump confidant Roger Stone breaking one of his own rules, formally apologizing to the judge overseeing his criminal case over controversial Instagram posts. Now, this photo posted and then deleted from Stone's Instagram account showed Judge Amy Berman Jackson next to crosshairs mimicking the scoop of a rifle. The same photo was later posted again without the cross hairs and that was deleted as well. Stone tells CNN a volunteer who works on his social media campaign made the post. He also denied that those were actual crosshairs. He says the photos were not meant to threaten the judge. The post, though, will likely not sit well with Jackson who last week imposed a partial gag order in Stone's case.", "Yes, his motto is never apologize.", "Right.", "And that's an apology. All right. A White House source tells CNN the president views former Michigan candidate John James as the leading contender for the job of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Republican Iraq War vet lost to Senator Debbie Stabenow in November. The source says Trump sees James as a rising star and asked trusted advisers what they thought about James at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert withdrew from consideration over the job over a tax issue with a nanny whose visa did not allow her to work in the", "New overnight, a dangling rescue, crews rushing to rescue 16 people trapped on a gondola ride at SeaWorld in San Diego. Harnesses and lifeguard boats were brought in to pull the passengers to safety. An infant was among those on board along with a partially paralyzed passenger. Officials say the attraction \"Bayside Skyride\" stopped running over Mission Bay after a big gust of wind tripped a circuit breaker. Fortunately is looks like everyone is OK on the \"Bayside Skyride\". I've been riding the urge to not make a joke about David Hasselhoff this morning, but I've lost that battle so that's over with and we can move on. On a more serious news, not racist, not homophobic. Two brothers speaking out after being cleared in the alleged Jussie Smollett attack. When will the actor speak to police again?"], "speaker": ["BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "SANCHEZ", "ROMANS", "SANCHEZ", "ROMANS", "SANCHEZ", "ROMANS", "XAVIER BECERRA, CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL", "ROMANS", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ROMANS", "SANCHEZ", "ROMANS", "DON LEMON, CNN HOST", "KLOBUCHAR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KLOBUCHAR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KLOBUCHAR", "SANCHEZ", "KLOBUCHAR", "ROMANS", "SANCHEZ", "ROMANS", "SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ROMANS", "SANCHEZ", "ROMANS", "SANCHEZ", "ROMANS", "CHRIS RUDDY, NEWSMAX MEDIA CEO", "ROMANS", "SANCHEZ", "ROMANS", "SANCHEZ", "ROMANS", "U.S. SANCHEZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-52572", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-4-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0204/16/ltm.09.html", "summary": "Powell Hopes for Cease-fire Within 24 Hours", "utt": ["\"Up Front\" at this hour, Secretary of State Colin Powell says that he is making some progress in the Middle East, and that he hopes to work out some kind of cease-fire within 24 hours, although he adds it's too soon to tell exactly what can be achieved. Powell is due to meet for a third time at this hour with Ariel Sharon, and it is expected he will push for a timetable for Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank. In a phone call with President Bush yesterday, Sharon promised to withdraw from Jenin and Nablus within a week. But he did say troops will remain in Ramallah and in Bethlehem, where the Church of the Nativity is still under siege. On the other side, Palestinian negotiators are said to be working on a statement to condemn and renounce terrorism. Powell is expected to meet with Yasser Arafat again tomorrow, and one of Arafat's key aides, Marwan Barghouti accused by Israel of having links to Palestinian militias and the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade was arrested yesterday near Ramallah. CNN's Wolf Blitzer is standing by in Jerusalem to tie all of this together for us this morning -- good morning, Wolf.", "Good morning, Paula. I'm not sure I can tie it all together. This is a very, very complex, dangerous situation here, and while there are hints, very, very subtle hints of some progress, many Palestinian and Israel officials are insisting that the chances don't look very good, despite this full court press by the Bush administration and specifically the Secretary of State Colin Powell. Yesterday, I did have a chance to sit down with the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, at his residence here in Jerusalem. He promised that that withdrawal from most of the territories, recently reoccupied by Israeli military forces, would go forward and be completed with a week. And he specifically said that at the Jenin refugee camp, international observers were going in, reporters were going in, our own CNN reporter, Sheila MacVicar, will be going in today. He insists the Israeli military did nothing wrong and has nothing to hide.", "We don't have anything to hide there. It's not only that we don't have anything to hide. I think that every democracy, every army would have been very, very proud of the behavior of its soldiers. I mean, it was very heavy battles. We suffered heavy casualties there. But still, we were very careful not to harm civilians.", "There is no doubt, though, that the Palestinians are accusing the Israeli military of engaging in what they call massacres of hundreds of Palestinians. Independent analysis and confirmation of those competing allegations obviously will take some time. Now, the secretary of state has been meeting today with various Israeli and Palestinian leaders later this afternoon here in Jerusalem. He'll be meeting with the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, for a third time. But in brief comments to reporters in between some of his earlier meetings today, the secretary of state seemed a little bit more upbeat.", "We're going to have good conversations, my staff and the Palestinian side today, and I look forward to seeing the chairman tomorrow morning. I think we are making progress and look forward to furthering that progress over the next 24 hours.", "And as you pointed out, Paula, one complication, potential complication in the secretary's mission, yesterday's arrest by the Israelis of Marwan Barghouti. He is the secretary general of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. The Israelis accuse him of supporting, sponsoring and engaging in terrorist actions, including the suicide bombings of the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which is affiliated with the Fatah movement. Big headlines in all of the newspapers here in Israel today, \"Barghouti Captured,\" this headline in this morning's \"Jerusalem Post\" -- Paula.", "And when you pick up the papers here this morning stateside, Wolf, there seems to be a degree of surprise on some people's part that Colin Powell will again meet with Yasser Arafat sometime tomorrow. What is the reaction to the prospect of that meeting there?", "Well, Israeli officials are not happy about it, at least most of the Israeli officials in the government. There seems to be a significant split, though, between the Labor Party minority members led by Shimon Peres, the foreign minister, who basically is saying there is no alternative. The Israelis must deal with Yasser Arafat. At the same time, the prime minister, Ariel Sharon, and his Likud ruling party members, they hate this idea that Colin Powell continue to meet with Yasser Arafat. They think Arafat is a terrorist, and that nothing will come of any of this. It's just encouraging further terrorist actions against Israel. So there is a split within the Israel government, when it comes to this. But the secretary of state is determined to go forward. His stay here in Jerusalem, as far as we could tell, Paula, remains open- ended.", "All right. Wolf Blitzer, thanks so much for that live update -- see you a little bit later on this morning."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "ARIEL SHARON, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER", "BLITZER", "COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE", "BLITZER", "ZAHN", "BLITZER", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-61422", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2002-10-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0210/08/se.07.html", "summary": "In Knoxville, Tennessee, President Rallying Republicans, Americans", "utt": ["First, to Knoxville, Tennessee, where the president is rallying Republicans for their vote and all Americans for their support in a possible war. Let's bring in our White House correspondent Kelly Wallace. She's traveling with the president. Kelly, give us the latest.", "Well, I'm coming to you from a somewhat noisy runway here in Tennessee. I can tell you, White House officials feel very good about the reception so far to President Bush's speech. Administration officials believe the president will have overwhelming support in the Congress for that resolution, authorizing possible use of military force. Also one senior official telling me a short time ago, the administration seeing pretty good progress up at the U.N. for a tough new resolution. President Bush is expected to call the French president, Jacques Chirac, sometime on this day. The big question, how will the American people respond, because White House officials have been concerned looking at the polls, seeing diminishing support over the past few weeks for a possible military campaign -- Wolf.", "Kelly Wallace, at a noisy airport. She's traveling with the president. Thanks for that report. As you can imagine, Iraq is slamming President Bush's speech and turning the tables, calling America's leader -- quote -- \"evil\" and a terrorist. Let's get more now from inside Iraq. CNN's Baghdad bureau chief Jane Arraf. She's joining us now live from Baghdad -- Jane.", "Well, Wolf, the official Iraqi reaction -- and that is a rare thing -- is that President Bush's speech was a set of baseless accusations without a shred of evidence. Even more, they say that it's not about disarmament, it's about Palestine and Israel, a U.S. attempt to get Iraq because of its support for the Palestinian people in their struggle against Israel. Now, the Iraqi government is trying to take a bit of the attention away from the looming -- what could be a looming standoff over weapons inspectors and palace issue by some events that are leading up to a huge event in itself, something that's going to happen in about 10 days, a referendum. Now seven years ago, the Iraqi government got all of the people to get out and vote. So there was only one candidate, so they in fact ended up giving a huge show of support for President Saddam Hussein. They're planning the same thing again. And to do that, they're holding rallies. Now, this one we're going to show you was a little bit unusual. There is a usual chant at these rallies that goes with our blood and our souls, we sacrifice for you, oh Saddam. Now the people at this government organized rally were taking that literally. They actually donated their blood. That red substance that you may be seeing in that pot with the brush isn't ink, it is their blood, and it was used to paint a huge sign saying that yes to Saddam is what people say -- Wolf.", "Thank you for all of the late developments there as well. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Americans>"], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "KELLY WALLACE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "JANE ARRAF, CNN BAGHDAD BUREAU CHIEF", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-339627", "program": "CRIME AND JUSTICE WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2018-05-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/09/ptab.01.html", "summary": "Serial Killer`s Burial Site, Six Missing Girls May Be Buried In Site; Shocking Twist, Missing Husband, Gators Didn`t Eat Man, Wife Killed Him; 69-Year-Old Arthur Ream Who Is Behind Bars For Killing His Son`s Girlfriend, Who Was 13 Is Now  Suspect Of Killing Three Or Four Women", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone, I`m Ashleigh Banfield, welcome to Crime and Justice. Tonight, up to six families could get justice of their own after decades of torment. Police tearing up a Michigan farm looking for the bodies of several teenage girls, girls who went missing in the 1970s and the 1980s. CNN`s Ryan Young, has been covering their search. And the man who just may have put those women there, what do we know, Ryan?", "Ashleigh, he actually led police to this site 10 years ago when he was convicted of killing his son`s teenage girlfriend back in 1986. But now police say, this land could be a burial site for four of six other girls he killed and burying their bodies may not be all that he did to them.", "All right. Ryan, we`ll come out to you live in a moment. Also, another murder suspect is behind bars tonight, but this one is a widow, and her long dead husband is her alleged victim. For years they thought he went missing while hunting, attacked and eaten by a gator in Florida. This is not a joke. Kyle Peltz has been tracking the twists and turns on this one. Kyle, why did they arrest his wife after all these years?", "That is right. It was a surprise arrest. While she was at work. But wait until you hear who she married after her husband disappeared and how a life insurance policy might just be involved?", "Always say follow the money. All right. Kyle, we`ll check in with you on that one in a moment. Also, horrifying new details about the abuse that these two beautiful little sisters endured before their mom reportedly killed them in their sleep. Then later on the grandfather who managed to take down an armed robbery suspect on the run when the police officers themselves didn`t seem to be able to trip him up. Did a hell of a job himself. First, I want to get that crucial question to you, a crucial question I really wish, I didn`t have to ask, what is in the water in Michigan? Because that is where two different murders, already serving life in prison for killing young women, are suddenly suspected of far worse crimes. 47-year-old Jeffrey Willis is the man who killed a beautiful jogger four years ago, but now prosecutors are saying, he made a young gas station clerk disappear too just one year before. And that isn`t all. They also say he kidnapped a 16-year-old girl back in 2016. She escaped, being locked in his van after she`d been held at gunpoint. And good thing she did, because Police say inside that sinister van they found syringes, Viagra, sex toys and restraining rods. And when they searched his house they reportedly found child porn and videos of women bound and being raped. But if you think that is the top story in Michigan tonight, you would be wrong. Jeffrey Willis`s story pales in comparison to the tale of 69-year-old Arthur Ream. Ream is the man who tricked his son`s 13-year-old girlfriend into meeting him at a Dairy Queen, but then killed her and buried her body out in the woods. That happened back in 1986. And that child was Cindy Zarzycki. It would take almost two decades to convict him. And when they did, Ream was already serving a 15 year sentence for molesting a child, of course. And the only thing is, they let him out of prison, not for freedom. Instead, to lead detectives to Cindy`s grave site. And it is at that same grave site, in a private field, north of Detroit, where the FBI has now come in and is searching for between four to six other girls, other girls who went missing as teenagers at the same time Cindy did, back in the `70s and the `80s. Authorities think that Arthur Ream killed those girls too.", "I was the last person to see Kim alive before she disappeared, and I know that something horrible happened to her that night. She never, ever would have left her sisters and her grandmother worrying about her. Never in my mind did I ever believe that she ran away. Not for one second.", "And today, thanks to information from the suspect himself, along with some information from his fellow inmates, apparently he likes to talk with, the investigators have dug up something promising.", "What have you found? Have you found anything on this land?", "Yes. But I`m not going to comment on what we found. But what we did found -- what we have found -- makes us very cautiously optimistic.", "Something has been found, but not remains? Is that what you were saying?", "True, yes.", "You found something to connect this land to the girls?", "Joining me now, CNN national correspondent, Ryan Young, also on the phone, Tim Kohler, he is the former attorney for Arthur Ream. Joseph Scott Morgan is with me as well. He is a certified death investigator, he is also a professor of forensics at Jacksonville State University. That will come in handy, considering the age of these corpses, if these corpses turn up, and defense attorney, Troy Slaten is with me as well. First to you, Ryan Young, and to the news that is breaking today of dozens of detectives out in a very lonely, overgrown field that is now more of a forest, searching acres and acres and acres for children who`ve been dead for years. Take me there and tell me what`s happening at this moment.", "Ashleigh, when you think about this tough moments in Michigan, as family and friends stood by for a third day hoping that after nearly 40 years, they will find answers. This is FBI, multiple police agencies, continued to dig through the area. Of course, about 30 miles north of Detroit, they`re systematically searching for those six girls ranging in age from 12 to 16. Now, of course, Arthur Ream is currently serving a life sentence after being convicted of first degree murder in 2008 of 13-year-old Cindy Zarzycki, who disappeared in 1986. Now, at the news conference, investigators were talking about how Ream was bragging to other inmates, and now because of that they`ve been able to go back out to this site, they waited for the ground to thaw just a little bit, so they could go out there and start excavating the area, and maybe find some of these remains for these young girls, whose families obviously are torn up about this, finally years later, investigators get a chance to go out there. Now, look, back in 2008 he showed them where Cindy Zarzycki`s body was. This time he is not talking. He is not helping them find these other possible six females who disappeared.", "And doesn`t that, Ryan, always fascinates me. I don`t have to tell you. You`ve covered enough of these crimes to know, it is always fascinating when a prisoner gives up some goods. It`s usually for a deal. It is usually for something in your sentencing. For this guy, not a chance though. Murder is life, no matter how you slice it. But maybe the way your life is led behind bars, because the Michigan Department of Corrections, can do a thing or two to make your life a little better. Sometimes it`s your work detail, sometimes it is who you`re housed with, and sometimes it is even where you`re housed. And maybe that is the reason he gave up that detail. But Ryan, what`s so fascinating, is these others. I want to play, if I can, for our audience, the Warren Police Commissioner, Bill Dwyer who also said there were a few other things, not just what the killer said to them or said to other inmates, a few other things about the way he conducts himself and the crimes himself that led them there. Have a listen.", "We do have general probable cause to believe that this is a grave site, no question about it, that Kimberly King and other young female victims who were murdered are buried here. The suspect in this case also did brag about murdering four to six people to the inmates where he is being housed. He did -- was interviewed several times by detectives from the Warren Police Department. He did, in fact, flunk, fail a polygraph test. We suspect there were four to six girls that could be victims here. One victim was -- that we`re looking at that possibly could be here was the young girl that was last seen at the (inaudible) in the City of Canton. And it fits the profile. It fits, you know his M.O. And that is why they`re part of this. Because looking at the relationship between the first victims that was found here by the East Point Police Department, everything that happened with these other victims fits the profile of our suspect. No relationship between the other victims in this case, but the way they were picked up, how they were picked up, where they were at. It all gels together, I mean, hitchhiking, so on and so forth, shopping, going from point a to point b.", "Ryan, you might be interested, if you already know this, our viewers may not. Today is Mr. Ream`s birthday. So I`m sure he is celebrating a little differently than the rest of us celebrate. When you`re behind bars you don`t really get the fanciest cake in town. I am curious about one thing, Ryan, I don`t even know if the public has this information. But it is so strange that Cindy Zarzycki went missing in `86, 1986. He wasn`t convicted until almost, you know, two decades later, 2008. How did it take so long, and how did they ultimately get him on this crime?", "Well, you know what`s interesting about this, prior to his conviction, Ream also served time for a child sex offense in 1975. And then again in 1998. It was when he was already in jail that you see him sitting down with an investigator. In fact, they have video of him talking to investigators where he is pretty open about where they could find this body. And then again like, I said, he drew a map and then eventually was taken out of prison to take them to the site. So you can only imagine that maybe they`re working that systematic area with those cadaver dogs that kind of work their way back. But this is because, he was bragging to those inmates. But again, he is not talking to investigators this time, not sure why after he is serving so much time anyway. And he feels comfortable bragging. In fact, one of the investigators said (inaudible) birthday.", "Like did he brag way back in `08. And that is why they got to the Cindy Zarzycki murder and got him, or did he brag now and that is why they`re going back to Cindy`s grave? It is like because he is bragging about more women being buried there. Is it a bunch of bragging, or is there something we don`t know?", "Well, you know, that is what we would love to ask investigators about that point. Obviously some of it they weren`t sharing all the way with us today, but when he was detailing the four to six other women that he may have killed, that obviously ties together with the missing women in this area. You can obviously understand why this community is shaken by these facts and the fact that he was out for a little while. I mean, the first offense in 1975, and then getting convicted again in 1998, it gives you a pattern of time where he was available to do all these crimes.", "All these sex charges too, 1975, 1998. Just really -- one of the most sinister characters when you look at his background, and now what you know he is guilty of. You know, if you`re a victim of crime, and you`re watching tonight, I don`t need to explain this to you. But to people who have never been victims of crime, this stuff doesn`t go away. When you lose someone you love, say like your sister, it never leaves you. The decades can go by, but it never leaves you. And if you need any evidence of that, Kimberly King, who just might be one of the bodies they`re digging for in that field right now, her sister Konnie had this to say about the crime her family`s lived through.", "It looks like it may bring a great deal of hope to a lot of families. So I think this is very important not just for us, but for many families.", "You know, a lot of those families will be waiting to find out if there is this kind of closure and then they will all say the same thing, closure is sort of an ephemeral thing. You can say its closure. There is no such thing as true closure for these families. If I can ask you a couple of questions, Tim Kohler, as Arthur Ream`s defense attorney, I know that you came out of the case as a quarter appointed attorney, you don`t get to choose your clients, when you are a quarter appointed attorney, but I do want to ask you as one of the only people who spent a lot of time with him, what was he like?", "Well, I didn`t spend a lot of time with him only because of the amount of discovery and the amount of preparation that I had to do. But the time that I spoke with him and was with him while he was in custody, and that was only a couple times in our preparation, because of the nature of the crime, murder, that was the single count, I knew that my defense would be reviewing facts and not so much what he was going to say, because I never anticipated him testifying. So to talk to him about it, I really didn`t do a lot. And sometimes it`s not important for me to talk to them, because I don`t want to learn what he sometimes knows, because it may affect my defense and my vigilant defense. So I didn`t spend a whole lot of time. Certainly the time that I did spend with him, he was a tough read in a sense. He really never displayed the kind of character that was really going on inside him. Sometimes his quietness, sometimes his refusal, and sometimes the way in which he answered questions of other people that I read and heard in my discovery reviews. It was a different sort of person. I think also that character trait that he had led to some of the dislike that probably rang throughout the court.", "Which character trait is that? Which character trait that did led to the dislike in the courtroom? As a jury, you know, that matters, whether you like that defendant or not, that can weigh on you when you`re choosing to take his life away from him. There`s no death penalty for him. But taking his freedom away for life, what kind of trait are you talking about?", "I think he had kind of a sinister -- and that word has been given to me. It`s not a word that I chose. But it`s a word that has been described by those who were actively involved in the case at the time, whether that they were news reporters, officers, OIC, Mac, the detective that really did the foot work that led to his being brought into the court system and being charged with these offenses.", "Did you believe him, by the way? Can I ask you, Tim, did you believe him, when he said I`ll lead you to her body, but I -- and I was there when she died, but he didn`t cop to the killing. Did you believe that he didn`t kill her after all those admissions?", "The jury said that he did. So that is important. Whether or not I believe it or not I don`t think is important, because I`m not hired to believe or disbelieve my client. I`m hired to represent him and make sure that he gets a fair and that justice is served and that his voice, whatever that may be, whether or not he actually speaks during the trial or not. Let me ask this. You asked about his -- whether or not I thought he was jumpy. In my conversations with him, I never asked him, I didn`t want to know, and he certainly never told me.", "And that makes sense. I have heard that. Listen, you`re a lawyer, you`ve got a job to do. But there`s another job that is coming. Joseph Scott Morgan, if they unearth between four to six bodies in that field, decades after they died, what can they determine in terms of critical evidence, for any kind of prosecution that may come down the pike? He is serving life, but that doesn`t mean there may not be a prosecution, it doesn`t mean they don`t at least hold that evidence. What are the chances they will get anything worthwhile, Joseph?", "Well, it`s important to understand Ashleigh that these might not be the only cases this guy is involved with. What`s curious about this is how did he go about placing them in the ground? Are they comingled, that means layered in there on top of one another, are we dealing with multiple graves? That is one of the things that the investigators are looking at right now. It`s still possible to collect evidence out of here, as well as to determine what kinds of injuries these four girls may have sustained, particularly as it involves head injuries, things like gunshot wounds, blows to the head, this sort of thing.", "And, of course, the dental records could be critical in terms of identification and DNA et cetera. I`m going to have to leave it there. But that is not to say I`m done with this story. 45 minutes from now, a little less in fact for 45 minutes now, you are going to hear from the suspect himself. Because he spoke. He said a couple of things in an interrogation room that are absolutely jaw droopingly fascinating. I am going to play that just at the top of the hour. Make sure you come back at 7:00 for our second hour. In the meantime, for 17 years, a woman named Denise Williams had been portraying the part of grieving widow, whose husband seemed to have died in a tragic hunting accident. Maybe even having been eaten by Florida alligators. But yesterday, as you can probably guess by the mug shot, all that changed."], "speaker": ["ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, HOST, HLN CRIME AND JUSTICE", "RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BANFIELD", "KYLE PELTZ, CRIME AND JUSTICE PRODUCER", "BANFIELD", "ANNIE GUNACA, WITNESS", "BANFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BANFIELD", "YOUNG", "BANFIELD", "BILL DWYER, WARREN POLICE COMMISSIONER", "BANFIELD", "YOUNG", "BANFIELD", "YOUNG", "BANFIELD", "KONNIE, VICTIM`S SISTER", "BANFIELD", "TIM KOHLER, FORMER ATTORNEY FOR ARTHUR REAM", "BANFIELD", "KOHLER", "BANFIELD", "KOHLER", "BANFIELD", "JOSEPH SCOTT MORGAN, PROFESSOR OF FORENSIC, JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-141935", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-8-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/18/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Artist Has Message about Health Care Reform; White House Press Conference on President's Remarks about Health Care", "utt": ["Robert Gibbs taking questions from reporters at the White House briefing, talking health care. Let's listen in.", "When he talks about the essentials of health care reform, OK, let's understand the principles that he's put up there, right? We have to cut costs for families and small businesses. That's essential. It has to be deficit-neutral. That's essential. What's essential is ensuring that we provide accessibility in health care reform to millions of those that don't currently have it.", "So, when you say a public option is now the president's preferred choice, has been and is his preferred choice...", "I'm not just saying that now. I'm saying I said that repeatedly. The president has said that.", "OK. So, is the public option an essential part of health reform?", "I think the president answered that on Saturday.", "Yes, so why did...", "No, no, no, no, no. How many times...", "So, why did the health secretary say no on Sunday?", "What did the president say on Saturday?", "So, it is essential. It is essential.", "No, no, no, no, no, no. Ed, Ed, Ed...", "The secretary said Sunday it's not.", "Ed, what did the president say on Sunday -- or Saturday?", "Saturday, he spoke positively about a public option but also said we could have it, we may have it, we may not have it.", "I think he used the word \"essential.\"", "I'll go back and see if he used the word \"essential.\" But why...", "You go back and look at the transcript and", "So, let's say, let's say -- I don't have the transcript, but if he did use the word \"essential\" on Saturday, why did his health secretary not use the word \"essential\" on Sunday?", "They said the same thing on Saturday as they did on Sunday. Go back and look at the transcript, Ed. I think you'll...", "Just tell me, though, why did she say it's not? You can't answer that.", "Go find the transcript, and I promise you, you'll answer your question and wonder why you were phrasing it the way you did because, no offense, Ed, you seem to have heard what the secretary said on Sunday but not what the president said on Saturday.", "I think I heard what he said.", "Well, go back and take a gander at the transcript.", "Well, Jake, in all honesty, I don't think anybody has seen a level of detail thus far that would -- that you'd be able to make a completely educated assumption on what we've seen.", "Conrad said on Sunday that the votes are not there in the Senate for the public option. Do you guys agree?", "I'd have to talk to -- I haven't talked to leg affairs on that. I think that's simply what -- that's what a lot of people have said.", "Right, but you guys count votes. You guys are involved in...", "Yes, I haven't talked to them recently about the exact vote count.", "OK, there's also a thing I wanted to read you in a letter sent last week to the White House from the National Association of Postal Supervisors. The president of that union, Ted Keating, said that his union had a, quote, \"collective disappointment, that you,\" meaning the president, \"chose the postal service as a scapegoat and an example of inefficiency.\" Does the president -- has the president seen that letter? Has he responded? Does he regret using the post office as an example of inefficiency?", "I doubt he's seen that letter, and I don't have any reason to believe he regrets it since he refuted (ph) it.", "So far, I'm 0 for 3. Let me just try one more. The ACLU in April put in a Freedom of Information Act request for information about detainees at Bagram. The Pentagon responded to the ACLU, saying, we have information. We're not going to give it to you. Does that live up to the president's promises of transparency, given that the Pentagon has released that information about Gitmo detainees?", "I saw your blog post on this, but I have not seen the letter and don't have any other information on it.", "Setting aside the issue of whether or not what was said over the weekend at all is a different policy position, what your policy position is consistently is that the public option, while being the preferred method, is not a deal-breaker for the president. And I guess my question...", "Yes. That's...", "Right? I mean, that's what we are understanding.", "That is what we have said. That's what we said in June, that's what we said in July, that's what we said...", "So, working from that premise, which we can all agree on is the stated position today...", "We can.", "That does not give much comfort to many?", "Before the AMA, the president never said it is not a deal breaker.", "Just read that (ph).", "Did the president ever tell these men in June that it was a deal breaker?", "Just read that.", "Just remember, consistency is", "Thank you for that. I'm not sure whether we should go on or not.", "Okay. Consistency aside, I guess my question is, assuming this has been a consistent position, this is the position that really bothered Democratic members of Congress. We are seeing it probably expressed more virulently than we had in the past because maybe they were unclear that this has been the administration's position all along. But what essentially the president is saying is that the public option, at the end of the day, is optional. I guess, my question is, what are you going to say to members of Congress who are threatening to walk out and say, if there is no public option, I'm not in this?", "I would say it is the preferred option.", "Does that give them a lot of comfort?", "I am not a Democratic member of Congress.", "Yes, but you're the White House, in the position to lead on this issue. It's clearly something that's important.", "Well, again, I would point you back to what the president said. Ed's got my transcript. On Saturday. The president strongly believes that we have to have, and I mentioned -- I walked through the notion of why choice and competition are so fundamentally important to this debate, right? That in a monopoly, without consumer choice, without competition among health insurance providers, you are certainly not likely to see cutting costs. You are certainly not likely to see a competition on quality. Those are the goals that the president has.", "Is it inherent in the president's position, consistent or not, is that he could envision a scenario in which he is without a public option? Many members of your party cannot...", "He cannot envision a scenario in which we live with anything that doesn't provide choice and competition in a private insurance market that allows people to get the best deal possible on both the price and quality if they enter a private health insurance market. That's what the president's bottom line is. Do we have a system that provides that choice for consumers and that competition among insurers on quality and cost.", "It's acceptable to the president but not acceptable to members of Congress in the Democratic party -- that's okay with you?", "Well, the president is focused on many different goals. Cutting costs, coverage for millions who don't have accessibility, making it deficit-neutral, which he reiterated at each of the town halls, and ensuring cost -- ensuring choice and competition. That's what's important to the president of the United States.", "Real quickly, have there been any", "No, not that I'm -- the president hasn't made any - Rahm's fishing out West. David is in Michigan. And I doubt they are...", "(OFF-MIKE)", "Have you seen this charge from Republicans on the Hill that they are asking, is he profiting from the payment he is getting from this firm? Is the firm involved in the Pharma advertisment deal...", "That's ridiculous. David has left his firm to join public service.", "That agreement that I think that was made because David started and owned the firm. He left the firm. If I'm not mistaken, he is being paid for the fact that he created it and sold it, which I think is somewhat based on the free market. Yes, ma'am.", "What message will the president be delivering to religious groups on health care tomorrow?", "He is going to talk about again, just the -- you are not going to see a difference in message. You are going to see the boring consistency of ensuring that we cut costs, ensuring that we take the steps that are necessary to relieve the burden on families and small business. Obviously, the president will talk about the importance of providing access to affordable health insurance for millions of those that currently don't have it. Boring consistency.", "... focusing on the uninsured rather than the public option?", "Well, no. The president will continue to continue to talk about what he thinks is important in health care, and it will include all of those options. Mark?", "Robert, is the White House taken aback by the $7 million pace authorized for the new CEO of AIG?", "Well, I believe this is an agreement that we will go through the process of Ken Fineberg to ensure it is consistent with his principles. Obviously, the board wants to find a CEO that is knowledgeable about insurance companies and running an insurance company and hopefully getting an ailing company that was once a successful company that somebody had the bright idea of putting a hedge fund on top of.", "AIG is the company that was 80 percent owned by taxpayers. Taxpayers who make $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 a year. So why isn't it -- why shouldn't taxpayers feel like suckers if they see the CEO of a government-owned company getting $7 million a year?", "Well, look, Mark. The board is going to make a decision. We've talked about the president -- the president has talked about, we are not micromanaging these companies. Government is not making these decisions. The board wants an insurance company CEO who can help take a company that was once successful, as I said, somebody had the bright idea of putting a hedge fund on top of it. And it's now a royal mess. I think the board wants to see some good, competent leadership that can lead the company back towards profitability and hopefully the recoupment of some of the investment the taxpayers put out in order to prevent the calamity to our economy.", "On another issue, does President Obama ever speak with either Bill or Hillary Clinton about health care and their experience?", "I don't -- obviously, the secretary of state is in the Oval Office today as part of the larger Mumbark (ph) delegation meeting. Obviously, President Clinton, as we've talked about, will be here later today. I don't know to what degree to which they've discussed health care.", "question we've asked you a couple times. You said you were going to check on it. Have you actually asked, or...?", "I haven't asked, and I will be honest with you, that I am not entirely sure that I'm not going to keep private conversations between somebody like the secretary of state or the former president between the current and former president. Yes, ma'am.", "Can you talk about whether the administration will come back in", "Yes, I saw that right before I came out here. Obviously, I think the illusion is to have the U.N. General Assembly meeting which is -- I think it's that third week in September. I think it will be an important opportunity to continue to make progress on comprehensive Middle East peace. Obviously.", "All right. Health care reform and the public option, this has been the talk of the town on the morning shows over the weekend. Of course, we have been talking about it all afternoon. Our Ed Henry just a few minutes ago, too, taking Robert Gibbs there to task about it. Take a listen at the exchange they had.", "The president, his position, the administration's position is unchanged, that we have a goal of fostering choice and competition in a private health insurance market. The president prefers the public option as a way of doing that. If others have ideas, we are open to those ideas and willing to listen to those details. That's what the president had said for months. Coincidentally, that's what the secretary of health and human services has said for months. It's what I've said for months. I think the suggestion somehow that anything that was said Saturday or Sunday has been new administration policy is just not something that I would agree with.", "There seem to be a lot of people who took it as kind of floating a trial", "Meaning the media? ED HENRY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOSUE CORRESPONDENT No. Your supporters. Supporters in Congress do read it as a change. If you look at what the president said to the AMA on June 15th, he said, quote, \"the public option is not your enemy. It is your friend.\" He is not saying that anymore.", "What do you mean?", "He is no longer proactively, forgetting about what he is leaving in or out, let's just say...", "Can I finish my question?", "No. I will finish my answer.", "OK. Go ahead.", "The president was clear in two questions that he received at the town hall meeting on Saturday about the public option. The second question, which is a man in the red shirt over on the right- hand side, asked about the public option. And then the second to last question, the guy about the debate in the second or third row right off the podium, had the same question. Let me read this to you, Ed. This is -- you will notice -- let me just read. Secretary Sebelius, July 12th, 2009. \"I think you are going to hear from senators about a variety of strategies to get to a public option. This isn't one-size, fits all. I think the president said we can have competition, the issues of competition and choice, and how to bring that into the private marketplace. There are probably a variety of strategies, all of which are on the table.\" Any guess on what network that was on?", "It was on CNN. But on Sunday, she was also on CNN...", "A very correct assumption.", "So on Sunday, she was also on CNN and said that the public option is not the essential part of health reform. She didn't say that on July 12th, or whenever you picked that out. On June 15th, to the AMA, repeatedly the president proactively said the public option was the way to go. He said --", "I just said it was the preferred option. I just said it was the preferred option.", "Why did he on Saturday say, if there is a public option or there's not. And then, the secretary on Sunday says, it's the essential part.", "No. No. The president said that on Saturday.", "He said if there is one or not one. He hadn't said that before. Well, answer that one part before you get around and around. He had not said --", "The president had said repeatedly that he's open to different ideas and discussions, that his preferred option was the public plan. He said that on Saturday. He said that on Saturday. I said that on Sunday.", "All right, so bottom line, what does the public option really mean? It's obviously got a lot of Americans stirred up. You can see there in the White House briefing, it's got a lot of journalists there stirred up. The whole conversation in general, but focusing on the issue of the public option. Tom Foreman tries to put it into perspective for us.", "If you want to understand what's really happened with this whole health reform debate, think of the insurance business as a big shopping mall. There are a bunch of private stores that sell insurance. The supporters of reform say they don't really compete a whole lot with each other. So they let the prices get higher and higher. And there are people like this who really don't go anywhere and they don't fit into insurance reform. So, the goal of reformers, many of them, is to say, let's have a government insurance office in the middle of this mall. They will be heavily funded, they'll give a place for these people to go so they will have some kind of place where they can have insurance. And because they're offering a lower cost in alternative, because they're not out to make a profit, they will force the other places to lower their prices and effectively have a sale that will benefit everyone. Now, critics of this program say that that's not what's going to happen. They say instead of having a sale, what you're actually going to have is people that are driven out of business. There will simply be not enough business once all these people start being attracted to the more cost -- less expensive government insurance. So the bottom line is, this is the fear of those who say this is a bad idea. So if this does not happen, then what do you look at? Well, one other option is an insurance cooperative system. What is that? Well, an insurance cooperative basically would take people all across the country who can't afford insurance, no matter where they are, and it would connect all of these people to each other. By connecting them, it would make it possible for these people to share the cost of their medical expenses with each other. They would essentially form a small, private insurance company that they would run with their own board of directors. It's a nonprofit so it would also create competition for existing insurance companies but possibly push the prices down. At least that's the theory. But, this is also very much up in the air as to exactly how it would work, who would be involved and what it would really cost and what the benefits might or might not be.", "Well, shutting the door on a death row appeal. 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{"id": "CNN-134994", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2009-2-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/13/lkl.01.html", "summary": "Family of Victims of Flight 3407 Speak about their Loss", "utt": ["Tonight, breaking news -- 50 people are killed in a plane crash near Buffalo, New York.", "We heard it explode and my whole room shook.", "A 9/11 widow dies in the tragedy, members of a famous dead are left dead. Portraits of the victims are beginning to emerge.", "He was a good person. Loved his family.", "Tonight, their devastated loved ones are here -- the pilot's sister, parents of the off-duty captain who was on board and friends who want to say good-bye. The investigation into the cause underway.", "They saw icing on the windshield and the leading edge of the wings.", "We've got eyewitness accounts and live reports from the scenes all right now on LARRY KING LIVE. Good evening. Lots to get to tonight. Jason Carroll, our CNN correspondent, is on the scene in Buffalo, New York. And in Shenandoah, Iowa is Shirlene Thiesfeld, the sister of the Colgan Air pilot who flew the Continental Connection Flight 3407. Marvin Renslow, who perished in that flight -- and there is his nephew, Jason Peregrine. We'll meet them both in a moment. Jason, what's -- is the general assumption, Jason, this was ice that caused this?", "Well, I think the NTSB wants to wait until they have all of the facts in order. But even so, the NTSB, Larry, still has a lot of information at their disposal. What they've been able to do is recover the cockpit voice recorder, as well as the flight data recorder, both recovered from the tail section of Flight 3407. A lot of information on the cockpit voice recorder. There's two hours of conversations that investigators are focusing on. They can hear the crew, Larry, talking about the weather, talking about the visibility, and, of course, talking about ice. At one point, the pilot looked out on the windshield and saw ice on the windshield, Larry, as well as ice on the wings -- a significant amount of ice, according to what he said. So what he was able to do is he was able to activate the deicing mechanism on the plane. And then, Larry, according to the flight data recorder, what happened next was this. The landing gear was placed down. They put the flaps down on the wing to try to slow down the aircraft. Shortly then after that, according to what we heard on the -- what was on the flight data recorder, seconds later the plane started to roll, it started to pitch and then it went down. Of course, investigators at this point on the scene -- on the ground trying to recover what they can in terms of remains. But a very difficult day for the people here.", "It crashed six miles from the airport and no mayday, right, from the crew?", "According to the air traffic control, all the information that we're getting from the conversation between air traffic control and the pilot, no cause for -- no mayday, as you say. No indication, at least from the pilots that something...", "...was terribly wrong right before an approach.", "Thanks, Jason Carroll, CNN correspondent, on the screen. Now, Shirlene Thiesfeld in Shenandoah, Iowa, the sister of the pilot, and her son, Jason who is, of course, the nephew of the late Marvin Renslow. How did you learn of this, Shirlene?", "My brother, Melvin, called this morning around 1:00 and informed us of the incident that Marvin was involved in -- that there had been an accident.", "I know this is hard, Shirlene. And we appreciate you giving us any time. Jason, were you close with your uncle?", "Yes. Yes. It had been a little bit since I talked to him, but I had to opportunity to see him just last summer and I talked to him on e-mail a little bit.", "We put up a picture of him and his family. Shirlene, is that a recent picture? Is that pretty much Marvin the way he was?", "That was pretty much Marvin the way he was. It's not a real recent photo. I'm guesstimating it's about five to 10 years old. But if you saw Marvin today, that's what Marvin looked like.", "What was he like?", "He hadn't changed much. He was a great person. He was a wonderful father. He was very involved in his church, in his community. He loved life. He loved sharing his life with his family and friends and involved them. He had a passion for flying. And he'll be -- he'll be missed.", "Were you close growing up?", "Excuse me?", "Were you close?", "Yes. Marvin was just younger than me. And growing up, you know, he was my -- my best friend, as brothers will be.", "Yes, they will. The mother of Rebecca Shaw, your brother's co-pilot, talked about her daughter today. Let's listen.", "She just loved flying anytime she could be in the air. She was an amazing woman. She came very, very far. She, you know, she was just full of energy. She'd try and do anything, was up for any experience and she just loved life.", "Do you know of any, Shirlene, funeral plans?", "No, sir. The arrangements are still pending on family decisions.", "That will be up to his wife, of course, right?", "Of course. His wife and, of course, consideration with the children.", "Where do they live, Shirlene?", "And the", "Where did -- where did Marvin live?", "Marvin and his wife, Cindy, and children lived in Lutz, Florida, close to Tampa.", "Oh, I know it well. Lutz, Florida. That's a beautiful community. Jason, it's going to be -- are you -- Jason, are you afraid of flying after this?", "Oh, no. The odds of that happening aren't really all that well -- aren't that good. You know, you have a better chance of something happening just out on the road.", "Shirlene, thanks for spending the time with us. And you, too, Jason.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Thank you. Our condolences, of course. A 9/11 widow is among the victims. She has a number of lifelong friends who want the world to know about her. That's next, as our special coverage of the plane crash near Buffalo continues.", "An extraordinary lady died on that flight. She was Beverly Eckert. Three of her friends join us now from Buffalo -- Kathleen Delaney, a very close friend of the victim. Carol Bada, who was one of her oldest friends. They met in kindergarten. And Cathy Matthews, as well. Beverly was -- how extraordinary, she became an active -- advocate for the victims after 9/11. Watch.", "It's hard to turn around and see the whole in the skyline where my husband's building used to be. If this bill doesn't pass, I don't think I'll ever -- I don't think I'll ever be able to go back there. I think I'll be too ashamed.", "All right, Kathleen Delaney, tell us about Beverly. What was she like?", "Well, I had the fortune of sitting in front of Beverly pretty much my entire high school career because we were alphabetically arranged. And she was -- she was just always a lot of fun to be around. She instigated a lot of pranks. But she was just -- she was just a wonderful person who knew her mind and -- which I think is one of the things that this high school that we attended, Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart, really, really promoted. We -- this was an all girls' school. And at the time when we were in school, it was just a good, solid place for young women who may not have had the opportunity had they been in another type of a school to develop their leadership roles.", "Carol, you go...", "Carol, you go back to kindergarten right?", "Yes, we went to grammar school together, kindergarten, high school. And we were thick as thieves right along. And we got into mischief together. And Bev was just so much fun. She had so much energy and she was very creative. People don't know that she was an excellent artist, painter and potter and just so creative. We had a lot of fun together. Very close.", "Cathy Matthews, how well did you know her?", "I knew her through the four years at Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart and some years beyond into adulthood. I saw her, you know, fairly recently, as well. I knew her as one of the bright lights in our class. She was the person who drew a lot of friends to her. And she was -- in a girls' school, sometimes it could be cliquey and different. But Bev was one of the people who was sort of an equal opportunity friend. A lot of people truly got to know her well and we think of her fondly.", "She just met with President Obama a week ago. He paid tribute to her today. Watch.", "You know, tragic events such as these remind us of the fragility of life and the value of every single day. One person who understood that well was Beverly Eckert, who was on that flight and who I met with just a few days ago. Now, you see, Beverly lost her husband on 9/11 and became a tireless advocate for those families whose lives were forever changed on that September day. And in keeping with that passionate commitment, she was on her way to Buffalo to mark what would have been her husband's birthday and launch a scholarship in his memory. So she was an inspiration to me and to so many others. And I pray that her family finds peace and comfort in the hard days ahead.", "Kathleen, are you surprised that she became the advocate she became?", "Oh, no. As a matter of fact, when I was going through some things today, I found a clipping from 1967. She won a Voice of Democracy Contest here. And I think I -- I must not have won because that's why I kept it. But I talked to Bev Wednesday night. She was coming into town for Sean's scholarship. And she was due to have had dinner at our house tonight. And I asked her about meeting Obama. And she said to -- she immediately told me, I'll tell you all about it Friday night. But she let me know that she was scanning a napkin that she had pinched from underneath his water bottle. And this morning -- this morning I had that e-mail that she had sent off to me. And there it was -- the presidential seal on a napkin. So she...", "Carol, did she...", "That was the type of -- she loved saving things.", "Carol, did she have children?", "No. She did not have children, but she had nephews and a niece. And so they were very close to her. She was the fun aunt that they all loved to be with.", "And her life had changed. She had a boyfriend now, didn't she?", "Yes, uh-huh.", "Were they planning...", "He is a wonderful guy.", "Were they planning to get married?", "Oh, not at this point, I don't think. But, you know, he's just -- he was very, you know, a very loving person to her and very understanding of the things she had to go through for what she had to do politically.", "She was trying to move on with her life as best she could while always, always revering Sean's legacy.", "Any funeral plans that you know of, ladies?", "Not at this point.", "No.", "Well, this is the hardest thing in the world, not just to lose a relative, but to lose a friend. Quickly, we have -- what will you remember the most, Kathleen?", "Oh, just -- just Bev. I mean, she's -- she was just all present. And one of the things that really struck me, especially after Sean died, was just how close she brought all of us together. She was always concerned for us. And when we were trying to make calls today, she was the one who had the phone numbers, so we were lost.", "Carol, what will you remember?", "Her boundless energy. It's just amazing. Every time I spoke with her, she was flying off one place or another, on some committee, this committee, all over. And whether it was the scholarship fund or memorials, even in her own hometown or here, it was just amazing, her energy level.", "And, Kathy, what will you remember the most?", "I'll remember her quick intellect and her creativeness and mostly I'm going to remember how steadfastly she pursued justice for the victims and the families from 9/11.", "Yes. She was an amazing woman. Thank you all, ladies. We appreciate this.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Thanks, Larry.", "Hey, a close friend of mine -- in fact, on the fifth anniversary of my radio show, he wrote original music and played songs on that show with me. He is Chuck Mangione. And two of his band members were killed on that flight. The musician is said to be devastated by the news. Jazz lovers all over the world, too. New York Governor David Paterson joins us in 60 seconds. It's exclusive. Stay with us.", "Joining us now in Albany, New York, for a few moments is Governor David Paterson, the governor of New York. What are your thoughts with a tragedy like this, especially just a few weeks after one of the joyous moments of a plane saving everybody?", "Honestly, Larry, \"the miracle on the Hudson,\" it was such a wonderful time. Some of the passengers were in shock. They couldn't believe that they had escaped tragedy. There was actually the brother of a 9/11 victim who was on the Flight 159, \"The Miracle on the Hudson.\" And everyone felt the presence of a higher being, the presence of God. And today...", "What about now?", "Well, that was interesting because we have to find the presence of God even today, amid the tragedy and the horrible feeling. I've had to talk to families, as you just have in the past few minutes. I never had to talk to 100 people who have been victimized at the same time. I found it overwhelming. But I thought maybe that the attempt today on the part of all the people from the National Transportation Safety Board and the FBI and the people from the New York State police, I mean they -- that if we were inspired to bring comfort to those families, then maybe that was maybe a small tribute that we were making to those who had lost their lives.", "Do you ever wonder why the plane was flying in conditions like that -- sleet, snow, ice? We often wonder in conditions like that why they go up.", "Well, my understanding was that it wasn't that difficult an evening, that the winds were about 15 miles an hour. There was a little bit of rain or a little snow. But I guess we'll have to wait for the investigation. I know so many times we have all sat on the runway thinking, well, just take this plane off. Let's just get out of here. And tonight is one of the reasons why we understand that sometimes that there are delays and that planes don't take off.", "The toughest part of your job is this, I would imagine?", "I would say it's the toughest part of my job, going to see the families, being part of their grief. But I would say it was amazing how gracious so many of the families were. There was one man who was going around consoling family members. And I shook his hand and I thanked him for coming. And he told me that actually his daughter was one of the victims. I'll never forget that.", "Thanks, David. We'll see you soon.", "Thank you, Larry.", "Governor David Paterson, the governor of New York. When we come back, an off duty pilot was on board that plane that crashed. His parents and sister are here right after the break.", "Joining us now in Phoenix, Arizona, is Jamie Rose, the sister of crash victim Joseph Zuffoletto. He was on off-duty captain for Colgan Air who was flying on the plane, but not piloting it. And in Bonita, California, Jim and Roselle Zuffoletto, his parents. Jim, Roselle, how did you learn what happened to your son?", "We were watching television last night, waiting for the news, when I got a call from a relative saying that there had been a plane crash in Buffalo and had I heard anything about it, did I know if Joe was on that flight? And, of course, I didn't know anything about it. And I turned on CNN and saw the pictures and the story. I called the number that they displayed on the screen and, of course, got nothing. I mean they wouldn't tell us anything. And then about two hours later I got a call from Colgan in Manassas telling us that Joe had -- had been confirmed on the manifest.", "How are you dealing with this, Roselle?", "Well, Larry, we're taking it an hour at a time -- not even a day at a time. We have lots of family and friends here with us at home, lots of phone calls, e-mails from friends and just sending us their support and prayers and a lot of tears.", "Was Joe married?", "And we're trying to remember the funny times. No.", "He was not married?", "Not married.", "Had he flown with the airlines for some time, Jim?", "He was. He was with Colgan for about three-and-a- half years. He loved it.", "Jamie, his sister, how did you hear of it?", "Well, it's also -- I was -- I'm in thick of it here in All Stars with Phoenix. And we have the NBA out here.", "The NBA All Stars, yes.", "And I happened to be staying at a hotel just due to work instead of at my house. And I was walking in the lobby and they had CNN on and I saw all of it. It had Buffalo across the screen. And I immediately called my grandmother because she -- she lives right near the airport and I was worried about her. And about 15 minutes later, it dawned on me that it was the Continental flight and it was from Newark and that it possibly even could have been piloted by my brother. So I called him and it went straight to voice mail. And I was a bit in denial because his voice mail says he's either flying or sleeping. And I chose sleeping, which wasn't true, unfortunately. And my mom, because she knew that I was so busy this week, allowed me to sleep in until about 6:30. And, you know, when you see that first at night before you go to bed and your mom calls you at 6:30 in the morning, you know what's going on.", "Yes.", "So I didn't even say hi. It was my first question, is Joe OK? And, of course, he wasn't.", "Roselle, why was he going -- why was he on that plane to Buffalo?", "Well, he was off-duty. He had completed his job at Newark and he was dead heading to Buffalo for his days off and he was going to stop and see his grandmother and then go to his apartment for the weekend and visit some friends. So he just had a seat on the plane -- you know, a jump seat. And he was going to go home for the hour flight for the weekend.", "So he was up front with the crew?", "Yes. Yes.", "That's way -- Jim, how are you dealing with this?", "Well, like Roselle said, we're taking it one hour at a time. It's very, very confusing. You get very little sleep and you try to you just try to make it through to the next task. It's very, very difficult.", "And you, Jamie?", "I would say I'm almost not dealing yet. It's on and off. I worked a lot this morning because I just had some loose ends to tie up so that I could dedicate the rest of my time to my brother and just family -- family and friends.", "Our deepest condolences to all of you. And thanks for sharing these moments with us.", "Thank you.", "Thank you, Larry.", "Thank you, Larry.", "Oh, thank you. A woman described as the rock of her family died last night and her brother and sister are here to tell us how difficult that loss is for a grieving family next.", "All I could see was fire, fire and explosions. That's all we could see. And then we saw the woman from the house where she fell to the ground.", "Then my son said, I saw a flash. We looked outside and there was just a red glow.", "There were tons of fire trucks, tons of sirens, more than I had ever heard in my life.", "Joining us now in Buffalo, New York, is Margie Pettys Brandquist and Patrick Pettys. They lost their sister, Mary, on that plane. You all live in Buffalo, Patrick?", "I live in Buffalo, correct, yes.", "And I live in Leesburg, Virginia.", "OK. What was Mary doing coming to Buffalo for?", "Mary actually lives in Buffalo and has lived there for 50 years. She was on business in New Jersey and was flying home after a few days of being in New Jersey for work.", "How did you learn about this, Patrick?", "I was woken up around 5:15 this morning by my 20-year- old niece, and just said that my sister died.", "How do you react to something like that?", "She told me -- at first, it was shocking. I didn't believe it. And then sudden fear came in and kind of slowly came in. It's undescribable how to lose someone this special to you and so suddenly, in such a catastrophe. It's hard to explain.", "Margie, I heard that you called Mary your other mom. What do you mean?", "We're lucky enough to be one of ten children of this fabulous family. And we, unfortunately, lost our mom tragically two years ago, very suddenly. And Mary stepped in and she was the mom. She solved everyone's problems. She opened her wallet, her heart, her house and never wanted any recognition for anything, never said that she ever did anything for anybody, but just silently helped everybody. So she was our unsung hero. She was our warrior. And so to lose our mom so tragically, and then to now lose Mary, it's devastating. She was one of the most tremendous, exceptional women. And that's why we're here, is to be able to let everyone know she wasn't just number 50 of this tragedy. She was number one for us. And it's going to be impossible to replace in our lives.", "Patrick, how are all these siblings dealing with this?", "All in different ways, but a lot of grief, a lot of confusion, a lot of asking questions why; why her; why any of them that was aboard this plane? To me -- I talked to my friends and family, and we're all just speechless, just absolutely speechless. There's no words to describe it.", "I understand completely. Thank you both very much. Our sympathies to every one of the siblings.", "And thank you.", "Thank you, guys. A mother and daughter were in the house struck by the plane last night, an incredible survival story. Find out how they're doing when we come back.", "Joining us on the phone is Michael Hughes, the spokesman for Millard Filmore Suburban Hospital. That's the hospital where the survivors from the home that the plane crashed into were treated. And Tony Tatro is the eye-witness who lived next door to the home the plane crashed into. Michael, how are the survivors doing?", "Good evening, Mr. King. Fortunately, both the mother and the daughter who were in the house at the time the plane hit were treated and released from the hospital less than 12 hours from the time of arrival. They were discharged about 12 hours later.", "Great. So no one's in the hospital from the incident?", "No, the two from the house were treated and released. We also treated and released two firefighters who worked the scene as well.", "So there was one deceased, right?", "That is the case. The state police have identified someone who was on the ground.", "Tony, where were you?", "I was driving home. I had been at the gym. I was driving home. It was about 10:15. I was driving eastbound on Clarence Center Roda, and actually was startled by the plane flying over my head. Strangely enough, as I stand here, I've watched three or four planes heading to the southwest, which is where the airport is. This one crossed my path as I was going east. It crossed my path from right to left, meaning it was flying northeast. So it was going completely the wrong direction. It was only 75 feet, if that, above me, as I was driving my car. Like I said, the lights from the wings startled me enough where I had to look up and find out exactly what it was.", "Must have been a calamitous noise?", "Yes, the engines -- because it being so close, the engines were very loud. They didn't sound like normal engines would sound. I haven't flown a whole bunch. But I've flown enough to know what an engine sounds like when it's at a steady buzz, if you will, or a hum. And these were certainly not making that sound. The plane was tilted downward. The nose of the plane was down. As it went by me, I could see the belly of the plane. The left wing was a little lower than the right. And it was clearly on a trajectory that it was going to hit the ground. And that was the only thought that went through my head, this plane is going to hit the ground.", "Did you hear the crash?", "Yes, sir, I was able to hear it. I could not see it. There was a home that was between me and where it had impacted. I was only a block and a half from it when I had I stopped my car. I had heard it and felt it, obviously, and then saw the explosion around the house that I was looking at. From that point, I was immediately on the phone with 911. And the plane hit at 10:17. That was the time that I had made the call to 911. And it was literally seconds after the explosion.", "And you lived where in relation to the house that it hit?", "I was only a block from home. I was in the volunteer parking lot when I made the call. I crept up just a little bit after I got off the phone with the 911 dispatcher, just so that I could look down the street to see exactly what was happening. The house was in ruins. It was just a great big fireball. I drove literally around the corner one block and pulled into my own driveway, where I went through a backyard and got on to the street where the house was, at that point, again, just a complete ball of fire.", "Tony, this is something you will never forget.", "No, sir, it's not. I've had a chance to reflect a little bit today, and to try to put it into perspective. It's a shame that we don't do more to know the people that are around us. The folks whose home was destroyed lived 100 yards from where I live, and I'd been there a year and a hadn't made the time to even acknowledge them or introduce myself. So it's too bad we don't do more things like that to know some people.", "Thanks to Michael Hughes and thanks to Tony Tatro. We'll be back in 60 seconds with the flight recordings. Stay with us.", "Joining us now in Atlanta, John Wiley. He's done yeoman like work all day today. The former pilot of an Airbus, the kind of plane widely in use today, contributing editor of \"Business and Commercial Aviation Magazine.\" Here now the last brief communications, John, from the Continental Connection Flight 3407 and then the control tower trying to track it. Listen.", "Colgan 34-7, approach.", "Colgan 34-7, Buffalo.", "Colgan 34-7, now approaching.", "Delta 1998, look off your right side about five miles for a dash 8, should be 4,300. You see anything there?", "Negative Delta 1998, we're just in the bottoms and nothing off TKs.", "Colgan 3407, Buffalo.", "Colgan 3407, Buffalo Tower, how do you hear?", "John, what's your guess as to why no mayday?", "They didn't have time. This was on them in a heartbeat.", "What was on them? Ice would be on them in a heartbeat?", "Well, you have a heightened awareness from the crew. They know that they're in icing conditions. They're preparing to begin the descent, the landing. They're about maybe two minutes away from touchdown. They've already discussed the fact that they know they have ice on the airplane. You fly in the northeast, you're going to fly in ice. There's nothing in the weather scenario that they've got that really jumps out at them that says there's a big, red flag. This is another night where, basically, they're contending with the problems. As they reconfigure the airplane, as it says on the NTSB tapes, there was a severe roll and pitch, meaning the airplane departed. At 1,500 feet, you don't have enough time, you don't have enough altitude to recover the airplane. It was over in less than 30 seconds.", "How would you guess that every other plane coming in that night went in OK?", "Well, again, you have a situation where your situation -- your conditions are unique. We have seen, time and time again, where aircraft have proceeded a crashed aircraft, aircraft have followed the crashed aircraft with no incident. There's really no explanation. Obviously, the Q-400 was carrying quite a bit of ice and he reconfigured the airplane that last moment. That was the last -- that was the last piece of the puzzle, the last part of the equation and the airplane departed.", "All right. One more quick thing. We are almost out of time in this segment. Why will ice bring a plane down?", "Well, it destroys the lift on the wings. It is really that simple. You start creating ice on the wing, you can lose as much as 30 or 40 percent of your lift very, very rapidly. That's what keeps you in the air, lift.", "Thanks, John. John Wiley.", "Good night.", "Done great work all day. A well known human rights advocate lost her life last night. Her friend and colleague joins us after the break.", "Then the engine cut off and stopped.", "And we could see flames rising high in the sky.", "Then within a couple of seconds, there was a tremendous explosion.", "Unbelievable. Never saw anything like it.", "Joining us now in New York is Ken Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. His colleague, Dr. Allison Deforge, was killed in that crash.", "I learned this morning. We figured out she was on the flight. She was coming back from Europe, where she had been lobbying various capitals to try to get more protection for the people of Eastern Congo, who are on the subject of a very awful war that has been raging there for some time. She was really an indefatigable fighter for human rights.", "Why was she going to Buffalo?", "She lived in Buffalo.", "Oh.", "I should say she lived on a plane. This is a woman who was back and forth between Africa, Europe and the United States, as if it was nothing. And so I suppose it's ironically tragic that she should die in a plane. But she lived there and she was heading home.", "Tell us about her immediate family.", "She is survived by her husband Roger, who's taught as a professor at the university there. She has two grown children and three grandchildren.", "Were you close?", "Very close. I've worked with Allison for nearly 20 years. She's a true hero of the human rights movement. She was a diminutive woman, barely five feet tall, 66 years old. She was really a giant in the field. She was the world expert on human rights conditions in Rwanda. For example, at the time of the genocide in 1994, she was in the White House. She was in capitals around the world pushing for some response, some effort to stop the genocide. When that failed, she documented what happened and became the leading expert witness before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which has been prosecuting those responsible, the authors of the genocide. So she was really, you know, I think the leading human rights advocate for the victims in Rwanda. But unlike many people who, you know, out of guilt tended to lionize Paul Kagame, the current president of Rwanda, she saw through his repression and, indeed, insisted just as a matter of principle that not only should the genocide there be brought to justice, but Paul Kagame and his so- called Rwanda Patriotic Front, the people who actually stopped the genocide, that he killed 30,000 civilians in the process, that they, too, should have their day in court.", "Was it --", "Quite unpopular in Rwanda. Over the last six months, they have actually blocked her from entering the country.", "Must have been a sad day at Human Rights Watch today.", "It was awful. We had a meeting this morning, a staff meeting. Some 250 people in different conference rooms around the world linked by video conference, and I had to break the news to them all. I have to say, there were many, many tears in the room. This is a close colleague and one who's really lionized by her colleagues and by people around the world.", "Obviously, a heroin. Thanks, Ken Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.", "Thank you.", "Eyewitnesses have provided some of the most detailed and perhaps helpful accounts of what happened. We'll meet them next.", "On the phone is Will Charland. He's an i-Reporter, one of our own i-Reporters, who witnessed and videotaped the crash. Before we talk to Will, let's see a little of his yeoman-like work. A lot of citizens, ordinary citizens, send us i-Reports. They work with their own cameras, file it to us. We often put it on the air, as is this case. How did you happen to be there, Will?", "Good evening, Larry. I was actually -- I live a quarter mile away, and I was out in my yard walking across the street to my neighbor's house. And a plane flew overhead. It might have been 150 feet right above my head. The only unusual thing about that was how low. We do live in a flight path, so we do see planes day-to-day. I didn't think much of it except for the noise it was making. It sounded like maybe a lawn mower was falling from the sky. Within seconds of that, a loud crash, and then the sky lit up with an orange glow. And I knew right then what had happened. I ran into the neighbor's house that I was going to visit, told them what happened. And we all immediately went over there and I happened to grab my cam corder.", "You thought right away, I'm going to tape this?", "You know, I don't know what caused me to think that. It was some sort of an instinct. I have yet to understand why. But I did get some footage.", "How were the neighbors reacting?", "I would describe the scene as panic. People had no idea what had happened. People were scurrying, trying to find loved ones that might have been in the wreckage. It was chaos.", "How are you coping with it?", "It's been a tough 24 hours. I haven't got much sleep. You know, again, just trying to make sense of it all. Not easy.", "Do you hear lots of planes in that flight path?", "Absolutely. Every day, we hear them. Like I said, they generally don't fly that low.", "But it wasn't unusual for them to be in that path?", "Not at all.", "How bad was the weather.", "It was typical Buffalo weather. You know, it was a heavy, heavy-type of a sleet, icy, you know, snowy mix. But I'm sure it sounds like planes do that all the time, so it didn't seem like that was unusual to deal with.", "How close do you live to the house that was hit?", "I live just about a quarter mile away, about three blocks.", "Now, are you -- did you have your composure while you're shooting this? I mean, what are you going through while you're being kind of a civilian reporter?", "In my mind, I was in shock. That helped me to maintain my composure. I didn't really say much. Again, I was just there to witness the scene like everyone else. I just happened to have a cam corder.", "Did you hear the crash?", "Yes. I heard a loud crash and followed by an immediate illumination of the sky, like the sun was rising.", "So this has got to still linger with you?", "You know, Larry, this is going to linger with me for probably the rest of my life.", "What do you do for a living, Will?", "I'm in sales.", "Lived in Buffalo a long time?", "Actually, pretty new to the area. I moved here in August from North Carolina.", "That's some climate change.", "Yes, well, you know, I try to stay warm and, you know, make the best of it. But, you know, it is times like these that I'm glad I live in a community like Clarence Center, where great neighbors, people are all going to stick together. And we'll get through this. And my condolences go out to the families affected by this awful tragedy.", "Do you fly a lot, Will?", "I do. But, you know, I'm not thrilled about doing it any time soon.", "I understand. Will, thanks a lot and thanks for some great work.", "Thanks for your time, Larry.", "Civilian i-Reporter Will Charland on the scene from Buffalo. And you can see some of the fantastic shots he got. Go to CNN.com/LarryKing for the latest on this and other stories. Tomorrow night is our Oscar special. You will love this. Kate Winslet, Penelope Cruz, Marissa Tomei and the cast of \"Slumdog Millionaire\" are just some of the all star nominees who will here. And Sunday night, an encore of Bill Maher. 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{"id": "CNN-117166", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2007-5-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/28/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Cheaper to Drive or Fly?", "utt": ["A misty morning here in Washington. Looking at the Reflecting Pool, climbing up to the World War II Memorial with the Washington Monument in the background there. The pavilions. The one on the left there for the Atlantic Theater. On the south side of the memorial, the Pacific Theater. Fifty-four pillars representing the 50 states and the four territories of the United States, as we honor those who fought, served and died in defense of their country here on this Memorial Day 2007. Welcome back. It is Monday, May the 28th. I'm John Roberts live from the World War II Memorial here in Washington. Good morning, Kiran.", "Good morning. Good to see you, John. Beautiful shots behind you, especially with the sun coming up on the Washington Monument. I'm Kiran Chetry, here in New York. \"On Our Radar\" this morning, the AMERICAN MORNING gas challenge, how gas prices might affect your summer vacation. Of course, Memorial Day also the unofficial start to summer. And our Greg Hunter is driving from the Midwest to Myrtle Beach, finding out just how much it's going to cost this year if you are thinking about taking the family on the road. And also, check out this picture. You have to look at it twice. It does not look real, but that is a nine-plus-foot wild boar that an 11-year-old boy shot and killed, weighing in at more than 1,000 pounds. It may be a record. He is now getting offered a role in a horror movie that was going to be made about hogzilla, a humongous wild boar that was captured. So we're going to tell you more about that strange story. And just when you see the picture, doesn't it make you look twice, John? It doesn't look real.", "That's a lot of ribs.", "And sausage.", "A lot of ribs.", "That's what they say. Five to 700 pounds of sausage coming out of that hog.", "Incredible. Hey, we start this morning with historic talks between the United States and Iran. The two sides sitting down today for their first formal meeting in nearly 30 years. Despite rising tensions between the two countries, the security of Iraq was the only item on today's agenda. The American representative at the meeting, Ambassador Ryan Crocker, is scheduled to address the media. That's about 15 minutes from now. We are monitoring the situation in Baghdad. We will go to it as soon as he comes up. For now, though, let's go to CNN's Aneesh Raman. He is the only American television journalist in Iran, joins us live from the capital of Tehran. Aneesh, what were the Iranian representatives empowered to discuss at these meetings? This was just about Iraq, was it not? Nothing about the nuclear program?", "Yes, nothing about the nuclear program, and nothing really more than just airing of grievances. Iran's supreme leader a few weeks ago, John, greatly limited what could be discussed, to just the fact that Iran wants to tell the U.S. to secure Iraq and wanted to demand a U.S. timetable for troop withdrawal. That will not sit well with the U.S., who wanted more than talk. They wanted specific steps from the Iranians as to how they would curb what the U.S. alleges is a flow of fighters and weapons into Iran. Iran wanted action from the U.S., a timetable for troop withdrawals. Unlikely either of those things will get resolved. But what we are waiting to see out of this press conference, which will be the first word about the meetings, is what the tenor of the discussions was and whether or not there's a mechanism for future talks. Will this be a first step or the only step? John.", "In recent days, Aneesh, we have heard charges from the Iranians that the United States is actually operating an active spy ring inside the country. And we do know that Iran is detaining four Americans. Among them, Haleh Esfandiari, who is the head of the Middle East program here at the Woodrow Wilson Center. What more do we know about these allegations by the Iranians of a spy network?", "We know that yesterday the Swiss ambassador to Tehran who represents American interests here was summoned to the Foreign Ministry and a formal protest was lodged against the United States. Iran alleges it has discovered several spy networks that it says are backed by the U.S. operating within the south-southwestern and central parts of the country. Now, no more specifics were provided. We are told that in the coming days the Ministry of Intelligence will give those specifics. But like you said, everyone on the ground is waiting to see whether the Islamic republic links these allegations with the arrest of Haleh Esfandiari. She has been under suspicion for working against the government, despite vehement denials of that by her colleagues back in the United States. It could also be, John, that this was about posturing ahead of the talks. The U.S. alleges Iran is infiltrating agents into Iraq. Iran now can say, look, we have the same allegations about you. Again, though, we know very little about these allegations at this point.", "Perhaps a lot of tit for tat going on there. Aneesh Raman for us this morning from Tehran. Thanks, Aneesh. We'll talk to you a little bit later on this morning. And again, we are waiting for that press conference. The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, expected to talk in about 12 to 15 minutes time -- Kiran.", "All right. Thanks so much, John. Well, millions of Americans will be driving to the beach or to a barbecue today. So, how much will they end up paying for gas? Checking the CNN gas gauge now, the average price for a gallon of self-serve regular, $3.21. That's up from $2.92 last month and $2.85 a year ago. With prices that high, is it cheaper to fly than it is to drive? Well, Greg Hunter is in Columbus, Ohio. He's starting off a road trip of his own, and also kicking off the \"Gas Gauge Challenge\". Hi there, Greg.", "Hey, Kiran. How you doing? Well, Columbus, Ohio, is a beautiful city. And Ohio is a place where -- lots of beauty, but it's landlocked. So when people get out of Dodge, they head to the coast of North and South Carolina. That's a typical vacation for people here. So let's take a look at our route. We are going to be heading from Columbus, Ohio, through the mountains, to Greensboro, North Carolina -- a lovely city. Used to live there. And then we'll spend the night there. The next day we'll get up and head down to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It's about a 600-mile run. Now, before we take this trip, we took a little trip to Target. And the reason why, we wanted to get some supplies. We got a cooler, we got water, we got soft drinks, snacks. Not just for comfort, because those things help you from -- keeping the -- all the stops on the road, keep those stops down to a minimum. That's number one. Number two, when you buy it at a big department store, it's just a lot cheaper to buy it at a department store, as opposed to a gas station along the road. And then finally, we got on gaspricewatch.com. We put in the areas -- the local zip code here for Columbus, Ohio, we got a Sunoco station for $3.37 a gallon. I know it's higher than the national average, but that's the cheapest gas we found. We topped off our tank. So therefore, we put $10 in. So, all that said, here is how the expenses for day one looked -- looked. Not very much. We had $10 for gasoline at $3.37 a gallon, topping off the tank. Extras included $59.16, for a grand total of $69.16 -- Kiran.", "All right. So, you are keeping score. So far, it still looks like it makes sense to drive.", "Well, we'll see. That's what this is all about. You know, we'll try to show people some fuel-saving ideas on the road. Let me show you the best one ever invented. It works on any vehicle -- a gas gauge, a tire gauge for your -- to save money on your gas gauge. Believe it or not, I'm such a nerd, I carry this with me wherever I go. Back to you.", "That was good advice. If your tires are a little bit low, you're ending up using more gas than you think. All right, Greg. So how far are you now? How far into it?", "Well, we're starting out today from Columbus, Ohio. That's why you see the beautiful city in the background. It's a lovely place.", "And then...", "And it will be 600 miles. In a couple days we will be down to our destination.", "All right. But before you lay your head down tonight, where are you going to end it?", "We are going to end it in Greensboro, North Carolina.", "All right. Sounds good. Greg, we'll check in with you a little later. Thanks so much. Well, if you're finding it hard to give up your SUV but still feel guilty about it, some people are turning to planting trees in return because the trees take in carbon dioxide, presumably offsetting pollution. Researchers though say it's simply not possible to plant enough trees to have a significant effect on global warming -- John.", "Well, an 18-year-old in California could face charges for faking her way into Stanford University. Officials say Azia Kim (ph) spent the past eight months posing as a freshman student. She moved into one of the university's dorms last fall and told her roommates that she was a human biology major, asked them to leave the window open so that she could get in and outside of the residence. A suspicious resident assistant blew her cover, though.", "What drove her to do this are students who were, I think, taken advantage of in this situation. They're very trusting, caring, kind folks. And had every reason to believe that this particular individual was, indeed, a student here at Stanford.", "Well, not surprisingly, school officials say they're conducting a full investigation into how security can be improved. Workers at the Hutchinson, Kansas, zoo are cleaning up after being swamped by floodwaters over the weekend. These are new pictures that are just in to CNN here. The zoo has been closed since Thursday, when more than seven inches of rain fell. Twenty-five animals, including some bison, had to be evacuated from the zoo. An 11-year-old boy is hogging the limelight today. Find out what he did with a pistol and a half-ton pig. Put it this way: the pistol won. You're watching AMERICAN MORNING. 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{"id": "CNN-75512", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2003-8-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/19/bn.32.html", "summary": "Police Confirm Deaths in Israeli Bus Explosion", "utt": ["We have another breaking story to tell you about in Jerusalem. For that, we go to Kyra.", "We are now being told that it was possibly a bus explosion. Now I am being told it is an explosion. These are our pictures just in via Jerusalem, the first tape we have of the scene. You can see people carrying -- my gosh, one shot there of the gentleman carrying the child through the street there. An explosion tearing through a bus, we're told, in Jerusalem. Police are reporting to the Associated Press that several people had been killed. We have not confirmed that yet. We are -- OK. Gil Kleiman, Israeli police spokesman, I'm told, is on the phone with me now. Mr. Kleiman, what can you tell me?", "I can tell you that I can confirm that we do have dead and wounded on the scene. An explosion occurred on a bus, a city bus, in Jerusalem a short while ago. The response team has not yet determined whether it was a bomber or a bomb that was left on the bus. That's being checked. Our first priority right now is to get the wounded out. The ambulances, of course, are on the scene getting the wounded out. And that's what we're doing right now. Other than that the only thing I can add to is what you said, is there is confirmation but we do have dead and there are definitely wounded.", "All right. And I'm also seeing reports that possibly it was two buses that were hit by the blast. Can you confirm that?", "I've got no confirmation of that. Sometimes, as a result of the explosion, there's collateral damages to buses in the area or the cars in the area. Right now we're dealing with what we suspect is an explosion on one bus. Whether there is other damage done in the area as a result of the explosion or a different explosion that is to be checked. It's a little bit too early for that. Right now our main priority is to get the wounded and other people who are hurt to the hospital, which is what we're dealing with. I imagine it clears up a little bit in 10 or 20 minutes we'll have a clearer picture of what caused the explosion.", "And Mr. Kleiman, we're getting obviously reports from witnesses in as the story is developing. I don't mean to be so gruesome, but it's pretty intense looking at these pictures and hearing what witnesses have been saying about severed bodies and pieces of human flesh. I guess I just want to you put into perspective how big was this blast? Are we talking a large amount of people possibly being injured? And where, exactly, did this take place?", "OK, I can say that we do have a large number of wounded on the scene. The exact number it's a little bit early to say. These things -- we call it the fog of war -- the initial minutes after an explosion are very unclear. So we don't come out with numbers or how many people are wounded and dead at this early stage. Like I said, of course, what we want to do right now is get the wounded to the hospital. But as explosions go -- I mean, we've seen many, unfortunately, many, many, last week, the week before, suicide bombers and shooting. There is a lot of damage; there's a lot of destruction and unfortunately a lot of people's lives will be changed.", "Mr. Kleiman, can you tell me what area is it that we're looking at here? Is this an area where folks are out...", "It's the Jerusalem area. It's the number one road. It's in Jerusalem. It's called Heimbach Left Street (ph). It's Jerusalem -- unfortunately, a large amount of terror attacks in that area itself. French Hill Junction. It's an area that has seen a lot of terror attacks.", "Is this an area where people gather in the evening, you know, to dine, to mingle, to socialize? I just see a lot of people on the street.", "The people, unfortunately, we asked our civilians not to arrive at the scene. Some of those people might be there as spectators to see if they can help or out of curiosity. But it's a regular night. It's the evening and people are out, shopping at malls, the kids are on summer vacation here. And so right now we don't know who was on that bus. But a typical bus at this time of night. You see people coming home from work or going out to have a good time.", "Gil Kleiman, Israeli police spokesperson, we thank you for taking the time to talk to us. If you're just tuning in, first it's Baghdad and now it's Jerusalem. No connection. But an explosion tearing through a bus in Jerusalem. Now we're being told a large number of people wounded and definitely confirmation now that there have been people killed in this explosion. Not yet do we know if the explosives were planted or if, indeed, it was a suicide bombing. Still trying to clear up, also, if it was -- if it were two buses that were hit by the blast. We'll continue to follow this story as we get more information."], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "GIL KLEIMAN, ISRAELI POLICE SPOKESMAN", "PHILLIPS", "KLEIMAN", "PHILLIPS", "KLEIMAN", "PHILLIPS", "KLEIMAN", "PHILLIPS", "KLEIMAN", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-147486", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-1-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/29/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Hocking College Students Dealing With Racial Death Threats", "utt": ["Well, you know all kinds of stuff has been written on bathroom walls of college dorms, but at Hocking College, just southeast of Columbus, Ohio, something totally different and chilling. Someone wrote that black students would be killed on February 2nd. A sick prank or a real threat? The school, at least two students and the FBI aren't chancing it. Steve Wainfor from our affiliate, WCMH takes us to the campus.", "Tucked away in the rolling hills of Hocking County is the Hocking Technical College. With a student body of just about 6,500, news travels fast.", "It kind of bothers me a little bit. I'm not a big fan of that kind of thing.", "What is bothering most of the students is an incident at the Hocking Heights Residence Hall. A racial slur was written on the mean's bathroom wall. A lot of students were disturbed by this, while others just said it's part of college life.", "There's a lot of immaturity around here. I mean, a lot of kids are fresh out of high school. They're just being student.", "Whitney Barton lives in Hocking Heights and says some students have had enough and they're leaving campus.", "Yes, he just left today because of what's going on. He's going to go to AOU (ph) now.", "The Hocking College administration listened to the students and are in the process of amping up security by having more safety patrols, putting in more surveillance cameras around campus and offering to temporarily move students out of Hocking Heritage Residence Hall. An aggressive plan students feel comfortable with.", "Yes, it's good that they're stepping up and taking care of it because there would probably be a lot of people very upset if they didn't do anything.", "The Hocking College Police Department is working closely with the FBI during this investigation. As for the students, most feel safe here. With the new safety plan in place, they should feel that way even more.", "All right. As we've heard, at least two black students aren't chancing it and they have actually left the school. The university isn't taking this sitting down. We're talking now with Hocking College president Ron Erickson joining us on the phone. Hopefully we'll talk with a student as well. So President Erickson, first of all, when you heard about this, what was your first reaction and how quickly did you react to these threats?", "Obviously, we were very disappointed and shocked at the nature of the message that happened last and we put an incident team together as quickly as we could to begin to respond.", "And I understand you've actually brought in a special counselor to deal with this. Could you clarify what that is about?", "Yes. We do have a fine counseling staff already here at Hocking College, but we did want to bring in additional resources for the possibility of an increased demand for their services. So we were able to enlist the participation of counseling faculty from Ohio University, which is our sister institution.", "So President Erickson, let me ask you, you've got about - I just want to clarify the numbers. You've got about 6,300 students, 400 of whom are African-American, is that right?", "That's what the estimate is, yes.", "Got it. So Jasmine Saunders, you're joining us on the line now. You are one of the black students that attends that college. Can you tell me, first of all, your reaction to what's happening right now on your campus?", "I was actually very surprised. I knew there was always graffiti in our restrooms, I just never thought it would go to this extent. So it very much surprised me considering that it was my first day as a hall director that it happened. So surprising.", "So do you fear for your safety, Jasmine, as a black student?", "No, I o not fear for my safety. I believe Hocking College is taking every step measurable to make sure that the situation is taken care of. As soon as they heard about it, they were on it and they were taking care of the situation. If anything happens, it happens, but I believe we'll be able to take care of it within minutes.", "Well, but how - just the fact that that graffiti was on the wall, the fact that the threats were there to kill these black students, even naming a date of February 2nd, what are race relations like, Jasmine, on that campus? Give us a reality check. Obviously there is some racism that exists, but how prevalent is it?", "As of right now, everyone is getting along. The past two years I've been here, I feel everything has been OK, everyone has been pretty friendly with me. I haven't seen anything. I've just heard things from people who said that they have experienced a couple people not wanting to talk to them because they might have been African-American, Hispanic or even some of the black students who don't talk to some of the white students. But it's not really that big of a deal on campus.", "Not a big deal on campus. President Erickson, are you surprised that this is a mentality that exists, whether it's a small number of people or a larger number of people, just the fact that this 1950s mentality is even hitting your campus?", "Well, surprise, perhaps not. Certainly dismayed. I myself am the parent of biracial children and so even as a parent I've certainly experienced bigotry and prejudice against my own children.", "Wow.", "But we're certainly taking every possible measure to make sure that this kind of thing does not happen again.", "Well, it hit us close to the heart too and we hope that we can somehow bring about a message that whoever did, this we'd like to see them caught and held accountable. I know the FBI is now involved. Jasmine Saunders, thank you so much. Also President Ron Erickson. President Erickson, will you please keep in touch with us and let us know how this goes and if indeed you do find these pretty cowardly people that did what they did.", "We certainly will, thank you.", "Jasmine, thank you.", "Thank you.", "Now voices of hope. Victims of the earthquake break out in song, living in the streets but staying incredibly strong."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "STEVE WAINFOR, REPORTER WCMH (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WAINFOR", "WHITNEY BARTON, STUDENT", "WAINFOR", "BARTON", "WAINFOR", "BARTON", "WAINFOR", "PHILLIPS", "RON ERICKSON, PRESIDENT, HOCKING COLLEGE (via telephone)", "PHILLIPS", "ERICKSON", "PHILLIPS", "ERICKSON", "PHILLIPS", "VOICE OF JASMINE SAUNDERS, HOCKING COLLEGE STUDENT", "PHILLIPS", "SAUNDERS", "PHILLIPS", "SAUNDERS", "PHILLIPS", "ERICKSON", "PHILLIPS", "ERICKSON", "PHILLIPS", "ERICKSON", "PHILLIPS", "SAUNDERS", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-32657", "program": "CNN HE SAID/SHE SAID", "date": "2001-6-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/16/hsss.00.html", "summary": "`Tomb Raider' is Terrible; Cohen Brothers, `Sexy Beast' Save Weekend", "utt": ["Time to save the universe again then, is it?", "Absolutely. This is where I start to have fun!", "Peter, we're here at Loews 42nd Street in Manhattan. This is the place to go if you want to see a big popcorn movie. And that's what's opening this weekend.", "Well, and this is the place to find out about those movies, because this is HE SAID/SHE SAID, the movie review show. And I'm Peter Travers.", "I'm Lisa Schwarzbaum. And we start with a movie that if you know the video game I need to say nothing more. It's called \"Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.\" And if you know Angelina Jolie I need to say nothing more, because if you are interested in seeing how she looks in her tight little cut-off shorts, and her tight little T-shirts, this is the movie for you.", "Those are interesting facets.", "Well they are facets, but unfortunately it doesn't lead up to very much. This is a video game brought to the screen. Another one of those video games like \"Mortal Kombat\" that's brought to the screen. And this is about a girl adventurer. She is sort of Indiana Jones, which I kind of like. She kind of goes out; and she's got guns and she does -- she says she's a lady -- she's got a lot of money, but she goes out and she likes big adventures. All of that is fine. My problems with this film is that there is nothing joyful about it. She -- you see Jolie in all of these situations. She's trying to get in touch with her dead father who is her missing father, played by her real father, Jon Voight. But what happens is it just cuts from action to action with just no sense of excitement. (", "Good evening.", "You're", "Beg your pardon? There's no such thing. It's just a bedtime story.", "There's no sense of Jolie, you know, which is really what it is.", "No.", "No the sad thing about this is Hollywood's record with turning video games into movies is really bad. Not only \"Mortal Kombat,\" \"Super Mario Brothers,\" \"Wing Commander\"...", "Right.", "You know, you don't know those, because you didn't like them, they were bad. Why can't they do it. With Angelina Jolie, they actually picked, I think, the right person to play this part.", "I agree.", "She's got the look. And in the opening scene in this movie, where she's in Croft Mansion doing combat training with a killer robot; you think, OK this is Indiana Jones in a wonderbra, and I'm OK. Although watch the movie, when you see it, and tell me if I'm wrong. Do Angelina Jolie's breasts deflate and then balloon in different -- from scene to scene?", "I think you were paying attention, as most of the male audience will -- which this is the secret to the entire movie...", "I was fascinated by that.", "... everyone will be watching whether the breasts deflate and inflate. And therefore it doesn't matter what the plot is.", "But it might, and it really might, because they went to Cambodia to shoot this. Most Hollywood movies don't get to do that.", "And buy the way, Ancor Watt (ph) is even more fascinating to look at than Angelina Jolie...", "... for you to tell us. And they've been to Iceland. They spent $100 million to make this, and the movie is flat in addition to being...", "Simon West directed it. He directed \"Con Air,\" he directed \"The General's Daughter.\"", "Infamy, he deserves to live in infamy for those.", "Are you putting that in Michael Bay category?", "Yes I do. He's so bad, bad, bad, bad...", "Well, I don't know \"Lara Croft: Tomb Raider\" it's a little bit in the tomb for me.", "Well, I say that Lara Croft and Angelina Jolie deserve better, and so did you. But you know, we're going to go to another movie now. I'm taking you to the lost continent of Atlantis.", "Let's go travel. (", "You know, Kida, the most we ever hoped to find was some crumbling buildings, maybe some broken pottery. And then we find a living, thriving society. These guys are kind of cute when they are not, you know, formed into fiery column of death.", "We are not thriving. True, our people live, but our culture is dying. We are like a stone the ocean beats against. With each passing year, a little more of us is warn away.", "Come on Lisa, I'm taking you to \"Atlantis, the Lost Empire.\"", "I think this is the lost animation this weekend.", "Why is that? It's a huge movie weekend. I mean, we've got \"Tomb Raider\" out there. And now we have a Disney animated movie. You know, Disney used to own animation in the summer. That used to be their property. And now, a little movie called \"Shrek\" comes along from Dreamworks, and everybody is seeing it once, they're seeing it twice. And it's changed, because \"Shrek\" is a lively piece of animated business.", "But that still doesn't take care of this thing.", "It doesn't, but I'm going to tell you about it, because you wanted to know. What is \"Atlantis,\" it is kind of old-fashioned. It's old-fashioned Disney, it doesn't have music in it. There's none of the da-da -- I'm singing -- and it doesn't happen. But what happens is that Michael J. Fox ...", "I love when you sing ...", "I'll do it, I'll do Madonna if you want. And Michael J. Fox does the voice of Milo the cartographer who really thinks that he wants his professors and everybody to know, there is this lost city of Atlantis. He brings people, there's a scientist, a black scientist, in an animated movie, done by Phil Morris, the voice, who is Johnny Cochran on \"Seinfeld.\"", "Right ...", "Love him.", "... there's a Hispanic girl, and there is all the colors of the universe.", "It's virtuous, it's dull, and all the life is drained...", "And, you know, connected to \"Tomb Raider,\" just as I said, \"Tomb Raider\" is joyless, there is a lack of energy in this. (", "Milo what do you think you're doing?", "Just follow my lead.", "Wow, I'm impressed.", "It's simple, all you've got to do...", "Yeah, yeah, yeah, shut up, we get it, OK.", "No, no, wait!", "The reason the people are loving \"Shrek\" is that it is fresh. It's bursting with activity. This tells the basic story; it is very, sort of, Jules Verne. It is very like \"Tomb Raider.\" Both these young people going off and experimenting, looking at the world. But there is just a dullness to it. You know, I sat with an audience of kids, who it is meant for. And even the kids...", "How did they like it?", "They were not, you know, you can tell from a real audience. They just were not jumping up and down about it. I wish it were better. I wish that it were a discovered, a discovered continent...", "Well, you know, I wish, I wish, I wish I were a wishing well. I'm going to take you to the video world now, so that you can see something...", "Thank you.", "... so you can see something that is -- Tom Hanks is on an island, come over here.", "I'm ready. (", "I'll be right back.", "Fire", "Brace for impact!", "Everybody! I would rather take my chance..."], "speaker": ["BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER\") UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "ANGELINA JOLIE, ACTRESS", "LISA SCHWARZBAUM CO-HOST", "PETER TRAVERS CO-HOST", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER\") UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "JOLIE", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"ATLANTIS, THE LOST EMPIRE\") VOICE OF MICHAEL J. FOX, ACTOR", "VOICE OF CREE SUMMER, ACTRESS", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"ATLANTIS, THE LOST EMPIRE\") VOICE OF UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS", "VOICE OF FOX", "VOICE OF UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS", "VOICE OF FOX", "VOICE OF UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS", "VOICE OF FOX", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "TRAVERS", "SCHWARZBAUM", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"CASTAWAY\") TOM HANKS, ACTOR", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "HANKS"]}
{"id": "CNN-6922", "program": "CNN International World News", "date": "2000-4-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/26/i_wn.11.html", "summary": "Mexican Presidential Race Is Shaping Up Between Labastida And  Fox", "utt": ["Presidential hopefuls in Mexico have held their first televised debate in what is seen as the tightest race in the country's history. Five of the six candidates are trying to end the ruling party's 71-year hold on power. Gordon Robertson reports.", "With little more than two months to go before the election, polls show a close race between Francisco Labastida of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and Vicente Fox of the National Action Party. Another candidate, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the Democratic Revolutionary Party, has faded to a distant third. In Tuesday's debate, Fox took aim at the PRI's seven decades in power.", "We are proposing a transition to democracy to go from the regime of the last 70 years, with all its vices and corruption, to a true democracy.", "Labastida, of the ruling party, countered the assault by seeking to shift the discussion to social issues like unemployment and insisted that he offers the real hope for change.", "It's unacceptable that in Mexico, 40 million Mexicans live in poverty. Many people are unemployed, and salaries never increase. These things have to change, and they are going to change.", "Many observers interpreted Labastida's combative tone as an indication that he is taking Fox's challenge seriously. President Ernesto Zedillo is barred from seeking a second six-year term by the Mexican constitution. He is widely credited with making the PRI more accountable and opening up the electoral process to competing parties. His efforts, however, may be making things difficult for his favorite candidate. A second debate involving the three leading candidates is scheduled for next month. Gordon Robertson, CNN."], "speaker": ["MICHAEL HOLMES, WORLD NEWS", "GORDON ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "VICENTE FOX, MEXICAN PRES. CANDIDATE (through translator)", "ROBERTSON", "FRANCISCO LABASTIDA, MEXICAN PRES. CANDIDATE (through translator)", "ROBERTSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-167007", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-6-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1106/02/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Deadly E. Coli Outbreak in Europe", "utt": ["New concerns today over the deadly E. Coli outbreak sweeping Europe. The World Health Organization says the rare strain is especially lethal and has never been detected in an outbreak situation before. Beyond that, they're mystified with no idea about where it might have originated. So far the strain has killed 16 people and sickened more than 1,000 in at least 10 European countries. The CDC says that two people have been hospitalized in the U.S. with kidney failure, that's after returning from a trip to Germany. In a major blow to farmers, Russia today said it's banning all fresh vegetable imports from the European Union. Spain has been especially hard hit. CNN's Al Goodman is following developments from there.", ": Spain says it's been hurt economically by a rush to judgment by officials in Hamburg, Germany who last week implied Spanish cucumbers were to blame for the E. Coli jut break. But when those same officials seemed to backtrack this week, Spain went on a major counteroffensive led by the deputy prime minister. On Wednesday, he first threatened possible legal action against Germany, and later in the day at a meeting with executives of the Fresh Produce Export Association, he said Spain could seek economic compensation from Germany or the European Union. But the first step is to repair the damage to Spain's image abroad, and he called on Germany to help out. He said Spanish produce is not to blame for the E. Coli outbreak and he pointed out there have been no cases of illness originating in Spain. He urged Germany to find the source of the problem quickly.", "Clearly, we still have a lot of work to do. It's about restoring the image of the products and now, in general, Spanish agriculture, which has suffered a crisis. I repeat, this has nothing to do with Spanish agriculture, as we've said repeatedly, this proves the analysis that we've been doing.", "Spain's produce exporters say they're losing $290 million a week. It's an $11 billion annual industry that employees 300,000 people, and the downturn in sales comes at the worst possible time with Spain having 21 percent unemployment. Al Goodman, CNN, Madrid.", "And as I'm sure you've heard, Congressman Anthony Weiner is saying his Twitter account was hacked. Hundreds of personal Gmail accounts compromised this week and this April, in one of the biggest cyber attacks ever, Sony's PlayStation 3 network was shutdown. So the question is, how is all of this happening, and are you safe as a consumer? We take an eye-opening look at high-tech safety right after the break."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "AL GOODMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ALFREDO PEREZ RUBALCABA, SPANISH DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER (through translator)", "GOODMAN", "KAYE"]}
{"id": "CNN-372649", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2019-06-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/18/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "President Trump Plays Old Campaign Tricks; Orlando Sentinel Excludes Trump; Wrong Speculations On Race Resurface; Hope Hicks To Testify Behind Closed Doors About Her Time Working For Trump Campaign; Business Leaders Warn Of Economic Disaster If Trump Increases Tariffs.", "utt": ["This is CNN TONIGHT. I'm Don Lemon.", "The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.", "President Trump kicking off his 2020 campaign at a rally tonight in Orlando. Trump's campaign branded the event as a blockbuster reelection launch, but as soon as the president took the stage, his message sounded very, very familiar. The president talked to immigration is the same for the media and even took potshots at Hillary Clinton. So, with 2020 on the horizon, can the president keep the spotlight on himself, and can he win the presidency for a second time? There are lots to discuss here. And I want to bring in Maeve Reston, Douglas Brinkley and Amanda Carpenter to do it. Amanda is the author of \"Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies To Us.\" Good evening, everyone.", "Good evening.", "Good evening.", "Why don't we start with Amanda Carpenter. Amanda, President Trump was back -- I sound like a game show host, Amanda, President Trump was back with his us versus them rhetoric at his campaign kickoff tonight. Here's what he said about Democrats.", "They went after my family, my business, my finances, my employees, almost every one that I have ever known or worked with, but they are really going after you. That's what it's all about. Not about us, it's about you. They tried to erase your vote. Erase your legacy of the greatest campaign and the greatest election probably in the history of our country.", "So, the president is very good at keeping his supporters invested in him personally, and you really see it there, don't you?", "Yes. I mean, Trump is an expert at creating a bond with his base. It is unbreakable. But there's something useful that Democrats can learn here. People want to be involved in this process. Donald Trump did not win by a huge margin, he won by 80,000 votes in three states. And so, I just don't think that this is that complicated. Democrats need to create a bond with their voters. Teach them that they matter. The biggest demographic in America, the most coveted one are the people that don't vote. Animate those voters and let them know that they matter. One of the biggest reasons that Trump won in 2016 is because people thought it couldn't happen. They thought that someone else would take care of it, this couldn't happen here. Well, it did. And so, how is the Democratic candidate going to create that kind of bond with their base? We'll see, but I do know they have to do that if they are going to win in 2020.", "You -- I know that you are a conservative, but you sound like a Democratic strategist right there that was great at --", "It's just good advice in politics.", "Doug, I want to bring you in now -- bring you in now and talk about Peter Baker as a new piece in \"The New York Times\" and it's titled \"Four years ago, Trump was seen as a side show, now he is the show.\" And here's what he writes, in part he said, \"The coming election is shaping up as a test not just of the man but of his country. Was Mr. Trump's victory the last time around a historical fluke or a genuine reflection of America in the modern age? Will the populist surge that lifted him to the White House -- to the White House run its course or will it further transform a nation and its capital in ways that we -- that we'll outlast his presidency.\" Sorry, I can't see that. Do you see that playing out?", "I love the Peter Baker article because it sets up 2020 perfectly. Donald Trump is either going to be seen as an asterisk president, this weird fluke who just barely won, and you know, Hillary Clinton beat him by three million votes, he won a few thousands in Michigan and Pennsylvania or he wouldn't have been president. And people did a reset. They realized that having a businessperson with no experience in politics isn't worth it, and they are rejecting him or if he wins, conversely, it's a revolution. Trump is a revolutionist, and a redefinition of the -- what is the Republican Party.", "Yes. Listen, Maeve, a lot of people have been saying, I've watch, I shouldn't say a lot of people have been saying, I've heard people say that it was sort of an electoral fluke last time, right, that Donald Trump won. But Baker asks a really good I think, is Trump the cause of America's polarization or is he the result of it? As someone who has been out there on the trail, what do you think?", "I mean, I think he is the result of it. We saw this every presidential campaign that I've covered, you sort of saw it come in inches with Obama, the way that they talked about President Obama's race, people were using coded language back then to talk about their grievances, you know, about immigration. And what's different now is just that Trump has made it, made people feel comfortable saying whatever they want no matter how politically incorrect it is, you know, in other people's minds. And I think what you see out there, what was so interesting about the rally tonight to Amanda's point, is that you did really see the way in which he connects with his audience, how he does it, and how he stokes that fire. That's really there, and I have been out with, you know, all of the Democratic candidates over the last four or five months, and nobody has that kind of rock star quality that you see with Donald Trump tonight. Nobody has been camping out before the rallies. And right now, Democrats are really, I think, confused about who they want the nominee to be, because they have so many choices. And so, it's fascinating to see him sort of step back into this spotlight and reset the race once again.", "You know, Amanda, he has a rock star status with his base, but he has never expanded that group, he's never had a majority of support. How big of a problem will that be for 2020, if do you think it will be a problem at all?", "I mean it's just, it really coming down to that, I mean, I hate this phrase binary choice, but who he has matched up against. And here's where I think would Democrats could be wrong to play it safe.", "You go with great advice. I know where you're going with this. I know where I you're going with this, but go on.", "You know where I'm going to go. OK. This is where I get on where I don't think Joe Biden is going to be the best matchup with Trump. Right? People are playing it safe. Safe choices do not win usually. Ask Mitt Romney, ask Hillary Clinton. People want to have a clear contrast, a choice. This is where I think Democrats are wrong to shy away from impeachment. You really have to draw a difference between right and wrong, happy and angry, racist and not racist, right? And so, when people say, well, I think Joe Biden is the best because they appeal to the same voter as Donald Trump. OK. But what's the tradeoff there? What voters are you possibly leaving on the table? Because if Donald Trump and Joe Biden matchup, there is going to be angry election tailor-made to older white male voters, I think that depresses female and minority turnout leaves them on the table. And so, I just -- people don't play it safe. You have to take big risks. And I'll tell you, the only person I see playing big ball right now is Elizabeth Warren and drawing the contrasts with her fellow candidates.", "Wow.", "And Don, can I just say one thing about --", "And good night, everybody. I'm going to go home.", "Can I just say one point about that?", "Yes, go ahead, Maeve.", "Which is that so many of the voters that you talked to out there also, I mean, literally parking lot voters, not the people that are showing up at the rallies. So many voters have just completely tuned out this election. They're not listening to every little thing that Trump says. And you know, to that point, who can really excite and motivate the middle, right where Donald Trump was in Orlando tonight so many independent voters down there, you -- to your point, you heard nothing from him that really speaks to those voters, and so who is going to be able to reactivate the people in the middle that just say this is too polarized. I don't believe in socialism, I don't believe in Trump, and I'm out.", "Yes. Douglas, I want to get your response. But let me bring this question in and then you -- I'll give you all the time you need to respond. Because hours before his reelection kickoff in Orlando, as we know, the Orlando Sentinel put out a 2020 endorsement for any presidential candidate other than Trump. And in part here's what it says. \"Some readers will wonder how we could possibly eliminate a candidate so far before an election and before knowing the identity of his opponent because there is no point pretending we would ever recommend that readers vote for Trump.\" An endorsement without an opponent, I mean, this is coming from, you know, a paper known to endorse Republicans. What does say to you about the anger in this country over Donald Trump?", "And we're going to stay Orlando papers is just the beginning. I mean, it's stunning that a newspaper would get out in front this early and denounce Trump in such a vigorous fashion when he is coming to their hometown to kick off his 2020 campaign. But you know, I think the real problem as I'm looking at this is Donald Trump ran as an outsider before and now, he is the inside. He ran about draining the swamp, he is the swamp. The last outsider that was president was Jimmy Carter and he was a one-termer because he can't run as the outsider in the second time, and you know, the problem if the Democrats go too left, it's what George McGovern said of 1972. If you go with Elizabeth Warren, you have to be careful that Donald Trump doesn't turn it into that the fact that my opponent is a socialist versus me the real American. So I don't think, you know, I think Biden has got a pretty good path right now, and the Democrats, you know, why Pelosi is being so cautious about the impeachment is you've got to be careful of how the read the tea leaves of how the beat Trump. The one uniting factor is to get rid of Trump, because he got two Supreme Court justices that are conservatives and if you re-elect him, you could very easily have a third and it will be a Trump court for generations to come. I think this a fight for the soul of the nation right now going on between Donald Trump and whoever his opponent is, and whatever the Democrat is, they will fill stadiums, you know, come next spring.", "Amanda, listen, I want to give you the final thought here, but I mean, it is interesting. The Democrats have one heck of a -- not one heck of a choice, they have a lot of tough choices to make.", "Yes, they do. But playing it safe is just a bad strategy. Do what's right. Look at the editorial in the Orlando Sentinel. It's essentially a never Trump editorial. Because there is the uniting factor that something has gone wrong here. And so, if Democrats can make an argument that we will somehow correct the course while still maybe paying attention, yes, to the issues that the Trump voter cares about. I don't think that the Democrats can continue to, you know, cover their ears and put their heads in the sand over the immigration crisis that it continues to unfold at the border. But what they can say is that we are not a country that puts kids in cages, we are not going to leave people to suffer and sleep under bridge. Yes, Donald Trump identified the problem but he doesn't have a plan to fix it, we can do better than this. Let's listen to the problems, listen to the concerns, don't demonize those Republican voters and just invite them to the party. Look at those Trump voters, they are having fun. You may not like them, you might not like what they stand for in that arena, but they are having fun, and people who have fun win.", "Yes. Maeve, if one of the candidates calls you, you need to answer the phone, I think they'd pay you a lot of money after that.", "I like money, but you know, I do like to help, too.", "Thank you, guys. I appreciate it. See you next time.", "But you know what?", "I got to go. I'm sorry. I'll see you next time. Thank you, Douglas. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell taking a major position tonight on the question of paying reparations for slavery. We're going to talk about it next."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN HOST", "MELANIA TRUMP, FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES", "LEMON", "AMANDA CARPENTER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, CNN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN", "LEMON", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "LEMON", "CARPENTER", "LEMON", "CARPENTER", "LEMON", "BRINKLEY", "LEMON", "MAEVE RESTON, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER", "LEMON", "CARPENTER", "LEMON", "CARPENTER", "LEMON", "RESTON", "LEMON", "RESTON", "LEMON", "RESTON", "LEMON", "BRINKLEY", "LEMON", "CARPENTER", "LEMON", "RESTON", "LEMON", "BRINKLEY", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-411297", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2020-09-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/18/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Corruption Scandals Complicates South Africa's COVID Response.", "utt": ["Well, we have been to Jerusalem and we have been in Europe. We have looked at the United States. Now let's look at what's going on in south Africa. Reported cases of COVID-19 astronomically high there, dominating the continent's top five worst hit countries with more than 655,000 infections. But despite those rising cases, the government is reopening the country's borders to business and to tourism. Well, meanwhile, allegations of government corruption only making things worse. Some scandals involve deals between officials and businesses, providing medical equipment, providing food and emergency housing for those battling the virus. David McKenzie tracked down some of those involved.", "The ruling ANC Party flag covers Elsie Monyella's (ph) window. The floor of her newly- constructed government home is already bending under the weight of just her and her 2- week old baby, Dipure (Ph). Months after it was proudly unveiled, this emergency COVID housing project in Limpopo province is falling apart. Independent contractors told us they could build permanent housing for less.", "Everything is cheaper. You can see those things.", "So where did the money go?", "I think they know, the know. The contractor and the person who gave the terms (ph) to the contractor.", "Sir, it's David McKenzie from CNN. I'm a journalist. I'm looking to ask you about the Talana and Burgersfort developments.", "What about them?", "The contractor didn't say much on the phone. We still had questions. (on camera): I thought it would be easier if we talk in person. How are you, sir?", "So you are insistent?", "Yes, it would be great, because I think you want to get your side of the story across, if possible.", "What do you need?", "Well, we wanted to know about the allegations that this was a tender that had inflated prices. It is now suspended, so I just want to hear your point of view.", "No, there was no prices that were inflated on this term. The prices were fixed. This tender was given to more than 20 or 30 companies. I'm just one of them. I can assure you, my man. There is no corruption in this. That one, I'm 110 percent guaranteeing you.", "The housing development agency in charge of the tender refused to be interviewed, saying the project is under investigation. The minister in charge wouldn't talk to us either.", "Every instance of alleged corruption must be thoroughly investigated.", "South Africa's presidency also declined an on-camera interview. Cyril Ramaphosa has promised to stamp out COVID-19 related graft, and it's a massive task. Many of the contracts under investigation, now made public, were given to people connected to the ANC, including the president's own spokesperson, who stepped down after it became public that a $7.6 million government PPE contract was initially awarded to her husband's company. In a statement, the couple tonight corruption, but sought to cancel the contract, adding they deeply regret the error in judgment. The special investigating unit told us they are looking into more than 700 companies linked to emergency COVID-19 contracts for possible crimes. Contracts worth a staggering 7.5 billion rand, more than $400 million. From PPE to water supply, to construction, South Africa's president describing the wave of corruption as a pack of hyenas circling wounded prey.", "All money stolen or overpriced should be recovered.", "For Elsie Monyella (ph), even this shack is better than the plastic shelter she used to live in. Without money, or political connections, she says she is happy to accept whatever she's given. David McKenzie, CNN, South Africa.", "Well, let's get you up to speed on the other stories that are on our radar right now. For first time in five weeks, New Zealand has recorded a day with zero new COVID cases. More than 7,000 tests were processed on Thursday but none of them came back positive. Last month, the cluster of cases in Auckland ended three transmission-free months in the country. Well, in Jordan, a surge in cases in has closed schools for two weeks and led to warnings of up to a year in jail for those who organize large gatherings. Now, these strict new penalties are aimed at wedding parties, funerals, or any other gathering of more than 20 people. And London residents may be anxious to say good-bye to 2020 but it won't look like this. Because of the pandemic, Mayor Sadiq Khan has canceled the traditional New Year's Eve fireworks in central London. He is looking for alternative celebrations that families can enjoy at home. Well, Australia, which has some of the world's strictest COVID travel restrictions has now raised its cap on the number of citizens who can actually return home from abroad. For the last two months, only 4,000 Australian citizens were allowed to head home per week and the increase will bring that number to 6,000. Well, the controversial cap was introduced in response to the country's second coronavirus wave in July with the prime minister citing pressures on its mandatory hotel quarantine scheme. Well, as we reported earlier in the week, tens of thousands of Australians are currently stranded abroad with no job, no visa, no health care and no way to get home due to these caps. Many saying they feel utterly abandoned by their government. You can read some of their stories on CNN.com. And we have been requesting comment from Prime Minister Scott Morrison, as well as other officials for several weeks. They have not responded. The invitation as ever remains open. We'll be back after this."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JERRY THEMA, TALANA RESIDENT", "MCKENZIE (on camera)", "THEMA", "MCKENZIE", "PAKENG MOHLALA, AVENTINO GROUP (via phone)", "MCKENZIE (voice-over)", "MOHLALA", "MCKENZIE", "MOHLALA", "MCKENZIE", "MOHLALA", "MCKENZIE (voice-over)", "CYRIL RAMAPHOSA, SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT", "MCKENZIE", "RAMPHOSA", "MCKENZIE", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-85181", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2004-6-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/05/bn.02.html", "summary": "Ronald Reagan Dies at 93", "utt": ["This is breaking news. Born in Tampico, Illinois and would later become known as \"The Gipper,\" \"The Great Communicator,\" the nation's 40th president, Ronald Reagan, has lost his battle with Alzheimer's disease after it was revealed 10 years ago. He apparently died at the age of 93 today. By his side, Nancy Reagan as well as his family members in Bel Air. This being confirmed by our John King. Our specialty contributor, Frank Sesno, looks back on life of Ronald Reagan. We'll have that report for you in a moment. But first, of course, we know that Ronald Reagan, through a letter, it was revealed about 10 years ago that he had Alzheimer's, and this weekend as early as this morning, we were warned by some family members that some bad news might be coming, and so now this special contribution from Frank Sesno now in this report.", "I, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear.", "He lent his name to a revolution, as simple as it was bold.", "In this presence crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.", "Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States rode to office on a wave of national discontent. America in 1980 had come to doubt itself, high inflation and interest rates, stagnant wages, a hostage crisis in Iran that served as metaphor to many of a hobbled giant. Reagan had campaigned to change all that.", "I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose.", "His objective, to upend the way Washington did business, to cut taxes and the very government he would lead, and to rebuild American strength and project it on a world he saw as good versus evil.", "What I'm describing now is a plan and a hope for the long term, the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history.", "A common thread connected Reagan's policies at home and abroad.", "Ronald Reagan believed, as I see it, that the individual is the creative principal in history and in society and economics, you know, and in foreign affairs.", "But the Reagan revolution was nearly cut short. March 30, 1981, a disturbed young man named John Hinckley took aim and fired at the president as he came out of a Washington hotel after giving a speech.", "I was there with Nancy when the surgeons came over and said, you know, we got everything. It was that close to his heart.", "Reagan's recovery, stamina and humor captivated the country. \"Honey, I forgot to duck,\" he told Nancy.", "Mr. Speaker, the president of the United States.", "Seventeen days after his return to the White House, he addressed Congress.", "I have no words to express my appreciation for that greeting. Now let's talk about getting spending and inflation under control and cutting your tax rates.", "Reagan got his tax cuts, a 25 percent across-the-board reduction. He got some cuts in spending. They were controversial. And Reagan got big defense increases. One by-product? Huge budget deficits, under Ronald Reagan the national debt nearly tripled.", "But I think he had faith that if we got enough regulatory reform, if we got tax rates low enough, we would generate over time enough revenue growth that we would eliminate those deficits.", "At first things actually got worse. By October, 1982, unemployment topped 10 percent. A whole swath of the country came to be known as the Rust Belt. Reagan's job approval sank to 41 percent.", "It was a tough time in the early '80s because all of the things that he said were going to happen, that things were going to get better, were not getting better.", "Reagan was resolute.", "We can do it, my fellow Americans, by staying the course.", "\"Stay the course\" became a slogan, slowly the economy recovered. Then it boomed. The stock market would more than double. By 1984, when he ran for reelection, he would proclaim \"Morning in America.\" Reagan's view of the wider world was similarly uncluttered. He was ardently anti-communist and did not conceal his contempt for the Soviets. He spoke of the evil empire and defined the Reagan doctrine, which supported freedom fighters against Moscow's communist clients. It would not be until 1985 that the menacing deep freeze of the Cold War would begin to thaw, his first meeting with a Soviet leader. Reagan would develop a relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev, the new reformer from Moscow. By 1987, having spent billions building up the nuclear arsenal, there was a breakthrough. Reagan and Gorbachev would sign the first treaty eliminating a class of nuclear weapons. And he would go to Berlin and make this improbable plea.", "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.", "But there were pitfalls, Iran-Contra was the worst of them. To get American hostages out of Beirut, missiles for the so- called moderates in Iran. To support the anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua, a secret diversion of cash from the Iranian transactions. It was the worst scandal of the Reagan presidency.", "Did you make the mistake of sending arms to Tehran, sir?", "The diversion of funds was revealed to Reagan and the world by his attorney general, Ed Meese.", "I guess what was going through my head at the time was that we had a major problem here for the administration, and quite frankly a problem of such magnitude that if it was not handled exactly right, it could be a major stumbling block for the administration, could even bring down the administration.", "Iran-Contra scarred Reagan's presidency.", "There are reasons why it happened, but no excuses. It was a mistake.", "Staffers lost jobs and stood trial. Though damaged, Reagan weathered the storm.", "He made mistakes and the public didn't care all that much.", "Ronald Reagan connected with most Americans. His humor, his confidence, even his flaws seemed to reinforce his bonds with a wide array of citizens. In crises, Reagan's formidable communication skills could reassure a nation. After 241 Marines died in Lebanon in a terrorist attack, after the Challenger tragedy.", "We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God.", "Reagan was not an intellect. He delegated. Even many of his closest aides described him as aloof or detached. He never developed a deep rapport with minorities. Although an outdoorsman, he was not an environmentalist. But he projected vision and vigor, strength and optimism about America. He believed in its innate goodness. He often referred to it as a \"shining city upon a hill\" and he closed his presidency accordingly.", "She still stands strong and true on the granite ridge. And her glow has held steady no matter what storm. My friends, we did it. We weren't just marking time. We made a difference. We made the city stronger, we made the city freer, and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad. Not bad at all. And so good-bye, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.", "That was Frank Sesno reporting. Once again, Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the U.S. has died today at the age of 93. On the telephone with us is presidential historian Robert Dallek to give us a sense of the legacy as to the legacy of Ronald Reagan. And Mr. Dallek, you can just give us an idea, his final days, we know in the last 10 years that he has been suffering from Alzheimer's and that the family and close friends have been interacting with him, but communication has been very challenging at the very least. Can you hear me OK?", "Yes, I'm here.", "OK. Give us a sense as to what these last few weeks have been like for the family members dealing with the ongoing struggle of Alzheimer's in his final days.", "OK. Sorry about that. We're having a hard time being able to establish some communication there with Robert Dallek. Let's go now to John King who is traveling with President Bush in Paris and earlier today, White House sources had confirmed with CNN that this kind of news was likely to happen as early as today, throughout this weekend, or in the weeks or months to come. And we know, of course, John King, the news has come today with his family members at his side.", "Fredricka, we are told by a senior administration official that President Bush was informed within the past hour that the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, had indeed died. *", "Fredericka, we are told by a senior administration official that President Bush was informed within the past hour that the 14th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan had indeed died. Mr. Bush will make a statement here in Paris. The White House trying to put the arrangements of that together. We were told earlier today that if Mr. Reagan passed away, President Bush would speak. He is of course in Paris here to mark the 60th anniversary of the D-day invasion. This president's father was Ronald Reagan's vice-president, George Walker Bush. And this president often modeled himself on Ronald Reagan's policies, and trying to sell his tax cuts. Many say is he more Reagan than Bush, in comparing this president. But again yes, the president was formed by his Chief of Staff, Andy Carr who served in the Reagan administration that Ronald Reagan dies earlier today out in California. President Bush will make a statement as soon as possible, aides tell us, here in Paris on this tragic development. Fredericka?", "John, what can you tell us about the kind of relations that even Ronald Reagan was able to forge with French leadership there? And the respect that he really did have as a great world leader, as a great communicator. In fact that was of course one of his nicknames.", "The timing of this is striking in the sense that you will have so many heads state that are here in France for the 60th commemoration of the D-day landing. World leaders due to meet in Sea Island (ph) Georgia in the comings days. It will be interesting to see whether that session is canceled or postponed because of President Reagan's death. But Reagan was very controversial remember around the world when he stood up against the Soviet Union, wanted the allies in Europe to deploy short ranged nuclear weapons. Many criticized him, called him a cowboy. But in the end, Ronald Reagan now gets much of the credit for the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. So Ronald Reagan, a very controversial president during his presidency, remembered now as a man who perhaps was a pivotal in a turning point in history here in Europe. We're expecting just a chorus of praise and of course, remorse, and condolences for the Reagan family. At word of this development from President Bush himself, we will hear very shortly, and then of course Fredericka, we know the plans are in place. The state funeral in Washington, it will be a remarkable tribute for this leader in the days to come. The first to come from the current president of the United States shortly here in Paris.", "And in fact John, let's talk about the relationship between the Reagan family and the Bush family. Clearly the strong relationship between Bush Senior and Ronald Reagan as his once vice president before Ronald Reagan then began campaigning for his presidency and of course now, then George Bush Jr., George W. Bush becoming the president, and also still having a relationship with the Reagan family.", "Like many political relationships, it evolved over time. When Ronald Reagan chose George Herbert Walker Bush to be his running mate, many saw that as a political odd couple. George Herbert Walker had campaigned as someone who supported abortion rights, changed his position to put it in line with Ronald Reagan. There was tension between the former president Bush, who was vice president at the time, and President Reagan because the former vice president Bush at the time didn't think he was given such great responsibilities. But Ronald Reagan of course redefined the Republican Party in the United States of America essentially picking up the Goldwater", "John King traveling with President Bush as we await statements coming from President Bush on this notice out of Paris. We'll be keeping in touch with you. In the meantime, let's go to Washington now and Robert Novak, as well as our political analyst Bill Schneider who also at his side there in Washington. Robert, let me begin with you. Let's talk about the emotions that are likely being felt inside the beltway. Very fond memories of the former president, Ronald Reagan.", "Well, President Reagan, of course, was a dreamer. And his dreams ran quite counter to the conventional wisdom of the beltway. He was for -- he was abused for his tax cuts. Even his Republican leader in the senate, Howard Baker, said it was a riverboat gamble. It turned out, I believe, a great success. But then of course, his very tough policy toward the Soviet Union, his refusal to make a deal and make a deal (ph) with Gorbachev. He was criticized inside his own state department. But again, I believe that contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union. So at the time that he was here, he was far from a congenial, beloved figure. He was in much abuse, and much revile. But I think he's been proven correct on many things and was a great success in those two areas, in his tax policy and his policy against the Soviet Union.", "Bill, on a day like this, the passing of the 40th president, this is a day in which many are embracing and thinking of the fond memories of his legacy. What are some of those things that kind of come to mind for you?", "I remember that Ronald Reagan was a very difficult president to elect back in 1980. One of the first campaigns I covered. Ronald Reagan frightened people. They were concerned that he was a dangerous man who said often very radical things, too extreme, too right wing, too old. But Americans were desperate for strong leadership. A man of conviction after Jimmy Carter, who seemed to many Americans to be wishy-washy and ineffectual. And in the last week of that 1980 campaign, Ronald Reagan used his best skills as an actor to reassure Americans that he wasn't a dangerous or monstrous man. That he wouldn't start a war, that he wouldn't throw old people out in the snow. That he was actually a very reassuring, congenial personality. And we saw the first glimpse of what was to become a trademark of his presidency, his generosity of spirit. In a way, Ronald Reagan was the original compassionate conservative.", "All right, sorry, Bill. We're just getting some information now. Updating us a little bit more on the details of the death and the notification of the death of Ronald Reagan. The White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan was informed by Chief of Staff Andy Carr today that the death took place 4:09 Eastern Time involving Ronald Reagan, and that information coming directly from a Reagan insider. Before the word then was Fred Ryan, before that word was spread out to the world and to all the news organizations. So Bill, once again, let's talk about the day. We knew early on today that there were White House sources that were saying family members, particularly Nancy Reagan was saying, this is it. It could happen any day now. It could happen within weeks, within months. And now this sudden surprise, this sudden news coming at 4:09, the time of death for Ronald Reagan.", "Yes and the news reports also indicated that the immediate cause of death was pneumonia. Alzheimer's disease is a terrible disease. Not just for the victim but also for his family, the family around them. Because they have to live with and take care of someone that they cease to know. When Nancy Reagan said touchingly at an event in Los Angeles just a few weeks ago that this man that she had lived with, she had been married to for 52 years had gone a long journey to a distant place where she could no longer reach him. And in many ways that's the saddest part of all. The person is there but the spirit has just gone. So for the last ten years, he and those around him have been suffering from this terrible disease. Let me point out one other thing though. Ronald Reagan was not just a legend in the country. He's also a hero to the conservative movement. Remember just a few months ago, when CBS wanted to run a mini series called \"The Reagan's,\" which was considered in many ways insulting to both the former president and the first lady. And what happened was a spontaneous outpouring of anger among conservative activists who were determined to protect his legacy from what they regarded as a derogatory treatment by a television network. And in the end they threatened to boycott, and the network decided to put it on cable rather than to show it to a large broadcast audience. Ronald Reagan was always able to rally conservatives. Even 15 years after he left office. He was just that important, and just that much a hero.", "And Robert, let me go back to you for a moment. Let's talk a little bit and try to recap, if we can, about Ronald Reagan's career as a president. Shortly after being nominated as president, his assassination attempt came just 70 days well into his presidency, still early on. He was criticized, early on in his presidency. Criticized for a number of things, but at the same time, he was heralded for being quite progressive, namely for having three women in his cabinet.", "Let's not pretend that he was something that he wasn't. He was not a liberal. He was not a progressive. And to beg to differ with my colleague, Bill, I don't think he was a compassionate conservative. He was a hard line conservative, and that's why the liberals hated him. You said in a passive voice that he was criticized. He was criticized by the left. He was extraordinarily popular in the country. And that's where the phrase \"Reagan Democrats\" came from. These are people who had become disgusted with the Democratic Party. And there had been a rolling political realignment which really began in 1968. But it really hit warp speed in 1980 with Reagan. Where people who had been Democrats all their life decided they were republicans, probably a realignment that's nearing its end or has come to an end by now. But this was an extraordinary development that President Reagan coming out for smaller government, for much radically lower taxes, and for a very, very muscular foreign policy toward the Soviet Union, was getting majority support from around the country. So this was really a radical change in government, and was fundamentally successful. It had, like any administration had its ups and downs, and the Iran-contra situation was one of the great downers he had, but by and large, I think we'd have to agree an eight-year successful presidency.", "Nearly an hour now after former president Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Now the flag at the White House in the nation's capitol flies at half-staff. John King is traveling with President Bush as he is on his tour of Europe tomorrow. Was to be on his way to Normandy for D-day commemorations. We're now waiting to hear from the president on their official comment now with notice of the death and what's the latest on that, John?", "Fredericka, as of now, no change in the president's travel plans, no change as of now in the President's schedule to participate in the 60th anniversary ceremony at Normandy tomorrow. We are awaiting a statement from the President. We are told the White House at the moment is working on a written statement for President Bush, voicing his condolences, and his remorse. His sadness at the death of former president Ronald Reagan. Here's how it's played out here in Paris. As you know, Mr. Bush was informed by his senior staff earlier in this today and in recent days that President Reagan's health was deteriorating. It was 10:09 here in Paris, 4:09 in the afternoon back in Atlanta in the Eastern United States when Mr. Bush was told by his Chief of Staff Andrew Carr that he had received a phone call from Fred Ryan, who was Ronald Reagan's last chief of staff in the Reagan White House, telling him that Mr. Reagan had indeed passed away. Mr. Bush was told again by his chief of staff, Andy Carr. The White House had a sense in recent days this was coming. There are elaborate plans Fredericka back in Washington for a state funeral, other commemorations, memorial services for former president Reagan. We'll see in the hours ahead here in Paris whether Mr. Bush cuts short this trip. Is he scheduled to attend these historic commemoration events and the White House officials suggesting to us at least at this hour that Mr. bush believes it is appropriate to go forward with those and perhaps even use them for public comments about Ronald Reagan, what he meant to the people at the United States, and how his presidency changed Europe. Fredericka?", "All right, John King, and of course when we get more information on the statement and plans from the White House, we'll be going back to you there in Paris. As you said, the President still may have his plans to move on to Normandy tomorrow for the 60th anniversary D-day commemorations. Carol Lin is here at my side as we look at the White House shot of the flag at half-staff there. You covered Ronald Reagan and the presidency of Ronald Reagan for some time. As we heard from John King, an elaborate plan for state funeral is likely to be planned there in Washington. What are your expectations?", "I think the expectation is that world leaders from all over are going to arrive in Washington. The body of Ronald Reagan will travel to Washington; lay in state at the Capitol Rotunda. There will be a service to be held and clearly this is expected news. I mean, Ronald Reagan was 93 years old, and had been in ill health for quite some time. Fredericka, you mentioned that I Covered the White House. Really I was just starting in my career at the White House, ironically. I was a field producer for a startup satellite company. And what I remember from those days was the utter protectiveness of President Reagan's staff, of him and his time. And how carefully controlled, and how carefully planned every public event was with the president. Every word thought out, every detail seen right down to the detail. Our Frank Buckley now is standing by outside of the Bel Air mansion where President Reagan just passed away in the last hour. Frank, what can you tell us about who has arrived at the house, and what is going on right now?", "We can tell you that throughout the day, family members and friends have been coming to the home to pay respects. It's our belief that the three surviving children of President Reagan did make it to the home. Ron Jr., Patty, and Michael, Michael, the last child to arrive here at the home in Bel Air. People have been coming throughout the day. The gate is open right now. I want to show you as well the scene out here outside of the home throughout the day, journalists have been gathering here on this very narrow road that winds up through the hills here in Bel Air. This was where President Reagan spent his last years after leaving the White House and quite a departure from the life that he led as a boy in Illinois. He rose from being a radio announcer, where he did play by play, became an actor, became the president of the Screen Actor's Guild, then governor of California, then eventually president of the United States of America. Throughout it all, he maintained this tumble human touch that I think you've talked about already, but people -- he was able to reach them on a level that people could relate to, talking to them in his great storytelling style. He was someone who could keep an audience throughout hours of talking, whether it was a speech or whether it was one on one, when you talked to people who have had an audience with President Reagan, they say his charisma was something to behold. Someone with a great sense of humor, everyone recalls what he said when there was the assassination attempt. His first words to Nancy Reagan reportedly, \"Honey, I forgot to duck,\" and his words to the surgeons who were about to operate on him, \"I hope you're all Republicans.\" So a person with a great sense of humor, who rose from a small-town America childhood to a position of greatness. And right now, we're just waiting to see what happens here in Bel Air, but this is where President Reagan passed away. Back to you.", "Frank, this is the home in Bel Air that President Reagan and Nancy Reagan moved to after his presidency. In fact, this home was bought by very close friends of the Reagan family.", "Right, this was the place that he came to right after the presidency. Initially, it was a home that had been leased for the Reagan's, and his friends -- he had legions of friends, of course, in his position as president. But as I said, his human touch, he always maintained a very close circle of friends, the people who became his kitchen cabinet, who went to Washington with him, who helped to advise him as the president of the United States, and continued to be his friends as he returned here to California. Right now, helicopters arriving over the scene here in Bel Air. It's a growing group that is coming, mostly right now media. We haven't seen any private citizens come by, but a significant group of media here in Bel Air right now. Carol?", "Thank you very much, Frank Buckley reporting live in Bel Air. Joining us now on the telephone is CNN Political Analyst Jeff Greenfield, he's phoning in from Charleston, South Carolina. Jeff, how did you hear the news today?", "A call about I guess four or five minutes after it happened by somebody at CNN. Obviously, this is something that we've been, thinking about pretty much all day. But I want to just underscore something that Bob Novak said. I think historians are going to decide what kind of a president Ronald Reagan was. But I think one thing that is clear, is that he was the most consequential president politically since Roosevelt. It is really remarkable to think of Ronald Reagan, a man who came to national prominence politically in 1964 with a speech on behalf of the doomed candidacy of Barry Goldwater. This was the high-water market, post- war liberalism. Over the next 16 years, a combination of people leaving the Democratic party, a combination of events that ultimately, a meeting of a movement and a single individual culminated in a 1980 landslide that brought Reagan to the presidency and brought a Republican senate with him and to an extent that I really think he's not been equaled since Roosevelt. He changed his political party. We had other two term presidents. We've had Eisenhower, we had Clinton, but Ronald Reagan fundamentally reshaped the Republican Party into a party of tax cuts instead of deficits. He was an internationalist.", "Yet, Jeff, some of his past remarks even before he ran for president, he was cynical about politics himself. One time back in March of 1977, he said, \"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I've come to realize it bears a very close resemblance to the first.\"", "Yes, but you know what? With all due respect, I don't think that's a mark of cynicism. That's part of what Ronald Reagan had, and it's been mentioned before. One of the reasons people didn't see him, even people who disagree with him politically, didn't want frightened about him, was that he did not in my view take himself with the seriousness of", "And make statements in public like \"trees cause more pollution than automobiles,\" or like \"ketchup really is a vegetable.\"", "Well as I say, the public policy arguments are going to go on, and the way historians go on, it will be decades. Whether or not Ronald Reagan understood enough about the complexities of policies, I think there are people who will argue that he missed a golden opportunity to turn conservatism toward the task of what was going on with the poor. He once gave a great speech in 1980 to the Urban League about the failure of liberalism, but there was no particular sign in his administration that he cared about that. This is a human being after all, with his own full share of weaknesses. I just come back to my original point, in a political sense, he cast, I believe, as large a shadow on the American landscape as any president or more, a larger shadow than any than any president since F.D.R. And he still remains by the way, in the Republican Party, the single most popular figure in that party. I think maybe Lincoln gives him a run for his money, but nobody else.", "Jeff, do you remember in his second term, there were a lot of questions about how engaged the president really was directly policy. How hands on do you think President Reagan was during his two terms?", "I think there are people who will tell you that particularly with the second term, the second terms are notoriously unsuccessful in American life, there was a kind of disengagement, with one profound exception. The exception was dealing with Mikhail Gorbachev. Reagan had always said, there's a kind -- there was a part of Ronald Reagan that always had a kind of, not sentimentality, but a kind of almost romantic sense of how things worked. He once said if he could take the leader of the Soviet Union and fly him over a typical American suburb, and show them the homes and the swimming pools, they'd get it. And in a way, with Mikhail Gorbachev, I think when he saw that this guy was beginning to break the ice in the Soviet Union; I think Reagan did get engaged. In fact some of Reagan's advisers felt he was too engaged. That famous summit in", "A walk in the woods.", "-- to a deal that would have effectively wiped nuclear weapons out of everybody's arsenal. They quickly backtracked ON THAT. What happened was that Gorbachev wouldn't accept Reagan's argument that this had to be done with the strategic defense initiative. So on that score, I don't think he can say he was disengaged. In terms of things like Iran-contra, and certainly the whole domestic program in the second term, I think you can make that argument. Some people felt actually that it was the first sign this guy was slowing down. If I was elected at 69, and almost died in an assassination attempt and he had colon cancer. This was somebody who by his second term probably was getting a little tired, and there are people close to him who felt that he had lost a step in the second term. On the other hand he ended that administration more popular than when he came in, and with clear signs that the Soviet Union -- that the Cold War was beginning to wind down in a way that nobody had ever thought. I think you'll have a lot of people fighting about this legacy. That's one of the things about any figure. We're still debating -- there are still people debating about Franklin Roosevelt's legacy or for that matter, Teddy Roosevelt. But for today, I think the proper note is to talk about the fact that this really remarkable figure, who was seen by most of his political rivals, and even by some Republicans as a guy way too simplistic, too old, how could an actor possibly be president? He was, in a political sense, an enormous figure over the last 20 or 30 years of American life.", "The great communicator. Thank you very much. Jeff Greenfield joining us live on the telephone from Charleston South Carolina.", "We're still awaiting official comment coming from the White House as the president is in France, one day before going to Normandy to take part in the D-day commemorations. Our Wolf Blitzer is there right now. Former White House Correspondent. And Wolf, maybe you can give us a sense as to what was it about the former president Ronald Reagan that the White House pool either loved or loathed about covering him?", "One of the most amazing things about Ronald Reagan was his sense of timing. It was almost always perfect Fredericka. And even in his death, that timing, almost perfect. This is the eve right now we're approaching midnight here in Normandy France, the eve of the 60th anniversary of D-day. The day that turned the tide in World War II, and as many have pointed out, the greatest generation at that point saved the world. It would be 11 months before the defeat of Nazi Germany, but it all began here on the beaches of Normandy 60 years ago. The world is getting ready in the next few hours to commemorate that event. It's almost appropriate that Ronald Reagan, at age 93, who delivered one of his most memorable speeches here at Point", "As you said, Wolf, it's just incredible timing. There are fireworks going off here now. We have all of these sea of white crosses behind us over the English Channel right now. When you cut back 60 years ago, Dwight Eisenhower was just getting ready for the invasion. It happened shortly after midnight on June 6th. And if Reagan's remembered for one thing it is always -- he'll be remembered for the support he gave the troops. When he became president in 1981 defeated Jimmy Carter, his main objective was to rebring the morale. The armed forces had become corrosive due to Watergate, due to the problems of Vietnam. And Reagan was determined to support our armed forces. People like Secretary Layman and the big navy, the Grenada Invasion of 1983, where he actually banned the press from coming, trying to rebring morale. And he was always serving under -- he was known for his moments of pageantry like the \"Challenger\" explosion.", "Douglas stand by. I want to bring in our Senior White House correspondent John King; he's traveling with the president in Paris tonight. John, walk us through how word began to filter out from the presidential party that former President Ronald Reagan had died.", "Wolf, as the President was in Italy to begin this day, word did get to the Senior White House Staff from the Reagan family there had been a serious deterioration in the former president's condition -- former president's condition, and that in fact it was possibly eminent at that time. Mr. Bush was here in Paris, France, after a meeting with president Chirac when he was told by his Chief of Staff Andy Carr who you know well, and who served in the Reagan administration, that he had received word from a former Reagan administration official that President Reagan indeed had passed away. That was at 10:00 here in Paris, 10:09 we are told. And the issue now is when will we hear from the President? We are told a written statement will come out shortly. Mr. Bush as of now anyway will wait until tomorrow morning here in Paris is to deliver a statement to the camera. As you noted, in some ways, a very powerful setting for President Bush tomorrow as he attends the 60th anniversary commemoration of Normandy. Just earlier today he equated the global war against terrorism to standing up against communism. It was Ronald Reagan of course who was remembered for saying, \"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.\" Ronald Reagan was controversial when he urged the European allies to take a tougher stance against the then Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan remembered now in history as the president who probably more than any other forced the collapse of the Soviet Union. And Wolf, we should also note this plays out in the middle of a presidential election campaign back in the United States. Ronald Reagan a polarizing figure in many ways who cut taxes. Democrats say he ran up record deficits. The one trademark of Ronald Reagan was his optimism. That is a character asset that this President Bush has tried to emulate. Many say this President Bush in terms of a candidate is much more like Ronald Reagan, than his own father, the former president.", "John, let's just recap a little bit. Do you anticipate that the president, President Bush tonight, even though it's approaching midnight here in France right now, you're in Paris, I'm in Normandy where the president will be coming early in the morning. The president will make a public statement before the television cameras tonight?", "We are told at this moment, Wolf, no, that the president will issue a written statement, voicing his sadness and his condolences. Whether that changes or not is an interesting question, because it is still the afternoon of course back in the United States. But as of now, Bush plans to issue a written statement tonight. We're told by aides he will not deliver a statement on camera for the American people and of course for the global audience given this until tomorrow morning. We'll keep closely on track of that if the plans change. But as of now we're told to expect perhaps even within the next few minutes a written statement from the President of the United States. No plans as of now for him to address to the American people and react to this tragic event on camera tonight here in Paris. Wolf?", "John King, as you were speaking we were showing our viewers a picture of the White House with the flag already at half-staff atop the White House. There is an elaborate plan now that the President, the White House has already gone through that will involve a presidential funeral, lying in state in Washington, burial in California. What if anything can you share with our viewers on this plan that has been carefully, carefully worked out over these past several months involving the funeral, the state funeral, the memorial services for President Reagan?", "In fact, that plan worked out, and sometimes amended Wolf, over a period of several years as Mr. Reagan has suffered from Alzheimer's. President Bush leads that funeral by his designation as the President of the United States. President Reagan will lie in state in the United States Capitol Building, so the congressional leaders, principally, the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert have a lead role in arranging those events and those ceremonies and the memorial services. The key question now, and we're awaiting word on this is when the Reagan family wants to schedule that. President Reagan of course passing away in California. The Reagan family, we're told by White House officials will decide the timetable for series of events. Mr. Reagan's body then will be brought to Washington for the state funeral and memorial services and other events to commemorate him. We'll get word we assume in the day to come as this White House, the Bush White House talks to Nancy Reagan in California and other close associates of the Reagan family. We are told that it is the Reagan family, not the White House, or not anyone in Washington who will dictate the timetable for this, Wolf.", "I want to warn our viewers once again, if you hear explosions going off above my head it's approaching midnight here in France. Fireworks on the eve of D-day, the 60 anniversary of D-day. That's what you are hearing. If you can hear that crackling sound above my head here on the beaches of Normandy, fireworks going off. The celebration beginning. The liberation of France, the liberation of Europe 60 years ago on June 6th, 1944 it began. John king, I assume the President and his delegation, including the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, who is here as well, they will all still be coming to Normandy to this cemetery behind me to commemorate the 60th anniversary of d-day. No indication --have you received any indication whatsoever that any of those plans will be changed because of the death of Ronald Reagan?", "No, in fact, Wolf, senior officials tonight telling us that the President has every intention to go forward with those plans. They say for now it would make no sense to go immediately back to Washington because it will take a period of a few days we assume to schedule the state funeral and the other events, commemorations and services for the former President Ronald Reagan. As you had been noting in the coverage, and we have been noting tonight, in many ways perhaps a fitting backdrop for this president of the United States to offer words of condolences and his own reflections on the legacy of Ronald Reagan. He will be in the company of so many other heads of state. For the first time the German Chancellor invited to participate in the D-day ceremony. An enemy 60 years ago, now part of the western alliance 60 years later. In many ways this president will certainly be the lead in what will be a chorus of praise and condolences for President Reagan tomorrow, sprinkled into those 60th anniversary commemoration events that again, Mr. Bush has been highlighting a theme on this trip, saying that he's used the war on terrorism much like the war against communism. And it took a while to convince some of the western European nations to adopt a harder line against the Soviet Union. That was Ronald Reagan's mantra, his constant theme when he was president of the United States. It was quite controversial at the time. But in the history books now written Ronald Reagan in fact for taking those positions, is given a great deal of the credit for the fall of the Berlin Wall which occurred under his successor as president, his vice president at the time, George H. W. Bush, this president's father.", "I also assume John that all of these world leaders who were scheduled to go to Sea Island (ph) Georgia this week for the G-8 summit scheduled to begin on Tuesday, the president was supposed to fly directly from here to Georgia for that summit. They will all continue on that journey and certainly they will all be in the United States in collaboration in connection with the funeral, with the funeral of President Reagan. I assume there's been no indication of any change in plans involving the G-8 summit. Is that right John?", "That is all under discussion right now Wolf. And again, that relies primarily on what the Reagan family wants to do. Right now we are told no plans to change the schedule for the G-8 summit. No plans to change the arrivals of so many leaders from around the world, not just the group of 8 leaders, but leaders from the Middle East, and the greater Middle East. That could change however. We need to watch that, and be careful about that in the days ahead. We are told now that the statement from the White House, the written statement from the President of the United States is scheduled to be released at 6:15 Washington time, that would be 12:15 a.m. here in Paris. Wolf?", "All right, John, stand by. We're going to be getting back to you. Our colleague, Bob Novak, has covered Ronald Reagan, covered him for many, many years. He's bringing, joining us once again. I know, Bob, that you are close to many of the Reagan associates. Those people who were intimately involved in setting the stage and preparing for the state funeral, preparing for the events that are about to commemorate Ronald Reagan's life. What do you know about what Nancy Reagan-- Mrs. Reagan wants to unfold in the coming hours and days?", "I don't really know Wolf what the plans are for the funeral. There's been detail planning for some time but I'm not aware of what's going to happen in that score.", "What can you tell us about Ronald Reagan on this death, on the eve of D-day, the 60th anniversary of D-day? This almost sense of perfect timing on the part of the former president.", "Wolf, he was a greatly underestimated figure, president. Almost a condescending air in some of the comments I've heard during the day today. Well, he wasn't all that bright, but he could communicate. A new book has come out quite recently about his previously unpublished letters, all of them handwritten by him, and he was a remarkable intellect in my opinion. He was a great reader. He read a lot of the philosophers and economists of classical economics, as well as conservative magazines like \"Human Events,\" and \"National Review.\" He was unquestionably, Wolf, the most ideological president we have ever had. I wouldn't ever call Roosevelt an ideological person, and I don't think Bill Clinton was really very ideological. But certainly Ronald Reagan was. But he was a practical man. He knew he could only go so far. He would have loved to have a gold standard for the dollar, but he couldn't get that far. But he did, as he said in his farewell address, achieve much more than anybody dreamed. One thing I would like to say, how tough he was. We have to describe him now that he's been in this long sleep of Alzheimer's as a grandfather figure. He was a tough, ornery customer. I think the thing that made his presidency was when he broke the Air Controllers Union in the beginning of his presidency. A lot of people have forgotten that entirely, how controversial it was. And I know that there were members, conservative members of his staff who said, Mr. President, you can't do this. It's going to ruin your presidency. He said, \"They broke the law by going on strike.\" And that was just an absolutely shattering decision for the labor movement, for America, and for the world. People in Europe said hey, this is a tough hombre you have to deal with. He was I think also; somebody was asking whether he was disengaged in his second term. Well, of course he was disengaged from a lot of things he wasn't interested in much, but he was very engaged in the Cold War and of course, it was during his second term that he made these tremendous decisions not to follow the state department's line on giving in to the Soviet Union. And also, which got him into a lot of trouble, his adamancy in supporting the Contras in Nicaragua, who we must remember were the winners. The Sandinistas were driven out of power. I really do believe that history is written by the liberals, and I think they're going to have to be careful in assessing Ronald Reagan. He wasn't all triumph, but he was I think, as Jeff Greenfield said, not only as Jeff Greenfield said a dominant figure on the earth, thought highly of the world, but a highly successful figure as well.", "Bob, I want to you stand by. I want to just correct one thing that we reported at 6:15 Eastern Time, about a half an hour or so from now, a little bit more than a half an hour or so from now, the former president George Bush, the father of the current president, will be making a statement on Ronald Reagan's death, 6:15 Eastern, about 30 minutes or so from now. You're looking at this live picture at the White House, where the flag is already being flown at half staff. Frank Fahrenkopf is on the phone, former Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Someone who was very close to Ronald Reagan. Frank thanks so much for joining us. What's going through your mind on this sad occasion?", "Well listening to everyone, Wolf, including Bob Novak, just completing. I think the one thing -- you could you talk about the Cold War, and it was a tremendous victory for all of us, but I think the important thing was that he brought back our national sense of pride and dignity after what was really a tough time in the '70s. If you think back Wolf, there are many people saying that no president would ever again serve for two terms. Everyone thought that. That was the word out, and he overturned that in 1984, winning one of the biggest election victories in history. I think what also came to mind was the comparison in a way with President Bush. I mean, when Ronald Reagan came to Washington in 1981, the view was that this was a governor from a western state, no foreign policy experience. He was \"dumb,\" a cowboy actor. Remember all of that? That he needed advisers around him to do anything. And sort of very much the same thing that George W. Bush faced when he first time. The economy, I mean people forget the day he was sworn into office; the crime rate in this country was 21.5. It's hard to believe that now, looking back. So the great changes that he brought and the dignity and pride he brought back to America are the things that resonate most with me.", "Frank Fahrenkopf, do you know what the Reagan family would like to have happen in the next hours and days? In other words, the plans that they have taken? I'm sure under great, great consideration for the state funeral, for the memorial services in Washington, the body lying in state at the Rotunda on Capitol Hill?", "No, I don't know the details, and I don't know anyone who does. I've heard the same thing. That the body will be flown back here, he will lie in state and following that, an appropriate burial at the library. But I think, in many ways those plans clearly for out there have been in stone for a long time. Nancy and the President picked out their grave sites. I know you've seen them, outside the library in the back overlooking the Simi Valley. But the exact details, timing, and so forth, I don't think anybody knows at this point.", "All right. We'll stand by for all of that, obviously, wait to hear directly from the Reagan family, specifically Mrs. Nancy Reagan. Frank Fahrenkopf thanks for spending a few moments with us here on CNN. The 93-year-old former president of the United States Ronald Reagan is dead. Let's continue our special coverage in honor of Ronald Reagan. Fredericka Whitfield is standing by in Atlanta.", "Thanks very much, Wolf. Former First Lady Nancy Reagan was with the surviving Reagan children, Patty and Ron Jr., when the former president passed away just over an hour ago at their Bel Air estate. Judy Woodruff now profiles the lasting legacy of the love affair between Nancy and Ronald Reagan.", "They were a Hollywood fairytale turned political power couple. Leading man, Ronald Reagan, was president of the Screen Actor's Guild, when he met Nancy Davis. He was divorced. His film career on the decline, and Davis was a waning Hollywood starlet. Reagan often said Nancy saved his soul and that he couldn't imagine life without her. She responded, saying her life didn't start until she met Ronny.", "Everything just fell into place with Ronny and me. We completed each other.", "A love affair so close, even their children and stepchildren could not squeeze in.", "It's a love like I've never seen. And nobody gets in the way of that love. That's theirs.", "When Reagan enters politics, their partnership solidified even more.", "Nancy was a very fast learner. I don't think she had any idea when Reagan decided to explore, which is the way he looked at it the governorship in '66. But she was immediately not only part of the partnership, the campaign, but she had to go out on her own and do various activities.", "Early in Reagan's political career, Nancy was criticized for gazing at her husband during his speeches. She was lamb basted for playing the role of the adoring wife. But insiders say it was no act.", "I've always felt that the relationship between the two of them was quite genuine, and that this is not a -- you know, they didn't have to act at being in love, because they were.", "Shots rang out as President Reagan left the Washington Hilton Hotel this afternoon.", "Nancy nearly lost the love of her life when John Hinckley shot the president. But Reagan recovered. He used humor to ease her fears, telling Nancy, \"Honey, I forgot to duck.\" Still, Nancy worried, and began consulting an astrologer. Something which raised eyebrows in Washington. Her profile improved with time, and as she traveled with the President. In Beijing, Berlin, and Geneva. The Reagan's presented a united front of diplomacy and charm. They were each other's staunchest ally. Critics suspected that Nancy whispered more into the president's ear than words of help.", "Doing everything we can.", "Nancy understood Reagan's strengths and weaknesses, and she filled in the gaps, even if that meant playing the heavy.", "She had that third eye that she would see people who were trying to use him, and use him in the wrong way, and she would stop that.", "Many say Reagan would never have succeeded in politics, had it not been for his wife.", "No, Ronald Reagan wouldn't have been governor, wouldn't have been president without her, no way.", "And as his presidency ended, he let everyone know what she meant to him.", "That second floor living quarters in the White House would have seemed a big and lonely spot without her waiting for me every day at the end of the day.", "And then, in 1994, Reagan wrote a letter, a poignant farewell to the nation, after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. It would be the last campaign he and Nancy would handle together.", "I found that even though the person I love and have loved for 44 years is slipping away. My love for him grows. As he changes, if I stop asking why and simply love, I do grow.", "Reagan epitomized the American dream. He was a small town boy from humble beginnings, who exemplified that the system worked, that any kid can grow up to be president. And Nancy, well, she was right where she wanted to be, by his side. Judy Woodruff, CNN, reporting.", "And Nancy Reagan was right by his side at the time of his death, which we believe is 4:09 Eastern time. One of his sons, Michael Reagan arrived at the Bel Air home not long before the former president was pronounced dead. And just a short time ago he released a written statement, comments coming on behalf of the family and reads in part, \"I pray that as America reflects on the passing of my dad they will remember a man of integrity, conviction, and good humor that changed America and the world for the better. He would modestly say the credit goes to others, but I believe the credit is his.\" That from Michael Reagan, the oldest son. I want to head to Washington where Al Hunt is with the rest of the CAPITAL GANG to reflect a little bit more on your thoughts on this day of the news of the passing of the former president.", "With Kate O'Beirne, who worked in the Reagan White House, Margaret Carlson, who's covered Washington politics for 20 years and Robert Novak who first interviewed Ronald Reagan almost 40 years ago. First coming out of that story we just saw, one of the great love stories of all times, Nancy Reagan and Ronald Reagan. It was genuine. Anyone who read those wonderful letters, those poignant, beautiful letters that he wrote to her just has to be inspired and a little bit jealous that he could write like that. Kate, what's your recollection of Ronald Wilson Reagan?", "Al, a conservative, a deeply committed conservative. He had a coherent political philosophy. Sure he had as an incredibly successful politician; sure he had that winning personality, extremely likeable, the terrific sense of humor. But I think his success beginning as governor of California and then of course the two big wins in the presidency owe most to the power of ideas. Because that's what he was committed to. He was an idealist. He saw the world the way it was and was determined that he was going to do everything he could, use America's power to change that. He was deeply moved by the plight of people trapped in the Soviet Union behind the Iron Curtain and we don't have to wait long in this case for the enormous -- to understand the enormous impact of Ronald Reagan. We do know this, the Soviet Union is no more, and he was an indispensable mover in seeing the end of the Soviet Union.", "An idealist Margaret?", "As the daughter of a Reagan Democrat, I saw close up and firsthand the power of a personality. And this charismatic man who convinced die-hard Democrats like my father that it was morning in America with Ronald Reagan. And it was an astonishing thing for me to see. But in fact, he did have the power of personality to dominate this whole period of time with the couple of simple ideas, which is not to say he was simple, but he wanted to defeat the Soviet Union, and thought it could be done. He wanted to get government off our backs. He wanted to get over malaise, and he had a cheerful optimistic personality. He wasn't in any way a compassionate conservative, by the way. He was just a conservative who put forward a kind of cheerful face. Nancy Reagan, by the way, just let me add briefly, was far more powerful a first lady than Hillary Clinton, because I think she had tremendous influence over him, totally trustworthy, and the third eye, as Michael Deaver just put it.", "Bob, I was always struck that Ronald Reagan, whether you agree or disagree with me, he knew who he was; he knew what he wanted to do. He was really a very secure man.", "He was. You know, thinking about it, he was almost the direct answer to Richard Nixon. Because Nixon really didn't believe in much of anything, but he was engrossed in the game of politics. Just loved political maneuver, wasn't as good as it as he thought he was but he loved the maneuver, the minutiae, and the big things. Reagan really didn't like politics very much, and on the occasions when I was fortunate enough to be alone with him, I thought I'd get a lot of good political gossip. I never did. He didn't like to gossip about politics. He liked to gossip about show business. That's what he really enjoyed. He loved to tell dialect jokes too, Jewish and Irish, particularly the Jewish were forbidden in public, but he loved to do it in private. The other thing was, there was such a condescending at attitude by the establishment. He knew an awful lot of things. Rolly and I interviewed him for a book.", "Your ex-partner Rolly Evans -- your late partner Roland Evans -- you wrote a book actually wrote a book about the Reagans.", "We learned that book that was published a couple of years ago, \"Reagan and His Own Hand.\"", "I was talking about a few minutes ago, yes.", "Exactly. He was very widely read which an awful lot of people didn't appreciate. He thought long and hard about issues. He'd go out on the road when he traveled and in his own hand, of course, write his presentations. He'd test ideas with audiences. He'd think more about it. By the time he ran for public office, he had very well-defined refined, deeply held beliefs. Even though many flocked to Washington to be part of the Reagan revolution, we called it, he had his own share of naysayers in his midst, but he was never deterred. It was the confidence. He knew he was right and it didn't matter that he had some people whispering in his ear.", "Let me add this. I don't disagree with any of this, but I did disagree with a number of the Reagan policies and had tremendous admiration for Reagan. But one of the reasons I did was because I do think we have to -- he also was a pragmatic man. He was a man who liked to get things done. He actually liked to govern. I agree with you, Bob, he didn't like to gossip about politicians, but he was a pretty darned good politician. He had the security to surrounded himself usually with some very good people going back to Sacramento days, and when he was president of the United States.", "He never tried to be to covered by half. He was not, you know, here's the plan, if you read the", "No, I've never read his works Bob.", "He was an 18th century -- I had never heard of him. I had to go get a book and sure enough, guess what he was for? He was for free trade and tax cuts.", "And a gold standard perhaps?", "And a gold standard.", "Also, I'll tell you, he was very fortunate, because he had a wonderful Boswell, Lou Canyon (ph)of the \"The Washington Post\", who has written several biographies of Ronald Reagan, but was president, and he just wrote one last year, a marvelous biography of Reagan's time as governor of California. And I can say a great compliment to both, they richly deserve one another. Lou Canyon (ph) is one of the great journalist biographers out there.", "We have to remember what a tough political competitor he was, whether he liked gossiping about politics or not. In 1976, of course after losing those early primaries to a sitting president, Gerald Ford, many people urged him to leave the race. What's the use? And he refused to. Again, that was he was surrounded by naysayers and insisted on going all the way to convention, and darned if in later primaries he didn't start picking up some of the political support.", "One of the greatest moments my political reporting life Bob, was going Ronald Reagan went, and the time between the last primary and the convention. Gerry Ford was the President of the United States, was eating away delicate by delicate and put a damn in this district. And Reagan had to do something dramatic. So he picked Dick Schweiker (ph) as his running mate. And to use a football expression, I'm sorry women, but it froze the line backers. He goes to Mississippi with John Wayne, and right in that plane with John Wayne, John Wayne came back and talked about what a great guy that gipper was. He was an extraordinarily memorable and historic figure. Ronald Wilson Reagan. Carol, back to you.", "Thank you very much Al. I'm Carol Lin at the CNN Center in Atlanta. And in case you are just joining our coverage, our special coverage, Ronald Reagan, America's 40th president dies this afternoon at 4:09 Eastern Time in his Bel Air California home. He was surrounded by his wife Nancy Reagan, and his surviving children, Ron Jr., and Patty Davis. His son Michael Reagan joined shortly thereafter and released a statement saying that he prays as America reflects on the passing of his father that they remember him as a man of integrity. Fredericka Whitfield is joining me here on the set here at the CNN Center in Atlanta for last hour and a half or so. Fredericka, we have been covering this story. Apparently his body will be flown to Washington, D.C. where it will lie in state and plans for a funeral service are still pending.", "Yes, exactly. Still undetermined exactly when that will take place. We're still awaiting a written statement to come from current president George Bush who is in Paris. He is, of course, in Europe, to impart commemorate the D-day celebrations tomorrow. As well as meeting with French President Jacques Chirac today to talk a little bit more about their relationships, or bringing the relations together again as it pertains to Iraq. Now, former president George Herbert Walker Bush is likely going to be making a statement in about 15 minutes from now from Kennebunkport, Maine. 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{"id": "CNN-34148", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-7-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/06/lad.08.html", "summary": "United States Hands Over Accused U.S. Serviceman to Japan", "utt": ["The U.S. government has handed over an American serviceman accused of rape in Okinawa. The incident has strained U.S./Japanese relations and fanned further resentment over U.S. military presence in Okinawa. The latest developments now from CNN's Tokyo bureau chief, Rebecca MacKinnon.", "More than a week after he is alleged to have raped an Okinawa woman, the U.S. government agreed to hand over Senior Staff Sergeant Timothy Woodland for arrest by Okinawa police. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker met with Japanese foreign minister Makiko Tanaka to inform her of Washington's decision. Tokyo has been requesting to hand-over since Monday. According to a U.S./Japan Status of Forces Agreement, the U.S. military can, but is not required to hand over suspects accused of rape or murder before they are indicted.", "We have satisfied ourselves that our U.S. service member will receive fair and humane treatment throughout his custody. The United States government has taken this case seriously and regrets any instances of misconduct by U.S. personnel in Japan.", "The delay in Woodland's hand-over, U.S. and Japanese officials say, was due to Washington's concerns about Japanese police procedures and whether Woodland's rights would be given the same protection as in the United States. An emotional foreign minister, Makiko Tanaka, called the protracted negotiations a trying experience. \"Japan must show the world that Japanese police and justice authorities can investigate suspects in a fair and humanitarian manner,\" she said. The diplomatic impasse may have been solved, but many in Okinawa, home to 26,000 U.S. troops, say public frustration still runs high. Local politicians blame last week's alleged rape on the overconcentration of U.S. service people. Calls continued for a revision of the U.S./Japan Status of Forces Agreement and reduction of U.S. bases on the island.", "In terms of an increasing negative feeling of the Japanese, or unease among the Japanese people regarding America and the American presence here, it's almost like a drip, drip, drip. Each incident adds a little bit more to the reservoir of bad feeling here.", "Observers here say that both governments would very much like to put this latest Okinawa incident behind them very quickly. As for Japanese public opinion, some fear that this latest incident could be used as yet another case in point by those who question whether the U.S. military takes the feelings of its Japanese hosts seriously -- Colleen.", "Well, despite those strained feelings, Rebecca, are there any longer-term implications for relations between the two countries?", "Well, Colleen, that is yet to be seen. It appears that both governments very much hope to minimize any implications. And both governments feel that it's necessary to have U.S. troops here in Japan. However, when it comes to Okinawa, it appears that politicians from Okinawa, and potentially other politicians in Japan, may begin to push harder for streamlining of U.S. troops, particularly in Okinawa, for a change of what's called the Status of Forces Agreement governing the U.S. troops to make it easier for U.S. suspects to be handed over in cases like this. It is very clear that the Japanese public was extremely impatient with how long it took to hand Woodland over -- Colleen.", "All right, CNN's Rebecca MacKinnon in Tokyo, thanks very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR", "REBECCA MACKINNON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "HOWARD BAKER, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN", "MACKINNON", "KEITH HENRY, MIT JAPAN PROGRAM", "MACKINNON", "MCEDWARDS", "MACKINNON", "MCEDWARDS"]}
{"id": "CNN-148654", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-3-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/05/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Underemployment Rate on the Rise", "utt": ["Twenty-one minutes past the hour. It means we're \"Minding Your Business\" right now. Toyota is accused of withholding crash data stored in devices much like airlines or airplanes black boxes that might explain sudden acceleration problems. An \"Associated Press\" review of the company's lawsuits found that it has been secretive about recorded information including whether the driver was hitting the brake or the accelerator at the time of any crash or incidents. The review also showed Toyota frequently refusing to give the data to crash victims or survivors. Well, despite a bountiful catch in the last year, lobstermen are finding that the job just isn't paying well. The Maine lobster industry reports about $22 million drop in revenue from the prior year. Experts say that cruise ships, typically the largest customers of lobster are cutting back their orders of the delicacy because of the poor economy -- Jim.", "Thank you very much, Kiran. And Christine Romans is \"Minding Your Business\" this morning. And, Kiran (ph), we have you at the magic wall this morning. We're looking at underemployment state by state across the country, and some of these numbers are very disturbing.", "Underemployment different than unemployment. We're going to get the underemployment in a little more than an hour, right? Underemployment, some of these people are working but, Jim, they're not living up to their potential. They're not working a job that is getting them as much money as they used to or they're working part-time. I want to show you this map. If you are looking at red or pink -- bad, bad, bad.", "Right.", "This means an underemployment rate 16.2 percent or higher. In 2009, the average underemployment rate for the whole country was 16.2 percent. Just not really something that's very sustainable. Look at Michigan.", "Wow.", "We talk about the unemployment rate of 13.6 percent for Michigan. Look at the underemployment. This is one-fifth of that economy not working up to its potential. This is a really serious situation. Then you look at the Midwest. You look at the yellow, the green, this part of the country is doing much better than average. But even when you look at South Dakota -- sorry, South Dakota, let me turn you upside down -- 4.8 percent is the unemployment rate. And we say, look, this is the best in the country. This is fantastic.", "Right.", "But even within the good statistics, you see 9.9 percent underemployment.", "A lot of folks still struggling.", "That means a lot of people still are not working up to their potential. And this is why it's so important for an economy that's driven two-thirds by consumer spending.", "Wow.", "If you have a job in this country, it's going to gallop. Your average daily spending, this is not on your mortgage, not in your fixed expenses.", "Right.", "This is discretionary spending -- $75 a day. If you're underemployment, it's $48 a day. This is why an economy has a hard time coming back when so many people are out of work. It means you're pulling back on every other part of your life and the economy is just doesn't living up to its potential. So underemployment incredibly important even as we're talking about jobs starting to be created here, and here.", "Yes.", "And a little bit in the Midwest. Manufacturing coming back a little bit in the Midwest. Overall, we're still concerned about this underemployment rate.", "It would be great to come back a year from now and just see more green.", "I like green.", "Or at least some yellow.", "Green chutes. We've been talking about green chutes for a year.", "Yes. But this underemployment figure, I mean, that's a serious problem and it can't be emphasized enough.", "Yes. Yes.", "Christine Romans, thank you so much for that. Appreciate that. Now, still ahead on the Most News in the Morning. Was Hillary Rodham Clinton right? A closer look at the secretary of state is influencing America's dealings with Iran. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "ACOSTA", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "ACOSTA", "ROMANS", "ACOSTA", "ROMANS", "ACOSTA", "ROMANS", "ACOSTA", "ROMANS", "ACOSTA", "ROMANS", "ACOSTA", "ROMANS", "ACOSTA", "ROMANS", "ACOSTA", "ROMANS", "ACOSTA", "ROMANS", "ACOSTA", "ROMANS", "ACOSTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-120980", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-10-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0710/29/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Briefing on North Carolina Fire Victims; Slowly Inching Back Towards Normal Life in Southern California", "utt": ["Dennis Pruitt, vice president of student affairs, getting ready to speak live about two college campuses in mourning right now. Seven students on a weekend getaway have been killed in a fire that tore through a North Carolina beach house. Six of the victims attended the University of South Carolina, the other victim was a Clemson student. Let's listen in.", "It's been a long 24 hours at the University of South Carolina. I won't go through the details that we -- I think all of you know from yesterday, but as you -- as you come to realize, we've had 13 students at a house fire in Ocean Isle, North Carolina. One of those students was a student at Clemson University, six students from the University of South Carolina are presumed to have perished, and we have six students who have survived. First, let me just say our condolences and sympathies are extended to the families of these individuals and to their communities, because these are families that are well established in their communities. Let me also say thank you on behalf of the University of South Carolina to the outpouring of offers of assistance from both the college communities across the country and from our local communities of South Carolina and Ohio and Florida. We really appreciate that. Particularly, I want to say thank you to the Ocean Isle community, to those citizens, also to the mayor, to the law enforcement officials, the fire department, for the work they did. They showed incredible compassion for our students. They were caring towards them. They were very compassionate and sympathetic with the parents when they arrived, and we greatly appreciate the work that community did. We're indebted to them. A brief update. We continue to reach out and offer assistance to members of our university family. We did have some increased calls to our counseling center this morning. We have increased the number of lines we have there. We'll have extended hours at the counseling center tonight. Most of the calls were from parents wanting to know what resources were available and how they might have those resources made available to their son or daughter. We were able to accommodate those individuals. As you know, yesterday we had a series of individual meetings and group meetings across the campus, and with individual groups and individual residence halls, and I think we were able to touch a number of the students there and give them the attention that they needed. We are still awaiting confirmation of information on the death of the students from the authorities of North Carolina. We do not have any additional information on that at this point in time. I will tell you though that the president of the university, Dr. Andrew Sorensen, this morning did make contact with the families of the individuals that we have presumed to have perished in that fire, had a conversation with those families, offered them the assistance of the University of South Carolina, offered them our sympathy and condolences. The families were appreciative of the calls. They were also very appreciative of the fact that the university is being respectful of their privacy at this point in time. We will have following this briefing the availability of some grief counselors who have been working with the students, and they will be here to answer your questions about what we might have heard and how they've been dealing with this, how they've been working with these individual students. You will notice when you exit the Russell House on the center of Green Street there is a gamecock painted on the street. And the university students have asked that we designate that as a physical location where other students might bring flowers or cards of sympathy or letters or notes both to the deceased and to the survivors, and to the parents and families of these students, and that's operational as I speak right now. I can also tell you that if the families want a memorial service, if the students want a memorial service, we will have one. That will be probably at the end of the week or early next week. That will be after we have confirmation of the students' identifications. However, tonight in this ballroom we're going to have a group gathering, kind of a grieving session, but an opportunity for students and faculty and members of the university family to come together. We'll share some information and we'll have one of our campus ministers present, we'll have a couple students speak. We'll have an opportunity for students to comfort each other, and we'll have grief counselors and other professionals here to assist those students with they're grieving. And then we have arranged for students to go to locations afterwards if they need additional assistance after the meeting tonight here in the ballroom. That meeting is scheduled for 6:00 -- 6:00 p.m. here in the ballroom. After the conclusion of that service, that gathering, we will take the students out front to Green Street and we will all light candles to honor our fellow students. I would ask that we have respect for these students that are about to speak. We have asked two students to come and speak with you and just share a brief statement, and as you can imagine this is a very difficult time for them. One of them is Lauren Hodge, who is the president of Delta Delta Delta.", "Dennis Pruitt, vice president of student affairs, there at the University of South Carolina talking about the candlelight vigils they're going to hold for the six victims of this fire at the beach house in North Carolina. They all attended the University of South Carolina. There was also a victim from Clemson University as well. There were seven students that were able to escape that fire. We'll get back to the news conference now because we hear that we're going to hear from some students. Let's listen in.", "As you can imagine, this has been an extremely difficult time for our chapter and for the entire campus as a whole. We have received numerous phone calls, e-mails, flowers and even food sent to the house. And it really means a lot to know that so many people are here for us through these hard times. But this has also affected so many other people than just our chapter and our sorority. We have to keep in mind that it's affected the entire campus and all of the families of the members. And we've been in full support of the families and for everyone involved in this tragedy, and they are all in our thoughts and prayers. We have ministers and counselors coming in throughout the week. There are chapter houses open to anyone who feels as if they want to come in and talk to a counselor or a minister. We have certain times scheduled that they will be at the house, and that's for USC students. We're trying to do as much as we can right now to help everyone cope with this problem and with this tragedy. Again, thanks to everyone for the overwhelming support that we have received.", "Excuse me. You're going to have to bear with me. I'm a little sick. First, I would like to express my condolences for everyone who has been affected by this terrible tragedy, especially the families and friends of the victims and those who were blessed enough to have survived. In times like these, I'm reminded of how lucky I am to live in a state of south Carolina, attend the University of South Carolina, and be a part of Sigma Alpha Epsilon due to the amount of care and help my friends, my family, my friends' families, my fellow gamecocks and my fraternity brothers have offered and are receiving. Most of my mind is currently dominated with grief, despair and sympathy for the victims' families, but there is a small part of my soul that is smiling today as I witnessed the spirit of our community as it comes together to support all those in need. This is the same spirit that brought these students together at Ocean Isle -- one of love, caring, fellowship and a shared sense of belonging. I believe no matter who the victims of an incident like this were, our community would respond in the same manner. But I also believe that this outpouring of support is due to the character of the individuals whom we lost. In SAE, we have a creed by which we live entitled \"The True Gentleman\" which is recited as follow: A true gentleman. \"The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own; and who appears well in any company; a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe\" -- John Walter Wayland. The brothers whom we lost embody this creed, and I can imagine that those who they surrounded themselves with this past weekend exemplified these virtues also. That being said, it helps to know that those who have been lost are now in a better place, free from the pain and strife of this sometimes cruel world. And it is with a heavy heart that I pray for their families and loved ones. I would like to thank the University of South Carolina, especially president Dr. Sorensen, Dr. Dennis Pruitt, Jerry Brewer (ph), Gina Runion (ph), Anna Edwards (ph), David Rudiczak Baker (ph), Alex Wysocki (ph) and Nick Payne (ph) for their support and efforts. I would also like to that Sigma Alpha Epsilon, especially Mr. Goodell (ph), Reverend Peters, Tony Bascuzio (ph), Bill McLaveen (ph), John Dillard (ph) and all of my fraternity brothers. In closing, I want everyone to pray for the victims, their families and those who were lucky enough to escape. If any place can come together to help in the healing process and the aftermath of an event like this, it is South Carolina. And I believe we will get through this terrible tragedy. As Dr. Dennis Pruitt stated, we'll have a short ceremony tonight at 6:00 p.m., and I would like everyone to come and show their support. Thank you.", "Students speaking out for the first time. Chapter presidents of fraternity SAE and sorority TriDel. You heard from Lauren Hodge there and also Jay Laura. Also this gentleman here, the vice president of student affairs, Dennis Pruitt, talking about the seven students that were killed on the weekend getaway, a fire that ripped through their North Carolina beach house. Six of the victims attended the University of South Carolina, the other victim was a Clemson student. Amazingly, seven students were able to escape that fire. A number of them jumping out of the windows. Candlelight vigils going to be held to remember these students. We'll follow all of it for you.", "We want to turn now to new fallout over that fake news conference FEMA held last week on those California wildfires. Well, FEMA's P.R. chief, John Pat Philbin -- you see there -- was supposed to take a new job today as chief spokesman for the national intelligence director, but that ain't happening. No word on whether Philbin was fired just as he was about to start that new job. The fake news conference featured FEMA staffers not reporters, and they were not really throwing tough questions. Meantime, arson investigators in southern California need your help. They're asking anybody with video or photos taken October 21st of the Santiago fire to come forward. They're looking for a suspect in the fire in Orange County which they have confirmed was arson. Several other fires also under investigation. Firefighters are making some progress, and they're containing or close to containing most of the major fires, and that means some people can slowly inch back towards a normal life. We're going to head out now to CNN's Kara Finnstrom, who's in California for us. Hello there, Kara.", "Good morning, T.J. Well, students at Poway High School behind me are attending their first day of classes since these wildfires began. We took some video this morning of those students piling off of the buses, out of their cars. They won't take part in outdoor activities today because the air quality sill isn't very good out here, but the students we spoke with say it just feels good to be back.", "For seven days of wildfire wars, it's been base camped to nearly 700 firefighters. Now the soot and ash are being blasted and wiped away, and the students are coming back to Poway High. (on camera): You guys a little nervous about going back?", "Kind of.", "Lyn Gale is one of 300 students in this district alone left homeless by the fires.", "I got like photos and my camera, and this blanket I made.", "Kids who lost textbooks and that kind of thing, we've already got them ready for them in the library.", "The principal at Poway High says counselors, teachers and friends will help students try to regain some sense of normalcy after a week of horrific chaos. Lyn Gale is struggling.", "We're going up to see our home.", "Lyn's family invited us long, as for the first time the children return to their neighborhood.", "How did the fire get to our house?", "Lyn became too emotional to go, but her brother and sister did.", "Kristen, that was your room.", "My bedroom's right there.", "Your bedroom -- no, your bedroom is this one right here.", "Nine-year-old Alex and 13-year-old Kristen could barely recognize what they once called home.", "When we were evacuating I really, really thought that we were coming back to a house that wasn't in ashes.", "This week, with more than 30,000 other children in Poway, they'll start the overwhelming task of piecing whole lives back together.", "I want to have a normal day and see my friends.", "It's kind of been boring in the hotel that we're staying in, so...", "So it will be good to get back with your friends.", "Yes.", "And going back to school will be that first step.", "And as you might expect, a tough day for many of these students. School officials do tell us that school attendance is down slightly today --", "All right. Trying to get back to some sense of normalcy. Kara Finnstrom for us there in Poway. Thank you so much.", "A U.S. Army general is being treated for wounds that he suffered today in Iraq. Pentagon sources tell CNN that Brigadier General Jeffrey Dorko was hit by shrapnel when an improvised explosive device blew up near his vehicle. It happened in north Baghdad. Dorko is being flown to Germany for treatment right now. He's believed to be the highest ranking U.S. military officer wounded in the war so far.", "Somehow she picked up a superbug, and then the wrong diagnosis gave MRSA a six-month head start.", "Plus, remembering country music legend Porter Wagner from his rhinestone-studded suits -- look at that -- Otis came through with a little sound there. Let's listen to him. 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{"id": "CNN-184204", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-4-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/11/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Conservatives Not Rushing To Romney; Late-Night Comedians Target Romney", "utt": ["Here is a rundown of some of the stories we are working on: Next, it looks like Mitt Romney may finally be done fighting off his Republican rivals. But will the base get behind him? Then, for the international community it is a slap in the face. North Korea fueling up a rocket. And later, going to get some hard core workout tips from one of America's most popular personal trainers. Want you to stick around for my interview with Dolvett Quince from \"The Biggest Loser.\" All right. You can almost hear Mitt Romney breathing a sigh of relief today. Rick Santorum's exit from the presidential race gives Romney a clear path to winning the Republican nomination, but can he win over the social conservatives? Joining us to talk about the race moving forward, Democratic strategist Estuardo Rodriguez and Republican strategist Lenny McAllister. So, good to see you both. Social conservative groups not exactly lining up to support Romney. I want you to listen to Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. Here's what he said.", "If Mitt Romney wants to capture some of that support that Rick Santorum gained with very little money, based solely upon his message, then Mitt Romney needs to pick up that message. Not just when he's asked in debates or cornered by a reporter to say, \"Yes, I'm pro-life,\" or, \"Yes, I support marriage,\" but intertwined that in his message.", "Lenny, how does he do it? How does he manage to get the Santorum supporters and the social conservatives?", "It's very simple. Remind them that he's running against President Barack Obama and he is the only person that can beat him in November. He's going to be the nominee. He doesn't need to be as much as social conservatives want him to do now that it looks as though he's definitely going to be the nominee. With Santorum backing out, there is no anti-Romney. It is just Mitt Romney. And the social conservatives are going to coalesce around him. They may do it in a lukewarm fashion, but they will do it. If we thought that they did not as much as we thought they might in 2008, they're definitely going to do it after one presidential term from President Obama. He will speak to them. He will do some kind of olive branching out to them. But for the most part, he's going to stick to the economy. He's going to make sure he has that base coming around when he needs them. He's not going to do that much but he will have their support going into the fall.", "Estuardo, it's not likely that President Obama is going to be able to capture those social conservatives. But clearly here, it does look like he has some sort of advantage he can capitalize off of the fact that the Republicans aren't all lockstep behind Mitt Romney. What does the president need to do?", "Well, you know, I have to just quickly say I think Lenny is 100 percent right. Romney not only doesn't have to do as much to attract the conservative voters. It's simply because he's it and the challenge that Romney's going to have really is to avoid having to confront his moderate record of governor of Massachusetts, avoid having to address the fact that he has been more moderate than most conservatives want. That's the big fight that he's had throughout the primaries. I'm sure that when Santorum announced yesterday that he was moving on and dropping out, there was a huge sigh of devastation from the true conservatives out there who are now left to confront the fact that this is it. You either get behind him and go out and vote, or you sit it out. So I think --", "There is this enthusiasm gap here that they are going to have to deal with, and Lenny, talk about that a little bit because how is he going to drum up that type of support here? It really is going to come down to who comes out and votes here. It does look like the president is starting to kind of rile up his base and get people excited again.", "The president is riling up his base, this war on women, the strategy with that, contraception issue. That has gotten the progressive base engaged with President Obama, but one thing that Mitt Romney does have to his side is time. It's still early April. If he can crescendo this up and start building a head of steam in August, get a good vice presidential candidate that he's going to put into that slot that will keep that base going and invigorated and then do well in the debates. He wants to have momentum going in the right direction. He was able to get that coming out of Michigan barely winning, being able to do well on Super Tuesday. Now seeing Rick Santorum leave before Pennsylvania. If he can continue momentum going from April to now, he has six months. If he takes a methodical approach, kind of like what he's done with this primary process, not get caught up in the infatuation with Herman Cain and Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann and even Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. He was methodical, if he could stay that way, he'll be OK.", "All right, let's talk about what builds on the momentum here and that's clearly the money. Mitt Romney, he actually planned to spend more than $2 million on ads in Pennsylvania before Santorum dropped out. We have President Obama who it was just yesterday three fundraisers raking in $1.75 million there, and that's not even to mention the \"Super PAC\" money. Estuardo, talk a little bit about whether or not we think this is going to turn into a negative and nasty campaign because you have those kind of dollars out there.", "Exactly. I mean, what we saw Mitt Romney outspending his primary opponents five to one and with the efficiency that he was able to destroy any momentum that Santorum or Newt Gingrich had at any point throughout those primaries. We're going to see that doubled, if not tripled, because not only do we have to look at the Romney affiliated \"Super PAC,\" but Karl Rove's crossroads. They have already come out and said we have $1.7 million and we're starting today if not yesterday. So you can bet right now that this is just going to -- what we saw in the primaries was just a hint of what we're going to see when now we enter the one-on-one, and Romney is going to definitely benefit from all that money that's coming in.", "We saw the Obama campaign issuing this pretty scathing statement here about Romney after Santorum dropped out of the race. They said, here's the quote, \"It's no surprise that Mitt Romney finally was able to grind down his opponents under the avalanche of negative ads, but neither he nor his special interest allies will be able to buy the presidency with their negative ads, their negative attacks.\" Essentially saying bring it on here, Lenny. They are ready to fight Romney. How does he actually counter the fact that he does have a lot of money and he's seen as being very much an elitist?", "Well, he has that image, but President Obama has the incumbency and he has a pretty darn big war chest himself. When you look at this, one of the things that President Obama is going to have to look at that Mitt Romney will not necessarily have to deal with is the fact that President Obama had the knight in shining armor, the white horse type of campaign in 2008. He's going to probably run a more negative campaign in 2012. He has a record he has to defend and he will have to throw a lot more mud at Mitt Romney with all the big money that's coming into it and that's going to harm the president's image as well. So if they both get into the mud, it's not as though that Romney will lose out and President Obama will have this clear advantage. It's going to hurt President Obama's image as well and unfortunately, this is what American politics have devolved into.", "I have to just add, I don't think it's a matter of Obama throwing any mud here. I think what Romney is going to try to do is avoid everything he's already been campaigning on to get the Republican nomination. And that is extreme conservative positions, and he's going to try to run away from that and the president merely has to state you can't etch-a-sketch your way through only the primaries, but also --", "You brought back the etch-a-sketch line.", "I'm sorry, I had to.", "We don't want to get into activism here.", "We have to leave it there. All right, Estuardo, Lenny, good to see you both. We'll pick this up later. So now Mitt Romney looking more like the Republican nominee. He's also becoming number one target of late night comedians. Here is Conan O'Brien.", "In financial news, the Dow Jones is down for the fifth day in a row. Yes. When asked for comment, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney said, don't worry, America, all my money is in Switzerland.", "This guy ending violence one snack at a time. 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{"id": "NPR-48960", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2017-10-06", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/10/06/556041177/hurricanes-could-affect-monthly-jobs-report", "title": "Storm-Battered U.S. Economy Lost 33,000 Jobs In September", "summary": "The Labor Department also says the unemployment rate fell to 4.2 percent. The monthly jobs report was likely skewed by the impact of hurricanes that hit in late August and mid-September.", "utt": ["What happened to the job market? After many, many months of growth, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded some backsliding in September. The economy lost 33,000 jobs. NPR's Jim Zarroli joins us now. Jim, what went wrong?", "Well, it was almost certainly due to one thing, which is the hurricanes, all the bad weather we saw in Texas and the Southeast that - especially Hurricane Irma because that took place during the period in September when the Labor Department surveys businesses about, you know, job creation. Meanwhile, people were still recovering from Harvey and all the flooding that caused in, you know, Texas and Louisiana. Maria was not really a factor because this survey by the Labor Department doesn't include Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.", "But just in general, you know, people weren't able to get to work. You saw a big drop in hotel and restaurant jobs, lots of them in Florida. So this isn't a surprise at all. I think most economists were expecting, you know, job creation to go down, perhaps not this much. But they thought this was going to happen. It is remarkable in the sense that this is the first time in 83 months, really since 2010, that the economy lost jobs during the month.", "Wow, significant step back. But with these hurricanes, you do have more activity when places start to rebuild. Will there be a bounce back?", "Yes, I think you'll see a rebound pretty quickly in the months to come. You know, there's rebuilding. As you point out, construction jobs get created. And this is still, you know, a pretty healthy economy. Before these numbers came out, we saw on average 176,000 jobs created every month this year. And that's not, you know, spectacular growth, but it is, you know, fairly steady, strong growth. You're hearing a lot of information, a lot of anecdotal information from businesses about how much trouble they're finding workers. So the job market is basically tight, and it's going to remain so for a while.", "This is what we've heard in the last few months when we've interviewed business owners, that the problem is they can't find enough qualified people. Is that improving people's paychecks, the tight labor market?", "Well, this - we did see an increase in wages in September. Hourly wages have now - are going up at a rate of almost 3 percent this year, so you're seeing a rise in wages. And that's important because the Federal Reserve is going to look at that when it meets in December and decides what to do about interest rates. I mean, always, they have this concern about inflation. You know, when do they start to rein in - increase interest rates and try to rein in the economy? So that's what they're going to be thinking about. There's a lot of debate about whether this is the right time to do that. But I think the wage numbers we see today will make it a bit more likely that we'll see an interest rate increase.", "Jim, thanks for the insight. Appreciate it.", "You're welcome.", "That's NPR's Jim Zarroli."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-6201", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-4-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/11/ee.01.html", "summary": "Elian Gonzalez Case: Focus Shifts to Reuniting Father, Son; Miami Religious Leaders Hold Prayer Vigil; Florida Family Awaits INS Letter", "utt": ["The focus this morning is on Elian Gonzalez, and that case is beginning to shift away from the battle to keep the boy from his father and toward plans for a reunion. Within the hour, the mayor of Miami caught a flight to Washington where he'll meet with Attorney General Janet Reno. One of the boy's Florida relatives will also meet with Ms. Reno. And today, she's expected to send a letter to the Miami family explaining when and where to surrender the boy. Also on the agenda, how to protect the boy's welfare. Three mental-health experts who talked with the boy's great-uncle yesterday will meet at the Justice Department to discuss their consultation. And in Miami, thousands of Cuban Americans joined a prayer vigil last night in the Little Havana neighborhood. Now for more on that first-time meeting between Attorney General Janet Reno and the Florida relative of Elian Gonzalez, we turn CNN's Bob Franken at the Justice Department this morning -- Bob.", "Well, it's very clear, Carol, that with the sending of this letter, there is no question any more about whether this going is going to take place but when, how, why, that type of thing. The letter will go out from the Justice Department, we're told, sometime today to the family in Miami, telling them this is what you will do this week to effect the transfer of Elian Gonzalez to his father Juan Miguel Gonzalez. We don't where that's going to be yet, or, in fact, whether the child, after that occurs, will go back to Washington or to some other place. Also, of course, there are going to be that series of meetings you talked about. The team of psychiatrists and psychologists who met in Miami with the family yesterday will report on their findings up here to the attorney general. As you pointed out, the mayor of Miami, Joe Carollo and the mayor of Miami-Dade, Alex Penelas, are expected to be here for a meeting, along with relatives of the family down there. Carollo has left Miami, winging his way to Washington. He spoke on CNN last night about his request that he's going to make for a delay, a 30-day moratorium, for the Clinton administration and the family to try and come to some sort of accommodation about this.", "If our president has been able to get together the prime minister of the state of Israel to meet with the president of Syria, with the head of the Palestine state, then it should be fairly easy with someone of her great talent to be able to put together the members of the Gonzalez family of Miami with their family member from Cuba, Juan Miguel, alone, without anybody else interfering or putting any pressure.", "Now, one of the remaining questions is just how long Juan Gonzalez will stay in the United States with his boy. There are some indications he may stick around for a while. The State Department is considering the remaining visa requests from the Cuban government for what amounts to an entourage of fellow classmates of Elian Gonzalez and even one of the top politicians in that country to come to the United States and perhaps be here for a while as they await the final resolution of this case. Bob Franken, CNN, live, the Justice Department.", "Thank you, Bob. Well, Cuban-Americans in Miami who may feel they're fighting an uphill battle, and they want Elian Gonzalez to stay, well, they haven't given up hope just yet. CNN's Martin Savidge reports this morning on their latest show of support.", "Flags held high and voices raised. Thousands of people rallied at the heart of Miami's Little Havana community in support of the rafter boy, 6-year- old Elian Gonzalez. The prayer vigil, organized by local religious leaders, was held just blocks from the home where the young boy has been staying with relatives. Cuban and American flags cheered the breeze, flashlights aimed their beams into the night sky while the crowd held signs overhead. \"Elian deserves freedom,\" read one, while another offered a more ominous statement. \"We're ready for another Waco,\" it says. But most do not expect anything as dire as that if the boy is removed. Civil disobedience, maybe; violence, no", "... don't want a confrontation. We just like to help the family to get together and figure out this problem.", "\"Pray for Elian\" is a common request. The religious connotations surrounding this story are felt strongly here. Many believe Elian was rescued from the ocean by divine intervention. Now they hope a similar rescue will keep him in the United States, a hope they say that has not faded.", "Hope is the last thing you lose, and we haven't lost it for 41 years. We are still here and we will be here tomorrow.", "There's still a lot of hope. If he survived for two days on the water, he's going to survive all this and he's going to stay. I'm sure of that. There's a lot of hope still.", "The days that lie ahead may test that faith, but for now in Little Havana, they say they are still hanging onto hope, still praying for a miracle. Martin Savidge, CNN, Miami.", "And now let's get the very latest on this case this morning. Susan's -- CNN's Susan Candiotti is outside the relatives' home in Miami's Little Havana section. We go to her now live. Susan, good morning.", "Good morning, Leon. It is quiet now after thousands showed up for that candlelight vigil just a few blocks from here, thousands showing their support for the Florida relatives of 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez, as the relatives here are now bracing themselves to get that letter from U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service telling them when and how the father is to be reunited with his son. The wheels now set in motion after Elian's great-uncle at first kept three mental-health professionals waiting, and then asked that they change the meeting's location to a hospital where Lazaro Gonzalez's daughter is being treated. The meeting lasted less than an hour. Apparently it didn't get very far either. Sources describe Gonzalez as not being interested in how to prepare the 6-year-old for a reunion with his father. One source called him \"stubborn,\" unwilling to listen, unwilling to compromise on anything. But another source defended the uncle, as the source put it, \"as strongly pitching a face-to-face meeting with Elian's father,\" telling psychologists, this was a \"family-to-family matter,\" that Juan Miguel Gonzalez would have to come to this house in Miami to get his son. Now, last night, Lazaro Gonzalez played with the boy outside the house, perhaps a signal to Elian's father that Lazaro Gonzalez is digging in his heels, with no apparent intention of willingly turning over this boy to his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez. Susan Candiotti, CNN, reporting live in Miami.", "Thank you, Susan. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MAYOR JOE CAROLLO, MIAMI, FLORIDA", "FRANKEN", "LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAVIDGE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SAVIDGE", "HARRIS", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-395296", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-03-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/16/cnr.17.html", "summary": "CDC Recommends Canceling Events of 50+ People; U.S. Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates to Near Zero; Enhanced Screenings Create Long Waits at U.S. Airports; Italy Reports 360+ New Deaths, 3,500+ New Cases; Trump Focusing on Economy During Health Crisis.", "utt": ["Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. I am Michael Holmes. And coming up here on CNN NEWSROOM, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases continues to spike across Europe and the United States. The drastic measures being taken to curb that spread. The U.S. Federal Reserve takes emergency measures in an attempt to shore up confidence, but is the Trump-approved action having its intended effect on the world's financial markets? We will discuss. And a sign of the times. Democratic presidential hopefuls Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders elbow bump to kick off their first one-on-one debate. Welcome everyone. We do start with the novel coronavirus, and it is entering a dangerous new stage. According to numbers from the World Health Organization, more than half of the cases are now outside of mainland China. And that is a big deal. At this hour, the WHO reporting at least 150,000 infections worldwide, more than 5,700 deaths. The organization says Europe is the new epicenter of this pandemic, and the worst-hit country there remains Italy. The WHO says there are more than 21,000 cases in Italy, but officials there put the number much higher, closer to 25,000. The death toll in Italy now passing 1,800. Now, the pandemic is also driving fears of a global recession, with the U.S. facing its first bear market in more than a decade. The Federal Reserve taking emergency action on Sunday, cutting its target interest rate to nearly zero. And here was President Donald Trump's reaction.", "As you know, it just happened 10 minutes ago, but to me, it makes me very happy. And I want to congratulate the Federal Reserve. For starters, they've lowered the Fed rate from what it was, which was one to 1.25, and it's been lowered down to zero to 0.25, or point 25. So it's zero to .25. That's a big difference. It's -- it's quite a bit on a point. And in addition, very importantly, the Federal Reserve is the -- they're going to be purchasing $500 billion of treasuries and $200 billion of mortgage-backed securities, and that number can increase. But they're going to start with that. It's really good news.", "Now, in the U.S., officials are reporting at least 3,400 cases and 65 deaths. We say at least, because the testing hasn't been widespread, of course. The Centers for Disease Control recommending all events of 50 or more people be canceled or postponed for the next eight weeks. Now, this coming as the White House is preparing to release its own guidelines on Monday. CNN's Jeremy Diamond with those details.", "Well, the effects of the coronavirus pandemic were pretty clear across the United States over this weekend. We saw long lines at the airports, schools and public places shutting down in different parts of the country. But there was very little from the president of the United States on Sunday when he took to the White House briefing room to address the country about exactly what Americans should be doing to try and reduce the spread of this pandemic. Instead, the president very much focusing on trying to ease Americans' concerns and ensure that the economy continues to go on. That was a very different message from what we heard from one of the government's top public health officials, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Just listen to the discrepancy here.", "Relax. We're doing great. It all will pass. It's a very contagious virus. It's incredible, but it's something that we have tremendous control of.", "Because as I've said many times, and I'll repeat it, the worst is, yes, ahead for us. It is how we respond to that challenge that's going to determine what the ultimate end point is going to be. We have a very, very critical point now.", "Now, Dr. Fauci making clear on Sunday that he wants the federal government to do whatever it takes to stop the spread of this coronavirus, making clear that he even would potentially support a national lockdown of sorts, something that we have seen several European countries that were hard hit by this coronavirus pandemic, such as Italy, France, and Spain. All of those countries taking measures to stop all nonessential businesses from functioning and to reduce the number of people who are outside. Now, I did ask the vice president specifically about the president's rhetoric and the difference in the rhetoric that we're seeing from the president, and from these public health experts. I asked him why we're hearing the president say that Americans should simply relax and whether he would offer a different message. The vice president dodged that question, instead simply saying that all the work that the coronavirus task force and the federal government is doing, is at the president's direction. Jeremy Diamond, CNN, the White House.", "Let's talk more about this drastic interest rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve and other economic -- economic matters. Journalist Kaori Enjoji joining me now from Tokyo. Good to have you, Kaori. A massive cut, really. But are markets convinced it was the right thing to do or enough? It's what the president wanted, but will the markets like it?", "Well, let's take a look at initial reaction for an answer to that. U.S. futures went limit down in Singapore. So that suggests that it wasn't exactly the cure the financial markets were looking for. Having said that, when you take a look across the board, yes, we are still seeing continued weakness in some equity markets like Australia, which continues to tank. We are seeing some stability come back into other equity markets. Right now, the market is on tenterhooks as to what the Bank of Japan will do, because the Fed has basically unleashed a chorus of quantitative easing of talk among other central banks and expectations that central bankers around the world will follow suit. So in anticipation of that, basically, the Tokyo equity market has not moved in the last two hours as this meeting goes on. So I think, psychologically, yes, there was an impact, but as the saying goes in the financial markets, Michael, buy the rumor, sell the facts. So whether or not it will have long-term lasting impact clearly uncertain given the way the futures are performing.", "Yes. And the Dow is down 4.5 percent in futures. That -- that does not say that this was a winning formula. The other thing about it is the Fed hasn't really recovered from 2008 in terms of building a cushion. And so it has less room to move than it might have had in other times, correct? What tools are left?", "Well, that's right. I mean, they've basically made a move to bring interest rates to zero. So there isn't a whole lot of maneuvering they can do on interest rates from here on. And this is a situation that the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan are already in, even before they cut interest rates even further. And the problem with going down this route, basically moving deeper and deeper into negative interest rates, it becomes counterproductive. Because the purpose of cutting rates is to push money into the system. But then, it risks the financial health of the banking institutions that they're trying to help to begin with. So it becomes counterproductive. They can continue to buy assets as the Fed has done, and, excuse me, as I think other central banks will do, as well.", "Yes, exactly. And just finally, and more broadly, not just in the U.S., but around the world, we're going to see more of this. Companies closing retail stores. We're seeing that in the U.S. Nike, and others, Apple as well. Restaurants and bars closing. Vacations canceled. Airlines cutting. Hotels hurting. That all trickles down, and consumer confidence will be shot. What are the ripple effects of that?", "I mean, I'll give you an exact answer to that, in that we got numbers two hours ago that shows the real economic impact of the coronavirus. And we got the numbers out of China for January and February. They're staggering, Michael. Industrial output is the worst ever on record. That's down 13 and a half percent in the world's second largest economy. Ditto for retail sales, down 20.5 percent. We have never seen numbers like this. So some economies like Japan are probably already in recession. So the lingering impact from the virus will continue. And as one trader told me, the care to all this financial market volatility is a vaccine for the virus. And fiscal and monetary stimulus is only going to be, in some ways, a Band-aid measure.", "Yes. And this ain't over in terms of the virus, as well. Could be some dark days ahead. Kaori Enjoji, great to have your expertise on this. Thank you so much. Well, coronavirus screenings are causing extremely long delays at airports across the U.S. We reported this here on the program yesterday. Travelers returning from abroad getting caught in these chaotic scenes. This is in Dallas, Texas. We were bringing you images from O'Hare in Chicago 24 hours ago. Just have a look at this. Only 13 major airports are set up for enhanced screenings, which are part of the White House's travel restrictions. CNN's Omar Jimenez explains.", "Some passengers going back to as early as Saturday reported waiting up to five hours just to be able to get from their plane through customs and physically onto American soil. Now at least over the course of Sunday afternoon, things appeared to be running much more smoothly. But when these videos and images first started to come out over the course of Saturday, there were hundreds that were packed into these tight areas, again, waiting just to be able to be screened by these customs officers, which in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic, being packed into those tight spaces is exactly the opposite of what medical and health officials have been advising. And let's remember, a lot of this rush has stemmed from the recent travel restrictions that have gone into place for many countries across the world, leaving people scrambling to try and get home. We spoke to a few students who were studying abroad from universities here in the United States. And they were just trying to get back from Poland, and it was a days'-long process. They say the most frustrating part about it all was just trying to get reliable information.", "Really frustrated with, so if I'm an American and I don't get out of here by midnight, I'm just stuck here. How does that work? That doesn't make any sense. And if there's a process for me getting out after that 12 a.m. deadline, that's fine, but there's no process communicated. There's no idea about what we were supposed to have done if we had not gotten out.", "And O'Hare Airport here is one of 13 airports across the United States that has been doing this advanced coronavirus screening. And to give you an idea of what passengers are dealing with as they get off these planes, they go through one round of screening. That is from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, very similar to what would be happening under normal circumstances. And then if a person is coming from one of the countries under the travel restriction, they go through a second round of screening done by the Department of Homeland Security. And then if someone is either showing symptoms, has that relevant travel history, potentially, as well, they go through a 3rd round of screening by the Centers for Disease Control, at which point they were then told to self-quarantine. Omar Jimenez, CNN, O'Hare Airport, Chicago.", "And joining me now is Dr. Albert Ko. He is professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Yale School of Public Health. Great to have your expertise, especially in these times. Today, the U.S. president said this, and I want to play the sound for people. Let's have a listen.", "Learning from watching other countries, frankly, it's a very contagious -- it's a very contagious virus. It's incredible. But it's something that we have tremendous control of.", "So that's what the president says. Your thoughts. Is the coronavirus tremendously controlled?", "Well, it's certainly highly transmissible, and it also has, you know, an important public health impact, particularly among the death rate that it causes among the elderly. \"Controlled\" is probably not the right word at this moment. We're having community-wide transmission. This is in many states in the United States. You know, the major issue that we have is that we are still behind getting -- we're still behind the response to this virus. We need to keep on, do mass screening, diagnosis, isolate patients, in addition to the social distancing measures that are being undertaken.", "Yes. And the vice president, I think he said today, 2,000 labs will come online this week for testing, a million -- more than a million test kits will be out there. But given what the public's been told about testing in the past -- I mean, a week ago the president said anyone who wanted a test could get one -- do you have faith that the testing will actually roll out the way it needs to roll out and should have ruled out, many would argue, weeks ago?", "Well, you know, at this point, we certainly are lagging behind in terms of testing. Many states and many companies are coming online with kits. The question is, is what's the turnaround time? The important thing to get in front of that epidemic is to identify cases quickly so we can isolate them so we can reduce the transmission to the community. We don't have enough tests at this moment to do so.", "And that's the thing. I mean, we're reporting the U.S. has 3,400 cases. But in many cases, people with symptoms are not being tested unless they're admitted to the hospital or other circumstances like that. How -- how does that skew the real number of positives in the U.S.? I mean, is 3,400 even close to an accurate representation of spread in the U.S.? And if people with symptoms aren't being tested, how might that accelerate the spread?", "Well, that's an important point, Mr. Holmes. You know, the -- the -- certainly, the number of people who are infected are much larger than what we're detecting. Given -- particularly given the nationwide shortage of tests. And the second issue is that the number of cases that people are symptomatic here in New Haven, we have people calling in, you know, endlessly about having symptoms and not being able to have access to tests. So surely, the numbers we are having, and once we get these tests online, we will see large increases in, actually, the number of people who are -- actually have the disease here. If the U.S. is, let's say, ten days behind Italy in terms of progression, and Italy is having stunning increases in cases and deaths, what is the risk to the medical system being overwhelmed: not enough beds, enough health care professionals and so on?", "Well, we've seen how that's played out in Italy. And that's certainly our concern. We're going to, you know, perhaps see that play out in several countries in Europe. There's still time for us to do what we need to do. That is rolling out tests, isolating patients, in addition to the social distancing that needs to be done. These are -- really, we need to -- these are hard measures. We have to actually -- it takes work to do this. And this takes an emergency response. And these things need to be done now, rather than waiting until, you know, 10 days from now.", "Yes. I'm wondering, you know, is this going to potentially be a giant advertisement when it comes to universal health care? I mean, there are millions, 27 million people, I think, in the U.S. who are uninsured and could be bankrupted by an ICU stay or a regular stay? Do you think that that makes the whole idea of covering everyone in a scenario like this, or just generally, even more important?", "That's the question. The broader question that I think we need to certainly, you know, reflect on after the epidemic. But right now, I think the major issue is leave no one in the United States behind, whether they're elderly, because of their health or economic status. Also including immigration status, whether they're citizens or not. We're going to get behind this epidemic, we really need to cover and provide health care not only to all, but also public health interventions for all.", "It's a very good point, too. Those undocumented people in the -- in the U.S. as well. That's a very good -- very good point. Dr. Albert Ko, thank you so much. Appreciate you joining us.", "Thank you very much, Mr. Holmes.", "We're going to take a short break. When we come back, in Italy, the death toll from the coronavirus jumping dramatically again. But in one region, the number of new cases appears to be stabilizing, some good news? We'll have details on whether the nationwide lockdown is making a difference when we come back. Also, modeling a virus-appropriate greeting at their first one-on-one debate. Joe Biden and Sanders face off on coronavirus strategy."], "speaker": ["MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HOLMES", "JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "TRUMP", "DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES", "DIAMOND", "HOLMES", "KAORI ENJOJI, JOURNALIST", "HOLMES", "ENJOJI", "HOLMES", "ENJOJI", "HOLMES", "OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BRIAN HAYES, U.S. STUDENT STUDYING ABROAD", "JIMENEZ", "HOLMES", "TRUMP", "HOLMES", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-91793", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2005-2-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/01/lad.02.html", "summary": "Interview With Congressman Adam Schiff; 'America's Voice'", "utt": ["Good morning. Welcome to the last half-hour of DAYBREAK. From the Time Warner center in New York, I'm Carol Costello, along with Chad Myers. \"Now in the News.\" Pop icon Michael Jackson returns to a California courtroom in six hours for the second day of jury selection. Only one person was dismissed during the first day. The trial is expected to last up to six months. Attorneys for defrocked priest Paul Shanley are expected to only call one witness in his child molestation trial. The prosecution wrapped up its case yesterday. An expert in repressed memory is expected to testify when court resumes tomorrow or Thursday. In the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, the king has fired the government and declared a state of emergency. Troops are now patrolling the streets of the capital. Phone lines there have been cut. More than a month after the earthquake and tsunamis destroyed parts of Southeast Asia, new pictures have surfaced. Some show people being fished out of the water and perched in trees. As of this morning, the death toll is at more than 154,000 in the region, but thousands more are still missing.", "There is more post-election violence in Iraq this morning. A bomb explodes in the northern Iraqi town of Erbil. It happened outside of the home of a top Kurdish political official who has been the target of attacks before. Two guards who tried to remove the bombs were killed. But let's talk about that election. It's an image imprinted on many of our minds: Iraqis dancing joyously in the streets after casting ballots in a new burgeoning democracy. President Bush will surely bring the image to mind in his State of the Union address on Wednesday. Democrats will have the tough political job of rebutting the president's speech. Perhaps that's why they're talking now. Let's head live to Washington and Congressman Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. He serves on the House International Relations Committee. Welcome.", "Carol, welcome to you, and good morning.", "Good morning. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid delivered the Democratic pre-buttal before the National Press Club yesterday. But why didn't they wait until after the president's State of the Union as usual?", "Well, actually there's a new tradition of offering the pre-buttal. Every side wants to get out their message as quickly as they can. So, both Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi got out early and tried to articulate the Democratic message. And I think what Democrats really want to hear from the president is how are we going to build upon this really remarkable election in Iraq. And it was a wonderful, wonderful election. We were all, I think, delighted to see Iraqis turn out in relatively high numbers at the risk of their own lives. It's really a tribute to the Iraqi people. And more importantly, it's a tribute to the American soldiers that are out there in harm's way every day. They did an incredible job in securing that country so elections could take place. And...", "And on the topic of soldiers and our troops over there, one of the topics touched on in the pre-buttal is troop strength in Iraq. Let's listen to Senator Reid.", "Because this administration's policies have left our troops stretched too thin and shouldering far too much the burden, we need to add to our troop levels. We need to do this by making sure that our people, our military, have enough soldiers to do the job, both in Iraq and around the world in our war on terror. What this means is increasing our Army and Marines by at least 40,000 troops over the next two years.", "Now, that comment comes at a time after those wonderful Iraqi elections. And many say it's time to reduce troops in Iraq. Forty thousand, really?", "I think actually Senator Reid is exactly right. And what we're talking about is increasing the overall troop strength of the American armed forces, not necessarily the troops in Iraq. The problem is that we are putting such a strain on our Guard and Reserves that are being called up time and time again. The Guard and Reservists are really becoming regulars in the military forces. That was not their expectation. A lot are being taken away from their jobs, from their families, for extended periods. And, unfortunately, we have the Army very close to a breaking point. We're already seeing real trouble with the recruitment and retention. When we generally have people that are leaving the active duty, they often will join the Reserves and the Guards.", "So, where do you find...", "But they're not joining in the same numbers.", "So, where do you find 40,000 more troops? Where do you find these people?", "Well, we're going to have to do aggressive recruiting and incentive programs to attract new people to come into the service. But this, I think, extraordinarily important. I would go beyond. I think we probably need to add closer to 25,000 troops a year for several years just to keep up with the commitments that we've undertaken. But I think also Senator Reid in his speech talked about the need for the president to really develop a clear plan for how are we going to train-up, stand up the Iraqi military forces. When I was in Iraq and met with General Portrais (ph), who at the time was in charge of that effort, it looked promising. But those promises haven't been kept. We haven't been able to bring those troops up to strength, and that's the key ultimately to our being able to leave Iraq.", "Well, you have to admit, though, they did pretty darn good during the elections, because the Iraqis were the ones at the polling stations closest to them.", "Well, the elections were wonderful. But, you know, it's very important that we not have another mission accomplished moment, where we think that the war is essentially over, the political struggle has ended, as we saw in the bombing that you just reported from Erbil. The violence goes on. It's likely to continue. And I think we've missed a great opportunity the first time the president declared mission accomplished not to bring the rest of the world in, not to really internationalize the work in Iraq. We had a wonderful election on Saturday in Iraq. Let's use the momentum of that election, not only to bring all of the parties in Iraq together -- the Sunnis, the Shiites, the Kurds and others -- but also to bring the nations of the world back together into playing a positive and a constructive role in Iraq. This really ought to be a great opportunity to bring the world together and bring Iraq back together.", "All right, Congressman Schiff, thank you for joining DAYBREAK this morning. We appreciate it.", "You're welcome. Thank you, Carol.", "With the elections in Iraq behind us, I'll bet you're wondering when the troops will start to come home. We touched on that a little bit in the interview with Congressman Schiff. CNN's Bill Hemmer joins us now from his New York office with a look at the coverage ahead on \"AMERICAN MORNING.\" Good morning -- Bill.", "Hey, Carol. Yes, we started talking a little bit about this yesterday. There is now word of a potential shift in strategy for U.S. forces and how they will work and integrate with the Iraqi forces and a new plan that may expedite a return for thousands. We'll talk to a reporter fresh from Iraq. She works with \"U.S. News & World Report\" and spent 10 days on the ground. You remember Gary Luck (ph), Carol? The gentleman's name came up about a week ago about the advice that he was giving the U.S. military after his time in Iraq. She was with him. So, she'll tell us her story and the headline that we will be reading in her article sometime very soon. It's part of our three-hour show today, Carol, on \"", "All right, thank you, Bill. Let's talk about money now. Federal policymakers are meeting today and tomorrow, and they could announce another interest rate hike. What's worse? Inflation or higher rates? How is the economy treating you? Gallup Poll's Frank Newport is listening to \"America's Voice.\" He joins us live now from Princeton, New Jersey. Good morning, Frank.", "Good morning, Carol. This is a new question we just started asking -- just releasing right now -- the American public: What's the biggest financial problem facing your family, not the country, but your family? Here are the results we got: Interestingly, health care costs by 1 point the No. 1 issue facing Americans today, too much debt, cost of living, unemployment, and college expenses. Look at some differences by demographic groups, which we found interesting. First off, these are the youngest Americans, the oldest. If you're young, 18 to 29, it's debt. See that taller column over there? That's what they worry about. But, boy, if you're an older American, 50 and over, health care costs, health care costs, health care costs. That's your big financial problem. Also, by income, we wondered, what do rich people worry about, $100,000 or more? Interestingly, it's college costs. That's what they tell us. If you're poor, that is under $20,000 a year, overwhelmingly 18 percent say it is health care costs. So, you can't really get away from the fact that that's a big issue facing American families today -- Carol.", "Interesting. Changing the subject a little. President Bush is polishing his State of the Union address for tomorrow night. Are Americans satisfied with the direction of the country?", "Well, let's break it down into components. We gave Americans a long list of items just recently and said, which one are you satisfied with? Here are the top ones. Bush presumably tomorrow night can say these are the things that are going better for Americans: military strength, security from terrorism, race relations, America's role in the world and gun laws. Here is, however, the problem. These are the things Americans are least satisfied with, based on our list: gay and lesbian relations. Americans are not as happy with the way that's going in America today. Social Security. He'll certainly touch on that, we know that. Immigration. Poverty. There it is again, Carol. Least satisfied: affordable health care. We can't get away from that issue, a big problem.", "Interesting. We've talked a lot about red states and blue states. So, which states have the highest concentrations of Republicans and Democrats?", "Well, we analyzed over 37,000 interviews, Carol. We did last year. And now we can reveal to you. Here are the most Republican states in the country. If you guess Utah, believe it or not, that has more Republicans in it on a percentage basis than any other state, slightly more than Idaho, its neighboring state, Kansas, Wyoming and then Bush's state of Texas. The bluest states, which ones have the highest concentrations of Democrats? The District of Columbia, not surprising. Beyond that? Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, and New York.", "No surprises there. Frank Newport, thank you for the interesting numbers this morning. Dozens of cheering fans and a pop star dressed in white and wearing jewels. It wasn't a concert. It was the opening day of jury selection in Michael Jackson's trial on child molestation charges. Jackson appeared upbeat as he arrived at a California courthouse, and he even shook hands with the court clerk. In the meantime, his fans defended Jackson in their own way.", "I first met Michael overseas in the U.K. and different countries. And I'm very proud to do what I do. And I'm very proud to be a Michael Jackson fan and to support him today.", "I think he's like as big as a musician gets, you know. And then America has this tendency to, like, build people up and break them down. And they can't break him down, so they're just kind of, like, stuck on that and trying to. It's not going to work.", "Dozens more jurors -- potential jurors, I should say, will be screened today. Seating a jury could take a month or more. It was just one basket and one game, but these kids are unlikely to see anything like it again. We'll show you this amazing shot. You won't believe it. Actually, you will, because you're going to see it. But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Tuesday morning."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "COSTELLO", "REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D), CALIFORNIA", "COSTELLO", "SCHIFF", "COSTELLO", "SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV), SENATE MINORITY LEADER", "COSTELLO", "SCHIFF", "COSTELLO", "SCHIFF", "COSTELLO", "SCHIFF", "COSTELLO", "SCHIFF", "COSTELLO", "SCHIFF", "COSTELLO", "BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "AMERICAN MORNING.\" COSTELLO", "FRANK NEWPORT, GALLUP POLL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF", "COSTELLO", "NEWPORT", "COSTELLO", "NEWPORT", "COSTELLO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-337278", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-04-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/10/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Trump's Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert Resigns.", "utt": ["We do have breaking news to report. One of the president's closest aides has resigned. Homeland Security Adviser, Tom Bossert, we learned just moments ago, has submitted his resignation. Joining me now by phone, someone who held that same job, Homeland Security adviser under President Obama, CNN National Security Analyst, Lisa Monaco. Lisa, what do you make of this decision? We saw Tom Bossert out on the Sunday shows just two days ago. And today he resigns.", "Well, good morning, John. Good to be with you. Look, I'm actually out on the West Coast right now, and folks are literally waking up to this news. I'm at a conference with a number of former government officials and cyber security officials. And it's quite stunning, I think, to get this news. As you point out, Tom Bossert has been out in recent days and indeed through much of his time thus far in the White House being a fairly -- a prominent and outspoken voice for the administration's policies, which is exactly what you do as the Homeland Security adviser. Folks would understand this is a role that was created after 9/11. It is designed to be the president's chief adviser on counterterrorism issues, on homeland security, cybersecurity issues. And it is somebody who is by design supposed to have direct and immediate access and thereby the confidence of the president. So it's quite surprising. All indications were that he had that confidence. It's quite surprising to see this move.", "Direct and immediate access to the president. Something that presumably Tom Bossert had. Now there is some speculation over the last several minutes, people trying to figure out, well, what changed since Sunday? Well, Monday was John Bolton's first day on the job as the National Security adviser. As opposed to Homeland Security adviser. Now every White House is different. But traditionally speaking what's the relationship between the National Security adviser and the Homeland Security adviser?", "So over time that relationship has evolved and in this administration as in the last administration the Homeland Security adviser as I mentioned has direct and immediate access and is the chief adviser to the president on Homeland Security and counterterrorism issues. That role, Tom Bossert's role, has been historically the deputy national security adviser. So there's a bit of a dual hat relationship there and organizationally that person reports through the National Security adviser. So as you point out, the new fact here is that John Bolton came in as the National Security adviser on Monday, so I think it's fair to speculate that this is the new team, maybe John Bolton wanting to have his new team in there. But, again, I would stress what's so important about this Homeland Security adviser is having somebody who is directly reporting to the president, so this may be an indication that Bolton is looking to kind of really change that role and have his team and his team member be in that role.", "And very quickly, Bossert is just the latest departure from inside the White House, Hope Hicks, you know, we've seen Rob Porter, so many changes at the White House and also the administration as we look at this picture right there. How does that change the working environment, do you suspect?", "Well, it's concerning, right? Because the Homeland Security adviser is somebody who is supposed to be spending 24/7 of their day and their job focused on Homeland Security threats and so to the extent this reflects just more upheaval and chaos in the West Wing. That's not great for having that focus on the Homeland Security --", "Right.", "-- and cybersecurity and terrorism threats.", "Lisa Monaco, waking up early for us with this breaking news from the West Coast. Lisa, we really appreciate it. We'll be right back.", "Good to --"], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "LISA MONACO, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "BERMAN", "MONACO", "BERMAN", "MONACO", "BERMAN", "MONACO", "BERMAN", "MONACO"]}
{"id": "CNN-31457", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2001-5-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/29/nr.00.html", "summary": "NEWSROOM for May 29, 2001: Powering the Planet", "utt": ["Energy: How much do we use? How much do we need? Are fossil fuels running out? If so, what are the alternatives? Can global warming be stopped? What are you willing to do? Those are the questions. Today, we search for the answers in \"Powering the Planet,\" a CNN NEWSROOM special report with Tom Haynes.", "Hello and welcome to this NEWSROOM special edition: \"Powering the Planet.\" I'm Tom Haynes inside the power grid at Georgia Power. Here they monitor power transmissions across the state of Georgia to basically make sure the lights stay on. During the next half hour, we're going to take a look at how we use energy, the potential impact energy consumption can have on the environment and some of the alternatives to using traditional energy sources.", "Renewable energy is much harder than people realize. The only thing holding renewable energy back right now are the economics of not having a sufficiently large market. It's not the technology itself.", "Whether you're a fan of windmills or fossil fuels, the fact remains that we need energy. So the debate rages on about what resources we have, where to find them and how best to use them.", "High gas prices and a power crisis in California have U.S. lawmakers engaged in a policy debate over how we generate and distribute energy. Many argue the U.S. should become more independent by searching for oil in places like the disputed Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Others contend the U.S. should become more self sufficient by reducing its dependency on oil and using renewable energy sources.", "Crude oil, one of the world's most precious natural resources: In the U.S., people depend on oil as a major source of energy, both in their homes and as gasoline in their cars. In the 1970s, with shortages at the pump and an oil embargo, a lot of people wondered whether the world would some day run out of oil. Nowadays, the focus seems to have shifted from a dwindling oil supply to the U.S. dependence on imported oil and how burning it may impact the environment.", "We're going to continue to use oil for a long time. The issue is creating incentives to gradually transition away from our excessive dependence on oil.", "Daniel Lashof is one of many environmental scientists who think the U.S. needs to make finding alternatives to oil consumption a priority.", "We can have much more leverage over our oil dependency by improving energy efficiency to reduce our demand for oil, rather than by focusing on developing new supplies.", "But with high gas prices and California in the middle of an energy crisis, there are many, including some in the Bush administration, who say the solution needs to come now. And for that, they're looking here, Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 19 million acres of pristine wilderness in North Alaska. Environmentalists call it America's Serengeti. U.S. oil producers consider it a diamond in the rough. Red Cavaney represents oil companies who want to open a small portion of the Arctic Reserve to explore for oil and reduce U.S. dependency on imports.", "We don't want to have a country that's reliant on one or two sources for crude oil or for natural gas or for anything, for that matter, because if something goes wrong, you're in very deep trouble.", "Seismic tests suggest the Arctic Refuge may hold billions of barrels of oil. But nobody really knows for sure. Environmentalists say it's not worth the risk of disrupting the Arctic ecosystem. But the oil industry says it has ways around that -- literally.", "We now have, through directional drilling -- which is the capacity to take one small drill hole and actually bore down there, and through use of computer and optics and other technology, we can go off five miles in any direction and we can drill. And we can actually hit something the size of a closet.", "Cavaney says the need for oil goes beyond U.S. borders, that, as other countries develop, just the way America did, their need for oil will match ours.", "But we often times forget that much of the developing world, you know, relies on much less sophisticated technology. As they go through that evolution from areas that don't have roads, that don't even have lights in today's environment, as they develop, they're going to be using many of the technologies that we will have left or moved behind.", "And about that question from the 1970s: Will we ever run out of oil? Every few years, the U.S. Geological Survey makes an educated guess. And even oil companies concede that, some day, Earth's oil reserves could dry up.", "Theoretically, there will be such a day. But I expect it'll never arrive, because what's likely to happen is, at some distant point in the future, other alternative forms of energy, as technology permits, will roll on screen and they'll gain their share of it.", "The question is: Will we move quickly enough to avoid the worst dangers of global warming to protect our pristine wilderness areas? Or will we wait until it's too late?", "The concern over whether enough fuel exists to sustain us is probably best apparent in California. Since January, high energy demands coupled with tightened fuel supplies, have triggered a steady stream of power alerts and rolling blackouts. The state government is scrambling to implement new conservation rules, while frantically searching for more resources. But not all Californians are feeling the crunch. Since the early 1980s, the state has encouraged the use and development of so-called \"alternative energies\" to help relieve some of the drain on resources. NEWSROOM's Janice McDonald takes a look at that.", "Sacramento, California: capital of the state, role model for the world? A full 20 percent of the city's power comes from the sun, wind, water and geothermal pull -- in other words: renewable resources or so-called alternative energy, a fact that has won the local utility international recognition and awards.", "I don't think we like to use fossil fuels. I don't think they're particularly good for the environment.", "Colin Taylor works for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District -- or SMUD. SMUD is owned by its customers, who encourage the utility to draw from green power, power generated from non-polluting resources. The utility currently leads the U.S. in energy production from photovoltaic cells, an updated and more efficient alternative to solar panels.", "They are the roof as well. So if you install these on your roof, you don't need to install anything else. And one of the things we're trying to do is to get housing developers to install these cells as part of the house itself when they originally build it. So a homeowner in Sacramento could buy a house with solar cells on the roof.", "SMUD helps pay for the cells to encourage more people to use them. Such cost-sharing for installing alternative fuel devices is prevalent throughout the state. Take this windmill: The state covered half its cost.", "Since it's producing more than I need, I can also use it. I can divert my gas loads to electric loads. And so that's been fun. And it -- it's kind of enjoyable to leave some lights on and not feel guilty about just burning up all that power.", "In fact, Joe Guasti, electric meter often runs backwards, allowing him to bank power for later use. The same can happen in solar homes. A contractor by trade, Guasti, was so impressed that he's now selling windmills.", "These are -- these are all the current customers -- people that have applied to the California Energy Commission for their buy-down money that pay for half of their machines. MCDONALD Wind turbine manufacturers say their business is growing 20 to 40 percent a year.", "In today's world, at the high natural gas prices, wind energy is actually cheaper than gas. And because of environmental concerns, most people think it's a good thing to make electricity from the wind and not have emissions going into the air.", "Commercial wind farms like these dotting the hills near Palm Springs now provide 2 percent of the state's energy, a figure expected to rise over the next few years. In a year, one 600 kilowatt machine can generate enough power for 600 people, and, at the same time, save the use of more than 34,000 barrels of oil.", "I think it makes good business sense to rely on wind. It will not go up in cost. Once you install the part, it is pretty much paid for and you have power that will not pollute. You don't have any byproducts.", "It helps that California's geography is well suited to a variety of alternative energy. Just north of Napa Valley, where geothermal pools bubble and steam, the ground is tapped to harness the steam. (on camera): Geothermal exploration is not unlike exploration for oil and gas. Here, too, it takes a geologist to determine where the resources are located.. (voice-over): In fact, the numerous steam wells resemble their oil counterpart. This 30 square-mile area is crisscrossed with miles and miles of pipes snaking their way to power plants where the steam is converted to energy: clean, cheap and renewable. But the wind doesn't always blow. The sun doesn't always shine. And geothermal also has its drawbacks.", "The only problem is, its limitations are that it has to be located in a geographic area that accommodates itself to being tapped to make electricity using geothermal energy. So it's not as widespread as say, fossil fuel or coal plants are in this country, but it is certainly a viable alternative.", "Some homeowners have found that their best alternative is to use power from the utility's grid, but use a system that limits it.", "We're standing on a series of pipes that are drilled 200 feet into the earth. Within those pipes, we circulate water. That water picks up the heat and transfers it to machinery that's within the house.", "This system is called a geothermal pump. It brings heat into the house during the cold months and extracts it during the hot months.", "This system is -- other than running the lights, this provides all the mechanical requirements for Fred's homes.", "Even though this system had a higher up front cost, the annual savings for operations were so great that the total system turns out to be significantly lower cost in total than a conventional system.", "Long-time industry watcher Donald Aitken predicts that, with the growing energy crisis, more people will learn to understand the true value of green energy.", "If you look at any time scale, the world was powered by renewable energy into this century. And next century, it will be powered by renewable energy again. The alternative energy resources are the temporary use of oil, gas and coal. The basic, stable, sustainable energy resources are the ones we did use and the ones we will use.", "Janice McDonald, CNN Newsroom, Berkeley, California.", "One major power supply that has a rocky existence is nuclear power. Accidents at Three Mile Island in the United States and Russia's Chernobyl plants cast a shadow over the industry. But in these days of potential shortages in the power supply, a new day may be dawning for its use. Kate Snow reports.", "Inside the North Anna nuclear site an hour north of Richmond, the generators roar 24 hours a day. Two reactors produce enough electricity for a quarter million Virginia homes. Nationwide, nuclear plants provide roughly one-fifth of the country's power and supporters say that number could grow.", "It's amazing what a little shortage of electricity will do for your view on what's needed for the future.", "The nuclear industry is sensing a shift. For the first time in decades, politicians talk openly about using nuclear power to diversify America's energy supply.", "This is an industry today that is not the industry that it was 20 years ago. This is an industry today that is operating these plants safely, reliably, competitively, and at performance levels that exceed any other source of generation that we have in the United States.", "On Capitol Hill, support for nuclear power is in part a response to constituents. Nuclear plants operate in 31 states.", "I think it has changed, and it's changed in part based on personal experience. One of the reasons that I have been a supporter of nuclear is because we've had such a good experience in Florida where we have three nuclear farms and they contribute about 20 percent of our total energy supply.", "And with the Bush administration backing nuclear power, it's no longer as politically dangerous for members of Congress to be pro-nuclear. Vice President Cheney first endorsed the idea on a talk show. \"If you want to do something about carbon dioxide emissions,\" he said, \"then you ought to build nuclear power plants.\" It's been nearly 25 years since the last commercial reactor was ordered, 1978, one year before the accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island. Opponents of nuclear power contend the politics have changed but the danger hasn't.", "Right now, we believe that we're in more danger with the nuclear power industry than in the earlier days when public concern focused on construction programs, because now is the time that the industry is seeking new bottom lines that pit profit margins against safety margins. (on camera): The federal government was supposed to take control of commercial nuclear waste in 1998, but that didn't happen. One thing both pro- and anti-nuclear forces agree on, if there's the political will to build more nuclear reactors, there must also be the will to deal with the waste. Kate Snow, CNN, Capitol Hill.", "I just came outside for a second to check out one of these fuelless vehicles. This is the EV1, made by General Motors. At Georgia Power, they encourage their employees to lease cars like this. With teenagers making up a growing number of the American driving population, we wanted to find out if you would drive a car like this.", "It's a problem. It takes quite a bit of administrative time. We probably have more than 600 students that are able to come to school in their own vehicles every day.", "But the problem goes beyond the usual complaints of traffic jams and safety concerns for teens. As if they weren't enough, the next generation of American drivers could also be contributing to global warming. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel like oil that power most cars could be adversely affecting the Earth's atmosphere. And with young Americans making up nearly 10 percent of the driving population, the potential for them to impact the environment is real. So at Roswell, we found a group of students who say kids their age should think more about the environment and less about their cars.", "I think some kids do worry about it, but the majority are just worried about their reputation and their freedom. They don't really care about how the world is going to be for their children later on. They just care about their world right now.", "But with both parents working and many students holding their own jobs, this group concedes having a car is sometimes a downright necessity. Plus, for a lot of them, being seen on the bus just isn't an option. (on camera): When you see one of your friends getting on the bus, are you like, \"Loser,\" you know? \"Why don't you have a car?\"", "Well, of course, there's that reputation, I think -- I think there's always been that reputation.", "I think it's basically assumed that when you're 16, you'll have a car and you'll drive to school. And if you don't, then it's kind of -- I don't know -- you don't really fit in.", "Sonia Kim fits in just fine. Her contribution to a cleaner environment: She doesn't drive to school.", "I think that car pooling is a really good idea. And I think that it really helps, you know, reduce the emissions and things like that into the environment.", "Car pooling, yes -- mass transit, another alternative, but what about driving one of these things? We took our group of eco- friendly students to check out the next generation of eco-friendly cars. This one, called the Honda Insight: a hybrid car that runs on regular gas, but generates electricity as you drive it.", "It gives off very few pollutants. It is, you know, again, a hybrid engine.", "The young drivers were interested enough in the new technology, but would they really consider owning a hybrid?", "Just looking at it, I know it may be the future, but it seems too futuristic for me. It doesn't really seem like it would be my first choice for a car.", "I think you have to have sort of a design like this. And I think it's quite attractive to cut down on drag.", "Other cars use even less gas, running only on electricity. (on camera): Would you mind the hassle of plugging in and juicing up?", "I don't think I would mind. I mean, I guess once -- if this ever becomes mainstream, it'll be just like people going to gas stations now. I think that, you know, if the rest of society accepts it, then I think that it'll be fine.", "The hybrid Honda Insight runs about $20,000, maybe a little more than what's in the pockets of these conscious consumers. But environmentalists hope, when they're ready to buy their next car, alternative-fuel vehicles won't be so alternative anymore.", "A number of times during the program, the term \"global warming\" has come up. Well, to help us understand exactly what global warming is, we're joined by CNN environment correspondent Natalie Pawelski. Hey, Natalie.", "Hi, Tom. You know, watching that last story, it was strange to think that just 100 years ago, we wouldn't be talking about what kind of car to get; we'd be talking about what kind of horse and buggy to get. A lot can change in a century. And in the last century, researchers say one of the biggest changes on Earth has been humankind's effect on the climate -- a warmer climate because of people's use of fossil fuels.", "Storms rage, polar ice caps melt, drought spreads, diseases kill, the oceans rise. Sounds like a plot for a bad disaster movie, but scientists say these could be the real-life effects of global warming.", "It is definitely happening. The world is about a degree Fahrenheit warmer than it was a century ago. Glaciers are melting, the ocean is getting warmer, the atmosphere is warmer at almost all levels near the surface, the soil is warmer. The whole place is heating up. There's no doubt about it: Global warming is here.", "Michael Oppenheimer is one of thousands of scientists who has worked with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The scientists' mission: to find out the truth about global warming. The verdict: Earth is heating up and people are at least partly to blame. The U.N. panel predicts that over the next century, the Earth will get hotter, with average temperatures rising by 2 to 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit. The culprit: air pollution, in the form of so-called greenhouse gasses; most notably carbon dioxide, from burning fossil fuels like coal and oil. Fossil fuels are used to power everything from cars and planes to furnaces and air conditioners. Most power plants also burn fossil fuels. So when you turn on the lights of a TV, you're probably relying on fossil fuels as well and contributing your part to greenhouse gas emissions. (on camera): Those gases act a lot like the glass in a greenhouse, trapping the sun's energy. In the same way a greenhouse stays warm on a sunny day, even in the middle of winter, so Earth stays warm even while orbiting through frigid space. That greenhouse effect is what makes life on Earth possible. But if greenhouse gases build up too much, the planet could overheat. (voice-over): If that happens, the U.N. scientific panel says sea level will rise between 6 inches and 3 feet over the next century. Coastal floods could become more common and more severe. Low-lying ecosystems, like Louisiana's bayous and the Florida Everglades, could be flooded, their unique mix of plants and animals forever changed. And for some countries surrounded by ocean with little money to spend on trying to hold it back, rising sea levels could be devastating. To make matters worse, researchers predict a warmer ocean will fuel more frequent, stronger tropical storms. On land, a changing climate could change the world's forests. For example, in a few generations, there may be no more making maple syrup in southern New England. Researchers say the temperatures could get too hot for sugar maples to thrive there. In arid regions, researchers believe, things will get drier. That could mean problems for farmers, glitches in drinking water supplies, even expanding deserts. One more threat: tropical diseases. They could widen their range to newly-warmed lands and find whole new pools of victims. (on camera): It is a frightening list of possibilities. But there are voices of dissent. A few scientists say global warming is a theory that's so far from being proven it's not worth worrying about. Others say that while global warming may be real, it just doesn't matter.", "We really don't care whether human beings change the climate. Every city that we have is a changed climate: several degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside, for example. That's been known for years that that happens. With our industrial emissions, what we have done is we have globalized this phenomenon. Big deal.", "Pat Michaels, one of the scientists who participated in the United Nations panel on climate change says there is a herd mentality among climate researchers. He says they are latching onto the gloomiest, least-likely predictions while ignoring evidence to the contrary. Besides, he argues, even if Earth's climate changes, people will simply adapt.", "Global warming's real, but it's an overblown issue. The world has many problems to confront in the 21st century, and I don't think global warming is one of them.", "Decided.", "Pondering global warming is not just an academic exercise. It's also a political and economic one. In 1997, at a United Nations convention on climate change in Kyoto, Japan, dozens of nations agreed on a plan for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. But so far, the United States, which produces about a quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, has not ratified the agreement. Opponents say it would cost too much and it fails to hold poorer countries to strict pollution limits. The next millennium's wildcard is China. Its rapidly-growing, coal-fired economy is poised to surpass the United States as the world's No. 1 source of greenhouse gases by the year 2025. So even if Earth's wealthy nations agree to the hard-fought Kyoto emissions limits, the world's most populous nation could effectively cancel out the whole effort. While governments wrangle, some surprising players have stepped up to the plate from the world of industry. Ford Motor Company, Royal Dutch Shell, BP Amoco and Dow all have acknowledged global warming as a reality and announced concrete plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions.", "Major companies have gone out of climate denial. You know, they've moved from the camp of global warming isn't real and sticking their head in the sand, to a posture of, hey, looks like global warming is real and what are we going to do about it and how do we make money dealing with the fact that we're going to be taking some of these measures to clean our air and deal with global warming.", "For now, the global-warming issue is in the hands of diplomats, politicians, businesses and the everyday decisions made by billions of people around the globe. What we do about global warming could end up defining what the world looks like in the next millennium.", "Right now, a lot of other countries are mad at President Bush's rejection of the Kyoto protocol. They figure, since the United States is the biggest producer of greenhouse gasses, Washington should bear the biggest responsibility for doing something about global warming.", "Well, Natalie, why is the Bush administration -- and much of the U.S. Senate, actually -- so against the Kyoto protocol?", "Well, it seems to be a case of follow the money. President Bush has said that limiting fossil fuels could limit economic growth. And he's worried about that.", "All right, a lot to consider when it comes to the environment -- Natalie, thanks. That'll about do it for this CNN NEWSROOM special edition: \"Powering the Planet.\" My thanks to Natalie Pawelski for joining us. And thanks to you, as well. I'm Tom Haynes. 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{"id": "CNN-157662", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-11-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1011/01/ltm.03.html", "summary": "N.Y. Democrats in Trouble; The \"Fire Pelosi\" Tour; Democrats in a Ditch?", "utt": ["Good Monday morning to you. It's November 1st, beginning of a brand new month, just a day away from the midterm elections now. I'm John Roberts.", "I'm Kiran Chetry. Glad you're with us. Here's a look at the top stories right now. We start in Yemen where officials are promising tighter security in place at all of its airports following the plot to send mail bombs to the U.S. that originated in Yemen. The near catastrophe is raising concerns about cargo on U.S. found passenger flights. Homeland security correspondent, Jeanne Meserve, is working that part of the story.", "America votes in just 24 hours. And polls show Democrats could be in for a drabbing, but National Republican Committee chairman, Michael Steele says, it'll still be a GOP victory even if Democrats hold on to the House. We'll ask him why he's playing down expectations when he joins us live at the bottom of the hour.", "There's also a new poll showing Democrats are in big trouble tomorrow. Did President Obama's weekend campaign blitz do enough to save some key seats with just a day to go? We're going to talk to the man whose job it is to keep the Democrats in power, at least in the House of Representatives.", "By this time tomorrow, the American people will be doing the talking -- one more day before the midterm elections. And by the looks of it, the Democrats are in some serious trouble.", "According to a new CNN opinion research corporation poll, 51 percent of you believe Democrats will lose power in Congress tomorrow, only 63 percent believe they'll hold on to it. In the Senate, 37 of the 100 seats are up for grabs, 18 of those seats belong to Republicans, 19 to Democrats. President Obama is stumping in Ohio. He was trying to catch lightning in a bottle like he did in 2008.", "I want you to remember this. Don't let anybody tell you this fight isn't worth it. Don't let anybody tell you you're not making a difference. Because of you, somewhere in Ohio there's a small business owner who kept their doors open in the depths of recession. Because of you, there are nearly 100,000 brave men and women who are no longer at war in Iraq, because of you.", "\"The Best Political Team on Television\" is covering every angle for you this morning. Reports ahead from Jim Acosta, Carol Costello, our chief national correspondent John King, and senior Congressional correspondent Dana Bash. Let's begin with Jim Acosta, though. He's live with the latest CNN polling. And quite a shocker when it comes to approval ratings for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Jim.", "Absolutely, that's right, John. This may be the lead story of all the poll numbers that came out from our CNN polling unit over the weekend. This is a shocking un- favorability number for Nancy Pelosi. Take a look at this -- opinion of house speaker Nancy Pelosi, 53 percent unfavorable, 26 percent favorable. Why is this important? Because these days you're seeing the chairman of the RNC Michael Steele going all over the country wearing \"Fire Pelosi t-shirts.\" Many of the ads running on these hotly contested races for the House all over the country show candidates side-by-side, Democratic candidates side-by-side with Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, saying candidate x would essentially be a rubber stamp for Nancy Pelosi. So Republicans have personalized these midterm elections, made it very much about the speaker of the House. And that is having an effect on Speaker Pelosi. Traditionally the last couple of speakers who have lost their jobs, Denny Hastert and Newt Gingrich have essentially left the political scene after losing their jobs. And Nancy Pelosi will obviously win her House race out in San Francisco, but she will lose this -- the job as speaker, of course, if the Republicans take charge. So it'll be all eyes on Nancy Pelosi to determine what she's going to do if this avalanche does occur on Tuesday.", "Jim, there's so many ways to skin a cat when it comes to polling. You could have registered Democrats, registered Republicans, registered voters. We've got new polls on likely voters, those people who may be inclined to really get out to the polls tomorrow. What do those numbers tell us?", "These are titanic-like poll numbers right now for the Republicans. It's pretty extraordinary when you look at the advantage for Republicans right now over Democrats. Among likely voters, 52 percent of Americans prefer the Republican candidate -- this is the generic ballot with no name mentioned -- 42 percent for the Democratic candidate. Those are 1994- style polling numbers for the Republicans. These are the numbers they'd like to see heading into the election. What is behind these numbers? If you get into the weeds of this latest poll from CNN, independents are breaking towards the Republicans. The economy is the top issue for Americans right now. Health care reform, that big divisive issue that the Democrats spent a lot of capital on, ranks nowhere near the top when it comes to issues that concern Americans. So all the polling numbers, all the data leaning in the Republican direction heading into Tuesday, John.", "Now, of course, these are all national numbers. And with the exception of the Senate, the other races are pretty much local. So how does that translate? Is it just sort of a general mood of the country?", "It is the general mood of the country. And honestly, if you look at President Obama's favorability numbers, he is still holding steady. His numbers have not moved terrible much in the last six months or so. So this is really a referendum on the Democrats at this point, the Democratic Party and members of Congress. And while it is something that you have to look at sort of race-by-race and state-by- state, overall across the country there's just deep dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party right now, and that is translating into a tidal wave-like election for Republicans at this point. All of that could be wrong and the Democrats are saying there's still time to pull it out, but it is looking grim at this point.", "Jim Acosta this morning. Jim, thanks. Ahead this hour at ten minutes after, Congressman Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, he heads the committee responsible for getting Democrats elected to Congress. And then at 30 minutes after the hour, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele will join us and we'll have a chance to ask him about the crazy race in Alaska.", "It'll be interesting to get both of their takes. They don't want to play things up and don't want to throw the towel in. There's a day to go and people have to vote. Ell, to a CNN security watch now. The Yemeni government says that there are new, tighter measurements now in place at all airports in the country. Officials say that every piece of cargo and luggage will now go through extensive searching.", "Yemen is responding to the plot to send two mail bombs to the United States. And this morning we're learning that at least one of the explosive devices may have traveled on passenger planes. Investigators believe both packages bear the mark of Al Qaeda bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Seri.", "Yes, he's believed to be the same person who designed the failed underwear bomb that was found last Christmas on a flight to the U.S. Well, the mail bomb plot reveal some potentially deadly gaps in the screening of air cargo, and the terror scare is raising concerns about the security of cargo on all the U.S.-bound flights. Our Homeland Security Correspondent Jeanne Meserve is live for us in London this morning. This exposed vulnerability, clearly it was caught in time. But the question is, are there more like this out there?", "Well, you know, they are looking at packages from Yemen, sort of backtracking on things to see if there's any additional threat at this point in time. But they're trying to look forward here. The most recent number we have for screening of inbound cargo is that about 60 percent of it coming to the U.S. is green, which means about 40 percent of it is not. Administration officials are acknowledging the need to do more in the wake of the bomb plot, but it's a tough problem, and experts say we're never going to be able to eliminate the threat 100 percent of the time. Some of the problematic issues -- shipments come from all over the world. So any security regime requires international cooperation. And it is not always easy to get buy-in from other countries. Shipments move from country to country and plane to plane, creating opportunities for tampering. Cargo is sometimes in big pallets or in containers, making screening difficult. Technology has its limitations even when it can be used. X-rays, for instance, wouldn't have detected these PETN bombs. The TSA says incoming flights have to provide cargo manifests prior to arrival in the U.S. And 100 percent of identified high-risk cargo on passenger planes is being screened. TSA administrator John Pistol also says all cargo flying to the U.S. on passenger or cargo planes is held to TSA standards that include specific requirements covering how facilities and cargo is accessed, the vetting of personnel with access to cargo, employee training and cargo screening procedures. But this is a far cry from 100 percent screening of the cargo, and administration officials recognize that this system has to be tightened up. Not just in Yemen, but all around the world. It will be a very difficult and very expensive proposition, Kiran.", "Absolutely. And the thing that stuck out to me in all of this, even when they were aware of it, it took British officials hours to find what they were talking about. So it just seems you're looking for a needle in a haystack here.", "That's right. In this specific incident had very good intelligence, and that's what led them to the device. But it does point out the short comings of the current screening capabilities. Now, there is a bipartisan cry erupting from members of Congress to close this gap. Among those saying something must be done, the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee.", "No, I'm not satisfied. The question is, how do we correct it? That's what we have to do. I think we've got to get Congress and the administration and industry itself to sit down and find ways to make cargo planes more secure. They'll probably never be as secure as passenger planes, but we do have to improve the security.", "And Democrat Ed Markey of Massachusetts is already pledging to introduce legislation to require 100 percent of screening of all cargo on all cargo planes.", "Jeanne Meserve for us on our terror watch this morning, thanks so much.", "Also new this morning, another deadly suspected U.S. drone strike in Pakistan. Intelligence officials in the area say the strike killed five people in northwestern Pakistan, a region where Al Qaeda and Taliban militants are known to be hiding.", "And another powerful eruption from Indonesia, this volcano. Thousands of people living in relief camps, they had returned to their homes, hoping to check on their homes to see what was left as well as farm animals. At least 31 people have been killed but the volcano in the past week.", "An Ohio congressman makes a quick exit during a rally with former president Bill Clinton. Was it something the former president did? Find out.", "Also, there's a new poll showing Democrats are in big trouble tomorrow. Did President Obama's weekend campaigning blitz do anything to help save some key seats? We'll talk to the man whose job it is to keep them in power about the last-minute push for votes. It's 12 minutes past the hour."], "speaker": ["JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR", "KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "ROBERTS", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROBERTS", "ACOSTA", "ROBERTS", "ACOSTA", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "CHETRY", "MESERVE", "REP. PETE KING, (R) NEW YORK", "MESERVE", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY"]}
{"id": "CNN-403466", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2020-06-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/22/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "National Reckoning Upends Race To Defeat Mitch McConnell.", "utt": ["The National focus on racial injustice and policing as upended a key Democratic primary race. Our Senior Washington Correspondent Jeff Zeleny is joining us right now. Jeff, this is a race to see who will take on the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November.", "Wolf, Democrats have had their eye on this seat for longer than any other Senate race. The idea of defeating Mitch McConnell as he tries to run for a seventh term or at least giving him a tough run for his money has suddenly been upended by the political awakening that's happening across the country.", "This is happening in Kentucky right now. We are in a moment you all. Were in a moment.", "A sleepy Senate primary race suddenly electrified in Kentucky.", "This time has to be different for my cousins, for my little ones, for you all. This has to be different for Breonna, for Mr. McAtee, for everybody. That's a hashtag.", "A national reckoning on racism and police brutality is resonating loudly here where a Louisville police killed 26-year old Breonna Taylor, an EMT in March, and David McAtee, the owner of a barbecue restaurant in June. Weeks of protests have injected fresh uncertainty into the campaign over who Democrats will choose in tomorrow's election to take on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November.", "She's Kentucky's best chance to move on from Mitch McConnell.", "Amy McGrath, a former marine pilot is the handpick choice of party leaders in Washington. Her primary victory was seen as a foregone conclusion. But state Representative Charles Booker is now riding a wave of momentum. (on-camera): You've said that you are campaigning from the hood to the holler. Explain that.", "Well, I'm trying to build a movement here by speaking to our common bonds. And there's a reality that there are so many similarities in the hood that you would see in the places in the hollers of Eastern Kentucky and in the mountains that if we realize our common bonds, we can change the world.", "With a political awakening underway, McGrath has struggled to find her footing.", "Have you been on the ground in Louisville with the protesters the last three days or in Lexington or elsewhere, Ms. McGrath?", "I have not.", "And why?", "Well, I've been with my family and I've had some family things going on this past weekend. But I've been following the news and, you know, and watching.", "Booker turn that moment into a TV ad. Well, she's dramatically out spending him $14 million to his $1 million on advertising alone. The closing momentum is on his side. The race is playing out here in Trump country where the President won the state four years ago by nearly 30 points.", "President Trump and Mitch McConnell delivering for Kentucky.", "From the streets of Louisville to small towns like Campbellsville, Booker is making the case for progressive change. His policies closely aligned with Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, both of whom have endorsed him.", "We got to be that change. We got to be in that arc.", "Do you wonder if he's too progressive for Kentucky?", "Sometimes I think about that, but it's time for change. Everything is evolving manner.", "A more urgent test is the mechanics of voting. While tens of thousands have voted early, only one polling place will be open tomorrow in Louisville, with precincts consolidated because of coronavirus.", "It's just naturally going to disenfranchise people, and that is a concern.", "The uncertainty over this race is going to be complicated tomorrow on primary day here, Wolf, where normally 3,700 voting locations across the state of Kentucky have been boiled down to about 170. There is going to be only one here in the city of Louisville, one in the city of Lexington. Of course, the two largest cities in this Commonwealth of Kentucky. We've seen voting problems in other states across the country as these voters -- as these primaries have been changed because of the pandemic. So there's certainly as a question about how the votes will be counted in cast tomorrow. Wolf?", "All right, we'll see what happens. Jeff Zeleny reporting, thank you. Coming up, the White House defense President Trump's use of a racist slur to describe the coronavirus."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "CHARLES BOOKER (D), KENTUCKY SENATE CANDIDATE", "ZELENY (voice-over)", "BOOKER", "ZELENY (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ZELENY (voice-over)", "BOOKER", "ZELENY (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "AMY MCGRATH (D), KENTUCKY SENATE CANDIDATE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MCGRATH", "ZELENY (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ZELENY (voice-over)", "BOOKER", "ZELENY (on-camera)", "BRUCE WHALEY, KENTUCKY VOTER", "ZELENY (voice-over)", "BOOKER", "ZELENY", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "NPR-15576", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2005-09-28", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4867520", "title": "Canada's 'Prince of Pot' Busted for Seed Sales", "summary": "Canadian police last month arrested Mark Emery, the leader of the nation's Marijuana Party, for selling marijuana seeds to American customers through his Vancouver-based mail order company. Some critics accuse Canadian police of doing the bidding of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. Martin Kaste profiles Canada's \"prince of pot.\"", "utt": ["This is DAY TO DAY.  I'm Alex Chadwick.", "In Vancouver, Canada, Mark Emery is known as the `Prince of Pot,' a seed      distributor in a society that has not formally legalized marijuana but      does pretty much ignore its use.  OK for Canadians, but Mr. Emery has      customers in this country, too.  And now US authorities want him      extradited and tried and put in jail for maybe the rest of his life.      Many Canadians see it as a case of Washington trying to export the war on      drugs.  NPR's Martin Kaste reports.", "Unidentified Woman:  Here we go.  A-two, a-one, two, three...", "MARTIN KASTE reporting:", "A jazz singer, young women dressed in fairy costumes, and about 50 people      smoking giant marijuana joints.  This laid-back scene on the front steps      of a Vancouver art gallery is the British Columbia Marijuana Party's idea      of a political protest.", "Unidentified Man #1:  Get your ...(Unintelligible) on.  Pass that big      fatty around.", "As the smoke gets thicker, a couple of Vancouver policemen ride      by on their bikes and pretend not to notice.  Pot is still illegal in      Canada, but in liberal cities such as Vancouver, the ban is rarely      enforced.  The country as a whole is becoming more lenient toward      marijuana.  Parliament is seriously considering decriminalizing      possession of small amounts.  And the pot smokers at this protest give      Mark Emery much of the credit.", "Unidentified Man #2:  ...Mark Emery for turning us all into princes and      princesses of pot.", "A party activist in a jester's hat ceremonially hands Emery a lit      joint.  Emery is a short man and kind of nerdy compared to his scruffy      fans, a sort of Bill Gates for Vancouver's booming marijuana industry.  A      former bookseller, Emery started out in the 1990s by successfully      challenging restrictions on the sale of marijuana-themed books and      magazines.  He then moved on to seeds.  He readily admits he's sold      millions.  But he says he's not in it for the profit.", "The idea was in 1994 we'd sell seeds      and then we would use the proceeds of that to fund peaceful democratic      revolution in a sense.  `Overgrowing the government' was our slogan, that      through peaceful botanical revolution we'd empower the marijuana people      and then with the money we received from them, we would empower them on      the political sphere and in the judicial sphere, in the ideological      sphere.", "At first, the Canadian police raided his business on a regular      basis, but the courts never did more than impose modest fines.  And for      the last few years, the Canadian authorities have left him alone--until      this summer, when they suddenly raided his seed business at the behest of      the US Drug Enforcement Administration.  Conservative Canadians such as      Gary Abbott(ph) are glad to see the Americans getting involved.", "I'd just as soon see you people get him, and      then we'd be rid of him for a while.", "Abbott and his wife are out strolling in downtown Vancouver, and      they walk a wide circle to avoid Emery and the other marijuana partisans      out in front of the art gallery.", "To the average citizen, he's a nuisance.", "Really?", "I mean, we spent more money on him from fighting in the      courts than he's worth.", "Abbott says he approves of the more severe prison term that would      await Emery if he's convicted in the US.  In fact, both Emery's      supporters and his opponents suspect that frustrated Canadian police are      hoping that US courts will do what Canadian courts won't--lock Emery up.      But Emery believes there's more going on.  He thinks the American      government is also trying to muzzle him.", "There's no doubt I'm the worldwide leader of this movement.      I'm easily the most recognizable figure anywhere in the world in regards      to the cannabis liberation movement.  I certainly provided more money.      So, you know, we paid $19,000 for the Arizona legalization initiative in      2002.  We spent $27,000 on a class-action suit in 1999 in Philadelphia to      make medical marijuana legal there.", "Well, I certainly expect      that Mark Emery will attempt to politicize it.", "Todd Greenberg is the associate US attorney in charge of      prosecuting Emery if the extradition is successful.  He says Emery's      political aspirations don't change the fact that he's a drug smuggler.", "Mark Emery is the--or was--the largest distributor of      marijuana seeds into the United States.  And the volume of marijuana      seeds and marijuana growing equipment that he was selling rose to such a      level that, you know, we just couldn't ignore it.", "But the US government has welcomed the fact that Emery will no      longer be able to raise money for his pet political causes.  In an      official statement, DEA Administrator Karen Tandy said, in her words,      \"Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on.\"      To many Canadians, that quote seems to confirm their suspicion that the      DEA is out to silence those who campaign for the legalization of pot.      Norman Spector, a political columnist for The Toronto Globe and Mail,      says even Canadians who don't support full legalization have come to      sympathize with Emery.", "The strongest argument      he has that probably resonates with some people in the middle is the idea      that we're extraditing someone for an offense that isn't enforced in      Canada and the sense that, you know, you Americans are really dinosaurs      on this whole thing and why are we doing this thing.", "Emery's extradition is not imminent.  Similar requests have taken      years to work their way through the Canadian courts.  But eventually most      extradition requests are successful, and Emery admits that there is a      good chance he'll face trial in the US.  If that happens, he says, he may      well be killed inside a sordid American prison.  Without a hint of irony,      he says he expects to become a martyr to the cause, just like Mandela and      Gandhi.  Martin Kaste, NPR News."], "speaker": ["ALEX CHADWICK, host", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "KASTE", "KASTE", "KASTE", "Mr. MARK EMERY (Seed Distributor)", "KASTE", "Mr. GARY ABBOTT (Canadian)", "KASTE", "Mr. GARY ABBOTT (Canadian)", "KASTE", "Mr. GARY ABBOTT (Canadian)", "KASTE", "Mr. MARK EMERY (Seed Distributor)", "Mr. TODD GREENBERG (Associate US Attorney)", "KASTE", "Mr. TODD GREENBERG (Associate US Attorney)", "KASTE", "Mr. NORMAN SPECTOR (The Toronto Globe and Mail)", "KASTE"]}
{"id": "CNN-170691", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-8-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/16/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Perry Blows a Kiss to Romney; James Murdoch \"Likely\" Re- Questioned", "utt": ["OK. It's also top of the hour. And we are on the road to the White House. The President is in the Midwest promising jobs and fighting to keep his. And here are some of the Republicans trying to wrestle it away. They're hitting key battleground states today. Mitt Romney is in New Hampshire, Michele Bachmann is in South Carolina and Rick Perry, he's in Iowa. Now to that straight-shooting Texas who is dominating the headlines on just his second day of campaigning. Rick Perry raising his profile and also more than a few eyebrows. And one person who actually wound up in his crosshairs, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve.", "Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in America's history is almost treacherous -- treasonous, in my opinion.", "Apparently he's blowing kisses, too, not to Shannon Travis but to his competitors. Shannon?", "Hi, there, Kyra. Yes, I mean, Rick Perry, listen, it remains to be seen whether he is just -- you know, this is just his natural way, this Texas swagger, this bravado that he has or if Rick Perry is trying to make a splash because he has a lot of kind of campaigning to do. Catching up to do to some of the other competitors because he just got into the race or if this was a serious misstep. I mean, you have a presidential candidate basically saying that we treat the chairman of the Federal Reserve pretty ugly down in Texas. You can imagine some Democrats and liberal critics are saying, you know, what owe is he inciting violence, was he calling for violence against Ben Bernanke? So this may have been a misstep or this may have been an intentional comment from Rick Perry to drum up some excitement and drum up some buzz about his campaign.", "Drumming up buzz, drumming up excitement, there you were with the mic making your way through the crowd and you got this little gem.", "Romney took a swipe at you today saying that he has private sector experience and that makes him better qualified to create jobs.", "Give him my love.", "What do you think about that though, sir that he has --", "I think oranges and apples. Running a state is different than running a business.", "That he will make that a center piece of his campaign.", "What I would say is go take a look at his record when he was governor and look at my record when I'm governor. Then you've got apples to apples.", "Apples to apples, Shannon.", "Apples to apples, a little message there, Kyra, from Rick Perry to Mitt Romney, sealed with a little kiss. I mean, Mitte Romney yesterday for context basically said I'm the only one in the race who has private sector experience and government experience. It was a little bit of a dig at Rick Perry. So I wanted to ask Rick Perry about that, and that's what he responded with. So Rick Perry is coming out pretty hard-charging against some of his critics. Also later talked about criticism from the Michele Bachmann campaign, saying you weren't in the Iowa straw poll, you weren't in Ames. He dismissed that also and said, look, I'm here.", "Shannon Travis, great job. We will be talking more. Perry also made a comment about printing more money. Why don't we talk to Alison Kosik about that? She's at the New York Stock Exchange. Kind of a cartoonish image, but it's actually a real option, right?", "It is a real option because what the fed, Kyra, calls it is quantitative easing. Actually the fed wrapped up a second round of it known as QE-2 here on Wall Street. Wrapped up this program in June where it pumped $600 billion of brand spanking newly printed money right into the economy. One of the goals in doing this was to actually lower the unemployment rate. So the question is, did it work? Well, during that time, the jobless rate fell from 9.8 percent to 9.2 percent. So in that respect, you know, it was well received on Wall Street as well because what it also did is create a wealth effect. We saw it in our 401(k)s, makes everybody feel wealthier. We want to go out and shop. The S&P; 500 was up. Even the Dow jumped 10.9 percent during the six months QE2 was in effect. Despite what we've seen over the last couple of weeks, it's really held on to most of those gains. But beyond lowering the unemployment rate, it is really questioning whether pouring money into the economy actually works because what it winds up doing is devaluing the dollar. More dollars out there, the less each is worth and that can lead to inflation. The rate of inflation actually rose from 1.1 percent to 3.6 percent while QE-2 was in place. And the fed said that was on target partly because of other factors like the impact of the Japanese tsunami. Now what Rick Perry and other opponents of QE-2 or QE-3 in this case, if that comes about, what they're worried about is whether or not this would even work. You know, he really bashes Bernanke because he questions whether or not putting more money into the economy would really grow the economy or just put a band-aid on problems. So lots of questions. The fed hinted to the possibility of a QE-3, but definitely did not put its money on it yet. Kyra --", "All right, Alison, thanks. Let's shift gears to the Obama bus tour, which is rolling through the Midwest right now. He's going to meet with farmers and small business owners in Iowa. The White House bills the tour as an opportunity to talk about the economy and hear what's on rural America's mind. As the president continues his tour, he sits down with Wolf Blitzer, the Obama interview with our Wolf Blitzer today, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. British lawmakers say it's likely that James Murdoch will be called again to testify before parliament. Lawmakers are trying to determine if the younger Murdoch mislead them last month about phone hacking at the now closed \"News of the World.\" Zain Verjee, what do we know?", "What MPs are saying is that he is likely to be recalled maybe sometime around October to face more questions from a parliamentary committee looking into the phone hacking scandal at \"News of the World.\" At the heart of this is who knew what and when about the phone hacking and were they aware? Was James Murdoch aware of the extent of what was going on? They want to ask him more questions. One MP says this it, his evidence has been contradicted by evidence, which we have had from others. So it could continue to escalate here at the heart this also, they're talking about e-mails where James Murdoch has said in one instance that he wasn't aware this was going on, but there are others that are proving there is other documentation and e-mails that contradict what he says. And a whole bunch of other things. So that will come to light if he shows up again in October.", "OK, so, if indeed, he has misled folks, what happens, Zain?", "Well, in this country, it's considered a pretty serious thing to do that in parliament. Parliament would hold him in contempt. But the fact of the matter is, it's not like he'll get thrown into jail. There's no incarceration for something like that. In this country, when you're talking to a parliamentary committee, you would be publicly shamed, some MPs are pushing for something a lot tougher than that. As of right now, that's how it stands, slap on the wrist, publicly shamed, contempt.", "All right, Zain Verjee from London. Zain, thanks. More than a dozen teens get together to rob a 7-11 all at the same time. It's actually being called a flash mob robbery. The search for these suspects has moved to the worldwide web. Plus, we're mixing things up with this week's 30-second pitches. Our focus? Our vets. Don served and was wounded in Iraq. We're going to see if we can't get her some business and some work, coming up next."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-456", "program": "Special Event", "date": "2000-1-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/08/se.03.html", "summary": "Genteel Disagreement Marks Latest Democratic Presidential Debate", "utt": ["For the past hour, genteel disagreement between Democratic presidential candidates Bill Bradley and Al Gore during a debate in Johnston, Iowa. I'm Gene Randall in Washington. In a few moments, advisers from each camp on why their man one. But first we turn to CNN senior White House correspondent John King and Mike Glover of the Associated Press, both in Iowa; and in New York, CNN senior political analyst Jeff Greenfield. Gentlemen, first, give me your take on how it went -- Mike Glover.", "Well, it was less combative than you might have expected, and that I think is reflecting some evidence we're seeing in the polling and elsewhere that the vice president may have started to stabilize his ship here in Iowa. There's a poll out today that shows he's got a pretty significant lead, he's doing pretty well here. So it was a less confrontational, less combative -- although they did open this debate by fighting the last war at the second debate in just a few days, and Gore went right back to his basic charge that he stayed in Washington and fought while Senator Bradley left.", "John King.", "Predictable on the issues, the vice president saying that Mr. Bradley's health care plan would endanger Medicare, important to elderly voters who tend to go to the caucuses. The vice president also pressing ahead that while he was a member of the Senate, in Mr. Gore's view, Bill Bradley voted against the interests of Iowa farmers. You heard Senator Bradley repeatedly use the words misrepresentation. Again, Senator Bradley trying to speak more about the future, saying that he's learned from Iowa and that as president he would take action, the vice president relying more on the administration's record over the past seven years and on Senator Bradley's record in the Senate, which, Mr. Gore says, hurt Iowa.", "Jeff, what did you make of the tone of the debate?", "Well, I couldn't help but note the contrast between last night's Republican debate in South Carolina, which sounded like it was taking place in a fraternity house after the fifth keg of beer had been tapped. This sort of reflects Iowa's tradition. It's a civic-mined state, very high voter turnouts generally, very high literacy rate. Questions -- you notice, not one question about gays in the military or any of those controversies? The most striking single thing to me happened at the very end. One of the most famous debate lines in history was Ronald Reagan in the 1980s asking America, are you better off than you were four years ago? Because of the economy, I guess, not a single Republican has used that line about the Clinton administration. And yet today, with respect to agriculture, it was Bill Bradley who asked the farmers of Iowa, are you better off than you were seven years ago? Which was a kind of a striking turnabout. But in terms of tone, I think it went the way we thought it would. The vice president was hammering on specific issues -- your votes on agriculture, you have a bad Medicare plan -- and Bradley was saying again and again the issue is leadership.", "Mike Glover, clearly you know Iowa a lot better than the rest of us. Are debates like this apt to move numbers in that state?", "Debates like this can move numbers in this state. And one of the comments earlier, I think, is very apt. This is a state that is driven by policy. There were 300 people in that room who were hanging on what these people were saying on policy issues. And one of the big debates -- it's going to come up. It doesn't happen elsewhere in this country, but it happens here -- is on farm policy. And I think the emerging farm policy debate you're hearing with Gore and Bradley is going to be an important one. It's going to make up a lot of minds in this state. And that line that Jeff mentioned about are you better off now than four years ago is an evolving Bill Bradley position. He's been on the defensive on agriculture. He was an urban senator, didn't vote for agriculture interests very often, so he was on the defensive for a long time. He's starting to sound this theme of it in \"their\" camp. This whole farm crisis is on \"their\" shoulders. \"They\" were the ones in power when this happened. And he's starting to turn that issue around a little bit, I think.", "John, what is the vice president's campaign hoping to achieve in Iowa, other than winning the state?", "Well, they hope to stay above 50 percent on caucus night on January 24, hoping that if the vice president can stay above 50, keep Senator Bradley in the 30s, that perhaps the vice president then could go on to win the New Hampshire primary a week later. If the vice president can win the first two contests, they believe Senator Bradley is out of business. You see in the competition here today, the proof is -- the truth is that these gentlemen actually agree on most issues. They were arguing over who would be the most effective leader, if elected president.", "Jeff, I don't recall hearing Al Gore during the course of this debate mention the name of the man he has served for the past seven years, President Clinton. Now is this the end of the trial separation into the real thing?", "No, I -- look, I think that this is the dilemma every vice president has is how do you establish your own independence? Every vice president who runs for presidency faces this. The special dilemma that Al Gore has is, of course, based on what happened with the president, you know, taking us through a scandal and through impeachment and yet presiding over economic good times. I don't think that was an accident that he didn't use those words. The one thing that he did that was very Clintonian/Reaganesque/Bushesque was to treat this debate as a State of the Union speech. You know how beginning with Reagan the president has always trotted out heroes of the moment to introduce in the galleries? I don't remember a debate when one of the candidates has brought along people to pepper his answers almost like they were kind of living tableaus. You want to talk about agriculture? Here's Chris Peterson. You want -- you know, you want to talk about education? Here's a public school teacher. Very unusual kind of tactic, I think. Maybe my colleagues remember when this has happened before, but I sure don't.", "Gentlemen -- John.", "No, I don't remember when it's happened before, but that shows something else. That shows the degree to which the vice president has put together a campaign organization in this state. He's got a campaign organization that's far better than Senator Bradley's, and this shows he's not missing any Is to get dotted or Ts to get crossed. Everything is thought of. He's put together an organization, and this is an organizational state. These caucuses require organization.", "And, Mike, the vice president wastes no opportunity to point out that Senator Gore -- or Senator Bradley in past has taken positions which might be found inimical to the interests of Iowa farmers, for instance ethanol. Does the agriculture community, by and large, trust Bill Bradley?", "That's a good question. I don't know that they do. Those are charges that -- in this state, it doesn't matter whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican, you're for ethanol if you want to survive. This is a state where a Democratic senator, Tom Harkin, actually drank ethanol at a Senate hearing to demonstrate how safe it is. Ethanol is kind of above -- it's sort of above all the political tests that you have to be with it. It will be interesting to see how that hurts him here.", "Well, short of going the Harkin route, John King, what do you suppose it is that Bill Bradley can do to alleviate whatever fears farmers in that state might have?", "Well, I think it is the point Jeff Greenfield made in his remarks, and Mike as well. He cannot go back to his Senate record, which is quite devastating on the issue of voting against, as the vice president pointed out, disaster relief, trying to he eliminate the ethanol program. So instead Senator Bradley trying to turn the tables, saying that look right now at the farm crisis in Iowa. We have a seven-year administration, and that while the country itself might be enjoying a prosperous economy, most farmers here are struggling. Senator Bradley trying to turn the corner, to say Mr. Gore is part of the current administration, and farmers here aren't do so well. Let's try a change. Trying to make the case then at the same time that he would be better than any of the Republican candidates.", "Jeff, let's close this out with an overview. How do you see the snapshot of the Democratic presidential campaign at the moment?", "Look, you still -- you know, sitting vice presidents tend to win their party's nomination, and that's why, from the very beginning, Bull Bradley has tried to change the whole dynamic of the campaign. That's what I wanted to mention very briefly as we close. While we talk about these specific issues and while there's no doubt that you can't ignore them, the way that Bradley keeps trying to he got people to focus on a broader picture, the way he did when he talked about violence in those stories about going to the middle school, he's basing his whole campaign on his belief -- and he may well be wrong. We don't know yet -- that you can get people to vote even against the vice president of a Democratic Party with a decent record, a very good record on the economy as far as Democrats are concerned, if you can get them to change the focus to other questions. And, really, it is to me, at least in Iowa, I think, it is a case of Bradley's assumption or assumption or premise versus the obvious organizational strength of the sitting vice president. I think that's how that caucus is going to come out. That may well be how the nomination comes out.", "John King.", "Gore is confidently ahead here in Iowa, still looking to shore up his base, nervous about New Hampshire, counting on the institutional support he enjoys in the Democratic Party in labor unions, in elected officials to carry him if this contest lasts beyond Iowa and New Hampshire.", "And, Mike Glover, your snapshot is the final word.", "Dave Nagle, former congressman, former Iowa Democratic chairman, once told me never bet against organization in Iowa. I think that's a good bet.", "Jeff Greenfield in New York, Mike Glover and John King in Johnston, Iowa, thanks to all of you.", "I think Al has the view that if we provide universal health coverage for everybody, that we can't protect Medicare. If we protect Medicare, we can't provide universal health coverage for everybody. Now, I don't agree with that. I think we can do both.", "Now the problem with the Bill's approach saying we can wait until Medicare goes bankrupt to address it, it kind of reminds me of the guy who fell out of a 10-story building, and as he passed the fifth floor he shouted \"so far, so good .\" Well, that is where we are with the Medicare trust fund.", "More now on today's Democratic presidential debate from Johnston, Iowa. We welcome Bradley campaign press secretary Eric Hauser, and senior Gore adviser Robert Shrum. Mr. Shrum, we will make you the winner of the opening coin toss. Did your man score today on Medicare?", "Well, I think Al Gore clearly won the debate, I think he clearly won the Medicare issue. I mean, Bill Bradley still doesn't have an answer to how he would save Medicare, and in fact, cited a newspaper story in \"The Des Moines Register\" this morning that said there may be $800 billion more in the surplus. If you read down about eight paragraphs, it says the Financial Economic Counsel statements that virtually all of that is needed for the normal cost of existing programs. So we...", "Mr. Hauser?", "... have gone five debates now, no answer on Medicare.", "Mr. Hauser?", "Well, I think what we are getting from Gore campaign is scare tactics about Medicare. It is in good shape for 20 years, growing surplus means it will be in even better shape beyond that. And on the question of prescription drugs, it particular was interesting to note, the woman who raised the question in the debate, quite frankly her circumstance would be much better served by the Bradley prescription drug plan, because there is no cap. So her expenses -- $400, $500 a month -- would be much more manageable because there is no cap. We are not saying here is a limit, here is all you can do. And I think the \"here's all you can do\" was a pretty consistent theme today, the vice president over and over again saying we can't do this, we can't do this, we can't do this. And I think we got out of today clearly an optimism versus a pessimism about the nations future.", "That sounds like a lot of...", "Bob Shrum?", "That sounds like a lot of pre-debate spin that was planned. The fact of the matter is -- the fact of the matter is that Al Gore is the person who is saying we can do health care and invest in education at the same time. We can do health care and we can save Medicare at the same time. The woman on prescription drugs actually, Eric, because of her situation, financial situation, if she stays in the existing Medicaid program, she gets all of her drug costs covered.", "So you are saying prescription drug benefit is not a good thing, you are backing off of that?", "No, no, no, no, no. You are misunderstanding me. I'm saying that woman is better off under the existing Medicaid program which she is eligible for, than she would be under your program which would cost her 800 more dollars year that she doesn't have.", "Well, in terms of, we can do health care and we can do other things, with the health care proposal and the Gore -- in the Gore campaign, it is a step, it is not even a step-by-step, and they have no more money do anything more with it. And we learned today that of all the first priorities the vice president has, and there are a number of them, defense is greater than education, wanting to increase defense spending more than education.", "No, I think actually all vice president said was that we should be on same path we are on now. In fact, I thought that is actually what Bradley said, steady stay. But in any event, Al Gore does say that education is his number-one priority.", "But...", "And his other great -- let me talk for a minute.", "OK.", "His other great priority is health care. And quite frankly, the best way to get to universal health coverage is to do it step by step. That is not me, that is not Al Gore alone saying who is saying that, that is the person who introduced and fought longest and hardest for health reform in this country, Ted Kennedy, who says that the right way to go is the Gore approach.", "So, six years ago it was the wrong way to go to try to get to universal coverage?", "You want to repeat -- you want to repeat that experience?", "No, we want to repeat the principle, just do it differently to get it done, Bob.", "But the way -- yes, you are going to do it differently for sure.", "Look at all the things he didn't get done: we didn't get campaign finance done, we didn't get universal health care done, we didn't reduce child poverty dramatically, we didn't do a whole number of things...", "That is not correct, you just made a misstatement. We reduced child poverty.", "No, the economy reduced child poverty.", "Well, the economy I think most people -- most Democrats, at least -- would think that the Clinton-Gore administration and the Democratic Party had something do with our economy.", "They did, they did.", "Maybe you are going to run in fall, if you could ever get nominated, denying that. But you are not going to get nominated because you keep attacking the Democratic Party and Democratic achievements.", "No, and I think...", "The fact that we do not have campaign finance reform, as the vice president said, is not the Democratic Party's fault, it is the Republican Party's fault.", "Gene, let me make one point here that I think is very telling about the overall contrast. You are right, but that is not good enough, that is not the point. It is not who voted for it, it is getting it done.", "How would you do it? Would you levitate the Senate?", "It is called bipartisanship. It is called working toward a...", "But wait a minute, wait a minute.", "No. You didn't get it done.", "Are you saying that this Democratic administration didn't try working with John McCain in a bipartisan way to pass campaign finance reform?", "Oh, I am saying it was not a priority, absolutely.", "Oh, I think it was a high priority, and we got every single Democrat in Senate to stand up for it.", "That is not the point, that is not the point. How does that affect people if it is not done?", "But Eric, Eric, you actually...", "It doesn't affect people.", "you actually spent a little bit of time in the government. The -- this isn't England. The president doesn't give a State of Union message, and it all happens instantly.", "No...", "You guys will never...", "... but leadership gets it done you.", "No, you guys...", "Leadership gets it done.", "You say words like \"leadership\" as if they were a mantra, that could translate ideas into...", "Well, they are to the public.", "... ideas into -- oh, is that why you said it -- ideas into policy.", "Gentlemen, gentlemen, remember me?", "Yes, Gene.", "Yes, Gene.", "Bob Shrum, this week Al Gore's campaign manager, Donna Brazile, said Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C Watts from time to time because the GOP has no programs, no policies, and just doesn't care about African-Americans. In response, General Powell asked the vice president to stop playing the race card. Now, did Mr. Gore apologize to Colin Powell, and should there be action taken about what Donna Brazile said, or was it simply misunderstood?", "There is absolutely no apology. I think there was a misunderstanding by General Powell, probably promoted by people at the Republican National Committee. The fact of the matter is that what Donna said is true. The Republican Party not only has no real program to effectively help African-Americans, in many respects -- for example, its opposition to affirmative action, where General Powell agrees with Bill Bradley, Al Gore and the Democratic Party -- the Republican Party has policies that would hurt African-Americans.", "Mr. Hauser, do you agree with Donna Brazile's assertions about the Republican Party?", "Senator Bradley has said for 35 years that racial unity is critical, and racial divisiveness is something we all ought to work against. I think he has also said in general that the Democratic Party has been better on issues important to African-Americans than Republican Party. But I think that this is a situation for the Gore campaign, so we will let them...", "I think its -- I thought you were actually going to take the opportunity to be magnanimous, and not try to sneak in...", "I was, I was.", "... and sneak in -- Why, you think what Donna said was wrong?", "No, I said what Democratic Party...", "Do you think the Republicans...", "Can I finish?", "... do you think the Republicans have a policy?", "Can I finish?", "Do think the Republicans...", "Guess not.", "... have a policy? Do you think...", "Tell me when I can finish.", "I will...", "Mr. Hauser?", "... as soon as you answer...", "Mr. Hauser?", "He's the anchor I think, Bob.", "Yes, well.", "Mr. Hauser?", "I think that the Democratic Party historically...", "But Gene is going to ask you the same question...", "OK.", "... I'm going to ask you.", "Right.", "Do you believe the Republicans have policies...", "Mr. Hauser?", "... that are designed to help African-Americans?", "Yes, Gene.", "Go ahead, Mr. Hauser.", "And you won't answer the question...", "I try...", "... just like Bill Bradley...", "I am trying to.", "... won't answer why he voted against flood relief.", "I think the Democratic Party...", "All right, let's...", "Go ahead.", "Let's move on, let's talk about Iowa.", "All right.", "Where does Iowa fit in in each of your campaigns. Mr. Hauser?", "Well, Iowa is a very important state, and it is uphill, it is uphill. It is a caucus state, it is an organization state, it is a labor state. The vice president has a number of institutional advantages in Iowa, and we respect those, and he is having to pour a lot of resource, a lot of time, a lot of people into the state to protect the lead. We are going to be competitive here, we are going to be here fighting for Iowans for the next two, two and half weeks. We look forward to a spirited contest. I don't know how it will turn out. I know that history shows that challengers have a tough time, and we are going to do everything we can to get everybody to caucus for Bill Bradley.", "Mr. Shrum, your candidate describes himself as the underdog in New Hampshire. How does he turn a victory in Iowa into a real bump in New Hampshire?", "Oh, I think the voters would probably do that, and I don't think he would say he was underdog in Iowa. The fact of the matter is that you watch this debate today, he is clearly very in touch with Iowa voters, with foreign policy, with their feelings, with their feelings with what they want to see happen in this country in the next few years. I think Al Gore is clearly the kind of candidate that Iowans are going to vote for.", "Bob Shrum and Eric Hauser from Johnston, Iowa, thanks very much. It was a memorable few minutes, because Bob Shrum seemed to swear off pre-debate spin.", "We know you voted against ethanol and tried to kill it, and crop insurance and price supports.", "I opposed the mandate for ethanol: bad for my state. It would have meant higher prices. It would have meant also the fact that people had to pay higher costs. I still oppose the mandate for ethanol. But I do not oppose tax subsidies for ethanol. That was the change, and that came after talking to a lot of family farmers.", "Let's go back to Johnston, Iowa, and Rob Tulley, chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party. Mr. Chairman, good to see you again. Thanks very much for being with us.", "You bet.", "Iowans have a well-deserved reputation for paying close attention to issues. Is a debate like today apt to move numbers among voters?", "Well, I'll tell you that we've got about 23 percent are undecided at this point in time, and so I think the debate will go a long way in doing that. Both of them did a good job today, although I would probably give the edge to the vice president.", "And how much is dependent on agricultural policy and what each candidate says about it?", "Well, as has been pointed out by a number of pundits before, I mean this is an agricultural state. But one of the things you have to remember is that, you know, the majority of the state, we do other things here. There's other business, although when you have a farm policy that's based upon production, everything having to do with family farmers, we have inter-related industries that reflect an agricultural policy. So it's very important to Iowans that, you know, we have good sound agricultural policy here in the country.", "Mr. Tulley, could you in a simplified way explain to people who might not understand how a presidential caucus differs from a primary?", "You bet. The biggest difference is, is when you have a primary, the average citizen goes in, they go in a private booth and they vote, and nobody knows what they're doing. A caucus, especially in the Democratic side, you actually go to a location -- it could be even in your neighbor's living room, because we've got well over 2,000 precincts across the state. And what happens on that particular evening -- we'll get together at 7:00 p.m., and at 7:30, they'll break down into preference groups, presidential preference groups. So you physically stand up in front of your neighbors, and you declare to the whole world who you want to be the next president of the United States.", "And what kind of turnout do you expect?", "Well, in the past, when we've had some really contested races -- the last real contested race we had in Iowa was in 1988. And then we were a little over 100,000, 125,000 for caucus attendees that night. If the weather -- and I've got to tell you the weather has been wonderful here in Iowa, as it probably has been all over the Midwest -- if this stays the way it is, we'll have record turnouts January 24th.", "And Iowa, of course, has always been known for its tropical splendor in the wintertime.", "Yes, you bet.", "But are these candidates generating the kind of enthusiasm which would mean a large turnout?", "Yes. Both the vice president and Senator Bradley have done a great job traveling all over the state. And I've got to tell you, the crowds that both of them are generating are good-sized. And I think that's certainly expected of a sitting vice president, but I think you have to give something to Senator Bradley, the fact that he's able to create these large crowds as well.", "And how many satellite dishes do you expect this year in Des Moines?", "There will be quite a few.", "Rob Tulley is the Democratic chairman in the state of Iowa. Thanks very much, Mr. Chairman.", "You bet. 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{"id": "CNN-182597", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-3-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1203/13/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Deep South Votes; U.S. Soldier in Afghanistan Not Talking", "utt": ["And it is officially the top of the hour. I'm Ashleigh Banfield, in for Brooke Baldwin today. The American soldier accused of killing families in Afghanistan is refusing to talk. Voting is also under way in the Deep South, as Mitt Romney hopes to seal the deal. It's time to play \"Reporter Roulette.\" And we begin with Chris Lawrence at the Pentagon, more fallout today from the massacre in Afghanistan -- Chris.", "That's right, Ashleigh. This was no mere apology. This was some of the strongest words yet we have heard from an American president in describing what happened during that shooting in Afghanistan.", "The United States takes this as seriously as if it was our own citizens and our own children who were murdered. We're heartbroken over the loss of innocent life.", "The thing is murder has a very specific legal connotation, and this suspect has yet to even be charged with a specific crime. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta also said that capital punishment is a possibility in this case. Lethal injection is the method by which service members would be put to death. But, actually, that hasn't happened since 1961. The last time that a president even authorized the killing of a service member was in 2008, when President Bush approved the death penalty for a soldier. But that soldier's crimes were actually committed in the late '80s, when President Bush's father was president, so it's very likely that by the time this moves through the long legal process and appeals are exhausted, it will be some future president that may have to ultimately make this decision.", "And that is a tough row to hoe. Chris Lawrence, thanks very much for that. Moving on to decision day in the Deep South. Voters in Alabama and Mississippi heading to the polls today. Next on \"Reporter Roulette,\" Shannon Travis following today's tight race in Mississippi joins me live now from Ocean Springs. Lovely temperature, it looks like, Shannon.", "Lovely day, and I'm sweating a little bit so forgive me if you see a few beads up there. But, Ashleigh, absolutely right. We're here at a polling station at the Ocean Spring Civic Center. This is a very Republican part of Mississippi. Of course, you know that Mississippi is Republican. Obama lost the state by 13 points in 2008, in this county alone, Jackson County, 33 points to John McCain. So we have been watching the voters come in and out and trying to basically ascertain who are they going in and voting for between Mitt Romney and Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum? A lot of the voters have differing opinions, of course, but by my very unofficial count, I have been hearing a little bit more weighted in terms of Romney, and that's noteworthy because this is the South. Even Romney himself has said this is an away game for him, so he has a lot to prove in terms of showing that he can win these kinds of very conservative voters in a state like Mississippi. Again, we want to wait until later to see what the official tallies will look like. But he's been doing so well -- doing well so far with a number of people that I have spoken with, Ashleigh.", "Heating up in Mississippi. Shannon Travis, thanks very much. Moving on in \"Reporter Roulette\" a closer look at the Alabama primary. Senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash in Birmingham with all the details joining me now. And I'm guessing it's just about as warm where you are as where Shannon is.", "Not as warm. It's actually pretty nice here actually. It's a nice change. But this is going to be absolutely of course the state to watch tonight, primarily because it has the most electoral votes, but also because Mitt Romney has been doing surprisingly well in recent polls, neck and neck between him and Newt Gingrich. And Rick Santorum may be trailing a little bit behind. I'm here in Jefferson County because this is the most populist county in the entire state. About 20 percent of the vote will come into this particular county. And I'm actually standing outside where we're going to later on see the cars and trucks drive up to this loading dock with the actual ballots. They're going to come in from the 177 precincts from around this county, Ashleigh, and they're going to drive up. We have had a little bit of a tour behind. Right now that doesn't look like much, but behind that door over there is actually a vault and that is where the ballots are going to go in then and through there is where they're going to be tabulating the results for this very, very important county of Jefferson County here. You talk to Mitt Romney's people and they will admit they have to really run up the vote here. This tends to be a more affluent county, particularly around the areas of Birmingham where I am, and they know that these are the kinds of voters that they need to come out and come out big, but I will tell you also anecdotally we have heard that turnout is pretty low in this county, at least so far today -- Ashleigh.", "I thought you were going to tell me on that loading dock were the 47 delegates. Is it 47 in Alabama?", "Exactly, for this particular -- 50 ultimately, but 47 today.", "I have to say, Dana, I can't believe how close -- our Paul Steinhauser always says how knotted up the race is between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, I think particularly because I expected Rick Santorum to be closer into that margin of error.", "Yes, you know, it is kind of fascinating that Rick Santorum hasn't necessarily taken off here. I think part of -- or as well as maybe you would think. Part of the reason is because of a little bit of a north/south divide. You talk to people down here and they say he just -- he doesn't really connect with the voters and hasn't been connecting with the voters as well as he has in other sort of socially conservative pockets of the country. Then again, it is surprising that Mitt Romney, who also doesn't necessarily connect, he started talking about cheesy grits.", "I was just going to say, the cheesy grits.", "Yes, exactly. But the reason why he is seeming to connect a little bit more just again anecdotally is because of the fact that jobs and the economy is such a big issue here, perhaps trumping social issues in this state. And Mitt Romney has been able to sell himself as the Republican candidate who could do best on those issues.", "And, Dana, there's always that sweater vest thing, too. Maybe they don't wear a lot of sweater vests in Mississippi and Alabama. I'm just saying.", "I have not seen a lot of sweater vests here.", "I am not the least bit surprised, my friend. Take care. We will be watching you throughout the night as those tabulations come on in. Just two weeks after a string of deadly tornadoes ripped through the Midwest, several states have learned something they did not want to learn. They are not going to be getting any cash from the federal government, and one senator is none too happy about it. Dick Durbin from Illinois standing by live. 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{"id": "CNN-353318", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2018-10-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/28/ndaysun.03.html", "summary": "Synagogue Massacre: Alleged Gunman Faces 29 Charges Including Hate Crimes; Trump: An Armed Guard Might Have Been Able to Stop Shooter; Trump Condemns Mass Killing as \"Evil Anti-Semitic Attack\".", "utt": ["Please join now in a moment of silence.", "And the NFL announced there will also be a moment of silence before today's game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns.", "I think everyone will remember October 27th.", "At this moment of hope, suddenly, there was this act of horror where a man ran into the synagogue with automatic weapons and murdered in cold blood 11 people.", "I feel that we are all attacked. The people of Pittsburgh feel violated too.", "This is a case they had an armed guard inside, they might have been able to stop him immediately.", "We are hearing from synagogues all over the world and not only their condolences but their expressions of solidarity.", "Squirrel Hill is strong. And we are going to remain that way.", "We have to watch each other's back and we have to be there for each other.", "Good morning. I'm Christi Paul in Atlanta. My colleague Victor Blackwell in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania right now. And, Victor, I would assume that that is exactly what the people of Pittsburgh are doing right now, trying to hold each other up.", "Yes. Christi, good morning. I'm just about a block away from the Tree of Life Synagogue. And I just got a copy of \"Pittsburgh Post Gazette\", the Sunday edition here. And take a look. It's the Squirrel Hill massacre is the headline. This tight-knit community is now one of those communities, unfortunately, where you can simply say the name and people, unfortunately, remember a tragedy, like Sandy Hook or San Bernardino where a large group of people were taken in such tragedy. In just a couple of hours, this community will hear read out from the law enforcement for the first time the list of those 11 who were killed. Of course, they likely know those names because they know their neighbors, they know who did not come home, they know the cell phones that were not answered, and we'll talk more about those victims and the community in a moment. Let's first talk about the suspected shooter Robert Bowers, facing federal hate crime charges after police say he stormed the Pittsburgh synagogue and unleashed the bullets on worshippers there. In all, the alleged mass murderer faces 29 federal charges and dozen more state charges. We are learning new details from a criminal complaint filed overnight. Court documents say the suspected gunman killed 11 people -- 8 men, three women -- and opened fire on police several times. The shooter shot at the SWAT team as well on the third floor of the synagogue and they were wounded and he was wounded in this gun fight. He then told officers he wanted all Jews to die reportedly. And we expect to learn more about yesterday's tragedy and a few hours of law enforcement officials hold that news conference. The FBI, we know that they had taken charge of this investigation. Agents say this is the suspect's online footprint, that will be an important focus here.", "We are in the early stages of this investigation. And over the next several days and weeks, we will look at everything in the suspect's life. His home, his vehicle, his social media, and his movements over the last several days. At this point, we have no knowledge that Bowers was known to law enforcement before today.", "More on the next step for the investigation in a moment. But, first, here's how it all started.", "a somber vigil outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, as thousands gathered to remember those killed in one of the deadliest attacks on the Jewish community in the history of the United States.", "I think everybody will remember October 27th. I think that is going to be -- that is going to be a date that is etched in everybody's mind. But I think that Squirrel Hill is strong and we are going to remain that way.", "Eleven people killed, six injured, including four police officers who exchanged gunfire with the suspect at the scene in the historic Jewish neighborhood of Squirrel Hill. 911 calls about an active shooter came in just before 10:00 a.m. Saturday during Sabbath services. Police radio captured the chaos and tactical teams engaged the gunman.", "We've got a guy barricaded, actively shooting at SWAT officers. Operator shot! I've got one operator shot at this time! Third floor contained in one room -- one operator down.", "The 46-year-old Robert Bowers surrendered after shot several times by police. He now faces more than two dozen offenses, including federal hate crime charges and he could face the death penalty.", "This is the most horrific crime scene I've seen in 22 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Members of the Tree of Life synagogue conducting a peaceful service in their place of worship were brutally murdered by a gunman targeting them simply because of their faith.", "Pittsburgh police said Bowers made anti-Semitic statements during the shooting and in custody receiving medical treatment he reportedly told police he, quote, wanted all Jews to die for committing genocide to his people. Bowers also targeted Jews and immigrants in post on social media including gab, a so-called free speech network, blaming Jews for helping migrant caravans, and he called those in migrant caravans, quote, invaders. Five minutes before the shooting, Bowers posted this: I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in.", "My heart breaks for the members of the Jewish community. Today, all of Pennsylvania mourns with you. Anti-Semitism has absolutely no place in our commonwealth. Any attack on one community of faith in Pennsylvania is an attack against every community of faith in Pennsylvania.", "Let's learn more about those who were injured. Let's go to Jean Casarez live from the Pittsburgh Hospital, where many of the injured were taken. Jean, what have we learned about the survivors of the shooting but also the doctors, those emergency room doctors who jumped in to help?", "absolutely amazing, Victor. There are six surviving victims and I just received correspondence from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center public relations office that all of the conditions remain the same. That is very good news because that means that the two in critical condition have, in fact, made it through the night. And we do know that a 70-year-old victim who had received multiple gunshot wounds to his torso affecting major organs underwent two surgeries yesterday. They have said a third may be necessary, but he remains in critical condition this morning, as well as a 55-year-old officer who confronted the suspect in the synagogue, multiple injuries to his extremities, remains in critical condition. We also have a 61- year-old victim, a female, as well as two other police officers. One police officer was actually released from the hospital. But what we do know is that there were three emergency room physicians that went to the seen and triaged the wounded. We weren't there, but CNN has recovered the actual dispatch audio as this all was going down. Listen to it for yourself.", "Patrol at the front door -- we got to evacuate some of these hostages.", "Received -- request for patrol at the front door evacuating hostages.", "We have a spent magazine -- looks like a high powered AK -- middle hallway off the 1-4 corner.", "I have a description.", "Go ahead.", "Tall white male, short hair, light blue shirt, jeans. Again that's tall white male, short hair, light blue shirt, jeans.", "I got one alive.", "We're evac'ing one right now -- still alive. We have a least four down in the atrium DOA at this time.", "Was there earlier intel that he may be in the basement?", "I had a report of at least one victim in the basement.", "I have an additional 4 victims -- 4 victims in the back of the atrium of the front hall total 8 down, 1 rescued at this time.", "What's your status in the basement?", "We're probably at the bottom of the stairwell cleared to the left. Working room to the right we have rifle cases in here with blood.", "Of course, we will learn more at a news conference a little later this morning. Jean Casarez, thank you so much. Christi, back to you in Atlanta.", "All right. Victor, thank you very much. President Trump is again calling for unity after the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. He followed through with a scheduled campaign rally in Illinois which he considered cancelling at one point we know. The president said terror cannot be allowed to interrupt our lives and said an armed guard may have prevented that attack. CNN White House reporter Sarah Westwood is with us now. Sarah, what did he say yesterday?", "Well, Christi, President Trump was condemning bigotry and condemning anti-Semitism at that rally in Illinois last night, which as you mentioned, White House aides look at an option cancelling out of respect for the 11 people who lost their lives in Pennsylvania yesterday but opted to go ahead and hold the campaign rally any way. Now, the president did demonstrate a more moderated tone. He restrained his focus more to policy than we usually see at these rallies. Take a listen to what he said at Murfreesboro.", "This evil anti-Semitic attack is an assault on all of us. It's an assault on humanity. It will require all of us working together to extract the hateful poison of anti-Semitism from our world. This was an anti-Semitic attack at its worst. The scourge of anti-Semitism cannot be ignored, cannot be tolerated, and it cannot be allowed to continue.", "Now, this is not the first time the president had addressed the shooting. He'd done so several times throughout the course of Saturday. One of them being at a farmers' event in Indiana. And speaking to reporters as he was leaving Washington at Andrews Air Force Base the president threw out several options for preventing this tragedy in the future. One of them was strengthening the death penalty, saying people who commit these heinous attacks should pay the ultimate price. But the other was putting armed guards in houses of worships, churches and synagogue, but the one that was attacked yesterday. He even suggested that the synagogue in Pennsylvania might have only had one casualty, the gunman, if an armed guard had been there. Take a listen.", "If they had protection inside the results would have been far better. This is a dispute that will always exist, I suspect. But if they had some kind of a protection inside the temple, maybe it could have been a very much different situation. They didn't. And he was able to do things that, unfortunately, he shouldn't have been able to do.", "The flags at the White House behind me are at half-staff in honor of the people who died yesterday. The president and first lady are holding a Halloween event at the White House later this afternoon, so it's possible we could hear more from the president about this tragedy today -- Christi.", "All right. Sarah Westwood, we appreciate it. Thank you so much. We have CNN political commentator Errol Louis with us now, political anchor for Spectrum News as well. Errol, thank you for being here. I cannot believe just yesterday we were sitting together talking about these bomb packages and now we're talking about 11 people who have died in this massacre. We heard those two options from the president. He certainly said things that the people probably needed to hear. He said this was anti-Semitic attack and it was the worst, it was evil. But when he starts talking about armed guards, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio did not take kindly to that. Let's listen to what he said.", "We should never blame the victims in an attack like this. We should never suggest that a house of worship has to have an armed guard for people to be able to go about their religious observance. That's not America. That's certainly not New York City. We do not require houses of worship to have an armed guard.", "For clarity, the president didn't -- as far as we can tell -- blame the victims. Are armed guards an option?", "I would disagree with you there, I have to say. That sounded a lot like blaming the victim. If only they had an armed guard. That is a nonstarter in most communities, certainly in New York City. I speak in synagogues frequently. I have a son whose friends get bar mitzvah, he is and out of synagogues as well. This is not the way it works here. You don't have to have an armed guard all over the place. And then as a practical matter, I think we now know, just from the accounts that we have received so far, that even when fully armed, highly trained police officers responded, four of them were shot. So, the suggestion that we have more shoot-outs as a way to prevent these massacres is really -- it really doesn't make a lot of sense and it's not the president really leading on this issue. I mean, yes, anybody can speculate. Gee, what if we had a better shoot-out, maybe it would have happened differently. That is not leadership and not an answer. I think it should be clear to most people, though, that leadership has to come from below. We as a society got ourselves into this situation and it's we as a society, not the political leadership, that gets us out.", "People want to hear -- a lot of people want to hear -- they need a moment to absorb what is happening, certainly. But they want answers and they want to know something is being done to try to stop this. What did you need to hear from the president?", "You know, I -- having met, interviewed, and covered the president, I wasn't expecting much to tell you the truth.", "But what do you need to hear, Errol? What do you need to hear?", "Well, we -- the country and what I would say we need to hear is somebody who has some passion and some empathy, not simply, you know, calling for hardened houses of worship and more guns and sitting back. A lot of the president's tweets and even his comments made him sound like a bystander like rest of us. Gee, what a terrible thing, what a terrible tragedy. What we do need to hear I think is some direction forward, a path forward. What we need to hear the toxic brew of mental illness and universal availability of guns and social media that stokes a lot of it and public hate speech the president has been slow to recognize or condemn. That toxic brew, when it's all put together creates the conditions that allow this kind of thing to happen. So, recognizing that it is complicated instead of having more guns would be what we need to hear from the political leadership.", "All righty. Always appreciate having you hear, Errol Louis. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Uh-huh. A reporter for the \"Pittsburgh Tribune\" review tells us about the scene that she encountered at the synagogue massacre. We have that for you next, as well as trying to really grasp the picture of how this community is coping and going forward this morning."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PAUL", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "BOB JONES, SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE OF PITTSBURGH FBI OFFICE", "BLACKWELL", "BLACKWELL (voice-over)", "ANN BELSER, HEARD GUN SHOTS FROM SYNAGOGUE", "BLACKWELL", "PATROL", "BLACKWELL", "JONES", "BLACKWELL", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-95743", "program": "PAULA ZAHN NOW", "date": "2005-6-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/29/pzn.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Former Suspect in Natalee Holloway Disappearance", "utt": ["And we're back now with more on the latest in the investigation of Natalee Holloway's disappearance. Tonight, Aruba's government is asking the Netherlands to free up more Marines to help in the search for her. She is the American teenager missing on that island. That may be a sign of the intense pressure Aruba's government is feeling at this hour, one month since the Alabama honor student vanished on the tiny resort island in the Caribbean. Joining me now with the very latest from Aruba, Rick Sanchez. Rick, I know that you spoke with Natalee Holloway's mother today. She has been increasingly critical of the Aruban government's efforts here. What did she tell you?", "She's frustrated, Paula. She's frustrated because she just wants to make sure -- and this is the point that she was most strong about, is that these three young men, including Joran, the man who says that he went with her daughter to the beach, remain behind bars. She thinks that they -- if they continue to press them, eventually, they will get to the truth. And they just want to make sure that these three young men tell their stories. She's also frustrated because she believes -- and she told me this today -- that the police took too long to actually arrest him and that they took too long to search his house. Respectively, that would be 10 days for the arrest, 16 days to actually go inside the home. Now, to be fair, we have spoken today with the prosecutor here in Aruba, who says that she has done everything possible and that we just have to understand the process by which Aruban law works. Nonetheless, though, it's extremely frustrating for a lot of people here on the island, but, most of all, of course, for Beth.", "So, are the locals as critical of this effort as she is at this hour?", "I think they're critical because they would like to see this come to an end. They -- they -- they seem to be taking a toll here on the island, they say, with all the media coverage and exposure. They're also frustrated about the way the investigation went. They refer to Joran as, oh, the Dutch guy. And they've told me that on several occasions. And I've talked to a lot of people here on the island who say that they thought that police may have been a little bit lenient with him. Of course, police deny that. They say they were working the investigation all along. But they say that they were lenient with him because his father is a judge, who, as you know, was arrested as well. Police, by the way, and prosecutors have said now that they do believe, as Natalee's own mother had suggested today, when I talked to her, Paula, that there was some corroboration, some story sharing on the part of the three young men, including Joran's father, Paul, as well -- Paula.", "Which is why she told me yesterday she was so frustrated that he had finally been released from jail, as his son remains in jail tonight. Rick Sanchez, thank you so much for the update. Late last week, a team of 27 specialists from Texas joined the search for Natalee Holloway. One member of that team is driven by his own intensely personal loss. Our Alex Quade has his story.", "Each day, the search for Natalee Holloway begins with prayers.", "Father, we are going to -- out there to search Natalee. God, we pray, Father, that you will be with us.", "Darryl Phillips provides inspiration to the Texas volunteers looking for the missing teen.", "He knows what it's likes to have somebody missing, too. And he wishes, at that time, there would have been somebody to help him out. But instead of holding on to that bitterness and that, he's out here helping other people.", "Darryl Phillips has not shared his story with anyone, except his fellow searchers. Now he shares it with us, while searching for Natalee Holloway.", "Her name is Angela Phillips. She went missing on September 16, 1986. And I don't know where she is.", "He's been searching for his sister Angela for 19 years. This worn-out photo is the only one his family has of her, the rest destroyed in a house fire.", "I think about her every time I'm out in the field. I think about her. I can't get her out of my mind. It's like you took a flower away from the rose garden.", "Why would you be doing this if you've got a missing loved one that you still need to find?", "Well, one of the reasons is, there's always hope. Her disappearance has not been as long as my sister's. Natalee needs to be with her family. She needs to be with her family.", "As he searches for Natalee Holloway, he comes across a lone grave by the sea.", "It reminds me of my sister, that -- some day that hopefully someone or myself will run across her, so she can have a proper burial, which she deserves.", "Phillips and the other volunteers focus on finding Natalee, ignoring the minor injuries, the danger of combing through a smoldering garbage dump, and the heat.", "In 90-something degree weather, it is difficult.", "Natalee's aunt, Linda Allison, knows the hardships Darryl Phillips and the others are facing on their behalf.", "Cacti, thorns, a lot of rocks, a lot of large boulders, hard to -- hard to maneuver around in some of the areas.", "She searched in vain for Natalee before the Texas team arrived.", "The island is huge when you're looking for a person. It's a needle in a haystack.", "Just one of the reasons the family asked for the volunteers' help and one of the reasons why Darryl Phillips agreed.", "They deserve to have some closure. And she deserves -- Natalee deserves to be with her family.", "Because you don't want the Holloways to have to experience the not knowing.", "The not knowing, and go through 19, 20 years of not know where their daughter is. It's not fair to them. It's not fair to any family.", "And this is something that your family is still dealing with.", "For almost 19 years this coming September. And it's not easy. But me being out here, it's not about my family. It's about Natalee's family, and that they can at least have some kind of peace of mind. Father, we pray for strength for Natalee's family, God, that...", "The search day ends with another prayer.", "We pray, God, that you would be with us tonight, God. Give us all strength.", "Until this moment, Linda Allison and the rest of Natalee's family had not met Darryl Phillips, knew nothing about his own tragedy. (on camera): He said to us he's out here because he doesn't want you to all go through the not knowing.", "Oh, I think it's awesome. I can't believe that he's here with us looking for Natalee. I know that 19 years, I hope that's not what we have to look forward to.", "It's very important to me to see other families have a peace of mind and not having to wait so long.", "That was Alex Quade reporting for us tonight. Three men remain in jail, but none has been charged in her disappearance. Earlier this week, two others were released, a judge whose son is one of the three still being held, and Steve Croes, a disk jockey on a party boat that was docked near the hotel where Holloway was staying. Croes was held for 10 days. He joins me now from Aruba. Thank you so much for joining us. How did you wind up in jail?", "Well, the first of all, good night, everybody over there. Yes. I end up in jail just for a stupid mistake that I did. And, yes, that's -- that's about it.", "What was the mistake you made?", "Lied to the cops.", "And what did you tell them?", "I just told them that I witnessed when they dropped the girl at the hotel. But that wasn't true, because I didn't even know these guys.", "Why would you make that up, Steve?", "You know, I -- I don't know. Normally, I'm not, like, that stupid, stupid person. I'm always, like -- in the group of the guys that we go out with and stuff like that, I'm the only one that gives them the good advice, like, please don't do this or don't do that. But this time, I did a stupid mistake. And I got into jail for 10 -- 10 days.", "You certainly had to be aware of Natalee Holloway's disappearance, right. So you knew enough that she had been missing.", "I knew until the Thursday after the missing, because I was -- I was working on the boat where I was working. And, yes, I didn't like really follow the news and everything about this case. That's why I make also that mistake, because I didn't follow the news.", "But didn't it occur to you if you told police that you could very well wind up in some way being implicated in her disappearance?", "Sorry. I didn't understand the question.", "Didn't you think about when you told this so-called lie to police, that you could end up being in a whole lot of trouble and perhaps held responsible for her disappearance?", "You know, I didn't realize it until I was in there. And the cops, they were explaining that I did. You know what you did? And I'm like, no, I didn't know. I was -- I did it unconsciously. Yes, I'm glad that I proved that I wasn't true, that I wasn't even there. Yes, that's it.", "But Steve, the story gets a little more confusing because apparently you were at this Internet cafe where you -- I am told -- overheard a conversation of one of the men who's now currently in jail being held for Natalee Holloway's disappearance. What did you overhear?", "Well, what I heard that night that night or afternoon, sorry, the Internet cafe was like the story that everybody knows here on the island, which is the one that they dropped the girl at the Holiday Inn, in the lobby, that she fell on the floor. And then one of them tried to help her and she refused. And then they still help her and drop her in the lobby and they left. That's the story that I know.", "But then you still made up your own story when you talked to police?", "No, it was that story that I told them first.", "That was the story you told them first.", "Yes.", "But then you told them at the top of this interview that you had actually made a mistake because you told police that you had seen her yourself.", "I'm sorry?", "The two stories are very different.", "Yes.", "One more time, you claim you overheard this conversation at the Internet cafe, but you also said you made a mistake because you told police that you had seen Natalee Holloway.", "Yes. That was the first time that's why they came arrest me because the story that I told them was matching almost exactly the one from the guy that was still arrested. And they thought that maybe I was inside that problem right now. And I wasn't even there. That was one of the problems why they arrested me.", "I know you are a relieved man, but you certainly paid a price. You lost your job as a result of what you did. And we know you got a tough road ahead. Thank you, Steve, for sharing your story with us tonight. We appreciate it.", "No problem. Have a good night. Thank you.", "Thank you. You as well. And we change our focus again. An instant message pops up on your computer saying you and your friends will be murdered. Do you write it off as a prank?", "I didn't want to take that risk. Not when you're talking about people's lives.", "Well, one teenager and her mother ended up calling the police and the community's reaction shocked them. Also, her album \"Jagged Little Pill\" sold 30 million copies. 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{"id": "CNN-231497", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2014-5-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/28/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Tensions in South China Sea", "utt": ["Welcome back to the program. Does China rule the seas? That is the South China Sea. Many countries are asking whether anything can stop China as the Asian giant flexes its muscle in territorial disputes with its smaller neighbors, from Japan to the Philippines to Vietnam. The latest incident is with Vietnam over a Chinese oil rig that's based near the disputed Paracel Islands. This week a Chinese boat rammed and sank a Vietnamese fishing boat near the oil rig. And in Vietnam, violent riots against the Chinese have forced Beijing to evacuate thousands of its workers. So is Asia on a short fuse to war? Joining me now from Washington is Vietnam's ambassador to the United States, Nguyen Quoc Cuong. Mr. Ambassador, welcome to the program. And thank you for joining me.", "Thank you for inviting me to the program.", "Can I ask you first, recently you all said China and Vietnam, that your relations were onto a much better foot, that things were going much better between you. What has happened? And can it be rebuilt, this relationship?", "Yes, Vietnam-China relations in the last year have been improved but all of a sudden, China has sent its high rank (ph) and a last contingent of missiles to escort our week (ph) into Vietnam's for us. And it's a serious violation of Vietnam sovereignty and sovereign rights. And the Vietnamese people, we have no other way but to respond peacefully but resolutely.", "But do you think, even if you respond peacefully and resolutely, do you worry that this could trigger an armed conflict?", "Yes. You see that by first talk about the Chinese action, the unilateral action of China, by sending its oil rig and missiles into Vietnamese waters is a violation not only of Vietnamese sovereignty and sovereign rights, it's also a violation of international law, especially the unclose (ph) of 1982 and a violation of the commitments that the Chinese leaders made -- themselves made with the ASEAN (ph) leaders when they signed together with ASEAN (ph) leaders in 2002 the declaration on the conduct of the parties in the South China Sea which is called the South and the East Sea.", "All right.", "So -- yes.", "OK, well, let me just play you something, because I spoke to China's ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Cui Tiankai. I spoke to him last week about this whole issue and he said this about the oil rig and the islands that you came -- that disputed territory there.", "We don't want to see any conflicts in our neighborhood. But it will not entirely -- it will not be entirely up to us, you see. Other people have to have the same constructive attitude and policy.", "Well, so that was the -- that was the ambassador. But he also went on to tell me that China only has one rig here; he called them undisputed waters and he said Vietnam has 30. How do you respond to that?", "Can you repeat it? I can't hear you.", "Basically he says they don't want a conflict with Vietnam but that China only has one rig, that these are undisputed waters, their international waters. And he says you actually, Vietnam, has 30 oil rigs.", "Yes. You see that now China is creating facts on the ground by changing the status quo. It's in the Continental Shelf, exclusive zone of Vietnam, not in the disputed area. So China, by doing so, is China is trying to turn an undisputed area into a disputed area. And that is unacceptable. And talking about Vietnam's oil and gas exploration, exploitation activities, we've been doing it for decades. But it's in the Continental Shelf in the exclusive economic zone of Vietnam, not in the disputed waters. So -- and foreign companies, so many foreign companies cooperating, doing business with Vietnam in the oil and gas exploration, do they -- do we believe that they do it, if they think it's in the disputed area? I don't think so.", "All right, Mr. --", "And in 2,000-year", "I see. Well, let me ask you this, then, react to what the Chinese foreign minister said back in 2010. He was speaking to his counterpart in Singapore. He said that \"China is a big country and other countries are small countries, and that's just a fact.\" That is China's then-foreign minister. How do you react to that? And isn't that just a fact? They're so big and you're so relatively small.", "Yes, it's unjustifiable, no argument. You know, in foreign relations, every country, no matter because more are equal on the equal footing. It's international law, now on equal footing. And you cannot say small countries bullying bigger countries or vice versa. Every country is equal on the international relations.", "But you're seeing the way China is making these claims in, for instance, the disputed islands with Japan and also with various territorial issues with the Philippines. Now your issue has caused a lot of protest in your country and there have been violent protests against Chinese workers. But I want to ask you, as you deal with those protests and now those people have been evacuated, how do you expect to get protection from China because America, while you've got relations, you're not under America's security or treaty umbrella in this regard.", "Yes, you see that now Vietnam is following an independent foreign policy. You want good relations with China; you want good relations with United States and other countries. And you know, but we cannot accept the coercion; we cannot accept threats. And when the issue of sovereignty and national integrity is concerned, the Vietnamese people are very determined to defend our sovereignty rights. And no country should underestimate the Vietnamese people's determination to defend our sovereignty and sovereignty rights. For Vietnamese, 100 percent Vietnamese, no matter where they live, in Vietnam, in United States or in other countries, we all believe that for Vietnamese, nothing is more precious than independence and freedom.", "Well, we'll continue to watch, Ambassador Nguyen Quoc Cuong, thank you very much indeed for joining me from Washington.", "Thank you.", "And while American foreign policy focuses on hot spots from Ukraine to the South China Sea, the specter of a new genocidal disaster reawakening memories of Rwanda in 1994 is taking place in one of those marginalized nations that President Obama mentioned in his West Point speech, and that is the Central African Republic. After 18 months of sectarian violence, more than a million people have been displaced and some 60,000 have sought shelter at the international airport in Bangui, the nation's capital, turning abandoned planes and hangars into makeshift housing. These dramatic photos by Peter Birro of the International Rescue Committee show that. And malnutrition is soaring with the threat of famine on the horizon. An estimated 2.5 million people, more than half the population, are in urgent need of humanitarian aid in what is one of the world's poorest countries. And after a break, we'll remember a poet laureate of the poor and the underprivileged in Africa, in American and around the world. 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{"id": "CNN-87678", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2004-9-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/02/ldt.01.html", "summary": "President Bush to speak at convention tonight, Hurricane Frances roaring toward coast of Florida", "utt": ["Tonight, President Bush will tell voters America needs steady, consistent, and principled leadership. We'll have a preview of the president's speech live from the Republican National Convention. Three top figures in the Republican Party, Republican National Committee Ed Gillespie, Congressman David Drier, and senator and majority whip Mitch McConnell, all join us.", "What people are looking for in the next president is who can keep us safe...", "Hurricane Frances is roaring toward the coast of Florida. More than 2 million people are fleeing. The hurricane is one of the biggest ever.", "It's really going to be a once-in-a-generation or once-in-a-lifetime impact, and so people need to prepare for just that.", "We'll have the very latest for you on Frances, where the hurricane is expected to strike Florida, and when. We'll hear from the director of the National Hurricane Center, Max Mayfield. And in southern Russia, explosions tonight at a school where radical Islamist terrorists are holding as many as 1,000 adults and children hostage. We'll have a live report from the scene.", "This is LOU DOBBS TONIGHT for Thursday, September 2. Here now for an hour of news, debate, and opinion is Lou Dobbs.", "Good evening. Tonight, President Bush will make his case for another four years in the White House in a primetime speech to the Republican National Convention. President Bush will accept his party's nomination and offer voters a clear program for his second term, then present himself as a resolute leader of a nation at war. President Bush is expected to say that Americans want steady, consistent, and principled leadership. Senior White House correspondent John King reports. John?", "And Lou, that speech four hours away from now here in the Madison Square Garden in New York, a defining moment for this incumbent president. He believes he has some momentum right now, but this is still an extraordinarily tight election, Mr. Bush hoping to leave New York with a bit more momentum and try to keep his lead heading into the campaign's final 60 days. He was in the hall earlier today, an extraordinary setting for the speech tonight, theater in the round, if you will. Mr. Bush will be out among the delegates. He cracked a few jokes as he became comfortable with the podium. Aides say he will defend his leadership in the war on terrorism tonight. He will join the convention chorus of what we have heard for three days, suggesting that by his votes in the Senate and by what Republicans say are shifting positions, the Democrat John Kerry has proven himself unfit to command the war on terror at what the president will say is a momentous moment in history. And Mr. Bush also will outline what he will call a new liberty agenda, several new domestic initiatives aimed mostly at dealing with economic anxiety, new proposals for access to healthcare, new proposals for more retirement options. The president will say he wants to have flextime and other options for workers who are dealing with the stress of work and families. And the president will also promise to keep taxes low and to simplify the tax code. Now, in an excerpt released by the White House, we get a summary, if you will, of the president's major theme. He will tell the American people this, \"I am running for president with a clear and positive plan to build a safer world and a more hopeful America. I am running with a compassionate conservative philosophy that government should help people improve their lives, not try to run their lives. I believe this nation wants steady, consistent, principled leadership, and that is why, with your help, we will win this election.\" Aides expect the speech to run about an hour. It comes on the fourth and final night of the Republican convention. Democrats have been saying what they hear in this convention hall the past three nights is anger, even hatred, attack after attack on Senator John Kerry. The Democrats say those attacks are proof to them that the White House believes it can only win if it demonizes President Bush's opponent. First Lady Laura Bush told me earlier today she thinks maybe the Democrats are a bit too thin-skinned.", "I think we've seen the record of the senator that's running against my husband examined, and that's what happens when you get into politics. That's what happens when you run for office. And, you know, it happens to everybody. You get criticized, and that's just a fact of life in American politics.", "Take a look at the backdrop for tonight's speech, not only theater in the round, but two giant mockups of the Statue of Liberty on the back of the stage. The White House says it fits with Mr. Bush's theme of this new liberty agenda, giving citizens, not government, more power. But it also is an unmistakable reminder of this city, the city hardest hit by the September 11 attacks. Another constant Democratic criticism this week is that President Bush plays up fear of the possibility of another terrorist attack for political gain. The man who helped the president craft his speech tonight says not true.", "I don't know how it's possible to overplay the defense of the American people. The fact of the matter is, it's his most fundamental constitutional duty. And the threats are very real. And he sees them every day in a way that most Americans don't. And so, you know, that is the most basic commitment of the president of the United States.", "Mr. Bush will address it just that way, call it his most basic, fundamental commitment, defending the American people, in his speech tonight -- Lou. He will not even spend the night in New York after this speech. Aides say he will make his case to the American people, then it is off to Pennsylvania. Sixty days to election day, the president wanting to take every possible second to campaign in those key states -- Lou.", "John, thank you. And joining me now from the same building, Madison Square Garden, is Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee. And good to have you with us.", "Thanks, Lou. Good to be with you.", "Ed, the setting is worthy of Cecil B. DeMille, with the president standing above this, the Great Seal of the presidency in the round. You've heard what John King said. I'm sure you've gone through what the president is going to say. How critical is the speech the president will make tonight?", "Oh, any presidential nominating accepting speech is an important speech. It was important, Senator John Kerry's speech in Boston was important. This speech is important. When the president accepted the nomination in Philadelphia in 2000, it was important. And he, you know, this is a very forward-looking speech. It lays out a positive agenda for the future. I think that's important. Elections aren't about the future, not about the past. I think there was a mistake made in Boston, frankly, that they spent so much time talking about the past and not enough time talking about the future. This president is looking forward to talk about the things that are necessary to help the people of this country adapt to the changing economy, to the changing nature of the threats against us in the war on terror, and to put policies, as he said, that help people in terms of improving their lives, as opposed to telling them what to do. And I think that's a very fundamental difference and approach to government between the two parties.", "Ed, the backdrop that will be behind the president, which we saw briefly there in John King's report, a safer America, a more hopeful America. The more hopeful part is somewhat in contrast with an incumbent who has a record of three of a half years leading the nation. Compassionate conservatism is back. Why is that so strikingly presented?", "Well, compassionate conservatism is the essence of George W. Bush. It's not back. It's been there. It's been eclipsed by a number of events beyond our control. But the fact is, the president has been pushing consistently for the faith-based initiatives that he believes deeply in. He's implemented many by executive order, to the extent you can. He'd like to get sweeping legislation that would help in this regard. The No Child Left Behind Act has helped to improve our public schools. We're seeing rising test scores as a result of those policies. There's more we can do yet in terms of improving our public schools. When it comes to healthcare, the president is the one who delivered on promises that had been made for years in this country to provide a prescription drug benefit for America's seniors so that they can afford to buy their medicine, and he delivered on that. There's more we can do to make healthcare more affordable, more accessible, and he'll talk about those things tonight as well.", "Against that backdrop, if you will, will also be the fact that. as you well know, more than a million Americans were added to those who are below the poverty line last year, more than a million Americans were added to those who are suffering without medical and healthcare insurance. How will the president address those anxieties, which are very real?", "Well, of course, the most important thing we can do to help lift people out of poverty is to ensure economic growth that creates jobs. And we're seeing 1.5 million, we've seen 1.5 million jobs created in the past year as a result of the president's policies. He's turned a recession into a recovery. And when it comes to health insurance, you -- we'll hear, like I say, the president has talked about medical savings accounts, expanding that, and allowing for risk pooling where small businesses. As you very well know, Lou, most people get their healthcare and their health insurance from their employer, and yet small businesses have a hard time making the -- meeting the needs there, because if you have 25, 27, 30 employees, you don't get the kind of rate IBM does or General Electric. And so allowing a lot of small businesses to come together and risk pool through associated health plans would help bring down the cost of insurance. It's just one of the proposals that the president has been talking about, but there are many others to make healthcare more affordable, not the least of which, by the way, is driving out the cost of abusive lawsuits that are ending up raising liability costs.", "How important is that unemployment report tomorrow, and what it shows?", "Well, I think we want to continue to see the economy grow. We want to continue to see payroll added. We want to continue to see economic growth projections. And so obviously people will be looking at the number. You see, when you look at the number in terms of consumer confidence, consumer spending, there are good harbingers in terms of how people are feeling about the economy. And employment is one other aspect of that.", "Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Convention, we thank you for being here.", "Thank you, Lou, for having me.", "Senator John Kerry will hold a late-night rally in Ohio tonight to respond to the president's speech. Senator Kerry's running mate, Senator John Edwards, will also be attending tonight's rally in Springfield. Senator Kerry has been vacationing this week in Nantucket. Tomorrow the Kerry campaign will launch a $50 million advertising offensive. It begins in Ohio. Turning now to another rapidly developing story tonight, the massive category four hurricane that is charging toward the eastern coast of Florida. Emergency officials have now ordered more than 2 million Floridians to leave their homes. Frances is one of the biggest hurricanes ever. It has sustained winds of 140 miles an hour. Winds are gusting up to 165 miles an hour now. Frances is expected to make landfall tomorrow or early Saturday.", "Three hundred miles of Florida's coastline is under a hurricane warning tonight. The National Hurricane Center says Frances is bigger in size than Hurricane Andrew, the powerful storm that devastated Florida and killed 26 people in 1992.", "You have to prepare as if this was the strongest storm you're ever going to see on the Florida east coast.", "Mandatory evacuations have been put into effect for nearly a dozen Florida counties. More than 2 million people have been ordered to leave.", "I cannot overemphasize, you cannot put this off. You cannot delay. It is not time to hope. It's time to act.", "Florida residents in the path of the hurricane tonight are boarding up their homes and businesses, gassing up their cars, and hitting the highway.", "I went to a couple gas stations, and they were already out of gas.", "We haven't had a direct hit in Fort Lauderdale in a long time. I've been here 45 years and hadn't really been through a serious hurricane.", "To put this dangerous storm in some perspective, it is equal in size to the entire state of Texas. The powerful eye of this storm alone measures 25 miles across. Storm surges as high as 14 feet are forecast. The National Hurricane Center says not since it began keeping records in 1871 have there been two category four storms to hit this country in the same year. Hurricane Andrew caused more than $26 billion in damage and was ultimately upgraded to a category five. Another devastating storm was Hurricane Hugo in September of 1989, a category four that killed as many as 85 people.", "Homeowners have been trying to buy supplies to secure their homes before the arrival of Hurricane Frances, either tomorrow or early Saturday. But many stores have already run out of supplies. John Zarrella joins me now, reporting live from Miami -- John.", "Lou, we're at a Home Depot here in north Miami. And fortunately for the folks here, they just got a supply of plywood in. You can see the workers are busily loading up cars. They're waiting right now. Now, you can look over to my left, and you can see there's a line of cars, Lou, that goes down the side of this Home Depot, around the back of the Home Depot, and out the other side. There have got to be about 50 cars in line here waiting for plywood here at the 11th hour. It never ceases to amaze me, even here in south Florida, with all that this area's gone through, that people still wait till the last minute to buy plywood and try and put it up, particularly with the massive size of this hurricane. If you take a look at this hurricane from space, you can see just how enormous it is, as you were mentioning, about the size of the state of Texas. It is just once-in-a-lifetime event to see something this massive and this powerful. Hurricane Andrew was a fraction of the size of this storm. Now, as the people here are buying the plywood, of course, they're going home, and they're boarding up. And they are boarding up as quickly as they can, not knowing whether landfall will come sometime late tomorrow, perhaps Saturday, depending on where along the Florida coastline it is. The further north the storm goes, the later that landfall will be. But no one taking any chances. People are getting out, if they can. Some 2 million-plus people ordered to evacuate, asked to leave from south Florida up to the north Florida border, many of them heeding those warnings. There are pictures coming in of highways absolutely jammed, Interstate 95 jammed. Many of the east-west roads, people leaving, heading inland, trying to get away from the coastline. Even down here in south Florida, Interstate 95 north was packed today with travelers, with folks trying to get out of the way of this massive storm. So, again, I, Lou, have not seen this kind of level of anxiety here in certainly in south Florida in 12 years, and we all know what happened back then, Hurricane Andrew, Lou.", "And John, I was going to ask you, of course, there is very good news in the fact that those highways are congested with people leaving what looks to be the site of the landfall of Hurricane Frances. Have you seen a shift in the weather? Have you seen a shift in the coastline there in the tides?", "Not yet. It's still a little bit too soon. There's some high clouds that are starting to blow in. But very, very little yet, some rain showers going overhead. But all of that is just the typical south Florida afternoon rain. Really, don't expect until sometime tomorrow here in south Florida to really start seeing that eerie-looking circular clouds moving over our heads. So it'll probably be a little later tomorrow before some of those squalls start rolling in -- Lou.", "John Zarella from Miami. Thank you, John. Later here, we'll be discussing Hurricane Frances and trying to ascertain its direction, its speed, and expected landfall, and its strength, of course. The director of the National Hurricane Center, Max Mayfield, will be here to give us his guidance. Also ahead here tonight, explosions outside a Russian school, where radical Islamist terrorists have been holding hundreds of children and their parents hostage. We'll have a live report for you from the scene. And General David Grange will be here to assess Russia's military options to end this crisis. And then, a grand finale for the Republican Party and its national convention. I'll be talking with three of the country's top political journalists about what they expect this president to say, what the message will be. And Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority whip of the U.S. Senate, Congressman David Dreier, Republican of California, will be among our guests. All of that and a great deal more, and, of course, your e-mails, still ahead."], "speaker": ["LOU DOBBS, HOST (voice-over)", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-384551", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-11-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1911/02/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Congressmen Mark Meadows And Jim Jordan Informally Helping White House Lawyers In Impeachment Inquiry; Washington Nationals Pitcher Declines Invitation To White House", "utt": ["Welcome back. House Democrats, they're building their cases for impeaching President Donald Trump through a succession of closed-door depositions. And a pair of Trump's closest allies on Capitol Hill are quietly offering guidance to the White House lawyers responsible for crafting the president's defense strategy. Here now is CNN's Pamela Brown.", "Well, my colleague Jeremy Diamond and I have learned that a pair of President Trump's closest GOP allies are quietly offering guidance to the White House lawyers responsible for crafting the president's defense strategy. Congressmen Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan have been informally helping White House lawyers in the Counsel's office here sort through publicly reported aspects of the policy to the extent they can under House rules according to four administration officials. Now, Meadows and Jordan are two of the only GOP members that have been in every closed door testimony until the end, and their conversations with the White House, we're told, is primarily aimed at helping the lawyers here get a better grasp at the allegations being leveled at Trump that are leaking out from the closed-door testimony, and identifying any potential weak points as the White House crafts its legal strategy to defend Trump during his impeachment trial. Mark Meadows told CNN that he has only shared brought characterizations and is not sharing specifics of the testimony with the White House, pointing to those House rules preventing him from disclosing details of the testimony. He says he has guided the White House in what he views as mischaracterizations coming from Democrats after the various closed-door testimonies. Jim Jordan, for his part, telling CNN he has never divulged information to the White House that should not be divulged, and will not answer questions that in any can get to the substance of the depositions. And when some witnesses such as Tim Morrison just recently backs up aspects of the president's defense or hurts the Democrats' strategy in their view, these lawmakers have pointed that out publicly, but, as we've seen, have been careful not to divulge too much. They're certainly walking a fine line here. Pamela Brown, CNN, the White House.", "With me right now, Steve Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas School of Law and a CNN contributor. Good to see you, Steve. So what do you make of the strategy by the White House, getting informal guidance from a few Republican members of Congress?", "In one sense I think it's not at all surprising given where we are. In another sense, I think it's a pretty telling and sober reflection of where we are. We're supposed to have the separation of powers, not separation of parties. Yet here we have members of the House who are supposed to be playing the role of grand jurors basically helping the putative defense. It's not, as Pamela said in her story, it's not against the rules as long as they're not divulging the contents of this testimony. But it still doesn't exactly help the appearance that there are just two sides here and no one is actually trying to necessarily convince people on the other side that they're right.", "It almost sends a message of a conflict of interest. Your role is oversight, as a member of Congress, and then to, I guess, split up the team on whether you're going to live up to your sworn duty of protecting democracy, or not.", "Well, I think, again, it goes back to what's your role? And I think the founders when they wrote the Constitution they contemplated it would be the House's job to decide up or down on whether to impeach someone, a federal official like the president. I'm not sure the founders would have contemplated members of the House actively working with the official under investigation to get their strategy on the same page. But it's the times we live in where I think we're seeing over and over again signs that what's much more important in Washington these days is which party you're in as opposed to which branch you're in. The institutional interests really have been overrun by the partisan political ones.", "Wow. And then there's this \"Washington Post\" reporting that an increasing number of Republican senators consider acknowledging that there was quid pro quo on that July 25th call, but that Trump's actions were not illegal, and that it may have been lacking of a certain intent. So what do you make of that defense?", "Yes, it's remarkable to watch the goalposts move. I think the first line was, well, everything the president did was fine entirely because there was no quid pro quo. I think there are plenty of folks who thought well, no, that's still not a real problem if the president is soliciting foreign interference in our own domestic politics. But now the argument is, oh, and there was a quid pro quo, and it's fine. Man, it's easy to be --", "But the intent wasn't there, that too --", "But Fred, I think it's still pretty easy to be cynical about this strategy. And once again, why is it these members of Congress, in this case the Senate, who are supposed to be the jurors. We have someone like Senator Susan Collins from Maine who won't comment publicly on any of the allegations against President Trump because, she says, my job as a juror might be compromised if I were commenting publicly, contrasted with the story where you have Republican senators actively involved in trying to figure out what's the best strategy for trying to create a case to vote not to remove the president. My concern, Fredricka, is what precedent are we setting going forward for Congress' ability to function as an independent branch of government as opposed to just for whoever has the most votes being able to do whatever the heck they want.", "And House Democrats want to talk to a lot of people. Among them, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, outgoing Energy Secretary Rick Perry, both have really set conditions. Bolton saying, OK, if you subpoena, then maybe. Perry saying, not private in the form of the depositions that we've been seeing but only in a public platform. Can you do that?", "So can you did do that, versus can you do that legally? Those are two different questions. Bolton and Perry have a fair amount of leverage if the question is can they be brought in to testify soon. They might actually lose eventually in court if they try to resist a subpoena, and the grounds that they invoke for resisting turn out to be bogus. But that's going to take a while to sort out. And so I think the question is can the relevant House Committees reach compromises with these prospective witnesses where they'll agree to testify, whether under subpoena or not, or are we going to see more stonewalling that is going to just push more and more of these cases into the courts.", "Steve Vladeck, thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "Iowa voters will cast their first ballots in the 2020 election in just over 90 days from now. And right now, more than a dozen Democrats are trying to win over these undecided voters. 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{"id": "CNN-396715", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2020-04-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/03/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "President Trump Ousted Michael Atkinson in the Midst of a Pandemic; COVID Cases Keeps Rising; No Stay-at-Home Order Yet in Eight States; Special Thanks to Our Heroes During the Coronavirus Pandemic; Don Lemon Remembers Singer-Songwriter Bill Withers.", "utt": ["This is CNN TONIGHT. I'm Don Lemon. 11:00 p.m. on the East Coast, and here the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. Tonight, the number of cases worldwide is nearing 1.1 million. The global death toll just under 60,000. Here at home the pandemic is worsening by the hour. Johns Hopkins University now reporting more than 277,000 confirmed cases in the United States. And more than 7,000 deaths in this country. More than 1,400 deaths reported just today. Tonight, nearly 96 percent of the U.S. population is living under orders to stay at home or shelter in place. That works out to nearly 315 million Americans out of a population of 328 million. But eight states are still resisting imposing stay-at-home orders, despite Dr. Anthony Fauci advising that all states should do so. President Trump is refusing tonight to issue a national stay-at-home order, saying he'll leave it up to the individual governors. And we had this bit of breaking news late on a Friday night. Under cover of a coronavirus, the president settling scores with a perceived enemy from his impeachment. A source on Capitol Hill telling CNN moments ago that the president has removed intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, the official who told Congress about the anonymous whistleblower complaint that sparked the House impeachment proceedings against Trump. I want to get right to CNN White House correspondent John Harwood and CNN justice correspondent Evan Perez. Good evening to both of you. Evan, this is a big deal. What do you know?", "It is a big deal, Don. Look, we've been waiting for this exact moment, and it appears that the president took obviously the fact that the country is preoccupied with the coronavirus crisis to finally get rid of Michael Atkinson, who is the inspector general for the intelligence committee. He is the one who sort of kick started all of the controversy over the Ukraine -- the president's leaning on the Ukrainian government to announce that investigation that Joe Biden, his political rival. If you remember the inspector general was the one who received the whistleblower complaint and kicked it over and said he had to notify the lawmakers in Congress about it. And of course, that led to the president's impeachment. We know that the members of congress, the heads of the two intelligence committees in Congress were notified tonight that the president was firing Atkinson. And so, Atkinson was informed tonight that he is essentially being put, Don, on a 30-day administrative leave. So, he is essentially out of the job. He's still essentially working for the government for another 30 days, but he is fired. The president has decided that it is time for him to go.", "Evan, I want to read part of the president's letter here. And it reads, it says, \"the inspectors general have a critical role in the achieve -- in the achievement of these goals, as the case -- as is the case with regard to the other positions where I, as president, have the power of appointment by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. It is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as inspectors general. That is no longer the case with regard to this inspector general.\" So, if that is the rationale, it is rather thin.", "Right. Look, the president and people at the Justice Department who reviewed the whistleblower complaint did not think that it deserved to be notified the Congress. They didn't believe that the inspector general that the officer, the director of national intelligence needed to even tell the intelligence committees about this whistleblower complaint. Instead, the intelligence community inspector general, he decided that he did. And so, that's one of the reasons why certainly the president, people around him were very, very unhappy with Mr. Atkinson and believe that essentially, he had started a controversy that they believe should never have gotten there, Don. So, you can see why Atkinson's days frankly were numbered from the time this inspector general decided that he needed to tell Congress about this whistleblower complaint.", "Yes.", "You can see that the president is saying in his letter to the intelligence committees tonight that he has lost confidence in this inspector general. And of course, Don, you know, the president, he has this power. He can tell the lawmakers that he has a right to get rid of these people because they serve at his discretion. So that is what he has done tonight.", "So, John, let me bring you in here. So, this is what the president is doing late on a Friday night in the middle of a deadly pandemic, a historic pandemic?", "Look, Don, he set out on this course before the pandemic flowered into a huge story. He started firing people who had called out his behavior. Alexander Vindman in the White House is one of those conspicuous examples, immediately after the impeachment process was over. He doesn't like people who call him to account within his administration any more than he likes reporters asking him difficult questions. And I should note that there is no indication that Michael Atkinson did anything wrong by reporting this information to Congress. Republican senators in the impeachment process agreed that there was a quid pro quo that was imposed by the president on Ukraine. He later backed off of it, of course. He just said it wasn't worth impeaching him for. So, the president is trying to purge the administration of people he thinks are disloyal to him. And this is not unrelated to the laggard response the administration has had on coronavirus. If your priority as the chief executive, and the head of the executive branch is to have people in jobs not because they're qualified to do the jobs, but because they're loyal to you, you're not going to get the highest quality people. We noted by the way, that the admiral in charge of the navy ship who called out the plight of his crewmen was removed by the president's navy secretary from his command. And so, this is a pattern with the president. And you saw it when Jared Kushner came into the White House briefing room yesterday. The president's son-in-law is taking a lead role in pandemic response. And that simply illustrates the problem that we're talking about. Not the best people, but the people who the president thinks are loyal to him.", "Well, you got to wonder if -- I said that under the cover of coronavirus. But I'm wondering if maybe it's to sort of change the news from the coronavirus to this. I mean, which came first, John, the chicken or the egg?", "Look, he would have done this anyway, as Evan said. We were waiting for this to happen. But he is suffering an avalanche of catastrophic news at the moment to the extent that he is embarrassed by this, yes, he is burying it. But in the current news environment, you can't bury stuff very effectively. The news is 24/7. And whether you do it on Friday night or do it Monday morning at nine o'clock, it's going get pushed back from Democrats. It's going to get attention from the press. But the president is not concerned about that. He is focused on somebody who has made him look bad, put him in a bad position. He's going to strike out.", "Thank you, both. I appreciate it. I want to bring in now James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence. He joins us now by phone. Director, thank you so much. First, I want to discuss the timing. Why is the president doing this late on a Friday night? Does the timing tell you anything, or do you agree with John, he is going to do it anyways?", "Well, I think John is right. He is going to do it anyway. But of course, I guess figuring Friday night is the best time typically for revelation of bad news, but particularly so in the midst of a pandemic crisis. It looks to me like he's got his list of people he wants to remove or punish, who had some role at what led to the impeachment. And clearly Mr. Atkinson as the I.G. was a catalyst for this with his handling of the whistleblower complaint which for my part I thought was entirely proper.", "Yes. Let's be clear about this. He was doing his job. But what does this mean for the country, especially at a time of global instability and crisis?", "Well, what it means to me, Don, is this is bad message to the intelligence community if you care about his independence and objectivity and telling truth to power. So, this is another chilling message that you better cue the line here, and don't cross it. And I think the implicit message, which is even more serious is this could certainly I think affect or may affect the objectivity of the reporting that the intelligence community is doing. And that to me is what is very bothersome about all of this. You take this in the total context of the firing of acting director Joe Maguire and the emplacement of Ambassador Grenell as the acting DNI and the nomination of Ratcliffe, of John Ratcliffe, all of which I think the bottom line message here is loyalty is more important than professional confidence.", "Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, thank you, sir. I appreciate your time.", "Thanks, Don.", "I want to turn now to the news from tonight's coronavirus briefing. The CDC urging Americans to wear a makeshift shift face masks out in public. I want to bring in now the resident -- our resident fact checker Daniel Dale. Daniel, thank you so much for joining. The CDC now recommending Americans wear these masks, these coverings, face covers. Here is what Trump said about the new guidelines, even though he doesn't plan to wear one.", "Here's how you can make your own face covering in a few --", "From recent studies, we know that the transmission from individuals without symptoms is playing a more significant role in the spread of the virus than previously understood. So, you don't seem to have symptoms. And it still gets transferred.", "But haven't health officials been warning of asymptomatic spread for months, Daniel?", "They have been warning to an increasing extent. I think to interpret this Trump comment generously, there is more evidence today than there was, say, two months ago. But way back in January, at the end of January, Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was convinced that asymptomatic transmission was occurring. In February, the director of the CDC said it was possible and concerning. And by mid-March, we had a story on cnn.com by our medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen. In front of me a headline, people with infected symptoms might be driving the spread of coronavirus more than we realize. So, this is not breaking news in the last, you know, few days. We've known for at least some time now.", "The president also claimed tonight that he never gave a date for when this virus would go away. What's the truth?", "So, Trump said over and over that he thought this virus would vanish from the United States in April. Listen to some of the things he said.", "Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. Hope that's true. You know in April, supposedly it dies with the hotter weather. And that's a beautiful date to look forward to. I think it's going to work out fine. I think when we get into April and the warmer weather, that has a very negative effect on that, and that type of a virus. So, let's see what happens. But I think it's going to work out fine.", "So, he didn't mention a specific date in April, but he kept saying April. And it's also misleading at best for him to suggest today as he did that his claims in February that it would just go away have somehow been proven accurate. He said, I said it was going away and it is going away. Well, he didn't mention back in February that thousands of Americans would die and the economy would be more or less be shut down before it allegedly went away.", "Daniel, the president keeps saying no one could have predicted something like this would happen. But we're learning his own administration had concerns.", "Yes. So, Don, you and I have been talking repeatedly about how there were repeat warns from the U.S. intelligence community from outside public health experts. But reporting from our K-File team shows that Trump's own senior officials were warning about this last year. Alex Azar, the Secretary of Health and then senior national security adviser -- council official Tim Morrison were at a conference in April 2019, and they both said that possible pandemic was chief among their worries. And they suggested it was something that keeps them awake at night. Morrison said it's something that, you know, we're not -- might not be preparing for to a sufficient extent, but we need to think about. So not only were the warnings coming from outside, they were coming from quite close to the president.", "Daniel Dale, thank you very much. Next, on the frontlines inside a New York hospital, more than 6,500 new coronavirus cases reported in the city in just the past day. I'm going talk to a doctor and a nurse working, risking their own lives to save their patients."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN HOST", "EVAN PEREZ, CNN SENIOR JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "PEREZ", "LEMON", "PEREZ", "LEMON", "JOHN HARWOOD, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "HARWOOD", "LEMON", "JAMES CLAPPER, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "LEMON", "CLAPPER", "LEMON", "CLAPPER", "LEMON", "JEROME ADAMS, SURGEON GENERAL", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "LEMON", "DANIEL DALE, CNN REPORTER", "LEMON", "DALE", "TRUMP", "DALE", "LEMON", "DALE", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-318548", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2017-08-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/07/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Typhoon \"Noru\" Hits Japan; The Anonymity of the Dark Web", "utt": ["Coming to you live from Hong Kong. Welcome back. You're watching \"News Stream.\" Now, a slow moving but powerful typhoon is hitting central Japan. Typhoon Noru made landfall near the city of Osaka earlier Monday. All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines say that they have canceled more than 200 flights. Authorities are warning residents about possible landslides as well as heavy flooding. Let's get more now from Chad Myers at the World Weather Center. Chad, we know that this typhoon is weakening but it is still pounding parts of Japan with rain. What is the latest?", "Certainly. And still we had the 160 kilometer per hour wind gust. This wasn't just a rainmaker. This was a damage maker as well. Let's go back to some of that video because I think later in the real here, we actually see more in the way of damage where trees are down, large trees, because there was just so much water on the ground. The roots were basically soaked. The dirt turd to mud. And the winds toppled those trees. And this is what's happened here all across the southern part of Japan, the southern half really was lashed. The big story about this storm is how long it has been Noru, how long the storm has actually been alive, if you will. Right now it's 120-kilometer-per-hour storm, some gusts a little bit higher than that. But this storm has been in the ocean for a very, very long time, putting down almost 200 millimeters of rain is some spots and other spots that are higher in the mountains of Japan, obviously had more rain than that, but there is just no rain collection sites there. You put this rain up on the top of the mountain. It's going to come downhill. And eventually, we're going to see some of that flash flooding I think even along the coasts. The storm is dying now. We are still going to see a couple 100-millimeters of rainfall in some spots. But the wind is dying because the storm is no longer over waters, it's over land. When the storm gets over land, it loses its energy. The energy source is the water itself, is the ocean itself. When it gets over land, it gets torn up. Here is the story I was talking about. How long Noru has existed. Fourteen days, this storm has been a typhoon, even did a little loop over here in the West Bank for a while. Eighteen days since it was formed, 14 days as a typhoon. That is the second longest typhoon ever on record time now, the second longest typhoon ever in the water here across parts of the West Bank. That is a long time to be in the water and then finally hit something so devastatingly there. We're still a little but under where we should be this year for typhoons, but still a long season to go. Kristie.", "Well, as you put it, Noru is a damage maker with a very long lifespan.", "Yes.", "It has also been called a slow-moving typhoon which may not sounds threatening, but what does that mean in terms of the real danger it poses?", "That means still at this hour. Even though it's over land, it is not moving away from land and so we are still going to see the potential for the heavy rain to pile up, especially on these eastern slopes, from Tokyo and all the way up towards Sendai, where the disaster here was with the tsunami. Right here. All of that water. Do you remember the pictures when we were showing you in the tsunami area, to the west of where the tsunami hit, it was very mountainous. It goes up very, very quickly into probably a couple thousand meters. All of a sudden, that water has to come back down and it continues to rain. The slower it goes, the more rain can pile up. The quicker it gets out of here, the more the rain would obviously stop very quickly, but this is not moving very quick.", "All right. Chad Myers reporting. As always, thank you. Take care.", "You're welcome.", "Investigations are underway in Italy, Poland, and the U.K. after police say a British model was abducted in Milan amid nearly escaping auctioned off on the dark web by her kidnappers. Police say that the 20- year-old model was held in the bedroom of this cabin in the Italian alps for a week. A Polish man has been arrested. Let's get details on this case from CNN's contributor Barbie Nadeau. She joins us live from Rome. Barbie, this is just such a horrific crime. Italian police are investigating how this happened. What have you learned?", "Well, right now the Italian investigators are really focused on whether or not the testimony or the interrogation with this suspect is true or not. He's claiming all sorts of things that he made 15 million Euro selling women just like this young model who was abducted on the dark web. He's made claims that this is how he makes his living, and what the prosecutors and the detectives working on the case right now want to know if that's the truth or if that was just something he made up. He did have accomplices, we know that, and they're searching for other people. There was more than one person who initially abducted this woman, who drugged her, who took her to the cabin. And they haven't so far been able to find those accomplices. But they are just trying to see if his story rings true or not because if it does, that means there could be other women in vulnerable positions either being held in captivity or who have been pinpointed for this sort of sex slave auction that is apparently going on in the deep web. Kristie.", "Yes. This is what this case is exposing, isn't it, that even though we have this young British woman who thankfully released, there could be many others, other young women being held in captivity or already sold.", "That's absolutely right and that is the priority number one. Thankfully as you said this young woman has been released. She's home in the U.K. She is safe. But, are there others out there? And the fact that this market exists for sex slave, it is disturbing and that is not something being contended necessarily. A lot of the investigators know about this. It's just it's so difficult any of these sites that are in that", "Barbie Nadeau live in Rome for us. We thank you for that update. The dark web is essentially a part of the web that is not accessible to regular users using normal software. It's made of websites that hide where their servers are located. And to access these sites, you need special software like Tor. Tor hides web traffic by encrypting it and then bouncing around many different, randomly chosen computers that are also running Tor. This makes it impossible to track the origin or destination of any information sent over the dark web. That means that dark web users can also hide their identity as well as their physical location. That sense of anonymity is extremely attractive to privacy seekers, whistle blowers, and also criminals. While some sites on the dark web are password protected, many are not, so people can browse them if they have the right software and know where to look. Voters in the east African nation of Kenya will go to the polls on Tuesday to elect their next president, but this time, their choice may be tougher than in the past. They are being bombarded by fake news. New stories started to look like legitimate news reports. CNN's Farai Sevenzo shows us how the technique is being used in Kenya including fake reports made to look like CNN.", "Look at this slickly produced news bulletin. At first glance, it appears to be a CNN report, but it's not. It is fake. The bogus report cuts from legitimate CNN Philippines broadcast.", "News just in from Kenya.", "To a fake voice server segment that falsely claims that one candidate is leading over the other in a recent poll.", "And as elections get closer, fake news is increasingly being used as a campaign tool, targeting news organizations and NGOs. It's a sinister and, frankly, desperate attempt to sway to voters.", "The BBC's \"Focus on Africa\" program was also manipulated last week, edited to include the same false poll as the one in the CNN fake report. The problem is so bad, that Facebook has put out ads in national newspapers and on its site with tips on how to spot false news. Both CNN and the BBC called out the reports as fake, warning viewers to be careful. But it's a worrying trend.", "This is a video that has come to you on your mobile phone WhatsApp or on Telegram. So you have no option but to watch it. So you cannot go back to CNN to try and verify that video. So you will have to depend on fact-checkers or depend on CNN to put out a statement or the BBC to say, no, that's not us.", "And it's not just news organizations being targeted. This doctored \"Transparent International\" report appeared on social media, accusing an opposition politician of corruption. The Duth ambassador to Kenya called them out as fake. And \"Transparency Kenya\" issues this statement, denouncing the use of their name and logo to, quote, spread propaganda for seemingly political mileage. It's sometimes not easy to spot fakes, especially when they're distributed on social media groups that aren't easily traceable. Alphonce tells us voters must be vigilant.", "Always try to verify and look. If you see anything online, if you see anything as a text message on your Facebook account, even a leaflet or a picture, try to verify, is this thing real?", "And if you're trying to spot bogus CNN news reports, remember, if it's not on our official channels, web site or social platforms, it may well be fake. Farai Sevenzo, CNN, Nairobi.", "Fake news of course also played last year's U.S. presidential campaign. Coming up, we'll take a look at the investigation to how it spread and who was behind it. Plus, President Donald Trump is marking a milestone. Now, he is spending 200th day in office."], "speaker": ["LU STOUT", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST AND SCIENCE REPORTER", "LU STOUT", "MYERS", "LU STOUT", "MYERS", "LU STOUT", "MYERS", "LU STOUT", "BARBIE NADEAU, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "LU STOUT", "NADEAU", "LU STOUT", "FARAI SEVENZO, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over)", "SEVENZO (voice-over)", "SEVENZO", "SEVENZO (voice-over)", "ALPHONCE SHIUNDU, KENYA EDITOR, AFRICA CHECK", "SEVENZO (voice-over)", "SHIUNDU", "SEVENZO (voice-over)", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-41360", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-10-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/08/ltm.12.html", "summary": "America Strikes Back: Gov. Tom Ridge to be Sworn in as Director of Homeland Defense", "utt": ["Jeanne, what about this debate over whether Governor Ridge has the power to get the job done. We know he is a close personal friend of the president, a man the president almost tapped as his runningmate back in campaign 2000. So certainly he has the right relationship with the president, but what about the questions of whether the job has the proper authority?", "Well, you know, there are a few questions about Tom Ridge himself. Most say he is a likable guy, very capable. If there's someone who could do the job, it probably is Tom Ridge. But there's a lot of debate about whether or not he's going to be given the powers that this situation requires.", "Terrorists changed our essential way of life.", "Governor Ridge said goodbye to Pennsylvania this week, but President Bush has yet to issue the executive order outlining precisely what Ridge's responsibilities in Washington will be, though congressional sources say the draft language is strong, giving Ridge input on budgetary matters and directing agencies to cooperate with him. According to the White House, the position will be comparable to that of national security adviser.", "It's a coordinating post, it's policy post, but clearly, various agencies continue to have their vital functions, which are much more operational and mission- oriented.", "But what a tangle. More than 40 federal departments and agencies play a part in counterterrorism. Some you'd expect -- Defense, Justice, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. But the Interior Department? It turns out four of its branches, including the unlikely Fish and Wildlife Service have law enforcement components and manage 400 million acres of land. Can Ridge bring coherence to this? Some say reorganize, consolidate over a whole new agency. Bring the Coast Guard, Customs and Border Patrol under one umbrella for example.", "It's happens on the ground on a day-to-day level. Are they using the same radar? Are they using the same radios so they can talk to one another? And that's really where reorganization below the top is so important.", "Others argue that what Ridge really needs is congressionally granted budget authority. Without that power, they say, he won't be able to bring change.", "He needs the force of law, more than just a bully pulpit.", "But others, including the White House, disagree. They believe Ridge will succeed in winning cooperation from agency heads without budget threats.", "Because he's got something they don't have, and that is immediate access to the president if the president wants to get this job done. And believe me, the presidential cache on this will go a long way.", "But will it go far enough? Tom Ridge, who takes up the reigns this week, may soon find out.", "And Of course he has more than just those 40-plus federal agencies to worry about, John. He has to bring in this debate 50 state governments and thousands of localities who would be the first to respond if there were any terrorist attack. Back to you.", "Jeanne Meserve, tracking what the government now calls homeland security. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR", "GOV. TOM RIDGE, PENNSYLVANIA", "MESERVE (voice-over)", "ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "MESERVE", "REP. WILLIAM THORNBERRY (R), TEXAS", "MESERVE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MESERVE", "REP. PORTER GOSS (R), INTELLIGENCE CMTE. CHAIRMAN", "MESERVE", "MESERVE", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-203237", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-3-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/18/cnr.06.html", "summary": "NYPD Stop and Frisk Law Challenged; Lindsey Lohan Back in Court", "utt": ["The tiniest state in the European Union is at the center of some major financial shock waves today, and I'm not talking about Greece. This is Cyprus. Cyprus is being asked to tax the savings accounts in people's banks at about 10 percent in exchange for a 10 billion Euro bailout from its E.U. partners. That's a first in the short but painful history of Eurozone bailouts, and it set off a weekend run on ATMs, people trying to get their savings out before taxes hit. Banks are staying closed through Wednesday to prevent a run. Parliament is due to vote on that tax tomorrow. So how offensive is this? Check out that salute. The Nazi salute on the field of a professional soccer game in Greece over the weekend. And the player is actually doing this to celebrate a goal. That 20 year old was immediately admonished. Look at the look at the face of his teammate. Eke. In his defense, he said he did not know this was a Nazi salute. That he doesn't know politics. But he certainly has time to learn now because he's been banned for life from ever playing on his country's national team. A close call for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. He was on his way home from his son's soccer game when a truck sideswiped his car while making an illegal turn. Governor Jindal wasn't hurt but a state trooper sustained minor injuries. The truck driver was cited for making that improper turn. New York City's controversial Stop and Frisk law is facing a court challenge starting today. The police say that the Stop and Frisk has cut the crime rate dramatically. The critics say it racially profiles minorities at far too great a rate. Here's what we know about numbers. New York City police made five million stops in the last decade. More than half of them, 52 percent, were black people. 32 percent of those stops, Hispanic. Only 11 percent of the stops were white people. But if you look at the population breakdown, it shows that the numbers are upside down because blacks and Hispanics are each only a quarter of the population while whites are almost half, 44 percent. While the numbers do seem to make a case for a class action suit if you look precinct to precinct, the NYPD says it actually represents the numbers of people who are actually cited in crimes, the number of minorities who are cited in crimes. Joining me now, former juvenile court judge, Glenda Hatchett, and criminal defense attorney, Joey Jackson. Joey, let he will start with you. Numbers are a tricky thing. There's fuzzy math. There's different math. There's math that makes sense. There's math you can fudge. In this respect, does math play into this case in front of the court today?", "You know, I really think it does, Ashleigh. Just to be clear, I know police have a very difficult job. We depend on them in large measure to keep us safe. They do a wonderful job. The question becomes, there's a tension between our wanting them to deter crime and police stopping people inappropriately who don't deserve to be stopped. When you look at the statistics, they are telling. In a city of 8.2 million people, the disproportionate number of people of color that are being stopped. If you strike the appropriate balance you stop people because there's a basis and legal justification, that's one thing. If you're not, that's quite another.", "So, Judge Hatchett, the person who sort of was at the genesis of this case was a young African-American doctor. He was just stopped one too many times for his liking and ultimately this snowballed into a class-action case. Without question, anybody would say it's awful to be in his position. At the same time, the NYPD says, where they do the majority of these stops, it so happens those are minority communities, and that their argument would be, should we not protect those minority communities from crime?", "I agree with Joey. It's necessary. I understand that. What I'm concerned most about, Ashleigh, and I want to make sure that we all understand that the federal district judge today will not decide on whether this is legal or not, but what the methods and should there be modification. The bottom line, out of the approximately 540,000 stops last year, only 10 percent of those resulted in an arrest, and a few of those, even fewer of those, involved cases with weapons. So perhaps there should be some kind of modification. There should be more balance. The disproportionate number of African-American and Hispanic is really alarming so we might -- I think that we should take a step back and see if there's a way that we can balance it so the community is safe but yet people's rights are being protected.", "Joey, the judge makes a great point. 10 percent where they get arrests out of those people stopped. But if you take those numbers and look at them in non-percentage numbers, we had 419 murders in 2012 here in New York and back in the 1990s those numbers were in the 2,000s. That's dramatic, 10 percent. So again, I bring up the math. Glenda Hatchett is clearly pointing out this will not stop. This process, it will just allow tailoring of the process. What can you do to tailor it, Joey?", "The police will argue it's dramatic. Murders are at an all- time low and it's because of the aggressive job that we do that this is taking place. What we have to look at is whether the end justifies the means. We want murder rates to be low. We want everyone to be safe. We don't want people's constitutional rights and liberties to be affected unduly. What a judge can do is rule on the law. You don't approach people for discriminatory reasons. You don't profile. However, if you see there's a crime being committed or about to be committed or there's some other measure that gives you probable cause, you do what a police officer is lawfully entitled and expected to do.", "That line is very fuzzy.", "Is it ever. You got probable cause, reasonable suspicion and then a hunch. That's where this gets really fuzzy. All right. Thank you to both of you. I have a test for our viewers, and I just want to throw this out there for you. What is Lindsay Lohan in for this time? She's due back in court this morning. We tried to remember what it could be. We looked up the things it might be. Are you ready? Allegedly punching a reader in a New York nightclub, a crash between her truck on a highway, allegedly hitting a New York restaurant worker and leaving the scene, stealing a necklace, her Santa Monica DUI arrest. Maybe it was her Beverly Hills DUI arrest. Maybe it was driving on suspended license, perhaps missing alcohol counseling sessions, or maybe it was cocaine possession or failing a drug test. She has faced all of these. And I think we ran out of time in our research. Tell you what today's issue is all about."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "JOEY JACKSON, DEFENSE ATTORNEY & CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "MALVEAUX", "GLENDA HATCHETT, FORMER JUVENILE COURT JUDGE", "MALVEAUX", "JACKSON", "HATCHETT", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-321441", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2017-09-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/17/ndaysun.01.html", "summary": "Alvarez-Golovkin Fight To Controversial Draw; USC Outlasts Texas In Double Overtime Thriller", "utt": ["So we have all had an off day, right?", "Sometimes it's on the air.", "Yes, sometimes it is on air.", "You've been here for a couple of updates. But what is your off day --", "And me.", "Yes, that's true -- contribute to one of the most shocking decisions in boxing history?", "Andy Scholes has more in this morning's \"Bleacher Report.\"", "Good morning, guys. So, you know, last night's fight, it was huge. One of the fighters was undefeated, Gennady Golovkin. And the other only lost once to Floyd Mayweather, Canelo Alvarez. But now thanks to a questionable score card from one of the judges they both have a draw on their record. Now most thought Golovkin won the fight last night. He landed more punches One judge saw it that way and the other judge had it at dead even. The last judge, the one that caused the controversy had Golovkin winning just two rounds the entire fight. Now the executive director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission said -- quote -- \"Sometimes have you a bad day.\" Both fighters have called for a rematch of the fight and it's likely going to happen considering this was the third best gate in boxing history netting more than $30 million. All right. Florida and Tennessee renewing their rivalry yesterday. And this was an incredible finish. After the Vols tied the game with under a minute left the Gators have one last chance to regulation. Feleipe Franks goes deep and hits Tyrie Cleveland in stride for the touchdown with zeros on the clock. That's a walk off win. Franks and Cleveland both said after the game that a winning touchdown just like that was a dream come true. Look at that dog pile.", "Like 5-year-old boys at that point. Yes. Yes, I love it.", "When you win a game like that. Yes, absolutely do USC and Texas meeting for the first since the 2006 national title game. This was just as good as that Vince Young winning game. Sam Ehlinger right here is going to fight (ph) Amranti Foreman for the score with under a minute to go to give the Longhorns the lead. USC however", "Have you a tough job, Andy Scholes. I got to watch football.", "I'm doing research for work. I tell my wife, I have to do research for work. I'm going to sit on this couch and watch football.", "Talk to the hand.", "Thank you, Andy.", "Coverage (ph) for the show. All right. Thanks, Andy. All right. Coming up at the top of the hour, the sun is coming up in south Florida where officials are getting ready to lift the road blocks and let people now return to their homes in the lower Keys. Evacuees are being told to prepare themselves for what they will find. The mayor says there is a shock awaiting them in Florida. We are live in Florida."], "speaker": ["BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "SCHOLES", "PAUL", "SCHOLES", "PAUL", "SCHOLES", "PAUL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-192806", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2012-9-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/17/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Preview of Champion's League Group Stage", "utt": ["Well, if you are a football fan, you don't me to tell you that Tuesday brings a return of the Champion's League to the sporting landscape, Europe's most prestigious club football tournament, of course, now the biggest of its kind the world. So let's get you a taste of things to come. We're going to run through Europe for you with a preview of what is the new season. Have a look at this.", "In Russia, two teams are vying for a first ever Champion's League title. Spartak here in Moscow and Zenit St. Petersburg. For Spartak, it's an 11th group stage campaign. But Zenit has creating all the buzz. Not only is it their Champion's League debut, but they've also splashed out $103 million on just two players: Hulk and Axel Witsel. If there is to be a return on that investment, it begins Tuesday in Malaga.", "Four teams will be flying the German flag when the Champion's League group stage kicks off. You have Borussia Dortmund, the reigning Bundesliga champions, four time European Champions Bayern Munich as well as 2011 semifinalists Schalke. Now Borussia Dortmund kick off against Ajax Amsterdam in the Group D. Now that is the group that is known as the group of death, probably the toughest group in the entire Champion's League, that has a long with Ajax and Borussia Dortmund also Manchester City as well as Real Madrid. Bayern Munish have a chance to redeem themselves after narrowly losing the final four months ago. They play at home against Valencia.", "Alright, as Fred mentioned group of death is Group D this season. And it features a marquee match-up Tuesday as Real Madrid and Manchester City lock horn. Let's bring in Amanda Davies for more on that. Amanda, Real Madrid coming into this match, well, let's just say they've been reeling a little bit aren't they?", "They have, Becky, yeah. Jose Mourinho has always had a great reputation, hasn't he, of taking the pressure away from his side ahead of these big occasions from letting them have it a little bit easy until now, because he has given his Real Madrid side a verbal battering this weekend ahead of the big match, the big one against Roberto Mancini's Manchester City, the English Premier League champions of course, in large part because they were beaten 1-0 by Sevilla in La Liga at the weekend. They now sit eight points behind their nearest rivals Barcelona in La Liga. So Mourinho didn't go easy on his team. He has said we were bad in the first half, we were bad in the second. And he then went on to say he didn't have a team. Some people are saying it might be mind games, he's trying to give them a little bit of a kick up the backside, but the former Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon has said maybe the team think they haven't got a manager. So it should be an interesting one this week.", "Excellent stuff. If he hasn't got a team, what did he pay for in the last couple of seasons? I don't know.", "Lots of mind games being played there, I think. Amanda, good to have you with us. Amanda Davies out of CNN Center for you this evening. You're watching Connect the World here on CNN about 20 hours to go until the Champion's League. So stick around with us for that over the coming hours. Still to come tonight, though, as Fresh protests erupt over a film mocking Islam is it time for the United States to rethink its foreign policy on the Muslim world. That, a debate just ahead. And as William and Kate press charges, can this popular royal couple really expect any degree of privacy? We're going to talk about that. And meet the Kenyan activist who took on the world's biggest banks to stand up for the planet. All that coming up in the next half an hour and your headlines, of course, here on CNN."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "FRED PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON", "AMANDA DAVIES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORREPSONDENT", "ANDERSON", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-161887", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-2-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1102/09/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Coach Donates Kidney to Player", "utt": ["All right. Let's buckle up and go \"Cross Country.\" Here's some stories from all around the U.S. First stop, Houston, Texas. Consider this. Revenge of the pothole. City crew showed up to patch it from the roadway collapsed and swallowed their dump truck. Apparently a broken water main had undermined the road. Noblesville, Indiana, a sickly cat gets an x-ray and the images make the pet owner sick. Eighteen BB's lodged under the skin. A teen has been charged. That owner says that the cat is fine and will eventually have surgery. Last stop, Kilgore, Texas. A woman says she bit into a spoonful of ice cream and it bit right back. She says a broken razor was inside that frozen treat and cut the inside of her lip. Wal-Mart says it's launching an investigation. Well, so many stories about athletes and the focus on selfishness and greed, even crime. But this morning we're zoning in on a truly heart- warming story. That a college baseball coach donating a kidney so one of his freshman recruits can survive. Jason Carroll joins us from New York. Now, Jason, what a fabulous story. Take us through the string of events that actually led to this remarkable gift.", "Yes. It's incredible, Kyra. You know? And actually you know what the coach said about this whole thing, Kyra? He said it was a no-brainer. Imagine that. Giving your kidneys is a complete no-brainer. And he said he'd do again. You know, Kevin Jordan. Let's talk about him. He was actually selected by the New York Yankees in the amateur draft, but Jordan decided to play baseball for Wake Forrest University. Now that decision ultimately may have saved his life. Earlier this week, his coach Tom Walter donated one of his kidneys to Jordan. Both are now recovering at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Coach Walter is up and walking and made his first visit to his outfielder yesterday.", "I would do it again, a thousand times out of a thousand.", "A thousand times over a thousand. Well, a little over a year ago, Jordan was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that eventually led to kidney failure. The search was on for a donor, but none of Jordan's family members were a match.", "We tried about all of the people that we knew as donors, and coach came up a match. He came through, and his was a match. We're just thankful and happy.", "Jordan says he already feels a difference not having to be on dialysis. He'll need to be on medication to keep his new kidney functioning properly, but his doctors say that shouldn't stop the star athlete from competing again someday. Expectations are Jordan will resume playing in the 2012 season. Coach Walter plans to be back at work and in the dugout when Wake Forest plays its first game of the season against LSU next Friday. Both the coach and Jordan will be speaking at a press conference, that's going to be happening later today at a hospital. And also I have to tell you that Jordan's father, when he was asked about this whole thing, Kyra, you know what he called it? He said it must have been divine intervention.", "Aw. Well, what more do we know about Tom Walter and how this subject even came up and how he was approached and made this decision?", "Yes. Well, that's a good point. Walter, he's 42 years old and, basically, when this -- when he found out that his player was ill, he just said, you know, \"Well, look. If it turns out that he needs a kidney and things aren't working out, come talk to me, and I'll do a test for you.\" And so, that's exactly what happened. He ended up doing the test after, again, all of Jordan's family members turned out were not a match, and of all of the people out there, one of the people who turned out to be the match was his coach. His coach said, \"I'll do it,\" and it was just that simple.", "Pretty awesome story. And Jason, we're hearing that news conference is going to be at 11:30 Eastern Time. Are we going to hear from both of them, do we know?", "That is what we are hearing, that you are actually going to hear from both of them. And I think at that point you'll hear a little bit more about the recovery and how long Walter will be out. I think he said it might be about two months, and I think for Jordan, maybe six to eight weeks. It's going to be a process in terms of recovery, but I think you're going to hear more about how this whole thing sort of came about.", "Well, we're going to take it live in just a couple of hours. Jason, thanks so much. What a great story.", "All right. Yes.", "Well, a face-off in Florida involving a high school basketball player league. Well, rules, US law, immigration status. Krop High School will learn later today whether its basketball team is eligible to even play in the playoffs. That's because the Florida High School Athletic Association says that senior Brian Delancy didn't provide the right immigration papers. So now, public schools in the US aren't allowed to ask about a student's immigration status, but in Florida, students are required to submit this information to play on a sports team. If Delancy is declared ineligible, his team will have to forfeit the 19 games that it won this season. Picture this. You go to the pharmacy to pick up an antibiotic. You leave with someone else's prescription, one that actually threatens the life of the baby that you're carrying. Exactly what happened to this woman? Find out how you can stop it from happening to you."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TOM WALTER, BASEBALL COACH, WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY", "CARROLL", "KEVIN JORDAN, FRESHMAN, WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY", "CARROLL", "PHILLIPS", "CARROLL", "PHILLIPS", "CARROLL", "PHILLIPS", "CARROLL", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-188091", "program": "EARLY START WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD AND ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN", "date": "2012-6-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1206/20/es.01.html", "summary": "Mubarak in \"Critical Condition\"; Stopping Europe's Ripple Effects", "utt": ["Anger and confusion in Egypt. Protests overnight over the military's power grab in that country, and then conflicting reports about former President Hosni Mubarak's health.", "Change of course in the North Sea of a Russian ship thought to be carrying attack helicopters to Syria may have already turned around, and it is headed home.", "The Heat in the driver's seat of the NBA Finals. LeBron James now just one win away from his first championship. I'm very excited.", "LeBron James. The whole team, LeBron James.", "I know, but doesn't everyone just think LeBron James is the Heat? The Heat is on, folks. Good morning, everyone. Nice to have you with us on this very, very EARLY START. I'm Ashleigh Banfield.", "And I'm Zoraida Sambolin. We're bringing you the news from A to Z. It's 5:00 a.m. here in the East. Let's get --", "Yes, right?", "Yes, Ashleigh and Zoraida. It's 5:00 a.m. in the East. Let's started here.", "It never gets old, never gets old.", "All right. So, let's start with the developing news this morning out of Egypt about the health of former President Hosni Mubarak. We're getting conflicting reports about his actual condition. A state news agency is reporting the 84-year-old is clinically dead. But his lawyer says that he is in a coma. And the military says Mubarak's condition is critical. But that he is, indeed, still alive. All this confusion coming at a very critical time for Egypt. Thousands gathering overnight in Cairo's Tahrir Square to protest the military leaders who were supposed to oversee the transition to democracy. Instead, they are grabbing more power. Ivan Watson is live in Cairo. Ivan, what is the latest on Mubarak's condition?", "The latest is that his wife Suzanne, we're told, has been able to visit his bedside at the military prison that he was -- military hospital, rather, that he was transferred to. He appears to be on life support after suffering a heart attack, being revived, and also possibly suffering a stroke as well. We're not getting much more information, though. No press conferences, nothing like that. And some of the Egyptians I'm talking to are expressing frustration about that. They're saying, Jesus, this guy may be on the verge of dying and no doctor coming out to give us more information just as one statement that's been disputed from the official news agency of Egypt, MENA, saying he's clinically dead. A bit of frustration from Egyptians at the lack of information about their former president.", "So, do you think his death will have any impact there?", "You know, I'm sure that Egyptians will be fascinated and transfixed by images of a funeral of the man who governed their country for nearly 30 years. But I think that for the most part, they're very concerned about the hit the economy has taken over the past year and a half, about who's going to run this country next. I mean, this news of Mubarak suffering a health emergency is coming as the entire country waits to find out who won the presidential elections last weekend, and also amid concerns about where the country's going. It doesn't even have a constitution right now. And the parliament was just dissolved last week. So there's a constitutional and legislative vacuum right now while the country waits to find out who's the next president. They're not too worried right now about their former president who was ungraciously kicked out of power.", "So, let's talk about all of those protesters that showed up at Tahrir Square and what exactly it is that they are protesting and what it is that their expectation is.", "Well, for the most part, these people last night, and they were there until about 3:00 in the morning, thousands of them, were supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for president. His name is Mohammed Morsi. His camp has claimed victory in the election with 52 percent of the vote, even though his opponent, Hosni Mubarak's former handpicked prime minister, Ahmed Shafik, is also claiming victory. State media is reflecting Mohammed Morsi's numbers for a victory. These people were out there to celebrate what they think is their candidate's victory, but also to say no to military rule. Because it has been a power grab by the ruling military council in the past couple days, assuming wide ranging legislative and executive powers and also inserting itself in the process of writing a new constitution -- Zoraida.", "We see a repeat of the deadly clashes? Do you think that could potentially be the outcome here?", "I think there's concern about that, but also some of that energy, the street protests that have convulsed Egypt for more than a year and a half now, has dissipated some. A lot of those initial revolutionaries that we saw in January and February in Tahrir Square are deeply disillusioned and angry at the political process here -- angry at horse trading in the back rooms between the Muslim Brotherhood and the military, angry at the recent power grab by the military as well. And I think some of them have conceded that street protests are not the only answer to Egypt. But there is a lot of concern that the power grab by the military council is killing the revolutionary fervor and enthusiasm of a year and a half ago.", "Ivan Watson live in Cairo for us -- thank you very much. And coming up at 7:00 Eastern on \"STARTING POINT,\" former ambassador to Egypt, Daniel Kurtzer, will weigh in on the possible death of a dictator, whether democracy there is in danger as Ivan Watson was alluding, and what failure could mean for the United States.", "It's five minutes now past 5:00. And President Obama is back here in the U.S. and back in Washington this morning. This after the G-20 summit that was being held in Mexico. World leaders were meeting to discuss, what else, Europe's financial problems. The president said that he is confident Europe can get back on track with the U.S. economy and his election hopes in mind. Our foreign affairs correspondent Jill Dougherty has been following this summit. She joins me live now from Washington. So no big consensus. The president holding this news conference last night live on TV. And not with anything terrific to report in terms of how the leaders came out of this.", "Yes. I think that's pretty accurate, unfortunately, Ashleigh. Not a lot of specifics. They talked generalities. And essentially what they're saying is, you know, we're for European integration. That means some things that are good, namely, making a coordinated banking union. And also creating kind of an idea of creating an FDIC, the type we have here in the United States that's a guarantee for money you put into banks. But, overall they were saying, look, we're not going to spend to help our economies unless things really go south. Here's how President Obama explained it.", "What I've encouraged them to do is to lay out a framework for where they want to go in increasing European integration, in resolving the financial pressures that are on sovereign countries. Even if they can't achieve all of it in one fell swoop, I think if people have a sense of where they're going, that can provide confidence and break the fever.", "Break the fever. That sounds pretty serious. It really is, because, you know, Ashleigh, there are different philosophies in Europe. You know, Germany's pretty tough. Other countries want more spending. So at least you have an overall view, but not a lot of really nitty-gritty.", "Yes. And there's fame. And you know, you listen to Ali Velshi, Christine Romans talking about the weakest links in the chain and how that chain stretches across the Atlantic to us, that the press corps was tough on the president last night. And they pushed him on the situation in the United States, particularly jobs. Every one of us probably has some kind of a Spanish bond in our 401(k) in some way. But when it translates to this economy here and jobs here, what was his answer?", "Had to admit that there's a direct connection. You know, he was asked, would his election go down because of Europe? He didn't quite get there. But he did make that connection. Here's what he said.", "Slower growth in Europe means slower growth in American jobs. If we take the right policy steps, if we're doing the right thing, then the politics will follow. And my mind hasn't changed on that.", "You know, Ashleigh, really it's kind of the debate that's here, that's going on in Europe as well. Do you spend your way out of a big problem or do you get tough and look for austerity? And that debate is there. It's here. And we'll see how they -- how they move forward.", "The world is flat. We were all having the same exact debate. There's no right answer if you ask. Jill Dougherty, thank you. Good work.", "It is nine minutes past the hour. New information about a Russian ship reportedly carrying military helicopters to Syria. It appears to have turned back for home this morning. But another ship loaded with weapons may be on the way. British officials reporting the original ship has changed course after word of its controversial cargo made international headlines. Russian officials are not commenting. Pentagon officials have also told CNN that the Russians may be sending another ship carrying weapons, ammunition and a small number of Russian troops to Syria to help fortify its naval base there as the situation spirals out of control.", "CNN has learned that Jerry Sandusky is prepped and ready to go, ready to testify today in his child sex abuse trial. The defense is expected to rest its case this afternoon. But before that happens, the lawyers for the former Penn State assistant football coach have to make that big decision: do they or don't they put him on the stand? Closing arguments could be heard as early as tomorrow. The case then going to the jury shortly after that.", "Attorney General Eric Holder could find himself on the business end of a contempt of Congress citation today. A meeting between Holder and the House Oversight Committee, the chairman there, Darrell Issa, failed to resolve a dispute over the botched Fast and Furious sting operation. Issa says he asked for more documents related to Fast and Furious, which is linked to the death of a border patrol agent. But Holder did not deliver it. So they are going forward with the planned contempt vote.", "And this just in. Gas prices falling overnight -- don't you just love hearing that over and over again? This time a big fall, too. A full cent. Right now, the national average for a gallon of unleaded regular, $3.49. It marks the eighth consecutive decrease. There were a whole bunch of decreases before that. We just had one increase split up the chunk. So, the average is down about 63 cents. More than 15 percent from the high record in July '08, which was $4.11. So, that ain't half bad.", "Normally this time of year we're talking about much more expensive. She claims she was groped at an airport check point. Coming up, how one woman's idea of turning the tables on the TSA gets her in big trouble with the law."], "speaker": ["ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, CNN HOST", "ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN, CNN HOST", "BANFIELD", "SAMBOLIN", "BANFIELD", "SAMBOLIN", "BANFIELD", "SAMBOLIN", "BANFIELD", "SAMBOLIN", "IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SAMBOLIN", "WATSON", "SAMBOLIN", "WATSON", "COSTELLO", "WATSON", "SAMBOLIN", "BANFIELD", "JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "DOUGHERTY", "BANFIELD", "DOUGHERTY", "OBAMA", "DOUGHERTY", "BANFIELD", "SAMBOLIN", "BANFIELD", "SAMBOLIN", "BANFIELD", "SAMBOLIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-274763", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-01-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/25/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Refugees Respond to Cologne New Year's Eve Attacks; World Food Program App Turns Spare Change into Life-Saving Meals", "utt": ["I'm Errol Barnett. Hoping your day or evening is going well. Here is an update on the top stories we are following for you right now.", "Now Thai and Malaysian officials looking into a large piece of metal debris that washed ashore off the coast of Thailand. A fisherman found it Friday in the Pak Phanang District. The debris hasn't been identified yet but some officials say it could be from missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 while others say it doesn't even look like it is from a plane. Our Saima Mohsin explains.", "The team and I have just arrived in Pak Phanang. It is dark. We want to give you a first look at the debris that washed ashore. It was floating close to the shore. Local fishermen brought it in. Let me give you a closer look at this. Now, there is wiring. If we follow it, all the way around, you can just see how large this piece is. We think it is roughly around three meters wide, at least 2.5 meters tall, taller at the other end. Kind of look a conical shape, less wide at the bottom than at the top. I want to show you these. These are incredibly important. They're barnacles. Now, these are obviously growing from the scene. Now when I covered the discovery of the flapperon that we now know to have belonged from the plane, thousand of miles away on Reunion Island, oceanic experts told me they can give a lot of information, how long has the piece been in the water, and potentially where exactly in the ocean, does it come from or has it been to. Now, what else are they looking for? They're looking for numbers. We haven't seen serial numbers. There are a number of different numbers on this 323. Let me bring you down here. 307, 308. There are circular pieces. A lot of nuts and bolts. These are also important. Let me bring you down here and show you these rivets. Now, experts tell me that rivets are used on a Boeing 777, the same aircraft as MH- 370, but only inside of the frame, not on the external side of the fuselage. Now, some experts are debating whether this even belongs to another type of aircraft. Many are saying it could well be from a rocket. But that, of course, is for experts to determine. The director general of the Civil Aviation Authority in Malaysia tells me he is sending a team of four people here. They will travel down to southern Thailand at first light, joined by air accident investigators from the Thai Civil Aviation Authorities and air investigators from the Royal Thai Air Force. Of course, it is incredibly important not to speculate. The family members of the -- and the loved ones of those on board flight MH-370 -- 239 people went missing two years ago, eighth of March 2014 -- won't want ambiguity. They want certainty. It will be a long night of waiting for them. Saima Mohsin, CNN, Pak Phanang, on the eastern coast of Southern Thailand.", "In the wake of the massive influx of migrants and refugees into Europe, European ministers are set to meet Monday to consider emergency measures that would extend border patrols. In the past year, Germany has become home to more than a million asylum seekers, but as our Atika Shubert is about to show us, attacks on women in Cologne has deepened fears of a backlash.", "Police have described what happened at the Cologne train station on New Year's Eve as a new dimension of crime by a mob of North African men.", "German federal police used an Arabic term. He says, \"This is a new phenomenon for Germany and we're very concerned about this. We know this phenomenon from Egypt, mass sexual assault happening in large crowds,\" he says. \"It is not a game, and anybody who commit assaults like this must be arrested and brought to police regardless, anyone, whether German nationals or refugees.\" This is exactly what Mustafa Caretta (ph), a 48-year-old Syrian refugee, had feared would happen. \"Some people were waiting for something like this to happen,\" he tells us. \"Something that puts refugees in a bad light. But we will do our best to prove to others that most refugees are not bad.\" Mustafa (ph) and his family were among the one million asylum seekers who came to Germany in the last year. Initially, Germany publicly welcomed refugees, but national polls now show Germans dissatisfied with Chancellor Angela Merkel's policies. 70 percent now believe more crime is coming. Nabela Hamdi (ph), a Kurdish refugee, introduced us to Mustafa (ph) and his family to understand how the New Year's Eve assaults and backlash will impact refugees. Mustafa's (ph) son-in-law believes the assaults were less about culture and more about the disrespect of the law and order brought with them. \"There is no law in places like Syria,\" he says. \"Some who came to Germany grew up like this and do not want to know anything in this new place, but refugees must realize that there are laws in Germany and must abide by the laws. Everybody has rights here but also responsibilities.\" The assaults have galvanized anti-immigration groups. Attack on refugees and migrants have also increased, but Mustafa's (ph) son, Yusuf (ph), is not afraid. \"I'm not afraid, definitely not,\" he says. \"Because the people I met within the last four months I've seen in Germany were good people, full of respect.\" Small groups of refugees have come to leave messages and lay flowers at the Cologne train station, but even Hamdi (ph), the refugee coordinator, admits it will take time. \"I'm a very positive person,\" he says. \"I think we have reduced peoples' prejudices against refugees. But I can understand people who feel, well, if you invite someone to your home, offer to take care of them and then this person betrays you, what is natural to be sad and very disappointed.\" Time to rebuild trust between residents and refugees who are here to stay.\" Atika Shubert, CNN, Cologne.", "You will want to stay tuned all week. CNN is bringing Europe's migrant crisis into sharp focus. As you know, for months, we have been following the paths of thousand of people, many fleeing war in Syria. At first, countries like Austria extended a warm welcome. But a harsh winter finds attitudes cooling, and we are seeing evidence of a backlash. Next hour, Arwa Damon will report on a controversial vote in Denmark. That measure could result in officials seizing some refugee's possessions to offset the cost of caring for them. We'll follow the debate in Norway where deportations are a contentious issue and you'll hear from Syrian refugees in Jordan languishing in limbo. That's a focus on Europe's migrant crisis today and all this week only on CNN International. Syria's civil war has created a desperate humanitarian situation with hundreds of thousands at risk of starving to death. Earlier this month, the United Nations said it received credible reports of people dying of starvation in places like Madaya. The Syrian government has since allowed aid convoys into media, and two other towns. But refugees have a new hope. The World Food Program is supporting an app that gives you a chance to help as well. Watch.", "I want to start with good news. We, all of us, are ending global hunger. Not so good news, one in nine people don't have enough to eat. My name is Sebastian Stricker, and I am part of the team that created Share the Meal to address this problem. We've built a smart phone app, Share the Meal, to fight global hunger. Think of the situation, you are having dinner, lunch, with your smart phone with you and you may be reading the news or e-mails. Now there is a button. If you press that, you share your meal.", "Pretty straight forward there. Joining me to talk about the Share the Meal app is the man you just saw, CEO Sebastian Stricker, joining us live from London. Sebastian, thank you for your time today and joining us. Since last year, when we first interviewed you, Share the Meal successfully fed Syrian refugee children at one camp in Jordan. Now I understand, based on the success, you'll replicate the effort for expectant new mothers in Syria. There are additional challenges, whether an ongoing civil war. What have you learned the first time around? How are you planning on making this effort work this time around?", "Yes, first of all, thank you very much for having me again. When we spoke the last time, about two months ago, we just started providing food to 20,000 Syrian children in refugee champs in north of Jordan. Since then so many people joined the community, they downloaded the app, Google Play, at the store. Shared so many meals, we are able to provide food to all the children for a year. We are moving on, to help in another place in Syria. We are targeting, pregnant women and their babies and are providing vital nutrition for them. We again hope the Share the Meal community helps them to provide them with the food that they need for a year again.", "People will see this and think a no brainer. Those who want to do something to help those in need, but they might be suspicious. What do you say to those watching and they may feel skeptical that 50 cents, I understand is the average people could pay, the 50 cents person would pay would really make a difference. How do you convince people that it gets to the people in need? Explain how a 50 cent click become is a meal for someone?", "Yeah, absolutely. I think we are all touched, your audience, and our team in Berlin and Munich and Rome, we are touched by pictures, videos, we see on CNN of the children starving, most recently in the context of Madaya. I think a couple straight forward points, in regards to effectiveness and efficiency, the United Nations food program has administrative overhead of 10 percent. 90 percent of the funds that people provide actually go into the operations to feed and provide food to the beneficiaries we are trying to target. In regards to 50 cents, or 40 Euro cents, respective currency where the users are, it is important to understand this is obviously an average. Some cases it will be a bit more expensive. In other cases it will be cheaper. Some people are suffering from severe hunger. Others are suffering from maybe not as severe, moderate hunger. But it is the total. It also includes the monitoring. We need to make sure that the food reaches the Beneficiaries and has intended affect. And, what I think is important, the app never touches the money but then goes to the United Nations World Food Program, which then organizes the distribution through these control mechanisms.", "Before you launched this app, you worked in various capacity with the World Food Program. I'm wondering how much challenge it was to get a large, national behemoth, that is the U.N.'s World Food Program, to innovate like this, because it takes a lot of coordination on many different levels.", "Every year, hunger is decreasing. Fewer and fewer are suffering from hunger within the United Nations system. There is this group of people that are very much thinking about how we can accelerate the progress. The United Nations World Food Program has an innovation division and an innovation accelerator in Munich. That's what the people are thinking about and how to accelerate the progress of reducing hunger, how to end hunger until 2030, which is our big goal. And I think the United Nations has very much understood that we need to innovate. And I believe personally that they're doing an amazing job. And I believe there will be amazing things coming out of this innovation division but also the innovation accelerator in Munich.", "It is that belief that has you working hard and so many people downloading Share the Meal app. Folks, head to SharetheMeal.org or head to the app store or various devices. Appreciate you coming in, speaking to us, CEO, Sebastian Stricker. Best of luck. Thank you for your time. Still to come for you on CNN NEWSROOM, days before the caucuses, Bernie Sanders fights claims of inexperience as Hillary Clinton appeals for support. You will hear from both of them next. And launching a music career with social media and word of mouth. Details on that coming up."], "speaker": ["BARNETT", "BARNETT", "SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BARNETT", "ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SHUBERT", "BARNETT", "SEBASTIAN STRICKER, CEO, SHARE THE MEAL", "BARNETT", "STRICKER", "BARNETT", "STRICKER", "BARNETT", "STRICKER", "BARNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-142375", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-8-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/31/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Treasury Sees Returns on TARP Money", "utt": ["Well, it's almost 20 minutes past the hour right now. Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. We have with us Christine Romans. She's minding your business this morning.", "Good morning.", "One of the things we always talk about is how much money the bailout cost us, how much money it cost the federal government. Could we be actually profiting from bailing out some of the companies?", "There are dividends and interest payments that are going into the federal coffers right now into the treasury that are the interest on the investment the American taxpayers made into a bunch of these banks. That's indeed the case. Remember a year ago? Just rewind a second a year ago. It was in October when TARP was passed, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and many, many people saying give us our money back. We do not want our money going into the financial institutions. We do not want the government to become a banker. We just don't like it. Well now, you are starting to see some money going back into the federal coffers from this. By the Treasury's own estimates here, $7.2 billion in dividends has been paid, $208 million in interest. And we look at the \"The New York Times,\" a nice pull out of all of this -- bailout profits from Goldman Sachs, $1.4 billion has gone back to the Treasury from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, $1.3 billion, American Express, $414 million. And remember that the big banks returned some $68.3 billion of their bailout money. So some of the banks, they took the money, now they have given it back with interest and dividends. And we're also watching, you know, investments in Bank of America, Citigroup, AIG, those, the stock investments are doing better. But let me just be clear, however. We could still, all of the dividends and interest we've made so far could be wiped out by one of these big ones going under. So there's still a lot of risk. But there is some money coming back to the treasury.", "The other fascinating thing, though, is that, it's interesting, you said at the beginning of this that not every bank wanted a bailout, not every back needed a bailout.", "No.", "So was it a shake down in a way? Like I said, they were made to take the money and pay it back with interest. They didn't want it in the first place.", "When we look at the documents prepared for that meeting in Washington last year when the big banks were summoned with Treasure Secretary, then Henry Paulson, and you read the documents, of my goodness, the banks were sort of summoned and given a little permission slip and said, here, sign this permission slip. We're giving you money. You are taking it no matter what. So in another way, people hated the banks for taking this money. Some of them were very happy to give it back and wanted to quite quickly. The small banks have paid back about $35 million, not quite as much. But there's money going back. I want to be clear here. The banking system still -- we have some issues. The FDIC is taking over banks pretty much every week now. But there is money coming back to Treasury.", "That's a good thing.", "We'll take it. Keep it coming. It is our money.", "Thanks, Christine.", "Sure.", "Still ahead, we're going to be talking to Carol Costello. All of us remember prepping for the SATs, stressing out, fingers sweating, number two pencils breaking right and left. Anyway, maybe now it's optional for kids. Well, Carol Costello kicking off our weeklong series \"Educating America.\" It's 22 minutes past the hour."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "CHETRY", "ROMANS", "CHETRY", "ROMANS", "CHETRY", "ROMANS", "ROBERTS", "ROMANS", "CHETRY", "ROMANS", "CHETRY"]}
{"id": "CNN-395811", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2020-03-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/22/sitroom.03.html", "summary": "Interview With Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE)", "utt": ["Right now the U.S. Senate is coming to order up on Capitol Hill hashing out what appears to be a $2 trillion stimulus package. Joining us now Senator Chris Coons -- a Democrat from Delaware who's involved in all of these the negotiations. Senator -- thanks very much for joining us. I want to get your latest information on all of that, but first your colleague Republican Senator Rand Paul, he's now the first U.S. senator to test positive for coronavirus. What's your reaction to this and what are you doing to stay safe? Because I know you take that train between -- that Amtrak between Delaware and D.C. all the time.", "Well, Wolf -- as I took the Amtrak train down here this morning, there was literally one passenger per car. There were only six passengers on an entire train. So I did take the precaution of wiping down with a Clorox wipe every surface before I touched it, but I frankly felt fairly safe about that travel. And I do think an important part of this large stimulus bill we're going to take up is support for Amtrak and for other commuter rail systems that have seen their ridership drop swiftly. Wolf -- we've been working hard all weekend. Mostly on a bipartisan basis. And I'll remind you the last two bills that came through, the first one was $8 billion, the second $100 billion were done quickly and in a positive spirit between the House and Senate.", "This one's run into some real speed bumps. We're supposed to take a procedural vote at 3:00, and most of us still haven't seen any language of the final bill. The piece of it I've worked hardest on is small business lending. And that's actually done very well. There's been broad agreement between the Republicans and Democrats who have led negotiations on that part of the bill, which could put as much as $350 billion in quick, short- term help for both for-profit and nonprofit businesses that employ fewer than 500 people. I'm optimistic about that part. But what I understand about the bill as a whole, there are still big problems. Not enough support for the front line public health workers in states and counties. The nurses and orderlies, the paramedics and the physicians who are providing so much assistance through our public health systems, in particular hospitals that are often run by county governments. There's not enough in this for child care, for example, or for other support for workers who are going to be displaced, or have already been displaced. We're going to see record unemployment filings in the next couple of weeks and folks need to know that we here in the federal government are putting down the tools of partisan bickering and picking up the tools of national purpose and delivering the resources to allow great governors like Governor Cuomo who just spoke to partner with federal agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers and get solutions built quickly. We have seen things this difficult before in the Great Depression, in the Second World War. And the United States mobilized like no other country and tackled and solved those great problems. This is the challenge of our generation and we need to show here in the Senate that we can do it, but that means moving past some of the really unfortunate partisan bickering that's dominated the last day. Frankly, we in the Democratic caucus, haven't even seen the final bill text and we're supposed to vote in 40 minutes. I hope we can move past this. And I hope we can together make a real difference for our country in the next 36 hours.", "Yes. Well, I suspect that vote is not going to happen in the next 40 minutes. There's a lot of work obviously that still needs to be done to reassure the Democrats and the Republicans -- make sure all you guys are on the same page. You've got to find --", "That's right.", "-- a compromise. Might not be perfect but you've got to do something because there are millions of Americans very, very soon are going to be suffering big time and they're going to rely on the federal government, the Congress, the executive branch to get some things done. Let me get back to this notion of what's happening on Capitol Hill as you're all meeting. What's being done to ensure that other senators, Rand Paul now testing positive for coronavirus, and staffers are not infected as you continue this critically important work?", "Well, our caucus is conducting its conversation about this bill remotely. We're all calling in to a conference call that's going on right now. As you can imagine, a conference call is a fairly frustrating way to try and get 40 or 50 people to talk at the same time. It requires some real facilitation and we don't have the videoconferencing capabilities fully up to speed yet that I expect we'll be relying on. We all have access to the Senate physician's office. I assume that's how Senator Paul got tested, although I don't know that. And it is concerning that we have two House members and one senator already testing positive. Over the last few days, most of us have had most of our staff, working remotely. So there's virtually no one here in the capitol, except for key and sort of critical senior staff. But the folks who've been working all weekend on the appropriations negotiations and on some of the details of this bill and leadership staff -- they are all still here. So this is a secure place now. There isn't the general public coming in and out. It is being cleaned regularly by the tremendous, capable staff here who work in the capitol. But we have to remember how much our country is asking of those folks who are cleaning buildings, those Amtrak cars we just talked about. All over this country we've got hourly wage workers who often don't have protections, don't have health care that we're trying to make sure in this bill that the values that we show in terms of the relief we're going to provide to Americans all over the country take into account those folks who are often working multiple jobs and doing the risky work of cleaning and sanitizing our public spaces, our hospitals, and our key facilities going forward.", "Yes. We are grateful to them indeed. And in many cases they're risking their lives in doing that. Senator -- thanks so much for what you're doing. Thanks to all your colleagues up on Capitol Hill. As I keep saying, the stakes are enormous. Everyone is relying on this economic stimulus package to save people out there because there are millions of Americans are pretty soon going to be broke. They're out of work. They're going to need some cash and the federal government's going to have to come through and help. Thanks so much for joining us.", "Thank you -- Wolf.", "All right. There's a surge in cases and deaths sending shock waves through Europe right now as well. Spain is now one of the most impacted countries in the world. We're going live to Madrid when we come back."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "SEN. CHRIS COONS (D-DE)", "COONS", "BLITZER", "COONS", "BLITZER", "COONS", "BLITZER", "COONS", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-204161", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2013-4-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/01/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Qantas-Emirates Alliance; Bigger Things for Dubai", "utt": ["When the deal was announced between Emirates and Qantas, it was a game-changer for long-haul flights, not only from Australia, but it set a template that of course everybody knew the alliances and the way global airlines operated would not be the same again. Emirates and Qantas have now completed their alliance, which has come into force.", "They celebrated the deal with a spectacular double flyover over the Sydney Harbor, past the Opera House, two A380s flying in formation for the first time. The deal means Emirates and Qantas will together run more than 100 flights a week between Australia and Dubai. And of course, Dubai becomes the new hub for Qantas. It will open up Emirates routes to Europe and the Middle East to Qantas passengers. I want you to join me at the CNN super screen and you will see exactly what I mean. Now, traditionally, Emirates -- sorry, Qantas from Sydney, Melbourne, would run just to a few places, their own planes, only a few places in Europe. Now, they will run their own planes to London from Melbourne and Sydney and to Frankfurt. But if I show you what this means, Qantas only used to have a few, basically, tentacles into Europe. Now, it is completely different. Look at that. The -- follow my finger. It goes from Australia up to Dubai, where they connect to Emirates, and then out to the rest of Europe. And you can tell just by looking at all the routes that are Emirates- run. Copenhagen, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Glasgow, and there's all these routes will be run by Emirates over Dubai. For Qantas, which of course had a failing Qantas International model, it was an extremely important deal. Now, Emirates deal, of course, opens up new destinations, and as the president of Emirates, Tim Clark, told us, it's more than just a simple alliance. He sat down with John Defterios in Dubai and he said the deal was, frankly, when you look at it, a bit like these two planes: like no other.", "It's the first of the type of partnership -- this type of partnership, which is to the scale that it is. We have never gone into a -- another carrier's territory, so to speak, and effectively, worked with them to handle a large proportion of their international operations as we have done with Qantas. It was a very, very neat fit. It's a game change in one because of that. Two, here we have an existing alliance player, in this case, Qantas with One World -- joining with a non-alliance affiliated airline -- of course, Emirates, and that's the way we always have been -- to produce something which is probably in many respects more meaningful and likely to produce better results for, perhaps, Qantas' bottom line than perhaps the alliance partnership would be.", "I think it's fair to say that Emirates is kind of anti-alliance, but you have this partnership. Is this a model for partnerships? It almost seems obvious to look at Far East Asia to feed through Dubai and head west.", "Will this be a template for the future? My own view, yes it probably will.", "But for Emirates?", "For Emirates, if we see an opportunity, and we believe there is -- these have got to be judged by both carriers as being mutually advantageous. So, if there is anything like this we look at in the future, it'll be on those grounds.", "Qantas has suggested this is going to add almost $100 million to their bottom line per annum, and their European bookings have gone up sixfold. What sort of calculations have you made for helping Emirates' bottom line? You've made over a half a billion dollars in your first six months?", "We would not have entered into it, as I said earlier, had we not done the math to suggest that we were going to improve what we do and, importantly, in our measurement of we thought Qantas would be able to gain from this -- remember, we are not, up until we got full approval from the competition authorities, particularly in Australia, we weren't even allowed to talk pricing or maths or any kind of that. But our assessment, we thought that it would add value to what they were doing. Now, if they're saying it's $100 million, OK, fine. That's up to them to say that, and I respect what they're saying. I'd like to think we could do a bit more than that eventually.", "Over your shoulder we have Dubai International. It had over 56 million passengers in 2012. Heathrow had 70, which puts it number one in terms of international traffic. Realistically, with this sort of partnership, could you top out and surpass Heathrow in the next two to three years?", "We've just gone past Paris, and that's a reality that we will eventually get to and beyond, Heathrow. It's not a design. It is what we are doing. Would Dubai become a major international hub that is the gateway to the East from the West, I think that's already happening, measurably so. So, the European markets, the African markets, the Middle East and North African markets, are now looking at Dubai as one of the primary focal points, fulcrums, for travel between the East and the West, and the North and the South. It's something that we've been saying we would do as an airline, and more recently, Dubai realized how potent that was as a sort of a push, impetus, for Dubai as a major aviation hub, not just regionally, but globally. So, you see that now.", "You took your 200th plane in the last week, and almost 200 on the back order. Many thought that was too ambitious and didn't know where Emirates was going.", "We have said we will be at 250 aircraft, we'll be 260 aircraft. They will all be wide-bodies, and we have been fairly up front with the aspirations of where we see the airline going. And it's no secret. I think it worries a few people, continues to worry the very people who challenged us on our ability to grow the airline into the markets that we said we would grow them with the aircraft that we have. But there we are. That's reality now.", "Tim Clark talking to John Defterios. Just out of interest, they have 31 -- Emirates has 31 A380s, going up, of course, to more than 90 -- 91 by the time they've taken their full limit onboard. Dubai is now the world's second-busiest airport for international passengers. You heard them talking about it overtaking Charles de Gaulle. For some analysis, our correspondent John Defterios told me, the Emirates deal could mean even bigger things.", "As you know, Emirates doesn't like to have alliances. In fact, Tim Clark was suggesting he doesn't like the big broad alliances, but he likes partnerships. You can drill down bilaterally with the different airlines right now. So, we have different strategies, one that's coming out of Abu Dhabi, you have the case with Qatar -- with Qatar Airways going into One World. And then, you see Emirates going one-to-one with this partner, with Qantas, and perhaps taking this model elsewhere. Richard, I think this is a gravitational pull from London, with Heathrow, going into Dubai from Singapore and Southeast Asia, going into Dubai, here. It moves them up to number two in January in February already in the international traffic numbers for international airports. And they think -- and Richard, they're sticking by this -- they think by 2015, they're going to surpass Heathrow with this growth of 13 percent a year in the traffic numbers that are going through Dubai already, and that is before Qantas.", "Tonight's Currency Conundrum: before the euro was introduced, Turkey's currency had the same name as which other European currency? Was it from Italy, Greece, or Cyprus? The answer later in the program for you. The yen's gaining 1 percent against the dollar, following the tankan survey. The euro and sterling are also rising. Those are the rates -- look at that, $1.52 on cable --", "-- this is the break."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "QUEST", "TIM CLARK, PRESIDENT, EMIRATES", "JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR", "CLARK", "DEFTERIOS", "CLARK", "DEFTERIOS", "CLARK", "DEFTERIOS", "CLARK", "DEFTERIOS", "CLARK", "QUEST", "DEFTERIOS", "QUEST", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-376315", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-07-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/31/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Winners and Losers of Democratic Debate; Biden, Harris Prepare for Second Debate.", "utt": ["We're back, special live coverage here in Detroit. I'm Brooke Baldwin. It is awesome to be sitting here this afternoon. And I guess you could call it the calm before the Democratic debate storm, with 10 candidates all getting ready for this high-profile high-stakes night, a night that for some could be the beginning of the end of their 2020 hopes. For others, it will just be the latest step in a contest that is pitting pragmatists vs. progressives in the most diverse field in U.S. presidential history. At the center of this whole thing, a rematch between former Vice President Joe Biden and California Senator Kamala Harris, whose clash over busing and segregation at the last debate down in Miami led to a bump in the polls for the California senator and a promise from Joe Biden that, tonight, the gloves are coming off. So, let's begin inside the Fox Theatre. That is where we find CNN's Ana Cabrera. And, Ana, you seeing anyone in there right now?", "Actually, right now, we're in that in-between-candidates moment, Brooke. In fact, we have seen six candidates come through so far, four more left to go. A lot of these candidates are taking anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes, depending on their comfort level, in this debate space. They're getting a sense of where they will be behind the podium, again, where they need to look, where their family members may be out there in the audience, where the cameras are, and just getting a little bit more comfortable in the space ahead of tonight's debate, going over last-minute logistics. Mayor Bill de Blasio just left. We're expecting Julian Castro to walk onto the stage any moment now, perhaps while I'm talking to you. Of course, he's the mayor, former mayor of San Antonio, the former HUD secretary. And talking to his campaign, we're told they have been watching game tape leading up to tonight's debate to prepare. When I asked if they're planning to go on the attack, I'm told no, but he will be prepared to defend his own ideas, especially on immigration. That was a winning issue for him last time around. In fact, I'm told he had his four best fund-raising days of the campaign following the last round of debates. They're hoping tonight's debate leads to a boost in the polls. And, as you mentioned, it's a very diverse field tonight. Also on stage, we will see Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang, Tulsi Gabbard, not just diversity when it comes to ethnic diversity, but a lot of these candidates also have their signature issues. And you will recall, last night, we saw a robust policy debate. So, as Julian Castro may want to focus on immigration, you have Governor Jay Inslee, who's made his campaign all about climate change. You have somebody like Tulsi Gabbard, who is a military veteran, who is very versed in foreign policy ideas. You have Andrew Yang, who has his Freedom Dividend plan, that he wants to give every American adult $1,000 a month. So expect a robust policy debate again tonight. And keep in mind it could be make or break for a lot of these candidates. Most of these candidates on stage tonight have not qualified for the next round of debates. In fact, only three of tonight's candidates have qualified, with three just shy. So, Brooke, the stakes are very high.", "You mentioned Julian Castro. I think he's next up to bat to check out his podium position and then hang out inside the Fox Theatre. So we will keep close eyes on him, as I know you will as well. Ana Cabrera, thank you very much. With me now, the A-team, as it were, Luis Gutierrez, former Democratic congressman from the great state of Illinois, Angela Rye, three days in a row with me, I think, yes, the former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, Maria Cardona, Democratic strategist, and Andrew Gillum, the former Democratic candidate for Florida governor. All four are CNN political commentators, so welcome, welcome.", "Ladies first.", "What are you watching for tonight?", "I am watching for not just the square-offs. So, last night, it was about Bernie Sanders vs. Elizabeth Warren. And tonight we're setting it up as Biden's clapping back at Kamala Harris. I think that we would be so remiss if we continue to forget about Cory Booker on the stage, and also Julian Castro. What I think is amazing and what I'm honestly the most excited about tonight is, this stage looks like America. This stage looks like what...", "What did you call night?", "White night. Yes, last night was white night.", "But this night -- tonight looks like America and it also looks like what the Democratic Party is supposed to be and regularly uses as a talking point. It's a big tent. It's a big tent on ideas. It's a big tent on geographic diversity, on ethnic diversity, and on women. The women-to-men ratio is not too bad.", "How about you, Maria?", "I think -- I agree with Angela. Tonight, it's going to be a plethora of diversity in our party, which I think is fantastic. It reflects what actually America looks like. But I'm watching for something else. We have seen the tension that was reported last night between the moderates vs. the progressives and whether the party is going too far left to really speak to the center of voters of America. But here's I think our fundamental problem in the Democratic Party, what I'm hoping the Democratic candidates will do tonight. We offer up a plethora of policies that speak to our brains, that speak to our common sense, that speak to our logic. Republicans offer up policies, whether their own or ours, to speak to our fears. And I think that's why last night Marianne Williamson got so much play, because she is speaking on the...", "On the reparation, race issue, yes.", "Yes, and racism and the dark psychic forces of Donald Trump. I mean, seriously, she's speaking to a sliver of our psyche that I don't think any of our candidates have really gotten to yet.", "She's coming up here in just a little bit. So, we will ask her about it.", "Hang tight. Hang tight. Mr. Mayor.", "Yes. No, I mean, picking up from where you left off, I said earlier today that it felt like she was sort of ministering to us, not in a religious sense, but really as a nation, sort of a reminder of what we want to get back to, what we ought to be trying to get back to, as just civil discourse and civil dialogue, right?", "We going to see that tonight?", "Well, I mean, first of all, I keep hearing Biden's taking the gloves. I don't need him to take the gloves off. I just want him to be a fierce defender of his record. I want him to be an unapologetic advocate for what he wants to do for the American people. And I think that's what the viewers want to see. We don't want to see a mash-up. I don't want to see them throwing blows necessarily against each other. But you got to be accountable for your record. And he's not the only one on this stage tonight that will have to be held to account for their record. If you are Kamala Harris, if you are -- Castro did a great job down in Miami, basically raising his profile by taking a swing on an issue.", "He did.", "And so, tonight, I expect that the candidates who are a little lesser known, the ones that haven't seemed to have caught fire yet, they're going to have to make a stand, because, if they don't, this could actually be the last time you find them on a national stage in this race.", "Congressman, what are you looking for?", "I think, so everybody's trying to consolidate a base, because got to get to the second round of the base, right, and they got to get up to 2 percent. And I think Julian Castro -- and, in all fairness, he's never been a very ethnocentric Latino kind of spokesperson, right? That's not been what he's been known for. He picked up on the issue of immigration in a very intelligent way and in a very precise way that really put his other counterpart from Texas -- because we got two Texans.", "Beto O'Rourke.", "And I said -- I think, at the end of the debate, he said, I want to make sure you're a lot more O'Rourke and a lot less Beto when this debate is over.", "And he did it very skillfully.", "He did. He did.", "And let's face it. Booker and Harris, they have got to fight with Biden, because Biden's leading among African-Americans. And just so that we're clear, even among Latinos, I mean, Julian Castro sees that Harris is ahead of him among Latinos. All these things are good, because it demonstrates that people aren't just voting the color of their skin or their ethnicity or the language, because that's our party.", "Lastly, I would say that one of the things I think that was really missing about our analysis of yesterday's debate is women. Right? Let's remember that women were what allowed the Democratic Party to take back the House of Representatives, to take back the governorship. It was the march, more than a million women organizing. And so I don't fret about the divisions in our party and this debate, because, in the end, the women that started this revolution and this resistance against Donald Trump are going to keep us all together.", "Really quickly, and then we will go to break, and we will talk to you guys again. But quickly on your point about the clap-back, and I hear you saying Biden doesn't need to take the gloves off or whatever. But when and if he does clap back specifically to Senator Harris, how does he do so effectively, just given the optics of the situation?", "Not only does he have optics and dealing with a black woman who is strong and can stand on her own as a former prosecutor, so you might not want to go up against her, in case you missed any Senate hearings during her questioning.", "Yes.", "But the other thing that he has against him is another part of his record that is a dark moment that -- where Anita Hill didn't really accept his apology, what that says to black women who have stood behind Anita Hill for decades and still do. So he's got to be very careful. I do not envy his advisers right now. But, hopefully, Brooke, at least he's listening to his black advisers right now.", "I want to keep this conversation rolling along. Stay with me. More to discuss, including the party divide over whether to provide health care to undocumented immigrants, right? This is a huge topic that came up last night. Plus, Google says -- you guys mentioned this -- she was the most searched candidate on that debate stage last night. Is that a good thing? Is that a not great thing? I don't know. Marianne Williamson is here live to talk reparations, Oprah and how to beat President Trump. Also ahead, a preview of tonight's possible round two between Biden and Harris. A supporter from each campaign joins me live to hash it out. You are watching special live coverage here in beautiful Detroit, Michigan. We will be right back."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST", "ANA CABRERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "ANGELA RYE, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BALDWIN", "RYE", "RYE", "BALDWIN", "MARIA CARDONA, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BALDWIN", "CARDONA", "BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "ANDREW GILLUM, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BALDWIN", "GILLUM", "BALDWIN", "GILLUM", "BALDWIN", "LUIS GUTIERREZ, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BALDWIN", "GUTIERREZ", "GUTIERREZ", "BALDWIN", "GUTIERREZ", "GUTIERREZ", "BALDWIN", "RYE", "BALDWIN", "RYE", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-70441", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-5-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/06/lad.10.html", "summary": "Killer Tornadoes Roar Through Midwest, Tennessee", "utt": ["Our focus this morning is on those killer tornadoes that roared through the Midwest and Tennessee. The damage to property is now being totaled up. You already know the death toll, 38, seven in Kansas, 17 in Missouri and 14 in Tennessee. In Gladstone, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City, the storm left a wide path of debris from homes in its wake. Authorities say 200 homes are damaged, many of them considered total losses. In Jackson, Tennessee, more than 60,000 people were still without power last night. Hundred have been forced to remain in shelters just because so many homes are damaged or destroyed. Eleven of Tennessee's 14 deaths were in Jackson. The governor of Kansas has declared disasters or emergencies in several counties. Curfews now in effect in several communities in Kansas and the other states hit by the storm. Is it over or is more severe weather on the way? Let's check in with Arch Kennedy now -- good morning, Arch.", "Well, no, it's not over, Carol. In fact, a new tornado warning floor Lawrence County and Tennessee this morning. We are continuing to see severe weather and we're going to have another pretty big outbreak, I think, as we get through the afternoon. It's going to be a little farther west, and we'll show you that in just a moment. But right now, here's where it's at. Here's where it's happening. We're looking at the Deep South from the Carolinas through northern Georgia, parts of Tennessee. And along with this severe weather, we are also dealing with flash flooding. We have numerous flash flood watches throughout parts of Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas for today. Now, we do have another severe weather outbreak possible a little later on through the afternoon, a little farther west, and we'll show you just where that is and what we can expect across the country, Carol, in just a few.", "All right, thank you, Arch. We appreciate it. People living in communities flattened by the weekend killer tornadoes are far, are faced, rather, with the monumental task of rebuilding. Some people lost everything except the clothes on their backs. Reporter Lynn Kowano of our affiliate station KCTV shows us how the Red Cross is helping out.", "And sandwiches we've got still in here and those have been going great.", "Sherrie McQuitty's family flocks to the Red Cross delivery truck, hoping for a hot meal.", "Pizza.", "You guys are prepared, huh?", "There you go.", "... put into cups.", "I want Gator Ade.", "Her four kids haven't eaten much since their home blew apart.", "We don't want to be greedy, but we've got a lot of people.", "We don't have nothing. We don't have clothes. We have nothing.", "Just in this one area of Kansas City, Kansas, Roansurnich (ph), about 23 homes gone, leveled. But residents didn't want to leave their stuff. They stayed here because they were afraid of looters. (voice-over): Many residents are now living in tents.", "You'll see a pop up tent.", "Red Cross volunteers are finding these people first, the hardest hit.", "They have brought food in, real good about it.", "Do you guys need gloves, first aid kits?", "Basic needs for a community where the only thing still standing is the spirit.", "Because it's old glory. We made it, you know? We made it so...", "Seven deaths blamed on the tornadoes in Kansas. Another 50 people were hurt. For a complete update on the tornadoes, log onto our Web site at cnn.com/weather."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "ARCH KENNEDY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "LYNN KOWANO, KCTV CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "KOWANO", "SHERRIE MCQUITTY, RESIDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KOWANO (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KOWANO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KOWANO", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-310082", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-04-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/16/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Deaths from Attack on Syrian Evacuation Buses", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. I'm Cyril Vanier in Atlanta.", "And I'm Ivan Watson in Hong Kong. A recap now of the breaking news that we're following out of North Korea. A missile launch from the country's east coast has failed. The U.S. says it blew up shortly after takeoff. Meanwhile U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has arrived in Seoul. He's been briefed on the situation and he's set to meet with U.S. and South Korean troops.", "A short time ago I spoke to foreign policy analyst Robin Wright, she's a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and The Woodrow Wilson International Center. I asked her what Washington needs to do next in order to deal with Pyongyang.", "At this juncture, the United States really has to deal increasingly --", "-- with China as the interlocutor with the North Koreans. President Trump has repeatedly said that the Chinese are the ones who need to take the critical steps. He's tweeted that he's had great confidence that President Xi, after their talks in Mar-a-lago, was beginning to take the right steps. He pointed out again in a tweet that the Chinese had turned back a fleet of coal ships from North Korea. But this clearly is not enough to change the thinking, the dynamics in North Korea and we have clearly not seen the last test by the North Koreans, arguably even the next few days.", "So it looks like everybody agrees that the only leverage here could come from China. But China doesn't seem to be really using it. And yet it has -- it's facing a U.S. president, who has said, use your leverage or we will go it alone. So what more can the U.S. president say to China for them to use their leverage? If anything?", "I'm not sure that the United States has that much more leverage. This is a tough decision for Beijing. It has to balance its fears of a unified Korean Peninsula that's more friendly with United States against its own leverage, its own relationship with Pyongyang. And so it has to figure out a way that its interests are preserved and that it doesn't lose that important strategic asset on its border. But what more will it be willing to do? This is very interesting that, just days after the meeting between President Xi and President Trump, the Chinese released their trade figures with North Korea that showed that they were up 40 percent this year over last year at the same time. So you know, it's tough, seeing what Washington's leverage is. It's always been the key problem. It relies on China. And what incentive there is for China to do a whole lot more, I think the unpredictability of President Trump may have led to some deeper thinking in Beijing. But clearly not enough to make a difference in Kim Jong-un's thinking right now.", "All right, let's turn to other world news now. As they were on their way to safety, at least 100 people were killed. That happened near Aleppo, Syria's second largest city. A blast targeted buses evacuating Shiite villages, who backed President Bashar al-Assad. That was under a deal that also allowed the relocation of rebel supporters from other besieged areas. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh has the latest on this.", "Dozens of bodies recovered from this scene, absolute carnage, pictures posted on social media, Syrian state television, very hard to see, frankly. People torn apart in their seats on these buses. They had hoped perhaps this was a journey on the way to a moment of respite. I'll give you a context as to why these evacuation buses were quite so important. The ones attacked were leaving two towns north of Syria, Foua and Kefraya. Now these are full of regime sympathizers but were in a rebel-held province of Idlib and besieged, had been for months, years. Also in the south of the country were towns full of rebel sympathizers, Madaya and Zabadani. But they were besieged by the regime. So the U.N. brokered a kind of swap, if you like, allowing a simultaneous evacuation of these two towns that were regime-loyal in the north, Foua, Kefraya, while rebel sympathizing towns in the south, Zabadani and Madaya, were also being evacuated. But it was those who were leaving Foua and Kefraya, the regime-loyal town, that came under attack today. We don't know precisely whose territory they were in when this blast hit. But we think it was a car bomb and it does appear to be that the evacuation still continued after this tragic, horrifying episode. In the past, buses from Foua and Kefraya headed there have come under attack from people who clearly were extremists. It wasn't quite clear which group they were affiliated with but nothing like the scale of the devastation today. This, of course, has many worried in rebel sympathizing areas of some sort of regime reprisal as a result of it but still eyes focused very much on the terrifying toll on civilians in those buses. As I say, dozens of people of the 3,000 who were leaving Foua and Kefraya, losing their life from this car bomb as they felt they were on their way to safety. These towns had suffered from besieging, starvation, lack of medical supplies for months. These swaps, some say, will alleviate that suffering but, at the same time, do potentially change the demographic ethnic map of Syria permanently, taking regime sympathizers away from rebel areas entirely, they're often here with rebel areas often Sunni, Syria still seeing absolute savagery on both sides now as this war limps into its seventh year -- Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Irbil --", "-- Northern Iraq.", "Let's take a look at Turkey now, where the polls are open in a referendum on constitutional changes that could produce a seismic shift in the way the country is governed. We're going to go to our Ian Lee, who is now in Istanbul. Ian, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been either prime minister or president of the country ever since 2002, he's arguably the most powerful leader Turkey has seen since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish republic. So what is the argument that his supporters use for trying to further expand Erdogan's powers now with this referendum?", "Ivan, a lot of the things that we've been hearing about really revolve around the economy. That's one thing that Turkey has seen really revived over the past decade, becoming one of the top 20 economies in the world. People are seeing their standards of living rising. Parts of the country that have been connected to the main cities, seeing new infrastructure. So that's one thing that we've seen over the past 10 years. And today's referendum is quite historic. There are 18 new changes proposed to the constitution. It comes down to a simple yes-and-no vote for the Turks. Polls have been open for about two hours now. They're going to be open for about seven more. And, really, we will see a -- this fundamental -- what this constitutional referendum is calling for is of that fundamental shift, going from a parliamentary system, shifting towards a presidential system.", "All right. That's Ian Lee, live from Istanbul, watching this historic referendum with vast potential changes for the Turkish constitution. Thank you, Ian. Now I'm going to pass on to Cyril, who is at our CNN headquarters in Atlanta. Go ahead. Cyril.", "I was just admiring Ian's haircut. You know, he went to that same barber that President Erdogan goes to. We saw that report yesterday. Looking good. All right. Stay with us on the show. Still ahead after the break, our breaking news coverage of North Korea's failed missile test continues. CNN's Will Ripley is one of the few Western journalists inside the country. He'll be joining us from Pyongyang after this.", "Plus how residents of South Korea feel about the growing threat from their neighbor to the north. Stay with CNN."], "speaker": ["VANIER", "WATSON", "VANIER", "ROBIN WRIGHT, WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER", "WRIGHT", "VANIER", "WRIGHT", "VANIER", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SR. INTL. CORRESPONDENT", "WALSH", "WATSON", "IAN LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WATSON", "WATSON", "WATSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-97688", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2005-9-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/15/lol.01.html", "summary": "Iraq's President Asks U.N. for Help", "utt": ["The bloodbath continues in Iraq. Fresh attacks in Baghdad today, adding to the carnage of more than a dozen suicide and car bombings across the country in the last 48 hours. But as Iraq labors to give birth to a national constitution, a U.S. military spokesman calls the spike in insurgent violence predictable. CNN's Jennifer Eccleston joins us live from Baghdad where officials are urging ballots, not bullets, over constitutional discontent -- Jennifer.", "That's right, Fredricka. Well, U.S. and Iraqi forces have been warning of an increase in insurgent violence in the run-up to next month's referendum on that constitution, an effort to create an unstable environment whereby Iraqis are too afraid to vote. Well, the insurgents didn't disappoint: 30 deaths and 55 injuries this Thursday from insurgent attacks. While yesterday's victims were mainly civilians, members of Baghdad's Shiite community, today's target, Iraqi security forces. Three separate suicide car bombs against the Iraqi elite police commandos, two strikes within minutes of each other and another three hours earlier. Twenty police died, two dozen wounded. Ten others died this Thursday after insurgents targeted government workers in Iraq's Shiite community. And there were funerals for some of the victims of Wednesday's multiple suicide attacks today, where over 150 people were killed. Now, Fredricka, these attacks demonstrate just how easily insurgents can stage coordinated attacks, despite a series of high- profile, anti-insurgency military operations like the one in Tal Afar, where the Iraqis are the lead force. That operation and others are designed to show that Iraqi military and police are now better equipped to secure at least pockets of Iraq. But the insurgents response to that: they can strike at will, not only in remote area, but in the capital city and, in the process, terrorizing Iraqis and reinforcing fears whether or not their military and police can actually keep them safe -- Fredricka.", "And so it would seem that it would go without saying that this type of intimidation is likely to be successful. Many people are going to be apprehensive about the elections, the permanent -- for permanent political officials at the beginning of the year.", "Well, absolutely. At the forefront of most people's minds here, I think across even the sectarian divide is whether or not there's a safe and stable environment whereby they can go out and vote in that referendum, whether they can vote down or actually approve it, which would lead the way for elections in December for a full-term government. Given the violence that we've seen over the last two days, and these have been mainly in the media because they were tremendous attacks, large numbers of casualties. But throughout the last couple of weeks while I've been here there have been a number of attacks every day, daily attacks here in the capital, Baghdad, but across the country. So it is something they live with on a daily basis. But, indeed, when they do see that they are being targeted and specifically the Shiite community, there is greater fear that this can only increase as there is this run-up to this referendum.", "All right. Jennifer Eccleston, thanks so much, from Baghdad. Meanwhile, the fight for Iraq loses support in Chicago. In a 29- 9 vote, the Chicago City Council called for an immediate and orderly pullout of U.S. troops. Chicago is now the nation's largest city to seek withdrawal, joining San Francisco, 50 communities in Vermont, and others. But the session was not without drama. A 71-year-old alderman fainted after giving an impassioned speech opposing the move. James Balcer, who served in Vietnam, says he was demoralized by the anti-war sentiment at home. Now to the U.N. and an impassioned plea from Iraq's acting president, Jalal Talabani. He says Iraq need the world's help in defeating terrorists. CNN's Richard Roth joins us with more on that and on a significant moment for the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, as well -- Richard.", "It's not the greatest timing for the first appearance as president for Jalal Talabani, the leader of Iraq, before the U.N. General Assembly. Talabani appealed for, quote, \"diverse international assistance\" to stop terrorists from destroying his country.", "They target Iraqi individuals and have declared a war of annihilation against citizens. Hence, it targets every ambition of development.", "Talabani, from the Kurdish region, certainly will need the United Nations at some point. But right now, the nations who sat in front of him inside the General Assembly hall, they're not ready to commit those troops. Later today, this morning, on the same stage, Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, who is going to be looking to the Palestinians now to do something, since he has pulled out of Gaza. You're looking at Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan, now speaking inside the assembly hall. So a big moment for Israel's leader, though I wouldn't expect to have too much extra applause for him. There's still a lot of opposition to Israel in this 191-member General Assembly. Though Israel's foreign minister did meet with his counterpart from Qatar, that Arab nation giving indications that more countries could come out in the region to establish better ties with Israel following the Gaza pullout -- Fredricka.", "All right. Richard Roth at the U.N., thanks so much. Tracking Hurricane Ophelia: the slow moving storm pounding the North Carolina coast. More details on that straight ahead.", "They are not taking any chances. The looters still out there are said to be heavily armed, having stolen guns and other weapons from several ammunition stores.", "CNN's Jeff Koinange with SWAT teams patrolling the streets of New Orleans.", "You're watching LIVE FROM on CNN, the most trusted name in news."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "JENNIFER ECCLESTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "ECCLESTON", "WHITFIELD", "RICHARD ROTH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PRESIDENT JALAL TALABANI, IRAQI (through translator)", "ROTH", "WHITFIELD", "JEFF KOINANGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "WHITFIELD", "ANNOUNCER"]}
{"id": "CNN-26073", "program": "Breaking News", "date": "2001-2-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/20/bn.24.html", "summary": "FBI Spy Case: Damage Believed Grave to U.S. National Security", "utt": ["We're apparently learning, Lou, about the spy case of the arrest of the 27-year veteran of the FBI, Robert Hanssen. CNN's Jeanne Meserve is in our Washington newsroom with more about that -- Jeanne.", "Natalie, Louis Freeh didn't quantify the damage done by Robert Hanssen, who allegedly was spying for the Soviets and the Russians for 15 years. But privately, some assessments are being made. And national correspondent David Ensor has some information on that -- David.", "Jeanne, I've been talking to a former senior law enforcement official who is well acquainted with this case, has been following it before leaving his job. And he said that it's an extremely grave amount of damage to the national security of the United States. He called it an extremely serious case. He said this marks -- this ranks with some of the worst cases in U.S. history. He said that the case of Aldrich Ames is still number one. That Aldrich Ames still did more damage, in his view, than this man. But when the full assessment is done, this could be the second worse spy case in U.S. history. He said that the largest question, Jeanne, is: How did he avoid detection for 15 or more years? How did he avoid revealing that he was at least involved in something suspicious? He was taking polygraphs all the time. There are financial asset checks that are done. There are various other -- very rigorous steps taken to make sure that people in jobs like the one he had were not doing this kind of thing. How did he evade that? They're going to have to do a full investigation.", "Do your sources believe that money was the sole motivating factor?", "No. I have talked to a former counterintelligence official at the FBI, who told me he does not believe money was the only motivation. This man was a very, very clever person with some ego this. And this official said he believes it was partly just because he could do it and wanted to show how clever he was.", "David Ensor, thank you very much. We will continue to track the story. Now, back to you in Atlanta.", "All right, Jeanne, David, thanks."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DAVID ENSOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MESERVE", "ENSOR", "MESERVE", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-209670", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2013-6-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/27/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Barack Obama Visits Slave Outpost Goree Island", "utt": ["Well, a federal grand jury in the United States has indicted Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzohkar Tsarnaev. The 30 counts involve his alleged role in using weapons of mass destruction. Now the double bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April killed three people and injured more than 260 others.", "His alleged conduct forever changed lives. The victims, their families and this community have shown extraordinary strength and resilience in the face of this senseless violence.", "Meantime, U.S. President Barack Obama has kicked off his African tour in Senegal. The president visited a former slave trade post on Goree Island, calling it a powerful reminder to keep human rights in focus. He earlier met with Senegal's president. Vladimir Duthiers has been following President Obama. He joins us live now from Daka. So what's the narrative from the U.S. president?", "Well, Becky, the president spent today meeting with leaders of the judiciary, again stressing the importance of the rule of law across Africa, but specifically in Senegal -- one of the reasons he chose to come to Senegal is Senegal is one of the few countries in Africa that has never suffered a coup. He pointed to the Senegalese way of government as a model of success across the continent. He stressed how important the rule of law was by meeting with the judiciary. He spent some time at a press conference, a joint press conference with President Macky Sall of Senegal where he answered on a wide range of issues ranging from the treatment of homosexuals in Africa and in Senegal to questions regarding the fugitive Edward Snowden. So pretty jam packed day for the president, but I would say the most emotional part of his visit today came when he visited Goree Island. This was an island just a few miles off the coast of Dakar that was a strategic trading post used during the Atlantic slave trade. Thousands of men, women and children were taken to this island and held captive on the island for many, many months. The president and the first family took a visit to the island and visited what is called a slave house. This is -- and a structure that still exists today where these tiny rooms where -- there was one room that's literally just 12 feet across where they would stuff 20 human beings in those rooms where they waited for months at a time before being shipped off to a life of unimaginable horrible, Becky.", "Vladimir Duthiers on the trip. While in Senegal, Mr. Obama addressed matters a little closer to home. He said he won't be making deals with foreign governments to capture self- avowed NSA leader Edward Snowden. He added that he won't be taking any extraordinary measures.", "I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker.", "Well, meanwhile a top official in Ecuador says her government never granted a refugee travel document to Edward Snowden and it has not dealt with a request for his asylum. Senior international correspondent Matthew Chance is in the capital Quito and he joins us live. This sort of gets murkier and murkier, doesn't it at this point?", "Yeah, it does. And I think that one of the reasons why Edward Snowden, perhaps, hasn't turned up here as expected in Quito, the Ecuadorian capital, is that it has emerged now that he doesn't have the kind of travel documents that it was previously believed he did have. Obviously the United States has revoked his U.S. passport. It was believed because WikiLeaks said so, that the Ecuadorian government had given him a refugee document that would have enabled him to move out of Moscow and go on to Quito to claim refugee status. But the Ecuadorian authorities here, and we've spoken to a number of officials earlier on here today, categorically denying that, saying that they have not authorized any issuing of a refugee document to Edward Snowden. They understand there is a document that's been put out there, but they say that was not authorized by the central government here in Quito. And that the person who -- and they haven't named that person -- but the person who issued it will be responsible for it themselves. And so they're extremely angry it seems that this document has been circulated. And again, they're saying they haven't given any kind of travel documents to this wanted fugitive.", "The latest on what seems to be this story of chasing shadows around the world. Matthew Chance in Quito for you this evening. Family friends and fans have paid tribute to the Sopranos star James Gandolfini. He had his funeral in New York today. A service held at a Manhattan church a week after the 51-year-old actor died of a heart attack while in Italy. Hollywood celebrities and past members of the show turned out to pay their final respects to him. Venezuelan authorities have announced they found the remains of a crashed plane that carried Italian fashion boss Vittorio Missoni. The plane went missing six months ago during a journey from Los Roques Archipelago Resort to an international airport just outside Caracas. Now the plane was carrying Missoni, his wife and four others. Officials said they found the plane underwater just north of the Los Roques islands. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd faces his first full day back in office ousting his long-time rival Julia Gillard. Mr. Rudd was sworn in at a ceremony in Canberra earlier today. A day earlier than that, he defeated Ms. Gillard in a leadership vote within Australia's ruling Labor Party. Three years ago, Ms. Gillard forced him out of the top job. Live from London, this is Connect the World. It's 21 minutes past 9:00 here. I'm Becky Anderson for you. Coming up, a royal bonus. We'll have details on Queen Elizabeth's pay rise. And...", "I studied four years for really nothing, because at the end I'm going to be working in a cafeteria or, I don't know, it's like, there's no point. I've lost four years.", "The lost generation, how slow economic growth leaves millions of young Europeans out of jobs."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "CARMEN ORTIZ, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY", "LU STOUT", "VLADIMIR DUTHIERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON", "OBAMA", "ANDERSON", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-22893", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2001-1-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/02/ee.07.html", "summary": "Transition of Power: Bush Expected to Name More Cabinet Picks Today", "utt": ["Turning now to the Bush transition, the president-elect may make another announcement today on his latest choices for top administration posts. CNN national correspondent Tony Clark is in Austin, Texas with that story. Good morning, Tony.", "Hi, Kyra. You know, the president-elect has set this week as his self- imposed deadline for naming all of his top Cabinet posts. That could happen as early as today. He's scheduled a 3:00 Eastern press conference. Aides won't say what the nature of that press conference is, but it's at the Driscoll Hotel here in Austin. That's the same form he used earlier to announce Cabinet positions. So that is a definite possibility. The president-elect still has three Cabinet positions available that have not been announced. They are the secretary of energy, the secretary of labor and the secretary of transportation. He also has two other key positions in his administration to fill, positions that were once held, ironically, by his father: U.N. ambassador and director of the CIA. One other note that increases the possibility that today could be the announcement of some of those Cabinet positions: Vice President-elect Dick Cheney is in town. He and the president-elect will have lunch together over at the governor's mansion before going to the Driscoll Hotel for today's press conference -- Kyra.", "Tony, I understand Bush is going to hold an economic summit this week. What can you tell us about that?", "Wednesday and Thursday, two-day economic briefings and meetings over at the governor's Mansion. Paul O'Neill, his designated secretary of the Treasury; Don Evans, his designated secretary of commerce to host them. On Wednesday, it's going to be business leaders from around the country talking about the economy, the possibility of a recession and what to do about it. On Thursday, he's going to host about 20 or so high-tech leaders. They're going to be talking about education, business, high tech, and the influence of that on the economy. And so those important issues. What the president-elect has indicated is that he wants to hear from as many diverse areas, about as many topics as he can. He's held other briefings before. This one, because the economy is such an important question right now, he wants to hear reviews from around the country -- Kyra.", "Understandably. Tony Clark, thank you very much."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "TONY CLARK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "CLARK", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-232196", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2014-6-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/07/ndaysat.02.html", "summary": "An American Dream Slipping Away?", "utt": ["Well, guess what? The economy hit a key milestone this week. We have, apparently, erased the number of recession era job losses and added even more on top of it.", "Yes. We learned on Friday that 217,000 jobs were added last month and the unemployment rate held steady at 6.3 percent.", "Here is the thing. Despite those numbers, the state of the economy for a lot of Americans say it just doesn't feel solid, like it's on solid ground yet.", "A new CNN poll found that for Americans who do not think the economy is in recovery yet, nearly a third of them think it will take more than five years to get there.", "Yes, and sadly, that goes to show just how out of reach the American dream feels for so many families. CNN's Alexandra Field has a look at that.", "From Los Angeles.", "My name is Ann Marie Chapman. I am 20 years old. I am a full-time mom and part-time student.", "To Phoenix --", "My name is Kave Valerie. I am 13 years old and I'm in eighth grade.", "To Atlanta.", "My name is Andy Shelly. I'm 50 years old. I work for United Parcel Service.", "Wherever you live, whoever you are, it's what meant to define us, however, we define it. The American dream.", "The American dream? It means that we go towards a better life and we'll be able to achieve more than other countries.", "I guess the American dream is, if there's something that you really want, you're able to go get it.", "Successfully raise a family. No debt. So yes. I've reached the American dream. Am I rich? No. But I have peace of mind.", "Peace of mind that more Americans today can't seem to find.", "Guns and violence.", "Job security, crime, becoming a statistic.", "Some reasons are growing numbers that say the dream is slipping away. A CNN Money American dream poll finds about six out of 10 Americans believe it's out of reach. The numbers are more alarming among Millennials. They were badly battered by the economic downturn. More than half say the dream can't be attained. And if the next generation was always meant to be better than the last, 63 percent of people surveyed don't buy it. They now believe children will be worse off than their parents.", "It's not something that people can always achieve. It's not something most people can achieve, I don't think, in their life. It's too hard. It's crazy.", "I am most definitely afraid for this next generation because money is already tight with the government at my age, for me. That the population is only growing. You know?", "Uncertainty fueling fear that the dream might not be reality.", "For right now, I believe that I could be able to achieve better than my parents. But then for the time being, we don't know.", "In the future, with the circumstances that we're in currently, it doesn't look like that's a thing achievable for most.", "Alexandra Field, CNN, New York.", "You know, I am -- I want to know from you. And we were talking about it.", "We were just talking about this.", "What, for you, is the definition of the American dream?", "Does it have to be financial?", "Yes. Is it an economic dream always?", "I don't know. I mean, maybe it's just living in freedom. I don't know. But we want to hear from you. Tweet us and let us know what the American dream is and if you think it's slipping away. You can catch, by the way, the debut of Christine Romans' new show today at 2:00 p.m. Eastern. She's going to be talking about this. \"CNN MONEY\", taking a look at the American dream and why so many people feel that it's just not obtainable. That's today, 2:00 p.m. right here on", "Here is a dream. A Triple Crown winner.", "Isn't it the truth?", "California Chrome makes a run at the history books today. Will this horse be the one that finally breaks this 36-year dry spell?", "Plus Hillary Clinton putting some distance between herself and the president apparently. Could a 2014 book release hold answers for a possible 2016 presidential run and then some?"], "speaker": ["PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ANN MARIE CHAPMAN, LOS ANGELES RESIDENT", "FIELD", "KAVE VALERIE, PHOENIX RESIDENT", "FIELD", "ANDY SHELLY, ATLANTA RESIDENT", "FIELD", "VALERIE", "CLAY TURNER, ATLANTA RESIDENT", "SHELLY", "FIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SHELLY", "FIELD", "JAKE AHLQUIST, NEW YORK RESIDENT", "CHAPMAN", "FIELD", "VALERIE", "AHLQUIST", "FIELD", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "CNN. BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-109469", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2006-8-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/18/lt.01.html", "summary": "Flight Diverted to Italy Upon Discovery of Threat Note; A Look at the Background of John Mark Karr", "utt": ["Let's get an update on a few stories we're following right now. First, Fred, the British passenger plane.", "Yes, an unscheduled landing for a British passenger plane in Southern Italy. The plane that had left Gatwick in London was en route to Egypt when something happened on board, inspiring the pilot to make this landing there in Southern Italy. And now police are on the scene there, the plane has been evacuated. All passengers are now off the plane. Police are investigating whether there is any credence to the initial report of a bomb scare on board. And then, Daryn, here stateside in Florida, just north of Tampa, you're looking at the result of a collision between a school bus with 31 kids on board and a passenger vehicle. We're told that nine minor injuries are being reported from that collision. We don't know how it happened, but we do know that it happened just outside an elementary school there in Spring Hill, Florida -- Daryn.", "All right, Fred, thank you. Back to the JonBenet Ramsey case. Here is what we know right here at the half hour. More questions about the stunning admissions by suspect John Mark Karr. Autopsy information appears to contradict some of Karr's statements. Karr's brother tells an Atlanta TV station the family will provide information today, information showing the allegations against him they say are ridiculous. And the \"Rocky Mountain News\" says it has portions of the e-mail between Karr and a Colorado professor. One included a poem by Karr which is entitled \"JonBenet, My Love.\" In 2000 and 2001, John Karr worked at an elementary school in Petaluma, California, and was arrested on child pornography charges. CNN's Dan Simon has been digging into Karr's background.", "Controlling and child obsessed, just a few of the accusations leveled at John Karr by his former wife, a woman he married 17 years ago when she was 16, he was 24. CNN obtained these court documents from their 2001 divorce. In a sworn declaration, Karr's wife Lara said he was booted from a substitute teaching job in the late 90s. The reason, she claims one school told him, quote, \"He has a tendency to be too affectionate with children.\" That didn't stop Karr from getting another substitute teaching job a few years later, here in Northern California.", "So, everything checked out on this guy?", "Absolutely.", "Charles Wong was the head of one of the school districts where Karr occasionally filled in for absent teachers, and says he saw no reason to raise a red flag.", "No one goes into a classroom, comes on a campus, until they've been cleared on both counts, on the professional qualification credentialing side, background, criminal check, fingerprint. That side has to be cleared.", "This young Alabama woman, a former girl scout, remembers him when he was her neighbor.", "He never striked me as anything -- like I wasn't comfortable. He's never, of course -- never invited me into his house, had like coffee or tea or anything, but he was just a great guy.", "Karr's teaching days in California ended in 2001, when he got arrested for possessing child pornography. Sheriff's deputies busted him for allegedly having pictures of children engaging in sexual conduct on his computer. Karr pleaded not guilty and was freed on bail, but according to California authorities, he skipped town and never stood trial. He may have fled the country, but Karr's ex-wife obtained a restraining order against him that prevented him from getting within a hundred feet of her and their three sons. Even so, Karr's ex may be able to provide an alibi. She told a San Francisco television station that they were together in Alabama during the Christmas holidays in 1996, when JonBenet was murdered.", "She sincerely believes that there was no Christmas -- any time between approximately 1989, when they were married and the year 2000 -- when her husband was not with her and her family at Christmastime. She has no recollection of him ever being away.", "The attorney for Karr's ex-wife has instructed his client to dig through the photo albums to see if there are any pictures in 1996 that would show that they were not in Colorado at the time of JonBenet's murder. Dan Simon, CNN, Petaluma, California.", "And you can catch more of Dan's reporting on \"PAULA ZAHN NOW,\" weeknights at 8:00 Eastern. A milestone in the Middle East. Here is what we know right now. Lebanese troops have reached the southern border with Israel for the first time in decades. The area had been a stronghold for Hezbollah. The troops are part of a U.N.-approved peacekeeping force. The U.N. is urging more countries to step up and contribute troops. With plans for peace, the grim numbers of war. Lebanese officials now say that more than 1,000 people were killed in the 34- day conflict. Israel puts its death toll at 159. CNN's Anthony Mills is in the Lebanese capital. He's in Beirut today and tells us the latest from there. Anthony, hello.", "Hello there, Daryn. The deployment of the Lebanese army forces has been progressing rapidly now. Thousands of those troops have gone beyond the Litani River into the south of the country, where they're going to be taking over that territory from Hezbollah, in conjunction with an international United Nations force. Other Lebanese troops have been landing at the port city of Tyre, in the south of the country, and they have been greeted by Lebanese, jubilant at the arrival of these Lebanese forces, with the apparent belief that they are bringing stability. That's a region that has seen a lot of violence, not just in the course of this conflict, but also for a number of years since Israel withdrew in May 2000. However, the scenes down there are not only scenes of jubilation. At the same time in Qana, a funeral, a mass funeral. We've been seeing pictures here. We see pictures of that funeral in Qana. Twenty-nine people were killed in this conflict when an Israeli airstrike hit a building housing refugees. A number of children among the dead. So on this day when there is jubilation in the south at the arrival of those Lebanese army troops, there is also grief. People still dealing -- still trying to overcome the death of loved ones in the course of this conflict.", "Anthony Mills, live from Beirut, thank you. And now I want to go back to our breaking news story about this British passenger plane that was making its way from the U.K. to Egypt, but was diverted and had to land in Southern Italy. Fred has the latest on that.", "Right, and Daryn, we're now learning that the Air Force, the Italian Air Force, sent an F-16 to intercept that 767 British passenger plane, which was en route from London. It was on its way to Egypt, but instead there was a forced landing that had to take place there in Southern Italy, in Brindisi. Once the plane was on the ground, all the passengers were evacuated. The plane was met with Italian police there. They are investigating initial reports that there was a bomb scare onboard. Interviews are being conducted obviously with the pilots and the crew onboard. We're not hearing anything, however, about the condition of the passengers, or whether anyone has been taken into custody, but they're still investigating whether there's any credence to this bomb scare onboard. But obviously serious enough to force this plane to be diverted to Southern Italy as it was on its way to Egypt to make that landing take place, and have all the authorities there to meet that plane when it was able to get on the ground -- Daryn.", "And, Fred, while you were giving us the latest there able to hear what is happening on the international desk. And they're saying the very latest is apparently very early details about what the disturbance was, that there was some kind of disturbing note that was passed from passenger to passenger through the cabin up to the pilot, and that that note clearly had some kind of information that disturbed the pilot and caused him to go ahead and land there in Southern Italy.", "Well, certainly some quick thinking taking place there. And by the way, this plane, this British passenger plane, is part of like a low-cost airline fleet that people take. It is called Excel. This plane started out at Gatwick London Airport. And of course when we get any more information about all the passengers who may have been onboard and what you're telling us now, Daryn, about the note being passed onboard, and investigating whether there was anything to that and anything seriously to glean from what took place there today.", "Well, and, I mean, let's talk about the week that this happened. Yes. With the news coming out of the U.K. and alleged airline plot about flights that were going to be coming from the U.K. here to the U.S. and people having to give up their liquids, and then just even what we saw happen here on Wednesday, with the plane that was diverted. Yes, the plane that was supposed to go from London to Washington,", "And especially in the U.K., where restrictions on screening have been heightened. They are a lot more strict there than anywhere else, even though those planes that we're talking about, where there was a spoiled attempt, those planes were on the way from London on the way to the States. Well, British authorities have not reduced or in any way kind of relaxed at all on their security measures. They're still at its highest ever, and so everyone, every airplane going in and out of the U.K. are being watched very seriously. And so if there was indeed this note that was passed around, whether it be very benign or otherwise, these authorities are taking it very seriously there throughout Europe.", "Now when you say Southern Italy, as we look at the map, Brindisi, the heel of the boot. Doesn't get more southern than that. That was probably the last chance to land in Italy. If that was of any significance or air-traffic controllers just decided, you know what, we need to get this thing down, we need to get it down quickly. You were saying that the air force had an f-16 escorting the plane?", "Right, the Italian air force sent an f-16. We understand it to be one F-16 that escorted this plane and forced this unscheduled landing. The landing did of course take place, as far as we know, successfully. We're not hearing of any kind of reported injuries to any of the persons onboard that plane. And of course the authorities met that plane, evacuated that plane. We still don't know how many passengers were on. But it was a 767, so a rather sizable passenger jet plane.", "We have our Rome bureau chief, Rome bureau correspondent Alessio Vinci. He's on the phone, and he can tell us more about what he knows -- Alessio.", "Hi. Well, what we do know is what Italian agencies and television reports. That is that this the Boeing 767 of the low-cost carrier Excel was en route from London Gatwick Airport to Huhrgada in Egypt -- that's a resort in Egypt -- when the pilot made a request for an emergency landing at the Brindisi Airport. That's a fairly large town in southeastern Italy, apparently because of a suspected bomb onboard. We do understand the plane is currently on the tarmac, and that all passengers have already deplaned, and that the necessary and obligatory security checks are under way. There are some reports that a note was found written in the back of one of the sickness bags that was passed through the cabin on to the pilot. That note apparently saying that there was a bomb onboard. The pilot at this point making the decision to land at the nearest airport. That airport, again, in Brindisi in southeastern Italy. We do understand, of course, that the Italian Air Force was immediately mobilized. We understand that at least one air force, perhaps two Air Force jets were sent to intercept the plane. We do not know whether indeed those jets did intercept the plane before it landed at the Brindisi Airport. But what we do know is that the plane is now on the ground. There are no longer passengers or crew members onboard of the plane. But this plane has now been searched, or at least the personnel in charge of searching will certainly momentarily begin going through the plane to make sure that there is no bomb onboard.", "Do you know if anybody is in custody at this time, Alessio?", "No, we don't have that report at this time. All we know is that this note was found, according to Italian news agencies, and that all the passengers have been taken off the plane. There are no reports of arrests, and there are no other reports regarding whether this is indeed a hoax, or whether in fact that there was some kind of a explosive device or something that could have threatened the safety of the passengers onboard was found.", "What more can you tell us about this town of Brindisi?", "Well, it's a fairly large town in the southern tip of Italy. We do know that all airports in Italy are part of a wider upgraded, if you want, security, operation over the past few days, especially since the failed plot in London. The Italian interior minister a few days ago said that the Italians remained -- the Italian officials in charge of security, not just at airports, but all sensitive places in this country are keeping an eye and remain vigilant. One would imagine that the Brindisi, being a fairly large town in Southern Italy, is equipped with the kind of security and first-aid personnel that is required of these kind of airports in case should an emergency arise. I am not familiar with the kind of anti- terrorism squad that would be ready available at the airport itself. The largest city near Brindisi is Barey (ph), the capital of the region there. We imagine that that -- those forces would be deployed momentarily, but certainly what we do understand is that people in charge of the antiterrorism squad, and people in charge of this kind of emergencies are being mobilized and are already making the necessary checks in order to make sure that the plane is safe.", "Alessio, stay with me here a second. I just want to recap for people who are just joining us. We're following a story out of the U.K., and Italy and Egypt. An Excel Airways Boeing 767 requested an emergency landing today. It was going from London to Egypt, but somebody passed a note forward on a sick bag, saying that there could be a bomb onboard. So the pilot made the decision to land the plane there in Brindisi, in the southern part of Italy. Alessio, what is the mood? You were talking about this a little bit. But if you could expand on this. The mood has been in Italy with airports and with travel? Over this last week we have followed of course quite a bit out of what was happening in the U.K. and then here in the U.S., but has Italy been on high alert as well?", "Yes, just like any other European country, they have been on alert. I have actually taken several planes over the last few days since the failed plot in London, and I can tell you that security remains extremely high at all airports in Italy, not just international airports here in Rome and in Milan, but at all airports. It does take longer to go through security checks, even at regional airports. I was in a town not many days ago and there, too, the security checks are far more thorough and takes a longer time to go through the security checks. So there is definitely a sense that there is a risk. There is definitely a sense here among passengers that the failed plot in London. But ever since 9/11, there is always the possibility of these kind of incidents taking place. And I think that most of the passengers and most of the people that I have traveled with or talked to certainly welcome these additional security measures, and indeed if this incident here at Brindisi will turn out to be a hoax, then certainly that will at least give an indication of how serious the authorities, not just in this country, have to take these kind of threats, because obviously the fact that a bomb could be found in a plane leaves the pilot with no other choice, other than asking an emergency landing, and that is exactly what happened in Brindisi earlier today.", "Well, and I imagine that the air travel between the U.K. and Italy, like much of Europe, has been inconvenienced over the last week, because the first thing we saw was not necessarily the trips from the U.K. to the U.S. that were canceled, but the short haul trips, between England and the continent.", "That is correct.", "Those are the things that got canceled.", "That is correct. And as a matter of fact, I was talking to several businessmen not too long ago who travel regularly between Italy and the U.K., and I've been told that companies in the U.K. and in Italy have, indeed, decided to put on hold non-essential business travel simply because it does take so long to go through security. That these kind of incidents and you know makes it -- it takes too long to go from one country to the other, and many businessmen decide that it's not worth the risk, perhaps, of losing a client simply because, for example, your computer could not be brought on board. And if have to check in your computer, it takes too long to get it back. And then, eventually -- you know. So there is obviously -- we do see there is, at least in travel between -- that I've seen between Italy and the UK, there is an increased discomfort, if you want, for the passenger. That said, with all the people that I spoke with, again, there is a sense that these kind of checks and these kind of precautions are necessary because people do -- must feel that traveling on the plane -- must be safe. And if this requires extra checks, if this requires not being able to, for example, bring a computer on board -- although it is no longer the case between the flights between the Italy and the U.K., and I do understand also between the U.K. and the U.S. Certainly, the people who are the subject of these searches welcome the fact that extra security is in place. And I think that the passengers who were on their way from the U.K. to the resort town of Hurghada in Egypt, at the end of the day, if this indeed was a hoax, possibly would welcome the fact that the plane could safely land in Brindisi, that all necessary checks could be done, and eventually then continue on to their final destination.", "Well, let's talk about this part of the report that an Italian Air Force jet was accompanying the plane as it landed there in Southern Italy. Have you seen that happen a lot more recently?", "Well, we do know, of course, that part of the security measures in place involve the Italian Air Force intercepting any kind of suspected aircraft. What I do not know at this time is whether or not this jet, or these jets, have indeed intercepted the plane before it made the emergency landing in Brindisi. I do know, from the Italian news agency here, that these jets have been scrambled and have been sent to intercept the plane. I do not know whether, indeed, the plane was intercepted before it made a landing or not. But this is part, of course, of the security measures that are under way, and even at a height of the summer season here, the Italian Air Force has pilot and has personnel at the", "Alessio, I'm just seeing this on the wires from Reuters. They are reporting that British -- British -- actually, Italian police have called off this alert over this possible bomb scare on this plane. They say that there was, indeed, a note but it's been called off because it was just a matter of the note, and checks are still under way. So that would appear to say that this one at least partially resolved.", "It does appear. And to be honest with you, you know, with experience, serious terrorist attacks over the last few years, I do not recall any terrorist writing on the back of a sick bag his intentions to blow up the plane and pass the note across the cabin. This certainly appears to be a hoax, although obviously, all the necessary checks have to be made. And I think that the pilot, once he received this note, had no other choice but to land the plane safely.", "All right, once again, OK, Alessio, thank you. So once again, it would appear that this situation with this passenger jet in Italy and Southern Italy has been resolved. It was a plane that was making its way from London to Egypt. Somebody wrote on a sick bag that there was a bomb on board, and the pilot made the decision to land the plane in Southern Italy. But now Italian police have decided that's all it was. It was just a note on the back of a sick bag. We'll continue to follow that story as more becomes available. Also ahead, we're going to look at a confession, but many unanswered questions remaining in the Ramsey case.", "Why did the killer use a broken paintbrush from Patsy's hobby kit to twist a cord around JonBenet's neck? Why did no phone call ever come for this supposed ransom before the body was found?", "Tom Foreman examines the lingering mysteries in the case. That's straight ahead."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SIMON (on camera)", "CARL WONG, SUPERINTENDENT, SONOMA CO. SCHOOLS", "SIMON (voice-over)", "WONG", "SIMON", "ERIKA SCHOLZ, FORMER NEIGHBOR", "SIMON", "MIKE RAINES, ATTORNEY FOR LARA KARR", "SIMON (on camera)", "KAGAN", "ANTHONY MILLS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "WHITFIELD", "KAGAN", "WHITFIELD", "KAGAN", "D.C. WHITFIELD", "KAGAN", "WHITFIELD", "KAGAN", "ALESSIO VINCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "VINCI", "KAGAN", "VINCI", "KAGAN", "VINCI", "KAGAN", "VINCI", "KAGAN", "VINCI", "KAGAN", "VINCI", "KAGAN", "VINCI", "KAGAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "NPR-32187", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2012-01-29", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/01/29/146062630/gingrich-attacks-front-runner-romney", "title": "Gingrich Attacks Front-Runner Romney", "summary": "Newt Gingrich sharpened his attacks on Republican rival Mitt Romney on Sunday. A new poll shows Romney leading the former House speaker just days ahead of Tuesday's presidential primary in Florida.", "utt": ["Just a little more than a day left before voters in Florida have their say in the GOP primary. The latest polls by the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times show Mitt Romney with an 11-point lead over Newt Gingrich, with Rick Santorum and Ron Paul trailing far behind. Newt Gingrich, who's had trouble getting support from establishment Republicans, picked up a nod from a decidedly non-establishment figure - one of his former rivals, Herman Cain.", "I hereby officially and enthusiastically endorse Newt Gingrich for president of the United States.", "Gingrich has been campaigning hard this weekend, so has Romney, both men fixing the other in his sights. This morning at a news conference, Gingrich had this to say about the latest polls.", "The most significant thing in both the polls this morning is that when you add the two conservatives together, we clearly beat Romney. And I think Romney's got a very real challenge in trying to get a majority at the convention. We will go all the way to the convention. I believe the Republican Party will not nominate a pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase moderate from Massachusetts.", "Meanwhile, in Naples, Florida, Mitt Romney explained why he thought Gingrich was losing support.", "So, Mr. Speaker, your trouble in Florida is not because the audience is too quiet or too loud, or because you have opponents that are tough. Your problem in Florida is that you worked for Freddie Mac at a time that Freddie Mac was not doing the right thing for the American people.", "We're joined now by our correspondent Don Gonyea. He's in The Villages. It's north of Tampa in Florida. Don, describe first of all what The Villages is.", "We're in the central part of the state, and one of the guys who's doing security outside the Gingrich event here, he says there are 85,000 retirees who live here. He said it's the biggest such community in the world. Everything you need is here. A lot of people driving around in golf carts. There's one going past me right now. Single family homes. And you have to be 50 years old, I'm told, to move in here.", "Got to be a pretty significant, politically powerful place, right, especially at this time of year. I'm assuming all the candidates at some point have been through there.", "This is not my first visit to The Villages, this year or in past years. I came through here with George W. Bush. I came here with John McCain. This is a place where you have this concentration of senior citizens, and, of course, that's a very important voting block in Florida. They are active, they vote. A good many of these people here I've talked to have already voted. They've already mailed in their ballots, because they have early voting here. But it's a place where a politician can get a lot of bang for their buck with an appearance.", "Don, we can hear Newt Gingrich speaking behind you. What are people there telling you about Newt Gingrich? I mean, is the momentum still there, or is it kind of dying down?", "This is a friendly crowd here, of course. It's a rally. They've turned out to see Newt. So overwhelmingly, they're Gingrich supporters. But you can feel the momentum that he had coming out of South Carolina has really waned. It's a much different scene here than it was in South Carolina.", "OK. If Gingrich loses as badly as the polls predict he'll lose in Florida, I mean, is this going to be his waterloo? I mean, I'm not talking about Waterloo, Iowa, Don.", "We have seen him rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall again. But if he crashes in Florida, I mean, is it different than losing Iowa or New Hampshire?", "He can say he's going to go on from here, but he does have to prove that South Carolina was not a fluke for him. And he does not have a lot of money. He does not have a lot of organization. That's been evident here in Florida. And from here, we start to move into caucuses. And we move towards Super Tuesday, where you have multiple contests scattered around the country in multiple states. And you just can't do that by turning in a winning debate performance or by holding town halls. You really have to have the money and organization to speak to people. So once we get out of Florida, it gets a lot harder to do the kind of thing he did in South Carolina.", "And, of course, the winner of Florida gets a lot of delegates, all of the delegates in Florida.", "This is a winner-take-all state, though there is some dispute over how the delegates will be apportioned with the national party. Florida has been kind of butting heads with the national party, both in terms of the delegates and in terms of when they would go on the calendar. But, yes, this is the biggest state to go yet, the biggest prize yet, and the biggest test of an organization and the kind of cash one has on hand.", "I know that you are with the Gingrich campaign right now, Don, obviously, but you're also following the Romney people. What are they up to today?", "Governor Romney has been in Naples and Hialeah, and he ends his day in Pompano Beach. So he's working the state hard, too, and he's being joined by surrogates. He's had John McCain with him. And what we've seen from Romney is much tougher rhetoric aimed directly at Newt Gingrich than we've seen in any of the prior states. And it seems to be paying off big-time for him in the polls, at least.", "He seems to have shaken off the South Carolina fright. He seems very confident.", "It does feel like it is a different Mitt Romney. And again, if Mitt Romney goes on and gets the nomination, we may look back to Florida as the place where he figured out kind of what Mitt Romney the candidate has to look like, has to act like, has to talk like on the stump.", "That's NPR's national political correspondent Don Gonyea joining us from The Villages in Florida. Don, thanks so much.", "It's my pleasure."], "speaker": ["GUY RAZ, HOST", "HERMAN CAIN", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "NEWT GINGRICH", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "MITT ROMNEY", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-329535", "program": "CNN RELIABLE SOURCES", "date": "2017-12-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1712/31/rs.01.html", "summary": "Highs and Lows for Journalism in 2017", "utt": ["Hey, I'm Brian Stelter. Happy New Year's Eve, and welcome to RELIABLE SOURCES. This is our weekly look at the story behind the story, of how the media really works and how the news gets made. It's the final day of the year and what year it's been for the news industry. We're taking a look back at screw-ups and successes of the year, but also looking at the sexual misconduct tipping point and where it's going from here. And as media allies continue to malign Robert Mueller's probe, Jeffrey Toobin is standing by to help us connect the dots in the Russia investigation. But, first, lessons from an unforgettable 2017. We've seen journalism at its very best this year, with papers and networks producing incredible investigative reporting, but we've also seen journalism at its worst with embarrassing mistakes and errors that undermine trust. The shifts in the media landscape really have been seismic, from media company consolidation, to a cultural reckoning that has caused newsrooms to clean house. On the business front, we've seen exciting new startups promising to improve the news business, but we've also seen very tough times for digital media darlings like \"BuzzFeed\" and Vice. The digital duopoly of Facebook and Google is soaking up so much ad revenue that they're squeezing publishers. We've seen layoffs and cutbacks and contractions both in digital and print due to add business model problems. But at the same time, subscriptions are on the rise at big papers, at \"The New York Times\" and \"The Washington Post\". People are hungry to understand what's happening in the world, especially in D.C. You don't need me to remind you that President Trump's media attacks went on all year long calling real news fake and fake news real. But think about all the turnover we witnessed. Sean Spicer, of course, mocked by Melissa McCarthy. He made it until the summer. Then there were the days -- only days of Anthony Scaramucci with Sarah Sanders taking over in the briefing room. And there were a ton of transitions in the media world as well more than an average year Bill O'Reilly out at Fox. Megyn Kelly moving to NBC. Matt Lauer fired from NBC. Also, a new head of the news division their. New editors at places like \"Huff Post\", Vanity Fair\", \"Newsweek\", \"Glamour\" over at CBS, Scott Pelley, Josh Elliott, Charlie Rose all out all for different reasons, and just this month, ESPN president John Skipper, one of the most powerful men in sports and media suddenly resigned citing a substance abuse problem. So, many changes at so many newsrooms, so many media companies and tomorrow, January 1st, a new publisher at \"The New York Times\", Arthur Sulzberger, handing the paper over to his son A.G. We're going to break it all down for you in this special program starting with our panel of top editors. Sally Buzbee is the executive editor of \"The Associated Press\", John Avlon, the editor-in-chief of \"The Daily Beast\", and Joanne Lipman, chief content officer for \"The USA Today\" network and the editor of \"USA Today\". This was a year, John, where the push alert on your phone and either made you recoil in horror or shot with joy. You know, there were so many stories that surprised and shocked us. What were for you the highlights and lowlights?", "This is a year were insane became the new normal. I mean just so much packed into every week, really revolutions upon revolutions in our media and our politics in our industry. For me, I think one of the highlights was the reporting done you know at the same time by Ronan Farrow over at \"The New Yorker' and \"The New York Times\" about Harvey Weinstein, other people jumped in as well Michael Daly. But that the impact of that investigation after the usual vociferous denials and attempts at intimidation with the details of which we only found out in subsequent reporting really broke down a whole edifice of intimidation not only in the entertainment industry but across all industries that it's still rippling today. That's the result of great reporting against enormous obstacles.", "I remember Jodi Kanter and her writing partner Megan Twohey at \"The New York Times\", Jodi's saying I didn't know how seriously people would take the story if it would be received by the audience or not. Now, you look at the most page views -- you know, most viewed stories of the year, it's right up at the top of the list. Joanne, you're about to leave 'USA Today\", you have a book coming out called \"That's What She Said\" about this topic and you've decided to devote your energies to that that's another sign I suppose of how important this moment is.", "Yes, in fact, William Morrow, the publisher of the book, actually moved up the publication date because there's been this absolutely extraordinary flood of interest in this topic, the zeitgeist has completely changed. The fact that women are able to come up and talk about these issues, be heard, be taken seriously. And interestingly, I've been working on the book for the past three years --", "Predating all these current conversation.", "Predating all of this and the entire -- the point of the book is how do we close the gender gap by bringing men into the conversation. And when I started my reporting, there was some skepticism about saying, well, men are never going to want to be part of this conversation. Well, all of that has changed and I think that is all to the positive.", "We'll have more on this subject later in the hour. Rebecca Traister is here from \"New York Magazine\". But back to highlights and lowlights perhaps from Washington. I wonder, Sally, if you think there were some successes or screw-ups for the news business as it relates to covering the President Trump administration and all the changes in Washington.", "Yes, I think just the drumbeat of reporting on the Russian investigation has which, you know, obviously there's a lot of skepticism I think at the beginning of the year if there was anything really there, and what the scope of the investigation was going to be. And I think that just the sort of everything from the scoops about Michael Flynn being caught on surveillance tape and then his eventual firing and just sort of that that is the sort of step by step of the story, to the point where I think that -- you know, it's a very important story. It is important to the future of the president's tenure in office and those sorts of things, and just that that kind of focus on what I think of as very nitty-gritty, very, very deep reporting --", "Yes.", "-- and how it has been built over the course of the year. I think even people who support the president have paid attention to that reporting. And I think what you really want in reporting when you really get impact like with the sex harassment story is to have the reporting so strong that even people who have ingrained opinions have to pay attention to it. I think that is what has been sort of exciting to me this year.", "And yet, there's been some errors as well. I mean, there's been some errors and the coverage, mistakes that have been used to tarnish the press this year.", "And that's totally true and I think each one of those errors has been very difficult and dangerous for journalism.", "Dangerous?", "I mean, there's no room for sloppy reporting. There is no room in this world.", "But it's important also to say that that none of what we've seen that we've been able to determine to date was malicious in nature from major news organizations.", "Right, despite what some of the president's supporters claim that these were not lies that were made up to hurt him.", "No, there are mistakes because this is a human business as Carl Bernstein is fond of saying. This is the best available version of the truth. Sometimes facts are wrong, and the critical thing is incredible. Organizations, they are corrected. Accountability occurs. Sometimes it's in layoffs, sometimes it's in suspensions. But there's a larger environment, these drumbeat of people really viewing press with a sense of conflict really -- you know, gunning for reporters in -- from partisan perspectives that I think further muddies. And I think for me, it's -- we've almost taken for granted the ugliness and fundamental dishonesty of hyper-partisan media that hate news and fake news has really proliferated and muddied the waters of our cultural conversation.", "You said fake news. What is fake news?", "Hyper-partisan news sites that have explicit agendas that go well beyond \"The National Reviews\" and \"Weekly Standards\" or \"Mother Jones\" that have a forthright philosophy. These are places that are viewing political debate as a form of war and sometimes they function as propagandists and there are no rules in this. They are ugly and they will unleash forces against critics in any way, shape or form.", "I remember a news executive saying to me early in the year that Steve Bannon who was at the time the president's chief strategist, that he wants a grand divide between Trump and the media.", "Yes.", "He wants the world to never trust the media because he would benefit from that.", "Absolutely right. This is part of a business model. In some ways, it's -- the ugliest extension of the fragmentation we've seen where people try to appeal to niche audiences with -- and keep them addicted to anxiety and anger at the other, and the whole programmatic environment in the way social media works, they were able to prop up numbers and get real profits for a time from creating this ecosystem aided by donors who buy into their vision. It's a very specific ecosystem. It's incredibly dangerous to the civic fabric.", "Talking about the ups and downs of the year, I've got to imagine, Sally, one of the downs, one of the lowlights is when a competing outlet beats you a story. What's it like when \"The New York Times\" or \"The Post\" or CNN or other outlets break something first, what's that feeling like for you in your newsroom?", "Well, that's what journalists trying to do is always make sure that there are the people who are breaking news at first, and if you're not the first person to break a news, you break some sort of you know news on some big trending story.", "Yes.", "You fight your way into it, right? I mean, there is a lot going on in our world and there is a ton of interest in it particularly in the Washington story. The competition in Washington both for people and for scoops has been extraordinary this year. Some of it is actually a competition for people probably, you know, not the greatest thing for our industry in the sense that it can, you know, cause a lot of distractions and things like that. But I think the competition for news, the competition for scoops makes every news organization better. It absolutely makes people do their best work, work their hardest and has resulted in some fabulous journalism.", "I actually think the competition has helped every news organization up its game this year.", "Absolutely.", "I think we have seen some extraordinary journalism across the board. I'm seeing among our competition, some really, really tremendous efforts throughout this year.", "And I hope some of the flow through for industry is this: quality matters, journalism and original reporting matters, because conventional wisdom for a time has been that we go for scale and click-bait and that's the future of journalism. But, you know, differentiation is the soul of a news brand, and if we all follow algorithms and we all simply become content farms and engage in commodity news, you kill what's unique, you remove the value.", "Absolutely.", "So, that's what we need to remember as an industry, is that quality matters, influence matters, original reporting.", "Absolutely.", "Original reporting matters.", "And then some of that has actually been heartening. I know that much of this year has been very bad. We had as a credible piece of work in the last couple weeks about the aftermath of the Islamic State regime in Mosul, and the people who are there and the lack of help for them to rebuild, and how many people were actually killed. And that sort of reporting that actually says what is going on in this world, it's been astonishing to me how much those stories actually -- how much attention they get, right? Not just in America but globally, and how people really are hungry to figure out what the shape of the world is. And I do think one of the problems this year has just been, we must keep our attention on the Trump administration which is fabulous, but make sure you are doing that other type of reporting. Don't neglect the rest of the world. Don't neglect the rest of America I fundamentally believe.", "Yes.", "Quick break here. Much more with our panel. Think about your New Year's resolutions. We're going to come back to that later in the program. But up here next, the Mueller investigation. The fight for truth versus the pro-Trump media's fight to discredit it all."], "speaker": ["BRIAN STELTER, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN AVLON, CNN ANCHOR", "STELTER", "JOANNE LIPMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, USA TODAY AND USA TODAY NETWORK", "STELTER", "LIPMAN", "STELTER", "SALLY BUZBEE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS", "STELTER", "BUZBEE", "STELTER", "BUZBEE", "STELTER", "BUZBEE", "AVLON", "STELTER", "AVLON", "STELTER", "AVLON", "STELTER", "AVLON", "STELTER", "AVLON", "STELTER", "BUZBEE", "STELTER", "BUZBEE", "LIPMAN", "BUZBEE", "LIPMAN", "AVLON", "BUZBEE", "AVLON", "BUZBEE", "AVLON", "BUZBEE", "AVLON", "STELTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-8343", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-5-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/18/mn.04.html", "summary": "Space Shuttle Atlantis Scheduled to Blast Toward International Space Station Friday", "utt": ["The shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to lift off before sunrise tomorrow, heading to the International Space Station. Our Miles O'Brien explains what the mission is all about.", "By now, the $60 billion International Space Station should have looked like this. Instead, it remains like this -- a fledgling, and an ailing one at that. So the seven-member crew of the space shuttle Atlantis is making an urgent house call.", "The reason we're flying this flight on this date is to extend the life of the space station.", "The station was supposed to be home and office to a three-person Russian and American crew by now. The reason for the deal: The Russian-built crew quarters, the so-called service module, has not been put into service due to a lack of cash and confidence in the proton rocket that will carry it into space. The Russians now say they have their act together and the service module will fly in mid- July. But meanwhile, the manufacturer's warranty on the station has expired.", "So our job is to go up and replace these serviceable items, fix a few items that have failed, and basically get the station in a posture where it's ready to receive the service module, which will lead onto what our mission originally was going to be.", "This mission was supposed to fly after the service module docked at the station, so the crew had been trained in how to activate it for the first station keepers. When NASA managers re- jiggered the schedule and the mission in February, they took the three service module experts off the flight. There were replaced with a crew scheduled to live aboard the space station next year.", "We literally lived together and trained together, spending, in some cases, more time with each other than we do with our own families for more than a year. So there were some close bonds there and it was, from a psychological point of view, it was a difficult transition to make.", "Last month, NASA tried to launch Atlantis on three consecutive days, but each time, high winds kept the orbiter grounded. This time around, the forecast looks better. But Florida weather is no easier to predict than a Russian launch schedule. Miles O'Brien, CNN, at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.", "CNN plans to bring you live coverage of the shuttle Atlantis launch. That's set for 6:12 a.m. Eastern. That's tomorrow morning. And you'll see that here if it happens."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN SPACE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JIM HALSELL, ATLANTIS COMMANDER", "O'BRIEN", "SCOTT HOROWITZ, ATLANTIS PILOT", "O'BRIEN", "HALSELL", "O'BRIEN", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-321126", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2017-09-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/13/es.04.html", "summary": "Trump: North Korea Sanctions \"Not A Big Deal.\"", "utt": ["I don't know if it has any impact but, certainly, it was nice to get a 15 to nothing vote. But, those sanctions are nothing compared to what ultimately will have to happen.", "Now, North Korea's state-run agency calling the sanctions a heinous provocation by the U.S. CNN's Will Ripley, the only Western T.V. journalist reporting from North Korea, joins us live from Pyongyang. Will, interesting to hear the president kind of throw cold water on what otherwise was thought to be some big sanctions.", "Right. You heard the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley talking about what a strong, unprecedented sanctions package this was. But then you have President Trump basically acknowledging that the version that was approved unanimously was watered down to appease China and Russia, who didn't go along with the full oil embargo, or blacklisting Kim Jong Un, or grounding North Korea's only airline. Instead, what they're doing is capping oil exports by 30 percent which could spike gas and energy prices here in the country. And there is an angry -- a furious response from the North Korea government. The official response now reiterating what officials told us here on the ground yesterday, that they condemn these sanctions in the strongest possible terms. They're calling it an economic blockade. They say the U.S. will pay for this and they also say that they will redouble their efforts to develop their weapons programs even faster than before -- their nuclear program and their missile program -- which is the reason why they keeping getting sanctioned because these launches and nuclear tests are in violation of international law. In response, South Korea conducting a live-fire drill of their own, testing for the first time a long-range air-to-surface missile that could potentially strike targets here inside North Korea. It's a direct threat to a country that has a growing nuclear arsenal. South Korea and the U.S. trying to find counter-measures but tensions continue to escalate here, Dave.", "All right. Will Ripley live for us in Pyongyang. Looking forward to your special Friday night. Thanks.", "Thanks, Will. Let's get a check on \"CNN Money Stream\" this morning. Global stocks are mixed after a record day on Wall Street. For the first time since July, all the three big major averages hit record highs continuing a huge rally from the day before. There was also talk of tax reform -- that helps. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he is hopeful reform will happen this year, adding the administration may make tax cuts retroactive to January first. Apple introducing a trio of new iPhones, including the premium version worth a cool grand. Ten years after the launch of the first iPhone, Apple debuted the iPhone X. It has edge-to-edge screens, scans your face to log in. If customers don't want to spend a grand, Apple also unveiled the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus. Big news for the middle class. Middle class Americans got a pay raise in 2016. Median household income rose 3.2 percent to a record -- a record high $59,000, the second year in a row of an increase. Wage growth overall has been pretty flat in recent years so experts say this jump is because more people are returning to work. The work opportunities are just really good. The last couple of years has been very good for workers. The U.S. added two million jobs last year. Finally, four years after writing \"Lean In,\" Sheryl Sandberg has this to say about leadership in the U.S.", "Men still run the world and I'm not sure it's going that well.", "I'm Dave Briggs. \"NEW DAY\" starts right now. Chris Cuomo, live in Florida. We'll see you tomorrow.", "I have never seen a hurricane like this.", "I just started crying because I didn't realize how bad this was.", "FEMA estimates well over half the homes in the Keys have major damage and one in four destroyed.", "I want to go home. I want to see that we have a home.", "The biggest challenge we have right now is just the lack of power, the lack of water.", "A humanitarian crisis quickly growing in the Caribbean.", "This is not anything that you could have been prepared for.", "The goal is to get people back as soon as possible. We're just not prepared to do that at this hour.", "While we may be down, we're not out right now.", "We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is NEW DAY. It is Wednesday, September 13th, 6:00 here in New York. The Florida Keys are still reeling from Irma. Folks who evacuated are returning this morning but seeing nothing but devastation. The people are beginning the heart-wrenching task, though, of cleaning up there. So here's what we know at this hour. The death toll from Irma is 55 people, 24 of them killed in the U.S. That includes Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. And another 31 storm-related deaths across the rest of the Caribbean."], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BRIGGS", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "SHERYL SANDBERG, CEO, FACEBOOK, AUTHOR, \"LEAN IN\"", "BRIGGS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-262486", "program": "IDESK", "date": "2015-08-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/19/id.01.html", "summary": "Hackers Post Cheating Site's Customer Data; Pistorius Will Not Be Released Friday.", "utt": ["Welcome back. Hackers have followed through with their threat against the cheating website ashleymadison.com. A month after they warned the site to shut down or risk a huge darter leak. The hackers, known simply as Impact Team, published the site's customer information on what's known as the \"dark Web.\" Let's go CNNMoney correspondent Laurie Segall for more. There's so many questions here, first of all, why is there a cheating website, who goes on it? But there's also the broader concerns around hacking. What's happening here?", "Yes, it's actually pretty scary when you think about it. And just the amount of data that was published, Robyn. We're talking 35 gigabytes once you download it of data. That is a huge, huge amount. And let me get specifically to what has been put out there on the dark Web. We're talking 33 million accounts, like 36 million email addresses; again, you have to take that with a grain of salt because sometimes people put fake emails, fake usernames. But they don't put fake payment information. So there are -- you're seeing a lot of that, credit card information, home addresses, phone numbers, also internal corporate data. You know I spoke to one security researcher, Robyn, and he said the amount of information the hackers were able to take is just unprecedented. And it was on the dark Web, right? But now what we're seeing in the next couple -- in the last couple hours is this information is finding its way over to the open Web. There's a site right now -- I don't want to name it -- but there's a site out there right now where people can just put in an email address and see if someone they know is on this -- Robyn.", "Well, I mean, we had a few people in the newsroom, somebody suggesting they might go and see if their ex-husband's name is on that list. But I mean, that's what people are now going to be asking, can you go and just find people's details and names very easily, not just on the dark Web? I mean, can anybody go and type something in and get some information?", "Yes, and I think we have to take this with a grain of salt, right? And people might put fake names out there. Now that being said, there was so much data released. We're talking credit card information, geolocation data. There's another person that's working on using a Google Map to kind of identify where the most cheaters are. So it's pretty disturbing. You've got to think if you're on that list if you were using Ashley Madison whether or not you agree with this, you're probably pretty worried right now. And it's to chat a little bit about who's behind this. We look at -- you mentioned the Impact Team. This is the first we're hearing of this hacking collective, this hacking group. And they say that they're doing this for moral reasons. They don't believe in Ashley Madison, this site that promotes infidelity. It's a very controversial site. And I want to read you a little bit of their manifesto, because they also put that out there, along with this enormous amount of data. They said, \"Find yourself in here? Learn your lesson and make amends. Embarrassing now, but you'll get over it.\" So there are a lot of --", "-- folks right now who are pretty worried about this. And you also have to think, sure, there might be a lot of tough conversations, potential divorce attorneys. But you know, people are really, really worried also about identity theft since now all this information is out there and it's also making its way to the open Web -- Robyn.", "Indeed. And put aside the moral implications of this, the dubious nature of some of this activity, it also, again, reinforces -- you've kind of touched on that -- the issue of passwords and being protected on the Internet. Really you're not. Work on the assumption that anything that goes online is possibly going to make it out there. Isn't that basically the lesson out of this -- again?", "Yes. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but how many times do we have to sit here and talk about another day and another hack and personal information getting out there? There's nothing really as a consumer you could have done if you thought that this site was going to protect you. They swear to secrecy. And as fate would have it, it was very, very easy to get into. I was just at a hacking conference actually in Las Vegas, with a lot of security researchers. And one of them showed me. He did this legally because the Fortune 500 company had hired him to actually try to actively break in, which people should be doing that. And he was able to break into their system by picking up the phone and getting someone at a help desk to click a link. And he was able to take over as many servers as he wanted. So it just shouldn't be that easy. And this is very eye-opening -- Robyn.", "Laurie Segall, thank you so much, very eye-opening. I think that's one way to put it -- thanks so much for all of your reporting. Now I just want to bring you up to date on some breaking news just in to CNN. South Africa's justice minister says Oscar Pistorius, the Olympic runner, will not be released on house arrest on Friday. Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide and has spent 10 months in jail for the fatal shooting of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. He was sentenced to five years in prison but is eligible for release on parole. That had been expected to happen on Friday. Before this decision or at least his comment from the justice minister. David McKenzie joins me now live from Johannesburg. What's happening? This is a major U-turn by the South African government.", "Well, it is a U-turn and it's certainly been left to the last second because as you say, Oscar Pistorius, disgraced Olympian, who killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, and was set to be released on correctional supervision on Friday to be released to his uncle's house. And now there is this U-turn. The justice ministry, through their spokesman, telling CNN that they are now suspending the parole board's decision, the parole board, which met in June and decided that he would at least get released in this way, and that they should review it again. Yesterday the justice minister got on local radio and TV, saying that he questioned the release of Pistorius during Women's Month here in South Africa. A women's group had petitioned the justice ministry, saying that it shouldn't happen and it sent a bad signal in terms of violence against women, particularly given the high-profile nature of this case. But it does seem now that his release is put on hold, at least for now. There will be some time -- I'm not entirely sure how long -- before that parole board can meet again and reassess the case. This is under the remit, says the spokesman, of the Justice and Correctional Services minister to query a parole like this. They're also saying that the parole board met too soon to come up with this decision, even though one-sixth of the sentence is well in line with South African law, say legal analysts.", "Indeed, well in line with the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977, to be specific. I mean, is this an indication of political interference in the work of a judicial commission, expect to be the parole board is working for Correctional Services, not for the Justice Ministry?", "Well, at this point, I think interference, it's too early to say. But certainly political pressure would have played some role in this decision. And the justice minister said as much, that they have been petitioned by an NGO which works on women's rights to query, at least, the release of Oscar Pistorius. Now whether a person who had been involved in a similar crime would have gotten this level of attention, all the way up to a cabinet minister post, that's highly unlikely. So in that case, yes. The nature, the high- profile nature, the fact that the world's media is here in South Africa awaiting his supposed walk out of prison would mean there's a lot of attention on this case. And that seems to be playing into the justice minister's decision. But they are saying this is their right within the law to question a parole decision and it doesn't mean that Oscar Pistorius won't leave prison. But it does appear that he's not going to leave prison soon, that's for sure -- Robyn.", "All right. It's unclear how this is going to play out and of course there is an appeal scheduled --", "-- for November. So Oscar Pistorius, it appears, not going under correctional supervision on Friday; David McKenzie, thank you for updating us on this story. Appreciate it. That does it for us here at the INTERNATIONAL DESK. I'm Robyn Curnow. Don't go anywhere. \"WORLD SPORT\" with Alex Thomas is up next."], "speaker": ["CURNOW", "LAURIE SEGALL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CURNOW", "SEGALL", "SEGALL", "CURNOW", "SEGALL", "CURNOW", "DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CURNOW", "MCKENZIE", "CURNOW", "CURNOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-166893", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-5-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/31/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Seniors Volunteer for Risky Work in Fukushima", "utt": ["A touching display of courage and sacrifice from seniors in Japan. Fully aware of the risks, they are lining up to work at the crippled and contaminated Fukushima nuclear plant. Our Kyung Lah reports from Tokyo.", "In this cramped office, these seniors are leading the charge to get retirees back on the job, for one last and critical call. (on camera): You want to do this.", "Yes, sure. Why not?", "Why?", "I'm the one of the eldest people.", "Age, says 72-year-old Yasuteru Yamada, is a plus, when the work site is the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, a place still dangerous, highly contaminated with radiation after the tsunami caused a full meltdown in at least one of the reactors. These workers are the frontline to control the national crisis at high risk of exposure and long-term health impacts. The elderly, says this group, don't worry about much, anything belong term. \"Death becomes familiar as we get older,\" says 69-year-old Kazuko Sasaki. \"We have a feeling death is waiting for us. Not that I want to die, but we're not afraid of it.\" She's not the only one. Two hundred and fifty volunteers, all over the age of 60, are now compiled in this database. Calling into the group, volunteering to work at the plant, a team calling themselves the \"Skilled Veterans Corps.\" An idea that Japan's point man to the nuclear crisis initially brushed off last week, saying, quote, \"our principle is we should stick to procedures that would not require such a 'suicide corps.'\" A label these seniors reject, saying they prefer doing what's right. \"My generation, the old generation, promoted the nuclear plants. If we don't take responsibility, who will?\" (on camera): We called TEPCO at their Tokyo headquarters. They would not speak to CNN on camera. A spokesperson had this to say, though, about the elderly volunteers, \"Thanks, but no thanks. We have plenty of employees.\" The seniors, though, don't buy it. The government has already told a nuclear regulatory agency that it needs to come up with a system to boost the number of workers, implying they are concerned about a worker shortage. (voice-over): Workers like Hikaru Tagawa, a temp who once worked at the Fukushima plant. \"Nothing can make me go back to work there,\" he says. He calls the levels of radiation too dangerous. Whether concerns of a worker shortage or the persuasive seniors, just this week, the same government point man who called the seniors a \"suicide corps\" appears to be less resistant to the idea of elderly volunteers. He now says, \"I met the leader of the group,\" says Goshi Hosono, \"and we have started a discussion, looking for any possible, practical next step.\" (on camera): Do you think that the government will let your group work at the plant?", "Yes, sure.", "One more chance, say these graying citizens, to truly serve in the twilight of their lives. Kyung Lah, CNN, Tokyo."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "KYUNG LAH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "YASUTERU YAMADA, RETIREE", "LAH", "YAMADA", "LAY (voice-over)", "YAMADA", "LAH (voice-over)"]}
{"id": "CNN-212262", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-8-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/10/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Dr. Gupta's About-Face on Weed", "utt": ["I have a couple of sports headlines for you this Saturday afternoon. It's PGA championship weekend and so far it's all been about this guy, Jason Dufner. He tore up the course Friday, shooting a 63, which ties the all-time record score for a round at a major. Dufner led at the turn today, but has since given up the lead to Jim Furyk. Tiger Woods -- you probably don't want to ask. This is one tournament Woods is going to wish he could start all over.", "Fifth in the order, third baseman, number 13, Alex Rodriguez. Number 13.", "That's about 50 percent cheers, 50 percent jeers. Alex Rodriguez, A-Rod, back in Yankee stadium Friday for the first time in the 2013 season. It was also his first time in pinstripes since Major League Baseball handed him a long suspension on charges he used illegal drugs. Now -- performance-enhancing drugs, I should say. If any Yankees fans were on the fence about how they felt about Alex Rodriguez, he didn't do much to earn their love, going 0 for 4 at the plate. A-rod was not in the Yankees line-up for today's game. Sit tight everyone. Pay attention to this. A new CNN documentary airing this weekend may make you rethink what you thought you knew about pot. Our chief medical correspondent is, of course, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and he changed his mind after he spent almost a year investigating the impact of marijuana on the body. Sanjay is here to discuss. Sanjay, this is not the first time you and I have had this conversation. We'll talk about that. But I want to dive into more about something that you thought was bad, a bad drug for such a long time, that actually, surprisingly, you say works well as a medicine. So how so? Why did you change your mind?", "Well, let me preface by saying, you know, for a long time we've known there's been some medicinal qualities to marijuana. For a thousand years or so, it was used as a medicine up until 1943. It was actually on the list doctors use to prescribe medicines. For the last 70 years, it has not been. For me, Don, one of the things that happened, if you look at the literature regarding medical marijuana, some 20,000 studies will pop up and you find the vast majority of them are designed to look at harm. Less than 10 percent, around 6 percent, to actually look at benefit. I realize now that painted a distorted picture and it distorted my own views on medical marijuana. I was pretty critical of it. It took sort of getting out of the country, literally looking at other countries, looking in small labs that don't get nearly enough attention, and paying attention to legitimate patients with legitimate problems for whom not only did marijuana work, it was the only thing that worked. I too easily dismissed them as high visibility malingerers who were just looking to get high. And I think once you start doing all this and really spending time investigating this, it -- in my case, changed my views.", "OK. Let's watch a little bit of, Sanjay, and then we'll talk more. I want people to see it.", "But always have (inaudible).", "Meet 19-year-old Chaz Moore. He uses many different strains of marijuana, many of them high in CBD to treat his rare disorder of the diagram.", "My abs would, like, lock up.", "That's why he's talking this way. Almost speaking in hiccups. Like he can't catch his breath. It's called myoclonis diaphragmagmatic flutter. (on camera): This fluttering is annoying but becomes painful --", "Yeah.", "-- pretty quickly I imagine.", "Yeah. Like after 15, 20 minutes is where I can start to really feel it.", "He is about to show me how the marijuana works. He's been convulsing now for seven minutes. (on camera): How quickly do you expect this to work?", "Within, like, the first five minutes. And I'm done. That's it.", "It was actually less than a minute.", "That is Chaz Moore, Don. He had been seen by lots of different doctors, was 19 years old. Has been on dozens of medications. Was even in intensive care unit for this for sometime. So you saw how well that could possibly work for him when dozens of other medications, potentially toxic medications, could not. And that's not just one person. There are hundreds of people like this. There is real science to sort of make this point.", "All right, is marijuana harmful or helpful? CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta cuts through the smoke on America's green rush and journeys around the world to uncover the highs and lows of \"Weed,\" tomorrow night, 8:00 eastern. Next, major flooding across a big portion of the United States. People in 12 states are in danger of high water right now. I'll show you a wide area of the south that's already been hit and is back in the threat zone again."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "ANNOUNCER", "LEMON", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "CHAZ MOORE, USES MEDICAL MARIJUANA", "GUPTA", "MOORE", "GUPTA", "MOORE", "GUPTA", "MOORE", "GUPTA", "MOORE", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "GUPTA", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "NPR-32843", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2009-05-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104527832", "title": "Netbooks: Mini Laptops, Bigger Cell Phones", "summary": "Technology commentator Mario Armstrong talks with Steve Inskeep about netbooks, mini laptops that have some of the functions of a computer and some of the abilities of a cell phone. Netbooks are very portable, very stylish and cost about $300.", "utt": ["Next, let's talk about the way that two technologies are converging. Telephones are becoming more and more like computers, with email and Web access and more. And at the same time, computers are getting more like your phone. They're getting smaller. Many laptops are now a good deal smaller than your lap. And if they can't quite fit in your pocket yet, some are heading in that direction.", "Our technology commentator, Mario Armstrong, has brought by some netbooks. Hi, Mario.", "Hi, Steve. How are you?", "I'm doing okay. You've got one, two, three, four, five different versions of these netbooks. Let's just describe this one right here.", "Okay. The one closest to you is the Dell Mini. It's got a 10-inch screen on here. But look at this.", "It's like half the size of a laptop screen.", "That's exactly right. They're about a half to about two-thirds the size of an average laptop, a conventional laptop.", "What is the point, though, of having a smaller and smaller computer here?", "The point is portability, and the point is that the prices for netbooks has really entered into the market at such a low rate. You know, we're talking $349 on average for some of these devices.", "And is there something that I cannot do with this smaller computer that I could do with a larger laptop or one of those desktop computers?", "Most of the netbooks have one glaring thing that's missing, and that is called an optical drive - you know, the ability to put in a CD or a DVD and actually play those things back.", "So this netbook is really built for a world that assumes that you're getting all your movies or music online.", "And that's exactly kind of the point. These machines are really kind of light in that they don't come with a lot of processing power. They don't come with a lot of software already installed. So how do they function? And that is with the Internet - simple but basic computing needs like email, Web browsing, word processing, basic computing tasks.", "Well, you know, before we discuss some more of these things, I just want to go on here, because we were until just a second ago looking at the Grammy Awards Fashion Wrap. It's coming from somewhere online on this laptop here. Lets' bring up the sound of that.", "Welcome back to our \"Grammy Awards Fashion Wrap.\" Okay, it's time to check out the stars who shine year after year, starting with Sheryl Crow.", "Oh, it's great to know that I can check out the stars who shine year after year without a big, bulky laptop. You know, if you're wearing your Grammy awards fashions like some of the women in the photographs here, you are - it's more stylish to be just carrying this. It looks like a purse.", "This is a size of a purse. It's funny that you bring that up, because one of the netbooks that we'll talk about, this Vivienne Tam edition from HP, is kind of like a push towards being the new digital clutch, is actually what they're actually calling that.", "Digital clutch?", "You want me to show it to you now?", "Please.", "Everything is red - beautiful kind of artistic design here with different shades of red and purple…", "Flowers on the outside. It's like, yeah, I mean, you really like…", "It's like lipstick red.", "So that's the way that these are becoming like phones as well, because people now buy so many different styles of phones to go with their look.", "They do. And now we're starting to see that actually integrate itself into the manufacturing of these computing devices. We're also now starting to see phone capabilities being integrated into the netbooks themselves. In other words, these high speed data networks typically known as 3G and faster broadband speeds are actually being integrated into the design of the netbooks.", "This one here looks like it might be stylish for Kermit the Frog.", "What is this? Well - this one here. It's just green and white and plain and kind of clunky looking.", "Yeah, it's the XO laptop, the laptop that was created for OLPC, which is the One Laptop Per Child Program.", "Oh, okay.", "And the idea was to create a laptop that could be at a $100 price point. The purpose of these were for underserved countries.", "Right.", "But it was a very interesting moment in history when this happened because it started making computer manufacturers kind of shake a little bit and have to - they had to pay attention to this noise that was taking place.", "I know. Let me just ask, then: This computer, which is very simple, very basic looking, spawned all these other much more fashionable and stylish looking computers you have along here. Let's just mention some of the brand names. You said Dell. This is…", "This is the Lenovo.", "Lenovo.", "Which is another 10-inch screen.", "And you mentioned this one. The stylish one is…", "Yup. The HP Vivienne Tam edition.", "Is anybody staying out of this in the computer industry?", "Apple. They already have what they consider a small computer. It's the iPhone. It's the iPod Touch. These handheld devices that you can carry in your pocket can surf the Web, can do email, can do a lot of things that these netbooks can do in a smaller form (unintelligible).", "Well, if you end up with phones competing directly against computers -which seems to be what we're having here right now - who's likely to win that?", "This is a new competition that hasn't, you know, really been discussed. And I think it still remains to be seen whether or not this netbook category is just something that's really hype right now, or if there will really be longevity and sustainability to netbooks. Right now, I think the netbooks have the popularity contest going on for them and they're winning. But I think, all in all, we'd like to see these things become a little bit more powerful, do a little bit more than they are capable of doing now. Then I think the phones won't be able to compete with it.", "Mario Armstrong, always good to see you.", "Thank you, Steve, for having me in."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "Unidentified Woman", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARIO ARMSTRONG"]}
{"id": "CNN-199107", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-1-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/10/cnr.14.html", "summary": "More on California School Shooting; A Look at Jack Lew; China Trade Way Up", "utt": ["From the CNNMoney Newsroom in New York, I'm Ali Velshi. This is \"Your Money.\" Jack Lew is a perfect pick for Treasury right now. China trades goes way up. What you need to know about the debt ceiling and California teachers say no to guns. But, first, President Obama has just nominated Jacob \"Jack\" Lew to be his next treasury secretary. Lew has been the White House chief of staff and he's described as a budget wonk and a consummate Washington insider. Lew's also done two stints at the head of the Office of Management and Budget, the OMB, under Presidents Obama and Clinton. An old colleague of his from the OMB told me why the experience there makes him the perfect choice for the job right now.", "OMB has been described as the central nervous system of the U.S. federal government. Everything of consequence goes through it. So, it coordinates the entire executive branch for the president. It's almost like the chief operating officer role. So, in that, Jack has been exposed to every type of policy concern, every issue, every regulation. And, you know, it's a really -- it's a huge gamut of issues and terrain that he is actually an expert on. It's really amazing, the depth he can bring on a number of issues, especially on economic policy.", "So, that makes Lew more than qualified to negotiate the upcoming debt debates and the spending cuts with Republicans in Congress, but apparently, Wall Street doesn't like him so much. So, who cares what Wall Street thinks? To many Americans, that should actually make him more palatable. Four years ago, the president made the right choice with Tim Geithner at Treasury because the world was teetering on edge of financial collapse. Geithner knew the ins and outs of Wall Street and commercial banks and global credit, so he could hit the ground running. Today, the debate is about the debt ceiling, sequester and budgets. No learning curve there for Lew. I don't know if he's the best pick for the long-term, but he sure is qualified to take on the budget battles that are about to engulf Washington right now. All right, on the money menu, China sees trade soar in December. Now, before you change the channel or wonder, why do I care, understand that China's gain is a sign that things are picking up right here in the United States. China exports jumped 14 percent at the end of the year compared to 12 months ago. That's important because China's economy has been slowing down for seven quarters largely because of economic malaise in Europe and here in America, which of two of China's biggest customers. Now, I have been saying things are starting to look up for the U.S. economy in 2013 and a boost in imports from China is one of the indicators that tend to confirm the sentiment. But the one thing that could ruin this is the upcoming debt ceiling battle on Capitol Hill. The last time around, Democrats and Republicans resorted to scorched-earth tactics that cost the U.S. its iron-clad credit rating. The markets tanked and the economy suffered, as you recall. This time around, President Obama will want the tax revenue hikes to any spending cuts that Republicans insist on. Now, to do that, lawmakers would have to tap into some politically sensitive tax deductions. Now, for some perspective, the deductions and exclusions cost the government $1.1 trillion a year and most of those cuts benefit individuals, especially those in the middle class. It's something you need to know as the debt ceiling debates unfolds and it's something we will be watching for in coming months. All right, finally, the backlash to the gun industry over last month's mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut is growing. Yesterday, it was Walmart that took a beating over its initial decision to dodge the White House's invitation to talk about guns today. Now, one of the largest public pension funds out there, the one for California school teachers says it will divest itself of investments in makers of firearms and ammunition that are illegal to purchase or own in the state of California which has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. Christine Romans has been following this story. Christine, what's the latest?", "Ali, the largest retirement fund for teachers in the world, the California teachers' retirement system, will now sell its stock in gun manufacturers. You might recall that after the Newtown shooting teachers in California were shocked to learn that their investments, their retirement investments, were in the very manufacturer of the gun used to kill those students and teachers in Newtown, Connecticut. Here's what CalSTRS says now. \"This latest incident which occurred at a school and involved fellow educators and the children we cherish is a tipping point for CalSTRS and speaks to the correctness of our actions. \"This is not only the right thing to do, but positions us to deal with the financial pressures we anticipate this sector of the industry will face.\" In fact, Ali, some of those gun manufacturing stocks have been down today, down because you've got Washington very focused now on these task force hearings about what to do about gun violence in America. Ali?", "All right, Christine, thanks. Christine, stayed very focused on the issue of money and guns. For more in-depth coverage, tune in to \"Your Money\" this weekend, Saturday 1:00 p.m. Eastern, Sunday 3:00 p.m.,, Eastern. From the CNN Money Newsroom in New York, that's it for me. Same time tomorrow. 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{"id": "CNN-332965", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-02-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/16/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Mueller Indicts 13 Russian Nationals for Election Meddling", "utt": ["Welcome back. Back to our breaking news in the Russian investigation. A huge development unfolding as we speak. Thirteen Russian nationals indicted a short time ago by the U.S. Justice Department. Three Russian companies also under indictment. The charges? Meddling in the 2016 U.S. election to, quote, \"help Donald Trump and harm Hillary Clinton.\" Here is deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, as he laid out part of what the DOJ believes happened.", "The Russians also recruited and paid real Americans to engage in political activities, promote political campaigns, and stage political rallies. The defendants and co-conspirators pretended to be grassroots activists. According to the indictment, Americans did not know they were communicating with Russians.", "Joining us is journalist, Carl Bernstein, who is, of course, part of \"The Washington Post\" team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage, and he's also a CNN political analyst and author. Carl, how big a deal is this news?", "This is huge in several ways. First of all, the substance of the indictment, sweeping and goes to the case of what the Russians did. It's very specific, very granular and very convincing, in a way that Donald Trump cannot dismiss this, nor can his acolytes. Trump has been looking, even in the past week, I'm told by people in the White House, for ways to fire Mueller, bury this investigation and certainly as a first act to get rid of Rosenstein, which he has been complaining about for months and months. Here we have Rod Rosenstein going on national TV with perhaps the most significant announcement of the investigation yet. And being a very responsible, convincing face, he's just himself an insurance policy in that job, one would think, as has the continuation of the Mueller investigation. It is very hard for these Republicans who have gone along with this business of witch hunt to continue to do so after this.", "You say witch hunt. The Russian government used exactly that phrase as well, responding to this. That's been a consistent response. Can the president, still, I'm going to say not credibly dismiss this as a hoax, but can he walk out there, tweet and say to his supporters and others that the whole Russian investigation is an excuse by Democrats to make up for their loss?", "He probably will. He has done in consistently. Remember, he is also playing to his base. His base is his insurance against something awful happening to him in the way of impeachment. Let's be clear about this. Republicans who have gone along with him on the Hill are afraid of that base. They now have to start rethinking as a result of this, how long can they go along blindly with Donald Trump saying, oh, this is all a rouse? This is not important. Denying the Russians really did anything. The indictment is very specific in its language to the instant case. It does not preclude more indictments. It talks about, yes, unwitting association in this instance. It does not preclude anything further. And what we are seeing, as Mueller continues to build cases, is that, incrementally, he is making a picture that we can see suggests an awful lot of interface between people in the Trump campaign and Russians beginning with the Trump Tower meeting that his son is at.", "Right. And that was a witting --", "That was witting.", "It strikes me as you read this indictment and listen to Rod Rosenstein, just the political savvy that these Russian operatives showed. They turned up and focused their efforts on purple states, on Colorado, Virginia, Florida, swing states. They used issues which they knew, it seems, and we know, had political effect, depressed minority voting, alleged voter fraud by the Democratic Party.", "There's a long history with this type of activity, including what the United States did in the Cold War. During the Cold War, both the United States and Russia became adept at throwing elections in foreign countries. In Italy, we propped up the Christian Democrats, Social Democrats for years and years against the Communists. This is an old Cold War technique. And, indeed, the same old Cold Warriors, Putin and company, are in charge in Russia today. It's not surprising they're so good at this. We would be good at this, too, if we still did it. I'm convinced, and I think most people who cover the national security bureaucracies, think we went out of this business a number of years ago.", "Let me ask you, because there have been other developments in this Russian investigation. CNN reported yesterday that Rick Gates, former deputy campaign manager, no coffee boy for the Trump campaign, appears to be moving toward a plea deal, which would mean pleading guilty to a crime and cooperating with investigators. There is a narrative, perhaps live for by the president and his allies, that this Russia probe is coming to an end, petering out, going nowhere. Yet, in the last two days, you have a third Trump adviser, in effect, giving states evidence and you have these indictments now.", "I don't think petering out is at all the situation. It might be hurdling down the tracks in a way that it could conclude with a date final perhaps that's in sight down the road, after trials.", "Do you sense that from any of your reporting?", "No, no. No, no.", "Do you see light at the end of the tunnel?", "No, I don't. But in terms of, will Mueller bring a series of more indictments that are somewhat inconclusive? We don't know. Mueller's shop is so tight. They're not leaking. Most of what we know are from lawyers, among those who are possibly facing Mueller's guns. But you also can't underestimate the importance of Rick Gates, and the fact that if he pleads -- Gates was with Donald Trump through much of the campaign. He and Trump spoke consistently, frequently. He was Paul Manafort's partner, both in what the special prosecutor says is a long time of crime, as well as his partner in the campaign. So his degree of knowledge -- incidentally, Mueller is a straight shooter. If -- I think we see from what Rosenstein said today. If there is exculpatory evidence about the president of the United States, and he did not collude, I think Mueller is going to give it to us straight up and say it up front, and so will Rosenstein. But the way this investigation is going, the idea of saying, quote, \"There is no collusion here\" -- look, we are seeing evidence of a conspiracy. Who was witting, unwitting in that conspiracy, we don't know yet. But Mueller's indictments are pointing in a certain direction around people in the Trump orbit and family.", "Carl Bernstein, thank you very much. We've been covering this story, really, since it started.", "Indeed.", "Imagine we have some more work to do. Another major breaking news story right now, of course, the school massacre in Florida. We're now learning that the FBI failed to act on a recent tip that warned of this shooter's threats in advance."], "speaker": ["JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR", "ROD ROSENSTEIN, U.S. DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL", "SCIUTTO", "CARL BERNSTEIN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "SCIUTTO", "BERNSTEIN", "SCIUTTO", "BERNSTEIN", "SCIUTTO", "BERNSTEIN", "SCIUTTO", "BERNSTEIN", "SCIUTTO", "BERNSTEIN", "SCIUTTO", "BERNSTEIN", "SCIUTTO", "BERNSTEIN", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "NPR-3510", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2014-12-07", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/12/07/369108438/rolling-stone-blurred-the-lines-in-its-campus-rape-story", "title": "'Rolling Stone' 'Blurred The Lines' In Its Campus Rape Story", "summary": "Rolling Stone has backed away from a story that put the University of Virginia under scrutiny. NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Emily Renda, who handles sexual misconduct response and prevention at UVA.", "utt": ["This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. A bombshell story in Rolling Stone magazine last month put the University of Virginia under scrutiny for its handling of campus sexual assault cases. The emotional core of that story was a gang rape, a claim that a woman identified only as Jackie was assaulted by seven men at a fraternity party. Then last week, another bombshell - Rolling Stone backed away from its reporting. The managing editor wrote a statement saying the magazine has concerns about the piece and that there, quote, \"now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie's account.\"", "Last month, NPR spoke with Emily Renda. She handles sexual misconduct response and prevention at the University of Virginia. She's also a graduate of the school and herself a victim of sexual assault. We've called her again to get her take on this latest development.", "Emily, first we should say you know the victim, the woman identified as Jackie. She told you this story when you were with a campus support group. Now, Rolling Stone has said that their trust in her was misplaced. And I'm quoting there. Do you doubt her story?", "No, I don't. I think that there are some larger complexities at play here. There's a lot of good research, you know, citing Dr. David Lisak and Dr. Rebecca Campbell that suggest that traumatic memories are stored differently in the brain. And so as a result, they're brought out by the brain different as well. So through none of this process have I ever disbelieved Jackie. Have I believed that details may change shape over time because of the nature of trauma? Absolutely.", "Have you spoken to her - Jackie - since the news broke?", "I have. You know, I never feel entirely comfortable speaking on somebody else's behalf. But I'll say that this is very overwhelming. And I know that even just personally as a survivor, I knew that when people questioned me, that was pretty traumatic. And so I can't imagine what it's like to have the national news media outlet that you trusted for months, who attempted to convince you to stay in the story on multiple occasions, all of a sudden turn its back on you and kind of take the entire country down a road of doubting you. That's got to be incredibly traumatic.", "Did it strike you that the piece did not include any response from the alleged perpetrators?", "I, you know, stood by Jackie's decisions about not wanting to name her perpetrator or any of her perpetrators. And, you know, frankly that's very common for victims of trauma to be very, very reluctant to do so. But now in retrospect, I really wish that Rolling Stone had done their due diligence because now, on the backend, Jackie is suffering. The men at the fraternity are suffering and, frankly, the credibility of survivors everywhere is suffering.", "So what happens now? I mean, has this story made it harder for victims?", "I think inevitably, in some ways, it definitely will. It will confirm the age-old rape myth that women lie about being raped. And it, you know, inevitably will also make it harder for male survivors to come forward as well. But I am heartened by the response I see coming from students on campus that say, you know, hold up the second. We do know something about trauma and the way that survivors' stories are told. And that this is not her fault for the way that something was reported as truth and fact against her wishes in some ways.", "We can't let this get in the way of good progress. We need to continue to keep the roles of advocate, investigator and adjudicator very separate. Rolling Stone really blurred the line between those three things. And that's what's done so much damage to Jackie, to the fraternity and really ultimately, and very importantly, survivors everywhere.", "Emily Renda handles sexual misconduct response and prevention at the University of Virginia. Thanks so much for talking with us.", "Thank you.", "An editorial note now. After our conversation with Emily Renda, NPR and other media outlets discovered that Rolling Stone has amended its original note to readers. They removed the line in which they said their trust in Jackie was misplaced."], "speaker": ["RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "EMILY RENDA", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "EMILY RENDA", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "EMILY RENDA", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "EMILY RENDA", "EMILY RENDA", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "EMILY RENDA", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-330953", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-01-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/21/cnr.21.html", "summary": "At Least Five Killed in Kabul Hotel Siege; Turkish Forces Enter Syria's Afrin Region", "utt": ["We continue to follow a developing story out of the Afghan capital, a siege of an international hotel there. An eyewitness is now telling CNN he has heard more explosions at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul. Government officials said earlier they had retaken control of the hotel. They say six people were killed, including a foreigner, and more than 100 others were rescued.", "Just look at the image there. You see people. You see this fire that took place there in the building and people used bed sheets to try to escape, very desperate situation. Officials say all four attackers, though, have been killed. The Taliban had claimed responsibility for this attack. Let's now bring in our senior international correspondent, Sam Kiley, following the story from Abu Dhabi. It's great to have you with us this hour. Let's talk more about this. Earlier we heard that the siege that lasted for several hours, that it was over. But clearly we're hearing some conflicting reports now. What can you tell us?", "Well, just that. They're conflicting reports. There have been eyewitnesses and local media, have reported that there have been some follow-up explosions, following the government announcement that the Afghan special forces had killed --", "-- the four attackers. Now the government put this attack down to the Haqqani Network, which is different from the Taliban. The Taliban have since claimed responsibility and saying that they sent five attackers into the Hotel Intercontinental to conduct this attack more than 12 hours ago. The siege went on for 12 hours. There now have been -- eyewitnesses have told CNN that there have been more explosions. It's not clear what those explosions may relate to. But there is this discrepancy not only between who is being blamed or claiming responsibility for the attack but also the number of attackers involved. Earlier on this week, the State Department had issued a warning against attacks that could follow on particularly Western occupied hotels. And sure enough that has come through. And that was also based on intelligence from the Afghans blaming the Haqqani Network back then. The two are closely allied but they are separate organizations.", "It is important to point that context out, Sam. Thank you so much. Also, just for our viewers, we looked at these images of this building. I don't know if we can show the images again, because again it was just a very desperate situation for the people involved, Sam. Tell us about what was happening, this fire that took place on the top floor of this building that we see and then people just trying to get out.", "Yes, 153 people were evacuated, among them 41 foreigners. That is pretty good going from the Intercontinental. It's an isolated building on top of a hill. It has been attacked before, back in 2011, when a gunman did a very similar thing. They came in and began shooting and killed more than a dozen, I think over 20 people back then. So it could have been a great deal worse. These gunmen are reported to have come in through the kitchens and very quickly moved on the attack. But because the level of security in Kabul is at a very high level of threat, there are special forces on standby at all times, not only Afghan but foreign. There are British and American special forces. New Zealanders are often involved in these counterterrorism operations. Special forces move very, very quickly and we're able, it would seem, at least to isolate or to close down this attack fairly rapidly. The first three, according to Afghan spokesmen, government spokesmen, the first three attackers were killed fairly quickly and the fourth earlier on today, just two or three hours ago. But -- and this is the big but -- is it really over? We are hearing these reports of more explosions and the Taliban seemed to indicate there could be one more gunman on the loose. But I have to say, in Afghanistan, whilst the Taliban do have a reputation, actually, of telling the truth about these sorts of things, so-called Islamic State does not, for example, and the Haqqani Network are also quite prone to claiming responsibility for things they haven't done.", "A lot to keep up with here. But again, the important point that we're hearing, possibly, that this may still be ongoing. I know that you're in touch with your sources, Sam. We'll stay in touch with you, our senior international correspondent Sam Kiley following the story in Abu Dhabi.", "Well, Turkey says rockets fired from Syria have hit inside its territory. It's not clear who fired the rockets but the attack came one day after Turkey launched airstrikes on Syria's Kurdish-held Afrin region.", "The Turkish operation appears to be aimed at ousting the Kurdish YPG. Turkey says it's also targeting ISIS. The YPG are a key U.S. ally against ISIS and Turkey says they are terrorists.", "CNN's Ben Wedeman is following the story for us in Egypt. He joins us from Cairo. Ben this issue highlights one of the many complexities of the Syrian conflict. And Turkey had also threatened to maybe send in ground forces and it looks like, from what we're hearing, that might be happening. What are you hearing?", "Yes, Natalie, according to the Anadolu (ph), the state-run Turkish news agency, Turkish ground forces have entered the Afrin region, which is just north of Aleppo. And we understand this operation actually began at about 5:00 pm yesterday. The Turks have dubbed it Operation Olive Branch, something of an Orwellian twist to call a military operation by that name. The entry of their ground forces was preceded by, according to both the Kurdish forces on the ground as well as the Turkish authorities, more than 100 airstrikes on targets, including one on, according to the Turkish media, one on a tunnel being used by these YPG fighters. Also this morning, as you mentioned earlier, a rocket landed in the town of Kilis, which is near -- a Turkish town near the Syrian --", "-- border leaving one person injured. Now, of course, the Turks have launched this operation because this area, which is predominantly Kurdish, is controlled by the YPG, which the Kurds -- or rather the Turks claim is affiliated with the Kurdish Workers Party, the PKK, based in Turkey, which has been fighting a war against the Turkish state since 1984. And certainly what has raised tensions dramatically in recent weeks, Natalie, was the announcement by the United States that it would be training a 30,000-strong force from the YPG to act as some sort of border security force. President Erdogan of Turkey calling this a terrorist army and vowing that they would crush it before it went into action. Now the Afrin area is very mountainous, very woody. And so it's questionable that the Turks are really going to go dramatically inside the Afrin area. But certainly, this does complicate a situation whereby you have the -- Turkey, which is a member of NATO, an ally at least in word, of the United States, fighting the American-backed and trained and armed YPG. So complication upon complication when it comes to Syria -- Natalie.", "Absolutely. Ben Wedeman, thank you, from Cairo.", "Coast to coast here, in the United States and around the world live you're watching NEWSROOM. Still ahead, finger pointing and name calling and not talking about the other guy. Is there any end in sight to the U.S. government shutdown?", "Also the U.S. vice president is in the Middle East trying to shore up relations with key allies in the wake of President Trump declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel. We'll a live report from Jordan as we push on."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "HOWELL", "SAM KILEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "KILEY", "HOWELL", "KILEY", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "WEDEMAN", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "NPR-45628", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2006-02-22", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5228061", "title": "New Orleans Student Found Refuge in Rhode Island", "summary": "Deandra Stewart of New Orleans' Xavier University talks about a four-day trip that turned into a four-month stay with a Rhode Island family. Stewart attended Brown University during the cleanup that followed Hurricane Katrina.", "utt": ["Deandra, you need to get out of New Orleans now, were the words my uncle Neal told me as I was so eagerly doing community service.", "After community service and a meeting I leisurely packed four days worth of clothes. Like a lot of other people I underestimated hurricane Katrina's arrival. I had no idea that my four-day evacuation would turn into four challenging months. There were blessings, pain and new discoveries.", "After Katrina's wrath, the blessings were numerous. The first came in the form of Brown University who helped me continue my studies. Once they found out that I could not attend my school, they made it possible for me to take classes in Providence. The best blessing I received was from a local writer, Jill Davidson, who opened her home and her heart to me. It was here where I discovered how I wanted the world to perceive my life. Seeing Jill made me realize that I not only wanted to be a wife and a mother, but also a successful working woman.", "But, I also faced a lot of pain during my time in Providence. As a senior from a historically black, Catholic institution, I stuck out like a sore thumb. I will never forget being treated like a charity case when a Brown parent gave me money after realizing I was displaced by the hurricane. Yes, I needed the money, but I didn't need anyone's pity.", "The most humbling moment was when I entered a Salvation Army store. I literally broke down into tears. I always donated clothes to the Salvation Army, but receiving articles of clothing was a different story. I remember pinching myself over and over again to make sure I wasn't dreaming, but this was reality. I found myself crying every night and feeling a sense of hopelessness.", "But Jill and her family were a bright spot during all of this. They constantly reassured me and encouraged me to seek counseling. Whenever I had a long, hard and frustrating day, I knew I would be greeted with warm and friendly smiles from Jill, her husband Kevin and, sons Elias and Leo. They gave me a sense of home and belonging.", "In those four months, I encountered a lifetime of experiences. Some were bad, and others were great. I learned firsthand that tomorrow is not promised and life is full of unexpected surprises. So, I try to make the best of each day and be prepared for life's surprises along the way. Oprah Winfrey stated, I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.", "With this in mind, I'd like to thank Jill Davidson and her family, Dr. McHune(ph), Dr. Wilson, Leadership Alliance, Dr. Wharton(ph), Dr. Fryman(ph), Aubrey(ph), Justin(ph) and Jonathan(ph) for never giving up on me during my stay in Providence, and leading me closer to my own unique fingerprint.", "Deandra Stewart is a senior majoring in Biology at Xavier University in Louisiana.", "This is NPR News."], "speaker": ["Ms. DEANDRA STEWART (Student, Xavier University)", "Ms. DEANDRA STEWART (Student, Xavier University)", "Ms. DEANDRA STEWART (Student, Xavier University)", "Ms. DEANDRA STEWART (Student, Xavier University)", "Ms. DEANDRA STEWART (Student, Xavier University)", "Ms. DEANDRA STEWART (Student, Xavier University)", "Ms. DEANDRA STEWART (Student, Xavier University)", "Ms. DEANDRA STEWART (Student, Xavier University)", "GORDON", "GORDON"]}
{"id": "NPR-37299", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2009-03-21", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102211285", "title": "My Life As A Human Guinea Pig", "summary": "David Ewing Duncan decided to subject himself to more than 200 physical and mental tests — not just for fun, but to write a book about his experience. It's called Experimental Man. Duncan talks with host Jacki Lyden about how close we are to a future where tests can predict our precise risk for developing illness.", "utt": ["Maybe you remember the movie \"Gattaca,\" starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. It's set in a world where seconds after birth, a child is genetically tested for every health problem it will ever have.", "Unidentified Woman #1 (Actor): (As character): Neurological condition, 60 percent probability; manic-depression, 42 percent probability; attention deficit disorder, 89 percent probability; heart disorder, 99 percent probability; early fatal potential; life expectancy, 30.2 years.", "That film came out 12 years ago, and medical testing has boomed since then. So how close are we to that dystopian \"Gattaca\" future? One man took a fantastic voyage through his own body to find out, and that's today's Science Out of the Box.", "David Ewing Duncan had himself tested hundreds of times in a little more than a year. The guy spent 22 hours in MRI machines. He compiled his experiences into a new book called \"Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals About His Future, Your Health and Our Toxic World.\"", "Well, it's important to point out here that I started out as a healthy person, which is unusual.", "I mean, mostly, when you take tests, and you, you know, are involved with the medical system, you're sick, and they're trying to treat you. So this is a bit of a new way to approach medicine.", "But what I found out was, essentially, that I am healthy at the end of all of these fancy tests I took. But there were a few little proclivities that I found that might be coming in my future.", "Mm-hmm. These were a bit scary. Would you tell us what they were?", "Well, probably the most serious one was that I seem to have a heart attack risk that was not detected with present-day medicine, but was detected with a couple of fancy tests that I took that are in a prototype phase. They're not ready yet for use for everyone. That was one useful test.", "But how much should we depend on these kinds of tests, because you got several different results from the heart attack test, ranging from probabilities of 30 to 60 percent.", "No, that's right. It was essentially a low, medium and high risk, at least for the genetic parts of the test. And I have to say that that was only part of this test for heart attack, and that part was a little confusing, but when that was added into a lot of other tests, like say, a chest CT scan and some other chemistry, cholesterol, things like that, that's where I began to believe this test, and it got a little more focused into, you know, the high-risk category.", "Let's talk about the brain-age test. You felt pretty competitive going into that. What is the brain-age test?", "The brain-age test is actually a very serious test used by pharmaceutical companies when they're testing new neurological drugs, like say, for Alzheimer's, and it essentially measures how old your brain is according to these rather complex cognitive and memory tests.", "And I came out, you know, being a 51-year-old man, actually 50 at the time when I took it, with a brain age of only 25, which was kind of nice.", "Our senior editor took it, Rick Coulter(ph), and he's 46, and he came out with a brain age of 80. But he was looking, I think, at the NCAA playoffs at the same time.", "Well, and you know, that's the upper limit of the test, too. He could have actually been even older.", "I, however, was a damsel of 36, and I was eating salad. What was it like to spend 22 hours inside MRI machines?", "Oh my God, it was the most boring 22 hours of my life.", "And it was interesting to get the results, but you're laying on your back inside of this doughnut. There are all kinds of clicks and things going on. You have to wait, basically, for the blood to flow in your brain because that's what it's measuring. It was interesting.", "I probably, though, have depleted my interest in sticking my head in an MRI, at least for a while.", "Most of us won't be able to do this many tests. Some of them were in experimental stages. What should we learn from the way that testing is improving so rapidly?", "Well, I tend to be a pragmatist on these kind of tests. I think that they will be coming, and they will be available, and some of them already, in a preliminary way, with online genetic testing companies and that sort of thing. So it's not a matter of, you know, if we will do this. It's a matter of when it happens.", "So, I think we need to, ourselves decide, how much of this information do we want to know. I think we need to make sure that, the governmental level, that there are adequate laws passed to protect ourselves from the misuse of this information.", "But mostly, it's a philosophical question of where our society will go, having this intimate information that we've never had before about ourselves.", "David Ewing Duncan's new book is called \"Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals About His Future, Your Health and Our Toxic World.\" Thanks for taking the NPR test.", "Well, thank you for having me. 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{"id": "NPR-22858", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2014-12-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/12/26/373210924/for-indian-coastal-town-tsunami-ushered-in-change", "title": "For Indian Coastal Town, Tsunami Ushered In Change", "summary": "Ten years ago, the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 100,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India. Some 7,000 people died in the Indian town of Nagapattinam. How has the town recovered?", "utt": ["Ten years ago today, the Indian Ocean tsunami killed an estimated 200,000 people across 14 countries. In India, the district of Nagapattinam in the south was the worst hit region. More than 6,000 people died there. Nacha Raman visited recently and filed this report.", "(Foreign language spoken).", "The lifeguard doesn't let up on bellowing into the public address system. He's trying to keep pilgrims, who bathe in the sea near the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health, safe. Mic in one hand, he clutches a cell phone in the other to receive alerts about any abnormal meteorological events, all part of an early warning system being implemented to avert future disasters along this coast, says the district's top civil servant T. Munusamy.", "T. MUNUSAMY: (Through translator) So in 154 seashore villages, the work is going on - this warning system.", "The sea has always shaped Nagapattinam's history. Conquerors, missionaries, traders and colonizers sailed here over the past centuries, but nobody expected these waters to deliver Nagapattinam's biggest shock in this century. The scale of the tragedy prompted pilgrimage centers to provide shelter to those who had lost their homes.", "The Nagore Sufi shrine even opened up its burial ground to Christians and Hindus, in addition to Muslims. Shahul Hameed Sayib, who claims to be a descendent of the Sufi saint the shrine is dedicated to, says the scores buried there have not been forgotten by their families.", "So every December on 26 they're visiting here, even in Muslim and non-Muslims all visited here.", "This communal integration has been reinforced by mixing up different communities in housing project allotments. Nearly 20,000 new concrete houses have been built, at least 500 meters away from the sea, for families who were living in huts on the beach. The families may like their new neighbors, but they don't necessarily like their new houses. Many are unhappy with the cramped space, like Rangaian Aravindan, a 64-year-old fisherman.", "(Through translator) Here we use the same space to sleep and eat. It's so much less comfortable here than where we were before.", "And it's inconvenient for fishing.", "(Through translator) From here we can't tell what the wind and sea are like. When we lived on the beach, we knew how the wind was blowing, what the tide was like.", "Down at the beach, fishermen return from a day at sea. They complain about having to venture out as far as neighboring Sri Lanka for a good catch, where their boats are often impounded by Sri Lankan security forces. Factor in rising fuel costs and fishing is no longer the lucrative business it used to be, says 38-year-old Govindaswamy Vijayan, but he doesn't have much choice, he adds.", "(Through translator) We were born into this. For us, other trades aren't viable alternatives.", "Women in the fishing community, however, are picking up the slack. Geeta Selvaraj is involved in a catering business now. Before the tsunami, her fisherman husband used to bring home $300 a month. Now he barely manages half of that, whereas her income has doubled.", "(Through translator) The money we women earn is a great help to run the home because our men don't go out to sea all the time.", "Like Geeta Selvaraj, people in the district have found ways to cope with their losses - big or small - and rebuild their lives, but they say they haven't forgotten that fateful day. For NPR News, I'm Nacha Raman in Nagapattinam, India."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "NACHA RAMAN, BYLINE", "NACHA RAMAN, BYLINE", "NACHA RAMAN, BYLINE", "NACHA RAMAN, BYLINE", "SHAHUL HAMEED SAYIB", "NACHA RAMAN, BYLINE", "RANGAIAN ARAVINDAN", "NACHA RAMAN, BYLINE", "RANGAIAN ARAVINDAN", "NACHA RAMAN, BYLINE", "GOVINDASWAMY VIJAYAN", "NACHA RAMAN, BYLINE", "GEETA SELVARAJ", "NACHA RAMAN, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-370097", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-05-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/20/cnr.20.html", "summary": "\"Game of Thrones\" Ends It's Eight-Year Run.", "utt": ["It's the day millions of fans dreaded. \"Game of Thrones\" is over.", "Its wildly successful eight-year run on HBO came to an end on Sunday as someone new seized power, the iron throne.", "Among those dissecting the last episode, CNN's senior media and entertainment writer Brian Lowry, who is a huge fan of the show, as am I, and he joins us live from Los Angeles. Great to see you.", "Thank you.", "Let's repeat again before we begin, spoiler alert to all those \"Game of Thrones\" fans who have not yet seen the series final, finale, block your ears, close your eyes, walk out of the room, whatever you need to do. We are about to discuss who won the game of thrones. Are you ready? So Brian, not many people saw this one coming, right? And not many fans are happy about the ending. What did you think of that ending and who ended up taking over?", "Well, I said -- you know, when you think about hot takes, saying it is fine, isn't the hottest of hot takes, but I kind of thought it was fine. I did have a problem with the pacing in the last couple of episodes leading up to it. I thought the first 40 minutes or so of the finale were very strong. And then after the big death, which I guess we are going to talk about, I felt like it was a little bit anti-climactic after that. So it's not -- by no means a one for the ages finale. Not a great finale. But for me it was not an entirely satisfying finale.", "Right. And of course the storyline of episode six was leaked online last week and fans were furious. That's even before it aired, right? So how will they deal with this surprise ending, do you think, and the demise of Dany?", "Well, I think some of the fans have not been dealing with any of this very well. Obviously, a lot of people were very upset with sort of the arc of Daenerys's character this season. And there was a speech in this last episode that Peter Dinklage's character delivered, Tyrion, which I really think helped a lot in sort of explaining where she had gone. It's only too bad they didn't do that three or four episodes ago. If they had laid more groundwork for it, I think they would have spared themselves some headaches and some criticism later on.", "Yeah. That was a powerful speech. And basically you won't be born to power going forward, you will earn it, you will be chosen for that position, right? A real plug for democracy.", "Right.", "A lot of fans were so upset last week with episode five when Daenerys went mad and as you said mercilessly burned most of king's landing along with many innocent people. Hundreds of thousands of viewers signed a petition for a do-over of the whole of season eight. They were so angry with the writers and producers. What upset them the most, do you think? And how were they hoping this would end? Were they looking for a Hollywood ending here? I mean, after investing eight years of their lives, they surely realized that was not where this was going.", "Well, I think you just said the magic word really, which is they'd invested eight years of their lives. And, you know, you see this with some of these big franchises. I think \"Star Wars: The Last Jedi\" was another example of this where people get very tied up in it. They spend a lot of time coming up with scenarios on the way they think this is going to go. And when it doesn't go the way they anticipate, they get ticked off. In this case, I think it also went back into some issues the show has had throughout its run about the way that it deals with female characters. I think it strengthened those characters dramatically the last couple of seasons. And the arc with Daenerys and Cersei and Brienne also this season, a lot of people were saying oh boy, there they go again.", "Yeah, I think that was it. I think the demise of Daenerys was the thing that really upset people the most. And therapists are offering their services to \"Game of Thrones\" fans who need help getting over the show coming to an end, but also the way it ended. How often does that happen with long-running shows like this? And what was it about this show that people got so invested in the characters and the storyline?", "Well, I think the show -- first off, I think if you need a therapist when a T.V. show ends, there may be more going on than just the T.V. show ending. But as far as the show, I really think the \"Game of Thrones\" was a show that brought the scope and scale of a theatrical blockbuster to television. So it had the big serialized storyline with dozens of characters that you could get sucked into like \"The Sopranos\" or \"The Wire\" or any of the great HBO dramas, and then staged it on a level in this mythical world that really no one had ever seen done quite that way for T.V. before.", "Right.", "It set the bar on that level enormously high. And I think a lot of networks and streaming services are going to lose a lot of money trying to come up with something like it.", "All right. Brian Lowry, great to talk with you. Appreciate it.", "All right. Thank you.", "All good things come to an end, right?", "Yep, they do.", "And we end this show with one of our colleagues who is ending his career in retirement, Doug McKinney (ph). Doug was a copy editor here for \"CNN Newsroom.\" He was with CNN for 13 years. This is his last day, and we are going to miss him.", "Yes. Well done, Doug. Thank you for everything you've given us. And thank you for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church.", "And I'm George Howell. Doug, thank you. Thank you for being with us for \"Newsroom.\" Have a great day."], "speaker": ["CHURCH", "HOWELL", "CHURCH", "BRIAN LOWRY, CNN SENIOR MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT WRITER", "CHURCH", "LOWRY", "CHURCH", "LOWRY", "CHURCH", "LOWRY", "CHURCH", "LOWRY", "CHURCH", "LOWRY", "CHURCH", "LOWRY", "CHURCH", "LOWRY", "HOWELL", "CHURCH", "HOWELL", "CHURCH", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-171569", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-8-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/31/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Moammar Gadhafi Still At Large; Libyan Rebels Prepare for Offensive Against Sirte", "utt": ["Within just this past hour, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of Moammar Gadhafi, spoke to an Arab radio station, and he issued a challenge to the rebels who seized much of the country, including the capital of Tripoli. Said Gadhafi's challenge is this -- go ahead, take the city of Sirte if you can. Sirte is perhaps the last remaining Gadhafi stronghold some 300 miles from Tripoli. The rebels say they have Sirte surrounded, and they've told Gadhafi supporters there to surrender by Saturday. Arwa Damon for us live in the Libyan capital. Arwa, I know Saadi Gadhafi reached out to our own Nic Robertson. What has he said and what have we heard from Saif al-Islam on that television channel?", "Well, the two brothers do appear at least to be adopting different tones in that email. Saadi said they will be willing to negotiate a ceasefire to a certain degree saying if the rebels could guarantee safe passage to Tripoli, they would be willing to negotiate. The National Transitional Council for their part saying that they would secure safe passage for any family member to come to Tripoli, but that they would then be detained upon arrival. The rebels in the opposition council are not necessarily looking for any sort of negotiated cease-fire but rather firmly wanting to put the family on trial and see some sort of justice. Saif al-Islam continuing to adopt a very, very defiant tone saying they have 20,000 fighters ready to take on the rebel fighters in the town of Sirte, also saying that he was, in fact, speaking from a Tripoli neighborhood and that both he and his father were fine. Absolutely no way of verifying the authenticity of that message or verifying that Saif al-Islam or any one of the Gadhafi family members claim to still be in Libya. But if you listen to the celebrations happening behind me, the people here in Tripoli most certainly continue to believe the capital is firmly in their control and that the Gadhafi can try to fight for as long as it wants to, but they are not going to be giving up the freedom they have right now.", "Arwa, just quickly, why are they celebrating behind you? Just explain that.", "Well, it is the end of the holy month of Ramadan. People are telling us this year they are celebrating for their religious holiday but also they are celebrating their victory. They are singing various revolution slogans behind us. And it's been a fairly emotional time. We were seeing children out earlier in the street today who were also singing and dancing. And they were interestingly saying it is the first time that they have been out in the streets singing, no matter what it was that they were singing -- they are celebrating in that you are newfound freedom.", "They're celebrating. But let's talk about the stark reality of Tripoli. More than half the city doesn't have any running water. The U.N. is working of an impending crisis there. Is anyone working to get water running? Who's taking charge there?", "It's been interesting. Even though there are shipments expected from the World Food Program, neighborhoods are really rallying together. There are a number of households here that have dug their own wells. They have done this historically, and those people are literally throwing their doors open to everybody in the neighborhood. And 60 percent of the capital, according to the U.N., is without water and sanitation. Yes, families are struggling. But at the same time, they're saying that communities are coming together in a way that's never been seen before, at least never seen since the Gadhafi regime came into power. There are of course widespread health concern, and you continue to hear --", "People here celebrate with gunfire and fireworks. But at the end of the day there are concerns about the water situation. But they are saying they fully believe this is something they're going to get through given everything they've been through here, Brooke.", "Gunfire, their own version of fireworks. Arwa Damon they are celebrating the end of Ramadan. Thank you very much, in Tripoli. And now this --", "If you hadn't been drinking, do you think you would have done it.", "Absolutely. It was water. You're in the water. Do you go to water just to look at it?", "And his clothes though, you threw him in in his clothes?", "Well, we have more clothes.", "This guy throws his seven-year-old son overboard off a moving boat. Coming up next, not only will you hear how he is defending himself in a pretty wild interview but also speak live to the sheriff's department investigating this. Don't miss both sides of this story. That's next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "DAMON", "BALDWIN", "DAMON", "DAMON", "BALDWIN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SLOANE BRILES, FATHER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BRILES", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-211985", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2013-8-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/06/cg.02.html", "summary": "Jeff Bezos Buys \"Washington Post\"; George W. Bush Gets Heart Stent", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. Now it's time for our Politics Lead. Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is back in the political spotlight, attending a New Hampshire reception to raise money for the GOP. It's a rare, rare public appears for the 2012 runner-up and a reminder that when you lose a presidential campaign, fundraisers are now very special occasions. Like date night. Dan Balz, a veteran political reporter for \"The Washington Post\" has just released a book on the race. It's called \"Collison 2012: Obama vs. Romney And The Future of Elections In America.\" And boy, does he mean collision.", "It's got Mike Tyson, an anecdote about vomit, and at least one guy who has had alleged inappropriate relations with women. But it's not the movie \"The Hangover.\" It's the story behind America's 2012 presidential campaign that esteemed political reporter Dan Balz could not have made up if he tried. In his new book \"Collision 2012,\" \"The Washington Post\" chief correspondent delves into the two-year, multi-character plot, twist- filled contest to be the leader of free world. And the behind-the-scenes details do not disappoint. This is Jim Messina, President Obama's former campaign manager, who told Balz his job on the campaign was to, quote, \"punch the Republicans in the face,\" a metaphorical play on Mike Tyson's famous line \"Everyone has a plan until they get punched.\" But to read Balz's account, the Republicans needed no help beating themselves up.", "Was this an affair?", "No, it was not.", "There was no sex?", "No.", "More than a punch, Governor Rick Perry's adviser told Balz, this moment like an earthquake.", "What's the third one there? Let's see.", "One that just kept going.", "Oops.", "And then there was this moment.", "What do you mean shut up?", "Vomit. No, I'm not saying anything against Clint Eastwood's Republican convention appearance. I'm just telling you the literal reaction that Romney adviser top advisor Stu Stevens had to this memorable speech. Ann Romney was a bit kinder during her CBS appearance the next morning.", "We appreciated Clint's support, and he's a unique guy and he did a unique thing last night.", "Balz writes that even some of the best-reviewed convention speeches of the presidential race were worrisome. Former president Bill Clinton walked out to thunderous Democratic Conventiona applause at approximately 10:40 p.m. on September 5. Backstage and throughout the day, President Obama had been asking repeatedly to see a draft of Clinton's comments. The planned 25-minute speech by the former president was continually interrupted by applause, and the future second-term president grew more anxious. Fifty minutes later, Clinton exited the stage, leaving the commander-in-chief smiling his way through the changing plan.", "President Clinton always cuts it close on deadlines, which can make those coordinated conventions even more nerve-racking. But joining me now for the Lead Read is the author of \"Collision 2012,\" Washington Post chief correspondent Dan Balz. Dan, thanks for joining us. You interviewed Mitt Romney for this book in January, and I have to say, reading what he said about the response to the question about the 47 percent of the American people as he characterized them, I don't really know if he understands yet why people took offense at that comment. There seems to be a bit of denial there. What was your take?", "Well, I had the same reaction, Jake. I thought that -- he believes he said something different, and the literal words obviously are the ones that people remember when he said there's 47 percent of the country, these are people who won't take control of their own lives. And he continues to say, I didn't really say that. And he went and got his iPad and started to read through some of what he had said and the question that he was asked. He knows it was a damaging moment. He believes it was damaging because there was the perception what he said. He still had trouble processing that it was the actual words.", "You also got the sense in your book from both Romney and his son, Tagg, that throughout the buildup to his announcement that he was going to run, he was looking for reasons not to run. Do you think that lack of fire in the belly in some ways, do you think that might have contributed to why he lost?", "You know, it may be, although I think once he was into it, he's a competitive person. He was a competitive businessman, and I think he was a competitive running mate. But he had two reservations. One early on was was he the best person in the party who might be able to defeat President Obama. He said to me if some other people ran, and he mentioned specifically Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida. He said if someone like that had gotten into the race, he might not have. The other question he had was whether he was actually a very good fit for a Republican Party that is more conservative than he is, that's Southern based, he's a northerner, that's evangelical, he's Mormon. He said Stu Stevens, his chief strategist, always said to him this could be a tough fight. And so, he had some questions. But as the field developed, Jake, the actual field he was going to have to compete against, he decided he was the best of that group in order to go against the president.", "The book, speaking of the president, the book discusses the president's lack of a real second-term agenda. It discusses some questions he faced throughout the first term about how strong a leader he was. How do you see those critiques from the 2012 campaign playing out now?", "Well, we continue to see some of that. The question about what he would do in a second term was one that they wanted to address in only the vaguest of ways. He did not have a big new economic program, as you know, to roll out during the campaign. And so he wanted to make the fight not about exactly what ideas he had or the current state of the economy, he wanted to make it about the question of which of these two candidates would be better for the middle class well into the future. And they were pretty effective at doing that. But it begged the question. And you know, it was after Labor Day they finally put out a document about a second-term agenda. But it was -- it was late, it was not that well developed and he didn't talk that much about it except in generalities. We've seen he has an agenda for the second term, but it's been interrupted constantly by the battles on the Hill. He has had to return to the middle class theme only recently at a time when a lot of Americans are still wondering what the administration has in mind for them in order to really get this economy moving.", "Dan, before you go, you are a 35-year veteran of \"The Washington Post\" and obviously yesterday big news, Amazon's Jeff Bezos bought \"The Washington Post.\" What's the feeling inside the newsroom and what's it like for you, who has worked there for so long?", "Well, I never thought I would see this day. I always thought that the Graham family would keep the newspaper. It was a combination of shock yesterday and a certain amount of sadness. They've been terrific owners. Ben Bradley always said the key to being a great editor is you start with a great owner and that's what the Grahams have been. So there's sadness about departure of the Grahams and their stewardship of the paper. On the other hand, there's some hopefulness that Mr. Bezos will be able to chart a future that will put us on a more secure footing economically. I mean, we're all struggling. It doesn't matter whether it's the \"Washington Post\" or many other news organizations are trying to figure out how we become more economically viable, how we reach more people, how we generate more revenues. He's been innovative in the new world and we're hopeful he'll be able to bring some ideas and some innovation to what we do.", "All right, Dan Balz, author of \"Collision 2012,\" a LEAD read, thank you so much for your time. I'll see you on the campaign trail, my friend.", "Thank you, Jake. I appreciate it.", "He'd wait until it hit 100 degrees to go run for his -- in the morning in Texas. That's a real threat for his Secret Service agents, but even a guy as seemingly healthy as President George W. Bush could not escape the threat of heart disease. Doctors say the former president successfully had a stent placed into a heart artery this morning to open a blockage that was found during his yearly physical. President Bush is now 67 years old. He is expected to be out of the hospital tomorrow. Still to come, the breaking news in Benghazi, nearly a year after the deadly attack, the U.S. finally seeks justice with a complaint under seal. We'll have more about CNN's special report about the attack and the aftermath. And the author of the girl with the dragon tattoo died nearly nine years ago, but Stig Larson is still managing to put out a new crime story coming up."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "TAPPER (voice-over)", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "HERMAN CAIN, FORMER GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "BLITZER", "CAIN", "TAPPER", "RICK PERRY, FORMER GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "TAPPER", "PERRY", "TAPPER", "CLINT EASTWOOD, ACTOR", "TAPPER", "ANN ROMNEY, MITT ROMNEY'S WIFE", "TAPPER", "TAPEPR", "DAN BALZ, CHIEF CORRESPONDENT, \"THE WASHINGTON POST\"", "TAPPER", "BALZ", "TAPPER", "BALZ", "TAPPER", "BALZ", "TAPPER", "BALZ", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-197047", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2012-12-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1212/06/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Duchess Catherine Leaves Hospital; Weight Watchers `Pleased` with Jessica Simpson; John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John in New Music Video; Countdown: Top Ten Shockers of the Year", "utt": ["Tonight on the SHOWBIZ Countdown, was Kristen Stewart cheating on Robert Pattinson the year`s biggest shocker? Or was it Prince Harry, caught on camera buck naked? SHOWBIZ TONIGHT counting down the \"Top Ten Shockers of 2012\". Wait until you see what`s No. 1. Hello, I`m A.J. Hammer. And our No. 1 shocker on the SHOWBIZ Countdown is coming up. But we begin with our first SHOWBIZ Countdown of the night. It`s today`s \"Top Five Buzz Makers\". Let`s get right to it. At No. 5, Kate`s brave exit from the hospital. Duchess Catherine did not sneak out the back door of the London hospital today. After several days of treatment for acute morning sickness and revealing the pregnancy heard around the world, the duchess bravely walked out with Prince William and showing the world that she`s doing just fine, thank you. CNN`s Matthew Chance is in London tonight for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. So Matt, tell us how this all played out today.", "Well, the duchess left this hospital in central London where she`s been treated for acute morning sickness escorted by her husband, Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, clutching the bouquet of roses and with a big smile on her face. It`s been a very difficult few days for her. A royal statement says she`s now resting at home in Kensington Palace and that the duke and duchess thanked the staff of the hospital for all the attention and care that they gave. Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, has also commented for the first time, saying how excited he is at the prospect of becoming a granddad.", "Your royal highness, what`s your reaction to the news about the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge?", "How do you know I`m not a radio station? I`m thrilled. A really nice thought to be a grandfather at my old age, if I may say so. So that`s splendid. And I`m very glad my daughter-in-law is getting better. Thank goodness.", "As Prince Charles referred to there, there has been controversy over the privacy of the duchess at the hospital, when it emerged that an Australian radio show made a prank call, impersonating Prince Charles and the Queen, and managed to get personal information about the duchess` condition from a nurse on the ward. The station has since apologized, saying it was all meant as a light- hearted thing. The hospital, of course, has been forced now to seriously review its telephone security procedures in order to protect other high- profile patients like the royals in the future.", "Yes. No question about that. The hospital has some serious issues to handle. It`s CNN`s Matthew Chance for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Certainly great seeing Prince Charles can take a joke, right? Maybe we`re going to be seeing the softer side of the royals with this pregnancy. With me in New York, Jenny Hutt, who`s the host of \"Just Jenny\" on Sirius XM. Look at that, it`s Queen Jenny Hutt or is that a princess?", "I`m a princess,", "In Hollywood tonight, a prince of a man, Hyla, the host of \"The Daily Buzz\" on CelebBuzz.com. And I`m afraid you don`t have any headgear, do you, Hyla? All right. Listen, I`m personally giving the duchess a lot of credit here. She didn`t have to do this, but she was very brave and faced the cameras. They didn`t sneak her out the back door or anything like that. And of course, Prince William right there by her side, Jenny. Do you think they did this intentionally to send a message?", "Well, I adore this princess, and I think, yes, she is brave, and she`s walked into this whole \"being a princess thing\" eyes wide open. I mean, really how could she not? So I think they did the right thing by just coming out and going. She is pregnant. She has been feeling ill, and she`s moving forward. It`s all good.", "And she was glowing. I mean, I thought she looked spectacular.", "She`s gorgeous. She`s amazing.", "I`m also intrigued. Look at this picture. Look at the way she walked out of the hospital carrying this bouquet of flowers, strategically placed at her midsection there. Hyla, you think she knows that all the camera lenses were trained on that spot? That`s why she held the bouquet there?", "Yes, 100 percent. I mean, poor girl, she`s having morning sickness and she has to do it in front of 2 billion people. I mean, that`s got to be a lot of pressure for her. And she is dealing with it the best that someone can deal with it. And I think this is why everybody loves her, obviously.", "Yes. Very, very classy. Well, somebody else who I think is quite classy and knows all about being the focus of baby bumps, Jessica Simpson, especially with reports that she`s pregnant again. Today there`s actually a new report that her multimillion dollar deal as the face of Weight Watchers could fall apart if she is expecting. Jessica`s No. 4 on our \"SHOWBIZ Buzz Makers\" countdown, after \"Us Weekly\" reported that Weight Watchers is just furious about Jessica`s reported pregnancy. \"Us Weekly\" reports that Jessica`s first ad had to be shot from the waist up because she didn`t lose enough weight in time. And they fear releasing the second ad because of the rumored pregnancy, basically saying who`s going to want to hear about a pregnant woman on a diet? Well, today Weight Watchers told SHOWBIZ TONIGHT the whole report is hogwash. Let me read what they said to us: \"There have been no changes to our contract with Jessica, and we have a great relationship with her. We are thrilled with the ads we shot with her in November. And we can`t wait to launch our winter campaign later this month.\" All right, Jenny, how do you decipher this? Do you think it means that Jessica`s not pregnant? Do you think it means, if she is pregnant, it doesn`t matter to them?", "Right. I think if, in fact, what they`re saying now is true, then I think it doesn`t matter to them that she`s pregnant from a business standpoint. I don`t know what their emotional reactions are. And I think if she did lose the weight prior to becoming pregnant again, even if it`s only seven months after baby Maxwell is born, then she got skinny enough for these ads, and she`s going to look great in the ads. I think that`s all that matters. She`s not exactly a dieting pregnant person. She`s someone who dieted and got back to her pre-pregnancy weight and now is going to be pregnant.", "Hyla, what do you think? Weight Watchers, they`re OK with whatever the heck is going on with Jessica Simpson?", "Yes, they`re between, you know, a rock and a hard place. Right? They want what they paid for. They want a woman to have lost weight, because that`s the campaign. At the same time, they can`t, like, hold a woman at fault because she`s having another kid. So they kind of just have to go with the flow. And also, oh, wow, Jessica`s a normal woman. So maybe she didn`t lose all the weight right away like everybody else does. I mean, it`s not an easy thing to lose the weight. So I think Jessica`s sitting pretty here. Weight Watchers, they just have to go along for the ride.", "Yes. Don`t make Jenny Hutt put her lawyer tiara on. Because she might start telling us, well, we don`t really know what`s in Jessica`s contract.", "Yes.", "But I guess with that statement, the contract is good with whatever`s going on. But from buzzy baby news now to a brand-new buzz making, and quite frankly, what a lot of people today called a very cheesy music video for a holiday album. It features the great couple, John Travolta and his former \"Grease\" co-star, Olivia Newton-John. So good to have them back together and at No. 3 on our countdown. The song is called, \"I Think I Like It.\" But is the cheese factor just too much? Well, please decide for yourself.", "I`m coming home tonight. Here comes that magic, the spell of Christmas Eve. There`s nothing you can do but wear your heart upon your sleeve.", "My mind is going a little crazy knowing.", "I like it, but at the same time it makes me want to go out to the parking lot and throw up all over my pickup truck there, Hyla. You know? Do we deny the cheese factor? Do we accept it? Is it what were they going for? What`s happening? Please make me understand.", "Yes. Speaking of a smell, when you walk into a room and someone smells that, and they make that face, like that`s when I`m watching that video. Maybe joke`s on us, because the last time I checked, it was right at, you know, half a million views. We`re talking about John Travolta. He`s an A- list celebrity. He can`t get, like, just good production? Forget about the song. He just can`t find a good production team to put something that some college kid can do? This is embarrassing.", "No, I mean, Jenny, \"You`re the One That I Want.\" We love it, but cheesy.", "Yes, it`s cheesy, but it was better production than this was. I mean, this really -- I could make a better video. And watching this, I kind of had to avert my gaze, kind of had to close my ears. It`s horrible.", "Oh, no. You loved it. Come on, it`s a little holiday treat for all of us.", "OK.", "And that`s your point, the music video is for a good cause. Any money made from the album is going to the foundation setup in memory of Travolta`s last (sic) son. So we`re going to stop making fun of it.", "OK.", "Our SHOWBIZ Countdown continues. We`re down to the top two of our \"Top Five Buzz Makers\". Simon Cowell`s incredible new feud and face-off with his fellow \"X Factor\" judge, Demi Lovato. And the brand-new war of words between LeAnn Rimes and her husband`s ex-wife, Brandi Glanville, over -- are you ready for this? -- laxatives. The big No. 1 reveal is coming up. Well, you`ve got to catch our other big SHOWBIZ Countdown tonight. I`m getting ready for it, the \"Top Ten SHOWBIZ Shockers of the Year\". First, Brad and Angelina swore off marriage until gay marriage was legal. Well, that all changed this year when Brad popped the big question and Angelina said yes. Kim Kardashian took marriage mania to a whole different level last year. This year, it was a revelation that she`s in love with the pop star Kanye West. That`s left a lot of people stunned. What will the No. 1 shocker of the year be? This is SBT, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, on HLN SHOWBIZ TONIGHT traveled to Nashville for the huge Grammy awards nomination show last night. This year, it`s all about the new school artists that are shaking things up, like Fun. I love this band. And they spoke with us about their staggering six nominations.", "It`s been an incredible year in music. It feels like alternative music is back. But there`s a -- there`s a change that`s coming in music. And it feels like a big year for that. So we`re just excited to be a part of it."], "speaker": ["A.J. HAMMER, HOST", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PRINCE CHARLES, UNITED KINGDOM", "CHANCE", "HAMMER", "JENNY HUTT, HOST, SIRIUS XM`S \"JUST JENNY\"", "A.J.  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{"id": "CNN-101911", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2006-1-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/20/lkl.01.html", "summary": "Still No Word on Jill Carroll", "utt": ["Let's meet our panel and we will later take phone calls. Judea Pearl remains with us, the father of the late Daniel Pearl. In New York is Garen, documentary journalist who was abducted in Iraq in August of 2004, released after ten days in captivity. He and his partner Marie Helene Carlton are co-authors of \"American Hostage, a Memoir of a Journalist kidnapped in Iraq and a Remarkable Battle to win his Release.\" There you see the cover and he knows Jill Carroll. In Washington is Natasha Tynes, a good friend and former journalistic colleague of Jill. Jill was part of her wedding and has stayed in her home in Amman, Jordan. Her blog at www.natashatynes.com includes commentary about Jill and this kidnapping ordeal. In Jerusalem is Stephen Farrell, the Mid East Bureau Chief of \"Times of London.\" He was abducted near the Iraqi city of Fallujah in April of 2004, set free after he managed to convince his captors that he was a genuine journalist. He, as well, knows Jill Carroll. And Lara Logan is joining us in New York. She is the CBS News correspondent, contributing correspondent for \"60 Minutes,\" has reported extensively from Afghanistan and Iraq, indeed was in Iraq last month for the national election. She is not, however, acquainted with Jill Carroll. Michah, tell us your story. How were you taken?", "Well, I was working in Nasiriyah for about five months in the summer of 2004 and it was my last weekend of filming. And, as luck would have it, I was trying to film B-roll in a marketplace and a man noticed my camera and as soon as they noticed that, you know, they realized that you're a foreigner. And I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and they took me at gunpoint, a number of people, threw me in the back of a car and then I was taken first to the Sadr (ph) office and then driven out into the marshes blindfolded for ten days.", "Did you think you had bought the bullet?", "Yes, there were times actually, you know. Most of the time I figured it was 50/50 but five days into it when they made a video execution threat unannounced they just blindfolded me, led me into a building and I found myself on my knees in front of a small video camera with about a dozen men with guns. I was fairly convinced that that was it.", "Should we be encouraged, Michah that Jill is a journalist and speaks Arabic?", "Absolutely. I mean the fact that she's a journalist makes a very big difference, the fact that she can speak Arabic means that she can represent herself to her captors and connect with them and these are very important things. You know the fact that she is a journalist, she has so many friends now who are out there pleading on her behalf and I'm incredibly encouraged to see the number of Muslim voices that have come out in the past two days and I think it's a good sign.", "You know her well right?", "Yes, we were actually staying in the same hotel for the five months that I was out there.", "Natasha, who's a good friend and former journalistic colleague of Jill, the longer this goes on are you more hopeful?", "Yes, at this point I believe no news is good news and the fact that many Muslim and Arab organizations now they are condemning this and are asking for her quick release and all of them are saying this is wrong and she's a journalist and she's innocent and these are all good signs. And, the efforts are still ongoing as we speak, so these are all good signs so I'm hopeful.", "Stephen Farrell, who was abducted near the Iraqi city of Fallujah in April of 2004, he's Mid East bureau chief for the \"Times of London,\" did you think that you had bought it?", "Yes, absolutely. I was sure. I was sure I had. When they dragged us out of a car and pulled us into a taxi with Kalashnikovs at your head and knives at your throat, head butting you trying to blindfold you, you really do think your time has come.", "What were they asking for?", "Well, they weren't asking for anything. We were taken by a group of effectively bandits, road bandits who just seemed to want to -- I don't know what they wanted. They just -- we didn't fit in and they certainly took our money. But after that we were handed on to another group and they were -- they described themselves as the resistance or the mujahaddin and they were much more calmer and rational and spelled out their demands or at least spelled out their conditions, which were if you're a journalist you're OK. If you're not, you're not, and we managed thankfully to convince them we were and were just hoping that although it's a slightly longer time scale, obviously, that Jill manages to do the same.", "Lara Logan, you've had a lot of experience in the region. What do you make, what do you think, who do you think this group is?", "Well, it's obviously very difficult for anyone to say because the name that was posted on the al Qaeda website is probably just made up. It's a kind of operational name, the same way the American military would give an operation a name when they go and move into an area. That's what the kidnappers do. If it's not a group that anybody recognizes, then most likely it doesn't exist and it's only the people who are talking to the kidnappers who really know what's going on. They're the only ones who have any idea whether it makes a difference that Jill's a woman, that she speaks Arabic, that she's a journalist. I mean we hope that these are mitigating factors but the fact that Margaret Hassan was an aid worker and was Irish and had worked with the Iraqi people for decades helping them that didn't help her in the end. So, it really isn't possible for anyone to speculate on that.", "So, therefore, you have to say you're in the dark on this?", "You're definitely in the dark and there are people who are trying to make contact with the kidnappers. For all we know contact has already been made and it's only people who are in touch with them who are getting a real sense of who these people are and what they want. But when it isn't overtly political, you know, you'll have seen in the past when al Qaeda take hostages they're the first people to stand up and say and claim responsibility. You know it's political. You know who they are and you know what they want, which is to incite terror. And, it's very clear from the outset what their aims are. When it's a group like this, it's highly likely that the motive here in money.", "Judea, do you think it's negotiable?", "I am very happy to hear that so many groups are coming, voicing condemnations and speaking on her behalf but I think they're missing, what we're missing is coordinated effort against not this case but against the general phenomena of abducting journalists. And, I would like to propose two important acts that need to be taken. One, the media and the press should put their act together and not let these decisions, namely what to broadcast, what terrorist produced material to broadcast and when to broadcast it, not to leave it to the whims of individual networks.", "Who should decide it then?", "It should be decided by a collective board or...", "Sensors?", "No, no not, absolutely not sensors but there is a code of ethics that hasn't been established yet and could be established by the journalists themselves...", "To decide what is...", "...", "Got you.", "Yes.", "Let me get a break and we'll ask the journalists' thoughts on that. Should there be some sort of code of ethics as to what is reported in matters like this? 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{"id": "CNN-339271", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-05-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/05/cnr.07.html", "summary": "House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Is Now Calling For An Ethics Investigation Into Democratic Congressman Tony Cardenas Of California; Several Cheerleaders For Washington's NFL Team Say A 2013 Trip To Costa Rica Crossed The Line.", "utt": ["House minority leader Nancy Pelosi is now calling for an ethics investigation into Democratic congressman Tony Cardenas of California. Cardenas recently reveal, he is the subject of a civil suit alleging he sexually assaulted a 16 -year-old girl in 2007. It's an accusation he vehemently denies. Now, Pelosi says she is withholding judgment until the ethics investigation is complete. CNN's Maeve Reston is joining us now from L.A. Maeve, what else can you tell us about this case and the allegation itself?", "Well, this landed about a week ago as a lawsuit that was filed by Lisa Bloom, a very well-known L.A. lawyer, charging that an unnamed politician had basically sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl after playing a round of golf with her back in 2007. The victim alleges that this politician handed her a cup of water with a funny taste. She collapsed on the golf course, and then that he drove her to the hospital and sexually assaulted her on the way to the emergency room. So, incredibly serious allegations here. The identifying details in the lawsuit led everyone to the congressman. And he came out on Thursday vehemently denying the allegations, saying that they are categorically false and that he's going to fight them and that he's asking other Democrats to withhold judgment, you know, as this case works its way through the courts. But that's obviously going to be very difficult for him to both run for reelection at the same time that he is fighting these incredibly serious charges. This young woman, who came forward and she's obviously not being named, said that she was inspired by the Me Too movement and wanted to speak her truth, Ana.", "So, talk to us more about the potential risks if he stays on to fight these allegations.", "Well, as you saw with Nancy Pelosi's statement today, Democrats are taking a very cautious approach. And that's partly because, you know, he is denying the allegations and because he is saying that he is possibly, you know, the victim here of allegations by the father who is a disgruntled former employee. But obviously, this is a huge year for Democrats as you have talked about a lot. They are trying to take control of the House. He is in a very safe seat in the San Fernando Valley for Democrats but if you're fighting these kinds of allegations at the same time that you're running for reelection, there is a very real possibility here that Democrats could lose that seat. And of course that, you know, potentially has a huge domino effect. So, there are some of his fellow candidates, his rivals, who are calling on him to step down. So we will see how this plays out over the next few months. Ballots drop on Monday, absentee ballots, so his name is going to be on the ballot no matter what.", "All right. Maeve Reston reporting in Los Angeles. Thank you for that.", "Thank you.", "Now imagine being sent to a foreign country by your boss and then having your passport taken away. That's exactly what members of the 2013 Washington redskins cheer leading squad say happened to them, along with other things that they say went well beyond their job description. They say a photo shoot went too far and that some were told to serve as escorts at an evening event for sponsors. CNN's Dianne Gallagher explains.", "Several cheerleaders for Washington's NFL team say a 2013 trip to Costa Rica crossed the line. In the interviews with \"the New York Times,\" the women say that upon arrival, the team collected their passports before requiring them to take part in a racy photo shoot where some of them were topless for a team calendar. All of this while high-profile sponsors and FedEx field suite owners looked on.", "Shooting the calendar in these little tiny outfits is really the issue. It's that it's giving access to sponsors who are men who are seemingly paying for this privilege to watch women pose with hardly any clothes on. The issue is giving access to sponsors and making the women feel uncomfortable.", "The cheerleaders claim that some of them were picked to be quote \"personal escorts\" for the sponsors at a Costa Rican nightclub later that night. And while sex was not involved, the women told the \"Times\" they felt quote \"worthless and unprotected.\" And were so devastated by the situation that they did not return to the squad the next season. The cheer team's director says that the night at the club was not mandatory. And the Washington team issued a statement saying that it's looking into and taking the allegations seriously, but quote \"based on the dialogue we have had with a number of current and former cheerleaders over the past 48 hours, we have heard very different firsthand accounts that directly contradict many of the details of the May 2nd article.\" That's something two former Washington cheerleaders picked by the team to appear on NBC's today show Friday echoed.", "Some girls were excited to do those things. In terms of being an escort, that was never a perception that I had. I think that being friendly and receptive and welcoming to sponsors is completely different.", "We always have the option to say no. We are never forced or told to do something we don't want to do.", "Just treated the --", "A former Carolina Panthers cheerleader says that in her experience, it wasn't that simple.", "Manipulation is a strong word, but it's what happens.", "Brittney Cason says that the NFL cheer leading environment can be toxic with low pay and high standards and that the women often feel powerless to say no.", "So if you're put in a situation where you feel uncomfortable, they quickly remind you that there's hundreds of other girls that would kill to trade for your spot right then and there, and so you just kind of go along with it, fearing that you could be kicked off the team.", "Recent lawsuits from cheerleaders on other teams around the NFL have described discrimination, unfair wages, and sexual harassment. The NFL released a statement Friday saying, our office will work with our clubs in sharing best practices in employment- related processes that will support club cheer leading squads within an appropriate and supportive workplace. Dianne Gallagher, CNN, Atlanta.", "Coming up in the NEWSROOM, a federal judge in the Paul Manafort case slams the Mueller probe, suggesting their only goal is to take down Trump. Is it a setback for the special counsel? We will discuss."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "MAEVE RESTON, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER", "CABRERA", "RESTON", "CABRERA", "RESTON", "CABRERA", "DIANNE GALLAGHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JULIET MACUR, REPORTER, NEW YORK TIMES", "GALLAGHER", "CHARO BISHOP. FORMER REDSKINS CHEERLEADER", "RACHEL GILL, FORMER REDSKINS CHEERLEADER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GALLAGHER", "BRITTNEY CASON, FORMER NFL CHEERLEADER", "GALLAGHER", "CASON", "GALLAGHER", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-248978", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-02-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/09/nday.04.html", "summary": "Suspect Charged with Capital Murder", "utt": ["The trial for the man who killed former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is set to begin this week. But the popularity of the film \"American Sniper\" based on Kyle's life raises questions. Will Eddie Ralph, defendant get a fair trial and if he has PTSD and mental illness problems, problems the movie highlights, what will the verdict be? Joining us now are Jeffrey Toobin, CNN senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor and Paul Callan, CNN legal analyst and criminal defense attorney. Paul, let's start with the first question, which is do you believe that given where they will have this trial and the popularity of the movie, do you think it can be held in a fair way?", "Yes, I do think it will be held in a fair way. It will be very difficult, obviously, with \"American Sniper\" being the most popular movie in the country. Everybody is intimately familiar with the victim in this case, which is very rare in a murder case. But in the end you have to say if you choose to shoot a famous person you can't later on say it's unfair to give me a trial because I shot a famous person. He can't go, he's got to be moved someplace else in Texas. Everybody in Texas knows about the case. Everybody in the United States knows about the case.", "Jeffrey, I was surprised to learn that the judge is not going to automatically disqualify potential jurors who have seen the movie or have read Chris Kyle's auto biography.", "Not automatically, but you can be sure they will be questioned closely about whether they have feelings that would disqualify them? You know, we often have this conversation about high profile cases, can you get a fair jury. I think those of us in the news media thinks people follow these cases as much as we do. People don't. People in the real world have other lives, other interests. I think it's usually easier to find an unbiased jury that you might think here.", "Let's get into it a little bit, though, Paul. Here's what we know. Every show, according to senior producer, John Griffin, every show, every seat that they were having in this area of Texas was sold out. So you know people are watching the movie. But the question is, what message do you take away from it? This man supposedly has PTSD supposedly is going to defend himself with insanity the movie makes very strongly a case that this is much worse than you people know. You don't understand what they deal with over there and how it plagues them coming home. Could that ply to his favor and maybe he gets found guilty but insane?", "I think that's a great observation. I think in fact the existence of the movie will help him tremendously. It's almost like the movie is an exhibit how veterans returning from Iraq can suffer from conditions, PTSD in particular. Remember, the defense here isn't I didn't do it. The defense is that this mental illness caused me to do it. It's almost as if Chris Kyle is helping him through the grave through this movie requested American sniper\" to send a message to the jury in this case.", "Although, Jeffrey, there are some claims the defendant here did not see combat in service and he might not actually have been suffering from PTSD, though it is a convenient narrative because of the movie. That said, he could still be found to be insane.", "Absolutely. There are a lot of people who never saw combat. I think it's also worth noting that there is going to be another theme in this trial, which is putting the VA on trial. The defense is going to claim that the veterans administration, which is not a particularly popular institution didn't give him the care he need, he deserved. It was really the VA's fault, at least, if part, for the untreated illness he had.", "That might resonate with the jury as well.", "That's how he came in the first place. Kyle started some bay through his own therapeutic process to work with guys suffering from", "I wanted to add. I think that is an enormously important point that maybe we don't focus on enough is that Chad Littlefield was also killed here, which makes this crime so much worse and I feel for his family sometimes this is always referred to as the Chris Kyle case.", "A big test of sympathies.", "You make a great point and yet, Texas not looking for the death penalty.", "That's unusual in Texas. They're not shy about seeking the death penalty. I think there is understanding in Texas that in this case because you are dealing with a war veteran and has maybe it doesn't rise to the level of a legitimate insanity defense, there are underlying mental illness issues involved.", "There is a little told story here, too. The death penalty in Texas is way down. Prosecutors are asking for it a lot less. Jurors are imposing a lot less. The death penalty is slowing down everywhere, included in Texas.", "All right, Jeffrey Toobin and Paul Callan, thanks, so much for your expertise. And tonight, be sure to watch our CNN special report. It's called \"BLOCKBUSTER, THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN SNIPER.\" We look at this story from every angle at 9:00 p.m. Eastern. Let's go to Michaela.", "All right, you have a new high-tech car of yours may have all sorts of features. Is it vulnerable to hackers? Security experts looked at 20 different smart cars, find out if yours is hackable coming up."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "CAMEROTA", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST", "CUOMO", "CALLAN", "CAMEROTA", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "PTSD. TOOBIN", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CALLAN", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-54372", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-5-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/17/lt.16.html", "summary": "President Bush Speaks Out on 9-11 Warnings", "utt": ["Back to the White House and Kelly Wallace in the front lawn and from her post there. Kelly, good afternoon, again.", "Good afternoon again, Bill. Even with those comments the questions keep coming. This administration really preparing itself for many more questions in the weeks and months ahead as congressional hearings and investigations get under way. We did not hear President Bush speak out about this yesterday, but he decided to speak out today. We saw him in the rose garden a little bit earlier this morning. He was there honoring the Air Force Academy, the military academy with the best record. The president saying it is unfortunate in Washington that second- guessing is second nature, and then he launched a vigorous defense of himself and his administration.", "The American people know this about me and my national security team and my administration. Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people.", "One question that is continuing to be raised is why this administration -- why the president's advisers never even considered the possibility that al Qaeda operatives could engage in a hijacking that could lead to a suicide mission. The latest development is this report. It was a September 1999 report by an agency under the Clinton Administration talking about the sociology and psychology of terrorism. In that report it talked about a range of possibilities that al Qaeda could consider including that suicide bombers could hijack planes, pack them with explosives, and ram them into government building such as the Pentagon, the CIA and the White House. This report is available on the Internet, on the Library of Congress' Web site. Ari Fleischer, the president's spokesman, said he just found out about it a few hours ago. One other thing, Bill, we are seeing from this White House. We saw it yesterday, we are seeing it, again, today. U.S. officials accusing Democrats of playing politics with all of this. And Ari Fleischer, the president's spokesman, singling out one Democrat during his daily briefing, Democratic senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. First let's go to what Senator Clinton said on the Senate floor last night that has this White House very upset, and then Ari Fleischer's comments from a short time ago.", "I am simply here today on the floor of this hallowed chamber to seek answers to the questions being asked by my constituents, questions raised by one of our newspapers in New York with the headline \"Bush Knew.\" The president knew what? My constituents would like to know the answer to that and many other questions, not to blame the president or any other American, but just to know.", "...I have to say a disappointment that Mrs. Clinton, having seen that same headline, did not call the White House, did not ask if it was accurate or not. Instead she merely went to the floor of the Senate and I'm sorry to say that she followed that headline and divided.", "And to that I spoke to an adviser to Senator Clinton who said that Mrs. Clinton's comments were the same as other Democratic leaders in the Senate and in the House. This adviser saying that all these leaders were simply asking questions and that these are legitimate questions that need to be explored. Asked specifically about Fleischer's singling out Senator Clinton, this adviser saying look, we are not going to go down that road. We are not playing politics, simply asking questions, and we do know, Bill, that Senator Clinton has a previously scheduled news conference up in New York talking about federal funding to protect and look into the health effects of any workers around ground zero. We expect her to take questions about all of this.", "Kelly Wallace at the White House."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "KELLY WALLACE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "WALLACE", "SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), NEW YORK", "ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "WALLACE", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-406550", "program": "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS", "date": "2020-07-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/26/fzgps.01.html", "summary": "Are Russia, China And Iran Trying To Meddle In 2020 U.S. Elections?; Which Economies Will Emerge Stronger From COVID-19?", "utt": ["On Friday, America's counterintelligence official warned that not only was Russia trying to meddle in the 2020 election but China and Iran are, too. So what exactly is going on and what do we need to know about it? Joining me now are Laura Rosenberger and Nina Jankowicz. Laura is a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. and Nina is a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center and has a new book out, \"How to Lose the Information War.\" Nina, you argued that we misconceived the nature of Russia's disinformation and you have as proof a fascinating example of an anti- Trump rally that involves the musical \"Les Mis.\" Explain.", "Yes, so I think we all think that disinformation is about cut and dry fakes but that couldn't be farther from the truth. What Russia does is manipulate our emotions. It uses preexisting grievances and fissures in our society and amplifies them to pit us against one another on both sides of the political spectrum. So in my book I discuss this flash mob where this was unsealed in the 2018 criminal complaint during the Russia investigation that talked about the Internet Research Agency and the IAR used $80 worth of Facebook ads to support a pro-Trump \"Les Mis\" flash mob where people singing songs, parodies from \"Les Mis\" about impeaching President Trump outside of the White House on July 4th, 2017. So after the presidential election, Russia was continuing to interfere. Continuing to drive these fissures, make them even larger in our society, pit us against one another so that people start to disengage as Russia floods the zone with disinformation, various narratives, all of these things. People don't want to participate in democracy. That's what disinformation is really about. Really denigrating the democratic system, which is great for Moscow. Moscow wants us to be so occupied by our affairs here at home that we're ignoring its adventurism in Syria, in Ukraine, and Putin can point to that to his own people and say, is that the sort of democracy you want? No, you want the authoritarianism that I've given you for the past 20-plus years.", "That is fascinating. Now, Laura, when you look at this Chinese authoritarianism is on the rise, in a sense, there's a greater confidence. You talk about the Wolf warriors in your book. But the goals seem very different.", "Yes, that's right, Fareed. I think whereas Russia is really looking to engage in chaos and destruction, as Nina laid out, China's goals are much more about shaping the external environment in a way that's in its favor and cultivating individuals or narratives that it thinks are positive about the Chinese Communist Party. Now, it uses some of the same tactics that we see from Russia and increasingly I think it's beginning to learn from Russian tactics but it uses those to different ends. So let me just give a couple of examples. We do see the Chinese party state, its officials and media engaging in information manipulation. Some of this is traditionally really aimed at amplifying and creating positive narratives about the Chinese Communist Party and suppressing unwanted narratives. Things that are negative about China. We have seen during COVID-19 an evolution of a more assertive practice, this Wolf warrior diplomacy that you mentioned, around Chinese officials and media outlets, taking a much more assertive posture online, directly denigrating the United States, criticizing its handling of COVID-19, criticizing democracy as unable to deal with today's challenges. And I think that's about a few things. The first is that, number one, you know, some of the failures at home, we are providing a little bit of a right target surface just as we do to Russia. But I think a lot of this for Chinese officials is actually about deflecting blame from their own initial mishandling of the virus. And it's about a good example and a good moment where they believe they can hold up Chinese authoritarianism by the Chinese Communist Party as a model in contrast to democracy that seems to be, you know, in their telling of it, mishandling many problems.", "So it's very interesting to me, it seems, because it sounds like on the one hand you have China that is rising and trying to shape norms, make people aware of its influence, and Russia, on the decline, essentially nihilistic. And so I wonder if there's -- is there a strategy to handle both or does one have to have different strategies for each one? What do you think, Nina?", "Well, I always advocate for the fact that we need to invest in the root causes of disinformation. Reeling those root causes. So whether it's coming from China, Iran, Russia or even domestic disinformation which certainly has been proliferating during the COVID-19 crisis, we need to invest in a better information environment. That means giving people the tools that they need to navigate this flow of information. Investing in media and digital literacy, not only for school-age children but for voters as well. And in addition to that, investing in journalism as a public good. You know, the United States only spends about $3 per person per year on our corporation for public broadcasting. In comparison to other democracies around the world, that is slim to none. It is embarrassing, frankly. And it makes us less resilient because where there is a vacuum, certainly we've seen local news vacuums proliferating recently, that is where disinformation is able to step in and fill that vacuum, fill that vacuum with narratives and information that, frankly, are not only a threat to our national security, they're a threat to public health these days as well. So those are the long-term investments that I would make to counter any sort of disinformation whether foreign or domestic.", "Laura, any quick additions or would you do it differently?", "No, I completely agree with Nina. And I'll just add a couple of things there. The first is that I think a pull back from U.S. global leadership in general has provided a bit of a vacuum for China to assert its ability to shape global norms and to cultivate these partnerships. But as Nina mentioned, we see as well from with Russia with its own adventurism. And I think the last bit is, and this really builds on Nina's point about media literacy, is I think in general we need to build resilience in our societies against a lot of these tactics. There are certainly a lot of things that we need to do that deal with, you know, going more directly at Moscow and at Beijing from a foreign policy and national security perspective. But a lot of this really is about building the resiliency in our own society to ensure that these tactics don't take hold.", "Nina, Laura, really fascinating conversation. Thank you very much.", "Thanks so much.", "Next on GPS, the pandemic has damaged some nations quite deeply economically, but which nations will rise above COVID and thrive? The surprising answers from Ruchir Sharma when we return."], "speaker": ["ZAKARIA", "NINA JANKOWICZ, DISINFORMATION FELLOW, WILSON CENTER", "ZAKARIA", "LAURA ROSENBERGER, SENIOR FELLOW, GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE U.S.", "ZAKARIA", "JANCOWICZ", "ZAKARIA", "ROSENBERGER", "ZAKARIA", "JANCOWICZ", "ZAKARIA"]}
{"id": "CNN-277019", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-02-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/19/es.03.html", "summary": "Town Hall Part 2: Trump, Bush & Kasich", "utt": ["Hey, Miguel and Cristina. A day filled with political clashes. Ted Cruz versus Marco Rubio. Jeb Bush versus Marco Rubio. Ted Cruz versus Donald Trump. Donald Trump versus the pope.", "I don't like fighting with the pope. I don't think this is a fight. I think he said something much softer that it was originally reported by the media. I think he is doing a very good job. He's a lot of energy. But I would say that I think he was very much misinterpreted. And I also think he was given false information. If he would have heard our side, the side from people that live in the United States --", "Would you like to meet with him and talk to him about it?", "I'll do it anytime he wants. I mean, I think it would be very interesting. No, I like him.", "Trump, just one day after sending a cease-and-desist letter to Ted Cruz's campaign saying he would do much the same with other countries if he's in the Oval Office.", "So, as president, would you be sending cease-and-desist letters?", "Yes, maybe to China. Oh, I would be -- I would be sending them to China to stop ripping us off. I would be sending them to other countries to stop ripping us off. I'd send them to Mexico. And when I say cease and desist, maybe it's equivalent, OK? Maybe I'd do it with my mouth.", "Jeb Bush saying the talk of his campaign failing is premature.", "Well, I do have momentum if you look at the polls and you'd look the crowd sizes of our town hall meetings and the enthusiasm that exists.", "And taking on criticism of being an introvert.", "You'll know this. You'll appreciate this because introverts set goals and grind.", "Yes, yes.", "And they're just like arr, they just go at it, you know? Which is a pretty good thing to be when you are running for president, when you've been written off over and over and over again.", "John Kasich just hours after his poignant moment on the campaign trail continuing to push his message of community and positive campaigning.", "You have to celebrate other people's wins and sometimes you've got to sit with them and cry, because that's what we need in this country.", "All three have one more day of campaigning in South Carolina. For Donald Trump, the clear frontrunner, all things look like they're on the glide path. But the moment is now urgent, especially Jeb Bush, who stake much of the future of his campaign on a big performance in this state. For John Kasich, it's about proving the momentum following that second place finish in New Hampshire is for real -- Cristina and Miguel.", "Phil Mattingly, thank you very much. Joining us this morning to help cut through this political jungle, and all the days' political goings-on, \"Wall Street Journal\" White House correspondent Colleen McCain Nelson. She's in our D.C. bureau. Thanks for watching the debate and now being live with us. You are too kind. You are amazing.", "Thanks for having me.", "You're the machine. We really appreciate it. A junkie. A true political junkie.", "Indeed. I was up all night thinking about this.", "Oh, good. Don't think too much. We are barely awake. But one of the toughest moments is when a voter asked Trump about taking on Bush over his -- Trump knocking Bush over the Iraq war. I want to play that for you. It got testy.", "One more chance. You believe he either lied or did not lie? Are you willing to say --", "I don't know what he did. I just know it was a terrible mistake.", "So, was it a mistake for you to say in that debate that you thought he lied?", "I'd have to see the exact word. Look, I don't know. I would probably say that something was going on. I don't know why he went in. I don't know why he went in.", "One would say he was walking back his remarks from the first debate in South Carolina, but actually, he jumped in the car, put it in reversed and was speeding back it sounds like. You think -- did he really hurt himself there, Colleen?", "Well, it was interesting. He would not repeat the word lie. And he said, well, I'm not saying lying, I'm not saying not lying. And then, Anderson read his words back to him. He said, well, actually you did say he lied. And even when confronted with his own words, he still just kind of side stepped the question, but he made it a point to not repeat that word. So, clearly, he had second thoughts about what he said. He didn't ever express regret or apologize for what he said.", "One thing that was interesting to me is Jeb Bush seemed to break from some Republicans in the party who do not want President Obama to nominate a new Supreme Court justice. Here's what he had to say about that specific question.", "Would I nominate someone? I probably would because as I said in the debate last Saturday, I'm an Article II guy. I think the presidency -- we should be respectful of the Constitution. But whatever powers are afforded the presidency, the president ought to use them.", "What do you think of those comments?", "Well, that was fascinating, because other Republicans are saying Obama shouldn't nominate someone, obviously. And they are criticizing Obama for trying to use his power. So, that was divergent from other Republicans. But it's kind of a tough argument that Republicans are trying to make when they say, well, I would nominate someone, but President Obama should not just because the atmosphere has become so toxic and so partisan. That's the argument that some other Republicans have been making, that they should be allowed to nominate someone in their fourth year, but that President Obama should not be permitted to do that.", "Now, you have been following this all along. These debates or this town hall format is different from a debate, where you get the long form and talking. You know these candidates so well. You know all of the stump speeches. You know everything. Anything -- what popped out to you?", "Well, it was a humanizing evening for the candidates, particularly for John Kasich, just because in the debates, he is often kind of overshadowed. He doesn't jump into the fray and he really says, I want to stay positive and not fight with the other Republicans. And so, for a lot of viewers, I think this was kind of the first time they have seen an extended version of John Kasich. And they got to see a very different brand of Republicanism from him. We obviously saw him hugging the voter yesterday, which was a pretty touching moment. He talked with Anderson Cooper about the death of his parents and what a dark place he found himself in and how he found the Lord at that point. So, it was particularly revelatory particularly for folks who haven't been exposed as much to Governor Kasich.", "It will be interesting to see if that plays in Greenville.", "Yes, switching to Democrats. Hillary Clinton and Sanders faced off last night. Hillary got a negative response to something she said. She was basically talking about Sanders and how he's been so critical of former President Bill Clinton and Obama. Here's the response.", "I just don't know where all this comes from, because maybe it's that Senator Sanders wasn't really a Democrat until he decided to run for president. Maybe he doesn't know what the last two Democratic presidents did.", "Do you think that response was the people in the room or do you think that kind of negative campaigning doesn't play well on that side of the campaign at this point?", "Does she have a problem in Nevada?", "Well, she is suddenly facing a very close race in Nevada. I think that is what you are seeing in that room. She expected to have Nevada be kind of proof of her strength nationally, and this was going to be the first test of the so-called Clinton firewall. And all of a sudden, she finds herself in a very close race in Nevada. And all of a sudden, her campaign is kind of walking back their statements saying they are far ahead in Nevada and saying, well, we might win. We might not win. Nevada is not as diverse as some of the states on the schedule. So, all of a sudden, it is down to the wire in Nevada.", "Colleen McCain Nelson, all cheers for you. No boos. Thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "Today, President Obama and the first lady will pay their respects to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. His body will lie in repose in the court's great hall. In just a few hours, Scalia's loved ones and eight remaining justices will attend a private ceremony, followed by a public viewing from 10:30 until 8:00 p.m. tonight. Critics have slammed the president for deciding to skip Scalia's funeral mass on Saturday. The White House defending the move, citing security as a major factor.", "Time for an early start on your money. The winning streak for stocks is over. The rally ran out of steam yesterday with the Dow dropping 40 points as gains in oil faded. It was just the eighth time this year that blue chips did not move more than 100 points in either direction. But that put just a small dent in the major rally over the past four sessions. The Dow is still up more than 750 points this week. Here's where the major three averages stand. The Dow is off 5.8 percent. NASDAQ is the biggest loser, down more than 10 percent, and the S&P sliding 6.1 percent. Now, stock futures are slightly higher. Oil is down. Europe is up. And Asia finished lower. Donald Trump versus the pope. We are breaking down the controversial new reaction this morning live from Rome, next."], "speaker": ["PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "TRUMP", "MATTINGLY", "COOPER", "MATTINGLY", "MATTINGLY", "JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MATTINGLY", "BUSH", "COOPER", "BUSH", "MATTINGLY", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-347355", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2018-08-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/10/ip.02.html", "summary": "Michael Avenatti Says He's Considering Running For President", "utt": ["An interesting, some might use a different word, but let's call it an interesting new addition today to the long list of 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls using 2018 as a test track of sorts. Michael Avenatti is in Iowa. You know him from the TV. He's attorney for adult film actress Stormy Daniels. He calls President Trump a liar. He calls his long time fixer Michael Cohen an idiot. Yesterday, you see him right there at the Iowa State fair. That's a traditional walking tour, face time with potential voters. Tonight Avenatti has the stage. He's the lead speaker at a Democratic fundraising event. He'll test his theory that voters will be looking outside the box as they pick someone to challenge the current outside the box incumbent.", "I'm here to listen to the great people of Iowa, explore the fair, and figure out if makes sense to run for presidency or not. I do think I could beat the President in a general election. And I think there's a number reason for that. I think that it's going to be a brutal campaign. I think it's going to require a fighter. I think it's going to require somebody that's scrappy. And I think it's going to require someone to engage in a significant cage match for the future of this country.", "Cage match but I yield the floor. What do we make of this?", "I'm really, really tired thinking about the Democratic field for 2020 already. I think this is --", "Which one of the 25 or 26?", "Twenty-five. I think when you start counting the ones who will flirt with the bid to raise their profile, which may be what Mr. Avenatti is doing here. I mean, 25, I think might be a lowball number. So, we all should get -- you're going to need a lot of graphs and charts, moving maps to keep track of them all. John.", "So, your first instinct is to laugh, right? Forgive me, Mr. Avenatti. But your first instinct is to laugh. A guy with no political experience. A guy who's been on TV, going after the President, the Stormy Daniels case. But then, wait a minute, Donald Trump had no experience, a lot of people laughed, said reality TV star, this is just to raise his profile. This is about his ego. Not about serious. I believe his the President of the United States.", "The one thing that Democratic base is going to be looking for is someone who's going to go after the President, toe to toe. Fight him tooth and nail. And that's going to be a real interesting way to see how the Democratic field shapes up because there will be some who naturally because of their personalities will not necessarily want to go as far as a lot of folks on the left want to go, which would be to impeach and then convict the President. And there -- so others well, may be more moderate in their approach to the President. Michael Avenatti clearly is not. So, maybe he does appeal to that segment of the base.", "To that point, some kind -- we'll see if he's successful or not. We'll see if he actually runs or not. But sometimes people who get in a race or at least or around in the pre game of a race do influence other candidates even if they do well. Here's Michael Avenatti. You remember Michelle Obama, if they go high, we go low. I believe we cannot be the party any longer the turns the other cheeks. When they go low, I say we hit harder.", "Look that clearly has been his strategy. The question in my mind about Avenatti is Trump was able to self-fund. I don't think Avenatti would be able to self- fund at the same level. At the same time, he's gotten an enormous amount of free media. And he does -- and he's taken a lot of shots at the President. It's not clear to me that any of them have really landed. So, I don't think he has a great track record from which to run.", "Would you want to be one of his clients right now? In the sense that this is already come up during the Michael Cohen proceedings in New York where there was a question about whether Avenatti should be barred because he's always on television. And there was this no person involved in this action has been more ubiquitous in the media than Michael Avenatti. That was from a Federal judge who did give the order but who kind of told this to Avenatti to dial it back. Now, anything he says in court for any client can be questioned as politically motivated, right?", "Yes. And I think you're seeing the transition of his career, at this moment from a court-time lawyer to somebody arguing in public. But I do think that it illustrates the wide openness of this Democratic field, the fact that we will think about and talk about, and then will get written about the fact that Michael Avenatti is going to Iowa.", "So, to that point, let's be fair. The worker bees get frustrated when these \"Celebrity candidates\" get attention. There's a Congressman, Mr. Delaney, who's been at Iowa over and over and over again. He doesn't get a lot of attention. Today, a Republican shows up at the Iowa State fair to help Congressman Delaney get a little attention. We have the picture, I hope. The former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner, shorts and boat shoes. He says Delaney is one of hi s old buds and showing up for -- a former Republican Speaker showing up to the Iowa State fair for a Democratic Congressman. OK.", "John Boehner is loving life right now. That's for sure. I don't think we'll see expect Delaney/Boehner 2020. That's probably a little bit of a stretch.", "Sure.", "But nobody knows. We're in an era with new political rules.", "Right.", "Nobody quite knows what they are. So, you will see a lot of Democrats to just sort throwing out their theory of the case, throwing it up against the wall, and taking their shot.", "And John Boehner happily --", "And we'll see who Paul Ryan shows up with.", "Who just Paul Ryan. So", "Right.", "Up next for us, one year after Charlottesville, Kanye West, Spike Lee both on television saying very different things about President Trump and race."], "speaker": ["KING", "MICHAEL AVENATTI, STORMY DANIELS' ATTORNEY", "KING", "LERER", "KING", "LERER", "KING", "RAJU", "KING", "ELIANA JOHNSON, WHITE HOUSE REPORTER, POLITICO", "KING", "VISER", "KING", "RAJU", "KING", "LERER", "KING", "LERER", "KING", "LERER", "KING", "LERER", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-193922", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2012-10-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1210/08/sp.01.html", "summary": "The Empty Chair; \"Taken 2\" Takes Box Office Title", "utt": ["Welcome back to STARTING POINT. Clint Eastwood's address at the RNC raised a lot of eyebrows because of this scene when he was talking to an empty chair. The chair, of course, represented President Obama. This week's cover of \"The New Yorker\" picks up on that theme, a commentary about the president's performance at last week's debate against Mitt Romney. Why don't you since you work for \"The New Yorker\" Ryan Lizza, put that cover up again?", "This is Barry Blitz, one of -- I think one of the most -- a lot of people, one of my favorite cartoonists at \"The New Yorker,\" he famously in 2008 did a cover that was controversial of Barack and Michele Obama in the oval office, remember this -- the terrorist misstep. Happen to have a piece in that issue, sort of overshadowed ahead on this issue. But yes, I think he captured what everyone's reaction to that debate was.", "Not the 2 percent of Republicans.", "The 70 percent of independents that thought Romney won --", "I love the Jim Lehrer detail on this.", "And your cartoonist quoted as saying he never realized how difficult it would be to caricature furniture. He learned a new lesson.", "It will be interesting to see back to the poll numbers, we heard obviously Congressman Ryan saying you get the -- no effect at all in that debate. I think --", "We don't have the data yet. Everyone is like --", "Waiting --", "Dying for the first poll.", "Here's the thing.", "You're a pollster.", "That's right. Here's the thing too. The last 2 minutes of anything, everybody here has spoken, you speak for a living. When you're told you have a two-minute close, that's got to be perfect, though. It's got to be devoid of any hesitation, perfect. You have to look at the man in the mirror and practice it. Content, plan B, so I feel even there, there was a certain lacking.", "I thought the close was a metaphor for the 90 minutes. It was just like -- nothing there.", "These debates are all about expectations and after a disastrous debate you go into the next debate and people think he can't even talk now. The expectation theme in the next --", "None of it would have mattered as much had people not been gleefully and single minded calling the race over three weeks before the debate.", "I agree with that.", "I was on that bandwagon.", "I've taken the wheels off your wagon. People declare the end and it all restarts.", "Voters hate being told what to do and how to think.", "I agree with you.", "Voters ask themselves who can lead.", "I agree. The Democrats, folks may look at this and say we have to go to work, 30 days to the election. We have to go to work. This isn't going to be so easy.", "Complacency was setting in.", "Still ahead this morning on STARTING POINT, a former Harvard professor who spent his life advising and inspiring entrepreneurs had a brush with death. He changed the life of one of his former students who has written a book about the famed professor. The author will join us live up next. It's nice to see you. STARTING POINT is back in a moment."], "speaker": ["O'BRIEN", "LIZZA", "O'BRIEN", "CONWAY", "LIZZA", "CONWAY", "O'BRIEN", "LIZZA", "SKOLNIK", "LIZZA", "CONWAY", "O'BRIEN", "CONWAY", "O'BRIEN", "LIZZA", "CONWAY", "O'BRIEN", "SKOLNIK", "O'BRIEN", "CONWAY", "O'BRIEN", "CONWAY", "SKOLNIK", "LIZZA", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "NPR-36810", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2009-06-07", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105082294", "title": "Record Voter Turnout In Crucial Lebanon Elections", "summary": "Parliamentary elections in Lebanon on Sunday determine whether the pro-Western government will remain in power, or will be unseated by a group dominated by the Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah. NPR's Deborah Amos, in Beirut, updates host Jacki Lyden.", "utt": ["This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden.", "Lebanese voters stood in line for hours today, a record turnout in a hotly contested election for a new government.", "The counting has begun in this tight race between two coalitions that have campaigned on very different visions for Lebanon's future. On the one side is the ruling coalition, allied with the United States. The challenger is a political bloc led by Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim organization allied with Iran and Syria. Both blocs are vying for a majority of seats in parliament.", "NPR's Deborah Amos has been following the vote today and joins us now from Beirut.", "Deb, what's at the heart of today's voting?", "Jacki, the key to this election is the Christian community where the turnout has been as high as 60 to 70 percent. Now the Christians are deeply divided with political parties in the two rival camps. But despite that rivalry, the atmosphere at the voting centers today was more like a holiday. There were honking horns and flags, people hanging around.", "I met families that were divided in their politics. You had young people who were voting for General Michel Aoun's party, the Christian general allied with Hezbollah; and their parents were convinced that the current ruling coalition is the one that's going to deliver.", "How does the Christian vote affect the outcome?", "This is all about numbers in parliament. There are 128 seats; and in Lebanon sectarian politics, the seats are allocated equally: 64 for Christian candidates, 64 for Muslims. Hezbollah has only fielded 11 Shiite candidates. They're expected to win. Another Shiite party Amal, they will win their allocated seats. So you can see that it takes a Christian ally. Remember there are 64 seats for the Christian candidates.", "Deb, just quickly, why would the Christian vote, which I would have thought to be secular in its aspect, ally with Hezbollah?", "Not necessarily secular but certainly not Muslim. The arguments have been that the Christians, a minority, want to ally themselves with a power in the country. Some people argue that another minority, the Shiites in this country, are a better bet. There's also concern that Shi'a fundamentalism is less threatening to Christians than Sunni fundamentalism. And also they say that General Aoun has a economic platform, Hezbollah has a platform in this election, and the ruling coalition does not.", "How does an election for parliament change the government?", "The election is for the parliament, but it's really all about the Cabinet. The majority in parliament gets to have a majority of Cabinet seats. That's where policy is shaped.", "It's a very close election. It's very possible that it's so close the Lebanese will be forced into some kind of national unity government where both sides are represented.", "Jacki, at the end of the day, there are some things that do not change here: The president and the head of the army is always a Christian. The prime minister is always a Sunni Muslim. The speaker of the parliament is always a Shiite Muslim. So that's how the system works here. No one party can win outright, and that is not going to change.", "NPR's Deborah Amos in Beirut, thanks very much.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["JACKI LYDEN, host", "JACKI LYDEN, host", "JACKI LYDEN, host", "JACKI LYDEN, host", "JACKI LYDEN, host", "DEBORAH AMOS", "DEBORAH AMOS", "JACKI LYDEN, host", "DEBORAH AMOS", "JACKI LYDEN, host", "DEBORAH AMOS", "JACKI LYDEN, host", "DEBORAH AMOS", "DEBORAH AMOS", "DEBORAH AMOS", "JACKI LYDEN, host", "DEBORAH AMOS"]}
{"id": "CNN-394048", "program": "THE BRIEF WITH BIANCA NOBILO", "date": "2020-02-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/28/bbn.01.html", "summary": "Turkey Reports New Attack On Its Troops In Syria; Police: Paris Train Station Fire Brought Under Control", "utt": ["Welcome back. I'm Robyn Curnow. So, Turkey's defense ministry is reporting a new attack on its troops in Syria. It says government shelling killed one Turkish soldier and wounded two others. Now this comes just a day after an airstrike by Russian backed Syrian forces that killed 33 Turkish soldiers in Idlib Province. It was Turkey's biggest loss of life in Syria by far since it first intervened in the war. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone today with Russian President Vladimir Putin and could meet him face to face next week in Moscow. Mr. Erdogan also spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump about the humanitarian crisis in Idlib. They called on Russia and the Syrian regime to stop their offensive in Syria's last rebel stronghold. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled the area in just the past two months. Meanwhile, in Paris, police say a major fire at train station is now under control. That's good news. The blaze broke out at the Gare de Lyon station earlier on Friday, sending massive plumes, as you can see here, of black smoke and flames into the sky. Emergency workers responded to the blaze and evacuated the station. Even though the fire is though under control, police ask - still asking people to stay away from the station for now. And Democrats battling to replace U.S. President Donald Trump are making their final pitches to voters in South Carolina. Polls open there in just a few hours' time. And certainly this primary is especially critical for former Vice President Joe Biden. He's counting on the state to resurrect his campaign and give him momentum, heading into Super Tuesday. Biden is expected to win South Carolina, but Democratic frontrunner Bernie Sanders is hot on his heels, hoping to score an upset. We'll speak to Josh Rogin after the break."], "speaker": ["CURNOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-214360", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-9-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/11/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Trooper Rams Couple on Motorcycle", "utt": ["Just in to us here at CNN, we're getting word that Facebook stock just hit a new all-time high. The social network's last high on its very first day of trading way back in May of last year. The company has seen recent success by profiting on its numbers of mobile users it has. So good news if you have a little Facebook stock. Now to this story we have been talking about here. And the video just really tells a dramatic. New police dash cam video I want to share with you. So, you have this Ohio state trooper, he's Jacob Damon (ph), apparently somehow not paying attention to the road. This was last month. Keep watching. He rams the rear of this motorcycle carrying a man and his wife. The bike flipped several times. We'll play it again for you and you can see. I know it's -- you turn away. It's tough to look at. The bike flipped a couple of times before getting out of sight here of the dash cam. The woman's injuries were severe. She, in fact, had to be flown to a hospital after this happened. Her husband, taken to the hospital by ambulance. Lynn Berry is joining me now from HLN because, you know, when you read about this trooper who hits them -- And it's tough, I know, I see you looking away.", "I know. I've seen it a dozen times and I'm still cringing.", "You've seen the video so many times. So he was like the trooper of the year. Did he just not see them?", "Brooke, literally, 2012, he was trooper of the year. He's never been disciplined for anything. That's the big question, did he not see them? And if you watch the video, it's kind of impossible if you're looking up not to see them.", "Right.", "Your headlights are right on them. They're not saying -- this is an ongoing investigation. His attorney has advised him not to speak to anyone. The Ohio State Patrol says he's still performing his duties, as he was before, while this investigation continues, but they're not giving any comment as to what he was doing. Let's talk about this couple, though.", "Yes, please.", "Yes, exactly.", "Very injured looking at the pictures. That's tough to look at, too.", "Extremely injured. As you said, they were flown to a hospital. They were bolted off their bikes, thrown onto the ground. They were seriously injured, but they actually spoke to our affiliate the day after their injuries. We want to give that to you now and we'll get the take on the other side.", "Sure.", "I think I went off to the left side. I couldn't see her at all. And I just slid and slid and slid. And anytime it didn't hurt for two second when my helmet would hit the ground.", "And it's that helmet that they say is what saved their lives.", "Saved their lives.", "But even when you saw that video, you cannot imagine how they survived this accident.", "So despite their injuries, though, are they -- are they still standing by, hey, we're not going to sue you? Nothing litigious whatsoever here?", "As of now. They so, no hard feelings.", "Wow!", "They've forgiven the trooper. The prosecutor's office says there are no files - or no charges that have been filed as of right now. There is a grand jury looking into this. Once they've conducted their investigation, they'll determine whether or not there are any charges filed.", "That may change.", "But as of now, nothing. And that video, you can watch it a dozen times and it still gives you the chills.", "Absolutely. Let us know what happens and if they change their minds.", "We will.", "Lynn Berry, thank you. Coming up, Apple's new iPhone has a pretty nifty new feature. You can actually use your own fingerprint to lock and unlock the phone. But with the potential for so much of our personal information to get hacked these days, could something go wrong with this? But first, can diplomacy really work in Syria, in a country almost three years now ravaged by this bloody civil war. We're going to talk to a guest here and ask, is the United States getting played by Vladimir Putin? Stay here."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "LYNN BERRY, HLN ANCHOR", "BALDWIN", "BERRY", "BALDWIN", "BERRY", "BALDWIN", "BERRY", "BALDWIN", "BERRY", "BALDWIN", "COREY WALDMAN, HIT BY STATE TROOPER", "BERRY", "BALDWIN", "BERRY", "BALDWIN", "BERRY", "BALDWIN", "BERRY", "BALDWIN", "BERRY", "BALDWIN", "BERRY", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-108111", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2006-7-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0607/10/lt.02.html", "summary": "U.S. Soldiers Charged With Unspeakable Crimes", "utt": ["Still a lot of questions about what happened on the upper east side of Manhattan. Earlier today, just over three hours ago, this four-story building collapsed. Fire department believes at this time that it was a gas explosion. At least one person was inside. He was taken away with serious and critical injuries, believed to be the owner of that building. Also, as many as 11 people were hurt. A combination of firefighters attacking the blaze that came out after the explosion and civilians that were walking by at the time of the collapse. More on that just ahead. Meanwhile, some other headlines, including a Mississippi courtroom fight. It is a legal fight of one Katrina victim which is being watched by thousands of other homeowners. They all believed they were shafted by their insurance companies. In today's trial a homeowner is suing his insurer for not paying for the storm damage. Nationwide blames flooding, which the company says was not covered under the policy. The homeowner says the company is ignoring wind damage, which was covered. Thousands of policyholders are at the center of similar insurance disputes nearly eleven months after Katrina struck. Well, summer is here, of course, and with it comes storm season. With the winds starting to howl, it's too late to discover whether your home is adequately prepared. So all this week, CNN's personal finance editor Gerri Willis will show you how to prepare and protect your home.", "Storm season means it's prime time to take steps toward protecting your home. And it all starts at the top. (on camera): So, Rob, let's talk about the roof here. A big vulnerability. How do I know if I might have a problem?", "Well, there's several things you can do. If you can safely access the inside of your attic, go up there and look for any broken wood, any cracked wood. If you can get up on the roof, check for missing, broken or loose shingles or tiles. It's the hip and the ridge tiles that you can see and that -- those had the most problems during Hurricane Charlie.", "One of the best things you can do, remove any projectiles from your yard before a large storm. (on camera): You've got a lot of stuff sitting out here that you'd want to bring in, in a storm. What would you do here?", "Just go out with your family and walk around the house. And anything that you possibly think might fly up in the air, go and pick it up and put it inside.", "But it's not just the outside you have to worry about.", "Well, the inside definitely needs to be inspected, as well. And you want to make sure it's in top shape for hurricane season or any extreme weather coming through. If you have safe access to the attic, it's good to get up there and just look around. See if you see any broken or cracked pieces of wood up there. Look at the nails. See if you have any nails sticking out, stray nails. And we're talking about the longer nails here, not the shorter roofing nails. See if you have any roof leaks. If you have any roof leaks, that's definitely something that says your roof isn't as strong as it should be.", "And while you're up there, check those outfits. They can provide leverage for high winds and rain, and cause many problems for your home. Gerri Willis, CNN, Miami Shores, Florida.", "Police there in Phoenix, Arizona, are already looking for two serial criminals, and now they say there might be a third suspected in 13 random shootings since may. The so-called baseline killer is suspected in a series of robberies, rapes and killings; and a task force is on the hunt determined to track him down. Kevin Kennedy of our affiliate KPNX has the story.", "Somewhere out here, roaming the streets of Phoenix, is a serial killer.", "This is a bad person that we need to get off the street.", "This is who they're looking for, and Lieutenant Greg Carnicle is part of the task force looking. His job, find a killer.", "Our sole purpose out here is to protect the citizens. And it's very difficult to do that right now, and, you know, we want to get this guy and we want to take him off.", "So far, the suspect has struck 19 times, raping, robbing and killing, five murders so far. The latest, June 29th.", "It's one of those, it's a crime series that we got to get taken care of.", "So every hour of every day, at least 20 task force members are patrolling. This is the area, 63 square miles. The attacks first starting in May of 2005. Every dot is a victim.", "Every tip is checked out.", "We are working every possible lead that we can get, and we've gotten a lot of leads. They continue to come in.", "Thousands so far, but none have panned out.", "I think it's personal for every officer out here. I mean, it's happening on our watch, and we don't want it happening in Phoenix.", "And until he's caught, Lieutenant Carnicle will be out here.", "Let's talk more about these serial crimes in Phoenix and efforts to hunt down the suspects. Sergeant Andy Hill of the Phoenix Police Department joining us. The sergeant knows Phoenix -- well, where did he go? Let's get the camera back on him. I can tell you the sergeant knows Phoenix very well. He was fulfilling this role when I was back in Phoenix quite a few years ago. Sergeant, good morning.", "Good morning, Daryn.", "All right. So you're talking about three different serial killers you might be looking for here in the valley of the sun.", "Well, actually one serial killer, Daryn, and we have a couple of series of other crimes that may possibly be related and we don't have suspect information on them.", "What is it that's tying together these latest series of crimes?", "Well, most recently we've had 13 incidents which we believe may be connected where we've had random victims by themselves, either walking or riding a bicycle or standing, and they've been alone, and they've been shot in the late hours of the night and early hours of the morning.", "And these aren't even necessarily sketchy areas of town. I was reading the story, Camelback between Indian School and 44th Street. That's a very nice area of Phoenix.", "You know, some of these areas are nice. It really doesn't -- it's not a matter of gender or race or part of town. What we have is a suspect or suspects that we don't know that are out there, shooting and injuring innocent people. And we need help from the public on this, Daryn. And we really do need those calls to find a witness or someone with information and sees something suspicious to give us a call at 911.", "And we just put up a picture of a suspect. This was the baseline rapist, baseline killer. What is it you know or suspect about this person?", "Well, in this series of crimes, we had 19 incidents that we believe may be connected. Five of those crimes have been homicides, which we have connected forensically. We have a suspect that's been described as a black male between 25 and 40 years old, 5'6\" to six feet tall, 150 to 190 pounds. We have a composite drawing. We have a photo from a surveillance camera which shows somebody with long hair and a fisherman's hat. That may be a disguise, but we do at least have a description of this person and we are looking for information, calls from the public, again, on this suspect or suspects.", "And what's the common tie between the crimes with that particular suspect?", "Well, this suspect, this serial killer, is lurking around, trying to make contact possibly a few moments before he strikes. People do, in some cases, have an opportunity to call us, to call 911. We want them to go to a safe area immediately if they see someone trying to approach them. If you're in your car, honk your horn, drive backwards, go back into a store, get away, get to a safe area, and then call 911.", "All right. A lot of work to do there in Phoenix with the police department. Sergeant Andy Hill. Sergeant, thank you for your time.", "Thank you, Daryn. Appreciate it.", "And as you heard the sergeant say, if you have any information about the suspected serial crimes you can call the silent witness number. The number is 602-261-8600. We are continuing our coverage from New York City. The collapse of a four-story building on the Upper East Side of New York. Eleven people injured. The fire commissioner suggesting this could have been a suicide attempt gone bad. More with Allan Chernoff live on the streets of New York City just ahead. Also the gruesome killing of a 9-year-old girl. Today the man accused of that crime goes on trial. Jurors will hear details, but not the defendant's own confession. We'll tell you why. That story is just ahead. And a teen drops his keys and gets carried away by a flash flood. Nail-biting moments right up to the end. Don't miss this dramatic story and the outcome ahead on CNN, the most trusted name in news."], "speaker": ["KAGAN", "GERRI WILLIS, CNN PERSONAL FINANCE EDITOR (voice-over)", "ROB DAVIS, FLASH.ORG", "WILLIS (voice-over)", "DAVIS", "WILLIS (voice-over)", "DAVIS", "WILLIS", "KAGAN", "KEVIN KENNEDY, KPNX REPORTER (voice-over)", "LT. 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{"id": "NPR-34139", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2010-12-25", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2010/12/25/132329287/Nuts-For-The-Nutcracker-Dance-Critic-Criscrosses-America", "title": "Nuts For The Nutcracker: Dance Critic Criscrosses America", "summary": "Alastair Macaulay, the head dance critic at The New York Times, is traveling coast to coast, watching productions of The Nutcracker. From a Rocky Horror-inspired version in Brooklyn to a classic production in Salt Lake City to a Las Vegas spectacular, Macaulay will see 28 productions.", "utt": ["New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay has an unusual assignment this holiday season. He's traveling coast to coast watching as many productions of \"The Nutcracker\" as he can in a single month. So far, he's seen 32 performances. And he joins me now on a rare break between shows. Alastair is in New York.", "Welcome to the program.", "Hi.", "So, are you a bit of a masochist. I mean, wow, 32 productions of \"The Nutcracker,\" most all of them in December, this month.", "I know it's really crazy and one has to use the term it's nutty.", "It really is. But it's about the only ballet I could do this with. I mean, I think the difference about \"The Nutcracker\" is it is terribly adaptable. So, the stories are going to be slightly different in each production, you see. The music also is doing something new every minute, every two minutes. So, you don't - it doesn't get stuck in a rut. The story keeps moving on. The music keeps moving. It's diverse.", "So, before I ask you about specific shows that you've seen this season, explain why you're doing this.", "I'm an Englishman who moved to America in 2007, and straightaway I realized that \"The Nutcracker\" is a much bigger deal in America than anywhere else. And so why don't I, instead of doing the traditional thing, which is to groan, oh, \"The Nutcracker\" again, what a clich�, why don't I embrace it and have discovered America and \"The Nutcracker,\" both of them in greater depth by seeing as many as possible.", "Do you have an estimate of, you know, sort of like a ballpark figure for how many different \"Nutcracker\" productions will be staged this season across the country?", "I haven't tried counting how many \"Nutcrackers\" there are, but a friend told me that last year, somebody estimated that there are about 800 \"Nutcracker\" productions being done in the world and well over 300 of them are being done in America.", "Wow.", "I actually would suspect that's a conservative estimate, because the moment I announced in advance that I was going to do a \"Nutcracker\" marathon tour, I got invited to so many. And I thought if there are this many obscure \"Nutcrackers,\" if I could find them all, I reckon it would total more than 300.", "So, what is the weirdest one that you've seen?", "The weirdest, maybe one of the worst, which is called \"Nutcracker: Rated R,\" which was in New York. It tried to be wacky, alternative, very sexy, very naughty. Occasionally, we'd get more or less bare breasts than mice and other characters. Their snow scene becomes a cocaine party with a snow queen passing around a white substance. And on the whole, it's just a city concept with what you could do this to any music and they're just trying to be the \"Rocky Horror Show.\"", "What do you think it is about this ballet, about this piece of music that Tchaikovsky produced that is so enduring and durable?", "\"The Nutcracker\" is simply great theater music. I think if you don't find yourself very interested about the Spanish dance, for example, in one performance, it doesn't matter because two minutes later, you're getting the Arabian dance, which is a completely different kind of instrumentation. Then you're getting the Chinese dance, and then you're getting the Russian dance. Later on, you're getting the waltz of the flowers.", "Just as you think this is one kind of atmosphere, the whole climate changes and you're getting the big, round tragic (unintelligible) for the sugar plum fairy.", "Given that you've seen 32 productions this month, do you think that if you were at one production now and say, you know, a cast member got sick, you could be pulled from the audience and just fill in?", "That is the saddest, unhappiest idea. No, I'd be terrible on stage and I'd get the giggles. I'd probably go into the wrong version.", "That's Alastair Macaulay. He is the chief dance critic for The New York Times. 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{"id": "CNN-312486", "program": "PRIMETIME JUSTICE WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2017-05-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/17/ptab.01.html", "summary": "Drug Dealer Charged for Giving Out Killer Heroin; 5 Dead, Woman Allegedly Kills Men With Heroin; Missing Plane In Bermuda Triangle; Clumsy Shoplifting Suspect; Driver Smashes Into Child, Then Speeds Off.", "utt": ["This week, an alleged drug dealer, street name Ice, is on trial in Minnesota. And this is the first of a kind not because she`s an accused drug dealer. There`s plenty of that street scum to go around. Instead, this is because prosecutors say this woman, Beverly Burrell, code name Ice -- they say her drugs killed almost a half dozen people, that they know of. They say five of her customers died in seven months, and they want her to pay as a murderer. The family of Max Tillit told the court this week that their son began using heroin in high school after a football injury, and they say Ice was his primary source. But the defense attorney says that those addicts could have bought their legal (ph) doses anywhere, adding that it`s common for them to have multiple dealers in case supplies don`t last. The parents of another victim had to listen to that. This is Luke Ronnei. His parents said this is not the case for him. They said Ice was the only person who sold him the deadly heroin. His mom says that she even followed her son on several drug buys, worried about him. She said she watched her son and his friends all buying drugs from lady Ice. Colleen Ronnei says that the dealer even sold her son, Luke, heroin in the middle of the day with kids in her car! Colleen Ronnei joins me now live from Minneapolis. Colleen, first and foremost, I`m so sorry for the loss of your son. I`m so sorry for what you`ve had to go through. And I`m also -- I`m also buoyed and proud that you are taking this mantle and you are fighting back. But I want to ask you how things are going in court because this is a tough case.", "Actually, the court, both the defense and the prosecution, rested their cases today. It was a very short trial mostly because there were many stipulations that her attorney agreed to because, really, the crimes that she committed, the actions that she took were indefensible in many cases.", "I want to talk a little bit about the fact that this is a trial with two victims. We talked about five in total, but this trial pertains to just your son Luke and a friend, Max Tillit. And Max died before your son died. And what is sort of just so ironic about all of this is was that, as I understand it, Luke was very affected by the death of his friend Max, and called you to tell you that this had happened. What did you do from that moment forward?", "Well, the really kind of ironic thing or the", "I think we -- we`re hearing little bits and pieces, Colleen, from you. I think we`ve got a sketchy cell phone setup. I`m sorry. Can I just...", "Is this better?", "Yes, I think I can hear you now. But I want to ask you about this idea that the alleged drug dealer murderer was in her car with kids at a time that you say you witnessed her selling to your son, and you did something. You drove right up beside her in that car and said something to her. Take me to that moment.", "I had witnessed her selling drugs to my son on about three occasions at that point in time. And I knew that Luke was -- had -- he had relapsed. He had been in recovery and he was trying very hard to get back into recovery. He didn`t like being an active addiction. And I followed him on one occasion. And he had told me, Mom, she`s got kids in her car. She`s always got these little kids in the back seat of her car. And so I pulled up alongside of her after I had witnessed her selling drugs, and I just -- I rolled down my window and I looked at her and I said, If you sell drugs to my son one more time, I will ram your car and I -- every policeman within a mile will be here, and you will be done. And she just looked at me, and I drove off because I didn`t know what else to do.", "Well, and if you`re dealing with a dealer, you don`t know what they might have, as well. You know, Colleen, it`s -- the defense that Beverly Burrell, code name Ice, gives is that addicts have numerous sources. And it is true. Addicts do have numerous sources. How do you get past that? What -- how can you prove that Luke only got his drugs from her, thus her drugs killed Luke?", "Well, because Luke had been -- I mean, in terms of somebody who struggles with the disease of addiction, Luke only struggled - - \"only\" I say, but for two years. And of that two years, about 12 months of that time he was in recovery. And he wanted to be clean and so he was, like, You got to help me, Mom. I mean, we -- as a family, we were together and we were on a family plan with his cell phone. And so I monitored his calls and his text messages, and I could tell when he was leaving the house or there was behavior attached that might indicate buying drugs. I would block those phone calls. Those messages that -- that phone number, her phone number, and she was the only person that he bought from. She never ran out of drugs to sell.", "Looking of the pictures of your son on the screen, Colleen, he`s a beautiful kid. He really is. And I know that people watching might have two opinions. They might say, That`s a tragedy that that child died. That`s your child, and that is an illness. Addiction is an illness. And there are other people that say he`s grown up enough to take the chances if he`s going to take drugs. Do you struggle ever? Are you ever angry about what happened? Are you -- how do you feel about this battle in America, an opioid addiction, a fight, and also, an attempt for many to blame the victims of this a lot when they are ill?", "Well, and I think that comes from just completely not understanding that addiction is a disease, that these people -- you know, that anybody who struggles with a disease chooses it. In Luke`s case, he didn`t knowingly use. The first time he was introduced to heroin, he was not aware of what he was using. And for Luke and his case, he -- once we went through that door, there was no coming back through it again. I mean, he went down the rabbit hole, and that was it for him. And I think for many people who think that they might be able to experiment with this drug or use it a few times and it`ll be fine, they have no clear understanding of what a horrible, evil drug this is. It is like none other.", "Well, Colleen, listen, I`m going to thank you on national television for being this brave because we are in crisis in this country, and beautiful kids like yours are dying at record numbers, lots of people, moms, sisters, brothers, dads. And they are not guttersnipes. And they are not, you know, those from the `70s that we thought had gone down a long life of drug abuse and made their choices. This is happening, as you said, almost lickety-split. And so I applaud you for doing this, Colleen. I also want to bring in Jon Justice into this conversation, if I can. He`s the host of `Justice and Drew\" on KTLK, Twin Cities News Radio. Jon, there -- the case involving Luke and Max that Colleen was just talking about -- those are two victims. But the allegations are that Beverly Burrell, Ice, killed five. What is the story on the other three? Why are they separated? Why are there several trials? Are there more than -- you know, is there more than one other trial coming? How are they -- how are they -- what are the mechanics of this?", "Well, at this point in time, there hasn`t been a specific reason that I`ve seen as to why the Luke Ronnei and Max Tillit case went first. My understanding of all the evidence so far has been that they`ve had the most evidence attached to it. And you know, listening to Colleen, I think the biggest reason why, certainly in Luke Ronnei`s case, his is going first even before Max Tillit is because of her involvement, the amount of information and evidence that she was able to give to law enforcement, confronting this woman, and the overwhelming amount of evidence of contact to show that this was the person that gave these drugs to her son that ultimately killed him. And I think the same rings true for Max Tillit. Once these cases wrap up -- and as she said, the Ronnei case wrapped up today -- the judge will have one to seven days before he`ll render his verdict. And then for Max Tillit, both sides will present their cases, and that will wrap up sometime in July. And then after that, Hennepin County will move forward in those other three cases. Now, the suspect, Beverly Burrell, hasn`t been directly attached to those cases yet. But when you look at the evidence, it`s littered with just information of how much contact the three other individuals who also received heroin...", "OK, hold that thought. Hold that thought...", "... as well. Yes.", "... for a second. Real quickly, Joey Jackson weigh-in here. When that jury gets the case, will they give the benefit of the doubt from a drug dealer.", "I think it jury`s like drug dealers, I don`t think - people in general like drug dealers, but I think it could be a stretch to apply this law to a drug dealer in this scenario. For the actual death, there are so many intervening circumstances that could lead to the death and that is, what the jury will be focusing on.", "Except people are mad. They had it with heroin overdoses, with babies in the backseat at the stoplight, do you think a jury would say we`re sick of it, too.", "The jury will probably actually think of it. Prosecutors are sick of it and lawmakers are sick of it. You often find on appeal appellate courts don`t uphold these convictions, because they finds that this are hard to prove in terms of proximate cause between the drug dealer dealing the drug and death. This is an amazingly traumatic and horrible incident, I have some concerns and in terms of how an appellant court might view this in terms of whether or not this lady actually cause the death.", "Well I want to thank (inaudible) for being so brave and going publicly about this, this is the kind of voice that everybody needs to hear. I`ll ask the two of you to stand by. A mystery in the Bermuda triangle tonight, you haven`t heard that for a while, right? The search continues for survivors of a small plane crash. Jennifer Blooman and her two young sons and pilot Nathan O`rick flying from Puerto Rico to Florida but never got there and air traffic controllers said it was weird. They last radar contact 37 miles you guessed it east of Bahamas, Bermuda triangle. Earlier today coastguard confirms the discovery of debris identified as components of the missing plane. Search for the passengers and of course for the plane as well continue. We know that thieves aren`t always the sharpest tools in the shed but sometimes they aren`t the most great or coordinated, either. Got the proof in Canada, there she goes, dope. Wow. I love this. Woman caught on surveillance trying to make a quick escape from an Ontario Wal-Mart literally tripping over her own silly feet. CTV new reports that the suspect was trying to lift more than $650 worth of merchandise, I am not sure how she was going to load it into the car because the Wal-Mart guy is running after her. They say she is likely in her 40s and probably helped by two men and three women and asking for anybody that knows anything for help. She is responsible for over $1,000 in thefts like that maybe in the week before. She is not very good at her job. When a car plows into a store after hours, you usually think a burglary is about to happen next but not in the case I`m about to show you. There is surveillance video from the state trailer supply store in Arizona and it is not your regular smash and grab. Watch. There he goes, circling the parking lot making choices, finally deciding to bulldoze the store. The driver goes right through, gets caught on surveillance. You think it`s going to stop there. No, no, no, no, no does a full you turn and guns for the exit.", "I`m surprised it went through because the doors are probably a couple hundred pounds. I first saw somebody was knocking down the doors to steal products which happened in prior employment I had.", "Police are still looking out for this driver. Car is mid 2000 silver or gray Chevy cobalt. There is a $1,000 reward and I don`t think that is their car, because who would do that for fun to their own car? Usually take someone else and do that. A Texas mother killed by a drunk driver and it wasn`t the drivers first time at the rodeo, wasn`t his second. How on earth does this happen? How do you get multiple DUI convictions and you yet still get to get behind the wheel after having a whole lot of drinks with your pals? 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{"id": "CNN-281822", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2016-04-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/18/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Awaiting Donald Trump at Rally, Hours Before Primary; RNC Fights Back Against Trump; Interview with Eric Trump", "utt": ["Next, breaking news. Donald Trump speaking live in this hour just before polls open in the crucial state of New York. This is Trump may fire RNC Chairman Reince Priebus if he's the nominee. Plus, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders battling for every vote. Can Sanders pull it off tomorrow? And Ted Cruz racking up delegates this weekend without any voters actually going to the polls. My guest tonight, Cruz's top delegate hunter. Let's go OUTFRONT. Good evening, I'm Erin Burnett. OUTFRONT tonight, the breaking news. Donald Trump about to speak live, rallying a huge crowds of supporters in Buffalo, New York. This is as we're counting you down to the crucial New York primary. That is where Trump is going to speak at any moment in Buffalo. A voters, though, in the state of New York heading to the polls less than 11 hours from now. You are looking at live pictures from that Trump rally, and the stakes truly could not be higher for Trump as the frontrunner. New York is one of the biggest prizes to date. Ninety five Republican delegates are up for grabs. Trump has held a consistent, comfortable lead in his home state's polls. But he needs more than just a win. A lot more than a win in the state of New York. Ted Cruz has been out muscling Trump in the delegate fight over the weekend. Trump needs to win big to re- establish his dominance in the race and to win all of the delegates in New York or as many of them as he possibly can. Trump's campaign up to 85. This is as Trump is upping the ante with his battle with the RNC saying if he wins the nomination, he might oust the RNC Chairman Reince Priebus. Just moments ago, a top RNC official fired back.", "The members of the RNC elected and re-elected Chairman Priebus last year. He serves a two- year term. It's no one's decision but the members of the RNC and they made it. So it's end of story. It's frankly, a silly story.", "Jim Acosta begins our coverage OUTFRONT tonight at that Trump rally that you can see on the screen in Buffalo. And Jim, this is going to be a huge rally. I know he's got a major person introducing him, the Buffalo Bills' coach. How is Trump feeling about his chances in his home state?", "Well, Erin, Donald Trump says he doesn't want to believe the polls right now, because basically, they're that good. And after a string of losses from Wisconsin to Wyoming, Donald Trump is seeking to do something he hasn't done in weeks and that is win a primary. And he wants to do that here in his home state of New York. He'll be out in Buffalo in just a few moments where he's expected to continue blaming the GOP system for these recent setbacks. A system he calls rigged.", "One day before the New York primary, Donald Trump wants the voters to know how much he loves his home state.", "Look at the other folks that are running, they couldn't care less about New York. We do care about New York and we care about New York a lot. And we care about New York values.", "And how much he hates the Republican Party system for picking a president.", "They have a system that's rigged. We have a system that is crooked.", "At just about every turn, Trump is warning the GOP of the consequences of denying him the nomination. If he's ahead in the delegate count but just short of the magic number needed to win.", "You're going to have a very, very upset and angry group of people at the convention. I hope it doesn't involve violence. And I don't think it will. But I will say this. It's a rigged system.", "For weeks, he has seen delegates slip away to Ted Cruz in places like Wyoming, where party insiders and activists pick the winner. And even in states where the real estate tycoon has won, like Georgia, some delegates are pledging their support to Cruz, if Trump fails to win on the first round of voting it at the July convention.", "The fact that you're taking all of these people out and wining them and dining them, nobody does that stuff better than me. I just don't want to do it.", "Trump's fight with the GOP is escalating into a new war of words with Cruz. In a tweet, Trump suggested the RNC is in on the scam, saying lying Ted Cruz can't win with the voters so he asked to sell himself to the bosses. Cruz is hitting back.", "Donald is not a complicated man to understand. He doesn't handle losing well.", "Trump is sending a message to RNC officials. If he's the nominee, buckle up. He told the \"Washington Post,\" he would like to put some showbiz into the convention. But Trump is also looking ahead to the general election, meeting with his diversity council, to improve his standing with minority voters.", "When I say Donald, you say Trump!", "Now despite his recent struggles, Donald Trump is poised to go on a big roll over the next couple weeks. The polls show he could sweep all of these states, 95 delegates and then the battle remains in the northeast, where he's also favored to go on and win in places like Pennsylvania and Delaware and Connecticut. And Erin, just a few moments ago, they were doing the wave inside this arena in Buffalo. They are feeling very good. That's because Donald Trump is about to do something he hasn't done in a while. That's win big -- Erin.", "All right. Jim Acosta, thank you very much. And let's go to Sunlen Serfaty now OUTFRONT with the Cruz campaign. A very different vibe there. Because there's not a major rally tonight. Some in New York votes tomorrow. Today Cruz had a rally though. It was in the state of Maryland. Is he really conceding that New York is Trump's for the taking at this point?", "Well, certainly it seems that way, Erin. If you look at his rhetoric and quite frankly, also his schedule. Senator Cruz already trying to move past New York, essentially, and look ahead to states that are coming up on the schedule like here in Maryland, like Pennsylvania, where he'll be tomorrow in Indiana, as well. Cruz campaign official telling me tonight that they believe that Donald Trump will do very well in his home state tomorrow. But certainly their hope is really two-fold, is to be able to still pick off delegates from Donald Trump in New York tomorrow. At the same time, also make sure that Donald Trump stays below 50 percent. They have really set the expectations for Trump sky high in his home state. Advisers saying if he does not win, by over 50 percent, that will be a devastating loss for him, in their words. But it is certainly notable that tonight Senator Cruz is focused here on Maryland. He's not having any formal campaign rallies in New York today. He was in New York for closed-door fundraisers and interviews, but not doing any last-minute campaigning there to shore up last- minute votes. So really buckling down, looking ahead here in Maryland. And this will be such a key part of the Cruz campaign strategy going forward. Not necessarily looking at whole states that they can outright win, but rather really putting their strategy at play, and really targeting key spots where they can really turn out the vote in specific areas. To really pick up those delegates along the way -- Erin.", "Sunlen, thank you. And OUTFRONT now, Tara Setmayer worked as communications director for a Republican congressman. Trump supporter Scottie Nell Hughes. Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League and Jackie Kucinich is the Washington Bureau Chief of the Daily Beast. Let me start with you, Jackie. You just heard Sunlen, Ted Cruz not campaigning in New York tonight, not going to be here when the results come in tomorrow. Can Trump win all 95 of New York's delegates tomorrow?", "It certainly seems that he's on his way to win big. The campaign for Donald playing that a little bit by a factor of, yes, 10 points.", "Right. Right.", "But still, I mean, he's winning in the -- he is looking like he's winning in the Congressional delegations as well as statewide if he gets over 50 percent, that's what's going to happen statewide.", "Yes.", "So it could be a very good night for Donald Trump. Which would propel him into these next couple contests, where it also -- the ground looks really good for him there, as well.", "And you use the word propel. Tara, I mean, is it fair to say, look, after Wisconsin there were a lot of people saying, okay, that's it for Trump. That's it for Trump. He's gone. Now he comes back with a big win in New York. Does that put him back in the lead when it comes to momentum and back on the path to nomination?", "Yes, I mean, I guess. I mean, as long as the media continues to frame it this way, sure. I mean, he's going to win in New York. That's nothing anybody didn't expect. I think the wins for Ted Cruz in Wisconsin in an open primary, it was a pretty handy loss to Donald Trump there. So he didn't like that very much. He's also -- Ted Cruz is also winning the delegate game moving forward. Since March 15th, Donald Trump has only won seven delegates. Ted Cruz has won 133 at this point. So, I mean, this is what it's about. It's a delegate fight, hunt, game, to get to the nomination. That is what the Republican Party does. It's what the Democrats do. That's what Donald Trump signed up to do when he decided to run as a Republican for the presidency. If he is serious about it, I think it's completely disingenuous he's running around complaining about a rigged system when he's won caucus states. He didn't complain about that in Nevada.", "Right.", "He didn't complain about that in Kentucky when he won caucus states. But in the caucus states that he's not winning, where there's delegates, he's complaining that it's rigged. It's completely disingenuous and is actually propaganda.", "We're going to be talking to Ted Cruz's delegate hunter in just a couple of minutes. Scottie, in this issue though of New York. You know, as Jackie points out, the campaign is really cutting expectations. They're saying they're going to win 85, not 95. All right. But it's crucial here, because as Tara points out, whatever you want to say about the past few weeks, it's Ted Cruz has been kind of picking up delegates here and there and not Donald Trump. So, does he need to get all these 95 delegates tomorrow?", "But he can still get 85 and that's more than Wyoming and Colorado combined. And so it's still a better number for him. I mean, that's -- it's all about strategy. It's all about being successful in business and he's using these same techniques. You know, Ted Cruz poured millions of dollars into Colorado, putting millions of dollars into Wyoming.", "That is not true. He did not pour millions of dollars.", "He poured money into both of those.", "Let's be accurate.", "You think it cost less than $1 million to get those --", "That's not true. Just be accurate.", "No, you want to talk about -- they have had a great ground game since January of 2015 that cost dollars of money in politics. Mr. Trump realized since he's paying for his own campaign and out paid by facts that he's going to --", "Investing in voters.", "Can I speak?", "What kind of wine was being used to wine and dine these delegates? I mean, is it true that if you will, you have this effort to really convert delegates or switch delegates?", "And that's what we're seeing. You know, you look in Colorado and this idea that, you know, Colorado -- things don't change, guess what? Back in April of 2015, there was actually a bill on the House floor to actually make it a caucus or that they would actually have an election in Colorado. Four of the Republican representatives who actually killed the bill now sit on Ted Cruz's actual Colorado leadership team. This has been a long-term plan.", "In advance of -- the rule changes in 2012 before the convention. I mean, rule changes and fight overrules. There's nothing new about that.", "You brought up a great point. You brought up a great point there.", "The one who passed the caucus system in Colorado, which is voted on by the people. So this is such a lie. You guys are lying about what happened in Colorado.", "No, I'm not. No, I'm not lying about that. There were four --", "Don't talk over each other because no one can hear you.", "There's not a lie. There was a bill last April to sit there and say, let's open this up to an election of the people of Colorado. The four members who killed the bill are now on -- Senator Cruz --", "It got voted down.", "The four people who got up there and said that by the state legislature. No, the people of Colorado were not given a choice. And that's why -- if it was -- if they were, then you would not have a -- what we're seeing in Colorado and Wyoming right now. Now, you made a great point right there. The rules changed. That's why these delegates matter so much right now. Because three days before the RNC starts or a week before, all of these rules could be changed. That's why it's important to make sure you have true delegates represent the people who voted and we're not finding that.", "If the rules aren't on your side, you've got to attack the rules, right?", "Anybody would if you're on the other side.", "The rule to be -- to win the majority of the delegates for the nomination have not changed since 1856. This is nonsense. It's absolute --", "But why are you sitting there --", "For example, in 2012, the threshold of how many states you needed to win to get on the ballot.", "That is different. That's different than winning a nomination.", "The idea is you can game the system and it's politics, right? So it's fair game. But the question is, now that you've got a contested convention, people will pay attention to the rules in ways --", "The rules do change.", "Hold on. Hold on.", "That was eight months ago and he knew.", "None of this Ted Cruz -- like, play double dealing, whatever they're saying, and the double agent that he's recruiting. None of that matters if Donald Trump is able to get 1,237. That's the bottom-line.", "Yes. On the first ballot.", "On the first ballot. If he's able to do that, none of this will matter. And if he gets the question, if he gets like 1,236, what's going to happen.", "Yes, exactly.", "And Marc, a quick final word to you though. \"Wall Street Journal\" and NBC News poll just came out. Very interesting. Terrible unfavorables for Trump. But in terms of Republicans, 63 percent say they would be satisfied if he was the nominee. A month ago, that was only 53. What does that say about the Republican Party? Overall his unfavorables are still the most unfavorable on record according to this poll.", "But still it's very difficult of any candidate to really be competitive in a general election unless you consolidate your own party base. If you still have 40 percent of the people against you, you have a long road to go in a general election.", "Right. Interesting. And, of course, just for comparison purposes, last time around everyone in that poll at this time Mitt Romney was at about 72 versus 63 percent for Donald Trump. So next, you are looking at live pictures of a Bernie Sanders rally in Long Island City, New York that you can see right there. It is a gorgeous summer day in New York City. And that is adding to the size of this crowd. We're going to go there after the break. And after raising millions of dollars for Hillary Clinton at a fundraiser, why did George Clooney say this?", "It is an obscene amount of money, the Sanders campaign when they talk about it is absolutely right.", "I guess he gave his honest opinion. Plus Donald trump saying he'll put some showbiz into the convention. What would a Trump convention look like? I'm going to ask my guest, Eric Trump, tonight. And after little Marco and lying Ted. Now this.", "And then, of course, we have crooked Hillary. 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{"id": "CNN-124611", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-3-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0803/14/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Allowing Armed Citizens on College Campuses", "utt": ["Armed citizen on college campuses to counter the threat of school shootings. That just may happen in Oklahoma. House lawmakers there have passed legislation that permits concealed weapons on state college campuses. That's only for people with specialize firearms training. Supporter says it will make school safer by putting guns into the hands of law-abiding citizens. Opponents called the whole idea crazy. And the measure now heads to the state senate for a vote.", "Well, good morning, everybody, on this Friday. I'm Betty Nguyen in for Heidi, who is off today.", "And I'm Tony Harris. Stay informed all day in the CNN NEWSROOM. Here's what's on the rundown. Gas tops $4 a gallon on two states and it is a record high most everywhere else.", "Our focus on the economy. Personal finance editor Gerri Willis answers your email questions about the money. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.voxantshop.com"], "speaker": ["HARRIS", "NGUYEN", "HARRIS", "NGUYEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-249422", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2015-02-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/16/acd.01.html", "summary": "Egypt Launched Second Wave of Airstrikes on ISIS", "utt": ["Good evening. Thanks for joining us. A freight train carrying crude oil has gone off the tracks, it's burning out of control right now, it's happening in Southern Virginia. The governor there has declared a state of emergency. You see the fireball right there. We're working to get as much information as we can on this breaking story. We're going to bring you the latest details shortly. Also tonight, a dangerous night on the road in places where snow rarely falls, like it's falling tonight. That and even more snow in New England. We'll have the latest on all of it. We begin though, with yet another country joining the battle against ISIS. Drowning to it by yet another ISIS horror chef (ph). Egypt bombing ISIS targets in Libya for a second time late today, after the kidnapping, beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians there. This is from one of those ISIS propaganda videos; the victims being led on do the beach to their death. Barbara Starr joins us now from the Pentagon with the latest of this airstrike. What kind of new targets, where there actually going after, do we know?", "Good evening, Anderson. The Egyptian government is saying it went after a number of ISIS targets, training camps, other ISIS facilities in and around the Eastern Libya City of Derna. This is a well-known stronghold of militants in Libya. Now they say they are ISIS. They are clearly adherence to ISIS. At this point, we don't know if they're central members of the ISIS organization. Egypt also denied in any claims that there were civilian casualties, saying the strikes were surgical and precise against very specific targets that they went after earlier today. Anderson.", "But I want to be clear, that's coming from the Egyptian government, not U.S. officials, or outside information, correct?", "Yes, that's right. I mean, I think it's exactly what you would expect the Egyptians to say at this point. They have no evidence of civilian casualties, and that they took great care to be surgical, you know, this is a case where we will see if there are any credible claims, sort of emerge in the coming hours and days.", "Right. We should point out we don't have people on the ground obviously there due to security concerns. Is there any indication, Barbara, that these strikes are the beginning of a wider campaign against ISIS targets in Libya by Egypt?", "Well perhaps so, the Egyptian government making it very clear how very angry it is at this mass murder of 21 Christian Egyptian men who went into Libya looking for work, very low-wage work. The Egyptian government, moving very quickly to begin these airstrikes. The question is going to be, as our own Ian Lee has pointed out, how long can the Egyptian military keep it up. They have some limited stocks of bombs and the kinds of emission that they need to drop to get after these targets and destroy them. The question is going to be, are they going to need resupply. Is that resupply going to come from the United States?", "It's also interesting to try to understand how much direct connection these groups in Libya have to ISIS central, if you want to call that, operating in Iraq, operating in Syria. I understand, the U.S. is looking into who carried out this latest killing.", "Well, that's exactly right. You know, as far as this take goes, they are looking very closely frame by frame especially at a man in the center of the tape. He's wearing camouflage. Not the type of black loose-fitting gear that you see others in the tape wearing. So they're looking to see who he might be, why he speaks such good English. But also, is this a sign that ISIS fundamentally is expanding to Libya, and there are signs of them or their adherence also in places like Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Anderson.", "Yes. Barbara Starr, appreciate the update. We're obviously not showing the video. But you look at that spill image of all those people lined up in a beach, you see a man burned alive earlier. You watch one Arab country after another bombing ISIS and listen to cleric Sunni and Shia condemning ISIS. They prod a prayers and you might have asked yourself, what the terror group actually hopes to achieve, signally without a single ally elsewhere in the world. The answer, maybe just to terrifies the harsh they create. Joining us \"New York Times\" David Kirkpatrick, and CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen, who's just written an item for CNN.com about the kind of war that ISIS hopes to start. So, David, these killings, what's the reaction been like on the ground in Egypt?", "Well, it's very, very morose. I think a cloud is really hanging over the whole country. I feel like anywhere in the country you walk into a room you're going to see people looking a little bit hang-dog today. It's just -- it's such a shocking thing to see not only the loss of life, but a killing in this way. This kind of yet, gruesome theatrical brutality really takes a toll on people.", "Peter, it's hard to understand, I think, for a lot of people what ISIS is hoping to achieve with these kind of killings. I mean, if you're looking from at it rationally, you might think that they would try to get support across the Middle East, rather than what it seems like they're doing, which is alienating themselves and growing a list of enemies.", "Yes. Means it's not an effective strategy to keep adding to your list of enemies. And now we've added -- ISIS has added the Egyptians, previously the Jordanians, the United States, and a very large coalition, pretty much every ethnic and religious group in Syria and Iraq. And so from a rational point of view, so what's the point here. But when you think about it in the way they think about the world, they really believe that we're living in the end times, a sort of apocalyptic view, that the final battle for the soul of Islam is being played out. And in fact, their English language magazine is called \"Dabiq\" which is town in Syria which the Prophet Muhammad said would be the place where the final battle between Islam and the crusaders would take place. And, you know, ISIS has that town. And in their view, that final battle is coming, too. So they don't really -- they're not behaving in a way a rational group would. They're behaving in a way of sort of an apocalyptic death cult in some would called them. And I think that's a very good way describing them.", "An apocalyptic death cult. So in -- if they're thinking about the world in those terms, Peter, the people that they are actually trying to reach out to, I mean, this kind of brutality, this kind of horror in terms of gaining new recruits, I mean, that's what it's all about. It's not about attracting a mass audience.", "I guess not. I mean, you know, you have thought that it would repeal a lot of people. But even in the United States, we've seen, you know, teenagers in Colorado and teenagers in Chicago trying to join the Islamic state. Luckily, they were, you know, headed off at the airport before they could do that. But the point is, is that, you know, in some people's mind, the Islamic state is creating the perfect caliphate, despite all this terrible violence. And that -- you know, that accounts for the fact that they're the most successful terrorist group in terms of recruitment arguably in the modern era.", "David, I mean, in terms of Libya itself, I think a lot of people kind of haven't, maybe paid that much attention to it, since the Benghazi attacks, certainly even since Gaddafi was overthrown. How chaotic now has it become?", "You know, the funny thing is, there's still money there. There's still Libyan Central Bank with about $100 billion in cash reserves, and it continue to pump out money to civil servants, to teachers, to doctors, to municipal workers. So the country continues to grind on in a way, even though there's been a total collapse of authority. You know, each little city is its own city state now. And each town is controlled by its own militia. And what we -- what we have really are two coalitions of militia. And that's all it is. There is no central authority in either one, really, fighting against each other for control of the country, ultimately for that bank.", "Peter, is there an understanding how -- or among people you talk to, how much the ISIS affiliates in Libya are connected with core ISIS in Iraq, in Syria?", "Well, I think the beheadings of these Egyptian cops actually points to a rather tight relationship. Because in this English language magazine, \"Dabiq\" we saw pictures of these prisoners. And then we saw this video from ISIS central. And to me, that indicates that there are very much in touch with the folks in Libya. Of course, go back to the first Iraq war, Anderson, you know, the United States found that the largest number of foreign fighters that went into Iraq by overwhelming numbers was from eastern Libya, the very place where this is all playing out. So that link between eastern Libya and Iraq and Al Qaeda in Iraq has been there for almost a decade.", "David, is that what you're hearing as well from deeply talk to either Egypt or elsewhere about the connection?", "Yes, especially in Derna in eastern Libya. As I understand it, you know, there are now three different groups around Libya who have pledged loyalty to this Islamic state. The group in Derna is actually, I think, partially or largely a group of returnees who have been fighting with the Islamic state in Syria. So that's -- that's an especially connected group. I'm not sure how deep the connection goes in Tripoli of Kenya where these people were apparently executed in the western part of the country.", "David Kirkpatrick, I appreciate you joining us, and Peter Bergen as well, thank you.", "Well, coming up next, another act of terror, another city in Europe, another possible connection to ISIS being investigated. We're going to go Copenhagen where police killed a gunman after his deadly rampage at a free speech meeting and outside a synagogue. Also our breaking news, we'll talk to people on the scene of that tanker train explosion, which not only shot flames high into the air, but also caught part of a local river on fire."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "BARBARA STARR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "STARR", "COOPER", "STARR", "COOPER", "STARR", "COOPER", "DAVID KIRKPATRICK, THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER", "COOPER", "PETER BERGEN, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "COOPER", "BERGEN", "COOPER", "KIRKPATRICK", "COOPER", "BERGEN", "COOPER", "KIRKPATRICK", "COOPER", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-365505", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-03-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/27/cnr.04.html", "summary": "2020 Presidential Campaign Analysis of Joe Biden, Donald Trump", "utt": ["When Anita Hill came to testify, she faced a committee that didn't fully understand what the hell it was all about. To this day, I regret I couldn't come up with a way to get her the kind of hearing she deserved.", "Careful words, notable words from the former vice president, Joe Biden, expressing regret over his handling of the Anita Hill hearing back in 1991. Notable because Biden says that his 2020 announcement will come, in his words, \"in a little bit.\" Joining me now, CNN's senior political writer an analyst Harry Enten, and former presidential advisor to Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, David Gergen. David, let me begin with you. Because this is an issue that has been hanging over his head, particularly in light of more recent events, the Kavanaugh hearing, et cetera. When you play those sound bites of Joe Biden at the time, really dismissing Anita Hill's allegations of sexual assault by Clarence Thomas. Those look horrible today. He needed to say this, did he not?", "Absolutely. And I think he feels genuine regret. I've talked to him about this before, and I think it goes deep within him. When he's out publicly now, he talks continually about empowering women, about protecting women from assault, protecting women so they're not dismissed in various kind of legal forums. I think he's taken it to heart. But it's still a problem for him with some in the African-American community, and he's going to have to find a way in his campaign to build bridges into that community that are sturdier and stronger than what he has now.", "Harry Enten, Biden, he's been a little bit Hamlet-like on this, waiting to give us a decision. But he does say the decision is coming. You speak to a lot of advisors, it does seem like it's in the offing here. He ranks at the top of the field now, pretty strongly above Sanders and well above the other new entries. What do you expect to happen to those numbers when he enters? Do they (ph) go up?", "I -- I think that's the big question, right? Does he get that sort of boost that Sanders got when he got in, or get that boost --", "Or Harris.", "-- or Harris got when she got in. And I think the big question for a lot of people like myself is, is his highest number going to be the day that he announces and all of a sudden, this deluge of attacks coming against him --", "Yes.", "-- on stuff like Anita Hill? Or is it the case that Democratic primary voters are willing to forgive him? I will point out his favorable numbers are quite strong. They are the highest in the field. And despite a lot of the negative press, perhaps, over the last month, his numbers have been holding steady.", "David Gergen, of course Joe Biden has run before, not successfully. But he's running at a different time with a different Democratic Party. And beyond the Anita Hill comments, he went more broadly in terms of his comments about culture -- I want to play them -- talking about a white man's culture. Have a listen and then I want to get your reaction.", "\"No man has a right to chastise his woman with a rod thicker than the circumference of his thumb.\" This is English jurisprudential culture. A white man's culture. That's got to change. We all have an obligation to do nothing less than change the culture in this country.", "This is a message, clearly, directed at women voters, but also more broadly, young voters here. A necessary one from the former vice president?", "I -- I -- listen, I think he needs to discuss this. This is out there for everybody to understand. The white majority in this country is rapidly disappearing. People under 30 in this country are majority minority. And by another 20 years, this whole country is going to be a majority minority. It is an important issue for us. It's one that's divisive. It's under the -- it's under the radar screen and people talk about it in code. But I think it's important to have that conversation in this election period. I don't think Joe Biden in that, calling this a \"white man's culture\" -- you know, he's got to be very careful not to offend whites either. It just -- you know, they deserve respect --", "Yes.", "-- as well. So I think he's going to have to be a bit more artful in the way he does it. I also feel, Jim, that he's debating (ph) this, I know. That he ought to declare -- he will be well-served by declaring for one term. He would seek for one -- he would seek one term and he would bring on a vice president he would help to groom as a potential candidate, four years down the road. But I think he's got a real opportunity over the next four years, to help a lot of people advance in their careers, the Democratic Party, and build a really strong bench.", "Yes. And that was an issue that came up, of course, with John McCain in 2008. Harry Enten, big voting issue here. Likely there's no bigger issue, which is health care. And the president has just not grazed a political third rail here, he's embraced it, you might say --", "Oh, I would say so. Oh my goodness.", "-- by saying \"wipe out,\" you know, Obamacare, which, despite what you hear in Washington, is popular in many red states among Republican voters. What are the political (ph) --", "Yes, I don't really know what he's doing here, right? He gets off with the Mueller thing. I think that came out about as well as he could have hoped for. And then what does he do the next day? He says, \"Oh, I want to get rid of the ACA,\" which actually polls quite well. It's favorable rating is well above its unfavorable rating. And look at the course of the president's presidency, right? Look at the point at which he reached his lowest approval rating. It was right around the ACA debates back in the Senate, during the summer of 2017. By embracing this repeal idea, I can just -- I just don't understand it. I'm like, I get it. You know, it may poll well with the Republican base but he's already doing well with the Republican base. He needs to reach out to the center of the electorate. And stuff like this just doesn't help his cause.", "David Gergen, Senator Susan Collins, Republican of course -- just paraphrasing here -- she says that she is vehemently opposed to the administration seeking to invalidate the entire Affordable Care Act. Here, you know, we often talk about the president's political radar. He's convinced that, you know, it's brilliant because he won in 2016 and, of course, he got a lot of things right. But if you look at the midterm elections, his focus on immigration did not seem to work for him in a lot of those swing states. And health care certainly worked for Democrats in a lot of swing states. Did he just hand a weapon, a victory to Democrats as we approach 2020?", "He certainly handed them a weapon. And you know, sometimes, Jim -- well, you and I are both seeing this. When a president gets a big victory, sometimes they have too large a sense of how it's transformed their power. That this is -- this is coming from a man, now, who thinks he has almost omnipotent power, having beaten back Mueller. But the fact is, the polls. There have been two polls out in the last 24 hours. And they both have found that subsequent to Barr going public with this report and his letter, that subsequent to that, there's been virtually no change in Trump's approval ratings. It's down in the low 40s, high 30s. And -- which means he did not get the leverage yet that he hoped for. And I think that makes this health care thing even more inexplicable.", "Understood. No question. We're going to watch those polls, going forward. David Gergen, Harry Enten, great to have you both on. Just a reminder, another candidate. CNN's town hall with Senator Corey Booker, tonight, hosted by my colleague Don Lemon. It'll be at 10:00 p.m. Eastern time, only here on CNN. And a measles emergency in a New York country, prompting an extremely unusual step. Officials are banning unvaccinated minors -- children -- from all public places. We'll have more when we come back."], "speaker": ["JOSEPH BIDEN, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR, NEWSROOM", "DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "SCIUTTO", "HARRY ENTEN, CNN SERNIOS POLITICAL WRITER AND ANALYST", "SCIUTTO", "ENTEN", "SCIUTTO", "ENTEN", "SCIUTTO", "BIDEN", "SCIUTTO", "GERGEN", "SCIUTTO", "GERGEN", "SCIUTTO", "ENTEN", "SCIUTTO", "ENTEN", "SCIUTTO", "GERGEN", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "CNN-152882", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2010-7-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1007/07/acd.01.html", "summary": "Heat Wave Deaths; Climategate Scientists Cleared", "utt": ["You're looking there at the leak, oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the 79th day -- 79 days. They have tried a giant containment box, top kill, top hat. They have been planning all week to hook up a third tanker to siphon off more oil, but choppy seas are stopping that from happening as well. The only real hope of a long-term solution lies in drilling relief wells into the bottom of the leaking one and killing it from below. You know, as a neurosurgeon, it's kind of annoying when someone says that something isn't brain surgery. In this case, though, it's close. And Tom Foreman is here with the latest -- Tom.", "Hi, Sanjay. You know, this whole idea of drilling down through a mile of ocean water and then two miles of rock and sand and seabed, look at this when we dive down here and just contemplate what we're talking about. You're going through all of this, all in the hopes of hitting something about the size of a dinner plate. That's how big the leaking pipe is all the way down where they're trying to hit it. That's a massive technological challenge. So, what if they miss? Then what? Well, for starters, they can try again. Look at this. These are the relief wells coming in here that we have been talking about all this time. If they were to miss this with the one that's closest down here, they can try again. This drill can be repositioned, and they can take stab after stab at it, trying to get close, as long as the equipment holds up and there is hope that it might work. Then, let's say they actually made the intercept. This is what we're talking about. Again, the pipe itself would probably be only about this wide underneath there. They have got to intercept it and then penetrate it from the side, cutting in from the sides over here. Once they do that -- here is a measure of how difficult this is and how tough this pipe is -- the actual cut in could take a full week to accomplish. If they accomplish that, though, if that's done, then what you're going to see is the pumping of this heavy drilling fluid, or mud, we have talked about. It will come down from here, into the line, and, gradually, it will start stacking up in the line as it's pushed upward by the oil. As it stacks up, because it's so heavy, it will be pushing down. So, let's say that's not enough to stop it. Well, then, Sanjay, the option is, they look over here at the second line. They bring that second line in, and they try to bring in even more mud at a higher rate, pushing it in, increasing the rate to many, many, many tons. The belief is that, somewhere, they reach a stasis here. And the cuts off the flow of the oil, and it stops it. At least, Sanjay, that's the theory about the relief wells.", "You know, I'm -- I'm a little scared to ask almost, Tom, but let's say that also fails to stop the flow. It's a fascinating description. But -- but what else can be done? Are there any other plans?", "If that doesn't work, there are other plans that they're working on right now, one of them that you mentioned a minute ago. Right now, we have been talking about this top hat sort of system, where they have a cap over the top of the blowout preventer down here, and they have lines that are coming up to ships up here that are taking this oil up and siphoning it off. They're capturing what they say is a pretty good bit from that right now. They are trying to bring in another ship here. They've been held up by the bad weather, but if they can get another ship in there, the idea is that they run another line up there. They're even talking about a tighter-fitting cap down here. If all of that works the way they wanted to, they think they could possibly get up to 90 percent collection of the oil as escaping. At least, that is their stated goal, Sanjay.", "You know, those are remarkable graphics, and it actually really makes it quite clear, and I hate to be sort of the Thomas doubtful here, Tom. In the sake of completeness, if nothing works -- a lot of -- my friends have been asking this, and the leaks in the bottom just continue to expand to the point they cannot be controlled, what then?", "Yes. That seems, Sanjay, to be highly unlikely when you talk to scientists. Really, one of the few ways that could happen is if you have some kind of catastrophic failure down here where you ended up with multiple leaks out of the sea floor, and you simply couldn't do anything about it. That seems really unlikely. But if you have something like that happen and this simply gushed and gushed and gushed, the thing is, no one knows. The estimate of how much oil is in this reservoir vary from tens of millions of barrels to maybe a billion. So, sufficed to say if that remote circumstance came into being, you could look at years of oil spewing up into the Gulf like this, Sanjay. But, of course, we're very, very much hoping that won't be the case -- Sanjay.", "All right. Yes. A lot of people optimistic right there with you as well. Fascinating stuff, Tom. Thanks so much. And Joe Johns is following some other important stories for us now. tonight as well, and he joins us now for the \"360 Bulletin\".", "Sanjay, a 5.4 magnitude earthquake rattled Southern California. It was centered about 60 miles northeast of San Diego. No immediate reports of damage or injuries. Meantime, the heat wave, baking the northeast, has claimed at least two lives, the latest, a Baltimore resident. Two straight days of triple-digit temperatures has caused scattered power outages in many eastern seaboard states and made life miserable throughout the region. A teenage girl and a 20-year-old man are missing after a Philadelphia tourist boat flipped and sank when a barge hit it. Thirty-five people were rescued from the Delaware River, nine hospitalized for minor injuries. An independent panel has cleared a group of scientists in the so- called Climategate controversy. Skeptics had claimed a chain of e- mails and documents leaked in 2009 prove that global warming was a hoax. But in its report, the panel said the scientists had high scientific standards and did not manipulate their data. And here's one for you. \"Paul,\" the psychic octopus, has scored again, predicting Spain would defeat Germany in today's semi-finals and it did. A 1-0 victory. \"Paul\" was 6 for 6 this World Cup. He calls matches by choosing between two containers of food, representing competing teams. You just have to wonder what on earth an octopus eats. Who knows?", "It's a little creepy to look at.", "I know.", "You know, it got me thinking -- you're part of the best political team on television, maybe you could have that octopus help you with some of your game day call, Jeff.", "Yes. And I bet he'd be a little bit better than some other people, present company not included.", "The octopus correspondent (ph). Of course not, Jeff. Thanks so much. And next on \"360,\" a high price for the cleanup. Oysters, they're dying. Oyster men say not because of the oil but because of how it's being kept away and the men who rely on this work. Their lives are being changed forever. We're going to take you straight out on the water. Also tonight, under arrest, a suspected serial killer who police say played a deadly cat and mouse game for 25 years. We got those details coming up."], "speaker": ["GUPTA", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GUPTA", "FOREMAN", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-289888", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-07-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/28/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Chelsea Clinton to Introduce Her Mother at DNC; Hillary Clinton Prepares DNC Nomination Acceptance Speech", "utt": ["Hillary Clinton expected to be introduced this evening by Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. So we're not expecting, at least it's not likely right now, that we will see Hillary Clinton. There had been some expectation earlier that she might do a walkthrough. The campaign tells us that's not likely. As far as the speech goes, we know it's still a work in progress, as they say. She's still working on that speech. It is expected to include, among other things, some biographical anecdotes. Hillary Clinton delving a bit into her personal life. Which we know is sometimes hard for her. Both she and her husband have sort of been against the notion of personal disclosures throughout their careers. Now we also expect her to delve into her book, the 1996 book, \"It Takes A Village.\" And move that all the way forward to the current campaign theme. One of the big questions, of course, is the extent to which she'll get into not only Donald Trump, but her issues of trustworthiness which have dogged her on the campaign trail. Carol, back to you.", "All right, Joe Johns reporting live from the convention floor. Thanks so much. Actually, Hillary Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, will introduce her mother right before her big speech. Chelsea Clinton was on The Today Show this morning. And she talked a little bit about what she might say.", "Well I hope to convey even just a small sense of why I'm so proud and grateful to be her daughter. Why I'm grateful for the example she's set for me as a mom. I hope that people will just get a sense of why I'm so proud to be standing ...", "So it's going to be a deeply personal speech. This is not going to be a speech that's going to try to separate her from Donald Trump?", "No. I mean, I'm going to talk as her daughter. I'm an only child so it's a unique position that I have. And I just hope that people understand even a little more when I'm done than when I started, about why I love her so much and admire her so much.", "So let's talk about Hillary Clinton's big speech tonight. With me now is Michael Gerson, former Speechwriter for George W. Bush. Michael Waldman, former Chief Speechwriter for President Bill Clinton. And David Litt, former Chief Speechwriter for President Obama. Well I'm surrounded by power. Thanks to you all for being with me this morning. Michael Waldman, I will start with you. So Hillary Clinton still working on her speech. How does that work? Is she sitting at a table with all of her speechwriters around her and just making edits?", "Well it really depends on the individual. Different people do it different ways. I know she's got a team of trusted folks who work with her. She's been very loyal to her campaign staff in this campaign. She's got a lot of outside friends and advisors. Not as many as her husband had weighing in. But I'm sure it's a bit of a work in progress still. And this is a big moment for her, as for any candidate accepting it. So I'm sure she wants to get it precisely right.", "Exactly right. OK so David, we saw a bunch of women senators on the stage, going through a walk-through. I would think that Hillary Clinton is going to talk about history tonight, as well her own history.", "Yes I would think so. One of the things that I thought has been really striking this convention is before Hillary was nominated, it was almost like an afterthought that she was the first woman to be nominated for President. And all of a sudden it happened and history was made. And I feel like in the -- yesterday and I think today, people are realizing what that means. And every time someone's bringing that up on the floor, you hear these huge cheers in a way that maybe people were taking for granted on Monday or 6 months ago.", "Yeah, absolutely. So Michael Gerson, you're a Republican, you're a speechwriter for George W. Bush. So Hillary Clinton wants to attract those moderate Republicans to her side. What does she have to say to do that?", "Well I think she needs to follow the example of President Obama last night. He made the case that Donald Trump is an aberration from Republican ideology and history. Not the culmination of Republican ideology. A lot of liberals argue that Trump is the Party. Last night Barack Obama argued that, put him on an island. Said, this is different from the Republicanism I know -- knew growing up. I think that that's a very effective approach rather than an ideological combat.", "And, Michael Waldman, USA Today wrote this speech for Hillary Clinton. Their editorial board wrote it -- and I'm paraphrasing here. But they said that Hillary Clinton should directly address her issues with trust with the American people. And say, you know what? I know you don't trust me. I know a lot of you don't like me. Here's why you should. She should just like face it head-on. Would that be a good idea?", "Everybody wants to get in the act. I don't know that she should do that. I think she should address people's skepticism about politics working for them at all. I agree with what Michael Gerson said that there's a tremendous opportunity to speak to the great middle. And one of the things that was remarkable about President Obama's speech last night was, he didn't only cite Lincoln, one of the greatest moments was when he cited Teddy Roosevelt -- another Republican President -- called her, \"the woman in the arena.\" I think she can address, and should address this trust issue but not say, \"I know you hate me, why do you hate me, I don't understand.\" Not -- I just think it's not really true and it's not a standard that any other politician, especially not other men, accepting their nominations have ever been asked to do. Often candidates come in limping a bit. George H. W. Bush did, lots of presidential candidates have come in, and if they give a forceful speech that makes people think, \"you know, I can see this person as my president,\" the trust issues get washed away.", "So do you want to appear only strong and not recognize your vulnerabilities?", "Well I think the best way to address those vulnerabilities is not to -- as Michael was saying -- not to talk about those vulnerabilities. But to prove through how you speak and what you talk about, that you're not necessarily the caricature that's been painted for you by the other party. And that's what you've seen, all of these speakers kind of setting the table for her, saying, \"the Hillary that you've heard about, the Hillary you've heard all these horrible stories about, that's not the real Hillary.\" And so now she has an opportunity to show us all who is the real Hillary. And we get to see that tonight.", "So who is the real Hillary? Michael Gerson, Hillary Clinton is following some gifted speakers. Joe Biden's speech last night was emotionally powerful. President Obama's speech, many -- even some Republicans -- said it was a great speech. So how does Hillary Clinton follow that?", "She's always lived with comparisons to her husband who is one of the greatest politician of our times. And she does not fall in that category. But she's going to have to define her own message. And I completely agree, this is a matter of show not tell. You can't go out there and say, \"I'm honest and trustworthy.\" You have to tell stories that make you vulnerable, and credible, and transparent. She needs to show her deepest motivations. I think people are not certain about that. So she has her own moment. This is the main stage. It's going to be a great speech, in and of itself. And I -- so I don't think the comparisons will be there. This is the main stage of American politics she's on.", "Well, Michael Waldman, you don't think there'll be any comparisons?", "I think there'll be comparisons. But I think it would be a mistake and I don't expect her to try to raise the roof the way Barack Obama did last night, the way Bill Clinton in other convention speeches has. She's at her best when she's in a debate or when she's giving an interview. When she's talking quietly ...", "Actually she's at her best when she's on the defensive.", "Well, but it's actually -- she gave a very well-received convention speech in 1996. She gave a very well-received convention speech in 2008. It's a lot easier when you're not the candidate. Even Barack Obama's speech last night was better than when he was accepting his own nomination. She needs to find a way to not try to rouse the crowd, but actually talk to the people at home and make her case directly to them. And it may not feel as cathartic in the room as last night did. But probably would be more effective.", "All right. Thanks to all of you, thank you so much. Michael Gerson, Michael Waldman, and David Litt. Still to come in the Newsroom, Trump says he was only joking when he asked Russians to hack Hillary Clinton's email. But Democrats say it's no laughing matter."], "speaker": ["JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN HOST, \"NEWSROOM\"", "CHELSEA CLINTON, FORMER FIRST DAUGHTER", "MATT LAUER, HOST, \"THE TODAY SHOW,\" NBC", "CLINTON", "COSTELLO", "MICHAEL WALDMAN, FORMER CHIEF SPEECHWRITER FOR BILL CLINTON", "COSTELLO", "DAVID LITT, FORMER CHIEF SPEECHWRITER FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA", "COSTELLO", "MICHAEL GERSON, FORMER SPEECHWRITER FOR GEORGE W. BUSH", "COSTELLO", "WALDMAN", "COSTELLO", "LITT", "COSTELLO", "GERSHON", "COSTELLO", "WALDMAN", "COSTELLO", "WALDMAN", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-172972", "program": "CNN RELIABLE SOURCES", "date": "2011-9-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/25/rs.01.html", "summary": "Obama Administration Accuses Suskind of Distorting Facts", "utt": ["Ron Suskind had all kinds of cooperation from the White House for his new book on the administration, interviews of plenty of top advisers, and nearly an hour with the president himself. But it turns out the Obama team doesn't much like the book and has pushed back hard, with some top officials denying they said what the book quotes them as saying.", "What we know is that very simple things, facts that could be ascertained, dates, titles, statistics, quotes, are wrong in this book. So I think that -- in fact, one passage seems to be lifted almost entirely from Wikipedia in the book. That analysis is wrong. Tim Geithner, who lived it, just told you that it bears no resemblance to the reality he lived.", "The book is \"Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President.\" And Ron Suskind joins me now here in the studio. Welcome. You spent a couple of years on this book. As I said, you had a lot of cooperation, a lot of access. And now the White House has mounted this campaign -- there's no other word -- this campaign against you. This must tick you off.", "Well, you know, the fact of the matter is, Howie, when the book was completed through this summer, I got a sense that the reaction would be different than what it might have been in the spring. When we were coming at the end of the reporting, after the interview with the president and the final areas of reporting, the president was sort of riding a very strong wave. I think the White House felt very good about many of these disclosures being in a part of the presidency that they viewed as over, that the president had evolved and moved past it. That's what he says strongly.", "But then things got worse for the president.", "Right. That looked like a false spring very quickly by the end of the book. And what I did at the finish of the book, as I've pointed out, is I went back to everybody again and again to say, look, this is what the book says next to your name. Let's talk about it so you understand and you're ready for that. And frankly, the White House knew everything that was in the book prior to publication.", "There is a lot of reporting in this book. You talked to a lot of people. You have got internal memos. When the White House press secretary stands up there and says you're plagiarizing a passage, I mean, that is a concerted effort to discredit you.", "Yes. You know, I've had a lot of pushback. Sometimes we get a lot of pushback when these books come out. They pull back a curtain on something that heretofore has not been revealed. Certainly Bob Woodward has had his examples, other reporters and writers as well. I, during the Bush era, on all three books, certainly the first book, which really was similar to this in pulling back the curtain of the Bush administration, they were vigorous. If you recall, they filed a frivolous federal investigation against me and Paul O'Neill, which of course dissolved a few months later.", "So you're used to this. But hasn't the Obama team succeeded in this respect -- when your book first came out, the headlines were about dysfunctional administration, president -- inexperienced president not ready to govern, and women in the White House felt that they were being given short shrift. Now all of the stories and interviews, and I guess we're doing it here to some extent, are about the credibility of Ron Suskind. So was this a tactic to make you the issue?", "I think that as people read the book, they're often surprised to say this is not sensational, this is very well sourced. It's complete, it's credible, and in the book, there are long passages of responses from the key actors to all of the major disclosures. That was part of the idea of making the book complete as a text in and of itself. I think much of the attacks, they came prior to the book being in people's hands. Now that it is in people's hands, already that is turning.", "But does it disappoint you that some of the criticism from people in this administration has been so personal towards you?", "You know, Howie, you know as well as anybody it's a tough town. Many of the folks who were praising me mightily during the Bush era -- these are the most definitive works on George Bush, this is the historical record -- now are doing their best to struggle really to discredit those books and discredit this book.", "Are you suggesting it's ideological, that some people who were liberals are perfectly happy to have you go after President Bush and not so happy to have you go after Barack Obama?", "Well, certainly many commentators have pointed that out. That's not just me. I think that's part of the way this works. When they look at this president, I think that this book will help people on balance get involved in a more thorough analysis of how we got here. This is a difficult time for everyone in America. We're feeling enormous pressure. Is America in a decline? This economic nightmare is growing, it seems, and I think the point of the book is to look at that clearly so we can have a more fulfilling and more productive discussion, and I think that's already happening.", "Let's get into some of the details. The most attention has turned on Anita Dunn, the former White House communications director, because of a fairly explosive thing that you quoted her as saying, that the White House would be in court for hostile workplace in terms of the attitude toward women. You actually played a tape of your interview with Anita Dunn for a \"Washington Post\" reporter, and here's the full quote --", "Yes.", "\"I remember one I told Valerie\" -- that's Valerie Jarrett, White House official -- \"if it weren't for the president, this place would be a court for hostile workplace.\" In the book, you took out the six words, \"If it weren't for the president,\" which seems to me to change the meaning of what Anita Dunn said.", "Right. I said and \"The Washington Post\" has reported that that was at Anita Dunn's request. At the end of the process, I called back Anita -- as I said, I called back all the key sources. I talked to her about the quote. She was quite vigorous in saying, this is the way I think this the quote is most appropriate to what I believe as it appeared in the book. The issue about the president per se is one that I said, \"Anita, I never was sure what you meant by that. If it's a hostile workplace and the president is not involved, as you and others have said, what difference would it make if you were there or not?\" She says, \"You're right, that doesn't make sense.\" So the point --", "Whether she asked you to or not, taking those six words out really changes the impact of what she is saying. Why didn't you as an author give us the full quote so we can make up our minds?", "Well, the fact is, Howie, is that with a quote like that, you press the subject. And you say, is this what you really mean? And if so, how? And if not, why not? So that they can stand up and take ownership of this quote when the lights come up. This was something I did for Anita Dunn. And this is the quote that she accepted, to say this is what I truly believe. The core of the quote about it being a hostile workplace does not change, but her point was that, I said it in present tense in the spring. Looking back, this is true to what I believe. And that's how the quote appear in the book.", "Well, she continues to be unhappy with your rendering of it.", "But I think that issue is now settled.", "Christina Romer, former economic adviser, also talking about the way the White House staff, the boys, so to speak, treated women. \"I felt like a piece of meat after some of the meetings.\" Christina Romer now says, \"I can't imagine saying that.\"", "Yes. Well, Christina and I talked for many, many hours. She said many, many things. When the first call came on that, I simply don't think she remembered. I talked to her later. She didn't remember saying that. So she said, \"I can't imagine saying that.\" Christina said many, many things that were in line with that quote, or in many cases, even more dramatic than that quote. But again, this is part of the pushback that's happening, where the White House is calling everybody and saying, are you loyal to the president? Certainly say something now, which in some ways kicks up dust about this book that we feel hurts him.", "Hold it. You're making a serious allegation. You're saying that some of these former officials are disputing what they said to you because they're under pressure from the Obama White House, not because they disagree with your rendering of events.", "In a moment like this, when the president is seen under attack by a book in which they are a main character, they're going to feel pressure, period. They're going to feel pressured by simply living in America. At a moment like this, they do get calls. I'm not saying they did get calls. I don't know that. But it is indisputable that that's what happens. That's the way the world works.", "Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, as you know -- you have an account in the book that he basically dragged his feet on coming up with a plan to restructure Citigroup, which was in deep financial trouble.", "That's right.", "He denies this vigorously. That seems like a pretty substantive disputes between your account and what the treasury secretary says.", "I would direct readers to two pages in the book from a long-taped interview with the treasury secretary. Again, prior to publication, when people were confronted with the disclosures, right up to the president, where Tim responds step by step to what the evidence indicates in terms of the Citibank issue and the Citibank incident. I think it's important people are now moving, reporters are now moving to the Pete Rouse memo which is there in full in the book, which says that Treasury, in cases, in instances, relitigated, meaning they essentially ignored or tried to re-debate issues when they disagreed with the president. I think the area of coverage now is asking the White House, what are those instances, how many instances, in what areas, on what issues? Because, interestingly, it shows where the president wanted to do something, but Treasury, for whatever reason, was not moving based on the president's will.", "I just want to explain that Pete Rouse is a top White House official --", "Yes. Sorry.", "Let me move to the broader question. Why would -- because there's a lot more here in the book than these incidents.", "Absolutely.", "But these incidents are helping you sell the book, and the controversy, let's face it, helps you sell the book. Why would these top government officials, people very experienced at dealing with the press, tell you over a period of time these negative and sometimes embarrassing things despite even given the fact that, you know, the White House was cooperating and the president gave you an interview? Why would they say this, knowing one day it would be between hard covers?", "Well, you know, their own context to many things in the book -- there are many things in the book that I think are positive about the president. The president finishes with a great burst, I think, in the last third of the book, which was part of the goal of the book, is to show the evolution of this man, frankly, across four years. And when people talk for hour after hour about their actual experiences, it is a truth that they own, they will tell you everything they know.", "But are they confiding -- you're not their friend. You're there as a journalist.", "Sure.", "And yet, they are saying things, and you say they are saying things --", "Of course.", "-- that ordinarily they wouldn't tell reporters.", "We develop long-source reporter relationships that often stretch across years. And I have those relationships, those source reporter relationships -- again, common for all reporters -- with many, many sources, all of whom live at the same time and the same experiences.", "And they know you're not writing this for the next day's paper or for the next week's magazine.", "Exactly.", "And I think that's a key advantage that all of we book writers understand, is especially an advantage at a time when there's a lot of access journalism. If you write something bad in a newspaper, you may lose access the next day. We can spend years in some cases getting at least a first draft of a record of this period.", "All right. Ron Suskind, thanks very much for coming in this morning. We appreciate it. Coming up in the second part of RELIABLE SOURCES, clashing careers. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz talks about why being married to a senator led her to give up her longtime jobs at \"The Cleveland Plain Dealer.\" Then, the blogger who makes political predictions based on nothing but statistics. Nate Silver of \"The New York Times\" on his \"538\" blog and why he says media coverage often misses the boat."], "speaker": ["KURTZ", "JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "KURTZ", "RON SUSKIND, AUTHOR, \"CONFIDENCE MEN\"", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ", "SUSKIND", "SUSKIND", "KURTZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-279188", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2016-03-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/17/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Inspiration through Education; Imagine a World.", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. You know, there's an old British saying that goes, \"Those who can, do, and those who can't, teach,\" meaning, of course, that people turn to teaching when they really aren't good at anything else. Tonight we meet two inspiring people who have proved that phrase very wrong. Hanan Al Hroub works in a primary school in the West Bank. She's just been awarded this year's prestigious global teacher prize for her efforts helping young schoolchildren traumatized by violence. And Colin Hegarty is a math teacher from London whose engaging online tutorials have helped thousands of children around the world achieve better grades. He was a runner-up for the $1 million prize. Well, Colin and Hanan joined Christiane Amanpour earlier this week.", "Welcome to both of you, Colin here in the studio, Hanan out there in Dubai. Let me ask you first, Hanan, how does it feel, what was it like to be awarded and announced as the winner by the pope himself?", "Very happy. I still cannot believe it. I didn't believe hearing my name as a winner. It's -- I respect him a lot and it's a big prize. It's a big prize that I'm very proud of.", "Now unlike the special circumstances of the Palestinian territories, Britain is an intellectual hub, it's a science hub. People talk all over the world about the great British education. But today, \"The Times\" of London says that British schoolchildren are at the back of the class practically when it comes to global math achievement.", "Every successful system has a great culture behind it. So we need to promote maths, tell the good stories of maths in this country, tell our children that you can do maths and that's the teachers, that's the media, that's the parents probably more than anyone. We can't by osmosis let children realize they're not good at maths by the messages we give them. And I think confidence and belief that you can do it is the very first starting point, so that's what we should do in the first instance.", "And, Hanan, you do a different kind of teaching. You're teaching traumatized children. Tell me how that came about.", "My way of teaching is play and learn, is to stop any violent behavior, any violent behavior in the classroom. If a social group is violent, than that's going to affect the whole society. I treat them that success can be for all of the students. I teach them how to converse, how to carry a dialogue. The games I teach them teach them how to participate, how to be efficient.", "But how did it start, Hanan? Your own children witnessed a shooting, is that right? And they were very traumatized by it. Describe what led you to this.", "The story started as any story that a family in Palestine can go through. They were coming back from school and they saw the wife of their aunt -- of their uncle -- they saw them being shooted in front of them. And my children, they saw their own father, he was injured. It was quite a big shock for them. I suffered a lot due to that. They were isolated. They lost self-confidence. And they were violent between each other. And I noticed most of the teachers at school, they were not trained to treat this kind of shocks. So I had to deal with my kids by myself. And I started playing with them. I started looking for a library. I started looking for colors, for tools to draw things to help my children to get rid of that trauma. Their results at school got better --", "-- and I managed to take them out of that trauma because of what happened. And I took it as a responsibility and as a promise to myself that I will help anyone who has been through such an experience.", "Colin, let me ask you. There have been so many high profile -- you know, the President of the United States, President Clinton, Ban Ki-moon, the pope, all these people said how important their early teachers were to them. And I just want to play something that one of your students has said about you.", "He's here to get us where we want to go. And he'll help us in any way possible. And it was just quite inspiring to have someone at such an important point in your life to just be, \"I'm here whenever you need it, 24/7.\"", "In my own life, education was everything. I'm from very humble backgrounds in London: myself, my mum, my dad, my sister lived in a one-bed council flat in Kilburn (ph). My parents taught me education was a great enabler in your life. It's an opportunity to give you choice and an opportunity to allow you to do the things in life that you want to do, to help yourself but, more importantly, also to help your community and the problems that are in the world. I think it was said during the conference at the weekend that, for any problem we have, education is the answer. And, I mean, what greater gift is there, after the gift of life and love? I think the third greatest gift you can give to someone is the love of learning.", "Were you always -- did you always love maths? Were you always a math wiz?", "Honestly, I just love learning. I was so lucky. My parents really told me that education was everything. And wouldn't it be great if one day like young children think of being a teacher just the same as they think of it being a doctor or a lawyer?", "Well, you know, that brings me to obviously the next question. There are certain countries, let's say Finland and others, have been held up as some of the best education models in the world. They say that partly that is because they treat and pay their teachers as if they were the highest profession rather than, oh, I couldn't do anything else so I went into teaching. What is your view on how teachers should be valued by society?", "The worst phrase you hear is, you know, if you can do, do and if you can't, teach. It's such a tragic thing to hear. It's the exact opposite. To be a great teacher, listening to Hanan and all the others, you need incredible passion, incredible energy and incredible expertise. That's the one thing, all professions have a credible expertise. And to be a great teacher, there's a lot you need to learn about how the brain works, a lot you need to know about how to motivate people. These are skills that great business leaders have. And teachers are like business leaders. So I think we need to thank you for the Varkey Foundation for this award, because it started the conversation. And I think it's the right conversation to be having and it's --", "And they're already talking about this as the Nobel for teaching. So the two of you, thank you so much. Colin, well done for being a finalist. Hanan, congratulations on winning this year's award. Thank you for being with us.", "And up next, the young Palestinian boy living out a dream after surviving a nightmare that killed his family."], "speaker": ["PLEITGEN", "AMANPOUR", "HANAN AL HROUB, GLOBAL TEACHER PRIZE WINNER (through translator)", "AMANPOUR", "COLIN HEGARTY, GLOBAL TEACHER RUNNER-UP", "AMANPOUR", "HROUB (through translator)", "AMANPOUR", "HROUB (through translator)", "HROUB (through translator)", "AMANPOUR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HEGARTY", "AMANPOUR", "HEGARTY", "AMANPOUR", "HEGARTY", "AMANPOUR", "PLEITGEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-373931", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2019-07-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/03/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Trump Admin Reverses Course On Census Citizenship Question After Trump Contradicted Officials On The Issue; Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) Discuss The Trump Administration On Citizenship Question; Trump Admin Reverses Course On Census, Citing Trump Tweet; Trump Admin Reverses Course On Census Citizenship Question In Bid To Appease Trump; Trump Defends Plan To Show Off Military At July 4th Event; Trump Misleads On The Cost Of July 4th Event; Sources Say Military Chiefs Fear It Will Be Politicized", "utt": ["Our deepest, deepest condolences to his family and to his friends. Thanks very much for watching. I'm Wolf Blitzer in THE SITUATION ROOM. Erin Burnett OUTFRONT starts right now.", "OUTFRONT next, breaking news, a major reversal. The Justice Department ordered by the President to reexamine putting the controversial citizenship question back in the 2020 census and it's all because of a tweet. Plus, the President defending his July 4th extravaganza as the backlash and the price tags continue to grow. One lawmaker now suggesting the payment plan is illegal. He's my guest. And Biden blindsided, the former vice president raising $21 million but it wasn't enough to beat one unexpected candidate. Let's go out front. OUTFRONT tonight, good evening, everyone. I'm Kate Bolduan in for Erin Burnett. We have breaking news, census chaos. The Justice Department reversing course after the just reversed course on the 2020 census. Just a short time ago, the Justice Department told a judge that they're now looking for a way to include the controversial citizenship question, just after they decided yesterday to start printing the questionnaire without the question. Are you following me? Is your head spinning? It should be at this point. It is all because of this tweet from the President today. He tweeted the following, \"The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect or to state it differently.\" The President says, \"FAKE. We are absolutely moving forward as we must because of the importance of the answer to the question.\" Only thing, there is nothing fake about the reports. The Justice Department even admitted it to the federal judge today saying, quote, the tweet this morning was the first I had heard of the President's position on this issue. One attorney said, \"Just like the plaintiffs and Your Honor.\" This justice attorney went on to say, \"I do not have a deeper understanding of what that means at this juncture other than what the President has tweeted.\" According to The Washington Post, the President hated the idea that it appeared he had thrown in the towel on the fight over the citizenship question, caved on any issue, especially one that he has been railing against for months.", "I think it's very important to find out if somebody is a citizen as opposed to an illegal. They're not allowed to ask whether or not somebody's a citizen of the United States. How horrible and ridiculous is that? Can you imagine you send out a census and you're not allowed to say whether or not a person is an American citizen.", "Pamela Brown is out front live outside the White House for us tonight. Pamela, what more are you learning about this sudden reversal from the administration and please remind folks why this is so controversial. So Kate, this is a truly stunning course reversal. The President's tweet today clearly caught a lot of people off guard, including officials of its own administration. It cause chaos as officials tried to grapple with how to square what the government told the court just yesterday that the census will not include the citizenship question. And then what the President tweeted today that his administration hasn't given up the quest to include that question. Now, Maryland federal judge convened in the hearing today after seeing the President's tweet that contradicted the government's position and gave the DOJ lawyers a whip lashing. One of the lawyers, DOJ lawyer, said that the President's tweet was the first he had heard of the President's position and that he was trying to get his arms around this fluid situation. Nonetheless, Kate, the judge reprimanded the DOJ lawyers for the sudden shift and suggested they don't speak for the client. The President, of course, is unclear what exactly prompted the President's tweet but a White House official says there have been discussions about a path forward. What that path is though is unclear after the Supreme Court hold on the question for now and the census printing has already begun. Kate.", "Absolutely. And all of this comes down to critics of this question being put on and say it's directly targeting minority communities, immigrant communities and trying to suppress the representation in the census which equals millions of dollars, redistricting and the balance of power panel. Pamela, thank you so much. Out front with me now Democratic Congressman Raul Grijalva of Arizona. Congressman, thanks for being here.", "Thank you so much.", "I was looking, of course, on Twitter. At 11:15 this morning, Congressman, I saw you were celebrating on Twitter the fact that the administration had dropped the fight for the citizenship question and was moving on, at least it appeared. That was this morning. What do you say now?", "Well, I thought that the lead counsel, the Senior Counsel for Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, Mr. Saenz said it best, the administration is now doubling down on stupid. And I think the plaintiffs are in a strong position, the fact that the opinion from Supreme Court in holding and leaving the question out of citizenship, said that the rationale that the administration had seemed contrived. After the Secretary Ross lied to Congress as to the motivation behind it. I think the strength is still there and the federal judge, this is going to proceed forward. The President has obviously embarrassed by the fact that he couldn't get his way. This is the Supreme Court and contempt of not following an order has consequences. And the consequences are that to continue to play this, to continue to try to milk as much political capital as you can out of this question is a big mistake. The Supreme Court has held it. It shouldn't appear in there and at the end of the day, that's what's going to happen. But this whole drama that he's created, this uncertainty he's created even within his own ranks at the Justice Department, I think is another sad chapter of dysfunctional. One hand doesn't know what's going on, but it's it's already been clearly decided. I'm very confident that this whole exercise by Trump is going to go nowhere.", "The President on Monday was asked why it was so important to him to include the citizenship question. I want to remind viewers what he said.", "I think it's very important to find out if somebody is a citizen as opposed to an illegal. They're not allowed to ask whether or not somebody is a citizen of the United States. How horrible and ridiculous is that? Can you imagine you send out a census and you're not allowed to say whether or not a person is an American citizen?", "I'm not sure what the President says. I mean what he was talking about is it's important to find out if someone is a citizen as opposed to illegal and he talks about Democrats in some of his remarks about this. I'm not sure he's making any different case than the one that the Supreme Court actually just shut down. But we do know that the President supporters are in lockstep with him on this. How do you convince them otherwise, Congressman?", "This nation and the census which is part of the counting of the people of this nation has been going on and it's been going on to count every resident in this nation without prejudice and with confidentiality. That's been the story. I think the motivation behind it is pretty simple, is to isolate groups to diminish their importance, politically and otherwise. And I think the President, this is to me has always been a voter suppression issue. It's always been an issue that's xenophobic from the beginning as to who's been targeted. The sense about all residents and that's the way it should be. My father was a green card holder for much of his life and he lived in this country and work. He was counted and he should be counted. He's a taxpayer. He's helping raise a family in this country, a family of citizens and a family unit. Why should they be left out and why should any resident of this country be left out? It's way the President is trying to intimidate, suppress the count and in suppressing the count, he also affects political representation in this country.", "We're now hearing, at least one Justice Department attorney was saying to the federal judge in this, I mean saying that the tweet was the first time they'd heard about the President's position and also even acknowledging - this attorney says, \"I'm doing my absolute best to figure out what is going on.\" I mean, it really sounds like chaos surrounding, as you point out, one of the most important national surveys taken and taken only every 10 years. Is there anything Congress can do about this?", "Well, the litigation was that point and the Congress says, at least the House reaffirmed through our action that everybody should be counted and that the citizenship question was going to suppressed the account, and it was going to intimidate and try to marginalize people in this country, period and we've affirmed that.", "Do you think just the President --", "Mr. McConnell doesn't want to deal with those questions.", "Do you think, Congressman ...", "Yes, please.", "... that even if the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land, this is now - nobody knows what is going to happen now. This is all just happening today. The fight though dragging out this fight, it could very well threaten the deadlines that the administration is up against in terms of printing and beginning the count. What could that mean?", "Well, I hope that this particular political tantrum fit that the President is having doesn't do what you just asked. Jeopardize account that is vital to representation. It's vital to resource distribution. It's vital to local communities to be able to know how to plan and how to accommodate the residents that they have. Why deny that to people and why deny that to our country in and of itself. So this tantrum is jeopardizing a real accurate and necessary count that is historically been essential for the governance of this country.", "I also want to ask you about the President's Fourth of July event, his plan on the National Mall tomorrow. You're the chair of the committee that has oversight of the country's national parks and the Interior Department. You sent a letter to the Interior Secretary today asking for an accounting really of the $2.5 million dollars that we now know is going to be diverted to help pay for the event from the Interior Department. You call it a legal, why?", "Yes, I really do. I think the recreation fee, the parks asked in charge of visitors is used specifically to support of those parks and those public lands that we visit and that we recreated. And diverting money during the shutdown, painful. But this one, $2.5 million directly out of that fund that all Americans paid to maintain their parks and to divert it on a use that is not prescribed for that fund for what essentially is a self-aggrandization event that Trump is having for himself we believe is illegal and we're asking Secretary Bernhardt to provide us the details, the cost, the rationale, legal and otherwise for that transfer of which I believe strongly does not exist. And just to say we're going to do it when there's a law that specifically says these funds must be used in these parks. And the reason for the letter otherwise, the whole event is - some major self- gratulatoryevent for Trump more political than the patriotic in the sense that the VIP seats go to high-end donors for the Republican Party. The event itself is about military power as opposed to talking about the values and the importance of the 4th of July, our independence, who we are as a nation, a unifying time for our country. That's not happening at this event.", "Let us see what the President says in that speech tomorrow night. Congressman, thanks for coming in.", "Thank you for the invitation. I appreciate it.", "Thank you so much. Out front for us next, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris going head-to-head this hour, holding rallies in the crucial state of Iowa. Can Biden continue to hold off Harris? Plus, it is the question, one of many, that is the question, the women running for President hearing, is the country ready to elect a female president. Why is it still being asked? Plus, pictures drawn by children detained at the border depicting themselves in cages. The doctor who received those pictures is out front. What did she see in those facilities?"], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BOLDUAN", "BOLDUAN", "REP. RAUL GRIJALVA (D-AZ)", "BOLDUAN", "GRIJALVA", "BOLDUAN", "TRUMP", "BOLDUAN", "GRIJALVA", "BOLDUAN", "GRIJALVA", "BOLDUAN", "GRIJALVA", "BOLDUAN", "GRIJALVA", "BOLDUAN", "GRIJALVA", "BOLDUAN", "GRIJALVA", "BOLDUAN", "GRIJALVA", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-142338", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-8-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/29/cnr.02.html", "summary": "House of Convicted Kidnapper and Rapist Being Investigated in California", "utt": ["As the nation remembers Ted Kennedy, there's other news we're also following. This breaking news out of southeastern Georgia -- authorities there tell us seven people have been found dead in a mobile home near the town of Brunswick. The police chief there says authorities discovered the victims while responding to a 911 call earlier this morning. Two people were also injured, and they have been taken to a hospital. At this point a motive for the killings still unknown. We're tracking this story and we'll have much more information as it becomes available. And surf's up as tropical depression Danny winds down. It's heading north and posing less of a threat as it weakens in cooler waters. But strong waves and possible rip currents are forecast from the Carolinas to the New England coast with plenty of rain in between.", "Some other news we're following -- the man charged with kidnapping a girl nearly two decades ago and fathering two children with her is being investigated for other crimes. CNN's Ed Lavandera is live from Antioch, California. So police searched Phillip Garrido's property yesterday for evidence. What did they find or what are they revealing?", "Fredricka, very tight-lipped about exactly what's being found inside the Garrido's property, but authorities are back here on this Saturday. In fact, I was told yesterday by one of the officers that they will probably be here throughout the weekend, asking them how long this would take, the search of the property, and there are various agencies that are in here. In fact, a couple of trailers have been pulled up to the home, one from a nearby police department from the town of Pittsburg, California. We understand they're executing search warrants in relation to Garrido's possible connection to murders that took place in that nearby town back in the 1990s. So they continue to work here. Antioch police in the city that we're in here in California, they have also pulled up a trailer into the driveway of the home, and from what we've been able to see from the street here this morning is authorities going through that backyard. Obviously, that is going to be a key place as authorities here begin to piece together what has transpired here over the last 18 years. This story started to unravel on Wednesday when a couple of police officers at the nearby University of California at Berkeley were approached by Garrido and his two daughters, the two daughters authorities say he has fathered with Jaycee Dugard. And they say that those officers were the ones that really started unraveling this entire mystery as they described a scene that was very bizarre when Garrido showed up with these two young girls. And they said from the beginning something wasn't right.", "When I came in contact with them, something went off. It's like something is up with these kids. You really couldn't pinpoint it. It was like something you would, you know, see in a movie or on TV or something like that, where these kids were just so robotic and just not like acting how normal 11 and 15, 14-year-olds would act.", "Fredricka, Phillip Garrido and Nancy Garrido are being in jail without bond. They have had almost 30 criminal charges filed against them including kidnapping and rape. They are being held without bond, and authorities here, as I have mentioned, continue to look through what is right now considered to be a crime scene -- Fredricka?", "Ed Lavandera, thanks so much from Antioch, California. I appreciate that. In a moment we will resume the remembrances of Senator Ted Kennedy. We're going to be joined by Roger Wilkins, a well-known professor, author, as well as journalist. And we'll talk about that special something that Senator Ted Kennedy had that so many have spoken about, how he had been so in touch, so conscientious of the struggle of the common man."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "WHITFIELD", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ALLISON JACOBS, U.S. BERKELEY POLICE DEPARTMENT", "LAVANDERA", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-380005", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2019-09-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/10/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Donald Trump Fires National Security Adviser John Bolton; U.S. Spy Inside Russian Government; Jim Sciutto, CNN U.S. Security Correspondent, And Steve Hall, Former Head Of CIA Russia Operation, Are Interviewed About John Bolton Being Fired And A Spy Inside Russia; \"For Sama,\" A New Documentary About An Experience Of War In Aleppo, Syria; Co-Directors Waad Al-Kateab And Edward Watts Of \"For Sama\" Are Interviewed.", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. And welcome to AMANPOUR. Here's what's coming up. President Trump fires his National Security Adviser, John Bolton, over foreign policy clashes amid news of a CIA spy extracted from the highest levels of the Kremlin. Then, life and death in Aleppo. Award-winning documentary makers, Waad Al- Kateab and Edward Watts, take us inside Syria's lost city and show us hope, joy and deep sadness hidden within the ruins. Plus --", "If something is there the day before and then suddenly not, the mind has a really hard time trying to process what happened.", "Author, Sarah Broom tells our Walter Isaacson about lots and recovery after Hurricane Katrina. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiane Amanpour in London. John Bolton is out after. After 17 months as national security adviser to President Trump, the president announced on Twitter he asked for Bolton's resignation saying, \"I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration.\" And he said he'd announce his replacement next week. The major shakeup comes after public disagreements on Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea among other issues, and just after major revelations regarding U.S. national security and Russia. New reporting by CNN and backed up by \"The New York Times\" revealing that for decades a spy with extraordinary access to the Russian government has been providing information to the CIA, a top-level asset that was extracted by the U.S. in 2017. Well, joining me now is the journalist who broke the incredible story, Jim Sciutto in New York. He is also author of the \"Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America.\" And Steve Hall, the former chief of Russia Operations for the CIA. Gentlemen, welcome to the program. And let's start with the sort of breaking news of the National Security Adviser, controversial John Bolton, is out. Jim Sciutto, why do you think this is the case? The president has made his tweet but Bolton has also tweeted and sent a message to his allies at Fox News that he, in fact, had first offered his resignation.", "That's right. Yeah. This is what we understand. CNN's reporting is that the approximate cause of this was a disagreement that developed into a heated argument last night over the issue of the president's invitation of Taliban leaders to Camp David in advance of the 9/11 anniversary that that was the proximate cause. But in addition to that, suspicion from the president and the vice president that Bolton was either creating a false narrative or letting get out that there was disagreement in the White House over that very invitation and that the president and the vice president were uncomfortable with word of that disagreement getting out. But bigger picture, just the latest issue disagreement between the president's national security adviser and the president himself on key national security issues. This one being a possible deal to end the Afghanistan war, deep disagreement there, as you noted, disagreements between Bolton and Trump on North Korea. Bolton more of a hawk on North Korea, more of a skeptic of President Trump's continuing diplomatic outreach to North Korea even though North Korea has made no discernible steps toward denuclearization. Their friendship, if you could call it that, started on the issue of Iran and that the president knew he was hiring in Bolton an Iran hawk, someone who opposed the Iran nuclear deal, which the president, of course, withdrew from. But even on that issue in recent weeks and months, there had been disagreements. And really, there had been something of a death watch in the White House in recent weeks on Bolton, folks inside the administration saying that he looked like he was not in a good way, that they were having these very public disagreements on these issues. And now, of course, it evolved into an argument last night and Bolton is out.", "So, Steve Hall, from your perspective, I know you have mostly concentrated on the Russia Desk and we'll get to that in a second. But when you view national security, foreign policy for this administration, then you see, as we've been discussing, these difficult issues of what to do about North Korea, should one try to bring Kim Jong-un in from the cold. What do you do about Iran? Do you bomb, as potentially Bolton wanted or do you not, as President Trump apparently decided not to do that a few weeks ago over the Gulf crisis? And, of course, about Afghanistan. From your perspective, and as a, you know, CIA kind of perspective, what does this say about the current state of national security?", "Well, Christiane, you know, from my approach at CIA when I used to work there, we used to watch, you know, the National Security Council and, of course, you know, the direction that the administration was going in, and your characterization of John Bolton as a hawk is, of course, accurate, and that is, indeed, I think what President Trump was looking for in Iran. The", "You're right. And certainly, everybody overseas is waiting and watching to see what comes next and who they -- who speaks for U.S. foreign policy. You're absolutely right. It's going to be fascinating to watch who is next named and what this actually means on these key issues. Jim, let us now talk about this story you wrote, which is the extraction of this asset, for want of an intelligence sort of inside word, who for decades had been cultivated, apparently, by the CIA, as he, apparently, moved up the ranks of policy inside Russia. What did this person bring to the U.S. that was so valuable?", "Enormous insight into the inner workings of the Kremlin but crucially, into the plans and thinking of the Russian president. My reporting is, as you noted, this is someone who had been providing information to the U.S. for more than a decade. During that time period, had risen to the top of Russia's national security infrastructure. It has its own sort of National Security Council as well. And with that position, this person had access directly to the Russian president, including, I'm told, by a former Trump administration official, the remarkable ability to take photographs of presidential documents. Now, that intelligence bore fruit for the Intelligence Community because it was partly based on intel from this asset or source or spy that the Intelligence Community assessed it was Putin himself who ordered the interference by Russia in the 2016 presidential election. And crucially, specifically, in order to advantage Trump over Clinton. So, the loss of those eyes and ears inside the Kremlin is an enormous one for the U.S. at a time of growing tensions between these two countries. As you well know, intel agencies consistently place Russia and China together at the top of the prime threats to U.S. national security. And we have now lost a vision inside one of those threats.", "I mean, it's very interesting when you put it that way, to have lost vision inside. So, let me ask you before the details. Let me ask Steve Hall who is -- you know, you were in charge of the Russia Desk. I know you can't address this particular issue. But in general, what does this mean? Elaborate on losing vision inside such a crucial, I mean, it's been described as a hostile power. Russia is a hostile power, according to America's intelligence operation.", "Sure. There's no doubt that Russia is adversarial, is hostile and Vladimir Putin sees things in a zero-sum game, you know, Russia wins, the Americans lose. That's the way he sees things. You know, not to sound like the CIA spokesperson, I can't, of course, confirm or deny anything that Jim has been reporting on. But from broader perspective, I think it's troubling when you have a president who sees the collection of intelligence, which is done for the entire U.S. government, by the U.S. government as his own sort of personal bank account of information to use however he wants to. It's going to have an impact downstream with entities that want to cooperate and want to pass sensitive information to the CIA, to the U.S. government in the future. You know, most egregiously, I think, recently when you had the president tweeting out pictures of Iranian launch sites and the destruction of a launched vehicle there and then, subsequently tweeting very quickly, you know, \"Hey, you know, I can release this information if I want to because legally I can declassify whatever he wants.\" To me, if you are either a foreign intelligence service or another entity that wants to pass information to the U.S. government, you're going to look at that and say, \"Well, if I pass really sensitive stuff, can the U.S. government protect itself against its own president to tweet out those secrets that, you know, I as a service or another entity has chosen to share?\" And that's going to be a real downside. But the president apparently doesn't care very much about that. CNN, I think, reported earlier about the president's reported disdain for human intelligence and how he doesn't think it's particularly useful to begin with. So, perhaps he just doesn't care.", "Well, let me ask you, Jim, then because, you know, this is the controversial part of it, not just the safety and the security of this operative, what it means for extracting and knowing what is going on in the center of the Kremlin but also, what does it say about President Trump. And the White House has pushed back very firmly against the notion that this extraction happened because U.S. intelligence was worried that perhaps President Trump might advertently or inadvertently reveal too much about this asset. What evidence is there for that, though?", "Well, I'll tell you, I spoke to a former Trump administration official who was involved directly in the discussions when the decision was made to bring out this Russian spy, and this official told me that the president and his administrations repeated mishandling of intelligence factored into that decision. The timing is indicative as well because I'm told that a phone call took place soon after a May 2017 meeting in the Oval Office, in which you'll remember President Trump discussed and shared highly classified intelligence with Russian officials. There's a picture there. Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister, the former Russian ambassador to the U.S, Sergey Kislyak. And when the president did that, although the information he shared was not sourced to the Russian spy, it came from Israel, it caused pause within the intelligence agencies about what risk that might pose in future conversations with the president that had already shown himself undisciplined in the way he handles classified intelligence. I'll tell you that there was another incident that followed just two months after that, which, again, alarmed the intelligence agencies. You'll remember this, Christiane, July 2017, the president meets with Vladimir Putin at the G20 in Hamburg, Germany. It was a private meeting. He took the unusual step of confiscating his own interpreter's notes afterwards. I'm told by an intelligence source that after this meeting, as well, the Intelligence Community was concerned that the president, again, improperly discussed classified information. So, it was a series of events overtime that has worn away the Intelligence Community's confidence in the way the president handles this material. I should also note, though, that leading up to the decision to extract this source, there were other concerns, the length of service by this Russian spy and also the fact that intelligence from this Russian spy had been included in the public assessment of Russia's interference in the election in 2016. So, at the end of the Obama administration, the Obama administration actually offered this source, the ability to be extracted. At that time, the source refused. It was only months into Trump administration when the extraction took place.", "Let me ask you both slightly the flip side of this coin that you seem to be describing. You know, you write in your report that in part they were concerned about the president and his handling of intelligence and classified information. But we've also noted and we've reported and so has every other news organization that the president seems to have a warm public relationship with President Putin. So, some could suggest that perhaps, perhaps, he's doing that in public precisely so that he doesn't comprise the fact that they have somebody right in there who can get to the president's desk and take pictures in the Kremlin, for heaven's sake. Maybe he has to be pleasant to and about Putin to throw him off the scent. Let me ask Steve that and then you, Jim.", "Sure.", "Well, Christiane, you know, Vladimir Putin is a former intelligence officer himself. So, regardless of whether he has pleasant, nice conversations with Donald Trump or they're more pointed and more difficult, Putin is going to assume that the United States is attempting to collect, you know, clandescently information against Russia. So, I'm not sure I'm buying into that. But I do want to add to Jim's comments earlier about how this president handles information and intelligence poorly in my assessment. And I can tell you that if I were, you know, a foreign intelligence service, I would be really scared to share information with the U.S. government right now. But that's particularly important as we think back this week on the 9/11 attacks because the bulk of the information that we get from our foreign partners is counter-terrorism information. In short, this president's handling or mishandling of intelligence is making the country more vulnerable because it will result in others not wanting to share information with us. It's just the way the game works.", "Jim. Yes?", "To your point on that, another story out today and, again, speaking to officials who served this president and were in the room when he made comments disparaging foreign intelligence sources, including intelligence sources inside countries hostile to the U.S. I spoke to a former Trump administration official who said that the president \"believes we shouldn't be doing that to each other.\" I spoke to a former senior intelligence official who told me that Trump believes \"there are people who were selling out their country, therefore, he doesn't believe the information\" But crucially, and this gets to Steve's point earlier, that the president views those sources, though essential to the Intelligence Community's work as somehow damaging his personal relationships with those leaders. Putin included. But we have a public comment from the president to this effect in June this year when there was a report out that the CIA had used Kim Jong-un's half-brother as an informant for some time. The president said publicly that under his leadership, he's communicated to the North Koreans that that would not happen. That hobbles U.S. intelligence collection for a sitting U.S. president to say he doesn't want that kind of information, even from countries hostile to the U.S. where such sources are essential to protecting U.S. national security.", "We have a soundbite to that effect. We're going to play it.", "I saw the information with the CIA with respect to his brother or half-brother, and I would tell him that would not happen under my offices, that's for sure.", "OK. So, look, you both have weighed in on about that. And Steve Hall, I can see you shaking your head. But the one thing I do actually want to ask you is this, and that is reporting that this asset in the Kremlin was also compromised by intelligence officials revealing the severity of Russia's election interference with unusual detail. The news media picking up on all of this. I mean, doesn't -- there's also a problem there, right? I mean, we had extraordinary information to the extent that the Intelligence believed that Kremlin -- sorry, Putin himself was responsible for this interference, with trying to swing the election, and all of that. This came from intelligence officials. Steve.", "Yes. Again, without commenting directly on this particular case, you know, I can say that, you know, when you have -- especially with this administration, it's got to be an extremely difficult position to be in if you collect information as part of the intelligence process, whether it's CIA or NSA or whoever it is collecting sensitive information. You've got to wonder as an intelligence professional working in this administration, what do you do when you collect that piece of information that you know the president is going to have issues with? And then you got a president who, as you were just saying, says, you know, \"I'm not interested, really, in --\" I guess, naively, at best, saying, \"I'm not interested in, you know, gentlemen reading other gentleman's mail,\" as you know, an old famous quote about the -- how intelligence works. But, yes, when you're successful in collecting really good intelligence and then you give it to the administration who might not disagree with it -- who might not agree with it and furthermore, might actually put it out there, then you've got a serious problem with the messages that you're sending to our former allies and to others that might be willing to cooperate with on intelligence, on China, Russia, Iran, other", "And very importantly, I mean, you both know about this, but what is the fate of this asset who has been extracted? Where is he? And can he ever hide from the long arm of Kremlin revenge. Look at Skripal, you know, the novichok that was used against him, others who have been, you know, caught and killed in revenge for this. Jim.", "Well, listen, we have deliberately not delved into any speculation about the name or location of this particular individual. I do know that in the agency that there is concern with Skripal in mind that already the Kremlin was looking for people like this and to have this discussed publicly, is embarrassing to them, and they will look even harder. That the fact is, this was an extraction that took place two years ago. I was told, it's my understanding that soon after this asset disappeared that the Russian government became wise to why this person had disappeared. So, it really depends on the CIA's ability to protect these people when it takes them out of the country. It's something it's had to do for a number of years. And listen, it's something that we were certainly sympathetic to and it's why, initially, with the story, we withheld a whole host of details that we knew and we continue to withhold details that we know so as to not to contribute to his or her identification.", "It's really a tricky one. Jim Sciutto and Steve Hall, thank you so much for joining us. And of course, all of this in the backdrop with Putin's United Russia Party having lost a huge amount at the elections this weekend for the Russian Parliament in the City of Moscow. So, that was a big political blow to Putin, as well. But as for reaction to this story, his spokesman calls it pulp fiction. Russia certainly has the upper hand, though, over the United States in Syria, without crucial support from Moscow and Tehran. President Assad would not have survived, even won the civil war there. One of the hardest conflicts to cover, the best storytelling and reporting came from Syrian journalist, women like the award-winning filmmaker, Waad Al-Kateab, who picked up her camera in 2011 at the peaceful start of the Arab Spring when it came to Syria but then turned into a brutal civil war. For years she provided a window into her war-ravaged City of Aleppo. Now, she's made her first featured documentary with filmmaker, Edward Watts. It's called, \"For Sama,\" a letter to her infant daughter. And it's already won best documentary prize at Cannes, where Waad, her doctor husband and Watts made this powerful protest against regime attacks on hospitals. The film has been praised for showing that amid the horrors of war, there was also humor, love and life. Here is a clip from the trailer.", "Sama, I've made this film for you. I need you to understand what we were fighting for. I love you so much, even more than the snow. There's lots of air strikes today, right? Sama, I know you understand what's happening. I can see it in your eyes. You never cry like a normal baby would. That's what breaks my heart.", "The hospital has been bombed.", "My daughter's in there.", "Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts, welcome to the program.", "Thank you very much.", "Thank you so much.", "So, that is a -- just such a strong trailer and it speaks to the real strength of the film. You call this \"For Sama.\" How did that come about? Why did you decide to take this format for your daughter?", "It was something we've -- I knew that from the beginning but we were discovering this through the process that we did like for two years. We felt that all the conversation through the material was telling everything that this is for Sama. There was like a natural conversation, as anyone around the world, every one of us like speaks with our child even if we still just pregnant. And it was just like kind of the conversation, natural one, which it was through the material itself. And toward my daughter and towards something. You have seen it too. So --", "Yes. It was really like breathing through the footage that that was -- yes, that that was what the footage was about at heart, was the relationship between Waad and Sama.", "It was. But did you make a decision to make that and to keep going back and forth? Because if you look at the trailer and, obviously, we've seen your reportage through the war, it is relentlessly really dark, it's a terrible war. The Siege of Aleppo is a terrible, terrible thing. The bodies piled up. What did you think when you had to take all her footage and make it palatable?", "Well, you know, the thing that was so incredible about what this woman achieved and what she managed to film was the fact that her footage throughout this huge archive, when I saw it for the first time, I saw the full spectrum of human life in this kind of conflict situation. So, the horror was there, the human suffering, as you talked about, but also so much joy, so much about the spirit of people in this kind of situations. So, it was more just trying to say, like, \"It was so much. How can we squeeze all of this life that was in the footage in the archive and contain it in a manageable form for the cinema?\"", "So, in the opening, sort of narration of yours, you say, \"I made this film for you.\" You're addressing your daughter. \"I need you to understand why me and your father made the choices that we did. What we were fighting for.\" What were your fighting for? Why -- I mean, later on in the film you say, \"Will you forgive me? Will you forgive me for staying and, in fact, for leaving?\"", "Yes. It was -- we have fears as Syrians all the time about our story will not be told in our voices. We were all like against this -- the propaganda that the Assad regime and the Russians were trying to just destroy the dream that we have of freedom and of dignity. And like we were -- every parents in Syria and everyone who lived through the first year and two years of the peaceful demonstration, we have that fear that maybe this will not be really reached through the next generation. So, in one part of this, I really wanted to tell her about like what we then went through, how we started this revolution and why. And it's not just for Sama, for all the other children of Syria, for all the world outside really to understand like what we went through as Syrian people dream of freedom.", "Let's take a few elements that we just saw in the trailer because, again, I think the world is familiar with the barrel bombs and the chlorine gas and the chemical weapon and the slaughter in the hospitals but they're not familiar with the individual stories of the family, your neighbors who you profile, the little boy on the balcony who had his --", "Yes.", "-- you know, hand -- his head in his hands and he was afraid that he would be taken away from Aleppo, right.", "Yes.", "This city under siege.", "It's really so complicated to understand like how it was outside could react for something. It's more about like, unfortunately, not just like the bombing was familiar, also like bombing hospitals, getting children, all this started to be as numbers on the news or for people watching like their news at home after dinner. And all these things were just like coming through the mind of the people and then just like move on to their normal life. I felt that maybe this story in the personal way could really affect every parents, every mother, every human being around the world to start think about one step forward to do something for these people.", "And, Edward, you know, Waad came out eventually after Aleppo fell and she had -- you managed to bring out hard drives and hours and hours.", "Yes.", "How many hundreds of hours of footage were you looking through?", "Over 500 hours. She brought it out.", "500.", "Yes.", "So, it's the whole story of siege?", "The whole -- yes. And she'd been filming, you know, little bits and bobs every day pretty much through five years. So, it's beyond the siege. It was right the way back to the very first days of the peaceful protest. An incredible huge expense. And I mean, we started going through it together. I think we narrowed it down to 300 hours --", "Yes.", "-- that felt directly relevant. But that was still a huge amount of footage.", "Because you had to get it down to?", "To 95 minutes.", "Yes.", "Which was quite a task.", "And what did you think, Edward? I mean, you have been a documentary producer, editor for a long, long time.", "Yes.", "And here you are partnered up with Waad now, who has come out of Syria and has handed you her life's work, up until now, and you've got to help edit it and make it a story that may not have exactly been what you thought it might be or how it should unfold. Give me the creative process.", "Well, actually, that opportunity to collaborate in that way was -- it was an honor to begin with. But it was also made to film, I think, as strong as it is because both of us were coming with our own perspectives. I was trying to think about like what to say your average in London or New York who is coming off the streets, living a different life and then you're taking them to the heart of Aleppo, into the heart of Waad's life. How can you bring that person in? How can you keep them with you on this very tough story? And Waad was --", "Yes.", "-- looking from the Syrian point of view, the insiders point of view. And so, we had a lot of very robust conversations.", "I bet you did.", "I would think. Yes.", "Yes.", "Some creative, you know, context there.", "Big time, you know.", "Yes. But the first really the main thing was how we so were honest to each other and we were like whatever his thoughts or my thoughts, we were really so honest. And like we trust each other.", "Yes.", "We tried to work on this for two years. At the end of the thing was like both of us are so satisfied in the story itself and of --", "Yes.", "-- the real things that happened. So, it was also like my honor that we have that.", "It has received rapturous welcome all over. You won the best documentary in Cannes.", "Yes.", "And from what I have read, it got a six-minute standing ovation.", "Yes.", "Yes.", "I mean, did you even expect that?", "The first screening, before we got the first public screening out, we were like sitting together thinking about how many people will leave before the film --", "Yes.", "-- will be finished.", "Because you thought they would get tired of it or it would be too tough to take?", "Too much to take. Yes. We did a screening for our friends and family earlier. And they were just like overwhelmed with our earlier version which was tougher even than this one.", "They couldn't -- they were like hands in front of their face.", "Yes. And it's more about like we've been told a lot and we knew this may be that people around the world are so tired from the death, from the blood, from the refugee stories. They want something else. People really don't care anymore about like other stories from like so far places. We're just liked shocked how people really care and people really like. They were amazing reactions.", "What does that force you to bring out some unusual images and stories from the war because you have this beautiful picture of the kids playing in a bombed out bus. And, I mean, I guess not everybody can relate to that but you can relate to kids climbing up, you know, a jungle gym, a climbing frame, pretending to drive the bus, having fun, painting the bus. And then you have this great story about a persimmon, a fruit.", "Yes.", "Tell me that one.", "This is some of the, like -- not a lot of the moment but a few minutes gives you a lot of like hope and feel that OK, I will stay alive, I will survive. Like (inaudible), it gets many people --", "These are your friends who you profiled --", "Yes. And there's the hospital staff. And any of these moments when you feel that we really together in this whatever happened and all the horror that we lived through but there's part of the hope and happiness, we still can't feel it whatever the situation or where.", "Yes. Basically from somewhere her husband discovered a fresh fruit and brought it to her.", "Yes. And, I mean, it's peaceful moment because she is so delighted with the simple piece -- small piece of fruit. He's like oh my God, it's like oh, a rose or something, it's like the greatest romantic gesture. But that is the joy of this film. I think you've covered a lot of conflicts and I think -- and I've been to some as well and what the tree says is that the fact that people tell jokes and they do these actions to support each other and to sustain each other but we often don't hear about that. You don't see enough of that.", "Exactly. So humanity which leads to the resistance of the population.", "Yes.", "So I want to play a little clip which was really dramatic and it starts very sadly and then we'll see it unfold.", "Is his heart beating?", "No, I'm sorry.", "Here is is a baby born at the hospital, and, you know, it came out looking like it was dead. And here are the doctors resuscitating and trying to give this baby CPR and you just don't know. Tell me about -- just tell me about this incident.", "It was just like normal day when we heard that there's a sharing around the hospital and injured coming to the hospital. And I take my camera to get down to see what is going on and we found out that there's a pregnant woman who almost going to give birth and there's like --", "Here is the moment that all that work is successful and this child is alive.", "Yes. And you can feel. I was filming this just because this is my responsibility to film every patient who's coming to the hospital. And I've never expect that he would be alive. So it was I just keep filming this because this is important, these people, and this baby, especially is not terrorist as the world outside are like --", "Yes. You're showing that these are human beings and not terrorists.", "And he was killed. And suddenly, you've seen like -- as you've seen, I've seen it in my own eyes that there's just this baby, he's alive now, and he's breathing, he's crying.", "And the hospital is also a character in this movie. Not just the City of Aleppo and the siege but the hospital and the City of Aleppo under siege. And your husband plays a huge role in that. Comes up, is the doctor who creates this hospital, brings all these other doctors and provides thousands and thousands of hours of care and saves patients and saves live. Tell me about how important that hospital was to the story of the war. The hospital, at the beginning, it was one of nine hospitals who have been giving services for the people inside Aleppo. There was great stuff from doctors and nurses and they've never been in this situation before but they're just told how to do this. And at the end of 2016 November, the hospital was the last hospital in the city after the Russian and the Assad regime targeted the other nine hospitals and they've been all completely out of service. At that time, some of the other doctors from the other hospitals came to the hospital and they were all doing all this work together and also they lost hope for people they could have been treatment if anything happened to them. So it was just like a place where you can feel that this is a place I can survive here. And unfortunately, like, that is all of --", "And it's either you or your husband, I can't remember, in the narration you say that they target hospitals because that breaks people's spirits.", "Yes, it happened before in Eastern Gotar. It happened also in all City of Holmes. And this is just like the picnic that the russian and Assad regime doing from the beginning. From 2012, the first hospital has been like destroyed in Aleppo because they want to be put to fear that there's no one here for them.", "So let's go back to the title, \"For Sama,\" it's for your lovely daughter who is now three years old, and, you know, was brought into the world in that siege and lived most of her life under siege. And you know, this seems there were -- you were trying to find the milk for her. There's one scene we saw in the trailer where everything goes dark and you're very calmly saying, \"Who's got Summer?\" You all had to go down to the basement and every mother's nightmare to lose her child in the middle of this kind of crisis. But, of course, she was fine. And there's another really amazing scene that we can play. I'm going to play it and then I'm going to have you talk about it, Edward.", "I don't want to die. I do not want to die. I want to live. I want to give birth. I want Hamza to be with me. I want all those things. I don't want to die. I want to live. Praise God. Praise God don't let anything happen to my baby or to Hamza. I can handle everything else.", "I wonder when you saw those 500 hours of tape, you were amazed by how much she was also recording her own side thoughts whenever something like this happened. And this, of course, was when a bomb damaged your home and you were, obviously, really afraid for your lives.", "Yes. I mean one of the things she said to me was that the camera was kind of her confidant. So luckily for all of us for the film, she recorded a lot of those personal moments that she didn't even talk to Hamza about I think. And that was again one of the things that felt extraordinary really to be allowed into someone's personal world in that way. Her best friend was the camera in some of those circumstances, some of the worst circumstances.", "And again, we saw those beautiful pictures of you and Hamza getting married, again under siege, small party but absolutely beautiful. It's a life affirming sync.", "Yes.", "And you filmed it phenomenally from almost all angles. I don't know how you managed it but it was pretty amazing.", "I have great friends.", "As he said, did Hamza know? When he saw the finished product, did he know all the thing you told your camera, you know, without him being around?", "The text messages I was telling the camera, he wasn't -- knew about it but he knows that I was filming everything. And he was -- at first, he was so annoyed by having the camera all around all the time. And he told me this directly many times, \"I want to live with you. I don't want to live with you and with a camera.\" And the fact that the first time I felt that he really recognized how this is really important was when we lost one of our best friends. He was in the hospital before. And at that moment, and not just Hamza but everyone around, I felt that they've seen in their own eyes that this is really important for all of us.", "So I guess one last question, this is incredible storytelling which has taken everybody who has seen it by storm and will probably go on to win a huge number of awards and will put Syria in everybody's face again in a very different way. But Assad has won--", "This is CNN breaking news.", "So we are taking you right now to the White House where there's a press conference underway with Secretary Pompeo of State and Mnuchin of the Treasury.", "The last handful of days, we are very focused on this, the success that we had moving down the river valley that our Department of Defense lead with the SDF Forces was really remarkable. We will not take our eye off the ball ensuring that whether it's ISIS or other radical Islamic extremist groups continue to be under pressure from the United States of America. And that would -- just to close it out, and that would include in these camps that you're referring to.", "The White House says that Bolton's foreign policy would not align with the president's philosophy. How was it not defined?", "I'll leave that to the White House to talk about. Other than to say I think President Trump -- I watched his campaign. I've now worked with him first as CIA director and now Secretary of State. Someone asked would the policy be different absent any individual being here? These have been the president's policies. We give him our best wisdom. We share with him our understanding. When I was intelligence director, we did our best to make sure he had the facts and data available so he could make good decisions. But I don't think any leader around the world should make any assumption that because one of us departs that President Trump's foreign policy will change in a material way. One thing I would follow up, because the president has been very clear on this. The president's view of the Iraq war and Ambassador Bolton's are very different. The president has made that clear. Yes, go ahead.", "(Inaudible) tariffs on Mexico (inaudible) with the immigration plan?", "So we're looking forward to our meeting with foreign minister Roger in just a little bit. We're going to talk about the progress that has been made, which has been substantial and real and material and has made America more secure. But at the same time, we know there's still work to do. We're going to talk about how best we can jointly deliver that. We're deeply appreciative of what the president of Mexico and the foreign minister have done to increase the capacity to deter migration into the United States. And you can see the numbers have improved substantially. But we also know, A, it needs to be sustained. And B, we've still got real work to do. Yes.", "[Inaudible question] we know that Ambassador Bolton was trying to keep up the press (inaudible). We know that (inaudible) on many things regarding to Venezuela. What can we expect now with the departure of Ambassador Bolton?", "I think you know that the Treasury Department and the State Department have been active on sanctions. Everything we do is in consultation with the State Department. Again, we have a massive sanctions program that is working. But I would just add, we're concerned about the people there and what is going on in the humanitarian crisis. And I know the secretary worked with their neighbors extensively.", "[Inaudible question]", "Absolutely not. That's the most ridiculous question I've ever heard of. [Inaudible question]", "Let me just say, the national security team, which is what you asked, consist of the national security advisor, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, myself, the chief of staff, and many others. [Inaudible question]", "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. We'll take one more. Yes, ma'am", "Sir, there are reports this week that the CIA had to pull a top Russian asset out because of concerns that his identify could be exposed. Under which administration was this source burning? Is there currently an investigation into how his identity got leaked to the media?", "Yes, I've seen that reporting. The reporting is materially inaccurate. And you should know, as a former CIA director, I don't talk about things like this very often. It is only in the occasions when there's something that I think puts people at risk or the reporting is so egregious. That's to create enormous risk in the United States of America that I even comment in the way I just did. And I won't say anything more about it. I know the CIA put out a statement suffice to say the reporting this is factually wrong. Thank you everyone.", "All right. I want to bring in Kylie Atwood at the State Department to talk about what we just saw. This was pretty interesting, Kylie. You had Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who, I mean, he was very much at odds with the now former National Security Advisor, John Bolton, but while he admitted that, he also minimized the impact of that. Though we did standby the president's account of how Bolton was fired versus Bolton saying he resigned.", "Yes. Mike Pompeo made it very clear that he's on team Trump as he spoke to reporters today. Just hours after President Trump has tweeted that National Security Adviser John Bolton isn't leaving the administration. Secretary Pompeo said that President Trump is entitled to the team that he wants, defending his decision to let his National Security Adviser John Bolton leave via tweet today. He also admitted, as you've said Brianna, that he and Bolton haven't always seen eye to eye and he didn't get into the specifics there but he was asked about a few foreign policy topics that he and John Bolton saw a little bit differently on. And that President Trump, one of those, is Iran when asked if now that the biggest Iran hawk in the administration, John Bolton, is leaving, if there was a greater chance that President Trump could sit down with President Rouhani later this month. Secretary Pompeo said sure and he said that President Trump has reiterated that there are no strings attached to that. He would sit down and meet with the Iranians. So there are going to potentially be some changes to foreign policy going forward. We know, I'm told by sources, at the White House that John Bolton was frustrated, that Trump repeatedly said that he would meet Rouhani. Now we know this administration has been tough on Iran but President Trump sees himself as a deal maker. The other thing that they spoke about today was the fact that they're rolling out some tightening, some new updates to counter terrorism designations. That's what they e were supposed to be talking about today, Brianna, and they were also supposed to be joined by John Bolton. So when they were asked if they were surprised about the announcement today, Secretary Pompeo just kind of shrugged it off and says he's not surprised by anything. But making it very clear going up there to the podium that they are with President Trump and John Bolton is leaving the administration but they are, for now, sticking it out.", "All right, Kylie. Thank you so much. I want to bring in Jim Acosta watching all of this for us from the White House briefing room. Jim?", "Yes, Brianna. You heard the questions there in the briefing room didn't last very long. It was only about 12 minutes. But you heard the whole slew of questions. And the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin, they did engage. They took these questions on the ousting of the National Security Advisor John Bolton. At one point, I asked Secretary Mnuchin whether or not the Trump national security team is a mess and Secretary Mnuchin said that was the most ridiculous question he ever heard of and then went on to say, \"No, it was not.\" I did also ask the question and I'm not sure it was automobile because there was so much shouting going on in this room whether or not it's possible to disagree with this president without being fired and Secretary Mnuchin said of course. And so there is obviously this perception now that if you push back too hard on this president, you're inside the president's inner circle, that may be hazardous to your future prospects with this administration but the secretary said that that was not the case. And as you just heard a few moments ago, there was some other news, I think, at this briefing in that it does sound as though the door is open for some kind of meeting between President Trump and Rouhani, President Rouhani, at the upcoming United Nations general assembly which is just in a couple of weeks. That is something that John Bolton, the national security adviser, was said to have been opposed to as well as other issues. Now, I think the other thing that was interesting that Secretary Pompeo talked about, Brianna, and that was this whole notion of you know what is essentially the thrust of this national security team for the Trump administration? And you heard Secretary Pompeo say that essentially the policies and so forth haven't really changed. Even though it has been a bit of a revolving door over here at the White House, particularly when it comes to the position of national security advisor, Brianna.", "We heard the secretary really minimizing this disagreement between a series of disagreements as our reporting shows between himself and the now departed national security advisor. But he really minimized the effect of that. We understand from our reporting last week, Jim, that you had a situation with the secretary of state and the national security adviser were not even on speaking terms. So what does that mean now as the president is looking to find a new national security advisor, his fourth, right?", "That's right. There is an acting national security advisor Charlie Kupperman. He was Bolton's right hand man at the National Security Council. So you can guess that Charlie Kupperman is not going to be staying in that position for very long. There are already some names being floated out there but, yes, make no mistake that the position of national security advisor and the team inside the National Security Council has been in almost a constant state of turmoil since the beginning of this administration. Remember, it was the former national security advisor, Michael Flynn who was fired shortly after President Trump was sworn into office because he had misled the vice president and other people inside the administration in terms of his contacts with the Russians and the Russian ambassador at that time. Ever since then, the president has been at odds with people in his national security team. Bolton and Pompeo, for sure, have been at odds with one another. But this was a known quantity, Brianna, before John Bolton came into this administration. He was very well known for having sharp elbows. He was very well known for being a hawk on Iraq war policy. That put him at odds with President Trump himself. Remember, during the campaign, the president campaigned heavily on the idea that he was opposed to the Iraq war. And so it was sort of an odd couple strange bedfellows to begin with. I don't think this is at all surprising to just about anybody in Washington that John Bolton did not last in his job for very long. Not only because of his aggressive posture but also because his hawkish views are at odds at times with people inside the Trump administration who are not always aligned on that issue and I think that was pretty clear at this briefing.", "All right. Jon Acosta, thank you so much. I want to bring in Jim Sciutto. Jim, you broke this story on the U.S. extracting a top spy in Russian 2017 and moments ago, the secretary of state said -- and he said, normally, he doesn't comment on things like this, especially as the former CIA director but he felt that this was a report that he certainly took issue with and he dismissed it.", "Well, we gave the secretary a chance to comment on the story several days before we published. And the secretary of state and his spokespeople turned down the chance to comment. They did not comment at all. Not clear why he didn't comment then but he's commenting now. Second of all, we stand by our story. I spoke to a former Trump administration official who is directly involved in the discussions when this decision happened to extract this source. And that official contradicts that and says the president's repeated mishandling of classified intelligence, the president and the administration repeated mishandling of classified intelligence factored into this decision. Now, as you know, Brianna, having read the story that we made very clear in the story, these were concerns that built over months. They dated back to the Obama administration. The first concerns about the sources safety derive from a combination of factors. One, the length of service that this source had as a U.S. informant, going back more than a decade. Two, when intelligence from this source was used in the intelligence community's assessment on Russia's interference of the 2016 presidential election, intelligence specifically noting that it was President Putin who ordered the interference and did so to advantage Trump over Clinton, that at that time, those concerns about the source's safety grew. At the time, that source, that asset, that spy was offered extraction by the U.S. and refused. Months into the Trump administration, following a series of instances, including mishandling of information and intelligence by the Trump administration, ultimately the call was made to extract the source. And I should note the timing is indicative. I'm told by a source with direct knowledge that it was soon after a meeting in the Oval Office between President Trump and two senior Russian officials, then Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak that it was after that meeting president discussed highly classified intelligence with those Russian officials. This intelligence source from Israel, it was after that meeting that Secretary Pompeo made a call, spoke to other Trump administrations officials, said too much information is coming out about the source and it's time to get this source out. Now, intelligence officials in the CIA and elsewhere have said that it was purely media speculation at the time about a source's existence that led to this decision. I ran that explanation by five sources, including people who served in the Trump administration, including people who served in intelligence agencies, and those who served on Capitol Hill handling classified intelligence. And they said the likelihood that media speculation would lead to one of the most complicated operations and dangerous operations is unlikely that the explanation was that simple. Regardless, as I said, we offered the secretary a chance to comment before the story was published, he did not comment. And in that statement just in the White House briefing room, he did not specify as to what he said was materially inaccurate.", "What is the interest of the secretary of state and others in the administration to downplay this reporting?", "Well, --", "What do you think the reporting -- what are some of their concerns that come up because of this reporting?", "Well, multiple outlets now reporting that the extraction happened. And in my reporting, no one ever denied to me that this extraction took place. In fact, multiple Trump administration officials confirmed the extraction of the source. So that's an issue. They seem to have -- well, first of all, cannot contest but have not contested. What I they have been focusing on is whether any of Trump's mishandling of intelligence factored into this decision. I should note that the concerns about the president's handling of intelligence did not end in May, 2017. In fact, as I reported in the story, this is also news, that in July 2017, after President Trump met with the Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, you remember that was the private meeting he had where the president took the unusual step of confiscating his own interpreter's notes that after that, the intelligence community again raised alarms, concerns about the possibility that the president improperly discussed classified intelligence with Russians. I have that from an intelligence source who's aware of it and briefed on the intelligence community's response there. So the fact is that these concerns within the intel agencies about the president's handling of intelligence have been long running and they've been based on a number of incidents, not any single isolated incident.", "All right. Jim Sciutto, thank you so much. I want to bring in Gloria Borger. And Gloria, let's go back now to Pompeo's remarks about John Bolton. Pompeo was pretty concise on Bolton. He admitted they disagreed quite a bit.", "Yes. And let's not forget who the president likes and respects and that's his secretary of state and that the president had grown increasingly irked by John Bolton and disagreed with him more and more. And Pompeo is a very good insider and a good politician and he knew how to handle the president and Bolton did not. And I would have to say, Brianna, that as the president chooses his next national security advisor, I bet you that the secretary of state is going to have an awful lot of say in what recommendations are made to the president. It would not surprise me at all.", "Yes, indeed. All right. Gloria Borger, thank you so much. And we'll have more on this breaking news. John Bolton, the president's third national security advisor out at the White House. 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{"id": "CNN-356242", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-12-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1812/04/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Israel Launches Operation Northern Shield; French Protesters, \"Yellow Vests,\" Pull Out of Talks", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm John Vause. There's breaking news from the Middle East. A military operation underway by Israel on the Lebanese border right now. The IDF says the goal is to expose and neutralize tunnels on the border. CNN's Oren Liebermann joins us now with more details from Jerusalem. OK, a couple of things about this. It sounds almost low-key. They haven't called up reservists. They're not ordering residents in the area to evacuate. It seems more of a maintenance issue, if you like, rather than a full-on conflict.", "It certainly does seem lower key, especially comparing it to what we've seen in Gaza. But there is no doubt that the Israeli military is taking this very seriously. And it's called Operation Northern Shield. It comes on top of efforts by the Israeli military to, if you will, shore up that border in recent months and that includes a defensive wall along some portions. They have built cliffs into some of the mountainside there, as it's very, very hilly terrain. And they have cleared vegetation. As for Operation Northern Shield, the Israeli military says it's been monitoring and trying to figure out if there are and where there are Hezbollah -- what they call attack tunnels, crossing from Lebanon into Israel, this morning it announcing the operation, the IDF spokesperson, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus says they are aware of a number of these tunnels, again, what they term attack tunnels. They say less than 10 but as this operation continues, they expect to find more. Unlike the tunnels we're used from Gaza, which are hundreds of meters long, the Israeli military says these are dozens of meters long, crossing into Israeli sovereignty. So this is the threat. You're right, though, that the Israeli military was also quick to point out that these are not operational yet. There are relatively short tunnels and there was no threat to civilians. The threat now comes as Israel, it seems, as Israel tries to neutralize these, in their words, to try to take these tunnels out and what might the response be. That is where this becomes more than a maintenance issue and becomes essentially a very sensitive, perhaps a threat -- John.", "yes, there always is potential, the dangers of unintended consequences, especially on the Israeli-Lebanon border. Those tunnels are unlike others that have been dug by Hamas in Gaza. These tunnels are being dug by Hezbollah, the military group with strong links to Iran.", "You are right. And that is one of Israel's biggest concerns, it's worth pointing out that the foreign ministry announced there are a number of diplomatic efforts that go with the announcing of this operation. Key to point out, there's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in Brussels yesterday, where he met U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo. You have to believe that this was a prime part of what suddenly became an urgent meeting for the prime minister. Israel has long pointed the finger at Iran. In fact, when Netanyahu spoke at the U.N. General Assembly, he pointed at Iran's work in the region and, specifically, Hezbollah for a number of different steps there. Back to the tunnels point for a second, just comparing Gaza to Lebanon tunnels, Gaza tunnels are relatively easy to build. It's sandy soil there, it's easy to move quickly. The Hezbollah border is rocky and mountain. So this is a much more difficult operation on the part of not only Israel to try to stop these but to try to dig these on the part of Hezbollah, as Israel accuses Hezbollah of doing.", "Oren, thank you, Oren Liebermann there with the very latest on that military operation underway right now on the Israeli-Lebanon border. We'll check in with you, Oren, as the day goes on, appreciate it. France is preparing for another weekend of protests with the goal of keeping violence to a minimum. Three weeks of demonstrations against a fuel tax escalated into riots in Paris Saturday night. President Emmanuel Macron postponed a trip to Serbia to deal with the biggest crisis of his administration. Paramedics joined the protest Monday over changes to their work rules. A meeting between the government and representatives of so-called Yellow Vests was scheduled for Tuesday but right now it's unclear if that will actually happen and there are calls for the tax fuel hike to be suspended.", "The time for debate is over. It's time for actions and measures. An immediate gesture of appeasement is required. And this gesture of appeasement, we ask that it be the immediate cancellation of the tax increases that are still scheduled for January 1 and that the senate, through the Republicans, has had canceled.", "Benjamin Haddad is a fellow at the Hudson Institute. He also worked as a Washington representative for Macron's presidential campaign last year and he is with us now from New York. OK, Benjamin, thank you being with us. We'll get to the bigger picture here on what this all means for France and Europe in a moment. But right now, where is the off-ramp for Macron? How does he bring the temperature down? There's some talk within the government of cutting taxes; on the other hand, they still haven't ruled out declaring a state of emergency. These are two very different options.", "No, I don't think so because they think first the priority is obviously to confront the violence. There's -- it's impossible to give in to the violence that we've seen from these protesters of the last few days, the vandalizing of public monuments, burning of cars, also some you know, outrageous demands like the resignation of the president. We've heard today a spokesperson from the Yellow Vests, asking for President Macron to resign. He was elected a year ago and has a five years' term and be replaced by a military leader. So obviously it's very important first for the government to impose its authority and refuse this violence.", "At the same time, it is important to dialogue with those who want to have a constructive dialogue with your authorities and see how we can move forward. There's a lot of dissolution and discontent in the country that is not new; that is the product of 40 years of pent- up frustration over the lack of reforms of the political inertia. This is actually what brought Emmanuel Macron to power last year. So it is important to have this conversation but not absolutely not given to discourage outburst of violence.", "Yes; to be fair, you know, these are generational issues which have been building for a long time. It was the issue of tax increases on petrol and diesel which sparked these protests last month. You kind of mentioned this; since then, the grievances and the demands have grown. They now include restoration of the country's wealth tax and increase for pensions and also an increase for the minimum wage, also cutting salaries for politicians. Many commentators who have made the point a lot of the anger on the streets is directed at Macron himself. He's seen by many as just a president for the rich and he actually doesn't have a real traditional core base of supporters, which seems also to be a problem.", "Yes. I think this is an unfair criticism. Once again, I mean, these are -- these ills that these people are protesting against did not start with Macron. I mean the fact is that this country has not been prepared to face the economic challenges of globalization, has not been prepared to face the technological transition, green transition, this was actually why this tax on gasoline was installed in the first place with the support of a majority of the population. But you know, when Macron took office, you had 10 percent unemployment, you had 25 percent youth unemployment, sluggish growth for the last decades. And you know, this is something different than even our neighbor, Germany, has, much lower unemployment and higher growth. So, you know, it isn't necessary for France to take these steps and reform its economy. It's not going to happen overnight. I think President Macron already started last year with opening up and bringing flexibility to the labor market and connect taxes actually to a vast majority of the French population. But obviously -- and it's completely legitimate -- there is a lot of impatience, there's a lot of frustration. But, once again, it's not acceptable to be expressed for violence.", "Macron has not spoken publicly about the violence in Paris since he returned from the G20 summit. But on Saturday he tweeted that the -- you know, he has respect for the protests and also listened to the opposition. He added that violence is unacceptable but we're also hearing from the government that there is an insistence that, you know, this diesel tax hike is going to go through. And the insistence of sticking with the diesel tax hike, that oil -- the gas tax hike, that doesn't seem to be the central issue here, which seems to suggest that Macron and those around him yet to understand the full implications of these protests.", "No. You're right. This goes way beyond the diesel tax. And you said it. I mean, we have demands that go from a higher minimum wage, lower retirement age, when the French are -- really has one of the longest retirement times in the world because of its high life expectancy, you know, a cap on salaries or banning outsourcing. This is a broader demand for protectionism. And I would say what we're seeing you know in a grassroots level, to a large extent, is you have a lot of people are just disenfranchised, discontent, but you also have on-the-ground convergence between the far left and the far right. Imagine in the United States if the occupying Tea Party had coalesced together in a more violent way. So what we're seeing, you know, you did say that President Macron brought together reformers, liberals, pro-European figures from the center left in the center right to create a sort of reformist majority beyond the traditional left/right divide. And I think we're seeing a response from both the far left and the far right that right now is a leaderless and expressing itself in this very anarchic way. But I think it is growing into a political force that needs to be understood but also needs to be fought with both core ideas.", "And with that in mind, here's an opinion piece which you wrote for \"The Atlantic.\" It reads in part, \"Macron's fall reveals the profound challenges that moderate liberals face in a polarized political climate. As he pursues his reforms, he's also trying to reshape French politics, bringing together a coalition of reformers from both sides of the political aisle, elected with center left folks but governing with a mostly center right cabinet. \"His success or failure to hold the center in the face of populists may well shape the fate of liberals across Europe.\" So what you're saying is that there are implications here not just only in France but for Europe. It's a lot easier to, what, to rule by division like the American president, that is trying to bring together centrist from both left and right?", "Yes. I think it is much more challenging to try to bring in structural reforms in a country that has been paralyzed for decades and to try to do it with a moderate vision and approach. Once again, what's interesting is that Macron's election was also a result of this discontent. This is someone who was completely unknown in French politics only two years before running for president, who created his own party from scratch the year before, ran something like 90 percent of parliamentary candidates, who had never run for office, complete political novices. And this is what the French wanted. So you already had this anger that he managed to respond to but without giving in to the populist violence or any extremist or nativist ideology. But you know, once again, the impatience is very high and we see the tide of populism, you know, in Europe all over the place, from the far left and the far right. And this is a very challenging time and I personally hope that he doesn't give in and continue to push a reform- oriented agenda.", "Yes. It is that middle road which has always being so very, very difficult or even sort of more difficult now than it seems to be for a very long time. Ben, thank you for coming in. Good to see you.", "Absolutely. Thank you.", "The clock is ticking for a new trade deal between the U.S. and China after the leaders of both countries met this weekend at the G20 summit in Argentina and agreed to put their trade war on hold. U.S. president Donald Trump says he expect China to ease auto tariffs as well as cracking down on intellectual property theft. In return, the U.S. will not impose a new set of tariffs which were set to begin in January. The world's two largest economy now have 90 days, which started December 1st, to hammer out a new trade deal. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin laid out some -- just some -- of the details.", "We have been working on this for the last year and a half. This is the first time we exchanged specifics on 142 different structural items. President Xi laid out for President Trump very clearly what they are prepared to do on these issues. And the issues cover everything from purchasing more goods, which we have always talked about, but, more importantly, protecting intellectual property, eliminating forced joint ventures --", "-- protecting U.S. technology, currency. This was a big part of the discussion. We want to make sure that they don't depreciate the currency.", "All three major indices in the U.S. jumped more than 1 percent on Monday in response to the trade war truce. Five days of parliamentary debate that could make or break Theresa May's political legacy will begin in just a few hours. The House of Commons takes up the British prime minister's Brexit plan a week before a scheduled vote. And if the plan passes, Britain would leave the European Union March 29 under terms negotiated with Brussels. If it fails then Prime Minister May will be under pressure to resign. When she opens debate, her office says she will tell lawmakers, \"The British people want us to get on with a deal that honors the referendum and allows to us come together as a country, whichever way we voted.\" When we come back here, moving tributes to a former U.S. president. The legacy of George H.W. Bush, that's ahead right here on CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "VAUSE", "LIEBERMANN", "VAUSE", "LAURENT WAUQUIEZ, PRESIDENT, LES REPUBLICANS (through translator)", "VAUSE", "BENJAMIN HADDAD, FELLOW, HUDSON INSTITUTE", "HADDAD", "VAUSE", "HADDAD", "VAUSE", "HADDAD", "VAUSE", "HADDAD", "VAUSE", "HADDAD", "VAUSE", "STEVEN MNUCHIN, U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY", "MNUCHIN", "VAUSE"]}
{"id": "CNN-220837", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2013-12-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1312/13/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Arapahoe County Sherrif's Briefing; Remarks by Gov. Hickenlooper; Suspect Was Armed with Shotgun", "utt": ["Ana, I'm going to interrupt you right now, just because we're going to go live to the press conference.", "(In progress) - regarding this particular situation. Today, at 12:33 p.m., a lone gunman entered the school on the west side. The gunman came into the school and immediately asked for the location of a very specific teacher, and he named that teacher by name. When the teacher heard that he - that this individual was asking for him, the teacher exited the school immediately - in my opinion was the most important tactical decision that could have been made, that he knew he was a - he was the target. And he left that school in an effort to try to encourage the shooter to also leave the school, with the focus of safety and security and well-being of our students in his mind. When that happened, one student was shot by the shooter. That student was transported immediately by Littleton Fire Rescue, and that student is currently in serious condition at a local hospital, undergoing surgery. A second victim was shot. That individual suffered a very minor gunshot wound, and is being treated at a local hospital. We believe that that individual will be released before the end of the evening. Our active shooter protocol was immediately initiated by our school resource officer. The officer went immediately to the threat as he is trained and all of the responding deputies and police officers also activated our regional active shooter protocol. And that is to go to the threat and try to eliminate the threat while keeping students and staff safe. Within 20 minutes of the time of the report of the shooting, our deputies found the suspect dead inside the school. Currently, right now, it appears to us that that shooter is dead as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. However, that determination remains under investigation and we will continue to look at those details. At this point in time, we have victims' advocates with the families and the victims at the hospital, and we have investigators with the family of the shooter. We are beginning our investigation now as a crime scene. We have evacuated the entire school. The school was evacuated very slowly, deliberately, and meticulously. We wanted to ensure that all of our students number one were safe, and secondly, we wanted to ensure that we had no other suspects or individuals that were collaborators with our shooter. Although, it will remain under investigation, we -- at this point in time, we believe the shooter that is deceased is the only individual that was armed in the school today and came here to cause harm to the students and/or faculty of this facility. However, that remains under investigation. We also have assets coming from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to assist us with our responsibilities to process this crime scene, collect evidence and do the work that we need to do so that we can come to a final conclusion of why this happened and how it happened. At this point in time, we have assets across the south metro area talking with people who either know the suspect or have some association with him and we are trying to collect that information. As I indicated, the school was evacuated methodically and very deliberately. We initially evacuated students to the Shepherd of the Hills Church, which is located about a block south of our current location. Very quickly, that facility became overwhelmed with the numbers of students and parents that were trying to reunite and we had to select a second reunification site which is the Euclid middle school located at 777 West Euclid Avenue in Littleton, Colorado. Very frankly, that is a distance from here, but it is the most convenient and it's the largest facility that we could come up with quickly in order to do the work that we need to do quickly and efficiently. We are in the process now of reunifying our students and our families. We are in the process now of putting together a crisis intervention team that will be available for staff and students of Arapahoe High School as long as that group of crisis intervention professionals are needed. We will work in collaboration with the school district and we will work in collaboration with our colleagues across the state that provide crisis intervention and mental health assistance to anyone that needs it as a result of this tragic shooting. With that, that is the information I currently have to share. I will be back with you in a few moments with questions, but before I answer any questions, I would like superintendent of schools, Scott Murphy, to join me and make some comments, please.", "Sheriff, can he stand next to you so he can take advantage of your microphone. Can you just step up a little closer? Thank you.", "Our thoughts, our prayers are with all the families, students affected. We are doing everything we can to work with Arapahoe County Sheriff's department and will do the care that we need to for the families as we go forward. It's a very, very difficult day for Arapahoe High School.", "Thank you, Scott. With that, Governor Hickenlooper would also like to make some comments. Governor, thank you for joining us.", "I'm not sure what I can add. Obviously, our hearts go out to the principal, Natalie Pramenko, Scott Murphy, the superintendent, you just heard. I mean, this is a good school district and to have this all too familiar sequence where you have gunshots and parents racing to the school and unspeakable horror in a place of learning, and in this case, we saw the incredible training and preparation of our first responders. I give Sheriff Robinson, who announced his retirement today, of all the ironies, I mean, they had this training so that, again, officers from all across the south metro area were trained in how to go in immediately into that school and make sure that the perpetrator, this kid, was -- I mean, the officers went right to him and they got to him within literally within minutes. That is a world of change from the way response used to happen and I think it just says volumes about these guys. Again, our hearts and prayers are with the entire Arapahoe school community, and we'll do everything we can to help them get through this.", "Thank you, governor. With that, I will try to answer questions. I want to also tell you that there are some questions that clearly, I am not in a position to answer because of the ongoing investigation. But I will certainly as I usually try to tell you when I can and cannot. Yes, sir.", "Sir, I heard that the suspect's locker was a cause of concern. Can you tell us anything about that?", "It's a process of the ongoing investigation. We certainly will look at every aspect and detail that may be associated with the suspect, not only his locker, anyplace that he may have frequented in the school and very frankly, his home as well.", "Is it locker 444?", "I have no idea.", "Sheriff, you said that the teacher left the school immediately", "Still a matter under investigation of what the relationship between the shooter and the teacher was. We know that the student that was armed with a shotgun, as he entered the west side of Arapahoe High School, immediately asked for the location of this specific teacher and asked for that teacher by name. As soon as the teacher realized that, as I indicated in my initial comment, he departed the school. That was a very wise tactical decision. He took himself away from the school with an effort to try to encourage the shooter to go with him.", "What can you tell us about the student who was shot? How did that occur and what was going on there?", "Don't know the details. Still a matter under investigation. We do know that that student suffered a serious gunshot wound. We believe that the student is still in surgery in a local hospital. We certainly share our thoughts and our prayers with her and her family.", "What can you tell us about explosives or Molotov cocktails?", "Certainly as part of our protocol, our bomb squad from the sheriff's office responded initially because of the fact that we never know and we want to be err on the side of more assets than fewer. We believe that we have one device in the school. Initially, it was reported to me that it was a Molotov cocktail, but my bomb squad is working that, trying to identify it. I'll have more information the next briefing that we provide.", "What can you tell us about the shooter, his age, class --", "Name?", "Graduate?", "First off, I will not -- he's a current student of Arapahoe High School. I will not release -- we have identified him. We have investigators that are with his family and with his colleagues. I will not identify him at this point in time. When it is appropriate, I will identify the shooter.", "What about the age, sheriff?", "Again, I won't identify. I will provide any information relative to the shooter until I am prepared to do so relative to the ongoing investigation.", "What about the student who intervened?", "You were talking about the west side of the school where the shooter entered. Give us a sense because I've never been to this school. Give us a sense. Is this the office area? Is this one of the exits on the other side?", "The question was the configuration of the school on the west side. The west side of this school is typically made up of the student parking lot. It is an area that has at least two and probably three, if the kids are real innovative, different entrances and exits that can be used. Goes into the immediate area of the gymnasium and the pool on the west side so that gives you a bit of a configuration where we're at.", "Sheriff, who did the student ask for the specific teacher?", "He asked the other students that were in the immediate area, the location of the specific teacher.", "Who was it -- no teacher or administrator encounter this student first? How did the student get to the armed student first?", "Well, I think, first off, you have to understand that this is a high school. These young men and women that are here to be educated come and go fairly freely. They have down time, they have breaks in their day. So, they are moving in and about the school on a regular basis. Certainly as the individual entered the school, he asked for the teacher immediately from the students that were in the area. There were no other teachers in the area.", "Was the gun visible at that time?", "Yes. The suspect was carrying a --", "Pump action (ph) or rifle?", "The student that entered the high school was armed with a shotgun. I'm not at liberty nor will I discuss the details of that weapon at this point. However, it was clear he was armed with a shotgun. He made no effort to hide it or conceal it. He carried it into the school as he entered the school.", "Was it the other students who alerted the teacher, then?", "No. The word got around immediately that he was looking for the teacher.", "And the active shooter protocol, is that something that was started right after columbine or just in the last several years? A little bit with the history about that program?", "Well, clearly, the active shooter protocol has to do with going to the threat and not waiting. It is a protocol that has been trained across the state of Colorado, not just in one or two local agencies, but we not only train in our individual agencies, but then we come together regionally and we train on these particular protocols. I will remind you of training programs that we put together in exercises around operation mountain guardian several months ago that had to do with active shooter. Those protocols, unfortunately, have had to be used far, far, far too many times in Colorado and across the United States because of these tragic episodes where people decide they've got to even up the score with a weapon.", "Sheriff, can you tell us if there was an SRO?", "We had an SRO. The SRO immediately responded on his own to the area of the threat.", "I do not know.", "What can you tell us about the confrontation between the --", "Initially, we were told there was a confrontation between the shooter and the student that was wounded. At this point in time, it appears that that is probably not accurate. It appears that the student was simply in the area of the shooter and was shot at the time the shooter came through the school.", "Can you describe where this person was shot?", "I will not discuss the wounds or any information around the victims at this point.", "How many shots were fired?", "How was the shooter able to get into the school before we assume he took his own life?", "Well, the shooter actually went quite a ways into the school because we found his body in the internal portion of the school in a classroom.", "Sheriff, anybody discharge", "There was no law enforcement weapons discharged in the school. They were armed. Certainly, if you speak with students and faculty that were in the school, the deputy sheriffs and the police officers that responded and reacted to this active shooter were adequately armed.", "How many shots --", "They were armed with urban street rifles and their service weapons, which is part of our protocols. They entered the facility with the absolute responsibility and purpose of eliminating the threat. They quickly worked the school to try to find that threat and as soon as they found the individual down, they realized what the situation was.", "Sheriff, will your folks or CBI or the FBI searching the home of the shooter looking for any notes or evidence that this might have been seen coming?", "We will -- the question was if we will search the home of the shooter. We will conduct a thorough and complete investigation. We will take our time to ensure that it's done right. We will not do it quick. Part of our protocol will be a thorough investigation which includes a search of the suspect's home, a search of areas where the suspect may have had access to other weapons or material that would have motivated him to do this tragic act and we will search portions of the school that he would have had individual and immediate access to.", "At this point, is there any indication that this is tied to the anniversary of Sandy Hook?", "Absolutely no indication at all that this would be tied to Sandy Hook. Certainly, something that we will look into, always an issue we have to focus our attention on.", "Sheriff, is there a vehicle being searched in the parking lot that he drove here?", "If he brought a vehicle to this school, it will be searched. It will be rendered safe first, and then it will be searched.", "How many shots fired and where did the shooting take place?", "Shooting happened in the immediate west entry of the school. I don't know how many shots were fired. Part of what our investigation -- investigators will be trying to conclude.", "And did the suspect actually have a class with this particular teacher? Did they know each other?", "They clearly had a relationship. The degree and level of that relationship is yet to be determined. Something that we will talk about in days, not hours to come.", "Can you identify the teacher?", "I will not.", "I don't have any information.", "This may be one for the school superintendent -- how long before classes resume?", "I certainly would leave that to the school board and the superintendent. And I'm sure that's an issue that they will discuss in the hours to come and will make a decision. Folks, I will take about three more questions.", "Sheriff, earlier, you said that there were no accomplices -- have there been any accomplices to collaborate or identified and the second question part of it is, there was no threats made to the school prior, not by this man, but by another person that you also perhaps investigate?", "First off, the question was if there were other threats. We don't know yet. No threats that we are aware of to this school or this teacher but that's part of what we are trying to investigate. At my 1:45 briefing, I told you that it appeared to us that there were no other co-conspirators or collaborators. It continues to appear to us that the shooter that is deceased was the lone actor in this tragic event, but we will continue to try to confirm that and ensure that we have that information accurately taken care of.", "You said that he's talking with his family and colleagues. What do you mean by colleagues?", "Certainly other students, friends, family members, anyone who had -- may have been associated with this individual that he may have indicated days or weeks or months ago that this was something on his mind. We will do a thorough and complete investigation and that includes dealing with anyone who may have been associated with our shooter over the last several months or weeks. Yes, sir?", "As far as people who live around here, any idea how long everything is going to be shut down? They need to find a new route?", "I think that's a great question. We will keep this intersection and this immediate area shut down for the remainder of the night. I can't imagine we will open this area until shortly after 10:00 p.m. tonight. So, folks that are traveling need to make appropriate arrangements. The fact that we are keeping it closed down is a product of the resources we currently have in the immediate area and the fact that we have an ongoing investigation that will require our public safety professionals to move back and forth safely. We will keep this closed for a period of time.", "No, ma'am. It is not my last day. I simply announced yesterday my retirement, but that's not relevant to our situation.", "Has everyone been evacuated, sheriff?", "They have.", "Was there anyone injured in the evacuation?", "No.", "We have no other schools on lockdown. We initially thought about it but immediately realized that this situation was isolated specifically to Arapahoe High School. With that, folks, I thank you for your time. We will put out another media release, but it will be my intention that we are currently at 3:15, pushing 3:20 p.m. Mountain standard time. I will give another media brief at 6:00 p.m. And I don't know the location, but I can guarantee you it will not be in this intersection. Thank you all very much.", "there you have it. From the sheriff, Grayson Robinson, Arapahoe County, out there in Colorado, where there was a shooting at this high school, Arapahoe High School today. The shooter, the suspect in this particular case according to the sheriff, shot himself, and unfortunately, though, one student is in serious condition right now. A woman, a young girl was shot, another one in very minor condition, a minor wound sustained in this shooting at this high school. These are pictures from earlier when the students were asked to leave the high school with their hands up. They didn't know if there were any others involved and the sheriff now saying once again, does not believe others were involved. Joe Johns was listening and watching. For our viewers, Joe, who are just tuning in to the SITUATION ROOM right now, want to get an update on what was going on, update us on what we know.", "There was a lot of new information in that news conference and kudos to the sheriff for putting it out there. What we now know is this shooter goes to the school, he goes to the west side of the building near a student parking lot, three entrances back there, and he asks for a teacher by name, and where that teacher's location is. He's carrying a shotgun. Then, he apparently walks into the building, somehow, the teacher he's looking for is alerted to the fact that the shooter's coming for him. The teacher exits the building and authorities are giving him credit for that tonight because the whole idea was to get outside the building so that the shooter would get outside of the building so that all the students would be safe. The shooter apparently goes further inside the building and shoots a student, and sometime thereafter, actually turns the gun on himself. Apparently the shot he took, authorities think, was self-inflicted. Now, a couple pieces of information that we hadn't been able to confirm until just now. Some type of incendiary device is believed to be inside that school. The sheriff said possibly a Molotov cocktail. So, that's one of the things they have to deal with. There's also a lot of concern about what might be in this young student, presumably a male's locker, so they have to check that. There's also talk of going to the house, perhaps, even a search warrant to see what might be at his home. And another question is whether he might have driven an automobile to the school, so if he did, they'll want to check that out as well. Otherwise, this is pretty much wrapped up there, but a very, very scary day at Arapahoe High School, Wolf", "The student apparently, the suspect, was a high school student at that high school, walked in pretty easily with a shotgun, the sheriff said, right?", "That's absolutely right. He walked in with a shot gun and there are a lot of questions about what kind of a shotgun it was. Also, one of the questions that I have as a journalist, of course, is whether it was a sawed-off shotgun because he apparently turned that weapon on himself and you know the long stock of a shotgun, it's very difficult to turn a shotgun on yourself, unless, it's sawed-off. But that's one question I would say, Wolf. The most important and key question here that we all want to know is about the motivation. What was the beef between this young student and the teacher he came to that school to find with the gun? So many questions, of course, that authorities will be asking for days about what was the relationship between the student and the teacher he came looking for, Wolf.", "I'm sure we'll be getting many of those answers fairly soon, a relatively cohesive community there and I know the investigation is only just beginning. Joe, stand by. Summer Skrzypek (ph) is joining us on the phone right now, a senior at the high school. Summer, are you OK?", "I'm really shaken up. I still feel sick. I don't think my hands have stood still for the past like three hours.", "YOU'RE 17 years old. You're a junior or senior in the high school?", "Sadly, I'm a senior. And this is the memory that I get to take away from my high school experience.", "Tell us what happened, if you don't mind, Summer. And if it's too painful, I'll leave you alone, but if you want to walk us through, what happened, where were you when you first heard that there was a shooter in the school?", "I was in about two hallways down by the library from the west wing. The shots sounded like they were right outside the classroom. I, at first thought, it was a chair, like banging against the ground, but then three more shots were fired and my teacher immediately got up, did the lockdown drill, the lights were off and we were in the corner within 30 seconds. That's what probably saved us.", "And I just want to point out, your parents have authorized this interview with us, right?", "Yes. That is correct.", "OK. I just want to make sure that we're not doing anything that would be inappropriate. All right. So, you must have been scared. Do you have any idea what -- did you have any idea what was going on at that point?", "All I could think was I can't believe this is happening. Like, we've all heard about columbine, we're all well aware of it. We're well aware of Sandy Hook. I said not here, this can't be happening here. It seemed like I was in a dream. Then, when I looked around and saw the girls around me were crying, I just kind of, we all kind of hugged each other and I knew we were all terrified.", "Without mentioning the suspect, the shooter's name, do you have any idea who this individual was?", "No. Right now, I don't want to know. I just want to know that all my friends and everybody I care about are safe and that the Arapahoe student body can get past this. That's all I want to know right now.", "And the teacher that this shooter was supposedly going after, did you know who the teacher was?", "No. But I am thankful for his planning to get outside the school and get the shooter away and I'm thankful that all the teachers at Arapahoe were so well-prepared and saved all of us basically with their quick action.", "We're showing our viewers video -- pictures of the students as they were leaving. I assume you were one of them with their hands up. Police came and said everybody leave, but raise your hands, is that what was going on?", "I had not been out at that point. We were rushed out by the S.W.A.T. team and we were told to run towards the other side of the street and everybody just started running as fast as they could to get across the street, the buildings there.", "How --", "We were taken out fast.", "How were your friends doing, Summer?", "I have only heard from a few of them. From my school, they're all shaken up. Some of them are still waiting for their parents to come get them. I know my friends around community, I've been getting tons of calls and everybody is joining together and trying to like get past this and be a community.", "Summer, well, thank you so much for sharing. I know this must be an awful, awful, very painful day for you. Good luck. Good luck to all the students at the Arapahoe High School and your families and friends as well. Our hearts go out to all of you. Thank you very much.", "Yes, thank you.", "I want to listen in, one of our affiliates, KDVR, is now speaking to another student.", "Yes, I pray for everybody, you know? I hope nothing happen, but I hear two people got shot. I hear she's OK, something like that. Yes. I got the answer -- Thank God this is OK (ph).", "You said you couldn't believe hearing this again in Colorado.", "Yes, I couldn't believe it, because you know, I thought this would be like a safe area", "Were you glad to see your sister?", "Yes, I'm very glad to see my sister.", "Did you give her a hug yet? OK. All right.", "Thank you.", "Thank you for talking.", "All right. There you have the reunion, that young girl is OK. Obviously shaken, totally understandable. You're looking at these pictures of the Arapahoe High School in Colorado. Tom Foreman is with us watching what's going on. He used to live over there, Tom. So, you know this area well.", "Yes. And we have new news out of there, Wolf, right now. We are being told by Swedish hospital, an excellent hospital not far from the high school there, that they are now treating two students who are both in good condition and Littleton Adventist Hospital has the student that is in the most serious condition. At least that's what we understand now. So, up until this point, listening to the sheriff, we thought there were only two students who are injured. Now, we're talking about three.", "Two injured not that seriously, but one very seriously.", "One quite seriously. We don't have any more about the condition right now, but there are two different hospitals there not terribly far away, but that's the latest we know about that. This would be again, as we talked about, everybody being prepared there, Wolf, and the law enforcement and school community, certainly, the medical community there, too. Having lived through Columbine, I will assure you there are police officers on the scene and medical experts who are dealing with this today or at least in these institutions where the kids have been taken. There are people there who were there when columbine happened in 1999 who had firsthand experience. So, I'm sure they're on hand right now dealing with this and seeing what they can find out.", "Yes. So close. Sheriff Grayson Robinson also saying that the student who's in serious condition, in surgery right now, is a young girl. So, we'll watch that and pray for her.", "I just want to point out in case anybody missed it there, he did note the student who was shot at that point, he said there did not seem to be any sort of targeting. It was simply happenstance. That student happened to be where the gun man was. That's one of those details we always look at when we're looking for motive and what was actually happening --", "And the sheriff says the gunman then shot himself and is dead right now. We're going to continue on top of this story. Another awful shooting at a high school in Colorado. 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{"id": "CNN-144761", "program": "CAMPBELL BROWN", "date": "2009-11-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0911/05/ec.01.html", "summary": "Twelve Dead at Fort Hood", "utt": ["Tonight: attack on Fort Hood. At least 12 dead, including the shooter, 31 wounded in a burst of gunfire, the suspected killer, a U.S. Army major, a psychiatrist.", "I said the shooter was killed. He was a soldier. It's a terrible tragedy. It's stunning.", "Soldiers and families at one of the largest military installations in the world on lockdown.", "It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil.", "What could be the motive for this brutal attack?", "Soldiers and family members and many of the great civilians that work here are absolutely devastated.", "We're live on the scene of today's bloodshed in what should be one of the most secure locations in the country.", "A young soldier came running up to him, said: \"Sir, there's shooting over there. Don't go there.\" And when -- then the soldier ran past him, and he saw that the soldier had been hit and didn't know it.", "Hi, everyone. Tonight breaking news: the shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas. As we have been telling you, we are expecting a news conference to begin there with the commanding general at Fort Hood. That could start at any moment. And we will of course bring that to you live as it happens. Here is what we know right now. There are 12 people dead tonight, including the suspected gunman -- 31 others are wounded. A short time ago, the military released video taken just after the shootings, you can see there. The scene pretty chaotic, warning sirens, guns drawn, victims on stretchers. The Army identified the gunman as Major Nidal Malik Hasan. He was -- is a 39-year-old psychiatrist, an Army mental professional. And at this hour, a second suspect we are told is in custody in connection with the case -- no details yet on what role that person may have played. Two other soldiers who had been detained have now been released after being cleared of any involvement. And here's what the base commander told us. This was just a little bit ago. Listen.", "All the casualties took place in the initial -- initial incident that took place at 13:30. The soldier readiness facility, it actually comprises several buildings at -- in this same general area. Many of you know it's the old sports dome complex. There were two weapons involved at the that the primary shooter had, and both were handguns.", "The soldier readiness facility where the shootings happened is where soldiers get ready to deploy. And we understand at least some of the victims were about to head to Afghanistan and Iraq. Fort Hood has just come off of lockdown. This is more than five hours after the shooting spree took place. And right now, no one knows or no one is saying just why a member or members of our military would turn on so many of their own. Randi Kaye has been tracking all the developments here all afternoon and evening. And, Randi, I know what are we learning, I guess, about the alleged shooter at this hour?", "We're learning quite a bit about the alleged shooter. As you said, law enforcement officials are telling us that he is Nidal Malik Hasan. That is his name. Authorities say Hasan was the -- quote -- \"primary shooter\" and that he had two handguns on him. What's still unclear is if he stopped to reload at any point. Military officials killed Hasan on the scene, but that was only after they say he shot 11 others dead, including 10 soldiers and a Department of Defense contractor who was working as a police officer -- Campbell.", "And Hasan worked at the base also?", "He did. Authorities are telling us that he is a U.S. soldier, an Army major, in fact, and he is either 39 or 40 years old. This photo, take a look, it was taken just a couple of years ago. It's on his medical profile, which we found. It shows that he was a fellow in the department of psychiatry at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine. He was a fellow in disaster and preventive psychiatry. Now, we have also confirmed the alleged shooter at one point worked at Walter Reed Army Hospital, where he reportedly got a poor performance evaluation. We also looked at his medical license from the Virginia Board of Medicine and found that he apparently saw patients five days a week, but here is something interesting. It showed years in active clinical practice inside the U.S., and in his case, it says -- you can probably see it right there -- it says less than one year. We have also learned from Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison that the alleged shooter was about to be deployed to Iraq and that he was unhappy about that. She also said that in the shooting he was targeting people that he knew. Also, his cousin has told some media that Hasan was born and raised here in the U.S. and was a -- quote -- \"good American.\" He said he never expressed tendencies like these, but that he did get -- quote -- \"flak\" for being Middle Eastern and was harassed by some in the military. Three others, also U.S. soldiers, were taken into U.S. custody. Two of the three, as you mentioned, have been released, one still in custody.", "And, Randi, there was a graduation ceremony that was going on at the time of the shooting, right?", "Right. While all this was happening, there's this graduation ceremony taking place in the readiness center's auditorium, and right away the base was locked down. They immediately began to account for personnel. The wounded were rushed to area hospitals. One hospital told CNN it received 10 shooting victims. CNN has learned two of them are in serious condition. People were advised to take cover on the base and stay inside. And a siren also on the base that was installed after the September 11 attacks was used as well. Other bases around the country did not go into lockdown, but, Campbell, security was stepped up on those bases.", "All right, Randi Kaye for us -- and, Randi, we will be checking back in with you a little later I'm sure as well. Joining us now on the phone is the Fort Hood base spokesman, Christopher Haug, who is going to try to bring us up to date on what's the very latest on this. Are you there?", "Yes, I'm here.", "Hi. Christopher, so, I guess, is there anything new that you can share with us about the shooter or about what we have learned so far?", "There are a couple things. First of all, let me say that General Cone will be doing his press conference at 7:15 p.m. That's in 10 minutes.", "15 Eastern time. OK. We will be standing by.", "OK, because he will have all the latest information, but there are a few things I can add right now.", "OK.", "Fort Hood officials have set up a family hot line for families to call in and get information. And if you could that out, it's 254-288-7570. Or they can call toll free at 1-866-836-2751. And that's a family hot line where they can get information on their loved ones.", "OK. And we will put that up on the screen. We will also have that on our Web site, so we will make sure that information gets out. Go ahead.", "OK. And Fort Hood is no longer in lockdown.", "OK. So, you guys were lockdown for about five hours after the shooting, right, and now it has been lifted?", "Families are beginning and family employees are beginning to leave the post now.", "So, if you can, walk us through this, because hearing it from you, I think, really makes a difference. Walk us through how this all unfolded.", "Well, earlier today, at approximately 1:30, we were told that there was an incident out at the soldier family readiness center, that there was a possible shooting. Emergency personnel were sent to the scene. They engaged a shooter. And they detained two others who are persons of interest. The shooter was killed. The persons of interest have since been released, but they have detained another one, another person of interest. At this point, families of those that are injured or have passed away are -- you know, the casualty assistance office are busily trying to get to those families and contact them and let them know what's going on. The reason the family hot line is set up is for the other families or anyone that needs information, they can call in. There are people that will answer that line and get back", "And, Christopher, I just want to follow up. You said there is this other person who is now in custody. What information can you share with us about this person?", "What I have been told is they believe there were two shooters, and he is currently being detained.", "And we don't have any other information on him?", "Well, like I said, the general is about to give a press conference. He has the most current information.", "OK. All right. Well, forgive me for being a little impatient. I'm going to ask you a few other things anyway, though. Any reports if the shooter said anything before he started firing?", "I don't have any details of the incident like that.", "Is there anything more that can you tell us about the shooter himself that we have obviously learned quite a bit and have been reporting some?", "To be honest with you, what you have been reporting, I don't have. I would assume that as the general comes out with more information, he will release it when it's confirmed.", "There have been some reports he was unhappy about being deployed to Iraq again at a future date. Do you know when he was set to deploy?", "Like I said, I do not have any of that information.", "Just -- do you think the base is secure now? I know you said the lockdown had been lifted. Or is there still any active search going on, to your knowledge?", "I believe that they -- the emergency personnel believe that this incident has been contained, and they have removed the lockdown to allow people to go home.", "OK. And you had mentioned the hot line. Is there any other additional support that you guys are offering the soldiers and their families at Fort Hood right now? I know this is going to be a long, difficult process for you.", "Well, as you know, Fort Hood is a very large post. It's involved in many contingencies. And this is a very unfortunate situation. Our hearts and minds go out to those families. We have a casualty assistance office in every unit who is trained in these matters. They will be engaging with them. And these people will get all the help they can possibly get. We actually have a resiliency campus here on post to deal with grief counseling in every shape and form, so the families will get tremendous support.", "Well, Christopher Haug, who is the spokesperson there on the base, we appreciate your time tonight. I know how hard this day is for you and has been for all the folks there who are trying to deal with this. Let me just let viewers again know, as he just told us, the commanding general at Fort Hood will be holding news conference a little less than five minutes from now. We are awaiting it any moment. You can see the live shot there, the mikes ready to go, so we're going to bring that to you as it happens. At the White House, officials obviously monitored developments in the Situation Room. The president himself called the shootings today tragic. Take a listen.", "It's difficult enough when we lose these brave Americans in battles overseas. It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil.", "Now, both chambers of Congress observed moments of silence for the victims and their families today. Also obviously a lot going on at the Pentagon, and we have Barbara Starr there for us, who has been tracking this. And, Barbara, I understand you have just obtained some new information about the suspect's military records. What are they telling you?", "Right. Campbell, we now have a copy of the military record of the suspect in this case, Mr. Hasan, age 39, we are told, was served a tour as a psychiatry resident at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center here in Washington, D.C., where certainly he would have come into contact with a number of troops from the war zone. So he would have had some experience in that, had experience in combat casualty care, had a degree in general medicine, went to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, state university in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he studied biochemistry. We can tell us again two suspects were taken into custody and released. A third suspect still in custody, so still this may be a situation of two gunmen, the one deceased, Hasan, and the one they still have in custody. Also, we have spoken to someone who has asked not to be identified, but someone very well-known to us who was in the room adjacent where wounded people were brought in. This person describes to us a scene of total chaos as people rushed, Campbell, to help the wounded. They began -- soldiers began ripping off their own uniforms, their T-shirts, their jackets, trying to cut them up, rip them into pieces, their own uniforms, so they could make pressure bandages to help the wounded in those initial minutes as the wounded were brought to safety before the ambulances could actually get there, one man actually dying on the scene right there as they were trying to help the wounded. These people, Campbell, who were ripping their uniforms to shreds to try and make instant pressure bandages, some of them were not medical personnel, just other soldiers who were there at the time reacting instantly to this terrible incident trying to render what medical aid they could -- Campbell.", "Barbara, it's so horrifying. You can't even imagine what they have had to go through today. Barbara Starr for us at the Pentagon with that update -- Barbara, thank you so much. We are covering all the angles of this breaking story. What could cause a military psychiatrist whose job it is to help our troops to open fire on them? We have a team of military and homeland security experts, plus reporters at Fort Hood, also at the White House and the Pentagon. And, of course, we are waiting on that press conference scheduled to again in just moments now. We expect it to start any minute. And when it does, we are going to bring it to you live right after this.", "We are awaiting a news conference right now at Fort Hood in Texas, where, earlier today, just in case you are just joining us, a gunman opened fire, killing 11 people, that news conference, again, expected to begin any minute. And when it does, we are going to bring that to you live. Fort Hood is an enormous 340-square-mile base with a population of over 30,000. It's basically a small city there. Tom Foreman is in Washington to help us get the lay of the land and show us exactly where the shooting took place -- Tom.", "Hi, Campbell. Fort Hood, as you mentioned, a huge, huge complex. It's about an hour north of Austin, Texas, the state capital of Texas. And let's fly in and take a little bit of a look at Fort Hood, as we come in a little bit closer. And we're going to go right in to the readiness center over here. This is where we started hearing those reports early today. This facility here is -- you remember a little while ago we heard a fellow refer to the sports dome complex. That was this area. This is the readiness complex. There are some new buildings that have been put in here, according to one of our producers who was not there not terribly long ago. And this seems to be where everything happened. When this started out, Campbell, we had a lot of reports initially of things going on elsewhere at a theater over here, at the softball field over here, at the post exchange down here, a type of store down there. But the simple truth is now there doesn't seem to be a lot of backup for that, except for this question, of course, about the one other person. But this is where the readiness center is. We talked about the size of the base. There are roughly 40,000 troops based here at Fort Hood and about 17,000 family members actually live on the post and not that far from where the shooting took place. If you come out like this and move over here, you can see there is housing right over here. There is an elementary school down here. So, this really happened in the heart of this building. And one more thing I want to show you. This is where the shootings took place. The fellow who we're looking at so closely tonight, and wondering exactly what he might have been involved in, worked only about a mile away from here right down here at Darnall Hospital. So, there's going to be an awful lot of looking at his job down here, the people who knew him here, how he got up there, why he was up there, how he happened to have weapons on him, if this all plays out that way, and how this came to be the story that it was. So, we will be looking at all of that, and you know investigators are looking at that right now, Campbell.", "All right. Tom Foreman -- Tom, appreciate it. As we have been telling you, this news conference about to begin any moment, but we do want to check in with a few folks as we wait here. We have with us tonight Lieutenant General Russel Honore, who is a CNN contributor. He is joining us from New Orleans. Also with us, James Carafano, an expert on defense and homeland security, as well as CNN national security contributor Fran Townsend as well. I appreciate you guys all standing by. Obviously, I may have to interrupt you if this news conference begins. But, General, let me go to you first here. You were the deputy commander at Fort Hood for two years. Just what is your reaction to all of this?", "Well, I'm in shock, as most of America and the world and particularly our Army family, that something has happened on one of our premier Army installations, Fort Hood, Texas, home of III Corps and the 1st Cavalry Division, as well as the Corps Support Command, and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment. This is one of our premier installations that has every available asset to help soldiers and families.", "General, I know you have also been following up with a lot of people that you know there at Fort Hood. Is there anything more that you have learned about the two suspects here that we may have not heard yet about these -- about the two shooters?", "No. I think that information is still breaking, Campbell. And I think when we look at concerns around the Army, that the Department of Defense and the Army and the other services will put together a working group to isolate what was going on in this major's life, who he was in contact. They will probably even talk to the soldiers he may have counseled. But he himself, as the records show now, was in the process of deploying, so this stress or possibly of even an ideology switch may have kicked in. And the investigations will show that. And our hearts go out for our Army family.", "They certainly do, General. Let me, Fran, bring you into this. We don't know what the motive was, whether it was the fact that -- that he was about to deploy again and didn't want to go or what sort of set off this trip wire. You do know, though, how this investigation is going to proceed, so sort of walk us through what is likely to happen next.", "Absolutely, Campbell. As I have confirmed with former colleagues, there are meetings going on in the White House Situation Room as we speak trying to gather information. Investigators will immediately go to the suspect's computer, telephone. They will do searches. They will pull all his communications. They will look for connections perhaps to this other individual who is still in custody. Very interesting, Campbell, that they believe there was more than one shooter, and if they were working together, the investigators will be looking for clues as to what the connection was. General Honore mentioned a potential switch in ideology. All of that will be the subject of extensive scrutiny, particularly of his communications. The key here to understanding his motives will not just be the interviews with people that he worked with and knew, but they will look at what they find in his house, what they find in his office, and what his communications tell them about a broader potential conspiracy.", "Guys, stand by. James, if you will hold on just one moment, I want to play for you -- CNN did -- one of our camera crews did an interview with the cousin of the alleged shooter. I want to play this for you and get your reaction. (", "Both of his parents are American. I want to make sure everybody understands, he is a good American. And we are shocked. We just found out on the news that he was being deployed. He never even told us, because we have known for the last five years that was probably his worst nightmare. He deals with stories. He would tell us how he would hear things, horrific things. But even before things from the war that was probably affecting him psychologically, he was dealing with some harassment in some of his -- with some of his military colleagues.", "And, Joe, let me just clarify that was not -- that was an interview that was done with FOX News, not by our CNN cameras. But give me your reaction from what you just heard, again this being the alleged shooter's cousin. Joe, you there?", "I'm sorry. You talking to me?", "Yes.", "Oh, sorry. It's Jim. So, what you -- this is going to be one of lots of information. And what we cannot do is, we can't jump to conclusions here. You are never going to know what's inside his head, but have to go where the evidence takes us. And as Fran said, this is going to be part of a systematic investigation. They're going to go to his workplace. They're going to go to his quarters. They're going to start to interview people, and from that they will put together a picture to try to identify his motivation. But at this point it's really, really all speculation, and we will hear lots of things from lots of people. But until they put all these pieces together, I think any kind of speculation on what his motivation is and why exactly he did this is premature. This is not unprecedented. We see all the time. We have a lot of workplace violence that happens in this country. And when these incidents happen, we always have the same questions, and we always have to wait until we get the information before we can really start to make really good answers.", "Absolutely. And, again, we're waiting on the commanding general there at Fort Hood, who is about to speak any moment, who hopefully will have some answers for us. Let me go back to General Honore and ask you again more of a general question, though, because you were stationed at Fort Hood. The shooter, as we understand it, had two guns on him. Do most soldiers on the base generally carry their weapons? Would that have, I guess, blended right in or raised any flags?", "Well, I would assume these were personal weapons, but who knows, Campbell. The investigation will bring that out. Fort Hood is a closed post. Anyone entering, even uniformed people, have to stop and show their I.D. card, and that is done to keep our families and our soldiers safe in their sanctuary. And all that was broken today with the absence of trust with their fellow soldier, who could get these weapons at any place and could conceal them in his car. Or there's a possibility he had his military weapon with him, but it's most unlikely that he would be authorized to have his military weapon in and around a readiness center in this type of environment. Over.", "All right. Let me ask you all to stand by. We're going to take another quick break, as we await this news conference at Fort Hood expected to get under way momentarily now. We're going to bring it to you live as it happens. Stay with CNN for our breaking news coverage. It continues.", "As we have told you, we are awaiting a news conference that is set to begin at Fort Hood in Texas, where, earlier, a gunman opened fire, killing 11 people. That news conference, we are told it will begin momentarily. We're going to bring it to you live when it does. We want to check in now with Ed Lavandera, who has been standing -- who is standing by for us at Fort Hood at this hour. And, Ed, just describe what it's like there on the ground. What's going on?", "Well, you know, Campbell, you can sense throughout the area here around Fort Hood, in the nearby town of Killeen, where so many of the Fort Hood community live and breathe -- and just a while ago, you were hearing from officials here at Fort Hood that the lockdown had been lifted. We start hearing the sirens that we believe indicated that that lockdown had been lifted. And now what we're seeing is a massive line of cars that are trying to make their way on to the post here at Fort Hood. We understand that there are several schools on the Army post that had been locked down as well. So, a lot of children who had been in school throughout the day had still been there. And now many parents trying to get back to them as well. And as we drove around the area on the outskirts of the Army post this afternoon as well, we had seen a lot of law enforcement agencies from surrounding communities that have also descended here on the Army post to protect the entrances in and out. And a lot of that has been lifted as well. But now really the focus turns on to the gunman to try to figure out who he was, why he did this. And, of course, that is the question that seems to be lingering here intensely tonight, is why something like this would happen -- Campbell.", "Absolutely, Ed Lavandera for us tonight. And, Ed, we will check back in with you in a little bit. We want to bring in Texas Congressman John Carter, whose district includes Fort Hood, and has been working the phones and reaching out to his folks there all day today. Congressman, just give us a sense of what you have learned. I know you have been getting regular briefings as you have been trying to keep people informed. What can you tell us?", "Well, I can tell you that I believe, as we sit tonight, they're operating on the belief that there was one gunman. Now, there were -- there were at least three other people that were picked up and dealt with. And from what I understand from my -- when I talked with the folks at Fort Hood, they're -- they're convinced those people were not involved. They were just reported to have been seen running into a building, and that building was close to where the scene was, but they had checked it out, and there's nothing -- they don't think there's anything there.", "OK. Can", "We also note --", "Can I just -- let me just follow-up, Congressman, because a few minutes ago we had the spokesman on from Fort Hood who had told us that they did -- two had been released, but they still had one additional suspect in custody. So is it your understanding that that information is wrong and that this third person has been released?", "Whether or not he's still in custody I think that the general -- I believe I was told the general consensus is that they don't believe he was involved either.", "OK.", "But it may still be expanding. I think the most important thing is they're doing the forensics on the scene. They got shell casings to count, angles of fire, and so forth to make sure that it's realistic that one person can do this kind of damage. And quite honestly, it's horrendous, a lot of damage out from one person with two guns.", "Oh, Congressman, I also know that one of your aides, I understand, was attending a graduation at the base when the shooting happened. Did he witness anything?", "He was there -- he could hear the shooting and a soldier ran up to him just as he got out of his car, the way I understand it because he called me on the cell phone right after that, about 3:30 this afternoon. And he said there's gunfire and soldiers run up to me and said don't go that direction, sir. There's gunfire over there. This gentleman is the former post command chaplain at Fort Hood. He's now retired and working for me, and a lot of people know him on Fort Hood. He said then he noticed that the soldier was actually wounded. He then realized he was wounded and they got him to a medic, and then he was inside the building and they were sealing the building off. So no bad guys, if there were any out there, could get into the building. I am waiting to talk to him tonight, but we played -- his phone has been turned off, and my phone has been tied up, and hopefully I'll talk to him later.", "Yes, I know you'll want to. Your district is this really tight knit military community. I know you've been talking to a lot of folks down there. How are people coping tonight?", "I will tell you that I think that the Fort Hood Killeen, Copperas Cove area, those folks are in shock. They are unhappy. They're sad. I'm sure they're going to be a memorial sometime. Hopefully next week because I'm going to attend it. It's a sad time for our community because our soldiers go through enough when they have to deploy three, four and five times. Now to be at risk on the post is something that everyone is upset about and those in charge are certainly very upset about it. Security will, I'm sure, increase heavily all around Fort Hood. It's caused quite a crisis in our community.", "Talk to me a little about this, because you said that these guys are deploying three, four and five times. What kind of stress are these soldiers under, and what kind of support do you think they're getting?", "They get a huge amount of support from the Fort Hood, the cities that surround Fort Hood. I would argue that Fort Hood, Killeen, Harker Heights, Copperas Cove and the surrounding area, they give more support to soldiers than any place in America. That there's so much that goes on to make sure that not only the soldiers but the families of soldiers when they're deployed have resources available to them. And not only Bell County, where Fort Hood and Coryell County where Fort Hood is located, but now Williamson Country where I live, which is just south of there, has adopted many, many units from Fort Hood and they're also working with the families to take care of the families and make sure that they've got the things they need during deployment.", "Congressman John Carter joining us tonight. And we should mention, again, his district includes Fort Hood. Congressman, I know how hard this has got to be for you and a lot of your people. So we wish you all the best in trying to get through this. Thanks for your time tonight. Appreciate it.", "Thank you. We need prayers for Fort Hood. Thank you very much.", "We are going to take a quick break. We've got a lot more ahead on the shootings today at Fort Hood. Still sitting tight for that news conference that we had been told was going to start at 8:15 Eastern Time, so they're running a little behind, obviously. This is with the commanding general. We anticipate it will begin any moment, and we're going to bring it to you live as soon as it begins. Stay with us.", "As we have told you, we are waiting a news conference at Fort Hood in Texas where earlier today a gunman opened fire killing 11 people. That news conference expected to begin any moment now. We are going to bring you that live. As it does begin, the base has just come off of lockdown. The commanding general had the base on lockdown for about five hours afterwards. They have given the all clear from what we have been told, and did lift the lockdown a short time ago. Randi Kaye is back with me right now. She has been tracking all of the information coming in for us throughout the night. And you have some new information to share as well, Randi.", "We do. We actually have some new video even to show you. Just a short time ago, the military released a video taken just after the shootings. The scene, as you'll see there, was pretty chaotic. Warning sirens, guns drawn, victims on stretchers all around the area. The army identified the gunman as Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old psychiatrist and Army mental professional. And at this hour, a second person we're told is in custody in connection with this. That person may have also been a shooter. Authorities from Fort Hood have told CNN. Two other soldiers who had been detained have now been released after being cleared of any involvement. The Soldier Readiness facility where the shootings happened is where soldiers get ready to deploy. We understand at least some of the victims in this case were about to head to Afghanistan and Iraq.", "And let me just say, too, which hopefully we'll get some clarity on this when this news conference starts as Congressman Carter a moment ago had told us, that they actually now think that maybe the second person who was in custody is not involved. He has been -- or is about to be released. He wasn't clear on that. So we'll see. Well, obviously, that's going to be a question that's going to be posed to the commanding general when this news conference gets underway. But you do also have some new detail about the suspect, the alleged shooter here. What do we know?", "Right. As I mentioned, law enforcement officials tell us that he is Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Authorities say Hasan was the quote, \"primary shooter\" and that he had two handguns on him. What's still unclear is whether or not he stopped to reload at any point. Military officials killed Hasan on the scene, but that was only after they say he shot 11 others dead, including 10 soldiers and a Department of Defense contractor who was working as a police officer there.", "And he worked on the base also.", "Right. The military is telling us that he was, in fact, a U.S. soldier, an Army major. He's 39 years old. This photo, take a look at it, was taken just a couple of years ago. It's on his medical profile, and it shows that he was a fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine. He was a fellow in disaster and preventive psychiatry. We've also confirmed the alleged shooter attended Virginia Tech University where he majored in biochemistry. Also, that he worked at Walter Reed Army Hospital as a psychiatrist where he reportedly got a poor performance evaluation. Now, we looked at his medical license from the Virginia Board of Medicine as well and found that he apparently saw patients about five days a week, but here's something interesting. It shows years in active clinical practice inside the U.S., and in his case it says less than one year. We've also learned from Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison that the alleged shooter was about to be deployed to Iraq and that he was unhappy about that. She also said that in the shooting he was targeting people that he knew. And here's something just coming in. There are media reports that federal law enforcement had an eye on the suspected shooter because of Internet postings that discuss suicide bombings and other threats. Also, his cousin has told some media that Hasan was born and raised here and was a quote, \"good American.\" He said he got quote, \"flack\" for being Middle Eastern and was harassed, Campbell, by some in the military.", "All right. Randi Kaye, well, a lot of information there. We'll, obviously, hear some of the reporters down at Fort Hood now follow-up with the commanding general once this news conference gets underway. Randi Kaye for us tonight. We are going to be back. We have more coming out of the White House to share with you. Again, our breaking news coverage continues of the shooting spree at Fort Hood. We're standing by for the news conference set to begin any moment. Stay with us.", "We are covering this breaking news out of Fort Hood, Texas. We're expecting this news conference to begin shortly, as we've been telling you with the commanding general there. And we were told it was going to start at 8:15, so -- Eastern Time. So we are definitely running behind here. We are watching it very closely. We will bring it to you the moment it begins. We do want to go to the White House now and check in with Ed Henry who has told us that top administration officials gathered in the situation room tonight. Ed, give us the latest from there.", "Campbell, that's right. They have been gathered for several hours in the White House situation room here. A secure facility where they can read through intelligence, get the latest information from the scene, and they're trying to coordinate, among variation law enforcement agencies as well, starting with the Department of Homeland Security within the president cabinet, but also the FBI and local law enforcement officials. The president's own involvement, he was informed about this by his press secretary Robert Gibbs shortly after the rampage began about the initial reports on the ground. Shortly thereafter, the president made some public comments calling this a quote, \"horrific outburst of violence.\" After making those public comments, we're told the president in the Oval Office placed a phone call to the commanding general in Fort Hood to personally express his condolences and also try and get some more information as the White House pieces all this together to try to get a handle on how far this goes, whether there was a lone gunman or not. Basically, I've been told by senior officials here that they have no evidence so far suggesting that it was part of any sort of a terror plot. But they're also stressing it's very, very early in the investigation. They're leaving open every possibility making sure they go through this piece by piece, Campbell.", "All right. Ed Henry for us from the White House today. We want to go to Brian Todd now. He's at Walter Reed hospital. He has some new information for us. Brian, what do we know?", "Well, Campbell, one of our producers, Eric Segal (ph), just returned from Silver Spring, Maryland and joined us here at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Eric got some new information from a former neighbor of Nidal Hassan in Silver Spring in an apartment building there. This is a lady who did not want her name used. She said that she lived near in this apartment building, lived near Hasan and a man who she assumed was his brother. She called them very nice, kind of cool, calm people. She did notice a religious fence to their demeanor. They did not wear any religious garb, but she said there was a banner on their apartment door with writings that appeared to be Muslim. Again, she didn't notice anything out of the ordinary about these two gentlemen. Just said that they -- she was shocked at this. They seemed like very nice guys to her. Again, you know, just expressing pure shock at what happened given that the man she knew -- we did show her a picture of the alleged suspect. She was very clear that that was him.", "All right. Brian Todd, again, there from Walter Reed. And again, we are watching this new conference. We are going to have more breaking news coverage in a moment. How could a shooting spree like this happened to our soldiers on our soil? All the latest developments tonight, including that news conference. We'll be back after this.", "And we are back with more of our breaking news coverage. You're looking at a live picture from Fort Hood there, the microphones where a news conference with a commanding general is expected to begin any moment now. We will bring that to you live when it does start. We want to tell you about an interview now that we have to share with you. This is a woman whose daughter is one of today's shooting victims. Her daughter was shot apparently in the stomach. We do understand she is in stable condition. She was just about to head off for Afghanistan, and her mother spoke with our Milwaukee affiliate WTMJ earlier. Take a listen.", "We got a call from her at 1:30 just hi, mommy, how are you doing call. And we talked for about five minutes and then all of a sudden she said I got to go and hung up. And the next call I got was I don't even know what time it was. And it was the E.R. doctor. And the E.R. doctor didn't even tell me she was shot. I had to guess because she could not tell me nothing. Stable condition, that's the last I heard.", "Back with me now, General Russel Honore, James Carafano and Fran Townsend to talk about this. And, General Honore, just give us a sense, if you can, for the kind of psychological testing that soldiers go through. Do they undergo any at Fort Hood? I mean, the base does have a reputation for taking the mental health of soldiers there very seriously.", "Yes. Fort Hood has one of the largest and more modern facility we have because our soldiers have been deployed so much in trying to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, as well as reentry issues. Soldiers coming back from repeated deployment and reentering and having to deal with their family again and all of the issues associated with being away from home after repeated deployments. So Fort Hood has a great capacity. Obviously, what we see here today is an exception to any rule, but it shows that a lot of effort has been made and is being made at Fort Hood to deal with the stress associated with a PT combat. Campbell, nobody imagined that this volunteer Army would be engaged in two wars simultaneously with deployments around the world and many other countries for over eight years now, and some of these soldiers have been deployed two, three, four times. And I think just what we're seeing is a toll of combat and repeated deployment on this great volunteer Army.", "Let me ask you one other thing, though. This is a tough question. The cousin of the shooter told FOX News earlier that Hasan got flack in the army for being a Muslim. So much so that he had hired apparently a military attorney. Do you think, general, that Muslim soldiers do get hazed in the military now?", "I would suspect that would be something that would be highly investigated. For him to be openly harassed or hazed, that would be beyond the norm of what happens in the Army. Could it happen by exception? Possibly, but I think we need to wait until the investigations are over with here before we speculate or confirm any degree of harassment by fellow soldiers. Him being a major should be able to deal with that, so I'm a little suspect on any of those reports earlier on, but anything can happen when we're dealing with people.", "James, give me your take on this. You spent 25 years in the Army.", "Sure. Well, I think, you know, one of the things you have to segregate here is this is not a case of post traumatic stress syndrome. This person didn't deploy to combat. He didn't have repeated combat deployments. So we've got a lot of discussion about that issue, but we really ought to put it off the table because that's not what's going on here. This is different. The harassment issue, I think the general makes a great point. He was a major in the United States Army. He was an officer. Hard to believe that soldiers would have harassed him. Would his fellow officers harass him? Again, kind of hard to believe that that would be a major factor, but we're going to have to go where the evidence takes us. They're going to go to his home. They're going to go to his workplace. They're going to interview family. They're going to collect an awful lot of information, and from that I think we'll get a much clearer picture of why this happened. Again, we have workplace violence. When that happens, we always go through this. We always try to unpack the motive, and it does take some time and some digging, and so we can't jump to conclusions.", "All right. James, Fran and General Honore, if you'd all stand by with us just for a moment. Again, waiting -- awaiting that press conference with the commanding general there. As you can see, the reporters gathering. The microphone is ready to go. We will see when that begins hopefully shortly. We'll be back to you right after this break.", "And we are back with more of tonight's breaking news. And we want to go back to the Pentagon. Correspondent Barbara Starr standing by there with more on the alleged suspect -- alleged shooter here, I should say. His military record, Barbara, what do we know?", "Well, Campbell, first I want to say that Pentagon officials are really emphasizing tonight that people should not jump to conclusions about motivations or the ethnic origin of the alleged shooter or any stories that they may be hearing. This matter is now under law enforcement investigation and military investigation at the highest levels, and they are emphasizing tonight they really do not know very much information confirmed about what maybe -- what might have gone on with this man before this happened. This is Army Major Malik Nidal Hasan, 39 years old. As Randi Kaye has reported throughout the evening, someone with a psychiatry degree, medical degrees, had worked at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, which would have brought him into contact with the wounded, Campbell.", "Barbara Starr for us at the Pentagon. Let me go back to Ed Lavandera who is in -- who is at Fort Hood right now awaiting that news conference we've been telling you about. And, Ed, I know you've had a chance to talk to a few folks down there. I can't even imagine how shaken they must be tonight. How are people dealing?", "Well, I think you can see that the tension around town, as you see people kind of grappling to deal with what is going on. Also just the magnitude of the intensity of what is going on. I don't think, you know, words can really fully capture that on this particular day. And really what you're seeing people here is just trying to get their lives back to some sort of normality here. As we've been reporting throughout the morning, the lockdown lifted up here at Fort Hood. We've been waiting for the lieutenant general here at this post to come out and speak and brief reporters on the latest information. That has been pushed back repeatedly throughout the course of this hour, and I think that really kind of speaks to the fluidness and how quickly things might be changing here behind the scenes -- Campbell.", "All right, Ed. We'll check in with you a little bit later from now as well. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be back hopefully with that news conference shortly and more information for you. Stay with us.", "A heartbreaking day for a lot of folks at Fort Hood. Our thoughts and prayers are with them tonight. Our coverage continues with Larry King."], "speaker": ["CAMPBELL BROWN, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "LIEUTENANT GENERAL BOB CONE, FORT HOOD COMMANDING OFFICER", "BROWN", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BROWN", "CONE", "BROWN", "REP. 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{"id": "NPR-44964", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2010-04-29", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126390884", "title": "Catholic Church Mishandled Reports Of Sex Abuse", "summary": "NPR religion correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty investigated one case from the Los Angeles Archdiocese where the Catholic church mishandled reports of abuse. She talks about the case, and how the church is handling the accusations of abuse and an alleged cover-up.", "utt": ["This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan, in Washington.", "There are two principal aspects to the scandal in the Catholic Church that started to become public in 2002: sex abuse by priests - thousands have come forward to say they were abused when they were children - and cover-up. Bishops sent pedophile priests to therapists, not to the police, and many were then reassigned to different parishes, where, too often, they abused more children.", "Last week, NPR religion correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty broadcast a story with extraordinary details on the mechanism of the alleged cover-up in one archdiocese, complete with reams of emails from the cardinal on down and a remarkable recording from a deposition.", "In a moment, Barbara joins us to go through the story of Father Michael Baker, Cardinal Roger Mahony and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and after that, how the extent and the handling of this scandal in the Catholic Church compares with other religious institutions.", "Later in the program, law professor Kris Kobach argues the case for Arizona's anti-immigration law. But first, NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty joins us here in Studio 3A. She's also the author of \"Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality.\" And thanks very much for coming in.", "It's great to be here, Neal.", "And how did you come upon the story of Father Baker?", "Well, I had been watching Cardinal Roger Mahony since about 2003. I knew that there was a local grand jury that was investigating him way back then. And so when this most recent abuse scandal occurred, I began calling around to plaintiffs' lawyers. And I reached a plaintiffs' lawyer named John Manley, who had just settled a case on behalf of Luis C., a victim, for $2.2 million.", "And what Manley told me is that he had these amazing depositions with a few people. One was Cardinal Mahony. That one was sealed. Another was Richard Byrne, who was a judge who had been the head of the review board. That was sealed.", "But he also told me about this deposition by Richard Loomis, who was the vicar of the clergy in the late 1990s. That was unsealed.", "Now, Loomis is the - kind of the guy who oversees all the priests, and he would know about all the abuse. And when I heard that deposition, I just said, wow. This gives you an inside look at the workings of how the archdiocese handled the allegations against not only Michael Baker, who eventually 23 people said abused him, but also all the cases involving abuse.", "Twenty-three people said he abused them.", "That's right.", "In any case, well, set up this piece of tape. We have this deposition, and this man Loomis is being deposed, and that's where lawyers from both sides are in the room, one from the archdiocese and one representing the victim.", "That's right. And John Manley is representing the victim. Well, early on, this deposition starts to go bad - badly for the archdiocese because Monsignor Loomis said that he thought that they should have called the police, the archdiocese should have called the police early on. They should have let the parishes know about Michael Baker, because that's the way you get other victims to come forward.", "And he said that - you know, he really, at one point, thought about resigning because he was so upset that the cardinal refused to call the police or let any of the parishes know about Michael Baker.", "And this is where the tape picks up.", "That's right.", "Let's listen.", "Did you consider resigning?", "Well, I was almost at the end of my term at that point, anyway. So I probably would have if I was earlier in my term.", "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What are you doing? You're trying to shut him up. No. You're trying to make him - you're grabbing him, and you're trying to make him be quiet. What are you doing? What are you doing? What in the world are you doing?", "I'm instructing my client.", "You don't whisper in a client's ear in a deposition room, Mr. Woods.", "It happens all the time.", "If you want to take - well, maybe where you practice, but if you want to take a break and talk to your client outside, that's fine. I'm in a line of questioning. You just stood up, put your arm around the witness - which he clearly, on the video, didn't want you to do - and you - and you're trying to get him to be quiet because you don't like his answers.", "Again, that's lawyer John Manley, representing, at that point, an alleged victim, addressing Donald Woods, the attorney you heard trying to intervene with former Vicar Richard Loomis. And...", "It was amazing. You know, what John Manley said is you wait for this kind of thing all your life. You know, as a lawyer, you always hear about Perry Mason or \"A Few Good Men,\" where the witness flips on the stand.", "On the stand, erupts into a sobbing confession.", "And he said, it never happens, right? Right, right, exactly, and it never happens. But in this case, Loomis flipped on Cardinal Mahony. He said it was extraordinary.", "And this is what you call a smoking gun.", "I think it's kind of a smoking gun. I mean, they - very shortly after this, within a couple of months, they settled for $2.2 million.", "And as you said, those other depositions were sealed. Most often, these cases are settled in exchange for confidentiality agreements. Nobody can talk.", "That's absolutely right, and in this case, they went through the hard work of trying to get it unsealed, and they did, and I think it's a pretty damaging deposition for them to have.", "There was, you know, other damaging stuff about this, as well, like the review board.", "Well, there are all these leaked emails, as well.", "Yes, there are leaked emails. Those were just really, really interesting, and let me give you the little bit of the back story on those.", "It's early 2002, and the scandal has just broken in Boston. And so someone in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles leaked emails to a radio station in April of 2002. And I've got to tell you, when you read these emails, you kind of see - they're between Cardinal Mahony and his lawyers, and you have the feeling that Cardinal Mahony and his lawyers care a lot more about giving as little information to the police and the public about the abusive priests, and, you know, they kind of seem to care a lot more about managing the public relations than about the victim.", "And let me just tell you one. I've got one here. This one is from Father - Cardinal Mahony to his lawyers on March 27th, 2002, and it's about what Cardinal Mahony says, quote, \"what I consider to be our biggest tactical mistake of the past few weeks.\"", "He notes that the archdiocese has not turned over three - the names of three of the eight most abusive priests to the district attorney, what they call the Big Eight. And then he says that they better do this. They better start consulting with the district attorney or, quote, \"I can guarantee you that I will get hauled into a grand jury proceeding, and I will be forced to give all the names.\"", "And it - you know, you just have this sense that they were - I mean, what the archdiocese says is they were dealing with a crisis. There was a feeding frenzy by the press, and that they clearly were not - you know, they were just a little bit desperate. But clearly, they didn't want all the information out there.", "And they were worried about their liability rather than, you would think...", "You know, I read all of these emails, and I would be hard-pressed to find one reference to the victims in a compassionate way. Now, there may have been, but there were 68 emails, and it sure was not a theme.", "And there is no question after you look at all this evidence that the cardinal himself knew for a fact that at least this one priest was abusing children.", "Oh, yeah. We know that because Michael Baker told Cardinal Mahony in 1986 that he had abused two kids. So for, you know, since 1986, he knew that he was an abuser. And what happened is he said he took him out of ministry, put him in restricted ministry.", "Supposedly, he wasn't supposed to - that Father Baker wasn't supposed to see children, wasn't supposed to have access to them. However, over the next 15 years, Michael Baker served in nine parishes. Six of them had elementary schools attached to them, and clearly, Father Baker was not being monitored because he abused kids a lot, it appears.", "And, indeed, was involved with this one family where he bought a house for the mother and her two children, whom he was abusing, and they, because he was in this position - not only of trust, but of power - felt they had no choice.", "That's right. That abuse went on for 15 years, and the archdiocese settled very quickly in that case, within a couple of months once they - once they saw Father Michael Baker's love letters to the two boys that spanned over a period of 15 years, they settled for $1.3 million in a couple of months.", "And there is a responsibility, of course - these are their superiors, but this is a religious order. And at the time, back when this first started, you know, 30 years ago, the thought was at the time: send people for treatment. That was not an unusual request at the time.", "That's right. That's right. You handled this pastorally. You send them for treatment, and you hope that they get better and they can be returned to ministry. But, you know, by the 1990s, it was pretty clear that that wasn't working all that well, and we certainly knew that in 2000. And even in 2000, Cardinal Mahony was deciding - when he found out about Michael Baker and these two boys, he was deciding not to go to the police, not to inform the parishes. And some people would say - a lot of people believe that he had legal responsibility to call the police at that point, but at least the archdiocese had a moral responsibility to let people know and the police know that there was a known abuser who was in their midst.", "We're going to go into some details in a few minutes about how extensive this is within the Catholic Church and, indeed, other religious organizations, as well. So clearly, hardly all Catholic priests were abusive. That's not what anybody's saying. Nevertheless, this organization, like any other organization, has responsibilities. These things happened a long time ago, but a district attorney, a prosecutor, might look at this and say ongoing conspiracy.", "Well, that - in fact, I have talked to prosecutors who believe that, and they're very interested in seeing Cardinal Mahony's deposition that's now under seal because they want to see if there is - I mean, I don't want to extrapolate here, but they are very, very interested in what Cardinal Mahony has said in the last few months. Because if you can show that there is some kind of crime being - that's been committed in the last few months, that you can reach back in time under the RICO statute and reach back and touch all these other cases and say, well, you know, maybe it's possible. I know they're investigating whether the archdiocese committed fraud in the way that it covered up the sexual abuse.", "And those investigations are ongoing right now?", "Yes, they are. Right now.", "And the priest again, Father Baker, I assume he's Mr. Baker now?", "Well, he is. He's in jail right now. He's in prison. He's serving a 10-year sentence. He was criminally convicted for abusing three boys. And so he will be - he'll be staying where he is for a little while now.", "Barbara Bradley Hagerty is NPR's religion correspondent. It's - I just - to hear RICO statute and the Catholic Church in the same phrase is just mindboggling that they would be brought up together. This is, of course, a statute passed to address issues with the Mafia and things like that. So...", "That's right.", "So, anyway, when we come back, we're going to be talking about the Catholic Church and the extent of this kind of scandal, how it compares with other institutions and whether other institutions are handling it better than perhaps the Catholic Church is, or did, and whether it is ongoing and how practices have changed.", "So stay with us. If you're a member of another religious organization, give us a call. How is your religious group handling similar allegations in your synagogue, your church, wherever? Give us a call: 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. Stay with us. It's the TALK OF THE NATION, from NPR News.", "This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan, in Washington.", "Allegations of sexual abuse and cover-up continue to rock the Catholic Church in Europe, South America and, of course, the United States, Australia, as well. Barbara Bradley Hagerty has covered the abuse scandal for years as NPR religion correspondent.", "Her most recent investigation uncovered a series of missteps by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and a failure to act when presented with evidence of pedophilia. We've posted a link to that story at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.", "While the Catholic Church faces a huge challenge, it is hardly alone in facing allegations of abuse. One study by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice shows about four percent of priests sexually abused children between 1950 and 2002 - more or less in line with other professions.", "Earlier this month, a jury in Oregon reached a $1.4 million verdict against the Boy Scouts. So is the Catholic Church different from other institutions in the scale of sexual abuse or the way those allegations were handled?", "We'd like to hear from non-Catholics in our audience. How has your religious hierarchy dealt with this? Give us a call: 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. And you can join the conversation on our Web site. That's at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.", "And Barbara Bradley Hagerty is still with us here in Studio 3A. And, in general, can you make a summation of - have these allegations emerged in other religious organizations?", "Yes, they have emerged. They tend to be different sorts of allegations. Typically, what you have is - when I've done stories about this is you have, you know, a Baptist minister who has had an affair with a congregant or a youth minister who has had an affair with, you know, a teenage girl in the youth group, or something like that.", "And in those cases - I'll be interested to hear what the listeners have to say - but generally, in those cases, because other denominations are not so hierarchical, what happens is the minister is called into the board of elders and asked about this, and basically said you're gone. You know, they tell him you're gone. They can fire him. It's not quite so easy in the Catholic Church.", "But presumably, that minister can go apply for a job somewhere else.", "He can. But I think he would have a hard - it would be a - have a hard record. Plus, you wouldn't have an overarching body saying okay, this minister is now going to be transferred over here in good standing.", "So it's a little bit different in the Catholic Church. Actually, it's significantly different. For one thing, it's really hard to defrock a priest. I mean, philosophically, bishops - one bishop said recently that defrocking a priest is like a spiritual death, and so they're reluctant to do it.", "But also, you know, it's very cumbersome to get a priest out of his job. Under Pope John Paul II, he essentially ended defrocking of priests, laicizations, for many, many years. And the reason he did that is he felt that priests were there for life, and especially if you were a young priest - like under 40 years old - you shouldn't be laicized.", "Things got a little bit better - things got significantly better under Pope Benedict. But I should say that when a priest is accused of abuse, it's a long process. What happens is the bishop has to do a church trial. That can take years. There's a prosecutor and a defense attorney.", "Then they send all of this off to the Vatican. The Vatican takes a look at all those documents. Sometimes they ask for more documents. They ask for another church trial. It can take, you know, 10, 15 years to defrock a priest.", "And what about - the church just made a statement recently that said, of course, if there's evidence of a crime, that should be presented to the police. That's always been our policy.", "Well, they say that's always been our policy, but it didn't show up in the policy until about, you know, about two weeks ago. And so they may have said that, but you had to very much read between the lines, because it wasn't there before.", "Let's get callers in on the conversation: 800-989-8255. Email, again, is talk@npr.org. Josh is on the line from Mishawaka in Indiana.", "Hi, Neal, thank you very much for allowing me on the air.", "Okay. Go ahead, please.", "I just wanted to relate a story. When I was 11 or 12, I was living in Nova Scotia, Canada, and I was attending Hebrew school there. A Hebrew school teacher by the name of Cantor Freedman(ph) was, I believe, arrested for possession of child pornography. I haven't looked into this as an adult, so I'm not familiar with all the details, but I know he was arrested for possession of child pornography in his apartment. He wasn't married at the time, and then he was deported from Canada, and I believe served a jail term in the United States.", "So he was evidently an American citizen and working in Canada in this capacity. Was the Hebrew school itself involved in the investigation in any way, or - this was a long time ago. You were a kid, and you may not remember the details.", "I don't remember the exact details. So I'm not sure if somebody in the organization turned him over or if he was found by the police through other means. I'm not really sure. I'd have to look into it more. But I just wanted to sort of relate that story.", "Yeah.", "But in sort of response to what your guest commented about, the church trials and all those sort of things, it sort of angers me as a faithful person that they would choose to go through that route, as opposed to what any sane human being should do, which is if, you know, your child has been abused by a priest, go to the police, put them in jail, save the defrocking for later.", "All right.", "Right. And, you know, that's a very interesting point. You know, some documents, there's a document from 1962 that many plaintiffs' attorneys point at, actually, in suing the Vatican, trying to get the Vatican involved in all of this.", "And what these documents seem to suggest is that you don't want - you want to keep all the proceedings very, very quiet, very secret. In fact, these documents say that if someone involved in the trial - whether it's, you know, a bishop or whatever - talks about this case, this case of abuse, that they can be excommunicated.", "And so what these documents seem to suggest, at least to some people, is that the Vatican was sending the signal: You keep these things quiet.", "Now, the Vatican would dispute that. They would say we're only talking about church trials, that if there's actually real abuse, then you should give it to the police. But that - frankly, that wasn't happening.", "I mean, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The bishops were not turning over abusers to the police, and so I think they were looking at Vatican policy and saying, you know, maybe we need to keep this quiet.", "Mm-hmm. Josh, thanks very much for the phone call, appreciate it.", "The - some defenders of the institution say, wait a minute. This isn't fair. You're having some states like New York trying to extend civil liability for child abuse cases for an additional period of years. In effect, this only covers Catholic schools. You can't sue public school teachers because they're protected by sovereign immunity. And there's just as many of these abusers in public schools as there are in Catholic schools.", "Yeah, I guess that's an interesting argument. I don't know what to - really, what to say about it except that, you know, if they - if there hadn't been so much abuse, maybe there wouldn't be -and so much cover-up, maybe there wouldn't be these moves for these kind of changes in the law.", "Let's go next to Becky, and Becky's with us from Charlotte.", "Hi.", "Hi, Becky. Go ahead, please.", "Well, I'm a Baptist in Charlotte - hold on, I have a truck going past me right now. It's very loud. Let me slow down. And the pastor in our church actually was accused of abuse of teenage girls, and it seemed to have made the news for a few days, and then everything just got quiet about it.", "There was nothing really ever said anymore, except that the families of the girls no longer attend our church. And it seems to me in looking at it - and I have to say my husband is Catholic, and so we talk about this quite a bit - but it seems to me that because the Catholic Church is so organized and so wealthy, that that is why everybody seems to go after it.", "You know, if you have a single pastor in a parish - I'm sorry, in a Baptist church that is accused, there's really nothing to go after. And the girls...", "Oh, that they don't have the assets to pay a big settlement, is what you're saying.", "Absolutely.", "Gosh, I mean, that's a really, really interesting thought, and I know that the Vatican has believed that, also. However, there have been, since 1950, 11,000 accusations of abuse by - on the part of, I think, something like 4,000 priests. That's...", "Well, when you look at the unity of the Catholic Church and how it's this one giant organization, and every little...", "Oh, it would deny that it's one giant organization. It's a series of archdioceses.", "Right.", "But, you know, all these individual little churches all across the rest of the world, how many accusations have there been there? No one keeps count because they're not the same huge, unified entity.", "Well, because they are relative, much smaller organizations, there could be cases of abuse that are covered up, but not...", "But probably not quite as many.", "And not on an institutional scale.", "Right. I mean, when you look at the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, they settled with over 500 victims for $660 million. And, you know, you don't - it's such a large organization, but also it's not just that it's a large organization. What people have been able to show is that bishops actually transferred priests around.", "They transferred abusers. You don't have that with an individual church. You don't have - and you don't have, you know, in, say, the Dominicans transferring a Dominican priest from one state to another, from one country to another. What you have is much more of a sense of organization in the cover-up than you can possibly have in an individual church where, you know, once a pastor is outed as being an abuser, he's outed as being an abuser, and no one is really covering it up.", "Becky, thanks very much for the call. Drive carefully. Here's a -by the way, our staff looked up on the Internet: A synagogue official deported from Canada after mailing child pornography to an undercover FBI agent in Southern California was sentenced in Los Angeles, Monday, to 15 months in federal prison, this from the Los Angeles Times in March of 1999. Stuart Friedman, who served as a cantor of a synagogue, must also undergo three years of supervised release after finishing his prison term. U.S. District Judge Carlos R. Moreno said he pleaded guilty in November to one count of distributing child pornography. So that's a verification of the case from the caller we had earlier.", "Here's an email who wishes to remain anonymous from Cincinnati: I can say with certainty that, no, the Catholic Church is not different than other organizations. I grew up a Jehovah's Witness, and the way it is handled is much the same. Elders are simply moved to other congregations, and the families are told not to pursue criminal charges. Knowledge of this from friends who were abused are part of the reason I discontinued that religious path. The only reason the Catholic Church is different because they have more money and power and, therefore, are a bigger target.", "Well, that's interesting. The Jehovah's Witness is apparently a little bit more hierarchical than many other religions like - other denominations like the Baptists or whatever. But you did - and I should say you do see this on a smaller scale in other religions. We just haven't seen it - in other denominations, but we just haven't seen it on the scale that we have in the Catholic Church. But that's a really, really interesting point.", "Here's an email, another one. This one from Cynthia in Harrisonburg, Virginia: In the Episcopal Church, all clergy and all who work with children are required to take a training course in the prevention of child sexual abuse. In Virginia, where I'm an Episcopal priest, clergy are, by state law, mandated reporters - that is, if I observe or I'm told about possible child sexual abuse, I must report to Child Protective Services. No system is perfect, but the training we get is quite good.", "And that's a really good point. That lets me say something nice about the Catholic Church, which is since 2002, they have put in a series of reforms - among them, training people, everyone, to be able to recognize sexual abuse, even training the kids, you know, about what should and shouldn't happen. And so we have seen a number of reforms.", "We see zero tolerance, where the Catholic Church says that if a priest is accused of abuse, they will pull him out of ministry immediately until they can figure out if the charges are correct, the allegations are correct or not. So we are beginning to see, since 2002, some changes, and a lot of dioceses do it very well. And, you know, we'll have to find out in the long term whether the Catholic Church and other churches are truly reformed or not.", "We're talking with NPR religion correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.", "And again, just getting back to that caller we had earlier. A cantor, you might say, what's his - we're hearing information: Cantors usually train bar mitzvah boys. So that's their access to children.", "Right. A crime of opportunity, so to speak.", "In any case. Let's see if we can go next to - this is Susan, Susan with us from Nashville.", "Yes, hello. I was listening to what you were saying about the Roman Catholic Church being the church that, you know, can be most liable for this other than - than any other religious institution.", "Or bigger target, is what people are saying.", "Right. And what I wanted to say was I was actually an ordained Methodist minister and had a horrendous experience with the district superintendents, which control the flowing and the appointments of the Methodist ministers in the Methodist church. And they actually sent a pedophile minister to minister with me - which I didn't know at the time, of course.", "But later, when people came to me and told me about the previous charges over a 20-year span, and the district superintendents had knowledge of this and had taken this person and moved him around in the church in different congregations. And so what I wanted to say was the Catholic Church does not only have the corner on the market for this.", "I actually went to an attorney and went to sue them under the RICO Act because they fully, in full knowledge, knew. For 20 years, they moved this man around, but he was such a - had such a huge personality and was able to raise enormous amounts of money for building campaigns and other things and was also connected with some very high-up bishops, that it was just a horrible, horrible situation. So I just want to make it clear. It's not just the Catholic Church.", "Well, that...", "That's a really great point. And, you know, one of the through lines you see with a lot of these abusive priests is they tend to be very charismatic, larger-than-life people. In fact, Marcial Maciel, who is the head of the Legionaries of Christ, was a good friend of Pope John Paul II. He abused everything that walked - I mean, literally. I'm not exaggerating. He was a huge money raiser for the Catholic Church.", "Well, let me tell you something else. This is really interesting. He'd only been at the parish, like, two months. I'll never forget this, and there was something weird about him to me. He closed my door, knocked on the door and said, can I come in a minute? And then he came and shut the door and put his arm over me - I'll never forget this - over my shoulder and looked at me and he said, let me tell you something. And I won't say the word on the air, but it begins with a B. And he said, I'm in control here, and before you know it, you'll find out who's in charge here. And the people that I know - and I'll never forget. He said, don't tell anybody we had this conversation. Terrified me. He walks back out, and he sees one of the big parishioners and smiles and hugs him and they're going to go play golf together.", "Mm-hmm.", "So you're right. It's so terrifying...", "Well, in...", "...when you have an organization like bishops or district superintendents that have full knowledge and control this horrendous behavior.", "Well, thanks very much. That's an amazing story, Susan. We appreciate the phone call.", "Thank you.", "It's also true, teachers who are abusive, again, a lot of them have this - they're the most popular teacher in school.", "That's right. That's right. And they get away with it. And one thing I can say about Pope Benedict is he has been very quick. He's been really very good about removing abusive priests, like the head of the Legionaries of Christ. I mean, he get - I should say this: He gets it.", "From 2001, he began getting - when he was then Cardinal Ratzinger, he began getting all of the cases of abuse that were coming from America. And every Friday, every Friday afternoon, apparently, he would look through the stack of pile - stack of abusive - cases of abuse, and he would literally get sick. And I do believe, and most people do believe that he truly gets it about what a problem this is. And so when he became pope, he did institute some reforms. But it's hard to change the Catholic Church. It's a pretty old institution, and it's a pretty conservative one.", "One more thing, very quickly, and that is a lot of people say, wait a minute. You're talking about 1986 here. This is old stuff.", "It's, you know, the - a lot of the abuse occurred in the '60s and '70s, I'll say that, in the United States. But the cover-up has been going on, when it's occurred, has been going on right into recent times. And, you know, it's only now that people are beginning to come forward -people - especially in 2002 and later - when they came forward that you began to look at the actions of the bishops. And you saw that it wasn't just about the abuse. It was about moving around priests and covering it up. And that is a recent phenomenon.", "Two aspects: sexual abuse and the cover-up. Barbara Bradley Hagerty, thank you very much for your time today.", "It's been fun to be here.", "NPR's religion correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty. We posted a link to her story on the L.A. archdiocese at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.", "In defense of Arizona's controversial new immigration law, Kris Kobach argues it's humane and legal. Stay with us. 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{"id": "CNN-314794", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2017-06-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1706/20/acd.02.html", "summary": "Bloomberg On 2020 Presidential Race.", "utt": ["In addition to hotly contested, very closely watched Georgia House race, there is also a Special House Election tonight in South Carolina. We told you about it right before the break. CNN is projecting a Republican, as expected, will win it. And we have new numbers in Georgia for that. Let's go to John King. What are you looking at, John.", "Anderson, look at the map right now. Jon Ossoff ahead 51 to 49. If you look district right again. About half of the expected vote is in anyway. That's the full district. Let me break it down by county. And again, I'm going to be doing this throughout the night just the way that fills it here. I'm going to pull this out to make it a little bit bigger. The Congressional District is not all three of these counties. It's up here in the northern part of these -- northern part of Fulton County. This is Cobb and this is Dekalb. The biggest area for Jon Ossoff, one of the reasons he has the lead at the moment narrowly is because he's running it up, as expect. Now we have not only early vote, but some votes cast today are coming in, 51-49 in Dekalb County. It's the most Democratic area of the district. He needs to keep the numbers in the ballpark of something like that, run up the vote total here to help him over here, where you see Karen Handel holding. This number has been pretty consistent all night long, a 20-point lead, 60-40 in the most conservative part of the district, the northern quarter here of Cobb County and the most populist part is the northern part of Fulton County here and Karen Handel ahead there at the moment, 53-47. If she can keep that lead, that bodes well for her. But at the moment ago when you come back to the full district, Jon Ossoff ahead at the moment, as we count the votes. And this is where now we have most of the early vote in, Anderson, starting to get some of the votes cast today. This is a big turnout test for both parties. Jon Ossoff with a narrow lead right now. Remember early on back in April when you had that crowded field in the first election, Jon Ossoff started he was up about 60 percent at one point. He ended up winning the race just below 50 percent at 48 percent. So don't bet on this right now, but if you're the Democrats, Jon Ossoff leading at 51-49. Still counting the vote, Anderson. We're going to be here for a little bit.", "Although, what, a few minutes, Karen Handel was in the lead. So it's going back and forth.", "That tells you you've got a very competitive district. And just the fact it's competitive is news because this is a Republican district since the Carter administration. But after losing Montana, losing in Kansas, just losing in South Carolina, four Republican House members joined the Trump cabinet. There have been now the four special elections will be down by the end of tonight. Republicans have held three of those seats. This is the one left in play. The Democrat leading at the moment. Stay with us.", "All right. John King, we'll continue to watch. We're back now with the panel. Susan, should this race be so closely watched? Because I mean a lot -- you know, from both Republicans and Democrats are putting a lot into this, $50 million.", "I think I speak for all of us when I say, we've always watched Georgia 6th with great intensity every election. You know, I'm not sure it should. You look at -- remember Jack Murtha's special election was up in 2010, spring of 2010, really fiercely fought like this seen as a big sign of how things were going to go in November. Democrats held on to that, didn't matter. They lost control of the House in November, anyway. And so, you don't want to over interpret this, but I think it has a huge effect. And if Karen Handel can hold on, I think helps Mitch McConnell get health care next week or wherever he brings it up for a vote. I think it is -- even if Democrats have a kind of a moral victory, that was close in a district that didn't used to be close, I think it is somewhat reassuring to Republicans that they can figure out a way how to maneuver around Pres. Trump and his low approval ratings and still hold on to their seats.", "Matt, do you agree that it would help McConnell get health care done next week? And if so, why?", "Well, you know, I think that winning, nothing succeeds like success, right. And so if there's momentum, that could give some recalcitrant Republicans, Republicans who are maybe getting a little bit of cold feet, a little bit worried about the voters a little comfort. And I do think that although this isn't predictive, right, you can't extrapolate from -- say if Democrats win this, you can't extrapolate what this means that the House is going go Democratic. I, you know, I use a sort of sports analogy. When a team is out of the game, you want to keep them out of the game. And if all of a sudden they make a good play, they score a touchdown, the crowd gets in the game now. Now, they have momentum. That is what Republicans want to keep Democrats from getting. If Democrats win this race tonight, then all of a sudden you're going to have Democratic activists, and candidates and donors who are excited and motivated. And that, you know, actually could have consequences.", "That's the only sports analogy I've ever heard that I actually understand. I appreciate that, as I know nothing about it. How important do you think this race is?", "Well, I think it's already important no matter who wins, because I think if you are a Republican who has a wealthy, highly educated district, you're paying attention to this. Because this is saying that there is a certain group of people that are unhappy with Donald Trump, because the only way that it gets this close is if Republican voters are crossing over. So, you know, so I think even if she pulls it out, it doesn't look like it will be like -- by a lot. And so -- so a certain segment of the Republican Party, I think if they're not, should be start stepping back and going. OK, this is a little bit of a referendum, at least from a certain element of Republican voters. You know, this isn't a super, super conservative district but it is a Republican district, and it is one that will require Republican voters voting for, you know, crossing the line.", "Scott, you don't look nervous.", "I don't feel nervous because number one I think Karen Handel is -- looks to me like she's in a pretty good spot right now. Number two, if the Democrats go on and lose this race, it is extraordinarily demoralizing. They've thrown everything but the kitchen sink at this race. The average Congressional candidate who wins normally spends about $1.6 million.", "That's incredible.", "And Ossoff has spent, what, $25 million? If you can't win under these conditions with that amount of money, if you're sitting on the sidelines tonight as a possible Democratic candidate, wouldn't you say to yourself, I'm in a worse district than this, why in the world should I even run? And so I think tonight, the Democrats have more at stake that be the Republicans because if they lose, it is demoralizing to candidate recruitment efforts.", "Jen?", "Look, I think, one, there's an historic number of candidates expressing an interest in running. So many that there are going to be 10, even more in a lot of districts around the country. I think Democrats will have to play a role in keeping the party energized and keeping people across the country energized, who gave small dollar donations. But there are more than 90 districts who are more Democratic friendly, Democratic leaning than this district. So, while we're going to have some work to do if we lose this race, this is by far, there are a lot of other opportunities. Let's also --", "Although the Democratic Party has plenty of issues facing just in terms of internally of what is the Democratic Party? Who are they?", "No doubt about it. That's for sure. And what's interesting, often, about special elections, is that they may not be an indicator of everything to come, but they can also be an opportunity to try things out. And in this race, health care is a huge issue. And the AJC poll 81 percent of respondents care deeply about health care. So if the Democrat does win, that is going to be a big sign for Democrats to keep running on that issue too.", "All right. I want thank everybody. Up next, no answers to simple questions from the White House. And how this White House compares to other when it comes to transparency? Keeping them honest, ahead."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "KING", "COOPER", "KING", "COOPER", "PAGE", "COOPER", "LEWIS", "COOPER", "POWERS", "COOPER", "JENNINGS", "COOPER", "JENNINGS", "COOPER", "PSAKI", "COOPER", "PSAKI", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-178272", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-12-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/26/cnr.02.html", "summary": "No Gingrich, No Perry In Virginia", "utt": ["It looks like Newt Gingrich won't be on the primary ballot in his home state of Virginia. Both Gingrich and Rick Perry failed to collect the 10,000 signatures needed to qualify. CNN political editor Paul Steinhauser joins us live from Des Moines, Iowa this morning. Now Paul, Virginia is an important super Tuesday state. It's where Newt Gingrich actually lives, ok, so what is the impact going to be on his campaign?", "Well, let's say it's a two-person or three-person contest by early March on super Tuesday. Every delegate matters, of course, if it's a close contest. So yes, it could hurt since Gingrich will not be on the ballot in Virginia. Who is on the ballot? Ron Paul, the Congressman from Texas and Mitt Romney the former Massachusetts governor. They're the only two candidates who were able to get on. Virginia, Hala, has a high threshold. You need 10,000 signatures. Gingrich was in Virginia last week. He had two events on Wednesday night and again on Thursday. Thursday was the deadline to get on the ballot there. He came close. Didn't make it. Neither did Texas Governor Rick Perry or any of the other candidates other than Paul and Romney. Gingrich this morning asked about it outside his house this morning in Virginia. Listen, we made a mistake. Not going to happen in Virginia. Hala, it's kind of a sign that Newt Gingrich over the last month has jumped, has soared in the polls here in Iowa and nationally. But his campaign structure hasn't followed suit and matched. Ok. Let's talk about -- ok. So we've discussed over the last several hours, Paul, that it's a statistical dead heat in Iowa. Looking ahead to the New Hampshire primary which is still 15 days away, there's a new poll out there. What does it tell us?", "it shows the same old story. We've seen it for two years now. Take a look at this. Boston Globe came out on Christmas morning. Look at Mitt Romney right at the top there. Way ahead of everybody else at 39 percent. Romney has been the front-runner for a long time in New Hampshire. Why? Remember, he was governor of neighboring Massachusetts. He owns a home in New Hampshire. He spent a lot of time campaigning and helping other Republicans in New Hampshire. He's very, very well known there. And if Romney doesn't do well here in Iowa, a lot of people say New Hampshire needs to be his fire wall. There's Gingrich and Ron Paul both at 17 percent. Look at John Huntsman at 11 percent; remember Huntsman has placed all of his chips, I guess, you could say in New Hampshire. Take that poll and maybe throw it away because whatever happens right here in Iowa on January 3rd could greatly impact what happens in New Hampshire seven days later. We're here in Iowa. We have the election express bus. The whole team will be here. And within a couple of days, we're ready for this caucus -- Hala.", "When the bus is in town CNN means business, right? Ok. Paul Steinhauser.", "Yes. You've got it.", "Among our team of reporters covering the first important test in Iowa and we'll have our next political update in an hour. A reminder for all the latest political news. You can always go to the Web site at any time, politics.com. That's going to do it for me. Drew Griffin picks it up from the CNN center. Hi - Drew.", "Hi Hala, thanks a lot."], "speaker": ["GORANI", "PAUL STEINHAUSER, CNN POLITICAL EDITOR", "STEINHAUSER", "GORANI", "STEINHAUSER", "GORANI", "DREW GRIFFIN, CNN HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-363806", "program": "CUOMO PRIME TIME", "date": "2019-03-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/07/CPT.01.html", "summary": "Paul Manafort Sentenced To 47 Months In Prison", "utt": ["-- Munchkinland in fourth grade. I digress. Maybe he thinks Attorney General Bill Barr was on Cheers. Who cares? The important thing is that the President loves fruit, and by fruit, I mean McDonald's, and Kentucky Fried Chicken, and tacos from his own restaurant. But, I got to say, I agree with him about McDonald's. They - they actually sell apples too, pre-sliced, packaged, they're quite good, and always available. You just got to pull the motorcade right up to the drive-through on The Ridiculist. And that's it for us. Want to hand it over to Chris for CUOMO PRIME TIME. Chris?", "Thank you very much for some levity on an otherwise very heavy night, my friend. I am Chris Cuomo. Welcome to PRIME TIME. Paul Manafort is going to do far less time in prison than Robert Mueller recommended. Why? Now, Manafort still has another case to be sentenced on. Will next week's Judge throw the book at him? And does this sentence mean that Mueller went too far that the probe went too far? Also on the docket, did Michael Cohen lie to Congress again? Republicans say yes. But now Cohen is suing the President for stiffing him on fees. Will he win? We're going to take on all three with one of the best legal minds in the business. He doesn't like me saying that. That's too bad. Former Whitewater Independent Counsel, Robert Ray. Also tonight, Biden, in or out, and what happens if he runs? What do you say? Let's get after it.", "CUOMO PRIME TIME.", "47 months is a long time. Now, people are going to tell you about set-offs and programs that may even reduce that further. But it's hard time in prison. However, Mueller wanted Manafort to get 24 years. But, again, the Judge today said 47 months in Virginia, and he's going to get credit for time served, so that means nine months get chopped off, and then there could be something else. Still he's getting prison time. I'm just saying it's nothing like what was anticipated by the Special Counsel. And, look, it's a surprise. The almost 70-year-old face the prospect of spending the rest of his life there if Mueller got what he wanted. It's not over. Again, there'll be a separate sentence next week in Washington, but it was an eye popper. All right, so let's start with this and bring in Whitewater Independent Counsel Robert Ray, good here. Good to see you. So, we have spoken before, and you said, \"I got to tell you. Not only did they investigate these matters years ago and come up empty, but I don't know that this is going to stick.\" It's stuck.", "Right.", "What does this sentence mean to you?", "Well a little context is necessary. I don't want to complicate things too much. But, remember, it wasn't that long ago, which is to say within a generation that a four-year sentence in connection with a bank fraud case was thought to be pretty--", "Harsh.", "--harsh and significant.", "Yes.", "What Federal Judges have questioned in the wake of Enron WorldCom, the financial crisis is the big run-up in the sentencing guidelines with regard to the lost calculation, meaning how much money was involved, and the numbers get to be astronomical in a real hurry, which is what happened here. And that's why, principally, he was facing a 19.5 to 24 year sentence.", "Also because Mueller was pissed off that he broke his deal and lied to them.", "Well I think that's right. But I mean there's another component to it. And I think that's the part that remains in the District Court in the District of Columbia.", "Right.", "So, I think you can expect, and I think you've already teased this appropriately that there will be incremental punishment that will be added on top of this sentence in all likelihood by the District Judge in D.C., which I guess--", "You think it will be concurrent or you think it will be additional?", "No, there'll be - there'll be a portion of it, which the Judge will have to speak to as to which portion will run concurrent, and which portion consecutive. But you--", "Concurrent means that that time counts while you're serving. The other time--", "Right.", "--it's not additional.", "But because there are other charges--", "Right.", "--I think it's a fair assumption, Chris. I would expect, you know, even give him what otherwise here what, I think, some people have characterized as a lenient sentence. And, by the way, look, you know, my view of these things is, don't criticize the Judge for this. This is what the Special Counsel asked for under the Sentencing Guidelines. They have the right to take that position. But, at the end of the day, the government prevails when justice is served. And this Judge has a lot of experience. You know, he made a determination. He understands there's another case out there. I would expect incremental punishment to be added over and on top of this sentence when--", "OK.", "--he's sentenced next week, but in the - in the other case.", "So, the political spin is, from the Right, at least, \"See, we told you this wasn't that big a deal. We told you that Mueller was overreaching.\" Do you think that's a fair appraisal of what this sentence means?", "I - I think you got to be careful about drawing that conclusion. I can tell you that when I was Independent Counsel, there were judges, particularly in the local, you know, jurisdictions, meaning in the District of Columbia, and in this case, in the Eastern District of Virginia, who were sensitive to the fact that Independent Counsels have a fair amount of power, and can press very hard in the spotlight because of public sentiment shines, you know, very harshly. As I've said on many occasions, and you've heard me say this, I would not wish a Special Counsel or Independent Counsel investigation on my worst enemy. It is a terrible place to be. And one of the things that the judges struggle with, I think, appropriately so, is, you know, how would I treat this case if it were just without that public spotlight--", "Right.", "--shining. And would I give the same sentence in that sort of situation that I'm being asked to do so here?", "Now--", "I think Judge Ellis had some real problems in it. It - it was signaled early on in the investigation about, you know, \"Wait a minute, are we talking about a prosecution here--", "Right.", "--that is being used as a means toward an end?\"", "Oh, the Judge said it so in not so many words today--", "Right.", "--without saying specifically that, \"Hey, this isn't that bad a guy.\"", "But I well - but I would say also, which is why I think it, you know, Republicans have to be careful about going too far with that. You know, those charges, bank fraud, and the failure to register as a foreign, you know, agent, and - and, you know, tax charges, they independently would have merits.", "Yes.", "And, you know, I think they were worthy of prosecution on their own, separate and apart from the - the political context--", "Look, I hear you. I actually think the political context--", "--though that we find ourselves--", "--has nothing, obviously, nothing to do with any of that other than maybe a general description of character.", "Right.", "His real problem he was never charged with.", "Right.", "You know, you understand this very well. But collusion is a behavior, not a crime, unless we're talking about Securities Law.", "Correct.", "You'd have to find an act in furtherance of it, actual coordination that equates to a conspiracy.", "And I think the Judge was trying to signal that early on, apparently in the proceedings--", "Right.", "--when he said, look, I think more for public consumption or anything else--", "That's right.", "--to say, \"Hey, everybody kind of put the brakes on things, and don't, you know, try to read anything--", "Right.", "--into this with regard to collusion.\"", "Right.", "\"You know, this - this prosecution, I am going to evaluate independently on whether it has merit, and what I think is a fair and appropriate sentence.\"", "That's right. And that's - and that's obviously what they (ph)--", "And that's what a Judge is supposed to do.", "That I have no problem with that.", "Right. Right.", "But I'm saying I think Manafort, as an example, speaks to the need for oversight. What I'm hearing from the Right is--", "Yes.", "--\"When Mueller's done, no more. Whatever he does, he does. What he doesn't do, he doesn't do, stop with this oversight, it's harassment.\" I say, \"No,\" because Manafort--", "Well--", "--is an example of what you need. He met with Kilimnik. He gave him polling data from that campaign. I would argue that behavior is collusion. I'm not saying it's a crime. I don't think it is. But if you're looking for members of the campaign that reached out to the wrong people and did things that Robert Ray would have never done--", "Sure.", "--there you go.", "But that, you know, that's troublesome. It warrants legitimate Congressional investigation and oversight. But I think getting too far carried away with, \"Wait a second. What we're really talking about here is impeachment,\" or alternatively to think that once the Mueller investigation ends, you're just going to go off, you know, endlessly with investigations including--", "I'm just talking about that one thing.", "--including in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere to think that that's going to be a stalking horse for the continuation of the Mueller investigation, look, at some point, this needs to, in my view, and I make - you know, it may not be shared with your audience, but I'm just saying. In my humble opinion, you know, there needs to come a - a point where there is closure to this. And if - if in the main, what Mueller ultimately determines is that there's not a provable case with regard to conclusion, and that which would have otherwise been within the core of his mandate--", "Right.", "--I think that portion should be brought to an appropriate end. And I don't think what it means is, \"Oh, wait a second, we're going to just have free license to continue on with regard to the Trump Administration--", "No, but don't you need to know--", "--through the end of his term.\"", "--did the President know what was going on with Manafort, what was going on with Stone, what was going on with that meeting with his son and Manafort, and his son-in-law, the meetings that Kushner was taking, where his money is, does anybody owe him anything? These are issues this President has created. Nobody had to manufacture them.", "No, but", "We need the answers to them, do we not?", "--but we all under - we all understand where politics can be played. And I think what I've tried to suggest all along since when I was Independent Counsel that if what you're talking about is using prosecution as an alternative tool toward politics--", "No, but this is Congressional oversight.", "Well that - that's fine, if - but I think they need to be more candid about what their intentions are. Oversight is one thing if really what they're talking about here is they don't want to, you know, the leadership doesn't want to signal what their intentions are, but really what this is about is--", "But, Robert, you wouldn't look at (ph)--", "--impeachment, that's a problem.", "--these questions if you change the R and the", "No,", "If the guy you knew he was lying to you about things--", "Sure.", "--why you don't know? But you know he lied about what he was negotiating a deal. He lied about what he knew about the meeting with his son and the other people. And you don't know what he knew about Manafort and Stone except that he says nothing. And now, his lawyer comes forward who has been exposed as a liar himself, and says--", "Right.", "--I was there when Stone called him. He knew about Stone.", "I think, look, I - I think there's a component to this, which people don't want to fully appreciate and acknowledge. And that is when there is a - a - a partisan line about a position that the Administration takes, for example, we didn't have any contacts or any dealings with Russia--", "Right.", "--and that's the line--", "Which is exactly what the President said.", "--and - and that's the line that you want to put out there. What happens to people, and I've seen this now through, you know, history in Watergate and my own experience with - with Whitewater is that there are a lot of people who will pick up that line, and go with it, because they understand that in - within the Administration that that's the position they're supposed to take. That's fine as a political matter. Where you run into trouble, if somebody puts you under oath, you're bound to tell the truth.", "That's why the President wouldn't be put under oath, right?", "Right. Well and that - but that's also why his people got themselves into trouble. It's the loyalty that is expected. But, you know, at - at some point--", "Right.", "--loyalty has to sort of fall off too--", "True. But he said it, Robert. He said, \"None of my people did anything.\" He had to know that that wasn't true when he said it. Now, his lawyer, one of them, Rudy Giuliani, who's operating more as a Press Attache, I think, with this public discourse, public court of opinion--", "Yes. But I'd be careful about castigating Rudy Giuliani.", "I'm not at all. But I'm saying his fallback position now is, \"No, no, no. I never said that there was no collusion or no contact with anybody. I just said just the President.\" Now that's not true. And I understand the need for the adjustment. But I also understand the need to ask these questions. I think they matter. I don't think--", "No, they're - they're--", "--any is gratuitous.", "I think they're legitimate questions. But when - you know, what my trouble with it is if you spend all the time that they're spending and a lot of time was spent with regard to things involving the Stormy Daniels payment, and whether it's a campaign contribution--", "Shouldn't have lied about it.", "Well, OK. He, you know, I - I think that there's - it was obvious that there was a need to - to, apparently, from the campaign's perspective, to do something with this. But as the John Edwards case showed, which, you know, I think hasn't been given sufficient - sufficient acknowledgement, there's real questions about whether or not you'd be able to prove that the - a crime was committed by--", "Right, went to trial.", "--the principle.", "John Edwards went to trial.", "Yes, I understand that. But", "He's got acquitted but it went to trial.", "--but I have a basic question for you about that.", "Please.", "And that is suppose - suppose the - the campaign had gone to the Federal Election Commission, and it said to them at the time, \"We want to make this payment,\" and they were - they - they fully disclose, \"and we want this to be considered and we want to use campaign funds in order to do this, in order to make these payments.\" And the FEC would have looked at them, and said, \"Are you out of your mind? This is a personal expenditure. This isn't a campaign expenditure.\" You can't have it both ways. If it's a personal expenditure, it's a personal expenditure. If it's a campaign expenditure, it's a campaign expenditure, and they can't be sort of used interchangeably. And I think that was one of the things that came up in the John Edwards thing, which is why I don't think from the President's perspective that it was a crime. I don't think that that would be a sufficient underpinning for an impeachable offense. And there's an awful lot of time that's been spent on that. The core--", "The problem you have though is that his lawyer admitted to it as a felony--", "Sure.", "--and the President was directing it while in Office. Let me ask you, one other quick things--", "But those, but, you know, again, that's his criminal intent, and that doesn't necessarily mean that that criminal intent was shared by the President.", "True. But it doesn't mean it wasn't also.", "Well--", "So, you know, that's why I think they have to ask the (ph) question. But let me ask you something else. Do you think Michael Cohen wins a civil suit saying to the President, \"Hey, I'm your lawyer. You have to indemnify me on these expenses.\"", "I think that's not a chance in the world (ph).", "Not a chance?", "No. I mean--", "Even though he was doing these things for the President?", "Well what is - is this - is this the - is this the retainer now? What are we talking about? I mean I have - I have really no idea what - what's going on with regards to that.", "Well we will see when we get the papers. Robert Ray--", "Anytime.", "--I'll tell you what. You are not easy to go point from point with, but I think it's really helpful for the audience, and I appreciate it.", "Nice to be with you as always.", "Always a pleasure. All right, so, look, this isn't over. There are a lot of questions to be answered just tonight about, you know, Manafort and, you know, why indict them in the first place, and why as part of the Russia investigation? Why is he been so central in the probe? I think it's the time to dig, because I don't think you're going to get all the answers from Mueller. Now, another question, Biden's time, Biden time, right? We're playing with that entendre, why? Because is he going to get in or not? It's early but it's not that early. 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{"id": "CNN-283646", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2016-05-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/09/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Saudi Arabia Replaces Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi", "utt": ["A 19 trillion problem and Donald Trump tells CNN he is the man who can solve the U.S. debt problem. Now Mr. Trump told us that basically the debt of the United States was $19,188,102,413,248. It's probably gone up a couple of pennies since then. He said the U.S. will never default because it can always print more money. He said he'd try to buy back U.S. government debt at a discount if interest rates went up. He won't ask debt holders to take a haircut. What does it all mean? This is an extremely unusual situation in a political campaign. You talk about deficits and debt, but nobody ever really talks about finagling the debt management issue. Which is highly technical.", "And I'm going to make it easy for you.", "What did you make of what Trump said?", "It's amazing for starters. No presidential candidate in U.S. history has ever said, you know what, we just may not pay back our debt. You're coming out and saying we may break a contract. What's ironic is that what he's proposing to do, this buying back debt at a lower rate, because presumably we would be downgraded and defaulting is ridiculous. because then your borrowing costs would go up and you'd have to keep borrowing at higher rates.", "Well Rana, I going to put his point of view. He said he's not talking about renegotiating, he's not talking about default, he's talking about exactly what you and I would do -- or a corporation would do -- you buy back the debt at a lower level. You take your money and you buy back the debt.", "But again, the U.S. government has to borrow just to keep its daily business going, right? We run a deficit. We have to borrow to pay that back over time. History shows in 1979 we had a brief technical glitch where we were a little late paying back. We had to pay many billions of times what that amount of money was in interest payments, because interest rates go up, borrowing costs go up. You cannot become a debtor nation and not pay for it.", "Do you think he doesn't understand --", "I think this was a very off-the-cuff remark.", "But you can't make off-the-cuff remarks about --", "Well, actually the whole campaign has been about off-the-cuff remarks which is worrisome.", "What about this thought that you can print money, therefore you can't default if you're the", "Well first of all, think about what does that, Zimbabwe, the Weimar Republic in the 1930s. This is not a club you want to be in. But putting that aside, what you're really talking about, if you just say, hey, we'll just print tons of money, you can only do that within a certain amount of time within the Treasury Department, and then you have to start asking the Fed to do it. One of the reasons that we're not still in a recession is that the Fed was not political. When Washington was gridlocked, the Fed came in acted rationally, helped to get us out of the great recession. God forbid you should have a political Fed acting just as crazy as the rest of Washington.", "Janet Yellen is gone according to -- at the end of her term. President Trump will not -- it's very interesting, though, isn't it, even suggesting and saying he would not reappoint. Effectively if it looks like he's the president, she's a lame duck.", "Think about how worrisome this is to foreign governments. Because we look around, and you know, as Mohamed El-Erian that you had on earlier, says, central bankers have been the only game in town. They're the only rational actors in a crazy world. You get rid of them, bad news, very bad news.", "Good to see you as always.", "And you.", "Oil prices down more than 3 percent today. New uncertainty seems to be hitting the oil market after Saudi Arabia replaced its energy minister. He wasn't just any energy minister. Traders are also trying to weigh upon what impact Canada's catastrophic wildfires will have on the global supply of oil price down to 43.60. The firefighters in Alberta say the battle against fires could soon turn a corner. Temperatures dropped on Sunday and that helped slow down the fire. It still hasn't been brought under control. Fort McMurray is the central of Canada's oil sands region, and firefighters there say they have stopped the blaze from reaching oil camps north of an evacuated city. In Saudi Arabia, which sacked its long-serving oil minister on Sunday, now his replacement says the kingdom will remain the world's most reliable supplier of energy. CNN money's emerging market editor John Defterios reports from Abu Dhabi.", "Ali Al- Naimi was the most powerful man in the oil business for two decades. He was the de facto leader of OPEC, the club of oil exporters, since he controlled the largest proven crude reserves in the world. Since late 2014, he has been leading a tough battle, putting market share ahead of higher prices, challenging U.S. shale producers and others to a showdown.", "If they want to cut production, they are welcome. We're not going to cut. Certainly Saudi Arabia is not going to cut. And this is a position you'll hold for the first six months of 2015?", "The position will hold forever.", "But many saw the minister's position waning. Since last month's meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC ministers in Doha. DEFTERIOS (on camera) Al-Naimi was forced to change course on a plan to freeze production to help lift prices. The Deputy Crown Prince, Mohammad Bin Salman said the kingdom wouldn't budge unless Iran did the same. So by decree the young power broker reshuffled the cabinet and also the 80-year- old minister out of a job.", "The changes are part of a wider plan to shake up the economy, called vision 2030. It includes floating up to 5 percent of the country's crown jewel, Saudi Aramco. The newer prime minister with a wider portfolio, Khalid Al-Falih, is well known. He's the current chairman of the Energy Behemoth having spent three decades there. Back in January he told a CNN energy roundtable at the World Economic Forum, that the kingdom was well prepared for the Saudi-led fight for market share.", "If prices continue to be low, we will be able to withstand it for a long, long time.", "investors will appreciate his steady hand as Saudi Aramco make a move to go public. But perhaps more importantly, internally he's trusted by the Deputy Crown Prince, the man calling all the shots. John Defterios, CNN, Abu Dhabi.", "As we continue our nightly conversation on business and economics, to North Carolina where the Justice Department threatens to sue the state. And now the state is suing the federal government. And it's all about the bathroom bill."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "RANA FOROOHAR, CNN GLOBAL ECONOMIC ANALYST", "QUEST", "FOROOHAR", "QUEST", "FOROOHAR", "QUEST", "FOROOHAR", "QUEST", "FOROOHAR", "QUEST", "U.S. FOROOHAR", "QUEST", "FOROOHAR", "QUEST", "FOROOHAR", "QUEST", "JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN MONEY EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR (voice-over)", "ALI AL-NAIMI, FORMER SAUDI MINISTER OF ENERGY", "AL-NAIMI", "DEFTERIOS (voice-over)", "DEFTERIOS (voice-over)", "KHALID AL-FALIH", "DEFTERIOS (voice-over)", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-248216", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2015-01-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/29/wolf.02.html", "summary": "New Details on Final Moments of Flight 8501", "utt": ["Indonesian officials are revealing new details of the terrifying final moments of AirAsia flight 8501. They say the co- pilot was flying the plane when things went terribly wrong, and they went wrong very fast. Tom Foreman is with us right now. What are we learning? What happened in those final moments?", "You said \"moments,\" and these really were a matter of moments. It was three minutes and 20 seconds. Something like that maybe. The co-pilot was at the helm at that moment. The pilot was overseeing what he did. They very often trade back and forth. What we do know is more details of what happened at that time. The plane was wobbling to one side and they had already asked to go higher in this bad, bad weather. In then in fact, they started climbing very dramatically and the stall warnings started going off inside the cabin -- in the cockpit. That doesn't necessarily mean they were stalling because those warnings can be setoff if the plane simply starts doing a very dramatic climb like that or a dramatic decent. It doesn't necessarily mean it is stalling, but it means it's in the circumstances where a stall could occur. They ended up climbing from 32,000 feet to 37,400 feet in 30 seconds. So this is around twice the rate of climb that would you would ever expect from a plane like that. That's very aggressive and can set up the entire air stability of a plane like this in a very, very bad way, on top of which, the bad storm.", "But the co-pilot clearly didn't have as many flying hours as the pilot. In a situation like that, wouldn't the pilot take charge?", "Well, he had about half as many. He was experienced. Not like he was a novice. I don't know that the pilot would necessarily take charge. You might think that might be the thing to do at the time. But we don't know yet what the pilot was doing. If they were experiencing some other problem, the pilot may have felt it was more important to address the other problems there. Again, a short period of time. Not like they endured this for 15 or 20 minutes.", "Obviously, they've got a lot more investigation to do to get more information. Tom, thanks very much.", "Thanks, Wolf.", "Coming up, is Mitt Romney planning to run again for president of the United States? The answer is, at least a lot of folks believe, the answer is yes. He already is setting his sights on Hillary Clinton. Gloria Borger, Dana Bash, they're both standing by to discuss this and more. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "FOREMAN", "BLITZER", "FOREMAN", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-383457", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2019-10-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/21/acd.02.html", "summary": "Washington Post: Russian President Putin and Hungary's Prime Minister Helped Sour President Trump on Ukraine", "utt": ["Good evening. Chris Cuomo is off tonight. Topping the Special Edition of 360, we have breaking news on the influence that Vladimir Putin may have had on President Trump when it comes to Ukraine. There is new reporting tonight, in the Washington Post, on conversations with Putin, as well as Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, and the President. In them, according to the Washington Post, the two foreign leaders sought to reinforce the President's notion of Ukraine as a dysfunctional, corrupt state, a country, as you know, that Russia has invaded. This was happening, as his TV lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was pushing conspiracy theories about Ukraine, to the President, and with hundreds of millions of dollars in American military aid on the line. I spoke about this and more tonight, with Democratic Congressman and House Intelligence Committee Member, Jim Himes. Congressman, what do you make the Washington Post reporting, the idea that Vladimir Putin might have helped color President Trump's view of Ukraine? I mean it does seem like yet another example of something that at this point is shocking but, I guess, not surprising.", "Yes. I - I read that story. And - and - and - and I guess I'm not surprised. I - I didn't happen to be, in that particular moment, of the testimony. But I'm not - I'm not at all surprised if that is true. Look, obviously, Vladimir Putin has every interest in causing our President to believe that Ukraine, apparently all the things that the President believes that it's a corrupt country, that it's beyond repair, if Putin can have the President thinking, and of course the story also referred to President Orban of Hungary, who has his own reasons. But if President Putin can get our President thinking in those terms, it can drive a wedge, and ultimately allow Putin to succeed, in his desire to, you know, ultimately control half of that country, retain Crimea, and - and do whatever he wants in this - in - in - in Ukraine.", "At least part of what the Post is reporting comes from what State Department official George Kent apparently told the Congressional investigators last week. I know you said you weren't in there for the - for - for that part of it. You're on the Intelligence Committee. Can you say - I don't know if you heard anything that Kent said. Did you find him to be a credible witness?", "I did. I did. In fact of all the - the witnesses that we have interviewed, Kent was remarkable. Kent is one of those people with - with near photographic recall, who when you ask him a question, he can tell you dates, times, and locations, so truly a remarkable guy. I mean, again, we've had this experience on a number of occasions with different witnesses. When you have an opportunity to spend a lot of time with our professional diplomats, you get a feel for what just incredibly high-caliber people they are.", "The Post also cites a former White House official who described the struggle to contest the influence of Putin, and Giuliani, and the Kremlin-allied Prime Minister of Hungary, in these terms that, quote, \"Over time you just see a wearing down of the defenses,\" and essentially saying, according to the Post that a lot of the people, Mattis and Kelly, who had been able to kind of limit the damage that Putin could do with this President, without them being around, the - the - the President is more susceptible to Putin or to the - to Orban from Hungary, who the President met with, without anyone else present?", "Yes, or, by the way, certainly Giuliani. I mean my guess is that the President talks to Rudy Giuliani a great deal, more often than he talks to Vladimir Putin or - or Prime Minister Orban. Now, you know, the questions you ask obviously make it that much more important that we have a better sense than we do for the topic, because conversation when our President talked to Putin. But I almost worry more about Rudy Giuliani because, as we know, and you - you only need to look at Rudy Giuliani's Twitter feed to know that he trades in these conspiracy theories about the DNC server being located in Ukraine, about the attack on our elections, not being what every single Member of our Intelligence Community believes an attack by Russia, but being an attack by Ukraine. You know, Rudy Giuliani whispers those things in the President's ears that resonate that are about his self-interest. Professional diplomats, the Secretary of State, others, you know, foreign policy is really, really hard. Victories and foreign policy are measured in inches. So, when Rudy Giuliani calls up the President, as I'm sure he does and, you know, spews crazy conspiracy theories about - about the President's enemies, no question in my mind who the President listens to more acutely.", "The - the Washington Post does make a point of saying that, according to the sources, neither Putin nor the Hungarian Prime Minister sought to use the Biden family, or the 2016 election conspiracy theories, to turn the President against Ukraine. But the newspaper also says that the whole thing just basically reinforced what President Trump already thought, and made it all the more difficult for others to convince him, to support the Ukrainian government, despite the fact that they were under attack from Russia.", "Yes. And I mean this is one of the really sort of ugly themes in this Presidency with respect to our foreign policy. Of course, Putin, who's a very savvy individual with a background in intelligence, a background in manipulating people, and getting people to do things that they don't necessarily start out wanting to do, of course, he's going to know how to manipulate our President. We just saw an example of the Turkish President, Erdogan, manipulating our President into a practically impossible position, where Republicans are criticizing him. You know, we've - we've seen a North Korean Dictator, hardly a sophisticated individual. But all of a sudden, rather than being, you know, subject to sanctions, and - and - and - and - and - and difficult initiatives by the United States, the President is in love, by his own statements, with the Dictator of North Korea. So, I mean, again, this is just it's - it's not hard how to figure out to use flattery, to use conspiracy theories, to be on his team, in such a way that you pretty quickly get Donald Trump on your side, and I think world leaders recognize that.", "Yes. Congressman Himes of the Intelligence Committee, appreciate it, thank you.", "Thank you, Anderson.", "Let's talk now about this with CNN Legal Analyst, Carrie Cordero. She's also a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. You agree, Carrie, with Congressman Himes that this sort of provides a roadmap for any world leader looking to influence the President and that he's highly influenceable, you know, he's finally - highly susceptible to influence?", "I think it does, Anderson. What it does is it highlights how impressionable, how malleable the President is. It's an issue that speaks really to his intellect, to his character, and to whether or not he is so impressionable by these outside leaders. And it also speaks to how much he looks to authoritarians or other \"Strongmen\" type government leaders, and how he is unduly influenced by their views, in particular.", "Yes, I mean the idea that - I mean, you - you worked in national security. The idea that, you know, Mattis, and Kelly, and others, who used to be in the White House, were able to kind of keep the President from being influenced by a Putin or - or somebody like - like Orban, but that essentially those people are all gone, and now the President is taking advice from Putin, what kind of impact does that have on the security of this nation and also the kind of the entire, you know, national security establishment, who is powerless in the face of somebody who is willing to, you know, just talk one-on-one without anybody in the room, with Putin or Orban?", "Well this is a central problem of the Trump Presidency. So see, Anderson, there were people who thought that they could go into, in the national security community, who thought that they could go into this Administration, and that they could influence the President that they could change his world outlook that cooler heads would prevail that he would listen to advisers, who are experienced in national security, and foreign policy. And three years in, what we're seeing is that he doesn't. Instead, he constantly chases out individuals who have experience, who have spent decades in national security, who actually know what they're talking about. He doesn't trust the U.S. Intelligence Committee - Community, excuse me. So, he has marginalized the advice of his Senior Intelligence officials, including the Director of National Intelligence, which now is in an acting capacity. So, he's pushed out the people with experience, and he's left with people who don't have experience. And so, what we've seen is now several different examples. We could go back to him appearing to believe Putin over the Intelligence Community on 2016 Russian interference. Kim Jong-un, when it comes to nuclear weapons in Korea, most recently, Erdogan, when it comes to the Kurds in Syria, where he believes these Strongmen over the advice of--", "Yes.", "--national security officials.", "Yes. Carrie Cordero, appreciate it. Thank you. Coming up next--", "Thanks.", "--two views of the President's abandonment of the Kurds in Northern Syria, Republican Congress - Congressman, Adam Kinzinger, and Leon Panetta, former Defense Secretary, CIA Director, and Clinton House - White House Chief of Staff. Also later, we'll talk impeachment with former Republican Presidential candidate, John Kasich."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST, ANDERSON COOPER 360", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-282290", "program": "SMERCONISH", "date": "2016-04-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/23/smer.01.html", "summary": "Can Loyal Delegates Control the Convention?; Interview with Tom Ridge; The Trump Factor: PA Dems Voting in GOP Primary; Can Trump Get to 1,237 Delegates?", "utt": ["I'm Michael Smerconish. No other state will send as many unbound delegates to the Republican convention this July, as my home state of Pennsylvania. My state's crazy rules mean that no matter who wins the GOP vote on Tuesday, 54 delegates can still support whoever they want. Is that fair? So, which candidates will still be smiling after Tuesday's in the Keystone and four other East Coast states? Plus, I'll talk to some of the 90,000 Pennsylvania voters who switched their registration to the GOP for the primary, many hoping to either help or hurt Donald Trump.", "I needed to switch parties.", "I'm tired of being blamed for all of the things that people don't want to get off their butt and do a job.", "Donald Trump has been in real estate for quite a few years and I'm quite sure he's still in real estate.", "He's disrupted the system.", "He's saying it from his heart.", "Something equivalent to third grade recess.", "We're going to learn $1 bet between him and another rich guy.", "Nobody I know is voting. They think", "We'll get to that panel of Pennsylvania voters later. They had a lot to say. First, here's why my home state might be responsible for delivering the nomination to Donald Trump or thwarting the GOP front-runner. It's got a unique delegate system that no matter who wins on Tuesday, keeps 54 of its 71 delegates in play. And this is crucial to Donald Trump. With 15 contests left, he has 846 delegates. He needs to get to 1,237 to clinch the nomination. There are 674 remaining in play. And according to CNN's number crunchers, if he continues at his current rate of victory, he could finish 75 delegates shy. So, Trump needs unbound delegates. No doubt, he'll seek to corral the delegates of candidates who have dropped out of the race. Think Marco Rubio. But beyond those, the largest single group up for grabs will be Pennsylvania's 54 free agent delegates who, due to my state's wacky laws, will not be obligated to follow the wishes of the voters they represent. It's just one of many examples of my state's anachronistic rules that drive me crazy. And get this, the Pennsylvania ballot, it contains no information about the prospective delegate' candidate choice, which forces voters to try to figure out who are these delegate candidates and how might they vote at the convention. This week, I decided to do some investigating in my home congressional district, where four candidates are competing for three delegate slots. I e-mailed each and I asked them for whom they intended to vote on the first ballot in Cleveland and what would be their approach thereafter. Two of them wouldn't commit. Another revealed a strong preference for Ted Cruz, and only one said she'd follow the results as voted on by the electorate. Think about what this means, about the convoluted nature of Pennsylvania's primary. Depending on who wins, I could be represented at convention by three delegates who won't vote based on who won the district that sent them there. This is why people refer to Pennsylvania's Republican primary as a beauty contest. I don't like it. At the very least, delegates should be obligated to follow the will of the electorate on the first ballot. Instead, these 54 are still in play after all of the campaigning and all of the voting is done. And you can be sure that the man who wrote 'The Art of the Deal\" will be looking to bargain with Pennsylvania's 54 uncommitted delegates to try to close the most important deal in our country. So, who are these delegates? Who will get to make up their own mind? I thought I better talk to some. Three join me now. It won't say on their local ballot whose they're for, but Ryan Belz is a student at Penn State, he's for Donald Trump. So is Matt Jansen, who works for a green energy start-up. Aldridk Gessa supports Ted Cruz and works in risk management. Thank you for being here. Aldridk, let me begin with you because you're running in the second congressional district, that's where I live. I'm unsettled by the idea that, say, John Kasich, or Donald Trump, could win the second, but you're going to go and vote at the convention for Ted Cruz, nonetheless. How come?", "Because I support conservatism and Ted Cruz is the most conservative candidate that we have on the slate.", "Right. But what about the idea that my voice ought to be represented? If I should vote for Kasich or if I should vote for Trump and they win the congressional district, it doesn't seem to me that you go to Cleveland and instead cast a ballot for Ted Cruz.", "Well, there are four delegates, candidates for delegates, running in the second congressional. I'm running publicly as a Ted Cruz candidate. So, all of the voters of the second congressional district have a chance to elect the people they want to send to the convention.", "Matthew, that presupposes that the voters who go into the ballot booth know for whom any of you will be voting. It doesn't say anything inside the ballot booth. So, let me ask you the same question that I asked Aldridk, do you think it's proper that this is the way Pennsylvania rules should function?", "I know that there are pocket of inertia across the state that have sort of coalesce. Trump inertia, if you will, that have found each other. We've formed a group called DelegatesforTrump.com. And that is a highway to who the Trump delegates are, the strong Trump delegates in Pennsylvania, in all 18 districts.", "If Donald Trump doesn't win your congressional district, will you re-evaluate whether you'll go to Cleveland and vote for him on the first ballot?", "Absolutely not. And I have to say, absolutely not because I'm convinced that Donald Trump is going to went the fourth congressional district, as well as Pennsylvania.", "Ryan, are you being lobbied by any of the other candidates? Are you getting contacted by the Kasich campaign? Or are you getting contacted by the Cruz campaign or trying to win you over?", "I've got a few e- mails from the Kasich campaign, but just that's it. I haven't heard from the Cruz campaign. All of my communication has been from the Trump campaign since the beginning.", "What is your philosophy? What is your approach on not only the first ballot, but on a second, third, fourth, if they required?", "Each and every ballot, I plan to vote for Donald J. Trump as nominee for the Republican Party. I have been a strong supporter of his since I was 7 or 8, when I saw him come down the escalator back in June, I knew he United States the plan who could make America great again.", "Matthew, will you be open to a pitch if there is second or third ballot by, say, John Kasich, who says to delegates, OK, you voted for Donald Trump, he didn't get to 1,237, look at this polling data, I'm the one who can beat Hillary? Will you be open to that kind of pitch?", "Absolutely not. Because he can't beat Hillary, that's the thing.", "I'm sorry. She's a wolf. She's a wolf. Kasich did well in Ohio after he followed a terrible governor. So, you know, there's no way -- Donald Trump's the only one that can beat her, clearly, I hope the Cruz people understand that and come over with us on Election Day.", "Aldridk, Ryan and Matthew are saying, look, this is it, man, I'm going to Cleveland if I'm elected and I'm for The Donald. Do you feel the same way about Ted Cruz, or is there any give, could you be persuaded on a second ballot.", "I will be voting for Ted Cruz on all ballots. However, I'm not opposed to a joint ticket with Kasich.", "You know, listen, I'm giving the three of you a workout. And I don't mean to, because you didn't write the rules and I admire your passion, but there's something wrong with this picture that Pennsylvanians are going to go out and vote on Tuesday, in many instances not knowing whom they're voting when it gets to delegate position, and then 54 of you are going off to Cleveland and maybe determine who will be the next Republican nominee. Ryan, talk me out of it.", "I completely agree with you. I mean, honestly, being a Trump supporter, I think it would be beneficial, if it did say who we support on the ballot, because if somebody votes for Trump but pick three Cruz delegates or Cruz, Kasich, Cruz delegate, their vote didn't matter except for the 17 statewide delegates.", "Exactly.", "If it did say who we support, I think it would be better.", "Donald Trump is -- Donald Trump is leading in the polls in Pennsylvania right now. Who knows how it all plays out?", "Right.", "But to Matthew and to Ryan, you're absolutely right. This could come back to haunt you insofar as Trump could win the state but who knows? Maybe a slew of Kasich or like Aldridk, a slew of Cruz delegates get elected, you guys wouldn't be happy because the will of the people wouldn't be represented. Anyway, I wish all through of you good things. Good luck on Tuesday. I give you credit for running for delegate, okay.", "Thank you.", "Thank you. I appreciate it.", "Joining me now, the former governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Ridge. He was also the nation's first secretary of Homeland Security. He's a supporter of John Kasich. Governor, do you think that Donald Trump is going to get to 1,237 before Cleveland?", "Well, I don't believe he is up frankly, it's so sacred that my friend John Kasich's strategy is based upon his inability to get to 1,237 as well as Senator Cruz. And there's so many people talking about, Michael, I won more primaries than you did. I mean, it's like kids in a sandbox. In the political contest, unlike any other contest, whether the hockey playoffs or NBA, there's no shot clock. This game goes on until somebody gets 1,237. So, it's still game on. And, frankly, it's a very exciting convention because of that reason because I don't think anybody's going to get to the number in either first or second ballot.", "In which case John Kasich will be lucky to have tom ridge because this group of 54, not that they're monolithic, they're not, but it's the single, largest group of uncommitted delegates who will show up in Cleveland. They will owe nothing to anyone, mostly to the people who sent them there. So, do you view your role in Cleveland, if Trump doesn't get to 1,237, as herding these cats?", "Well, I'll do my best I can even before the convention to convince them that the nominee at the convention -- we have a lot of, as you well know, most states send a lot of grassroots, hard-working folks the establishment, whatever that is, they're paying several hundred thousand dollars in sipping drinks and watching the action on the floor. But the people who go to the polls, people that knock on doors, people that make phone calls, they're on the floor. I think, frankly, in Pennsylvania, I want those 54 to think not just who's at the top of the ticket. We've got an incredibly fine senator by the name of Pat Toomey, we've got statewide elections. It's not jus$ who is at the top but who can lead the ticket. And, frankly, I think John Kasich is in a better position to lead the ticket in Pennsylvania than his two opponents.", "Give me the benefit of your intelligence. Who is the best organized among the three at having run delegates with a loyalty to them?", "Well, my read right now within Pennsylvania, I'm focused on that, is I think I give a slight edge to both Donald Trump and to the senator. John's got a place here. He's got some people working it. But the other two, I think, started working the delegate process before John Kasich did. So I think you're going to see a mixed result next Tuesday within Pennsylvania.", "Right. Which brings me back to my original premise, if your guy runs well in some of the congressional districts he may have nothing to show for it if Ted Cruz outhustled him in running delegates. Your final thought?", "Well, I think that's accurate. And I think that you know, you do reward hustle and you do reward organization. And we're going to see whether or not that hustle, organization is rewarded. But again, they are committed on that first ballot, legally, some of the states are committed on the second ballot. But the time you get to the third ballot, I'd like to think most people on that floor are not only interested in winning in Cleveland, and in the middle of the summer, they want to win in November. We've got a lot of Senate races at stake. You got a lot of other state races around the country at stake and county races. So, I'd like to think we're going to pay attention to the fact that John has won in head-to-head with Hillary Clinton, he's 15 out of 15 over the last polls taken, whether or not that's an influence 90 days from now, you and I will be talking about it.", "If it doesn't go that way, do you see yourself in Erie at the airport with Trump's hand in the air endorsing him?", "Not a chance.", "I'd like the fact you didn't beat around the bush on that, huh?", "So, there's just nothing there for me. I will tell you, candidly, he hasn't taken criticism very well. He builds himself up by knocking other people down. He disrespected my fellow veterans, POW. And, not when he knocked McCain, how the hell can be he be commander in chief when he says POWs are not heroes and every Muslim's a potential terrorist. I mean, so many things be I don't know whether it's public or private, maybe he's a chameleon, but what I see I don't like, and I can't support him.", "Governor Ridge, when you come back, don't hold back your opinion. Tell me what you really think, OK?", "I'll be happy to, Michael. Thank you.", "Up next, I'm one of thousands who switched registration to Republican for Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary. Did folks do this to help Trump win, or to stop him? 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{"id": "CNN-356923", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2018-12-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1812/13/ath.02.html", "summary": "Trump Says Mexico Will Pay for Wall but Asks Congress for $5 Billion; House & Senate Intel Committees Want to Speak Again to Indicted Trump Associates", "utt": ["You know, one thing we have seen in the wake of that rather explosive meeting in the Oval Office is Democrats have used the president' words against him repeatedly, primarily from that meeting, his decision to take the blame for any shutdown onto himself. They're using that tweet against him as well. Take a listen to what Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer had to say on the floor.", "If the president really believed what he tweeted this morning, that his new NAFTA would pay for the wall, he wouldn't be threatening to shut down the government unless American taxpayers fund his wall. You can't have it both ways. The president's position on the wall is totally contradictory, ill-informed and, frankly, irresponsible.", "Kate, if you couldn't tell there, Democrats aren't exactly budging at this moment. That's both what you're seeing in their messaging strategy and also behind the scenes. There's no desire to move. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader of the House, is saying just that right now in her press conference that's ongoing. The question becomes, where does that leave Republicans on Capitol Hill? The interesting element of that, Kate, I just spoke with Senator John Cornyn, the second top Republican in the Senate. I asked him what's his sense of the president's broader strategy to find a way out of this. He said I don't know right now. That's where things stand. Everybody on the Republican and Democratic side is waiting for the president to weigh in on what the next step should be. Republicans don't want to undercut him, but they acknowledge two things. First and foremost, the meeting and the president's willingness to take the blame on himself for a potential shutdown was problematic for them. Second off, he has to map out a way forward. That may involve a shutdown, which Republicans don't want, almost universally in the House and the Senate, or it may involve something else. The big question right now is what is that something else? Behind closed doors, Senate and House staffers are waiting to see before they try to craft any type of solution. And we're, what, eight days from a government shutdown -- Kate?", "Why craft it when it likely can be, will be, if you look at past history, definitely will be undercut in one tweet. We'll see. Great to see you, phil. Thanks so much. Joining me to discuss, CNN political commentators, Joe Lockhart, who was press secretary for President Bill Clinton, Doug Heye, former communications director for the Republican National Committee and, very importantly, communications director for Eric Cantor. So he spent many a moment on Capitol Hill working on things like this. Doug, how is Chuck Schumer wrong on this one --", "-- on Mexico is paying for it or he needs five billion bucks?", "On the face of it, he's not. But ultimately, this comes down to what we saw yesterday in very short-term political gains for the main participants. When I heard Nancy Pelosi use the word \"Trump shutdown\" in the meeting, it was clear this was not about the shutdown or what may happen with the wall. It was about Nancy Pelosi locking down the renegade Democrats that she needs to get to 218 majority on the House speaker vote on January 3rd. Same side of the coin with Donald Trump. Him going after Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi in that meeting was more fodder to his base, the echo chamber on talk radio, and on some cable news for pro-Trump news, reaffirmed everything Trump said. So you can extrapolate two types of winners here, but ultimately, I think there's going to be a big loser and it's going to be the American voter.", "Maybe this is one of those situations if we're looking at the raw politic, which is first they have to say these things and then 24, 48 hours before, staffers will start churning out a deal and say we have to, but maybe not. And this is what my question is. We have seen that the president is once again trying to flip the script on conventional wisdom. The conventional wisdom on this one, Joe, is that shutdowns are not a good thing.", "Right.", "And the president very clearly declared that he would be fine with shutting it down if he doesn't get what he wants. He's flipped the script before. Do you think he can flip the script on this?", "I agree with a lot of what Doug said. There's a framework for a deal. They can get to a deal. The big thing here is -- and Nancy Pelosi had her agenda, the president had his, Schumer had his. The big thing now is whether Trump decides that shutdown politics work for him. They normally don't. They never really have. For either side.", "Yes.", "But if you talk about focusing attention on a shutdown versus focusing the attention on the fact that I'm now criminally liable and the Russians colluded and there's a Russian spy in court today, my former lawyer was sentenced yesterday, for Trump, that may be better politics.", "That's a wild, wild, wild theory of look over there. To shut the government down so you don't focus on Russia?", "It is wild, it is irresponsible, and it's totally possible.", "Doug?", "Yes, you know, one thing that Donald Trump and his team are very good at, they play \"Star Wars\" with us all the time and basically say these are not the droids you're looking for. We go down a rabbit hole that distracts us from what is typically the news of the day. That's a skill that Donald Trump has. We fall for it every time. I'm guilty of it as well. I would tell you that shutdowns aren't necessarily politically the disaster that a lot of folks like myself think they should be. In 2013, when we went through the shutdown, we called it internally in the House a \"touch the stove\" moment. The Republican members who wanted to shut down the government needed to touch the stove, find out it will burn them so we don't touch them again. It didn't burn them. Republicans haven't learned from that, that they can touch the stove again and again and not get burned. That's a real problem moving forward. Then the factor of Republicans who lost in pro-Hillary seats who may not want to cut a deal in the president's favor.", "Yes.", "And may not be there to vote anyway.", "Children, do not touch the stove. I will leave you with that. Great to see you guys. Thanks, Joe. Thanks, Doug.", "Thank you.", "Coming up for us, Michael Cohen's attorney said his client will tell all he knows about Trump as soon as the special counsel completes its investigation. Will it include publicly testifying on Capitol Hill? Congressman Jim Himes, on the House Intelligence Committee, he is joining us next, live."], "speaker": ["PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER, (D-NY), SENATE MINORITY LEADER", "MATTINGLY", "KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "BOLDUAN", "DOUG HEYE, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BOLDUAN", "JOE LOCKHART, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BOLDUAN", "LOCKHART", "BOLDUAN", "LOCKHART", "BOLDUAN", "LOCKHART", "BOLDUAN", "HEYE", "BOLDUAN", "HEYE", "BOLDUAN", "HEYE", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "NPR-27447", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2012-09-04", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/09/04/160526298/democrats-convention-to-focus-on-jobs-economy", "title": "Democrats' Convention To Focus On Jobs, Economy", "summary": "As the Democratic National Convention kicks off in Charlotte, N.C., the economy is expected to be a central theme. The event is bookended by Monday's Labor Day celebrations and Friday's release of the latest monthly numbers on jobs.", "utt": ["Now, as you can hear from Scott's report, the economy is a top issue in this campaign.", "So it's fitting that the Democratic Convention was preceded by Labor Day and will be followed by Friday's release of the latest employment numbers.", "NPR's Yuki Noguchi talked with voters about jobs on Labor Day.", "This year, Labor Day festivities came to Charlotte in the form of a huge street party.", "This is Carolinafest - a Labor Day effort to put some party into the party of labor. Later this week, a few blocks from here, President Obama will  try to win over people like Shonn Yang, who says he's not sure who deserves his vote.", "I don't really know.", "You don't really know.", "Yeah.", "You're really undecided.", "I'm still thinking - yeah, I'm still thinking about it, yeah.", "Yang is a 23-year-old high school graduate who works part-time as a UPS truck loader. He says he considers himself lower middle-class and the economy is the story for people in his world.", "I know a few guys that I work with, they're part-timers, and a lot of them have Bachelor degrees and it's hard for them to find jobs. It's crazy, 'cause they spent all this money going to college but they're just doing what I'm doing, and that's not good for them.", "The president narrowly won North Carolina four years ago, but this year it's divided and undecided, largely because of the halting economy. This week, the Obama administration is hoping to color the state a little bluer, specifically by focusing on jobs and the economy. Ben LaBolt is the national spokesman for the Obama campaign.", "The core question voters are going to ask when they head to the polls on Election Day is who will create good-paying, sustainable jobs for the middle class.", "With national unemployment at 8.3 percent, the economy is a touchy issue for the Obama campaign. Republican challenger Mitt Romney yesterday called Labor Day another day of worrying for out-of-work Americans. But LaBolt says the president is making job creation a priority.", "The focus of our convention will lay out the vision for creating those good-paying, sustainable jobs for the middle class and building the economy from the middle class out.", "Expect to hear those words - middle class - a lot this week. To understand why, consider a Washington Post-ABC News survey from last week. It showed Governor Romney had the edge on President Obama when it came to handling the economy, but Mr. Obama had the lead on understanding the middle class's financial problems. In other words, framing the economy and jobs as a middle class issue works in the president's favor. Ross Baker, a political science professor at Rutgers, says it's no surprise to see the emphasis on the middle class.", "It's kind of - it's got mythic qualities to it.", "Baker says it's like code to call yourself middle class.", "So many Americans identify with it, even though objectively they're not part of it. There are people who, you know, who are barely above the poverty level who want to see themselves as middle class. For people who are poor, it's an exalted status. For people who are a little bit self-conscious about being too prosperous, it's a safe identification.", "I interviewed a restaurant manager, a pedicab driver, two entrepreneurs, a nurse and students at yesterday's Carolina Fest. Many of them describe themselves as undecided voters and all self-identified as middle class. Baker says this year the desire to be middle class dovetails with an attack line the Democrats love.", "The Obama plan is to make Mitt Romney look like Louis XVI.", "Get 'em right here. Rally behind the president.", "Back at Carolina Fest, that's a message that resonates with James Johnson, a visitor from Ohio who's here selling Obama rally towels for $5 apiece.", "We know that Romney, he's a very wealthy man, where President Obama had to grow into his wealth.", "Johnson says that's a message he hopes will carry his home state, as well as North Carolina. Yuki Noguchi, NPR News, Charlotte, North Carolina."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE", "YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE", "SHONN YANG", "YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE", "SHONN YANG", "YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE", "SHONN YANG", "YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE", "SHONN YANG", "YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE", "BEN LABOLT", "YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE", "BEN LABOLT", "YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE", "ROSS BAKER", "YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE", "ROSS BAKER", "YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE", "ROSS BAKER", "JAMES JOHNSON", "YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE", "JAMES JOHNSON", "YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-241636", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-10-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/23/nday.05.html", "summary": "Details Emerging About Suspected Ottawa Shooter; Interview with Jim Munson", "utt": ["Breaking news, we are live in Ottawa, Canada, a nation on edge, worrying what comes next. A deadly shooting terrorizing the nation's capital, a soldier is dead. Lawmakers forced to flee for their lives. The prime minister vowing resolve.", "Canada will never be intimidated.", "This morning, new details on the gunman, his past and his conversion to Islam. The victim, a soldier and a father, and the hero sergeant-at-arms who reportedly gunned down the shooter, stopping him cold. Plus, new fears. Will there be more attacks like this?", "Plus, breaking overnight -- another White House fence jumper, this time the man apprehended just moments later. And, police and protesters clash in Ferguson, Missouri, overnight. Protesters demanding justice for Michael Brown and the arrest of Officer Darren Wilson.", "A special edition of NEW DAY starts right now.", "Good morning, and welcome back to a special edition of NEW DAY. I'm live from Ottawa, Canada, following what is only described as a chaotic and terrible day, a gunman opened fire, leaving a Canadian soldier dead in an attack. The prime minister is simply calling terrorism, Alisyn.", "Yes, Chris. Yes, I'm Alisyn Camerota in New York. Those attacks bringing homeland terror into focus, not only in Canada but, of course, here in the United States as well. So, Chris, we've talked to our security experts who said the number of people here on the no fly list in the U.S. is 800. So, we'll get into how they monitor those people. But, first, give us the new details from Ottawa.", "Look, the big headline has to be this is the future, and it's not to scare. It's to create urgency, little attacks by small-minded people who can buy in to some perverse notion of jihad. That's the threat and that's what we saw here. It started at the National War Memorial, then the parliament building, and literally brought Ottawa, put it back on its heels in a crippling gridlock. Downtown was in lockdown for more than 10 hours mostly because of the confusion created by this, so many eyewitness accounts there were two, three, five shooters. Now authorities say there was one man and he is dead. His name for what it's worth, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, raised in Canada. He has a troubled criminal history and apparently had converted to Islam, clearly didn't understand what the faith is supposed to be about, radicalized probably himself, wanted to go to the Middle East. How do we know that? Officials in Canada saw enough information about him to flag him and take his passport. So, right now, there's a big coordinated effort going on between the U.S. and Canada to figure out how this man got to this point and what it means going forward.", "We will not be intimidated. Canada will never be intimidated.", "Prime Minister Stephen Harper promising justice after what he calls, a terrorist act on Canada's capital.", "Guys, there's a shooter on the loose.", "Shots ring out at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.", "Out of the way! Move, move.", "All the sudden I just hear a shot, and, just, pow!", "The shooter, 32-year-old Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a Muslim convert. But officials say he had a troubled past and was planning to fight overseas.", "The guy came from the side and came out with a rifle and shot at the man, and then the guy went falling down.", "The suspect fatally shooting Canadian Corporal Nathan Cirillo. The 24-year-old father was one of two soldiers standing guard. Then around 10:00 a.m., the shooter hijacked this car and continued his rampage just a few hundred yards away. Entering through doors meant for officials, he starts firing inside Canada's parliament building.", "I was literally taking off my coat, going into the caucus room and, we heard this boom-boom-boom.", "Police scrambling to protect Canada's top officials, rushing them outside to safety. Some lawmakers in the building huddle in a caucus room piling up chairs against the door to barricade themselves in -- as police exchange a barrage of bullets with the shooter.", "We are sort of flanking down the hallway. It looked like the guy popped out or they saw him. They fired a lot, a tremendous amount of bullets fired.", "Amid the chaos, parliament Sergeant at Arms Kevin Vickers fires the fatal shot, but not before three others are injured. Vickers killing the suspect near the parliamentary library, fellow officers calling him a hero.", "When you hear those gunshots and know that your brother was in the middle of all of that, it was a very surreal experience and horror.", "This is the second time this week Canada waking up to headlines of terror. On Monday, Canadian authorities say a radicalized Islamist hit and killed a Canadian soldier with his car.", "I had a chance to talk with Prime Minister Harper.", "President Obama says we have to remain vigilant.", "When it comes to dealing with terrorist activity, that Canada and the United States has to be entirely in sync. Not only is Canada one of our closest allies in the world, but there are our neighbors and our friends.", "The sun is now up here on the national memorial, on what is certainly not just a new day but a new reality here. Let's bring in Deb Feyerick. All right. We have two layers of analysis. The first is the shooter, who he is and how he got to this point relevant only for what it teaches us about detection and prevention. Otherwise, he is a meaningless individual as far as we're concerned. And then what does this mean about this threat here in Canada and in the U.S., going forward?", "Well, both excellent questions. Look, treating terrorism is a very organic process. Canadian authorities believe they were doing the right thing by essentially confiscating this man's passport because he had an intention to go fight jihad. Because they couldn't hold him, that was the flaw, that was the vulnerability. They could not detain him. They couldn't hold him. So, they had to keep him under surveillance. They had to monitor him the way they monitor 90 other people. That clearly will be a major topic of discussion. Also, these lone wolf attacks, it's virtual impossible to stop, individuals that act on their own. Oftentimes, they may send out signals on social media, Facebook, Twitter, letting people know their intentions, their passion for extremism and radicalism. But what authorities cannot do, is it's almost virtually impossible to know when they're going to strike, how they're going to strike, you know, whether the confiscation of the passport brought this man to the brink, brought them to the edge, whether he wanted to go out in a blaze of glory. Look, one of the things that you mentioned, Chris, and this is the whole lone wolf thing, is there's a lot of crazy out there and when you're dealing with these kinds of people, it's not simply that they think they're going to go out as heroes, but they also are pre- disposed to this kind of behavior. There is a sort of psychosis in them, that they want to do something to be remembered by to fight for the cause.", "The deranged, the disaffected, thinking that mistakenly Islam, as they see it, is some avenue to dignity for themselves.", "Well, that's exactly right. And as you mentioned, look, this is somebody who had a criminal history, sort of a low-level criminal but he was raised in what appears to be a very good family, his father's a businessman, his mother works for the immigration department here. So, he had all opportunities in order to succeed. There are reports also he went out to western Canada. He was working out there as a laborer. So whether he was in search of himself, whether he just wasn't having very much success it's unclear. But a lot of these fighters, these terrorists, actually many of them are raised in decent surroundings. So, it's a balance.", "Small-time guy but every intelligence expert I've spoken to on both sides of the border says this is a much bigger thing to work on than a group that wants to kill thousands with a big bomb.", "And look at what they've done, Chris.", "Yes.", "This entire town was shut down so one man, and now there are images of lawmakers barricaded inside parliament that are being used by ISIS propaganda. ISIS is taking credit for this simply because it succeeded. If it failed nobody would know with this. But you see the lockdown, this is what ISIS and all the other terrorists want.", "Right. But at the same time, it's also a message of what a horrible definition someone can have of success and that's something that should certainly be condemned of anyone of sound mind. Deb, thank you for the reporting. We'll check back in with you. And as Deb was mentioning, imagine being a member of parliament in this massive building and gunfire just rocketing around inside of it, the sounds are so booming and not knowing where it was coming from or from how many. One of the men who had to survive that is Senator Jim Munson. He's a member of a Liberal Party here in Canada. He was inside parliament during the attack. Your wife, Senator --", "Yes. Good morning. Nice to see you.", "-- was near the memorial where it began.", "She was just right behind the other side of memorial. She let me off at work yesterday morning, and was parked just before the light the memorial, saw a brown car parked there, unusually no flashing lights, saw the gentleman get out of the car, seemed rather strange, got to the passenger side of the car, picked up what appeared to her a blanket. And so, that's really strange, and watched him walk up and as she slowly went by the car there's a traffic jam, she looked up again, couldn't hear anything but saw maybe a flint of light. As a gentleman was leaving, she saw him coming down what she thought was a pipe, but obviously the gun was wrapped in that blanket. So, it was unnerving for her, for sure.", "Oh, absolutely. And you know, again, thank God that he had a sense of deranged purpose that didn't take him in her direction.", "We could have had a worse tragedy here in Ottawa. We lost our innocence yesterday in the capitol. We recognize what happens in Washington with barricades and so on and so forth, and Westminster in London with the security of the machineguns and so on and so forth. We have good security here, but it's an accessible place, accessible Parliament Hill. At least --", "More than most capitols, right? I mean, you have millions of people who go through to visit. But the hill is used for yoga, and people see it as a place to hang out and relax and the security reflects that.", "Right, but you know what? That should never change. That can't change. We'll probably have a bigger police presence, obviously, that will happen. But we can't change the way we are as Canadians. We're in part of a coalition and we've got to expect these kind of things to happen in our country.", "So, what happens, Senator, when you're in that building and you start hearing the booming?", "First, before the booming, security guard ran in, we had a committee going on, and began to yell, \"Get out, get out! There's a gunman here. Get out, get out.\" I thought it was surreal, it was not happening, there was no sense of panic. But then, moments after that, we heard the pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, the sound of guns in the hall of honor. We thought it was outside, but it was inside. We went to a place in Parliament Hill and spent nine hours there, it was a minor inconvenience to what we're thinking of today in this country. You know, you have lost a lot of soldiers. When we lose one, we hurt, and it's, right now there's a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier there, been there for years. Now we have a soldier who died on that Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He's a known soldier and as a nation we are grieving for him.", "Well, I'll tell you -- in the U.S., when you lose one it hurts. And today, we're planning a procession of members of parliament, organizing around the Cenotaph, the unmarked grave, and hopefully this becomes a gathering moment for you to figure out what to do going forward because look -- you know, the senator was a long time journalist by the way and covered a lot of the same issues we're dealing with today. It's easier to deal with an organized group that wants to kill thousands than stopping deranged people who want to kill one.", "You can't arrest somebody for what he or she thinks. The gentleman in province of Quebec that ran over the two soldiers, the police were on to him all the way through but they took his passport away so he couldn't go to the place he wanted to go to kill, so he chose to kill here. And this is the kind of society that we live in, in a free society and we should never back down from that. But I worry sometimes, sometimes, there's complacency. Somebody said to me, or I heard this morning on the radio, it was only one man and one gun. Well, it was only one man and one gun with JFK in 1963 which changed the face of the world. I don't want to overdramatize this but this is the reality.", "But also, look, and pinpoint of terror -- and not to ascribe too much intelligence to the action that we saw here yesterday and Monday, but the goal of it is to create fear. What is more frightening to your daily reality, the idea someone will fly a plane into a building and kill thousands, or that someone randomly can come out from around a corner and kill you specifically? I think the answer is obvious and that's why you have to figure out how to deal with the threat.", "We're all looking over our shoulders, everybody now in this country. We thought an ocean separated us from the realities of the world in Europe and the Middle East. We thought a border separated us from some of the problems in the United States. Well, that's no more, and there are people who are radicalized in this country, and I expect we'll see some kind of random attack.", "So, what do you do here, you have a burgeoning Muslim community by per capita, much bigger than in the United States. You have about 200,000 Muslims coming into the country a year. You have to presume, you know, predominantly they are people who just live their faith the right way.", "Absolutely.", "What do you do to deal with monitoring in such a balk situation?", "Well, that's for the security and police to do. I think we have to show empathy today for the Muslim community because the Muslim community --", "The true Muslim community.", "Yes, absolutely, because they're being stereotyped and I think we have to be sensitized to their beliefs and what they are doing, and I think that security, police, social media, wherever we're at, that we've got to reach out to the Muslim community that we do care about.", "Well, this is a situation obviously we keep saying Ottawa, four homicides last year, it is not a city that is used to being under the threat of great violence. But now, this was a wake-up call, we see the situation highly policed. Senator, good luck --", "Pleasure to talk to you.", "-- on finding ways forward and the U.S. is coordinating heavily because this is the real threat we're dealing with.", "It's good to have a good neighbor.", "Senator, good to have you here and thank God you're safe and your wife as well, probably more important.", "Yes, absolutely. Thank you.", "Alisyn, back to you.", "Chris, it is fascinating and different to hear how differently their capitol operates than ours. And, again, to your point, only four incidents of violence last year.", "Yes. And yet, even in the U.S. capital where things are supposed to be somewhat safer, people just hop the fence in our capitol, one of them got into the White House, happened again last night. The threat of small-timers doing small things that can kill people is very difficult to deal with and contend ways. But we have to find ways, Alisyn. That's a challenge, and a big reason we're in Ottawa this morning.", "Yes, we're going to talk to our security experts about that momentarily. Thanks so much, Chris. Let's get over to John Berman. He's in for Michaela with some other top stories. Hey, John.", "Thanks so much, Alisyn. Breaking overnight -- protesters call for Officer Darren Wilson to be arrested. This was a planned demonstration. It comes after Michael Brown's autopsy results were leaked, claiming the unarmed teen was shot at close range. Now, some analysts suggest the findings corroborate Officer Wilson's story that he and the teen struggled in or near his patrol car before he shot Brown dead. A 3-month-old girl from the United States was killed and eight others hurt when a car slammed into them at a Jerusalem tram stop. The driver identified police as a Palestinian from east Jerusalem, died after he was shot by officers as he tried to get away. Officials say they are treating this as a terrorist act. With they say the suspect had been locked up in prison for, quote, \"terrorism.\" The U.S. military will be tasked with training moderate Syrian fighters to defend Syrian territory rather than seize it back from ISIS. That is according to \"The Washington Post.\" The fighter will be flown to Saudi Arabia where they will be trained for eight weeks. The first units are expected to be deployed within six months. President Obama has made it clear he does not want American ground troops in Syria. So, a mishap of sorts on the tarmac in Minneapolis. The two Delta planes clipped wings Wednesday night as they were taxiing away from the gate. I believe we have a picture of one of the passengers as he took it from the plane. There it is -- one flight was headed to Los Angeles with 171 passengers on board, the other headed to Louisville with 74 passengers. No one was injured but the planes were damaged and as a result, people were put on different planes bound for their destinations.", "Yes, that's good. You can't fly when the ping is tilted up like that.", "No, no, it's not supposed to work that way.", "Yes, mishap in the tarmac -- I don't like those words together. John, thank you. We have more ahead on the Canada attack, the shooter's bizarre past and how it led to this violent end. What was his motivation? We'll break that down. Plus, the White House's security scare went much better last time. We're happy to report. Another man jumps the fence but this time they released the guard dogs. He's facing charges. 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{"id": "CNN-147060", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2010-1-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/16/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Former Presidents Lead Haiti Fund", "utt": ["Right back to Anderson Cooper. He's on the scene of a - a building that collapsed. There is a dog, at least one dog with the LA County Search and Rescue Team from the LA County Fire Department looking for a survivor. Anderson, what's the latest? Update our viewers.", "Well, good news. In the last 15 minutes since last we spoke, you were - we were live with you when they brought the dog in, Maverick. That dog did not get a hit. That would - that seemed bad news. But, since that time, they'd gotten two distinct tapping responses. They have somebody deep down in the hole, yelling out, you know, if you can hear me, tap three times and the person tapped three times. Then they tapped - the search and rescue team taps and then they - they've had another tap in response. So they're working on the - the belief and the firm conviction that somebody is alive down there, and they are determined to find this person. It's a very unsteady structure. It's a very unstable structure. It is very dangerous, the conditions they are working in, but they are determined to find this person on a day. If they are able to pull a - a person out alive, it would just be remarkable, Wolf, when you consider this is exactly four - four days, almost to the hour, that this earthquake struck.", "Do they have the equipment they need there to - to do this kind of sophisticated search and rescue operation, Anderson?", "Yes. These guys - the men and women, are incredibly professional. They have all - all the equipment they need on - on hand. They have a generator. They have lights. They have power drills, power equipments. But they're also improvising. They've been rummaging around for two by fours, cutting them down to size. They're sticking those up as support structures to stabilize the - the concrete structures that are still in place that are still over them, lest those structures, you know, weaken and collapse on top of them. So they're - they're improvising, but they have the equipment they need. It's just - it is laborious and it is painstaking. They have to move very carefully through this - through this rubble, taking it out piece by piece, concrete block by concrete block, cutting through floors. It's difficult, but they - they know what they're doing. But it's - it's just a matter of time.", "We're going to check back with you, Anderson. I - I know you're going to stay on the scene. Hopefully someone is alive, maybe even more than one person. We'll keep looking out for those taps, the little noise that indicates someone is underneath all of that rubble. And thank - thanks to the LA County Fire Department for these search and rescue teams who are on the scene. Thanks to Maverick, that dog, as well. The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got a firsthand look at the devastation in Haiti today. She flew into Port-au-Prince on a US Coast Guard plane that brought in food and water for US embassy staffers. She met with the US and the United Nations officials and with Haiti's president, Rene Preval. When the secretary leaves Haiti, 50 American citizens will be evacuated on her flight.", "I want to assure the people of Haiti that the United States is a friend, a partner, and a supporter, and we will work with your government under the direction of President Preval to assist in every way we can.", "President Obama brought his predecessors, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, back to the White House today. He asked them to lead a fundraising drive for Haiti, praising their efforts during past disasters and saying they can tap what he calls the incredible generosity and can-do spirit of the American people. The effort will be called the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund. Listen to the former presidents.", "The most effective way for Americans to help the people of Haiti is to contribute money. That money will go to organizations on the ground and will be - who will be able to effectively spend it. I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water. Just send your cash. One of the things that the President and I will do is to make sure your money is spent wisely.", "I have no words to say what I feel. We need - I was in those hotels that collapsed. I had meals with people who are dead. The cathedral church that Hillary and I sat in 34 years ago is a total rubble.", "To learn how you can help, you can go to clintonbushhaitifund.org or you can visit our website, cnn.com/impact. You can impact your world. We have a lot of organizations who are helping. You can go to links there. All of them have been vetted. Impact your world at cnn.com/impact. We'll check in with the Haitian ambassador to the United States in a moment. Also, Susan Candiotti is on the scene in Port-au-Prince. She has a story that you will want to see and hear."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "COOPER", "BLITZER", "HILLARY CLINTON, US SECRETARY OF STATE", "BLITZER", "GEORGE W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-261229", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2015-08-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/04/ath.01.html", "summary": "Legionnaires Outbreak in South Bronx.", "utt": ["Happening now, an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease has taken more lives in New York City. Seven people have now died from the bacterial infection. More than 64 people have been hospitalized.", "All the victims are from the south Bronx. Officials have traced the likely cause of the outbreak, the maintenance cooling towers, or I should say, the location of he outbreak, the maintenance cooling towers, which tested positive for the bacteria. CNN medical analyst, Dr. Seema Yasmin, joins us now. Seema, we hear about these outbreaks from time to time at hospitals or places like this. How do you catch, how do you get Legionnaires' disease.", "The most important thing to know is it's not spread from person to person, but it is spread through microscopic water droplets. This bug absolutely loves water. So often times, in outbreaks like this, we'll trace the source back to things like hot tubs, showers, faucets, air conditioning systems, and like in this outbreak now, to water cooling systems.", "There also -- it appears that the country has seen an increase in Legionnaires' in recent years. What's attributed to that?", "That's absolutely right. We've seen probably a tripling of cases in the last 10 years or so. Used to be we'd see about 1,000 to 2,000 cases a year. Now the CDC says we're seeing 8,000 to 18,000 cases every year. And they're saying it could be one of two things. One is that we're just catching the disease more. So now when somebody has pneumonia, we're not just saying you have a typical pneumonia. We're testing to find out what bug is causing it. But the second reason is we're seeing a booming population of older adults, and those are the people who are most at risk. People over the age of 55, people who smoke, people who already have a pre-existing lung disease, and also anyone with a weakened immune system.", "And how do you stop an outbreak like this? How do you get rid of it once it's around?", "The most important thing you do is find the source of the outbreak."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "DR. SEEMA YASMIN, CNN MEDICAL ANALYST", "BOLDUAN", "YASMIN", "BERMAN", "YASMIN"]}
{"id": "NPR-40608", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2005-08-30", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4823310", "title": "Mississippi Hard-Hit by Katrina", "summary": "Mississippi suffers some of the heaviest damage from Hurricane Katrina. The Gulf Coast areas around Gulfport and Biloxi are among the hardest hit. Federal and state authorities rush emergency supplies and assistance to the region. Gov. Haley Barbour says the death toll in one Mississippi county could reach 80.", "utt": ["Mississippi suffered some of the heaviest damage from Hurricane Katrina.      The Gulf Coast areas around Gulfport and Biloxi are among the hardest      hit. Federal and state authorities are rushing emergency supplies and      assistance to the region, and search and rescue operations continue today      in heavily flooded areas.  Thousands of people remain in shelters, unable      to return to their home.  NPR's David Schaper is in Jackson, Mississippi.", "And, David, tell us this morning, what is the latest?", "Well, in the words of Mississippi Governor      Haley Barbour yesterday, `Mississippi was hit like a ton of bricks.' It      got the full brunt force of Katrina.  The fire chief in Gulfport,      Mississippi, called it complete devastation there, estimating some 75      percent of the buildings suffered major roof damage.  There are      significant numbers of injuries and fatalities being reported in that      area of the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.", "To some people in Mississippi, it may have been a bit of a surprise.  I'm      told not quite as many people evacuated the area as did in New Orleans      and other parts further west, because that's where they anticipated the      storm making landfall.  But the storm made landfall to the East of New      Orleans and passed overland up through the eastern half of Mississippi.", "I'm also hearing about substantial damage in cities further inland like      Hattiesburg and Meridian, even up towards Tupelo in the northern part of      the state as wind gusts were clocked at 70 to 100 miles an hour even 100      miles inland from the Gulf.", "And it appears this morning, sadly, that Mississippi has most      of those who di--who have died so far in the hurricane.", "Yeah, there are some wire and newspaper reports this morning of      as many as 50 people killed with as many as 30 or more being reported      killed in one apartment building in Gulfport, Mississippi.  But the      Mississippi Emergency Management Authority is only confirming three      deaths so far, and that was late in the afternoon yesterday.  But      officials at that point did fear that the number could climb today as      they reached some of the more heavily damaged areas today.  And it does      appear that the casualty figures will rise.", "And with a huge rescue and recovery operation going on, what      do you know about what will be happening today?", "In Mississippi, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, or      MEMA, is beginning search, rescue and recovery operations with teams that      left the state capital here in Jackson last night to head to the Gulf      area.  I understand they did arrive in places like Gulfport and Biloxi      last night, and this morning they're hoping to use helicopters and      planes, even boats, to survey the damage, to look for those who still      might be stranded by yesterday's hurricane.  It's going to have to be a      massive relief effort.  The damage reports coming in are just hugely      substantial.", "And you're there in Jackson, Mississippi, not as hard-hit as      Biloxi, for instance, but what--look around you, and what does it look      like there?", "Well, here in Jackson there are trees down all over the place      and really throughout the state of Mississippi.  As I drove down here      last night and through the day yesterday and surveyed some of the damage      myself, there's trees down over roads.  Many of the roads are impassable      because they're either blocked by trees or, as you get further south, you      know, the storm surge flooded out roads completely.  There's a lot of      local flooding, because the rain totals have been heavy, and there are      just huge areas without power. Electricity has been out really from      Florida into Louisiana and as many as a million people or more still may      be without electricity.  It's going to take a long time for them to get a      lot of the electricity restored.", "David, thanks very much.  NPR's David Schaper in Jackson,      Mississippi.", "This is NPR News."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "DAVID SCHAPER (NPR News)", "DAVID SCHAPER (NPR News)", "DAVID SCHAPER (NPR News)", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "DAVID SCHAPER (NPR News)", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "DAVID SCHAPER (NPR News)", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "DAVID SCHAPER (NPR News)", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-17935", "program": "Sunday", "date": "2000-10-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/15/sun.05.html", "summary": "Who was Behind the Attack on the USS Cole?", "utt": ["U.S. investigators are continuing to try to find out more about the attack on the USS Cole and who might be behind that attack. And CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen join us from Washington with his insight and perspective -- Peter.", "Hi, Brian.", "I guess the question -- the question I want to ask you now is, there have been two claims of responsibility, I think -- at least two -- what do you know about them?", "Brian, yes, two or three claims of responsibility. Counter-terrorism officials say it is routine to get claims of responsibility after an event like this. A lot of them are bogus. Anybody with access to a pay phone can make these claims. But one of the claims is certainly something that should be taken a bit more seriously. It is from the Islamic Army of Aden, which is a group that has kidnapped Western tourists in Yemen in 1960 -- in 1997 -- a group that has some links with Osama bin Laden. So that -- that particular claim of responsibility is something that is taken more seriously. However, whoever may or may not be behind this attack, there may be a possibility we will never get a legitimate claim of responsibility.", "Investigators are in Aden right now just pouring into all of these details. How do they begin the process?", "Well, Brian, they're interviewing people in the port that might have some information on how that boat managed to get up by the U.S. cruiser. Forensic experts are in there. It's obviously going to be an investigation that could go on for some considerable time.", "And it involves all branches of the U.S. administration, U.S. government, doesn't it?", "Indeed. The FBI has sent out over 100 experts to the scene. It is an investigation similar to the investigation of the U.S. Embassy in Africa, a very comprehensive investigation that may stretch for years.", "All right, well, you'll be following it for us. Thank you, Peter -- CNN's Peter Bergen joining us from Washington."], "speaker": ["BRIAN NELSON, CNN ANCHOR", "PETER BERGEN, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST", "NELSON", "BERGEN", "NELSON", "BERGEN", "NELSON", "BERGEN", "NELSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-25269", "program": "Moneyline News Hour", "date": "2001-2-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/08/mlld.00.html", "summary": "Dow Falls 66 to 10880; Nasdaq Down 45 to 2562", "utt": ["Tonight, let the tax battle begin. President Bush unveils his proposal, urging Congress to act quickly.", "A warning light is flashing on the dashboard of our economy.", "On Wall Street, the comeback kid of 2001 is losing its way: the Nasdaq ends in the red again.", "House hearings kick off, investigating the uproar over one fugitive trader.", "One week, Marc Rich is on the Justice Department's list of the 10 most wanted, and the next week, he's given a presidential pardon.", "And, the red-hot option for workaholics: taking the red- eye. You may save time but what do you lose?", "Live from coast to coast, this is", "Welcome to MONEYLINE, I'm Willow Bay in Los Angeles.", "Good evening, Willow, good evening everyone, I'm Stuart Varney in New York. Our top story tonight: the most dramatic tax cut proposal since the Reagan era. President Bush today delivered a $1.6 trillion tax- cutting plan to Congress. The president has portrayed the tax cut in \"Goldilocks\" terms: not too big, not too small, just right. But critics on both sides of the political divide disagree, guaranteeing that Mr. Bush will face his first big test trying to get this plan through Congress. Now, we have extensive coverage tonight, beginning with Fred Katayama, who followed the events in Washington today as they unfolded -- Fred.", "Well Stuart, it was a day marked by ceremonial pomp and sales pitches, all focused on President Bush's tax cut plan. The proposal is now in the hands of Congress, where the debate will center on how big the cut should it be, and who should get more of the benefits.", "From President Bush's debut in the stately rose garden of the White House...", "Here's how my tax relief plan will work.", "To the halls of Capitol Hill...", "We've reached a great tax milestone.", "And to the upper Senate park lawn nearby.", "The Bottom 60 percent of all taxpayers get 29 percent. We don't think that distribution makes any sense at all. We think that's unfair.", "Americans heard the sales pitch and the scorn on the biggest tax relief package in two decades. Republicans, as well as Democrats, agree Americans need tax relief, but sparred over the size and focus of President Bush's proposal. Mr. Bush capped a series of events marketing his $1.6 trillion, 10-year tax cut plan by officially signing off on the proposal. He favors making his plan retroactive to January one.", "A warning light is flashing on the dashboard of our economy, and we just can't drive on and hope for the best. We must act without delay.", "His plan would cut income tax rates across the board, reduce tax brackets from five to four and cut the highest rate to 33 percent and the lowest rate to 10 percent. It would end the inheritance tax, reduce the marriage penalty, boost tax incentives for charitable contributions, and double the child tax credit to $1,000. Flanked by Latino business leaders, the president tried to spin the plan as one that favors small businesses and individuals, especially the middle class. He says a family of four earning $40,000 would save $1,600 in taxes. That theme was amplified on Capitol Hill, where the treasury secretary formally handed the president's proposal to Republican leaders.", "To the average American family, that is significant. That would pay a year's tuition at a community college, it would allow a family to pay a couple months rent or house note, and their home -- al lot of other really good things could be done with this. We ought to emphasize, what we're talking about: American people being able to keep more of their money.", "Democrats, who favor a tax package half the size, slammed the president's plan as one that favors the rich and threatens the budget surplus.", "The lion's share goes to the wealthiest taxpayers, and mortgages our future.", "The Republicans hope to pass the package as early as July.", "Mr. Bush pledges he'll keep his package capped at $1.6 trillion. But now, the political battle now begins in Congress, where some conservative Republicans want more tax breaks, and big business, which is mostly been left out, wants cuts in corporate income and capital gains taxes, among other things -- Stuart", "Fred Katayama in Washington; thank you, Fred. Just ahead on MONEYLINE, debating the Bush tax plan with Senator Kent Conrad, who says the Bush plan is too big, and Representative Patrick Toomey, who says it's too small -- Willow.", "Stuart, how would the Bush tax plan affect state budgets? According to the Center of Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, repealing the estate tax could cost the states nearly $10 billion over 10 years. And the National Conference of State Legislatures says, it has received numerous calls from state officials, worried about the impact of the plan. One possible reason: the states are already suffering, blind sided by an economy that's slowed faster than anyone imagined. Lisa Leiter reports.", "North Carolina's governor today declared a fiscal state of emergency.", "Nobody expected the economic downturn that has taken place across the nation, as well as here.", "North Carolina is just one of many states blind-sided by the abrupt turnaround in the economy. A shopping slowdown means a fall off in sales tax revenue; layoffs mean declining payroll tax proceeds. MONEYLINE talked to 10 states trimming their budgets, or thinking about it. Many in the South and Midwest rely on sales and manufacturing taxes, and are suffering the most.", "It is really almost all of the states are feeling it to some extent, but it is concentrated in those two areas, and it really is something that has happened, essentially, in the last five to six weeks. States, a couple months ago, were still in relatively good shape.", "Take Tennessee. Almost 60 percent of its revenue comes from sales taxes. December's collections fell $27 million short, the biggest gap in two years. The state could face $130 million budget deficit -- the secretary of state said recently, it looks like a recession. Other southern states hard hit: South Carolina, cutting its budget by 15 percent; Alabama, slicing spending by 6.2 percent; and Mississippi is cutting its education budget. States that rely on manufacturing are hurting too. Michigan wants its agencies to trim their budgets. Northeastern states with service economies are doing better. Still, Connecticut announced $479 million in cuts.", "Using this blueprint, we can continue Connecticut's comeback and, at the same time, brace ourselves for any future economic downturn.", "Even energy-producing Western states are feeling some of the pain. Washington is proposing a smaller budget and Oregon officials say a slowing economy has made balancing the budget harder than its been since the last recession.", "Many states, like Illinois, have yet to feel a big budget impact from the economic slowdown. Only about a quarter of Illinois' revenue comes from sales tax, and state officials tell MONEYLINE they'll have to wait until after April 15th to know whether other tax revenues are down -- Stuart.", "All right, Lisa Leiter reporting from Chicago. Thank you. While Washington today was consumed with tax cuts, Wall Street was far more interested in Microsoft. The stock took a big hit after Merrill Lynch downgraded it. The big surprise was who delivered the downgrade: controversial Internet analyst Henry Blodget. More on that story later. Microsoft's downturn weighed on both the Dow and Nasdaq. The Dow fell for the third straight session, it was off 66 points, to 10,880. The volume though, just over a billion shares. The Nasdaq lost 45 points. That's nearly 2 percent. It ended at 2562. The volume there: more than 1.8 billion shares. The S&P; was down more than 8 points to close at 1332. Let's go to Terry Keenan at the Big Board for a look at the big movers on the New York Stock Exchange, beginning with a look with retailers -- Terry, what do you have?", "Stuart, January is historically the slowest month of the year for retail sales, but news that it took very heavy discounting to create even modest results last months, unnerved investors today. Added to this growing perception that this economic downturn may be a lot worse than first anticipated. Retail stocks, which had risen more than 10 percent in the month of January, were clobbered today and are now only up on average only about 5 percent so far this year. The weakness in the retailers, combined with a very soft tech sector, compounded the trouble for the market today. Checking some of the Dow losers that we're following: IBM down $2.81 -- in fact, all four of the Dow tech components are lower today. Wal-Mart losing more than $2. It's sales were actually up in January, but it was hit, along with the sector -- the S&P; Retailing Index down 4 percent today. Home Depot down $1.79. To the upside, shares of Merck getting the go ahead for the FDA to market its pain killer Vioxx as a safer alternative to the over the counter alternative. Walt Disney shares also a winner, up $1.13. Still, the market breadth was negative, the margin about 8 to 7 in favor of the losers here, and volume at one point, 1 billion shares -- continues to be a little below average; we've seen quite a slow down in volume in the month of February. Overall, a disappointing session in what is turning to be a tough month for stocks. But, that second big rate cut on January 31 -- there was hope here, that certain retailers and the techs would extend their January gains but, in fact, the first week of February has seen exactly the opposite happen with the Nasdaq and the S&P; Retailing Index each down more than 50 percent from their highs. So, giving back a lot of those January gains -- Willow.", "I guess we hope we're glad it's a short month -- Terry Keenan, thank you Today's drop in the Nasdaq wasn't enormous, but it does add to mounting fears that the year 2001 comeback is going off track. On January 24, the index was up more than 15 percent in 2001. Now it is up just 3.7 percent, less than 100 points. The latest retreat was particularly disappointing since today was a special day for the Nasdaq: its 30th birthday. John Metaxas joins us now from the Nasdaq marketsite with a look at why investors left their party hats at home -- John.", "Willow, there were no celebrations planned here today. And perhaps that was fitting: investors really in no mood to celebrate after the 50 percent decline over the last 11 months and an 11 percent decline over the last couple of weeks. Look at the pattern of the Nasdaq today: up at the open, down, and then finishing at the lows. That was the exact same pattern of Cisco Systems' stock today. We're still feeling the Cisco overhang: 100 million shares changing hands in Cisco today. That's huge volume, but less than half what we traded yesterday. Cisco closed at $30 a share, down more than $1. It characterized the day in trading -- KPMG the second most active stock, this an IPO of the day and the first blockbuster of the year, up about $5.50 -- Morgan Stanley Dean Witter brining them public. They came public at $18, the high end of the trading range: this the biggest domestic IPO in Nasdaq history. Microsoft: downgraded today by Merrill Lynch. We've heard that, down $2.50. This really dragged on the index today. The chips were up and then down, including Intel losing 31 cents, even though they have a deal with Siemens. Siemens is going to buy $2 billion worth of the chips from them. WorldCom on the upside: the fifth most active stock. They met expectations with their earnings -- the influential analyst, Jack Grubman, at Salomon Smith Barney saying this stock could double. He reiterates a buy rating on that stock. Now, the Nasdaq is now at the midpoint of its January trading range. And a lot of money is staying on the sidelines -- not sure whether it is going to break up or break down -- Stuart.", "John Metaxas watching most of them fall on the Nasdaq. Thanks, John. Here's what still to come on", "more on that controversial decision at Merrill. How did Internet guru Henry Blodget get the nod to cover Microsoft? And Congress opens hearings into an 11th-hour pardon, as a former White House lawyer faces the heat for defending Marc Rich. Plus, retailers come out with January numbers. We'll head live to Macy's to check out what American consumers were buying, and at what price."], "speaker": ["STUART VARNEY, CNN ANCHOR", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "WILLOW BAY, CNN ANCHOR", "VARNEY", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-127894", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-6-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0806/23/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Bigger Breakfast, Bigger Weight Loss?", "utt": ["How's this for a diet plan? Eat bigger, be smaller. A new study compared sedentary, obese women trying to lose weight. One group packed on the carbs and lean protein at breakfast, the others stuck to a low carb morning meal. At the end of eight months, women eating the hefty breakfast lost an average of 40 pounds. The low carb eaters lost just nine. Medical correspondent Elizabeth -- Susan Cohen, where did that come from? Elizabeth Cohen is here now to talk a little bit more about it. A lot of people have been talking about it in the NEWSROOM today because we want to know how big a breakfast are we talking about here. Can go crazy?", "Well, for me, you can't go crazy. For me, this was pretty big. I mean I don't think that I have a breakfast this size usually. Let's take a look at what we mean by a big breakfast. The folks who had the big breakfast had two pieces of bread with a pad of butter, three slices of cheese, three slices of turkey, roast beef or chicken, two 8-ounce glasses of low fat milk and coffee with milk. And here -- this is sort of the more measly breakfast. It's a high protein breakfast -- one egg, some butter and -- I don't know what you do with the butter.", "Put the butter on what? Yes.", "Put around the bacon, I don't know. Three slices of bacon and a four-ounce cup of milk and a cup of coffee with no milk or cream. And some people, actually, when they ate the big breakfast, Heidi, they also ate a little piece of chocolate.", "OK.", "And apparently that seemed to help for some of them.", "I'm just thinking about the chicken and the roast beef in the morning.", "Yes, I...", "I think can pass that.", "Yes. That's one dietitian said that. She thinks who can really eat that in the morning? But you know, maybe some people can.", "Yes. Well, if you really do eat more in the morning, how, then, does it help you lose weight? Do you eat less throughout the day because you packed it all on in the morning or something?", "Well, they told these women to eat the different breakfasts but then they were supposed to eat matching menus for the rest of the day. So the breakfast was the only thing that was different. Now some people theorize that your body uses calories more efficiently in the morning and that if you don't eat, you sort of go into this ravenous mode and just start eating everything in sight later in the day. But I have to say we -- we showed this study to some folks who were really quite skeptical. The Atkins people don't like it because it kind of disses high proteins. And even other dietitians and experts said, you know, this hasn't been published yet, we're not really sure that it's right. So not everyone is so...", "Yes.", "... hit with the study.", "And I do see a big gob of gluten over there. You certainly don't want that either.", "Not for everyone, right.", "But if I -- right.", "This is not a Heidi Collins breakfast, right.", "If I'm eating a couple of eggs, hard boiled eggs, and some grapes and some turkey bacon, because they'll make fun of me -- that's my little breakfast -- I'm doing it right, right?", "Well, I just can look at you and say that you're doing it right.", "Oh yes.", "You're not obese. You don't have insulin resistance. You're looking good.", "We paid her just enough to say that, too. Elizabeth, thanks so much.", "Thanks.", "This one we'll be talking about, I bet, today. Appreciate that. On to the oil story. Now Saudi Arabia promising to do something about oil. Is it enough, though, to bring relief at the gas pump? And recession. Super investor Warren Buffett thinks we're already in one. Former fed chairman Alan Greenspan says it's likely. Ali Velshi has some tips to keep you \"Right on Your Money.", "Record high gas prices, falling home values and the lowest level of consumer confidence since 1980 are all signs of a possible recession. Personal finance expert Jonathan Clement says follow these steps to keep yourself recession proof.", "First, you want to accumulate cash. You haven't got a lot of money sitting in the bank, you haven't got a lot of money sitting in a money market fund, this is the time to accumulate it. Two, get your debts under control. Pay off those credit card debts. Don't take out new car loans. Think twice before trading up to a bigger home. And three, keep funding that 401(k) plan. You should continue to put enough into your 401(k) to get that full", "Ali Velshi, CNN, New York."], "speaker": ["COLLINS", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "COHEN", "COLLINS", "ALI VELSHI, CNN SENIOR BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JONATHAN CLEMENT, PERSONAL FINANCIAL EXPERT", "VELSHI"]}
{"id": "NPR-30476", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2010-11-30", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2010/11/30/131687788/-der-spiegel-studied-leaked-cables-for-weeks", "title": "'Der Spiegel' Studied Leaked Cables For Weeks", "summary": "Several publications writing about the WikiLeaks diplomatic reports had them months in advance. One was the German magazine Der Spiegel, whose Washington correspondents include Gregor Peter Schmitz. He tells Steve Inskeep that reporters have been reading, and discussing what they read since August.", "utt": ["Several publications now writing about the Wikileaks diplomatic disclosures have had the documents for months. One was the German magazine Der Spiegel, whose Washington correspondents include Gregor Peter Schmitz. He says reporters have been reading and talking since August.", "We agreed on certain guidelines on how we would present the findings and how we would cooperate with Wikileaks and the partners, and the editors received(ph) all the publications, were in close contact throughout this process, so yeah, there were some form of agreements, yeah.", "You were talking with each other about which stories you might cover, what you thought was important, what was not so important? That sort of thing?", "Well, not necessarily. I mean clearly, we swapped views on what stories might be important, but then you have to keep in mind that we want to reach different audiences. So like the German magazine obviously focused more on European leaders. The Americans, of course, are focused on American strategic interest. And this is, I mean the first stories that are coming out now (unintelligible) the beginning. I mean we're going to keep rolling out stories over weeks, basically now, and we would like to cover the entire world. So - but still we have different perspectives and I think that is actually a very interesting thing, that you can see how the different outlets focus on different stories.", "What process, if any, have you had to make sure that whatever material you publish does not endanger people's lives?", "Well, I mean, we have been in close contact with the other editors, obviously, but also with U.S. government officials. And they pointed that out very clearly, but that was clear from the beginning, that if you have information by an informant and naming this informant would put this person in danger, we left out the name or we left out details that might disclose the identity of that person.", "Just to your knowledge - and I know you're one of dozens of people at Der Spiegel working on this - were there cases that you're involved with where things are actually being withheld in that way?", "Yeah, there have been instances, yes.", "I'm looking here at a webpage in which the editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller, has been answering questions, because the New York Times, like Der Spiegel, got these documents in advance and is publishing stories related to them. And if I could sum up these questions, some of the angrier questions, they amount to: What right do you have to publish these? The United States has officials. They're elected. It's a democracy. Their job is to keep secrets, among other things, and they make decisions about what's classified. Why do you have the right to overturn that?", "Well, again, I think we followed very strict guidelines when it came to the publication of the memos. We're not putting anyone into danger. We were in touch with government officials. We accepted some of their recommendations.", "Some.", "If you read the whole coverage that is coming out over the next weeks or so, you will realize that this is about important global developments; it's giving you an insight into, well, basically how the world is perceived and run from an American's perspective, and I think that is something that the public has a right to know, yeah.", "Do you feel as a correspondent who's covered these stories from the outside that you have a different understanding or that you're only confirming your understanding of what has happened in the world in the last couple of years, last several years?", "Well, I think there are some findings that are very - not necessarily surprising for somebody who has followed it closely. I think it's more surprising that people are actually putting that into writing. If you read, for example, how strongly Arab nations feel about the prospect of a nuclear Iran, if you see how in a way helpless U.S. diplomacy sometimes is when they have to bargain with other nations on whether these nations will accept Guantanamo prisoners or not, if you see how unreliable some partners have become or how sketchy the alliances with difficult countries or difficult partners, like Pakistan, have become, that is something that certainly as a person who covers such topics we have heard before, but to see it in writing and sometimes in very blunt writing and to realize that people, up to the secretary of state, expressing utter frustration with that, it is just very interesting, and I think it changes your perspective on also sometimes the limit of American power.", "Gregor Peter Schmitz is a correspondent based here in Washington from the German magazine Der Spiegel. Thanks very much.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "GREGOR PETER SCHMITZ", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "GREGOR PETER SCHMITZ", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "GREGOR PETER SCHMITZ", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "GREGOR PETER SCHMITZ", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "GREGOR PETER SCHMITZ", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "GREGOR PETER SCHMITZ", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "GREGOR PETER SCHMITZ", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "GREGOR PETER SCHMITZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-346723", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-08-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/03/es.01.html", "summary": "Day Three of Manafort Trial Brings in Several Witnesses; Iran Begins Military Exercises in Persian Gulf", "utt": ["Our democracy itself is in the crosshairs.", "We acknowledge the threat. It is real.", "We are being hindered by the Russian hoax. It's a hoax.", "The president still dismissing the Russia investigation even after his own top officials blatantly warn Russia is still meddling in U.S. election.", "The July jobs report due out this morning. Unemployment is expected to tick down. The wage growth remains still.", "And who should be responsible for reuniting kids with parents deported? The government says it falls to the ACLU. Good morning, and welcome to EARLY START. I'm Kaylee Hartung in for Christine Romans.", "Good to see you, my friend. I'm Dave Briggs. It's Friday -- it is Friday. Let just --", "Soak it in.", "Let that marinate for a minute. All right. It's Friday, August 3rd, 4:00 a.m. in the East. Because it's Friday, we need to start with a little laughter, don't we, Kaylee?", "Let's do it.", "Stephen Colbert once again taking on the administration.", "Trump still getting legal advice from attorney and man who just realized how he will be remembered. Rudolph Giuliani.", "Playing poker. Put up or shut up. What do you got?", "You better hope you're not playing poker. Because you're client can't keep a casino running.", "OK. His track record with running the economy a bit better than casinos at this point.", "Those numbers are in his favor, yes.", "Let's see about that. Some good stuff from Colbert. But we start this morning with a bit of a disconnect between President Trump and his National Security team on the subject of Russia meddling. The president ranting once again about the Russian hoax hours after his top intel officials called out the Kremlin for interfering in the upcoming 2018 midterms. At a rally in Pennsylvania last night the president touted the Helsinki summit with Putin while completely ignoring Russian attacks on American democracy.", "We got along really well. By the way, that's a good thing. Not a bad thing. That's a really good thing. Now we're being hindered by the Russian hoax. It's a hoax. Everybody said wow, that was a great -- that was great. A couple of hours later, I started hearing these reports that, you know, they wanted me to walk up. They wanted me to walk up and go like this. Son of a --", "Hours earlier, though, key members of President Trump's National Security team appeared in the White House briefing room to warn the country Russia's election interference is ongoing.", "In regards to Russian involvement in the midterm elections, we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by Russia to try to weaken and divide the United States.", "Russia attempted to interfere with the last election and continues to engage and malign influence operations to this day. This is a threat we need to take extremely seriously and to tackle and respond to with fierce determination and focus.", "Our democracy itself is in the crosshairs. Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy and it has become clear that they are the target of our adversaries who seek, as the DNI just said, to sow discord and undermine our way of life.", "Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told reporters he still doesn't fully understand what took place in President Trump's one-on-one meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.", "Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein laughing off critics of the Justice Department in a speech to the American Bar Association in Chicago. The man who oversees the special counsel's Russia investigation did not specifically mention President Trump or his congressional allies, but Rosenstein did make reference to President Franklin Roosevelt's attorney general Robert Jackson who once famously talked about his special duties of government lawyers.", "And his tenure was replete with challenges. One of the difficulties Jackson faced was that what he called the unpleasant duty of responding to congressional inquiries.", "Hard line conservatives have threatened to impeach Rosenstein over the DOJ's slow response to their demands for documents.", "A suspected Russian spy worked at the U.S. embassy in Moscow undetected for more than a decade before she was fired last year. A senior administration official tells CNN the woman, a Russian national, worked for years with the Secret Service. She first came under suspicion in 2016. A routine State Department security review found she was having regular, unauthorized meetings with Russian intelligence. She used the Secret Service's Internet and e-mail systems, but the official says she did not have access to highly classified information. There has been no comment from the State Department.", "Rick Gates may testify against his old boss, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort as early as today. That was one of the big developments in the Manafort trial on Thursday. Another, Manafort's bookkeeper testifying that despite making millions, Manafort went broke and lied to banks to secure big loans. Jessica Schneider has more from Washington.", "Kaylee and Dave, several revelations on day three of the Manafort trial. So first, the judge seemed to entice the defense team to have Paul Manafort himself take the stand. The judge said that Manafort obviously does not have to, but if his lawyers wanted to bring up that he has never been audited by the IRS, that would be the way to do it. And that's something the defense team wants. Also prosecutors now say they will call Rick Gates to the stand. Gates of course was Manafort's right-hand man during the campaign. Also in his lobbying business. And Gates has already pleaded guilty and is now cooperating with the special counsel. And finally, Paul Manafort's bookkeeper testified that sure, he may have made millions, but by 2016 he was flat broke, he'd maxed out his credit line, and the bookkeeper even said that Manafort and Gates were then sending out fake inflated business statements to banks so they could get loans. And of course that gets to the heart of the prosecution's bank fraud case. Plus the government keeps hammering home these lifestyle details. They had a landscaper talk about just how much Paul Manafort paid him. $500,000 for the upkeep of hundreds of flowers and what the landscaper called the largest personal pond in the ritzy Hamptons section of Long Island. Plus Paul Manafort spent $2.2 million on home entertainment technology including $10,000 on a karaoke system. So a lot of details prosecutors have packed in. We're going to hear more from Manafort's accountant today as prosecutors continue to delve into all of his finances -- Kaylee and Dave.", "Jessica, thanks. A check on CNN Money now. Can the U.S. economy keep up the pace of the swift job creation? We'll get a fresh look at the labor market this morning with the government releases the July jobs report. Economists are expecting 190,000 new positions, down slightly than last month. The unemployment rate expected to tick down to 3.9 percent. It rose last month. As more than 600,000 Americans entered got off the sidelines, entered the labor market looking for work. The big mystery has been wages. That number expected to hold steady at 2.7 percent annual rate. Wages have been stuck in that range for the past three years. Historically as the labor market tightens, wages rise significantly but that has not yet happened in the recovery since the Great Recession. Wall Street will also be looking carefully at where the jobs are being created. So far, no signs that tariffs are slowing this economy, but this will mark the first big economic report of the third quarter following strong economic growth in the second quarter.", "First daughter and presidential adviser Ivanka Trump distancing herself from her father's rhetorical blast against the media. At a public event Thursday Ivanka said she does not agree with his characterization of the press as the enemy of the people.", "I've certainly received my fair share of reporting on me personally that I know not to be fully accurate. So I've, you know, had some -- I have some sensitivity around why people have concerns and gripe, especially when they're sort of feel targeted. But no, I do not feel that the media is the enemy of the people.", "Hours later, though, President Trump put his own spin on Ivanka's remarks with a tweet saying, \"She's right. It is actually the fake news that is the enemy of the people.\"", "Iran launching a major military exercise in the Persian Gulf. Tehran likely to show its ability to shut down the oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz, a move with broad implications. This exercise was planned but it starts amid intensifying rhetoric with the U.S. Nic Robertson joining us live from the Gulf of Oman, near the Strait. Nic, good morning.", "Yes, good morning, Dave. It's causing concern because, of course, 20 percent of the oil supply goes through the Strait of Hormuz, which is about 50 to 80 miles north of me here. We're actually in the Gulf of Oman. What the Pentagon said was that these Iranian major military exercise as they describe them are taking place in the Gulf of Oman, the Straits of Hormuz, and the Persian Gulf. It is a very strategic water way which is one of the reasons why this oil terminal facility here in the United Arab Emirates has been developed because the oil facility here actually is at the end of a pipeline that bypasses the Straits of Hormuz, about 1.5 million barrels of oil a day and bypasses the Straits of Hormuz and be piped out to sea safely here. But the concern regionally and obviously in Washington is that the rhetoric coming from Tehran saying that if they are not allowed to sell their oil, then no one will be able to pass their oil our through the Straits of Hormuz. That this is -- of course it's causing concern in Washington at the moment when they see these military exercises. They describe them as involving dozens of small boats. And it is not clear if this is really to put meat on the bones of that rhetoric to send a message or quite what it is. But we do know within a couple of days the sanctions come back into effect following President Trump's withdrawal for that Iran nuclear deal. So of course, tensions in this region over that are quite high. We're hearing nothing from the Iranians and the region remaining very quiet about it at the moment as well -- Dave.", "All right, Nic Robertson just past noon there near in the Strait of Hormuz. Thank you, Nic.", "Well, it's looking like Tennessee could play a key role in determining which party controls the U.S. Senate in the fall. Former Tennessee governor, Phil Bredesen, a moderate Democrat, and conservative Republican congresswoman, Marsha Blackburn, won their respective Senate primaries Thursday. The two will face off in November in a race that's expected to be one of the most hotly contested of the midterm elections. Republicans didn't expect a challenge in ruby red Tennessee, but Bredesen's cross party appeal could help Democrats in the race to replace Senator Bob Corker. Meantime in the race for governor, CNN projects businessman Bill Lee will win the GOP nomination defeating Congresswoman Diane Black who was backed by Vice President Pence.", "All right. Coming up, the NFL preseason under way. But no protests. 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{"id": "CNN-275904", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2016-02-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/07/ndaysun.02.html", "summary": "Jeb Bush Slams Donald Trump; CNN Hosting Democratic Debate In Michigan", "utt": ["All right. John Berman here in Manchester, New Hampshire. We are just two days away from the first in the nation primary. We are one morning after a very eventful debate here in New Hampshire that may have changed the playing field just a little bit. We've talked about Marco Rubio. Not his strongest debate performance perhaps his weakest when he needed to be at his strongest. Donald Trump also came under attack from Jeb Bush on an issue that does matters to New Hampshire voters, eminent domain. Listen.", "What Donald Trump did was use eminent domain to try to take the property of an elderly woman on the strip in Atlantic City. That is not public purpose. That is downright wrong. And here's the problem with that.", "All right.", "The problem was it was to tear down -- it was to tear down --", "Jeb wants to be -- he wants to be a tough guy tonight. I didn't take the property.", "It was to tear down the house and the end result was -- you tried.", "I didn't take the property.", "And you lost in the court.", "The woman ultimately didn't want to do that. I walked away.", "That is not true.", "All right. Joining me again the executive editor of CNN politics Mark Preston. Also with CNN political commentators Bakari Sellers and Ben Ferguson. Mark, people noticed a few things last night. One was that was an exchange between Jeb Bush and Donald Trump were Jeb Bush did not backed down which was different than it was three months ago. Explain to me though the issue of eminent domain why that matters here in New Hampshire and to Republican voters.", "Well certainly it's an issue that you don't know much about unless you've been affected by or something in your community has caused for it. But eminent domain basically means if you are a conservative the federal government coming in and taking your property. Very basic, very simple. This is an issue going up here in Northern New Hampshire right now up around the Northern Pass. You know, it has caused a lot of people to be very passionate about. And people here in New Hampshire the whole idea of live free or die, you know, that means something to folks who live here. So we talk about eminent domain for conservatives dog whistle for big government coming in and taking our property.", "You know -- and Ben Ferguson the polling back in Iowa, you know, it was identified as what could be the weakest issue for Donald Trump, eminent domain. And Jeb Bush clearly wanted to capitalize on that. Did you think that he got what he wanted out of that exchange, Ben?", "I do. I think that other candidates just stepped up and also used it to their advantage because this is the biggest weak point for Donald Trump. It's a very simple issue. Should the government be able to take your private property and force you to sell it for another private entity. If you look at what Trump was doing he was building a casino. Taking private property for a private casino to be built. And what he was trying to do -- that is not a conservative value. And I think this is his probably his biggest vulnerability on this campaign. And if you sell that case in simple terms to conservative Republican freedom voters that is something, I think, that can certainly hurt Trump because he was building a casino. He was trying to use the federal government to strong arm people and forcing them to sell their private property. That is not a conservative value that is something that Jeb Bush should have stood up for last night. I think others should also stood up to that. It is one thing to use eminent domain for roads and highways and things like that, that truly are going help the majority of people. But when you use eminent domain to build a casino at Atlantic City most voters are just not going to think that is the right thing to do.", "Right. All right. Bakari, I want to turn quickly to the Democrats. Now, the Republicans are getting a lot of focus rightly so because they had a debate overnight. Today is an interesting day because Hillary Clinton leaves New Hampshire today to go to Flint, Michigan. I should note that CNN just announced that we are hosting a Democratic debate in Flint, Michigan on March 6th two days before the Michigan primary. Bakari, tell me why first of all if the trip to Flint will matter to New Hampshire voters and if the answer is no as I suspect it might be what she is trying to do in this trip.", "Well, I don't think this is going to affect her with New Hampshire voters. In fact I think she's here -- I know she's here this morning in New Hampshire and then pivoting to go to Flint. But Flint you can outline larger issues. Flint is about down the road. Flint is about South Carolina. Flint is about the March 1st Super Tuesday states. And what she's beginning to do is lay out this platform where she's speaking directly to minority voters, where she still has an advantage. But one thing she also knows that Bernie Sanders is nipping at her heels and so she has to do all she can do to solidify that support. Just in South Carolina this week yesterday Chelsea Clinton was in South Carolina. On Wednesday Bill Clinton was in South Carolina. So you're starting to see the Clinton apparatus in its full form kind of blossom and bloom. One thing that we do know is that Bernie Sanders cannot lose New Hampshire. So he doesn't have the leeway to pop in and pop out of the state. We also remember that this time in 2008 Hillary Clinton was down nine points to a young man named Barack Obama -- well, she was up -- down nine points to a young man named Barack Obama and actually pulled off the upset. I believe the tracking polls have her down about nine or 10 points today. So she still has a shot that she believes.", "We'll see. Bakari Sellers, Ben Ferguson, Mark Preston, thank you so much, obviously again reacting to that Republican debate mostly last night but there was other action overnight. Democrat Bernie Sanders he was on a stage of his own. \"Saturday Night Live.\" And he appeared beside, well Bernie Sanders, you might say, Larry David. This is a skit that found the two on the Titanic. Watch.", "Hold on. Hold on. Wait a second.", "Sounds like socialism to me.", "Democratic socialism.", "What's the difference?", "Yuge difference.", "Huge?", "Yuge.", "Yuge with a Y? Who are you?", "I am Bernie Sanders-Witski. But we're going to change it when we get to America so it doesn't sound quite so Jewish.", "Yes, that will trick them.", "Hold on everyone. I've got great news. What we crashed into was Liberty Island. We're in New York. Everyone off the boat.", "Look at that.", "Oh my, not bad.", "Share a cab?", "Eh, I think we've talked enough.", "All right I'm joined again by Mark Preston and Bakari Sellers. You know, Mark, that's a moment you can't buy that kind of publicity if you are Bernie Sanders.", "No you can't. And, you know, Bernie Sanders is somebody, John, that certainly us who have covered him for many years never knew he had this side of him. You know, we never knew he did a folk album. We never knew that he appeared in a movie. And we never knew he can carry a skit on \"Saturday Night Live.\"", "Not bad. Bakari, you know, appealing to young voters I'm told the kids love \"Saturday Night Live.\" And, you know, it is a group that Bernie Sanders does very, very well with. I imagine this will only magnify that phenomenon.", "Bernie Sanders is running a hell of a campaign and anybody who tells you that he's not is simply just blind or not being honest with themselves. \"Saturday Night Live\" last night I'm sitting here laughing at it and chuckling because he did an amazing job. It fits into this narrative where he is actually speaking to a vein of America that's frustrated but a vein who's also a little younger. We'll actually have to see whether this narrative of Bernie Sanders just pounding Hillary with younger voters pans out throughout the rest of the cycle. As we know the demographics do change. And so I'm really looking forward to young millennial voters of color being able to join this conversation as well and we will see if Bernie Sanders' message actually transforms and goes down to the south.", "And you know, Mark, one point that I think is worth making globally about \"Saturday Night Live\", you know, all of their depictions of candidates are not created equal, right? I mean, when they go after Sarah Palin, they are ridiculing Sarah Palin. When Will Ferrell is going after George W. Bush he's ridiculing George W. Bush. He did not ridicule Bernie Sanders. They embraced Bernie Sanders. There is a total difference some times on what they do.", "There is. But Bernie Sanders also appeared. He was asked to come and he showed up. Sarah Palin they were ridiculing her right off the top. Quite frankly it is very hard to make fun of Bernie Sanders. He's like your grandfather, you know, who just seems to have a -- who seems to have a little bit of the personality. Look, he did a great job last night and, you know, we'll see where it goes.", "Hillary Clinton of course she has been on \"Saturday Night Live\" also and got a lot of laughs worth noting. Mark Preston, our thanks to Ben Ferguson, and you know", "All right. John, thank you so much. Developing story that we're following too that the U.S. is reacting this morning to North Korea's launch of a long range rocket. We have details on the next steps the U.S. and South Korea plan to take.", "Plus, the death toll is rising in Taiwan after that massive earthquake. Rescue workers are still finding survivors in that rubble. 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{"id": "CNN-334947", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2018-03-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/13/ctw.01.html", "summary": "British Demand Russia Explain Nerve Agent Attack", "utt": ["The U.K. and Russia are on a diplomatic collision course and time is ticking away. British Prime Minister, Theresa May, giving Russia until midnight tonight, less than nine hours away, to explain how a Russian nerve agent was used to attack a former double agent and his daughter. Both of whom are still in a critical condition. The attack also endangered British citizens in the town of Salisbury. Russia has denied involvement and now say they will not respond to the U.K.'s ultimatum until they have their own samples of the nerve agent. But after a briefing with the emergency British Security Council known As Cobra, Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, said the next move is Russia's.", "The Russians have started responding. The Prime Minister has been very clear that they have until midnight tonight to satisfy her requests. Until then, we'll wait and see what they have put forward.", "Well, it's a story with global implications and we have all the angles for you. Nick Paton Walsh is in London for a security briefing there. While, Erin McLaughlin is in Salisbury. The community left reeling by the attack, of course. Well. And in Moscow, Fred Pleitgen with Russian reaction or perhaps the lack thereof. Nick, let's start with you. What is the latest, the very latest on the investigation?", "I just heard from the man leading it, counterterrorism police officer, Neil Bus, who head of the investigation unit here at the Metropolitan Police. What is interesting is a week almost precisely since they it declared they would be the lead in this investigation, they don't actually know where it seems the poison was delivered. They are not able to specify that. We do know a few more things though as the clock ticks, frankly, towards and ultimatum that Moscow says is ignoring. So, I think all eyes really here in London focus on what response will see from Britain tomorrow. But the investigation says how 38 people needed hospital treatments, all but four are fine. Three are still in hospital. That's Sergei and Yulia Skripal and the police officer, DS Nick Bailey and another person being treated as an outpatient. But they were able to provide a time line of the event. Which is crucial in learning exactly where the poison may have been administered and whether or not a third party was involved in that. You still don't know at this stage. Now, Mr. Basu was quite clear that they are not interviewing at this point any persons of interest in the investigation. They don't have a suspect for the person who may have done the administering of the poison. They do know that Yulia, the daughter, flew in on a Saturday at about 240 from Moscow into Heathrow. Then she presumably spent the night with her father. They left in their car, a red BMW 2 Series. They gave one place or that and about 1:00. At 1:40 arrived at the Bishops Mill pub, had a drink, and at 2:20 went for a pizza at Zizzi's. Both places which are now considered to have low levels of contamination. Where people are being told to wash their cloth if they went there. And then left the pizza restaurant at about 3:3, you can only presume they spent about 40 minutes on the bench near the park before people began to call emergency services noticing that they were losing consciousness. So, a clear timeline here. But most importantly, Assistant Commissioner Basu unable to say if any of those particular places are places where people should be more on concerned about level of contamination. I.e., they don't know which one may have been where sort of the words dose was delivered. And they are asking people to come forward if they saw the father and daughter in that red BMW driving through town between about 1:00 and 1:40 on that Sunday afternoon. But importantly at this point, no other person has apparently been questioned as far as we know publicly in relation to this attempted murder.", "Nick Paton Walsh outside New Scotland yards. Fred, London has spoken. The clock is ticking. Aside from calling this a circus show, what more can we expect from Moscow? They've got an ultimate from the Brits at this point.", "Yes, they've an ultimatum. They say they don't care about the ultimatum, Becky. They say what they want from the Brits is they want samples of the alleged toxin that was use there. In the case of Sergei Skripal, they said they sent a note to the British government demanding to get that toxin, that sample, so that they can evaluate it for themselves. The Russians are saying that according to the treaty of the organization to prevent chemical weapons, which is obviously a tree to ban chemical weapons, they have a right to be able to evaluate that toxin by themselves and for themselves. And they say until that is the case, they are not going to be issuing any sort of statement towards what the Brits are saying. The Russians are even going one step further. It might surprise some people that they've called in, they've summoned the British ambassador to Moscow, and they've told him that there very concerned about this situation. Very concerned about some of the things being said in the public, being said by the British government. They also say they believe the Brits are in breach of this very treaty by not giving them the samples. And they say this could have consequences for the relation between the United Kingdom and Russia. Obviously, the Brits are saying the same thing for different reasons. But as you can see, the Russians saying they are not going to respond until they get the samples and certainly starting to fire back as well, if you will -- Becky.", "Fred's in Moscow. Let's get you to Salisbury. How, Erin, is the city of Salisbury coping at this point?", "Well, Becky, people here are concerned and of course, on edge. Keep in mind this is an extremely tiny city of some 40,000 individuals. Previously known for its stunning cathedral and proximity to Stonehenge. Now they find themselves in the midst of this international attempted murder mystery. And people here are also incredibly concerned, as you heard Nick there say about the number of questions that police have yet to answer. Namely the source of the contamination. How Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia became poisoned? They still do not know. What we do know is that trace contamination was found in the pizza restaurant, Zizzi's, which is just behind me as well as the local pub. I was speaking to Steve Cooper, a resident who was inside the pub at the same time as the Skripals. He says, he's incredibly concerned. He thinks that the advice from public health officials to simply wash his clothes is not enough. He wants more information. And the fact of the matter is they don't have a lot of information about the type of nerve agent that was used. It was developed in the Soviet era and that's about it. Boris Johnson himself saying this is the first time it has been used to his knowledge in Western Europe. And one thing that authorities are saying is that whatever it is, it's likely to linger. So, people here are incredibly concerned about the potential health repercussions for weeks and months to come -- Becky.", "Erin McLaughlin is in Salisbury. Just ahead more on what is our breaking news for this hour. The latest chaos in the Trump administration. The sudden firing of Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. Why? And what happens next is what we will discuss after this."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "AMBER RUDD, BRITISH HOME SECRETARY", "ANDERSON", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON", "FREDERICK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON", "ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-390431", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2020-01-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/15/es.01.html", "summary": "CNN's Democratic Presidential Debate; Senate Trial Likely To Begin Next Tuesday", "utt": ["Welcome back to CNN's Democratic Presidential Debate, live from Des Moines, Iowa. Time now for closing statements. You each have one minute. Senator Klobuchar, let's begin with you.", "Donald Trump thinks this is all about him. I think it's about you. It's not about his resorts or his tweets or even his ego. It is about your healthcare. It is about your schools. It is about your lives and your future. So if you want to do something about racial justice and immigration reform and climate change and gun safety, we need a candidate who is actually going to bring people with her. I have won every race, every place, every time. I have gotten the highest voter turnout in the country when I've led the ticket. I have passed more bills as the lead Democrat than anyone who's in Congress that's running for President. I believe that we need a President that's going to look out for you. It is easy to hurl insults. It is easy to draw lines in the sand and sketch out grand ideological sketches that will never see the light of day. What is hard is bringing people together and finding common ground instead of scorched earth. What is hard is the work of governing. So if you are tired of the extremes in our politics and the noise and the nonsense, you have a home with me. Join me at amyklobuchar.com.", "Mr. Steyer?", "I know that Iowans are going to caucus within three weeks, and I want to tell you how I feel about the American people.", "Look, I played team sports my entire life. The bond between teammates is deep and emotional and full of love. And as far as I'm concerned, the American people are my teammates. And if there's one thing I will not permit, it is someone to run down the field and kick my teammate in the face. And that is exactly what I've seen over the last seven years, traveling around this country, seeing these Republicans, led by Mr. Trump, basically kicking the American people in the face. I am prepared to take on Mr. Trump on the debate stage and take him down on the economy. But I am asking for your support because I know that if I'm -- if I'm going to be a good teammate to you and give you absolutely everything, without any compromise, I need the support of you on caucus night so I can turn around and together we can take back this country and together we can save the world.", "Mayor Buttigieg?", "This is our moment, this is our one shot to defeat Donald Trump, and to do it by such a big margin that we send Trumpism into the dust bin of history, too. But we cannot take the risk with so much on the line of trying to confront this President with the same Washington mindset and political warfare that led us to this point. If you are watching this at home and you are exhausted by the spectacle of division and dysfunction, I'm asking you to join me to help turn the page on our politics. You're seeing the President boast about the Dow Jones, wondering whether any of that will ever get to your kitchen table. Join me. If you're a voter of color feeling taken for granted by politics as usual, join me. If you're used to voting for the other party but right now cannot look your kids in the eye and explain this President to them, join me. We have a chance to change all of this if we can summon the courage to break from the past. That is why I am running for President. It is why I'm asking you to caucus for me on February 3rd. And I hope that you'll go to peteforamerica.com and join me in this effort.", "Senator Warren?", "So much is broken in this country. I sat here in the break and just made notes about many of the things we didn't get to talk about tonight: how the disability community is struggling for true equality; how gun violence and active shooter drills worry every mother in this country; how children are living in poverty and seeing their life chances shrink; how transwomen, particularly transwomen of color, are at risk; black infant mortality; climate change that particularly hits black and brown communities; people who are being crushed by student loan debt; farmers who are barely holding on; people struggling with mental illness. And yet I come here tonight with a heart filled with hope. And it's filled with hope because I see this as our moment in history, our moment when no one is left on the sidelines, our moment when we understand that it comes to us to decide the future of this country, our moment when we build the movement to make real change. Hope and courage. That is how I will make you proud every day, as your nominee and as the first woman President of the United States of America.", "Senator Sanders?", "It's been a good debate, but we haven't asked the major question. The major question is, how does it happen in the richest country in the history of the world that half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck, trying to get by on nine to ten bucks an hour? How does it happen that when the top one percent owns more wealth than the bottom 92 percent, half a million people are sleeping out on the streets tonight? How does it happen that in this great country we are the only major nation not to guarantee healthcare to all? How does it happen that we have a childcare system which is dysfunctional, a criminal justice system which is broken and racist, an immigration system that needs reform? This is the moment when we have got to think big, not small. This is the moment when we have got to have the courage to take on the one percent, take on the greed and corruption of the corporate elite, and create an economy and create a government that works for all of us, not just the one percent. Thank you.", "Vice President Biden.", "Character is on the ballot this time around. The American character is on the ballot. Not what Donald Trump is spewing out, the hate, the xenophobia, the racism, that's not who we are as a nation. Everyone in this country is entitled to be treated with respect and dignity. Every single, solitary person has to have in a position that, in fact, we treat them with decency. It's about fundamental basic decency.", "We in the United States of America can put up with -- we can overcome four years of Donald Trump, but eight years of Donald Trump will be an absolute disaster and fundamentally change this nation. We have to restore America's soul, as I've said from the moment I announced. It is in jeopardy under this President of the United States. We lead the world when we lead by example, not by our power. We, in fact, have to regain the respect of the world in order to be able to change things. Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a position right now where we have to remember who we are: This is the United States of America. There is not a single thing beyond our capacity to do if we do it together. Let's go do it.", "Candidates, thank you very, very much. That concludes the first Democratic presidential debate of 2020.", "All right, thank you, Wolf. That does it from our debate side in Des Moines. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans.", "And I'm Laura Jarrett. It's Wednesday, January 15th, 19 days to the Iowa caucuses. This is the last time you will see the leading Democrats on stage together before the first votes are cast. A debate in Iowa live on CNN a light on personal attacks, heavy on policy, climate, free college healthcare, and especially foreign intervention. The gravity of the moment is clear. The candidates addressing priorities as Commander-in-Chief, they denounced President Trump's dealing with Iran and other crises looming.", "ISIS is going to reconstitute itself. We're in a position where we have to pull our forces out. Americans have to leave the entire region. And quite frank, I think he has flat out lied about saying the reason he went after -- the reason he made the strike was because our embassies are about to be bombed.", "Two great foreign policy disasters of our lifetimes with the war in Vietnam, and the war in Iraq. Both of those wars, were based on lies. And right now, what I fear very much is we have a President who is lying again.", "We have one general after another in Afghanistan who comes in and says, you know, we've just turned the corner, and now it's all going to be different. And then what happens? It's all the same for another year. Someone new comes in and we've just turned the corner. We've turned the corner so many times we're going in circles, it's time to get our combat troops home.", "Afghanistan -- I have long wanted to bring our troops home, I would do that. Some would remain for counterterrorism and training. In Syria, I would have not have removed the 150 troops from the border with Turkey. I think that was a mistake. I think it made our allies and many others much more vulnerable to", "Not just conventional military challenges, not just stateless terrorism, but cybersecurity challenges, climate security challenges, foreign interference in our elections. It's going to take a view to the future, as well as the readiness to learn from the lessons of the past.", "The most anticipated moment of the night came between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, they were asked about Warren's claim that Sanders told her privately a woman cannot win.", "We want to be clear here. You're saying that you never told Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election.", "That is correct.", "Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?", "I agreed. Can a woman beat Donald Trump? Look at the men on this stage. Collectively, they have last 10 elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they've been in are the women. Amy and me.", "So true.", "At the end of the night, a moment to make progressives cringe, Sanders tries to shake Warren's hand. She declines and they have what looks like a very tense exchange with Tom Steyer looking on.", "A little bit awkward there. Well, an impeachment trial of a U.S. President, only the third in history is about to begin. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will vote this morning on a resolution to transmit Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. She will also name the impeachment managers who will prosecute the case. The Senate trial likely to begin next Tuesday. Before proceedings move to the Senate, the House Democrats unveiled some new evidence supporting their case for removing President Trump from office. Congressional Correspondent, Phil Mattingly has the latest from Capitol Hill.", "Christine and Laura, just as the House of Representatives is about to vote to send the Articles of Impeachment over to the United States Senate, something we've been waiting on for the better part of the last three weeks, new information.", "This information related directly to a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, an indicted former associate of Rudy Giuliani. Lev Parnas who has made clear through his lawyer that he wants to cooperate with House impeachment investigators, wants to turn over documents, notes, text messages, WhatsApp messages. Well, he's done that. And now, those messages, all of that information is going to be part of the packet of information and evidence that House Democrats send over to the United States Senate for that trial. Now, combing through the documents that we've seen up to this point, they include things like a previously undisclosed letter from Rudy Giuliani, the President's personal attorney, to President-elect Zelensky of Ukraine making clear he wants a meeting with Zelensky to talk about a \"significant issue.\" This meeting, he says would take effect under the pretense of him being President Trump's personal lawyer, not as a member of the administration, however, in the letter, he makes very clear that he does have President Trump's acknowledgement and consent to ask for such a meeting. All of this underscoring what we've seen several times over the past several weeks that there is a lot of information still out there about what was actually taking place inside the Trump administration, and obviously, outside the Trump administration, as it relates to its Ukraine policy and underscoring House Democrats push to have more of that information available and potentially witnesses come testify about that information when the trial stage hits in the United States Senate. When all that's going on right now in the country and in the world, this is something everybody's going to be paying attention to -- guys.", "All right, Phil, thank you for that. The documents from Lev Parnas raises many questions as they answer, but when intriguing text exchange shows former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko pushing for the removal of then U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. There were also cryptic texts between Parnas and a Republican congressional candidate implying the Ambassador's movements in Ukraine were being tracked. Yovanovitch's lawyer called for an investigation saying the idea she was being surveilled is disturbing. President Trump is expected to sign that Phase 1 trade deal with China this morning. This is a big moment for the President. Even if this deal is skinny on paper, we haven't seen all the text yet. Don't expect that to stop the pomp and circumstance. About 200 people are expected to attend. The deal, almost two years in the making leaves tariffs on about $370 billion worth of goods. This trade war by the way has been costly. Moody's Analytics says 300,000 jobs have been lost. American importers have paid an extra $46 billion in tariffs which raises costs for consumers and the manufacturing sector has taken a beating -- all of that from Moody's. While signing is the focus today, last night's debate focused on China and NAFTA, including the divide between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, who did not vote for NAFTA.", "Joe and I have a fundamental disagreement here, in case you haven't noticed. [LAUGHTER]", "And that is NAFTA PNTR with China, other trade agreements were written for one reason alone, and that is to increase the profits of large multinational corporations. And the end result of those two, just PNTR with China, Joe, and NAFTA cost us some four million jobs.", "PNTR to normalize trading relationship with China, four million likely an over estimate of the impact. Most estimates by the NAFTA had little have any impact on national employment levels, so the effect was uneven across regions and industries. In some places, there was a negative impact from NAFTA and that's something you're still feeling now.", "Yes, well, not one, but two missiles struck the Ukrainian jet shot down last week in Iran. 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{"id": "CNN-353516", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-10-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/31/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Protest Greet President Trump In Pittsburgh; U.S. President Calls For Ending Birthright Citizenship; Divers Hearing \"Ping\" Locator From Lion Air Plane; Divers Hear \"Ping\" Locator From Lion Air Plane; Pakistan's Supreme Court Acquits Woman On Death Row", "utt": ["After a terrible tragedy, a city divided as Pittsburgh mourns the deadly massacre at a synagogue, the U.S. President is not getting the warm welcome he expected. Plus, freedom of Aasia Bibi, Pakistan's Supreme Court acquits the mother of five after she spent years facing death row charged with blasphemy. And beat the world's tallest statue, but not everyone is celebrating him in India. Hello and welcome to our viewers all around the world, I'm John Vause, you're watching CNN NEWSROOM. In the coming hours, there will be more funerals, more tears more heartbreak in Pittsburgh when more victims of Saturday's massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue are laid to rest. On Tuesday, there are long lines of mourners waiting to pay their respects to three of the eleven victims. Cecil and David Rosenthal, and Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz. Despite calls to stay away President Trump and the First Lady visited the site of the mass shooting. They were greeted by the Synagogue's rabbi. He was leading Saturday service when the shooting started. Just a block away though, large crowds protested Trump's visit. Many say his words and policies have embolden a growing white nationalist movement. The four most senior leaders in Congress both Republican and Democratic all declined an invitation to travel to Pittsburgh with Donald Trump. CNN's Miguel Marquez has more now reporting from Pittsburgh.", "I want to show you sort of how this day went. There was you know the president showed up here and just blocks at one point about a block from where he was thousands of protesters gathered this is just sort of the end of it. People are now breaking up here but it was -- it was prayers, it was singing, it was a neighborhood and a city coming together basically to say we don't want the President here and that they will get beyond this. This neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, everyone just in tears today walking around here. No matter where you went you just saw people crying and emotional. It turned to anger at certain points during the protest. There was at least one person who was arrested. I spoke to a young woman, she's a first generation Indian-American who came here. Here's why she was so upset about the President's visit.", "I think everyone should feel terrified of what's coming for our country if this is becoming a normal thing in our society and it has been normalized. Shootings have kind of been -- you almost expect like what next, where's the next place, and it's sad to feel scared living in America because this is supposed to be a land where you feel free. Free to practice your religion, free to be who you are, and it doesn't feel that way anymore.", "And what was most remarkable about this protest is that it wasn't planned 24 hours before the President arrived here. We weren't even sure that anybody was going to show up but there were 20 and then there were 50 and before long within an hour there are over a thousand people and by the end of it there were several thousand people in the streets of Squirrel Hill singing and protesting so that the President himself could hear them as he was paying his respects. The city, this neighborhood, the city, this area just torn by this in entire episode and that the -- we've only seen the first funerals, the rust will continue through this week.", "Now, thanks to Miguel Marquez for that report. CNN's Jim Acosta has more now on the President's trip and what lies ahead for Donald Trump with the critical Midterm Elections now just a week away.", "Mr. President, any message for the people of Pittsburgh?", "With the First Lady at his side, President Trump traveled to Pittsburgh, a city in mourning after the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue. The city of Pittsburgh is split over Mr. Trump's presence with some community leaders wishing he would stay home.", "We're trying to heal right now and I think a later time would be better.", "While the Synagogue's rabbi left his door open.", "This is not about any one person, this is about hate and that good must win. Mr. Trump is igniting passionate reactions to nearly every move he makes in part because he's enflaming an already bitterly divided country. Just one week before the Midterms, the President is resurrecting a controversial proposal he's made before to end birthright citizenship in the U.S., something he claims he can do with an executive order.", "It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what, you don't.", "But he's wrong. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees citizenship to people born in the U.S. Presidential Scholars and members of Congress from both parties agree Mr. Trump would have to amend the Constitution.", "Well, you obviously cannot do that. You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order.", "The citizenship issue is straight out of the President's Midterm playbook to energize his base with racially loaded rhetoric like his claim that the convoy of migrants many of them women and children heading for the border is an invasion requiring a military response when it doesn't.", "I don't know how much political calculus he's putting into this. I think he thinks maybe there is but my point is I don't like it. I don't think it's effective. It's not good for our country.", "The President is also using questionable language and describing Florida's Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Gillum.", "Look, here's a guy that in my opinion is a stone-cold thief. He's a disaster.", "That followed the tweet for Mr. Trump that described Gillum's opponent as a Harvard, Yale-educated man. Gillum fired back in a tweet of his own saying I heard Trump ran home to Fox News to lie about me but as my grandmother told me, never wrestled with a pig, you both get dirty but the pig likes it. The White House is scrambling to clean up after the President's remarks even Vice President Mike Pence tried to maintain that Mr. Trump respects the American press despite dubbing some news outlets the enemy of the people.", "This is a president who believes in the freedom of the press. But the president's complain and it's often mischaracterized not by you either but it's -- the president says fake news is the problem, not news.", "The question is whether any of this will have an impact on the Midterms as Democrats are hopeful voters have grown weary of the President's rhetoric.", "I am sick and tired of this administration. I'm sick and tired of what's going on. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. I hope you are too.", "And Mr. Trump's attacks on the press are also right out of the President's Midterm playbook. A source close to the White House says outside and inside advisors are urging the President to keep on slamming the media despite the pipe bombs that were mailed to CNN over the last week. Jim Acosta, CNN the White House.", "Mark Hetfield is the President and CEO of HIAS, what was formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. He joins me now from Pittsburgh. Mark, thank you for being with us. You know --", "Thank you, John.", "You know, normally at moments like this, a presidential visit to the scene of a national tragedy is like the entire country stopping by and paying their respects but I don't think I've ever seen a president so unwelcome as Donald Trump was on Tuesday. Is that because of what he said in the past, was it just to be bad timing? How do you explain it?", "Well, what Pittsburgh needs -- what the whole country needs right now is healing. We need to address this epidemic of hate speech which is leading to hateful actions around the country. And I mean, we -- maybe the President's not responsible for all of it but certainly he has not helped it and he's been a bit of an irritant when it comes to hate speech in this country. And also it's not just that he said hateful things in the past, he said hateful things this morning. He woke up and immediately declared that he was going to try to abolish birthright citizenship which again is authorizing people who are born outside of the United States.", "Yes. The alleged shooter, he ranted online quite a bit. HIAS was not spared the hate. He hates your group of helping murderous invaders reached the U.S. but facts matter and the reality really is quite the opposite to the garbage this guy was posting online.", "Absolutely.", "You've helped over 4.5 million people escape persecution over the years.", "We are are the oldest refugee organization on earth and so yes, since our founding we've helped about 4.5 million people but we were established in the 19th century in New York City to help refugees and that's what we're still doing today. What we describe our history as going from an organization that helped refugees because they were Jewish to one that helps refugees because we are Jewish. But yes, that's why we've been able to help so many people.", "In language which was strikingly similar to the accused shooter, the President described the immigrants in a caravan heading for the U.S. border as an invasion and a threat, he's also pushed this idea that somehow there's something criminal for immigrants to try and want to come to the to the United States but isn't that the American dream?", "And it's not just the American dream. I mean, HIAS is motivated to protect refugees because of our experience during the 20th century especially during the 1930 and the 1940s when Jews were literally trapped inside of a genocide in Europe and it was out of the ashes of the Holocaust that the right to seek and enjoy asylum was declared as an -- as an international human rights by the international -- by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and then by the Refugee Convention of 1951. So, if somebody comes to our borders and those people are fleeing persecution as some of the people from central America certainly are, they have a right to make an asylum claim and get protection if they need it. That's a -- that's a right under international law.", "Your motto is welcome the stranger, protect the refugee and this is from your Web site. We understand better than nerve that hatred, bigotry, and xenophobia must be expressly prohibited in domestic and international law because the right to refuge is a universal human right. HIAS is now dedicated to providing welcome, safety and freedom to refugees of all faiths and ethnicities. So how much harder is it now to carry out that miision statement in the era of Donald Trump?", "Well, there's a real imbalance here because on the one hand, we actually feel we more supporters than we've had ever and this has been the case not just Saturday but since our community and much the world woke up to the global refugee crisis in September of 2015. So we have a lot of support. But on the other hand, our partner in this, our most important partner perhaps in this is the United States government. And the U.S. government is no longer a reliable partner because of this hateful rhetoric against Muslims, against refugees, against immigrants. And what we really have to remember this attack that occurred at the Tree of Life Synagogue is this was -- this was attack against Jews. This was anti-Semitic attack but people that are anti-Semitic aren't just anti-Jewish. They hate other groups as well. And this particular attack was motivated by an anti-Semitic, anti- Jewish impetus but also by a hatred of refugees and immigrants.", "What I think a lot of people have realized is how the Jewish community and the Muslim community were unified just side by side not just at this moment but in other difficult moments in you know, in the last couple of years. You spoke about Trump's Muslim ban. You called his words hateful. When his administration slashed the number of refugees allowed into the U.S. from 100,000 in 2017 to 30,000. Trump has betrayed the commitment the U.S. made after World War II and to ensure that the world never again turn its back on innocent people seeking safety. You know, piece by piece it seems, this President is chipping away at the U.S. leadership role in so many issues be it refugees, be it immigrant asylum regardless of what it is. And regardless of what people say, he just keeps doing it.", "The one thing that we're experiencing now in the wake of this horrible tragedy here in Pittsburgh is that we at HIAS feel that there's more support out there among Jews and non-Jews for our mission than ever before and for the mission of other organizations that protect refugees. So you know, yes, our elected leader is not with us on this but we have so much support and so much love for refugees. What we had here, what HIAS organized last week was this refugee Shabbat where over 300 congregations in 32 states in the District of Columbia celebrated refugees and made it clear that the Jewish people welcome refugees to this country. And that's what motivated this murderer to come into this synagogue on that day to commit this unspeakable atrocity. But what we have going for us is the fact that so many people, so many Americans stand behind us to welcome refugees. What we have to address now is the unfounded fee that others feel toward refugees confusing people who are fleeing terror with a terror from which the flee.", "We're out of time, Mark. But I just kind of feel we're at a moment where even the darkest night comes to an end. Maybe that's where we're at right now. Thanks for being with us.", "I hope so. I hope so.", "Well, this just in, to CNN. Officials in Indonesia say pings have been detected possibly from the flight data recorder at the cockpit voice recorder, the two so-called black boxes from the Lion Air Flight which crashed on Monday, shortly after takeoff. Ivan Watson is live for us in Jakarta. He joins us now. So, Ivan, they've heard pings but they still seem to be a little bit of distance here to go before they actually know for certain if they have the two recorders. It seems that they don't know exactly the location right now.", "Yes. I mean, that's the message that we've gotten from the National Transport Safety Commission, John. Which is that they have detected the beacon, what they suspect are sonar pings coming from the underwater locator beacon that would be affixed to the flight data recorders which is a positive development. Because then from that, they can try to triangulate and locate that beacon itself. And hopefully the flight data recorder and hopefully some of the main body of that doomed Lion Air Flight 610, itself. Because, you know, as of Tuesday, they still hadn't even picked up that beacon which is supposed to help in these disasters to locate the body of the plane and that vital information that can lead to some kind of explanation for why a brand-new Boeing 737 would have crashed just some 13 minutes after takeoff. We've been looking at, and we've had experts looking at some of the flight data, John, that has come from flight resources like flight radar 24 that indicate that the altitude that the plane was flying at in its first 13 minutes was highly erratic. And that at one point, there was a 726-foot drop in just over 21 seconds. Which suggests there may have been some real problems taking place that could have occurs resulted in this terrible disaster that has resulted in what we believe of the deaths of 189 passengers and crew on board this doomed flight. But yes, the top officials involved in this operation, reporting that they've heard a sonar pings from what they believe are the underwater locator beacon, and that should help with what has already been an effort to recover debris, floating debris, and human remains from this doomed airliner. John.", "Ivan, we appreciate the update. Clearly, this is a slower the details are still developing. We'll check back in with you as soon as we have some more information on the search for that missing plane. But there's obviously some encouraging news at this point with the pings from the locator beacons from the two so-called black boxes. Ivan Watson there, senior international correspondent in Jakarta. And from Jakarta, we now go to Pakistan. Another story just in, to CNN with the Supreme Court has decided to spare the life of a Christian woman. Asia Bibi has been on death row since 2010. That's when she was found guilty of blasphemy. But she just won an appeal against the conviction and the sentence. Bibi was charged with making derogatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad during an argument with three Muslim women. Her case had gained international attention. CNN's Sophia Saifi joins us now from Islamabad with more on this. OK. So, what are the legal grounds here? How does she get off the charge?", "Well, John, we're still waiting for the long order. There's just been a short order announced by the Supreme Court of Pakistan and that is, is that Asia Bibi has been acquitted, and she is free to go. She's been acquitted of all charges of blasphemy. This is a groundbreaking judgment, actually, considering the fact how controversial blasphemy laws are here in Pakistan. So now, you know, there's a lot of celebration amongst human rights activists and very liberal Pakistanis in the country. Considering the fact that -- you know, there have been -- that she's been on death row for around eight years. She -- the incident occurred back in 2009. So, it's been almost a decade that this has been ongoing. So, we're just waiting to see what happens next. There has been some fair off riots across the country. There are some firebrand clerics who've announced that -- you know if she is acquitted, which she has been now, that they're going to take to the streets and cause chaos. We're getting some small reports of skirmishes in the city of Karachi which is the largest city of Pakistan. But nothing as of right now in the capital of Islamabad. Now, it's just going to be something that we are going to have to continue to monitor. But this is some very good news coming out of the Supreme Court today. John?", "OK. Very, very quickly because there's obviously big domestic pressure here. This is a very highly charged case, so there's the domestic pressure. But there is also international pressure as well. In the scheme of things, where was the balance here, which -- if anything played a bigger role, it may be her acquittal during no or was this just simply she was acquitted on the other question of war?", "It's a bit of all things altogether. I mean, there had been considerable pressure from the European Union. The Pope had spoken out against it. There had been a lot of international pressure as you said. They've been -- you know, consequences as well. Pakistan had been -- you know, threatened with economic consequences by the European Union with regards to the continued detention of Asia Bibi. So, there is an element of that. In considering the fact, you know, we're hearing reports which have not been confirmed that -- you know, some of these countries in Europe, we don't know which one yet has offered asylum to Asia Bibi because her life is still under threat here in Pakistan. Considering that there are quite a few people who do not want her alive. And so, it's just one of those things where it is the case of -- you know, the law coming through. But also there has been a lot of continuous international pressure on Pakistan with regards to this case.", "And again, Sophia, we appreciate the update. Let us know as soon we gets some more details on this, and we find exactly what the acquittal has been based on. We appreciate the updates for now. And we will take a short break. When we come back, the tallest statue in the world with the price tags match for this depiction of one of India's beloved freedom fighters and unifiers is getting a very mix response."], "speaker": ["JOHN VAUSE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SUGANYA SCHMURA, RESIDENT CARNEGIE, PENNSYLVANIA", "MARQUEZ", "VAUSE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "RICH FITZGERALD, ALLEGHENY COUNTY EXECUTIVE", "ACOSTA", "JEFFREY MYERS, RABBI, TREE OF LIFE SYNAGOGUE", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ACOSTA", "REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES", "ACOSTA", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-248631", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-02-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/04/nday.03.html", "summary": "Interview with Sen. Angus King", "utt": ["Jordan moving quickly to avenge the barbaric murder of its captured fighter pilot, executing two jailed al Qaeda terrorists, but how will the world respond now to ISIS? Let's bring in Angus King. He's an independent senator from Maine. He is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Intelligence Committee. Senator, thanks for being on NEW DAY this morning.", "Thank you, Alisyn. Good to join you.", "One of the reasons we wanted to talk to you this morning is we understand that you were with Jordan's King Abdullah shortly after the news broke that ISIS had burned this pilot to death in a locked cage. What did King Abdullah say to you?", "Well, it was an extraordinary moment. It was just a few hours, it was a meeting of the Armed Services Committee, a closed meeting with the king. And I would say, I don't want to characterize specifically what he said. But I would say he was obviously disturbed and shaken but absolutely resolute. That's what came through to us. That he and his government and his people are going to respond to this in a serious way. That started this morning. And I believe we're going to see a serious response from the nation of Jordan. And from other Muslim nations. This, this could be a tipping point, Alisyn, because these -- these countries have somewhat been standing on the sidelines, and now they've got to step up, because this is a threat to civilization itself and to their countries. And this has to be, the king emphasized this. This has to be a war involving Muslims and Arabs against this outrageous group. It can't be the west. It can't be Americans. It's not going to be effective otherwise. And there's an old poem from the 19th Century, \"There comes a moment to every man and nation when it is time to decide.\" And I think it's time for the Muslim world to decide that this is, this conduct just can't be tolerated.", "Senator, is it true that King Abdullah said that, starting tomorrow, that Jordan would launch more sortie missions against ISIS than ever before?", "Well, I don't want to -- again, I don't feel comfortable relaying specific things that the king said, but he said there would be a strong response, and we saw it this morning, beginning with the execution of those two prisoners. And I think you're going to see an even greater response. But the emphasis, I think, has to be, this can't just be Jordan. And I was in the Middle East two weeks ago and got the sense in both Saudi Arabia and Qatar that they're getting the idea they can't play this thing on both sides. They can't stand on the sidelines. This is a threat to them, as well as to us. I mean, I watched that video last night. It wasn't -- it wasn't fun or something I wanted to do. But it's just unbelievable. I mean, these people literally are living in the 8th Century. I mean, this is Middle Ages. This is Genghis Khan kind of stuff. And I think they overstepped. Because remember, this guy they burned alive yesterday was a Sunni Muslim, one of their brothers, and it wasn't an American or a British citizen. It was a -- it was a Sunni Muslim. And I think the rest of the Muslim world is going to have to wake up and realize that these people are committing horrible crimes in their name and really perverting the name of the prophet and of Islam.", "Some people this morning have likened this moment to 9/11 for Jordan, that it has that sort of galvanizing feeling to really fight ISIS. If Jordan were to step up its air campaign against ISIS, would that make a difference in defeating them?", "Well, certainly, it would make a difference, but you -- no war has ever been won is entirely by air power. It's got -- there's got to be follow-on. There's got to be, ultimately, to root these guys out of Mosul and Raqqah and the places in northern Syria, and northern and western Iraq, they're going to be -- there's going to have to be people there on the ground. There are going to have to be troops. And some people say, \"Well, they're not going to be Americans, because we don't want to send them.\" That's part of it. But the reality is, it won't work. If those troops are western, that's exactly what ISIS wants. They want this to be a crusade. They want this to be the west against Islam. And it's got to be -- it's got to come from the Muslim countries. And that's why I think this could be a galvanizing moment. This really could be a tipping point. I don't want to overstate it. We don't know yet. It's going to take days and weeks for this -- for the fallout to be realized. But this could be a tipping point. They may have overplayed their hands here. Particularly by doing such a horrible thing to one of their brothers in faith.", "And Senator, what should the U.S. response be to this moment?", "Well, one of the specific things we talked yesterday, Senator Joe Manchin asked the king a question, \"What can we do?\" And apparently, there's been some bureaucratic problems with getting the proper equipment to the Jordanians. And I can assure you that you may see record-time legislation or simply some work between Congress and the administration, to be sure that those problems are worked out. So what -- one of the things we can do is to continue our leadership of the coalition, to continue to expand the coalition, but also to be sure they have the up-to-date equipment that they need. That was the one specific that was talked about, and I think we're going to -- we're going to tackle that directly today.", "OK. Senator Angus King, thank you for joining NEW DAY and giving us all that information.", "Thank you, Alisyn.", "Let's get over to Michaela.", "All right, Alisyn. Ahead, an update on the deadly Metro crash -- Metro-North crash that killed seven people in New York. We're awaiting a live news conference. We're going to bring that news conference to you live when it happens."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "SEN. ANGUS KING (I), MAINE", "CAMEROTA", "KING", "CAMEROTA", "KING", "CAMEROTA", "KING", "CAMEROTA", "KING", "CAMEROTA", "KING", "CAMEROTA", "PEREIRA"]}
{"id": "CNN-28971", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-4-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/24/lad.10.html", "summary": "Foot-and-Mouth Disease: European Slaughterhouse Worker May be Infected", "utt": ["Following up on an interesting story here: Just minutes ago we, told you about a slaughterhouse worker in Northern England being tested now for foot-and-mouth disease. So let's get more from this from CNN's Fionnuala Sweeney. She's been working this story from London. Fionnuala, do you know any more about who this man is?", "Well, as you say, he is a slaughterhouse man. He's been heavily involved in the culling of many, many animals who have been sent to slaughter following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain in February. We have to stress that the results of this test have not come back yet. There have been similar tests on six individuals since February for foot-and-mouth. And all of these have tested negatively. The results of this man's test should be known either later today -- this is Tuesday -- or else Wednesday. But health officials in Cumbria say his condition is not life-threatening.", "Well, Fionnuala, what are the symptoms in his case?", "The symptoms include flu-like symptoms of fever. He has blisters, ulcers in side his mouth, also between his toes and on his hands. But doctors say that there is no real treatment that is needed for this. The man is remaining in quarantine -- which is basically one health official saying he was staying at home and resting -- and that, within a matter of days, he should be all right -- doctors also stressing that the human form of foot-and-mouth disease cannot be passed from one human to another. But this man, if he tests positively, had been very closely involved with the culling of many, many animals over a considerable period of time. The last case of the human form of foot-and-mouth disease occurred in Britain in the 1960s, when the last foot-and-mouth outbreak occurred among animals. And one man then contracted the illness. And he recovered in a matter of days and went on to lead a normal life -- Carol.", "Fionnuala, very quickly here: Health officials have always said that this is not transmittable from cattle to humans. So how do health officials there explain this?", "Well, more details are beginning to emerge about this man in terms of how he came to be in such close contact. And there are reports that he was moving the carcass of one animal when it exploded pretty much in his face, and that he may have then breathed in fumes that came into the atmosphere. There's concern not just about that, but also huge bonfires that the British government have been authorizing around the country to burn off these carcasses of all the animals that have been killed. And they have been releasing cancer-causing dioxins into the air. And something like a fifth of Britain's normal industrial output release of dioxins has been released over the past six weeks -- so many concerns with the British government. They're trying to warn tourists not to stay away. They are trying to encourage tourists to come to Britain, saying that it isn't dangerous. But they've a lot on their hands at the moment, Carol.", "Obviously, if it's not one thing, it's another. Thanks so much, Fionnuala Sweeney, reporting live from London. We will follow up on those test results. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "FIONNUALA SWEENEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LIN", "SWEENEY", "LIN", "SWEENEY", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-228094", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-4-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/08/nday.06.html", "summary": "Judge Allows Break; Oscar Pistorius Trial", "utt": ["Welcome back to NEW DAY. The Oscar Pistorius trial has adjourned for the day after the Olympian broke down, really violently sobbing on the stand while describing the night he killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Take a listen at the emotional moment that literally shut down court for the day.", "-- she wasn't breathing.", "We'll take an adjournment. The court will adjourn.", "The people will rise.", "Let's bring in CNN legal analyst Kelly Phelps who's in South Africa along with our Robyn Curnow who's been in court monitoring. Kelly, let me ask you what do we know about this judge in terms of her predisposition to sympathy? She called that adjournment. Later defense counsel said Oscar Pistorius' shirt is soaking wet. He cannot go on. Prosecutors don't object and the judge says, \"Fine, we'll end trial early today, hours early, and resume tomorrow.\" Unusual for her?", "I don't think it's unusual, actually. It's in the court's interest that a witness can give a clear and sober account of their version of events because it is that court record that the judge has to rely on so squarely in determining the outcome of the case. So if any witness were visibly in such an emotional state, that they can no longer properly engage with their testimony it is predictable and fitting that the judge would call for an adjournment. I'd certainly think it would cause her to sympathize with him on a human level, because it's a judge-led system, it's very unlikely that that will actually sway her determination of the matter. It may sway how she dealt with this court session, but very unlikely to sway her actual decision on the outcome.", "That, of course, Robyn, is what a lot of people are wondering as she called for the surprisingly early adjournment today. What impact does this have on tomorrow?", "Well, I think it's just going to be business as usual in the sense that Oscar Pistorius is going to have to clearly and competently describe in detail what happened next. And as Kelly said, I mean that is his right. It's his legal right. It's also -- he has to do it. I mean that is what is expected of him in court. So he's obviously going to have to get himself together. Compose himself and he's going to have to come back here and explain what happened next in that story. So we know that we kind of stopped the narrative, essentially, when he discovered, found Reeva's body inside the bathroom. He said he sat over her. He didn't know how long he had spent I think as he described trying to figure out in his head what he had done. So what happens next -- well, that's going to continue on day three. And, of course, there's all that detail, the timeline of who he called next, how he carried her down the stairs. Who came in to the house? And that is all very important in terms of his defense.", "Kelly, what did you make of the difference from Oscar Pistorius when he's talking about how in the beginning he was basically just reacting? He couldn't think. He didn't think to look for Reeva. He was just paralyzed with fear, but then once he starts to think it could be Reeva, now there's a lot of deliberate action going on with him. What did you think about the difference in mindset that he presented up on the stand?", "I didn't necessarily think there was a huge difference in mindset. It was rather what his deliberate action was targeted towards. So for example when he was speaking about his version of his fear of an intruder and why he believed the noises that he heard and why it made him think that he and Reeva were in danger, you did hear deliberate action. It was very targeted action. He thought I need to protect myself and Reeva. I need to get my gun. He fetched his gun. He went cautiously down the passageway, very aware of looking at all different angles that a potential intruder could be hiding. That in itself is quite goal-directed behavior. And then conversely, when he says he had the shocking realization that it may, in fact, be Reeva Steenkamp in the toilet that he had shot at, he then shifts that goal-directed behavior towards trying to access her and get help for her. So there was certainly goal-directed target of behavior the whole way through. It's just a matter of what he believed he was directing that behavior towards.", "And his perception is key in this, as he is the only living witness to the night's events. The court adjourned early today. They'll start again tomorrow morning. You have both been there through it all. An amazing, unbelievable testimony we've heard from Oscar Pistorius today. We'll continue to cover that, of course. Robyn Curnow, Kelly Phelps, thank you so much for that. Let's take a break, though. Coming up next on NEW DAY, a dancer who survived the Boston bombing but had to have her leg amputated shares her journey -- an unbelievable journey. She's vowing to dance again and do it with our own Anderson Cooper. You'll want to hear her story."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "OSCAR PISTORIUS, ON TRIAL FOR GIRLFRIENDS DEATH", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CUOMO", "KELLY PHELPS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BOLDUAN", "ROBYN CURNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CUOMO", "PHELPS", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-408403", "program": "CNN RELIABLE SOURCES", "date": "2020-08-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/16/rs.01.html", "summary": "Where The Latest Birther Lie Came From", "utt": ["Now to the roots of the newest birther lie. Honestly, I hate to even start a segment that way because the selection of Kamala Harris is a big deal and the smear is about her shameful. But the smears do show the crazed 2020 media ecosystem works or doesn't work. So, let's do it. Let me show you how this works, OK. The initial claim came from a Newsweek column written by a law professor John Eastman, who it is worth noting ran for California Attorney General the same year that Harris won that race. The Daily Beast says it took Newsweek three days and a staff revolt to finally come around and apologize for publishing that op-ed. Now, Newsweek initially defended it and said it wasn't about birtherism. But come on, it started this domino effect which caused President Trump to be asked about it at a press briefing. He kind of kept it going by not rejecting it, you know, by kind of saying he would look into it at first. Now, this weekend, the Trump officials have rejected it and admitted that Harris is of course eligible to run. But this is how it started. It started with a column on the Newsweek Web site, and it's been going ever since. What a racist way to waste four days of our time. Now, Harris is calling it out in new interview this Morning with the Grio. Here's what she said about this.", "They're going to engaged in lies, they're going to deception, they're going to engage in an attempt to distract from the real issues that are impacting the American people. And I expect that they will engage in dirty tactics, and this is going to be a knockdown drag out. And we're ready.", "Let's talk more about it with Senior Media Reporter Oliver Darcy, my CNN Newsletter companion. Oliver, we've been covering this in our nightly newsletter. First of all, what the heck happened to Newsweek Magazine?", "Yes, well, Newsweek Magazine initially came out, Brian, you know this, and they defended running this op-ed from this conservative law professor. But you know, a couple of days ago, they backtracked. They said they apologize, that they didn't really see how it was going to be used to perpetuate this racist birtherism lie. And so now they're backtracking. But you mentioned too that the campaign is apologizing for -- not apologizing, but saying that she is eligible to be vice president. We haven't heard the President say that though. You know, the president came out and he praised this law professors and said he was a very talented law professor and kind of floated this birtherism lie. And he hasn't apologized, or at least to my knowledge, backtracked on that and said, you know, Kamala Harris, I disagree with her policies, but she is eligible to be vice president.", "Speaking of these briefings here, here's one of these briefings where this question was asked. We've noticed something lately where representatives of President Trump's fan Web sites, like super-duper pro-Trump sites are being invited to these briefings as guests of the White House. Tell us why this is such a problem.", "Well, Brian, President Trump is really the conspiracy theorist, Commander in Chief, right. And Mike Pence says that he's a Christian first, a conservative second, a Republican third. I think for President Trump, he's really a conspiracy theorist first. And so, he wants his conspiratorial outlets in this briefing room. And he likes following on OAN which is a conspiratorial outlet. He likes falling on the Gateway Pundit, a conspiratorial outlet, and we're seeing this in the briefing room. It matters because --", "It help him out, right? It helps them out. They can throw softballs --", "Right, it helps him out.", "Yes.", "And these outlets are giving special treatment in the briefing room. They -- there are restrictions, social distancing restrictions right now implemented by the White House Correspondents Association. The White House is inviting these outlets in, you know, in contradiction to these guidelines, and allowing them into the briefing room because the president likes the kind of coverage they offer.", "And here's what the head of the White House Correspondents Association, Zeke Miller told me about this. He said it is outrageous the White House continues to invite guests to press briefings, putting the health and safety of everyone in that workspace at greater risk. He went on to say the social distancing guidelines were crafted in consultation with the White House based on the recommendations of the CDC and other public health professionals. Trampling on these guidelines endangers the critical work of journalists, of reporters who have maintained independent press coverage of the presidency throughout the pandemic. It's a perfect way to sum it up there from Zeke Miller. Let's talk about the COVID-19 crisis in the coverage, Oliver. Looking at today's front pages from Idaho to Michigan, COVID-19 remains front- page news. The Idaho Statesman, for example, pointed out there are still delays and shortages in getting test results. We are likely to see the 170,000-mark cross today confirmed deaths from COVID-19. But you know, the researchers have looked at the actual number of excess deaths in this country. The estimated death is above the norm. And they say it's closer to 200,000 so far this year. So the real actual death toll from COVID-19, around 200,000. For example, in Houston and in Texas has been noticed. Today's Houston Chronicle front page calls these deaths unaccounted. I guess the point, Oliver, is as we cover COVID-19 to make sure we don't get numb to this reality and we have to constantly remind viewers that It's even worse than we know, it's even worse than the data indicates.", "And, Brian, if you pay attention to conservative media, you know that the opposite is being told to them. You know, on talk radio and some of these right-wing sites, there's this conspiracy theory that the deaths are being over-counted. So, it's even more important for news outlets to stress these are -- you know, these are very likely undercounted numbers. We don't really know the toll of this virus has had on the country. We know that there are, you know, 160,000 plus directly linked cases of coronavirus deaths, but it's like you said, probably much higher. And one other point to make is we talked about a lot of positive tests and how the cases are going up. I think the death toll is probably a thing that the media should be emphasizing more as well as the hospitalization rates because the president keeps going on with this lie that the cases are only because we're doing more testing. Well, that doesn't account for the increase in deaths or the increase in hospitalization rates.", "Yes. And not just in the U.S., but around the world. There was a shocking study earlier in the week that found that about 800 people have died based on drinking a form of alcohol hoping it would cure them. And then that was the result of disinformation that was being spread on the internet. This was in other countries where you've got, of course, this information about COVID spreading around the world in 25 different languages and their deaths attributable to that disinformation. Oliver, thank you for being here. I mentioned the Newsletter. Folks can sign up for free right now@cnn.it/reliable. That's to get on the list for our nightly RELIABLE SOURCES Newsletter. After the break here, why this republican congressman is speaking out against QAnon."], "speaker": ["STELTER", "SEN. KAMALA HARRIS (D-CA), VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "STELTER", "OLIVER DARCY, CNN SENIOR MEDIA REPORTER", "STELTER", "DARCY", "STELTER", "DARCY", "STELTER", "DARCY", "STELTER", "DARCY", "STELTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-334790", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2018-03-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/11/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Nerve Agent Traces In Salisbury Pub And Restaurant; Regime Forces Retake Major Eastern Ghouta Town", "utt": ["You're watching CNN, and this is CONNECT THE WORLD. I'm Lynda Kincade, welcome back. Wash your clothes and anything you have on it. It will help get rid of any traces of a deadly nerve agent. British authorities telling possibly hundreds of people in a quiet city in England that that is what they have to do if they were in the same restaurant or pub last week as a former Russian double agent and his daughter, both of whom are now critically ill in hospital after being poisoned. This is the latest video in the scene and images from a surveillance camera of what is suspected to be pair walking along just moments before collapsing. They appear to be walking a third unidentified person. SOON after they go past, a police car and other first responders rushed in their direction. Britain's Home Secretary holding an emergency meeting this weekend giving us the latest right after it.", "The two victims remain in hospital, and they are critical but stable. Detective Sergeant Bailey who is also a victim, and was also affected is also seriously ill, but I'm pleased to say that he's engaging with his family, and he's talking. This is a serious, substantial investigation. There are over 250 counterterrorism police from eight out of our 11 counterterrorism unit involved. That's over 200 witnesses involved and it's over 240 pieces of evidence.", "Well, our CNN's Phil Black is on the scene where this mystery began. And Phil, we just heard from that press conference with police chief, fire crews and the medical authorities with a warning to the hundreds of people who may have been in the places where these Russian double agent was. Take us through what they said.", "Well, the advice is pretty simple, Lynda. If you are in the Italian restaurant behind me or a pub around the corner called the Mill, wash the clothes you're wearing that day. Wash your personal items, any belongings that you may have had on you. now, the key question, of course, is why are they offering this advice? Why now, why almost a week after the incident itself? Well, officials here are concerned that what they described as trace contamination from a nerve agent has been identified at these two locations and they say as a result of new information and recent analysis, they believe that this is the advice that people should receive even though that they believe the risk of any sort of serious health problem is pretty low. What they're worried about is a long-term health risk from low levels of contamination. This is how the advice here was described at a press conference a little earlier today.", "There may be a very small health risk associated with repeated contact with belongings which may have been contaminated by the substance. So we're recommending a very, very precautionary approach is taken and we're advising people to clean the clothes that they were wearing and any possessions that they had with them at the time.", "Now, what does this tell us about the nerve agent itself? Keeping in mind authorities said pretty quickly that they had identified it, that it is rare, but they're not naming it publicly at this stage as part of the general operational discipline they are maintained over the entire investigation here. While it shows that the authorities here believe that it has the ability to penetrate the human skin through prolonged exposure, even in very small dosage. That's one way that it can enter the human body and attack the nervous system. It also gives us a sense of the timeline between exposure and when Sergei and Yulia Skripal eventually succumbed to the nerve agent. And it really broadens that timeline out significantly, perhaps talking about a number of hours now. Because what it shows is that at some point they were exposed to this substance, then they have", "And Phil, we know that 21 people were treated for contamination after this incident took place, including a police sergeant who we heard from the police chief today has been moved to intensive care and that the police are quite anxious about him.", "Yes. So, of the three people seriously affected by this nerve agent is obviously Sergei and Yulia Skripal the alleged target of the attack itself, in addition to that, Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey. He was the police officer who was also struck down by the nerve agent, very seriously not long after his exposure to it. We don't know precisely when and how he was exposed to it but we are told that he was one of the first people to attend the scene where the Skripals were said to be suffering the effects of the nerve agent itself. He was in a pretty serious condition for a time but we know that from most of the week now, he has been awake and talking and engaging. He met -- he's met with senior officers, he met with the British Home Secretary and so forth, but the police here have said that his involvement in this, his injury, if you like, has added a very personal dimension to the whole affair, and really affected members of the force here who are involved in policing and investigating this particular incident, but of course, keeping the whole area running and safe as well, Lynda.", "All right, Phil Black for us in Salisbury, England. Thanks very much for staying across those developments for us. Well, some other stories -- some other stories on our radar right now. More than 8 million Cubans are taking part in elections that won't change much. They are choosing a new national assembly, but as ever, there's only one candidate every seat, and they are all part of the communist party. The big difference this time though, is they'll select a new president to replace Raul Castro come April. Hundreds of women have marched in Tunisia this weekend demanding equal inheritance rights. Under Islamic law, men inherit more than women, usually double. Women in Tunisia do have more rights than many women in parts of the Arab world but the North African state still lags behind Europe and the United States. Counterterrorist and police in Britain are doing everything they can to track down who sent these letters. They designate April 3rd as the so- called punish a Muslim day and offer points for different levels of criminal acts against Muslims. A victory but at a brutal cost. The Syrian military and its ally forces retook a major town on rebel-held", "You know, Lynda, within evolving battle, usually it's very difficult to try and, you know, say specifically how much they actually control. But reports indicate, and that's according also to state media affiliated with the regime, they're saying that they're in control with more than 50 percent of Eastern Ghouta right now. And that wouldn't be a surprise. If you look at what's been going on on the ground, you've had three weeks of this relentless bombing campaign where almost every part of Eastern Ghouta has been pounded almost on a daily basis. This is a part of the country that has been under siege for nearly five years, and we've also seen this ground offensive over the past couple of weeks where regime forces have been moving in on several fronts on Eastern Ghouta and it seems the area where they are making the gains is on the eastern front over the past week. They have claimed to have captured a number of towns and villages and as you mentioned the latest, the town of Misraba on Saturday, and that's not just according to the regime, we've also heard it from activist on the ground. One activist actually telling us that they had captured what he described the semi-destroyed rubble town of Misraba in his word -- in his own word. Now, this is not just about territorial gains here, Lynda. What we're looking at is likely a Syrian regime military tactic and strategies. They are basically trying to cut off different parts of Eastern Ghouta from one another in an effort it seems to disrupt and cut rebels supply routes. So it seems right now that it's a matter of time before they're able to recapture all of Eastern Ghouta. But when you've got both sides, at least publicly, vowing to continue with this fight, determined to fight until the bitter end, the concern, of course, is for the civilians who remain trapped inside this place that has become now what is being described as hell on earth.", "Yes, absolutely horrific scenes we're seeing coming from there. But of course Jomana, this Syrian civil war is approaching seven years this Thursday. We've seen calls for cease fire by the United Nations and Russia several times. Just give us the sense of the long-term strategy. Is there any end in sight?", "Well, I think as you know very well, Lynda. You know, we can't talk about Syria just as a civil war right now. If you look at it, you know, this is also has become a battlefield for different regional and international powers. So it seems like when you talk about a solution for Syria, it's as if every part of the country to an extent would need its own formula and long-term solution. But when it comes back to this civil war to the opposition versus President Assad, obviously the situation has really changed, especially over the past couple of years with the support that the regime has received from its Russian and Iranian and other allies. And you've really seen this shift in the balance of power which would reflected in any sorts of diplomatic talks or negotiations that would take place for the future of Syria whether those take place, Geneva, in", "All right, Jomana Karadsheh, a very complex problem. No doubt we will speak to you very soon. Thank you very much. Well, live from the CNN Center, this is CONNECT THE WORLD. The votes are in nearly 3,000 in favor, only two against. Presidential term limits a thing of the past in China. We'll have the details ahead. Plus, could the U.S. President reach the greatest deal on North Korea? That's what Donald Trump says can happen when he meets with Kim Jong-un. More on that highly anticipated meeting when we come back."], "speaker": ["KINKADE", "AMBER RUDD, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT", "KINKADE", "PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JENNY HARRIES, PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND", "BLACK", "KINKADE", "BLACK", "KINKADE", "JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KINKADE", "KARADSHEH", "KINKADE"]}
{"id": "CNN-37467", "program": "CNN CNNdotCOM", "date": "2001-8-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/19/cnncom.00.html", "summary": "Man Uses the Web to Enter NASCAR Events", "utt": ["Today on CNNdotCOM. Ever wish you could be in the pit as a NASCAR team owner? Now you can, virtually,", "I like to see fans get involved in things, instead of the big corporations.", "NASCAR is gaining sponsorship muscle at a pace that rivals its cars, but one man is using the web to show that anyone can get in on the action. Missed out on tickets to the PGA championship tournament this weekend? Well, we've got your online scorecard.", "There are only going to be 30,000 people on site, so that leaves millions of golf fans out there watching the PGA championships.", "Hit the links up close and personal over the net. Enter an online world of dragon slaying and spell casting. EverQuest draws nearly 100,000 players a night, who log on from around the globe.", "To slay a dragon or to be able to fly is a pretty amazing thing. You don't really get the chance to do that often in real life.", "Take a behind-the-scenes look at this mystical cyberworld. This is CNNdotCOM with James Hattori, Hi everybody and welcome to CNNdotCOM, I'm James Hattori. The Internet, as we've all seen, has become a high-tech field of dreams where just about anything is possible. We begin this week with the story of a railroad worker who rode the information superhighway all the way to NASCAR on a fast track to realizing his dream, owning a race car. David George takes us to the starting line in Indianapolis. Let's go to the races.", "NASCAR racing is one of the highest-rated sports on television, second only to the NFL. Just two of NASCAR's many series, Winston Cup and Busch Grand National, drew about 9 million fans last year to tracks across the country. Now, thanks to the Internet and an upstart bunch called BigFanRacing, NASCAR enthusiasts have a new way to get involved in their favorite sport. The NASCAR experience includes big time sponsors, speed, excitement and power. And now, BigFanRacing has brought the most important element to pit row: The fans. Barely a year ago, Mark Watkins, a railroad worker was one of those fans. His son Josh dreamed of one day becoming a driver. And the two shared a bigger dream: A team of their own. Mark decided the only thing stopping them was money.", "I knew that financially there was no way that I could put together a team.", "A car costs $40,000, an engine $40,000 more. Sponsors pay millions for a piece of the action. But Mark Watkins didn't have any sponsors. Until he got an idea.", "One day it popped in my head that maybe there would be enough people on the Internet who were NASCAR fans that would like to donate or put in just a small amount of money. And if we could create enough volume, we could actually buy a car and maybe go out and run a few races.", "Watkins set up a home page and advertised on e-Bay. And pretty soon, people like \"Grumpy\" Wadding were buying shares at $50 and $100 each. \"", "Bought one for myself. Then I bought one for my wife. And then my stepdaughter got involved.", "The money literally poured in, a total of $100,000 and counting. In return, each owner got a share in the car and a rubber duck, the team mascot.", "He didn't know how well it would take off. And man, it just come in so fast and it was -- it enabled us to come to our first Busch race here in less than 6 months of work.", "Here is Indianapolis Raceway Park. The Busch circuit is NASCAR's minor league, but it is NASCAR nonetheless. Today's race: the Kroger 200. On a bright day in early August, the BigFan team is ready for the big time. Dozens of owners show up. The name of every owner is on the car. There's also a special message from one fan, Terry Boyd, to his girlfriend Lori. She said \"yes.\" The rest of the day didn't go as smoothly for fans of BigFanRacing. Number 89 didn't even make it through the pre-race practice.", "We were running real well, you know, before the practice. We were close to the top ten in practice. And it's just one of those racing things. We had a valve break on it.", "BigFanRacing didn't have an extra motor, standard equipment for teams with big bucks sponsors. BigFan's backers chalked this one up to experience, and vowed to stick with their fan-financed approach to racing.", "I like to see fans get involved in things, instead of the big corporations.", "The Watkins father and son are disappointed, but still determined.", "It happened so quickly. Right now I don't know what the future holds. But that's our dream for the Busch series, and then of course we want to get a Winston Cup car one day with BigFanRacing on it and get out there and see what happens.", "And if it happens, just think -- it all began on the Internet.", "We'll have our fingers crossed for BigFanRacing. Now, from four wheels to two feet. If speed and time are on your mind when you hit the track or jog around the neighborhood, then Marsha Walton has the gadget for you in this week's \"Technofile.\"", "Whether you're a hard-core runner or just trying to lose a few pounds, the speedometer by FitSense could be your best personal trainer. As you run or walk, the ergonomic watch will display your speed and distance, and how many calories you are burning.", "I could look and say, \"oh, I'm hitting 400 calories, let me go a little bit more.\"", "It will record your heart rate using a special strap. Oh, and yes, it also tells time. A foot pod that clips to your shoelace tracks how far and how fast you go, and sends the information wirelessly to your watch. You can log up to 28 separate workouts and then transfer them to your PC by a net link connection. And you can track your progress by charting the results on the web. The manufacturer says the speedometer is 98% accurate, so forget the pencil and calculator. With all the bells and whistles, the FitSense speedometer sells for $300. I'm Marsha Walton, and that's \"TechnoFile.\"", "Coming up on THE DOT, we'll show you why nearly half a million people are paying $10 per month to play a video game. But first, pro golfers gather for one of the PGA's premier events. You can track Tiger Woods as he chases the Cup in real time, on the web. That and more, when \"CNNdotCOM\" continues."], "speaker": ["JAMES HATTORI, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HATTORI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HATTORI", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HATTORI", "DAVID GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MARK WATKINS, BIGFANRACING FOUNDER", "GEORGE", "WATKINS", "GEORGE", "GRUMPY\" WADDING, BIGFANRACING MEMBER", "GEORGE", "MARDY UNDLEY, NASCAR DRIVER", "GEORGE", "WATKINS", "GEORGE", "WADDING", "GEORGE", "WATKINS", "GEORGE", "HATTORI", "MARSHA WALTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "YONAS ABRAHA, RUNNER", "WALTON", "HATTORI"]}
{"id": "CNN-342210", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-06-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/08/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Call to Action to Save Earth's Oceans", "utt": ["Friday is World Oceans Day. It's a call to action to clean up some of our most incredible resources and especially to save the oceans from plastic. One focus is Australia's Great Barrier Reef where advocates are working to ban single-use plastics such as straws; another danger -- climate change. This is home to the world's largest collection of coral reefs. It has already experienced extensive damage because of massive coral bleaching. And that of course, is alarming scientists. Ivan Watson joins us live now from Palmco (ph), Australia. Ivan what's being done?", "Well, I mean it is World Oceans Day. But this has been a tough story in this part of the world because in the last two years climate change and record high temperatures killed off an estimated 50 percent of the coral in the Great Barrier Reef -- this magnificent marine habitat, some 2,300 kilometers long. The Australian government has pledged up to around $400 million to come up with ways to try to save it so now the government scientist experts, they're in a race to come up with some kind of a way to save what's left of this magnificent reef.", "In aquamarine waters off the coast of Australia, there's a world so fantastic that words cannot do it justice. A sprawling marine habitat of coral reefs that's larger than Italy. I'm at the Great Barrier Reef. It is one of the natural wonders of the world and it is in trouble.", "This is the beginning of a", "Charlie Veron is the world's leading authority on the Great Barrier Reef. In a career spanning nearly half a century, he's discovered a quarter of the world's coral. Do you still remember the first time you came out and saw some of this?", "I'll never forget the first time I did. It made an image (ph) impression on me. I was absolutely -- my life started (ph).", "The 73-year-old godfather of coral gives me a guided tour. With a few short strokes we dive into a vibrant underwater universe, a place where living coral some of it centuries old provides shelter and food for countless species of marine life. But then Veron takes me to a nearby patch where the coral is dead as far as the eye can see. These coral forests cooked to death by record marine heat waves in 2016 and 2017.", "In just two years.", "In just two years.", "Australia is now in a race to save what's left of the reef. In April the government pledged around 400 million U.S. dollars to come up with ways to protect it.", "All our pilot studies are suggesting that it's all possible to help the reef help itself.", "Dr. Lina Bay is one of the scientists at a government research center trying to genetically engineer heat-resistant coral. This is an example of plating coral from the Great Barrier Reef but born and bred here in the laboratory four years ago. And you can see how much it's grown in that time. Scientists are also experimenting with a kind of IVF treatment to boost reproduction in the wilds. In this lab they test what they call a sunshield. Thinner than a human hair, it could theoretically protect coral from the sun. This inventor demonstrates a submersible drone called the ranger bot.", "Guided by artificial intelligence, it is designed to one day patrol the reef and protect the coral from predators. So far these are just pilot projects that could get funding from the government's new Reef Protection Program.", "There are still options available to us if we start looking at it now. We just can't wait 20 years and then start thinking about this.", "Can $400 million save this reef?", "No.", "Why not?", "Because the water is warming.", "Research shows record heat is killing coral at an increasingly frequent rate all across the planet. Australia alone cannot stop global warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Scientists here warn unless that changes this incredible reef stands little chance of surviving.", "Now Cyril, one of the other measures that the government is looking into is trying to clean up the fresh water waterways that have a lot of erosion coming out of them into the ocean that doesn't help the health of the coral. And you can see this water here isn't that aquamarine blue in the ocean. It is more brownish because of that sediment in there. But the other fact that some people may not know is the vast bulk of that Great Barrier Reef is far, far out to sea further than the eye can see. We were out of distance -- could not see the Australian mainland when we visited it. It was a distance of more than 50 kilometers that we traveled to these wild spots with all this life underneath the sea and above. For example, I saw a whale breaching near one of the reefs yesterday. But that just kind of underscores the fact that what is killing the reefs is not pollution from cities here, it's not kind of plastic in the water. It is literally the temperatures of the entire planet that have been heating up for the last 140 years -- Cyril.", "And you know, Ivan -- the scary thing is I remember that I reported on this, we've reported on this almost I think annually. And it just doesn't seem to change, the story doesn't get better. In fact it just gets worse. But thank you very much. That was an excellent piece of reporting. Ivan Watson -- telling the story from where it needs to be told, thank you. Appreciate it, my friend. And if you want to help save our oceans from plastic, students in schools around the world are celebrating World Oceans Day by enjoying lunch without plastic. The best efforts will be featured on CNN's live blog. Learn more on how to participate at CNN.com/zeroplasticlunch. One of the other things we're talking about -- the plastics in the ocean. That's another huge danger that we're talking about on World's Ocean Day. Ivan Cabrera from the CNN Weather Center has been working on this.", "Yes, you know. And the other item mentioned, and of course, the bleaching that is occurring is because of the warm water temperatures here but it's the other problem that we have a lot of plastic in the oceans because eventually it gets back to us. Let's talk about it here and take you through the numbers because they are astonishing here as we check in. Eight million metric tons dumped into the oceans", "Yes. You guys have been all across a number of volcanoes for a couple weeks now.", "It has been, hasn't it? Very active, yes.", "Ivan Cabrera from the CNN Weather Center -- thank you very much, appreciate it.", "Good to see you.", "Yes. Coming up, following Donald Trump's lead on water bottles. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["VANIER", "IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "WATSON", "CHARLIE VERON, GODFATHER OF CORAL", "WATSON", "VERON", "WATSON", "WATSON", "VERON", "WATSON", "LINA BAY, SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST", "WATSON", "WATSON", "BAY", "WATSON", "VERON", "WATSON", "VERSON", "WATSON", "WATSON", "VANIER", "IVAN CABRERA, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "VANIER", "CABRERA", "VANIER", "CABRERA", "VANIER"]}
{"id": "CNN-246033", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2014-12-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1412/26/cg.02.html", "summary": "Plan In Works To Transfer Gitmo Detainees; Tsunami: A Decade Later; Putin Cancels Holiday; Money Missing After Van Spills Cash", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Dana Bash in for Jake Tapper. In our World Lead today, the Obama administration appears to be moving forward on closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. CNN has new details about plans to transfer dozens of detainees from the facility. Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr joins me now. Barbara, how soon could these transfers happen?", "Well, some of them have are already been under way and what we are all learning here now is that expect to see several more transfers, perhaps half a dozen, by the end of the year and then dozens more through the first half of 2015. This gets the president at least further down the road to making the population of Guantanamo Bay smaller. Maybe he can get it down to just several dozen. Whether he can get it closed or not is going to be an issue. There's a lot of political and legal controversy about all of that. But they are on the road to try and ship out basically as many detainees as they can, send them back to their home countries or get a third country to take them. One of the big issues, they have dozens of detainees from Yemen. You cannot send them back to Yemen. Al Qaeda is very strong there right now. So they're trying to solve that problem. If they can do that, they might be able to really get the numbers down. President Obama is closer to his vow to try and close Guantanamo Bay.", "Barbara, you mentioned Yemen. You well know that a lot of the complaints from Capitol Hill that I hear on a daily basis from Republicans is the rate of recidivism, the people who they end up releasing, on purpose or not, they go back into the battlefield against the U.S. What are you hearing about that from your sources there about how they try to avoid that?", "That's one of the reasons they don't want to send them back to Yemen. Very careful about where they are sending them. In fact, just a few days ago, they sent several detainees to the South American country of Uruguay, hoping that would be a relatively safe place to keep them.", "Barbara Starr at the Pentagon, thank you for that information. Today marks ten years, hard to believe it, since this powerful wall of water rushed land in Southeast Asia killing nearly 230,000 people. That was December 26th, 2004. A tsunami came after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. It was the third strongest quake on record. The tsunami that followed left people devastated in 14 countries. Now, ten years later, you'll notice something striking about children in Indonesia. CNN's Andrew Spencer shows us the psychological scars that remain.", "If you see enough children in the Indonesian village here, you'll soon realize few of them are older than 10, because ten years ago, a tsunami killed most of the kids in this village. It also wiped out the village where this boy lived. Martinez had been playing soccer on the beach when the waves hit the shore. He was found three weeks later still alive and still owns the Portugal jersey he was found in.", "I was alone on the sea for 21 days and I saw dead bodies around me. I ate what I found in the sea.", "The images from ten years ago were startling, but few could show the scale of the devastation more than 1.7 million people displaced, more than 227,000 believed to have died. For weeks, photos of the missing and lists of names papered bulletin boards in Thailand, many of these people were never found. The third largest earthquake ever recorded measured at a magnitude of 9.1 is believed to have displaced several feet of water across 600 miles of the Indian Ocean floor. The resulting wave grew to be massive, drawing water away from the shore before hammering the coastlines of 14 countries in Southeast Asia. A second wave would follow, moving even farther inland. The resulting damage was incomprehensible. Ten years later, the damage has been cleaned up and homes rebuilt. But the emotional and psychological scars remain. I'm Andrew Spencer reporting.", "In Russia, Vladimir Putin is asking Santa for higher oil prices for this Christmas. He delivered a different natural resource to the people of Russia, coal, in their stockings. With his economy tanking, Russia's president announced that he's canceling holiday leave for government employees saying Moscow can't afford to take a vacation. They celebrate Christmas on January 7th. But Putin also ordered a cap on rising vodka prices also blamed on the falling ruble. So at least people can throw a few back to forget they have to work through the New Year. Here is an ethical question for you, what would you do if cash started to rain on you from a city street? Would you grab the money and run? That's exactly what dozens of people did in Hong Kong on Christmas Eve. The doors on that money man somehow malfunctioned and three boxes of cash fell out. That is $3 million. That's equivalent to about $2 million here. Crowds dashed towards it on the street, even dodged traffic. Others stopped and grabbed their cash out of their cars. Police eventually showed up. Officers blocked off the area that that was in and picked up leftover cash that blew in the bushes. The next day, detectives tracked down two people and arrested them for hiding the money in their homes. Police are now asking any other takers to voluntarily return the cash. If not, they, too, could face charges and jail time if officers track them down. In our politics lead, he had been an instant front-runner, but the star quickly faded after a series of embarrassing blunders. So will Rick Perry be able to reinvent himself for a possible 2016 run? And is Hillary Clinton any closer to making up her mind. That's next."], "speaker": ["DANA BASH, CNN GUEST ANCHOR", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "BASH", "STARR", "BASH", "ANDREW SPENCER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MARTUNIS, TSUNAMI SURVIVOR (through translator)", "SPENCER", "BASH"]}
{"id": "CNN-161223", "program": "CNN SUNDAY MORNING", "date": "2011-1-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/23/sm.01.html", "summary": "Trooper on Leave Over Assault Allegations", "utt": ["Sad news to pass along this morning. Ed Mauser, the oldest living survivor of the 101st Airborne Division, or the Band of Brothers, as known by many, passed away Friday in Omaha, Nebraska. Mauser was 94. We should note the recent death of Easy Company leader, Dick Winters, he passed away earlier this month in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Winters was 92. Another war and the story of a missing brother in North Korea. Twins who did everything together. CNN's Kyra Phillips talked with Vincent Krepps, a Silver Star recipient, about efforts to have north Korea return the remains of his brother, Richard.", "Twin brothers, Vincent and Richard Krepps, enlisted in the Army on September 2, 1949. They were just 19 years old.", "We were both in the Second Infantry Division, a branch of the Army. We were in the same unit, same battery, same platoon.", "During a vicious battle against the North Koreans, the Krepps brothers, and their platoon were given the order, stand or die. Vincent survived. Richard vanished.", "By this time I was -- I had tears running down my face. I knew the worst probably had happened.", "Richard was captured by the enemy and later died in captivity.", "Richard lives through me and live through Richard. Richard was very quiet, very -- he loved being home.", "Vincent spent the last 60 years trying to have his brother's remains brought home. He's encouraged by North Korea's recent offer to return the remains of several hundred American soldiers, encouraged but guarded.", "I know that there's a lot of families out there that are thrilled to death over this. But there's some caution in my mind.", "Krepps has heard this tune before. So has Congressman Charles Rangel of New York, also a veteran of the Korean War. The congressman even takes it one step further.", "I don't pay too much attention to the North Koreans, as we didn't pay too much attention in 1950 when we drove them to the Yalu River. It is the Chinese communists that are pulling the strings there. Everyone knows it.", "Krepps doesn't know if the North Koreans are sincere, or if they're trying to deflect the international spotlight off of themselves. But he says the offer represents movement and perhaps a chance to finally say goodbye to Richard.", "I miss sitting around with him and having a beer or something, and talking about the days in Korea, talking about all of our days as youngsters. We played together and played baseball together. We did everything together every day of our life. I miss that part of it, as much as anything.", "Kyra Phillips, CNN.", "Good morning. Take a look at this. A traffic stop ends with a 53-year-old woman getting punched. A highway patrol trooper at the center of the chaos is under investigation. Coming up: more of the dramatic footage and the twist that will have you thinking twice about the case.", "Chaos and protests rock another North African country, this time, Algeria. Has Tunisia's revolution created instability in the region? We are tracking a global hotspot that has the Obama administration's attention. And, relax, at least you're supposed to when you're doing yoga. That's not the case, though, for one group. They're angry because the workout isn't sacred enough. It's early and we're on it. From CNN Center, this is CNN SUNDAY MORNING. It's January 23rd. Good morning, everyone. Glad you're with us. I'm Randi Kaye. Imagine this -- an 18-year-old Dutch mental health patient is tethered to the wall for hours every day. The hospital where he lives says it's for his own safety and the safety of attendants who work with him. This video is from a documentary out of the Netherlands. Health officials there say his treatment is in line with rules for restraining patients. But the documentary by the Evangelical Broadcasting Company is causing Dutch lawmakers to re-examine the treatment of psychiatric patients. The young man's mother says he's constantly restrained.", "Well, this is Brandon. He is chained to the wall on a line. He actually lives like a caged animal. He feels like a dog on a line. This is day in and out. His situation -- yes, he sits like this the whole day, every day.", "The hospital says that the teen's treatment is an exceptional case. The country's public health director says there are 40 similar cases in the Netherlands. Now, check out this video just released by the Utah Department of Public Safety. It shows a highway patrolman punching the driver of a stopped car in the head. First, let me point out that this is the end of a police chase through Ogden, Utah. Now, let me say that the driver was a 53-year-old woman. The trooper is on paid leave while investigators sift through the details.", "Pursuits can be very, very dangerous. And for that reason, this review process is essential in what we do.", "The charges against the driver were dropped earlier this month. President Obama is already laying out his agenda for the upcoming year -- jobs. He sent this messaging to supporters previewing the focus for Tuesday's State of the Union address.", "We've got millions of our fellow Americans who are out there struggling every day, don't have a job or haven't seen a raise in a long time, paycheck is shrinking at a time when costs are going up. And so, my principle focus -- my number one focus -- is going to be making sure that we are competitive, that we are growing and we are creating jobs not just now but well into the future.", "We will have much more on the State of the Union throughout the morning. And be sure to tune in for special coverage of the address here on CNN starting Tuesday night. You can catch it at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Two forensic scientists have now been cleared by the court to retest key evidence in the Italian murder case of American Amanda Knox. Knox was convicted in 2009 in the killing of her roommate. She's appealing and the independent review of the murder weapon is key to her case. Those forensic experts are expected to have their testing done by early May.", "Unrest in Algeria where pro-democracy demonstrators defied a government ordered ban yesterday in the capital. Security forces clashed with the protesters. Algerian press services report 11 individuals injured, eight policemen as well. Last week in neighboring Tunisia, similar protests led to the ouster of Tunisia's longtime president. The search for a missing 4-year-old boy in northern California has stalled. Authorities suspended their search of a canal in Patterson until tomorrow. Patterson is about 75 miles west of Oakland. The sheriff says Juliani Cardenas was snatched from his grandmother's arms Tuesday by Jose Esteban Rodriguez, the ex-boyfriend of the child's mother.", "This is getting frustrating. It's like riding a rollercoaster. You think you're going to be able to bring closer to this case, and then, suddenly, you know, once again, we recovered probably another stolen vehicle. So, as always, we remain hopeful that we're going to be able to find Juliani alive and bring him home. That's our goal. It's -- that's always been our goal.", "A witness had told investigators he saw a car with a male driver and a youngster drive into a canal in the area. Afghanistan's parliament held a special session today. They decided to accept Karzai's offer of a Wednesday inauguration but only if he dissolves a special court that's looking into election fraud allegations. CNN's Arwa Damon is in Kabul. And, Arwa, can you tell us where things stand now?", "Well, Randi, there have been all sorts of back-and-forth regarding that special court. Right now, the decision is with the president. The parliamentarians are waiting to see if he will decide to, in fact, dissolve it. This special court was set up by President Karzai in December, largely to appease the losing candidate in the parliamentary election and investigate their various complaints, hundreds of them. These elections that took place in November were severely marred with widespread allegations of fraud, irregularities. The Independent Election Commission did eventually verified and certified those results but only after tossing out more than a million ballots. President Karzai wants the parliament to agree that will accept the legitimacy and the findings of the special court. Parliamentarians, however, argue that it is unconstitutional. They want to see it dissolved and add a solution and are suggesting that the country's Supreme Court look into those claims. So, it's very much still a waiting game at this stage. And this is really not boding well for the future of Afghanistan, Randi, especially not for U.N. and U.S. officials who have been watching this unfolding with great concern. They desperately want to see a stable government seated here. There is one point, though, that all sides do agree on and that is that this ongoing stalemate is serving to further deepen ethnic divide and also playing straight into the hands of the Taliban -- Randi.", "And I know, Arwa, there's been a lot of concern, of course, about rising tensions there. Have you seen any signs of unrest?", "Well, there are some initial signs that took place today in Kabul. For example, one of the losing candidates staged a small demonstration with a few hundred people in attendance. They were largely protesting the fact that these negotiations were even taking place between the president and parliament. They were also protesting the potential inauguration of parliament that could still take place on Wednesday if they do reach a compromise. One of the leaders of this loose coalition that has been formed by losing candidates were saying that if parliament is, in fact, inaugurated these types of demonstration would intensify, that they plan on having them take place across the entire country. The losing candidates really feel as if this election was stolen from them. Most of them are from the country's predominantly Pashtun. They say their constituents could not go out to vote because, remember, that is where a lot of the fighting with the Taliban is currently concentrated. Therefore, security intimidation kept people from getting out to the polls. And they say that the Independent Election Commission did not adequately investigate their claims of fraud either. And so, what's going to happen is still very much uncertain. But if this parliament does end up being inaugurated as it stands, it does threaten to further alienate the country's Pashtun population and raising concerns that it could drive even more people straight into the hands of the Taliban -- Randi.", "All right. Arwa Damon in Kabul -- we'll have to leave it there. Thank you, Arwa. Talk about cold cash. Take a look at what some people will do to help their kids. Even Gumby couldn't wait to take the plunge. Reynolds Wolf, I know you're a big fan of these polar bear dips, aren't you?", "Sort of kind of, but not really. Gumby is green, but that water, it looks like it's starting to make him turn blue, doesn't it? I mean, that's certainly some cold times. I'll tell you what? We're going to see a plunge, Randi, of some very cold temperatures moving across a third of the nation. That's coming up in a few moments. Things are looking pretty nice in our nation's capital. We'll have more coming up in a few. Keep it here. You're watching CNN SUNDAY MORNING."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "VINCENT KREPPS, KOREAN WAR VETERAN", "PHILLIPS", "KREPPS", "PHILLIPS", "KREPPS", "PHILLIPS", "KREPPS", "PHILLIPS", "REP. CHARLES RANGEL, (D) NEW YORK", "PHILLIPS", "VINCENT KREPPS, KOREAN WAR VETERAN", "PHILLIS", "KAYE", "KAYE", "PETRA VAN INGEN, MOTHER OF MENTAL HEALTH PATIENT (through translator)", "KAYE", "BRIAN HYER, UTAH DPS SPOKESMAN", "KAYE", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KAYE", "KAYE", "SHERIFF ADAM CHRISTIANSON, STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA", "KAYE", "ARWA DAMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAYE", "DAMON", "KAYE", "REYNOLDS WOLF, AMS METEOROLOGIST"]}
{"id": "CNN-222976", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-1-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1401/15/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Police Suspect May Have Warned Schoolmates; New Video Shows Crews Were Alerted To Teen; Has Snowden Forced NSA Changes?; Leahy: Programs Don't Justify Privacy Intrusion; Obama: I'm Not Waiting For Congress", "utt": ["Good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Police in New Mexico say the 12-year-old boy who opened fire in his middle school may have warned some students to stay home and out of danger. Investigators won't elaborate who was warned or how they were told. In the meantime, police aren't revealing anything about a possible motive or the source of that sawed off shotgun the boy used to fire on two students. This morning an 11-year-old is in critical condition and a 13-year-old girl, Kendal Sanders, is in stable condition. These images are from her Facebook page. Other students are in disbelief that school violence has shattered their sense of safety.", "We were all talking and then we hear gunshots. Then the second shot, I turn around and Nathaniel got hit in the face.", "Why would somebody even do that to somebody?", "I was really scared of what happened, but I don't want to go to the school anymore because of what happened because I'm afraid it's going to happen again.", "CNN's Stephanie Elam is live at Roswell, New Mexico, with more on this. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. We take a look at how everything happened. School hadn't even begun yet. Students were arriving. They were gathering in the gym because it's pretty frigid here in Roswell in the morning. As they were gathering there, that's when the report is that this child came in and started shooting and hit those two students. And they're saying if it hasn't been for the quick thinking of the adults in there, in particular one teacher, a social studies teacher named John Masterson, this could have been much worse. Take a listen to what the governor of New Mexico had to say about it.", "Mr. Masterson is a hero who stood there and allowed there and allowed the gun to be pointed right at him and to talk down that young boy to drop the gun so that there would be no more young kids hurt.", "And if you think about it, when all of this happened in that split second, this teacher approached the student, got him to put his gun down, and then took the student up against the wall to stop him from doing any further harm -- Carol.", "Stephanie Elam reporting live from Roswell, New Mexico. Also this morning we have new details of a truly heart breaking tragedy. A 16-year-old girl survives the crash of her airliner only to die in the chaos that followed. Newly released video obtained by CBS shows first responders not only saw the injured teenager, they waved away the fire truck that would later run over her. CNN's Dan Simon is in San Francisco where that crash took place last July. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. It was such a tragic revelation. Here you had this 16-year-old girl from China. She was excited to come to the U.S. She survives the crash only to be run over by two fire trucks. Now you have this new video coming out and it's raising important questions about how firefighters acted that day.", "There's a body right -- there's a body right there, right in front of you.", "Chilling new video obtained by CBS News giving us a rare up close look from a firefighter's helmet cam. The chaotic moments first responders encountered after Asiana Flight 214 crash landed in San Francisco last July. This 16-year-old (inaudible) was accidentally run over twice by fire trucks. Her family has since filed a wrongful death claim against the city. In particularly blunt language, it accuses first responders of deliberately and knowingly abandoning the teen where they knew she would be in harm's way.", "Stop, stop. There's a body right -- there's a body right there, right in front of you.", "Does the new video prove the tragic accident could have been avoided? There's also this. Another camera appears to show a firefighter directing the truck around the victim.", "We're heart broken. We're in the business of saving lives and many lives were saved that day.", "This video may be crucial to understanding what happened to her who the coroner says survived the crash, but died from injuries she suffered after being run over. At the time officials said her body was obscured by foam and couldn't be seen by the trucks. That combined with the chaos of putting out the fire and rescuing victims.", "I will say this, it was very, very hectic, very emergency mode at the crash site minutes after the airplane came to rest and there was smoke inhalation and people were coming out of the fuselage as fast as they could.", "The spectacular crash of Asiana Flight 214 was captured on amateur video and on surveillance cameras, the Boeing 777 descending too low on landing crashing into the sea wall and cart wheeling across the runway tragically claiming the lives of three passengers and ejecting two flight attendants from the aircraft on impact. A court may eventually have to decide whether fire crews in this video were negligent and should be held accountable for the teenager's death.", "And why it took so long for this video to come out is also an important question. At this point, the San Francisco Fire Department has yet to address the video saying it doesn't comment on pending litigation. Carol, we should point out that many firefighters acted heroically that day, but this is clearly something the fire department needs to address. At this point, they just haven't talked about it -- Carol.", "I'm sure you'll stay on the story. Dan Simon reporting live from San Francisco this morning. Surprising new claims about the NSA, which reportedly planted spy software into computers across the globe. That's according to \"The New York Times.\" The paper says the software has targeted everyone from the Chinese military to Mexican drug cartels. The NSA claims the software is used to defend the U.S. against foreign cyber attacks, not to obtain information. The revelation comes as President Obama prepares to outline his reforms to the agency's phone and e-mail surveillance. The president will unveil those reforms Friday. But at a Senate hearing lawmakers stress that the NSA's methods are not warranted.", "As I said repeatedly, this phone record program is not uniquely valuable enough to justify massive intrusion on Americans' privacy.", "Our chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto is with me now. Jim, skeptics think the president won't make too many revisions to the NSA. What do you think?", "Well, I think looking at it now that the bottom line is this, that the bulk collection that caused all this controversy, the collection of these mass amounts of phone metadata, phone calls made by Americans and those overseas will continue with safeguards. This is not going to change, not going to eliminate that key program there. What's also interesting is the president got together this blue ribbon panel of very experienced experts, the former deputy head of the CIA, former national security adviser on terror issues, Richard Clark, they came together, put up 46 different recommendations. And when you look at what we're hearing that the White House is going to accept a small number of those recommendations and none of them touching really that big program. For instance, one had had been talked about was moving the metadata from the governments hands, from the NSA's hands back to the private telephone companies. Those companies had resisted it. They don't even want it. It doesn't look like the president is going to take even that step now.", "OK, so in our \"Washington Post\" interview last month, Edward Snowden, who is responsible for all of this, right? He said this, \"For me in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission is already accomplished. I already won. As soon as journalists were able to work, everything I had been trying to do was validated.\" In light of what you just said, is Edward Snowden right or wrong?", "Well, I think he would say that he won. He put this out there. He caused a national debate. He certainly made Americans aware, but you talk to officials here, and interestingly, both supporters and critics of this program are not calling Edward Snowden a hero. You played a sound clip there from Patrick Leahy who's been one of the most vocal critics of the program questioning whether it is worthwhile biggest critics talking about a violation of American privacy. But he's not saying Snowden's a hero. He's not saying Snowden should be granted amnesty or plea bargain. At least in terms of the officials dealing with this, they wouldn't say he won. I'm sure there are some who would disagree. But there was one more powerful moment from those hearings yesterday in the Senate. When the members of that intelligence review panel were asked if this metadata collection would prevent another 9/11, and they gave a nuanced answer. They said what they found was that this collection has not played a significant role in preventing any terrorist attacks to this point. That's a remarkable admission. Given that the administration had initially claimed that perhaps more than 50 plots might have been helped by this kind of collection. But they went on to say it only has to be successful once. So the members of these panel -- this panel that has recommended the 46 changes many of which the president will not take, they did say it's worthwhile. This collection is worthwhile if it keeps Americans safer.", "Jim Sciutto, many thanks. Still to come in the \"NEWSROOM,\" what did the Chicago archdiocese do when they learned of sexual abuse claims? Well, thousands of documents set to be released today. Ted Rowlands is following that story. Hi, Ted.", "Good morning, Carol. Victims have been waiting years for this day. The church has been fighting for years to avoid this day. What will these documents show? 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{"id": "CNN-69988", "program": "CNN SATURDAY NIGHT", "date": "2003-4-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0304/26/stn.04.html", "summary": "Interview With Larry Pratt, Blaine Rummel", "utt": ["Even before Heston, the NRA was one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington. So where does the debate on guns in America now stand and where does it go? For a status report, we're joined by two guests: Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, and Blaine Rummel is with the Coalition to stop Gun Violence. They both just us from Washington. Thanks for being with us. Larry, actually Blaine let me start off with you. Charlton Heston was a very effective president of the NRA. Are you glad he's gone?", "Well no doubt he was an effective president. I don't think anybody would argue with that. Are we glad that he's gone? I guess so, we'd have to admit that we are. I mean, you know, he was very effective. But more importantly, this is a chance for the NRA to now change, change internally, contribute more positively to the public debate on guns. You know, we're in an age of terrorism right now. And mainstream Americans and even mainstream NRA members don't understand why the NRA has for years opposed background checks on every gun sale, why they oppose renewing the federal ban on assault weapons that expires next year, and why they want to shield gun makers and gun dealers from legal action, even when they behave irresponsibly. So...", "Well, Larry, let me bring you in here. I guess mentioned terrorism. Do you think 9/11 has actually helped groups like the NRA and your own group? Do you think it sort of brought the idea of gun ownership more into people's lives?", "Following 9/11 and also following the Beltway sniper, a lot of people came to the conclusion correctly that the government cannot protect us. And they've acted on that belief. They've gone out and bought firearms. And that is going to contribute some to the edge that we're going to be able to bring. We've already been able to see some success in arming pilots. We're looking for more. We're seeing success in the -- limiting those frivolous lawsuits against gun makers, designed to put them out of business. And...", "So where are you drawing the battle lines right now? I mean, what's the top issue as far as you're concerned?", "Well, I think the lawsuit issue still has to clear the Senate. And then next year, we have to make sure that the ban on semi-automatic firearms is not renewed. It will take positive enactment of a new piece of legislation to do that. And even though the president says he supports that gun ban, Lord willing, we're going to be able to stop that.", "And Blaine, let me just bring in Blaine, Blaine, as far as you see it, where are the battle lines drawn? What are your top issues?", "I would agree with Mr. Pratt here. The top issue is this ridiculous special interest giveaway that is going to shield gun makers and dealers from legal action, even when they behave irresponsibly. You know, just a couple weeks ago, a fellow by the name by Bob Ricker (ph), who is a high ranking NRA official, blew the whistle on the gun industry's practices, and said yes, we knew for years that our distribution and marketing practices aided criminal access to guns. And what the NRA is now trying to do is shield any kind of legal action that's going to hold these dealers accountable. Now it seems to me that for an organization that prides itself on rights and on accountability, it seems very strange to me that this is their top priority, that they want to shield these kinds of people when they're actions aid gun -- aid criminal access to guns.", "All right, Larry, I'm going to give you the final thought tonight?", "Well, Mr. Ricker's (ph) been on both sides of the issue. His credibility in court is probably close to zero. And in the meantime, I think we're going to be actively engaged in pushing to make it so that if you have a concealed carry permit in one state, it will be recognized in another state. And I think that's going to contribute to increasing the comfort level for a lot of citizens. And we're going to see the continued the decline in the crime rates in our country because more and more of us are going to be able to resist criminal attack.", "All right, we've got...", "Anderson?", "...to -- I'm sorry, we're going to leave it there.", "If more guns meant -- all right, thank you.", "I'm sorry. You know how it goes. Appreciate it. Charlton Heston may be gone, the debate certainly continues. We'd love to have you both on at another time. Larry Pratt and Blaine Rummel.", "Would love to.", "Thank you. 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{"id": "CNN-201070", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-2-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/12/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Legal Recourse for Cruise Passengers", "utt": ["It is the cruise you never want to take. The Carnival \"Triumph\" dead in the water for days in the Gulf of Mexico, and finally now under tow to Alabama. More than 3,000 passengers and 1,000 crew or so enduring awful conditions, sleeping out on the decks, dealing with busted toilets. A little bit of food and a long wait. And the heat. And no A.C. All starting when a fire clocked out the engine and left them drift being. You can bet this can be one big lawsuit waiting to happen. A whole bunch. Oh, can I say, I don't know, 3,000 or so lawsuits.", "There's not much you can do, actually. I will say, I love cruises. I just came back from a Celebrity Reflection cruise. I had a great time. The bottom line, it's a contract when you get on these cruises and you sign up for it, if you look at your ticket on the back, it does say that. So you usually have to arbitrate, you have sort of a monetary amount. But I think they are trying to make it right, they will give them their money back, they will pay for their airfare and offer them a free cruise. If you are not a cruiser who doesn't want a free cruise, I think they are getting a decent deal.", "Make it quick, if you could, Judge Hatchett. If they offer you a free cruise after you have been through this, are you thinking --", "No. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. But I think they have a bigger P.R. problem, I think there's a legal problem but a bigger P.R. problem. There would be wise to do some settlement. Even if they can't prevail given the clause on the back of the ticket the publicity around clients' actions would be devastate being. They need to work this out.", "And some small teeny tiny language saying and you may never speak of this publicly again."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "HOSTIN", "BANFIELD", "HATCHETT", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-339187", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-05-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/04/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Trump Would Speak with Mueller.", "utt": ["We are waiting to see Vice President Pence there at the podium in Dallas. He's addressing the annual meeting of the NRA. We're waiting for the president to take the podium as well. As we wait for that, I want to bring back in my guests. We continue to hash through what's happened not only in the last 18 minutes since we went on the air with a statement from Rudy Giuliani but also what's happened even just this morning. I want to take a closer look at some of what the president had to say this morning about Rudy Giuliani. Take a listen.", "Nobody wants to speak more than me. In fact, against my lawyers because most lawyers they never speak on anything. I would love to speak. Because we've done nothing wrong. There was no collusion with the Russians, there was nothing. There was no obstruction. I would love to go, I would love to speak, but I have to find that we're going to be treated fairly. It is a very unfair thing. If I thought it was fair, I would override my lawyers.", "There we have the president talking about how he really wants to talk to Robert Mueller. Nobody wants to talk to Robert Mueller more than this president. Paul, I know we've asked you this question a number of times, if you are the president's attorney, do you advise him to go in there and have this discussion? We know not every attorney who has worked for him has given him that advice.", "I would never advise him to speak to Mueller. Every time the president makes a statement about a subject, he changes what he says about it. There are always five different versions of everything. You do that under oath to a federal prosecutor you have committed a crime. The president can speak publicly at a press conference and say whatever he wants. He's not going to be prosecuted for that. But if he testifies falsely before a grand jury, he's in trouble. He's facing potential criminal charges or impeachment first before there would be criminal charges.", "When you look at that Giuliani interview, the first one that he gave to Sean Hannity, he kind of set that up. He said we think this is going to be a trap, we don't think this investigation is fair to begin with, setting up the parameter to which they could deny this. You can see just in the past 24 hours the way in which the president can't get his own story straight, that would set off alarm bells among attorneys wondering whether he should sit down with the special counsel if he can't get the story straight on the payment. Let's be honest here this is only the latest example of the president having a tough time keeping all of those ducks in a row. This is yet another example of why that's a concern. In terms of parameters, to Kaitlin's point, you have Rudy Giuliani setting the parameters there sending very clear messages in that interview with Sean Hannity, just like you have the president sending this clear message as he has in the past. I'm putting the narrative out there that I would love to speak with Robert Mueller. This is not me saying I don't want to speak with a special counsel. If I don't do it, it's just because of my lawyers and they won't be fair to us. But that's also an important narrative that the president is putting out there.", "He has to make that case in order to keep his base with him, keep the narrative going that this is a witch hunt, that he has nothing to hide, that he's willing to speak to investigators. But of course, if you are President Trump's lawyer, you don't want to put him in front of Mueller. We know from that very specific list of questions that the \"New York Times\" published earlier this week that there are so many areas in which there is legal peril for the president. And it's hard to see what he would gain beyond a PR victory with the public in going in and facing those questions and those follow-ups.", "When we look at it in terms of messages that we got about the special counsel, the other thing that really stood out from Rudy Giuliani was this very clear message, do not go after Ivanka Trump. Jared Kushner, he's kind of disposable. But the minute the special counsel turns its focus on Ivanka Trump, that's when we really get serious. Paul, it's pretty tough to ignore that was a direct threat in many ways.", "It almost seemed like Giuliani sat down with the president and the president said I want you to make it clear, send a message about leaving Ivanka alone. All of us are critical of the president so nobody can criticize him for wanting to protect his daughter. But it also suggests that maybe the president's true fear is what would be found out if there was a detailed investigation of the Trump organization or Ivanka's businesses. That's what he's worried about. And a message is being sent to Mueller don't touch her, don't go near her.", "And we also got a statement from Rudy Giuliani where he talks specifically about James Comey and writes \"it is undisputed that the president's dismissal of former Director Comey an inferior executive officer was clearly within his article two power. Recent revelations about former Director Comey further confirm the wisdom of the president's decision which was plainly in the best interests of our nation. He is clarifying his comments there, Maeve, what's interesting is how much the narrative on how and why decision was made to fire James Comey has shifted.", "It has and clearly that is one of the areas that is most dangerous for the president. And we don't have a clear set of facts, we have Comey out on his book tour talking about his side of the story. President Trump has said lots of conflicting things about the firing dating back to that original interview that he did with Lester Holt. So, I think that this is an area clearly that investigators are looking at and that the White House needs to get much clearer on their set of facts here. But Giuliani in general, that statement is just so confusing. It's like a Rubik's cube. You can't even figure out exactly what he's trying to say. I'm not really sure that's going to help the situation much today for the White House.", "You know, there's another, as we were all waiting and watching to see what would happen once Rudy Giuliani was brought on a couple of weeks ago and we're seeing some of that and its aftermath, there were still all of questions about John Kelly and the relationship between him and the president, which the president also addressed this morning. Take a listen to this moment.", "General Kelly is doing a fantastic job. There has been such false reporting about our relationship. We have a great relationship. He's doing a great job as chief of staff. I could not be more happy. So, I just want to tell you that.", "It's an absolute privilege to work for a president that has gotten the economy going, we're about to have a breakthrough, I believe, on North Korea. The jobs report today. Everything is going phenomenally well, attacking the opioid crisis. It nothing less than brilliant what's been accomplished in the last 15 months. I believe.", "I will say one thing that was brilliant in that exchange there, Kaitlin, is how General Kelly changed the narrative there. The president complained earlier today that we are not talking about these great unemployment numbers. And that we are almost at full employment and all anybody wants to talk about is this payment because both he and Rudy Giuliani were talking about. John Kelly right there really doing his job. Very quickly shifting to say, hey, look at this bright shiny object over here and how well all of these things are going.", "Right, exactly. And they're standing right next to each other, so they can't really get into their personal relationship there. You could see John Kelly trying to take the reins here, trying to shift the president's and the public's away from all of this. I will say though however we're in the middle of a Republican primary season right now where you have a lot of Republican candidates and Republican voters who are very much sympathetic to the president and his views about this whole thing being a witch hunt and a distraction from things like at economy and from things like North Korea and other things that the president claims as successes. We have to note, however, that the president continues to talk about this in a way that helps to overshadow a lot of what Republicans on Capitol Hill would rather him be talking about. I think the Giuliani and Trump kind of strategy in that interview and taking that aggressive stance against Mueller was the sign that the two are them are keeping everybody else at the White House in the dark. Sarah Sanders herself said she didn't know that Trump knew about -- made this repayment until she saw that actual interview on television. The White House of course according to reporting caught off guard by the whole thing so it shows the limits.", "You know what the strange thing about it is, though? Giuliani is now using Trump speak, which usually lawyers are precise in their expression of what's going on. He's now talking like Trump. This could be this, it could be that.", "Maybe the president had a hand in drafting this. So many questions that we have. We do need to take a quick break. We're waiting for the president to take a podium there in Dallas. A federal judge today issuing a remarkable rebuke at a hearing for Paul Manafort. It wasn't for Manafort. This was for the special counsel's team. Plus, a CNN exclusive on the Republican chairman of the House Intel Committee who has been on a rampage about the Russia probe. Now we're learning when he gets those documents he doesn't read them. That's next."], "speaker": ["HILL", "TRUMP", "HILL", "CALLAN", "HILL", "RESTON", "HILL", "CALLAN", "HILL", "RESTON", "HILL", "TRUMP", "JOHN KELLY, WHIT HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF", "HILL", "COLLINS", "CALLAN", "HILL"]}
{"id": "CNN-109348", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2006-8-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/15/acd.02.html", "summary": "Who Won? U.K. Terror Probe; Muslim Anger; Roots of Terror", "utt": ["Check my passport. Check my hunter pass, check what you want. Don't associate me to terrorism later on because I don't welcome you to do that. You can't go around knocking on other people's houses, smashes their doors down, you know, causing friction, upsetting people's families.", "A Muslim man here in London reacting to the stepped-up security effort, and more on the Muslim outrage coming up. But first, after several days of near silence, British authorities have announced their first arrest since they detained suspects last Thursday for allegedly plotting to blow up U.S.-bound flights over the Atlantic. CNN's Dan Rivers has more now on the ongoing terror investigation here in the U.K.", "Move away please. Walk away.", "A terror alert in the heart of London, right in front of police headquarters, Scotland Yard. A suspect package found and several roads currently sealed off. It turned out to be a false alarm. But the incident highlights ongoing jitters in the British capital. The false alarm came as police in High Wickham (ph), were arresting another suspect in the alleged airline plot. Although a British government source told CNN investigators do not view this latest arrest as a major person in the plot. And a shop owner gave news organizations this security video of one of the suspects, Tiev Raouf (ph), just hours before his arrest last Thursday. Friends of the Raof (ph) family say the video shows Raof's (ph) demeanor was normal as he sold products for his father's confectionary business.", "Well, it shows Raof (ph) coming in at nighttime doing his normal business day in and day out. And as you might have seen, it's on the camera. So he's a very down to earth person. Very nice. He's not the sort of person that's going to go and blow himself up, you know, at 2:00 in the morning", "Police are continuing their searches at several locations in east London, seizing guns, computer hard drives and household chemicals. (", "A British government source with a detailed knowledge of this investigation says the government is confident of a successful prosecution. He says while investigators haven't found any bombs, per se, they have found plenty of evidence to present to court, including unusual quantities of household chemicals and conversations recorded on audio and video. (", "And British authorities say they are anxious to talk to suspect Rasheed Raof (ph), a man British security sources described as first among equals. He's currently detained in Pakistan. And the British government wants him extradited. Pakistan says it's waiting for a formal request.", "Rasheed Raof (ph) is a British national. We do not have any extradition treaty at the moment. But, yes, because he is a British national, the possibility of his extradition -- we have not received any request for extradition. So it would be hypothetical at this stage.", "Insiders say this is the biggest operation the security service, MI5, has ever undertaken with officers still engaged in watching dozens of other suspected terror cells across Britain. The message? It's not over yet.", "And Dan joins me now. In the U.S., we've been reporting this terror has been politicized. Has it here yet?", "Absolutely, today. The main opposition party, the Conservative's Leader David Cameron has come out and said he doesn't think enough is being done by the government to tackle Islamic extremism. That has been met with a fierce response by the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, who described his comments as almost beyond belief. And people I've talked to in the home office today are incandescent with anger at the conservatives. There is a long-running rule really, that there is unity between all the political parties on the terrorism issue and today that unity is broken down.", "For the first time.", "Yes.", "Dan, thank you very much. And as Britain reels from the fallout of the alleged terror plot, some British leaders are at odds over how to combat extremism in Muslim circles. As Dan has just said, and CNN's Jason Carroll has more on that.", "To get to the source of the anger in London's young Muslim community, we asked an expert who was active in the community. Ashgar Bukhari says you need to look outside mainstream mosques to the streets. There, he says, you often hear talk of what he believes is the number one cause fueling extremism among young Muslims here. What the U.S. and Britain are doing in the Middle East. Many Muslims believe it is anti-Islam.", "That foreign policy made our young children, our sons, our daughters radicals. That wasn't our foreign policy. We didn't have any say in that.", "Bukhari supports nonviolent change. But not far from where we were talking, a small group gathered.", "I'm quite sick of it basically, the media and --", "What are you sick of?", "Well blaming the Muslims for everything that happens in the world.", "The most outspoken in the group identified himself only as Abu Jihad, translated it means father of the Muslim holy war. It was clear he took the name seriously.", "What did you expect us to do? Be quiet and be calm? And turn the other cheek? We're not Christians. We're Muslims.", "I thought that Islam teaches peace.", "Peace. It does. It does.", "So help me understand as to why you would support violence.", "Islam is peace, but once someone lays their hands on you, it tells you to send them to a cemetery.", "We are defending ourselves, as simple as that. We are not being violent.", "Most of the people who surrounded Abu Jihad (ph) were young Muslim men. Bukhari watched and listened and then he gave us his assessment.", "Really, what you got was anger. Well, that's the tactic. If they had been taught how to channel their anger, that guy", "And Bukhari says that points directly to another major problem, a lack of leadership in the community.", "Well, that's our failure. Our leaders not at all taking these young kids in and saying, OK, you're angry. Come on, let's sit down. I'm angry too. Let's talk about how we can solve this peacefully.", "Bukhari says too many mosque leaders are too old, too conservative and can't reach the younger generations. And he says that unless there are drastic changes in the way the world's major powers deal with Islam and in the way Muslims deal with each other, it's not likely the anger will disappear any time soon.", "And in talking to young Muslims, whether it be in east London or Birmingham, we really heard the same angry sentiment. What was tougher to find were answers in terms of how to alleviate that anger -- Christiane.", "And it's going to be tough to find those answers. Jason, thank you very much. And as the tense cease-fire in the Middle East seems to be holding, words of praise for Hezbollah from Iran and Syria. We examine what it all means for Israel and its western allies. Plus it's been standard operating procedure at the airport ever since the shoe bomber was caught five years ago. But just how effective is the shoe scan, when 360 continues."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CO-ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DAN RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ABID HUSSEIN, FAMILY FRIEND", "RIVERS", "On camera)", "Voice-over)", "TASNIM ASLAM, PAKISTAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN", "RIVERS", "AMANPOUR", "RIVERS", "AMANPOUR", "RIVERS", "AMANPOUR", "JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ASHGAR BUKHARI, MUSLIM PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE", "CARROLL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CARROLL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CARROLL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CARROLL (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CARROLL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CARROLL (voice-over)", "BUKHARI", "CARROLL", "BUKHARI", "CARROLL", "CARROLL (on camera)", "AMANPOUR"]}
{"id": "CNN-313081", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-05-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/26/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Police Contain Terror Network; Tillerson Comments on Leaks", "utt": ["All right, breaking news out of Egypt. A group of gunmen have opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic Christians. They were en route to a monastery. We know at this hour that at least 26 people were killed, 25 other injured. And among the victims, women and children. Egypt's president, El Sisi, calling for an emergency meeting. The shootings being described this morning as a terrorist attack. We also have new details this morning about the very moments leading up to the bombing in Manchester. The bomber, Salman Abedi, spoke with his brother in Libya just 15 minutes before the attack. Apparently his brother knew of his plans but lacked details about when and where. Meantime, British police are trying to contain, they say, the network they believe is behind Monday's attack, having conducted multiple raids at this point and making what they're calling several significant arrests. Our international correspondent Muhammad Lila joins us now from Manchester. So they're - they're trying to contain, they say, this network. How big do they think it is?", "Well, Poppy, that's a really good question and that wording is key. They're talking about containing the network that they believe enabled the attacker to get away with that plot. And the U.K. security minister referred to that word \"containing,\" believing that the more they contain it, the more they pull up leads on who may have been involved in that network. Eventually, they will be able to take it down. Police are describing it as a very fast moving investigation. Look, we're now into the fourth day after the attack and these police raids are still going on. The investigations began initially in the first few hours as a local investigation. Now we know it is a part of a much bigger international investigation, of course with ties to Libya. And the big news coming out of Libya is that there is a Libyan official who's part of one of the militia groups there. They were the ones that detained the suspect's brother. And they say that the suspect's brother admitted under interrogation that he and his brother were part of ISIS. He said that he was aware of the plot, except what he didn't know is exactly when it was going to happen. Also under interrogation the brother allegedly came out and said that he spoke with the attacker - his brother, the attacker, in Manchester just 15 minutes before the attack. So that is a crucial piece of evidence and a crucial testimony that investigators here will be very, very interested in. Poppy.", "And we've learned that British intelligence services are now handling - is this number right - handling more than 400 active terror plot investigations?", "Well, that's right. And that's not entirely unusual given the size of the U.K. And what we don't know is whether those 400 active terror investigations are connected to this week's attack or if these were investigations that were taking place beforehand. Now, in terms of the status of the investigation that's going on now for the attack, we know that police, so far, have made ten arrests. Two people have been released without charge. But there are still eight people currently in custody. And some of those people have been in custody for the last four days. So certainly officials here and security officials here believe that they are getting closer to solving the riddle of who was behind this plot. But I think the next few days are going to be key with information coming out very rapidly, both in Libya and here in Manchester.", "Yes, and saying they're trying to contain the network. Muhammad Lila, thank you for the reporting, out of Manchester. Also this morning, a show of solidarity from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Here you see him in London. He is signing a book of condolences. He is writing in part that American's hearts are broken. A reporter, just moments later, asking him about the anger surrounding those leaks of intelligence here in the United States. Michelle Kosinski joins us now from London. She is traveling with the secretary of state. What did he say in response?", "Hi, Poppy. Well, this sounded like an apology. It wasn't in so many words, but he did use the word \"regret.\" And this was extraordinary. I mean how often do you see a U.S. official of his rank, secretary of state, get out publically next to your counterpart and say, we have to take responsibility for this. Listen.", "The president has been very strong in his condemnation and has called for an immediate investigation and prosecution of those who are found to have been responsible for leaking any of this information to the public. We take full responsibility for that. And we are - we, obviously, regret that that happened. This special relationship that exists between our two countries will certainly withstand this particular, unfortunate event.", "So he said all the right things there. I mean it was brief, granted. It's not as if it covered every possible angle of this. But he made the right sounds to say that we are going to try to stop this from happening again. We regret this. We are going to work together. And this was an opportunity. I mean, when you look at the situation where they're both trying to prevent future attacks like this and dismantle terror networks around the world, you want to show solidarity. I mean that's really what they're talking about here. So this was a perfect time to very publically do that. What that means moving forward, of course, we're just going to have to see because leaks have been endemic within this administration. I mean it really sounds like they're going to step up the process of trying to root those out. But - but keep in mind, when you look at this relationship, this comes basically only weeks after the administration had to again essentially apologize, although that was behind the scenes, when the administration was making allegations that British signals intelligence was participating in wiretapping the White House.", "Right.", "That was another embarrassment. I mean a rare statement from GCHQ, British intelligence, that called that utter nonsense.", "Yes.", "And now here the U.S. is again saying, OK, we shouldn't have let this happen. We're going to try to stop this from happening again.", "All right, important context, you're right. Michelle Kosinski, in London for us, thank you very much. Still to come for us, the White House says its budget plan is a taxpayer first plan. Under the blueprint, though, thousands - thousands of those who supported this president the most in the election could lose out and lose their jobs."], "speaker": ["POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "MUHAMMAD LILA, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "LILA", "HARLOW", "MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN SENIOR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT", "REX TILLERSON, SECRETARY OF STATE", "KOSINSKI", "HARLOW", "KOSINSKI", "HARLOW", "KOSINSKI", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-97346", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2005-8-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/31/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "National Guard Continues Evacuation of New Orleans; Almost 1,000 Dead in Stampede in Baghdad", "utt": ["It's 3:00 p.m. Central Time in New Orleans where tensions have been rising along with the flood waters. It's now a frantic race against time to evacuate literally tens of thousands of people, maybe hundreds of thousands of people. And they're desperately trying to plug leaking levees. The terrible toll in Mississippi under way, as well. We're getting a clearer picture right now of the death and despair in that state. We expect a live update this hour from the governor, Haley Barbour. The president of the United States taking command. This hour, Mr. Bush heads a White House meeting on help for hurricane victims and then plans to speak to the American public. He speaks at the top of the next hour from the Rose Garden. What exactly is the federal government doing right now? And will it be enough? I'm Wolf Blitzer, and you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Up for desperate times and desperate measures in New Orleans. According to the Associated Press, the mayor, Ray Nagin, now says at least hundreds of people are dead there. And possibly -- even likely, he says -- thousands of people are dead. As that city continues to drown in flood waters, U.S. Army engineers have been struggling to plug busted levees with 3,000-pound sandbags. One top engineer told me here just a short while ago here in THE SITUATION ROOM that that process could take two to three days at the earliest. And then, he says, it could take another three to six months to get that water out of the city. Officials are moving forward with a plan to evacuate 23,000 people holed up in the New Orleans Superdome and in need, desperate need right now, of food and water and much, much more. Texas is sending almost 500 buses to carry evacuees to Houston where they'll stay in another stadium. That would be the Astrodome. In Mississippi, at least 110 deaths have been reported but not confirmed. The Harrison County coroner says search-and-rescue teams have probably gotten into about only half of the damaged areas, but it may be several days, perhaps even weeks, before some of those areas are reached. President Bush is now back in Washington. He cut short his vacation. This hour, he's set to meet with top White House aides dealing with the response to the hurricane disaster. And in the next hour, he's planning to go before the cameras to talk about the crisis along the Gulf Coast. He'll be speaking with the American people from the Rose Garden. We'll carry his remarks live. Let's take a look at Katrina now by some of the latest numbers that we're getting state-by-state. First, Louisiana. As we said, the New Orleans mayor saying perhaps hundreds, maybe even thousands, of people are dead. More than 700,000 people are still without power. New Orleans' mayor says it could take 12 to 16 weeks before people will be allowed to return. Let's move over to Mississippi where they say 110 people are now dead -- that's the report -- as many as 100 from a single county alone. That would be Harrison County. A million people in that state are without power. That represents 75 percent of the state. Twenty thousand people in Mississippi are in shelters right now. Let's move over to Alabama. Two dead, that's the confirmation there. Nearly 500,000 people -- half a million people -- are still without electricity in Alabama. As we've mentioned, the situation is getting worse in New Orleans by the minute. Conditions are deteriorating for a city now virtually under water. Our John Zarrella described the scene just a little while ago.", "There's no system of water. There's no sanitation any longer. The knee-deep water in the hotel lobby, it just reeks with stench. It is a miserable, deteriorating situation in the city. It's growing worse by the hour, and the water is rising.", "CNN producer Kim Segal is on the scene for us. Kim, where exactly in New Orleans are you right now?", "Well, Wolf, I am on Canal Street. But what I want to tell you is, a local police officer came up to me and asked me to tell you to get the word out. There is a fire. There's a fire at the Footaction Clothing Store. And it is on the corner of Bourbon and Canal. There's a fire. There's smoke billowing out of the building. And the buildings are so close here, the police officer told me he's afraid the whole block is in danger. And he wants everybody to know, because he does not have radio communications with any of his colleagues, that there is a fire now downtown. And the looting is still going on.", "And this is in the historic French Quarter, is that right?", "That's right. If you know Canal Street, which is a main street on the outskirts of the French Quarter, the hotels, a lot of the major hotels are down here where we are. This fire is taking place literally a couple doors down from the Renaissance Hotel. That was the hotel that was evacuated earlier this morning. So thankfully anyone who was in the Renaissance is now out.", "Kim, are the streets around where this fire has burst open, are the streets passable there? Could fire trucks even get close to that situation?", "The water where the fire is taking place is maybe a foot deep. It's not bad yet. It keeps coming up. And it's getting higher and higher. We started on that block", "Kim, there's been some confusion about the nature of the water on the streets of New Orleans, how dirty it is, how stinky it might be, how dangerous it might be because of insects or mosquitoes. Describe it as best you can.", "Wolf, before I do this, I have a lieutenant here with the New Orleans Police Department who wants to talk to you, OK? Hold on. I'm going to give him the phone.", "Thanks.", "Hello?", "Yes, Lieutenant. Give us your name, please.", "My name is Lieutenant Brian Wininger,", "And tell us what's going on, from your perspective.", "What's going on now is a lot of water. And from what I understand, we're trying to evacuate everybody out. So I would say, you know, get everybody to -- the Superdome, I know, and a lot of people are on the interstate trying to evacuate everybody. But it's just -- you know, we're just holding it in right now. We do have a big fire at Bourbon and Canal at the Foot Locker. But, you know, we can't get to it right now.", "How dangerous is the situation where you are, Brian?", "What's that?", "How dangerous is the situation where you are?", "I think the biggest danger we have right now is disease, you know, in the water. The water's full of gas and diesel. It's like it's probably going to be like a hazardous waste dump, I guess, you know?", "Are people getting out? Can they get out? Because I understand it's not that easy to get out of New Orleans.", "No. There's places you can get through, especially -- we just pushed a whole bunch of people from Canal and Bourbon there to the river, where they can get to the convention center, trying to get them up there.", "How do people fight a fire in an area where you are right now, Brian, under these conditions?", "I really don't know if they're going to get there. I know you all called it in, and I appreciate it. We called it in. I don't even know if the fire trucks can make it here. So hopefully they can, you know? But we cleared out the building. Nobody's in it, that we know of.", "So at least -- as far as you can tell, there is nobody that's directly endangered right now, unless that fire spreads?", "Right, right.", "Brian, give us a little perspective. You've been there for the past three days. The situation clearly getting worse, as I said earlier, by the minute. How bad is it right now?", "We're kind of out of communication, so I don't know if the water's still coming in. My understanding is they're still trying to close a place called the 17th Street Canal. But they might have closed it already. Communication's gone. You know, our radios are out. We have no electricity, so we can't charge them. We're trying to do the best we can, you know?", "Well, good luck to you, Brian...", "Can I say something?", "Pardon?", "I want you to put on the air Athena (ph), Monte Leone (ph), Nicole Barbay (ph), Jake Snapp (ph), Carol Richian (ph), Easterland McKendall (ph) and Nick Gurnen (ph). Tell all of our families that we're safe.", "All right, well, thank you. That's good to know.", "And the First District's OK. People in the First District are OK.", "OK. Well, good to hear that, Brian. Thank you very much. And we'll check back with you, and check back with Kim Segal, as well.", "Thank you (ph).", "All right, thank you very much, Brian. Appreciate it very much. Good luck to you. Good luck to our Kim Segal. She's still on the scene for us in New Orleans. Let's go over to CNN's Jeanne Meserve. She's made the move from New Orleans. She's in Baton Rouge right now. Jeanne, first of all, tell our viewers what it was like in the immediate hours before you left New Orleans.", "Well, one of the cameramen I was with described it as Bangladesh. That's what it looks like, a major, major catastrophe that's taking an extraordinary toll, not just in terms of human life, but for the living. They have lost their homes. They can't get to their jobs, if there are jobs, because businesses are destroyed. Businesses cannot rebuild because there's no infrastructure. It defies comprehension that the United States can look like this. I want to introduce you to someone, if I could. This is Dorian Browder, a resident of New Orleans who came out on Sunday, has been here in Baton Rouge ever since. Dorian, you're upset at the lack of -- you're upset at the lack of preparation for this, right?", "Yes, I am. It was overwhelming when I found out that they had not prepared for this catastrophe. We were only able to really contain a 3 Category hurricane, and they knew this was a possibility to be a 5 Category. They had many years to prepare for this, the professions, the Corps of Engineers. Why had they not brainstormed this? Why would they not be prepared? I don't understand it. What are they doing every day in their offices, the atrocity?", "We've talked a lot about the difficulties that people who remained in the city are having. You came out here. It's not easy for you, either, is it?", "Not at all. Right now, we are in dire situations, very dire. The majority of us staying in this hotel -- it's called the Baymont in Baton Rouge -- we have ran out of moneys. We have no homes to go to. I'm looking and wondering what has happened to my elderly mother. I don't know. We're at a loss. We have no jobs to go to. We're just at a loss. We are devastated. We're upset. We think that things should have been better prepared from Washington, D.C., the president, on down to our governor, Kathleen Blanco.", "Dorian, thank you so much. And good luck.", "Thank you.", "That's sort of typical, Wolf, of the kind of reaction you're getting from people who have left the city or are in the city. I have to tell you, getting out of the city for us was difficult. We had to just sort of improvise our way across the city to get to dry land and then out. We made it, thank goodness. But on the way, it looked like the Dust Bowl. You've seen the pictures of the Dust Bowl, of people piled onto the back of trucks, moving their lives. That's what's happening here. It's extraordinary to witness. Wolf?", "Jeanne, I take it you left the city because it was simply getting much too dangerous?", "Yes, the projections were this morning that the water was going to rise another two feet. We've been having an extraordinary difficult time doing our jobs, operating off car batteries. We were afraid we were going to lose our capability to charge them, because the cars were going underwater, or the water was going to make those in the garage inaccessible to us. We just felt we weren't going to be able to produce much for the network. And there are health concerns. We still have a cameraman who broke his foot shooting during the hurricane on Monday. He still has not gotten any medical attention. All of us have been in water that, as you've heard, is highly contaminated. And, frankly, we all wanted to get back to our loved ones. So we have come out. Many of us are going to continue to cover this aftermath. This is, I truly believe, Wolf, apart from 9/11, one of the most significant events that has ever hit this country. It's just astounding. But, Wolf, what I want to say, yes, we got out. We are lucky. What we went through is nothing next to what the people of New Orleans are going to have to go through in the coming days, and frankly for the coming years. Anybody who tells you this is going to be put to rights in a matter of months simply hasn't seen the situation. Wolf?", "I don't think the pictures can do justice to what you've seen with your own eyes, Jeanne. Just describe -- take a moment -- and just collect your thoughts and describe some of the images that you saw in New Orleans as you were -- when you were there and as you were preparing to leave.", "People carrying their children, trying to get them to safety. A woman coming down to the police, close to hysteric, saying, my elderly mother is in a building over there. She needs dialysis. She can't get dialysis. She is dying. Can you help me? And the police have to say, there is absolutely nothing we can do. They said, we don't have a precinct house. We don't have communications. There is absolutely nothing we can do for you. That was amazing to me. The other thing that struck me was the looting. The police were standing in the middle of the street. And right in front of them, stores were being ransacked. And they didn't even make an effort to stop it. I don't think they could, under the situation. One, they were totally outnumbered. They couldn't call for any kind of reinforcements. And I think, frankly, the priority now isn't property. The priority has to be people and people's lives. The police are there protectively, I think, in case things escalate even further, but they're powerless. They're powerless in this situation. The other thing -- we've talked a lot about the flooding, and the flooding is the biggest story. Don't get me wrong. But to go through the dry areas of the city was also startling. I've covered other hurricanes. I've seen hurricane destruction. I have stopped and said, oh, my gosh, look at that building. We have to get a picture. Today, every building looked like that. There were cars smashed to smithereens. There were buildings that had totally collapsed. I have trouble coming up with the words to describe it. Even in the dry areas of the city, things are horrible. It's going to take a lot of work to get that put to rights. We did see, as we were coming back, help going in. We did see tree removal trucks. We saw electric trucks. Help is beginning to come in. And we even saw -- this was a very strong image -- Air Force One, or what we believe was Air Force One. A lot of us have covered the White House. And if it wasn't, I'm shocked. And you know more about the president's schedule than I do, but we believe we saw Air Force One flying over the city as we were leaving. And that was an image to us, because we've been out of communication, unaware really of what's happening in the outside world, and a sign that you've heard, you've heard, you've listened. Another thing that sticks with me is what's going on in the hotels. Our hotel was magnificent, in terms of how they handled the situation. And today, they evacuated all the people in our hotel to another hotel that was drier. But some of the hotels I know just have to be in quite dire straits. They were booked to the hilt. You've got people living in very crowded conditions, whole families in rooms. They do not have plumbing of any type. It is going to become a health hazard in the hotels, if those people aren't given some assistance sometime soon. And I don't know about the food and water situation in some of those other hotels. Some of them were right near the water. Some of them had a lot of glass. I know at least one of them -- one of those that was heavily glassed was fully booked. I don't know what's happened to those people. They must be having a difficult time of it, too. Wolf?", "I'm going to let you collect your thoughts, Jeanne. But one quick note. Two days ago on this program, you described the situation as apocalypse, your words, what you saw. Only in the past hour or so, we heard the mayor of New Orleans -- I don't know if you know this yet -- Ray Nagin say that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people, he believes, are now dead in New Orleans. You saw this unfold with your very eyes. Give us your quick reaction to what the mayor of New Orleans has just said.", "He's absolutely right. And when I was out there on I-10 looking at those houses flooded to the eves, I believe I said on your show, this is life and death. And it's going to be a lot more death than life. I have no doubt that it's in the thousands. No doubt at all. And there could be, as everyone has been talking, a secondary set of catastrophic events, the disease and the death that that could bring. Wolf?", "I think you said Armageddon instead of apocalypse, but what's the difference at this stage? Jeanne Meserve, we'll check back with you.", "You're right.", "Thank you very much. The U.S. Coast Guard says it's rescued now more than 1,200 hurricane victims. That number keeps on going up, thank God. The Coast Guard chopper pilot Lieutenant Craig O'Brien has become a hero many times over, saving the trapped and the stranded. He's joining us now on the phone. Captain, thanks very much. Can you hear me OK?", "Yes, Wolf. I can hear you fine. Thank you.", "All right, give us -- you've done this back and forth. How many of these operations have you done? How many people have you personally saved?", "Personally, the numbers are getting almost too high to count. I'm primarily flying at night, because I'm permanently stationed here in New Orleans at Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans. Last night, in a two-hour period, we had almost over 36 people as we're shuttling them throughout this city. As some of your reporters have said, words cannot describe what you see when flying over this city, especially at night. Hundreds and hundreds of flashlights are signaling us, strobe lights, flares. It's a tough situation for a search-and-rescue professional. But what I can tell you, the men and women of the Coast Guard, the Navy, the Army, the Air National Guard, the Air Force, Customs, it's an impressive joint operation. And we're doing everything and anything we can do at 150, 200 percent to get as many of these people out of New Orleans into safe haven as we can.", "Lieutenant, I had promoted you to captain. I know it's Lieutenant Craig O'Brien. Lieutenant, how do you pick who shall live and, in effect, who might die?", "Wolf, we have -- the communication medium here, we're trying to establish the highest priority people to get out of the city. But as the police lieutenant said, communications are, you know, poor at best. The people on scene, the aircraft commanders in the aircrafts, we're put in a really troublesome situation. At night, we can't tell. We go by the signals, and we just rescue whoever we can. And our rescue swimmers are going down on the scene. They triage people and figure out who needs to get out the quickest to get them advanced medical care.", "Lieutenant Craig O'Brien, I want to speak with you more in the next hour, if we can reconnect. Good luck to you. Good luck to all the men and women of the United States Coast Guard. Thanks for doing the heroic work that you're doing, literally saving people's lives. There's nothing more important than that. Our Kim Segal, just a little while ago, in the French Quarter of New Orleans, was describing a fire that had erupted at a store there, a Foot Locker. We're just getting this video now into CNN via videophone from New Orleans. I think you can make -- you can see some of the firefighters with their hoses trying to deal with this fire in the historic French Quarter of New Orleans. Just as if they need more disaster and destruction on top of everything else, fire erupting in New Orleans, as well. We'll watch this video together with you. Hopefully, the firefighters will get the situation under control. Much more coverage, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Coming up, the president of the United States responds. We'll have a report on what Mr. Bush and his administration are doing right now to try to help hurricane victims. Much more of our coverage coming up. 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{"id": "CNN-141532", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-8-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/09/cnr.02.html", "summary": "NTSB Schedules Briefing on Air Crash", "utt": ["All right, more on your financial future and answering the question, is the worst behind us? Straight ahead, but first a look at the top stories we're following. The National Transportation and Safety Board is holding a briefing on yesterday's midair collision over the Hudson River. A small plane collided with a New York sight-seeing helicopter. Nine people are presumed dead. Five bodies have been recovered so far, along with some wreckage.", "During the recovery efforts today, they were able to recover most of the helicopter. The helicopter was removed from the water and has been taken to a pier for further examination. That helicopter was in water that was about 30 feet deep. The divers had extremely challenging conditions with current and visibility. At times, the visibility was no more than one foot in front of them.", "We'll continue to update you on that tragedy on the Hudson River. Meantime after the short break, back now to our hour- long focus now, is the worst behind us? Let's talk about the unemployment rate, dipping slightly from 9.5 percent to 9.4 percent. Josh Levs fielding your questions, is their relief?", "Yes Fred, I'll give you an example of them right now. First of all, CNN.com/jobs is packed with a lot of information here. But here is a question we're going to get an answer to. Will this be a lopsided recovery? Pam is writing us. \"You know what, there are no jobs out there for middle-aged people.\" Are we going to see as jobs recover, only certain people being able to get jobs? We'll get answers, coming right up."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "DEBBIE HERSMAN, CHAIRMAN, NTSB", "WHITFIELD", "LEVS"]}
{"id": "CNN-384443", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2019-10-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/31/cg.01.html", "summary": "House Approves Public Impeachment Hearings. ", "utt": ["That is it for me. Have safe and wonderful Halloweens, if you're heading out. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Let's go to Washington. \"THE LEAD with JAKE TAPPER\" starts right now.", "So, for those keeping score, D.C. has presidential impeachments far more often than World Series wins. THE LEAD starts right now. Breaking today, the House of Representatives officially votes to proceed with an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, the historic vote sending the investigation into a whole new phase and President Trump deeper into crisis. Senator Mitch McConnell has a message for President Trump: Stop attacking your fellow Republicans, because your presidency could depend upon them. Plus, two critical court hearings to decide whether key impeachment witnesses close to President Trump can keep their secret conversations secret. Welcome to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. We begin with the politics lead, a historic day on Capitol Hill, with the first time vote in the House of Representatives related to the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. House Democrats voting to approve a resolution to formalize the impeachment inquiry process. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today presiding as every Democrat who voted approved the measure, except for two, both from districts Trump won. Not a single Republican voted for the resolution, which lays out the process for public hearings, the release of deposition transcripts, and allows Republicans to call witnesses and issue subpoenas if the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, and Jerry Nadler of Judiciary, go along with them. And if not, it does allow for full committee votes. The resolution also says that the House Intelligence Committee will ultimately write a report with its findings and recommendations regarding the potential impeachment of President Trump. CNN's Phil Mattingly kicks off our coverage now from Capitol Hill.", "On this vote, the yeas are 232, the nays are 196.", "With that drop of the gavel, the House entering a new phase of its impeachment inquiry, one exceedingly likely, aides say, to end up with the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Democrats today holding the first official vote on the matter, a resolution to establish official procedures for that process, a vote almost entirely along party lines, with no Republican supporting it and two Democrats voting against, those two Democrats crossing the aisle from areas Trump handily won in the 2016 election.", "Today, the country just witnessed the only bipartisan vote on that floor was against.", "The vote determined how the House Intelligence Committee will hold public hearings moving forward and allows Republicans to request witnesses to be called, but it does not grant them subpoena power, unless Democrats agree. Republicans today blasting their colleagues.", "Clearly, there are people that we serve with that don't like the results of the 2016 election.", "Calling the inquiry a sham.", "When you look at this Soviet-style process, it shows you that they don't really want to get to the truth. They want to remove a sitting president.", "Despite calling for and now getting a full House vote to move forward with the inquiry, Republicans say Democrats have already compromised the process.", "This is a process that has been fundamentally tainted. The president has had no rights inside these hearings. They cannot go back and fix what is a fundamentally tainted and unfair record.", "And outside GOP groups immediately going on the attack, targeting Democrats who hold seats in district won by Donald Trump in 2016.", "We take no joy and having to move down this road and proceed with the impeachment inquiry. But neither do we shrink from it.", "Democrats, many of whom were wary of impeachment before explosive allegations related to withholding money from Ukraine for political reasons, defending the inquiry as necessary to preserve and defend the Constitution.", "Right in the here and now, we're keeping the republic from a president who says Article 2 says, I can do whatever I want. Not so.", "And, Jake, Democrats have been reluctant to put a timeline on how this is all going to play out going forward. One aide telling me, \"Every time we have a closed-door deposition, we learn more and want to find out more.\" However, it's the expectation that there will be another week of closed-door depositions. Then, likely, the public hearings will start. Then, things will move over the Judiciary Committee, where they will draft articles of impeachment and consider them. One thing is certain, Democrats clearly on that path to impeachment, and it should happen in the coming weeks -- Jake.", "All right, Phil Mattingly on Capitol Hill, thanks so much. Let's chew over all this. Ana, let me start with you. We have heard House Republicans expressing concern about what President Trump did, not a lot, but some, including Adam Kinzinger, Mr. Feeney of Florida, but not one voted to proceed with the inquiry. Were you surprised?", "No, I wasn't. Look, I think this was expected. And I think Donald Trump has been incredibly effective in instituting discipline within the Republican Party and in demanding absolute loyalty. Any speaking up against him, any voting against him will be considered an act of disloyalty, to be punished by mean tweets and going after them in campaigns. We have a lot less Republicans than we did before in the House of Representatives, but they are far more loyal, blindly loyal, cultishly loyal to Donald Trump.", "And, Mike, let me ask you. The Republicans have had, I think, even some Democrats would, acknowledge a fairly effective communication message in terms of talking about how the process has not been transparent. It's been behind closed doors. We can debate those merits and we have. But beyond that, that's now over. These will be open hearings. The deposition transcripts will be released. Republicans will at least have an opportunity to try to subpoena witnesses. What -- will the arguments from Republicans be more substantive about the actual case now, you think?", "I think so. I think that they have made a good case on process. And I love being on here with Paul, because I worked for Newt Gingrich, as we talked about, during the last impeachment, and he worked with President Clinton, and merrily did a great job defending the president. When that vote happened, Dick Gephardt and Newt Gingrich voted to -- went together to create the rules for that. In fact, Newt asked Jim Rogan, congressman from California, to look back on the Watergate process and see what rights the Democrats gave to the minority, and said, we're going to offer those to Gephardt. Gephardt accepted them, and we had a bipartisan vote. Nancy Pelosi said previously, we can't do this unless it's bipartisan. That's out the window. Those -- Kevin McCarthy offered the same thing. What Newt had with Rogan and what Gephardt voted for was offered to Pelosi. She turned it down. So I think they will get into substance, but they're still going to talk about the fact that this is a very partisan process. They're going to keep talking about that the whole way through, because the American people are actually the jury. And they're the ones that are going to look at this. And when you know it's partisan, it colors everything you hear after.", "And the trivia, of course, who beat Rogan in the House race? Adam Schiff. It all comes full circle.", "Jackie, this resolution allows Republicans to subpoena witnesses, but Democrats really ultimately get the final sign-off. They get the veto power, as it were. And then there can be -- they can -- Republicans can protest, bring it to a full committee vote, but there are more Democrats than Republicans on the committee. So it really isn't a fully bipartisan process in that way.", "No, Democrats are definitely in the driver's seat. And they're strategizing as to how to not let Republicans derail this, because that's what they're going -- that's going to be part of the strategy here, is to -- I mean, you heard it on the floor today, talk about it as a sham. Talk about how partisan it is. So that allows them to maintain some semblance of control, even if the Republicans are trying to pull it other directions.", "And speaking of that, and derailing it, as you will have it, take a listen, Paul, to the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, Doug Collins, talking about a witness that he wants to call before the committee.", "I do have one thing for Mr. Schiff. If he wants to be, as said, a special counsel, he set himself up. Then here's my challenge to Mr. Schiff. You want to be Ken Starr? Be Ken Starr. Come to the Judiciary Committee, be the first witness, and take every question asked of you.", "What do you make of that?", "First off, it's silly. He's a colleague. They can him any question any time they want on the floor. Second, be careful what you wish for. Doug Collins, fine man. He ain't going to do very well in a battle of wits with Adam Schiff. I'm sorry, he is just not. This is the problem with their messaging. And I think Mike points it out. It's just tactical. Oh, we want an open process. OK, now you're getting one. We want a formal vote on opening an inquiry. OK, now you're getting one. We want the right to cross-examine, want the president's lawyers to be in the room. You're getting that. You're getting that. You know what they're never saying? He's innocent.", "Well, some of them are.", "The president -- not -- Mr. Collins is not. The president's own nominee for ambassador to Russia, his deputy secretary of state today, under oath, said, yes, it would be against our values to ask a foreign government to intervene in our elections. His own deputy secretary of state, the guy he's putting up to be ambassador to Russia, can't abide what this president's doing. Why? Because it is indefensible.", "Mike, two Democrats voted against it, both of them from Trump districts, Collin Peterson from Minnesota, which is a district that went 2-1 for Trump, the other one from Southern Jersey. Trump won that district by five points. Were you surprised that Democrats -- that so few Democrats voted against it? Because a lot of them come from seats that Trump won, and it's a risky vote.", "Yes, I want to sort of mirror what Ana's answer was, that, no, I'm not surprised because of the discipline that AOC and that Nancy Pelosi have had to give into on the left.", "AOC. Listen to you.", "Well, where is this coming from? Nancy Pelosi didn't want to do this. Nancy Pelosi, I give a lot of credit to. During the 2018 election, she told her candidates, don't talk about impeachment. Suburban educated women think that's a bridge too far. They want to focus on health care. And her candidates listened. Now they're in office.", "And she won the House.", "And they won the House.", "Yes.", "Now they're in office. There's 29 members that are sitting in Trump districts or close to Trump districts, and she lost the fight. She tried to stop this from happening. The left wing got them to a place where they had to do it. And those people were...", "Those people were made to walk the plank today, and they're going to suffer for it.", "I don't think it was the left wing. Listen, it's true that Nancy Pelosi didn't want to do this. And I actually think that gives her much more credibility and gravitas on this issue. She didn't want to do this for political reasons. What dragged her there kicking and screaming were the facts, were those testimonies of people like Vindman, like Sondland, like Hill, like the ambassador, all these testimonies that have been corroborating what the whistle-blower said. The facts have led her there.", "Jackie?", "And I was about saving that's what Nancy Pelosi has said.", "Well, of course she is going to say that.", "Well, right, but that is what got her there. Mueller didn't. Mueller's testimony didn't. She resisted that. And then came the non-transcript.", "But we can we all acknowledge that there has been massive pressure on the left, regardless before the facts, to impeach the president, and now they couldn't hold that tide back? PPP had a poll in February of 2017, where a majority of Democrats wanted to impeach the president a month after he was inaugurated into office.", "Exactly. And she didn't do it, because -- she didn't do it for political reasons.", "Hold that thought. We're going to keep -- we're going to come back to you. With the momentous vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry, what is now the White House strategy, now that they can no longer attack the process with as much vigor? Then: homes turned into ashes in a matter of minutes, high winds whipping up new wildfires in California, as firefighters there struggle to gain ground. We're going to go there live. Stay with us.", "The Politics lead now, President Trump facing a new reality now after today's first full House vote related into the impeachment inquiry. As the investigation escalates, his private phone calls asking to Republicans asking them for advice, expressing disbelief this this is happening to him, according to sources. As CNN's Kaitlin Collins reports, the President has also been confronted by senate majority leader Mitch McConnell with a blunt message, stop attacking Senate Republicans.", "Insurance policy.", "It didn't take long for the White House to lash out after house Democrats took their first vote on the impeachment inquiry.", "In a court of law, you are innocent until proven guilty. Here we are clearly guilty and have to prove our innocence.", "On a day with no public event on his schedule, President Trump deeming it the greatest witch hunt in American history.", "They just had a vote on procedures. They gave us absolutely no rights.", "And in an interview with Brexit leader, Nigel Farage, the President insisted once again that his dealings with Ukraine were perfect.", "Would I use Ukraine to defeat sleepy Joe Biden?", "After demanding a vote for weeks, the White House argument was undercut today.", "So what they are doing now is something that's never been done before. They don't want the facts to come out.", "But the press secretary says the rules are still unfair.", "You get treated better and get more due process when you get a traffic ticket.", "More than a month after speaker Pelosi announced the inquiry, the White House is still working on a plan of action. They haven't hired any communications staffers or attorneys to help out leaving some aides wondering if they have a game plan.", "I don't want to get into any of our strategy just yet.", "Instead, the President is focused on shoring up Republican support. Urging the party to stick together.", "I didn't have one negative Republican vote.", "Sources day it was the senate majority leaders to who told the President to stop attacking his own arty. Mitch McConnell telling Trump to lay off his criticism od senate Republicans, including a frequent Mitt Romney, because the fate of his presidency could lie in their hands. As another key witness testifies on Capitol Hill, the White House is waiting and watching to see if the President's former national security adviser, John Bolton, will do the same.", "Obviously, you know our position on former White House officials assistance to the President particularly --.", "Bolton left the White House on bad terms with the President. But his attorney says he won't appear without a subpoena.", "Now Jake, the President didn't have anything on his public schedule today but did invite Senate Republicans over where they had chicken, talked about foreign policy including the recently killing of Baghdadi. But also impeachment was brought up as well. The President pointing out there is two Democrats who voted against that resolution this morning also encouraging those in the room to read the transcript of his call with the Ukrainian leader. But Jake, it's not clear yet if the president is taking Mitch McConnell's advice to stop attacking those senate Republicans who have been critical of him.", "All right. Kaitlin Collins, thanks so much. Is that good advice for Mitch McConnell, do you think, Mike? Stop attacking senate Republicans even people like Mitt Romney because you are going to need them?", "Look. I think the President is a frugalist. And when people come after him, he is going to leave the charge to characterizes the way that he wants to. I think the senators get it. They know how that is. They all know where they are on this. He is not going to be found guilty in the Senate once the house impeaches him. It's not going to happen. And it's not because he is a bully. It's because the voters don't want it to happen. The voters are the actual jury. They are the once who call these senators and call these House members. They are going to hold House members accountable. And their Senators don't want to go home and explain why they voted to find someone guilty because a member of the NSC didn't like what he said on a phone call that we have a transcript.", "The polling I have seen shows that overall nationally, the public does support not only impeachment but removal from office. I know it's different in battleground states, the numbers are flipped. But nationally, I don't think that's right. Nationally, you're right. It has been trending more support for the inquiry, I believe.", "Nationally, you are right. It has been trending more support for the inquiry, I believe.", "Definitely for the inquiry.", "Definitely for the inquiry. But I do think state by state, that does matter. Because that's actually what senators who are in battleground states are going to be looking at. But I don't know. If you are somewhere like Colorado, I don't know how Cory Gardner is going to make that decision if it starts leaning in that direction.", "Maine.", "Maine. Susan Collins is going to be --. Well, let me ask you. So one of the things that is going on here also is the Trump campaign and the Republican National has a war chest of $300 million. Republican senators and house members are going to want some of that money to get reelected. Conservative blogger named -- I don't know his actual name but it goes by how he pounded he on twitter which he tweeted, when weighing whether trump had due process or not, remember to include the fact that he enjoys a right no criminal defender in the U.S. has, the right to bribe his jurors. Now he is being cheeky there with the idea. But you are Susan Collins, you are Joni Ernst, whoever else, you want that $3 billion and you -- not only want it, you need it.", "Absolutely. You also need him to show up to your fundraisers for our primaries. You need him not to attack you during primary season. Look,", "That's why I brought up AOC. Democrats don't want to have a Democratic primary challenge either. Adam Schiff is one of the number one fundraisers in the Democratic party and he has been fund-raising on impeachment from back in Mueller and all the way through this through emails --.", "Look. We could be talking about Christmas fruitcake and you guts would bring up", "Democrats raise money off of this and they hold their people accountable, too, for the same thing.", "Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is living rent free in my entire head.", "Let's change the subject from AOC for one second because you heard there's no one leading response team for communications in the White House, no new lawyers looking at what's going on. You were with Clinton during his impeachment. Are they making a mistake? It just seems kind of malpractice for the president's team to say, look, we need a war room. This is serious.", "It's not even just the process. It's the agenda. We knew what we were doing. We did. And it's completely different than this. We were like Olympic swimmers in our lanes. They are like 5-year-olds playing soccer. Everybody crowds on the ball and whatever the dear leader says. That's fine. I have no problems about it and I have written about it. The most important thing that sustained Bill Clinton is that he had ai an agenda that the American people wanted. But fundamentally, the offense was at violation of his marital vows not his oath of office. I think people this with Mr. Trump. I know they do very, very differently.", "No, he did not. And this president, he violated his oath of office, at least you ask the majority of Americans. That's a completely different thing. If he would come to us with an agenda, how many years are we into infrastructure week? All he cares about is himself and his own job and his own greed, his own grievance. He needs to get out of his own self interest. But I don't think he can because I think he is a toxic narcissist.", "The other thing with the war room is you actually follow the strategy or when you have the principle that kind of does what he wants, he is not going to follow any, maybe for a little bit, but ultimately if Trump wants to do something he is going to do it and he is not going follow anyone's plans no matter how closely they are crafted.", "All right. So everyone, stick around. We have more to talk about. We have some breaking news. Another White House official who was on that July 25th call between President Trump and the Ukrainian president just finished testifying. What did he say? That's next.", "Breaking news, Tim Morrison, the top Russia expert in the White House national security council just wrapped up testifying on Capitol Hill. According to multiple sources Morrison confirmed other witnesses' accounts of a quid pro quo, the U.S. giving Ukraine security aid in exchange for an investigation publicly announced into the Bidens. Morrison said he worried there would be trouble if the rough transcript of that July phone call between President Trump and the president of Ukraine ever leaked. But Morrison also stopped short of directly criticizing president trump, saying he did not think that trump did anything illegal. Morrison is the second White House official on the call to testify to White House investigators on the same day the House also took the step to formalize the impeachment inquiry. CNN's Manu Raju joins us now from Capitol Hill. And Manu, how important is his testimony to the inquiry?", "Significant. Because as you mentioned, he was on that July phone call. He also played key roles, Russia expert on the national security council and had a number of conversations with Bill Taylor, U.S., the top diplomat to Ukraine. Taylor referenced him throughout his own testimony in which Taylor raised serious concern that aid had been withheld by the president as the President was pushing for those investigations into his political rivals. Now in the statement that -- section we obtained from the statement today --."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA)", "PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY (R-CA)", "MATTINGLY", "REP. STEVE SCALISE (R-LA)", "MATTINGLY", "SCALISE", "MATTINGLY", "REP. LIZ CHENEY (D-WY)", "MATTINGLY", "REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA)", "MATTINGLY", "PELOSI", "MATTINGLY", "TAPPER", "ANA NAVARRO, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "TAPPER", "MIKE SHIELDS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "TAPPER", "TAPPER", "JACKIE KUCINICH, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "TAPPER", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-301654", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-12-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/27/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Israel Moves Ahead on Building Settlements; Brawls Break Out at Malls Across U.S.", "utt": ["Israel says it's pushing ahead with a plan to build hundreds of new homes in east Jerusalem, defying the new U.N. resolution condemning settlement construction there in the West Bank. The resolution led to a bitter war of words between the Israeli prime minister and the White House. Because although the U.S. abstained from the vote, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN they have, quote, \"ironclad information\" that the U.S. pushed for the resolution. A claim the U.S. denies.", "We have ironclad information from sources in the Arab world and internationally, and we're going to share that information with the incoming administration through the proper channels. And if the new administration chooses to share that information that's their prerogative.", "By definition, it's not an ambush when President Obama and Secretary Kerry have been saying in hundreds of conversations and in public comments that Israeli settlement activity was pushing into the West Bank in a way that was making the two-state solution unachievable.", "CNN's Oren Liebermann is in Jerusalem where he's been tracking these fast-breaking developments. Oren, I understand an Israeli official says that evidence of U.S. involvement will be in the U.N. and it will be shared with the Trump administration. What's the latest on the standoff?", "Well, they're being incredibly vague about what it is this information is or the evidence that they have against the U.S. administration. They say that a senior Israeli official says that it's information that indicates there were -- that the U.S. was a covert partner in pushing this through and advancing it. That's an accusation the U.S. has denied, not only the latest part of the accusation but going back until since the first time we heard it. The Palestinians deny it as well saying this was worked on with other countries and the U.S. decided to abstain. And yet, it's an accusation the Israelis have not let go, only ramping it up in the last few days -- Martin?", "Then there's Secretary of State John Kerry. He's expected to deliver a speech later this week that will lay out President Obama's vision for the Middle East. I've covered the violence in that region for a long time and any hopes for peace are welcomed but 24 days left in your administration you come out with a peace plan? What do we know about this?", "Well, Martin, let me point out this is not without precedent. When Clinton's term was up, he laid out his peace plan that's now colloquially known as the Clinton parameters. It was Clinton's vision for peace. I suspect he came to the same conclusion, there's no immediate end to the conflict, so he decided to weigh in on how to solve the most complex and difficult issues in the region and that seems to be what Secretary of State Kerry intends to do, giving guidelines on how the U.S. views the complex issues, the status of Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, borders and other issues. So, it's not uncommon. How seriously will it be taken? The Palestinians say they'll take it very seriously. They'll view it as a positive development. The U.S. weighing in trying to establish where the grounds are for making some progress on the complex issues. The Israelis are taking it seriously for the opposite reason. They're furious and would rather see Kerry not weigh in at all. They'd rather see Kerry and the U.S. have chosen to use the veto power a few days ago. This is how Kerry feels he can make a difference, lay out a vision that maybe one day we'll call the Kerry parameters.", "Let's hope so. Oren Liebermann, thank you very much for joining us. I want to bring in David Andelman, who is editor emeritus at \"World Policy Journal\" and a columnist for \"USA Today\" and a CNN.com opinion contributor; and Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of \"Bending History, Barack Obama's Foreign Policy.\" Let me start with you, Michael. Netanyahu and Obama famously have been at odds. We've all seen this for the past eight years and now the Israeli prime minister has been saying how much he is looking forward to working with Donald Trump. So how exactly do we expect that things will change?", "Well, you know, they're going to change a lot in tone and probably in substance based on where things have been now in the last week between Obama and Netanyahu. Even though I tend to, at a broad level strategically, agree with President Obama in criticizing the Israeli settlements, I wonder if this might be a tactical mistake by the Obama administration because we're setting up big risks with not only Netanyahu but also Trump. What I thought might have been a better approach is if President Obama and President-elect Trump could have issued a joint statement in which they might have looked for common American purpose that could have bridged January 20 and maybe we then veto the resolution but express concern about any settlements that would compromise the possibility of an ultimate two-state solution. In other words, President Obama try to use his wisdom, experience, and leverage on this issue to begin to influence the way Mr. Trump might pursue a peace process, rather than set up a stark confrontation between not only the us and the Israelis but Obama and the likely Trump approach.", "That's creative, I'll give you that. And it sounds like it would have been a diplomatic way to approach and meld two administrations as well as foreign policy with a strong ally. David, I want to play for you some sound from the Palestinians. Here's what a senior member of the PLO told CNN this morning.", "This is something that Israel is not used to because it's used to getting preferential treatment and violating the impunity. We've been urging the U.S. to do what is consistent with its own long-held positions since the days of Ronald Reagan. Every single administration has said the settlements are illegal and must stop.", "So I know Hanan Ashrawi well. We interviewed a couple of times. Clearly, the Palestinians would be in favor of the Obama administration and all that has been done. But they have to be fearful of the coming Trump administration, right?", "Yes, absolutely. My main concern right now for Israel is that they're becoming increasingly isolated. 14 members of the Security Council, all of the major western European powers voted against this and the French are holding a -- scheduled a big conference on Palestine on the 15th of January. So, the Israelis are painting themselves further and further into the corner. The Trump administration has new priorities, this will be one of them, the question is whether Netanyahu can rely on the U.S. to be its one and sole ally in the Western world in all of this.", "Michael, I want to go back to your original picture you painted of these two administrations. What do you think will happen?", "I think with every passing year it further reduces the long-term hope for peace because of the fact of the settlements together with the deterioration of the Palestinian political debate internally, those two trends. So, that's why I'm most concerned not about settlements in general but about the specific settlements going into areas of east Jerusalem or the West Bank that take away the possibility of a future Palestinian state because they take away the ability for one land area to be held together contiguously. So, the U.N. resolution could have been more specific to say we understand some settlements will continue within certain areas where it's relatively harmless. You could imagine trades where the Palestinians could be compensated for certain settlement zones, what we're really worried about is where you rear breaking new ground or interrupting the different territories within the West Bank and east Jerusalem. That's where I would have liked to see more clarity. That's where I think Obama had a chance to work with Trump although that's conjecture, I admit.", "There's so much more I'd love to talk to you about. David Andelman, thank you very much. Michael O'Hanlon, good to see you as well.", "Up next, more on the death of actress Carrie Fisher. She played Princess Leia in the \"Star Wars\" films. And tributes for her from co-stars are flooding in. More on that coming up. Plus, mall brawls break out in more than a dozen locations -- say that five times real fast. What happened, or what is happening that causes so many kids to trade punches? Back after a break."], "speaker": ["SAVIDGE", "DAVID KEYES, SPOKESMAN FOR ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU", "BEN RHODES, DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR", "SAVIDGE", "OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SAVIDGE", "LIEBERMANN", "SAVIDGE", "MICHAEL O'HANLON, SENIOR FELLOW, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION & AUTHOR", "SAVIDGE", "HANAN ASHRAWI, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER, PLO", "SAVIDGE", "DAVID ANDELMAN, CNN.COM OPINION CONTRIBUTOR & EDITOR EMERITUS, WORLD POLICY JOURNAL & COLUMNIST, USA TODAY", "SAVIDGE", "O'HANLON", "SAVIDGE", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "CNN-48233", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-1-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/29/lt.09.html", "summary": "Military Investigating Hard Landing of Transport Helicopter", "utt": ["The military is investigating the hard landing of a transport helicopter in Afghanistan that happened yesterday. South of Bagram, as the airbase north of Kabul, Martin Savidge is in Kandahar, bringing us the latest on what happened there. Here's Marty.", "We are continuing to gain more information as to what exactly was going on when the CH-47 suffered its hard landing about 24 hours ago. Apparently, it was a formation of three helicopters, flying in support of what was a combat operation, still ongoing at the this hour, south of Bagram. The helicopters were actually ferrying in fresh troops as part of that mission. There was said to be less than a hundred forces involved in the operation, and military officials saying very little beyond that point because of the fact that the mission is still happening. The helicopter, though, was apparently was coming in for a landing when it kicked up dust and debris, which is commonly called a brownout, and at the same time, the right front land gear of the helicopter fell into a depression and that caused the helicopter to roll on its side. Sixteen of the 24 onboard were injured. Immediately, the two other helicopters set down in the security perimeter. There have no shots were fired, but they were believed to be hostiles in the area. Aide was rendered on the scene, and then everyone was flown out to Bagram and given initial treatment. Ten of the injured have now been moved to a medical facility in Turkey to undergo further evaluation of perhaps specialized treatment. Meanwhile, investigators are trying to determine the extent of damage and try to figure out when, if or how they might move the helicopter for possible repairs. Martin Savidge, CNN, at the Kandahar Airport.", "Thank you, Marty. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "CNN-374560", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2019-07-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/11/ath.01.html", "summary": "Millions of People Under Flood Risk as Storm Strengthens; Speaker Nancy Pelosi Speaks Amid Democratic Party Infighting.", "utt": ["Welcome back, everybody. Four million people under flash flood threat right now as the first tropical system of the year starts to bear down on the gulf coast. Barry was officially named a tropical storm a few minutes ago. It could make land fall as a hurricane this weekend in Louisiana. But even ahead of that, it's already showing its strength with damaging wind and rain in parts of the region. At least two parishes in Louisiana are already under mandatory evacuation orders. And dozens of flood gates have been closed in the New Orleans area. To give you an idea of how big and nasty the system is looking to be right now, check this out. What it did to a play set. And this is hundreds of miles inland near Ft. Worth, Texas. CNN's Chad Myers is watching the forecast in the CNN Severe Weather Center. Natasha Chen is on the ground in New Orleans. Natasha, first to you. What are you seeing and hearing there right now?", "We're just hearing from city officials in New Orleans just a few minutes ago talking about the pumps in the city. They said all but two of them are working. So they have 120 total, so 118 of them are fully functional right now. They said the two that are down are smaller and are in places are other pumps are functioning. So they're fueled up, ready to go for this We also know that the flood gates are being closed, dozens of them, in preparation for the weather to come in. The worst of it, of course, being Saturday. Flood gates, including this one at the port of New Orleans, where we're standing. This one will be closed by 5:00 p.m. Eastern time today. They've been closing pedestrian gates as well by the Spanish Plaza and the River Walk and the Hilton Hotel area, places that tourists like to come here. The city hall in New Orleans was closed yesterday and will remain closed for the next couple of days. As you mentioned, there are mandatory evacuations in certain cities and neighborhoods of two parishes in the more low-lying areas. There are another two parishes that are preparing people for voluntary evacuations. So everyone is really tracking the system and keeping a watchful eye. There's a storm surge watch, as well as a flash flood watch. It's hard to tell from the sunny weather we're having right at this moment, but yesterday there was a torrential downpour. And we're expecting more of that to come in later today and possibly tomorrow as well -- Kate?", "Natasha, we're going to stick close to you. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Let's go over to Chad now. Chad, you've been watching it. What can we expect from the storm? What is it looking like right now?", "It's looking bad. I mean, like not organized bad. Good for us and bad for it. I'll show you that in a second. Barry looks very disorganized. I have a friend named Barry in Houston and we don't appreciate that. Anyway, here is the tropical storm warning that was just posted. That's the blue area. Watch the still in yellow and pink. Otherwise, though, this is the storm. There's the low. Where are the storms? Not near the center.", "Chad, can I cut you off? We need to jump over the Capitol Hill. Nancy Pelosi is speaking right now.", "I've said what I'm going to say in the caucus. That's where this is appropriate. And I said what I'm going to say in the caucus. They took offense because I addressed, at the request of my members, an offensive tweet that came out of one of the member's offices that referenced our blue dolls and our new Dems, essentially as segregationists. Our members took offense at that. I addressed that. How they're interpreting and carrying it to another place is up to them. But I'm not going to be discussing it any further.", "Yes, ma'am?", "If I could just follow up briefly, you talk a lot about civility in the caucus. Is this the message that you preached yesterday.", "But many of those freshmen members, who have taken offense to your comment, have found it --", "I've said what I'm going to say. With all due respect, maybe you didn't hear what I said. I said what I'm going to say on the subject. What I said in the caucus yesterday had an overwhelming response from my members, because they know what the facts are and what we're responding to. We respect the value of every member of our caucus. The diversity of it is a wonderful thing. Diversity is our strength. Unity is our power. And we have a big fight and we're in the arena. And that's all I'm going to say on the subject. If you want to waste your question, you can waste your question. Yes?", "On the ICE raids that you mentioned in your opening statement, the president gave Congress two weeks to come to some sort of deal on immigration, especially on the asylum laws in our country. Do you see any momentum to change the asylum laws or to sit down and work towards the immigration --", "Well, the asylum laws are what they are. In other words, it's important for people to understand what they are. We're part of a global society. And when someone comes to a country seeking asylum, they are not breaking the law coming into the country, and they have to prove their case, that they have a well-founded fear of persecution. So it's not a question of saying we're going to change the global human rights dynamic that exists. There are some initiatives -- Zoe Lofgren, who is masterful in all of this -- that suggests that some review of asylum seekers status could be done in-country instead of traveling here. And that's one thing that I think would be appealing to the administration. That doesn't necessarily mean you change the law. You just have to allocate resources to do it. In terms of comprehensive immigration, I think there's real need for it. My understanding is that people don't even like that term anymore. So we're talking about DREAM promise and beyond, where we go with it. And I think that is something that we have to do. It's not something you can do in two weeks.", "Will you appeal to the president to put off the raids?", "I'm going to appeal to the people of faith, the faith-based organizations to appeal to the president. I think that they put him in office and they have a better voice for this. I did appeal to some of them to help with the conditions for the children when we were having the back and forth before the break, but they were given the short shift by Mitch McConnell. It was just like he wasn't interested in their appeals as to what would be needed. But, yes, it's a longer thing. The possibilities are there. He sent -- you know this. I think it's in the public domain, so I'll be confirming it. He sent -- the chairman, I guess he is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee.", "Graham.", "Graham. To my office to talk about some things that we could do and there may be some possibilities of some things that we can do. It may not be the total comprehensive, but it would address some of the points. We have to do that. I mean, we have principles that we've always put forth. We want to secure our borders. We want to be respectful of immigration policy that is fair to the American people and to newcomers coming to our country. We want to again have a path to citizenship. And I always like quoting Ronald Reagan who said, \"We cannot close the door.\" So recognizing that we're not deporting 11 million people because of status of their documents or lack thereof. We did have that initial conversation. And there may be some possibilities. But every time you think you've made progress, then it doesn't necessarily happen. But we are having conversations about it, yes.", "Can the president do a census question by executive order?", "Well, I don't know. He has an injunction. There's an injunction that he just has to overcome. It's an injunction against putting citizenship on the ballot. We have been printing the census forms. June 30th was the deadline. So we're printing the forms. We fully expect the census to go forward. The president's effort to put the citizenship question on the census will continue to be challenged in court. The Supreme Court destroyed the administration's argument that the question was needed to support the Voting Rights Act. Really? Including their rationale it was based on a contrived pretext. Next week, the full House will vote on a resolution of criminal contempt on Attorney General Barr and Secretary Ross so we can enforce the subpoenas and get the facts. So he'll try all kinds of things. But we'll have to get around the injunction. In the meantime, we're printing the forms. And by the way, one of our issues in lifting the caps is more money for the census. Thank you all.", "All right, you were listening to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaking on quite a few topics. Let me bring in CNN's chief political correspondent, Dana Bash, on this. Dana, let's start with what Nancy Pelosi very clearly did not want to talk about. We talked about at the top of the show, but this is -- what is happening between leaders, moderates and the left flank of the Democratic Party after a closed-door meeting of the caucus last night, where Nancy Pelosi made this impassioned pitch for unity in the caucus. And that is not what we are seeing play out publicly when liberal members are coming out saying that it's outright disrespectful how Nancy Pelosi has been speaking about them. And she said very clearly basically I'm not going to talk about it. I said what I said in the caucus and that's it.", "That's right. And to be specific, the latest is that AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, said to the \"Washington Post\" and then doubled down with our colleague, Manu Raju, this morning, saying that the speaker is going after members of color and that that is a pattern. She said that first to the \"Washington Post\" again. And this morning, when she doubled down with Manu. Manu said, are you suggesting that's racism. She said, oh, no, no, absolutely not. Look, it's getting ugly. And the fact is, the speaker, as you heard, she said she didn't want to talk about it, but then she did explain herself a little bit saying that her argument was that the progressives need to be careful in how they criticize the moderates, just as it should be considered vice-versa. It's hard to be any leader of a very diverse ideologically diverse caucus."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "NATACHA CHEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BOLDUAN", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "BOLDUAN", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA)", "PELOSI", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "PELOSI", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "PELOSI", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "PELOSI", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "PELOSI", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "PELOSI", "BOLDUAN", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-20808", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-11-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/29/tod.03.html", "summary": "Election 2000: Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore Thinks Gore Should Concede", "utt": ["Well, now, let's hear from the Republicans. For that, we go to Richmond, Virginia, to talk with Governor Jim Gilmore. Governor, thank you for being with us.", "Thank you. Thanks for the chance to talk to your viewers.", "Sure. Why aren't you in Tallahassee, everybody else is?", "Well, I was down there last week in Palm Beach watching that, but I never got to Tallahassee. But I don't need to carry Governor Bush's water, I think that he's won the election. He is going to be the president-elect, and time has come for Vice President Bush to concede this election -- Vice President Gore to concede this election and for us to move on and begin to govern the country.", "Gore said just today he still thinks he has a 50/50 chance.", "Well, I think that this is a little bit of the vice president desperately wanting to win for himself as opposed to fully considering the impact that this is having on the people of the United States and on our republic. Time has come to recognize that the votes have been certified in Florida. It's been perfectly and responsibly and legally handled. The Gore message -- my friend Paul Patton, I like him very much, but he's carrying the Gore message today, and of course, we heard the message the votes haven't been counted, but it's misleading: The votes were counted, they were recounted, the machines saw them all. They understood that these were votes that, for some reason, were not able to be counted. They were looked at again in the recount. And what's really going on here is that Al Gore wants these to be sort of specially handled in order to try to give him an advantage. There's no reason why these districts should be handled differently from any other county in the United States of America.", "This has been such an argument between both sides on these undercounted votes in Miami-Dade. Any reason not to count these 10,000 ballots that, apparently, haven't been hand counted? That's what Governor Patton just said, the intent of the voter should be determined by a hand count?", "Because this is changing the law, because this is circumventing the law, because it's giving a special handling in a particular place in order to try to advantage one candidate, who is Al Gore. These votes have been counted the same way they were counted in every state in America, all across the United States. Votes are kicked out, because, for some reason, perhaps, a voter decided not to vote for president or perhaps they did something that was wrong with their ballot. Happens all the time. And I want to make it very clear to the listeners that the percentage of vote in this particular county that we're talking about, these 9,000 votes, are only 1.6 percent of all the votes that were cast in Miami-Dade. That's very typical of what we see across the entire United States. There's nothing unique about this. But to go in now and try to treat this super-special in some way, and to try to project what the intention of the voter was, is wrong. It's wrong, and it undermines our democratic process.", "And you would feel that way if the tables were turned, and it was George W. Bush who came up short by just a few hundred votes?", "You know what, I'd rather look at it this way: I'd like to ask the vice president if this vote turned on California, and the difference were 200 or 300 votes, and the Republicans were counting all the votes in Orange county, how would he feel? And I'll bet you that he would not want a recount done in those kinds of circumstances.", "Finally, I'm going to steal a question that Lou just asked of the Kentucky governor, because I liked it. What do you think the effect will be on whoever the next president is, as far as the fact that the country was split right down the middle in who is supported for president and how they govern?", "You know, it has been a close election, but this American republic is able to handle a close election, or should be able to handle a close election. I think that efforts that the vice president has made have very much undermined this whole process, but nonetheless, we're coming through on this. And I believe, at the end of the day, that the Democrats in Congress have an obligation to work with the president-elect who has fairly and legally and honestly won this election. And it's going to be a responsibility of both parties to come together. On the other hand, Governor Bush, in Texas, has had a long history of working across party lines very, very successfully. That's why he's the right man for this job at this time.", "Governor Jim Gilmore, of Virginia, thank you for talking with us.", "Thank you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "GOV. JIM GILMORE (R), VIRGINIA", "ALLEN", "GILMORE", "ALLEN", "GILMORE", "ALLEN", "GILMORE", "ALLEN", "GILMORE", "ALLEN", "GILMORE", "ALLEN", "GILMORE"]}
{"id": "CNN-290748", "program": "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS", "date": "2016-08-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/07/fzgps.01.html", "summary": "Should U.S. Make Voting Mandatory?", "utt": ["Now for our \"What in the World\" segment.", "And then there's Donald Trump. Don't boo, vote.", "President Obama urged audience members of the Democratic National Convention last week to express themselves at the voting booth. Only 60 million Americans voted in the Republican or Democratic primaries and half of those citizens voted for a candidate other than Trump or Clinton, according to the \"New York Times.\" In fact only 9 percent of the entire country cast ballots for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, as the \"Times\" pointed out. And it's not just this whacky election. The United States consistently has voting rates that are among the lowest in the developed world. Only 53.6 percent of eligible citizens voted in the 2012 election according to Pew. By comparison, Pew reports that 84.3 percent of Turkish adult citizens and 87.2 percent of eligible voters in Belgium exercised the right to vote in their most recent national elections. Why? Well, maybe because voting is mandatory in Belgium and Turkey. And you get fined if you don't go to the polls. They are just two of the 26 countries in the world that have some form of compulsory voting, according to the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. So should the United States follow suit to boost turnout? President Obama has pointed out mandatory voting could be transformative.", "The people who tend not to vote are young; they're lower-income; they're skewed more heavily towards immigrant groups and minority groups. There's a reason why some folks try to keep them away from the polls. We should want to get them into the polls.", "The president touted Australia as a success story. Mandatory voting was introduced \"Down Under\" in 1924 to address abysmal voter participation rates. A fine of 20 Australian dollars has been enough of a disincentive to mobilize voters. Over 90 percent of Aussies voted in the last federal election, according to the Australian Electoral Commission. Not only are Australians more represented; they might even be more politically aware. Quartz points to a groundbreaking comparative study which shows that countries that strongly enforce compulsory voting have populations that are more politically informed. In the study, Jill Sheppard, a political scientist from Australian National University, surmises that, in countries with strong enforcement, quote, \"compulsory voting increases citizens' political knowledge, either because voters choose to become informed, given the requirement to vote, or because the process of voting itself imparts incidental knowledge,\" unquote. Back in the United States, jury duty and taxes are mandatory, so why not voting? At the very least, the government should make it easier for Americans to cast a ballot, like in Sweden, where citizens are automatically registered to vote and turnout is among the highest in the OECD, according to Pew. Or how about Oregon, the only state that automatically registers people to vote when they get a driver's license or state ID, a step in the right direction? Or take Estonia, the small Baltic nation, which allows online voting. On the other hand, the United States might look to countries like Australia, Brazil and Greece, which, according to Think Progress, do a very simple thing; they hold elections on weekends so people can partake without having to skip work. After all, American elections are only on Tuesdays because of truly arcane logic. In 1845, Congress deduced that Sunday was the Sabbath. It would take a day for people to travel into town by horse-and-buggy to vote. And Wednesday was market in the farming communities, so Tuesday was the most convenient day for voting. Clearly our society has evolved. The rules governing our elections should do as well. Next on GPS, the great Malcolm Gladwell gives us some of the big ideas he's been pushing on his terrific new podcast called Revisionist History."], "speaker": ["ZAKARIA", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ZAKARIA", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ZAKARIA"]}
{"id": "CNN-338337", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2018-04-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/23/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Trump Unleashes on Special Counsel", "utt": ["We've got a live picture coming in from Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington D.C., in suburban Maryland right now. There you see the aircraft, the plane bringing in the French president, Macron, to the United States, Emmanuel Macron. He has -- had just arrived. He'll be walking down those stairs momentarily getting ready to meet with the president and the first lady. Later today they'll be going over to Mt. Vernon for dinner outside of Washington, in suburban Virginia, Alexandria, Virginia, a little bit more precise. There will be a state dinner tomorrow night, a joint news conference. He'll address on Wednesday, Macron, a joint session of the U.S. Congress, a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress as well. A very, very warm welcome for the French leader here in Washington. We're going to have a lot more on that coming up. In the meantime, let's continue the conversation as we await the start of the White House press briefing. Sarah Sanders getting ready to brief reporters momentarily. Among the president's numerous tweets over the weekend was another shot at the former FBI director, James Comey. Quote, James Comey illegally leaked classified documents to the press in order to generate a special counsel. Counsel misspelled, by the way. Therefore the special counsel once again, counsel misspelled -- was established based on an illegal act. Really, does everybody know what that means?, closed quote. Let's bring in CNN legal analyst Carrie Cordero. Also our CNN political analysts are Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian. Carrie, what does that mean, basically, from your perspective, when he says here -- what the president says about that, that perhaps this whole special counsel investigation is illegal?", "OK. Well, first of all, this is really just an effort -- another effort on the president's part to try to cast doubt about the legitimacy of the special counsel investigation. I have not yet seen a credible allegation that the former FBI director leaked classified information. In Jim Comey's book, he says that he provided one unclassified memo to his associate that then relayed some information in it to a reporter after he was fired. Now that some of these memos have been released after the Department of Justice provided them to Congress, we have learned that some information in some of the memos, and it's not yet clear which -- whether those were actually ones provided, one of the ones provided to his associate, some information has been retroactively classified. This does not mean that the former FBI director, quote, unquote, leaked classified information and committed a crime, and it also does not mean that the special counsel's investigation, which was commissioned by the deputy attorney general after the FBI director was fired, in order to provide a neutral continuation of that investigation, it doesn't mean that the special counsel's investigation is no longer legitimate, in my assessment.", "No. The president says it was based on an illegal act. Karoun, how do you see it?", "Well, I mean certainly that's the argument that he's -- he's trying to make. But as Carrie just laid out, you know, it depends on what was classified when and -- with the understanding of, you know, what the information was that actually was put out there, versus the -- what we're looking at right now. I mean the president is trying to spin this to various extents. I think the first time that, you know, when we first saw these -- the content of these memos, it was a, look, this proves that there's no collusion. Now it's, no, OK, well, this is -- this is illegally done and it was a setup to be able to create the special counsel, which is actually returning to an earlier argument that he's made, which is that this entire probe is completely illegitimate. So it's -- it's the president's concerns, basically, about the -- which have been long term about the actual Russia investigation against him that questions the legitimacy -- he fees that that questions the legitimacy of his presidency as well and he's lashing out now and it's easy to do that with Comey because there are these questions right now about what -- who had what when. And, you know, also because Comey's out there on the circuit right now promoting his book. So this is a fixation point.", "But let's also remember, it wasn't just the Comey memos that, you know, triggered this special counsel. President Trump himself went on TV and said point blank that one of the reasons he got rid of and fired Comey was because he didn't like the Russia investigation and he wanted it to go away. You can't do that no matter if you're president of the United States. And so that's like the main reason for the creation of the special counsel. I do think this whole question about whether any of the documents that Comey leaked or, you know, gave to an associate who then gave them to the press to sort of trigger this conversation, if any of that was classified. I think that this, you know, really does hurt him and it gives Republicans a line of attack that I think even -- not only allies of President Trump are going to use, but also we're seeing some Republicans who are moderates who are supporters of the special counsel. They are sort of chastising Comey right now over this. Or, why did he do this now? He should have been more careful. Wait until the investigation is over. I don't think you're going to see any Republicans go from supporting the special counsel to not supporting the special counsel because of this question, but it certainly gives the president a dig that he's going to keep going after.", "Maybe he's tweeting almost nonstop. Let's take a quick break. We're standing by for the White House press briefing. Sarah Sanders getting ready to brief reporters. Also standing by to see the visiting French president, Macron. His plane has just landed at Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington. Lots more right after this."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "CARRIE CORDERO, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "KAROUN DEMIRJIAN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "RACHAEL BADE, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-142976", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2009-9-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/16/acd.02.html", "summary": "Yale Grad Student Strangled to Death", "utt": ["We have new information tonight about how Yale grad student Annie Le was killed. The medical examiner's office says the 24-year-old was killed by traumatic asphyxia, caused by neck compression. In other words, she was strangled. Who did it? That of course, is the question of the hour. A lab technician who works in the building where Le's body was found, this person is being called a person of interest. Police searched his home and car today, they are testing his DNA. Tom Foreman has the latest in tonight's \"Crime and Punishment\" report.", "Thirty miles from the crime scene, the street where Raymond Clark lives is buzzing. Police took him into custody at his apartment here to collect DNA. He's since been released and his lawyer says he's cooperating. But no one we met has seen him back home, so neighbors like Ashley Rowe are remembering times they spoke to him.", "He was decent. His dog was really excited and he was just like, \"Oh, he's really friendly, don't worry. You can pet him.\" He was really nice. So pretty much he was just known to love his dog. And walk around with his dog all the time.", "And you said he was sort of different in that he wanted to know a lot about the people he was talking to.", "He wanted to know their full name, where they're from. Stuff like that.", "Clark, who was 24, is not a student at Yale, but works there taking care of mice in the medical labs. His fiancee and two relatives also work in the labs according to police. But officials will say little about how Clark knew Annie Le.", "They worked in the same building. They passed in the hallways; anything beyond that I'm not going to talk about.", "Any past troubles for Le?", "I'm not going to talk about that issue.", "Any video of Clark in the building that day?", "I'm not going to talk about what video we have or don't have.", "An old high school friend, Lisa Heselin, remembers Clark well.", "He was a nice kid. He was a jokester, kind of like a class clown. Everybody knew him. Everybody liked him.", "For a while, Clark lived here not far from Yale. But neighbors here have little to say. This is the house where he used to live; up there on the second floor we're told. But all of the residents of this building now say that they either moved in after he left or if they knew him, they did not know him well. They saw him in passing at best. He had a girlfriend and a dog by most accounts. But that's about all they know. (voice-over): For now, police are still collecting evidence and stressing that Clark is not a suspect while signs and a family member's home are keeping the curious away from this person of interest.", "So this guy seems to have kind of disappeared from view. I assume police know exactly where he is, yes?", "Yes, they do, Anderson. They made that point today. We heard little bits and pieces coming in all day where he might be, but the police did say categorically and they've said from the beginning, \"Look, we have been keeping an eye on where this person is.\" He is a person of extreme interest to them, and he is not a suspect but they're not going to let him out of their site. In fact, we got a report just a short while ago about how a neighboring police jurisdiction tonight is helping them keep an eye on an area where they have him; they know where he is. He is free to do what he wishes, but nonetheless they are keeping an eye on him and say will keep them in their sight at all times until they determine that he is no longer a person of interest or something more -- Anderson.", "All right. Tom, thanks. We're joined by -- again, by criminal pathologist, Dr. Cyril Wecht and former FBI agent and profiler Candice Delong. So Candice, we know now that she was strangled. What about this jumps out at you in terms of the crime scene, the way the body was disposed of, the clothing was disposed of and the manner of death?", "One of the first things that struck me when I heard five days after she was last seen that her body was found in the laboratory, and then secreted in a wall was certainly that the person responsible for her murder was someone very familiar with that laboratory; someone who also had a reason to be there. There were 75 -- there are 75 surveillance cameras there. So a vagrant certainly didn't wander in. And crimes of this nature -- it didn't look premeditated to me. And crimes of this nature where a woman is attacked and murdered and left like that tend to not be premeditated. And it usually is someone that knew the victim.", "Dr. Wecht, strangulation is, how difficult is that? It's an incredibly intimate thing as well. It's not killing someone from afar, it's up close.", "It's not difficult to accomplish, Anderson. Remember, this young lady, 90 pounds, 4'10\". So an adult male very easily, especially if the victim is unsuspecting, can immediately encircle the neck with the two hands. Pressure on the neck for about 20 seconds can result in unconsciousness and 30 seconds definitely deep unconsciousness and after that, if pressure is continued or not, death may ensue. So it's not hard at all to envision how this could be accomplished from a physical stand point. I agree with your other guest that this most likely was something that evolved. It probably began with some sexual advances and got out of hand. The strangulation is a classical method of killing in this kind of a situation as opposed obviously to shooting, stabbing, and even beating. The DNA evidence is going to be key here, as well as other forensic trace evidence. Hair, fibers, any blood transferred from one to the other. We heard something about scratches, I don't know if that's true or not, then material from her fingernails. What will that yield when compared to DNA from this man and other people, too. So I think there is no need and there should not be a rush to judgment, since there's a tight population, nobody is going to be fleeing the country, and they are making certain that they do all the necessary tests. There's no question that this is a job performed by somebody there, who as has been pointed out knew darn well where everything was and tried to hide things just so that a couple or few days could -- how to escape all of the findings and give that individual more time to think about his particular alibi.", "Candice, just the fact that -- you're saying you don't think it's premeditated, if it was something that happened spontaneously that would probably improve police chances of finding some sort of DNA evidence or some sort of physical evidence. We know they've already they say taken in more than 200 pieces of potential evidence.", "Yes, because crimes like this, when there's a crime scene like this and someone is killed, this doesn't look like it was premeditated. Her body was discovered. All kinds of evidence, as you mentioned, 200 items of evidence. I think this is probably going to be resolved very quickly. And I agree with Dr. Wecht, this is probably -- when we see a woman killed in this manner, generally what happened is that there was an interchange of some kind, often times an advance by the male. He's rebuffed. Doesn't take the rejection well and things devolve from there and it's almost always a hands-on manual strangulation because it was unplanned. The offender didn't bring the weapon. And he's very angry and upset, not necessarily this one but generally speaking and he expresses that by going for the victim's throat.", "Dr. Wecht, appreciate your expertise tonight and Candice Delong, as well. Thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "We've got a lot more on the killing of Annie Le on our Web site. You can go to AC360.com to see a timeline of the murder, as we know it, and the mystery of it. The investigation, of course, still unfolding. You can also weigh in the live chat. Let us know what you think about this and other stories, talk to other viewers; Ac360.com, the live chat. I'll log on right now; I'm a little bit late to the party. The lessons learned from another murdered Yale student killed more than a decade ago, her case never solved; her family still searching for answers. Well have an up close look at that case. Also ahead, our series, \"Medical Malpractice: Who Wins, Who Loses, Who Pays?\" Tonight, we'll hear from a doctor who was sued by a patient after she saved her life. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ASHLEY ROWE, RAYMOND CLARK'S NEIGHBOR", "FOREMAN (on camera)", "ROWE", "FOREMAN", "CHIEF JAMES LEWIS, NEW HAVEN POLICE DEPARTMENT", "FOREMAN", "LEWIS", "FOREMAN", "LEWIS", "FOREMAN", "LISA HESELIN, RAYMOND CLARK'S HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND", "FOREMAN (on camera)", "COOPER", "FOREMAN", "COOPER", "CANDICE DELONG, FORMER FBI AGENT AND PROFILER", "COOPER", "DR. CYRIL WECHT, CRIMINAL PATHOLOGIST", "COOPER", "DELONG", "COOPER", "WECHT", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-175517", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2011-11-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1111/08/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Silvio Berlusconi's Future; Greece's New Leadership", "utt": ["Welcome to NEWS STREAM, where news and technology meet. I'm Kristie Lu Stout, in Hong Kong. And we begin in Italy. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's political fate could be largely determined by a crucial vote expected in less than two hours. Also ahead, Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei speaks to NEWS STREAM about the donations pouring in to help him pay his massive tax bill. And Earth is set for a close encounter with this asteroid. We'll hear from one of the scientists getting ready to study it as it flies by our planet. We begin in Rome, at the Italian parliament, where it is crunch time for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Let's bring up some live pictures of lawmakers there as they debate a public finance measure. And a vote is expected in the coming hours in what will effectively be seen as a judgment on the prime minister himself and his waning support. For the very latest on the situation, I'm joined live by Matthew Chance in Rome. And Matthew, how vulnerable is the Italian prime minister?", "Well, he could be pretty vulnerable, indeed. The Italian media is full of speculation that between 20 and 40 of his coalition MPs have defected to the opposition. That would be more than enough to bring down the Italian government, but I think it's also important to remember that Silvio Berlusconi is a better and horse trader, and behind the scenes he's been working very hard to try and attract those rebels back into the coalition fold. And so even though the odds at this point may be stacked against him, he's coming out fighting. Within the last few minutes, though, there has been some pretty bad news for Silvio Berlusconi potentially, which is his main coalition partner, Umberto Bossi, of the Northern League, has told journalists that he wants Silvio Berlusconi to step aside. Now, his press office has played down to CNN the significance of those comments, but if it does mean -- if it means that the Northern League withdrawing their support from Silvio Berlusconi, then that's not something that the Italian prime minister is going to be able to recover from -- Kristie.", "Well, a key ally is asking him to step down. And if Mr. Berlusconi does resign, who would replace him?", "Well, that's a good question. Much will depend on what kind of government Italy will have afterwards, whether it's merely the prime minister who is replaced and somebody from his own party is installed as prime minister. That's a definite possibility. It could be that new elections are called. And, of course, then it would mean it would be up to the people of Italy to decide who they want as their prime minister. Another possibility is that a technical government, a technocratic government is put in power, possibly with Mario Monti, who is a former EU commissioner in charge, to see Italy through these very difficult, very stormy economic times -- Kristie.", "Matthew Chance, live in Rome for us. Thank you. Now, Silvio Berlusconi's current challenges are, in some ways, a fitting climax to what has been a colorful life. The 75-year-old, he calls himself the most persecuted man in history. And indeed, he has weathered more than 50 confidence votes in Italy's parliament since 2008. He is dealing also with a number of legal troubles. Mr. Berlusconi faces at least three different trials on corruption, bribery, and abuse of power charges, and allegedly paying for sex with a 17-year-old girl. Mr. Berlusconi maintains that he is innocent, and he claims to have made more than 2,500 court appearances in more than 100 trials, and spent almost $270 million in legal fees over the past 20 years. But he can afford it. In fact, according to \"Forbes\" magazine, it says that his fortune is about $6.2 billion, making him 118 on its list of the world's richest people. And the wealth, it comes from a media empire which includes TV networks, magazines, newspapers, and a publishing firm, and one of the world's premier soccer teams, AC Milan. Now, there is no word yet on just who will replace Greece's outgoing prime minister, George Papandreou. But a Greek government spokesman says an announcement will come soon. An emergency cabinet meeting has just ended, and Greece's main parties, they've been discussing the formation of a new unity government. Now, the new prime minister, whoever it is, will have to oversee implementation of the EU debt deal and lead the country to early elections, expected in February. Let's go straight to our Diana Magnay. She is standing by live in Athens. And Diana, any agreement yet over who will be the next prime minister?", "Well, it would seem as though the wheels are in motion, Kristie, after two days of excruciating negotiations between the two main parties, and presumably also those leaders, possible new future interim leaders, whose names are in play here. Discussions over both the program of that new government and of course who will be in it and who will be in it and who is going to lead it. As you say, a cabinet meeting has just concluded in which the Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, said to his cabinet members that they should have their resignations at the ready, and that he did anticipate a positive outcome by the end of the day. This is something that we heard from his spokesman on Sunday already, and it is now Tuesday. And you get a sense from the Greek public, from the Greek newspapers that they are extremely frustrated that, what with all the sort of swan song about a new government announced on Sunday, it has taken still this long to actually hammer out a deal between the parties at this crisis point. And of course it is also what European lenders are looking to find here in Greece, cross-party support for this new government so that it can push through the terms of the bailout deal agreed on October the 26th and then take the country to elections -- Kristie.", "Now, there are a number of contenders, but who at this hour is the leading candidate for the job?", "Well, the name that you keep hearing and seeing in the Greek media is Lucas Papademos. Now, he is an adviser to George Papandreou. He's a former vice president of the European Central Bank. He's a former Bank of Greece governor, and actually helped steer Greece into the eurozone all those years ago. And most recently, he's been a professor at Harvard. He flew back to this country late on Monday night to have talks with the prime minister. So his name is out there. Also, rumors in the media that he's been discussing wanting this interim government to be there for a longer period of time than just the 100 days until elections, and that he's been sort of discussing nominations of his own into the new cabinet. His name is the most common one. And then there are another couple in the fray, Nikiforos Diamandou who is the EU ombudsman, and also Panagiotis Roumeliotis, who is Greece's representative at the IMF. Of course, at this stage, we really do have to wait to see who it is -- Kristie.", "Diana Magnay, live in Athens. Thank you very much, indeed. And still to come, donations to a dissident. Now money is pouring in to help Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei pay off his towering tax bill. He tells NEWS STREAM he did not ask for the handouts. Plus, a search into two suspected brothels in Spain. The CNN Freedom Project gains unprecedented access to an anti-trafficking investigation. And tributes pour in for Smokin' Joe Frazier. The boxing legend lost his fight with cancer on Monday."], "speaker": ["KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "STOUT", "CHANCE", "STOUT", "DIANA MAGNAY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "STOUT", "MAGNAY", "STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-312205", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-05-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/13/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Massive Cyberattack Halted, Experts Worry About Copycats", "utt": ["All right, right now, we're getting new information on a massive cyber-attack that has hit users in nearly 100 countries across the globe. A cyber expert tells CNN the malware called \"Wannacry\" has been halted at least for now, but not before it infected hundreds of thousands of computers, locking them down and telling users to pay up or risk losing all of their data. Let me bring in CNN Money tech correspondent, Samuel Burke, and CNN Money Europe editor, Nina dos Santos. Good to see both of you. So Samuel, you first. So how was this malware stopped for now?", "A cyber-security researcher accidentally stopped the spread of this ransomware but we're not out of woods yet. This already be in your computer at work and then you show up on Monday and you're still in this situation deciding if you want to pay $300 in Bitcoin in order to get your files back. I think what's interesting here is this all has to do with a flaw in Windows that Microsoft actually started patching back in March. But if you have not updated your computer, Fredricka, and you're like so many people you see that pop up in the lower right-hand corner, you see that pop up in the lower right-hand corner, you don't want to restart your computer and you say I'll do it tomorrow. But if you delay that, you could be one of the few people who is vulnerable to this. If you've updated your computer already or do it very soon you're safe. That's all that has to be done here.", "So, Samuel, you were saying it's folks at home not just businesses and institutions that are being most affected here.", "Absolutely. People at home, but also big businesses and of course, hospitals over in the U.K. where Nina is as well. Amazing to see how technology actually is affecting people's lives. You know, hospitals had to cancel outpatient appointments. So this is an interesting case where it's not hacked passwords or credit card numbers. These are actual lives that are being affected here.", "So Nina, on those 16 National Health Service organizations in the U.K. in particular that have been hit, what are officials there doing to try to fix this, save their information, how is it impacting them overall?", "Well, they are taking it very seriously indeed, Fredricka. Just among all of the countries around the world that have been affected, it probably is the U.K. where we've seen a critical national infrastructure affected so badly that Samuel was pointing out, it is people missing appointments, doctor's appointments, and in some cases even surgeries. Imagine if you're prepped for surgery and then the surgeon tells you that they can't operate because he can't access what blood group you are because all of that is now stored online and computers are being completely shut down by this. So the government is taking it very seriously. In fact, we saw the home secretary, Amber Rudd, chaired an emergency meeting of what's called \"The Cobra\" cabinet office, special briefing, which is a bit of like a situation room that you have in the United States dealing with emergencies like this. And she went into that meeting which just finished in the last 20 minutes or so. She had this to say about the fact that this is a very serious event but not just confined to National Health Service here in the U.K.", "There will be lessons to be learned from this example, but I think it's normal to focus entirely the different types of software being used. This is a major cyberattack, an international attack. In fact, the response has been good in the U.K., and I hope we'll be able to continue to disrupt it.", "Now remember that the U.K. is in the midst of an election year. People are going to the polls in just few weeks from now, Fredricka. Of course, the National Health Service and how it's responded to this and being vulnerable to this attack will be high up on the political agenda. But just going back to the international nature of this, we've also had Euro Pole, which is the E.U.'s law enforcement agency coming out saying that this is unprecedented, just like many E.U. countries, the U.K. and other places around the world have been beating up their cyber defense. We had the G7 biggest economies in the world their finance ministers met earlier today in Italy and yet again stressed the need have a stronger commitment to shore up cyber defenses around the planet.", "All right, Nina Dos Santos and Samuel Burke, thank you so much to both of you. Appreciate it. All right, fresh off the firing of FBI Director James Comey, 20 states attorneys general are joining forces calling for an independent counsel to look into Russia's role in the election. We'll speak with one of them right after this."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "SAMUEL BURKE, CNN MONEY TECH CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "BURKE", "WHITFIELD", "NINA DOS SANTOS, CNN MONEY EUROPE EDITOR", "AMBER RUDD, BRITISH HOME SECRETARY", "DOS SANTOS", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-115314", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2007-3-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/16/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Rove Under Fire: E-mail Connection to Firings; Coroner: U.S. 'Friendly Fire' That Killed British Soldier in Iraq Unlawful, Criminal", "utt": ["Bitter blast. A late winter punch for the mid Atlantic and the Northeast happening right now. Guess what? Your Friday flight might be in jeopardy.", "Judgment day. A coroners verdict any minute now on a U.S. war plane's friendly fire that killed a British soldier.", "And burning bridge. A trail trestle goes up in dramatic flames. Take a look at that. Leaving rail traffic at a standstill. We're live this morning from Washington, from London, from Tehran and from New York on this AMERICAN MORNING. Welcome, everybody. It is Friday, March 16th. I'm Soledad O'Brien.", "And I'm Miles O'Brien. We're glad you're with us.", "Let's begin with the weather, shall we? It's a big reminder today it is not spring just yet. A blast of winter is hitting us from the mid Atlantic to the New England area right now. A winter storm warning, in fact, in effect for New York City. Storm watches up for New England. We could see eight to 10 inches of snow. Some flights have already been canceled. And you certainly can count on significant delays and even closures at some major airports. A very busy morning for Chad. He's at the CNN Weather Center this morning. We also have Alina Cho. She's at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Let's begin with Alina before we get to Chad. Alina, how's it looking so far?", "Well, Soledad, if you are heading to Orlando, Raleigh Durham, Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale, Chicago, Denver or Washington, D.C., on American Airlines out of LaGuardia Airport, you may be able to go back to bed because some of those flights have already been canceled. Check with the airport and check ahead. Now delays and cancellations also at Newark and JFK Airports. Those are by destination, so you will want to call ahead. And keep in mind, this will affect travelers all over the country. Now let's talk a bit about JetBlue. You'll recall they had what amounted to an operational meltdown last month during that infamous Valentine's Day storm. Well today the airline has protectively canceled 230 flights, most of them out of the hub at JFK. Meanwhile, travelers here at LaGuardia are already experiencing problems.", "He goes, I'm going to put you on standby for an earlier flight. And I said, why not my 7:00 flight? And he goes, because you're going to go standby on earlier. And I said why? And he said, because it's been canceled. So, you know, there was no indication whatsoever beforehand that the flight had been canceled. It showed on time.", "You a little worried?", "Yes. Hell, yes, I'm worried. I want to go home.", "We woke up this morning, looked out of the window, saw the snow coming down and was wondering if our flight would be canceled or not. But, so far, so good.", "You got lucky.", "I think we got lucky.", "Well, you're beating the weather.", "We're going to beat the weather. It's a good time to get out of New York City.", "Well, I don't know about that, but one pilot we spoke to just a moment ago said he does not think it will be as bad this time around as it was during the Valentine's Say storm. He was here then, as well. He said that he expects most of the delays to be on the tarmac because of de-icing problems. All three of the major airports in the New York area do have their de-icing equipment ready in case this storm gets really big. But, Soledad, as you well know, what a difference a day makes. Yesterday it was almost 70 degrees in New York City. Today, a 30 degree drop. And that, of course, is having a big effect here on travel. Soledad.", "Yes, just for the record, I liked yesterday better, Alina.", "Me, too.", "Alina Cho for us. Thanks, Alina. Miles.", "Just when we thought it was safe to put the winter coats in moth balls, alas, if you don't like the weather this time of year, just wait a minute. Severe weather expert Chad Myers is watching it all from the Weather Center. You know, Chad, we hear about this freezing rain at the airports. That's about the worst thing a pilot can hear.", "All right, take a look at the right-hand corner of your screen. Need to glance there. There's a radar loop to the Northeast. Over there. And airport delays will be in there. We call it our blizmo, that's gizmo meets blizzard, blizmo. And Chad will be here every 15 minutes with the latest forecast for you, of course. Soledad.", "Well, we know her name. Now we're going to get to see and hear from Valerie Plame. In just a few hours, she is testifying before a House committee that's looking into ways to protect the secret identities of CIA agents. AMERICAN MORNING's Bob Franken is on Capitol Hill for us this morning. Good morning to you, Bob. What do you expect to hear from Valerie Plame today?", "Well, first of all, this could otherwise be titled Democrats sticking it to the Bush administration by hearing from Valerie Plame. Valerie Plame is the former CIA operative whose husband had criticized the Bush administration. And as a result, many people say, her identity was made known, her cover was blown and that that has resulted in a whole long list of things. In any case, she has kept her silence. She is scheduled to testify today. For the first time really speaking out. Now, the Republicans might try and make this a closed hearing. And if they're successful, using their parliamentary maneuvers, it would just be rescheduled. But in the meantime, we're expecting to hear from Valerie Plame. We should point out that her testimony is going to be limited. She cannot really still talk about her role at the CIA. But one of the big issues, and there will be lawyers arguing an opposite point, is that the law was not really broken when her identity was disclosed. The law that was at hand was called the Intelligence Identities Protection Act and it specifies that you cannot reveal the identity of covert agents, which mean those serving overseas or after five years. Nevertheless, all of this is going to come up and it's going to be an interesting day, Soledad, if she testifies.", "Scooter Libby has been found guilty in this case, as you well know. So after the testimony today, assuming it happens, what happens with this case, Bob?", "Really, nothing. Scooter Libby was not convicted for any of the offenses under this act, real or imagined. He was convicted of lying during the investigation to investigators, and that is why he is now facing possible jail time, unless there's a successful appeal or, of course, a pardon.", "Which could happen. All right, Bob Franken for us this morning. Thank you, Bob.", "Also in Washington today, they will be following the e-mail trail inside the White House decision to fire U.S. attorneys. The traffic makes it clear the president's top political advisor, Karl Rove, was immeshed (ph) in the debate over how many prosecutors should be pink slipped. CNN's Christina Park is in Washington. She joins us this morning. Good morning, Christina.", "Good morning, Miles. You're exactly right. Democrats on Capitol Hill have a case of you've got mail or perhaps you've got proof. New e-mails put presidential adviser Karl Rove right into the thick of things, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. And that's something the White House has been fighting hard to prevent.", "Previous statements from the White House put the blame of former presidential counsel Harriet Miers alone, but now it appears Karl Rove was involved as well. A January 9, 2005 e-mail between a White House aide and the aide of the attorney general discuss the idea of replacing all 93 U.S. attorneys in the president's second term and notes the Gonzales aide talked to his boss about it a couple of weeks ago. Congressional Democrats want Rove to testify about it.", "If the White House prevents Karl Rove from testifying, it will be thumbing its nose at the American people and at the rule of law.", "The Bush administration defends the firing of the eight prosecutors.", "What I know is that there began a process of evaluating strong performers, not as strong performers and weak performers.", "Every president's entitled to do it. President Clinton was entitled to come in and, if we wanted to, as he did, ask for the immediate resignation or removal from office of all 93 U.S. attorneys.", "But some others remain skeptical.", "In 2005 and 2006 was not a case where they were examining holdovers from a Democratic administration. These were Republican loyalists who had been appointed, confirmed by the Senate with the support of their Republican senators or members of the Congress who were Republicans. And that's what makes these removals somewhat suspicious.", "And now the showdown centers on who will testify, Miles. A Senator Judiciary Committee is still holding off on approving the issuing of subpoenas to top White House officials, hoping they'll do so voluntarily. Back to you.", "Christina Park in Washington, thank you. Soledad.", "Happening this morning. The Pentagon getting a briefing on Iraq security operations at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is ordering 3,000 additional troops to Iraq. More than 31,000 troops now are part of the buildup. Nearly 10,000 more than the president initially said were need. And take a look at these pictures. This is a massive fire. It's happening at a railroad trestle burning through the night near Sacramento. AmTrak and freight traffic obviously effected this morning. Now flames and smoke could be seen as far away as 50 miles. No trains were actually involved. No injuries were reported. And so far there's no word on just how this fire got started. A very sad ending to a story we've been telling you about for the last couple of days. The body of six-year-old Christopher Barrios has been found. He'd been missing nearly for a week from his home in southern Georgia. Police found his body in a trash bag near a road about three miles from his home and now police say they have four suspects in custody.", "The widow of a British soldier killed in Iraq in a friendly fire attack is pleading with President Bush to help the investigation. The results from a coroner's inquest due any minute now. Lance Corporal Matty Hull was killed four years ago in Iraq after his unit mistakenly drew fire from U.S. war planes. Cockpit video you see there captures the horrifying moment when the pilots realize they have aimed at the wrong target. CNN's Paula Hancocks, live for us in London, has been following this story. Paula.", "Good morning, Miles. Well, it has been four years this month since Lance Corporal Matty Hull was killed in that friendly fire incident. And Susan Hull, the widow, and Matty Hull's family has been struggling for all that time to try and find out the truth. But they say, along with the lawyers, that they have been obstructed all along the way.", "This attack happened four years ago in Iraq. The pilots of an A-10 U.S. tank buster aircraft fired on a British convoy, thinking it want an enemy target. Lance Corporal Matty Hull was killed. A British inquest into his death is ongoing, but the coroner says lack of cooperation from U.S. authorities is making his job more difficult. Hull's widow made a personal plea on Thursday.", "In November 2003, I met President Bush. He asked me if there was anything he could help with and assured me that he would do all he could to help. President Bush, this is the last day you can help us. We ask that you give the coroner just one single page.", "That single page contains evidence from Manila Hotel (ph), the code name for the U.S. ground control advising the two pilots at the time of the incident. The evidence was given in a U.S. investigation in 2003, but 11 lines of it were blacked out by U.S. authorities. A U.S. inquiry cleared the two pilots of any wrongdoing, saying they \"followed the procedures and processes for engaging targets.\" But a British board of inquiry found the rules of engagement have not been followed, saying \"there are examples of non- standard procedures and lack of situational awareness.\" As well as recording a verdict on the death of 25-year-old Hull, the coroner may also make recommendations on how such a tragedy could be averted in the future.", "Now here at Oxford Coroners Court, we are expecting that verdict within an hour or so. Miles.", "Paula, I'm curious here. The U.S., the Pentagon, does not dispute that there was a friendly fire incident. They say the pilots acted properly with the best knowledge they knew at the time. What will the coroner possibly say there that is not already sort of in the realm of fact?", "Well, the main options the coroner has at this point is whether or not he's going to record an open verdict or a verdict of unlawful killing. Now this isn't actually legally binding in the sense that the U.K. will be able to press charges against these two U.S. pilots. But if he does record a verdict of unlawful killing, it would be incredibly embarrassing for both governments. The U.K. and the U.S. governments are standing side-by-side in Iraq. The allies are fighting together side-by-side. But then when something like this happens, and it could record a verdict of unlawful killing, that could be pressure on the U.S. government to either start a new investigation or there could be pressure coming from the U.K. government that, obviously, if they're fighting side-by-side, they want to find out the truth. Now what we've been hearing from the family and the coroner himself, who has been rather annoyed at certain points, is that there has been information being withheld from the U.S. government itself. U.S. officials are not giving all the evidence that they have from the pilots and also from the ground controllers during their own Pentagon investigation. So this is what could be embarrassing for both sides. Miles.", "Paula Hancocks in London, thanks. Soledad.", "A David and Goliath battle is brew. Bolivian President Evo Morales leading the charge to force Coca-Cola to lose the Coca part of its name. Morales and coca growers say the coca plant belongs to the culture heritage of Bolivia. They're also trying to rehabilitate the coca plant's image because, of course, it's the base ingredient for cocaine. Well, the people of Coca-Cola says, not so fast.", "It kind of gets a bad rap because of that, doesn't it?", "Yes. But the people at Coca-Cola say, that's kind of an important brand for us.", "Yes.", "They claim it's the most recognized brand in the world. They even say it's protected under Bolivian law. I don't think that was ever going to work.", "No. No. You know since . . .", "Just go with Cola, not Coca-Cola?", "Coca-Cola used to have cocaine in it. It's original recipe.", "Well, not for a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long time.", "It's been a while, yes. It's been a little while. Don't rush out to the store, kids. All right. A big winter storm in the Northeast. Chad Myers all over it like white on snow. And if you plan to fly today to or from the Northeast, forget about it if you can because it's a mess. We're going to plow through the delays and cancellations. Plus, God help them. A California congressman comes out of the religious closet and announces he is an atheist. Will voters bless him out of office? You're watching AMERICAN MORNING. And we swear it's the most news in the morning right here on CNN."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. 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{"id": "CNN-22260", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-12-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/22/mn.09.html", "summary": "Mayor Phillip Bennet Discusses a White Christmas in Caribou, Maine", "utt": ["Well, if you are dreaming a white Christmas, you can quit dreaming, and head to Caribou, Maine. That is probably the most likely spot in the country to find some quality snow for some frolicking this holiday.", "Joining us by phone right now to talk about the city and its wintry holiday reputation, Phillip Bennet, the mayor of Caribou. Mr. Mayor, good morning. Happy holidays.", "Thank you. Good morning, Daryn and Leon. It's great to talk with you folks.", "I am glad you are joining us this morning because we haven't had a chance to check in with our Caribou bureau yet, so you give us the low down right now. How do things look up there this morning?", "They look, much as your viewers are watching right now, it is a gorgeous, gorgeous winter day up here.", "I guess we are going off of a study done recently that found that your town percentagewise is most likely to have a white Christmas. How long have you lived in Caribou and how many White Christmases have you seen?", "It's fun that you talk about that. I just became acquainted with that the other day, and I certainly agree with its conclusions. I am 56 years old, and I have been a lifelong resident of Caribou, and I cannot recall a Christmas that was now white.", "No kidding. That's great. Well, good for you. How do things look this year? Did you guys get more snow than usual, or about normal or what?", "It's about normal. We probably got 10-12 inches of snow on the ground now. We had more snowfall than that, but we had a balmy period of time that it went away. But now it is back. And I can assure you we are going to have a white Christmas.", "And we are looking at plenty of video of snow mobilers. Is this snow mobile country, a snow mobile haven?", "Well, I would like to say this is the crown of snowmobile country.", "Why is it so good?", "Because we have hundreds and hundreds of miles of very well-groomed trails, as your viewers are seeing right now. And we have people that come far, far away to Northern Maine to enjoy the scenery and the trails.", "I have never heard about snow mobiling up there. I have just heard about mouse.", "Yeah, it is mouse, and there is a lot of those folks too.", "Those folks as well. They get due respect in Caribou, Maine.", "They do.", "Mayor, thanks for joining us, have a happy holiday, and a white Christmas to you.", "Merry Christmas to all of you folks."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "MAYOR PHILLIP BENNET, CARIBOU, MAINE", "HARRIS", "BENNET", "KAGAN", "BENNET", "HARRIS", "BENNET", "KAGAN", "BENNET", "KAGAN", "BENNET", "HARRIS", "BENNET", "KAGAN", "BENNET", "KAGAN", "BENNET"]}
{"id": "CNN-273857", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2016-01-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/14/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Poll: Clinton, Sanders in Virtual Tie in Iowa", "utt": ["Tonight, more trouble for Hillary Clinton with the Iowa caucuses about two weeks away, the once presumptive nominee is now in a dead heat with Bernie Sanders. A new poll out of Iowa finding Clinton's edge over Sanders' dropping from nine percent to two percentage points in just a month. And that is obviously within the margin of error, that is a statistical tie. Is this 2008 all over again? Jeff Zeleny is OUTFRONT.", "She has been here before.", "I wish that we could elect a democratic president who could wave a magic wand and say we shall do this and we shall do that. That ain't the real world we're living in.", "Hillary Clinton urging voters to be skeptical of promises made by her rival. This time it's Bernie Sanders. But it sounds similar to this moment eight years ago.", "You are not going to wave a magic wand and have the special interests disappear.", "The magic want is back, a sign Clinton is no longer the inevitable front-runner. Tonight, a new Iowa poll from the Des Moines Register shows Clinton and Sanders effectively deadlocked. But it's a troubling trend for Clinton. As her support has dipped, Sanders has surged month by month. He is heading into the final two weeks with real momentum.", "There are two democratic visions for regulating Wall Street.", "But his populous message is facing new scrutiny. He is under pressure to get specific on issues like healthcare.", "As Senator Sanders has some very big ideas, but he hasn't yet told anybody how he would pay for them.", "The question is how Sanders' plan will affect middle class taxes.", "And a lot of what he has talked about in his campaign would be very expensive.", "Sanders' supporters are unfazed. He is building a coalition that looks like Barack Obama's in 2008. He is leading Clinton decisively among Independents, voters under 45 and first time caucus goers. Something else sounds familiar, an argument about electability. Now Clinton is saying this.", "Think hard about the people who are presenting themselves to you. Their experience. And particularly for those of us who are Democrats, their electability.", "A flashback to 2008.", "I believe that I have a very good argument that I know more about beating Republicans than anybody else running.", "Now, of course, voters will have the final answer who is the most electable candidate not Hillary Clinton. But a few moments ago, Senator Sanders told me that he will indeed disclose how much his healthcare plan will cost and explain more of the fine print of that before the Iowa caucuses, Erin. So, that's something that he is responding to. And he says he is not engaged in negative campaigning. The Clinton campaign convened a conference call tonight with its campaign manager saying that Bernie Sanders is negative campaigning. Senator Sanders as he's not, he is simply trying to draw contrast. I can tell you this big crowd behind me tonight in New Hampshire is supportive of Bernie Sanders.", "All right. Jeff, thank you very much. And OUTFRONT now, Jonathan Tasini travels on behalf of the Bernie Sanders campaign. He's a surrogate for the Senator. And David Brock, founder of Correct the Record which is a pro-Hillary Clinton Super Pac. David, let me start with you. Because you just heard in Jeff's piece, it's the same kind of voters who gave then-Senator Obama his first win in Iowa. That win that turned an entire election. That group now backing Bernie Sanders. I was talking about people who are caucusing for the first time, people who categorize themselves as independent and people who are young, under the age of 45. Is this 2008 all over again?", "No. Look, I don't think anybody thinks that Senator Sanders is Barack Obama. And let me tell you something. The reality is, it's Senator Sanders who has said he is going to Iowa and New Hampshire. And the polls today and in the last few days show Hillary is still slightly ahead in Iowa. New Hampshire is close. But that's why the Sanders campaign is feeling pressed. That's why they are running a negative campaign. They switched strategies totally today after Senator Sanders promised not to run negative ad. They went up with a negative ad. Of course, they were the first to go negative back in the fall when Senator Sanders attacked Hillary at the JJ Dinner when his staff stole millions of dollars' worth of data from the Clinton campaign and misled the press. Then Senator Sanders went out with the outrageous baseless innuendo that the Clinton people had done it, too. So, he is feeling pressed. And here's why, the gun issue -- hold on. On the gun issue he is really out of touch not only with democratic primary voters, but he's on the wrong side of it. What 82 percent of millennials wants our guns --", "I think you see --", "Hold on.", "I get your point.", "Can I finish?", "I think you see the panic flowing out of his pores.", "If I can just finish. Because one of the biggest priorities of the NRA was this issue of immunity for gun manufacturers that he supported. He supported the Charleston loophole that got the shooter, enable that shooter to get that gun before his background check. And he has got this --", "So, Erin -- he has got this half-baked -- he got a half-baked --", "Hold on, David. David, you make the point about Donald. Let Jonathan get in. Go ahead, Jonathan.", "Thank you. So, I will say right now, we will win Iowa and New Hampshire. And I will not be surprised when that happens. I predicted that months ago. And it's really a fact that this is a political revolution. And it's a political revolution versus the status quo. I think that's why millions of people, young people -- I met some Republicans just now in Florida who said they are former Republicans who are going to vote for Bernie in the Florida primary. In Iowa and New Hampshire, people are saying, we don't want to support candidates of the status quo. We don't want to support candidates who voted for more wars like the Iraq war. That was what Hillary Clinton did. We don't want people who are close to the drug and insurance companies who are close to Wall Street. We want a fundamentally different political economy. And they are surging to Bernie. I had no doubt that Bernie could win these two. The only question I had was raising money. And we have proven over the last several months that we can raise money. And I don't want to say -- I want to compliment the Clinton campaign. Let me just be very clear. I hope they continue to engage in these false attacks around healthcare.", "Oh, no, we're not the ones doing the false attacks.", "Every single time we do we raise money.", "We're not the ones doing the false attacks.", "In the last 48 hours, the campaign has raised $1.4 million because people see that these are false attacks.", "OK.", "I want to compliment --", "Why doesn't Senator Sanders --", "I really want to thank the Clinton campaign.", "Okay. Jonathan. Go ahead, David.", "Well, let's talk about this. Why doesn't Senator Sanders keep his promises? And why doesn't he tell the truth about his record?", "OK. So let's talk about healthcare.", "So, he denied, he denied --", "Let's talk about --", "Hold on! You want to interrupt me again?", "No, let's talk about healthcare.", "Can I finish? He denied --", "Let's talk about healthcare.", "Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Both of you stop for one second. Because I do actually want to go to healthcare, David.", "Yes.", "I think we're going to guns. But I want to go to healthcare because Jeff Zeleny brought that up.", "I think too.", "And you just Heard Bernie Sanders who told Jeff Zeleny earlier tonight Jonathan that he is going to give more details. The campaign had earlier indicated that he wasn't going to give more details. This is a plan that some people say could cost $15 trillion. Now the words he used to Jeff Zeleny were is that he is going to give an outline -- an outline of the numbers. Doesn't he need to do more than that? I mean, give real numbers about what the cost is going to be here. Or is he avoiding the issue?", "No, not at all. So, we already spend $3 trillion a year in healthcare. Bernie Sanders' campaign does not cost more money. He wants to reallocate the money and actually what happens just like in Australia and other industrial --", "So, you're saying that 15 trillion is a bunch of ball.", "Well, I'm saying, it's $15 trillion over the course of a number of years. But it doesn't cost more money. What he is doing is he is killing the insurance companies. His plan would save the average person making $50,000 a year, it would save them about $5,000 a year. And yes, in their paycheck just like they pay Social Security, they would see a little number which would be about 2.3 percent of their income just as they do in Australia where they have essentially Medicare for all. But at bottom line, when you go to your bank account, every single person would save if you are making $50,000 a year $5,000. The Clinton plan, because as --", "OK. Hit pause there for one moment.", "Yes.", "Because I want to give David a chance here to respond.", "Look, I'm glad we're starting to get some details.", "Those details have been out there, David.", "Hold on. Senator Sanders was asked if he wanted to dismantle ObamaCare. He said no. That wasn't true. He said he didn't support the exception the Charleston loophole when he did.", "But --", "He got Pinocchios from none bias fact checkers.", "Let's stick with --", "So, he needs to start telling people about the truth about his record. And the thing about these polls. A quarter of the people in these polls don't know who Senator Sanders is.", "Well, actually the opposite has happened.", "As we start to have -- he has had no scrutiny.", "Erin, here are the --", "That has been vetted. And as that starts, his members are going to go down.", "Erin, here are the two false --", "Very quick final word, Jonathan.", "Here are two falses.", "Very quick.", "First of all, the more people learn about Bernie Sanders, the more they are flowing to him.", "That's not true.", "And that's why he is going to win.", "That's not true. We are finding out --", "Excuse me. On the healthcare question, he has been very clear that his plan would save Americans money.", "That's not true. Absolutely not true. What do you think the Republicans --", "All right. I am going to have to hit pause. I'm not finding an easy moment to end this. So, I will hit pause. But I will say we are eagerly awaiting --", "Wait until the Republicans get ahold --", "-- on the healthcare plan. Thank you very much.", "You will continue to hear this fraudulent stuff from the Clinton campaign. It will get worse. That's the way they work.", "I'm looking forward to having both of you on to reprice this debate. Thank you very much. OUTFRONT next, just weeks before those Iowa caucuses, Republicans are back on the debate stage tonight. It's the main event. Can anyone catch Donald Trump in the latest poll breaking at this hour with now a massive lead over the next closest competitor? One of his rivals, Mike Huckabee is my guest OUTFRONT tonight, next. And multiple attackers armed with guns, grenades, home-made bombs and a deadly ISIS-inspired assault at Starbucks. We are live on the scene tonight."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ZELENY", "CLINTON", "ZELENY", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-115930", "program": "LOU DOBBS THIS WEEK", "date": "2007-4-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/07/ldtw.01.html", "summary": "Cold Weather Across U.S.; Fire Causes Severe Damage in Manila; Greek Cruise Ship Sinks", "utt": ["I'm Veronica De La Cruz at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here's what's making the news right now. Snow and frigid temperatures across parts of the country this Easter weekend. In Cleveland last night, the snow was so heavy, officials called off a baseball game between the Indians and the Seattle Mariners. A makeup double-header scheduled for today has also been postponed. A huge blaze in a poor section of the Philippine capital has left some 1,200 families homeless. Fire crews had difficulty reaching the flames as they tore through the shantytown, and residents with buckets were just no match for the fire. Its cause has not yet been determined. Well, the kids on board this train said it was cool - the adults, not so much. A passenger train goes headlong into a blazing wildfire in New Mexico. Railroad officials say the conductor was aware of the fire, but decided an emergency stop might leave the train right in the middle of those flames. Monica Goodling, an aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has quit her job. Goodling earlier caused controversy by refusing to testify before Congress about the firings of eight federal prosecutors. She invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self- incrimination. And new developments to tell you about in the sinking of a Greek cruise ship. The ship hit a reef near the island of Santorini Thursday, forcing all the passengers and most of the crew to be evacuated. The captain and five of his crew have been charged with negligence in the incident. Passengers are describing their dramatic exodus from the ship.", "Well, when we were going through it, you really just didn't think, you know. We heard - we felt the ship move from side to side, and then it started to tilt to one side. And they just said, \"Get your life jackets and go up on the deck.\" And that's what we did.", "I'm Veronica De La Cruz at the CNN Center in Atlanta. I'll have more news for you at the top of the hour. LOU DOBBS begins right now.", "Tonight, political brinksmanship in Washington over the war in Iraq. President Bush and Democratic leaders face off over war funding. And what could be Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' biggest challenge. Gonzales prepares for a tough grilling by the Senate Judiciary Committee. All that and much more straight ahead tonight.", "This is LOU DOBBS THIS WEEK - news, debate and opinion for Saturday, April 7th. Sitting in for Lou Dobbs, Kitty Pilgrim.", "Good evening, everybody. President Bush and congressional Democrats are refusing to give any ground in their battle over war funding. President Bush says Democrats are, quote, irresponsible for passing emergency spending bills that call for the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says it's time for the Iraqis to run their own country. Elaine Quijano reports from Crawford, Texas - Elaine.", "Kitty, both sides ratcheted up the rhetoric this past week in the debate over the war funding supplemental bill. President Bush once again underscored his threat to veto any legislation that includes timetables for U.S. troop withdrawals in Iraq. Now, the president, first in the Rose Garden blasting Democrats, calling them irresponsible, and the next day traveling to Fort Irwin, California, home of the Army's top desert training facility. The president met with the troops and reiterated his argument that the clock is ticking as he tried to increase political pressure on Democrats. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is showing no signs of budging. In fact, Senator Reid is threatening that, if President Bush follows through on his veto threat, Senator Reid will back a bill to cut off funding for the war altogether. Bottom line here, Kitty, is that both sides are showing no signs of blinking and a political stalemate continues - Kitty.", "Elaine, the president is also trying to focus attention on immigration. And he's traveling on Monday to the border in Arizona. What can you tell us about that trip coming up?", "Yes. He's going to be traveling to the border at Yuma, Arizona. And you can expect him to continue to press Congress for what the administration calls a comprehensive immigration bill, one that includes, of course, a guest worker program, as we have heard, and also a path for citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants. Critics, of course, decry that as amnesty. On Monday, the president will take a tour of the border and emphasize the steps that the U.S. has taken to increase security there, including adding thousands of National Guard troops. The president is expected to try to make the case that the efforts the U.S. is undertaking right now are producing results. As for negotiations on Capitol Hill, Kitty, the president has tasked the commerce secretary, Carlos Gutierrez, as well as Michael Chertoff, the homeland security chief, to take the lead on those negotiations on Capitol Hill. President Bush has said, of course, that he would like to see a comprehensive immigration reform bill on his desk by August - Kitty.", "All right. Thanks very much, Elaine Quijano. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defied the White House and held talks with the Syrian president in Damascus. The United States says Syria is a state sponsor of terrorism. But Speaker Pelosi insists Congress has a responsibility to help find peace in the Middle East. Brent Sadler reports from Damascus.", "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls on Syria's top leaders to help the United States fight terror and wants to help Israel and Syria resume peace talks, infuriating the White House by opening a dialogue with a regime that's been isolated.", "We came in friendship. We came with hope. We came determined that the road to Damascus would be a path to peace.", "If withering White House criticism of the Pelosi visit here, including a strong rebuke from the U.S. president himself, was supposed to make the House speaker think twice about meeting President Bashar al-Assad, it failed. A relaxed and at times smiling Syrian leader greeted the delegation, speaking English. Syria was ready for serious dialogue with the United States,\" President Assad argued, even if the George Bush White House ignored his regime.", "We expressed our concerns about Syria's connection to Hezbollah and Hamas, and the importance of Syria's role with Hamas in promoting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis.", "But another black mark was Syria's conduct towards Iraq.", "We called to the attention of the president our concerns about fighters crossing the Iraq-Syria border to the detriment of the Iraqi people and our soldiers.", "These meetings, though, weren't about solving the Mideast's raging problems, but to discuss them and break down barriers. Speaker Pelosi made no direct comments about the political heat back home, stressing instead the responsibility of Congress to explore every remedy and opportunity to find peace in the Middle East. Brent Sadler, CNN, Damascus.", "Syria says it played a key role in the release of 15 British troops taken hostage by Iran. Now, the troops returned to Britain after nearly two weeks in captivity in Iran. The sailors and marines said they faced overwhelming Iranian firepower and they would have lost a fight with the Iranians. The U.S. Navy says it's confident that our troops would resist any attempt to take them hostage in the Persian Gulf. The chief of naval operations, Admiral Michael Mullen, told CNN our troops have the right to open fire without asking permission first.", "We've got procedures in place, which are very much designed to carry out the mission and protect the sailors who are there. And I would not expect any sailors to be able to be seized by the Iranian navy or the Iranian Republican Guard navy.", "Now, Admiral Mullen also said it's very important that diplomacy, not military action, is used to solve disputes with Iran. Turning now to the political battle in Washington over the abrupt firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is scheduled to give testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee April 17th. The attorney general is already preparing for what is likely to be an intense grilling. Brian Todd reports from Washington.", "He's about to face Democratic senators who want to tear him down, and Alberto Gonzales is preparing like it's a heavyweight title fight. Justice Department officials tell CNN he's staying behind closed doors, canceling a family vacation and will go through mock grilling sessions, possibly with outside legal advisers.", "It's now gotten to the point where the credibility of the attorney general is really coming into play, and he - and this has all been self-inflicted.", "By conflicting statements, critics say, between Gonzales and his former chief of staff about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys.", "Was not involved in seeing any memos, was not involved in any discussions about what was going on.", "I don't think the attorney general's statement that he was not involved in any discussions about U.S. attorney removals is accurate.", "Gonzales will have to answer for that to this man, Senate Judiciary chairman, Patrick Leahy. In a letter to Gonzales, the Democrat seems to warn him of the pressure he'll face in an April 17th hearing - repeatedly scolding Gonzales for \"not responding in a timely manner\" to the committee's inquiries, instructing the attorney general to include in his written testimony \"all the specifics of your role\" in the firings. Justice officials tell CNN that Gonzales has started to reach out to at least a dozen members of Congress to try to smooth the way, the vast majority of them fellow Republicans.", "So, he starts this kind of isolated, even among Republicans. And what he really needs to do, if he is going to keep this job, is to reassure Republicans enough to the extent that they feel comfortable defending the president's decision to keep him on.", "In fact, several GOP consultants - who asked for anonymity, because they were speaking about Gonzales' future - tell CNN that what he says in these hearings and how it's received will be crucial to his support in Congress. One of them said, quote, he has a tall order. It has to be a compelling presentation - Kitty.", "Thanks very much, Brian Todd. Still to come, what could be the most important espionage case in a generation. We'll have a special report. Also, could tainted pet food ingredients from Communist China enter the human food chain? And $28 million. Is that too much for four months' work by a CEO who is laying off thousands of employees?"], "speaker": ["VERONICA DE LA CRUZ, HEADLINE NEWS, CNN CENTER, ATLANTA", "MARY HENDERSON, CRUISE SHIP PASSENGER", "DE LA CRUZ", "KITTY PILGRIM, HOST, LOU DOBBS THIS WEEK", "ANNOUNCER", "PILGRIM", "ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, CRAWFORD, TEXAS", "PILGRIM", "QUIJANO", "PILGRIM", "BRENT SADLER, CNN BEIRUT BUREAU CHIEF, DAMASCUS, SYRIA (voice- over)", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-175829", "program": "STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY", "date": "2011-11-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1111/13/sotu.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Senators Coburn, Warner", "utt": ["Joining me from his home state of Oklahoma, Republican Senator Tom Coburn. And here in Washington, Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia. Both are members of the \"gang of six.\" Gentlemen, thank you both. First to you, Senator Coburn. That gang of six actually seemed to get along fairly well. We always thought they looked kind of close to some kind of debt reduction, the gang of six, three Republicans, three Democrats in the Senate, looking for a debt solution. With that in mind, can you look at what's going on in the super committee and tell me what your level of confidence is that they're going to get something done where you all couldn't quite get it done?", "Oh, I think they will. I think, you know, as the time pressure builds and they get towards a deadline, I think they'll get something done. The question is will they do enough if they only do the $1.2 trillion, we're going to have to start over as soon as that's passed and find another $3 trillion or $4 trillion just to buy us five years in time -- you know, the time to work out of our problems.", "And, Senator Warner, if my memory is correct, I believe Senator Coburn had like an $8 trillion package where he thought he could reduce $8 trillion. What is your level of confidence here that they're going to get something done? I didn't think Congressman Hensarling sounded at all optimistic.", "Well, listen, I'm hopeful. We're trying to root them on. We've got 45 senators now. Tom and I have helped organize this group, bipartisan senators, 100 members of the House saying if they will step up and be bold, we got their back, we'll try to give them that cover. And as Tom has indicated, you know, we really need to be shooting for more like a $4 trillion deficit reduction plan. If there's one thing we've seen from the last few months in Europe, it is when you take these incremental steps, the market comes back and burns you time and again. At some point we're going to have to face that same kind of abyss that the Greeks faced, now the Italians are facing. And I believe we need to get ahead of it. Frankly, if the super committee doesn't come up with a result, I would go back to our gang of six. That had $4 trillion of deficit reduction. It had balance. Maybe that ought to get a vote if the super committee can't produce.", "And let me -- I want to -- after a committee produces a product, of course, the entire Senate and entire House has to pass it. I want to play you something Grover Norquist, who is a very influence Republican, he is the one that passed around a so-called no tax increase pledge on Capitol Hill, which got quite a bit of Republican takers. So here's something he had to say last Sunday.", "There's not going to be a tax increase. Part of the reason is the Democrats have decided they're going to blow this process up in order to blame the Republicans for nothing happening.", "So let me ask you first, Senator Coburn. Norquist says flatly there is not going to be a tax increase. In your opinion, can there be a deal if there's no tax increase anywhere?", "Well, you know, I go back to what Chairman Bernanke said. We're not going to have the big deficits in the future because people aren't going to loan us the money. And if there were 60 Tom Coburns in the Senate, there wouldn't be a tax increase. But to get where we need to be as a country, there's going to be required some compromise. And you can call something a tax increase or you can call it a revenue increase. Most of us would rather see revenue increases by reforming the tax code. But I would tell you that there's just as much pressure on the other side when you see the commercials on television from AARP saying you can't touch Medicare. Well, I want to tell you, we're going to touch Medicare because there's no way we can borrow the money five years from now to run Medicare the way it is today. So the question really is, is will politicians do what is best for the country or best for their party and their position? And hopefully we'll start looking to do what is best for our country.", "And, Senator Warner, we have heard a lot about this from both sides lately. We've had the president suggest that the Republicans are doing -- totally don't want an agreement. They don't want do what's best for this country. They're only interested in politics and defeating him. We have Norquist here saying, listen, Democrats have decided they're going to blow this process up so that the Republicans can be blamed. We're certainly in an election cycle, but isn't that what really is holding this up, is everybody trying to get a political advantage?", "Well, I do think there's a lot of back-and-forth. And that's why, you know, Tom and I and the group of us who have spent a year-and-a-half working on this, we decided to check our Democrat and Republican hats and put our country first. And we had to make those kind of compromises. I think that's what the vast majority of Americans want us to get. You know, there's going to need to be revenues, I believe through tax reform. There is going to need to be entitlement reform, so there is really a Medicare, a Medicaid, a Social Security program 20, 30, 40 years from now. That's going to take some changes. And what frustrates I think a lot of us is, you know, we've got to be willing to probably make some folks mad on both ends of the political extreme. And you'll know this super committee is getting close if you hear folks on both ends of the political extreme scream the loudest, because that will show that there's actually movement being made.", "So, Senator Coburn, I guess what frustrates so many Americans when they look at this is that you and Senator Warner and your colleagues, four other colleagues, Republicans and Democrats on this committee, worked for a year-and-a-half and couldn't come up with anything. And yet I know you all got along and you were...", "And yet we did come up with something, Candy. That's -- I mean, I'll let Tom answer this, but we had a product. We had a product.", "But you had a product you couldn't sell. Right?", "We had a product that we had 40 senators say we will support that. That's more than anything else that has been put out on the table.", "But you need 60, Senator Coburn, in the Senate.", "Well, I think that the important thing is, had you put together what we had, a ratio of about 3 to 1, 2.7 to 1, entitlement reform and spending reductions with revenue increases, that's the sweet spot that I think you could move people in the House and the Senate to. The question is, is will you do what's best for the country. You know, Candy, we have $30 billion a year in indirect payments, credits, subsidies, and government programs for people that are grossing $1 million or more a year. We ought to be getting rid of that. That's $300 billion over the next 10 years. Why wouldn't we do that? Most people can come together and do that. So the question comes as, what is the motive? And you alluded to it. Is it political or is it the country? The fact is, is if you go back and look two years ago at what they were writing about Greece, it is exactly what they're writing about us today.", "And if in fact we don't make these very difficult decisions that calls on every American to come and contribute to solving the problem, then we're going to be in very serious trouble and it will come very quickly. We can fix our problems, but we require leadership from the president and the leaders of the House and the Senate and say we're going to do this and we have not seen that, on both sides of the aisle. And that's what's so disappointing.", "Picking up on what Senator Coburn just said, this is from Alice Rivlin, who as you know, former CBO but was also on the national commission on fiscal responsibility. And she said in the New York Times Wednesday, \"I fear the president is missing a huge opportunity for leadership at a crucial moment. The president could greatly enhance the chances of such a bargain by getting visibly involved. It is not only the right thing to do, it is his only chance of getting his jobs program.\" Has the president -- we have not seen the president 's fingerprints at all on the debt commission, not much on his jobs program, though he's been out campaigning. He is now with ten days left gone overseas to attend to his commander in chief duties and leader of the free world and all of that, but should he be more involved?", "Well, I think we saw the president and the speaker try to weigh in at the end of the debt debacle in early August. It didn't end up producing a result.", "Right.", "And we saw the president come forward saying he would support the Gang of Six. I do think with this president, whatever he comes up with, there's going to be a series of folks that will reject that categorically just out of hand. So we've tried this congressional process. I think we need to let that play itself out. We want to be there to support it. We want that super committee to be successful, but if they're not successful we think that the Simpson-Bowles approach, and the Gang of Six, something that has got that $4 trillion number, that ought at least get a vote as well.", "Or be a back-stop. Senator Warner, Senator Coburn, I have to end it here but thank you both so much for coming in. Two debates in the span of just four days. How did the Republican presidential candidates fare? We will ask a key party official, RNC chairman, Reince Priebus next."], "speaker": ["CROWLEY", "SEN. TOM COBURN (R), OKLAHOMA", "CROWLEY", "SEN. MARK WARNER (D), VIRGINIA", "CROWLEY", "GROVER NORQUIST, PRESIDENT, AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM", "CROWLEY", "COBURN", "CROWLEY", "WARNER", "CROWLEY", "WARNER", "CROWLEY", "WARNER", "CROWLEY", "COBURN", "COBURN", "CROWLEY", "WARNER", "CROWLEY", "WARNER", "CROWLEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-281807", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2016-04-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/18/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Dilma Rousseff One Step Closer to Impeachment; Oil Prices Fall As OPEC Fail To Reach Deal", "utt": ["Right. You're back with us on CNN and Connect the World with me Becky Anderson. Welcome back. And following breaking news for you right now out of Jerusalem. The Israeli Red Cross says 10 to 20 people were injured in an explosion on a bus in the city. Now the cause is not yet known and we are continuing to follow the story throughout the hour. And we will get you more updates and we will get you live to Jerusalem as soon as we can. Brazil's president is now one big step closer to being removed from office, it was by an overwhelming majority that lawmakers voted Sunday to impeach Dilma Rousseff on allegations that she fiddled government accounts to hide budget shortfalls. Well, next it's the Senate's turn to consider the matter. Meanwhile, Sunday's vote is a cause for celebration for those blaming the president for the poor state of the economy, but right alongside them, Miss Rousseff's supporters are demonstrating as well against what they are calling a coup. CNN's Shasta Darlington is monitoring all of this from the Brazilian capital Brasilia. Shasta, really is the day after the night before, in Brazil. Is there a sense this vote has broken the tension at least to kind of feeling amongst people at least that this has gone too far or perhaps far enough they've made their point?", "Not really, Becky. I would say that this is just the beginning of what's going to be a long and ugly fight. You know, what we saw right here on the lawn in front of congress last night is likely going to continue. So those who are in favor of impeachment treating this like a big football party. We were doing lives from that side. They were jumping around, cheering. Then on the other side when we did lives there for them, this is a very serious political matter. They feel that their president is being -- being impeached unjustly, that she's being removed from power when she was just re-elected to a second term. So, I expect that these political tensions will continue to flare up as this heads on to the Senate where they will be voting. And that we could continue to see protests in the street, Becky.", "And Shasta, it's important to point out that people who are really driving this impeachment to the end they're not exactly untarnished themselves, are they? They've also had some pretty serious allegations thrown their way in their time, right?", "That's a big part of the problem here, Becky. President Dilma Rousseff is being impeached for allegedly breaking budget laws. She is unpopular because of the recession and because so many members of her Workers Party have been embroiled in this pretty nasty corruption and bribery scandal. The problem is the congressman right behind me leading this impeachment drive, a lot have been embroiled in that same scandal. So, her supporters say you will kick her for out for playing with the budget numbers and those guys get to stay in congress and that's part of the reason they're calling this a coup d'etat. In fact, the man who would likely step in and replace her if this impeachment goes through and if she faces trial is her vice president, Michel Tamer, he is from the PMDB Party, which again is also very caught up in this corruption investigation. So what we saw, we saw poll numbers today that show Brazilians think they should both be impeached, Becky.", "Shasta Darlington in Brasilia for you this evening. Shasta, thank you. Right, oil prices are plunging after crude producers failed to agree to freeze supply levels. You can see a sharp drop in the price of Brent crude after a meeting if Doha on Sunday ended with no deal. This was because of a rift between Saudi Arabia and Iran, two major members of OPEC, the cartel, of course, of oil producing countries. Well, let's go to CNN Money's emerging markets editor John Defterios who can give us more detail joining us from Doha this evening. And John, in the end a lot of discussion in Doha, but no agreement. What happened?", "Well, it's amazing, Becky, from the time we spoke last night, it went from bad to worse, literally. We had 12 hours of talks described as marathon talks, but the group did not get to the finish line and the reason is abundantly clear, the Saudi Arabian position changed. The deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia who is now the chair of the Supreme Petroleum Council insisted that Iran sign on to an agreement to freeze production. Let's not, I think it's worth going back to last week where the oil ministers of Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed to a freeze and that it would not include iran going forward. So, this change of position rattled the cage here in Doha. The senior Iranian officials I've spoken to in the last 12 hours, Becky, suggest they have their sights set on 4 million barrels a day. And this could be the wiggle room if Iran hit 4 million barrels a day, would they freeze after? Would this be okay with Saudi Arabia and can they find common ground? Now, the next target, Becky, is the June meeting, the first week of June in Vienna when the OPEC meeting would take place. Russia says they're on board to go. But to be very candid when I saw the faces of the Azeri, the Omani, the Mexican oil ministers coming out of the meeting, they thought what happened here in the last 12 hours, that we could not find a deal, I think it's becoming abundantly clear that Saudi Arabia, the deputy crown prince perhaps don't want to see prices go higher right now, Becky. I think they're trying to smoke out the higher cost producers. We know that production is supposed to drop 700,000 barrels a day, perhaps they don't think that job is done and they want to apply more pressure. I think that's what most of the ministers and their delegates were thinking about when they left Doha last night.", "Meantime, the rest of us are wondering whether OPEC is still relevant, of course, when we get a discussions like this or non- discussions like this. Look, John, we often look at the economic fallout from the falling price of crude, but certainly there is a human cost, particularly in a wealthy state like Qatar. What do you see there?", "Well, as you know, Becky, Qatar is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, just a few short years ago, growing better than 10 percent. It couldn't control the growth because of the boom in oil and gas that helped build the skyline behind me. They're preparing for the world cup in 2022. But move from $115 down to $40 has completely changed the game. And we even see the mini crisis that's playing out reaching into the middle class and even the expat community. I found one American who describes his position right now sitting in no man's land.", "As a trained paramedic, Ken Patton is used to life- threatening situations. But today, he's having to face his own emergency.", "Well here's all the ambulances to the right.", "The 35-year-old American is one of the latest victims of the great plunge in oil prices. In January, Patton was laid off by Qatar's largest national health care provider in Doha.", "And for me it was a huge surprise and coming to work for a strange meeting summons, and given my layoff paperwork, my -- wow. What just happened here?", "With debts back home Patton took out a loan of $80,000 with a local bank two years ago. He still owes half of that amount and he can't leave the country because according to Qatari law all debts need to be settled before one can secure an exit permit. With no job, no income and no exit permit Patton has found himself in no man's land. PATTON; All right, John, this is my place, basically. So, sparse now.", "To survive, he's selling household goods one at a time. So, this is how you're earning money these days.", "so, basically this is how I'm eating, this is how I'm paying for my telephone and surviving is selling off all my objects. This couch is leaving in about an week.", "And he's saving money the old-fashioned way.", "It really does take me back to kind of the era of our forefathers and the Great Depression where they talk about not trusting the banks and yeah, stuffing money in their mattresses or in their dressers or cookie jars. I think like that's how I've lived for the past four months.", "A new reality has set in for the Gulf oil producing countries. Qatar will post its first budget deficit in 15 years. Petrol and utility prices have increased and taxes will be introduced in the Gulf states by 2018. After spending billions of dollars on new skylines, governments are scrambling to slash their budgets.", "What I think is they kind of overreacted to a situation they weren't prepared for. They're trying to kind make up lost ground, they spent so much time spending all that they could on everything they could, building up their country and making it fabulous and then all of a sudden gas prices dropped to bare minimum and they're almost losing money at that point in time and it took them by complete surprise.", "The same shock that Patton felt when he was handed his pink slip.", "I'm (inaudible) to a very rich country who has -- who is blowing money left and right on different things to think that your job would ever be in jeopardy for a layoff is the farthest thing from your mind.", "Ken Patton sharing his story here in Qatar. Becky, he was planning to be here for six years and only lasted two when he got that pink slip. It's amazing, this is a country of about 2 million people. It's a small state as you know, Becky. And only 3,000 layoffs so far. But the layoffs have really sent a shiver right through society and those who came from the outside thinking they would be here for a long, long time. Back to you.", "Yeah. It's a familiar story across the region. All right, John, thank you for that. There is a lot more of our oil coverage on the CNN Money website. You can take a look back to see the volatility in crude markets over time. The site, that's CNNmoney.com. We are taking a very short break. More on the breaking news out of Jerusalem. The Israeli Red Cross says 10 to 20 people were injured in an explosion on a bus in the city. We'll get you what we can on that after this very short break. 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{"id": "CNN-353619", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-11-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/01/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Whitey Bulger's Attackers Tried to Cut Out His Tongue.", "utt": ["We're learning new gruesome details about Tuesday's murder of notorious mobster James \"Whitey\" Bulger. Federal law enforcement says he was beaten to death, to the point where he was unrecognizable. They say they believe multiple inmates were involved and at least one has New England mafia ties. The \"New York Times\" quoted sources saying they gained access to Bulger's cell, wheeled him into a corner, and beat him with a padlock inside a sock and that they tried to cut him tongue out. The \"Boston Globe\" reports that Bulger had helped frame one of his friends for murder. Prosecutors say Bulger's death is being investigated as a homicide. With me now, Shelly Murphy, author of \"Whitey Bulger, America's Most Wanted Gangster.\" she has covered organized crime in the Boston area since 1980. Shelly, nice to see you. Incredibly gruesome about what we're learning has happened. What are you hearing about Whitey Bulger's final moments of life?", "It sounds like his final moments were everybody bit as brutal and merciless as the murders that he committed, that the details are that, yes, you know, two inmates at least were seen walking into his cell in the morning that he was brutally beaten, there were scratches around his eyes, indicating that maybe they tried to gouge his eyes out. By all accounts a very brutal end. This from a guy who inflicted, you know, he tortured his victims. So, his end was very much like his own crimes.", "Shelly, you've covered him for years. You wrote the book on him. When you first heard he'd been killed in his cell, what was your immediate reaction?", "I was stunned frankly. I was stunned. I believed an inmate of his high-profile nature, not only because of all the enemies he earned within the underworld and within the mafia but also because we knew he'd been a long-time FBI informant. Generally, the Bureau of Prisons puts people like that in places that they consider safe. Earlier he had been at a prison in an area with like convicted sex offenders, with gang members who had disavowed their gang affiliations. I think he had reason to believe that he was safe in general population in Arizona and in Coleman, but Hazelton was a completely different place. I think it was stunning that he arrived there and was put in a place where anybody in that unit could walk into his cell.", "Does it sound in any way like a setup? Why was he even sent to this maximum-security prison in West Virginia in the first place?"], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "SHELLY MURPHY, AUTHOR OF \"WHITEY BULGER, AMERICA'S MOST WANTED GANGSTER\"", "BALDWIN", "MURPHY", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-171878", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2011-9-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/06/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Peaceful Resolution No Longer Possible in Libya", "utt": ["You're back with CONNECT THE WORLD, the world's -- on CNN, the world's news leader. Let's check the headlines for you this hour. Israel says it does not want relations with Turkey to deteriorate any further. But Turkey appears unwilling to forgive Israel's raid on a Gaza- bound flotilla last year. Turkey's prime minister now says Ankara is freezing defense industry ties with Israel. Nine people, mostly Turks, were killed in the raid. Stock markets across Europe were stunned by the news that Switzerland plans to put a cap on the value of the Swiss franc. Stocks have also fallen on Wall Street after the Labor Day holiday. The Dow Jones lost almost 1 percent. Members of Italy's largest union have been on strike in several cities. They're protesting unpopular austerity measures moving through parliament. The work stoppage has caused transportation problems across the country. Cooler temperatures and calmer winds may help firefighters in Texas. They need the help badly, as dozens of wildfires are burning across the state. The biggest blaze has swallowed up almost 600 homes. At least two people died in one of the fires. TV cameras are to be allowed into British courts for the first time, but they'll be limited the showing only judges delivering sentences. Witnesses, victims, defendants and juries will not be filmed. Gunfire is -- gunfire ends any hope of negotiating a peaceful resolution in the stand-off in Bani Walid. That is according to Libya's transitional rulers, who say their patience has now run out. Anti-Gadhafi fighters surrounding the regime's stronghold had been talking with town elders, trying to negotiate a surrendered. But today, they say pro-Gadhafi forces fired on elders returning from the talks. Also today, the news that convoys have left Libya set off intense speculation that Moammar Gadhafi might be on board. But the consensus now seems to be probably not. officials in Niger confirm that two Libyan convoys crossed into their country this week. One is said to be in the capital after passing through Agadez, while the other was reportedly heading in that direction. There's speculation the convoys may travel on to Burkina Faso, a country that has ruled out granting asam -- asylum to Moammar Gadhafi. All right, let's get an update on all of these developments for you right now. Our Ben Wedeman is now in Tripoli, after spending much of the day near Bani Walid -- Ben.", "Yes, we were in Bani Walid. And it was a pretty slow day. Apparently, the NTC met all through the night with elders from Bani Walid and gave them assurances that there would be no retribution, that they would be treated as ordinary Libyans. But when those elders returned to Bani Walid to convey these assurances to the inhabitants of the town, apparently gunmen met them at the entrance to the town, opened fire on them, according to an NTC spokesman, who said that they started to curse at these village elders and said you are rats, go back to the rats. In other words, the members of the NTC. So the spokesman we spoke to this evening indicated that negotiations are off, that they are probably going to go ahead with some sort of military offensive against the pro-Gadhafi forces in Bani Walid. This despite the fact that according to NTC sources, they believe that the vast majority of the inhabitants of Bani Walid are now on the side of the rebels and want these pro-Gadhafi elements to leave the town as soon as possible - - Max.", "Ben, try to bring us up to date on this convoy that went into Niger. First of all, who was in that convoy? And where are we getting the information from on who was it in and this rumor that Gadhafi may have been in it, but actually wasn't?", "No, that rumor has been quashed, even by the US State Department. Apparently, an American diplomat in Niamey, the capital of Niger, has met with government officials there, warning them that they should arrest some of the members of this convoy because they're on the UN travel ban list. Precisely who's among the passengers on the convoy, whether it's really 200 and -- or 250 cars in each is not altogether clear. One of the names that's been talked about is Mansour Dhao. He was a senior military officer apparently responsible for the personal security of Moammar Gadhafi, which may be one of the reasons why there was initial speculation that the Libyan leader might be on that -- in that convoy but, apparently, that is not true. And of course, we did hear from Moussa Ibrahim, the spokesman for the Gadhafi government, who told a Damascus-based pro-Libyan television station that Moammar Gadhafi is in excellent health inside Libya, but nobody knows where, and is planning to fight back. Max?", "And Ben, we're just hearing from Reuters that Burkina Faso is saying that they haven't had an exile request from Colonel Gadhafi, but is Gadhafi running out of options on where he could potentially go?", "Well, certainly his options have narrowed dramatically. He's not in Bani Walid by all accounts. He could be in Sirte on the coast, that's his hometown, or Sabha in the southern part of the country. But let's not forget, Libya is a huge country, and he does have the resources to run around in the desert for quite some time. It's beginning to look a bit like the beginning of the search for Saddam Hussein. Max?", "OK, Ben Wedeman, thank you very much, indeed, for your update. Some important developments out of Libya today, then. Let's get some perspective, now, from Guma el-Gamaty. He's the National Transitional Council's coordinator here in the UK. Thank you very much, indeed, for joining us. What's your idea about where Colonel Gadhafi is? I know it's guesswork at the moment, but what's your best guess?", "My best guess is that he's somewhere in Libya, somewhere in the south in the Sabha region, probably hiding. He probably has many, many hideouts in those areas, which he knows very well. He grew up in those -- in that region, by the way.", "And he's got a lot of support, still, hasn't he? I know in some areas that the -- the civilians don't get all the information that they perhaps should and they're not sure that the whole country's effectively dominated by the NTC now. Are you concerned that by going into areas like Bank Walid you're going to get civilians caught up in the crossfire, because they're confused about what's going on?", "I wouldn't call it lots of support he still has. He's still got a few remnants of a few hundreds of armed men who are still portraying themselves as loyal to him --", "And some civilians are still loyal to him, aren't they?", "Maybe, but those are in Bani Walid and Sirte, mainly. And in Bani Walid, the issue is that we don't want any bloodshed, we don't want any more Libyan people lost through the fighting, and that's why the people who are surrounding the city, who are actually from the same town as well, the freedom fighters, are negotiating with their own people --", "But they're not --", "-- inside the city.", "-- the talks have broken down, haven't they, with the elders in the town?", "They have. They have because those couple of hundred people with their guns and with the weapons are still holding out and preventing the elderly and the main civilians of the city to join the revolution.", "But what's the option, then? Is it a siege?", "The option is to give -- I wouldn't say the promise -- to give peaceful negotiations a chance, maybe a couple more days. And then, if need be, the freedom fighters will go in and --", "They go in.", "-- and talk -- take those --", "It's a big risk, if so many civilians do get caught in the crossfire, if there are more civilians in there than you're aware of.", "Well, look. You know, Tripoli was the major capital where Gadhafi's power and strength was, and yet it was overrun by the freedom fighters in a few hours. So I can assure you, Bani Walid is nothing compared to Tripoli.", "So why hold off?", "It -- well, we didn't -- we don't even want to have one -- one person killed. These are people who are going to be attacked by their own people, so we don't want them killing each other. That does not going to look good for the future, so that's why we will hold out until the last resort. And then, if need be, those couple of hundred people or so would be overrun, I can assure you, they can be overrun in an hour or so.", "And then on to Sirte.", "And then on to Sirte, yes.", "And that's -- so when do you think all of this will be tied up? When will you have control of the whole country?", "Oh, a week, two weeks maximum, I would say. And at the same time, the hunt for Gadhafi continues as well. And he -- his options are becoming very, very narrow. If he goes to any country, neighboring country, like Algeria, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, these countries will understand very well that they will be under extreme pressure from both the Libyan people and from the international community to hand back Gadhafi and his sons and his aids, because these are men wanted for crimes against humanity.", "How are you dealing with that? For example, these pro- Gadhafi forces that we think have ended up in Niger, your relations with Niger will be severely affected by that. How are you dealing with those diplomatic problems, crises, effectively, you're having, particularly if Gadhafi gets into one of those countries?", "In time, Niger and any other neighboring country will understand very well and very clearly that their interest is --", "They don't seem to understand now, though, do they?", "Yes. Well, it's difficult now if somebody just drifts across the border. But in time, they need to apprehend them and hand them back. And if they want a good relationship with Libya, because look, there's no way back. Gadhafi's finished, his regime is finished, toppled. If they want -- if they want to think about the future and their own interests for the future, they need to be on the good side of Libya and the Libyan people. That means they have to apprehend and hand back these war criminals. It's as simple as that.", "Until Gadhafi is caught in some way, the -- all the rebels have this common goal, haven't they, in overthrowing Gadhafi, getting rid of Gadhafi? What happens after that, though? Are the cracks beginning to emerge within the NTC, within the rebel groups? It's inevitable, isn't it, that people will disagree on the future after Gadhafi? How are you dealing with that? I'm sure the cracks are emerging already, aren't they?", "Well, the media loves to talk about cracks and disagreements --", "There's always cracks in politics.", "Yes, because that's what makes your job interesting, isn't it? Well, we're sorry to disappoint you that there is -- there's not going to be any major divisions. If there are any differences of agreement, that's natural. That's what democracy is about. Democracy's about how -- having differences of view and of opinion of how to do things, but things can be sorted out through debate, and that is a source of richness, not divisions. I can assure you, we are all agreed on Libya as one country, united, with the capital Tripoli. We want a constitution that's going to be democratic that will underpin and guarantee all the essential freedoms, and we want to move on, rebuilding our country politically, economically, socially, and development-wise as well, and make it one of the big success stories in the region.", "Guma el-Gamaty, thank you very much, indeed, for joining us on the program.", "Thank you, sir.", "Before we leave Libya tonight, we want to give you a rare glimpse into a Gadhafi home in Tripoli and, more importantly, show you what's beneath it. All of the Gadhafi compounds have been thoroughly inspected after family members fled, and this complex belongs to one of the Gadhafi sons. Now, beneath the serene landscape is an elaborate bunker where the family could hide in case of emergency. It features decontamination showers, airtight sealed doors, and walls that can withstand a non- conventional nuclear, biological, or chemical attack. You can learn much more about this bunker on \"BackStory,\" immediately following CONNECT THE WORLD right here on CNN. You're watching CONNECT THE WORLD. Coming up after the break, the South Korean city shaping the future, the latest in our Gateway series, is in two minutes. We're in Incheon, where the airport is the foundation of its success."], "speaker": ["FOSTER", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FOSTER", "WEDEMAN", "FOSTER", "WEDEMAN", "FOSTER", "GUMA EL-GAMATY, UK COORDINATOR, NATIONAL TRANSITIONAL COUNCIL", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER", "GAMATY", "FOSTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-391378", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-01-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/28/nday.04.html", "summary": "Trump To Unveil Middle East Peace Plan Today.", "utt": ["President Trump's lawyers have been described as slick, polished and well-prepared as they presented their case Monday. But how did they fare when it came to the facts. John Avlon has our reality check. John, what's the answer?", "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.", "But truth was in short supply at the impeachment trial yesterday. In its place was a surreal parade of denial, lies, and gaslighting. But denial is how the defense dealt with John Bolton's upcoming book ,which says that Trump told him that aid to Ukraine would be withheld until it announced an investigation into the Bidens. Now, this destroys a key defense talking point. They decided to ignore it until the very last hour, adopting the approach of \"See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil.\" Now, the delay prompted Republican turned Independent Congressman Justin Amash to tweet, \"The defense team strategy rests on pretending that news doesn't exist.\" But if that seemed like gaslighting to you, wait until you see who the defense decided to open the day with, Ken Starr, who condemned with a straight face the age of impeachment that he helped usher in. Now, that didn't give you whiplash. The Trump defense team, again, essentially ignored the evidence against him and instead, argued about process and repeated nonsense like this.", "The record that the House Democrats collected through that process already shows that the President did nothing wrong; it already exonerates the President.", "They dismissed Rudy Giuliani as a colorful distraction, while piling on hours of distraction in the form of attacks on Joe Biden, repeating the lie that he pressed for the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor to protect his son's business interests. And saying that President Trump was motivated solely by his deep desire to combat corruption. But the facts don't back that up. Now, Biden was acting in accordance with official U.S. policy in coordination with our allies, and at the request of Republican Senators, to press for the removal of a corrupt prosecutor who was investigating Burisma or corruption overall. And even if combating corruption was President Trump's goal, it's odd because he never mentioned the word corruption in his call with Ukraine. His budget proposed cutting billions of dollars devoted to fighting corruption. This is all just project and deflect, a signature move to make people think that everyone in politics is corrupt and lies as much as the President does. But check out this analysis of Trump's public mentions of Biden by fact base, because it shows that Trump didn't really start fixating on the former veep until Biden announced that he was running for president in April of 2019. See that spike? And then, polls showed that he was the toughest for Trump to beat. But the big reveal came in the last presentation when Bolton's bombshell made its first and only appearance.", "Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense.", "Now, this is a glimpse of the final argument, that even if the President has been lying this whole time, even if he did illegally withhold the military aid to pressure a foreign power to investigate a domestic political rival, it doesn't matter. The last defense seems to be \"so what?\" facts and evidence don't matter because alternative facts can always be found. The American people's opinion doesn't matter. And historic precedent doesn't matter. All that matters is that the President is in power, and his party controls the Senate. But if there's any independence and integrity left, then it's time for some senators to ask whether this is really what it means to make America great again. And that's your reality check.", "Thank you, John.", "So, a few hours from now, President Trump will reveal his administration's long-awaited peace plan for the Middle East, that's alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian groups are already denouncing the plan, claiming that they weren't even consulted. I want to bring in CNN Global Affairs Analyst Aaron David Miller. He served as the State Department's Middle East negotiator under Republican and Democratic administrations. And Aaron, I don't know where to begin, because there's breaking news on this front, which is that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was just officially indicted on these corruption charges that have been hanging over him. This has been a long process, but now it's official. So, you have an indicted Prime Minister meeting with an impeached President to talk about a peace plan, which one side says they weren't even consulted on. You write, \"Even in our most incompetent moments, never came close to that of Trump's peace team. Releasing a plan untethered from anything other than politics six weeks before Israel's third election within a year and without regard to Palestinians, takes diplomatic malpractice to new levels.\" If I can, I want to separate things and start with the plan and so far as we know the details with the political reality and reasoning behind introducing it today. So, the plan, we don't know everything about it, but we know it only provides conditional autonomy to the Palestinians. Most of Jerusalem stays with the Israelis. The Israelis keep settlements and whatnot. The contours of the plan itself and so far as you know, what do you make of them?", "I mean, I think it's clearly oriented toward the Israelis. Mr. Netanyahu would not be hawking it so intensively, nor would he show up in Washington to have it announced in the company of the President. So, I think basically, John, it's really not an operational document, it's a vision. And I think I was mistaken. It's really not diplomatic malpractice. It's driven in large part and tethered to the President's persona and his own personal politics. Number one, I think they would like to have Mr. Netanyahu around in November to help with evangelicals, Conservative Republicans, and what percentage of the American Jewish community they can shave off for the Democrats. That's one. Number two, there was never a good time to release this, and if they waited for a new Israeli government, they may be waiting until May or June or another Israeli election, and that is going deep into the electoral clock. And then, I think there really is the vanity piece of this. Mr. Kushner who's largely presided over it shepherded through now three years. It's reported to be 60 to 80 pages long, nothing -- United States has never done anything quite like this. And I think in a way, this demonstrates a certain measure of proof of life. So the fact is, while it has zero chances of succeeding in terms of setting into motion, a negotiation or inspiring confidence between Israelis and Palestinians, it may well serve the political objectives of the administration and of Mr. Netanyahu.", "I asked you to wait to talk about the political implications here; the idea that the President is an impeached President with a now-indicted Prime Minister up for reelection, but you're suggesting that you really can't divorce the two, that the Trump administration and the White House is proposing this today, you say, to help Netanyahu in the reelection. This is about Israeli electoral politics. Explain.", "Yes. And I -- you know, I think it will help shore up the right-wing. There are maybe 200,000 voters that Mr. Netanyahu lost between the April and September elections. He'd like to get them back. Mr. Gantz is going to be hard pressed to oppose this if it lays the basis for annexation of large settlements blocks, which are consensus among most Israelis, and setting Israel's eastern border however harmful it will be for the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty. Most Israelis would be supportive of that. So, in a close election, as my grandmother used to say about her chicken soup, it probably wouldn't hurt. And I think the administration has made that calculation whether it's accurate or not, John, is another matter. Remember, two Israeli elections, a third within a year, both producing inconclusive results with Mr. Netanyahu losing ground.", "And very quickly, what do you think there were reaction will be from Arab nations in the region?", "To sum it up in one sentence, the Palestinians will say no, probably, hell no. The Israelis will say, yes, but -- and there probably will be key Arab states, the Saudis, the Emirates, that will probably, in the interest of not alienating their key patron, Mr. Trump will work to find a way to say maybe, but this is going to sit, John, through the elections, for sure. It's not ready for primetime, even though in several hours, it's definitely coming out.", "Aaron David Miller, we always appreciate your help understanding these things. Thanks for being here.", "Thanks, John.", "And thanks to our international viewers for watching. For U.S. -- CNN NEWSROOM with Max Foster is next for our U.S. viewers. A new report, new information coming out about what is in John Bolton's book. How will this rattle the White House this morning? NEW DAY continues right now.", "Mr. Bolton's book is further evidence that a large number of people were, quote, in the loop on this scheme.", "Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true, would rise to the level of an abuse of power.", "Like war, impeachment is hell.", "We think witnesses who are not eyewitness to what happened shouldn't be part of this.", "Hunter Biden's activities created a conflict of interest for Joe Biden.", "These guys were attacking me and my family. Well guess what? I don't hold grudges because presidents can't hold grudges.", "This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.", "Morning, everyone. Welcome to your new day. It is Tuesday, January 28. Eight o'clock in the east and Capitol Hill. Sources say the pressure is building on Senate Republicans to allow witnesses in President Trump's impeachment trial. CNN has learned that former National Security Advisor John Bolton's claims that President Trump personally tied the military aid to Ukraine to his own political favors blindsided GOP lawmakers. This morning there are new allegations from Bolton's manuscript. This of course from his upcoming book."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "JOHN AVLON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "AVLON", "GIULIANI", "AVLON", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "AARON DAVID MILLER, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST", "BERMAN", "MILLER", "BERMAN", "MILLER", "BERMAN", "MILLER", "BERMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GIULIANI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ANNOUNCER", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-136086", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-3-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0903/18/cnr.03.html", "summary": "House AIG Hearings; AIG Shares Up 44 Percent", "utt": ["All right. We are monitoring developments today on Capitol Hill. There you see to the right of your screen, testimony on Capitol Hill from those in charge of AIG. They are getting questioned, really grilled, by lawmakers about how AIG got to this point, and what of that $160 million, $170 million in bonus money that are going to AIG employees -- that is going to AIG employees, because -- why did it happen? AIG got millions and millions of dollars in taxpayer money. Taxpayer money because of the bailout. So we're following that to see what happens. The outrage over the bonuses at AIG sweeping the nation. That is no doubt about that. But on Wall Street, investors are reacting in a very different way of. Susan Lisovicz at the New York Stock Exchange with a look at AIG's shares. Susan, the shares are up?", "The shares are soaring, Don. AIG shares...", "What is that all about?", "Well, they're up 44 percent right now. That translates into about 44 cents. AIG shares right now are about $1.40.", "Can you say that's soaring, though? I mean, I guess from where they were.", "Well, that's a very good point.", "Yes.", "I mean, when you're talking about a gain of 44 cents, I suppose you do have to put a little asterisk or a footnote next to it. The fact is, AIG shares were trading well under $1.00, just days ago. So the stock is more than doubled this week. It's been one of the beneficiaries of the rally that we've seen. But having said that, whether you say it's soaring or not, they're much higher today. You have to remember, this is a stock that was trading at $70.00 just a few years ago. But then again, it reported the largest quarterly loss in U.S. history. Overall, check out the Big Board. The Dow Industrial has given back some of the gains we've seen in the last week, but a nice sprint it was. Blue chips up. They were about 850 points in five of the last six sessions, Don.", "All right, Susan Lisovicz. Hey, Susan, thank you very much.", "You're welcome.", "We're going to check in with Susan in just a little bit. We want to get back to Capitol Hill where Congressman Barney Frank has been doing some questions to executives at AIG. Let's listen in.", "Now, I -- this may be beyond the scope of what the GAO got involved in, but you know, Ms. Williams, that the rationale for the intervention by the Federal Reserve was to prevent systemic risk, if there was a total collapse. Does the GAO have any opinion on whether or not that was about fear (ph)? Or was that beyond the scope of your mandate?", "It really is beyond the scope. We were attempting to identify what the goal was...", "I appreciate it. That's valid. I -- there's no question, you know, it's fair. I would just note -- and it's clear that there should have been some conditions. But I was rereading the transcripts, probably to remind myself of what had happened. We should note that the Federal Reserve and the secretary of the Treasury at that time, Secretary Paulson and Mr. Bernanke, were being criticized, because they had not intervened to stop Lehman Brothers from falling apart and not paying off. So, they are, to a certain extent, damned if they did and damned when they didn't, because there was a consensus forming -- well, first, Bear Stearns. There was intervention for Bear Stearns, and there was a lot of criticism. And people said, this is capitalism; you've go to let people go belly-up. And then Lehman Brothers went belly-up, and it turned out bellies didn't look so good to people. So, when the next one came up, which was Merrill -- the AIG -- they intervened. Now, that doesn't mean they did it right or wrong. But we ought to give that context. And there was a significant consensus that letting Lehman Brothers fail with no intervention was a problem. But this is the question I want to ask our various witnesses. And it's not exactly what they were asked about, but we do, in addition to doing everything we can to get the money back, an important part of our job is to minimize this kind of damage, and in particular, not to have either the Bush administration or the Obama administration -- any administration -- forced with the choice: either you let Lehman Brothers go completely under and have a problem, or you bail out AIG's counterparties and have a problem. We have under the law reasonable means for reacting when a bank is going bad. It's called resolving (ph) -- one of those nice antiseptic words. We can resolve banks. Wachovia went under during this period, Washington Mutual. Neither of those and other banks caused the kind of disruption one way or the other that we saw from Bear Stearns or Merrill Lynch being bought by the Bank of America, et cetera. What Secretary Geithner has asked for in a recent to the speaker -- and Mr. Paulson was for this, and he's testified about it, Mr. Bernanke has. An argument is, I think, very strong, that there should be a statutory framework, so that regulators can step in and unwind an institution, and not be faced with the all-or-nothing choice that they had with regard to -- I think people would find both the Lehman Brothers outcome and the AIG outcome somewhat unsatisfactory. I'm wondering -- again, it wasn't on your agenda. It may be beyond the scope for some. But on the other hand, from OTS and others. Do you have opinions as to whether or not we ought to be moving towards some statutory framework, so that you can unwind these troubled institutions without the kind of choices we've had? And Mr. Polakoff, I want to begin with you.", "Yes, sir. We do believe that there should be that statutory process. We do believe that, if there is sufficient discussion and debate within Congress and a decision to move forward with the systemic regulator, that the power should fall within the systemic regulator to examine, and, if necessary, for receivership activities. Yes, sir.", "Anyone else? Yes, commissioner?", "Yes. Within the insurance subsidiaries, there's a clear process, too, for unwinding, just like there is with the banks.", "Right.", "And two things would happen with AIG in this kind of situation. One, most of their business would go to competitors, so there'd be a smooth transition for policyholders. And, to the extent that didn't happen, there would be a guarantee fund protection behind it (ph). So, we would think, as part of any -- we agree with OTS that there ought to be a systemic approach to this. And we would think if...", "And let me just say, one of the advantages of a guarantee fund is it can come with limits, so that people are not rewarded un- ended (ph) -- with open-ended funds. But in the guarantee funds, there are usually limits, which is a guide to prudent investing. I have -- my time has expired, Mr. Chairman. If either one has a brief comment, but I think it's probably not a GAO issue.", "Well, actually, I would just like to comment. The framework that GAO rolled out in January of this year for the financial regulatory system, has an element that directly...", "Well, thank you.", "... speaks to that. And that's the provision to make sure that the exposure to taxpayers is limited in any framework going forward. So, this would fall into that category.", "I thank you. That's something this committee will have to focus on.", "Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And now the gentleman from Alabama, Mr. Bachus, five minutes.", "Thank you. Ms. Williams, Chairman Kanjorski and I, part of our request to you is to determine whether there had been any measurable progress in recouping the taxpayer dollars. Have you seen anything, any optimistic signs or positive signs? And one of the things I will ask you in that question, or even choose to use this or not. But in the Fed's special purpose vehicle, Maiden Lane, I notice that those assets, or those contracts and credit default swaps, may be performing, at least apparently, at a higher level than when they were acquired. But would you comment on the broader question, and maybe that detail question?", "Our work in this area is going on and on an ongoing basis, in terms of the status. We looked at where they are, and we noted the challenges. And that's kind of -- at this point, we see a number of challenges that AIG continues to face in terms of restructuring itself. So, you know, I would say at this point, we're kind of neutral until we continue to do some more work in terms of the outlook.", "OK. Thank you. And Mr. Polakoff, you acknowledged that, I believe, that you were somewhat aware of the worsening situations of the financial products subsidiary. But you had, I think admit that OTS didn't foresee the extent of the risk to AIG. Is that correct?", "We did -- yes, sir, we did not foresee the extent that mortgage market would deteriorate and the impact on the liquidity of", "Did you understand the complicated use of the credit default swaps? Did you -- and the exposure that they were creating for the company, the amount of risk -- was there an appreciation of that?", "Yes, sir, absolutely. We reviewed the models. We understood the models. We worked...", "All right. You have been watching and listening to what's happening on Capitol Hill today. Really, testimony of -that's going to come up from the head of AIG as to why these bonuses are being paid out, why exactly this happened. What you were listening to mostly was Congressman Barry Frank questioning members. This is really the group that oversaw the bailout money, the money that was given to AIG. The people that you saw there, the African-American woman, her name is Orice Williams, she's the director of Financial Markets and Community Investment and Government Accountability Office. Also, the Honorable Joel Ario, insurance commissioner of Pennsylvania, also the Insurance Department on behalf of the National Association of Insurance commissioner, explaining to the politicians here exactly what went on, and why it ended up this way. And the person who heads that is Scott Polakoff, he is the acting director of the office of Thrift Supervision. Two different panels here. This is the first panel. The second panel will be the more interesting panel, because that's when Edward Liddy, who is chief executive officer of AIG, the American International Group, is going to take questions from these folks. Let's move on now. We're going to monitor that and if any news comes out, we'll bring it back to you. Another politician on the forefront of bonus rage is New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. And CNN Radio's Steve Kastenbaum is live in New York now. Steve, I was reading this letter - reading the letter from - that he wrote Mr. Cuomo, to Barney Frank. And he's saying, his office reviewed the legal opinion that AIG obtained from its own counsel, and it is not all that clear that the lawyers even considered the argument that the only -only by grace of the American taxpayers, that members of the financial products even have jobs, let alone a pool of retention bonus money. He feels that these - this bonus money should not have been paid out.", "That's true, Don. And it's really interesting to read this letter and see where New York's attorney general is going here. He believes that that would be a fraudulent conveyance. He thinks that if AIG officials made a commitment to pay the bonuses, knowing full well that the company was going down the tubes and wouldn't be financially capable of making those payments without aid from the government, that that would be a fraudulent conveyance. He told this to reporters in a conference call just a few days ago. And that would be his angle, if he were to pursue this in court. The New York attorney general's office has a history of going after businesses on Wall Street, so it's not unusual for the attorney general of New York to get involved in cases like this.", "And he goes on to say that we know that AIG was able to bargain with its financial products employees, since these employees have agreed to take salaries for $1.00 for 2009 in exchange for receiving their retention bonus packages. So he's saying, all of this is negotiable and it's not set in stone. Just because you have a contract doesn't mean you have to pay that money.", "That's right. That's his argument. Although, you know, I spoke to guys who work in the financial sector on Wall Street who get bonuses every year. And they say that these bonuses are not directly tied to the financial health of the company, but rather to the amount of business each individual brings into the company. Not surprising that guys on Wall Street would be defending...", "But Steve, don't you think that the two would go hand-in- hand? If you're bringing in business, that's performance? Wouldn't that bring in more money into the company?", "You would think so, right? Yes, exactly. But some of guys I have spoken to, they say that, you know, they signed the contracts, they bring in the money. What the folks investing the money -what the folks who invest the money do with it, it's their fault that the money doesn't earn them more. So, you know, they bring in the business, and then it's handed off to somebody else. You know, that's the argument they're making. Whether or not that holds water with the American public, probably not right now.", "Yes, and you know, the interesting thing was that - as I pointed out earlier, if it were the worker bees who were getting bonuses for all of this, if it were people who were not making that much money, then I think the American people would say, OK, these people, you know, are in dire straits, as well. But these are already people who are getting huge salaries and now getting millions in bonuses. Very quickly, Steve, go ahead.", "Yes, and it's hard to find sympathy for them here in New York. The attorney general, there's some questions about why Andrew Cuomo is going after them in a case that appears to be national in scope. There is a history of the A.G.'s office going after Wall Street businesses - sure, Don.", "Yes, I'm going have to get back to the hearing. Hate to cut you off...", "No problem.", "... but we want to get Representative Ackerman from New York taking questions now on New York. Of course, Mr. Cuomo there, as well. So, let's listen in.", "So, there's two guys out on a life raft. And they're adrift at sea, and a storm blows up. And their raft is surrounded by sharks, and the waves are 10 feet high. And the first guy says, \"I'm scared.\" So, the second guy sells him a policy. That's a credit default swap. You're selling something with absolutely nothing to back you up. You have no money, possibly, in your pocket or your wallet. And if everything goes right, you're collecting a premium. And if everything goes wrong, so what. It makes no sense. It's like snake oil salesmen selling you jars of snake oil. And they don't even have the oil in the jar. I mean, there's a great company called I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. You know, at least they have the decency to tell you it's not butter.", "I'll give you an answer from the insurance perspective, as a downstream recipient of the risk that was created here. AIG's essentially on top of the pyramid. AIG's the one that everybody else looks at this stuff and says, \"We're not quite sure if this is going to perform or not. We better hedge on it.\" You buy the policy from AIG, and AIG -- and then people -- like Mr. Garrett said, even people who bought policies from AIG then hedged in case AIG couldn't pay.", "They went to AIG because these guys...", "But AIG...", "... rated -- these guys rated AIG AAA, and so everybody assumes that -- that their subsidiary's AAA which you haven't rated. It's like -- it's like -- it's like if I have an 800 credit score you're going to lend my kid money because you think he has an 800 credit score.", "Congressman, if I could offer a -- a couple points for your consideration, of the bailout that's occurred -- and -- and AIG recently did a press release breaking down the money -- 52 billion went for credit-default-swap-related issue. Forty billion went for security lending issues. So there are multiple issues associated with AIG. There are many large financial institutions in the United States today that underwrite credit default swaps. The -- the issue is not the product. We do recommend that credit default...", "So they're underwriting the underwriters that are doing the underwriting?", "No. No, they're issuing or selling credit default swaps on various products. It -- it -- it's a -- it's a well-known, well- respected product if done properly.", "If it were regulated.", "Well, I do agree with you, sir, that the product itself should be a regulated product.", "Well, bingo. That's -- that's the whole problem. Why don't we -- why don't we say that it has to be regulated? Otherwise it can't be insurance.", "We agree on that.", "Well, the -- yeah, the CFTC commissioner a number of years ago came before Congress to ask that, indeed, credit default swaps become regulated, and -- and I think many members at this table would endorse that it should be a regulated product.", "The New York -- the New York state insurance supervisor, Eric Dinallo, came before a different committee of Congress back in October and -- and -- and said that. I mean, where's the guy on television that does the bells and whistles and gongs? We need all these things going off here. Otherwise there's nobody getting our attention. The thing that -- that we have to be doing, Mr. Chairman, I think, is taking a look at how we regulate a completely runaway financial giant that's going on so that when people buy -- I think I'm buying insurance -- are buying insurance and not something else. I yield back the balance of my time.", "Thank you very much, Mr. Ackerman. Gentlemen, as you know, we have some votes on. We have probably eight minutes left, seven minutes left -- seven and a half minutes left. Are you a fast talker even though you're from Georgia, Mr. Price?", "In two and a half you can do five? OK. We'll -- we'll recognize Mr. Price for his five minutes reduced to two and a half.", "Thank -- the -- the -- the first vote will go for a while, so I appreciate that, Mr. Chairman. I think I -- I'm pleased to hear the chairman of the committee announce that Mr. Geithner will be here before our committee within a couple weeks. I think that there are a lot of questions that we would like to ask him today. I want to thank the panel for -- for their perspective. Ms. Williams, one of the most pivotal roles that we can play is oversight. And so I think it comes as a surprise to some members of our committee that the GAO is prohibited by law from certain reviews of certain federal financial activities. Would you elaborate on that? And -- and -- and I know you responded to Mr. Garrett on this, but what -- what is it specifically that GAO cannot do?", "The -- this is an area that we actually have a prohibition, and it's quite unusual, and it's in the Bank Audit Agency Act. And it articulates the -- the limits of our authority in this area, and there are specific areas prohibited. And one of -- and I think there are four. One of the four articulated in the act is we are prohibited from looking at the Federal Reserve's monetary policy activities, and...", "And you -- you -- you mentioned that you'd be happy to do that if we gave you the authority to do so. Would it be helpful for you to be able to do that?", "In -- in this current environment, I would say yes.", "So you'd be able to give us and the American people a better sense of what has happened and what's going on if you were able to look at that.", "We would be able -- we currently in our conversations with the Fed are limited to the information they've provided publicly. We don't have the same prohibition, for example, with their supervisory and regulatory activities. We can actually go in and look at what they're doing. GAO does appreciate the fact that, you know, the reason the Fed has the -- the protections that it has is to ensure its independence.", "Sure.", "But I think we're in extraordinary times, so when the Fed has evoked activities under their emergency powers, that's an area that -- that perhaps it would make sense...", "... for GAO to have more...", "Thank you.", "... Visibility.", "I want to address your report, and -- and I just got it this morning, so I -- it -- it's -- I'm trying to digest it all. But in -- I didn't see any sense of an exit strategy that AIG has reported by GAO in -- in -- in -- in your report. Would you -- is that an accurate assessment of -- of what's going on over there?", "I mean, at this point, the plan is for restructuring. I think given the assistance that the government's provided so far, and kind of the ongoing restructuring that has happened, there are real questions about what the exit strategy is. But our work in this area is ongoing.", "But -- but the American people can't look at it and say, \"There's an exit strategy that's in place.\" Is that an accurate statement?", "Not that we have seen.", "OK. Thank you. Now, Mr. Polakoff, you mentioned that -- that OTS should have stopped the whole book of business back in '04, and I think you responded to a couple members saying that -- that you -- OTS didn't appreciate how bad liquidity was going to get in '08. Was there any -- any change in the assessment between '04 and '08?", "Yes, sir. Yes, sir. What we didn't understand or -- or appreciate significantly with our analysis was how bad the real estate market was going to get from 2004 to 2008...", "Listening to testimony on Capitol Hill today talking about AIG, the insurance giant that got millions and millions of your tax dollars and then gave bonuses - millions and millions - to its employees. They've been doing a lot of talking about unregulated credit default swaps. Exactly what is that? 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{"id": "CNN-408420", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2020-08-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/16/ndaysun.01.html", "summary": "Biden-Harris Campaign Preps For Democratic National Convention; White House Withdrawing Nominee To Head Bureau Of Land Management; Mass Protest In Belarus Following Allegations Of Election-Rigging.", "utt": ["So the Democratic National Convention starts tomorrow and President Trump plans to try to take some of the attention away from it.", "Yes. Part of the strategy to upstage the Biden-Harris campaign. The Trump campaign tells CNN they're spending an amount in the high seven figures on digital ads and hours before Joe Biden formally accepts the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday the president is going to give a speech from Biden's home state of Pennsylvania. CNN's Sarah Westwood at the White House, right now. What do we know, Sarah, about the president's strategy ahead of the DNC beyond this?", "Well good morning, Christi and Victor. Yes, that strategy is appears to be distraction. The president will engage in some of the most significant campaign travel since the pandemic hit. He'll make a number of trips this week. Just tomorrow he'll be going to Minnesota and Wisconsin as the Democratic National Convention gets underway. Later in the week he'll be going to Arizona and then as you mentioned Thursday night, the night that Joe Biden will be formally accepting the Democratic nomination, the president is set to give a speech in Pennsylvania outside Biden's hometown of Scranton. So, obviously the president engaging in a lot of counter programming there in states that will be key to his re-election. In fact those four states are some of the places the campaign is focusing the most attention right now. So very significant travel for the president there. And his campaign will also be engaging in this very significant digital ad buy. I mean, keep in mind that the Democratic National Convention also primary digital and that is where the Trump campaign will be focusing their efforts. They've picked up some spots and some very prime internet real estate including the banner of YouTube which they purchased for 96 hours and some of those unskippable ads on YouTube and Hulu. And, in fact, people will be -- if they're watching those videos forced to watch some of these Trump ads during the Democratic National Convention so another way that the president will be counter programming the DNC. And that is something we saw him do throughout the primary. He would frequently schedule rallies or speeches, for example, on the nights of Democratic primaries and Democratic debates. So the president is very used to trying to create a distraction. And all of this will come as Kamala Harris, Biden's new running mate, will be stepping into the spotlight in the most significant way since she was added to the ticket. And the president, after elevating an article that questions Harris' eligibility to be vice president which, by the way, is not up for debate. She is eligible. The president was asked again about that article yesterday in his briefing and I want you to take a listen, his refusal to clarify whether he believed in that article.", "I have nothing to do with that. I read something about it and I will say that he is a brilliant lawyer that -- I guess he wrote an article about it. So I know nothing about it, but it's not something that bothers me.", "But, sir, when you do that, it creates doubt.", "Why do you say that? I just don't know about it, but it's not something that we will be pursuing. Let me put it differently.", "Mr. President, you know.", "Let me be -- let me put it differently. Don't tell me what I know. Let me put it differently. Let me put it differently. To me, it doesn't bother me at all.", "Let's just be clear, Harris was born in Oakland, California, so there are no questions there. The article questioning here eligibility appeared in \"Newsweek\" and the president had elevated it earlier in the week during a press conference. So, we are sure to hear the president launch more attacks on Biden and Harris though throughout this campaign travel and his speeches this week, Victor and Christi.", "All right. Sarah Westwood, appreciate it so much. Thank you. Let's bring in historian and CNN political analysts Julian Zelizer as well as Errol Louis, CNN political commentator and host of \"You Decide\" podcast. Gentlemen, good morning to you. Glad to have you with us. So we know from the communications director for President Trump's campaign and ads, Sarah was just saying, President Trump is the counter programming weapon, Errol. We know distraction works with parenting. Does it work in politics?", "We'll see is the short answer but, look, the reality is even if you could stick an unskippable ad on a lot of different screens while people want to do something else like watch their favorite TV series on Hulu, the question becomes, what is the actual message? Are you trying to convey to people in 15 seconds that all of what they were planning to hear from the Democrats just doesn't make any sense? Is it going to be one of these divisive messages about keeping scary, dark people out of your suburbs and all of these things that we keep hearing from the president? I'm not sure that's going to have the intended effect. So we give them credit, I think we should give them credit for grabbing a lot of prime digital real estate, but, again, the content of the message is really what's going to be key. I think there are going to be lot of people watching the Democrats to find out what their message is. They're kind of -- they have the initiative frankly at this point. They've got something new. They've got something different. They're talking about changing the country. Trump doesn't have any of those advantages and all of the digital real estate in the world is not going to change that.", "Julian, when we look back at 2016, what did the Democrats learn then about President Trump and the way he works and the way he strategizes that they might be able to use now themselves?", "Well, they learned they have to be more direct about what he's about and what he's saying. I don't think they have to be so restrained as Hillary Clinton often was in calling things for what they are. And the politics of distraction is his central strategy. He would do this throughout the campaign. He will try to distract the media. He will try to distract the Democrats from what they're trying to say. The biggest problem, though, for President Trump right now, is the more he speaks, the worse he does. So I'm not sure having more of President Trump out there in the next few days will necessarily hurt Democrats. It might be exactly what they need. It might unify them and it might remind many voters of what is going on in the country and how that connects to the White House.", "Errol, usually when an incumbent president is vying for another four years they work off what they've done thus far and where they're going to go. What do we know about where the president is going to go, in the next four years?", "Unfortunately, that is all he's got as message is to say, if you listen carefully, Christi, what he keeps saying is we're going to have a great economy next year. Things are going to be great after we get a vaccine. He's projecting forward because the last four years have been a disaster. He can't talk about the economy because we have got mass unemployment. He certainly can't talk about controlling the pandemic because the numbers keep ticking upward. He's in a very difficult position when it comes to talking about his record. And so he has to talk about sort of a rosy future. Unfortunately, for him, people aren't feeling that. That's not what people are seeing. What people are seeing is we're still on lockdown, we can't figure out what is going to happen with schools in the fall, we've still got people who have yet to mourn their loved ones as this horrific number continues to tick ever upward of people who have died from the coronavirus. So he's going to have to try to imagine a new future and that's -- you know, he's a great salesman so we'll expect him to try that. But voters, I'm not sure, are in the mood for a lot of fancy talk when they're dealing with so many serious problems right now.", "And imagining a new future is going to be the whole crux of the Democrats' argument about what they're going to do and what they're going to change. I want to look up the lineup for the convention here starting this week. We've got the Obamas. We've got the Clintons. We've got Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren. How persuasive, Julian, are voices like this that are so popular in the party, at a convention, and especially at a time when it is going to be very different? This is a virtual event. And you have to wonder have people made their minds up already, is this going to change anything?", "I'm not sure it is going to transform any kind of public opinion. I'm not sure you're going to see any huge shift. But I do think Democrats have an opportunity to use this format in an effective way. For decades we've been talking about how conventions are more about what appears on the screen. So now it is almost entirely on the screen. And I do think it is an opportunity for Democrats to set the terms of the debate for the next few months. Even if they're not changing public opinion. To lay out what are the basic ideas of the party and how do they differ from what the administration and the Republicans have to offer. And to show case some of the brightest voices in the party. Not only the people at the top of the ticket, but also some younger legislators, candidates, and even citizens because of the virtual nature of this who are going to define what does it mean to be a Democrat in 2020. And so in that way I think they could use this very well to start the debate that begins now and goes through November.", "Julian, real quickly before I let you go. I'm sorry. Did you want to say something, Errol?", "Just real briefly that keep in mind that this is a chance for affinity groups within the Democratic Party to make their own internal strategies. There are all of these different meetings that are going to happen outside of the primetime speech making and that's where a lot of the real work gets done. They get their marching orders. They make connections. They develop strategies, union groups, ethnic affinity groups, all kinds of different organizations within the Democratic Party. That is where the real work is going to get done.", "OK. So but, Julian, I wanted to ask you about this because you an op-ed out right now and you write that President Obama -- quote -- \"initially reluctant to criticize President Trump in direct terms.\" That has changed the last few weeks. What do you think happened?", "Well, I think he's very concerned not just about the race but about the state of our democracy. And today, this week, he had comments about what is happening with voting, what is happening with the post office. And I think the former president has a huge role to play in being a truth-teller in the coming months about threats to our democracy and insisting that we preserve the basic mechanisms that allow voters to make their decision in November.", "Errol Louis, Julian Zelizer, it is always a pleasure to sit back and watch all of this with you and get your analysis. We appreciate you both. Thank you, sirs.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "And a quick programming note for you. Be sure to watch CNN's special live coverage of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, kicks off tomorrow night at 8:00 Eastern.", "A Trump administration official tells CNN the White House is withdrawing a controversial nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management. William Perry Pendley has been the agency's acting director since July of last year. He has repeatedly denied the existence of climate change. He's also made disparaging remarks about Muslims and immigrants. Pendley was a conservative activist, a commentator and a lawyer before taking the job. And later this morning be sure to watch \"STATE OF THE UNION.\" Jake Tapper has his guests White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Cory Booker. \"STATE OF THE UNION\" airs at 9:00 Eastern here on", "Well, the FDA has approved what could be a game-changer for widespread COVID-19 testing. It's already been used inside the NBA bubble. We're going to tell you how it works when we come back."], "speaker": ["BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "SARAH WESTWOOD, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER", "D. TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "D. TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "D. TRUMP", "WESTWOOD", "PAUL", "ERROL LOUIS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "PAUL", "JULIAN ZELIZER, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "PAUL", "LOUIS", "PAUL", "ZELIZER", "PAUL", "LOUIS", "PAUL", "ZELIZER", "PAUL", "LOUIS", "ZELIZER", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "CNN. PAUL"]}
{"id": "NPR-6003", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2005-06-04", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4680374", "title": "Roxanne Rhodes, Putting on Her Poker Face", "summary": "Roxanne Rhodes has set out to conquer the world of high-stakes poker, a game dominated 10-to-1 by men. She talks with Scott Simon from Las Vegas, where she's competing in the 2005 World Series of Poker.", "utt": ["Professional poker may not be America's favorite pastime just yet.  But      more than 2.5 million people reportedly watched the final hands of the      World Series of Poker last year on ESPN.  The 2005 World Series is now      under way in Las Vegas and one contestant is Roxanne Rhodes.  She is a      wife, grandmother and health-care consultant who won more than $100,000      on the professional poker circuit last year.  She also teaches women and      men how to play the game.  She joins us from Las Vegas.", "Thanks for being with us.", "Thank you.  It's my      pleasure.", "Has anyone ever had the nerve to say to you, `This ain't no place      for a lady'?", "Oh, they tease, but, of course, the ladies can come right      back and tease them.  As you know, men outnumber women in the poker field      probably 10:1, and I would sit at a table and there'd be no girls there.      And I'd look around.  There'd be one far off, and I'd wave, and she'd      wave, and I thought, you know, `We've got to get some more women out      here.  What part can I take to achieve that?'  So I thought, `I'm going      to start teaching women poker.'  And they really just came out by the      droves.  And so we brought the men in this month, so we have coed classes      now, and the guys are loving it, and the girls are loving it.", "For a lot of these women, do you know why is it poker and not,      say, bridge or mahjong.", "Because the women want to get out there and compete with the      men now.  I mean, it's really the only sport that you can get out there      and be--really in a lot of ways have a competitive advantage against men      in the game and they're recognizing that.  They're seeing all the glitz      on television and we have all the celebrity games going on and then you      have the Internet, which has brought on, you know, three of our last      World Series winners.", "I'm interested when you say women can have a competitive      advantage. What do you figure that competitive advantage is?", "We are very good at multitasking.  So we can sit at a table.      We can be carrying on a conversation at one end but really be keying on      to everybody and how they're playing which is very important in poker, is      being able to get a read on somebody.  They're great detractors.  When a      woman sits down at a table, she's absolutely a distraction at the table,      and I don't care if she's 25 or 80.", "You wear sunglasses while playing?", "Oh, absolutely.  You name it, Chanel, Roberto Cavalli, you      know, Christian Dior.  I have them all.", "Now is that so people can't see the expression in your eyes?", "You know, I'm a very expressional person.  You know, I'm      smiling all the time.  My eyes twinkle.  And so sometimes that could be a      dead giveaway for me, and so not only do I like the look, it's a sharp      crisp--it's a distracting look.  People are looking at your glasses and      going, `Those are really nice.  Boy, look how they sparkle,' and it's      taking their attention, a lot of times, away from their cards.", "Well, Ms. Rhodes, good luck, although it sounds as if you don't      need it.", "Well, you know, we all need a little bit of luck.  It's just      how you use that luck when you get it.  It's how well you play your bad      cards.", "Roxanne Rhodes, professional poker player and teacher, is now      competing in the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.", "And it's 22 minutes before the hour."], "speaker": ["SCOTT SIMON, host", "SCOTT SIMON, host", "Ms. ROXANNE RHODES (Professional Poker Player)", "SCOTT SIMON, host", "Ms. ROXANNE RHODES (Professional Poker Player)", "SCOTT SIMON, host", "Ms. ROXANNE RHODES (Professional Poker Player)", "SCOTT SIMON, host", "Ms. ROXANNE RHODES (Professional Poker Player)", "SCOTT SIMON, host", "Ms. ROXANNE RHODES (Professional Poker Player)", "SCOTT SIMON, host", "Ms. ROXANNE RHODES (Professional Poker Player)", "SCOTT SIMON, host", "Ms. ROXANNE RHODES (Professional Poker Player)", "SCOTT SIMON, host", "SCOTT SIMON, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-189197", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-7-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/10/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Afghani Hospital Catches Attention of Pentagon; Mothers Against Drunk Driving Protesting New Product", "utt": ["Rotting flesh, protruding ribs? Now, the treatment of wounded afghan soldiers in a Kabul hospital has caught the attention of the Pentagon because the military hospital is partly funded by the U.S. Live pictures coming in here. This is a hearing happening right now into the claims of abuse here and I just want to give you a warning. Time to pause, get the kids out of the room, if you have little ones there. Look away if you need to because the images we're about to show you, they're tough to look at. But they're also very, very important here. CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr has our exclusive report.", "Afghan soldiers starving, lying in dirty beds with festering wounds, denied painkillers. All of this at the Kabul National Military Hospital, a hospital the U.S. paid more than $100 million to help the Afghans run. COLONEL SCHUYLER GELLER, M.D., U.S. AIR FORCE", "These days, a world away, Schuyler Geller, a retired Air Force doctor, tends to his Tennessee farm.", "This will be kind of a little haven.", "From February 2010 to February 201 he oversaw training of Afghans at the hospital. These photos were taken by his American military staff.", "There are patients that are starving to death because they can't buy the food. They have to bribe for food. They have to bribe for medicine. Patients were beaten when they complained about no pain medicine or no medicine.", "And you're not supposed to worry about that?", "That's what we were told.", "Pentagon officials do not dispute that the photos from 2010 show hidden, but deliberate abuse by Afghan staff, but they insist that after a U.S. inspection, conditions have improved significantly. In this memo to Congress, Geller alleges, two senior U.S. generals who oversaw afghan training, Lieutenant General William Caldwell and his deputy, Brigadier General Gary Patton, in 2010 delayed bringing in Pentagon investigators because of their political concerns over the looming mid-term U.S. elections. Geller says Caldwell was angry his staff wanted the inspector general to investigate and that Patton ordered a delay out of concern it would embarrass the Obama White House.", "And then he said, but we don't want to do -- we don't want to put that request in right now because there's an upcoming general election. And we wouldn't want this to leak out.", "That's just not acceptable.", "Congressman Jason Chaffetz's House oversight subcommittee is investigating the general's alleged behavior.", "Now, that's a very serious allegation, but it didn't come from just one high-ranking military on the ground. It didn't come from just two. We have several of them who have stepped forward and said, yes, this was indeed the case.", "Geller says he wants the truth to come out.", "The biggest frustration is our own leadership's response and how slow that was and how inadequate that was.", "Want to bring in our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr. And just the first image in your piece, I mean, that man looked skeletal. We mentioned this hearing. We saw the pictures. This hearing is happening right now, looking into these allegations that you were just discussing in that interview. What do we expect to come out of this?", "Well, you know, the committee has put out a statement, the chairman has put out a statement saying that he is -- and I want to quote -- \"disheartened and disgusted by these photos.\" I want to be clear. This has been around since about 2010, but it's only recently that Schuyler Geller has come forward publicly and agreed to give us this interview on camera. And we now have the Pentagon's inspector general again, Brooke, again looking into all of this, launching a review about whether General Caldwell and Patton did delay an investigation into all of this. General Caldwell, General Patton, we reached out. They declined to comment because of this new pending inspector general review. The Pentagon says the problems have been fixed at the hospital, but Congress is holding hearings to try to determine what really happened here.", "I know you'll be watching to see what comes of the review and we'll look for that. Barbara Starr for us at the Pentagon. Barbara, appreciate it. Coming up next, a billboard showing how you can beat a breathalyzer. Yep. You're about to hear how this works and why one group is livid.", "I want tell about you this new product that has MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, really living up to its name. MADD in Georgia is worried about the \"Breathalyzer Equalizer.\" That's what this thing's called, which came on the market just last month. A company video demonstrates how a person takes this \"Breathalyzer Equalizer.\" Here he goes. Swallowing this powder to get rid of what's called residual mouth alcohol, so that you can get a lower reading if you have to take a breathalyzer test.", "You're putting drunks on the road. If you get caught, you know, you can beat the test and that false sense of hope is going to lead to an accident. That accident could kill somebody, could injure somebody.", "Defense attorney Joey Jackson is on the case. So, Joey, I actually was not familiar with residual mouth alcohol until today. So, explain to me how this really works. You take this powder, let's say you haven't had enough drinks to be drunk, but it still leaves something so you could fail a test, is that correct?", "It could. This is how it works, according to what I've learned as a former prosecutor and now doing this from a defense perspective. What happens is you want a reliable and accurate reading and there are machines which detect the presence of alcohol in your blood. It's a blood-to-alcohol content and they measure it by when you blow into a tube. So, the issue is, you want an accurate reading and, oftentimes, that reading is contaminated or could be by what's called residual mouth alcohol. And what that is, Brooke, it's alcohol which gets confined or secreted in the oral cavity and it could come from a number of things. That's why officers are trained to observe you for a period of time, often 15, 20 minutes, so that if you belch, it comes up from the stomach, it can leave contaminant in your mouth. If you, for example, vomit, regurgitation causes it. You can get it from Binaca Blast or some of those other things. And, so, what this product is designed to do is to eliminate that residual alcohol and just get an accurate reading from what you're blowing from your stomach, deep air, into the tube.", "OK, so, the issue, as we just heard in that sound bite from the gentleman from MADD is they're worried that, OK, drunk drivers will try this and that's going to lead to more drunk driving on the roads. Let me get to this. This is the response we have from the company's executive vice president, the company making this product. He's the man we saw in the demonstration video. Here's what he says. Let me quote. \"We do not condone drunk driving. This product only reduces the false readings on the roadside breathalyzer that can be caused by residual mouth alcohol and has no effect on a person's true alcohol concentration. Our only goal is to improve the accuracy in roadside breath-testing.\" So, Joey, if it turns out that a drunk driver thinks that they can use this product and it's going to work, could police then use that against the driver?", "You know, it would seem to be that they're going to use everything they can, but I would hasten to add this, Brooke. It's not the only thing. The measure of alcohol in your blood is one indicator. There are other things police do, as we know. They have you walk the straight line, right, nine times forward, nine times back. They have you touch your nose to make sure you're OK. They have you stand on one leg to see what your balance is. So, this is one tool, of course, that this company is saying would give you a more reliable reading because it would eliminate any contaminant in your mouth and ensure, and only ensure, that the result comes from deep lung air. So you can spin it any way you like. Prosecutors, I'm sure, won't like this. Defense attorneys will love it. But ultimately, if the product is going to lead to a more desirable result and accurate result, then so be it.", "All right. Joey Jackson, thanks for the explanation. Appreciate it. \"On the Case\" here.", "A pleasure, Brooke.", "It is even hard to bring a hardcore rocker to tears, but watch this.", "It was so beautiful, you know.", "Chili Pepper bassist, Flea, rocker-dad in tears. You're going to see why this story really affects him."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "STARR", "GELLER", "STARR", "GELLER", "STARR", "GELLER", "STARR", "GELLER", "REPRESENTATIVE JASON CHAFFETZ (R), UTAH", "STARR", "CHAFFETZ", "STARR", "GELLER", "BALDWIN", "STARR", "BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "BARRY MARTIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEORGIA MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING", "BALDWIN", "JOEY JACKSON, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "BALDWIN", "JACKSON", "BALDWIN", "JACKSON", "BALDWIN", "FLEA, MUSICIAN", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-267591", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2015-10-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/26/es.01.html", "summary": "New Video of Raid on ISIS Prison in Iraq.", "utt": ["Riveting new video this morning of the raid in northern Iraq that cost a member of the U.S. Army's elite Delta Force his life. That video released by the Kurdistan Regional Government captures the rescue of about 70 hostages from an ISIS controlled prison. The Pentagon says those hostages were facing imminent mass execution. They were going to be killed -- their graves have been dug. Let's get the latest from CNN senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh who is live from Turkey this morning. And Nick, you know, this video, watching this video of this event that resulted in the death of the first, you know, American service member in four years in Iraq. Really just telling the story of the dangerous situation.", "Well, it actually shows you a glimpse into the secret of what American special forces have been doing in Iraq or particularly were doing in that raid. Now it's rare that you see American commandos in action. This is captured on a Kurdish soldier's helmet camera, right to the very front of the action. It's pretty clear when you see what's going on here that the American commandos are right at the front much of the way, they're often shooting at the enemy, it seems. And the normal idea of the advice and assist mission you often see with the American Special Forces, they tend to hold back. They're not necessarily right to the front. They're kind of giving advice and instructions from behind. Clearly in this case, which led to the death of Master Sergeant Joshua Wheeler, 39-year-old from Oklahoma, a veteran of 14 tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. The commanding officer on the ground decided they needed to get more into the fight. Now they may have been assisting on the ground, or it may have been a part of their broader rules of engagement but it has opened a window on to quite how much boots on the ground American commandos were in that case and perhaps have been before but just not publicly acknowledged in the fight in Iraq. That's a significant change in America's involvement. Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, saying, look, they're going to be in harm's way and we're going to see more of this. And perhaps that's a reflection of the constant criticism of the White House, they're not really serious about tackling ISIS, that there need to be people on the ground, taking the fight to the leadership. But in this video, you see just how intense that combat is, just how close to the front those Americans were, and how they partner along with their Kurdish special force counterparts. But it's frankly, when you listen to this, the Americans just seemed in control -- Christine.", "Yes, they do. What can you tell us about, Nick, about the hostages? Who were those people who the Americans and the Kurds were able to free?", "Well, that's sort of bit a mystery about this really. I mean, U.S. officials said initially they were aiming at Kurdish captives in there, which explains why the Peshmerga Kurdish Special Forces put themselves in that mix and perhaps why they got partnership for the Americans to do that. It turns out that was wrong. They got there. Found captured Iraqi soldiers, Iraqi civilians, and perhaps two, perhaps some ISIS members who've been considered spies by ISIS who are being held captive. Now quite how that intelligence failure came about, we don't know. Quite if we're hearing the whole picture we don't know either because we just have American and Kurdish officials' word for what was going on there. But still, a stark bold raid there and one that frankly publicly has changed the perception of what American soldiers are doing in Iraq in the fight against ISIS -- Christine.", "All right. Nick Paton Walsh for us this morning. Thank you.", "Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his top priority is to defeat terrorists before holding presidential and parliamentary elections. But the embattled leader claimed he is ready to hold those elections sooner if necessary. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called for new elections in Syria over the weekend. The Russian insists Assad is prepared for a broad dialogue with all responsible political forces operating within Syria.", "European leaders have agreed to work together to manage tens of thousands of migrants crossing the Balkans. The leaders of 11 nations meeting over the weekend in Brussels, they came up with a 17- point action plan that includes aid from the U.N. to accommodate 100,000 people, half of them in Greece. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel calling on Europe to be a continent of, quote, \"values and solidarity.\"", "All right. A former television comedian with no political experience is going to be the new president of Guatemala. And Jimmy Morales won by a landslide Sunday, defeating former first lady, Sandra Torres. Brought at 72 percent of the vote. A corruption scandal brought down the last administration. The 46-year-old Morales campaigned on a promise of clean government and is promising to hand out smartphones to kids and tag teachers with GPS devices to make sure they show up for class.", "All right. Breaking overnight, at least five people killed when their whale watching boat capsizes. Details next."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "WALSH", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-280514", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2016-04-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/04/acd.01.html", "summary": "Do Trump's Supporters Care About His Missteps?; Sarah Palin Stumps For Trump, Falls Flat With Audience.", "utt": ["Welcome back. Dueling rallies tonight. Leading candidate Donald Trump and Ted Cruz each holding campaign event. We will be listening in throughout the night. But first, Donald Trump speaking right now. Let's listen.", "And he said with Wisconsin, you are going to win. I said, well, what do you think? But I'm not seeing polls that are great. I'm a little bit down. I'm down in some. I'm a little down. And he said, no, no, you're going to win but you have to be there. You have to come in. You have to talk to the people like we did this afternoon at the hangar --", "Well, before he began tonight, his wife Melania had some rare words we don't often hear from her on the campaign trail. Let's listen.", "Hello. It is wonderful -- thank you. We love you, too. It is wonderful to be here today with you and with my husband. I'm very proud of him. He is hard worker. He is kind. He has a great heart. He is tough. He is smart. He is a great communicator. He's a great negotiator. He is telling the truth. He is a great leader. He is fair. As you may know by now, when you attack him, he will punch back ten times harder.", "Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump! Trump!", "No matter who you are, a man or a woman, he treats everyone equal. He is a fighter. And if you elect him to be your president, he will fight for you and for our country. He will work for you and with you. And together, we will make America strong and great again. Thank you.", "Melania Trump stumping for her husband who could be facing a crucial test tomorrow. As for Ted Cruz, this could be the moment where his ground game and the stop-Trump forces add up to victory in Wisconsin aided by local conservative talk radio and so-called Wisconsin news voters who might gristle at Trump's brashness. Either way it will end up or add up to votes I should say and delegates and possibly a turning point in the race. Laying it out by the numbers, CNN chief national correspondent and \"INSIDE POLITICS\" anchor John King. So John, Trump and his critics actually seem to be in agreement tonight. Tomorrow's Wisconsin primary is critical, maybe even a turning point.", "Maybe the moment of truth for stop Trump movement or Mr. Trump himself. Anderson, before we look forward, let's look back a bit and remember how we got here and the math though. If you go back to March 1st, you see at that point Donald Trump was starting to open up his lead. Needed 52 percent of the remaining delegates at the beginning of March to clinch the nomination. The magic number for Trump, 37. Now the middle of the month, March 15th. His numeric lead is actually getting larger over Ted Cruz but its math is not improving. At that point, he needs 55 percent of the remaining delegates to clinch. So where are we today? On the eve of the Wisconsin primary, right now, Donald Trump needs 56 percent of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination. To get to 1,237 before the convention which is why Wisconsin and New York two weeks makes so much stakes in this race. Have so much stakes in this race. The moment of truth. Remember, candidate Trump promised to surprise today. The polls show him down in Wisconsin. What if he's right, Anderson? What if Donald Trump pulls off a win, splits the delegates. So let's say Ted Cruz comes in second, John Kasich third. Donald Trump gets the plurality of the delegates but he gets a win. And if he gets that win, the stop-Trump forces have stumbled. Let's say Donald Trump takes that momentum into New York like Kayleigh was just talking about, wins with 50 percent plus. If Donald Trump can do that, win in Wisconsin and get some delegates, then win in New York and get all the delegates, he is pulling away from Ted Cruz and look at this, he improves his math. At that point, a win in Wisconsin with some. A big win in New York with all Donald Trump would only need 50 percent of the remaining delegates. He would be improving his math and taking a lot of air out of the stop-Trump movement. But let's take another scenario. Let's say the polls are right and the Ted Cruz wins tomorrow in the state of Wisconsin, right. And let's say that John Kasich comes in second, maybe wins a couple of congressional districts. And Donald Trump either gets nothing or just a couple of delegates, a few delegates out of Wisconsin. If that happens and then it takes the air out of Trump's polls in New York, Anderson. Let's say he still wins. Let's give him 45 percent of the vote. He still wins but he is under 50. So he has to share the delegates. Let's say Kasich is second and Cruz third. That's not as significant who comes in second, third. But at this point, even though Trump won in New York, if he's shut out of Wisconsin and has to share the delegates in New York, look what happens to his math. At that point, he would need 61 percent on the morning of April 20th, after the New York primary, 61 percent of the remaining delegates. If this scenario plays out, a loss in Wisconsin essentially a shutout for Trump and then he has to share the New York delegates. At this point the stop- Trump forces thing they have got him. They think if the math is like that on the night of April 19th, the morning of the 20th, Anderson, we are heading to an open convention.", "Well, there are some smaller state delegate decision is taking place that could also hurt Trump, right?", "Right. Remember the percentage he needs right now. I want to switch maps and just show you. This weekend out in Colorado, they had some -- they are beginning their process there. They are about halfway through it. Ted Cruz picked up delegates in Colorado. And Donald Trump having a hard time doing the nuts a bolts of state by state convention organizing. In North Dakota, the bulk of the delegates decided this weekend. They are going to come to the convention in Cleveland uncommitted which means they are not pledged to Donald Trump on the first ballot which made it lowers his number a little bit. Also in both of these states, frees up people to vote for rules maybe in a way at the convention that Trump doesn't like. And then we have in Tennessee, Anderson, over the weekend, Donald Trump won Tennessee. He will get all of his pledge delegates. All the vote he deserves that he won on primary day on the first ballot. But the state party is filling them with people who are not loyal to Trump. So even though they might vote for Trump on the first ballot and the second ballot as required by law, they are free agents after that, number one. And when it comes to voting on the rules at the convention, can we put other candidates' names into nomination? Other rules and procedure that would be critical in an open convention, those delegates, even though they have Trump badges, might not be loyal to their candidate.", "Amazing. OK, John, stay with us. I want to bring in a new face to CNN, a bona fide expert and a wrangling delegate. CNN delegate analyst and former RNC chief of staff Mike Shields. Mike, great to have you on. Even though Trump has recently hired staff to wrangle delegates, the Cruz campaign seems to be out ahead of him on that. And that head start, could that make a difference right now and in the future?", "Yes. I do think it could and I think it is so far. What you're seeing in places like North Dakota is the fact that there is organizations on the ground that Ted Cruz has had from the beginning. You know, he really built his campaign from the bottom up, and that included people that understand the delegate process that have relationships with people in these state parties when it comes to selecting the delegates. In the end, these delegates are people and they have, you know, political leanings. And so, you have to go and talk to them. You have to campaign to them just like you campaign to other voters. And I think Ted Cruz' organization has really steps up. I think Trump is stepping up now. I think he is starting to put an organization together. But Ted Cruz had a lead, not only on Donald Trump. I think he had a lead on all the other candidates that were in the campaign as well.", "Explain how it works. Because I mean, I think it is confusing for a lot of people. Certainly even for me. How does it work to actually win over delegates? I mean, do you -- as you said, it's campaigning directly to them? It's not enough for Donald Trump to just have a big event somewhere and potential delegates, see him on TV? You actually have to have direct contact?", "Yes, it's a grassroots politicking. I think, you know, there was a scene in North Dakota in a hotel lobby where you literally have Ben Carson at one end as a surrogate for Donald Trump. Carly Fiorina in the same lobby on the other end for Ted Cruz. And they were going back and forth and talking to delegates trying to win them over. You have cookouts, you have parties that people are throwing. They are doing everything they can to win them over. And keep in mind that a lot of these folks are party regulars. They are the people you see at the convention wear the funny hats and wearing the pins that have been involve in the party. Some of them are really pre-disposed to be sort of Ted Cruz-type Republicans when this starts. That's another thing that Donald Trump has to face is that he is going against Ted Cruz with people that are sort of tea party regulars and he is trying to win them over to his side when he hasn't been involved in party politics at the local level. So he has a little extra hurdle in some of these states.", "And we are watching Carly Fiorina speaking on behalf of Ted Cruz in Waukesha, Wisconsin. John, in terms of what campaigns can or can't do to win over delegates, CNN is reporting several Republican state officials are unaware of any explicit prohibitions on delegates accepting gifts or travel help. So campaign could essentially, or could they - I mean, buy a delegate off and still be within the law?", "Well, they can try to curry favor with the delegate. We would watch those things, obviously. Local media back in their states would watch those things. If you are an elected official, if you are a member of Congress, if you are governor and the state legislator, and a lot of those guys are delegates, ladies as well, there are generally ethics rules about that. But if you are the average and the state party chairman and you are an insurance sales and also the Republican state chairman of the Republican national committee woman or someone else that shows up who want to come as delegate, no. There some are state rules, Anderson, but not a lot of rules. So you can curry favor with the delegates. It might just note that you can have receptions for them. You can take them to parties. You could put on a show if you want for them. If Donald Trump wanted to or another candidate, you can put them on your plane and fly them say to Mar-a-Lago for the weekend and talk to them about that. Now, we would see such things and we would find out about such things so I don't want to make too big of deal about these thing. But yes, you can lavish some gifts on the delegates or some flattery on the delegates, some big events on the delegates. But we will watch and see how is that plays out because this could come down to some of these uncommitted delegates and how do you sway them at the convention. I think the idea that you are going to buy a delegate, I don't think that's going to happen. Or at least it ever happens, it will happen one or two cases. But it's interesting to watch because each and every delegate matters so much in this environment. The little things the campaigns do to curry favor will be interesting.", "Yes. John King. Mike Shields, great to have you. Thanks very much. Coming up, does John Kasich think he has a chance in Wisconsin tomorrow? And if not, what about his chances moving forward? I asked him about that and about Trump's advice that he should quote \"get the hell out.\" Hear his reply to that, next."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "COOPER", "MELANIA TRUMP, DONALD TRUMP'S WIFE", "CROWD", "M. TRUMP", "COOPER", "JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "KING", "COOPER", "MIKE SHIELDS, CNN DELEGATE ANALYST", "COOPER", "SHIELDS", "COOPER", "KING", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-414042", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-10-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/22/cnr.10.html", "summary": "Chris Christie's Mea Culpa Lectures Everyone But Trump; Pelosi: We're in a \"Good Place\" on Stimulus Negotiations.", "utt": ["Chris Christie is now apologizing for not wearing a mask at the White House, for both his debate prep with the president and the now-infamous super-spreader event honoring Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, that took place in the Rose Garden and also inside the White House. He has a new op-ed in the \"Wall Street Journal\" and it echoes part of what he said last week.", "We need to be telling people that there's no downside to you wearing a mask. Leaders all across the politics sports, the media should be saying to people, put your masks on and be safe until we get a vaccine. I let my guard down and it was wrong.", "Christie says he felt fine for three days after the White House event before coming down with symptoms, and then spending a week in the hospital battling the virus. The crux of Christie's op-ed is that masks shouldn't be divisive. It shouldn't be a partisan issue. It is commendable to admit a mistake. But this op-ed is about as low on courage as a mea culpa can be. Raising the question if it is more about preserving Chris Christie after his flagrant disregard for public health guidelines revealed him for what he is. An enabler of the administration's mismanagement of this crisis. Christie derides division over masks, but not once does he name the source of that division, the man that he advises. Let's go through some key lines. Quote, \"I mistook the bubble of security around the president for a viral safe zone. I was wrong. There's no safe zone from this virus.\" Well, the safe zone was never sure proof around the president. Testing in the absence of masks was only ever a recipe for detecting spread, not for preventing it. The only players that presented it as a way to prevent it were the president and White House enablers.", "So we test once a week. Now we're going to go testing once a day.", "Testing on a daily basis with all of the senior staff, we were testing on a daily basis.", "The president is the most-tested man in America. He's tested more than anyone, multiple times a day. We believe that he is acting appropriately.", "Christie also writes, quote, \"When you get this disease, it hits you how easy it is to prevent. Or maybe it hits you how ridiculous you look that you didn't take it seriously in the face of overwhelming data and countless stories about the Americans it has killed.\" \"You don't need to get this disease to understand the easy ways that you can try to prevent it or the impact it can have on your life if you do get it.\" He goes on, quote, \"One of the worst aspects of America's divided politics is the polarization of something as practical as a mask.\" \"It is not a partisan or cultural symbol. Not a symbol of weakness or virtue. It is simply a good method, not a perfect one, but a proven one to contain a cough or prevent the virus from getting in your mouth or nose. Wear it or you may regret it as I did.\"", "And 100 percent accurate. Again, no mention of debate prep apprentice who has fueled this division by saying things like this.", "Did you ever see a man that likes a mask as much as him?", "If I were a psychiatrist --", "Right?", "No, I'd say this guy has some big issues. And I don't agree with the statement that if everybody wore a mask, everything disappears. Then they come out with things today, did you see, the CDC, that 85 percent of the people wearing a mask catch it.", "OK, that is obviously false. Trump was attacking masks back in May. This is what Christie was saying then.", "We sent our young men during World War II over to Europe, out to the Pacific knowing, knowing that many of them would not come home alive. And we decided to make that sacrifice because what we were standing up for was the American way of life.", "Months later, this op-ed advocating for masks feels very tepid, coming from a politician known for being anything but. Chris Christie, hard hitting New Jersey brand of politics. It might as well be described as F.U., buddy. While governor, he famously told a protester at a Hurricane Sandy recovery event in 2014 this:", "You all know me. So if we're getting into a debate today, it will get very interesting and very fun. You want to have the conversation later, I'm happy to have it, buddy. But until that time, sit down and shut up.", "This isn't someone known for being delicate with other people's feelings. Yet, in the op-ed about masks, he says, quote, \"The message will be broadly heeded only if it is consistently and honestly delivered by the media, religious leaders, sports figures, and public servants. Those in positions of authority have a duty to get the message out.\" One thing the president, without naming him in with all of those other people so he doesn't get mad, maybe, the problem is all of those other people have been getting the message out for eight months, the media, sports figures, public servants, writ large. And when it comes to some religious leaders, the ones that noticeably did not encourage masks or social distancing, and turned their churches into super spreaders, they were taking their cues from the president. On average, though, these figures did their duty to get the message out loud and clear. You just chose to ignore it.", "Wear a mask. Keep some distance and be outside as much as possible.", "Wash your hands regularly and thoroughly with warm water and soap. Or clean them with the alcohol-based hand rub.", "Avoid touching your eyes, nose, mouth.", "Wear a mask when you are out in public.", "Please leave your mask on. Pulling it down exposes you to the virus.", "Wear your mask. It is a fact. And it is the right thing to do.", "We have clear scientific evidence they work and they are our best defense.", "Wear a mask. Avoid crowds. Wash your hands frequently.", "Christie goes on in the op-ed, quote, \"If leaders level with the American people, we can trust in the outcome. When Americans are given proper and consistent information, they will overwhelmingly make good health choices, including the wearing of masks.\" \"But that doesn't work if partisan media and public officials send mixed messages.\" Oh, you mean like this?", "And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number. Many doctors think it is extremely successful, the Hydroxychloroquine. It's safe. It doesn't cause problems. I had no problem. Based on a lot of reading and a lot of knowledge about it, I think it could have a very positive impact.", "That's not proper, not consistent, not good health choices, as Christie says. He goes on to say that taking precautions doesn't settle the issue how to reopen the economy. Quote, \"Those who deny the scientific realities of the pandemic undermine conditions that allow for rapid and complete reopening.\" Oh, like this guy.", "It is going to disappear. One day, it's like the miracle, it will disappear. It will go away. You know it is going away. And it will go away. And we're going to have a great victory. If you look, the numbers are very minuscule compared to what it was. It is dying out. Having a vaccine is good, but we are rounding the turn regardless. We are rounding the turn. I just want to say that the end of the pandemic is in sight.", "No, it's not. On the reopening, the president and his allies like to frame it as a lockdown-or-nothing debate. It is not. That's a false choice. Always was. Why? Because there's proof and evidence from countries around the world that returned to some semblance of normal, that you can reopen an economy safely if everyone is on the same page and there's national strategy to test, trace, prevent the virus. Christie goes on, quote, \"I do believe that we can use this public health tragedy to bring our country together. It is never too late to start. It will take leadership that both challenges and trusts the American people,\" end quote. It is too late, for 222,000 Americans and their families, and he fails to mention that. He also says, quote, \"It is never comfortable to deliver real criticism that includes yourself. But it was a serious failure for me as a public figure to go maskless at the White House.\" \"I paid for it. I hope Americans can learn from my experience. I am lucky to be alive. It could easily have been otherwise.\" And it was otherwise for so many people. And it will be for so many more until politicians who have the president's ear, like Chris Christie, actually say what the hell they mean. This is no time for lukewarm leadership. Many Americans won't be as lucky as Governor Christie who checked himself into the hospital as, quote, \"precautionary measure,\" he said. A luxury that is not afforded to normal Americans. And up next, Nancy Pelosi says she is close to a deal with the White House on a new stimulus bill. But is there any chance of it happening before the election?"], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "CHRIS CHRISTIE, (R), FORMER NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR", "KEILAR", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MARK MEADOWS, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF", "KAYLEIGH MCENANY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "KEILAR", "KEILAR", "TRUMP", "TRUMP", "TRUMP", "TRUMP", "KEILAR", "CHRISTIE (voice-over)", "KEILAR", "CHRISTIE", "KEILAR", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "IMAM YASIR BUTT, ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF GREAT SALT LAKE", "RABBI SAMUEL SPECTOR, CONGREGATION KOL AMI", "INDRA NEELAMEGGHAM, HINDU COMMUNITY", "REV. ELIZABETH MCVICKER, FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH", "DWAYNE JOHNSON, ACTOR", "DR. ROBERT REDFIELD, CDC DIRECTOR", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-51276", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-3-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/22/ltm.11.html", "summary": "Exhibit Looks Closely at Faces", "utt": ["Ever wonder what you'd look like decades from now? Ever contemplate how you'd look as another race? Well, CNN's Jeanne Moos found herself face to face with both new wrinkles and a different pigment at an exhibit focusing on the face.", "Don't believe much of what you see in this story. For instance, if you combine Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren, and Marilyn Monroe, what do you get?", "This is not a photograph of a person who ever walked the face of the earth.", "Ever seen this guy before? He is 55 percent Ronald Reagan, 45 percent former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, with a dash of Maggie Thatcher and others thrown in, in proportion to the size of each country's nuclear arsenal. Or, if you prefer your composites religious...", "It's Jesus, Mohammed, and Buddha together.", "Think of Nancy Burson as the mother of morphing.", "Nancy, believe it or not, is one of the people who invented this process, which is now so commonplace.", "And here you probably thought Michael Jackson invented morphing. But wouldn't you rather morph yourself? Here at New York University's Grey Gallery, can you step into the age machine...", "You have to line up your eyes...", "...and see how you'll look 25 years from now. The machine matches your face with a database of real aged faces.", "It is kind of like taking a wrinkle mask off someone else and putting it on you.", "Nancy Burson has even aged Barbie, the doll. She has also aged missing people to help police find them. Aton Pates (ph) was kidnapped when he was six. Here is how he would have looked at 13. And though Aton was never found, the FBI purchased Nancy's software.", "There were at least four children that were brought home from the process.", "Oscar Wilde once said, \"a man's face is his autobiography, a woman's face is her work of fiction.\" So what to make of these faces, entitled...", "He/shes.", "He/shes. (voice-over): Portraits of people who don't mind making you guess at their gender.", "He. She. She.", "She for sure.", "This is a series entitled, \"Guys Who Look Like Jesus.\"", "I ran an ad, I ran several ads...", "And the ad said...", "Jesus look-alikes wanted, all ethnicities.", "Who are you to say these guys look like Jesus? We don't know what Jesus looked like.", "And that's the whole point. That one reminds me most of Sunday school.", "Lately, Nancy has been photographing faith healers, those who claim to heal with their energy. She's experienced it herself, and says it worked. She blamed her own energy field for problems we kept having with our wireless microphones.", "...the building machines that we show people...", "This is weird.", "Our favorite morphing experience was in the Human Race Machine, change your race. Here I am as an African-American. As a wit once wrote, my face, I don't mind it, because I'm behind it. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BRAGAN THOMAS, GREY ART GALLERY, NYU", "MOOS", "NANCY BURSON, ARTIST", "MOOS", "THOMAS", "MOOS", "BURSON", "MOOS", "BURSON", "MOOS", "BURSON", "MOOS", "BURSON", "MOOS (on camera)", "BURSON", "MOOS (on camera)", "THOMAS", "BURSON", "MOOS", "BURSON", "MOOS", "BURSON", "MOOS (voice-over)", "BURSON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS"]}
{"id": "CNN-49233", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-2-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/14/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Report Al Qaeda Has New Chief of Military Operations", "utt": ["There is a disturbing report this morning that al Qaeda has a new chief of military operations. \"The New York Times\" quotes U.S. officials as saying he is a Palestinian, who replaced Mohammad Atef, believed killed in one of those U.S. bombing attacks in Afghanistan. For more now, let's turn to Richard Butler, our ambassador-in- residence -- good morning.", "Good morning, Paula.", "All right. This one is a scary one.", "Yes.", "You have U.S. law enforcement officials describing this man as -- quote -- \"dangerous as anyone we are looking for, including Osama bin Laden.\" What do we know about this guy?", "Well, not enough. And, Paula, let me say straight away, extraordinary, he is not even on the published most wanted list of terrorists.", "Why?", "We don't know enough about him. But what do we know? He is a Palestinian, a very rich Palestinian family apparently, but born in Saudi Arabia. As a quick aside on the Palestinian issue, he has never expressed any interest in the rights of the Palestinian people, like Osama bin Laden. Their agenda is against America, not in favor of the Palestinian people. Now, Palestinian, born in Saudi Arabia, who joined al Qaeda in the '90s, rose very, very fast in the organization. Osama bin Laden could see his qualities. And this, Paula, this is the core of it, put him in charge of all training, training in the terrorist camps in Afghanistan, in Pakistan. And this man, therefore, knows exactly who went through those camps, and he had responsibility for distributing them around the world to the various terrorist cells. He knows where all the foot soldiers of al Qaeda are, and that's why he is really important to us to find him and talk to him.", "And apparently they are very concerned that he is in a position now where he could give instructions to people to carry out further attacks against U.S. interests. Why is this guy so elusive?", "Yes, he actually is in a position to awake the sleeper cells, as they are called, in various parts of the world. Why is he so elusive? First of all, he speaks English up to a point. Secondly, his physical characteristics are, you know, median. He is not -- he doesn't look like a classic, you know, the icon or the stereotype that people have of an Arab terrorist. He just looks like a fairly normal sort of person. He has got a variety of passports...", "And disguises.", "And disguises. He changes his appearance in small ways fairly constantly, travels the world constantly. He has been to Canada, you know, obviously Afghanistan and Pakistan, as I have already mentioned, but he has been in the West. He just keeps in circulation. A simple way of putting it, this guy has made himself very successfully a moving target that has eluded us.", "But no one knows where he is...", "No one knows where he is. We know who he is. We know he is important. We really need this guy, but we don't know where to find him.", "It's scary!", "It's very scary.", "I mean, there has been so much talk about the potential for these sleeper cells to be awakened. Let's move on to the issue of the president and Iraq, probably some of the harshest, most pointed words he has used so far, basically saying that the U.S. will do whatever it takes to...", "That's right.", "But what did he say? Not bring them under control, but to take...", "Take whatever steps we need to take. We talked at some length about Iraq yesterday, Paula, and I think it's worth ticking that off this morning, because we are talking essentially about what Colin Powell had been saying. Now, yesterday the president has entered the issue at a press conference after he saw the Pakistani president. And in answer to a question, he confirmed, yes, we will take whatever steps we need to take against Iraq. He interestingly indicated that he would try a little diplomacy for a while. But in the end, we will take whatever steps he deems necessary. And in something that I think was very important, he said, but I'm not going to reveal those to Saddam Hussein. I'm going to keep those cards, he said, close to my vest. I welcomed...", "Yes. But what are the cards that you play? I mean, those are pretty obvious, aren't they?", "Well, I think so, but I welcomed the statement, and I think people should, because although Colin Powell was giving terrific clarification yesterday, I must say I went away and asked myself the question, why are we saying so much of this to Saddam? And the president, in a sense, has addressed that and said, I'll make the choice when the time comes, and no, I'm not going to signal it in advance. And I think that was good clarification.", "But one thing to be sure, there's going to be a demand for weapons inspections in Iraq.", "Absolutely. Absolutely. And if they are turned down, or if those weapons inspections are shown to be the sort of shell game that they were when I was doing it, I think you can rely on that this administration will say enough, enough. They're not going to go around this track again and take action.", "Ambassador, thank you for your insights.", "Good to see you.", "We covered a lot of territory this morning.", "OK.", "See you same time, same place tomorrow morning."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "RICHARD BUTLER, FORMER U.N. CHIEF WEAPONS INSPECTOR", "ZAHN", "BUTLER", "ZAHN", "BUTLER", "ZAHN", "BUTLER", "ZAHN", "BUTLER", "ZAHN", "BUTLER", "ZAHN", "BUTLER", "ZAHN", "BUTLER", "ZAHN", "BUTLER", "ZAHN", "BUTLER", "ZAHN", "BUTLER", "ZAHN", "BUTLER", "ZAHN", "BUTLER", "ZAHN", "BUTLER", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-3921", "program": "Special Event", "date": "2000-3-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/06/se.03.html", "summary": "Kelleher: 'I Was Very Grateful for the Outcome' of the Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 Incident", "utt": ["We're taking you now to Dallas, Texas, where there's a press conference being held with Southwest Airlines. I believe this is Herb Kelleher, it is Herb Kelleher, and he will be addressing the plane accident that -- or incident, rather, that took place in Southern California. Southwest Airline plane skidded off the runway onto a roadway in Burbank, California. We've been covering that story for you all throughout the morning. And he's now going to address us. We're going to listen in.", "I thought that I would start off by updating you on some of the things that we have learned since the press conference that I held at 11:00 last evening. As you all know by now, Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 from Las Vegas to Burbank overran the runway at Burbank International Airport, last night, at approximately 6:00 Pacific Standard Time. That airplane was N-668, that's its registration number. It was manufactured in 1985. The National Transportation Safety Board is on the scene. It is in charge of the investigation as to what caused the overrun. And as you all know, the National Transportation Safety Board is experienced, very capable and very expert in what it does. They are indeed specialists in aircraft accidents. We are currently in the process of removing the aircraft from the roadway in Burbank. Fuel is being taken off the airplane. Cranes are standing by to remove it. Everybody is working as fast as they possibly can, and once the aircraft is removed, we'll, for the first time, will be able to make an accurate assessment of the damage to the aircraft itself. There were 137 passengers on board in addition to two pilots and three flight attendants. Our Burbank employees have worked very effectively and directly with all of the passengers since the accident happened. Up to 15 passengers are now reporting some kind of injury, fortunately none of them serious in nature or life-threatening. Only four passengers were taken to local hospitals immediately following the accident, and two of those have already been released. All but one passenger originated in Las Vegas, that's where they got on the airplane, and the other passenger originated in Salt Lake City. It appears that the majority of the passengers on board that flight were California -- or are California residents. We will not released any of the passengers' names without their permission. A family center has been established in Burbank to provide passengers with information and assistance. The captain of Flight 1455 received a blow to the head and was treated and released from a local hospital. He was hired at Southwest Airlines in 1988, and he has more than 18,000 flying hours. He is a very experienced pilot. He has been flying 737s since 1980, and he is Oakland-based. The first officer of Flight 1455 was taken to a local hospital for evaluation only and released shortly thereafter. He was hired at Southwest Airlines in 1996 and has 15 years of flying experience. Both pilots have had four or five days off duty before they reported to take this flight, and this was the first flight of their duty day. There has been some comment that I've seen and heard to the effect that it was raining in Burbank at the time that Flight 1455 landed. There had been rain in Burbank earlier in the day, but it had ceased about four hours prior to landing in question. As a matter of fact, one of our previous flights into Burbank landed uneventfully two minutes prior to Flight 1455. Normal operations are expected both in Burbank and across Southwest Airline system today. And I think that that's all the additional information that I have, additional to what was imparted to you last evening. And if you'd raise your hands, I'd be delighted to call on you for questions -- yes.", "Yes, Mr. Kelleher, I just want to know if you have -- have you had an opportunity to speak with those pilots, your first officer as well. Obviously, a lot of people have had an opportunity to talk to some of those passengers. What are your pilots telling you about this incident?", "I have not talked to either of our pilots.", "Have you talked to someone who's talked with them about this incident?", "No, I have not.", "There's no indication from them at all, any kind of explanation at this point from the people who were flying that plane?", "Well, since I haven't talked to them or anybody that talked to them, yes, there is no explanation as of this time -- Yes.", "Herb, when you saw the pictures yourself, when you first saw that it landed just a matter of feet from a gas station, that no one was hurt, that the highway was empty except for a couple of cars, what -- what were your feelings? What were you thinking about?", "Well, I'll be very honest with you, my feeling was that we were very fortunate that it wasn't worse than it was and that Southwest Airlines' worldwide acclaimed safety record for having operated the most flights and carried the most passengers without a fatality was indeed still intact. So, I was very grateful for the outcome.", "Herb, do you know where the plane land on the runway?", "No, I don't. I don't have any information with respect to where it touched down.", "How about the customers who (OFF-MIKE)?", "I have no indication one way or another.", "Excuse me for interrupting you, but our listeners are having a little trouble hearing on here.", "They are?", "Is this disrupting anyone's angle? OK.", "OK? Thank you. Yes, ma'am.", "Is the runway at Burbank short -- shorter than normal, and did that contribute?", "Well, we serve runways of this lengths all across our systems; some of them are shorter than others and some of them are longer than others. The runway at Burbank is 6,000 feet long.", "Herb, what have you heard from your go-team? They got out there, they called you as soon as they got on the ground, took a look at things.", "Actually, I have not talk to the go-team myself. Other people at Southwest Airlines have been in touch with them, but I don't know the content of those conversation personally.", "That plane went through a...", "You're listening to Herb Kelleher, the president and CEO of Southwest Airlines. He is telling reporters still there is no explanation to why Flight 1455, coming from Las Vegas to Burbank, slid off the runway onto the roadway, but he did say the NTSB is there investigating the incident, currently removing aircraft from the runway, working diligently to do that because once it's removed they will be able to assess the damage. There were 137 passengers on board, two pilots, three flight attendants. Up to 15 passengers reported injuries, not serious. Only four were taken to local hospitals; two were released. The majority of those passengers were from California. A family center has been established in Burbank to answer any questions for family members, also the passengers. The captain did receive a blow to the head, but he was treated and released from a hospital. Mr. Kelleher talked about how experienced that captain was, also the co-captain; both very experienced pilots. And normal operation will continue in Burbank today."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "HERB KELLEHER, SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CEO", "QUESTION", "KELLEHER", "QUESTION", "KELLEHER", "QUESTION", "KELLEHER", "QUESTION", "KELLEHER", "QUESTION", "KELLEHER", "QUESTION", "KELLEHER", "QUESTION", "KELLEHER", "QUESTION", "KELLEHER", "QUESTION", "KELLEHER", "QUESTION", "KELLEHER", "QUESTION", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-237568", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2014-08-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/27/lvab.01.html", "summary": "Paul Theo Curtis Expresses Thanks for Efforts to Free Him; Shirley Sotloff Pleads With ISIS to Free Her Son", "utt": ["Just a short time ago, American journalist Peter Theo Curtis spoke publicly for the first time since being freed after nearly two years in captivity. After reuniting with his mom, Curtis spoke this morning with words of gratitude and also a request for privacy.", "In the days following my release on Sunday, I have learned bit by bit that there have been literally hundreds of people, brave, dedicated, and big hearted people all over the world working for my release. They have been working for two years on this. I had no idea when I was in prison, I had no idea that so much effort was being expended on my behalf. And now, having found out, I'm just overwhelmed with emotion. I'm also overwhelmed by one other thing and that is that total strangers have been coming up to me and saying hey, we're just glad you are home, welcome home, glad you are back, glad you are safe, great to see you. So I suddenly remember how good the American people are and what kindness they have in their hearts, and to all those people, I say a huge thank you from my heart, from the bottom of my heart. And now, look, I'm so grateful that you are expressing all this interest in me. At the same time, I have to bond with my mother and my family now.", "Understandable. Unbelievable. It is thought that Curtis was captured in 2012 in Syria by a Syrian rebel group with ties to al Qaeda, but we do know this -- he was handed over to U.N. peacekeepers on Sunday and was able to travel back home safely to Boston yesterday. And that is just a great story. In the meantime, however, there is something else at play. The family of another American journalist being held by ISIS militants, well, they're now pleading publicly for his life. This is Steven Sotloff who vanished in Syria last year. This is him on that same video that showed the gruesome beheading of his friend and fellow journalist James Foley. The executioner vowing to kill Sotloff too if United States air strikes didn't cease. This morning, al-Arabiya network broadcast an emotional appeal by Steven Sotloff's mom.", "I'm sending this message to you, Abu Bakr, the caliph of the Islamic State. I am Shirley Sotloff. My son Steven is in your hands. Stephen is a journalist who traveled to the middle east to cover the suffering of Muslims at the hands of tyrants. Steven is a loyal son, brother and grandson. He's an honorable man and has already tried to help the weak. We've not seen Steven for over a year and we miss him very much. We want to see him home safe and sound and to hug him. Since Steven's capture, I've learned a lot about Islam. I've learned that Islam teaches that no individual should be held responsible for the sins of others. Steven has no control over the actions of the U.S. government. He's an innocent journalist. I've always learned that you, the caliph, can grant honesty. I ask you to please release my child. As a mother, I ask your justice to be merciful and not punish my son for matters he has no control over. I ask you to use your authority to spare his life and to follow the example set by the Prophet Muhammad who protected people of the book. I want what every mother wants, to live to see her children's children. I plead with you to grant me this.", "Until recently, Sotloff's family had worked in secret to try to secure his release, fearing ISIS would harm him if they went public. But clearly they went public first. So what motivates ISIS terrorists to take hostages and sometimes kill them in the most bay barbaric ways? CNN has now interviewed two British ISIS members who are now fighting in Syria. Listen to this.", "Do you personally believe in beheadings and executions? Would you personally partake in one?", "I would be personally honored. I hope god gives me a chance to do such a thing.", "More than honored to do that kind of execution. We're going to have more of that interview with ISIS fighters, just ahead."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "PETER THEO CURTIS, JOURNALIST HELD CAPTIVE IN SYRIA", "BANFIELD", "SHIRLEY SOTLOFF, STEVEN SOTLOFF'S MOTHER", "BANFIELD", "ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-104812", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2006-4-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/11/ltm.07.html", "summary": "Minding Your Business; Gossip Wars", "utt": ["They are bitter tabloid rivals here in New York. So when a \"New York Post\" gossip columnist -- well, really sort of a writer -- was accused of trying to shake down a billionaire in exchange for favorable coverage, \"The Daily News\" pounced right on the story. And ever since, page six has been playing out on page one. AMERICAN MORNING's Alina Cho joins us with more on the gossip wars. Page six, of course.", "That's right.", "They got the page in \"The Post.\" \"The Daily News\" can't get enough of this story.", "That's right. And if you think about it, Soledad, we can't get enough of it either because there's really nothing juicer than gossip about gossip. But having said that, here in New York it is no secret that there is a rivalry between \"The New York Post\" and \"The New York Daily News.\" It is legendary. And if ever there was a story that illustrated that point, it is this one.", "For one New York tabloid, the celebrity gossip scandal surrounding \"The New York Post\" is like a dream come true. The papers are arch enemies.", "There certainly is a rivalry. I mean, I'm not denying it.", "\"New York Daily News\" reporter William Sherman broke the page six scandal in the paper Friday. It has been on page one ever since. \"The New York Post\" has virtually ignored it. Only one mention on Friday. The editor of \"The Post\" says \"The Daily News'\" shrinking circulation is driving its coverage, an assertion \"The News\" doesn't buy.", "Not really. I'm not surprised that \"The Post\" is not extensively covered it. I mean it's their paper.", "And their reporter. Jared Paul Stern, who freelanced for the legendary gossip column, is accused of demanding more than $220,000 from billionaire Ron Burkle in exchange for keeping less than flattering things about him from appearing in page six. Stern called it a setup. The FBI recorded meetings between Stern and Burkle and excerpts have appeared in paper, including \"The Daily News.\" \"Daily News\" gossip columnist Lloyd Grove says there is a line between news and gossip and this story is definitely news.", "You're not going anywhere else with this, are you?", "Grove's column called Lowdown is in direct competition with page six. You want to get it before \"The Post.\"", "Sure.", "But how badly? I mean, you know . . .", "Very badly. It's just -- it's a competitive business we're in.", "Grove says the idea of accepting payments from sources is something new to him. He admits page six may be getting more ink these days. Don't they say there's no such thing as bad publicity as long as they spell your name right?", "That's what some people say. I think there probably is such a thing as bad publicity.", "Over on the news side, William Sherman says he'll continue to work feverishly on what is for now his paper's top story.", "I covered this like any other story. This is a news story. For me, it had nothing to do with whether it was \"The New York Post\" or any other company or any other individual. I mean, it's a news story.", "That's what they say. Now just to give you an idea of how much of a news story this is. Since Friday, \"The Daily News\" has done seven separate stories on this one subject. And you may be surprised to hear that the venerable \"New York Times\" has had even more coverage. We counted eight stories on the page six scandal in \"The Times\" including two, Soledad , that made it to the front page. So this is very big news certainly in some papers but not \"The New York Post.\"", "Exactly. Yes, they haven't mentioned it that much at all.", "NO, they haven't.", "Do they have at \"The Daily News\" like real editorial discussions about how to cover this?", "Oh, sure.", "I mean whether to relegate it to the gossip pages or put it on the front page?", "Oh, sure. You can bet they did and it was decided very early on that this would be in the news section, not in the gossip section. Your friend, Lloyd Grove, said that, you know, as soon as this sort of turned the corner and the FBI got involved and this became a federal investigation, he decided he would sort of stay out of it. This belonged over on the news side.", "And the rivalry didn't hurt in that case.", "No, it certainly didn't.", "Alina, thank you.", "Sure.", "Miles?", "In a moment, top stories, including DNA test results are adding new twists to the Duke rape investigation.. More emotional 9/11 testimony today at the Zacarias Moussauoi trial. Pro-immigration protesters keeping up the pressure on lawmakers. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared permanently incapacitated. And an extraordinary waste of money in New Orleans. Wait til you find out what it costs to get one of those. A blue tarp. Stay with us for more AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "CHO", "CHO, (voice over)", "WILLIAM SHERMAN, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER", "CHO", "SHERMAN", "CHO", "LLOYD GROVE, DAILY NEWS COLUMNIST", "CHO", "GROVE", "CHO", "GROVE", "CHO", "GROVE", "CHO", "SHERMAN", "CHO", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "CHO", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "CHO", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "CHO", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "CHO", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "CHO", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "MILES O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-227907", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-4-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/05/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Difficulty in Mapping Floor of Indian Ocean", "utt": ["Welcome back. Four weeks into the search for flight 370 and another report of floating debris in the Southern Indian Ocean, and China's state news agency is reporting a ship detected a possible pulse signal with the same frequency as a black box. But as CNN's Chad Myers explains, the Indian Ocean is such a remote area, that there's no easy map to follow.", "You know, many people have asked, how could we not have the entire ocean mapped? Let me give you a little sublime idea of how difficult that would be. We have a ship. It's pinging. It's seeing the beam width down at the bottom of the ocean, about five miles wide. The ship is moving five miles per hour mapping a big, long stripe. Think about a lawn mower going in one direction. Turn around and go the other direction, back and forth and back and forth. The earth's ocean is 130 million square miles. You can only do 25 square miles an hour. I did the math. If you never go for fuel, you never get new crew members, it would take one ship 593 years to map the ocean. A little bit sublime when you think how much potential is here at 130 million miles. So much of the ocean floor to map. So what do we know about this area? Up in here, where the search area is, now, every line you see is about a five-mile width strip that some ship has either gone that way and mapped and that way and mapped and that way and mapped. But look at all the blue areas that have nothing. Not one ship has ever gone through those areas right through there. We'll compare that to the United States, and thanks to NOAA and a lot of shipping around our area, the entire east coast completely mapped, up and down, the west coast completely mapped. You get farther out, obviously, more sparse, but still, we have a much better idea of our area here than, of course, that Indian Ocean, which is so remote.", "A very complex region. Thank you so much, Chad Myers. Appreciate that. When we come back, we'll have our expert panel with us. What happens tomorrow, in just a matter of hours, when the search resumes at daylight?", "For Schuyler Ebersol, high school started pretty normally, but his luck quickly took a turn for the worse.", "I would have sometimes difficulty breathing. I'd have severe dizziness so that I couldn't really walk or see straight for days at a time. I would faint randomly and I would go to sleep some nights and not sure if I'd wake up in the morning.", "At first, he chocked it up to stress but then realized something was really wrong.", "No one knew what was wrong with me. And there were all sorts of hypotheses.", "Home from school for months at a time, away from his friends and world and very sick, Ebersol desperately needed an escape, and he found it, in writing.", "I just started writing, and I would get lost in this world, and I identified with this character. It was a way to keep me going while everything else in my life wasn't so great.", "Then, after several months, doctors finally discovered the cause of his symptoms, a rare form of Lyme disease. At the same time, his scattered pages started to jell into a book.", "The book is called \"The Hidden World.\" It's about a main character who has a heart attack. He slips into a coma, and when he wakes up, he turns into a wolf in the hospital room.", "Sound familiar?", "I didn't really intend for there to be a lot of me in the main character, Nate Williams, but it sort of happened that way.", "\"The Hidden World\" was published last December, with more in the works. And Ebersol said, through it all, writing saved his life.", "You really just have to find something that can sustain you and keep you mentally strong. For me, it was writing and then the quest to get published.", "Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "WHITFIELD", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SCHUYLER EBERSOL, LIME DISEASE PATIENT & AUTHOR", "GUPTA", "EBERSOL", "GUPTA", "EBERSOL", "GUPTA", "EBERSOL", "GUPTA", "EBERSOL", "GUPTA", "EBERSOL", "GUPTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-315465", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2017-06-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1706/28/acd.02.html", "summary": "Iraqi Forces Close In On ISIS", "utt": ["Former President Obama is been on vacation a lot since the current president took office. He's going white water rafting in Bali this week, and still unclear if choppy waters back in Washington. President Trump is continuing his line of attacks on the former president blaming Mr. Obama for Russia's meddling, accusing him of everything from negligence to collusion. So far, Pres. Obama has not been taking the bait. Athena Jones tonight has more.", "Online and on the air --", "I just heard today for the first time that Obama knew about Russia a long time before the election. And he did nothing about it.", "How are you?", "President Trump making it abundantly clear that more than five months after replacing Pres. Obama, his predecessor remains top of mind.", "We've been talking about this for a long time.", "Not content with simply undoing parts of Obama's legacy, like pulling the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal and the Paris Climate Accord, Trump is increasingly using Obama as a political foil, blaming him for not doing enough to stop Russian meddling in last year's election despite calling such meddling a phony story for months.", "The CIA gave him information on Russia a long time before they even, you know, before the election. And I hardly see it.", "President Trump even accusing Pres. Obama of criminal acts. From collusion and obstruction, to spying on him in Trump Tower, a baseless claim he made in March that was widely refuted. That was also when Trump called Obama a bad or sick guy, a level of public nastiness not seen in modern presidential history.", "These personalized attacks are unusual and unfortunate and sets a very bad president.", "Trump has a long history of antagonizing Obama, as one of the loudest proponents of the false conspiracy theory that America's first black president wasn't born in America.", "Why doesn't he show his birth certificate?", "A campaign that eventually led Obama to release his birth certificate to the press. He later had some fun with the issue at Trump's expense.", "No one is happier, no one is prouder, to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald. And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter, like did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?", "And while 44 has mostly pulled his punches since 45 took office, he made his opinion known on the campaign trail last year.", "Donald Trump is uniquely unqualified to be president. No, I'm not joking. You laugh. I'm not joking.", "And he infuriated Trump when he told former aide David Axelrod --", "I'm confident that if I -- if I'd run again, I think I could have mobilized a majority of the American people. If you succeed, then the country succeeds.", "After November's election, the pair made nice in an Oval Office meeting that they have not spoken since inauguration day.", "He was very nice to any with words, but -- and when I was with him, but after that, there has been no relationship.", "Athena Jones, CNN, Washington.", "Up next, we take you inside the fight for the Iraqi city of Mosul. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh is there as Iraqi forces close in on the last remaining ISIS fighters.", "Five weeks ago, Pres. Trump promised to hold a press conference to detail his strategy against ISIS in the next two weeks. That deadline came and went. Meanwhile, Iraqi forces are closing in on the terror group in the city of Mosul. Tonight, we take you deep inside the war-torn city. We'll look at the battle and destruction street by street, block by block. Our Nick Paton Walsh is there on the front lines. And we want to warn you, some of what you see you may find disturbing.", "The end is near for ISIS. You can just feel it. And the normal life just bringing back out of these pancake buildings, yet turn one corner in Mosul toward its old city and the nihilism at the very final chapter in this war emerges. Liberation leaves little for life behind. Bodies still where they fell in the scorching heat. Senior commanders take us in, in the calm before their final storm to wipe ISIS off the map. How many more days do you think ISIS have in Mosul and in Iraq?", "Some days.", "Three, two? Brigadier General Alzadi (ph) beckons us on to see that prize. These are the last rooftops ISIS own in Mosul. Barely hundreds of meters to go now in the distant left, the riverbank marking where ISIS's world ends and in the dust, the ruins of the sacred Al-Omari mosque, ISIS blew it up rather than let it to be captured. A terrifying moment for the civilians held underground as human shields here. Well, that mosque has always been a distant target for Iraqi security forces, but now they literally are able to see it from neighboring rooftops. U.S. trained Major Salam took us into Mosul eight months ago, now he's here to see the end. We're in the beginning and now we're at the end of it.", "Yes.", "And so what are we seeing on the screen?", "This", "Yes.", "-- that they're trying to reckon enemy, where they're located and try to find to know where is the civilian also. Nobody hear, exactly, how many civilian there are. They're located in so many different houses, many families in one house.", "Are you getting enough help from the Americans now? Because when we first met eight months ago you won't --", "More than enough. I am so happy for all the support from the Israeli (ph) side, from American side.", "There is the occasion stench of death here from the bodies of ISIS fighters like this one below me here left behind. And also at times an eerie silence when the gunfire subsides. But it's in these dense streets that you can really feel how hard the fight against ISIS has been in this final moments, but also, too, how few meters they are away from kicking the terrorist group out of Mosul, but also out of Iraq entirely. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Mosul, Iraq.", "On the topic of Iraq, its citizens will not be affected when Pres. Trump's travel ban goes back into effect, which could happen as early tomorrow after the Supreme Court ruled to partially reinstate it. Iraq was removed from the original list of majority Muslim nations in the second version of the ban. However, those from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, who lack a bona fide relationship with an American, could be barred from entering the U.S. starting tomorrow. And that could mean to some difficulties initially at American airports as custom officials try to figure out who has a legitimate claim to entry and who does not. We'll be covering it all. That's it for us. Thanks for watching. See you again tomorrow night. Time to hand things over to Don Lemon."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "ATHENA JONES, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "TRUMP", "BARACK OBAMA, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT", "JONES (voice-over)", "TRUMP", "JONES (voice-over)", "TRUMP", "JONES (voice-over)", "PROF. 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{"id": "CNN-390275", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-01-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/13/nday.05.html", "summary": "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi To Send Articles Of Impeachment To Senate; Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) Reacts To Pelosi's Defense Of Impeachment Delay.", "utt": ["We feel that it was a very -- has reached a very positive result in terms of additional e-mails and unredacted information that has come forward, that Bolton has said that he would testify if subpoenaed by the Senate.", "All right, that was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defending the nearly month-long pause after President Trump was impeached. She is reportedly preparing to send the two Articles of Impeachment to the Senate. Joining us now is Congressman Dan Kildee. He is Chief Deputy Whip, and a member of the House Democratic leadership. Good morning, Congressman.", "Good morning. Thank you.", "Great to have you. Has the Speaker signaled to you that she will be sending those two Articles of Impeachment over tomorrow?", "Well, she did send a message to the entire caucus on Friday afternoon. We have a leadership meeting tonight and a full caucus meeting in the morning, where I'm sure she will lay out what her strategy is. But the expectation is that the Articles will be sent over along with who we designate or who she designates as the managers and, you know, there's a lot of questions, I've heard some of the conversation about whether this delay produced any result. I think it clearly did and --", "And what was that result?", "Well, I think for the most part, it was exposing the extent to which Mitch McConnell seems to be willing to protect this President, all the facts notwithstanding. And I think, created greater pressure on those senators who want to be careful about what their legacy will be, to make sure that no matter the outcome that the trial has to be fair. So we've seen some of the pressure, particularly on Republican senators. We've had one witness Mr. Bolton come forward and say he would be willing to testify. So the way this looks now as compared to the day we voted on the Impeachment Articles is significantly different. I think the pressure is really on the Senate.", "So you're convinced now that the trial will be fair?", "No, I'm not. But I'm certainly convinced that the public has a much greater understanding of what that means. The fact that witnesses ought to be called, that this kind of a judgment made by the U.S. Senate only for the third time in the history of the United States shouldn't be something that is done in a slapdash fashion. It ought to be done with a full airing of whatever facts are available, including some of the new information that has come to light as a result, frankly, of really good reporting. That information ought to be examined, and it's the Senate now that has the ball, they ought to be willing to take a look at that information and include it in their deliberation.", "Well, as you know, the President's supporters, as well as just Republicans think that all of that should have been done in the house. They think that the slap-dashery, if you will, happened in the House, that that's where it was rushed. And that it is the House's job to call -- to get all of that new information that you're talking about.", "Well, a couple of responses to that. One, most of the criticism of the House for the month that led up to the vote was that we were taking too long, and that why don't we get on with it? Remember that the House Republicans were particularly critical that we hadn't voted to initiate an Impeachment Inquiry. They went on for weeks and weeks and weeks on that. So they want to invent an argument that somehow we rushed the case.", "The other problem with their argument is that the fact that some of those key witnesses didn't come forward was a direct result of the fact that the President himself ordered them not to, and we understood that it would take months and months potentially to get through the court process. But when we had adequate information to take that step, to take the step of impeaching the President essentially indicting him, based on the facts that we had, we did so. But that doesn't forgive the Senate the obligation to carefully examine the information we sent them and any additional information, including hearing testimony from key witnesses, at least, one of whom is now willing to come forward and then examine the new facts that have been revealed as a result of good reporting, as I said, that's important information.", "Let's talk about that key witness that has come forward during this pause. John Bolton. If Mitch McConnell won't call witnesses, will the House subpoena John Bolton?", "Well, I don't think we should get ahead of ourselves on that. I think we ought to wait and see what the Senate does. But the fact that Mr. Bolton has relevant information, I mean, he described what was taking place as a drug deal. That ought to be a signal that we ought to ask him a few questions. But I think it really -- right now, it rests with the Senate. The ball is in their court. The decision on impeachment and on removal from office is something that they will have to determine, and the idea that they would not want Mr. Bolton to come forward and answer whatever questions remain, I think is not respectful of the process. But either way, Mr. Bolton's story has to be told and not just through a book deal, but through our oversight responsibility. We have to hear from him because that's our job.", "What if President Trump exerts executive privilege over John Bolton talking, then what?", "Well, I think that sets up a very interesting question and as the previous conversation pointed out, it will be Chief Justice John Roberts sitting in the chair at this trial. We don't know what role he will play, but it does strike me that he may have something to say about whether or not the constitutional responsibility for impeachment and all the responsibility that we have to make sure that that process has integrity might be in if you don't mind, the term might trump the President's interpretation of executive privilege, which seems to be so broad as to allow him to simply tell everybody involved that they can't testify no matter what the circumstance is. I don't think that will stand. The question is whether Chief Justice Roberts will insert himself into that question or simply allow the courts to determine that over months of delay. I hope that's not the case.", "A couple more questions. What's the latest thinking on who the House Managers will be?", "Well, we have a talented group and this is a decision that the Speaker obviously is going to weigh in on me. Obviously, with Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler playing a key role, one would expect they might be involved. I think Zoe Lofgren would be a great choice. This is only my thinking, certainly not reflective of what the President or I'm sorry, what the Speaker might choose. You know, this would be for Zoe, the third time she has been involved in an impeachment trial, but there are others. Jamie Raskin, a constitutional scholar. Hakeem Jeffries is a talented individual on our team. So who knows? The Speaker is going to make those decisions, but there's a deep bench. There's a lot of talent in our caucus, and I'm sure a lot of interest.", "As you may know, President Trump thinks that this should be dismissed outright. He tweeted this, \"Many believe that by the Senate giving credence to a trial based on the no evidence, no crime, read the transcripts, no pressure impeachment hoax, rather than an outright dismissal, it gives the partisan Democrat witch hunt credibility that otherwise does not have. I agree. Exclamation point.\" Is that possible that Mitch McConnell would do that?", "I hope not and I sure hope Mitch McConnell isn't taking advice on the operation of the Constitution from President Trump who seems to have sort of a coloring book understanding of that document. He ought to think carefully about the oath that he swore, and let the President tweet away. But he should do his job independent of what the President's obviously biased position might be.", "Congressman Dan Kildee, thank you very much, very busy week in Washington. We appreciate you being here.", "Thank you very much.", "John?", "One day before the key Democratic debate in Iowa and new attacks in that race. What the Bernie Sanders campaign is saying that has Senator Elizabeth Warren crying foul. That's next."], "speaker": ["REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA)", "CAMEROTA", "REP. DAN KILDEE (D-MI)", "CAMEROTA", "KILDEE", "CAMEROTA", "KILDEE", "CAMEROTA", "KILDEE", "CAMEROTA", "KILDEE", "KILDEE", "CAMEROTA", "KILDEE", "CAMEROTA", "KILDEE", "CAMEROTA", "KILDEE", "CAMEROTA", "KILDEE", "CAMEROTA", "KILDEE", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-91956", "program": "NEWS FROM CNN", "date": "2005-2-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/07/nfcnn.01.html", "summary": "Palestinians-Israeli Leadership May Initiate Cease-Fire", "utt": ["Welcome back to the news from CNN. I'm Wolf Blitzer in Washington. Before leaving the Middle East, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice named Lieutenant General William \"Kip\" Ward to serve as the U.S. security coordinator to the Palestinian security forces. Our pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, is standing by live at the pentagon to tell us a little bit about this general, what this means -- Barbara?", "Well, Wolf, this general -- Lieutenant General William Ward now tapped for one of the most sensitive security positions in the Bush administration. Lieutenant General Ward will be the Palestinian security coordinator for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She spelled out his duties earlier today at a press conference.", "General Ward will also work with Egypt, Jordan and others to coordinate assistance to the P.A. as it rebuilds its security capacity to end violence and terror and restore law and order. General Ward will travel to the region to make an initial assessment in the next few weeks.", "And it is generally understood that General Ward will then be monitoring compliance with security requirements on both sides, both the Israelis and the Palestinians. But this coming as a bit of a surprise to some of General Ward's friends in the U.S. Army, who didn't know anything about it. They say it just emerged over the last couple of days -- in fact, General Ward, at his office with the Army in Heidelberg, Germany, earlier today. General Ward has long experience in peacekeeping. Right now, if we look at his biography, he is the deputy commander, the number two man for the U.S. Army in Europe. But he also served as the chief of the U.S. military mission in Egypt, where he worked on regional security issues, further implementation of Israeli-Egyptian peace agreements. He also served as the head of the peacekeeping effort with the stabilization force in Bosnia, in the Balkans, so a lot of experience in noncombat environments, if you will, in very tough, very sensitive security positions. He now will take that on for Condoleezza Rice -- Wolf?", "And it shouldn't be a huge surprise, Barbara, that they went to the European command for this, since the European command is in charge of not only Europe, Turkey, but Israel, Syria, Lebanon, as opposed to the central command which deals with the rest of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. Barbara Starr reporting for us at the pentagon. That was Wolf showing off a little bit with his knowledge about the difference between the European command and the central command, former pentagon correspondent. Thanks, Barbara, very much. A full-court press by the United States in the Middle East, where Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has wrapped up separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. She says the time is right for significant progress. Joining us, now, to talk about the chance for peace, three guests: Saida Hamad is the Jerusalem bureau chief for an \"Al-Hayat,\" an Arabic language newspaper based in London. She's joining us now live from Ramallah on the West Bank. Hirsh Goodman is with the Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. He's in Jerusalem along with Aaron David Miller. He's a former, top state department official who spent some two decades deeply involved in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. He's now the president of Seeds of Peace. Thanks to all of you for joining us. Saida, let me begin with you. We're getting word confirmed here to CNN there will be a formal declaration of a cease-fire tomorrow at Sharm el Sheikh, when the Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet, a cease-fire going into effect. Tell us what you -- what you've heard about this.", "OK. Actually, Wolf, the information that I got, it would be more a declaration of principles. There is still -- the Israelis are still a little bit reluctant to announce a joint, or participate in a joint statement for a cease-fire. This is what -- I was told by this by some Egyptian diplomats only a few minutes ago. But the Palestinian stand remains still. The Palestinians are sticking to the road map, saying that the first article of the road map says that there should be a declaration, a joint declaration, by the Israelis and the Palestinians for a mutual cease-fire.", "All right.", "So, Wolf, we have to wait and see tomorrow who will win on this matter exactly.", "All right, we'll see how far they're willing to go. Hirsh Goodman, in Jerusalem, what are you hearing, specifically, on some sort of joint declaration that Mahmoud Abbas and Ariel Sharon might make at Sharm el Sheikh tomorrow?", "Yes, I think -- we think -- that Mahmoud Abbas is an excellent prime minister. He's been elected by the Palestinian people. We're just not sure he's going to be able to enforce a cease-fire. And therefore, if there is terrorism, if there are mortars, if there are more rockets, and Hamas and the other militant wings don't tow the line, if he doesn't yet have the security forces to impose a cease-fire, it would be very silly to declare one then have it broken, formally broken, and have it break down. Rather leave things OK. Let's declare our intention to end the fighting and to work for a better future. But I think a formal declaration would make any aberration a formal problem, and I think it would be better to do these things opaque (ph).", "What do you think, Aaron Miller? You spent a long time dealing with Israelis and Palestinians when you worked at the state department.", "Well, Wolf, nobody ever lost money betting against Arab-Israeli peace. But the reality is, for the first time in four years, you have a genuine opportunity. You have a Palestinian president who really does believe that the arms struggle, the Intifada, has been a disaster for his people. You've got an Israeli prime minister who's extremely serious about, in a very bold and historic proposition, by July he's going to dismantle and remove Israeli settlements from Gaza. And you've got the makings, it seems to me, of very practical, pragmatic security cooperation on the ground. For the first time, it seems to me, Israelis and Palestinians are thinking realistically. Their expectations are not sky high. And if you ask me, what is the best evidence, the best sign of that, it seems to me, you've got a very practical agenda. And I think that's going to be in the interest of both sides. `", "The last time around, Aaron Miller, as you well know, George Tenet was sort of the security coordinator. And he was then the CIA director. Now they've gone to the U.S. military and have invited Lieutenant General William Ward to take over, on a day-to-day basis, deal with Palestinian security forces. From your understanding, what specifically will be his mission?", "I think he's going to be -- he'll have at least three. Number one is to make an assessment of the needs and requirements of Palestinian security services. You know, during the '90s, we provided material forensic support, vehicles, communications, equipment. And if Palestinian security services are going to centralize and fight terror and counter violence, they're going to need the capability to do it. Number two, it seems to me the Egyptians and the Jordanians will have a meaningful role to play here, both in terms of training and political support. And Kip Ward has experience in Egypt. And it seems to me he'll run interference there. And finally, I don't know whether or not he's going to head up the trilateral security committee that was also a product of the '90s in which Israelis, Palestinians and Americans worked very practically on the kinds of problems on the ground that they're going to encounter. But he's certainly going to have to play a key liaison role in working with both sides. He's got an ambitious agenda. But it seems to me he's going to have an enormous amount of support for both the Israeli and the Palestinian side.", "Let's bring back Saida Hamad in Ramallah. What is your understanding now of the U.S. role, the U.S. role not only with Condoleezza Rice in charge of the diplomacy, now there's a Lieutenant General who's going to be working with the Palestinian security forces, plus a promise of $350 million U.S. assistance to the Palestinians to encourage the Palestinians to develop the West Bank and Gaza, to get going towards democracy, if you will? Is this what the Palestinian leadership wants?", "Well, actually, Wolf, I just wanted to say first that Dr. Rice's visit is considered very -- and viewed -- very positively by the Palestinian leadership. That's for sure. It's the first visit since three years. Dr. Rice also, her language was absolutely different than the other American representatives who visited the country, the Palestinian representatives, for a long time. There is a change of language, that's for sure. But I'm really just a bit skeptical about the way that the Americans are going to turn this into reality, meaning for example, the appointment of General Ward. The Palestinians would like this person, this appointed personality, to really have an active role in determining who is -- the minute that there is a cease-fire, the minute there is some kind of declaration between the Palestinians and the Israelis, the Palestinians really would like to have monitors on the ground. Who is really breaking the cease-fire? Who is doing what on the ground? Putting that aside, and this is a very important point for the Palestinians also, the Palestinians they would like (ph) what the Americans want to also monitor their position, their activities. As President Mahmoud Abbas stated it today, he's very clear. He says, the road map is the only way to achieve the Palestinian aspiration.", "All right.", "So he's very clear on that. He's ready to cooperate with the Americans. But the problem is, is the -- are the Americans going to change their strategy of policy?", "All right.", "I have to say, Wolf, that Dr. -- just one second, please. Dr. Rice, today she said that America is -- Israelis, I'm sorry -- have to take difficult decisions. This statement was used by the ex -- the ex-American foreign minister, Madeleine Albright. But she used it with the Palestinians. There is a change on the ground. The Palestinians are hopeful. But economy was, regarding your question, economy is important.", "All right.", "As long as there's a siege, as long as the war is being felt, it won't matter how much money you pour into the Palestinian territories...", "All right, Saida, stand by...", "... because you can have freedom of movement.", "We're going to get back to you...", "... of movement.", "We're going to get back to you. Hirsh Goodman, briefly, before we take a quick break -- we'll continue this conversation. On a practical level, at least in the last few weeks, there have been discussions going on between Israeli and Palestinian security officials. The defense minister of Israel has met with Palestinian security officials. What is your understanding? How is this process coming along?", "Well, I think the appointment of General Ward is very, very important because he's not a mediator. And for the first time, the Americans are not negotiators. There's no big daddy here, there's no big uncle here. He's been appointed to help the Palestinian prime minister collect the legal arms, put up a security force, get a decent police force in place, get rid of the horrible security mess that Arafat left behind, paying people out of paper bags, playing one against the other, and mainly to collect the weapons and create a sort of society in which democracy can flourish. That's his job. He's not coming here as a Middle East negotiator. And I think that's a very welcome change because it means the sides have now matured to a point after four years of bloody conflict, where they see they can't defeat each other, to a point where they have to look eyeball to eyeball to negotiate a better future without big daddy there.", "All right.", "And I think it's a good sign of maturity and a good sign for the future.", "Hirsh Goodman, stand by. Aaron Miller, stand by. Saida Hamad, we're going to get back to all of you. Much more on the latest effort to try to restart Israeli- Palestinian negotiations. And now there's word of an unprecedented effort to start Syrian-Israeli negotiations. We'll share that with you, as well."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE", "STARR", "BLITZER", "SAIDA HAMAD, AL-HAYAT", "BLITZER", "HAMAD", "BLITZER", "HIRSH GOODMAN, TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY", "BLITZER", "AARON DAVID MILLER, FMR. 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{"id": "CNN-404970", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-07-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/09/cnr.19.html", "summary": "United Airlines Warns Of Possible Furloughs", "utt": ["United Airlines is warning 36,000 workers they may be furloughed or laid off later this year. That's nearly half the company's frontline workforce including pilots, flight attendants, gate agents and maintenance workers. Notices went out on Wednesday since U.S. law requires a 60-day heads up on mass layoffs. The airline says it's operating only a quarter of its flights compared to last year. I want to bring in CNN's John Defterios live this hour in Abu Dhabi. I mean, there's still a lot of economic pain to come and yet market, some of them incredibly resilient. And the one that has standout in -- standout in Asia is Shanghai.", "Yes, certainly it has, Paula. This has been on a tear for the last week. And it's not just about the economic recovery in China and how that plays into earnings, but a sense of national pride as well. We even had a Chinese owned state equities journal suggesting that it would give a nice diplomatic lift to Xi Jinping in this rebuilding effort over the course of 2020. And that certainly has driven a 17 percent gain over the last month, and half of that coming in the last week alone. And China feeling a little bit bolder as well. Wang Yi, the foreign minister today in Beijing was suggesting that the U.S. has to come up with a different narrative because bilateral relations between Washington and Beijing haven't been this bad for 40 years. And you can have a long list to look at here. Huawei, the telecoms operator, the telecoms equipment makers ZTE, TikTok, the list is long. And even with the security law by China in Hong Kong, there's a report out in the last 24 hours that the U.S. wants to undermine that dollar pegged to the Hong Kong currency, which has been around since 1983. A reminder here for China, though back in 2015, we had the same kind of nationalist tone in the stock market. And Paula, it ended in tears. This is a market that has been on a tear, but indeed, it seems to be mixed up with other motivations here for China globally.", "Yes. Certainly, a lot of people on a bubble watch with that. Now, in about just under six hours from now, we will get the latest weekly jobless claims for the United States. And still some of those figures just stubbornly high.", "Indeed, Paula. And many of our viewers probably wonder why are you covering this every week. It's because we had this kind of flatlining of a very high number. Let's take a look at the expectations. We're looking at 1.37 million expected for the last week in terms of filing. That's about seven times higher than what we saw prior to the pandemic. And the trend line was coming down, Paula, and that was kind of the positive coming out of it. When you see the cases surging again with regards to the pandemic, you have to expect they're going to go higher. There's reoccurring numbers here, nearly 19 million. That means people couldn't find work, and they're coming back time and again to get the unemployment benefits from the U.S. government. You talked about United Airlines, right? This is a classic case in point of the frontline. Airlines, hospitality, hotels, restaurants, lots of layoffs. You're looking at a furloughing of 36,000 workers and that's even after the government has put up billions of dollars to provide those salaries. They're saying, after those salaries end, we may have to -- have to furlough those 36,000 people. Extraordinary numbers, Paula, and this will drive up the unemployment rate probably in the third and fourth quarter.", "Yes. And such a good reminder that we are so far from recovery of this global economy. John Defterios for us in Abu Dhabi, I really appreciate it. Brooks Brothers, the men's clothing retailer known for addressing Wall Street bankers has now filed for bankruptcy protection. The pandemic played a role of course, but as CNN's Clare Sebastian explains, changing tastes and the 200-year-old company, it all added up to a tailor-made fall.", "Well, the destruction wrought by the Coronavirus pandemic on U.S. retail shows no sign of letting up. Now, another storied American brand Brooks Brothers, which claims the title of America's oldest clothing retailer has been forced to seek bankruptcy protection. The company is more than 200 years old. It prides itself on having dressed 40 U.S. presidents everyone from Abraham Lincoln, to John F. Kennedy. But it really suffered during the Coronavirus pandemic and not just because of the obvious, the store closures, the huge collapse in retail traffic that we saw in the first few months, but also because of a shift that was already underway. People addressing more casually, particularly in office setting. Pinstripe suits and button-down shirts are no longer the uniform. And Brooks Brothers was really on the wrong side of that. And especially now that we see so many people working from home, that isn't going to change. So, the company says it wants to stay in business. It has $75 million in financing to get it through bankruptcy, and it's looking actively for a buyer. Clare Sebastian, CNN, New York.", "Businesses and beaches in Havana meantime have reopened after a lockdown that lasted more than three months. The government says it has nearly eliminated the virus there but that doesn't mean Cuba is welcoming tourists just yet. CNN'S Patrick Oppmann takes a closer look.", "The doors are open again, even if it's not business as usual at Havana's El Cafe. Cuba was on lockdown for more than three months. But following a massive countrywide effort to bring the Coronavirus under control, the government is now easing restrictions, allowing businesses like this one to reopen. Staff at restaurants like El Cafe have to wear masks, rearrange the tables to allow social distancing, and sterilize the hands of every customer that comes in. Owner Nelson says that after four years serving some of Havana's best coffee and all-day breakfast, he's starting from scratch.", "It was completely in the saucer like collapse. And I go down and I feel like I start again the business.", "While hard hit economically by the Coronavirus, Cuba's program of extensive contact tracing, isolating the sick, and closing borders paid off. Health officials say there are now less than a few dozen active cases of Coronavirus on the island of 11 million people. On the first day the beach reopened, Cubans swam in the pristine blue waters that have been tantalizing forbidden to them all these weeks. It's been really good for me and my family to get refreshed, get some air and some sun, Michel says. But it's also important to maintain the hygiene and safety measures. That will be crucial to preventing a resurgence of cases and allowing the island to fully reopen. Havana is in stage one of recovery. And it won't be until stage three that the city's airport once again reopens to regular commercial flights. This is the Malecon Seawall, Havana's couch Cubans called, because everyone comes out here to sit on it. But for months it was eerily empty, off limits. Now that people are permitted to come back out here, life does feel like it's returning to normal. But there's still that strange sensation of being on an island that is almost entirely cut off from the rest of the world. For the time being, only hotels on five keys, small islands off the coast of Cuba are open to foreign visitors to keep further infection from spreading to the mainland. Both guests and hotel workers will be regularly tested health officials say. So for the time being, the rest of the island is inaccessible to the tourists who Nelson estimates made up 80 percent of his clientele before the outbreak.", "Were going to be more creative and I need to -- I will enjoy more different things, focusing other customer.", "Cubans have endured hurricanes, economic sanctions, and near economic collapse. And now the first wave of Coronavirus, even if this isn't a full recovery, the hope is that this new normal will last. Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana.", "Next on CNN NEWSROOM, the mystery over the SAT after Donald Trump's niece claimed he paid someone to take his high school exam. 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{"id": "CNN-238974", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2014-09-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/16/ampr.01.html", "summary": "U.K. Pledges More Power to Scotland; Imagine a World", "utt": ["Tonight: the United Kingdom now just days away from a vote which could radically define the entire country, I'll get former prime minister John Major's view on why Scotland should remain part of the U.K. Also ahead, America's top military chief testifies on the fight against ISIS as President Obama announces a major deployment to fight a different kind of battle -- against the deadly Ebola virus.", "Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. I'm Christiane Amanpour. In a rare show of unity, the leaders of Britain's three main political parties made a vow today in a last-ditch attempt to keep Scotland part of the United Kingdom. Appearing on the front of the Scottish newspaper, the \"Daily Record,\" David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg vowed to transfer more powers to Scotland if it rejects independence in Thursday's vote. But deputy leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party Nicola Sturgeon hit back at Westminster, saying the offer wasn't good enough.", "It's meaningless. You know, they're saying we'll deliver more powers if you won't vote, but won't tell us what powers they're talking about. They don't agree between themselves what more powers should come to Scotland. And we are already seeing MPs from south of the border saying that they will block any more powers for Scotland.", "So John Major was the Conservative Party's prime minister here in Britain from 1990-1997 and he's a veteran of this particular political war and he's joining me now live in the studio. Welcome to the program.", "Thank you.", "So what of Nicola Sturgeon? The Scottish Nationalist saying that this vow is a bribe and it's a day late and a dollar short. Do you agree?", "As a matter of fact, there's nothing that anyone could say that would satisfy the Scottish Nationalists. Their aim is independence, a separate Scotland. They're perfectly prepared to throw away 300 years of history and the gains we've made in unity. So whatever was said, the SNP would turn it away and would disavow it. That's been their tactic right the way through this debate.", "Do you believe, though, that this vow is the right way to go? Can it keep the union together? And is it offering something that you believe in?", "This vow is something quite special and quite new. It offers Scotland a great deal more self-dependence in terms of the powers given to the Scottish parliament; it keeps the United Kingdom together. It stops many of the risks it would otherwise take place both to the United Kingdom and to Scotland because be in no doubt about this, were there to be separation, both the United Kingdom and Scotland, in my judgment would suffer and suffer seriously.", "Let's first talk about Scotland. They are obviously full of the desire to move inevitably and inexorably from devolution to their own parliament to independence. And they say we can run our own economy; we'll be able to talk about jobs and govern those crucial economic areas ourselves.", "No one has denied that the Scots are an intelligent nation who could run their own country. That's not the issue. The question is would Scotland be better off in the United Kingdom or better off --", "They say they're", "They have faced none of the realities that that actually refers to. Whenever the realities are placed before them, they say people are lying. They say we can get straight into the European Union. Well, the European Union say they can't. So they say the European Union is lying. They think they can enter into NATO. I think that's extremely unlikely. They say they can manage without having their own currency. They can't use sterling. They're two days away from the vote and they do not yet know what currency they're going to use in the long term. Now that is just absurd. And one could stretch that list to points put to them that they've denied. And they're not points put to them by advocates of the No campaign; they're points put to them by senior business men, by senior politicians outside the country, people who have studied what's happened and knows the impact upon Scotland and a Scottish nation have, frankly -- and I don't say this lightly -- have been fed a load of pap by the Scottish nationalists in the belief that everything will be all right on the night. Well, it won't. There are very serious problems that Scotland will face if they go down this route.", "What about the wealth of the nation, so to speak? They talk a lot about the oil wealth. There they have it in waters off Scotland. Why should that not keep them afloat?", "Well, it's U.K. oil. It isn't all Scottish oil. Let me make that point firstly. Secondly, it's a diminishing asset. The oil is reducing. It's not going to be there forever. It might be there for 30 years. It might be there for 40 years. But what about the young men and women who'll be voting for the first time in this referendum and their children and their children? They won't have Scottish oil to rely on. They will have to compete and in future they'll have to compete with the rest of the United Kingdom as well as others; whereas now the United Kingdom are advocates of Scotland. I go abroad frequently and I speak about British prospects and I include the prospect of investment in Scotland. In future, they'd be competitors if they were separate, not part of the United Kingdom.", "And what about this notion? Because everyone watching this program from around the world is worried about what this means for separatist movements elsewhere, but also what does this mean for the reliable, trusty ally and trading partner that is the U.K.? Is this going to lead to a totally devolved U.K., one way or the other?", "Well, there are two separate points there, firstly about separatism. There's no doubt that the Scottish plans have excited separatists in Catalonia, in Bavaria, in Flanders, all over the place. They expect to join the European Union and yet they will have excited dissent and separatism in a large number of European Union countries, a point they totally overlook. As to the impact if Scotland became separate, it would have a pretty dramatic impact on the rest of the United Kingdom as well. I don't think anything is going to break the United Kingdom's affinity and affection for its traditional allies. But they will be weaker. They will be weaker. They will have less influence. You can't have a large chunk of a country suddenly falling off and retain the same international influence that you had before.", "I mean, right now, we're in the midst of a major existential fight that the West has identified against these terrorists, barbaric terrorists, who slaughter people in public, ISIS. Britain has always been a trusted military ally. It's been a trusted voice in the United Nations Security Council. How will that be affected, boots on the ground and people under arms, Scottish contribute a lot to that.", "British military capability would be diminished if Scottish became a -- if Scotland became a separate nation, no doubt about that, an extraordinary time to do it. We had jihadists all over the Middle East. We have Russia misbehaving in Ukraine. We have a range of problems in different parts of the world and this is the moment that the United Kingdom, that's been together for 300 years, finds a part of it, which is to break away, it is an extraordinary concept and particularly an extraordinary concept at this moment in time with the world as it is.", "You fought an election in 1997 and you lost to Tony Blair. But you, one of your platforms was to oppose the independent Scottish parliament. Now they have it. Do you agree with the idea of devo-max or whatever's been promised in this vow, even if they vote to stay in the U.K.?", "I think if they stay in the United Kingdom and get more powers, I'm perfectly content with that. Frankly, I'd trade almost anything for the importance of keeping the United Kingdom as a single entity.", "So why was that often made from the beginning by Prime Minister Cameron?", "I can't answer that question. You'll have to ask Prime Minister Cameron --", "-- former Conservative Party leader.", "-- it doesn't mean I necessarily know the mind of my -- all my successors. But I did foresee in 1992 the damage that would come about by spreading devolution; I believed it would be a stepping stone for a separatist movement and thus it has proved. But we're now under a different circumstance. And now we're in the circumstance where there is a demand in Scotland that I think that in one way or another needs to be met. And to that reason, I think it is right to make this particular offer if it will sustain the union.", "And finally, what about people individuals who say they are just fed up of central government? They just don't believe in this anymore; they don't see the leadership. They don't see how it helps them.", "Well, I think that's a feeling in the U.K., but not only in the U.K. I think that's truly United States and in most of the countries of Europe as well. But there's a bigger point really in terms of the United Kingdom. Are we suddenly to wake up in two mornings' time and find that the Scots are foreigners? That the Scots, who've been integrated with the United Kingdom for hundreds of years, many of whom, 800,000 of whom live in the United Kingdom, are suddenly a foreign nation? It's an alien concept, very hard to grasp. And I think people today who are advocates of separatism have not perhaps realized the sheer impact upon them, upon Scotland, upon their colleagues in the United Kingdom and upon the United Kingdom as a whole if separatism were to be agreed by the Scottish voters on Thursday.", "Sir John Major, you've made your case. Thank you very much indeed.", "Thank you.", "Thank you. And talking about being foreigners, while the prospect of Scottish independence is of course serious business, some merry pranksters have managed to have a little bit of fun with the debate. This checkpoint on a highway that runs from England to Scotland may look real but it is just a spoof of a border crossing, complete with barrier and passport control. After a break, can closing borders in Africa even shutting down whole countries help prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus? Desperate times and desperate measures when we come back."], "speaker": ["CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST (voice-over)", "AMANPOUR", "NICOLA STURGEON, DEPUTY LEADER, SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY", "AMANPOUR", "JOHN MAJOR, FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER", "AMANPOUR", "MAJOR", "AMANPOUR", "MAJOR", "AMANPOUR", "MAJOR", "AMANPOUR", "MAJOR", "AMANPOUR", "MAJOR", "AMANPOUR", "MAJOR", "AMANPOUR", "MAJOR", "AMANPOUR", "MAJOR", "AMANPOUR", "MAJOR", "AMANPOUR", "MAJOR", "AMANPOUR", "MAJOR", "AMANPOUR", "MAJOR", "AMANPOUR"]}
{"id": "CNN-400067", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2020-05-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/13/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 83,000; Leaders Named For \"Warp Speed\" Vaccine Effort; MI Gov. Says She Has Not Talked To Biden About VP Role; Trump Says Fauci's Answer On Schools Reopening \"Not Acceptable\"; Trump Says Fauci \"Wants To Play All Sides Of the Equation\" When It Comes To Reopening.", "utt": ["Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer, in THE SITUATION ROOM, we're following breaking news. The coronavirus death toll here in the United States is now more than 83,000 people with almost 1.4 million cases. Globally, there are no more than 4.3 million cases and almost 300,000 deaths. But tonight, sources are telling CNN that the Trump administration that serious senior Trump administration officials are now questioning the accuracy of the U.S. death toll and whether the number is actually being inflated. Just yesterday, on the other hand, Dr. Anthony Fauci told us lawmakers, the death toll is almost certainly higher, higher than what's being reported. But this coming Sunday, almost all U.S. states will be reopened, at least to some extent. At the same time, Washington D.C. is among jurisdictions extending stay-at-home orders and states including South Dakota, Delaware and Arkansas are serious -- are seeing serious Coronavirus cases, right now on the rise. Let's go straight to the White House right now. Our Chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta is joining us. Jim, a grim new death toll and frightening new projections. But the President and his team, at least some members of his team don't necessarily believe all the numbers.", "That's right Wolf, the tug of war has begun inside the Trump administration over whether the U.S. is over counting the number of dead from the coronavirus, well aware that the President's reelection prospects are tied to his handling of the pandemic. Pro-Trump forces are attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci who has advocated caution in confronting the virus.", "In control of the coronavirus message coming from the White House, President Trump is giving the administration a pat on the back for the U.S. response to the pandemic. With the enormous weight of the pandemic hanging over the White House, sources tell CNN administration officials are questioning the accuracy of the coronavirus death toll in the U.S. and whether the number of dead is being over counted. But that would fly in the face of testimony from top administration health expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, who said deaths are likely being under counted as some residents and hard hitting New York died at home and we're never counted as COVID-19 fatalities.", "So in direct answer to your question, I think you are correct, that the number is likely higher. I don't know exactly what percent higher, but almost certainly it's higher.", "The President suggested New York's number of dead was too high last month.", "I see this morning where New York edit 3,000 deaths because they died and they're now saying rather than it was a heart attack, they're saying it was a heart attack caused by this.", "Trump allies on Fox News have zeroed in on Fauci as an obstacle to reopening the country, blasting the doctors cautious approach to the pandemic.", "Is this the guy you want to chart the future of the country? Maybe not. This is a very serious matter, the decisions we're making right now. Tony Fauci has not been elected to anything.", "Fauci to be very blunt is the face of this failed administrative title.", "Well I totally agree.", "I think you've got a question. The entire premise of this.", "With the chief buffoon of the professional has. Dr. Anthony Fauci also seems to favorite what the Democrats want. And that is massive restrictions with no end in sight.", "With all due respect to Dr. Fauci his expertise, no one elected him to anything.", "But there's one big problem for the White House, a CNN poll found a solid majority of Americans trust Fauci, not the President when it comes to the pandemic.", "Hospital Preparedness.", "Another public health official to watch Dr. Rick Bright a top vaccine expert who was removed from his post he says an alleged act of retaliation. Bright, who is set to appear before a House Subcommittee Thursday warns the U.S. must prepare for the pandemic to get worse, saying in his prepared testimony, without clear planning and implementation of the steps that I and other experts have outlined, 2020 will be the darkest winter modern history. Mr. Trump is brushing off Bright as an unhappy employee.", "To me he's a disgruntled guy and I hadn't heard great things about him.", "With such dire predictions, the President's son- in-law, Jared Kushner, was asked whether the November election might be postponed.", "It's not my decision to make. So, I'm not sure I can commit one way or the other. But right now, that's the plan.", "Kushner later released a statement saying, I have not been involved in nor am I aware of any discussions about trying to change the date of the presidential election. But the damage done to the economy is beyond question. According to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, who has working Americans are taking a major hit.", "Among people who were working in February almost 40% of those in households making less than $40,000 a year had lost a job in March. This reversal of economic fortune has caused a level of pain that is hard to capture in words, as lives are upended and made great uncertainty about the future.", "Don't worry, I got it. Now on the race for a vaccine, Moncef Slaoui, we're told the former head of the vaccines division at GlaxoSmithKline has been tapped as co-lead on the Warp Speed effort as the administration calls it to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Another official says U.S. Army Four Star General Gustave Perna, has also been selected to oversee the project and the two will split responsibilities when it comes to overseeing that operation Warp Speed effort. As for the November election, the White House is also stressing there are no plans to try to postpone the November election. The fact is the President can't do anything about that. Anyways, Congress ultimately controls when the election is held. And Wolf and just the last few moments. The President has been asked questions by reporters about some of the comments that Dr. Anthony Fauci made yesterday, in that, in that hearing up on Capitol Hill that he zoomed into, I guess you could say, in which Dr. Fauci said, people should not be cavalier about sending children back to school during the coronavirus pandemic. The President says he takes issue with some of the comments that Dr. Fauci made, says he disagrees with some of these comments. Dr. Fauci said, he thinks, according to the President, President says that these schools should be reopening in the fall and he believes Fauci has been, quote playing all sides of this issue. And so Wolf, we're waiting for that video to come back. The press pool, as we call it, there with the President right now, but it sounds as though the president taking issue with some of these statements that Dr. Fauci made at that hearing yesterday. Wolf.", "Yes, we're looking forward to getting the tape and going through it and playing it for our viewers, as well. We'll see precisely what the President is saying about Dr. Fauci right now very sensitive material, I suspect. Indeed our Jim Acosta. Thank you very much. Let's get the latest now on how the pandemic is actually playing out across the country. CNN's Nick Watt is joining us from Manhattan Beach near Los Angeles right now. Nick beaches, there are once again what they're open, but with some serious restrictions, right?", "Absolutely, Wolf. The beaches opened this morning but it's exercise only and masks are mandatory. We've also just heard within the past hour or so that L.A. County is now allowing all retail to open unless you are located in an indoor mall and it is still curbside pickup only. The public health director also clarified some of her words yesterday, people thought she was saying we were all going to have to stay home another three months. She's not saying that, she's saying that restrictions will be in place some kind of restriction. For the next three months. We will be wearing masks for a long time. And in actual fact, she said it's not really three months. There is no end date to those restrictions.", "The biggest spike in grocery prices since 1974 says the Bureau of Labor, one in four Americans will lose their jobs, says Goldman Sachs. But as states reopen trying to staunch that economic chaos, one models projected death toll for the U.S. more than doubled in just two weeks.", "The bottom line is our political leaders have not done enough to get us ready to open up safely. And again, a large chunk of that is about testing and tracing.", "In most states, new case counts are steady or falling for now, but rising in Arkansas, South Dakota and Delaware.", "We're seeing fatigue of staying inside and also some mixed messages. One state is doing one thing and other states doing something else, federal government has provided just very general guidelines. So I think there's also some confusion what is safe.", "Today New Jersey announced gatherings of people in cars are now allowed.", "If vehicles are closer than six feet apart, then all windows sunroofs are convertible tops must remain closed.", "While Washington D.C. reupped its stay home order.", "Through Monday, June the eighth, and I should note that based on the data, I can revise this order at any time.", "A new CNN poll shows a 13% rise and those who say they visited friends or family in the past week.", "We really did. We took comfort in the fact that our kids were largely safe. And I wonder if some of that is our comfort with relaxing social distancing measures.", "But now 15 states are reporting rare cases of severe potentially COVID related reactions in children.", "Really high fevers, rashes, and sometimes drops in blood pressure causing shock.", "The CDC planning today to warn physicians to look out for such symptoms.", "We have lost three children in New York because of this. Five year old boy, seven year old boy and an 18-year- old girl.", "Meanwhile, many states figuring out if and how kids could go back to school in the fall.", "Our fear is that people are just going to say this is the date and we'll all rush in and we won't be prepared and that children will be put at risk.", "The Cal State University system that's nearly half a million students already announced there will be nearly no in person classes. Even in the fall. They don't want to quarter a class sizes and have students come in from all over.", "We face the prospect of turning the campus into a cluster that would actually single handedly drive the infection rates in our county, we didn't really want to do that.", "They also have concerns about testing and tracing capability.", "Contact tracing is a priority.", "So this weekend when restaurants reopen in New Orleans, it's reservations only. And --", "Restaurants should retain a name and contact number for over 21 days.", "So contacts can be traced as we all mix more.", "The CDC has not done enough. They had a contact racing force for a much smaller outbreak than what we have. And I wish we had spent the last two months building up that force.", "And of course, while we've all been focused on COVID, our other problems haven't gone away. California just said that wildfires in the state are up 60% so far this year, they're bracing for a bad fire season and figuring out how to continue social distancing. Do we evacuate people early? Do we put them in hotel rooms? Do they somehow figure out how to segregate school, gymnasiums and circulate the air? And by the way, for those of you on the east and the Gulf Coast, the hurricane season this year is also forecast to be pretty bad. Wolf.", "Yes, it is. All right, Nick Watt, thank you very, very much. We're just getting this pool report in the TV networks. And Governor Gretchen Whitmer has with us. But I want you to listen to Governor Whitmer what the President is now saying, we're going to be getting the tape. We're going to be getting the tape shortly, but let me read what the pool reporter from the TV networks has just reported to us. The President was asked whether he has concerns about reopening schools, as expressed by Dr. Fauci before his testimony. In the Senate yesterday, the President said I'm quoting now from the pool report. He wants to play all sides of the equation, referring to Dr. Fauci, he then said he believes the country will bounce back in the fourth quarter asked further what he meant by his comments regarding Dr. Fauci, the President said once again, I'm quoting from this pool report. I was surprised by his answer. To me, it's not an acceptable answer, especially when it comes to schools. We'll get the videotape by shortly from the -- from the pool, and we'll have that for our viewers. But those are the President's comments about Dr. Fauci and his testimony yesterday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan is joining us right now. Do you want to give us your immediate reaction Governor to what the President is now saying about Dr. Fauci?", "Well, I can tell you is that the decisions that I'm making are based on our epidemiologists and our public health experts. We are talking to people like Dr. Jha, who was recently on and experts across the country because it's really important that we get this right. It can't be determined based on political pressure. It can't be determined based on a desire to reengage or a feeling that our kids are going to be OK. It has to be driven by the best science and I have an incredible amount of respect for Dr. Fauci. I think he's been one of the consistent, you know, people on the national stage who has given us accurate information and an unvarnished way. This is a novel virus where you're learning something every single day about COVID-19 that empowers us to make better decisions tomorrow and we have to keep listening to the science.", "Yes, it's you're absolutely right. We look forward to hearing precisely what the President is saying once we get that videotape from the TV network pool reporter. What's your response Governor to the President and some of his aides now questioning whether the coronavirus death count here in the United States is inflated, it's being over, over counted?", "Well, you know, I was with my chief medical executive today, and we were talking about the numbers that we're showing here in Michigan, we've had over 4,700 people die of COVID-19. And we think that the number probably is higher. When people are dying at home, it's on our public health system to go through and look at all the death certificates. And a lot of these people maybe never got a positive test, but they died of COVID-19. And it is important that our records are reflective of that. And so there is a lag between really collecting all of this information which is incredibly intensive, and making sure that the numbers are really, you know, accurate, and that's why I think that the numbers probably are not as high as what reality is in terms of COVID-19 deaths.", "That's what Dr. Fauci said yesterday before the Senate Committee as well. The President apparently believes the numbers are inflated right now are too high. Dr. Rick Bright, the -- he used to be the top federal vaccine expert. He was ousted from his job, as you know, in recent weeks. He's expected to warn Congress tomorrow when he testifies that the U.S. could see in his words the darkest winter in modern history, with a ramped up coronavirus response. Are you concerned that these late breaking developments that we're seeing what the White House is now saying is a potential signal that we could in fact see what he's calling the darkest winter?", "Well, and then the change and what the expectations are in terms of what the modeling is showing nationwide? The one thing that we know with a certainty is that the best tool we have right now is social distancing. And we all are eager to reengage our economies and yet we have to be really smart about it. We have to have built up our public health expertise, our testing, our tracing our ability to isolate people, once we are determined that they are COVID-19 positive or around someone who has. We also in the same time have to be developing protocols and building up our PPE and ensuring that we don't get overwhelmed when there is an outbreak that happens. All of these are critical components of this. And the fact that we still don't have a strategy that covers the nation, a strategy to get swabs which we are getting more of, and we're grateful to the federal government for their help on that. But we should be producing these things in masses, because testing is going to be key until we get a vaccine and we're not doing enough of it as a nation. And we're all eager to do more. But we need these materials. Incredibly, you know, important.", "We understand there going to be some more demonstrations in the state Capitol Lansing tomorrow. Governor, the last time we saw some of the protesters showing up with, with the weapons, with guns. What's going on -- what are you bracing for tomorrow in the state Capitol of Lansing?", "Yes, so I'm sad to report that it does appear that there's going to be another demonstration where they're, you know, I'm hopeful they'll practice social distancing and wearing masks. But if last time was any indication, that's that might not happen. And that's a problem. We're also seeing a lot of racist rhetoric around it, and misogynistic, and, you know, hateful, violent threats that are being made. And I think that's something that we have to keep our eye on. It's sad, because this is a small, relatively small group of people in a state of almost 10 million, where the vast majority are doing the right thing. But we're going to focus on this because it is it's outrageous. And I think it's really important that we can observe someone's Second Amendment rights and the right to dissent is something I have a great deal of respect for, but we have to do it in a way that doesn't compromise other people's public safety. And these protests thus far, I have not done it that way. And I think it's very concerning.", "And it's legal for these guys to show up with AR-15 in the state capitol, is that right?", "Unfortunately, it is. And the state legislature could have taken some action this week, they chose not to the Capitol commission could have taken action this week. They did not. I think that it is really unwise that we have a policy where people can bring weapons into the state capitol. I know that's not how it is in other parts of the country. And I believe that it's something that should change. No one should have to go to work and feel intimidated. And that's what these state representatives and all of the staff who work there and the sergeants and the police that work in that building, they should not have to feel that way. And I think making our capital a gun free zone would be an important step toward giving people confidence that they can do their job and safety.", "Before I let you go, Governor, as you know, you've been mentioned as a possible running mate for Joe Biden. Is that an offer you could accept given the very serious crisis this coronavirus pandemic that your state is facing right now.", "You know, Wolf, honestly, the fact that my name is mentioned that in anything other than, you know, for focusing on COVID-19 is, is something I haven't devoted a whole lot of energy to. This outbreak in Michigan was one of the worst in the nation. We have had the third highest number of deaths in the country, even though our population is the 10th largest. We've had to take a lot of tough actions. I've got to see this through and that's what's driving every thing that I'm doing as governor of Michigan.", "I know you've been in the forefront in this battle, these are life and death decisions that you have to make. Governor Whitmer, good luck to you, good luck to everybody in Michigan. Thanks so much for joining us.", "Thank you.", "Still ahead, a new warning about the mysterious illness that's now striking children and most likely related to the coronavirus. And later the Texas businessman said he offered to make millions of N95 to protect doctors and nurses, but the government never took them up on his offer. Why did the deal fall through? 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{"id": "CNN-409335", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-08-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/27/cnr.10.html", "summary": "Kenosha Police Chief Defends Armed Civilian Groups on Streets", "utt": ["Back to the breaking news, unrest and violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Protesters say they're demanding justice for Jacob Blake who was shot in the back by police officers seven times. In those protests, a 17-year-old from Illinois is accused of shooting and killing two people. He is now under arrest. He'll be in court on Friday. It was a senseless act of violence but Kenosha's police chief has been talking and focusing on the people who were there in the first place, the people who defied the curfew.", "Everybody involved was out after the curfew. I'm not going to make a great deal of that but the point is the curfew is in place to protect. Had persons not been involved in violation of that perhaps the situation that unfolded would not have happened. So the last night a 17-year-old individual from Antioch, Illinois, was involved in the use of firearms to reserve -- excuse me, to resolve whatever conflict was in place. The result of it was two people are dead.", "Joining me now is Kenosha County board of supervisor, Zach Rodriguez. Mr. Rodriguez, thanks so much for being with us. I'm wondering what you think of how the police have handled both the aftermath of the Blake shooting and also the protests and the violence.", "Thanks for having me today. The police I think have done as much as the guys on the ground can do. Our day-to-day police officers. I think what we've seen here is failed leadership mostly on the part of Sheriff Beth here in Kenosha, not doing everything he could to assist his deputies as well as the city police officers.", "What more do you think could have been done?", "I think what needed to have happened is the sheriff needed to declare a state of emergency Sunday night right away when, you know, we knew that these protests were going to happen. We hoped they didn't get violent. He waited until the wee hours of Monday morning to do that and then we looked to the governor and the governor refused help from the federal government when we needed it very clearly after Monday night.", "The governor did send in the National Guard. The sheriff said communication wires were crossed I guess with the governor's office and that they had actually failed to request the National Guard when they thought they had. There was a Facebook group calling for citizens to arm themselves and to come down to the protests they said to maintain order, protect property. Is that something you think is a good idea?", "I don't think people need to go down to a place where we know there's going to be conflict with their firearms but I've got nothing wrong with business owners protecting their business if they feel the police can't do that. I spoke with constituents in my district who called me the next day and said, I called 911, you know, as my gas station or as my business was getting broken into and I was told we didn't have enough officers to respond. And so for those people I've got no issue with that. Protect your business, protect your livelihood but I don't think we need people going to the scenes of protest. I think that adds more confusion than anything.", "There was another curfew last night. It's intended to curb the protest. If people are out there saying they're protecting businesses who are armed, they're also violating the curfew. It seemed like there's a number of videos on social media of police giving water to some of the armed groups, white armed groups or individuals who said they're there to maintain order. Is that appropriate?", "You know, I don't know that it is appropriate or not. I will say this. You know, the sheriff commented saying that his deputies would give water bottles to anybody but I think it is very clear, you and I. I would say, have not seen any videos of sheriff's deputies and police officers or federal law enforcement giving water bottles to protesters whether those protesters are peaceful or not.", "Yes. I mean, there's a video of somebody in a police vehicle praising the, you know, alleged vigilantes or whatever you want to call them, citizens. Again, we haven't independently confirmed the video but it's certainly out there. Zach Rodriguez, I appreciate your time. Thank you. I'm sorry for what your community is going through.", "Thank you for having me.", "Let's hope it resolves. Ahead, a FOX host appears to defend this, the suspected gunman saying it's not surprising he took up arms to, quote, \"maintain order.\" Plus, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Joe Biden should not debate President Trump which Biden quickly rejected."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "CHIEF DAN MISKINS, KENOSHA POLICE", "COOPER", "ZACH RODRIGUEZ, BOARD SUPERVISOR, DISTRICT 8, KENOSHA COUNTY, WISCONSIN", "COOPER", "RODRIGUEZ", "COOPER", "RODRIGUEZ", "COOPER", "RODRIGUEZ", "COOPER", "RODRIGUEZ", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-351948", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2018-10-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/10/cg.01.html", "summary": "Hurricane Michael Makes Landfall with 155 MPH Winds, Near Cat 5.  ", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "Welcome to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. We are going to begin with the breaking news. New images just in of Hurricane Michael, the strongest hurricane to hit the continental United States since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Just look at this. Moments after Hurricane Michael made landfall in Mexico Beach, Florida, winds ripped apart an entire house. What's left of it is there floating in floodwaters. And there are scenes like this across the Florida Panhandle right now. Hurricane Michael did something we rarely see. The Category 4 storm actually picked up steam as it made landfall. The storm reached 155 miles per hour. Its intensity is now just two miles per hour away from a Category 5 status. Towns on the Panhandle taking a beating, as Hurricane Michael races onshore. More than 30 million Americans in six states are under tropical storm watches and warnings right now, a long night ahead as this monstrous Hurricane Michael continues its destructive path. Also happening right now, stocks keep sliding, the Dow closing down more than 800 points. But let's go back to the storm. We have a team stretched across the Florida Panhandle to show you this unfolding natural disaster. Joining me now on the phone from Mexico Beach, Florida, is Patricia Mulligan. Her daughter captured the dramatic images of a sea of destroyed homes that you're seeing there. Patricia, first of all, most importantly, are you and your daughter safe? Patricia Mulligan, can you hear me? Are you there? All right. We lost Patricia Mulligan. We're going to try to get her back. But, in the meantime, let's go to Brian Todd, who is in Panama City Beach, Florida. And, Brian, tell us what the situation is like where you are right now.", "Right, Jake. We're getting to a point now where first-responders and other city officials may, may be able to start coming out and looking at some of the damage and looking at maybe some people who need to be rescued. Possibly, they could start venturing out in the coming minutes. But, again, that's a little dicey. We're not out of -- totally out of danger yet, as some of the damage is just now being assessed. I can show you some of these trees came down over here. There was a tree that snapped in half over there. There is a railing over here that just snapped right off of a deck and a fence was compromised, was just broken in two just down the street a short time ago. We're still getting some gusts of wind, still getting some power lines shaking here. We did hear some transformers blow here earlier today. So it's still, you know, a pretty dicey situation here with damage assessments, with storm surge also. Storm surge is still going to be an issue here, because they expected it maybe to get up to 13 feet in some areas. The city officials here say that they are pretty pleased with their level of elevation, which might protect them from some of the storm surge, but that's not going to be the case in other areas like Mexico Beach and places east of here. Storm surge is still going to be a big problem in the coming hours. And, again, it could get to 11 to 13 feet, maybe even 14 feet, in some areas, Jake. Some of these are low-lying areas right off the beach. We're only about a block-and-a-half from the beach here. But, you know, again, these areas still could experience some flooding. And, you know, even though the eyewall has passed here and it hit near Mexico Beach not too far from here, people here and officials here who are experienced with hurricanes, even though they haven't had one this powerful, say that you cannot let down your guard at a time like this. Do not be deceived when you hear news that the eyewall has passed, again, downed power lines, downed trees, very hard and very dangerous to navigate through at times like these, Jake.", "All right, Brian Todd. CNN anchor John Berman is in Panama City Beach, Florida. That's just northwest of where Hurricane Michael made landfall. John, you watched conditions deteriorate quickly where you are. What's the situation now?", "The situation now, as Brian was saying, is the winds have begun to die down substantially. Nothing like it was about two hours ago, where I have to tell you, for 45 minutes, I have never felt wind like that, sustained winds of more than 100 miles per hour. And we are 20, 30 miles away from where the eyewall, the center of the eyewall made landfall. So we had sustained winds of more than 100 miles per hour, with gusts above 120 miles per hour. And, Jake, if you can see behind me, there's this metal railing that was there. I think you can see it leaning over. The winds just simply toppled it, pushed it over inch by inch by inch, until finally the concrete at the bottom there that was holding it down simply gave way and it simply fell over. After the storm, when the winds began to die down, because it wasn't safe to move around here at all -- I was guarded by the edge of the building here. But after it died down, somehow, I was able to walk around the parking lot here, and one of the things I found was this, which is a giant light, which I think was blown off this building here. I can't be sure, but it was right in the middle of the parking lot, simply blown down. So these were fierce, fierce winds. And one of the things that was truly remarkable, Jake, as we got here yesterday, and a lot of people did choose to ride out this storm. Panama City Beach has a population of about 12,000 people. The city manager told me he estimates about half the full time residents chose to stay. One of the reasons was, was because yesterday, midday, they thought this was a Category 2 storm, even though the forecast says it could get stronger. They thought it would be a Category 2. They woke up this morning, it was already a Category 4, and then they got nervous, and it was too late to go. So, they simply had to ride it out. And when it made landfall, it was just two miles short of a Category 5 storm -- Jake.", "All right, John Berman in Panama City Beach, Florida. Let's go back on the phone now to Mexico Beach, where we are joined again by Patricia Mulligan. Again, her daughter captured these dramatic images of a sea of destroyed homes. Patricia, are you with me?", "Yes.", "OK. First things first. Are you and your family safe?", "Yes.", "OK, good. Tell us what you're witnessing around you right now in Mexico Beach.", "Well, right now, the water is receding a little bit. There's, I mean, not very -- there's no intact houses that I can -- well, one. Pretty much all the houses are missing roofs, siding. My brother's boat capsized over here. He owns the marina, and all the -- the docks are gone. The water came up to the level of the palm trees, just before the fronds.", "If you had to estimate how deep the water is in these images we're looking at that your daughter captured from just minutes ago, how high do you think that is?", "Well, it went up to the top of a palm tree. And palm trees, these ones are standing about 12 to 15 feet. And it -- the water did go up to the top of a roof. So...", "Now, a lot of people are probably wondering, so I'm going to ask you, why did you and your family decide to ride out the storm?", "Well, we didn't think it was going to be this bad. And we are in a very good, secure place. We're in a condo, four-story, that's solid, construction block. I mean, it's concrete block. It's got, you know, hurricane windows. I mean, so, you know...", "What message would you like to get out to emergency officials in Florida or in Washington, D.C., about what Mexico City -- I'm sorry -- Mexico Beach, Florida, is going through right now?", "Oh, devastation. This is total devastation. I mean, my brother also has a house on the beach that's gone. I mean, there's nothing left of it.", "So we are looking at the images that your daughter took earlier. And it just -- it looks like just an entire neighborhood, block after block, of homes where the water is up to the roof. The homes are completely underwater.", "Yes.", "Normally, what does it look like there? What should we, what would we be looking at right now, were it not for Hurricane Michael?", "You would be looking at some very beautiful homes. You would be looking at a lot of nice boats. You would be looking at, you know, just beautiful beach neighborhood, gorgeous. Not now.", "And what -- what is the last time -- how long have you lived in the area?", "I just moved up here from Miami two-and-a-half years -- I mean, two-and-a-half months ago. And I lived through Hurricane Andrew back in 1992.", "How does it compare? How does this storm, how does Hurricane Michael seem -- they're saying this is the strongest storm.", "Same.", "It seems as strong as Hurricane Andrew to you?", "Same. Same. Same. Same devastation. Same winds. The building we were in is huge. And it was shaking. It was vibrating and rocking. So, huge.", "The concrete building that you're in was rocking?", "Concrete building. Very scary. Very, very scary.", "How old are your -- how old are the people in your family, I mean, the children?", "Well, Tessa (ph) is 12. And I have my brother. We're all adults.", "OK. Everybody is doing OK?", "Yes, yes, yes. No, we're all fine. We're all fine. And we have -- we even have water damage up here. The water was coming in underneath the doors and underneath the windows.", "Four stories up, you have water damage?", "Yes. Yes.", "How about your neighbors? Are they all OK, as far as you can tell?", "They were with -- well, they were with us. They were -- live next door, because these are all also vacation homes, a lot of them. So, you know, a lot of these aren't even -- have people living in them.", "And, Patricia, when you look out at the devastation outside your window, is this something you think will take weeks, months, years to fix?", "I would say -- I would have to say at least as long as it did for Hurricane Andrew, and that took months and months and months. Could be even years.", "All right. Patricia Mulligan, we're glad that you and your family are safe. Thank you so much. Stay in touch. Let us know if you need anything and you're not being -- you're not able to get through to the governor or federal authorities.", "OK.", "Thank you so much.", "All right.", "Let's bring in CNN's Gary Tuchman now. He's live in Crawfordville, Florida, which is southeast of the capital of Florida, Tallahassee. Gary, tell us about the conditions where you are.", "Well, Jake, we just actually moved to a new city not far from Crawfordville, Panacea. And I'm going to tell you why storm surge kills and why it could still kill tonight. This road -- and it is a road -- it's called Surf Road. Ironic name. We drove down this road about seven hours ago before the storm hit. It was an eight-mile drive, and it was fine. And now it's become a lake. As a matter of fact, behind me, it gets to about five feet deep. And the problem is, there's no barriers here whatsoever. And the sun sets about three hours from now. And someone could come down this road, and the speed limit here is 55 miles per hour, and just drive into this water, and their car can float away. And that's why storm surge is so dangerous. And that's why so many people were concerned about it when we heard the storm surge in this area where we are, Panacea, which is east of Panama City, where we heard it can be from nine to 13 feet, the surge. It doesn't appear it was that deep. But, nevertheless, you have water that's five feet deep behind me. What we saw here today, Jake, all over this area, east of Panama City, was people just kind of stunned how strong this hurricane got. We and others reported this was going to be a major hurricane. But we did not know it was going to be 155-mile-per-hour hurricane, a strong Category 4, just two miles short of becoming a Category 5. Never in the history of the state of Florida, with its Panhandle, have they ever had a Category 4 storm hit the Panhandle in recorded weather history. As a matter of fact, you were just talking about Andrew. This is one of the strongest hurricanes that's ever hit the United States. So people knew it was going to be a major hurricane. Didn't know it was going to be this strong. But because people in Florida are so hurricane-savvy, Jake, we have found -- we have been driving all over, and we have found for the most part people did evacuate. They got away from the water. And we have been through lots of small towns in this area, and most of them have been virtually empty. As long as we've been here, we haven't seen any cars passing through here, but I'm absolutely very worried, once the sun sets and it gets dark, that someone could drive through this water, which is now up to five feet deep -- Jake.", "So just to reiterate this, because obviously there are people who are in the middle of the storm and in the path of the storm and also individuals in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, Gary. Where you are right now, just a normal road in the Panhandle, there are no lights, there are no barriers, the speed limit is 55. And behind you, the water actually gets as deep as five feet deep? And so you are extrapolating that it would be very easy for somebody thinking that everything is safe to be driving down this street, seeing some water, thinking maybe it's a couple inches, and then all of a sudden they're in five feet of water.", "Let's put it this way, Jake. When I was driving down it just now with my crew, it's daytime, and I had to put on the brakes very swiftly when I saw the water here. And also, two miles up the road in front of me, and this is a northerly direction, there was a huge tree in the way of the road. We had to drive around the tree, and we just saw that at the last second. So, even during daytime, it's sometimes hard to see when you're being cautious and you're a journalist who has been covering these things now for 30 years. You can imagine what it's like for residents who are going back to their homes at night. Hey, I want to want to go home, want to make sure everything is OK. They drive down here, and this is now a lake. So it's very dangerous, and that is why storm surge is such a huge problem when it comes to hurricanes.", "All right, Gary Tuchman, in the ironically named Panacea, Florida, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Stay safe. CNN meteorologist Jennifer Gray is going to give us the big picture now. She's tracking the storm from the CNN Severe Weather Center. And, Jennifer, explain to us what's happening where our correspondents and crowds are. Let's start with Panama City Beach.", "Panama City Beach is now getting better and better by the minute, which is good news. I know John Berman has been in it all day long, so he will be relieved to know that. We are still getting rain in those areas, but the winds are gradually dying down as this storm heads to the north. It's still very powerful, though, Jake. It has winds of 140 miles per hour, with gusts of 175. It's moving at about 15 miles per hour. It should be right on that Florida/Georgia/Alabama border by the time we get into, say, the 6:00 hour. And so a lot of people will maybe be driving home from work, and you're going to be in the middle of a hurricane. This will most likely be at least a Category 2 by the time it crosses into Georgia. And, of course, it is going to produce very heavy rain. It still has tremendous amount of wind with it, and also tornadoes. That's one thing we have to look for, as well. There's an extreme wind warning in place, and that's basically a long- standing tornado warning, because winds are going to be as strong as a tornado would be. And so you have those extreme wind warnings that are in place. We have a lot of trees in the panhandle, as well as Georgia. We are going to see a lot of trees go down, the power lines go down, as well. We had 130-mile-an-hour gusts at Tyndall Air Force Base today before the gauge broke. So, winds much higher than that. We had reports of winds well over 100 all across the panhandle. And as we go forward in time, look at all of this rain across Georgia, all throughout the overnight hours. Some areas could pick up as much as four to six inches of rain, in just a very shortly amount of time. So, we're going to see flooding across Georgia and then this rain pushes into waterlogged South Carolina and North Carolina as early as tomorrow. And so, yes, this storm is a very fast mover, but it still has a lot of moisture. It's pumping a lot of rain and a lot of wind with it. And so, we're going to pick up 6 to 10 inches, not to mention, we still have hurricane warnings and tropical storm warnings that extend all the way up into the Carolinas. And so, Jake, this is far from over. We are now assessing the damage along the panhandle, those coastal areas. But areas inland, don't let your guard down, because it's coming in the next up couple of hours.", "All right. Jennifer Gray with an ominous warning there, thank you so much. Hurricane Michael, the strongest hurricane to strike the Florida Panhandle on record. Our breaking news coverage continues after this very quick break. Stay with us.", "We're seeing some new and shocking images of the property damage caused by Hurricane Michael. The strong winds on the west end of Panama City Beach, Florida, ripped what appears to be some sort of roof covering or tarp off of a motel there. Let's go now to CNN's Ryan Nobles. He's in Tallahassee, Florida, the capital of that state. Ryan, what kind of conditions are you seeing?", "It's getting worse, Jake. The storm is starting to make its way to Tallahassee. And one of the concerns here, this is a major population center in Florida. You got Florida State University here, of course, the capital of Tallahassee. We're not so much worried about water. There is going to be a significant amount of rain but we're far enough away from the coast where the storm surge won't be a big problem. It's the wind we're worried about, and that's because of these big trees you see behind me here. Tree lined streets cover all of Tallahassee. If these winds blow through in excess of 100 miles per hour, it could cause big problems like what we're starting to see, debris like this littering the roads. This is a pretty big stick. Imagine this hurdling through the air at 100 miles per hour. It could cause major damage. So right now the way people are being advised in Tallahassee is to stay inside, because once the winds kick off, we have had a few major wind gusts, that's when the problems are going to start. The other thing they're worried about is power outages. When those trees start to topple, they're going to take power lines with them. There is some power outages already being experienced in Tallahassee. The mayor warning people there is a good chance that almost everyone in this community could lose power and to be prepared for that. But, Jake, we are really just at the front end of what is going to be a very long couple of hours here in Tallahassee. As this potential category 4 storm force storm makes its way here to Florida's capital -- Jake.", "All right. Let's check in with the mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, right now, Democrat Andrew Gillum, he's running for governor of Florida right now. But he is off the campaign trail, focused on his day job as mayor. Mayor Gillum, thanks for joining us. What are the biggest concerns right for people in Tallahassee?", "Thank you, Jake. First of all, our hearts are going out to our friends, our neighbors, down on the coast. We have seen those devastating images coming in. Obviously, our challenge here in Tallahassee is different than that of the coast. It is the winds. We've got almost 50 percent of our community is covered in tree -- tree cover. That's pretty significant for an urbanized area like us. The strongest of the winds that we're anticipating will only just now be whipping up between now and about 8:00 tonight. And so, what we want our folks to do is obviously to remain in place, remain in shelter, under their own safety and protection, obviously, until this storm makes its way through and its impacts can be assessed and we can make sure we clear roads and streets for emergency vehicles and otherwise to get to folks. We are going to have power outages. We've already got 50,000 of our customers that are out of power, including the emergency operations center where I'm coming to you from. We have lost our power. But we, of course, have lots of redundancy in our system and are on generation. But we know our customers are going to be out, but we will work effectively to get our community back up to 100 percent. The only other thing I would mention to you, Jake, is that we are, because we're the closest neighbor to the coast, are going to be housing a lot of our neighbors who are going to be trying to recover from this devastating storm. And I just want them to know, we're going to do the best we can to help them through this time and get back up on their feet.", "The administrator of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Brock Long, said today he's concerned not enough people in the path of the storm evacuated. Is that the case in Tallahassee? And do you think more broadly the storm caught Florida a bit off guard?", "Well, I definitely think that the storm sort of cracked on us. I mean, Sunday, I was in a different part of the state, you know, on a different mission. And, all of a sudden, we saw these projections coming in that looked like it was going into the gulf, and potentially up our way, and obviously, got back here to help prepare my community. But we were not always certain and communities had to act really quickly to get themselves up to speed. It is my hope that those who need to get out got out. I know we have got six shelters, almost seven, in fact. Seven shelters open in our community, where we're taking in folks. We have taken in people from surrounding areas. And obviously, we're in position to help our neighbors out. But right now we're just hopeful for everybody's safety and security and the aftermath of the devastation that we're seeing.", "And, Mr. Mayor, we're told that the emergency operations center in Tallahassee is offline and using generators right now.", "We are.", "That's the case. How -- is power out in the rest of the city?", "We've got about 120,000 total customers, and about 50,000 are out. And that includes here at our emergency management center. Like I said, of course, we're in no trouble here. We have lots of redundancy. That's why these centers are so important in communities. But we do have a significant number of customers that are out, and we, of course, given the wind conditions we're under, cannot send repair crews out at this time. So if you're out, you will be out until the storm has made its way through, and we're able to get out and assess the damage.", "You have acknowledged and you're not the first one, that this storm crept up on Florida in a way. Are you concerned that the state is not fully prepared? Is Tallahassee fully prepared?", "Yes, well, I can tell you, Tallahassee is prepared. We pre- staged over 100 utility linemen in our community in advance of the storm. On Thursday, we got another almost 500 total that are expected to be here to assist us in our repairing process. That's six times the normal utility linemen we have available to us. We've also got significant generation here for our lights, for our sewer system and our pumping stations. So, yes, we're prepared. And it is my hope that our neighbors are also able to get themselves ready for the impact of this storm. Either way, we're going to be here for each other. This region is a close region, lots of people in my community also have homes down at the beach. Many of the folks in this area are very familiar across this part of the state, we're going to do what we can to be there for each other.", "Mayor Gillum, you said about 50,000 of the 120,000 customers in Tallahassee for power are without power right now. That includes your emergency operations center, which is on backup generators. How long do you think Tallahassee will be -- those individuals will be without power?", "Well, I mean, many of these -- just to put it in perspective, many of those 50 -- once a circuit goes down, you're talking about, you know, 15,000, 20,000 customers on a single circuit. So those fixes are not necessarily long-term, or long in duration. But we're not going to be able to get to them, obviously, until this major storm has gotten past us and we're able to assess and get our crews out on the streets. I'm the least bit concerned about that process, because I think we're well-placed to recover from it, and to get folks back up and going. Just by comparison, during Hurricane Hermine, we had 90 percent of our system impacted by the storm. Within 72 hours, we had 90 percent of our customers back online. I'm not assuming it will take that long in this case, but I'm certainly wanting to warn people that we don't have people online right now getting power restored. It's not safe. Once the storm has made its way through, we look forward to obviously getting out there and assessing the damage and getting the system put back together.", "Are you confident that the citizens of Tallahassee are aware that even after the storm has passed, the danger has not? In other words, there are downed power lines, there's flash flooding. There are all sorts of ways that Floridians will die, even after the storm has passed. Do they know that? Are they aware?", "Yes, Jake. That's an important warning, right? I mean, very, very few folks die necessarily in the storm itself. It's oftentimes after the impact that's happened, which is why we sent out warning signals saying, listen, stay in your homes, until you're given the all-clear via our various forms of communication, stay in your homes. We have live wires, you got trees down. You have other impacts. The possibility of other live flooding -- flash flooding in our community. Once we have been able to assess the damage, we will give the all- clear. And we're all on all social media platforms, we're on public radio, able to communicate with our customers and half still have power themselves in their homes. We're going to do our part. We need everybody to do their part so that we don't have folks who make it through this storm and then do something not so smart that puts themselves in danger and in harm's way.", "All right. Mr. Mayor, I'm going let you go back to work. If there is anything you need from the state or from the federal government that the citizens of Tallahassee are not getting, you please let us know here at CNN, and we will do what we can to bring attention to what you're saying. Good luck with the storm.", "Absolutely. Thank you all. Godspeed and the recovery for everyone.", "Yes. Hurricane Michael continuing its devastation in Florida. We're going to talk to Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio, next. 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{"id": "CNN-67926", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2003-3-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/13/ltm.11.html", "summary": "Questions Concerning Disappearance, Discovery of Elizabeth Smart", "utt": ["There is so much joy yet there are so many questions concerning the disappearance and discovery of Elizabeth Smart. Earlier this morning, I talked with Elizabeth's uncle, David Smart, about her return home.", "She looked very good and in good health. I know that Elizabeth is a very strong individual and that with all that she's been through that we have absolutely no idea what she's been through.", "Now for more on the case, let's go live to Sandy, Utah. And that's where we find the city's police chief, Stephen Chapman, this morning. Thank you very much for joining us this morning. I know you haven't gotten much sleep, sir. So, Chief Chapman, can you take us back to the moment that Elizabeth Smart was spotted in your town yesterday?", "Yes. It was very exciting for the Sandy City Police Department after we discovered that it actually was Elizabeth Smart. We were very surprised. As we go back to the actual time when we found her, of course, as you know already, two of our citizens called 911 and reported that they had seen a person matching the description of Emanuel, which had been in the local news here just the day, that same day. As we responded, we found three persons who were pedestrians, basically, on the street and we approached and talked to them, our officers did.", "How long did it take for Elizabeth to identify herself?", "Well, after some questioning, we were able to determine very shortly after contacting her that it was very possibly Elizabeth Smart. She was then, along with the other two, transported to the Sandy Police Department, where further interviews took place and it was at that time that we knew positively that it was Elizabeth Smart and Emanuel or Mr. Mitchell and his companion.", "Is it true that your officers had to ask Elizabeth a number of times what her name was?", "Initially we did. As the questioning took place on the street with the other two present, and we questioned her, it took some time before we could actually determine that it was her.", "Did she seem reluctant to identify herself?", "In some respects, yes. But under the circumstances that was probably very normal.", "So you didn't really find anything odd about that?", "Well, actually, yes, it was a little bit odd that some of the answers she was giving at that time, not knowing all the circumstances immediately that some of those answers were given that she had given us under the questioning.", "And, Chief, what did that suggest to you?", "Oh, I think there is a fear factor that we have to look at in reference to what was going on immediately as we approached that group and the circumstances that she was under in reference to being with those two persons at the time.", "It was reported at the time that you saw her for the first time, or your officers did, she was wearing a veil, a wig and sunglasses.", "That's correct.", "So it must have been very difficult to make out who she really was.", "Oh, immediately it was very difficult. If you were just to drive by and not ask further questions and be persistent in that questioning, you would have thought that they were just a homeless group, a transient group that were passing through. But you would have had to delve into the case a little bit further and question them further, which our officers did.", "Did she ever explain to anybody why she was dressed that way?", "She did, but I'm not at liberty nor do I know the exact answers to that question.", "Are you able to tell us whether she was able to tell you where she had been?", "Actually, when, after we had determined that she was Elizabeth Smart, we turned her and the case over, back over to the Salt Lake City Police Department. They did the interviews in depth, along with the FBI. So that information I do not have at this point.", "And were you with her long enough to be able to determine whether she had been abused?", "I'm not able to comment on that at this point.", "And are there any other details you can give us just about her state of mind at the time that you sat down and talked with her?", "No. Other than the fact that she was very, she appeared to be in good health and that she was very conversant after we got past a certain point and gave very good answers to the questions that she was given, taking into account the circumstances that she was under at the time of the questioning.", "Did she ever say she tried to escape?", "I don't have that information.", "All right, well, I know that your community has been under a microscope and we really appreciate your sharing with us the drama of what unfolded in your town yesterday. Police Chief Stephen Chapman, thanks for your time.", "You're very welcome.", "Good luck to you. 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{"id": "NPR-9189", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2019-08-21", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/08/21/753014751/in-fight-with-his-coalition-government-italys-prime-minister-resigns", "title": "In Fight With His Coalition Government, Italy's Prime Minister Resigns", "summary": "Italy's prime minister has announced his resignation — blaming his right-wing coalition partner for withdrawing his support.", "utt": ["After 14 months of infighting, Italy's government has now essentially collapsed. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte resigned yesterday. He blamed political chaos and jockeying for power within his own coalition. And that coalition was only in power a short time, but it scared the European establishment. It antagonized the EU. It embraced strongman-style politics, and it demonized migrants.", "NPR's Sylvia Poggioli is on the line from Rome. Hi, Sylvia.", "Hi, Noel.", "So I imagine people are wondering, what on earth happens next in Italy?", "Well, as The Economist wrote today, no one knows what comes next. President Sergio Mattarella will consult political leaders to see if there's a viable alternative majority in parliament for a new coalition. If not, he'll dissolve parliament and call snap elections. And that was the original goal of the man who triggered the government's fall, the controversial deputy prime minister, interior minister and leader of the far-right League Party, Matteo Salvini, who pulled out of the coalition two weeks ago.", "You know, Salvini's popularity soared to almost 40%, thanks to his anti-immigrant policy. He wanted to take advantage of that to become the next government leader. But yesterday he received a stinging rebuke from Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who accused him of institutional recklessness that can lead to political uncertainty and financial instability. And one opposition leader accused Salvini of creating a climate of hatred that's led to a sharp rise in racist attacks against people of color.", "OK. So tell us a little bit more about Salvini 'cause this guy is clearly freaking out the European Union in many ways.", "Absolutely. You know, after his nationalist League Party formed this very unlikely alliance with the anti-establishment Five Stars Movement, which is the biggest party in parliament, Salvini quickly took over the government agenda. Five Stars went along with his tough anti-immigrant measures. They even approved his parliamentary immunity when Salvini was investigated for holding migrants hostage while not allowing them to disembark at an Italian port. And Five Stars never complained about Salvini's savage criticism of the European Union and its regulations, which he describes as a ball and chain on Italy's foot.", "Italy's one of the EU's largest economies. Like some other populist-led countries, Salvini pushed his government to challenge the whole idea of European integration. And, you know, Salvini has also raised alarms with his language, which critics say echoes that of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.", "Wow.", "But his fans love him. This summer, Salvini held a very public work vacation at a beach resort. He filled Facebook with images of himself, naked torso, mojito in one hand, a rosary in the other, while disco dancers gyrated to the national anthem. Even in the country of Silvio Berlusconi, it was an unprecedented sight.", "Yeah, it sounds like it. So what are the chances of a new coalition government?", "Well, there's talk of an alliance between Five Stars and its archenemy, the center-left Democratic Party. First they'll have to overcome intense mutual distrust, but there's also a sense of urgency. Italy never holds elections in the fall. That's when the government drafts a new budget. And if Italy doesn't stick to EU demands to contain its budget deficit, it will have to raise sales taxes. That's devastating for consumers and for the country's feeble growth. Commentators are saying Salvini seriously underestimated his political rival's determination.", "NPR's Sylvia Poggioli. Thanks so much.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["NOEL KING, HOST", "NOEL KING, HOST", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE", "NOEL KING, HOST", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE", "NOEL KING, HOST", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE", "NOEL KING, HOST", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE", "NOEL KING, HOST", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE", "NOEL KING, HOST", "SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-80914", "program": "JUDY WOODRUFF'S INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2004-1-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/05/ip.00.html", "summary": "Clark Announces Tax Reform Plan; Kerry Expects to Place Third in Iowa", "utt": ["I am Judy Woodruff. And even though we are coming to you today from Los Angeles, like many fans of presidential politics, our hearts are in Iowa. Exactly two weeks before the first big contest of this election year, most of the '04 Democrats are stumping in Iowa, including front-runner Howard Dean, who is preparing to pick up another big name endorsement. Let's check in now with our senior political correspondent Candy Crowley. She's reporting for us today from Des Moines -- Candy.", "Good afternoon, Judy. I know it's still good morning for you there in California. I just wanted to assure you, you could probably see over my right-hand shoulder John Kerry who, of course, you're going to interview a little later on. We've been covering a speech he just gave about special interests versus the interests of the middle class. It will probably not come as a shock to him, but certainly was a disappointment to learn that a former colleague, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, will tomorrow endorse Howard Dean, obviously, John Kerry's chief rival. Bradley decided to endorse Dean, and we are told that tomorrow morning in Manchester they will make the official announcement, and then on here to Des Moines, where they will make it again, much as they did with Al Gore. And that really is the point here. Maybe when you look at the former senator from New Jersey Bill Bradley, and said, \"Well, he's going to endorse Howard Dean,\" it might not have that big of a pow. But when you put that together with the fact that former vice president Al Gore has endorsed Howard Dean it's kind of a daily double. Here are the two main players in 2000 for the Democrats, now saying that they will support Howard Dean, that they endorse Howard Dean. This is another boost for him, and another disappointment no doubt from his colleagues, including John Kerry.", "Well, Candy, we are today exactly two weeks from the Iowa caucuses. You've obviously been following the candidates, talking to people on the ground there. What are you hearing? What's the state of this race right now?", "Well, the state of the race is that obviously in Iowa, what all of them would like to do, is slow down Howard Dean's momentum. The caucuses, as you know, Judy, are very hard to predict what's going to happen. So what everyone is doing now is reaching out for those undecided voters saying, look, you know, here's your choice. John Kerry obviously is here selling both his experience, as well as what he calls his passion for middle-class values, and for those things, those forgotten middle-class Americans. So he is here, I'm told, to give a very passionate speech. Prior to this one, here again it was about corporate interests and accusing the Bush White House of allowing special interests to take over legislative writing. We have others who are out in the field. Congressman Gephardt, with the most to lose here in Iowa, campaigning very hard on his credentials, saying this is no time for on-the-job training. The others, John Edwards giving a speech tomorrow, talking about No Child Left Behind. All of them meeting with caucus goers, people they expect to show up on what may be a snowy 19th of January here in Iowa, trying to reach out to those undecided and move them over into their -- into their side. What I'm told here by some experts that I talked to this morning is that they believe Howard Dean had again, the most visible, that probably the undecideds may break to the others. The problem, as you know, there are eight others, and you divide up that vote amongst the undecided, it gets pretty diffused. So Howard Dean still the man of the moment, still the guy to beat -- Judy.", "All right. It's -- No matter what the weather is, and we're reading there's a big snowstorm there, this is clearly crunch time. Those candidates have to get out. They have to meet the voters. It's down to the wire in Iowa. Candy, thank you very much. We're going to be talking to you every day this week. Thanks very much. Well, now we head back east to New Hampshire where Wesley Clark is trying to position himself as an antidote to Howard Dean. Today, Clark proposed what he calls the most sweeping tax reform plan in years. CNN's Dan Lothian reports from Nashua.", "Wesley Clark, who has ruled out settling for the job of vice president, today was making his case for the top job. Speaking at a presidential forum in Nashua, New Hampshire, Clark unveiled a sweeping tax reform plan which he says will benefit working families.", "Families of four, making under $50,000 a year, will not pay a single penny in federal income tax. All tax paying families with children that make under $100,000 a year will get a tax cut. I'll close the corporate loopholes that give companies tax breaks for moving their headquarters and revenue overseas. Now the second thing we're going to do under my tax reform plan is go to those families with incomes greater than $1 million a year and ask that they pay a five percentage point higher tax rate.", "Clark introduced a New Hampshire couple with a combined income of a little more than $45,000 a year to highlight his case of relief for American families. The retired general trails the front-runner, Howard Dean, by a wide margin here in New Hampshire. He's hoping to make up some ground with just weeks to go before the first contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. Dan Lothian, CNN, Raymond, New Hampshire.", "Senator Joe Lieberman is also in the Granite State. He leads the headlines in our \"Campaign News Daily.\" Senator Lieberman told a group of workers this morning that there is too much partisanship in Washington. Lieberman said his 30-year record in Congress proved that he can work across party lines. He also said that he would appoint Republicans and independents to posts inside his administration. Back in Iowa, John Edwards has a full day of meetings planned with the party faithful, beginning this morning in Des Moines. Edwards planned five separate meetings today with Democratic Party activists in five different Iowa cities. Also in Iowa today, John Kerry proposed an economic package that includes billions of dollars to help states with budget problems. Kerry also proposed an increase in the minimum wage, and he pledged to keep U.S. jobs from moving overseas.", "I will scour that tax code, and when I'm president, we will not leave one reward or one incentive for one Benedict Arnold company or CEO that want to abandon the interests of America, take their money and jobs overseas. We're not going to help them to do that.", "Senator Kerry joins us now from Des Moines, Iowa. Senator, thank you very much for talking with me. We appreciate it.", "I'm glad to be with you. Thank you.", "Senator, first about last night's debate. You and several of your fellow Democrats went after Howard Dean. You differed with him on taxes. You said he doesn't have the ability to stand up to President Bush. But the consensus after the debate is that these attacks, and previous attacks, are not hurting Howard Dean. Are you confident that this is the way for you to win the nomination, to go after him?", "Well, when you say the consensus, you're talking about, you know, sort of the pundit world. Voters are listening. Voters want to know if you're going to raise their taxes or not raise their taxes. Howard Dean is going to raise taxes on middle class Americans. If you have two kids, you're going to pay an extra $2,500, $3,000. Now look, these are real differences. This isn't going after somebody. This is pointing out a difference in an approach to a policy choice that has an impact on people's lives. I don't want to raise taxes on the middle class. I'm going to balance the budget, and I'm going to cut the deficit in half in four years. But I don't want to punish the middle class for George Bush's mistakes.", "But aren't you put then, Senator, in a position of defending the president's tax cut plan?", "No, I'm not.", "Defending the president?", "I'm not. No, I'm not, because the president -- I voted against the president's tax cuts. Because the president's tax cut includes an enormous tax cut for the wealthiest Americans that we can't afford. I'm going to roll that back. I'm going to roll back the tax cut for the wealthy so we have the money. For people earning more than $200,000 a year, they're not going to get the tax cut. We're going to invest in health care for Americans. And we're going to invest in education, and other things. And we're going to shut down the loopholes that let companies go to Bermuda, and use tax advantages to dump the Bill on the rest of America. I think that's wrong.", "Senator, what about Wesley Clark's plan that he outlined today to eliminate taxes for all families earning $50,000 and under, and to cut taxes for all families with children under $100,000? What about that proposal?", "I haven't seen the proposal. Everybody's going to have their own proposal. What I know is we need to be able to invest in education. We need to be able to invest in health care for America. I have a health care plan that will lower the cost of health care for all those people who work today who get their health care at the place they work. Because employers and employees alike are going crazy with the increased premiums, increased deductibles, increased copays, and they can't afford it anymore. We've got to get control of health care costs. And I give people an enormous tax cut by actually reducing the burden of their health care.", "Senator, you're out there talking about the economy and about taxes at a time when the economy seems to be roaring back. We've got record low interest rates. You've got productivity is up. The economy's growing. Even unemployment is dropping. Are you sure that this isn't an issue that the Democrats really can't win on up against the president?", "No. Because corporations have had a 46 percent increase in their profits, but the workers of America, people who earn their wages, have had only a three cent increase. And that is literally the lowest amount in 40 years. It's also a jobless recovery. I mean, George Bush's recovery works for the company but it doesn't work for the people in America who are looking for work. And he has the worst job creation record since Herbert Hoover was president. I hope we have a great economy next year. The economy is not the only issue. We need health care for Americans. We need to protect the environment. We need to be fixing our schools. And changing No Child Left Behind, because the president is leaving millions of children behind. There is an extraordinary agenda, and I intend to lead and address that agenda.", "Senator, quickly, a question about politics in Iowa. Don't you need to come in at least second in Iowa in order to preserve your candidacy in New Hampshire, the next contest?", "I don't believe -- look, David Yepson (ph), who is the expert on Iowa, says there are three tickets out of Iowa. And I've always campaigned with the notion that I wanted one of those tickets. But most people have suggested that I'm, you know, going to be in third place. I think we're moving out here. I feel a lot of energy. I feel terrific about my campaign. People are listening. We're working hard. And it's the voters out here who are going to decide. And I respect that. I think other people should, too.", "So you're saying you can come in third in Iowa and still be in a strong position in New Hampshire?", "I'm not talking about places, positions. I'm talking about what matters to the people of Iowa. I'm going to work for every vote that I can work for. I'm going to do the best I can. And the voters will decide where we come in. So we don't need to pre-decide it today. What I'm going to do is take my message about fairness, about making the economy work for Americans, about having a president who's willing to fight...", "All right.", "... for working people in America who are having a harder and harder time making ends meet.", "You are right, Senator. It's the voters who are going to speak. And we thank you very much for talking with us today. We'll see you on the campaign trail.", "Nice to be with you.", "Thank you.", "Indeed. Thank you.", "Well, even as all the rivals of Howard Dean try to take him down, the spotlight on him keeps getting bigger. Up next, Dean as a cover story. We're going to get a behind the scenes take on the candidate, and whether all the publicity he's getting is a mixed blessing. Plus, a new twist on gun politics, with help from a major retailer. And later, President Bush revisits a centerpiece of his domestic agenda. Will education reform help or hurt him on election day? 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{"id": "CNN-248476", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2015-02-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/02/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Another Foot of Snow for Parts of Massachusetts; Boston Declares Snow Emergency; Parts of Ohio Under Winter Storm Warning; Saudis Face Trouble on Two Borders", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Wolf Blitzer. It's 1:00 p.m. here in Washington, 6:00 in London, 8:00 in Kiev, 9:00 p.m. in Riyadh. Wherever you are watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. Up first, here in the United States, the Northeast gets hit by a one- two punch of winter weather. Millions of Americans are now dealing with snow, sleet, even blizzard-like conditions. Massachusetts is getting pounded for the second time in a week. Parts of the state could get hit with another 14 inches of snow. Earlier, the storm pummeled the Midwest, areas of Northeast Ohio, including Cleveland, they are still under a winter storm warning. A Toledo, Ohio police officer died while shoveling snow. Heavy snow is causing major problems for drivers. In Nebraska, two people died in car dozens on slick roads, and the storm is snarling air travel all across the United States. More than 3,500 flights were canceled today, that according to FlightAware.com. In Boston, it's snowing now one to two inches an hour in areas around the city. And it could get up to a foot of additional snow before it's all over. It's making driving conditions pretty treacherous. CNN's Brian Todd is joining us now. He's braving those roadways. He's driving just north of the city. What's it like up there, Brian?", "Wolf, it's very treacherous and it gets worse just about every hour. What's interesting about this storm is even though it's less volume than last week's storm -- you know, last week, they had over two feet in many areas. This week, it's maybe between 10 and 14 inches predicted overall. We're in a moving vehicle here on a side road just off the interstate, off Interstate 93 South. We're going to pull over here and show you from my camera, go out the dash camera here. As we head toward the interstate, we're going to pull over and show you what some of the road crews and motorists are up against. As we pull over here, you can see out my dash cam, there's a depot here where they're staging some vehicles from. I'm going to talk to the dash cam a second as our photojournalist, Khalil Abdallah, gets his camera out. This is a staging area. But one of the things they're running into out here, Wolf, is, number one, visibility is really bad. Even though it's less snow than last week, the visibility, we're told, is worse. We've been talking to road crews all day along these roads. They say visibility is a lot worse than it was even though there's less this week than last. Another issue, where to put the snow? You've got huge snow mounds all over the place here. There's really nowhere to go on the roads. If you get stuck, if you get in a jam and you think you're going to get stranded, there's really no place to get pulled over. These people pulled over here. This is what the police are telling us they don't want people to do. They got snowed over here. But we also just ran into someone who was trying to avoid someone coming in from a side road. Couldn't avoid them. Ran into a snowbank instead. So, there's just nowhere to go. If you think you're going to get stranded, if you think you need to pull over, there's nowhere to go. And that includes on the interstate. They're telling people if you think you are having problems on the road, get completely off the interstate. Don't pull over on the side. It will complicate matters for the snowplow crews. Massachusetts state officials, Wolf, tell us they have 3,000 vehicles on the roads right now, spreaders, plows, other things, just trying to get these roads clear. But, as you can see, it's still coming down at a rate that's a little too fast right now. It's coming down faster than they can clear it from the roads. So, that's a problem, Wolf, as we head into the rush hour, the evening rush hour. This is a snow storm, this day, that is affecting both rush hours. It was bad in the morning. It's going to be bad in the afternoon.", "Yes, and there's more snow on the way. And just look what happened in that whole Boston-New England area. Brian, be careful over there. I know those roads are treacherous, very, very icy and slippery as well. And as Brian just said, Massachusetts, this week, is getting a lot more snow, this on the heels of last week's history storm. Joining us on the phone right now is Peter Judge. He's a spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. Peter, Boston already has declared a snow emergency. So, what's it like now, coming on the heels of what you guys went through only a few days ago?", "Well, it's been a challenge. Fortunately, we haven't had the really strong winds. Unfortunately, it's been -- visibility has been awful, as we just heard, simply because of the rate of snow, one to two inches an hour. And it will continue, I think, well into the home commute this afternoon.", "Are you telling people to stay off the roads? I know schools in Boston are closed today. What's the latest on that front?", "Right. Across the state, most schools have taken the day off. And we ask folks to stay off the roads if you don't have to be there. Take advantage of public transportation. This morning's commute really wasn't that bad because I think a lot of people decided to take a snow day themselves, maybe even trying to recover from staying up late last night watching the Super Bowl. But, nonetheless, we hope this afternoon, come the commute, it's not a disaster only because I think the number of vehicles on the road is not going to be your normal afternoon commute.", "Yes, a lot of people are staying home which is smart. A quick question. Did you get most of last week's cleanup done before this new storm rolled in?", "Not 100 percent. We were still working late into yesterday afternoon trucking a lot of snow out of the area, making every effort to get ready for this snow. I know the city of Boston is scrambling now because tomorrow, they planning on having a duck boat parade for the Patriots through downtown Boston and it's going to be a real challenge to get those streets ready for that parade.", "All right. Well, Boston is strong, as we all know. So, let's see what they can do. Congratulations on that Patriots Super Bowl win, by the way.", "OK. I'll take all the credit. Thanks.", "All right, thank you. All right, it's not just the Northeast getting hit hard by that winter storm. Martin Savidge is joining us, now, from his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Martin, give us an update on what's going on there. I see it's pretty bad.", "Yes, it is, Wolf. As a matter of fact, it should be improving. The storm is actually moving away from us. It's been through here. It dumped about eight to 10 inches downtown Cleveland. But it's the wind that's proving to be really brutal. A wind that is now blasting directly out of the east. That's why I'm doing my radio announcer impersonation just to protect my side of the face here. The snow and the cold are a one-two combination that's really impacting today. Just about every school up here has been closed. The roads are snow covered. They're still very treacherous because of the fact that plowing is made difficult by the drifting. It's also made difficult by the fact that it's still snowing. And then, with temperatures this cold, the salt is not as effective as it usually is. Airports open but many flights delayed or canceled. And then, on top of that, just getting around on the streets, even on foot, is extremely difficult. We thought it was going to stop at around noon, apparently that is not the case. The snow is still coming down. The wind is still blowing. It's still a very difficult day here in the Midwest and especially in northeast Ohio -- Wolf.", "Yes, the good news, though, is the folks in Cleveland, your home town, like the folks in Buffalo, my home town, they know how to deal with snow. They're used to it so they'll do OK. I'm sure. Be careful out there. I know it's cold and windy and snowy. Martin reporting from Cleveland. Still ahead, we have new reports that the United States may start arming Ukrainian rebels. This as we get an inside look at the damage the war there has caused. Take a look at this. You're looking at the airport at Donetsk. Once a symbol of progress, now reduced, literally, to rubble. We're going live to eastern Ukraine for a report. Our own Nick Paton Walsh is on the scene. And later, Republican presidential hopeful, Mike Huckabee, making headlines again, comparing homosexuality to drinking and smoking. We're going to talk about that. What's going on in Iowa, getting closer to those Iowa caucuses. Lots of politics happening here in the United States."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "PETER JUDGE, SPOKESMAN, MASSACHUSETTS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (via telephone)", "BLITZER", "JUDGE", "BLITZER", "JUDGE", "BLITZER", "JUDGE", "BLITZER", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-147738", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2010-2-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1002/04/ng.01.html", "summary": "Bounty Hunter Offers Croslin Bond for Information", "utt": ["Breaking news tonight. Satsuma, Florida, a 5- year-old girl tucked into bed, five hours later, she`s gone. Daddy comes home from the night shift to find not a trace of little Haleigh. Last person to see her alive, new stepmother 18-year-old Misty Croslin, who takes to the airwaves to claim she`s innocent. But even in that one brief interview, she can`t keep her story straight, including a 180 on a lie detector she flunked. Bombshell tonight. After Haleigh`s father, Ronald Cummings, and baby- sitter-turned-stepmother Misty Croslin both handcuffed, arrested, booked, Cummings talks first. Stepmother Misty Croslin does the same. As we go to air, more jailhouse tapes, video and audio, hours -- hours -- of Misty Croslin yakking, hours of visits with Mommy, Daddy, grandmother, brother, all caught on video. At this hour, investigators combing the tapes for evidence that may help find Haleigh. Croslin cracking behind bars, desperate, sobbing to get out of jail now, admitting to repeat drug sales, even ratting out her own brother on a felony. And claims tonight from behind bars her drug deals are to blame for little Haleigh`s disappearance. Why? Then she reveals she`s got information she will use to get out of jail. This as we learn the same bounty hunter who bailed out tot mom Casey Anthony now considering the same thing for Croslin. Evidence emerging Croslin did not want to be bothered baby-sitting the night Haleigh disappears. With Haleigh`s father still in isolation tonight, pressure mounting. Where is 5-year-old Haleigh?", "I`m going to prison. I`m telling you.", "For how long?", "I`ve got eight -- eight trafficking charges.", "Huh?", "I have eight trafficking charges.", "How long do you think you`re going to do?", "About 21 years.", "No! You`re not going to do 21 years.", "I`m going to prison. Donna is going to prison. Ronald is going to prison. We`re all going to prison, Tim, unless I can come out and tell them something.", "Huh?", "Unless I come out and tell them something. That`s the only way I`m not going.", "Well, what do you know, Sis?", "Tim, I don`t.", "You don`t know nothing?", "No, bubba.", "Who was you", "I know, man. It sucks. It should have listened to you.", "I told you, don`t be getting into that", "I know, Daddy.", "And now your brother`s", "It`s OK. I`m going to -- Dad, it`s going to be OK. I will get out. They`re not going to keep me forever.", "I don`t want you in there at all!", "Yes, but you know, what -- I got to learn the lesson. I`m OK, you guys. I`m really OK. I`m doing fine. I mean, I hate being in here. Of course I do. Robert Fields is trying to bond me out right now. He`s trying to get me out. But if he doesn`t, then, you know, I`ll be here. There`s nothing I can do about it.", "Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. As we go to air, we obtain more jailhouse tapes, secretly recorded video and audio, hours of Misty Croslin yakking, including hours of visits with Mommy, Daddy, grandmother, brother, all caught on video. At this hour, investigators combing the tapes for evidence that may help find Haleigh.", "Dude, you guys have to send me some money. I`m so hungry!", "OK. I promise. As soon as we -- hopefully, we`ll get our taxes on our card tomorrow, and we`ll send you at least $100.", "I`m so hungry! They don`t feed you anything, and I`m just so hungry!", "God, she`s", "Hello?", "Hey, bubba.", "Hey, Sis. How`re you doing?", "I`m hungry! We get to ear at 4:00 in the morning. We get to eat at 11:30, and then we eat at 4:00 again in the afternoon, and that`s all we get to eat.", "I know,", "Yes. I be eating it because I be hungry.", "You got to do what you got to do to survive.", "I just want some", "I might not even be going to prison, Wendy (ph). I don`t have a felony record. They`re just trying to scare us, dude.", "I`m not talking to nobody.", "Don`t talk to nobody.", "We`re not.", "I`m telling you. People done told me in here and people -- I don`t have no felony record, I might have to sit here for four months, five months until I go to court, but I ain`t going to prison.", "Well, your mother said to tell you that Pop said to tell you that be careful what you say because they got a snitch in there with you.", "Oh, I know.", "Straight out to Art Harris, investigative journalist at Artharris.com. What is the latest, Art? I understand there`s actually a possibility that Leonard Padilla may try to bail her out.", "I`ve spoken to Leonard Padilla, Nancy, and he is very willing to do it, says he has the wherewithal, like he did in the Anthony case, but he needs some blessing from her lawyer. I know he`s in touch, or trying to be in touch with the family, but has not gotten the green light yet.", "Art Harris, what else is happening? More of these jailhouse audio and videotapes released, hours of her talking to mother, daddy, grandmother, brother. And in fact, I noticed in one of these tapes as we were all listening to them, she says, Well, I might go ahead and break down and talk to investigators and tell them something in order to get out.", "She does say that, Nancy, and it`s unclear what that is. And you know, who needs detectives when you have, you know, a defendant accused, speaking freely, confessing to her parents, which, you know, can - - you know, they can use these tapes in court. And she is just saying one thing after another that is burying her in the drug case. But what people want to know and investigators want to know is what can they find in here that will lead them to Haleigh? I`m told that they have redacted this so that there`s a lot, Nancy, that we have not heard. I mean, we`ve heard so much, but only the police know a chunk of information that she did say we don`t know.", "Everyone, tonight, we get -- we obtain more of those secretly recorded jailhouse tapes. Misty Croslin, the key to the answer, where is 5-year-old Haleigh. Take a listen.", "Hello?", "Hey, Mama.", "Hey, baby. What are you doing?", "Don`t cry because you`re going to make me cry, and I can`t handle it.", "I`m so scared for you!", "I know. It`s OK. I need you to go over to Tina`s and get my cell phone and stuff and my camera and wallet and everything, and I want you both to come visit me.", "It`s got to be approved because I don`t know, probation, they have to approve", "We got no gas money.", "And we ain`t got no gas right now. But they did approve me and we`re going to get up there one day this week, hopefully.", "I love you, baby.", "Because I really want to see you guys.", "Huh?", "I said I really want to see you guys.", "I`m coming to see you, I promise, OK?", "OK. I mean, I can talk for 15 minutes, but...", "OK. I love you! Your dad wants to say something.", "OK. I love you, too.", "Hello?", "Hey, bubba.", "Hey, Sis.", "Bubba, can you please try to get me out?", "They`re working on it right now, baby sis.", "How? Who`s working on it?", "I think your lawyer`s working on getting you out.", "Do you know how -- how long?", "Huh?", "Do you know how long?", "No, Sis, I don`t.", "You got income tax?", "Even with my income tax, Sis, I still couldn`t", "Ten percent would be $9,500.", "Yes.", "We are taking your calls live. It seems as if they`re living in a parallel universe. They don`t get it. They`re in jail. They`re looking at 180 years behind bars. Out to you, Dr. Bethany Marshall, psychologist", "Well, she may be on psychotropic medication to stabilize her while she`s detoxing. But Nancy, I do not see her as vulnerable, frightened or scared. I think she`s jonesing for her next hit. And I listened to all these...", "What does that mean, jumping from her next hit?", "Jonesing -- jonesing for her next hit. If she`s an opiate abuser and she`s detoxed and she`s behind bars, she`s desperate for her next hit. Did you hear the desperation, the manipulation, the pleading? She calls her own grandmother and tries to get her grandmother to fork over $10,000 to bail her out. She doesn`t care about the grandmother. She cares about her next hit. And if Leonard Padilla bails her out and she goes back on drugs, the detectives will have lost all the leverage they have with her. The only leverage to get this girl to tell the truth is that she can get out or do - - she`s not thinking plea bargain, she`s just thinking can she do her next -- I keep using the word hit, opiates, whatever. I think that`s what she`s on. That`s their leverage to get her to tell the truth.", "We are taking your calls live, and joining us tonight is Leonard Padilla, the bounty hunter who`s offering to bond Misty Croslin out of jail. Leonard, you managed to work a miracle and get tot mom out of jail until that fell apart. Do you think you`re going to try the same strategy in this case?", "No, absolutely not. I learned my lesson there. This situation would only resolve in her being bailed out if she gave us information that led us to the child prior to her being released on bail. We would not put the bail down until she gave us the information and the child was found. And I`ve made that clear to everybody. Some people don`t want to understand that, but I`ve made it very clear. Now, I`m not saying that the law enforcement method is not going to work. All I`m doing is coming up with an option and the fact that the attorney can pay me for, you know, $2 or a small stipend. He would feel comfortable as being covered by the attorney-client privilege. When you work for an attorney, you have his privilege also.", "Yes, he -- we talked to him a couple times.", "What is he saying?", "I don`t want to say on the phone.", "Oh, am I getting a long time?", "Huh?", "Am I getting a long time?", "No, it`s not -- nothing about that, it`s -- I can`t -- I can`t talk on the phone, Misty, about it because it`s recorded and he doesn`t want no one to know.", "Hello?", "Grandma, I love you! Can you please accept my phone call?", "Do what?", "Will you accept to talk to me, please?", "I`m talking to you, honey.", "Grandma, I don`t want to be in here!", "Misty, I know you don`t. I don`t want you in there, honey, but there`s -- we do -- we kept telling you, honey, to stay away from that stuff. You can`t do that.", "I need someone to try to bail me out!", "I have no money. Your dad owes me money. Now I can`t even pay my -- my payment for my house insurance -- or not insurance but...", "Can you get ahold of Dad and tell him to put some minutes on my phone so they can talk to me and come down and visit me?", "I can`t get ahold of him, either. He don`t have a phone. He calls me.", "When he -- when he calls you, will you please tell him to...", "Yes, I will.", "Because I really can`t handle this, Grandma!", "I know you couldn`t, and I -- I wish there was something could be done, but...", "I just need to get bailed out!", "The money that they want to bail you out, there`s nobody got that kind of...", "I`m OK, like, you know, I don`t like being in St. John`s County because it sucks.", "How long are you locked down a day?", "All day, but I get out two times a day for an hour.", "Oh.", "I just went to see the mental health today, so they`re going to be giving me some Zoloft or something, some Prozac or something for my nerves and", "That`s cool.", "Yes. Dude, you guys have to send me some money. I`m so hungry!", "Misty, OK, I promise. Soon as we have -- hopefully, we`ll get our taxes on our card tomorrow and we`ll send you at least $100.", "I`m so hungry! They don`t feed you anything, and I`m just so hungry!", "God, she`s", "She`s not starving. Number one, lunch, exhibit A, hot dog with mustard and/or ketchup, baked beans, macaroni salad, bread, cookie, calcium-fortified beverage. I had half of a hamburger patty that I made for everybody else yesterday. That was lunch. Dinner -- chicken patty with gravy, mashed potatoes, cornbread, fruit cup, juice. I had some saltine crackers. Eleanor Odom, what did you have?", "Haven`t had dinner yet. Had a bag of chips on the run. You know, she`s getting fed in prison.", "All this whining! You know, Bethany Marshall -- Dr. Bethany Marshall was just talking about her manipulating her whole family. Her grandmother has now missed a house note. Can`t pay the house note. And she`s asking Grandma to give her money to get out of jail, this after she confesses to relatives on video to eight or nine illegal drug sales. We`re taking your calls live. We`re going to unleash the lawyers. But first to Paula, New York. Hi, Paula.", "Hey, Nancy. We love you in New York.", "Bless you. And thank you for calling in. What`s your question, dear?", "Well, I have a question and a comment. First of all, the night that Haleigh disappeared, and the police did come to the house that night, assume that they did search it -- it`s interesting to me that since the father and the girlfriend were both using and selling illegal prescription narcotics, why were there or were there any narcotics found in the home? And if there weren`t, wouldn`t this mean that the parents contaminated a crime scene by quickly getting rid of large amounts of oxycodone or hydrocodone from the premises?", "That is an excellent observation, Paula. Out to you, Jean Casarez, legal correspondent, In Session. I noticed that every time this undercover cop would approach Misty Croslin-Cummings for dope, she would pick up the phone or contact somebody else and make the connection. She didn`t have it herself, which may have explained what happened. But if they`re users, you`d expect to find it in the home, Jean.", "That`s right. Now, at that time, remember, Ronald was at work the night, she was at home or somewhere. I don`t think we ever had confirmation about drug use, drug selling at that point of time, right then. At this point, the charges are filed. But at that point, I`m not sure we have confirmation of it. But it`s true, what Donna", "Art Harris, even at the get-go, we were getting reports here that they were involved in drug sales. But they were unconfirmed reports, and they, in my mind, seemed to take focus off of finding Haleigh. But those reports were out there way back when.", "That`s right, Nancy. And Ron had a lot of arrests. Now, I chronicled Misty`s party for three days before, where three witnesses told me she was taking copious amounts of drugs, roxycodone and other things, and was totally strung out when she came home. So anything could have happened after that, and she probably was jonesing then.", "I only got a couple -- I only got a couple more weeks left over there and I have to be out. Lindsay`s moving out this week sometime. So I don`t know how that`s going to work out. I mean, when I get it straightened out, I`ll get some minutes put on the phone, but you ain`t going to get a call every day.", "How`re you doing, baby?", "Hanging in there.", "Oh, so...", "Yes. I`m doing all right.", "Your brother`s taking it pretty hard.", "Yes.", "Tommy`s taking it pretty hard.", "Why?", "Because he`s away from his baby and he`s going to prison.", "I know. I am, too.", "I know. Hope not.", "I hope not, too. We`ll see, though.", "God, I hope and pray not!", "We are taking your calls live. Out to Alice in Canada. Hi, Alice.", "Hi, Nancy.", "How are you, dear? What`s your question?", "Well, it`s more like a comment or...", "OK.", "It could be a question. Right from the beginning, Ronald Cummings said he came home from the night shift at 3:15 in the morning. What night shift stops at 3:15? Night shift starts at midnight and goes to at least 8:00. That always bothered me. Like, where -- how come he came home so early?", "You know, I think you`ve got a point, Alice in Canada. I recall my father worked the night shift. Called it the night trick, I believe he called it. Hold on just a moment. To you, Marlaina Schiavo, our producer on the story. How did that work? I know that he is alibied for that time, but that is an unusual time to get off of the night shift.", "It is an unusual time, Nancy, but he didn`t get off at 3:15, he got home at 3:15. He lived, like, over a half an hour from his home", "Got it.", "... the midnight.", "Joining me right now again, Leonard Padilla, bounty hunter. He`s offered to bond out Croslin. As you recall, he did the same thing with tot mom Casey Anthony in the hopes she would talk. I see an arm coming around your neck.", "That would be -- OK. Not going to go there. Leonard, what`s the deal on this. How did you get roped into this one?", "I don`t get roped into these things. You know me. Everybody says I`m a publicity hound, all the media calls me, says, What are you going to do about it? So I figured, hey, this was an opportune time", "OK, now, be -- honestly. Why did you decide...", "Now I can be serious.", "... to get -- why did you decide to get involved? I know you`re just BSing right now.", "Right.", "Why would you stick your neck out on Misty Croslin in the hope she`s going to tell you something?", "Because I think that she`s in a situation, and I saw it last night in her eyes, where she just wants desperately to get out of there. And sometimes, people won`t talk to law enforcement about something, but they will talk to somebody else. We have answers to a lot of questions in the bail bond business, and people talk to us. I`m not a bail agent. I`m a bounty hunter. I`ve brought back people from Texas and across the county and they`ve given me full confessions on the way back. So it`s a situation where I really honestly believe that with the blessings of her attorney, if it works out the way I`ve suggested, she will give us the information that we need that will lead us to the young lady. That`s all I`m saying. And the bond will be posted if she gives us that information. She`ll be out of jail on her drug case. People are confusing the fact that there`s two cases here. One...", "Well, your mother said to tell you that -- Pop said to tell you that be careful what you say because they got a snitch in there with you.", "I know.", "And we`re going to get to come and see you twice a week.", "Good. Good.", "But 30 minutes at a time.", "That`s OK.", "But you`re only supposed to have one hour every two weeks. But we talked to Jeff Hardy today and they`re going to let us see you.", "OK.", "One hour, 30 minutes at time, twice a week.", "OK. Well, let me see, what do I need, what do I need, what do I need? Oh, they said I can have my chains so mother got it or she didn`t.", "No, you can`t have it either. They told us you can`t.", "Well, the damn guard in here said I can, so.", "Well.", "Jeff Hardy says you can`t, so.", "OK. Well, that`s fine. Whatever.", "They just put me on some medicine. Thera-tex or something for my nerves. And it`s", "What?", "Yes, and I be", "I bet she does have a nerve problem. This is after admitting to eight illegal drug sales. Let`s unleash the lawyers. We`re taking your calls live. Mark Nejame, expert in Florida law, attorney for Texas EquuSearch founder, Tim Miller. Also with us, veteran prosecutor, Atlanta jurisdiction, Eleanor Odom, defense attorney Atlanta, Renee Rockwell, and criminal defense attorney, renowned in his jurisdiction and beyond, Mickey Sherman, author of \"How Can You Defend Those People?\" First out to you, Mark Nejame, is anything a secret in Florida? Is every visit -- mommy, daddy, grand mommy, granddaddy, telephone calls, you name it, is everything recorded other than attorneys and preachers, pastor, priests?", "That`s it. There`s no right to privacy, there`s no expectation to privacy. It`s all public and it only helps to seal the case against her. And what need to be done is that noose is getting much tighter around her as far as a prosecution. If I could say, in light of your last guest, he needs to stay out of it. She`s desperate and she`s in denial. As long as she`s got hope that she`s going to get out, and there`s no way he`s going to be bonding her out. As long as she`s got hope, she`s not going to be talking. Law enforcement do what law enforcement does, let the prosecution do what prosecution does, and let bounty hunters do what they do. And let`s not try to get confessions from people they -- are never going to get in the first place. He`s only being counterproductive to finding out what`s really going on here.", "You know, Renee, she said something extremely interesting to me. She said, yes, I might go ahead and talk to investigators to get out of here. I might tell them something. Now I don`t know how you took that, but it can be two things. It`s not about the drugs. She doesn`t need to talk about the drugs because they`ve got.", "They`ve got her.", "Videotape.", "They already have her.", "There`s got to be something about Haleigh. I mean to you and I, but we`re thinking rationally. But it says to me she`s going to talk but is she going to be telling the truth or just say anything to get out from behind bars, Renee.", "Well, that`s interesting. It doesn`t tell like they -- that she`s going to tell the truth, but if she tells the wrong person her get-out-of-jail free card, it`s going to come back later to haunt her. Because, Nancy, if she knows anything, to me, the only thing that`s going to save her these 180 years -- or what if it`s just 18 years that she has to do -- is to go in there with an attorney, with the truth, as long as she`s, of course, not implicated in a homicide, and try to trade off some freedom for some information.", "Well, out to you, Mickey Sherman. Is there any way under the sun she`s not implicated? Even if she were passed out on the sofa high on Oxycodone, that would still be found negligent homicide or party to a crime for negligence? MICKEY SHERMAN, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY, AUTHOR OF \"HOW CAN YOU DEFEND THOSE PEOPLE?\": That`s assuming that she was under the influence of drugs when the child was taken away or something like that. But you know, one -- your caller just a few minutes ago has said that there was no evidence of using any kind of drugs in the place where she was found. Then also there`s no evidence of sale. Usually when there`s a drug dealing going on, there`s scales, there`s plastic bags, there`s a record, there`s any number of.", "Wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, wait. Back it up, Sherman. We`re not talking about cocaine. We`re not talking about cooking up crack or methamphetamine over in the kitchen in the microwave. We`re talking about Oxycodone. Why would you have scales? You`re not measuring anything out. You`re counting pills.", "They could be cutting it.", "You`re a pharmacist.", "They could be cutting it and also there still would be a lot of plastic bags and other containers if she`s selling. And she`s not going to get 180 years once she`s a dope addict. She`s a user. She may have been dealing, but she`s also a user. And that`s not.", "Put him up. Put him up. Lady Justice -- you can laugh -- is blind. Because if she`s out selling dope, she`s selling dope. She`s no different than the guy out on the street corner selling dope in housing projects.", "If she is addicted, there is a difference.", "Or the rich guy uptown in his fancy apartment selling dope.", "I disagree.", "Behind closed doors. They`re all selling dope.", "If she`s a user and an addict, the law takes that into consideration.", "Well, says you. What about it, Odom?", "I don`t think so. Sometimes they might if she`s willing to get help. But let`s face it, this was trafficking and drugs. It`s not just selling one or two pills. She is in deep trouble, Nancy.", "Let`s take a listen, everybody. We`ve gotten our hands on more just-released jailhouse tapes, secretly recording. You know, I don`t know if you`ve ever gotten a call from the jailhouse. I`ve gotten plenty of them collect. They would actually call the district attorney`s office, collect. Of course, I would take the call to see what they have to say. But you can`t help but hear on the other line, this call is being recorded. So these people have got to know they`re being recorded. They don`t care. Listen.", "I got to be strong about this, you know?", "Yes, I know.", "I`ll be alright, Bubba. I`ll get out. I`ll get out eventually and I`ll be alright. This is a lesson, you know what I mean?", "Yes.", "I`m learning a lesson. I shouldn`t have did what I did. But it`s not my fault because I shouldn`t be getting charged with all eight of them anyways.", "I mean, who met this dude?", "John called me and asked if I could get it for him and I said, sure, you know? And then me and Ronald started doing it, and then Tommy did a couple of ones. And then, yeah. Call Cobra. Cobra said he`d bail me out.", "I know. Cobra`s trying to do it and your lawyer is trying to do it right now, sis.", "So how long? When is Cobra going to come and let me out?", "Don`t know. I don`t know. I`m just hearing it from", "My lawyer said that -- he said that T.J., thing, T.J. Hart`s thing.", "What did you say?", "Robert says he has two thousand so far?", "He said that he -- Chelsea said that he said he`s 5,000 short from getting you out.", "So we need -- come on. Now I know you guys got families. Chelsea`s got family. Please look.", "Huh?", "I know Chelsea`s got family. You guys all I got. Please get me out of here.", "Misty, I`m trying, honey. I mean, I hate seeing you in there but there`s no one that`s going to give us", "I`ll pay it back.", "I know. Don`t worry. You got to keep your head up, Misty. You got to stay strong, Sis. They ain`t going to get you with nothing. You`re not going to be in there forever. I mean there`s a possible that you could end up doing a couple of years, though.", "We are taking your calls live. To Colleen, Massachusetts. Hi, dear.", "Hi, Nancy. When this first started, when Haleigh first went missing, they brought a cadaver dog in, as I recall, and it hit on the dumpster behind the apartment building several times over a course of a period of week, I believe.", "Yes.", "What did they follow up on that?", "What happened with that, Art Harris?", "That law enforcement searched every dumpster in the county and they even set up a central place where all the trash was taken and they went through it piece by piece and did not find anything.", "Everyone, a quick break. We are taking your calls live tonight. More of those secretly-recorded jailhouse videos and audios of Misty Croslin, the babysitter turned stepmother, the last person to see little Haleigh alive. To tonight`s \"NG Family Album.\" Here are photos of the twins -- there they are -- at grand mommy`s house. My mom is a pianist. They`re maestros. And here they are at Central Park in New York looking at the animals. And now photos from you. Illinois friends, 5-year-old Emily, 4-month- old Haley. Their mommy Chris always watches the show with her two little miracles. Doctors told her she would never have children. Surprise. And Vancouver mom, Vanessa, and her 4-year-old Solei, who loves to cuddle while watching our show. Vanessa says the show encourages her to cherish every day with her baby girl. Amen, sister. Thank you, friends.", "I wish you would have just listened to you dad.", "I know. I wish I would have, too. You don`t even know, I think about that all the time. But you know what? I got to learn my own mistakes.", "Yes, that`s right. And you know better than to do it again?", "I will never. When I got out of here, I will not do anything. I`m not smoking cigarettes, I`m not smoking weed. I`m not doing nothing anymore. I`m going to be good. I`m -- if I go to prison, I`m going to get my GED, I`m going to do what I have to do and when I get out, I`m going to do the right thing and stay with my mom and my dad and not leave them ever again.", "I love you.", "I love you, too. You`re not hanging up until 15 minutes is over.", "I`m not, baby, I promise.", "Hello?", "Grandma, I love you. Can you please accept my phone call?", "Do what?", "Will you accept to talk to me, please?", "I`m talking to you, honey.", "Grandma, I don`t want to be in here.", "Misty, I know you don`t. I don`t want you in there, honey, but there`s -- we kept telling you, honey, to stay away from that stuff. You can`t do that.", "I need someone to try to bail me out.", "I have no money. Your dad owes me money. Now I can`t even pay my payment for my house insurance or not insurance.", "Can you get a hold of dad and tell him to put some minutes on my phones so they can talk to me and come down and visit me?", "I can`t get a hold of him either. He don`t have a phone. He calls me.", "When he get -- when he calls you, will you please tell him?", "Yes, I will.", "Because I really can`t handle this, grandma.", "I know you couldn`t and I wish there was something could be done, but.", "I just need to get bailed out.", "The money that they want to bail you out, there`s nobody got that kind of money.", "That`s when she`s asking her grandmother for her house payment so she can get out of jail. Now I want to take a shot. Brett, cue me into the New York control room. There you are. All of these people you`re seeing right now are coming in my ear talking about how they feel sorry for Misty Croslin. All right. This is the woman that was either integral, key -- look at me, Liz, Brett, Rosie, I see you -- integral in the disappearance of a 5- year-old girl or was doped out of her skull. The girl is likely dead, all right? So I don`t want to hear you whining about her behind bars trying to rip her grandmother off of her house payment. Out to the lines, Cindy in Florida. Hi, Cindy.", "Hello.", "Hi, dear. What`s your question?", "Two questions. One, is it found out that Misty was gone out of the house the night Haleigh went missing, will she face child neglect charges on Junior? And.", "Excellent question. And what`s the rest of your question?", "The rest is, I don`t think Misty is ever going to have a caring bone because all she`s caring about is getting out, doing the right thing. No. If she wants to do the right thing, she needs to say where`s Haleigh is or her body is or something. Let Crystal Sheffield have some peace, which is easier said than done.", "And the grandmother, Theresa Neves, heart broken over Haleigh disappearing. And you know what, when I leave this set tonight, all I can think about is getting home and seeing the twins. Hopefully they`re going to be asleep. But I can go in and I can look at them. I can touch their chest to make sure they`re breathing. I can fix their blankets. Can you imagine coming home and that crib empty? And this woman holds the key to what happened to little Haleigh? And she`s talking about I may or may not talk to investigators so I can get out of here? Everything she says Eleanor Odom is about her getting out. Other people getting her money. She`s never worked a day in her life except to sell dope. But now she wants her grandmother`s house payment so she can get out of jail?", "I know. And didn`t you hear her grandmother saying, we told you not to do that? So it`s not like she didn`t know what she was doing was wrong. And I`d like to see some child deprivation charges slapped on her as well for the depriving both children of proper supervision.", "That was the answer to Cindy in Florida. Thank you very much for getting me back on course. To Paul Penzone, director of prevention programs, Childhelp.org. Weigh in, Paul.", "Well, you know, criminals never ever cry because of what they did. She`s not crying for the child and she`s not crying for her crimes. She`s crying because she feels sorry for herself, but the most telling thing for me was two of the things that Cummings said. First, he said he`s not worried about doing the time because he only expects to do about four months, which means he settled for the crimes that he`s been arrested for. But what he tells her is don`t say anything because they both know where the child is or what happened to the child and he`s fearful for new charges he could face. So they both have facts that are going to make the difference, but he`s telling her, don`t come forward with it. And my concern is, kind of a tipping point, how much time will she do before she becomes comfortable? Will law enforcement get the information while she`s still uneasy and having those drug issues?", "Good point, Paul Penzone, former sergeant, Phoenix PD. To Dr. Evelyn Minaya, women`s health expert, how will giving her Zoloft or Prozac delay the drying out process?", "It doesn`t really delay the drying out process because she`s still apparently drying out. If you can tell by even the way that she puts her fingers across her face constantly. She`s not drying up her tears or anything else like that, but it`s part of her anxiety and everything else like that. What Zoloft -- officially Zoloft -- it usually takes about two weeks for it to kind of kick in. Prozac usually takes about four weeks to kick in.", "You know, to the lawyers, let me go to Mickey Sherman first. Everything she has said so far is about herself. Do you think she`s savvy enough not to give the information? What do you make of her comment that she`s got information she may tell investigators to get out?", "I think she`s desperate. And you`re also presuming she`s guilty. I think if anything she`s probably going to give her some B.S. story. There`s nothing to say what she`s going to say to get out is going to be the truth. And clearly she is under the influence of the narcotics still, but, you know, there`s nothing to suggest that she`s going to give the authorities or anybody else or us as we`re watching this voyeuristic tape, anything that`s going to lead the police to the actual killer of this young girl.", "Well, police tend to disagree with you as usual, Mickey Sherman. Because as go to air tonight, they are combing over these tapes hoping for any evidence that might help find Haleigh, dead or alive. As we go to break, happy birthday to Pittsburgh friend, Betty Chekio (ph) at 80 years old. She`s a breast cancer survivor. She loves the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Penguins, active with AARP. She never misses our show. Miss Chekio watches twice at nice but her true love, her six children, 17 grandchildren, six great grandchildren. Man! What a beautiful family you must have. Happy birthday, Betty.", "With us tonight, David Schumer. He`s in a fight against pancreatic and liver cancer. In memory of his mother Ellen, the Ellen Schumer Pancreatic and Liver Cancer Funds golf tournament, May 10, Suburban Country Club, Baltimore. David, first of all, I want you to tell us about your mother.", "Well, Nancy, my mother was a wonderful woman. She had a personality that lit up a room when she walked in. She had a fantastic sense of humor. She was the last one always to leave the party. She was just a great, wonderful person and then, Nancy, three weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, she was taken from us.", "I recall when that happened. Everything was so sudden. And it was like she never even got a chance to fight. She never got a chance to really fight. Tell me about your project.", "Well, the Ellen Schumer Pancreatic and Liver Cancer Fund is something I started back in late 2006 after my mother passed away. In the effort to help the medical community find a method of early detection and one day a cure for pancreatic cancer. You know, today, medicine is still using some of the very same treatments to treat pancreatic cancer that they were using when Joan Crawford passed away from the disease very quickly. After my mom passed away and I did a lot of research into why there is no method of early detection and no cure, I wanted to do something. So I started the Ellen Schumer Pancreatic and Liver Cancer Fund to help the medical community.", "You know, David Schumer, so many people sit back and say, would have, could have, should have. You didn`t. You are never, ever forgetting your mother. You are fighting every day in her memory. What can we do to help you?", "Well, we can talk about pancreatic cancer. We can raise the awareness of this terrible disease. Pancreatic cancer happens to be the ninth most common form of cancer but the fourth most leading cause of cancer deaths. And because 95 percent of those people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer are gone five years later -- within five years, excuse me, it has the highest mortality rate. So people can help the Ellen Schumer Fund by calling 410-328-3637.", "3637.", "That`s right.", "410-328-3637. And we`re putting all of this information on our Web site. Please help the fight against pancreatic cancer. And to you, David Schumer, God bless you. Everyone, let`s stop and remember Army Sergeant William Brown, 25, Phil Campbell, Alabama, killed Iraq. On a second tour, gave his life saving a fellow soldier. Loved God, family, country. Remembered for compassion. Never met a stranger. Leaves behind stepfather Eugene, sisters Barbara, Angela, Marla, brother Marty, widow Rachel, sons Ethan and Tyler. William Brown, American hero. Thanks to our guests but especially to you for being with us. See you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp Eastern. And until then, good night, friend. 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{"id": "CNN-61799", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-10-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0210/16/lt.04.html", "summary": "Gun Control, Rights Advocates Join Forces", "utt": ["This debate, as we said, has been revived quite a bit of late. Our Bill Schneider is standing by in Washington with the other side of this particular issue. What have you been hearing there -- Bill.", "This is an issue in which the gun control advocates and also the gun rights supporters joined forces. You saw, behind Carolyn McCarthy, John Dingell, congressman from Michigan, the dean of the Democrats in Congress. He is an opponent of gun control, closely allied with gun rights advocates and the National Rifle Association. It was mentioned at that press conference that the two have joined forces. This is not a new gun control law. This is a measure that would enforce a law passed back in 1968 -- the InstaCheck system -- that would prohibit nine categories of individuals including those with mental illnesses, fugitives, felons, people involved in domestic violence cases from buying guns. That system hasn't worked particularly well. A Republican congresswoman from Maryland, Connie Morella, pointed out that 283 buyers in her state -- one of the states that's been affected by the recent sniper attacks -- 283 buyers who should not have gotten guns --were found out to have gotten guns -- though InstaCheck information did not get through quickly enough. So, this law would not be a new gun control law. It would be a way of enforcing a law already on the books. Bill, while the new laws are one of the new issues that has been introduced, of late is this idea of perhaps keeping some kind of a national database on the fingerprint, if you will, of the rifling marks that are on some of these guns that are used in any kind of a crime and keeping them in a file so that if any gun is used again in a crime it can be tracked down instantly. Now, where do both sides fall on that particular debate?", "The White House has taken a sort of wait-and-see position on that issue. It said that it's not sure of the effectiveness of that kind of ballistic fingerprinting. A lot of the gun rights advocates do not support that, so that issue is still up for debate. But that's not what they were talking about at this press conference this morning.", "Bill Schneider in Washington, thank you very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "SCHNEIDER", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-16259", "program": "Breaking News", "date": "2000-9-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/20/bn.01.html", "summary": "Whitewater Report Clears Clintons of Criminal Conduct", "utt": ["Independent Counsel Robert Ray has wrapped up the six-year investigation of the Clintons' finances and Whitewater, the main part of the investigation has been that Whitewater real estate deal. To Washington now and CNN's Bob Franken -- Bob.", "And, Daryn, this is a deal that actually began in 1978 between Governor and Hillary Clinton and Jim and Susan McDougal, the Whitewater land development deal which as been investigated until this day. Now, the independent counsel has finally concluded, and I'm quoting from the statement that accompanies a sealed report, that \"the evidence was insufficient to prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that either President or Mrs. Clinton knowingly participated in any criminal conduct or had any knowledge of any conduct.\" Now, the president and Mrs. Clinton have been investigated on this matter through the last six years plus, more than six years, so now it is coming to a conclusion. There were several key allegations along the way. One of the first was that as governor in 1986, president, then-Governor Clinton had pressured a man named David Hale to make an illegal $300,000 loan using federal money to one of his Whitewater partners, Susan McDougal. The report says this office determined that \"the evidence was insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that President Clinton knew of the loan or that his testimony regarding the loan was knowingly false,\" the point being that he testified under oath any number of times. The investigation also focused considerably on Hillary Rodham Clinton, and one of the big factors was the disappearance of her billing records when she was a member of the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas -- the disappearance and then mysterious reappearance in the White House, in the White House residence -- and the independent counsel has concluded that they could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt there was insufficient evidence to prove that Mrs. Clinton had any way obstructed justice by arranging for those notes to disappear. Now, the construct of the language in this is similar to reports that have come out earlier from the independent counsel, Bob Ray, who I should point out again is the person who succeeded Ken Starr who conducted most of this investigation. Ray has repeatedly said that he has not taken action, that is to say, indictments, because there was insufficient evidence. He has not commented today. But we did an interview in June where he talked about that.", "I mean, the question of whether a crime has been committed is one ultimately that the prosecutor doesn't make the judgment on. That's for a jury to decide. I decide as a threshold question whether or not to bring a case to a jury for it to decide whether a crime was committed. And I have to exercise responsibly my authority, only to bring a case where I believe that a fair-minded jury would convict on that evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.", "Now, obviously, this report -- actually the announcement of the report has just been released just moments ago, so the White House has not had a chance to react yet, but it is something that Bill Clinton has had to talk about during his presidency, most recently, yesterday.", "Even Mr. Starr said almost two years ago, that there was nothing in any of that stuff, that it's just been coming out now, a year and a half later, so I think people are capable of drawing their own conclusions about that. I don't think I can serve much of the public interest by commenting, I think it's pretty obvious.", "Bob Ray, the independent counsel has come under criticism for the timing of this report, coming as it does less than two months before the election, Mrs. Clinton, of course, a candidate in New York, but this announcement would not seem to do a lot of harm to her. We'll get reaction from her hopefully later. And now, as Ray points out in his report, the Whitewater part of the investigation is now concluded. That does not mean the matter is concluded, Daryn, there have been any number of appendages that have grown out of this investigation, one of them, of course, the Monica Lewinsky matter. That is still being investigated. Ray has made it clear he has convened a grand jury to see if he would possibly indict Bill Clinton after he leaves the presidency -- Daryn.", "But, Bob, for now, for this chapter, the Clintons couldn't have asked for better news it would appear?", "It seems that way, at least based on this announcement. This announcement is a way of telling the public what conclusions were reached in the sealed report. Under the law, the three-judge panel that appointed independent counsels must read it. The various parties must have a chance to comment on it. Then and only then is it publicly released. The same procedure that is still going through as far as the Travel Office matter is concerned and the FBI Files matter.", "All right, Bob, we've been pushing access to you all morning, telling folks they could e-mail and ask you some questions on this matter, telling our viewers that you understand the whole thing. So let's go to our first e-mail.", "Maybe a faulty preface.", "Well, we'll have to see. The test begins now. The first e-mail, the question is: \"What is the total expense of the Whitewater investigation, including Lewinsky, Travelgate, etc., including lawyers, office rental, travel, leisure, entertainment, FBI agents, private investigators?\" And that question coming to you from Ed Slavin in St. Augustine, Florida. How much?", "Well, approaching $60 million, and what's interesting about that is one of the reasons this all began was an investigation into whether the Whitewater real estate deal contributed to the failure of the savings & loan that was owned by Jim and Susan McDougal, the Whitewater partners. That failure cost the federal government, the taxpayers, upwards of $65-$67 million. And many people will make the observation that the investigation, that ultimately will cost about that much, too.", "Now, we've talked mainly about the Clintons, but there were a number of other people implicated in this Whitewater investigation. This next e-mail deals with Webster Hubbell, and if we go to the screen: \"Is Webster Hubbell violating the immunity agreement, and open for prosecution, by not divulging what he knows?\" That from Greg Kingston of Greenwood, Texas.", "Well, as a matter of fact, the independent counsel believed that he had information about his close friends, the Clintons. Webster Hubbell, to remind people, was a law partner of Mrs. Clinton, a golfing buddy of Bill Clinton over the years, and then became the number three man in the Justice Department when the Clintons came to Washington. He was then convicted growing out of this investigation for tax matters and for bilking his law firm out of money. He served that time. The independent counsel continued to try and investigate him. There was the famous moment when Hubbell said, \"he can indict my dog, he can indict my cat, but I have nothing to say about President Clinton.\" Hubbell is no longer in any sort of legal danger, but there was a continuing belief in the independent counsel's office that he had been paid money by some of the Clinton friends to keep quiet, a matter that was never resolved.", "You mentioned the timing of this, as you said, we're less than than two months before Election Day and Paul Meilleur wants to know: \"Do you think if the releasing of this report right -- in terms of the election was politically motivated?\"", "Well, the independent counsel, Bob Ray says absolutely not. That was not his intent. All he was trying to do, he said, is to put this information out there and give people a chance to evaluate it to see whether or not it does influence their vote. Of course, as we pointed out, Mr. Clinton is running for the Senate in New York. From first appearances, based on this announcement, this would not seem to do much harm to Mrs. Clinton, and my suspicion is, is that's going to reinforce Ray's argument that he was not trying to have any sort of untoward affect on her candidacy for the Senate.", "Bob Franken in Washington, as advertised, know the A to Z in Whitewater. Thank you very much -- Bill.", "All right, Daryn. Certainly, there is reaction from the White House, Kelly Wallace from the North Lawn will bring us up to date with more from there. Kelly, what are they saying, if anything, based on this report?", "Well, Bill, they are saying just a bit, not much. We just received a statement from White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart, I will read that to you, it says -- quote -- \"Robert Ray is now the latest investigator to complete an examination of the transactions related to Whitewater development company and conclude that there are no grounds for legal action.\" That is the entire statement from White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart. Talking to White House officials earlier today, they said this was going to be really all that they had to say about this matter. As our viewers heard, the president himself was asked a question about this yesterday when he was speaking to reporters, he was asked about the timing of this report coming out about six weeks before the election in which his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton is a U.S. Senate candidate; the president said that people, Americans will have to draw their own conclusions about the timing, but said that even Mr. Starr, Ken Starr himself two years ago found that there was really nothing to this whole Whitewater investigation. So that's the latest from here -- Bill.", "All right, Kelly -- Kelly Wallace, an update there from the North Lawn. Kelly, thank you."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROBERT RAY, INDEPENDENT COUNSEL", "FRANKEN", "WILLIAM J. 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{"id": "CNN-220115", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-12-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1312/04/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Truck With Radioactive Material Stolen In Mexico; Fast Food Strikes Called For 100 Cities", "utt": ["A truck filled with radioactive material and stolen from a town near Mexico is now the subject of a search by the U.S. Homeland Security Department and Mexican authorities. The material, Cobalt 60, is used in medical treatments. But as CNN's Nick Parker told me, there are other potential concerns.", "It is something that has been voiced as something that could potentially be used to make a fairly low-level kind of dirty bomb to be honest with you. But at the same time, if it's in fairly small quantities, it's not particularly harmful to the public. But that said, obviously this particular cargo in the quantity that it was is judged as extremely dangerous by the Mexican authorities.", "Officials says they believe the suspects were only after the truck and had no idea that it was carrying toxic material. Fast food workers take their fight for a minimum wage hike nationwide tomorrow. There have been a number of protests over the last year beginning in New York and spread to other cities. But tomorrow's event is being built as the biggest yet for the campaign. Alison Kosik is in New York with more on this, this morning. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. So a year after they started those strikes, they're returning here to New York City tomorrow. They're across the country to cities like Chicago, L.A. and Denver. They're demanding that federal minimum wage go from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour.", "Living on $7.25, you cannot do it.", "This is what minimum wage looks and sounds like.", "I would rather sacrifice my meal and my husband would too to make sure my kids can have what they need.", "They are fast food workers struggling every day.", "How can you live on $7.25? You couldn't pay your apartment. If you have a family of may be zero, you could support yourself. If you have a family, two kids, a wife, where you live at, underneath the bridge? Yes. That's not right.", "The median pay for fast food workers is $9 an hour or $18,720 a year.", "They're taking these because they're desperate in an economy that is still not creating enough work for people who want to go to work and still not creating enough middle class jobs.", "Eduardo Shoy lost his job a few years ago. Now 58 with two children headed to college, he works at Kentucky Fried Chicken in New York earning $7.25 an hour. He also works a night shift as a forklift operator at Kennedy airport. He moved his family to another state and is trying to sell his house.", "For me, it's tough, real tough. I can't do none of the things that I used to do. I used to able to pay my mortgage, able to pay my car payment, able to take my family out to dinner. Now we had to cut it out and we had to sacrifice a lot of stuff.", "Eduardo will take to the streets in New York this Thursday to take part in a strike which demands that the federal minimum wage be raised to $15 an hour. The protests have expanded since last November when 200 fast food workers staged a one-day strike at more than 20 restaurants in New York City. And this past July and August, there were protests across the country.", "Once the nation is hearing it, you know, we've been striking all over the country so people are getting an understanding. They're seeing the light of what is going on.", "But the industry says it has created jobs in this difficult economy. In response to the strikes, the National Restaurant Association said in a statement, dramatic increases a starting wage such as those called for in these rallies going to challenge the job growth history, increase the prices for restaurant meals, and lead to fewer jobs created.", "Half of all Americans make $26,000 a year or less. So this fast food worker movement possibly going to do the same thing that the industrial workers did to our economy in the 1930s and '40s.", "Now, these protests seem to be having an impact even though a $15 federal minimum wage could be a long ways off of becoming a reality. We've been talking to people since they started these. A couple told us they were promoted to full time, and another said they were able to get more hours. So the protests at least are resonate inning that way.", "I was just going to ask you, do people fear they lose their jobs? But it doesn't sound like that.", "Exactly. They're worried about that. But in the end they want to get out there and state their case. This is just a huge growing problem. You look at what's been happening since the recession. During the recession, we lost more than 8 million jobs. Lots of them haven't come back. Many people over the age of 25 have to take these minimum wage jobs just to make ends meet. And now there's a trend that six of the ten fastest growing jobs over the next decade, these are low paying jobs. These are home health aides, veterinary technicians. A lot of people trying to make ends meet on a minimum wage of $7.25. Still to come in the \"NEWSROOM\", new safety concerns about the exotic car that Paul Walker was ride in when he died.", "It's like kind of taming a wild animal. If you were taming a wild animal, you would be afraid of it.", "We'll talk to an expert about why that Porsche in a deadly crash may be too dangerous to drive."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "NICK PARKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KOSIK (voice-over)", "SHENITA SIMON, FAST FOOD EMPLOYEE", "KOSIK", "EDUARDO SHOY, FAST FOOD EMPLOYEE", "KOSIK", "ASST. PROFESSOR DORIAN WARREN, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY", "KOSIK", "SHOY", "KOSIK", "SHOY", "KOSIK", "WARREN", "KOSIK", "COSTELLO", "KOSIK", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-5825", "program": "", "date": "2000-4-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/04/aotc.04.html", "summary": "Cohen: Whether Consumers Have Been Harmed is Larger Issue in Microsoft Antitrust Case", "utt": ["The markets traded in diametrically different directions Monday. Now we'll get an expert's analysis of what it means.", "And joining us is technology analyst Jonathan Cohen of Wit Soundview. We'll, of course, be asking him about Microsoft following Judge Jackson's ruling, what it could mean for the tech industry, and if this is a good time to be shifting tech holdings into your portfolio. Welcome to", "Thanks very much.", "Dramatic day yesterday.", "Much drama.", "Did we hear anything out of the judge that we didn't already know?", "Not really. I mean, the decision, I think, was widely anticipated. Microsoft themselves almost broadcast that they were prepared for something like this, which is to say, basically, a guilty verdict, although, obviously, that wasn't the nature of the decision. But, essentially, Judge Jackson said that, yes, Microsoft is guilty of a type of behavior by a monopolist that is in violation of U.S. antitrust laws. So there's no doubt that the decision went against Microsoft, but I think that was also pretty widely anticipated.", "Do you think the judge is right?", "I don't know if the judge is right or not. I mean, the letter of the law is being interpreted by the court in a very specific way. The larger issue, though, I think is almost the more interesting issue, which is: Have consumers been harmed? Has Microsoft's behavior actually harmed consumers as, for example, Janet Reno talked about yesterday in the press conference. I don't know if consumers have been harmed. But at the same time, I'm not aware of any other industry in the history of commerce in which prices have fallen so dramatically, performance has increased so rapidly. Consumers today can buy a personal computer with Microsoft software on it for about $500 or $600 that does everything and performs just as powerfully as a computer that literally would have cost millions of dollars a decade or so ago. So it's hard for me to think of how consumers have been harmed, but clearly that's the U.S. Justice Department's contention.", "If the decision was widely expected by Wall Street, why a more than 15-point decline in the company shares?", "I think that the decision was anticipated, but I also think that the magnitude of the sentiment against Microsoft in the judge's opinion was maybe not anticipated. Furthermore, I think that, you know, Wall Street was happy to sort of monitor the trial, monitor the decision, see what happened. But yesterday was an event, and Wall Street responded to the immediacy of that event.", "How much did Microsoft have to do with yesterday's massive sell-off in the Nasdaq and rally in the old-line old-economy stocks that make up the Dow?", "I think it was the most important catalyst. I mean, clearly, if you think about all the fundamental implications, the business implications of this decision for other technology companies, it's really not very important. I mean, if you think about Internet companies, if you think about other software companies and hardware companies and networking equipment stocks, all of the companies that went down so dramatically yesterday, this decision really doesn't mean anything at all for most of them, or for any of them. So on a fundamental performance basis, none of this is terribly important. On a valuation psychology basis, it's much more important, and I think Microsoft's -- the decision against Microsoft yesterday, the pending decision and the decline of the share price, was absolutely the catalyst for the sell-off to the extent that these stocks are all -- these companies all may do very, very well over the next year. I think there may be buying opportunities in here.", "The company shares at 90 7/8. When should we start piling money back into the shares?", "I think for investors that don't have positions in Microsoft, that have been standing on the sidelines waiting to take advantage of a break in the price, this may be that opportunity. This may be that break. At the same time, we're not recommending that investors pile in because there is clearly litigation risk that's not going away anytime soon. The appeals process could very easily take two years. That could work in Microsoft's favor, but at the same time, the risk is not going away.", "Briefly Jonathan, any major bargains created in yesterday's Nasdaq sell-off?", "We're looking at names like America Online, Priceline, really the blue chips of the Internet space which have sold off dramatically from their highs. We're looking at Web-hosting companies, for example, like Verio, which is off now more than 30 or 35 percent from its high easily, and which is a great company, a great space with great prospects. This is all valuation related. None of this is fundamental, and we would be selective buyers at these prices for a number of names.", "Fascinating analysis. Jonathan Cohen, Wit Soundview, thanks a lot.", "Thanks very much. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web"], "speaker": ["DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "AHEAD OF THE CURVE. 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{"id": "CNN-260610", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-07-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/27/nday.01.html", "summary": "Donald Trump Leads New CNN Poll; Obama First Sitting U.S. President to visit Ethiopia; Desperate Search for Missing Teens at Sea.", "utt": ["GOP voters not happy with the status quo. The majority of them saying their views are not represented at all in Washington. There's a number of democrat that is feel that way. CNN's Athena Jones live in Washington breaking it down these numbers for us on this Monday, Athena?", "Good morning, Michaela. A lot of interesting numbers here. And this is the first poll we have done after Trump made those controversial remarks questioning the heroism of Senator John McCain who of course was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. But this poll shows that he is still leading the republican pack at the top there at 18 percent. Florida Governor, Jeb Bush is right behind him and Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker is coming in third. But despite his popularity among republicans, that does not translate into the general electorate. You have Trump with the highest unfavorable numbers at 59 percent. That's the highest of everyone we have polled. But what is interesting here is that, there's -- you have heard a lot of talk in the last week about whether Donald Trump may decide not to run as a republican, to instead maybe run as an independent. Well, more majority of republican voters want to see Trump stay in the race. That they disagree with cause to see him dropped out like by Iowa's biggest paper the Morning Register. You can see those numbers there. They want him to stay in the race, whether it's as a republican or an independent. And one last interesting number that's coming up here, we know that Donald Trump has focused a great deal on the issue of illegal immigration. That's really the drum he's been beating. That's the beginning of his controversial remarks. But if you look at our poll, it's the economy that ranks first, whether you are a democrat or republican, it is the economy that is top of mind. Illegal immigration is a bit further down. So a lot of interesting numbers here in this poll. We are going to look at it all morning and talking about it all day. Back to you, Chris?", "All right. Athena, thank you very much. Very interesting. Immigration, 10 percent and 11 percent respectively between democrats and republicans. If that's not such a big issue why is Trump such a big deal? That's because this poll is shouting a challenge to the GOP and will they rise to it is the question. Let's discuss. CNN's political analyst, editor-in-chief for the Daily Beast, John Avlon. Republican consultant, CNN's political commentator, Margaret Hoover known collectively as Hove Along. And I do not know that Donald Trump has ever said a more true or more selfless thing that he said about his success -- his current. Listen to this.", "There's a movement going on. This is more than me. This is a movement going on. People are tired of these incompetent politicians in Washington, they can't get things done, they can't make deals, they can't do anything.", "Margaret Hoover, that is why people are rallying around Donald Trump because he is voicing their discontent. True?", "Part of it. I think the other thing that people like about Trump is he's not this polished guy. Right? I mean, people want their politicians and the people who represent them in Washington to sound like them, to look like them and to think like them. And he is this -- he doesn't speak carefully because he hasn't been in the senate for six years and he hasn't been in congress, he hasn't been running -- so, people think he talks like them. And he represents them and he thinks like them.", "Which is such a funny thing when you think about the fact that he's a billionaire. I mean, I can think about a thousand ways that he isn't different. But here is a real question, if you are the other what are we at 16 or 17 if the other 15 people or so that running against him, how do you either capitalize on what he's saying? If you can't beat them joined them as the old saying?", "Right.", "How do you approach that?", "I think there are a couple of candidates who are quietly or not so quietly hoping to benefit from Trump support when he unplugs. Ted Cruz seems to be on top of that class. Not too quick to criticize him, unlike Lindsey Graham and Rick Perry and George Pataki who have been taken real shots on him. Yes. Exactly and look, I mean, the mystery of the populous billionaire is a strange thing. This is a bizarre thing.", "It's a fascinating thing.", "Right. But the moment he starts saying, it's not about me, it's about a movement, that's stage three of demagoguery he's getting better at it. By taking steps away from the Trump centric universe. But he's been able to suck up all the oxygen very effectively. And you are starting to see candidates follow him. Thinking the more irresponsible they are, the more attention they'll get and the more debate might play with the base.", "Well, I will get to now, Mr. -- Governor Mike Huckabee who seems to be trying to play that game in an ugly fashion. But let's stick with why this matters. All right. I mean, that's what it's all about with Donald Trump. He is relevant beyond himself. And the question is, what do you do about this? Because the negativity of these candidates as John pointed out as Mik is asking, are coming out and saying, he's too negative. You reap what you sow. The party has gained momentum especially in this outer wing by saying, everything that's going on in Washington is terrible because they are bad people, and they are not out for you. And now, Donald Trump is doing that essentially to his own party.", "Look, I don't think this is a reap what you sow situation. I mean, you have been saying that. This is actually a situation where you have a republican party that has been vanquished from Washington and from the executive branch for eight years. People of course are going to feel that their government doesn't represent them on the Republican party because they haven't had control of the executive branch. What I think this is an organic process of 16 candidates trying to mop their way out, get the attention of the electorate. And one guy has far more attention than anybody else because he's had an NBC show, because he has a name all over. The celebrity is what's cutting through. This is a name ID play. The reason his popularity directly correlates to a similar question and similar CNN poll, related to name identification.", "Well, here's an interesting question. She's saying popularity. And we are saying celebrity. But there are numbers in these polls that also throw both those words on their head, right? About how people feel about him in general his negatives.", "The unfavorable view of Donald Trump, among democrats not a big surprise 80 percent but independents, 53 percent, republicans 42 percent. How do you make those things to make sense or do they make sense at all?", "The third number matters the most right, the independents, 42 percent.", "Independents are of course the barometer of American politics. You want to fund the flow through, you're getting poll. You go where the independents are Donald Trump not that popular with independents. That's at a time when a lot of conservative populous are registering independent. Because they say the republican party is not conservative for me. Donald Trump's whole play is go strong and wrong, right? It's the old school divide and conquer, let's do the us versus them. It works well for a time. Margaret is right, to the extent that he's got a celebrity play, this is a mirror up to our own culture. Where it should be a problem for republicans is when he's beating Jeb Bush and sitting governors and multiple term governors and you can't simply explain that as celebrity.", "We haven't had a single debate yet. There are 16 people on the stage here. He's the one cutting through. Must I remind you in 2012, Herman Cane won the day in 2012. Michele Bachmann led the polls.", "Not like this.", "Why not like this?", "Because he's bigger. More magnified.", "Because he's more of a celebrity.", "Maybe. Maybe. We have to get the numbers right. The research we have says it's 42 percent of republicans and 53 percent of independents. What we showed you on TV is the opposite. So we can figure out what you get, you can tell me in my ear what it is.", "Why do we take a look on what happened on Sunday. This is certainly a story that raised a lot of eyebrows and sure to cause controversy. Mike Huckabee, bring up the quote of what he said yesterday said Sunday that Obama is quote, marching Israelis to the door of the oven.", "And he is advertising it by the way. That's Huckabee, not our graphic.", "And then essentially double down boosting about the statement that he made on Twitter, is this Donald Trump trying to be outrageous? I mean, this is dangerous.", "Wall Street Journal editorial this weekend said the 1930s your analogies are overused as rarely as they are applicable. It is dangerous. It's not dangerous but it diminishes the holocaust and the policies in front of us.", "So what's the motivation? It seems to be a naked play why he's doing it. He's got us talking about him. They are desperate for that and this is the way he wanted it.", "That is a barometer here. The more outrageous, the more irresponsible you are, the more attention you get. And all of a sudden someone start thinking that is a smart, smart play. Look, if you only take offense when your party is compared to Hitler, you are part of the problem. By throwing the Hitler card like this and then doubling down on it and presumably trying to fund raise it down the road, that is a new low. We are talking in the context of Trump, not the moral uncertainty of it.", "So if Trump was standing. If that hadn't been on our plate and we were looking from every angle, you think we would be more outraged?", "I think that it would resonate further as oppose to seeing a down current of the Trump play and moreover we're talking about the context of what do candidates have to do to get attention? Because this guy has thrown a demagogue language.", "Maybe a whisper of hope, though.", "OK.", "Tell us. This is NEW DAY. You know things are tough when I look for the whisper of hope. Bernie Sanders, whether you like democratic politics or not, he is beating Trump in the head-to-head polls. One guy talking about what he sees as a positive message, he doesn't want to go after anybody. He's growing against Clinton. He is doing it one way. Trump is doing it another way. People are resonating a bit with it's better to be positive than negative.", "Yes. I think this is a philosophically choice not a fantasy here but I mean, look, this is not an echo election fantasy. In this poll, 75 percent of Americans say they want a president who will be able to compromise. Neither of the id logical plays are about that. It's a disconnection with the majority of Americans.", "And majority say compromise can be a dirty word.", "We'll leave it with that. Thank you.", "Now to President Obama who in Ethiopia this morning. The first sitting U.S. president to visit the country. His two days stay comes after emotional send off from his father's home country of Kenya. Now, his focus is turned to the civil war in South Sudan and defeating the terror group Al Shah Bad. Let's go to CNN's White House Correspondent, Michelle Kosinski live in Ethiopia where we do expect the president to speak pretty shortly, right Michelle?", "Yes, in about 20 minutes. Here in Ethiopia, another fast growing African economy with lots of potential. Trade is absolutely on the agenda, trying to expand the relationship between the U.S. and Ethiopia. Also deepening democracy here. Human rights, I mean, we're in a place where a number of journalists have been thrown in jail lately and yet you can expect the president to talk much more about counterterrorism. It's been a big focus of this entire trip. Right now, the president is meeting with the prime minister and president here, they will have a press conference, take questions then he's going to meet with several African leaders. This has been a packed trip for the president. He just got her last night from Kenya, where he was welcomed with open arms. He gave rousing speeches and did some dancing at this dinner there. I don't know if we can call that dad dancing, really. He got into it, a little bit traditional and a little Macarena. Michaela?", "But you know what with his whole heart, you got to give him that, that's a really tremendous thing. He just went for it. No shame there.", "He was into it.", "He really was. Thanks for sharing that with us. Also new this morning, Turkey is calling for a special NATO conference Tuesday after ISIS launched an attack along the border of Syria. All of this as Turkey reaches a tentative deal with the U.S. to allow use of a Turkish air base to fight ISIS. CNN's Senior International Correspondent, Arwa Damon is live in Istanbul with the latest on all of this move from Turkey. Arwa?", "Good morning, Michaela. Turkey is a country that very much did not want to get involved in the region's messy war. But it seems, it has found itself in a position where it had no choice but to take this type of decisive action because the Turkish government has put it, both ISIS and the PKK party where the terrorist organization pose national security. That led to Turkey, for the first time, launching air strikes against ISIS targets inside Syria and also launching air strikes against PKK positions in northern Iraq, something Turkey has not done since 2011. When it comes to the PKK and effectively ending a cease-fire with the PKK that had been in place since 2013. All of this coming against the backdrop of the negotiations ongoing between Turkey, the United States and other coalition allies about the use of Turkish air bases and air space when it comes to launching strikes against ISIS in both Syria and Iraq. It does seem, at this stage, some sort of agreement has been reached. This may not necessarily be a game changer when it comes to the war against ISIS. But it most certainly is a game shifter.", "All right. Thank you very much. We'll check back with you in a bit. Another story to tell you about this morning that's going through in the weekend. Coast guard crews searching through the night for two 14-year-old boys that have not been seen since Friday afternoon. They were on a sailboat that was found yesterday capsized and damaged, 67 miles of to Florida coast. Both boys are said to be avid fishermen, on the boats their whole lives they know what they are doing. Families are desperate, holding on to hope their boys are still alive. CNN Correspondent Alina Machado is live in Florida with the latest. Alina, what do we know now?", "Well, Chris, we know the boys have been missing several days. Families spent the day searching for them, asking for help hoping they will come home.", "The desperate search for two teen boaters missing off the coast of Florida since Friday evening intensifying overnight. Their capsized 19-foot vessel found overturned 67 nautical miles off the Pons Deleon with no trace of 14 year old Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos.", "It's the worst feeling not knowing where your child is.", "Cohen and Stephanos last seen at 1:30 P.M. in the Jupiter, Florida area buying $110 worth of fuel. A few hours later, vanished. Early reports indicated the boys told others they planned to travel to the Bahamas. The search efforts on the sea and from the air spanning more than 25,000 square nautical miles.", "It can be tricking searching from the air it's a needle in the haystack down there.", "The effort to find the two teens getting big name support from family friend and neighbor, Joe Nameth, who helped the families raise a $100,000 reward for the boy's safe return.", "They know what they are feeling and feel like. Austin has been on the water. Perry, just as sharp as can be. Keep on praying.", "The teen's family are praying for a miracle.", "We believe they are out there and alive.", "Even though there were early reports the teens may have been plans to go to the Bahamas, officials and family members don't know if that is, in fact, what the teens intended to do when they set sail on Friday. Their main concern, the only concern right now is bringing them home. Chris?", "All right. 19-foot power boats, long ways offshore. There's hope among the searchers and the family. Coming up, we are going to talk live with the mother and step dad of Perry Cohen. We are going to talk with NFL great Joe Nameth.", "We turn now to the investigation in to the Louisiana movie theatre surveillance video capturing those final hours before the Lafayette gunman opened fire inside a crowded movie theatre last Thursday night. Today, two young women killed in that shooting are laid to rest. Investigators are revisiting the crime scene. A lot of developments to get to. We are live in Lafayette with more. Ryan?", "Good morning, Michaela. Police have learned a lot about John Russell Houser and his potential for violence. They haven't figured out why he chose this particular theater on Thursday night.", "This morning as the Lafayette community mourns, new details are painting a darker picture of John Houser, the 59-year- old who shot and killed two women and injured nine others in a Louisiana movie theater four days ago. In this exclusive surveillance video, you can see Houser staying at the local motel, seen walking the halls, stopping by the check-in desk. Thursday, 6:41 P.M., you can see his Lincoln town car pulling out. Less than an hour later, he used a handgun to shoot a dozen people at the 7:15 showing of the comedy \"Trainwreck\". It was methodical. He switched his car's license plate, kept wigs and glasses in his motel room and wrote about the plan in his journal.", "This man was of sound mind. He wrote it down. He said he's coming to the movie theater 7:15 on Thursday night.", "Police said, Houser had a long history of reported mental and legal problems, refueling the debate about how he was clear to legally buy the .40 caliber pistol he used to unleash terror in the theater that night.", "Thank you very much. We are going to have Congressman Tim Murphy on later on to talk about that. We do have breaking news, a selling frenzy in China. China's benchmark index fell 8.5 percent in a night. That's the largest single day decline since 2007. Why is it selling off? It's hours after the release of data showing factories in China losing momentum.", "Also sad breaking news overnight, Bobbi Christina Brown, the daughter of the late Whitney Houston died. The 22-year-old passed away in Georgia with her family by her side. It comes nearly six months after she was found unresponsive and face down in a bathtub.", "The family have been getting ready for it for a long time. It's compounding the loss. The mother lost to so many issues people felt more should have been done. Now this kid, 22 years.", "Never had a chance, 22 years old, her life just starting.", "All right. Turkey has gone from being on the sidelines to the front lines. They are calling for a special meeting of NATO. Why? Does that mean an international fighting force? 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{"id": "CNN-19506", "program": "Inside Politics", "date": "2000-11-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/08/ip.00.html", "summary": "Presidential Race Too Close to Call: Florida Vote Tally Will Determine Winner", "utt": ["I'm confident that the secretary and I will become the president-elect and the vice president-elect in short order.", "We still do not know the outcome of yesterday's vote. And I realize that this is an extraordinary moment for our democracy.", "A question mark looms over the presidential election: When will the Bush versus Gore squeaker finally be decided?", "The answer appears to hinge on a recount in Florida. We'll have an update on the tally, the controversy, and the unreality of it all.", "I thought that maybe it had been a dream. And then I realized I was awake the whole time.", "This is special edition of INSIDE POLITICS, with Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff at CNN election headquarters -- and analysts Jeff Greenfield and Bill Schneider.", "Thanks for joining us. It may be a case of shock or sleep deprivation. But on this day after the vote, it is difficult to adequately describe how exciting and bizarre the presidential election has been -- and continues to be. At this hour, there still is no official winner, as the make-or-break state of Florida presses on with a recount. While Al Gore appears to have won the popular vote nationwide by nearly 200,000 votes, the battle for electoral votes remains undecided. That is because the results from Florida, as well as Oregon, turned out to be too close to call. With a total of 32 electoral votes in those two states outstanding, Gore has 260 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win. And George W. Bush has 246. But, Governor Bush says he fully expects to win Florida, its 25 electoral votes, and the White House, once the automatic recount now under way in the Sunshine State is completed. CNN's Mike Boettcher is in Tallahassee, following the recount -- Mike.", "Well, 18 floors above me in the capital here, Bernie, they are counting bit by bit these counties as they are starting to filter in. We have some late totals for you. Six counties have been reviewed so far. The total right now for Governor Bush: 2,909,153. That's an increase of 18 votes for him. With Vice President Gore, the total is 2,907,403. That is an increase in 52 votes for him. So both candidates have increased their vote tally in this review. That is a net gain for Vice President Gore of 34 votes. Let me give you a little battleground on how this is going down across the state of Florida. In every county, the election board, Canvass Board there, is supervising this recount. That information is then being faxed or phoned in to the Division of Elections here under the Department of State in the state of Florida. They're coming in bit by bit, but they should pick up steam here within the next hour. At that point, within seven days, the counties must certify those vote totals. Then the State Election Canvass Commission must certify them. They'll become official at that point. Now, there are three people on that state board. One of them is Governor Jeb Bush. Only about 30 minutes ago, he recused himself from that board. There will be a new member appointed. We don't know if that member will be a Democrat or a Republican. As far as we know, it has not been named yet. So it's a very fluid situation. But Governor Bush here in Florida, Jeb Bush, was upset about allegations that there was widespread voting fraud in his state. And he said so during that press conference.", "I, along with Attorney General Butterworth, are firmly committed to protecting the integrity of Florida's election process and will seek swift enforcement of Florida's election laws. Voter fraud in the state -- in our state -- is a felony. And guilty parties will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Both of us have pledged to work together with Secretary of State Katherine Harris in this regard. Furthermore, to ensure that there is not the slightest appearance of a conflict of interests, I have chosen to recuse myself from serving on the election's Canvassing Commission.", "Now, Governor Bush pointed out one specific example of where an allegation that there was fraud was not true. For example, there were stories earlier in the day that an election -- a voting ballot box had been found in a precinct in a school in Palm Beach County. He said, when they opened it up, it turned out to be school supplies: crayons, pencils and the like. But the Democratic National Committee was here today, too. They're starting to pour people in here. They are accusing the state officials of proceeding too quickly in this vote recount. They say there was widespread election abuse, in terms of people being coerced not to vote, problems with some ballots. They made those accusations here. They did not back them up at that time. But they said that they have been getting a lot of allegations. I sat in the attorney general's office here today on a couple of occasions, and there was phone call after phone call after phone call. Jenny Backus is with the Democratic National Committee. And she made those allegations to us earlier today.", "People are talking about taking away somebody's constitutional right to vote. There are thousands -- literally thousands of reports of irregularities. In Palm Beach County -- we spoke about it yesterday during the election -- we got reports of questionable ballots. There is reports of voter intimidation. There is ballot boxes that are missing. There's the results on the secretary of state's own Web page that seem to have mysteriously increased by a 1,000 votes. These are lots of questions. And I think the voters of Florida and the voters of this country deserve some answers. They need to be done in a timely fashion, but they need to be done in a bipartisan fashion.", "Now, the Florida Department of State was going post these election results on their Web page. But it crashed -- a lot of interest. They're trying to get that back up. So we're doing it the old-fashioned way: going up and down 18 floors every time there is a new election result. But right now, to summarize, after six counties have been reviewed -- and other counties reported in -- we don't have it yet -- but Vice President Gore has gained 34 votes, so very slim gain there for the vice president -- Bernie.", "Mike, in summation, when will the American people know the Florida recount results?", "They have to know by 7:00 p.m. tomorrow night the recount results. I believe -- my opinion -- and in being up there all day and talking to people -- we'll have it much sooner than that. But the recount only includes the physical counting of ballots. It doesn't look into allegation of voter fraud or problems with the process -- just that. What will happen next are legal challenges. And that was threatened by the Democratic National Committee. They said they had private citizens who would do that. No telling, Bernie, how that's going to slow things up. But, in terms much the state of Florida saying: We have certified these elections, that process will happen in seven days. The recount will happen by tomorrow. It has to -- by tomorrow evening. And then the certification has to happen within seven days. And then there's a further certification of overseas ballots, which includes military personnel and people who are traveling. That certification is given 10 days after the election. So we -- if this vote tally starts to narrow more, Bernie, and they have to go ahead and count the overseas ballots, we might not know for 10 day.", "Mike Boettcher, with the up-to-the-minute latest from Tallahassee, thank you -- Judy.", "Well, all the current election uncertainty comes after a roller coaster of a night. At one point, the television news organizations declared Governor Bush the winner, then retracted it as the razor-thin margin of the Florida race became more clear. CNN's Candy Crowley has been covering Governor Bush through it all.", "The once-declared president-elect hopes to soon regain his title.", "This morning brings news from Florida that the final vote count there shows that Secretary Cheney and I have carried the state of Florida. And if that result is confirmed in an automatic recount, as we expect it will be, then we have won the election.", "After an astounding night of doubt, then triumph, then uncertainty, a sense of the surreal has pierced the trademark optimism of the Bush camp.", "It was an amazing night, as you all know, since you lived through it. I watched it this morning on television, some excerpts. And I thought that maybe it had been all a dream. And then I realized I was awake the whole time.", "His running mate by his side, the Republican nominee was low-key, but positive, as he recounted the evening, including that second phone call from Vice President Al Gore to retract his earlier concession.", "I listened to what he had to say.", "Were you amazed at (", "Well, I was. I felt like we -- I was fully prepared to go out and give a speech, thanking my supporters. And he withdrew his earlier comments. And now here we sit.", "Sitting and waiting isn't easy, but the hottest spot may belong to Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who spent the long night in Austin.", "There was some consternation with the -- Florida's governor during our family dinner, when somebody jumped the proverbial gun, as we say. And -- he's the person that really went through some -- obviously, some interesting emotions. I was confident that, when it was all said and done, that Florida would be taken off the declared, you know, state roll, and that cooler heads would prevail.", "Jeb Bush left Austin Wednesday morning to return home to Florida. Former Secretary of State James Baker is also headed to the state to look after Bush's interests there. The Bush camp also has a lawyer on the ground in each precinct to monitor the recount. Should Bush prevail, winning may be the easy part. He would assume office having lost the popular vote.", "I want to assure them that, should the election go the way that we think it will, that I will work hard to earn their confidence. America has a long tradition of uniting once elections are over. Secretary Cheney and I will do everything in our power to unite the nation to call upon the best, to bring people together after one of the most exciting elections in our nation's history.", "Though they concede the unusual circumstances of this election and the unusual circumstances if Bush should be installed in the Oval Office, aides say that a mandate is not necessarily always something you get in an election, though they would love to have had one. A mandate, said one aide, is something you can get when you're in office depending on how you lead -- Judy.", "Candy, what gives the people around Governor Bush and the governor himself confidence that once all these votes are recounted, once all the questions are answered, that he will still be the winner in Florida?", "Well, they say they're confident, but, you know, that's a trademark of the Bush campaign, it always has been. This is a campaign that has talked optimistically. They thought they would win by five or six points in the general election. They thought that they would have a much, much larger victory in the electoral count, even in the one we're talking about. So they tend to talk optimistically but, yes, I would tell you that publicly and privately, they say, look, most of these recounts, historically -- they've looked it up -- come out the same as they were before the recount. So, yes, they are more up than down.", "All right, Candy Crowley in Austin, thanks. A short while ago, Vice President Gore called for the outcome of the presidential election to be decided deliberately, without, quote, \"a rush to judgment.\" CNN's John King joins us with more from Gore's home base of Nashville, Tennessee -- John.", "Well, Judy, we watched here at the War Memorial last night and into the early morning hours as this drama played out. They're cleaning up here now and breaking down. There will be no victory celebration nor a concession speech here. Instead, the Gore campaign huddled at the headquarters watching this, all eyes now, as we've discussed, on the state of Florida. A short time ago, the vice president gave his first reaction to all of this, his campaign aides still saying they believe he will ultimately win this election; they're highlighting the fact that he did, indeed, win the popular vote. The vice president, though, did not make any public statement of an expectation of victory. Instead, he was very subdued in his remarks, urging Florida to conduct a quick and fair recount. Urging the nation not to rush to judgment about who should be the president-elect.", "Yesterday the people of our country joined together to make a great national decision, to choose the next president of the United States. We still do not know the outcome of yesterday's vote, and I realize that this an extraordinary moment for our democracy.", "The vice president left without taking questions; his running mate, Senator Joseph Lieberman said nothing. The Democrats believe the less said by the two candidates the better right now as this remarkable political story -- unprecedented in our history, also looms, now, as a legal controversy.", "Our purpose is clear: We want to ensure that the legislative process, the process of counting, last night, and the underlying voting process is fair, accurate and that we resolve that in a timely way.", "Nashville was a mix of exhaustion, excitement and exasperation. The crowd that waited late into the night, at times seeing victory within reach -- then apparent defeat -- and then again a final reason to hope. The Gore camp took note that, despite predictions to the contrary, it was the vice president who won the popular vote.", "He got the most votes across the entire length and breadth of this country, so we're very proud of him and we're looking forward to a quick resolution of the Florida vote count so that Al Gore can be the next president of the United States.", "But it is the Florida recount that will decide the Electoral College winner. And though the Bush lead is narrow -- fewer than 2,000 votes -- recount veterans say the odds are heavily against the vice president.", "It's better to be ahead in the recount; and actually if it is, as the Bush people think, 1,800 votes -- it sounds like a little amount but, actually, in a recount, that's a lot of votes to overturn to actually win a state.", "The president urged calm and patience.", "The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine exactly what they said. The process for that is in motion and the rest of us will have to let it play out.", "Now in addition to watching the recount closely, the Gore campaign raising other questions -- anecdotal evidence, they say, suggests as many as 2,500 people, maybe more, meant to cast ballots for the vice president. Instead, ended up voting for Pat Buchanan. A big question, though, as to whether they can do anything about that after the election. That, essentially, a complaint about the way the ballot was structured physically on paper. Now, though, the Gore campaign, all eyes on Florida watching this recount. A team of as many as 70 people expected in the state within the next 24 hours. We should note, many have been raising questions as to whether the Gore campaign would try to sway any of those electors in the Electoral College should Governor Bush be certified as the winner of Florida and win by just one or two electoral votes. The vice president today did not rule that out directly, but if you listen closely, he did say, despite the fact that he won the popular vote, that our Constitution calls the Electoral College winner the true president-elect and aides reminding us today, remember the vice president was prepared to come here last night, was just two blocks away preparing to give a concession speech when he realized Florida was closer than he believed. If Governor Bush is ultimately certified the Florida winner, Gore campaign officials telling us the vice president would quickly be prepared to concede again, but they're not ready to do that just yet. They believe, although they acknowledge the odds are high, that they have a chance of reversing the results and actually winning the state of Florida -- Judy.", "John, what gives them that confidence?", "Well, simply there was so much uncertainty, so much back- and-forth last night -- I'd call it not so much confidence as just the reality or the unreality of the last few days. They're not ready to give up because nothing has seemed set in stone these past few days. Every time something seems to be locked in, it changes again. So they say they want to get in on the ground; they want their lawyers to do the research; they say their Democrats in Florida are telling them they believe there could well be a swing in this election. History says there won't be, but history, also, doesn't know what to do with what happened last night.", "True that is; John King in Tennessee, thanks very much. And when INSIDE POLITICS returns, Florida again the deciding factor. We'll hear from Bush campaign press secretary Mindy Tucker and Gore campaign spokesman Chris Lehane.", "With the race to determine the next occupant of the White House still up for grabs, we are joined by two members of the Bush and Gore camps. Bush campaign press secretary Mindy Tucker in Austin, Texas, and in Nashville, Tennessee, Gore campaign spokesman, Chris Lehane. Mindy Tucker, first to you, and Chris Lehane, I will have the same question for you. One of you will win and one of you will lose. Will the victory be sullied by this recount process?", "I certainly hope not. I think we should all be proud of the Democratic process we have here in America. As many people have pointed out today, if there is ever a day to realize that your vote does count, this is it. This has been a hard-fought race on some very important issues. It's close and I think now what is going to be really important is whoever wins is a leader who can really unite this country. It's one of the things we have talked about throughout this campaign. We need someone who can work with the Republicans, Democrats and independents, because there are a lot of people out there who may have not voted for the winner and he will have to represent all those people. And I think that is something that Governor Bush certainly understands and is looking forward to taking on that responsibility and bringing our country together.", "Chris.", "We agree. We think that the democratic process of this country has worked well for over 200 years. This is a nation of laws, we ought to respect our laws. But we think that our victory is going to be sweet. We think we have won the popular vote. That's pretty clear. And we believe we are going to win the popular vote within the state of Florida and thereby win the electoral vote as well.", "Mindy Tucker, it's Jeff Greenfield. Last week, when we were all speculating that Bush might win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote. Some people in your campaign were telling journalists that if that happened, they were seriously considering a post-election challenge, radio talk show hosts and the like arguing that the popular vote winner should, in fact, run the country. Now that it's pretty clear that you have lost the popular vote, could you have any objection if some Gore people did exactly what the Bush people were thinking they might do?", "Actually we could, because I saw that in one paper and I still have not found one single person here in the Bush campaign who knows what anybody was talking about. That is certainly not the feeling. Governor Bush has been asked several times about it and has said several times that the electoral college has worked. It's part of our Democratic system and that the winner of the electoral college is the winner of the presidential election.", "Now, Chris, to you, just a few minutes ago, we heard the vice president seemed to suggest that that was his view too. But all day, you, Mark Fabiani, have been at pains to point out that, in fact, more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush. So, let's put it on the line, if you can. Is your campaign flatly ruling out an electoral challenge to the electoral vote count once that count is complete?", "Well, obviously, we are going to respect the Constitution, and the precepts that are contained within the Constitution with regard to the electoral college. But we believe it's not going to come down to that. We believe, we believe strongly, that not only have we won the popular vote but we are going to win the vote in Florida and thereby win the electoral vote and the popular vote. We believe it's extremely close in Florida and if you begin taking a look at some these votes and some of these counties where there have been questions about the votes, those are Democratic counties, those are our base, those our voters and there's a very, very small margin. And we believe that if there's a fair, objective recount, that Al Gore is going to be the victor in Florida.", "But Chris, forgive an old man's obsession, but the Constitutional process, the last time I looked, also permits electors in many states to vote their consciences. So, what I'm saying is, are you ruling out an appeal to Bush electors within the constitutional process to say, you might want to consider voting for the popular vote winner?", "Again, not to belabor this point, but we believe that's a moot question. We believe we are going to win the popular vote and win the popular vote within the state of Florida and therefore win the electoral college. And we are going to do this all consistent with the frameworks laid out in the Constitution. Your reference to the electors, I think the last time I checked, and correct me if I am wrong, I think about half of them are obligated to vote the way they went in and the other half can vote their conscience. And I think that is consistent with the Constitutional framework. But our viewpoint here is pretty clear and let me be absolutely clear about that and precise. We are going to win the popular vote, which we have done so already and we are going to win the vote in Florida and therefore win the electoral college.", "Last quick question to each of you, starting with you, Mindy, what was your best and worst moment overnight?", "Well, it was certainly a strange night to say the least. I think overall, the -- it was a little bit disappointing that so many media organizations decided to call so many races early on. There were, in fact, Florida, for instance, was called before the polls in western Florida and the Panhandle were even closed. I think it was really disappointing that that had happened. As far as the best part of the evening, just seeing the Democratic process at work. We feel really, really good about our chances in Florida. We have not been set back by this. We are actually looking forward to getting this final recount done because we believe it will only affirm what we already know and that is that Governor Bush has won the state of Florida and therefore won the presidency. We look forward to starting the next phase in this process and look forward to instilling a new president for our country.", "And Chris, your best and the worst moment overnight.", "Well, the penultimate best moment was when we got the popular vote. I think the ultimate best moment is still to come and that will be in the near future when we win Florida outright. I agree with Mindy in terms of the worst moment and that was when, you know, some of these instant polls and exit polls and network predictions proved to be wrong. I think it's a lesson for all of us on all sides of this that we need to be careful as we move through this process in the future.", "Chris Lehane, Mindy Tucker, sleep awaits you. Thank you. Still ahead: understanding Florida. Bill Schneider with a closer look at what the voters had to say. Plus, calculating the Nader effect. The Green Party candidate's results and his impact on this presidential race.", "As the candidates sit on pins and needles, awaiting results of Florida's ballot recount, our Bill Schneider has been poring over the results of the exit polls from that state. Any surprises in the Florida vote?", "Yes, Florida's African-American vote was overwhelmingly Democratic as usual, more than 90 percent for Gore. But the surprise was that African-Americans accounted for 15 percent of the vote in Florida, which is way up. Blacks were 10 percent of the vote in Florida in 1996. Now, Jews, nationwide voted about 80 percent for Gore and Lieberman. The surprise was the Jewish voters accounted for just 4 percent of the vote in Florida this year, which is down from 7 percent in 1996. Now here's a big surprise. The Hispanic vote in Florida used to be heavily Cuban-American and overwhelmingly Republican; but this year it was expected to be even more overwhelmingly Republican because of anger at the Clinton administration's handling of the Elian Gonzalez matter. In fact, however, Florida's Hispanic vote was evenly divided between Bush and Gore; how could that be? Because Cuban-Americans are not the only Hispanics in Florida. In fact, they're outnumbered by other Hispanic voters -- Dominicans, Puerto Ricans and South Americans, who tend to vote strongly Democratic. Plus the fact that second and third-generation Cuban- Americans tend to be less Republican than their parents and grandparents. That's why Bush did not carry Florida handily, as a lot of people expected him too after the Elian Gonzalez affair.", "Now what about seniors in Florida?", "Well that is another surprise, Bernie. Seniors' interest in Social Security and prescription drugs was supposed to drive them to Al Gore; but Florida voters 65 and over actually voted for Bush by a narrow majority. Seniors tend to be among the most conservative voters on values, and a lot of them were disturbed by the moral tone set by the Clinton White House. Among Florida seniors, values trumped interests, which is why Gore didn't carry Florida handily.", "Well, pre-election polls showed, as I recall, that Gore would take Florida. When did the state move into the toss-up column?", "Well, you know this happened, Bernie, in just the last three days of the campaign. Most voters who decided how to vote before the last three days were for Gore, but last-minute deciders, 8 percent of Florida voters, tilted to Bush and they made the state competitive. Did you notice that some Bush supporters in Austin last night were carrying signs that said, \"Thanks, Jeb\"?", "Remembered; thank you Bill Schneider -- Judy.", "And joining us now to talk more about the election in Florida: Mark Silva of \"The Miami Herald\" and Tony Doris of the \"Miami Daily Business Review.\" Mark Silva, to you first: Could this recount that's now under way change the result and give Florida to Al Gore?", "Well, it's certainly close enough. The last time we checked it was roughly 1,700 votes that divided the two out of 5.8 million cast between them. So clearly there's the possibility among 67 counties for an advantage to shift. There remains these outstanding military absentee ballots that could have an impact as well.", "And I want to ask you both about that. But first just about the recount. Tony Doris, do you believe the recount of the ballots that are already in there could shift the outcome?", "Could make a big difference. Now, there's that and there are a number of different irregularities between the ballot boxes that were found and not opened and also the Palm Beach County situation: the numbers of voters that went for Buchanan there could be well out of proportion to any logic that would have withstood the test.", "But that's not addressing the recount itself. I mean, isn't that what you're referring to, a potential challenge to the balloting?", "That's correct. I'm referring to an immediate potential challenge in Palm Beach. As far as the count itself, I didn't know that there was any real problems with count other than some missing ballot boxes here and there, which any little irregularity like that, anything having to do with the count when the margin is this small could make a big difference.", "Mark Silva, what has to happen next? We know that the state officials are saying they're going to try to finish this recount and get it done by tomorrow. But that's not going to be the end of it, is that your outstanding?", "Well, that's correct. They're attempting to undertake, really, an instant canvass. After an election there's always a canvass to certify the results, an orderly process that takes quietly and over a period of time. Nobody ever pays attention to it because it's generally irrelevant. This is sort of an instant canvass that they're attempting to complete by tomorrow evening, which they probably will. Friday is a state-worker holiday, I believe. But there remains these outstanding military absentee ballots, which, if this margin remains close, could, arguably, be part of the final outcome. And how can the state of Florida declare its vote if there are still outstanding ballots?", "Do you have a sense, Mark Silva, of how those outstanding overseas ballots would turn? You're saying most of them are members of the military.", "Well, we think so, but we really don't know. These are ballots that have been requested among all the 67 county elections offices. We're told there were some 2,300 of these in the last presidential election. We're told by the campaigns that they trend Republican, but that strikes me as a little bit of a campaign spin. I'm told by other people with some familiarity with the Pentagon and overseas voting that they tend to vote like the public in general.", "And that could shift the vote either way, Judy. I mean, there are a lot of minorities among the military, it's not just the hard-liners that one might normally assume.", "Well let's just be very specific here. No. 1, we're dealing with a recount -- a simple recount that's now underway. But beyond that, we're looking at these absentee ballots, the ones -- the military overseas ballots as well as, I gather, are there still some in the state that have not been counted?", "I think overwhelmingly the vast majority of the normal absentee ballots have been accounted for. The question is, as they look at these things, will they disqualify some which don't have the certification. We recently, in this state, went through a tightening of the absentee ballot process after some absentee ballot fraud in Miami which overturned a mayoral election in Miami.", "So we're talking about the recount. We're talking about absentee counting. We're also talking about potential fraud or, I don't know, what do you want tall call it? The questions about the ballots in Palm Beach County. Whether the place where you marked your vote was exactly where the name of the candidate was?", "I think there's a real reason to believe that that could significantly affect the outcome in Palm Beach County. It certainly is something that bears investigating right away. Like I said...", "Why are you so confident that that could change the outcome?", "Well, Palm Beach County, from what we know, is no great extreme, right-wing, hard-line conservative Pat Buchanan territory any more than any other county in Florida. And yet, if the votes turn out to have been heavily Pat Buchanan, relatively, up in the Palm Beach County, then that does look like there could well have been a lot of people who were fooled in the ballot box, and that might require a legal change.", "All right, Mark Silva and Tony Doris, we thank you both for being with us; this story just gets more complicated and more complicated. Thanks very much -- Bernie.", "Green Party candidate Ralph Nader did not reach his goal yesterday of 5 percent of the national vote, but he earned enough support to be considered -- at least by some -- a spoiler in this presidential race. Pat Neal takes a closer look at the Nader factor.", "If it wasn't for Ralph Nader, Democrats say Al Gore would be president-elect now.", "Ralph Nader denied Al Gore a clean victory in Florida.", "The numbers bear that out. According to the latest tally, George W. Bush is beating Gore by fewer than 2,000 votes. Nader has pulled more than 96,000. Analysts point out Nader supporters overwhelmingly said they would have backed the vice president if Nader had not been in the running.", "Take 80 percent of the 2 percent that Nader polled in Florida, and that's over a point and a half going to Gore. That gives Gore Florida.", "And what does Nader think?", "If Democrats are disappointed with the returns, they need to take a close look at their party and the empty campaign waged by Al Gore in this campaign.", "The Nader factor also looms in Oregon, where the votes are still being tallied. The latest numbers show Bush with a slight lead and Nader polling 5 percent.", "It does appear that, based on the earlier polling, that the -- some people did peel away from Nader and go back to Gore, and that was probably based on the fact that they realized yesterday that the race was still very close.", "Nader's appeal to independents and environmentalists also siphoned votes away from Gore in New Hampshire, which went for Bush. But each though Nader also did well in Maine, Vermont, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Washington, he did not cost Gore those states.", "Congratulations, you did a great job, you ran a great campaign.", "One person congratulating Nader: Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan.", "And I would currently advise Ralph, given the numbers I've seen, that he may be interested in Secret Service protection.", "Buchanan, for his effort, only received about 1 percent of the vote. (on camera): As for Ralph Nader, even if he costs Al Gore the presidency, he didn't get what he wanted: 5 percent of the popular vote. That would have allowed the Green Party to receive federal funds in the next election. Pat Neal, CNN, Washington.", "There is much more ahead on this extended edition of", "Still to come, a House and Senate divided.", "When the last vote is counted, Congress will be virtually split between Democrats and Republicans. Is it a prescription for gridlock or opportunity for bipartisanship?", "Chris Black on the new balance of power on Capitol Hill. Plus:", "And I hope that the outcome of this election is a matter of comfort to Mrs. Carnahan.", "A concession in Missouri after that state casts a vote for history. Also:", "The first lady spends her first day as a senator- elect.", "There will be a Clinton in that capital city after the president leaves on January 20th. Hillary Rodham Clinton capped her historic run for the U.S. Senate with victory on election day. CNN's Frank Buckley reports.", "Hillary Clinton greeted commuters and thanked supporters at Grand Central Station as a senator-elect. The first lady looking forward, she says, to her new role as an elected public servant.", "You know, it's like any new job. I mean, you've got to find your footing. You have to be, you know, willing to work hard to learn the, you know, the ropes and the rules, build relationships with people, all of which I intend to do.", "Mrs. Clinton telling reporters in her first news conference as a senator-elect that health care, education and upstate New York's economy would be her legislative priorities.", "My first bill on my own behalf will concern the upstate economy and also parts of downstate that have not yet realized the full benefit of the economic prosperity that we enjoy.", "Hillary! Hillary!", "Upstate voters helped to deliver Mrs. Clinton's victory. The first lady running stronger in the region than Democrats traditionally do. Clinton also won big in New York City, with three- quarters of the vote there. And held her own in the suburbs, losing in Rick Lazio's base by only single digits. Lazio was back home in the suburbs as Republicans began to consider what went wrong. The Congressman ran as the anti-Hillary, stressing the carpetbagger issue. But exit-polling revealed only 47 percent were concerned. The majority was not. Women, once a problem in polling for the first lady came home to her with 60 percent on election night. Men were split. Mrs. Clinton said her new role would mean advocating for all New Yorkers.", "I intend to, you know, be a senator for everyone in New York and, you know, over the course of time I think people who might have supported my opponent will understand and see that.", "Mrs. Clinton also acknowledged President Clinton, who for the first time, was the spouse in the background on election night.", "I would not have been standing there without, you know, the support and work of my husband.", "The first lady said she stayed up all night long watching presidential election returns. Her loyalties on the matter very clear.", "I'm very hopeful that not only will the lead in the popular vote, which the vice president now has, remain and make very clear that he was the choice of the majority of Americans, but that as a result of the recount and the investigation that will be going on in Florida, he will get the votes that people intended for him to have and will be declared our president.", "And Mrs. Clinton also answered those wondered whether she has presidential aspirations of her own. Mrs. Clinton today saying no, she doesn't. She intends to fully serve out her six-year term as New York's junior senator -- Judy.", "Frank Buckley, thanks very much. Another closely-watched and emotionally-charged race was the one in Missouri. The defeat of Republican Senator John Ashcroft also made history in an unlikely way. CNN's Kate Snow has the story.", "I believe that the will of the people has been expressed with compassion, and that the people's voice should be respected and heard.", "Surrounded by teary- eyed supporters, Senator John Ashcroft conceded the race to the widow of his formal rival, Governor Mel Carnahan.", "And I hope that the outcome of this election is a matter of comfort to Mrs. Carnahan. And I hope that we can all accord her the opportunity to have the kind of necessary recovery time after such a great, personal loss.", "The one-term Republican is the first person in U.S. history to lose a Senate race to a deceased candidate. It was an incredibly close race, marred by allegations on both sides of voter fraud in the city of St. Louis. But the hundreds of votes in question would not be enough to give Ashcroft a win. And despite lingering legal questions about the constitutionality of electing a dead man to the Senate, Ashcroft said he will not challenge the election in court.", "But I reject any legal challenge to this election in terms of the election for the United States Senate. I will discourage others from challenging the will of the people in the election of their United States senator.", "We take that as a good sign and a good faith announcement on their part. And just hope that all of the other folks that may be listening to them, follow, their lead.", "Still, some have suggested Ashcroft is waiting for someone else to do the job for him.", "He says he won't participate. I won't encourage it, but that does not mean that he absolutely would not allow it to take place because other people besides him have the right to make a challenge on behalf of the voters of Missouri.", "Under Missouri state law, Mel Carnahan's name was left on the ballot when he died less than four weeks before the election. The governor is expected to appoint Jean Carnahan to the seat. She spent the day secluded at the family farm.", "With the Senate majority now looking to be in the hands of the Republicans, the victory by Jean Carnahan appears a little bit less important to the balance of power of Washington. Still, Republicans likely to go after this seat once again in 2002. Asked today if he would run in 2002, Senator Ashcroft never said no. Kate Snow, CNN, live in St. Louis, Missouri.", "Thank you, Kate. And coming up next, the battle for Capitol Hill. We'll look at what's in store in the House and in the Senate.", "While we still do not know who will be the next president of the United States, we do know he will face a divided Congress. CNN's Chris Black reports.", "They don't have the votes, we don't have the votes.", "When the last vote is counted, Congress will be virtually split between Democrats and Republicans. Is it a prescription for gridlock, or opportunity for bipartisanship?", "Power sharing is a unique concept. We recognize and, I hope, they recognize that the only way the Congress will accomplish anything is through bipartisanship. It simply will not occur in any other way.", "The election has left Capitol Hill reeling. The outcome of the Washington Senate race is still uncertain, but the Senate will be divided between Republicans and Democrats next session. And the House Republican margin has most likely been cut to fewer than a handful of votes, potentially making passage of Social Security reform, tax cuts and spending bills tougher than ever.", "This is an American constitutional equivalent of cohabitation.", "With no mandate for either party, even the controversial senator to be from New York, Hillary Rodman Clinton is adopting a conciliatory tone.", "Today, you know, we're New Yorkers, and I'm going to get to work to represent the entire state of New York.", "Both Democrats and Republicans say the ability to pass legislation in the next Congress hinges on the outcome of the presidential race, and efforts to bridge the partisan divide are already under way. CNN is told a coalition of moderate to conservative House Democrats are already talking privately about reaching out to George W. Bush if he wins the election. And moderate Republicans who side with Democrats on some domestic issues could prove to be a pivotal swing group.", "The things that we really feel ought to be advanced will be advanced and the centrists in both parties will be a player in those decisions just like they have been in the past.", "An early test will be on campaign finance reform, with Senator John McCain vowing there will be blood on the Senate floor if his quest continues to fall short.", "I think we will get a campaign finance reform bill done next year.", "To top off all the confusion, the current Congress returns next week for a lame-duck session. Lawmakers say the outcome of the presidential race and how it affects the unfinished business of this Congress will provide a good clue into how they behave in the next. Chris Black, CNN, Capitol Hill.", "And when INSIDE POLITICS returns: Who will be moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Judy will talk with Margaret Carlson and Tucker Carlson, they join us to discuss the election.", "This late word in from Florida, we -- CNN has learned that they have stopped the presidential vote recount for the day. They will resume counting tomorrow morning, and just as soon as we can get hold of the numbers from this day, at the end of the day we will share them with you. Joining us now, in Washington, Tucker Carlson of \"The Weekly Standard\"; in New York, Margaret Carlson of \"Time\" magazine. All right, Margaret and Tucker, both sides, both Gore and Bush are saying, we're going to win once the Florida votes are counted -- at least their campaigns are saying that. Where are we headed here, Tucker?", "Well, it's interesting. They're both saying that, but the Gore campaign is also saying -- in fact, Bill Daley just said, we have already won. Somebody asked him -- the first question in his press conference was, do you believe you have won, and he said, yes, I do believe that, we have won the popular vote. And you keep hearing every prominent Democrat on television today, including the president and his wife, Gore himself, Fabiani, Chris Lehane, have all pointed out the fact that Gore won the popular vote. Now, this is true, but it -- on some level, it really is a matter of trivia, because obviously winning the popular vote doesn't make you president. But they keep pointing this out as if it has some significance beyond just being interesting or -- I mean, there -- it is significant in a sense, but it's not, strictly speaking, significant as to who becomes president, so it does make you wonder what is the point here, and I think there is a point.", "Margaret, are -- is -- are you getting a sense that the Gore people are not going to abide by an electoral vote when, if that's what George Bush ends up with?", "Well, I wonder, Tucker, if the point isn't that they want to, you know, first make -- you know, CNN has all day on its screen, Gore 260, Bush 246, this sticks in people's mind, they won the popular vote. While they're looking for a way to challenge those 3,200 Buchanan ballots in Palm Beach -- I think it's 3,200 -- to find a way -- when Gore came on TV, he's got flags behind him, he's on the podium, there is -- you know, he takes no questions. He's looking presidential and he's leaving it to other people to figure out, well, OK, let's keep this going slowly, let's make sure it's right, but also perhaps let's find a way to challenge it.", "So, Tucker, where -- I'll ask the question, again. Where are we headed? I mean, are we looking at a process that is going to be drawn out over days and days with an outcome that's not respected by half of the people in the country?", "Well, of course, it's not clear but that is definitely the direction it seems to be moving in. Bill Daley, for instance, at the press conference, said individuals have a right to take action if their rights have been violated, and it seems to me a clear reference to this Palm Beach ballot, which is, of course, an official ballot. I mean, it's not as if, you know, some right-wing consultant came in the middle of the night and wrote it up in an effort to, you know, confuse Democratic voters. It is the ballot and apparently a lot of people misread it. So it is hard, strictly speaking, to see how one would go about challenging that. But that's the clear implication that the Gore campaign is making that people's rights were violated. Jesse Jackson has said that bluntly -- people's rights were violated by this ballot. So it's not inconceivable to me that that's the basis upon which Florida is challenged.", "You know, here you have this very close race and then you have an anomaly, which is that Pitch-fork Pat managed to get 3,200 votes in Palm Beach. You know, it raises questions. Now maybe people -- you know, I don't know electoral law and I'm not even -- I've never met a member of the electoral college. But we're all going to meet them. They're going to become the new independent voters, and you know, they're going to be is having little coffee klatsches and be hearing from them.", "I think we just lost Margaret's signal in New York. We apologize about that. But Tucker, let me pick up on the point that you and she were making and really move it maybe a step beyond. What is it going to take for Al Gore, for the country, for the Bush people to accept and respect the results of this election once they're known?", "Well, again, that's not clear because they will be known fairly soon. I mean, it seems at this point that by the end of tomorrow it'll be clear who won Florida, given...", "Except you won't have all of the absentee votes counted.", "Well, as far as I know, the state of Florida was saying -- or at least earlier today that they would be counted by the end of the of tomorrow. But in any case, by certainly the beginning of next week, it'll be clear who won. So the question then is, does the Gore campaign dare challenge it on other grounds? And I have to say it seems to me that Gore will be under a lot of pressure not to, because, I mean, you know, people obviously are divided about who ought to be president but probably united by the sentiment that there ought to be a president-elect. So it strikes me as a risky strategy if that's what they're planning on.", "All right, Tucker Carlson, and Margaret, who is no longer with us.", "Thanks. See you,", "Thank you, both. We appreciate it. Well, there is still much more INSIDE POLITICS ahead.", "In the next 30 minutes, the latest from Florida. Plus a look at the history of recounts, and some thoughts on the electoral college and the popular vote.", "Stay with us as INSIDE POLITICS continues.", "Al Gore is facing the unknowns of the presidential election and the prospect he might be a popular vote winner and an electoral vote loser.", "Meanwhile, George W. Bush stays upbeat that he will be the official victor once a recount in Florida is complete.", "OK, OK, I know it's too close to call. But Florida. Florida is going to pick the next president?", "Bruce Morton on the election twists and turns befitting the home of Disney World.", "This is a special edition of INSIDE POLITICS. Here once again are Judy Woodruff and Bernard Shaw,", "Welcome back to this extended edition of INSIDE POLITICS. All eyes are on the state of Florida where the outcome of the presidential election apparently, apparently will turn on a vote recount. That process has finished for this day. It will resume tomorrow. With approximately 10 counties reporting their result, Al Gore has gained 109 votes and George W. Bush has added 92. Now Bush still leads Gore in the Sunshine State by more than 1700 votes. This afternoon, Vice President Gore urged that the recount be deliberate and fair -- and it was his first public comment on the fact that in the battle for electoral votes it remains too close to call.", "I want to express my deep and profound gratitude to all of those who cast their ballots, however they cast them. We now need to resolve this election in a way that is fair, forthright, and fully consistent with our Constitution and our laws.", "Earlier today, Governor Bush expressed his belief that when all is said and done, he will be the president-elect.", "I'm looking forward to this being speedily resolved and that the vote that we believe we've got in Florida is confirmed, and when that happens, I'll be the president-elect and my friend will be the vice president-elect and we'll begin the transition.", "Both Bush and Gore have sent high-profile emissaries to Florida to help ensure that the recount is handled fairly -- Bernie.", "You know, while this recount in a presidential election is quite extraordinary, recounts in state and local elections are not by and large that unusual and some in the past have gotten downright ugly. Our Brooks Jackson flashes back to one example.", "Do you solemnly swear...", "1985: Tip O'Neill was Speaker and Democrats had command of the house. Jim Wright was their leader.", "The election procedures employed in the 8th Congressional District have been neither timely nor regular. And serious questions have been raised with respect to their fairness.", "And Democrats refused to seat Richard McIntyre, even though McIntyre had been certified the winner in Indiana's 8th Congressional District. A task force -- one Republican, two Democrats, including future White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, recounted the votes.", "The decisions were justified. They were supported and they were right.", "And on party line votes, the Democrats declared their man, Frank McCloskey, the winner by only four votes. The Republicans called it a stolen election and walked out of the White House.", "This wound will not heal without a terrible price and a scar that will be with this House for many years.", "And the bitterness didn't stop there.", "I think it destroyed the personal relationships of many people in the House. It was as bitter a partisan dispute as I've seen in 20-years plus in Washington.", "House Republicans were led by moderates then.", "That really destroyed those people in the leadership who were believers in reaching across the aisle and dealing with other honorable men. And frankly, I think it played a key role in Newt being elected into the leadership.", "That's Newt Gingrich, back then a back-bencher without much power. Indiana 8 changed that.", "I would say that it led to the Gingrich Revolution in 1994. It took a while to get there, but in the end, the Young Turk Republicans who felt that the election was stolen from them became the majority in the caucus, the House Republican caucus, and they wreaked bloody hell on the Democrats in retribution for what happened in Indiana 8.", "Democrats said at the time it was the right thing to do.", "I think it was a fair count, as close as possible, as fair as possible, given all the circumstances.", "And Democrats who were involved still say the fight was worth it despite the bitter legacy.", "The legacy continues. I think the Republicans honestly, genuinely believe that the Democrats stole it from them. And I think the Democrats honestly, genuinely believe that the Republicans were trying to steal it from the Democrats. And at the end of the day, a decision was going to get made and no matter what decision was made in this race, there were going to be a lot of hard feelings.", "The Indiana 8 recount is still remembered by many as the Bloody 8, a seminal event in the history of the House and a reminder that contested elections can stir bitter partisan passions that linger for years -- Bernie.", "Thank you, Brooks Jackson. Now turning back to this presidential race. Al Gore is leading George W. Bush in the popular vote. but he may, when all is said and done and decided, lose the battle for electoral votes and, of course. the election to Governor Bush. A scenario like that has played out only twice before in United States history. CNN's Charles Zewe looks at the electoral college process and the issues it raises.", "Voters Tuesday didn't vote for George Bush or Al Gore, they voted for a slate of so- called \"electors\" picked by state party conventions. The election in fact produced a potential crisis, giving Al Gore a popular vote win and George W. Bush a victory in the electoral college if he prevails in the vote recount in Florida. It's all because of the way the framers of the U.S. Constitution set up the electoral college. A candidate who wins the highest number of popular votes in a state gets all of that state's electoral votes. One vote per elector and the number of electors equals the total of the state's and House and Senate members. Two states, Nebraska and Maine, allocate their votes somewhat differently. Two hundred and seventy votes wins 538 electoral college votes and wins the presidency. In 16 states, electors are legally bound to vote for their party's choice for president and vice president. Thirty-five other states, though, allow electors, some with minimal penalties, to switch their votes. Constitutional experts say the electoral college system is rife with potential for becoming a nightmare.", "What you have is a political system designed and functioning for the 21st century. And in that system is a part that was designed in the 17th century, and that part has failed. It is not well-suited for our current sort of pressures.", "Three times, in 1824, 1876, and 1888, the candidate who won the popular vote lost the electoral vote and the presidency. Supporters of the system contend it forces candidates to visit less populated states rather than building up huge leads in heavily populated areas.", "The big population centers would get the most attention under a popular vote system, but it's not clear that states would get entirely neglected. A lot of states get neglected anyway under the electoral college system when those states are locked in for one candidate or another.", "Attempts to throw out the electoral college are already planned no matter how this presidential election turns out. (on camera): That is easier said than done. Any Constitutional amendment to scrap the electoral college must be approved by two- thirds of both houses of Congress and then ratified by 38 states. Charles Zewe, CNN, Washington.", "All right, we have more now on this issue of electoral votes and popular votes with Jeff Greenfield. And Jeff, as I come to you, I want to show our viewers what we now see from Florida. The recount is finished for the day and here are the numbers. I think we can show them to you. Yes, the bottom line is that of the counties they've counted, Bush gains 125 votes, Gore gains 133, a net gain of eight for the vice president. And you have been doing some thinking about this whole electoral college popular vote.", "Well, it was very interesting today on the show and what the vice president said. You have got to listen to that language carefully. We respect the process. That almost sounds like they are willing to accept whatever the electoral vote count is. The process, as we just heard, includes the very real possibility of electors changing their vote. And the Gore people all day today were saying, now remember, we won the popular vote. If it comes out 271 for Bush, if they can get 2 electors even to switch, or three or four, changes the whole outcome. That's only the beginning. Say Gore does nothing. Now, let's say there are six of those Bush electors who are committed social conservatives. And they go to Bush and they say, you know, unless you agree to ban RU-486, that pill, we will withhold our votes from you and it will throw it into the House of Representatives. The potential for mischief because of human beings being electors is enormous. One other example: You know, I'm an elector, Governor Bush, and I've always wanted my brother-in-law to be a federal judge. Dealing, intrigue, threats, bribes, political commitment.", "But aren't these people supposed to be loyalists through and through to their party and then to the nominee?", "Yes, and they are generally picked for loyalty. They are state officials, local officials, donors. What I'm saying is the human factor can never be ignored. And if it's this close, look, if the spread were 30 or 40 electoral votes, there would be no possibility. If you are talking about two electors who could keep Bush in the presidency, forget bad motives, they deeply believe in something and they go to the Bush campaign and they say, we want your commitment. You said no litmus test on judges, we want a litmus test. We want a new highway in Topeka. Who knows what they could want? The possibilities for mischief now move from satirical novels to plausibility.", "Boy, I have a feeling we are going to be talking about this for more days than one.", "I suspect so.", "Jeff Greenfield, thanks very much.", "And still ahead on INSIDE POLITICS, what message did the voters send Washington? Our Bill Schneider will be back with a closer look at the national vote.", "At this hour, the race for the White House is still undecided, and as we've mentioned, the two candidates are separated by a slim margin in the popular vote. Once again pulling up a chair, our Bill Schneider. Why was this election so close?", "Well, as usual, once again, it was the battle of the sexes: the gender gap, to be precise. Among men, the election wasn't even close. Men voted for Bush by an 11-point margin. The election wasn't close among women either. Women voted for Gore by an 11-point margin. So the election was a gender showdown, fought to a standoff: Bush, the president of men, versus Gore, the president of women.", "Were voters trying to send a message?", "Not one message, Bernie, two. Voters were clearly of two minds. On the one hand, they never had it so good. A record 86 percent said the economy was excellent or good, and no fewer than half said their own personal financial situation had improved over the past four years. Message: We're fat and happy, keep it up. On the other hand, there was strong sentiment that it was time for a change in the country. Nearly 60 percent said the nation's moral climate was seriously off on the wrong track. Message: Something is wrong. The top-rated issue on voters' minds was jobs and the economy. Voters who cited that issue voted strongly for Gore. But the No. 1 quality voters said they were looking for in a candidate was honesty and trustworthiness. Voters who cited that quality voted 80 percent for bush. So the prevailing mood of this election, I would say, was moral drift amidst prosperity.", "Thank you...", "Sure.", "... Bill Schneider. Up next, our Bruce Morton on Florida's moment in the electoral spotlight.", "For the next 24 hours or more, Florida will be the virtual center of the political universe. Our Bruce Morton reports.", "OK, OK, I know it's too close to call, but Florida? Florida is going to pick the next president? As Florida goes, so goes the nation? Wait a minute. Isn't one of the most prominent Floridians a large mouse? Are we all going to take voting orders from the Mickey? Sounds a little \"Goofy\" to me. I mean, it's pretty, Florida, all those beaches, all those folks soaking up rays. And they all drop everything, right, and go running off to vote? That's why they came to sunny Florida? Some vote, sure, seniors. One friend of mine used to say, just poll his father's condo, you'd know how the whole state was going to go. Yes, well, where was his father election day, when we really needed to know that? Some people are worried about security during the recount. Florida can fix that. Take all the ballot boxes to the Everglades, hire some alligators to handle security. No ordinary political crook is going to mess with them. On the other hand, Florida has the space center: all those astronauts and shuttles. You could stash any number of ballots up there in orbit somewhere, count them any way you liked, and who'd ever know? Florida does have serious politicians, the seniors, the Cuban- Americans, who vote and organize, and are usually very loyal Republicans. But this is theme park country, beach country. Maybe we need a new park: Candidateland, you could call it. Hidden boxes of votes buried around the park, the alligators on patrol, Mickey and his pals to keep things moving. And for the lucky winner who navigates all the political swamps and haunted houses, maybe a prize: a nice white house to live in. As Florida goes, so goes the nation. OK, Mickey, tell us what to do next. Bruce Morton, CNN, Washington. But I can be on the next plane to the beach.", "Don't do it! That's all for this edition of INSIDE POLITICS. I'm Bernard Shaw.", "And I'm Judy Woodruff."], "speaker": ["GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "AL GORE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR", "KAREN HUGHES, BUSH CAMPAIGN SPOKESWOMAN", "ANNOUNCER", "SHAW", "MIKE BOETTCHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GOV. JEB BUSH (R), FLORIDA", "BOETTCHER", "JENNY BACKUS, DNC PRESS SECRETARY", "BOETTCHER", "SHAW", "BOETTCHER", "SHAW", "WOODRUFF", "CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "G. BUSH", "CROWLEY", "HUGHES", "CROWLEY", "G. BUSH", "QUESTION", "OFF-MIKE) G. BUSH", "CROWLEY", "G. 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{"id": "CNN-180910", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2012-2-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/10/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Four Greek Cabinet Ministers Resign Over Austerity Plan; Police and Protesters Clash in Athens; Greece in Chaos; PIMCO CEO Weighs In; Greek Lawmaker Wants Out of Euro; Europe Freeze Continues", "utt": ["A stone's throw from Ground Zero, the Greek prime minister tonight warns bankruptcy is not an option. For many, the pill is too bitter to swallow. Four government ministers have resigned in Athens. Also tonight, the big bad bonuses. What chief executives have to say about their pay packet. It may be Friday. I'm Richard Quest, and I still mean business. Good evening. Tonight, Greece's prime minister says there's no room in the government for anyone who opposes the austerity agreement reached yesterday. The country's deputy foreign minister and all four cabinet ministers from the Laos Party have now resigned, as Europe's demand for deeper cuts has pushed the Greek government to breaking point.", "The priority is whatever is necessary to approve the new economic program and credit agreements. Any other developments would be destructive. It's logical that whoever disagrees and doesn't vote for the new program cannot stay within the government.", "The turmoil in Greece is spilling onto the streets. Today, violent clashes started outside the Greek parliament. Protesters through stones and fire bombs whilst the police retaliated with stun grenades and teargas. Friday marked the start of a two-day strike by workers from Greece's two main unions which, together, represent half the Greek workforce. In Athens tonight for CNN, our Senior Correspondent Matthew Chance joins me now. Matthew, so the agreement that they thought had been reached is not going to hold, or at least looks like it. How much chaos, what's the feeling in the Greek capital tonight?", "Well, of course, that bailout deal is subject to parliamentary approval. The vote is expected to come at some time this weekend, so wait and see how that turns out. In terms of the mood on the streets of Athens and elsewhere in the country, people clearly very angry, indeed. We've seen thousands of people throughout the course of this day, as you mentioned, clashing with riot police in the main square here in the center of Athens. You get a sense, Richard, that people are just fed up. Fed up with the two years or so of austerity cuts that they've already had to endure. People have seen their incomes fall off a cliff. They've seen job losses, they've seen public services eroded. And there's just a general sense, here, that these austerity measures, more of which are now being demanded by the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF, are not going to make the matters -- any better. They're going to make that recession even worse. We've just had some very interesting unemployment figures that have come out within the past few days here in Greece, 20.9 percent for the entire country, obviously extremely high. But even that doesn't tell the higher -- the whole picture, because if you look at the age group between 16 and 24, that figure rises to 48 percent, and it's that age group that we're seeing throwing the petrol bombs, throwing the rocks and stones at the police in the main square of Athens throughout the course of the day, Richard.", "And the view from Athens -- on the Germans, Angela Merkel, the eurozone -- we've heard on this program in recent days politicians being vitriolic against eurozone partners. What are you hearing there?", "There's a great deal of animosity, resentment, a sense of national humiliation as well, about what the eurozone, led by the Germans, is wanting the Greeks to do. Because as well as make these very difficult, painful cuts to the country's public services and average minimum wage and things like that, they're also asking for what they call the strong political commitment from the political leaders in Greece to push through these austerity measures. They want written guarantees from Greece's political leadership that they will follow through on these commitments, and that's perceived as a sort of national humiliation stacked on top of the humiliating cuts this country has already had to make. But nevertheless, the prime minister of the country, Lucas Papademos, making it quite clear that he does not believe a default in Greece is an option, that he wants to push through these measures in the country's parliament at whatever cost. He's also made the point, as we've reported, that any government minister that does not agree with the bailout deal that is being demanded by Brussels has no place in government, and already we've seen four senior figures, senior ministers in the Greek coalition resign from office. And so, there's going to be a big reshuffle in order to get these measures through, Richard.", "Matthew Chance, who is Athens for us tonight. Matthew, thank you. The pain of Greece's knock back is playing out on the markets. I want to show you first, before we go any further, I just want to show you this one. We'll come back to it in a minute. This shows, really, Athens had performed quite well during the course of the week, but now as the sentiment turns very, very sour, it takes that down. We'll come back to it in a moment. The euro against the dollar. The big picture, it has been up 2 percent on the year to date, and the euro was trading at an eight-month high against the US currency. But now, with the events of the last 24 hours, once again, it's come back. And that has spilled over into these equity markets, which are down, now, for the whole week. The big losses were the banks, Commerzbank, Societe Generale down 7 percent. These are the banks, particularly those like Societe, Piraeus Bank, they are the ones that will take an absolute clobbering when you take the haircuts and the default, if it happens. And New York is also down. New York is down more than 130 points. So, two of the markets open and doing business and to discuss this now, PIMCO's chief executive, Mohamed El-Erian, wrote in the \"Financial Times\" that the Greek agreement stands little chance of placing the country on the path to growth, higher employment, and stability. Mohamed El-Erian joins me now from Newport Beach in California. Good to see you this evening, Mohamed, thank you for joining us. The first question has to be, what were the eurozone thinking when they basically pulled the rug out from under the Greek prime minister and the agreement?", "Basically, Richard, what you're seeing is that there is no common analysis or understanding of what's going on. So, each side is pursuing their own agenda. In the case of the European countries, they are saying, look, Greece, you've made promises in the past, you haven't delivered, and we're not just going to accept promises again. We want two other things. We want implementation and we want political parties to sign. So, the Europeans are pushing and pushing the Greeks. The problem is the approach itself will not lead to what you need, and what you need is growth, medium-term debt sustainability, and attracting new capital into investments. And that's not going to result from what is being discussed.", "But have they basically, in this humiliating response to Greece, have they basically cut Greece off? They are now prepared, as indeed -- look. With the exception of the stock market tonight, the markets do seem to be basically coming to a view of, if it defaults, it defaults, and we'll deal with it then.", "Yes, I think there's two things going on. I think in the case of Greece, they are pushing it towards social and political fragmentation that will make it very hard to implement a package. I think more generally, over the last five months since October, the Europeans have been pivoting, first quietly, and now openly. Before, it was about rescuing the periphery. Today, it's about refounding, to use the words of President Sarkozy, refounding the core. And they want to strengthen the core, build the firewalls, and let the periphery go.", "That's pretty dramatic. You're basically saying that everyone now is -- whatever they say publicly, they are resigned to the fact that this -- this Greece might go bankrupt, it might get messy, and they'll have to just deal with that as and when it happens.", "Yes. It's the only way to explain what happened yesterday in Brussels. Yesterday, the European ministers humiliated Greece in a very open way. They said, we no longer give you the benefit of the doubt. They made it very clear --", "-- that where they stand.", "One question that's been troubling me through the course of the day and watching the events. Are we at that sort of situation that in five years time, when Greece has been through civil war and riot and the whole thing has collapsed, we will look back and say with the historians, and they'll say, ah, if you want to know when the mistake happened, it's when they pushed too far. When they decided to do this. Would you agree that we're at a turning point?", "I agree we're at a turning point. I hope it's more like what happened in Argentina in December of 2001. In Argentina in 2001, society said, \"We can no longer take it.\" At that point, Argentina pivoted, including an overhaul, a resetting, in economic, financial, institutional terms. And that allowed Argentina, albeit in a messy way, to get out of a straightjacket and get back to a path that promised more growth and more jobs. Hopefully, that's what's going to happen, because the alternative would be absolutely awful, Richard.", "Mohamed El-Erian joins us from Newport in California. Have a good weekend, many thanks, indeed, for joining us. Coming up next, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS continues. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Greek MP Liana Kanelli says staying in the euro would be a disaster.", "She wants out."], "speaker": ["RICHARD QUEST, HOST", "LUCAS PAPADEMOS, PRIME MINISTER OF GREECE (through translator)", "QUEST", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "QUEST", "CHANCE", "QUEST", "MOHAMED EL-ERIAN, CEO, PIMCO", "QUEST", "EL-ERIAN", "QUEST", "EL-ERIAN", "QUEST:  OK --  EL-ERIAN", "QUEST", "EL-ERIAN", "QUEST", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-13202", "program": "", "date": "2000-8-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/03/aotc.05.html", "summary": "Gabriel: Tech Performance in July 'Very Disheartening'", "utt": ["The markets went their separate ways again Wednesday, as the Dow gained ground and the Nasdaq headed south. Joining me to talk about the current negative sentiment toward tech stocks is market strategist Terence Gabriel of IDEAglobal. Great to have you with us, thanks for coming in.", "Thanks, Deborah.", "When the Dow and the Nasdaq diverge like this for two sessions, what's it telling us?", "Well, we need to look internally to see what it is that's driving these indices and why the Dow is moving higher and the Nasdaq is having all this trouble. Actually, several days ago, when the Dow was up, interestingly enough, major tech components within the Dow that are also in the Nasdaq, were down. We had Intel down. We had Microsoft down, IBM and Hewlett- Packard down, yet the Dow was higher. Because we're seeing strength in some of these traditional quote, unquote \"safer\" blue chip names like Coke, like McDonald's, like Merck, J&J;, P&G;, companies that don't deliver dynamic earnings growth at all, but perhaps can safely deliver the expected numbers.", "Why a sudden soured attitude on tech stocks?", "Well, certainly, the sentiment toward tech stocks shifted dramatically last March, and we had a significant sell-off into May. We had quite a rally back actually, from the May lows into the July reporting period. I think that the performance of a lot of tech stocks in July was very disheartening. We had companies that, of course, warned on earnings or missed earnings, were slaughtered. And we also saw companies that were reporting record earnings, basically suffering the same fate, selling off very dramatically. It seems that the market just does not have confidence in the ability of -- for these tech stocks to meet their earnings estimates moving forward.", "Does it have anything to do with the volatility in the marketplace?", "Well, I think that's part of it. We've had, of course, thinner volume since the spring, and when you have that kind of volatility, it can be very, very dangerous stepping into stocks on a short-term basis for short-term traders. And certainly, I think the lower volume suggests that institutions have been perhaps holding back and staying on the sidelines. And in that kind of thin volume, if you get burned, it certainly can create a situation where players back off, the market gets thinner, and as a result, volatility even increases further.", "You mentioned that some tech stocks that have warned, companies that have warned, have gotten slaughtered by investors. But others that have not warned have been taken down along for the ride. Do you think that the performance is warranted, that we're seeing right here? or are we creating a buying opportunity?", "Well, I mean, it looked to me as if it was a buying opportunity that was developing here. I think the point is that what we have is a bit of a divergence here between the fundamental, some of the fundamental outlook, and the technical. Certainly the trends of many of these stocks are decidedly negative, despite what are very favorable forward earnings estimates. We've seen, certainly, stocks in the semiconductor area, the equipment area, the electronic components area, selling off very hard, despite, again, very positive outlooks being delivered by industry analysts and corporate CEOs. That's very worrisome when you get that kind of divergence.", "You, alone, just about, among the analysts I've talked to recently, do not like oil companies, in spite of the fact that we're now seeing again some firming in the price of oil, it's up again today. Why not?", "Well, we still think the price of oil is headed lower. We're still somewhat concerned, and as we move forward, we're going to see the U.S. economy slow. And that we either have to see numbers which show the Fed that the economy has slowed, or we're going to see the Fed again move on rates, as we move throughout the year, to slow it, in order to bring the growth down to levels which the Fed considers more sustainable. Now, in that kind of environment, it would seem to me that deep cyclical plays, commodity plays, probably are going to come under some pressure again. And therefore, although oil companies reported very good earnings, and still may be benefiting from the rise in the price of oil, again, markets a discounting mechanism and it may start to move away from those stocks.", "All right, good to know. Good to have you with us as well, Terence Gabriel, form IDEAglobal.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "TERENCE GABRIEL, IDEAGLOBAL", "MARCHINI", "GABRIEL", "MARCHINI", "GABRIEL", "MARCHINI", "GABRIEL", "MARCHINI", "GABRIEL", "MARCHINI", "GABRIEL", "MARCHINI", "GABRIEL"]}
{"id": "CNN-363252", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-03-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/01/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Inslee Enters 2020 Race; Sanders and Biden Lead in Polls.", "utt": ["Just this morning, Washington state governor Jay Inslee is jumping into the 2020 race for the White House. He is the 13th official Democratic candidate, but the first governor to get in this race. He's also the first who intends to make climate change and fighting it the center of his campaign. And he is up against some serious Washington heft. A new poll out of New Hampshire shows Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden, who, by the way, has not even announced he's running yet, leading the field of candidates. Joining me now is CNN political commentator Symone Sanders, of course, who was previously press secretary for Bernie Sanders' 2016 run. That yellow looks marvelous on you, let me just say, this morning Symone. It does.", "Thank you, Poppy. Just trying to bring a little sunshine, OK. It's dreary here in Washington,", "Look, I love that on a -- on a snowy Friday. Thank you for being here, Symone. Look, I mean, you know, it's important. Climate change is so important. But you know where it falls on American's lists of priorities of things they care about, of things they vote on. And so I'm interested in what your read is on -- on Governor Inslee making that his -- his platform.", "Look, I think Governor Inslee is trying -- is getting into the race and he's trying to distinguish himself. I like to remind folks that the Democratic presidential primary is all about your delegate path. And because, on the Democratic side of the aisle, we have what's called proportional representation, meaning Bernie Sanders could win Iowa and Kirsten Gillibrand could come in third or fourth and she could still get a substantial number of delegates. And so this is all about who can get to the magic number. In 2016, it was 2,000 -- I think it was 2,383. That was the number of delegates you needed to win the Democratic nomination. And so I think what Governor Inslee is doing is, he wants to be somebody who was on the voters' minds. And when you think about climate change, he wants you to think about him. Now, he will have to have other platforms.", "Right.", "And so while climate change is his -- is his stable platform, he has to have a criminal justice platform. What is he going to do about the economy, so on and so forth. Health care. What is his message to black women? So I think we'll see that. And, you know, perhaps he'll be able to stand out on the debate stage. We'll find out in June.", "Yes. Yes. Right. You've got to make the debate stage, but, yes, indeed. Symone, look at this -- look at this poll out of New Hampshire. You've got your former candidate in 2016, Bernie Sanders, topping it out there at 26 percent. Joe Biden, former vice president, who hasn't even announced a run, 22 percent. We checked, after that, coming in third is Kamala Harris, Senator Kamala Harris at 10 percent. You know, I feel like, from the outside, Senator Sanders benefitted a lot last time around, even though he didn't get the nomination, by being the underdog for so long and sort of being underestimated. He didn't have to face as much oppo research, et cetera. Now he's leading the pack. Does that bring with it a host of new challenges?", "It does. And, I mean, you have to run differently. If I am advising a 2020 candidate, which I am not at this time, and my person was polling at the bottom of the pack in New Hampshire right now or at the bottom of the pack in South Carolina, I'd be OK. We don't want to peak to early because the earlier you peak, you open yourself up for criticism and to be a target. I mean lots of people view Kamala Harris as a frontrunner right now and she's getting a lots of what the young people would call smoke, Poppy. Lots of people are digging deep into her record and pulling things out. So, look, I think what you see right now in that polling is literally about name recognition, though. That's why Vice President Joe Biden is polling so high, Bernie Sanders is polling so high. The voters know them. And from what they know, they seem to like them in New Hampshire. Those polls will look -- could look drastically different come December 2019 and definitely January 2020. And so --", "You mean --", "Yes, I mean --", "I was just going to say, you mean you can win the presidency even if the polls don't look like you can?", "Even if the polls don't look like you can. Shocker.", "What do you make of this brouhaha some are upset about former Vice President Joe Biden calling current Vice President Mike Pence decent?", "Well, those wouldn't be the words I would use to describe current Vice President Mike Pence. Look, I think what folks need to understand about Vice President Joe Biden is that he is -- he has built himself as a consensus builder.", "Yes.", "He has worked across the aisle. A number of these folks -- he speaks so highly of Mike Pence because he served with him. He knew Mike Pence. So I don't know if that will play well with this new, young crop of potential voters who are looking for a Democratic nominee that's not necessarily willing to hug the current folks that occupy the White House.", "Yes. One thing --", "It remains to be seen.", "Yes.", "We don't know.", "One thing finally, very quickly, that really interests me is that Senator Sanders has not said that he's just running for one term, for example, and Vice President Joe Biden, if he gets in, I don't know if he's going to do that. But I just wonder if you think that that would actually be an advantage for one of them to say -- you know, age obviously a consideration, but also, I'm just going to run for one term to govern, not to run again.", "I don't think we'll hear Vice President Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders say that for multiple reasons, but I think namely of which is that they both really want to be president, I think. If Joe Biden gets into the race, he gets into the race because he wants to be president of the United States. Bernie Sanders is running because he wants to be president of the United States. Concurrently, I think, Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, they all want to be president. Governor Inslee. So if -- again, if I was advising somebody, we're not saying we're getting in just to be a one and done. I'm getting in because I think I can be the best -- my candidate can be the best -- the best choice out there and we want to be president and we want to be president for as long as legally allowed possible. So, two terms", "All right. Symone Sanders, thanks for bringing the sunshine this morning. Good to have you.", "Thank you.", "New reports that President Trump dismissed the objections of senior intelligence officials, his senior staff and ordered his son- in-law, Jared Kushner, to be given top secret security clearance. Now some members of Congress want answers and documents. They're threatening a subpoena."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "SYMONE SANDERS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "D.C. 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{"id": "CNN-96215", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2005-7-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/19/ldt.01.html", "summary": "Immigration Sting in North Carolina", "utt": ["In North Carolina, a recent crackdown on illegal aliens has turned into an ugly bureaucratic battle between government agencies. It began as a good old-fashioned sting operation where 48 illegal aliens were arrested. Now the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is furious. But immigration officials say they were only doing their job. Christine Romans has the story.", "These men were all working illegally at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina. Forty eight illegal aliens came for what they thought was a workplace safety seminar and instead were arrested by federal immigration agents -- a good old-fashioned federal sting that's causing a good old-fashioned turf battle in Washington. In a statement, OSHA complained - quote -- \"This is not something we were involved in, and we do not condone the use of OSHA's name in this type of activity.\" Immigration and Customs Enforcement acknowledged that more inter- agency coordination was needed. But ICE strongly defended its method, saying such tactics are effective and used by federal law enforcement every day. The sting was part of a nationwide crackdown on illegal hiring at such high-risk facilities as airports and military bases. An effort, some say, that is too critical to be derailed by bureaucratic squabbling.", "We'd like for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to be able to arrest as many illegal aliens as they would like in the workplace, especially in our nuclear power plants and military bases, without worrying about some bureaucrat releasing their safe arrest techniques.", "The Air Force base is home to the Air Force's Fourth Fighter Wing, which includes a large number of fighter jets and other sophisticated military aircraft.", "Every department and agency in the federal government should be working together and this was an effort to have stricter enforcement or better enforcement at some of our nuclear and chemical and military facilities. And certainly, I think almost everybody in the country wants stronger enforcement.", "But labor leaders and immigrant groups are outraged. They say illegals will be even less likely to report workplace injuries and safety violations, fearing deportation.", "They say it'll have a chilling effect on workplace safety. But the irony, critics say, is the way to make work sites safer is by not hiring illegal labor. Lou?", "This is incredible. I mean, the fact that OSHA -- who at OSHA is being so precious about their agency?", "They want to make sure the spokesman of that company -- that organization wants to make sure that they're not using OSHA to lure illegal aliens in...", "Right. Well, would they come on and talk with us?", "Nobody will come on and talk to us, Lou. Nobody involved in this story really wants to come on and talk with us, not even the immigrant groups and some of the labor leaders who are really concerned about illegal aliens. This is a kind of a hot story. They want it to go away. Everyone just kind of wants this story to go away.", "In other words, what they're really saying is they do not want Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be effective and enforce the laws...", "Absolutely.", "... is what they're really saying. I don't blame them for not coming on. Thank you very much, Christine Romans.", "You're welcome.", "\"Broken Borders\". A coalition of Texas border sheriffs met in Houston today. The sheriffs, alarmed about proposed cuts in federal assistance for local law enforcement at a time when they're already overwhelmed due to the steady influx of illegal aliens pouring over the U.S.-Mexican border. They want more, not less federal help. Bill Tucker joins me now live from Houston, Texas -- Bill?", "Lou, this meeting of the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition is, frankly, a meeting of law enforcement officials who are being overwhelmed by the failure of policymakers to commit resources to immigration enforcement. And they tell us that failure is creating some dangerous problems.", "There are counties in our coalition that have, you know, 180 miles of border with Mexico and they've got maybe five or six deputy sheriffs to take care of the local problems; local law enforcement. And then in addition to that, they also have to worry about what should belong to the federal government, about protecting our border. And I'm not talking about immigration issues, but other things that happen along the border -- drug trafficking, things like this. Or things on top of their local responsibilities to their local taxpayers, they've also got to respond to these calls. And it's something that, again, I reiterate, it's very unfair to the local taxpayers for this type of thing.", "What happens on the border or what doesn't happen on the border is going to affect the rest of the country. Now, we're reading about what's going on at North Carolina and several other states where they have an influx of illegal aliens that are coming in.", "It's a simple equation, Lou. You can do the math. They come across the border. They get into the country. The sheriffs are also furious about the catch-and-release policy at the federal level, where they point out the OTMs that come into this country are not subject to identity verification. They're not subject to criminal background checks and they are not screened for diseases. Their primary concerns -- terrorism, drug smuggling and weapon smuggling across the border. Lou?", "In other words, it's a mess.", "It is.", "Bill, thank you very much. Bill Tucker.", "Yes.", "Coming up next, my guests, two of the country's leading experts on China's rising military and economic power. And nearly two weeks after the London bombings, nearly four years after September 11th, how vulnerable does this country remain to a radical Islamist terrorist attack? My guest is Admiral James Loy. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["DOBBS", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WILLIAM GHEEN, AMERICANS FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION", "ROMANS", "REP. JOHN DUNCAN (R), GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE", "ROMANS", "ROMANS", "DOBBS", "ROMANS", "DOBBS", "ROMANS", "DOBBS", "ROMANS", "DOBBS", "ROMANS", "DOBBS", "BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SIGIFREDO GONZALEZ, CHAIRMAN, BORDER SHERIFFS COALITION", "SHERIFF LEO SAMANIEGO, EL PASO COUNTY, TEXAS", "TUCKER", "DOBBS", "TUCKER", "DOBBS", "TUCKER", "DOBBS"]}
{"id": "NPR-30448", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2012-11-18", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/11/18/165427403/with-eye-on-mideast-obama-tours-asia", "title": "With Eye On Mideast, Obama Tours Asia", "summary": "President Obama was in Thailand Sunday at the start of a brief tour of Southeast Asia. The trip is supposed to show Obama's commitment to shifting U.S. focus onto Asia and the Pacific, but events in the Middle East and Washington threaten to overshadow the tour. Guy Raz Scott Horsley", "utt": ["Let's turn to another story we're following today: President Obama's visit to Asia. He's in Thailand today, the first stop on a three-country tour of Southeast Asia that will take him to Myanmar, the country also known as Burma.", "NPR's Scott Horsley is traveling with the president and joins us now. And, Scott, the president obviously trying to shine the spotlight on Asia, but all in the midst of escalating violence in the Middle East. How is he staying on top of it?", "The president's been speaking just about daily with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. He's also talked by telephone with the leaders of Egypt and Turkey. Secretary of State Clinton is traveling along with him, and she's staying in touch with her counterparts. And the president made clear that in the U.S. view, what has sparked this latest round of fighting in the region is rockets fired from Gaza into populated parts of Israel.", "There is no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.", "So on the one hand, the president's defending Israel's right to self-defense but also pushing for de-escalation. All of this as he's trying, as you say, keep the focus on Asia. So once again, the president's kind of carrying out a sort of juggling act to keep a lot of multiple balls in the air.", "Why try to juggle it? I mean, why did he make this trip to Asia in the midst of that crisis?", "Well, this is part of a long-term strategy that the president has had to reemphasize the U.S. presence as a Pacific nation. Asia has some of the world's fastest growing economies. It's also going to account for a huge portion of economic growth in the years to come as Europe slows down. And, of course, in geopolitical terms, the U.S. wants to serve as sort of a counterweight in this region to China's growing power.", "It's going to be repositioning some military assets to Asia. And the president's also trying to cut a larger figure in international organizations like the East Asia Summit that he'll be meeting with in Cambodia.", "Now he's going to first visit Myanmar or Burma. That's a country that has seen pretty dramatic changes over the past year.", "Yeah. Change, as the president said, would have been almost unimaginable two years ago. Who would have thought back then that Aung San Suu Kyi would be in parliament instead of under house arrest? A number of political prisoners have been released in Myanmar.", "So the president's meeting with the leaders in that country, both the government leaders and the opposition leaders, is both to recognize the efforts Myanmar has made towards democratic reform, but also to say, look, there's still a long way to go. There are still prisoners being held in that country. There are still ethnic conflicts that have resulted in tens of thousands of people being displaced.", "So the administration says they want to both recognize the progress that's been made but also put a marker down on what Myanmar still needs to do.", "This is the president's first foreign trip since he won re-election two weeks ago. How does that factor into what he says or how he's received in some of these countries?", "Well, you know, when he meets with these East Asian leaders in Cambodia later this week, he'll be one of the few who's not a lame duck. China has been going through its own power transition. Both the U.S. and China have been somewhat internally focused during their own processes. But there's no question that President Obama is in a stronger position coming into this international meeting.", "He has four more years to focus on that goal of building the U.S. presence in Asia. And that kind of continuity is important because we see with the flare-up in the Middle East this week just how difficult it can be to carry out a long-term mission like that.", "That's NPR's Scott Horsley traveling with the president in Asia. Scott, thanks.", "Guy, good to be with you."], "speaker": ["GUY RAZ, HOST", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "GUY RAZ, HOST", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-245662", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-12-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1412/20/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Former Killer Whale Catcher Turned Conservationist Discusses Career Change", "utt": ["Tonight at 7:00 eastern CNN will show an encore presentation of \"Black Fish\" the story of a SeaWorld trainer killed by a 12,000 pound orca in 2010. The film gained international attention for the way it challenged the concept of keeping killer whales for entertainment. CNN's Ivan Watson spoke to a man who spent two decades capturing killer whales and now rescues them.", "It is the unmistakable sound of fear coming from one of the world's largest predators, a young killer whale effectively screaming just hours after being captured from the wild. So traumatized and disoriented, the animal can't even swim after its journey from the ocean to this small pool. This rare never seen before video of killer whales captured near Iceland in the 1980s is being shared for the first time with CNN by Jeff Foster, a man who masterminded the capture of many killer whales. How many years were you actually capturing killer whales?", "For me it was from 1972 to 1990.", "That's a long career.", "Yes.", "How many of the killer whales do you think you captured?", "Couple dozen, probably, total.", "A couple dozen with all of them going marine parks like SeaWorld. Are killer whales big business?", "Oh, absolutely. Killer whales are the most expensive animals in the world outside of racehorses. So they are worth millions of dollars. And of course the amount of people who like to see these animals in captivity, there's a huge demand for that.", "Foster started his career as a teenager here in Seattle, which was the birth place of the captive killer whale industry. In 1976 a ban on capturing orcas in Washington state along with the growing public outcry in the U.S. against the practice forced Foster and his colleagues to move their operations to Iceland. There they snatched young whales from the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean and domesticated and trained them for eventual sale to marine parks in the U.S., France, and Japan. Over time Foster says he got more and more uncomfortable with ripping wild killer whales from their families in the sea.", "There's a cry like a baby's crying. And so yes, you know, it tugged at your heart.", "Over the last 20 years foster has gone from being a hunter to a rescuer of marine mammals.", "Hi, Thomas.", "We first met Foster two years ago in Turkey when he led a back to the wild project that rehabilitated two abused dolphins and released them into the Aegean Sea. He has worked on similar rescue projects with the killer whale Springer who was found lost and disoriented in the Puget Sound, and with Keiko, star of the film \"Free Willy,\" who survived for a short time in the wild after spending decades in captivity. But two years ago Foster got a tempting offer to return to opportunity. He was offered $7 million to capture killer whales off of the pacific coast of Russia. Ivan Watson, CNN, Seattle.", "So does Jeff Foster take that $7 million offer to return to the hunt? We'll have the answer after this."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "FOSTER", "WATSON", "JEFF FOSTER, FORMER WHALE CATCHER", "WATSON", "FOSTER", "WATSON", "FOSTER", "WATSON", "FOSTER", "WATSON", "FOSTER", "WATSON", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-116521", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2007-5-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/02/acd.02.html", "summary": "Imus Fires Back; Cutting a Deal", "utt": ["... look at some of the language in this contract and what makes it so remarkable. \"CBS Radio,\" they say, acknowledges that Imus's services to be rendered are of a unique, extraordinary, irreverent, intellectual, topical, controversial and personal character, and the programs of the same general type and nature containing these components are desired by \"CBS Radio\" are consistent with company rules and policies. Essentially, they're saying they want him to say outrageous stuff?", "He was required. They desire -- that remarkable word in the contract. It is desired by CBS that he be controversial, irreverent, personal. So, the question is, is the statement about the Rutgers basketball team simply what he was required to do under his contract or certainly allowed to do under his contract, or as CBS will presumably argue if this comes to a lawsuit, no that was so far outside the pale, that it doesn't count as controversial and irreverent.", "But really, just to prove his case, Imus then just has to go back into his archives, look at some of -- you know, and play some of the other things he has said and say, look this is all of a piece. This is all of a pattern.", "And this was a new contract. He was in the first year of a five-year contract, $8 million a year, $40 million contract. So all the years he's been doing his show and all the controversy he's courted, that's folded in here. He can say, as you pointed out, that, I've been saying these inflammatory things in the past. You encouraged me to do it. This was just another thing. You can't fire me.", "Well, obviously we're talking about a lot of money. Is there interest in both camps to settle?", "There's always interest in settling. Very few cases...", "Because no one wants litigation, really.", "Very few cases go to trial. And especially in a case like this. Both sides have a lot to lose with a trial. First of all, it could just take a long time. Both sides could be open to depositions about ugliness in their past. CBS does not want this story dragged out all through courts. It does not want to go through all the other inflammatory things he has said. Don Imus is 66 years old. He wants to get on with his life. Certainly, there's a lot of room for negotiation here for a settlement. So I think that's much more likely than a lawsuit going to trial.", "I want to read something else that is in the contract, the part of the contract that you got exclusive access to. It says that \"CBS Radio\" acknowledges its familiar with the program conducted by Imus and its familiarity with the reviews and comments, both favorable and unfavorable, concerning Imus and his material by critics, reviewers and writers of the various media, both in New York and nationally.", "You know, that is such a bizarre part of a contract. I mean This whole thing is like no other contract I've ever seen. But that, that is bizarre.", "Why?", "Because basically he's inoculating himself for bad press. He's saying, look, I know I'm going to get bad reviews. I know I am going to have people write critical things about me, but you can't use that as a justification to fire me. That's what that provision of that contract says.", "And that certainly seems to apply very well to...", "Exactly. I mean, that's exactly why he got fired because there was this firestorm. And you know, he -- I mean, the drafting of this contract was very clever on Imus's lawyer's part because it seems almost to have anticipated this kind of storm over something he was going to say.", "So you're saying you've never seen language like this in a contract?", "No, no. Nothing like...", "With the desired...", "Well, the idea that someone is supposed to be controversial and that's built into a contract, I've never seen anything like that, but it clearly was insisted on by the Imus people to insulate him against getting fired.", "So the only case CBS really has is saying, well, look, the comments -- those particular comments that he made are so outside, so beyond the pale, that it nullifies this? We never expected he would say something this bad?", "Right. What we meant by that provision, CBS will say, is that you'll make fun of George Bush and you'll make fun of John Kerry and people in the news, but this defenseless group of admirable students is totally different and the word ho is not within what we're -- what we expected. But begin other things Imus has said, it just doesn't seem all that different.", "That's a fascinating document, what we saw of it. Jeffrey, thanks very much. Great reporting. We asked Reverend Al Sharpton what he thinks about the contract and what it means for Imus. I spoke to him a short time ago.", "Reverend Sharpton, CBS, we now know, desired Imus to be controversial, irreverent, and personal. What's your reaction to the contract?", "Well, the question is whether or not CBS or any other company puts in contracts where people are protected to say things that are sexist and racist. First of all, when the National Association of Black Journalists put the flag up, and we at National Action Network and other civil rights groups came in, it was not to deal with Imus one way or another. Whether he gets money or not is really irrelevant. It was the sexist and racist nature that he was using the airways. So, whatever happens here is of no moment to many of us in civil rights. But, if there is in fact contracts that say that you are permitted, by the company, to be racist and sexist, which some could argue is different than irreverent and personal, that would be of concern. I think that that's the only interest that I would have here, is in fact, is there an institutional agreement to promote racism? And I think that would be argued either way by the lawyers. And we will have to wait and see that.", "Do you think he has been racist in the past, though? If you're saying these comments were racist, were they racist in the past when he made comments based on people's ethnicity or their gender or whatever his comments were based on? Because if so, CBS seems to have encouraged that by resigning a contract and saying they desired those comments.", "Well, he certainly said things that one could say was biased. I don't know that -- if he said anything as blatant as calling women hos and calling people nappy-headed. He certainly said things that was biased. I think that, what he said, there was no room for wiggle. You must remember, even Imus went and apologized to the young ladies at Rutgers himself. So, one side of the argument could be, what the contract appears to read -- I have not seen the contract, and all of it -- but on the other side of the argument is, he, himself, despite the contract, went and apologized, and said he was wrong. And they claimed at the time they were firing him based on cause. He seemed to have conceded that cause when he went, even after the firing, and apologized to the girls.", "You met and others met with Leslie Moonves, the president and CEO of CBS. Imus was fired. What was your impression of Moonves at the time? I think you said that you felt he really understood the human side of this issue. Do you still that -- believe that to be true?", "I think he understood the human side. I think he also understood the gender and race insult. Again, we were not talking about a personal attack. We were talking about a sexist and racist attack that, again, fellow journalists brought up. What this issue that now has come to light brings up is, what kind of contracts are people given? Are people given the right to be provocative and controversial? Well, that's one thing. Are they given the right to then take that to where they can be blatantly against a race and against a gender? I think that that's going to be the thing that we would watch. Whether he gets money or not is really no concern to me.", "As you look back on your actions in the last couple of weeks regarding Don Imus, do you have any regrets? Don Imus' former producer, Bernard McGuirk, said about you recently -- and I quote -- \"It seemed like he terrorized some broadcast executives, that they were, you know, sort of in a fetal position, under their desk, sucking their thumbs on their BlackBerries, trying to coordinate their response to him. I mean, they appeased, really, this terrorist here,\" essentially saying you're a terrorist.", "Well, first of all, a man that would call some honor students in a basketball team that had done what they did for that school some nappy-headed hos, how could I think seriously what he thinks of me or anybody else? Look at what he thought of some honor students. So, believe me, I don't spend any time worrying about what he said. Look at who's talking.", "That was Reverend Al Sharpton, of course. For more perspective, I asked Jeffrey Toobin to join me earlier in a discussion with CNN Contributor Roland Martin and \"Washington Post\" Media Reporter Howard Kurtz.", "Joining us, also, Syndicated Columnist and CNN Contributor Roland Martin, along with \"Washington Post\" Media Reporter Howard Kurtz, who is also the host of CNN's \"RELIABLE SOURCES.\" Roland, are -- first of all, are you surprised by the excerpts of this contract that you have seen?", "Well, I'm surprised in terms of that kind of language -- clearly, very smart attorneys, as Jeffrey said. Look, this is why CBS is settling. They CBS cut Don Imus loose because it was a business decision. They did not want the protests to spill over to their prime-time programming, to have advertisers pulling those dollars away from their shows. Paying him $8 million a year, even if they settle for $20 million, that won't even -- won't even compare to how much money they could have lost by other advertisers pulling out from the network and radio -- television and radio.", "So, you have no doubt they are going to settle?", "No doubt. No doubt.", "Howie, you say that any lawsuit wouldn't just be about money. How so?", "Yes, that may sound strange, because nobody walks away from $40 million. But I think what Imus is primarily interested in right now, in hiring a lawyer and considering this lawsuit, is vindication. Look, he said something that was terribly racist and offensive. He understands that. That's why he apologized 47 times. But he wants to make the point that CBS encouraged this, that they made lots and lots of money over the years with a show that was built, in part -- because he also did good interviews with politicians and journalists -- it was built in part on this sort of insult humor. It was often racial and sexist and gender -- excuse me -- and ethnic in nature.", "It's interesting, Roland, though. I remember you saying a lot during the height of this, you know, he's not a shock jock. In this contract, it specifically terms him as a shock jock. And they note, they desire the personal character of the shock jock.", "This is a \"CBS Radio\" contract. They saw him as a shock jock. The context that I put it in, by simulcasting his show on MSNBC, he is now being perceived as competing against CNN \"AMERICAN MORNING,\" \"Today Show,\" \"Good Morning America,\" \"The Early Show.\" And, so, that was a whole different context. The issue, also, that jumps out, in terms of Imus suing -- no doubt he's trying to go after money. The guy is 66 years old. Ain't that many $40 million jobs out there that he can actually get. So, it's wise to go after the money.", "Any time anybody says, it's not about the money, I'm always saying, it's about the money.", "Right. Right.", "I was shocked to here Howie say that.", "I mean, I think Howie is right that Imus wants the vindication of CBS saying -- of a court acknowledging, or CBS acknowledging, hey, we hired you to do this stuff. This isn't some astonishing thing you just did. But I think he would like a very big check, as well.", "Howie, is what he said any different -- I mean, I don't listen to the show, but is it much different than what he had said for years and years that, clearly, CBS desired?", "Well, certainly, you know, that term, nappy-headed hos, was way over the line, and it was different. But he used to toss around words like hos all the time in little skits that he did. And let's remember for just a moment -- because CBS obviously is going to get on its high horse here and say, this was such a terrible breach, that we had to cut him loose. When this controversy first erupted, \"CBS Radio\" and MSNBC said, Imus said something wrong. We are going to give him a two-week suspension. It was only after the media and the pressure from employees at those two companies and outside pressure from people like Reverend Sharpton turned Imus into kind of a symbol of everything that was wrong in our toxic popular culture, that both companies decided to cut him loose. So Imus, obviously, feels like he wants to get a piece of his reputation back.", "And, Anderson, that was the problem that I had during this whole deal. CBS is trying to take a very high-profile position. And I raised the point. We talked about it. Had they suspended him before? Had that reprimanded him before? And, so therefore, they sanctioned that kind of conduct. He made them lots of money. The bottom line is, these companies, they want the irreverent personalities. But, when they cross the line, and then public pressure rises to a certain level, then they take action.", "They not only didn't suspend him before. They put in the contract...", "They gave him a raise.", "They put in the contract, we want you to be like that.", "A new contract.", "Right.", "A new contract. This is -- so, I mean, that's why CBS' position is really awkward.", "Right.", "I want to read this other graph from the contract. It says, \"CBS Radio\" acknowledges its familiarity with the program conducted by Imus and its familiarity with the reviews and comments, both favorable and unfavorable, concerning Imus and his material by critics, reviewers and writers of the various media, both in New York and nationally.", "Look, it's simple. A good comedian will tell you, how far can I push the envelope before I get in trouble? And that's -- CBS knew what they were getting. And so, to say that, well, this violated any of our standards, we know what the real deal is. And so, they got rid of him because they knew he was going to cost them with advertisers.", "Jeffrey, how -- legally, can CBS -- if the FCC weighed in on this, and said that it violated FCC rules, which is one of the things Reverend Sharpton was early on was talking about, could they then say, OK, well, that's cause for termination?", "They might. That might -- that would certainly be helpful to CBS' provision. I -- and I haven't seen the whole contract. There may be some provision regarding the government. But the FCC hasn't said anything like that. I don't think they will. I don't think the FCC has gotten involved with this whole -- with this whole matter.", "They have actually been saying, we're not going to get involved.", "Well, that's right. As far as I'm aware, they don't even have an open investigation.", "Yes.", "No, it's all about what he said. And the interesting thing about that passage you just read, there, they're basically acknowledging, Imus is going to get some bad press sometimes. There is going to be criticism. And that's not grounds for firing.", "And, Anderson, I think Imus wants to get back on the air. And one of the ways he can help himself to do that is by getting some kind of settlement with CBS, which kind of gives him a piece of his respectability back. Look, this guy said he was sorry. He said he was sorry many times. But, in the firestorm that surrounded him, that proved not to be enough.", "I just have one issue, Anderson. Who was his lawyer, so we all can try to hire him to negotiate our deals?", "I have got a radio show. I will call him in a minute.", "Roland, Jeff, appreciate it. And Jeff -- Jeff actually got the contract, some great reporting there. And, Howard Kurtz, thanks very much.", "Here's the raw data on how Imus's $40 million salary at \"CBS Radio\" stacked up against other radio hosts. Rush Limbaugh, the number one talk radio host in America, signed $250 million contract in 2001 that runs through 2009. In 2005, Shock Jock Howard Stern signed $500 million, 5-year deal that pays his salary and production costs. But to put this in context, the typical radio anchor makes just about $30,000 a year or about $14 an hour. Ahead tonight on 360, redefining the mission in Iraq. The president's new definition of success. Not hearing the word \"victory\" much these days. That's coming up. We'll also have this.", "Condoleezza Rice, from her relationship with the president to talk of a possible White House run. We'll talk to the author of the explosive new book on the secretary of state. Single and singing. Sort of. Britney Spears returns to the stage. Can the pop diva turned drama queen save her career with acts like this? 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{"id": "NPR-14527", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2017-12-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/12/05/568653487/congress-is-facing-a-year-end-fiscal-crunch", "title": "Congress Is Facing A Year-End Fiscal Crunch", "summary": "Congress is racing to pass two big priorities in the coming days — a final GOP tax bill and funding to keep the government from shutting down.", "utt": ["Republicans in Congress are trying to pass a final tax bill and avoid a government shutdown. But it is not working out as easily as party leaders had hoped. With us from the Capitol to talk about this is congressional correspondent Susan Davis. Hey, Sue.", "Hey, Kelly.", "OK, this is a question I know you get asked a lot...", "I'm ready for it.", "...On every NPR program. I'm going to ask it again. How likely is a government shutdown this week?", "And here's an answer I end up giving a lot.", "(Laughter).", "There's a fast deadline approaching of midnight Friday, and there is no agreement in sight. House Republican leaders had wanted to pass as early as tomorrow a short-term funding bill that would run for about two weeks to December 22 with the goal of just buying Congress more time to figure out the negotiations on the tax bill and reach an agreement on what the spending levels for the federal government should be. Congress still needs to do that before the end of the year. And then they hit a bump.", "A group of hardline conservatives in the House known as the Freedom Caucus are saying they could withhold their votes. They could vote against that stopgap spending bill, threatening a shutdown. And in exchange, they're trying to get some concessions from their leaderships to say that at the end of the year, they're not going to get jammed with a bunch of legislation they don't support because frankly that is what Congress tends to do when it's the last votes out of town before the Christmas holiday.", "Well, what are these conservatives concerned about?", "They have a lot of concerns. They focus mainly on three things. One, they're really worried about this deal that they need to reach on spending levels - is going to raise domestic spending too much. That's what Democrats want. They don't like that. They just want more money for defense, though it's important to note that they're going to need Democrats to pass any spending level deal, so they can't cut them out.", "There's also concern that they're going to reach a deal to pass immigration legislation specifically affecting what we call the DREAMers, the people who were brought here illegally as children who are now existing in this sort of legal limbo. They do not want that to happen, but there are talks in the Senate ongoing. That's a huge question mark for what Congress is going to do.", "And they really do not want to vote on any health care legislation. There were promises made to Maine Senator Susan Collins last week during that tax debate to get her vote in which she was told that Congress would pass two companion pieces of legislation that would essentially prop up the individual health care market because remember; the underlying tax bill effectively ends that individual mandate.", "OK, so if the House doesn't vote on those health care bills, does that mean Susan Collins could then vote against the final tax bill?", "It could. And she has said that those votes are conditional to her support for the tax bill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised her both publicly and privately that Congress will vote on those bills before the end of this year. And I saw her in the hallway today, and I asked her if the speaker had given her similar assurances that the House would vote. And this is what she told me.", "I have had three conversations with the president of the United States about this, and I think he has quite a bit of influence with the House members.", "And she has a point. If President Trump comes out and says, look, guys; you need to do this to get the tax bill done, they will likely follow suit.", "All right, there's a big meeting at the White House this week with the big four, the top Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress. I mean, how big of a role does President Trump play in these negotiations?", "This is really critical. This is when presidential leadership really kicks in at these end-of-the-year negotiations. They need the White House to sign off on these spending levels or any immigration or health care deals because Republicans aren't going to bring to the bill - to floor any bills that won't be signed into law.", "And that's what - important part to remember here in these negotiations, is that Democrats really do pay - play a role. In order to get any of this done, they need bipartisan compromise in the Senate. Otherwise, Democrats could threaten a filibuster and block all of this. And that generally falls on the president to try and figure out what that sweet spot is and then to bring his own party onboard. So that is the challenge for President Trump in all of this.", "NPR congressional reporter Sue Davis, thank you very much.", "You're welcome."], "speaker": ["KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "SUSAN COLLINS", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SUSAN DAVIS, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "NPR-17977", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2016-11-11", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/11/11/501679265/a-nation-divided-over-when-holiday-displays-should-be-set-up", "title": "A Nation Divided Over When Holiday Displays Should Be Set Up", "summary": "Some people say Christmas songs and decorations come out too soon — others feel they can't come soon enough. Like it or not, they're here.", "utt": ["Good morning, I'm Steve Inskeep. With a national divide, some people say Christmas songs and decorations come out too soon. Others feel they can't come soon enough. Either way, they are here. In Raleigh, N.C., Springsteen's \"Santa Claus Is Coming To Town\" played in a public park November 2. By Election Day, a sad-looking tree was in my local coffee shop. Tomorrow, a giant tree arrives at New York's Rockefeller Center, where it will go up around the corner from the home of the president-elect. You're listening to MORNING EDITION."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-200930", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-2-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/09/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Looking For Solutions To Murders; Apps, Websites Help Monitor Weather", "utt": ["Well, if you're not among the 600,000 or so people who have actually lost power and you're still plugged in, there are a lot of ways you can negotiate what is going on outdoors or find some fun things to do while you're stuck. Apps help monitor weather conditions and tell you the latest. Many towns have their own apps you can check. There's also high-def radar, dark sky, weather underground, hotel tonight, plus if you want to down load a couple of movies lots of ways you can go. \"Tech by Toast,\" Brett Larson joining us from New York. So first, let's start with the fun. You've been outside. You're frozen. You want to watch something. Where do you go?", "You know, streaming movies have gotten really good over the past couple years. If you have power and you have a broadband connection you can head over to Hulu Plus. You can take advantage of Netflix. What I really like is Amazon Prime. If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, which gives you that free two-day shipping. It also gives you access to Amazon's instant video. What's great about that is if your power is out it's still going to work on your tablet, it will work on your hand-held device because more than likely that is still working. The only caveat to that you have to be careful you don't want to go over your data plan, so keep an eye on how much video you're watching, definitely, though, plenty of fun to be had. If you still have power you can use your laptop or desktop computer to logon to apple's iTunes and either rent or down load high definition movies very quickly and start enjoying them and staying outside of the very cold weather.", "I thought I was the ultimate Amazonian, but apparently I'm not. I can download things. Who knew?", "How great is that? And it's included in your annual fee. I don't think a lot of people know that.", "I don't think they do. Let's talk about serious stuff, weather conditions. How will people know when they can go out? What are the best apps far?", "There are so many great apps. I love Noah's high definition radar app. I've been looking at it all day to see where the storm is going. Admittedly it works on the iPad. It costs you 2 bucks, but it's worth it because it displays a realtime high- definition animated weather map. There's Dark Sky you mentioned. That is also is going to cost you $4, not too bad considering it shows you what's going on in your immediate vicinity. I was looking at that morning. Of course, right now here in New York City the storm has passed and it's kind of like looking at the weather in boring town. No rain, no snow. And in the next few minutes there will be no rain and no snow. But apps like this are great to have for two reasons. One, they'll work when the power goes out because your phone and tablet will still work. Two, they'll keep you aware of what's going on. If your TV is not working you're not going to know what the weather conditions are going to be or how they'll develop. These apps will tell you down to the minute and show you where that storm is in relation to where you are.", "The one thing you have to be careful about with your tablets and things like that, ultimately they do run out of power then, my God, you're going to have to play games with your children.", "Then there's no power to play games.", "Then you're stuck. Go out in the snow. Brett Larson, thanks so much, from Tech Bytes. We appreciate the information.", "Thanks.", "Well, it is a busy news day. We have all the bases covered for you ahead in the next hour. The manhunt continues far rogue cop on an alleged killing spree in California, his targets other cops. We've got new details on the investigation. The northeast blizzard heading out to sea, we will have the latest on the havoc it is leaving behind. Our reporters are live as CNN NEWSROOM continues."], "speaker": ["FEYERICK", "BRETT LARSON, HOST, \"TECHBYTES\"", "FEYERICK", "LARSON", "FEYERICK", "LARSON", "FEYERICK", "LARSON", "FEYERICK", "LARSON", "FEYERICK"]}
{"id": "CNN-412832", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2020-10-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/08/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "Aides Worried by Trump's False Claims.", "utt": ["So, he is back at it with just, with less than a month to go before the election. President Trump repeating his false claims that mail-in ballots are fraudulent and corrupt. Now sources are saying aides are trying to steer him away from those false claims which are clearly debunked by fact-checking. More tonight from CNN's Pamela Brown.", "Twenty-six days to go until election day and President Trump is showing no sign he will stop spreading misinformation about mail-in voting and voter fraud.", "It's a corrupt system because they are sending out millions of ballots.", "CNN has learned that some of Trump's aides have been trying to steer him away from these baseless voter fraud arguments and instead have him talk about how the mail-in ballots could cause confusion and even chaos. But Trump continues on.", "When you send out millions of ballots, when you are the sender you can send them to wherever you want. You can send them to Democrat areas or Republican areas. You don't have to send them at all.", "The disconnect between the candidate and the campaign also heard in poll watcher training videos created by the Trump campaign for 17 different states and reviewed by CNN.", "Essentially, the key is to behave yourself and not act like a fool.", "Now one of the top U.S. intelligence officials on election security is acknowledging the president's false claims are being used by foreign powers. The director of National Counterintelligence and Security Center, Bill Evanina, telling Hearst Television if they see a reference made by the President of the United States, a prominent U.S. senator, a business person, someone who America looks at as a voice of reason and they believe it suits their reason, they will amplify that by a thousand to make sure that the most amount of people see it.", "You can have the best site in the world, sometimes there's hiccups on it.", "A court filing from an attorney for DeSantis says extending the deadline might sabotage, perhaps irreparably Florida's efforts to maintain normalcy during this profoundly abnormal election cycle. Already more than 5.4 million Americans have cast their votes, this according to CNN and an Edison research survey of election officials in 31 states reporting voting data.", "How will we do it --", "Now a bipartisan group that Trump's former Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, is launching a $20 million campaign in several states telling the public that the election is, quote, \"safe and secure.\"", "Help make sure every vote is counted, no matter who you vote for or how.", "And we have learned tonight that DOJ is now letting prosecutors announce voter fraud investigations close to election day. This is an exception made to a 40-year-old rule that basically discouraged prosecutors from announcing such investigations close to the election as to not influence the election. But now with this exception made, any matter having to do with ballots or voting, any small matter that could be just human error can now be turned into something bigger. A press release could be sent out saying that voter fraud is being investigated. And one election be expert said for context, this is like giving the green light to influence the election. Back to you, Don.", "Pamela, thank you so much. There will be a stimulus. There won't be a stimulus. He won't debate. He will debate. Decision whiplash inside the White House, what is going on?"], "speaker": ["LEMON", "PAMELA BROWN, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "TRUMP", "BROWN", "TRUMP", "BROWN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BROWN", "GOV. RON DESANTIS (R-FL)", "BROWN", "DAN COATS, FORMER DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE", "BROWN", "COATS", "COATS", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-222417", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-1-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1401/07/cnr.10.html", "summary": "Kevin Hart and Ice Cube Promote New Movie", "utt": ["All right. Where were we? Ah, yes, we were talking to rapper Ice Cube and comedian Kevin Hart, here in studio at CNN. We were talking Dennis Rodman. We were marijuana legalization in Colorado. And now these two gave us a little behind-the-scenes scoop about their new movie that they filmed in Atlanta. It's called \"Ride Along.\" And we played some word association. Take a look. How about \"Ride Along?\" You guys are in town --", "It's the funniest movie of the year.", "It's out January -", "Seventeenth.", "For sure.", "January 17th.", "Here's what I want to know. Behind -- lift the veil behind the scenes. What's it like shooting this film? You shot it in Atlanta.", "Yeah, we shot it in Atlanta. After Kevin gets to the set, after he leaves the strip club, gets to the set, you know what I mean?", "Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen -", "We really, really do get going.", "You call him the Energizer Bunny.", "We really get going and we got great chemistry.", "What you see is what you get right now. What you see now is honestly what it was on set, 24/7. You're looking at two guys who get along, two guys that have a mutual respect for each other, two guys who have natural chemistry and are friends. So, I think we shine on camera in this film, and I think we made a movie -- I don't really want to say -- I know we made a movie that appeals to everyone.", "Your first lead, what --", "This is my first huge starring role.", "In an action-comedy -", "Action-comedy, yes. This is my first huge starring role.", "Congratulations.", "Thank you.", "Come a long way from -", "A long way.", "Did I read you had chicken wings thrown at you?", "Yes, I did, Buffalo wing. Got hit in the face with a Buffalo wing in Atlantic City. Little sauce got on my lip.", "I got you. I got you, huh?", "Can we play a little word association and then I'm going to let you go?", "Is this political world association?", "You're two smart gentlemen. Roll with me. Cube and Kevin, ready? Kevin, you first then Cube.", "OK.", "I'm going to say something, then you say the first thing that comes to your mind. President Obama?", "Cool man.", "Coolest man in the world.", "Jinx.", "I'm first and then you.", "She said me. She said me.", "Cube, then Kevin.", "No, she said Cool Kev, then Cube.", "Kevin, Cube.", "Told you.", "Sorry, Cube. Same-sex marriage?", "Agreed. Oh, I panicked.", "OK, Cube, your turn. Gay marriage?", "To each his own.", "OK. Kevin, Kanye West?", "Passionate.", "Very talented.", "Very talented. Miley Cyrus?", "An adult.", "Little girl.", "Finally, CNN?", "Controversy.", "Uh, you know, it's cool. CNN is cool.", "Controversy! You should have said controversy with me.", "CNN, you know, there's other people that go more controversial. CNN is every man's --", "I said controversial. You don't know nothing, the world and everything.", "Saving my job. Kevin, awesome meeting you, my friend. Thank you so much. Good luck, Cube.", "All right.", "They were great. I have to tell you, when the cameras were rolling and even when they were not rolling, they were hilarious. Ice Cube and Kevin Hart, thank you. \"Ride Along,\" the film, hits theaters January 17th. And now to some of the hottest stories in a flash, \"Rapid Fire.: We begin with this. In Washington, six Senate Republicans joined the unanimous Democrats in this sort of unexpected win for the long-term unemployed. Take a look at the Republicans here, Dan Coats, Rob Portman, Dean Heller, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Kelly Ayotte -- all six voted yes to three more months of federal aid to people who have not worked for at least half a year. Full passage requires another Senate vote, plus, of course, approval by the House. And an Arizona man has been busted allegedly trying to smuggle a woman into the country in -- you see this picture? That's a suitcase. Customs and border protection officers at the port of Nogales say they found the 48-year-old Thai national hidden underneath clothing after zipping open the suitcase that was found in the back of an SUV. The man was traveling from Mexico to the U.S. and now faces human smuggling charges. And a trucker says this crash happened because the officer who recorded this video had his blue rights flashing. The trucker says the lights diverted his attention just as the traffic ahead was slowing down. By the time he recovered, all he could do was swerve. That's at least what the driver was saying. Thank goodness no one was killed or injured. And America's most recognizable skier will not be hitting the slopes at next month's Winter Olympics. Lindsey Vonn, she says her injured knee is just too unstable to compete for gold at the Sochi games. She tore a ligament in her knee 11 months ago and aggravated the injury when she crashed in November. Vonn says she plans to have surgery soon so that she will be ready for the world championships in Vail next February. Quick reminder, as always, in case you missed any kind of interview on this show, go to the Brooke Blog. That is CNN.com/Brooke. And as we mentioned, some of the breaking news, Bob Gates, former defense secretary, this memoir coming out. Jake Tapper will have that and so much more, coming up on \"THE LEAD.\" I'm Brooke Baldwin. It's been a pleasure. Thanks for watching. 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{"id": "CNN-246225", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2014-12-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1412/30/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Kremlin Critic's Conviction Sparks Protests; Fall of Oil Prices; Predictions for 2015; US, European Markets Down", "utt": ["One of Russia's most well-known opposition leaders is tonight being held by police after breaking house arrest and joining crowds gathered that are protesting against his conviction. Now, despite the freezing temperatures, demonstrators gathered near Moscow's Red Square after Alexei Navalny, an openly outspoken Kremlin critic, was found guilty of fraud. Look at the pictures of what was happening, a real melee in Moscow. Navalny denies that he and his brother embezzled over half a million dollars from a cosmetics company. Alexei Navalny has a history of challenging Putin and the political establishment in Russia, which he's called the Party of Crooks and Thieves. Now, in 2010, Navalny exposed what he said was a $4 billion embezzlement scheme at the state-run oil monopoly Transneft. The head of that company and Vladimir Putin both have denied that claim. Last year, Navalny was imprisoned for another offense -- imprisoned -- a day after entering the race to be the mayor of Moscow. You're starting to see the absolute battle. An ally of Putin went on to win that election. Now, Navalny and his brother, Oleg, have been convicted, with Oleg heading to prison. Alexei Navalny claims it's politically motivated.", "I am ashamed of what you are doing. What are you putting him in jail for? What a disgusting act. All of this is being done in order to punish me even more.", "Our Matthew Chance is in Moscow tonight. Does -- we think of Khodorkovsky, the protests, the arguments, all this. But he stayed in prison for many years. Does this just peter out and Navalny gets let go, but Oleg stays in prison?", "Well, I think the authorities were very careful not to stage a repeat of the Khodorkovsky affair by keeping Alexei Navalny out of prison. They're very mindful of the fact, Richard, that this is the most prominent opposition figure in the country. Very mindful of the fact that he has a significant degree of support, particularly in the urban centers, like Moscow, where as you say, he scored very highly in a recent mayoral election. And they don't want to make him a martyr. And so, they've kept him out of prison, they've sentenced him to this suspended sentence. They've put his brother in prison, which opposition activists say is the Kremlin's idea of maintaining some kind of leverage and control over Alexei Navalny and perhaps preventing him from realizing his political ambitions. And so, a very clever sort of sentence, I supposes, if you look at it from that point of view, on Alexei Navalny.", "And there's no question in anyone's mind, except maybe those who pretend otherwise, in your view, there's no question that the -- whether Putin personally or the actual administration, the government, is behind it all.", "Well, that's the charge, of course, of the opposition, that it is the administration that's behind it, that the judiciary in this country is not independent and it does the bidding of its political masters. That's really at the heart of this controversy and why Alexei Navalny and so many others who've been convicted in the Moscow courts say that they've received unfair trials and they're victims of political persecution. But yes. Certainly it's the position of the government that this is nothing to do with them, this is purely a criminal matter to be dealt with by the courts and has been dealt with by the courts. It's interesting, because the prosecution asked for 10 years in prison for Alexei Navalny, but he only got 3.5 years suspended sentence. And so, in that sense, he got off pretty lightly.", "Matthew, the oil price and the economic woes as Russia now goes well and truly into the depths of winter, I saw some polls last week still suggesting an overwhelming popularity for Vladimir Putin.", "Yes. It's one of those, perhaps strange to the outsiders' view, contradictions within Russia. The country is on its knees economically, virtually, or is on its way to getting down on its knees. Its ruble, its currency is in free fall. The oil price, its main export revenue earner, has plunged in value. GDP has basically halved. It's been an absolutely phenomenal precipitous decline for Russia's economy, yet its people are still standing foursquare behind its leader, Vladimir Putin. Latest opinion polls, 85 percent approval ratings. But let's see how long that lasts as this bleak economic winter continues.", "Matthew, I notice from the clock on our screen that it is after midnight, so my first duty is to thank you for staying up late onto New Year's Eve and to wish you happy New Year in the cold economic conditions, physical and otherwise, of Moscow, Matthew. Thank you.", "Same to you.", "Matthew Chance. Now, while Matthew deals with the Moscow side, the floor continues to slide from under the oil price. Join me at the super screen, and you're going to see what I mean. You'll be aware since the beginning of the year, we were up in the $130 and $140. The big slide starts somewhere in July, and it falls right the way down. That really is quite dramatic. It's now down to -- fell less than $4 a barrel, its lowest level now in more than 5 years at $54 a barrel. And the chart tells the story of what's been a long and painful year for oil, down nearly 50 percent, and that's despite concerns that Libya ports have been shut down by warring factions. That could make the whole situation worse. We need to talk about some of these predictions on this second-to-last day of the year. Ken Rogoff is with us from Harvard. Good to see you, sir.", "Good to see you, Richard.", "Now, I have my map -- my globe. The prediction for oil and how you see this coming forward, $54 a barrel at the moment, likely to go less. Whether it goes up and down a bit is irrelevant in some sense. At these sort of prices, next year, your prediction on oil. Is it a key factor in the global economy?", "It is huge. I mean, for the countries of Europe, in Japan, even the United States, it's a fantastic boost. But you were just talking about Russia, Venezuela, the exporters, especially the ones that don't really -- that really depend on it daily, it really hurts. But on net --", "But net -- net?", "Net, it's very good. I mean, the consumers, high-spending consumers are benefiting, ordinary people are benefiting, gas prices in the US are down a dollar, for example. And in Europe and Japan, the effect's bigger. It's huge.", "Right. Now, if I turned our globe to Europe here and the eurozone. Now, the eurozone and Europe is in the most appalling state at the moment. Greece promises to upend it all again with its election on January the 25th. Are you worried about Europe?", "Long term, yes. It's just not clear what they're going to do. It's not clear whether there's enough integration coming, if Italy and France will reform. Greece clearly is in an unsustainable situation.", "How can it still be unsustainable, Ken, after 28 -- ? I mean, it's had hundreds of billions. It's had almost -- for a size of the country that it is.", "Simply put, they were taking in a lot of money every year. Forget about the paper value of the debt. They were borrowing every year. And now, they're able to borrow much, much less. That's where the austerity is coming from. No one -- the private sector doesn't want to give them money, Germany doesn't want to give it money from its pockets, and it's very painful. Any direction they go, they need transfers, really, to relieve what are these austerity programs.", "Well, before we go to our main entry, I want to just turn the globe across the United States. Five percent annualized growth in the US. Now, we've got such a difference on both sides of the Atlantic. On the western side, you've got growth, good growth, good job creation. Does that continue next year?", "Yes. I think, actually, the growth's pretty broad-based in the United States, and we're likely to see wages finally start rising more significantly, unemployment continue to improve. The US is on a pretty solid ground. Of course, there's uncertainties in the rest of the world, which are a weakness. But I think net net, it is a big year for the United States again.", "So, let's go right across to Russia. Look at it. Vast --", "Very big.", "-- country. Vast country, huge oil exports. Matthew Chance says Putin remains popular. You see recession in Russia next year, deep.", "Oh, absolutely. I think they're on the cusp of a really systemic financial crisis, even, in Russia. I don't know if it'll be 1998 again, they have deeper pockets, somewhat less vulnerabilities, but this is not ending quickly. It's a very, very difficult time for the Russian people. I agree the polls I've seen also show Putin still very popular. So, we'll see.", "I'm going to spin the globe. Never mind where it ends, but when we talk about growth next year, when we talk about your biggest concern, when you think about what you're most worried about, where should I stop?", "Well, Russia's no fun.", "Right.", "But it's not that big in the global economy. It's China, really --", "China?", "-- that's the big concern. Absolutely it'd be China. They are slowing in a way that's controlled. They're trying to change. They're trying to depend less on exports, less on investment, more on consumers. That just doesn't happen overnight. And some of what we're seeing in oil prices, commodity prices, even slower growth in Germany, is China has been slowing. We don't know how much, probably more than they say.", "China, Russia, the US. I think we've just about done the world.", "Well, this is really fun. I want to do this again.", "Good to see you, sir.", "Pleasure.", "Now, sea of red --", "-- for the Dow Jones Industrials. Back under 18,000. It was concerns over oil prices. The S&P 500 down half a percent. The US markets opened for a full day of trading on Wednesday. I think they do sing \"Wait 'Til the Sun Shines Nellie.\" I'm determined to get a version of that out before we're finished. European markets have a shortened session on Wednesday. They ended the last full day with a whimper. A slide in energy stocks. The major markets were down. Political uncertainty in Greece, we were just talking about. Actually, that's more of a slide than I thought, the CAC 40 down more than 1.5 percent when all was over. As we continue, how important is your fingerprint? Well, it's certainly very important for things like Apple Pay and the like. But what if your fingerprints could be stolen? 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{"id": "NPR-11869", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2015-08-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/08/08/430633590/haiti-elections-seen-as-a-test-of-stability", "title": "Haiti Elections Seen As A Test Of Stability", "summary": "Haitians vote on Sunday in legislative elections. The nation has been without lawmakers since parliament was disbanded in January, and the vote is more than three years overdue.", "utt": ["Haitians are set to vote tomorrow, a big step for the troubled country. These are legislative elections, and they're more than three years overdue. And they are seen as a test for Haiti to prove it's capable of holding credible and fair elections. Peter Granitz reports from Port-au-Prince.", "Campaigning in Haiti has less to do with policy and more to do with getting your name out there. Candidates plaster their images and party logos on every of wall, house and billboard. They trash their opponents on the radio. And at any given hour, they send out trucks rigged with speakers blasting their song.", "(Singing in Spanish).", "This one for Marie Liliane Vedrigue. She's running for Senate. Rue Jean Jacques Dessalines is the main street in downtown Port-au-Prince. It's one of the few places in the country you still see rubble and teetering buildings, remnants of the 2010 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people. And it's where Renel Joseph sells knockoff shoes. A pair of green Chuck Taylor's costs about 20 U.S. dollars. That's just the opening price, of course. Joseph smiles a lot. He's optimistic. He loves his country, and he says Haiti needs elections to move forward.", "(Through interpreter) Parliament has a role. The president has a role. We all need the president to have a parliament. We all have a role.", "Parliament dissolved in January because of missed elections. That left President Michel Martelly ruling without any checks and balances. More than 1,800 candidates are running for some 130 seats. Pierre Esperance, a leading civil rights advocate in Haiti, says that's way too many.", "On Sunday, we will have some problem.", "Problems such as voter intimidation from police, who have their own political leanings, he says, problems such as violence. Esperance's group tracks political violence, and he says there have been five murders since the campaign officially began July 9, including the shooting of a candidate in the southern city of Marigot and problems such as people getting turned away from voting stations. Would-be voters are just now finding out where to vote. They can call or text the two telecom companies with their ID number to find out the location. Many have called in to local radio to complain they're being sent out of the city, places impossible to reach because it's illegal to drive on election day. And many, like Renel Joseph, just assume they should go to the same place as last time.", "(Through interpreter) I haven't verified, but I think I just vote in my neighborhood.", "Haiti is running these elections, from security to counting the ballots. And that's a major shift from last time. The election in 2010, months after the earthquake, was hastily organized by foreign countries and the United Nations. Violence and a contested vote tally forced a months-long delay in the runoff; turnout was abysmally low. Turnout could also be low tomorrow. Cadel Rolande sells bananas and hard-boiled eggs on the side of the street downtown. She's more worried about making money than the election, so she's not going to vote. And besides, her ID card is expired.", "(Through interpreter) I went to the office to get an electoral card, but they wouldn't see me. I might get one after the election.", "With so many candidates vying for so few seats, there will be run-off elections. Those are set for October 25, the same day as the first round of presidential voting. For NPR News, I'm Peter Granitz in Port-au-Prince."], "speaker": ["LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST", "PETER GRANITZ, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST", "PETER GRANITZ, BYLINE", "RENEL JOSEPH", "PETER GRANITZ, BYLINE", "PIERRE ESPERANCE", "PETER GRANITZ, BYLINE", "RENEL JOSEPH", "PETER GRANITZ, BYLINE", "CADEL ROLANDE", "PETER GRANITZ, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-13890", "program": "Breaking News", "date": "2000-8-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/14/bn.07.html", "summary": "Ctr. for Defense Information: Prospects for Successful Rescue of Crew Aboard Sunken Russian Sub 'Very Dim'", "utt": ["Russian officials say a rescue effort is well under way to try to save the men on board that Russian nuclear submarine that is at the bottom of the Barents Sea and 350 feet of water. We have with us from Washington, Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll, retired admiral. And we thank you for joining, sir. You were commander of a fleet that included submarines. And we want to talk about what looks like another submarine on the floor of an ocean on this planet, and what, perhaps, dangers that means. It apparently doesn't have nuclear weapons on board. Do you believe that the Russians don't have nuclear weapons on board this submarine ? And what about the two nuclear reactors on board?", "That, of course, is the long-term environmental danger, is if they don't get that submarine off the floor, those reactors will, over time, erode, corrode and release highly radioactive material into the ocean.", "And has there been any reports, studies from other submarines that have gone to the bottom of the floor -- there have been many -- about what damage can come from something like that?", "I know of no official data which show the rate of radiation from reactors. As a matter of fact, the period of time is so short that those reactors may very well still be intact on the floor of the ocean. It's only over the decades that these things will assuredly disintegrate and release the radioactive material into the sea.", "We have pictures. I'm told, Admiral, of this particular submarine -- file video. This is file video of the Kursk which is the submarine that we're talking about. Again, Russia saying that it had a serious collision. That's all they're saying. We don't know if it collided with what or if there are casualties on board. We do, Admiral, there's been a long, long list of submarines, Russian submarines, that have gone down. 1970, U.S. Defense Department saying a Soviet sub disappeared off the Spanish coast; 1980, a fire aboard a nuclear submarine and on and on and on. And we're told, also, that this area of the Arctic Sea is pretty much a mess when it comes to nuclear waste. And it was also very popular as far as a test site for nuclear weapons. What can you tell us about that?", "And that's very true. The Soviet Union had the largest submarine fleet in the world and we considered them a great danger to the United States. Now, they still have the largest submarine fleet, but most of it is just rusting away. It is not being properly maintained, people are not adequately trained to protect the submarines and the reactors. The state of training is deplorably low. They are probably as great a threat to our long-term wellbeing as they were when they were up and running. The whole northern fleet is a disaster. The Center for Defense Information sent a camera crew there about a year and a half ago. We came back with evidence that is appalling of the deterioration of that whole fleet.", "What did you see?", "We saw ships that were just falling apart at the piers. They were not being maintained. At one point -- we didn't get to see this -- but at one point, the local power company cut off electricity to the naval base because they weren't paying their power bill. And when you leave nuclear reactors without any cooling for any length of time, you've got a major problem. It is really shocking the extent to which the Russian Navy has gone downhill. And it's impossible to say at this moment that the Kursk is a victim of this poor training, poor readiness, but it's a possibility that the collision occurred because the crew simply wasn't adequately trained.", "Well, we do know, earlier this year, a nuclear sub surfaced during a storm in the Barents Sea because of the accidental opening of an air lock, and two seamen sent out to close that airlock were swept to their deaths. It is your hope, then, that if these men are rescued, that they'll still try and bring this sub up?", "Oh, yes, if they can rescue the men, they can probably rescue or salvage the sub. However, the prospects for a successful rescue of the crew I think are very dim. You have to have exactly the right equipment, you have to have designed the systems to work perfectly under very difficult conditions. This submarine also is a double-hulled submarine. It has a pressure hull surrounded by a much larger hull which holds the missiles, and that apparently is what has ruptured and sunk the ship. They may not even be able to get at the pressure hull where the people are trapped.", "It sounds like a terrible situation that is under way there.", "I'm glad I'm not a Russian sailor these days.", "I can understand after your report for us today. Thank you so much for joining us and sharing what you know, Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "REAR ADM. EUGENE CARROLL (RET.), CTR. FOR DEFENSE INFORMATION", "ALLEN", "CARROLL", "ALLEN", "CARROLL", "ALLEN", "CARROLL", "ALLEN", "CARROLL", "ALLEN", "CARROLL", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-290648", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-08-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/06/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Olympics Kick Off With Spectacular Opening Ceremony Amid Protests And Fears Of Zika; Bar Fire In France Leaves A Dozen People Dead", "utt": ["Amid protests, fears of Zika and other problems, the Olympics kick off with a spectacular opening ceremony. Yet another tragedy in France after a fire at a bar leaves at least a dozen people dead. We'll talk to a reporter on the scene there. And on the rocky road to the White House, Hillary Clinton try to clarify her statement on the e-mails saga, while Donald Trump decides to endorse house speaker Paul Ryan after quite a week in his campaign.", "It's all ahead here on \"CNN Newsroom.\" We're live in Atlanta. Thanks for joining us. I'm Natalie Allen.", "Let the games begin. The summer Olympics in Rio are officially under way after a festive opening ceremony. More than 11,000 athletes marched through Maracana Stadium country by country in the parade of nations. Capping the night, Brazilian bronze medalist marathoner Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima lit the Olympic cauldron.", "CNN's Christina MacFarlane is in Rio, she has more for us on the opening night festivities.", "After a week dominated by the Russian doping scandal protests and problems finally, it was time to on focus on the sort and the coming together of thousands of athletes. And it all went off without a hitch. In front of a crowd of 80,000 and 3 billion people watching around the world, Brazil put on a flamboyant feast for the eyes with a homage to legends of Brazil past and present.", "One of the stand out moments of the night came not from an athlete but a super model. Brazil's Gisele Bundchen striding across the stage to the sound of the Bossa Nova classic \"The Girl from Ipanema.\" And then came the athletes from over 200 countries. Michael Phelps stylish in red, white and blue leading the U.S. Contingent followed by the Russians, a bitter sweet moment that raised a cheer from the crowd amid the controversial cloud of doping. One of the biggest cheers of the night, however, was reserved for the refugee team, a first in Olympic history and a moment who none who witnessed it will forget. Finally, the moment we've been waiting for three Brazilian Olympic legends combined to light the cauldron. Vanderlei de Lima the man who was poised to win gold during the marathon in Athens but was attacked by a spectator now getting his moment in the Olympic spotlight. The ceremony is over. Let the games begin. Christina MacFarlane, CNN, RIO.", "People that couldn't get inside to watch the opening ceremony went downtown to watch and Shasta Darlington was there, too.", "The excitement and the enthusiasm finally building around these Olympics. We have thousands packed in to this square in downtown Rio all here to watch the opening ceremony for free on giant screens. Plenty of Brazilian flags but also American flags, Argentine flags in what have been really troubled Olympics up until now but you're beginning to feel that Olympic spirit. This is in fact one of the main legacies of these Olympic Games. This was an area that used to be a highway overpass literally blown up to create a cultural hub with museums, there's space for people to come and to hear music, to eat at food trucks and now enjoying it as the main fan zone or live site for the Olympic Games. We expect to see people coming back here again and again enjoying not only the opening ceremony but the competitions. And this will be a real measure of whether or not Brazilians can begin to feel that Olympic spirit in a time when the country is in its second year of recession has seen terrible political chaos with the latest polls showing that in fact 2/3 of Brazilians think that these Olympics could bring more harm than good. It's this kind of a show that is finally beginning to lift the spirits. Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.", "Shasta mentioning there the problems leading up to these Olympics. And there was a protest that turned nasty ahead of the opening ceremony there in Rio.", "Protesters burned a Rio 2016 t-shirt and the Brazilian flag outside the Meracana Stadium. Riot police later used tear gas to disperse crowds. Earlier, protesters forced the Olympic torch to take a different route as it went through the Copacabana beach front. The protest was against Brazil's government and the interim President.", "Within hours, 12 medals will be awarded on what's officially known as day one of competition.", "The first gold medal is in shooting; the women's 10 meter air rifle. China dominates that sport in world rankings. Three time Tour de France champion Chris Froome will try to win gold in the men's cycle road race. He has described the course as savage. And swimming kicks off in the evening with four gold medals up for grabs. You can keep up with all the news out of Rio at cnn.com/Olympics. Our website has the latest on the athletes, the venues and the competition. CNN.com/Olympics.", "We the turn now to France. At least 13 people are dead after a bar fire in the Rouen in the north of the country. For more, I'm joined now on the phone by (Carolyn inaudible) with our affiliate BFM, she's there where the fire occurred. (Carolyn), can you describe the scene for us.", "Yes what we know so far is that the fire broke out in the bar here in the city of (inaudible) that's where I'm standing right now and there is broken glass everywhere. Perimeter, security perimeter around that bar, but the street is now reopened for the cars. It happened in the middle of the night in the Cuba Libre and it's completely destroyed when you look at it. Police units were called and firefighters intervened very quickly, according to the authorities, to rescue people who were in that bar. There were about 50 men from the fire emergency units tried to extinguish the fire. Bernard Cazeneuve the French Interior Minute confirmed that at least 13 people are dead and six other people are injured. They were taken to the hospital, one of them is fighting for his life as we speak with serious injuries. A psychological emergency unit also has been opened at the hospital for families in shock and people who have seen what happened who witnessed what happened and need to talk about it with some doctors.", "And as they talk, Carolyn, are we learning anything more about what was behind this, because there have been some reports from local media that an explosion led to the fire. Have you heard that?", "All right. Well, those are questions that need to be answered. 13 people dead there in that French bar. Carolyn (inaudible) for us, thank you so much.", "At least 42 fans left a concert in Camden, New Jersey with injuries Friday.", "The Camden Fire Department says a large piece of fencing collapsed sending dozens of people over a ledge. Rapper Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa were performing at the time.", "Amateur video purportedly shot in the Syrian province of Aleppo shows a school reduced to rubble by recent air strikes.", "A man in the vide claims that they are Russian attacks and that two homes were also hit killing an entire family. Another video purportedly shot in homes shows the once bustling city in ruins.", "Hillary Clinton attempts damage control. Next, hear why she says she may have short circuited early responses about her e-mails.", "Plus, Donald Trump changes his mind after a tumultuous week. We'll have the latest on the campaign trail as we push on here on \"CNN Newsroom.\""], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, HOST", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "CHRISTINA MACFARLANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MACFARLANE", "ALLEN", "SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "BFM REPORTER", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-209106", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-6-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/19/cnr.11.html", "summary": "Profiling Controversy in New York", "utt": ["Near the bottom of the hour. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Thanks for staying with us here. I want to talk about this controversial ad from the New York City police union. It shows this blindfolded police officer. This here is the union's response to a proposed bill that it says would effectively blindfold people and hamper them from doing their job day in and day out. So this bill would reportedly let people sue New York police officers personally -- we're getting you in a minute, Mike Brooks -- if they felt they were victims of racial profiling. So, let me bring in Alina Cho. She is reporting on this for us out of New York. And here is HLN law enforcement analyst Mike Brooks, who is clearly fired up sitting next to me here in the studio. Brooksie, we're going to get to you. Alina, first to you, because you have been tracking this, this controversial bill. Walk us through why some of these officers are so frustrated.", "Well, they basically say, Brooke, that they can -- that this would embolden criminals and result in a crime -- a spike in crime. And really all you have to do is look at the cover of \"The New York Post\" today and you will see, as part of it drops, why this story is getting so much attention. You showed it right there. This provocative ad was released today by one of the city's police unions. And the ad asks, \"How effective is a police officer with a blindfold on?\" Now, the union says the City Council is essentially trying to ban officers from using race, gender or age to identify suspects. Now, that is not necessarily the case. Listen carefully. The new proposal, which was introduced by some members of the Council, would essentially allow people to sue not only the city, but police officers personally, if they feel they were the victim of racial profiling. It is a little confusing. But it comes down to those words. It wouldn't ban the officers from necessarily using race or gender or age to profile. But if the wrong person is chosen, they could sue."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-333034", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-02-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/17/cnr.06.html", "summary": "New Details on Florida Shooting Suspect; State Rep. Moskowitz Talks School Shooting, Anti-Gun Rallies; Florida Shooting Compared to Columbine", "utt": ["Now, this is chilling. A 19-year-old who slaughtered 17 people at the Florida high school this week used to introduce himself as, \"Hi, I'm a school shooter.\" That is what someone who knows him tells CNN. His social media accounts are full of pictures of him posing with guns and knives as hints of a future violent act are beginning to emerge. CNN senior investigative correspondent, Drew Griffin, is in Parkland, Florida. Drew, you have been talking to people who live near him or knew him. What are you learning about this disturbed person?", "Ana, beyond the mass shootings that we have done, we have found so many warning signs in this one. The police called to the Cruz home many, many time, talking with the Cruz family about Nikolas and his mental illness, the fact that he was under behavioral treatment, seeing a therapist. All the warning signs were there. The school knew it. The kids knew it. And one of his neighbors told us that it was so very, very obvious that if you just spent a few seconds talking with him, you would have been able to determine that this guy had no business owning a gun. Listen to this.", "Why was he ever allowed the buy a gun? That is crazy. I mean, if I would have known that he had a gun -- I would have taken it. I would have personally taken action, and I would have, you know, I would have taken the gun from him. He had too much of a temper. He would break thing, and he'd be the last person who should ever have a weapon.", "There have been many, many warning signs, but what may have been a breaking point occurred last November when Cruz lost his mother in a somewhat very quick illness. She died, and Nikolas had to call Paul Gold and ask for a ride to the funeral. And there were four people attending the funeral. We have a picture of Cruz there at the funeral. And those are his brothers' hands putting the urn of their mother into the resting place. But just four people. It was Cruz, and younger brother, Zachary, and two former neighbors. That, Paul Gold said, that hit Nikolas Cruz hard. While everyone is trying to deal with all of this mess, the latest from the sheriff's department is that, Ana, they are looking through the electronic devices, and the phone, but as we reported, we knew what this kid was thinking based on his social media postings.", "Drew, this this is so sad and troubling on so many levels. Thank you for the reporting. I want to talk about the victims and the lives impacted the most. Students who went to the school, and the families who lost loved ones. Powerful emotions on display today near Ft. Lauderdale, and anguished voices calling for change. This is Parkland's Vice Mayor Stacy Kagan.", "We have had too many national tragedies across our country. And it is time for this to stop.", "February 14th, 2018, at 2:35 p.m. has changed our city and our community and our country forever. This city of Parkland and this city of Coral Spring, we are going to be united as one, because our children come from both of those communities forever. Talk to your kids. Spread the word, this can never happen again. We need safety in our schools. We need unity. We need to fight together and make this stop.", "Joining us now is Florida State Representative Jared Moskowitz, a Parkland native who graduated from Stoneman Douglas High School in 1989. Sir, thank you for joining us. You said that nothing will change after this massacre, and do you still feel that way because of the rally?", "Thank you, Ana. And I am becoming more hopeful each day. We have three weeks left of session in Tallahassee. My conversations with the governor and the speaker and the folks in the Senate, we are currently looking at putting together what I think is going to be a bold proposal. But obviously, until that happens, and until it passes committee, and until it gets on the floor of the House on the floor of the Senate and passes, I'm still pessimistic. I am pessimistic because we have seen in this country children, babies, die at Sandy Hook and nothing changed after that. And maybe it is different for Parkland and maybe it will be different. Maybe the fact that it happened in the safest town in the state of Florida brings it home for many people. Maybe it is because these students are so well spoken and know exactly what is wrong with the system. And they want to come to talk to their elected leaders. Maybe it is going to be different. And maybe it is different, because we are seeing more images than we have seen before because of the technology. I am hopeful that it is going to be different, but until it is different, it is the same.", "I want to ask you more about what the possibilities are moving forward in a moment. But first, take a moment and think about these victims. And I know that you have attended some of the vigils and the funerals. How has this experience changed you?", "These funerals are things they have never seen before. I was with the victims' families in a room for six hours while they waited for law are enforcement to come in and let them know that their son or daughter was not at the hospital, but that they were in the building still. And I thought that it was a hallowing experience but being at a funeral where parents are putting their teenaged son or daughter in a pine box to be put into the ground and seeing how angry they are, and their frustration and knowing in the back of my mind that this system completely failed them and their children. All systems on this failed. The fact that we had warning signs, the fact that he could go buy a weapon, the fact that the school board knew about it, the sheriff's office, the FBI. And to hear parents say, that the only thing that they did wrong was send their kid to school -- I mean, what does that say to parents across the country that we can't send our children to school. We live in the most powerful country in the world and the most powerful military, we talk about it in Foreign Relations, but the schools are not safe. It is a complete and utter failure. And what I have seen at the funerals, I hope to never see it again. I hope this never comes to another town in America again.", "Amen to that. I want you to hear what Florida Governor Rick Scott said here on CNN. Listen.", "Everything is on the table. All right. I am going to be looking at every way that we can make sure that the kids are safe. It is a lot of things. It is looking at, who should have guns. Should individuals with mental illness have guns? Should, what can we do to create more safety in our schools? What can we to make it easier for our children and make them feel comfortable to report things? It is not one thing. It is all of these things put together.", "So, Representative, when pressed on whether he will look at gun laws, he says that everything is on the table. And you just mentioned that there are talks going on at the state capital right now about what \"everything on the table\" might look like. Can you fill us in on what is being discussed?", "Well, Ana, everything is on the table. They are looking at everything. They are looking at mental illness, and they are looking at school hardening, and they are looking at what to do here at Marjory Stoneman Douglas with the building, with the memorial, and how law enforcement communicates. One thing after 9/11, departments started to communicate with one another, and the fact that the BSO and the school board and the FBI were not communicating about the same person. They each had pieces of the puzzle, but they could not put it together because they were not talking. That's being looked at, but most importantly, they are look at gun control and things to do to make sure that A.R.-15s don't wind up in the hands of teenagers. If you can't drink in the country and you can't rent-a-car, maybe you should not have a A.R.-15. So while the talks are going on, I don't want to talk about specific proposals, but what I will say is that those discussions are ongoing. We have three weeks three weeks of session to get it done, and then we won't talk about policy in Tallahassee until after the 2018 election. And I can't look these parents in the face and tell them that we did nothing. I refuse to do so. So I will try my best to work with people, and people on my side of the aisle, and people on the other side of the aisle. Because at the end of the day, whether you are a Republican or Democrat, we are parents. Parents must try and triumph over the party. That is the only way to keep our kids safe in school.", "Thank you so much Florida State Representative Jared Moskowitz. And we will check back with you to see where things go. Thank you so much.", "Thank you very much.", "Our condolences to you and everybody in the state. Coming up next, a Columbine shooting survivor reacts to the Florida shooting incident. I will ask Sean Graves about his message for the students of Parkland High as they get ready to return to the site of the nightmare beyond comprehension."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "DREW GRIFFIN, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT", "PAUL GOLD, NEIGHBOR OF FLORIDA SHOOTING SUSPECT", "GRIFFIN", "ANA CABRERA, CNN ANCHOR", "STACY KAGAN, PARKLAND VICE MAYOR", "KAGAN", "CABRERA", "STATE REP.  JARED MOSKOWITZ, (D), FLORIDA", "CABRERA", "MOSKOWITZ", "CABRERA", "RICK SCOTT, (R), FLORIDA GOVERNOR (via telephone)", "CABRERA", "MOSKOWITZ", "CABRERA", "MOSKOWITZ", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-222839", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2014-1-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1401/13/es.02.html", "summary": "Flight Lands At Wrong Airport; Stocks Struggle In 2014", "utt": ["Breaking news overnight. Passengers jolted, tires burning as a Southwest Airline slams on its brakes, landing at the wrong airport, not far, folks, from the edge of disaster.", "The wait for water may soon be over in West Virginia days after a chemical spill contaminated the water supply for hundreds of thousands of people! New developments released overnight.", "And the future looks more golden for an unlikely \"Golden Globes\" winner. How the race for Oscar changed overnight? The intrigue, the glamour, coming up.", "Welcome back to EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans, intriguing, glamorous, not us.", "That's the \"Golden Globes.\" Not us so much at all. I'm John Berman. Thirty-one minutes past the hour right now.", "All right. Our top story this morning, many questions this morning about a scary mistake that happened overnight in Missouri. A Southwest Airlines 737 with 129 people on board landed at the wrong airport, an airport not designated to handle big, commercial jets. Now, the airline and the FAA and the people on board that flight want to know how did it happen. The jet was supposed to land in Branson, Missouri. Instead, it touched down at a county airport about seven miles away. The runway there, half the length of most major airports. Passengers say they smelled burning rubber as the jet landed. And when they got off the plane, they realized they were only a few hundred feet from the end of the runway and a few hundred feet from a major highway that runs past it. For those coming to pick them up, they never expected to get a call sending them to someplace else.", "We had like a really rough landing. We were all like moving pretty close to the seats as we were landing, because the runway, I guess, is too short for the plane. And so, then, they just came on and said that we had landed at the wrong runway.", "And then we got a call saying the plane has landed at an airport nearby. With that, we were thinking, OK, there is only one other airport, and it was the C of O airport, and we're thinking, surely, not a jet plane could land there.", "Oh, but surely it did. Southwest says everyone is safe. Buses were sent to pick the passengers up and bring them to the right airport. Now comes the investigation why it landed there in the first place.", "Could have been much, much worse. Breaking overnight, someone in West Virginia may finally get a chance to use their tap water again today. This comes five days after a chemical spill led to hundreds of thousands of people being told to not drink, don't bathe, or even wash your clothes with what was coming out of the tap. West Virginia American Water today plans to set up zones where water use is once again allowed, but they're urging customers to flush their plumbing systems and do not do anything until they know that they are in the clear.", "I believe that we're at a point where we could say that we see light at the end of the tunnel. I ask all West Virginians to continue to be patient as we work to safely restore service to the affected areas.", "I would probably wait, test myself. I can tell if I could still smell it before I would trust that I can use it. I don't know, a few days, maybe to a week to actually consume it.", "You can certainly understand that concern. An investigation is now under way into Freedom Industries, the company where the chemical spill took place. Its president insists it is doing all it can to prevent further spills. A federal prosecutor is promising to take any appropriate action against whoever is responsible for this.", "Subpoenas could come as soon as today in the scandal many are now calling Bridgegate involving New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, in the closing of a route to the George Washington Bridge.", "That as some in the state are talking impeachment. The head of the state legislative committee investigating the scandal says if Christie knew about what happened, if Christie lied about it, the state assembly would consider impeaching him. And even some well-known Republicans are now saying while they believe the governor was telling the truth when he said he didn't know what two top former aides were doing, if he was lying, his political career is likely over.", "I think he stated very clearly, he should have known. I think he stated it very clearly and very openly and honestly, and that's why he has to answer every single question. Is this a blow to him? Obviously. How permanent it is? I think we will know in the days and weeks ahead.", "Many in the Republican Party praised Christie for coming forward to talk about the scandal. They praised his performance when he said he was humiliated, he was sorry, he should have known. And even the mayor who was the seeming target for the shutdown said he takes Christie at his word.", "The NSA's phone surveillance program is being blasted this morning as ineffective and even unnecessary in the fight against terrorism. The New America Foundation says that a new report due out today that its analysis shows the bulk collection of phone records has had no discernible impact on preventing terror attacks and only factored into one case involving money being sent to a terror group in Somalia. The findings echo a White House panel's assertion that the program is not essential to preventing attacks. New details this morning about the problems with the health care overhaul, and it's one again involving a website, this time, it's the Spanish-language version of healthcare.gov. Users report that pages on the site link to English-language forms and call the translation so clunky, they're hard to understand. Federal officials insist they're working to make the site better.", "President Obama and Senate Republicans battling over appointments to this -- taking the battle over appointments to the Supreme Court today. They're fighting over the president's power to temporarily fill high-level position that requires Senate confirmation. The constitution says he can only do it when the Senate is in recess. The courts already have ruled the president overstepped his authority in January of 2012 by appointing two temporary nominees while the Senate was in session.", "The Senate vote -- set to vote today on a bill to extend long-term unemployment benefits for more than a million people, but hope is fading this morning over any chance of this passing. A group of Republicans is balking because they do not like the way Democrats plan to pay for it. They're also upset about the procedures in the Senate right now. It is looking unlikely this morning that this measure will get the votes that it needs to pass.", "A lot of the people thought that they were going to be able to resolve that.", "Fell apart over the last five days.", "All right. Stocks around the world rising this morning, except for futures here in the U.S. Let's look at Asia's main indices. They just closed higher. Europe opening higher. Right now, here at home, futures point to a modestly lower open for the stock market. The Dow is down nearly one percent so far this year, the first time it started lower since 2009, but things could turn around this week if banks come in with some solid earnings. JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, many others set to report their quarterly report card. These companies are already trading at record highs. Their stocks are at record highs. Solid earnings could be just what we need, especially after last week's terrible jobs report. The thinking is, if banks are doing well, it's partially because people are more confident, taking out loans, a good sign, so it goes, for the economy. It could be a big day for General Motors. The automaker might sweep the car and truck of the year awards at the Detroit auto show! The Corvette and the Cadillac CTS are in the running in car category. The Silverado is gunning for the truck award.", "All right. Speaking of awards, this morning, there are a whole bunch of new favorites in the Oscars race after a night of real surprises at the \"Golden Globes.\" \"American Hustle\" won three statues, including Best Comedy, Best Actress in a comedy for Amy Adams, and there she is, Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lawrence.", "I think she's very talented. Cate Blanchett, you see her right there, also picking up a Golden Globe for her turn (ph) as a title character in \"Blue Jasmine.\" \"12 Years a Slave\" won for Best Drama, but the male acting awards went to other films. Leonardo DiCaprio, I predict him, he won for his role in the \"Wolf of Wall Street,\" and Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto won as well for \"Dallas Buyers Club.\" \"Gravity\" picked up the Best Director award. And in television, it was \"Breaking Bad,\" really a surprise winner, \"Brooklyn 99,\" they both win big. Each getting awards for Best Series. Best Actor went to Bryan Cranston and Andy Sandberg.", "And Bryan Cranston was talking to our Nischelle Turner before on the red carpet beforehand. He said it'd be a nice way to sort of put a period on the end of the sentence of the show. You know, to end the show with an award for the show.", "You brought up Nischelle Turner. She was the real star last night at the \"Golden Globes,\" as always.", "She did a great job. She is one talented young woman. Let's give her the Golden Globe.", "She wins it.", "All right. New this morning, Dennis Rodman on his way home from North Korea and opening up about the mistakes he made on his trip to the communist country. We are live with Rodman's latest apologies."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "BERMAN", "ROMANS (on-camera)", "BERMAN (on-camera)", "ROMANS", "JODELL FITZWATER, PASSENGER ON SOUTHWEST FLIGHT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "GOV. 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{"id": "NPR-35063", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2008-05-20", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90620486", "title": "Nobel Laureates Lobby for Release of Indian Activist", "summary": "Doctor and civil rights activist Binayak Sen has been imprisoned for a year in an area of India known as the epicenter of the country's Maoist insurgency. He's being held under draconian anti-terrorism laws; his supporters say the charges are nonsense. Some 22 Nobel laureates are appealing for his release.", "utt": ["And we going to go next to India and to a plight of a man who says he wants to help others. He has won international awards for humanitarian work, and yet for the last year he's been in prison. His case has attracted the interest of the world's foremost academics and scientists, as NPR's Philip reeves reports.", "A small cluster of protestors gathers in New Delhi. They're in the heart of India's sprawling capital, not far from the seat of the federal government, and they're struggling to get their voices heard.", "These people are here to highlight the case of a 58-year-old man languishing in jail 700 miles away. His name is Binayak Sen. Sen is a civil rights activist and a doctor. Much of India's booming and modernizing, but Maoist insurgents are active in a vast expanse of the country's rural areas, remote and impoverished places untouched by trickle down. Sen's accused of being one of those Maoists.", "His fellow activists, like Kavita Shaviastiva, for example, say this is nonsense.", "Everything is really rubbish. Waging war against states, conspiracy, sedition - I mean absolute rubbish.", "For a quarter of a century, Sen's worked in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. He's provided health care for very poor tribal communities. He's helped establish a hospital serving mine workers. Maoist insurgents, known in India as Naxalites, operate in nearly half of India's 28 states. They're more active in Chhattisgarh than anywhere else. Within the state's dense forests, the Maoists run a shadow government, emerging regularly to attack government installations and kill the security forces.", "Siddharth Varadarajan, one of India's most distinguished journalists, says the states try to counter this by arming and funding a lethal militia, an outfit called Salwa Judum.", "And essentially its modus operandi consists of mobilizing villages from areas where the Maoists have a presence and arming them, and forcing other villagers to leave their villages so that their villages cannot function as safe havens for the Maoists.", "In the last few years, this militia has herded tens of thousands of these villages, who are tribal people, into camps. This is where Sen comes in. Sen's an official with a national civil liberties organization. He's publicly condemned the militia, the camps and the security forces, whom he's accused of carrying out extrajudicial killings.", "His supporters say he's also spoken out against abuses by the Maoists. One year ago he was abruptly arrested by Chhattisgarh police and accused of carrying messages for the insurgents. Since then he's been held without bail under new and draconian state and federal anti-terror laws. Varadarajan says Sen's being targeted because of his civil rights work.", "Clearly, I think the Chhattisgarh government is unwilling to allow voices that are critical of some of its policies.", "Sen's trial has begun. Baijendra Kumar, spokesman for the Chhattisgarh government, says it's up the courts to decide the case, not protestors.", "The government has got no vindictiveness as far as any kind of personal vendetta against anybody in this matter. The matter has gone to (unintelligible) the highest level.", "Concern about the Sen case is spreading far and wide. At a press conference to highlight her husband's case, Sen's wife Ilina reads out a list of names.", "Eric Kandel, physiology and medicine, 2000. Sir Harold Kroto, chemistry, '96...", "These are Nobel laureates - 22 in all - who signed a letter to India's leaders, including the prime minister, calling for Sen's release so that he can carry on with his humanitarian work.", "The letter says Sen seems to have been incarcerated solely for peacefully exercising his human rights.", "Elena says the case against her husband is baseless.", "Clearly it's harassment. I mean, they know - I'm sure they know that, you know, the charges won't really stick. It's an entirely fabricated case. I'm sure he will be freed. I hope he will be freed soon.", "Freed soon enough, she hopes, for her husband to pick up a trophy. Sen has won a prestigious international award recognizing his health and human rights work from the Global Health Council. The ceremony's in Washington D.C. at the end of this month. She wants him to receive that award in person.", "Philip Reeves, NPR News, New Delhi."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, host", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "Ms. KAVITA SHAVIASTIVA (Activist)", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "Mr. SIDDHARTH VARADARAJAN (Journalist)", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "Mr. SIDDHARTH VARADARAJAN (Journalist)", "PHILIP REEVES", "Mr. BAIJENDRA KUMAR", "PHILIP REEVES", "Ms. ILINA SEN", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES", "Ms. ILINA SEN", "PHILIP REEVES", "PHILIP REEVES"]}
{"id": "NPR-20945", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2015-10-15", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/10/15/448840663/more-women-work-in-male-dominated-pro-sports-but-there-s-a-long-way-to-go", "title": "More Women Work In Male-Dominated Pro Sports But There's A Long Way To Go", "summary": "Some women recently have become pioneers in pro sports leagues that have been the exclusive domain of men. Will the momentum mean more women will find a place in leagues that have long shut them out?", "utt": ["And a point of clarification, listeners this morning have rightly pointed out that other women have called major league baseball playoff games. Mendoza is the first to call a nationally televised playoff game. And now let's go to NPR's Tom Goldman to hear about some other women who have broken barriers in male-dominated pro sports.", "There have been several breakthroughs over the past 14 months, but they'd been brewing since 1972, says professor Sarah Hillyer. That's when Title IX passed, guaranteeing equal sports opportunities for women and girls.", "Women have had long enough to really grow into amazing athletes, amazing coaches, amazing educators.", "Hillyer teaches sports sociology at the University of Tennessee.", "And that we're just now realizing the value of that and that society's finally at least willing to explore what it looks like to have women in what has traditionally been male spaces.", "In August of last year, the San Antonio Spurs made Becky Hammon the first paid full-time female assistant coach in NBA history. Two weeks ago, baseball got in on the act.", "There you go.", "That's Justine Siegal watching batting practice in Mesa, Ariz. The Oakland A's hired her to coach in the fall instructional league, making Siegal the first female coach for a major league team.", "It's phenomenal to be here. It's a dream come true but not just for me but all the girls and women who have wanted to be here.", "Sandwiched between those hires, the NFL. As far as male spaces go, it doesn't get much more traditional. Some say the league has been hostile to women in light of last year's domestic violence scandal. But in April of this year, the NFL hired Sarah Thomas, the first full-time female official in league history. Then in July, the Arizona Cardinals hired Jen Welter, who became the first female coach in the NFL. Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians pushed for the hire.", "Our players only want to be taught how to be better. They really don't care who teaches it to them. She obviously has the background and experience that we're looking for.", "Welter previously coached and played football. She has a Ph.D. in psychology. But her job, assistant coaching intern for training camp and the preseason, ended. The NFL no longer has a female coach. Shira Springer writes the \"Fair Play\" column about women in sports for The Boston Globe.", "This is a woman who seemed almost overqualified to be a coaching intern, and there was just one. And you wonder, where does the next female NFL coach come from?", "Springer says it's most important what happens after these groundbreaking hires.", "You know, part of having that sustained momentum is developing pipelines in all of these sports.", "Pro basketball has done a good job, says Springer, in part because of ties between the NBA and WNBA. An example, Lindsey Harding, she's been a top WNBA player. According to Dallas Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle, Harding started asking around about coaching opportunities, which led her to Carlisle, who's also head of the NBA Coaches Association.", "Year and a half later, she's been to a couple of our clinics. This past summer, she worked with the Toronto Raptors. And again, she's another woman that has experience playing, has great people skills, and, you know, is eventually going to be one of the ladies who's going to be a factor in this business.", "Meanwhile, the Pro Football Hall of Fame recently put on display a coaching shirt worn by Jen Welter and a card signed by both Welter and official Sarah Thomas. The question is will the items become relics or a sign of things to come. Tom Goldman, NPR News."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "SARAH HILLYER", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "SARAH HILLYER", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "JUSTINE SIEGAL", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "JUSTINE SIEGAL", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "BRUCE ARIANS", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "SHIRA SPRINGER", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "SHIRA SPRINGER", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "RICK CARLISLE", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-35612", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-7-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/25/lt.16.html", "summary": "Investigator Discusses Letter, Clue in Search for Girl Missing Since 1984", "utt": ["While much of the country focuses on the missing person case of Chandra Levy, in Washington, D.C. -- a case that's gone on for almost three months -- investigators in Florida are hoping for a break in a missing person case that dates back 17 years. Fifteen-year-old Colleen Orsborn disappeared in 1984. No body ever was found. Recently, the girl's family received an anonymous letter from a writer who claimed to be the child's killer. The envelope carried a Manchester, New Hampshire, postmark. The letter begged forgiveness and gave a location in Daytona Beach where the girl's body allegedly was dumped. An investigator for the Volusia County Sheriff's Department, in Florida, Steven White, is on the phone from Daytona Beach. Inspector, thanks for joining us. First of all, what do you make of this letter that was received back in February?", "I'm giving it full credit. I believe that the man or woman who wrote the letter had some information about the family and the victim.", "Do you believe that the person who wrote the letter is the killer?", "I would have to say yes, at this point. We're assuming right now that everything in the letter is true, and the person who wrote it did what he say or she said. We're just acting as if it is a true lead, and we're going to treat it as a homicide until we know different.", "We have the information that in the letter it was revealed where Colleen's body was. I assume that that didn't get you anywhere?", "The problem with the information is that it was so vague it was hard to find a starting point or good reference location. The river itself is eight miles long in a heavily-wooded and dense area. Without a specific starting point to narrow it down, the search would go on forever, without any results.", "Have you established a Florida-New Hampshire connection, why this letter would be coming from there?", "We are just assuming, at this point, that the person who composed the letter is currently in New Hampshire.", "And the New Hampshire authorities, as I understand it, said the letter gave them some clues. What clues are they talking about?", "The clues they are looking at at this point were that it was someone who has probably had a change of life either through a treatment program or religious, and they were looking towards organizations and programs that dealt with changing live style.", "You are referring to alcoholics and Alcoholic Anonymous, the 12-step program.", "Not specifically. Some people have made mention because the man wants to make amends. But it could be he found religion.", "But something like that may be going on.", "Something may be going on like that. That's a distinct possibility.", "Has it crossed your mind that this could be a hoax. We understand you had another suspect at the time, a man named Christopher Wilder -- that this man perhaps may have been a friend of Wilder and picked up some information that he is now throwing at you?", "It's always a possibility, but until we confirm that it is a hoax, we are treating it as real.", "I understand you're also appealing to the letter writer to give you some more information. How are you appealing to the person?", "In conjunction with the family, a letter was written appealing to him to help the family with closure and to find a specific location where we can recover Colleen's body so that the family has closure.", "If the letter writer should be watching CNN right now, what message do you have for him or her?", "The family appreciates the efforts made; however, they are just not complete enough. We need a specific location to recover their sister.", "Steven White, we thank you so much -- Volusia County Sheriff's Department lead investigator in the Colleen Orsborn story. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "STEVEN WHITE, VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA, SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT", "WATERS", "WHITE", "WATERS", "WHITE", "WATERS", "WHITE", "WATERS", "WHITE", "WATERS", "WHITE", "WATERS", "WHITE", "WATERS", "WHITE", "WATERS", "WHITE", "WATERS", "WHITE", "WATERS"]}
{"id": "CNN-217724", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-10-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1310/30/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Coverage of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Testifying Before Congress Concerning The Obamacare Website", "utt": ["No, it -- I'll get you the information, but there are three levels of testing, one of them is independent for every piece of this contracting, yes.", "Ms. Castor.", "Good morning. When open enrollment began a few weeks ago the people back home in Florida who are helping their neighbors sort through the new options for coverage, the navigators, were taken aback by how grateful people are to have new pathway to the doctor's office and the care they need, affordable options. The -- they are no longer being discriminated against because they had cancer, and diabetes or asthma. They are very grateful. They said -- they said to me directly, it's like they found water in the desert. Right now they are surprisingly -- they said it's taking time, because people want to sort through all of these options before they finally sign up at the end of the 26-week enrollment period. So we must fix the marketplace. We must to meet their expectations and we have high expectations for you and the administration. But I think it's important to point out the Affordable Care Act is more than just a website. It -- despite all the obstruction by Republicans in my home state of Florida, nationally, the -- even going so far as to shut down the government, millions of Americans are already benefiting and there are benefits that are not tied to healthcare.gov. Some Madam Secretary, let's clarify what's working despite healthcare.gov. Is it correct to say many of the improvements that the ACA makes to employer coverage and Medicare were the vast majority of Americans receive their coverage are not dependent on healthcare.gov.", "That's correct.", "And -- so the delays and problems with healthcare.gov do not affect the millions of individuals thanks to the ACA who no longer have to worry about lifetime monetary caps on their coverage that previously sent them to bankruptcy?", "That's absolutely true. And I think the quote that the president was quoted recently saying, \"If you have health care, you can -- you don't have to sign up for the new marketplace,\" was referring to the large portion -- the 95 percent of insured Americans who plans are solid and stay in place and move forward.", "And I understand the frustration with the website. What I don't know why people are not similarly outraged by the lack of Medicaid coverage in many of our states. Do you find that hypocritical?", "Well, I think it's very troubling that millions of low income working Americans will still have no affordable option if states don't take advantage of the expansion program leaving states bearing the cost of uncompensated care, families bearing the cost of parents who can't take care of their kids, workers not able to go to work and people still accessing care through emergency room doors, the most expensive, least effective kind of care they could get.", "Gentlelady's time has expired. Mr. Gardner?", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, Secretary Sebelius, for being here. Here's my letter. This is the letter my family got canceling our insurance. We chose to have our own private policy back in Colorado so we could be in the same boat as everyone of my constituents. And yet my insurance policy has been canceled. The White House website says if you like your health plan you have, you can keep it. Did I hear it wrong?", "Again, sir, I don't know how long you've had your policy--", "Why aren't you losing your insurance?", "Pardon me?", "Why aren't you losing your health insurance?", "Because I'm part of the federal employees--", "Why aren't you in the exchange? You're in charge of this law, correct, why aren't you in the exchange?", "Because I'm part of the federal employee health benefit plan.", "Why aren't you in the -- why won't you go into the exchange? You're a part of this law. You're literally in charge of this law. Should you be any different than all of the other Americans out there losing their health insurance?", "I'm part of the 95 percent with affordable available health care coverage.", "You're part of a plan that most Americans aren't (sic) available to them. Why will you not agree--", "I'm not eligible for the exchange, because I have coverage in--", "You can decide to drop your coverage of your employer. You have the choice to decide not to choose--", "That the not true, sir.", "I chose not to go--", "Members of Congress are now part of the exchange thanks to an amendment that was added by Congress, but I'm not eligible.", "Madam Secretary, with all due respect--", "If I have affordable coverage in my workplace, I'm not eligible to go into the marketplace, that's part of the law.", "Madam Secretary, I would encourage you to be just like the American people and enter the exchange and agree to find a way--", "It's illegal.", ".. and I would like to show you an advertisement that's going on in Colorado right now. This is an advertisement that a board member of the Colorado exchange has put forward, do you agree with this kind of advertising for Obamacare?", "I can't see it. And again--", "It's a college student doing a keg stand.", "If the Colorado exchange did that--", "Do you approve of this kind of advertising?", "-- they are a state based marketplace.", "Do you approve of this kind of advertising?", "I don't see it. I don't know what it is, and I did not approve it. This is a state based marketplace--", "That's a pretty big font. That's a pretty big picture of a keg and you can't see it?", "Do I approve of it? I've--", "You have the ability to opt out, by the way, as a federal employee. You could take the insurance. So I just--", "If I have available employer based coverage--", "I would also like to submit a waiver for my district from Obamacare and hope you consider waiving Obamacare for the Fourth Congressional District.", "Gentleman's time is expired.", "Mr. Matheson?", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And, Madam Secretary, thanks for your time. I just want to ask on the issue of the fixes to healthcare.gov, we've had a lot of conversation about that today and we've talked about confidence levels for being ready by a certain time. But, I think one question that a lot of us have is, can you define what the magnitude of the problem is? Is there a scale or metric by which we can understand how bad this is today, and how we're going to get to where we go to have it fixed?", "Well, again, sir, I've been informed that the problems are in -- the reports I've seen are really in two areas. They are in the performance area, which is speed and reliability. It's too slow and doesn't have reliable transfers and in functionality, there are parts of the system that don't make accurate transfers. So we have done an extensive assessment. They are prioritized, as I indicated earlier. One of the priorities is the enrollment features, which pass individual information to the companies where they want to enroll. That is not reliable at this point. The companies are not getting accurate data. So it's an example of the kind of thing we know we need to fix.", "And is there a way to -- if you set up metrics figure out if we're making progress in terms of fixing those issues with speed and performance and functionality.", "Again, with the team and Jeff Zients at the head of it, reporting to Marilyn, there are definitely a comprehensive set of issues going forward that will be measured and accelerated.", "Do you have target dates along the way if you want to meet the November 30th time -- assume it's functional of what you want -- do you have target or metrics along the way to make sure you're on the path?", "My understanding is, yes, there are sort of groups of targets that fixes that can be loaded together. It isn't one at a time. So they don't take days, but they are try being to determine with a specific path, one of the charges that QSSI has, really looking at the umbrella of what needs to be fixed, prioritizing them, figuring out what destabilizes if something else is fixed, how they can be grouped together. And that report will be in later next week.", "Gentleman's time is expired. Mr. Pompeo?", "Great, thank you. Thank you for coming, Secretary Sebelius. I would like to talk about Kansas a little bit today. Much like with some of my colleagues have made references to the \"Wizard of Oz\", I don't think anybody not from Kansas should be able to do Oz allegories. But, my story -- the way I think about it, is those folks worked awful hard to go down the yellow brick road. At the end of the day, when they got there and pulled back the curtain, they found there was nothing they didn't already have. And as we pull back the curtain on the Affordable Care Act, I think people are finding it's not exactly what they're gonna have worked so hard to find their way too as well. I want to talk about two stories. There's this commitment, if you like your plan you can keep it. I have a letter I'll submit for the record, from Mr. Breeto (ph) in Kansas. You might know him. I saw him the other night in Benton. He got the following letter from Blue Cross Blue Shield that says, \"Because your current plan does not offer the benefits standard specified you'll be discontinued on December 31st,\" and this says good news. And then there's a group of folks, Pizza Hut -- you know the company from Kansas, franchisees founded there -- lots of folks have now taken employees, families who are working there, and they've gone from having full-time jobs to part-time jobs. So they aren't able to keep the health care plan they had either and the one they wanted.", "What do you tell -- why -- why were the plans that these folks had good enough when you were the insurance commissioner in Kansas and when you were -- Kansas as governor, but those plans today aren't good enough for those hard-working Kansas families?", "Sir, I would tell you, in the roles I had the honor of serving of in Kansas, I worked every day to try and eliminate some of the discriminatory features of the insurance industry that finally, with the Affordable Care Act, are gone. My successor and elected insurance Republican commissioner Sandy Praeger and I worked on a whole series of plans to expand coverage. So I did work on these issues. We were not able to necessarily--", "So you -- you -- to use your words, you say these were -- I think you said \"lousy\" plans. And Ms. Tavenner said \"not true insurance.\" Do you think that the plans that were offered when you were the insurance commissioner weren't true insurance?", "In the individual market, the insurance commissioner in Kansas and virtually every place in the country does not have regulatory authority--", "-- over the plan. There's a lot--", "-- a yes-or-no question: Were they true insurance plans when you were the insurance commissioner?", "A lot of them are not true insurance plans, no.", "Thank you. I yield back.", "Gentleman from Vermont, Mr. Welch.", "Thank you. I'm gonna try to just summarize quickly what I've been hearing. Number one, the website must be fixed. You've been very forthright, and you're gonna fix it. Number two, I'm hearing a tone change. We've had a real battle about health care. We had a battle in this Congress. It was passed. The president signed it. The Supreme Court affirmed it -- a really brutal battle. There was an election where the American people affirmed it. And then the last-gasp effort was the shutdown and the threat of debt default. But what I'm hearing today is that there are problems and people want to fix 'em because all of us represent people who are gonna win or lose depending on how effectively this is rolled out. Third, there's some significant question about existing insurance policies, what the president said and so on. But let's acknowledge something: A lot of insurance companies were ripping off innocent American people by promising them insurance until they got sick, and then it got canceled because they, quote, \"had a pre-existing condition,\" that wasn't, quote, \"disclosed.\" That's gotta end. The challenge for us going forward is to make health care affordable. So Madam Secretary, my question is, is there any indication that there's been a slowing of premium increases as a result of the Affordable Care Act? Because unless we can keep those premium increases down -- they can't rise faster than the rate of inflation, wages and profits -- all of us are gonna lose.", "Well, I would say, the trends in the private market over the last three and a half years are that cost increases have slowed down, are rising at a lower rate than the decades before. And in fact, in this individual market, the old individual market, the typical increase was 16 percent year in and year out rate increase. And often that came with additional medical underwriting. So it gives a sense of how the costs were. We know that Medicare costs are down. We know that Medicaid costs actually had a decrease per capita last year, not an increase per capita, and underlying health care costs are down. These rates in the new marketplace have come in about 16 percent lower on average than was projected -- not by us but by the Congressional Budget Office. And we know that in many of these markets, they're much more competitive. I believe in market competitiveness. That actually drives down rates. The states where the most companies are participating have the lowest rates. And new companies have come in significantly below the old monopoly companies that often dominated this individual marketplace. So we're on a pathway. Are we there? No. But you're absolutely right, affordable coverage, at the end of the day, for everybody is the goal.", "OK. I yield back. Thank you, Madam Secretary.", "Madam Secretary, I'm trying to make sure that you're out of here by 12:30 before we start the second round of questions.", "Mr. Kinzinger?", "That was a joke, right?", "I see -- I see sheer panic. Madam Secretary, thank you for being here. You stated earlier to Mr. Harper that you give the president regular updates on the marketplace. The president stated that he knew nothing about the status and functionality of the marketplace. How often, and what were the subjects of those updates?", "Well, I think there were a series of regular meetings with the president, with some of our federal partners, with offices of the White House from the OMB to others on a monthly basis giving reports on policy and where we were going. None of those, I would say, involved (ph) detailed operational discussions. That wasn't the level. It was, are we coming together, do we have companies--", "Sure.", "-- do we have plans.", "And I understand that. I mean, obviously, when it comes to the president of the United States, certain level of details you have to see at kind of a 10,000 foot, 20,000 foot overview. But in terms of the actual functionality, whether it's the website or the marketplace, he was legitimately caught off guard on October--", "Well, I assured him, and -- that we were ready to go. Everyone knew with a big plan that there were likely to be some problems. No one--", "OK.", "-- anticipated this level of problem (ph).", "And just second -- a quick question. Where is HHS getting the money to pay for these fixes? Is it coming from other HHS accounts? Have you used your transfer authority to move money from non-ACA programs to pay for the cost of implementing the president's health care program? And if so, from which programs have you drawn money to help with the fix that's not ACA-related?", "Well, as you know, Congressman, it's been two years since we've had a budget at HHS. And we also have not had at the president's requested implementation budget authorized by the Congress. Each of those years we have used not only resources internally but I do have legal transfer authority that I've used and a non-recurring expense fund. We will get you all the details of that--", "Great. Thank you. So the answer is yes, though, there is some non-ACA money being transferred and used for the implementation of--", "There is money that is specifically designed for either outreach and education, so the health centers have hired education and outreach people as part of their outreach for health personnel. I would say it's -- it's definitely a related cause to get expanded health care.", "Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.", "Mr. Sarbanes?", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Madam Secretary, for being here. My understanding is that a lot of the -- the companies, insurers that have been offering plans in the individual market, the ones who are sending out these notices, are actually repositioning themselves in the health insurance exchange to offer alternative plans. Is that correct?", "Yes.", "And in addition to -- to those insurers who've been in the individual market (inaudible) have a lot of other companies and insurers providing plans in the health insurance market?", "That is true.", "So the way I look at this is -- you know, I went to buy Oriole tickets awhile back when the season was still under way, and I was standing in line. And I got up to the ticket window and they closed the window. But I didn't have to go home because they opened another window a few feet away. So essentially what's happening is people are coming up on the renewal period. They're getting up to the window of the individual market. They're being told, well, that window's closed but if you go right down the line here there's another window that's open. And by the way, when you get there, you'll get better coverage potentially at reduced premiums. And if you go down to window 3 there's some subsidies that may also be available to you. So this notion that people are being turned away from an affordable product that provides good, quality care is preposterous. And in fact they're being steered to a place where they can get good, quality coverage, in many instances much better than the coverage that they had before, at an affordable rate that is supported by the subsidies that can be available to many, many people. This is -- this is what's so promising about the Affordable Care Act. And so I think it's important for people to understand that that window's not being shut. They're just being steered someplace else where they can get a good opportunity.", "And I think the first option for those companies is to say, 'We'd like to keep you here, and here are the plans we're offering.' But to be fair, customers will now have an opportunity to look across a landscape, which they couldn't before. They will have entry into those other windows, which many of them didn't have before with a pre-existing condition. And as you say, about 50 percent of this market will have financial help in purchasing health insurance, which none of them had before.", "Gentleman's time expired. Mr. Griffith?", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Earlier in your testimony here today you said a couple times, \"plans we enjoy but then,\" as you noticed with Mr. Gardner's eloquent testimony, that we're not going to be in the same plan that you're in after January 1. I was one of those who thought it was a good idea as a part of a proposal that was floating around the halls here in Congress that the president and Cabinet secretaries ought to also be in the marketplace and not have a special federal plan that -- that you will have after January 1, but we will not. The president, while that was being discussed, issued a veto threat. Did you discuss the veto threat with the president before he made it? And have you discussed it with him since then? Yes or no on the first?", "No, sir.", "No. And then I would have to ask you, relating back to the contractors involved in this, CGI told us that the Spanish Web site was ready to go, that they thought everything was ready, just as they did with the regular site. And, obviously, that didn't prove out. But that they were told not to implement it. Likewise, the shop-and-browse section was ready to go. Do you think that they were misleading this committee when they made those comments?", "I think what they believed is that that product independent of the entire operational site was ready and tested. What -- a determination was made -- I was involved with the Spanish Web site and the Medicaid transfers to say, let's minimize the risk for the whole site, let's load a week later.", "But that raises the next question up, because one of the -- of the other contractors, QSSI, I believe it was, indicated to us that -- that part of the problem was that, once you took away the ability to browse, everybody had to go through the business of setting up an account, and you stopped -- or CMS stopped one of the browsing options as well, and that that actually contributed to the logjam and contributed to the problems. So, isn't it -- is he correct on that, that not allowing people just to look without having to sign up, wouldn't that have made it easier for the American people?", "In hindsight, I think that probably would have been advantageous, I can tell you that the reason the decision was made going forward was to minimize risk, that didn't work so well. But adding additional features that didn't involve people actually wanting to get to what they would independently pay and what they would qualify for and what the plans were, seemed to be things that could be added down the road. It was wrong.", "The gentleman's time has expired. Mr. Bilirakis?", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate it very much, Thank you, Madam Secretary, for testifying today. Madam Secretary, over the weekend, the New York Times wrote the following, \"Project managers at the Department of Health and Human Services assured the White House that any remaining problems could be worked out once the Web site went live. But other senior officials predicted serious trouble and advised delaying the rollout.\" Can you confirm if this is true? Did any senior department official predict serious problems? And did any senior department officials advise delaying the rollout of the exchanges or parts of the exchanges on October 1st? Could you--", "I can tell you that no senior official reporting to me ever advised me that we should delay. You heard from the contractors on the 24th that none of them advised a delay. We have testing that did not advise a delay. So not -- not to my knowledge.", "Did they indicate to you that there were serious problems?", "They indicated to me that we would always have risks, because this system is brand-new and no one has operated a system like this before to any degree. So, we always knew that there would be the possibility that some things would go wrong. No one indicated that this could possibly go this wrong.", "Can you name some of these officials that gave you the advice, that there were serious problems?", "Again, I -- we had series of meetings with teams from CMS. I was always advised that there is always a risk with a new product and a new site, but never suggested that we delay the launch of October 1st, nor did our contracting partners ever suggest that to us.", "Thank you, Madam Secretary. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Appreciate it. I yield back.", "Mr. Johnson?", "Madam Secretary, thank you for being here with us today. CMS was the integrator of the Web site prior to and leading up to the 1 October rollout--", "That's correct.", "Correct? You've testified you've now hired an outside company to serve as the integrator--", "One of the contractors has taken on an additional role--", "Who is that company?", "Who built the hub.", "OK.", "Yes, sir.", "This is the same company that told our committee last week that they were not only the developer of the hub and the pipeline, but also an independent tester of the system.", "Yes.", "You've acknowledged in your testimony today that inadequate testing played a significant role in this failed launch, so aren't you concerned that QSSI has lost its ability to be an objective independent arbitrator in addressing the problems that plague the system now? Because they're part of the tester, part of the developer, part of the problem.", "No, I haven't lost my -- my confidence in them. I think the testing that they did is validating the pieces of the equipment. What we've said since the launch is that we did not do adequate end-to-end testing.", "OK.", "That was not the QSSI responsibility.", "All right. And in this new role as integrator, are you going to be paying QSSI more than they were to be paid under their original contract? I -- I would expect with this expanded role they're going to get paid more, right?", "That discussion is under way in terms of what the role will entail, what the outlines are, yes, sir.", "OK. Well, hard-working American taxpayers have already paid for this implementation once. Do you think it's fair to ask taxpayers to pay more so that QSSI can now attempt to do something that Administrator Tavenner and her CMS team were unable to do right the first time?", "Well, sir, I think the American taxpayers expect us to get the site up and running. As I told you earlier--", "Oh, I'm certain that they did. They expected it the first time.", "I understand, and so did I. We have not expended the funds that have been encumbered for the contracts. We have not -- and we will monitor every dime we spend from here on in, and re-audit things that are going forward.", "Well, with that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back.", "The gentleman yields back. Mr. Long?", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, Secretary, for being here today and giving your testimony. Earlier today, you said that \"I'm responsible for the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.\" I've heard you referred to, and maybe yourself, as the point person for the rollout, the architect of implementing Affordable Care Act. So you are kind of the president's point person, are you not, for this rollout?", "Yes, sir.", "I -- earlier, you were asked, and there's a lot of things striking about the rollout of this and about the Affordable Care Act altogether. But the thing that's most striking to me is that when we have the point person for the rollout here, and you're not going in to the exchange. Now, I've heard you say that, and you got some advice from the folks behind you, but I'm asking you today: Can you tell the American public, if your advisers behind you, that if they happen to have given you some wrong information, if it is possible for you to go into the exchange like all these millions of Americans that are going with the exchanges, will you commit to forego your government insurance plan that you're on now and join us in the pool? Come on in. The water's fine. All the congressmen, all of our staff have to go into the exchanges. We have to go into the D.C. exchanges. And I will say that I tried to get on the website. I was successful during the hearing earlier, and I got to the D.C. exchange, which is where I have to buy from, I got part way through. And then when it got to the point to enter my Social Security number, I could not bring myself to do that, from what I've heard from people like John McAfee and folks about the security. Will you tell, if your advisers are wrong, and it is possible for you -- I'm not saying it is -- but if it is, if it's possible for you to forego your government program you have now? Will you tell the American public that, \"Yes, I will go into the exchanges next year like everyone else\"?", "Sir, the way the law is written--", "It's a yes or no -- I'm -- let's say that you're wrong on that. Yes or no, if -- if you're wrong, will you? Yes or no?", "But I don't want to give misinformation to the American public--", "You what?", "-- who may be -- I don't want to give misinformation. If you have affordable coverage--", "I want you to go home and research it. If -- if you're wrong--", "-- if you have affordable coverage--", "-- will you go into the exchanges?", "I -- if I'm--", "If you can, will you? That's a yes or no. If you can, will you?", "I will take a look at it. I don't have any idea--", "That's not an answer. That's not a yes or no.", "The gentleman's time has expired.", "You're the architect of the whole program and you won't go into it with the rest of the American public.", "I did not say that, sir. I think it's illegal for me to--", "If it's not illegal. If it's legal, will you go in?", "Mr. Chairman? Mr. Chairman?", "Come on in, the water's fine.", "The gentleman's time has expired.", "I have a unanimous consent request. I'd like to -- Madam Secretary, I'd like you to answer for the record. If you were able to do what the gentleman just suggested or follow the recommendation of Cory Gardner, our colleague from Colorado, and went into the bought -- to buy an individual policy, would you be able to find one that would protect you from cheap shots? Or do you think that has to be mandated for coverage?", "Yeah, we'll wait for that response to come back.", "I would gladly join the exchange if I didn't have affordable coverage in my workplace. I would gladly join it. And the D.C. market is an independent state-based market, even though D.C. is not a state. We do not run the D.C. market in the federal marketplace.", "The gentlelady from North Carolina, Ms. Ellmers?", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I have a couple of questions. Thank you for being with us today, Madam Secretary. I'd like to go to the issue that has been raised by my colleagues on the left here about accurate information. Number one, I've heard the issue of Medicare Part D brought up many, many times. Although my colleagues all voted no against it initially, now they're extolling the virtues of Medicare Part D. Is Medicare Part D a mandate or is it voluntary?", "It is voluntary.", "It is a voluntary program.", "Yes.", "That's the first accurate -- piece of accurate information I would like to get. You know, we're asking or we're actually forcing millions of Americans to go to find a health care premium in some way, whether it's to go to the exchange or whether they are to be insured.", "Many of my constituents are reaching out to me, those with individual policies, and they are saying to me that my -- my rates are going up 400 percent; my rates are going up 127 percent. These are my constituents. Now, you know, we're talking about open enrollment, but it's forcing the issue, is it not, that if an American does not have health care coverage, they are essentially breaking the law. Is that not correct?", "If someone can afford coverage and has that option and chooses not to buy coverage, they will pay a fee on their (inaudible) next year's tax.", "And it is a law, so therefore they are breaking the law.", "OK. You also brought up the issue when you were in Kansas, that you fought against discriminatory -- discriminatory issues. 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{"id": "CNN-80663", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-12-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/29/ltm.09.html", "summary": "Infected Cow Was Bought in Canada", "utt": ["Investigators and retailers are casting a wider net as they scramble to recover meat from a Holstein that was stricken with the deadly Mad Cow Disease. The Agriculture Department is still saying that there is no health risk to consumers. Earlier this morning Ron DeHaven, the chief veterinarian for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, put the situation into some perspective.", "The department actions have been taken out of an abundance of caution. We have, in fact, initiated a recall of that beef. Based on the program that we've had in place in the United States for over ten years, we know at worst the prevalence of the disease in this country is very minimal.", "Correspondent Holly Firfer joins us this morning from CNN Center with more on that. Holly, good morning.", "Good morning, Soledad. Yes, the USDA and Dr. DeHaven says meat from that infected cow may have gone to eight states and one U.S. territory. They traced the carcass to two processors in Oregon. And from there the meat went to distributors in Washington State, Oregon, Nevada, and California. Then muscle cuts were also sent to Alaska, Montana, Hawaii, Idaho, and Guam. Now even though they are recalling more than 10,000 pounds of beef, health officials insist that risk to consumers is low, because, the parts known to carry Mad Cow Disease, including the brain and the spinal cord, were removed before the processing. Now, following a paper trail, USDA officials say they believe that infected cow came from Alberta, Canada, with 73 other cattle in April of 2001. An ear tag was taken from the cow at slaughter. It matched records in Canada. Now, although there's a discrepancy in the age of the cow, U.S. officials do believe the infected cow was four to four and a half years old, while the Canadian records show she would have been six and a half, and she had already birthed two calves before entering the country. The significance in her age may tell U.S. officials where that Holstein was infected, which is really important, Soledad. So DNA tests are underway to make that positive identification.", "Holly, thank you for that update. Question now, how are farmers in Washington state reacting to this news? Joining us this morning from Seattle is Jay Gordon. He's the executive director of the Washington State Dairy Federation, and his group includes the farm where the infected cow was discovered. Nice to see you. Thanks for joining us this morning.", "Good morning.", "Give me a sense of the reaction to the news that, in fact, this cow, this infected cow, may have come from Canada.", "The news is pretty new to us. And so the producers are really probably looking at USDA and wanting to make sure that they can confirm that.", "Forgive me for jumping in there, but when you say producers, you mean the local farmers that you deal with?", "Yes, I'm sorry.", "So they're only getting the news now?", "They've just gotten the news in the last couple of days.", "You have talked, though, to the person who owns the herd where the infected cow came from. How concerned is he about the rest -- the health of the rest of his livestock?", "Well, you know, he's doing pretty well, given very difficult circumstances. He was told right up front that there was a possibility that his entire herd may need to be tested, which means, in USDA terms, depopulated. So, he's really, I don't think, concerned about that. He just understands he's part of a bigger process right now.", "So when you say depopulated, for the rest of us who are not in the cattle business, that's they kill them all, right?", "Yes. In order to test them, that's what they've got to do.", "OK. So here's my question for you. Explain to me how a cow that's so sick that it couldn't make it into the slaughter would have, and one that's suspected of having Mad Cow Disease, would have its meat products shipped off across the country, then triggering a recall when it turns out that the test has confirmed Mad Cow. Why wouldn't they slaughter the animal, keep all the parts and spare themselves the effort of recall down the road, should it turn out that the test is positive? I don't understand why it's happened the way it's happened.", "That's been the policy. First of all, I guess, one thing to correct is that the animal in question here, my understanding, was not sick. She was -- she'd gone through a difficult birth went to the meat plant. She was tested, so the system did test her. That certainly is something, as USDA goes through the process, that we're aware and hopeful that USDA will highlight some places where the system can be improved. But this has been the policy that the U.S. has had to keep the meat safe to this point.", "So you're saying that this particular Holstein was not one of those downed cows that we hear about?", "She certainly, the story that we've gotten is she was down. But the definition that we use for down, and the way, you know -- I'm a farmer also -- a downed animal can be an animal that has an injury to a leg, or in this case a pinched nerve that renders her unable to walk, certainly not something that we would consider sick.", "Jay Gordon is the executive director of the Washington State Dairy Federation. Thanks for joining us this morning and clarifying some stuff for us. We certainly appreciate it.", "You're welcome. Thank you."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, ANCHOR", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-259307", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2015-07-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/10/ath.01.html", "summary": "Ticker Tape Parade for Womens World Cup Soccer Team.", "utt": ["Right now, look at the live pictures of World Cup champs. They're making their way along Manhattan's legendary Canyon of Heroes. New York is honoring them with a giant ticker-tape parade for their huge victory last week over Japan.", "And it is so well deserved for these 23 athletes who really set the entire world on fire. We will talk about this as long as we humanly can. Joining us right now inside the crowd, CNN's Poppy Harlow. We're joined in studio by soccer writer, Greg Lawless, the editor-in-chief of MLSsoccer.com. We're also joined by one of the greatest soccer players in the history of the United States of America, two-time World Cup champion and FIFA player of the century, Michelle Akers. Thank you all for being with us. We're going to go first to Poppy, who is in the crowd right now amidst the celebrations -- Poppy.", "Bolduan, Berman, I think you're a little jealous of my assignment today. I definitely have the best one of the day. I'm here with soccer players, Donna, Jess, Jamie, and Tara. You made it to the New York state cup, right?", "Yes.", "They are beyond thrilled to be here. It is historic and good timing on your show's part because we have the parade coming up right here. This is historic. The fact that finally, finally a women's sports team is being honored here in this Canyon of Heroes as it is called. What does this mean for you to see the team win and to see them honored like this?", "It means a lot because now the women's soccer is getting more recognized more than the men's.", "As it should.", "Yeah.", "As it should. What about for you? What does today mean?", "I was really excited. And we are face timing each other all day, all week. We were really excited for today.", "John, One of the women we talked to here, a 20-year-old, said it means so much she grew up and lives in a country that women athletes are honored the way they should be. I will let you listen in for a minute as they come. New York City Police Department, the brass band ahead of these girls. It has been a long stretch. 16 years since 1999 when they had the big win. One of the players, Christi Rampon, winning the World Cup in 1999 and then again in 2015. A historic moment. We're all proud to be here -- John?", "We're all proud to be watching.", "Absolutely.", "A wonderful, wonderful setting.", "We will keep looking at these awesome live pictures of this parade going through lower Manhattan. But as we watch this and we listen to the crowd and listen to the little girls voices talking with such excitement about it, Michelle, I want to bring you in. Obviously you were on two awesome teams. I'm going to use the word awesome as many times as I can in this segment because I don't get to very often. In the '91 and '99 teams. What does this mean for you as an amazing soccer player yourself and seeing this kind of recognition for such a great team?", "Crazy good. I was thinking about it today. Well, as they're getting ready for the ticker-tape parade, I'm cleaning stalls in my barn, so that's what the gold medal does for me these days. But I'm thinking about, what does all this mean, because it's really like overwhelming to -- for me it's overwhelming to see them win and the response and now this parade. I mean, it's just one thing after another. Things are getting talked about. I'm celebrating this team. They have earned this. It's been a long haul and they have been working and working and finally did it. So proud of this team. I'm proud to be an American. My little boy, he's 10, his name is Cody. I keep thinking about, gosh, you know, he's watching this team because we were up there. We watched the final in Vancouver. He's known my career kind of. And he watched the team and he's never known a world without women being amazing athlete it's, having full stadiums, being on TV. So that fills me with gratitude. So I want to say thank you to the team for this. And then it's kind of weird because I feel like I'm part of the team. But then, you know, I'm in my barn by myself cleaning up stalls. So it's kind of all this mixed stuff but I can't stop smiling. I'm so proud. I'm just so proud. Very exciting.", "We can't stop smiling either. And you are a part of the team. You're part of the heritage of that team. They would not be there on those floats if not for you and the work you did. You're talking about your son. I have 8-year-old twin boys who pretend they're these women's World Cup players. They don't know there's never been a parade down the Canyon of Heroes was a women's team. It would never occur to them. Michelle was saying, Greg, this means something. I think it means an awful lot. This means that to an extent sports fans in America and our culture in America has changed a lot. Not completely, but a lot.", "I think this is a huge moment. You know, not just for women's soccer but soccer in general because I don't know of a ticker-tape parade for soccer at all anywhere around. So I think about it, I have watched them growing up in Europe when teams would have a championship and they would get that ticker-tape parade, about you now we're seeing it for soccer here and it's amazing to see what this team did to bring this entire nation together not just for women's soccer but soccer all around. And, Michelle, you are part of this team. You will always be part of this team. You're a part of our memory and our history of this game. Don't think you're not part of it.", "Oh, thank you. I do. I do. I know -- you know, my heart is there. My heart was on the field and having heart attacks throughout the World Cup, and now it's overflowing with joy. I know, but it's funny to me. I feel like, man, if I could just share a beer with them and then I might be good. You know what I mean?", "That would be fun for all of us.", "It would be -- yeah. I do feel part of it but it's a funny separation that I'm just -- like I just kind of dawned on me this morning. But I'm just so -- this is amazing and you're right about celebrating soccer and it kind of -- it hurts me a little bit when people say, yeah, this is great for women's soccer because they deserve it and the men don't. Well, no, that's not right to me. I think it's great soccer. The men's victories are the womens' victories and vice versa. We all want the same thing. They all blend in together to reach this goal to be the best in the world."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARLOW", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARLOW", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "VALENCIA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARLOW", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "MICHELLE AKERS, WORLD CUP SOCCER CHAMPION", "BERMAN", "GREG LAWLESS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, MLSSOCCER.COM", "AKERS", "BOLDUAN", "AKERS"]}
{"id": "CNN-95350", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2005-6-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/15/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Possible Lead in Natalee Holloway Case Prompts Search Near Beach in Aruba; Mysterious Death of Boy After Ride on One of Disney's Attractions", "utt": ["Good morning. I'm Bill Hemmer. A possible lead in the Natalee Holloway case prompting a five-hour search near a beach in Aruba. A closer at what clues, if any, were found there.", "And the mysterious death of a four- year-old boy after a ride on one of Disney's scariest attractions. Safety question about Mission Space, on this AMERICAN MORNING. Good morning. Welcome, everybody. It was a pretty scary situation on the West Coast.", "It certainly was. An earthquake late last night making a lot of people think about a possible tsunami.", "In fact, it was almost the same magnitude as the Loma Prieta quake, and that earthquake is where we begin this morning. The tsunami danger over for the entire West Coast now. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off the northern California coast last night. The epicenter only 90 miles from Crescent City, California. A tsunami warning went out along the coast, from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to the Mexican border, about 1,400 miles. It was called off only an hour later. It's believed to be the first large-scale tsunami warning in 19 years. Police hurried people off the beaches, and people in low-lying areas headed for higher ground. Scientists issued the warning quickly because of how close the earthquake was to shore. David Applegate is a government earthquake adviser. He joins us from Washington this morning. It's nice to see you. Thanks for talking with us.", "Certainly.", "It was a relatively large quake, and as we mentioned, it was centered in the water, but near the coast. Why was there no tsunami?", "Well, this kind of earthquake turned out to be similar to the one that you mentioned, the Loma Prieta earthquake that struck San Francisco, and then it was a strike-slip earthquake. The one that hit Sumatra was what we call a thrust quake, where you have one plate moving over another, and that's what causes the jolt in the sea floor, and that causes a jolt in the water column and generates the tsunami. Because this was strike-slip it was moving side to side, and it didn't generate that same jolt.", "How long before you know that an earthquake is going to cause a tsunami? It is just matter of watching and waiting? Can you tell if you have a strike slip or a thrust kind of earthquake?", "Well, the key is the density of the seismic interpretation in terms of how quickly we can get the data in. And of course this data is fed from the USGS, from regional networks, into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations tsunami warning centers. They're the ones who make the call on tsunami warnings.", "There was recently another earthquake in California. I think was it was the 5.6 magnitude, somewhere around Palm Springs. Is this normal activity, or is it kind of predictive activity, sort of predictive of something bigger and worse to come?", "Well, it does fall within the realm of normal. We certainly see a fair number of magnitude-five quakes, five-plus quakes, similar to the one that was in -- south of palm springs. Magnitude sevens aren't as frequent, and they are certainly a cause for concern when they occur. Of course, fortunately, this one wasn't right at a population center. But no, this is, this falls within the realm of normal.", "The tsunami that killed people back in 1964 was right near Crescent City, as well. That's where the people who died were located. I mean, sort of remarkable that that's where this one also was, and that that's the city that considers itself the most tsunami- prepared, tsunami ready place in the country.", "Well, what's really striking is that the tsunami that was generated back in 1964 was actually generated off the coast of Alaska. That was the last great earthquake magnitude-nine plus earthquake, before the one we had in Sumatra that struck Alaska. The waves from that went down the West Coast, and one of the challenges with the tsunami is that the waves can get focused by the shoreline. Crescent City is in a location that tends to do that. And so, they were -- whereas this was an earthquake just offshore. The tsunami that struck them in '64 was actually one off of Alaska. That's why NOAA is developing it's buoy system, to be able to address those kinds of distant tsunamis to be able to issue appropriate warnings.", "People were given about 40 minutes, we're told, in order toe evacuate, those who decided to evacuate. Do you think that's enough time? Or is that considered a lot of time?", "Well, you always want to have as much time as possible. Certainly for a quake that was this close offshore, it's in that kind of a time frame in which you are going to be able to act. With the more distant sources -- for example, in the case of the Alaska quake -- there would be potential for several hours of warning once the buoys that NOAA placed in the Pacific Ocean picked up evidence of a tsunami in progress.", "Big earthquake, really. Big magnitude, but lots of good news to report really with minimal damage and certainly no lives lost. David Applegate is with the USGS. Thanks for talking with us this morning. Appreciate it -- Bill.", "Certainly.", "Now to two stories developing at this hour in Iraq. A deadly suicide bombing on an Iraqi military base. And an Australian hostage is set free after six weeks of captivity. To Baghdad we go and Jennifer Eccleston. Jennifer, bring us up to date from there.", "Hi there, Bill. That's right, the details still coming into us from Iraqi official. But what we know now, that upwards of 23 Iraqi military have been killed by a suicide bomber at a canteen at a military base north of Baghdad in the city of Baquba. And as I say, we are still getting more details about this event, and we will keep you posted. And this follows of course the other news of the day, more positive news, Australia's Prime Minister John Howard announcing a short while ago to his public that their national, Douglas Wood, taken hostage six weeks ago, is freed from his captors in an Iraqi-led military operation, which had U.S. support. He is now in the hands of the U.S. military in Iraq undergoing medical treatment. Of course, he's a longtime California resident. He's 63 years old. He was working as a contractor here in Iraq, and he had an American wife. We last saw him on May 1st, when a video was released of him pleading for his life, and also pleading for Australia to take out its some 1,400 troops here as part of peacekeeping operations. The Australian government did not give in to kidnapper's demands, but they did send an emergency response team here to try and secure his release. We also know that Woods' family launched a very public media campaign taking on odds on Arabic television and also in Arabic newspapers, saying that he was in dire need of medicine. This comes just days after French journalist Florence Aubenas was released after five months of captivity. And just putting this into a little bit of perspective, we know that there are 30 people still being held hostage in this country. One of them is Jeffrey Ache. He's an American contractor, and he was kidnapped in late April -- Bill.", "And good news for the Australian. Jennifer Eccleston in Baghdad today, thanks. Want to move to Aruba right now. Sources telling CNN that the three suspects being held in Natalee Holloway case are giving conflicting stories. All this as investigators were out in force again on Tuesday, combing an area near a Marriott hotel for new clues there.", "Reuben Trapenberg is the spokesman for the Aruban government. He's in Palm Beach, Aruba. Thank you for your time this morning, sir.", "Good morning, Bill.", "This latest investigation near the Marriott, about a 10- block stretch away from the Holiday Inn, did that investigation turn up anything in this search?", "It did not turn up anything. A few articles of clothing were found, from what we hear, condoms, but that's not from an official source. This is from people who were in the area, and that would not be unusual. The area is sort of known as sort of a lover's lane. At some -- about three or four weeks of the year it's used as a camping ground. The undergarment in this case, a women's undergarment that was found, seemed to be from an older person. So from what we hear, it's probably nothing to do with the case, but they are going to be checked anyway.", "Is that particular search over, then?", "At this point, it's over. If they would have continued on, it would have been kept off limits. That was finished, terminated last night, so I think at this point, this area is excluded. But searches have been ongoing. Maybe this one was a little more visible, and they had to keep the area free of, I guess, contamination, whatever. The investigative team know how to do their work. We from the government cannot interfere in what they do. We just hear it from them.", "All right, we clearly understand that. Try and clear up these reports we heard from back here. One of them says that these three men, two from Suriname and one from -- of Dutch dissent, apparently there stories are changing as they give these stories to police. Is that a fact?", "That's what we hear on the outside, from other people, like from the security guard. And from the official sources, you would not be able to hear that. If we heard what they were saying in one way or another, it would compromise the investigation and the court proceedings later on. So that would be considered a great mistake. We wouldn't hear that.", "Then try and clarify this then. Go back 10 days. What would explain why these three young men would be taken into custody, and then questioned and then released. What would explain why they would be allowed to go without all these questions answered at that point?", "Believe me, the whole country of Aruba, all the people of Aruba, have that same question. Anybody would logically tell you that that would not be done, at least if we were investigators. But from the official investigative team, from the prosecutor, we heard that it was tactical reasons. No details given at that point. We could figure out that they may have been followed, tapped, et cetera. That's our interpretation, but she said tactical preens.", "Yes, and when you say tactical reason, there's another report that says their cell phones were tracked and they were monitored. Can you say at this point whether or not that indeed happened? Is that a fact?", "No. We cannot say whether that's a fact or not. That's the answer she gave. We give interpretation to that, but we would not find that out at this point, again, until you get to court, when you would hear those details.", "Reuben Trapenberg's a spokesperson for the government there in Aruba. Thank you, sir. And good luck. I hope this ends well somehow.", "Thank you, Bill.", "Thanks -- Soledad.", "Well, it could be weeks before authorities in Florida know why a young boy died after riding one of the attractions at Disney World. The disturbing death involves one of the theme park's most popular and technologically advanced rides.", "Disney World's Mission Space is a bonafied thrill ride. Kids are adults are wowed by its simulated astronaut experience. But there are concerns the ride's G-forces may have been too much for 4-year-old Daudi Bamuwamye. He died Monday after passing out during the Mission Space ride. It's not yet known whether the ride caused his death. Early autopsy results show no signs of trauma. The boy was 46 inches tall, two inches taller than the ride's minimum height requirement. There is no age requirement. The ride was shutdown following the incident, but reopened yesterday after internal inspectors found no mechanical problems. Mission Space uses NASA technology to recreate the feeling of a rocket launch. Since its opening in 2003, seven people, aged 40 or older, have been hospitalized as a result of the ride with nausea or chest pain. Still, it's one of Epcot's most popular attractions. There are clear warnings that the experience is not for everyone, that riders should be in good health.", "This is a pretty intensive five-minute experience. But it's one that's very, very close to giving you a sense of the reality of what the training and the simulation environment really is in the astronaut corps.", "We continue our look at this issue coming up in the next hour with an expert on theme park safety. That's just ahead.", "Still to come this morning, jurors said there was not enough evidence to convict Michael Jackson. So where did the prosecutors go wrong? D.A. Tom Sneddon is our guest, just ahead.", "Also this incredible story of survival after a fiery plane crash in a residential neighborhood. We'll talk to the pilot who was able to turn this street into a runway, coming up.", "Plus, a former soldier comes home, 40 years after deserting his country. Didn't take long to wear out his welcome. We'll explain ahead on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "HEMMER", "O'BRIEN", "DAVID APPLEGATE, USGS EARTHQUAKE ADVISER", "O'BRIEN", "APPLEGATE", "O'BRIEN", "APPLEGATE", "O'BRIEN", "APPLEGATE", "O'BRIEN", "APPLEGATE", "O'BRIEN", "APPLEGATE", "O'BRIEN", "APPLEGATE", "HEMMER", "JENNIFER ECCLESTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER", "HEMMER", "REUBEN TRAPENBERG, ARUBAN GOVT. SPOKESMAN", "HEMMER", "TRAPENBERG", "HEMMER", "TRAPENBERG", "HEMMER", "TRAPENBERG", "HEMMER", "TRAPENBERG", "HEMMER", "TRAPENBERG", "HEMMER", "TRAPENBERG", "HEMMER", "O'BRIEN", "O'BRIEN (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "O'BRIEN", "O'BRIEN", "HEMMER", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-243830", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-11-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/22/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Melting Snow Could Create Major Flooding", "utt": ["Deadly and massive snowfall. Now the threats of major flooding in Buffalo, New York, officials are confirming 13 deaths from the storms, which have blanketed the area with 7 feet of snow in just days. That's a year's worth of snow before the end of November. Roofs are buckling under the weight and with rain and warmer temperatures now on the way, swift water rescue crews are in place as well, as fears of flooding are now rising. Alexandra Field joining us now. So, how are people coping in general?", "I mean, a lot of people look at Buffalo and say, they're used to snow, but so many people here telling us that they've been harder hit than ever before. Now the secondary threats, the warmer weather, the rain that's starting to come down now. But you can see that there are people who are out here, they're doing their shoveling, they've got the snow blowers out, they've got plows on their trucks and there's so much work to do. When you finish your house, it's on to a neighbor's house or on to a family member's house, but as the rain comes, a lot of people telling us, their number one priority right now, getting their roof cleaned off. Listen to what one man said.", "obviously, with the rain coming up and the temperatures getting warmer, just worry about the snow getting heavier, obviously. So we've got 6 feet, average, across the roof. These roofs are going to give out so just trying to take precaution.", "Massive effort underway right now to get some of this snow out of here especially in the city. South Buffalo is one of the hardest hit areas. Right now, there are 1,600 dump trucks on the road. Their job, to come on through and pick up some of the snow that's being piled up in these snowbanks, they're trying to haul them out of the city, out of the surrounding areas, in order to control the floodwaters once the temperatures begin to rise a little bit later this week -- Fred.", "All right, lots to worry about. Thanks so much, Alexandra. Let's talk to Jennifer Gray here in studio. So how potentially severe could this flooding be?", "Well, it's really, time will tell. There's no idea to really know the exact impacts. It's all going to play out, though, and the threat is there. There is a flood watch in effect. We're going to have the melting. We're going to have the added rain. A lot of water is going to try to drain at one time. The rain already there, and it is going to continue off and on, light rain as we go throughout the late evening hours into the overnight. And then a little bit of a break on Sunday. We'll get more rain through there on Monday. So that's going to add even more rainwater. And temperatures are warming at the same time. So you're going to have the snow melt at the same time you're having some added rain. So that is the fear. We're not going to see a whole lot of rain, most likely, less than an inch. Maybe an inch in some isolated places, so this is going to fill up the creeks, the rivers very, very quickly. Areas that have poor drainage, there is that threat for flood. That flood watch is in effect from Sunday evening all the way through Wednesday due to that warm air, the rain, and the snowmelt. And look at these temperatures, they are quickly warm, 41 today, 47 tomorrow, Fred, 60 degrees by Monday. But then look at Tuesday, you're back at 37 degrees and possibly seeing more snow on Tuesday. So, we have a lot that's going to play out over the next three days.", "What a real mess, because on Tuesday, freezing of a lot of that rain, a lot of that snowmelt. Wow, that's going to be a very messy, dangerously, potentially very dangerous situation as well.", "You bet.", "All right, thanks so much, Jennifer. Appreciate that. All right, Bill Cosby in the middle of an avalanche himself of great allegations. But he is still getting love from fans. We'll show you what happened at his latest performance."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JOHNSON BUNSON, RESIDENT OF SENECA, NEW YORK", "FIELD", "WHITFIELD", "JENNIFER GRAY, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "WHITFIELD", "GRAY", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-26839", "program": "Saturday", "date": "2001-3-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/03/cst.18.html", "summary": "1,100-Mile Dog Sled Race Under Way in Alaska", "utt": ["The Iditarod trail sled dog race under way in Alaska. The 1,100-mile race from Anchorage to Nome commemorates a feat that was achieved in 1925, when mushers and sled dogs delivered life-saving diphtheria serum to Nome. For the latest, we go live to CNN's Lilian Kim in Anchorage -- Lilian.", "Hello, Donna. We are in downtown Anchorage, and this is by far the easiest leg of the race in the days ahead. Mushers and their dogs must navigate through rough terrain in sub-zero temperatures. So today, it's largely ceremonial where mushers, dogs and spectators can just have a good time.", "Three, two, one.", "This is the start of Iditarod 29.", "One by one, mushers and their dog teams left the start line in downtown Anchorage. What lies ahead: 1,100 miles through the Alaskan wilderness. Thousands of spectators lined the street to watch the race first hand, known as the last great race on Earth.", "Be able to pull that many pounds over that many days over terrain and weather conditions is awesome.", "Among the 68 mushers, 22 are rookies, eight are women, including Dee Dee Jonrowe. A sentimental favorite, Jonrowe has come in second twice before. This year, she hopes to go all the way.", "I'm driven for first place, that's for sure, but you know, the most important thing is that you get the very best performance that your dogs have to offer. And if, in fact, the very best they can offer you is the second-place finish, as opposed to a first-place finish, well then, you just kiss them and hug them, and you take them home.", "The heavy favorite -- Doug Swingley of Montana. He won the Iditarod last year. The first and only non-Alaskan winner is said to have the strongest and fastest team of dogs.", "I think that we've concentrated on their athletic abilities and their resiliency and a lot of positive reinforcement training, which makes them want to do it and go as fast as they can. I think that that really makes a big difference.", "The 1,100-mile trail has it its share of hazards in years past. Mushers have slammed into trees, have broken into thin ice, have gotten lost in blizzards, so not everyone is expected to reach the finish line in Nome, but if they do, it usually takes them about nine to 15 days. Reporting live from Anchorage, Alaska, I am Lilian Kim. Donna, back to you.", "Lilian, before I was saying that they were a little concerned that they didn't have enough snow. Plenty of snow now?", "Well, they had to bring the snow into downtown Anchorage, which is what they have to do every year, but in the beginning part of the trail, there wasn't enough snow, so they had to reroute the start of the race. But apparently, everything is OK, and everything should go by smoothly, as they go further down the trail.", "OK, Lilian Kim in Anchorage, thank you."], "speaker": ["DONNA KELLEY, CNN ANCHOR", "LILIAN KIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KIM (voice-over)", "SUP ENGE, SPECTATOR", "KIM", "DEE DEE JONROWE, TWO-TIME RUNNER-UP", "KIM", "DOUG SWINGLEY, THREE-TIME CHAMPION", "KIM", "KELLEY", "KIM", "KELLEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-404416", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2020-07-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/02/cg.03.html", "summary": "Texas Governor Issues Executive Order Requiring Masks in Public.", "utt": ["And welcome back. In our health lead, five states are driving more than half of the new cases of coronavirus across the country. Those states are Texas, California, Florida, Arizona, and Georgia. Four of those states were also among the first in the nation to reopen their economies, now all five are battling rising hospitalization rates. CNN's Lucy Kafanov joins us now live from Houston, Texas. Lucy, yesterday, Texas saw a record number of hospitalizations. And some hospitals are nearing maximum capacity. And you have some breaking news now from the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. What is it?", "I do, Jake. Just a few minutes ago, the governor issued an executive order requiring a statewide mask mandate. This applies to any county that has 20 coronavirus cases, positive cases or more. This affects nearly 70 percent of counties across the state, including Harris County, home to Houston where we are right now. As you point out, these numbers have been going up day by day, 7 -- pardon me, nearly 8,000, more than 8,000 new cases yesterday. Nearly 7,000 people across the state hospitalized. In about 30 minutes, we'll get the new numbers for today."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "LUCY KAFANOV, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-220423", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-12-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1312/09/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Princeton Begins Meningitis B Vaccinations", "utt": ["Welcome back everyone. I'm John Berman in New York. Let's look at our \"Top Stories\" right now. The railroad line involving that deadly train derailment in New York is announcing new safety upgrades. Metro North will install reinforcements at critical curves and movable bridges. Signals will also alert train engineers to reduce speed when approaching the curve where the train derailed last week. That train jumped the tracks while heading into a curve at 82 miles per hour. That is nearly three times the posted speed limit. Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner in court today to face sentencing for kissing and grabbing three women. Filner resigned from office after 19 women accused him of offensive behavior during his tenure as mayor and as a U.S. congressman. He is not expected to go to jail, but he will be on probation for three years. Concern over the spread of Meningitis B has heightened on the campus of Princeton University with eight cases reported since March. Starting today, the University is offering thousands of students a vaccine, one that has not been licensed for use in the U.S. CNN's senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen joins me now. Elizabeth -- students have a choice to make now.", "John, they certainly do. And again, it's important that we use the word \"choice\". No one is making these students do anything. They can either get the vaccine or they can leave themselves vulnerable to getting meningitis. So let's look at the consequences of each of those choices. So if you leave yourself vulnerable to meningitis, meningitis can cause terrible side effects. Things like hearing loss, brain damage, kidney damage, loss of limb. And one of those things will happen to one in five people who get meningitis; so one in five will get one of those things that or something similar that I listed. And one in ten people who get meningitis will die from it. Now let's look at the consequences of getting the vaccine well obviously you get vaccinated so that's good. But you can get mild soreness at the injection site and you may possibly get a temporary fever. Those are some of the more common side effects. There are extraordinarily rare side effects that are much -- that are much worse, but again, those are extraordinarily rare.", "Yes the possible outcomes to your getting meningitis seem awfully bad. So what are medical experts telling you? What advice are they giving?", "You know we asked several doctors, what would you do if your child were at Princeton? What would you advice your child to do? And they said, absolutely, I would tell them to get the vaccine. One of them said, \"My child would be first in line to get the vaccine.\" He said meningitis can just -- it can get you very sick, very, very quickly.", "It is a serious, serious issue. Elizabeth Cohen, thanks so much for being us. I appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Still to come, just eight days after they were married, a Montana woman is accused of pushing her husband to his death. She says it was an accident. But prosecutors say, not so fast. We'll break down this case. Coming up next."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "COHEN", "BERMAN", "COHEN", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-10551", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-6-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/22/ee.01.html", "summary": "Texas Execution: Gary Graham's Fate in Hands of Parole Board; Protesters Press for Reprieve", "utt": ["With supporters still maintaining his innocence, Texas death row inmate Gary Graham is scheduled to die 12 hours from now. Graham's last best hope lies with the Texas parole board, which will decide in about six hours whether to recommend a reprieve. Death penalty opponents around the nation are protesting. They cite the large number of executions in Texas and say Graham was unfairly convicted, mostly due to testimony from a single witness. No one can yet measure the political impact this case might have on Republican George W. Bush who has said no innocent person has been put do death in the state of Texas. In fact, by law, Governor Bush cannot issue a reprieve unless the parole board recommends it. CNN's Charles Zewe has more now on the last remaining options for a condemned man.", "Heavenly Father, I ask that you help us.", "Prayers for peace in Huntsville, Texas where the emotion-charged execution of convicted killer Gary Graham is now only hours away.", "We do not have to bow to fear, we do not have to bow to hatred and violence and prejudice. And we can stand against those things.", "A 36-year-old Graham claims he's innocent. With time running out, his backers are still pressing for a reprieve.", "We're here today to make an appeal for a fair trial that's open and honest and affords due process.", "Graham is asking the 18-member Texas Pardons Board to overturn his death sentence. The board, which rarely meets and votes via fax, says it'll announce its decision at midday Thursday, in a case which has prompted a growing number of anti-death-penalty demonstrations. Presumptive GOP nominee and Texas Governor George W. Bush, who can't stop the lethal injection without a recommendation from the Pardons Board, says he'll not be bowed by protests.", "Graham was 17 when he was convicted of murdering an Arizona man outside a Houston supermarket in 1981.", "Believe me, Mr. Graham shot that man.", "He was convicted largely by testimony from a single witness, Bernadine Skillern. Graham's lawyers contend two other witnesses not called in the trial couldn't identify the killer. Three jurors who sentenced Graham to die now say they doubt his guilt. With hundreds of pro- and anti-death-penalty protesters expected, security has been tightened around the aging Walls (ph) Unit which houses the death chamber. Corrections workers living near the prison have been moved out of their homes and prison staffers have been given the day off.", "Late yesterday, Graham was moved from the death row unit at the Livingston Prison, the Tarold (ph) Unit, as it's known, to the cell just off the death chamber within feet of the place where he will die in less than 12 hours unless the state Pardons Board or the U.S. Supreme Court stops this execution. If he is executed on schedule, Gary Graham will become the 135th prisoner executed since George Bush became governor, the 23rd this year alone -- Carol.", "Charles, with emotions running so high on this case, are you seeing any signs of the protesters expected outside the prison today?", "Not yet. In recent days, Carol, across the country there have been marches and protests of various types. Governor George Bush on the campaign trail has been dogged by protesters. They are expected to show up here in Huntsville much later in the day, perhaps as close as a couple of hours before the execution, which is set for 6:00 p.m. Central time tonight.", "All right, thank you very much, Charles Zewe. Gary Graham himself asking people to come out and protest on his behalf.", "Well, for more on the Graham review process by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, let's go now to CNN national correspondent Tony Clark. He's in Austin this morning -- Tony.", "Good morning, Leon. The Texas law is written in a way so it is designed to insulate the governor just in cases like this from the kind of pressure that arises in death penalty cases. In a death penalty case, the governor is given one opportunity to grant a reprieve to a death row inmate and allow them a reprieve for 30 days or more. In Gary Graham's case, that happened in 1993 with George Bush's predecessor Ann Richards. And so he has no opportunity in this case. Instead, he must wait for the Pardon and Parole Board to act. A majority of the board has three options they can vote for: The first option is to recommend that the governor commute the sentence to a lessor penalty, or they can recommend a reprieve, a delay, and grant a hearing into any part of the trial process, or they can simply not make a recommendation for commutation of sentence, and that would allow the execution to go forward. We're expecting a recommendation of some sort, or no recommendation, some sort of word from the parole board around noon Central time today. Governor Bush must now wait until the parole board acts before he can do anything.", "My job as the governor of Texas is to uphold the laws of the land. I will treat this case no differently than any other case that has come across my desk. I will ask two questions, innocence or guilt, and whether or not the person has had full access to the courts of law.", "If history is any gauge about what the parole board will do, there will be no recommendation for clemency in this case. They have only granted clemency one time during George Bush's governorship. Tony Clark, CNN, Austin, Texas.", "Thanks, Tony. Well, you just heard George W. Bush say how he would approach the Graham case. Graham's attorney had this response to Bush on \"CNN NEWSSTAND\" last night.", "Governor Bush has established two criteria: He wants to make sure that there's no other evidence of innocence that hasn't been heard. And two, he want's to make sure that the person who is about to be executed has had full access to the courts. In Gary Graham's case, we think we meet both of those criteria because we have the evidence of these two Safeway grocery store employees who've never been heard. And secondly, when they were discovered by competent lawyers some 12 years after the trial when they were first appointed, they'd never been able to get back into court.", "Zimmerman says that Graham's trial defense lawyer never interviewed those two grocery store workers. Those witnesses initially told police that they could not identify the killer. Well, this morning, we will talk about the Graham case with some of those involved on both sides; in just a few minutes, the prosecutor overseeing the Graham appeal. Later this hour, execution opponent Jesse Jackson. And coming in the next hour of EARLY EDITION this morning, a man robbed and assaulted by Gary Graham, as well as a legal expert on wrongful convictions. Also, you can follow this case at cnn.com\\law. At that Web site, you will find the latest news, plus legal analysis and a message board where you can voice your own opinion and read what others are saying as well."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHARLES ZEWE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CHARLOTTE MILLER, HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS RESIDENT", "ZEWE", "REV. JESSE JACKSON, CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST", "ZEWE", "ZEWE", "BERNADINE SKILLERN, WITNESS", "ZEWE", "ZEWE", "LIN", "ZEWE", "LIN", "LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "TONY CLARK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BUSH", "CLARK", "HARRIS", "JACK ZIMMERMAN, GARY GRAHAM'S ATTORNEY", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-10671", "program": "Saturday", "date": "2000-6-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/24/cst.07.html", "summary": "In South Korea, Plans for 50th Anniversary of Start of Korean War Have Changed Dramatically", "utt": ["Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the start of Korean War. In South Korea, following the recent historic North-South summit, plans for the commemoration have changed dramatically. CNN's Seoul bureau chief Sohn Jie-Ae has our report.", "Workers put the final touches on special exhibits at the war memorial, which highlights the division that still remains on the Korean peninsula. Outside, a marching band is fine-tuning its 50th anniversary performance. But the band and the exhibit will get far less attention than originally planned. When South and North Korean leaders hugged and shook hands for the first time less than two weeks before the Korean War Anniversary, the lavish preparations for the commemoration came to a screeching halt. The Seoul government said the ceremonies would be drastically scaled back in light of the new mood of peace and cooperation on the Korean peninsula. A grand parade down the street of central Seoul was canceled. The government also scrapped plans to mobilize hundreds of troops and veterans for a re-enactment of the amphibious landing at Inchon, which changed the course of the Korean War. Large banners draping Seoul buildings continue to eschew the success of a South-North summit, with no mention of the war.", "Few deny that the Korean War still remains a crucial turning point in the modern history of the Korean peninsula, but the recent summit between South and North Korea may have done more than anything else to change how South Koreans view the events that happened 50 years ago. (voice-over): For many, it's not that easy to forget what is already called the \"Forgotten War.\"", "I don't believe the war is really over. For me, the war lives on in my head as if it were yesterday.", "Park heads the veterans group from a small town that lost 1,500 young men in the three-year conflict. Retired General Paik Sun-Yup represented the South in talks that halted the Korean War.", "If we had not been strong enough to fight back the North, and if we had not been vigilant in maintaining our defense during the past 50 years, then the recent events on the Korean peninsula could not have happened.", "And in that sense, he says, paying tribute to those who sacrificed themselves during the Korean War has become even more meaningful, however big or small the ceremonies may be. Sohn Jie-Ae, CNN, Seoul."], "speaker": ["GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR", "SOHN JIE-AE, CNN SEOUL BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over)", "JIE-AE (on camera)", "PARK HAN-SU, KOREAN WAR VETERAN (through translator)", "JIE-AE", "GEN. PAIK SUN-YUP, RET. KOREAN ARMY (through translator)", "JIE-AE"]}
{"id": "CNN-261089", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-08-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/02/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Journalist Among Five Found Dead In Mexico; Teen Stabbed At Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade Dies; Jericho The Lion Confirmed Alive And Well", "utt": ["Take a look at this footage from Mexico where hundreds of protesters marched after a prominent photojournalist was found dead. Officials say Ruben Espinoza was one of five people shot to death in an apartment in Mexico City. Espinoza left his home in Vera Cruz last month because of threats there. In an interview, he referred to it as a lawless state. Thirteen journalists have been killed there in the past five years. Now a 16-year-old girl stabbed at a gay pride parade in Jerusalem has died. Shira Banki was one of six people stabbed on Thursday. Police say her assailant was an orthodox Jew who had just been released from prison for waging a similar attack back in 2005. Mourners held vigils for Banki in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv late on Sunday. Israel's prime minister also sent a condolence message to her family. He says, quote, \"Shira was murdered because she bravely supported the principle that each one can live their life in honor and security. We will not allow this despicable killer to undermine the core values that Israeli society is based upon.\" For more we turn to senior international correspondent, Nic Robertson, joining us live from Jerusalem this morning. Nic, stabbings like this are so brutal and violent especially when you consider the suspect was just released from jail after serving time for doing the same thing ten years ago. I mean, what is the reaction to this this morning?", "A lot of shock and a huge amount of disappointment as well that this man with a proven, known track record three weeks after getting out of jail, this ultraorthodox Jew caught on camera stabbing people, pulling a long knife out from under his jacket or inside a bag and stabbing people that he was allowed to get so close to this event. The prime minister has said that he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. There is a broad, widespread support for that. But it is disappointing that this man was able to get so close, six people stabbed. Shira Banki's family has described her as charming, happy lively and beloved. They've called for less hatred in the country and more tolerance and will be having a civil funeral for their daughter this afternoon. The sense among the community here is that this is something that absolutely should not have happened and underscores the sort of hatred that does exist on the fringes of society. And the education minister also spoke out on this and he was also condemning this murder as well. A lot of people, particularly young people came out for a vigil playing music and singing songs and projecting images of Shira Banki and also there was a big outpouring of affection for her and support for the family. This is an issue that's not going to go away in society here. And society here on the one hand, and this is the view that's widely held here is very liberal and very accepting. On the other hand, there are elements within it that believe that they are the only ones that have the truth and take the truth into their own hands -- Errol.", "The reason we watch this so closely is what is unique about this part of the world is you can have isolated incidents kick off wars. And there was a Palestinian toddler that died in a fire last week. How might Prime Minister Netanyahu respond to these Jewish extremists? His critics want to see him use the same kind of force that's use, again, I guess what you would describe as your more typical terror suspects, but they feel it's unlikely.", "Certainly, these two brutal murders, the burning of the toddler and the parents of the toddler are in critical condition and the brother as well was badly burned and the killing at -- the stabbing at the gay pride parade underscore people's concerns about extremists in society. The prime minister called a security cabinet meeting yesterday. He said that he was calling on the security services to their full extent to use within the law to bring to justice the killers. But he also said that he would be -- or he authorized administrative detentions for anyone believed to have been responsible for this. So what he is doing here it's believed that the killers are from within the Jewish community is that administrative detentions, which is normally held for Palestinians will be imposed on Jewish citizens as well. What this means is that the defense minister can decide that there is someone in society, who is believed to have committed a crime or is suspected of committing a crime that there isn't proof enough to get a conviction, but they believe this person is a danger to society so is arrested and administratively detained. The words are strong from the prime minister. People are waiting to see if the actions are followed through -- Errol.", "A rough start to the week there. Nic Robertson live for us in Jerusalem. Nic, thank you. Now we do want to clear something up on CNN. Jericho the lion is alive and well. Oxford University tweeted this image of Jericho taken Sunday morning. The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said that poachers killed Jericho, but that was just a case of mistaken identity. As our David McKenzie reports Zimbabwe is cracking down on hunting.", "Early reports that Jericho, the lion, was killed illegally by a hunter turned out to be false. In fact, the group that put out the information has since apologized. And the Oxford University Research Group that tracks these lions says he is doing just fine. Now Zimbabwe has appeared to tighten up on hunting in the country. They banned all kinds of hunting on the borders of Hwange National Park for big cats and large game and banned bow hunting outright. It was with a bow that Dr. Walt Palmer shot Cecil the lion last month causing this global outcry. He says he did nothing illegal, but Zimbabwe officials are trying to extradite him to face charges from the U.S. to Zimbabwe, though, that might be a tall order according to experts. The guide and hunter that he hired to kill Cecil though face charges this week in Zimbabwe and they could spend ten years in jail if found guilty. David McKenzie, CNN, Johannesburg.", "Now Cecil the lion has lived on in some way. He was part of a tribute on the Empire State Building. Organizers projected a picture of Cecil on the side of the skyscraper. The goal was to call attention to the animal's dwindling numbers and to promote a new documentary called \"Racing to Extinction.\"", "We are trying to break the biggest story on the planet and few are aware this is happening and that is the beginning of the sixth mass extinction where mankind in this case is the cause of. So we are trying to create dialogue and asking people to pay attention to the calls to action, but specifically to developing solutions together and creating a community and this happened very much last night. It was really an incredible moment for me walking around the streets and seeing the thousands of people that arrived and showed up. It was this tone on the streets was this peacefulness and there were the loveliest conversations happening between people and everyone was knowledgeable about the species and the animals we were showing. That is the spirit of this right now is to begin a rich dialogue and begin networking together and beginning to really solve this problem.", "A powerful way to make a statement. Forty projectors were used for this, and according to the \"New York Times\" the project cost $1 million. Now France and the U.K. step up security around the tunnel that goes beneath the English Channel. Next, we'll have more on the security measures put into place in response to desperate migrants. And it's been close for more than a month, but the Greek stock market is about to reopen. What traders are expecting after this short break. Brace yourselves."], "speaker": ["BARNETT", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BARNETT", "ROBERTSON", "BARNETT", "DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BARNETT", "TRAVIS THRELKEL, CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER AND CO-FOUNDER OF OBSCURA DIGITAL ((via telephone)", "BARNETT"]}
{"id": "NPR-22006", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2016-05-16", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/05/16/478272653/espn-site-the-undefeated-to-explore-intersection-of-sports-and-race", "title": "ESPN Site 'The Undefeated' To Explore Intersection Of Sports And Race", "summary": "ESPN is set Tuesday to launch \"The Undefeated,\" a digital site and news team focused on the intersection of race, sports, politics and culture. NPR profiles \"The Undefeated\" and its new editor, former Washington Post managing editor Kevin Merida.", "utt": ["A new ESPN website goes live tomorrow. It's called The Undefeated, and it's dedicated to the intersection of sports, race, culture and politics. The small staff carries big aspirations, and lots of swagger. But as NPR's David Folkenflik reports, The Undefeated almost lost the game before it started.", "Kevin Merida works these days in an abandoned suite of radio offices of the Washington Bureau of ESPN's corporate sibling ABC News. Merida was previously managing editor of The Washington Post, which he announced in October he would be leaving after 22 years.", "There wasn't a whole lot to lose, right? I mean, I felt like I had done a lot. And so I had either reported on or supervised, you know, seven presidential campaigns, so this would have been the eighth.", "Merida's now editor-in-chief of The Undefeated. Some of his newspaper colleagues were incredulous. But Merida, a sports fan, proved open to a very different path.", "When I began to think about this and I took the job, it was like my brain's on fire, you know? I'm thinking of all kinds of things, different ideas and different things to create.", "As one example, Merida points to the threat of a boycott by black football players at the University of Missouri that toppled their campus' president.", "It's certainly a story that African-Americans in this country know very well. The history of struggle is one of just incredible overcoming of obstacles and people doubting you and thinking you're not as smart as you are, as special as you are.", "In recent years, ESPN has encouraged a lot of reporting that deviates from pure sports coverage. The Undefeated's newsroom now includes a former White House reporter for The Washington Post, a former BuzzFeed editor to cover entertainment, a fashion and style writer, too. The death of Prince - yeah, that would be a story for The Undefeated or this...", "The discussion around Serena Williams. Amazingly, there's more discussion about her body, and she's the greatest tennis player in the history of the world and one of the greatest athletes. She would have an argument to be the greatest athlete in the history of the world.", "Initially, the site's name could've been the Vanquished. The Undefeated had been the brainchild of the fiery former ESPN commentator Jason Whitlock. Whitlock had never managed a newsroom. Staff rebelled. He was ultimately fired last summer.", "I didn't want to do it.", "Raina Kelley had a job she liked. She was, until recently, senior editor at ESPN The Magazine. As an an African-American journalist, Kelley watched The Undefeated closely, but kept her distance.", "Everything was in a black box, so there was no real information about what the future was going to be.", "Kelley is now managing editor at The Undefeated, and when she speaks of her aspirations, she's unvarnished, thanks in large part to the hiring of Merida.", "We get along so well. We thought so similarly about what we wanted the project to be that I knew we were going to be able to do it and kick it's [expletive].", "DEE-1: (Rapping) Black is beautiful. Beauty is black. Our blemishes apparent, but the beauty intact.", "The site has its own anthem by the New Orleans rapper Dee-1.", "DEE-1: (Rapping) Sports, music, struggle, it's all in the black experience.", "ESPN's television shows have a disproportionately large African-American following compared to the population at large. It's black digital leadership by contrast is disproportionately small, according to the network. Senior executives say ESPN is especially pursuing male African-American readers between 18 and 34 years old.", "As Merida and I talk, he glances through a studio window at Aaron Dotson, a new African-American colleague at the outset of his career.", "And we have some young people that are really just in the beginning. And to help them develop, you know, I often get emotional about that just, you know, kind of seeing the young people.", "You're getting emotional right now.", "Yeah because whether it's him or Justin Tinsley or...", "Here, Merida is weeping unabashedly. I ask him why this project means so much to him.", "It's run by journalists of color, you know? And to be able to do that that hasn't happened a lot - right? - in big places. People really think about that. And hey, you know, I'm just, you know - particularly when you're looking at people who - they still have so much of their career ahead of them, so you want to, you know, be part of helping them achieve what they want to achieve.", "Merida's not so secret hope is to land an exit interview with the nation's first black president, like Merida, an ESPN fan. 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{"id": "CNN-159177", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-12-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1012/07/cnr.01.html", "summary": "WikiLeaks Founder Goes to Court; Tax Agreement and Your Dollars; Fallout from Tax Deal; Elizabeth Edwards' Cancer Worsens", "utt": ["Hi, guys. It's 9:00 a.m. on the East Coast, 6:00 a.m. out West. Here's some of the stories that have us talking this morning. Breaking news. Julian Assange, the controversial WikiLeaks founder, expected to head into a courtroom any minute now to face sex crime charges. He's locked up in London after surrendering to police just hours ago. CNN is tapping into the global resources to bring you the latest. President Obama strikes a deal with Republican leaders and those Bush era tax cuts, looks like they're staying in place for everyone no matter how much you earn. We're crunching the numbers. Sad word this morning that Elizabeth Edwards has stopped cancer treatment at the advice of her doctors. She is resting at home with her family. We'll talk about what she is facing next. All right. Let's begin with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks but what's happening in a British court right now has nothing to do with leaking classified information but rather rape. Assange faces charges in Sweden of unlawful coercion. Two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape. Assange denies all these charges. However, the two women do admit to having consensual sex with Assange. Let's bring in Mark Ellis. He's the executive director of the International Bar Association. So, Mark, what do we know about the two women who actually admitted to having sex with Assange but are now making rape allegations?", "Well, this is a --this is a process that happens in most any criminal jurisdiction. If there are serious allegations of criminal acts, the authorities will look at that, they'll investigate that. If they see or feel that there's prima fascia evidence to pursue an indictment or an arrest, then they will pursue an arrest. And that's exactly what has happened now. They feel that there's sufficient evidence to at least have an opportunity to talk to Mr. Assange and they want him to back in Sweden. So they go forward with a European arrest warrant process which was given to the UK. The UK then has an obligation to arrest Mr. Assange. But he also has an opportunity to appear in court which he is about to do today.", "So Mark --", "Once he's in court, he'll be -- mm-hmm?", "But here's my question. They admit to having consensual sex with him. So now why all of a sudden are they coming forward saying, he raped us?", "Well, my understanding -- and again, we really don't know all of the allegations or the details of the allegations. That's what you're going to find out once this process starts in Sweden. Assuming that the UK authorities extradites him back to Sweden on their request because simply because there is consensual sex doesn't mean that at one time there was not forceable sex that could be -- could be viewed as rape. That will depend on Swedish law. But there's no question that the Swedish authorities believe that there's a prima fascia evidence to pursue this further or they would not have been able to obtain this arrest warrant and that's where we are right now.", "OK. Here's my next question then. You know Eric Holder came out last night saying that they are looking at charging Assange for leaking this information under the Espionage Act of 1917. So, how does that play in here and do you think the U.S. may be working with Sweden because it got Assange to turn himself in? He's now facing these charges of alleged rape? So if he's found guilty, can the U.S. still extradite him and try and charge him under these espionage charges for WikiLeaks? Or -- and if he's not found guilty, can they immediately extradite him? How does this play with what the U.S. wants to do now with regard to espionage charges?", "Well, this is a much more complicated and challenging process. What you're witnessing now in the UK is a fairly straightforward process within European law on extradition. And my sense is he'll -- he will fight that extradition but in the end he'll probably be extradited. Now the U.S. comes into play and says well, we want to extradite him for violating the Espionage Act. That then comes into play in a political element is automatically brought into play because the Swedish government will take an active role in deciding whether or not Mr. Assange is, in fact, permitted to be extradited to the United States but there are a lot of challenges here. The extradition treaty between Sweden and the United States is complicated. There are another -- a number of factors that the U.S. would have to show before Sweden would, in fact, agree to extraditing him back to the United States. This will be a very long process and it won't be done overnight.", "Got it. Mark Ellis, appreciate it. Another story that we're talking about this morning, the president and the GOP striking a deal on your taxes. It's not final yet but after weeks of haggling on the Hill, the White House did lay out a blueprint for what's to come if congressional Democrats sign off on it. And the price tag is pretty big. It will costs between $600 and $800 billion over the next two years, all of it deficit spending. So here's the tradeoff. All of us will keep our tax breaks for the next two years. Even the richest among us. Unemployment benefits will be extended for 13 months and we'd see a one-year payroll tax holiday. Social Security payroll tax could be knocked down two percentage points, meaning more money in your paychecks through the end of the 2011. Well, a lot of Democrats are not happy about this compromise. Senior White House correspondent Ed Henry standing by to talk about how the president is working to get his own party back on board, but let's get down to the question that all of us really want answered, Ed. And what does this mean -- sorry. Let's go to Christine Romans and talk about, first, what this means for your bottom line, Christine?", "Well, what it means is that the tax rate, the taxes that you paid last year, it will stay the same for this year, you know, depending on what your income is and your life changes, but you're not going to see a tax increase for almost everyone here. It's going to stay the same, but you are going to get a little bit of a bonus here. A holiday on your payroll tax. What does that mean? Well, as it stands right now, for every $106,000, 800 that you earn, you pay 6.2 percent in payroll tax. They're going to change that to 4.2 percent. That means a worker making $40,000 would pocket $800 next year in that payroll tax holiday. A working making, say, $70,000 would pocket $1,400. So for one year this is seen as a stimulative boost to the economy and so not only are your taxes going to stay the same but you're going to get this benefit here, too -- Kyra.", "So this is going to cost the federal government a lot of money. I mean we're talking about $800 billion.", "Yes. This is -- doesn't come for free. We have to pay for this eventually and no indication how we're going to pay for it. As you pointed out, quite rightly, it's deficit spending and the size of it is pretty big. $600 billion to $800 billion is what this will cost overall. Think of that, Kyra. That $862 billion stimulus that was so reviled and all of that spending that helped push the Republicans to take over the House, on the campaign trail, so many people did not like the stimulus, this is the same size as that. This is spending that hasn't been paid for yet, emergency spending. And there's also an extension of jobless benefits. That would allow people to continue -- in some states to continue to get jobless benefits for up to 99 weeks. Again, all of this still has to be paid for -- Kyra.", "All right. Christine Romans, appreciate it. Vice President Biden has some selling to do so he's planned a bit of a power lunch with Senate Democrats, shall we say? It's going to be tough to defend that tax deal. Many Dems are still stuck on the promises of then candidate Obama.", "I end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. And it means letting the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire. And rolling back the Bush tax cuts to the top 1 percent. We have to roll back. I want to roll back. We're going to roll back -- I'm going to roll back the Bush tax cuts for the very wealthiest Americans. For the wealthiest Americans. For the wealthiest Americans. For the wealthiest Americans. It is true that I want to roll back the Bush tax cuts on the very wealthiest Americans and go back to the rate that they paid under Bill Clinton.", "All right. The key words there, wealthiest Americans. A lot of Democrats don't like extending the tax breaks to the richest people among us, and plenty of Americans agree with them. Almost half say tax cuts should only continue for families making under $250,000 a year. All right. Now let's bring in senior White House correspondent Ed Henry. So, Ed, what's the political cost of this tax deal?", "Well, it could be huge, Kyra. Because you're right. Democrats are -- some of them anyway -- furious about this. It's exactly as you laid it out. I talked to a senior Democrat last night who said there was a pretty tense meeting here last night at the White House when the president met with Democratic congressional leaders, in part because this was a bedrock principle the president had going back to the campaign. Not allowing the Bush tax cuts for the rich to continue. Use that for health care and other priorities, use that money. Reuse it if you will. Number one. Number two, they don't understand -- some of these Democrats on the Hill -- why this president with such rhetorical gifts has not been able to engage the public and convince them. As you noted, there are polls backing this up that the rich should pay more and you have people like Warren Buffett, a billionaire, coming forward saying they believe it's patriotic to pay more. Why hasn't this president been able to convince the public to let the tax cuts for the rich expire and only extend the middle class tax cuts? The president's response last night was basically look, I tried. I don't have the votes in the Senate and this is the best deal I could get. Take a listen.", "I have no doubt that everyone will find something in this compromise that they don't like. In fact, there are things in here that I don't like. Namely, the extension of the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and the wealthiest estates, but these tax cuts will expire in two years.", "But some Democrats are frustrated because when they expire at the end of the 2012 that means it's going to be a big issue once again -- just as it was in the midterms -- in the presidential and congressional elections of 2012. And that's why when Vice President Biden goes up there for lunch with Democrats, one senior Democrats told me it's going to be a very lively caucus -- Kyra.", "Isn't it always a lively caucus, Ed, when it comes down to --", "Yes, maybe a little more. Maybe a little more heartburn.", "Yes. Well, yes, there you go. Bring the Tums. All right, thanks a lot, Ed. Well, doctors can't do any more for Elizabeth Edwards. We've actually learned that she's stopped getting -- or stopped getting her cancer treatments. And that she might only have weeks to live now. She is home in North Carolina with her family and at her side is John Edwards. He's included, as well. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer, as you know, about six years ago. The cancer returned in 2007. And she's thanking people on her Facebook page now for all the prayers. Here's what Elizabeth writes. \"The days of our lives for all of us are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human. But I have found that in the simple act of living in hope and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in this world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that, I'm grateful.\" Let's bring in our chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta to talk more about this. I tell you, she -- when this news broke last night, not only did it get people talking about the cancer, but just how strong of a woman that she's been, or that she has been, not only through this but her personal life, as well.", "She opened up about this. She talked about it very forthrightly. And we've been -- you know, talking about this for seven years now. Hard for people to believe but it was 2004 when she was first diagnosed and she really went on a mission to some extend as well to educate people about what was happening to her and use that as an example for other women. In 2007, as you know, you know, it had spread to her bone and now to her liver and that's what's really prompted this most recent discussion about what to do at this point.", "Is it all about making her comfortable right now?", "I think that's a fair way to put it. I mean, you know, they -- doctors and health care professionals are saying, look, we're not stopping treatment but we're no longer treating for a cancer. We're treating Elizabeth Edwards in terms of her symptoms, her pain control. Trying to prevent nausea and vomiting. Fluid that might build up in the lungs or the abdomen. Those are things that are unfortunately all associated sometimes with the disease at this point. But she's in her home and there's been a lot of studies showing people in their home during this stage, lower anxiety for them, for their families. The quality of life can be better. So, you know, these are the tough decisions I'm sure they've been thinking about that.", "You know, and you and I have talked about this in the past. And I'm getting sidetracked, I will -- I promise to get to the follow- up question, but it's really important for the family as the family sits around her to say, it's OK.", "Yes.", "It's OK to go. Because a lot of us, you know, want to hang on no matter how much pain we're in for family members because we know how much it's hurting them. So that's an important aspect, too, right? As that family gathers around to say, mom, sweetheart, whatever it is, you know, it's OK. We're going to be all right.", "Those conversations, the nurturing and fostering of those conversations probably couldn't happen at any other time or any other place. And she has young children. I mean this is a very difficult time. It's the holiday season. It's a very difficult time, I think, no question. But I think that, you know, from a -- from a medical standpoint, this is something that's been researched. You know this idea of people being able to be with their family being in their own home really seems to make a difference, a positive one at that.", "There's a lot to be learned from Elizabeth Edwards, isn't there?", "You know I -- you were just reading that quote. And I mean I think anybody can relate to that quote, this idea of, I'm just human. I've done things that -- you know, that any human being would do. She also again being so forthright. I mean, Kyra, you know this is something probably every woman thinks about in terms of their own risk of breast cancer. She didn't have much of a family history. She admitted that for some time after the birth of one of her children she skipped the mammograms for a period of time. She wishes she hadn't done that. Would it have made a difference? Who knows? But I think for a lot of women out there who've done this, and this is to indict or malign anybody, but I think Elizabeth Edwards always said, it's a good reminder to go get that mammogram. It's not a perfect screening test but it's something that can certainly help.", "When you're talking about that one line saying this is -- you know, we would try to get as much patience and strength as we like. It's called being human.", "Yes.", "That's -- that's some real mental and physical strength right there.", "No question. And that's another lesson.", "Yes.", "I think for all of us.", "Thanks, Sanjay.", "Thank you.", "Well, cover your pets, your pipes, your plants. It's pretty cold outside. From the Midwest to Virginia and deep into Florida, details from the severe weather center coming your way."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "MARK ELLIS, EXEC. DIR., INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION", "PHILLIPS", "ELLIS", "PHILLIPS", "ELLIS", "PHILLIPS", "ELLIS", "PHILLIPS", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "ROMANS", "PHILLIPS", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "PHILLIPS", "ED HENRY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "OBAMA", "HENRY", "PHILLIPS", "HENRY", "PHILLIPS", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-222623", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-1-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1401/10/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Schools, Courts Closed after Chemical Spill", "utt": ["There is a major environmental emergency in West Virginia this morning. Nearly 200,000 people across nine counties are affected. They're trying to find clean water after a leak at a chemical storage facility into the Elk River. Now the governor has warned people not to drink or use tap water in any form. The Health Department says ingesting the chemical could lead to difficulty breathing, severe vomiting or even sores on your skin. Schools and courts are shut down this morning as officials work to figure out just how much of the water supply has been affected. And just moments ago, officials updated us on the progress of the investigation.", "It's a tank farm. It was a release of material from a tank farm. We know it casually as a foaming agent. You have to ask the equipment or the chemical manufacturer of that, the detailed particulars of the information. But we've looked at it and it doesn't have what we would consider a high lethality. We were notified of an event from the DEP just before noon yesterday. The event, we believe, had started before that time but we were not aware.", "All right. The chemical he is talking about is a form of methanol. It's used to clean coal and as I said it seeped into the Elk River and then made its way to the water treatment facility. Joining me now to talk more about this is Cabell County administrator, Chris Tatum. Good morning Mr. Tatum.", "Good morning Carol. How are you?", "I'm much better than you, I know that. How is your community affected?", "Well, it is a little crazy right now as you can imagine but our county here in Cabell County is one of the smaller places affected by what is going on. We have about 10,000 or 12,000 that are affected by this. We have mobilized water. We have drinking water going to our outlying agencies, volunteer fire departments and we are setting up water stations across that end of the county to make sure that our citizens are taken care of.", "Because Am I right about this? You not only cannot drink the water but you can't bathe in the water or use the water to wash your clothes either?", "Yes, they -- it is a strict \"do not use\" situation. And they have advised us and advised our systems not to use the water in any form or fashion. So we have been passing that along and keeping our citizens informed as we can. We have emergency services, sheriff's department and 911 operations all fully staffed and ready to take calls and answer questions and get people to the right places so that they can get water in the instance that they do need it. Again, we are in a smaller area that is not as affected as some of the larger counties but we have mobilized supplies to get things to people that need them.", "And I know that some people are asking neighbors whose water is safe which is probably pretty far away from where you to fill bottles with water and bring them into communities affected.", "Correct. You know there is a large community effort to do that. A lot of our local grocery stores and outlets are chain stores were without water last night. And because we are in such close proximity in a way that the water supply runs, people on one end of the county are able to help out the other end of the county. So we have asked for that neighborly assistance. If you can do that and then, of course, we're a tight knit community anyway so we have all kinds of people out trying to make sure that people get what they need and get it where they can.", "Well, we wish you lots of luck. Chris Tatum -- thank you so much for being with me.", "Thank you, Carol.", "You're welcome. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COSTELLO", "CHRIS TATUM, CABELL COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR", "COSTELLO", "TATUM", "COSTELLO", "TATUS", "COSTELLO", "TATUM", "COSTELLO", "TATUM", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "NPR-31739", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2012-04-30", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/04/30/151713702/letters-eric-holder-picking-the-worst-english-word", "title": "Letters: Eric Holder, Picking The Worst English Word", "summary": "Robert Siegel and Audie Cornish read listener emails about a profile of Attorney General Eric Holder, and their reaction to an interview with New Yorker blogger Ben Greenman about eliminating the word \"slacks\" from the English language.", "utt": ["Now, some of your emails. First, many of you expressed disappointment in our profile Friday of Attorney General Eric Holder. Chris Sands(ph) of Bloomington, Indiana, writes this: Questions about his Apple addiction, talk about Trayvon Martin? Where are the tough questions, NPR?", "Mark Mitchell(ph) of Columbus, Ohio, wondered the same thing. He writes: Why was it that there were no questions asked regarding his involvement in the gun-running scandal Fast and Furious, or about the Justice Department's continued efforts to withhold documents, stall and impede the congressional investigation into the matter?", "Instead, the hardest question we heard about was whether he was still on a first- name basis at the Apple store.", "On a lighter note, our interview with Ben Greenman, of The New Yorker, got many of you writing. We talked with him about their online contest for a word to purge from the English language. The winning - or losing - word was \"slacks.\"", "Yes, slacks - as in pants or trousers. A preposterous word, Greenman says.", "The texture of that word also is terrible. People said it felt like rubbing the palm of their hand over polyester to say that word out loud.", "Well, Daniel Sarper(ph) of Aventura, Florida, writes to commend Ben Greenman and the folks at The New Yorker for putting the word \"slacks\" on the chopping block. Sarper hates the S word so very much that he even refuses to include it in his email. He writes this: The word is disgusting. I'm not completely joking. Maybe the neuroscientists should scan the brains of those of us who just can't stand the word. I know there are bigger fish to fry in this life, in this world, but my sincere thanks go out to you and Ben. I feel better now.", "Whether it's in relief or disgust, we do enjoy hearing your thoughts. Write us at NPR.org. Just click on Contact Us at the bottom of the page.", "This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, from NPR News."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "Mr. Mitchell goes on to say", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "BEN GREENMAN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-325234", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2017-11-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/03/cg.02.html", "summary": "Trump \"Frustrated\" He Can't Weigh in on Judicial Matters; \"House of Cards\" Workers: Kevin Space Made Set \"Toxic\"; Is Death Toll Higher than Officials Report? Twitter: New \"Safeguards\" After Trump's Account Disabled.", "utt": ["And we're back with our politics lead. And President Trump's shocking statements on the rule of law in the United States of America, acknowledging and lamenting that he's not supposed to influence the Department of Justice or the FBI investigations.", "The saddest thing is that because I'm the president of the United States, I'm not supposed to be involved with Justice Department. I'm not supposed to be involved with the FBI. I'm not supposed to be doing the kind of things that I would love to be doing. And I'm very frustrated by it.", "Points for candor there, I suppose. The president openly admitting that he knows that being involved with the Justice Department or the FBI in terms of their investigations crosses a line. Even though we also know that President Trump has crossed that line. Furious at Attorney General Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation, asking then FBI Director James Comey to stop investigating former national security adviser Michael Flynn and asking Comey at least twice for a pledge of personal loyalty, according to Comey. And then, of course, firing Comey while thinking about the Russia investigation. And here we have the president openly expressing his frustration that he's not supposed to intrude in ongoing investigations or order investigations of his political opponents. We certainly see that President Trump has been willing to play with that line, just in the past few days and even in the last few hours. This afternoon, he tweeted in response to a military judge's sentence of now Private Bowe Bergdahl who deserted his base in 2009 and was captured and held by the Taliban for five years. Today, Bergdahl was dishonorably discharged but he did avoid jail time. And the president tweeted, quote: The decision on Sergeant Bergdahl is a complete and total disgrace to our country and to our military. The president, no fan of Bergdahl, has called him a dirty rotten traitor back in March and before he was president. He said that Bergdahl should face the death penalty. What does it do to that military judge that the president is attacking his ruling? Then, of course, the president weighed in on a federal witness in an active federal investigation into the Russia probe, calling George Papadopoulos a proven liar. Now, he is, of course, a proven liar. He pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, but the question looms about the appropriateness to say nothing of the wisdom of the president attacking a witness in the Russia investigation. On Wednesday, the president called for the execution of a terrorist suspect who has not yet gone through the justice system. He tweeted that the alleged New York City attacker should, quote, get the death penalty. Of course, many legal observers note that the president tweeting that, that could be used to help the terrorist suspect. It hands the defense counsel evidence that this alleged radical Islamist terrorist cannot get a fair trial. And on the same day, President Trump slammed the process through which terror specks are prosecuted.", "We need quick justice and we need strong justice, much quicker and much stronger than we have right now, because what we have right now is a joke and it's a laughingstock.", "A lot of people in the justice system might disagree with that. They're working hard to put those people behind bars. But, of course, what might be more troubling is the president's public signals to the Justice Department and the FBI that he wants investigations into his political opponents.", "I look at what's happening with the Justice Department. Well, why aren't they going after Hillary Clinton with her e-mails and with her -- the dossier?", "This morning, the president continued this on Twitter, quote, everybody is asking why the Justice Department and FBI isn't looking into all of the dishonesty going on with crooked Hillary and the Dems? At some point, the Justice Department and the FBI must do what is right and proper, and let's go, FBI and Justice Department. In case you thought the previous two tweets were too subtle, think about what it might be like to be a military judge or an attorney general or a Justice Department staffer or an FBI agent and your boss, President Trump, is out there criticizing the decisions you've made and/or announcing what he wants you to be doing, investigating his political opponents. Might that impact what you do? Might that have an effect? It's a staggering lack of regard for the sanctity of judicial matters and the norms of the United States government and yet we don't hear much criticism of this from those on Capitol Hill in the president's party. Just another periodic reminder none of this is normal. My panel is here to talk about this. OK, here is a hypothetical, Mary Katharine Ham. President Obama starts tweeting FBI, Justice Department, you need to be investigating Mitt Romney or you need to be investigating John McCain. What would the response be?", "I think people would be upset about that and with good reason. I agree with you with the -- before the process has played out. I'm not sure I agree with you on the Bergdahl point. I think he's free to criticize that. If it's true that sitting presidents cannot criticize court decisions that are done, then someone should send the memo to President Obama about Citizens United which he addressed in front the actual Supreme Court at the State of the Union.", "It's a fair point. I think the one criticism, the one suggestion might be that military judges aren't necessarily independent. They are --", "Part of the chain of command.", "Chain of command, for a commander-in-chief. That's the only thing -- point I've heard John Kirby and others make.", "Yes.", "Your take?", "Yes, to me, it seems inappropriate. I mean, I don't really know -- I don't really see the argument for him getting involved in these things, and I think the point of, you know, him talking about with the Justice Department stuff, the most important thing is even if he wasn't actually going over the line, which I think you chronicled pretty well that he does step over the line pretty frequently. Just by saying these things, he's telling them what he wants them to do. It's not -- you know, if you're really staying out of something and letting an investigation go forward without interfering, then you don't speak publicly, you don't telegraph in any way what you want and you don't put pressure on people to do the things the way you want them done.", "So, here is a tweet from a former Obama White House aide, Tommy Vietor. If the press uncovered secret conversations between Trump and the DOJ, where he pushed the FBI to investigate Hillary, it would be a massive scandal, Watergate level. But when he tweets it repeatedly, it gets brushed off. It might be overstated a little bit in terms of Watergate level, but I do think that we are all becoming so numb to this.", "Yes, I do think there is, like -- I kind of appreciate sometimes that he just says what he's thinking because I would prefer that to the secret part. Let's just put it out there in the open so we actually know what we're dealing with and we're talking about it, but he's also under investigation for exactly this kind of behavior with Comey. So he's certainly paying a price for that right at this moment. The argument I think you make to him, if anyone does, is about the wisdom of whether you chime in here, because I don't think he cares about the appropriateness. And on some of these things, like the terrorists, for instance, he's signaling it will work for him electorally. The question is whether it works in a legal sense or whether it's appropriate for the president of the United States.", "Yes, it might be harder to put the guy to death. It might be harder to put the guy to death.", "Well, also, we've talked about this a lot I think all along with Donald Trump, the way he undermines institutions. And so, you already have Americans who don't trust the government, who don't trust any system, really, and he's the one who's in charge of running the government and he's basically telling them they're not trustworthy, like we can't trust them to get people a fair trial. We can't trust a terrorist to get a fair trial. We can't trust the military commission. And I think that's just, you know, making it so that people are even less -- having less faith -- they're less faithful in, you know, believing in the system.", "In institutions. Speaking of which, on FOX yesterday, the president was asked about whether having so many open positions at the U.S. State Department made it difficult to promote his agenda. Take a listen to what he said.", "The one that matters is me. I'm the only one that matters because when it comes to it, that's what the policy is going to be.", "I mean, this is a sort of classic Trump refrain, that he alone can do this. But I think it also -- cost-saving, which is what he called it with not filling some of these positions at State, I could actually get on board with some of that. Like, oh, some of these positions we do not need. I don't think there is a strategy for that. And I think what he misunderstands in his attempt to sort of without a strategy to sort of drain the swamp, is that there are career appointees instead of political appointees, who -- many of whom are not Trump people who just take --", "Wind up doing the job.", "-- over the day-to-day operations. You're actually losing your opportunity to drain the swamp in some sense by not having a process by which to do this. And there is also a general problem he has, I think, with too much in his management stream coming straight through him, which is why many of these things have not been filled.", "Yes.", "I mean, one of the things that previous presidents say is that none of the decisions that come on your desk are easy ones because by the time they would get to you, somebody else would have made them. The only decisions that get there are tough. He seems to want them all. He wants all the decisions.", "To me, it shows he doesn't understand how things really work, right? It's not -- it's exactly as you just said, that there are all these people that are doing important work and you can make your arguments about maybe you need to cut a certain number of people in the government, it's too bloated. But this is well beyond that. That's not the conversation we're having. We're having a conversation where they just don't fill -- they're not just filling positions and they just take too long to even when they nominate someone, to even get those people through the process and get them in place.", "We've had so much Trump and political national news and investigative news this week we haven't really had a moment to cover the staggering news that CNN broke. Actor Kevin Spacey -- eight people have made -- on the set of Netflix's \"House of Cards\" have said it was a toxic environment with him around, with alleged nonconsensual touching, crude comments, targeting production staffers, typically young and male. One person actually accusing him of sexual assault. Spacey is just the latest to join a rogue's gallery of people accused of sexual harassment, including Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, host Bill O'Reilly, Mark Halperin, Brett Ratner, James Toback, Roger Ailes, I could go on and on. Again, I just want to raise -- we seem to be in something of a sea change on these issues.", "Yes, and I hope that's one thing that people take away from this, a little more courage to come forward or perhaps to form groups. I do think it's easier when you hit this point where it's hard to disagree with a number of victims or to alienate a number of victims versus just one or punish them. And so, I hope that's a strategy that's sort of being borne of this that helps people to bring down folks who are really powerful and it's a warning to folks, like, let's not protect them, because they need to be punished.", "Yes. There was a great \"A.P.\" story with former members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, talking about being harassed, touched inappropriately, et cetera, Mary Bono and some others. Speaker Ryan sent out a letter saying that staffs on the Hill should engage in sexual harassment. I have a suspicion that we're going to hear more on Capitol Hill.", "Right. Well, this is just -- you know, when it first started happening and everyone was saying, oh, it's Hollywood. We have such a big problem in Hollywood. And I kept saying, no, it's everywhere, actually. And it's everywhere and that's what we're learning.", "Kirsten Powers, Mary Katharine Ham, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Have a great weekend. The national lead coming up. Is the government telling the whole story about how many people died in Puerto Rico because of Hurricane Maria? CNN is digging into the numbers. Plus, a full-court press at Twitter after an employee managed to take down President Trump's account. But it's a serious issue. 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{"id": "CNN-43554", "program": "CNN SUNDAY MORNING", "date": "2001-11-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/11/sm.05.html", "summary": "Northern Alliance Reports Progress in Bamiyan", "utt": ["On the battlefields in Afghanistan, things have been moving swiftly, especially in favor of the Northern Alliance. The opposition forces claim that they have now seized several Taliban strongholds. CNN's Satinder Bindra is in Northern Afghanistan and joins us with more -- Satinder.", "Good morning, Martin. Northern Alliance commanders say they have entered the central Afghan city of Bamiyan. Earlier today, they said several thousand Taliban troops had defected to their side. One Northern Alliance commander even telling us they had seized control of Bamiyan. Now, Martin, it's not possible for me to independently corroborate this claim, but clearly, there is a lot of fighting going on in the Bamiyan region. Now, if the Northern Alliance do manage to capture Bamiyan, it will be significant because Bamiyan straddles several key supply lines that run north into Taliban territory. And if you'll recall, earlier this year, Bamiyan shot to international prominence when the Taliban destroyed two huge Buddhist statues. One of these Buddhist statutes was 1,500 years old. Now, Martin, there are developments in this sector where I am as well. The former stronghold of the Northern Alliance forces here, the town of Taloqan, we gather, is going to see some very heavy fighting in the coming hours ahead -- Martin.", "Satinder, as the Northern Alliance advances, are they reporting that they're running into resistance from the Taliban or are they simply occupying areas that the Taliban as leaving?", "Well, it depends from sector to sector. In Bamiyan, there are reports that large numbers of Taliban troops are defecting. In this sector, where I am, yesterday, Northern Alliance forces, some 2,000 of them, encountered some fierce resistance. Some 10 Northern Alliance soldiers killed, some 30 wounded. We also saw several Northern Alliance troops who had walked into land mines. Here, right now, Northern Alliance commanders are telling CNN crew that they expect the Taliban forces in this sector to fight, quote -- \"until dead,\" Martin.", "I know it's getting onto late afternoon where you are there. What do you think will happen in the region as darkness settles in? Do you anticipate more heavy attacks from the air?", "Yes, we are expecting more heavy attacks tonight. Yesterday, there was very intensive fighting at this time. And all the ground advances are generally made at night after intense artillery attacks. We haven't seen any aerial strikes from U.S. planes, but we have been seeing over the past one, one-and-a-half hours, several hundred troops driving up to the frontline. We are also seeing a lot of armor. We understand, some 35 T-55s -- Russian-built T-55s -- are being deployed by the Northern Alliance forces in this sector where I am -- Martin.", "Thank you very much. CNN's Satinder Bindra reporting to us from Northern Afghanistan. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR", "SATINDER BINDRA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SAVIDGE", "BINDRA", "SAVIDGE", "BINDRA", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "NPR-3986", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2010-10-11", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130492408", "title": "Op-Ed: Talking To The Taliban Will Yield Little", "summary": "Nine years into the war in Afghanistan, there are conflicting reports of talks between President Hamid Karzai and Taliban leaders. But can the West trust the Karzai government — or the Taliban? The Council On Foreign Relations' Leslie Gelb says either way, talking to the Taliban is all for show.", "utt": ["And now the Opinion Page, and the tangled motives of the various parties, following news last week of peace talks between the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai and elements of the Taliban. Some reports say Karzai is talking with Mullah Omar, the former leader of Afghanistan. Others suggest at least three different insurgent groups could be at the table. And, of course, both the United States and Pakistan have hands to play, as well.", "In a piece for The Daily Beast, Leslie Gelb concludes that the cynics may be right to conclude that little will come from these talks - at least this time around. Is it time to talk - as he writes - with the devil? Leslie Gelb is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, and joins us by phone from New York. Nice to have you on the program.", "Good afternoon.", "And it's important to remember these groups - you - we describe as the Afghan Taliban, are, as you describe, bad guys with a lot of American blood on their hands.", "Yes, they are. They really are bad guys. Just look at the way they ran Afghanistan when they were in charge. They could not have been more cruel. And you would think that that's reason enough for the Afghans themselves to fight like hell to defeat them. But, you know, the odd thing about this war is that we've become the main defenders of a free future for Afghans that they really ought to be defending for themselves.", "And the Obama administration - indeed, General Petraeus, who's now the military commander in Afghanistan - argue this is not the time to talk. We need to be in a stronger position, pummel the Taliban for a year or so, and then it might be time.", "That's basically the position of the administration, or at least - let me put it this way: Basically, the president - the position of president of the United States for Afghanistan, David Petraeus. The White House, I think, harbors - hopes that something could happen on this front. But basically, the White House goes along with the consensus that you don't start serious negotiations until you're in a stronger position.", "And so then what is our ally, Hamid Karzai, doing? Doing exactly that.", "Well, he is playing games that suit his own purposes. His main purpose right now is to try to deflect American pressure on him to reform his government, and every once in a while, we decided to get tough with him. And one way he has of diffusing our pressure is to threaten to talk to the Taliban, because he knows we don't want him to do that now.", "And he knows we don't want him to do it now? So this is to get leverage with Washington.", "I think that's the main aim. Because, look, he understands full well that if he were to make any kind of deal with the Taliban on the issue that the Taliban demands most - namely withdrawal of all U.S. and NATO forces right away. If he were to make any kind of deal like that, he would be out of power the next day.", "Similarly, it seems unlikely the Taliban are likely to agree to the principal U.S. demand, which is that they renounce violence and renounce al-Qaida.", "You got it. So each side right now is making demands that the other side is entirely likely to reject.", "So why are the various Taliban elements - if all of them are there at the table - why are they talking? They can just play for time, they think.", "Yeah. I think they're talking - or at least some elements of the Taliban are talking. There's so many different Taliban groups. They're talking in order to create mischief, to create the notion in the minds of some Afghans that there might some deal reached to try to soften up the opposition. And they may be doing it, as well, to try to entice American opponents of the war.", "So to engender opposition to the war in the United States.", "Yeah. Or to make people feel that if we made a - the United States made a more generous offer to the Taliban, that some deal might be workable.", "Another player in the game, of course, Pakistan, which seems to be on both sides.", "Well, at least on both sides. The Paks are the most difficult to understand and the easiest to understand in all of this. You would think, given all the public rhetorical explosions they make about the need for the United States to stay in Afghanistan to see that war through, that they would be strong backers of the United States. But, in fact, they tell us to stay in Afghanistan endlessly and they provide a safe haven for the Taliban and al-Qaida in Pakistan. They give them protection. They give them aid. And in these negotiations, on the one hand, they seem to be telling the Taliban go to it, do it, but we've got to be there to check on you.", "And their interest on that side of the table - well, really, their interest on both sides of the table is the longer term gain.", "I think so. But their interest is so conflicted because, you know, they do want us to stay there. And they do have their connection, a very deep one, to the Afghan Taliban. So, you know, they're on both sides of that issue.", "Another player in the game, not a direct one, but the party sponsoring the talks is the gulf state of Abu Dhabi, which you suggested...", "(unintelligible)", "...might be the source of the story in the first place.", "That's right. They sponsored these talks, and they sponsored similar talks about a year ago. And mind you - and this is the measure of how serious these talks are - the press is allowed to sit in the room while the talks are going on. And some of the participants described the talks more as an academic seminar than as a negotiation. And I think that probably captures the spirit of the thing.", "So is there a time when it is going to be a - you suggest the cynics are right and given that context, it's likely that not much is going to emerge from these talks. But will there be a time when talks might be productive? And what would be the conditions then?", "Yeah. There almost always has to be - there's always has to be talks at some point, unless you're dealing with a real devil, somebody like a Hitler, and there's no making a deal with them. There's just looking after your own interests as best you can. But in this case, I think, there eventually will be talks.", "And look, every time we've been involved in some kind of clash, we end up talking to the other side. We talked to the North Koreans in order to have a ceasefire in the Korean War. And Vietnam, you know, we fought almost for a decade there. And Bob Gates is in Vietnam right now, and we're talking about joint military maneuvers - joint military maneuvers - with Vietnam against China. If we had understood anything about Vietnam years ago, we would have understood that they considered China their biggest adversary then, not just now.", "So, you know, there's a lot about these - in these countries, these cultures we don't begin to understand here. Americans aren't good in understanding what goes on in other countries. But at some point, if we are to extricate ourselves from Afghanistan while protecting our real interests there, it's going to involve talking to the Taliban devil.", "And you suggest General Petraeus - there's a telling quote about him sitting down to talk with people in Iraq who eventually helped the United States a great deal.", "Exactly. I mean General Petraeus is one tough-minded guy. And even he said, when it came down to the wire in Iraq, you had to talk to the people who you were fighting if you wanted to get some deal that allowed us to extricate ourselves. And he said, you know, in the end, we're going to - we'll have to do that in Afghanistan as well. But I think it's got to be part of a strategy of protecting our interests there over the long run without fighting a major land war. That is what has to be in our head in order to be able to make a deal with the Taliban.", "You also point out domestic politics, of course, plays a role on all sides for Afghan President Karzai, for the Pakistanis, for the Taliban, certainly and...", "That's what foreign policy is mainly about. Foreign policy is the extension of domestic politics by...", "You're rewriting Clausewitz here.", "Yes.", "But there's also an element of American domestic politics as well. You write that the hawks in the United States are very worried by the prospect of these talks and the idea that important American national interests may be sold out.", "Yeah. I mean, the problem with our debate on Afghanistan policy is that it hasn't been a serious debate at all. You know, in the first place, when we went in there 10 years ago - almost 10 years ago -there was good reason. Afghanistan was the home for the al-Qaida people who attacked us. So, sure, let's go in and get them.", "But all of the sudden, revenge, proper revenge turned into a major land war. And here we are, almost 10 years later, and what used to be the center of a threat to the United States, the terrorist threat to the United States in Afghanistan has now morphed so that that threat is even more serious from other parts of the world, from Pakistan, from Sudan, from Yemen, from Jersey City. So we have to really rethink the reasons for fighting in Afghanistan. It was once a very important interest. It's no longer anything resembling a vital interest in a war against terrorism.", "But there still will be a residual threat. And I think we have to figure out how to get our troops there down to a small and sustainable level to deal with that residual threat and begin to focus our energies on now the worldwide terrorist threat.", "Yet, some would argue that, indeed, we don't need necessarily to deal with the threat in Afghanistan so much as the threat that a defeat or a vacuum there would pose to Pakistan, a country which has nuclear weapons.", "I know. And I get that response every time I say what I just said to you, that, well, the war really isn't in Afghanistan. It's in Pakistan. And my answer to them is, sure, I think Pakistan is probably the country that represents the biggest threat to world peace and the safety of our friends and allies. It's a highly unstable country with a large extremist group and 100 nuclear weapons and building much more. So, you know, what do we do about that? I say to them, what are we going to do? They say, well, we'll work with them to create stability. We'll give them economic aid. It's a country of 180 million people that can't begin to govern itself and we're going to fix it up? That just won't happen.", "You know, and I think the best way to deal with the Pakistanis is to try to help the moderate group in that country by asking them what can we do to help strengthen your position. But if it involves any kind of open-ended stay in Afghanistan, I don't see how that begins to help the position of moderates in Pakistan. I don't get the connection.", "Leslie Gelb, thank you for your time today. Appreciate it.", "Sure.", "Leslie Gelb, president emeritus at the Council on Foreign Relations. He wrote an op-ed last week, \"Dealing with the Devil\" for The Daily Beast. 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{"id": "CNN-211005", "program": "JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL", "date": "2013-7-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/23/ijvm.01.html", "summary": "What Happened to Baby Daphne?", "utt": ["Tonight, breaking news just in. A frantic search under way as we speak for a beautiful toddler. Tonight, where is baby Daphne? New information is just coming in. This 21-month-old vanishes as her dad says he runs into the store, leaving his little girl in the car with her 87-year-old grandmother, who just happens to suffer from dementia. And when he comes out, baby Daphne is gone. But tonight, questions about his story. What happened to this adorable toddler? Is he telling the whole story? I`m Jane Velez-Mitchell, coming to you live.", "Each though my heart is breaking...", "Daphne Webb is just 21 months old. Her father reported her missing.", "There`s no way to express how you feel when your child is missing.", "These passing days have been the worst nightmare of any parent.", "They left Daphne in the car while he went into this store last Wednesday. When he came back, she was gone.", "I`m just a home body. I mean, even before all this happened, I never really went nowhere.", "Nobody else saw Anthony with Daphne.", "Somebody knows something.", "Little Daphne`s dad -- you saw him right there on the surveillance cam video. He claims she disappeared two weeks ago tomorrow. And again, here is the dad, John Webb, on convenience store surveillance video, buying an energy drink. He says he walked out of the store, and his little girl is gone and so is Grandma`s purse. Was Daphne kidnapped? Was this a stranger abduction? Does his story add up? And now we are just getting new reports in that relatives are telling us they had not seen baby Daphne for more than two weeks -- two weeks -- before her father reports her missing. But the dad responds that`s because, well, he doesn`t really leave the house.", "I`m just a home body. I mean, even before all this happened, I never really went nowhere unless I just had to leave the house for something.", "Why? Why does he stay at the house all the time? Do you buy the dad`s story? What do you think? Call me: 1-877-JVM-SAYS, 1- 877-586-7297. Straight out to Henry Lee, reporter with \"The San Francisco Chronicle.\" Henry, what is the very latest?", "The very latest, Jane, is that at one point, John Webb was in jail in custody for child endangerment, but the district attorney`s office did not file charges, so he`s a free man. He, in fact, showed up, Jane, at a vigil for missing Daphne Webb outside the store where he says he last saw her. Police are still looking for this little child, and he is saying he has nothing to do with her disappearance.", "HLN contributor Jon Leiberman, you`ve been investigating. You`ve been making calls; you`ve been digging. What have you learned?", "Well, at this point, Jane, it`s very interesting. Police have released a photo of the little girl and her father, because they`re trying to put a timeline together of when they were last seen together. Because family and friends say that they weren`t seen together for -- until two weeks before the little girl went missing, and police are skeptical that this was a stranger abduction in broad daylight, in late morning while this man was in the convenience store for all of a few minutes. So they`re trying to put together this timeline to see if the dad`s story adds up.", "Here`s the problem. The big problem with the father`s story. Police say the last confirmed sighting of baby Daphne -- and look at this adorable child -- it`s from late June. And we`re well into July, people. Despite the dad says, oh, she disappeared July 10. So there`s a gap of about two weeks when the family sees this little girl and when he says, \"Oh, she disappears while I get an energy drink at the convenience store.\" When the dad reports his toddler missing, he was then jailed by authorities -- you just heard that -- for child endangerment, because he left a toddler alone in a car with a woman who suffers from dementia. But again, those child -- those charges were not filed against him, so he has been released. Now, we have an exclusive interview with Kevin Davis. You are the grandfather of this missing toddler on the mother`s side. First of all, thank you for joining us. I know you must be heartbroken and absolutely torn apart. This is an adorable toddler. We want to help find her. Do you buy the dad`s story? You`re part of this family. Do you buy the dad`s story?", "Well, first of all, thank you for having me on. And for us to have a chance to put this on air. There`s some questions that I have about it. And basically, that`s the question -- one of the questions is, went in the store, came out. The baby seat -- the car seat is a little difficult to take it loose. So you need a few minutes to take that off and get the baby out. But even more so, there was an adult in the car. Even though she had dementia, you can`t really see dementia on the face of a person. So the question I have is who was bold enough to take the baby out of the car with an adult in the car present?", "Well, if you could stand by, sir, let us go to the Lion`s Den, because this -- a maternal grandfather is raising very good questions. And I`ll start with Vinny Parco. Vinny, he makes the point that yes, Grandma had dementia, but how does anybody know that Grandma had dementia, unless you had a crystal ball?", "I don`t think -- you know, this whole story sounds very fishy. No. 1, the wife is in jail -- is in rehab. She has a drug problem. He claims that he`s home as a home body. What is he -- how is he making his money? I -- I smell drug -- I smell drugs all over this case. And maybe he`s a drug dealer. Maybe somebody took the kid as revenge because they beat him on a deal. Who knows?", "Well...", "The story is very fishy.", "I don`t want to attack this dad. I mean, he is the father of this child. And Marc Klaas, you`re the president and founder of Klaas Kids Foundation. You are the leader in this nation in seeking missing children. Your own precious daughter was abducted and murdered, so you know that it can happen. And sometimes parents, when they report something like this, they`re treated with skepticism.", "Well, they`re going to be treated with skepticism, because the numbers always take you back to two things: the last person to see the child, and the person -- the child`s family, their parents, because the statistics are very clear that, in the vast majority of cases, parents are involved. I think something else, just to add on to what Kevin said. There are degrees of dementia. The fact that she has dementia doesn`t mean that she`s completely and totally zoned out all the time by any means. She might have slight episodes. She might be coherent and cognizant the vast majority of the time. So I think that Kevin`s absolutely correct. I think something else that needs to be pointed out is that that, first of all, is a very mean street, that location, at 79th and International Boulevard. But there`s also a lot of businesses there, so there are going to be a variety of surveillance cameras in and around that neighborhood. And to think that nobody caught anything, either him parking, him getting out of the car, or somebody leaving with that little child, I think speaks volumes.", "Well, Lisa Bloom, legal analyst, Avvo.com, one would think that, even though the grandma has dementia, maybe she comes to enough to answer the question \"Was the baby ever in the car?\"", "Well, that`s right. And wouldn`t the baby have screamed bloody murder if she`s being abducted by a stranger? Wouldn`t the grandmother, even suffering from dementia, potentially have screamed at a stranger coming into the car and taking a child? You know, look, the man is innocent until proven guilty. And let`s give him every benefit of the doubt, because his daughter has disappeared. But he has a lot of questions to answer. The biggest red flag for me is the two-week period when nobody saw that little girl. It reminds me very much of Casey Anthony, whose daughter was not...", "Oh, yes.", "... seen for several weeks till she was reported missing. We all know how that turned out. So I really wonder how you can be the single father of a baby under the age of 2 and nobody sees the baby. If the only other adult is somebody with dementia, you have to take the baby out with you when you go buy food...", "Well...", "... when you go buy...", "What about play dates? What about play dates? A 21- month-old child. Listen, we`re going to go to Officer Johnna Watson, who is with the public information office of the Oakland Police Department. What else can you tell us? You`ve been hearing our dialogue here. We are trying to find this precious child with these big, big, big eyes. What do you know, Officer?", "Well, first of all, I want to say thank you and especially from the Oakland Police Department, for shining a light on this case. The true focus is locating baby Daphne. That is our focus of the investigation. It`s still very active. And we continue and have never stopped the search since she was reported by her father, John Webb, on July 10. We continue to reach out to the community, and our focus at this point of the investigation is really narrowing that timeline down. A lot of conversations with a lot of speculation, and obviously, the investigation is very broad-based. So we`re taking into a lot of account...", "Let me ask you this, Officer. Did you give this guy, this dad a polygraph?", "I can`t share that information with you, because it still is an active investigation. I can`t go into...", "All right. OK.", "... the type of investigative tools we`ve used. And additionally, I can`t go into any conversations that took place between the investigator...", "Does he have a rap sheet? Does he have a criminal record? What does he do? What does he do for a living? I mean, he says he spends most of his time at home. What father of a toddler spends most of his time at home with a toddler? I mean, there`s daycare. There`s play dates. There`s preschool. There`s a million things. Kids have to go outside. I don`t get that. I mean, at least the neighbors would probably have had to have seen the child playing in the yard. The fact that the family has not seen the family for two weeks prior to when he reports her missing. Let me put it this way -- and I know you have to be very circumspect in how answer a question -- are you investigating the father`s story?", "Absolutely. So let me share with you where we are in the investigation. We really have three parallel investigations. One focuses on the missing kidnapping portion. The second focuses on if there should be foul play and who would factor into the foul play. And thirdly, the child endangerment and reports of the child not being seen by family or neighbors or just even the community at large. And some of the factors that weigh in. So we`re really looking at different areas of this investigation as a whole.", "I know this is public information, so maybe you can answer this: Have you executed a search warrant on the father`s home?", "Yes, we have. We did that immediately, the father`s home, along with other areas, vehicles associated and other areas, as well. Those were initiated immediately.", "All right. Officer Watson, thank you so very much. I know you`re busy; I know you`re trying to find this precious angel. Look at her with her little bow and her big eyes. Innocence, innocence. And it`s such a tragedy when we report these cases. This poor little thing, what happened to her? Now we have information on the other side. We`re going to go back to the maternal grandfather and ask him what does he know about the dad. What does this dad do for a living? Why is he saying that he`s at home all the time? Maybe there`s a good reason. Maybe he works on a computer out of his house. A lot of people do. I know a lot of people who do. Stay right there. We`re taking your calls on the other side.", "I`m just a home body. I mean, even before all this happened, I never really went nowhere. 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{"id": "CNN-245643", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2014-12-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1412/19/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Ups and Downs for U.S. Stocks; Russian Fallout Spreads", "utt": ["The fallout from the economic crisis in Russia now is spreading way across Europe. In Moscow, the Russian parliament now rushed through measures. It's designed to prop up the country's banks. And from Russia into Western Europe, neighboring nations with exposure to Russia are, some would arguably say, almost in panic mode. In Belarus -- now Belarus, of course, obviously well and truly on the border there -- Belarus is fearing a devaluation of the Belarusian ruble. The central bank's put restrictions on currency trading and a 30 percent tax on purchases of foreign currencies. Some interest rates in Belarus have been hiked to 50 percent to stop people from withdrawing the money, to force them or to keep them -- keep them in the bank. And you'll understand, of course, Belarus is one of those countries which has basically thrown its lot in with Russia in terms of trade agreements and the future trade region. The -- in Russian gas deal with the German company has been called off. Gazprom's now looking to expand activity in Europe. Sanctions stopping several new energy projects. But obviously the question of the South Stream pipeline and other energy -- and other energy projects very much in question. Charles Dallara is the former managing director of the Institute of International Finance, joins me now from Washington. Charles, good to see you. Nice that we're not talking about Southern Europe for a change, sir. We're talking about Russia. When do we start to see widespread effects of this Russian recession?", "Good to be with you, Richard. Unfortunately, I think we could see that fairly early in 2015. The cloud of economic weakness in Russia weakness in Russia is spreading over Europe. It has the potential of spreading into contagion into other emerging markets, particularly those with large energy companies, such as Petrobras in Brazil. And finally I think the combination of the weak oil prices, the lack of confidence in Russia and the ratcheting up of sanctions may well put Russian corporations and financial institutions early in the year where they're unable to meet their financial obligations to the West.", "Right. And now where are you more concerned? Are you concerned about Western Europe, which does, of course -- I mean, besides Germany, Austria maybe, a few other countries, the rest of Western Europe or the E.U., to be more precise, isn't as affected. Or are you concerned with the Stans over on the eastern and the southeastern part of the Russian border?", "Well, I think there has to be concern in both directions. But actually I think the fundamental problem is not so much with the Stans. I think they are adequately differentiated that they will be able to ride through this turbulence. I think the fact is is that we've had virtually no growth in Europe for half a decade now, Richard. And I think that we see the growing signs of political extremism. We see the continued weakness. We see the continued difficulty, which Europe has, reestablishing any sense of market momentum under the -- over the austere policies that have been guided out of Brussels and Berlin. I think this leaves Russia in a vulnerable -- not only Russia in a vulnerable position, but leaves Europe in a vulnerable position as we enter the new year. Finally I would just say that emerging markets are going to be put back into play, I'm afraid, by the combination of Russian weakness, energy market weakness more globally and the prospect eventually of the Fed moving.", "Now hang on. If you -- I was going to ask you a different question, but you've just thrown -- you've just thrown a financial hand grenade into the interview with that. If -- we've already seen Indonesia, Thailand, Brazil, their markets, their currency markets affected by what's happening with a rising dollar. If you do add in the Fed, the patient as Job they may be, eventually rates are going up, probably mid-next year. You're forecasting this -- the emerging markets get hit.", "I'm suggesting absolutely that emerging markets could be hit and hit hard, Richard. The fact is is that notwithstanding the vast amount of hope which markets have extracted from the simple word \"patient\" in the last couple of days, the -- despite that -- and by the way that's happening while earnings estimates in U.S. corporates are actually being marked down. All 10 sectors in the U.S., in the Dow have been marked down for earnings over the course of the fourth quarter and yet we have this continued upward movement of the Dow. The Fed cannot levitate markets forever. And when they finally do move, I think we have to be prepared for a considerable amount of turbulence.", "And we heard that from our guest earlier on markets; we're hearing it now from you. Charles, it's always good to see you, sir. Thank you for coming back. We'll have much more to talk about. Thank you.", "Good to be with you, Richard.", "When we return, the President of the United States says Sony made a mistake in withdrawing the release of \"The Interview.\" Sony says the president is wrong."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "CHARLES DALLARA, FORMER MANAGING DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE", "QUEST", "DALLARA", "QUEST", "DALLARA", "QUEST", "DALLARA", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-127352", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2008-6-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0806/07/smn.02.html", "summary": "Oil Prices Soar, Stocks Plummet: How Bad Is Our Economy?; Hillary Clinton Accepts Defeat", "utt": ["Good morning from the CNN Center here in Atlanta. I'm Dan Simon in today for T.J. Holmes. This is CNN Saturday morning. And it is June 7th.", "Already a busy day. Glad to have you here, Dan.", "Thank you very much.", "You're doing a great job. I'm Betty Nguyen. Oil prices, they go up and the stocks, they plummet.", "I think that things can have the potential to get very, very bad if we don't do anything.", "Foreclosures and jobless rates up as well. So just how bad is the economy? It is our issue number one.", "And we are three hours away now from Senator Hillary Clinton's rally in Washington where, of course, she is expected to ask her supporters to back Senator Barack Obama. The best political team on television is bringing it to you live here on CNN. Well, gasoline averaging now $3.98 a gallon; in San Francisco where I live it is well over $4.", "Yes, here it's about $4.10.", "Here's the thing, you can probably say, bye-bye. You know why? It is going to go up.", "That's the sad news. It is not bye-bye in a good way. Crude oil shot up nearly $11 yesterday to $138 per barrel. That has never happened before, and it is bound to have a ripple effect at the pump.", "CNN business correspondent Stephanie Elam, she is in New York where the stock market just absolutely tanked on this development. Stephanie, it was sort of like a perfect storm of bad economic news. What's going on here?", "Yes, that's true. It's definitely two things that we had here. We had some bad economic data as far as the jobs report showing that we had almost 50,000 jobs lost in May; that was one part of it. But then you take a look at oil. Oil was up $11 yesterday; and the day before that it was up $5. So to give you some perspective here, we are talking about $16 gained since Wednesday. So on Wednesday the oil was at $122 a barrel. So obviously this was a huge run up; something we haven't seen anytime soon. This is just like random. This just does not normally happen obviously. And there were a couple things factored in here. There was a report saying that oil could be up to $150 a barrel by the fourth of July. And then there were tensions between Iran and Israel and that factored into oil and that is what shot everything up yesterday, Dan.", "You know, when you consider the price of oil and how it went up 13 percent over something like two days, the question is is gasoline -- is it going to go up 13 percent as well?", "Yes, I think a lot of people are worried about that. If that did happen, that would be another 52 cents a gallon that we'd be looking at here. But the thing is, oil and gas they don't rise the same. It's not like oil goes up, gas goes up the exact same amount. They don't move in tandem but this does mean bigger shipping costs for people who are trying to stock their stores, especially for like mom- and-pop operations. That's a lot; we'll be looking for those kinds of things. That's where it factors in. But one good thing here, Dan, it's going to be really hot in a lot of the country, so they won't have to buy heating oil today. So I had to find something positive.", "Yes, but you are going to use your air conditioner. Your electricity bill is going to go up.", "Yes, there is that.", "All right. So here's the question. When does the cost of gasoline and heating oil get so high that you actually change your lifestyle? CNN's Deborah Feyerick, she met one schoolteacher in Maine who believes the U.S. is actually at that tipping point right now.", "Iver Lofving is convinced the world is running out of oil. He spent the last ten years getting ready for that day. A mainstream survivalist, chopping his own wood, installing solar panels, growing vegetables, even driving a solar- powered car; all of it geared to becoming self-sufficient.", "Call me crazy, but I'm crazy like a fox. This household makes half of its own energy. I mean, half the -- two-thirds of the hot water, half the heat right there, small part of the electricity, half the gasoline.", "Lofving is a high school teacher who lives in Skowhegan, Maine, roughly two hours north of Portland. He believes the world driven by cheap oil is coming to an end. How does peak oil play into the changes you're making in your life?", "Peak oil has everything to do with it.", "Peak oil is the point when global oil production peaks then goes down. The remaining supply is limited and will be harder to get at, and that means fewer barrels a day. Some oil experts say that day is here, others predict it is 20 to 30 years away. But as gas prices rise, Web sites like peakoil.com and survivalblog are getting more and more visitors talking about the end of cheap oil and the possible threat of political and economic instability around the world. And peak oil groups like Lofving's are seeing a spike in members.", "I think that things can get -- have the potential to get very, very bad if we don't do anything. I really do.", "Unlike some survival lists, Lofving has not started raising chickens or stockpiling years' worth of food and ammunition, but he is thinking of a bigger garden and maybe a small boat just in case. Deborah Feyerick, CNN, Skowhegan, Maine.", "All right. So where is all of this heading? And what does the latest price spike mean for the cost of groceries and other items? With us from New York to talk about all of it is Bob O'Brien, stocks editor for Barron's online. All right. So let's review for just a second, Bob. Oil jumped 11 points yesterday to nearly $139 a barrel. We've never seen this before. Is there such thing as a ceiling or do we just expect this to continue over and over and over again?", "Well, Betty, I think you can expect to see this replicated again because what happened the last two days in the oil market was really fundamentally very divorced from the underlying rational. It wasn't about the cause of drilling for oil and refining oil, it was about speculation on the part of traders who had been betting that oil prices were going lower.", "So you are telling me speculation and not consumption, not demand -- supply and demand is driving this, but instead speculation is driving this.", "That's certainly what happened over the course of the last two days. Now, some of that was leveled off of the decline in the dollar. Every time the dollar goes down or the euro goes up, the oil price tends to rise because oil is denominated in dollars. And as the dollar weakens, it becomes more attractive for overseas investors using your own currencies to purchase oil in the futures market. That's a lot of what's going to take place the last couple of days. That's not to say that underlying all this, there's no fundamentals because there's a global demand story taking place right now.", "When we see oil go to $139 a barrel, jump 11 points in just one day, how long before that translates into higher gas prices at the pump? Is there a little bit of a lag time there?", "Well, there's not just a lag time. Prices at the pump are determined more by demand for gasoline than they are by the underlying price of crude. As we saw over the Memorial Day holiday, demand actually pulled back 4 percent on the year over year basis. We have seen the airlines make capacity cuts, and the automakers are saying we can't sell an SUV or a light truck anymore. The ford F- 150 is no longer the most popular vehicle in America; the Toyota Camry has taken that place. So it's clear that consumers are pulling back a little bit, doing, taking some of the necessary steps that is going to result in lower prices down the road. However, over the short term, I think we're going to see a lot of volatility both in the crude markets and at the gas pump.", "Yes, I want to ask you about that because -- I mean, gasoline is $4 already. By the time we get to the fourth of July, how much is it going to cost then? Not only that, but by the time winter rolls around, can people afford to heat their homes?", "Well, those are all certainly very legitimate questions right now. I suspect that by the time we get through the summer season we are actually going to see prices start to retreat just a little bit. I think that the demand is going to start to drain out of the market. High prices will disabuse people from being gas guzzlers that they've been in the past. Eventually it will pull back. I would expect to see though a tremendous amount of volatility over -- certainly between now and the Fourth of July and more likely than not a lot of volatility in these markets through Labor Day. I suspect prices are going to remain somewhere near about $4 a gallon.", "So we are now looking at $5 or $6 or $7 by the fourth of July?", "Well, this is a hard market to predict because you are no longer in a market where the costs are related to -- where the prices that we are paying are related to the underlying costs. It is simply related to the price people are willing to pay for the products.", "Well, next time you come on, can you give us --", "I wish I had better news.", "I was going to say, next time you come on we want some better news from you, ok?", "I wish I could.", "Thank you for your honesty. Now, on Monday, your house, your job, your savings and debt, we bump issue number one up a notch; taking a day-long look at solutions oriented and served to your economic concerns. We'll be talking to credit counselors on Monday. So if you are in debt or you simply have questions regarding your credit, send us an e-mail. Here's the address -- issue1@cnn.com.", "And the troubled economy is also front and center in the presidential race; no surprise there. Republican John McCain took a boat ride through the Everglades yesterday to focus on the environment, but his attention was also on the rise in unemployment and the report on job losses.", "I probably should have mentioned that in my opening comments, because these numbers are very disturbing. They are the worst in 22 years, I'm told. Americans are hurting, American families are hurting. American homeowners are hurting. And this is a very, very serious situation. We have to do a number of things.", "McCain says the figures are a stark reminder of the current economic challenges he pledges to turn the economy around.", "Well, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is also making the economy a key issue as he makes stops around the country campaigning in Virginia. Senator Barack Obama said middle- class working Americans need help during these tough times.", "Changing is rebuilding an economy that rewards not just wealth, but rewards work, and the workers who create wealth. It is understanding the struggles that face working families. It can't be solved by giving billions of dollars in tax breaks to corporations and CEOs as John McCain has proposed, but instead involves giving middle class folks a tax break to offset the rising cost of gas.", "Obama called the latest unemployment figures deeply troubling.", "Well, about three hours from now, Senator Hillary Clinton -- she is going to be holding that big rally today in Washington where she is expected to announce the suspension of her campaign and to publicly throw her support behind Barack Obama. CNN's senior political producer Sasha Johnson is live at the National Building Museum this morning where Senator Clinton is going to be holding that rally. Some big questions here, but first of all, what do you think we'll hear in Senator Clinton's speech? If you are Barack Obama and his supporters watching the speech, what does she have to say for this to be considered a home run?", "Well, I think as you have been hearing all morning, you are going to be hearing unity, unity, unity. And I think that what Barack Obama supporters need to hear is some conviction behind those words. I mean, leading up to Tuesday, all we heard from Hillary Clinton was that she was the stronger candidate, she would win in the fall; Barack Obama couldn't. So I think his supporters need to hear her really mean it. And her supporters need to hear her say all of this so they can get behind Barack Obama.", "And both Clintons are known for choosing their words very carefully. Everybody is going to be scrutinizing every single syllable. And her body language, of course, all those things are going to be analyzed closely. You have been on the road with the senator for a long time. The question is is this 180 degrees from what she's been saying the last year?", "Sure. I mean, you know, her aids and Hillary Clinton herself, as I just said, have been saying Barack Obama is not ready to be president. It is interesting to hear her come out and put her support behind him, but Hillary Clinton is a good Democrat. She wants a Democrat in the White House. She wants to be a senator with a Democratic president to get her issues forward. She is coming forward as a good Democrat. I don't know that she -- I think she personally would rather be the nominee, but she is not and I think she's accepted that and she's moving on.", "They put off this announcement to Saturday, so a lot of her supporters could be there. Are you seeing people show up? Are the crowds going to be big today?", "Sure. We are seeing people line up right now, but what's interesting is the way that they are building the set up, there are going to be a lot of people behind Hillary Clinton, which is something that the Clinton people wanted. They wanted to show that Democrats -- that Hillary Clinton supporters were getting behind Barack Obama. So she didn't want to be up there by herself on stage. She wanted to show she is bringing supporters along. You will see a bunch of people seated behind her on bleachers and also there's as lot of room for people to stand. So they are expecting a big crowd.", "Well, so much anticipation for it and Sasha, thank you so much. And here's the thing. Keep your eye on CNN for special coverage of Senator Clinton's speech. Wolf Blitzer and the best political team on television -- they're going to be bringing it to you live at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time. Then tonight John Roberts and Campbell Brown examine the next president. A look at what the candidates will do to get elected and what they will do once they are in office. That's tonight at 8:00 Eastern, only on CNN, of course, your home for politics.", "This story is disturbing and you'll know why once you see the pictures; a young girl with her finger on the trigger. Now the police are taking a closer look.", "Also ahead, the Midwest battered again by severe weather. More severe weather may be on the way. 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{"id": "CNN-93482", "program": "PAULA ZAHN NOW", "date": "2005-4-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/05/pzn.01.html", "summary": "Jennings Announces He Has Lung Cancer", "utt": ["Thank you so much, Anderson. Good evening. Welcome. Glad to have you with us tonight. In just a minute, the latest on preparations for the pope's funeral, and the unbelievable story of an American nun in Brazil who was murdered because she fought for the poor. But we begin tonight with the news that ABC anchor Peter Jennings has lung cancer. Since 1964, Jennings has covered the world, first and foremost as a journalist, and for the past 22 years as anchor for ABC \"World News Tonight.\" At a time when NBC's Tom Brokaw and CBS's Dan Rather have stepped aside, Jennings is still on the air, but he was also a smoker for quite a few years.", "This year, every year, roughly 160,000 Americans will die from lung cancer. It's the leading killer among cancers, claiming more lives every year than breast, prostate and colon cancer combined. 82 percent of lung cancer deaths are blamed on smoking, 82 percent. And Peter Jennings was a smoker.", "Yes, I was a smoker until about 20 years ago, and I was weak, and I smoked over 9/11. But whatever the reason, the news does slow you down a bit.", "There have been a number of famous smokers who died from lung cancer: Edward R. Murrow, Chet Huntley, Harry Reasoner, as well as Walt Disney, John Wayne and Yul Brynner. Because lung cancer is usually well advanced before it is detected, just one in five victims lives for more than five years after being diagnosed. But Jennings says he plans to continue anchoring ABC \"World News Tonight.\"", "I have been reminding my colleagues today, who have been incredibly supportive, that almost 10 million Americans are already living with cancer and I have a lot to learn from them. And living is the key word. The National Cancer Institute says we are survivors from the moment of diagnosis. I will continue to do the broadcast on good days -- my voice will not always be like this. To be perfectly honest I'm a little surprised at the kindness today from so many people. That's not intended as false modesty. But, even I was taken aback by how far and how fast news travels. Finally, I wonder if other men and women ask their doctors right away, okay, doc, when does the hair go?", "We're rooting for you, Peter. Joining me now, senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Sanjay, it had to be so tough for him to share this with us publicly. Peter did not divulge the stage of his disease, but what we do know, when have you stage one lung cancer, it can be treated through surgery and is usually curable. He's going to be treated with chemotherapy. What does that suggest to you?", "Well, there's a couple of things. Again, as you mentioned, we don't know the stage of his lung cancer. It could mean either the lung cancer is not as advanced, or it could mean that it's more advanced. The reason is, if someone doesn't have a particular advanced lung cancer, a lot of times going to get surgery first to try to remove the localized tumor. More advanced cancer, sometimes they give chemotherapy first. It is really hard to say based on that alone, Paula.", "How treatable is lung cancer if found early?", "You know, it's interesting. We have done a lot of homework on this. They haven't made particularly great strides in the treatment of lung cancer, not over the last 10 years. If you look at everybody that has lung cancer, about six out of 10 people will die within the first year, and within a couple of years, seven or eight out of 10, so not great. Some of the symptoms of lung cancer more well known. Coughing, some shortness of breath, pressure in the chest sometimes, fatigue, all those sorts of things can happen. But it can be very difficult to diagnose, and that's the hard part, Paula, because a lot of patients are caught late in their diagnosis of lung cancer.", "Peter made reference to the weakness of his voice tonight and said it's not always going to be like that. But he also went on in his e-mail to his colleagues to expand on the idea, we heard him say on the air, where he said almost 10 million Americans are living with cancer. I'm sure I will learn from them how to cope. How might the chemo treatments slow him down?", "They are probably going to slow him down. I mean, chemo -- it's a toxic medication. It has a purpose, which is to try to kill these cells, but in the process, unfortunately, it kills other cells, as well. Sometimes it can cause side effects. These are well-known. Sometimes changes in blood pressure, they can cause diarrhea, they can cause hair loss, they can cause sores in the mouth, as well. What happens here, Paula, is that if, you look at the tumor cells, they divide very rapidly, and the chemo sort of targets the fact that they divide rapidly. There are other cells in the body that divide rapidly as well, such as your hair, for example. The cells in your GI tract, which is why people get sick to the stomach and they lose their hair with chemotherapy, Paula.", "We mentioned at the top of this piece how many people have died from lung cancer. What are the lessons to be learned from those cases and everything we know about smoking today? I know it's not going to make you too popular with the tobacco lobby out there, Sanjay, but you are a doctor first and foremost.", "They know this as well, Paula. Everybody know this is. Here have you one of the most cogent, well-defined relationships ever in medicine. Smoking causes lung cancer. People know this. Don't smoke. You can't say it enough on television. You can't say it enough times period. Right now, if people listen to us, we can save more lives by people stopping smoking than anything else I will do in my entire career as a physician. It's a really important relationship. Don't smoke.", "Dr. Sanjay Gupta, thank you.", "Thank you.", "In just a minute, we change our focus. The shocking story of the killing of a missionary", "An American nun murdered in Brazil.", "She had this price on her head for a long time.", "Fighting the powerful. Dedicated to the poor and to God. Tonight, the life and death of Sister Dorothy Stang when PAULA ZAHN NOW continues."], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, HOST", "ZAHN (voice-over)", "PETER JENNINGS, ABC NEWS ANCHOR", "ZAHN", "JENNINGS", "ZAHN", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "ZAHN", "GUPTA", "ZAHN", "GUPTA", "ZAHN", "GUPTA", "ZAHN", "GUPTA", "ZAHN", "ZAHN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "NPR-37617", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2009-02-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100468806", "title": "In Indiana, Obama Pitches Stimulus Plan", "summary": "President Barack Obama traveled to Elkhart, Ind., for a town hall meeting to promote the economic stimulus package. The administration hopes the city's poor economic situation will help ease the bill's passage after a week of partisan bickering.", "utt": ["This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. President Obama is on the campaign trial again. This time he's hoping to sway public opinion and ultimately lawmakers for the massive economic stimulus bill. The Senate is expected to pass its version of the measure tomorrow. But progress has been slow. So the president is ramping up his efforts.", "Mr. Obama holds a prime time news conference tonight to promote the stimulus. And earlier today he traveled to a hard-hit corner of Indiana to dramatize the human cost of the economic slowdown. NPR's Scott Horsley went with him.", "If any place needs an economic boost, it's Elkhart, Indiana, just south of the Michigan line. Unemployment in this area has tripled in the last year as local RV makers have cut back. More than one out of seven workers is now without a job. Many of them, including 62-year-old Ed Newfeld(ph), gathered today at Concord Community High School to ask the new president for help.", "I have worked in the RV industry for 32 years. Two of my daughters and two of my son-in-laws are also unemployed. I know that Elkhart County has the highest unemployment rate in the country. But I know we don't want to be there. We want to work.", "President Obama tried to explain how the stimulus bill would provide relief for Elkhart in concrete terms, literally. Of the three million jobs promised nationwide, he said 80,000 would be here in Indiana, some of them repairing dams, bridges and important local roadways.", "Roads like U.S. 31 here in Indiana.", "That Hoosiers can count on, that connect small towns and rural communities to opportunities for economic growth. And I know that a new overpass downtown would make a big difference for businesses and families right here in Elkhart.", "Elkhart's mayor is also hoping to score tens of millions of federal dollars for local building projects. In addition, the stimulus bill would extend unemployment benefits and make it easier for laid off workers like Newfeld to maintain their health benefits. Although the Senate is expected to pass its version of the measure tomorrow with a bare minimum Republican support, big differences still have to be worked out with the House. Mr. Obama initially left the package largely in the hands of legislative leaders.", "But as the debates dragged on, he's gotten more personally involved and more aggressive, arguing this is no time for delay or paralysis in Washington.", "Now, let me be clear. I'm not going to tell you that this bill is perfect. It's coming out in Washington, it's going through Congress.", "You know, look - it's not perfect, but it is the right size, it is right scope. Broadly speaking, it has for right priorities to create jobs that will jump-start our economy and transform this economy for the 21st century.", "After about an hour in the high school gym, Mr. Obama told the audience I've got to go back to Washington and convince everybody to get moving. He brought along half a dozen lawmakers on this trip. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters on Air Force One the visit is as much their benefit as the people of Elkhart's.", "This is not explaining to Indiana what's going on in Washington. This is taking Washington to show them what is going in Indiana and all over the country.", "And it's just the first in a series of campaign-style events on the president's schedule this week. Tomorrow he'll travel to Fort Myers, Florida, which has been badly scarred by the bursting of the housing bubble, and Thursday it will be Peoria, Illinois, home to Caterpillar, which just announced some 20,000 job cuts.", "Scott Horsley, NPR News, Elkhart, Indiana."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "SCOTT HORSLEY", "EWDARD NEWFELD", "SCOTT HORSLEY", "BARACK OBAMA", "BARACK OBAMA", "SCOTT HORSLEY", "SCOTT HORSLEY", "BARACK OBAMA", "BARACK OBAMA", "SCOTT HORSLEY", "ROBERT GIBBS", "SCOTT HORSLEY", "SCOTT HORSLEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-399381", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-05-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/06/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Pfizer Starts U.S. Trial of Potential COVID-19 Vaccine", "utt": ["Right now, according to the World Health Organization, more than 100 viable vaccine programs are underway. One has now started human trials in the U.S. on a much accelerated schedule. And as CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports, if successful, the vaccine could be ready by the end of the year.", "A simple injection that some hope could help bring an end to a global pandemic. Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech announcing today they dosed the first participants in the U.S. with a vaccine candidate in a clinical trial. Twelve study participants in Germany received doses last month. BioNTech CEO saying preclinical data showed good results.", "We see vaccine responses. We see some vaccine response at even low dose. And we believe that this vaccine was, since we've seen that in different animal models, but we're also translating into vaccine responses in human subjects.", "The program is called BNT-162, and it's actually a group of four trial vaccines using what's called an mRNA approach, or messenger RNA, approach, which causes the body to produce a protein that triggers an immune response. Pfizer and BioNTech claim, if the certification goes smoothly, they could have millions of doses ready by the end of this year, hundreds of millions of in 2021. BioNTech CEO saying he believes regulators will move fast.", "The benefit of a vaccine and pandemic situation is much, much greater, and therefore -- therefore an approval and authorization of a vaccine, pandemic situation has to follow other rules than what we have seen in the past.", "But there is a long way to go and a lot that can go wrong. Pfizer and BioNTech are only two of a flurry of companies and institutes trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine ASAP. The World Health Organization says there are currently more than 100 vaccine candidates under development, though only eight have been approved for clinical trials. The first was an experimental trial vaccine spearheaded by the National Institutes of Health. In the U.K., researchers at the University of Oxford are also in clinical trials with their own vaccine candidate, the chief researcher telling out front they are hoping to make the vaccine ready for use by fall.", "We'll probably enroll as many as 1,000 people into this trial, partly because we've used this type of vaccine before for other immunizations, and partly we -- because we believe the safety protocols should be very good.", "While some of the early indicators seem promising, there are also a lot of experts around the world who warn there probably isn't a quick fix when it comes to a coronavirus vaccine. Many of the candidates currently under development around the world probably won't be ready anytime soon, and many won't be certified at all. Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Berlin.", "U.S. job numbers will be out on Friday. They're expected to be the worst in decades. Even the Trump White House can't spend what's expected to be an horrendous unemployment rate.", "My guess is that it's going to be north of 16 percent --", "Worse, wow.", "-- maybe as high as 19 or 20 percent. So we are looking at probably the worst unemployment rate since the Great Depression.", "Wow. Well, then --", "It's a tremendous negative shock. A very, very terrible shock.", "Kevin Hassett initially expected a 20 percent rate for June but revise that after 30 million Americans filed for unemployment last month. A jobless rate not seen since the Great Depression is the major factor in this rush to reopen businesses. It's forced a debate on the need to revive the economy versus public health. Some say the cost of lives is necessary. Here's Brian Todd.", "The images make it clear. People want to get out.", "Open Texas now!", "And millions are desperate to get back on the job.", "The Constitution says we have a right to life and liberty. I have a right to work.", "But the rush to get back to normal brings a stark warning from America's top infectious disease expert.", "How many deaths and how much suffering are you willing to accept to get back to what you want to be some form of normality sooner rather than later?", "The jarring choice offered by Dr. Anthony Fauci comes as new models project a possible sharp increase in coronavirus-related deaths in America through August. Those models tied to recent reopenings of businesses and public spaces across the U.S. and relaxed social distancing. But the president was adamant again that people have to be allowed back to their jobs, and he believes keeping them away could kill them, too.", "If they held people any longer with the shutdowns, you're going to lose people that way, too, and you already have, I'm sure. But between drug abuse, and I mean, they say suicide, a lot of different things.", "Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whose state has been hit harder than most, told our Dana Bash as many lives as possible should be saved. But he asked if Americans could come to an acceptance of certain levels of death in order to get the economy moving again.", "We've got to let some of these folks get back to work, because if we don't, we're going to destroy the American way of life in these families.", "But will people be able to swallow the notion, if these projections are right, up nearly 3,000 deaths a day?", "They're going to have to.", "Some of this language from Chris Christie and other politicians just lacks basic humanity, I think. In the long run, we will be able to replace some jobs. We're not going to be able to replace the lives that are lost.", "That debate between America's political leaders and its top doctors over the human cost of reopening, over the kind of carnage Americans could be willing to accept is intensifying.", "You can't have a strong economy when people are dying or are dead. How will you reopen offices and factories and schools if people have died?", "But one public health expert says Chris Christie's message is an important one that Americans need the unvarnished truth that reopening, whenever it happens, will come with a human cost.", "The fact that you're now admitting that there are going to be increased deaths, I think, is a step to actually being honest with the American public that that's -- that's what the stakes are here. That's what -- that's what the trade-off is going to be. The costs of having an economy functioning are going to be increased cases and increased deaths.", "And despite the projections for an increase in deaths tied to early reopenings, two Trump administration officials have told CNN those numbers are not expected to affect the White House's plans for reopening the country. It could set up an excruciating, drawn-out debate between America's political leaders and top doctors, which could extend maybe into next year. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "After being closed for more than three months, Shanghai Disney will reopen on Monday. It's the first of 12 Disney parks to restart operations since the beginning of the pandemic. The company has seen a 91 percent drop in profits last quarter. So masks will be mandatory for guests. Their temperatures will be taken. They must consent to the government's contact-tracing system. The number of guests will be limited, but there will be an increase in the number of sanitation stations. Disney Park's chief medical officer says in the U.S., parks will reopen in phases but so far, there has been no official date on that announcement, when that will take place. Still to come, South Korea moving to reopen schools. So after the break, we'll look at the measures they're taking to keep classrooms safe and students healthy."], "speaker": ["VAUSE", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UGUR SAHIN, CEO, BIONTECH", "PLEITGEN", "SAHIN", "PLEITGEN", "ADRIAN HILL, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD", "PLEITGEN (on camera)", "VAUSE", "KEVIN HASSETT, SENIOR ECONOMIC ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HASSETT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HASSETT", "VAUSE", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TODD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TODD", "DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE", "TODD", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "TODD", "CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), FORMER NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHRISTIE", "DR. SEEMA YASMIN, FORMER CDC DISEASE DETECTIVE", "TODD", "YASMIN", "TODD", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-365293", "program": "STATE OF THE UNION", "date": "2019-03-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/24/sotu.03.html", "summary": "Interview With Rep. Mark Meadows (R) North Carolina", "utt": ["Welcome back to STATE OF THE UNION. Attorney General William Barr is at the Justice Department. He headed back to the office after spending many hours, nine to be exact there on Saturday pouring over the Mueller report. Barr hopes to send the top line conclusions to Congress as soon as today. And as we wait, I want to go to one of the president's closest allies on Capitol Hill Republican representative Mark Meadows of North Carolina. He is the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. Thank you so much, sir, for joining me this morning. The president has been --", "Great to be with you, Dana.", "The president has been uncharacteristically quiet on matters of substance since the Mueller report was submitted. You're close with him. What is he saying about it so far?", "Well, I think everybody is waiting to see what the final report is today when Attorney General Barr comes out. I do want to compliment the attorney general. When he got the report, within minutes literally he notified Congress, not just on one aspect, but on another aspect key to this whole thing, is the fact that President Trump did put his hand and pressure them to look the other way and that there was no really involvement with regards to DOJ impeding the Mueller investigation. So, I think both of those things were key. But I think everybody is waiting to see what the facts are today.", "Congressman, the president and allies like yourself have been relentlessly attacking the Mueller probe now for two years trying to erode its credibility. How do you come back from that if the Mueller report is indeed something that clears the president or at least comes close to that?", "Well, I don't think the Mueller report should have been really something we're discussing today. I don't think there should have been a special prosecutor. I've been consistent with that since day one. We know that there was bias at the Department of Justice early on. In fact they were talking about a special prosecutor before James Comey was fired. And yet here we are today some 22 months later talking about something after spending tens of millions of dollars on a narrative that Democrats put forth. They said that this president colluded with the Russians. In fact some even went as far as to say he was an agent of Russia which is just ludicrous. And yet here we are today trying to make sense of an investigation that happened 22 months into it. We need to go after the bad guys which is Russia and not the president of the United States.", "But will you -- will you concede that it would be inconsistent when this report comes out for Republicans to talk about it vindicating the president any way shape or form if they called it a witch hunt and called it not necessary and all the things you just said?", "I don't know how it could be inconsistent. We said there was no collusion. In fact, I've come on your show before to say that there's not any collusion. And yet Sunday after Sunday Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler and others said, oh, there's evidence, there's collusion. And yet what we find is an independent investigator has said that there's going to be no indictments. You can't have it both ways. I've been consistent saying the president didn't collude and now it appears that the facts will support that assumption.", "We should remind our viewers that we don't know what's in this report yet. And that's very important.", "Well, we do know that there's no indictments coming, Dana.", "That's true.", "I mean, because we do know that. And so if there was collusion either Bob Mueller decided not to actually prosecute somebody with evidence being there which I find hard to believe that that would happen.", "Well, that's true -- listen, that's true for Don Jr. That's true for Jared Kushner. DOJ guidelines as you know very well say that you shouldn't and can't indict a sitting president. So the indictment doesn't necessarily mean that we're not going to see intense criticism in the Mueller report, which bring me to my next question which is, you voted --", "Sure.", "-- on a resolution to release the Mueller report this past week, or two weeks ago. So given that, would you support a subpoena, if necessary, to get the attorney general to completely release and be transparent with the Mueller report?", "Well, I don't know that we're going to need a subpoena. Because Attorney General Barr has indicated he's going to do as much as he possibly can within the confines of the law to not only inform Congress, but inform the American people. So everybody talking about a subpoena, I find that really rich when we're talking about transparency. And some of the very people that are talking about a subpoena, Dana, are the ones who didn't want anyone to know that Fusion GPS was actually hired to dig up dirt on the president. They didn't want the Nunes memo released. I was one of the few that said release the Republican memo and release the Democratic memo.", "Yes --", "And so when -- listen, transparency is good for everybody. I believe that we need to protect the innocent here. But to the extent that we cannot sacrifice national security interest and release as much information as possible, I certainly support that.", "You support it. And you're close with the administration. Are you confident that they will actually do that?", "Yes, I'm confident that Attorney General Barr is really going to look at releasing as much as he possibly can within the confines. Rod Rosenstein who you know I'm not a big fan of said it many, many months ago is typically prosecutors do not release information that would be harmful to the innocent. There was an old Jack Webb \"Dragnet,\" the names have been changed to protect the innocent. We need to make sure that we protect the innocent here, but at the same time be transparent and make sure that the American people know the truth. And when they know the truth, they will see this president did not collude with the Russians on -- to affect the election in 2016.", "Congressman, you talked about Congress and the Democratic led House and their investigations. Put that aside for a second. My last question for you is this, the president's own Justice Department separate from Mueller also is continuing to investigate lots of aspects of Trump world, whether it's the inauguration, his charitable foundations, businesses, do you think those investigations are legitimate?", "I think a lot of those are not legitimate. I think what we've done is we've thrown as much at the wall as we possibly can to make it as difficult on this administration and try to distract. Certainly if there's wrong doing, no one is above the law, including the president of the United States. But what we see is a pattern of harassment. When Jerry Nadler puts out and said we want to investigate 81 different things, if we had done that to the previous administration they would be crying foul everywhere. And yet we see that this is just a large dragnet trying to find something to investigate. You need to look at the crime and investigate the crime, not go out and use the power of the government to drudge up some kind of wrong doing.", "Congressman Mark Meadows, thank you so much for joining me this morning. I appreciate it.", "Thank you, Dana.", "No more indictments in the Mueller probe. People around the president are applauding that. But what does it really mean? We're going to go behind the scenes with the former independent counsel. That's next."], "speaker": ["BASH", "REP. MARK MEADOWS, (R) NORTH CAROLINA", "BASH", "MEADOWS", "BASH", "MEADOWS", "BASH", "MEADOWS", "BASH", "MEADOWS", "BASH", "MEADOWS", "BASH", "MEADOWS", "BASH", "MEADOWS", "BASH", "MEADOWS", "BASH", "MEADOWS", "BASH", "MEADOWS", "BASH", "MEADOWS", "BASH"]}
{"id": "CNN-247551", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2015-01-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/20/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "China Denies Theft Of U.S. F-35 Stealth Fighter Plans; `American Sniper' Opens With Box Office Success, Controversy", "utt": ["I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream and these are your world headlines. Now Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says that the international community needs to deal with terrorists without giving in to them. He is demanding the immediate release of two Japanese hostages ISIS is threatening to kill if Japan does not pay $200 million in ransom in the next three days. Now four of nine people detained last week in connection with the Paris terror attacks are to appear in court to hear any charges against them. Now five other suspects have been released without charge. German police conducted a series of anti-terror raids overnight. Now 200 officers hit 13 properties in three different states. And we are told it is part of an investigation into two arrested suspects who were accused of providing support to ISIS. Now China rejects the accusation it stole designs for the next generation of U.S. fighter jets. Now the Germany newspaper Der Speigel says details of the theft is contained in top secret U.S. government files that came from the NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Now one document says the U.S. believes China hacked terabytes of data related to the F-35 stealth fighter, including detailed engine schematics and radar design. Now the jet-maker Lockheed Martin declined to comment. In 2009, CNN reported that hackers had stolen thousands of files related to the F-35. At the time, Lockheed Martin said no classified information had been breached. Now China wants to know if the accusers can produce any real evidence.", "Cyber attacks are hard to trace back and are usually committed across borders. This complexity means that it's extremely difficult to identify the source of the attacks.", "China showed off its new stealth fighter, the FC-31 at an air show last year. Experts say is bears a resemblance to the F-35, but may not match its technological capability. Now with U.S. allies planning to fly the F-35, including Australia, Britain, Japan, and Israel, China is trying to close the gap and create jets that it can export. Now the movie American Sniper has box office records, Oscar nominations and controversy. As George Howell now reports, the film about the Iraq war has triggered an intense debate.", "Americans are packing into theaters to see \"American Sniper,\" the real life story of the man known as America's deadliest sniper, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, played by actor Bradley Cooper. The film is breaking box office records this debut weekend, earning 105 million in weekend ticket sales and six Academy Award nominations.", "I loved it. I loved it.", "It was a very emotionally stressful movie, I thought.", "It was pretty good. It's very compelling.", "Very good. Excellent.", "Not so excellent, however, in the minds of some in Hollywood. Actor Seth Rogin tweeting, quote, \"American Sniper\" kind of reminds me of the movie that's showing in the third act of \"Inglorious Bastards.\" And filmmaker Michael Moore igniting a firestorm on Twitter. Quote, \"my uncle, killed by a sniper in World War II. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot you in the back. Snipers aren't heroes and invaders are worse.\" Then, five hours later, quote, \"but if you're on the roof of your home defending it from invaders who have come 7,000 miles, you are not a sniper, you are brave, you are a neighbor.\" Moore's comment about cowards definitely getting some pushback.", "For somebody who has spent their entire career on freedom of speech and freedom of expression, to be criticizing an individual like Chris Kyle, who exemplifies the very best, well, it's like -- that's really biting the hand that feeds you.", "And the moviegoers we spoke to also took issue with the perceived criticism.", "I think he was fighting for this country, was doing what he thought was right.", "None of us who don't serve or can't serve have no idea what our soldiers are going through.", "Whether Moore was actually talking about the film \"American Sniper\" is now sort of a gray area, tweeting, quote, \"Hmm, I never tweeted one word about \"American Sniper,\" Chris Kyle. I said my uncle, killed by sniper in World War II. Only cowards would do that to him and others.\" He goes on to say, quote, \"so people want me to tweet something about \"American Sniper.\" Great acting. Powerful message. Sad ending. There.\" Then sending people to his Facebook page for further clarification. Regardless, one thing seems crystal clear on the streets among the masses who saw \"American Sniper.\"", "It's not a coward. It's a matter of taking -- you know, doing what he was told to do and what he was trained to do.", "I'm ready.", "George Howell, CNN, Chicago.", "Oh, my God!", "We want to pay tribute to a man who created an important part of television.", "We want to pay tribute to a man who created an important part of television.", "Instant replay. Now, Tony Verna passed away on Sunday. He created instant replay in 1963, using it for the first time during the Army-Navy football game. Now Verna's invention was so surprising that the commentator has to explain to the audience that the replay was not live. And now it's a common part of virtually every sporting event. Now some sports even allow referees to check replays to make sure they made the correct decision all thanks to Verna's invention. Tony Verna was 81. We'll have more News Stream after this short break."], "speaker": ["LU STOUT", "HONG LEI, CHINSE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN (through translator)", "LU STOUT", "GEORGE HOWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HOWELL", "CADE COURTLEY, FORMER NAVY SEAL", "HOWELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HOWELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE,", "HOWELL", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "LU STOUT", "LU STOUT", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-411777", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-09-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/24/nday.02.html", "summary": "No Officer Charged in Killing of Taylor", "utt": ["Same breath was a huge mistake yesterday. My suspicion is, this reminds me of a few weeks ago, Alisyn, when he talked about, well, maybe we should delay the election, and you had the elected leadership and the party leadership of both parties unified in saying that's not happening, and then that was quickly abandoned. So I think if he persists in this, you'll see both parties' leaders unify around a message of, that's not -- that's not going to happen, Mr. President. I agree with Bakari, by the way. I think we will have a peaceful transition and that's what's going to happen.", "But -- why? Why do you think that, Scott, when the president of the United States is saying it's conditional?", "Because the president of the United States does not have the ability to just upend, you know, all the tradition and history we have in this country of a peaceful transition of power. I don't -- I just -- I don't think a single human can do that.", "But he does -- Scott, but just -- I just -- I want you to help everybody feel better --", "I think the weight of our institutions and the weight of the momentum of our democracy would prevent it. My view.", "Yes? Who's going to stop him? Who's going to stop him, Scott? I mean --", "The Secret -- the Secret Service. I mean the Secret Service is going to come in --", "Yes, but I'm talking about what he's doing -- but what he's doing is ginning up his supporters. He's not -- he's not saying that he's activating the military. He's ginning up his ardent supporters to go out into the streets. That's why Brian Kemp says there's rioting in the streets, and the president says, well, get rid of the ballots and then it will be peaceful. He likes the rioting in the streets is what he's saying.", "Yes, I don't disagree --", "How is anybody going to stop that?", "I don't disagree with that. I think we're talking about two different things, though. I don't -- I don't disagree with the fact that he wants chaos. I don't disagree with the fact that he wants mayhem. I don't disagree with the fact that we may have some hint of fragility in this country after November 3rd. You know, there -- there is a -- there is a legitimate possibility that on election night Donald Trump is leading this race. But he will not be the valid winner after all of the ballots are counted. And that will be moments of fragility in this country where he wants to gin up supporters, where he wants to have mayhem and violence in the streets. That is a fact. There also is another fact, though, that after he loses this election, on -- at noon on January 20th, there will be Secret Service agents that escort him to a helicopter that will take him wherever in the world he wants to go. Both of those things are --", "Yes. I'm -- I'm not actually talking about him staying in the White House. I think that as of yesterday there's a bigger concern. I don't think that him just establishing squatter's rights in the White House is our biggest concern anymore, Scott. I really don't. I think that it's now that he's -- he's open for business when it comes to violence. He said as much. Scott?", "Yes, I -- I didn't hear him talk about violence yesterday. I heard him make a very, very poor response to a legitimate question. And so I think you're reading into something that he -- he didn't say. I would just say this, Bakari brings a good --", "He certainly didn't shut it down. He didn't shut it down.", "Bakari raised a good -- a good -- Bakari raised a good point of about the period of time between election night and then the few weeks that persist, because it's clear, based on the voting systems in several of the states, that we are going to be counting ballots for a period of time. And so we do have to have a valid winner. And we will have a valid winner. And that should be the point. And everybody's vote should count. Everybody who cast a legal ballot should have their votes counted. And then when we count those votes, we'll have a legal and valid winner. And that's the process we should want. And when it's over, we'll transition. That's the message and it's really no more complicated than that.", "I hope you guys are right. I hope -- I like how sanguine you are. I hope that it's right. Bakari, you have been talking about Breonna Taylor so many mornings on this program.", "Yes.", "I mean before she was a household name, you were alerting everybody and grabbing all of our attention and telling us about this case. And so what did you think about what happened yesterday?", "I mean, I think it's pretty clear that black lives do not matter. I think it's pretty clear that justice is fleeting, that if you are a person of color, particularly a black woman in this country, you know, the quest for justice and the road to get justice is longer and harder than most. And I think that yesterday there was -- there was more concern for the walls of the apartment next door, these charges these officers face -- or that officer faces is a sham. You know, when you have one person who's charged for just shooting a gun willy-nilly, as we say down south, with a $15,000 bond, sometimes you just have to smile at the absurdity. You know, I -- you know, my heart goes out to Breonna Taylor's family. And when you wake up this morning, I've said on this show many times that, you know, being black is a perpetual state of grieving in this country. And here we are again. I've come on this show and poured my heart out. I've, you know, cried. I've laughed to prevent myself from crying. It just hurts sometimes. And here we are again at another moment. You have to listen to some Gospel music and just have one of those days. And so for everybody watching, you know, just -- you know, it's tough. It's hard. But we have to get up and keep going.", "Scott, I know that you're close to the Kentucky attorney general, Daniel Cameron. You were a strategist on his campaign. You've become close friends with him. A lot of people think that he got this one wrong. I mean that if you are a young black woman, asleep in your bed, you've done nothing wrong, in your apartment, that you shouldn't be shot six times.", "Well, you're right, I am close to the attorney general. And I agree with Bakari about the tragedy of this. And everybody in -- I'm in Louisville, by the way, and, you know, we've all been living this case day-to-day because we live here. It's our community. And it is a tragedy. And her life was lost and it should not have been. There's two parts of this investigation. The attorney general was looking specifically at the shooting events of that evening. As he announced yesterday, the FBI is still looking at the warrant situation, the civil rights situation, and possible federal charges. Because a lot of people want to know, why were the police there in the first place? Why was it in the middle of the night? How did they obtain the warrant that put them in that situation? It was tragic because she was not breaking any laws. She was unarmed. Her boyfriend was not breaking any laws. He was armed. He did fire. The police returned fire. So it was a situation where the police, as Chief Ramsey said earlier on the show, the police had been fired upon, they returned fire and that's what created the tragedy. And that's what the attorney general was investigating was, what was the truth of the events of that night?", "Yes.", "But now, Alisyn, I think what the community wants is, what's the truth of the events that led up to the police going to that home in the first place?", "Yes.", "And, do we need a review by the process by which these warrants are obtained, how and when they are served and so on and so forth.", "Of course we do.", "We've got the FBI looking at that. And General Cameron also said yesterday, he's going to lead a task force reviewing how warrants are obtained and served in Kentucky. We need that. We need that here because you have somebody who's dead, and it's tragic and it's wrong. You have another person -- by the way, I sympathize with Walker. Bakari I'd love you thoughts on this.", "Yes.", "He was put in a crazy position. He's in -- he's in an apartment. It's the middle of the night. You hear banging on the door.", "Yes.", "I mean he legitimately -- he legitimately thought he was in danger, too. And so you've got Walker in a terrible position here.", "Of course.", "All-around tragedy and Louisville's heart is broken.", "Yes, guys, I'm sorry, Bakari, hold your thought on that. We have to go. But, obviously, this case is far from over, actually, in terms of all the questions that still need to be answered. Bakari, Scott, thank you both very much.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "President Trump is also threatening to intervene in the vaccine approval process. Can he do that? 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{"id": "CNN-296004", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2016-10-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/13/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Thailand's King Passes Away; Boko Haram Releases 21 Chibok Girls", "utt": ["I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream. Now, after two long years, Nigeria says Boko Haram has released more of the missing Chibok schoolgirls. And the Trump campaign is fighting back after reports raised accusations that Donald Trump inappropriately touched three different women. Breaking news for you here at CNN. We have learned that the king of Thailand has died. King Bhumibol Adulyadej had been Thailand's monarch since 1946. He was revered in Thailand to the point of being worshiped as a living god. And for more on the loss of this much beloved king of Thailand, let's go straight to Will Ripley in Bangkok. And Will, a deeply tragic moment for the people of Thailand, they have lost their king.", "They have. And they call their King Bhumibol, Kristie, the soul of this nation. And so not only have they lost their king, but many people, as the new starts to spread here, will feel as if they have lost a piece of their nations soul as well. 70 years King Bhumibol has served. He rose to power at age 18. And you can see his influence in the eyes and faces of people here who are looking at the national television broadcast, many of them on their phones, the news from the royal agency was just posted on their official Facebook page a short time ago that the king died this afternoon at 3:52 p.m. local time. So, just over three hours ago at Siriraj Hospital where we are standing right now. He had actually been in hospital since October of 2014, Kristie, and there have been a number of health scares over the years. But the Thai people knew that this one was different when the crown prince cut his trip short from Germany to come here. All three of the princesses also joined the crown prince and they met yesterday with their father. The prime minister came back early from a trip in eastern Thailand. And he came here, we believe, to have some sort of an audience with the Crown Prince, who is the designated heir. But really, this is something that this nation hasn't gone through in 70 years. This king is the only king that the majority of the 65 million people here in Thailand have known in their lifetime. They don't know what a succession process is going to look like and what's going to happen. And so in the coming hours, we expect to get more information released from the government about exactly how this is going to work. There are obviously questions and concerns here about stability, political stability. Thailand is a deeply divided country, as you know, Kristie. And the king over the years has many times been the glue that has held the two opposing sides together. So his loss is a huge loss not only for the hearts of the people here in Thailand but also for the stability of this country as they move forward.", "Will, in the last few days, there has been this outpouring of just emotion and affection and concern about the ailing king. And we have learned that the king of Thailand has passed away. The crowds behind you have been swelling in the last few hours. Thousands of people around you. Could you describe the scenes leading up to this moment and perhaps the reaction right now in Bangkok.", "And I have to say, we've moved around 500 yards from the area where we were earlier, Kristie, because the crowds became so large that the cell phone signal that we used to bring you a live picture went down. We were unable to even get a phone call, barely, out of there. But you can see around the hospital perimeter here, people are standing, they are awaiting word from the police officers that are standing here. They're looking at their phones. This is somebody who made the monarchy in Thailand accessible to ordinary people. It used to be that commoners weren't even allowed to gaze on their king. But this king would go out into the countryside. King Bhumibol would always be seen carrying his camera, because he loved photography. He would take pictures of the landscape and his people. He cared about things like soil preservation. He turned the palace -- the swimming pool and different parts of the palace grounds into agricultural experiments to try to figure out how to produce more food for people. He created educational opportunities. He was the first to broadcast distance learning over radio stations that people outside of Bangkok here in the rural areas could learn trades, could learn useful skills, and families could become food self- sufficient. So this is a man who's earned the nation's respect over 70 years of being a leader, yes, but a leader who very much had the common touch. And that is what people are mourning just as much as anything, because he is the one figure in this divided country who no matter what the political situation, and there have been more than a dozen military coups in the king's lifetime, he's the one people would listen to. He was the one able to often smooth over conflicts to keep order, to keep things moving forward. And so now in many ways -- and you can understand why the people of this country may feel at a sense that this is a bit of a rudderless ship, even though he has been in hospital for the last two years, actually living in hospital, and has made fewer and fewer public appearances and statements over the years has his health has declined.", "Yeah, the king of Thailand, as you describe him, he was respected for making the monarchy accessible in his country. And he was also revered to the point of being a living god, like a deity. Could you please describe and explain that to us.", "Well, King Bhumibol, people thought, for example, that he was going to live to be at least 120, that's what one woman told us here earlier today. So, even though the official palace statement puts his age at death at 89 years old, they thought he might live longer. They thought he might rule for another 30 years. And so the prayer we kept hearing was a prayer for the king to recover. They were chanting \"long live the king.\" They were singing the king's song. And even now you see people in the crowds here, they're gathering together. They're wearing -- some of these people are wearing yellow. That's the king's color, because he was born on Monday. A lot of people inside near the hospital wearing pink shirts. Pink is considered a color that helps to boost recovery. And so this obviously -- the monarch of Thailand, this is a Buddhist country. He has no actual political power, but he is the king and he reigns using Buddhist ideals. And so a lot of those traditions we've seen out here on the streets of Bangkok today, and we'll certainly see more of them in the coming days as this country, as they learn the news and they start to mourn this loss. Also, of course, we will hear more from the crown prince, who is back here. He's 64 years old. The crown prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, he is a fighter pilot. He's the father of seven himself. At some point, he has been named as the heir to the king. But how that process is going to work, when that will happen, what kind of a king will he be like, these are all questions that the Thai people have right now, and they don't have answers. And they can't really speculate too openly about it because of the very strict enforcement of this country's (inaudible) laws which prevent any speculation about the royal family or any public discussion, social media posts that, sort of thing. So, people are basically waiting for official information and trying to sort through their feelings of grief at the loss of their king.", "Now, this is a national tragedy for the people of Thailand. How do the people of Thailand consider this moment and their future, a nation after King Bhumibol?", "Well, it's telling, Kristie, that ever since news over the last few days has broken that King Bhumibol's health was -- his health was declining, we've seen the stock market here go down every day. It dropped by 3 percent yesterday. I haven't seen the latest updated numbers today, but it was on a downward trend at last check. So obviously this has the business community worried because there are questions about the stability of Thailand moving forward without this unifying force, without this king who really did have a power to speak and people would listen. There are few figures in the world -- in fact, no monarch in the world really with this kind of relationship with his people. It is unparalleled in modern society to have a monarch as well respected as the Thai king. And so that is going to have an effect, at least in the short-term, on investor confidence. It's going to have an effect certainly on the mood of this nation as they deal with the sadness of this loss. It really feels -- it's a huge void that will have to be filled. And so as we learn -- we know from the previous royal funerals, the most recent was back in 2012, I believe, you know, usually the way it works is that the body is brought back to the palace and will lie in state, sometimes for a year or longer, because the goal is to give as many people, and ideally everybody in the country, the opportunity to come and pay their respects. With 65 million citizens, we don't know if that's going to be possible, but you can bet there will be many people, millions of people, who are going to want to do this, are going to want to be close to the king to thank him one last time, to pay their respects. And it goes back to what you were saying, Kristie, about this king really being almost worshiped as a living god, now a god who has left this world, but again under the Buddhist religion, which this country adheres to. They believe he will be reincarnated to something even greater for all of the good work that he has done over the last 70 years as king of Thailand.", "And now this is a nation in mourning, a nation that must say good-bye to a much loved king. Will Ripley reporting live for us from the Thai capital. Thank you, Will. Now, Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, again, has passed away. Here's a look back at the life of one of the world's longest reigning monarchs.", "King Bhumibol Adulyadej reigned over Thailand for 70 years. As a constitutional monarch, he acted as head of state and head of the armed forces, at least largely symbolic roles hold little direct power, which instead rests with parliament, but the monarch still retains the power to approve or delay legislation. And the king's popularity also gave him considerable political influence. He stepped in to defuse tensions during troubled times. He also pioneered thousands of development projects to help improve health, education and prosperity for the Thai people, especially the rural poor. Now, we will have more on the death of Thailand's king later this hour right here on News Stream. Now, elsewhere, it is a day of renewed hope for some families in Nigeria's -- the Chibok girls and their families. Now, Nigeria says Boko Haram has released 21 of them. And they are now in custody. This photo, obtained exclusively by CNN, shows some of the girls. Now the released happened after a series of high level negotiations involving the International Committee of the Red Cross. Nima Elbagir has been following what happened to the Chibok girls, and their families from the very beginning. She joins us now with more on this story from London. Nima, again, 21 missing schoolgirls have finally been released. Tell us more about what led to their freedom.", "Well, we understand that this has all happened very quickly, Kristie. It in fact -- the handover happened this morning. The girls have now been delivered to Borno state capitol. Borno is home to the Sambisa forest stronghold of Boko Haram, where the girls have been being held for much of the last -- over two years. They are now in the state government's custody and are en route to being delivered to the presidency in Abuja. It has come after two-and-a-half very long years for the families on the ground, a time where for many of these families, hope started to seem very far away. It was only really back in April when we first broadcast the proof of life video of the Chibok girls that the pressure began ratcheting again on the Nigerian government and families started feeling that perhaps hope wasn't lost, that their girls were within reach. What we're trying to pin down now is what was the deal exactly. The Nigerian government says that there was no prisoner swap. That was one of the main tenants that Boko Haram were putting forward for any kind of negotiation, but we're hearing potentially, though, that might not be exactly how this all played out. So we're going to be looking into that for you, Kristie, and hoping to get you some more details of that throughout the day. But for now, what we do know is that for 21 girls and their families, finally after it felt that hope had been all but extinguished, these girls are going to be going home, Kristie.", "Yeah, this is a day to celebrate for these 21 girls and their families. These girls are the lucky ones. They have managed to be released, but what did they have to go through? What did they endure? And what's needed for them to rebuild their lives?", "We did get some pretty sombering glimpse into what life might have been like over the last two years from the one girl who had successfully managed to escape once Boko Haram got back into their Sambisa Forest stronghold, and it sounded absolutely heartbreaking -- forced marriage, many of the girls described as having given birth to their captor's children. She even spoke about some girls who she said hadn't survived the ordeal. We'll now be getting, I imagine, much more definite details of that. But it sounds like what these girls have been through is almost undescribable. But what has been so extraordinary to witness throughout all of this is the resoluteness of their parents. Throughout of all this, every time we have spoken to any one of these girls' parents, they have always said we don't care how they come back to us. There will be no shame. We will fight any kind of broader stigma about whatever it is they have been through, whatever it is that has been forced on them through these two-and-a-half years. We just want our children home, Kristie.", "That is wonderful to hear, no stigma at all. They're back home. Welcomed back to their families and communities. And Nima, many, many, many other schoolgirls, they are still enduring this nightmare. They remain missing. What kind of operation is under way to try to find them or to secure their release as well?", "Well, we understand from the Nigerian government that negotiations do continue for the around 200 girls that are still believed to be -- and that's a very rough estimate at this point, Kristie, but are still believed to be being held by Boko Haram. But I think it's also worth mentioning here that while we talk about the Chibok girls. The Chibok girls are very much a microcosm for the thousands of schoolchildren, boys and girls, who have lost their childhoods, who have lost their lives and lost their liberty, to the Boko Haram campaign throughout the north of Nigeria. And this is really what the government needs to continue to be committed to, that from what we're hearing from all the activists, their hope is that even in this moment of optimism, even in this moment of joy, for the specific 21 girls and their families, that this will continue to be a point of pressure brought to bear on the Nigerian government to continue with that campaign to push Boko Haram entirely out of the north of Nigeria so that so many of this generation that has been really described as Nigeria's lost generation up in the north of the country can finally find some kind of hope and finally we gain some belief they do -- that they can have a future, Kristie.", "Thank you for that reminder, Nima, and it's a very, very important one. Thousands of schoolgirls, thousands of young women do remain missing as Boko Haram continues to terrorize communities there in Nigeria. Nima Elbagir reporting for us. As always, thank you. Now, you're watching News Stream. We'll be back after this short break."], "speaker": ["KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LU STOUT", "RIPLEY", "LU STOUT", "RIPLEY", "LU STOUT", "RIPLEY", "LU STOUT", "LU STOUT", "NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDEN", "LU STOUT", "ELBAGIR", "LU STOUT", "ELBAGIR", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-337955", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-04-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/19/cnr.20.html", "summary": "No Meeting Place Yet for U.S.-North Korea Summit; Chemical Experts Blocked From Entering Attack Site; Saying Goodbye to a Colleague; American Chemical Inspectors To Go To Douma, Wednesday; U.S. and North Korea Talking At The Highest Levels; Public Offers Plenty Of Thug Theories.", "utt": ["Cautious optimism on North Korea. President Trump he hopes for a successful with Kim Kong-un but will walk away if he has to. In Cuba, six decades after the Revolution, a political evolution. A new president is taking over and his last name is not Castro. Plus, trapped with ISIS. An American woman describes what it was like living under the terror group's rule with her children. Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. And this is CNN Newsroom. Donald Trump is predicting big things for his upcoming meeting with Kim Jong-un. His first priority getting rid of North Korea's nuclear arsenal. Mr. Trump has been listening to concerns from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during their two-day summit in Florida. And although he has high hopes for the summit the president say he will walk out if the talks are not fruitful.", "As you know I will be meeting with Kim Jong-un in the coming weeks to discuss the denuclearization of the Korea peninsula. Hopefully that meeting will be a great success and we're looking forward to it. It could be a tremendous thing for North Korea and a tremendous thing for the world. So, we will be doing everything possible to make it a worldwide success.", "Mr. Trump also says negotiations are under way to free three Americans held prisoner in North Korea. Prime Minister took a cautious turn warning the talk with North Korean leaders have failed in the past.", "If North Korea takes the right path under the Japan-North Korea-Pyongyang declaration there could be a possible path to settle the unfortunate past and normalize the diplomatic relationship. For that to happen a comprehensive resolution of multiple concerns including abduction, nuclear, and missiles would be the fundamental preconditions through the upcoming historic U.S.-North Korea Summit. We strongly hope for a breakthrough in the situation.", "And CNN is following reaction throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Will Ripley is in Hong Kong and Anna Stewart is in Tokyo. Welcome to you both. Let's to you first, Will. It seems the biggest tumbling block right now for these face-to-face talks between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un is finding a location they can both agree upon to meet. Why is this proving to be so problematic, and once they do sit down for these talks, have they both figured out yet that they don't share the same definition for what constitute denuclearization.", "Well, we certainly hope that they are doing their homework on each other and certainly on the North Korean side. Kim Jong-un has a team of people who is so focused is the Korean peninsula politics nuclear gamesmanship. Who Trump has briefing him preparing him for the summit is less clear. But they can't do any of that until they decide on where they're going to hold it. And it seems like a simple thing, but in fact, if you start to really think about the political implications in meeting places. Let's say Kim Jong-un wants to go to Washington or he ruled that out, you know, going to U.S. territory. No. Donald Trump ruled out going to Pyongyang. For similar reasons, he doesn't feel that security could be guaranteed there. You know, Kim Jong-un ruled out going to an aircraft carrier on the waters of the Korean peninsula. Donald Trump ruled out going to the demilitarized zone. So where does that leave us? It leaves us with trying to find a neutral location for this and there are several places in Asia that are being thrown around as possibility. Singapore and Malaysia as you see on the screen there, or also going Vietnam, Thailand also a neutral European capital like Stockholm, Sweden, Geneva, Switzerland. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia was considered a frontrunner a few days ago. That apparently is becoming less likely possibly just because of the logistics of getting all of the international press into that country. But some of the other issues are here that Kim Jong-un apparently prefers to travel by train, much like his predecessors. He took that armored train, that luxury train to Beijing. Obviously that limits where he'd be able to go. And if he's going to fly somewhere will his jet have the fuel capacity to get in there or will he have to get a jet from another country. So, all of those logistics are being work out, and then denuclearization what is it mean for North Korea. Well, it means the American nuclear umbrella going away, it means American troops off the Korean peninsula. It means a peace treaty with South Korea. Whereas, denuclearization for the United States means North Korea giving up its nuclear weapons completely in exchange for relief from economic sanctions, normalization of relations. Two very different definitions of the term. Are they going to be able to come together, we don't know. We certainly don't know if they are going to be able to come together in a location because they haven't chosen yet. And until they know where they are going to do it, they can set a date. Donald Trump saying early June, but also indicating that it might not happen, Rosemary.", "It could very well prove to be the stumbling block because this, as you mention, Kim Jong-un likes and prefers to travel by train, and not only train, but a bulletproof train. He feels vulnerable in a plane and he feels very vulnerable outside his own country. So, this could indeed prove to be the thing that brings this whole thing to an end.", "Yes. And we don't know for sure what is it in Kim Jong-un's mind. He does fly and he has a private jet. In fact, sometimes he flies his own plane. We visited sites in North Korea where he has been described as actually flying the plane in himself, and then flying away. So, it's not necessarily a fear of flight itself but it is a little less of a secure situation for a leader of a country to get in an aircraft flying to foreign space and he's never made a trip like that before. The trip to Beijing as far as we know was the first time he even left North Korea since he came to power in late 2011. And yes, that bulletproof heavily armored train is a very secure method of transportation. Obviously what would be ideal for the North Koreans is to have this meeting as close to home as possible, but that apparently is not going to work for the Americans. And they really do have to sort this out before they can move forward with this.", "Yes, indeed. We'll see what happens with that. Will Ripley joining us there from Hong Kong. Thanks for that. Let's go to Anna Stewart now in Tokyo. And Anna, Japan's prime minister met with President Trump for that two-day summit, warning him in fact about talks with North Korea. And also talking trade. What is being said about that trip back in Tokyo?", "Yes. Well, you know, to give it some context this was a crucial trip really for Abe. Politically he's really weak here in Japan, he's facing a number of corruption allegations, very low approval ratings and there have been protests in the tens of thousands just in the last week in Tokyo. So, it's really important that he won some political points on this trip. And you know, he's done pretty well. Firstly on North Korea, Trump assured him, made a promise in front of all the reporters that he would take Japan's interest on North Korea to any discussion. Now those aren't necessarily the same as other countries. One of them is the issue of Japanese abductees held in North Korea now for decades. It's a real crucial issue here in Japan, and of course, the security of Japan itself. And then on trade, this was more of a mixed bag. So, Japan remains not on the exemption list for Japan in the aluminum tariffs which he thought it might get an exemption here. However, he hasn't been push, Abe has not push into a bilateral free trade agreement. That is what Trump really wanted to achieve I think to have a really good political win for himself that Abe managed to push back slightly on that. They've open up a dialogue on free talks of making trade freer, fairer, easier, but that's the far-cry from a bilateral deal. And then on TPP, this was fascinating. We had such a turnaround from Donald Trump in the last week. Tuesday night, saying that he really wasn't interested on Twitter. And in the statement today, saying, well, if the deal was significantly better maybe he would be open to it. So, perhaps, Abe manage to persuade him to come back to TPP. So that could be seen as a win as well. The question is, is all of this really enough to sort of sail the ship back home. Abe has got a lot to deal with when he gets off that plane.", "He must certainly does. Anna Stewart, with that assessment, joining us with a live report from Tokyo. We appreciate that. Well, senior U.S. officials tell CNN President Trump personally made the decision to cool off new sanctions on Russia. The U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley announce the plans on Sunday, but the White House back pedaled the next day with economic advisor Larry Kudlow, saying Haley might have been confused. Topic came up again Wednesday with President Trump saying he'll hit Russia with more sanctions when they deserve it.", "There's been nobody tougher on Russia than President Donald Trump. Between building up the military, between creating tremendous vast amounts of oil. We raise billions and billions of dollars extra in NATO. We had a very, very severe -- we were talking about it a little while -- fight in Syria recently a month ago between our troops and Russian troops, and it's very sad but many people died in that fight. There has been nobody tougher than me.", "It is unclear when an inspection team will be able to verify whether chemical weapons were used in a deadly attack in Syria. A U.N. advance security team was shot at on Tuesday in Douma near the site of an alleged attack. The U.S. says the timing of the inspection is critical.", "We're very much aware the delay that the regime impose on that delegation, but we are also aware of how they have operated in the past to see what they have done using chemical weapons. In other words, using the pause after a strike like that to try to clean up the evidence.", "And U.S. and other western nations say the Syrian regime dropped the banned weapons on the last rebel held town in eastern Ghouta, about 75 people were killed. Syria and Russia deny a chemical attack took place. Well, Jomana Karadsheh joins us now from Amman, Jordan. So Jomana, nearly two weeks after the suspected chemical weapons attack in Douma, and still the inspection team is unable to get to the site to verify what happened and they've been shot at as just reported. U.S. Defense Secretary we heard there James Mattis believes the delay was to allow the regime to clean up any evidence. So just how useful will this investigate", "Well, that's the big question, Rosemary, when are they going to be able to get there and what they are going to be able to gather when they do. You know, keeping in mind this is not been a sealed type of crime scene, a very sterile kind of a crime scene. You had Russian experts who visited, you had the regime that has been also at the crime scene and they even escorted journalists, including American journalists. And all these people going to the scene of the attack before the fact-finding mission from the OPCW. And when you talk to chemical weapons experts they say it is extremely important for them. As you know, you would expect to get there as soon as possible after an attack for a number of reasons. You know, most important when they want to try and establish what kind of chemical may have been used in an alleged attack. If it's something like chlorine, for example, which is believed to have been used in this alleged attack. They say that traces of chlorine gas could evaporate, they could disappear within a couple of days of an attack. And we're talking about an attack that took place 12 days ago. And if this was a nerve agent, for example, like western governments believe that sarin may have also been used in the attack, that could, traces of that could linger in the area for a couple of years. Another very important thing, Rosemary, why they need to get there as soon as possible is of course a concern when it comes to tampering with evidence and compromising the scene. And so far, it is really unclear when the OPCW fact-finding mission is going to make it to Douma.", "Yes. Unclear when but if history is our guide when might this chemical weapons team be allowed access to the site in Douma. And what are you learning about the people who were affected by this attack.", "You know, it's very difficult to tell, Rosemary, when they are going to get access. You know, there are several factors here when it comes to logistics and permission. We believe they have these permissions as we've heard from the director general of the OPCW, then you have the security situation on the ground, allowing them to enter the area and spend some time there. And as you mentioned earlier, their advanced security team on Tuesday when they're carrying out that reconnaissance mission to try and inspect the site ahead of the arrival of the OPCW fact-finding mission, they came under fire one of these locations and also an explosive device was detonated. But as we understand no one was hurt. We need to keep in mind what the scope of the mission of this OPCW fact-finding mission is going to be. It's not to assign blame. They need to establish the fact of whether an attack took place and what chemical was used, so they do need to get there as soon as possible and it's unclear when that's going to happen. When you're talking about what people there are saying, you know, Rosemary, activists and medical workers that we were speaking to right after the attack were warning that this area is now going to be under the control of the regime. It's going to be very difficult to get, you know, the accounts, the honest accounts, as they say, from people who are there in the area right now because they might feel that they are intimidated. They feel that they're scared of speaking freely in an area that is under control of the regime. These are people who have been living for years until rebel control and they've decided to stay in this area even after the regime took control. So it's very difficult to verify from people what really happened. And since the attack took place, Rosemary, there have been so many different stories competing narratives conspiracy theories from both sides here blaming each other for the attack, and in some cases saying an attack never took place.", "It's very hard to get to the truth of this story. Jomana Karadsheh bringing us the details from her vantage point in Amman, Jordan where it is just after 10.15 in the morning. Thank you so much. Let's take a very short break here, but still to come, a Southwest Airlines pilot is credited with saving thousands of lives after a mid- flight engine explosion. Her name is Captain Tammie Jo Shults and we will tell you exactly how she flew them to safety. And this.", "Can I go a little farther, Mr. President, you have seen the magazine covers. No doubters saying beast of Baghdad or butcherer of Baghdad.", "Remembering one of the legends of journalism who were lucky enough to call a friend and a colleague."], "speaker": ["ROSEMARY CHURCH, HOST, CNN", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CHURCH", "SHINZO ABE, JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER (through translator)", "CHURCH", "WILL RIPLEY, INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT, CNN", "CHURCH", "RIPLEY", "CHURCH", "ANNA STEWART, PRODUCER, CNN", "CHURCH", "TRUMP", "CHURCH", "JAMES MATTIS, UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "CHURCH", "JOMANA KARADSHEH, CORRESPONDENT, CNN", "CHURCH", "KARADSHEH", "CHURCH", "RICHARD BLYSTONE, FORMER CORRESPONDENT, CNN", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-149150", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-3-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/18/cnr.02.html", "summary": "CBO Health Care Numbers; Unhappy Reunion in Haiti; President to Sign Jobs Bill", "utt": ["We heard from our reporting from our Brianna Keilar on Capitol Hill there. According to our Democratic sources that the cost of this reform plan is estimated to be at $940 billion over the next 10 years and already we're starting to hear from various congressional leaders as we await the official word on those numbers. Meantime, we have new developments this hour on the road to health care reform. Let's give you the latest on all that we know right now. Democrats are telling us details of that CBO, that Congressional Budget Office report. On the cost, the CBO price tag, as I just mentioned, $940 billion. The full report is due to be published today, starting a 72-hour clock for studying it and that would set up a vote on the bill perhaps by Sunday. CNN congressional correspondent Brianna Keilar has been working her sources to get more on this report. Brianna joining us live now. Democrats are feeling rather energized as a result of learning more details about this CBO report. Why?", "Well, Fred, what we've been waiting for really for days now is this price tag which is what the estimate from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office is and Democrats have been waiting for this and what we heard today was them getting out ahead of the CBO, which is a non-partisan group, making their announcement and telling us that the price tag is going to be $940 billion over 10 years, that it would reduce the deficit over the first 10 years by $130 billion and that it would reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion over the second 10 years. So here's how this breakdown. I know those are a whole lot of numbers, but President Obama has said all along that he wants the goal to be $900 billion or less. So the overall price tag which Democrats say is out here 940 is obviously over that, but what they're pointing to is the deficit reduction numbers, that this is not deficit spending. In fact, it's going to reduce the deficit and it's going to reduce it more than, say, the Senate passed bill did, more than the House passed bill. But what you need to keep in mind of the numbers is we're getting them from Democrats. We haven't seen the official numbers from the Congressional Budget Office. Do we expect those numbers to be very different when they do come out presumably here in the next couple of hours? Not necessarily. But what we do expect the Democrats will be highlighting all of the positives right now without talking about the negatives. So keep that in mind as we tell you these numbers, but bottom line, they say that they are very giddy about these numbers because they're trying to win over some of those moderate Democrats who are deficit hawks, who have major concerns about deficit spending and they think that this is going to help win them over so you see democrats here putting a positive spin on what's going on.", "OK. Brianna Keilar, thanks so much. We're highlighting the negatives of some of the Republican leadership. House Minority Leader John Boehner had this to say a short while ago.", "It's not about the speaker. This is about the American people and the health care system that they want for our country. We've made clear that it's time to scrap this bill and then start over on common sense reforms to make our current health care system better, but no. They will continue to ram, ram, ram this bill through the Congress. Every kind of scheme known to man to try to get it through the Congress without a vote. We're going have an opportunity for the members today to vote on a straight up or down resolution about requiring a straight up or down vote this bill. It will be part of our previous question when we get a rule bill up, and members have a chance to vote on that, but I can tell you this, that Republicans in the House and Senate have worked closer together over the last year and we're going to continue to work closer together and to do everything that we can do to make sure that this bill never, ever, ever passes.", "All right. Strong words there from John Boehner. President Obama, by the way, has delayed his overseas trip and he's keeping watch on the Democratic House leaders as well as the Republican House and Senate leaders as they all talk about whether this health care reform plan will indeed pass. CNN White House correspondent Dan Lothian is live for us now from the White House. Dan.", "And he's not just keeping watch on what's going on up there on Capitol Hill but he's deeply involved according to White House aides in working on those undecided Democrats, some of whom have big concerns about the cost of this health care bill. No official reaction yet from the White House on those numbers that we've been reporting because, of course, those numbers have not been officially released yet by CBO, but the president does continue to work to try to get the votes from those Democrats in order to pass health care reform and we saw yesterday some progress on that front where Dennis Kucinich who had previously voted no on this House health care bill now saying he will vote yes. The White House very encouraged by that and hoping that this is sort of the beginning of a trend and that others will also be moving. I'm told by a White House aide that the president in talking to some of these Democratic members has been pushing them on what this health care bill will mean for the American people if passed and what will happen if they do nothing, Fredricka.", "All right. Dan Lothian, thanks so much. And so far as we understand, the president is still expected to depart perhaps Sunday?", "That's right. That's still the plan. He's still expected to depart on Sunday, and I did ask Robert Gibbs if there was any indication at all that perhaps the trip could be canceled. He said no, the trip's still on.", "OK. He's feeling confident. Thanks so much. Dan Lothian, appreciate it, from the White House. All right. Well, this brings us to today's blog question. We asked for your thoughts on health care reform, the process, the package, all of that. This from Carmen, \"As an RN, a registered nurse, I feel very disappointed at the lack of value being placed on a human life. Stop worrying about what costs for who. These are actual people dying every day for lack of health insurance! Stop putting a monetary value on life.\" And this from Richard saying \"The current health care reform bill is an absolute fiscal horror. The bill should be thrown out in total, with the project started over.\" And this from Ann. \"None of us hardworking Americans are going to be able to make it with all the new taxes. It will not be better health care.\" So remember, we want to hear from you. Just logon to CNN.com/Fredricka to share your comments and we'll get them on the air just as we have done. Haitian children reuniting with their parents that should be a happy occasion, right? With tears of joy? Well, there are tears, all right, but not of joy. Sara Sidner joins us now from Port-au-Prince. So, Sara, another heartbreaking story here. Why is it everyone is not happy to be reunited? OK. We'll try to work on that audio. Perhaps we can still at least see her piece.", "Daphnis Adrien waits to see his family after being separated for six weeks. It should be a happy moment, but it doesn't turn out the way you might think. Daphnis does not want to go home.", "I am leaving my mom, he says, but the mom he's talking about isn't his mom at all. It's the caretaker he's been with from a child protection group. He knows his biological mother gave him away after the earthquake and still today she makes no apologies.", "Life was so bad he was leaving with foreigners to go to Santo Domingo to look for a better life and things went wrong, she says.", "Daphnis is one of the 33 children taken by American Baptist Missionary Laura Silsby and her crew who had claimed the children were all orphans in desperate need of help after Haiti's earthquake killed so many parents. It turns out none are orphans and under Haitian law they must now be reunited with their families. For little Jenny, the reunion is also a birthday present. She just turned one.", "I am happy I have found her, her mother says.", "But why did parents who say they loved their children deeply give them away?", "These families lost hope after the earthquake that they would ever be able to provide for these children in the way they wanted to. They saw this opportunity to give the children a better opportunity abroad, and took it, and now they've been sensitized and better informed about the risks that this might entail for the children.", "As the children begin to leave, SOS house mother", "He's crying right now because he knows we don't have a place to live.", "No place to live or even transportation to take them from the children's village. More than two months after the earthquake, homes, families and an entire country still shaken to the core.", "The Adrien family tells us that they are actually living on the street, but we should mention this, that the SOS Children's Village did give all of the parent some sort of training. They had them watch videos of what could happen to their children such things as having them go and for example, have their kidneys sold, some very scary things and the families seemed to respond to that. The police also told them that they could have been arrested for what they did, so a warning to the parents, which they seemed to respond to, but still the situation is very difficult here.", "So terribly sad. So, Sara, there were 32 out of 33 children who actually went home. What happened to the last child?", "Well, there was a little girl who is still there and is still at the SOS Children's Village that is because the parents have come forward, but they still have to verify, trying to verify, trying to make absolutely sure that the parents actually are who they say they are through some paperwork. So they have to get that sorted out, but they do believe she will also go home very soon. Fredricka.", "All right. Sara Sidner, thanks so much. Appreciate that update. Sad story. And the American missionary that you saw in Sara Sidner's story, Laura Silsby, well she is still in jail accused of kidnapping and faces even more charges. Silsby and the other Americans deny they did anything wrong. Here in the U.S., a family hit by a powerful storm living without water or electricity.", "I had never been in a situation like this. I wouldn't want this on nobody. Sometimes you have to do what you've got to do if you don't get or receive the help that you're supposed to be receiving.", "Falling through the cracks now tied up in red tape. Did FEMA forget this family?", "And what in the world, push the lever, shock a stranger? At least that's what the players and the audience of this game show thought was happening.", "I'm Rob Marciano in the CNN Severe Weather Center. Record-breaking high temperatures are expected in spots again today and tomorrow, a snowstorm. Winter is not over yet. Weather is coming up when the CNN NEWSROOM returns."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (via phone)", "WHITFIELD", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-326906", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-11-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/25/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Republicans in Congress Continue to Attempt to Pass Tax Bill", "utt": ["A very crucial week lies ahead for the president. You'll remember the promise that he made.", "We're going to give the person people a huge tax cut for Christmas. Hopefully that will be a great big beautiful Christmas present.", "And for the president, a major legislative win would be a big beautiful Christmas present, as well.", "The only days left to get some support here is this make-or- break vote in the Senate that could come as early as this week. So before that vote, the president is planning to meet with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. That's happening on Tuesday. He's going to speak at a lunch with Senate Republicans to talk about tax reform and the fall legislative agenda, and then he'll meet with a bipartisan group of congressional leaders at the White House.", "All right, let's talk about this.", "Joining us now, Ron Brownstein, CNN senior political analyst, Rebecca Berg, CNN political reporter. Both of you thank you so much for being with us. Ron, I want to start with you. What do you believe President Trump is going to say in these meetings on Tuesday to try to win some mileage here?", "Look, the argument has been political, that Republicans after failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act have to do this to convince their voters that they are delivering on what they ran on. The problem is that this bill is much more of a gamble than it might appear. You know, a Republican president in the first year, they cut taxes. Ronald Reagan did it, George W. Bush did it. The likelihood is some kind of tax cut in the end will pass and the president will sign it. The problem they've got is that this tax Bill faces two to one opposition in the polls, 60 percent in the Quinnipiac poll last week said it would benefit the rich at the expense of the middle class. And in fact all of the analysis, and particularly the Tax Policy Center analysis found it would raise taxes. The president talks about it as a Christmas gift as a tax cut, well, that's true for some, but it would raise taxes for half of all taxpayers, including 60 percent of those at the middle, and it would particularly go after Democratic leaning constituencies in blue states and in big metro areas. So for Republicans who are kind of hoping for this to reverse what has been a pretty difficult fall in public opinion, that is a -- that is not at all clear this will improve their position. In fact, it could compound their problems in white collar suburbs where we saw the biggest movement away from the GOP in Virginia.", "Rebecca, let me expand that. Corey Lewandowski and others say the lack of legislative accomplishments this year on the part of the White House will not necessarily reflect badly on the president but actually folks are going to blame Congress. Do you believe that?", "Well, much of the polling actually does reflect that, Martin. And so the president might be right, and certainly his tweeting, his public comments calling out members of Congress, including Republicans, helps his case in that regard. But ultimately the president is going to want Republicans in Congress and in the Senate to do well in these 2018 midterm elections, and if you have a situation where Republican voters and Democratic voters are blaming the Republicans in control of Congress for a lack of progress, that isn't necessarily going to bode well for Republicans running for reelection at the polls. And so it is in the president's interest to give Congress some credit here, and especially as tax reform makes its way through the Senate, they reach a resolution in conference committee and can send something to the president's desk, it is in his interests to give lawmakers some of the credit for this. He needs to give them some fuel to be able to run for re-election in these midterms next year.", "So, Ron, what happens next year if the cuts aren't passed by Christmas?", "Well, look, as I say, this is an extraordinary circumstance, this bill, because it really pushes to the edge, I think, the inherent core strain in the Republican coalition. President Trump was elected primarily because he ran best -- he ran better among working class white voters than any candidate in either party since Ronald Reagan in 1984, and yet in the health care bill and again in the tax bill they are pursuing an economic agenda that sublimates the needs and interests of those voters to those at the very top. We've had other tax bills, the '81 tax Bill, the Reagan Bill, the 2001 Bush tax bill, that gave fewer benefits to people in the middle than those at the top, but this is extraordinary in that it actually takes away, it raises taxes on a substantial portion of middle and upper middle income taxpayers through a variety of deductions that are repealed based on all the analysis to give tax breaks to those at the very top. So can they hold the support of the voters that put them in power with a tax bill that is tilted so far away for them? Same kind of question on health care. On health care we saw it took a bite on the president's popularity among working class white voters who did not like the idea of particularly the Medicaid cuts, and we'll see if the tax bill, even if they do pass it, as I said, strengthens their position or deepens some of the problems they are now facing in the middle and upper middle class of the electorate.", "Rebecca, next year is really only a couple of weeks away, so timing really that critical?", "Oh, absolutely. Republicans are going to begin to campaigning as soon as the next year begins. You have primaries that come up much earlier in the calendar that many of these Republican incumbents are going to need to consider. And so it is imperative Republicans believe that they pass this, that they pass this soon, get this to the president's desk. I've spoken with Republicans throughout the year who believe that their chances in the 2018 midterm hinge entirely on this tax reform plan because they weren't able to get health care done, because this is going to be the major piece of legislation that they have a chance to complete before the year's end. And what's interesting is that in spite of some of the analysis Ron has cited, and he's absolutely correct in that analysis, Republicans do have, based on the conversations I've had over the past few weeks, a very deep conviction that this will end up helping voters and that voters will feel some of the benefits of this bill by the time they go to the polls next November. We'll see if that's the case, but they are making a big bet on this legislation.", "And real quick, I mean, one of the challenges they face is that broad cuts in rates may be less tangible to people than pulling away specific benefits that you can more easily identify, like the mortgage deduction, like the state and local tax deduction, like the student loans. If those are revoked, you can bet the constituencies affected are going to be aware of it. Whether the overall rate changes are as tangible to people, I think, is a very dicey proposition.", "Good point.", "Ron Brownstein, Rebecca Berg, thank you both.", "Thank you both. So, this morning one position, but there are two appointees to lead the consumer financial protection bureau, two who are supposed to be there. How did this conflict occur? That's ahead.", "But first, a champion fit master rallied his barbecue buddies to feed those in need when a catastrophic tornado hit Joplin, Missouri, back in 2011. Fast forward to today, his nonprofit operation Barbecue Relief has responded to more than 40 disasters, including hurricane Harvey and hurricane Irma. Stan Hays is one of this year's top ten CNN Heroes.", "I've been competing in barbecue for years. Besides being a nourishing meal, it's comfort food. After a disaster, it is extremely emotional. Everybody's lives are on their front yard. So we decided we were going to get a bunch of the barbecue family together and help. Welcome, thank you guys for coming out. Over the last six years we've responded to tornados, floods, hurricanes. The core group are all pit masters or grill masters, but our volunteers come from everywhere. Come on, guys. Our goal is always to be in an area within 24 to 48 hours after a disaster strikes. We put the word out through different groups, and that way we know where the meals are going. You guys need any meals? To know you're a part of picking their spirits up --", "You have no idea what a hot meal means to somebody who's lost everything they own.", "It can't help but bring a smile to your face. It's amazing. Yesterday you put out 43,350 meals. Thank you for everybody that was here.", "It is people helping people the best way we know how.", "And you can vote for Stan or any of your favorite top ten heroes right now at CNNHeroes.com."], "speaker": ["SAVIDGE", "DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SAVIDGE", "PAUL", "SAVIDGE", "PAUL", "RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "SAVIDGE", "REBECCA BERG, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER", "PAUL", "BROWNSTEIN", "SAVIDGE", "BERG", "BROWNSTEIN", "PAUL", "SAVIDGE", "PAUL", "SAVIDGE", "STAN HAYS, CNN HERO", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HAYS", "HAYS", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "CNN-47098", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-1-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/11/ltm.05.html", "summary": "General Calling Shots in War in Afghanistan from United States", "utt": ["The war in Afghanistan taking place halfway around the world, but the general who's calling all the shots is doing a lot of it from right here in warm and comfortable the United States of America, more specifically, the Sunshine State of Florida. He is heading up the U.S. Central Command. CNN NEWSNIGHT'S Aaron Brown sat down with General Tommy Franks for an extended visit. Aaron joins us now from the CNN Center in Atlanta with a preview of part two of their conversation, which, Aaron, I guess comes up tonight. Are we in good hands with this guy?", "I thought we were in very good hands with this guy and I think that when viewers watch tonight, or if they saw last night, I think they'll come away with an extraordinary sense of comfort. This is a man who is not especially comfortable with reporters or with publicity, but as he walked us through the command center, took us into that room where much of the war is run with its computers and its high tech maps and talked to us a good deal about what technology is able to do in running this war.", "Can we talk about what the maps are on the wall?", "Sure.", "OK.", "All that you're seeing up there right now is the map of Afghanistan, surrounding countries and the major cities. Now, obviously since we're going to show this to a few million people, we have taken off the graphics that we superimposed and which I showed you upstairs that show where the aircraft in flight are located at any point in time, where the ships at sea are, where our ground elements may be. And we track that in real time.", "But make no mistake, war as it's run these days is not some sort of video game, as the General pointed out. Last night we talked a good deal about the state of the war, the hunt for bin Laden and Mullah Omar, the risks to Americans. In the segment that we'll run tonight, it's a little more personal. We'll talk to the General about his experiences in Vietnam, his first posting back in 1967 as a second lieutenant and the differences between then and now.", "I think if one thinks about Vietnam and asks the question did we have a decision of the state? Oh, yes. Did we have military capability? One could argue, but I would posit yes. Did we have the will of the people? This is a different time.", "The General acknowledges that for him it's a fortunate time, to be running a war with virtually everyone in the country behind him, rooting him and his young soldiers, the men and women of the armed forces, rooting them on -- Jack.", "Aaron, the General said, I saw part one of the interview, he said that he along with many of us first learned of the events at the World Trade Center by watching you here on CNN. I remember you working this story virtually around the clock for weeks and weeks and weeks. And now it's the four month anniversary of that event and I'm just curious what it's all done to you.", "Oh, Jack, you know, some day I'll sit back and figure that all out. I think, as you know, I mean those of us who are in the business of reporting the news hope that at some point in our lives we will get a great story to tell and on September 11 I found myself, most unexpectedly, I guess, with the biggest story of a lifetime and the opportunity to tell it. What it all means to me, professionally it's been fascinating and personally, like every citizen, like every New Yorker and every parent, it has been extraordinarily painful.", "Indeed. Aaron, we'll look forward to part two of the interview with the General tonight. Thanks for joining us this morning, early morning for you, from Atlanta, Georgia. Aaron Brown.", "Thank you, Jack.", "You can see part two of Aaron's interview with General Tommy Franks at 10 o'clock Eastern Time. From Vietnam to the war on terrorism, NEWSNIGHT will give you a look at the man inside the General's uniform. So check it out."], "speaker": ["JACK CAFFERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "AARON BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BROWN", "GEN. TOMMY FRANKS, COMMANDER, CENTRAL COMMAND", "BROWN", "FRANKS", "BROWN", "FRANKS", "BROWN", "CAFFERTY", "BROWN", "CAFFERTY", "BROWN", "CAFFERTY"]}
{"id": "CNN-266000", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2015-10-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/05/cg.01.html", "summary": "Oregon Shooting Investigation; Calls for Sheriff to Resign Over \"Truther\" Videos; Former Sandy Hook Teacher Responds to Oregon Shooting.", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. Let's stick with our national lead, the school shooting in Oregon. Years before Douglas County, Oregon Sheriff John Hanlin found himself investigating that school shooting in his own community, he apparently shared a video on his Facebook page. One of those offensive videos based on ludicrous conspiracy theories. This one about Sandy Hook shooting that included 20 small children dead. The post has since been removed from his Facebook page. When CNN asked him about it, Hanlin said he did not post the video but did not provide any further explanation. Let's go now to CNN's Kyung Lah. Does it seem likely that someone else would have posted this on his Facebook page?", "Look, anything is possible, but most of us know what's on our personal Facebook pages. And this does appear to be his real Facebook page. That's why there are now these calls, Jake, that he step down.", "Good afternoon, everybody. My name is John Hanlin.", "Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin is the face of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College, calling for compassion for his community.", "These families are currently living through the nightmare in the most personal way possible.", "But he did not express that same sympathy for the 20 first graders and their teachers killed at Sandy Hook. On his Facebook page in 2013, he apparently posted a link to this video produced by conspiracy theorists. The viral video calls the victims actors, ludicrously claiming that Sandy Hook is a hoax, cooked by the government to take guns. On his Facebook page this comment about the video, \"This makes me wonder who we can trust anymore.\" The sheriff denied to CNN that he posted the video. (on camera): You didn't post it?", "No. No. I know what you're referring to, but no. That's not a conspiracy theory belief that I have.", "At this point, I'm not buying a word that's coming out of his mouth.", "The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is demanding the sheriff step down.", "This guy who has just about zero credibility, and we know has extremist points of view is now charged with leading an investigation into this terrible tragedy that's happened in his county and is supposed to come to an unbiased point of view.", "The campaign also points to this letter posted on the department's Facebook page that the sheriff sent to Vice President Biden after Sandy Hook saying gun control does not prevent school shootings. The sheriff writes, \"Any federal restriction on the Second Amendment shall not be enforced by me or by my deputies,\" even pledging to stop any federal agents from doing so in his county. Sheriff Hanlin has a history of opposing gun control, speaking here at a public hearing on a proposed bill requiring background checks on private gun sales.", "This law is not going to protect citizens of Oregon in that it is going to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. It will not do that.", "The bill was signed into law this last May. The sheriff has not responded to repeated calls by CNN today -- Jake.", "All right. Kyung Lah, thank you so much. Joining me now, Kaitlin Roig-DeBeli. She was a teacher in Newtown, Connecticut, when that gunman blazed through Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. Kaitlin saved her first grade class from the carnage. She has since written a book describing that dark, dark day and her life since. It's called, \"Choosing Hope: Moving Forward From Life's Darkest Hours\". Kaitlin, thanks so much for joining us and thank you so much for what you did that day.", "Thank you for having me. I'm so grateful to be here.", "What did you first thing when you heard about what happened in Oregon just days before your book was about to come out?", "Unfortunately, the pain is so near and dear. My heart goes out to their community, to the victims, to their families. It's just heartbreaking. I'm so sorry.", "I -- Sandy Hook has been mentioned in -- obviously a lot in recent days. You lived through that horror. And I have to ask you about these crackpot, nonsense stories out there. I hate to even bring them up, they're so offensive, especially to someone like you who lived through it. But what's your reaction when you hear, there are public officials even out there who have entertained and shared this nonsense. What impact does it have on people like you, survivors?", "They are so offensive, especially to those who lost and were lost. What I have learned is to not give it any attention or a voice. You know, you can't argue with someone who has such a -- you know, unrealistic, awful thought.", "In Newtown --", "Not to give it any credit.", "In Newtown, you hid your 15 first graders inside a tiny bathroom to save them from the gunman. You wrote about your will to save those children, very movingly. You wrote, quote, \"With the inescapable sounds of carnage happening all around us, my little ones are feeling desperate.\" At that time you tell a child, quote, \"We're going to be OK. I promise.\" I never make promises I can't keep especially not to children, but this is a matter of life and death. Kaitlin, over the weekend, there were politicians arguing that if teachers had had guns at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, more people may not have died. What's your take on this argument that arming teachers could be a way to save lives?", "You know, first and foremost my expertise is as an educator. So, my background is ensuring and making sure children are successful. And I am so incredibly grateful that gun control and gun sense are being discussed on the platform that they are in our country because they are such crucial issues. But the expertise that I can speak of is making sure that kids are successful.", "You're no longer teaching. You founded the organization called classes for classes. You try to instruct children about tolerance and teach that there's no room for hate. How open to your ideas are you finding educators?", "Well, first I'm a teacher through and through. I will be a teacher always. That is at the core of everything that I do, and certainly now with a nonprofit organization Classes For Classes that's what I get to do every single day. And the response has been amazing. It has been amazing. We are a tool to actively engage classrooms, kids in learning to care about one another, in learning to be empathetic and compassionate and to learn that in life, we're all connected and the way this is to work is to reach out and make sure others have what they need. And that's exactly what our website is a platform for. It lets kids really shine in all of the amazing things they're doing in correlation with their project.", "Kaitlin Roig-DeBeli, thank you so much for joining me. Best of luck with the book and with your new mission.", "Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.", "In our world lead today, it's being called a war crime on one side, a tragic accident on the other. How was a Doctors Without Borders hospital struck by U.S. forces after the organization says it gave the Pentagon their exact location weeks ago? 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{"id": "CNN-234439", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2014-07-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/11/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Obama Official: \"We'll Send You Back\"; U.S-Mexico Penetrable 1,900-Mile Border", "utt": ["Next breaking news, crisis in the Middle East, the Israeli government not backing down tonight from threat of all out war. Hamas issuing a new threat tonight. This time aimed at Israel's main airport. Plus the so-called \"Call Girl Killer,\" the woman charged in connection with a Google executive's death is now being linked to get another death. We continue our reporting on that. And Lebron James heads home. His announcement sends shockwaves around the country. Let's go OUTFRONT. And good evening, everyone. I'm Erin Burnett. OUTFRONT tonight, the crisis on the border, President Obama sending a top surrogate his homeland security secretary to the U.S.-Mexico border to see the situation. Now this is a stop that a lot of people on both sides of the political aisle are saying that the president of the United States should be making. The president defended his decision saying this week that he is not interested in what he called photo ops. The Republicans have seized on that statement today tweeting this photo of the president meeting with a student in Austin, Texas. The caption says, Girl, I'm not interested in photo ops. The tweet from House GOP, a picture says a thousand words. Now we are going to discuss the political fallout shortly and whether the president is at this point just being stubborn in his decision to not visit the border. First, though, Ana Cabrera joins me now from Artesia, New Mexico where Secretary Jeh Johnson toured a temporary detention facility where currently 400 women and their children are. Ana was there. Ana, the president was not there. Obviously, the DHS secretary was, what did he do?", "Well, really, he wants to send a message primarily to these immigrants and to the countries from which they are coming that if you come here, you will be detained and you will be deported. That is the administration's main focus right now, expedited repatriation. And he says that a facility like this, these temporary housing facilities that are allowing them to really hammer home that message. Because once the undocumented immigrants are here, they are held here the entire time as their legal case plays out. They're not getting a court date and sent on their way. They are held here until their fates are decided, Erin, and we learned since this facility opened back on June 27th that they already have established a group of immigrants who will be deported next week. Listen to what the secretary had to say.", "The message has to be that our border is not open to legal migration and we are sending people back. And this is an example of that effort.", "So again, they have a group that is going to be deported next week. They are trying to turn these case quickly. We know that the people who are staying here are video conferences with judges in order to play out those cases and the goal ultimately is to have their legal cases completed within two to four days of arrival. They say that is realistic now they have this more efficient system for processing and housing these undocumented immigrants.", "Ana, the 400 women and children that we talked about that are behind you, what are they doing? I mean, are they -- do they have rooms in there? Are they just sitting in one central space? What are they doing?", "It's a far cry from those detention centers we saw in Texas that were overwhelmed and overflowing there at the border. This is more like a college campus feel, Erin. We looked at their accommodations. They are staying in what looked like dorm rooms. They have bunk beds and televisions and shared bathrooms, but they are separated by gender and private. Shower areas with a lot of toys for the children to play with. Everybody is allowed to roam free on this 3,600-acre facility campus, but they are closely monitored and again they can't leave until their cases are completed. There is schooling for the children who are here however temporarily. Really what we were told by one ICE official is we want to treat these people with dignity and treat them humanely because this is America and that's how we treat people in America -- Erin.", "All right, thank you very much. Ana Cabrera there. And the question is, when you think about the 400 women and children and you hear how she was describing they are being treated so well. The question is how many immigrants are actually coming across that border and what is the reality of the security there? So I want to go to Tom Foreman in the virtual studio. Because Tom, you know, all of a sudden, I mean, this issue is certainly becoming exponentially bigger of a problem. But it has been going since at least last fall, so how many people?", "How many people? That's a big question. Let's talk about the geography of the area. First, 1900 miles, that is roughly the length of the border here and it's far from impenetrable. We talk about this fence, the fence only covers about a third of it. Most of that is clustered off in the western half particularly near the urban areas and towns. And that's where you find 40 legal entry points. But in terms of illegal entries, now near Nogales, there's a lot of crossing over in that area. Arizona and New Mexico, where we saw Ana just moments ago. And down at the point of Texas right down there, there are a lot of crossing over there -- Erin.", "So how many people are trying this every year?", "Yes, that is exactly we get back to the basic question. How many people? Nobody actually knows how many. Look at this chart from the Department of Homeland Security as they looked at these numbers. You can see it has been falling off in terms of the number of people who have been actually apprehended or turned back near the border. There are a lot of reasons for that including the economy here not being so good as to draw as many in recent years. But in 2011, 750,000 people turned away, but nobody thinks that's just the people they know about. The actual number is much bigger. The latest estimate is 11 million people living in this country illegally, Erin, mostly from Central America.", "And somewhere in Central America obviously that's a big area. Where are they coming from? And they are trying to treat these immigrants well, but have a so-called expedited repatriation process. What is expedited? How long does it take for one of these people who comes in to be sent home?", "Let's talk about that in a second. Let me answer your first question, where are these people from? Well, most of the people who are in this country illegally about 59 percent are from Mexico. When you move further down to El Salvador, the percentages are lower, 6 percent. If you go down to Guatemala, it's 5 percent and Honduras, 3 percent. These areas are driving this latest rush as people are convinced if they can just get here or get their kids here, they can stay. And if you talk about this processing system to get them out, to a degree they're right because it has been clogged up. The average amount of time for processing someone has gone to around 500 days or more. That's a long time to be here. The idea of expediting it and get people out much, much quicker, is clearly, Erin, about sending a message with them. If they can get more of those people to go home to those places and say it doesn't work, that might take some of the pressure off the border -- Erin.", "All right, Tom, thank you very much. And this is obviously putting a lot of scrutiny on the president and how he has handled this crisis. Some have called this his Katrina moment. Joining me OUTFRONT, our political panel, our Democratic strategist, Maria Cardona and Matt Lewis, conservative commentator who writes for \"The Daily Caller.\" OK, great to have both of you with us. Maria, let me start with what Tom just said there. 500 days. That is appalling.", "I agree. And I think the focus needs to be to try to get that to be a lot faster. And Erin, the money that President Obama has asked for this Congress is exactly to do just that. So that the processing especially of these young children and of these women can be a lot quicker. But at the same time, make sure that they do have their due process because as you know, a lot of these kids are coming from places that they could -- their lives could be in danger if they go back. This is incredibly heart-breaking situation. As an immigrant myself and as someone who worked at INS under the Clinton administration, this really hits home. So it is appalling to me when the president is trying to focus on solutions and Republicans are balking at what he's asked for, number one, and number two, for more than a year and a half, have refused to do anything to pass real comprehensive immigration reform, which could have mitigated a lot of this in the first place.", "I want to ask you about that, Matt. But first, I want to get your reaction to what Ana was reporting. We saw the pictures of the dorm rooms. The facilities she is at tonight, dorm rooms, toys, schooling for the kids, a collegial experience and these people could be here for a very long time. When you see that is that something that you are glad of and proud of or do you think that conditions as good, quote/unquote, \"as those are\" encourage more people to come?", "I'm proud of it. I wish we had conditions that good in Texas. I substantive agree with Jim Johnson on this. I think we have to humane in how we treat these young folks. Imagine how bad it must be in their country for their parents to send them with coyotes across Mexico in hopes for a better life. But it's we have to honor the rule of law. And I have to agree that when they're sent back hope Friday it will send a message that it's not worth taking the chance.", "Matt, you sound like you are sitting here defending the president, a president who has said clearly, you could get killed coming here and when you do we're going to send you home. He has been humane but not soft on this issue. He has set records in terms of the number of people he has deported.", "I think that the situation, the mess is a bipartisan problem but I think President Obama bears a lot of blame as well. Some of which is, I mean, just in terms of leadership and symbolism I believe he should have gone to the border in Texas. That's not show biz or a photo op, hat is called leadership. George Bush should have gone to Katrina immediately as far as I'm concerned. And I think that President Obama should send the National Guard to the border immediately and that's something he has the power to do. But substantively speak we need to be humane and compassionate, but we have to send the message it's not worth taking the chance.", "Maria, to Matt's point, why not go to the border. Let's just be honest, presidents do things for photo ops all the time. The president has gone to Afghanistan and Iraq and given press conferences in primetime. He had done that for the visual power of it. Why fight doing it now? When people on both sides of the aisle are saying go to the border.", "I actually do think he should go and I hope that he will. But he didn't necessarily have to go last week when the focus was all on Governor Perry saying he should go and the focus would have been political and it takes a lot of resources when the president travels and at that moment and we're in that moment right now every resource at the border needs to be focused on taking care of these children. I'm glad I'm hearing matt saying what he is saying. I hope he talks to his Republican colleagues to say instead of sending out stupid tweets and making stupid lawsuits on this president, show some leadership and work with the president to get this solved. I think the American people deserve that.", "We're going to leave it there. Thanks to both of you. Interesting argument for why the president maybe shouldn't have gone to the border. The first I've heard that, pretty convincing. Up next, breaking news, American Airlines afraid that commercial planes should could be caught in the cross fire in Israel. Wolf Blitzer is in the scene in Jerusalem and going to talk about how dangerous that situation is. Plus new allegations against the price prostitute link to a Google executive's death. Police are believing that a prostitute could be linked to multiple additional deaths. And one year after George Zimmerman was found not guilty, CNN talks to the child's most controversial witness.", "George Zimmerman not a man. That still a little boy with a grown body."], "speaker": ["ERIN BURNETT, CNN HOST", "ANA CABRERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SECRETARY JEH JOHNSON, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY", "CABRERA", "BURNETT", "CABRERA", "BURNETT", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BURNETT", "TUCHMAN", "BURNETT", "TUCHMAN", "BURNETT", "MARIA CARDONA, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BURNETT", "MATT LEWIS, CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR", "BURNETT", "LEWIS", "BURNETT", "CARDONA", "BURNETT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE"]}
{"id": "CNN-210705", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-7-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/18/cnr.05.html", "summary": "A-Rod in his Own Words", "utt": ["Want to show you these live pictures. We're going to show you the wreckage after it plowed into a mobile home. We're told this is in Anne Arundel County. We're told that's about 20 miles northeast of D.C. No word yet on any injuries. We don't know if there were people inside that home or in that mobile home park. You can see firefighters are on scene right now. First-responders are there. We don't know who the plane belongs to either. Once we get more information, we'll try to pass that along to you. Also, something we're watching, a massive fire burning in the southern California mountains that is nowhere near control. It's already burned more than 35 square miles in the Idyllwild area. That's about 100 miles outside of Los Angeles near Palm Springs. Officials have ordered about 6,000 residents to evacuate. We're told 4,000 homes are at risk. Coming up this hour, live on CNN, President Obama is expected to speak about his Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. We're going to bring you the president live as soon as he speaks. And if you happen to be in the Northeast, we don't need to tell you this. It is hot. It is so very, very hot. Let's show you a hot picture. I don't think the statue feels the heat, but we sure do. This is a live picture of New York City. Let us give you some perspective. The high temperature here in New York City today, 95 degrees, the same high temperature that's expected in Kabul, Afghanistan, just to put it in perspective, not something we see every day. It is not just here. Much of the nation is feeling it. More than 20 states under are under a heat advisory today. Meteorologist Indra Petersons, girl, can I just talk about the fact that they sent you outside into Central Park. I think they want you to feel the veracity of your report. How bad is it out there?", "I'm not going to lie. I feel it now. You get out here around 2:00, 3:00 in the morning, it's like, you know, this is hot. You feel kind of like that steam coming up from the concrete. But as the day progresses, even as the temperature slowly climbs up, it's that sun directly hitting you that makes it unbearable. I've actually been talking to a couple of people and they're like, you know what? It's not that bad. That's because they're out here a few minutes. You can actually see right now, 88 degrees. With the heat indices right now, we're seeing temperatures about 95, 98 degrees, depending on where you are. And this is nowhere near the hottest time of the day. I spoke to a couple people around here and take a listen to what they had to say.", "We're from Arizona, so we came to New York City to get away from the heat.", "It's cooler in Arizona today. It's 98. It's 100 here with the humidity.", "Hot, too hot. But if you don't do it now, you're never going to do it. It gets hot here. Maybe I should go and have a shower and go and see the sights of New York.", "It's very hot, kind of hot. I'm feeling hot. I feel like sleeping at home. I can't work. It's very hot today. It's like 88 degrees. And later, it's going to be like 97 degrees.", "You know, one of the things, Michaela, we talk about is not just how hot it is specifically in one day, but it's how long we have to deal with that heat. And that's the reason we have so many advisories today. We're talking about major metropolitan cities. Today, even more people affected, hard to believe. (Inaudible) for a fifth day here in New York. We're talking about anywhere from southern New England, down to Maryland, spreading all the way -- believe it or not -- past even Minnesota into the Dakotas today. That's how many of us are being affected by this. We're actually going to have a couple of more days to go. We're not going to see relief until about the weekend in the Northeast, specifically, but, eventually, as the cold front kicks through, we'll start to see that relief start in the Midwest and then make its way over here. But for me myself here in good old gravel, looks like it's going to be a while.", "Indra, I kind of half expected to see you fry an egg on that sidewalk, it's so hot out there. And we appreciate that you actually put flip-flops on today because you cannot wear closed-toes shoes on a hot day like today.", "That's right. I'll make you breakfast about 8:00 tomorrow, Michaela.", "All right, Indra Petersons reporting on this heat wave. We understand it's going to give us a bit of a break in a few days. Maybe we'll see a little bit of relief in sight. To sports now, and the expected and highly anticipated return of Alex Rodriquez, A-Rod, the New York Yankees' third baseman says he'll be back on a Major League field on Monday for his first game of the season. It has been quite a rough ride for the former MVP. Many rumors and accusations for the $275 million man who just can't escape the critics or the comics.", "There are rumors that Major League baseball is going to suspend A-Rod after the All-Star break. Honestly, that's OK. Yankee fans are used to him not showing up for the second half of the season.", "How about that? So what is A-Rod hoping for as he gets back on the field? We get that story from our Jason Carroll.", "You know, every day is a new day, you know? Obviously, in this process, there's a lot of challenges.", "Alex Rodriguez knows a lot about challenges. He has recovered from hip surgery, the second of his career. And the New York Yankee third baseman is back on the field for now, with the Double-A team, the Trenton Thunder. Getting back in the game, the real game, may be his greatest challenge, one he hopes to overcome with help from fans.", "I mean, the support has been overwhelming, and it's fueled me. I mean, this has been a very difficult process. And I'm just humbled by the opportunity to play baseball. I love this game so much. I hate all the noise, but hopefully that goes away soon and we can get back to playing baseball.", "Part of the so-called noise, Major League baseball's investigation into allegations linking Rodriguez and other players to this Florida clinic shut down for distributing performance-enhancing drugs. Rodriguez denies being treated by the clinic. A possible suspension from the team, a $114 million contract and his legacy hang in the balance. A lot of pressures, a lot of allegations out there, how are you managing to deal with that, while also trying to manage the physical part of trying to come back?", "Well, that's a good question. I mean, that's never easy and it's not fun.", "What's harder? Is it the mental or is it the physical? Which one is harder?", "I think in this case, it's both.", "What happens if there is a suspension? How disappointed would you be if you're not able to come back?", "Well I'm going to focus on the positive, you know. Obviously, that situation, I can't comment on at the moment, but I'm really looking forward to coming back to New York. I feel like I owe the Yankee fan base my A-game. I don't think they had that last year.", "No negotiations going on, no sort of plea deals? Nothing like that? No deals being made?", "I don't think there's anything that's going on right now. And that's as far as I'm going here. I think that it's important we have a process. We have a good system with Major League Baseball. And let's get the process play out.", "If something is not ruled in your favor, would you want to continue to fight?", "You know, I'd just rather not get into any of that right now. It's too -- it's premature. And we'll let the process play out. That's my responsibility right now.", "He really doesn't do that very often, Jason, one-on-one like that. That was a great \"get.\" He really did not want to talk about the Biogenesis issue, though.", "No, he did not. And the reason is because of the ongoing investigation. This is what he was advised not to talk about. But he has been on the record very clearly saying, look, I did not take any performance-enhancing drugs. I was not affiliated with that particular clinic. This investigation is still ongoing. We're going to have to see what happens when the MLB completes it and what findings they have.", "And part of his reluctance to do these one-on-one interviews is because he wants to kind of keep control of the message that is going out there about him?", "He does, and he feels as though in the past, perhaps, that that message has not gotten out the way that he wanted it to. He also felt as though, over the past year, he wanted to speak to his fans. He says he's been grateful to the fans that have come out to support him. There have been a lot of critics, too, who say he's overpaid, not worth the money, all these medical issues, not worth it for the Yankees to have him out there. But, you know, he says he is worth it. He's worked hard and he wants to come back.", "But still that possibility of a suspension this year is weighing over him, I'm sure?", "Very much. It's still very much a possibility. We're going to have to wait and see what MLB comes up with, what evidence they come up with. Whatever evidence they do come up with, I wouldn't be surprised if Rodriguez decides to fight or appeal.", "All right, Jason Carroll, our first-time meeting this morning, another Angelino. Indra Petersons is also from California. A little West Coast trifecta here.", "We're all in the house.", "We are in the house. All right, Jason Carroll, appreciate it. Thanks so much. Great \"get.\" Great conversation. Still ahead after the break, Trayvon Martin's parents have been silent since George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murdering their son. But this morning, they've come forward. 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{"id": "NPR-34961", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2008-06-03", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91098046", "title": "Canada Bears Brunt of Fighting in South Afghanistan", "summary": "Arif Lalani, Canada's Ambassador to Afghanistan, says his country is still adjusting to its role in fighting the Taliban in Southern Afghanistan. He also says Canada is making progress in and around Kandahar — in both security and reconstruction. Lalani talks with host Renee Montagne.", "utt": ["Whenever you hear that a NATO soldier has been killed in the Taliban heartland of Kandahar, it's probably a Canadian soldier. Canada only has 2,500 troops in Afghanistan but they are fighting in one of the most dangerous regions of the country. So while Canadian troops make up only a small fraction of NATO forces, they've suffered the highest number of fatalities proportionately.", "And this high death toll has led to a lot of protests in Canada about the mission in Afghanistan. Arif Lalani is Canada's ambassador to Afghanistan. He's in Washington this week and joins us in our studio. Good morning.", "Good morning.", "Canadian troops have been under fire in Kandahar since the war heated up back in 2006. What are you seeing there now?", "You're quite right. We have been there right from the beginning, which maybe a lot of your listeners don't know. But we went in with you in 2001, when the air operations started, and we've been in Kandahar for the last period. And it is probably some of the toughest real estate in the country to be holding, and that's reflected in our casualty levels.", "But it's also because we have been very active in trying to stabilize and secure Kandahar since we've been there.", "When Canada agreed just recently to extend its mission until 2011, one of its main demands was that another NATO country had to send in at least 1,000 troops to help out. In the end it turns out those troops will be U.S. Marines coming into Kandahar. Are the Canadian troops overwhelmed?", "Absolutely not. We had an independent commission to look at what was working and what wasn't working in terms of the mission in Afghanistan. And one of the things they concluded was that in Kandahar, being so crucial to the mission, we needed more troops to do the job right.", "But getting down to it, how much progress has been made in fighting the Taliban down in Kandahar?", "There's a lot of progress. Remember this is a country that for a whole generation, for 30 years, has had some kind of war or civil war, so progress sometimes means a gravel road. In Kandahar we're building new schools, training and hiring new teachers.", "So while life for the foreigners entails different security precautions, we shouldn't forget that life for Afghans is returning to normal.", "Although this gets us to the question of protest. In Canada, much of the protest about sending troops to Afghanistan stems from the fact that a lot of Canadians thought that when those troops went into Afghanistan they were going to reconstruct the country. It was a sort of a peace mission and then they ended up fighting. How much has the mission changed to allow your troops to actually concentrate on reconstruction?", "We're concentrating more and more. I've been ambassador there for a year now, and in the year that I've been there we have done more development in Kandahar this year than we did last year. But you're also quite right to point out that this is a leadership in a way that Canada hasn't experienced since the Korean War. And that kind of leadership, I think, has taken some adjustment for Canadians.", "But Canadians, frankly, you know, have not really been protesting against the war. There's been a lot of political debate about the direction of the mission.", "Well, I take your point. It's not so much protest on the streets but there certainly is a constant drum roll in Canada of criticism about Afghanistan in a way that we don't see that here. More like what we see here about Iraq.", "Exactly. And I think partly it's because our Afghanistan mission is our number one foreign policy priority. What you're seeing is natural because we have never done anything this big, and frankly with this kind of loss of life. So Canadians, I think, are adjusting due to the fact that Americans are used to, which is that leadership isn't always easy.", "Arif Lalani is Canada's ambassador to Afghanistan, in Washington, D.C. this week. Thanks very much for joining us.", "My pleasure. 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{"id": "CNN-111382", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-10-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/20/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Rogue Gunmen Tested Will Of Iraqi Police and Troops In Amara; General Abizaid Meets With President Bush", "utt": ["Thanks very much, Abbi, for that. And to our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM, where new pictures and information are arriving all the time. Standing by, CNN reporters across the United States and around the world to bring you today's top stories. Happening now, a bloody test in Iraq -- rogue elements trying to take over a city controlled by government forces. Now there are new questions, maybe some answers, on whether Iraqi forces are simply up to the test. Urgent huddles over at the White House. The battle readiness of Iraqi troops likely one topic the president is discussing with his senior military advisers on Iraq. But will they discuss a change in course? And Tinseltown politics -- it's 2:00 p.m. in Hollywood. Are some liberal movie stars now fans of former movie star and now Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger? He's finding out. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Right now, the ability of Iraqi troops to defend their nation is being called into serious question. In the southern city of Amara, all is said to be calm, but only after hundreds of rogue gunmen tested the will and might of Iraqi police and troops. The concerns over what's happening come as President Bush meets with his top military commanders on Iraq. We have two reports. Our Suzanne Malveaux is standing by at the White House. But let's begin with our senior Pentagon correspondent, Jamie McIntyre -- Jamie.", "Wolf, here at the Pentagon today, officials continue to downplay what's happening in Iraq, insisting that given enough time, things will work out.", "While it appears Iraqi police may have retaken control of Amara, for a time Thursday and Friday, it was overrun-by hundreds of Shia militiamen from anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. The Iraqi police station was destroyed, black smoke billowing from three buildings flattened by explosives. British troops, which turned the area over to Iraq months ago, were ready to go back in, but Iraq's government insisted they weren't needed. Still, Amara now joins Ramadi and Balad as cities where Iraqi forces are supposed to be standing up, but instead have fallen down in their ability to contain sectarian fighting. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld argued those setbacks are temporary and may be a result of a deliberate challenge to the U.S. plan to gradually cede areas to Iraqi control.", "It might be because the enemy said well, fair enough, pass that over to the Iraqi forces. Let's focus on that, increase the effort against them and see if we can't take it away from them so that the press of the world will notice that we've taken it away. They're smart, the enemy. They've got brains and they use them.", "Rumsfeld conferenced with top generals John Abizaid and George Casey by video hookup hours before Abizaid was summoned to Washington for more meetings for more meetings with President Bush and his national security team. Rumsfeld described the hastily called session as a regular meeting, insisting it was nothing unusual. And he carefully parried questions about whether the overall strategy is under review. (on camera): Mr. Secretary, can you just say plainly whether you believe a course correction is needed in Iraq or not?", "I think the way I'll leave it is I'd prefer to give my advice to the president rather than you, Jamie. I'm old-fashioned.", "Do you think the American public deserves to know whether you're considering making major adjustments rather than just refining tactics?", "I mean no one on the National Security Council or a commander in the field makes a decision or sets a course and then puts their brain at rest.", "Rumsfeld continues to counsel patience, arguing that given enough time, the Iraqi government will come together and Iraqi forces will be up to the challenge. The question is how much patience does President Bush, and the American people, for that matter, have with Rumsfeld's strategy -- Wolf.", "Thanks very much, Jamie, for that. And given the unyielding violence, is it time for a new Iraq war strategy? There are urgent talks over at the White House. Let's bring in our White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux -- Suzanne.", "Well, Wolf, those talks just wrapped up moments ago here at the White House. General John Abizaid, as you know, the U.S. commander for the Middle East, met with President Bush one-on-one this afternoon, of course, to talk strategy. Already the White House has dismissed suggestions of a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops or a partitioning of Iraq. But the president, in these urgent talks, of course, looking for military guidance from the highest levels as to how to turn things around.", "With October likely to become the deadliest month for U.S. forces in nearly two years, President Bush held urgent White House talks with his top U.S. commander in the Middle East, General John Abizaid.", "He is eager to hear about other ideas. But leaving is not going to work.", "Publicly, Mr. Bush remains resolute that his Iraq strategy will not change.", "One of the key issues in this election is who best sees the future and who best has the plan to deal with it. I firmly see the threats we face and the best way for America to protect ourselves is to go on the offense and to stay on the offense.", "The president is under intense political pressure from critics, now including some prominent Republicans, to change course in Iraq. Saturday, Mr. Bush will hold a video conference call with his secretary of defense and his Iraq point man, General George Casey. Mr. Bush maintains he will not pull out U.S. troops before Iraqis can govern and protect themselves. But he says he is open to changing military tactics to get the job done. Skeptical journalists engaged White House Press Secretary Tony Snow in a war of words over the difference between change in strategy and change in tactics.", "Well, I think what they're talking about...", "... strategy in your definition?", "I think -- I think they will agree with what I have described as strategy, which is...", "How come you're not going to -- you're not even considering a change in strategy -- no, Tony, sorry.", "No, Martha, no. But...", "Frustration over language in the briefing room. But the question about what is to be done on the ground in Iraq remains unanswered.", "And, Wolf, today Tony Snow dismissed a letter that was sent by the Democratic leadership to the president, suggestions about how to change the course in Iraq. One of those suggestions, to hold an international conference to deal with this. And, in his words, he said now it is -- cut and run-is now being augmented by walk and talk -- Wolf.", "Suzanne, thank you. Meanwhile, amid the debate over strategy, there's also the debate over which political party would do better handling Iraq. We posed that question to Americans in a recent CNN poll. Fifty-one percent said Democrats would do a better job, 34 percent said Republicans would do better handling Iraq. The Iraq War a key topic on Sunday's \"LATE EDITION.\" I'll speak about the war and the nuclear crisis with North Korea, the situation in Iran. Among my guests, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. \"LATE EDITION\" airs for two hours starting at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Sunday. \"LATE EDITION,\" the last word in Sunday talk. Let's go to CNN's Carol Lin. She's joining us from the CNN Center with a closer look at some other stories making news -- hi, Carol.", "Hi there, Wolf. We have an update now on campaign controversy in California. Republican Congressional candidate Tan Nguyen says he won't bow to pressure from local GOP leaders to drop out of the race. Nguyen is under fire after acknowledging that his campaign sent intimidating letters to thousands of Hispanic immigrant voters. Nguyen tells the Associated Press he won't quit the campaign because he didn't personally approve the letter. Now, state law enforcement agents investigating the letter began searching Nguyen's campaign offices today. Nguyen is challenging a leading Hispanic lawmaker, Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez. And voters in Arizona may have to bring their photo IDs when they go to the poll next month. Well, the Supreme Court ruled today Arizona can require voters to show photo identification when they vote in November's mid-term elections. But federal courts must still resolve a pending lawsuits that claims the state law disenfranchises thousands of people, including the elderly and minorities. And the Palm Beach State Attorney's office has identified the Roman Catholic priest who allegedly molested Florida Congressman Mark Foley nearly 40 years ago. The Archdiocese of Miami says it's the Reverend Anthony Mercieca. He now lives in Malta. The Archdiocese is apologizing to Foley for the alleged abuse and says Mercieca is being banned from church work. It's also urging any other alleged victims to come forward. Now, five years after 9/11, police and forensic experts are again digging through the rubble at New York's ground zero. Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the search after a contractor found human remains in a manhole at the World Trade Center site yesterday. The discovery outraged some victims' families. Bloomberg says crews will comb through areas that might have been overlooked before. The remains of more than 1,100 victims are still unaccounted for -- Wolf.", "What a sad story that is. Carol, thanks very much for that. Jack Cafferty is off today. He'll be back next week. Just ahead, the fear factor and the campaign -- we're going to show you a controversial new Republican ad that some say is fear mongering at its worst. Also, from Beijing, our own Zain Verjee's exclusive interview with the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice. Zane is the only television correspondent traveling with the Secretary as she meets with Asian allies to try to defuse the North Korean nuclear crisis. Plus, the California Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, wooing Hollywood's traditionally Democratic elite. We're going to show you how and why. Stay with us. 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{"id": "CNN-186071", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-5-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/15/cnr.03.html", "summary": "New Poll: Romney Leading in Women Voters", "utt": ["Look, I don't think any one can be surprised, no one expected the gaps in the poll to stay as wide as they were. Obviously as Mitt Romney is now left the carnival of the Republican primary process he's gotten away from a lot of the extreme rhetoric that dominated that particular campaign period. And he's of course the Romney strategy is to try to keep the reference on Barack Obama. Of course, the good news for the president is people are feeling better about the economy. The trajectory is improving but for the Obama campaign now is to make this not a referendum but a choice between both campaigns.", "Cheri?", "This president has been talking down women for the longest time. In January Romney was ahead of Obama in the polls with recommend, so they started the thing about with claiming there is a GOP war on women, people aren't buying it. Women own small businesses, create more jobs than all of the fortune 50 company began. We don't want him saying we're losers, we're victims, we need government handouts. We want a president with good strong pro business agenda like Mitt Romney, he's going to let us do what we do best which is create jobs, and I think that women in this country just got sick of the negativity of we worked so hard and so long to get as far as we have and we have Obama telling us that well, you know, we can't do anything without a government hand-out. It's just --", "-- and American women in this country have caught on.", "Quickly, Cheri. Let's remember you said everything about Barack Obama. But didn't begin to discuss what Mitt Romney's record is. His support for the Ryan budget plan, that takes away funding for small business opportunities. Takes away job training. Focuses on --", "I'll tell you what --", "-- less regulation, getting government out of the way so we can do what we do best. We don't want all of this, quote, \"coverage.\"", "Let's talk business. Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital is back in the spotlight. Got a pair of new political ads. The Obama camp rolling out this one.", "Those guys were all rich. They all have more money than they will ever spend. Yet they didn't have the money to take care of the very people that made the money for them.", "Bain Capital walked away with a lot of money they made off of this plant. We view Mitt Romney as a job destroyer.", "In response to the Romney campaign, rolled this one out.", "Mitt Romney's private-sector leadership team stepped in.", "Building a dream with over 6,000 employees today.", "If it wasn't for a company like Steel Dynamics, this county wouldn't have a lot.", "All right. Two different ads. Two different angles. Who's got the advantage?", "This is Romney. First, when they talk about the plant that was closed in Kansas. That was in 2001. Mitt Romney left in 1999. They really need to be more honest on that. Secondly, Mitt Romney is responsible at Bain for creating 100,000 jobs, making money for people. That's the way this supposed to be, that helps everybody. So I think the Obama ad is disingenuous. He gets a bump until people look at the details then not so much. Still this is Romney's plus for Romney.", "Robert?", "You know, there are enough people from both parties just making talking points on all of the networks, let's understand what these ads are about. It's an effort by the Obama --", "I don't have talking points, Robert, by the way.", "It's an effort to try to define the Romney record before the super PAC period where the specialist money lines up trying to define Barack Obama. I think what's most important if you look at these ads is to focus on the fact that the best define how to make America competitive in the world, provide security at home is the person that's going to win the election and mobilize people focusing on the economy. And by the way, sherry, it would be helpful if Mitt Romney said at least twine speeches the same number of jobs he created at Bain Capital. He changes the number.", "The bottom line is this ad on the part of Obama is a lie because Mitt Romney was not at that company, they are disingenuous. People understand that. We've caught this president in this campaign in some --", "-- a couple of times.", "Cheri, Robert, you two make me nervous.", "You never make us nervous.", "I try not to. We'll be back."], "speaker": ["ROBERT ZIMMERMAN, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "PHILLIPS", "CHERI JACOBUS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST", "JACOBUS", "ZIMMERMAN", "PHILLIPS", "JACOBUS", "PHILLIPS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PHILLIPS", "AD NARRATOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PHILLIPS", "JACOBUS", "PHILLIPS", "ZIMMERMAN", "JACOBUS", "ZIMMERMAN", "JACOBUS", "JACOBUS", "PHILLIPS", "ZIMMERMAN", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-62865", "program": "CNN CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT", "date": "2002-11-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/11/cct.00.html", "summary": "World Awaits Saddam Hussein's Next Move", "utt": ["Iraq now has four days left to declare if it will abide by the United Nations resolution calling for unconditional inspections of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. And today, President Bush repeated his warnings that the U.S. will not let the U.N. tie its hands.", "This great nation will not live at the mercy of any foreign plot or power. The dictator of Iraq will fully disarm or the United States will lead a coalition and disarm him.", "Iraq continues to deny possessing such weapons or posing a threat to the United States. Today, Iraq's parliament debated its response to the resolution. A vote is expected tomorrow. And, like most things in Iraq, it is expected to be exactly what Saddam Hussein wants. Joining us now from Iraq's capital, where it's now before dawn on Tuesday morning, is Baghdad bureau chief Jane Arraf. Jane, thank you so much for staying up so late for us. Tell us, will there be a decision tomorrow?", "There will be some sort of decision tomorrow, Connie. Now, this National Assembly meeting was convened, as you said, by the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, an emergency session that's supposed to discuss this resolution and then send its recommendation to the body that really makes the decision, the Revolution Command Council, chaired by the Iraqi president. Now, the session started in the evening and had several hours of discussion. All of the speakers said that the resolution was aimed at attacking Iraq, a pretext for a U.S. attack, and had conditions that were impossible to meet. But they said it would be up to the leadership to decide. And what the leadership seems to be about to decide is that it really is in Iraq's best interests to accept this resolution -- Connie.", "Jane, but Iraq is still claiming that it has no weapons of mass destruction, correct?", "Absolutely. It says it's completely free of those banned weapons, chemical, nuclear, biological, and long-range ballistic missiles. It says that any weapons that it had were destroyed after the Gulf War, either during the Gulf or afterwards, in those seven years when previous U.N. weapons inspectors were here and they went throughout the country destroying most of those programs. They also quote the former weapons inspections chief who was originally here as saying that Iraq's banned weapons program had been 95 percent accounted for. Now, obviously, it's been a while since then, but they do say they have no weapons, no banned weapons -- Connie.", "Thank you, Jane Arraf. Appreciate your being with us. This weekend, U.S. officials reiterated that the Bush administration does not consider U.N. approval necessary for an invasion. And today, President Bush said, if he thinks it's necessary, he'll throw everything America's got against Iraq.", "I have no greater responsibility than protecting the American people. And should military action become necessary for our own security, I will commit the full force and might of the United States military. And we will prevail.", "What exactly does that mean? For obvious reasons, the Pentagon isn't eager to get into many specifics. But CNN senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre has been reporting on some of the obvious moves and joins us now from the Pentagon. Jamie, is the United States trying to put fear in Saddam Hussein by detailing or allowing some of this military information to leak out?", "Well, I think that the United States clearly wants to -- wants Saddam Hussein to believe that the U.S. is resolute in its resolve to take action against him personally. And so that's why we are seeing very strong statements from the United States that it would move ahead with military action even without the international support of others, if that becomes necessary. And the U.S. is also giving itself sort of maximum flexibility in terms of what would actually trigger a U.S. military response, not spelling it out precisely, but basically saying Saddam Hussein knows what he has to do. And, on Friday, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld essentially said that any act of delay or defiance, he said, would be considered an additional breach of Iraq's international obligations. He said the choice was totally up to Baghdad about what happens. And Rumsfeld said -- quote -- \"For the sake of peace, let's hope the Iraqi regime chooses wisely,\" indicating there still may be a chance to avert war -- Connie.", "Now, if Saddam Hussein does not comply and, in the end, the United States does intend to attack, what do you think the timetable would be?", "Well, the conventional wisdom is that we're looking at a February timetable. Now, I talked to a senior defense official last week who told me that, practically speaking, it was going to be difficult to get the forces in place by January. So that made February look more likely. And, of course, the cool weather season is when the U.S. would prefer to fight, although they make the point they could fight in any month of the year. But there's another factor here that you have to keep in mind. And that is that there is a quiet buildup going under way, prepositioning supplies, making a lot of prudent moves that need to be made, including everything from buying up satellite time to moving more stocks of ammunition into the area. So, if the U.S. wants to preserve the tactical surprise of an operation, it may be trying to give the impression that it can't move until later, while trying to be prepared to do something sooner. The key is, nobody has the war plan. CNN doesn't have the war plan. \"The New York Times\" doesn't have the war plan. \"The Washington Post\" doesn't have it. We have sort of a general concept of how it's going to go. But we don't know the specifics that will keep it a surprise until the end for Saddam Hussein.", "All right, Jamie McIntyre, thank you. Still ahead: The royal scandal is getting serious. And it's raising questions about the possible next king of England. Stay with us.", "Up next: Did one sniper suspect confess? And what might this mean for the case against Malvo and Muhammad? CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT continues in a moment."], "speaker": ["CHUNG", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CHUNG", "JANE ARRAF, CNN BAGHDAD BUREAU CHIEF", "CHUNG", "ARRAF", "CHUNG", "BUSH", "CHUNG", "JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN MILITARY AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT", "CHUNG", "MCINTYRE", "CHUNG", "ANNOUNCER"]}
{"id": "CNN-388117", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-12-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/17/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Sources: White House Worried About Support from Key GOP Senators", "utt": ["Welcome back. Sources tell CNN, White House officials are worried about some Republican senators ahead of the likely impeachment trial. Democrats need Republican support if they want to see any of their requests met for the rules in the process of the trial. Right now, we're watching 10 key senators who may budge on key trial-related issues such as having certain people testify. With that upend, GOP leader, McConnell's coordinated plans with the White House. With me now, Democratic Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania. So nice to have you, Senator Casey, thank you for being with me. Let's just begin with this. Should this go to a trial in the Senate which looks likely now. Have you decided which way you will vote on impeachment?", "Poppy, I have not because we have to consider all the evidence. The record developed by the house, both with regard to the proceedings and the House Intelligence Committee as well as the Judiciary Committee. Both, as you know, have issued reports that I'm just going through, beginning to go --", "Right --", "Through.", "Right.", "So, we have -- we have hundreds of pages of reading there. We also have to do a lot of reading about the process, the procedure. We're going to be casting votes on that to set up the trial itself. So --", "Right --", "We've got a ways to go. But there's no question here based upon what transpired here, the president's conduct and all the underlying information is what I said back in September. I think a textbook case of abuse of power by soliciting the interference in a national election --", "So --", "And using the power of his office to do that. So, I think the predicate for this is pretty clear.", "Yes --", "But we have to examine all the evidence, and I take an oath to do that --", "Sure --", "Fairly in front of -- before the Senate.", "All U.S. senators take that oath. That is part of your job. My question to you -- because what you're saying really echoes exactly what we heard yesterday on this program from Senator Cardin, what Sherrod Brown told Jake Tapper over the weekend -- reserve judgment, hear all the evidence, hear the defense of the president. But some of your fellow senators including Senator Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren said back in October that they would vote to convict the president. Is that a mistake to pre-judge?", "Look, every senator has to make their own determination about how they approach this process. This is going to be a trial, and we are serving as jurors. So we've got some -- so, we've got some work to do prior to that. But then as we're sitting there -- and I think maybe a lot of Americans may not realize how different this will be than the house procedure over the house process. We will be silent.", "Yes, you can --", "Except --", "You can't talk, you have to write your questions for witnesses.", "Correct. That's correct --", "Yes --", "So, it will be -- it will be a different process. What folks will see on the Senate floor for the most part is not hearing from the Chief Justice or the senators. It will be the house managers making the case.", "Right --", "We don't know how many of those managers will have. And then, the president's defense lawyers or others will make the case the other way. So --", "So, if I could get your take on some new CNN polling that came in overnight, a few numbers that really are striking, I think. First of all, nationally, support for impeaching and removing the president from office is down 5 percent from a month ago. It's at 45 percent now. It was at 50 percent in November. And when you look by party among Democrats, when they are asked, should the president be impeached and removed from office, it was 90 percent in November, it is 77 percent now. And then looking at battleground states including your state of Pennsylvania which the president won in the election. A majority of battleground voters don't think there's enough evidence for the house to vote to impeach the president. Do those numbers worry you?", "Well, I guess that -- I'd say they don't because I try not to provide some kind of conclusion from that. There are different --", "Yes --", "Polls that will have different results. And, frankly, a lot of politicians and even some pundits analyze polls in ways that don't often make a lot of sense. So, I try not to get into that, even when it comes to polls of a candidate's re-election or things like that. But here's the key, here's the key --", "Yes --", "That I think the United States Senate has to discharge its duty to fairly evaluate this information. I think it was a step in the right direction when our Democratic leader Senator Schumer proposed not just a process, but asking for four witnesses who have direct knowledge --", "Yes --", "Of the withholding of the aid. A very -- witnesses -- four witnesses for a very limited but important, relevant purpose.", "So, we're going to debate that, but I think the key in the end is, this is not going to be a process driven by polls, every senator has got to make their own determination based upon the evidence.", "So, I hear you on that, and just picking up on the request from Senator Schumer for those four-fact witnesses. I think a lot of Americans want to hear what Mick Mulvaney would testify to, what John Bolton would have to say. But it is also a fact that back in 1999 during the Senate trial to impeach President Clinton, then-newly a Senator Chuck Schumer didn't want any new evidence or testimony admitted into that trial. And last night, Republican Senator John Cornyn, of course, a member of the leadership team told CNN, quote, \"the house passed articles of impeachment. We are the jury, so we shouldn't be trying to retry it or redo something they have already had a shot at. He says no new evidence. Who is right? Senator Cornyn now and Chuck Schumer in 1999 or Chuck Schumer today?", "Look, all I can tell you is what I believe should happen. The predicate here, obviously, is the investigation conducted by the house. An exhaustive review of the evidence with sworn testimony. It's interesting that, the folks who have made the case in a very compelling way, I would argue against the president's point of view have all been under oath. I'm not sure we've had anyone under oath who has made the opposite -- the opposite conclusion. But, look, it's going to be a determination, we have to make individually, reviewing all the evidence.", "Right --", "I think that these witnesses that Senator Schumer has proposed would supplement and fill in some of the information that we don't have right now. But I think what's already on the record is compelling. Look, Poppy, let me just say it personally. When I read the memorandum of that call, I was offended personally. Here's why? Because as a public official, you are always supposed to keep a very bright line between the work you do in government and how you do that work, and the work you do as a candidate. And there are ways to obtain information for an election. You cannot use a government telephone or do it on government property or do it in a way that violates your oath of office. That's very troubling. It's even worse, and this offense has greater gravity because it involved foreign assistance, interfering in a national election and investigating a political opponent. We've never seen this before in American history.", "I appreciate your time, I'm sorry to cut it a little short. We have a lot going on today as you know with that rules vote ahead. I appreciate it, we'll have you back soon. Thanks, Senator Casey.", "Thanks, Poppy.", "You got it.", "Well, just one day before the house's historic vote on impeachment, where do voters stand? We have new CNN polling. And we're just moments away from the opening bell on Wall Street. The Dow looks set to open the day flat, one stock to watch, Boeing. Stocks sliding after the plane manufacturer says it will temporarily halt production of its troubled 737 Max jets beginning next month. Boeing continues to wait for the FAA to re-certified the aircraft just months after two deadly crashes. 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{"id": "CNN-126190", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2008-5-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/02/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Public: Things are Going Badly", "utt": ["The candidates are pouring it on, this, the final weekend before Tuesday's Indiana-North Carolina Democratic primaries. It's been a particularly rough week for Barack Obama, who appears to have lost some of his comfortable edge over Hillary Clinton. Can he bounce back? What's going on? Let's discuss in our \"Strategy Session.\" Democratic strategist Donna Brazile is joining us. And Republican strategist Kevin Madden is here as well. And, guys, thanks very much for coming in.", "A bad week, relatively speaking, for Barack Obama. What's going to happen Tuesday, you think, Donna?", "Wolf, I think it was a challenging week, because, once again, he had to denounce and condemn and distance himself from his former pastor. That clearly was a distraction. But I think Senator Obama is regaining his sea legs. He has a great deal of support in those two states. I think he will get out his vote. It's about get-out-the-vote. Senator Clinton has momentum, on the other hand.", "What do you think about the -- obviously, the get-out- the-vote is really, really important. And it's going to be -- at least the polls show -- very close in Indiana. He's got a slight advantage in North Carolina.", "Well, it's about the expectations. Barack Obama couldn't have had a worse week going into this, into the final run. But he's also done the right things since the Reverend Wright controversy has taken over the last two days. But it's about the expectations. Hillary Clinton has to get this down into single digits. The closer she gets to 5 percent in North Carolina, the better. And, then, Indiana becomes a big jump ball. Indiana will decide where the momentum goes from here.", "So, if she wins in North Carolina, and he wins in -- excuse me. If she wins in Indiana and he wins in North Carolina, then we just, what, go on to the next contest?", "It's perfect for Republicans.", "We go to West Virginia a week later.", "Absolutely. Then we will go on to Kentucky and Oregon and all the other states. Look, Wolf, this will not end until June 3 or some time right after it. Obama continues to maintain a lead in some of the national polls, some of the key states. Senator Clinton has a lead as well in some key states. This race will not end next week.", "So, we're -- we have at least got another month to go?", "Well...", "It's perfect for us Republicans. We want to watch this. We want to see everybody split on Tuesday and then go on to West Virginia.", "You know, what's not good for Republicans is that Democratic registration is up, Democratic turnout is up, the fact that Democrats are raising money, and Democrats are out there now taking on John McCain. So, it's not so good for Republicans.", "You know, the...", "Don't count your blessings too quick.", "I mean, I do believe that the fundamentals are there. You're right. There's a certain level of excitement on the Democrats' side that we have to take into account. But the fact that you're tearing apart the Democrat coalitions, and you have essentially a Republican nominee who is the Democrats' favorite Republican, that does work to our favor in a general election.", "How worried are you, though, about the fact that, on this right track/wrong track numbers, it's almost a record wrong track? The mood of the American people is that things are bad in the country. And, usually, when that mood is that bad, whether it was in 1992 or 1980, the incumbent party in the White House suffers.", "Well, we have, in John McCain, a Republican nominee who's always had a brand or a reputation for running against the status quo of Washington. And people aren't going to have a choice on whether or not this administration -- it's not going to be a referendum on this administration. But, instead, it's going to be a choice between John McCain and whoever the Democrats nominee -- nominate. And then it's going to essentially be about whether or not that candidate is the real candidate of change, and are they going to challenge that status quo in Washington? People are angry at Washington.", "You expect that he will try to distance himself very aggressively from the Bush/Cheney economic policies?", "On some -- I believe, on some issues, like spending, like the way that Katrina was handled by this administration, John McCain is going to make a very clear break from that. And I think that's going to probably be rewarded at the polls by a lot of conservative Democrats, a lot of independents, and a lot of like-minded Republicans.", "He's got this response -- and I will play it for you -- when he was asked about this whole right track/wrong track, the high disapproval numbers, record high disapproval numbers for President Bush right now.", "Have you seen the approval ratings of Congress lately, my friends? We talk about the low approval rating of the president. When you get down as low as the approval ratings of Congress today, you get down to paid staffers and blood relatives.", "That's a pretty good line.", "And a couple dogs and cats, throw them in as well.", "Look, the fact is, is that John McCain has to run the kind of campaign that reaches out to independents, reaches out to moderates, because the Republican brand itself is in bad shape. That's one of the reasons why John McCain is out there on the forgotten America tour. I haven't forgotten you, too. And who knows with next week, forget-me-not tour.", "But the more he reaches out, let's say, to moderate Democrats, independents, how concerned should he be with that conservative base, simply, a lot of them saying, you know what, he's not my cup of tea; I'm going to sit on my hands and not go out and aggressively work for him?", "Well, he has to work very hard to get those conservatives. And he did very well in the primaries. He was very competitive among conservative voters. He didn't necessarily win them all the time, but he was very competitive there. But this race -- and I believe John McCain's path to victory -- is going to be built around winning what a lot of people call the big middle. He has to build this right-of-center coalition that's going to essentially bring in those conservative Democrats and independents, along with all those like-minded Republicans. It's the only way he can do it, with -- given the fact that there are a lot of structural advantages that the Democrats have.", "And, Donna, while -- while the Democrats are fighting still amongst themselves, he's going on to Pennsylvania, to Ohio, to Florida, to Colorado, the states that will be the battlegrounds in the Electoral College run-up. He's spending a lot of time in those states already.", "He's trying to reintroduce himself. And that's one of the reasons why the Democratic National Committee is running these ads right now to remind voters that John McCain has a record. He has a record of supporting George Bush on the war, a record of supporting George Bush on the economy. If you want four more, eight more years of George Bush, vote for John McCain. That's what Democrats are saying.", "All the polls show it could be very, very tight, could be very competitive. And that's what we should expect.", "All right, guys, thanks very much for coming in. Things -- there are things you never necessarily heard about Barack Obama, sort of. You are going to find out what's on Obama's top 10 list of surprising facts. Also, so many voters to convince, so little time. You will go on a unique journey with Bill Clinton, as he campaigns for his wife. And one on one with Arianna Huffington -- I will ask the outspoken columnist and author what she thinks about the Democrats, what she thinks about John McCain, and the man they hope to replace. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BLITZER", "DONNA BRAZILE, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "KEVIN MADDEN, FORMER ROMNEY CAMPAIGN NATIONAL PRESS SECRETARY", "BLITZER", "MADDEN", "BLITZER", "BRAZILE", "BLITZER", "BRAZILE", "MADDEN", "BRAZILE", "BLITZER", "BRAZILE", "MADDEN", "BLITZER", "MADDEN", "BLITZER", "MADDEN", "BLITZER", "MCCAIN", "BLITZER", "BRAZILE", "BRAZILE", "BLITZER", "MADDEN", "BLITZER", "BRAZILE", "BLITZER", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-360277", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-01-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1901/24/es.02.html", "summary": "U.S. Recognizes Venezuelan Opposition as Leader", "utt": ["All right. A country more than 30 million in crisis and relations between the U.S. and Venezuela may be building toward a flash point at blazing speed. Starting less than 24 hours ago when the Trump administration recognized Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the nation's president.", "Today freedom broke out in Venezuela with the recognition of the new interim president. Maduro is a dictator are with no legitimate claim to power.", "The U.S. move a major blow to Nicolas Maduro whose election last year was condemned around the world as a fraudulent power grab. Over just a few years Venezuela has fallen into a deep crisis despite immense oil wealth. Corruption and failed socialist policies have crashed the economy leading to hyperinflation, widespread hunger and disease. Now the crisis has deepened. Huge protests yesterday left 10 people dead. Maduro gave U.S. diplomats 72 hours to leave the country, but a senior administration official dismissed that order as, quote, \"meaningless.\" Stefano Pozzebon reporting for CNN from Caracas.", "Yes, Christine, Dave, historic moments we have witnessed here in Caracas yesterday when Juan Guaido swore himself in as the new president of Venezuela in order to call for free and fair elections as soon as possible. And right now, there are two people claiming to be the president of Venezuela and the White House -- the United States -- are throwing their support behind Juan Guaido, behind the Venezuelan opposition, with all the implications that that support mean, implications in the economic sphere, in the political sphere. Let's talk about the economics. There is of course a lot of trade especially oil trade going on between Caracas and Washington. President Trump has said that all options are on the table when it comes to restore the Venezuelan democracy. Nicolas Maduro has reacted to the support by the United States to Guaido by cutting down and breaking all political and diplomatic relationships with Washington and the United States are so far stood firm and say they still recognize Guaido and are still waiting for democracy to be restored here in Caracas -- Christine, Dave.", "All right. Thank you so much for that. China's economy is slowing and it will still overtake the United States as the world's top retail market for the very first time. Retail sales in China will reach more than $5.6 trillion this year, about 100 billion more than in the United States. $5.6 trillion. The Chinese population is growing wealth and the rapid development of online sales have driven this retail boom. Almost $2 trillion of retail spending in China will be online this year. Compared with just 11 percent in the U.S. But Chinese consumers are feeling the effects of the country's slowing economy and the ongoing trade war. Retail sales growth is expected to weaken to 7.5 percent. That's still really big growth, but that is weaker. This year overall China's economy expected to pass the United States overall now by 2030. And many economists say once China overtakes the U.S. as retail market and as overall economy, that will be it. I mean, it will always be the stronger and bigger.", "They'll never reverse.", "It'll never -- the United States will never recover that.", "All right. Ahead, as Netflix gets more expensive, Hulu gets cheaper. CNN Business has the details next."], "speaker": ["BRIGGS", "MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BRIGGS", "STEFANO POZZEBON, JOURNALIST", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS"]}
{"id": "CNN-373228", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2019-06-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/25/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Tehran Closed for Diplomacy; Trump Says Any Iran Attacks Will be Met with Force and Even Obliteration; Iraq Worried About Being Caught in the Maelstrom; Barham Salih, Iranian President, is Interviewed About the Tension Between the U.S. and Iran; U.S. Government's Treatment of Detained Migrant Children Under Scrutiny; Immigrant Children Living Unsafe and Unsanitary Detention Facilities; Warren Binford, Professor of Law, Willamette University, is Interviewed About U.S. Detention Facilities.", "utt": ["Hello, everyone, and welcome to \"Amanpour.\" Here's what's coming up. The doors to diplomacy are closed, Tehran tells Washington as tensions ratchet up. What does all this mean for Iran's Persian Gulf neighbor, Iraq? My interview with the president, Barham Salih. Then, after reports of shocking conditions at detention facilities in Texas, I speak to the lawyer, Warren Binford, about what she saw inside. Plus, unearthing the real China by offering free taxi rides in Shanghai. NPR correspondent, Frank Langfitt, talks to our Hari Sreenivasan. Welcome to the program, everyone. The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has accused the United States of suffering a mental disability after the Trump administration issued new sanctions against top Iranian leaders, including the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. In response, President Trump has tweeted that an attack by Iran on anything American will be met with overwhelming force and even obliteration. Iran's Persian Gulf neighbor, Iraq, is worried about being caught up in the maelstrom, where angry words and crippling sanctions could spin out of control, even between leaders who say they don't want war. Mindful of America's disastrous 2003 war in Iraq based on false intelligence, I asked the Iraqi president, Barham Salih, what all this means for his country, for the region, and indeed, the world. President Salih, welcome back to the program.", "Thank you for having me.", "You are here at a very, very crucial time with this massive ratcheting up of tension between the United States and Iran. And, of course you sit in the middle of that in that region. Do you feel the escalation and can it threaten Iraq itself?", "We are truly concerned with the escalation and we are concerned about the ramification for Iraq. Iraq has been going through hell over the past four decades. Latest episode of conflict was the devastating war with ISIS. We want to focus on reconstruction, reconciliation and we want to move on. Yet, we are being dragged into book these dynamics of conflict. And I say to all the actors in the region as well as to the global actors that Iraq security, Iraq's stability is important, vital and it should not be under estimated the success we have achieved. Defeating ISIS with the support of the United States and the international coalition, with the support of our neighbors has been monumental success. It should not be under estimated and it should be protected, not squandered.", "What do you make of President Trump announcing that he stood back from ordering a strike, a retaliatory strike on Iran?", "Obviously, we're happy that war has been averted. This part of the world has been going through cycles of conflict for so many years. We don't need another war. And there is no military solution to this problem. There are serious problems affecting regional order in the Middle East and this is nothing new. We have reached a new heightened state of, I would say, tension, escalation. At the end of the day, the parties need to sit down together and focus on what is important, really combatting violent extremism, focusing on regional integration, and economic issues, think about the Middle East and the legions of unemployed youth who are demanding jobs, who are demanding education, who are demanding a fair share of resources of the nations. This is not the way to go forward. That -- this part of the world needs fundamental solutions, not another war.", "Well, and you would be in the best place to know that given the misguided war, it turns out, that happened in Iraq in 2003. But I want to ask you, because if military intervention has been, at least, postponed for now, the war of words is ramping up between not just the governments but between the presidents now. President Trump saying things about Iran. And now, the latest, President Rouhani in a rather uncharacteristic outburst, calling the White House mentally retarded for its actions and its announcement of brand-new sanctions. How do you analyze that outburst on a televised address? Is Iran feeling the pressure?", "No doubt Iran is hurting. I mean, the sanctions are hurting and this escalation is hurting the entire region not just Iran, to be fair. Everybody is on their nerves and this is not a happy situation for any of the actors in the region, to start with. And it's best to deescalate, it's best to focus, as I said, on what is important. This is not the way to solve this problem. The way to solve the problem is dialogue, sitting down to a table and really begin hammering out the fundamental issues that are affecting that part of the world.", "Let's say the United States has legitimate grievances with Iran. What would your advice had been had you been asked by President Trump and his administration regarding the Iran nuclear deal and pulling out? Because it's obviously that that has caused this massive escalation as Iran is being squeezed by the American's maximum pressure campaign.", "Let me remind the audience of that sanctions have been tried in many, many countries. And we in Iraq have suffered from sanctions in the 1990s and the devastation that has inflicted Iraqi society has been really enduring, even today, by the way. So, we feel for the people of Iran as they're being subjected to these sanctions. And there is also a fundamental question whether this is the way to bring about the change in behavior and policy that is being sought out. The nuclear deal was welcomed by many in the region, once welcomed by the Europeans, once welcomed by the world as a way to go beyond that impasse. There are issues with that nuclear deal, this needs to be negotiated, it needs to be discussed and had the alternative of abrogating the deal, it could be disastrous for the entire neighborhood as a whole.", "Well, let's talk about Iraq. Would you agree that it was the United States war in Iraq that essentially allowed Iran to expand its influence and it expanded into your own country, as you know?", "I disagree with that, fundamentally. It was Saddam Hussein's policies of ethnic and sectarian discrimination, Saddam Hussein's policies of genocide and repression that destroyed the Iraqi State and allowed all kind of foreign influences to increase inside Iraq. Iraq-Iran war was a devastating blow. Iraq was a devastating blow to Iran. And we are still, by the way, dealing with the continues consequences of that war. Don't under estimate that. Iran and Iraq neighbors. We have 1,400 kilometers of borders. People of Iran's influence inside Iraq but there is also Iraqi influence inside Iran, too, as well. Don't forget the fact that Najaf is the center of Shia Islam. And Najaf's influence in Iran is no -- not to be under estimated. These neighborhoods have lived together. There are social, cultural, economic ties that have bound the two people for centuries, for millennia. So, this is not a mathematical equation, as some people try to look for a turning point here and the weakness of Iraq. The destruction of the State in Iraq came with the policies of Saddam Hussein. 2003 war, many Iraqis welcomed it as a way to move towards liberty, towards a democratic system of government and deniably, the transition in Iraq has been painful. And the Iraqi people have not attained what they have aspired to. We still have a lot of work to be done. But the problems of Iraq predate 2003.", "Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently made an unannounced visit to your country. And there were fears. Apparently, he spoke to you about the potential intelligence that suggested pro Iran Shiite militias inside Iraq would attack U.S. troops in the region. What intelligence did you have on that and what are you telling them about attacks or any action against American interests there?", "There is a policy of the Iraqi government endorsed by the main political parties, including the commanders of the Hashd al-Sha'abi, the People Mobilization Forces. These forces are to be commanded, are commanded by the prime minister. And the policies that these American and coalition forces that are present in Iraq are at the behest of the Iraqi government, at the invitation of the Iraqi government, 12 Iraqi forces fight ISIS and enabling us in the war against terror. Any attack of those will be an act against the State of Iraq and the State of Iraq, the government of Iraq will be taking them on. To be fair, a couple of incidents have happened recently. All the key players in Iraq, all the political leaders of Iraq, including the commanders of the Hashd al-Sha'abi, have come out condemning those. There are -- there could well be French groups who may want to destabilize the situation. The policy of the government, the policy of the political leadership of Iraq is really not to allow that. We do not want to be dragged into this conflict. The international coalition that is there is there at the invitation of the Iraqi government. They're helping the Iraqi forces fight ISIS. Consolidated the victory of", "I wonder how long Iraq wants to see American troops stationed there? And I'm going play this little bit of an interview that President Trump gave to \"CBS News\" recently.", "We spent a fortune on building this incredible base, we might as well keep it. And one of the reasons I want to keep it is because I want to be looking at a little bit at Iran because Iran is a real problem.", "That's news. You're keeping troops in Iraq because you want to be able to strike in Iran?", "No. Because I want to be able to watch Iran. All I want to do is be able to watch.", "How do you feel about that?", "We -- at the time, we came out clearly and in a statement by the government of Iran, the American troops, the coalition troops in Iraq out there, again, at the invitation of the Iraqi government for the specific exclusive mission of fighting ISIS. We do not want our territory to be a staging post for any hostile action against any of our neighbors, including Iran. And this is definitely not part of the agreement between the Iraqi government and the United States.", "How long would you like to see U.S. troops stay there?", "It depends on the requirement of the Iraqi government and the assessment of our commanders. I want to say the following, the victory against ISIS has been quite significant, not to be under estimated. Four years ago, one-third of Iraqi territory was under the control of ISIS, but this fight is far from over. We are still engaged and we need to be careful not to allow ISIS or another manifestation of ISIS coming back. And therefore, the collaboration between Iraq and the international coalition continues in order to make sure this is eradicated.", "Would you say the rise of ISIS four years ago was a direct result of the withdrawal of U.S. troops at that time?", "I think it was a combination of factors. Definitely there were the lack of security arrangements and I think, at the time, when the American forces left Iraq, perhaps not enough attention has been given to developing the security mechanisms that can keep control of the situation. But there were other factors, political as well as intervention and interferences by actors who really wanted to destabilize the Iraqi situation. There is a Kurdish proverb saying, \"Never throw a snake into your neighbor's home or yard.\" Too many actors in this neighborhood have been playing with this terrorism card and violence card. At the end of the day, people might have thought that Iraq would be afflicted with this, but it turned out to be a regional and perhaps, even global threat. Time for us the neighborhood, the world, to really focus on the real issue at hand, eradicating the threat of violent extremism and not allowing ourselves to be sort of walking into yet another episode of conflict. We've had al-Qaeda, we've had ISIS. We do not want to deal with the sons of", "It so happens that also in your neighborhood a little further down, the Persian Gulf in Bahrain, this week, will be the U.S. workshop on the economic part of the administration's peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians. You've seen that the Palestinians have rejected it. They say, you know, \"You can't bribe us. You can't buy us out. We want our freedom and our independence.\" Where do you stand as the president of Iraq on this workshop and the general policy of this administration toward Israel and Palestine?", "The government of Iraq supports the rights of the Palestinian people to a state and we will be supporting the position of the Palestinians. We're not a party to this conference in Bahrain. And we will, at the end of the day, do what the Palestinian considered to be right for the cause and we will be supporting the cause.", "One of the main planks of the U.S. policy against Iran is to squeeze their oil exports. They want you, Iraq, to wean yourself away from Iranian energy. You are currently doing it under a waiver program that the U.S. offer some of its allies. Can you wean yourself off Iranian energy? Will you wean yourself? Is it the right policy to squeeze Iran? And for you, economically, does it make sense?", "At the end of the day, we live in this neighborhood. There are important economic interests that bind Iraq and Iran together and this is not a zero-sum game. And the situation Iraq finds itself is not a consequence of today or the last six months of this present government that has been in power. Iraq has been devastated by war, conflict and its economy has really been crippled . We are working hard to energy self-reliance. There are many initiatives that the government has taken. But to expect Iraq to basically separate itself from Iran with 1,400 kilometers of border and the important, social, religious economic interest that binds Iraq and Iran together, it just is not practical. And it's not about Iraq, it's about Turkey, it's about the Gulf. Many of the protagonists in the Gulf have very, very deep economic relations with Iran. Really what we have gone through over the last decade, if not the last four decades, if I were to consider the Iraq/Iran war, the sanctions in the '90s, war in the Gulf in 2003, the onslaught of terrorism, Iraq, four decades of conflict, you know. Imagine a car bomb everyday over 40 years. This country needs a reprieve. If you were to counter back (ph) that today, you will see serious progress, you will see normal", "Given that you are loud and clear saying that another war in that region is going to be a disaster, do you see parallels with the U.S. rhetoric, the build-up, the patent directed at Iran today with what was happening towards Iraq under the George w. Bush administration?", "Saddam Hussein was a unique dictator. He committed genocide. He engaged in acts of aggression across the neighborhood. He presented a threat, a direct threat to his people, and we lived through that, my generation lived through that. Iraqis were yearning for a real change. Again, the dynamics of inside Iran, this is a matter for the people of Iran to decide and for them to discern. But for 2003 -- and Saddam Hussein, I think, he was a unique case in history. But the parallel is as follows. It's easy to start a war but very, very difficult to end a war.", "President Barham Salih, thank you so much indeed for joining me.", "Thank you for having me.", "Really interesting lessons from the past. And back in Washington, the U.S. government's treatment of detained migrant children is under sharp new scrutiny, amid shocking reports of the squalid living conditions and a lack of basics, like food and water and hygiene at many facilities. Nearly 250 children were moved from one overcrowded station in Clint, Texas but a hundred have been taken back to the same place. One child reportedly said they have not showered in three weeks, outraging lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. The law calls for safe and sanitary conditions. And one government lawyer is in the spotlight for seemingly heartless and careless view.", "If you don't have a toothbrush, if you don't have a soap, if you don't have a blanket, it's not safe and sanitary. Wouldn't everybody agree to that? Do you agree with that?", "Well, I think it's -- I think those are -- there's fair reason to find that those things may be part of safe and sanitary.", "It's not maybe, are a part.", "And that, of course, went viral. Now, the acting customs and border protection commissioner, John Sanders, has resigned today. Warren Binford is a lawyer who visited the Clint facility in Texas and she helped get these stories out. And she's joining me now from Los Angeles. Warren Binford, welcome to the program.", "Thank you, Christiane.", "I mean, you're a lawyer and you heard that government lawyer stumbling through a particularly easy question to ask. I mean, doesn't that really sum up why there are this terrible, terrible -- this terrible situation going on, if they can't agree on a definition of what is safe and sanitary?", "Yes, I think that's right. And that's why we are offering to both the congressional leaders and to the White House that we will bring together a team, pediatric experts, to sit down with them and try and come up with a bipartisan definition of a safe and sanitary conditions for these children so that we can ensure that this never happens again.", "Now, in the wake of your visit to Clint and the lawyers, you know, your team of colleagues, there's obviously been outrage that shocked people all over the United States and there was, we thought, some sort of redress when, yesterday, 250 of these children were removed from that particular facility. Then we hear a hundred of them have been moved back. Can you describe what is going on there and why that would be the case?", "I have no idea why that would be the case. The situation with these children is that most of them have family in the United States. If you look at the population of children who are kept in these facilities last year, 86 percent of them had parents, family members, other sponsors here in the United States. So, these children don't even need to be there. There are only about 14 percent of these children that need to be in the government's care. And for those 14 percent of the children, we need to have standards set about what is safe and sanitary means. For the other 86 percent of these children, they need to be returned to their families so that their families can care for them and make sure they are fed, they are clean and that they are treated with the appropriate level of love and care that each child deserves.", "Warren Binford, describe for me some of what you saw and how you even got access to these facilities?", "Well, Christiane, we have access to these facilities through the Flores lawsuit, which was a lawsuit brought in the 1980s to make sure that children who were in government custody were properly cared for. And so, for the last 20 years, we have had teams of experts going to these facilities and then reporting back to the court what they are hearing from the children. So, we have never gone to the media before because, really, these inspections are intended to inform the court. However, what happened this time is that we walked in those facilities, which is only intended for 104 adults, and this is a border patrol facility, which are notoriously squalid and not appropriate for children at all. And they handed us the roster of children who were on site that day and there were over 350 children in this border patrol station. So, we were horrified. We immediately scanned the list and we saw there were over 100 of these children who were young children, who were infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school-aged children. We then looked further at the list in-depth and we identified that there appeared to be about half dozen child mothers who are there trying to take care of their infants. We immediately asked the guards to bring us the youngest children, the child mothers and their infants and the children who had been kept there the longest. And when they walked into the room, Christiane, we were taken aback. They were dirty, hair was matted, they started crying, they had just a level of hunger that made them, you know, want food from us directly because they hadn't been given any fruits, any vegetables, any milk for the entire time that they had been there. They were given instant soup, instant oatmeal, frozen burritos. It was -- and it was the same food every day, day after day. They described sleeping on cold floors, which was is why they said they were so tired. They were sleeping on cement blocks, some were sleeping on mats that had been provided but they were too few, the mats were too few. And so, they were describing having to sleep six children on a mat in order to protect as many children in the cells as possible from the cold floor. We couldn't figure out how it was that they were keeping 350 children in this facility. And so, we talked to the chief officer and he reported that they recently expanded the facility. But the facility expansion was nowhere to be seen. We drove around. They refused to give us a tour of the facility. And, you know, now we know why they didn't want us to see it. But we went around the facility on the outside after we were done interviewing the children all day that first day, and all we could find was a cheap flimsy warehouse with no windows that appeared to be recently erected. But we couldn't believe that they really would be keeping children inside a facility like that, a warehouse. So, the next day, we asked both border patrol officers and the children where they were being kept, and a number of the children reported that they are, in fact, being kept in that warehouse. One little boy described currently 100 children being kept in the warehouse and he said that the day he arrived, there were 300 children in that warehouse. We discovered an influenza outbreak which caused about 15 children to be quarantined, where no one was actually actively caring for them. We also discovered that there was a lice outbreak in one of the cells. And according to the children, the six children who were identified to have lice were taken and given lice shampoos but then the other children were given two lice combs and told to pass the lice combs around, which is something you never do --", "Yes.", "-- with a lice outbreak.", "Yes.", "Then what happened was, the lice comb was -- one of the lice combs lost. And so, the children did report that the guards became very angry at them and yelled at them and scared the children and made them cry and took away their bedding as punishment for losing this comb. And we were so shocked when we heard this on Wednesday afternoon that we decided to extend our visit by one more day and we arranged to come back on Thursday, specifically so that we could see whether or not the guards were just threatening these children to try to scare them or if they really were going to make an entire cell full of children sleep on concrete floors. And when we came back the next day, we spoke to several children who confirmed that, in fact, the guards did not return their bedding to them and that the cell of children were forced to sleep on concrete floors as punishment for losing a comb that night, the night before. So, it's just horrific circumstances everywhere we looked.", "I mean, it is actually mind boggling. And the way you're speaking, it could be out of Charles Dickens. I mean, this is something, you know, worse than you would see in Oliver Twist or wherever. I want to understand how this can happen. Because I assume that if you had been, you know, a social worker going to somebody's home and finding this kind of conditions, you would have to report these caregivers to the local authorities, to the government. I mean, how is this -- how does this happen and what are the reasons for it?", "So, you know, let me be generous to the government and say how I think this is happening. So, these border patrol stations have always been notoriously dirty, unsanitary, et cetera, which is why everyone has always agreed that children don't belong in these facilities. Under law, they are supposed to move children out of these facilities as expeditiously as possible and in no event are they allowed to keep these children in these facilities for 72 hours. But what we have seen over the last couple of years is a massive mismanagement of the Office of Refugee and Resettlement's treatment of children in its care. So, that they are currently spending approximately $775 per day per child to keep children in ORR facilities, which is draining that agency of its funding and they're keeping the children in those facilities for nine months or longer in many cases. We've interviewed children at those facilities and confirmed that the children are being kept there for months when they are only supposed to be kept at the ORR facilities for a few days. So, basically, to go over it, the child comes into the United States usually with a relative, is being separated from that relative, they are taken in by the border patrol which immediately notifies ORR that they have a child with them and they take that child out of border patrol facilities and put them in an ORR facility where ORR tries to reunify that child with the family. But what is happening is that ORR's facilities are being mismanaged by both private organizations and nonprofit organizations that are making a tremendous amount of money in caring for these children and keeping them in these facilities even though 80 percent of these children have a place to go here in the United States, most of them with family.", "Yes.", "And then what is happening is because all the beds are being taken up at the ORR facilities through the profiting, by keeping children there too long and mismanaging their cases, the children are being abandoned in the CBP facilities, which is making the border patrol agents furious because they know that they are not set up for children.", "Yes.", "They know that these are not conditions for children.", "Let me read what they have actually said. A spokesperson said in response to your reporting, \"We completely agree with some of the reporting that has gone out in that unaccompanied children should not be held in our custody. We do not want them in our custody. Our facilities are not built for that.\" But then they went on to dispute the descriptions of, you know, lack of basics and the shortage of basics. But I mean, you have laid it out pretty concisely. And it turns out that lots of residents seem to have been bringing, you know, some sanitary, whether it's nappies or diapers rather and toothpastes and et cetera, some of which was turned away. I mean, we have, you know, a whole tweet thread. \"I heard you all need soap and toast paste for the kids. Maybe more will be on the way soon.\" This is the \"Texas Tribune.\" And yet, some of it was turned away. So, you have this collision of facts that the CPB is not set up for this and yet, this is happening. The money is huge and yet, it doesn't need to be spent because, as you say, most of these kids have relatives. I mean, why is it happening then? Is this a political decision to keep them here? Is this somehow red meat to a base? I mean, why is this happening in your legal opinion?", "Well, in my legal opinion, I think that this is happening because people are conflating that children's care with immigration and really it needs to be segregated. What needs to happen is that we need to have both the Democrats and the Republicans come together with the White House and provide national leadership on the standards of care for children who are in the custody of the U.S. government and there needs to be agreement that these children should not be the responsibility of the government and the American taxpayer. We need to get these children to their families. And for those few days that they are in the government's custody, we need to agree that the children should be fed, that they should -- the youngest children should have diapers, that there should be soap. The World Health Organization says you can reduce infant mortality by doing nothing but practicing safe handwashing. So we really need for the White House and the Democrats and the Republicans to come together to sit down with national pediatric experts and to carve out bipartisan legislation that not only can help these children get the standards of care that they need and they deserve that can actually help to bring our nation together. Because this is truly something that I think gives us an opportunity to start working across the aisle. The American public is willing to and ready to drive down to these facilities and take these children into their homes if that's what needs to happen in order to make sure that these children are fed and well cared for. But I don't think that needs to happen. All we need to do is for people to stop politicizing these children and to meet us at the border, have us come to Washington, D.C., and we can get legislation out this week if people would simply start politicizing -- stop politicizing these children and working across the aisle and removing this debate from the immigration debate and making it what it is which is a child welfare issue.", "I want to read you a couple of comments from some of our colleagues, journalists who've been held in prisons around the world, some black humor here. David Rohde of the \"New York Times\" who was held by the Taliban said, \"The Taliban gave me toothpaste and soap.\" Jason Rezaian who was held by the Iranian government said, \"I had toothpaste and toothbrush, not exactly Aquafresh of Tom's, from the very first night. Actually, I had almost nothing else in my cell when I was in solitary confinement. I was allowed to shower every couple of days.\" I mean we can smile at that but when I hear what you're describing is these children on concrete floors. Maybe an aluminum thin sheet thrown over them for warmth. But mostly I want to know from you who are looking after these tiny little children? I mean, there are little infants there who are separated from their parents. And it wasn't the border guards and nanny patrol looking after them. Who is looking after the little children?", "So basically, most of the infants were there with their child mothers. And as we all know, children who have babies need a high level of support from the adults who are with them in order to care for them. There was one infant child who developed influenza and because there was no one caring for the children who were quarantined, the child mother had to go in there with her infant. The child mother then developed the influenza and couldn't care for her infant. So they took the infant and gave it to another unrelated child and had that unrelated child caring for that infant. The toddlers that we saw, some of them were cared for by children who were as young as 7 or 8-years-old. And we talked to the older girls in their cell and what they said is that these very young children, 7 and 8-years- old, simply don't know how to care of the toddler. And so the --", "Well, no. Of course not.", "Yes. You know, but really what we need is for these children to be with their families, including the child mother so they get the support that they need and get them out of government custody. There are currently 1,000 children who are in these facilities in the United States of America. And not only do we need national leadership on this, but frankly we need the international community to start to put pressure on the U.S. government to address this crisis.", "Wow. I mean that --", "That's an immigration crisis.", "That's a remarkable call. That is a remarkable call. Warren Binford, thank you so much for your eyewitness testimony on this truly horrendous issue. And we'll learn more from you as this continues. We want to move now though from borders and detention to a story about breaking down cultural barriers. When Frank Langfitt moved to China as an American journalist for National Public Radio, his job was to get people talking. Yet as a foreigner in a new country, locals were wary. Instead of giving up, Langfitt tried a different approach. He created a free taxi service offering rides in exchange for conversations. His new book, \"The Shanghai Free Taxi\" chronicles his journeys while providing a unique insight into the many facets of contemporary Chinese culture. He sat down with our Hari Sreenivasan to discuss what he learned along the way. Now, some photos in the interview have been omitted or blurred to protect the privacy of the people Frank met while working on his book in China.", "A free taxi. Explain this idea, how you came up with it.", "Sure. So in 2011 -- I had worked in China going back to, I guess about 1997. And so I had a feel for the country but I had been away for about 10 years as a reporter and I returned in 2011. And I could see that the country changed dramatically. Certainly, economically. But you could also see that there were big problems with the corruption and the Communist Party was losing the hearts and minds of the people very rapidly. And I wanted to try to figure out where the country was going but do it in a different sort of way. So a foreign reporter, particularly American reporter, asking political questions of ordinary Chinese is kind of a non- starter. I had been a taxi cab driver years and years ago. And I found that was a great way to get to know Philadelphia, my hometown. So I decided I would set up a free taxi with no idea whether anyone would actually get in it. And I drove out and tried and so it happened.", "So this isn't like one of those Cash Cab?", "No, no.", "The cameras are not rolling when you get in?", "No.", "It's a normal taxi?", "Well, what it is, is I didn't know actually how to do this. So I first went to a taxi company and said I would like to be a taxi driver and they just laughed. And they said foreigners are not taxi drivers here. This isn't going to work. So my wife came up with the idea, Julie, to get magnetic signs and put them on a rental car and my news assistant that I was working within Shanghai, he came up with a great slogan which was", "And it was called", "OK.", "But the message got through, I think.", "Clearly, you speak Chinese.", "I do.", "That's not a hurdle. Driving in China?", "Challenging. I'm glad I don't do it anymore. It's a game of inches. It's sort of a metaphor for competition in, you know, a country of 1.4 billion people. So Shanghai, 26 million people. More and more cars every day. And to get to drive the city, you have to be very very careful because back when I was driving, there weren't many rules. And so you just kind of inch through traffic and you have to always be concentrating. At the same time, chatting with a passenger and trying to figure out could this be an interesting character in a radio story.", "Yes. So now people are getting into this taxi. Here is a tall white guy who is offering them a free ride to wherever.", "Yes.", "So how does this turn into relationships that lead to wonderful stories?", "Actually, being a foreigner, in this case, was an advantage.", "OK.", "There's a lot of distrust in Chinese society. A lot of Chinese, there's a lot of scams that go on in places like Shanghai and Beijing and a lot of Chinese don't trust each other. A foreigner would actually be seen as more honest.", "OK.", "And so I think have I been doing it as a Chinese person, I might not have gotten many takers. And I remember actually one time where I met these two factory workers, girls from the countryside who were coming into Shanghai and had wanted me to take them to a tourist destination. But they -- literally, there was this approach of avoidance. Like they were afraid to get in the cab. And there was a ferry worker, I was hanging out a ferry stop in Shanghai, and he said, \"Oh, don't worry, he's fine. He's a foreign friend. You can trust him.\" And he said, \"I wouldn't have said that necessarily if you were Chinese.\"", "Some of these trips that you take are pretty long.", "They are very long.", "I mean you took one out to the countryside. It's like an amazing road trip.", "It was a wonderful road trip.", "And you're the first person to take the wedding photo -- I shouldn't say the wedding photo but really of a new couple, married couple.", "It was. I mean I think that what we did with this case is after about a year of driving people around Shanghai, realized we really wanted to get out of the city, see more of the countryside, and kind of get a feel for how the country had transformed from a rural country to an urban one. And so I put an advertisement out on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter and got -- I offered to take people back home for Chinese New Year, which is the largest annual mass migration in the world, of course. And so it was a 500-mile drive. And when we started off, Hari, it was not easy to talk to people. I had my news assistant with a shotgun microphone and they didn't really warm up. But you know how a drive is. It's like in any culture. And once you get 100, 150 miles on, everybody just sort of forgot the microphone and just starts talking. And then you're almost like old friends. And it was really fun to actually go to the wedding office to get the license with them and take the first photograph. And so I ended up becoming the wedding chauffeur in two weddings. And I also became the wedding photographer because I had a really good camera. And so at the end, I gave the families, you know, all the photos that I had.", "And these people are becoming friends over time. You're following them not just on that taxi ride.", "No. And I don't think anybody -- I wouldn't have wanted to write a book that was a thousand taxi rides in Shanghai. What I did is I was kind of, I guess you could say a little bit auditioning people, trying to find who were interesting folks who also were wide variety of people because I think China is increasingly more diverse in terms of points of view. So I met up a pajama salesman, a barber. I had a psychologist who I drove to see clients and then these two lawyers who had grown up -- they're brothers who grew up in the countryside who then moved to Shanghai, became lawyers, which is extraordinary. We've got two or three generations in most countries. And when I was last seeing them, they were working in the tallest building in all of China.", "Wow.", "And what was nice is I followed them for four or five years, their lives.", "Which in many ways is like, in every other country, would be 15 or 20 years.", "Yes.", "Because they're going through so many jobs, careers.", "So many changes. I mean people are changing jobs. So when I -- the two men that I drove back and I drove in their weddings, they now have three kids.", "Yes.", "And so, you know, it was great to get to know them and also see how they were kind of grappling. Because the politics of the country changed, also, in ways that none of us anticipated when I started the project in 2014.", "So what did you notice changing even between the time that you had reported in China before and also the changes that were happening in front of you between 2014 and when you finished the project?", "Well, if you go back to 1997, most Chinese didn't even have their own private homes. Most people that I knew worked in -- had government apartments. And people didn't have much wealth and Beijing was still probably more bicycles than cars. And the last time I was in Beijing, I hardly saw a bicycle. And what was really interesting is I had done this trip back to the countryside in 1998. Back then, I was working with uneducated migrant workers, blue collar, who couldn't read very well and didn't have many prospects. When I drove these folks back in 2015, they were white-collar people. And it was -- what it came across is how in just 15 or 16 years, you'd seen a whole new professional class grow up in China with lots of opportunities. Passports, they traveled overseas, they owned their own apartments. It's an extraordinary economic transformation. And overall, when you think of human development, a very positive story.", "You're essentially witnessing one of the largest movements socially in sheer numbers of a group of people.", "Ever. I mean it's astonishing. And I would say this about the characters. I think this is really important for people to remember when we think about the internal politics of China and the Communist Party is that rising tide did lift most -- almost all boats. Every character that I talked to, regardless of where they were on the socioeconomic ladder, they're much better off than their parents were. So some of them even -- people say this, living the American dream in China.", "And that translates politically how? Because it used to be that question in America, are you better off now than you were four years ago and a year ago?", "Yes. Where I think it translates politically is that there's a lot of residual support for this authoritarian regime. Because if you think about it, Hari, if you're 30 years old, the lowest growth you've ever known, average GDP growth in a year is six percent.", "It's stunning.", "It's completely stunning. There's never been a generation like this and I assume in human history. And so you can understand. I mean think about parties in this country, where I am in London, where I work now. If you had a political party that had delivered that kind of growth or at least overseen that kind of growth, it would be awfully hard to beat at the ballot box, even despite all the other problems.", "Is there a distinction there between country and party?", "That's a great question. There is but the Communist Party would prefer that there not be and they're very good at this. They try to -- there's even an anthem from the Civil War period in which they -- or I guess the Revolutionary War where it's without the Communist Party, there would be no new China. And what the party tries to do is make Chinese people, including some of my characters, think that to criticize the party is to criticize the country and not to differentiate. And I even have some characters that I talk to at great length who say, you know, there was a moment when I realized that they are different and that the party was trying to get me to think that they were both the same and that therefore I couldn't be critical.", "And one of the other consequences of having such a dominant single party, as you point out, so many of your characters in their lives today are benefitting from graft or conscious of graft. They just consider corruption part of the way of living through China.", "It has been that way for a long time and I think people were really sick of it. This was one of the things that really struck me when I did return in 2014 is government officials were stealing with both hands. We're talking about trillions and trillions of dollars. I mean it's sort of a pathological level of graft. And what Xi Jinping did when he got in which was extremely shrewd and absolutely necessary because I do feel the party was losing control. He did the biggest corruption crackdown in the history of the Communist Party, more than a billion people have gone to jail. Now, a lot of those were Xi Jinping's rivals. So it was extremely convenient and strategic but it's extraordinary how much popular goodwill he generated by doing that. And you would talk to ordinary people, even liberals, people who are critical of Xi Jinping politically who would say \"Thank God, he's doing something.\"", "You mentioned that the Chinese government was at a point of losing hearts and minds. What does that mean?", "What that means is that people -- the Chinese government isn't really about much more than economic growth and power. And if you go back to the Mao era, there was ideology. But in order to save themselves, the Communist Party had to embrace market capitalism. Now, it's more state capitalism. But the question is if you're unelected and the reason you're able to claim power is you won a civil war a long time ago and you've had a lot of growth but you never stood for election, you have to find some other way to hold people together. Corruption was really eroding that. And now, what we're seeing from Xi Jinping is really a strong national sentiment. And what was very interesting in talking to some of the characters who in many ways were pretty liberal, fond and admiring of American principles of democracy and the constitution, checks and balances. They also, though, saw the United States as a bully. When they looked in the South China Sea, they felt the South China Sea really was China's, that President Xi was right to build those islands and to try to push out the U.S. Navy. So they saw the U.S. as real bullies. They felt like they were surrounded. And I guess this gets at the nuance of Chinese today is they can see things from many angles. They read a great deal. They often -- in most cases, they know more about America than Americans would know about China. And so even people who might be politically liberal still would be very supportive of President Xi because of the corruption, anti-corruption campaign but also because of this assertiveness abroad. It makes them feel better about China.", "So how does a person in China walking down the street perceive maybe this trade war? If you keep in touch with any of your contacts.", "I do.", "What do they think is going to happen? Do they think this is good? Or do they wrap themselves in flag of China?", "It's the great thing about meeting all these different people is more and more now like the U.S., you get a wide variety of views. I think some people understand that the trade war is actually in some ways good for China. Interestingly enough. The argument being that President Trump is putting pressure on Xi Jinping and there's more opportunities to maybe actually develop the economy better, make it more competitive. So it would be good for Chinese people but not good for the party. So the party controls all these state-owned enterprises. I mean it's not like -- remember that old expression? What's good for General Motors is good for America.", "Right.", "Well, in this case, economic reform is not good for the party in certain ways. The party wants to keep control of them, a lot of state- owned enterprises for which it has a lot of power. It doesn't want to privatize the whole system. That would actually create greater GDP, greater job growth and things like that but that's not in the party's interest. So there are some people not a majority at all who see Trump as something of a reformer. They may not like President Trump in any other way. Others, though, feel that he has -- President Trump has overstepped his bounds by going after Huawei. Huawei is a terrific telecom company. When I was the Nairobi Bureau Chief of NPR, there was not very good Internet in Nairobi and I used Huawei USBs to run my bureau for a year. So I'm a fan of Huawei in that respect. And I think a lot of Chinese, particularly down in Shenzhen where Huawei and other big telecom companies, big tech companies are located feels that there's sort of an unfair targeting of a company that is kind of a global leader from China.", "One of the characters that was interesting was that they had come to the United States and come back to China and they are kind of struggling with the sort of cultural question of where they are today versus where they grew up.", "Yes. This was a really interesting person that I got to know -- he's an investment banker. Her parents are in the Communist Party. They're Communist Party officials. The corruption, the oppression she decided she wanted to leave China and start anew. And she got an MBA in the United States so she speaks very very good English. She got to the United States and five months later, President Trump won the election. And she had been a great believer in democracy. And this began, she doesn't like President Trump. She didn't feel like a lot of voters had paid strict attention to what was going on and she began to become much more disillusioned about whether American democracy worked. And she started to see the Communist Party in a more positive way because she saw the efficiency, the economic growth, the ability to change things quickly without the messiness of democracy. And when she -- it was interesting because I know when she went to America, she didn't intend to return to China. And in the end, she moved back.", "OK. So now here she is back in China. Talk about the messiness of democracy. You've got protests in Hong Kong that have been happening every weekend over a specific issue but they're gathering momentum. How does she think about that right at her doorstep so to speak?", "Well, she actually works in Hong Kong and she lives in Shenzhen, just across the border. She says if she were a Hong Kong person, she would be out there every night as well because she thinks that -- from the perspective of a Hong Kong person, this is like a last stand against oppression coming and the creeping of authoritarianism from the Mainland. But I asked her about people in her offices. I was just talking to her this morning and she said a lot of Mainlanders that she works with don't really have any sympathy for Hong Kong people. So it's really interesting. Here, you have these democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong and many Mainlanders don't really -- they don't care for Hong Kong people. There's a real division between them. It goes back historically Mainlanders would go to Hong Kong in droves and buy up lots of products and bring them back to Mainland China because the products in Hong Kong were safe. There's a huge problem with food safety and medical product safety in the Mainland and they drove up housing prices. So there's a real kind of bitter division between Mainlanders and people in Hong Kong.", "When you talk about authoritarian sort of increases that China has made, one of the things that we at least see in the press is an increased surveillance state.", "Yes.", "That there are a lot of people say it's harder to get someone to talk now in China than it was five years ago.", "I think it is much more difficult for my colleagues now and my conversations with them doing what I was -- what was much easier to do four or five years ago. Yes, I think it's become the job is maybe more difficult now than since the Tiananmen crackdown.", "Why?", "I think the government realizes that it has a very sophisticated population, that has growing expectations that is well traveled. And it fears that if it allows people to be openly critical and to talk more that they're basically it's just going to erode their power. And I will say this when I came back in 2014, I started looking at Weibo, that is the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. And I was shocked at how open it was. I mean there were all kinds of criticism of the government and I sort of thought what kind of authoritarian state is this? Because if this goes on a lot longer, it clearly was going to erode the power of the government. So I think what they've done, what Xi Jinping has done is doubled down on oppression.", "Given that you have this cab out in public with these magnetic signs and you're this white guy that's driving this cab and there's enough cameras around, there's enough police around.", "Sure.", "Do the authorities know what you were doing? Were they concerned in any way?", "They definitely did because they can read the signs and I must have passed a ton of cops in Shanghai alone. I was never pulled over. And I thought I might be. Of course, I didn't charge so I could never be - - I wasn't breaking the law.", "Right.", "What I learned later, though, is that the Chinese Ministry of State Security obviously monitors foreign reporters. They sometimes read our stories. They sometimes interview people that we've talked to. I found out secondhand that one of the spies watching me had actually been listening to the stories. And he said I would like these stories. These are really good. He said I relate to some of these characters. I know some people just like this. So I don't know for sure but it may be one reason that they didn't bust me is because they thought the stories were pretty good.", "Frank Langfitt, the book is called \"Shanghai Free Taxi.\" Thanks so much for joining us.", "Thanks for having me, Hari.", "An unexpected vote of confidence, a rare glimpse there inside China's secretive state. Join us tomorrow for my interview with Istanbul's new mayor. The opposition politician whose remarkable victory against the Turkish president, Erdogan's party, sent people celebrating into the streets and revived hope for democracy. That is it for now. Remember, you can listen to our podcast and see us online at amanpour.com. And you can follow me on Instagram and Twitter. Thanks for watching and goodbye from London. 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{"id": "CNN-266800", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2015-10-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/16/acd.01.html", "summary": "Clinton's Big Boost in New Hampshire", "utt": ["We told you last night how Bernie Sanders raised a lot of money since the debate. Hillary Clinton has gotten a big boost in New Hampshire since this week's debate as well. A new \"Boston Globe\" Suffolk University poll just out today shows her in a statistical dead heat with Sanders in New Hampshire, 37-35 percent. Just last month, Sanders had a 16 percent point lead over Clinton according to a CNN poll. Clinton sat down today with our Jake Tapper for an interview that included a lot of topics including her latest thoughts on Donald Trump. Listen.", "Speaking of politics, let's talk about the front runner on the other side of the isle, Donald Trump. His daughter, Ivanka, just gave an interview to CNN. She said her dad quote \"is not a politician but he is really changing the dialogue and he is really disrupting the process in a very positive way.\" Do you agree?", "First of all, I have a really high regard for her. She's a wonderful young woman.", "And friend of Chelsea, I think.", "Yes, she is. And I think what she said is borne out by what's been happening. He has brought his oversized personality and his reality television experience to the highest level of American politics. And seems to be getting a very positive response among a large part of the Republican electret. So that's up to the Republicans. They there to decide if that will be their nominee or not. I have called him out in things he said which I thought were uncalled for, insults and attacks on immigrants, on women and just unacceptable be said about the president. So I'm going to continue to criticize him for going beyond the bounds of what I think is appropriate for anybody running for president.", "Joining me now is CNN political commentator and Democratic strategist Paul Begala. He is co-chair of a pro-Hillary Clinton super Pac and also a longtime advisor to President Bill Clinton. And also with me again, CNN political analyst and \"New York Times\" presidential campaign correspondent Maggie Haberman. Paul, what do you make of this new poll? I mean, Hillary Clinton leading Bernie Sanders although it within the margin of error in New Hampshire. She had been struggling there trailing Sanders in some polls.", "Right. That same poll Suffolk University poll a month ago had her at ten. Now she's up two. Now look. It is like the old hem said, many danger toils and snares between now and the New Hampshire primary. So I couldn't as a Hillary guy wouldn't get too excited. But I like seeing her move 12 points in a month in the right direction. You know, it has been a terrible complements for here. And now, looks like, you know, she's turned the corner. Now, Keep in mind, New Hampshire in the Democratic Party has a rich tradition of neighboring favorite sons, favoring", "You have no doubt about that, polls will go up and down in those states.", "Absolutely. Because you know, first at New Hampshire, Independent are smart and it is hard to poll there because the electret is fluid. You wake in the day of the primary and choose. You want to vote Republican or Democratic primary. In fact, both parties have pretty interesting primaries. So it's really going to be tough to get the polling right there.", "Maggie, I mean, you heard Clinton in that interview kind of navigating the interesting relationship between her family and Donald Trump's, their daughters are friends at this point. Do Trump and Clinton benefit from having each other to go after of having the other to portray as beyond the pale or, you know, Trump portrays her as the worst secretary of state ever. You know, she portrays him and calls him out as she said on various things that he in her opinion goes too far on?", "I think that he has been more useful for her, frankly, than the other way around. You know, remember, he did his whole very long kick off campaign speech back in June and he didn't talk about her. It took him until actually until she wanted him until he said anything about her. He would probably argue that's him being consistent because he always says I don't hit people until they hit me. He is, however, very useful for her because the comments he is making primarily about immigration, the comments that he said about Mexican and his announcement speech where he talked about rapist and criminals, those have been very useful as a foil. She can use that to tar the entire Republican field. And frankly, a lot of what Trump said, much of the rest of the field had to respond to. You have seen this time and time again. You saw it impact Scott Walker. You have seen it impact Jeb Bush. So he is extremely helpful to her.", "Paul, there are reporting from \"New York\" magazine tonight saying that it's really a matter of when vice president Biden gets in, not if. I know you're going to try and bob and weave on this perhaps and quote some biblical passage but you have an instinct on everything because you have a biblical passage for pretty much everything. I'm impressed by this.", "I'm a person of faith.", "I know you are. I know you are. Do you have a gut feeling on whether or not he's going to run?", "No. Here is the thing, honestly because I don't know. And I know as a general matter, I speak more loudly and certainly when I'm pristinely ignorant. This time, understood.", "But here is my question. Why wouldn't he run for president, OK? I mean, obviously, look, there is the personal loss that he and his family experienced, the worst kind of loss there possibly is. But this is what politics do. They run for things. And if he doesn't run for this, this is his last really opportunity to run for something. I mean, you know, everybody says he's not a guy that cares about money. You know, I guess he could be on boards and stuff or, you know, do some kind of work, but why wouldn't he run?", "Because he knows really better than anybody because he's run twice before. He does it. He has said this in interviews. This takes all of your heart, all of your soul, all of your time, all of you attention. And you know, his heart is broken. Now, maybe he finds healing in running. I saw him on TV at the Labor Day in Pittsburgh. Man he looked rejuvenated. So maybe that does it for him. But at other times, his interviews with Stephen Colbert, he looks like heartbroken guy who is not quite ready yet to put that kind of heart and soul", "Not quite the biblical passage I was anticipating.", "Not biblical, a little profane this time.", "You'll have to read the bible more tonight just to make up for that. Maggie, I mean, relatively good week for the Clinton campaign, though. How much of a halt is that cone if Joe Biden jumps in the next couple days?", "I think there is anxiety around Hillary Clinton supporters about what will happen with him because the question is not put to bed. I know that a lot of people thought that, you know, the window closed after her debate performance the other night. She had a very, very strong night. There is no question about that. But the question is not, a lot of people says there is not a window him prior to that. So the question is not did the window suddenly shut? The question is whether there before is there now? Her debate performance according to a lot of people I have spoken who are around him is not really a factor in how he's considering this and people have said that publicly. I tend to believe it. I think Joe Biden as Paul said wakes up feeling one way one day, another way the next day, he has said different things depending on who he's talking to and at different moments. It's so hard to try to free this decision. I don't think he knows what he's going to do. The reasons not to do it would be he might not win. And if you read his book, which is a couple years old now and he talks about the various times that he was encouraged to run for president and didn't, you know, there's a lot that went into this, and a lot of angst back and forth. Sometimes he did, sometimes he didn't.", "Maggie, thank you. Paul Begala, as well. Thanks very much. If you miss this week's Democratic presidential debate or just want to see it again? Stay tune to CNN. The debate is going to re-air again tonight at 10:00 eastern time. Coming up in this hour, we are getting word tonight that former NBA and reality TV star Lamar Odom was conscious enough to say hi to his estranged wife Khloe Kardashian who been at his bedside since he was found unresponsive in a Brothel and taken to the hospital in Las Vegas. We will have a live update next Also, I'll speak to a woman trapped in a car. Take a look at these images when a mudslide hit and just swept the vehicle away, as well as a lot of other vehicles. Incredible video and we'll hear from her ahead."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "TAPPER", "CLINTON", "COOPER", "PAUL BEGALA, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "COOPER", "BEGALA", "COOPER", "HABERMAN", "COOPER", "BEGALA", "COOPER", "BEGALA", "COOPER", "BEGALA", "COOPER", "BEGALA", "COOPER", "HABERMAN", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-282671", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-04-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/28/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Prince's Health Scare Likely Reaction to Painkillers", "utt": ["Welcome back, everybody. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause.", "And I'm Isha Sesay. The headlines this hour --", "Authorities say they found prescription medication on Prince at the time of his death. Investigators believe a health scare a week before his death was likely caused by a reaction to the painkillers.", "They're still waiting for the results from the autopsy and the toxicology tests. The music star was 57 years old when he died last week at home.", "Well, let's bring in Dr. Drew Pinsky. He's the host of HLN's \"Dr. Drew\" and is an addiction medicine specialist. He joins us by phone from right here in L.A. Dr. Drew, thanks so much for joining us. When you hear that authorities found these prescription drugs on Prince's person and in his home, what goes through your mind?", "Well, a couple of thoughts. We've been hearing rumors he was taking the medication Percocet, which is precisely one of these opioid pain medications. It makes me wonder whether or not this is a medical misadventure. Perhaps a doctor gave him something called a benzodiazepine, an anxiety valium-like medication or a sleeping medication. We heard these rumors he hadn't slept for 154 hours. If someone added a sleeping medication to a modest dose of opiate, like Percocet, whatever the name is, they're all pretty much the same, that is a potentially lethal combination. That does not mean Prince was an addict. We don't see the typical behaviors of somebody struggling with long-term addiction, progression, all the things we're used to seeing celebrities struggling with the disease. Never have we had a hint of Prince manifesting those sorts of phenomenon and behavior. And yet, all of a sudden, here at the end, things go back quickly. I'm suspicious. My clinical hunch is that he has some sort of underlying medical problem. Of course, we've been hearing about the hip pain. But something more, something more substantial, and that the pain medication got involved and they were on top of some problem, but may, my fear is, they are the things that really took a genius from all of us.", "Doctor, is it possible, though, that one could have an addiction to these kind of drugs and it not be known by those around you, those closest to you?", "It's possible. But think of the celebrities that have died of addiction in recent years. You knew something was up and you knew things were progressing and you knew things were getting worse. There were stories of people struggling and trying to help them and get them -- sometimes you would shake your head and wonder what was going on. You wouldn't be clear it was addiction. But you would hear stories of a struggle and a progression. That's addiction. In this case you can become dependent. The real story behind all this is the fact that 90 percent of the pain medication prescribed on earth are prescribed in America. That's ridiculous. We are way too aggressive with these medications. And when they themselves are -- it's very difficult to overdose on oral opiates. You can but it's difficult. But when you add in the benzodiazepine and the sleeping medication it's very easy to accidentally overdose.", "Let me ask you this. The autopsy results, the toxicology, all that detail won't be known for a while yet. But can that process, can those tests definitively determine whether or not he had a long-term dependency on these medications?", "They can give a hint. If there's nothing else going on that explains the cause of death and somebody stops breathing and there are moderate to high doses of an opiate and Benzodiazepine it's pretty much a smoking gun. There's other bits of evidence that tells us somebody simply stopped breathing. But again, I don't think it's going to be that simple. I really don't. It may be. It's possible. But I just don't think so. It just doesn't sound like that. But it is a reminder of how -- listen, if you were going to die of a substance ingestion today, it's going to be an opioid pain medication and a benzodiazepine prescribed by a doctor often taken, quote, \"as directed.\" So, please, people who have chronic pain, these are not good and are potentially dangerous treatment. Be very cautious and very circumspect, especially if somebody provides you with you a benzodiazepine medication on top of that. It is exquisitely dangerous.", "Dr. Drew, a good word of warning there. So appreciate the fact you could join us this evening.", "You bet.", "Thank you, Dr. Drew.", "You bet. Thanks, Isha.", "Millionaire real estate heir, Robert Durst, is headed here to Los Angeles to face murder charges. That's after a judge in the state of Louisiana sentenced him to seven years in prison on an unrelated gun charge. Durst will be transferred to California, where he says he'll plead not guilty in the death of a friend 16 years ago.", "In an HBO documentary released last year, Durst appeared to confess to murder accusations when's he was apparently unaware his microphone was still on.", "When we come back, an unusual situation to Venezuela's energy crisis. Government workers are only being allowed to work two days a week."], "speaker": ["VAUSE", "SESAY", "SESAY", "VAUSE", "VAUSE", "DR. DREW PINSKY, HLN HOST, DR. DREW (voice-over)", "SESAY", "PINSKY", "SESAY", "PINSKY", "SESAY", "PINSKY", "SESAY", "PINSKY", "VAUSE", "SESAY", "VAUSE"]}
{"id": "CNN-342432", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2018-06-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/11/ip.01.html", "summary": "Pompeo Optimistic Over Summit; Trump and Kim's Meeting; Trump Adviser Comments on Trudeau; Trump Threatens to Stop Trading; Night out in Singapore.", "utt": ["Really appreciate it. Thank you all so much for joining us AT THIS HOUR. \"INSIDE POLITICS\" with John King starts right now.", "Welcome to INSIDE POLITICS. I'm John King. Thank you for sharing your day with us. A countdown to history. President Trump face to face with Kim Jong-un just hours from now. Tons of drama and one defining question, is North Korea really willing to give up the nuclear program that defines its regime? Plus, all this talk of Trump and Kim, missiles and warheads. Twenty- five million people live in the most secretive nation on earth. What does the Singapore summit mean for everyday North Koreans? And diplomatic is not a word allies are using to describe team Trump this Monday. The president ripped up the G-7 communique this week, then a top aide said there was a special place in hell for Canada's prime minister. Allies were furious. The White House says, too bad.", "The idea that the president is going to go to G-7, wherever it is, in this case it was in Canada, and do the mealy-mouthed talk of other types of perhaps leaders in the past or even other leaders in industry is just not Donald Trump. Donald Trump, very quickly, he took a tiny, tiny issue called trade that was mired in single digits, if not even registering at the polls, and elevated it to a manner of fairness. And he will always look out for those farmers and those workers.", "Back to the anger of allies in a moment. But we begin in Singapore, where history is being written. In just under nine hours, President Trump and Kim Jong-un will enter a room with only translators. After about 45 minutes, other members of the delegations will be invited to join them. No American president has ever met with a North Korean leader. In some frame, the stakes here, black and white, war or peace. Two unpredictable leaders, high stakes. But if they're nervous, they're not letting on. President Trump tweeting a short time ago, excitement is in the air. And Kim Jong-un making a remarkable public show of his confidence. Look here. A photograph making a late night outing, cruising around town in Singapore with a massive entourage of security and photographers. The president's top diplomat, the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, says the prep work is done and now it's up to the principals.", "But I'm very optimistic that we will have a successful outcome from tomorrow's meeting between these two leaders. It's the case in each of those two countries there are only two people that can make decisions of this magnitude, and those two people are going to be sitting in a room together tomorrow.", "Let's get straight to CNN's Kaitlan Collins. Kaitlan, the substance is the true test of this summit, but Kim sure proving a short time ago that he knows a little bit about the made- for-TV imagery as well.", "It's as if, John, he knew the world was watching. Kim Jong-un making this stunning statement tonight by leaving his hotel, going out to several places in Singapore just hours ahead of that high stakes meeting with President Trump. This is a reclusive dictator who often doesn't do things like this. So it's stunning to see him out and about so carefree, seemingly. So maybe he is sending a message to the Americans ahead of his sit-down with President Trump. That going on while President Trump was behind closed doors tonight after some meetings earlier today, likely putting the last-minute touches ahead of his meeting with Kim Jong-un. And we know what the logistics of this meeting are going to look like. A handshake, a sit-down that just involves the two leaders at first. But what we don't know, John, is what the substance is going to be and what's going to come out of that meeting because Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who briefed reporters right next door to where I am now, made clear that they have not received any concrete commitments from the North Koreans just yet. So that is what we'll be waiting to see. That one-on-one meeting is going to be what's crucial. That's likely when President Trump and Kim Jong-un will come to an agreement or not come to an agreement if they are going to do so. And we'll likely hear from President Trump on that from himself when he holds a press conference with reporters later on in the afternoon before departing for Singapore. But right now, John, we're waiting to see if history is going to unfold here in a few hours.", "It's a remarkable day. Kaitlan Collins, appreciate the reporting. Get back to us if anything breaks during the hour. Here with me in studio to share their reporting and their insights, Julie Hirschfeld Davis with \"The New York Times,\" CNN's Manu Raju, Carl Hulse, also with \"The New York Times,\" and Jackie Kucinich with 'The Daily Beast.\" The point Kaitlan just made is what makes this so remarkable. An American president has never met the North Korean leader. North Korea now has nuclear missiles that can reach the United States. They do not have, the secretary of state says, a plan. There's no commitments. They've been working on, will North Korea sign a statement saying it's willing to give up its nuclear weapons? But if he -- if the secretary of state is telling the truth, that there's no commitment heading into the summit, what is success for President Trump?", "Well, I mean, if you listen to him talk about it in the last few days, in the last couple of weeks, a lot of success is just getting to the table and getting to know him, sort of taking the measure of the man. He's going to get -- he said he's going to get sort of a sense for whether he's serious in the first few moments. And clearly you can see with Kim Jong-un's outing in Singapore just a few moments ago, for him just getting to the table is a victory, right? He's there on the world stage. He's being treated like a rock star in Singapore, all those photographers. He's showing the world that he is, you know, playing with the big dog and he's there and he's, you know, he's gotten himself to this negotiation. The key moment, though, is -- or the key moments are the -- is that one on one where there won't be anyone there. There's no one from the policy side on either side. And Trump's advisers don't know what he's going to say. I don't know whether Kim Jong-un's advisers know what he's going to say. But we may never know because it's just them and the translators. So the real question is, what can he come out of that room with and will they -- the two of them leave the room with the same idea of what they've agreed on or not agreed on?", "And to that point, I just want to bring -- what -- the point Julie just made. The president fashions himself as the art of the deal president. This is what he said he would do as a candidate. I can -- everybody else is stupid. They make bad deals. I will make good deals. I will make history. His history as president so far has been ripping up deals and walking away from deals. He has negotiated exactly zero big international agreements. But to your point, the president says this is about attitude and he'll know within seconds.", "I think within the first minute I'll know.", "How?", "Just, my touch, my feel. That's what -- that's what I do. I think I'll know pretty quickly whether or not, in my opinion, something positive will happen.", "I don't know how he could say that. I mean he -- look, remember, to Julie's point it's accurate that -- remember when Putin and Trump met last year, they both came away from these meetings with opposite interpretations of what happened, and whether or not the president confronted Putin on election meddling. Here, these two men are going to be sitting down with their translators. They're probably going to come out with somewhat -- different interpretations. They may do that. And how do we interpret that going forward? I also think that -- look, Mike Pompeo is very -- had a very high bar he's been setting for weeks, and he did so again today saying any agreement needs to be irreversible, verifiable, complete denuclearization. Will the president also maintain that hard line with Kim Jong-un in a private meeting? I don't think we know that yet.", "It's a great point because remember history. President Bush trusted his gut about Vladimir Putin. He said he looked into his soul after his first meeting. He now would acknowledge that that was a dramatic mistake, that Putin's a thug and Putin fooled him. That's what President Bush would tell you now. To your point, Secretary Pompeo understands the nervousness of some conservatives back here in the United States, a lot of people back here in the United States, but does President Trump so want a deal that he will trust Kim Jong-un, which is why Secretary Pompeo says, no, no, no, no, no, this isn't just about trust.", "The president's made very clear, until such time as we get the outcome that we're demanding, economic relief is not going to be provided. That's different. There was always this hypothesis that somewhere along the way the Americans would take their foot off and allow those economic opportunities for the North, and thereby reduce the capacity to actually achieve the deal. We're not going to do that.", "We know this secretary of state is closer, more in sync with his boss than the last secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. But is he 100 percent confident the boss will stick with that?", "I mean that's the -- that's the gamble here, you don't know what the president is going to agree to. The White House may be saying the administration says one thing, the president is going to make a separate deal. I do like the gamesmanship of him getting out and walking around Singapore. You know, these things are set pieces. And it reminded me of Gorbachev when he was visiting during the Reagan administration. And he got out at K Street, Connecticut and K, and walked and, you know, to show that he was in town. And I think that, as far as them getting in the room together, one, if it doesn't go well in the first few seconds, does the president leave, you know, because he's going to be able to tell right away if this is going to work. I don't think that's going to happen because if both of them have really strong incentives to say that they got something here. So I think it's one of those situations where no matter what happens, everybody is probably going to try and at least declare victory that they got something and go on from there.", "But while there will only be two leaders in that room, they will need to loop in China and North Korea because they're going to need buy-in. it can't just be -- this isn't a bilateral agreement. It can't be. China has the purse strings. South Korea, obviously, is an enormous stakeholder in this and they have a president that want peace as well. So while we'll see what comes out of this, but there is a lot of things that need to happen outside that room to make sure anything that is agreed to by these two leaders, however they interpret it, sticks.", "And Japan as well in the sense that --", "Yes.", "That Secretary Pompeo has talked about some unique security arrangements. Kim has said he doesn't like the U.S. troops in South Korea. There is zero indication the United States is willing to significantly reduce its footprint, but might there be a rearrangement of which weapons are kept where? So Japan could commit to this calculation. Julie made this point at the beginning of the program. If -- this is General Michael Hayden, former head of -- chief of U.S. intelligence services, saying essentially, Kim Jong-un has already won. The challenge now for President Trump is to get something in exchange.", "He's got a meeting with the president of the United States face to face with a sense of equivalency. That's a remarkable achievement. We've already paid that bill, John, by having this meeting, and now we need to push Kim in a direction where we're now going to be getting something. And, again, I think it's a very long process.", "And there's nothing wrong with a very long process. If you can get North Korea at the table, they stay at the table for months, they stop launching missiles, they stop launching nuclear weapons, they stop threatening South Korea, they stop threatening Japan and they're actually making productive progress in the negotiations. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It is not what this president is known for, investing in a long process.", "Yes, he wants a quick decision and to come out of here and say, I won. So -- but these things always take so much time and they have to go through so many layers. But that's what I'm saying, these first statements after the individual meeting will really be defining, as far as I'm concerned.", "Do we buy -- do we buy the White House changing the schedule today, putting out a statement saying the president is going to leave tomorrow, he's going to have a news conference. Is he leaving tomorrow? Is that part of convincing Kim, you have one shot? The president said you get a one-time shot here. Is that trying to convince Kim there's a clock running?", "Well, I do think we know that this president is, as Carl said, he's not a patient person. So he's going to want to be able to say something definitive very quickly afterwards, whether it's at that news conference or right after they meet in between, you know, all the delegations come in to really sort of nail down whatever details there are. But the question really is, if this is going to be a longer, drawn-out process, if they can keep North Korea at the table, how will they do that if they're going to hold to what Mike Pompeo said, which is no relief from any kind of economic sanctions, no concession on that side until they get everything that they want. We know from Kim Jong-un from the past that he is not likely to want to be patient with that either. So that's the real question is, can either one of them sustain the presence at the table?", "Right, the atmosphere is the trust between the two leaders is primary, but the substance is what matters when you get to tomorrow, next week and beyond. Up next for us here, the president's in Singapore with one diplomatic challenge. 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{"id": "NPR-41722", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-10-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6388551", "title": "Blogs Dole Out Shame for Incumbents Who Don't Share", "summary": "In every congressional election year, incumbents who face little opposition donate some of their own campaign funds to party colleagues in closer contests. But not all of them do. Some of the incumbents with the largest war chests refuse to share, no matter how safe their seat.", "utt": ["This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel.", "And I'm Melissa Block.", "As election day nears, members of Congress routinely share their campaign money with each other as needed, with those in safe seats helping those in trouble. But not everyone plays share the wealth. This year, more than two dozen Democrats who have no Republican opposition and almost four dozens who face only token opposition have among them $50 million in campaign cash. Some of that money could be useful to candidates who are less well off.", "NPR's Peter Overby explains.", "No surprise, this idea started in the blogosphere, specifically with Chris Bowers, an editor at My Direct Democracy, or mydd.com. He heard that Democratic national campaign committees were about to take out $10 million loans for the end of the spending free for all that's marked this campaign. To Bowers, it seems smarter to just call the safe seat Democrats and ask them for money. He enlisted Move On, Daily Kos and other liberal advocates to join in. He calls the concept use it or lose it.", "We're not asking for a crippling donation. We're not asking for them to give all of their money away or half of their money away. The suggested donation that we're looking for is either $250,000 or 30 percent of their existing cash on hand as of September 30.", "And some have begun to respond, but not necessarily those with the biggest bank accounts. Some members stash cash away in order to discourage challengers in future races or to prepare for a statewide or even national campaign of their own. The biggest Democratic warchest in the House belongs to Martin Meehan of Massachusetts. He's got $4.9 million.", "Now here's where people get a little testy. Meehan's press secretary declined to be interviewed. She did recommend an editorial in the Lowell Sun, a paper in Meehan's district. The Sun noted that Meehan had already pitched in $365,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The paper called the use it or lose it campaign a nasty shakedown by rotten political scoundrels.", "Well, it's certainly not a shakedown.", "That's Congressman Barney Frank, also of Massachusetts. This is a state where a lot of Democrats have a lot of campaign cash. Frank just gave another $255,000 from his campaign funds to the party's congressional committee, and he sees nothing with the use it or lose it argument.", "You know, a shakedown generally is when someone is putting unfair pressure on someone else for the shaker-down's benefit. These aren't people trying to make me give them money.", "Frank says he actually has been getting more donations as interest groups realize he might end up as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. On the Republican side, incumbents with easy races seem even less inclined to pitch in for their party allies. But so far, at least, there's no word of any organized web campaign to change their minds.", "Peter Overby, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "PETER OVERBY", "CHRIS BOWERS", "PETER OVERBY", "PETER OVERBY", "BARNEY FRANK", "PETER OVERBY", "BARNEY FRANK", "PETER OVERBY", "PETER OVERBY"]}
{"id": "CNN-26785", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2001-3-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/02/mn.13.html", "summary": "Delta, Pilots Struggle in Contract Negotiations", "utt": ["It's a turbulent time for some of the nation's airlines. Delta, United and American are all in the midst of major labor disputes. Contract talks with Delta pilots are stalled; American and United are trying to stop work slowdowns. Joining us from La Guardia's airport in New York is CNN's Brian Palmer; he's got more on Delta's troubles this morning -- Brian.", "Good morning, Leon. The Delta Airline Pilots' Association say they'll hold informational pickets at nine airports nationwide, and that's to give their side of the story in their contract negotiations. We have here La Guardia airport representatives from both Delta airlines and from the pilots' association. First we'll go to Catherine Stengle, who's a spokesperson. Catherine, will the informational pickets have any effect on flights today?", "Right now Delta is operating its normal schedule. We feel that both parties have an obligation to the traveling public to avoid any disruption. We are working hard towards a settlement in the contract negotiations.", "Speaking about those contract negotiations, where are we in the process now?", "Over the course of the last few months we've been working very hard and coming together on our differences and making a lot of progress in the talks. Delta has offered its pilots the highest pay in the industry as well as contract improvements that are industry-leading.", "What's the next step?", "The next step is to continue to negotiate. We are both committed to reaching a contract that is -- that benefits both parties.", "OK, we're going to step over here and talk to Jay Kuenzele, who is a spokesman for the pilots' association. Jay, what's wrong with the company's offer?", "Well, Brian, we've been in contract negotiations for the past 18 months. In fact, we've been in nonstop negotiations for the past four weeks. However, the progress the company has offered has been very little, and things have slowed down to virtually a halt. So the pilot group is very frustrated. In fact, on Wednesday night we made proposals all the way up until midnight and the company chose not to respond to them.", "Can you give us some quick bullet points -- what's the main issue here?", "Well, there has been progress on minor issues, but the major issues are paying compensation, retirement, duration of contract.", "Great; Jay, we're going to have to leave it at that. Leon, back to you.", "All right, thanks much; Brian Palmer reporting live this morning from La Guardia Airport in New York."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIAN PALMER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CATHERINE STENGLE, SPOKESPERSON, DELTA AIRLINES", "PALMER", "STENGLE", "PALMER", "STENGLE", "PALMER", "JAY KUENZELE, SPOKESPERSON, DELTA PILOTS", "PALMER", "KUENZELE", "PALMER", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-290926", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2016-08-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/09/ebo.01.html", "summary": "New Poll: Clinton Leads in Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania", "utt": ["Breaking news. Hillary Clinton tonight building her lead in some crucial key battleground states. New polls show Clinton leading Iowa, Ohio and in Pennsylvania where she's opening up a double-digit lead. According to an NBC poll, Clinton at 11 points ahead, 48 to Trump's 37. And a new Quinnipiac poll from Pennsylvania shows Clinton with the 10 point lead, 52 to 42. Sara Murray is traveling with the Trump campaign. She is in Fayetteville, North Carolina. And Sara, these polls obviously are something the Trump campaign is watching very carefully.", "That's absolutely right, Erin. We know that they are all in in a number of these battleground states. He's been campaigning much more heavily in the general election than we ever really saw him do in the primaries and there were a couple of states where he does have reason to be hopeful. If you look at the latest Quinnipiac numbers in Florida for instance, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are basically neck and neck. Hillary Clinton is at 46 percent and Donald Trump is at 45 percent. Obviously that is a pivotal battleground in the fall. Let's take a look at what's going on in Iowa. This is an interesting poll. An NBC/WSJ/Marist poll and it does show Hillary Clinton with an edge. You see her at 41 percent. But Donald Trump is certainly in the hunt there. He's at 37 percent. Now, some of the places that might be a little worrisome now is that even though Trump is in the hunt in the latest Ohio polls, he is still trailing Hillary Clinton. And right now, Erin, the polls have him getting smoked by ten points in Pennsylvania and the Trump campaign has made no secret of the fact that they're really relying on these Rust Belt states, like Ohio, like Pennsylvania in hopes of coming to victory in November. So, certainly in a place like Pennsylvania, they want to close that gap and in a place like Ohio, they definitely want to flip the numbers that they're getting right now with Hillary Clinton -- Erin.", "All right, Sara. Thank you very much. I want to bring back my panel along with our special correspondent Jamie Gangel who interviewed Republican Senator Susan Collins today breaking the news that Collins would not back Trump. David Gergen, let me start with you though on these polls. You hear Sara going through them. Ohio, both of the polls out of Quinnipiac and NBC, five points and four points favor Clinton. All these swing states obviously are not looking good for Trump. Exception though, Florida with Clinton only ahead one point. So Florida really looking like a dead heat, but Ohio, Pennsylvania, these are not good numbers for Trump.", "You know, you do have to say that Trump is doing well in the south, from Florida, you go up to North Carolina and she's a little ahead but he's very competitive there and possibly not in Virginia, but the rust belt states are critical in his path to victory, you can't get there without the rust belt states and the most devastating news today was Pennsylvania, you know, that's opened up a double-digit lead and --", "In both polls.", "Yes. In both polls and he's also behind in Ohio and think about what just happened here in the last couple of weeks. And just yesterday, Tom Ridge, former governor, popular governor of Pennsylvania, came out against him and thought, you know, he was a reckless president, that's in Pennsylvania. Next in Ohio, what's going on? He's got a war going on with John Kasich, the governor who was the most popular man in the state. You cannot win those states if the people who are helping -- if you dismissed people and were running them as hacks and people of the past, you have to work with them to win, and if he can't take Pennsylvania, it's very, very hard.", "And it's not only there, but the states are traditionally red, there was a poll that came out recently that showed Clinton up by seven in Georgia. You know, Mitt Romney won Georgia by nine points. Georgia hasn't gotten Democrats since 1992. Arizona is now a dead heat. Where Donald Trump was up at least six points, now it's a dead heat in Arizona which hasn't gone Democratic, I think once in 1992 since Barry Goldwater. This is a problem for Donald Trump, so if he can't even hold red states. Then, the battleground states like we're talking about, those are must win. You have to win Ohio. Utah is another state that people, you know, seem to think at all is just Utah.", "Right.", "In Utah he got his butt handed to him, 69 to 14 percent during the primary. It's 60 percent Mormon, that state does not like Donald Trump and now you have someone with an independent candidate coming in who doesn't have the chance for anything --", "We could have more on that in just a moment.", "And Utah, that's very real. The Mormons don't love Donald Trump.", "And we have a special report on that coming up. But Jamie, this issue, Susan Collins.", "Right.", "And you spoke to her and she said, she has never not voted for the Republican.", "Correct.", "In her life, right? There's never been a time she switched and always voted for the Republican. You asked her about why she's not supporting Trump and here's what she told you.", "Donald Trump, in my judgment, would make a perilous world even more dangerous. I worry that his tendency to lash out and his ill-informed comments would cause dangerous events to escalate and possibly spin out of control at a time when our world is beset with conflicts. That is a real problem.", "You've now interviewed several high-profile Republicans who have made this switch. More coming?", "Absolutely. I think that we're going see a growing number of people, and I think Senator Collins, look, this is not a complete surprise and she's been saying for weeks, for months that she was troubled and concerned, but the fact that she is coming out gives, I think, some cover to other people who want to come out. I asked her about John McCain who is one of her best friends. He's having a very tough primary. She said very carefully, that's his decision to make, but she also said, he has as offended as I am. And of course we've heard John McCain say that. So I think in the next couple of weeks, we are going to see that list growing and growing.", "Boris?", "Well, again, we are concentrating on just a few individuals here. Fourteen million people came out for Donald Trump in the primaries and we are concentrating on a few GOP officials who of course we want us a Trump campaign, we want their support and we hope to win that support by the time November 8th rolls around and we are concentrated on the voters all over the country. Not on the specific polls in Utah, a poll just done in August 4th, Trump is up 37-25. In Ohio, when you count Johnson and Stein, he's only down by two well below the margin of error -- about four within the margin of error. If you don't count those, so if you look at the whole picture right now, Donald Trump is doing fine.", "But we ignore the fact that he ran against Republicans in Washington. Despite that, he has the endorsement of 37 senators, 25 governors, 166 House members. I'm surprised he has that many because he ran on the notion that these people have failed you, and I will bring in a new order of people in Washington. We never focus on the fact that he does have a myriad of endorsements despite the fact he ran against the very people who are endorsing him.", "All right. All staying with me. And next, Donald Trump in danger of losing the must-win state of Utah. Coming out, how a conservative Mormon could make the entire difference in the electoral map. Plus, this man's son committed the worst domestic terrorist attack since 9/11. And yet he's standing right there behind Hillary Clinton at a rally last night. Why was he there?"], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "SARA MURRAY, POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BURNETT", "DAVID GERGEN, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER", "BURNETT", "GERGEN", "TARA SETMAYER, FORMER COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR REP. 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{"id": "CNN-292212", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2016-08-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/24/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "Trump Suggests Major Shift in Immigration Plan; Hillary Clinton Defends Clinton Foundation.", "utt": ["All right. That does it for us. CNN TONIGHT with Don Lemon starts now.", "We heard Anderson Cooper's exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton and we'll have more on that coming up on this broadcast. But I want to begin with some breaking news, there's a major shift from Donald Trump tonight on immigration and deportation. This is CNN TONIGHT. I'm Don Lemon. Trump in an interview tonight saying, quote, \"no citizenship, let me go step further, they'll pay back taxes, they have to pay taxes. There's no amnesty as such, there's no amnesty but we work with them.\" And in Mississippi tonight he makes this incendiary charge about Hillary Clinton.", "Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future. She's going to do nothing for African- Americans. She's going to do nothing for the Hispanics. She's only going to take care of herself, her husbands, her consultants, her donors. These are the people she cares about. She doesn't care.", "Clinton firing back tonight, accusing Trump of bigotry as well. So, let's go right to CNN's Jim Acosta, he is with the Trump campaign in Mississippi. Jim, this is a major change in Trump's stance on deportation tonight. Here's what he said in an interview to Fox, OK. I'm going to read it then I want you to respond. He said \"No citizenship, let me go step further, they'll pay back taxes, they have to pay taxes, there's no amnesty as such, there's no amnesty, but we work with them.\" \"Now, everybody agrees we get the bad ones out but when I go through and I meet thousands and thousands of people on this subject and I've had very strong people come up to me be really great, great people come up to me and they said, Mr. Trump,. I love you but to take a person who's been here for 15, 20 years and throw them and their family out, it's so tough. And I have it all the time. It's a very, very hard thing.\" So, Jim, what does he say at this rally, this is a reversal. This is not a softening.", "No, this is way more than a softening, this is wilting. When it comes to his past position on immigration you recall it was during the primaries he called for a mass deportation force that would round up 11 million illegal immigrants and remove them from this country. Now he is saying that the ones in this country, the undocumented who have been law abiding can stay in this country, as long as they pay back taxes. He is saying that is not amnesty, but there a lot of conservatives inside the Republican Party will say that is amnesty. And so, Donald Trump is going to have to deal with that over these next several days. We understand on Wednesday in Phoenix he's going to be delivering a speech on immigration where we expect him to give some more details on this. He didn't go that much into the details in this speech here in Jackson, Mississippi tonight. He only said that his upcoming shift on immigration will not hurt American jobs and that sort of thing. He didn't talk about the details that he did in this interview on Fox News. But, Don, as you mentioned, one other sort of OMG moment here and Donald Trump had these every couples of weeks, you'll recall a couple of weeks ago when he said President Obama was the founder of ISIS, then later on he said, oh no, I was just being sarcastic about that. Listen to what Donald Trump had to say about Hillary Clinton at this rally here in Jackson where she essentially called her a bigot. Here's what he had to say.", "Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future. She's going to do nothing for African-Americans; she's going to do nothing for the Hispanics. She doesn't care what her policies have done to your communities.", "And, Don, Donald Trump was reading from a teleprompter when he said that. That line \"Hillary Clinton is a bigot\" was in his prepared remarks. So, this is not something he adlib over the last few days. He's been using a teleprompter at his rallies. But he's been veering off-script and saying all sorts of things. But this was not one of those moments. This was in the script and he prepared or he delivered it as it was prepared. And the other thing that we should point out, Don, is this perfectly tees up Donald Trump for all sorts of criticism over the coming days. You know, this is a candidate who on the onset of his campaign said that Mexicans who are immigrating into this country were rapists. A lot of people said that is a bigoted comment, that is a racist comment. He said a Mexican-American judge could not fairly handle the Trump University case, that was considered by many to be a bigoted comment or a racist comment. And so to come out and call Hillary Clinton a bigot is just going to honor with all of those different episodes throughout the course of this campaign where he himself has open himself to that criticism, Don.", "Yes. And can I see the ad now with him in his own words as the Clinton campaign often does. Thank you very much for that, Jim Acosta, I appreciate it. Now I want to bring in now Mark Preston, CNN politics executive editor, chief political correspondent, Dana Bash; Patrick Healy, the New York Times political correspondent. OK. He didn't essentially call, you know, Dana, we were listening to Jim. He didn't essentially call her a bigot. He called her a bigot tonight, right?", "Yes. He used that word and Jim was reporting it was in the teleprompter. It wasn't something that was a kind of classic Trump, off-the-cuff unscripted remark that gets him into trouble. It was delivered and done on purpose. So, you know, they're trying to be provocative, not something unusual for Donald Trump, but doing so as he is trying to make inroads himself with the African-American community by...", "And with Hispanics.", "... and with Hispanics, with minorities in general by raising questions about what Hillary Clinton and democrats in general have really done for those communities as opposed to the, you know, lip service that they've paid. I mean, you can argue that the merits of that, and we will for the next two months, but that kind of term certainly is getting him the press that he wanted.", "I want you all to listen to Hillary Clinton. This is her with Anderson Cooper just moments ago talking about his responding to Donald Trump's bigot comment.", "It reminds me of that great saying that Maya Angelou had that when someone shows you who they are believe them the first time. And Donald Trump has shown us who he is and we ought to believe him. He is taking a hate movement mainstream. He's brought it into his campaign. He's bringing it to our communities and our country and, you know, someone who has questioned the citizenship of the first African- American president, who has courted white supremacists, who has been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color, who's attacked a judge for his Mexican heritage and promised a mass deportation force is someone who is, you know, very much peddling bigotry and prejudice and paranoia.", "So, Patrick, considering what she just said, you know, and bringing up the litany of things she considers to be bigoted, she says it at the end, is it wise for Donald Trump to go down this I know you are but what am I road?", "Yes. It's dangerous. I mean, this is coming at a time when Donald Trump is clearly and pre-drastically softening his language on immigration, where he's trying to make this sort of strange overture to black and Hispanic voters by saying what do you have to lose by voting on me. And then now he's going back to sort of injecting this racially charged language. Now from his point f view she has been and her allies have sort of suggesting that he has been bigoted for a while now. And that stuff like sticks in his craw, sort of always does and now he's sort of hitting back. He's going to Mississippi to sort of like punch her on this, but it's one of those things, Don, that just tends to overshadow everything else that he says, as he's trying to make these, you know, these sort of prepared remark speeches, he's now using teleprompters and having prepared remarks at all of his rallies. He used to be...", "That was in the teleprompter according to Jim.", "It was. It was in the prepared remarks that we got. And he's used to be this sort of free form chaotic sometimes violent rallies. He's really trying to button up and tighten up in the last two weeks. And then he makes a remark like this that clearly calculated but it really overshadows everything.", "What's the strategy behind a remark like this, Mark Preston? Do you believe and is it a working strategy?", "No, it's not. And, you know, I just try to look at these campaigns in a very clinical sense, you know. You know, take out emotion from it and just to see what is the strategy behind it. The beginning of the week he gave a lot of praise to the Trump campaign for cancelling that speech on immigration, allowing a lot of the spotlight to be shined directly on Hillary Clinton, directly on her e-mails, directly on the foundation, allow the media to attack Clinton. What we've seen tonight, though, is that after a few days he has now taken the spotlight and he has stolen it back and he has pulled it towards him.", "Yes.", "To use really racially charged attacks like that by calling Hillary Clinton is bigot is an overreach; it's a big overreach on his part. In many ways, it desensitizes everything else that he's trying to say or calls into question about what he's trying to say. And if those you don't believe that, what it certainly does, is that it overshadows the attacks that he's trying to make on Hillary Clinton as somebody who is not fit to be commander-in-chief.", "OK. And also let's about because that's a turnaround where he, you know, he is, he was on prompter but he was good at, you know, I guess the strategy was for him to be safer and not to say sort of outlandish things, so that's it. But this is a complete turnaround, talking about the deportation thing, Dana. And I'll put it up on the screen, I read part of it but I read it for Jim Acosta earlier. He says, \"No citizenship. Let me go a step further. They'll be, they'll pay back taxes, they'll have to pay taxes, there's no amnesty as such. There's no amnesty but we're going to work with them.\" And then he says, you know, people coming up to him after 15, saying, you know, they've been here for 15 or 20 years, and you can't just take, you know, send people out.", "Right.", "What's your reaction to this?", "You know, we have -- had we not had the hints starting on Saturday and Sunday from the Trump campaign that he was moving in a direction like this, I would be more shocked. But even though we knew something like this was coming to see those words that came from Donald Trump is still really kind of unbelievable. And I'm just kind of give you context of what it's like to be a former republican opponent of Donald Trump, people who were pushing this and were told by Trump and Trump supporters that that is amnesty period, end of story.", "Is this story -- isn't this already on the books? Is this the policy that's already in place or pretty close to it?", "Well, it's what -- it's what people who were pushing for comprehensive immigration reform.", "Reform, right.", "Some of them, some of them wanted to go to full on citizenship which he does not.", "But republicans like Paul Ryan have sort of suggested there are some..", "Absolutely. Absolutely. But let me just kind of give you a quote which I thought summed it up. A, an ally of Ted Cruz said to me this would be like Ted Cruz, suddenly saying I'm for Obamacare. I mean, that's the way that they look at this at what shifter is.", "Yes.", "Because it's such a core issue for Donald Trump.", "It kind of reminds me, though, of 2012 what Mitt Romney saying \"I don't like Obamacare and then President Obama saying Obamacare is essentially Romney care.", "Right. It's in Massachusetts.", "But this -- yes, it just hs -- it does has your name on it.", "Yes, and I mean, and this is, you know, and ultimately thinking about Romney, too, kind of an ultimate etch a sketch for Donald Trump. The phrase used about Mitt Romney sort of moving to the general election. Donald Trump won the republican nomination by going to rallies and saying those 11 million illegals gone, they're gone.", "Let's listen. Listen, let's put it up and then we'll talk about it.", "We're going to keep the families together. We have to keep the families together. But they have to go...", "But you're going to keep them together out?", "They have to go. We're going to have a deportation force, and you're going to do it humanely.", "You're rounding them all up.", "We're rounding them up in a very humane way in a very nice way and they're going to be happy because they want to be legalized. And I'm sure these are very, very fine people. They're going to go and we're going to create a path where we can get into this country legally.", "So, to your point, Patrick.", "No, it's -- I mean, it's as close to a flip-flop I think as we've seen...", "As close to a flip flop? It is a flip flop. Come on.", "... you know, in the campaign. Hey, it's not. I'm a New York Times guy. You know, we say it's close to flip-flop. No, I mean, you have a guy who won the nomination saying we're going to deport all 11 million. Now to you Dana's point, he was sort of setting up a softening the other day, that's the direction he was going. The weird thing about this, Don, you're going to be -- this is going to be -- this clip is going to get a lot of play that's coming out on Fox is that he was sort of crowd sourcing the audience as he was talking about all of this. I have to read the transcript three times to get what he was saying. He basically saying and he does this at his rallies sometimes. He says, and what do you think about deporting them all? OK. Now what do you think about keeping some of them if they pay back taxes and they don't have criminal records? And he's sort of tossing out these lines. What's clear, what is clear is that he's considering making changes to soften his position, and he says he's going to be announcing a decision soon, that we have to make a decision soon on this.", "Mark, I want you to listen on this. This is Hillary Clinton what she told Anderson about this change tonight.", "My understanding is that the comment you just referred to is the third different position he took yesterday on immigration. Somebody has told him, I guess the latest people that he's consulting, how damaging his statements have been, how terrible his deportation plan is, how offensive his views on immigrants have been from the very first day of his campaign. So, he's trying to do, you know, kind of a shuffle here. But I think we need to look at the entire context. We need to believe him when he bullies and threatens to throw out every immigrant in the country. And certainly, when he change his position three times in one day, it sends a message that it's just a desperate effort to try to land somewhere that isn't as, you know, devastating to his campaign as his comments and his positions have been up until now.", "So, Mark Preston, isn't the danger here that he risks turning away some of the core supporters who wanted him to have a hard line and many gives his opponent fodder for more criticism.", "Well, you know, I think we've become desensitized to Donald Trump saying one thing on Monday, changing it on Tuesday and going back in a different way on Wednesday. And we become desensitized to the fact that his positions constantly change. One thing we're not talking about is the fact that there are a lot of people in the Republican party right now specifically centrist moderates who are looking at Donald Trump and saying, OK, this is the Donald Trump that I want to lead the Republican Party if, in fact, he wins in November. This is the Donald Trump that we're all hoping for after he won the primary that would moderate his positions that we can then get behind. This is the Donald Trump that's OK at the top of the ticket. So, even though we're very critical of the fact that he is changing his positions, it's a change that is actually going to be embraced by more republicans than repulsed by more republicans. And more specifically to your point, Don, those who have joined the Donald Trump campaign, those who are backing him, they have nowhere else to go. They're going to stay with Donald Trump because they still believe that he's going to make America great again. And Donald Trump has become something that he has said over and over and over again that he will never become and that's a politician.", "OK. I have to get to the break. We're going to continue our conversation on the other side of this. We'll be right back. 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{"id": "CNN-176874", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-12-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/01/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Republicans Push Payroll Tax Cut Plan", "utt": ["Good morning. Twenty-four minutes after the hour. \"Minding Your Business\" this morning. Right now, U.S. stock futures are trading slightly higher following on that big rally yesterday. The Dow was up 490 points or nearly 4.5 percent, putting the Dow in the plus column for the year, all because of that big intervention, the move by major central banks around the world to ease the flow of dollars into the global financial system. We're standing by, also, in about six minutes for the latest initial jobless claims report. It's expected to show maybe 390,000 people filed for the first time for unemployment benefits last week. If that's true, that would be seen as a good sign for the labor market. Anything under 400,000 is seen as a good sign and, of course, we're going to get the big November jobs report tomorrow. Republicans now are pushing a new proposal to extend the payroll tax holiday. In order to cover the $200 billion plus price tag, though, Republicans want to freeze federal worker pay, reduce the federal workforce by attrition, and prohibit millionaires from receiving unemployment benefits and food stamps. The GOP says some 2,300 millionaires in 2009 actually were getting jobless checks. Long-time talk show host, Larry King, joins the long list of people interested in buying the Los Angeles Dodgers. He's part of a group of investors who want to take over that franchise. King says he's been a Dodgers fan since he was a kid, and it would be a thrill of a lifetime to become a partial owner. And you have just 31 days to use them or lose them. We're talking about your vacation days. And according to a new survey by Expedia, the average worker only uses just 12 out of their 14 vacation days. That means Americans are giving up about $34 billion worth of their time. The reason, most folks say they simply can't afford to get away. Up next, a CNN exclusive, inside the \"Occupy Wall Street\" operation. Cameras have never been allowed inside their offices until now, and we've got the looks. You're watching AMERICAN MORNING. It's 26 minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-360152", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2019-01-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1901/23/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "Michael Cohen Postpones Capitol Hill Testimony, Cites Family's Safety Issue; A Rare Message From President Trump; Judge Orders Manafort to Appear in Court Friday.", "utt": ["This is CNN TONIGHT. I'm Don Lemon. We have some big developments in the Russia investigation. So, we're going to spend this entire hour ahead digging deep into all things Russia. As President Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen postponing his testimony before Congress, which was set for next month citing, what he calls, threats against his family by the president and Rudy Giuliani. A source telling CNN Cohen's wife and father-in-law feel threatened by public comments from Trump and Giuliani. So, let's listen to some of them.", "Did he make a deal to keep his wife who supposedly, maybe I'm wrong, but you can check it? Did he keep -- make a deal to keep his wife out of trouble? He should give information maybe on his father-in-law because that's the one that people want to look at. Because where does that money -- that's the money in the family.", "What's in his father-in-law's name?", "I don't know but you'll find out and you look into it because nobody knows what's going on over there.", "So, it was OK to go after the father-in-law? RUDY Giuliani,", "Of course, it is if the father-in-law is a criminal. He comes from the Ukraine. The reason that's important is he may have ties to something called organized crime. When somebody testifies against your client you go out and you look at what's wrong with them.", "Wow. So, does all of that amount to a form of witness tampering? Our legal experts are going to debate that. And tonight, the chairman of the House oversight committee is vowing that Cohen will testify and weighing whether it will take a subpoena to force him to do just that. And then there's Paul Manafort. President Trump's former campaign chairman, his lawyers disputing the allegation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that Manafort lied to federal prosecutors, the federal judge ordering him to appear in court on Friday. There's lots to discuss. So, let's get right to Michael Cohen, the Michael Cohen news. Shimon Prokupecz joins us. Shimon, hello to you.", "Hi.", "So, Cohen announce that he's postponing his congressional testimony, ongoing threats against his family by the president and Giuliani, he says. This postponement took Capitol Hill by surprise, didn't it?", "Yes, it certainly did. Look, Don, everyone was looking forward really to this day. Certainly, there were members of Congress that were looking to this day. They wanted to finally hear from Michael Cohen. It was going to be a big day. And certainly no one expected it to go this way. And when you hear why Michael Cohen decided finally to say, you know what, maybe I shouldn't do this, the idea that perhaps he felt threatened certainly is concerning many. And what the president has done since Michael Cohen had announced that he was going to go ahead before members of Congress, go out in public and say what he wanted to say, you can see that the president and Rudy Giuliani started this campaign of attacking him. And really, they went where it really would hurt him because Michael Cohen, you know, when we have talked to him certainly and people close to him, he's always been very concerned about his family. And what you saw is the president specifically targeting his father-in-law, talking about his wife. In one tweet recently brought up his father raising the issue that perhaps Michael Cohen cooperated to save his father -- father-in-law and then saying lying to reduce his jail time. Watch father-in-law. Again, intimating there that perhaps Michael Cohen was doing this to save his father-in-law. The president today reacting to the news by Michael Cohen after Michael Cohen agreed not to testify. And here's what the president said.", "I would say he's been threatened by the truth. He's only been threatened by the truth. And he doesn't want to tell the truth from me or other of his clients.", "And you know, Don, there are many people who feel that what the president the campaign that he undertook and certainly his attorney Rudy Giuliani in his latest comments from Sunday, they were successful here in what they tried to do here. But it could be that they may still be able to hear from Michael Cohen. You know, as you said, he will likely be subpoenaed and. We'll see what happens from there. But you know, members of Congress they don't have a whole lot of time. He's set to start jail, his prison sentence in March.", "He knows so much about the father-in-law but when ask what's his name, I don't know.", "Yes.", "What does that tell you? Tactic. That tells you the tactic. But listen, I got more to talk about. So, also legal news today about President Trump former campaign manager, Paul Manafort that I mentioned in the open here. Disputing Mueller's accusations that he lied. What's he saying?", "Yes. So, his lawyers are saying what you would expect him saying that. He just used confused when he was interviewed by the lawyers when the special counsel's office, by the FBI agents. He wasn't certain about things that they were asking, but you know, they're arguing that he was not lying. The special counsel's office when they filed their motion that they had about 180 pieces of evidence, documents that they submitted to detail and just, you know, how Paul Manafort was lying. His attorneys are saying, no, you know, he was confused. He didn't remember certain thing, but the idea that he was lying, that did not happen in this case.", "Yes. So, can you clear this up for me. Paul Manafort did not want to appear in court on Friday, but the judge is telling him what now?", "The judge is making him come in. We've seen Paul Manafort ask the judge previously and she's granted this motion to him. They've asked that he not appear in court because of the travel time. Essentially, you know, they argue that it's too complicated. He has to get up early in the morning -- early -- early in the morning to be transported to the D.C. courthouse. He doesn't like to do that. And if he doesn't have to appear, if it's not necessary for him to appear they rather he not go there. And quite honestly, just that he doesn't want to really wake up so early and come to court. Well, the judge today said, you know what, I've let you do this way too many times. This is way too important. You need to be here on Friday and so she's making him appear. Now the other thing that's interesting is that he's asked that he not appear in his prison uniform, this jail uniform. That we're waiting to hear if the judge is going to allow him to appear in his suit. She has previously allowed him to appear in a suit. We'll see what she decides about Friday.", "This is such a circus. All of it. Shimon, thank you. I don't know how you keep it all together in your head.", "I don't know why.", "Thank you, Shimon. Neither do I, none of us. Thank you, Shimon. I want to bring in now Matthew Rosenberg, also Max Boot, the author of \"The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right.\" Good evening, gents. So, let me -- I'm going to start with you, Max. OK. So, he's concerned about what Giuliani and Trump is saying. He's concerned for his family about that. I mean, it sound -- but doesn't it sound like if you're concerned about this, isn't that a textbook mob tactic? What else would you be worried about besides someone retaliating in some possibly physical way? I don't know.", "Don, I come back to section 1512 of the U.S. Criminal Code which says that whoever knowingly uses intimidation with intent to influence the like, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. That is the definition of witness tampering and that seems to be what Donald Trump is doing when he's threatening Michael Cohen's father-in- law, whose name, as you pointed out, he doesn't even know. It's Fima Shusterman, by the way. But he is threatening Michael Cohen's father- in-law and he's also threatening Michael Cohen saying he's a rat that he should be going to jail for much longer period of time. And by the way, on the flip side of it, he's also praising Roger Stone for not cooperating with the independent special counsel, special counsel. He's saying that Roger Stone has guts, which again is witness tampering and the president whose duty under the Constitution is to take care that the laws be faithfully executed should not be encouraging people not to cooperate with federal prosecutors. That is a violation of his basic duty under the Constitution as well as it seems on the face of it, I would say of these witness tampering statutes.", "But what is this, Matthew? I mean, is this, is this Russia? Like, why would Michael Cohen be afraid of -- in America, sunlight is the best disinfectant. Don't you think that what on earth would he be afraid of? Shouldn't Congress and the American people hear why he is afraid to testify in front of Congress? Wouldn't that be the best way to thwart any sort of retaliation from anyone is to get it out there so that every single person knows about it and then what are they going to do? What's the president going to do?", "You're absolutely right. That's surely, that's the case I've made the sources were trying to get to go on the record. I mean, look, you know, let's step back for a minute here. Remember, we're dealing with a series of people who all seem to be caught in overlapping lies with one another who are busy. The president is calling his former lawyer a liar. I mean, this was his former lawyer for year so if this guy is a liar why would he a lawyer. There's so much going on here. I think for Cohen, you know, he said a lot of things the last few years. And what he's saying now doesn't really comport what he's said when Trump was first elected. He knows that he's going to sit down. Republicans like Jim Jordan and others are giving him incredibly hard time. I mean, the Republicans on the committee telegraph that. I think Jim Jordan said today, you know, if he comes, we're ready, you know. They were ready to kind of call him out on every kind of contradiction, contrary statement he's made. And I think if you're Cohen you've got to worry that you're also going to contradict yourself and get caught in potentially, you know, that stating some in the Congress fire that could bring more charges. You know, there are just a whole lot of issues.", "Well, the other thing, Max, maybe there's a there - there. I don't -- I don't -- I really -- I can't understand it because all right, let me ask this. Because CNN previously reported that prosecutors in New York threaten Michael Cohen with more accounts that could have implicated his wife, reported that his taxi business was closely linked to family members including his father-in-law. Given that he does -- given all of that do you think that he has a legitimate reason to be worried about Trump's threats instead of -- instead of retaliation maybe in the physical way that it will retaliate against the family and did into their business and then maybe find something that is actually not on the up and up.", "Well, I mean, if you're mired in that middle of the criminal justice system as Michael Cohen is, I mean, there are obvious reasons why you should be concerned about the president of the United States.", "OK. Hold right there.", "Yes.", "They already know that. They already know what Michael Cohen is involved with. They already know that his family is involved with, but they know that already. Maybe it's -- I don't know, maybe coming to light. Is that the fear? And then the other thing is using I'm concerned about my family's safety. Is that a cover?", "Well, it's hard for me to get inside Michael Cohen's mind and figure out what he's worried about, whether he is genuinely worried or as what suggested that this maybe just a cover for the fact that he doesn't want to testify. And I'm sure that Special Counsel Mueller is probably not thrilled about him testifying. But I was just going to say that regardless of Michael Cohen's state of mind, if you're somebody who isn't trapped in the link system, you need to be concerned when the president of the United States who is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, the man that the attorney general answers to when he is making threats against you, he has the capacity to carry out those threats. Now whether that will actually happen or not is an open question. But remember, there's now an acting attorney general who is basically a political hack for Donald Trump. And so, you know, I don't know that he can necessarily file charges or take legal retaliation against Michael Cohen, but it's not crazy for Michael Cohen to be concerned about those consequences.", "Do you think that -- OK. Again, those are just hypotheticals because everyone is trying to wrap their heads and like why would he be --", "Right.", "-- concerned about that. All right. Listen. Republicans say that they were told that Cohen's attorney that he couldn't testify about anything currently under investigation. The question is, Matthew, how valuable was his testimony or is his testimony anyway?", "I mean, that's the other question. I think it's a good one too. So, there's a lot of things that are under investigation. He's spent 70 hours with prosecutors in the special counsel's office, the Southern District of New York. Presumably a lot of questions are going to come about thing that he was not told not to discuss. But I think for the Democrats this was going to be the kind of the marquee for their -- many investigations that are probably unfolding over the next two years into the Trump presidency whether it relates to Russia, relates to the stuff Cohen is involved with paying hush money to the president's former mistresses. You know, I also want to make it clear that even if Cohen had things to be afraid of in terms of what he might say, the fact that the president of the United States and his lawyer are getting up and suggesting that there's something to be found here that there could be legal jeopardy for him, you know, is, I think anybody would be reasonably afraid in that situation.", "But do you think that this president is that dangerous and the people around him that someone would be worried about telling the truth or their truth about it? Do you think?", "I think when somebody makes a lot of threats, whether you're a political opponent that he threatens to -- that he keeps saying needs to be investigated.", "I think that's huge then.", "Or from a lawyer you should probably believe what they are saying.", "Yes.", "That people, take people at their word.", "Yes. I was just going to say that is huge if that is indeed the case. Stick with me, everyone, much more to talk about when we come back."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN HOST", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "JEANINE PIRRO, FOX NEWS HOST", "TRUMP", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ATTORNEY", "LEMON", "SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTER", "LEMON", "PROKUPECZ", "TRUMP", "PROKUPECZ", "LEMON", "PROKUPECZ", "LEMON", "PROKUPECZ", "LEMON", "PROKUPECZ", "LEMON", "PROKUPECZ", "LEMON", "MAX BOOT, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST", "LEMON", "MATTHEW ROSENBERG, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "LEMON", "BOOT", "LEMON", "BOOT", "LEMON", "BOOT", "LEMON", "BOOT", "LEMON", "ROSENBERG", "LEMON", "ROSENBERG", "LEMON", "ROSENBERG", "LEMON", "ROSENBERG", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-103356", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2006-2-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/28/ltm.10.html", "summary": "Celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans", "utt": ["Mardi Gras has been going on 150 times. There were 13 occasions over the years where for various reasons -- civil war, whatever the case -- that they canceled the parades. But Mardi Gras happens every year. It's Fat Tuesday no matter what. It's on the calendar. This year they were determined not to stop the celebration, even though six months ago this part of the world was on its back, to say the least. Joining me now is Henri Schindler, who is a noted historian of Mardi Gras and has written a book called \"Mardi Gras Treasures,\" which I invite you to check it out if you're interested in the history of all of this. It's good to have you with us, Henri. Thank you for your patience.", "It's good to be here.", "It's good to be here. Happy Mardi Gras to you.", "Happy Mardi Gras.", "Now, you were in -- out of the country at the time of the storm. By the time you got back in September or even into October, I guess, did you think at that time -- you'd witness what you're seeing here right now?", "Not really, especially not in September. I watched this on CNN in Lima, Peru, and the devastation seemed so complete. And, yet, by the time I got home in late October, it seemed that Mardi Gras was going to come forward. And by then, I really wasn't surprised. Carnival is such an integral part of New Orleans that it has bounced back from every catastrophe. It always has.", "Now, you were costumed up as what today? You're a...", "Bits and pieces of old costumes. This was Punchinello (ph). This was an antique French mask I've had for some time and never worn.", "Just -- but that's part of the tradition. How did that come to be?", "Well, actually, carnival is the oldest and most vibrant of New Orleans traditions, and it's been celebrated far longer than 150 years. It's been going on for closer to 200. And actually, in 1699, when the city's founder was coming up the Mississippi River, they made landfall and -- at a little point on the river and realized it was Mardi Gras back in France. And so they named the first spot of land the Point du Mardi Gras. So it's been around that long.", "Since day one. Let's talk about the golden age. We're talking 1870s to the 1930s. How have the floats changed? How has the celebration changed from that time until now?", "The pageants began in the 1850s. That's what we're celebrating this year. The first thematic pageant was Fomus (ph) in 1857; Rex, who will be coming soon, in 1872. In the golden age, the themes were very esoteric. The entire parade, every float was constructed from the wheels up. Incredible effects with the night parades. Flambeau, dancing around the floats, colored flares and smoke. There was an otherworldly aspect to this.", "What we see today is an outgrowth of that and yet different in some ways?", "Well, carnival has never stayed the same very long. It's organic. It grows. It shrinks. Zulu came on the scene in 1909. Originally they had very few floats and those were decorated with palmetto leaves and moss. Now, we have a full-fledged parade of floats. There are new groups who are very satirical. And, of course, this year with Katrina, that was the favorite topic of many satirical floats.", "The sense of humor is alive, isn't it? Nice to see that.", "This day in particular. This is the culmination of carnival. Mardi Gras is the last day before Ash Wednesday. And this -- it is the celebration of life, of exuberance, the joy of the moment. And it is the spirit of New Orleans.", "Henri Schindler, whose book \"Mardi Gras Treasures\" is worth checking out if you want to find out more. Thank you for your time. Happy Mardi Gras to you. Thanks for waiting around. We're back with more in a moment."], "speaker": ["M. O'BRIEN", "HENRI SCHINDLER, AUTHOR, \"MARDI GRAS TREASURES\"", "M. O'BRIEN", "SCHINDLER", "M. O'BRIEN", "SCHINDLER", "M. O'BRIEN", "SCHINDLER", "M. O'BRIEN", "SCHINDLER", "M. O'BRIEN", "SCHINDLER", "M. O'BRIEN", "SCHINDLER", "M. O'BRIEN", "SCHINDLER", "M. O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "NPR-49302", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2006-05-25", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5430521", "title": "Lay, Skilling Found Guilty in Enron Fraud Case", "summary": "Former Enron Corp. executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted Thursday of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud in one of the biggest business scandals in U.S. history. The verdict put the blame for the demise of what was once the nation's seventh-largest company squarely on its top two executives.", "utt": ["First the lead. A verdict in the Enron trial today was the sixth day of deliberations in the trial of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. Outside the courthouse after the guilty verdicts, Jeffrey Skilling spoke to reporters.", "Obviously I'm disappointed, but that's the way the system works.", "Jeffrey Skilling. His attorney, Daniel Petrocelli also spoke about the verdict.", "We had a trial. Obviously, it did not come out the way we had hoped. Doesn't change our view of what happened at Enron and certainly doesn't change our view of Jeff Skilling's innocence.", "Jim Zarolli is at the courthouse in Houston. We spoke a short time ago.", "Jeffrey Skilling, who was the former chief executive of Enron, was convicted on 19 counts and found not guilty on nine counts. They mostly had to do with insider trading. Ken Lay was convicted of all the counts, six counts against him. He was also convicted of four counts of bank fraud. There was a separate bench trial immediately after the main trial in which the judge rendered a verdict and he also found Ken Lay guilty.", "So what happened in the courtroom as the verdicts were read?", "You know, it's kind of hard - we were actually in the auxiliary courtroom watching on a screen. It was sort of hard to say. I mean the judge asked them to stand. Both men stood, listened to the verdict and then sat down. In the courtroom, where I was, the auxiliary courtroom where a lot of people - there was a lot of media but also some members of the public came in. There was sort of a cheer that went up when the convictions were announced. I mean, obviously there are a lot people here in Houston who lost a lot of money when Enron went down. And there's some very strong feelings about what happened there. I think a lot of people were very glad to see these guilty verdicts announced.", "It may be too soon but is there any indication of what it was that jurors found most compelling in this trial, that is, what led to the actual convictions?", "No, the judge has told the jurors that they can speak to the press. We're still waiting to see whether any of them are going to. So when, obviously, if they talk, we'll know a lot more. It was really hard to read the jury during the deliberations. They didn't ask for a lot more material. They made very few requests, so it was difficult to know what was going through their minds. I have to say that just, there was a pretty widespread view among the reporters and other people following the trial that these convictions were going to come down, that the prosecution had a very strong case. You had a number of executives from the company who were given immunity deals to testify. They came in, they testified that both Skilling and Lay, Ken Lay knew about what was going on, and even condoned the use of these accounting gimmicks to cover up the losses.", "I mean it was very strong testimony. You had the former treasurer, Ben Gleason, saying, yes, Jeffrey Skilling clearly understood what these special purpose entities were suppose to do. You had investor relations executives Mark Kanick(ph) and Paula Reeker(ph) saying Skilling told them to change wording in the earnings release in 2001, or 2000. They had just a parade of witnesses like that.", "Skilling and Lay took the stand themselves and tried to rebut it, but I think they came off as a little maybe combative and defensive. So what the jury, you know, is thinking, was thinking when it made, when it convicted them, is hard to say at this point. But it's reasonable to guess that they were impressed by that evidence.", "We'll get more as the day goes on, Jim, but can you tell us what are the possible sentences that Mr. Skilling and Mr. Lay now face?", "Well, that is always a difficult thing to say at this point. Jeffrey Skilling could've gotten as much as 275 years, Ken Lay as much as 165. Obviously, Skilling was acquitted on some of the counts against him, so we don't really know. You know, there's some questions now, legal questions about the federal sentencing guidelines, how they apply here. The judge basically said that he was going to, you know, take the next few months to decide what was going on.", "All right, Jim Zarolli in Houston. Jim, thank you, and we'll follow the story throughout the day."], "speaker": ["ALEX CHADWICK, host", "Mr. JEFFREY SKILLING (Former Enron executive)", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "Mr. DANIEL PETROCELLI (Attorney)", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "JIM ZAROLLI reporting", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "ZAROLLI", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "ZAROLLI", "ZAROLLI", "ZAROLLI", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "ZAROLLI", "ALEX CHADWICK, host"]}
{"id": "NPR-31893", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2012-04-02", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/04/02/149866203/martins-parents-plan-to-sue-homeowners-association", "title": "Martin's Parents Plan To Sue Homeowners Group", "summary": "The attorney for Trayvon Martin's parents has already promised to file a civil lawsuit against the homeowner's association where the unarmed teenager was killed.", "utt": ["In Florida, questions continue to swirl about the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman gun down the teen in February. Zimmerman hasn't been charged because he claimed self-defense. One question that hasn't been answered: Is the homeowners association liable for the death.", "Here's NPR's Greg Allen.", "There are nearly 200 townhomes at the Retreat at Twin Lakes, the community in Sanford where Trayvon Martin was shot and killed. It's possible the owners of those townhomes may also be held liable in Trayvon Martin's shooting. Lawyers for the Martin family say they plan a civil lawsuit naming both Martin and the homeowners association. Attorney Ken Direktor says that's not unexpected.", "The associations always make a good target in lawsuits because they carry substantial liability insurance.", "In community newsletters, George Zimmerman was identified as the Neighborhood Watch captain, and residents were encouraged to contact him if they were victimized by crime. He was a volunteer, but attorney Donna DiMaggio Berger says that doesn't protect the homeowners association from liability.", "Did the homeowners association help set up the neighborhood watch program, and how much diligence did it show in training and overseeing the volunteers.", "I have been told in this case is that they did reach out to the local sheriff's office to set up that neighborhood watch. And if that's the case, that's going to go a long way towards creating a safety net for that association.", "Michael Rosenberg heads the Kendall Federation of Homeowners Associations, a group that represents hundreds of community associations in the Miami area. Because most homeowners associations carry substantial insurance, he doubts the Trayvon Martin shooting will have much impact on how they do business.", "It may make them want to go check and make sure they're really covered well. But I'll bet if you look around the country, you'd find, sadly, something everyday that happens somewhere at one of these associations.", "Long before the Trayvon Martin shooting, condo and homeowner associations have been concerned about issues of liability related to work performed by volunteers or unlicensed vendors.", "Ken Direktor advises homeowners associations at the Florida law firm, Becker and Poliakoff. He says, with the struggling economy, many homeowner associations have cut costs by using volunteers for everything from gardening to security.", "I don't know what the motivating factors might be. If you start to use people who have less training, who may not have the requisite licensure, who may not have the insurance necessary to protect the association's interests, you create a heightened level of risk for the community.", "Donna Berger worries that heightened awareness of the risk could discourage the use of volunteers. That would be a shame, she says, because in her experience, volunteers help pull a community together.", "And it's a great thing. An association shouldn't shy away from it. They should just take the proper steps to make sure that they've got the right volunteers performing the right activity, they've done due diligence and they have insurance to cover it.", "Under Florida's Stand Your Ground law, George Zimmerman's attorney is claiming his client is immune both from criminal prosecution and from civil lawsuits. That same protection may not apply to those in Sanford who own homes in the Retreat at Twin Lakes.", "Greg Allen, NPR News, Miami.", "This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "GREG ALLEN, BYLINE", "KEN DIREKTOR", "GREG ALLEN, BYLINE", "She says some key issues in a lawsuit would be", "DONNA DIMAGGIO BERGER", "GREG ALLEN, BYLINE", "MICHAEL ROSENBERG", "GREG ALLEN, BYLINE", "GREG ALLEN, BYLINE", "KEN DIREKTOR", "GREG ALLEN, BYLINE", "DONNA DIMAGGIO BERGER", "GREG ALLEN, BYLINE", "GREG ALLEN, BYLINE", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-28856", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-4-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/20/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Survey: Labor Issues May Worsen Nurse Shortage", "utt": ["A shortage of nurses may turn out to be worse than first expected. That is according to a new survey that is out there. CNN's Amy Castelli has details.", "Things are so overwhelming that sometimes nurses leave work in tears.", "These two Kansas City nurses vouched for the Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals study, which shows one in five expects to leave their job in the next five years.", "We are talking here about a large group of nurses who are presently working, who are miserable, and expect to quit very soon.", "Miserable, say nurses, because of stress, irregular hours, and low staffing levels in a physically demanding job.", "The nurse-to-patient ratio is a crisis right now.", "I had a nurse the other day who told me that she's gone out to her car more than once and actually thrown up after her shift.", "The dismal forecast comes at a time when the Department of Labor says an additional 450,000 nurses will be needed through 2008. (on camera): The bright spot here is that 75 percent of current nurses surveyed said they could be persuaded to stay, but only if changes were made. Number one on their wish list: increase staffing. (voice-over): That and better pay and schedules may also lure former nurses back into the profession, according to the study. The organization, one of the smaller unions representing nurses, says it's a prescription that only can be filled with a little government muscle, including a proposed ban on mandatory overtime and federal standards on staffing levels. Amy Castelli, CNN, Washington."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "LESLIE REMINGTON, REGISTERED NURSE", "AMY CASTELLI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SANDRA FELDMAN, FEDERATION OF NURSES AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS", "CASTELLI", "JULIE BAXTER-GINTHER, REGISTERED NURSE", "REMINGTON", "CASTELLI"]}
{"id": "CNN-81061", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2004-1-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/09/lad.20.html", "summary": "Kids Planning Own Space Mission in Virginia", "utt": ["NASA has a bit of a problem with the Mars Rover Spirit. It's been trying to clear away the air bags that cushioned the rover when it landed on the red planet. This is NASA animation of Spirit, not the real thing. Sections of the air bags are partially blocking the ramp the golf cart sized robot needs to roll off the lander. NASA says it's still working on the problem. In essence, it's caught in a pothole of air bags. In the meantime, in Roanoke, Virginia, some students have already completed a space mission of their own. Heidi Coy of CNN affiliate WSLS has more details for you.", "Students' minds are more than a million miles away, and in this class, that's right where teacher Kim Low (ph) wants them.", "In this medical station, she has some sheep.", "They're planning a mission into space. First, students in Lucy Addison's Middle School's aerospace program build models of what their space equipment could look like.", "We can make something like the Mars rover.", "They go through their pre-flight physicals, then it's time to suit up and take their places.", "This is mission control in there. We're conducting it.", "Unlike regular course work, these students actually get to take what they learn in the class and use it hands-on. Today, they're manning a mission to Mars.", "So this is mission specialist", "The red planet has been the focus of many of their classes lately. They're watching their lessons come to life as images come in from the land rover Spirit.", "I've been watching CNN a lot and reading the newspaper articles. Just recently I was in the library reading up, following up on an article.", "mission control, this is Endeavor.", "It takes you to a different place and you're like oh, wow, I want to go there, I want to see what Mars looks like and put your feet in the actual soil of Mars.", "In their model space station, they're coming close. For this mission, seventh grader Isaac Jones is flying the shuttle.", "This is like my second mission.", "How's the flying going?", "It's going good.", "Isaac, like many of his classmates, is eager to learn more about Mars. He's already forming his own theories, based on what he's learned.", "I believe that humans can really live on Mars. I believe that it was life on Mars at one point because everything that they say about Mars, you believe it more.", "They're hoping one of their future flights really will be out of this world. In Roanoke, Heidi Coy, News Channel 10."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "HEIDI COY, WSLS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COY", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "COY", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "COY (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "COY (voice-over)", "ERIKA WITT, YOUNG ASTRONAUTS CLUB PRESIDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED CHILD", "WITT", "COY", "ISAAC JONES, YOUNG ASTRONAUTS CLUB VICE PRESIDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "JONES", "COY", "JONES", "COY"]}
{"id": "CNN-115753", "program": "CNN IN THE MONEY", "date": "2007-4-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/01/cnnitm.01.html", "summary": "Cost of Running for President Going Up", "utt": ["Diplomats are exchanging notes as a standoff between Britain and Iran moves into its second week. Fifteen British sailors and marines are still being held in Iran. They are accused of illegally crossing into Iranian waters. Britain says they were in Iraq's territory. Both sides have exchanged diplomatic notes. Their contents have not been disclosed, however. President Bush blasting the Democratic-controlled Congress over Iraq war funding bills. Both measures have troop withdrawal time lines attached. In his weekly radio address Mr. Bush says he will veto any measure that has a withdrawal date attached. Another worry for pet owners, more products are now on the pet food recall list. Hills is recalling its prescription diet M/D Feline Dry Food. It's the first dry food added to the list and Purina is pulling its Alpo Prime Cuts in Gravy, wet dog food. The recalls follow reports of dogs and cats dying from kidney failure after eating the food. In Montgomery, Alabama, a deadly collision between a Greyhound bus and a car. The driver of the car was killed and 20 other people on the bus were injured in this morning's accident on Interstate 85. Police say the car was headed the wrong way on the interstate. The bus, carrying 49 passengers, was on its way to Georgia. Police in Highland County, Florida, face questions over their arrest of this little girl, six years old. Reports say the kindergartner was handcuffed and taken to jail after allegedly hitting her teacher. The girl's mother says she is shocked over her child's treatment, and she's considering legal action. The girl is facing one felony count and two misdemeanors. An update of the top stories at the bottom of the hour, now time for", "Welcome to IN THE MONEY. I'm Tom Foreman sitting in Ali Velshi. Coming up on today's program, why the Iran mess isn't the only reason you're paying more for a tank of gas. Plus the cost of running for the president just keeps going up and up and up, and a boss who gets it. Imagine that. Customer service really does count. Joining me today Jennifer Westhoven and Polly LaBarre, great to have you all here. Are you upset about gas prices because I am?", "I'm not upset about them. I'm upset about how little people actually are seeming to notice it. There's a striking study from U.C. Davis that took a look at two five year comparable periods 1975 to 1980, prices went up 20 percent consumption went down 6 percent. The last five years prices have gone up 20 percent and consumption has only gone down 1 percent. People are saying now I'm not going to worry until it gets to $10 a gallon.", "Why do you think that is, we just that wealthy?", "I take the subway so I'm so lucky; I do not have to suffer.", "You New Yorkers with mass transit. The rest of us have to drive.", "I read and San Francisco they are looking at prices that could crack record numbers this weekend possibly. That's really outrageous. That's much faster, I mean we usually have a run up around this time of year but that's much faster than normal and it's the kind of thing where I think that people could get really upset if we start breaking records this fast through the rest of the country.", "This is a time bomb for the elections out there. I think that these candidates are walking around saying what ever happens to gas prices can make a huge difference to them. Look at California, 55 electoral votes sitting out there and those people are paying a lot and getting unhappy. Our first guest says the sky-high oil prices have left us right for a recession. The candidates don't want to hear that. Joining us now is Peter Beutel, president of Cameron, Hanover an energy risk management firm. Thanks for being with us. Let's start with the recession threat. Why do you say that?", "We've had a little bit of trouble here recently, a lot of worry about the Fed raising interest rates. It recently said that doesn't appear immediately likely, but a lot of companies that have seen all kinds of costs increase, heat, transportation, electricity, these companies now that they see energy prices jumping again are likely to say these prices are here forever. Let's go ahead and raise our prices or we're going to go out of business.", "Peter things are pretty tough right now in San Francisco for gas. That may be something temporary just for them, but do you think that we're likely to see, you know, is $3 gas the new normal?", "I don't think there's such a thing as normal in the oil markets. We have cycles and we have trends. I believe that once this is over we will see prices head lower, longer term, and say in four to eight years. It's just that right now prices are extremely high, but if we do have a recession, prices will come down and the good news is once we come out of that recession, at least historically, gasoline prices have not followed for a number of years.", "Peter I'm actually interested in the demand side. It's really interesting to me that the prices are going up and people sort of have this ho-hum reaction to it. So the only thing individuals can really do is affect the demand. What do you think individuals should be doing and how we should we thinking about our own habits and behaviors as consumers?", "If we could each cut out one out of 10 trips, I'm not talking about commuting but the discretionary trips that you take during the week. If we could ask a neighbor, you know, are you going to the store on Friday, I'm going on Tuesday, can I pick you up something fresh on the day I go. If we did a little bit of car pooling, if we just were to switch cars so the person in the family goes the farthest drives the most fuel-efficient vehicle we could save and cut into demand, and that would definitely lower prices.", "Peter, I don't like my neighbors that much so that's not going to happen. Let me ask you this, I'm about to buy a car. Should I get a hybrid car, and the reason I ask this is because I keep looking at the fuel difference, and it's not that great for a huge limitation on what I have to choose from and they are not cheap.", "Well, you know, this is the thing. It may not make sense to you individually, but I think as a society we certainly have to start buying a lot more hybrid cars. I don't know if it works for you, but it works for us.", "Aside from hybrid cars, are there any other big policy initiatives that you think, you know, from where you're sitting, have the best chance of being effective, of really doing something. We have some out there that a lot of people say that's just lip service. What do you think would really work?", "Well, I think a lot of the things we're looking at like ethanol and bio-fuels, certainly an increase in wind power and solar, every little bit helps. I tend to be a political moderate who wants to take the best ideas from both sides of the aisle, and I kind of wish they would stop seeing things in red and blue and started seeing things a little bit more clearly.", "Don't we all.", "Let me ask you something about this. What is really making this happen? I always hear people talking about supply and demand, and I understand supply and demand, but nobody ever goes to buy a barrel of oil and it's not there. This is the perception of supply and demand because the demand has always been met, so what's really making this happen?", "Well, it's a combination of factors this year. First of all in January and February normally we see gasoline demand just drop right off the cliff after New Year's Eve. This year that didn't happen, and it only stays steady in 20 percent of the years so a very, very strong record January/February demand. Normally we see refineries take down units for maintenance during January, February, and March. This year we also had unscheduled down time which is a polite way of saying fires, explosions, power outages, so these factors have already made this market susceptible to the upside when this Iran event occurred, prices just started screaming.", "You made a prediction in January on this show about the free market, that the cost of a barrel could drop to $20 a barrel. First of all, do you still stand by that, and if you do, does that mean that my price at the pump could drop to $1 a gallon?", "Well, it depends what state you live in. If you live in Texas or New Jersey, the answer is yes, you could pay $1 a gallon, if you live elsewhere, it could be $1.25, $1.35.", "You're serious about this?", "Yeah, yeah. This has happened so many times in the past, you know, that I expect it will happen again. The cycle goes up it discourages demand; it often gives us a recession. It encourages supplies. Right now there are hundreds of projects being worked on right now that will develop oil, natural gas, ethanol, biomass, solar, wind. At these prices you could probably find oil in your backyard if you drilled, if you drilled deep enough.", "Well Peter Beutel, if my gas drops to $1 a gallon you come back and I'll buy you a tank on me because I don't think it's going to happen. Peter Beutel, president of Cameron Hanover an energy risk management firm. Thanks for being with us. When we come back, why the price for running for the White House keeps going up like the cost of running to the grocery store. Stick with us."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "IN THE MONEY. 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{"id": "CNN-47696", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2002-1-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/21/se.02.html", "summary": "White House Pays Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.", "utt": ["We want to take our viewers to the White House, where in introducing the president, Coretta Scott King and others have unveiled a portrait of the late Dr. King on this, the day that America remembers the great civil rights leader, who was gunned down in 1968. There you see President Bush. He's just been introduced by Coretta Scott King.", "Mrs. King, thanks for this beautiful portrait. I can't wait to hang it.", "President Bush, signing a proclamation on this day when we observe the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. You see him there at the White House East Room, accompanying Coretta Scott King, the widow of the great civil rights leader. Major Garrett, the president spoke with some passion.", "Absolutely. I think it's worth pointing out, the singular nature of that picture we just saw, the president with Coretta Scott King, who really is the first lady of the American civil rights movement. So much of the civil rights movement takes its cue from her moral authority. And the president sitting with her, even giving her a small peck on the cheek, it's a remarkable photograph here at the White House -- a Republican president coming after Bill Clinton, very, very popular Democratic president, clearly, throughout the black community. This is all part of a very concerted White House effort, one that springs, we are told, very naturally, from the president's own instincts, own desires, to talk in a different way than Republicans historically have to the black community in America. As I said earlier before, we went to the ceremony, the president and the first lady, as only they can, doing everything they can on this day to make sure this is not only a holiday -- a day not only of remembrance, but a day celebrating all that Martin Luther King stood for and still stands for through his legacy today.", "I think he said it all, Major, when he said America is a better place because Martin Luther King Jr. was here. All right, Major Garrett joining us from the White House."], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "WOODRUFF", "MAJOR GARRETT, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-242997", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2014-11-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/11/cg.02.html", "summary": "Bush 43 Honors Bush 41 In New Book", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. In our \"Politics Lead,\" a new look at the presidency of George H.W. Bush as seen through the eyes of his son. Today, George W. Bush released his book, \"41, A Portrait Of My Father,\" a tribute from one veteran to another on this Veteran's Day. It's not the only admiration shown for Bush 41. As you know, Bush 43 has become an avid painter and this week, W unveiled this portrait showing him and his father side by side. Check out the family resemblance. Not bad. CNN national correspondent, Suzanne Malveaux, was there for today's book unveiling and she joins live in College Station, Texas -- Suzanne.", "Jake, since you and I covered George W. Bush, he remarkably appears very much the same. Of course, understandably his father looking a little bit more frail at 90 years old despite the fact that he recently went skydiving. And you bring up a very good point, which is that it makes it particularly special on this day, Veterans Day, that the two appeared together, his father having been a vet of World War II.", "It was classic George W. Sitting slouched across from his former chief of staff, Andy Card, in front, his parents, George H.W. and Barbara. President Bush unveiled \"41, A Portrait of My Father with Passion, Humor and Humility.\"", "This is a love story. It's not an objective analysis of President Bush. I wrote it when I did because I wanted dad to be alive. I used to say in these campaigns that I had my daddy's eyes and my mother's mouth and you're learning why I said that.", "In his book and his speech, Bush took on the stereotypes that his childhood was all roses and his father played it safe.", "Catch this. So he is at Yale, the gene pool got polluted. Everybody says Wall Street and he moves to Odessa. We get out there and dad finds us a place to live. It's a duplex on Seven Street with one of the few indoor bathrooms on the street. A bathroom we shared with two ladies of the night so much for the silver spoon stuff.", "He spoke of the unique challenge both faced as wartime commanders in chief.", "Mother used to call me and say, you need to call your dad. And I'd say why? Because he just read some editorial and he's upset. And so I called him and he said, can you believe what they said about you? I said, Dad, don't worry about it, I'm doing fine.", "Bush marveled at his father's ability to embrace the man who beat him in 1992, the unique friendship that has developed between H.W. and Bill Clinton, which has turned them into buddies as well.", "We're the only two baby boomer presidents and we both like retail politics. We're both, you know -- we both can talk a lot. Now we're both grandfathers.", "But Bush doesn't rule out an epic rematch between the Bush and Clinton families.", "The idea of Bush/Clinton troubles him which speaks to his great integrity. I said how does this sound Bush, Obama, Bush, Obama, Clinton?", "So Jake, he says that it's a 50/50 chance whether Jeb will actually jump into the race. He said, if he does, the whole family will be out there campaigning and all in and on board -- Jake.", "All right, Suzanne Malveaux, live for us at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library in Texas. Thank you so much. Coming up, what could go wrong? Bill Cosby turns to Twitter to ask users to come up with some funny sayings using his pictures. Well, the response he got was definitely not what he had in mind. That's next."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX (voice-over)", "FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH", "MALVEAUX", "BUSH", "MALVEAUX", "BUSH", "MALVEAUX", "BUSH", "MALVEAUX", "BUSH", "MALVEAUX", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-179802", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-1-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/22/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Florida next on Campaign Trail", "utt": ["Welcome back to this special hour of the \"CNN Newsroom.\" We're taking this time out every Sunday to let you hear from the 2012 presidential contenders in their own words, out on the campaign trail. Today, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney announced he will release his 2010 tax returns on Tuesday. He'll also release an estimate of his 2011 tax liability information. The candidate admits it was a mistake to hold off on releasing his returns calling the controversy over the issue a distraction in the race. After finishing a second place in South Carolina's primary this weekend, Romney took aim at rivals who have focused on his personal wealth.", "The Republican Party doesn't demonize prosperity. We celebrate success in our party. That's one of the big differences between our party and our president. He leaves the party of big government, he believes in ever expanding entitlement. He's wrong, we're right, and this is a battle we cannot lose. Those who pick up the weapons of the left today will find them turned against us tomorrow. That's the choice our party gives America. Or else we don't offer them any choice at all. And Americans in my view will demand a real choice in this campaign between those people who believe in prosperity and success and opportunity and those who believe in government. And I think they'll choose us. By the way, by the way if President Obama thinks you can compare his record of job losses with my record of job creation, that's a battle we're going to win. And if he thinks he can compare his record of crony capitalism, with my record of free market success, that's a battle we can win. And let me be clear. If Republican leaders want to join this president in demonizing success, and disparaging conservative values, then they're not going to be fit to be our nominee.", "And so now the battle shifts to Florida. Joining us now, live from Washington, Danielle Belton with the blog \"The Black Snob\", Ann Marie Hauser, a former communications director for two-term Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. Good to see both of you ladies.", "Great to be here.", "Great to be here.", "OK. So at one point, Mitt Romney seemed to be the inevitable GOP nominee, all that changed just really within a 24 hour period. He lost Iowa after a recount to Santorum and then lost handily in South Carolina. So as Romney heads now into Florida, and even after that, Nevada, are we about to see a candidate staying on message or making big changes in his campaign strategy? Ann Marie, you fist.", "Sure. Yes, I think what we'll see is Governor Romney going into Florida. It is a new day for him. He has an opportunity to take his record on creating jobs, a successful governor, successful executive and I think he'll have an opportunity to connect with voters in Florida. It is very promising for him in Florida. They have the money and the structure to do very well there. So I think it is a new day. I think South Carolina was significant. Newt Gingrich had huge momentum. He did very well in the debates. And he really connected with the voters there, but, look, that's his backyard. He also had Perry's endorsement that week. So that was last week. We'll see what Florida holds in the next 10 days.", "So, Danielle, how do you see it? More of the same from Mitt Romney as he heads into Florida or does he have to change strategy, maybe even staffing?", "I think it would be a dangerous thing for Romney to drastically change his strategy. He picked the way he's going to hedge, he's picked where he's going to go with focusing on the Republican emphasis in a free market and kind of, you know, celebrating his business person stance. I don't see how he could radically deviate that without once again being labeled with the whole flip-flopped Mitt Romney is inconsistent and kind of slammed that he gets hit with already quite a bit of frequency I think it is almost a dangerous thing for him to change tracks. He really has to hold hard to what he's doing right now, keep hitting back hard with what he has right now and essentially just double down on his strategy.", "OK. Can the same be said about Newt Gingrich? He didn't use a whole lot of money in South Carolina of his own campaign money, but super pac money made a big difference possibly for him in South Carolina. So, Danielle, what about Gingrich? Might you see any changes as he approaches Florida?", "It is going to be interesting for Gingrich. Because I feel like he went a very aggressive and in some ways lean kind of track with South Carolina, which worked great for South Carolina. I could see why he would go that way with it. He really tapped into people's frustration with the media, he really hit the race angle really hard in a way that worked great in this particular race but kind of resonated differently depending which audience you're dealing with nationally. So in Florida, with the way Gingrich is, I see him in some cases continuing to hit really hard because he wants that applause line with the audience. He wants to get that kind of reaction from the live crowd and the more passionate parts of the Republican voter base but will that be at the expense of independents?", "So, Ann Marie, do you look at this week where, you know, Newt Gingrich really has the upper hand or the advantage because not only is he coming off a South Carolina win, but there are two debates and he really rebels and relishes in the debates and he has a chance to appeal to Floridians or Nevadans or any one else after that in a very big way on that stage.", "Well, that's right. I mean he clearly excels in the debates. As you saw, he just soared this past week in South Carolina after his debate performances because he tapped into two things. One, the anti- Obama frustration in this country and the anti-media frustration in, you know, in our primary. And so, yes, I think these two debates no doubt he will be again very strong. But debates matter. But it is about more than just debates. I mean there is going to be significant campaigning. There is a lot of time in between debates and talking about your record and honestly, if voters really take a look, you know, what Newt says, as saying he's anti-Washington, he is the Washington lobbyist and Mitt Romney is the executive, the job creator, the outsider who is running here. So voters are going to have to decide which one they prefer.", "All right. Ann Marie Hauser, Danielle Belton, thanks so much, ladies. We'll see you again a little bit later on in the hour. We're also going to talk about two of the other four contenders, how will Rick Santorum and Ron Paul gain momentum after a poor showing in South Carolina, the candidates reveal their future strategies coming up."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "WHITFIELD", "DANIELLE BELTON, \"THE BLACK SNOB\"", "ANN MARIE HAUSER, FMR. COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-236773", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-08-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/16/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Governor Rick Perry to Deliver Statement", "utt": ["Texas Governor Rick Perry is in big legal trouble. A grand jury has indicted him on two felony charges. He's accused of abusing the power of his office and coercing a public servant. Special prosecutor says Perry tried to force a district attorney to resign. The governor is expected to speak at the state capitol in Austin today, 3:00 Eastern Time. But his lawyer is already speaking out. Nick Valencia is here now. So, Nick, this is a pretty significant deal. The governor will be booked. There will be a mug shot, fingerprinting, all of that.", "Yes, he is the longest running governor in Texas history and there hasn't been a governor indicted since the early 1900s. So this is a very big deal. Just imagine if you were applying for a job and you had an indictment attached to you. This all stems over an alleged threat that he made towards a Democratic district attorney in Travis County, Rosemary Lindbergh. Rosemary Lindbergh was busted for a dui in April 2013. Governor Perry asked Lindbergh to step down, but she didn't and he allegedly followed through with this threat to withhold upwards of about $7 million from a unit that she was running, Public Integrity Unit. Now the special prosecutor says the charges, as we mentioned, Fred, coercion of a public servant and abuse of power and here's the interesting thing because he is indicted, KDUE, our CNN affiliate in Austin, Texas says that he is going to be booked, fingerprinted and he is going to take a mug shot just like everyone else would have to go through. Now his lawyers, the defense counsel for Governor Perry, they're saying this is pure politics. I want to read a statement here that they said to CNN. We will continue to aggressively defend the governor's lawful and constitutional action and believe we will ultimately prevail. So, the defense counsel for Governor Perry saying that this is just all politics. They don't believe it has any foundation whatsoever.", "It is interesting that 3:00 Eastern Time, the governor will for the first time address this himself, stepping before the cameras there. How much of this is in large part because of his potential run for presidency that he would come out so quickly as opposed to allowing a few days to pass?", "It's a good move on his part at least in PR sense to come out so quickly and kind of trying to admit this in the bud here very quickly. That question may be best suited for some political analyst. They may have a better insights to how much this is going to affect his presidential bid. But you know, really coming off his 2012 bid where he had that very public gaffe, he wasn't able to name federal agencies. He started off as a front-runner, quickly lost that head steam that he had going into the race. Something like this, you know, it doesn't look good. It's a ways away though. Maybe he can do an about face, do some PR. Again, he is aggressively according to his defense counsel, going after these charges, trying to get them dropped. So we'll have to see how this develops and what he says at 3:00 p.m. -- Fred.", "Absolutely. Now, remember, this grand jury has indicted him. Feels like the case is there to move forward with an indictment, but it doesn't mean he's been convicted.", "That's right.", "You know, this is still very early in the stages of the legal road, however, it will be important to hear what the governor has to say today at 3:00. Of course, we're going to carry that live.", "We'll be watching.", "Nick, appreciate it. Thanks so much. All right, meantime, protests are happening today across the nation over that shooting death of the unarmed black teen in Missouri. Our Victor Blackwell is in Ferguson, Missouri, where riots and looting happened just hours ago. Victor, a lot is scheduled to take place today as well with the governor saying he's going to Ferguson, Missouri.", "Yes, Fred, Jay Nixon will be here today. A vigil scheduled for 30 minutes from now, but overnight, three stores looted, one person shot. An officer injured and again, those Molotov cocktails and a return to the military style response from law enforcement. Going to show it to you and show you a confrontation between the protesters and the man expected to calm things down here. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "VALENCIA", "WHITFIELD", "VALENCIA", "WHITFIELD", "VALENCIA", "WHITFIELD", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-241054", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2014-10-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/15/ampr.01.html", "summary": "Catholic Church Changing Its Tone?; Imagine a World", "utt": ["Tonight: as we continue to monitor the Ebola outbreak, we pause for a moment also to consider more than 1 billion Roman Catholics who are wondering whether theirs will become a kinder, gentler church. Will it, for instance, welcome gays instead of ostracizing them? A senior cardinal who will write the final report for the pope speaks out.", "A homosexual person, a person who has this orientation has the dignity of being who they are. And so the church is simply recognizing that.", "And later in the program, they are the men and women on the front lines, not in uniform but armed with cameras and notebooks, documenting war crimes. We introduce you to the E-Team.", "Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. I'm Christiane Amanpour. We continue to stand by to await any developments in the Ebola outbreak and we will bring those to you. But first, who am I to judge? Those were simple words spoken by Pope Francis a year ago. Today those words may be causing a pastoral earthquake as a veteran Vatican watcher has put it. The first sign that the pope's more progressive views on matters of homosexuality and family relationships are being thoroughly aired at the Vatican in what's known as a synod on the family. And tonight a key member of the clergy is speaking out. Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., who is one of the handful of prelates entrusted by the pope with writing the final report for him. From the very start of his papacy, Francis made clear that he wants the Roman Catholic Church to be more welcoming to everyone. Embattled conservative bishops are now warning the church not to stray from its traditional teachings. So tonight we ask Cardinal Wuerl what's new for the world's 1.2 billion Catholics?", "Cardinal Wuerl, thank you so much for joining me from Rome.", "It's a great pleasure. Thank you for having me.", "This is an amazing time. We seem to be hearing a lot of monumental change possibly coming from where you are standing right now. Is that the case? How do you describe what you're all discussing now?", "The way the synod began was the invitation from Pope Francis to open our hearts, open our minds and speak very, very freely. And then he said, and then to listen, to listen humbly, listen to one another and listen to the Holy Spirit. But he also -- and I think this is very important for us to remember -- he also said, \"This is the beginning of a process.\" So whatever we're saying and struggling with together and searching to find creative ways to be pastorally present, none of this is definitive. We're all trying to find the best path to follow. That's why I find this so exciting. There's an openness. There's a creativity but all of this is within the framework of: what has the church always held?", "So then let me ask you because there are obviously hot button issues that many, many people around the world, particularly practicing Catholics, want to understand where you all now stand. So the interim report -- or at least the reports about the interim report - - states that gay people have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community. Is that a new stance? Because obviously, in the past, homosexuality was considered a disordered state, a mentally, you know, disordered state.", "If you take what you're reading in this interim-interim report, it's saying what the catechism of the Catholic Church also says, that every person has a dignity all of their own, a worth, a value, a God-given dignity. And a person, a homosexual person, a person who has this orientation has the dignity of being who they are. And so the church is simply recognizing that and saying it today in a way that perhaps is being better heard. One of the -- one of the efforts of this synod is to help us formulate the teaching of the church and most particularly the openness, the welcome of the church, the outreach of the church in a way that is actually being heard by the people we're trying to reach. And I think that's what you're seeing in the language, not so much a change in the teaching of the church, but a way of saying it that is far more inviting, far more welcoming.", "I can hear you voicing a huge amount of caution. There does seem to be some quite sharp divisions between members of the synod. Some of the Catholic bishops there are saying that what's going on is not what we're saying at all. It's not a true message. Others are saying it advances positions which synod fathers do not accept; a great number of synod fathers found it objectionable regarding some of what came out about homosexuality or about cohabitation.", "I think what we need to do is we need to separate what actually is being said from what's being said about what's being said. And where I think we are right now in the synod is we're at a point where we have yet to reach a formulation that has been presented to everybody to even take the first pass at. What we have is simply an echoing of everything that was heard. And when you open up the discussion and you try to be creative and you try to be as inviting as possible, some of the language may sound a bit jarring to some people. That may not be the language that we all settle upon in the end. My caution would be -- and I think it's a legitimate caution of the synod -- give the process a chance. Give it a possibility to work its way through so that we don't settle on any given word at any given time and say this is the final word. The process has just begun. Remember we still have another synod to conclude this in 2015. So we're going to be at this for a while.", "Exactly. And you bring me to the next point, which is that you are going to be one of those cardinals writing the final report that you will present to the pope. Do you believe the final report will and should be made public?", "I think that when we -- what we conclude with is something that really will probably be made public because it's going to be the report on the next step. It's going to be the paper that we'll use for the next step in the process. I suspect that whatever is finally produced is going to be made public. There doesn't seem to be any effort so far to keep any of these things from being public.", "May I ask you about the very hot button issue of divorce? Communion and so-called living in sin, let me ask you first of all, divorced couples now cannot remarry inside the church and they're not allowed to have communion if they remarry outside the church, in civil services. Will that at all change in the final document, by the time the final document is made?", "I wish I could give you an answer to that. But I don't know what the final document is going to say. The final document of this whole process isn't going to exist until the process is done. And our Holy Father said that process won't conclude until the end of the 2015 synod. But what we're looking at is it's true. It's part of the received teaching of the church, as part of what the gospel says, we are not permitted to divorce and remarry. But what does that mean in the life of individuals? And what does that mean in the -- in relation to their sacramental life? That's what we're just beginning to talk about. I don't know what the answer, the final answer will be because we haven't gotten anywhere near that part, that point in this ongoing discussion. But the fact remains, the teaching remains that marriage is indissoluble and that goes all the way back to Jesus telling us marriage is not able to be dissolved by human beings.", "What about what is colloquially known in the church as living in sin, cohabitation? Apparently the interim report suggested that pastors should recognize that there are, quote, \"positive aspects of civil unions and cohabitation.\" Where do you come down on that?", "Well, I think we have to begin with the recognition this is going on all around us, that this is a fact of life. And so if you're going to reach out to people, if you're going to go and meet people where they are in the condition in which they are living, you have to recognize what is that condition. We now need to talk about where would Christ want you to be, where would the Lord ask you to be in light of His gospel, in light of His teachings? And that's, I think, what was meant when we said there are some positive aspects. At least try to meet the person where they are and then walk with them.", "Cardinal Donald Wuerl, thank you so much for joining us from just near the Vatican there, on a windy day.", "You're very welcome. Thank you for having the opportunity to be with you.", "And from doctrinal front lines to battlefield trenches, in the aftermath of this summer's brutal war U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Gaza yesterday and made this frank assessment. He said, quote, \"No amount of Security Council sessions, reports or briefings could have prepared me for what I witnessed today. The build- destroy, build-destroy cycle must be broken. The mindless pattern of blockade, rockets and destruction must stop.\" So whether it's there or in Syria or in Central Africa, meet the real-life action heroes who go there to watch out for human rights. Netflix's latest, a real reality show, when we come back."], "speaker": ["CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST (voice-over)", "CARDINAL DONALD WUERL, ARCHBISHOP OF WASHINGTON", "AMANPOUR (voice-over)", "AMANPOUR", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR", "WUERL", "AMANPOUR"]}
{"id": "CNN-56746", "program": "CNN SUNDAY", "date": "2002-6-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/30/sun.07.html", "summary": "Gore Criticizes Bush on War on Terror", "utt": ["This next report some might find alarming. For the first time, former Vice President Al Gore has publicly criticized President Bush's handling of the war on terrorism. Last night, Mr. Bush's Democratic challenger in the 2000 presidential race took him to task for, among other things, failing to capture al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. CNN political analyst Ron Brownstein joins us from Miami. And one of those, among other things, was the economy that Al Gore criticized Bush for. Is this a dangerous move, political suicide? Or does he have to do this to kind of stay out in front?", "Risky, but necessary, as your question implies. I don't think Al Gore has decided that he wants to run again in 2004. But he clearly has decided that he wants to have the option of running again in 2004. And that's required him systematically, Fredricka, in these last few months, to begin becoming more visible and more pointed in his criticism. It really began down here in Florida at Orlando at the state party convention about three months ago and since then he has tried to reassert himself as a leader of the Democrats. And that requires him to take the risk of criticizing President Bush on a variety of fronts at a time when most congressional Democrats have been reluctant to do so, especially on the war.", "Yes, an incredible risk, some might say, particularly because we are in the throes of a war.", "Well, it's begun, you know, it's interesting that Al Gore isn't the first Democrat to raise this question about whether the administration's strategy was successful.", "Right.", "John Kerry, Senator John Kerry has raised questions about Tora Bora. One thing that the attacks of September 11 did, Fredricka, is I think it reestablished credibility as commander-in- chief as an important stepping stone to the presidency. And I think it requires the Democrats to address President Bush on national security. A lot of the congressional leadership has had the view of let's embrace him on the war, try to neutralize that as an issue and focus on domestic concerns. But the people who want to be president ultimately have to be credible and that, I think, does impel them toward taking the risk of criticizing, at times, the president's performance in that area.", "So in order to be taken serious you have to take some risks. Let me read a couple of quotes from Al Gore during that fund- raiser. On bin Laden, he says, \"They haven't gotten Osama bin Laden. They've refused to allow enough international troops to enter Afghanistan to make sure this country doesn't slide back under the control of these warlords. And on the economy, on corporate corruption, most recently Gore says, \"I believe that a president of the United States facing this kind of situation ought to be restoring confidence in our economy and ought to be instructing the people in charge of these agencies to lay down the law. Well, how much of this is I'm still angry over decision 2000 or is this don't forget me because I'll be back?", "Well, I think it's more the latter than the former. I mean he's laying out some of the lines of division that would be there if he does run again. The first argument, about the use of American forces as peacekeepers goes back to a central argument they had in their presidential debates. They had extended exchanges with Gore defending the Clinton administration posture of using American troops in places like Bosnia as part of nation building and Bush condemning that. Interestingly, the president now talking about nation building for the Palestinians, though not with American troops. The other line of criticism about the use of, or the appointment of former industry officials to head various regulatory agencies is something that is going to intensify from Democrats. Clearly, they see the administration links to business in a variety of fronts, from the energy regulation to environmental regulation, as a potential vulnerability, especially with this backdrop of scandal, and Gore is somewhat at the leading edge of that. It's something you're probably going to hear a lot of in the congressional election and in the congressional debate leading up to that this fall.", "All right, looking forward to that. Ron Brownstein, thank you very much, from Miami this evening.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "RON BROWNSTEIN, \"LOS ANGELES TIMES\"", "WHITFIELD", "BROWNSTEIN", "WHITFIELD", "BROWNSTEIN", "WHITFIELD", "BROWNSTEIN", "WHITFIELD", "BROWNSTEIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-302572", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-01-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/07/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Gunman Kills Five People And Wounds Eight At Fort Lauderdale Airport", "utt": ["And a good day to you, wherever you're joining us. We welcome you as in the United States and around the world. I'm Richard Quest in New York.", "And I'm George Howell at CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. We continue following the breaking news this hour, that deadly shooting at the airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.", "Now, and police and federal investigators are learning more about the man who opened fire at the airport. The gunman killed five people and wounded eight. Sources say he entered a bathroom and started shooting when he came out, sending crowds running. The police have now identified the suspect as 26-year-old Esteban Santiago. He's now being questioned in custody. The FBI says Santiago visited their office in Alaska saying he was hearing voices, telling him to watch ISIS videos. He underwent a mental health evaluation shortly thereafter. Nothing barred him from traveling to Florida or apparently from owning a gun. Authorities say terrorism could have been a motivating factor.", "With these types of incidents as horrific they are, we are looking at all avenues. We have not ruled out terrorism and will be pursuing every angle to try to determine the motive behind this attack. And any associates, any connections, communication, everything that you can imagine I assure you we are pursuing every possible lead.", "Now, one theory investigators were looking into is that Santiago was angry after an altercation with another traveler on his flight. But that seems to be being rubbish this evening. Delta airlines officials say they've spoken to the crew and passengers and there was no such altercation.", "The investigation certainly continuing. The Vice President-elect Mike Pence spoke with Florida's governor a few times after the shooting. And he says this was a heartbreaking loss of life.", "The hearts of every American are in Fort Lauderdale tonight. The president-elect and I send our prayers and our thoughts to the victims of this attack to their families, to the courageous first responders and to all the citizens of the Fort Lauderdale area. It's a very challenging time.", "So let's talk about that scene at the airport. What would have you done? I mean, this was a scene of horror, fear and confusion, people running for their lives. Our Randi Kaye takes us through the timeline of events as we hear from the witnesses who were there.", "OK. They want us to hold for the tango line. Guess there's firing going on in the terminal.", "We're currently having a building evacuation at Terminal 2.", "It's just before 1:00 p.m. when a gunman opens fire at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport. He's inside baggage claim at Terminal 2.", "He came up right where we were and he was shooting people that were down on the ground too.", "He says they tried to help the victims.", "My wife took a sweater from my mother-in-law and applied pressure to the gentlemen right next to it. He had been shot in the head. All the people seemed to be shot in the head. We checked the man next to him, had no vital signs, he was gone.", "Another witness tells CNN his plane had just landed and some victims are his fellow passengers.", "All of a sudden, everybody started running. I grabbed our kids and we took off running down the ramp. Told the flight attendant let us off the tarmac. We ran onto the tarmac to hide behind some luggage carts. It's looks like a war zone in here.", "The airport is immediately shut down. All passengers are evacuated. They run to the tarmac in search of safety. Authorities quickly zero in on the suspect.", "We have the shooter in custody. He's unharmed. No law enforcement fired any shots.", "Apprehended but not before these horrifying moments. By now it's 1:43 p.m. And the Broward County sheriff's office tweets that multiple people are dead. Some lucky enough to be alive are left bleeding. Someone posted video of this passenger being treated on the sidewalk. By 2:00 p.m., the official count is three dead. Minutes later, it's up to five dead. At least eight are injured. By mid afternoon, Florida's senior senator says the TSA has told him who did this.", "The shooter is Esteban Santiago. He had a military I.D. We don't know if that is an accurate I.D. or if it is a current", "But it's not over. About 2:20 p.m., word of more gunfire. Police are seen scrambling on a tarmac and near the parking garage. Once again, passengers spill onto the tarmac. Others duck behind parked cars.", "Everybody just sprinted outside again, and so just ran out again. I honestly don't know what's happening.", "At 2:33 p.m., a tweet from the TSA, active shooter at FLL shelter in place. Airport closed. Sniper teams are put on alert.", "We have a variety of SWAT teams out and assets out clearing the entire airport.", "No other gunman is found.", "At this point, it looks like he acted alone. There's no second active shooter.", "Officials won't say if the suspect was targeting someone on an arriving flight or if he's cooperating. Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.", "Now, officials say the suspect carried the firearm and the ammunition in his checked baggage and he did so. And it was all perfectly legal, overboard and properly got organized. This incident could cause airlines to reconsider their policies on traveling passengers traveling with checked weapons. CNN's Tom Foreman shows us how Esteban Santiago made his way into the terminal.", "This is the Fort Lauderdale airport. And based on everything that we've heard about this alleged shooter's travel plans, after leaving Alaska, laying over in Minneapolis and heading here, this in where he would have arrived at Terminal 2 specifically at Gate 5 at this terminal. If we move in closer, I can show you the Gate 5 is the one right back in this area. And people who were on some of the planes say they walked from here down to the baggage area would be about 50 or 60 yards if he traveled the same way that you would expect somebody to normally do on a plane like this. It would be a path something like this through the area down to the escalator, down here and then down to the baggage area. The baggage area is all in here. That's where he would have retrieved his bag with the gun in it if the witness accounts are correct and then people talk about him going into a restroom. There's one over there, there's also one right over here. If that were the case, he could have gone in and come right back out firing roughly about 45 minutes after his plane officially touched down. And we do know, some of the victims were actually right in this area. Now, what about this business of taking a gun on a plane? As a civilian, you cannot do that in a carry on bag. But it is perfectly legal for you to do it in a checked bag. Aside from local and state regulations here's what the TSA say, the federal regulations are. You must tell the airline that you are carrying a firearm. It must be unloaded. You can't have any shells in the chamber or in a clip that's loaded on to it. It must be in a locking hard shell case and only you can have the key and the combination. You can't have a whole lot of people with that information. And lastly, if you are carrying ammunition, that also has to be locked up. Many gun owners will actually lock it in with the gun itself.", "Tom Foreman in that report in first hand. Now, CNN's law enforcement analyst and a retired FBI agent, Steve Moore joins me now from Los Angeles. Steve, we can pass this any way we wish. But I'm curious, what for you as an expert is the most troubling aspect of all of this? STEVE MOORE, FBI SUPERVISORY FIELD AGENT", "Yeah. Now, you shouldn't be surprised about that. That is the story of many is whether it's lone wolf or organized attacks. We saw that in Paris. We saw it in Brussels. We've seen it more recently in Turkey. Everybody knows a little bit of something and nobody puts it together. Another good example of course, certainly, was Germany where the truck went into the Christmas market.", "Right. And I think that's going to be the revolution that happens in counter-terrorism and even in threat management where there is, and I mean, we've got all the data in the world on social media. We don't have it in law enforcement and there has to be some kind of synergy between all different phases of law enforcement and mental health to where you're all -- you're all sharing information. And until we get to that point, we're not going to be able to predict these things.", "If as suggested, Santiago does say that he have thought he heard voices from ISIS requiring him to join or whatever, does that, I mean, obviously, in terms of himself, that is a mental health issue, a sad one that needs to be treated. But in terms of the fact that, you know, ISIS raises its ugly specter, even in this area of mental health, what do we make of that?", "I think what the mental health professionals might tell us, Richard, is that this person was looking to explain his homicidal ideology by the most oppressive group he could think of. ISIS was the one he thought of. If ISIS hadn't been there, it would have been Al-Qaeda. If it hadn't been Al-Qaeda, it might have been a white supremacist group.", "In other words, we need to be thinking of this as a mental health issue, not as a terrorism issue. But I suggest to you, Steve, whatever that you look at it, we can no longer continue business as usual in these exposed so-called horrible phrase, soft targets like auditoria, stadia, and airports. But that raises the question, what do you want to do about it?", "Well, Richard, you're absolutely right. I mean, we don't have a way to defend these. And if you defend the airports perfectly, they're going to go to stadiums. And if you defend both of those, they're going to go to the malls. There is no way to protect every single large group of people.", "That's rather depressing. I mean, you're basically saying there's to way to protect. And I suppose the right wing in the United States would say, well that's strong argument for everybody to be armed.", "I'm not going to go either direction with that. But I will tell you that I think that walls are not going to stop people. The prohibition of weapons of whatever type are not going to stop people. What are -- is going to stop people is the nuances of looking at people, learning about them and being aware when somebody doesn't fit in the right peg.", "Prevention and that's what that phrase about, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure or something like that. Excellent. Good to see you sir, thank you.", "Good to see you.", "Still ahead on CNN NEWSROOM, the U.S. says an effort to influence the U.S. election was directed from the highest levels of the Kremlin. We'll explain what is in the declassified report ahead. Donald Trump is reacting to the intelligence report that Russia orchestrated the cyber campaign to favor him in the U.S. election. 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{"id": "CNN-327294", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-11-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/29/nday.03.html", "summary": "Interview With Senator Mike Rounds.", "utt": ["All right. Time for CNN facts first. Republicans are trumpeting their tax plan as a sweeping middle-class tax cut that, while helping the wealthy and corporations also helps the little guy. Now, that is not true, at least in the long run. And each new study of the numbers proves it. According to a new study from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, America's poorest will lose billions of dollars in benefits under the Republicans' tax plan. A big part of that is them repealing the mandate. Remember, that's in there also. That's going to result in 13 million people losing health care coverage by 2027. Speaking of dates, everybody gets a tax cut at first. But by 2019, those making less than $30,000, worse off. By 2021, those making less than 40 grand, hurting. By 2027, when many provisions of the bill expire, all of the tax cuts will be released for anybody making less than $75,000. Meanwhile, the wealthy corporations will continue to benefit. Republicans say all of this is OK, because that which is being gifted to the upper tier will help overall growth in the economy, and that that will generate some 3 percent growth annually. And that will, of course, lift all votes. Now, this number flies in the face of other estimates of growth. The conservative-leaning tax foundation says we will not see 3 percent growth until 2027 at the earliest. The Tax Policy Center says you'd be lucky to see one-third of one percent growth, the Wharton School, of course, Donald Trump's alma mater, says the economy will grow at less than 1 percent. So those are the facts. How do they apply to the politics of the tax bill. Let's get into that with a great guest, Republican Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota. Sir, thank you for taking the opportunity. You heard what we're reporting in terms of the facts. What is your case for this bill?", "I've heard different facts before. I'm not quite sure the spin that you've got on them today. But I can tell you what's going to happen for a family with $73,000, four kids. They're going to get about half the tax bill immediately than what they've got today. And I really do believe that, long term, and you suggested it, and that was that about ten years from now, this is designed to where the businesses taxes continue at a reduced rate. Personal income taxes would change. But that's only if Congress decides to allow them to -- to expire. So I don't think the whole story is there in the facts that you've got. By the way, if you've noticed recently, our economy is currently growing at 3 percent. And that's what we need to not only -- not only pay back the dollars that we're -- that we're sending back out in terms of reductions for middle-income families and for businesses, but it will actually help us to pay off our debt and to -- to pay for some of our -- our expenditures that we need at the federal level. You know, if we want to continue to make payments in Medicare and in Medicaid, if we want to continue to have the greatest defense in the world, we're going to have to have the revenues coming in to do it. That means we've got to have a strong economy. We can't do it with the current tax structure that we've got.", "Well, right. But there's a counter argument, right, to that, which is don't cut the taxes if you need more revenue. But I want to go back to your numbers premise. Where are you getting your numbers that a family with 73,000 will have half its tax bill? Because I have not seen that from the Joint Committee on Tax. I haven't seen it from the CBO. Where are you getting that?", "Yes. That actually comes directly from the Joint Committee on Tax. And what it's based on is an average family, 73,000 in income, a family of husband, wife, and two children. And it's based upon -- and here's the part that some folks are forgetting about. Kids are going to get double the tax credits directly taken. That's money that's taken directly off the amount of tax that you have to pay. And so if you've got two kids, you're going to get twice as much as what you do today, basically, in tax credits."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "SEN. MIKE ROUNDS (R), SOUTH DAKOTA", "CUOMO", "ROUNDS"]}
{"id": "CNN-209774", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-6-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/29/cnr.09.html", "summary": "Tensions Rise in Egypt, Protests Expected", "utt": ["Tensions are rising in Egypt where opponents of President Mohammed Morsi are getting ready for massive nationwide protests. And Morsi supporters are determined to make a stand for their president. It's all happening tomorrow, one year after Morsi took office. And CNN's Ben Wedeman is in Cairo.", "They chant \"We love you, Morsi\" to the Egyptian president in one part of Cairo. And in another they're telling him to go, get out now. Egyptians are polarized as never before. And the two camps seem headed inexorably to a violent clash.", "There are two large and determined and enthusiastic camps. Here, the pro-Morsi crowd; in Tahrir Square the anti-Morsi crowd, both large and both ready for a confrontation.", "The opposition, made up of young revolutionaries, old regime loyalists and ordinary citizens, fed up with fuel shortages, power cuts, a collapsing economy and rising crime, will hit the streets Sunday to demand the immediate resignation of the Muslim Brotherhood-supported President Mohammed Morsi, elected a year ago in Egypt's first post-revolutionary presidential vote. The president's supporters insist he must stay in power. Some demonstrators have brought clubs and sticks and say they're ready for a fight. Refat Ali traveled from Upper Egypt to the capital with a message to Morsi's opponents. \"Our patience has run out,\" he says. \"Either you back off or the only thing left to do is to attack you with one fist.\" Brotherhood spokesman Jihad Haddad warns the group's supporters will not turn the other cheek.", "This time under the bounds of the law we intend to execute our right of self-defense to protect our protesters, our buildings and our homes.", "There's scant talk of compromise. The stakes are high. And no one is ready to back down, certainly not the once persecuted and now empowered Muslim Brotherhood.", "For Islam this is the battle of life and death. So Morsi for them is the red line. So they cannot imagine the world without Morsi as the president, because they know that if Morsi steps down, this means that they will not come to power again. And the new president will put them in jail again.", "Morsi's opponents are openly cautioning of an army takeover if order totally collapses.", "We want to warn them if they are going to use this kind of violence against us and threaten a state of civil war, of course, some of the parties will have to interfere, even if it's the army, but to protect the security of Egyptians.", "At the rally for the president, young men put on a show of their fighting skills. But it may not be longer for show -- Ben Wedeman, CNN, Cairo.", "Are we closer to finding life on another planet or three other planets? Details next."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "WEDEMAN", "WEDEMAN (voice-over)", "JIHAD HADDAD, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SPOKESMAN", "WEDEMAN (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEDEMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEDEMAN", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-74308", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2003-7-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/26/cst.27.html", "summary": "Claims That Bush Administration Putting Squeeze On Whistleblower", "utt": ["We have a story of intrigue and maybe political hardball too. It's about a senior agent of the CIA, a spy, and how her name became very publicly known. Two weeks ago, she was mentioned in a newspaper column. Her name was leaked by, quote, \"two administration officials.\" Now, if you're asking why, it might have something to do with her husband. He's the former U.S. ambassador who investigated the claim that Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Africa. He told the CIA there was no basis to that claim. And since he went public, he says there are people in the administration who are out to make him and his family examples. Joining us now from Washington is one of the reporters who broke the story, Timothy Phelps, the Washington bureau chief of \"Newsday.\" Thanks for joining us.", "I'm pleased to be here. Thank you.", "So critics are going to say that this administration can't handle dissent, and they will do anything they can to stop dissenters. And then there's the other side that, say, you know, these things happen from time to time. Have you gotten to the bottom of who leaked her name in the first place?", "No, and that's not really my job. I simply reported that two senior administration officials had blown the cover of a obviously undercover CIA officer, and revealed that Victoria Plame worked at the", "Well, do you think this will have a chilling effect in terms of others who may want to come out and criticize the administration?", "Well, Ambassador Joe Wilson, who is Ms. Plame's husband, said that that's what he feels is exactly the point behind this. He said it was not so much an attempt to get back at him, but an attempt to keep other people from coming forward about what has been a very large controversy about intelligence.", "What kind of ripple effect do you think this will have in terms of Mrs. Plame's work? She was an undercover agent, and now her cover is blown.", "Well, obviously she can't continue to do what she was doing at the agency, and probably can't continue to work at an undercover capacity at all. So, the CIA has a reputation for taking care of its own, and my understanding is that she will certainly have a job there, and probably a good job, but maybe not one as interesting and rewarding as what she was doing.", "What about the ripple effects in terms of her work, though? You know, people that she had associated with as an undercover agent. What will happen to those contacts?", "Well, there is some concern from former CIA agents and current, actually, who we talked to that her contacts could be in some trouble, depending in what countries they were in and how hostile they are to the United States.", "Any comments yet from the administration on all of this?", "Well, the administration absolutely denied that it had authorized anybody to do this, but of course, that begs the question as to whether anybody did it or not.", "Where does this go from here? Will there be an investigation, perhaps a lawsuit?", "Well, several senators, Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee have said that they intend to look into it. In addition, Senator Chuck Schumer from New York said this week that he was asking the FBI to conduct an investigation into who revealed this woman's name.", "Timothy Phelps of \"Newsday,\" thank you so much for joining us. It's an interesting article.", "Glad to be here.", "Thanks. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Whistleblower>"], "speaker": ["SOPHIA CHOI, CNN ANCHOR", "TIMOTHY PHELPS, NEWSDAY", "CHOI", "PHELPS", "CIA. CHOI", "PHELPS", "CHOI", "PHELPS", "CHOI", "PHELPS", "CHOI", "PHELPS", "CHOI", "PHELPS", "CHOI", "PHELPS", "CHOI"]}
{"id": "CNN-196851", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-12-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1212/04/cnr.10.html", "summary": "Los Angeles Port Strike Drags On", "utt": ["For more than a week, two of the busiest ports in this country have been effectively shut down. I'm talking about the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, right near each other on the California coast. As we zoom in, you can see just where they sit. And they are basically closed by a strike of warehouse clerks. What does that have to do with things you want, perhaps even for the holidays? Some retailers are saying some of the hottest holiday items might not make it to store shelves because they can't get unloaded from the cargo ships because of the picket lines and the strikers. And it is costing this economy in the United States up to a billion dollars a day. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of frustration. You know what? I'm sure the strikers aren't enjoying what they're doing either. The International Long Shore and Warehouse Union, which represents 800 clerks, is saying employers are trying to outsource their union jobs. But the group representing management says that's just not true. We haven't heard a lot about progress in the talks up until now. But, and that's a big but, the mayor of Los Angeles has decided it's time to get involved, and here's what he had to say about it.", "We have met all night. We have worked across the table with a number of proposals. It is still clear to me that we're some bit apart but progress has been made. But what I'm here to announce is that both parties have agreed to federal mediation and to a federal mediator.", "Miguel Marquez is live for us on this story. That's a development, Miguel. That's pretty good news. Is everybody hearing it so far there?", "It's news. I don't know how good the news is. There is a lot of discussion this morning, early this morning, that there would be a deal, that the deal was at hand, and both sides sat down. They were talking about some of the issues. The mayor did say, during the press conference, there's a wide chasm between the sides as well. That federal mediator has not been named yet. Who it is, is expected to be here shortly. It may slow things down a bit though because that person will have to get caught up with what's happening here before they can get down to business. What both sides want is that attention being paid from the federal level though. They remain hopeful, the mayor and his aides, and the union folks, that a deal is still possible today. Even if they don't reach a deal -- because these guys have not had a contract for 2.5 years. Even if they don't reach a deal, they may get back to work and at least get the port open again -- Ashleigh?", "That was the next question. What have they said to you in terms of the intractability of the argument right now? Might mediations mean they will at least get of the picket lines while the two parties hash it out in a different venue?", "It is possible. It depends on what the atmosphere is in that room. It sounds like -- you saw those individuals behind the mayor, all nodding their heads. They all seemed to be in agreement. Those are the main people sitting down and negotiating that deal. There seems -- the big sticking point is over these jobs. 800 clerical worker jobs, only 600 full time. They get paid $41 an hour. Very good jobs, and they want to keep them here. They don't want them outsourced as they're calling it. But they include in that outsourcing, jobs going to Texas, Colorado and Arizona. But also to Panama and other places as well. So they -- that's what they're trying to hold on to. That's where the sticking point has been. Management not wanting to give on the principle of saying where those jobs can be placed, and the union wanting those jobs to stay right here in the Los Angeles, Long Beach ports -- Ashleigh?", "Miguel, this is a local story. We put statistics up on the screen during your first comments and it's astounding. 40 percent of all U.S. cargo comes through.", "That's wrong?", "No, 40 percent of all U.S. cargo. Nearly a half trillion dollars comes through the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Two ports, but they're one essential location here. It is absolute massive undertaking here.", "Wow.", "There are 10 ships right now with containers on them berthed at the port, waiting to be unloaded, and another 11 off port, at anchor, waiting to come in, and 17 ships so far have been routed to other ports, some of those in Mexico, some of those farther north in the U.S. So that's just in seven days. It's an absolutely massive operation here.", "I can only imagine what is in those containers behind you, Miguel Marquez. But I think a lot of kids will be disappointed this Christmas. Miguel Marquez, reporting live for us from Los Angeles. Thanks, Miguel. So you have heard the numbers by now, almost 15 million U.S. households rely on food stamps. And now one of those households belongs to this man. He's the mayor of Newark, New Jersey. And Cory Booker has decided to find out firsthand what it's like to live on food stamps. And get this -- it happened because of Twitter. We'll explain in a moment."], "speaker": ["ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA, MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES", "BANFIELD", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BANFIELD", "MARQUEZ", "BANFIELD", "BANFIELD", "MARQUEZ", "BANFIELD", "MARQUEZ", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-271002", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-12-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/10/nday.05.html", "summary": "Donald Trump Clarifies Proposal of Muslim Immigration Ban; Investigators in San Bernardino Shooting say Shooters Radicalized before Meeting Each Other; Investigators Focus on Marriage of San Bernardino Terrorists.", "utt": ["Good morning, welcome to your NEW DAY. It is Thursday, December 10, 8:00 in the east. We have a new national poll this morning painting a very clear picture of the Republican race. Look who is on top, no surprise. But look at the margin. Hugely dominate as Trump would say himself, securing the highest level of support, 35 percent in the \"New York Times\" CBS poll. Ted Cruz second but distant, Carson falling away in third.", "Now, a little context for you. Most of the polling was done before Trump's controversial comments about Muslims. Trump now attempting to add some specifics to that plan. He sat down with CNN's Don Lemon to justify those comments. Listen to this.", "We released three national polls last week. You're ahead by far. And then you release this controversial statement. Why not just sit on your big lead and just let it ride?", "Because, Don, I have to do what's right. We need a dialogue in the country and throughout the world. We have a big problem. And, as you know, I have many friends who are Muslims. They are phenomenal people. They are so happy at what I'm doing. I was called by three people today, very big. They said you are doing a tremendous service because unless people are going to be talking about it, it is never going to be solved. The public agrees with what I said. They saw those two animals last week go out and shoot people, and the husband and wife. The wife came here on a phony visa, on a visa that frankly it's disgraceful that she was able to come in, and she radicalized, probably radicalized him.", "Fiance visa.", "She had a fiance visa. And a disgusting, disgraceful thing. The people with me 100 percent are the people. And that's, frankly, all that matters.", "Let's talk about this proposal. You adjusted it slightly so that it would say that you would let American Muslims who are traveling overseas return to the country. This doesn't apply to U.S. citizens?", "It never did. From day one it never did. I don't know why people thought it did. This applies to people coming into the country. And all it is a break until our politicians, who are grossly incompetent, by the way, can get their act together.", "And what about foreign diplomats or people from Muslim countries who are coming into the country --", "Certainly exceptions can be made. I'm not going to say you can't come into the country And the one thing people didn't pick up. At the end of that sentence it said until we get our hands around it, essentially. Until we find out what the hell is going on, which is the expression I used. Now, that could go quickly. But you know what? It is a subject that has to be discussed.", "So you said there will be exceptions even for international athletes and competitions and --", "Of course there will be exceptions. You can't keep people out like that. There will certainly be exceptions made.", "So you have been saying that until we figure out what's going on. What exactly does that that mean? Figure out what? What is there to figure out?", "Why is there such hatred and such viciousness. Why is somebody willing to fly airplanes into the World Trade Center and go after it even prior to that? They failed although they did tremendous damage by any normal standard. And then after they failed they went and they actually took airplanes into the World Trade Center. Where does the hatred come from? We have to figure it out, because we have problems. So when you surveil the mosques, I took a lot of heat for surveillance of the mosques. Now other people are saying we have to surveil the mosques.", "You have big business interests in the Middle East. People are wondering why are you continuing to do business in the Middle East if you have such concerns --", "Because I have great relationships with people. I love the Middle East. I love the people of the Middle East. But there is a problem.", "-- affected by the policy you are proposing.", "Maybe it will be. Look. That is one of those things. What I am doing now is far more important. And I'm talking about for the Muslims. I'm doing good for the Muslims. What I'm doing now is far more important than any particular business I have in the Middle East. I'm doing a big favor. I was just called by one of the most important people of the Middle East, and just said to me, Donald, you have done a tremendous service to the Muslims, because we're making -- nobody wants to talk about it. Everybody wants to be so politically correct. Oh, let everybody come in. We have a problem. And the problem has to be solved.", "All right, let's talk about this. We want to bring in CNN tonight anchor Don Lemon and Hugh Hewitt, radio talk show host of \"The Hugh Hewitt Show\" and a panelist of next week's Republican debate right here on CNN. Gentlemen, great to see you. Hugh, let me start with you. Let's just pull up these poll numbers again because they're very interesting. This was out an hour ago, \"New York Times\" CBS polls, and these numbers track almost identically to what CNN's most recent poll was. Donald Trump in this poll at 35 percent, in the CNN poll he was at 36 percent. Then number two Ted Cruz at half that, 16 percent. Then Carson 13, Rubio nine, Bush three. Hugh, what are you seeing?", "I think 35 percent is a significant number. Donald Trump has a significant lead right now. I do want to go through the numbers very quickly, Alisyn. It takes 1,236 delegates to get the nomination. There are 30 delegates at stake in Iowa, 23 in New Hampshire, 15 in South Carolina, and 30 in Nevada. Then there is 565 on super Tuesday. Then there are about 300 in the couple of weeks afterwards. Those are all proportional delegates. So by March 15 when the winner-take-alls roll in there are 1,000 delegates available. That means if Donald Trump wins 35 percent he'll have 350 delegates of 1236 necessary to win. The race is so far from over. But right now after one lap of a 14 or 15 lap race Donald Trump is weigh ahead. And Don Lemon helped him last night by giving him a lot of opportunity to do a very long, extended revision and explanation of his remarks. It was a great interview, but that 35 percent is going to be solid for some time.", "Don, in terms of what he thinks of the ban, did you get a sense he wanted to qualify it, he wanted to make it more palatable, that he felt he had gone too far.", "So you know how we conduct these interviews. I said, OK, let's start with a good foot so you can continue the interview. So I start off with the polls. Right away he wanted to talk about the ban, and he wanted to continue to talk about it, because I actually do think he thinks it is important. And I don't get the sense he thinks it is wrong.", "Did he want to clarify or you forced him to clarify?", "No, he wanted to clarify. I wanted more detail. What I wanted from him is practicality, how would he put this into practice, how would this work. Is he going to stop people as they're coming over on the plane as a TSA agent? How is this going to happen? So it is not for me to judge whether it is right or wrong. It is your plan. This is your plan. Explain it. And how are you going to make it work?", "Did he give the specifics how he was going to execute it?", "He said we have to have members of our member nations and all of our allies join in to help us with that. Of course you are not going to get everyone. There will be exceptions but we've got to start somewhere basically.", "Hugh, I think you have a bigger problem within the party. The practicalities are obvious. The legalities are arguable but also obvious. You have a moral question here that is going to be a position of leadership, values, what you are and what you are not. And the question is, it's easy for people to say I don't like what Trump just said. Who is offering something better to acknowledge the fear and make people feel that it can be better?", "I watched Don last night, and, again it was a superb interview, Donald Trump used the word \"animal\" to describe the terrorist killers of San Bernardino. That is a word with incredibly visceral connection with people who are afraid. And so Donald Trump goes up emotionally in his connection with his voters. Now, on the stage on Tuesday night, he will be challenged by other Republicans as to the totality of the ban, and he'll respond as he did to Don by refining and extending his remarks, but what is going on in the heart of Republican Party is a search for who can viscerally connect with people on a way to completely devastate Hillary Clinton, who is not viewed as trustworthy, and who is not as weak as President Obama is viewed. And so Donald Trump's 35 percent, it is not a moral case. I think it is a visceral, emotional connection. I'd also point out, he's a developer. He always asks for more density than he ends up settling for. He always overstates and then walks back, refines, and gets what he wants. So what I saw unfolding last night and the day before, Chris, in your interview with him is a very expert communicator. And I've said this a million times. He's done more television than anybody else in this race. He uses this camera better than anyone else in this race. But that 35 percent may be the ceiling that he can't get through. And the most interesting thing that Don asked last night, will you stay in the race? What's it mean to be treated fair? And I will leave it for Don to summarize that, but as a Republican, and I am a conservative Republican. I'm not going to vote for Hillary. I'm going to support the Republican Party. I don't have any favorites, but I leaned in when Don asked him those questions, and I'm not sure what I heard. I'd be interested to hear what Don heard.", "Don, what does he mean treated fairly?", "It's so nebulous. He said treated fairly, but he said specifically he said if I'm not treated as the front runner by far with that respect and decorum then I'm going to do what I have to do. What he is saying, and I asked him, but he kept bringing up the Republican establishment. And I said you really take issue with the Republican establishment. Why? He doesn't feel they take him seriously much of the time. That he is indeed the front runner by double digits. If you look at anyone in the polling that we have and the \"New York Times\" released, by double digits he's a front runner. He doesn't feel he gets the respect.", "He doesn't feel it because he doesn't. Hugh Hewitt, you don't like him in the party. You call us all the time.", "Don't say \"you guys.\" I'm just a panelist.", "You just said you're a conservative Republican. A lot of your brothers and sisters call us on the phone and say why are you boosting this guy? You know, are you just doing this for Hillary Clinton? He's not going to be the nominee. What are you wasting the time? He's right to feel that the GOP isn't embracing him.", "It was funny. Last night he made very clear comments on gun control and he dismissed as completely irrelevant to the question of terror in America ideas that magazine rounds will stop animals with pipe bombs, 19 pipe bombs. When he does that and I point out he was very clear on gun control, a lot of Trump's opponents took to Twitter to denounce me for saying he did a good job in denouncing gun control. There are a lot of people that don't like Donald Trump. There are a lot to do like Donald Trump. Back to my numbers, I'm a numbers guy, it takes 1236 delegates. He's got 35 percent of the first 1,000. It is so long to go. But what he has done is he has completely inverted this race, because it used to be you won Iowa you got a lot of media attention and you do well in New Hampshire. You can't get any more media attention than Donald Trump's already got. So on that stage we'll have Trump. On his one side will be Ted Cruz, on his other side will be Marco Rubio, a little bit further Chris Christie, those are the four in the top tier. And if the other four, Fiorina and Kasich and Jeb Bush and whoever else I've forgotten, they all need to pile in on Donald Trump. If he thinks that is not treating him fairly, that would be misinformed because, the frontrunner always get dog piled. It's sort of like when a Brown breaks away for a touchdown they are always chasing his heels and they usually catch. We'll, they're going to catch up to Donald Trump in the next couple of weeks.", "As Chris and I always say, though, the guy that carries gets hit. Why are people criticizing me? You are carrying the ball. You are going to get hit.", "All right, Hugh, we know you have to go get ready for the debate so we'll let you go. Right now we are only five days away from the final Republican debate of the year right here on CNN, of course. Coverage begins Tuesday night at 6:00 eastern. That is the undercard debate, then the main event at 8:30 eastern only here on CNN. Don, thank you. Michaela?", "All right, Alisyn, was the marriage of the two San Bernardino shooters a sham? The FBI now investigating whether it was arranged in order to carry out that attack. CNN also learning the wife was not questioned about jihadist intentions during the visa screening process overseas. We want to begin our coverage on this with CNN's Ana Cabrera live in San Bernardino. Ana?", "Good morning, Michaela. What we're learning this morning is really raising new questions about how it is possible these two killers managed to fly under law enforcement radar for so long. We're getting a better look at the timeline of their radicalization. It appears the intelligence failures are bigger than first thought.", "New shocking details emerging about the husband and wife terrorists behind San Bernardino attacks. The FBI revealing Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook were radicalized before they even met each other or started dating online two years ago.", "As early as the end of 2013 they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and then married and then lived together in the United States.", "Malik is seen here arriving to the U.S. on a fiance visa in the summer of 2014. A State Department official says the Pakistani native was never asked about her jihadist or radical views when interviewed by a U.S. consular official in Pakistan. Officials say it is because the Department of Homeland Security found no flags in her visa application, and she passed two other security database checks. Since Farook is an American born citizen, officials are now wondering if their marriage was a sham, arranged to carry out a long- planned terror attack.", "Is there any evidence that this marriage was arranged by a terrorist organization or terrorist operative?", "I don't know the answer to that yet.", "Do you agree with me that if it was arranged by a terrorist operative or an organization that is a game changer?", "That would be a very, very important thing to know.", "This as investigators learn the husband may have planned other terror attacks before with another U.S. citizens. Farook's friend and former neighbor Enrique Marquez told investigators that they were both radicalized in early 2011 and plotted an attack back in 2012. But after terror-related arrests in area they stopped the plan. Marquez also admitted to buying Farook guns, two of which were used in the San Bernardino killing. But he told investigators he didn't know about the couple's plans. He has yet to be charged with a crime.", "We're also working very hard to understand whether there was anybody else involved with assisting them, with supporting them, with equipping them. And we're working very, very hard to understand did they have other plans.", "Now we understand there has been a breakthrough in accessing some of the couple's electronics communications. Remember the couple made great lengths to destroy their cell phones. There was a computer hard drive that is still missing. But we've learned that the FBI has managed to find some electronics communications on other cell phones and a tablet computer that was also found inside the couple's town home -- Alisyn.", "OK. It will be interesting to see what those contain. Ana, thank you. And also, we will press the State Department about how they missed this couple's sinister plan during the visa screening process. 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{"id": "CNN-24813", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2001-2-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/01/tod.15.html", "summary": "General Electric to Layoff 75,000 Employees", "utt": ["Big story in the news today on business. Another day, another day of news of company layoffs. General Electric today responding to a story in \"Business Week.\" It's saying this afternoon that large layoffs are expected among its companies over the next two years. In an article you can now see on the \"Business Week\" magazine Web site, reporter Pamela Moore writes that the corporate giant plans to layoff at least 75,000 employees, or about 15 percent of its workforce, in what would be the deepest cuts since Jack Welch took over the company in the 1980's. Joining us now on the telephone line is \"Business Week\" reporter Pamela Moore to tell us about this story. Pamela, Neutron Jack back at it again. Are these all layoffs that we have known something about it? Is this new? Did you just put up the numbers together and come up with this huge number? Seventy-five thousand is like a small city.", "Hi, Joie. Yes, it's a large number and somewhat dramatic and as you know, there have been big numbers floating out there. What we've tried to do is provide a new level of analysis and detail, noting that the potential cuts from Honeywell may be much bigger than originally expected, 30,000 to 50,000 jobs. Some cuts as well from the slowdown in their economically sensitive businesses, but also as we have reported, it looks like after building a pretty big e-commerce infrastructure, now the company is seeking to rationalize those costs, cutting about 11,000 jobs this year due to their so-called digitization efforts.", "As we say, the numbers are so large. When you talk about 75,000, you can't help but look at that as being a big number. But does it represent a real change in GE's direction, do you think?", "This is a company that certainly has a history of cutting. You know, certainly we say Neutron Jack is back. But he has always been very proactive about making cuts. What's interesting about these efforts is that it does sort of hark back to the early 1980s when Mr. Welch in four years after taking the CEO, dismantled a lot of old-line businesses and cut 100,000 jobs in four years. In doing so, he sort of delayered or took out entire layers of jobs and I think that's what analysts expect him to do if that they can successfully migrate a lot of work support jobs to the web.", "And living up to his legacy as Neutron Jack, even as he goes for retirement. Pamela Moore, \"Business Week\" magazine, joining us on the telephone line. We thank her for that."], "speaker": ["JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR", "PAMELA MOORE, \"BUSINESS WEEK\" MAGAZINE", "CHEN", "MOORE", "CHEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-34092", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-7-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/05/lt.15.html", "summary": "Police Frustrated in Search for Chandra Levy", "utt": ["First, the search for Chandra Levy. In an extensive press briefing you may have seen live here on CNN, Washington's police chief said detectives have questioned 99 people in addition to California Congressman Gary Condit. The Condit factor, says the chief, is a complication, and Levy's whereabouts still a total mystery. Among those interviewed both by the FBI and CNN is Condit's former driver. And CNN's Bob Franken joins us now from Washington with all the latest news on this one -- Bob?", "Natalie, they say that some of the people they've questioned are of more interest to them than Congressman Gary Condit. But of course, it is Condit who has been the focus of this in the media at least. Condit, who has been linked romantically, repeatedly with the 24 year-old former Washington intern, Chandra Levy. She was not an intern for Congressman Condit. She was an intern for the Bureau of Prisons. But as I said, been linked romantically with Congressman Condit. That has been denied repeatedly. The police chief, Charles Ramsey, appeared on local radio station this morning and then held a news conference outside that radio station to talk to reporters about this case that has gotten so celebrated, particularly because of the questions about the relationship with Congressman Condit. And as this has spread, to questions about other relationships the Congressman may or may not have had. For instance, one with a flight attendant who has come forward and said that she had romantic relationship. All of this has become very frustrating for the police chief.", "It's a heck of a leap, in my opinion, to move from a relationship that one may or may not have had with someone else to a disappearance of specific person. I'm not trying to find a flight attendant. I'm trying to find Chandra Levy -- two different people. And I just can't go in there and try -- we're not the sex police here. We're trying to investigate a missing person.", "Nevertheless, police and FBI agents have interviewed some of the people who have been linked romantically with Congressman Condit. They explain that they're trying to get come clues, for instance, on how the Congressman might treat people with whom he has a relationship, and whether that might have contributed to a state of mind of Chandra Levy. Now, one of those who has been interviewed by the FBI is a fellow named Vince Flammini, who lives in California. He worked for about 10 years as the driver and person who did a bunch of stunt work, as somebody described it, for Congressman Condit. Flammini says that he in fact had personal knowledge that Congressman Condit knew the flight attendant, Anne Marie Smith, and says that he did talk to the FBI. The FBI confirms that there was an interview, gives no details about what was contained in that interview, but here's Flammini's version.", "I even told the FBI that. I said - they asked me, \"What do you think happened to Chandra? Did Gary kill her?\" I said, \"No, Gary wouldn't kill her,\" I said, \"not in a million years.\" But I says, \"He would drive her to the brink of making her think that he loved her so much that she couldn't handle it.\" She might have been weaker than people think.", "It is extremely important to point out here that the police say that do not consider Congressman Condit a suspect in this case. They say that there's no evidence of foul play, that he is just somebody of course that they're interested in because he clearly knew Chandra Levy. It should also be pointed out that the Congressman let Flammini go from his job about nine months ago. While Flammini denies that there's any revenge factor, he does say that what he is hoping to do is to help locate Chandra Levy. And we should remember as this story spreads by - like top seed, that the final things to remember is this, this is about an investigation into the disappearance of a 24-year-old woman, Chandra Levy. She disappeared nine weeks ago. Nobody knows yet where she is -- Natalie?", "All right. As far as the career of Mr. Condit, if this case goes on and on, Bob, and no suspect is named, it continues a missing person, considering that Condit did cancel appearances yesterday, has his office suggested whether he plans to -- just to continue on as usual in his role?", "His office has not suggested anything otherwise. Obviously it was a departure from his tradition to miss those parades. There have been a variety of explanations for that, that he was worried it would be a distraction and that he had conflict that came up. So obviously, this is not routine, but his office continues to say nothing about his making any sort of public statement, that is to say, a televised statement. There have been some that have come out on paper, printed statements, but nothing on television. His office says that as much as possible, he's going to continue to do his duties as he has.", "All right. Bob Franken on the case in Washington. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN. CNN ANCHOR", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHARLES RAMSEY", "FRANKEN", "VINCE FLAMMINI, CONDIT'S FORMER DRIVER", "FRANKEN", "ALLEN", "FRANKEN", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-383827", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-10-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/24/nday.02.html", "summary": "Nationals Take Control of World Series; Facebook's CEO Grilled over Political Ads Policy.", "utt": ["Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg grilled by lawmakers for more than six hours on how the social media giant handles political ads and what it is doing to fight election interference. CNN's Cristina Alesci is live in Washington. And he had to know these questions were coming and yet, Cristina, and yet.", "And yet at times the hearing was painful to watch, John. That is because this was supposed to be a hearing about Facebook's ambitions in developing a digital currency and a digital wallet. But what it turned into was a skewering for what lawmakers see as a lack of Facebook's ability or really a willingness to police misinformation on its platform. That raises the question, if Facebook can't police information on its platform and really protect privacy on its platform, how can the American public or the government really trust it with something as sensitive as financial data. Listen.", "Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg facing the fury of lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in grueling questioning for six hours on Capitol Hill. Democrats quickly zeroing in on the social media giant's new political advertising policy.", "You announce that Facebook would not be doing fact checking on political ads giving any one Facebook labels a politician a platform to lie, mislead, and misinform the American people, which will also allow Facebook to sell more ads. Your claim to promote freedom of speech does not ring true.", "Zuckerberg struggling to clarify what the new policy would do.", "Would I be able to run advertisements on Facebook targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the green new deal?", "I -- I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head. I think probably.", "So you don't know if I'll be able to do that?", "I think probably.", "Do you see a potential problem here with a complete lack of fact checking on political advertisements?", "Facebook says it does not fact check any political ads. Instead, it relies on third party fact checkers.", "So you won't take down lies or you will take down lies? I think that's just a pretty simple yes or no.", "Congresswoman, I -- in --", "I'm not talking about spin, I'm talking about actual disinformation.", "Yes, in most -- in a democracy --", "OK.", "I believe that people should be able to see for themselves what politicians that they may or may not vote for are saying and judge their character for themselves.", "So you won't take them down? So you won't take -- you may flag that it's wrong, but you won't take it down?", "Lawmakers repeatedly grilling the 35-year-old billionaire about Facebook's handling of election interference and data privacy.", "I get that I'm not the ideal messenger for this right now. You know, we faced a lot of issues over the past few years.", "One Republican accusing Democrats of, quote, bullying Facebook to be a fact checker.", "Will you commit that Facebook will not sensor any political ad placed on your platform or in support of President Donald Trump?", "We believe that people should be able to see for themselves what politicians are saying.", "Zuckerberg also questioned about this deep fake video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that slows down her speech, making it seem like she's slurring her words. Zuckerberg admits that it took Facebook too long to respond to it and acknowledged Facebook is working to identify and take down similar videos.", "Deep fakes are clearly one of the emerging threats that we need to get in front of and develop policy around to address.", "What's remarkable here is that Facebook has spent millions of dollars trying to curry favor with Congress. Clearly that effort really stumbled yesterday. And some lawmakers, including the chairman of that -- the chairwoman of that committee, Maxine Waters, really believes that Facebook's power needs to be checked and even floated the idea of breaking the company up. Alisyn.", "There's a lot that's remarkable here. Cristina, thank you very much for bringing that to us. So let's bring in CNN politics and technology reporting Donie O'Sullivan. Donie, when you watch that hearing, it does not feel like we are in good hands, frankly. And so why couldn't he answer some basic questions about this?", "Yes, more questions than answers yesterday, I think. I mean Facebook keeps framing this whole debate around political ads. Them allowing politicians to spread lies on the platform as a free expression debate. I mean there's a free expression debate, which is different to posting -- you know, allowing the politicians to post in the first place. But they are taking money and allowing these politicians to -- including the Trump campaign, to send targeted lies to American voters. And they keep claiming that it's not about the money. They keep saying, we're not making a lot of money out of this. Over the past 18 months, just in the U.S. alone, they have taken in -- almost $1 billion in political and issue ads. So to say it's not about the money I think is a bit disingenuous.", "Gosh. People need facts. Voters need facts. And he seemed unable to sort of understand the difference between facts and spin. So here's another moment with AOC where she was trying to get to the point of how far will you go in allowing misinformation out there? So, watch this.", "Under your policy, you know, using census data as well, could I pay to target predominately black zip codes and advertise them the incorrect election date?", "No, Congresswoman, you couldn't. We -- we have -- even for these policies around the newsworthiness of content that politicians say and the general principle that I believe that you're talking to --", "But you said you're not going to fact check my ads.", "We -- we have -- if -- if anyone, including a politician, is saying things that can cause -- that is calling for violence or could risk imminent physical harm or voter or sense of suppression when we roll out the census suppression policy, we will take that content down.", "He struggled over that one.", "Facebook is framing this as a debate saying that in the marketplace of ideas, we can allow politicians to spread lies on our platform and the media and political opponents will call that out. That debate might be more convincing in a world without Facebook. What Facebook has helped create is these ideological echo chambers where, you know, we all know people that only follow pages and like accounts of points of view and political perspectives that they agree with. So it's actually quite possible for someone, a Facebook user, to see a lie in a political ad and to never see the correcting information on the platform.", "Of course. And we already know from 2016 that obviously Russians created these fake grassroots sites, websites, whatever, links, and sent them out and people fell for it. Have we learned nothing from 2016 and are they seeing this already happen yet again?", "Yes, so that was a major failure on the part of Facebook in 2016. The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook was actually run out of Australia. It was a scam. A guy was taking money from Black Lives Matter activists. There was other pages on there with hundreds of thousands of followers that we now know was part of a Russian campaign. Facebook has taken steps. They've hired -- in fact some former intelligence officials to try and root out these campaigns now. And on Monday, they did take down a campaign from the same troll group in Russia that has been sanctioned and indicted and by -- hit with cyberattacks from the U.S. government. It is still at it. They're -- and laying the groundwork for 2020. We have some new reporting today, speaking to Black Lives Matter activists. Black Lives Matter, of course, the one -- the group of Americans that were targeted more so than anybody else in 2016, they're not trusting Facebook or Twitter or Google to manage this issue. They are now setting up their own in-house sort of team to monitor and see for this information so that they are not duped like they were in 2016.", "Good for them. That's what it's going to take. That's obviously what it's going to take because I don't know that Mark Zuckerberg has had"], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "CRISTINA ALESCI, CNN BUSINESS AND POLITICS CORRESPONDENT", "ALESCI (voice over)", "REP. MAXINE WATERS (D-CA)", "ALESCI", "REP. 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{"id": "NPR-42042", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-08-06", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5622003", "title": "Will More U.S. Troops Make a Difference?", "summary": "U.S. military commanders warn of imminent civil war. A suicide bomber strikes at a funeral. With political and sectarian violence growing in Iraq, will the arrival of additional American troops provide the help the country's security forces need? Former U.S. army officers Dave Scholl (in Baghdad) and William McCallister (in Taji) talk about their work with Iraqi troops, tribes and religious leaders.", "utt": ["This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Debbie Elliott. More U.S. troops are arriving in Baghdad today to help Iraqi security forces quell growing political and sectarian violence. The reinforcements arrive on a day when more than 25 people were killed, including mourners struck by a suicide bomber at a funeral. Military commanders in Washington this past week warned that Iraq is headed towards civil war. The situation in Iraq is no surprise to two former U.S. Army officers who've been working closely with Iraqi troops as well as Iraqi tribes and religious leaders. Dave Scholl and William McCallister shared their thoughts from Iraq with NPR's Jacki Lyden.", "William McCallister is a former Army major with extensive experience in special operations in conflict zones from the Balkans to Baghdad. David Scholl is a former Green Beret, Arabic speaker and veteran of the first Gulf War. Among the many things on his resume, he trained the new Iraqi Army's non-commissioned officers in the summer of 2003. But these tag lines don't embrace the diversity of the former soldiers' combined experiences in Iraq. What David Scholl really has been, and it has often put him at odds with his Army brethren, is a total immersion operator, a cultural translator who's adopted an Iraqi identity. Dawud is Arabic for David.", "In much of Iraq I'm known as Dawud Al-Baghdadi(ph). The name and the character which I developed as this alter ego is actually still out there today. There's still rumors about Dawud Al-Baghdadi being seen here and down there, and so he still lives.", "William McCallister, who has partnered with Scholl on many of his projects, was a military advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority, or CPA. Ambassador Paul Bremmer was the head of the CPA. McCallister was responsible for reaching out to the tribes and he quickly got frustrated with the Americans. In 2003 he tried to set up a meeting between the CPA and a powerful Shiite ayatollah from the South.", "He was looking for a padrone, and the padrone was the Sheikh of Sheikhs, which was Ambassador Bremmer.", "The Ayatollah offered to bring 400 key sheikhs into the fold who had pledged their loyalty to the CPA if Ambassador Bremmer would just say we're here to be friends with you.", "They were seeking to establish a relationship that is very normal to how business and politics are conducted here in Iraq.", "The day was set, the table laid, the flags flying. McCallister had the sheikhs, their representatives, their representatives' representatives. He had a number of imams in attendance, and of course the Ayatollah. He lacked only one thing, the CPA representative. McCallister was furious.", "I confronted that individual and at that point the individual responded to me very seriously that, well, you know, this was never going to happen because, we are here - and this is a quote and it's tattooed on my brain - we are here to emancipate the individual from the oppressive tribal system.", "McCallister retired from active duty, but both he and Scholl vowed to learn the tribal system to the best of their ability. As for the, quote, emancipating the individual from the oppressive tribal system, McCallister points out that in Iraq it is the tribal hierarchy over the group and the group over the individual that defines Iraqis, something he says the U.S. military has never fully grasped and all too often responded to with force. Iraq, says McCallister, is a skein of dominant tribal systems and sub-tribes dating back centuries, predicated on the harsh conditions of land and water and grazing rights and trading. Personal standing is paramount for negotiations to take place.", "In this country, it's a zero sum game. We can't make the pie bigger. There are only so many grazing areas in a desert or rocky area. There are only so many water sources. There are only so many assets that a tribe can gain and that's one of the functions of the tribal sheikh, is to be able to gain access to patronage.", "And that is why, says McCallister, that the traditional counter-insurgency doctrine of winning hearts and minds doesn't work. McCallister favors something even more basic: understanding a cultural concept he calls shame and honor and respect. These concepts have a different meaning, he says, in Iraqi tribal culture. The concept of shame and honor is as important as land and water.", "Shame and honor in essence is a finite resource. It's a coin, it's a currency, and it is traded as such. Whereas we in the West will talk about baking a bigger pie. There's always more to go around. That's not the case here. So if I, by giving a soccer ball, by building a new school, the way I am interpreted by an Iraqi is that I am gaining honor because, look at me, look at what I am doing. I'm going honor at his expense, so I am giving him some of my shame, in return taking some of his honor and adding it to my store of honor. And if we understand that, maybe we would not focus so much on hearts and minds and focus more on shame and honor, and from that, tolerance.", "From his part, David Scholl claims to have gone to extremes. At least as Dawud Al-Baghdadi. He speaks of having been beaten in Iraqi detention and then having tea with his captors. He says he's bartered for compensation for the U.S.-caused death of an Iraqi teen and then being treated by the family as a son. But for all the investment of U.S. time, military might and money, says this former Special Forces soldier, he says it's too late for the U.S. military to act this way.", "It's not getting better because the situation three years ago, two years ago, and maybe even a year ago, doesn't exist today. When we started, we were the occupier and we were in charge. As time transitioned, what the Iraqi people think of when they look at Americans and who they think we are, it's all changed dramatically, and we don't have the prestige or the promise. We don't have the carrots and we don't have the big sticks. The mission is different, the threat is different. Everything about today is different, but winning honor and respect with the Iraqis, that's not really a job for the military anymore.", "And if the opportunity for the military to affect the outcome of the war has passed, Scholl hopes that the ancient art of negotiating still must have a chance for success. Not on American terms but perhaps on ones Iraqis understand and value.", "They tell us how it is to negotiate with them, how to be successful, what they want and what they don't want. We didn't listen. We came in with a different set of rules, coming in and talking about a utopian democracy that's going to point the way for a new Middle East, things that had no basis in reality whatsoever. If we would then and if we will now understand the society that we're dealing with, we will be able to understand that we're not in charge here. The problem in Iraq today is not the fault of the United States military. It's not going to be resolved by United States military. We're not in control, but we are a player. Once we understand the situation, we can play effectively toward an outcome which is better for the Iraqi people, better for the United States, and will help us in the very near future in this war that we're facing on the horizon.", "David Scholl is a former Green Beret and independent contractor in Iraq. William McCallister is a former U.S. Army Major, currently a senior security analyst for an American company. They spoke from Iraq, where they have largely been these last three years. 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{"id": "CNN-402965", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-06-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/17/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Charges in Rayshard Brooks' Shooting Death Expected as Soon as Today; Florida Records Highest Number of New Cases in a Single Day; Oklahoma's New Coronavirus Cases Surge Ahead of Trump Rally.", "utt": ["Good morning, everyone. I'm Poppy Harlow. Glad you're with us. The pressure is building and has been building for weeks for actual action on police reform. In minutes, Senate Republicans will unveil their plan. An advanced copy obtained by CNN shows it does not go as far as House Democrats' proposal. It does not include a federal ban on chokeholds. The Republican plan instead incentivizes states to take action by holding back federal funds if they do not. Now this comes on what could be a very pivotal day in the case of the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks by police in Atlanta. A decision on charges for one or both officers involved in his death could come at any moment. Also this morning there are the facts on coronavirus and then there's the message from the White House. Vice President Pence says the U.S. is, quote, \"winning the fight\" against COVID-19, but here's what we know. 21 states are reporting an increase in new cases. Ten of those states seeing a spike of 50 percent or more and three states are even right now setting records for the most new cases in a single day. That's in Texas, Florida and Arizona. So it's very clear from the numbers this fight is far from over. Let's begin with my colleague, Lauren Fox. She joins us on Capitol Hill. In terms of what is expected minutes from now from Senate Republicans in this reform bill, we know quite a lot of what is and is not in there.", "Exactly, Poppy. And I'll tell you, this has been a significant shift for Republicans in the Senate because a couple of weeks ago they were arguing this wasn't even a federal issue that needed to be dealt with. They said this was a state and local issue. Today they are going to be unveiling their own proposal and we expect the Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could make the announcement this morning that they could vote on this as soon as next week, Poppy. But a few details of what's in this proposal. We expect that there will not be a federal ban on chokeholds. Instead what they're going to do is they're going to tie federal funding to state and local governments who actually make their own agreements that they will ban chokeholds on the state and local level. There is also not expected to be anything in the Senate GOP bill that would end qualified immunity. That gives people an opportunity in court to actually sue police officers. That's something that Democrats want to do in their bill, but that is not something that Senate Republicans are going to touch. We also expect that there are going to be a few commissions that are set up as part of the Senate GOP's bill. But this really sets up two different proposals that could result in some kind of conference committee where House Democrats and Senate Republicans have to get in the room and make some decisions about whether or not there is enough room to pass something in both chambers.", "Yes, I mean, when you have Mitch McConnell saying look, the Democrats wanting to federalize everything, in his words, is a nonstarter and Schumer saying, you know, the Republicans don't go far enough, you wonder, is anything going to get passed that is actually going to make it to the president's desk for a signature. We'll see. Lauren, thanks. Before you go, the House Judiciary Committee, they're going to mark up their bill today but something else is getting a lot of attention and that has to do with the mandate put in place by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.", "Well, that's right. We could see fireworks in just a little under an hour, Poppy, when the House Judiciary Committee is set to mark up their own policing bill. But there is a requirement that everyone going into that committee room, physically going into the room, has to be wearing a mask or they can be turned away. And they wouldn't be able to actually ask questions as part of this markup. Now one thing to remember is, any member can sign in and attend this hearing remotely so that would be one option for Republicans, but the committee is full of Republicans who have refused to wear a mask at the capitol including Jim Jordan, a close ally of President Trump's. Andy Biggs as well as Louis Gohmert. So whether or not there's some kind of showdown in a little bit over an hour still remains to be seen, Poppy. But I'll tell you, we're going to be watching very closely at that House Judiciary markup.", "Wow. If they don't wear masks it will be fascinating to see if the sergeant-at-arms actually enforces them and doesn't let them be in there. Lauren, thank you. Now let's go to Atlanta where the lead prosecutor in the killing of Rayshard Brooks could decide as early as today if he bring forth charges against either/or both of the officers involved in that deadly shooting. Diana Gallagher, on the case again, with us this morning. I mean, you know, we spoke to the D.A. on this program on Monday. Has there been any hint since then about what may be expected if there will be charges?", "No, Poppy. And look, all of Atlanta right now, especially the people who are coming out to this Wendy's to pay their respect where Rayshard Brooks died, they're waiting. And Paul Howard indicated that if he decided to charge the officers involved in this deadly shooting that it would come midweek as you said, as early as today. This is a day everyone has had circled on their calendar. Now, the district attorney said that some of the charges that he is looking at are murder, felony murder, voluntary manslaughter. And he said that he's looking at both of the officers here, but he still have some stuff to go over. Ballistics, he had to interview witnesses, and put together what he thought happened in the moments before that shooting, in those split seconds during that shooting, to determine whether or not he thought he could bring charges against these officers. Now, the attorney for Rayshard Brooks' family said that in the meantime they're getting complaints, they're getting people in the community who have come to them who dealt with one of the officers, Officer Garrett Rolfe who shot and killed Brooks, saying that they had had interactions with him in the past. And if you'll remember, we reported yesterday that over his 6 1/2 years with the Atlanta Police Department, he'd had about a dozen complaints that had no action and then in 2016, there was an excessive force involving a firearm complaint that he did receive a written reprimand from the department about that complaint the following year. And so the attorney said they've received a lot of complaints from people in the community about their interactions with that officer as well. But, Poppy, look, the police union that if those officers are charged would be representing them, they tell me that at this point they don't understand how the D.A. could bring charges against the officers because a proper investigation has not been done in their eyes. The officers have not received due process and they say that they believe that if anything it's a political move on the D.A.'s part who is up for re-election.", "OK, Dianne, we'll watch very closely, see if charges do come down today. Thank you. Right now, 21 states are seeing a significant spike in coronavirus cases. One that is seeing some of the most is the state of Florida, which recorded its highest number of new cases in a single day yesterday. Let's go to Rosa Flores, she joins us in Miami with the latest. Despite these numbers, Rosa, as I understand it, the governor says, look, we're not reversing course, we're not back tracking, we're not going to close down again.", "You're absolutely right. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis digging in his heels saying that even though he knows that there's an uptick in cases, that there's outbreaks in agricultural communities, and in prisons, he's saying that he is not shutting down the economy here. But as you mentioned, as we look across the country, Florida is not the only place. 21 states are showing upward trends and yet the Trump administration continues to downplay the pandemic.", "Here in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis is continuing to reopen the Sunshine State, despite seeing its highest single-day increase of confirmed coronavirus infections since the start of the pandemic.", "No, we're not shutting down. You know, we're going to go forward. You have to have society function.", "Florida will now host the Republican National Convention and could be the temporary home of the NBA and the WNBA. But as crowds return to public spaces like restaurants and malls, a warning from one woman who says she's one of 16 friends who tested positive after visiting a recently reopened bar in Jacksonville.", "At the time it was more out of sight, out of mine. We hadn't known anybody who had it personally. Governor, mayor, everybody says it's fine. We go out, it's a friend's birthday. It was a mistake.", "At least 21 states are seeing an uptick in daily new coronavirus cases over the past week. This as Vice President Mike Pence made stops in Iowa without wearing a mask. The leader of the Coronavirus Task Force downplaying the severity of the disease as President Trump encourages states to ramp up their economies more quickly. Pence writing in a \"Wall Street Journal\" op-ed, \"The media has tried to scare the American people every step of the way and these grim predictions of a second wave are no different. We've slowed the spread, we've cared for the most vulnerable, we've saved lives. That's a cause for celebration.\"", "The problem is the pandemic is not done with us. Unfortunately, it's still in the early days. If we do not want to end up with hundreds of thousands of deaths across the country by the time this whole thing is over, we've got to change course and really move towards suppressing this virus.", "On a call with governors Monday, the vice president making this claim.", "In most of the cases where we are seeing some marginal rising number that's more a result of the extraordinary work you're doing expanding testing.", "But according to Harvard researchers the United States needs to do at least 20 million tests per day to safely reopen by late July. The current rate is roughly 500,000 tests daily and with the president still set to hold a campaign rally in Tulsa, Pence falsely claiming that numbers in Oklahoma are on the decline.", "Oklahoma has really been in the forefront of our efforts to slow the spread and in a very real sense they flattened the curve.", "The truth is, Oklahoma has seen newly reported cases increase since late May. A senior CDC official slamming Pence for selectively choosing data to highlight telling CNN you can cherry pick a handful of counties and use that as a way to say things are not as bad as they look, but that's not the reality.", "Now the total number of cases here in the state of Florida exceed 80,000, and Poppy, a new metric that Governor Ron DeSantis mentioned yesterday is that back in March the median age for people infected with the coronavirus here in the state of Florida was 65.5. Last week, it was 37. And we know that the mayor here in Miami is very concerned about that. That's one of the things he's mentioned, because he's concerned is that these young people are going to take the virus home and spread it to their parents or grandparents -- Poppy.", "Wow, that's so telling from 65 to 37. Rosa, appreciate your reporting on that. Let's go to our Martin Savidge now. He's in Tulsa, Oklahoma. So, Martin, as Oklahoma reports also a new uptick in cases, what are you hearing about how the Trump campaign is addressing not only just fears of COVID spread, potentially at this rally, that Dr. Fauci said he wouldn't go to, for instance, because of his age, et cetera, and what are they actually doing about the concerns that city officials have there?", "Yes, they're not doing much on either one of those fronts. You know, let's just take a look at the latest numbers that we have that shows that Oklahoma is on the rise. It had been fortunate for a while. Compared to other states, things had not been that bad, but they are now getting increasingly worse. Total numbers 8,645 cases. 363 deaths. Now, the death trend had been on the downward slope, but then you take a look at the seven-day moving average of cases and there you see a significant and disturbing trend, it's all upward. Now, Tulsa County which is of course incorporates the city of Tulsa, that's where this rally is going to be. Monday, they saw the largest single-day increase of reported coronavirus cases. They had 89 cases in just one day. In the span of seven days they've gone from 155 cases to now 532 cases. There is definitely a spike going on in Tulsa. Add to that now the rally which is projected to bring in maybe 19,000 at the OKC Center. Another 40,000 people at a nearby overflow convention center site, 60,000 plus, not to mention protesters and those who just come to catch some of the vibe, all of them going to be inside a very closed environment. The president as we know is not a fan of face masks. You could probably expect that those that support him are likely to follow his lead. Now the Trump campaign says they will be checking people's temperatures, they will be handing out face masks and handing out hand sanitizer, but again, it's not mandatory that they wear them and what is a rally? It's where people get very close together. Very boisterous, they cheer and health experts say make no doubt about it, coronavirus will be there. It will either be brought in by people who have come from other places. It's here in this community and it will be taken home and taken away by those who are participating in the rally. So the health department here in the state of Oklahoma says if you're planning to attend, you need to do some specific things. Get tested before you go and get tested when you get home -- Poppy.", "No question. Martin Savidge, thank you for that reporting from Tulsa. A lot ahead for us this morning. Minutes from now, Republican senators set to unveil their plan for police reform on Capitol Hill. You will hear from them and their details live. And changes big and small are already taking place across the country. This morning, Quaker Oats says it will be retiring the Aunt Jemima brand and the logo acknowledging its origins are based on a racial stereotype. Plus, the first major league sports back in action today. Premier League Soccer returns only this time without fans. What other changes to expect, ahead."], "speaker": ["POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "LAUREN FOX, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "FOX", "HARLOW", "DIANNE GALLAGHER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FLORES (voice-over)", "GOV. RON DESANTIS (R-FL)", "FLORES", "ERIKA CRISP, TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19", "FLORES", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-49887", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-2-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/25/lad.08.html", "summary": "England's Baftas Awarded Last Night", "utt": ["America has the Oscars, Great Britain has the Baftas. Yes, the Baftas. Top prizes were handed out last night at Britain's Academy Awards and some of Hollywood's biggest names made the trip. CNN's Gavin Morris reports from London.", "The heavens weren't smiling but the stars were out regardless. In the rain, the rainman came to Britain's top film awards. For the first time, a full cast and crew of Hollywood favorites turned up as well.", "Well I'm rooting for her.", "And I'm rooting for him.", "Well not a snowballs chance in Utah.", "But all eyes were on \"The Lord of the Rings\" fellowship.", "There he is.", "Hello,", "Hello, sir.", "... how you doing?", "A Tolkien tale leading the betting, it wasn't long before it started collecting awards.", "\"The Lord of the Rings.\"", "Five prizes in all, best film and best director among them. Russell Crowe also justified his short odds, winning best actor.", "Good day, folks.", "The British crowd finding something to cheer with Dame Judi Dench seeing off the best actress challenge from Nicole Kidman and Sissy Spacek. A big year for international collaborations reflected in the results, France, Mexico, New Zealand and Australia also sharing the spoils. And special mention for Warren Beaty, his Oscar line career now supplemented with the British Academy Fellowship. The stars and the attention now move to Hollywood. The British bounty for \"Lord of the Rings\" just one more endorsement before next month's Oscars. Gavin Morris, CNN, London."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "GAVIN MORRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "KEVIN SPACEY, ACTOR", "DAME JUDI DENCH, ACTRESS", "SPACEY", "MORRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MORRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MORRIS", "RUSSELL CROWE, ACTOR", "MORRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-126864", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-5-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/23/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Fire Erupts on U.S. Aircraft Carrier", "utt": ["OK. We want to get now to some political news that we have been talking about here. Now, I'm just going over the information. You know the Reverend John Hagee. There's been quite a controversy about that and his comments regarding Jewish people. Well, he spoke out just moments ago, and CNN was there. Let's take a listen, and then we will talk on the other side.", "My disappointment has nothing to do with the fact that I parted company with Senator John McCain. This was by far the best for both of us and best for the country. It is time for the candidates and the media to turn their attention back to the pressing issues of our day and stop focusing upon what I did or did not say decades ago.", "All right. And we're going to talk a little bit about this later on, but just to tell you about the controversy, John McCain, of course, cut ties with him after John Hagee endorsed Senator John McCain. First, he rejected John Hagee, the pastor of a Texas mega-church with a large TV audience there. so, there was some concern about the support there. One sermon, Hagee said he -- that God sent Adolf Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land. And then John McCain there said he rejected that statement and also rejected the endorsement. We're going to follow up on this with our political folks in just a little bit, and you can bet \"THE SITUATION ROOM\" will be covering this in about 45 minutes, 4:00 p.m. Eastern, here on", "So, when you take these ballots, then you put them through a tabulating system, what happens is the hanging chads get pushed back into the holes, and the machine read it as if the holes were never actually punched. So, then these are discarded as undervotes. But wait. Sometimes, hanging chads don't even hang. They're just dimples.", "Dimples?", "Yes, OK, which means that the voter didn't align the ballot properly in the machine, or just didn't push hard enough to get the chad to go through to the other side.", "Well, how hard is it to punch a paper ballot?", "You know, that looks like a scene out of political CSI, but that's actually a clip from the new HBO movie \"Recount.\" And, as Susan Candiotti reported before the break, it's a look back at long, bitter no-holds-barred fight in Florida over the 2000 presidential election. And it is partly based on a book called \"Too Close to Call\" by CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. We have asked him to join us today to talk about the movie, his book, and, of course, hanging chads. Jeffrey, good to see you.", "Hey, Brianna.", "So, we saw there that was Kevin Spacey, along with Denis Leary. But Kevin Spacey is actually playing a man named Ron Klain. If you're a Washington insider, you probably know who this is, but a lot of people don't. So, who is this guy?", "He was actually the principal lawyer for Al Gore in Tallahassee during the 36 days of the recount. He had an interesting personal background with Al Gore. Al Gore had actually fired him as his chief of staff at the White House, but Klain gradually worked his way back into the campaign and was brought on sort of by accident to go down to Florida to deal with this situation, which, as you recall at the time, people thought would be over in a day or two. Of course, it stretched to more than a month. But the movie is presented sort of through Al -- through Ron Klain, that is Kevin Spacey's eyes.", "And you actually state -- this is a scene where Kevin Spacey, Ron Klain, is kind of having a tense moment with his Republican counterpart. And his Republican counterpart asks him, well, how long are you going to be in Tallahassee? And he jokingly says, well, you know, until the vice president fires me again. So, it's kind of funny there. But as we said, you were a consultant on the film. You wrote this book \"Too Close to Call\" which obviously is based in fact. You know the facts of the case. Did they stay true to the events of real life with \"Recount\"?", "I was impressed by how hard HBO worked to make this as accurate possible. They didn't just rely on me. They sent the script around to many of the protagonists in the story, James Baker, Ben Ginsberg, who was one of the Republican lawyers, Ron Klain on the Democratic side, and they got feedback. Donna Brazile, our colleague here at CNN, who was Gore's campaign manager, she contributed. And they really struggled hard to make the story as accurate as possible. And, yes, it's a movie. A lot of the dialogue is invented or reconstructed. But in terms of its broad outlines, it's extremely factual, as far as I could tell. And it's also really entertaining.", "We all remember Katherine Harris, Florida's secretary of state. She's played in \"Recount\" by Laura Dern, if we have got a clip of that. And she talks about in the -- Laura Dern's character, in playing Katherine Harris, basically says that her struggle parallels a biblical struggle. Did the writers take any liberties here, do you know?", "Amazingly enough, that's absolutely true. Throughout the recount period, Katherine Harris thought that she was reminiscent, to herself, of Queen Esther in the Bible, and referred to it frequently among her colleagues. And as over the top as this performance by Laura Dern sometimes seems in the movie, it's in fact accurate, because Katherine Harris was an extraordinary over- the-top character who, you know, played a very important part.", "And, Jeffrey, might we see -- we heard earlier in Susan Candiotti's piece, this could happen all over again. What is the state of ballot counting now?", "Well, chads are gone, at least in Florida, that -- those kind of punch card ballots are gone. But they have been replaced by technologies that in many respects have as many problems as they did. Florida replaced the punch cards with touch-screens, like ATMs. Those had no paper trail. Those had a big problem. Now they're switching technologies again to what's called optical scan, which are, like, you know, the standardized tests with -- those are, at the moment, the most reliable technologies we have. But the fact is, we don't pay a lot of attention. We don't pay a lot of money for our voting technology, and we get what we pay for.", "And last, Jeffrey, really quick, let's pop up a picture, a really infamous picture from the recount. Who is going to play this guy? Charles Rosenberg (ph), who was a judge down in Broward County. They have -- they don't focus much on Broward County, but that image is certainly indelible. And, fortunately, I wasn't -- I didn't play that guy, because...", "Oh, good.", "... who would want to look that bad?", "OK. Jeffrey Toobin, thanks so much.", "OK. Have a good weekend, Brianna.", "You, too.", "A serious fire on a U.S. aircraft carrier. One sailor suffered first-degree burns and 23 others were treated for heat stress aboard the USS George Washington. CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr has all the details. It sounds very serious, Barbara.", "Well, the word now coming from the Navy about this fire, a serious fire, the Navy says, on board the aircraft carrier George Washington, erupted yesterday when the ship was coming around the tip of South America into the southern Pacific Ocean. The fire is out. It lasted, however, for several hours before it could be extinguished, as you say, one sailor suffering first-degree burns, 23 suffering from heat stress. And just a few minutes ago, the Navy e-mailed to CNN some of the first pictures off the ship yesterday as the fire was under way and some of the 5,000 crew on board moved to try and fight the fire. You can see there the crew moving through the hangars, smoke-filled, fighting the fire with hoses. They tell us in several areas the heat level in the ship became extreme, in the words of the U.S. Navy. It was really, as they say, all hands to in trying to deal with this emergency. But the ship now, although it's having some communications troubles, is making its way to San Diego for a scheduled port call. A very scary thing that happened, but, as they say, everyone is fine. The people who were suffering this heat stress are being treated, and the ship is now making its way to San Diego. But, Don, it is very unusual for there to be such a serious fire on board a U.S. Navy ship -- Don.", "Indeed. CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr -- thank you, Barbara.", "They toil in the fields from sunup to sundown. And finally advocates say they will reap some of the benefits of doing that. The Special Investigations Unit follows up in the NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "PASTOR JOHN HAGEE, CORNERSTONE CHURCH", "LEMON", "CNN. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"RECOUNT\") LEARY", "SPACEY", "LEARY", "SPACEY", "KEILAR", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST", "KEILAR", "TOOBIN", "KEILAR", "TOOBIN", "KEILAR", "TOOBIN", "KEILAR", "TOOBIN", "KEILAR", "KEILAR", "TOOBIN", "KEILAR", "TOOBIN", "KEILAR", "LEMON", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-59403", "program": "CNN INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2002-8-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0208/20/ip.00.html", "summary": "Counterterrorism Expert Unconvinced Abu Nidal is Dead; Iraqi Officials Call Bush \"Idiot\"", "utt": ["I'm Judy Woodruff in Washington. What is the real story behind the death of a feared terrorist? And what does it mean to the war against terror?", "I'm John King in Crawford, Texas. I will tell if you the Bush administration is responding to more taunts from the government of Iraq.", "I'm Brian Cabell in Atlanta, where today's showdown between Congressman Bob Barr and John Linder is bitter to the end.", "Also ahead, CEOs under arrest and in handcuffs. Is it fair for the Feds to parade them before the cameras?", "Thank you for joining us. We are waiting right now for a news conference that we are told will get under way any moment now, Riverside California, police talking to reporters about the disappearance of yet another young girl. This a 10-year-old girl reported missing from her home this morning in Riverside. Nichole Timmons reported just after 7:00 a.m. this morning, when her mother did not find her in her room. We expect the Riverside police chief to talk with reporters and as soon as that news conference gets under way, we will take there. In the meantime, we begin with Iraq with new headlines and new flash point, as the Bush Administration continues to weigh a possible strike against Baghdad. German commandos storm the Iraqi embassy in Berlin, just about two hours ago, ending a hostage siege there without any major injuries. Iraq had given the go-ahead to move against the hostage takers who said they are members of an Iraqi opposition group seeking the ouster of Saddam Hussein. In Iraq today meantime, Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz says international terrorist leader Abu Nidal committed suicide. Another senior Iraqi official tells CNN that Abu Nidal killed himself after Iraq accused him of conspiring with forces outside the country against the Baghdad government. Abu Nidal was found dead in a Baghdad apartment over the weekend. That same official said today that it would be foolish for Saddam Hussein to let U.N. weapons inspectors, inspections resume because he says the teams would contain spies, that would help the U.S. in a military conflict with Iraq. And ratcheting up the war of words, the official called President Bush a, quote, \"idiot who is in the hand of Zionists.\" Meantime, U.S. officials confirm that the Bush administration recent weeks considered a covert CIA and military mission inside northern Iraq. And for now, we want it go to CNN's White House correspondent John King who is in Crawford, Texas covering President Bush. John, there is a lot for the White House to digest. What are they saying?", "Well, first and more most, Judy, let's start with that hostage crisis, the Iraqi opposition group, an obscure group briefly taking over the Iraqi embassy in Berlin. This is a Bush Administration that is public in saying the government of Saddam Hussein must go, regime change...", "We have been listening to Mike Smith who is with the Riverside, California police describing what information they have at this point about 10-year-old Nichole Taylor Timmons who was found missing from her bedroom this morning by her mother. According Assistant Police Chief Smith, they are looking for a man named Glen McArthur Park, who was at least on one occasion serving as a baby-sitter for Nichole Timmons and he went on to say that they have information that the two are together traveling in central California and may be headed out of the state. And he said, we are seeking public assistance, looking for them. Again, we think they are traveling through the state, perhaps heading out of state. This is a photograph of the man he identified as Glen McArthur Park and we are sharing that to you moments after the police there in Riverside, California sharing that photo with the reporters. So more information as we get it, we will share it with you. Another story we want to tell you about, breaking news out of Moscow and that is that there's been an explosion in a apartment block in the northeastern part of Moscow. These are some pictures that have just come in to us in the last few minutes, an explosion destroying part of this apartment block. One report we've seen indicate the explosion was centered on the third floor of a five story building and there have been casualties according to the Itar-Tass (ph) news agency. Very sketchy information at this point. This is about all the information that we have and as we get more we will tell you about that as well. Well, back now to our lead story today on INSIDE POLITICS and that is the word from Baghdad, from Iraq, that Iraqi officials, at least one senior official, telling CNN vice president Ethan Jordan (ph) that the Iraqis will not let U.N. and weapons inspectors back in the country and using very strong language in describing President Bush. Let's quickly go to Crawford, Texas where our senior White House correspondent John King has been talking to the Texas White House, getting some reaction from them John, to these fast breaking stories out of Iraq today.", "And Judy, no official reaction to the tough language, the insulting language, if you will, by the senior Iraqi official calling President Bush an idiot, saying he was in the hands of the Zionists. White House officials say they will not dignify that with official response. One senior official noting, though, that the president might think that he is in quote good company because very similar language was used by the Iraqi government to describe his father, President Bush, back in the late 1980s, early 1990s, when he was leading the U.S. military and the coalition army forces against the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. On the question of inspections, White House officials have said for months and they reiterate today they have never believed that Saddam Hussein was serious about letting U.N. inspectors back in with unfettered access so no surprise at all that a senior official would say that it is the view of the Iraqi government that there will be no weapons inspections. We also were talking at the top of the show about that storming of the embassy in Germany, Berlin, Germany. The Iraqi embassy stormed by an obscure group called the Democratic Iraqi Opposition of Germany. Now this is a Bush administration that is public in saying Saddam Hussein should be removed from power, but it is an administration that quickly went public today to condemn such a tactic, taking over another government's embassy.", "Actions like this takeover are unacceptable. They undermine legitimate efforts by Iraqis both inside and outside Iraq to bring regime change to Iraq. As for the particular group involved, we have no prior knowledge of this group and have had no contacts with them.", "White House officials saying one reason they wanted to condemn this so quickly is because they do not want to encourage similar protests on U.S. embassies around the world. White House officials saying they believe Iraqi opposition groups should work with peaceful demonstrations around the world, with whatever means they want to work with inside Iraq, but again, not with forcefully taking over another government's embassies in another capital -- Judy.", "All right, John King, one of the few times we are likely to hear the Bush administration defending the rights of the Iraqi government. Thanks very much, John. Well, while Iraq appears to be closing, appears we should say, to be closing the door on renewed U.N. weapons inspections, the senior Iraqi official who spoke with CNN today said that Baghdad still would allow members of the U.S. Congress to briefly visit suspected weapon sites. The White House previously has rejected that invitation but our congressional correspondent Kate Snow now has some fresh reaction from Capitol Hill. Hi, Kate.", "Hi, Judy. Ludicrous on its face. That's how one Republican aide put it, saying that a U.S. congressional delegation going into Iraq was simply a nonstarter. Democrats and Republicans alike telling me this is not a job for the U.S. Congress. This is a job for the United Nations. And secondly, it is up to Saddam Hussein, they will tell you to make changes. He is the one who has to act in good faith at this point. It's not up to the U.S. Congress. Several aides calling this a diversionary tactic by the Iraqis. One Republican saying, what are they going to find out if they go over there, a group from Congress? They'll see what Saddam wants them to see and only that. They will, he said, be used. But not everyone on Capitol Hill, Judy, feels that way. Not all are so cold to the idea. Democrat Representative Dennis Kucinich said today that, he held this briefing that you see here today, to talk about Iraq and talk about his views on the situation there. He and others on this panel say that no war against Iraq should happen. They say that it is unnecessary. Former U.N. weapons inspector Scotty Ritter was among the panelists who warned that starting a war based on what he called rumors, that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, simply inconceivable. Congressman Kucinich says he is open to the idea of a congressional delegation getting involved if it would mean stopping a war.", "People have to talk to one another. We cannot pretend that we are going to step aside, and let these war forces move toward some expression. We have an obligation to the American people. We are called -- we could be called upon to send the sons and daughters of Americans to fight and possibly to their deaths in a war. Shouldn't we take some steps in the other direction so that war isn't inevitable? I think we have an obligation to do that.", "And Kucinich says that with some caveats, Judy, that he would only support a congressional delegation if it was bipartisan, if they had complete and full access in Iraq and most importantly if they were allowed to be accompanied by weapons inspectors, experts, Judy. That's what he's saying but many up there on Capitol Hill saying that's a scenario that's just simply unlikely -- Judy.", "And particularly given White House view of all this. All right, Kate, thanks. Meantime House Majority Whip Tom Delay plans to give a major address in Texas tomorrow encouraging the White House to take a more aggressive approach toward Iraq. In an excerpt of the speech that was released today, Delay says quote, defeating Iraq is far from a diversion in the war on terror. Defeating Saddam Hussein is a defining measure of whether we will wage the war on terrorism fully and effectively. Only regime change can remove the danger from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Delay will be a guest tomorrow here on \"Inside Politics.\" We'll ask him about that speech and we'll ask him about House Majority Leader Dick Armey's concerns about an unprovoked attack against Iraq. With me now, Stan Bedlington, formerly with the CIA counterterrorism center. Mr. Bedlington, first of all, this report from Iraq that Abu Nidal, the noted terrorist, notorious terrorist, committed suicide and yet there are multiple gunshot wounds in the body. What's going on here? Does any of this make sense?", "Well, first of all, I don't think it was possible of him to have committed suicide. You can't shoot yourself several times and say it is committing suicide. The second thing is you can't really believe a word the Iraqis say. I would need so much more information about this case before saying categorically that Abu Nidal is dead. There have been a number of reports in the past saying that he's dead and, lo and behold, he is still alive.", "Well, is there any way to get independent information? The U.S., we understand has so little intelligence inside -- human intelligence inside Iraq. How does the U.S. separately verify.", "I think we have to go through Palestinian sources. It's the only way we can find out for sure whether or not the man is still alive. If he is dead, it will be the best news we've had on the terrorist front for a long, long time.", "What about the plausibility of the Iraqi story of what happened, that he was in Baghdad, that they discovered he was working with anti-Iraq opposition forces, forces working against the Saddam Hussein government. Does any of that make sense given his background?", "No, it doesn't makes any sense whatsoever. The Iraqis, one source from the Iraqi government said that he was working with the Kuwaitis, which once again simply does not make sense given Abu Nidal's background.", "Sounds like you're skeptical of this.", "I'm highly skeptical. Abu Nidal", "What would be plausible? Why would Abu Nidal have been in Baghdad at all in your opinion?", "Well, you know, he's moved around from place to place because people keep throwing him out. After his organization was largely dismantled in the early 90s, the last terrorist attack by Abu Nidal was in January of 1994, as I recall, he first moved to Syria, then he moved to Libya, where the Libyans supported him for some years and then he moved to Iraq. That's where he was moved to Iraq in 1998. They gave him shelter.", "But at this point there's nothing that you're aware of that would explain why he was there or what he might have been working on.", "No, I have no explanation for that whatsoever. He more or less retired in a sense. He's sort of history, you know. That's the way I look upon him as not being an active player, not for some years.", "And if he is dead, if it turns out he is dead, what does that represent? What does that mean?", "Well, I think we have to look at who possibly could have killed him, what motivations there were and I think the group that has the most serious motivation would be the Palestinians. And Abu Nidal has been responsible for killing certainly two of Arafat's closest subordinates at Tunis some years ago. So there is a possibility of revenge.", "Stan Bedlington, former CIA counterterrorism expert. Thank you very much. Good to see you again.", "Thank you very much.", "When we return, we will discuss Democrats, Cynthia McKinney's battle for political survival in the House. And we'll tell you why the Secretary of State is launching an investigation. Also ahead, is this a fair picture? James Carville and Tucker Carlson will debate the high profile way that some CEOs have been arrested. Plus, Barbra Streisand and politics. Is she the new comeback kid?"], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KING, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WOODRUFF", "WOODRUFF", "KING", "WOODRUFF", "KING", "ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECY", "KING", "WOODRUFF", "KATE SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "REP. DENNIS KUCINICH (D), OHIO", "SNOW", "WOODRUFF", "STAN BEDLINGTON, CIA COUNTERTERRORISM CTR", "WOODRUFF", "BEDLINGTON", "WOODRUFF", "BEDLINGTON", "WOODRUFF", "BEDLINGTON", "WOODRUFF", "BEDLINGTON", "WOODRUFF", "BEDLINGTON", "WOODRUFF", "BEDLINGTON", "WOODRUFF", "BEDLINGTON", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-34590", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-7-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/12/lad.12.html", "summary": "The Search for Chandra: Investigation Procedures", "utt": ["And a new development in the search for Chandra Levy. CNN has confirmed that FBI agents have interviewed a Pentecostal minister. The \"Washington Post\" reported today the minister described an affair between Congressman Gary Condit and the minister's 18-year-old daughter several years ago. The paper says the congressman warned the minister's daughter not to speak about the relationship. Also, D.C. police say they will comb abandoned buildings near Gary Condit's and Chandra Levy's apartments.", "The status of the investigation is critical at this point and we're lucky enough to have Mike Brooks here with us today. He was a detective with the Washington, D.C. Police Department for 26 years and worked intimately with the FBI on various different cases. Good morning, Mike.", "Good morning.", "Let's start with this report about this 18-year-old girl being reported in the \"Washington Post.\" What is the relevance, if this young girl, now a woman, had an affair with Gary Condit seven years ago, what's the relevance to Chandra Levy's disappearance?", "Well, again, it was an alleged affair seven years ago. Does it have any relevance right now? Investigators don't know. They've interviewed the father. They will probably attempt to interview her in the very near future and try to find out exactly what relevance, if any, it has to the missing intern.", "You know, here's why I ask you, because every morning we come in on this show and we just cringe at what we're going to learn next. And we want to make sure that we tie it back to the original case. So what is it that she could know about what might have happened to Chandra Levy that could help in that case short of, you know, revealing intimate details of a relationship with the congressman?", "Well, they could take her interview and compare it with the interviews of other people that they've talked to already to see if there's, his conduct during their relationship, if they had, in fact, a relationship with the alleged relationship with the intern.", "So...", "Take the two and compare the two, take all the different facts and see exactly how they, you know, how they parallel.", "All right, so a bit of a fishing expedition at this point.", "Basically so. But, again, it's an investigative lead that has to be run out and if it's part of the case, then they'll find out that for sure.", "D.C. police searching with cadaver dogs some abandoned buildings, once they identify them, that are near Condit's apartment, as well as Chandra Levy's. What led them to those buildings?", "Well, any abandoned building that's in the area is a possibility that someone could be in there. So I'm sure that they have gone through them already, but it's good to go back and follow that up again to see if there is anyone inside the buildings, to see if also there's any evidence inside the building. They're not just looking, with the cadaver dogs, they're not just looking for a body. They're also looking for any other evidence that could be there, clothing, those kind of things. And, again, an abandoned building you may find quite a bit of clothing because in those areas we do have homeless that live in some of those abandoned buildings. So they're going to go through and carefully just, again, it's another investigative lead that needs to be followed up.", "All right, do you think that search might have had to do with anything that they found in Gary Condit's apartment, the search just conducted a short while ago? And I know you talk to your sources.", "I think that that's just another lead that they're going to follow up. Whether it has any connection with the search they did in Representative Condit's apartment, probably not.", "What did they find in there?", "They, I'm told that they found some, they took some personal effects and also some spots of blood. But there again...", "Spots of blood?", "Spots of blood...", "Explainable?", "Any house, any apartment that you go into, well, you're going to probably find little spots of blood. If, from cutting your finger, from shaving, from coughing. You know, when you expel different body fluids on a normal every day basis and you're going to find...", "But it's the pattern of blood, where they found it. Did they find a splatter pattern with it in place...", "No, there's nothing, I'm hearing that there is nothing that would say, you know, oh, wow, this happened and there was nothing that the piece of evidence that they're looking for to break the case, that didn't happen. It was just small spots of blood and they're going to go back to see whether, in fact, they were spots of blood. But that's what was taken from the apartment.", "Three men polygraphed, we know. We don't know who they are. But who would they likely be? What is their relationship to Chandra Levy?", "If I was an investigator on the case, if someone is going to volunteer for a polygraph, definitely take him up on the polygraph. Most likely the people you would want to are friends and associates of Ms. Levy to see, again, someone during the initial interview if someone was being evasive. You use a polygraph as an investigative tool of elimination, to go back, and, again, it can be intimidating when law enforcement comes and asks you questions initially about a missing person.", "So you think sometimes it's just for clarification of an original interview...", "Clarification, elimination and, again, it's an investigative tool.", "All right, as is everything these days.", "Exactly.", "Including the media.", "Right.", "All right, thank you very much, Mike.", "Thank you, Carol.", "We'll get some insight into this story just yet."], "speaker": ["LINDA STOUFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "MIKE BROOKS, CNN CONSULTANT", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN", "BROOKS", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-188771", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-7-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/03/cnr.07.html", "summary": "South Carolina Woman Sentenced to Read Old Testament", "utt": ["OK. You're going to like this one. A convicted drunk driver in South Carolina gets eight years in prison, five years probation, and a reading assignment. This a report from the newspaper, \"The Herald Rock Hill,\" saying that this woman, Cassandra Tolley, has to read the Old Testament and has to write a summary as part of her sentence. What? you say. Separation of church and state? Well, let's get to the crime first. Tolley reportedly had a blood alcohol level of .33 when she drove the wrong way down a road in November last year. She severely injured two people in the ensuing crash. Defense attorney Joey Jackson is on the case. First thing I thought was, ain't no way this is going to stick. Ain't no how and it will.", "It will.", "Why?", "Well, primarily because she consented to it. She said, you know what, judge? You're being reasonable. Why? Because what can the judge have done? The judge could have said, I'm giving you the maximum. You're going to spend double that time in jail. But the judge said, listen, we can work this out. Why? Because people need religion in their lives, so as a result, I want you to go back and read the Old Testament, The Book of Job. You're going to write a summary. You're going to spend eight years in jail, which is a very tempered sentence, which this takes into effect the victims as well as the defendant.", "I don't know you're an attorney, but you also have to be a biblical scholar.", "A biblical scholar, yes, sure.", "Why The Book of Job?", "Well, listen, far from, but look, the point is that it's about the righteousness and why do the righteous suffer. Here is Job and Job has everything in the universe. He's got seven daughters. He's got three sons. He owns the world. And what happens? It burns. It's taken all away from him. And what would normal people do, Ashleigh? We would just whimper, but he stands tall. Satan comes and tries to distract him and he says, no, I'm going to remain faithful in the face of adversity and he overcomes. It's a great book.", "Clearly. Better than \"Shades of Grey.\"", "From what I hear, it couldn't be any better than that, but anyway ...", "You know what I'm talking. You know that I know you too well. So, let me ask you this. Is this the kind of thing that a judge can come up with on his or her own or is this something that is recommended from prosecutors in concert with defense attorneys, et cetera?", "Well, listen, generally speaking, what a sentence is is imposed by statues, so there are laws which tell you what the sentence is going to be. It's a maximum of this in jail, 15 years, or you can give a minimum of five years or you can do the drinking-driving program. So the statutory sentences are pretty much imposed, but judges have some discretion as to what they can do. Now, because, of course, she consented, it's a non-issue. Can you -- in opening up this segment -- you know, talk about separation of church and state? There's a big separation. If there was any opposition to this, of course, a judge would have no authority to force someone to read the Bible without their consent and wanting to do it.", "OK, I should mention, as well, as we sort of laughed through the segment about the unusual aspect of this kind of a sentence, there's more to this story. We love to hate people who drink and drive and cause injury and despair and these two victims were badly injured. One of them had a terrible surgery, rods, I think, into the spine.", "Their spine. Absolutely.", "Can't sit or work.", "One could lose their foot. Yes.", "They're bad injuries. This woman also is damaged goods. She was terribly abused as a child.", "So true.", "That comes into this, doesn't it?", "It does because it serves as what we call a mitigator in law. There are aggravating factors and then there are mitigating factors. And, apparently, when she was 11, she was doused with gasoline. She was set on fire. She still has those scars. And she was suffering from some alcohol. And, look, part of the whole process is to attempt to rehabilitate and work with the defendant, if you can. This judge did that and I think deserves kudos as a result.", "You know what? Without question it got us talking and it's a fascinating case. For anybody out there who's curious about it, though, if you do -- again, if you say, no, way. That's not going to be my sentence.", "And that's why, you know, Ashleigh, we swear or affirm in court, right? We swear or affirm to tell the truth because we don't necessarily have to be religious when we testify. Right?", "That's right. That's right. Good to see you, as always. Come back again.", "Great to see you, Ashleigh. Would love to.", "Joey Jackson. He's like my brother because my brother's name is Joey, so we have a special connection.", "Nice.", "Thank you, Joey Jackson.", "A pleasure.", "So it's being called \"mommy porn.\" You heard me mention it before, the \"Fifty Shades of Grey.\" It's making waves and it's making more than that. It's making big bucks. Serious moolah. Now, there are hotels trying to cash in on this. Are you kidding me? I'm not kidding you. Wait until you hear about the real life experiences they're offering. Oh, yeah."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "JOEY JACKSON, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-134096", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-1-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/14/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Obama Threatens to Veto Resolution on Bailout Money; Osama bin Laden Calls for Jihad on New Released Audiotape; Senators Grill Hillary Clinton on Husband's Foundation", "utt": ["Well, we're just coming up on a minute before the top of the hour. We have breaking news this morning. Osama bin Laden believed to be speaking out about the war in Gaza. The Al-Qaeda leader is calling for jihad, or holy war, against Israel. In a just released audio tape, he also speaks about the end of President Bush's and the beginning of President-elect Barack Obama's. It could be the first time we've heard from bin Laden since May of last year. Also breaking right now, new rocket fire in northern Israel. Israeli police saying that three rockets landed near the town of Curiat Shimona, which Hezbollah bombarded during the 2006 war. Meanwhile, Israeli war planes and artillery pounded Gaza for a 19th day. The fugitive pilot accused of faking his own death. Well, this morning, he's live and under arrest. US Marshals in Florida say they found Marcus Schrenker at a campsite.", "Well, back now to our breaking news. Osama bin Laden speaking out about the war Gaza. The message in a just released audio tape believed to be from the Al Qaeda leader calls for a jihad, or holy war, against Israel to them to stop its military operations in Gaza. It also takes Arab governments to task for sitting on the sidelines instead of helping to \"liberate Palestine.\" Let's bring in our CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen. And, Peter, we heard from Ayman al-Zawahri (ph) on this topic just a little while ago. A surprise to you to be hearing from Osama bin Laden himself on it?", "Well, we haven't heard from him for nine months, John. You know, we were expecting to hear from him during the run-up to the presidential election as we had four years ago in the previous American presidential election and we heard nothing. This is quite a long period for him not to have said anything, and I think the reason that you can expect that while that's the case but one potential reason is our bureau in Pakistan's count, there have been 30 hellfire missile strikes into the tribal areas in Pakistan in the last year, compare that to 2007 when there were only four. Obviously, those hellfire missile strikes put pressure on al- Qaeda. They killed a number of key leaders in the last several months. In fact, President Bush referenced those strikes in his interview last night with Larry King two al-Qaeda leaders were killed on January 1st. So those strikes have certainly put a fair amount of pressure on al-Qaeda, and that's one of the reasons I think, John, that we haven't heard from bin Laden for such a long time.", "So it raises the question, Peter, is he in a position where all he can do is issue these audiotape statements? We don't know how long or the chain of cust -- how long it took for this to get out of the chain of custody that took to get it out but is he relegated simply to making these statements or do you believe that he could, through technology, still be in an operational capacity?", "I don't think he's in an operational capacity, John, but these tapes are, you know, this tape is being coveted by every news organization in the world as we speak. So you don't really need to get on the phone and call people. You can put out general messages, you know, inciting people to violence and this is the way it happens. So, you know, he puts out all strategic guidance to al-Qaeda, to the Jihadi network through these audiotapes and videotapes. Sometimes we've seen him make very specific calls for attacks on particular places. For instance, he called for attacks on Spain and there were attacks in Madrid in 2004. He called for a response to the Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad and there was an attack by al-Qaeda on the Danish embassy in Pakistan last year. And I can give you several other examples so that's the way that he kind of maintains operational control.", "All right. Well, we'll see if anything comes out of this audiotape. Peter Bergen on the phone for us from New Orleans this morning. Peter, thanks so much. And just last night, President Bush sat down with our Larry King as Peter mentioned and Larry asked Mr. Bush about whether or not the U.S. would ever find Osama bin Laden.", "Are we ever, ever going to find bin Laden?", "Yes, of course, absolutely.", "And you're confident based on?", "Because we got a lot of people looking for him, a lot of assets out there, and he can't run forever. Just like the people who allegedly were involved in the East African bombings, a couple of them, you know, were brought to justice just recently.", "Did we ever come -- did we ever come close?", "I don't know. I can't answer that.", "You don't know or you --", "I really don't know, no. I'm not trying to hide anything.", "And just ahead on the \"Most News in the Morning,\" we're going to be talking with a panel of security experts about the challenge that Barack Obama faces, keeping America safe. It's part of our ongoing series on the top five issues facing the incoming president.", "And there are just six days until there's a new president of the United States and already Barack Obama is threatening fellow Democrats with a veto. President Bush's first veto came during his second term in office with a Republican Congress. The dispute is over your money, the second half of the $700 billion bailout. Obama wants it released, but many senators are saying they want more details about how Obama is going to spend it. One Democratic senator said instead of transparency he's getting a lot of \"mumbo jumbo.\" For more on this we're joined by Suzanne Malveaux live from the White House this morning. And, Suzanne, so the president-elect threatening a veto for a resolution from a democratic-controlled Congress. So what is going on?", "Well, Barack Obama really realizes that he needs those Democrats to get on his side. He has set a very ambitious agenda behind closed doors with the senators. I talked to some of them from yesterday who say that he is really making the sales pitch saying there's a sense of urgency, that he needs everything in the tool kit when he first starts to really take a look at the economy and part of that is he believes that the $350 billion is going to be useful. So what is he doing? He is trying to use some of the rapport, the trust that he's built with fellow lawmakers to persuade them here to come on board. He actually really needs their support, but he could be in a very difficult and awkward position of vetoing if necessary. He does not want to do that, and what is happening here is people are asking for some written commitments. Tell us where this money is going to go. How are you going to be held accountable? How is this going to be different than the Bush administration and Secretary Paulson? Obama seems to be cooperating in that sense that he will give some written commitments that he will follow through and answering some of those questions and being held accountable. At least that is what he's trying to convince lawmakers now, Kiran.", "Also out this morning, the news that the president-elect once in office will end the military's 15-year \"Don't ask, don't tell policy.\" What can you tell us about that? I mean, as we famously know, this is something that tripped up President Clinton in the early days when he first took office.", "And the Obama team is going to make sure that they're not too ambitious about this in rolling this out in say the first day or the first week, that kind of thing. But yes, it was on Friday that Robert Gibbs, the spokesman for President-elect Obama said on the transition Web site in answering a question from somebody from Michigan whether or not he was going to repeal this policy. And he said, well, you know, you rarely hear a politician give a one-word answer but in one word, yes. So we heard from Robert Gibbs again this morning reiterating that yes, Barack Obama will in fact repeal that policy, the \"Don't ask, don't tell policy.\" We heard over the campaign Barack Obama talking about how he didn't agree with it, that gays should be able to serve openly in the military. But Robert Gibbs also cautioning today this morning that look, the top priority is going to be jump-starting the economy. This is something that Obama will follow through with repealing this policy, but don't expect it to be the first thing on his agenda, Kiran.", "Suzanne Malveaux in Washington for us. Thanks.", "She once called Barack Obama irresponsible and naive. That was back when he was a candidate. Now Senator Hillary Clinton is promising to bring smart power back to the State Department under her new boss.", "I assure you that if I am confirmed, the State Department will be firing on all cylinders to provide forward-thinking, sustained diplomacy in every part of the world.", "Well her confirmation hearings looked like the expected shoo-in, until the questions came about Bill Clinton. Jim Acosta joins us live from Washington this morning. And there were some pointed questions about her husband. Did she put all of the concerns to rest, do you think, Jim?", "I think so, John. And those Republicans on Capitol Hill, they love to talk about Bill Clinton, don't they? But, you know, much of yesterday was about this departure from the Bush administration that Hillary Clinton says will be a force of the Obama administration. And after a lot of hand-wringing in Washington over whether the Obama administration would be more hawkish than expected, Hillary Clinton signaled there will be a break from Bush foreign policy.", "Well, Mr. President -- president-elect -- chairman.", "I'll take that.", "It was a Freudian slip. The president-elect --", "We're both subject to those.", "Proving there is life after a failed presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton made the case for a new way forward in the post-Bush world.", "The president-elect and I believe that foreign policy must be based on a marriage of principles and pragmatism, not rigid ideology.", "As a soon-to-be former president who just this week quarreled with the notion that America's moral standing in the world is damaged.", "It may be damaged among some of the elite.", "American leadership has been wanting but is still wanted. We must use what has been called smart power.", "Obama/Clinton's smart power includes a possible future dialogue with Iran, engaged diplomacy on Gaza, a determined withdrawal from Iraq and redeployment to U.S./NATO operations in Afghanistan.", "What you are really seeing was the end of an era of unilateralism in the United States and the beginning of an era of American diplomacy.", "And an era of diplomacy for Clinton. This was not candidate Clinton who once issued a dire warning to Iran should it ever attack Israel.", "We would be able to totally obliterate them.", "Sitting in front of her daughter, Clinton was pressed on her husband's private foundation, a foundation that fights AIDS and malaria but also raises money from foreign countries and multinational corporations.", "My husband doesn't take a salary. He has no financial interest in any of this. I don't take a salary. I have no financial interest.", "The core of the problem is that foreign governments and entities may perceive the Clinton foundation as a means to gain favor with the secretary of state.", "As Mr. Bush was handing out his final presidential medals of freedom to his allies in the war in Iraq, Vice President- elect Joe Biden was discussing troop withdrawals in Iraq. The Obama transition team was working on its plans to close Guantanamo, and Hillary Clinton was gearing up to take on a troubled world.", "America cannot solve the most pressing problems on our own, and the world cannot solve them without America.", "Hillary Clinton is expected to be confirmed by the full Senate as early as inauguration day. At her hearing, she spent a fair bit of time quoting Thomas Jefferson, the country's first secretary of state, who as it later turns out, John, became president.", "To tell you, our Zain Verjee is going to have an interesting job following her around the world in the first 100 days of the presidency, just to see how much American policy in the global market changes. Jim Acosta this morning, Jim, thanks so much.", "You bet.", "And breaking news this morning. Osama bin Laden releasing a new audiotape, calling for jihad and also apparently with some words for Barack Obama. In fact, we're going to be speaking to the former head of the homeland security, also a member of the 9/11 Commission, as we continue to follow this breaking news this morning, just ahead. 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{"id": "CNN-213523", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2013-8-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/27/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Zimmerman To Ask State For Costs Of Case", "utt": ["The lawyers who defended George Zimmerman against the second-degree murder charge in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, they are planning to ask the state of Florida to reimburse him hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs incurred during the course of the trial. Under state law, he could get that money back. And Mark O'Mara, the defense attorney for George Zimmerman, is joining us now. Mr. O'Mara, thanks very much for coming in. You know, there's a lot of taxpayers out there who aren't going to be happy if your client gets what? $200,000 or $300,000 reimbursement for legal expenses, even though he was acquitted. What do you say to those taxpayers who aren't going to be happy about that?", "Well, first of all, the statute allows reimburses for an acquitted client. So like any other citizen, he has the same right that anyone would be once you get acquitted of a crime. I think that their anger is better focused on the prosecution who decided to charge an innocent man with a crime that they could not convict him of. And then force us to spend not only $200,000 we're seeking reimbursement for but another $1.5 million, $1.7 in fees and other expenses. That's where I think the frustration ought to be.", "You and your co-counsels, so far you haven't been reimbursed at all for representing George Zimmerman. Is that right?", "That's correct. I have not received a penny and fees at all in this case. We're keeping track of our billing. And I wish I could say that the State Attorney's Office would be responsible for reimbursement of the necessary attorney fees that we spent, but the law doesn't allow for that.", "But at some point, if he does make money whether through book deals or movie deals or -- I know he's suing NBC News, you'll start getting some money for your own expenses. Is that right?", "That's truly my hope, yes. We have kept track of the billing. George acknowledged an obligation to pay it if and when he can. Through the case", "I want to play a clip. The former secretary of state, retired general, Colin Powell, was on \"Face the Nation\" last Sunday with Bob Schieffer, and had this exchange. Listen to this.", "What do you think the implications in the fallout of the Trayvon Martin case will be?", "I think that it will be seen as a questionable judgment on the part of the judicial system down there. But I don't know if it will have staying power.", "Questionable judgment. You want to respond to that?", "Yes. I'm hopeful that he's talking about questionable judgment in the decision to prosecute an innocent man. If he's talking about questionable judgment about the jury's decision, that was not a questionable decision they made. The state failed to prove their case against an innocent man. And I think everyone from President Obama to General Powell to everybody else should look at this case and say the case is tried properly, he was acquitted properly, and we have to respect the jury that took their time to make a decision.", "The name Trayvon Martin repeatedly over the past few days has come up here in Washington in all the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s \"I Have A Dream\" speech, including several prominent African-American leaders have raised that name and the case. Listen to these little clips.", "Claim some victories right now. Let us say yes, we will pass Trayvon's law from coast to coast.", "The tears of Trayvon Martin's mother and father remind us that far too frequently, the color of one's skin remains a license to profile, to arrest, and to even murder with no regard for the content of one's character.", "As I said before, Trayvon Martin was my son. But he's not just my son. He's all of our son and we have to fight for our children.", "What does it say to you that this case was so repeatedly underscored over these past few days here in Washington?", "I truly don't mind if they want to use this event as a catalyst for us to have a discussion about certain issues in the criminal justice system that we should be talking about. We know there are some existing racial inequities in the system. And I'm OK with that. I do have a bit of a frustration that they seem to be willing to ignore or minimize some of the facts of the case and look just at the color of Trayvon's skin to use him as sort of the benchmark for a movement. Trayvon was a good 17-year-old, but he was there that night and we now know from what the jury says that there was responsibility on both sides for how that tragedy occurred.", "Mark O'Mara, thanks very much for joining us.", "Sure. It's great to be with you again. Good talking to you."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "MARK O'MARA, GEORGE ZIMMERMAN'S ATTORNEY", "BLITZER", "O'MARA", "BLITZER", "O'MARA", "BLITZER", "BOB SCHIEFFER, \"FACE THE NATION\"", "COLIN POWELL, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE", "BLITZER", "O'MARA", "BLITZER", "BEN JEALOUS, NAACP PRESIDENT", "MARTIN LUTHER KING III, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.'S SON", "SYBRINA FULTON, TRAYVON MARTIN'S MOTHER", "BLITZER", "O'MARA", "BLITZER", "O'MARA"]}
{"id": "CNN-371580", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-06-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/05/nday.01.html", "summary": "Soon: Trump to Speak at D-Day Ceremony in U.K.; Republican Revolt Brewing Over Trump's Mexico Tariffs; Former School Officer Charged with Neglect for Not Entering School; 3 Americans Found Dead in 5 Days in Dominican Republic Hotel; Evacuations Underway in St. Louis Amid Flood Fears.", "utt": ["When you're dealing on trade, everything's on the table. NHS or anything else.", "President Trump heading to commemorations for D-Day.", "The relationship is more important than the personalities leading these countries. That will be the theme of the proceedings.", "It's more likely that the tariffs go on.", "We shouldn't be allowing one person to make this decision. We actually may have enough to override a veto on this.", "Nobody wants tariffs. The president uses them as leverage very well. As we move forward, we'll see some results.", "This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.", "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your NEW DAY. It is Wednesday, June 5, 6 a.m. here in New York. And at this hour, President Trump and leaders from 16 countries are at a British naval base in southern England to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. It's a shaky camera shot, but you can see them arriving. Obviously, the first lady looking beautiful in a white ensemble there. And they're getting into position for this very important day. In just minutes, President Trump will speak at this ceremony, and we will bring that to you live, of course. But while the president is embracing this time abroad, there is something very interesting happening here at home. A growing possibility of a rebellion among Republican lawmakers over the president's threat to impose tariffs on Mexico. All this connected to immigration. CNN has learned that the White House and Justice Department officials have struggled to explain the legal rationale for the new tariffs during this private lunch with GOP senators, who have expressed grave concerns about this. President Trump, though, is warning Republicans not to intervene.", "Yes. So far, they're not listening. This would be the first full-on Republican revolt in Congress, with major political and policy implications. And the president has been tweeting about it all morning long, even leading up to these D-Day commemorations. Also overnight, the president sat down for an extensive interview, where he more or less denied climate change, despite saying he discussed it with the Prince of Wales for more than an hour. And he also tried to clean up his comments on the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, explaining why he said she was nasty.", "I wasn't referring to she's nasty. I said she's nasty about me, and essentially, I didn't know she was nasty about me. So I said, but you know what? She's doing a good job. I hope she enjoys her life.", "All right. I want to begin with CNN's Max Foster, live in Portsmouth, England. The events today will be so meaningful, Max, and I think the world is watching.", "I think it's going to be very, very moving indeed. President Trump described it as the greatest battle in history, D-Day. He's here with 15 other world leaders today. And they'll be delivering some tributes on behalf of their countries but also some readings from those involved in the actual D-Day landings. I think you'll see -- you can hear the music already playing out. It's going to be a great show. It's going to be a spectacular event. But very, very moving, as well. We've heard this from the White House, that the presidents will read an excerpt from the prayer President Franklin Roosevelt delivered to nation by the radio on the evening of June the 6th, 1944, in which he spoke to the country for the first time about the Normandy operation. Of course, it was top-secret, very much led, of course, by an American general, this whole operation. And many of those who were involved and are still alive are here today and their families. So particularly moving. We're also going to receive and hear readings from Justin Trudeau of Canada, Theresa May of the United Kingdom, and also, Emmanuel Macron of France. And at the end, the queen will give a speech and a reading on behalf of all of those heads of government, followed by a fly pass. They've also all signed a joint declaration, these world leaders, committing the -- to the unimaginable horror never to relive that moment, never. And also to resolve international tensions peacefully going forward. So it's quite a broad letter they're signing, but a hugely symbolic moment. And hopefully, for many of the veterans here and for many of us, a reminder, actually, Alisyn, of what they went through on behalf of all of us.", "That is exactly what today is, Max. And we know you'll be standing by for us to bring us through all the significance and the protocol of what we're seeing. So back here at home, the possibility of a Republican rebellion. You heard me right. Republican senators aren't happy about the president's threat to impose tariffs on Mexico. And they're considering their next actions. CNN's Lauren Fox is live on Capitol Hill with the latest. What's the plan, Lauren?", "Well, Alisyn, that GOP lunch did not go well yesterday. Members and aides that I spoke with after the lunch basically said that the White House officials and justice officials in the room could not explain exactly how the president's tariffs would even be enacted, whether or not he would issue a new emergency declaration, whether he could amend the old one. A lot of legal questions up in the air. And one aide, asked to describe how the meeting went, basically said it was a cluster and then used an expletive to describe it.", "A storm brewing at home within the president's own party, concerning his threat to impose tariffs against Mexico over border security.", "There is not much support in my conference for tariffs. That's for sure.", "Will you try to block those tariffs?", "Well, what I'm telling you is we're hoping that doesn't happen.", "President Trump quickly dismissing any possibility that GOP lawmakers would stand in his way.", "No, I don't think they will do that. I think if they do, it's foolish. There's nothing more important than borders.", "Starting next Monday, President Trump is vowing to enforce a 5 percent tariff on all goods imported from Mexico. And those levels could go as high as 25 percent by October. Trump says it's punishment for Mexico not doing enough to stop central American migrants from coming to the", "Mexico shouldn't allow millions of people to try and enter our country. And they could stop it very quickly. And I think they will. And if they won't, we're going to put tariffs on.", "For some Republican lawmakers, the tariffs are not justified.", "I think it's a mistake. I'm not saying we don't have a crisis on the border. We do, clearly. I'm not saying it won't work, at least short-term. My concern has to do with the long- term ramifications.", "A person who attended a private meeting tells CNN multiple GOP senators expressed frustrations there, saying the White House is unable to explain how President Trump's tariffs would work. The senators pushing to hold off on moving forward until Mr. Trump briefs them personally. The Democratic-controlled House is likely to shut down any new national emergency declaration from President Trump to justify the tariffs. So Republican senators will have to choose between voting against Trump or voting for tariffs they can't support.", "There may be enough numbers of people who think that we shouldn't be allowing one person to make this decision that we actually may have enough to override a veto on this.", "But across the pond, President Trump seemingly keeping calm and carrying on.", "We are going to see if we can do something. But I think it's more likely that the tariffs go on.", "And the president, of course, there's all eyes on the meeting today between the vice president and the secretary of state, with Mexico officials. Republican lawmakers are really optimistic that they'll be able to strike a deal to put off or completely eliminate the need for these tariffs at all -- John.", "Yes. One Republican aide told Jim Acosta the whole meeting yesterday was a cluster-F. Except he used a longer word there. All right. Lauren Fox on Capitol Hill, thanks so much. New this morning, the former school resource officer at Parkland, Florida, high school has been arrested and is now facing several charges, including child neglect, for not entering the school during the deadly massacre. Our Nick Valencia joins us now live with more -- Nick.", "Good morning, John. It is a dramatic turn in the investigation of the Parkland shooting. The man whose job it was to protect the school, to keep the school safe, was taken into custody yesterday after more than 15-month investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Now, when every second counted, surveillance video showed, from the school shooting that day, Scot Peterson, the man that you're looking there at your screen, take cover for more than 45 minutes while students and teachers were gunned down during that shooting rampage. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, Scot Peterson was widely criticized from everyone from President Trump to some of the parents of those victims. Now, some of those parents are speaking out, saying yesterday's arrest brings some form of accountability.", "He needs to go to jail. He needs to serve a lifetime in prison for not going in that day and taking down the threat and -- that led to the death of our loved ones.", "He deserves to rot. He is -- he is responsible in large part for why my daughter is gone. And I have no sympathy for him. I'm glad he's been arrested.", "Peterson is facing 11 charges, including child neglect and negligence. His defense attorney is speaking out, calling the charges spurious and saying that they lack basis in fact and law. He released this statement, in part, to the public, saying, quote, \"The individuals who have made this charging decision have taken the easy way out and blamed Mr. Peterson for the inactions\" -- or for the actions, I should say -- \"on February 14, 2018, when there has only ever been one person to blame -- Nikolas Cruz.\" If convicted, Peterson could face up to 97 years in prison. John and Alisyn, he is expected to make his first court appearance at 8:30 p.m. -- 8:30 a.m., I should say, Eastern later this morning.", "What an interesting development in this case. Nick, thank you very much. There is a mystery unfolding in the Dominican Republic. Three Americans found dead at the same hotel room -- in the same hotel room five days apart. CNN's Martin Savidge has the latest on this investigation. What do they think happened, Martin?", "Alisyn, this is a real mystery in paradise, as you point out. It all began on May 25 when 41-year-old Miranda Schaup-Werner and her husband, they were celebrating their ninth wedding anniversary. They go to the Dominican Republic. It is supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. They check into the Bahia Principe Hotel in La Romana, and then, she takes a drink out of the hotel mini bar. Just a short time later, according to a family spokesperson, things begin to spiral -- spiral desperately out of control. She is in acute physical distress. She us suddenly in very severe pain. She is crying out for her husband, and then she collapses to the floor. And she dies sometime later after that. On the very same day, another American couple -- this one from Maryland, 63-year-old Nathaniel Holmes and 49-year-old Cynthia Anne Day, check into the very same resort in the same place in the Dominican Republic. Five days later, when they don't check out of the room as they were scheduled to do, hotel staff are sent to investigate. They find both the couple dead in the room. Now, an autopsy is conducted on Holmes and Day, and it was determined by the national police that they had both died of respiratory failure and pulmonary edema. That's essentially water building up on the lungs. The mystery is how did they get that condition? Well, immediately after the family of the -- Schaup-Werner heard this whole scenario of what happened to the couple, they called the State Department and said, \"Wait a minute. What we thought was a freak incident now appears to be something far more sinister occurring at the very same hotel.\" What is the result of all of this? Right now authorities are still investigating. CNN has reached out to the hotel and police. We haven't heard back, John.", "All right. What a story. Martin Savidge for us, thank you so much. Happening now, evacuations are underway near St. Louis as the Mississippi River swells to near record levels. CNN's Dan Simon is live in St. Louis with more. Dan, look at that behind you.", "Well, hey, John. With all these punishing rains, the Mississippi River continues to rise around the St. Louis area. This is a flooded-out roadway. There are some 40 roads that have been closed throughout the state of Missouri, along with more than two dozen levee breaches. It has been a very long spring, and the effects could linger for some time, not just in Missouri but throughout the entire Midwest.", "The Midwest bracing for another week of historic flooding.", "You're going to have two feet of water in your house. So that's an ultimatum in my book. You've got to go.", "In Missouri, rivers rising, homes and roadways flooded. Just north of St. Louis, almost breaking the record. In some areas reaching the second highest levels ever recorded.", "Something has changed. We all know that these floods are happening more than what they have in the past. Now, it's been one of the wettest springs we've had here.", "Rivers in more than 60 locations across the U.S. reaching major flooding levels. Some areas along the Mississippi River nearly surpassing historic levels from 1993.", "In '93 it was four feet high here. They're saying it could be higher. So we're trying to raise things up as much as we can.", "There's a horse right there.", "One Missouri family navigating treacherous waters to rescue stranded animals.", "Get them to dry land is all I'm trying to do right now.", "In neighboring Arkansas, this trailer park devastated.", "We've lost two trailers. And everybody's stressed. Just takes a toll on you.", "Longtime residents of the state shocked.", "I grew up on this creek right out here. I've seen it out of its banks a thousand times. But you know, nothing ever like this. You see this stuff all the time on TV, but you don't think it will ever happen to you.", "Communities in Illinois boating to and from homes, assisting neighbors. First floors of some homes completely under water.", "There is a big effort here to fight this flood to make sure that we keep the people safe who live in this area. This is a flood fight that's not going to be over any time soon.", "Vice President Mike Pence in Oklahoma surveying the damage from flooding in that state, sympathizing with residents.", "We're very lucky.", "Well, it's just a lot.", "Yes.", "I want you to know we're here for you.", "And some of the folks who have really been impacted by this are farmers who have been unable to plant their crops, because their fields have been saturated. And the bad news, there's more rain in the forecast. It's going to be a very busy day for folks up and down the river. People placing sandbags around their homes and businesses, trying to protect their property. Alisyn, we'll send it back to you.", "You're right, Dan. That is really bad news. Thank you very much. Let's get to the forecast right now about more rain coming to the Midwest. CNN meteorologist Chad Myers has been looking at the forecast. What do you see, Chad?", "A lot of it. A lot more rain coming, already 57 gauges over major flood stage at this point this morning. And the water is still going up in places. This weather is brought to you by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, packed with goodness. So where does it rain today? Well, that answer is Houston, Galveston, Corpus Christi. There are places in the next ten days that could get 20 inches of rain down there. It's raining there right now. It will rain all day. A high risk of flooding down there across parts of eastern and southeastern Texas from the next couple of days' worth of weather. Across the southeast, it's been a drought. So they'll take the rain there. But some of these spots, especially these white spots there. That's 20 inches of rain just by Friday. So this is going to be a big-time flood system in a place that's already flooded. This water has no place to go, John. So we have some severe weather today. Not expecting many tornadoes. Just maybe a little bit of wind damage out there. We'll watch that for you. But the southeast and the Texas coast, they are under the gun for the big weather today.", "All right. Wow, Chad. You know, when I was reading overnight, farm country out in the Midwest, they are in danger of missing the entire planting season.", "Correct.", "Which could be devastating on tops of the trade issues they're having.", "That's not what they need.", "No. All right, Chad. Thank you very much. The president and world leaders in these beautiful ceremonies honoring D-Day. You're seeing the president there just a few moments ago, arriving in Portsmouth, England, for the ceremonies. The queen is there, also. We'll bring this to you live. Also, the president faces a serious revolt in his own party. Do Republicans have the votes to block tariffs on Mexico? Some say yes. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "DAVE BRIGGS, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TRUMP", "SEN. RAND PAUL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANNOUNCER", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "TRUMP", "BERMAN", "MAX FOSTER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CAMEROTA", "LAUREN FOX, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "FOX (voice-over)", "SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MCCONNELL", "FOX", "TRUMP", "FOX", "U.S. TRUMP", "FOX", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-372521", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-06-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/17/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Police Closing In On Mastermind Behind David Ortiz Shooting.", "utt": ["Police are on the hunt and getting closer to the alleged mastermind who they say put a hit on former Boston Red Sox all-star, David Ortiz. Ortiz was shot in the back last Sunday at a club in the Dominican Republic. Authorities have made several arrests. A tenth suspect, in fact, appears in court today. Two suspects were already serving time in prison. CNN's Patrick Oppmann is in Santo Domingo. Patrick, how close are police to nabbing this alleged mastermind of the hit and what have you learned about this person?", "We are checking in with sources, checking our phones all throughout the day, because they have told us that it could happen at any moment. They said, as of last week, this week, they planned to tell us not only the motive, but also who made the call to have David Ortiz shot, who hired the hit man? They say he's not someone in custody, that person, and so we are waiting. Obviously, somebody with ties to organized crime because so many of the people involved here either have been in jail, are currently in jail or have criminal ties. A lot of people involved with the drug world here. So it's a pretty sordid cast of characters. And a complicated hit is what we have been led to believe, that it was not just one guy on a motorcycle. There were a number of people, now more than 10, that have been arrested. Police are looking for several other fugitives. And they say when they catch this mastermind, that he is going to jail."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-81285", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2004-1-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/21/ltm.04.html", "summary": "State of the Union: Pro's View", "utt": ["President Bush's State of the Union address lasted 54 minutes. Mr. Bush was interrupted by applause 67 times last night, including 36 standing ovations. So, what do a couple of former presidential speechwriters think about what the president had to say? David Frum is a former speechwriter for President Bush. He is the author, also, of the book, \"An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror.\" He joins us this morning from San Francisco. Michael Waldman is a former speechwriting director for President Clinton. His book is called, \"My Fellow Americans: The Most Important Speeches of America's Presidents.\" He is here in Washington, D.C., this morning. Gentlemen, good morning. Thanks for being with us to both of you. David, let's begin with you. Assess for me, from a speechwriter's perspective, how you felt the president's speech went last night? Obviously, the goal of a speech is not only to get an agenda across, but also to move people, to hit some chord with people. Do you think last night's speech did that?", "I think this was less an agenda-setting speech -- although there was that function -- than a reminder of distance traveled. It was a pre-election speech -- all of the things that have happened well under this administration, the war on terror, which is the administration's -- one of its top two themes. He did do some agenda setting. For example, he put down a very important marker for the government of Iran, saying, we're not going to permit you to get these dangerous weapons. He said that in 2002. Back then, people wondered whether he meant things like that. Now, everyone knows, and especially the Iranians, yes, he does. He re-established that bond that he has with the country. This is one of his rare chances to talk through the box to the viewers. Americans like him better when they see him in full rather than in clips, and so he made a great success.", "Overall, 76 percent felt positively about the speech, but many people -- many analysts felt it was sort of mild, maybe not one of his best. Michael, what do you think?", "I think that's what I would think. I think it was surprisingly tepid and surprisingly timid, given that it is, as David said, his chance to talk to the country. Next time we hear from him maybe at this length will be his acceptance speech. And when you think about the \"axis of evil\" speech in 2002 and last year's speech about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, this was, in a way, it was sort of the most boring sequel since \"The Matrix.\" There really was not a lot of new initiative here. And while it was looking backward, I didn't think it sealed the deal with the public that the country is moving in the right direction, which is one would assume that's what he would have wanted to do with a speech like this.", "David, as you mentioned, it was not focused on being an agenda-setting speech. The president certainly defended the war in Iraq. He defended the Patriot Act. It didn't look forward, though. Many people said didn't have a lot of vision. And you sort of agreed with that in your previous answer. Do you think that that's a problem, that the lack of overriding vision, expanding on a little bit on what he spoke about, Mars earlier in the earlier weeks? Do you think that's a problem?", "I don't know that it's a problem. I mean, he laid down -- he's got -- he's going to go to the country with this is a big-theme presidency. You know, Michael worked for President Clinton. You know the famous distinction when people have lots of -- many ideas and one big idea, foxes and hedgehogs? President Bush is a one or two big idea president. And he's going to go back to the country with a couple of big ideas. And he did lay them down. If you vote for him again, you get social security reform in the second term. That remains something he wants to do. That's a big idea. You get, you know, a continued aggressive policy in the war on terror with warnings to Iran and, by the way, a coded warning to Saudi Arabia. You know, one of the things he said last night which I thought was maybe the single most interesting thing was he at one point said, we are going to expect higher standards from our friends. That's what the text said. He stumbled and made a slip. He said, we're going to expect higher standards from our friend, and we know which", "Michael, obviously, the president was addressing Congress. Obviously, he was addressing the American people. But his message was also going to some of his democratic rivals, the guys who would like to have his job. Let's listen to a little bit of what he had to say about Saddam Hussein.", "The once all- powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole and now sits in a prison cell.", "What do you think that was for?", "Well, I think actually it's interesting. I think that in some ways the timing of this speech and the way it was written was", "David, we're going to give you the final word this morning. A home run or timid?", "I would not -- certainly not timid. He's never timid. But not quite a home run, either. I think Michael got it right, that there was maybe some political miscalculation. There was a sudden outbreak of sanity among the Democrats, and they got rid of Howard Dean. As David Letterman said, the Saddam Hussein endorsement didn't help him. And that's good for the country that there is going to be a Democrat committed to -- probably, a Democrat committed to this war. That's good for the country. It makes it a little bit harder for the Republicans to bash his head in come November.", "David Frum and Michael Waldman joining us this morning. Nice to see you, gentlemen. Thanks so much.", "Thank you.", "Thank you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID FRUM, FORMER BUSH SPEECHWRITER", "O'BRIEN", "MICHAEL WALDMAN, FORMER CLINTON SPEECHWRITING DIRECTOR", "O'BRIEN", "FRUM", "O'BRIEN", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "O'BRIEN", "WALDMAN", "O'BRIEN", "FRUM", "O'BRIEN", "FRUM", "WALDMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-192971", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-9-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/20/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Cop Saves Woman From Oncoming Car; Motocross Champ Beats The Odds", "utt": ["Want to share some dash cam video with you that really shows exactly how far a policeman went to quote/unquote \"serve and protect.\" It happens fast. You have to watch very carefully here. Focus on the officer actually behind the car in the clip, the 23-year- old officer pulls a woman out of the path of his own out of control squad car. Watch this, there it goes. Right into this dash cam area, this reported drunk driver hit Officer Phillip Standafer's patrol unit sending it toward the woman who got away with cuts and bruises. The officer was seriously hurt, but he's going to be OK. Dirt bikes are dangerous enough, but adding in muddy track and 40 other riders going at top speeds, it can be pretty frightening. Now imagine being on that track and not being able to hear anything at all. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has this week's \"Human Factor.\"", "For Ashley Fiolek, motocross racing is in her blood.", "My dad used to race and he brought me to watch one race and I was 3 years old and I fell in love.", "But there's something different about Ashley when she hits the course. She can't hear a thing. Ashley was born completely deaf. She speaks to us through a sign language translator and a friend Natalie.", "I don't know it would be riding hearing. I grew up and I was born deaf.", "In a sport that prides itself on making noise, where hearing your opponents coming is the difference between winning and losing, Ashley is alone.", "It's hard to see if someone's coming up behind me.", "She also uses the vibrations of the engine to make sure she's in the right gear. At this race, Ashley who is the only deaf rider ever to compete in Motocross was trying for the fourth championship title.", "I feel really good. I hit every jump and the big double. I hope I can win and hope to be the champion.", "And she achieved just that, beating out her closest rival for the national championship. But for Ashley, it's about more than just winning.", "I think it's really cool to be a role model for the deaf community and it's cool feeling to have people look up to you.", "For Natalie, her friend's impact is obvious, as well.", "She is very important to women's motocross. As a role model, deaf or not, you know, she is like smaller than I am and she can ride like that. It's crazy.", "Proof that anything is possible. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN reporting.", "Sanjay, thank you. What a story. Sanjay has all these wonderful stories. You can watch him \"SANJAY GUPTA M.D.\" Saturday at 4:30 p.m. Eastern and Sunday at 7:30 in the morning Eastern Time. All right, space geeks, space shuttle \"Endeavour\" drawing crowds across the country as it is flying around touring the nation piggyback style for one final goodbye. So how is it to pilot a plane with a spacecraft on top? We're going to talk to a former pilot who has done precisely this. We're also going to talk to Chad Myers. That is next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GUPTA", "ASHLEY FIOLEK, CHAMPION MOTOCROSS RIDER (through translator)", "GUPTA", "FIOLEK", "GUPTA", "FIOLEK", "GUPTA", "FIOLEK", "GUPTA", "NATALIE SIMMONS, FRIEND OF ASHLEY FIOLEK", "GUPTA", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-318332", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-08-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/04/nday.04.html", "summary": "Crossing Trump's Red Line; Trump's Calls to Mexican President and Aussie P.M. Leaked", "utt": ["There were no Russians in our campaign. There never were. We didn't win because of Russia. We won because of you, that I can tell you.", "President Trump railing against the Russia investigation at a campaign rally in West Virginia last night, calling it a total fabrication. But, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is widening, not winding down. Joining me to discuss, Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland. He's the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senator, you heard the president right there tell a campaign rally in West Virginia we didn't win this campaign because of Russia, we won because of you. Is he right?", "Well, John, first, it's good to be with you. There is no question that Russia tried to influence our election. That is now well established. They tried to influence the election in favor of Mr. Trump. There were many connections between Russia and representatives of the Trump campaign. The investigations that are taking place are going to give us some of those answers. But there is no question that Russia was active in our last election.", "So -- but you're not suggesting that the president won the election because of Russia because that's what he told the crowd last night.", "No, I'm not suggesting the outcome was determined by Russia, but we do know that Russia tried to influence the outcome of our election. That's a very serious matter. And we also know there were contacts made with representatives of the Trump campaign. That's very disturbing. So the investigation will give us, I hope, the answers for two reasons. People need to be held accountable but we also need to protect ourselves against further activities from Russia. They're clearly going to try this again in the future and we've got to protect our democratic system of government.", "There were major developments in the last 24 hours, at least major developments that we learned about with the last 24 hours here. One is that a grand jury is issuing subpoenas in this case for data, documents, and witness testimony in the Russia investigation. And, CNN also learning that the investigation is delving into the president's finances -- looking into the Trump Organization some. Now, Kellyanne Conway suggested overnight that this could be considered a fishing expedition. Jay Sekulow, who is the president's private attorney, suggested that this might be outside the purview, outside the scope of the investigation. What's your reaction to that?", "Well, Mr. Mueller needs to follow all leads. Information that he determines needs to be further investigated, he has an obligation to follow that information. He just can't let it sit on the table, so that's his responsibility to make sure that all the questions are answered. We don't know where this is leading. We don't want to prejudge it but we do know that there are very troubling signs. And it would be helpful if the president would acknowledge Russia's involvement in our elections. He's -- he always tries to indicate there was no involvement. There was.", "We'll get to the president on how much pressure he's putting on Russia in just a moment, but I do want to stay on the finances here. How far is too far? Should there be a limit into how much Robert Mueller should look into or could look into, in terms of the president's finances?", "Well, clearly, there has to be information that was obtained as a result of this investigation. He can't start a new investigation for different reasons. That would be handled through the Justice Department in a different manner if additional information is discovered. But what he needs to do is have a thorough investigation --", "If it has --", "-- into all the connections with Russia.", "If he turns up financial improprieties that have nothing to do with Russia, are those legitimate things -- threads to pull on?", "Well, he will make the judgment whether it's important for him to do it as far as his investigation or whether he will recommend a separate investigation on a matter that's not related to his original charge. That's a decision that will be made by Mr. Mueller.", "All right. On the subject of Russia, the president wrote about Russia. He was talking about the sanctions imposed by Congress, a bill signed by the president and you were very active in pushing these sanctions through the Senate and also one through the House, as well. This is what the president wrote about this. He said, \"Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time and very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us health care.\" He blamed Congress for the bad relationship with Russia. Bill Kristol, over at \"The Weekly Standard,\" noted he's blaming America, it seems, for what Russia has done.", "Well, that's exactly right. Russia's responsible for the deterioration of the relationship between the United States and Russia. Russia attacked us in our election system. Russia has invaded other countries in Europe. Russia is interfering in a peaceful way to end the conflict in Syria. It's Russia's activities that have caused this relationship. What Congress did was give the president a stronger hand in dealing with Mr. Putin. Now it's up to the president to use the cards that we've dealt to him to make it clear to Mr. Putin that the United States will lead with our European allies and isolate Russia economically if they don't change their behavior.", "We learned yesterday that the president thought he had a very pleasant phone call with Vladimir Putin early on in the administration. There were leaked transcripts of phone calls that the president had with the president of Mexico, the prime minister of Australia on January 27th and 28th, shortly after he was inaugurated. Just first and foremost, are you comfortable that these transcripts were leaked?", "No. I don't think the transcripts should have been leaked. We've had reports on both -- on the Australian call was well reported so I don't think it was a surprise to read the transcripts. In regards to Mexico, there was new revelations. But those transcripts should have never been released, but they're not surprising. I think we all understand it. We know that Mr. Trump is very sensitive about the wall. We know he has no support in the Congress to build a wall on our total border. So it's not a surprise to hear what's in it but that information should not have been leaked.", "Well look, I have spoken to Republican congressmen who are supportive of a wall in some form. Leave that aside for a moment. I just want to be clear here that you think that the leaking of these transcripts could have a chilling effect on a president -- any president's willingness to have private conversations with foreign leaders.", "Oh, I think it also works that foreign leaders will be concerned about what they say to the President of the United States because they made read it in the paper. So I think it has a chilling effect on the candid discussions between world leaders talking with the President of the United States. I agree with that. But let me -- to repeat, the wall. I don't think you're going to find a lot of support in Congress that we think Mexico's going to pay for our southern wall.", "Well look, and the Mexican leader has made clear he's not going to pay for it and in his conversation he said --", "No.", "-- that he's not going to pay for it. And what came out is the president asked him repeatedly just stop talking about the fact that you won't pay for it --", "Yes.", "-- because it puts me in a bind. Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland, thanks so much for being with us. Appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Alisyn --", "OK, John. A little sports for you.", "Really?", "Yes. Up next, a pair of rain delays could not dampen the competition between the Cubs and the Diamondbacks. Highlights in a -- what's that? What's happening there? I like dance moves during sports. We have highlights in the \"Bleacher Report.\""], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BERMAN", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-106942", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2006-6-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/10/cst.01.html", "summary": "Season's First Tropical Depression; Zarqawi Hideout Obliterated; President Bush Vowing To Keep Pressure On Insurgents In Iraq", "utt": ["Nothing but rubble, that's all that is left of the hideout used by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as seen in these latest pictures. The two 500-pound bombs that obliterated the dwelling Wednesday also cut a wide swath of destruction in the immediate area. The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq died moments after the U.S. attack. In Pakistan, security forces backed by artillery and helicopter gunships destroy a military training site near the Afghan border today. An Army spokesman says 15 to 20 suspected militants and local supporters were killed. Carrying out a vow of revenge, Hamas militants fire a barrage of rockets at Israeli targets today, Israel says there are no casualties reported. The attack came hours after Hamas called off a cease-fire in response to an Israeli artillery strike in Gaza that killed seven civilians on the beach. A nuclear plan counteroffer in the works from Iran, the foreign minister says it's in response to a Western incentives package aimed at persuading Iran to suspend enrichment and restart talks over its nuclear program. No word on what might be included in that proposal. We update the top stories every 15 minutes on CNN LIVE SATURDAY. Your next update is coming up at 12:15 Eastern. Straight ahead this hour, a warning for web surfer, we'll talk to the man behind Craigslist about what he says could be a slowdown on the internet. Also dollars and deal, we're got money saving ideas and tips to survive the summer travel season. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Fredericka Whitfield, welcome to", "You're watching CNN, your severe weather headquarters.", "We're watching the first tropical depression at the start of the Atlantic hurricane season. Our Reynolds Wolf is in the weather center with a close watch on it --Reynolds.", "All right, Cuba, one of the first places that are being threatened by this tropical depression. Our Havana bureau chief, Morgan Neill, is on the line with us right now. And Morgan what are you seeing, experiencing, anticipating?", "Well, Fredericka, here in Havana, what we've seen the skies have gotten steadily darker throughout the day, steady rains have began last night, and picked up a lot of momentum and for the last couple of hours it's really been coming down. I've just spoken to someone in the western city of Pinar Del Rio and says the streets have already flooded there. Now, we've talked to the head of Cuba's forecast center says he's expecting intense rains to continue, both in the capital and Western Cuba, but there have been no emergency measures announced. While authorities say that could change at any point, so far, none of those evacuations ordered.", "And Morgan, tropical depressions, big heavy rains, something that Cubans are very much accustomed, but why is this one different in terms of heightening any kind of nerves?", "Well, I tell you, the main reason this one is different here, at least, is that it's the first real test of the season. This is something Cubans have been preparing for months. You see drills in various towns throughout the country, they drill medical emergencies, evacuations, neighborhood leaders, make sure they know where everyone is, so while the storm may not be different in and of itself, it is the first, so it's the first test of the season -- Fredericka.", "All right. Havana bureau chief, Morgan Neill, thanks so much. Now to Iraq, a roadside bomb exploded in Baghdad today killing at least three people. The attack underscores warnings that the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would not end widespread violence. Right now, officials are awaiting results of DNA analysis that would definitively confirm that the man killed in a U.S. air strike on Wednesday was that of the al Qaeda leader in Iraq. Matched fingerprints and other evidence already indicate it was al-Zarqawi. Since the attack, U.S. forces have carried out dozens of raids against insurgents in an effort to take advantage of the vacuum left by al-Zarqawi's death. The two 500-pound bombs dropped on al-Zarqawi's hideout, obliterated the dwelling and immediate area. CNN's John Vause is at the scene.", "This is all that's left of Zarqawi's safe house, a house made of concrete and steel. All of this destruction caused by two 500 pound bombs. The impact from the blast was so powerful, we're told by the U.S. military, that initially this hole in the ground, about 35, maybe 40 feet deep. Now after the air strike the rubble around the area was mostly cleared and bulldozed into that crater, it's still more than 10 feet deep, as well. It was an incredibly powerful blast. Rubble is strewn around this area, 600 feet maybe even 1,000 feet away and signs of the people who once lived in this house. Over here is a towel left behind, thrown clear as part of the debris. Just over here as well, we can see a pillow and just next to it, a blanket as well. They say this was a safe house in an isolated area and indeed it was very isolated. Take a look at the trees, the palm trees and the date trees, which surround this area. At the time of the air strike, a top level al Qaeda meeting was underway. Zarqawi and five others including this spiritual advisor, the man who was traced to this house and ultimately led to Zarqawi's downfall. And after this powerful blast, we're told somehow, Zarqawi managed to survive if only for a few moments. John Vause, CNN near the city of Baqubah.", "President Bush is vowing to keep the pressure on insurgents in Iraq. The tough talk came during his weekly radio address. Elaine Quijano is at the White House with the latest in... Why, Elaine, did the president feel this was so important to do this?", "Well, good afternoon to you, Fredricka. President Bush, first of all, saying this has been a good week in the cause for freedom, but once again temper his comments warning of more difficult days ahead. Now, the president is at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, where yesterday he hosted Denmark's prime minister, but in this weekly radio address this morning, the president called the killing of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq, an important victory in the war on terror. At the same time, though, he also cautioned that the fighting is expected to continue.", "In the weeks ahead, violence in Iraq may escalate. The terrorists and insurgents will seek to prove they can carry on without Zarqawi. And coalition and Iraqi forces are seizing this moment to strike the enemies of freedom in Iraq at this time for uncertain for their cause. The work ahead will require more sacrifice, and the continued patience of the American people.", "Yet, Senate democratic leader, Harry Reid says that President Bush must find the political solutions necessary so U.S. forces can start returning home.", "Our troops and the American people have been exceedingly patient as previous mile posts in the lack have passed without progress. The president is asking too much if he expects to us did it again. With Zarqawi gone and the cabinet filled, we need more than platitudes next week when the president convenes a conference with Iraq's leader and his war cabinet. He must present a concrete plan, a plan for Iraqis to take control of their own security.", "Now, as for those meetings Monday at Camp David, the president will huddle with his national security team as well as key members of his cabinet and then on Tuesday they will be joined via video conference by their Iraqi counterparts. The president says that the focus will be on the way forward in Iraq and also how best to deploy America's resources there. A senior administration official says that it is not expected they will discuss U.S. troop drawdowns, but rather looking at the way U.S. forces are configured in Iraq. Back to you, Fredricka.", "All right, Elaine Quijano at the White House thanks so much. Well, tonight at 7:00 CNN's correspondents from around the world bring you the only in-depth look at major events in the war on terror, including the strike on al-Zarqawi in Iraq. Wolf Blitzer hosts \"Iraq a Week at War\" beginning at 7:00 p.m. Eastern, 4:00 Pacific only right here on CNN. Now to the Middle East and revenge attacks against Israel. Hamas called off its year long cease-fire by firing rockets at Israeli targets. Israel reports no casualties. The action was in retaliation for an Israeli artillery attack yesterday that killed at least seven Palestinian civilians having a picnic on a Gaza beach. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack as a genocidal crime and called for international intervention. Israel apologized and said an investigation is underway. A father speaks out to CNN about the treatment of his son, who is being investigated for his actions in Iraq. Also, if you bought, sold, or perhaps even shopped for anything on-line, you probably heard of Craigslist. Well coming up you'll meet the real life Craig. He's joining us to talk about a major issue for anyone who uses the internet. And could your old teddy bear really be a cash cow?"], "speaker": ["FREDRICK WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "CNN LIVE SATURDAY. 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{"id": "CNN-115533", "program": "CNN IN THE MONEY", "date": "2007-3-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/24/cnnitm.01.html", "summary": "Some U.S. Public Companies are Being Charged with Backdated Stock Options for Senior Executives", "utt": ["All right. Something like 200 U.S. public companies under investigation over charges of backdated stock options for their senior executives. Tom Ajamie is going to explain why all of this or how all of this might have an impact on you. He is a partner at Ajamie LLP in Houston; he is a securities fraud attorney. Tom thanks for joining us.", "Hey Ali thanks for having me.", "You and I have had this conversation before. I'm a shareholder. As a shareholder I'm an owner of a company, which means that company owes me a debt of responsibility. When I hear about these stock option back dating scandals as an investor, as an individual, have I've got any recourse or do I just hope that sort of justice works its way through?", "Well you at legal recourse, you probably don't have a whole lot, unfortunately. It's hard to bring a lawsuit in these circumstances. I think the recourse you have, though, is to sell your stock in these companies where their executives are cheating and back dating the stock options, granting themselves huge, multimillion dollar pay packages and really is not honestly paying themselves. It shows a lack of integrity by certain companies and I say, you move on. Because when you're a shareholder you're voting for the company, you are saying hey I like this management and I trust them with my money. Why would you want to trust your money with someone who's, frankly, just cheating?", "OK. I got that you can say, you know, I'm taking my ball and I'm going home. I'm not playing with you guys you're cheaters. I'm wondering if there's something else can you do? And that is because I'm interested in the concept that instead of me having to be responsibility, I know, weaseling out here, for every single company that I invest in, can't I go a socially responsible fund, where someone like me, we pool our money together and that way we know that this is an activist group, that they're calling that company and that they're really doing something to change? Because you know we can leave, that's true, but how do you really affect change? You might care about that company. People who work for Home Depot for years they really care and were really upset at what happened there.", "If you're a shareholder, obviously you have some rights, there are annual meetings that all companies have and a lot of individual shareholders actually show up at those meetings and make statements of such. Of course you can write to the company and things like that. So you do have some power as a shareholder, of course.", "Don't you look a little bit like a kook, though when you are holding up a sign at the stock market?", "Right. Standing in the back of the room holding a sign up? Well, that's the degree of your power. As an individual shareholder, as a smaller shareholder, it's not as though you have clout to vote the bad guys out that is for sure. That is the extent to what you can do. Now, in some of the really major cases, I'm going say like United Health, where the stock option grants were so huge, the company had to actually come back and restate its earnings over a billion dollars.", "That was outrageous!", "Outrageous. And there's class action there's now. So if you are a shareholder, you may recover some money through the class action process.", "Tom, what about an honest shareholder? Like Home Depot I shopped there all the time. Until they drove all the other hardware stores out of business. But shop there; I don't own any of the stock. Should I care about astronomical pay packages and things like?", "Actually you should care about it. When an executive is taking $80 million in paying himself, or $100 million and paying himself, that's money that's not going in to improving the store. That's money that's not going to pay the employees. That's money that's not going in to the pension funds for those people. And that does have an affect on a store. If you have a bunch of unhappy employees, if you have a bunch of employees who maybe don't have good healthcare programs and such, you also have a lot of turnover, right? People that don't want to work for that company. So you will see these types of things actually do affect service at companies, and so the quality of the company.", "Tom, correct me if I'm wrong, you've actually represented people in some of the biggest settlements in the securities industry. When people do get settlements, when they successfully sue, whether it is a class action or in the case of some of your clients, individuals what kind of money do they ever see in these big fraud cases?", "Well look, Ali, if it's a shareholder class action case, I think the general rule of thumb is you might recover 5 to 10 to 15 cents per dollar you lost. If you go to a lawyer and he or she just takes you on individually as a client and sues, just a one-on-one, those recoveries are often a lot higher. You can see 50 cents, 75 cents; even sometimes you can get all of your money back.", "Tom good to talk to you. Thank you so much for being with us.", "Thank you, guys.", "Tom Ajamie, securities attorney joining us from Houston. It is, that is the case in the end. Your view is interesting that if you get under the front end of this and make investment decisions wisely at the front end, it is going to be a whole lot easier to recover lost money.", "Down the road.", "Can you imagine these people at Enron that lost their jobs and their life savings? To get 10 cents back on the dollar? That is everything they ever had. It's horrible.", "Good advice to think ahead about the companies that you want to invest in. All right. Lets take a break. When we come back, oil prices sadly on their way up again. Find out who's hurting from that and who is making something out of it. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["VELSHI", "TOM AJAMIE, PARTNER, AJAMIE LLP", "VELSHI", "AJAMIE", "WESTHOVEN", "AJAMIE", "WESTHOVEN", "AJAMIE", "VELSHI", "AJAMIE", "WASTLER", "AJAMIE", "VELSHI", "AJAMIE", "VELSHI", "AJAMIE", "VELSHI", "WASTLER", "WESTHOVEN", "VELSHI"]}
{"id": "CNN-262145", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-08-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/15/cnr.01.html", "summary": "2016 Presidential Candidates Travel to Iowa to Campaign", "utt": ["Clinton, Sanders, Trump, the frontrunners in 2016 in Iowa today, but only one is planning a big splash with their entrance. And you can guess who that is, right?", "Yes, that's true. The sex lives and scandal coming out of the Michigan statehouse -- a lawmaker's elaborate scheme to divert attention from an affair with a fellow representative.", "And new explosions, fires at a blast site in China. Workers frantically digging as they rescue a firefighter who has been buried in that rubble. So grateful to have you with us as always on a Saturday. Here with Newsroom, I'm Christi Paul.", "I'm Victor Blackwell. Good to be with you. And we're starting this morning for what is said to be a big political day. In just a couple of hours, many presidential hopefuls, a lot of them, will descend on the Iowa state fair. Among them set to attend, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, you have there Lincoln Chafee. We also have Rick Santorum, Donald Trump as well. Now, Donald Trump, he is going to make a grand entrance.", "To say the least, yes. The business mogul expected to arrive in his helicopter. How else would he, correct?", "That's just the way.", "That's just the way. Meanwhile, Clinton and Trump head to Iowa after taking shots at each other and the rest of the GOP field essentially is what's happening this morning. CNN senior Washington correspondent Jeff Zeleny joining us with the latest. We know, Jeff, that Hillary spoke last night. Wondering, first of all, what was the reaction to her speech?", "Hey, good morning. You're right. This is ground zero of the 2016 presidential campaign at least for the weekend. But Hillary Clinton spoke with the rest of the democratic field at the surf ballroom in clear lake, Iowa. She was defiant, more so than we've heard ever before, about this whole controversy over her private e-mail server. Of course, this week she finally agreed after five months of saying no, she agreed to turn over the server to the Justice Department and the FBI and in her speech to Democrats last night she made a bit a joke about it. Let's take a listen.", "I know that people across the country are following us on social media as well. By the way, you may have seen that I recently launched a Snap Chat account.", "I love it. I love it. Those messages disappear all by themselves.", "Now, of course, that joke played well to that audience of Democrats, and that underscores the partisan divide in this whole controversy. She is trying to make the case that this is nothing other than politics as usual. In fact, she said just that. But Victor and Christi, I can tell you, by agreeing to turn over the private e-mail server the Clinton campaign is taking this very seriously. This has hung over her campaign. It's eroded some of her trust and credibility numbers as well in the first months of her campaign. But sort of across the country in New Hampshire, Donald Trump last night almost at the same time was making a bit of a different argument about this e-mail server. All Republicans have been hammering her on this and using it to raise questions of her trust and credibility. Donald Trump took it a step further last night in New Hampshire. Let's take a listen.", "And I think at some point she's perhaps not going to be able to run. She's going to have to end her campaign. That seems to be the thinking by so many. General Petraeus, his life was destroyed with a tiny fraction of what she's done. So, it's very unfair to him. If they're going to destroy him over doing by comparison nothing, I don't see how she can run. I think she's got much bigger problems than running for office.", "Now, of course, Donald Trump saying Hillary Clinton is getting out of the race is, you know, filled with partisan politics and almost certainly not true. And it draws a distinction of this, Democrats believe Republicans may overreach on this thing, as the investigation continues in the House of Representatives, the Benghazi committee, when she finally testifies in October, will Republicans overreach? And by Donald Trump there saying it's like David Petraeus, he makes a point. It's actually not like David Petraeus. It's different in this respect. David Petraeus passed on classified information that was marked classified at the time. The Clinton campaign is saying that Secretary Clinton and her staff did not pass along any information that was marked classified at the time. It later maybe became classified. So a couple distinctions there, a couple differences. But overall today the e-mail server will probably switch to the backburner, and Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be at the Iowa state fair at the same time as well as Bernie Sanders. So more fireworks of a different kind today in Iowa here at the state fair. Guys, back to you.", "All right, we'll look forward to hearing more about that. Jeff Zeleny, we appreciate it. Thank you, sir.", "Now, consider the day. As Jeff said, you've got Donald Trump. You've got Hillary Clinton there at the Iowa state fair, Bernie Sanders, as well. Now, while they are there, both rivals along with a fiery Jeb Bush. They're not mincing words when it comes to their opponents. Listen.", "But Jeb Bush has $114 million. What's he going to do with it? He'll start hitting me with ads I guess. You know, at some point he's got to because he's going down the tubes. The guy's going down the tubes.", "Here's the deal, my e-mail address, write it down and send me your thoughts, Jeb@Jeb.org. By the way, I just gave out my e-mail address is exactly what I did when I was governor of the state of Florida. I released all my e-mails.", "Don't let the circus distract you. If you look at their policies most of the other candidates are just Trump without the pizzazz or the hair.", "I think at some point she's perhaps not going to able to run. She's going to have to end her campaign. That seems to be the thinking by so many.", "All right, let's talk more about the race now. We've got with us Iowa Republican communications director Charlie Szold. Charlie, good to have you this morning.", "Thanks for having me.", "So, we know that Mr. Trump will be coming in on his helicopter, flying in to the Iowa state fair soon. I wonder if there is a message that's being received by Republicans there when he flies in and cherry picks events he'll attend instead of what we're seeing from other candidates, like Rick Santorum, like Governor Christie who are staying day after day, going county to county.", "You know, each candidate has to run his own race, and if Donald Trump thinks this is the best way for him to reach Iowans then that's for him to decide. We obviously as Republicans here in Iowa always like when candidates are here as often as possible and meeting people in small settings and talking to them in diners. But Donald Trump is Donald Trump, and if there's one thinks Iowans don't like it's inauthenticity. So if Donald Trump feel like think he can go into a diner and do a sit-down with four or five people, that's for him to decide. So we just want our candidates to be authentic and come here to Iowa and explain their vision for the country.", "Now, he is at the top of the poll here, so there would be some support or validity to his process. Does that question or weaken the traditional process by which candidates run in Iowa?", "No, I don't think so. Like I said, every candidate has got to run his own race. And if you look back to Rick Santorum's campaign in 2012, he ran the quintessential Iowa campaign. He did the full Grassley where you go to every 99 counties, and that paid off in spades for him. So Rick Santorum can run his race, Donald Trump can run his race. And Rick Santorum has been running his race again. He's actually going to complete the full Grassley before Labor Day.", "You know, I want to talk about the Iowa state fair and the soapbox, because we know that Donald Trump won't be there. We've also read that Jim Gilmore will not be, Rand Paul as well. Do Republicans in Iowa see that as a snub if the candidates don't give them the 20 minutes back and forth?", "Only if the candidates have a prior history of not talking to them. You know, Jim Gilmore, you know, he hasn't been here very often. He's going to have to come here and introduce himself to Iowans if he wants to compete. Rand Paul has been here plenty. He'll be here again. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, has been running a race where she is staying behind closed doors, not being open with the press. So Iowans might hold it against her.", "All right, let's listen to what Donald Trump said about Jeb Bush and then talked about his campaign there in Iowa.", "But Jeb Bush has $114 million. What's he going to do with it? He'll start hitting me with ads I guess, you know. At some point he has to because he's going down the tubes. The guy's going down the tubes. There's no energy. So when Jeb and Hillary and all of these other candidates start spending money, remember this, that money was given by people that have total control over them. And those people, many of whom I know very well, they don't care about him, they don't care about the color of his hair, they don't care anything about him. And they don't care about the country in many cases. They only want whatever they want. And they'll get plenty.", "So, Jeb Bush in the latest poll appears to have slipped to seventh place here. He says he's all in in Iowa. Does that correspond with what you're seeing on the ground?", "Yes, absolutely. He's got a top-notch team here. He's coming more often. He just was at the state fair yesterday for four hours. He did everything he had to do. He went to the bud tent. He went to the pork producers' tent. He even stopped by the Republican of Iowa, signed our \"Field of Dreams\" backdrop that we've got there. So Jeb's doing a great job here, you know. It's up for Iowans to decide who they like and who they don't. But Jeb's absolutely putting himself out there and working hard for everyone's vote.", "All right, Charlie Szold, I know you've got a full day of double fried Oreos and butter cows. So I'm let you get back to the Iowa state fair. Thank you very much for being with us.", "Thank you very much. And thanks for paying attention to Iowa.", "Am I wrong not to know what butter cows are?", "It's a big cow mailed of butter is exactly what it is.", "It makes sense, I suppose, then, much more than this next story does.", "This one makes no sense.", "This is so crazy. A Michigan lawmaker accused of covering up an affair with another state rep. The alleged cover-up itself is so bizarre. We'll tell you what's going on that we know of. Also, new explosions in China at the site of that deadly warehouse blast from earlier this week, reigniting fires sending black smoke into the air. Those are the pictures coming to us this morning. And a rescue to tell you about as well in that case. Also, next month Pope Francis making his first visit to the U.S. as head of the Catholic Church. How one group is doing something pretty unique to get his attention on immigration."], "speaker": ["CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE", "HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE", "ZELENY", "DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ZELENY", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "TRUMP", "JEB BUSH, (R) FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR", "CLINTON", "TRUMP", "BLACKWELL", "CHARLIE SZOLD, IOWA REPUBLICAN COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR", "BLACKWELL", "SZOLD", "BLACKWELL", "SZOLD", "BLACKWELL", "SZOLD", "BLACKWELL", "TRUMP", "BLACKWELL", "SZOLD", "BLACKWELL", "SZOLD", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-278327", "program": "STATE OF THE UNION", "date": "2016-03-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/06/sotu.01.html", "summary": "The Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy Presidential Debate on State of the Cartoonion.", "utt": ["Welcome back. I'm Dana Bash, in for Jake Tapper. The 2016 debates sure have been wild, and we've come a long way from the first televised debate in 1960. The historical showdown is the centerpiece of tonight's premiere of \"Race for the White House\" a new CNN series documenting the most memorable presidential contests of all time. Jake shares the back story of the famous debate between Richard Nixon and John Kennedy in this week's \"State of the Cartoonion\".", "Good-bye, Mayberry, hello, Camelot. In 1960, CBS bumped to the beloved \"Andy Griffith Show\" to make room for T.V.'s very first broadcast of a presidential debate.", "... the Democratic candidate, Senator John F. Kennedy.", "Can freedom in the next generation conquer, or are the Communists going to be successful? That's the great issue.", "Vice President Richard M. Nixon.", "I subscribe completely to the spirit that Senator Kennedy has expressed tonight.", "Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon argued over the Soviet Union and civil rights but the debate is perhaps best remembered not for what was said but how the candidates looked. Legendary producer Don Hewitt recalls talking to the candidates back stage.", "I said, do you want any (ph) makeup? Kennedy who has been campaigning in an open convertible looking tan and fit, this guy was a matinee idol. He said, no, no", "And how they looked impacted voters. Here's how Bob dole remembers it.", "I was listening to it on the radio and I thought Nixon was doing a great job. Then I saw the T.V. clips the next morning, the guy, you know, he was sick, he didn't look well. Kennedy was young, articulate, and wiped him out.", "Most historians now say that debate forever changed politics and not everyone thought that was a good thing.", "And tonight on CNN, of course, is the Democratic Debate, live from Flint, Michigan. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will face off and voters from Flint who are suffering through the city's water crisis, will be able to ask some questions. That's at 8:00 p.m. Eastern tonight right here on CNN. Thanks for spending your Sunday morning with us. I'm Dana Bash in Washington. \"FAREED ZAKARIA GPS\" is next."], "speaker": ["BASH", "JAKE TAPPER, HOST (voice-over)", "HOWARD K. SMITH, MODERATOR", "SEN. JOHN F. KENNEDY (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SMITH", "RICHARD M. NIXON, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "TAPPER", "DON HEWITT, PRODUCER", "TAPPER", "SEN. BOB DOLE (R), KANSAS", "TAPPER", "BASH"]}
{"id": "CNN-213853", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2013-9-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/02/cg.01.html", "summary": "Syria Crisis; Syria's \"Secret Weapon\"?; \"We Should Have Done It 2 Years Ago\"; President Obama's Evolution On Syria", "utt": ["Show me the strategy! President Obama meets with two key Republican senators who want him to commit more military might against Syria, not less. I'm Jake Tapper, and this is \"THE LEAD.\" The politics lead, selling Syria, President Obama sits down with John McCain, hoping his old foe can be his enforcer on Capitol Hill with leaders on both sides of the aisle weary of jumping into another Middle East war. The world lead: from Russia with loathing -- Moscow sending a delegation to D.C. to lobby lawmakers against the president's war plan, but how far are they willing to go to defend their friend Syria from the U.S. Navy? And the national lead. The president is trying to convince skeptical lawmakers on a military action that he himself has sounded pretty ambivalent about -- the evolution of Obama when it comes to the use of U.S. force. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. We will begin with the politics lead. No Labor Day barbecues for the White House, but it sounds as though there is plenty of grilling going on, as the Obama administration tries to make its case to a very skeptical Congress, House and Senate, Democrat and Republican, whose members are not sold on the Obama administration's plan for military strikes in Syria. Some question whether the resolution gives President Obama too much power. President Obama, fully aware of the uphill battle he's facing, hosted what you might call a frenemy summit this afternoon. He met with Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, Republicans, two members of Congress who have long criticized his inaction on Syria, two people who frankly don't think the president's current plan for military action goes far enough. After that meeting, Senator McCain said anything but a yes-vote on the resolution for Syrian airstrikes would lead to dire consequences.", "Both Senator Graham and I are in agreement that now that a resolution is going to be before the Congress of the United States, we want to work to make that resolution something that the majority of members of both houses can support. A rejection of that, a vote against that resolution by Congress, I think would be catastrophic, because it would undermine the credibility of the United States of America and the president of the United States. None of us want that.", "President Obama is hoping Senators McCain and Graham can sway other members of Congress to support some kind of action against the Bashar Assad regime for allegedly using chemical weapons against its own people. This comes just one day before two top administration officials, Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, will testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Hagel is expected to lay out the military strategy and attempt to justify use of force in Syria. We have CNN team coverage of the crisis in Syria. Nic Robertson is live in Amman, Jordan, with the international reaction. But I want to begin with chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash live on Capitol Hill. Dana, we heard some pretty strong language from Senators McCain and Graham after that White House meeting. Even though they were standing in the president's driveway, they didn't hesitate to criticize him for waiting to act in Syria. But it does fundamentally seem like they're going to go all in and try to get Congress to support his resolution. Is that how you read it?", "I do. At the end, Senator McCain hesitated a little bit, but that sound bite you just played really I think encapsulated what his strategy is. Look, I talked to Senator Graham a couple times going into this and it was just clear from what he said and what John McCain said publicly that they know their role here and they know the leverage that they have and they're trying to use it. And what they're trying to get for their support of this authorization measure for their help with twisting arms, especially on the Republican side, are more public assurances from the White House that they're going to, in their words, upgrade the rebels. This is something they have been talking about for years. This is something they have pressing for, for years in a very frustrated way, that the administration hasn't done it. So, they at least say they have gotten some good first steps and good lip service, if you will, from the president in this meeting today. And I know they're looking for more. So, that's why they don't want to say, OK, we're happy until they actually hear it publicly from the president because they understand the meaning of leverage, but this is absolutely critical. Jake, we have seen John McCain in the past couple of months use his seniority here, use his power of persuasion to help the president when he wants to. He can help the president when he wants to. And on this issue, he has just about as much if not more credibility than anybody else in this Congress, particularly on the Republican side.", "Dana Bash, thank you so much. Congress is not yet sold on Syria strikes, but the League of Arab States seems to be on board, kind of. The group says it supports some sort of action in Syria, but it doesn't seem too keen on the U.S. or any other Western nation for that matter being the ones behind the strikes. Senior international correspondent Nic Robertson is live in Amman, Jordan. Nic, is this tepid show of support still a win for the administration from an international standpoint at least?", "That's certainly the hope of the Saudis. The Saudis were the ones who really tried to get the strongest language possible from the Arab League in their resolution on Sunday, three parts to the resolution, condemnation of the attack, attribution, attributing blame to Bashar al-Assad, and then the call for the international community to do something. Saudi foreign minister spoke during that Arab League summit and was very, very clear that a red line has been crossed, that the world cannot stand back and watch this and action must be taken. The diplomats that I'm talking to here that have been working behind the scenes to strengthen the language from the Arab League firmly want U.S. strikes. The reason that language is not coming from the Arab League is because the Arab street here doesn't like to see the Western world bomb Arabs, strike Syria, per se. But they do believe Bashar al-Assad should be stopped. It's complicated. It's not simple. That's why it's a hard sell for the Arab League. That's why the language sounds tepid. But the Saudis and their allies at the Arab League really hope that this resolution from the Arab League is enough to give President Obama the sort of political leverage he may need at home.", "All right, Nic Robertson, thank you so much. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad spoke to French newspaper \"Le Figaro.\" And when asked how his country would respond to a military strike, he said -- quote -- \"The Middle East is a powder keg, and the fire is approaching today. Everyone will lose control of the situation when the powder keg explodes. Chaos and extremism will spread. The risk of a regional war exists.\" A regional war? Is this a threat by the Assad regime or a message on behalf of its ally Iran. Let's bring in former CIA Director Michael Hayden. He's now a principal with the Chertoff Group, a risk management and security firm. General, thanks for being here. I appreciate it. When you hear language like that from Assad, what is the worst-case scenario here in terms of if the U.S. does do some limited strikes? What exactly is he talking about?", "We want it to be a one and done. The president has made that very clear, very limited strikes, very limited objectives, deterring, degrading the potential use of chemical weapons. He's doing it, our president, to show resolve. Well, guess what? Assad and his Iranian and Hezbollah allies are going to want to show resolve to. They're not going to want to give the United States a free ride for this kind of action. I would expect one of those actors, particularly the Iranians, engineering some sort of a response. And once you start this, it's hard to control it. Now, look, I think we ought to actually take action. I think I support what Senator McCain said in the White House driveway. But you can't believe it's one and done. Once you start using heat blast and fragmentation to actually text messages to another leader, things can get out of control.", "And what do you anticipate that Iran would do in response? You think Iran would send a nuclear missile? They don't have the capability. Do you think they would fire some sort of missile? What exactly do you see?", "Well, look, Assad was being a bit overly dramatic because that serves his purposes right now. He wants to deter American action. The last thing that the Iranians, Hezbollah or the Syrians want is to expand this into a regional war. They have got their hands full right now. They're on the edge. But I can't imagine that particularly the Iranians would use their weapon with strategic reach. Our strategic reach weapon is airpower and those Tomahawk missiles with the fleet in the Eastern Mediterranean. Their strategic reach weapon is Hezbollah and they could then use Hezbollah to attack Americans, American interests in the region and perhaps as far as North America.", "A White House told \"Playbook\" that they're pushing this message to members of Congress -- quote -- \"Anyone who is concerned about Iran and its efforts in the region should support this action.\" And you also heard Lindsey Graham make that same argument. This is not just about Syria. It's about Iran. If Syria gets away with using chemical weapons, who knows what Iran will do. Obviously, Syria and Iran allied. Is that a good argument as a former CIA and NSA official? Is that a good argument to make to people on Capitol Hill?", "I think that's a very good argument to make. Unfortunately, the argument has been a bit eroded. We're talking about red lines. As I said before, the key here is to display American resolve. When the American president says something, we mean it and we will back it up. I do think we ought to act. But, Jake, just look at the scenario. It's been a long time, probably will be the better part of a month even under the best-case scenario, before we respond. The response will be very limited. We have made that very clear. And the time it's taken us to respond has shown very severe political fracturing in the West when it comes time to acting. If our purpose here is to show resolve, we can do it physically. I just don't know that the psychic effect now is going to be all we wanted it to be.", "As a former director of the NSA and CIA, I want to get your insight into something that was in the unclassified intelligence briefing that Secretary Kerry and the administration put out. Quote: \"We have intelligence that leads us to assess that Syrian chemical weapons personnel -- including personnel assessed to be associated with the SSRC -- were preparing chemical munitions prior to the attack. In the three days prior to the attack, we collected streams of human, signals and geospatial intelligence that reveal regime activities that we assess were associated with preparations for a chemical weapons attack. Our intelligence sources in the Damascus area did not detect any indications in the days prior to the attack that opposition affiliates were planning to use chemical weapons.\" I think a lot of people might read that and think, so we knew that there was a chemical weapons attack coming and we didn't do anything? Is that wrong for people to think?", "Yes, a little bit. But let me try to explain the circumstances here. We always operate under a responsibility to warn. We're very cognizant of that. When we see imminent attack, an attack is likely, we do have both moral and legal responsibilities. It could be, Jake -- and I don't know. I'm not in government. I have not seen the report.", "Right.", "It could be that only looking backward, having the information we now have, does it illuminate and give certainty to the information we had in prospect. Maybe it has this deep meaning only in retrospect.", "And from a military perspective, does the delay that we're talking about here -- there's obviously going to be no military strike at least until next week, maybe even beyond that -- is there a military risk that that would make the effectiveness less so, the Syrians can put their assets in places that they were not before, they can put human shields in places, given lead time?", "Yes, like I said earlier, I think it's the psychic effect that is most important, not the physical effect. We're not going to make him unable to conduct chemical attacks. We want to make him unwilling to conduct chemical attacks. In terms of the physical damage that we can inflict on him, this might make a difference, but, frankly, Jake, it cuts both ways. He's dispersed his forces. He's camouflaged his forces. He's hidden his forces. That means he can't use his forces. And so he's actually suffering some military penalties because of what he's been forced to do by our threat of action.", "All right. Former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden, thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. Coming up: Assad says the Middle East is a powder keg, so how can the USA attack without setting it off? We will take a look at more possible strategies. And if you're looking for a little inspiration on the StairMaster, look no further than the indomitable Diana Nyad. That's ahead on THE LEAD."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA", "TAPPER", "DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "GEN. MICHAEL HAYDEN (RET.), FORMER CIA DIRECTOR", "TAPPER", "HAYDEN", "TAPPER", "HAYDEN", "TAPPER", "HAYDEN", "TAPPER", "HAYDEN", "TAPPER", "HAYDEN", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-304760", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-02-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/06/nday.06.html", "summary": "Lady Gaga Lights Up Super Bowl Stage; SNL Takes on Sean Spicer, Steve Bannon", "utt": ["What a night. The drama, the history, the Patriots did it again, a record comeback. You had Lady Gaga's performance much anticipated. How did it deliver? Oh, let's discuss.", "Let's.", "We have CNN senior media correspondent and host of \"Reliable Sources,\" Brian Stelter, and CNN media analyst Bill Carter. You have news. You've got ratings. You've got stuff that the president is doing and that Sean Spicer is doing in reaction to \"SNL.\" What do you have for us?", "So much going on this morning. Well, the overnight ratings for the Super Bowl show it was, of course, extraordinarily highly rated. It was like the number three Super Bowl in American television history. Almost as high as last year. Not quite. We'll get more numbers later in the day. But I think what this shows is, even if some folks tuned out after Lady Gaga thinking this was a blowout --", "Yes.", "Like I did.", "They came back for overtime.", "Somebody called them and said tune the game in again (ph).", "Yes.", "Exactly. That's what I did. I was this close to bed after Lady Gaga, but I stayed tuned.", "Right.", "Right.", "And, by the way, let's not forget, Lady Gaga, this was amazing.", "Amazing.", "Talk about uniting the country.", "Oh, my God. She was -- it was --", "It was very good.", "She put on a spectacular.", "She did.", "And she -- she danced, she sang beautifully.", "Yes.", "She jumped off the high things.", "Right. Right. High things, right.", "There was a question beforehand, Bill, about whether she would be political.", "Yes.", "And how do you -- was she?", "Well, she wasn't overtly political.", "Sure.", "She was smart. I think she's very smart. She did a, you know, sort of a celebration of her \"This Land is Your Land.\" She did --", "Unity.", "She -- and then she did her song, which has, you know, themes about acceptance for lesbians and transgender people. I don't think people probably heard the lyrics that clearly in that -- in that atmosphere, but she did get that message across. I think she did it very well. No controversy. Spectacular performance. She gets an A", "And, by the way, what did she do this morning, she announced her world tour, right? So she was big last night, patriotic performance, beautiful songs, very inclusive and then announces the world tour today.", "All right, good for her.", "Marketing.", "It worked (ph).", "So, \"SNL.\" The last time we had you guys on, earlier this morning, we hadn't heard from the president yet, we hadn't heard from Sean Spicer yet. Both of those things have changed. What did the president react to? What was Spicer's reaction?", "First, should we see what -- first should we see Sean Spicer on \"SNL\"?", "Yes, let's look again.", "Oh, we have to, right?", "Let's watch.", "All right, do the podium piece. The podium piece of Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer. You've got to see this.", "\"Wall Street Journal.\" Are you OK?", "OK, I mean, first of all, Melissa McCarthy is a physical comedian par excellence.", "Yes.", "Yes.", "And she is so good at that. What does Sean Spicer say about her depiction?", "So apparently Spicer, at the Super Bowl last night, told \"Extra\" it was a little bit exaggerated. He thought the gum chewing was too much. He thought McCarthy could have toned it down a little bit. No surprise, that reaction. But, you know, I think the challenge now, when you see Spicer, you see Melissa McCarthy. It was that on point.", "You remember that's what happened to Sarah Palin with Tina Fey. You couldn't separate them after that. I don't know how you separate Sean Spicer from this performance. He has to embrace it more. I think he has to sort of go with it and maybe make a joke himself about it because otherwise --", "It's a shame there's no briefing today. So there's no on camera briefing because POTUS is traveling.", "Wait, that is a shame.", "Yes, that's a shame.", "But tomorrow there will be an on camera briefing.", "OK, and let's see if --", "We've got to see that.", "Tomorrow he comes out with a prop box ala this.", "That would be fantastic.", "Or a super soaker.", "Let's watch.", "Super soaker.", "My words too big? I got to show you in pictures? Great. OK. Here we go. When it comes to these decisions, the Constitution gives our president lots of power. And Steve Bannon is the key adviser. OK. And our president will not be deterred in his fight against radical Muslims.", "I love how serious she was during the whole thing.", "Yes.", "Now, they did a depiction, a parody. Obviously, of steve Bannon as the grim reaper with kind of like a Darth Vadery voice.", "Yes.", "And the pitch of it was that Bannon is the over lord of Trump and is the real boss.", "Real president.", "Trump had not responded. But now he has. What did he say?", "That's right, on Twitter this morning saying, no, I call the shots around here. Seemed to be a response to all this talk about Bannon being the real boss. Trump saying he's the real boss at the White House.", "Yes. Well, and -- you know, also \"The New York Times\" had this story about him sort of not knowing that Bannon was named to the --", "To the NSC, yes.", "NSC, which is also just remarkable. You're sort of stunned by that. But the idea that he's sort of subservient to anybody I don't think sits well with him.", "I think Trump was also reacting to your program, Chris and Alisyn, talking about polls this morning. David Chalian was sharing the data --", "Right.", "About the travel ban. About how there's a slim majority of Americans that disapprove of the policy. Half an hour later, the president's tweeting about how he says all negative polls are fake news.", "Are fake news.", "I know we're having fun here, but that's a really serious, really disturbing thing to say. You know, he's taking his poll denialism to the logical or illogical extreme saying, if the polls aren't favorable of me, they can't be real.", "Favorable to me, right.", "He's also just -- he's just taking the teeth out of the criticism. You know, I think that if you catch the media being wrong about something and it regards you, you have high ground and you should go after it. That's part of politics.", "Yes.", "But he -- they use it now for every hard question and every criticism that they don't like. And I think it makes its lose its teeth, doesn't it?", "Well, it does, because every time you say, well, you got this wrong and you got that wrong, it doesn't automatically mean this is wrong. And, frankly, saying the polls are all wrong, he lives by approval. He's the guy who defines ratings. Everything's about his ratings when he was on TV. How's he going to say now the ratings don't matter.", "Bill, Brian, thank you very much for all of that. Great to see you. Thanks so much for joining us. \"NEWSROOM\" with Poppy Harlow and John Berman --", "Oh, it's the big day.", "Yes, it is a new day for them.", "It's their first one. 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{"id": "CNN-120847", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2007-10-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0710/23/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Wildfires Rage; Can John McCain Win the Election?; A Peak at \"Planet in Peril\"", "utt": ["Breaking news this morning on this AMERICAN MORNING, Tuesday, the 23rd of October. Good day to you. Thanks for being with us. I'm John Roberts.", "And I'm Kiran Chetry. And you know this is what one father said as he took his wife and his two children to a shelter in southern California, \"it looks like we're in hell.\" Right now, more than a dozen massive wildfires continuing to spread, many of them zero containment despite the valiant efforts of firefighters working round the clock. These fires stretched from Santa Barbara all the way down to the Mexican border, more than 400 square miles still burning. Thousands of homes are in their path, and hundreds have already burned to the ground. In fact, there's a virtual ring of fire surrounding San Diego. 300,000 people have been told to evacuate the area. It's been called the largest evacuation in the county's history. And thousands spent the night in local high schools as well as fairgrounds, of course, Qualcomm Stadium, home of the Chargers, and even in their cars.", "It's one of the thousands of shelters we have opened in San Diego county right now. This one is called the Mira Mesa Shelter. It's at a high school here. A very large indoor gymnasium, which right now is filled wall to wall with people on cots and air mattresses and some who brought their own bedding. What I should also tell you is that there are another several hundred people outside the shelter. They set up their own tents, or they're in their recreational vehicles or they're even in their cars that they have come here to the shelter. They're getting food and water from us, but they're either staying outside, many of them with pets or in their cars or somewhere else.", "President Bush has authorized FEMA to step in and help. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also calling up 1,500 California national guardsmen to help fight the fires. 200 of them are actually coming off the border to assist in the firefight, and another 100 firefighters are coming in from neighboring Nevada. In Stevenson Ranch, about 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, the fire there 20 percent contained. It broke out near Magic Mountain and quickly grew to 1,200 acres yesterday, coming right into some people's backyards. People in the immediate path of that fire were ordered to leave. So far, they say no buildings have been burned. And a look now at Ramona, northeast of San Diego, where the entire town was evacuated, all 36,000 people ordered out. There was no word yet on the exact number of homes destroyed there. This is one of the areas also hit back in 2003 by the Cedar fire.", "Also new this morning, President Bush is going to lay out his strategy for the war on terror in a speech today. He will cover a wide range of issues, including military operations, the Patriot Act, terrorist surveillance, and also his missile defense plan. Turkey's foreign minister is in Baghdad for crisis talks today. He is trying to get the Iraqis to crack down on Kurdish rebels who ambushed and killed 12 Turkish troops over the weekend. Meanwhile, the foreign minister has rejected a conditional ceasefire officer from the PKK rebels, saying the Turkish government does not deal with terrorists. She was once sworn to silence. Her blown cover became a national scandal surrounding the war on Iraq and her husband's criticism of it. Now a former covert CIA agent is speaking out. Valerie Plame gave her first primetime interview on \"Larry King Live\" last night along with her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson.", "When this all started, we had, at that time, 3 1/2-year-old twins. And, you know, there's nothing like children to keep you from toxic self-absorption.", "Do you bear the bitterness -- and I guess that's the only word for it that your wife bears toward this White House.", "Well, I think bitterness is probably the wrong word. I think its disappointment and, frankly, anger that this administration would actually betray the national security of our country for a purely political vendetta. I think it's -- they're trying to scare Americans from doing what one does in a democracy, hold your government, hold your administration to account for its words and deeds.", "Plame's new book \"Fair Game\" talks about her life in the CIA and what she believes was retaliation by the Bush administration for her husband's accusation that's it misled the American people. Plame will be our guest live on AMERICAN MORNING tomorrow -- Kiran.", "Well, it's certainly been a busy couple of days for presidential hopeful John McCain. The Arizona republican courted social conservatives in Washington over the weekend, also wrapping up with a debate in Florida. And then today, he's in New Hampshire where he's filing paperwork for the state's primary ballot. So certainly a busy few days for you, John McCain. Great to see you, Senator. Joining us live now from Concord, New Hampshire, this morning.", "Kiran, good to be with you.", "I want to ask you, you participated in this values voter summit that took place in Washington, and they also did a straw poll, and you finished last, in fact, only getting 81 votes. That really boiled down to about one percent. Can you win the election without the support of social conservatives?", "Oh, sure, and I have good relationship with a lot of social conservatives, with a lot of people in the pro life movement and around the country and people like Pastor John Hagey (ph) and many others. So straw polls, I don't think I've won a single straw poll in my career, and I didn't expect to start then.", "So you're not too worried about the results of that. Huckabee coming in at about 27 percent, almost winning that straw poll.", "Well, look, straw polls are the most fleeting aspects of political life. I respect them, and people want to join in them. We didn't want to. I was pleased with the reception and the warmth of the reception that I got to my speech to that group, and I'll continue to move up in the polls as we are. Campaign is going very well. Everybody else is moving down, and I'm moving up, and I'm very happy with where we are.", "Thanks in part to you, it was a very fiery debate that took place actually in Florida a couple of days ago. And there were some verbal sparring that took place between you and Mitt Romney. In fact, he taking a few hits for his changing stance on abortion. But he also took the opportunity to fire back at you a little bit on \"Face the Nation.\" Let's listen to what he said.", "McCain among them, he's changed his views relating to immigration in certain ways. He's changed his views on Roe v. Wade. He's changed his view. He's voted against the Bush tax cuts, and now he's in favor of them.", "How do you respond to that, Senator?", "Well, as I said, Governor Romney has been spending the last year trying to fool the people about his record. I'm not going to let him fool the people about mine. Mine is a consistent, conservative record. I've not changed my positions. And by the way, he mentioned immigration and a couple other issues. That's the position he used to hold but this is all about vision. It's all about record. It's all about ability to convince the voters that I'm the best to both lead the nation, a reliable conservative, and the polls also indicate that I am the most capable of defeating Senator Clinton in the general election. I'm very happy with where we are and where we're going, but my record is very clear of a consistent conservative.", "You're right. So interestingly enough, even though you're running third in some of the national polls, you do the best in a head to head match-up, at least according to RealClear Politics, against Hillary Clinton. The problem though is that your campaign is still struggling with money issues. Have you made a call yet about whether or not you're going to accept federal matching funds?", "No. But our campaign is going fine, Kiran. I've never won a campaign on money. If it was all about money, then we should shut everything down now because obviously Governor Romney has put in, I don't know, $10 or $20 million, whatever it is, of his own money into it. But this is about campaign and I'm up here in New Hampshire, to town hall meetings. I was outspent by huge amounts in 2000, and we almost won that one. Money's never been a factor. If it were the factor, then I shouldn't be in the race because there's rich people in the race. So, we're doing fine. I'm very happy with our campaign. We're moving up in the polls. The turnout at the town hall meetings are excellent. And I'm very happy with where we are, and I'm very happy about my performance in the last few debates. A lot of republicans watch the debates even if the Red Sox are playing.", "All right. So that at this point, you are not going to be taking federal matching funds?", "We haven't made a decision. We'll make a decision. Stay tuned.", "We will, of course. We're always glad to have you with us. Senator John McCain, thanks for talking with us this morning.", "Thanks for having me on.", "Coming up now to 39 minutes after the hour. Just a short time ago, CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour was officially invested as a commander of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace. The prestigious award recognizes outstanding contributions in the service of the country in the honoree's profession, in this case, journalism. Christiane joins us now from Buckingham Palace. Christiane, we just looked at the pictures there of the Queen pinning the award on that lovely outfit that you're wearing today. What was it like? Because this is, this is an honor that is afforded with rare occasion, particularly to someone in our profession.", "Well, yes. And I'm very proud, obviously. You can see that this is the medal, the cross shape, and the ribbon that was pinned on to my lapel. It says \"For God and for the empire.\" And the queen was there. She did the investiture. And many other people as well with varying other awards they were honored with. All sorts of services across all sorts of professions across this country. And this award was first instituted by King George V back in 1917 just before the beginning of the first World War. And it was quite moving. The last recipients of the awards today were British soldiers and marines for their work, recognizing their work in the current wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq. So it was really a special occasion. Obviously, I'm incredibly thrilled and very proud. But it's so invested and so steeped in tradition, and an honor really. It's great to be part of this.", "I mean, you've got to be so proud. Is this the pinnacle of your journalistic career or is this another mile post along the way?", "No, this is just fantastic. You know, many people don't know that I'm actually English. I'm half English, half Iranian. I've given my career to an American company CNN, so I feel very, very multi-national, if you like. And so personally, as a British subject, this is very nice for my British half. It's great. I'm part of this incredible tradition that has been going now from 1917. And as I say, when you see the other people who are up here getting these awards, and particularly the Victoria Cross, the highest military award, was given to one of the soldiers today. It was very moving to be part of all of this. And the Queen herself is unbelievable, so gracious, so, you know, good at what she does. It's incredible.", "Well, Christiane, we're all very, very proud of you. Congratulations today on being invested as a commander of the British empire.", "Thank you.", "We hope to see you here stateside one of these days too.", "You will.", "All right. Take care. Christiane Amanpour for us in Buckingham Palace -- Kiran.", "Yes. She looks great. Well, ahead on our \"Planet in Peril\" series, we're going to take you to one South Pacific paradise that's literally sinking into the ocean. Ahead on AMERICAN MORNING. Also, more breaking news, the fight to save thousands of homes being threatened by raging wildfires in California. A live look right now. And we just got word actually from our Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr that marines now making an offer for a battalion, about 800 marines from Camp Pendleton to head and help out with the fire lines, according to one U.S. military official. So, they're trying to get all hands on deck as this devastating rash of wildfires threatens thousands of homes and residents in southern California. We'll be right back. We're also going to be talking to the first lady of California about the situation, Maria Shriver joins us on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "VOICE OF H.T. LINKE, RED CROSS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "VALERIE PLAME-WILSON, FORMER CIA AGENT", "LARRY KING, CNN HOST", "AMBASSADOR JOE WILSON, HUSBAND OF VALERIE PLAME", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "JOHN MCCAIN, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CHETRY", "MCCAIN", "CHETRY", "MCCAIN", "CHETRY", "MITT ROMNEY, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CHETRY", "MCCAIN", "CHETRY", "MCCAIN", "CHETRY", "MCCAIN", "CHETRY", "MCCAIN", "ROBERTS", "CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ROBERTS", "AMANPOUR", "ROBERTS", "AMANPOUR", "ROBERTS", "AMANPOUR", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY"]}
{"id": "CNN-242710", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2014-11-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/07/cg.02.html", "summary": "Deadly Danger In Your Car; Pentagon Briefs On U.S. Troops Headed To Iraq", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. We are now hearing from the Pentagon Spokesman Admiral John Kirby talking about the deployment of 1,500 additional troops to Iraq. Let's take a listen.", "-- I'd like to put out this afternoon as well and I'm sure we'll dive into whatever is on your minds. First, the Department of Defense issued today -- I'm sorry, issued supplemental civilian employee medical care guidance today for those employed to Ebola outbreak areas. Those employees deployed in support of operation united assistance who become ill, contract diseases or are injured are authorized to receive medical care at a military treatment facility at no cost to the civilian employee. Additionally those treated in theater will continue to be eligible for care in a military treatment facility or civilian medical facility upon their return at no cost to the employee. Second, as directed by Secretary Hagel, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued guidance today for the implementation of a 21- day controlled monitoring period. This was the implementation guidance that he asked the chiefs to come back and put into place while we continue to assess the efficacy of this controlled monitoring. This policy applies to all military services that are contributing personnel to the fight against Ebola at its source. In addition to providing guidance for how control monitoring will occur, the policy states which installations have been approved as controlled monitoring sites. And they are Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, joint base Langley in Hampton, Virginia, Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, joint base Louis McCord out in Washington, and then overseas, the U.S. Army Garrison in Bumholder, Germany and U.S. Army Garrison in Italy. Selection criteria for these installations included proximity to medical facilities capable of treating Ebola and the ability to conduct twice daily temperature checks, medical screenings and the controlled movement and access. Third and last, General Trept Dekobi, the commander of U.S. Northern Command has requested 30 additional personnel be identified and trained in order to provide backup capability to our existing 30 person Ebola medical support team. This request is currently being sourced and we expect these 30 personnel will come from each of the services. I want to stress that this is not being driven by an anticipation of additional need and it is not a second team per se. It's rather an effort to establish additional cadre of personnel that will be given the same specialized training as the first group we trained last month. Training that focuses on helping them train civilian medical professionals on equipment while assisting with patient care. This additional group will begin their training in San Antonio around November 17th. With that, I'll take questions.", "Thanks, Admiral. For the purpose of television it would actually be helpful if you did have a brief statement on what you've announced today in your paper statement and what the Pentagon has decided to do with regard to these troops and why.", "Sure. The commander-in-chief has authorized Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to deploy to Iraq up to 1,500 additional U.S. personnel over the coming months in a noncombat role, to expand our advice and assist mission, initiate a comprehensive training effort for Iraqi forces. Secretary Hagel made this recommendation to the president based on the request of the government of Iraq, U.S. Central Command's assessment of Iraqi units, the progress Iraqi Security Forces have made in the field and in concert with the development of a coalition campaign plan to defend key areas and go on the offensive against ISIL. U.S. Central Command will establish two expeditionary advice and assist operation centers in locations outside of Baghdad and Erbil to provide support for the Iraqis at the brigade headquarters level and above. These centers will be supported by an appropriate array of force capabilities. U.S. Central Command will establish several sites across Iraq that will accommodate the training of 12 Iraqi brigades specifically nine Iraqi army and three Peshmerga brigades. These sites will be located in northern, western, and southern Iraq. Coalition partners will join U.S. personnel at these locations to help build Iraqi capacity and capability. The training will be funded through the request for an Iraqi train and equip fund that the administration will submit to Congress as well as from the government of Iraq. Over the coming weeks as we finalize the training site locations, the United States will work with coalition members to determine how many U.S. and coalition personnel will be required at each location for the training effort. Ultimately these Iraqi forces when fully trained will enable Iraq to better defend its citizens, its borders and its interest against the threat of ISIL and it is perfectly in keeping with the mission that we've been assigned there to assist ISIL from Peshmerga forces again as they improve their capability against", "It is helpful. Last week General Dempsey said, he hinted at this need. And he said the precondition for that is that the government of Iraq is willing to arm the tribes in Anbar. Do you have any assurances that the government of Iraq is going to work closely with these Sunni tribes and arm them? And is part of this plan to arm them yourselves or pay them or do anything akin to the awakening the previous strategy?", "Well, through the Iraqi train and equip fund the department has requested funding to provide training to tribes that are operating under the auspices of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense. Ultimately, we expect they will be able to conduct some of that training at the same locations where we will train Iraqi army and Peshmerga brigades. I would also add that the prime minister has made it very clear that he intends to continue outreach with the Sunni tribes. He was out in Anbar very recently doing exactly that. He's encouraged his Iraqi security force leadership to do the same, to continue that outreach. And while I can't put a fine point on exactly what all that cooperation will look like, we certainly, as I said at the outset of my answer, expect that there will be a role for Sunni tribes in this effort.", "Admiral, can you tell us when the Iraqi government made this request for this additional deployment of troops?", "I don't have an exact time and date on that. This is something that's been in discussion for several weeks, though.", "On another question, has Secretary Hagel committed to staying for the final two years of the Obama administration?", "The secretary is fully committed to his job as defense secretary and leading this department, and he looks forward to doing that for the remainder.", "Different than ten years ago, they ran away.", "Well, they didn't all run away. We did spend a lot of money and effort training the Iraqi army. And when we left in 2011, we left them capable and competent to the threat that they faced. That opportunity they were given, the skills, the leadership were squandered by the Maliki government over the last three, three and a half years. They weren't properly led. They weren't properly resourced. They weren't kept properly trained and that led -- that and a lack of will, both political and military will at the top in some units --", "You've been listening to Rear Admiral John Kirby, the spokesman for the Pentagon. He's been going into some of the details about the Obama administration's decision to double the number of U.S. troops in Iraq from 1,500 to 3,000. Let's talk about this now with CNN chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto and global affairs correspondent, Elise Labott. Jim, I mean, it seems like, to me, this is a pretty big announcement.", "There's no question.", "I mean, some of the Pentagon reporters might have been a little nonplussed because they're used to covering deployments all the time. But doubling the commitment in Iraq, a war President Obama campaigned on ending it seems rather --", "Right. And frankly more than doubling, you know, we've talked about this earlier. It's double where the troops are now, but it's ten times as many advisers as the president initially sent in June this year describing a very limited mission at the time. That's the number of troops. And then it's also greatly expanding where those U.S. forces will be on the ground. To this point, they've been confined to Baghdad and Erbil, you know, as close as you can come in the Iraq space to relatively safe ground. So they are going to be at two additional operation centers outside of Baghdad and Irbil most likely we're told in Anbar Province, which is you know, very dangerous part of the country --", "Very close to Baghdad, though.", "Absolutely. Close to Baghdad and that's one reason it's important, right, because Anbar is so close and ISIS has gained so much ground there and also the possibility of Taji, just north of the capital. But then in addition to that, you have them at several other sites around the country where they can train these 12 Iraqi brigades in closer quarters, in effect. So this is greatly expanding their footprint on the ground, still not combat troops. But let's be frank here, they will be closer to combat by being outside of those two main population centers in Erbil and Baghdad.", "Elise Labott at the State Department, what are your sources telling you about this announcement? She's not there, OK. Never mind. Jim, let's talk about this right now because the administration has these terms of no boots on the ground, no combat troops. But there are now going to be 3,000 U.S. troops wearing boots and --", "The laws of gravity on the ground.", "Armed and in the middle of combat in some cases whether they're there as advisers, whether they're there to gather human intelligence, do reconnaissance, whether they're there to train. The American people should be prepared for the fact that it's quite possible that there is going to be some combat and hopefully not but the worst might happen.", "Well, if not combat, they will be closer to combat, but they will be facing danger. And the fact is U.S. pilots flying over the zone are facing danger today, even in jets. U.S. helicopter pilots, we've talked about this before, Apache aircraft, low flyers, slower flyers, they're facing danger. Now you're putting these advisers in more places around the country, which while not on the frontlines are not necessarily insulated from the kinds of attacks that ISIS is capable of carrying out.", "Speaking of pilots flying jets in Iraq, joining us on the phone is Congressman Adam Kinzinger, Republican from Illinois, who flew for the Army in Iraq. Congressman, did I get that right? Are you Army or Air Force? I apologize if I got that --", "I'm Air Force.", "You're Air Force, I'm sorry. So in any case, more importantly what is your reaction to the announcement today?", "Well, you know, it's not overly surprising to me. I said at the beginning few, maybe 1,000 troops as advisers and some airstrikes are not going to stop this explosion of ISIS in the Middle East. Frankly, the more success they get, the more they're able to recruit. Success leads to success. So you know, I support the president and what he's doing. I support him in understanding the needs there and we have to stop it. The problem is I do think he just needs to very much level with the American people and say, look, this is a threat that we have to defeat and we're going to use whatever force is necessary. I think where the concern is people are going to start hearing echoes of Vietnam where we advise and advise and we're in a full-blown war. The president needs to take the bull by the horn, explain to the American people what he's doing and the real issue. This is something we can't walk away from.", "Congressman, do you think 3,000 troops is enough?", "Probably not. Look, I'm a believer -- I don't think we need 200,000 American troops in Iraq again. I do believe we have to have an option on the ground to head off movements where it's happening, to stop ISIS. I got back from Iraq a month ago and the Peshmerga themselves, the Kurds, have a 1,000 kilometer border with ISIS. On top of supposedly being the ground force or one of the ground forces that we're going to expect to liberate Iraq when it took us years to do it with the best Marines and Army in the world. I think this is going to be a long time war and it will take more troops. The president ought to level and say, this is a big deal. It's going to take a lot. I know you don't want to go back to Iraq, but here's what's at stake.", "Congressman, where are our Arab allies? I understand the Emirates and Bahrain and Jordan and Saudi -- there's another country I'm forgetting -- have been flying missions and contributing to the coalition. But some of them have boots on the ground that they could send in. Why aren't they doing so?", "Well, look, I agree with you they need to step up. A lot of them have stepped up in a big way. Arab troops on the ground, it's very easy for us in the west to say they need to have the large force or whatever, but it has a very different ring. People have talked about this being a civil war. I think this is something different. But to the extent that you have a Sunni country that now puts troops in the middle of a Shia area or vice versa, it's a huge problem and that has the potential of exploding and not just in Iraq. Keep in mind each of these Arab partners have their own jihadist movement they're worried about, Jordan specifically and their refugee camps. They have their own borders that they have to defend. And the last thing in the world we want is to lose another Arab ally in the Middle East. That would be devastating.", "All right, Congressman Adam Kinzinger, thank you so much for calling in. We appreciate it. Coming up, brainwashing, hand-to-hand combat and unending loyalty, they were all just part of the job according to a former bodyguard for the late North Korean leader, Kim Jong-Il. What he is revealing, this bodyguard, about his ten years of terror and why he says his old boss' son, the current dictator of North Korea, may be even worse."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "REAR ADMIRAL JOHN KIRBY, PENTAGON PRESS SECRETARY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KIRBY", "ISIL. UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KIRBY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KIRBY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KIRBY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KIRBY", "TAPPER", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "SCIUTTO", "TAPPER", "SCIUTTO", "TAPPER", "SCIUTTO", "TAPPER", "SCIUTTO", "TAPPER", "REPRESENTATIVE ADAM KINZINGER (R), ILLINOIS (via telephone)", "TAPPER", "KINZINGER", "TAPPER", "KINZINGER", "TAPPER", "KINZINGER", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-346332", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-07-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/30/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Trump Threatens Government Shutdown over Border Wall; Over 700 Immigrant Kids Haven't Been Reunited With Their Parents; Mugabe Seems to Back Opposition on Eve of Historic Vote; U.K. Report Calls for Greater Regulation of Social Media.", "utt": ["A wildfire rips through parts of Northern California beating up summer heat and high winds. We'll talk to a firefighter. Ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, Donald Trump reprises a familiar theme, build a border wall. He says now he's willing to shut down the government for it. Plus, I cannot vote for those who tormented me, former Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, breaks his silence ahead of the country's first election since his ouster. Live from the CNN Center here in Atlanta, I'm Cyril Vanier. It's great to have you with us. Now firefighters are hoping they have now reached a turning point in their fight to contain a massive wildfire in Northern California. In just a week, the so-called Carr fire has burned more than 36,000 hectares. For the moment, it is only 5 percent contained. At least six people have died so far. Several others are missing. Meanwhile, a second firefighter has died battling the Ferguson fire near Yosemite National Park. That blazed torching 22,000 hectares. Fortunately, that one is 30 percent contained right now. Now there are just two of the 17 fires burning up and down California. Our Dan Simon has the latest from one of the worst hit neighborhoods.", "For the first time we are now beginning to hear fire officials expressed optimism about the overall effort. They've indicated that the containment number is going to go up. That means that the resources that they've put into this fire now seemed to be working. They have about 3,500 firefighters on the frontlines and obviously, a lot of aircraft dumping water on the hot spots. In the meantime, here in the Lake Redding Estates Subdivision and you can see this is one of the homes that has been destroyed. You can see this is two-car garage. You see the two vehicles right here and underscore the random nature of it all, you can see next door, you see this house that is perfectly intact. You have 38,000 people that are under an evacuation order. You have these people who are very restless. Obviously, they want to try to get back into their homes and people who, of course, have homes to get back into. You can't get a hotel in the area. It's just impossible and some of the evacuation shelters have also reach maximum capacity. But now that this containment number seems to be going up hopefully it means that the fire crews will soon have this place under control.", "With me now is Brian Rice, the president of California Professional Firefighters. Brian, what makes the Carr fire in particular so difficult to contain?", "Cyril, it's intermixed right on the border at the city of Redding, a community of about 100,000. You're talking about the grass, tallgrass, lot of timber degree and then timber also. Then the other piece of it is the weather has very much been against firefighters. We're starting to see a little bit of change, but the daytime temperatures have exceeded 105 degrees and an account past couple of days have actually been over at about 110. The fuel moistures are incredibly dry single-digit humidity and all of that is a very explosive combination for the firefighters that are on the line tonight.", "Brian, is it easier for you to fight the fire at night? That is my understanding.", "Yes, it is. In fact, today, I'm at Carr fire. We're getting a little bit relief from the weather. The winds aren't quite as high as they were. We are seeing the temperatures drop and what that's going to lead to is what we would say the fire is going to lay down a little bit. Meaning the firefighters can a far more aggressive direct attack and that has been the strategy change over the last 24 or 36 hours that they are really shifting into a posture of an offensive fire attack instead of being completely defensive and trying to save lives (inaudible).", "If anything, to get the impression if you look at this year and last summer as well that these fires are getting worse. They are worse now than they used to be. Is that fair? Are you getting the same impression?", "I would say that every firefighter in California would probably agree with that. You know, we are in the midst of a long-term drought. Some of these areas haven't burned in, you know, up to a decade. And you know, just this year, we have firefighters on the fire line on Christmas. In my 30-year career, this is the first time I can say that the fire season has extended from 2017 to 2018. It's been a very active.", "So, do firefighters need more resources than in light of this, in light of this list harsher fire environments?", "I mean, the easy answer, Cyril, is yes. Right now, in the state of California, our fire departments both our state fire department and our local government fire departments were stretched very, very thin. Many departments have not recover their staffing strength that they had prior to the great recession, though, we are seeing some staffing shortages that way and then the explosive fire behavior at 30 days. They are all contributors to it.", "All right. Brian Rice, thank you so much for joining us on the show today. Thanks.", "You're welcome. Goodnight.", "Meteorologist, Pedram Javaheri has been looking into this. You heard Brian there. The first thing the firefighters look at is the weather to see if they're going to get any help or on the contrary they're actually battling the elements. What information do you have?", "We always say mother nature has the upper hand on these. We ignited these. This is manmade as the far the vehicle blowing over to the side of the road, but once it gets ignited, the conditions in place, the gusty winds are in place. Unfortunately to exacerbate the problems. So, we look at this carefully. We look at the landscape because, Cyril, you can look at a weather pattern in a broad sense and see it's calm, hot, dry, but the weather pattern locally on the ground around these canyons, mountains, and valleys really creates its own environment. So, we'll break this down for you because on a larger perspective you can see the drought really corresponds. That's what's been happening. Where the largest and most active claims are across the western U.S. almost 100 of them. But, of course, the concentration on Northern California, large ones across this region have been of concern. But to dive in and look at the topography, the lay of the land here, and as you look at this, this is the thermal signature of all the active fires across this region. And of course, the perspective is as such and you see the mountainsides, you see the fires have kind of encompass the mountainside here. That really has a lot to do with how things work when it comes to fires. In fact, the fire speed tends to double with each 10-degree slope added. So, if you got a 20-degree, 20 kilometer per hour winds, you have the fire traveling as such, but increased that 20-degree slope up the 30, your fire speed doubles up to 40 kilometers per hour. So, this is kind of why it makes this region of California so difficult for wildfires to be contained because of the lay of the land, landscape there, and of course, the weather pattern doesn't help. We know (inaudible) are in the 40s and are expected to remain that way in the next couple of days. The winds are going to locally dusted because extreme heat at the surface level creates winds there and of course, wind, air, rise the cool and if it does, the valleys really kick up tremendous powerful winds there. The drought remains moderate. Unfortunately, no rain in the forecast and when you take a look at the numbers over the next several days, the average temperature for this time of year 37 degrees Celsius, about 100 Fahrenheit. We are well above that the next several days with a zero percent chance of any rain here. So, this is really concerning. You notice at least some improvement they're going towards Wednesday. We see a little drop in the temperatures. That will help just a little bit, but Cyril, made a really incredible point there when it comes to this seem like it's increasing. Well, numbers really back it up here when you take a look at the average number of large wildfires per year and going in over a decade from the 80s, the 90s, to the 2000s. Significant increase for those larger fires every single decade moving for the last three decades. So, I did not know those numbers.", "I said I've got to bring that up. Pedram, thank very much. For the moment at least six people killed, so many who are missing that the rescuers are looking for and the firefighters themselves are among those who've actually paid tribute -- lost their lives in this fire. So, fingers crossed that they'll get some relief. Thank you very much, Pedram.", "Thanks.", "Families in Greece are trying to rebuild after the wildfire we were telling you about last week in that country, which killed more than 80 people and devastated entire villages.", "This here was shot by a resident as the flames were coming in. He only realized that he was trapped outside his house when the wind slammed his door shut. He could feel the heat on his head, he said. So, he grabbed the bucket of water and he doused himself. The flames were so intense that he was dry again in seconds. The man was eventually able to call someone in the house and then get to safety. As we've been reporting, many others fled into the sea to escape the flames. One woman said that she spent more than two hours in the water with dozens of other people before they were rescued. This is what it looked like. The sea was one of the only escape routes because the roads were packed with cars from the people also trying to flee. Last week, we asked what started this fire while authorities are still investigating the cause, but they say that evidence does point to arson at this stage. Now Donald Trump wraps up a weekend of golf with a round of Twitter attacks. We'll have the latest accusation against the special counsel when we come back."], "speaker": ["CYRIL VANIER, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "VANIER", "BRIAN RICE, PRESIDENT, CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS", "VANIER", "RICE", "VANIER", "RICE", "VANIER", "RICE", "VANIER", "RICE", "VANIER", "PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "VANIER", "JAVAHERI", "VANIER", "VANIER"]}
{"id": "CNN-406795", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-07-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/29/cnr.12.html", "summary": "GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert Tests Positive For Coronavirus; Emory's Dr. Carlos del Rio Discusses Louie Gohmert Testing Positive.", "utt": ["We want to get back to our breaking news. Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert testing positive for coronavirus. The Texas Republican was seen walking behind attorney general, William Barr, yesterday as he arrived for a hearing on Capitol Hill. Neither were wearing a mask. And then they went into the hearing room. Yesterday, another committee meeting. Again no mask. CNN's Manu Raju is live for us on Capitol Hill. Tell us what you're hearing there and what lawmakers are saying, Manu?", "Well, lawmakers are taking aback by it, because a number of them have been in contact with Louie Gohmert, or have seen him interacting with members on the floor of the House. As he's been doing frequently for weeks now. And it is something that I've observed watching from the House gallery, watching him interact with members, sitting down next to them on the House floor, talking to them. I I've never seen him wearing a mask on the House floor as he's carried on. In fact, I'm asked him directly why he didn't want to wear a mask and he said, in late June, if I get the coronavirus, I will wear it. And then I said to him, well, if you could be an asymptomatic carrier of this virus, something that health experts say is a reason why you should be wearing a mask. And he said, I'm not afraid of you because, he said -- I'll give you the exact quote -- \"But I keep getting tests and I don't have it. But I'm not afraid of you. But if I get it, I'll wear a mask.\" Now he did talk to a local Texas station just earlier and he explained why he thinks he got the virus. Take a listen.", "I can't help but think that, if I hadn't been wearing a mask so much in the last 10 days or so, I really wonder if I would have gotten it. But I know moving the mask around, getting it just right, I'm bound to put some virus on the mask that I've sucked in. That is most likely what happened.", "So there's a lot to unpack there. One, that flatly contradicts the science and what actual public health experts say, is that you don't get the virus by wearing a mask. In fact, that is something in which you wear a mask to prevent yourself from spreading the disease and to protect yourself. Also Louie Gohmert has not been wearing a mask and he's not seen around the House wearing a mask. In fact, he doesn't wear one on the House floor. He has worn it during the House committee meetings because it is required but pulled off as he is speaking. It's unclear when he thinks wearing a mask may have caused him to get the virus. But that is, as I say, not supported by the science and certainly not supported by what we're hearing from the Centers for Disease Control and others who say it is imperative to wear a mask. And as you mentioned earlier, Brianna, he was seen interacting with Bill Barr, the attorney general, outside of the committee hearing yesterday. Barr, we're told, will get tested after the interaction.", "If we could put some of the pictures back up of Louie Gohmert in various settings. Including in committee hearings where, for instance, here is one he's in the hallway, no mask. He's near people who are wearing them. But Bill Barr is not wearing one. Here he is with a face covering, not covering his face, which would render a face covering useless because it is supposed to cover one's face. Here he is in a committee meeting not wearing his mask as he's speaking, which is not particularly unusual. But you have to consider, Manu -- let's just talk about the risk factors for -- I mean, he's not speaking in fact. But let's talk about the risk factors of people around him. Because if he is someone who was pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic -- and we watched him yesterday in a hearing room, he was there for an awfully long time. He was talking. He's inside where transmission is higher than it is outside. And so as he's speaking. And we know this, this is basic science, the virus is aerosolized. So in the hearing room with a number of lawmakers, Democrats and Republicans, at times speaking and not wearing a mask, so they are there not protected from his germs, right?", "Yes. And look, there were probably interactions that we don't see inside of the hearing room. There are ante rooms where they congregate. And his practice is typically not to wear a mask. It is safe to assume that he probably at certain times while interacting with members yesterday was also not wearing a mask as he was interacting with them in close quarters. And I could tell you, I saw him last week, last Wednesday, on the House floor interacting with a lot of members. That is a week. We don't know if he was infected then or a few days before or a few days after. But certainly last Wednesday, I watched him for several -- at least a couple of hours. I kept popping back into the House chamber and he was still there during an extended vote series. He was sitting next to Chip Roy, a Texas Republican congressman, and sitting both next to each other and maskless and carrying on an extended conversation. And we reached out to see what he is planning to do here. But that is obviously a concern that a lot of members have, a lot of aides have, whether or not Louie Gohmert may have exposed them to this -- Brianna?", "Manu, definitely. Stand by for us, if you will. I want to bring in Dr. Carlos Del Rio, from Emory. And, you know, one of the things that the -- the key thing to take away here from Congressman Louie Gohmert, who has tested positive and refusing to wear a mark, he's surmising, Doctor, that he got coronavirus because he did wear a mask. What do you think about that?", "Well, he's obviously wrong. And you don't get coronavirus for wearing a mask. You get coronavirus because you don't wear a mask. And it is very clear that he wasn't wearing a mask. I think I want to emphasize again that the reason we wear a mask is to protect ourselves and others from getting infected. I wear a mask to protect you, and you wear a mask to protect me. And it is very important that everybody wears a mask. There are many types of masks. If I want to protect myself, I need a N-95 or an KN-95, which is what we use in the hospital seeing patients with COVID. But if I want general protection and decrease remarkedly protect my chance of getting infected, I need to use a cloth mask or a surgical mask. The cloth masks are very useful for people to not infect other individuals. So the congressman is wrong. He didn't get COVID for wearing a mask. He got COVID because he wasn't wearing a mask and he was probably around other people not wearing masks.", "So how at risk are other lawmakers who -- because, look, we know he was in close proximity, speaking, not wearing a mask, and not social distancing with lawmakers. Are they at risk and what should they be doing?", "They are at risk. And not only those not wearing a mask but those that were wearing a mask are at risk because, if he's infected an not wearing a mask, I'm not protected. If I'm in front of someone not wearing a mask and I'm wearing a regular cloth mask, my chances of getting infected are decreased but not absent. They go down to about 30 percent. So those wearing masks were at risk because he wasn't wearing a mask and he was already infected.", "And so what would you advise then for lawmakers who are now trying to figure out what they need to do? And what would you say for committee hearings where obviously you have at least a member who is infected and speaking without a mask on and even though there's other lawmakers with a mask.", "I'm going to say what I think is really important that somebody said, is that we need a national mandate to wear a mask. We need to stop playing with this. We can stop transmission of this virus if we all wear a mask. And I know wearing a mask is uncomfortable. I don't like it. But right now it is necessary. And I think we all should do it. It should be for a short period of time, maybe four to six weeks. Dr. Redfield said four to eight weeks. But if everybody wore a mask, we could decrease the chance of infection significantly. And I think it is time for Congress to implement a national mandate on that.", "Dr. Del Rio, thank you so much for joining us from Atlanta. We appreciate it. And our coverage will continue now with Brooke Baldwin.", "We will take it. Hi, there. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Thank you for joining me. You're watching CNN. Here is what I could tell you. President Trump is in Texas right now. Texas, the state on the verge of surpassing New York for the total number of coronavirus cases well over 400,000. But the president is not there to talk COVID. Nope. Instead, the president has been meeting with supporters and a fundraising committee. And this hour, he will tour an oil rig. [15:00:06:] The lack of focus on this pandemic is even more galling when you consider the fact that the U.S. is coming off the deadliest day since late May."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "REP. LOUIE GOHMERT (R-TX)", "RAJU", "KEILAR", "RAJU", "KEILAR", "DR. CARLOS DEL RIO, PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE, DIVISION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE", "KEILAR", "DEL RIO", "KEILAR", "DEL RIO", "KEILAR", "BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-72997", "program": "CNN SUNDAY MORNING", "date": "2003-6-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/29/sm.18.html", "summary": "Interviews With Ghassan Khatib, Rana'an Gissin", "utt": ["More now on our top international story. Two Palestinian militant groups agree to a cease-fire, a three-month cease-fire. The groups being Hamas and Islamic Jihad. This taking place as National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is in the region, the third U.S. official to do so in just a month. Let's get, now, some reaction from those involved in this three- month cease-fire. Ghassan Khatib is on the telephone with us. He's a Palestinian cabinet member. And Mr. Khatib, why don't you now explain to us, what are the conditions of this cease-fire?", "Well, the cease-fire has one simple condition, which is the necessity of reciprocation from the other side. Because as you know any cease-fire by concept has two factions to it, the Palestinian factions are offering cease-fire and the success and continuity of this will depend on whether Israel is going to reciprocate by declaring an end to the Israeli violence that has been committed against Palestinians, especially civilians. I think the proponent of this cease-fire declaration is that it is going to enable the Palestinian authority to honor and fulfill its obligations to specific articles of the road map, which is what the Palestinian authority has promised to do. And its significance also is that it is coinciding with a possible agreement between today and tomorrow between the Palestinian authority and Israel, in which Israel will evacuate five of the occupied territories, namely Gaza...", "Mr. Khatib, if I could please interrupt, is it also significant, however, that the Al Aqsa martyrs brigade at first threatened to delay the entire cease-fire agreement, and that, perhaps, they're asking for a little bit more time in which to agree to it? Isn't that a monkey wrench being thrown into the cease-fire? How can a cease-fire work if all three major militant groups are not on board?", "I think everybody is going to be on board, because there has been an agreement between these different factions. Then they have this agreement about the timing and about some of the political context of the statement declaring the truce or the cease-fire. So finally, they decided each party or faction to declare the cease-fire separately. So we assume that we are going to hear other declarations from the rest of the Palestinian factions. But I think in order to encourage this tendency among the different Palestinian factions, we need probably to hear something from the other side that is encouraging. The noise that is coming from the other side right now is actually discouraging, because the Israelis are -- I mean, there's nothing, no significant developments that are going to be constructive. So it is important that the American administration which is involved heavily now in the efforts should direct some pressure and efforts to convince Israel to reciprocate.", "Ghassan Khatib, thanks very much for joining us on the telephone, Palestinian cabinet member. Now for the other side, we want to get Ariel Sharon's senior spokesman Rana'an Gissin from Jerusalem for us now. Mr. Gissin, what's your response? If you've got two militant groups that have agreed to this cease-fire there is still yet another very serious militant group that is not on board, how encouraged are you that this could work?", "Well, let's not confuse the issues. We're talking about two terrorist organizations, the like of which the United States deal with them on the battlefield. And currently the United States is engaged in just such operations to dismantle terrorist groups who are attacking U.S. soldiers. But we're not dealing with terrorist groups. There is only one binding authority, the legal authority of the Palestinian government, headed by Abu Mazen, and they have to comply with the terms of the road map and the agreements and understanding of the Aqaba summit. Which means it's not enough to have an internal truce or cease-fire between the various groups, they have to dismantle the terrorist network, disarm them and stop incitement. So we're...", "So you're not seeing this as a start, a step, at least, in the right direction?", "Well, listen, we're committed to peace. And we want long, and I would say, durable peace, not a temporary truce with a terrorist organization, which will use the time only to regroup and reorganize and then launch additional attacks against Israel in three months' time. That's not what we're going for. We want durable peace. And for durable peace, that requires the Palestinian authority to take the necessary steps as prescribed by the United States, and reiterated by Condoleezza Rice, who is visiting the area.", "And for durable peace, is not Israel also being required to stop all quote unquote, \"acts of aggression,\" and release all political prisoners, and lift travel restrictions on Yasser Arafat?", "No, there are no conditions attached to stopping terrorism. And there's no moral equivalence between the two. What we are doing are acts of self-defense against unmitigated aggression and terrorist activity. What the Palestinian terrorist group like Jihad, Hamas, and the Al Aqsa brigade are offering is peace of the grave. And we have a right to defend our citizens and to prevent them from doing it. One reason that they did sign, hurriedly, this truce among themselves is because they couldn't withstand the continuing attacks. But we are dealing only with the Palestinian authority. They are the ones that will be held responsible and not the terrorist groups, about 500 or a thousand of them who are now holding as hostages 3.5 million Palestinians, preventing them from moving on the road to peace, preventing them from returning back to normal lives. I think it's about time that the Palestinian people deserve a different leadership than those of the terrorist organizations.", "All right, from Jerusalem, Rana'an Gissin, Ariel Sharon's spokesperson. Thanks very much for joining us. Reactions on both sides now to an agreement by two Palestinian militant groups to agree to a cease-fire for three months. Still not on board the Al Aqsa martyrs brigade, which claims that they just might later on this evening work out its differences."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "GHASSAN KHATIB, PALESTINIAN CABINET MEMBER", "WHITFIELD", "KHATIB", "WHITFIELD", "RANA'AN GISSIN, SHARON SENIOR ADVISER", "WHITFIELD", "GISSIN", "WHITFIELD", "GISSIN", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-166518", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2011-5-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/21/smn.01.html", "summary": "Ex-IMF Chief Out on Bail; Predicting the Apocalypse", "utt": ["Good morning, folks. We are following several developing stories this morning. One of them being that one of the most powerful and most wanted drug runners in Mexico responsible for bringing drugs into this country is now under arrest. And would you believe where he was caught? His own birthday party. Also, from Rikers Island to a luxury Manhattan apartment. Dominique Strauss-Kahn left jail yesterday. So, what now for the former head of the IMF? And today is it, folks -- Doomsday. The start of the apocalypse right now, or at least according to the Family Radio Network which has spent millions of dollars to warn you that the end is here and it is today. Hello, from the CNN Center. This is my final CNN SATURDAY MORNING on this Doomsday, Saturday, May 21st. I'm T.J. Holmes. We'll get back to Doomsday happenings throughout the morning. People are certainly are taking it seriously. You should know, though, so far, so good around the world. But, first, let me tell you about Dominique Strauss-Kahn -- out of jail now. He's staying at a luxury Manhattan apartment for now. He's the former IMF chief released yesterday. Now, it wasn't easy getting out. He had to put up $1 million cash, also had to give up $5 million in insurance bond. It was secured by his wife, Anne Sinclair, who is staying with him in New York. CNN's Susan Candiotti picks up some of this now and tells us more about the living arrangements, including why he couldn't stay at his first choice of apartments.", "A plan to release him hit a snafu when the place where he was planning to live wouldn't let him stay there. That led to a court hearing to discuss the issue. The judge agreed to allow the former IMF chief to live in a temporary location for a few days until a more permanent apartment can be arranged. Why wasn't he allowed to stay at the first place? Here's Strauss- Kahn's lawyer.", "The reason that he had to move is because members of the press attempted to invade his private residence and interfered with his family's privacy.", "The only reason he can leave this place is for a medical emergency. Now, he'll be a little less restricted when moved to a permanent location and then at that point, he can leave only if he gives prosecutors six hours notice of his plans. And there will be constant monitoring of his whereabouts.", "All right. Thanks to our Susan Candiotti there. Strauss- Kahn is accused, as you know, of sexually assaulting a hotel maid last week. He resigned from his post at the IMF. The organization says, though, he got a $250,000 separation payment and will draw a modest pension. Well, listen to this name. Gilberto Barragan Balderas, a name you probably have never heard of. But he is a big deal -- at least in the Mexican drug cartels. And now, he is under arrest. You'll see him in some of these pictures wearing a Budweiser shirt. There he is in the red. He was captured in Mexico just across the border from McAllen, Texas. He was a suspected member of the powerful Gulf Cartel, responsible for bringing a large amount of drugs into the United States. In fact, the U.S. State Department had a $5 million reward out there for information leading to his arrest. Mexican police picked him up at a birthday party -- his birthday party. Well, who do you believe? Well, depending on who you believe, this will be my last CNN SATURDAY MORNING because, yes, for some today is the beginning of the end of days, the apocalypse, Doomsday, the rapture -- all that, May 21st starts today, at least according to one Family Radio Network. Family Radio Worldwide Network -- is what they're called -- spent some $100 million, though, to get their message out. So, they are taking this very seriously. That message is that the world ends today. At least the first parts of the apocalypse will happen. The leader of the Family Radio Worldwide, Harold Camping, he says the time line is in the Bible. He did the math and came up with the date of today. He also did math back in 1994 and he predicted the same thing would happen. So, who's taking him seriously and should we all be taking him seriously?", "I definitely do not think the world will end tomorrow.", "I say just chill. Let the days go. I don't think anything is going to happen.", "I'm not worried. I've got to go to work. I'll enjoy my weekend.", "It is going to happen. Jesus is going to come back, but not on tomorrow. I mean, he could come back tomorrow. He could come back any day, but the Bible does not predict an exact date. And when somebody does predict an exact date, they are usually wrong because the Bible warns us not to try to predict a date, but instead just to be ready.", "All right. Well, so far so good. The end was supposed to start at least with earthquakes in New Zealand at 6:00 their time. That time came and went. No issues. Maybe we can breathe a sigh of relief, even though we had a major technical issue here in the studio a short time ago. I don't know if that's a sign of anything. We're going to have more on this Doomsday prediction a little later in the show, including this man, Harold Camping, who is behind this current message. Also, tell you something else happening right now. We're getting more and more information in about this -- but an explosion inside the main Afghan military hospital in Kabul. Sources there are telling us there are casualties but we don't have many more details at this moment. We're being told it was a suicide bomber who set off his explosives inside the mess hall there. And there may be a second suicide bomber hiding in the 400-bed hospital. Again, a developing story there. We'll bring you those details as we continue to get them. Also, famed pro wrestler macho man, Randy Savage, has died. His jeep slammed head on into a three in Seminole, Florida. His wife was injured in that accident as well, but has since been released from the hospital. Police say Savage suffered a medical event before that wreck. His brother telling TMZ it was a heart attack. The police say an autopsy is being done. Savage's real name was Ralph Poffo. He was 58 years old. Well, there are already victims of the storms and now, they could be victims of a new phone scam. People are trying to take advantage of people in east Tennessee. The FBI says people report getting phone calls asking for personal information, like bank account numbers. The voice on the phone says the bank lost the records because of computer problems during the storms. Anybody who gets one of these unsolicited calls should contact the FBI.", "Well, nice moments here for 200 service members injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is them arriving at the airport in Houston yesterday. They are taking part in the fifth annual Warrior Weekend. It's a good day for it. This is Armed Forces Day. Many of the veterans are headed out for a weekend of fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Also, for you folks who like to fly Delta Airlines, how about this? They are going to give some passengers a little extra leg room. Yes, though, it will cost you. They are calling this now economy comfort. That essentially means you are in coach still but you get four more inches of leg room and also it's costing you between 20 and 40 bucks an inch up to $160 extra per ticket on overseas flights. Well, we're talking about the end of days today. May 21st. Some call it Doomsday. Could zombies end up walking around after Doomsday? Well, the CDC wants you to be prepared. Yes, for zombies. They have put up a zombie emergency preparedness plan on their Web site -- and, folks, I am not joking with you. This is for the zombie apocalypse. Now, why would they do this? It's a little tongue in cheek, but they do give you legitimate emergency plan tips. Essentially, they want to draw your attention with the zombies and you get your plan together that would work for other natural disasters. You see where they are going to this? We're going to be talking to the CDC's man behind the zombie idea next hour and ask him what in the world were they thinking, and is this what it has come to to get people's attention to get them prepared. Well, of course, as we know, millions in the central U.S. have been dealing with a real life disaster that hit too close to home. Historic flooding up and down the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and the forecast gives those in the flood zone even more reason to worry.\\ It's eight minutes past the power."], "speaker": ["T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "WILLIAM TAYLOR, STRAUSS-KAHN'S ATTORNEY", "CANDIOTTI", "HOLMES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HOLMES", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-237174", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-08-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/22/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Dash Cams Being Installed for Ferguson Police; Credibility of Dorian Johnson Questioned", "utt": ["Just past the bottom of the hour on this Friday afternoon. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Progress to report in Ferguson, and not just on the streets, but also within the police force. The first dash cam has been installed inside a Ferguson police patrol unit.", "After a night where the message and not mayhem dominated the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, authorities report a handful of arrests, just seven. However, a key eyewitness who saw Officer Darren Wilson shoot and kill Michael Brown may be facing some credibility issues. Dorian Johnson was with Brown at the time of the shooting. He said he was also in the line of the officer's fire and that Brown had his hands up when he was shot and killed. Now CNN has obtained a 2011 police record from Jefferson City, Missouri, that shows Johnson was charged with theft and making a false report. He allegedly gave officers a fake name. So let me bring in CNN's legal analysts, Sunny Hostin and Danny Cevallos. Given this new information, previous run-in, arrest with the law, is it pertinent with regard to this case?", "Well, I don't think it's pertinent. The bottom line is he -- you know, as a prosecutor, I can't begin to tell you how many people I put on the witness stand that have criminal histories. Oftentimes, people that are out late at night, unfortunately, witnessing crimes are usually people that, you know, may not have the best criminal history. That doesn't mean they didn't see what they saw. So I think what we are seeing now is the narrative trying to be changed. Michael Brown is now thug-a-fied. Dorian Johnson is now not credible. He too is thug-a-fied. And we see that happen in these kinds of cases. And I hate to say that race is coming into this, but I very much believe this is not a -- has not been a transparent investigation. And race does seem to be playing a part.", "Interesting the way you put it, thug-a-fied. I've had a number of commentators on the show saying it's the criminalization of a victim and this is just another example. Looking at your face, Danny Cevallos, do you disagree?", "There has been a lot of talk about whether Dorian Johnson's past is fair to talk about. That's an interesting philosophical question. Fortunately, for us, the Missouri rules of evidence couldn't be clearer, and the rule is this: If you have a prior conviction, that conviction can come in to impeach a witness and attack their credibility. However, a prior arrest is not necessarily a conviction. And arrests may not be used to impugn the credibility of a witness. So fortunately, we have a rule that we can fall back on. All the discussion about whether or not it's fair to hold someone's criminal past against them is an interesting discussion for the coffee house. But in the courthouse, the rules in Missouri couldn't be clearer.", "OK. What about the news today that the dash cams are finally being put in these patrol cars in Ferguson, Missouri, right?", "A little late.", "Wouldn't it have -- there are all these different accounts, and you know, being lawyers, everyone sort of tells a different story. But wouldn't it have made this -- I don't know if crystal clear would be accurate, but it would have changed the game. Pictures don't lie.", "It wouldn't have been crystal-clear, though, I think we can agree on that. Sometimes they don't have audit crow and sometimes the angle isn't, you know, appropriate and ideal. But I do believe, and I'm a huge supporter of dash cam recorders. I'm a huge supporter of police officers wearing body cams. I think it not only protects victims and witnesses, it also protects law enforcement. It protects officers, because it's not just their version of events. It's all on video.", "Go ahead.", "Yeah, we can talk about shouldn't we have had dash cams before. Let me let everybody in on a little fact. Police departments are not like the Apple store. They're not -- some of them are still using typewriters, using computer systems that are old. They're not the most updated systems in police departments.", "There is a trend now.", "It's a great -- listen, I'm a criminal defense attorney. I think the defense bar would say, overall, all these video cameras and mostly the benefit of the prosecution. But that being said, it certainly does lean more towards the truth when you have a video as opposed to someone's narrative.", "But it's not like it would ever replace an eyewitness account or a witness account.", "I think it would do better.", "It would complement.", "I think it would complement. I don't think it would do better. We have been talking this past week a lot about witness creditability and how eye-witnesses aren't credible. I really, really think that's a very dangerous place to go. Because prosecutors put everyday people on the witness stand at their peril. Oftentimes, they are terrified to do that. And they do it and do it as a community service by getting on the witness stand. And so video is fine. But eyewitness testimony is crucial in our prosecutions today.", "Criminal defense attorneys everywhere have been burned, buried by images, videos, pictures that clients put up on their Facebook page. Overall, video imaging is better quality evidence. People lie. Things do not lie.", "Too bad the dash cams weren't there 12 days ago.", "That's right.", "Sunny and Danny, thank you both very much. Next, we'll speak live with a St. Louis alderman about Monday's upcoming funeral for Michael Brown, and whether children will be going back to school in that community. Plus, a new witness is coming forward, speaking to CNN. Speaking of all these different accounts, does his version of events, does it contradict the others? Back after this."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "BALDWIN", "SUNNY HOSTIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BALDWIN", "DANNY CEVALLOS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN", "CEVALLOS", "BALDWIN", "CEVALLOS", "BALDWIN", "CEVALLOS", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "CEVALLOS", "BALDWIN", "HOSTIN", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-288250", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2016-07-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/05/cg.02.html", "summary": "President Obama Campaigns with Clinton in Charlotte", "utt": ["I have also known him as the friend that I was honored to stand with in the good times and the hard times, someone who has never forgotten where he came from.", "And, Donald, if you're out there tweeting, it is Hawaii.", "I believe in Hillary Clinton.", "And I want you to help elect her to be the next president of the United States of America! That's what I want.", "Now, significantly, Jim, there was no mention today of the e-mail controversy, of the decision by the FBI, the recommendation to not file criminal charges. But President Obama did say clearly, \"I trust her judgment.\" He is making an implicit case here that she was in fact a good secretary of state. But at some point, Hillary Clinton will have to acknowledge the developments here over the last 24 hours or so. Certainly, the Republicans are seizing on them. But that was a moment for here today. Jim, basically, this going to be is a base election. We have know that from the beginning, but President Obama trying to fire up his coalition, why North Carolina is absolutely critical. He won the state, of course, in 2008. It was a blue state. Four years later, it became a red state, with Mitt Romney narrowly winning. They hope to turn it into a blue state once again. That's why we're going to see both of them here in North Carolina a lot more. And we're going to see President Obama on the campaign trail more than we have seen any sitting president in years. Ronald Reagan would be the only one who slightly compares, but he only campaigned occasionally for George H.W. Bush back in 1988 -- Jim.", "Jeff, perhaps just in time in the last few months we have seen President Obama's approval ratings tick back up above 50 percent. How important is that as the president will be out on the campaign trail more often in the coming weeks?", "Jim, that is absolutely critical. This is what the Clinton campaign has been waiting for, hoping for. And that really is a sign of Democrats and even independents, people who voted for President Obama, coming home here. Although he is not on the ballot in this election, his policies and his presidency essentially is. So, this higher approval rating is essentially a lot of voters are saying we're actually OK with what is going on now compared to the choices we have. So his approval rating will definitely allow him to make the case for Hillary Clinton, in some cases better than her. But, Jim, it's not only going to be Barack Obama. Look for Michelle Obama, who is extraordinarily popular here and across the country, to also be campaigning here. So the Obamas will be fully on board in this election. His legacy depends upon it, and Donald Trump defeating him is so personal to him as well. Jim, that is why we saw some of those jabs there, but more substantive than most endorsements we see -- Jim.", "Jeff Zeleny right in the middle of it there as the president, you can see there, leaving an enthusiastic crowd following that endorsement. I want to bring our panel back now. We have Bill Kristol. We have Patti Solis Doyle. We have Joe Biden in New York. Patti, if I could go to you first, certainly a fired-up, pumped-up President Obama there.", "Yes.", "How powerful of a voice is he? You and I have spoken about your own concerns about the Clinton campaign, doubts about whether Democrats will get excited about her. How important is his voice in winning those Democrats over, in effect, to back her enthusiastically?", "Extremely important. I think more than bringing in Democrats, he is there today speaking as the current president of the United States, speaking -- he knows what the job is like. And he said, I trust her. She is the most qualified person ever, man or woman, ever to run. So, he brings a lot of credibility to her. And he said it in a very personal way. I like her, I know her, I trust her, vote for her, I'm voting for her. I think it is really important. And just in contrast to Trump, we had Elizabeth Warren come out and campaign for her. We have President Obama today. We're going to have Vice President Biden on Friday. This party is coming together. The Democratic Party is coming together. And right now Donald Trump is having a hard time getting people to speak at the convention, much less endorse him, the way Obama endorsed Hillary.", "Bill, so obviously you want to get the base fired up and ready to go, as the president said there. But there were interesting comments there going after, it seemed, more than Democrats. The president said at one point you have a very clear choice to make. And he said, this is not a Democrat or Republican choice, it's a choice between those who want to cling to some imaginary past, clearly indicting the Trump view of the world, perhaps to win over independents, even some Republicans?", "I thought -- President Obama is a good politician and he gave a good speech. But I actually thought it was not effective at winning over independents. And here is why. Precisely when he kept saying there is no choice, well, if you're an independent, if you're an undecided voter, by definition, you kind of think, gee, it is a tough choice. Right? That's why you're undecided. And the polls show quite a lot of undecided voters. For all the talk about how terrible Donald Trump's campaign has been -- and I'm not a fan of Donald Trump -- he's only behind by five points nationally. He's probably ahead by a point or two in North Carolina. And, again, President Obama framed it -- it is a referendum on him. America is really great, he said. Things are going in the right direction. But two-thirds of the electorate think things are going in the wrong direction. If I were in the Clinton campaign, I would be a little worried about suddenly I'm the candidate of more of the same. I'm the candidate of the status quo. This is a change election, I think. The public is in a mood for change. I think they were foolish to go for Trump as the vehicle for change on the Republican side if they have, but nonetheless the public is in the mood for change. And I think if you're Donald Trump watching this, you think fine, fine, let's have a referendum on what President Obama just said. Things are fine in this country is what Obama really said, we're going in the right direction. Let's have a referendum on that.", "Joe Borelli, I want to ask you -- because the president there took some very direct swipes at Donald Trump as, in effect, the rescuer of the middle class. He says if your concern is working people. He went on to say if you're voting for the other team, it's not even about the economy. Seemed that that was a message there, kind of an accusation that there is a racist undertone to that support. I wonder what your response is to the president's argument.", "I'm not going to speak about there being a racist undertone to what Obama says. But for the first time ever, I think I might be agree with what Mr. Kristol has to say. Two-thirds of the American public believe that the country is headed in the wrong direction. This might be effective in rallying some Democrats, but really independents are who is at stake. And we see Donald Trump winning in those independents. And today you also have like a case of two Hillarys. You have Barack Obama coming out there and saying Hillary Clinton is uniquely qualified to be president a few hours after you had the FBI director says she is extremely careless. If you have Obama as the figurehead in your campaign, yes, maybe you get to have the great campaigner in chief out there, but you also have to own his record, and his record is not all roses, Obamacare, the VA administration. Also, one thing we also didn't here was anything that Hillary Clinton was in charge of during his administration, because the Obama administration's foreign policy has been a disaster. She was at the head of that agency.", "Patti, chance to respond?", "Well, look, I think the news out of today was that there were no criminal charges against Hillary Clinton, and that that is the big takeaway. I also think that I agree with Bill. Campaigns are about choices. And this campaign is about a choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's vision and plan for America moving forward and Donald Trump's plans or lack thereof. And I think when voters are faced -- independent voters are faced with this choice, they are going to choose Hillary Clinton.", "Bill, looking with Obama out there, Republicans must understand that this can be a asset, at least for portions of the country. When you see that speech there, are you concerned for the Republican candidate?", "I'm not a big fan of the Republican candidate.", "Understood. I'm aware of that. But let's separate that for a moment.", "I do basically think Donald Trump is the only Republican Hillary Clinton could beat. And Hillary Clinton is probably the only Democrat who Donald Trump has a chance of beating. And I do think -- and I'm not a fan of Trump -- that Trump has a chance. People are just underestimating him. He is only five points down. Barack Obama's approval has ticked up to 52 percent. What does that mean? Three percent of those who say they approve of Obama but think the country is going in the wrong direction could still decide to vote for Donald Trump. So if I were the Clinton campaign, the played this card well today. They were lucky in the timing. The speech will help take the edge off what the FBI director, Jim Comey, said. But I still would be worried that here I am with the country thinking that we're -- two-thirds of the country thinking we're on the wrong track, and the president of the United States just said I'm going to hand the baton off to Hillary Clinton. Do they want someone to just keep running the same race?", "That's the key question. Bill Kristol, Patti Solis Doyle, Joe Borelli, thanks very much. No reasonable prosecutor would bring charges against Hillary Clinton, the FBI director saying those words that the entire Democratic Party, you might say, had been waiting for, for months, but not before reading out a damning list of ways that the secretary could have and should have known between. Our other top story, we will be with that right after this break."], "speaker": ["HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CLINTON", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "OBAMA", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN HOST", "ZELENY", "SCIUTTO", "PATTI SOLIS DOYLE, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "SCIUTTO", "SOLIS DOYLE", "SCIUTTO", "BILL KRISTOL, EDITOR, \"THE WEEKLY STANDARD\"", "SCIUTTO", "JOSEPH BORELLI, CO-CHAIR, DONALD TRUMP NEW YORK CAMPAIGN", "SCIUTTO", "SOLIS DOYLE", "SCIUTTO", "KRISTOL", "SCIUTTO", "KRISTOL", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "NPR-37791", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2006-10-02", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6179971", "title": "Brazil Presidential Election Goes to Runoff", "summary": "In a stunning setback, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was denied re-election Sunday. Lula finished first in the national ballot, receiving 48 percent of the vote. But that was shy of the 50 percent needed to win outright and avoid a runoff. Now he'll face the second-place challenger, a former Sao Paulo governor.", "utt": ["Some surprises in Brazil's presidential politics. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was denied re-election Sunday. Lula finished first in the national ballot, receiving 48 percent of the vote. But that was shy of the 50 percent needed to avoid a run-off. He'll face his second-place challenger, a former Sao Paulo governor, who ran better than expected. Lula seemed assured of coasting to a first round victory until his Workers Party was caught two weeks ago in an alleged plot to discredit the opposition with dirty tricks.", "From Rio de Janeiro, NPR's Julie McCarthy has more.", "What started out as a sleepy campaign became overnight a race that could change the direction South America's biggest country has been moving in under Lula's leadership the past four years.", "His opponent, Geraldo Alckmin, an uninspired campaigner, surged in the polls after revelations that Lula's campaign staff paid for damaging information about Alckmin.", "Newspapers ran front-page photos over the weekend showing piles of money meant to buy the information. Alckmin, a former Sao Paolo governor, won 41 percent of the vote yesterday - far more than he had scored in any previous poll.", "Brasilia-based political scientist David Fleischer says the race is now Lula's to lose and he could.", "The danger exists because Alckmin comes out of the first round on the rise. And Lula comes out of the first round on a decline. This is what George Bush, Sr. used to call the big M - momentum.", "The second round is going to be very, very different than the first round and is not going to be very civilized. There's going to be a lot of harsh political give and take and a lot of mud being slung around.", "Lula followed the adage, when you win say little, when you lose say less, and left the talking to his minister of political coordination. Tarso Genro called it a spectacular election in which Lula nearly won.", "(Speaking foreign language)", "We had almost half the votes of the country and we certainly had the votes in the poorest parts. And we know we've been doing a lot for the poor. And we're prepared to win in the runoff, he said.", "Lula indicated he is now willing to participate in debates. His failure to appear in the final, widely viewed debate was heavily criticized. Nelly Celis(ph), a retired civil judge, stood outside a bar in Copacabana after voting for Lula.", "She said the debate would have been nothing but an ad hominem attack on Lula and she expressed the feeling of many voters when she talked of the importance of having a working-class president.", "(Speaking foreign language)", "Lula took over an intellectual government that did nothing, she says. But Lula rose to office a poor man who lived the basic problems of the poor - hunger and illiteracy. And in four years, she says, you can't fix everything.", "Runner-up Geraldo Alckmin struggled throughout the campaign to ignite excitement. Few had heard of him outside Sao Paolo, but the elated candidate told reporters last night that had changed.", "(Speaking foreign language)", "I received an enormous vote of confidence from all over Brazil. And I want to make clear, we'll sweat in our shirts to show how deserve an even bigger vote of confidence, Alckmin said, adding, we'll make a clean campaign and we'll have an honest government.", "Flavio Schekter(ph) voted for Alckmin and said Lula had manipulated the poor and run a corrupt government. Lula swept to power four years ago on a platform of social justice and ethics, but his government has had its share of scandals, including last year's multimillion-dollar scheme to buy votes in Congress. Schekter says Lula follows what Brazilians call Gerson's Law.", "You have to take advantage in everything you do. So you don't respect the other. You have to take advantage.", "But Lula's supporters, such as Paolo Cesar Augusto(ph), are inclined to critique Brazil's corruption through a long lens.", "(Speaking foreign language)", "Corruption, he says, has been generation after generation. I think we should give Lula another chance.", "The second round of the presidential election is Oct. 29th.", "Julie McCarthy, NPR News, Rio de Janeiro."], "speaker": ["DEBORAH AMOS, host", "DEBORAH AMOS, host", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "Professor DAVID FLEISCHER (Political Scientist)", "Professor DAVID FLEISCHER (Political Scientist)", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "Mr. TARSO GENRO (Minister of Political Coordination)", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "Ms. NELLY CELIS (Retired Judge)", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "Mr. GERALDO ALCKMIN (Presidential Candidate, Brazil)", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "Mr. FLAVIO SCHEKTER (Alckmin Supporter)", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "Mr. PAOLO CESAR AUGUSTO (Supporter of Lula)", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY"]}
{"id": "CNN-227463", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-3-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/29/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Families In Anguish Waiting For News", "utt": ["Families of Flight 370 passengers have been demanding answers for three weeks now, tensions have been boiling over and this week, dozens of family members walked out of a meeting in protest. One even accused Malaysian authorities of hiding facts. CNN's Davis McKenzie was with family members in Beijing.", "The trauma of waiting. For weeks, hundreds of family members of those on board Flight 370 have been stuck in a hotel in Beijing. A pressure cooker of grief and emotion. When they were told the plane went down, some via text message, it was overwhelming. Then grief boiled over into anger. These families have banded together and leaders like Steve Wang have emerged. Without physical evidence, he believes his mother could still be alive, but the wait is weighing on them all.", "It is a hard time, all of us are exhausted, both mental and physical. We just have to wait so it's really a hard time.", "Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Gordon Peters has deep experience helping families deal with trauma, he calls the situation terrible.", "They're not even able to say let's deal with this, let's discuss it. They still have confliction of is my loved one alive are they dead? The sense of loss just keep perpetuating.", "Often family members are stock inside this conference room for hours each day, many tell me that they still believe their family members are still alive, even if logically, the chances seem quite remote.", "They go to bed at night and probably logically know it's happening, but they don't want to give up. They want to have the good moments with their life. They want to continue to hope for the best.", "And in a culture where family is everything, they are refusing to give up because the consequences are just too great.", "Well, my mom used to say that where there are people, there are family. But one's lost, so it's a disaster to my family.", "David McKenzie, CNN, Beijing.", "The grief of losing a loved one can be devastating, but not knowing their fate can be even more traumatic perhaps. Heidi Snow knows this as well as just about anyone as she lost her fiance in the crash of TWA Flight 800. She started a support group for victims of air tragedies called Access. She joins me now from San Francisco. Good to see you, Heidi.", "Thank you.", "This is clearly torturous for victims' families, at week three now, still no plane, no bodies, no confirmation of plane wreckage, so do you believe most loved ones that are still hoping that there are passengers and crew that are alive?", "I remember so well this point in time, we were gathered at the family assistance center similar to how they are, just holding out hope for answers, some sort of confirmation. For me it took five weeks before his remains were actually found and in that time, I kept going back and forth, I held out hope. All of us at Access, we have got thousands of calls for help at this time, from hundreds of different air disasters dating back to 1950. Everyone goes through this hope phase, the next hour, we hold on to hope and really believe that maybe they are gone, but it's so hard to even imagine facing a life without our loved ones, with a future that's planned and what's really difficult is usually the people who are in grief over this have lost the person that they would turn to during a time like this. So if they're in crisis, this loved one that they have lost is the person they need most. I remember that, really needing him to get through it, yet he was the person that was gone. And so many people say that in our book. I have interviewed hundreds of people and they all speak of the fact that it's so difficult because the person they really need during the hardest time of their lives is the person who's gone. I feel for these families and I just remember being at the site, we had people who were angry, we had people who were sobbing, we had people who were just completely in shock, even this many weeks out because there are no answers.", "Yes.", "And I just remember waiting to hear, did they find my loved one's remains? And the hardest part was we actually had to leave the family assistance center and go home, which is going to happen at some point with these families with nothing. So I went home and tried to resume my life, but I still didn't have any confirmation that he truly was on board.", "Just listening to you reflect, it almost seems as though this new experience, this search, is making you kind of relive everything you thought and experienced as if it has just happened again to you, am I reading that right?", "Yes. I mean, we're finding that our phone lines have really heated up since this first occurred from people from past air disasters who are all reliving their losses and wanting to talk about their loved ones again. And a lot of people have come forward to volunteer and be there for others, because they remember it so well and really want to help these families and be there for them. So it really bringing us all back to day one. And I'm seeing the footage on TV, I really recognize and remember so well what it felt like to be there and just not have confirmation and to be waiting and to be all together with holding out hope, but at the same time, at this time, it starts to dissipate a little bit. And that transition is extremely difficult as well.", "And then, you know, Malaysian authorities admit, they said all are lost, they said that just days ago, if not a week ago, the plane ended, but then today, when meeting with families, officials said they remain hopeful. And are they doing this out of a need of the victim's family members, or does this continue to confuse them or does it indeed comfort them?", "I think at this point, there's nothing concrete, so any kind of answers they're given or beliefs they're given, none of is it tangible. So without any remains confirming that their loved ones are actually gone, and without any physical pieces of wreckage, none of these words really make a difference. They're going to hold out hope right now and then going back and forth on the reality that they could be gone.", "Heidi Snow, thank you so much and your organization, Access, for those who want to check online and hope to get a better understanding of what you and other victims of plane crashes have been going through. Thanks so much.", "Thank you, Fredricka. All right, what happens if searchers find the black boxes from Flight 370 and what happens if they're damaged? Can that vital information ever be recovered? We go inside a lab to find out."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "WHITFIELD", "STEVE WANG, MOTHER WAS ON FLIGHT 370", "MCKENZIE", "DR. GORDON PETERS, MEDICAL DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL SOS", "MCKENZIE (on camera)", "PETERS", "MCKENZIE", "WANG", "MCKENZIE", "WHITFIELD", "HEIDI SNOW, FOUNDER, ACCESS", "WHITFIELD", "SNOW", "WHITFIELD", "SNOW", "WHITFIEL", "SNOW", "WHITFIELD", "SNOW", "WHITFIELD", "SNOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-264434", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2015-09-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/12/ndaysat.02.html", "summary": "Candidates Prepare for 2nd Republican Debate; Candidates Prepare for Debate Night on CNN", "utt": ["I just think, in terms of targeting any voter, that's what I'm talking about, I want them to vote, I want them to love Trump, and I want them to know I'll do a great job. As far as candidates, you know, to me, they are all the same. They really are.", "OK.", "Even Fallon cannot keep a straight face. Donald Trump last night on his show picking his targets ahead of the CNN Republican presidential debate which will be at the Ronald Reagan library in California. And this week, he took on rivals, Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina. And she's going to join him on stage at this debate, which is different from the last. So, a lot of people are wondering if he'll unleash more attacks, how they will respond face-to-face with each other. Our national correspondent Suzanne Malveaux gives us some insight here.", "Carly Fiorina, the only woman joining her ten Republican rivals on the stage in next Wednesday's debate isn't holding back in her face-off with Donald Trump.", "Leadership is not about the size of your office, the size of your airplane, the size of your helicopter.", "The former Hewlett-Packard CEO responding to Trump's jab after he said this to \"Rolling Stone.\" Look at that face. Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that? The face of our next president? Trump told FOX News the controversial comment was made because he is an entertainer.", "Many of those comments are made as an entertainer because I did \"The Apprentice.\"", "It's a different explanation what he told CNN's \"", "I'm talking about her persona.", "And for a second day in a row, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal blasted Trump, comparing the GOP frontrunner to Charlie Sheen.", "Giant marquee names comes through on your called ID, and it's like winning.", "I'm winning in all of the polls.", "Today, Trump's second place rival Ben Carson is in Ferguson, Missouri, meeting city officials, the same city that erupted into civil unrest a year following the death of Michael Brown. Carson refused to engage with Trump's attacks.", "Do I want to respond to Donald Trump's charges? The answer is no. I really don't.", "Carson is tangled with Trump over faith and the critical evangelical vote, questioning each other's religious beliefs. I sat down with Carson and asked him about his faith.", "It's very easy for them to see that, you know, my faith is not something I come by lightly.", "Trump has gone after Carson on his views for abortion.", "He was heavy into the world of abortion.", "First of all, I've never done abortions and wouldn't approve of it and never have.", "I also asked him how he is preparing for the upcoming debate.", "By living my life, by having town hall meetings where I don't screen the questions. That's probably the best preparation.", "Dr. Carson stressed the need for respect and dialogue. He said he visited Ferguson to deemphasize the divisiveness of race. One group he has not met with is Black Lives Matter who criticized in the past. He says he is now open to talking to them. Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, Ferguson, Missouri.", "You know, I don't know if we have mentioned it, but that debate Wednesday is right here on CNN and we want to talk more about it because it is just such a hugely anticipated political event. The Super Bowl, if you will. Joining me now is Maria Cardona, a Democratic strategist who advises Democrats and the party, and Cathy Lynn Taylor, a conservative political strategist. Thank you for being with us this morning.", "Good morning, Martin.", "Good morning. To you first, Cathy. Let's talk about stage placement. How will Donald Trump do you think fare between Jeb Bush and Ben Carson and two who he has mocked extensively this week.", "Yes, well, look, it was virtual love fest last night and Trump realized there is no \"I\" in team but there is a \"me\" and it's working for Trump. He's tapped into the dissatisfaction exceptionally well. But the question is going to be -- I mean, the one thing consistent about Trump is Trump. He is unpredictable and I don't know how that is going to play for him down the road in a broader audience. You know, it's very interesting. He keeps saying the evangelicals, they love me. But if you look at the recent Quinnipiac poll, it shows that actually Carson is ahead with the evangelicals. Trump is doing well with the Tea Party, which makes much more sense with their coffer change. I think he still has a long road to go.", "All right. Well, let's just listen to more of Donald Trump last night from Jimmy Fallon. He asked to say something nice about Carly Fiorina.", "I think she is a really nice woman. A really nice woman. Am I doing a good job?", "Yes. That was --", "I don't know. I haven't met her. I think she is a nice woman. I think she is going to have a hard time. She had a very, very rough past corporately, but I think she's a very fine woman, a nice woman, and I said that she should be on the main stage at the debate and she is going to be.", "He always makes it sound like he made that happen. I'm wondering, Maria, how long can he get away with this or will he always be able to get away with this kind of talk?", "Well, Martin, I think it's all going to depend on his Republican rivals and I think this has been the big issue with everyone who is going up against Trump, up until now, because it hasn't been until recently that they have had to put on their big boy pants and actually go after him for completely inappropriate sexist, misogynist, narcissistic comments he has been making and try to convince voters that this is not somebody that they really want to be representing their country on a global stage as commander in chief. So I think what this debate is going to be so interesting is that Carly Fiorina is going to be two people down from Donald Trump and how is she going to go after him? How is he going to debate, you know, like you said, Jeb Bush on one side and Carson on the other? I think the other candidates have a terrific opportunity to go into policy details -- though, it's going to be very challenging because, as you know in debates, you don't get a whole lot of time and this is a stage that, up until now, Donald Trump has shown he is the master. So it's going to be difficult for the other candidates.", "He is definitely shown that. Let me ask you this. We believe, of course, that Hillary Clinton is going to be watching this or will she and I wonder who is she rooting for, do you think?", "Well, it's interesting, because she said very recently, again, commenting on inappropriate way that Donald Trump has up until now treated women, that she would love to go up against him and debate him. So I do think that she feels that way. I think that many Democrats would feel that way and so, you know, whether she watches it or not, I think that if she does like other Democrats, they will grab popcorn and beer because that will be pure entertainment, you know, very much like WWE Raw of people wrestle and tune into the GOP debate.", "Yes. Well, it could be a case of be careful what you wish for. Cathy Lynn, your predictions who is going to win this debate on Wednesday.", "I think it's going to be very interesting to see. You know, look. It's like the NCAA tournament. If you play well, it's a long season. And I think we have some Republican candidates that are going to have a very, very long season. What's important is, you know, that they come out top three in Iowa. I think while Carly is going to be very well and Christie will be vying for air time on Wednesday evening, I really think that the debate is going to be a Trump/Carson show. And don't count Jeb out. He is a savvy effective politician, he's run a state that is large and a border state and more akin to the rest of America than Iowa is, he is extremely well-funded and has a lot of support in the party. And so, we'll see if he can have a moment on Wednesday night as well. No doubt, everybody is going to have eyes on Trump for sure.", "Absolutely, they will. That's part of the reason they tune in. Maria, Cathy, thank you both for your insights this morning.", "Thank you, Martin.", "As you say, be sure to tune in yourself for the next Republican presidential debate hosted by CNN, Wednesday, September 16th and it starts at 6:00 p.m. Eastern. I really can't wait for this.", "We are all going to be watching, no doubt about it. I know a lot of you are watching this Iran deal. It is secured now. What are people in Iran, though, saying about it? And how is President Obama going to solidify its implementation? Also, wildfires ripping through central California. Thousands of residents have been evacuated and we will tell you what is happening there this morning."], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "JIMMY FALLON, COMEDIAN", "CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CARLY FIORINA (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MALVEAUX", "TRUMP", "MALVEAUX", "NEW DAY.\" TRUMP", "MALVEAUX", "CHARLIE SHEEN, ACTOR", "TRUMP", "MALVEAUX", "BEN CARSON (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MALVEAUX", "CARSON", "MALVEAUX", "TRUMP", "CARSON", "MALVEAUX", "CARSON", "MALVEAUX (on camera)", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR", "MARIA CARDONA, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "SAVIDGE", "CATHY LYNN TAYLOR, CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL STRATEGIST", "SAVIDGE", "TRUMP", "FALLON", "TRUMP", "SAVIDGE", "CARDONA", "SAVIDGE", "CARDONA", "SAVIDGE", "TAYLOR", "SAVIDGE", "CARDONA", "SAVIDGE", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-188572", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2012-6-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1206/29/acd.02.html", "summary": "Supreme Court Upholds Healthcare Law", "utt": ["Keeping Them Honest now on how each side is spinning the Supreme Court's epic decision on health care reform. Safe to say the White House is delighted that chief justice Roberts saved the law. As for how he saved it, well, not so much. He said making people buy health insurance was no good under Congress' power to regulate commerce but just fine under the power to tax. So victory goes to the White House. But then again so does this.", "This law is a tax.", "Obama care is the biggest tax increase in American history.", "The government could decide that we're going to tax you if you don't eat broccoli on Tuesday.", "In fact, the affordable care act is a tax. It is the largest tax in America's history.", "The middle class tax increase.", "The largest tax increases on the middle class in history.", "Obama care raises taxes on the American people.", "Keeping Them Honest, when Republicans say it's a tax to make people pay for going uninsured, they're absolutely right. The provisions are written into the tax code. They're enforced by the IRS. As chief justice Roberts wrote in his opinion, the only effect of the individual mandate is to raise taxes on those who do not do so, and thus the law may be upheld as a tax. However, to call it as you just heard the biggest tax increase in history is wrong. It's not even close. Well, the fact judging that claim pants on fire false. That said, any mention of taxes in connection with the health care law is poison to the administration and the campaign. Listen to Obama 2012 Spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter this morning on \"STARTING POINT.", "What John Roberts said is that we have the power to impose this penalty on people through the taxation clause. It's a penalty.", "It's a penalty?", "It's a penalty.", "But yesterday we learn it was a tax.", "Right. Let me finish. So I'm assuming everybody at this table has private insurance. So this penalty does not apply to us. There are some people who are choosing not to get insurance because they can't afford it. For those people, what we call free riders, what Mitt Romney has called free riders. We pay their health care costs up to $1,000 on our premiums. So they need to take individual responsibility for their health care and pay a penalty if they choose not to get it.", "I understand also that you like the law well. But I'm still thoroughly confused. Now is your position it's a tax or a penalty?", "It's a penalty. That if you choose not to get health care and you're imposing a hidden tax on all of us because we pay for your health care, then you'll pay a penalty.", "So, if that sounds familiar, it's because that's what her old boss was saying, somewhat more concisely, back when he was selling the health care law.", "For us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. What it's saying is we're not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you. Anymore than the fact that right now everybody in America just about has to get auto insurance. Nobody considers that a tax increase.", "So, the song remains the same. However, also Keeping Them Honest, Mitt Romney was singing that exact same tune when he was selling his own nearly identical health care plan back when he was governor of Massachusetts. He's singing a different tune today. So, with us tonight, Democratic strategist Paul Begala, who's advising the top pro-Obama super PAC. Also chief political correspondent Candy Crowley. Paul, we'll start with you. You heard what Stephanie Cutter had to say. Do you think the Obama campaign is between kind of a rock and a hard place on this? Is it a tax? Is it a penalty? The Supreme Court just said it's a tax. She's saying no, it's a penalty. Is that a problem?", "Well, usually, for generations, Democrats have talked about health care in terms of empathy. Care about our neighbors. That's great. That gets fellow bleeding hearts like me. Van Holland and Stephanie Cutter from the Obama campaign are now appealing to people who are frankly, a little more self-interested. Saying you're paying a tax already. And it's free riders, free loaders tax. These are very morally freighted terms. Democrats usually don't use that kind of language. I'm happy to hear them say no, it's a tax that only free loaders have to pay. It's a penalty that only free riders have to pay. I actually like that messaging. I think it's more successful for Democrats.", "Candy, how much do you think Mitt Romney's own record could hinder Republican's efforts to attack this? I mean, you know, the affordable care act obviously is modeled on what he did in Massachusetts, right?", "It matters because it comes up every time Mitt Romney says it. You get just another e- mail blast from either the DNC or some form of democratic outfit. And when you have somebody on a show, the first thing they're going to say to you, well, Mitt Romney had the exact same plan and he didn't say it was a tax. I actually like the Nancy Pelosi approach wasn't calling it whatever you want to call it. It's constitutional. I think this is -- they're dancing on the head of a pin here, the Democrats. I think they ought to get off it and go find it's a tax it it's a tax on people who won't buy their own health care insurance and, like, be done with it.", "So Paul, when you look at the folk, moving from dancing on the head of the pin to seeing how people in the electorate might feel about it there are now poll results out about yesterday's ruling. And threes USA Gallup poll, country seems to be evenly divided. Forty six percent of the people agree with the ruling, 46 percent of the people disagree with the ruling. But if you're look more specifically at independents, 49 percent. And they're the important independents, 49 percent say they want to repeal all or parts of the bill, 40 percent say they want to keep it or expand the law. How much of a problem is that for President Obama?", "It's a real problem, Soledad. It's why you're wise to break out the independents. If you just look and it's divided, it's because Democrats like me, love, love, love it. It didn't matter, I'm not a swing-voter, right? People in the middle, they've got -- this is why it's smart they're recalibrating their message, talking about free loaders and free riders. That's more for independents. Rather than talking as all of us have done for generation about people who don't have health insurance. And you should help them. That's not a very good message in a recession. Now they're saying you should punish them. And that's a tougher, stronger message. And it may have more appeal for the independents.", "Candy, when you look at the money, Mitt Romney's done very well. Right up to the ruling. He's raised more than $5.5 million, 55,000 separate donations. But there's some people who say, you know, all this money could worry him off the message that seem to be working or maybe his strongest message, which was the economy and the struggling economy. Do you think those people have a point?", "They're not mutually exclusive. And I don't think actually that's what Romney has been doing. He had his initial reaction to it and what happened in the initial reaction was he talked about how much health insurance had gone up. He talked about what it would do to the debt. I mean, you could argue -- I know Paul would, with his facts and figures. But nonetheless, he tied it to the economy. And he said, it's small businesses aren't hiring people because this is going to cost them too much. So he took it and translated into his central message. And I think, look, he has to -- depending on his crowd, he has to say, and I'm going to appeal Obama care because that really is a vote getter out of it. The conservative part is the Republican party that still has its doubt Mitt Romney. They have no doubts about Obama care. So that could get them to the poll. Get them more enthused. And so, that's always going to come up. But I think he's going to use this as a way to pivot to the economy. And say, here's what help Obama care is to the economy.", "Paul, there was one Republican who referred to this decision as the kiss of death for Democrats. Let's talk a little bit politically, like, how it plays out. Does it repeat 2010 midterms where the tea party rode to power on this sort of anti-Obama, anti-health care fervor this time around? Or as the Democrats are spinning it, it's been decided, everybody, time to move on?", "It certainly motivated their base. And they do need that because Mr. Romney, as Candy points out, from not a favor of their base. I remember in the primaries, Rick Santorum said, Listen, he was right. I very rarely say Rick was right. But Senator Santorum was right about this. He said because Mitt Romney signed Romney care which is the template, the blueprint, particularly with the individual mandate. He's going to have a difficult time advancing the argument that Obama care should be repealed. And that's why I think he was right that he's he must get back to the economy or he is going to win or lose anyway on this. It will reenergize the Republican base. It is absolutely true. But it also energizes the Democratic base. And the question is who can get to those independents. And that is going to turning on who's better on the economy.", "Kind of a $64,000 question. All right, Paul Begala, Candy Crowley, thanks guys, appreciate it.", "Sure.", "Thanks, Soledad.", "Fleeing Colorado's deadly fire up close. We are going to talk to a woman who shot a gripping emotional video of her own evacuation. It was the last time she saw her home. That's coming up next."], "speaker": ["OBRIEN", "SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), MINORITY LEADER", "REP. MICHELE BACHMANN (R), MINNESOTA", "REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "REP. CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS (R), WASHINGTON", "SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R), FLORIDA", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-229237", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-4-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/26/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Severe Storm Outbreak Threatens Nine Million; Obama Visits Malaysia Amid Search For Plane; What's Next In Search For MH370?", "utt": ["Hello again, everyone. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Here are the top stories we're following in the CNN NEWSROOM. A violent string of tornados and thunderstorms is moving right across the middle of the country right now. It comes on the heels of another storm that already caused damage and injuries. Millions are at risk this weekend. And President Barack Obama visits a country tormented by a missing plane, but Russia is becoming a major distraction. What the president is saying about all of that. Plus a touching and emotional tribute to a teenager stabbed to death in the middle of her high school. What might have motivated that brutal attack? A potential outbreak of severe storms could become deadly this weekend. It is threatening at least 9 million people. Two tornadoes already ripped through parts of North Carolina and shredded homes according to our affiliate WTKR. One person was taken to the hospital with traumatic injury and at least four others were injured. Folks who survived the storms say they heard a loud bang. Others had trouble reaching loved ones because of bad cell phone service.", "I just heard it going over the house and I heard glass shattering and heard a loud bang.", "Everything that's my sister, that's my family, I didn't know. I couldn't get a hold of anybody, didn't know if she was OK.", "Meteorologist, Karen Maginnis is in the CNN Severe Weather Center. So Karen, which areas of the country could be hit potentially next?", "Well, this is going to be about a three-day event. The first starts out right across the central plains. The setup is an area of low pressure moves out of the Central Rockies on the back side already some areas in Montana, three inches of snow. But out ahead of it, we've got this moisture coming up from the south. Temperatures have really warmed up very dramatically across the southeast, running a good five to ten degrees above where they should be this time of year. So you get high temperatures, high dew points, you get some rotation or spin in the atmosphere, key ingredients for a severe weather setup, like we're looking at today. But probably more so going into Sunday and into Monday. You can see the big jump in the number of expected or average tornadoes from April and into May, really it is April through that June time period when we see frequent tornado reports. Now, we have seen a fairly quiet system, but I think over the next 24, 48, 72 hours is going to be a very different story with millions of people from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, all the way down towards Dallas and into the Austin area, you're under a slight risk. But then going into Sunday, a moderate risk. We don't see this too often. It does happen, but moderate risk suggests we could see violent tornadoes, maybe some deadly tornadoes coming up. That across the Tennessee Valley and into Ark-La-Tex region and still the same setup going into Monday when another moderate risk and this is two days out now, extends from Tennessee all the way down to Louisiana. We will have more.", "All right, now it's definitely the time people need to get their tornado plans in place. Communicate it to everybody and have those weather radios if they can as well. Thanks so much, Karen Maginnis. Appreciate that. All right, overseas, President Barack Obama is in the middle of his Asian tour, and today he is visiting Malaysia as that country is in the middle of a desperate search for missing Flight 370. Obama didn't mention the plane when he spoke at a special dinner today, but he did talk about it in an interview with the Malaysian newspaper earlier in the day. Erin McPike is with us now from the White House. So Erin, what did he say?", "Well, Fred, President Obama offered his condolences to Malaysia and made some important points about the help that the U.S. has provided in the search. I want to read part of those comments to you from \"The Star.\" He said, \"As a friend and partner of Malaysia, the United States was one of the first countries to join in the search for the missing plane. U.S. Navy ships, aircraft and personnel remain on the scene assisting in the search. Our FBI is working closely with Malaysia on the investigation into what caused the aircraft to disappear, and will continue to offer our support and assistance as the search and investigation continue.\" Now that is, of course, very significant because we have been hearing from some officials overseas that the search could begin to wind down, but of course, President Obama has said now that the U.S. is committed to this effort. He also said that the cooperation and partnership between a number of countries has been very significant as this search has continued and he said that the U.S., Malaysia and other countries are beginning to reflect now on what they can do to prevent something like this from happening again and how they can improve aviation security -- Fred.", "And then, Erin, there's a situation of Ukraine bubbling up. How is the president keeping abreast of that or even addressing it?", "Well, Fred, he has certainly been threatening more sanctions. The rhetoric has been escalating incrementally over the last couple of months and that's been no different. We've been hearing from the State Department and from the White House that sanctions are having a very harsh impact on Russia's economy and they have been trying to get European leaders on board with additional sanctions. They have been working on that for the past month and it does appear that they have succeeded. I want to read a recent statement from the G7 to you. Leaders say we have now agreed that we will move swiftly to impose additional sanctions on Russia, given the urgency of securing the opportunity for successful and peaceful Democratic vote next month in Ukraine's presidential elections. We committed to act urgently to intensify targeted sanctions and measures to increase the cost of Russia's actions. Now we know that European leaders will be meeting on Monday. We could see new sanctions as early as Monday -- Fred.", "All right, thanks so much, Erin McPike joining us from the White House. All right, so let's talk more now about the tension between Russia and Ukraine and how that's ratcheting up. Ukraine's prime minister says Russian military aircraft violated their air space seven times last night. While in Rome, the prime minister responded.", "We urge Russia to pull back its security forces, not to provoke and not to support Russian terrorists, that are located and deployed in eastern and southern Ukraine. We urge Russia to leave us alone.", "Let's go to the center of attention in Eastern Ukraine, CNN's Arwa Damon is in Donetsk. So Arwa, Russia has thousands of troops near the border. Now these air games in Ukrainian air space. Is Vladimir Putin going to listen to the plea to quote/unquote, \"leave us alone?\"", "That would be highly unlikely and extremely surprising at this stage. Russia is, though, denying it did violate Ukraine's air space, but as part of the claim and counterclaim verbal battle that's been going on over what's been transpiring in Ukraine pretty much since the onset, you have the Ukrainian government, United States, the European Union, all of whom put the onus on Russia to de-escalate the situation. They do believe that Russia is directly orchestrating what we have seen happening in Eastern Ukraine. Russia, of course, denies all of those allegations. The Ukrainian government is saying it is in the second phase of the so-called anti- terrorism operation, though we haven't seen any sort of significant military movement by Ukrainian forces, and of course, those pro- Russian protesters remain heavily armed and deeply entrenched in their various positions throughout this part of the country -- Fredricka.", "Arwa Damon, keep us posted. Appreciate that. All right, the mystery surrounding Flight 370 has reached a fevered pitch now, and so have the theories into what may have happened to the missing plane. We'll explore some of those next."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WHITFIELD", "KAREN MAGINNIS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "WHITFIELD", "ERIN MCPIKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "MCPIKE", "WHITFIELD", "ARSENIY YATSENUK, UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER", "WHITFIELD", "ARWA DAMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "NPR-35101", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2008-05-12", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90366263", "title": "Volcanic Eruption Forces Evacuations in Chile", "summary": "Volcanic ash is raining down on Chile, 10 days after an eruption occurred for the first time in thousands of years. People in the area were evacuated. The volcano eruption has turned lakes and rivers white and coated plants in a dense layer of ash.", "utt": ["So we've reported on Myanmar, there's an earthquake in China, and in South America, the problem is a volcano. It's forcing people in Chile to flee entire towns, and volcanic ash is blowing across the Andes Mountains to Argentina.", "NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Puerto Montt, a town near the crater.", "For the past 9,000 years, Chaiten has remained quiet. But lifelong resident of the city of Chaiten, Eduardo Gallegos, says he says something was simmering on the volcano even before it covered the city in a cloud of ash in the early hours of May 2nd.", "(Spanish spoken)", "We felt 50 tremors in the days leading up to the eruption, and the volcano was emitting flashes of light, he says.", "Gallegos was one of the first evacuees from some 4,000 residents of Chaiten who were taken by boat to seek shelter in schools like this one in Puerto Montt, fleeing from nature's fury.", "Chile has the world's second most active string of volcanoes behind Indonesia. They dot this stretch of Patagonia with its forests and fragile ecosystems and now fragile lives.", "Elias Mesa says he would've stayed, had authorities not ordered him out.", "(Spanish spoken)", "My wife pleaded with me to come here, he says, and I arrived with just a knapsack, a blanket and a cat. I left behind my entire store, including a million pesos worth of cigarettes, he says.", "Well-wishers from a nearby town performed last night at the school to raise the fighting spirits of the evacuees. Their stay may be a prolonged one. The eruption of Chaiten has turned lakes and rivers a milky white and coated plants in a dense layer of ash.", "Chaiten continues to build a column of ash and gas that shot more than eight miles high this weekend. Jorge Munoz heads the technical office of the National Geology and Mining Service monitoring the volcano. He says the dense flume could collapse in on the crater, creating lava-like pyroclastic flows destroying everything in their path.", "Very fast, very hot - Pompeii.", "But Munoz says Chaiten has remained at the same level of seismic activity for the past week - a good sign, he says. The longer the volcano simmers, burning up energy, the likelihood of a catastrophe recedes.", "Julie McCarthy, NPR News, Puerto Montt, Chile."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "Mr. EDUARDO GALLEGOS", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "Mr. ELIAS MESA (Resident)", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "Mr. JORGE MUNOZ (Head of Technical Office, National Geology and Mining Service)", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY"]}
{"id": "CNN-77383", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2003-9-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/26/se.02.html", "summary": "Bremer Address Reporters at Pentagon", "utt": ["Right now we want to go to the Pentagon where Iraq's administrator, Paul Bremer, is briefing reporters. It's just gotten under way. Let's go there now.", "... in the first quarter of next year -- the first calendar quarter of next year. We do not believe that there is anything like this kind of a request that is needed again. This is what we think we need for FY '04.", "But FY '05 doesn't start until October of next year.", "Right.", "What if needs arise between now and then?", "I don't anticipate that.", "You don't?", "No.", "Ambassador Bremer, Secretary of State Powell says he's giving Iraq six months to come up with a government in form. I wonder if you could talk about that a little bit? And something that wasn't clear to me, out of what he said, what happens if you don't have one set up in six months?", "Well, I think we have to look a little more carefully at what the situation is here. First of all, we have said that we are as interested as the Iraqis are to see a coherent, reasonable process to get back to a sovereign Iraqi government, as quickly as that can be done reasonably. The pacing item in getting to that point is the convening of a constitutional conference by the Iraqi Governing Council, and the writing of a constitution by that conference.", "We don't know how long it'll take for them to write the constitution. Six months seems to me a reasonable guess as to how long it will take. But there are no deadlines involved here. What we're talking about is trying to emphasize our interest, which coincides with the Iraqi Governing Council's interest, in moving along. And we hope that the Governing Council, in fact, will convene this constitutional conference quickly and will get on the job of writing the constitution. We are as anxious as they are to see this period where we're exercising sovereignty end. But it has to be done, as I said in my testimony, in a responsible fashion, which means there has to be a period when the constitution is written. So I think we could take the six months as a reasonable estimate of what it might take, but we're setting any deadlines at this point.", "So if they're not in six months, nothing happens. You just continue to work?", "Well, we will work, as the president has said, there until the job is done. My job is to work myself out of a job. I now exercise sovereignty in Iraq, and I would like to pass that on to a sovereign Iraqi government as soon as it can reasonably be done. If it takes them longer than six months to write a constitution, then I'll be there longer than that.", "Sir, two questions. On the six months, explain to us why you think that's a reasonable deadline considering the fact that you all haven't even -- or Iraq has not even decided how it will come up with a constitution, before it even gets to the business of writing a constitution. And can you give us some insight into what you anticipate the Iraqi operating budget is going to be from FY '05 on out?", "Yes. Two points on your question. I explicitly said it was not a deadline. And secondly, I think if you read carefully what the secretary was talking about, he was talking about the period after the convention, the constitutional conference convention, is assembled, how long does it take to write a constitution?", "You are quite right in saying there is another unknown period which precedes that, which is, when do we see the constitutional conference convened? The situation is the following: The Governing Council appointed a preparatory committee to study the question of how to convene that constitutional conference. They appointed that preparatory committee on April -- sorry, August 15 and gave them a month. The bombing in Najaf caused a two-week delay in the work of the council as they had to go through the mourning period and the funeral. So the deadline was extended to September 30. We, therefore, expect the preparatory committee will report to the Governing Council next week, September 30, this Tuesday. And the question then is how long does the Governing Council consider those recommendations? How complicated are they? What kind of consultations do they have to do? And how long does it take them then to convene a constitutional conference? These are unknowns. We, obviously, again, would like them to move right along. We think this process can move right along. We are not standing in the way of a rapid return to sovereignty of the Iraqi government, provided it is done in a reasonable and politically sensible way, which means getting a conference together, writing a constitution and holding elections.", "Paul Bremer, who is the Iraqi administrator from the United States, of course, briefing reporters at the Pentagon saying that the six-month deadline that the administration has put out there is not a hard deadline. It is reasonable to expect, he says, that the Iraqis will be able to get a constitution written. He said we want the Iraqis to govern themselves."], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL BREMER, IRAQ CIVILIAN ADMINISTRATOR", "QUESTION", "BREMER", "QUESTION", "BREMER", "QUESTION", "BREMER", "QUESTION", "BREMER", "BREMER", "QUESTION", "BREMER", "QUESTION", "BREMER", "BREMER", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-67828", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2003-3-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/11/ltm.15.html", "summary": "What Happens with Iraqi People After Fighting is Over?", "utt": ["President Bush says it is too risky to wait and see what terrorists would do with weapons of mass destruction. He made it clear last week yet again that the U.S. is ready to go alone against Iraq and Saddam Hussein.", "The cost of an attack is significant. If I thought we were safe from attack, I would be thinking differently. But I see a gathering threat. I mean this is a true, real threat to America and therefore we will deal with it.", "Comments from Thursday evening, last week at the White House. What happens, though, with the Iraqi people after the fighting is over? Fawaz Gerges is professor of international studies at Sarah Lawrence College. He's our guest here on AMERICAN MORNING. Nice to see you in person. Good morning to you.", "Good to see you.", "Let's forecast here. It's mid-April. The fighting is over. Saddam's out of power. What do the Iraqi people do in the streets of Baghdad?", "Well, I think if the Iraq and if the war ends quickly, with few casualties, I expect the Iraqi people, even though they're fragmented and suspicious of foreign interventions, will embrace American soldiers as liberators. The big questions are the following. Will a prolonged American military presence be tolerated? What if the political reconstruction of Iraq does not succeed? What if Iraq fractures and descends into chaos? I believe that the potential risks of war outweigh any benefits to American security, in the short-term and the long-term, as well.", "I think all fair questions. They're all issues that we can get to here. Back up just a little bit, though. If Iraqis are parading in the streets and dressing down soldiers with flowers and bouquets, doesn't that give the surest sign of victory for the military conflict?", "Well, I mean, in the short=-term of course it does. The big question is the following here. I think a war in Iraq will deepen the sense of humiliation and defeat felt by the Arab youth and make him a fertile ground, recruiting ground for militant causes like Osama bin Laden.", "But if Saddam Hussein has all these enemies in the Arab world, and we've yet to see a strong coalition come together and say we support him and he should stay in power, why, then, would that suggest that the young Arab world would be willing to fight and carry on his cause? Where's the evidence of that?", "The truth is there is no love for Saddam Hussein. In fact, most people would believe that Iraq and the Iraqi people will be a better place without Saddam Hussein. It's really American foreign policy. I think it's the rush to war. It's the feeling that this is really an unjust war. And in the same manner, in the same manner as the 1991 Gulf War really played a decisive role in giving rise to bin Ladenism, I feel that this war, which is seen to be unjust, will give rise to new jihadic groups who are determined to attack America and Americans.", "You think the Persian Gulf War gave rise to Osama bin Laden?", "The 1991 Gulf War...", "Understood.", "... played a decisive role in giving rise.", "But because...", "The stationing of American troops in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, the Iraqi tragedy, the prolonged Iraqi tragedy, they were really provided, you might say, fueled the revolt against America, which was exploited by Osama bin Laden.", "Help me understand this, then. In 1991, it was largely thought throughout the Arab world that they wanted to have an Arab solution to the situation in Iraq. Why are we not hearing that 12 years later?", "Well, unfortunately now the Arab world is extremely splintered and divided, even though most Arabs would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein, they are, I mean, terrified of the after shocks of the Iraqi earthquake. Most Arabs do not really believe that the United States would have the stomach and the staying power to stick around and help really reconstruct Iraq and invest in the political future of the region.", "But we have seen and heard from the White House, we have heard from London time after time that they are willing and committed to do this. And in the past, they have not fulfilled their word. I agree with you on that. But this time is different.", "Well, as...", "This time is for real.", "... as you know, Afghanistan is not a reassuring case at all. I mean will the...", "Why not?", "Will the United States invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the political and economic and social reconstruction of Iraq? Will the United States stick around for one or two decades? I mean what if the Iraqi project, I mean, proves to be very difficult? Will the United States, I mean, invest a treasure and blood in the country itself? I mean there are many unanswered questions and this is why I believe that we might prevail over Saddam Hussein militarily and lose the larger and more important political struggle for the hearts and minds of Muslims.", "To be continued. Nice to see you again.", "It's a pleasure.", "Fawaz Serges, thank you, Sarah Lawrence College.", "Yes, sir."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HEMMER", "FAWAZ GERGES, PROFESSOR, SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE", "HEMMER", "GERGES", "HEMMER", "GERGES", "HEMMER", "GERGES", "HEMMER", "GERGES", "HEMMER", "GERGES", "HEMMER", "GERGES", "HEMMER", "GERGES", "HEMMER", "GERGES", "HEMMER", "GERGES", "HEMMER", "GERGES", "HEMMER", "GERGES", "HEMMER", "GERGES"]}
{"id": "CNN-287455", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-06-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/25/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Donald Trump Speaks about Brexit and Possible Vice Presidential Picks While in Scotland", "utt": ["Welcome back. Donald Trump is in Scotland today. The trip was planned to promote one of his golf courses, but he landed just in time for the Brexit bombshell vote. Some political pundits are saying those results bode well for Trump come November. And the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is pouncing on the opportunity, tweeting, quote, \"Many people are equating Brexit and what is going on in Great Britain with what is happening in the U.S. People want their country back.\" Joining me right now from Aberdeen, Scotland, CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta who is traveling with Trump. And you say this has been one unusual journey.", "It really was, Fredricka, that's right. During a pretty strange press conference which really just rolled across the golf course here in Aberdeen, Scotland, we stopped at this hole. He took some questions. We'd go to another hole, he's take some more questions. Donald Trump throughout the course of that journey did take questions from reporters and talked about the Brexit vote. He once again said there were parallels between what occurred here in the U.K. and what he hopes will happen back here in the U.S. He hopes that same kind of sentiment and push will push him into the White House come November. But at the same time there were other questions that were asked. And we did ask him during a quick one-on-one interview with the presumptive GOP nominee whether he is working on his campaign at all. And he did say, yes, he is working on his vice presidential selection process over here in Scotland. Here what he had to say.", "I am indeed. I actually --", "How's the process coming along?", "It's coming along good. A lot of people who want it. I will tell you one thing, I'm getting calls from a lot of people and they want it. The only people that say they don't want it are the people that were never asked. I read, everyone says, they said they don't want it. They weren't asked, but we have a lot of people that want that slot.", "Now, one other bit of news that came up. A reporter asked Donald Trump whether or not he would be comfortable with a Muslim emigrating to the U.S. from Scotland. You recall that Donald Trump has said throughout the course of this campaign that he wants to have a temporary ban on Muslims coming into the United States. Donald Trump said he would be OK with a Muslim coming from Scotland. And then reporters went back to him and pressed him on this, and then Donald Trump went on to say later on in the day in the campaign confirmed this that Trump is now only interested in banning Muslims coming in from countries with a heavy amount of terrorism. Now, obviously, Fredricka, there's a lot of wiggle room in that, a lot of uncertainty in that. What does it all mean? We'll still waiting for more clarifications from the Trump campaign. But it does seem to be a bit of a softening of that original hardline stance. But at the same time he is really waffling a bit on this issue. He has not offered a clear, concise stance on this issue. Other things he came up with during this press conference, he did defend his trip over here to visit these golf courses, Fredricka, saying this was the work of his sons working on these golf courses and that he deserved to have that chance to come here oversee their work before he heads back to the United States later on tonight. Fredricka?", "And so Jim, the whole issue about, you know, banning Muslims and whether he's softening his language or his approach or whether this is reiterating something, he may have already conveyed before. We're still looking for some real clarity on this. But among those questions is it also being asked that what he may have tweeted out today or most recently about he would make I guess concessions for a Muslim from Scotland to come as opposed to from a terror state, that that is a sentiment that he had tweeted out previously and he just re- tweeted that most recently? Or is that one of the, you know, issues of clarification we're also looking for?", "Well, one thing I can tell you, Fredricka, is that shortly after the Orlando shooting, Donald Trump was saying something to this effect, where he was sort of softening, backpedaling a bit on this Muslim ban. But we've heard him do this before. You'll recall it was earlier on in this campaign where he once told an interviewer that this was just a suggestion on his part. And then after the media said, wait a minute, you're saying that was just a suggestion? He went back said, no, no, no. This is what I believe in. And so really I think what has to occur is Donald Trump just has to come out and say what is his plan when it comes to banning Muslims coming into the United States? Which countries is he talking about? How would this be conducted? And we just have not gotten clear answers from the campaign so far. But he did say today that a Muslim coming from Scotland would be OK, which is a different take on that original position.", "All right, more confusion. Jim Acosta, thank you so much from Aberdeen, Scotland.", "That's right. You bet.", "All right, thank you so much. Straight ahead, the polarizing debate over gun control rocked Washington this week. President Obama also weighing in again on that issue. That is next."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "ACOSTA", "DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TRUMP", "ACOSTA", "WHITFIELD", "ACOSTA", "WHITFIELD", "ACOSTA", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-339950", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2018-05-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/12/ndaysat.03.html", "summary": "Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Contradicts White House Again; WH Won't Apologize For Aide's Cruel McCain Joke; White House Says Justice Department, Not Trump Denied Merger Deal", "utt": ["-- safari park in the Netherlands. Apparently, they didn't get the memo that you're not supposed to get out of your vehicle while visiting a park.", "So, this was according to the \"Huffington Post,\" the family got out of their vehicle to take photographs when the cheetah started moving in. Fortunately, here, no one was injured.", "Rudy Giuliani at it again. Reportedly says President Trump blocked the proposed AT&T/Time Warner merger.", "Trump is saying it's not me, it's the DOJ. It's the antitrust division. Rudy is saying the opposite. He's saying the president decided to do this.", "Donald Trump does not like CNN. He doesn't like CNN's parent company, Time Warner, which is who AT&T is trying to buy.", "Not an apology for what Kelly Sadler said about Senator McCain.", "I'm not going to comment on an internal staff meeting.", "The president put his foot down and said you will not apologize.", "I don't understand what kind of environment you're working in where that would be acceptable, and you can come to work the next day and still have a job.", "Rocks in the steep crater walls are falling into that, and that's creating gas explosions.", "Should just let mother nature do its thing.", "Good morning to you. He's a drama machine. That's how one biographer is describing the president's new lawyer this morning and drama is exactly what Rudy Giuliani is causing for the White House.", "Less than one month into his new role, Giuliani is now contradicting the federal government and his boss calling into question the independence of the Justice Department. Will he have to walk back these comments as he's been forced to do many times already this month. CNN's Abby Phillip is live in Washington. So, Abby, walk us through this. What exactly did Giuliani say and how does it compare to what the president has said?", "Well, this all began when Giuliani was trying to defend the president against claims he was unduly influenced by his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, who had been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by private corporations, including by AT&T, to help them with their lobbying in Washington. AT&T in particular wanted Cohen to help them -- help guide them through this process of getting approval for the acquisition of Time Warner, CNN's parent company. But Giuliani, instead of toeing the White House's line on this for months which for months had been that the president was not at all involved in this decision, he said this to \"The Huffington Post.\" \"Whatever lobbying was done didn't reach the president,\" Giuliani said. He added, \"He did drain the swamp. The president denied the merger. They didn't get the result they wanted.\" Now the key phrase here is the president denied the merger. The president, we know, has been pretty vocal about this AT&T/Time Warner merger. He's also been vocal about CNN, which is a subsidiary of Time Warner, who he has called fake news. Listen to what he said at a recent rally about the issue of this merger.", "AT&T is buying Time Warner and, thus, CNN, a deal we will not approve in my administration because it's too much concentration of power in the hands of too few.", "So, the president there seemed to claim that this was about antitrust, about reducing the amount of concentration of power in the marketplace and also back in November, Raj Shah, the principal deputy press secretary for the White House also denied in a statement categorically that the president had spoken to anyone at the Department of Justice about the merger. And he added that no one in the White House was authorized to talk about this merger with the Justice Department as well. So, the question remains right now, is Rudy Giuliani out on a limb, or did he reveal something that perhaps he wasn't supposed to, which is that the president did have a hand in the decision of the Justice Department to block this merger, which is now still in the court of law right now -- Victor and Christi.", "Yes, still in legal limbo to some degree. Abby Philip, thank you.", "All right. So, Rudy Giuliani has been on the job for less than a month, but he continues to fumble here causing these controversies. Let's count them off. First, revealing the president reimbursed his lawyer for paying off an adult film actress and raising questions about when the president knew about the hush money deal. Days later he announced on live television that three Americans detained in North Korea would be released that day. Not only were they not released for almost a week, but Giuliani jumped an announcement by the officials who should have announced something like that. Last week, Giuliani hinted the president would rip up the Iran deal and call for regime change, comments that the U.S. defense secretary refused to defend and now we've got the merger comments. Either Giuliani just accidentally told the truth and contradicted the White House, or he messed up his facts and made his boss look bad again. And the president will have to, I guess, come out and say he's still getting his facts straight. Still waiting on a response from the White House.", "CNN political reporter, Rebecca Berg with us now. Let's pick it up there, Rebecca. Do you expect that we will hear from the president about this?", "Well, we haven't on many of these issues. Oftentimes, we'll outsource this to Sarah Sanders at the White House press podium, but we might. I mean, we know that the president likes to talk to the press occasionally unexpectedly in some of these informal gaggles before or after events. So, we might hear directly from the president on this. But, of course, the main question here is, is he happy with Rudy Giuliani and the message that he is out there promoting, or does the president believe that Rudy is fumbling -- to use the word, the victory use, in his job? And is there some frustration there. We don't totally know the answer to that yet, but they have a really interesting relationship, Rudy Giuliani and the president. They're very simpatico in so many ways. That may give Rudy Giuliani a longer leash than some other allies of the president.", "Good point. We talked to Joey Jackson, former defense attorney, earlier this morning. And he said there's a real problem with this statement that he made that the president denied the merger because the president has said otherwise. And Joey said, the Department of Justice is to protect the people. It's supposed to protect the president or the president's whims. Do you think the Department of Justice has a responsibility to speak up about this?", "That would not surprise me really because this is their reputation on the line. They are supposed to be representing this as an independent arbiter. Basically, affirm that the president didn't have a role in this process, and so I would not be surprised to hear that from the Department of Justice at some point. Just reaffirming that they operated independent of the president on this decision. But, of course, that would only be the case if that is true. And Rudy Giuliani suggesting that the president did have some role in this. Now of course, it's possible that Rudy does not know what he's talking about on this issue, that he was just riffing, but we don't know yet the full story. So, it would make sense at some point for the Department of Justice to address this.", "This is part of what's interesting, though. Rudy Giuliani said that he came on board specifically to help the president with the Mueller investigation. Victor just went through from everything that he has spoken on thus far, the problems it's created already. But the president has to be greenlighting these interviews that Rudy Giuliani is doing, isn't he?", "Right. And the president when he was asked a few days ago about Rudy Giuliani and what he's been saying in some of these interviews, he was supportive. He said, you know, he's learning. He's easing into the job, and he will get the message straight. And so, you hear that support from the president for Rudy Giuliani and we know that President Trump likes to have his allies out there on cable news. He watches a lot of cable news, of course, and likes to see them out there talking about him, promoting his agenda. It's no surprise that he would want to see Rudy Giuliani on tv. What is surprising is that Rudy Giuliani is taking that leash that the president has given him and using it to talk about issues completely unrelated to the Mueller probe and of course, getting off message in the process.", "I want to ask you real quickly about something people are still talking about today, Kelly Sadler in the White House mentioning that John McCain, Senator John McCain is dying anyway in the middle of a conversation that they were having there. I want to listen to the president here, what he was saying earlier this week when he was in Indiana. Let's listen.", "They were saying, he's going to get us into a nuclear war. He's going to get us into a nuclear war, and you know what gets you into nuclear wars? And you know what gets you into other wars? Weakness. Weakness.", "Weakness. That's why I wanted to revisit that. Everybody, many, many people asking why is the president, the White House, somebody not apologizing for this comment that the White House is not denying? Is there a sense that the president sees an apology as a weakness and that's why we're not hearing one?", "That would be consistent, Christi, with what we've seen from the president in the past. On the few occasions that you've had some of the press secretaries for the White House apologize or seem to apologize from the podium to the press corps, we've heard reports afterward that the president was upset about that. Because you're absolutely right, he doesn't like to show weakness. He doesn't like to suggest that he made a mistake or there was a misstep by his White House and that's likely the case here as well. But this is a situation where it just comes down to basic civility and humanity that the president and the White House would apologize in this case. But not seeing that from this president, not seeing that from this White House. and, of course, it's been an unusual White House in many ways. This is just another way, I suppose.", "All right. Rebecca Berg, always good to see you. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is backtracking on the comment he made that President Trump is embarrassed by the Russia probe. Kelly later clarified that he meant to say the president was distracted by the investigation. All right. First, listen to what Kelly originally told NPR. This was an interview that aired on Thursday.", "There may not be a cloud but certainly the president is somewhat embarrassed, frankly, when world leaders come in. The first couple of minutes of every conversation might revolve around that kind of thing.", "And just hours later, Kelly dialed back the comments while speaking in the Rose Garden. He told reporters the investigation is unfair. An imminent threat to the island of Hawaii. Scientists warn that another volcanic eruption could blast ballistic rocks the size of a lawn mower into the air. CNN meteorologist, Allison Chinchar has an update for us.", "Yes, and Victor, if those weren't big enough concerns, you also have the concern for vog and acid rain. We'll talk about what those are, coming up.", "Still to come -- social media and smartphones are capturing the plight of African-Americans many face on a daily basis. Now the nation is tuning in. Why my next guest says being black in America is really hard? He calls it living while black. We'll talk about that just ahead.", "Also -- at this time next week, you'll be watching the royal wedding. There's a lot of anticipation about the big day for Prince Harry and actress, Meghan Markle. Later this hour, we'll take a look at how they may change perceptions of the royal family.", "The world's view of the British monarchy is probably going to be determined more by Harry and Meghan than by William and Kate. Certainly, by Charles and Camilla. That's a very unusual situation."], "speaker": ["CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "PHILLIP", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "REBECCA BERG, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "PAUL", "BERG", "PAUL", "BERG", "PAUL", "PRESIDENT TRUMP", "PAUL", "BERG", "PAUL", "BERG", "BLACKWELL", "JOHN KELLY, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF (via telephone)", "BLACKWELL", "ALLISON CHINCHAR, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE"]}
{"id": "CNN-1526", "program": "Newsday", "date": "2000-1-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/27/nd.01.html", "summary": "Washington State Bomb Conspiracy Investigation Leads to Senegal Man Linked With Osama bin Laden", "utt": ["We begin with a new development in a terrorism investigation that spans the globe from the United States to Africa. Here's CNN's justice correspondent Pierre Thomas with the latest -- Pierre?", "Sonia, CNN has learned the Washington state bomb conspiracy has led investigators to Africa and is increasingly pointing to possible involvement by suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden. CNN has learned Senegal officials are detaining a man who investigators say has ties to bin Laden and who is known to associate with Algerian suspects targeted for allegedly smuggling explosives into the U.S. According to sources, the man identified as Ohuld Slahi could be a major player in a terrorism conspiracy that was uncovered with the December 14th arrest of Ahmed Ressam at a remote border crossing at Port Angeles, Washington. Ressam is expected to be arraigned in Seattle, this afternoon. Sources tell CNN Slahi, who recently left Montreal, Canada, for Senegal, is a brother-in-law to a top lieutenant in the bin Laden organization. The United States has accused bin Laden of masterminding the bombing of a U.S. embassy -- of two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. And according to sources, Slahi was in close communication with Mohktar Haouri, indicted last week under suspicion of being a mid-level manager in the Washington smuggling conspiracy. U.S. fear a terrorist assault was being planned for last New Year's celebration, but they do not yet know what the specific target was. This much they think they do know: a terrorist cell based in Canada was planning a potentially-deadly act -- Sonia.", "Thanks, Pierre."], "speaker": ["SONIA RUSELER, CNN ANCHOR", "PIERRE THOMAS, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "RUSELER"]}
{"id": "CNN-206298", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2013-5-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/06/cg.01.html", "summary": "Syrian Crisis Escalates; Syria: More than Just a Civil War?", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. In our world lead, 42 Syrian soldiers are dead from reported Israeli airstrikes. That's according to a Syrian opposition group. These strikes seemed to be aimed at preventing weapons from being transferred to the militant group Hezbollah, which the U.S. State Department considers to be a terrorist group, sources tell CNN's Barbara Starr. While the Syrian government says these strikes open the door to retaliation, an Israeli general says that there are -- quote -- \"no winds of war.\" I want to bring in Hala Gorani, CNN International anchor and correspondent, and Josh Rogin, who has a brand-new job as a senior correspondent for \"Newsweek,\" Daily Beast. Thanks for joining us. Josh, congratulations.", "Thank you.", "I want to play for you guys something that the ambassador, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, said to me on Friday when I asked him about -- at this point it was just reports that there had been some strikes by the Israelis against the transfer of these weapons.", "We have a very clear policy. If the Syrian regime tries to transfer chemical weapons or what we call game-changing weaponry to terrorist organizations, particularly to Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israel will not remain passive. We're very serious about it.", "That's about as close to an acknowledgment as you're going to get from an ambassador before news like this breaks. Do you expect this to escalate?", "I don't think that at this point, Israel expects it to escalate, because when you look at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trip to China that went ahead as planned, he didn't even mention what's going on in Syria right now on his first day in China. So, it seems as though they're taking some preventive measures in the part of the country where they think there might be retaliatory strikes, not from Syria, but from Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon, which is significant, by deploying their Iron Dome system -- Dome system in that part of the country. So, I don't think the expectation is for an immediate, imminent escalation to a region wide situation at this point.", "Josh, people like you and me and Hala have been parsing something that President Obama said a few weeks ago, the red line, where there was a story in \"The New York Times\" over the weekend saying it was an ad libbed red line. But let's go back and take a listen to what the president actually said when it came to chemical weapons used by the Syrian regime.", "We have been very clear to the Assad regime but also to other players on the ground that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. That would change my equation.", "So we're told now that aides were surprised when he laid out that red line. But he laid it out anyway. Does it matter?", "It does matter. Words matter. When you set red lines, people believe them. And when you don't uphold them, people lose faith in your credibility to uphold them. We saw President Obama last week say that, oh, Syria has crossed several lines. Now, he's sort of walking back from the red lines. The overall problem is just getting worse. It doesn't really in the end matter what the lines are. What matters is what the U.S. response will be. That's what we're all waiting to see.", "And, Hala, we've heard from a United Nations official that there are reports, not conclusive ones --", "Right.", "-- that the rebels may have used --", "That's complicating --", "Exactly. May have used --", "After we've heard from Israel and other Western countries that they believe the regime has used chemical weapons, now, all of a sudden, we're hearing the possibility, that wait a minute, it could be the rebels.", "And what are you hearing about that?", "Well, Carla del Ponte, the human rights investigator for the U.N., made this statement on Swiss Italian television. Today, the U.N. came out with this statement that was very short saying, hang on, this is not conclusive. It sounded as though the U.N. was sort of taken aback, surprised by this Carla del Ponte statement. So, there is some confusion at the U.N. I mean, that's the impression they're giving outside observers at this stage.", "Right. What my administration sources tell me is the State Department and the White House don't believe the Syrian rebels have the capability to produce these weapons nor do they have them in their possession. I mean, we're talking about complicated weapons that are complicated to deliver, complicated weapon systems. And the Syrian opposition simply, probably doesn't have the ability to do that, probably. The most likely scenario was that was the regime that used these weapons on at least two occasions, maybe four occasions as recently as last week.", "I'm told now that CNN correspondent Fred Pleitgen is in Damascus. Fred, can you hear me?", "Yes, I certainly can, Jake. We're having trouble with the line here. But I think we're good now.", "So, what are you hearing from Damascus? What's the latest there?", "Well, I mean, I can tell you that over the past couple of days, the Syrian regime is angry, first of all, of course, at these air strikes that went on. One of the things that happened is we were basically sleeping from Tuesday -- from Saturday into Sunday night. And, then all of a sudden, the night just absolutely erupted, and it was several initial explosions and there were secondary explosions that went on for well over an hour. And that seemed to indicate to us that some sort of major installation had been hit, probably some sort of ammunition depot. And , then what happened is that the Syrian state television put up a banner saying that Israeli rockets hit a research facility. But people living in the vicinity there say that they felt the wave, the blast wave in their houses more than a mile away. So, clearly, it must have been something much bigger. The Syrian government is absolutely angry. I mean, one of the things that we have to keep in mind about all this is what was hit is really the power center of the Syrian military. There are several units of the elite republican guard that are in those military facilities. There is that research center. There's also a big weapons depot there as well. So the Syrians are absolutely angry at this. And as we've been saying, they are threatening retaliation. At this point, it's unclear how they want to do that. But people here in Damascus are on the edge, the government is on the edge and the military, I can tell you at this point, is licking its wounds, Jake.", "And, Josh, this wouldn't be the first time if the Israelis conducted this and it certainly seems like they probably did. But it wouldn't be the first time that the Israelis had actually bombed a site in a local Arab country and there really hadn't been all-out war as a result.", "Right. Let's remember that Israel attacked Syria's suspected nuclear reactor in 2007. They attacked another arm shipment to Hezbollah in January and then there was the attacks on Thursday and then probably Saturday. So, that's at least four we can name that haven't gotten a big response. Let's remember, this is not an Israeli attack on Assad. It's an Israeli attack on Iran and Hezbollah. That's the battle that's going on on the streets of Damascus as increased Hezbollah and Iranian activity forces the Israelis to respond.", "But this enforces the narrative of the Assad regime. From the beginning, the Assad regime has said these are outside forces working against the Syrian people. And this reported Israeli strike that strategically is on the site of the rebels, ironically now, you have the unlikely bedfellows here, reinforces that narrative, just as the killing and the atrocities continue.", "All right. Hala, Josh, and, of course, Fred in Damascus -- thanks so much for joining us. Josh, congratulations on the new job.", "Thanks.", "New information just in to CNN about last fall's deadly attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. In an interview with congressional investigators, a former diplomat in Libya, U.S. diplomat, expressed more could have been done to stop the attacks. Greg Hicks, then the U.S. deputy chief of mission in Libya, told investigators last month that a show of U.S. or NATO airpower might have been able to frighten off the attackers before they were able to fire a mortar at the CIA annex in Benghazi. Defense officials have disputed that any assets were in place to take any sort of action that would have made a difference. Hicks also said despite that White House suggestions to the contrary, he thought it was a terror attack from the get-go and that his jaw hit the floor when he saw U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, go on TV and essentially blame the violence on protests against an anti-Islam YouTube video since she was contradicting the Libyan president who had gone on TV that morning and said the attacks were conducted by Islamic extremists with possible terrorist links. Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed in the attack along with three other Americans. We will have much more on this story on tomorrow and on Wednesday, when there will be a congressional hearing. Next in our \"Sports Lead\", it's a Kentucky Derby first. Not the come-from-behind win for Orb, but one woman correctly picking the top four finishers. How much did her first-time $1 bet win her? Plus, \"Iron Man 3\" topped the box office this weekend. But that wasn't the only recognition the film received. It also struck gold at the golden trailer awards. What's that? Find out in our \"Pop Lead\". That's coming up."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "JOSH ROGIN, \"NEWSWEEK\"/DAILY BEAST", "TAPPER", "MICHAEL OREN, ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES", "TAPPER", "HALA GORANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "TAPPER", "JOSH ROGIN, SENIOR CORRESPONDENT, NEWSWEEK/DAILY BEAST", "TAPPER", "GORANI", "TAPPER", "GORANI", "TAPPER", "GORANI", "TAPPER", "GORANI", "ROGIN", "TAPPER", "FRED PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "PLEITGEN", "TAPPER", "ROGIN", "GORANI", "TAPPER", "ROGIN", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-69430", "program": "CNN LIVE ON LOCATION", "date": "2003-4-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0304/15/lol.03.html", "summary": "Iraqis Meet to Discuss Country's Future", "utt": ["We begin this hour with an important milestone in the war in Iraq. Iraqi Shiite and Sunni Muslims, as well as Kurds, met for the first time today at a U.S.-sponsored forum to discuss the country's next government. It happened in the ancient Biblical city of Ur. But not everyone welcomed the meeting. CNN's John Vause is in nearby Nasiriyah with details.", "This is the first of many meetings which the U.S. will hold around Iraq. They're meeting with Iraqi opposition groups, as well as exile groups. And they describe it as basically an informal chat, a chance to listen to their views, as they work towards a forming this interim Iraqi authority. But, already, the deep divisions within this community are beginning to emerge. We know that the majority Shiites have banned or boycotted attending this meeting, although a number of Shiites did in fact show up. But the majority did not. We also know that Chalabi, Ahmad Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National congress, an exile group who many see as a possible future leader of Iraq, he did not attend this and said he sent a delegate to this meeting in his place. Now, getting back to the Shiite Muslims, we know that, earlier today here in Nasiriyah, thousands protested in the streets. They feel that, basically, they are already being left out. This is not a good sign for the United States. This is the first meeting. And, already, we're seeing the first big demonstration. They believe that their voices are not being heard, that they are not -- they are basically protesting this meeting which is taking place just a few miles away from the city center of Nasiriyah. There are many, many issues for these opposition groups and Iraqi leaders to tackle in the coming months, mainly, how long will the United States stay there, what kind of interim authority it will be, what kind of government it will ultimately take place who will take over, basically, from Jay Garner, the retried U.S. Army general who is now in charge, according to the Pentagon, for rebuilding Iraq. Many issues as well: Many Iraqis do not want the coalition forces to stay. Many, though, do want coalition forces to stay to try and prevent looting and to try and provide some kind of security. There's been a lot of looting and a lot of crimes committed since the fall of the Baath Party and Saddam Hussein, so many people hoping that the United States and Britain will stay here in the short term. But it seems that nobody wants the United States here for any period of time. In fact, they say, an Iraqi government which is not led by Iraqis is nothing more than colonization."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-48388", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-1-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/31/lt.19.html", "summary": "Irradiated Mail Making Capitol Hill Staffers Ill", "utt": ["Capitol Hill staffers say mail treated for anthrax contamination is making them sick. Jeanne Meserve now with a look from Washington at this story.", "Because of letters like this, mail to the Capitol now looks like this: irradiated.", "You can see how the label is kind of crumbly. It melted away partially from the plastic.", "Irradiation, zapping the mail with electron beams, kills anthrax spores. But the question now is does it make people sick? Some Capitol Hill staffers who open mail have reported a variety of symptoms.", "The illnesses go from burning eyes to nausea to headaches to kind of a choking sensation like in the back of the throat -- it gets dry -- to feeling like there is something on their hands, and sometimes, actually a burning sensation on their fingers.", "So far, we've found no medical or scientific reasons why irradiated mail would make someone feel sick.", "The postal service says irradiation produces more paper dust and an odor, but that the mail is aired out before it is delivered to get rid of byproduct gases.", "There are no toxics being put off by the mail and there is no carbon monoxide or ozone being put off by the mail at levels that would make anyone ill.", "But, Senator Dianne Feinstein is urging a proactive approach. And the Senate sergeant at arms, Alphonso Lenhardt, has formed a task force, including representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control. Lenhardt says it will move expeditiously to gain an understanding of any impact the irradiation process has on offices and their staff. (on camera): the answers are of importance far beyond Washington. The postal service still has plans to irradiate much of the mail it delivers nationwide. Jeanne Meserve, CNN, Washington."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MESERVE", "HOWARD GANTMAN, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN", "DEBORAH WILLHITE, U.S. POSTAL SERVICE", "MESERVE", "WILLHITE", "MESERVE"]}
{"id": "CNN-98294", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2005-10-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/04/sitroom.03.html", "summary": "New Orleans to Lay Off Workers; Bush Holds Press Conference", "utt": ["It's 5 p.m. now in Washington, and you're in THE SITUATION ROOM, where news and information from around the world arrive at one place simultaneously. Happening now, it's 4 p.m. in New Orleans, where some city workers will soon be out of a job. Mayor Ray Nagin says the city is strapped for cash and must lay off those workers. It's among our very worst fears, bird flu in the United States. One expert says it's not a matter of if it will come here, but when? Estimating millions of deaths worldwide. The president now focused on avoiding an epidemic. And it's a CNN exclusive, keeping drugs out of your children's hands. \"Just say no\" is being replaced with aggressive campaigns of sweeps and arrests. We'll take you along for an exclusive ride. I'm John King. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Thanks for joining us. Wolf has the day off. Now the developing story we're following. That's a problem on top of many other problems for the mayor of New Orleans: how to kick start the city's devastated economy while putting even more people out of work. Mayor Ray Nagin has just announced the city will lay off some 3,000 city workers, because, he says, there's not enough money to pay them. Our Lisa Sylvester now with the latest -- Lisa.", "Well, John, many of these residents lost their homes, lost everything that they own. And now they're being told that they may lose their jobs. The problem is that the city is running out of money with no tax revenue coming in.", "Unfortunately, we have searched high and low. We've checked the federal sources. We've checked the state sources. We've talked to local banks and other financial institutions. And we are just not able to put together the financing necessary to continue to maintain city hall staffing at its current levels. So after weeks of working to secure these funds to make payroll, the city of New Orleans today announces it has been forced to lay off up to 3,000 classified and unclassified city workers as a result of the financial constraints in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.", "Now the kinds of jobs that they're talking about, accounting jobs, secretarial jobs, the people who deliver summonses, clerk positions. And all in all, the mayor says it will save anywhere about $6 to 7 million of the $20 million payroll. And these layoffs are expected some time in the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile, Governor Kathleen Blanco is trying to get a change in a law. She's trying to get a change in the federal law that will allow the federal government, FEMA, in this instance, to pick up more of the tab and to pay for the base salaries of essential workers -- John.", "Lisa Sylvester, live for us in New Orleans. And here with us to talk more about these layoffs and other challenges facing the city of New Orleans, joining us on the phone is the president of the city council, Oliver Thomas. Mr. Thomas, thank you for joining us in THE SITUATION ROOM. Let me just begin with a simple question: the right call by the mayor today?", "Well, you know, I think the mayor has been like a contestant on the Monte Hall show. And every door he's looked behind, there was private banking. There was no prize. There was the state, and there was no prize from the government behind door number three, no prize, no relief. So at some point, everyone knew that these chickens were going to come home to roost in terms of how long we would be able to continue employing the same people without any new revenue. So our situation is no different than the business operating without bringing in any new revenue, any new money to meet their expenses.", "And is there no way, sir, whether it's through the state or the federal government to essentially tell these workers, you have to stay home but you will be eligible for some help, part of their paychecks? Or do they have to now go seek federal aid?", "Well, I would hope so. The one thing that city council is going to do, and I initiated today when I met with Dr. Hatsfield, the CAO, is that we're going to put together a job fair with all of these hundred million dollar employees. They're going to need a lot of help. We're talking about anywhere in the next few years, 10,000 to 15,000 to 20,000 new workers being in the city with this hundred billion dollar effort. A lot of those city workers could be absorbed by a lot of those companies, especially a lot of the skilled laborers. Those who used to work on our roadways, working in our infrastructure, park and parkway, you know, road maintenance, sewer and water. These $100 million, billion dollar companies, can easily absorb those employees, because they provide the same time of service.", "And how...", "This has been another hurricane. We had Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita now we have Hurricane Layoff.", "Is...", "Very little relief for the people in our region.", "You mentioned very -- very little relief, sir. Excuse me. Is there any way to guarantee these jobs to people who at least used to live in New Orleans? Obviously, many people can't return home now. But when I was there last week, people were saying that essentially Baton Rouge has become like a suburb. And people are driving the 65, 75 miles every day, because they can get jobs cleaning up, paying them $10, $12, $15, sometimes even more an hour. And they're now commuting back and forth. Is there any way, once the residential situation is stabilized, to say those who lived here get first priority?", "Absolutely. That's what we should be saying. I mean, that's what our congressional delegation, our U.S. senators. You know, that's what they should be mandating, that these federal contracts not be released until southeast and southwest Louisiana people have priority. We're going to have $200 billion invested in this area. That's enough to pay people who are laid off more money than they make right now and build the middle class we never had before. That just can't come from parish president Rodriguez, the mayor, or myself. We need the federal government, basically, I mean, you know, just really hollering, screaming from the loudest mountain top about take care of their people first.", "Bit of a catch 22, sir, though, isn't it? That you can't hire somebody from New Orleans if there's no place for that person to live?", "Yes, but that's absolutely correct. And we heard parish president Davis over in St. Tammany basically saying he's been begging for trailers, because he has jobs. His problem is not as severe. They only got a couple of hundred trailers, and he's been trying to get 20,000. So you know, everybody is screaming the same song. But every time we turn around there's another storm. There's another storm in Louisiana. And it's not a natural storm. It's a bureaucratic storm. It's a storm of neglect. So at some point, give us -- look, these are American citizens. A lot of them have been paying taxes for a long, long time. And have gotten very little for their tax dollars. So we're not really giving them anything anyway. We spend more money than this in foreign aid every month.", "City council president Oliver Thomas in the city of New Orleans. Sir, thank you for your thoughts today. An issue we will continue to follow in the days, weeks and months, probably years ahead. Thank you, sir. And now to an event not held in four months at the White House. President Bush holding a news conference, discussing energy prices, hurricane damage and his relatively unknown Supreme Court nominee. On Harriet Miers, Mr. Bush says he knows her well, even if the rest of the country might not. CNN White House correspondent Susan Malveaux has more.", "Well, John, of course, what was really important here, there were two audiences the president was addressing, first the American people but also his conservative base, and perhaps that was the more important audience, trying to reassure them in this case here the selection of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court justice position. They are very concerned, some conservatives, that she will change the balance, the ideological balance of the court, be more like a David Souter. Of course President Bush's father's selection that he chose for the Supreme Court who ended up being much more liberal than many of the conservatives were comfortable with. Well today, President Bush made it very clear to that particular audience, saying, \"Yes, I'm a pro life president despite the fact I have not spoken with Harriet Miers on the subject of abortion.\" He believes very clearly that she'll be in line with the conservative thinking.", "She's an enormously accomplished person who's incredibly bright. Secondly, she knows the kind of judge I'm looking for. After all, she was the part of the process that selected John Roberts. I don't want somebody to go on the bench to try to supplant the legislative process. I'm interested in people that will be strict constructionists.", "And, John, of course a lot of people looking at the president this time around since May, looking at someone they believe to have been weakened by a number of developments. The president still coming forward very strong, saying and urging Americans to support him when comes to his foreign policy in Iraq but also making a very big concession here, saying that he believes the Social Security program -- this was the centerpiece of his domestic agenda -- has actually stalled -- John.", "And he passed up an opportunity, Suzanne, did he not to criticize his father for the Souter pick?", "He did. He said, \"I'm not going there.\"", "Suzanne Malveaux at the White House, thank you very much.", "Sure.", "In a worst case scenario, it could kill millions of people. So what is the government doing to prepare for a bird flu outbreak? President Bush weighs in. Also cries for help: 911 calls as that tour boat sinks on New York's Lake George, killing 20 people. Plus, fighting hurricanes. Some unusual ideas for averting disasters."], "speaker": ["JOHN KING, HOST", "LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MAYOR RAY NAGIN, NEW ORLEANS", "SYLVESTER", "KING", "OLIVER THOMAS, PRESIDENT, NEW ORLEANS CITY COUNCIL", "KING", "THOMAS", "KING", "THOMAS", "KING", "THOMAS", "KING", "THOMAS", "KING", "THOMAS", "KING", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MALVEAUX", "KING", "MALVEAUX", "KING", "MALVEAUX", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-293857", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2016-09-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/12/cg.02.html", "summary": "Trump CNBC Remarks Parsed; Trump Donations to His Own Foundation Questioned", "utt": ["Welcome back THE LEAD. Let's stay with politics. While the world has been focused upon Hillary Clinton's stumbles, literally and figuratively, Donald Trump this morning went on CNBC and he made several outrageous statements. He continues to refer to a sitting U.S. senator whose Native American roots have been questioned as Pocahontas. With zero evidence, he accused the Fed chair of not being independent and intentionally keeping interest rates low to help President Obama. And he suggested that the pending presidential debates would be rigged and unfair to him. \"They're gaming the system,\" he said, suggesting that there should be a debate with no moderator. Mr. Trump made that last claim out of apparent concern that moderators would be extra tough on him after criticism of NBC's Matt Lauer not sufficiently fact-checking Mr. Trump. One investigative reporter determined to fact-check Mr. Trump has looked into Mr. Trump's claims about charitable giving, and he faced a tough task, since the billionaire will not release his tax returns or list his charitable contributions made before this year. For months now, \"Washington Post\" reporter David Fahrenthold has reached out to more than 300 charities to see how much money the self- described billionaire has been donated, recording it with good old- fashioned pen and paper. David joins me now with his eye-opening look into his finding. David, thanks so much for being here. Congratulations on all the hard work. By your calculations, how much of Mr. Trump's own money has he donated to charity?", "Now, between the end of 2008 and this May, I found one donation out of his own pocket. That was for less than $10,000 back in 2009.", "One?", "One.", "And you have called and reached out to how many charities?", "Three hundred and twenty-six charities so far.", "And you have reached out to the campaign and asked for help. And?", "A number of times.", "CNN looked at the tax records for the Trump Foundation, found Trump has not donated to his charity, his own charity, since 2008, the Donald J. Trump Foundation. You had a blockbuster report over the weekend about the foundation. From your reporting, what should voters know about the Donald J. Trump Foundation?", "The most important thing is, it doesn't contain any of Donald J. Trump's money. In the world of philanthropy, if you start a foundation with your name on it, it's expected that the money in it is yours. But, as you said, Trump hasn't given any money to his own foundation since '08. Instead, he fills it with other people's money, and then he gives it away to people who are under the impression that it's actually Trump's.", "And then they give him recommendation for his charitable donations.", "They give him awards. And, more importantly for his business, they give him business. Trump's business at Mar-a-Lago in Florida depends on renting out his club to big charities, who can pay as much as $270,000 per night to rent it out. So, this helps him stay in the good graces of those charities without actually having to spend any of his own money.", "What is the difference between the Donald J. Trump Foundation and the Clinton Foundation?", "They are two really different animals. The Clinton Foundation is a really large organization, has about a staff of over 2,000. It actually does direct charitable work and employs people who do charitable work. And the questions are favors that Hillary Clinton might have given to the donors to that foundation. Trump's foundation, by contrast, has only ever had, at most, like $3 million. It only has about a million dollars in it now. It has no staff. Its board is just the Trumps and one other person. It's basically just something that exists on paper to pass money through.", "In order for him to get recognition and then to rent out the Mar-a-Lago Hotel?", "That's possible. It's also -- he lives in sort of a social world in Palm Beach, where it's important to be seen as being charitable. Often, he wants to sort of make a flourish of saying, I'm going to give my money away. A good example in on the \"Celebrity Apprentice.\" When he was the host of that, he would often say, you, celebrity, I'm going to give you a donation out of my own pocket. And in those cases, it was also other people's money that he eventually used to give to those folks.", "You're on the hunt right now for two things, a $20,000 portrait of Donald Trump and a Broncos helmet autographed by Tim Tebow. Why are you looking for those things?", "Well, the IRS rules prohibit people who run foundations from using the charity's money to buy things for themselves, for obvious reason. These are two things that Donald Trump used his charity's money to buy for himself. He bought -- paid $12,000 for a Tim Tebow-signed Broncos helmet at an auction in 2012. And in 2007, we just learned he used $20,000 to buy a portrait of himself. Now, you're not allowed to buy those things and put them up in your house, put them up in your businesses if you used charity money. So we're trying to find out what has become of those items.", "And needless to say, the Trump campaign and the Trump Organization have not been helpful in your pursuit?", "No.", "You're like Indiana Jones. David Fahrenthold, thank you so much. Keep in touch. Keep up the great work. A shaky Syrian cease-fire now just about five hours in, is it holding? Can humanitarian aid get to those who desperately need it? That's next. Plus, he's an Oscar Award-winning actor who spends his free time tracking down corruption in Africa. George Clooney joins me to explain ahead."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "DAVID FAHRENTHOLD, \"THE WASHINGTON POST\"", "TAPPER", "FAHRENTHOLD", "TAPPER", "FAHRENTHOLD", "TAPPER", "FAHRENTHOLD", "TAPPER", "FAHRENTHOLD", "TAPPER", "FAHRENTHOLD", "TAPPER", "FAHRENTHOLD", "TAPPER", "FAHRENTHOLD", "TAPPER", "FAHRENTHOLD", "TAPPER", "FAHRENTHOLD", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-324834", "program": "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS", "date": "2017-10-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/29/fzgps.01.html", "summary": "Discussing Taxes with Kevin Hassett", "utt": ["Washington D.C. is abuzz about taxes. This week, the president talked about his tax plan on \"Fox News\", of course. From the podium, Sarah Sanders talked about it. Even Ivanka Trump went up to Capitol Hill to lobby for it. Often mentioned is the extra money that the Trump team is promising is going to go directly into the wallets of the American people. Listen to what the president had to say last week with the Senate Finance Committee.", "So, each household on average would take in $4,000 and they'll go out and they'll spend that money and that will be great for the economy.", "Sounds good, but is it true? Well, Trump didn't come up with the number alone, of course. It comes from a report by Chief White House Economist Kevin Hassett. We'll hear from Hassett in a moment, but first Larry Summers. Summers was the 71st Secretary of the Treasury, serving under President Clinton. He headed the National Economic Council under President Obama and was President of Harvard University. Larry summers, pleasure to have you on.", "Glad to be with you, Fareed.", "So, you have said in \"The Washington Post\" that as treasury secretary, undersecretary, deputy secretary, you have worked with seven chief economists for the White House, seven heads of the council of economic advisors, and you have never come across an analysis that you described as dishonest in the way that this is dishonest. Explain what you mean by that.", "Look, the jobs to do economic analysis and different economists will have different perspectives, but each of the previous people in the job have taken positions that were well within what professional economists believed and argued regarding the effect of policies. And the claims here that you'd see an increase of $4,000 to $9,000 in a typical family's income from a corporate tax cut are just outside the range of what the economics profession believes. Even the people who have come down most squarely on Kevin Hassett's side on the op-ed page of \"The Wall Street Journal\" come up with estimates far below the lower end of his range. So, he's trying to help the administration politically, I guess. But the analysis is really of remarkably low quality. And that's why I chose to speak so critically of it. I've written critically and in disagreement with things that the Bush administration did, various Republican congressional proposals have tried to do, but the claims that this administration makes that the tax cut will pay for itself, that the tax cut will raise incomes more than anything else that's happened in the country in many years, that the tax cut isn't skewed towards helping rich people, those are fake facts. And I think they need to be called out as fake facts. Is corporate tax reform a good idea? Yes. Will it have some positive impacts? Yes. Are the claims being made by the administration valid? I think not. Is the corporate tax reform they're proposing well designed to help the economy and the middle class rather than be a giveaway to the very fortunate? I don't think it is well designed in that regard.", "Basically, as I calculated it using some of your analysis, the tax cut, if you work it out per American worker is about $1,300 per worker. And you say, Kevin Hassett assumes that when you give $1,300 to every American worker in the form of a tax cut passed through by corporations, his or her wages will rise by $4,000 or even $9,000. That seems - it's difficult to understand how that would happen.", "Yes. Look, I think what Kevin Hassett assumes is that when you give that corporate tax cut, you're giving it to corporations and that the corporations in response will decide to grow and that that's what will create the higher wages. The problem is that maybe the corporations will just keep the money and pay it out in the form of higher dividends or doing more repurchases of shares. And even if they do grow somewhat, how much will they grow. And in order to finance that corporate tax cut, you're going to need to do something else like borrow money which is going to drive up interest rates and have adverse effects on the economy. So, the idea that this tax cut is going to be enough to raise incomes by anything like the suggestion seems a highly implausible one.", "You said that if Kevin Hassett had submitted his testimony or this proposal to you and he were a student at Harvard in an economics course you were teaching, you would have failed the paper. Do you stand by that?", "Yes, I do. I would have failed the paper because it was egregiously selective in the use of evidence, because it didn't defend the plausibility of its conclusions, because the methodologies were very far from the state-of-the-art methodologies in economics, and because professional economic analysis is supposed to be analytical and objective rather than constituting a political brief. If I taught a course at Harvard in campaign management and somebody presented a paper like that as an example of what a presidential campaign political document would look like, I might have thought it was a pretty good political document making that case. But what's always been special about the Council of Economic Advisers is that it has stood heretofore for objective professional economic analysis, not the kind of stuff that campaign staffs produce or White House political staffs produce. What disappointed me about Kevin's work was not that I had never seen any document like that before, but that I had seen them only from campaign or White House political staffs before, never with the imprimatur of the Council of Economic Advisers.", "Larry Summers, good to have you on.", "Thank you, Fareed.", "Next on GPS, meet the man who wrote the report that says the average American household will find an extra $4,000 under the Trump tax plan. Kevin Hassett, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, when we come back."], "speaker": ["ZAKARIA", "TRUMP", "ZAKARIA", "LARRY SUMMERS, FORMER SECRETARY OF TREASURY", "ZAKARIA", "SUMMERS", "ZAKARIA", "SUMMERS", "ZAKARIA", "SUMMERS", "ZAKARIA", "SUMMERS", "ZAKARIA"]}
{"id": "CNN-305870", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2017-02-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/20/qmb.01.html", "summary": "CPAC Drops Milo Yiannopoulos After Controversial Videos", "utt": ["I'm Richard Quest there's more QUEST MEANS BUSINESS in just a moment. When a British journalist gets disinvited from a conservative conference after some extremely controversial comments. And the chief executive of Norwegian, the airline tells me the $100 trans- Atlantic is no longer a pipe dream. Actually, we talk about $99. Those of us who are old enough to remember the days of that sort of price on a ticket. Before that, this is CNN and here, this is where the news comes first. In the last couple of hours, President Trump has named a new national security adviser. He is Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster who will replace Michael Flynn who stepped down amid controversy over his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States. President Trump also announced General Keith Kellogg will be the national security council chief of staff. Mike Pence, U.S. Vice President is pushing Europe to spend more on NATO. He met with the secretary general of NATO in Brussels yesterday and both gentlemen agreed to agree on spending targets. They tried to convey Washington's commitment to NATO. Condolences are being received after the sudden death of Russian's long-time ambassador to the United Nations. Vitaly Churkin died in New York reportedly from a heart attack just a day away from his 65th birthday. He represented Russia on the security council during a time of great tensions between Moscow and the West. President Trump is doubling down now blaming the media for a comment he made about Sweden suggesting there was a terror incident on Monday he tweeted, \"Give the public a break. The fake news media is trying to say that large-scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. Not.\" They responded saying they're working to send out an accurate, fair image of the country. Footage from Japan's Fuji TV seems to show the moment before Kim Jong Un's half-brother died. Now you can see a woman approaching Kim Jung Nam at the airport apparently reaching over his head, then walking away. Another video shows Kim asking for help, het died on the way to the hospital. The alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is no longer welcome, one of America's biggest conservative conferences. CPAC rescinded the invitation after video clips emerged appearing to show him making sympathetic comments about pedophilia. Suzanne Malveaux is in Washington. Please, Ms. Malveaux, dissect this one for me.", "Absolutely, Richard. Well you know the Conservative Political Action Conference or CPAC they proclaim this gathering was going to be revolution. Well, the first revolt has come from the conservatives as well as Democrats alike over that controversial proposed speaker you were talking about known as Milo, he is the professional provocateur and also the senior editor for Breitbart. This is the important part. This is the ultra-right website that traffics in nationalists and sometimes white supremacist ideology. So, Milos belief is that he should be able to say anything in the name of free speech and what he said was revealed after this conservative website, The Reagan Battalion published two videos this week. One from a podcast clip that highlighted a discussion about what he had sex with minors in which he said quote here, \"in the homosexual world particularly some of those relationships between younger boys and older men, the sort of coming of age relationships and when those older men have helped those young boys to discover who they are. And then he went on to thank the priest who molested him as a teen saying he would never be as good as a certain sex act without this priest.\" So, there are many prominent conservative pundits who really were the loudest opposition voices. Bill Crystal at the editor at large of the Weekly Standard he said this invitation was despicable. You had Ned Ryan, he's a board member for ACU, also objecting to this decision saying on Monday morning that members of the board they're not even consulted on this decision, tweeting while I'm all for free speech there's such a thing as vile, hateful speech what that does not deserve a platform. So, later Milo took Facebook clarifying his comments. Posting in part here, \"a note for idiots, I do not support pedophilia period. I'm completely disgusted by the abuse of children.\" He said he was guilty of imprecise language, gallows humor. Well, CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp, he posted this statement to Twitter calling the Facebook apology insufficient writing there is no disagreement among our attendees on the evils of sexual abuse of children. This is not the first time that he has gotten the hook, so to speak. He was thrown off of Twitter for attacks on an African- American comedian Leslie Jones likening her to an ape. Calling feminism, a cancer and targeting Muslims, all of this in his routines. There were protests as well that erupted during his campus tour forcing some cancellations and also, we heard from Jonah Goldberg he's the senior at the conservative National Review, he lamented here saying apparently, the racism and anti-Semitism wasn't a deal breaker, Richard.", "Suzanne, very well. I ask you to dissect this and you thankfully did for us and gracefully with distasteful issues to deal it. Thank you very much indeed.", "All right. Thank you, Richard.", "I'm not sure where one goes after that. Uber maybe, is in the spotlight after a former employee claims she was a victim of repeated sexual harassment. We'll have that for you after the break."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "QUEST", "MALVEAUX", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "NPR-19666", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2017-01-10", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/01/10/509179789/dozens-killed-in-bombing-near-afghan-parliament", "title": "Dozens Killed In Bombing Near Afghan Parliament", "summary": "At least 30 people are dead and another 70 injured in a bombing near the Afghan Parliament in Kabul on Tuesday.", "utt": ["Bombs exploded in the Afghan capital of Kabul earlier today. It was the first attack in the city in months. The blasts killed at least 30 people and injured dozens more. NPR's Nishant Dahiya reports.", "Two bombs - the first exploded close to a parked minibus, the second when the police arrived to help the victims, according to an Interior Ministry spokesperson. A female lawmaker from Western Herat province was among those injured. The Taliban have claimed responsibility. Today's violence comes after a period of relative calm in the Afghan capital, Kabul. The rest of the country - not so lucky.", "The Taliban have been active in the south and east. What's perhaps more remarkable is that they have extended their reach into northern Afghanistan.", "That's Barnett Rubin, director of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Program at New York University. He says the Taliban's continuing offensive should come as no surprise to anyone. The U.S. Institute of Peace's Colin Cookman says the winter months have tamped the fighting. But...", "Earlier that same day, there was actually a bombing in the Helmand capital of Lashkar Gah. So that's still very much ongoing. Although I think not at quite the peak level that we saw earlier in the summer.", "And another bombing in Kandahar wounded the United Arab Emirates' ambassador Afghanistan. Seven others died in that attack. Beyond the war itself, the country faces other problems - endemic corruption, returning refugees that are straining infrastructure and resources. NYU's Rubin reminds that despite progress over the past decade and a half, Afghanistan remains...", "One of the poorest countries in the world with one of the weakest states in the world that withdrawal of the military forces and a lot of the foreign civilians has led to tremendous recession and loss of jobs.", "Last year, President Obama decided to keep some 8,500 U.S. troops there. He also expanded the use of airstrikes to help Afghan forces now leading the fight against the Taliban. It remains unclear if President-elect Trump will continue that strategy. Nishant Dahiya, NPR News."], "speaker": ["KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "NISHANT DAHIYA, BYLINE", "BARNETT RUBIN", "NISHANT DAHIYA, BYLINE", "COLIN COOKMAN", "NISHANT DAHIYA, BYLINE", "BARNETT RUBIN", "NISHANT DAHIYA, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-80374", "program": "JUDY WOODRUFF'S INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2003-12-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/19/ip.00.html", "summary": "Politics and Terrorism: Assessing new Threats", "utt": ["Food for thought. In Iowa, are the '04 Democrats serving up a strong message?", "The whole pack in general seems to be running in a pack to me. I don't see a great deal of difference.", "Betting the House on the White House. What does it say about John Kerry's campaign? The Patriot Act: one candidate's \"Hail Mary\" pass in New Hampshire.", "Now, live from Washington,", "And by now you've probably figured out that I'm not Judy Woodruff. Thank you for joining us. I'm Bob Franken. Judy is off today. And while many Americans are getting into the holiday spirit, those of us who love politics are downright tingly with anticipation. No, not for Hanukkah nor Christmas nor Kwanza, but for the Iowa caucuses. That's right. The first big caucus of the presidential election is exactly one month away, and frontrunner Howard Dean is one of several Democratic candidates in the Hawkeye State today. In the competition for the most days spent in Iowa, Dean is now tied for first place with John Kerry, followed by Dick Gephardt. The campaign activity is another barometer of how crucial Iowa is expected to be in the '04 election. And my colleague, Judy Woodruff, reports on the pre-caucus action by the dueling Dean and Gephardt camps.", "Brett Voorhees (ph), of the Steel Workers Union, is organizing labor in Iowa for Dick Gephardt. Tuesday, he took the message to a job site in downtown Des Moines.", "He's going to take care of us.", "In some respects, he's preaching to the choir.", "That's who my union's backing. You know, you come from a union background so I'm for Gephardt.", "But even under the labor blanket, there is wavering.", "No I'm undecided.", "Top of mind, the economy and jobs.", "That and the war that Bush got us into. I don't think we ought to be over there.", "With the caucuses just a month away, many Iowans remain largely in limbo, torn between a former sweetheart and this year's star.", "Hey, this is Vanessa. And I'm volunteering for Howard Dean's presidential campaign.", "Tuesday is high school night at Howard Dean's Iowa headquarters. Many of the volunteers admit the future of the nation wasn't really their biggest motivation for signing up.", "We needed extra credit and we came here. And we basically just picked it because it's the closest one to our house.", "And senior Abigail Masters (ph), who will attend her first caucus next month, says she's not even sure whom she'll support.", "Really, for me, it's either between Edwards or Dean.", "Another undecided Iowa voter. Gerri Powell (ph) is going door to door on behalf of John Edwards.", "Would you mind if we got you a yard sign?", "No.", "OK, good. I'll be back and bring a yard sign for you.", "OK.", "You see a lot of shoe leather campaigning here, workers taking their message right to Democrats' door steps.", "The caucus is so personal, you know, we're asking people to actually go amongst their neighbors and family and friends and actually stand up in support of a candidate.", "And just 31 shopping days left.", "One is over easy and one is sunny side up.", "At Drake's Diner, that may not be enough.", "The whole pack in general seems to be running in a pack, to me. I don't see a great deal of difference.", "I'm looking for someone that has got the charisma that will get the people behind him, and I haven't seen that yet.", "Some thought they had it figured out, until U.S. troops found Saddam Hussein.", "I was for Dean, and now I'm against him because of his statements against the war.", "But at an adjoining table, an enthusiastic group of Dean supporters stands firm.", "Are our troops back from Iraq? No, they're still, like, over there. And are we safe from, like, terrorism? No, we're still not.", "So the game is still open and the competition is fierce. So many visits to the diner.", "Oh, we've had, let's see, Dennis Kucinich, John Kerry, Gephardt, Hillary Clinton. She's not running, but she came in.", "But still no guest of honor.", "That was our own Judy Woodruff reporting. Given the heightened interest in the Iowa results, the state Democratic Party has decided to go high tech this time around. Officials say precinct captains will phone in their caucus results using a special 800 number, just like when you check your bank account or credit card balance. The results will automatically appear on the official Democratic caucus Web site and can be viewed in real time by anybody who has Internet access. Another innovation, each caucus-goer will get a bar code to better keep track of who is participating. And now, turning to the political debate over the war on terror, home security officials say they are working to determine the credibility of information regarding potential threats against New York, Washington, and Los Angeles. For their part, New York police say they have no intelligence pointing to a credible threat. And also today, on audiotape, a tape reported to contain the voice of al Qaeda's second in command, it was played on the Arab TV network Al Jazeera. And, among other things, the voice claims that American forces are on the run in Afghanistan. Well, the irony is that since the capture of Saddam Hussein, some of the Democratic hopefuls have focused their attention away from Iraq and toward wider concerns about the war on terror. Among them is retired General Wesley Clark, who told CNN yesterday the Bush administration should have made terror threats a higher priority before September 11.", "We don't know all the details of this. We'll have to wait and see the report. But I've seen from the beginning that there was a massive failure of government and, as I said in a speech maybe two months ago, I said you cannot blame this on mid-level FBI and CIA officials. It's a lot bigger problem than that. It starts at the top.", "Well, I'm joined now by our senior White House correspondent John King. And John, what about the irony in this week after Saddam Hussein was captured that there so is much Democratic criticism on terror issues?", "Well, Bob, you see a boost in the president's approval rating in the poll. And they attribute that directly to the capture of Saddam Hussein. But at the same time, Republicans, including those on the Bush political team, say that catching Saddam Hussein has reminded the American people that Osama bin Laden remains at large. So that remains a key concern. And the White House message will be that just like the search went on persistently for Saddam Hussein, it is going on persistently and consistently for Osama bin Laden. They also know that report of the 9/11 Commission will be out early next year. They expect some criticism of how the administration dealt with intelligence. And they say they'll deal with it when it comes out in public. They do expect very aggressive criticism from the Democrats at this point. But Bob, the bottom line here is this: they say right now this president still enjoys, despite all the criticism, a very big gap, a very big advantage when compared to the Democrats on the issue of terrorism and national security.", "But it hasn't been a grand slam for the administration. There was the New York appeals court ruling yesterday about Jose Padilla, who is the suspected al Qaeda operative who was being held as an enemy combatant. And now the court is saying that he cannot be held more than 30 days. What's the administration's view?", "Well, there's both a legal strategy and a political strategy. The administration appealing the decision in the Padilla case, asking for a stay. The court ordered him to be released in 30 days. That is one challenge of the Bush administration's broad powers in the anti-terror fight. And the Supreme Court also concerning the issue of whether the enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba should have access to lawyers and the legal system. So there is a legal challenge. From a political standpoint, the administration believes the president's on pretty steady ground, that those who flatly oppose this broad use of powers tend to be liberals, tend to be Democrats. Most of the Democratic candidates take after Attorney General John Ashcroft almost at times as much as they take after the president. But the administration believes as it fights the legal fight, on the political terrain, that, yes, the Democrats can use that issue to rally the left. They believe at the same time, though, it just has a reactionary rallying point on the right as well.", "John King at the White House. And still ahead, we'll talk more about the possible fallout for the president from that ruling on Jose Padilla and the questions that it raises about civil liberties. Plus, more on the '04 Democrats and the countdown to Iowa. We'll put it all in perspective and have some Friday fun in our journalist roundtable. This is INSIDE POLITICS, the place for campaign news."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANNOUNCER", "ANNOUNCER", "JUDY WOODRUFF'S  INSIDE POLITICS. BOB FRANKEN, HOST", "JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT  (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WOODRUFF", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WOODRUFF", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WOODRUFF", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WOODRUFF", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WOODRUFF", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WOODRUFF", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WOODRUFF", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WOODRUFF", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WOODRUFF", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WOODRUFF", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WOODRUFF", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WOODRUFF", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WOODRUFF", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WOODRUFF", "FRANKEN", "WESLEY CLARK (D), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "FRANKEN", "JOHN KING, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "FRANKEN", "KING", "FRANKEN"]}
{"id": "NPR-43857", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2005-08-11", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4796427", "title": "A Hobby, a Calling: Barbecue", "summary": "Our series on hobbies continues with an old favorite: the barbecue grill. Charcoal and meat seems to bring out the fanatic in some people. Robert Smith visits a group of devoted grillers.", "utt": ["This week, we've been visiting Americans immersed in their hobbies.  For      some hobbyists, it's not easy to find a time and a place for their      obsessions. Take the poor barbecuers of New York City.  Air quality      rules, fire safety laws and just plain lack of space make it difficult      for people to fire up the grill, not that they don't try.  Barbecue nuts      sneak onto rooftops and fire escapes and even into public spaces to stoke      the flames of their desire. NPR's Robert Smith takes us to Morningside      Park in Manhattan in search of the gonzo grillers.", "The hunt begins at dawn.  Men, dragging Webers and hibachis behind them,      emerge from the apartment buildings around the park and head on to the      grass looking for the perfect spot.  Evan Cameron(ph) lets me in on a      little secret to a good day of grilling.", "Location, location, location and shade.", "But today, he didn't get his number-one spot, even though he got      here at...", "7:00.", "So even at 7 AM, you didn't get the first...", "No, I did not.  No, unfortunately.  I was trying, but I had      to come from work.  You get out here past 8:00, you're on your own pretty      much. You'd better bring your own chairs and stuff like that.", "Guys have been known to sleep overnight on a picnic table at      Morningside Park just to claim it in the morning.  By 10:00, you can hear      the sound of charcoal briquettes hitting the metal.", "By 11:00, the smell of lighter fluid fills the park.", "I like fire.", "I like to see the flames.", "Because it's so hard to grill in New York City, and because it's      technically illegal in this park, when these men do get a spot, they go      all out.  Will Johnson is setting up not one but two grills, and he's      going to need them.", "Let's see what's in here.  We have hot      dogs, ribs, steak, chicken, shish kebab, shrimp kebabs, chicken kebabs,      sausages.", "You have, like, 40 pounds of food here.", "I got 40 pounds of chicken by itself, another 40 pounds of      ribs, 120 hamburgers--yeah, the works, the works.", "Sure, he's inviting 75 friends, but that doesn't fully explain      how far Johnson takes this obsession.  Every bit of meat has its own      spice blend and Johnson's famous marinating sauce.", "I'll just tell you it consists a little garlic, a little      soy sauce.  That's as far as I'm going to go.", "No, no, no.  What are the spices?  Come on.", "That's it.  That's as far as I'm going to go.", "Come on.", "OK, let's put the grill together, people.  Nice talking to      you.", "See, the barbecue nut is an elusive and secretive creature.      He--and at this park, they are mostly male--he's highly territorial, not      letting anyone else touch the spatula.  And competitive.  The grillers      sneak peeks at each other's setups, sometimes mocking their use of      aluminum foil or overreliance on lighter fluid.  And then there's the      touchy issue of size. Because most of the barbecuers live in apartments      and walk-ups, they've been forced to get these tiny grills.  There's      intense jealousy when someone like Daryl Rachet(ph) shows up with a oil      drum turned into a barrel smoker.", "Now that's the ribs turning over.  That's      some ribs turning over.  Ahh!", "He'll do these ribs another three hours, throwing some hickory      wood chips on the coals for flavor.  Rachet takes the park grilling game      to another level, and he seems almost saddened by the thought that some      guys have to do burgers on a hibachi.", "That's not a barbecue; that's a picnic.", "Rachet lives up in the General Grant Housing Projects, and has to      haul this big smoker out of his storage unit every time he wants to use      it.  But oddly enough, he doesn't envy the suburban house with its big      patio for grilling.", "Yeah, other people can have back yards.  Other people can      have back yards.  If you gonna come around in The Village and Harlem and      you see people barbecuing on the sidewalks, see people barbecuing on the      sidewalks with makeshift grills and things like that, it's the love of      it.  It's wanting to be with your friends cooking, eating.  Everybody      sees what you're doing.", "For Rachet, barbecuing isn't just about eating; it's more like a      performance.  He'll be standing here for the next eight hours tinkering      with each rub and calibrating every sauce, tackling the logistical      challenge of ribs and chicken and steak.  As friends arrive hungry and      leave full, the barbecue hobbyist is only looking for one thing.", "When I see somebody licking their fingers, that's what makes      me feel good.", "Robert Smith, NPR News, New York."], "speaker": ["MICHELE NORRIS, host", "ROBERT SMITH reporting", "Mr. EVAN CAMERON (Barbecuer)", "SMITH", "Mr. EVAN CAMERON (Barbecuer)", "SMITH", "Mr. EVAN CAMERON (Barbecuer)", "SMITH", "SMITH", "Unidentified Man", "Unidentified Man", "SMITH", "Mr. WILL JOHNSON (Barbecuer)", "SMITH", "Mr. WILL JOHNSON (Barbecuer)", "SMITH", "Mr. WILL JOHNSON (Barbecuer)", "SMITH", "Mr. WILL JOHNSON (Barbecuer)", "SMITH", "Mr. WILL JOHNSON (Barbecuer)", "SMITH", "Mr. DARYL RACHET (Barbecuer)", "SMITH", "Mr. DARYL RACHET (Barbecuer)", "SMITH", "Mr. DARYL RACHET (Barbecuer)", "SMITH", "Mr. DARYL RACHET (Barbecuer)", "SMITH"]}
{"id": "NPR-1336", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2011-09-14", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/09/14/140471059/in-one-night-two-pitchers-hit-baseball-milestones", "title": "In One Night, Two Pitchers Hit Baseball Milestones", "summary": "Major League Baseball had two major developments Tuesday. Pitcher Tim Wakefield revived the Boston Red Sox with his 200th victory, and the New York Yankees' Mariano Rivera recorded the 600th save of his career. NPR's Mike Pesca discusses the two pitchers and their successes.", "utt": ["Two milestones last night, in Major League baseball in Boston. Tim Wakefield notched his 200th victory to revive the reeling Red Sox. Then, in Seattle, Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees recorded the 600th save of his career, very different players who rely almost entirely on one pitch - Wakefield on the elusive knuckleball, Rivera on his celebrated cutter. Batters almost always know what's coming. For the most part, they can't hit it.", "Has there been anyone else as successful in a position that usually demands versatility? Give us a call with your one-trick ponies: 800-989-8255. Email: talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at npr.org, click on TALK OF THE NATION.", "NPR sports correspondent Mike Pesca joins us now from our bureau in New York, and nice to have you back, Mike.", "Hi.", "And the careers of these two pitchers are as different as the pitches they throw.", "Yeah. Tim Wakefield was a very good pitcher in the beginning of his career. And then for the last - for five of the last seven years, statistics show he's been slightly above average. This year and last year, he's quite been - he's quite markedly been a below-average pitcher. But along the way, he's picked up 200 wins, which used to not be that much of a milestone. But in modern baseball, it is. In fact, it makes him among all active pitchers, the only one with 200 or more wins, and he got his 200th last night. And the reason for that is that pitchers are - and he does it with a knuckleball. And the reason why wins are in such short supply is the bullpen has become more prominent in baseball.", "And if you want to talk about prominent bullpens, Mariano Rivera is the closer par excellence. He is two things: dominant and resilient. He has never had a bad year. He has played for 17 seasons - 16 full seasons. And he is the anchor of a Yankee team that has been the best team in baseball over his career. And every Yanker - Yankee player will tell you, without Mariano Rivera as that threat to come in at the end of the game with his one pitch, the cutter, they would not have won all those World Series.", "And along the way, the epitome of class and professionalism, never shows up another ball player, comes in calmly to do his work and, just as calmly, executes his pitch, which bores in on left-handed hitters, bores away from right-handed hitters. They know it's coming. They can't hit it.", "Right. But they're the only ones who's bored because the stadium is usually rocking when Mariano is there. And you want to talk about respect. David Ortiz, who should be Mariano's biggest rival, says, I respect him like my father. And if you want to talk about pitchers, they can't believe the guy because, in a way, he's totally unlike other pitchers. Not just that he's better, but that he only uses one pitch. And when we say only, he - his save against Seattle, I have it right here. I have the pitch log. He had 15 pitches in that save the other night, and 12 of them were cutters. The other three were four-seam fastballs.", "Now what a cutter is. Imagine you're inside the head of Mariano. You're looking for his eyes, and he's a right-hander. He throws it, and it's fast. It's not as fast as the fastest fastballs in the game. It's about 93 miles an hour. But at the end, it moves sharply to the left. In days of your baseball, Juan Marichal was said to throw a hard slider, and they used to call it a hard slider. But Mariano kind of invented this pitch or had it invented.", "He thinks he was just touched by God because the ball started happening one day after he was already happening - the movement started happening one day after he was already in the Major Leagues. He was the first right-hander to really throw this pitch. It's since become a very popular pitch, and high school kids and college players are all trying to acquire a cutter. No one is acquiring it as good as Mariano has it.", "But the kind of question is, you know, the glory of baseball. And the interesting thing about pitchers is the mental game. What pitch do you throw? Where do you place it? When do you go to the curve? When do you try to pull the hitter? Mariano has none of that. So, in a way, you could say what he does is blunt force, and it's less interesting. But it's kind of more interesting in the way you could say that, yeah, Stradivarius only did one thing. He made a bunch of violins, never made a tuba. But so what? He's such a craftsman that it's an amazing thing to behold.", "And I hope that when he's elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot, which he will be, the plaque has his nickname - not The Sandman, which is the tune they play when he comes in - but the other nickname that is sometimes applied to him, The Hammer of God.", "Because he is a Godly man who always credits God for all his skills. Something has kept him healthy all these years because great pitchers come and go and the arm tires. Tim Wakefield is in his early 40s, and one of the reasons is that the knuckleball is far less taxing on the arm. And I think - and this has been less explored than the knuckleball phenomenon in keeping pitchers healthy, but I think the fact that Mariano never turns his wrist when throwing the cutter - so he's only throwing fastballs and cutters, and he doesn't have much wrist motion. That's got to be one of the things that kept - that has kept him healthy so as off-season conditioning. Luck plays a big factor. Mariano will tell you God plays a big factor.", "We want to hear from listeners about one-trick pony's people and otherwise - positions that otherwise demand versatility who get by, indeed, excel with one particular aspect of those skills: 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. We'll start with Steve, and Steve's with us from New Mexico.", "Hey, good morning. We're on the road, driving to New Mexico. And, you know, Trevor Hoffman, who's the all-time saves leader, his one pitch that got him out of most of everything was the changeup. You know, the key to it was having that same motion, you know, to not expect if you were getting the fastball, which diminished, you know, in his later years. But that changeup, that one pitch got him that - saves, you know, most saves of all time.", "Six hundred one saves. And he is, indeed, the all-time saves leader, at least until tonight, maybe, when Mariano Rivera may tie him. But, Mike Pesca, you have to throw the occasional fastball to set up the changeup.", "Right. That's the whole deal with the changeup. The changeup, for those not versed in it, is a pitch that looks exactly like the fastball but then comes in at a different speed. And Hoffman was great at actually differing his speeds. So people think that for a pitcher to be good or to have - to be a good fastball pitcher, all he has to do is bring speed, and that's actually a misunderstanding. What you have to do is bring a little bit of speed but be able to take just enough off it at times so that the hitter can't time the pitch.", "And when we say that Hoffman's changeup was among the most devastating pitches in baseball history, it was. But, of course, you had to throw the fastball. In the beginning of Hoffman's career, he could get 95 miles an hour on the gun. Then he began to lose his fastball - best thing that ever happened to Trevor Hoffman, because that's when he really started to learn that changeup.", "But when we talk about best pitches in baseball history, you know, Sandy Koufax's curve or Steve Carlton's curve or Dwight Gooden's curve, these are all because you have the other pitch or in some cases, two or three other pitches, to make a curve ball stand out so much and so difficult to hit. It's the contrast between the pitches, whereas Mariano Rivera, there's no contrast. It's just one pitch. It's in a little bit of a different category. But you're right, Hoffman's changeup was an extraordinary pitch.", "Thanks for the call, Steve. Drive carefully. We got two nominees - two email writers: John in Salt Lake City and this is from Don, both of whom nominate Elroy Face back in the old Pirates days, who threw pretty much the forkball and the forkball and the forkball.", "Right. Now, he was a one-trick pony, but he was not nearly as good and he was - never came to whiff the Hall of Fame. Another guy who is a Hall of Famer, you know, Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball. He was a combination of Wakefield and Mariano, because he was a relief pitcher for most of his career but he threw a knuckleball. So he also had a very long career just like Tim Wakefield and Mariano.", "The forkball - another way to throw a changeup by wedging the ball back in your fingers and then throwing with the same motion as the fastball, but it dives down right there at the end and a little bit change of speed as well. Let's see if we can go next to Dave, and Dave with us from Buffalo.", "Hi, Neal. Thanks a lot.", "Go ahead, please.", "I'm a guitar player. And, obviously, when the first Van Halen album came out in 1979, we were all blown away by Eddie Van Halen's right hand technique, which is threading the notes with both his left and his right hand. And other players had done that previous, and many players have done that since. But to most of your listeners, they're all going to be obscure instrumentalist. And while Eddie is, you know, a great personality and a superb musician, he pretty much has done the whole - the same thing the whole time.", "Which is why I don't know why there's no reliever that doesn't enter into \"Eruption,\" which is Eddie Van Halen's signature solo. Or some - how about Yngwie Malmsteen? We could talk guitarists if you want.", "Oh, absolutely. He's great. That's another one. Yngwie Malmsteen is - what's his name, Rob Johnson down from Texas? They're primarily instrumentalists, and they just haven't got the mainstream, you know, the mainstream success that Eddie had.", "I think we just compared cutters to shredders.", "Thank you very much.", "Dave, thanks very much for the call. Let's go next to - this is Reese, and Reese with us from Laramie, Wyoming.", "Thanks, Neal. Appreciate it. I'd like to suggest David Beckham. Not many guys you don't pitch like Ryan, you don't dunk like Jordan, but you bend it like Beckham.", "You bend it like - he owns that phrase, in part, because of that movie, but Mike Pesca, the bend it was referring to his skill at what's called in soccer, set pieces, where it's a free kick and he can bend the ball around the wall of defenders and pass the goalie's hands. He was also a highly skilled player in the midfield.", "Right. And so the cross-sport comparison is kind of difficult when it comes to basketball or soccer or a sport where all the players play offense and defense and the sport flows. Sure, in basketball, there are three point specialists, shot-blocking specialists, like Manute Bol and Mark Eaton, but don't guys don't ever get seen of as great all-around players. They're not in the Hall of Fame in the NBA. But, of course, Mariano will be in the Hall of Fame.", "Baseball is one of the few sports where a specialist can be one of the best. And I was thinking, is it true in football? I mean, Ray Guy is a great punter, and some say he should be in the Hall of Fame, but he isn't. I believe Garo Yepremian, as a kicker, is in the Hall of Fame, and that's really a specialist. Long snappers will never make the Hall of Fame.", "(Unintelligible) a position that's not expected to do more than one thing to begin with.", "One right.", "Garo Yepremian once tried to throw the ball. We saw what happened there.", "He does say that is the most famous play, when he bobbled that Super Bowl throw. But you know what? I was thinking about this. I think, in a way, Randy Moss, the great receiver who's - this is his first year out of football. He might stay retired. He didn't do much more than what they call go routes or fly patterns. Sure, he could run a crossing route - but basically, Randy Moss went long and came down with the ball. And he has the best statistics of receivers this side of Jerry Rice, and he's got to make the Hall of Fame. So maybe you can make the case that Randy Moss is a sort of one-trick pony who came to dominate his position in sport.", "Let's see if we can get one more caller in. We're talking with Mike Pesca, and you're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.", "And let's go to Chuck, and Chuck's with us from Berkeley in California.", "Hi, there. Thanks for taking my call.", "Sure.", "Funny that it was follow-up with the basketball in the Hall of Fame analogy. I was thinking of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the sky hook. He's actually in the Hall of Fame, and he's - he was all-around player, but nobody could stop that shot from left side or the right side. Nobody can stop it, and they knew it was coming.", "And Kareem, of course, in the Hall of Fame for more than just that, Mike Pesca.", "Absolutely. The rebounds too...", "Right. Right. So if the question is who has an unstoppable - who could repeat an unstoppable, bold, physical feat, Kareem and Mariano are very similar in that, that everyone knew the sky hook was coming, and there was nothing you could do about it. At their height, you know, certain boxers maybe can fit in that category. But, of course, Kareem was an all-around player and could pass and could rebound and was the points leader, so, yeah, a great player beyond the sky hook.", "Chuck, thanks very much for the nomination. We appreciate it.", "The other thing about Kareem is that no one wanted to replicate the sky hook or really try to, because it looked dorky, whereas Mariano has - there's a legion of people who want to do the cutter, and everyone's trying to pick it up and no one's nearly as good as him. But he kind of introduced and revolutionized baseball with his mastery of this one pitch.", "And tomorrow, to ensure that you don't think that Mike Pesca is just a sports correspondent, we're going to have him analyze the great debt crisis.", "Very good.", "Mike Pesca, thanks very much for your time today.", "You're welcome.", "Mike Pesca is NPR's sports correspondent. 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{"id": "CNN-373589", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-06-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/29/cnr.04.html", "summary": "U.S. Ousts Host France In 2-1 Quarterfinal Win After Trump/Rapinoe War Of Words", "utt": ["Welcome back. The United States women's soccer team knocks out the host nation, France, in a 2-1 victory and is headed to the World Cup semifinals now. The spotlight mostly fell on star player, Megan Rapinoe, who has been all over the headlines this week following a back and forth with the president over whether or not she would visit the White House if the U.S. wins the World Cup. Rapinoe scored both the goals in last night's match and was instrumental in the team's success. Amanda Davies joining us from Paris. Amanda, with so much focus on Megan Rapinoe, do you think she lived up to the pressure? She really exceeded it. But it looks like she works even better under pressure.", "Yes, Frederica. Boy, did she live up to expectation. It almost seems like it was written in the stars after all those headlines that she'd made in the run-up to the game. As you said, her verbal sparring with President Trump about a prospective visit to the White House. It was only ever going to be Megan Rapinoe who stars on the pitch last night. And Coach Jill Ellis said we really shouldn't be surprised. It's these moments that Megan Rapinoe has consistently shown through her career that she thrives on. She has always talked about how she wants to use the platform of what she does on the pitch to highlight the causes, the political causes, the social causes that she's so passionate about off it. And really, she stepped up and put in the performance last night. But she's done that consistently. She's a player who made her debut for the U.S. women's team 13 years ago. She helped them to Olympic gold in 2012 in London, World Cup success four years ago in Canada, and now is having the World Cup of her life, five goals in four games so far. She said she was under no doubt that everything around her was going to distract or not distract her in the game yesterday. And you feel as the tournament goes on, this platform, this stage of hers is just going to get even bigger.", "OK. And then, up next, right, against England?", "Yes. And I'm afraid this is where my loyalties come to the fore, very much.", "USA against England, USA against England on Tuesday night. Interestingly, I was messaging with the England coach, Phil Neville. He said he really wants his side to face the USA, the defending champions, the top-ranked team in the world, because he feels that England step up and play better and bigger the better their opponent. On paper, though, you have to say it's the U.S. who are the favorites. They have their World Cup pedigree. But England are threatening a shock. We're going to Lyon tomorrow to speak to both sides. Hopefully, we'll have a little more insight as to how it's shaping up tomorrow.", "It's going to be a nail biter. All right, Amanda, thank you so much, in Paris. Cities around the world are holding events to mark PRIDE weekend. Coming up, how one night 50 years ago helped spark a revolution and bring the fight for gay rights to the forefront."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORTS ANCHOR", "WHITFIELD", "DAVIES", "DAVIES", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-101579", "program": "PAULA ZAHN NOW", "date": "2006-1-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/10/pzn.01.html", "summary": "Do Nail Salons Pose Hidden Dangers?", "utt": ["And I want to warn you now that the pictures you are about to see, you might find incredibly disturbing. We have a story I think is going to shock you. Can you imagine going into a salon to try to treat yourself to a pedicure and ending up like this woman, permanently scarred because of a skin infection? I realize this is going to be hard for some of you to stomach, but it will help you understand a growing problem all across the country. If this happened to you, you might never want to wear a dress again. Our consumer correspondent, Greg Hunter, has been all over the country investigating nail salons, a $6.5 billion-a-year industry. And what he found is tonight's \"Eye Opener.\"", "It's supposed to be a treat for your toes, a pedicure in a whirlpool foot spa, but did you know a relaxing pedicure could lead to this, a terrible skin infection that causes painful leg boils?", "I had huge, oozing lesions on my leg, pussy oozing.", "It looks like cigarette burns, somebody took cigarettes and went up and down your leg.", "Hundreds of women have developed skin infections after getting pedicures in salons. Doctors say it's a disturbing trend caused by bacteria that can grow in dirty foot spas.", "We really can't scare people enough regarding this. It's a very real threat.", "All across the country?", "All across the country.", "In the U.S., the problem was first noticed in California, where there had been three serious outbreaks of bacterial infections in five years. In 2002, a month after getting a pedicure near San Jose, Angela Lenkto (ph) noticed what she thought were mosquito bites. The bumps turned into sores. Her father, a surgeon, had to drain daily by squeezing them. (on camera): Painful?", "Extremely painful, and kind of like grit- your-teeth, you know, scream-out-loud painful.", "And, worst of all, Lenkto (ph) was suffering during one of the biggest events of her life, her wedding.", "There were open sores that were -- that were seeping with puss.", "All under your beautiful white wedding dress?", "Yes.", "Pretty memorable?", "Yes.", "But Lenkto (ph) isn't alone. (on camera): Did any of you ever imagine that you would be saying, pedicure, open sores in the same sentence?", "Never. Never. Never.", "All of these women have sued California salons for skin infections after a pedicure.", "It really makes you feel ugly and damaged. And I really felt like a leper.", "The Centers for Disease Control says, infections like these are caused by this water-borne bacteria. In a 2002 study of California salons, the CDC found the rapidly growing bacteria were highly prevalent in whirlpool footbaths. Infections have now been reported in 12 states. Dr. Shelly Sacoola Gibbs (ph), a dermatologist, says you can absorb bacteria from dirty footbath water from through a tiny cut or abrasion on your skin.", "It can really hurt people's legs. And it can leave them with disfiguring scars. So, it's very bad.", "Something these women know all too well. Several showed us their legs. Nineteen-year-old Britney Welby (ph) had some of the worst scars.", "I'm not the same person anymore. And I can't live the life that I used to when I was 18. This past year has just damaged me so much.", "Infections can be prevented, scientists say, if foot spas are cleaned properly. One problem is this screen that covers the plumbing in many machines. It can trap dirt, hair, and skin, turning the tub into a breeding ground for bacteria. We wanted to see for ourselves what's behind foot spa screens. So, we went along with this salon inspector in Raleigh, North Carolina.", "My name is Connie. I'm a state board inspector.", "In the first shop, the foot spa screens turn out to be clean. But, at another salon, watch what happens when this footbath screen is removed. Look how much buildup is there. The owner claims it's from one day of doing pedicures. (on camera): So, that's from one day?", "Yes. We got very busy today.", "So, we take a closer look at one screen.", "That looks like mold with dead skin.", "And people's feet are in this?", "Yes.", "Is that gross?", "That is terrible.", "But it isn't just one screen. According to our inspector, all three of the salon's foot spas show signs of serious neglect. (on camera): Do you think this is as clean as it should be?", "No.", "No.", "No.", "It's -- it's bad, isn't it?", "Yes.", "It's gross, right?", "Yes.", "The following week, the salon was reinspected and the footbaths were clean. (on camera): It takes about an hour to do a pedicure. But the numbers really add up for just one chair. You can do eight pedicures a day, 50 pedicures a week, around 200 pedicures a month in one chair. And, if it's not cleaned correctly, it's like sitting in the same bath as everyone before you.", "It's gross. I would never do that. It -- it makes you feel gross, dirty and disgusting.", "This California salon, where more than 100 women were allegedly infected, settled, along with its insurance company and some of its suppliers, a lawsuit for nearly $3 million. Cases against five other salons are pending. Neither the salons, nor their lawyers, would agree to speak with us. But the industry says the vast majority of millions of consumers who get pedicures every year are not at risk.", "The salon professionals with proper education will do what is necessary to make sure that this isn't a problem.", "Paul Dykstra heads the International Nail Technicians Association, which has published guidelines, advising members to clean like this Chicago salon does, by scrubbing foot spa screens daily and disinfecting after every client. But Dykstra believes it's up to consumer to ask questions.", "If the salon professional, God forbid, is one that doesn't understand these procedures, they shouldn't get the service there.", "So, we decided to find out what happens when consumers inquire about cleaning. We asked Nancy King, a nationally known industry expert who trains nail professionals, to go into upscale salons in Houston wearing a hidden camera. Our expert finds one salon doing everything right, disinfecting after each pedicure.", "We have to, because there's water jets in there.", "Yes.", "And the germs get caught in the water jets.", "At another salon, the receptionist says the right thing.", "After every client, they clean and disinfect.", "But when King talks to the pedicure technician, she gets a different story.", "If there's a salon out there saying that they're cleaning and, like, bleaching after every client, that's a lie, because they can't do it. I mean I have never seen anybody do that.", "CNN asked the salon owner to comment. He never responded. (on camera): You went to seven space shuttle. How many did you approve of?", "One.", "What does that tell you?", "That there are a lot of people out there that need a lot more training.", "These women know how important a safe pedicure is.", "It's really, really sad that this -- a pedicure has changed my life like this.", "They face a lifetime of scars they say may never heal.", "So terrible. So, what are these individual states doing about this to protect all of us?", "Well, let's start with California. After all these outbreaks, California enacts a law which requires salons to properly clean these pedi-spas, these whirlpool spas. Now, after that -- this is the big problem -- every state has different laws. And some states don't have any laws at all. I know what you're thinking. So, what do you do?", "Exactly.", "Well, here's what our expert says. Our...", "You can read my mind, Greg.", "Yes, I'm psychic. Our expert says that here is what you should do to protect yourself when you get a pedicure. First of all, ask how the salon cleans the footbaths. The salon should tell you they use a hospital- grade, EPA-approved disinfectant, and they run a 10-minute cleaning cycle before each and every client. That means the footbath has to be going around. If all they're doing is spraying some disinfectant spray on there, our experts say, not enough. Second one, don't shave your legs at least 24 hours before you get a pedicure. Another expert told me at least two or three days. The reason, when you shave, you scrape off hair and some skin. And those abrasions leave you much more susceptible to getting an infection. And, finally, ask the salon to take off that screen we showed you. Some of them looked clean. Some of them looked bad. Well, they should take it off every day, our experts say. And, if they won't take it off for you, or they can't take it off for you, our experts say, don't put your feet in the tub.", "That's really good advice. The third one, I think, is the easiest of all those things to follow. Were -- were you surprised by what you found? You had heard some of these nightmare stories. But I -- I couldn't imagine a 600 -- $6.5 billion industry, that it would have been as frequent as you have just found out.", "One of our victims summed it up the best. It's a life- changing event. You're a woman. You wear a dress. You look wonderful in a dress. Women look great in dresses. These women cannot wear dresses anymore. That's what they think. They think their legs are so scarred that they're going to wear pants for the rest of their lives. Is it a life-changing event. And it shouldn't be.", "Consumers, beware. Greg Hunter, thanks for bringing that to us. Coming up, we change our focus quite a bit. Do you think that slavery went away in the 1800s? Well, think again.", "We were working 24 hours. It didn't matter if we were sleeping. They would get us up.", "Unbelievably, in America, slavery for sex. 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{"id": "CNN-343319", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-06-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/21/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Interview with Mayor Bill de Blasio; Supreme Court Rules on Internet Sales Tax; Cases Dropped Against 17 Parents Whose Kids were Taken Away", "utt": ["-- kids are going through emotionally, mentally, but also, you know, kids who unfortunately contracted some kind of disease.", "Yes .", "That are being sent to where a whole bunch of other kids are.", "So --", "There's no rhyme or reason to it.", "So tell me why -- I mean, you traveled from New York down to Texas, down to the border today for a specific reason. Why and what are you trying to see?", "Poppy, this has to stop. And a group of mayors have gathered here from all over the country. I want to emphasize, a bipartisan group, Republicans and Democrats. Small cities, big cities, who all are saying in unison this policy has to stop. The executive order is not enough. We have to end the separation of families and we have to reunify all these families who have been torn apart, and we have to go back to actually respecting people seeking asylum. It is an American tradition for literally 200-plus years of people who come here fleeing oppression.", "So --", "We have to restore some real decency in the asylum process and of course we need an actual comprehensive immigration reform. This is becoming a bipartisan consensus on the ground all over this country. We are going to, as mayors, fight together to get this to actually be acted on in Washington. People have gathered here at the point of contact to say this is no longer acceptable to the American people what's happening here.", "So as you know, the administration would push back on that and DHS, and say, look, the asylum seekers who do it the right legal way don't get separated. Right? And they go through that process. These are people that try to legally to cross over. Are you trying to get into some of these centers down there, Mr. Mayor, that are holding these children? And if so, have you been permitted access? Because Democratic Senator Bill Nelson just told me that he tried to get in the Florida center and, you know, they said no.", "You know, up at the center in New York, the folks who work there is a nonprofit organization. They were welcoming, they were transparent, they were open. We're going to see in a few minutes when all the mayors gather here, whether we're given that same respect and that same transparency. Look, when our government is holding people, particularly children, and won't allow public officials to see, something's wrong right there. There's no accountability here. It's a dangerous situation.", "So --", "So we're going to go in, a group of us mayors, and demand access. I agree with you. Senators and Congress people have been turned away and that should bother all Americans.", "It sounds like, according to Senator Nelson, they were told you need to give us two weeks' notice before we let you in, so it's not -- they're not being let it. It's two weeks' notice. You're shaking your head. I understand you want to see it right away. Understandably there's also privacy issues. But do let us know if you get in. Let me just talk about compromise. That is the operative word but it's the word that is missing on Capitol Hill because even if this compromise Republican bill makes it through the House, no way it's going to make it through the Senate. And it doesn't look like it has any Democratic votes. What do you think? And you don't have a vote in this. You're not in Congress. But what do you think your fellow Democrats in Congress, Mr. Mayor, should give on? Should they fund the wall, for example, to protect Dreamers and to end the family separation?", "Look, I think the big answer is to go for comprehensive immigration reform. And we all understand there's going to be compromises in that process. But here's what's interesting, Poppy, and that's why mayors are gathering because the grassroots have to really be felt here. The current reality in Congress is they prefer not to act for a variety of reasons. The American people is pretty clear. They want comprehensive immigration reform. They want the Dreamers to be able to stay. They want these families reunified.", "Right.", "That's the framework right there.", "Should Democrats fund the wall to get that?", "So of course there's going to be compromise.", "Should it conclude money for the --", "There has to be compromise, I understand that, but the --", "For the wall.", "It needs to be a comprehensive immigration reform. Here's the bottom line. It needs to be a comprehensive immigration reform. The notion of trading one small piece for another and not solving the problem, misunderstands what's going on in this crisis. We're having a moral crisis right now. And actually most people in this country want that fundamental moral crisis addressed in a comprehensible manner. They can deal with compromise. We can all deal with compromise but we don't want to nickel and dime it. Let's actually solve this challenge and come up with a comprehensive immigration reform.", "I think everyone who makes these decisions should think if those were my kids, what would I be doing? Mayor Bill de Blasio, thank you. Please let us know, will you, if you get into the center. I do have to jump to some breaking news out of the Supreme Court, but I appreciate your time. As I said, breaking news out of the Supreme Court. They just issued a ruling on Internet sales tax. It could matter for you. This brought to the high court. Joe Johns is outside of it with more. What was this case about? What's the decision?", "Hey, Poppy, I know you're interested in this case and it affects just about anybody who shops online in the United States of America quite frankly. The headline on the case is the Supreme Court allow states to compel retailers to collect out-of-state tax from out-of-state online vendors. So what that means is a lot of people when they shop online may be under the impression that they're not paying sales tax. The fact of the matter is this is a huge business, perhaps $100 billion over the next 10 years that the states would have lost if the courts had ruled the other way. That's at least according to some estimates. Some other estimates including the GAO say something like between 80 percent and 90 percent of the top online vendors actually already collect this tax. Nonetheless, the importance of it is now the online vendors and others who are out of state and importantly don't have brick and mortar buildings or people, employees, working in that particular state will have to now collect the sales tax. Poppy, as you know, the states have been chomping at the bit on this. Connecticut, by the way, has already told vendors, you'd better get that money ready.", "Yes.", "Back to you.", "All right. Appreciate that. And of course, we're still waiting to hear from the high court what the decision is on the travel ban case. So still waiting for that one. Thank you very much. Appreciate it, Joe Johns. The power of women. How the first lady and Ivanka Trump used their influence to sway the president on this executive order concerning separation at the border, ahead."], "speaker": ["MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO (D), NEW YORK CITY", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "DE BLASIO", "HARLOW", "DE BLASIO", "HARLOW", "DE BLASIO", "HARLOW", "DE BLASIO", "HARLOW", "DE BLASIO", "HARLOW", "DE BLASIO", "HARLOW", "DE BLASIO", "HARLOW", "DE BLASIO", "HARLOW", "DE BLASIO", "HARLOW", "DE BLASIO", "HARLOW", "DE BLASIO", "HARLOW", "JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "JOHNS", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-301036", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-12-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/19/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Electoral College Expected to Formalize Trump Win", "utt": ["That's a good \"GOOD STUFF.\" Time for NEWSROOM with Carol Costello. Good morning, Carol.", "Good morning. That is a good \"GOOD STUFF.\" You guys have a great day. NEWSROOM starts now. And good morning, I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. The Electoral College on track to seal the deal for President-elect Trump. Today, 538 members will cast ballots across the country. The process, largely seen as a ceremonial one, now taking an unusual step into the spotlight. Next hour, electors at Indiana, in New Hampshire, Tennessee, and West Virginia all expected to begin voting, and the pressure is on. Some electors are now being urged to break their Party's pledge and vote their conscience. Recent revelations of Russian hacking only adding fuel to the fire. But in order to block Trump from the White House, 37 Republicans electors would need to switch their votes, something highly unlikely. Let's begin, though, with CNN's Jessica Schneider. Hi, Jessica.", "Hi, Carol. That's right, Michigan's 16 electors will cast their vote right here at the state capitol starting at 2:00 this afternoon. This is largely ceremonial. It will be presided over by the Governor here, Rick Snyder. Now this vote is actually organized by the Republican Party. All of the electors were chosen at the state party convention back in April. All of these electors are party loyalists. But you know, despite that, these electors here in Michigan and all over the country, they've been receiving letters asking them to go rogue, to vote their conscience. In fact, one elector right here in Michigan said he's even received death threats. You combine that with the fact that Michigan's own Michael Moore has even taken to Facebook to pledge to pay the fines of any electors who do vote their conscience and don't vote for Donald Trump, both here in Michigan and all over the country. But as you'll know, 28 states have faithless elector laws. Michigan is one of those states. That means that all of the electors are bound to vote for the candidate that their state voted for. And Republican Party officials right here in Michigan tell me that if one of their electors here was to go rogue, which they say will not happen, they would just simply replace that elector with someone who actually will cast their vote for Donald Trump -- Carol.", "All right. Jessica Schneider reporting live from Lansing, Michigan this morning. So let's talk more about this. With me now is one of those electors, he's from Rhode Island. He's name is Clay Pell. He's a Democrat, and he'll cast his vote in the Electoral College sometime today. Welcome.", "Good morning. Thanks for having me, Carol.", "Thanks for being here. So what time do you cast your vote?", "So we, in Rhode Island, will meet at noon in the state house here in Providence, and we will each cast our vote here in Rhode Island. We're all planning to vote for Hillary Clinton.", "So you were one of the electors who signed a letter and then sent the letter to the Director of the National Intelligence Agency asking for a briefing on Russia's role in the election. Did you ever hear back?", "We did hear back. And unfortunately, the information about this unprecedented hack was not released. That's unfortunate because, in the absence of facts, people make up their own facts. And that's why today, in our Electoral College meeting, we will be calling upon the Congress to go ahead and proceed with a bipartisan, independent commission to make sure that the American people have the full information about this unprecedented foreign intervention into our election.", "We have found no evidence that that you're going to get 37 Republican electors to switch sides, and Donald Trump knows that. In fact, he kind of twisted the knife in Alabama for those electors hoping that things will change. He taunted Clinton supporters for assuming this big win before all was said and done. Listen.", "I spent $7 million on fireworks, and they knew something was wrong. One of their people, who's a high level guy, said we made a big mistake. We made a big mistake. We're going to lose. And he was telling that to people, and I felt we were going to win. But then all of a sudden, they canceled their fireworks a week in and I said, because you know what? I found fireworks just don't work when you lose. Do you agree with that? Just to be cute, we sent an offer in. We offered to buy their fireworks for 5 cents on the dollar.", "So Trump appears to be saying, either jump on the train or get left behind, it is over, stop it.", "Yes, I think that, I mean, President-elect Trump will be formally elected today. And I think it's very important that he focus not on the election and continued divisiveness, but instead on making sure that he stands with the intelligence community and stands up against this Russian intervention. This is not a partisan issue. That's why we're calling for a bipartisan investigation. And this is something that, I think, all Americans can stand behind.", "Well, I think that even lawmakers are calling for a bipartisan investigation. But I think that when electors in the Electoral College try to convince others to change their vote, then it becomes, in some Trump supporters' minds, sore losers. And again you got to get on the train, because it's over.", "Oh, well, President Trump is going to be formally elected and that really is going to be the outcome, so our focus is not on persuading or suggesting to others what they should do. Our focus is defending the integrity of the American democracy. And really that's something that all Americans including Trump supporters can get behind. This ultimately will help the legitimacy of President-elect Trump as well.", "Clay Pell, thanks for joining me this morning. The Russians, namely Vladimir Putin, are shaking the political world in the United States. Senator John McCain said the Russian election related hack threaten to destroy democracy. President Obama is demanding a quick end to the investigation, yet the whole confusing ordeal has made its way into our popular culture and not in a good way.", "Mr. Trump, I'm here because your CIA is saying that we Russians tried to make you win election.", "I know. All lies made up by some very bitter people who need to move on.", "So you trust me more than American CIA?", "All I know is I won.", "Wow. Wow, this guy is blowing my mind.", "Sometimes you just need to laugh, right? But it's no laughing matter in Russia. Clarissa Ward is following the story in Moscow. Hi, Clarissa.", "Hi, Carol. Well, so far the Kremlin will not really be drawn on in terms of responding to President Obama's press conference. They said that we have given our answer so many times to this issue. We have objected strenuously to these accusations since they first emerged two months ago. And there has not been really, Carol, any shift whatsoever in that. CNN did try to ask the Kremlin spokesperson today, as well, what the content of the conversation between President Obama and President Putin back in September was. You may remember that, in his press conference, President Obama said that he told Putin, quote, \"to cut it out,\" but the Kremlin spokesperson said he would not be revealing any details of those conversations because they are private conversations. Unofficially, though, I think it's fair to say that Russia is kind of relishing its moment in the sun here, relishing the idea that it could have the kind of power and sway that would be needed to pull off such an audacious move such as swinging the U.S. election. And as far as the party line goes, it's really just a case of the Russians are saying there's no credible, physical, tangible evidence here. What you are bringing to the table is circumstantial evidence. We are not seeing actual proof of any Russian involvement, and until we do see that proof, and, Carol, perhaps once we see it, even, we will continue to deny it. Carol.", "All right. Clarissa Ward, stay with us because still to come in the NEWSROOM, Russians hacking the U.S. election, the Chinese stealing of an American drone submarine, the slaughter inside Syria. Why Senator John McCain says, right now, we may be witnessing the unraveling of the world order."], "speaker": ["ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "CLAY PELL (D), RHODE ISLAND ELECTOR", "COSTELLO", "PELL", "COSTELLO", "PELL", "COSTELLO", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES", "COSTELLO", "PELL", "COSTELLO", "PELL", "COSTELLO", "BECK BENNETT, ACTOR", "ALEC BALDWIN, ACTOR", "BENNETT", "BALDWIN", "BENNETT", "COSTELLO", "CLARISSA WARD, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-390401", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-01-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/15/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Announces Impeachment Managers; Impeachment Managers Represent Diversity of the Country", "utt": ["The issue here is, does the Senate want to hear from witnesses who have never testified, people who, like other witnesses, have firsthand information? And unless the president is willing to concede everything the House has alleged, these witnesses are very pertinent and relevant. And so this is another profound distinction between the Clinton investigation and trial and where we are today.", "Madam Speaker, having witnesses --", "Last question.", "-- for the prosecution opens up potentially having witnesses for the defense. And Republicans have suggested they would like to call Hunter Biden. Are you, the managers, prepared for that?", "Would you like to speak to that.", "Let me say, we are prepared. But the relevant question is relevance --", "That's right.", "-- is relevance. In any trial, you call witnesses who have information about the allegations, about the charges. The allegations, for which there's a mountain of evidence, are that the president betrayed his country by trying to extort Ukraine by withholding $391 million in military aid that Congress had voted, in order to get Ukraine to announce an investigation of a domestic political opponent. That's the allegation. Any witness who has information about whether that is true or not true, is a relevant witness. Anybody -- like Hunter Biden -- who has no information about any of that, is not a relevant witness. Any trial judge in this country would rule such a witness as irrelevant and inadmissible. If someone is accused of robbing a bank, witnesses who say, we saw him run into the bank or we saw him someplace else, are relevant. A witness who says he committed forgery on some other document, is not relevant to the bank robbery charge. That's the distinction.", "But let me just say that what is at stake here is the Constitution of the United States. This is what an impeachment is about. The president violated his oath of office, undermined our national security, jeopardized the integrity of our elections, tried to use the appropriations process as his private ATM machine to grant or withhold funds granted by Congress in order to advance his personal and political advantage. That is what the senators should be looking into. This is a president who said the Second Amendment -- excuse me, Article II says that I can do whatever I want. It does not. He's undermining a system, the beautiful, exquisite, brilliant genius of the Constitution, the separation of powers, by granting to himself the powers of a monarch, which is exactly what Benjamin Franklin said we didn't have. A republic, if we can keep it. So this is a very serious matter, and we take it to heart in a really solemn way, in a very solemn way. It's about the Constitution, it's about the republic, if we can keep it. And they shouldn't be frivolous with the Constitution of the United States, even though the president of the United States has. The president is not above the law. He will be held accountable. He has been held accountable, he has been impeached. He's been impeached forever. They can never erase that. I'm very proud of the managers that we have. I believe that they bring to this case in the United States Senate, great patriotism, great respect for the Constitution of the United States, great comfort level in a courtroom, great commitment again to the Constitution: Jerry being the chair of that Constitutional Subcommittee for 13 years; Zoe being involved in three impeachments and the others bringing their intellectual resources and their knowledge to all of this. So I thank them for accepting this responsibility. I wish them well. It's going to be a very big commitment of time, and I don't think we could be better served than by the patriotism and dedication of the managers that I am naming here this morning. Thank you all very much.", "The Senate will try a sitting U.S. president for high crimes and misdemeanors and those seven House members there will serve as managers, in effect, the prosecution team of the president. Really remarkable, strong, weighty words. Nancy Pelosi says this is about the Constitution, accusing the president of violating his oath of office, undermining national security. And Jerry Nadler, interestingly, zeroing in on the 2020 election --", "Yes.", "-- saying he's trying to cheat, speaking of Trump, he's rigging the next election. Very powerful words, and quite strong accusations there.", "Jeffrey Toobin, what did you hear?", "Well, I think what I saw was perhaps more interesting than what I heard. I mean, this -- these seven people, they look like the Democratic Party. You know, 20 years ago, the House managers were 13 white men. These are --", "That's a great point.", "-- two African-Americans, a Hispanic woman, four men, three women. I mean, the parties -- and you saw these in these committee hearings -- just look very different. The -- six of the seven are lawyers. Val Demings is not a lawyer, but she was the police chief of Orlando. So -- and I think the impact of this group starts with how different they look from the Republican Party.", "Yes. And, Poppy, you made the point, territorial, geographic --", "Oh, right.", "-- diversity as well. New York State and California, but Colorado, Florida, Texas --", "Oh, yes.", "-- these are important states in --", "Yes.", "-- November.", "Because they have to do the job of convincing enough senators to defy Mitch McConnell, which is what Jeffrey laid out.", "No question. I wonder -- and we have John King with us as well, Ross Garber. John King, you covered an impeachment 20-some-odd years ago, 21 years ago. Describe the moment you saw here today. And there was even a reference from Adam Schiff to that, talking about how in the Senate trial, Bill Clinton, folks did not want to speak about sex on the Senate floor. Of course, different -- the nature of the allegations, different than now. Help us -- help the viewers understand that.", "There are some things, including the substance of the allegations, that are very, very different. This is about President Trump's personal conduct in office, it's about using the instruments of foreign policy and the instruments of government in a way that Democrats have said in their articles abused his power, and then using those same powers to obstruct Congress. That's the case then. It was about sex in the Clinton days. It was about things that nobody wanted to discuss publicly. I remember, as a reporter covering the White House, it was awkward and uncomfortable and at times just made you tremble, some of the things you were saying on live television. That's why they did not have live witnesses in the Clinton trial. They did take depositions from witnesses on the Senate side, including from Monica Lewinsky. It did not change the ultimate math in the end. What the Democrats were trying to make here, they understand. This is the first page in this new chapter of the Trump impeachment saga, and the Democrats are trying to come out of the box to persuade the public and to persuade a handful of Republican senators, you really need to do this. We have not answered all the questions. You must allow witnesses. Now, when we get to the witness question in the Senate, which is down the road a bit, will they have live witnesses, will they have depositions, will they have no witnesses? We will see how that plays out. But I want to -- just two more quick points. Speaker Pelosi said \"forever\" --", "Yes.", "-- at the beginning of her statement, at the end of her statement. She is trying to get under the president's skin and make clear, no matter what happens in the Senate, you have been stained forever. That's what she was trying to do.", "Something he's referenced --", "And Jerry Nadler, I think, made a very important point at the end about the relevance question. Because here's what's going to happen. Let's say there are four or five Republican senators who are willing to hear from Mick Mulvaney, willing to hear from John Bolton, willing to side with the Democrats on letting some of these new documents into evidence. They're going to have a meeting in Mitch McConnell's office where Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and other Republicans are going to get up and say, fine. If you do that, we're going to call Joe Biden, we're going to call Hunter Biden, we're going to call the whistleblower. And that's where the relevance question is going to become critical because they're going to use that, the threat of calling in other witnesses, to try to convince those four or five Republicans to back off. And so will we see, on the floor of the Senate, motions filed by Democrats to call in one witness or to block another witness and watch all that play out? Strap in, this is going to be fun and unpredictable.", "Yes.", "Let's let the president respond here. He took to Twitter, let's pull it up. He's clearly watching. Quote, \"Here we go again, another Con Job by the Do Nothing Democrats. All of this work was supposed to be done by the House, not the Senate!\" The Senate has a constitutional role here. Ross Garber, we heard Pelosi and Schiff say they won. They won with time, they won by holding on to these. But did they really win until Mitch McConnell makes a decision here on evidence and witnesses?", "Yes. So it remains to be seen. What they didn't get was what they said they wanted, which was --", "Right.", "-- the rules ahead of time. They didn't get that. But, you know, interestingly enough, and whether it was calculated and intentional or not, what they may have actually gotten by this delay is this drip-drip-drip of new information. You know, John Bolton, saying, you know what, if I'm subpoenaed to the Senate, I'm happy to show up. You know, all of this new information that's coming out from Lev Parnas now. So, you know, that actually has been something that they've accomplished. They didn't get what they wanted --", "Yes.", "-- but it turns out they've gotten something by it.", "And this focus on the documents -- Schiff's words -- \"Documents don't generally lie.\" And it is true that the documents available in the Clinton impeachment, far greater. There was not this institutional systematic blocking of documents and witnesses there. Manu Raju, you were in the room there, you asked Nancy Pelosi the first question, on the question of documents -- we've talked a lot about witnesses, right? Do you have four Republicans to vote to call witnesses, a list of witnesses, individual witnesses. How would documents move? Would it be a similar vote and simple majority?", "-- to try to force the Senate to subpoena those documents, and that will also require 51 votes to succeed, so that means four Republicans would have to break ranks and join with the Democrats on the floor to do that. And Mitch -- Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader in the Senate, has made it very clear, he plans to force those votes. But I did ask her that question about why they decided to move forward on impeachment before Christmas, when they're arguing also, at the same time, that time has only strengthened their cause. Couldn't they have waited a little bit longer to get some of those documents, even if it were not through the court process but through other means, other ways (ph) the way they're getting -- learning now, like Lev Parnas' documents. Because, in large part, that is what the Republicans in the Senate are arguing, the Democrats should have waited longer. But the argument the Democrats are making is that they had to act urgently because of their view that the president is already trying to rig the 2020 elections. But it also begs another question Republicans will have, is, well, why did Pelosi have to wait that additional couple of weeks, delay the trial for essentially a week's time if it wasn't such -- if it was so urgent. But they try to make the case here that, no matter what, their case is strong, additional information is adding only additional weight to their case. Ultimately, another question that's still days ahead is whether or not Lev Parnas, the information that he provided to the House committees, whether or not there are more information that they do plan to present in the days ahead because there's -- it's still a bit uncertain, how they would deal with new evidence that could continue to come up --", "Yes.", "-- after the trial begins. That will be probably a vote that the members have to consider on the floor if additional things come out through court cases and the other matters. So a lot of uncertainty as this trial plays out in the days ahead.", "Manu, remind us where we go from here in the next few hours. What happens?", "Well, we expect a vote in the early afternoon to name those managers, and then afterwards that will set the stage for a series of more ceremonial steps. What will happen in the late afternoon around 5:00 p.m., Nancy Pelosi will have a formal ceremony, signing the records. Also the House clerk will sign those records. Then the House managers will have a procession of sorts, marching from the House side to the Senate side of the Capitol. They'll actually formally deliver those articles to the Senate. Now, that will probably essentially be the end of the activities for this -- for today. Tomorrow, then, that's -- the managers will come back, they will read aloud from the -- each of the two articles, then the chief justice of the Supreme Court will be sworn in. Then the senators will be sworn in. And essentially that will likely be the end of this week's public activities. Behind the scenes, each side will then start to draft their case, write their briefs and then next week, next Tuesday is when those arguments begin and we'll see how long it takes, we'll see will they have witnesses, we'll see if the White House gets what it wants, which is to wrap this all up by the State of the Union.", "Trump Impeachment Timeline: This afternoon: House debate and vote; 5:00 p.m. Eastern: Articles delivered to Senate; Next Tuesday: Senate trial expected to begin", "Well, one thing to remember, be prepared to be surprised. A lot of things that we called certainties a number of days ago are --", "You're right, you're so right --", "-- no longer so certain.", "-- to keep pointing that out.", "And -- and --", "Jeremy Diamond is at the White House --", "Oh.", "-- just want to get a quick reaction from the White House here. So far, the president with this tweet. Any other word from inside the White House behind you?", "No. Look, this is a moment that the White House has been anticipating, a moment that the president has hoped to see -- at least to see this start moving towards this trial in the Senate, where the president sees this as an opportunity to finally get the vindication that he has so craved. You know, he has been frustrated, over the weeks, over this delay in transmitting those articles of impeachment. So from that perspective, it's a welcome step for the White House to see these actually transmitted. Now, the president, of course, is still out there, criticizing what House Democrats are calling for, which is to have witnesses and evidence presented in this Senate impeachment trial. The president, taking to Twitter, moments ago, to say, \"here we go again, another con job by the do-nothing Democrats. All of this work was supposed to be done by the House, not the Senate.\" And that appears to be particularly a reference to this call by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, and the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, for there to be witnesses, and pointing out the differences with the Clinton impeachment trial, when many of those witnesses that folks were calling for had already been deposed --", "Yes.", "-- in this case, of course, House Democrats are calling for witnesses who have not yet been interviewed or been deposed or testified publicly.", "Yes. Although there were new depositions, we should note, in the Clinton impeachment.", "Yes. Jeremy, thanks so much. Jeffrey Toobin, final thought -- and if you could also weigh in on just how little documentary evidence they have now, at least, to go off.", "You know, if this were a real criminal trial, this would be a document case. This would be a case built with --", "Yes.", "-- e-mails, with texts. The House has been working with virtually none of that. Even the witnesses from the government weren't allowed just --", "Couldn't get their own things (ph).", "-- to get their own documentary material. I learned a new word today, \"engrossment.\" You know what an engrossment is? I never knew what this word was.", "Educate us.", "Well, at 5:00, the speaker, Nancy Pelosi, says she's going to do the engrossment of the articles of impeachment, which is the formal signing and delivery of the documents. I'd never heard that word before. The Speaker's office announced the engrossment. And I think, in addition to educating all of us on a new word, that is -- to emphasize what the speaker tried to do today, talk about the solemnity of the occasion --", "Yes.", "-- this is not politics as usual. This is something about the Constitution. And I think that was the message that was really intended to be sent today. We'll see if the public reacts to it.", "Listen, it's going to be, for all of us, a civics lesson -- lessons in these coming days and weeks here, and as Americans. It's something you might say you have a duty to watch.", "Toobin, thank you. Of course, John King, Ross Garber, we appreciate it. We always need your brains around all this stuff. It's a big moment for sure. We're going to take a quick break.", "Yes.", "We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA), LEAD IMPEACHMENT MANAGER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "REP. 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{"id": "NPR-24568", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2015-04-23", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/04/23/401781320/book-review-the-language-of-paradise", "title": "Book Review: 'The Language Of Paradise'", "summary": "NPR's Alan Cheuse reviews The Language of Paradise by Barbara Klein Moss.", "utt": ["\"The Language Of Paradise.\" That's the title of a new book by first-time novelist Barbara Klein Moss. \"The Language Of Paradise\" sounds lovely, but it's much more complicated. Alan Cheuse has our review.", "A promising marriage falls victim to the utopian ideas of a scholarly husband. And it does promise a lot, this marriage, at the beginning - this union of a lovely, wild daughter of a straight-laced minister businessman and a pastor-to-be. Sophy Hedge is a budding painter. Gideon Birdsall is a student of Hebrew and a fanatic on the question of what language ruled in the Garden of Eden. The novelist herself employs a plane-voiced diction suitable for the 1830s to describe the growing love between Sophy and Gideon, the family matters in which the couple becomes embroiled and the rise of husband Gideon's wildly romantic attempt to duplicate the condition of Eden as a setting for the arrival of their first child.", "He and a visionary friend construct a greenhouse and a garden they regard as paradise-like - a place in which they hope the newborn will remain in silence until he or she speaks in the first language of mankind, which may sound a little wacky to us, but it's convincing at first for Sophy and because of that, convincing for the reader. Until things, as they usually do in paradise, go spectacularly awry.", "The book is \"The Language Of Paradise\" by Barbara Klein Moss. Alan Cheuse had our review. His most recent novel is \"Prayers For The Living.\""], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "ALAN CHEUSE, BYLINE", "ALAN CHEUSE, BYLINE", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-40674", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-9-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/28/lt.18.html", "summary": "Expert on Islamic Extremism Discusses Terrorist Attacks", "utt": ["I want to quickly bring back with apologies our guest, professor David Forte, who was -- is an expert on Islamic extremism. Professor, just one last question, and that is, you're saying that these Islamic extremists who carried out this terrible act on September the 11th, they don't like other forms of the practice of Islam. But what is it that makes them hate the United States so much?", "Well, President Bush said it simply and directly, and I think accurately. Whenever you have an ideology, whether the ideology has come to power because of a philosophy such as Marxism or race or religion, or pretended religion, that ideology then which is to implode itself -- impose itself upon a people, any system that stands for freedom, for choice of religion, for the ability to devote oneself to God as one sees fit stands in opposition to that regime. And so, in the same way that bin Laden apparently has funded and supported the Taliban -- the Taliban is the future of Islam in bin Laden's eyes. And most Muslims say that is not us. There are very great varieties within Islam. There are very great disputes within Islam. But all through the world and all through our country, we saw for example Saudi Arabia, which is not a particularly liberal Islamic state, say that bin Laden's actions defame Islam, all through the world they -- Muslims said that is not us. And that is what President Bush saw and stated right from the beginning. And I think that message is isolating these evil people and is actually opening a door that will take years to come, for a long term rapprochement between our country and many of the Muslim peoples around the world.", "These are important points for us to hear, particularly as today with the release of this letter that cites -- in possession of the hijackers -- citing the Koran, urging these hijackers to pray and so forth, it is important to hear some of these distinctions. Professor David Forte, we thank you very much for joining us, and again we apologize for cutting you short when we went over to the State Department.", "Thank you.", "Thank you very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "PROFESSOR DAVID FORTE, CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY", "WOODRUFF", "FORTE", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-241848", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2014-10-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/27/es.02.html", "summary": "Fight Over Quarantine for U.S. Ebola Workers; Will Jed Bush Run in 2016?", "utt": ["Living in isolation in a tent in New Jersey. The U.S. nurse returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa is furious that she is placed in a mandatory quarantine. The White House now butting heads with governors over what precautions are really needed. Some of these governors are backing off. This is all in a fight to prevent Ebola from spreading in the United States.", "Breaking news this morning: a second shoot shot Friday in the high school cafeteria in Washington dies overnight, as the community tries to make sense of the tragedy.", "Could there be another Bush in a White House run? That one. Jeb Bush, his son raising the possibility, raising speculation over his father's plans for 2016. Welcome back to EARLY START, everyone. I'm John Berman.", "I'm Christine Romans. It's 30 minutes past the hour. It is Monday morning. And there is major controversy this morning and some confusion over ever changing policies on how medical personnel returning from the Ebola outbreak zone of West Africa should be treated once when they arrive back in the United States. Now, New York state is backing off its mandatory 21-day hospital stay. It is allowing patients to be quarantined at home. Patients, we should say, returning medical workers who show know signs of any of the disease. New Jersey also clarifying its quarantine, allowing people to be confined at home if possible. But a nurse quarantined in a hospital tent blasting Chris Christie for diagnosing her as sick, even though he is, quote, \"not a doctor\", as she says. Meanwhile, the symptoms of the doctor being treated for the disease in a New York hospital -- those symptoms have progressed. Officials at Bellevue Hospital say Dr. Craig Spencer looked better Sunday than on Saturday, declaring his condition serious, but stable. A lot going on this morning. CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has more from Bellevue.", "John, Christine, here at Bellevue, Dr. Craig Spencer is now in serious condition, doctors say. He has moved into the next phase of his illness. He now has gastrointestinal symptoms. He is getting a blood transfusion, a plasma transfusion actually from Nancy Writebol. She's an Ebola survivor who is treated at Emory University. He is also getting an anti-viral medication. His doctors aren't saying exactly what, but likely is experimental medication. It may be Brincidofovir, which is a medicine that's been given to other Ebola patients. And here in New York and New Jersey, the quarantine controversy rages on. At the center of it, a nurse named Kaci Hickox. She flew from Sierra Leone into Newark airport on Friday. She wasn't sick, she was feeling fine, but she was sent to the hospital where she is remained in isolation. She doesn't have a temperature. She's tested negative for Ebola twice. She says she's feeling her fine but her spirit is sometimes low.", "Everyone keeps asking, how are you feeling physically? I feel fine physically. But I don't think most people understand what it's like to be alone in a tent and to know there's nothing wrong with you and decisions are being made that don't make sense and show no compassion.", "After I spoke with Hickox, I spoke with Dr. Rick Sacra. He's a health care worker who's worked in West Africa and an Ebola survivor. He says he doesn't understand why Hickox is being quarantined. She doesn't have Ebola, she is not sick, so how could she possible give the disease to anyone? But Governor Chris Christie says he's protecting the public health -- Christine, John.", "All right. Our thanks to Elizabeth Cohen at Bellevue. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo are standing by their decision to call for quarantines for anyone arriving in those states from West African countries when they had direct contact with Ebola patients, even though these governors have now clarified that the stay can be at home if possible. But the Obama administration pushing back, arguing back with unnecessary quarantines will discourage health care workers from fighting Ebola at the source.", "I'm sorry if any way she was inconvenienced. But the inconvenience that could occur from having folks who are symptomatic and ill out amongst the public is a much, much greater concern of mine.", "We are staying one step ahead. We are doing everything possible. Some people will say we're being too cautious. I'll take that criticism because that's better than the alternative.", "We need to find a way when they come home that they are treated like conquering heroes and not stigmatized for the tremendous work that they had done.", "The Texas nurses who cared for the first U.S. Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, those nurses say they confronted obstacles, including inadequate protection guidelines from the CDC and lies from Duncan. The nurses told CBS that Duncan said he came from Africa and only later specifying Liberia. They say he misled officials about other possible sources of exposure.", "What information was it that he denied to the health officials?", "About his travels, about his -- him burying his pregnant daughter who died in child birth. He denied that. He said that's not true.", "So, he wasn't honest with them?", "Yes.", "Meanwhile, Thomas Eric Duncan's fiancee is struggling to put her life back together with the help of her church. More than a week after passing the 21-day isolation period, Louise Troh, her son and nephews are looking for a place to live. Troh's pastor tells \"The Dallas Morning News\" landlords are reluctant to rent to them and nearly all of the belongings were destroyed in the decontamination process. It's pretty clear there is no reason not to rent to them. I mean, they passed the period. That is where the Ebola has become fear-bola. And you don't like to see anybody put in that position. All right. Right now, there is no cure for Ebola, but governments and pharmaceutical companies are working together, committing millions of dollars to change that. The two leading vaccines to protect the virus, both are being funded by a public and private money. One was developed by the U.S. National Institute of Health and GlaxoSmithKline. The other was initially developed by the public health agency of Canada. It's now owned by a small U.S. drugmaker. It's unclear who will pay for the drugs, but pharma companies are betting on high demands from government and aid groups. Time for an early start on your money. European stocks higher. U.S. stock futures are up this Monday morning. Guess what? All this volatility was the best week of the year for stocks last week. Just when you wanted to go hide, then suddenly, it is the best week.", "You were on assignment for much of that week. You were not doing the money reporting for much of that week.", "That's right.", "I don't think it's a coincidence.", "Benign neglect.", "This morning, we are learning details about the deadly attack at Canada's War Memorial and the parliament there. Police say the government prepared a video -- the gunman prepared a video of himself they say shows that he was driven by ideological and political motives. Officials say they investigating Michael Zehaf-Bibeau's interaction with numerous people in the days leading up to the shooting. They're trying to determine whether those individuals had anything to do with the attack.", "A changing of the guard in Afghanistan. U.S. Marines and British troops officially ending their combat operations, transferring Camps Leatherneck and Bastion to Afghan control in ceremonies on Sunday, those two locations. The flags were lowered there for the last time, marking the military milestone, every combat marine and British soldier will soon be coming home.", "There was a warm welcome home for Jeff Fowle. The Ohio man detained in North Korea for nearly six months. Fowle and his family attended church services at Urbancrest Baptist church on Sunday. The churchgoers applauded the family as they took the stage and participated in a moment of prayer. Fowle was arrested and detained in North Korea for leaving a bible at a sailors club.", "Could we see bush and Clinton in 2016? This time it would be Jeb facing Hillary. Plenty of speculation about both potential candidates. On Sunday, Jeb's son, George P. Bush in an ABC interview, he gave the clearest sign yet of what his father might be thinking.", "Is your dad going to run for president?", "I think he's still assessing it.", "Do you think it is more than 50 percent or less than 50 percent?", "I think it's more than likely that he is giving this a serious thought in moving forward.", "More than likely that he'll run?", "That he'll run.", "Jeb's oldest son is involved in a campaign of his own this year. He's running for Texas land commissioner. That would certainly make it a very interesting race.", "Oh, yes.", "All right. Thirty-eight minutes past the hour. Death toll rising in the war waged by ISIS in a key Syrian city. We're live with what's being done to stop the terrorists from taking over the town.", "Plus, another victim in Friday's school shooting died overnight. We're learning some new information about the tragedy as well. 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{"id": "CNN-282507", "program": "DR. DREW", "date": "2016-04-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/26/ddhln.01.html", "summary": "Whitney Houston`s Death Fueled Bobbi Kristina`s Drug Abuse.", "utt": ["Doc, please help me see Krissi.", "We`re going to get you cleaned up first, right?", "Get to the point. Get to the point, I`m getting frustrated.", "You`re getting anxious.", "Yeah.", "I understand --", "I do respect him.", "You have two things you have to do. You have to get detoxed.", "I am detoxed.", "No, you`re not. You`re drunk and you`re on drugs.", "No, I`m drunk.", "That was Nick Gordon on Dr. Phil one year ago. Now he`s speaking about Bobbi Kristina Brown`s drug abuse and how, he says, it escalated after her mother, Whitney Houston, died. Take a look.", "Some photoss surfaced of Krissi smoking out of a bong and snorting cocaine in 2011. Did she have a drug problem?", "Krissi?", "Yeah.", "Yeah.", "Did you ever see her do drugs while her mother was alive?", "Socially, yeah.", "Like what drugs?", "Oh --", "And by socially you mean at a party or something?", "Yeah, maybe smoke a little bit.", "Did you do it with her?", "Smoke?", "Uh-huh.", "Yeah.", "But then she started doing other drugs at some point?", "Yeah. It got really bad after Whitney passed away. It`s unfortunate but that`s how at that time -- at that time, that`s kind of the only way we knew how to deal with what happened.", "The entire interview airs this Thursday and Friday on Dr. Phil. A reminder that Bobbi Kristina had died last July, she`d been in a coma for months before they finally backed off her life support. Back with Christina, Renee, and Jason. Now, Renee, I look at Nick Gordon there, he looks a lot better, a lot better. He`s been in recovery, well Jason, I`ll talk about how much recovery but he looks better, at least.", "Yeah, he does but this guy has been through absolute hell and back.", "Did you interview with Nick or Dr. Phil?", "Dr. Phil, I spoke to Dr. Phil. But actually knew -- I met Nick and I met Krissi and Whitney before Whitney died. I knew them when they were actually acting like they were brother and sister. So it came full circle and kind of weird later a couple years down the track when he is now her husband and all of that. But, yeah, he does talk about the fact that he was there and his involvement in the night that Whitney died and then again the argument and everything that happened the night that Krissi was found.", "He tells Phil all this?", "Yes.", "Does he talk about her heavy drug use too?", "Yeah, I think he is going to go into that. He spoke about the fact that Krissy Bobbi was doing it before her mother passed socially but things got bad after the fact.", "To get pills. It`s pills pill, that somebody gave her pills because she was anxious because she was miserable.", "Yeah.", "He also told Dr. Phil what drugs he was using when they last met last year during that interview. Take a look.", "When I saw you in Atlanta, what were you on then? I know you were drinking a lot. What else were you on at the time?", "Xanax.", "Why were you drinking so much at that time?", "I was drinking so much at the time because I could not deal with what was happening to Krissi. It mentally broke me, you know? That`s the lowest point in my life right there.", "If you recall when I was talking about Prince, I was talking about the addition of benzodiazepines and sleep medications, Xanax is one of the ones that`s added in that becomes lethal when added to an opiate. Jason, he apparently got eight weeks of treatment or six weeks of treatment.", "That`s my understanding.", "He needs a lot more than that?", "No, he`s still not to have -- but able to have the active disease arrested in that short amount of time.", "Do you think he`s in recovery?", "I don`t know. He`s still -- potentially. I mean, I can`t judge it after not seeing him and talking to him. He looks completely better than the situation he was in in that interview. Of course, the previous one you could tell he was intoxicated and barely even present.", "Look. Let`s see, here`s a minute of some tape of him speaking to Dr. Phil about what he did in treatment. Let`s see if there`s anything here. Go.", "I`m told that you really leaned into it when you were there.", "Yeah, and rehab was something I needed and I`m thankful that I got that opportunity.", "So he embraced treatment. The question, Jason though, did he continue as the on going care that it makes the whole the difference?", "Well, that`s the first thing that people needs to understand. It`s not hard to get sober, it`s hard to say sober. The focus comes in after care. You know, and that`s where the rubber hits the road after you get sober for initial 30 days when you`re contained and your in that environment it`s not hard to obtain sobriety when you`re in surveillance 24/7, it`s when you come out, it`s like being thrown in the four parted ways and guess which way to go. So your access comes back, it`s like, you know, the society today is totally different than it was 30 years ago.", "And they need that ongoing daily connection to recovering people and sometimes the therapist and whatever it might be. But it`s something that takes years to fully treat.", "Well they need that to be able to buy into their recovery. I think in today society you have to see there`s a light at the end of the tunnel that you can grasp on to actually be motivated. If it`s not motivating you have to go the other way.", "We have to go. Thank you. Thank you panel. Excellent job, appreciate it. I appreciate you guys newbies panel. We appreciate being --", ". a very good job", "We`ll be back. DVR, you can watch it any time. Thank you for watching. NANCY GRACE up next. END"], "speaker": ["NICK GORDON, BOBBI KRISTINA`S BOYFRIEND", "DR. PHIL, TV HOST", "GORDON", "DR. PHIL", "GORDON", "DR. PHIL", "GORDON", "DR. PHIL", "GORDON", "DR. PHIL", "GORDON", "PINSKY", "MCGRAW", "GORDON", "DR. PHIL", "GORDON", "DR. PHIL", "GORDON", "DR. PHIL", "GORDON", "DR. PHIL", "GORDON", "DR. PHIL", "GORDON", "DR. PHIL", "GORDON", "DR. PHIL", "GORDON", "PINSKY", "BARGH", "PINSKY", "BARGH", "PINSKY", "BARGH", "PINSKY", "BARGH", "PINSKY", "BARGH", "PINSKY", "DR. PHIL", "GORDON", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-121788", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-12-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/01/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Campaign Hostage Drama; Sean Taylor Death: Four Arrests Made; World AIDS Day", "utt": ["He was someone that was not known to my campaign headquarters until he walked in the door today. Insofar as I'm aware, we had no contact with him.", "Hillary Clinton talks about the man who held some of her New Hampshire staff hostage for hours. We have the latest on the troubled suspect. That's just minutes away.", "We have more than one confession. I'll put it at that.", "Four men are in jail suspected in the killing of NFL superstar Sean Taylor. They went before a judge this morning. We'll get a live report.", "And are you planning to fly out west? You better check your flight right now because dozens are being canceled as a blizzard warning has many states in emergency mode.", "We're not growing up seeing our friends die of HIV like they did in the '80s and '90s. So people don't really feel like they are being affected by it.", "And this is World AIDS Day. While much of the attention is on Africa, we're shining the spotlight on young Americans, many of whom don't think they are at risk. Good morning to you all. It's Saturday, December 1st. I'm T.J. Holmes. Good morning to you, Betty.", "Good morning, T.J. And I'm Betty Nguyen, from the CNN Center here in Atlanta, where it is 10:00 a.m., 9:00 in Minneapolis, where a blizzard just might be brewing. Hey, T.J., we're going to be checking in with you shortly, as well as throughout the show, there standing in front of that AIDS quilt. What a remarkable site. We'll be talking with you very shortly. But in the meantime, let's start with Jim Acosta, who has been in Rochester, New Hampshire, since last night. He has the latest on the hostage situation at Hillary Clinton's state campaign headquarters. Jim, bring us up to speed on how it all went down.", "Good morning, Betty. Well, luckily, this all went down peacefully. We are standing outside of Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters in Rochester, New Hampshire, where the office is dark. It's closed this morning. And that is just as well, because the campaign in Iowa today, the campaign is basically saying that they want to appear to not be politicizing this event. They want to be careful that they don't do that. So today, for this campaign staff here in Rochester, it's a day to take a collective sigh of relief.", "Wearing a fake bomb that was nothing more than road flares duct-taped to his chest, Leeland Eisenberg surrendered to police, ending a tense hostage crisis that brought the race for the White House to a standstill. For more than five hours, Eisenberg, a 46-year-old with a history of mental illness, was holed up inside this Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire, threatening to blow up a handful of staffers, a child and himself. At one point during the crisis, Eisenberg called CNN complaining that he had been unable to speak treatment for his illness and added that he had gone to that campaign office to speak with the candidate directly. But police say involving the presidential hopeful was not an option.", "We decided not to introduce anyone from the campaign or the senator's office into the negotiation process.", "Eventually, the hostages were released. The fake bomb was destroyed by police. And late in the evening, Senator Clinton flew to New Hampshire for a brief visit with the then released hostages and their families.", "Good evening. We are immensely relieved that this has ended peacefully. To see the people who were directly held hostage and their families and to thank the New Hampshire professionals who made this day turn out as well as it did...", "Over at Eisenberg's mobile home community a few miles away, neighbors say they saw early warning signs of trouble ranging from alcohol abuse to loud arguments at the suspect's home.", "He would walk over to the filling station right up the street every day and always get either a 12-pack or something like that. This is every day.", "They hauled him away for domestic violence, yes. I don't know what happened. I was coming in from work and they were hauling him in the cruiser.", "On Eisenberg's front door, a note from his family saying they have no comment for now.", "As for Leeland Eisenberg, he is behind bars in jail this morning. He has a court appearance scheduled for Monday at 1:00 here in Rochester. And as one neighbor put it yesterday, they see all of this as a desperate cry for help -- Betty.", "No doubt. All right, Jim. Thank you for that. Well, in other news, four young men facing a judge at a Ft. Myers, Florida, court today dealing with the death of football star Sean Taylor. The proceedings ended about 30 minutes ago. And our John Zarrella is following the developments from Ft. Myers. He just left the courtroom. Want to talk about what exactly happened today -- John.", "Well, Betty, here at the justice center in Lee County, it's a terrible, terrible, tough day for the families, the relatives of these four individuals. Now, only three of them had their first appearance here today. Jason Mitchell was processed too late, they said, for him to make an appearance today. His first appearance will likely be tomorrow. All of these four men will, at some point in the very near future now, be transported to Miami where they will again face a first appearance, of course, because the charges are Miami charges that they face. And listen to this, Betty. A 17-year-old is one of them, as we know. Eric Rivera. These are the charges that he is faced with now as of this morning. He's faced with felony first-degree murder. He's faced with burglary with a firearm. And he is faced with home invasion robbery while armed. Now, according to the affidavit and according to police, he confessed to driving to Miami to participate in an armed burglary. Now, his attorney, after this was all said and done today, said that he is not quite clear how that confession was obtained by police. He has not had an opportunity to talk to his client yet. He was going to go do that this afternoon. But clearly he said this is just a very, very sad day for the 17- year-old, as well as the family of the 17-year-old. And before this, his client had only had one minor run-in with the law. Well, this, by no stretch of the imagination, is minor. Now, the other two defendants, Venjah Hunte and Charles Wardlow, they appeared by videophone from the jail, and they also face the exact same charges at this point in time. They, too, will be transported also at some point in the very near future to Miami. The juvenile, the 17-year-old, his transport time, his attorney said, maybe not before Monday. But again, very serious charges. First-degree murder -- Betty.", "No doubt. Especially we've got a football star who is no longer alive because of all of this. All right, John. Thank you for that. Let's take you to Aruba now. Two brothers rearrested in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, they will be released this afternoon. A judge yesterday denied prosecutors' requests to keep them in jail, saying the evidence wasn't strong enough. A third suspect does remain behind bars. The Alabama teen, as you remember, vanished two years ago while on a graduation trip. All right. We have some severe weather to tell you about today. The Des Moines International Airport is closed. A United Airlines flight has gone off the runway because of ice. Roy Criss, a public information officer, joins us by phone. Give us just a look at the situation there on the ground. What caused you to shut this down? Are you facing blizzard-like conditions?", "It's not blizzard- like conditions, Betty, right now. It's just ice on the taxiways. Actually, the runways were OK, but the taxiways were iced over and the planes could not get to the runway.", "This is going to be a bit of a problem, especially there in Iowa, as you've got candidates wanting to come in today and do their campaign stumping. How long is the airport going to be closed?", "Well, the original estimate is four to six hours here locally, but, obviously, as the system takes over the whole Midwest, there's going to be a ripple effect that will back up. So we're probably going to be affected throughout the whole day.", "Really? OK. And then this United Airlines flight that pretty much kind of ran off the taxi because of ice, are there any injuries or any damage because of that?", "No injuries. All the folks have been shuttle-bused back to the terminal, being taken care of. And just waiting now for United to determine how they want to handle moving the plane.", "Now, did all this ice and the snowy conditions, did it happen very suddenly? Were you surprised by it? Is that why the airport wasn't prepared?", "No. We actually -- we had known it was coming for the last day or two. It's been forecast. It's just that I think that probably when it hit, it hit a little bit quicker and a little bit earlier. Again, the airport did a really fine job in having the runways ready. It's just that it overtook portions of the taxiways leading to the runways much quicker than they anticipated.", "Yes. When that stuff comes down it can come down pretty fast. So you're thinking this is going to back things up throughout most of the day. And you don't expect to be open until maybe later this evening?", "It looks like at least mid-afternoon. This was about 8:30 Central Time, four to six hours. We can do the math. That puts it in the middle of the afternoon at the very early.", "All right. Roy Criss joining us by phone with the Des Moines International Airport there in Iowa, which is shut down at this hour. But as you heard him say, hopefully by this afternoon they can get that back up and running.", "Take a look at this. Pictures a little bit earlier of the World AIDS Day concert under way right now in Johannesburg, South Africa. The day-long event started a few hours ago. This is the fifth year. Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, the Goo Goo Dolls, Ludacris, those are just some of the artists performing today. And we'll be talking with some of them throughout the morning, so you'll want to stay here for that. But in the meantime, my partner T.J. Holmes is at the site here in Atlanta where the AIDS memorial quilt is stored. And it's part of our coverage of World AIDS Day that you'll see only on CNN. Boy, that quilt is huge, T.J. It really just is a sign of how enormous this epidemic is.", "It's enormous. And can you believe it's been the 20- year anniversary now? This quilt has been around 20 years. And again, I'm at a warehouse just outside of downtown Atlanta where the quilt is kept now. And take a look at this. It's really hard to put it in perspective, but these panels, where it's kept, you see it here. All these panels like the one you see there with Marvin Feldman's name, that's actually the first panel ever made for someone who died of AIDS for this quilt. But all those panels now, we've got 47,000 of those. They are made into -- put into 12x12 blocks, and that's what you see here all stored in all of these shelves. This quilt is enormous. And it's hard for people to really understand what this quilt is. You are only looking at half of this quilt folded up right now in this warehouse. The rest of it is out on display at various locations around the country. But 47,000 panels just like that one you are seeing that says Marvin Feldman are sewn into those 12x12 blocks, and it makes up some 91,000 people who are honored in memoriam, who have died of AIDS. And again, it's been around for 20 years now. And this is where it's stored. It's really hard to put in perspective. So large that the quilt may never, may never be viewed and displayed and put together in one place again. The last time it happened was back in 1996, and the whole quilt laid out, took up the entire National Mall in Washington, D.C. And it has grown, of course, since then in 1996. So we may never find a location large enough to lay the quilt out again. But, of course, World AIDS Day that we have today, this quilt such a big part of it, has been a big part for so many years now. And, of course, it's part of raising the awareness. It's also part of education, the education so many young people need to have, young people, 18, 19, 20-plus years old who have not known a world without AIDS. So now, a big part of the message and a big part of what the AIDS quilt does is to get those young people interested and aware of this epidemic and what this -- a big part of what this quilt has been doing this weekend is traveling to college campuses. Take a look.", "Universally known as a symbol of both national and personal grief, the 54-ton quilt over the past 20 years has become part of the fabric that makes up America.", "Being designated as an American treasure puts us in the league with very significant material culture collections and buildings and artifacts, and will stand as testimony to our value in telling America's history.", "How much love has gone into each one of these panels? And what it really means in terms of the human beings that have suffered from this disease and left behind so many families and loved ones.", "That history began with the quilt's first panel for an AIDS victim from San Francisco in 1987. The AIDS memorial quilt now has about 47,000 memorial panels and represents the lives of more than 90,000 people who have died from the disease that afflicts millions worldwide.", "Kay Haring (ph), Brian P. (ph)...", "Four hundred large sections of the quilt will be on display from coast to coast this month at churches, museums, and even the CNN Center. More than 100 displays are traveling to college campuses, where AIDS activists say greater awareness is needed.", "George M...", "And I am here at Emory just because you all have such great researchers in HIV. And I'm actually HIV positive.", "Well, right now, we're not growing up seeing our friends die of HIV like they did in the '80s and '90s. So really, people don't feel like they are being affected by it, even though if you look at the statistics they are.", "Those statistics, according to the Names Project, show that half of all new HIV cases in the United States involve people under the age of 25. Atlanta's Emory University is hosting the largest display of a section of the quilt on a college campus hoping it will serve as a powerful and important educational tool for students.", "It's just part of just being a young person and believing nothing will ever happen to you. But I think when you walk around in that kind of state of denial, that's when it's mostly likely able to happen to you. I don't think we talk about denial as a risk factor for", "But many college students have gotten the message and even make the HIV question a part of dating life.", "I would ask him, one, if first they ever, you know, even had sex. You know, how many partners they had, if they've ever been tested, things like that.", "The quilt on the quad (ph) campaign hopes to make AIDS a part of college education.", "So, Betty, it's really tough for some people to really realize how large this quilt is. It's not just one quilt that you just fold up and carry around. It's all of these 12x12 panels that have -- 12x12 blocks that have smaller panels dedicated to one person who has died -- who has died of AIDS. And they are kept here and stored here, shelves and rows and rows throughout this warehouse. So we're going to be talking to the person who is head of this project, the Names Project that maintains this quilt, coming up in a little while. But certainly a lot more to come this morning to educate people a little more about this quilt -- Betty.", "And what a job on that person's hands to maintain all of those pieces of that enormous quilt that you showed us.", "You wouldn't believe it.", "All right.", "And just about eight people maintain this whole thing, Betty.", "Really? That's it?", "Just about eight folks are working to do this. Yes, the staff keeps getting cut and they are tight on that money, but they are trying to maintain it the best they can.", "Well, you know, each one of those stands for a person's life. So it's important work that they do.", "Yes.", "T.J., we'll be talking with you shortly. Thank you. There is a lot going on this morning. Developments in that hostage crisis at the Hillary Clinton campaign office there. And we want to tell you about this, the Sean Taylor case. Four suspects have had a hearing today, and we're going to update you on what happened during that hearing. 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{"id": "CNN-341473", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-05-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/30/nday.02.html", "summary": "Gowdy Upends Trump Theory; Mueller Probing Sessions Recusal", "utt": ["I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump.", "He just said that out loud. Joining us now is Ken Cuccinelli, CNN legal and political commentator, and Jeffrey Toobin, CNN chief legal analyst. Jeffrey, you know, Congressman Gowdy, who has seen as much as anyone can see on this, just said nothing to see here when it comes to the president's charge essentially of FBI investigative spying on the Trump campaign.", "Well, you know, Gowdy, like Jeff Flake, is not running for re-election, so he actually is telling the truth about what's going on here. And, you know, it is true that he is -- that this is a completely bogus conspiracy theory. But what's even more true is that every accusation against the FBI, every accusation against Mueller has completely fallen apart under objective scrutiny. And Gowdy reflects that here. And he's just, you know, afflicted with the disease of being honest.", "You know, Ken, Trey Gowdy was the guy who was sent in to be part of these classified briefings. He's the guy that House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes, who, to an extent, is stirring all of this up, he's the guy that Nunes wanted to see or hear the most secret stuff that the FBI was willing to let be seen. And Gowdy is now saying, uh-uh, I just don't see it. The FBI handled it perfectly. Do you agree?", "Well, I agree that Gowdy is more credible than Nunes. I do not agree, having not seen this information, however, I do not agree that we can just brush aside the notion of an informant or a spy. And you can call them whatever you want, in a presidential campaign when the Obama administration was doing the things they were doing. I would also note Gowdy's other half of that comment that has gotten no play in the mainstream media, and that was his emphatic statement, this is nothing to do with Donald Trump. Meaning, from his perspective, whatever it is he saw not only convinced him that the FBI was pursuing something legitimate, but also that it had no connection to Donald Trump. So there's two parts to this. I am comfortable with one of them, obviously. I am less comfortable with the other as one of those 300 plus million Americans who don't get to see this information. I just don't think -- and the -- and as a lawyer, I mean, I put -- I flip the case around and say, how would it go the other way? What would I do? If Donald Trump's administration -- because this was Barack Obama's administration -- was putting an informant in Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, whoever the Democrat candidate ends up being, in their campaign, no one, including this network, would ever believe in a million years it was done for an objectively appropriate purpose.", "Well --", "It wouldn't happen. And I -- and I think we need a lot more convincing, as the American public, to see that this incredible step, historically unique step, was appropriate because it sure doesn't look like it from the outside.", "You made it sound like it was David Axelrod or a political person inside the Obama campaign sending in --", "No, no, no, I'm referring", "No, hang -- I understand. Listen, listen, this was the FBI that put this confidential source -- it wasn't an informant -- inside the campaign. It was a confidential sources who talked to people who were connected to the campaign. And don't take my word for it. I don't know anything about this. Trey Gowdy is the guy who's been briefed and Trey Gowdy went in there.", "Right. Yes, but -- but in context --", "And he's convinced. And your own point -- hang on one second, Ken, because your own point, the FBI is saying, you know, we're not looking at the Trump campaign here, we're looking at the Russian's attempt to infiltrate the Trump campaign. You and Trey Gowdy seem to be on the same page, but you just don't want to let the idea of a political plot go.", "Well, look, first of all, as I said, I haven't seen the information Trey Gowdy has seen. And perhaps the biggest point that I think I would make that is different from Trey Gowdy is that they are going to have to come up with a way, in the context of agents in charge of doing investigations related to Trump and Hillary who were out to get Donald Trump, who were out to get him. That's what their texts say.", "Jeffrey.", "That's the context. It isn't just some objective FBI investigation. And remember one last point. They keep saying we were trying to protect the campaign. That isn't how you do that. You have a -- you have a beginner's campaign full of beginners, and you don't even talk to them about uprooting whatever you view as the problem. You just go in and essentially plant your own person in that campaign?", "Jeffrey.", "That is not trying to protect the campaign. That's out to get the campaign.", "I mean, you know, this is a constant moving of the goalposts to make the FBI look sinister. Every time someone clears the FBI and says this investigation was appropriate, it's like, well, no, that's not really the question. It's a different question. I mean this whole thing is fake. This is all designed by Donald Trump and Devin Nunes to discredit whatever Mueller comes up with. That's the only purpose of this whole inquiry. Every time --", "Actually --", "Let me finish, Ken.", "Yes, I'll wait. I'll wait.", "Every time the investigation goes forward and it's clear something else comes up. And it's just -- there is no other purpose to this except to generate outrage about Mueller among the Republican base and it's worked pretty well, according --", "If I can ask you both to wait for a second.", "OK.", "For one moment, Jeffrey. And, Ken, I wanted to bring up the other big story that developed overnight, which is \"The New York Times\" reporting this meeting between President Trump and the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, after the attorney general recused himself from the Russia investigations. \"The Times\" is reporting, Ken, that President Trump tried to get him to un-recuse himself, which is very rare, if not unprecedented in these types of investigations.", "Yes.", "You acknowledge that. And that the special counsel is looking at this meeting to see if it is connected to possible obstruction. Do you think that a meeting like that raises questions?", "I expect a special counsel, when they're identifying what boxes they have to check and then checking them off, would look at this sort of a question in the same way they're looking at the firing of James Comey. I mean the firing of James Comey is much more direct. This is in the same category. I think this is probably best explained as the continuing fairly undisciplined expression of Trump's frustration over Sessions' initial complete recusal, as opposed to just from the criminal piece, or any part of it. And I think it's unwise on his part. I fully expect Mueller to look at it. I don't expect it to develop anything beyond whatever would have been developed by looking at the James Comey firing.", "Jeffrey, the biggest legal jeopardy for the president here would be, what, if in that meeting Sessions were to say, the president came to me and said, why did you recuse yourself? I need someone here loyal to me, to protect me in this investigation? Those words would be --", "I need my Roy Cohn, which he has apparently said to others, who was the sinister lawyer who was a very important figure in Donald Trump's early career. Look, the issue of whether the president used his power to deflect, to interfere, to obstruct an investigation of him and his campaign is at the heart of the Comey inquiry -- of the Mueller inquiry. Whether that -- you know, whether this meeting is further evidence of that is obviously something that Mueller -- that Mueller should look into and apparently is.", "Yes. Rudy Giuliani, by the way, says un-recused doesn't says bury the investigation, it says take responsibility for it and handle it correctly. Robert Mueller ultimately may be the barometer of whether or not that's", "That's -- can we just say, that's just false. Recusal means not participate. I mean what Giuliani is saying is completely false.", "Jeffrey Toobin, Ken Cuccinelli, thanks so much for being with us. Appreciate it. Alisyn.", "All right, North Korea's former spy chief coming to New York to meet with Secretary of State Pompeo. So, a top North Korean spy, former, in the U.S. What could go wrong? We discuss, next."], "speaker": ["REP. TREY GOWDY (R), SOUTH CAROLINA", "BERMAN", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN CHIEF LEGAL ANALYST", "BERMAN", "KEN CUCCINELLI, CNN LEGAL AND POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BERMAN", "CUCCINELLI", "BERMAN", "CUCCINELLI", "BERMAN", "CUCCINELLI", "BERMAN", "CUCCINELLI", "BERMAN", "CUCCINELLI", "BERMAN", "CUCCINELLI", "TOOBIN", "CUCCINELLI", "TOOBIN", "CUCCINELLI", "TOOBIN", "BERMAN", "TOOBIN", "BERMAN", "CUCCINELLI", "BERMAN", "CUCCINELLI", "BERMAN", "TOOBIN", "BERMAN", "TOOBIN", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-228743", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2014-4-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/18/cg.02.html", "summary": "Fallen MIT Officer Remembered; \"An Investigation On Steroids\"", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. For 26 years, all he ever wanted to do was to become a police officer. Sean Collier was mere months away from achieving his dream when one year ago today two men ambushed him in his car on MIT's campus. Those two men we would later learn were the Boston marathon bombing suspects. Today, Boston, Cambridge, and the MIT officers with whom Sean served came together to honor his sacrifice.", "Sean was truly one of the brave ones. He made the ultimate sacrifice and he did it for us.", "Sean Collier's death was one of four in a week-long nightmare that ensnared an entire city in terror. Now we are going to let you see a look back at what has happening behind the scenes as the Boston PD worked around the clock to identify and capture the suspects.", "The new construction and welcoming storefronts can't make former police commissioner, Ed Davis, forget what happened here last year. As we retrace the steps of the Boston marathon bombing, he shares new details about what he calls an investigation on steroids. The first bomb detonated killing Crystal Campbell and wounding scores of others.", "The first bomb went off at the beginning of the construction site at the bay of that building.", "But it was the second site that proved most destructive, bringing the number of wounded into the hundreds and taking two more lives, Martin Richard and Lingxi Lu.", "They were still bringing victims from the scene when I arrived here.", "Commissioner Davis got to work securing the area and anticipating another bomb at any moment.", "Al Qaeda usually hits in three so we expected there to be a third device here.", "So you thought this was al Qaeda?", "Sure. You have to think that as a possibility. These devices were clearly made by somebody who wanted to kill and maim a lot of people.", "Investigators were forced to immediately pour over every potential clue and there was no shortage. (on camera): So we're in this era where everybody has a camera. There are cameras all over the place. Did you suffer initially at least from too much information, too many photographs?", "Yes, I think that was really an issue. They sent so much information in so quickly that our computers crashed. It was overwhelmed.", "But it was this camera that provided the critical identification of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Investigators then traced his movements in reverse and found Tamerlan.", "It was the events leading up to the blast and going back camera by camera, we were able to put them together.", "Suspect one and suspect two.", "Once police released these images of the suspects, they hoped that the public would identify him but just hours later --", "MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is reporting gunshots.", "The Tsarnaev brothers allegedly killed campus police officer, Sean Collier, and hijacked a vehicle to escape. Then came a second pivotal clue.", "Around midnight the whole thing ripped open. The hijacking victim got to the phone and told us that he had been hijacked by two men that said that they were responsible for the bombing. We were able to track that car through a GPS system and very quickly Watertown came up with a vehicle.", "The Boston Police Department is asking residents of Watertown to stay indoors.", "The phone call that I got was Commissioner, they are shooting at us and throwing bombs. So I was -- I was shocked. I had never heard that in American policing.", "In the chaos of the Watertown shootout, brother Tamerlan was shot by the police and was then ran over by Dzhokhar escaping in a stolen vehicle. Tamerlan died.", "One of the sergeants from Watertown was actually trying to handcuff Tamerlan on the ground. The sergeant said I tried to drag him out of the way. I knew the car was going to hit him, but he was too big, I couldn't pull him", "Dzhokhar was apprehended that night. Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty. (on camera): The Boston PD, the FBI, you all reconstructed the bombs that the Tsarnaevs brought here. How complicated was that?", "They were complicated devices and the fact that these things went off in such close proximity showed significant planning.", "Complexity in construction and planning that Davis seems to suspect the two brothers could not have done on their own, especially given their suspected ties to extremists.", "The fact that they were able to pull this conspiracy off and kill and hurt so many people, you have to look at that very closely. There's a lot going on here and it needs to be fully vetted.", "This year's marathon, this Monday, will be strictly secured and debut a new rule. No backpacks allowed. (on camera): How do you respond to critics who say, in a way, the terrorists are winning on that one?", "Right. There's no question, Jake, that that will be an inconvenience to people. And people are upset about that. But the truth of the matter is, at this particular point, right now, with what we know about what happened last year and the state of the world, it just is a prudent thing to do.", "We'll be going back to Boston on Monday for a much happier marathon day, a special live edition of THE LEAD on Patriot's Day from Boston. Tune in at 4:00 p.m. Eastern. Make sure to follow me on twitter @jaketapper and also @theleadcnn. Check our show page at cnn.com/thelead for video blogs and extras. That's it for THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. Have a great weekend. I now turn you over to Wolf Blitzer. 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{"id": "CNN-336617", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-04-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/02/es.02.html", "summary": "Trade War Escalates, China Hits U.S.; British Believe Kremlin Behind Poisoning; Trump's Anti-Immigrant Easter Tirade", "utt": ["China makes good on the promise hitting the United States with tariffs on $3 billion in U.S. goods. The move is retaliation for the President's tariffs on China. And how will the White House respond this morning?", "No more DACA deal. The President with the Easter morning tirade taking hope for dreamers of the table and demanding Mexico to take actions to stop drug dealers.", "And was the poisoning of the former spy in the U.K. directed by the Kremlin? British authorities say yes. Welcome back to \"Early Start,\" I'm Rene Marsh.", "I'm Dave Briggs. It is good to see you Rene. 4:30 Eastern Tim, we start on trade, where China making good on its trade threats opening fears of a trade war starting today. China will slap tariffs on $3 billion worth of U.S. goods. Retaliation against President Trump's duties on foreign steel and aluminum. The Chinese tariffs at 128 U.S. product ranging from agriculture products, pork, fruit, nuts to steel pipes, and aluminum. This move is the latest in escalating tensions between China and the U.S. which may only get worst. The President has more trade actions in the works like tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods. Experts warn they could cause further retaliation and a trade war would be devastating for U.S. consumers, investors and companies. The President has long accused Beijing of unfair trade practices that steal American jobs. Bur for his first year in office, he did not make any major trade moves, however, the exodus of a number of globalist from the White House like Gary Cohen and Rex Tillerson may be freeing the president to follow through on his trade threats. China has repeatedly said, it does not want to trade war, but warns it will take firm counter measures if necessary.", "Well, President Trump on an anti-immigrant rant on Easter Sunday, much of it on Twitter. Here are the tweets, \"Border patrol agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the border. Getting more dangerous. Caravans coming. Republicans must go to nuclear option to pass tough laws now. No more DACA deal.\" More on those caravans in just a moment. The Twitter tirade, just the latest example of the President going with his gut on a key moment -- at a key moment on several policy and political fronts.", "His tone drew swift and sarcastic pushback from many inside and outside of Washington. Among them Ohio Governor, John Kasich, he tweeted, \"A true leader preserves and offers hope. It doesn't take hope from innocent children who call America home.\" Remember, today is Easter Sunday and this from Republican Congresswoman, Lleana Ros-Lehtinen quote, \"Such a strong message of love and new beginnings from Donald Trump on Easter Sunday.\" Hence the explanation -- the emoji's down there with the sarcasm? White House Correspondent, Boris Sanchez, has more from Mar-a-Lago.", "Rene and Dave, no confirmation yet from the White House on specifically why he chose to spend Easter Sunday delivering this message about immigration, but we should point out that just a few moments before he sent these tweets, there was a report on the cable news station about this caravan of immigrants moving through Central America into Mexico, some of them with the intention of asking the United States for asylum and there by entering the country. The President obviously angered by that report. So, he took to Twitter, to attack Democrats, to say that the DACA deal was over and then to demand that Mexico do more when it comes to stopping the flow of immigrants. The President did meet with the press for a short time before heading into Easter service on Sunday morning. Listen to what he said.", "Mexico has got to help us at the border. And a lot of people are coming in, because they want to take advantage of DACA and we are going to have to really see, they had a great chance. The Democrats blew it. They had a great, great chance, but we have to take a look.", "President Trump going even further on Twitter saying that he would end the North American Free Trade Agreement unless Mexico did more. Unclear specifically what he wants Mexico to do. Dave and Rene.", "Boris, thank you my friend. There is growing resistance to President Trump's announcement that the U.S. will pull out of Syria, quote, \"very soon.\" The President also placed a hold on more than $200 million in recovery funds for Syria last week. Demanding more information on the money being spent. Republican Senator, Lindsey Graham, warns withdrawing American troops from Syria would be a dangerous mistake that could undo gains made against terrorist groups.", "When it comes to Syria, do not read the Obama playbook. This is the Obama playbook. One foot in, one foot out. That the single worst decision the President could make. I have seen this movie before when Obama did the same thing in Iraq and quite frankly gave Assad a pass and Syria when he had them on the ropes. We got ISIS along the ropes. We didn't want to let them off the ropes, remove American soldiers.", "The President's remarks last week about pulling out of Syria came hours after the Pentagon said the opposite. Two members of the U.S.-led coalition including Master Sergeant, Jonathan Dunbar, of Austin, Texas were killed in a battle the same day.", "Well, two top Republicans giving a big vote of confidence to Robert Mueller. Senator Tim Scott and Congressman Trey Gowdy, claimed to shield the Special Counsel from attempts by some in the GOP to discredit him.", "I'm glad we have Bob Mueller. I'm glad we had an independent ball and trike caller on Congress has proven itself incapable of conducting serious investigations. Congressional investigations leak like the gossip girls. They're -- I mean, they're terrible. And I would be telling you that if I were staying in Congress. They are just not serious.", "It only reinforces why it is important for us to make sure that the investigation continues until it gets to the end. I hope that we get there the sooner the lighter, but the reality of it is the more information we find out, the better and the more confident the American people will be in who we are as a nation.", "Well, that is a starkly different tone from Wisconsin Senator, Ron Johnson, who told \"Meet the Press,\" he thinks Mueller was appointed far too soon.", "Breaking overnight. A source tells CNN British investigators believe the poisoning of a former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal likely had the approval of the Kremlin. CNN's Matthew Chance is live in Moscow with the latest. Matthew?", "Dave, thank for that. that's further than the British has gone up until now, up until now they've been saying that they believe this was unlawful chemical attack carried out by the Russian State or it is possible they refer -- they've said that -- this nerve agent, Novichok, could have fallen into criminal hands and had been used in that way. But it seems that the British investigators are learning much more now to the side of the Russian state involvement. Suggesting that the used of the nerve agent could not had been authorized, unless it was authorized from the top of Russian policy. Trump haven't had a reaction yet from the Kremlin about that latest allegations, but I can tell that the Kremlin and although other Russian officials have categorically denied any involvement in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal of with that nerve agent, Novichok, on the streets of Salisbury in Southern England. They have come out with more than a dozen of theories to explained alternative narratives, to explained, what could have happened to them. The latest one is being promoted on Russian television. Is it the British themselves concocted this entire story in order to make Russia look bad. And so, the Russians categorically again, denying any involvement in this.", "And here we go again, 11:38 a.m. here, Matthew Chance live for us in Moscow. Good to see you.", "Well, if you shop at Saks or Lord and Taylor, a major data breach. You need to know about 5 million people's credit cards affected. Are you one of them? Details next."], "speaker": ["RENE MARSH, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVE BRIGGS, CNN ANCHOR", "MARSH", "BRIGGS", "MARSH", "BRIGGS", "BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN NEWSROOM HOST", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SANCHEZ", "BRIGGS", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, (R), SOUTH CAROLINA", "BRIGGS", "MARSH", "TREY GOWDY, U.S. HOUSE REPUBLICAN", "SEN TIM SCOTT, (R) SOUTH CAROLINA", "MARSH", "BRIGGS", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "MARSH"]}
{"id": "CNN-42280", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2001-10-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/23/bn.05.html", "summary": "Anthrax Detected at Bowling Air Force Base Mail Sorting Facility", "utt": ["Breaking news at this hour: White House announcing anthrax spores found on a piece of equipment at a mail handling site not, on the White House grounds, but mail destined, most of it, for the White House. Our senior correspondent John king has a little more information -- John.", "Judy, we can tell you, No. 1, that off-campus mail sorting site is at the Bowling Air Force base, which is in the District of Columbia several miles away from the White House. The mail initially goes through the Brentwood facility in the District of Columbia, there, where there have been two deaths attributed to anthrax and two more cases of inhalation anthrax diagnosed. The mail goes from Brentwood to a special facility at the Bowling Air Force base. That is just because that mail is headed here to the White House complex. It received additional security testing there. It was a slitting machine, a machine that actually opens the mail that had a very small trace number of anthrax spores. Investigative sources telling us, while you were continuing your discussion with Elizabeth Cohen, that it tested very low for anthrax -- in the area of 20 to 500 spores. These sources saying you get sick if there are 4 to 5,000 spores. It is lethal if there are 8 to 10,000 spores or above. So White House officials have been told by the investigators and by medical personnel that this is a very low level trace of anthrax. There is no public health risks assumed but there will be some additional testing and treatment offered to people at the facility just in case. We are also told the reason the White House is saying it is completely confident that none of the spores made its way into the White House is that additional screening and other tests are done on mail at that facility, including efforts that would kill, if you will, the bacteria. Now, the White House said earlier in the day, the postal service was rush to buy machines that irradiate mail, that way killing the bacteria. I asked specifically if that was the case here in the White House and was told we will not discuss in detail what we do, but you can assume that and other precautions are taken with any mail making its way to the White House. One last point, officials say their operating assumption right now, is that somehow a letter or letters were contaminated while at the Brentwood facility and this was detected at the Bowling Air Force Base facility because all of the mail is opened there and there is no accumulation of powder, no one letter that had powder in it. The operating assumption, we are told by investigative sources is that the letter or letters became contaminated at Brentwood with a very low trace amount of anthrax. And that's what turned up in the test this morning on the slitting machine at Bowling Air Force base. But the investigation obviously continuing -- Judy.", "All right, John, well, if that's the case, that would be good news."], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KING", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-265609", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2015-09-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/29/cg.02.html", "summary": "Is Donald Trump's Tax Plan Too Rich for the Nation?; Trump Fires Back at Critics", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. More now on the politics lead. If you ask Donald Trump, he's worth $10 billion. Now, if you ask \"Forbes\" magazine, the real estate mogul is worth considerably less, only $4.5 billion. Either way, he's really, really rich. According to experts, however, his tax plan might be too rich for the nation. Two separate estimates from two think tanks on either side of the political divide say that Trump's rejiggering of the way the IRS does business will cost 1,000 times what Trump says is his fortune. In other words, it will cost the nation $10 trillion. CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash is here. Dana, what happen does the Trump campaign have to say about these assessments?", "Well, I'm sure you can probably guess that Donald Trump is saying that his plan is terrific, his critics are just wrong and they don't know what they're talking about. But part of the issue is that we still don't have all of the specifics, which allows opponents to dismiss his tax proposal as fantasy.", "If there's anything Donald Trump knows how to do, it's sell. And now,it's all about selling his new tax plan.", "The economy's going to just be absolutely like a rocket. It's going to go up. This is my prediction. This is what I'm good at. This is really my wheelhouse.", "But as much as Trump is trying to build up his proposal, where nearly half of Americans would pay no federal income tax, his rivals are urging voters to compare it to the alternatives.", "All I caution people is to remember that anything that you propose as a presidential candidate, you have to be able to deliver on. We have had too many empty promises in this country over time.", "Jeb Bush, who released his own tax reform plan several weeks ago, tweeted: \"Finally saw Donald's tax plan. Looks familiar. I'm flattered, but he should have stuck with growth and fiscal responsibility.\" Ben Carson, now running neck and neck with Trump in polls, says Trumps plan to bring money back from overseas is nothing new.", "There's over $2 trillion of American money sitting overseas. I have been talking about this for several months. Some people think that you just heard about it this week.", "Experts are poring over the details, trying to figure out what his version of simplifying the tax code would mean. One right-leaning group, the Tax Foundation, applauded Trump's effort at tax cuts, but also pushed back on Trump's claim that his plan would not add to the deficit, concluding, instead, it \"would increase the federal government's deficit by over $10 trillion.\" But even that is hard to know for sure, since some specifics of Trump's plan are still unknown, like exactly which tax loopholes he would get rid of. In fact, Rand Paul dismissed Trump's proposal as more of the same.", "I think my tax plan is better. I get rid of all 70,000 pages of the tax code. His plan will continue a lot of the cronyism and a lot of the special interest politics that go into the tax code. Ours would eliminate all of that, and you could file your tax return on one single postcard.", "Now, Trump continues to fire back at fellow candidates, his competitors, not just on policy, but personally. He tweeted today that Rand Paul is going to drop out of the presidential race, something Senator Paul told CNN today is not true. Jake, he said, it's silly season any time that he opens his mouth.", "And, Dana, one other thing, Tom Brady, the quarterback, said that it would be great if Trump won the White House, but now I'm understanding that that's not exactly what he says?", "Right. So, Donald Trump, any time he gets a chance, he talks about how close he is with Tom Brady and how wonderful a guy he is. Tom Brady had one of Donald Trump's now famous \"Make America Great\" hats...", "\"Make America Great,\" yes.", "... in his locker room. That was noticed. Somebody asked him about it. And he should he would be great for Donald Trump to be president. Now Tom Brady's kind of talking that back, saying, I didn't mean to endorse him and he also said that he doesn't -- he, Tom Brady, doesn't pay attention to politics, so he doesn't really know what's going on.", "OK. There's a joke to be made, but I will leave it right there.", "I just put right that on the cue for you.", "Thank you. Thank you. Let's talk over everything 2016 with CNN political commentators Kevin Madden and Van Jones. Gentlemen, thanks for being here. So, Mark Leibovich has a new profile of Donald Trump in \"The New York Times Magazine.\" In it, Trump talks about his vision for America and the presidency. He said this -- quote -- \"Jimmy Carter used to get off of Air Force One carrying his luggage. I used to say, I don't want a president carrying his luggage.\" Now, what is interesting about this is that when Pope Francis got on the plane and he was carrying his bag, I noticed it, because we so rarely see it. Obama doesn't do it. Bush didn't do it, et cetera. Do Americans agree with Trump, I think is the question. Do they want their presidents to not have bags?", "Well, maybe not. Maybe so. Listen, I thought, first of all, the pope just set a completely different standard. He made all of us I think take a step back. His humility, ability to connect with people was extraordinary and part of it was his willingness to carry his own bag. That's -- the problem with Donald Trump is that everything becomes this big show. I don't know if Americans want presidents carrying their bags or not. I know they don't want a show person.", "When you worked on the Romney campaign in '08, did he carry his bags? Was that something?", "He did, yes. He did. I remember trying to grab them one time, and he said, no, I have got it. He wouldn't allow me to carry his own bags. He didn't want staff doing it for him. But I don't want to overanalyze any of this. I think relatability comes in different ways. And I think that's one of the things that candidates try to focus on, is when they talk about issues, how are you relatable, how is it that you show you understand the problems that people -- of the average American?", "But those things are -- I mean, Jimmy Carter...", "I think, with Trump, the contrast is, that in some way that it wasn't presidential for Jimmy Carter to do that.", "Right.", "That he looked weak and wimpy, right, and whereas Trump's whole brand and whole persona is about being bold and brash.", "And rich.", "Yes, and rich. But that has a declining -- I think people, voters, have a declining appreciation for that over time.", "OK. That's interesting. Let's talk about Jeb Bush's campaign. An anonymous Republican donor told Politico that there is real anxiety inside the Jeb Bush for president campaign.", "There should be.", "They say it's at a six or a seven. I assume that's on a scale of one to 10. The Bush campaign pushes back on this strongly and say it's nonsense. They point out they just picked up some of Scott Walker's fund- raisers. Kevin, you know these guys. Is there anxiety within the Jeb Bush campaign?", "Well, look, here's the interesting thing about donors. The reason that they become very successful is that they are very methodical and they plan over the long haul. And yet when they're donating to candidates, they're very emotional and they want to see immediate returns.", "Right.", "And the challenge for the folks inside the Bush campaign is trying to educate their donors about how -- what their long play is, over a longer period of time. Here we are, they're getting nervous, and it's only October. I mean, it's only September and October. This is a campaign that's built to start winning in February and March and April, during the high point of the primary contest. That's the big challenge they have right now, which is saying, don't get nervous now. This is a campaign that's built for when it matters, built to succeed when it matters.", "And that's the approach also of the Rubio campaign as well. He doesn't want to be peaking right now, he says. He wants to be peaking in January and February, when voters start going to the polls.", "That's true. Listen, for Rubio, it kind of makes sense. I have said his theme song should be from The Bee Gees, \"Staying Alive.\" Like, he just wants to stay alive, stay on the radar screen, do well, do well, be everybody's second favorite choice. Bush is just spinning. Everybody expected for him to be dominating this field.", "Right.", "Nobody thought in October of this year or any year that a Ben Carson would be taking him to the cleaners. And so I really think that there is a reason for these donors to be panicking. He may have picked up a couple of donors. He should try to pick up of a couple of points in the polls. And that would just calm a lot of this stuff down.", "On the Democratic side, I want to play something that Hillary Clinton told Lena Dunham, the actress, in an interview about keeping Wall Street from running amok.", "I like to have plans for what I do. I may not always be the -- you know, the stem- winder about these things, because I think it's important and I have been around Washington long enough to know you have got to get people to agree if you're going to get something done. Now, trying to get bipartisan agreement is difficult. But often it essential.", "Seemed to be talking about Bernie Sanders, seemed to be saying, yes, maybe he gives better speeches, but I get it done because you need to be bipartisan. Bernie Sanders isn't. I'm reading into it.", "Well, look, I think she was in some ways taking a shot at Bernie, in some ways taking a shot at Elizabeth Warren. I'm from that part of the Democratic Party, that wing that is very passionate, that really does not like what Wall Street's been able to get away with. But I tell you why I respected what she said, even though I'm on the other side of the party from her. She is starting to just be herself. She said, listen, this is who I am. I have my way of doing things. They have their way of doing things. I'm not going to be up here doing the Nae Nae and everything else, trying to pretend like I'm somebody like I'm not. I'm just going to totally...", "She did do the Nae Nae.", "Well, she did. She did it and she did it better than I do it. I can't criticize her.", "Listen, she's going to be a lot better, she's going to be more respected in this party if she says, listen, I'm a moderate, I am who I am, and take me or leave me, than trying to pander. That's she has got to stop doing.", "What I found real interesting was the two messages were two messages that I don't think aren't driving base voters inside the Democratic Party right now, one, compromise. And the second part, she said, I have been around Washington a long time.", "Right.", "Like, neither one of those messages work with the base right now.", "It's authentic, true.", "And I'm going to tell you, I think that her problem, everybody knows her policy and her politics. This is about authenticity right now. We're in a personality primary right now. And you know what? When she's just herself in person, she's great, and everybody knows it.", "Great. Van Jones, Kevin Madden, thank you both. Great to have you here.", "Good to be with you.", "And with Hillary Clinton's poll numbers sagging, who better to talk to? The comeback kid himself, Bill Clinton, sits down with Erin Burnett tonight to give his take on his wife's campaign. He's in favor of it, I'm guessing. Donald Trump and everything else 2016. You will not want to miss it. That's Bill Clinton on \"ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT\" tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. In our money lead, she angered many by suggesting women cannot have all it. Now Anne-Marie Slaughter is back and telling me what Hillary Clinton thought about her advice. Plus, one of his applause lines of the night was a dad joke, much like one joke that Jon Stewart used to use beforehand. So, how did Trevor Noah stack up to his \"Daily Show\" predecessor?"], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BASH (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BASH", "GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R-NJ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BASH", "BEN CARSON (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BASH", "SEN. 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{"id": "NPR-34565", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2010-10-19", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130679450", "title": "Johnny Sheffield, Tarzan's 'Boy,' Dies At 79", "summary": "NPR's Robert Siegel has this remembrance of actor Johnny Sheffield, who played \"Boy\" in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and '40s. Sheffield was 79 and died Monday at his home in Chula Vista, Calif., after falling from a ladder.", "utt": ["But a natural birth was out of the question. After all, Tarzan and Jane lived in sin as well as in the jungle. They never got around to marrying. And because of that, movie censors would not let Jane get pregnant. So Tarzan found his son.", "(as Jane Parker) Baby's got to have a name.", "(as Tarzan) Call it Boy.", "Oh, but that's not a name.", "Boy.", "Well, after all I am his mother.", "Tarzan father, call Boy.", "Father and son swung from trees and bonded onscreen. Here, Tarzan tells strange joke, Boy laugh.", "(As Tarzan) (Foreign language spoken)", "(As Boy) (Foreign language spoken)", "In all, Sheffield made eight Tarzan movies before going on to play more jungle- themed characters with proper names. He was Bomba the Jungle Boy in a dozen films, plus Bantu the Zebra Boy in a failed TV pilot. But still, we'll always remember Johnny Sheffield, the man, as Boy.", "This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "MAUREEN O", "JOHNNY WEISSMULLER", "SULLIVAN", "JOHNNY WEISSMULLER", "SULLIVAN", "JOHNNY WEISSMULLER", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "JOHNNY WEISSMULLER", "JOHNNY SHEFFIELD", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host"]}
{"id": "CNN-159430", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-12-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1012/13/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Trying to Nab a Job? Do it Tactfully", "utt": ["Busy in the control room this morning. Well, if you or someone you know is out of work, holiday cheer may be in short supply. But right now is actually the perfect time to step up your search for a job.", "Christine Romans author of \"Smart is the New Rich\" explains why job seekers can't afford to take a break during the holidays.", "Career coach Ellen Gordon Reeves wants you to get a job for Christmas.", "People might think that December is not a great time to look for a job. The reality is if you're job hunting all you need is one job.", "No question. With more than 15 million Americans out of work, competition is fierce. (on camera): People aren't really hiring at the end of the year. January maybe a little more likely. February, maybe will be when we see when employers are really confident enough to start hiring.", "In terms of career openings, it's broad-based all throughout the economy, all sectors have openings. The challenge becomes because the number of people who are looking for a job relative to those openings.", "That number is now 4.4 job seekers for every available opening. Sounds daunting but it's the best it's been in two years.", "Please don't bring family or friends with you to an interview.", "Reeves wants you to beat out three people to be that one.", "If you can get yourself invited to someone's office party as a plus one, fabulous, especially if it's a company or organization you want to get inside. Have a party, have a pot luck, it doesn't have to be expensive. But you've got to be out there connecting with people.", "According to Consumer Reports, Americans will spend on average 15 hours at holiday gatherings this year. Etiquette expert Peter Post says it doesn't have to be gauche to network for a job at the parties.", "Tact, honesty. You show restraint. At the same time you're honest about your situation. And all of a sudden it's amazing how people will open up, listen and offer to help you.", "Bottom line, there are plenty of opportunities to network for a job this season. Just do it tactfully or don't do it at all. Christine Romans, CNN, New York.", "Top stories coming your way right after the break.", "Including the latest on the snow out there everywhere. Fifty-five minutes past the hour.", "Cold.", "It is."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ELLEN GORDON REEVES, CAREER COACH", "ROMANS", "BILL RODGERS, ECONOMIST, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY", "ROMANS (voice-over)", "REEVES", "ROMANS", "REEVES", "ROMANS", "PETER POST, DIRECTOR, EMILY POST INSTITUTE", "ROMANS", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY"]}
{"id": "CNN-138578", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-5-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0905/23/cnr.06.html", "summary": "NASA to Get First African-American Administration?", "utt": ["All right, happening now, President Obama says he is saddened by the death of former South Korean president Roh Moo Hyun. The South Korean government says he committed suicide by jumping from example a hill near his home. Roh left office last year. He was being investigated in a bribery scandal. And NASA may be getting its first African-American administration. President Obama has picked former astronaut and marine general Charles Bolden to head the space agency. Bolden piloted two space shuttle missions and commanded two others. The Senate has to confirm the nomination. And space shuttle Atlantis and its crew will spend at least one more day in orbit. NASA called off today's planned landing attempt in Florida because of thunderstorms. Atlantis is trying to wrap up its successful missile to repair the Hubble space telescope. All right, more now on our focus this hour. You are looking at pictures there of the Arlington National Cemetery where 300,000 armed service men and women are buried on this more than 600 acre plot. On this Memorial Day weekend, we are focusing on some solutions for many of our American vets coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, facing so many challenges from finding a job to getting house and of course getting the right kind of mental health care kind of health care. President Obama has been pretty busy this week talking at commencement addresses for the last couple of weeks, but one that is particularly poignant for commander-in-chief, talking at the U.S. Naval Academy and that's what he did this week.", "We will be with you every step us of the way, increasing your pay, increasing child care and helping families deal with the stress and separation of war. My wife Michelle has come to see in her business with military families across the country, when a loved one is deployed, the whole family goes to war. Finally whether you are 26-years-old or 89, if you have worn the uniform and taken care of America, then America will take care of you.", "All right, President Obama just on Friday talking about the commitment the U.S. had. And by the way, this hand shake and hug there, that taking place between none other than Jack McCain, who is the son of his former Republican presidential rival John McCain. There, he and his wife in the crowd. Four generations to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy there. What an honor for the entire family. All right, lots of challenges as I've been saying for our troops. And despite that, the U.S. military says that they are pleased with the way recruitment has gone. However, there is renewed commitment from the Obama administration to make sure that all that can be given to troops is certainly done. Here's Elaine Quijano.", "Four months after becoming commander-in-chief, President Obama in his weekly address vowed to stand by America's service members and their families.", "We have a responsibility to serve all of them as well as they have served us.", "For Ryan Galluci, an Iraq war veteran and now spokesman for the veterans group AMVETS, it's an incomplete picture, especially on the president's planned multibillion dollar budget increase for the Department of Veterans Affairs.", "Since this budget proposal has come out, we haven't really seen line by line where this money is going to be spent.", "Galluci, who served for a year as a civilian affair specialist in Iraq notes another problem, skyrocketing unemployment that recently hit 11.2 percent for Iraq and Afghanistan war vets, higher than the national average.", "In the early stages, we haven't seen too much out of the administration, in particular to help veterans find jobs.", "Republican Congressman Brian Bilbray says while he understands the president's need to revive the broader economy now, he hopes veterans don't get short changed in the long-term.", "We've just got to remember this is not a luxury to provide the services to the veterans. It is an obligation or responsibility. No matter what the condition of the economy, we have an obligation to do what we have promised for these men and women. This is a contract we can't walk away from, even in bad times.", "Elaine Quijano joining us now. So we heard about the concerns. Do veterans feel like there are encouraging signs coming from this administration in particular?", "Well, veterans groups do give the president high marks for announcing that he wants to streamline the transfer of service members health care records from the Department of Defense for an active duty member over to the Veterans Affairs Department once that person leaves the service. That is a problem that they have been having for quite some time. So the fact that President Obama has taken some initial steps to try and streamline all of that certainly is an encouraging sign, an important indication that he is focused on their needs.", "All right, Elaine Quijano at the White House, thanks so much. Other encouraging signs coming from vets themselves. Those who are enlisted who say and who have told us, particularly the ones from Ft. Benning, Georgia who kind of reiterate why they dedicate their lives to the service.", "I was a bagger at a grocery store, saw a commercial and decided I wanted to serve my country the best way I could do it.", "It's something I always wanted to do. Didn't really have any family do it. Just figured it would be an adventure.", "My father, he served 23, 23.5 years in the United States Navy. He led by example and I just wanted to follow my example and do my part for the country.", "My little brother and my little sister, I've helped raise them ever since they were little because my father has always been away because he's in the war and all that. But I came here to fight so they don't have to. 1", "I'm a fourth generation soldier. I just got back from my first deployment to Iraq. I'm about to leave again in a few weeks for my second tour.", "I went to Tikrit for a year, then I went to Iraq for seven months and I'm going again to Iraq for 15 months and just got back this past August.", "Iraq, it was interesting, dealing with the people over there. They are good people. There are some bad apples, but for the most part, good people.", "We were there to find the bad guys and the unit that I was in, and that's what we specialized in.", "Don't be scared. You know what we signed up for. Go out there and do our job and then come back home safe.", "I get letters from my 10-year-old sister and it's so cute, she says she's very proud of me, that she loves me very much.", "Every time I walk through and people see me in uniform, people always thank the soldiers.", "The gentleman came up if I wasn't eating lunch. It was around lunch time. And he offered to buy me a meal for thanking me for what I was doing.", "I can't tell you how much it means to me to have people come up with me when I'm eating in a restaurant and say thank you.", "It's almost an everyday occurrence. I'm glad for that because I like that people haven't forgotten what we are doing here.", "You will never be able to think up an experience like this.", "It's something you can always look back and say you're proud of. Makes you feel a part of something.", "I believe this is what I was born to do.", "Happy Memorial Day.", "And we thank all of them and all of you for your service. All right, pretty grueling statistics that we really can't underscore enough. One in nine Iraqi and Afghanistan war vets is looking for work, out of jobs. So we are going to show you an inventive place, job fairs, all across the country in a city near you, specifically tailored for war vets.", "Hi, this is Rebecca Gervasi. I'm a DOD civilian serving in Baghdad, Iraq with Defense Contract Management Agency. I'm also a member of the 140th wing Buckley Air Force Base Colorado and I just want to say thank you, happy Memorial Day for all of your support. Love you guys."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "WHITFIELD", "ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "OBAMA", "QUIJANO", "RYAN GALLUCI, ARMY VETERAN", "QUIJANO", "GALLUCI", "QUIJANO", "REP. BRIAN BILBRAY (R), CALIFORNIA", "WHITFIELD", "QUIJANO", "WHITFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SGT. MICHAEL JOHNSTON, U.S. ARMY", "PVT. ZACHARY DIXON, U.S. ARMY", "ST. LT. TREY PARADISO, U.S. ARMY", "SGT. 1DST CLASS CHASTITY WASSMAN, U.S. ARMY", "SGT. 1ST CLASS BLAKE SIMMS, U.S. ARMY", "SGT. 1ST CLASS CHAD STACKPOLE, U.S. ARMY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "STAFF SGT. YULISSA POZO, U.S. ARMY", "JOHNSTON", "PARADISO", "STAFF SGT. 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{"id": "CNN-105310", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2006-4-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/25/lol.02.html", "summary": "New Energy Strategy; 9/11 Revisited", "utt": ["As you fill up at the pump, are you cutting back elsewhere? A CNN poll done by Opinion research Corporation says most of us are. The question: \"Have rising gas prices caused financial hardship for you or your family?\" Sixty-nine percent say yes, with 23 percent citing severe hardship. Forty-six percent cite moderate hardship. President Bush wants to change those numbers. That's for sure. And just this morning he laid out a strategy. Let's go to the White House now and our Ed Henry. OK, Ed, talk us through this new strategy.", "Well, good afternoon, Tony. You know, the president got an up-close look at what you're talking about with those soaring gas prices. On his way to the speech on energy, ironically enough, he passed the Watergate Hotel here in Washington. Across the street there's an Exxon gas station. They were selling gas for $3.49 per gallon. Democrats point out the average price for a gallon of gas was just about $1.46 when the president took office. In five years it's just about doubled. And amid all this political pressure, the president, as you noted, unveiled a four-point plan today. First of all, he's now launching a federal investigation to take a look at these charges of price gouging by oil companies. And secondly, the president has decided to halt all deposits to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a really dramatic move. He's going to delay those deposits until after the summer, try to increase the supply of gasoline and aid consumers. Take a listen.", "Our strategic reserve is sufficiently large enough to guard against any major supply disruption over the next few months. So, by deferring deposits until the fall, we'll leave a little more oil on the market. Every little bit helps.", "Now, the president is also promoting better fuel efficiency. He also, in the final point in that four-point plan, is talking about getting energy companies to pony up for more research and development, those hydrogen-powered cars that we heard the president talking about over the weekend on Earth Day. But Democrat Chuck Schumer says there were five words missing from this speech today: get tough on big oil. Democrats say they've been demanding various actions for the president to take over the last five years. They say he hasn't done it until now. They say he's doing it now because he's feeling that political heat, fearful that these high gas prices will fuel a Democratic takeover of Congress in November -- Tony.", "White House Correspondent Ed Henry. Ed, thank you. The president mentioned the strategic reserve a moment ago. Let's talk about it. The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the world's largest supply of emergency crude. It was debated for decades but created only after an international crisis. Here's a fact check.", "In 1973, oil-producing nations in the Middle East unleashed economic shock waves throughout the U.S. by cutting off oil imports. In the aftermath of that dramatic move, President Gerald Ford signed legislation establishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The measure calls for a reserve of up to one billion barrels of petroleum. At present, about 700 million barrels are stored in huge underground salt caverns along the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico. That's enough to guard against any major supply disruption for almost 60 days. Only the president has the authority to withdraw oil from the reserve. And that's happened only twice. President George H. W. Bush did the first time in the aftermath of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The current President Bush did it again after Hurricane Katrina caused massive damage to oil production facilities along the Gulf. Once the president orders a withdrawal, it takes about 13 days for the oil to enter the U.S. market.", "The Zacarias Moussaoui trial is still deliberating, but in the court of public opinion, the verdict is in. In a weekend phone poll of about a thousand U.S. adults conducted for CNN by Opinion research Corporation, half said they favor the death penalty for the admitted al Qaeda conspirator, 45 percent think Moussaoui should be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Just five percent said they have no opinion. The poll has a sampling error of plus or minus three points. Now, when the official verdict does come, Moussaoui won't face his fate alone. His mother, Aicha El Wafi is due to arrive shortly from France.", "It's not just a moment. This has been going on for four years. But now my life is hell. It's hell, and that's all. Right now I have nothing to say. We have to wait until after the verdict to see what, but for now, I have nothing to say. I feel too much pain to speak.", "Like the Capulets and the Montagues, families on both sides of the 9/11 tragedies are destined to suffer together. But for people such as Hamilton Peterson, a Virginia courtroom is just one place to revisit the pain. With the release of the film \"United 93,\" movie theaters are another. His father and stepmother were on that plane. Hamilton Peterson joins us from Washington. Hamilton, good to talk to you.", "Good afternoon, Tony.", "Let me see if I can set this up and then get your response to it. Zacarias Moussaoui, confessed 9/11 conspirator, death penalty eligible. Do you want to see him put to death?", "I would like to see him put to death assuming he's given the fullest, fairest trial he can receive. I believe he has received that, and the jury will make that final determination.", "What would it mean to you to have him put to death?", "I think it's the appropriate sentence, Tony. Under the statutes, which require him to be put to death if a finding is made, that the aggravating factors balance in favor of death, one of those factors is, did he create grave risk of death to another human being? We've got nearly 3,000 people dead. I think that statutory element has been fully satisfied.", "He would essentially -- and I know you've thought about this, so I'll ask it. He would essentially be put to death, if that's the way the jury comes back, for his inaction, not telling investigators what he knew. Are you comfortable with that? Clearly, it sounds like you are.", "Well, Tony, I'd be careful how you characterize it. He has admitted that he was an active part of a criminal conspiracy, which means he was part of a greater role or group of people with an affirmative plan. So, yes, his act of omission was not telling the truth. Telling the truth at the time, he could have prevented that 2,972 horrific death day here in the United States. But clearly, he's responsible.", "OK. That leads to my next question. How much anger do you reserve even today for the individuals in the various government agencies who for whatever reason didn't communicate to one another in a way that might have prevented this plot from being carried out?", "Well, certainly, there is severe disappointment, Tony. One fact remains. Whether it's the government or business, they both recruit from the human race. And as a result, there are many honorable, desirable, and I believe most government employees fulfill that description. And there are others who satisfy the other side of the coin.", "You've seen this movie, \"United 93\". It opens up at the Tribeca Film Festival, I believe, in New York this evening. What's your opinion of it?", "Tony, I had the opportunity to see it two weeks ago. Universal has been extremely generous with the families of Flight 93. As you may be aware, we are in the process of building a memorial at the crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The families have already raised in excess of $7.5 million. Universal is giving to the families 10 percent of the gross of the three-day premier weekend. And that is a very generous offering. And I would encourage everyone to see the movie this weekend if they can fit it in. Tony, I would just like to share with us our Web site.", "Sure.", "If any your viewers are inclined to get additional information, www.honorflight93.org provides a tremendous amount of information relative to our memorial effort. And again, I encourage your viewers to visit that site.", "I certainly appreciate that the studio is making such a donation. I have to ask you, though, does this feel in any way exploitive to you? This is a movie studio that is making a movie to make money. Does it in any way feel too soon for you?", "Tony, you've asked a very fair question. And, frankly, my perspective on Hollywood is that I prefer how they treated the American causes back in World War II. However, if your question is, is this an exploitation of our loved ones, I believe absolutely not and that's because this is an accurate depiction of what occurred on Flight 93 on 9/11. Just like \"Schindler's List\" has produced a very horrific recounting or replication of the Holocaust, this is a message which must be carried forward. I can't think of a better medium that a well-resourced, blockbuster movie. Universal has certainly stepped up to the plate.", "Hamilton, thanks for your time.", "Thank you.", "I really appreciate it. It's a good conversation. I really do appreciate it. Hamilton Peterson, thank you.", "Well, in other news, many of us remember pranks at the end of the school year. These days though, we're hearing more about the end of the year plots to kill. Coming up, LIVE FROM explores the reasons behind this violence."], "speaker": ["HARRIS", "ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HENRY", "HARRIS", "HARRIS (voice over)", "NGUYEN", "AICHA EL WAFI, MOUSSAOUI'S MOTHER (through translator)", "HARRIS", "HAMILTON PETERSON, LOST DAD & STEPMOM ON FLIGHT 93", "HARRIS", "PETERSON", "HARRIS", "PETERSON", "HARRIS", "PETERSON", "HARRIS", "PETERSON", "HARRIS", "PETERSON", "HARRIS", "PETERSON", "HARRIS", "PETERSON", "HARRIS", "PETERSON", "HARRIS", "NGUYEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-188067", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2012-6-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1206/20/acd.02.html", "summary": "Congress Holds Eric Holder in Contempt; Interview With South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone. It's 10:00 here on the East Coast. And we begin tonight \"Keeping Them Honest\" with big developments in a story that we've been following almost from day one, the bungled ATF operation called Fast and Furious. Now, developments could land the nation's top law enforcement official in contempt of Congress and perhaps set off a constitutional battle between Congress and the White House. Let me give you some background first. Fast and Furious, you may remember, let buyers purchase guns in the United States and smuggle them into New Mexico. The idea was to track the guns as they made their way inside Mexican drug cartels. Instead the ATF lost track of those guns in part because U.S. authorities never bothered to tell the Mexican authorities about the scheme. They never had a way to actually track the guns, that is, not until people started dying.", "The only way you're going to find those guns in Mexico is where?", "At crime scenes. At the death -- at the site of somebody who's dead. At a gun battle between the police and the bad guys in which either the bad guy was killed and his gun was left at the scene or used during the commission of a crime in which the gun was left behind.", "That makes no sense to me.", "Between reasonable men within the law enforcement community, no, there is no reasonable explanation to let these guns walk.", "Well, two of those guns made their way back north to the scene where border agent Brian Terry was shot dead a year-and-a-half ago. He just finished buying Christmas presents for his family. Two months later, ATF agent Jaime Zapata was killed in Mexico by one of a batch of 10 firearms bought in Houston as part of Fast and Furious. Now lawyers for the family confirmed today that they'll be suing the Justice Department, but the big headlines today were in Washington, D.C. After initially cooperating with the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating Fast and Furious, Attorney General Eric Holder refused to turn over more internal Justice Department documents. In a letter today, the deputy attorney general, James Cole, notified the committee chairman, Darrell Issa, that President Obama was withholding them on the basis of executive privilege. Now, the move came after threats from the committee to cite Holder for contempt and negotiations yesterday between the attorney general and committee members. Today's decision to invoke executive privilege led Republicans on the committee to say their search for accountability is being stymied.", "If Congress has time to look into Major League Baseball, the BCS and invite Stephen Colbert to come to a committee hearing, surely to goodness, we have time to get answers on a fundamentally flawed lethal investigation like Fast and Furious.", "Well, late today, Gowdy's committee voted along party lines to recommend the House issue a contempt citation against Holder. And Democrats accused Chairman Issa and his Republican committee colleagues of conducting a political witch hunt. Republicans suggest the administration is impeding the search for accountability and using executive privilege to do that. Keeping both sides honest, though, tonight, it's worth pointing out a few facts here. This is the first time that President Obama has invoked executive privilege. Back when Democrats controlled the House, and a Republican administration was claiming executive privilege for the sixth time, by the way, the sound bites were 180 degrees opposite. Back then, as House members debated contempt citations against two George W. Bush advisers, Republican members, including Darrell Issa, simply got up and walked out.", "We will not stand here and watch this floor be abused for pure political grandstanding at the expense of our national security. We will -- we will -- we will not stand for this and we will not stay for this. And I would ask my House Republican colleagues and those who believe that we should be here protecting the American people not vote on this bill. Let's just get up and leave.", "That's the complete opposite of their position today. Also now keeping the White House honest, President Obama's views on executive privilege do seem to have changed an awful lot now that he's chief executive. Here's Senator Obama back in 2007 during that Bush showdown.", "You know, there's been a tendency on the part of this administration to try to hide behind executive privilege every time there's something a little shaky that's taking place. And I think, you know, the administration would be best served by coming clean on this. I think the American people deserve to know what was going on there.", "Here to talk about where all this might lead, Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy, whom you heard from just a moment ago. Congressman, thanks for being with us. You said today President Obama that he is -- quote -- \"either part of it or he's not.\" If he's part of it, then we've had a series of witnesses that have misled the committee. And if he's not part of it, then he has no business asserting executive privilege. What do you exactly mean by that statement? Are you implying that the president is involved in covering something up?", "No, quite the opposite. We've had no one that has testified before either judiciary or oversight if the president had any role in Fast and Furious at all. He said he didn't know about it. And I take him at his word. My point was to more illustrate the absurdity of asserting executive privilege for something you had no role in. Executive privileges for conversations that are -- had with the chief executive so he can rely on people's counsel, and he doesn't have to worry about them being subpoenaed before a committee of Congress. He had no conversation --", "But that's not -- that's not actually true, though. I mean, Vice President Cheney talked -- used the executive privilege for discussions about energy policy. It was even used with Hillary Clinton in her role in the health care debate under the Clinton administration. So it doesn't necessarily mean the president was sitting in meetings.", "Well, what does it mean then? I mean, it's executive privilege. It's not -- it has to mean something. It can't cover your entire administration or no one would have to turn over documents.", "One of your Democratic colleagues, Congressman Elijah Cummings, said today that Attorney General Holder is simply protecting documents that he's prohibited by law from producing and is in compliance with federal statute passed by both Houses of Congress, signed by the president of the United States. Clearly you voted to hold him in contempt of Congress. You disagree with that?", "No, he's partially correct. I think the initial request was for wiretap applications, which rule 6-C of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure does not allow anyone to give to anyone who's not part of the investigation or the trial. So to the extent that the original request for documents was overly broad and included protected material, then Mr. Cummings is correct. Where he's not correct is after Chairman Issa narrowed the scope of documents to not include anything that was legally prohibited from being discovered, he's still not complied. What could possibly be protected about the drafting of a false letter to a committee of Congress?", "But back in the Bush administration when Cheney was talking about executive privilege because of discussions on energy policy and discussions with people from outside the White House even, Republicans rallied around him and said it's legitimate. Democrats -- I mean, it was very much a partisan issue, just as this is now. If it was OK, though, under the Bush administration, why isn't it OK now? What's the difference?", "I -- I have never -- Anderson, I have never subscribed to that theory in life, which is why I may not be long for this town. I was a prosecutor back when that was going on. The notion that -- that it's OK for me to do it only because you did it has never been appealing to me. If it's wrong to do it now, it was wrong to do it then, and I would hope that a court or someone else would have intervened and said that you're wrong to assert executive privilege. The fact that a Republican does something doesn't mean I automatically agree with it. And in fact, I would be happy to have everyone who's had their fingerprints on wide receiver, Fast and Furious, any gun walking investigation comment. I don't think you would be able to tell much of a difference in the tone of my questions irrespective of their political persuasion.", "What happens next? I mean, this is going to go to a vote in the full House. How do you see this being brought to a resolution? Do you think it's going to wind up in the courts?", "I hope not. I hope he gives us the documents. It's not a political exercise to me. I want to know how Fast and Furious happened. I want to know how a false letter was delivered to a committee of Congress. So I hope we don't get to that point because I hope the attorney general gives us the documents. If he doesn't, then yes, we'll vote on it on the floor of the House. And there are three different forms of contempt. There's the plenary powers of Congress, there's criminal contempt, there's civil contempt. If it's criminal, then it will be referred to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Ray (sic) Machen. If it's civil, it will go to a -- to a federal judge here in the District of Columbia.", "Congressman Gowdy, appreciate your time today. Thank you very much, sir.", "Thank you.", "Senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin joins me now to take us through the legal ins and outs of executive privilege and this contempt vote. So, Jeff, you just heard the congressman saying, I take him at his word. He wasn't here under the Bush administration. He says he would have ruled the same way under the Bush administration as he -- as he believes now. But does executive privilege only apply to national security issues or issues that the president was directly having a conversation about?", "No. The courts have said it's about the internal deliberations of the executive branch. And as you pointed out, there are Supreme Court cases involving the vice president. There are many cases involving the president's advisers. You know, sometimes executive privilege is upheld, sometimes it's not. But the president himself doesn't have to be involved and national security doesn't have to be involved.", "Well, certainly some people are going to look at this and say, look, the president obviously has something to hide by invoking this executive privilege. You say not necessarily?", "Not necessarily because, you know, every president in the modern era since Richard Nixon, including Richard Nixon, have cited executive privilege. Sometimes --", "So explain the idea behind it.", "Right.", "The rationale behind it.", "The idea behind it is pretty simple. It's that the executive branch, the White House and the president and his or her advisers, need space to be able to consider all sorts of policy options without the worry that they will be subpoenaed to disclose exactly everything that they consider. Now the countervailing argument or issue is the Constitution says the legislative branch, the Congress, has the right to investigate, to engage in oversight for the executive branch. So those two ideas are in tension. And there are legitimate good faith fights over what's covered by executive privilege. And those have come up in every recent administration.", "There are those who would say, look, if there's nothing to hide, why invoke this, though? It's basically just on principle?", "It is on principle. I mean, at least that's what the Obama administration is asserting. And that's what the Bush administration asserted the last time we had this kind of conflict.", "Because the flip side of this is if you want to hide something, this is a good way to hide stuff?", "It is. And certainly the most famous case of all involving executive privilege was United States versus Nixon where the Supreme Court 9-0 in -- held that Nixon had to disclose the White House tapes. And those turned out to be extremely incriminating and led directly to his resignation. So ever since Nixon, the innovation of executive privilege has had kind of a nasty taint. And it's sort of -- it's guilt by association with the most corrupt modern president.", "So basically you think this kind of goes away in the courts?", "I think --", "And kind of gets lost in the election hoopla?", "I absolutely do. I think this will not have a neat resolution. It's embarrassing for Eric Holder. But I don't think he's going to be found in contempt, that he's going to be led away in handcuffs. This is just going to be another political dispute. And if people remember at all at -- they'll remember, 23 Republicans were for it, 17 Democrats were against it.", "Jeff Toobin, thanks. Well, let us know what you think. We're on Facebook. Follow me on Twitter. We're talking about it right now on Twitter @AndersonCooper. The jury in the Sandusky child sex abuse trial is expected to get the case tomorrow. The defense rested their case earlier today. Sandusky did not take the stand after all. Clearly his lawyers seem to have made the right call, at least according to a lot of experts who are following this. Jason Carroll was in the courtroom throughout the trial. He'll recap the key testimony. And our legal panel, Mark Geragos and Marcia Clark, weigh in next."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT CORRESPONDENT", "RENE JAQUEZ, ATF SUPERVISORY AGENT", "GRIFFIN", "JAQUEZ", "COOPER", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-320512", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2017-09-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/04/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "North Korea Nuclear Threat; Trump White House.", "utt": ["I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Seoul. Welcome to this special edition of \"News Stream.\" A fiery message from South Korea. Stimulates a strike on North Korea in retaliation to Pyongyang's latest nuclear test. North Korea blasts the move calling on Seoul to stop the military exercises or face being reduced to ashes. And as the crisis intensifies, one Korean war veteran shares his memories of the conflict in a deeply personal letter to Kim Jong-un. And we begin with the region on edge. The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog is calling North Korea a global threat, one with new dimensions and unpredictability. It comes after North Korea claimed it successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb and now South Korea says that there are signs the north is preparing for another missile launch. World leaders are united in their condemnation, but divided as to how to contain the threat. And with the U.S., South Korea, and their allies ramping up their military presence in the region, new tensions are emerging. Russia says it might increase its missiles in the pacific to balance the deployment of U.S. missile defense systems in South Korea and Japan. And despite repeated threats from North Korea and despite the military response of Pyongyang's nuclear test, Seoul has long pushed for a diplomatic solution, but the U.S. president sees this as being too soft on North Korea. Now, combined that with recent tensions over trade, is there possible rift growing between the two allies? Paula Hancocks has more.", "It started so well, a state visit in June, a dinner agreement on North Korea, then a slight bleep as U.S. President Donald Trump publicly chastised the South Korean leader for what he saw as an unfair trade deal. But North Korean missile launches brought back the alliance we are used to seeing, joint force, U.S. and South Korean military side-by-side, shoulder-to-shoulder. And now this on Sunday, a direct jab at the South Korean President Moon Jae-in's desire for more dialogue with the north. A tweet from President Trump that read, South Korea is finding as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing.", "You can't really get a more toxic term than appeasement, and so to throw that at your ally, who apparently is saying to President Trump, look, dialogue needs to be part of the mix. At this moment, when North Korea has just tested a nuke, it's a real head spinner as to, you know, what the president thinks he gets out of that.", "Mr. Trump spoke to Japan's Leader Shinzo Abe twice in 24 hours over North Korea's actions, but is yet to pick up the phone to call the South Korean president, leading some in Seoul to ask, what happened? This man says we're the ones dealing with this directly. It's fine to talk to Abe, but Trump should have talked to the South Korean president first. If there's war, it will be on this peninsula. This young woman says if the U.S. responds too strongly to North Korea, North Korea might choose an extreme response. I'd like to know what responsibility Mr. Trump would take if that happens. Walking the streets of Seoul, it doesn't look like a country technically at war. Tensions are not visible, but there is concern all the way up to the president that military confrontation with the north be avoided at all costs. Add to that President Trump's insistence of a free trade deal that South Korea thought was signed, sealed and delivered be renegotiated, confusion is rife.", "One side that couldn't be happier about this perceived drift between the U.S. and South Korea, North Korea, a less unified response to its nuclear and missile tests only gives Pyongyang political success as well as its recent technical success. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.", "Here in Seoul, some have noticed that there has been no mention of any phone call between President Trump and President Moon, but the military chiefs of both nations spoke with each other after North Korea's nuclear test. China is responding to a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump that says, the U.S. is considering stopping all trade with any country that does business with North Korea. Beijing calls any such actions unfair and unacceptable and says it's been working hard to peacefully resolve tension on the Korean peninsula. The Chinese president is hosting leaders of the BRICS nations for talks. Let's bring Andrew Stevens from the side of those talks in Xiamen. Andrew, we've been talking about this all day today. This must be dominating discussions in Xiamen. When the U.S. president threatens to stop all trade from any country doing business with North Korea, how did China, how did India respond to that?", "Well, the main response was what you just read out there, China through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs saying it was unacceptable and unfair given the fact that China was going to", "Got it. So the BRICS nations altogether there at the conference in Xiamen calling for and pushing for dialogue as the way to manage the North Korea issue. I also wanted to get your thoughts on another tweet from Donald Trump while we have you, Andrew. Donald Trump saying, quote, North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China which is trying to help, but with little success, unquote. Once again, Donald Trump puts the blame on China. What more can China, should China do?", "Just on that embarrassment line, that's really -- there is a ring of truth there without a doubt, that Kim Jong-un ordered this nuclear test right as Xi Jinping was stepping on to the international stage as the host of this BRICS Summit. This is the third time that North Korea has done something similar when President Xi has stepped into the international spotlight and that has irritated Beijing intensely. What can China do? Well, there is no doubt that it holds the key to -- really the economic future of North Korea at the moment, if you like, and 90 percent of trade of North Korea goes to China. These are all statistics we have' been talking about for the past few days, that if China chose to, it could close off the oil supply, the energy supply, that would hurt. If China chose to, it could scale back on the textile products going between the two countries. And it could also target banks, Chinese banks, which are helping North Korea get money out into the international financial system. On the energy first, Kristie, that's the really big one. But the equation still remains in China that if you turn those oil taps off, you would destabilize Korea to the point where it could collapse. Again, we've heard this do many times, but China keeps repeating it, they are not prepared to see a collapsing North Korea on their border with the prospect of millions of refugees, with the prospects perhaps of the U.S. taking a bigger role and a unified Korea having the U.S. literally on their doorstep. So China has so far pushed back on any attempts to increase, particularly from Donald Trump, to increase the economic pressure. The United Nations Security Council meets as we know in the next few hours, sanctions are on the table. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has said this much, that he's got a package of much tougher sanctions. China would have to be involved in those. The question is, is their strategic thinking going to change because of this game-changing move by North Korea? Thermonuclear device by all accounts are capable of hitting the U.S. So, the ball is in China's court. China will say, it's the U.S. who has to talk, but China still has the keys to the North Korean economy. It can move. The question is, will it? And a lot of people here will say it's unlikely China is going to change its stance there, Kristie. It is going to go for this hard line particularly about something like oil as fundamental as energy supplies to North Korea.", "Yes. It would just cut too deeply, but we'll see what comes out of that U.N. Security Council emergency session which as you pointed out will be starting in just a couple hours from now. Andrew Stevens reporting live from Xiamen. Thank you. This latest provocation from the north comes nearly after Pyongyang fired a missile over Japan. Japan's prime minister called the nuclear test, quote, a grave and imminent threat. We get the latest now from Tokyo with Will Ripley who was reporting from Pyongyang only a few days ago. Will, we know that Prime Minister Abe and Donald Trump, they do enjoy a good personal relationship. They talk to each other on the phone. Mr. Abe says that Japan will take determined actions against North Korea. What does that mean? Do we know what shape that would take?", "Well, all we have to go by are the actions that we've seen so far, which is the United States and Japan pressuring their allies to step up enforcement of sanctions against North Korea and continue to try to pressure China, as Andrew was just talking about, because their other options are extremely limited. They can continue to show force in terms of bomber and fighter jet fly- overs. They can deploy military assets to the region, strategic military assets such as aircraft carriers, U.S. aircraft carriers, remember the \"Carl Vinson\" strike group was deployed off the Korean peninsula back in April after tensions were escalating there. But the bottom line is, their options truly do remain limited when it comes to reining in North Korea and of course we have just seen time and time again a defiant response from Pyongyang and its leader Kim Jong-un.", "And also reaction from the comments we heard, from the U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis, warning for a quote, massive military response, to North Korea after its nuclear test. Is that raising some concern there in Tokyo?", "People in Japan are certainly nervous to hear about any talk of a military response, but frankly the actions of North Korea are also making people nervous. So, it was just a week ago that people woke up to the sound of air raid sirens in Hokkaido, Japan's norther island, and received terrifying messages on their phone telling them that a North Korean missile was coming and they had to seek shelter at sturdy building. This is the first time that there is an entire generation of Japanese who are growing up with this kind of threat. Obviously this country still is deeply scarred by the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now, they are living with that fear revived. However, unlikely or perhaps likely it may be depending which analyst you are talking about, that there could be more bombs raining down on this country. I mean, a lot of North Korea's missile launches to date have been launched in the direction of Japan and have come down in the waters off of Japan. Now, there are indications that this new, these new preparations for missile launches in North Korea may send those missiles on a trajectory toward the Pacific Ocean. Whether that would be the Pacific Ocean off of Hokkaido as we saw last week or in a southerly direction toward the U.S. territory of Guam, that has yet to be seen.", "All right. CNN's Will Ripley reporting live for us from Tokyo. Thank you, Will. Our next guest played a key role in the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program. These negotiations stalled over a decade ago, and China and Russia, they want them revived. David Straub was also the head of the Korea desk at the U.S. State Department. He joins us now. Thank you for joining us here in the program.", "My pleasure.", "We were talking just then with our correspondent in Seoul and in Tokyo. On one hand, you have that close personal relationship between Prime Minister Abe and Donald Trump. They talked to each other on the phone after the latest nuclear test by the north. No phone call reported just yet between President Moon and President Trump. And then you have that tweet of criticism that Donald Trump leveled at the South Koreans for -- in his talk about appeasement. Where this -- is that a rift? Where does that leave Seoul?", "Well, I wouldn't call it a rift yet, but I do think that there is a gap between the two presidents. And I must say President Moon is not faultless in this, but I think President Trump and the way he acts in general, it is an obstacle to closer U.S.-South Korea relations. In particular, his tweets are very undisciplined. They caused a great deal of confusion and they even caused fear in South Korea, that we might have a war here.", "There is a gap between these two presidents, the president of South Korea and the president of the United States. Also, the president of China and the United States. Donald trump continues to say China, you're not doing enough and even launching indirect threat, you know, saying that if you continue to do trade, we're not going to trade with you. That's certainly not helping things.", "Yes. Well, on the one hand, I think China could do a great deal more. One thing that everybody talks about, which is real, which is China could begin to cut off the oil supply to North Korea. That is the only thing that I can think of that might in the short to midterm have a decisive effect. But the idea that we are going to cut off all trade with China much less all other countries in the world that have any trade with North Korea, this is bizarre. This is really not leadership, it's the opposite of leadership.", "When you get a trade threat from an ally, when you are being called out with the criticism on Twitter and yet you need to deal with President Trump when you have to manage the North Korean crisis, what is your advice for leaders of American allies in east Asia about what they need to do to manage this relationship?", "The South Koreans I think are trying to deal with this by having people -- deal with the people directly under President Trump, for example, General McMaster and General Mattis and other people -- Secretary Tillerson, and then only deal with President Trump when they really have to. But even so, we still don't have this telephone call between President Trump and President Moon even after this test. Maybe it will happen tomorrow. So my advice would be to deal with the second tier as much as you can, but then you still have to deal with President Trump because he is the president he got the football and we just can't avoid him.", "We heard moments ago from our correspondent in Xiamen covering the BRICS conference that the BRICS nations there, assembled there, including of course Russia and China are calling for dialogue, that should be the way forward. Should it?", "Well, eventually dialogue is something that I think U.S. government wants and is necessary.", "Yes.", "But it has to be dialogue about things that are in American interest. Otherwise, it's not in the American interest by definition to sit down with the North Koreans. Currently, it's quite clear that the North Koreans hope that when dialogue between them and the United States eventually takes place, it's going to be something like, OK, you Americans, we're equal to you because we have nuclear weapons too and it's time for you to remove your military forces from South Korea, so that we can then deal with the South Koreans the way we want to.", "You have to create the right conditions before you sit down at the table gain and you did sit down at the table with North Koreans on the negotiating team about a decade ago. What was it like to negotiate with them? What's their negotiating style? Do they have a list of demands? Do they ask a lot of questions? What it's like?", "I think the North Koreans are excellent negotiators in one way. They are very manipulative. They are very disciplined. They are very smart. They are very knowledgeable. In fact, I'm embarrassed to say it, they are much more knowledgeable about these issues than the American negotiators have tended to be. I don't think that they themselves really know what their top leadership is doing. I think they have a set of talking points and position papers. And I think they -- in a very disciplined way, they act on that basis. It's a very frustrating exercise dealing with the North Koreans.", "Yes. David Straub, really fascinating. Thank you for sharing your time with us and your analyses.", "Thank you.", "Take care. All right. In the U.S., some 800,000 young undocumented immigrants could soon live under the fear of deportation. If President Trump decides to cancel an Obama era immigration program, that's what is going to happen. The call he's making to change the dreamer policy, that story is next, keep it here."], "speaker": ["KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN NEWS STREAM SHOW HOST", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JOHN DELURY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CHINESE STUDIES, YONSEI UNIVERSITY", "HANCOCKS (voice-over)", "HANCOCKS", "LU STOUT", "ANDREW STEVENS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LU STOUT", "STEVENS", "LU STOUT", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "LU STOUT", "RIPLEY", "LU STOUT", "DAVID STRAUB, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, KOREA PROGRAM", "LU STOUT", "STRAUB", "LU STOUT", "STRAUB", "LU STOUT", "STRAUB", "LU STOUT", "STRAUB", "LU STOUT", "STRAUB", "LU STOUT", "STRAUB", "LU STOUT", "STRAUB", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-159255", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2010-12-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1012/08/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Cordoba Movement Founder Imam Faisal Rauf", "utt": ["You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now, payback for some African-American farmers and Native Americans. Just minutes from now, President Obama is expected to sign into law a bill settling their long-standing lawsuits against the federal government. We're going to show you what happens. And a space-age first. A commercial company takes a monumental step toward creating the next vehicle for space travel. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. An American-Muslim is in police custody charged with plotting to bomb a military recruiting station in Baltimore. The incident is prompting new concerns about what seems to be a growing number of such cases in the United States. I spoke about that and more with Imam Faisal Rauf, he's the founder of the Cordoba Movement, the spiritual leader of the proposed new cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero in New York. And I asked him specifically whether he thinks there's a bigger problem right now with American-Muslims being recruited for jihad.", "No doubt, there is a problem. And this is why it's important for us to end this spiral, this downward spiral of discourse, of hatred, of animosity between America and Islamic world and Americans. And this is why I'm launching the Cordoba Movement, which is a multifaith, multinational movement focusing on reversing this cycle of hatred and creating an opposite cycle of tolerance and hopefully, even harmony and love. This is what we need to work on.", "It's in contradiction to Anwar al-Awlaki, the American- born cleric in Yemen right now whose got a website together with others that are aggressively seeking to recruit American-Muslims to fight against the United States. What's the best way to stop these kinds of guys?", "We have to -- we have to end this downward spiral by creating the opposite. One of the things that happened very positively from our experience this summer was the optics in the Muslim world of the mayor of New York City, the politicians of New York City, the interfaith community supporting our attempts to establish a center. There was just in the Sunday edition of \"New York Style\" magazine, it quoted a Bahraini newspaper who said, this support for the American community for our community center was the best propaganda, the best PR that could possibly happen for America. So what we have learned, Wolf, is that we can actually end this spiral and we have to engage with it and push back against it. We cannot let it dominate the discourse. Just last night, I met with a number of the 9/11 families and community, survivors, family members and entities whom we have committed ourselves to engaging with in changing this discourse not only about the center but the larger issue of faith and beliefs, what America stands for, what Muslims stand for and how we can reclaim the discourse from these extremists. We have extremists in the Muslim world, extremists in all faith traditions and when this happens, when you have an Awlaki make something and then you have a pastor threatening to burn the Koran, you create -- and the extremists feed on each other. We need to change it because the battlefront is not between Islam and the West, but when the moderates of all faith traditions, including atheists and agnostics, and the extremists of all faith traditions, including the extremists who are agnostic.", "Are American-Muslims doing enough to join you in this fight? Are you satisfied with what your fellow American-Muslims are doing?", "We need to do more. We are stretched, we are -- we are -- but we need to do more and we cannot do this alone. We need to organize better. We need to partner better and this has to be a joint effort between Muslims and members of other faith traditions. This is the only way can do it.", "Let's talk about the cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero. How much money have you actually raised for it so far?", "We have yet to begin a capital campaign. All that has happened is the developer put together and a group of investors who acquired the property. We have yet to begin a capital campaign to raise the money for that, and that is the work and focus of the developer. On his focus is the real estate and the development and the raising of the money for that development. But what has happened is that my focus was been, was before and will continue to be on how we can actually win the peace and how do we wage the peace against the extremists who have hijacked the discourse. And that's what we aim to do and that is why we've founded this movement, cordobamovement.org. I encourage your listeners to visit our website and learn more about our projects, our programs, our approaches on how to win the peace and register the voice.", "All right, there was a story on \"The Daily Beast\" by our CNN contributor John Avlon saying your group has actually applied for some federal funding for the cultural center. Is that true?", "Well, the developer, I understand, has developed for the Lower Manhattan development funding, which was funding established for the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan. This is what I do understand, yes.", "Because there's been criticism Irshad Manji, I know you know who she is, the author of \"The Trouble With Islam.\" She was quoted in that \"The Daily Beast\" as article saying, \"The New Yorkers I speak with have questions about Park 51,\" which is the name of the cultural center, \"Requesting money from public coffers without engaging the public shows a staggering lack of empathy, especially from a man who says he's all about dialogue.\" Do you want to respond to Irshad Manji?", "Absolutely. I mean, I have focused myself on dialogue. My track record speaks for itself. And as I told you, we were engaged with the 9/11 survivors and families yesterday and they recognize that this is going to be the important. One of the ladies president yesterday said, look, I don't want my daughter to grow up hating anybody. Another gentleman who was a 9/11 survivor said, you know, I was in a stairwell and I was surrounded by Muslims and we were all looking to survive together. There are many important stories and they're concerned. And their major concern is how the discourse has been -- has become so vitriolic and one of hatred and accusatory voices. So we are working together with them to create programming in the immediate future on how we can actually reclaim the dialogue.", "Are you at all considering moving the proposed cultural center and mosque from that location near Ground Zero to a less controversial location?", "At the moment, the dream is still alive to establish this center, because the issue is not really about the real estate. This issue is about the broader problems between -- and the perception between Muslims and members of other faith communities. Let me remind you, the issue that happened and the controversy this last summer is not about just our proposed center. There were many, many -- which was intended to be a community center open to all. There were three, four, five, six other mosques, proposed mosques around the country, from the Midwest and Tennessee, in San Diego, that also received criticism. So what really appeared was really an anti- Islam sentiment which was whipped up and fanned, and this is very, very dangerous.", "So I just want to be precise. As of now, you still want to build it at that location?", "This is our dream, yes.", "Imam Feisal Rauf, thanks very much for coming in.", "Thank you so much for having me, Wolf.", "The backlash against WikiLeaks has unleashed a series of hacker attacks on credit card Web sites and other major online targets. Stand by. We have the latest. 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{"id": "CNN-94997", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2005-6-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/01/ltm.05.html", "summary": "Mystery Solved; Biased Terror Cases?", "utt": ["Deep Throat comes forward, blindsiding the newspaper reporters who made him famous. This morning, the story behind the story from \"The Washington Post.\" Hurricane season begins today, and this year is expected to bring more furious storms. We'll take a look at brand new inventions to help people cope with disaster. And 25 years of 24-hour coverage from around the world, from the White House to \"The West Wing.\" (", "He's not a stupid man. And he knows where CNN is on his television. (", "Marking our 25th anniversary on this", "From the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, this is AMERICAN MORNING with Soledad O'Brien and Bill Hemmer.", "Good morning, everybody. June 1 on the calendar. We celebrate silver today. Today is our 25th anniversary. On this date 25 years ago, CNN went on the air for the first time.", "And this morning, we're taking a look at some of the stories that defined those 25 years, defined the network as well. But today's headlines right now with Carol Costello. Good morning.", "Yes, the most recent headlines right now. Good morning. Good morning to all of you. Coalition forces in Iraq carrying out a raid near the Syrian border. At least seven people were detained for questioning. In the meantime, American officials tell CNN a suicide car bomb exploded at a checkpoint near U.S. military headquarters at Baghdad. At least 15 were hurt. We'll soon learn more from Ohio authorities about Cleveland's deadliest house fire. Most of the nine victims were children. Initially thought the May 21 fire was accidental, but authorities are now saying it was deliberately set. Neighbors in the area reacted to the news.", "It's crazy. Who is a person that would want to do something like this? That's just crazy.", "I'm shocked. I'm speechless.", "I'm not shocked, because the way the fire went so fast, I thought somebody had set it on fire.", "Set it on fire.", "What would you like to say to that person tonight?", "That I hope he rots in hell.", "A news conference is set for 11:00 a.m. Eastern. In a little over two hours, President Bush will host South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, at the White House. This will be their third meeting in the past five years. Today's visit will focus on the upcoming G-8 summit and international help for South Africa's struggle with HIV and AIDS. And the world's longest married couple celebrating their 80th wedding anniversary today. Percy and Florence Arrowsmith walked down the aisle on June 1, 1925. The couple says they're delighted to make it into the history books, and they plan to celebrate with a family party. Mr. Arrowsmith says the secret to their long happy marriage is two words, say, \"Yes, dear.\" But I ascertain that it's her special petting of his head that made the marriage last so long.", "Oh, I do that to Bill, too, sometimes like that. Men love that.", "They look so happy.", "They're cute. That's nice.", "Thank you, Carol.", "Sure.", "There is new information expected today on how the news about Deep Throat finally came out yesterday. \"The Washington Post\" a central player in this story. David Von Drehle worked today's story. On the front page, that story. Excellent report, too. Very extensive, very in depth. Earlier, I asked him if \"The Post\" was caught flat-footed when the story broke yesterday.", "We had no idea the story was coming. We learned of it yesterday morning. Our top editors were at a corporate retreat. They had to rush back to \"The Post.\" Bob Woodward had to read the story, figure out what was in it. He had been in contact with the Felt family for the past several years, trying to figure out exactly what Mr. Felt's wishes were and whether he was lucid enough at his advanced age to undo the agreement that had -- that they both had kept for so many years. So we had to react to this, had to determine that, in fact, this agreement had been abrogated by the family, by the lawyer. And there was no point in us doing anything but confirming and telling the story.", "You also write in today's story that Felt's daughter was trying to coax her father, the words you used today, into admitting his role. Why was that important to her at this point?", "She says in the story that she wanted her father to get the glory for this while he was alive. There's also a quotation from her talking about a desire that if there's money to be made from this revelation, that some of it should go to the Felt family. And those seem to be the motivations.", "Well, at first yesterday, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein denied it. Later they admitted it to \"The Post\" in a series of stories that came out throughout the day yesterday. But I imagine if this \"Vanity Fair\" article was not out there, that this secret is still that. It's a secret, is that right?", "Absolutely. The commitment that Bob Woodward and \"The Washington Post\" made to Mark Felt was that we would keep this secret until he died. And that was Bob's intention up until 4:00 or so yesterday afternoon. It was -- that's why the initial statement said the same thing that Woodward and Bernstein had been saying for 33 years, that they had no intention of revealing this source while he was alive.", "The other point you make into today's piece, you quote Carl Bernstein as saying that Felt's role in all of this can be overstated. In what way is Deep Throat's role overstated at this point?", "Well, the cultural power of the figure from the movie, the Hal Holbrook character in the parking garage, is so intense and so romantic and mysterious, that this mystery has sort of overshadowed the complexity of Watergate. A lot of pieces went into it. Woodward and Bernstein themselves had scores of sources, not all of them anonymous. Many of them named in these stories. They worked hard to get people on the record for their stories. Now that we know Felt's identity, their hope is that people will get a little more rounded picture of the Watergate story and of Deep Throat's role in it. He was their coach, in a sense, there. He gave them contacts, direction and encouragement when they needed it to keep this story alive at a time when the Nixon administration was desperately trying to cover it up.", "Also, that article today points out how each man communicated with one another. In the case of Felt, he would draw a picture of a clock on page 20 of \"The New York Times,\" not \"The Washington Post,\" but \"The New York Times.\" And Woodward would place a plant outside of his apartment or his condo or is house where he was living in Washington, D.C., at the time. And now that the secret's out, Woodward is getting ready for a piece tomorrow in \"The Post\" about how his relationship with Felt began, and possibly also more information about a recent meeting they had in California that took place in the past couple of years. So more tomorrow -- Soledad.", "That's going to be fascinating. A CNN \"Security Watch\" this morning. We're learning more about the two men accused of conspiring to help al Qaeda. Tarik Shah and Rafiq Sabir appeared in federal courtrooms on Tuesday. They're being held without bail. Friends and relatives say they are shocked by the charges and they believe the government's case is racially biased. Adaora Udoji has more.", "Tarik Shah, a music man, seen here jamming on the base in a New York City club, friends say he's magical.", "He's a peace-loving masterful bassist. He is internationally renowned. He's respected in the -- in the jazz community.", "But federal prosecutors say Shah plotted to help terrorists, that he pledged allegiance to al Qaeda unknowingly to an undercover FBI agent and a confidential informant, that he promised to use his martial arts expertise to teach militants hand to hand combat, even scouted warehouses. Shah was in court, but made no formal plea. Outside, his wife, among friends, stood by his lawyer, who denied the charge.", "He wouldn't be the victim of the sting operation unless he was a Muslim.", "Exactly.", "Prosecutors also allege Shah brought in his friend of 20 years, Dr. Rafiq Sabir, a father of four, an ivy league medical school graduate, now an emergency specialist in Boca Raton, Florida. His alleged contribution? To help stitch up militants fighting the holy war. They say hours of tape recordings prove it. Sabir was also in court, but his hearing was delayed so he could hire an attorney. Sabir's friends don't believe the accusations.", "He's just a real nice guy. He's a physician because that's what he wants to do, is help people.", "Dr. Farouq Khan, a lung specialist who knew Sabir in Long Island in the late 1990s says the man cared deeply about health care for all.", "He was hard- working. He would put in his hours. And he was very committed to justice.", "Shah and Sabir supporters question the validity of the case, asking how a two-year investigation led to only a single charge. They want justice, but they worry sometimes Muslims are scapegoated.", "There have been these high-profile cases put forth, and then when they hit the judicial system, they fizzle out. I know many of the families which have been destroyed because of allegations made.", "The court case has just begun against the musician and the doctor. Both are being held without bail. Adaora Udoji, CNN, New York.", "You'll want to stay with CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.", "It is payback time for the runaway bride, literally. Jennifer Wilbanks has sent a check for more than $13,000 to the city of Duluth, Georgia. She fled Duluth just days before she was set to get married. That city says it will use the money to cover some overtime paid out during the search.", "We're very pleased to have the check in hand, to have the $13,000 with the city right now. What that actually does is let us know we do not have to go to court, we do not have to waste anymore time on this. This chapter of these events is shut.", "And Wilbanks still faces the possibility of criminal charges and making false statements, and she's been getting counseling, we're told, at an inpatient treatment center north of Atlanta. Check the weather.", "Closing arguments will begin tomorrow in Michael Jackson's case. And when both sides are finished, is the jury headed for a quick verdict? A look at that in a moment from California.", "Also, Florida bracing for another brutal hurricane season. There's some brand-new gadgets, though, to help people weather the storm. We'll show them to you.", "Also, 25 years ago today, CNN made its debut and changed TV news forever. We'll talk to a network original today. Bernie Shaw is back with us in a moment on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"THE WEST WING\") UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "END VIDEO CLIP, \"THE WEST WING\") O'BRIEN", "AMERICAN MORNING. 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{"id": "CNN-411235", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2020-09-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/17/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Raab: Good Friday Agreement Not In Jeopardy; Wyndham CEO: U.S. Franchisees.", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Richard Quest. There's more QUEST MEANS BUSINESS in just a moment. The Chief Executive of Wyndham Hotels will be with us. You heard earlier in the program, talking about how the hospitality industry is being so badly hit, and it means will help airlines, as well. What does Wyndham Hotel CEO see in the markets at the moment? And Qantas, and it is an offer for AV geeks the world over. The flight that goes to nowhere and it's already sold out. I'll give you the details of that in just a moment after the news headlines because this is CNN, and on this network, the news always comes first. The World Health Organization says a very serious situation is unfolding across Europe, as coronavirus cases rise dramatically. The regional directors warning there are more infections now than during the peak in March while the lockdown in spring and summer pushed cases to an all-time low. The continent has been easing restrictions and reopening economies. Aides to the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he was poisoned in a hotel room in Siberia last month, not at the airport as initially thought. They say traces of Novichok have been found on a water bottle that was taken from his room shortly after he became critically ill. The FBI Director Christopher Wray says Russia is actively interfering in the U.S. election. He testified before a House committee on Thursday. Wray said Moscow's main goal is to denigrate Joe Biden, and that Russia is using social media proxies, state media, and online journals to sow divisiveness and discord. The U.K. Foreign Secretary speaking to CNN has said that the U.K. will uphold its commitments under the Good Friday Agreement. Joe Biden had tweeted and I quote, \"We can't allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit. Any trade deal between the U.S. and U.K. must be contingent upon respect for the agreement and preventing the return of a hard border, period.\" The same position as Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker. The Foreign Minister, Dominic Raab, told CNN's Brianna Keilar, the Belfast Agreement is safe.", "First of all, the Good Friday Agreement is not in jeopardy.", "Nic Robertson is with me, and why does -- Nic, why does Joe Biden's intervention -- why does it matter? I mean, yes, he might. He could well be the next president, but the U.K. said that there'll be no border on the island of Ireland.", "Yes, and the Irish would take exception to that, as have European Union politicians who said if Britain does go ahead and introduce and pass its Internal Market Bill, which is the thing that could well as already been admitted by a British ministers to be breaking the international law. The withdrawal agreement that Britain struck was sort of divorced part of the Brexit deal that the European Union will potentially take them to court and consider fines. The sort of the default is if that section the Northern Ireland protocol, part of withdrawal agreement gets broken by this legislation. The implication is that it would so damage the Brexit process itself, that there would by default, arrive a hard border on the border between the North Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to the south. That, in itself, would be fuel enough to rekindle the embers which haven't gone out of the conflict that plagued Northern Ireland for more than three decades. And so, that's the root of this. One thing begets another begets another. And the British say, yes, they want to uphold the Good Friday Agreement. But why does it matter when Joe Biden weighs in? Because his real -- this is -- this is a war. Again, Britain has had one for the European Union, and now one from potentially the next U.S. president, certainly for the Democrats, who have the power to slow down and hinder a free trade agreement with the", "Right. Nic, if we look at the measures that the British government has now put forward to appease its own backbenchers, which some say is not enough. And we listened to what the Prime Minister said, is it true, Nic, that Europe was trying to get an overarching reach back into the United Kingdom through an interpretation of the withdrawal agreement?", "So, essentially, we're talking here about state aid and the European Union potentially having reached back to affect state aid within the United Kingdom. And that's a very real concern in the U.K. There's a sense that, you know, on the British side that they want to be able to give state aid to businesses potentially in the north of the country, where they're talking about leveling the playing field, bringing up the sort of economy of the north of -- the north of England to be on a better par with the South. Now, the European Union is very sensitive about state aid because if there is -- if Britain is outside the European Union, outside of the control of European Union regulations on state aid, there's the feeling would be therefore that Britain would be able to fund some of its businesses at the expense of European businesses. Have unfair competitive advantage. So, that's --", "Right.", "These are genuine concerns on both sides. However, the withdrawal agreement and the Northern Ireland protocols that Boris Johnson signed last year and then went into an election that he won handily in the U.K., based on that, that was all about securing the Good Friday Agreement as well as the Brexit divorce deal. It was torturously detailed. It had brought down Theresa May. And the detail of it, Boris Johnson signed up to on the Europeans' understanding that he knew what it meant top to bottom.", "Which apparently didn't mean exactly what he thought it meant. Nic Robertson, thank you. Now, the Whole Foods' chief executive says capitalism is on the brink of a new era. But as we go through COVID, one has to question what that era is. The CEO is with me after the break with his new book."], "speaker": ["RICHARD QUEST, CNN INTERNATIONAL HOST", "DOMINIC RAAB, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN, COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT AFFAIRS", "QUEST", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR", "U.K. QUEST", "ROBERTSON", "QUEST", "ROBERTSON", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-203489", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2013-3-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/21/sp.04.html", "summary": "Burned Iraqi Boy, Five Years Later", "utt": ["Welcome back to STARTING POINT, a couple of top stories. A jury in Ohio is recommending the death penalty for Craigslist killer Richard Beasley. The 53-year-old Beasley was found guilty last week of murdering three men who answered a bogus Craigslist ad for work on a cattle farm. This was in 2011. A judge will consider the jury's recommendation before handing down a sentence next week. Much lighter note here, NBC says it's building a new studio in New York for Jimmy Fallon. But that's all they are saying, at least for now. Meantime, the \"New York Times\" reports Fallon will replace Leno as \"Tonight Show\" host and the show will return to New York. The \"Times\" report says that the only thing not set in stone is NBC's timetable for all of these changes. John and Christie.", "All right, thank you Zoraida. Now a true story of triumph over tragedy. Nearly six years ago, masked men poured gasoline on a 5-year-old Iraqi boy named Youssif and they lit his face on fire. But this story has turned now into a story of strength. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has that story on today's \"Human Factor.\"", "So this is the classroom. I sit in that seat over there.", "It's amazing to me what a typical American 10-year-old kid Youssif has become.", "These molecules move faster.", "This was Youssif just five years old at the time. He was attacked by masked men right in front of his home in Baghdad. They poured gasoline on his face and then set him on fire. (on camera): What's the first thing you remember about all of that?", "I just like to remember the doctor getting a sponge. And I was like, oh.", "In Iraq?", "Yes.", "And they had a sponge.", "I think they like scratching on me or something.", "They were trying to take off some of the burned skin?", "Yes.", "Youssif's parents were desperate to see their boy smile again, so just months after the attack, they came to the United States with a single suitcase. Their living expenses and their medical expenses, all of it, was paid for by the kindness of strangers. And we have followed their journey since 2007. Youssif has had 19 operations, a total of 61 procedures to help correct the burn damage. Youssif's father still doesn't want to show his face for fear of retaliation. (on camera): Do you tell people what happened to him?", "I have to tell them when they ask. I mean sometimes it bothers me when they don't ask and they keep just looking. It's really bothered me.", "But it doesn't bother Youssif. He's a happy kid, he's smart, confident. His parents say he never complains, he never asks about the scars on his face.", "I can see that there is like one, two, three spaces.", "Youssif's parents say all of this still feels like a dream. (on camera): Have you had a hard time making friends at all?", "No, it's like -- it is like whenever a new kid comes, the next day, we're just friends.", "Is that right?", "Yes.", "Is -- is anybody ever mean to you?", "No.", "Once victims, now a family full of strength. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Canoga Park, California.", "Most of the items you saw on Youssif's apartment were donated. If you want to donate directly you can reach his family on Twitter @Youssifiraqi -- all in one word.", "Next we're going to have a passionate plea from a 12-year-old speaking out for the first time about same-sex marriage. We're going to Daniel Leffew who was adopted by two gay fathers about the letter wrote to Supreme Court Justice John Roberts."], "speaker": ["SAMBOLIN", "ROMANS", "YOUSSIF, SET ON FIRE", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORESPONDENT (voice over)", "YOUSELF", "GUPTA", "YOUSSIF", "GUPTA", "YOUSSIF", "GUPTA", "YOUSSIF", "GUPTA", "YOUSSIF", "GUPTA (voice over)", "WISAM, YOUSSIF'S FATHER", "GUPTA (voice over)", "YOUSSIF", "GUPTA", "YOUSSIF", "GUPTA", "YOUSSIF", "GUPTA", "YOUSSIF", "GUPTA", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-391121", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2020-01-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/24/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Soon: House Managers To Argue Trump Obstructed Congress; Attorney: Tape Of Trump Demanding Ambassador Be Fired Has Been Turned Over To House Intel; Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Discusses About Republicans Not Voting For Witnesses But To Acquit President Trump; Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Is Interviewed About McConnell's Effort To Vulnerable Republicans.", "utt": ["The Trump base saying, no, no, look at this, not this.", "Erase history.", "All right. A lot happening so far. Good working with you.", "Thank you so much.", "We'll do it again. We got a lot going on over the weekend. In the meantime, Erin Burnett picks up our special coverage.", "Good evening. I'm Erin Burnett. Welcome to our special coverage of President Trump's impeachment trial. You've been watching House Democrats. They've been using the final hours of their opening statement to make the case that President Trump obstructed Congress. They're putting a moral compass on all of this. It is their last chance to make their case before Trump's team steps onto the floor of the Senate and take center stage tomorrow morning. Now, we are in a very brief dinner break. That trial is set to resume any minute as it has every night this week. During this hour, we're going to bring that to you as soon as it resumes. I want to go straight now, though, to Phil Mattingly who is on Capitol Hill. And Phil, you were there in the chamber today, in that pen where reporters are able to watch and observe. You have been talking to senators throughout the day during the breaks and what are you seeing and hearing?", "Yes. Erin, I think one of the interesting elements right now is people are looking forward, not that they're looking past the presentations but there's an understanding that there's a very big vote coming up. And that will be the vote after the two presentations and the senator questions as to whether or not the Senate will proceed to consider subpoenas for witnesses and documents. And what you've seen over the course of the last four or five days is Republicans led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell really kind of get behind the idea that, look, any subpoenas would be problematic on executive privilege grounds. If you're going after the President's top advisors, former top advisors, it would not only elongate the trial, but it could also raise major precedent issues. And I think what's been interesting to me, Erin, throughout the course of this day is you have seen Democrats recognize the reality and I'm told this was recognized that this idea that Republicans have been talking about has taken hold inside the conference and could endanger Democrats' possibility of getting the votes for witness later. And so you have seen very strong pushback, a concerted effort in press conferences by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, by Adam Schiff, the lead impeachment manager. And you've also seen it dovetail on the floor. Remember, today's discussion, today's presentation was largely in part about Article Two, the obstruction of Congress piece.", "Right.", "And you've heard Democratic managers repeatedly make the case on the need for subpoenas on the opposite side of the precedent spectrum, saying if you don't do this, think about what it would mean in the future if a president can just say at will, I'm not going to comply with anything. I just spoke with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer a short while ago during this break. He said he believe that what the Democratic managers had done on the floor decimated the Republican argument that has really taken hold the last couple of days. We'll see if that's the case, but it's just a concerted effort by Democrats right now to push back, Erin.", "And also we're going to go to Senator Sherrod Brown and get his reaction to your reporting in just a moment, Phil. But you have some breaking news on some new evidence that I understand the House now has.", "That's exactly right. Joseph Bondi, the lawyer for Lev Parnas, a Rudolph Giuliani associate who's avidly turned over a bunch of information to the House Intelligence Committee has also now turned over a recording. A recording that was reported earlier by ABC News that purports to show President Trump at a dinner in 2018 saying explicitly get rid of her, directly talking about Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine. Obviously, she has played a major role throughout the course of this impeachment hearing. The House Intelligence Committee, according to Parnas' lawyer now has that recording. Democrats have been talking about it throughout the course of the day. Schumer just a short while ago said if nothing else, it shows that the President is 'vicious' and how he treated people. Keep an eye on this. People are going to be talking about this and certainly hearing about this going forward. The House Intelligence Committee, obviously, run by Adam Schiff, the lead manager, now has the tape according to Parnas' lawyer.", "All right. Thank you very much, Phil, who will rejoin us as he learns more. I want to go now straight though as promised to Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown. Senator Brown, let me just give you a chance to react first to what Phil was just talking about here. This new information of the president extensively at a small dinner talking about Marie Yovanovitch in what Senator Schumer describes as vicious way trying to get rid of her. House Intelligence Committee now has this. Obviously, it would not go to the Senate. Is it necessary that the Senate get it?", "Well, it's necessary the Senate get witnesses and get documents and information. I'm not a lawyer, but I know enough about trials the American public does. You have the House managers, the prosecution, we have the defense, the President's lawyers and you have witnesses and information and documents. And that's what the President says this is all hearsay, but he won't let us talk to people who are in the room who sat with him maybe when he said that about the very honorable ambassador, longtime public servant ambassador to Ukraine. I mean, all of this stuff comes out and Mitch McConnell does he wants to get this trial over with. He doesn't want the truth to come out and fundamentally, the President cheated. He got caught. He tried to cover it up. That's sort of the story of what happened.", "So you heard Phil talking about Senator McConnell making a lot of progress, convincing Republicans not to vote for witnesses in part because he's been putting this argument out. But key witnesses are going to plea executive privilege. This is going to become months long drawn out process. Guys, you got a lot of information, so forget the witnesses and that that's been effective. Are you concerned, Senator Brown, about getting enough votes from Republicans to move forward with witnesses now?", "Of course, Erin. You know that's just the newest excuse they've now filed to say no. I mean, Donald Trump doesn't want witnesses, therefore, the new information and documentation, therefore, Mitch McConnell who is Donald Trump's lap dog doesn't want information and witnesses, therefore 52 other relatively spineless Republicans don't want witnesses, don't want information. They're scared. They're scared. I mean, I talk to Republicans all of the time quietly, individually.", "Yes.", "Many of them tell me that Trump is a liar. A few of them said Trump is a racist. But they're all afraid of him. They're afraid he'll campaign against him in their state. They're afraid he'll attach a nasty nickname to them. I mean, in this chamber it's a little like the Iraq War when I was in the House 15 years ago, fear does the business and Republicans are afraid of what Donald Trump will do. And the fundamental question, though, is if we go ...", "So you're saying Republicans you know believe, that have told you directly that the President of the United States is a liar and a racist are going to vote for his acquittal and not for witnesses?", "It's true. Well, I don't know. I hope not. I hear them say things like that. I mean, the fundamental question really, ultimately, Erin, is that if we vote not guilty, if the Senate doesn't convict and remove from office, what are Republicans going to do to those that voted for acquittal, what are they going to do to stop the President from doing even more of this lawlessness? I mean, they all know in their hearts that he broke the law. He will then be unleashed. He'll be vengeful. He have gotten away with it. What are they going to do? What are we all going to do? Well, I know what the media will do, you'll continue to try to expose wrongdoing, but what are they going to do to rein in this president the next eight months, win or lose the November election? What are they going to do a rein in this kind of lawlessness that clearly will have been rewarded, because he 'got away' with it?", "All right. Thank you very much, Senator Brown. I appreciate your time tonight.", "Always. Thanks, Erin.", "All right. And my panelists are here with me. I've got a group here in New York, David Axelrod also joins us from Chicago tonight. Scott, let me give you a chance to respond to what he was just saying. He's saying that he has Republicans he's friends with that talk with this - we'll say privately, the President of the United States, Donald Trump is a liar and is a racist and that he still believes that those people who he has respect for may vote to acquit, may not vote for witnesses.", "You know what I find amazing about Democrats in the Trump era? They complain all of the time about the things Trump does, including things like saying many people tell me and here is Sherrod Brown on TV tonight, oh, many senators tell me. But it's funny, they never name names. They never are able to produce any evidence of this or tell you who said it. I think he has gone - frankly, when his colleagues hear that, my suspicion is they're going to be pretty rankled that he called Mitch McConnell a lap dog. He said things about what Republicans is saying on the floor.", "He did call Mitch McConnell lap dog.", "To me, if you're trying to convince Republicans to vote for witnesses, is that the right answer?", "Joe, what do you make of that? And also I add to that Dick Durbin, number two.", "Yes.", "Obviously, a Democratic Senator in charge of sort of whipping votes. His comments today was, \"Mr. Schiff was phenomenal.\" He told The New York Times referring to witnesses, \"But I'm skeptical he moved any votes.\"", "Yes. And I think it goes to what Senator Brown was talking about which is the fix may have been in from the beginning. That it didn't matter what Democrats said, it didn't matter how compelling their arguments were. But you're not going to move them because this is all about politics. I think Adam Schiff made the point brilliantly last night when he talked about the President puts his personal interest in front of the country's and by the subtext of that was, senators, I plead with you not to do the same thing. I plead with you not to put your personal party interests in front of the country's. And if it turns out that the fix was in and that they weren't listening and that nothing could change their mind, then Schiff is right about not only the President but about the Senate.", "So Ryan, this also comes down to this crucial question because there's a big vote. And when Senator Brown or Phil was saying they realize there's a big vote, they're not talking about to acquit or not to acquit. They're talking about witnesses, which has become a proxy for will you take a stand at all as a Republican senator. So the reporting, of course, is that Mitch McConnell has made a lot of inroads on vulnerable Republican votes, it could be Cory Gardner or Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Mitt Romney in saying, you know what, they're going to take executive privilege and this is going to be wrapped up for months. Guys, don't do it. It's not worth it. Is there any legal basis for executive privilege?", "So there's not a very strong legal basis for it. And in fact, the Senate decide the matter and it wouldn't be litigated. So that if the Senate decided to issue the subpoenas and the Chief Justice, in fact, sent those subpoenas, it would be the final word. There's a Supreme Court case about this in Nixon v. United States, Judge Nixon, which said that the Senate sets its own rules and courts won't review it. So it's not like it will be litigated in a certain way. They really are the final word. And then, the second is, politically speaking, you're imagining a scenario in which a majority of the Senate, including the bipartisan majority, vote for subpoenas, the Chief Justice signs the subpoenas and sends it to John Bolton. That's an enormous amount of pressure on John Bolton to comply and he's not under directive from the President because he's a private citizen. So there are multiple ways in which it doesn't even need to get to the situation of executive privilege being invoked, because the Senate is so powerful in that moment. And then if he comes, then it's just invoked for particular questions that he might be asked.", "Right. Which, let's be clear, doesn't include talking about a drug deal, because that wasn't a conversation with the President of the United States. I mean, we can go through so many of the things he would be asked about in the case of John Bolton, specifically, that would not involve the President directly. Anne, the question is, are Republican senators going to hear and understand this? These are the facts. This is how it would be. It wouldn't fly. But yet they're being told by Mitch McConnell, oh, my gosh, it's going to get stuck here in the gears and we're not going to get anywhere.", "Yes. I mean, I agree with Ryan's analysis completely and I think that executive privilege is not a bar for these witnesses coming forward. And I would even argue that once they come forward, I would argue that there's a pretty strong basis to say that they need to talk because this is an impeachment. Congress is at the height of its power in an impeachment. And so really, it is almost in some ways a smokescreen to get people to step back to think, well, this will take us two years. It will carry on a long time and it will not be resolved when nothing could be further from the truth. The question you're asking, though, is can that penetrate and can that get through to the four senators and the other senators. And in part, it's complicated because it's not a normal trial. The rules are just up in the air. The rules are sort of what they say it is. And so I do really ask this question of if nothing about what they're saying is true, but does that matter and I think we'll know pretty soon.", "People also hear what they want to hear and they hear what gives them license to do what they want to do. That's a human frailty of everyone. Please stay with me. I want to bring in now Democratic Senator 2020 candidate also Amy Klobuchar who has been in that room. Senator, great to speak with you.", "Thanks, Erin.", "We're just having a conversation right now about executive privilege and the reporting, of course, is that Senator McConnell has been very effective at getting some vulnerable Republicans to be afraid of it and think that it could lock this up for a long time, and therefore they shouldn't bother voting for witnesses. What is your feel of where your Republican colleagues are on this issue?", "I think that Adam Schiff and the other House managers have been incredibly effective in terms of saying to them one; you know he did this, you know what he does, many of you have said it before yourself. Secondly, why are you here. And I always think to myself, are they just here to buy their chair at the end of their time as Senators and have it in their office and have a trophy on the wall. I just don't think so. I think that they are here to do the work of the people and to defend the constitution. And some of the most effective arguments, I was thinking of each of the senators, I was thinking of Senator Romney, who was a Republican nominee for president who has a sense of patriotism as he listens to what this president did to hold up aid to a fledgling democracy and emboldened Russia. I was thinking of Senator Grassley when Representative Demings, a former police chief made the case for whistleblowers and how this President had attacked the whistleblower a hundred times, something that Senator Grassley has devoted his career to. And I was thinking of some of the other Senators who have really focused on transparency and you look at the whole cover up that was involved here that was focused on today. There is just overwhelming evidence here that would lead any sane person to say, I want to know what happened in the room where it happened. That is the Hamilton musical and we know there are people like Bolton and Mulvaney that know a bunch of stuff, that were sitting in the rooms and we should have them testify.", "And I want to ask you, I'm not sure if you're aware, Senator, we're now aware that the attorney for indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas has now said he's turned over a tape. It's an audio tape from 2018 to the House Intelligence Committee. ABC News first reported this. This is a dinner. Trump is at the dinner. Parnas is at the dinner. Another indicted Giuliani associate is at the dinner and Trump reportedly says get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out, OK.", "Yes.", "Do it. He's talking about Ambassador Yovanovitch.", "Right. I had heard about that and that to me is the most chilling because I know her personally. I went with Senator McCain and Senator Graham to Ukraine and spent four days with her and she is the most dignified, esteemed public servant. And to think of those words that we know that he said on the phone call when he said things are going to happen to her to a leader of another country and now having this come out just bolsters the case. This was a threat against an American citizen, a threat against esteemed ambassador, a career diplomat. And as Adam Schiff said at the end to the senators, you think he wouldn't do it to you, because he did it to her.", "Senator, I want to ask you one more question. A source close to your colleague and your former 2020 rivals, Senator Kamala Harris, who of course has been in the room with you every day this week as well tell CNN tonight she's actively considering the possibility of endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden ahead of the California primary which is, of course, on Super Tuesday. What's your reaction?", "I will deal with it when it happens. She and I got to be close friends during the campaign. I was with her family the day before Thanksgiving and we'll see what she does. I will remain her friend no matter what. But I will tell you this, I have more endorsements of legislators and former legislators in the state of Iowa than anyone else in the race. I was just endorsed by The New York Times along with one of my colleagues, as well as The Quad-City Times, which is an important newspaper in Eastern Iowa. And we are building support and going up in the polls with each and every week. So I feel very good about our efforts. My daughter and husband are there right now along with the Olympic gold medal curling coach, who came down to campaign for me. I mean, you can't have a bigger celebrity than that, Erin.", "All right. Senator Klobuchar, thank you very much and, of course, I know I've seen your daughter in charge of your Twitter.", "All right. Yes.", "Thank you for your time.", "All right.", "And I want to get back to my panel. They're obviously heading back in the room at the end of this dinner break. David Axelrod is with us from Chicago as well. David, I just want to give you a chance to respond to what I felt were two very different presentations there from Democratic senators. Amy Klobuchar trying to appeal to, perhaps, somebody watching like Chuck Grassley or Mitt Romney. Sherrod Brown showing his frustration that he feels with his friends who are Republicans who we feel is he's worried are going to let him down. Both of them genuine, which do you think is more effective?", "Well, I'm not sure either is effective, because I think there are other pressures at play here. I think, obviously, you heard Scott say, well, they're not going to respond well to what Brown said. I don't know if that's true or not. I suspect that their thought processes are being influenced greatly by what they see from their colleagues on TV, although I'm sure they don't like to be embarrassed. But here's my thought, Erin, I think the Democrats managers have made, the House managers have made quite an effective presentation on all aspects of this case. I think the obstruction presentation today was devastating. But it also may be that they have made their own situation harder in terms of getting these witnesses, because first of all McConnell's strategy is clearly to kind of wear out his people and say, do you really want to hang around here for a few more weeks dealing with this and hear the same case over and over again. And the second thing is the case is so effective. They don't want any witnesses to make the vote to acquit the President even more difficult.", "All right. Stay with me. We are going to take a brief break. As I said, we're waiting for the Senate to return at any moment. They're in the midst of a very brief dinner break, 30 minutes, so we're going to we're going to squeeze in a couple more moments if we can before they head back in. This is the Democrats' last chance tonight to make their case before Trump's team takes to the Senate floor. And we are learning new details right now about the White House strategy. We'll be back in a moment."], "speaker": ["JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR, \"INSIDE POLITICS\"", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "BLITZER", "ERIN BURNETT, CNN HOST", "PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BURNETT", "MATTINGLY", "BURNETT", "MATTINGLY", "BURNETT", "SEN. SHERROD BROWN (D-OH)", "BURNETT", "BROWN", "BURNETT", "BROWN", "BURNETT", "BROWN", "BURNETT", "BROWN", "BURNETT", "SCOTT JENNINGS, FORMER SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH", "BURNETT", "JENNINGS", "BURNETT", "JOE LOCKHART, FORMER CLINTON WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "BURNETT", "LOCKHART", "BURNETT", "RYAN GOODMAN, CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, JUST SECURITY", "BURNETT", "ANNE MILGRAM, FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR", "BURNETT", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-128417", "program": "CNN ELECTION CENTER", "date": "2008-7-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/08/ec.01.html", "summary": "A Look at McCain's Short List of VPs", "utt": ["We're back with our panel now. We've got Steve Kornacki, Tara Wall and Jessica Yellin with us, picking up where we left off. We've been telling you all night about John McCain's off the cuff joke today. And it's the kind of thing that has gotten him in a little bit of trouble before. You may remember his sing-along to bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran. Well, listen to what he said this afternoon. And we put some subtitles in only because it's a little hard to hear. Listen.", "We've learned that the exports to Iran increased by tenfold during the Bush administration. The biggest export was cigarettes. Given that the, yes, that the supposedly --", "Maybe that's a way of killing them. I meant that as a joke.", "OK, he -- it's exactly the kind of off the cuff comment, Tara, that has gotten him into trouble before, even when he says I meant that as a joke. Do you think that's going to be a problem?", "No, come on. I mean, you know, look, he said right then and there he meant it as a joke. I think that sometimes we read too much into some of these gaffes, if you will. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Between Barack Obama and John McCain, there have been gaffes on the campaign trail. There will be more gaffes to come. This is not, you know, a do or die situation here.", "Yes. He meant it as a joke, but I think that reveals something very significant about this man's thinking when it comes to Iran and when it comes to the Middle East.", "What do you mean?", "Because this is the second time he's made a joke about killing Iranians. The first time as you mentioned is when he is singing along singing bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran. This is a guy who when he thinks of Iran, sees nothing but an enemy, sees nothing but something -- nothing but a country that we need to confront. We need to confront them militarily. We need to confront them aggressively. That is the only thing John McCain sees when he sees Iran. That's the view of the Middle East that he subscribes to. And it's funny because you had a package at the start of the show we talked all about, you know, how strained the U.S. military is right now between Iraq and between Afghanistan. And this is a guy who seems to want to open up a third front on this war from day one.", "Oh, that's a stretch. Come on. Iran is serious.", "Let me bring Jessica into this. Is Steve reading too much into this? Or is this reflective of how McCain feels?", "This is the kind of thing that reinforces existing views of John McCain. People who already don't like him see this as an awful statement. People who love and think he's a maverick and he's a real guy who makes a joke off the cuff just like real people do. And the rest of the American public just isn't paying attention and doesn't care about this sort of thing. The only red flag is if this indicates John McCain going off the ranch more and more, there could be trouble down the line. We're all waiting to see if something explodes. That's the kind of thing that could get him in trouble eventually. This kind of comment doesn't.", "OK, guys, I want to shift gears and talk about the other big issue. And Jessica, I know you've been doing some reporting for us on this. The presidential veepstakes and John McCain. What do you know?", "Well, John McCain really has to make a decision when he looks at the vice presidential pick. Does he want somebody who sort of reinforces his strength? Or does he want to find a vice presidential candidate who helps correct his weaknesses?", "A number of governors seem to be in constant audition mode for the job. Just in time for the VP finals, Florida's Charlie Crist, a lifelong bachelor, announced he's engaged. It's been a while since we've had a single vice president, especially one from a key battleground state. Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, the youngest governor in the nation, and South Carolina's Mark Sanford, all seen as the next generation of Republican leaders. Both are strong social conservatives filling in a gap in McCain's resume. Minnesota's Tim Pawlenty has all that, plus he's another swing state guy. Could be a two-fer.", "He comes from outside Washington. He's a two- term governor. But he also has a relationship with the evangelical community.", "On the other hand, McCain who has made no secret he's running on national security could pick a number two to provide some domestic policy balance, beefing up the ticket's economy cred. Someone like former rival and business superstar Mitt Romney, former Hewlett Packard's CEO Carly Fiorina, or former Congressman Rob Portman, who once manned the White House Office of Management and Budget. The candidate's guiding philosophy?", "I don't think you have to be close friends as much as you have to share the principles, the values, the goals, et cetera, but also the priorities.", "Hmm, doesn't really narrow it down much. Some wild card picks could be independents like Joe Lieberman, a foreign policy ally, or New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Either would prove McCain's bipartisan credentials, but could alienate conservatives. The latest buzz, South Dakota Senator John Thune, who virtually screams of youth and vitality, qualities that could be a good match for the older McCain or highlight his age. A delicate balance.", "All right. Jessica Yellin for us. Jessica stay there though. Jessica, along with Tara and Steve, are going to talk to us about this issue. When we come back, coming up, 12. Count them, 12 possible GOP vice presidents. I'll ask which one should get the nod. They've all got their picks. Also ahead, the Obama kids and their Access Hollywood debut. Is politics suddenly more important than privacy? We'll talk about that."], "speaker": ["BROWN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BROWN", "WALL", "KORNACKI", "BROWN", "KORNACKI", "WALL", "BROWN", "YELLIN", "BROWN", "YELLIN", "YELLIN (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "YELLIN", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE:  MCCAIN", "YELLIN", "BROWN"]}
{"id": "CNN-348991", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2018-08-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/30/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Will Trump Fire Sessions?; Interview With Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro", "utt": ["We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We're following breaking news. The president setting the stage for potential moves to thwart the Russia investigation. In a new interview with Bloomberg News, he says he used the Mueller probe as -- quote -- \"illegal\" and he's leaving the door open to defying a subpoena from the special counsel. The president also suggesting that he might fire or force out Jeff Sessions in the coming weeks. He says the attorney general's job is safe until at least after the Election Day in November. After that, it seems all bets are off this. This hour, I will speak with Stormy Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, and House Intelligence Committee member Joaquin Castro. And our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, let's go to our senior White House correspondent, Jeff Zeleny. He's in Indiana, where the president has an event, a campaign rally later tonight. Jeff, new comments by the president with lots of implications for the Russia probe.", "Wolf, they certainly do. As the president flies here to Indiana to rally Republicans for the midterm elections, he is certainly answering at least a few questions about the Russia investigation, first and foremost about the attorney general, Jeff Sessions. Of course, he has been the president's punching bag for several months now, but now, of course, he is saying his job is safe until at least November. But he's also still fuming about the Russia investigation. He called it today an illegal investigation.", "President Trump airing a long list of grievances today, agitating about the departure of the top White House lawyer. A day after praising White House counsel Don McGahn...", "He's a good man, very good man. Don, excellent guy. Yes, Don McGahn is a really good guy.", "... the president suddenly turning defensive over why another top aide is heading for the exits. \"I liked Don, but he was not responsible for me not firing Bob Mueller or Jeff Sessions,\" the president saying on Twitter, referring to the special counsel leading the Russia investigation and the embattled attorney general who recused himself from it. After acknowledging he didn't know exactly what McGahn had told Mueller's team during a combined three hours of testimony...", "No, I don't have to be aware. We have -- we do everything straight. We do everything by the book. And Don is an excellent guy.", "... he tweeted this today: \"The rigged Russia witch-hunt did not come into play even a little bit with respect to my decision on Don McGahn.\" The president making clear through his own rapid-fire tweets what was weighing on his mind today. Responding to reports that his daughter and son-in-law wanted McGahn out, the president saying: \"Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner had nothing to do with the so-called pushing out of Don McGahn.\" And blasting his favorite target, the media, he added: \"They love to portray chaos in the White House, when they know that chaos doesn't exist. Just a smooth-running machine with changing parts.\" But that smooth-running machine is under the microscope, as the president hits the road for a campaign rally tonight in Indiana, where Republicans are trying to pick up a Senate seat. CNN has learned Republican senators are privately pleading with the president to wait until after the midterm elections to fire Sessions, fearful of the political fallout. The president is still fuming about Sessions recusing himself from the Russia investigation, but that's not all. He's now openly dismissive of his attorney general's personality and accent, with Politico reporting the president is complaining Sessions talks like he has marbles in his mouth.", "Make America great again.", "Harsh words for the first Republican senator to endorse Trump's presidential bid. For now at least, Sessions is standing his ground.", "The president ordered me to focus on dismantling transnational criminal organizations. And every day at the Department of Justice, we have been faithful to that order.", "Not answering questions about his future.", "Mr. Attorney General, can you explain why you're still on the job after being attacked by the president so much?", "But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell making his view clear.", "I have total confidence in the attorney general. I think he ought to stay exactly where he is.", "All this the president seemed to have the firing of FBI Director James Comey on his mind once again today, trying to backpedal on comments last year where he tied Comey's dismissal to the Russia probe.", "This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It's an excuse.", "The president offering no evidence, but accusing NBC News of \"fudging my tape on Russia.\" It comes as the Mueller probe escalates and now includes potential obstruction of justice.", "So, there is no question that the president has made very clear what's on his mind today, tweeting throughout the morning at the White House and certainly giving that interview with Bloomberg news, indeed making news about Jeff Sessions, saying that he will keep him on until at least November. Now, that, of course, is going to be something that is going to make Republican senators and indeed House members very pleased. They were worried about the fallout from any firing that could happen, but, Wolf, we will we will see what the president says here tonight in Indiana. This is part of his midterm election push. Republicans trying to win this Senate seat. Of course, now it's held by incumbent Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly. It's one of those red states the White House is hoping Republican will pick up in November. We will see what the president addresses tonight. He certainly make clear the Russia investigation is weighing heavy on his mind -- Wolf.", "As it should. Jeff Zeleny in Evansville, Indiana, Jeff, thank you very much. Let's talk about the breaking news on the president's timetable for potentially firing Jeff Sessions. Our political correspondent, Sara Murray, is here with me. Sara, Mr. Trump says Sessions' job is safe until Election Day in November. What are you hearing?", "Well, he is saying that Sessions is safe until Election Day. I think the caveat here is that obviously Trump has been a very unpredictable president, and who knows if he will wake up tomorrow or in a week or say something differently. But we know that there are a number of people around him, both other Republicans on Capitol Hill, as well as other allies from his campaign days, who have urged him to wait, to wait on getting rid of Sessions. They have said, you're completely within your rights to do that. You can do that. But let's wait until after the midterm elections. Let's get through one thing at a time. And let's not do something that may act as a rallying cry for Democrats. And it does seem like that message is sinking in with President Trump, although I do think it's telling that in that Bloomberg interview where he says Sessions is safe, at least until the midterm, they asked, well, what about after November, and President Trump declined to comment.", "So let's say he's fired, he's done after the November midterm elections. Is that a blow to the Mueller investigation?", "Well, on its face, Wolf, the attorney general has been there for two years. His relationship with the president has obviously deteriorated. It wouldn't be crazy in a different situation for the president to get rid of his attorney general and replace him. I think the question is, what do you do next, President Trump, after you have replaced Jeff Sessions? Do you use that as a way to try to end the Russia investigation? He said today that he believes essentially it's an illegal investigation. Do you try to get rid of Rod Rosenstein, who's overseeing it? Do you try to fire Robert Mueller? And I think that's really where the alarm bells begin to start going off, is if he's getting rid of Jeff Sessions as a way to essentially end the Russia investigation. And right now, we're not really sure what the president may do next.", "Yes. Certainly, that's an accurate point. Thank you very much for that, Sara. Joining us now, Congressman Joaquin Castro. He's a Democrat. He serves on the Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committee -- committees. Congressman, thank you so much for joining us. Let me get your reaction. The president of the United States now telling Bloomberg News that he views this entire Russia probe by Robert Mueller, in his words, as an illegal investigation. How troubling is that to you, and how do you think he's going to act on that conclusion?", "Obviously, it's very troubling. It's been troubling for a long time. This president has never liked the fact that there's an investigation going on into how he conducted himself, how his family members and his campaign team conducted themselves in the 2016 elections, and how closely they worked with the Russians who interfered with our presidential elections in 2016 and congressional races. So it's not a surprise that he's still very much antagonistic towards this thing. But he just better not do anything to take away the power of Bob Mueller to complete this investigation. And that includes firing Jeff Sessions to take control of the investigation.", "It sounds like President Trump understands the risks of taking any action before the November midterms, but he wouldn't comment on whether his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, is safe after November 6. Would you view any effort to replace Sessions as a first step in his effort to try to end the Russia probe?", "Well, I mean, because of his past statements, then, yes, I would think that firing Jeff Sessions would be an attempt to have some -- a new attorney general come in and get back the power to oversee the Russia investigation. The problem with that is that President Trump is most likely to pick somebody who is completely loyal to him and who is essentially willing to bury that investigation, I think. So that's the concern of millions of Americans. And Congress should pass a bill to protect Bob Mueller's investigation. Unfortunately, in this Republican-led Congress, that legislation hasn't gone anywhere.", "The president also today said in a tweet that it wasn't his outgoing White House counsel, Don McGahn, who convinced him not to fire Mueller or Sessions. Is that an admission, though, that he tried to get rid of both of those men?", "I mean, I think, based on reporting, consistent reporting, it seems like he's been entertaining this idea for a long time. It'll be interesting to see what -- when we find out eventually what Don McGahn told Bob Mueller's team in terms -- most specifically in terms of issues with obstruction of justice, and the president and the Russia investigation.", "The president is also now trying to diminish his own words in that NBC interview last year in which he admitted that firing James Comey was done because of the Russia investigation. You think the president is now realizing how damaging that admission that he delivered on videotape with NBC News and Lester Holt could be for him in the Russia investigation, how damaging it could be potentially as confirmation of obstruction of justice?", "Yes, I think that's exactly it. Look, I think the president went into an interview with Lester Holt and was basically too honest, honest in a way that his lawyers probably told him afterwards could give him real legal trouble and real political trouble. And so, yes, I think he's trying to backtrack now. But his honest reaction back then, of course, lives on forever on videotape.", "When he says Lester Holt and NBC News fudged that videotape to make it look different than it actually was, what's your reaction when you hear an accusation like that, which has no basis in fact?", "It's -- I mean, it's just ridiculous. It's the president really, I think, trying to convince his political base, trying to get them to believe what he wants them to believe, so that they will continue to support him, because it's not based in fact, what he said.", "In another tweet, President Trump directed the U.S. Supreme Court now to investigate the FISA court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court. How concerning is that to you?", "It's extremely concerning. That's obviously a very -- I'm limited in what I can say about it, but obviously a very important function to make sure that we keep the United States safe. So the president messing with that process is extremely concerning.", "Well, explain what you mean. I know you're on the Intelligence Committee. You can't release classified information, but why are you limited in discussing what the FISA court is all about?", "Well, you're right, because the information is classified. They're -- basically what they do, a lot of that is classified. But suffice it to say that that's part of the process that makes sure that the United States is not vulnerable to people that would -- foreign actors that would do ill will. And so if the president is going to weaken that process somehow or take away powers from it, then that is a very serious thing. And it's something that needs to be vetted carefully by the Congress, and not just changed on a whim.", "If Democrats do win back the majority in the House of Representatives in November -- and you're a member of the House -- what investigations do you plan to pursue? What sort of information will you pursue? You will, as the majority, have subpoena power.", "Yes. I mean, I think, obviously, it's still early to discuss what exactly which investigations will take place. I believe that, over the last two years or so, or really since the president took office, the majority has not conducted robust oversight. As you know, the Intelligence Committee investigation in the House, for example, on the Russia investigation didn't issue a single subpoena for any travel records, bank records, phone records, absolutely nothing. And so what you will see is Democrats actually putting in the hard work and the thorough work of going in there and doing real investigations. And we will not only, I think, investigate the Russia issue and the interference in our election, but also investigate the issue of the 500 or so kids who still have not been reunited with their parents, the kids at the border that were separated and how all of that came about, and, of course, other things that are important to the American people.", "Well, let's talk about one other thing that is very significant right now. I want to get your reaction to this truly stunning report in \"The Washington Post\" that the Trump administration is now denying, denying passport renewals for U.S. citizens along the U.S.-Mexico border on the basis of their birth certificates, with they're now accusing these American citizens, including military personnel, law enforcement personnel, of having fraudulent birth certificates. They're now saying, if you're Hispanic, Hispanic American, you live along the border, and you want to get your passport renewed, you're going to have trouble getting it renewed. What's your response? Because it is truly a shocking story.", "Yes, I mean, I was just shocked when I saw -- when I read the article, the investigation about this. And this is basically a president and an administration targeting Americans, U.S. citizens, based on their ethnic heritage, going after a group of people and challenging their full rights of citizenship. This is something that every American should be concerned about, because, in this country, over immigration, we often have debates over undocumented immigrants, now, under President Trump, over the number of legal residents that should be here. This is not about that. This is about a president coming after American citizens based on the color of their skin and their ancestry. And so, right now, my office is helping a Marine veteran who is not able to get a passport, who's been denied a passport. And so there are other cases like this. And the president, I believe, is intensifying this, because, I mean, we have had cases in the past where this has happened. In fact, there was a 2009 settlement to fix this. But the Trump administration seems to be ignoring that settlement and targeting Hispanics in Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border.", "So what, if anything, can you do to fix this? And if the administration goes ahead and starts denying passport renewals to U.S. citizens, people who were born here in the United States, have birth certificates to confirm that, what, if anything, can you do about that?", "Well, we have reached out -- many of us have reached out to the State Department to get an understanding of the scope of this, how many people are affected. My office had other offices had a call with the State Department today. They couldn't give us an exact number, but said that they would get us that information. Look, this has to be investigated by the Foreign Affairs Committee that has jurisdiction over the State Department or the Government Oversight Reform Committee. It's got to be investigated in the U.S. Congress. And if this is egregious, and it's widespread, which we believe that it may be at this point, then we need to do everything possible to stop it.", "And you're a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. Congressman, thanks so much for joining us. And keep us up to speed on this development. Appreciate it very much.", "Thank you.", "Just ahead: Did the president try to buy off \"The National Enquirer\" to prevent decades' worth of his dirty secrets from going public? We're going to talk about new reporting on payments he discussed with his former fixer, Michael Cohen. Stormy Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, there you see him. He's here. He's live. We will discuss when we come back."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "THE SITUATION ROOM. ANNOUNCER", "BLITZER", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "ZELENY (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ZELENY", "TRUMP", "ZELENY", "JEFF SESSIONS, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL", "ZELENY", "SESSIONS", "ZELENY", "QUESTION", "ZELENY", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-371366", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-06-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/03/nday.01.html", "summary": "Dem Hopefuls Take Shots at Biden at California Convention; Massive Floods in Arkansas Expected to Get Worse.", "utt": ["Something different and new in the Democratic race for president this morning. More than a dozen 2020 candidates addressed the party faithful in California this weekend. The crowd not happy at all with some of them and, all of a sudden, Vice President Joe Biden, who was not there, became a target. CNN's Kyung Lah is in San Francisco with the details.", "Thank you.", "Bernie Sanders took aim, calling out Joe Biden, a no-show at the California Democratic Party convention.", "There is a debate among presidential candidates who have spoken to you here in this room and those who have chosen, for whatever reason, not to be in this room. We cannot go back to the old ways. We have got to go forward with a new and progressive agenda.", "Progresses, ruling California this weekend, where 14 presidential hopefuls flocked to the delegate-rich state, its primary now on Super Tuesday. Both Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren swiped at moderates like Biden.", "Some Democrats in Washington believe the only changes we can get are tweaks and nudges. If they dream at all, they dream small. The time for small ideas is over.", "In these times, Democrats can no more keep a promise to take us back to the 2000s or the 1990s than conservatives can keep a promise to take us back to the 1950s.", "Moderates who did show up got this treatment.", "Medicare for all may sound good, but it's actually not good policy, nor is it good politics. I'm telling you.", "John Delaney drowned out for more than a minute, similar to what John Hickenlooper experienced.", "If we want to beat Donald Trump and achieve big progressive goals, socialism is not the answer. I was re-elected --", "Even Speaker Nancy Pelosi got an earful.", "They're yelling at her to begin impeachment proceedings against the president. In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Virginia Beach, Cory Booker delivered the impassioned speech of the weekend.", "Twelve Americans died, and we are seeing the normalization of mass murder in our country. It is time that we come together, and stand together and take a fight to the", "Kamala Harris, California senator, got a warm welcome at the convention. But it was at the Move On event off-site, where a protester got too close --", "Hey, hey, hey.", "-- until security managed to finally pull him off-stage. Harris calmly walked off, then continued her event as scheduled. Joe Biden spent the weekend campaigning in Ohio, an absence pointed out by activists who pointed out this flyer that simply asks, where is Joe Biden? Kyung Lah, CNN, San Francisco.", "All right. Meanwhile, this morning here in the U.S., no relief in sight for parts of Arkansas. Massive flooding is expected to get worse. CNN's Natasha Chen is live in Dardanelle, Arkansas, with more. What's the situation there this hour?", "Well, Alisyn, there is some good news. We're at a flooded highway. You can see the speed limit is 55, but there's absolutely no road visible behind us. But we see that the water line has slightly receded since we were here yesterday. And that makes sense, because the river has crested here in Dardanelle. It's expected to crest later today in Little Rock. The bad news is that there's more rain expected in the forecast. And that's really bleak for people here in this community. The governor visited Dardanelle yesterday, toured around state and federal officials are starting to do some damage assessment. And that's going to be a long process. Because you can't really tell the extent of the damage until all this water has receded, and that could take weeks if not months. And in the long term, the farmers here are very concerned. There are a lot of crops here in the distance, completely ruined by the floodwaters. We're talking corn, soybeans, rice. We took a look at all of this overhead in a helicopter tour over the weekend. These farmers, people in the industry, tell me that they could be financially impacted for years to come. The governor said last week that, because of the disruption to the navigation system, Arkansas is losing $23 million a day. So this is going to be a long-term challenge for people here in Dardanelle. Of course, there was a levy breach, but so far, they've stabilized the situation, and they are hoping for the best -- John.", "They are hoping for the best. Natasha, thanks very much. But more rain is set to head that way. CNN meteorologist Alison Chinchar has the forecast -- Alison.", "That's right. All eyes right now are on not just the Arkansas River but a lot of river gauges that we have across the entire central U.S. Look at all of these dots. Those dots show which river gauges are at or above flood stage. Some cresting today. Some not for a few more days. And that's a problem. Because when you look at the forecast, yes, we are expecting more rain. And that forecast is brought to you by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, packed with goodness. Here's a look at that forecasted rainfall accumulation. This is taking us all the way through the upcoming Saturday. Look at the widespread yellow and even orange colors here. That indicates two to four. It's not even five or six inches of rain before we finally get through Saturday. One inch would cause problems, let alone four to six inches in a lot of these areas that are already saturated. We also have, unfortunately, the potential for some severe weather today. This stretches from Texas all the way up to South Dakota. Alisyn, the main threats are expected to be large hail, damaging winds and the potential for some isolated tornadoes.", "OK, Alisyn. Thank you very much for keeping an eye on all of that for us. So President Trump is already insulting several of his British hosts ahead of his state visit to Buckingham Palace, which will happen shortly. So we discuss the diplomatic dust-up, next."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SANDERS", "LAH", "SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "WARREN", "REP. JOHN DELANEY (D-MD), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "LAH", "JOHN HICKENLOOPER (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "LAH", "LAH", "SEN. CORY BOOKER (D-NJ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "NRA. LAH", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-339696", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-05-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/10/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Israel And Iran Strike Each Other After Trump's Iran Decision", "utt": ["A barrage of rockets and missiles. You can see them streaking across the sky in this picture here. It's just marked the most direct confrontation to date between Israel and Iran. This comes less than two days after the U.S. withdrew from the deal to curb Iran's nuclear program. Israel has released a map claiming it destroyed these targets here on this map, representing almost all of Iran's military capabilities in Syria, this after what it says was an Iranian missile attack on the Golan Heights, considered Israeli occupied territory. We have Frederick Pleitgen for us from Tehran. Oren, to you first. Talk us through what has happened in the past 24 hours.", "So, this all started shortly after midnight when Israeli military says Iranian forces in Syria right here behind me fired off some 20 rockets at Israeli military positions in the Golan Heights not far from where I am standing right now. Some of those rockets were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome aerial defense system, some of them the military says didn't even make it into territory here and fell in Syria. We came here standing in almost this exact same position a short time later to see the Israeli response and that was some of the video you showed just a moment ago. Israeli surface-to-surface missiles. We saw those fired and launched and hit in Syria behind us, as well as artillery fire that echoed across the valley here. We saw the Syrians firing anti- aircraft fire to try to down some of those missiles. All in an incredible volatile, active few hours here overnight here even right up until the sun rose in that back-and-forth. Israel holds Iran responsible for that fire. As you pointed out, fired at dozens of Iranian sites in Syria that includes intelligence compounds, command and control headquarters, as well as rocket launchers. A very different picture as the day progressed here. This deceptive quiet is a far cry from what we saw last night but now it's the international community stepping in to make sure this de-escalates. As you point out this is the first direct confrontation between Israel and Iran and there is a fear this could go very much worse and the word war has been used here. But the U.S. has stepped in, Russia has stepped in urging both Israel and Iran to show restraint, to take a step back, essentially to back off here. The U.S., and this is no surprise, siding firmly with Israel saying Israel has a right to self-defense, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying whoever tries to strike Israel will be struck back seven-fold. It is quiet. You can see that behind me, but that tension is still in the air and it can still go either way here. It wasn't even 24 hours ago that this all began.", "Fred, Tehran has vowed retaliation for two other recent Israeli strikes that killed at least 13 Iranian nationals. This is entirely unexpected. What is Iran saying now after this?", "Yes, the interesting thing is that the Iranians aren't saying anything. It seems as though they're struggling to come up with any sort of explanation as to what might have happened there yesterday not just in the Golan Heights but on Syrian territory as well. We've been watching Iranian state media and to get in touch with officials to see if there would be an explanation. Even on Iranian state media they were saying there were Israeli strikes on to Syrian territory, hinting that they might be strikes between Syria and Israel. They said the Israelis did hold the Iranians accountable but at no point did they say the Iranians made any official statement. Now it's very, very late in the evening here and there's still nothing official coming out of Tehran. For attacks in the past, the Iranians have vowed there would be retaliation. The folks here are very, very concerned. This is just a day and a half after president Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear agreement. We've been going around Tehran for the better part of the day. The people say they're very concerned about the fact that they now don't only have even more economic isolation internationally of their country, but it seems as though on the front in the middle east things are heating up as well.", "Fred Pleitgen and Oren Liebermann, thank you for your reports. I want to bring and now Jamie Rubin, he is a former Assistant Secretary of State, he is also a contributing editor of \"Politico.\" So, this is, Jamie, the most direct confrontation that we've seen to date. What's your reaction to it?", "This is the beginnings of a potential war. I think we do need to realize while all the diplomatic to and fro has been going on over the disagreement, slowly and steadily over the last couple of years Iran has been developing an actual military capability in Syria. The Israeli have has finally responded. This is a big blow for the Iranians. I think what it tells us, and I think we should really think about this, imagine if Iran had a nuclear weapon right now, Israel would not be able to do this. The reason the Israelis care so much about stopping an Iranian nuclear weapon is because if Iran had a nuclear weapon the way Israeli has a nuclear weapon, both sides would be deterred from getting into a conventional battle. Right now, so long as Israel has a monopoly, so long as the Iranians don't have this weapon, Israel can use its jets, use its surface-to- air missiles, use its conventional superiority and prevent Iran from getting a base in Syria, which tells you stopping Iran from going nuclear should be our highest priority, which is why those of us in the diplomatic community cannot understand why we would pull out of a deal like this.", "Pulling out of the deal, is that a factor of the timing as you see it of what happened here?", "I think what you're going to see Israel wanted to show it would respond to an Iranian step. The Iranians are less likely to be restrained because they know the United States is not in the agreement anyway. It's hard to know exactly who caused what, but I think what's absolutely clear is if Iran goes back into the nuclear arms business the way it was going just a few years ago, Israel's security will be severely damaged. It won't be able to do what it did in the last 24 hours with the freedom and the knowledge it doesn't face a real threat from Iran. That's why this is so important, that's why it's so illogical to allow Iran now to go back in the nuclear business. That's what we can't understand.", "I want to ask you about North Korea. We've seen the release of these three detainees overnight. The president now, we are looking toward the summit with Kim Jong un and the possibilities there for progress or perhaps not. Even the president himself has said that. When you look at these developments, at the potential promise of the summit, do you see this as something as a real breakthrough?", "It's very hard to predict what's going to happen because we know so little about Kim Jong un and I used to be in the arms-control business in the days of the Soviet Union and people at those times didn't believe that Gorbachev, who ran the Soviet Union, was going to give up all his weapons and give up the soviet power so we have to be careful. It's possible Kim Jong un will do that and say the nuclear weapons aren't getting me anything for my people, I'm going to disarm. That's possible. But if he acts as his father as acted and his father before him acted the last 40 years, then I don't expect an agreement to happen any time soon. It will be a breaking of the ice that for the first time an American and North Korean leader will meet and perhaps they can start the process. But we got to get past the hype and past the hoopla and look at the substance. And right now, North Korea has what they've never had before, which is nuclear weapons and probably ballistic missile that can launch them all the way to the United States. That's what's been happening over the last year. That's why this is so important and if we don't get that reversed in a concrete way, not a promise, but a real wait, then all this talk about a breakthrough will turn out to be a disaster.", "It is a lofty goal. Jamie Rubin, thank you so much. Really appreciate it. And next it is time to wrap it up, wrap up that Russia probe. That message from Vice President Mike Pence to Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his most direct comments yet to end the investigation. Also, scathing words from one conservative columnist. Why he says Pence is now worse than Trump."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR", "FREDERICK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR", "JAMIE RUBIN, FORMER ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE", "KEILAR", "RUBIN", "KEILAR", "RUBIN", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-208781", "program": "EARLY START WITH JOHN BERMAN AND ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN", "date": "2013-6-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/14/es.02.html", "summary": "Hillary Starts Speaking Tour, Speculation of White House Run", "utt": ["Good morning, everyone. Beautiful shot of Manhattan there. It's a high 40 here in the east.", "When Hillary Clinton speaks, the political world listens. They're hanging on her every word, wondering if she's running for president again. And as Erin McPike tells us, her latest appearance is sure to spark even more speculation.", "Post presidential Clinton world has itself a brand-new headliner, Hillary Clinton.", "It is such a pleasure to be here in Chicago, participating as a private citizen, as a co-host of CGI and as a representative of what we are officially renaming the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.", "Mrs. Clinton's debut speech for the Clinton Global Initiative in Chicago showcased a whole new Hillary.", "After visiting 112 nations for four years, I'm still jet lagged.", "Fresh off the launch of a brand-new Twitter account, her profile says her future role is TBD. The political world is abuzz over a potential race for the White House in 2016.", "I will be focused on applying lessons learned from around the world and building new partnerships across our entire portfolio, but particularly, in three broad areas that have been close to my heart my entire adult life.", "That new focus could bolster her domestic policy credentials ahead of another run for national office. The last member of the family to hold the job seems more than willing to share the spotlight.", "I learned all about NGO work from Hillary. When we were going out, she was already active in many kinds of non-governmental activities, and she was when I was governor of Arkansas both in our state, in America, and around the world.", "In some ways, Hillary's coming out is also a passing of the torch from classic bubba.", "As I move into my dotage, my job will be to find people who really know what they're doing.", "For all the celebrities and CEOs here, there was still no doubt Hillary is the draw. And as she settles in a TGI, she told the crowd something big was coming.", "We'll have an exciting announcement.", "Erin McPike, CNN, Chicago.", "All right, Erin. Republicans on parade. Senators Rand Paul and Marco Rubio kicking off the Fate in Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority conference in Washington. Today's featured speakers include former Florida governor, Jeb Bush, Congressman Paul Ryan, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, and the Donald, Donald Trump.", "If you know Boston, then you know parking can be nearly impossible in some areas, but how much would you pay to avoid all those hassles? Two prime parking spaces just went up for auction in Boston's Back Bay. The bidding started at $42,000 and kept going higher and higher.", "Two prettiest parking spaces I've ever seen. For town (ph) look for 420. Won't be here tomorrow. For town (ph) look for 420 520, looking for 530.", "A half million dollars? Like, that's ridiculous, honestly. I don't know. I think if we would have a half million dollars. I don't think we'd spend it on a parking lot.", "When it was over, the parking spot sold for, wait for it, $560,000.", "What was that for?", "For two skinny little parking spaces on the concrete in the Back Bay.", "You said -- you heard the guy, he said packing --", "Packing. That's right.", "Parking spots starting at $40,000.", "It's early. It's my last time anchoring this show. Oh, it's the last show. Coming up, I guess, it's a good problem to have. Wealthy communities are running out of mansions. The housing crunch that's hitting the well-to-do.", "Oh, that's so bad."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "ROMANS", "ERIN MCPIKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "HILLARY CLINTON, (D) FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE", "MCPIKE", "HILLARY CLINTON", "MCPIKE", "HILLARY CLINTON", "MCPIKE", "BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MCPIKE", "BILL CLINTON", "MCPIKE", "HILLARY CLINTON", "MCPIKE", "LEMON", "ROMANS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ROMANS", "LEMON", "ROMANS", "LEMON", "ROMANS", "LEMON", "LEMON", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-386639", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2019-11-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1911/27/cg.01.html", "summary": "Rudy Giuliani's Legal Jeopardy?; Trump Ukraine Defense Blown Up?", "utt": ["The player who made it happen, Nathan Bain, is from Freeport, Bahamas. And back in September, his family lost almost everything in Hurricane Dorian. At the time, his athletic department launched a GoFundMe page. And before yesterday, it had raised little more than $2,000. It has now topped $68,000. How about that? I will see you back here tomorrow for Thanksgiving. I'm Brooke Baldwin. \"THE LEAD\" starts right now.", "We now know what the president knew and when he knew it. THE LEAD starts right now. He knew he got caught before he released the aid -- the new development that could blow up the president's whole defense. The fall guy? President Trump adding distance between himself and Rudy Giuliani, as a new report says the president's lawyer was trying to make a buck in Ukraine while also working for Mr. Trump's political gain. Plus, strength in the numbers. A poll shows Joe Biden is still the candidate to beat, as a big four emerges in the Democratic race. Welcome to THE LEAD. I'm Erica Hill, in for Jake. We begin this Thanksgiving eve with new details about Rudy Giuliani's efforts to help his number one client, Donald Trump. \"The Washington Post\" reporting President Trump's personal lawyer was in talks to represent a former top Ukrainian prosecutor who Giuliani was also working with to dig up dirt on Joe Biden. And it comes on the heels of another revelation about the timeline. We now know President Trump was aware of a whistle-blower complaint against him when he released the aid to Ukraine. That is, of course, after he withheld that nearly $400 million aid package for nearly two months. That revelation coming from \"The New York Times.\" As CNN's Alex Marquardt reports, the new developments are poking holes in President Trump's adamant defense of no quid pro quo.", "New revelations deflating the White House's and Republican allies' defense over the president's actions with Ukraine.", "There was no quid pro quo.", "According to \"New York Times,\" by the time the president released the aid money for Ukraine on September 12, he had been briefed by White House lawyers about the whistle-blower complaint against him. So, Trump knew about the complaint, which accused him of using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election. Republicans have argued there was no quid pro quo because Ukraine got the U.S. military aid money in the end, without launching the investigations that the president wanted into the Bidens and the 2016 election.", "They Got the call, they got the meeting and they got the money, and there was never an announcement of any type of investigation.", "But the president knew the whistle-blower was trying to out him.", "It shows a consciousness of guilt. Then the president tries to backpedal and say no quid pro quo, and then, ultimately, because he's been caught, has to release that aid.", "As the aid was held up over the summer, two officials in the Office of Management and Budget resigned. Testimony just released showed they expressed concerns about the hold, though an administration official disputes that was the reason they left. Right before the president released the money, he insisted to a point man on Ukraine, Ambassador Gordon Sondland, on a call that there was no quid pro quo. But Trump did tell Sondland that he wanted the Ukrainian President Zelensky to do the right thing.", "I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell Zelensky to do the right thing.", "Sondland testified that the president had told him to work with Rudy Giuliani, who, \"The Washington Post\" now reports, at the same time he worked for President Trump was negotiating a potential contract worth $200,000 with Ukraine's top prosecutor to represent him. The deal, however, never materialized.", "Giuliani has said repeatedly that he hasn't had any business dealings in Ukraine. But \"The Washington Post\" reported that contracts had even been drafted up. Giuliani was reportedly going to be hired to help recover assets that were stolen from Ukraine. So, Erica, this drags Giuliani even deeper into this whole affair after two of his associates were already indicted and he, himself, is being investigated by federal prosecutors -- Erica.", "Pull one little thread, and what it unravels. Alex, thank you. When we look at this new development with Rudy Giuliani, so potentially representing the former Ukrainian prosecutor who he was hoping would also deliver some dirt on Joe Biden, it is not a good look for Rudy Giuliani, but also, Bill, for the president, when we think back to the president reportedly telling his aides and even Zelensky, work with Rudy Giuliani. Talk to my guy Rudy Giuliani.", "Yes. You mentioned that point about pulling one thread. One thing -- and were talking about this before -- is if we didn't have the whistle- blower report, we would know none of this. It is not clear that all these people would have testified. Most of them are still in the government, Bill Taylor and Lieutenant Colonel Vindman. Fiona Hill would have gone back to Brookings and stuff. And they tried to suppress the whistle-blower report. People really haven't come to grips, when you think about it, not just the extortion, but the cover-up, because they knew about the whistle-blower report -- we learned that recently -- ahead of time. And it wasn't just that Trump knew about it and pretended, ooh, no quid pro quo, no quid pro quo, but he also seems to have talked to the DNI, Maguire, about -- and they clearly tried to prevent it from getting to the Hill. So, Rudy is one little piece of this. But the degree to which there was a genuine conspiracy going on that we came close to not knowing about is I guess what strikes me.", "Well, there's so much that keep deliberating. And to your point about what we learned in this reporting just last night from \"The New York Times,\" which may seem like a long time ago, but it is really a blink of an eye in the news cycle the way we do it these days, in this -- this line in the \"Times\" piece stands out. \"The revelation could shed light at Mr. Trump's thinking at two critical points under scrutiny by impeachment investigators, his decision in early September to release $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine, and his denial to a key ambassador around the same time,\" as you're pointing out here, \"that there was a quid pro quo with Kiev. Mr. Trump used the phrase, of course, before it had entered the public lexicon in the Ukraine affair.\" And when we look at the timeline and when the president, Toluse, decided to use these words, what does that do to the president's defense?", "Can I say one word? That word, those words, are the whistle-blower's report. So Trump was briefed on the whistle-blower report. I'm sorry. Go ahead.", "No. Yes, that is a very important point. You have to remember that when Sondland testified, he said, basically, I asked the president an open-ended question, what do you want from the Ukraine? And the president goes directly to this sort of criminal defense, I want no quid pro quo.", "Right.", "And it just sort of makes you wonder whether or not that implicates him and whether he had a guilty conscience where he was saying, no, I didn't do this, when no one asked him about whether or not there was a quid pro quo. He just was answering the question about what he wanted from Ukraine, and he went with a very legalistic answer. And that's something that is starting to come together as we get all of these witnesses, and no one has been able to say why the aid was held up. And it's looking more and more like the Democrats are putting together their case that it was about trying to get these political investigations from the Ukrainians.", "We did hear Adam Schiff last week talk about the timing and talk about the fact that, so, this call happens, the aid is being held. We had others -- I believe it was Fiona Hill -- who said the Ukrainians actually did figure out a lot earlier than what the Republicans were admitting to that it was being held up. I mean, they certainly can look at a calendar and know when Congress approved the money, and that, by August, they still hadn't gotten it. The quid pro quo, though, feels like someone said to Trump, you got to be careful, because that call sounded like you were asking for a quid pro quo, and because just the way when you listen -- when you listen to him, it's like, he will latch on to one phrase. And so then when he talks to Sondland, he says, no quid pro quo, no quid pro quo, but I do want a favor, and I do want -- I want this dirt, and he's not going to get a meeting and he's not going to get this aid until I get what I want.", "Well, and it further erodes the Republican defense of Trump that we heard over and over again over the course of those hearings. There was the no harm, no foul. The got the aid anyway. There was that, oh, they were kicking the tires, they were just seeing if Zelensky was the real deal and he actually was going to go after corruption. The president knew about all of this before he spoke to Sondland, and this timeline moves back. It really just shatters that part of this scenario.", "And when he speaks to Sondland on September 9, it sounds like he's reading something that a lawyer wrote for him, because, remember, Sondland describes the four or five sentences which ends with no quid pro quo or begins with no quid pro quo. So that means Trump is working with people in the White House, in full knowledge that there's a whistle-blower report that says quid pro quo that they failed to stop from going to the Hill, and now he's got to get on record.", "Right.", "And it's not good. So this also makes it unbelievable, for me, that Mulvaney and Cipollone, the White House counsel, are not testifying. They have direct knowledge of this. And why aren't they testifying?", "Well, I think we know why.", "Donald Trump doesn't want them to.", "They may have direct knowledge, exactly.", "The question is, too, is, when we -- adding to this timeline, we keep learning these little threads. Does it change anything in terms of the calculus for Democrats?", "It probably doesn't in the context of how Schiff is proceeding with the impeachment. He's already said, we're not going to play rope-a-dope with people going to court and what have you. And I think -- I suspect he knew that other pieces of information -- he certainly knew that the Southern District of New York was continuing its investigation of Rudy Giuliani, and as we have seen there, more and more that comes out, the connections. Giuliani even actually met with Manafort at some point to talk about Ukraine. So it's all -- at the same time he's trying to change the board of an energy company, a gas company, while he's trashing this other energy company and Joe Biden. So, point being, I think Schiff and his team understand, we have got to just keep moving with the facts that we have to make our case. At the same time, I don't think it hurts their case to have these other pieces of information out there, because, remember, when we get to the Senate, if we should get the Senate, that's where the Democratic senators can help really lay out and connect all these pieces, if we have them by then.", "There is the question, though. I was talking about this earlier today. Republicans are in lockstep, as we know, right? Democrats are not necessarily. And this is becoming more and more concerning for a lot of Democrats. And so the longer this drags on, there's sort of a two-part issue here, right, Jackie? Because there's new information. So are you better off waiting to see what is all of the information that could be coming your way? We had no idea about this timeline during the public hearings, right? It came out afterwards. Or do you move through, at the risk of maybe missing one of the most important links that you're looking for?", "It really is a tight-wire act that we're seeing, because they don't want to drag this out and wait, perhaps, for a subpoena to go through or maybe new testimony, maybe new information, because the closer you get to Election Day for Democrats, it's just a fact, the harder any of this becomes, particularly for those members that are in these marginal districts. On the other side, they do have -- the simpler they keep this, the simpler the messages, the easier it is for their members to stay on board and to be able to explain it in a way to their constituents that they will be able to understand. When you get into the Mueller report territory, where it got very, very complicated, Republicans were very much able to muddy the water. That's when it -- that's when it gets harder for those Democrats.", "Well, when it comes to his personal attorney in Ukraine, we know the president now says, you should ask Rudy about what was happening there. But that actually sounds a lot like what he said about one of his other attorneys who's now sitting behind bars. That reminder ahead. Plus, a few months ago, she was full steam ahead on the impeachment inquiry, but now this member of Congress is silent. We asked her why."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST", "ERICA HILL, CNN HOST", "ALEX MARQUARDT, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice- over)", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MARQUARDT", "REP. JIM JORDAN (R-OH)", "MARQUARDT", "REP. MADELEINE DEAN (D-PA)", "MARQUARDT", "TRUMP", "MARQUARDT", "MARQUARDT", "HILL", "BILL KRISTOL, DIRECTOR, DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER", "HILL", "KRISTOL", "TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA, \"THE WASHINGTON POST\"", "HILL", "OLORUNNIPA", "KAREN FINNEY, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "JACKIE KUCINICH, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "KRISTOL", "HILL", "KRISTOL", "HILL", "KRISTOL", "HILL", "HILL", "FINNEY", "HILL", "KUCINICH", "HILL"]}
{"id": "CNN-106665", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-6-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/02/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Judge Rules Against Scooter Libby's Defense Team; RFK Jr.: GOP Stole 2004 Ohio Presidential Vote", "utt": ["There's a potentially significant new ruling in the CIA leak case involving Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby, the former chief of staff to the vice president, Dick Cheney. Let's go straight to our Brian Todd. He's in the newsroom going through all the latest documents. What are we picking up, Brian?", "Wolf, these latest documents that were just filed this afternoon indicate a setback for Scooter Libby in court. Judge Reggie Walton has ruled essentially that Libby's defense team cannot have broad and detailed access to records about the trip that former U.S. Ambassador Joe Wilson took to Niger to find out more about Saddam Hussein's weapons purchasing program. About that trip, they wanted documents on that trip. They wanted extensive documents on the role that Wilson's wife, former CIA agent Valerie Plame, had in sending him on that trip, if she had any role at all. They also wanted documents on Plame's employment history with the CIA. They wanted a lot of extensive detailed documents. The judge rules just moments ago essentially, that Libby's defense team cannot have detailed documents on those issues. They can have what the judge called essentially broad or terse summaries of those documents, but the judge in his ruling wrote this line, quote, \"This court will not permit it to become a forum for debating the accuracy of Ambassador Wilson's statements, the propriety of the Iraq war or related matters leading up to the war, as those events are not the basis for the charged offenses.\" Now that's key here, because Libby is not charged with actually leaking Valerie Plame's identity. He is charged with lying to a grand jury and to investigators about how he knew about Valerie Plame's -- how he found out about Valerie Plame's identity and what he said to reporters about it. He has denied those charges. But again his attorneys get a setback in court this afternoon. The judge ruling they can't have extensive documents on Wilson's trip to Niger, or the role of his wife, if she had any role in sending him on that trip, and also the role of his wife, the background of his wife at the CIA. The judge also making one line in the ruling here, saying that some of that information could compromise national security, Wolf.", "Brian, it -- I think it says something also about the general attitude of this judge, which could be very detrimental to Scooter Libby's defense or at least how his lawyers are preparing for that defense.", "Well, it does, in a certain way, because Libby's lawyers are essentially, they're asking for just a huge amount of documentation, and part of that is a strategy which some experts call gray mail, asking for a huge amount of documentation so that they can kind of throw the prosecution off balance a little bit. And so the judge has, essentially, today voiced a proclivity not to give all the documents that the defense team wants. But on the other hand the judge has ruled that some news organizations have to turn over their notes. \"TIME\" magazine in particular had until today, essentially, to turn over its notes from reporter Matt Cooper about his discussions with Scooter Libby.", "Brian, thank you very much. Brian Todd following the story closely for us. Other news, there are some explosive new allegations today that are being made about the 2004 presidential election, and they're coming from a member of one of America's most famous Democratic families.", "Robert Kennedy Jr. charges that a concerted effort was made by high-level Republicans to steal the presidential vote in Ohio. It's new fuel in an already combustible partisan environment, with Republicans on the defensive, and Democrats hoping to reclaim control of Congress this fall. In a lengthy article in the new edition of \"Rolling Stone\", Kennedy accuses Republicans of preventing more than 350,000 voters, most of them Democrats, from casting ballots or having their votes counted. President Bush won Ohio by a little more than 100,000 votes over Senator John Kerry, putting him over the top in electoral votes and sealing his reelection. Kennedy accuses Republicans of getting that margin of victory by, among other things, purging tens of thousands of eligible voters from the rolls, creating long lines to keep Democrats from voting, and rigging the Ohio recount. To back up his charges, Kennedy cites the early exit polls showing Kerry was winning Ohio. Kennedy contends exit polls are an exact science and, essentially, never wrong. But even pollsters dispute that. Kennedy lays much of the blame on Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, who is now running for governor. Blackwell refused to respond to Kennedy's allegations, and he declined our offer to be interviewed. He's previously denied similar allegations, saying election glitches shouldn't cause the outcome to be questioned. And there's a noteworthy skeptic about allegations that the Ohio vote was stolen. Senator John Kerry has cited irregularities in the Ohio vote, but he says if he had firm evidence the election was rigged or stolen, he would have taken legal action.", "And a Democratic National Committee study of the Ohio vote found significant problems but concluded they did not -- repeat not -- constitute fraud. Joining us now from New York to talk about these allegations is the author of the article, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and here in Washington is Terry Holt. He was the press secretary for the 2004 Bush/Cheney campaign. Thanks to both of you for joining us. Why are you reviving these allegations, Robert Kennedy, right now, given the fact that they've been so thoroughly reviewed over the past 2 1/2 years and people have concluded that there's no hard evidence of fraud?", "Well, first of all, there hasn't been that conclusion. Second of all, there's a lot of new evidence. There's the analysis that was done, not just of the 350,000 votes -- Democratic voters -- mainly Democratic voters that were denied the opportunity to vote, or whose votes weren't counted. But also the 80,000 votes from 12 rural counties in Ohio that were shifted from John Kerry to George Bush, which by themselves would have given Kerry the margin of victory in Ohio. Plus, there's six other counties where there are high indications of ballot box, that thousands of people lost their votes.", "Let me interrupt for a second. I read your long piece in \"Rolling Stone\". It was very, very long and detailed. I didn't see one individual, though, who says, \"You know what? I participated in a massive conspiracy of fraud.\" I didn't see any hard evidence that there was someone, and if you're going to talk about a massive fraud, you have to have somebody, presumably, that's going to come forward and say, \"You know what? I was involved in this campaign.\"", "Well, that's not true, Wolf. The people from -- the executives from the Triad Company, which is the vendor for one of the -- for the big voting machine that tabulated more than half the votes in Ohio, has admitted that they fixed the recount. And that they fixed it with county boards of elections in half a dozen counties, at least. Every single county where Triad -- and you know, there's an example of a -- of a high-level official who participated in a massive fraud, that prevented the recount that would have given Kerry the victory in Ohio.", "Let me let Terry Holt respond to that -- Terry.", "Well, first, let's establish, Wolf, that an exhaustive bipartisan study of all 88 counties in Ohio was conducted after the election. And Republicans and Democrats in Ohio, those people most directly affected by this controversy, have agreed that there was no significant or even insignificant fraud that occurred in the election. I think that, in fact, I'm going to stand Mr. Kennedy's story on its head a little bit. Because I think what was engaged in the last election, a massive effort to flood the polls with new voter registrations, with new absentee ballots, with new ballots of the provisional variety that. The Democratic Party was such a sour and poisonous taste in its mouth after the Florida election really engaged in an extensive effort to really flood the ballot box, to stuff the ballot box. And so all over the country, not just in Ohio, but in Las Vegas, and in Miami, and other states, there were new voter registrations coming in with the names like Freddy Krueger. Michael Jordan and George Foreman were registered to vote in Ohio.", "All right -- let's let Robert Kennedy -- What Terry Holt is saying is just the opposite of what you're saying, is that the Democrats were participating in some phony business in Ohio and other states.", "Well, that's a strong -- and the people that the Republican Party -- I want to say this. This should not be a partisan issue, Wolf. This should be -- people should be outraged about this. Read the facts in my article. There has been no bipartisan commission, but -- including Democrats that have said there was no hanky-panky or shenanigans in Ohio. That's simply wrong to say that. There's been complaints. There's been a congressional committee that's been out in Ohio and found massive -- found massive evidence of fraud. The fraud is not something that's been secret. It's been -- it's been exposed to the press for the long time. There's two issues here. No. 1, why hasn't the national press covered this event? There's no -- there is no legitimate dispute. That there was a massive concerted deliberate effort by high level Republican Party officials to fix the election in Ohio. And the press has not covered this issue.", "All right. I'm going -- I'm going to let --", "All my article does...", "Hold on. We did cover John Conyers, Congressman John Conyers' report on this. Christopher Hitchens article in \"Vanity Fair\". All that was covered. Senator John Kerry himself says in your article in \"Rolling Stone\", he says this: \"Can I tell you to a certainty that it made the difference in the election? I can't. There's no way for me to do that. If I could have done that, then obviously I would have found some legal recourse.\" And the Democratic Party has been relatively silent on this issue, as well, Robert Kennedy.", "Well, you know what, Wolf? You're right about that. And I think that's a big problem, that the Democrats backed down too easy on this. John Kerry has said to me that at the -- at -- during the time -- during the narrow window of time when he had an opportunity to protest this election, he didn't do it, because his attorneys told him that at that point, they didn't have the facts that they needed to make the case. John has looked at the facts that I produced in this article and particularly the issue about the 12 counties, rural counties where the votes were shifted from Kerry, where 80,000 votes were shifted from Kerry to Bush, and said that his opinion has changed as a result of that.", "All right. Terry -- let me let Terry Holt weigh in, as well. Go ahead and respond.", "Well, I would just say that there was a very smart observation that was made in the very beginning of the article. And that is that American elections are a messy patchwork, county by county, state by state rules and regulations. And as an example in Florida, in the 2000 election, 66 out of 67 counties in Florida were controlled by the Democratic Party and it resulted in a messy recount, 37 days. And so our votes are involved in a complex process. But by flooding the ballot box with new invalid registrations, if any political entity is diluting the value of the -- of the honest vote that takes place. And so, our -- our system needs to protect the legal votes from the illegal votes so that those votes count real and like they should.", "We have to leave it there. \"Was the 2004 Election Stolen?\" That's the provocative title of the article. You can read it in \"Rolling Stone\". Robert Kennedy, Terry Holt, thanks very much for coming in.", "Thanks, Wolf.", "Up next, can the U.S. afford the Senate's immigration bill? Jack Cafferty is back."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "TODD", "BLITZER", "TODD", "BLITZER", "BLITZER (voice-over)", "BLITZER", "ROBERT F. KENNEDY, \"ROLLING STONE\" CONTRIBUTOR", "BLITZER", "KENNEDY", "BLITZER", "TERRY HOLT, FORMER BUSH/CHENEY PRESS SECRETARY", "BLITZER", "KENNEDY", "BLITZER", "KENNEDY", "BLITZER", "KENNEDY", "BLITZER", "HOLT", "BLITZER", "HOLT", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-24306", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2001-1-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/24/mn.12.html", "summary": "Mediabistro.com Spokeswoman Discusses Media Layoffs", "utt": ["Layoffs seem to be the order of the day for employees of both old and new media companies. Newly formed AOL Time Warner, CNN's parent company, by the way, has announced 2,000 layoffs. It's about 3 percent of its workforce. That follows several hundred layoffs right here at CNN News Group, making this one of the most difficult weeks we've ever had here. The dot.com world of Internet startups is perhaps the hardest hit sector of all, though. And for some insight into that continuing trend, we turn now to Laurel Touby. She's of Mediabistro.com, an online job-listing service in New York. And, Laurel, first of all, let me make sure I pronounced your name correctly. Is it Touby or Touby?", "Touby.", "Touby. Thank you very much. They didn't help me out on that one. Thank you very much. Hey, listen, what the heck is a media bistro in the first place?", "Mediabistro.com is a site that actually helps people who have been laid off who need job opportunities to get back into the action. We are a Web site that specializes in media-related, content- related jobs. And believe it or not, there are still jobs out there, as dire as it may seem.", "Well, you know, reading the pages of the newspaper it might be hard to believe that. You guys, you've been swamped lately, haven't you been?", "Absolutely. Here's what's happened. A lot of -- the Web created a huge number of job opportunities for media people, for content people. It was the equivalent of thousands of newspapers, daily newspapers needing content, needing editorial direction, needing graphics. And what happened was when the contraction came, obviously these people are running back to the old media jobs that were the secure places for them prior to the big Internet rush.", "And are there spots open for them there?", "There are still spots open. Believe it or not, there was a huge oversupply of jobs at the time that all the people were going to the Web. And now there are still jobs left in the old media economy. And, in fact, there are new magazines coming out, there are new ideas constantly coming out and requiring these content people with new skills, new Internet skills.", "Yes but, you know, just a few weeks ago everything looked so rosy and everybody was -- people were out hiring guys on the spot in bars. And now it's turned the exact opposite now.", "That's true. It's not as a rosy as it was a few weeks ago, but I am convinced that this is a classic retrenchment, that we are going to have the good times again. Picture it as a forest floor that's been wiped out with fire and the trees, the strong will survive and the strong will germinate new trees, and soon we're going to have a forest again. And soon the Internet is going to come back. It's not going to come back in the same way. People aren't going to make the stupid mistakes they did and fund companies that have absolutely no hopes of making any money ever.", "Yes.", "But the good news is the infrastructure was developed. We believe in the new economy, we believe in technology, and we've seen the magic of some things that are working on the Web. For example, classifieds online are doing much better than they ever did offline. That's something that's going to stay. eBay, E*Trade, trading online, anything that helps you make money online is definitely going to stay and going to thrive. Our site is making money. It's one of the few.", "Well, we sure do wish you luck in continuing to do that. In the meantime, to maintain your analysis there, we're just going to smell like smoke for a while while we're waiting for this forest fire to die down.", "For a little while, but I really think -- to all of you dot.com people out there, there is hope. It is coming back and we're going to be stronger than ever.", "All right, good deal. Who's knocking on wood? Laurel Touby, thanks for your help. Appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Talk to you later."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "LAUREL TOUBY, MEDIABISTRO.COM", "HARRIS", "TOUBY", "HARRIS", "TOUBY", "HARRIS", "TOUBY", "HARRIS", "TOUBY", "HARRIS", "TOUBY", "HARRIS", "TOUBY", "HARRIS", "TOUBY", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "NPR-17989", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2016-11-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/11/08/501121025/china-bars-2-newly-elected-hong-kong-legislators-from-office", "title": "China Bars 2 Newly Elected Hong Kong Legislators From Office", "summary": "A ruling Monday in Beijing may mark the end of Hong Kong as we know it. The decision bars two young democratically elected lawmakers from taking office for refusing to pledge allegiance to China.", "utt": ["We're going to go now from one raucous democracy, the U.S., to another, Hong Kong. That's where two newly elected lawmakers refuse to swear allegiance to Beijing when they took their oaths of office. Now, the Chinese government has ruled the two will not be allowed to retake their oaths, which means they are effectively barred from office. It's a shocking intervention after years in which Beijing allowed Hong Kong to function with a great degree of autonomy. NPR's Rob Schmitz joined us from Shanghai to talk more about this.", "Good morning.", "Good morning, Renee.", "Give us a little background on this particular situation.", "So this all started a month ago when two young lawmakers who were taking their oaths of office refused to pledge allegiance to the People's Republic of China. And that's been a requirement of all Hong Kong lawmakers since Britain handed over Hong Kong back to China 20 years ago. Instead, these two legislators inserted language like the Hong Kong nation and used four-letter words in English that I cannot say on the radio when they were supposed to say China. Here is one example from Yau Wai-ching, who is only 25 years old who, when she was asked to take her oath, inserted her own colorful language, and here's what she said.", "I will uphold the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's [expletive] not bear allegiance to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's [expletive] of...", "So as you can imagine, this did not go over well with the pro-Beijing members of Hong Kong's government. And there's been a legal battle ever since to determine whether the two would become legislators or not. Yesterday's decision by the National People's Congress of China put an end to all of this. In what is a rare intervention into a matter like this, Beijing has said the two legislators who were both democratically elected may not retake their oaths and effectively will not become legislators.", "Well, of course, for years, China's government has allowed people in Hong Kong the freedom to protest, to hold democratic elections. Why did Beijing intervene this time around? I mean, was it the obscenities?", "That had a lot to do with it, and you're right. Even though Britain handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997, Beijing, at that time, agreed to ensure the people of Hong Kong special freedoms and autonomy for the next 50 years. And these rights were laid out in the city's own mini-constitution called the Basic Law known as the one China, two systems model. That formula has been under a lot of stress lately. Two years ago, tens of thousands of young people shut down the city's financial district for weeks in democracy protests known as the Umbrella Movement.", "And this fall, several of these young activists have won local elections. So when a few of these new legislators insulted China during their oaths of office, this went too far for Beijing. China's government has essentially used this controversy to issue a rare reinterpretation of Hong Kong's Basic Law so that this kind of thing won't happen again but also to show the people of Hong Kong that the government of China has the power to disqualify anyone in Hong Kong's government who is not loyal to China.", "So people there in Hong Kong are protesting this. That's how they're reacting.", "They are. Sunday night, thousands of people flooded into the streets in front of the Chinese government's liaison office in Hong Kong to protest. Police in riot gear scuffled with them using pepper spray, and protesters fought back by throwing bricks. Four people were arrested. Two police officers were injured. The government has just deployed 2,000 police throughout the city for the next week, anticipating more violence. And it's likely we will see more protests in the days and weeks to come.", "One well-known politician in Hong Kong summed up the mood in an op-ed yesterday that Beijing interfering like this in the city's political process essentially means what she calls the beginning of the end for Hong Kong. And this goes beyond politics, though. You know, Hong Kong is one of the great financial centers of Asia, and the banks that do business there do so because the city has a stable and safe system in place. That, of course, is in question now, and the current political mood is not having a positive impact on the business climate at all.", "Well, thanks very much.", "Thanks, Renee.", "That's NPR's Rob Schmitz speaking to us from Shanghai."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "YAU WAI-CHING", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-124323", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-3-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0803/05/cnr.07.html", "summary": "President Bush Endorses John McCain; House Explodes in Pennsylvania", "utt": ["John McCain and Clinton. As Hillary Clinton makes a comeback, it is a wrap for the Republican presidential race, but the Democrats show no signs of slowing down.", "The big question, John McCain will face whom in November?", "Good afternoon from the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. I'm Fredricka Whitfield.", "And I'm Don Lemon. You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. Lots of political news to cover, but, first, we want to get you to this, what appears to be a home explosion. It's coming from Plum, Pennsylvania. Here is what we are told. A house -- if you are in that area, it's in the Hollywood Park neighborhood of Plum, Pennsylvania -- destroyed -- destroyed -- again in what is believed to be a large explosion there, at least one neighboring home, at least one neighboring home also sustained damage. The latest information we got is that the explosion was reported on 1:30 on Mardi Gras Drive in Plum, Pennsylvania. Two civilians, we're told, transported from the scene. Not sure of their injuries. One home exploded, but several neighboring homes were also damaged as a result. The Red Cross and local utilities have also been dispatched to the scene here. As soon as we get more information, we're going to continue to follow this and we're going to bring it to you right here in the CNN NEWSROOM, but again, home explosion, Plum, Pennsylvania, and you are looking at the debris and firefighters trying to put out hot spots.", "Hillary Clinton is trumpeting last night's primary victories in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island. Her biggest win, Texas, where she beat Barack Obama 51 percent to 48. We are still showing election results on the bottom of the screen, since the Texas caucuses are still in play. In Ohio, meantime, Clinton's margin was bigger. She got 54 percent of the vote to Obama's 44 percent. In her victory speech, Clinton pointed out that no candidate in recent history, Democrat or Republican, has won the White House without winning the Ohio primary. Nevertheless, Obama who won the Vermont primary, says hat the delegate count is what matters.", "We went into the Texas and Ohio down 20 points. You know, we had won 11 straight. Senator Clinton decided that they can only contest in these two states where she had an advantage, and she did well. But as I said before, we emerged with the same delegate gap between her and me that we had essentially before we got in. And so, you know, we have constantly focused on the next states in front of us. We have got Wyoming and Mississippi this week. We think we will do well. And then we go on to Pennsylvania and the other states that follow.", "Meantime, Clinton is looking ahead to a general election match up with John McCain.", "Well, I think what is important here is that this campaign has turned a corner. It is now about who is strongest against the Republican nominee, John McCain. You know, people who voted a month ago didn't know who the Republican nominee was going to be. They didn't perhaps factor in that it will be about national security, because indeed, with Senator McCain, that is what it will be about.", "Eight years ago, they were bitter primary rivals. Now it seems they have put their differences behind them. John McCain and President Bush appeared this afternoon in the White House Rose Garden, where the presumptive GOP nominee got a presidential endorsement. Let's go straight to the White House and CNN's Kathleen Koch. Hi, Kathleen.", "Well, Don, as you pointed out, what a difference eight years makes. Today, we saw lots of smiles, handshakes, a real feeling of warmth all of the way around, again, quite a change from 2000 when these two men were both competing to be the Republican presidential nominee. Now, today, the president literally rolled out the red carpet. He greeted McCain and his wife at the North Portico, an entrance that is normally reserved just for heads of state on formal visits. And then, in remarks in the Rose Garden, the president praised Senator McCain for his incredible courage -- quote -- \"strength of character, and perseverance.\" And he gave him his endorsement.", "It's a man who cares a lot about the less fortunate among us. He's a president -- and he's going to be the president -- who will bring determination to defeat an enemy and a heart big enough to love those who hurt. And, so, I welcome you here. I wish you all the best.", "I appreciate his endorsement. I appreciate his service to our country. I intend to have as much possible campaigning events and -- together, in keeping with the president's heavy schedule.", "Now, the men both rebuffed questions about who Senator McCain's possible vice presidential nominee might be, though the president quipped, be careful who you put in charge of your selection committee. As you will recall, Dick Cheney was in charge of President Bush's. The rest of the questions really focused on whether or not this endorsement and the presidential campaigning for John McCain would hurt or help him. With the president's approval rating hovering at a mere 32 percent, still, the president said he wants McCain to win, that the election is about him, that the voters should be looking at John McCain and judging him. The president said -- quote -- \"I have done my bit.\" But he added that whatever the senator wanted him to do or not do when it comes to campaigning, that he would certainly abide by his wishes -- Don.", "Hey, Kathleen, at least at this moment, maybe symbolically, it seems that the president's time is nearing. Obviously, we knew that, 10 months left in office, but this is a symbolic moment where he knows one more step to the end. He seemed a little bit more jovial than normal today. And I saw you at that press conference. Did you get that assessment as well?", "You did sense a bit of levity there. I don't know if it was genuine. I know certainly obviously both men knew how carefully they were being watched and wanted to certainly have the appearance of getting along, of -- that any of the hard feelings from 2000 were gone. But the president, you know, when it comes to the next 10 months, he says he is going to sprint to the finish. He is not done yet. He has a lot he wants to accomplish, but there could be a certain sense of relief as he sees the end nearing.", "Kathleen Koch -- thank you very much for that, Kathleen.", "You bet.", "John McCain's lock is Mike Huckabee's loss. The former Arkansas governor bowed out of the GOP race last night, urging his supporters to vote for his former Republican rival in November. Our Mary Snow joins us now from Little Rock -- Mary.", "Hi there, Fredricka. Mike Huckabee is now looking to work with the McCain team on how he can help get John McCain elected. This comes after Mike Huckabee told his supporters that he fought the good fight and he lasted in this campaign longer than anyone expected and also outlasted rivals with a lot more money.", "I would rather lose an election than lose the principles that got me into politics in the first place.", "With that, Mike Huckabee exited the Republican presidential race and headed home to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he started his campaign staffed with just his family 14 months ago. Virtually unknown outside Arkansas as a former governor, he became known as the dark horse who shook up the presidential race with a surprise victory in Iowa on a low budget.", "Basically, a dime to a dollar of what everybody else has had. And to have gone this far and outlasted so many others I think is a pretty remarkable story. Wish it had ended differently, but, you know, it is what it is.", "Huckabee shared his closing thoughts on his campaign with a press that traveled with him. His spirits remained high despite the defeat, even engaged in an impromptu game of bowling in the", "I'm a young guy, relatively speaking, so who knows what the future holds. I am not going to rule anything out. The only thing I have ruled out for certain is I won't be running in a Senate race this year. I have made that about as clear as I know how to make it. If somebody needs a bass guitar player for their traveling rock band, I am available.", "So, does Mike Huckabee want to be John McCain's vice presidential running mate? Mike Huckabee says he doesn't think he's going to be asked, but his campaign director also pointed out that, when people are asked for that position, it is a question that they don't turn down very often. And, Fredricka, of course, there is always the possibility he may run again in 2012.", "That is right. Anything is possible. All right, Mary Snow, thanks so much from Little Rock.", "Sure.", "So, what perhaps is next in this race? Wyoming holds its Democratic caucuses this Saturday. Three days later, Mississippi holds primaries. Republican caucuses take place in the virgin Islands one month from today. And then another big state, Pennsylvania, holds its primaries April 22. All the latest campaign news is available right at your fingertips. Just go to CNNPolitics.com, plus analysis from the best political team on television, that and more, CNNPolitics.com.", "All right. Want to get you back live to that explosive situation we have been telling you about happening in Plum, Pennsylvania. Apparently, a house exploded there, injuring several people. According to the Associated Press, those who were injured, an elderly man and a 10-year-old boy. And this is what CNN is getting from local hospitals there. A Mercy Hospital spokesperson is telling us they have received two patients from the house explosion in Plum. One person is being airlifted to the facility. And they are not sure of the status of the second patient in this case. Just to give you a little bit of background, this neighborhood called the Park Hollywood -- Holiday Park, I should say, neighborhood in Plum, a home there destroyed because of a huge explosion. This home, if you are in the area, is on Mardi Gras Drive near Havana Drive, blown to pieces in a blast that happened around 1:30 this afternoon. At least one neighboring home sustained damage. We are also hearing possibly several others sustained damage. And you can see firefighters are at the scene now. They're sorting through that debris on the ground trying to extinguish the remaining flames. Now, here is what we are getting also according to one of our affiliates there. Affiliate WPXI is reporting that a medevac helicopter was called, this as medevac helicopters were called in the scene. A 4-year-old girl is being flown to one of the hospitals there, possibly Mercy Hospital, in critical condition with a fractured leg and facial burns. And now that report from WPXI, our affiliate, and then, according to the Associated Press, a 10-year-old boy and an elderly man, they are going to receive patients at the hospital, those two patients at a hospital, and not sure of their conditions. This is a terrible story.", "Oh, it really is, so sad.", "Yes.", "All right. We are going to continue to follow that. Meantime, some pretty devastating storms like that right there. Two tornadoes touched down in west central Alabama yesterday. We continue to watch the developments in this situation. One home was destroyed; 29 more were damaged in Greene County. And then in neighboring Tuscaloosa County, seven families are picking up the pieces. These fierce winds blew down a lot of trees in South Carolina as well, mostly upstate; 15 homes there were damaged, but no one was seriously hurt. That is good news. But more trees are down across North Carolina. Heavy rains have prompted flood warnings across the southwestern part of that state. Pretty grisly situation there. Farther north, snow and icy rain all causing lots of headaches.", "Meantime, don, you have an update on...", "Yes.", "... another very serious situation.", "Yes, Fred and Chad, it's -- we were talking about that home that exploded. And just looking at the picture, it just looks devastating.", "Yes.", "We want to get an update now, see how many people are injured and what is exactly going on, on the ground. Maria Leaf, 1020 AM News Radio in the area, what do you know?", "Right now, we know that there are at least two people injured at this point, a man. And I know that a young girl was carried from the house. When you look around the scene, I'm sure you can see the pictures there, there's just charred insulation everywhere. You can see -- I can see thick smoke coming up from the sky, flames from the house. We know of at least about a dozen homes that were damaged because of this, whether they had windows blown out or shingle damage at this point. The authorities are obviously keeping everybody quite a ways away as they try to figure out just what happened here. I actually have a neighbor with me right now. He lives just a few doors down. His name is David. He is going to talk to you right now.", "Hi. Dave, are you there?", "Yes, I am.", "Hey, Dave, so, you live in the neighborhood, right? Do you live close to this house that exploded?", "Yes, I live three doors down from it.", "Tell us what happened.", "Well, I was getting ready to go out. And there was this loud explosion, and I thought my house blew up. But I ran around the house and looked, and there was, you know, some -- everything was blown off the walls and the chandeliers were blown off and my windows were blown out, but, otherwise, it was intact. So I ran outside to see what had happened and there was debris falling out of the sky, insulation, tar paper and things like that. And I saw up the street there was some smoke, so I ran up there to see if I could do anything. And one of the neighbor ladies was holding a little girl walking around out in the yard calling for calling for Lick (ph), I think she was calling for. There was the old man's name, her grandfather. But she -- apparently, the little girl had been sitting in their house on the coach, and she got blown out, landed in the yard. But the house is just leveled to the ground. There was nothing left when I got there.", "Goodness. Dave, so, obviously, you know these neighbors, not that you have to name them, but do you know if they are all OK? But some of -- we hear -- maybe the elderly gentleman that you're talking about has been taken to the hospital?", "No, I don't think they found him. At least before they chased me out, they hadn't found him. So, I don't think that he made it.", "So, this house obviously completely destroyed. We heard just from Maria, the young lady who handed the phone to you, that at least a dozen homes in the area are damaged from this?", "Yes, if nothing more than having all their windows blown out from the concussion, yes. There are at least a dozen of us.", "Yes. Are you talking -- obviously, the emergency workers on the scene, they were telling you guys back, right, telling you guys to move back out of the area, correct?", "Oh, yes. They won't let me in my house. And that is as far as they went on this side. So, that's three houses down from where the house blew up. They have got it all cordoned off.", "Real quickly, I have got to ask you, because in neighborhoods like this -- is it a fairly new development?", "No. It's very old.", "OK.", "It's from probably the '60s.", "I was just wondering if there was gas or if some areas have propane, so at least give us an idea of what might have happened. We're not sure.", "No, it is regular gas.", "Dave, Dave Heiser, right?", "Yes, it is.", "Dave, we appreciate you joining us. Thank you very much. Can you put Maria back on the line for us?", "I will. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "If you guys are still there, I actually have an update.", "Yes, go ahead. That is why we got you back, Maria. Go ahead.", "Yes, I just spoke with a firefighter who tells me that at least 15 moments were damaged. Four people have been taken to the hospital in very critical condition. Two of them are believed to be young children and two of them believed to be adults at this point. They are not saying a cause as of right now. We are waiting for official word at this point, but they are still trying to put out the flames.", "OK. Hey, Maria, real quickly, go slow for us again.", "Hang on one second. There is -- now I am hearing there's one or two fatalities.", "And you are hearing this from who?", "This is from a firefighter who is kind of not an official press person, but is just kind of giving me the information to give to you guys.", "OK. We have not confirmed that, but, Maria, if you can, go through your list of -- you said at least 15 homes. How many people injured?", "Right. We had heard at least 15 homes are damaged in some form. Four people were taken to the hospital. It now appears that possibly two of them are fatalities. We know the people who were taken to the hospital overall are in very critical condition and it is believed that children were among the people taken to the hospital. We do not know if they are the ones that may have not survived this explosion.", "OK. Maria Leaf from 1020 AM News Radio there in the Pennsylvania area, thank you very much for that, and also to Dave Heiser as well for joining us. It is just an unbelievable situation unfolding right here in the CNN NEWSROOM, Fredricka, getting an update from the radio reporter there from someone who is on the scene, who she says is an official about 15 homes, four people taken to the hospital and possibly two fatalities. We are going to try to confirm the information that Maria gave us, but, again, this is according to our affiliate there, our radio affiliate, 1020 AM News. We are back in just a moment with an update on this situation."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "WHITFIELD", "LEMON", "WHITFIELD", "SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "WHITFIELD", "SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D-NY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "LEMON", "KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-41301", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2001-10-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/08/bn.08.html", "summary": "America Strikes Back: Taliban Calls Attacks on Afghanistan Acts of Terrorism", "utt": ["In Pakistan, the Ambassador to Pakistan, the Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan has talked to reporters, and this is Abdul Salam Zaeef. You may remember him, in fact. He was quite prominent on television over the last week as the principal Taliban spokesman with access to reporters, access to the West, and he was speaking in Pakistan earlier today. If we have that tape, we can hear him.", "Welcome to our united community.", "Well, the ambassador -- I knew I'd find the word -- the ambassador -- that was taped by the way. We noted here that he's speaking in English. I mean, the point of that is, this is clearly a message. This is the highest-ranking Taliban official who has access to Western reporters at this point. The ambassador to Pakistan, the only country left in the world now that has formal diplomatic relations with the Taliban and so, speaking in English clearly the West, making his argument that, and this is just one quote, you heard the rest, \"America wants to snatch the Afghan people from the present Islamic system. These brutal attacks are as horrendous as the terrorist acts. Afghanistan will rise against the new colonialists\" -- all the code words that you expect to hear, an attack on Muslims, colonialist America, all of the ones you'd expect in a moment like this you heard from Mr. Zaeef, Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan. We are joined now by Judy Woodruff in Washington. Judy, as I was thinking about the fact that I was about to say good afternoon, it occurred to me that we met this way on television on the 11th of September, a day about as shocking as any of us had experienced. Today is different. Today, we may not have known the time and the place and the moment, but we certainly expected that this day would come when the Americans would strike back.", "We surely did, Aaron. And you are harking back to what was almost four week ago, but today you can't say that under any set of arguments that the people who run the Taliban, that the al Qaeda network didn't have fair warning that this was coming. The rhetoric has escalated literally every day over the last week, and more coming out of Washington, not just from the United States, from the Bush administration, but also from the British, from Tony Blair. The rhetoric has gotten increasingly urgent, up to the point yesterday President Bush saying we are running out of time, time is running out. So I think if there was any doubt on the part of the Taliban -- and I thought it was interesting that their spokesman was saying today that this is -- we just heard the ambassador to Pakistan saying this is an American act of terrorism against Afghanistan. It's as if they turned it all upside down and on its head.", "Just as recently as last night, the Taliban -- for the last week and a half, the Taliban has looked for one -- I'm going to characterize it as stalling measure after another to try to delay what clearly seemed the inevitable. Yesterday, it was they would try bin Laden in their country. The day before it was they would release the aid workers, the eight Western aid workers if the Americans -- there have been two missions by Pakistani officials, including officials very close to the Taliban in the Pakistani intelligence community to try to get them to cooperate. And clearly, the president and the administration and the British as well came to believe that there was no point in talking anymore. It was just going to be one stalling effort after another. So, on with it they went this afternoon.", "And Aaron, one thing we do want to continue to keep an eye out for, and I know we are, and that is when the president talks about, when Secretary Rumsfeld talks about global-based operation against terrorism, when you hear the list of countries that are active militarily at this point, they are all the nations of the West -- the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Germany, France -- the names of the countries that I think we have yet to hear in terms of what their reaction to all this are the Arabic and the Islamic nations of that region. What is Egypt saying? I haven't heard yet. I'm watching at this point for some sort of a statement from them. What about the Saudis? The Jordanians? And so forth. It will be very interesting to see if the effort by Osama bin Laden and by the Taliban to make this an American war against Islam is having any effect at all.", "Well, the president said in his statement, it's pretty simple, you are either for fighting terrorists or you are not. There is no neutrality here. Jamie McIntyre is at the Pentagon. Jamie, I gather you heard the Taliban official saying that an American plane had been shot down. Do you have anything on that?", "Well, I checked with officials here at the Pentagon and they say they have no reports of any U.S. or British planes being lost or in any trouble. It's something they would have normally known about right away. Of course, if it were the case, they won't comment on it at all as they mounted a search and rescue mission, but at this point they are telling us that there is no -- they believe there was no credence to the report.", "And again, that was a report made on Al-Jazeera, a Mideast television station we talked a lot about this afternoon in an interview with this as I recall the deputy defense minister for the Taliban, and at least at this moment the Pentagon says we don't know about it, which is about what you can get from them at this moment, right?", "Well, it's a little beyond that. They are essentially saying that they have no reports of any planes lost, and they would know it if that were the case.", "Are you picking up anything else there?", "Well, the details are starting to dribble out about what exactly is going on in this rather extensive military strike in Afghanistan. One of the things we have learned earlier and was confirmed by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld is that two B-2 stealth bombers, the big bat-wing bombers flew out of Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, where they are based, 17 hours to fly to hit targets in Afghanistan, using satellite-guided precision munitions. And then, they went on to the British base of Diego Garcia in order to rest and then make the return trip back to the United States. These planes are highly accurate and used for targets where they -- fixed targets. You may recall that in fact it was B-2s that erroneously hit the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia. The case was the case of giving the wrong targeting information. It wasn't that the planes missed. And also, we learned that B-1 bombers flying out of Diego Garcia. And B-1 is not a stealth bomber, but it is a long-range bomber. It was using what we call dumb bombs or unguided munitions to carpet-bomb some of the suspected terrorist camps. And again, B-1s first saw combat in 1998, in operation Desert Fox, used much the same way, to carpet-bomb Republican guard barracks. Two aspects of what is going on in this campaign, which is a pretty substantial strike. Among the targets -- I mentioned suspected terrorist camps -- they are also trying to hit all the airplanes that the Taliban have. They have some aging MiG aircraft. Also, they are pitting some of the runways so it's harder for planes to take off. They want to deny them any ability to fly in the sky. They are also targeting command and control centers and other, quote, \"centers of gravity.\" The idea is to put the Taliban at a military disadvantage to their rivals to the north, the Northern Alliance, and also to keep them on the run makes so that they don't know exactly -- it makes it harder for them to plan any kind of a response or do anything next. In addition, the U.S. is, of all things, dropping humanitarian aid. C-17s flying from Germany, carrying packets of what's called humanitarian daily rations -- orange bags that are filled with single day's food for one person, 37,000 of them dropped out of C-17s over Afghanistan to feed Afghan refugees and underscore the point that this is not a campaign against the Afghan people, but a war against terrorists and the people who support them. The operation is continuing, and Pentagon sources here say it may continue on into the daylight hours.", "And Jamie, if I heard a somewhat taciturn defense secretary this afternoon correctly, I think he also confirmed that they were making a leaflet drop, this would be -- I'm looking for a word -- I want to say propaganda -- in any case, they are dropping information on the Afghan people trying to explain the American position from the American point of view rather than simply relying on the Taliban to do that.", "And not just the leaflets, but also broadcast from the -- the United States has a flying radio television transmitting plane that's called a Commander Solo, which is capable of direct broadcasting into the country. And I'm not sure -- there was a report earlier that the United States may also be dropping transistor radios. They did that before in Haiti, just before the invasion in Haiti, and they may be doing that again as well, in order to, you know, you wouldn't expect that too many Afghan refugees would have access to radios to hear broadcasts, so they may be dropping the radios as well. These are like single channel radios that can only receive the broadcast that the United States is sending in the native language.", "Jamie, hang on. A quick thought on that from General Clark who knows something about both the reasons for and how this comes about. GEN. WESLEY CLARK", "It does look like a well-coordinated psychological warfare operation here. And, just a footnote to what Jamie is saying is that we had an early report that the official Taliban radio station was off the air. Whether that was due to electricity loss or whether the radio station had been hit, that then opens the way for the Commando Solo or other radio broadcasts to go in and be received by the people of Afghanistan, something very important.", "And this is a great example of information as a weapon. If you can control the information in or out in one way or another, that's a tremendous psychological advantage for what you're trying to accomplish.", "Exactly. And, if magnifies the impact of the physical strikes and ultimately reduces the cost of the conflict.", "And again, General Clark, we were talking about this earlier. This has all essentially been put together in a little bit less than a month, a very complicated operation and there's miles and miles and miles to go, as you warned me on Friday in our phone call. This has a long, long way to go, but at least off the start at least, it seems to be going according to a plan that has been laid out to us in some detail about as they planned it. I mean, nothing has gone wrong that we've heard.", "That's right. It seems to be very effective so far in terms of following the plan.", "General, thank you -- Judy.", "Aaron, in picking up on what you just said, President Bush in his remarks today describing it as a military action designed to clear the way for a sustained comprehensive and relentless operation to drive them out and bring them to justice, while the military campaign is underway. Very much, efforts continuing on the diplomatic front, and for a little more on that, let's go to our State Department Correspondent, Andrea Koppel.", "Judy, Secretary Powell and his deputy, in addition to President Bush have been in touch with key friends and allies around the world as of even before some of the strikes began today, to let them know that they were imminent and with some countries, letting them know that they were underway. I'm told the message has been to make clear that these are precise and targeted campaigns that are not, looking out actually not to hit any Afghan citizens, as well as to thank various countries for their support. Secretary Powell and his deputy having spoken with the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, the head of Oman, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Bahrain, Japan, Mexico, Argentina, and Ukraine. The calls will be going on throughout the day Judy, because not only was the diplomacy important before the campaign began, but now that it has begun, this is really where the rubber meets the road. It's keeping countries around the world, especially in the Muslim world on board as this campaign continues. And, to that end, a senior State Department official tells me that Secretary Powell will be traveling to Pakistan and India later this week. Secretary Powell was already due to be traveling to China next week for the Asian Pacific Economic Conference, which is where President Bush is supposed to be, but now apparently adding two countries to that list, India and Pakistan, before he heads there. In addition, Judy, Secretary Powell and others in this building have been trying to notify American Embassies around the world to tell American citizens to be on alert, above and beyond what they had been until today, now that these attacks have begun. An additional worldwide caution has been issued, and in fact, if any Americans are thinking of traveling or are overseas right now, they're told to monitor the local news, to maintain contact with the nearest American Embassy or Consulate and to limit their movement in their respective location. This is something obviously now that the military campaign is underway, that Americans should exercise an abundance of caution, not only traveling overseas but also here in the United States. Judy?", "And Andrea, this is not because of any specific new information or new threat? It's just being cautious, is that right?", "Absolutely. There have been -- we're told there have been a number of threats that have been issued, but they have not been specific threats, and as of now, they are not credible. So, even before the September 11th attacks, there had been a heightened state of alert at American Embassies and consulates around the world. Since the attacks, the threats continue but they are not specific and right now, not credible. Judy.", "And Andrea, just very quickly, how much do you know about administration efforts to get some of these moderate Arab states to speak up in support of what's going on?", "Well, of course the State Department, the Bush Administration would love to hear those public comments, but once senior Administration official I spoke with said that they would be happy, the U.S. would be satisfied as long as there are no negative comments that are made. So, clearly they would welcome any expressions of support from whether it be Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia or others in the Arab world, but right now they are -- the U.S. is understanding that their governments as well have to walk a fine line with public opinion in their own countries, and just so long as they don't see any comments that are critical of U.S. action, they'll be happy for now.", "So for now, silence is perhaps in some instances the best that they can hope for.", "Exactly.", "All right. Andrea Koppel at the State Department. You've been hearing Aaron and our correspondents describe the ongoing effort to keep, not just our allies informed, but also other key figures in the American Government, the Unites States Congress. Let's go back to the White House to our Chief White House Correspondent John King on that point -- John.", "Well Judy, we know the President first notified Congressional leaders last night. That is significant. It was last night that the President gave the Pentagon the go ahead to act when it believed the moment was right for these strikes. But we also know, we are told by sources here at the White House and on Capitol Hill, Administration officials, among them the CIA Director George Tenet, calling key members of Congress and informing them. Now all know the military action has begun, of course informing them of what little the Administration says it knows so far on what the Pentagon would call BDA, Battle Damage Assessment. I spoke to one lawmaker just a few minutes ago who had received a call from Mr. Tenet. He said that Mr. Tenet told him this would be a \"long sustained action\" and that this was Day One, so expect a lot more phone calls like this one, informing him of ongoing U.S. military operations. And in that conversation, the lawmaker said he was told that no complete battle damage assessment, of course, would be ready for a day or two, at least not until daybreak strikes in Afghanistan, but that he was told people are relatively optimistic. They're hearing good things so far from the region in reports back to the Pentagon and up the command chain. Here at the White House, we are told Judy, the President receiving constant updates. He is calling around the world to world leaders as well. It was he who, Andrea just reported asked Secretary Powell to visit the very key countries in the region of India and Pakistan, remember a great deal of tension between those two nations in the past several years. The United States wants to make sure no other diplomatic fires to put out, if you will, as the ongoing military campaign continues. And again, here at the White House privately, they are saying this is Day One. Expect this for days and weeks and months ahead -- Judy.", "John, I think I know at least part of your answer to this question, but the President has had pretty consistent support so far from members of Congress. Why do they think it's so important to continue to stay in close touch?", "Well, one of the things the president has promised from day one is to cooperate and coordinate with the Congress, and he has been heartened. Remember this is a crisis that challenges the President, not only as Commander- in-Chief, but the U.S. economy has slipped into recession. It may have been on its way into recession, or perhaps technically in recession before September 11th, but the President has an urgent challenge here at home, dealing with the economic consequences of these terrorist strikes. And on that front, we are told every single day, the President can not be more impressed or happy with the cooperation he has received, not only from the Republicans in Congress, his fellow Republicans, but from Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and the House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt. There have been some disagreements. There's been some fights over issues like airport security, over just what should be in the stimulus package, but those have been remarkably polite debates, and the President has said he can not be more happy with that cooperation. He feels a responsibility to keep key members of Congress, especially the Armed Services and the Intelligence Committees closely informed of any U.S. military action and remember, as Jon Karl noted just a short time ago, the president also welcomed it was just days after the strikes when Congress did pass the resolution authorizing the President to use all necessary and appropriate force. So, this part of the routine, this day anything but routine, but these conversations are of the routine consultation between the Administration and key members of Congress, when U.S. troops are put in harms way overseas.", "All right. John King at the White House."], "speaker": ["AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR", "ABDUL SALAM ZAEEF, TALIBAN'S AMBASSADOR TO PAKISTAN", "BROWN", "JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "BROWN", "WOODRUFF", "BROWN", "JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN MILITARY AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT", "BROWN", "MCINTYRE", "BROWN", "MCINTYRE", "BROWN", "MCINTYRE", "BROWN", "CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "BROWN", "CLARK", "BROWN", "CLARK", "BROWN", "WOODRUFF", "ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT", "WOODRUFF", "KOPPEL", "WOODRUFF", "KOPPEL", "WOODRUFF", "KOPPEL", "WOODRUFF", "KING", "WOODRUFF", "JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "NPR-18109", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2017-05-30", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/05/30/530769754/national-security-experts-divided-in-response-to-white-house-leaks", "title": "National Security Experts Divided In Response To White House Leaks", "summary": "Washington has been springing more leaks during the nascent Trump presidency than it has for years. Some are coming from officials alarmed by Trump and his entourage. Trump and his supporters are demanding they be ferreted out and prosecuted. But other big leaks — ones that experts say truly could affect national security — appear to be coming from Trump himself, who can spill state secrets with judicial impunity.", "utt": ["As we heard, this White House is concerned about leaks. Longtime observers say they have never seen so much information spilling both from and about an administration. Some national security advocates are alarmed while other insiders applaud what's happening. Here's NPR's David Welna.", "Senator John McCain is no great ally of President Trump. Still, when Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats appeared last week before the Armed Services Committee that McCain chairs, the Arizona Republican pressed Coats to publicly condemn the leaks drenching Trump's presidency.", "These leaks are not good for your business. Isn't that correct?", "That is absolutely correct. They are devastating. And as I have said, disclosing methods and sources put our patriot people who are doing great service for this country - its puts their lives at risk, and it puts the lives of Americans at risk.", "And yet as recently as a month before winning the election, Trump himself was singing the praises of a group that had not only leaked Hillary Clinton's emails but also made public thousands of classified documents over the years.", "WikiLeaks - I love WikiLeaks.", "Trump last week heard from British Prime Minister Theresa May how little she loved leaks. That was after police photos from Manchester showed up in The New York Times. The White House then put out a statement declaring leaks of sensitive information a grave threat to national security, saying, quote, \"if appropriate, the culprit should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.\" That came as no surprise to Robert Deitz, a former top lawyer at both the CIA and the National Security Agency.", "Many administrations, including Donald Trump's, before they get into office, they seem quite supportive of leaks, particularly the ones that seem to verify their own positions. Then as soon as they're brought into office, then, oh, my God, the leaks are the end of civilization as we know it.", "Adam Schiff is the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee which is investigating Trump's possible ties to Russian dirty tricks. He says the outrage being heard from the Trump White House over leaks is selective.", "The leaks that the administration's most concerned with are not those that go to national security but those that put them in a bad light or reveal misconduct on their part.", "Former intelligence agency lawyer Deitz says the anger from the White House is also misdirected.", "The president likes to blame the intelligence community for everything up to and may someday include world hunger. But the intelligence community I do not think is a source of most of the leaks that he condemns.", "And what is?", "I think the White House.", "One former U.S. ambassador who himself had a top security clearance says some leaking is not necessarily a bad thing.", "In certain circumstances, leaking is justified.", "That's Dennis Jett, former top U.S. envoy to Peru and Mozambique. He wonders what might have happened had information not been leaked about phone conversations that Trump's now former national security adviser, Mike Flynn, had with Russia's ambassador to Washington.", "I think what would have happened is Flynn would still be sitting in the White House, still sitting in on meetings at the highest level and still trying to influence policy perhaps on behalf of the Turkish government and still susceptible to blackmail from the Russian ambassador.", "Another Washington veteran says the plethora of leaks in the Trump administration reflects how worried some insiders have become. Morton Halperin was in the Johnson, Nixon and Clinton administrations at the Pentagon, State Department and National Security Council.", "What we're seeing with Trump is that when people think something really bad has happened or is about to happen, they'll take the risk and leak the information.", "What that comes down to, laments South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, is people taking the law in their own hands.", "It seems to be that classified information is no longer treated as such and that people are looking for outcomes rather than a process. It's pretty damaging.", "Could it be that there's too much classified information?", "Could be that we've over-classified stuff. But the way you fix it is that you change the system of classification rather than just leaking.", "Meanwhile, the leaks show no sign of abating. David Welna, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "DAVID WELNA, BYLINE", "JOHN MCCAIN", "DAN COATS", "DAVID WELNA, BYLINE", "PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP", "DAVID WELNA, BYLINE", "ROBERT DEITZ", "DAVID WELNA, BYLINE", "ADAM SCHIFF", "DAVID WELNA, BYLINE", "ROBERT DEITZ", "DAVID WELNA, BYLINE", "ROBERT DEITZ", "DAVID WELNA, BYLINE", "DENNIS JETT", "DAVID WELNA, BYLINE", "DENNIS JETT", "DAVID WELNA, BYLINE", "MORTON HALPERIN", "DAVID WELNA, BYLINE", "LINDSEY GRAHAM", "DAVID WELNA, BYLINE", "LINDSEY GRAHAM", "DAVID WELNA, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-309314", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-04-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/05/nday.04.html", "summary": "Interview with Sen. Mike Lee.", "utt": ["All right. The Syrian situation is a horror on many levels. We just saw civilians, children killed. The allegation is it was done by the Assad regime and they may have used a nerve toxin. That is the latest reflection of just an intractable situation when it comes to Syria. It is also a very big test for President Trump. How will he respond? Joining us now is Republican Senator Mike Lee from Utah. He's a member of the judiciary committee. Senator, it's good to have you. Let's start with the proposition of what you're comfortable with in terms of action in Syria. There has been reluctance from both parties to put boots on the ground there to spend American blood and treasure. Does this attack make you change your opinion?", "So, first of all, this is a tragic thing that has happened. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims. People are suffering on the ground in Syria and other places in that part of the world. We don't have any idea at this point what the Trump administration wants to do about this. The one thing I do know and the one thing I think you'll find a great deal of consensus around is that if the Trump administration does want to do anything by way of intervening military, he needs to come to Congress with a plan and present that to Congress.", "You know, I'll tell you what, that is a unique position, because many in your party, but certainly in your office have abdicated that power of declaring war to the president. We have an AUMF right now that's from 2001. So that would be a legitimate debate if your brothers and sisters in Congress want to take hold of the constitutional responsibility. But in terms of your comfort level with what we've seen out of the White House, they say one week, Nikki Haley, Rex Tillerson, hey, Assad, they'll figure it out in Syria. And right after that, one of the boldest dispatch we've seen from Assad regime in years. Do you see a connection between those two? Something you've chosen to ignore, you've now empowered.", "I do think it's a mistake that Congress has chosen to ignore for decades or well over a decade, some would say for many decades, the declaration of war power. The fact that -- although the president of the United States is the commander-in-chief of our armed forces, when it's time to actually send American personnel into harm's way, to put boots on the ground somewhere else on foreign sovereign soil, we need to be authorizing that. We need to pass a declaration of war or at least an explicit authorization for the use of military force. That's why a few years ago when there was talk of deploying U.S. personnel to Syria, right, I was among the first to step up and say we need to do this expressly if we're going to do it. I know that one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who agrees with me on this sort of thing is Tim Kaine, who I believe you had on here just few minutes ago.", "Yes, he was just on and that was part of the untold story very often of the red line with Obama. Yes. There is reticence to acknowledge the crossing of the red line that seems pretty obvious, but then once the president was in, he seemed to be all in and Congress wasn't there in terms of wanting to get that motivation to be on the ground. It's complicated. And it remains complicated. But does it concern you? Just to circle back to this. That one week, the White House puts out a statement that Assad is serious problem. Basically saying we're not going after Assad anymore. That is not our goal. And shortly there after, we see one of his worst attacks in years.", "We certainly don't want to be doing anything that might encourage or embolden him to do this. I don't necessarily think you can draw a connection between them to say that any one in Washington caused Assad to do this. We do need to monitor this very carefully and watch what he does.", "All right. Now, I want to ask you, did you mean to add fuel to the fire of speculation about Susan Rice when you said that political espionage is too common and too tempting? Did you mean to suggest that Susan Rice may have done her unmasking for political reasons?", "Yes, but I have no idea what she did. Those facts are being investigated. I've made this clear in every interview I have done on this point.", "But Breitbart is using you as a poster boy. And you know that that is the President's, you know, viewing of choice. He loves to see what they put out. They are using you as the poster boy of people who believe that Susan Rice was politically motivated in unmasking. Do they have it right?", "I'll tell you what I told them which is that I don't know what happened in this particular instance. I don't know what Susan Rice did or didn't do. I now that's under investigation. And I'm going to watch that very closely because I really do want to know that. What I have said to Breitbart and what I've said to every other media outlet that asked about it, is that I've been expressing concerns about section 702 of FISA over the last six years. In many cases, it's fallen on deaf ears. But the fact remains that we've got this technology, they can do a whole lot of things. And this is a big brother type of problem that we have to watch out for. If we're not careful -- if we don't carefully constrain the limits of the power of those who have access --", "Understood.", "-- on this technology, this is going to really take us into a very strange direction. I've been warning about it for six years. I talked about it in the entire section of my book \"The lost constitution.\" That in every presidential administration from FDR through Nixon, the administration in power used our intelligence gathering agencies to engage in political espionage. Human nature hasn't changed, technology has changed and had made a lot of it simpler and we've got to be on the lookout for it.", "Right, but you have no reason to believe that any of those concerns are at play with Susan Rice and in fact, you have every reason to believe they were not at play with Susan Rice because as far as you or I know, we've never heard of anybody wanting to leak and doing so by leaving a paper trail of making a request for the information that she got. She unmasked, that's a big procedure, there's no indication she did not follow it. That means she would have created her own paper trail to do political espionage to use the phrase of the political right here on the story. There's no basis for it. So why conflate the two issues of potential of surveillance with the specific instance of incidental surveillance where those risks do not seem to be at play?", "I've done no such thing for the third time on your program this morning. And to reiterate something that I've said to reporters every single time I've been asked about this, I don't know what happened with Susan Rice.", "Right, but you say it's unreasonable -- you did say it is not unreasonable to suggest that it could have happened. Now, that doesn't fly in a court of law. But it does fly in the court of a public opinion. And it does seem as though you're saying Rice has to prove it wasn't politically motivated for me to believe that it wasn't and that's not fair.", "That is an absolutely absurd manipulation of what I said. That is not at all what I said. I did in fact say that something like this could have happened. I did in fact say it's not absurd to suggest something like this could've happen and every time I've said anything like that it's been accompanied by I don't know what Susan Rice did, I don't know the facts of this case. I'm sure it will be investigated.", "Senator Mike Lee. You are on the same page as everybody else with this. We want some facts to back up the allegations. Thank you very much. I appreciate you being on the show.", "Thank you.", "Alisyn.", "Chris, there's global outrage of the apparent chemical attack in Syria that has killed dozens of people, including children. What can be done? CNN's Arwa Damon has seen the carnage there first hand. She has some ideas. 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{"id": "NPR-12000", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2014-12-06", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/12/06/368931723/rolling-stone-says-trust-in-rape-accuser-was-misplaced", "title": "'Rolling Stone' Says Trust In Rape Accuser 'Was Misplaced'", "summary": "Rolling Stone says it should have tried harder to verify the story of an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. Editors now say they didn't talk to the men who were accused.", "utt": ["Rolling Stone magazine now says it has doubts about its article on sexual assault at the University of Virginia. The story began with a graphic account of gang rape at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, but the alleged perpetrators were not questioned. The magazine now says it has lost trust in the woman who claimed that she was raped. From member station WVTF, Sandy Hausman reports.", "The fraternity where a woman was allegedly gang raped remains boarded up, its windows broken, its members living in a hotel. But a lawyer for Phi Kappa Psi now says there was no party the night of the alleged attack and no member matches the magazine's description of the ringleader. Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely now says she never talked with the men who were accused because her source - known only as Jackie - asked her not to. Speaking to WAMU Rubin Erdely defended the premise of her story.", "I interviewed many other victims of sexual assault at University of Virginia and the story they told was very consistent which is a culture that silences victims, that discourages them from reporting in the first place and when they get to the administration it sort of subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, discourages them from moving their cases forwards. So Jackie is not an isolated case.", "Rolling Stone also claimed a dean at UVA told Jackie that cases of sexual assault were not reported publicly because, quote, \"nobody wants to send their daughter to the rape school.\" Reporter Rubin Erdely did not verify that remark with the dean.", "I very much wish to speak to that dean, but unfortunately the university did not allow me any access to that dean. They were very resistant to my doing this investigation at all.", "In retrospect, Rolling Stone's Managing Editor Will Dana says the magazine made the kind of judgment reporters and editors make every day and in this case our judgment was wrong. He now thinks Rolling Stone should've worked harder to convince Jackie that the truth would've been better served by getting the other side of the story.", "That failure, Dana said, is on us, not her. At the university, some now worry that problems with the Rolling Stone story might derail efforts to curtail sexual assaults on campus. Stephen Margulies is a retired employee who's lived near UVA's fraternity row for most of his life.", "People with a bad attitude towards women are going to use this as an excuse to not acknowledge a problem that's real.", "University President Teresa Sullivan issued a statement calling sexual violence on campus one of the most difficult and critical issues facing higher education today. She said doubts about Jackie's story must not alter this focus.", "Virginia's attorney general found it deeply troubling that Rolling Stone magazine was publicly walking away from its central storyline without correcting what errors its editors believe were made. Virginian's are now left grasping for the truth, he said, but we must not let that undermine our support for survivors of sexual assault or the momentum for solutions. For NPR News, I'm Sandy Hausman in Charlottesville."], "speaker": ["SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "SANDY HAUSMAN, BYLINE", "SABRINA RUBIN ERDELY", "SANDY HAUSMAN, BYLINE", "SABRINA RUBIN ERDELY", "SANDY HAUSMAN, BYLINE", "SANDY HAUSMAN, BYLINE", "STEPHEN MARGULIES", "SANDY HAUSMAN, BYLINE", "SANDY HAUSMAN, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-269236", "program": "STATE OF THE UNION", "date": "2015-11-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1511/15/sotu.01.html", "summary": "Interview With South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham", "utt": ["Welcome back. We have learned that an American woman is among those murdered during the brutal terrorist attacks in Paris. Nohemi Gonzales was just 20 years old. A student at Cal State Long Beach and a design major who friends called vibrant and energetic. She was spending the semester studying in Paris. The State Department says they're aware of at least two Americans who are injured as well. Let's bring in Senator Lindsey Graham. He joins me now as a Republican presidential candidate and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Senator Graham, thanks for joining me.", "Thank you.", "Senator, do you believe if France requests that NATO invoke Article V an attack on one is an attack on all, that NATO and the United States should formally declare war on ISIS?", "Absolutely. Here's what I believe, without adjusting our strategy the worst is yet to come when it comes to ISIL, that the Obama strategy regarding destroying ISIL is not working and will not work. And I'll be glad to tell you what I would do to destroy", "We'll ask some of those questions coming up. You've heard breaking news from CNN's Christiane Amanpour this morning, according to French authorities at least one of the Islamist terrorists smuggled himself into France, embedded among refugees from Syria. Do you still believe that the U.S. needs to take its fair share of Syrian refugees? How do we prevent this happening here in the United States?", "I believe the United States and the world needs to go on offense and stop the reason people have to leave Syria. The good people are leaving because they're being raped and murdered and some terrorists are trying to get in their ranks. The best thing the world could do for Syrian people is to create a safe haven within Syria, a no-fly zone. The best thing the United States could do to protect other homeland is go on offense, to form a regional army with the French involved that they'd like to be and go on the ground to destroy their caliphate. I've come to learn one thing over the last two years. We're going to fight ISIL in their backyard or we're going to fight ISIL in our backyard. I choose to fight them in their backyard. I choose to fight them in Raqqa, not on the streets of the western capitals of the world or American cities. So, what would I do? I would form a regional army made of Arabs and Turkey and American forces would be part of that army. We'd go in on the ground in Syria. We'd pull the caliphate up by the roots and we would take back land held by ISIL and hold it until Syria repairs itself. That requires American boots on the ground in Syria and we need more American boots on the ground in Iraq if we're going to protect the American homeland because they're coming here if we don't stop them there.", "Senator Graham, you and Senator Rick Santorum are the only two Republican presidential candidates calling for more boots on the ground in Iraq and/or Syria. And yet you and Senator Santorum are not doing particularly well, at least when it comes to polls. Why is it do you think that those who are not calling for that, not calling for more boots on the ground in Iraq and Syria are thriving in the Republican primary race?", "You know, I can't explain the politics, I can only tell you what I've learned after 35 trips to Iraq and Afghanistan in the last decade trying to understand this war. Number one, Obama's strategy against ISIL is failing. It will not working. You are only going to win this war if you go on offense. You will never win the war from the air. So, what I'm pleading with every Republican -- I hope Hillary Clinton -- I hope the president will listen to what I'm saying. We don't have until the next election to deal with ISIL. There is a 9/11 coming and it's coming from Syria if we don't disrupt their operations inside of Syria. So, what I'm suggesting to presidents, to Democrats and Republicans, listen to what I have been saying and follow my advice. The Arabs in Turkey want to destroy ISIL as much as we do. France is now a victim twice of this organization. Let's rally the world, form an army that is there to be formed, lead it, going on the ground and destroy ISIL before they attack our country. I am not trying to have pride of authorship here, I'm trying to protect America from another 9/11. And without American boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq, we're going to get it here at home. And if you don't understand that, you're not ready to be commander in chief, in my view.", "Senator, if the Arabs such as Jordan and the Saudis and the UAE and Egypt --", "And Egypt and the Turks...", "Yes.", "...are eager to get in this fight, where are they?", "The reason -- they're eager to get in the fight, but they're not going to go destroy ISIL unless we take a side out, too. No Arab nation is going to fight just for ISIL. Turkey is not going to go on the ground and fight ISIL and leave Assad in power. That's the problem with Obama's strategy. He is leaving Assad in power. That means you're giving Damascus to the Iranians. To get a regional force, you have to accomplish two goals, to go in to destroy ISIL, which is a threat to the region, and also take out Assad, who is a puppet of Iran. Without putting Assad on the table, you're not going to be able to rally the region. I hope the French will invoke Article V. They should. The world should be at war with ISIL. If I'm the commander in chief of the American component, we will be part of a worldwide force to destroy ISIL, and we will not leave Assad in power. I am not going to give yet another Arab capital to the Iranians. I will not do that.", "Senator, aren't you concerned that if we rally this coalition, the United States, put it together to take out not only ISIS but Assad, that that is going to be a war with Russia? Russia, as you know, is now in Syria, doing everything it can politically, militarily, economically, to prop up Assad.", "Here's what I would do. I would tell the Russians that you're not going to use military force to keep Assad in power. That disrupts the region. It gives Iran more power at a time they should have less. It's a recruiting tool for ISIL to be able to fight the Iranians, Alawite controlled by Iran, it destabilizes the region. The Syrian people are not going to accept Assad as their leader. So I would tell the Russians, you have bombed the people we have trained to take Assad out, who needs to go. If you want to fight for Assad, that will be your choice, but what you will be doing is fighting the entire world. You'll be fighting the region, Turkey, all the Arabs, us, the French. And we are going to do two things in Syria. We are going to destroy ISIL before they hit our homeland, and we're going to replace Assad, because if he stays in power, the war never ends. And let Russia make a decision. And here's what they would do, they would back out.", "Senator, quick question, who do you think is better prepared to take on ISIS? Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump?", "Lindsey Graham. Hillary Clinton seems to be disconnected from what she needs to do. She won't embrace boots on the ground. And Mr. Trump's position regarding Syria has always been delusional. I'm not worried about them, I'm worried about me and my homeland. I have a plan. Please, for God's sakes, wake up to the threats we face. Hit them before they hit us. Fight them in their backyard, not our backyard. There are people ready to be led. America must lead. We must have American boots on the ground as part of a regional army. We need 10,000 American forces in Iraq, not 3,500. If we don't do these things soon, what you see in Paris is coming to America, and if I'm commander in chief, that will not happen, I promise you.", "It's a good answer, but you didn't answer the question. I'll let you go there. Senator Lindsey Graham, thank you so much, appreciate your time. Breaking news one of the bombers smuggled himself in amongst Syrian refugees. This as hundreds of thousands of refugees are coming into Europe and even -- some others still are coming into America through New Orleans. Is it too risky? That conversation after the break."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "TAPPER", "GRAHAM", "ISIL. TAPPER", "GRAHAM", "TAPPER", "GRAHAM", "TAPPER", "TAPPER", "GRAHAM", "TAPPER", "GRAHAM", "TAPPER", "GRAHAM", "TAPPER", "GRAHAM", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-113633", "program": "YOUR WORLD TODAY", "date": "2007-1-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/11/ywt.01.html", "summary": "British Star Leaves Real Madrid for L.A. Galaxy", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone.", "You're watching YOUR WORLD TODAY, where we bring CNN international and U.S. viewers up to speed on some of the most important international stories of the day.", "And one of the most important international stories, of course, U.S. President Bush and his announcement yesterday, admitting mistakes and carefully mapping out a new course to end the war in Iraq. That long-awaited speech is now over, of course, but the White House still has a lot of work to do to win support for the plan. Not just outside of the U.S., but inside. Let's bring in White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino. Thanks for being with us. One of the things that struck me in the president's speech yesterday, Dana, was the singling out of Iran and Syria, saying they're destabilizing forces in this whole process. Not at all recommending talking directly to those two nations. Where were threats really directed at them yesterday?", "Surely the United States is not the one being threatening. And we are not the ones being meddlesome and troublesome in Iraq. The president was very plainspoken yesterday, as he should be, when he was talking to the American people about his new way forward in Iraq. And one of the most important things that people need to understand is what we are finding there with Iran's meddlesomeness in the region. And of course we are supportive of the neighbors getting along there in the region. And Secretary Rice is headed to the region tomorrow to help further that. But no, the president is not going to do one-on-one talks with Iran and Syria at this time.", "So, in other words, if Iran and Syria do not discontinue the kind of behavior that the president considers meddlesome or destabilizing, then what happens?", "Well, Secretary Rice said that she has been willing to meet with her Iranian counterpart any time, anywhere, if they stop the enrichment of uranium and the reprocessing of uranium. They know exactly what they need to do. And that's not just an American demand. That is an international demand. And so, Secretary Rice will be heading to the region, and we'll see, you know, what she's able to accomplish while she's there.", "All right. But the question is, or what? Or what happens?", "We're going to continue to move forward on this plan. What the president talked about last night is a new way forward in Iraq that will produce dramatically different results from what we were seeing before. The president was unsatisfied and the American people were unsatisfied, and rightly so.", "All right. Let me -- then let's move on to the plan itself. It relies a lot on the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, cooperating and being effective. The national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, in a leaked memo just last November said he either Maliki was ignorant or incapable. What has changed then in the last two months?", "I think the other thing that the Hadley memo said is that he believes that Maliki has the will to do it. And what he needs is some help with the capabilities. And that's what the president has said, that he believes that with this government, that is only nine months old -- now, being nine months old is not an excuse for inaction. The president said they must step up. But they need some support in order to secure the population, to make sure that the innocent people are protected. And that's what the president's going to do -- be able to do by providing more troops. But it's Prime Minister Maliki who came to the president in Amman, Jordan, that same meeting in November that you were talking about, and he provided this plan to the president, and then the president had his military and diplomatic experts review it. And they told him that with a little bit more American support in the capital city, we can secure the situation and allow for the political and economic reforms to take root and to grow into mature institutions.", "OK. So it's a question of will then. Perhaps that's changed. Thanks so much. Dana Perino, the deputy White House press secretary, joining us on YOUR WORLD TODAY -- Jim.", "Thanks.", "I am reminded that sometimes international news makes for strange bedfellows. That is the case today. We're going to from the battlefield of Iraq to Beckham on the playing field. David Beckham, of course, creating a lot of hoopla now. The word is coming in that he is headed not for another contract with Real Madrid, but headed to Los Angeles. Let's bring in Pedro Pinto. He is in Madrid right now. Pedro, a bit of a shocker here, I think, for some people.", "Definitely. A lot of people are thinking that this is too early for David Beckham, to head to the United States. He's only 31. He could have renewed for another couple of seasons with Real Madrid. He could have gone to another top European club. However, he decided that this was the right time. David Beckham apparently had already made up his mind. And I have to be honest with you, the read I get from what has happened here today in Madrid is, basically, David Beckham had already decided in the last days that he was going to move to the United States. There was a supposed meeting today between his representatives and club officials. I don't even really know if this meeting took place, because apparently everything was decided. How wouldn't it be decided if Beckham had already recorded an interview with Major League Soccer in which he explained why he was moving to the states right now?", "I have played now for two of the biggest clubs in the world. I have played at the highest level for 15 years. And now I think that I need another challenge. I have enjoyed my time in Spain. It's been an incredible experience for me and the family. You know, the kids have loved the school. We only bought the house here a year ago. But I think, you know, another challenge has come up. And I think it's the right time for us to do it. I don't want to go out to America at 34 years old, and people would be turning around and saying, well, he's only going there to get the money. You know, it's not what I'm going out there to do. I'm going out there to -- to hopefully build, you know, a club and a team that has got a lot of potential. I that's what excites me.", "He may not be going out there for the money, but there's no doubt he's going to get a lot richer. The numbers I have been hearing about his contract is $250 million over five years. It's still unclear whether that amount, the $250 million, is going to be paid exclusively for his salary, or if it already includes some of the endorsement deals with Major League Soccer. Whichever way you look at it, it's a huge deal not only in Europe, also in the United States. There's no question David Beckham will be a poster boy for the sport. He really could give the sport a huge boost in the United States, considering that Major League Soccer has really been in a lull over the last seasons. You may remember, Jim, that a few years ago, a few decades ago, Franz Beckenbauer headed to the United States, Pele headed to the United States. And there was a huge buzz about the sport. Since then, really nothing. And Beckham is going change that.", "You know, I'm reminded of Pele coming to the United States. And, of course, his career had already ended by the time that he entered here. And a lot of people said he was doing it for the money. What other figures come to mind, though -- $250 million?", "It's a huge contract. And obviously, he was not a poor boy here in Real Madrid. He was making a lot of money here as well. There were some talk about obviously his renegotiating contract over the next two weeks, that his earnings could decrease a little bit. A big issue also is his image rights. Real Madrid held a big percentage of his image rights. So every time he had an endorsement deal with a major company, Real Madrid would get a big chunk of that money. Obviously, now heading to Major League Soccer, Major League Soccer will also have a say in what Beckham can do and what he can't. But as far as personal endorsements, I think he'll be able to reap all the rewards. I think this is a huge story not only from a sporting perspective, because you have David Beckham, who is twice football of the year runner-up, but also commercially. You have to take a look at it from an European perspective, and also from an American perspective -- Jim.", "All right. Pedro Pinto, as always, there in Madrid, thank you very much. We're going to take a short break.", "Absolutely.", "When we come back, we'll tell you a story of a little girl who's had to face the recent death of her father.", "But with the help of her mom, this 8-year-old has managed to carry on with his work. And she's now embarking on a tour of America. We'll introduce you to Bindi coming up."], "speaker": ["GORANI", "CLANCY", "GORANI", "DANA PERINO, WHITE HOUSE DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY", "GORANI", "PERINO", "GORANI", "PERINO", "GORANI", "PERINO", "GORANI", "PERINO", "CLANCY", "PEDRO PINTO, REPORTER", "DAVID BECKHAM, FOOTBALL STAR", "PINTO", "CLANCY", "PINTO", "CLANCY", "GORANI", "CLANCY", "GORANI"]}
{"id": "CNN-81489", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2004-1-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/27/lad.02.html", "summary": "Winter Storm Battering East Coast", "utt": ["Well, it's a one-two punch for part of the nation. Coming on the heels of one winter storm, another one is battering the East Coast. Here's our Gary Tuchman.", "They were fishing on iced over Lake Erie in north central Ohio. But then high winds cracked the ice. Fourteen men were stranded on ice chunks until they were rescued by the Coast Guard. They were luckier than some others. A complex series of winter storms from the Plains to the East Coast, from the Great Lakes to Dixie has left at least 25 people dead. In Omaha, Nebraska, four people, including children, were killed when their car slid into a truck.", "Snow and ice on the roads and having an individual lose control.", "Pittsburgh has also been hit hard by the snow.", "You need four wheel for this. This is really bad.", "In other places, ice and freezing rain are the problems. Like the Carolinas and Georgia, where firefighters braved the cold to fight a fire caused when a tanker slid off a highway that, in essence, became a skating rink. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a man who got out of his vehicle after an accident on the bridge had a very close call. Another driver slammed into his pickup truck, almost knocking him off the bridge. He was not seriously hurt. In the nation's capital, snow plows cleared the streets while skiers snowplowed near the Washington Monument. In Philadelphia, the plows and salt trucks tried to keep up with the snow and ice.", "I got a late start so the roads have been plowed a little bit. Ice, a little dangerous in spots.", "Dangerous in Missouri, too, where 18 wheelers were sliding off roadways choked with snow and accidents. Hundreds of flights were canceled at the nation's airports. Tens of thousands of people were without power. The weather even caused President Bush to change his plans. After returning from a visit to Arkansas, his helicopter trip from Andrews Air Force Base to the White House was scrapped for a snowy motorcade.", "And since Gary Tuchman filed that report, the death toll has risen to at least 35."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-13399", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-8-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/07/mn.11.html", "summary": "Election 2000: Talk in Nashville, Hartford, and Martha's Vineyard About Lieberman as Democrat V.P. Candidate", "utt": ["With that Democratic National Convention still a week away, the party's ticket appears to be taking shape now. Word is again, Al Gore has made his choice for the running mate: Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Patty Davis now, with CNN, now with us in Nashville. Patty, good morning, what are they saying?", "Good morning, Bill. Democratic sources telling CNN that Senator Joseph Lieberman will get a telephone call around noon today from Vice President Al Gore asking him to be his vice presidential running mate. Joseph Lieberman now in Connecticut at this point. That decision made by Vice President Al Gore late last night, he had two meetings with his senior campaign staff trying to decide which of the seven people that he was considering, including four senators, which one would he choose. Lieberman has won out, now sources telling CNN. Lieberman is an Orthodox Jew, he is a moderate. But he is slightly more conservative than Al Gore. He supports school vouchers, Al Gore does not. that is something that George W. Bush does support. Now he also supported one of 10 Senate Democrats to support U.S. involvement in the Persian Gulf War. Lieberman, biggest of all perhaps, known for being the first Democrat to condemn President Clinton on the Senate floor for his involvement with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.", "His presidency would not be imperiled if it had not been for the behavior he himself described as wrong and inappropriate. Because the conduct the president admitted to that night was serious, and his assumption of responsibility, inadequate.", "Now Lieberman did eventually vote to acquit President Clinton. The announcement with Vice President Gore, Senator Joseph Lieberman at his side, expected at noon Central here in Nashville tomorrow. Senator Lieberman, being flown in today to join the vice president. That announcement, though, not until tomorrow -- Bill.", "Hey, Patty, I heard Joseph Lieberman, talking, is in Hartford, Connecticut this morning. They were talking last hour about how much he has in common with Al Gore. He mentioned three things, the environment, when it comes to issues there, also the stand on the Gulf War, going back 10 years, and the economy. Likely we'll hear these themes again tomorrow and throughout the election?", "It's important, Vice President Al Gore said one of his top issues with picking a vice president was that he was able to trust the person that he would choose his running mate, that the person could take over as president if needed, second, that he could trust him, that they were similar on issues. Another thing is that with his condemnation of President Clinton, he gives some credibility now, some help to Vice President Al Gore, who really needs to separate himself from President Clinton, come out as his own man, separate himself from the scandal that -- that the Bush campaign is really trying to paint over on him as the campaign progresses -- Bill.", "And as we saw in Philadelphia, Patty, Republicans are hammering that issue throughout the entire convention. Patty Davis, live there in Nashville. Thanks, Patty, we'll check back in. Here's Daryn, now with more.", "Well, more on this event where Senator Lieberman was scheduled to speak to the AFL-CIO. Our Frank Buckley is in Hartford, Connecticut, covering that. Frank, I would imagine this is an event, an engagement, that was scheduled long before Joseph Lieberman was ever tagged to be a vice presidential running mate for Al Gore.", "Indeed, it was, this is a traditional stop of Democrats running for statewide office here in Connecticut. And this is where Senator Lieberman was expected to appear before the AFL-CIO at approximately 10:30 Eastern. It's been delayed a bit and we're now still awaiting his arrival outside of the Hilton here. He is running for office, for reelection for the Senate here in the state of Connecticut. And so this could present some potential complications. And joining us now to help us explain what the situation is here in Connecticut is Susan Cysiewycz, who is the secretary of the state here in Connecticut. What have you learned in terms of -- you've done some research on this issue, of whether or not the senator can run for both the Senate and for the vice presidency?", "That's right, Senator Lieberman has a couple of options to consider. First of all, under Connecticut law, he can run for both the vice presidency and his United States senate seat and be on the ballot for both offices in November of 2000. He also has the option of withdrawing his name from Connecticut ballots and not run for the United States senate seat. He can run only for the vice presidential seat, in which case, the Democratic Party in Connecticut would have to choose a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate.", "Walk us through the process. And first, let's make sure, you have not been contacted by the senator's offices to what his intentions are at this point?", "No, we have not, all of this is news to us. And we have been doing a lot of research over the past couple of hours since we heard that the senator would be a vice presidential nominee.", "So the bottom line is he could run for both?", "He could run for both.", "He is a very popular figure in Connecticut. A Quinnipiac poll recently taken July 20 showed that his job approval rating is at 74 percent, compared to 15 percent disapproving of his job, and that's the sixth straight poll of 70 percent or higher. How unusual is that for a politician? and what explains that here in Connecticut?", "Senator Lieberman has been a very popular vote-getter in Connecticut and has consistently polled over 70 percent of the vote at the polls, not only in a Quinnipiac poll. And it is unusual in Connecticut. We have also have a very strong and popular person in our Senator Chris Dodd and our Attorney General Dick Blumenthal, who routinely as well, poll over 70 percent of the vote.", "Susan Cysiewycz, thank you very much. She is the secretary of the state. So the bottom line is that if the senator wants to run for both offices he can -- Daryn.", "So Frank, help us review here, he can run for both. If he were to win both, what happens to the Senate seat once again?", "That's a good question. If he were to win both, what would happen next, Susan?", "Ah, yes, this is important, if Senator Lieberman chooses to be on the ballot for both the vice presidency and the United States senate seat, then if he were to win both, he would choose which seat he would like, presumably if he chooses the vice presidency, then Governor Rowland would have the opportunity to appoint a replacement.", "OK, thanks very much. And we should point out, Daryn, that Governor Rowland is a Republican.", "Aha, and I'm sure that came into consideration when they were sitting there looking at Al Gore's short list. Frank Buckley, standing by in Hartford, Connecticut, thank you -- Bill.", "As they say, clarification well-noted. Major Garrett's at Martha's Vineyard, there with the first family there, Chelsea, Hillary and Bill Clinton there vacationing and taking some time off, also doing a lot of fund-raising. Any reaction, Major, thus far?", "Well, good morning, Bill. No official White House reaction to the selection of Senator Lieberman. And White House officials tell us the president will not make any comment from the podium here in Martha's Vineyard shortly, when he signs legislation creating a new oceans commission to review how to protect and defend all the oceans of the globe. With the pick of Joe Lieberman intensifies the debate that's been going on in the White House for several days. Sources tell CNN that Democrats outside the White House are urging President Clinton, next Monday, when he opens the Democratic National Convention, to make it very clear in his speech, that while Al Gore deserves much of the credit, or a good deal of the credit, for the economic success of the administration, and other success, lowering crime, lowering the welfare rate, that he in no way should be held accountable or any way responsible for the personal failings of the president. Those personal failings, of course, led to the Monica Lewinsky scandal which Joe Lieberman played such a prominent part. That advice, being given to the White House from Democrats outside the White House, is under active and very rigorous consideration, CNN has been told. No official decision has been made. The president is reviewing his options, preparation for the speech is ongoing, but it's a debate that's going on in the White House and being intensified now by this pick of Senator Joseph Lieberman -- Bill.", "Major, was there talk about that particular statement that you just referred to before the Republicans got going in Philadelphia? or were the questions of integrity and character in the White House that's prompting this possible statement? any indication?", "Well, I don't think it's any secret, inside the White House, that the Republicans would, by indirection, bring up the whole question of integrity and the way to -- actually a president should act inside the White House, inside the Oval Office. That was not something the White House was surprised, the White House -- that the Republicans brought up at their convention. So this has been something along the periphery of the preparation for the speech. The president's speech, a very important speech, the White House considers. Many are describing it as his farewell address, not only to the country but to the Democratic Party. So it's been an active topic. But when the Republicans bore in so much on that in the final two days of their convention it clearly elevated the discussion within the White House, when the bounce that was noted from the Republican convention showed a double-digit lead for Texas Governor George W. Bush and his running mate, Dick Cheney, it intensified those debates. But again, no decision has been made. It's on the table. White House officials at the highest levels are debating it, discussing it and the decision will be made, obviously before the president takes that podium in Los Angeles come next Monday.", "All right, indeed, Major Garrett, live in Martha's Vineyard."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-17357", "program": "Saturday", "date": "2000-10-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/07/cst.07.html", "summary": "Kostunica Prepares to Take Reins in Yugoslavia", "utt": ["With the military backing him and outgoing Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic publicly wishing him well, Vojislav Kostunica is set to lead his country after a decade of war and turmoil. For more on this chapter in history, we go to our bureau chief in Belgrade, Alessio Vinci.", "Vojislav Kostunica will take his oath in this very room here, on that podium right behind my shoulders. It will take place probably sometime within the next two hours. We understand now that the two chambers of the federal parliament, the new federal parliament, are meeting. At this point, they have to elect the new speakers of those two chambers. once that procedure has been completed, the two chambers will meet in a joint session in this very same room, and in front of that parliament, Vojislav Kostunica will take the oath and then become the new president of Yugoslavia. Just to give you an idea about what is happening right now in those two chambers, you have deputies of the political parties who won these elections, that is the Socialist People's Party and the Yugoslavia Left and the People's Party of Montenegro. So these are pro-Milosevic parties, which at this point are controlling those -- the federal parliament. Mr. Kostunicia, once he becomes president, will have to propose a prime minister which will have to be approved by the federal parliament. That could be the first big challenge for Mr. Kostunica, because the federal parliament at this point, unless some of the members of the political parties, in Montenegro especially, do not agree to accept his choice of prime minister, then it could be possible that a new election could take place. And all this procedure, of course, is days away from now. It is the president that is the major concern today. He will be sworn in. This procedure was supposed to take place inside of federal parliament, but you may remember on Thursday that parliament was stormed by mobs of demonstrators. They gutted the department of the parliament, they set it on fire, and, therefore, they're now meeting here, in the Saba (ph) Center, which is a convention center just on the other side from the old city center in downtown Belgrade. We had a chance to speak to some former Yugoslav, or soon to be former Yugoslav ministers. We saw Foreign Minister Jovanovic, we saw the information minister, Goram Matic, who told us that basically he was blaming the federal election commission and the constitutional court for issuing wrong numbers, for issuing false numbers, for letting people believe that those election went in a different way. So here we are, the Yugoslavia government now blaming those very same bodies that had previously tried to cancel the elections, the presidential elections, altogether. Alessio Vinci, CNN, Belgrade.", "Joining us for more on the situation in Belgrade is Jonathan Landay, a national security correspondent for Knight Ridder newspapers. Jonathan, what do you suppose it was that finally convinced Slobodan Milosevic to leave?", "I think, first of all, obviously the pressure in the streets. But I think that when he saw that the Russians were finally coming on board with the United States and the European Union to say it's time to go, there is supposition that perhaps the Russian foreign minister, Mr. Ivanov, also brought some kind of assurance to Mr. Milosevic that there wouldn't be a push, at least immediately, for his extradition to the Hague. Then you had the constitutional court coming on board for Mr. Kostunica, reversing itself, and then you had the army chief of staff.", "Now for Kostunica, how big a need is there for him to quickly consolidate his power?", "It's extremely important. This is going to be his No. 1 challenge right now. As your correspondent pointed out, the balance of power in the federal parliament is now held by a party from Montenegro that was Mr. Milosevic's coalition partner in the elections. Together with Mr. Milosevic's party, his wife's party, this Montenegran party hold a majority. Mr. Kostunica will have to make some kind of deal with the Montenegrans to bring them over and join the opposition to form a coalition government. Plus, his own coalition, 18 parties, very divisive potentially. It's going to be a very difficult problem for him. It's his first major test.", "Mr. Milosevic says he is leaving office, but he is not leaving. In fact, he says he wants to be a part of Serbia's political scene. Do you see that happening? And if so, could that be an obstacle for the lifting of sanctions?", "The West has already made it clear, the E.U. and the United States, that not all the sanctions are going to be lifted right away, because they do fear that Mr. Milosevic's continuing presence in Belgrade, on the political scene, as he puts it, could be a very divisive factor. In fact, we have to remember that Mr. Milosevic's party, for all intents and purposes, at this point still controls the government with the most institutional power in Yugoslavia, that's the Serbian government, the government of the republic of Serbia. They still for all intents and purposes control that government. Plus, he has people who are inside the federal government, been there for years, worked for him for a long time, and it's up to Mr. Kostunica to be able to clean house. And that's going to be hard.", "And finally, Jonathan, when Mr. Kostunica did a television talk show, call-in show, the other night, he was asked about his ties with the army. He said he had had conversations with the army, which convinced him that we will live in peace.", "Yes, I don't think at this point there is any chance for an army takeover, because the rank and file, for all the reports that we understand, voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Kostunica. I don't see them turning against the popular will. And now you've had the army chief of staff, who is very, very close to Mr. Milosevic, endorsing Mr. Kostunica's election as well. So for now, I don't think there's a danger of a military takeover.", "Jonathan Landay of Knight Ridder newspapers, thanks very much.", "My pleasure.", "Thanks for coming in."], "speaker": ["GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR", "ALESSIO VINCI, CNN BELGRADE BUREAU CHIEF", "RANDALL", "JONATHAN LANDAY, KNIGHT RIDDER", "RANDALL", "LANDAY", "RANDALL", "LANDAY", "RANDALL", "LANDAY", "RANDALL", "LANDAY", "RANDALL"]}
{"id": "CNN-288413", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-07-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/07/nday.05.html", "summary": "Minnesota Police Officer Shoots and Kills Black Man during Traffic Stop; Interview with Family Members of Man Shot by Minnesota Police Officer; Trump Defends Use of Six-Pointed Star in Tweet", "utt": ["Congressman Lujan, thank you so much for being on", "Thank you.", "Anger and frustration boiling over after back-to-back police shootings. So let's get right to it.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to you NEW DAY. It is Thursday, July 7th. It's 8:00 in the east. And we do begin with breaking news. There are these back-to-back deadly shootings that have both been caught on camera, or at least the aftermath of them. This time a Minnesota officer opening fire and killing a black man during a traffic stop.", "The man's girlfriend streaming the aftermath live on Facebook. Millions have already watched this disturbing scene that's minutes long. The families of course are heartbroken. The communities are outraged and demanding answers. Let's begin our coverage with CNN national correspondent Ryan Young live with breaking details. Ryan, what do we know now?", "Chris, just a disturbing video. After you watch this a few times it hits you almost every time. First the woman, Diamond, who is in the video describing exactly what happens. And as she realized what's going on and the fact that she may lose her fiance, you can just hear her emotions tear apart.", "Stay with me.", "Diamond Reynolds capturing the moments after her boyfriend was shot by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop.", "We got pulled over for a busted taillight in the back and the police -- he is covered. He killed my boyfriend.", "Philando Castile's white shirt soaked in blood and in distress. They were pulled over allegedly for a broken tail light around 9:00 p.m. outside of St. Paul.", "He is licensed to carry. He was trying to get out his I.D. and his wallet.", "Reynolds live streaming from inside the car with her four- year-old daughter in the back seat.", "He let the officer know that he was -- he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet. And the officer just shot him in his arm.", "The officer, still pointing the gun inside the car, explains why he opened fire.", "We're waiting for back up. I will sir, no worries. I will. He just shot his arm off. We got pulled over on Larpenteur.", "I told him not to reach for it.", "Please don't tell me this, Lord, please, Jesus, don't tell me that he is gone. Please don't tell me that he is gone. Please, officer, don't tell me that you just did this to him. You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was getting his license and registration, sir.", "Multiple officers at the scene, order Reynolds out of the car, handcuffing her. Her cell phone falls to the ground as she continues pleading with police.", "Please don't tell me she is gone. Please, Jesus, no. Please, no. Please, no. Don't let him be gone, Lord.", "Eyewitnesses capturing this video of officers trying to revive Castile before he is taken to the hospital where he died. Reynolds then put in the backseat of a police car, continues talking to the camera.", "I can't believe they just did this.", "It's OK. I'm right here with you.", "Please pray for us, Jesus. Please. I ask everybody on Facebook, everybody that's watching, everybody, please pray for us.", "Reynolds says her boyfriend worked as a cafeteria school at St. Paul School and had no criminal record. Crowds gathering at the scene of the shooting and at the governor's mansion demanding answers.", "One of the things you can notice when you watch the video, is you can hear a small voice in the background at one point, \"I'm here for you.\" That's actually Diamond's four-year-old daughter in the background trying to offer support to her mother, obviously, as she is going through this emotional state. We do know there was no body camera on that officer. So we won't -- not have video of the seconds leading up to the shooting. A lot of questions about this. We know this is the first shooting in the 30 year history of that police department. But a lot of people want answers, and they want answers fast concerning what exactly happened, and then how this unfolded on that video which is so tough, Alisyn.", "I mean, Ryan, of all of the heartbreaking moments, that little voice, saying I'm -- it's OK, I'm here with you, mommy, is possibly the most. So yes, we do want answers.", "A four-year-old.", "A four-year-old, right, that four-year-old little girl. We'll be talking about this and asking lawmakers about it. Thank you, Ryan, for that. Minutes ago, we spoke exclusively with the mother and uncle of Philando Castile. This is their first TV interview, and you can hear them still trying to process what happened here. His mother told us that Philando and his sister had just spoken just yesterday about the concerns they had about carrying their legal guns.", "Earlier, I'll say about 2:00, he came to my house in order to go and get his hair done. And he came back, and we chitchatted, him and his sister. And they had a conversation about the concealed carry permits that they both have. And they were saying that, you know, to be cautious. And my daughter said you know what, I really don't even want to carry my gun because I'm afraid that they'll shoot me first and then ask questions later.", "Oh, my gosh. That seems like some sort of omen or something to hear that. Now Mr. Castile, have you seen the video?", "Yes, I have.", "How do you explain what you see on that video?", "I see a young man helpless, shot for no apparent reason. I saw my nephew shot by a man, clinging to his life, you know, with no help. It was the most horrific thing I've ever seen in my life.", "Yes.", "We hear about things like this happening all the time around the United States and the world, you know, people being harmed and abused by people that we're supposed to trust with our lives, people that are supposed to --", "Protect and serve.", "Protect us. And they tend to be executioners and judges, murderers.", "I basically think that these things are happening because there is no checks and balances in the justice system, and that a lot of our African-American men, women, and children are being executed by the police, and there are no consequences. So in essence I feel like it is becoming more and more repetitive. Every day you hear of another black person being shot down, gunned down by the people that is supposed to protect us. My son was a law-abiding citizen, and he did nothing wrong. He had a permit to carry. But with all of that, trying to do the right thing and live accordingly by the law, he was killed by the law.", "It is devastating to us all.", "I'm outraged.", "We hear that, and that's understandable. And we understand why it feels as though we've seen far too many videos like this. Just the day before your son was shot, we saw one out of Baton Rouge. We've seen so many videos like this, certainly in my line of work, but this one, I have to tell you, is different. And in part it's because his girlfriend was live streaming it. And so you saw her reaction. You saw her four-year-old daughter's reaction in the back seat, and you saw your son's reaction. Have you spoken --", "All of it. All of that.", "Have you spoken to his girlfriend?", "No.", "We can't locate her. No one knows where she is. The last time I saw her is when my daughter and I came up on the scene and she was in the backseat of the --", "Falcon Heights.", "Falcon Heights police department's police car. And they wouldn't even let us get close enough to her to even talk with her.", "And you came up -- but you came up on the scene, Mrs. castile, because you had seen this unfolding? How did you know what was happening?", "No. We were getting phone calls, and my daughter was screaming in the house, and I was like what's going on? What's wrong with you.", "The live streaming.", "The live stream was going on. I personally didn't see it, but I knew something was going on. And they were saying -- they were at Larpenteur and Rice. But then they were saying you could see a Falcon Heights sign.", "Yes.", "So I knew immediately that it had to be Larpenteur and Snelling. We rode up on the incident and we couldn't get to her to talk to her. We were stopped by the police. And I asked them where was my son at. I didn't want to talk to anyone. I just wanted to know where my son was, because I didn't want my son to die alone.", "And what was the answer to where your son was?", "First it was, I don't know. And then the sergeant that was there at the site, he came back and told me he was at the Hennepin County Medical. And I said why did you take him there, why didn't you take him down to Regent's Hospital, because I thought that was a little closer than Minneapolis. But by the time we got to Hennepin County, he was already deceased, and they didn't let me see my son's body.", "At all.", "At all.", "After we see shootings like this, you often see people take to the streets, you see protests. We've seen that already happening in Baton Rouge. What do you want to see happen?", "I would like to see justice.", "Justice. That's all we want is justice.", "That's all we want is justice.", "Justice for Philando.", "Because, like I said, he didn't deserve to be shot down like this.", "No, not like that.", "I couldn't believe it. I could never fathom in my life. I did everything right as a parent. I made sure my kids understood the difference in being law-abiding, and that the police were there to help. I never once in my life would have thought that my son would actually be killed by the persons that are supposed to protect and serve him. And he is legitimate all the way across the board. You want to carry a gun. Go and get your license. And that's what him and his sister did. Everything he did was legitimate. He worked an honest job, five days a week.", "Serving. Serving children in the school. This man was so laid back it is incredible how anybody could mistake that. But --", "Sometimes you have those that, you know, you sit up and say that there is no more, what do you call that --", "No more justice.", "No, no, no, when they -- profiling. They're still saying there is no profiling, but it is. It is. We're being hunted every day. It is a silent war against African-American people as a whole.", "And so --", "It is sad to say. We think we are in the land of plenty, you know, freedom and things like that.", "We're never free.", "And so what does justice look like for you in that case?", "Well, right about now, it is not looking too good because I'm not getting any answers that I'm asking for. And like I said, they did not even let my son to identify him. I have to wait until tomorrow after an autopsy.", "And she may be -- they might even not let her come to see him right away, today.", "They don't know anything. They don't know who the investigators are. They don't know who the --", "The doctor, the medical examiner is going to be.", "They don't know who the medical examiner going to be. They don't know the name of the police officers that were involved in the shooting. They are telling me they don't know anything. So I don't know anything.", "What we do know is Philando is dead. That's what we know.", "That is what we know. I will never see my son again.", "I mean, you know, the hard thing for this family is going to be they're just starting this journey. You know, they haven't been hit by the loss yet. And on the one hand it's allowing them to be really open and honest about the situation before they become consumed by the pain that will hit them. That mom has wisely not watched that video, but it is going to sink in. And once it does, their need for answers is going to be met by a different challenge, which is dealing with what they most of all, which is that their son is gone.", "I can't imagine two better spokespeople for this tragedy. You know, they are -- they're clearheaded at the moment. They are dispassionate, I mean, strikingly at the moment. And just talking about the outrage they have on so many different levels, the frustration of not being able to get their questions answered. The frustration of thinking all along that something like this might happen, and that because their son was black they felt that they had to tell him, counsel him in a different way than we would our children. And that he did everything right, and that this mom did everything right in terms of the advice she gave to her son and that her son was a hard-working guy and legally carrying. I mean, all of these things are just what in particular, this makes it so striking to talk about.", "People of color feel like that all over the country. It does, you know, you should know that this police force said they've never had a shooting in like 30 years. But it doesn't mean that the insecurity isn't there for people of color in communities about how they interchange with police. And that's why we cover this story. And we're going to have much more on this throughout the morning, especially talking to people in positions of power about what to do. We know the problem. We know how it manifests itself. The question is, how do you change it? We can't seem to get there. Now, one of the things that could be talking about this would the process of the election, right, but we don't flow how this is going to enter in. Although we did hear both Trump and Clinton touch on issues yesterday that surround the needs of these communities. But for the most part with Donald Trump yesterday, it was still defending what happened with this tweet of a star that many believed was a derogatory symbol for Jews. Let's go to CNN's Manu Raju live outside the Capitol Hill Club. That's where Trump will meet with Republicans this morning. Manu, what do we expect?", "That's right, Chris. Any moment, Donald Trump should be arriving here. This is the first meeting with a full House Republican conference, and also, Senate Republican conference since he became the party's nominee. Now, not just Donald Trump is here, but also, about a couple of dozen protesters are standing around us, chanting things like, calling Donald Trump a fraud, calling this the party of Trump. So, expect a lot of these theatrics to happen as well. Now, one interesting thing to note, Chris, is that a number of Republicans have decided to skip today's session, largely because they want to stay away from the theatrics that we have been seeing on the campaign trail, including yesterday.", "It's very sad. You know, it's very sad.", "Donald Trump fired up and lashing out.", "Lie, lie, lie. Lie, dirty, rotten liar.", "Again accusing the Clintons of bribing Loretta Lynch. Just hours after the A.G announced that Clinton will not be charged for a use of a personal email server. Trump also doubling down on his most recent Twitter controversy.", "They took the star down. I said, too bad. You should have left it up.", "Insisting he saw no problem with this tweet that his team sent and then revised, after it was widely criticized for being anti- Semitic.", "It could have been a sheriff's star. It could have been a regular star. My boy comes home from school, Baron. He draws stars all over the place. I never said, oh, that's the star of David, Baron, don't.", "The Republican nominee turning to Twitter to compare his tweet with the \"Frozen\" book cover, writing, \"Where is the outrage for this Disney book? Is this the Star of David also?\" Hillary Clinton's campaign mocking this argument, tweeting, \"Do you want to build a straw man?\" In his hour plus speech, Trump hit a number of controversies, refusing to back down once again from his comments about Saddam Hussein.", "I don't love Saddam Hussein. I hate Saddam Hussein, but he was damn good at killing terrorists.", "While looking ahead to November, signaling a future role in his campaign for Newt Gingrich, rumored to on Trump's VP short list.", "In one form or another, Newt Gingrich is going to be involved with our government. That I can tell you.", "Meanwhile, Clinton remained mum about her-mail controversy, while keeping a laser-focus on her opponent, criticizing Trump's bankruptcies in front of the former Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City on Wednesday afternoon.", "What he did here in Atlantic City is exactly what he will do in he wins in November.", "Now, in just a few hours, Alisyn, James Comey will be here testifying before the House Oversight Committee after the FBI director announced earlier this week that he would not recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton over her e-mail arrangement. Expect him to get a grilling. Republicans are not satisfied with this decision not to refer this for a criminal prosecution. But it's really part of a larger effort by Republicans to keep the pressure on after the FBI director made his comments that Hillary Clinton was careless in handling her classified e-mail. Paul Ryan sent a letter today to James Clapper saying that she should be denied any classified briefings going forward in a general election. Watch for more of that in the coming weeks here, Alisyn.", "We will be watching that, as well in just about two hours, Manu. Thank you very much. So, up next, Ohio Senator Rob Portman, what does he want out of the congressional hearing with the FBI director? Plus, in a wake of these two deadly police shootings, both of them caught on camera, what will Congress do? That's next."], "speaker": ["ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "NEW DAY. REP. 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{"id": "CNN-263722", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-09-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/04/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Fiorina Answers Question That Stumps Trump; Stocks Slide after Jobs Report", "utt": ["We also know that the Quds force is responsible for the deaths and wounding of American soldiers. We also know that the Quds force has been in Syria and a whole bunch of other countries in the Middle East.", "So there - there you have it, Sabrina, Carly Fiorina had no problem answering the questions about the Quds.", "Not at all. And one of the things I like most about Carly Fiorina is that, you know, she doesn't pretend that she has been working in foreign policy for the last three decade, but she's willing to do the heavy lifting. She is willing to do the homework. And all of this is so reminiscent in my mind of our experiences with Sarah Palin back in the last election cycle where people were very enthusiastic about her, the way they are about Donald Trump, and then we found out that, guess what, she wasn't actually going to do the heavy lifting. She wasn't going to spend the time doing her work. And Carly Fiorina has demonstrated that she is, not only on - at the first debate she's clearly demonstrated that. She's demonstrated again with Hugh Hewlett (ph). And I - and on a range of issues, from women in the workplace to foreign policy, she's willing to tackle them all and I think it's very important.", "And if I could jump in here, Sabrina, what I think is really interesting about Carly Fiorina, and I didn't know this until today, but as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, she actually had a close working relationship with the CIA. In the wake of 9/11, the CIA needed a whole lot of servers and they contacted Carly Fiorina to get those from Hewlett-Packard. And as a result of that relationship, she worked in an advisory board with the CIA for a number of years. So this isn't only a matter of her studying up and being prepared for the questions. She's actually been immersed in this in a way that I don't think people know about.", "It's interesting because that debate - the next debate is coming up on September 16th. Carly Fiorina is likely to be a part of that debate on the same stage as Donald Trump. So will the debate mostly focus on those two, do you think, Sabrina?", "Well, I definitely think that this is an opportunity for Carly Fiorina. And, you know, it's something important to keep in mind is that when we - when it comes to foreign policy, Republicans no longer sort of own that issue the way they have in years past. In fact, Republicans and Democrats, according to Pew Research, are very much head to head on foreign policy. So the ability to get up there on the 16th and really define one's foreign policy and demonstrate to the public that you have a real grasp of these issues and a vision for what America's foreign policy's ought to look like in the next four years, that's very effective and that will be very important and that's something I think a lot of political commentators will be watching, as well as American voters.", "And I suspect, Sabrina - I suspect, Amanda, that Donald Trump will have more of a policy than, I'm - I'm going to hire a, you know, a General MacArthur type.", "Yes. I hope he learns from this experience, you can't just outsource your foreign policy to advisors. But on the Trump/Fiorina question that you raised, I think there's going to be a very interesting dynamic. If you remember in the first debate, she essentially rose to the top of the polls by attacking him from that early debate stage. This could be the first time they are on together. She's gone after him for the negative way that he talks about women. So we could have some really interesting exchanges coming up.", "I can't wait myself. I'm excited. Amanda Carpenter, Sabrina Schaeffer, thanks to both of you. I appreciate it.", "Thanks.", "Will Joe run? Vice President Biden says he would not hesitate to make a run for the Democratic nomination, but there is one holdup. Biden says it depends on whether his family is up to the grueling task so soon after the death of his son Beau. These were Biden's first public comments on the issue.", "The factor is, can I do it? Can my family undertake what is an arduous commitment that we'd be proud to undertake under ordinary circumstances? But the honest to God answer is, I just don't know.", "Biden has run for president twice before, both times dropping out early. All eyes on Wall Street this morning. The opening bell just rang moments ago. And right now it's not looking so great. The Dow is down, oh, just about 200 points. This comes on the heel of that new jobs report. The economy added 173,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate fell to 5.1 percent. That's the lowest rate in seven years. But these numbers could be pivotal in determining if the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates. So, I suspect the people behind the numbers expect, Alison Kosik, that that - that Fed rate will go up soon.", "Good morning, Carol. You know, you look at all the sell orders piling in and it's clear that Wall Street is not very happy about this report. Not because they necessarily think it's bad. It's because they think it's too good. Look beyond the fact that that 173,000 - 175,000 number actually missed expectation. What Wall Street is looking at is that unemployment number down to 5.1 percent. That's almost back to pre- recession levels. And then they're looking at wages. When you look at these numbers in this employment report, you see that the wage pressure is building. And what that means is that wages are beginning to go up. And the way Wall Street sees it is that for the Fed wages, they've been flat in this country for a long time and that's been a thorn in the side of the Fed, one of the things holding it back from raising rates. Well now that it shows - this report at least shows that wages are under pressure, the Fed may be more inclined to go ahead and pull the trigger and raise rates in September. And there's a lot of skepticism here on Wall Street about whether or not that's a warranted move at this point because there are a lot of questions as to whether the U.S. has really turned the corner and is ready for that rate hike. No one really knows what's going to happen in the end right now, Carol. That meeting coming actually a week - or actually two weeks from now. We will know for sure what the Fed is going to do. Right now you're seeing the gamble - or Wall Street placing their bets on the fact that the Fed will go ahead and raise rates. But, you know, Wall Street could be wrong. Carol.", "OK. So we'll take it with a grain of salt. Alison Kosik reporting live from the New York Stock Exchange. Thanks. Coming up in the NEWSROOM, it's hard to imagine what this little migrant boy went through, but my next guest says it could have been him years ago. His story, next."], "speaker": ["CARLY FIORINA (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "SABRINA SCHAEFFER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INDEPENDENT WOMEN'S FORUM", "AMANDA CARPENTER, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "COSTELLO", "SCHAEFFER", "COSTELLO", "CARPENTER", "COSTELLO", "SCHAEFFER", "COSTELLO", "JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "COSTELLO", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-307700", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2017-03-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/15/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Russian Agents Indicted in Massive Yahoo Data Breach; 2 House Intel Committee Leaders: No Evidence of Wiretapping at Trump Tower.", "utt": ["Looking at live pictures coming in from Michigan. The president will be delivering remarks shortly. We'll have large coverage of that. Stand by. This will be the first time we hear from the president since Intelligence Committee leaders, both of them, the Democratic and Republican leaders, announced today they see no evidence backing up claims that Trump Tower in New York City was wiretapped on the orders of President Obama during the election campaign. President Trump blamed surveillance on that facility, insisting there was surveillance ordered by President Obama. I want to talk more about that with our CNN political analyst, David Gregory. David, the Justice Department missed the deadline to provide evidence of a tap. The House Intelligence Committee leaders say they see zero indication it actually happened, so what is the White House's next move?", "I don't know, Wolf. This is a real credibility blow to this White House and this president. But to upping the ante and saying, put up or shut-up, on such an incendiary charge of criminality from one president to a former president is really stunning. And all these people around, from the vice president to the press secretary to advisors, kind of circling the wagons, absent any evidence, is really going to hurt America's credibility and this president's credibility. You have Lindsey Graham, the Intelligence Committee chairs of both parties saying there's nothing here. The FBI director has already said there was no FISA warrant. So if this was an overly broad charge, then it contradicts how specific President Trump was with regard to President Obama. And it's a mess. And I don't know where they go from here --", "So how -- GREGORY -- other than backing down completely.", "So how do you explain the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, at the White House briefing yesterday -- and you and I are both former White House correspondents -- saying he is extremely confident that the president's assertions will be vindicated. How do you explain that?", "They should know. The president can find out and he can present this evidence if he wants to. Of course, what's so damming about this is that he's either not telling the truth and hasn't been or there's evidence of a warrant and there's a reason why there was some kind of surveillance of him and his team. Remember, this is all about contacts with Russia, potentially, when Russia was up to no good trying to manipulate a U.S. election. So they have the ability to put the cards on the table. The Justice Department could put this out here. What we have heard is that they haven't shown anything. And the FBI director, who is in a position to know, has said it's not true and it should be corrected. So that's what we know so far and we're trying to figure out what's going on.", "On this coming Monday, the FBI Director James Comey is scheduled to testify in open session before the House Intelligence Committee. I'm sure there are going to be a lot of questions for him. And all of us are wondering how far he will go, in open session, on, A, the issue of Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election and, B, on the president's assertion that President Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower? What are you going to be listening for?", "Well, that last point is really important. Will he come out and publicly say what the president said is simply not true? James Comey, as head of the FBI, has, on record, leaning into these investigations, to say whether someone, in the case of Hillary Clinton, should not have been prosecuted, should have been prosecuted, really making public elements of the investigation that is unprecedented in terms of following the rules that is set forth by the Justice Department. We'll see if he steps back or if he doubles down on that. And, of course, the issue of Russian meddling, that is the key point, much more important than the president, though his credibility is vitally important, more important than the president tweeting and making up claims against a former president. What is the evidence? What is that leading investigators to know more about whether there was any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and to what extent Russia was interfering in the election!", "The House Speaker Paul Ryan, on another sensitive issue, strongly defending the Republican health care bill today. Listen to what he said this morning.", "This is something we wrote with President Trump, something we wrote with the Senate committees. Just so you know, Maria, this is the plan we ran on all of last year.", "The speaker clearly tying the president to this current legislation, which seems to be in serious trouble right now. What do you make of this?", "I think that's significant, right? The president has said he's backed Ryan and the Ryan plan, and does he stay there? There's a lot of different forces here. There are moderates, conservatives. There are others this the president's orbit who say this is bad politics you're going to alienate parts of your base here, elderly voters, low-income voters, working class folks who could be left out in the cold under a new Trumpcare plan, don't do it. But now you have the speaker of the House making it very clear the president has been on board. And he has been onboard and he has been fighting for it. It will be interesting to see to what extent he will continue to campaign for it and use political capital and whether the White House, which now says it's open to amendments on all of this, is going to back away or put more pressure on Ryan to give in. Again, what's striking is this is being defined very negatively very quickly. And Obamacare suffered the same thing. You recall, of course, failed Hillarycare, back in the early '90s, that got defined early and was killed. Obamacare survived, but had a very difficult go of it, in terms of how it was defined in communicating its effectiveness.", "And you heard Republican leaders in the House, they need those 216 votes to get it through the House, towards the Senate, for consideration, and they're not 100 percent sure they have the 216 votes in the House of Representatives. Potentially, if it fails, it could be a huge embarrassment for the leadership and for the president himself. David, thank you very much --", "You're welcome.", "-- David Gregory, for helping us with all that. That's it for me. I'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in \"The Situation Room.\" And then, 9:00 p.m. eastern, Dana Bash and I will be moderating a town hall with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. But first, waiting for President Trump to come and speak in Michigan. NEWSROOM with Brooke Baldwin starts right now."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "DAVID GREGORY, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "BLITZER", "GREGORY", "BLITZER", "GREGORY", "BLITZER", "REP. PAUL RYAN, (R-WI), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "BLITZER", "GREGORY", "BLITZER", "GREGORY", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-159120", "program": "YOUR MONEY", "date": "2010-12-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1012/05/cnnitm.01.html", "summary": "Cash or Gifts for the Holidays?", "utt": ["Cold, hard cash. It's the one gift everybody wants more of. But nobody really wants to ask for it. It's a little bit gauche.", "It's a little tacky, right? It's also the one gift, Ali, you can be sure no one is going to return the day after Christmas or the first week of New Year's. So why are we so uncomfortable giving cash as a present, when it's really all most of us need?", "Bills, Benjamins, cold, hard cash. We have no problem spending it this time of year, but giving it?", "Cash?", "What do you think?", "You got me cash?", "Long before the recession, Jerry Seinfeld tried to give cash as a gift, and it bombed.", "Cash is really an awkward gift. It's socially acceptable for grandparents and aunts and uncles to give cash, but it really isn't socially acceptable for, say, friends to give cash to each other.", "Awkward, yes. But 58 percent of Americans plan to give money as a gift this holiday season. So how do you give cash and not be tacky? Peter Post is the great-grandson of Emily Post, who, of course, wrote the book on such things.", "The time it's OK to give cash is when a person, after you've asked them what they would like, says to you, You know, I'd really like to get cash this year or money this year because I'm saving up for a computer and I'll put it towards that computer or towards my vacation or whatever it might be.", "What if you don't want another sweater or set of bath gels? Can you ask outright, Hey, give me money this year instead? Bad manners, says Peter Post.", "A person may have already chosen a gift for you. And just because you say you'd like to receive cash or whatever gift it is you said, that doesn't mean the person's obligated to give that to you.", "And they might, in fact, be offended. Bottom line, whether you're giving or receiving, it's always the thought that counts.", "I think that a gift should have behind it a sense of thought about the person, that, I want to do this for you. I appreciate you. You're part of my life in one way or another. And this is my way of showing that appreciation.", "Let me just give you a receipt. You want to carry that for your mom?", "Bottom line, Ali, you can't tell Grandma, Hey, Grandma, I want cash for Christmas. Only if she asks you first, What would you like? Even though most of us are little less squeamish about giving gift cards than cash, Peter Post says etiquette rules still apply there. The bottom line is, know your audience and give a gift you think they'd like. That's the whole point. It's a gift. It's not their job to tell you they want 50 bucks or a gift card to the GAP unless you've asked them. You know, my husband asked my son what he wants for Christmas. He's 4 years old. He said without skipping a beat, Ali, he said, Daddy, I want a piggy bank.", "Wow! Nice.", "My husband said, I think he must have read your book!", "Well, you know, you could get a piggy bank --", "I'm with you. I'm with you. And I love the gift that you gave me earlier this year of the elephant from South Africa. That was a gift where you knew your audience. Thank you, sir.", "There you go. Great to see you, Christine. Thanks so much. And thanks for joining the conversation this week on YOUR $$$$$. We are here every Saturday 1:00 PM Eastern and Sunday at 3:00 PM. You can also catch Christine Romans on \"YOUR BOTTOM LINE\" Saturday mornings at 9:30 AM Eastern. And stay connected 24/7 on Twitter @Alivelshi, @Christineromans. Have yourself a great weekend."], "speaker": ["VELSHI", "ROMANS", "ROMANS (voice-over)", "JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS, \"SEINFELD\"", "JERRY SEINFELD, \"SEINFELD\"", "LOUIS-DREYFUS", "ROMANS", "JOEL WALDFOGEL, AUTHOR, \"SCROOGENOMICS\"", "ROMANS", "PETER POST, DIR., THE EMILY POST INSTITUTE", "ROMANS", "POST", "ROMANS", "POST", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ROMANS", "VELSHI", "ROMANS", "VELSHI", "ROMANS", "VELSHI"]}
{"id": "CNN-121338", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2007-11-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/13/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Unarmed Teen Killed; Pakistan In Peril?", "utt": ["O.J. Simpson back in court. Testimony could send the football great to trial on armed robbery charges. A hearing underway next hour in the", "Live in the CNN NEWSROOM, Heidi Collins.", "You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Heidi Collins. Tony Harris is off today. Word of a deadly blast in the Philippines this morning. It happened outside parliament in the capital. This video just in to CNN now. It's reported the driver of a lawmaker was killed in the explosion. Nine people were injured, including three our lawmakers. Police have cordoned off the area. An investigation, is, of course, underway. We will keep you updated on the story. Also, Pakistan, a key U.S. ally and armed with nuclear weapons. Today, though, its fragile democracy may face greater peril. Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is under arrest and on the attack today. She called for Pakistan's president to resign in a phone call to CNN. Pervez Musharraf has placed Bhutto under house arrest. Police have also rounded up thousands of her supporters. Bhutto says her party will likely boycott the upcoming elections. CNN's Karl Penhaul is in Pakistan and has the story.", "Islamabad is a city swathed in barbed wire. Pakistan's now in its second week under de facto martial law. The riot shields are ready, but today, at least, there's been no fresh clashes between protesters and police at the barricades. \"Today, it's all been quiet, thank goodness,\" he says. General Pervez Musharraf has promised general elections in early January, but he's giving no guarantee on lifting emergency rule.", "I do understand that emergency is to be lifted, but I cannot give a day for it.", "The president says his emergency crackdown is designed to stem Islamic militant attacks, but in practice, it's spelled arrest for thousands of moderate. Opposition politician Benazir Bhutto's house in Islamabad is ringed by security forces and concertina wire. And this is the scene at ousted Supreme Court chief Iftikhar Chaudhry's home, he's under house arrest. Despite calm in the capital Monday, opposition to emergency rule runs deep. (on camera): At this time of day, this city market should be bustling but many shoppers seem to be staying away, apparently unsure of President Musharraf's next move. (voice-over): Baker Mohammed Abassi says trade has dwindled at the tea shop where he works. He doesn't believe free and fair elections will be possible if emergency law remains enforced. The rules ban political rallies and any sign of protest against Mr. Musharraf. \"It's going to be difficult. People who believe in democracy won't accept this election as legitimate,\" he says. Up the street, Baqar Qureshi says he's too busy trying to scrape a living to go out and protest. Emergency rule has dented business and he says he can scarcely earn $3 a day. \"Rich people can protest and go home safe and sound, but it's the poor people who get killed in the streets,\" he says. Like many Pakistanis, he's lost patience, not just with Musharraf, but all politicians. \"Political leaders always make promises, but they come and rob the country and leave,\" he says. Others still back the president in the fight against militant violence. Butcher Shebhaz Khan hopes he can vote in January elections, but concedes Mr. Musharraf has broken political promises before. \"If he goes back on his word, what can we do? He is the government,\" he says. A government that for now, is silencing anybody's word but its own, with riot cops and barbed wire. Karl Penhaul, CNN, Islamabad.", "I want to get to London now and tell you about the story we are just learning about. According to the Associated Press, they have learned from British veterinary authorities about a case of potentially lethal H5N1, you know that to be bird flu. In fact, they are also saying that this is the same type of bird flu, the same strain, I should say, found in Asia. Apparently, they found it on a farm in eastern England. So, we'll keep you updated on that. According to Associated Press, once again, a case of bird flu has been found in eastern England. We will follow it for you. New York police tangled in a shooting controversy in Brooklyn this morning. This was the scene after police shot an unarmed 18- year-old 20 times. New York's deputy police commissioner tells CNN the young man's mom called 911 to report a domestic dispute and the operator heard the teen say in the background, he had a gun. Commissioner Paul Brown also said the teen came out of his building with an object under his shirt. It turned out to be a black hairbrush.", "He shot him for no reason. No gun or nothing, no drugs or nothing. They shot him -- it was not serious, it wasn't.", "I thought you said that he did have a gun.", "He had a gun, but when they shot him, he did not have the gun on him. He did not have the gun on him.", "He dropped his brush and then when he dropped his brush, they started letting shots open.", "It was after he dropped the brush ...", "After he dropped the brush, they started shooting him with a gun nine or ten times. And then after they shot him up and all that, they put their knee in his back, handcuffed him and dragged him to the car.", "CNN's Alina Cho is following the story for us. We'll update you with new information just as soon as we get it. It's a virtual world, but there are some real life concerns. Are pedophiles finding a second life on the Web?"], "speaker": ["COLLINS", "CNN NEWSROOM. ANNOUNCER", "COLLINS", "KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "PRES. PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, PAKISTAN", "PENHAUL", "COLLINS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COLLINS"]}
{"id": "CNN-387466", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2019-12-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/08/ip.01.html", "summary": "Pelosi Says House Will Move With Impeachment Articles; White House Signals It Won't Cooperate with Impeachment Process", "utt": ["End game. Congress is closer than ever to impeaching the president of the United States.", "If we allow the president to be above the law, we do so surely at the peril of our republic.", "It's a disgrace to our country that's done by, frankly, losers. You almost question whether or not they love our country.", "Plus, how President Trump's fellow leaders treat him behind the scenes.", "I just watched, I watched his team's jaws just drop to the floor.", "And Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg square off over transparency and corruption.", "Who is doing the fundraising for the mayor, what special accesses are they getting? What's happening behind closed doors?", "I certainly think it would be a good idea for her to release as I have to cover her entire career.", "INSIDE POLITICS, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, right now.", "And good Sunday morning. Welcome to INSIDE POLITICS. I'm David Gregory, in this morning for John King. Thanks so much for joining us. Well, buckle up for a historic December. By the end of this month, it's now all but certain that Donald J. Trump will be the third president in American history to be impeached.", "The president has engaged in abuse of power, undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections, sadly. But with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our Founders and a heart full of love for America, today I am asking our chairmen to proceed with articles of impeachment.", "Democrats want a vote by Christmas, and the timeline is tight. The Judiciary Committee will hold a second impeachment hearing tomorrow and then it must vote on the actual articles likely by the end of the week. After that, a vote by the full House before Congress leaves town for the holidays. Rather than mounting a defense, the White House is sticking to its strategy of trying to delegitimize the process, made clear on a Friday letter from White House counsel Pat Cipollone to Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler. He writes: As you know, your impeachment inquiry is completely baseless and has violated basic principles of due process and fundamental fairness. House Democrats have wasted enough of America's time with this charade. You should end this inquiry now and not waste even more time with additional hearings. For his part, the president claims public opinion is on his side.", "You know this, that the impeachment thing is a total hoax. The numbers have totally swung our way. They don't want to see impeachment. Especially in the swing states, I've never seen a swing like this, because people realize it's a total hoax. The people see that it's just a continuation of this three-year witch hunt.", "In fact, we've seen public opinion polling shows that voters remain more or less split on impeachment. So, with us now to share their reporting and their insight, Julie Pace with \"The Associated Press\", CNN's Jeff Zeleny\", Vivian Salama at \"The Wall Street Journal\" and \"The Washington Post's' Karoun Demirjian. Welcome to all of you. Good Sunday morning.", "Good morning.", "So, Julie, here we go. We've got this big week ahead. Where do we go on this very fast timeline to vote on articles of impeachment?", "There are two important tracks right now. One is in the House and one is in the Senate. So, on the House side, certainly what those articles of impeachment will look like, how does the House potentially pull in some of the Mueller investigation or do they try to stay focused on Ukraine, and how does Pelosi manage the anxiety we're seeing from the House Democrats that were slow to get on board with the idea of an impeachment proceeding? And I would really watch the Senate. This is where it's going to head after the holidays. That the Republican-controlled Senate will hold a trial and if everything that we are hearing holds up, it will be a pretty robust trial where both the White House and Democrats will be able to call witnesses. The relationship to watch there, Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, who are going to have to negotiate over the rules for that process.", "So, before we get to the Senate, Karoun, this whole question of how narrow, how broad are these articles going to be, and you do see some Democrats who we can't forget are in more vulnerable districts, districts that were won by President Trump. And they're saying let's be careful about what we do. We go to the full screen here. Representative Brad Schneider from Illinois saying: I think this is where you're hearing moderates speak up. We want something that's very tightly defined. I don't think we should be throwing the whole kitchen sink and try to overreach. Another representative from New Jersey: If we impeach the president for everything he's done that's impeachable, it will probably take us to 2025. Let's be smart, disciplined and focused about this and get it done. Because he charge will be, really, this is impeachment because you never liked him in the first place.", "Right. So, they're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. There's a faction that wants to stay focused on Ukraine, just on that fact pattern, and yet, part of the whole argument the Democrats have been making is that this is not an isolated circumstance. We had to move quickly because the president welcomed foreign interference in the last election, and he solicited it for the upcoming one. So, how you kind of square the circle is their dilemma. Also, the other part of the dilemma is that while it seems pretty certain that they will issue an obstruction of Congress charge, that's been said over and over again, do they decide to go all the way and accuse Trump of bribery as Nancy Pelosi has used that word, Adam Schiff has used that word, several others. So, how do they match their articles to their rhetoric? And, yes, there are moderate Democrats who are nervous about it, but unless they match the articles to their rhetoric, they kind of undermine what they've been saying. And they have to figure out in the next few days what the sweet spot is on all of that. If they don't include some of reference to things in the past, then they kind of lose --", "Well, obstruction of Congress, Jeff. I mean, this is what people can understand, which is when Pelosi says, you can't do whatever you want to do as president. You have to stand up for Congress, which doesn't often stand up for itself.", "For sure, and I think one of our guides here, we don't know exactly which route, but one guide is Speaker Pelosi's own words. She's been reluctant from the beginning. She made this change, remember talking to her the night before she made this announcement back in September she said this is going to be a big moment. She has not approached this in a gleeful way. So that's why I believe it's going to be more of a narrow path here. This is going to be narrow articles and she wants to -- you know, all of her rhetoric has been consistent, so she is controlling -- hoping to control some of her more liberal members. There is a tendency to want to throw everything in, but she is very cognizant of the majority makers and how difficult it is for them. So I'm keeping an eye on her and I think she'll go in a narrow way. But we'll see how it works.", "Vivian, it's interesting, the Vice President Mike Pence on Fox over the weekend. He's still working the house portion of this, warning these vulnerable Democrats about what could happen. Let's watch this.", "There's more than 31 Democrats in Congress who are in districts that the president carried in 2016. I really believe that if the American people will let their voice be heard, especially -- especially to those Democrats that just arrived a year ago on Capitol Hill, we would still have a chance to set this partisan impeachment aside.", "See, I think they would love to see as many defections as possible to say, you know, there's not unanimity here.", "Well, and there isn't. That's something important to realize. And going to Karoun's point about the various articles and sort of reconciling which ones they want to pursue and not, for a number of Democrats, it's a really dicey situation, where on the one hand, they do want to show that they're supporting the party and they're supporting impeachment of the president, but on the other hand, they don't want to make it seem like they're going into it blindly without really scrutinizing all the facts in front of them. And so, with a greater number of articles that will be presented, maybe they could pick and choose to show that they weren't just going for a sweeping impeachment vote. And so, this is something that a lot of them have realized going into 2020, is that they might face a lot of pushback from voters, especially in these swing districts.", "Interesting. What I can't seem to get past is this is all kind of set play. We know what's going to happen and how this is going to play out. And it really plays to Donald Trump, too, who said at the end of the week on Thursday, he said -- this is something he tweeted, of course. If you're going to impeach me, do it now, fast, so we can have a fair trial in the Senate and so that our country can get back to business. We will have Schiff, the Bidens, Pelosi, and many more testify and we'll reveal for the first time how corrupt our system really is. You know, impeachment, reality show, bring it on. He wants it now, Jeff.", "He does want it now. And we don't know what a Senate trial is going to look like in today's age. I mean, it is a lifetime ago, the Clinton impeachment in terms of how media is conducted. So he can eager to have this show and he's been defining this from the very beginning, and winning in some respects. But there are still voters out there in the middle. Suburban women will hold the key for the 2020 election, who are watching all of this. So he wants it to go quick. But I don't think that we know exactly how this is going to end up. I think we should just be -- at least my mind is open. A, we don't know what the vote in the House will be exactly. But the Senate, I don't know. What does Susan Collins do? What does Corey Gardner do?", "And when you talk to Republicans privately, they will acknowledge that don't know actually how the politics of this plays. I mean, they are making this argument that this is basically the same as everything else that we've seen come before with Trump, where voters are very hardened, Republicans stand with him, Democrats are opposed him. But in reality, they don't know what this looks like next year after we get through a Senate trial and a Democratic nomine --", "And it is a trial in an election year, which we shouldn't underplay.", "Right, and that's part of why he's moving so quickly and why the courts haven't been involved up to this point and why the GOP has been pushing back and saying where is the fire. You're going to have an election anyway. But the point you're making, like there is a way for the GOP and the Senate to kind of thread the needle and say, we want to have a legitimate trial, so, yes, we'll become in any of the witnesses. Maybe you'll have votes for like Mitt Romney and Susan Collins of this world to have the impeachment trial, to hear from John Bolton and for things like that. But they still don't have to go all the way home at the end of the day and say this was an impeachable offense. If you look at the precedent of the members of the House that we thought were going to do that, the Will Hurds of this world, who did the opposite thing, right? If you look at just going back and the concerns everybody raised about Brett Kavanaugh. It's a totally different situation, but how many people actually voted against him in the end? It's really easy for the GOP to do everything preliminary and look like they might be on the fence and then side with the president.", "Well, I mean, the question is whether any Republicans want to make a statement about the president's conduct, in the course of the trial, short of impeaching him. We haven't seen whether they want room to make that statement. We'll still with this. We'll take a break here, and come right back. And when we come back, we'll talk about house speaker Pelosi who was the reluctant impeacher, got to yes after this."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREGORY, CNN HOST (voice-over)", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "GREGORY", "JUSTIN TRUDEAU, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER", "GREGORY", "SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "PETE BUTTIGIEG (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "GREGORY", "GREGORY", "PELOSI", "GREGORY", "TRUMP", "GREGORY", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "GREGORY", "JULIE PACE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS", "GREGORY", "KAROUN DEMIRJIAN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "GREGORY", "ZELENY", "GREGORY", "MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "GREGORY", "VIVIAN SALAMA, WHITE HOUSE REPORTER, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL", "GREGORY", "ZELENY", "PACE", "GREGORY", "DEMIRJIAN", "GREGORY"]}
{"id": "CNN-144686", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-11-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0911/03/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Stimulus Fuzzy Math; Warren Buffet Buys Railroad", "utt": ["Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. Christine Romans is \"Minding Your Business\" for us now. And we're talking billions and billions and billions of dollars and Warren Buffett. Those two go together, don't they?", "Yes. It's the biggest acquisition by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in the country's history. It's buying Burlington Northern, the railroad company. And Warren Buffett coming out, I love one of the comments in his press release. Warren Buffett basically said, our country's future prosperity depends on having an efficient, well-maintained rail system. America must grow and prosper for railroads to do well and he said this is an all-in wager on the economic future of the United States. I love these bets. It is a $34 billion dollars investment in his company and he is also acquiring a $10 billion dollars in debt obligation, so overall, about a $44 billion deal. A very big deal for this one. The stock is up. He's going to pay $100 a share for Burlington Northern. And that stock is up in the premarket. Futures, overall, are still down a little bit, but this is -- a lot of people are talking about it because it is, you know --", "Wow, when was the last time you heard of somebody wanting to buy a railroad?", "Yes. An all-in wager.", "A monopoly game.", "The 32,000 miles of railway...", "That's right. That's right.", "I noticed he's not buying Amtrak, though.", "That's true. So, we'll be talking about this on the floor. A very big deal from Warren buffet.", "Pretty cool.", "Yes. Also talking about stimulus jobs. Want to do a little bit of stimulus math.", "You had a roman's numeral.", "I did. Earlier this morning...", "Which was somewhat controversial.", "Okay, 248,000 is the \"Romans' Numeral\" from earlier. I got so many e-mails and twitter responses. There is this obsession with quantifying the cost to taxpayers of those stimulus jobs, right? All these jobs and cost counting, it might be more politic", "First of all, lay out the scenario here for those at home who missed it.", "Okay, I brought it out here. The administration says 640,000 jobs have been saved or created that is based on $159 billion in contracts for states for roadwork, bridges, to keep teachers in classrooms. Using very simple math, that means taxpayers have spent about $248,000 per job that the White House says were saved or created. 248 - And many of you were just outraged by this number.", "So each job costs $248,000...", "Or taxpayers spent that much for that job that is on the book. Critics of the stimulus, though, say, it shows the taxpayers are getting a super raw deal here. But like everything else surrounding the stimulus, it's a little more -- it's not quite as simple as that. And a White House economist told ABC in a couple of days ago that that math is calculator abuse. Why? Well, these are just jobs created to date. These projects will keep creating more jobs, so the cost per job number will likely go down over time. Yes, that's true. The money obviously is not simply down the drain. Many of you said, why didn't you just give this money to me? Why did you give it to somebody else? I would have done something with it. Well, it's not just throwing the money away. It's creating economic activity, wages, also the supplies are ordered, materials are manufactured, equipment rental, all of this stuff. Now, the White House has its own formula for this number. Once the stimulus is fully deployed and working, we have reported this number to you many times, taxpayers will have spent $92,000 per job year, as the White House says. Because it's not necessarily one person, one job, per year. And then you could see that tax cuts, that's about $145,000 in tax cuts to be equal to one job year. And fiscal relief, about $116,000. So, supporters of the stimulus, they want to highlight new and saved jobs with this money. Critics of the stimulus want to say, it's just money down the drain. Look at how much money it's costing. I'll tell you one thing, the politics around this math -- is it math or politics -- I'm not sure. It's both when you talk about stimulus, it's very politically charged and people, both Democrats and Republicans look at these numbers and say, look, I was right. Anyway, more on that...", "It's the great thing about numbers, you can tweak them anyway you want.", "And what did Mark Twain say? Statistics, statistics, lies, lies...", "Statistics. Lies, lies. Damned lies and statistics. Yes. All right, thanks.", "Well, you know what, we can't get as much clarity as we want about that, maybe we can get some clarity on what is dangerous and what is safe for our children. A pediatrician tapping into a lot of the questions that mothers and fathers ask her all the time. Is this safe for my kids? Is this safe for my kids? She answers some of them. We're talking about vaccines, cell phones, certain foods, swine flu shots. She joins us, coming up. Twenty-six minutes past the hour."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "ROBERTS", "ROMANS", "CHETRY", "ROMANS", "ROMANS", "ROBERTS", "ROMANS", "CHETRY", "ROMANS", "ROBERTS", "ROMANS", "ROBERTS", "ROMANS", "ROBERTS", "ROMANS", "ROBERTS", "ROMANS", "ROBERTS", "ROMANS", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY"]}
{"id": "CNN-33327", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-6-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/25/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Protesters Greet Biotech Conference in San Diego", "utt": ["Turning now to another issue on both the medical front and the front lines of a public debate, genetic research. At a conference discussing its advances, the talk is turning to action. Protesters are outside, seizing the streets to warn of potential dangers. Our national correspondent Frank Buckley explains.", "Loud and sometimes colorful, protesters took to the streets in downtown San Diego to demonstrate against Bio 2001, billed as the world's largest biotech event. Demonstrators billing their counterconvention as Bio Devastation 2001. Inside the convention hall, developments and genetic research to be discussed. Francis Collins and Craig Venter, involved in the mapping of the human genome to serve as featured speakers.", "So, a great deal of the work here, that the talks, the workshops, the seminars will involve how to use that genetic information to provide new therapies and cures for people who have life-threatening diseases.", "Thirteen years ago at the age of 29, I was battling for life trying to make my 30th birthday and due to accessing cutting edge technology and biotech technology, I'm here.", "But protesters say genetic information can also hurt patients through potential discrimination in employment and insurance. Critics of the biotech industry also arguing against what they see as a corporate globalization of food and medicine.", "We don't believe that the corporations that have brought us 60 years of chemical disasters should be trusted with the future of our food and our health.", "I want to know what's going on in my body and my daughter's body when they feed corn to us that's been genetically altered. They don't know. They can't tell you.", "But industry spokesmen say their products receive close scrutiny from government agencies.", "The Food and Drug Administration, the FDA is the platinum standard globally and biotech foods and biotech drugs are the most regulated and this is the most regulated industry in the world.", "San Diego officials, meanwhile, are concerned that protesters may attempt to disrupt the sunny calm of the city with more demonstrations. Protesters have promised acts of civil disobedience. Police have promised to maintain a large presence on the streets through the rest of the convention. Frank Buckley, CNN, San Diego, California."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "FRANK BUCKLEY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CARL FELDBAUM, BIO 2001 ORGANIZER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BUCKLEY", "BRIAN TOKAR, PROTEST ORGANIZER", "BRIAN LEAHY, ORGANIC FARMER", "BUCKLEY", "FELDBAUM", "BUCKLEY (on camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-318260", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2017-08-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/03/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Bipartisan Legislation to Combat Sex Trafficking; Transcripts with Foreign Leaders Leaked; Trump Phone Call With Australia; Propaganda Monies Not Spent; Senators On Sex Trafficking.", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Wolf Blitzer. It's noon in Mexico City, 1:00 p.m. here in Washington, 3:00 a.m. Friday in Sydney, Australia. Wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. We begin with a stunning new look at two phone calls President Trump had with key allies during his first days in office. The calls with the president of Mexico and Australia's prime minister happened in January. Several details were reported at the time. But, today, we have complete transcripts of the contentious phone calls. In the transcripts obtained by \"The Washington Post,\" President Trump boasts about his election win and tells his Mexican counterpart to stop publicly saying that he won't pay for a border wall, saying, quote, \"but you cannot say that to the press. The press is going to go with that and I cannot live with that.\" Close quote. In another call with the prime minister of Australia, President Trump blasts a deal the Obama administration had made to accept refugees held by the Australians. Calls his predecessor incompetent, referring of President Obama, and abruptly ends the call by saying, quote, \"this is crazy.\" And the leak comes as the White House tries for a major reset with new chief of staff, General John Kelly, clearing House and trying to establishment order. Let's go to our Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta. He's joining us from the White House. Jim, let's start with that phone call between President Trump and the president of Mexico. What else can you tell us?", "Well, it's pretty revealing, Wolf, because, after all, during the campaign, I was out there and so many other campaign reporters out there, covering Donald Trump during that campaign. And he talked about, at just about every rally, how he was going to build a wall on the border with Mexico. And Mexico was going to pay for it. And what you see revealed in the transcripts of these phone calls obtained by \"The Washington Post\" is that perhaps the president is not so wedded to this proposal of having Mexico pay for the wall. We can put this first chunk of the phone call on-screen, part of this transcript. It says, \"When the press brings up the wall, I will say, let us see how it is going. Let us see how it is working out with Mexico. Because from an economic issue, it is the least important thing we are talking about, but psychologically, it means something. So, let us just say, we will work it out.\" That is the president talking there with Enrique Pena Nieto, the Mexican president there. They go on to talk about how the president may not really insist Mexico paying for that wall. That they'll find some other funding mechanism. And then, Wolf, the other item that I thought was interesting that came out of this phone call was the president talking about winning New Hampshire. He did not win New Hampshire in the general election. He did win the New Hampshire primary. But let's put this up on screen, because it is a statement that is grabbing people's attention up in New Hampshire. It says, we have the drug lords in Mexico that are knocking the hell out of our country. They are sending drugs to Chicago, Los Angeles and to New York. Up in New Hampshire, I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den. And, Wolf, we understand that the governor of New Hampshire has already weighed in with a statement, criticizing the president for making that remark. But, obviously, the president has focused heavily on this issue of opioid abuse. And -- but he, obviously, did not put it in very diplomatic terms, in talking about that problem with the Mexican president -- Wolf.", "What can you tell us about the president's call, the transcript now released by \"The Washington Post\" with the Australian prime minister? Because that was pretty bombastic as well.", "That's right, Wolf. You'll remember, we talked about this at the beginning of this year. When the president came into office, he had that testy phone call with prime minister Turnbull of Australia. And some portions of that leaked out and made news at the time. But now that we have the transcripts, you do see how testy it was. We can put this first chunk up on-screen. And it's interesting to see the president talk about the difference between talking with some leaders and Vladimir Putin. He says, look, I spoke to Putin, Merkel, Abe of France today, and this was my most unpleasant call, talking about his call with the prime minister of Australia. Because I will be honest with you, I hate taking these people. I will guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. The president talking about taking any of these refugees from Australia. That was a deal, as you mentioned, that was crafted by the Obama administration. Obviously, the president did not want to have to deal with that. And here's another portion of his conversation with the Australian prime minister. He says, look, I do not know how you got them to sign a deal like this, but that is how they lost the election. They said I had no way to 270 and I got 306. That is why they lost the election because of stupid deals like this. You have brokered many a stupid deal in the business. And I respect you, but I guarantee that you broke many a stupid deal. This is a stupid deal. This deal will make me look terrible. And so, the president there, Wolf, as you know, showing some sensitivity there that perhaps if he were to welcome these refugees into the country from Australia, he might somehow look soft on the issue of immigration and refugees which was obviously an issue he hit time and again out on the campaign trail and he feels that was part of the reason why he was propelled into the White House -- Wolf.", "Yes, in April of this year, we know the vice president, Mike Pence, publicly announced that the U.S., the Trump administration, would accept the deal that was worked out by the Obama administration. A deal the president, according to those it transcripts, really, really hated. Jim Acosta at the White House, thanks very much. As we mentioned, President Trump described his call with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, as pleasant during the conversation with the Australian prime minister. But relations between the U.S. and Russia are anything but pleasant right now. President Trump reluctantly signed a bill this week to impose new sanctions on Moscow, and Russian officials are blasting him over the move. Let's go to our Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance who's joining us live from Moscow. Matthew, Russia's prime minister says, President Trump, and I'm quoting him now, \"demonstrated complete impotence by signing the sanctions bill.\" What more are you hearing from officials in Moscow?", "Well, they've called this bill dangerous and short sighted. But it really is those words from the Russian prime minister, Dmitri Medvedev, that are so scathing, that one completely incomp -- impotence, rather. He called it a humiliating thing. And said that the American establishment had completely outplayed Trump and put they him in his place. And so, these are all phrases that must have been picked intentionally to try and anger the U.S. president. And I think it shows, from a kremlin point of view, not just that they're disappointed with the fact that Trump signed this bill and that Congress passed it, but they almost seemed to have moved on from the idea that Donald Trump is the president of the United States. He's the man who could potentially turn around the very difficult relationship between Washington and Moscow. That's what Trump promised. That's what the Russians hoped for. But I think the Russians are now basically saying, look, we do not believe that can happen going forward. And so, I think that's a significant moment in this very difficult, very strange relationship between these two countries.", "Yes, it is, indeed. Matthew Chance in Moscow, thanks very much. President Trump blames lawmakers up on Capitol Hill for the current state of affairs between the United States and Russia. In a tweet this morning, he said, and I'm quoting the president now, \"Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time and very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us health care.\" Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He's joining us live from Capitol Hill. Senator, thanks for joining us.", "Wolf, thanks for having me on.", "So, what's your reaction to President Trump blaming the Republican-led House, the Republican-led Senate, your colleagues in Congress, for this troubled relationship right now with Russia?", "Well, we have a difference of opinion. Many of us, including me, believe that Russia is continuing to destabilize democracies around the world, that they did meddle in our election. I think that's pretty well the conventional wisdom now. And so, they need to be held accountable for that. And to have a good relationship with Russia is something important to us. We have some things in common, including fighting Islamic extremism. And, you know, we should be working better together on that. But we can only do so if it's an honest relationship and one that's consistent with the values that we hold dear including, not getting involved in other country's elections. Not, actually in the case of Crimea, taking another country's land. And that's what the sanctions are about. I think if the Russians don't feel there are any consequences to this kind of activity, that they continue to do it. So, we want to have a good relationship but it's got to be based on honesty and following the rules of the road.", "Like almost everyone else in Washington, Democrats and Republicans, you blame the Russians for this very bad relationship right now. Everyone except the president. He blames the Republican- led Congress. And he doesn't say anything at all about the Russians, what they're doing. There is a thunderous silence, that some have called it, from the president as far as Putin and the Russians are concerned. You met with President Trump yesterday at the White House. Why is that?", "Well, we didn't talk about Russia. We talked about opioids, where he's taking a strong stand. And I appreciate what he has done, with regard to fighting back against what you talked about earlier which is unfortunately an epidemic now around our country. With regard to Russia, again, we want to have a good relationship with them. We should be working together on a lot of things together, including the Middle East, including, you know, fighting back against terrorism and violent extremism. But it's got to be based on the kind of terms that America always insisted on. So, by the way, I don't think our relationship with Russia is as bad at the height of the cold war. I mean, I think we -- you know, we have communication with them. We are -- we are working with them. We have, you know, established the ability to actually, you know, have some decent dialogue on some issues including, again, pushing back against terrorism. So -- but it's got to done on a basis that is honest and, you know, where we are holding them to account for the things they are doing that are affecting us and other democracies. If you look at what they've done, Wolf, in Europe, whether it's Germany or France or the U.K., certainly what they're doing in the eastern border of Ukraine, as we talked today, where they're again building up forces there and causing more instability in that country. A country that's turned to us and the west. You know, we need to hold them accountable for that. And that's what these sanctions are about and I think they're appropriate.", "But what's curious, Senator, we hear what you're saying, so many others are saying, Democrats and Republicans. We hear it from the vice president, the secretary of state, the national security. We don't hear it from the president. Let me repeat the question, why?", "Well, I think he wants to have a better relationship with, you know, a major super power. And that's understandable. And I understand his frustration that that has not been able to be accomplished. And let's face it, the Bush administration tried and was not terribly successful. The Obama administration tried. They pushed the so- called reset button. They were not terribly successful. So, he had hoped that he would be able to break through and to be able to have the kind of relationship with Russia that would be constructive for both countries. That's very difficult to do when Russia continues to act in the way that they have, in a destabilizing way and aggressive way. Not just again here in our elections but around the world. One of the issues that we are confronted with today is the fact that the State Department has the ability to use about $60 million in funds to be able to push back against some of the disinformation that Russia puts out. And apparently, the State Department is hesitant to the do that right now. This is an example where there is a bipartisan consensus where you'd think the president and his people would be very eager to up our game. Particularly online, to be able to ensure that, you know, America is taking the lead around the world in pushing back against false information and disinformation that is, again, destabilizing, particularly in some of these fledgling democracies. So, you know, we just have a difference of opinion, I guess, in how to approach it. I think we have the same objective. And I understand the president's frustration. We'd all like to have a better relationship with Russia. But it requires them to change their behavior and that's what these sanctions are about.", "Yes. You co-sponsored the legislation to provide, what, 60, maybe $80 million to the State Department to fight Russian propaganda, ISIS propaganda. They're not spending it. You said, in your statement, you said, countering foreign propaganda should be a top priority, and it is very concerning that progress on combining this problem is being delayed because the State Department isn't tapping into these resources. I assume you've raised this issue with State Department officials, maybe with the secretary of state, maybe with the president. Why are they not using this money to fight Russian and ISIS propaganda?", "Well, I have raised it. In fact, we had a hearing a couple weeks ago on this where I was able to talk to the deputy secretary of state specifically about this issue. And he indicated that this was one of the secretary's priorities. That they wanted to, you know, provide the funding. I think part of the issue, frankly, Wolf, is they have had a tough time getting up and going at the State Department. Partly, because they don't have nominees who have been confirmed in political positions, including with regard to this one area of pushing back on disinformation. So, my hope is it's just a matter of time until they get people in place and can begin focus on this issue. You know, we, traditionally in the United States, have assumed that other countries are, sort of, playing fair on this. And, at the same time, Russia has been spending more and more money and more and more resources, particularly online, with effective disinformation campaigns. Not just here in this country but around the world. In fact, even more so with regard to Eastern European countries, the Baltic countries, as an example. And we do need to push back. And we need to be helpful to other countries as they try to push back.", "Before I let you go, I know you're helping lead the bipartisan effort right now behind a bill to combat sex trafficking and to crack down on Web sites that promote it. Tell us about this legislation.", "Well, it's very simple. We're trying to keep girls and women from being exploited online. Sex trafficking has exploded in this country, we are told. All the data indicates that. And I think the reason is pretty clear. Which is it's moved, as victims of sex trafficking have told me, from the street corner to the smartphone. And this means that we need to go after some of these Web sites that have been brazenly selling girls and women online. They've had immunity, based on the court cases that have been brought against them, the prosecutions against them. They have had an immunity that they've been hiding behind in federal law. So, our legislation is very simple. It just removes that immunity in a very targeted, direct way. That says if you knowingly facilitate sex trafficking, that you cannot hide behind this immunity. And it, essentially, takes the federal law that already exists against sex trafficking and puts it clearly in place with regards to these Web sites. The one most offensive, the one that is promoting most of this is called backpage.com. And so, we spent two years investigating this organization. We found out they were knowingly, again, selling girls and women online illegally."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "ACOSTA", "BLITZER", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "SEN. ROB PORTMAN (R), OHIO, SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE", "BLITZER", "PORTMAN", "BLITZER", "PORTMAN", "BLITZER", "PORTMAN", "BLITZER", "PORTMAN", "BLITZER", "PORTMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-349000", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2018-08-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/31/acd.02.html", "summary": "Polling Numbers And The Midterms", "utt": ["President Trump back on the campaign trail today. What with Labor Day nearing and the real midterm election season about to ramp up, new polling from the \"Washington Post\" and ABC News defies the White House narrative on many fronts. Barely a third of Americans surveyed approve of the President's job performance, 60% disapprove. That's the highest it's been in the ABC News/\"Washington Post\" polling. Perhaps more important to the White House, nearly two-thirds back the Mueller probe. That higher than it's been as well. With that backdrop, the President will soon hit states that are normally a cakewalk for Republicans like Texas, where Senator Ted Cruz finds himself with a single-digit race. Back with me now, Joan Walsh, Ryan Lizza, Rich Lowry and joining the fun, Bakari Sellers and Michael Caputo, who we want to let you know did sign a nondisclosure agreement in his role with the 2016 campaign, which will not prevent you in any way, Michael, about talking about these poll numbers out today. 36% approval rate is not high. 60% approval, very high. We do not know if this poll is an outlier but this is the first reliable poll from a company that we think does a good job since Michael Cohen pleaded guilty, since the Paul Manafort guilty verdict. Do you think some of that is starting to show?", "Well, it's also I think important to disclose that I was the head of communications for the Russian bank that paid Bill Clinton a half a million dollars just before Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration sold 40% of our uranium to a Kremlin-controlled company. So let's get that out there as well. At the same time, I've been, you know, in fear of losing the House for quite some time. I believe that this poll, however, is bunk. I believe the methodology is flawed. It's intentionally tilted to give these numbers. ABC/\"Washington Post\" was among the worst in 2016. And when you run with an outlier poll like this for a whole day on CNN, you're warming up for the same kind of disappointment that you got on November 8th, 2016.", "Well, I will only note Bakari, we'll bring you into the conversation, that every time I've discussed the ABC News/\"Washington Post\" poll numbers, I always note you should look at the average of all polling.", "Right.", "And there have been other polls over the last few weeks that among other things show very clearly that support for the Mueller investigation has gone up in a consistent, significant way over the last month or so. What does that tell you?", "Well, I think for me, it gives some faith in the American people. It shows that the rule of law, not what Donald Trump ran on, not what Attorney General Sessions has been talking about in stump speeches and elsewhere, but the rule of law actually presides in this country, and people want to see Mueller and his investigation play out. I do think, though, that Senator McConnell needs to make sure that he passes a piece of legislation that will protect Mueller. But this is going to sound strange. I somewhat agree with Caputo in this. Donald Trump's favorability has never been high. He's never scored high ranks in any of these polls, and I think that's the danger for many Democrats and many people who want to change the direction that this country's going in. And so the only way -- he's going to get a core 30% approval, 40% approval. He's going to hover around those numbers for a long period of time. He was before the election. He has been since the election. The trick is are Americans going to come out and vote in November, something that didn't happen at the rate it should have last -- in November of 2016? That is the trick. That is the test. And the last thing, Berman, one of the things I wanted to point out if you don't mind is that, you know, this trope about the African- American voters supporting Donald Trump and Kanye West, et cetera, et cetera. He got 3% in this poll. Now, I'm not sure that it's 3%, but we're pretty sure it's low in the African-American community.", "Joan, you wanted in.", "Yes. I mean I think that Michael, you know, once again I'm agreeing with a Republican. Michael is right. This is one poll. You've said that. We've got to take the averages. But there are a couple of interesting numbers in this poll, and one of them is that Donald Trump's the strongly disapproved number has always been in the low 40s. It's up to 53%. Again, we might see a poll tomorrow where that changes, but that -- and we do pay attention to good and bad polls. If we're paying attention, pay attention to that. And then the question that you asked Bakari. I think it's really interesting because the Trump effort to discredit Robert Mueller was working. We saw during the summer, late spring/summer, his poll numbers, his approval ratings were going down. They have been climbing, and now they're up to 63%.", "Other interesting number I've seen here, Ryan -- and, Rich, jump in on this -- the impeachment number in this poll. 49% say they went Congress to pursue impeachment here. 46% say no, but, you know, more to say they wanted to not. Who like this number more, Democrats or Republicans?", "That's a good question because a lot of Democrats actually don't want to run on impeachment, right? They want to run on issues. They don't want that to be front and center in a lot of these races, so I'm not sure it's politically necessarily a great thing for Democrats. But, look, this is an outlier. We all agree this is an outlier, right? Every new trend in polling starts with an outlier.", "We don't know --", "So we have to see -- because I would object to one thing that Michael said. I think he said that ABC and \"Washington Post\" deliberately skewed the poll. This poll, if you look at 538 and some of the other respective polling websites, ABC/\"Washington Post\" polls is one of the most respected polls in the business. I believe they called the final number in 2016 quite accurately, the national number. So I don't believe that ABC News and \"The Washington Post\" deliberately skewed the poll to get these results. That would -- they wouldn't do that for one poll. That would discredit their poll which has a very good reputation.", "All right. As a 16-year alum of ABC News, I appreciate that. All of you stick around. We're going to talk about the President's latest confrontation with established facts and even with his own unedited statements on camera. That's next."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "MICHAEL CAPUTO, FMR TRUMP CAMPAIGN AIDE", "BERMAN", "CAPUTO", "BERMAN", "BAKARI SELLERS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BERMAN", "WALSH", "BERMAN", "LIZZA", "BERMAN", "LIZZA", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "NPR-23834", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2015-10-18", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/10/18/449748234/an-israelis-take-roots-of-recent-violence-lie-in-hateful-incitement", "title": "An Israeli's Take: Roots Of Recent Violence Lie In 'Hateful Incitement'", "summary": "NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Mark Regev, who has been the chief spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Regev will be taking over as Israel's ambassador to the U.K.", "utt": ["And now an Israeli perspective. Mark Regev is a name and a voice well known to American listeners. For many years, he has been chief spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He's soon to take over as Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom. This morning, he spoke to me from Jerusalem, and I asked him the same question I asked Dr. Barghouti, which is why he thinks this particular kind of violence is happening right now.", "It's clear the Islamist groups, other extremists and, unfortunately, also the Palestinian Authority have been propagating conspiracy theories about some Jewish attempt to destroy or harm the Muslim holy sites. We see with the people committing these crimes - they actually believe this hateful incitement. And they really believe, somehow, Al-Aqsa is endangered, and they must kill a Jew to save Al-Aqsa. It's ridiculous.", "I was looking at the polls - a compilation of public opinion polls published by various media outlets in Israel - and I have to say two things stood out for me. One was the sense that there are totally different perspectives about this. The Israeli Jews surveyed said they - they said what you just said, but the Israeli Arabs said something completely different. And how do you overcome this or move forward when people have such completely different perspectives about the roots of the issue?", "Well, the truth is since Israel took control of the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967, we have strictly supported and defended and protected the holy sites of all faiths. That's part of the Isreali way of doing things. And the whole idea that there's some Jewish threat to the Muslim holy sites is simply ridiculous. But nevertheless, extremists have been propagating this rubbish, and it is believed. And that's the sad thing.", "One of the things, though - the other thing that stood out for me from the polling that I saw is that both sides who were surveyed - both the Israeli Jews and the Israeli Arabs surveyed -showed very little confidence in their leaders in the response to this crisis. How do you then move from forward?", "I think we do have the confidence. I think the sort of leadership Prime Minister Netanyahu is providing is giving confidence to the people of Israel, but we're doing our part. We're beefing up the police presence. We're making security more solid. We're safeguarding all of Israel's citizens. I think it's time the Palestinian Authority played its part, too, and they stopped echoing this sort of irrational incitement that is coming from the Islamists. There's no reason whatsoever why President Abbas is being quiet, why he has refused to condemn these deadly knife attacks. You know, we've had more than 25 such attacks, and he hasn't condemned a single one.", "Do you feel that it is solely on Mr. Abbas' shoulders to address these individuals when they describe it as kids who are hopeless and helpless and see themselves as humiliated and demeaned. And they're just - they are not - they see them not as being led by anybody but their own personal rage. And if you have such a different perspective about the cause of a thing, how do you overcome that?", "I think we've seen actually a similar phenomenon in Europe and in other parts of the Middle East and even in North America where young Muslims have been radicalized through social media. This is bigger than the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. This is a phenomenon that has a global significance. I know people are dealing about this very seriously across the - across the globe. How do you prevent the recruitment of young people to this sort of extreme violence? And it's a challenge I think for us all. I hope we find solutions. At the moment, it's important that we play our part in beefing up defense. And it's important that responsible Arab leadership stand up and condemn this phenomenon for what it is.", "I would be remiss - forgive me. I should have asked you this earlier. There is this issue surfacing about the Israeli response and the fact that the death toll among the Palestinians is quite high. It's so much higher at this point. And the question is, I think, how do you balance security concerns with concerns about excessive force?", "The rules of engagement that our police have, I think, are not that different from rules of engagement of other democratic societies across the planet. Israeli police are only allowed to use their weapons - they can only use deadly force in life-threatening situations. Those rules are clear. But when a terrorist has a knife or a meat cleaver or a Molotov cocktail - a petrol bomb - and is threatening, that is a life-threatening situation. And in those situations, the police are entitled under the law to use their weapons neutralize the threat.", "Mark Regev is spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He's soon to take up a post as Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom. We reached him in Jerusalem. Mr. Regev, thank you so much for speaking with us.", "Thanks for having me."], "speaker": ["MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MARK REGEV", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MARK REGEV", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MARK REGEV", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MARK REGEV", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MARK REGEV", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MARK REGEV"]}
{"id": "CNN-324310", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-10-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/23/cnr.20.html", "summary": "North Korea Tensions; Japan Decides; Raqqa Liberation; Battle Against ISIS", "utt": ["I'm Vince Cellini with your CNN World Sport headlines. Lewis Hamilton may be well on his way to clinching a fourth Formula One world championship but it's not quite over yet. The bird (ph) did claim a ninth win of the season and fifth in his last sixth race at the U.S. Grand Prix. But his rival Ferrari Sebastian Vettel finished second meaning there is a mathematical chance of Hamilton being caught", "The U.S. secretary of defense is in Asia, discussing the growing tensions with North Korea. James Mattis kicked off his week- long trip in the Philippines. That's where he is meeting with his counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Speaking with reporters earlier, Mattis emphasized diplomacy as a way to deescalate the crisis. Listen.", "We will be talking about how we reinforce the diplomatic efforts to resolve this campaign to try to return a denuclearized Korean Peninsula, and also how we're going to maintain peace by keeping our military alert while our diplomats, Japanese, South Korea and U.S., work with all the nations to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.", "Mattis's trip comes just a few weeks before his boss makes his first trip to Asia. As the U.S. president prepares for that trip, he discussed North Korea and its nuclear program in an interview with Fox News on Sunday. Mr. Trump praised China for stepping up, and boasted that the U.S. is prepared for anything.", "They have been helping us. They're closing off their banking systems to North Korea. They have cut the oil way down. Look, 93 percent of the things going into North Korea comes through China. China is big stuff. I believe he's got -- he's got the power to do something very significant with respect to North Korea. We'll see what happens. Now, with that being said, we're prepared for anything. We are so prepared like you wouldn't believe.", "Another nation keeping an eye on North Korea is Japan. That nation's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is declaring a resounding victory in Sunday's snap general election. On Sunday night, he spoke on the phone with the U.S. president. The two reaffirmed their commitment to put pressure on North Korea. Let's go live to Tokyo. Journalist Kaori Enjoji is on the story. Let's start with the prime minister's speech to the voters who reelected him. What were some of the key points of his message?", "George, the key points from the prime minister were that the Japanese electorate voted for continuity. This prime minister has been in office this time around since 2012, so that's nearly five years. And if he is voted in again as the head of the party, he could be in office. He could be prime minister until the year 2021, and that's nine years in total. And that hasn't happened in the post war period. And he was saying today at the news conference that that kind of continuity is what's needed in order to address some of the key issues that Japan faces, primarily North Korea, the aging population, the economy, the rising debt level. So, I think that is the message he wanted to bring home after this very, very big win in the elections on Sunday.", "Continuity with the economy. Also continuity presumably with North Korea. As we mentioned, the prime minister spoke by phone with the U.S. president specifically on the issue of North Korea and the nuclear program. What more can you tell us about the nature of that call?", "Well, this was a 30-minute telephone call. And Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Donald Trump have had a number of telephone conversations in recent months, particularly because of the North Korean situation. And he said that they discussed the North Korean issue, and that they had agreed that they would take ample time at their meeting in November, on November 5th, when Donald Trump comes to Japan and the Asian region to discuss North Korea and to reaffirm their commitment in trying to deal with this rising threat as the country continues to launch missiles, some of them over Japan, and threatens the entire region. And I think that kind of a telephone call is also an effort by the prime minister to show that he has been able to engage the U.S. President Donald Trump and to be a sympathetic ear at a time when some of the other global leaders have had difficulty doing so since the start of this year.", "Kaori, I've heard you describe this as a game changer in your reporting before for the prime minister. Explain exactly what that means politically. How does he come out of this effectively with more power to make changes?", "I think he is definitely emboldened by the two-third majority that he has with the coalition. This will be the last chance the prime minister has in trying to amend the constitution. This is a pacifist constitution that has been in place throughout the entire post war period. And he has made no secret that he wants to give a bigger role to the armed force, the military here, to give them a bigger role, not only in the region, but globally, and really legitimize their presence. And a two-third majority, that's what he needs in both houses of the diet (ph). He also needs to call a national referendum as well. So, that's a little bit of another story and a longer story. But I think he is definitely emboldened to try and push through with this dream that he has had and to make it the hallmark of his tenure.", "Journalist Kaori Enjoji in Tokyo, thanks. Russia is slamming the U.S.-led bombing of Raqqa, Syria, saying it left the Syrian city erased. State media report a defense ministry spokeswoman compared Raqqa's fate to that of Dresden in World War II. That German city was the target of heavy allied bombing in the effort to defeat the Nazis. Raqqa was the de facto ISIS capital which U.S.- backed forces declared liberated just days ago. CNN's Arwa Damon reports its recovery could be long and it could be very difficult.", "The destruction of Raqqa is so vast and devastating. It's heartbreaking. And it's going the take at least three to four months before civilians can even begin to go back and try to take stock of what it is that they have actually physically lost because that is how long it's going to take to clear the city of various explosives and mines. The civilian population now by and large languishing in overcrowded refugee camps. And among them, very little celebration at the liberation of their city because of the price they had to pay for it. Everybody who we spoke to knows someone who has died, whether it's a relative, a loved one or a friend. And when it comes to the actual physical reconstruction of Raqqa, where is the civilian counsel even going to begin? If we take Kobani, that saw a similar scale of destruction to Raqqa, well, only 50 percent of it has actually approximately been rebuilt. And the international donations that were pledged, they never materialized. People had to build their homes, if they could afford it, out of their savings. And additionally, just because ISIS has physically lost the territory of its caliphate, as we keep hearing time and time again, that does not mean that ISIS as an ideology, as an entity capable of carrying out attacks and drawing in even more recruits is necessarily over. What we heard from a man from Bahrain who has been detained by the Kurdish forces is that ISIS already has a plan in place. He says they have the finances. They have the means. They have the capability to morph and reemerge again. Arwa Damon, CNN, Kobani, Syria.", "Arwa, thanks for the report. ISIS remains a threat. And both the U.S. and Russian-backed troops share the battlefield in Deir ez- Zor. For more, CNN's Nick Paton Walsh has this report.", "This may be where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is hiding but probably wishes he wasn't. Russian and Syrian regime has tried to pound ISIS's remnants in the city of Deir ez-Zor but they aren't alone in the skies or the ground here. Banking hard and keeping out of the Russians' way are U.S. jets, assisting these U.V.-backed Kurdish fighters to take the nearby countryside from ISIS just the day before. ISIS, collapsing and leaving in their wake an almost cold war standoff. (on camera): ISIS may be holding out in a pocket of a town of Deir ez- Zor, behind me, over there surrounded by the Syrian regime. But they've been kicked out too of this area by American-backed Kurdish SDF forces. Now they've advanced to to this river here which puts them literally meters away from the Syrian regime who are backed by Russian air power. We're told, in fact, these Kurdish-American-backed forces have held face-to-face meetings with Russian military officials to be sure they don't clash around here. Now in the end game against ISIS, Moscow and Washington's forces literally meters away from each other. (voice-over): The Kurds are so relaxed with their new neighbors that fishing is this afternoon's task, with hand grenades. Five years in, and Syria is ground to dust. And this is what they're still fighting over. It's unclear who is left inside Deir ez-Zor. But those who fled, estimated recently at 10,000 a day, dot the skyline. They try to filter them, but last week a suicide bomber struck. And yesterday, they found 30 ISIS fighters. They're followed around by the horror of what they fled, but also by suspicion. The simple question. Are the last to flee the most loyal to ISIS or just the least fortunate? We saw everything in my village, she says. Air strikes, children and elderly dying, my relative just last week. The children couldn't stop crying from fear. I could only stand there. What could I do? I don't know if our home is still standing or even who is bombing us. Yusuf (ph) is 10 and doesn't have any superhero powers here. Just dust and bad dreams. When I would hear the shelling, he says, I would hide in the ground. The hardest part about living in the desert is we're not at home. The stream is endless, like the bombing they flee and this war. Which keeps finding new chapters and adversaries around them. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, near Deir ez-Zor, Syria.", "Nick, thank you for the report. Still ahead, Spain is defending its plan to suspend Catalonia's semi autonomy. Next, why some Catalan residents say direct rule from Madrid could be good for their fur. \"Newsroom\" is live from Atlanta, Georgia this hour, simulcast on both CNN USA and CNN International this hour."], "speaker": ["VINCE CELLINI, CNN SPORT ANCHOR", "HOWELL", "JAMES MATTIS, UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "HOWELL", "TRUMP", "HOWELL", "KAORI ENJOJI, JOURNALIST", "HOWELL", "ENJOJI", "HOWELL", "ENJOJI", "HOWELL", "ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HOWELL", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-352361", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-10-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/16/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Dems Struggle to Generate Enthusiasm among Latino Voters", "utt": ["The push for the Latino vote. In Arizona, volunteers are calling voters' cell phones in Spanish. In Nevada, organized labor, most of them Latinos, going door to door but signs that turn out trouble may be looming.", "The numbers are alarming sometimes, but we got to dig a little bit deeper.", "What do you mean the numbers are alarming?", "They're not registering support or they're undecided or like they just - they are holding back on choosing who they're going to vote for.", "A voting bloc Democrats hoped would surge in the upcoming midterm election.", "If the emphasis were put on the Latino vote that's put on, for example, suburban white women, what kind of game changer would that be?", "I mean, we would be represented. Right now, we're not represented.", "The Latino vote could significantly impact midterm races in these states with high Hispanic populations. After two years of President Trump's animosity, from separating families at the U.S./Mexico border to anti-immigrant rhetoric.", "They're not sending their finest. That I can tell you and we're sending them the hell back.", "I don't like to vote.", "Some told us they would just rather stay home.", "They don't do nothing for us. Just I don't like to at all.", "You don't feel that you have a say? You don't have more of a say in government if you vote?", "No, the government doesn't help us for nothing.", "The Latino voter turnout rate in midterms has dropped since 2006. So in 2018, candidates across the country are going bilingual on both sides of the aisle. But it's the Democrats who are counting on Latino turnout to win seats in Congress.", "Do you feel that the Democratic establishment is paying enough attention to the Latino vote?", "Not enough. But there are in roads. Little by little, I think we're getting to the numbers. And by them paying attention, then you can motivate them to turn out.", "Latinos are not a monolithic voting bloc. The latest Gallup Poll does show a 25 percent of them, according to the poll, support President Trump. And another thing to mention, Poppy, is that the demographic of Latinos is relatively young. And youth does correlate with a lower inclination to vote.", "It does, absolutely. That's sort of a dual- edged problematic sword for the Democratic Party right now. That was a really interesting report, Kyung. Thank you for bringing us that from Phoenix. So, what is bringing you to the polls? Are you voting? We want to know the issues most important to you.", "Each morning leading up to the elections, we're hearing from voters across the country, across the political spectrum. It's a segment called \"Why I'm Voting.\" And here's what you had to say to that.", "We need a change. We need a change in the Senate, the House of Representatives because we need to take it back for the people, because Trump is not representative of the American people and the majority of the American people.", "I believe in the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the American family. I'm a very -- I have a strong belief in religious freedom.", "Your vote is your voice. The reason that politicians do what they want is because you don't vote. They take you for granted. If you vote, they're going to see your powerhouse.", "We have to perfect this country. Bring more jobs, economy back and protect this country from drugs, from companies, and those three things are very important to me.", "Interesting.", "I love hearing those -- these people from all over the country. People think about it seriously, and there's a big variety out there. Tell us why you are voting. You can weigh in on a conversation by posting a video to Instagram telling us what's pushing you to the polls this election. Use the hashtag #whyivotecnn. And from mad dog to probably a Democrat. Where does the president really stand on Defense Secretary James Mattis? Hear what Mattis himself has to say about it. That's next."], "speaker": ["KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LUIS HERIDA, DNC COMMITTEE MEMBER", "LAH (on camera)", "HERIDA", "LAH (voice-over)", "LAH (on camera)", "BETTY GUARDADO, UNITED CARE LOCAL 11", "LAH (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "LAH", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "LAH (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "LAH (voice-over)", "LAH (on camera)", "HERIDA", "LAH", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR", "GWENDOLYN WEST-SUTTON, VOTER FROM SICKERVILLE, NEW JERSEY", "JUDY GRONE, VOTER FROM LEWISVILLE, TEXAS", "MIKEY CHAPA, VOTER FROM LAREDO, TEXAS", "NORMA RENO, VOTER FROM TAMPA, FLORIDA", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "CNN-11309", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-7-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/04/mn.06.html", "summary": "OpSail 2000 Floats to its Conclusion", "utt": ["We want to show you some more pretty pictures and hear more about OpSail 2000, and for that, we go to Gary Tuchman in New York. Gary, good morning again.", "Good morning to you, Daryn. Very festive day in New York City right now. We are coming to the end right now of Operation Sail 2000 and International Naval Review. But first, we have a lot of noise right now, dignitaries are coming off a helicopter right here aboard the USS John F. Kennedy. One of the dignitaries coming aboard this aircraft carrier in about 25 minute will be the president of the United States Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton will be coming aboard here to review the tall ships from throughout the world, 150 of them, that will pass us by, right next to the Statute of Liberty here in the New York Harbor. A short time ago, he was a board am Aegis-type cruiser, another ship, he passed by here, and he received a 21-gun salute from the 5000 plus people on this aircraft carrier, the USS John F. Kennedy. It is estimated that there are 70,000 private craft in the waters behind me here in the New York Harbor and the Hudson River to celebrate July 4, 2000, America's 224 birthday, and the first Independence Day of the new millennium. So we except the president on the United States on this ship in about 15 minutes to review the 150 tall ships that have arrived in New York City for this celebration. Daryn, back to you.", "All right, Gary, thanks for that additional peak. We appreciate it. We will be back with you later in the morning."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-100445", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2005-12-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/08/lol.01.html", "summary": "Torture Debate Has Overshadowed Rice's European Trip", "utt": ["Iraq has finally shut its western border with Syria. It's a pre-election precaution in light of Syria's alleged role as supplier, or at minimum, conduit of fighters and weapons. Car, train, and pedestrian traffic on hold until further notice. There's also a curfew and a ban on civilian weapons. A bombed out bus on the uphill road toward bona fide democracy. A representative government in Iraq one week before Iraqis choose a four-year parliament, a suicide bomber jumped on a bus leaving Baghdad for Nasiriya, in the deeply Shiite south. At least 30 people were killed on that bus and at a nearby food stand, where the blast reportedly set off secondary explosions in propane tanks. It all took place at a major depot where more than 40 people were killed in a triple car bombing back in August. Some day, Iraqi troops and police are supposed to be ready, willing and able to face and defeat insurgents on their own. It's a tall order. One American lawmaker worries it's taller than you think. Democratic Congressman Rush Holt feels that terrorists are infiltrating Iraqi security forces. He's going to join me live in the next hour of LIVE FROM. And the torture debate rages on. It's overshadowed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's latest European trip. The issue was raised again in her meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels. She admitted abuses of terror suspects could still happen despite U.S. rules prohibiting torture. Still, she may be winning European politicians over. CNN European political editor Robin Oakley reports.", "It's taken all the charm she can muster, along with plenty of hard-headed diplomacy. But slowly, grudgingly, Condoleezza Rice seems to be winning over Europe's politician to the U.S. policy of extraordinary rendition, spiriting away terrorist suspects to mystery destinations for robust interrogation. In Kiev, she pledged the U.N. convention against torture applied to U.S. personnel abroad as well as those at home. Detainees were not to be subjected to degrading treatment, not covered by the convention. The pledge that America has a no torture policy was repeated when she met NATO foreign ministers in Brussels.", "The United States does not engage in torture, doesn't condone it, doesn't expect its employees to engage in it.", "But the breakthrough seems to have come over dinner Wednesday. Fighting terrorism, she acknowledged in softer tones than before, create a dilemma for democracies. And it was all about striking the right balance. Her allies were swift in support.", "I think it was a good discussion. I think it cleared the air. I think that Secretary Rice made a strong intervention.", "But crucial approval afterwards too, from some who had been sharpest in their criticism of alleged U.S. practices.", "It is often difficult to strike a balance, but given the assurances which, once again, she has given, that the United States will act in conformity with its own constitution, its own laws and will obey or act also in accordance with international agreements, I think that we have gotten all the guarantees and all the satisfactory answers we can hope for.", "Across Europe, Dr. Rice has insisted good intelligence is the key to fighting terrorism. And governments, she insists, have to accept the consequences.", "This is not like normal, criminal activity where you wait until something has happened and then you arrest the suspects and then you try them, and then you punish them. Once the crime is committed in this case, 3,000 people are dead in New York and Washington, or people are dead on July 7th in -- and the scores in Great Britain, or a Palestinian wedding party has been attacked in Jordan.", "At the expense of other business on her trip being totally submerged, Dr. Rice has removed some of the suspicions of European ministers. But many of them, she's implied, had more than an inkling of what was going on anyway. Persuading Europe's parliaments and people the U.S. has not been subcontracting torture may take a good deal longer. Robin Oakley, CNN, at NATO headquarters in Brussels.", "Crime is down, but fear is up, way up, in New Orleans. We're going to tell you about a run on the guns in the city when LIVE FROM returns."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "ROBIN OAKLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE", "OAKLEY", "JAAP DE HOOP SCHEFFER, NATO SECRETARY GENERAL", "OAKLEY", "BEN BOT, DUTCH FOREIGN MINISTER", "OAKLEY", "RICE", "OAKLEY", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-328687", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2017-12-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1712/18/es.02.html", "summary": "South Korea Police Investigating baby Deaths; Amy Wright Named 2017 Hero Of The Year.", "utt": ["Welcome back. President Trump expected to unveil a new national security strategy today in Washington. It has four goals -- protect the American people, advance American prosperity, preserve peace through strength and advance American influence. But he is also expected to lash out at China. CNN's Matt Rivers live in Beijing with us this morning. Good morning to you, Matt. Why might the President lash out at China?", "It could very well be because that is what he did quite often on the campaign trail, fulfilling campaign promises, if you will, Dave. This is a document, a national security strategy document that every U.S. President has produced going back to Ronald Reagan, and what the President will likely do when it's revealed later on today is talk specifically about China in a negative way. The President has certainly said over the years that he believes China engages in unfair trade practices, steals intellectual property, and restricts market access for U.S. companies here. And so, it's no surprise, then, that perhaps he would want to move forward with harder-line policies against the Chinese when it comes to trade. That said, since the beginning of his presidency, Donald Trump has really shied away from taking really punitive measures against the Chinese because of North Korea. The Trump administration has sought Chinese cooperation with the ongoing situation in the Korean peninsula, has sought cooperation with the Chinese trying to figure out a lasting solution to that, and as a result has backed away from a lot of these really tough policy measures when it comes to trade. That could be changing. We've seen some signs of that recently, a couple of investigations opened up by the Trump administration looking at things like steal dumping by the Chinese, looking at intellectual property theft that could result in tariffs as soon as next year. And so, perhaps what we're seeing is the formalization of Trump's campaign rhetoric, that we got so used to throughout the campaign, this could be kind of formalizing that in a government document. Dave?", "Have to be careful there. All right. Matt Rivers live for us in Beijing, thank you Sir. Police in South Korea investigating the deaths of four newborns in a neonatal intensive care unit in Seoul. The babies died within 81 minutes of each other. The hospital says staff performed CPR but efforts to revive the babies were unsuccessful. Korea's CDC says blood tests taken before they died show three of them may have had a bacterial infection. Autopsies are being performed but final results may not be available for another month. Eight other infants were transferred to another hospital and four others were discharged following the deaths.", "All right, let's get a check on \"CNN Moneystream\" this morning. Global stock markets are higher today. U.S. stocks closed Friday at an all-time high as tax reform is within reach. GOP leaders secured votes for its passage Friday. Look, it won't be the simplification once promised. You won't be able to file taxes on a postcard. It doesn't get rid of all of those loopholes, but it cuts corporate taxes, and that is what Wall Street wants. The Dow jumped 140 points, now just 300 points shy of 25,000 are nine trading days left this year. Espionage, hacking, bribery, obstructing federal investigations, those are just some allegations against Uber. In a bombshell letter from a former employee. The 37-page letter was made public at a court filing Friday, part of an ongoing lawsuit by WAMO against Uber. Alphabet's self-driving car unit, for stealing trade secrets. Uber told CNN it's aware of the letter's allegations but that they are unsubstantiated and that going forward it will compete honestly and fairly on the strength of our ideas and technology. \"Star wars, the last Jedi\" was a box office force this weekend. The movie had the second biggest opening weekend ever in North America, bringing in an estimated $220 million. \"The last Jedi\" also had the second biggest Thursday night opening and the second biggest opening day. Why second best? Well, beat out by the previous \"Star wars\" film, \"The force awakens.\"", "Are you going to see it?", "Of course. Not yet.", "Just not on opening weekend. A special night for us here at CNN as we honored our CNN heroes, people making a difference around the world. And Amy Wright was named the 2017 hero of the year. The mother of two Down syndrome kids runs the non-profit able to work USA. It employs 40 people with intellectual and disabilities at a coffee shop in North Carolina named for her two kids.", "My two youngest children, who are my inspiration, I want you to know, because I know you're watching at home tonight, Biddie and Bo, that I would not change you for the world, but I will change the world for you.", "Wow.", "She is an incredible woman. Each of the top ten CNN heroes will receive $10,000 in recognition of their work. Wright will receive an additional $100,000 grant to further aid enable to work USA. Every story last night was a tear-jerker, but they were also inspirational and just reminded you that there is so much good going on in this world, even when it feels like there's not, when it feels like such a negative year. I think we all needed this. It's going to re-air on CNN, so please, show it to your children. It's good for the soul.", "There are heroes everywhere, we promise you.", "Early Start continues right now with the latest, the busiest airport in the country..."], "speaker": ["BRIGGS", "MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "AMY WRIGHT, PRESIDENT, ABLE TO WORK USA", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS"]}
{"id": "CNN-252927", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-04-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1504/08/nday.02.html", "summary": "Jury Deliberating in Boston Bombing Trial", "utt": ["A second round of jury deliberations in the Boston bombing trial gets under way this morning. On Tuesday, the panel could not reach a verdict after seven hours, and they sent out two undisclosed questions to the judge. Let's get right to CNN's Alexandra Field tracking all of the latest for us from Boston. What do we know this morning, Alexandra?", "Hey there, Alisyn. This case isn't exactly a who done it. Dzokhar's attorneys have admitted to his role in it. But the jury does have the responsibility of looking at each of the 30 counts that Dzhokhar is charged with and determining whether or not the government met its burden of proof. A lot of people thought the process would move swiftly. This is the first time that the jury has been together behind closed doors where they're able to talk freely about the testimony that they've heard and the first time they've had access to every piece of evidence that's been entered into the case over the last couple of weeks. We know that already this process has raised a couple of questions for the jury. They submitted two notes with questions for the judge. Those questions have not been publicly revealed in the courtroom. We expect that the judge will help the jury resolve those questions later this morning. But we should point out, this is certainly not irregular. It's pretty routine, Chris, for juries to come back with questions, wanting clarifications, definitions, maybe a little more guidance. We should know more when the jury returns here at 9:00 a.m.", "All right. Alexandra, we'll stay on that. We have big news this morning -- murder charges for a South Carolina cop after disturbing video surfaces depicting what happened. This officer shooting an unarmed man in the back. That man, Walter Scott, 50 years old, obviously running away from the police officer. This all started with a traffic stop Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m. local time. The officer is Michael Slager. He says he had to shoot Walter Scott because Walter had taken his stun gun in a scuffle and there was fear for his life. But that was before the officer knew that video existed.", "The fate of Aaron Hernandez now in the hands of a jury, which resumes deliberations later this morning. During closing arguments on Tuesday, the defense team admitted that the former New England Patriot witnessed the murder of Odin Lloyd. Now, this was a surprise. This was the first time we heard this in the courtroom. The defense has always maintained that Hernandez had no part in planning Lloyd's murder.", "Washington, D.C. was in the dark, a voltage drop briefly knocked out electricity in parts of Washington and Maryland, including the White House and the State Department. Officials blame a downed transmission line at a power plant in Maryland. The White House, which switched to back-up power so quickly, we're told President Obama did not even notice this. They dismissed any terrorist connection to this outage. But it was so bad, even Oprah Winfrey was left in the dark.", "To thousands --", "Yes.", "When it happens to Oprah --", "This has never happened to Oprah before, she was giving a speech honoring Maya Angelou when the lights went out.", "I thought she had the power to create light, no?", "Chris Cuomo right there, @ChrisCuomo.", "Wow, she's been revealed.", "She's big enough to do it. I stick with my statement. All right. So, bad weather news coming your way. Tornadoes could hit central U.S. today. With severe weather in the forecast as well. Let's get to meteorologist Ivan Cabrera for the latest. What do we know?", "Yes, talking about lights going out, I think we'll have plenty of that later this afternoon. Clash of the air masses here, Chris, is what we have going. Thunderstorms right now in parts of Michigan and just to the north we have snow. So, it's that clash of air masses that's going to set up the severe weather threat later on. Thunderstorms right now in Illinois. Temperatures well into the mid and upper 80s ahead of the frontal boundary, to the north, we have 50s and 60s. So, we have the temperature difference, the moisture difference, dry air from the north and that we have upper level energy that's going to be coming in from the west, all of that is going to transpire late this afternoon to some thunderstorms that include large hail, damaging winds, and the potential for tornadoes in some of these super cell thunderstorms could be producing some strong tornadoes. We'll watch that closely. Oklahoma City, Wichita, Kansas city, heading up into St. Louis, that is an area we're focusing in on today as we continue heading through later this afternoon. And the severe weather threat continues tomorrow, a multistate, multiday tornadic threat. We'll keep you posted on it, back to you.", "Yes, pay attention to this one, guys. It doesn't look good. Thanks, Ivan. We have a disturbing breach at the White House, Russian hackers manage to infiltrate the computers there. So, how much information did they get? Was any of it classified? Christiane Amanpour joins us next."], "speaker": ["ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CUOMO", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "IVAN CABRERA, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-49719", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-2-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/21/lad.11.html", "summary": "Suspect's Father Apologizes to Victims' Families Alabama Killings", "utt": ["Now to an incredible story of death- defying determination. An Alabama man who was buried alive beside his dead son refused to give up until his son's killers were captured. Butch Bowyer clawed his way out of a shallow grave despite a throat wound and was able to identify his attackers for police. Now the father of one of the alleged killers is apologizing for the sins of his son. Reporter Adrian Helmick (ph) of our Columbus, Georgia affiliate WTVN (ph) has the story.", "I just don't know what to say or how to react or how to tell how sorry I am, it's just a horrible tragedy.", "Jimmy Brooks Sr. can't fight back the tears, thinking about his son's alleged role in two separate murder cases. His son, Jimmy Brooks, Jr., along with Michael Carruth, have been charged with murdering 12-year old Brett Bowyer and attempting to end his father's life. The Lee County Sheriff's Department says they have also been linked to a double murder near Beauregard (ph). Thurman and Katherine Ratliff were shot inside their home last month. Brooks Sr. wrote a note expressing deep sorrow for both families. He was no stranger to the families affected.", "I just can't imagine what Butch -- the terror and the fear and the grief that he's feeling over his son. I know his son was his whole life. I know the Ratliffs", "Brooks Sr. says he will always love his son, but he can't comprehend his being involved in such an evil crime.", "If he's guilty, he needs to be punished like everybody else.", "Adrian Helmick (ph) for CNN in Russell County Alabama."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "JIMMY BROOKS, SR.", "ADRIAN HELMICK, REPORTER FOR WTVN (ph)", "BROOKS", "HELMICK", "BROOKS", "HELMICK"]}
{"id": "CNN-16106", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-9-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/18/mn.17.html", "summary": "Election 2000: Tamela Edwards of 'Time' Magazine, Rich Lowry of 'National Review' Discuss Political Terrain Heading Into Debates", "utt": ["All right, Daryn, back in this country presidential politics now on the home front. Joining us from New York, time to talk about it with \"Time\" magazine's Tamela Edwards and Rich Lowry, editor of the \"National Review\". Good morning to both of you guys.", "Good morning.", "Good to have you back. I'm going to get to the e-mails in a second here. Tamela, quick take on the elections right now, though. Any observations that you're seeing right now, either in general or on the Bush side or Gore side?", "Well, I mean, I think we've really seen the terrain defined in terms of swing voters, in terms of middle-class families. And what's more, I think in the next few weeks we're about to have a lot of fun. Of all presidential races in recent memory, I think this one is so neck-and-and-neck, so close, every day is going to be like a roller coaster. I'm really excited and I think the voters are going to find that both campaigns are really working hard for their attention and their votes.", "Yes, I like your observation. I agree with it in large measure. Rich, what's your thought right now?", "Well, Bill, I think the big news is the way the Bush campaign has now fundamentally shifted its message. And over the last year or so, we've had the extraordinary spectacle of a major presidential candidate running for president without really an economic pitch to middle-class Americans. And that has been an extraordinary deficit of the Bush campaign. Now they're playing a little catch-up. Now, over the next few weeks, you'll see Bush trying to explain to middle-class voters why he will be better for their pocketbook than the Gore campaign.", "And the big push out of Austin is to make sure the issues are lined up and compared as well. I want to get to our e-mails quickly now. Dr. B.J. Harman sends us our first e-mail of today. We'll go ahead and take it right off the screen here, writing: \"Why is it that Republicans keep on taking credit for balancing the budget and reducing the deficit while conveniently forgetting that it was 12 years of Presidents Reagan and Bush that took the deficit from less than a trillion to around $4 trillion?\" Dr. B.J. Harman with that. Certainly Republicans may have a different take on this e-mail. Rich, jump in. Your answer?", "Well, sure, I mean, this is one of the main bragging points of Clinton and Gore is how they balanced the budget. But the fact is, they wouldn't have done that without the pressure of Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress. Republicans paid a tremendous political price in forcing Clinton and Gore to agree to a balanced budget in '95 and '96.", "All right, another e-mail here, quickly. Back to it now: Quote: \"Instead of trotting out the families he's chosen when he talks about his tax cut plan, I wish Mr. Bush would just point to his running mate Mr. Cheney and tell us how much he'd get back under that plan.\" That's Anne in Oklahoma. Tamela, jump in.", "Ouch! I mean, absolutely. I think the governor is now trying to pivot, as Rich pointed out, and find middle-class families who he can say would do better under his plan. It certainly doesn't help him that, you know, the Democrats can turn around and point to Dick Cheney and how much he made in selling those stock options. But that's minor. More important for Bush if he can start moving onto this terrain and saying, these are the families that will do better under my plan, really look at me as a leader not just of the wealthy, and try to undercut Gore's, you know, I'm for the people, he's for the powerful. That's more important than making fun of Dick Cheney.", "All right, let's get back right at it here. Now, next e-mail comes to us from Jo in Naples, Florida: \"If the school voucher system goes forward, where are we going to get the extra teachers and improved infrastructure to accommodate the predictable onslaught?\" Again, Jo in Naples, Florida. Rich.", "Well, the argument for vouchers is based on the premise that the public schools are failing and just spending more money on them isn't going to help. So what you want to do is -- this is primarily a problem in inner-city, urban schools. What you want to do is take the kids that are most in need, minority poor kids, and give them a chance to go to a school that will actually work. And the schools that are working right now in urban areas are not the public schools, they're Catholic and other private schools.", "Another e-mail now. This one comes to us from Ron Lay. Quoting now off the screen: \"Didn't we learn our lesson? Character does count. You would think Al Gore's list of investigations would be enough for us to elect Gov. Bush. Gore is more like Bill Clinton than he lets on. He will do anything to get elected. Tamela, continue this issue for the vice president.", "Well, you know, it's interesting, that \"didn't we learn our lesson,\" because, in '96, Bob Dole tried to use that against Bill Clinton. And, unfortunately, I think character for the Republicans is not enough of an issue. I think if you're riding high in other ways, you can sort of use that as an underpinning of a campaign. But as a prime issue, at the end of the day, I think voters want to know who's better for their kids in schools, who's better in terms of their parents and prescription drugs, who's better for a lot of different issues. And just going to character, you get into that dangerous territory of seeming too negative or seeming as if you have no other arrows in your quiver. So I think the governor's been smart to not only try to raise issues of character, but try to move to this middle-class issue terrain.", "Got one more e-mail got to get to about the debates. But first, Rich, I don't know if you saw the \"New York Times\" this morning or not, but it appears some of these key battleground states are leaning now toward Al Gore based on local polling, but Ohio seems to hold firm for Gov. Bush.", "Thank goodness for Ohio, Bill. What would we do without Ohio?", "I guess the question is I'm wondering what the difference is between these different states because they seem to go really in lockstep with each other on a lot of different fronts.", "Most of them. You know, this is why I think it's a mistake for the campaigns to try too much to narrowcast their messages to the voters in these states. I mean, these states respond to the national environment. And what's happened over the last three weeks is Gore fundamentally changed that environment. And what Bush has to do over the next two weeks before the first debate is to try to change that environment again. He has his work cut out for him, obviously, because he'll have a lot of static with the Olympic coverage.", "And just to quote you again, you said \"thank goodness for Ohio,\" right?", "Exactly.", "Back to the e-mail again one more time, Brandan Gott out of the University of Toledo, a student now from the Buckeye State, says: \"How does anyone expect any third-party views to reach the American public without media coverage. Debates are the best time for the public. They get a sense of differing views, and limiting those views ultimately hurts the Democratic process. What can Americans do to get more people into the debates?\" An ongoing issue, Tamela. And when you consider Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan nowhere near 15 percent right now, they're not going to make the commission debates in October for certain, at least at this point, anyway.", "Right. Well, I mean, I think this comes down to the candidates of those other parties themselves. I mean, the Reform Party has doubled this year as a moving circus with the party sort of turning in on itself, and everybody, I would think, would feel a little queasy about any candidate from that party showing up in the debate. And Nader just has not gotten over the bar in terms of the amount of the electorate he's pulling, again, to the debates. I think it will take someone of the stature of a John McCain or otherwise who goes for a third-party bid -- maybe a Jesse Ventura -- and pulls enough of the public attention to match up to what Ross Perot did a few years ago where this person has to be let into the debates. Rich, final comment. Five seconds.", "Well, I think the 15 percent barrier is a little too high. I would like to see at least one debate that just includes all these guys because Buchanan and Nader hit issues that the other two parties just don't, and I think they're worth hearing from.", "We're out of time, but thanks. Rich Lowry, Tamela Edward, come on back, all right?", "Thanks.", "Thanks for having us.", "Good deal. Bye-bye.", "Out of time but we got Ohio in there.", "How about that?", "Got to do that.", "What have I been telling you for three years now?", "All roads lead to Ohio.", "All roads come back to Ohio.", "Especially Cincinnati.", "You got it."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "TAMELA EDWARDS, \"TIME\" MAGAZINE", "HEMMER", "EDWARDS", "HEMMER", "RICH LOWRY, \"NATIONAL REVIEW\"", "HEMMER", "LOWRY", "HEMMER", "EDWARDS", "HEMMER", "LOWRY", "HEMMER", "EDWARDS", "HEMMER", "LOWRY", "HEMMER", "LOWRY", "HEMMER", "LOWRY", "HEMMER", "EDWARDS", "LOWRY", "HEMMER", "EDWARDS", "LOWRY", "HEMMER", "DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "HEMMER", "KAGAN", "HEMMER", "KAGAN", "HEMMER", "KAGAN", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-152465", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-6-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/25/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Gulf Vessel Owners Wait for BP's Call", "utt": ["--And there are two options we'll either play Ghana or play against Germany. And we know how tough mentally the Germans can be on the field. And I think this is a good match-up, because, mentally, I think that this game just matches up better on the field with them. And they also know they're going to get some opportunities. The African nations are known for giving away opportunities because they take so many chances going forward. So this is a good setup for the United States.", "Why are the South Americans doing so well?", "You know, that's been the mystery of the World Cup. We all thought that due to the weather, the European teams would be the strong teams. South American teams have an incredible record. And I think you're going to see about half of the final 16 to be South American teams. And it really has been one of the mysteries of the tournament.", "Let me ask you a question I think I did in 1990, when you departed for Italy on the World Cup, one of the three squads you were on. Could this put the sport of soccer over the bar, to use Ali's phrase there, in America?", "Well, I spoke about this with Ali, that we needed some good results. And certainly given what happened in the last game, coupled with the fact that we had this sort of -- I call it on on- field scandal with the goal that was disallowed against Slovenia, and certainly the excitement has built and we've gotten some American fans behind this team. They're a good team. They should get support. And this will obviously help the sport grow.", "Tony, thank you very much. I know you'll be watching, as you have with your heart racing, as the United States continues in the World Cup in South Africa. Ali, back to you in Canada, where their team did not qualify for the World Cup.", "They did not. But as you know, Richard, from being here, Toronto is a very multicultural city. So, you see cars driving around the streets here with the flags of their nations who are competing in the World Cup. And I'll tell you, ,even here at the G-8, where everybody should be watching feeds of speeches and introductions and things like that, there's World Cup games on the screens right here. You know, Tony, when I talked to him a couple of weeks ago, said to me he really thinks America is going to push forward and do really well. And at that time, it wasn't clear. America was playing a game where they'd get into it later in the game, they had some setbacks. But this team continues to surprise and to do well. I think it's got a lot of people's attention, Richard. I know you're a soccer guy from a long time ago. But there are a lot more people, I think, talking about it and watching it.", "It's the viral, also, aspect of this. I mean, Jeanne Moos did a great report. People are setting up cameras to watch themselves react to if the U.S. scored in that game against Algeria. There's pandemonium in living rooms. Forget the bars. This was what was different in 1994, when the U.S. lost to Brazil, a game that Tony played in, the most watched U.S. soccer match ever.", "Yes. Well, it will be fun to watch. We'll watch it together. Richard, thanks very much. And say thank you again for Tony. It's always a pleasure to have him on. All right. It's a new hour, a new \"Rundown.\" Here's where I'm taking you today -- the Gulf of Mexico. It's the last thing people there need. Some potentially nasty weather could move into the oil-filled waters. We've got a forecast for you you're going to want to pay attention to. Plus, I'm reporting to you today from Toronto, Canada, where world leaders are converging for two global summits back to back. And I've got some advice for them. Listen to the 89-year-old mayor of nearby Mississauga. She's doing everything right in her job, and you'll see why. And South Africa, as Richard was saying, the World Cup in full swing with the U.S. facing a crucial match tomorrow. But there is something different about this World Cup, and it comes down to what's being kicked around on the field -- a new ball for a new tournament. We've tested this thing. We're going to tell you what's different about it. Let me take you to the Gulf Coast first. Some new concerns growing. Every day for the last 67 days, we have showed you that leak, the cameras under the sea. But now we're going to show you two different things. We're going to show you the leak on one side and we're going to show you a weather system on the right side of your screen. This is a tropical disturbance that's forming near Jamaica, and the conditions for this thing are favorable for pushing it northwest, into the Gulf of Mexico, making this into a tropical depression, maybe even a tropical storm. And if it hits that area where the oil is, this could cause all sorts of new problems.", "National Incident Commander Thad Allen is saying he needs five days to start moving people out of position if there is a tropical storm coming in, or a hurricane coming into the Gulf. He talked to CNN's \"AMERICAN MORNING\" this morning to talk about what has to be done with those vessels that are in the Gulf of Mexico right now if a storm comes on. Listen to what he had to say.", "This will be the first time, and there is no playbook, but I will tell you there has been an extraordinary amount of planning being done by the folks at the National Incident Command, the Unified Area Command, and our incident commanders on the ground. Been working very closely with Craig Fugate from FEMA, of course Secretary Napolitano, and also our DOD counterparts.", "OK. There are a lot of vessels out at sea. Some of them official vessels. Many of them are these Vessels of Opportunity, vessels owned by shrimpers and crabbers and fishermen that are being used by BP. They're being contracted out to BP, allowing these people who are out of work to have some work. But there are a lot more people who are out of work who would like to be employed by BP, and they can't seem to get that done. Gary Tuchman is in the new Orleans. He's been in the Gulf Coast following the story, talking to workers who are trying to get work who can't get work. Gary, what do you know?", "Well, Ali, in Louisiana, there are more than 600 boat captains, and there are boats that are part of that program. But there's another 1,600 or so who are on the waiting list, who desperately want to. Many of them are making no money whatsoever. And the big problem we're finding is these people are telling us that they are talking to not courteous BP employees, BP employees who don't know what they're talking about, BP employees who tell them to call another number, and they just don't know what's going on. So, we went to investigate this.", "We met Carl Le Blanc Tuesday working at his crabbing boat. But it's on the front lawn, not on the water. That's his fishing boat. That's his shrimping boat. (on camera): Are you making any money?", "None at all. I mean, Not a dollar.", "So Carl applied for BP's so-called Vessel- of-Opportunity program. BP pays for boats and crews to help in the cleanup. The program is intended for people like Carl, fishermen who have lost their incomes. But after Carl applied, he heard nothing. (on camera): So, you called them up and said, what's going on? What did they tell you?", "They told us that we needed to bring --", "They didn't know where our paperwork was.", "That we weren't in the system.", "They didn't know where --", "You weren't even in the system?", "No.", "No.", "The same thing happened to fisherman Thomas Barrios?", "We called and we were checking on where we were in the system. And so far, it seems like no one knew who we were.", "So, Tuesday night of this week, both men went to this open house designed for people with these types of problems. And there were many others with similar complaints. But they said they didn't get meaningful answers from a BP contractor who was there. So, because BP lifted its controversial rule preventing contractors from talking to journalists, we went looking for answers. (on camera): So, I wanted to see if we could talk to you about the Vessels-of-Opportunity program and why so many people who want to be part of it are not hearing from anybody.", "I'm sorry, I can't comment.", "This man wanted us to talk to a supervisor who was not at this open house. (on camera): BP's been very specific that its contractors are allowed to talk.", "They've not given me that information. I suggest that you talk to Judy Paul.", "So, BP has told you, you can't talk?", "They've told me to refer media requests to Judy Paul.", "I'm asking you, sir, BP said you can't talk to the media?", "They've told me to refer media requests to Judy Paul.", "I'll ask you one more time. They said that you can't talk to the media?", "Yes. They've told me to refer media requests to Judy Paul.", "So we decided it was time to find Judy Paul, but we had no luck reaching her. A BP spokesman did give us a written statement saying the two men's cases will be investigated, but we still wanted to talk to Judy Paul. (voice-over): So, we showed up at a heavily-secured BP office in Houma, Louisiana. (on camera): You are the Judy Paul we were looking for? I am the Judy Paul you were looking for, yes.", "Ms. Paul says she's sorry she missed the town hall meeting. But, lo and behold, tells us she just called the men we interviewed.", "I can tell you I spoke with both Mr. Le Blanc and Mr. Barrios this morning. Their contracts have been confirmed as being in the system.", "That's the good news. The bad news is hundreds of other people are also in the system on the waiting list. (on camera): Is there a chance these two gentlemen will get work with your program?", "There is a chance. But we can't displace someone else who perhaps entered the program earlier just to move people forward because they happened to talk to", "You can't offer anybody any guidance about whether they're going to get called or not.", "That's correct.", "That's a tough position to put all these guys in who are not making livings anymore.", "It is. It is.", "So you acknowledge that?", "Absolutely.", "In Louisiana alone, about 1,900 vessels are on the waiting list.", "Ali, a typical boater who is in the Vessels-of- Opportunity program can make about $1,500 a day. It sounds like a good chunk of change, and indeed it's good money. But this is not an infinite program. And fishing was their life.", "Right.", "They thought fishing was infinite for them, and they don't know if they'll ever be able to fish again. And that's certainly a big problem. Another thing I want to mention to you about the woman you saw in our story who we found eventually, she says she will be available for any comments or questions we have about this Vessel-of-Opportunity program. She says she will be accountable when it comes to this issue.", "You know, Gary, a lot of these people, when I was down there and I talked to them, they're grateful if they can get that work. But even hurricanes -- they say when a hurricane comes, they know that it will pass, they'll fix it up, they'll go out and fish. They don't know when the shrimp come back, when the oysters come back. This could be it for a lot of people in their 40s or 50s. They don't know if they'll ever fish again. So, they're not counting on this Vessel-of-Opportunity program to last forever, as you said. The oil will stop, hopefully, at some point, maybe in August, and they don't know what they're going to do with the rest of their time.", "I mean, that's the thing, Ali, that most of these people we've talked to -- they love this. This is what they've done their whole lives. And they don't know anything else. They don't know what their future holds.", "Gary, thanks for some great reporting from New Orleans. He's going to be around the Gulf, and we'll keep checking in with him. All right. I want to turn directions here. He's the president and CEO of the second largest bank in Canada, a bank that has maintained a AAA credit rating when a lot of other banks are suffering. He's got some advice for members of the G-20 summit. And you'll recognize the name when I tell you what he's in charge of when we come back in a minute."], "speaker": ["TONY MEOLA, FMR U.S. SOCCR PLAYER", "ROTH", "MEOLA", "ROTH", "MEOLA", "ROTH", "ALI VELSHI, CNN ANCHOR", "ROTH", "VELSHI", "VELSHI", "ADM. 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{"id": "NPR-22766", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2015-01-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/376045527/muslim-community-in-france-mourns-mass-shooting-victims", "title": "Muslim Community In France Mourns Mass Shooting Victims", "summary": "Madjid Messaoudene is a city council member from Saint Denis, a primarily Muslim suburb of Paris. He talks with Renee Montagne about his relationship with two Charlie Hebdo staffers.", "utt": ["Among the millions of French people following this drama, included are many Muslims. Almost 10 percent of France's population is counted as Muslim. They're mostly immigrants from former French colonies or their children. Some are practicing Muslims. For others, like our next guest, they have a Muslim identity by heritage. His name is Madjid Messaoudene. He's a councilmember in the predominantly Muslim suburb of - Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.", "Good morning, and thank you for joining us.", "Good morning.", "Let me begin by asking you about your neighbors in Saint-Denis and how they've responded to the murders. What are you hearing?", "Well, yesterday there was a huge gathering in front of La Tutelaire de Saint-Denis (ph). Muslims are not - are of course upset and sad about what happened. This doesn't deal with religion. This has nothing to do with Islam. This is a crime.", "The problem is that many people are doing are making a link between these two pillars and the Muslim population. We faced yesterday at least three attacks against mosques or shops that are owned by Muslim people. So we are afraid of what could happen in the next days. Some are saying that Islam is a threat, is not suitable with democracy. And the huge majority of the Muslim people in France are just asking to live their life freely.", "Well, clearly Muslims are not monolithic in general, not monolithic in France. But these alleged killers and other attacks suggest that there is a strain of extreme Islam in the population, albeit in small numbers. What has been said among the Muslim community in terms of condemning these attacks?", "I'm not comfortable with the idea that we have to ask the Muslim people to prove that they are condemning what happened, to prove that they are against violence, to prove that they are for democracy. We don't - I don't have to apologize for what happened two days ago. For me, the two killers that killed 12 people two days ago are not Muslim. They...", "They are not Muslim in your view.", "No, for me, they are not Muslim. You can't kill someone in the name of Islam or in the name of any other religion. So they are not Muslims. These are fanatics. And we don't have to put all the Muslims in the same bag.", "I understand that the massacre at Charlie Hebdo would seem to have special resonance for you because I understand you knew two members of the staff. What was your relationship?", "Yeah, yeah. I knew particularly Bernard Maris, who was called Uncle Bernard in the newspaper. He taught me economy at the university. He was a very good man. He was very clever, very smart, and I also knew Charb, who was the leader of the newspaper now.", "Charbonnier, the...", "Yes. Yes, Stephane Charbonnier. I met him several times, and we have debates with him about the way Charlie Hebdo dealt with Islam. I did not agree.", "Did you think that the cartoons were insulting to Islam?", "Yeah. I think that you can't draw the prophet knowing that, for the Muslims, the huge insult this can do, without thinking in the context you are living in. I mean that if he drew the same cartoon 15 or 20 years ago, maybe the things would have been different. As for Charlie Hebdo, it became a huge weapon of religion destruction. They...", "Did you say this, though? Did you say to your friend Stephane Charbonnier who ran...", "Yeah. Yeah, I told him...", "Did you think it was OK for him to do it, though - freedom of speech?", "He continued, yeah.", "Did you think that he had a right to do it, regardless of your opinion?", "Yeah, of course. I never asked for the censorship of Charlie Hebdo. But what I told him is that he could not do whatever he wanted to do without taking into account what were facing the Muslim community in France. Islam cannot justify what happened two days ago. Muslim people that I know, they are afraid. They are afraid to live in such a violent world and such a difficult world for the Muslim people.", "That's Madjid Messaoudene. He's councilmember in the predominantly Muslim Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. We will be following events in and around Paris throughout the day.", "And we are picking this up fact by fact as we go along, just to review what we know happened this morning. At about 8:30 this morning - that's Paris time - a woman had her car stolen by her from two gunmen, who she said were the two known suspects in the shooting - the massacre in Paris earlier this week. Those two men are now believed to be holed up inside an industrial building well outside of Paris. It's a possible hostage situation. Prosecutors have described with more certainty a hostage situation in a different area in eastern Paris where a gunman moved into a kosher market and is believed to have taken several hostages there. Authorities are pointing to some evidence that the two situations are connected. 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{"id": "CNN-1160", "program": "Newsday", "date": "2000-1-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/21/nd.05.html", "summary": "Elian Gonzalez Case: Plane Carrying 6-Year-Old Boy's Grandmothers Departing Havana Airport", "utt": ["I am being told now we have an update on the Cuban boy's grandmothers leaving Havana. Martin Savage is on the phone with us from there -- Martin.", "Gene, we are at terminal number one here at the Havana airport, and we have been watching, as just moments ago we saw the two grandmothers of Elian Gonzalez walk out on to the tarmac and board a charter jet. It is the same jet that arrived here from New York last night baring the delegation with the National Council of Churches. Now the door of that aircraft has been closed. It is a white, sort of, executive jet and we hear the engines revving up. So it is clear that their departure to the United States is believed to be imminent. They are said to be traveling directly to New York City. They are anticipated to arrive there later this afternoon. All of this, of course, a dramatic turn of events from what was thought last night, after a meeting between family members here in Cuba and the National Council of Churches, it was stated after that meeting that they were tired and that they needed prayers from the people, and essentially no agreement had been struck. Well, then this morning, a dramatic turn of events, where apparently the delegation had been meeting amongst itself, and then Juan Miguel, that is Elian Gonzalez's father, showed up, and then shortly thereafter, the announcement was made that the grandmothers have agreed to go to the U.S. to, as they put it, state their case to the American people. Now as we watch, we can see the white charter jet taxiing away from the terminal here, apparently beginning the first leg of the journey, whose outcome is still not exactly known -- Gene.", "Thanks, Martin. We, of course, will have more on this story later."], "speaker": ["GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "RANDALL"]}
{"id": "CNN-246283", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-12-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1412/31/nday.01.html", "summary": "Objects on Sea Floor Believed from Flight 8501; Bodies Arrive in Surabaya; California Drivers Stranded in Snow", "utt": ["They've found wreckage of what appears to be the plane's fuselage lying at bottom of the Java Sea.", "You would think it would have to fall belly- first.", "I think the plane stalled.", "Clearly the aircraft has broken up.", "A stark in your face reminder of the human tragedy.", "I am the leader of this company and I have to take responsibility.", "Good morning to you and welcome to NEW DAY. It is the final day of 2014. It is Wednesday, December 31st, 6:00 in the east. I'm Michaela Pereira, along with Christine Romans. Poppy Harlow is here with us as well. We begin right with our breaking news, a dramatic development overnight in the crash of flight AirAsia Flight 8501. Sonar may have detected wreckage at the bottom of the Java Sea. This development comes a day after debris and victims' bodies were recovered floating on the surface of the water, rough winds, rain and surf however have halted today's search. Search teams are hoping to get become in the water soon. AirAsia's CEO says the weather forecast for the next several days is not looking good.", "More heartbreak for families awaiting word on the fate of their loved ones. A seventh body was pulled from the water. The bodies of two victims arrived at a naval air base in Surabaya for identification. Relatives of the 162 people onboard that plane understandably in anguish. Many were seen crying, yelling and even fainting. We're covering the story from all angles as only CNN can. We want to begin with Gary Tuchman live from the naval air base in Surabaya. Good morning, Gary.", "Christine, hello to you. We can tell you right now we saw an amazingly poignant ceremony two hours ago when the first two victims were brought back here to Surabaya in coffins, with an honor guard of more than 100 military members from the Indonesian army, air force and navy aboard an Indonesian air force plane. The caskets came off the plane. They were numbered 001 and 002. We don't know their identities. They were brought to a nearby hospital where they will be identified. And that honor ceremony will repeat for each and every one of the bodies that is recovered. The mystery of where this plane went down appears to have been solved. But the mystery of why the plane went down has not been solved.", "This morning, the first group of recovered passengers arriving in Surabaya in an emotional ceremony in caskets marked 001 and 002. This as Indonesian authorities focus on pinpointing the exact location of AirAsia Flight 8501, officials confirming sonar imagery located wreckage believed to be from the aircraft, submerged at the bottom of the Java Sea.", "What's going to be of particular interest is what parts of the airplane are there -- the wings, the tail -- just to sort of try to understand whether the plane broke up in flight or remained intact.", "Other reports suggest the plane may be lying upside-down, according to \"The Wall Street Journal.\" On Tuesday recovery team brings in pieces of debris ashore, along with the remains of six passengers and a flight attendant. Authorities now faced with a gruesome task: recovering more of the passengers from the wreckage and identifying the bodies for grief-stricken families. But some still hold onto hope, one woman with six family members on board telling CNN, \"There is nothing confirmed as far what happened to the passengers and we are still hoping there is a miracle and they survive.\" At the crisis center here in Surabaya, relatives gather for a prayer service inside the airport. Next, the hunt for clues, answers as to what brought down AirAsia Flight 8501, likely contained in the plane's flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder, otherwise known as the black boxes, located in the tail section of the aircraft.", "I'm hoping by first thing next week that we're going to have a very clear picture of what happened to this airplane, because the industry absolutely needs to know, urgently, what went wrong.", "Now, the CEO of AirAsia has become a familiar presence on television over the last few days. He spoke just a few minutes ago.", "Search-and-rescue team is doing a fantastic job. They're narrowing the search. They're feeling a bit more comfortable that they're beginning to know where it is. But they have -- there's no confirmation, no sonar, nothing. Some visual identification.", "You heard what he said about the sonar. We have talked to people in charge of this search mission, and they have told us, while it's not definite, they do believe that the sonar from the airplane has identified the plane as being on the bottom, in about 100 feet of water in the Java Sea. We should tell you we just found out minutes ago, Michaela and Christine, that an additional five bodies will go through that same ceremony that we saw two hours ago, about one hour from now. So tonight, seven bodies will be brought back to this airport where they started a trip which was supposed to be so much fun, so many people going away for New Year's, and now they're coming back here tonight -- Michaela, Christine.", "Seven families will begin that process of mourning. A hundred and fifty-five families still waiting until the remains of their loved ones are brought back. All right, Gary. Thanks so much. We know that the search efforts, obviously, have been hampered because of the weather in that search area. It's continuing to deteriorate. We're told it's going to be bad for the next two or three days, in fact. Let's take a look at the system that's moving through there. Meteorologist Chad Myers joins us. We know that this is kind of an intense weather area to begin with. Especially this time of year.", "Take a look at the map behind me. Take a look at these red areas. These are tops of thunderstorms, 45,000 to 55,000 feet tall. The search area is right here. This is the map of about 6 a.m. local time there, when they wanted to do the search. Here's the problem with this area. The weather is bad in the morning when you want to send the crews out, and then it gets good at night when the sun goes down. You could see Gary. It didn't even look like the wind was blowing. For a while today the wind was blowing 35 or 40. Here's what it is right now. There's not even any rain showers in the search area. Tomorrow morning, bam, we're right back here where we were yesterday. We have showers and thunderstorms everywhere. Tomorrow night, the showers are gone. The next morning, Friday morning, they're back again right over the search area, intense; and then by the afternoon, they're gone. So as soon as you lose the light in the area, then you lose the bad weather, and that's not what you want. You want it to go the other way, would be more ideal. But with four inches of rainfall just in the next couple of days here, and this is a devastating map here. These are wind speeds of 50 miles per hour right over the search area. We're going to get waves of 25 feet there. Michaela, back to you.", "Yes, Chad, and of course, there's urgency to get the remains of those other passengers out. But at the same time, they don't want to risk the lives of search-and-rescuers, at all.", "You bet.", "Chad, thanks so much. We'll check back in with you. For more now we're joined by CNN aviation analyst and former inspector general of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Mary Schiavo. She also represents victims and families following airplane disasters. Also here with us, CNN safety analyst and former FAA safety inspector David Soucie. He has a new book coming out, \"Malaysian Airlines Flight 370: Why it Disappeared and\" -- chillingly -- \"Why it's Only a Matter of Time Before This Happens Again.\" Good morning to the both of you. I think we have to talk, obviously, about these overnight developments. First, we're told, David, that sonar has detected the wreckage of the plane, the fuselage of the plane on the bottom of the sea floor there in the Java Sea. and then now backing off, saying that's not confirmed; that's not confirmed. What does that say to you, and what concerns do you have about that?", "Well, Tony Fernandes is not the kind of man who is going to take something on its surface value. Until he has proof that, yes, that is that aircraft, he's not going to say, yes, it is the aircraft. So that's why I think we're seeing here, is they don't want to make mistakes like 370, where they said, \"This is conclusively -- this is what happened,\" and then come back later and say, \"Well, no, we were wrong.\" That's why right now you don't see the screaming and the crying. You see the acceptance that's going on with the families because of the fact there's not been any misinformation.", "Misinformation, lack of transparency, Mary, one of the things that we heard complaints of with MH-370. This time they're trying to be as transparent as possible. They're trying to make sure that most information is released. But also factually. So let's talk about this development. What do you anticipate if the sonar has spotted something? Given what we've seen in terms of the debris field, the deceased that have been found in the ocean, do you anticipate we're going to see a whole fuselage? Do you anticipate the plane will have broken up?", "Well, I think the plane will have broken up. Because from the altitude at which it was flying, I mean, literally any altitude over a few thousand feet, I mean, a plane hitting water is comparable to a plane hitting cement. And so I think most likely we will see it broken up. There will be large pieces, but we know it has broken up because of the bodies that have already been found. They had to get out of the fuselage one way or another. And they got out by being broken up. But there may be some pretty large pieces. And what would be very helpful for everyone -- the searchers, the families, and of course, the air investigators -- would be if that tail part of the fuselage is still intact and the black boxes are still there on the ocean floor. Then they don't even need to go listening for pings. They just go in and get the black boxes without even disturbing that recovery of the body process.", "Mary, speaking of the bodies, we understand some of the bodies that were recovered, the deceased that were recovered, some were unclothed. One was wearing a flight attendant's uniform. Help us understand what that tells investigators when you've done these investigations.", "Well, you know, the clothed and not clothed is kind of interesting, because in some accidents the victims are clothed. Other than, you know, tearing away or depending upon the forces. And others they're unclothed. And the unclothed ones, for example -- I'll give an example of a crash that was long ago. And that was the shoot-down of Iran Air. And the plane broke up in the air at altitude. And the victims were largely unclothed. The fall and the forces on the body falling from the air actually ripped the clothing off. In other accidents it's a mix, because some who are ejected from the plane upon impact, the clothes are ripped away; and then others who surface later, they're intact. So you tell a little bit about the clothing. It's certainly not conclusive. But it does help searchers have an idea if the plane will be intact, in large pieces or small pieces, et cetera. So it's just one of the many pieces of information they'll look at.", "Another piece of information that we know that is on the side of investigators that are on scene of the search and rescue, is the fact that we've talked about quite a lot. That areas of the Java Sea here are only about 100 feet deep. I imagine that the hope is that parts of the plane will be intact. It will help with the investigation. And in fact, wasn't Air France, there was a good portion of the plane...", "Yes. Resting on the bottom.", "Resting on the bottom. You have to be very careful on how that's brought up. Do you bring it up right away? How does that...", "No. You don't necessarily. The only thing you do in the investigation, the only thing you do is in the purpose of finding out what happened. Once you find out what happened, there's really not a lot of benefit in doing anything more. Because you're taking resources away from the investigation of and the purpose of the investigation. So at this point, and with Air France 447, as well, the focus is on getting the bodies back to the loved ones. They really need to do that. Closure-wise. There's also a lot of evidence, as Mary said, about the clothing. There's other evidence about what is in lungs, for example. Is there salt water in the lungs or is it -- are they clear? Those are all clues in this puzzle of riddles that we're trying to put together.", "And of course, most of the clues will come in in the flight data recorders that they're hoping to get, as Mary mentioned, in the tail of the wing. David Soucie, Mary Schiavo, really appreciate it. We'll be talking about it throughout the morning.", "All right. We have another developing story we want to bring to you, breaking overnight in Southern California. More than 100 motorists trapped on a highway in heavy snow. Dozens have been rescued at this hour, but there are more still awaiting help. A car accident led to major delays during a winter storm. By the time the accident was cleared, many cars were unable to get out, thanks to a foot of new snow. We want to bring in San Bernardino Fire Chief David Hartwood to give us the latest on rescue efforts. He joins us on the phone. Good morning, Chief.", "Good morning. How are you?", "I'm fine. You've had a very, very busy night. So you say 25 people in one group have been rescued. Another 50 people in another group. We're looking at a map right now and some video of just what the conditions are. Tell us how you're getting them out.", "Yes, so we used on the Crestline side, the Lake Arrowhead side of one of our mountain ranges, we used snow CATs. We have a fleet of snow CATs for our mountain resort communities. And we brought them down to some lower elevations. And we took some stranded motorists on the Lake Arrowhead side to Crestline First Baptist Church, where they'll be sheltered overnight. And then on the other side, our L.A. County side, and that's the Mount Baldy area, we took 40 occupants. Mount Baldy Road was closed and impassable. So we took them by crew buggy, a vehicle we use to transport our fire crew members up to Mount Baldy Lodge, and they'll be spending the night there.", "It gives you new meaning to a ski vacation, doesn't it, when you can't get there. When the skis are on -- happen to be in your car. Tell me about the condition of the people who you're -- who you're rescuing.", "They're in good spirits. We had on both sides, we had motorists who were prepared and decided to stay with their vehicles. But as I said, a number of them, about 40 on the Mount Baldy side, the L.A. County line side, and then closer to 50 on the Lake Arrowhead side chose to take us up on our offer to transport them to a warm location and some food and coffee. And they'll be staying the night there.", "Happy new year, I guess, to all of them. Much better than spending the night in your car. What are you advising people who are trying to drive in the area? I know it's an arctic snow mass and a lot of winds that have come together to cause the system. What are you telling people who might be on the road?", "Well, we -- we always tell people here in our mountain communities, especially during the winter, to drive prepared. And that is to not only have a full tank of gas, but then to have food and clothing, warm clothing in your vehicles. This was especially odd for us. This is -- we're used to snow in our communities, mountain communities here, especially resort communities, but snow level got all the way down to 1,000 feet here. So really these right above the valley areas, our inland empire and San Gabriel Valley areas, received, like you said, up to 12 inches of snow. So that -- it was odd for us. And then most people just went up for a day of skiing. Roads were good in the morning, and then they got caught and ill-prepared to come back down the hill.", "All right. Chief Mark Hartwood, we wish you the best of luck. We wish all of those people a happy New Year. Glad to hear that so many of them were so prepared. Thank you, sir. Our CNN's Sara Sidner, by the way, is on her way to the scene of those rescues. We're going to have more in our next hour about what's happened there. The San Bernardino mountains, just east of", "Hearty folk there.", "Yes. Well, you know, that's a lot to go through for a ski trip. Let's get to Poppy Harlow. There's a lot more going on in the world.", "A lot of headlines for you. We begin in suburban Philadelphia, where police shot and killed a man who they say tried to run them over. Police are saying that they were trying to arrest this 52-year-old, his name, Joseph Anthony Pacini, on Tuesday for posting online videos, threatening to kill police officers, as well as FBI agents. His death comes a little more than a week after a man who made similar threats then shot and killed two NYPD police officers in their patrol car, then shot himself in a subway station. U.S. Law enforcement officials are pushing back hard against Sony hack theories suggesting that a former employee, an insider may have been behind that cyberattack. It comes after cybersecurity firm Norse says that evidence it collected points to an inside job, adding it couldn't find any clear indication that North Korea offered -- or ordered, rather, or funded the attack. Well, U.S. officials say Norse only examined a very narrow piece of the hack. They say they still firmly believe North Korea was responsible. Also, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise is in damage control after admitting he spoke to a white supremacist group. CNN has learned Scalise is trying to gauge the level of support he has right now after that 2002 speech surfaced just days before the new GOP-led Congress convenes. House Speaker John Boehner says he has, quote, \"full confidence\" in the Louisiana congressman. In a new statement Scalise says he does regret the mistake and wholeheartedly condemns the views of the group that he did speak to. And it is very early here. But it is New Year's Eve in the U.S. as we prepare for tonight. But in some parts of the world they're already ringing in 2015. It is amazing. Look at that beautiful celebration.", "Wow.", "Happy new year, New Zealand. These pictures from Auckland, New Zealand, where revelers brought in the new year just a few moments ago. A small part of Russia will hit the new year at 7 a.m. Eastern Time here, followed by eastern Australia at 8 a.m. Eastern. The countdown to 2015 here in the east now just under 18 hours away.", "I love that, kind of watching the new year rung in.", "I love watching it.", "Every hour, somewhere.", "I ring it in early every year. I move all the clocks forward three hours.", "You've already done that.", "So the kids think it's 9 p.m. But it's hard with cell phones and devices where they can see the real time.", "They know. They know what's up, Mom.", "All of my people are on the West Coast, I'm going to have to face time with them at 12, and then I worry that I'm going to have to face time with them when it's their 12, as well.", "You're going to be on TV tonight, Michaela. You can't do that.", "I know. A lot going on.", "Thank you, Poppy.", "You're welcome.", "Back to our top story right now, the mystery surrounding what brought down AirAsia Flight 8501. Our experts weighing in on some questions you have tweeted us.", "To perhaps a possible breakthrough in the search. Objects thought to be from the wreckage of the plane have been spotted on the bottom of the Java Sea. Is it the main fuselage? 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{"id": "CNN-326781", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2017-11-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/23/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Life In A Rebuilding Syrian Town", "utt": ["Welcome back. Quarter to 8:00 in the evening here and what is the last of the working week in the Middle East or certainly some parts of it. Twenty-four hours ago, Russia posted a summit on the future of Syria but on the ground, towns swept clean of ISIS are already grappling with how to face the days ahead and where to look for help. CNN's Arwa Damon visited one of those towns near the Turkish border. She filed this report.", "And around about where ISIS used to display the heads of its victims there is brand-new Turkish post office. It's complete with an ATM. A man we meet takes us just around the corner to his cousin's home. He was one of ISIS' first victims but the family here does not want to be relive the unspeakable pain if the past. They place her brother's head just at the front of the door. It was Syrian rebels backed by Turkish military that drove ISIS out of Jarablus well over a year ago. And since then, Turkey has gone all in with reminders of that everywhere. Turkey is funding a fully functioning hospital with Turkish expertise to bolster the Syrian towns. It's also supplying the town with electricity and water, and working out for the local police force and as they call themselves the free Syrian army rebel units that are in the area. Turkey has multiple recent warnings to both militarily and financially invest here. It wants to secure its own borders that wants to stop the Syrian-Kurdish at advance and it is hoping that by creating safe zone, their relatively prosperous, Syrian refugees will perhaps begin returning to their home land. Jarablus' population has swell to around 70,000, about three times its original inhabitants and Turkey hopes to use Jarablus as an example to prove others that its patronage brings progress. Along with everything else, Turkey is also funding schools, cramped with children from all over Syria, eager to learn after having been deprived for so long. This school used to be an ISIS camp for the caliphate training site and a prison. Five-year-old Wahab (ph) may never understand why her parents deserted her.", "(Speaking Foreign Language)", "She said that her father left when the ISIS fighters left along with them, abandoned her in the rest of the family.", "(Speaking Foreign Language)", "Furious scars run deep and there is no certainty that its future will be any kinder to its people from its past. Arwa Damon, CNN, Jarablus, Syria.", "Life coming back to that town. A long way to go there. You are watching Connect the World. I'm Becky Anderson to you live fro, Abu Dhabi just after quarter 8:00 here. Coming up, nobody has Thanksgiving quite like New Yorkers. Well' take you there next."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "ARWA DAMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "DAMON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "DAMON", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-149824", "program": "RICK'S LIST", "date": "2010-4-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1004/07/rlst.02.html", "summary": "Textbooks Failing Oklahoma City Students?; Palin Campaigning in Minneapolis", "utt": ["OK. All right, so, listen. You know who that is? Sarah Palin. She's in Minneapolis for Michele Bachmann. Let's listen in and then we will talk about it a little bit.", "She said no to that. We want a system that expands choices and freedom and competition. We want a system that we can afford, not another new entitlement program that breaks the bank and really violates much of our Constitution. Now, Michele told the Democrats to stop, start over. She told them to kill the bill. And now it is Michele who is leading the charge to replace this thing.", "Thankfully, Michele is part of that loyal opposition in Washington. She's standing up. She's speaking out. She's offering commonsense conservative solutions to the challenges our country faces. And when the left tries to push through policies that violate our conscience and our values and our Constitution, it's Michele who is trying to get them to halt. Michele doesn't just tell them no. She tells them H-E-L-L no.", "You know --", "-- here, the Republicans have been getting criticized lately with this -- with this mistaken concept, I guess, sort of surrounding Republicans right now, that they are the party of no, that we are the party of no. And we are saying, what's wrong with being the party of no, when you consider what it is that Obama --", "-- Pelosi, and Reid are trying to do to our country?", "So be it -- not when it violates our Constitution. Michele knows that we can't spend our way out of problems. And, this fireball, she is not afraid to stand up with that stiff spine. And I think she notices, too, that, as her spine has stiffened, it sure makes the rest of us be inspired and stand up even stronger and do what is right.", "Listen. As we told you, we would bring you some of the moments there in Minneapolis. And that is none other than Sarah Palin. And she's campaigning on behalf -- it's really a fund-raiser Representative Michele Bachmann. Republicans there are trying to, you know, go against the Democrats come 2010 in the midterms coming November of this year. So, they are trying to shore up support. They're bringing in Sarah Palin. Tim Pawlenty, who is a possible presidential hopeful on the GOP side, will also be at this fund-raiser for Representative Michele Bachmann. So, we shall see how it turns out. But there's Sarah Palin, who is believed to be, obviously, the main draw, the most famous of the group here, speaking out on behalf of Michele Bachmann, talking about the health care bill -- she disagreed with it -- and if people in that state, in Minnesota, wanted do get anything done, then they would send Michele Bachmann back to the House of Representatives. So, again, Sarah Palin, again, Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the Convention Center. We will continue to update that. If any news comes out of it, we will bring it to you, of course, here on CNN. It is an indelible part of our history. Nearly 15 years ago, when the Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City was bombed, killing 168 people. But Oklahoma residents worried that students too young to remember the attack weren't being taught about what happened on April 19, 1995. Where were you? Remember that day? I do. Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry signed a law yesterday. Textbooks used by students in the state now must include information on the attack. And officials are now making sure that day becomes part of the required curriculum. Reporter Alex Cameron of affiliate KWTV shows us what led to those changes.", "Holy cow. About a third of the building has been blown away.", "We may remember this like it was yesterday, but it was almost 15 years ago. And students today don't remember it at all, not because the Survivor Tree has stopped teaching about resilience, the chairs have stopped teaching about the cost of violence, or because the fence no longer teaches the importance of community. It's because, basically, no one else is helping to spread the word.", "I was very disappointed.", "Ann-Clore Duncan, a trustee of the Memorial Museum, found out her two high school kids haven't been taught anything about what happened here.", "The bombing hasn't been covered in their history classes at all. It is not currently part of their required curriculum.", "Believe it or not, that's true, as the memorial director herself discovered firsthand while speaking at an assembly last year.", "And, as I looked up to 250 or so high school students, I could just see this blank stare, like I was almost speaking in a foreign language. I mean, they had no idea what I was talking about when I mentioned the Oklahoma City bombing.", "Most of these kids right now that I have got in class were, you know, 1 or 2 years old when this happened.", "Bobby Tanner teaches Oklahoma history at Cushing High School. He says he tries to cover the bombing, but there's not much on it in their textbook. (on camera): That's about it right there?", "That's pretty much it. So, it's -- it's -- for such a big deal, it is -- we have got basically two pages.", "In the other Oklahoma history textbooks used in the state, same story, two or three pages at most. But the real problem is that the bombing is not what's known as a PASS standard, a topic or event that the state requires teachers to cover in-depth, like the Trail of Tears is a PASS standard, the land runs, statehood, the Dust Bowl.", "It is hard to get through all of it.", "Tanner says, with just one semester to cover all those and more, teaching the bombing just can't be a priority.", "As it is right now, no, it is not. But -- and I think that's why we need to make it a priority.", "That's exactly what state superintendent Sandy Garrett and the Board of Education are doing. At the urging of the memorial staff, they are amending the PASS standards to include the bombing starting next school year.", "I would have liked to have done it sooner, but the social studies cycle for changing the standards was not really there yet. But we think that it is high time.", "All right. Thanks to our affiliate for that report. Listen, this is just in. We reported just a short time ago about the man arrested for allegedly threatening Nancy Pelosi. Well, CNN has confirmed that now. And this is from Joseph Schadler with the FBI in San Francisco. He is saying that a man was arrested just a short time ago in San Francisco for allegedly threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The FBI identified the suspect. Here's his name: Gregory Guisti, G-U-I-S-T-I. So, anyway, they are not saying exactly how old he is, but they do confirm arrested in San Francisco just a short time ago for alleged threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It is believed that he made some phone calls to her offices in both Washington and in California, and also made some phone calls to her husband's place of business as well. We'll continue to update you on that story as we get more information here on CNN. Meantime, listen to this.", "I see your element got about four Humvees.", "You're clear.", "All right. Firing.", "Two Reuters journalists in Baghdad mistaken for insurgents are shot dead by U.S. forces. This tape recently surfaced, and it's really painful for the families. And painful as it is to see at least one person here, one of the journalists here, their families talk to us about it. And we're going to let you hear what they have to say straight ahead. THE LIST just scrolls on here."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "SARAH PALIN (R), FORMER ALASKA GOVERNOR", "PALIN", "PALIN", "PALIN", "PALIN", "PALIN", "LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ALEX CAMERON, KWTV REPORTER (voice-over)", "ANN-CLORE DUNCAN, TRUSTEE, OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL & MUSEUM", "CAMERON", "DUNCAN", "CAMERON", "KARI WATKINS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL & MUSEUM", "BOBBY TANNER, TEACHER, CUSHING HIGH SCHOOL", "CAMERON", "TANNER", "CAMERON (voice-over)", "TANNER", "CAMERON", "TANNER", "CAMERON", "SANDY GARRETT, OKLAHOMA STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF  PUBLIC INSTRUCTION", "LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-81094", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2004-1-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/10/smn.01.html", "summary": "Survey Say Scott Peterson Cannot Recieve Fair Trial in Modesto", "utt": ["Just a day after a judge decided to move the Scott Peterson murder trial, new information suggests that key evidence in that decision was not exactly accurate. Rich Ibarra of CNN affiliate KCRA has the story from Modesto.", "I'm very comfortable with it.", "CSU Stanislaus Professor Stephen Schoenthaler expresses confidence in his survey, a survey on Scott Peterson and his chances for a fair trial, a poll that showed that nearly 60 percent of potential jurors in the valley felt Scott Peterson was probably guilty. In the Bay Area, that dropped to just over 55 percent. But in Stanislaus County, almost 70 percent said he probably killed his wife, then unborn son.", "We have a great degree of confidence in the answers that were given in the community polls that we do historically. And that's why I think this one's going to be accurate, too.", "Reportedly, 65 students participated in the survey. They had a week before finals to complete it and it constituted 20 percent of their final grade. (on camera): But now some students have come forward saying they made up the results for the grade. CSU Stanislaus issued this statement. \"We have immediately initiated an inquiry. Scientific misconduct and academic dishonesty are serious breaches of professional ethics and research standards that are not tolerated at this University.\"", "You think they'd do something more professional than that, like they'd do more background, they wouldn't trust students.", "It goes against our policy of academic integrity. I know that. I feel like those students should be reprimanded and punished.", "The court decided to move the trial. That coming after testimony on the survey by Professor Schoenthaler. And now the district attorney says it will interview students who conducted the survey. This information may be provided to the superior court in order to ensure that evidence relied upon by the court to make decisions in this case was properly obtained and introduced. For Stanislaus residents, the question of moving the trial is again on the table.", "I think it should be tried here. This is where the crime was committed.", "I don't think it was fair. People here are just like anywhere.", "You think he can get a fair trial here?", "I do.", "The California Judicial Council will offer up three potential new venues for the Peterson trial, if, indeed, it is moved out of Modesto. Modesto>"], "speaker": ["RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR", "STEPHEN SCHOENTHALER, CSU STANISLAUS PROFESSOR", "RICH IBARRA, KCRA CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SCHOENTHALER", "IBARRA", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "IBARRA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "IBARRA (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAN MIGUEL"]}
{"id": "CNN-257818", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2015-06-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/21/ndaysun.02.html", "summary": "Search for Escaped Killers Zeroes in on Friendship, New York.", "utt": ["At 8:30 Eastern this morning, the doors of Mother Emanuel, Emanuel AME church will open to children who are coming to this church for Sunday school. And then at 9:30 Eastern the doors of the sanctuary will open for the first time since that attack of nine people who were killed in the basement of this church. Today is a day of healing. We're told that in many way, this will be a normal service, a worship service with an emphasis on trying to help this community heal. People struggling to go back into that sanctuary, but as our last guest told us, Alison, they have to go home, home to Mother Emanuel. We'll be here for that. Alison, back to you in Atlanta.", "We'll continue to check in with your, Victor. This manhunt was considered to be very intense, and then the trail went cold until now, and now officials call it a credible lead in this manhunt for two escaped prisoners. It's lead cops to a small town in southwestern New York. It's where police are hoping they are going to catch Richard Matt and David Sweat. These are the two fugitives who were serving time for murder who escaped from prison more than two weeks ago. Let's go to CNN's Cristina Alesci. She's in Allegheny County, which is the so-called hot spot in this search. Cristina, how confident are officials at this point that they could be in your area?", "Police released a press release last night saying they had a possible -- they are investigating a possible sighting of two men who may fit the description. So they're hedging their language a bit. But we witnessed heavy police presence here today just as the sun was coming up. About two dozen vehicles left this command center, where I am, to resume the search. Presumably last night they had dialed it back a bit. There were heavy rains. It was very dark. We don't have any update. There hasn't been any kind of leads that have come out of this investigation so far. But remember, there are other searches in other places in New York. This one stands out because of the level of specificity that officials have given around the search area. They say they're looking close to a railroad track, where there may have been actually tracks there were left for police to investigate. And also authorities are saying that they've got canine units out, they're activating aviation units. They're got special operations here. So it does seem to be a big operation. Before leading up into this, all we got was very vague details about the other searches. In fact, all we had was the escalation of these men in terms of adding them onto the 15 most wanted list, and that there was a $50,000 reward. Other than that, until last night, we really didn't have many details, Alison.", "All right, we will continue to check in all morning with you for the latest details on this. Joining us now for more, Lenny DePaul, former commander of the U.S. Marshals Service regional fugitive task force for New York and New Jersey, and CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes. Lenny, let's begin with you. What do you think of all the attention around Friendship, New York. Do you think this tip could be legit?", "We're hoping it's legit. I know they deployed other assets there, and rightfully so. Any tips or leads that come in, they're going to investigate it to the fullest. We just keep our fingers crossed. However, we have cast a pretty wide net. So we're not -- the public needs to be aware of that. Just because we think it's a possibility -- and it's an unconfirmed sighting. It's not confirmed. But they'll certainly take a hard look and search and see what they can come up with.", "Tom, how common is it to get three sightings like this over a week's time that are within miles of each other?", "I think what happens sometimes, Alison, is that once you get one sighting in a particular area, it alerts the public in that area to be extra vigilant. And then anything they see suspicious, they call in as a possible sighting. These are things that are happening all over. People see people in their backyards or walking down streets or along railroad tracks, hikers, hunters, you name it. But when there's been a sighting, or a believed sighting in an area, then everything becomes heightened. The level of alertness on the public become heightened and more calls come in.", "Lenny, how exactly is this search happening in the area? Are they knocking on doors? Are they looking behind trees? How do you start to really go through an area like this?", "A little bit of everything. Absolutely. The terrain apparently is very wooded from what I'm hearing up there in Friendship. They'll have aviation support. I'm sure through the night, there was thermal imaging deployed as well as infrared and whatnot to see what they can pick up on. But again, Alison, it's my gut feeling, these guys are, you know, they're walking down Main Street and just their faces have been plastered all over the place, they're heavily tattooed. I just don't, you know, and again, I hope I'm wrong. I hope they're contained in this perimeter that is set up in Friendship and this thing goes down without incident. But you know, we certainly -- it's a 360 world out there, so you can't have tunnel vision.", "You really think they're walking down Main Street?", "I don't think they are. That's my gut feeling is they wouldn't be standing at the corner walk/don't walk, saying, here I am, guys. They had an elaborate plan of escape. Again, I think Joyce Mitchell was their red herring. I think she was their plan B, and I think someone else would pick them up. But again, that's my opinion, Alison.", "Tom, what do you think? Do you think these guys are still together? All these sightings are of them together. Do you think they in reality still are?", "I think, Alison, it's, you know, we're all guessing as to whether they are or not. For my opinion, I think they might still be together, because they're still in an escape or survival mode. If they're still in the woods running around trying to evade capture, or sighting by helicopters or dogs, they may still be together to help each other out. If they've arrived somewhere far away and feel relatively comfortable, then they may be ready to split up. But don't forget, they've worked side by side for well over a year planning this thing. They're each other's best friend. If it's possible for people like this to have a real friend, it's as close as it gets, I'll put it that way. As long as they need each other, they'll stay together. When they don't, they won't.", "Tom Fuentes, Lenny DePaul, thanks so much for your analysis. And a manhunt is underway in New Orleans for an escaped prisoner who police say shot and killed an officer. He's armed and dangerous. Details after the break."], "speaker": ["BLACKWELL", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTINE ALESCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KOSIK", "LENNY DEPAUL, FORMER COMMANDER, U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE", "KOSIK", "TOM FUENTES, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "KOSIK", "DEPAUL", "KOSIK", "DEPAUL", "KOSIK", "FUENTES", "KOSIK"]}
{"id": "CNN-148405", "program": "ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL", "date": "2010-2-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1002/25/ijvm.01.html", "summary": "Body of Missing Actor Found", "utt": ["Tonight, infuriating new developments in the horrifying rape and murder of Shaniya Davis. Cops say this little girl was sold into prostitution by her mother, all to settle a drug debt. Tonight, the ultimate shocker. This woman has been freed from jail. And she`s pregnant again. Her 5-year-old daughter is dead. She`s accused of selling her into hell. Why on earth was she released from jail? And terror at Seaworld. A trainer killed by a killer whale, all in front of a live audience. What provoked this attack? Critics say these powerful animals are kept in the human equivalent of a bathtub. Could this tragic death have been avoided? Should all these whales now be set free? We`ll debate it. Plus, the mystery escalates. Where are the McStays? It`s now been three weeks since anyone laid eyes on this missing California family. Tonight, a stunning new clue. Reports claim the missing mom changed her name just days before she vanished, and cops say she could have as many as six aliases. Could this be connected to their disappearance? ISSUES starts now.", "First, we have some fast-breaking and very tragic news just coming into ISSUES. Police are investigating the discovery of a body found in Vancouver. It is believed to be that of former \"Growing Pains\" star Andrew Koenig. The actor vanished on February 14. Family members said he was suffering from depression, and they had feared for his safety. A police news conference is planned for less than an hour from now, 8 p.m. tonight. Andrew`s parents are reportedly going to be there. The body was reportedly found at Stanley Park, a park in Vancouver, that Andrew loved, and a spot he frequently visited. His parents and sister have been totally frantic, begging for the actor to return home. Listen to this.", "With somebody who is depressed and not on medication, as parents, we always look for -- there`s things that -- a pattern that you look for. And we`re always concerned. As it is, the experiences that he -- things that he`d been going through that -- that didn`t form a whole picture, because people who had observed certain things did not know us. There was a certain pattern of, you know, closing out things, giving away things. That -- there is not the network that could have put all this together.", "Early this week, cops had held out hope. They had gotten several reported sightings of the star and announced they were still looking for a living human being. Andrew`s friends hoped desperately that he just wanted a fresh start. He had cleaned out his apartment in Venice, California. He had talked about moving back to Vancouver, a place he called his place of solace. Just yesterday, search and rescue teams scoured this very same park and found no signs of Andrew. He was a very good friend of mine. I worked with him in the past on this program you see this right here, VegTV. He was a wonderful, caring, sensitive soul. And if this body is that of Andrew, as it appears, and I don`t believe law enforcement would announce that in a press release if they didn`t know for a fact that that was true, but we`ll hear in less than an hour, what a tragic loss. What a tragic, tragic loss. Joining me now, Marie Oser, a friend of mine, who worked with Andrew and me, and she is the host of VegTV. Marie, I find this almost surreal and incomprehensible, that vibrant young man that you and I worked with, who was such a great editor and photographer and sometimes appeared on camera, and was so caring and such a wonderful environmentalist and activist, dead. It -- I have no words, Marie.", "I free. Incomprehensible. I am -- I am just so shocked and saddened. I hope that -- I hope it`s not him. I really do. And, you know, Andrew, yes, caring and compassionate. He was a wonderful human being. And, yes, a great editor and a photographer. And so kind to me. You know, Jane, in the early years of VegTV, I was an on- camera rookie, you know, and he never told me how badly I sucked. He was very kind to me, and he was good in the edit bay. He made me look good. So I`m really shocked and devastated, and I hope -- I hope that it`s not so.", "Well, again, I`m reading from a press release issued by the Vancouver police. Vancouver police investigating the discovery of a body found in Stanley Park around noon today. The body is believed to be that of Andrew Koenig. So I really don`t think that cops would say that unless they -- and obviously, he hasn`t been missing that long that it would be impossible to identify. So it looks really, really grim. Stay there, Marie. I want to get back to you. But Dr. Dale Archer, clinical psychiatrist. His parents said that he suffered from depression all his life and that he had gone off his meds something like a year ago. That is always very dangerous.", "Yes, it`s very dangerous. And clinical depression is caused by a chemical imbalance of the brain. We know now that in many cases it`s a lifetime illness. And what often happens is a person will take the meds. They`ll start feeling better. They`ll feel like they`re well, and then they`ll stop the meds. But it can take months for the relapse to occur. Our thinking now is that, if you relapse one time from a severe major depressive episode and have to go back on meds again, you probably need to be on meds for life. And so I think that when we hear the story here that he wanted to make a new start, and he was cleaning things out, and preparing to move, on the one hand, it could have been a new start. Unfortunately, on the other hand, it could have been that he was actually preparing for something worse.", "Now, his life story is so fascinating, because I worked with him for more than two years. And Marie, I think you can back me up on this. He never told us his father was Walter Koenig, who played Chekov on the original \"Star Trek.\"", "Never.", "Never. And apparently when people did reveal this, people who knew it, he got upset with them, and said, \"Don`t -- don`t say that.\" And a friend of his actually -- there you have -- there`s our dear friend, Andrew, talking about saving living Christmas trees. Listen to this.", "Grow and continue to be live trees.", "OK. That was just a taste of Andrew, so you could get to see what he looked and sounded like. He never told us that he was a son of this famous actor. He wanted to keep that a secret, apparently, and got upset with people when they mentioned it. And he also didn`t tell me for two long years that he was a star on \"Growing Pains.\" And I know we have some video of \"Growing Pains,\" where he played Boner. He apparently was not too happy about that experience. And we all know, Dr. Dale Archer, that child stars, when they grow up, often have a very traumatic time of it. They get this adulation at a very young age, and then Hollywood kind of discards them. And even though he was a very, very talented editor and photographer, and we worked with him, Marie and I did, he obviously wanted to be an actor. And it`s hard to go from being on \"Growing Pains\" and stuck with the name Boner to perhaps serious roles in film, and that had to be very depressing for him.", "Well, I think that you have a combination. What you have is the fact that he was a child star and had that adulation, but from what it sounds like, with his level of depression and how long it was going on, I think that this was a separate episode, and this was biologic in nature. But the hallmark of depression, of course, is low self esteem. And oftentimes, these people feel like they`re a fraud. They feel like they`re really never good enough. And even when they make great accomplishments, they don`t believe that it was really them, that it was somehow luck. So this would explain, in many cases, why he would not want to talk about the things he had done, why he wouldn`t want to talk about who his father was. I mean, it just all really dovetails together. And I think at the ends of the day, it`s just a message, a wake-up call for America, that depression can be fatal. You have to -- have to understand that this is a serious and often life-long illness.", "And, again, up until we got this announcement just before air time, we were all hoping and praying that Andrew was alive. In fact, yesterday, his father, Walter, Koenig, who played Chekov on \"Star Trek\" issued a tearful plea and desperate to Andrew, \"Hey, you don`t have to come home if you don`t want to.\" Listen to what he said.", "We just want to know that you`re OK. And if that means want to stay here, you to -- you know, change your life and stay here, and -- fine.", "Kim Serafin, you have been tracking this story. This is such a tragedy. I don`t know if I mentioned to you that I`m a personal friend of Andrew`s. One of the most compassionate, caring, kind, ethical human beings I have ever met. One of the most clean-cut. Never saw him pick up a drop of alcohol. Forget about drugs. Wouldn`t ever touch that. Was very careful about what he ate. And yet now we`re hearing that he may have done something to himself, because Vancouver police say that they discovered the body they believe to be him, and the obvious -- the obvious thing that you`re looking at here is suicide.", "Yes. I mean, it`s really terrible. And, of course, you cover a lot of people in Hollywood, as do I. And Hollywood is a tough town. Because your career can be up one day and down the next, and you cannot work for five years and then work again. You could maybe not work ever again. It`s a really tough town. And as you mentioned, a lot of actors turn to drugs, turn to alcohol. We hear this numerous times. So to hear you say this about him, that he was so clean-cut, even though he did suffer from depression, obviously, maybe people wouldn`t have expected this from him. But it is a tough town.", "I have to say, it`s very sad for me to say that the police have just confirmed that it is him. So Andrew Koenig is -- is dead. Forty-one years old. A wonderful guy. A caring guy. Marie...", "Yes.", "I want to go back to you. You know, the world is really tough on people who are sensitive. This guy was sensitive. He cared about everything, even -- even Christmas trees. He didn`t want us to kill them. He said, just plant a living one so you don`t have to kill a tree. He cared about animals. He didn`t eat them. And he cared about the environment, was very careful. Just drank water. I never saw him drink anything but water. This guy was so pure. And yet it appears he took his own life. This just kills me, Marie.", "It`s heartbreaking, Jane. It`s just heartbreaking. And I think about -- I think about Andrew. I remember him as being, you know, introspective, quiet. You know, there`s a fine line, maybe, between -- between when you try and recognize this in a person. It`s a tough business. It`s hard on all of us. We all get beat up a lot, you know? And if you`re sensitive, and you absorb -- I remember -- or I think of Andrew -- I should say, I think of Andrew as someone who actually took the injustices of the world to heart. He actually absorbed it. And, you know, many of us who fight animal, you know -- who fight for the rights of animals, who care compassionately about -- about what goes on in the world, what happens to people and animals and -- we try not to absorb it. And sometimes it just becomes too much. And I am so, so sad. I`m heartbroken. I really am.", "Yes. He -- it`s like he didn`t have a denial mechanism. It wasn`t so much that he ever seemed sad for himself. He seemed sad for what was happening around him in the world: the destruction of the environment, the cruelty to animals. These were his passions, and this is what hurt him. And that`s why I say he was such a pure soul, because he didn`t really care for himself. He never took anything for himself. He lived simply. And yet I think that the cruelty of the world just overwhelmed him. I know that they say that depression is a chemical imbalance, but I really feel that philosophically he was tortured, because he really felt the world`s pain. Stand by. We have more on this breaking story. Once again, the body of \"Growing Pains\" star Andrew Koenig has been found in Vancouver. He was a child star who struggled in Hollywood, and it appears he has taken his own life. More in a moment."], "speaker": ["JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HOST (voice-over)", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "JUDY LEVITT KOENIG, ANDREW`S MOTHER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "MARIE OSER, VEGTV (via phone)", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DALE ARCHER, CLINICAL PSYCHIATRIST", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "OSER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "ANDREW KOENIG, ACTOR", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "ARCHER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "WALTER KOENIG, ANDREW`S FATHER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "KIM SERAFIN, REPORTER (via phone)", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "OSER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "OSER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-35822", "program": "CNN LARRY KING WEEKEND", "date": "2001-7-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/28/lklw.00.html", "summary": "Encore Presentation: Anne Marie Smith Discusses Her Relationship With Gary Condit", "utt": ["Tonight: She says she had affair with married Congressman Gary Condit and he asked her to lie about it after Chandra Levy disappeared. Anne Marie Smith in depth and intensely personal, next on LARRY KING WEEKEND. Thanks for joining us. The story of missing intern Chandra Levy remains a national obsession, in large part because of Congressman Gary Condit's involvement in the mystery. The spotlight on him has scorched a lot of other people. Among them: flight attendant Anne Marie Smith. She says she was Condit's lover, but that he'd asked her to sign an affidavit denying it after Chandra vanished. Anne Marie sat down with me earlier this moth, along with her attorney Jim Robinson. (", "What's this all been like for you, this firestorm of attention?", "It has been very stressful, my life has been turned upside down.", "You're sorry you came forward?", "No. I'm not sorry.", "Not sorry.", "I was very scared at first, but now I'm very glad that I did it.", "What were the circumstances that brought you forward -- why did you come forward?", "I was forced to, basically, because \"The Star\" started knocking on my door.", "The magazine.", "\"Star\" magazine, somehow they had heard about this, and I did everything I could to keep my name out of \"Star\" magazine, but there were certain people that decided to talk to \"The Star\" magazine, and then...", "People who knew about it?", "People that knew me and knew about the story, and so, I -- subsequently, the rest of the media started calling. It was just from there on out, I couldn't control anything.", "So you decided it's best to come forward?", "Right.", "Let's go back, and we will learn the story. Let's go through it. How did you meet Congressman Condit?", "I met him on a flight from San Francisco to D.C. approximately a year ago.", "He was a passenger.", "Yes.", "Did he begin the conversation -- I mean, how did it work that you would eventually see him?", "He was a passenger on the flight and he gave me his phone number, asked me call him when I was in D.C., and he would set up some tours for me. And from -- and asked me to call him when I got in.", "Strictly congressional kind of tours?", "Correct.", "Did you think anything weary of it at the time?", "No, not at all.", "So you called.", "I called him.", "And what happened?", "We became friends. Started seeing each other, started calling. Spent a lot of time together.", "And eventually, intimacy?", "Pardon?", "And eventually, intimacy.", "Correct.", "Did you know he was married?", "I did.", "Did you hesitate about doing this?", "I did. Because I knew it would ultimately be a painful choice.", "Had you ever done anything like this before?", "No.", "So what happened, what was about it him, you know? We know very little about -- I mean, we know his congressional record, he is not appearing anywhere. You probably know him better than anyone, certainly anyone who is talking. What was it about him that attracted you enough to take those steps?", "He is very kind. He makes you feel like you are special, and you are the only one. Treats you very well.", "What about -- did you feel like you were harming his wife?", "I did. I was very concerned about that.", "But?", "But Mr. Condit told me she is very ill, and that they didn't really have a husband/wife relationship.", "Oh, he said they didn't like sleep together or -- they had no -- they didn't have a marital relationship?", "Correct, it was more a friendship. He deeply cared for her and loved her, but it was more a friendship.", "Did you ever expected, Anne Marie, to get serious enough that he would leave her for you?", "No, I never expected that.", "So you knew it was just fun. Were you in love with him?", "I cared for him deeply. I never said I loved him.", "And was he a caring boyfriend?", "He was very caring, very thoughtful, he was always concerned. Would call me -- he always wanted me to call him when I got in from my trips, when I got to my layovers, to check in, let him know I was OK.", "Did you have any sense that his wife knew any of this was going on?", "No. I didn't think she knew at all.", "OK. Now it becomes intimate after a while, and you are seeing each other, and he is an attentive man, he is a strong lover, he is a close companion, this is a nice -- are you dating others? Are you having a full life?", "I didn't really date others. I did a little bit. I would go out periodically with other people, but when I would tell him that I was going out with somebody else, he would...", "Get mad.", "He would get upset and say that it wasn't a good idea, I wouldn't find anybody as good as him. And he was very controlling in that way. And he asked me -- I went to Telluride in February, and he got a little upset about it, and asked me if, you know, if I wanted to have an open relationship, if that is how I was going to be about it.", "Really?", "Yes.", "Yet he was married. Did you say to him, \"but you are married?\"", "No, I never said that to him.", "Why not?", "Because -- I mean, I knew the fact that he was married.", "But I mean, if he is trying to keep you under his shield, it would be logical to say, wait a minute. He had you.", "Basically.", "Right, Jim?", "Yes.", "I guess listening to this, he had...", "It's his", "Yeah. He had a good deal. When did you start to discover there were others?", "I always was a little suspicious, and I would always ask him, you know, are you seeing anybody else? Is there anybody else in your life? And he would say no, I don't have time for it. I'm so busy. I don't have time for anybody else.", "So, when this erupted, when the story broke about Chandra Levy -- did you ever know about Chandra Levy?", "I never knew about her.", "Never knew her name?", "Never knew anything.", "Were you still seeing him up to that point?", "Yes.", "Oh, so, you were still having a relationship?", "We were still talking, you know. I hadn't actually seen him since March, end of March, but we were still talking to each other, and he was trying to work it out so that we could get together.", "How would that work, by the way? You couldn't call him at home?", "No. I would call his office, his answering service.", "And leave a message, and he would get back to you?", "Right.", "And you were traveling all the time, right?", "Right.", "As a flight attendant for United.", "Correct.", "By the way, how has United been through this?", "They have been wonderful, supportive, emotionally supportive, encouraging, they've just been wonderful.", "But you haven't been there a long time.", "No, I haven't.", "OK, when you hear about Chandra Levy -- which is in all the newspapers -- she is missing, and she was a friend and worked for, knew the congressman. Did you phone him, talk to him about it?", "I did. Well, he phoned me initially and asked me to not call him. He said he was in trouble, he may have to disappear for a while.", "Really?", "And said not to call him for a few days. So then, a weak later, I had a trip to D.C., and it was -- I called him, I waited for like a week, and then finally called him. And I was very concerned about him. I didn't know any of this, we hadn't heard about any of it on the West Coast yet. And I called him and said, you know, I'm going to be in D.C., let's get together, let's have dinner, and he called me back and he said, \"I can't. I can't see you, there is a situation, and it is...\"", "So you didn't know the Chandra story?", "I didn't know it yet at this time. And so, I got into D.C. and I went into my hotel room and I turned on the news and I saw it, and I was just shocked beyond belief. And I called him, and I said: \"What am I supposed to believe?\"", "And he said?", "He said: \"Well, you have to believe me. I want to sit down and explain this all to you, I want to let you know what really is going on, and...\"", "And did you see him?", "No. I haven't seen him since.", "You still haven't seen him.", "No.", "We will be right back with Anne Marie Smith and her attorney Jim Robinson. This is LARRY KING LIVE, don't go away.", "We're back with Anne Marie Smith and her attorney Jim Robinson. We're live here in Los Angeles. All right, you see this on television, he calls and says, believe in me, I didn't have a relationship with her, right?", "Right.", "She was just -- I knew her, but she is just missing, right?", "He didn't even tell me that he knew her. He just said -- I can't talk to you for a while. If you call me just leave really short messages and I'll try to touch base with you. But...", "What did this do to you?", "Well, obviously, I was really upset. I mean, I cared about him. He's a really good friend of mine, and it was a huge shock.", "Did you think he was snookering you when he said, \"I have got nothing to do with this\"?", "No, I believed him", "You did believe him.", "I did.", "But yet you mentioned to me you started smoking again, you got so nervous, right?", "Yes.", "What? You got nervous.", "I got very nervous.", "All right, now, when did things really start to go a little haywire here? You know, when did he say don't do this, and don't -- make statements about it, et cetera? When it broke that you were involved in \"The Star\"? When -- give me the scenario.", "When he called me initially, saying that he was in trouble and he may have to disappear, he said: \"Please don't mention my name to anybody, don't tell them about this phone call. Don't -- if you hear my name on the news -- and I had no idea what he was talking about because this was before I came back east. He's like \"If you hear my name on the news, don't mention it to anybody.\"", "Then what?", "And then that's when I went to D.C. and found out what the problem was.", "And then what? I mean, when did it come that you had to know that there was going to be a test -- or you had to fill out a form or say something?", "That was after \"The Star\" magazine. My roommates actually sold my story to \"The Star\" magazine.", "Your roommate, for United, you mean? The person you're living with?", "Right.", "A girlfriend.", "Girlfriend.", "Sold the story.", "Right. Supplied pictures, and...", "Your former friend.", "My former friend.", "Then he told you to what?", "Initially, he -- we discussed it and I told him I didn't want my name out, and his attorneys called and said that they had -- were effective in keeping my name from being printed because I hadn't validated any of the story. And at that time I had contacted an attorney to represent me.", "Was it Jim?", "And it was basically to keep the media away.", "Is that Jim?", "Initially I had a different attorney, and then I called Jim and asked him to represent me.", "His attorneys at that time, it wasn't Abbe Lowell, right?", "No. It Mr. Cotchett.", "Cotchett from Los Angeles.", "In San Francisco.", "San Francisco, yeah. So did you follow suit? Did you not say anything?", "I didn't say anything at all.", "When were you asked not to sign -- or not to -- dealing with -- give me the affidavit story.", "Well, we were talking about some way to come up, some way to deny, or to you know, keep the story from being printed, because I mean, obviously, I didn't want it to come out, and he didn't want it to embarrass him. And so my attorney asked me if there was any truth in it, and I said yes, there is truth in it. And he said well, then we can't keep it from being printed.", "So he wanted you to sign an affidavit that it was not true.", "That's correct.", "And hopefully that affidavit would prevent them from printing it out of fear of lawsuits and the like, because you're saying it's just not true.", "That's correct.", "And why didn't you do that for him?", "Because the very last line says \"under perjury of the law of the United States of America.\" And I knew in good conscience I could not sign it. And I kept -- I got several phone calls urging me to sign it, saying...", "From?", "From Mr. Condit and his representatives, or the people representing him. And he would say, well, their office is really close to where you live. You could just pop over there and sign it and we could get this over with.", "Was he nervous when he talked to you?", "No, he was really nice. I mean, he's always really nice. I mean, he's very...", "So it was like, \"do me this favor\"?", "Right. And...", "And you couldn't do it.", "I could not do it.", "Because a lot of people would say well, you know, I love this guy. I certainly like him a lot, been intimate with him, I believe him when he tells me he doesn't know this missing girl, or he had no relationship with her. I might lie.", "Well, I wanted -- I wanted to keep it out of the newspapers, I wanted to keep it away from the media, and I talked to my attorney and he said, well, since there's truth in the story there's no way we can go up against them. And you cannot sign that document. He said there's absolutely no way. And I kept getting phone calls urging me to seen it, and I would defer it to my attorney. And Mr. Condit asked me, well, I don't -- you know, he's hesitating about you signing that. I don't understand why. And if I hadn't had an attorney, I probably would have signed it.", "Just out of pressure.", "Right. Out of pressure, and because I didn't know any differently.", "When did you switch attorneys?", "Once Mr. Cotchett's office called me. I immediately switched.", "Was that very smart that she didn't sign that, Jim?", "She could have gone to jail for a long time if she would have signed that document, yes.", "Boy! So he was ready to...", "He was suborning perjury.", "And that's what they were investigating. That's what you were in Washington for, right? What was that about, in Washington? There was no grand jury, right?", "No. No. We met with two U.S. attorneys, both homicide, prosecutor attorneys. We had two FBI agents and two detectives from Washington metro police.", "Looking at all of this, both the perjury aspect and the investigation into Chandra Levy?", "Very, very, very detailed, day by day by day, hour, hour by hour.", "What was that like for you?", "Grilling. Exhausting.", "Now, you're lucky, though. You had a diary.", "Right.", "So whenever you give a date you were able to present a dairy?", "Right.", "How did they know you had a diary?", "I presented to it them.", "Oh. Did they ask, though? Do you have a dairy?", "No, I just said I have this with specific dates, of phone calls, and -- it was kind of after the fact that I wrote down certain dates that he had called me and what he had said in those conversations.", "That was smart, Jim.", "She is a smart girl.", "Well, I had everything saved in my voice mail, so I just kind of went back through and listened.", "So you were able to give them a lot of information.", "I hope so. I mean, I hope what I gave them was helpful.", "Are you -- all right. Let's get to that when we come back, how feel about Gary, how you feel about others, what you want to say tonight. This by the way, is, she tells us, the last time she's going to appear in the media. She wants to go back to, as best as possible, a normal life. We'll see if that's possible. We'll be right back with Anne Marie Smith and Jim Robinson. Don't go away.", "We're back with Anne Marie Smith and her attorney, Jim Robinson. What was the relationship -- just some other things in the affair itself? You would meet in Washington, have dinner?", "Right. We'd meet in Washington. I would fly out there, or I would meet him in California.", "Wasn't he a pretty well-known figure? I mean, he's a Congressman.", "Yes.", "Didn't he think that -- does he worry that people in the restaurant might see him with a woman?", "He was really worried. He'd always wear sunglasses and a hat when we went out.", "Even at dinner?", "Yes.", "When you would meet him, it would be in his apartment?", "Right.", "Would he ever come to your hotel room?", "Yes.", "Did he, like, sneak in? Would he wear glasses?", "No, he would come in, like, the hotel room, but I was never accompanying him when he came in.", "So you'd be there already.", "Right, and he'd meet me.", "But you were not, not public?", "No.", "In other words, you were out in the public. It wasn't all sneaking around alleys.", "It was very careful, though. He was very careful about it.", "And in California, where would you meet him?", "I would meet him at a hotel.", "In San Francisco?", "In San Francisco. Sometimes, I would pick him up at the airport and take him to a meeting point, where his -- a staff member would pick him up.", "Someone had reported that he was into a lot of kinky things. Was any of that true?", "I think so. I'm not really comfortable talking about it.", "But you could say yes?", "Yes.", "Were you -- I don't know if victim is the right word, were you a prisoner of this relationship in a sense? I don't want to say under a spell, that seems trite.", "I know what you are saying, I really -- he is very manipulative. For example, I would say, \"I think I'm going up to Seattle this weekend.\" or, \"I have a couple days off, I think I'm going to head up to Seattle,\" and he would call me and say, \"Well, you know, I'm going to be in San Francisco tomorrow, why don't you just stay,\" and then he wouldn't show up in -- I would stay and he wouldn't show up.", "When did you -- all right, he wanted you to sign this thing. He told you what, that there would be no trial, you would never be in trouble?", "Right.", "When did you turn on him? When did you start to say, wait a minute, this is this is not a right guy?", "Actually, it was -- he kept pressing me to sign this affidavit, and my attorney was not aware that he was calling me and asking me to sign it. And so finally, Jim called me and said, \"what's going on?\" And -- you can take over.", "Well, Abbe Lowell called me and said that there had been communications -- he said from my client to the congressman, and I said this is news to me. Let me find out about it. I called Anne Marie, she got very upset, she says, \"I'm not calling him! He is calling me! And I'm returning his phone calls.\" I said what's -- what's he want to talk about? She says, he wants me to sign this affidavit. And I just blew up. And I said, the congressman himself who knows this thing is false, is asking you to suborn perjury? And she said: \"What's suborn perjury?\" I explained it to her.", "Is that when you turned? Is that when you decided that if this is going to be public and \"The Star\" is going to print it, I'm going to take some action here.", "Exactly. My attorney advised me that the best way to handle it was to make a public statement, and he basically used it as a -- what do you call it -- my appearance?", "Oh, proffer.", "My interview?", "Interview...", "No, my initial interview?", "You mean to go on television?", "Right, when you said -- when we went on television.", "Oh, yes.", "That was done to set the record straight?", "It was used to set the record straight and also to record everything.", "We wanted to record absolutely what her knowledge was. I didn't even know who to call in D.C. at that point, I didn't even know who to trust. I didn't know...", "Have you spoken to him since then? Since appearing?", "No, I haven't.", "Have you heard direct contact from lawyers since then?", "No, I have not.", "None. What happened to you after you came forward? For example, did friends get mad at you or support you?", "My friends have been so supportive, and I would like to thank them for that. Everybody has been extremely...", "Did any friends of the congressman get mad at you?", "Not that I'm aware of. I haven't heard anything.", "You haven't had any threats or anything like that?", "No.", "What do you make now of where this has all gone? We have learned so much more. Did you -- now, thinking back, should have figured out he had other girlfriends?", "I had an intuition that he was dating people, and I kept asking him, and he would say, \"I'm not dating anybody, you are the only one. You know, if you keep asking me you are going to mess up the relationship.\" And he also told me to never talk about it to anybody, to totally keep it a secret. And he was really upset when he found out that I had told one of my roommates about the relationship.", "Another thing you knew, Anne Marie, in coming forward, you would have to lay your life out.", "Right.", "And you did have a relationship with a married man.", "Right.", "You were the other woman.", "Right.", "Had to be hard.", "It was very hard. You know, it was very -- it is the most difficult thing I have ever done in my life.", "And now people know you, they know you walk down the street, they know you -- paparazzi follow you everywhere.", "Yes.", "That will go away. This is your last -- you are not going to make any more media appearances, right?", "I am not making any more media appearances, I want the cameras to quit following me, I want to go back to my life as a flight attendant and live in San Francisco peacefully. I did this to help with the case. It wasn't about me. And I want the media to understand that, that it's not about me. It is about finding Chandra and helping the family. And that is why I had to do it.", "You also -- we'll get to break and when we come back from break, you have a message for other people who may have been involved. This could be very important, so stay with us. We will be right back, don't go away.", "Before we continue just with the interview and take your phone calls, Anne Marie did want to say something tonight to other women that may have been involved. What?", "I just want to say that if there are other women that know anything about this and that are afraid to come forward, or have been threatened in any way, I encourage them from the bottom of my heart to come forward, because the longer you keep silent, the stronger you make these people, and just telling the truth will make you safe. And I just urge you, urge you, to come forward.", "You are saying if you are involved with Congressman Condit, you are better off coming forward?", "Correct.", "... than not coming forward.", "Correct.", "Because once you get it out, you are out.", "Right. I understand that a couple people are -- have been threatened and are afraid, and I would urge them -- there is safety in telling the truth, and it's...", "So you are saying now, if anybody is watching this show who knew Gary Condit, had a relationship with Gary Condit, come forward.", "Right.", "Even though that may have nothing to do with the missing Ms. Levy. It certainly deals with his character.", "Right. And especially if there have been threats made, there is safety in coming forward, there is safety in telling their story.", "Did you find things in his apartment -- there were reports you would find things in his apartment that led you to be curious?", "I found a couple items, and I asked him...", "Like?", "I found some hairs, obviously women's hairs", "Not yours?", "Women's hairs.", "That's about it. You want to not talk about other...", "Those are the things that she could not talk about -- just so we explained to the viewers why.", "Well, we have disclosed a lot of things to investigators, and we don't want to put that out in the press, because of the fact that we don't want -- Mr. Condit, if he is guilty of anything to have nine months to figure out how to explain that away.", "You mean, some of the stuff that she pointed out to them might be part of a criminal investigation.", "Yes.", "Either with Chandra Levy or something that they could use.", "Yes. And since the hairs we have talked about before, some of the other things we've only talked to prosecutors about, and they have asked us obviously to not put that out, so they have that as evidence for a later date.", "Just as an offshoot, do you think Congressman Condit is in big trouble, Chandra Levy aside?", "Well, you know, I was thinking about it on the way over here, and Congressman Condit came out in the papers and he said, \"I don't need a criminal attorney.\" Well, Mr. Thornton, when I was talking to him about the affidavit, confirmed to me that day one he hired Abbe Lowell, and...", "I want to ask -- I want to play you a statement made by Abbe Lowell today, when we come back, and also a statement made by the D.C. police, and I want to -- Anne Marie, I want to get your thoughts on how you think this guy you knew so well let this happen. Why would he be involved with an intern? All right, he's married. Let's say his marriage is unhappy. You're a mature lady, a very attractive -- why -- why do you think an intern? I mean, it just affects people. And we, of course, have invited Congressman Condit and Abbe Lowell and others to appear. They could have appeared tonight and they declined. We'll be right back. Don't go away.", "We are back with Anne Marie Smith, flight attendant for United Airlines, and Jim Robinson her attorney. Abbe Lowell made an announcement today concerning his client's taking a lie detector test. Watch.", "Agent Colvert concluded that the congressman was not deceptive in any way and in fact had a probability of deception of less than 1 hundredth of one percent to the only questions that mattered. These were first: Did the Congressman have anything at all to do with the disappearance of Miss Levy? Second: Did he harm her or cause anyone else to harm her in any way? And, third: Does he know where she can be located?", "That was Abbe Lowell today. The assistant D.C. police chief Mr. Gainer characterized the test. His response this way, watch.", "I have never been involved in a polygraph in all these 30-some years of policing and homicide investigations where the polygraph examiner didn't want to know the facts of the case. And generally the honest facts of the case, quite frankly, are given by law enforcement authorities. So this is a bit self-serving.", "What do you make of this, Anne Marie?", "Well, I like to know who applied the polygraph test.", "It was an independent polygraph. A former FBI polygrapher, hired by the defense.", "Um-hmm. I'm not sure what to make of it.", "Jim?", "I think Chief Gainer said it. It should have been given by the police, under control of the police. The questions should have been asked by the police. And, I think this is a stunt by Abbe Lowell.", "A stunt.", "Yes.", "Anne Marie, how do you explain the congressman, a United States congressman, bright, right?", "Right.", "Did he ever talk to you about bills and stuff ever going on in Congress?", "Yes, we had great discussions about politics.", "You did? You talked politics a lot, you talked about his friends and people he liked and being a Democrat and Republican and Modesto, you had a relationship.", "Um-hmm.", "What do you make of him being involved with an intern?", "Well, I really questioned it. I mean, he is a responsible man with a lot of power, and perhaps that is why he was doing it, because it made him feel more powerful. I don't really know. And the other thing I have really questioned is why would he get involved with somebody from his district. If he wanted to have an affair, why with a 24-year-old intern living in D.C. who is from his district. I mean obviously I have a lot of questions regarding this. And I don't have any answers to them.", "All right, how do you feel toward him today? How would you describe it? Anger, disappointment? What?", "Well, I feel betrayed, because I felt like when the media started pounding on my door, my parent's doors, my friends's doors, my attorneys's door, I felt like he wasn't there as a friend. I mean before...", "What should he have said?", "Before we were talking every day on the phone, he was very caring and concerned about me, and then when this started happening it was like -- you know we have to stop it, but it wasn't like -- I never got an apology from him for putting me in this situation. I never asked to be involved in this situation. So from that standpoint I feel betrayed.", "When you think back, and you obviously, all we have are our thoughts and our memories. Do you think he was a womanizer and you were one of many and this was just a steady stream of extra women?", "I know he is a womanizer. He told me about affairs that he had had in the past.", "So that he even told you?", "Right -- and long term fairs.", "Long term affairs?", "Um-hmm.", "Did he name the people? I'm not going to ask you to name them.", "No, he never named any names.", "Did you think he was seeing people while he was seeing you?", "I did not. Because I continually asked him and he said no.", "But now do you?", "Well now I know.", "You know...", "Right.", "... he was seeing Chandra Levy. How do you feel about her parents?", "My heart goes out to them. And that is one reason why I had to come forward with this story. And my heart -- I mean I think about them every day. My heart just really goes out to them, and I...", "It's sad.", "Pardon.", "It is sad.", "It's very sad.", "There are a lot of people saying, how is Anne Marie Smith germane to Chandra Levy, Jim, except as a character statement?", "There is not only character, there is an MO here. This -- people don't change their habits, who they date, how they try to control them, how they try to control the situation, how they react when a woman gets nervous, starts to get possessive, and that is why these other women need to come forward.", "So if he did it with her, he did it with her, if he did it with her, he did it with that one, if he did it with that one, he did it with that one, so he has to be a controlling figure in Chandra Levy life?", "Yes.", "Therefore it has to come under that veil of suspicion of something?", "Of something. She may have come -- got to some point where she said enough is enough. I know about this, I know about this, I -- this is all speculation -- but pushed him to his limit and...", "Do you fear the worst here?", "Yes, I absolutely do.", "He never harmed you, did he?", "No.", "Ever come close to harming you?", "No.", "Ever argue?", "We would argue. He is a really quiet -- like anger. He gets really quiet when he's angry.", "Sort of seeths.", "Pardon.", "He liked seething.", "He does.", "We will be right back with Anne Marie Smith and Jim Robinson. And as we go to break, and by the way we will start taking some of your phone calls, as we go to break here is the response of the Levy's attorney Billy Martin tonight to all of this.", "They are very disappointed, disappointed because the idea of a polygraph, of a lie detector test was raised by me on behalf of the Levys and we asked the congressman to cooperate with law enforcement authorities on agreeing to a term that would avoid any questions as to objectivity of the polygraph. We asked that some time ago, and yesterday it seems that the congressman and his attorneys snuck off to a private polygraph examiner and took a polygraph on his terms. Once again it shows to us that the congressman is releasing information on his terms and when he wants to release that information.", "I don't understand yesterday, I don't understand today and I don't understand tomorrow what anything about Anne Marie Smith has to do with the disappearance of Chandra Levy. Unless somebody can point that out, I don't understand why he should be asked about it, either with a polygraph, without a polygraph, or I should be asked about it at this conference.", "Well, now you're being mentioned by Mr. Lowell. How do you react to that?", "That's the first time I've heard that.", "Are you surprised?", "No, I'm not surprised at all.", "You, Jim?", "I'm surprised that he doesn't understand. This man is a serial predator of women. And that's what this investigation is about. That's why they want to talk to Anne Marie, that's why they want to talk to other women, and he doesn't understand.", "By the way, this is going to come out, but Anne Marie found in her apartment with her roommate, the agreement between what, \"The Star\" and your roommate.", "Correct.", "That they would pay her in return for breaking the story about you, right?", "Right.", "How much money?", "$2,500.", "$2,500.", "Right.", "And apparently, they split it.", "They split it.", "Our friendship was based on $2,500, the value of our friendship.", "Sacramento, as we go to some calls for Anne Marie Smith and Jim Robinson -- hello.", "Yes, what have you learned about yourself as a person, and about Mr. Condit as a person, after having had this affair and this entire matter that you've been dealing with?", "Excellent question. How has this changed you? What have you learned about yourself?", "I've learned not to be so trusting of people, and to really -- I mean, I'm very trusting of people and believe them. I like to give them the benefit of the doubt.", "Has it made you wary?", "It's made me very wary.", "Would you say wouldn't date a married man again?", "Definitely not. I mean, I knew I shouldn't have been doing it in the first place.", "What did you learn about him? What do you know now, didn't know then? Aside from the women?", "He is deceitful and manipulative. I mean, I really trusted him. I thought he was always telling me the truth, and -- I tried to believe him. And then when you find out that somebody is lying to you, and deceiving you, it's very hurtful.", "Would you say that nothing you learned, then, would be surprising at this point? When you hurt? I mean, any news that breaks, if many more women come forward, it wouldn't surprise you?", "No.", "In fact, you're asking them to come forward.", "Right.", "Fresno, California, hello.", "Yes, I'd like to ask Anne Marie Smith...", "Go ahead.", "Yes, I'd like to ask Anne Marie Smith why she was going with a married man to begin with, and she sounds like she's a scorned woman.", "Scorned? Do you feel scorned?", "No, I don't. I mean, I knew what I was getting into. I don't feel scorned at all.", "And with a married man, how did that -- well, you believed him about the relationship with his wife, right?", "Right. I believe she's very ill. I thought I was the only one he was dating, and obviously there were multiple people he was seeing. Well, it's kind of come out that there were several others. And what I want to reiterate is that this is not -- this whole thing is not about me. You know, it's -- I had to come forward.", "Because someone...", "Set the story straight and also to cover the who affidavit issue. But the whole focus is on Chandra. It's not about me. I made a mistake. I dated a married man, and I found out that he wasn't the nicest of people. And that's how -- I mean, I feel very badly about that.", "Are you a little concerned that he apparently, again, since he hasn't done anything -- doesn't appear more concerned about her?", "I am very concerned.", "Well, you'd think if you were friends, he'd be batting down doors in anger.", "That's what I told Jim. It's like, if it was my friend, I'd be out there, exactly, doing just that. You know, where is she? We were friends. He just he seems really cold and uncaring.", "What do you make of that, Jim? Why doesn't he...", "Well, I think that the police chief in D.C. -- when Abbe Lowell said, well, we didn't answer that because they didn't ask the right question until the third interview, that's ludicrous. That's absolutely ludicrous. I mean, I saw the chief on TV, and he was just, come on, give me break!", "We'll be right back with more calls for Anne Marie Smith and Jim Robinson. Again, this is her last media appearance. She's asking to be left alone. She's also asking others, if you know anything, to come forward. It's the best thing to do. We'll ask her about how she's been treated, how she feels about those friends as well. Don't go away.", "I'm not worrying about anybody's political career or anything like that. My focus is to bring my daughter home. And it is important to find out who she's been with in the last few days, that the communication was there, and who the relationship she was with, and to build an understanding to what might have happened. And so, I mean, everybody's talking about political things and how it's affecting the rest of the country, whatever, or who, individually. Or who's going to run for this seat or what -- I mean, I'm not out to hurt anybody's political causes or anything like that. I am just -- my husband are just, we're parents and we want our daughter home.", "If you and your brothers and sisters in California continue to sort of pry into the Condit family life and try to find out what medications they Condits have been on, and how did he do in high school, and whether his children do this, or that, that may fill your papers and your Web sites and your TV shows, but it is not going to find Chandra Levy and it is going to be counterproductive.", "Allentown, Pennsylvania, for Anne Marie Smith and Jim Robinson. Hello.", "Hi, I was wondering if your guests could imagine any enemies who would want to set the congressman up to ruin him politically, by bringing out this affairs. Maybe those individuals could have Miss Levy, or that she just disappeared because she felt scorned?", "Do you have any thoughts?", "I thought about that. It's been one of my theories.", "That?", "That maybe there is somebody trying to set him up.", "Did he have enemies?", "I don't know. I -- I have no idea.", "So, he never told you...", "No.", "... there is this guy who hates me, or something like that?", "No, he never said anything like that, and you know, there is -- I mean, there are so many theories floating around, just...", "Have you talked to the Levys?", "I have talked to them.", "By phone?", "By phone, and I want to call them again.", "What did they say?", "They said -- they were so sweet when I talked to them, they said, well, you are in our hearts and our prayers, and I -- I said, well, you know, I have been thinking about you every day -- it's not about me, I mean, I was just like -- I mean, just their kindness and their, you know, in this difficult time that they are going through just amazed me. It was very touching.", "Setauket, New York, hello.", "Hello, Larry.", "Hi.", "Hi, Anne Marie, I have a question to you: what really attracted you? His looks, his power, or his wealth?", "I don't know that he is wealthy that is -- I don't think he is.", "I don't believe he is, no.", "What attracted you?", "I think what attracted me to him is his personality. We had a lot of fun together, he was -- he made me feel like I was special. He was very caring. We had great times together. And actually, I told him that I didn't like his job, because when you are in that position, your life isn't really your own.", "Did he talk about his children?", "Yeah, he would talk about his children.", "Was he -- did he seem like a good father?", "He seemed like a very good father. Cared about his children, talked to them a lot. He helped them I think get their positions that they are working at now.", "You were a real part of his life.", "I thought so.", "Back with our remaining moments with Anne Marie Smith and Jim Robinson after this.", "I don't think she would harm herself. I have given her -- because of my family background, I have given her the reality of how valued life is, and how valued you living is, and I think that she -- if there was a, you know, let's say a romantic breakup or something, I think she could be very saddened, but she would go on because she knew she had a future, as far as school, and career -- and I don't think she would harm herself, as media had talked about.", "This program is always fair, so there is also an invitation to the congressman to come forward and tell us any side of the story he wishes, and Abbe Lowell of course invited as well, Abbe a previous guest on this show a number of times. Take another call for Anne Marie. Merced, California, hello.", "Hello, Larry. My question is to Ms. Smith, does she feel that she is paying a high price for having an affair with a high- profile married man? And she says she feels compassion for the Levys, well how about Mrs. Condit?", "I definitely feel compassion for Mrs. Condit. I -- especially now. I can imagine what she is experiencing, and I think that -- you know, I do have a lot of regrets for dating a married man. But it's not like -- I mean, it is -- you can't go back and undo what you have done in the past, you can only go forward and live a better life.", "But he did lie to you about the relationship with the wife, right?", "He did.", "Do you, by the way, when he said \"don't sign anything,\" did he ever threaten you?", "No, never threatened me, but he...", "Did he say something bad was going to happen to you if you did -- didn't sign it?", "No.", "Did he sound at all threatening?", "No, but he is very -- like I said before, he is very controlling. And he wants you to feel like...", "You have to do this.", "Well, if you don't, like you are hurting him or you are letting him down. He is very good at making you feel like that.", "Guilt.", "Guilt.", "Sioux City, Iowa, hello.", "Hello. I have a question for the three of you. I have noticed in the last couple days Condit's demeanor, smiling big at reporters going to and from his office, does that strike anybody else as a little strange, that demeanor? In light of someone who is supposed to care about so very much -- being missing.", "I will let the guests respond. Sometimes people, though, in nervous situations act -- their mannerisms can be all different. What do you think about -- he has been smiling a lot?", "Absolutely. I have known Anne for 12 years, and she smiles a lot, and she hasn't been smiling a lot lately. And...", "Are you surprised?", "Oh, absolutely. He is constantly smiling. I don't know what he is so happy about.", "What do you make of that, Anne Marie? The girl is still missing.", "Well, I find it a little cold. It seems to me like he is smiling at the cameras, and he doesn't seem that concerned. He is very cold.", "What do you feel when you see him?", "I have a lot of emotions that go through me when I see him.", "Well, we've got 30 seconds, give me a few.", "Well, you know, I'm concerned about him. I, you know, sometimes I feel angry, you know. I'm -- it's...", "A lot of things.", "Yes, a lot of things. I mean, it's been...", "Sometimes sorry?", "Very sorry. It has been a very emotional time. I mean, it's like...", "A roller-coaster.", "A roller-coaster. It's not only dealing with like the loss of a good friend, you know, that he has talked to frequently, but now it is like, everything else that is thrown in with it.", "That's it for this edition of LARRY KING WEEKEND. We'll have more on the Chandra Levy mystery as it unfolds. Thanks for watching; good night. 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{"id": "CNN-230927", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2014-5-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/19/cg.02.html", "summary": "Clinton Faces Republican Blowback Over Potential Health Issues; An Eye Toward Midterm Races", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. Now it's time for the Politics Lead. Suddenly everyone just wants to make sure Hillary Clinton is feeling all right. It's really sweet. This weekend, more Republicans glommed on to the script first crafted by Republican strategist Karl Rove. The questions about Hillary Clinton's age and the blood clot she suffered in 2012 will be fair game if she decides to run for president in 2016. But some key Democrats had her back.", "She'll be 69 at the time of the 2016 election. If she gets elected and serves two terms, she'll be 77.", "I think Karl Rove is struggling to be relevant.", "Health and age is fair game. It was fair game for Ronald Reagan, it's fair game for John McCain --", "In my view, she's in the prime of her political life.", "Any presidential candidate or vice presidential candidate is going to have to answer questions about their health.", "So what does this back and forth mean for Hillary Clinton? Let's bring in the editor-in-chief of Roll Call, Christina Bellantoni and CNN national political reporter Peter. Christina, let me start with you. Last week, one Clinton aide responded to the original Rove allegations by saying, quote, \"There are no words for this level of lying.\" But former president Bill Clinton noted, \"It's only going to get worse.\" It doesn't sound like they're just going to sit back and take this.", "No, definitely not. You'll going to see the Clinton camp, if you will. They're not officially a campaign but really, they're acting like a campaign.", "Yes, and I think Karl Rove - and I talked to some Republicans and they probably agree - that he overstepped. The issue of a candidate's health and their age is absolutely fair game. It has to be approached a bit carefully with Hillary Clinton. I think political people think this because she's a woman. That's tough --", "Why? Why does it have to be approached differently?", "Because they can easily, I think, turn it around. I mean, don't you think that people can turn around questions and say they're under attack because of gender?", "Yes, sure. But the question is, would a man be facing the same questions? Clearly Karl Rove said things in the original change that were not true. He had said she'd spent a month in the hospital.", "Look at the Obama -- that gets to my point. This took what is a legitimate issue and pushes it into conspiracy territory. And you saw with Bill Clinton the other day, speaking -- he said he used this to his advantage. He wanted to talk about it. He belittled Karl Rove in this way. I mean, this is something -- the Clintons are good when they're under attack.", "Christina, listen to this. It was written for CNN.com, Republican strategist Alex Castellanos. He wrote, quote, \"Was Karl Rove's assault on Hillary Clinton's brain a political master stroke that will make her presidential campaign more difficult, or a ham- fisted attack that will contribute to the persistent unpopularity of the Republican Party? The answer, to many a Republican's regret, is both.\"", "Yes, that sounds about right to me. Because you've seen they do want to raise this issue. They want to start calling everything into question. You've seen the special investigations into the attacks on Benghazi. That has a lot to do with Hillary Clinton.", "Yeah, they said they want to bring her before the committee.", "Yes, and so that's part of it. But it is also something that Democrats want to get out there and talk about her, show her competence, show her record. What I'm watching for are a few things. Does she feel like she needs to release any sort of doctor's statement? John McCain waited very, very late in the 2008 campaign to do that when questions of his age were raised and his competency. Does she do that? Does she feel the need to do that? And what does Barack Obama say about her? I mean, he's never really resisted an opportunity to take a swipe at Karl Rove, but he hasn't been out there necessarily vociferously defending her and her competency in his administration. Now this is going to start happening as she gets closer to deciding if she's running.", "Let's turn to another possible 2016 presidential hopeful. Speaking Saturday at Grove City College in northwestern Pennsylvania, Jeb Bush, former Florida governor and possible 2016 presidential candidate had this to say.", "If you feel inspired to serve your fellow citizens, don't let the ugliness of politics keep you from pursuing public office.", "Well, we're going to be parsing everything these people say from now until they declare or announce that they're not running. Am I to read something there? He said, \"If you inspire to serve your fellow citizens, don't let the ugliness of publics keep you from pursuing public office.\"", "I think Jeb Bush is being pretty consistent when he sounds out how he's going through this process and thinking about whether to run. He, I think, it weighs heavily on him, how difficult the presidential process would be. You know, the day to day, Twitter, back and forth. How sort of petty and negative a presidential campaign is for a guy who hasn't really run for office since 2002. But I mean, I talked to someone who was recently at a fundraiser with him. And he is saying the same things in private and public. He really wants to approach this in a really earnest way and say if I can do this in a not negative, not too poisonous or toxic way, if he thinks he can get through it, then he's going to jump in.", "And when I heard this, it made me wonder if it was a little bit of a message to his family, as well. Because we keep reading these stories where people are saying well, the big concern about this is whether it will it be too harsh on his wife, his children? What kind of family impact will that have? You've heard what Barbara Bush has had to say, his mother, about whether or not he should run. So is this a message of saying, well, it doesn't have to be so ugly. We can have a good time. And I will say, I have talked to a lot of Democrats who very much liked what he had to say about immigration and being an active love of bringing your child to the United States illegally. And that's something that has some Democrats scared if he does actually run.", "And it has some Republicans opposing him. Very excited to oppose him.", "No, that's absolutely the case. And again, he deeply cares about education, immigration. Common Core and immigration are not things that really jibe with the Republican base at this point. So again, I think as he looks at this, he's being very smart and deliberate and saying, can I get through the process and still have what I believe in intact for a general election?", "It's - obviously this is a midterm here. Tomorrow is a big primary day in six different states from Oregon to Pennsylvania. Peter, what are you looking for tomorrow? What races are you watching?", "Well, I just got back from a week in Kentucky. I think everyone agrees that Mitch McConnell will sail to victory -", "Senate minority leader in Kentucky over his Republican challenger, Matt Bevin, Tea Party-backed. He's flamed out. He's run kind of a ham-fisted campaign. But the real race tomorrow is the race for the Georgia Senate runoff. The top two finishes in a five-way race.", "For the Republican nomination.", "For the Republican Senate nomination in Georgia to take on Democrat Michelle Nunn, David Pardue, self", "I don't want to overstate the case because the Tea Party has had a tremendous effect on the Republican Party and without question has moved the center of the Republican Party to the right. But it does seem as though the establishment is really beating back a lot of these Tea Party candidates.", "Yes, absolutely. But you're right. It's moved them to the right, so the establishment has become more and more conservative over just the last four or six years. So one of the things I'm looking at in Kentucky is how much does Mitch McConnell calibrate his message at all for a general election. We have a story coming out in Roll Call tomorrow looking at how the general election there has really already started there. He's been running against Allison Lundergren Rimes, the Democratic candidate there that Democrats are very excited about. Another one I'm watching is actually in Pennsylvania where you have two different races where Democrats looked like the front-runner in a few cases. Allyson Schwartz was running for governor; she is not doing very well in that primary to run against Tom Corbett, the governor, the Republican governor. And in a House race to replace her, we have Chelsea Clinton's mother-in-law --", "Marjorie Margolies.", "Exactly. She was the frontrunner for a long time. It's looking like she's not doing very well there, either. So it's going to be interesting what happens.", "Yes, a Clinton-backed candidate could lose that Democratic House primary right outside of Philadelphia, which would be sort of an interesting dynamic.", "That's ground zero for electoral politics in Pennsylvania. As you know.", "As I know very well.", "We can talk about that some other time. Peter Hamby, Christina Bellatoni, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Also in politics news, a federal judge today struck out Oregon's constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. The judge ruled that the amendment, passed by voters back in 2004, violates the Constitution. Today's ruling means same-sex couples can now marry in 18 states. Another seven states have issued decisions siding with the right to marry. But those are still making their way through the appeals process. Moltnoma County, the state's largest, which includes Portland, has already started issuing marriage licenses for same-sex couples. The ruling is, of course, expected to be appealed. Wolf Blitzer is in New York. He has a preview of THE SITUATION ROOM. Wolf, I miss you here. But tell us what do you have on the show? You've got the latest on the Donald Sterling saga. What's that about?", "The NBA for the first time formally going forward with charges against the L.A. Clippers' owner. They stipulate points one, two, three, and four. They have a hearing that's now been scheduled. The NBA is moving quickly to try to get rid of him as owner of the L.A. Clippers because of his racist rant. We'll go in depth on that, talk a little bit about what's going on with Jeff Toobin, Don Lemon, Suzanne Malveaux. They'll be joining me. So that's an important subject. We're also going to get into Ukraine because there's new developments in Ukraine. Putin saying he's going to remove those 40,000, 30,000 troops from the border. The U.S. officials saying they haven't seen it yet. They'd be happy if he does, but he's made these promises before. There's an outspoken U.S. ambassador, the OSCE, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Daniel Bair. He'll join us live. The Americans, as you know, the U.S., the international community getting ready to send a whole bunch of monitors over to cover these elections this coming weekend in Ukraine. So we've got a lot to discuss.", "All right. Wolf Blitzer in THE SITUATION ROOM that starts in 15 minutes. Thanks, Wolf.", "Thank you.", "Coming up, a Hollywood blockbuster with a huge opening weekend. And although Godzilla is purportedly the star, it's really the U.S. military that's hoping to reap some of the rewards. We'll explain why next. Plus, the Triple Crown. With one of the rarest achievements in sports within reach, why were the owners of California Chrome threatening to pull the horse from the final race?"], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "KARL ROVE, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-275158", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2016-01-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/28/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "North Korea Preparing for Another Rocket Launch?.", "utt": ["CNN has obtained new satellite images tonight from North Korea. The images appear to show a top-secret facility being prepared for a rocket launch. Brian Todd has been following this story for us. Brian is here. Brian, what are you learning?", "Wolf, tonight U.S. officials telling us they are keeping a very close eye on this facility because of the fact that it had previously been used by Kim Jong-Un's regime to test ballistic missiles. Now this comes as CNN has learned new information about that North Korean nuclear test earlier this month. A U.S. official familiar with the latest assessment telling our Barbara Starr the U.S. now believes that Kim Jong-Un's regime may have been trying to test components of a hydrogen bomb at the time. Not necessarily a completely constructed bomb but components, possibly a detonator. Now between that and the possible rocket launch preparations here, Kim Jong-Un has clearly ramped up his threatening behavior recently.", "Tonight intelligence agencies from Washington to Seoul are closely watching this facility. North Korea's top-secret satellite launching station at Tongchang-ri. A U.S. official tells CNN in recent days satellite imagery has revealed personnel, equipment for rockets and fuel being moved into the compound. The place is so secret, parts are delivered by underground rail lines.", "They understand that they are being watched 24/7 by satellites from many countries. So they have invested in underground facilities to conceal their missiles.", "A launch could be imminent. North Korea will likely say it's launching a satellite into space, but U.S. officials and analysts believe the regime has an ulterior motive. (", "What could the more dangerous possibility be?", "When North Korea says they're launching a satellite, that's significant and important and a potentially dangerous capability. But even more dangerous North Korea is testing a missile, perfecting a missile that could launch a warhead against the United States or other countries.", "Analysts say Kim Jong-Un's missile testing is a major threat because his regime's already thought to have made progress toward miniaturizing a nuclear warhead to fit on a missile which could strike targets in Asia, possibly even Hawaii or even Seattle. It's not clear if those missiles have been sufficiently tested to be effective but the fact that Kim and his scientists are working feverishly toward that even has Kim's troubled allies in Beijing worried tonight.", "China is closely watching the current situation and is seriously concerned about these developments.", "The Chinese are already furious with Kim Jong-Un for conducting North Korea's fourth nuclear bomb test earlier this month. It's part of a steep downswing in this relationship since the young dictator took power. Experts say Chinese President Xi Jinping and his aides have never liked Kim.", "Cult of personality around this family dynasty in North Korea with utter derision. So they don't like the North Koreans, and one of the prime interlocutors between China and North Korea was Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong-Un's uncle who he publicly had executed which also caused ill will among some Chinese.", "But analysts say as angry as China is with Kim they'll only want to punish him so much. They say what China fears most is a collapse of Kim's regime that would lead to instability at China's border and possibly millions of North Korean refugees streaming into China. Wolf, they are constantly worried about that.", "I know they are. And Brian, are the preparations at that rocket launch site in North Korea, what are the other concerns you're hearing about tonight?", "Well, that group 38 North which monitors satellite images from North Korea says the pictures here indicate that the North Koreans may -- they may be getting ready to test what's called a Musudan intermediate ballistic missile or they may be testing the engine for one of those missiles. If that's the case it is worrisome because the Musudan could be made into a mobile ballistic missile system and the U.S. and its allies would have difficulty tracking that in the field.", "That would be very worrisome indeed. All right, Brian. Thank you. Coming up, we're awaiting Donald Trump's arrival in Des Moines where he plans to be center stage at a fundraiser tonight for veterans. And off the stage when his Republican rivals debate. Folks are already lining up. You're seeing live pictures. We'll go there for an update."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TODD (voice-over)", "RICK FISHER, INTERNATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND STRATEGY CENTER", "TODD", "On camera)", "FISHER", "TODD (voice-over)", "HUA CHUNYING, CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN (Through Translator)", "TODD", "MARCUS NOLAND, PETERSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS", "TODD", "BLITZER", "TODD", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-336253", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-03-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/29/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Boy in Viral Photo Missing After Family's SUV Plunges Off Cliff.", "utt": ["The little boy in this photo, shared all around the world, is now feared dead after his families' SUV plunged off a California cliff along a coastal California highway. Devonte Hart was holding up a signed that read \"free hugs\" in the 2014 protest shortly after a Ferguson, Missouri, grand jury refused to indict a police officer in connection with the death of teenager, Michael Brown. The photo of Devonte hugging a Portland police officer touched millions of hearts across the country. CNN's Miguel Marquez is with me for more on this crash. Miguel, what happened?", "Look, this is a really bizarre and utterly sad story. Five members of the Hart family are confirmed dead. Three others, Devonte, that then-12-year-old, now 16, his sisters, Hannah, Sierra, 16 and 12 years old, they are still missing, possibly dead, though. It's tough for police to hold out hope on this one. Their SUV was discovered Monday. It had gone over the edge of the Pacific Coast Highway, this gorgeous stretch of road along the Pacific coast. Very, very rough. It's very steep cliffs in that area. About 100 feet down, it was found, off the roadway. Police say there was no indication of intentionality or foul play. They found no braking or skidding either, though. They're not sure what happened with this car. They're trying to get divers into the ocean there. It's very tough to do. Not been able to do that. Still have about a dozen people have been combing the area along the rough rocky coast there. Devonte came to national attention when he was 12 years old at that protest in Portland, Oregon. The police officer, the Portland police officer, Sergeant Bret Barnum, he spoke about that moment that went viral.", "As I sat there with a colleague of mine, we noticed Devonte, you know, 10 or 15 feet away from us. He would turn periodically toward us. I noticed he was crying. And looked at my colleague, Brian, and said, is that kid crying? We kind of went from there. And I said I'm going to call him over and do what I do, as not a police officer, but just a human being.", "And what was his reaction, Devonte's reaction when you called him over?", "He was a little hesitant at first. He mustered up the courage and energy to come over and talk with me. At that point, it kind of broke the ice a little bit. We talked about life. We talked about travel, summer vacations. We talked about -- he enjoys art. And we broke down those barriers and we talked about it, just as a person to a person.", "They were about 500 miles away from their home in Woodlawn, Washington, a place called West Port, California, just north of there. Another bizarre twist is in this whole story is that Child Protective Services in Washington State had been out to the house last Friday and Monday and Tuesday --"], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SGT. BRET BARNUM, PORTLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT", "UNIDENTIFIED CNN ANCHOR", "BARNUM", "MARQUEZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-366974", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-04-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/12/cnr.17.html", "summary": "U.S. & South Korea Hold Talks on North Korea Negotiations; Israeli Spacecraft Crashes on Lunar Surface", "utt": ["Welcome back, everybody. I'm John Vause with an update of the top stories this hour. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange taken into custody in London on Thursday. He resisted arrest and was carried out of the Ecuadoran embassy, where he spent the past seven years in self-imposed exile. A British judge found him guilty of violating bail. Assange now faces possible extradition to the United States on one count of conspiring to steal military secrets. Protestors in Sudan are urging anti-government demonstrators to stay in the streets, even after the ouster of longtime dictator Omar al- Bashir. The military is now in control, and protestors want them to step aside and allow a new civilian government to take control. The U.S. president has hinted he's open to a third summit with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, but it's now up to Kim. President Moon Jae-in of South Korea met with Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday to try and restart those stalled nuclear talks. Earlier this week the North Koreans warned it would deal a telling blow to hostile forces who think sanctions can cripple the country. The U.S. president seems unmoved by that, saying he's happy to keep sanctions in place, because they're at a, quote, \"fair level.\" CNN's Paula Hancocks in Seoul, South Korea, watching all this for us. I guess, Paula, if nothing else, this visit by Moon Jae-in shows that the North Korean leader, he's still on their radar. You know, it's still an important issue. They're still talking about it and may discourage him from taking other measures to seek attention, maybe like a nuclear test or a missile test.", "John, what they decided at this meeting as they were talking from the readouts we received afterwards was that both leaders believed that North Korea was not going to revert back to nuclear activity, that they did believe he was going to keep on this -- this economic path that he said that he wants. That they also agreed that the top-down approach, which is effectively the leaders meeting and trying to decide things amongst themselves, rather than the working-level talks, is the right way to go. We did hear from the president, as well, of South Korea, through his people, that he is going to, once he gets back here to Seoul, try and have another summit with -- with Kim Jong-un. And the reason for this is he's going to try and talk to the North Korean leader and then pave the way for a third U.S.-North Korean summit. But there was an acknowledgment from President Trump that this is very much in Kim Jong-un's court. He is the one who can decide which direction this goes in now. But there was a sign that the U.S. and South Korea were not completely on the same page. We've heard from the South Koreans that they just want the momentum to keep going. A small deal is not a bad deal in their eyes. But President Trump once again saying he wants the big deal. He wants complete denuclearization and then others -- other things like lifting sanctions will follow. Although he did suggest there's a little bit of wiggle room there -- John.", "There's always a little bit of wiggle room, it seems. Paula, thank you. Good to see you. Paula Hancocks there, live in Seoul. Well, as the saying goes, better to have tried and failed than never have tried at all. An Israeli spacecraft made it tantalizingly close to landing on the Moon, only to crash just as it was about to touchdown. CNN's Oren Liebermann reports on what was a daring attempt.", "Moments before the Israeli spacecraft called Beresheet was supposed to land on the moon, the team in the control room in Israel lost communications with the craft. At the same time, it was experiencing issues with its main engine. The $100 million privately-funded spacecraft was well into its landing sequence, traveling at more than 2,100 miles per hour, about 75 miles from its intended landing site, according to the telemetry data being fed in live, and the problems began and escalated quickly. There was a moment of silence in the control room. Then one of those monitoring the landing sequence said, \"There's a suspicion that we didn't land on the moon in the best fashion. We're trying to clarify the matter.\" Just a short time later, one of the team leaders said, \"I'm sorry to say we didn't make it to the moon in one piece.\" Beresheet spacecraft had crashed. Trying to put a positive spin on the accomplishment, the team leader said, \"We made it all the way to the moon. We're the seventh country to make it all the way to the moon.\" Had this been successful it would have made Israel the fourth country to ever soft land a spacecraft on the moon, essentially a controlled landing on the lunar surface. The three other countries? The U.S., the former Soviet Union and China, all world powers. Israel would have been, by far, the smallest country and the smallest program. Some even joked that instead of calling the spacecraft Beresheet, which means, in Hebrew, the beginning of the Bible, \"In the beginning,\" this should have been called Chutzpah, for Israel believing it had the gall to pull this one off. In the end, to keep the weight of the craft down, there were very few redundancies built in. And the landing was always going to be the most difficult part. And it was in that landing sequence that Beresheet crashed on the lunar surface. Oren Liebermann, CNN, Jerusalem.", "Well, now to a successful space mission of another kind. SpaceX launched its first ever mission for a paying customer with its Falcon heavy rocket on Thursday. The U.S. company sent a communications satellite in orbit for a Saudi company. What also made this mission unique: The Falcon's three powerful boosters returned safely to Earth, which makes them reusable, which makes them cheaper, lowering costs. Extended stays in space can change the body in many ways, right down to the genetic level. A NASA study reached that conclusion after comparing American astronaut Scott Kelly -- he's on the right -- with his identical brother, Mark. He's on the right. No, just kidding. Scott Kelly spent almost a year in space while his twin remained here on earth. Researchers say the study suggests human health can be mostly sustained for a year in space. Despite changes in weight, gut bacteria, cognitive abilities, astronaut Kelly's body returned to normal six months after making it back to Earth. British lawmakers have a little bit of breathing room before another Brexit deadline, but for the rest of Britain, patience is done. How a dose of dry humor might just be keeping the public sane. That's next."], "speaker": ["JOHN VAUSE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "VAUSE", "OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "VAUSE"]}
{"id": "CNN-34099", "program": "CNN NEWS SITE", "date": "2001-7-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/05/ns.06.html", "summary": "'Crazy/Beautiful' Avoids Usual Trappings of a Teen Movie", "utt": ["At the box office, \"Cats & Dogs\" are reigning. The family film about the secret war between America's pets earned $9 million on July 4, according to industry estimates. Coming in second on this holiday was \"Scary Movie 2.\" The Wayans brothers comedy earned an estimated $8.6 million. \"A.I.\" did a-OK, earning another $5.2 million for third place. Independence day business was boosted by poor weather in some parts of the country. Also drawing moviegoers at the moment is \"Crazy/Beautiful.\" The movie starring Kirsten Dunst has attracted some positive reviews and more than $5 million business. Sherri Sylvester talked with the cast about this story of unlikely lovers.", "As Washington keeps a close eye on what Hollywood markets to teens, Disney's Touchstone Pictures offers a provocative look at teen life. \"Crazy/Beautiful\" follows the self-destructive path of an alcohol, drug-addicted and sexually active high-schooler played by Kirsten Dunst. (", "Didn't seem stupid at the time, then again I was wasted.", "Obviously, when you are doing a teen- theme movie in this climate, you also have to be very conscious of ratings issue. And I did a movie -- I mean, this movie is about a girl who drinks and does drugs and is sexually aggressive and is really out of control at the beginning. And how do you show that and still get a PG-13 rating? It's tough.", "The 19-year-old Dunst wanted to counter her on-screen image from films such as \"Bring It On.\" She did at times rely on pop culture to take her to the dark side of her character, Nicole.", "I concentrated a lot on like listening to music and surround myself with like certain books and just things I think Nicole would be reading. And I would take this character home with me all the time. I mean, I was even treating my family differently when I was doing this role.", "Still she is not seen actually taking drugs and does not have any nude scenes.", "Everything was done in a tasteful way, and I did not feel like, you know, I was objectified in any way.", "Does drink in the beginning? Absolutely. Is she hung over the next day? Definitely. Does she do drugs? Sure. Does she pay a price for doing drugs? Absolutely.", "Both believe this is a realistic look at some aspects of adolescence. To keep it real, the director cast students from John Marshall high school's drama class for at-risk kids in Los Angeles. Five Hispanic newcomers landed speaking roles, but the film's break- out star may be Jay Hernandez. (", "Two hours each way just to be here! At 5:43 in the morning, that's what time my bus leaves! So, if I wanted to screw up, I'd do it at my home school, because I get a hell of a lot more sleep.", "The 23-year-old was discovered riding an elevator in Hollywood a few years ago. He is cast as a good guy, as opposed to other scripts he's seen.", "There are never any positive Latin roles, they are all like bad, you know, like gang members or whatever. It was just like nothing was positive, but this was the one thing that I found, and I really liked.", "\"Crazy/Beautiful\" avoids most of the usual teen trappings, but will the kids and their parents buy it?", "A lot of the film, aside from being whatever genre it may be, it's about life and it's about responsibility and taking responsibility for your own actions.", "Sherri Sylvester, CNN, Los Angeles."], "speaker": ["LAURIN SYDNEY, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT", "SHERRI SYLVESTER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"CRAZY/BEAUTIFUL\") KIRSTEN DUNST, ACTRESS", "JOHN STOCKWELL, DIRECTOR", "SYLVESTER", "DUNST", "SYLVESTER", "DUNST", "STOCKWELL", "SYLVESTER", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"CRAZY/BEAUTIFUL\") JAY HERNANDEZ, ACTOR", "SYLVESTER", "HERNANDEZ", "SYLVESTER", "BRUCE DAVISON, ACTOR", "SYLVESTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-241229", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2014-10-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/17/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Nigerian Government Makes Deal for Schoolgirls' Release", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Richard Quest. There is more \"Quest Means Business\" in a just moment. This is CNN and on this network the news always comes first. Nigeria's government's agreed to a deal to free the missing school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. The girls were abducted from a boarding school in April. Now the government says it expects to secure their release next week. CNN's Diana Magnay is with us from Johannesburg.", "Hi, Richard. Well, it's more that the government says that they want to secure further details about their release next week. I'd be very surprised if we saw the release of the girls next week, and indeed I'd be quite relieved if we do -- surprised if we do see their release. You see, we have heard nothing from Boko Haram's site about these supposed negotiations. And also the timing seems quite peculiar. There will be a huge rally in Abudja tomorrow where President Goodluck Johnathan is going to -- expected to announce his bid to run for reelection next February. And of course releasing the girls, securing the girls would be a massive boost to that campaign, probably in the form of a prisoner swap where Boko Haram operatives would be released back to further wage that insurgency in the northeast of the country, Richard.", "Diana Magnay with more on that in the hours ahead. Diana's in Johannesburg. The other news stories -- the total number of confirmed Ebola cases in West Africa, Spain and the United States is now past 9,200. New figures from the World Health Organization show there have been more than 4,500 deaths from the virus, 239 of which were healthcare workers. Hong Kong police have arrested 26 people after pro-democracy protestors clashed with police early on Saturday. Around 9,000 people are said to be taking part in the protests. Hong Kong hospital authorities say at least 240 people had been injured in pro-democracy protests in the past 24 hours. Four men have appeared before a London court on Friday on charges of intending to commit acts of terror. Land (ph) (inaudible) charge issued by Scotland Yard. The four are accused of taking an oath of allegiance to the militant group ISIS. And Russia has agreed to renew gas supplies to Ukraine for the winter. The Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday they'd negotiated on all the parameters of the deal since Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko said some issues remain. A Carnival cruise ship is returning to Texas, and onboard is a passenger who may have been exposed to samples of body fluid taken from an Ebola victim. Now, the woman passenger is a lab worker, currently who's in \\voluntary quarantine onboard the Carnival Magic. Health officials warn she may have handled specimens taken from Thomas Duncan, the Liberian patient who died earlier this month. Carnival has issued this statement -- \"The individual has no symptoms and has been isolated in an extreme abundance of caution. We are in close contact with the CDC and at this time it has been determined that the appropriate course of action is simply to keep the guest in isolation on board.\" Carnival is also noting that none of its ships go to the Ebola-affected areas of the world. Well, on this program you're going to hear from the people who matter. And that in this case is the Carnival Chief Excec Arnold Donald who joins me in the C-Suite. Good evening, sir.", "Good to see you, Richard. Good, how are you?", "We can go through this at a fair click. Your understanding of the situation tonight of the passenger who requested to be let off in Belize, the Belizean government wouldn't allow it. He must have been pretty hacked off that you got to bring her.", "Well, you know we respect every country and we respect all appropriate organizations. In this particular case, as you mentioned, the woman is a lab supervisor in a lab that handled some specimens. She has no symptoms whatsoever, and in terms of why she wanted to leave is because there's been a change in the protocol for CDC for monitoring --", "Right.", "-- people who have had some possibility of it.", "So, she will stay onboard the ship until it gets back to Texas?", "She'll stay onboard the ship, she's in isolation, she's 19 days past the point of any possible initial contact, and she never had any direct contact with the patient.", "Will you talk more generally on this issue, because you board thousands -- tens of thousands of passengers a week? You must be very concerned about how you now deal with what is a growing public health -- almost hysteria.", "Well, you know, we have a lot of practices in place. You know, that we've had incidents in the past -- SARs, H1N1, etc. So we have a lot of experience in the cruise industry -- not just our brand Carnival and other eight brands, but the industry has a lot of experience in dealing with people -- even with influenza. You know, the norovirus that people talk so often about, which is a total myth in terms of it being a cruise type of virus. Go ahead.", "But you -- are you elevating all of this now?", "No what we've done, there are protocols established for everything, and the CDC has protocols in place. We're following those protocols as they expand the protocols -- we follow those. But we have many procedures in place to first help guests self-identify, we screen, we track travel records, etc.", "Let's talk about the industry and your own ships. It's growing. It's growing very fast --", "Yes.", "-- particularly in China, and I wonder, you know, this cruising industry just keeps growing, but you keep getting knocked from one side to the other -- by environment issues, health issues. But still it grows.", "You know, we get some media attention, we get other attention, but the bottom line is the cruise industry is vibrant, it's growing. We just celebrated a third quarter where we exceed our guidance for the quarter. We elevated our guidance for the full year, we put the quarter by 15 percent, we elevated the guidance for the full year, the mid-point -- even more than that. We've had more people in the Caribbean sail this year. We had 20 percent more guests (inaudible) --", "But that's not your growth area -- forgive me -- that's not your growth area.", "Well, you know the world is our growth area, but China. China -- I just returned from China. And I was at the CCYA Conference -- Y-I-A Conference -- in Tianjin, and China, it's going to be the world's largest cruise market at some point in the future. Today, we're the largest in China. We have four ships. The fourth ship -- the Costa Serena will be sailing on next year from China. We even have a world cruise that's home ported from China sourcing Chinese guests. Eighty-six days on a ship, when usually they cruise for four or five days.", "Which fundamentally brings us back as we finish to this point that -- as a global company --", "Yes.", "-- with local cultures, --", "Yes.", "-- with local cultures --", "Yes.", "-- and different issues -- political, geopolitical, healthcare, all these issues that you have to deal with -- you can't take any chances on something like this. This --", "Oh, yes.", "-- this has to be first. I mean this Ebola crisis, for example, has to be on your desk.", "First and foremost, health and safety -- for our guests and for our crew is always paramount. This is another example of it, but it's always paramount. So we have many protocols in place, and we're very well- prepared for these types of things.", "And you as the CEO are personally now watching this?", "Oh, absolutely. I've had several conversations with our team and I've had conversations with various government officials as well. So, absolutely, we pay close attention to it, but, you know, I want to emphasize that this, while exceptional for Ebola, this is normal practice in the cruise industry. We manage these things -- that's what we do.", "A growing industry which you need to be --.", "We will (ph).", "Thank you very much.", "Yes, thank you very much.", "Good to see you as always. Thank you very much indeed.", "(Inaudible), Richard, thank you.", "Now, the weather forecast where you are. Mistress Harrison is at the World Weather Center for us this evening. Good evening, Ma'am.", "Evening to you, Richard. Yes, you know, the place to watch I'm afraid over the next few hours is Bermuda because they've got this hurricane of course. It is bearing down - - look at this. You can actually barely see now anything. But this is a live webcam coming from Bermuda, and let me tell you the last few hours -- actually just in the last 45 minutes -- it has rapidly deteriorated, because the winds are really picking up, the rain is really coming down. Here are two locations -- this is a buoy just sort of at the northern end of it the island. Winds sustained at nearly 50 kilometers an hour coming from the east and then we've got winds sustained here on Hamilton -- that's the capital of course -- and that -- those winds there you can see it's 27 kilometers an hour. So, this is what has been happening the last few hours. And look at this - - we've had a wind gust been already reported again in Hamilton of 100 kilometers an hour. That is the way it is going to go. This is the latest in terms of what is going on where the buoy is positioned just off the coast. It is a large storm system, that one, so this is the latest satellite. That shows you where the eye is. And guess what? The strongest winds are going to be on the back side of this system, so if you think those winds are strong now at just over 100 kilometers an hour, they are going to get stronger. We've got winds sustained at 185 kilometers an hour, gusting 250, it is going to stay a strong storm as it literally passes over the island. And then, it will indeed continue across the Northern Atlantic. That is obviously 72 hours away, but it will eventually potentially impact Northern and Western sections of the U.K. Watch this again as it comes through. This is just showing you the forecast winds. That pink you can see, that is going to be the strongest winds. We could well have gusts in about -- to about -- 160 kilometers an hour. The rain is already coming in of course. It will get heavier as the storm moves through. It's moving fairly quickly, the storm, so that's a good thing when it comes to the rain. And actually again, the heaviest rain -- there's Bermuda. The heaviest rain is actually off to the north and the west. As I say, we've got some very strong winds heading across Bermuda. Also, this next system, ahead of what could be the remnants of that, is heading across the northwest of Europe. Very unsettled across the north and some very, very strong winds. This is the rain coming through. We've got some warnings in place as well for the rain and also because of the winds. But just have a look at these winds across the northwest. We've got winds here gusting to around 80 kilometers an hour, so Richard, this weekend be prepared. And not only because of the hurricane, but because of these strong winds across the north and the west of Europe.", "And I'm going to Kiev tonight, and thank you for the forecast into all of what's happening in Europe. Thank you, Jenny Harrison at the World Weather Center. Now, this weekend's \"Best of Quest\" where the Bank of England governor is our \"Reading for Leading\" guest. Mark Carney is currently enjoying a historical fiction.", "I'm reading a novel called \"The Orenda\" by Joseph Boyden who is a Canadian maitee (ph) writer which is set -- it's in the Huron Iroquois warriors in -- well, centuries ago. \"From both shores of this wide river that the Huron call the Snake, Iroquois dozens and dozens of them, pour into canoes hidden carefully in the tall grasses. Some are already in the water and closing in on a few of our stragglers. I watch as their archers in front pull back on their bows and release.\"", "And that's \"Quest Means Business\" for tonight. 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{"id": "CNN-370259", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-05-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/21/nday.03.html", "summary": "Pressure Grows on Pelosi to Begin Impeachment Proceedings; Midwestern U.S. Hit with Tornadoes & Flash Floods", "utt": ["New reporting overnight goes into details of a heated discussion among Democratic leadership, with some pushing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to allow the impeachment proceedings to begin. The speaker is still resisting, and for now, House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler agrees. But there are signs he might be shifting.", "Also this morning, former White House counsel Don McGahn will not appear at a House Judiciary Committee today, defying a subpoena. The White House directed McGahn not to testify. And now, Chairman Nadler says there will be serious consequences. Nadler tells CNN the first step will be holding McGahn in contempt of Congress. So joining us now to discuss all of this, we have Rachael Bade, congressional reporter for the White -- well, \"Washington Post,\" who has inside scoop of what happened behind those closed congressional doors last night. We also have Jennifer Rodgers, former federal prosecutor and a CNN analyst; David Gregory, CNN political analyst; and Abby Phillip, CNN White House correspondent. Great to have all of you. Rachael, we have to start with you. Give us color of what transpired behind closed doors, where the Democrats began in a heated debate about impeachment.", "So yesterday was sort of a tipping point for a lot of House Judiciary Committee members, when they got news that the White House was not going to allow Don McGahn to appear for testimony that he was scheduled to give this morning at 10 a.m. Just another example of stonewalling from the White House. They were fed up. And in their traditional Monday night leadership meeting, four House Judiciary Committee members, who are also part of Pelosi's leadership team, confronted her about this and said, \"Look, it's time to begin an impeachment inquiry. It would help us get the documents, the witnesses, the testimony that the White House has been stonewalling.\" And Pelosi and leadership, they basically pushed back. Pelosi said that, \"If we do this, it could undercut other investigations we're seeing in the House.\" There was some concern that voters don't really care about this issue, and perhaps it wouldn't register with them. They want to hear more about the agenda. At one point, some of Pelosi's allies started scolding these members about trying to push for an impeachment inquiry. But these Judiciary members were like, \"Look, listen, we have been trying to investigate the president. And we can't get anywhere right now, because the White House is stonewalling. After this happened, a few hours later, Pelosi summoned the Judiciary Committee chairman, Jerry Nadler, to a private meeting in her office around, like, 9 or 10 p.m. at night. And during that meeting, it sounds like, from my reporting and my understanding, Nadler pressed Pelosi on beginning an impeachment inquiry, and made the case to her why this could be helpful to House Democrats. Pelosi and her top leadership team responded that the caucus was not there. And Nadler left the meeting. He wouldn't talk about it with me or with other reporters. Wouldn't comment on it and appeared to side with Pelosi rather than criticize her after this meeting. But he later called a bunch of his own committee members and gave them a briefing, which is obviously how I found out about it. Because he made the call to a bunch of different lawmakers.", "And that last part, Rachael, is what fascinates me, that Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler was pushing for impeachment. And not just Nadler but -- but the people who are basically the cardinals, the Democratic cardinals of the Judiciary committee, the senior members, they all want impeachment now. It seems as if this is no longer the fringe elements of the caucus, but there's a real push here. That's exactly right. And lot of people have been privately talking like this for a few weeks. These House Judiciary Committee members have been privately putting their heads together, trying to figure out \"How can we push Pelosi on this? How can we get her to yes, since she's always been skeptical of impeachment?\" A lot of people thought if Nadler confronted her, if her chairmen, who she's very close with, said, \"Look, it's time,\" that she would listen to them. But clearly, Pelosi is not there. Not just her but her entire ranks of her senior leadership team just said, this is not going to work. And so it is interesting, though, when Nadler came out of that meeting, he appeared to take up one of the talking points that she gave him in the meeting, which is that the courts are coming to our rescue right now. We have to look to the courts. And again, this just really shows the power of Pelosi. You know, It's funny. After the election, there was lot of talk and concern that she might not be speaker. But ever since then, she has really solidified her power on her caucus. We'll just see how long can she put this off? Will it be enough to sort of quell this internal impeachment rebellion potentially we could see in the next few days and few weeks?", "I mean, we're seeing the powers of Pelosi persuasion on Nadler, I mean, from Rachael's reporting. So Jennifer, I want to bring you in, because I have some questions about what Rachael has just reported. That -- why would Nancy Pelosi say that starting an impeachment inquiry would affect, in a negative way, other congressional investigations? Why? Wouldn't it help those investigations to have more information?", "It should. I mean, it's just a distraction issue. Right? I mean, if they're focused on impeachment, then you get the whole witch hunt narrative going. And it might take away from other things that perhaps independents could get behind, as opposed to the Mueller report and all that, which is so --", "Politically speaking, in other words. But you don't see any investigative reason why impeachment would eclipse the other congressional investigations?", "No, not at all. And as you point out, it actually -- there could be some synergies there with sharing information and so on.", "Streamlining. One of the arguments is to streamline. If there's an impeachment in inquiry, they can get all these requests in one place. And courts in the past have been more deferential to impeachment. Isn't that correct?", "Sure. Sure.", "And the more you get court opinions that are saying the arguments the administration are making are baseless, the more the administration can't continue to make those arguments.", "So that's the legal side of it. But David Gregory, what Nancy Pelosi is clearly attuned to here are the political risks of impeachment, which she still sees as incredibly high. Are they as high today as they were a month ago? Do they go down with every instance of stonewalling and Don McGahn not testifying? Things like that.", "Yes, I don't know that they do. I think what what the White House has set up is a fight for preserving executive power. You know, in -- we've -- in the recent history, we've been covering Washington and the Bush administration, you know, and we saw the muscular projection of executive power during the Iraq War. And prior to that, of course, after 9/11. And so whenever an administration makes this a fight about executive power and the power of the presidency, there are going to be those inherent. And I'm sure the White House would love to fight this out on those grounds. And you heard Bill Barr give an interview to the \"Wall Street Journal,\" raising that theme. So I don't know that the politics have changed. And here's what I'm looking at. Where is Joe Biden on all of this? You don't hear Joe Biden coming out, saying it's time for impeachment against the president. And you can bet Nancy Pelosi is focused on one thing, as the -- as, really, one of the biggest leaders of the Democrats who are in power right now. Because all the power they have is in the House. Is coordinating at some level with presidential campaigns, saying, you know, are we speaking with one voice on this as we move farther and farther into the presidential primary season? So I think Democrats are really divided on this, and I think the -- kind of the upper echelons of the Democratic establishment is still focused now on winning in the ballot box and trying to win in the courts. And let's remember that, to whatever extent the administration delays on these decisions, if they get decisions that go against them, this is going to get farther and farther into the end of the year and perhaps even into 2020, when they will be facing revelations that come out of these investigations, if the courts ultimately go their way.", "And they did get one of those decisions, David, yesterday that went against them. And this is, I think, what Nancy Pelosi is hanging her hat on, Abby. Which is, look, the courts are doing their jobs. And in fact, they had -- Nancy Pelosi's side had a victory yesterday with this Mazars case, which is the financial accounting firm case, that Congress wanted them to turn over President Trump's financial records. The White House fought it, and yesterday, a judge -- I'll read to you -- a judge sided with Congress and against the president and against the White House. Here's what the judge said, federal judge: \"It is simply not fathomable that a Constitution that grants Congress the power to remove a president for reasons including criminal behavior would deny Congress the power to investigate him for unlawful conduct -- past or present -- even without formally opening an impeachment inquiry.\" So that federal judge has decided that this accounting firm must turn over the documents. We'll see now what happens, if the accounting firm still resists, if it's appealed, whatever. But Nancy Pelosi's position is that the courts are going in their favor.", "Yes. And I think that judge made an argument that is almost exactly what the Democrats have been arguing, which is that they have to be allowed to do this beyond the scope of an impeachment inquiry. And so this is helpful to Nancy Pelosi as she tries to slow this whole thing down. But at the same time, I think we can probably imagine that, as all of these various inquiries go forward, they're going to win some; they're going to lose some. And it's going to be at a kind of uneven experience, I think, for congressional Democrats, which is going to get frustrating. But one of the, you know -- David mentioned that this could go into 2020. But I think one of the arguments that the White House and the president's supporters will make about -- about the advantage they might have in delay is that it really dilutes the Democrats' argument. It makes it a million tiny little pieces of various things that -- nothing that's big enough that voters can really grasp onto. And I think that the White House is hoping that this all just starts to sound like noise. That, as all of these -- these investigations go forward, and these cases go forward, voters just simply can't keep up with the flow of information from these investigations. So in that way, delay can be to their advantage. But I think Nancy Pelosi is also seeing that -- that voters may not care about this as the paramount reason why they vote in 2020. If you look at what's happening out -- out in the presidential field, the president's campaign is trying to hold onto states that they actually absolutely have to win in order to win 2020. And they're doing that right now, even before any kind of impeachment inquiry goes forward. So if you're Pelosi, you're going to say, \"Let's not mess with a good thing. Let's keep this going, and let's not try to create something\" that they maybe can't control. What if impeachment helps the president look like a victim in the eyes of voters and helps him win, rather than weakens him going into 2020?", "And that's the risk. And of course, president is very adept at playing the victim even when, in fact, he is the opposite of that. But Rachael, and again, since you're up on the Hill covering this every day, you know, I read your article several times, and it had the smell of something different. You said tipping point before. Does this have the whiff of being the beginning of when impeachment really does begin here? Because that's how I read it.", "You know, lawmakers up on the Hill, they have this joke that if you bet against Nancy Pelosi, you're going to lose. She's really strong, and she -- she has kept her caucus in line on a lot of really tough issues, including during the 35-day shutdown, when a lot of them wanted to negotiate with the president on his border wall. So I think this is a real test for her speakership. I'm -- to be honest, I'm not sure. I'm not sure if we're going to see a bunch of members go out publicly and push back on her. I will say, privately, people are more bold, but I haven't seen them. You know, even though they confronted her in a private meeting, it's different than going to, you know -- going to television cameras and saying, \"Nancy Pelosi is wrong. She is holding us back, and we need to do this.\" And we haven't really seen anyone do that, which again, speaks to the power of Pelosi. But what I will say is that she's going to have to do something. I mean, there is so much tension. There's so much anxiety right now on the Hill with these House Democrats. It has been a month since Mueller's report has come out. They haven't heard from him. They haven't scheduled his hearing. Barr stood them up. McGahn has now stood them up. And you know, they had a contempt vote against Barr in a committee where they haven't even had that contempt vote on the floor. And so there's a lot of worry: what are we doing? What is the plan? What are the next steps? Everything is taking a long time. And I think that she's going to have to show them that she, you know, sympathizes with their situation, by either scheduling a contempt vote or allowing them to do this thing about fining Trump officials. She's going to have to do something to sort of let the air out of the balloon. I'm not sure what it's going to be. But, you know, perhaps that will be enough to sort of assuage some of these people for now. TBD in the future.", "But let's talk about what -- what is the prospect of them learning anything? I mean, that's the issue. Even if they got Don McGahn in front of their committee, what are you going to get? Instead of perhaps some great TV moments? But we know what the details are. He's already cooperated, and it's in the Mueller report in great detail. So yes, you would turn that into a television event. But this is the question about momentum. There's obviously frustration. There's a very important fight going on about the power of the legislative versus the executive on questions of obstruction of justice, which the Mueller report makes clear, it is within their purview to investigate and to drill down on. But what you've got here is mostly frustration. Where is the momentum to what you're actually going to learn that you don't know? Now, they may score some things over time, but the point was made -- I think Abby was making the point. I think this is exactly right, what does it add up to? And what is that momentum building to that we don't already know? Especially when there is a sense in the public, whether it's true or not, that this is over. And you know, if Mueller is not leaking any more, you know, nasty memos to Barr, and he's not, you know, coming forward to testify, I think it becomes harder and harder for Democrats to wage a big fight about some revelation.", "Yes.", "We could -- we could --", "We just don't know -- quickly, Abby. Go ahead.", "We could learn more from -- from McGahn. I mean, it's clear that the White House doesn't want him to testify. And in the last week, we learned that there is a dispute about whether or not Don McGahn told the special counsel that he believed the president obstructed justice. Did he say that or not? I think there are some real questions about what Don McGahn really thought about the things that he experienced that Democrats are trying to get out. And that's also why the White House doesn't want him in front of those cameras and in front of those committees.", "Guys, thank you very much for all of this information. Rachael, thank you for sharing your reporting with us. Fascinating to hear what happened last night. OK. Also now this. Breaking news overnight, at least 14 tornadoes have been confirmed in central Oklahoma and western Texas. At this hour, we are getting reports of more tornadoes. Adding to the severe weather, intense flooding, leading to rescues, forcing evacuations, closing schools. CNN's Ed Lavandera has been watching it all. He's live in Oklahoma City with all of the breaking details there -- Ed.", "Good morning, Alisyn. Only in Oklahoma and tornado alley can you have 19 tornadoes fall out of the sky in one day and have many people around here breathing a sigh of relief, as if they dodged the worst of what this storm system could bring. But here in the overnight hours, this storm system that spawned all of those tornadoes yesterday, bringing heavy rains throughout the night. There has been a tornado warning near the town of Meeker, just southeast of Oklahoma City. That has expired here in the last hour or so. But it really kind of heightens the awareness here of what people are waking up to across Oklahoma, as this storm system continues to produce large amounts of rain. Flash flood warnings and watches throughout much of the central and eastern part of this state, from Stillwater, Oklahoma, to Tulsa, Oklahoma. So those alerts going out. People being urged to be careful and cautious as they hit the roadways, especially in these low-lying areas where creeks and waterways might be filled up with water in these overnight hours because of all of the rain. But Alisyn and John, throughout yesterday, there had been a high-risk warning issued by the National Weather Service, many anticipating a great deal of severe and intense tornadoes. The worst of that did not come to fruition, John.", "All right. Ed Lavandera for us there in Oklahoma City on the watch from the severe weather. We appreciate it. The threat far from over. CNN meteorologist Chad Myers joins us now with the forecast. Chad, what are you seeing?", "Just one day after another, all the way through Thursday, John. Yes, 19 tornadoes but 55 reports of big hail yesterday. There's one of the tornadoes near Mangum, Oklahoma. Big tornado here. Let me show you what this looked like on radar. I know a lot of you look at radar at home on your app and on your phone. Look at this. Does that look like a screaming eagle landing here, picking up something with its talons? Well, guess what? That's exactly where that tornado was that I just showed you. If you see that, it's time to run. At least get downstairs or something. Because that was a big tornado, and it was on the ground for a long time. Never be on the business end of an eagle there. There's the weather, moving through Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Still tornado watches in effect all morning long. This could be a big day today. I know we had the high risk yesterday. This is like two steps down. But there's a lot of warm air out there. There's a lot of rotation still out there. And there still could be a lot of severe weather from Springfield to Kansas City, St. Louis, big cities today. And even by tomorrow morning, all the way in to Indianapolis, Memphis, and maybe even Nashville -- guys.", "Still watching it, and those talons, very, very closely, Chad. Thank you very much. In just hours, top national security officials will brief lawmakers on Iran. CNN has an exclusive new interview with Iran's top diplomat. He is not backing down in his language. We'll hear from him next."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "RACHAEL BADE, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "JENNIFER RODGERS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "CAMEROTA", "RODGERS", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "RODGERS", "BERMAN", "DAVID GREGORY, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "CAMEROTA", "ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "BADE", "GREGORY", "CAMEROTA", "PHILLIP", "CAMEROTA", "PHILLIP", "CAMEROTA", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-342419", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-06-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1806/11/es.01.html", "summary": "Historic Summit in Singapore; U.S. President Lashes Out at G7 Allies; House Explodes in Cleveland, Ohio Suburb.", "utt": ["It's a one-time shot and I think it's going to work out.", "An optimistic President Trump as he prepares to make history. Can the self-proclaimed greatest deal maker bring peace to the Korean Peninsula? We are live in Singapore.", "And President Trump digging in his heels and crossing his arms on trade after a rocky weekend at the G7. Why he is isolated himself from U.S. allies and how the world is reacting. Boy did that photo speak a thousand words. It was the photo to sum up U.S. relations with our allies. Good morning everyone. Welcome to \"Early Start.\" I'm Dave Briggs.", "And I'm Christine Romans. It is Monday, June 11th, 4:00 a.m. in the east, 4:00 p.m. in Singapore. You know, Donald Trump was elected to disrupt and to change the status quo and this weekend he did.", "He did that indeed.", "Absolutely did, threw out the playbook and writing his own rules here on the global stage. And now, President Trump is getting ready to do something no sitting U.S. president has ever done. In just hours, he will meet face to face with the leader of North Korea. It is late afternoon in Singapore. It has been a very busy day there. President Trump met with Singapore's prime minister and other government officials for a working lunch. The president is joined by top aides and members of his cabinet including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Chief of Staff John Kelly and National Security Adviser John Bolton.", "President Trump insisting this is a one time shot for Kim Jong-un to achieve peace and prosperity for his people.", "I think within the first minute I'll know.", "How?", "Just my touch, my feel. That's what. That's what I do. I think I'll know pretty quickly whether or not in my opinion something positive will happen.", "North Korean state media reporting Kim is open to discussing denuclearization and durable peacekeeping on the Korean peninsula. For the latest, let's go live to CNN's Paula Hancocks in Singapore, the location of these talks. She will set the table for us. Hi there, Paula.", "Hi Dave. Well, it is just a day away and we are seeing an absolute flurry of diplomatic activity, the last-minute negotiations to try and make sure there is some kind of an agenda that is hammered out before these two leaders sit down to that historic meeting. The U.S. ambassador Sung Kim has been meeting with his North Korean counterpart once again this morning. They have been meeting for weeks at the DMZ talking about what exactly they want to get out of this summit. But we heard from the North Koreans, they have said through KCNA, through the main anchorwoman who comes out for very important moments that this is a historic foreign tour. Announcing the fact that Kim Jong-un is coming to Singapore to talk to the U.S. President ahead of time. So clearly they are hoping it can be successful. But talking about how they are going to establish new relations between the U.S. and North Korea, they are going to build a permanent and durable peacekeeping mechanism and the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. So we are getting some very specific details there from North Korean media about exactly what Kim Jong-un is intending to talk about. Now, as you can imagine, there have been a number of media scrums (ph) around this city state, most of them following the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. You can see the lines of people certainly when he came from the airport to the St. Regis Hotel taking photos of him, some even waving at him as he was driving past. A few less following the U.S. President, but certainly a lot following the North Korean leader, Dave.", "Quite an image of those body guards taking a jog there. Less than 17 hours away from the summit. Paula Hancocks, live for us there in Singapore. Thanks.", "So, after months of negotiations, posturing and preparation, the White House has less than a day to nail down the president's strategy. What will it be? We hope to find out more in less than an hour when the White House is set to hold a briefing. CNN White House reporter Jeremy Diamond, live in Singapore with the latest. So, sometime the next hour, we will hear from a senior administration official to sort of layout where we stand right now. The president sounded optimistic on his way to this trip. What is the deliverable I guess for the White House here, Jeremy?", "That is right. First of all, we can now report that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will indeed be the senior administration official who will brief the Press Corps here about this summit that President Trump is set to have tomorrow with Kim Jong-un. But before he does that, we have now learned from a senior administration official that President Trump and Kim Jong-un will indeed meet one-on-one tomorrow with only translators at their sides. To kick off this historic summit, first they will meet -- they will shake hands before the cameras and then they will go into a room, just the two of them with translators, and they will begin to hash out a potential agreement that they hope to achieve, begin those discussions. Remember, President Trump said that he believes it will be within the first minute that he will be able to know whether or not Kim Jong-un is serious. And it appears that first minute will now be simply between those two men, not with any other senior U.S. officials around them. The president today meeting with the Singaporean prime minister, said that he believes that the summit could work out very nicely. And that comes as senior U.S. officials were still working to hash out details with the North Korean delegation today in Singapore. They were discussing what could potentially be an agreement that the U.S. president and North Korean leader could reach. And Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says those discussions, which were led by the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines, Sung Kim, were both substantive and detailed.", "All right, Jeremy Diamond, we will talk to you again very, very soon. We look forward to that briefing now we'd know from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo next hour. Thank you, sir.", "OK, as President Trump tries to make peace with a long time enemy, he is simultaneously driving away due to America's relationship with its closest allies. Overnight, the president attacking members of the G7 on twitter, complaining about other countries, massive trade surpluses while the U.S. being close to the entire cost of NATO. The president refusing to sign the G7 communique or official statement once he heard Prime Minister Justin Trudeau say Canada plans to retaliate against Mr. Trump's steel tariffs.", "I have made it very clear to the president that it is not something we relish doing, but it is something that we absolutely will do because Canadians, we are polite, we are reasonable, but we also will not be pushed around.", "President Trump calling Trudeau's comments dishonest and weak. And listen to one of the president's top advisers piling on.", "He really kind of stabbed us in the back. He really actually, you know what, he did a great disservice to the whole G7.", "There's a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump.", "A special place in hell for the prime minister of Canada. Let's go live to Berlin and bring in CNN international correspondent Atika Shubert. Atika, what is the E.U. response to all of this?", "Well, deeply disappointed, but not surprised, Dave. I mean, considering it is not just trade, but climate change, whatever the international agreement seems to be with his closest allies, President Trump seems pretty intent on either removing himself from it or breaking it. And he is not just singling out Canada for criticism on twitter. He is attacking Germany especially out of Europe, singling out the fact that they only pay -- that Germany only pays one percent of its GDP on NATO defense. That is an old complaint of his and something he has spoken about many times with Chancellor Merkel, but he's bringing up again on twitter. Now, why is he singling out Canada and Cermany in particular? What we know from Prime Minister Trudeau's comments that, you know, there was this concern he was making President Trump look weak. In Germany's case, it might be this. This is the main photo splashed across the front pages this morning. And you can see -- I think we have an actual close up of the photo. Chancellor Angela Merkel looking very stern, leaning over President Trump who looks kind of defiant, but also looks like he is kind of being lectured to, something which we know President Trump hates. And that may be another reason why President Trump has been attacking Germany on twitter because he doesn't want to be put looking in this position just as he goes into talks with Kim Jong-un.", "The body language of that photo is just astounding. You wonder why he'd want to sit there and have the elevated, you know, reverse power complex there. Atika Shubert, live for us this morning. Thanks so much.", "It is so interesting, Dave, because that -- how you read that photo depends on what you think about Donald Trump. His supporters saying, look at him. He is standing defiant against the rest of the world. Being lectured by these people who are the status quo, you know, Trump is going to do it his way. And then others are saying, OK, it looks like President Trump is isolated and alone there.", "But what do you make of this?", "Yes, and that body language --", "It depends on what you make of this.", "It's true. It's true. Anyway, that photo is going to be in a lot of newspapers this morning around the world, no question. President Trump lashing U.S. trading partners, renewing attacks on NATO spending as Atika just said. Trump has long criticized members for what he says not paying their fair share, tweeting that, the U.S. pays close to the entire cost of NATO, protecting the same countries that rip us off on trade, adding that they pay only a fraction of the cost and laugh. And also, he singled out Germany for paying one percent slowly of GDP while we pay four percent of a much larger GDP. OK, so here's what you need to know. NATO is based on the idea of collective defense, asking members to spend two percent of their GDP, their Growth Domestic Product on defense. There's no penalty if they don't. It is a guideline here. The U.S. does not pay the entire cost of NATO, but out of 28 nations, only four including the U.S. spend at least two percent of their GDP. OK, the U.S. is, you know, giant in the room, right. The U.S. spent $686 billion on defense last year. That is more than double all other NATO countries combined. It's the largest economy in the world by the way, with the largest military spending. Germany spent about 1.2 percent of GDP on defense, that's about $45 billion. But members that fall below two percent, they are ramping up spending and have been, with the E.U. and Canada on track to meet that target by 2024. Many say because of that cajoling from the president of the United States, they are starting to spend more.", "But what brought this back to the president's attention is what I can't quite figure out?", "It is fascinating. It may be that because he is on the front page of the German newspapers looking like he is being lectured by Angela Merkel. It may be that he is trying to tie this altogether that the trade and defense and that the U.S. has the moral authority on all of this and stop complaining.", "Merkel did put that photo out first --", "She did.", "-- so perhaps that was a shot back. OK, President Trump refusing to retreat from his call to re-admit Russia into the G7. In fact, he is doubling down.", "I think it would be an asset to have Russia back in. I think it would be good for the world. I think it would be good for Russia. I think it would be good for the United States. I think it would be good for all of the countries of the current G7. I think the G8 would be better. I think having Russia back in would be a positive thing. We are looking for peace in the world. We are not looking to play games.", "But is Russia looking for peace in the world? Russia was kicked out of four years ago for annexing Crimea. It was the first violation of the European country's borders since World War II. Let's go to live to Moscow and bring in senior international correspondent Matthew Chance. Matthew, exactly what Russia did to get welcome back into that community, but what's reaction there?", "Well, I mean, first of all, I mean, it hasn't been welcome back. I mean, Donald Trump is in a G1 on this issue it seems because everyone else in the G7 is absolutely against it seems. Bringing Russia back into the group of industrialized nations, given that there has been no progress on the main reason it was kicked out of the G8 in the first place, the annexation as you say of Crimea. But there has been a whole host of other things as well, meddling in the U.S. election, the downing of a civilian airliner, the backing of Bashar al-Assad, the recent chemical weapons attack on the streets of Britain against a former spy and his daughter. You know, when you look at rewarding Russia in this way by re-admitting it, there was absolutely no support in that lines (ph). In terms of what the Russians have responded to this, well they responded to it with some skepticism. Initially, they said look, nobody care about the G8. We focus on other formats they said. And again, you know, I think the certain awareness in Russia about the resistance to this and an awareness that Donald Trump cannot always if ever, deliver on the things he promises about Russia. He promised to make relationship better and of course it has gotten much worse and the sanctions have been ratcheted up, Dave.", "Astounding development there. All right, Matthew Chance, live for us in Moscow. Thank you.", "All right, 13 minutes past the hour on this historic Monday folks. And this, a pizza delivery man is saved from deportation after he was arrested dropping off food to the New York Army base. Why his attorney says he deserves to stay with his wife and two young daughters in the United States, up next. 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{"id": "CNN-348333", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2018-08-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/22/qmb.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Retail Shares Rally as Target Wows Wall Street; Lowe's Shares Rise as Stores Set to Close; Boxed Takes on Big Retailers with Online Wholesale", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Paula Newton, and there's more QUEST MEANS BUSINESS in a moment. When retail's old guard comes roaring back, Target is the latest proof it's ready for a fight with the digital competition. And almost Hawaii right now is preparing for Hurricane Lane, before that, this is CNN, and here the news always come first. The White House says President Trump did nothing wrong, that despite his former lawyer saying under oath that Mr. Trump directed into paying hush money to two women who said they had affairs with him, and that was in order to influence the presidential election. And the White House points out there are no charges against the president. War torn Korean family members reunited after decades apart. They said their final goodbyes Wednesday, buses of mostly elderly South Koreans departed North Korea, leaving loved ones behind just a few days after coming together for the very first time in decades. The reunions were part of the Panmunjom Declaration signed by the leaders of North Korea and South Korea earlier this year. Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton says Washington is prepared to exert, quote, \"maximum pressure\" on Iran to prevent it developing its nuclear program. Speaking in Jerusalem today, Bolton added the United States isn't seeking regime change in Iran. Here, we've been saying this for quite some time on QUEST MEANS BUSINESS, it's sink or swim for the big American retailers. Target shares are up 3 percent, so they just had -- get this, their best quarter in more than a decade. Sales are up, customer traffic is also up and it's upgrading forecast for the rest of the year as well. Now Lowe's shares are also up, although it's not necessarily on good news, it's closing stores and cutting forecast. Our Paul La Monica is here. You know, Target, let's start with them, really stellar results from a company that some people didn't believe could actually project this kind of growth into what is an incredibly competitive retail market.", "Yes, I think Target deserves a lot of credit, their CEO Brian Cornell for really turning things around, particularly on the digital side. Target is gone out and they bought this company, shaped to really try and help with same-day delivery. And their digital sales probably were up more than 40 percent in the quarter. So that is better than a lot of other retailers out there, and it's showing that Target just like Wal-Mart can go toe-to-toe with Amazon.", "And before we get to Lowe's though, bricks and mortar also worked for Target, didn't it?", "Yes, the bricks and mortar are still a very important aspect of Target's overall, you know, blueprint of course. The sales there are improving and I think what retailers that are doing it right are finding is that you can have this scenario where people may want to order online, but go pick up at the store. And maybe while they're there, they buy other things as well. And that is something that is helping them boost overall sales.", "Yes, well, they mentioned that before, right? So getting the customer in the store is important because that's where sometimes you're going to get a higher price purchasing point, one for each trip. Lowe's, very interesting story here because the stock is up because I guess people, analysts just thought they're finally getting down to pairing down some of their inventory or --", "Yes --", "Their source?", "They're cutting back on inventory, they are also shutting a separate subsidiary they own, has some stores in California and arguing, and I think what's really important for Lowe's though is that under new CEO Marvin Ellison who was formerly of J.C. Penney, he recognizes that they need to slash that inventory to be more competitive with Home Depot and Wall Street. But the news is the stock was surging today even though the numbers were more mixed than they were at Target where they were unabashedly good.", "Before I let you go, high point for retail, what are we thinking?", "I think that as long as the overall economy is doing well, this is probably not going to be the best that we see this. Remember, the holidays are right around the corner and consumers typically find a way to keep spending.", "They do indeed, people like me.", "We started in a garage, kind of where I grew up --", "Hear that story again --", "Yes, here we go again --", "Back in the garage --", "All great things happen in a garage. And really was just I didn't have a car, later in life, as I moved into the city to drive to and from the local Costco. And so, I always thought, OK, you can either buy in bulk and save a little bit of money or you can just buy the single items at your local kind of convenient store downstairs and pay like three, four, five, six times the price. And so I thought, why not create a service for folks who didn't have the physical means to get to and from a warehouse club. But what we found over the last four and a half years was that the bigger opportunity was folks who didn't have the time or the patience to go. And that's where we are today.", "Patience, clear. But some people would say, look, I can do this at Wal-Mart, they don't have a fee item, I can do this at Target, they don't have a club fee item. What's the difference?", "So one, when we sell things, that we only sell the big bulk items, so you will save money versus like buying the smaller packs. So individually, it's a lot more expensive than buying that 68 counts of Royal Scot's Biscuits that you just saw. No membership fees, and we deliver this directly to your door. And so on a basket of goods for around 10 items or so, we're just about the cheapest online including versus some of the names that you just mentioned.", "OK, I do check you guys online, for some --", "Yes --", "Of the products that I get --", "Yes --", "Your price is competitive, but --", "Yes --", "I wouldn't say you're always the cheapest, which is why I'm asking you, how do you feel you can get the competitive edge, and what -- I know that you had some big name investors come in --", "Yes --", "To try and expand. What are you saying -- what are you telling them about the kind of revenue growth that you've seen in this industry, because I have to tell you, when I look at it, I think this is a no brainer, they're always going to be bought by someone bigger or they're going to be pushed out of business by someone bigger.", "Well, that's what makes our jobs, including mine so exciting and heroic at the same time. So --", "Yes, I know that one --", "We're in this -- we're in this industry where it's not the biggest retailers in America, it's not the biggest retailers in the world, it's actually the biggest companies in the world. But what's interesting is that no one has really figured out online grocery. If you think about someone who's dominated online grocery, has the playbook and is scaling it worldwide, there's that name today, Amazon, Wal-Mart, Target included. Everyone has different services right now in a multitude of different services, not because they found the winning formula, but they're all trying to test to see what's working. So for us, we have our hat in that ring and you know, we're no longer in the garage --", "And --", "Anymore, so getting to scale at the right time.", "And I'm going to challenge you on one thing, I always see that North America is mid-evil in comparison to really the city of London, I lived there for five years, I ordered groceries like those --", "Yes --", "From every single solitary corner of the world, and think -- I wasn't there when we had the app, but they have the app now. It is so easy. What are you doing in terms of taking that kind of model and refining it, because I know you've looked at players like Ocado for instance and seen what they're doing.", "Yes, so one of the biggest things for our model is that instead of shipping one thing to your house or to your door, like how Amazon has pioneered ecommerce in the U.S. at least. What we do is actually get folks to buy eight, nine, ten items. And so as you get that big box with eight, nine, ten items, in effect, you're actually paying less to ship per unit, per item. You're paying a price that's actually less than when Amazon pays to ship one item in a single box. And so when you think about higher margin items like -- I don't know, TVs or remote controllers or whatever it is, you can kind of hide those unit economics by just making a lower margin. But when it comes to the food items that you just saw, you can't really hide behind that because the margins are so thin that the economics don't work out for you to just mail a single item. So I -- going back to your original question, our model is different because we do ship, big bulky items and ship a lot of it to your house. Which ironically enough is cheaper to do as a business than it is by shipping a single item.", "Which is still really interesting in terms of -- in terms of a model. Where do you see your biggest challenges though in terms of expansion?", "A bunch of things. So I would say making sure that we're keeping up with consumer trends, like you just said, ironically enough, the rest of the world, they're probably way ahead of the U.S. when it comes to online shopping and online grocery shopping. But here in the U.S., staying ahead of the trends as the trends are being set because we don't know if the same flavor is going to happen here as it has in the U.K. But staying ahead of those consumer trends is really high on a list of things to do.", "Millennials, how big, how important are they in terms of this game?", "They are really important. You know, like to your point, you know, we're competitive on price. When you go in-store versus online, you will pay a little bit of a premium until maybe they meant driverless cars. But folks like millennials are leading that charge to pay for a little bit of convenience in their lives, and I think not just millennials, but busy folks like me, like you. I think what we found is that their trend is not going away. So I don't think the trend of having less time, wanting to go in store is the trend that's going to be reversed in the next 10, 15 years.", "OK, Hawaii is bracing for a powerful"], "speaker": ["PAULA NEWTON, HOST, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "PAUL LA MONICA, CNNMONEY DIGITAL CORRESPONDENT", "NEWTON", "LA MONICA", "NEWTON", "LA MONICA", "NEWTON", "LA MONICA", "NEWTON", "LA MONICA", "NEWTON", "CHIEH HUANG, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, BOXED", "NEWTON", "HUANG", "NEWTON", "HUANG", "NEWTON", "HUANG", "NEWTON", "HUANG", "NEWTON", "HUANG", "NEWTON", "HUANG", "NEWTON", "HUANG", "NEWTON", "HUANG", "NEWTON", "HUANG", "NEWTON", "HUANG", "NEWTON", "HUANG", "NEWTON", "HUANG", "NEWTON", "HUANG", "NEWTON", "HUANG", "NEWTON"]}
{"id": "CNN-38429", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-8-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/31/ltm.11.html", "summary": "\"O\" Takes Shakespeare's \"Othello\" from Battlefield to High School Campus", "utt": ["Bob Hope is expected to return home from the hospital within the next few days. However, doctors say that it could be weeks before the 98-year-old comedian is fully recovered from his mild case of pneumonia. In a statement released Thursday, Hope's wife, Dolores, expressed \"heartfelt thanks\" to friends, fans and the media for their get-well wishes. We're thinking of you, bob. Among the more than 300 films Hope starred in throughout illustrious career, he never played Shakespeare on the big screen. A new interpretation of Shakespeare's \"Othello\" is opening in theaters today. \"O\" stars an a-list cast of young Hollywood, including Josh Hartnett and Julia Stiles. CNN's Lauren Hunter has more.", "Some things are timeless.", "I love that girl.", "Emotions like love and jealousy.", "Look, is she cheating on me, or not?", "But treachery is the name of the game as the new movie \"O\" takes William Shakespeare's \"Othello\" from the battlefield to the high school campus. Though the setting and language are contemporary, the human condition hasn't changed.", "He takes an emotion, and he explores it pretty fully, you know, like jealousy, envy, and the concept like evil, and he makes the plot line. The plot line is timeless.", "What's up, man? why you tripping?", "He wrote very complex human beings, human beings with a full gamut of emotions, insecurities, vulnerabilities and power.", "You should watch your girl, bro. She and Mike are spending an awful lot of time together.", "The stakes are high, and these kids are in a pressure cooker of an environment, and basketball is a pressure- filled situation for Othello, because that's what going to get him where he wants and allow him to succeed.", "I don't know if it's true or not. He told me that him and Desi were together last night.", "The movie's been plagued by controversy. Shot in 1999, its release date was pushed following the massacre at Columbine High School, and disputes and legal claims resulted in Miramax selling \"O\" to the independent Lions Gate Studio.", "Taking a Shakespearean tragedy like \"Othello\" and setting it in the milieu of high school basketball is, at first glance, a really silly notion. What makes the serious notion and what makes this film suddenly quite credible, is that in our country, kids have been shooting one another in high school. That made this film suddenly a challenge that I wanted to take on. I made the film because of high school violence.", "The actors say the movie doesn't glorify violence, but is a faithful adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy to today's culture.", "This film can be used as a metaphor in sense of what's going on in kids' lives.", "He comes at me again, I swear I'll kill him.", "We didn't want to glorify guns or violence. In this movie, you feel the gravity of decisions that these characters make.", "Watch her. Now she's going to come clean.", "But be prepared to borrow from another of the bard's works, something wicked this way comes. Lauren Hunter, CNN Entertainment News, Hollywood.", "I won't even try to quote Shakespeare. But I will say that is all the entertainment news for now, but won't you please join us in one hour when we will have the very latest from the funeral of Aaliyah. That will be in our next \"Showbiz Today Reports\" at 11:30 a.m. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["LAURIN SYDNEY, CNN ANCHOR", "LAUREN HUNTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "HUNTER", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "HUNTER", "JOSH HARTNETT, ACTOR", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "MEKHI PHIFER, ACTOR", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "JULIA STILES, ACTRESS", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "HUNTER", "TIM BLAKE NELSON, DIRECTOR", "HUNTER", "PHIFER", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "HUNTER", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR", "HUNTER", "SYDNEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-187633", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-6-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1206/12/cnr.02.html", "summary": "911 Call about Pastor Dollar Released", "utt": ["For the first time we're hearing the 911 tapes that led to the arrest of Atlanta's Megachurch Pastor Creflo Dollar. On this tape you can hear his 15-year-old daughter accusing him of choking and beating her. Dollar denies he attacked his daughter and left jail after posting bond. George Howell's here with the 911 tapes. You listened to it, what did you hear?", "Well police just released these tapes. We took out the phone number and the address that was also on the tapes. But on this tape, you get a sense the emotional state of this young girl when she called police indicating to them that this had happened before and asking them to take some sort of action. Let's listen together, we can talk about it here on the other side.", "I just got into an altercation with my father. He punched me and threatened to choke me. This is not the first time it's happened. I feel threatened by being in this house. I don't know what can be done. I'm scared. I'm shaking. I don't know what to do.", "And are there any weapons involved?", "No, ma'am.", "Any drugs or alcohol?", "No, ma'am.", "Do you have any visible injuries?", "No, ma'am.", "So, Carol on that tape she sounds frustrated but at the same time calm, I should say; and composed.", "I was going to say she sounds really calm.", "As she explains to police her side of the story. Keep in mind, this is the a result of an argument with her father, according to the police report over grades and her not being able to go to a party. Creflo Dollar says that he did not hit his daughter, but tried to restrain her after she became disrespectful. But both of his daughters they describe an aggressive attack where he reportedly used his shoe to hit the young girl and also tried to choke her.", "Where are the kids now? I know the sister is 19, right? Where is the 15-year-old?", "From what we've -- from what we understand at this point. They are altogether. Creflo Dollar has put out a statement saying that this is a family matter and is being handled as a family matter. The daughters have not hired attorneys. There are no attorneys involved at this point. It seems like this is a case where the family is working this out together. That's what he told his church, thousands of members of that church, that he's going to work this out within his family.", "But the charges still loom over his head, right?", "And that will still play out throughout the court system.", "George Howell, thanks so much. Don't forget to talk back on one of the stories of the day. The question for you this morning, how do we restore civility in America? You have many interesting responses. I'll read some of them on the other side of the break."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "GEORGE HOWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HOWELL", "COSTELLO", "HOWELL", "COSTELLO", "HOWELL", "COSTELLO", "HOWELL", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-17436", "program": "World Report", "date": "2000-10-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/08/wr.05.html", "summary": "Refugee Crisis Worsens for Angolan Children", "utt": ["U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan says he'll nominate successor to head the U.N. Commission for Refugees sometimes this month. The current chief, Dodako Ogata (ph) of Japan is retiring in December. She leaves behind an agency responsible for more than 30 million refugees in Europe, Asia and Africa. Among them, tens of thousands of Angolans who have fled to neighboring Zambia to escape civil war. Zambia's ZNBC takes us to a refugee camp west of Lusaka, where some 11,000 Angolans are seeking cover.", "In over two decades, civil war in neighboring Angola has continued to haunt the citizens for that mineral-rich country. The war between the Angolan government troops and the UNITA rebel forces has ravaged this central African nation, making the entire international community lose hope of its coming to an end. But as the fighting continues, human movement has not been restricted to that country alone. Thousands of people have been displaced and are seeking refugee status in neighboring countries such as Zambia. A new camp, mostly looking after the distressed children, has been opened up in the western part of Zambia. But the Nangwesh Shichambamborg (ph) refugee camp has its own numerous problems. The camp cannot be easy to reach because of poor roads, infrastructure. The thousand of the children have been put into classes to continue their education, but the learning environment is not ideal, as they attend lessons in the open air. For now, the trees are providing the much needed shades. But one wonders what will happen when the rainy season begins.", "We've registered over 3,000 primary-age basic schoolchildren. We have five community schools that operate, and we have one secondary school. We're about to start community school No. 6 in response to the latest influx of arrivals. Some of the refugees with basic education have been hand picked as teachers to look into the educational needs of the children. But them, too, are not happy because they lack teaching aids. For the children, not all hope is lost, as they know that one day they will retain and contribute to the development of their motherland. Angola. But for now, the"], "speaker": ["ASIEH NAMDAR, CNN ANCHOR", "HENRY NGILAZI, ZNBC (voice-over)", "CHRISTINA NORTHEY, PROJECT COORDINATOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-107214", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2006-6-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/17/cst.01.html", "summary": "Money Saving Car Rental Tips", "utt": ["Well, time now for \"Dollars and Deals.\" The cost of renting a car can really add up if you're not careful. It's not the daily rate that will kill you, it's all those extras, many of which you really don't even need. Russell Pearlman is a senior writer at \"SmartMoney\" magazine. He's here with some tips about things your rental car company just won't tell you but you will. Good to see you, Russell.", "Thanks for having me.", "All right. So renting a car used to be simple, now it's rather complicated. There are lots of rules in which to abide by, lots of options that are extended to you, but you don't need to take advantage of all the options, right?", "That's right. Most of the time, you don't need to buy the occasionally pricey car insurance that the rental car company offers to you. If you have your own car insurance, odds are it covers collision and liability. If you have a credit card and you book the reservation with a credit card, odds are you'll get some insurance coverage. Before you sign on the dotted line to buy the insurance coverage from the rental car company, we suggest calling your credit card to see what type of coverage you already have and for future use, call your own auto insurance and say, hey, do I really need to buy this? Because occasionally it can add $10 to $15 a day to your rental car.", "Right, it can be expensive. All right, so that's one of your 10. You probably don't need the insurance. Let's go over a couple of the others. For one, follow instructions because if they tell you don't go here, you probably shouldn't go there with their vehicle because they've got tracking devices now on these rental cars.", "That's right. It used to be you signed -- when you signed an agreement -- let's say you're going to California. A lot of California car companies did not want you to go into Mexico, but it was really your word against theirs if you said hey you didn't go there they can't really prove it. But you're right, there are -- several companies now have GPS systems built into their cars. So they can tell where you are driving at any given time. Some car companies have tried to use this to say, if you were speeding with a car they will charge you for excessive wear and tear.", "Or maybe even traffic tickets or something like.", "That's right. So they'll know what you're getting. Now, there are some states that have stepped in and said look, you cannot use this as a big brother situation, but that's only two or three states that have inputted this right now. Now there are no car companies that we know that are actively doing this right now.", "OK.", "However, that's not to say that it's not possible because a global positioning system device gives the car company that option.", "All right. Well quickly, let's go some of the others. Our prices are not etched in sand, so if they promise you a price over the phone when you make the reservations, they don't really have to stick to it.", "That's right. It's not that they don't have to stick to it, it that the prices fluctuate dramatically. You could book a car online for $50 a day and an hour later come back and that price could be anywhere from $70 to $30 a day.", "Wow, that's not fair.", "Car companies -- well, I mean, the takeaway from this is that -- book your car enough in advance. So give yourself the option if you want to check it.", "But then one of your other tips says your reservation doesn't mean bubkis.", "That's right. Your reservation is only a guarantee that you can get a car from that company at that time. So, perhaps, if you want a mid-size car, they night not have a mid-size car for you when you come there. It depends on what cars are coming in and out of the lot at any time. But the good thing is that if you have that mid- size car, they don't have it, ask to get a larger car for free.", "OK, well, maybe there's a bonus in the end. Russell Pearlman of \"SmartMoney\" magazine. Of course, if you want to see what the other tips are, since we only really got through four out of the 10 tips, you'll have to pick up the July issue of \"SmartMoney\" magazine. Thanks so much, Russell.", "Thank you.", "Forty-five past the hour now, here's what's happening right now in the news. Missing in Iraq -- two U.S. soldiers disappeared after coming under attack last night. Another American soldier was killed in the action about 30 miles south of Baghdad. A search is now underway. In Baghdad, four mortar rounds slammed into a market today, killing two people. It was one of several bombings in the capital that killed at least 21 other people and wounded dozens. The attacks were carried out despite a huge government operation aimed at securing the capital. In a developing story out of New Orleans, a shoot-out leaves four people dead, including a 16-year-old boy. The shooting happened earlier today. Three of the dead were found inside a sport utility vehicle. Police are holding a news conference in about 15 minutes. Will Shuttle Discovery get a green light? NASA is expected to decide today whether to launch the shuttle on July 1st. It would be the first shuttle mission in nearly a year. We update the top stories every 15 minutes on CNN LIVE SATURDAY. Your next update is coming up at the top of the hour, 1:00 Eastern. Well, everybody is talking about her and the new baby. Coming up, we're talking to Angelina Jolie about her role as a mother."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "RUSSELL PEARLMAN, SENIOR WRITER, \"SMARTMONEY\"", "WHITFIELD", "PEARLMAN", "WHITFIELD", "PEARLMAN", "WHITFIELD", "PEARLMAN", "WHITFIELD", "PEARLMAN", "WHITFIELD", "PEARLMAN", "WHITFIELD", "PEARLMAN", "WHITFIELD", "PEARLMAN", "WHITFIELD", "PEARLMAN", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-104950", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-4-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/14/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "History Of Retired Military Dissent", "utt": ["Thanks, Kyra. To our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM, where new pictures and information are arriving all the time. Standing by, CNN reporters across the United States and around the world to bring you today's top stories. Happening now, President Bush makes a pointed effort to defend his Pentagon chief, but can Donald Rumsfeld hold up under mounting pressure to resign? It's 4:00 p.m. in Washington where the Bush administration can't ignore a revolt by retired generals. Also this hour, Easter eggs and the culture wars. Gay families are hoping to put a new spin on a White House tradition. Is it a positive statement or a political protest? And the many faces of Bill Clinton now on display -- ex- president, self-proclaimed sinner, and preacher of the political gospel. Could first spouse be next? I'm Heidi Collins and you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Hi, everybody. Wolf is off today. The cries for Donald Rumsfeld's head apparently got too loud today for President Bush. Just a couple of hours ago, Mr. Bush interrupted his Easter weekend stay at Camp David to issue a statement proclaiming his full support for his defense secretary. He's rallying behind Rumsfeld now that a half dozen retired generals have publicly called for the Pentagon chief's resignation. Our senior analyst Jeff Greenfield is standing by now. First up, our White House correspondent Ed Henry -- Ed.", "Good afternoon, Heidi. A remarkable defense of the defense secretary, President Bush deciding to issue this vote of confidence himself, not a statement from the White House press secretary, but from the commander in chief, interrupting his holiday at Camp David to do it, first in a phone call to secretary Rumsfeld, then in this public statement, the president clearly feeling this could not even wait until Monday. The course of criticism has just grown too loud so he, in his prepared statements, said in part, quote, \"Secretary Rumsfeld's energetic and steady leadership is exactly what is needed at the critical period. He has my full support and deepest appreciation.\" Also noteworthy in this short statement, just three paragraphs, the president four times referred to the secretary as Don, a clear sign he still considers him a close confidante, not someone he is trying to distance himself from. Also noteworthy, this was released on the very first day on the tenure of the new White House chief of staff, Josh Bolten, taking over for Andy Card. A lot of speculation about the potential for a White House shake-up at the staff level, the cabinet level. We're told Bolten will not be going to Camp David this weekend. Instead, he's going to be moving officially from his office over at the budget director's office to the chief of staff office. He wants to hit the ground running Monday. It's very interesting, people reading the tea leaves, looking at the fact that the president has not put out such a full-throated defense of the treasury secretary, John Snow, who also has been embattled. Whenever we ask the White House press secretary about John Snow, we're told they don't comment on personnel moves. Clearly the president not hesitating about a personnel move or a potential personnel move. Commenting on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is a clear sign he's sticking with him, perhaps in part because firing Don Rumsfeld would be admitting that mistakes have been made in Iraq. This is a president that does not like to admit mistakes -- Heidi.", "Ed Henry, a lot going on, even though it is Good Friday. thank you for that, Ed. Secretary Rumsfeld also brushing aside his critics today. During an interview with an Arab television network, he was asked about the retired generals who are urging him to step down.", "I intend to serve the president at his pleasure, and the fact that two or three or four retired people have different views -- I respect their views, but obviously, if out of thousands and thousands of admirals and generals, if every time two or three people disagreed we changed the secretary of defense of the United States, it would be like a merry-go-round.", "Secretary Rumsfeld says he's not surprised by the criticism he's been get getting from retired military brass. Should we be surprised? Well here's our senior analyst Jeff Greenfield to talk to that. And, Jeff, this has happened before, right?", "Well, Heidi, is it all that unusual for retired military brass to criticize a war? No, but what does make the current dissent unusual is that the folks cheering on this dissent are not the usual suspects.", "Such dissent goes back at least as far as the Civil War, when President Lincoln fired top general George McClellan for his apparent unwillingness to fight. McClellan became Lincoln's Democratic opponent in 1864, running on a peace platform. Probably the most famous dissenter was General Douglas MacArthur ...", "General MacArthur did not agree with that policy.", "... who was relieved of his command in Korea by President Truman for publicly challenging the war strategy. MacArthur became a hero to conservatives. He addressed a joint session of Congress.", "That old soldiers never die, they just fade away.", "He launched a nationwide speaking tour. He even tried to run for president in 1952. It was, of course, another general, Dwight D. Eisenhower who won and who became a hero to liberals when in his farewell speech in 1961 ...", "Create a permanent, armaments industry.", "... he warned against the growth of a military industrial complex.", "A military industry complex.", "Indeed, civilian control of the military was a major theme of liberal concerns in the early 60s. The book and the movie \"Seven Days In May\" was about a charismatic general planning a coup against a peace-minded president.", "Yes, I know who Judas was. He was a man I worked for and admired.", "And during Vietnam, most of the military objection to the strategy of defense secretary Robert McNamara was that was that he wasn't using enough force, was not committed enough to win. Retired Air Force General Curtis LeMay was especially vociferous, suggesting early on when it came to North Vietnam we should \"bomb them back to the Stone Age\" if they didn't lay down their arms. LeMay became George Wallace's third-party running mate in 1968. The current crop of retired military dissenters are not united by any one common objection. Some say the whole idea of the war in Iraq was wrong. Some think the execution has been flawed or incompetent. Some have held long-standing objections to Rumsfeld's strategies.", "But now the people who might once have worried about excessive military influence are embracing the military critics of Rumsfeld. Why? Because they know that one of the strongest arguments in politics is that old street corner phrase, hey, your own man says so -- Heidi.", "All right. Jeff Greenfield, we will be staying on top of this one, and in the next hour talk more about it. Thank you. This year's Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1st, but the fall-out from last year's devastating season is not over. A new report by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general says the agency's focus on terrorism left it unprepared to deal with Hurricane Katrina. The report also includes 38 recommendations to improve disaster response this year, including speeding up and coordinating federal, state, and local assistance. We'll be talking with David Paulison and Max Mayfield more on that topic a little bit later today. Meanwhile, the newest assessment of FEMA's response to Katrina doesn't mince words. Our Internet reporter Abbi Tatton has the report on that. Abbi, what are you seeing there?", "Heidi, it's over 200 pages long but the bottom line of this internal report now is that much of the criticism that FEMA has received post-Katrina have been warranted. The report looks at various aspects of the Katrina response, the housing, for example, those cruise ships. The cruise ship program that has been criticized, this report found that in the early days, it cost over $3,000 per evacuee per week to house them on one of the cruise ships what they call not necessarily efficient. It also looked at those debit cards -- remember those that were handed out to evacuees in the early days -- and found that in the first couple of days, over $22 million worth of debit cards were handed out with no program to find out whether the people getting them were actually eligible. Thirty-eight recommendations in this report. FEMA has responded to each of them, and it also says that they've received many critical assessments. They are looking to effectively respond to the recommendations in all of them -- Heidi.", "All right, Abbi Tatton. We'll talk with you again soon. Time now, though, for \"The Cafferty File.\" Our Jack Cafferty joining us from New York once again. Hi, Jack.", "Good afternoon, Heidi. Here we go again. A Dubai-owned company wants to take over a British company that operates plants here in the United States that supply the U.S. military. A secret report on the proposed $1.25 billion deal has been sent to President Bush who has 15 days to decide if it goes forward. One of the plants owned by this British firm, Doncasters, is the sole supplier of turbine fan parts for U.S. Abrams Battle Tanks. The proposed sale has been reviewed by the Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States. That would be CFIUS. Its recommendations, though, remain secret. This deal follows an uproar that eventually scuttled another Dubai-state owned company's plan to acquire operations at six major U.S. ports. So here's the question. Should a Dubai-owned company be allowed to take over U.S. plants that supply our military? E-mail us your thoughts at caffertyfile@CNN.com or go to CNN.com/caffertyfile -- Heidi.", "Yes, feels a little bit like deja vu to me. All right, we'll check back with you Jack. Thank you. Coming up, the battle for Congress. Democrats are up in the polls, but it's a long way until election day. Can Democrats win back either the House or Senate? Plus, the bottom line of the White House. No, not strategy, but tax returns. How much are President Bush and Vice President Cheney worth? And later, it's an annual tradition at the White House, but this year, the Easter egg hunt finds itself smack in the middle of our culture wars."], "speaker": ["HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "COLLINS", "DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY", "COLLINS", "JEFF GREENFIELD, CNN SENIOR ANALYST", "GREENFIELD (voice-over)", "HARRY TRUMAN, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "GREENFIELD", "GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR", "GREENFIELD", "DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "GREENFIELD", "EISENHOWER", "GREENFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GREENFIELD", "GREENFIELD", "COLLINS", "ABBI TATTON, CNN INTERNET REPORTER", "COLLINS", "JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR", "COLLINS"]}
{"id": "CNN-137255", "program": "CAMPBELL BROWN: NO BIAS, NO BULL", "date": "2009-4-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/20/ec.01.html", "summary": "Walkout at U.N. Racism Conference", "utt": ["Folks, the world racism conference was just getting started this morning in Geneva when the president of Iran took the stage and delivered a racist rant aimed at Israel. Listen to what happened next.", "And they sent migrant from Europe, the United States, and from other parts of the world in order to establish a totally racist government in the occupied Palestine. And, in fact, in compensation for the dire consequences of racism in Europe -- OK, please. Thank you. And, in fact, in compensation for the dire consequences of racism in Europe, they helped bring to power the most cruel and repressive, racist regime in Palestine.", "Well, folks, we're back. Jessica Yellin, Miguel Perez, Cliff May, and Ed Henry are back with me. And, of course, Ed, the White House took a lot of criticism for not going to this conference. What are they saying now?", "They feel pretty good. They're -- essentially, top White House officials are saying, we told you so, that this whole conference was a bad idea. That's why they didn't attend. They think it's reprehensible that you had the Iranian president taking shots not just at Israel, but some of our allies in Europe as well. I think the bigger, long-term question, though -- that is sort of an easy one to fire back at him, but the bigger, long-term question is, what does this mean for the U.S. outreach to Iran? They have been trying to crack that door open. If he continues to make statements like this, it is going to be hard for the U.S. to continue to reach out, Roland.", "Miguel, one speech, how does this one speech define the entire conference?", "It doesn't define the entire conference, but it is the same pattern. These guys don't change. They hate us and they're going to keep hating us and they're going to let the world know.", "So, these guys, meaning Iran?", "Iran, yes. And Hugo Chavez, who is a friend of Ahmadinejad, is also -- or whatever you pronounce him.", "Ahmadinejad.", "Ahmadinejad.", "Same as Blagojevich.", "Thank you very much.", "It is the same thing all over again. It's this hatred of America that we keep seeing over and over again. And they're not going to change. They want us dead. They want Israel to disappear from the map. And they -- and they insist -- but, you know, there are some very naive people in this world who insist that we can make -- you know, sing kumbaya with people who want us dead. It's impossible.", "Cliff May, Cliff May, of course, we also saw the conviction of the journalist Roxana Saberi. So, how does that make it even more difficult? And should the president do more to try to get her released from prison? She was sentenced to eight years.", "Yes, I certainly hope so. She is an American citizen. She's of Iranian background. She has imprisoned unfairly. And I would hope there would be great pressure to get her out. Look, the president continues to reach out the Iran, to Iran's despots who rule the place. And he keeps getting his hand slapped back. At a certain point -- and I think it is good to do that he is doing what he is doing, but at a certain point, he is going to I think have to use something harsher than simply reaching out. There are going to have to be strong sanctions at the very least in order to get the attention of Iran and show that we can not only speak softly, but we also sometimes carry a big stick.", "Jessica, Cliff talks about reaching out. And we saw him reaching out in terms of the photo with Chavez. And so what is the fallout from that particular image?", "Well, that's a potentially dangerous image for President Obama, but only in terms of domestic politics, because you can just imagine the Republican campaign in which they start unveiling this photo and say that the president is weak already. Newt Gingrich and Dick Cheney, the former vice president, have said it's a proof that President Obama is weak. But, as they like to say, the proof is in the pudding. And it really depends on whether President Obama gets results of his new strategy of nice.", "Hey, Ed, what about that? I mean, was he supposed to just somehow avoid shaking his hand or slap it around?", "Well, the president's response basically was that, look, Chavez, the Venezuelan president, is better at getting his face in front of the camera and that he essentially sort of staged some of these photo-ops. I think the White House makes a fair point when they say, look, President -- former President Bush kept pushing back against Venezuela. What did they do? They kicked out the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela. There's really no diplomatic relations. Now all of maybe there's an opening. They hope something comes out of it. But, as Jessica points out, if all this blows up in the president's face and he really doesn't get anywhere with it, it's going to be a video highlight for the RNC to use in the years ahead. There's no doubt about that.", "Miguel.", "I like the approach Obama is using. And I will tell you why. Here is a liberal American president who's going to Latin America and saying, you can be liberal, you can even be a socialist, and you don't have to put your opposition in jail. You don't have to be totalitarian to be a liberal. You can have free elections and be a liberal. He disarms them just by being himself. And that's why Obama -- Chavez and Ortega and the Castros, they don't know what to do with Obama. They really don't know how to deal with him. They would prefer George Bush in the White House, so they can say, American, Yankee imperialist. Obama doesn't look or act like a Yankee imperialist.", "Jessica, you have a real interesting in terms of Bush reaction, Obama reaction.", "Right. I remember at the same Summit of the Americas with President Bush two years ago. And Hugo Chavez walks into the room, and the entire room swarms around Hugo Chavez. President Bush avoids him completely, looked completely alone.", "Sort of like a dance going, right.", "A dance, like you put it, like celebrities, when Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman walk in to the Oscars separately.", "On red carpets. Keep them separate.", "Hey, Cliff, too much, you know, reaction from the right in saying, oh, this was a bad move? I'm reading all kind of stuff. People are saying, oh, he shouldn't have shaken his hand, should not have taken the book. So what is he supposed to do, just say get away from me?", "No, I think it's fine to shake the guy's hand. I wish he hadn't seemed quite as thrilled to meet me, quite as smiling. And I think it would have been OK to also say something in defense of the people who have been imprisoned, the political prisoners in Venezuela's jails, the people who have imprisoned by Daniel Ortega, the people who have been imprisoned in Bolivia. Speaking out on behalf of the freedom of democracy is something I would like to see our president continue to do. So I'm not against him shaking hands, but I wish he had a little bit of criticism and a little bit support for the people who are oppressed by these dictators.", "Well, sometimes, as they say, kill them with kindness. We certainly appreciate. Thanks a bunch. Miguel, Jessica, Cliff May, Ed Henry, thanks a bunch. Also, folks, a program note. Tomorrow night, I will talk to the father Roxana Saberi, the young American journalist convicted of spying and sentenced to prison in Iran. If you're a parent, this is a story you have got to hear. Imagine you sending your young teenage daughter or son to school and find out that he or she is being strip-searched. I will talk to a mother and daughter who have been through it. Now their case has gone to the Supreme Court. And I want to know what you think. We're taking your phone calls on the issue, 1-877-NO-BULL-0. That's 1-877-662-8550. You can also e-mail me or fine me on Twitter and Facebook. See you online."], "speaker": ["MARTIN", "MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, IRANIAN PRESIDENT (through translator)", "MARTIN", "HENRY", "MARTIN", "PEREZ", "MARTIN", "PEREZ", "MARTIN", "PEREZ", "MARTIN", "PEREZ", "PEREZ", "MARTIN", "MAY", "MARTIN", "YELLIN", "MARTIN", "HENRY", "MARTIN", "PEREZ", "MARTIN", "YELLIN", "MARTIN", "YELLIN", "MARTIN", "MARTIN", "MAY", "MARTIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-132743", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-11-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0811/25/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Obama Names Congressional Budget Expert to Head Federal Budget Office", "utt": ["We still don't know, but we know the man who is going to do it. Obama nominated Peter Orszag, currently the Congressional Budget Office chief, as director of the Office of Management and Budget.", "Peter doesn't need a map to tell him where the bodies are buried in the federal budget. He knows what works and what doesn't. What is worthy of the precious tax dollars and what is not. Just because a program, a special interest tax break, or corporate subsidy is hidden in this year's budget does not mean it will survive the next. The old ways of Washington simply can't meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.", "Well, that was the president-elect in Chicago where team Obama has set up shop. Our White House Correspondent Suzanne Malveaux following it all from Washington for us -- Hi, Suzanne.", "Hey, Kyra. It sounds pretty serious, where the bodies are buried. But Barack Obama today said that budget reform is not an option, it is a necessity. That as president he is going to go through this federal budget, page by page, line by line to get rid of unnecessary spending and make our government work more efficiently. Now, in terms of just what programs he will cut or just how much is still largely unknown. He did cite a report that identified some wasteful farmers getting millions more in crop subsidies than allowed, as an example of the kind of abuse he would eliminate as president. But it is really clear, Kyra, would just be the tip of the iceberg in dealing with a federal budget that is now approaching $3 trillion. Today, after Obama announced his pick for the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag. He was asked whether he had any concern that his message may be stepping on President Bush.", "There is only one president at a time. That president is George W. Bush and he will be president until I am sworn in on January 20th. Given the extraordinary circumstances that we find ourselves in, however, I think that it is very important for the American people to understand that we are putting together a first-class team. And for them to have clarity that we don't intend to stumble into the next administration. We are going to hit the ground running.", "OK. Well, a part of hitting the ground running is going to be pushing Congress, the new Congress in January, when Obama takes office to push through another stimulus package, and that is estimated, Kyra, at least $0.5 trillion, but Obama believes it will jump start the economy and create 2.5 million new jobs in the first two years of his administration. All of this, Kyra, very ambitious plans and still very much untested.", "All right, let's bring up big numbers again. Let's talk about the deficit figure in all of this. Are they worried about that? They have to be.", "You know that number is huge. That is $10 trillion, the federal deficit, it is estimated now. But what Barack Obama -- he keeps being asked this question and he answers it the same way. He says, he believes there is a consensus between Republican leaning, Democratic leaning economists that say you just have to spend, spend, spend now, don't worry about the federal deficit, at leas not for a couple of years or so, because you really have to make sure that this isn't a deepening recession; that that is the most important thing. That eventually the economy will recover and you'll get that money back. But, Kyra, that really is going to be a big problem down the road.", "All right. Suzanne Malveaux, thanks. Later this hour, Robert Reich, economic adviser to the president- elect and former Labor secretary to President Clinton, will weigh in on Obamanomics and the men and women who will carry it out. Well, you won't need any on-the-job training. That's what Delaware's governor says about this man, Ted Kaufman. He was a long- time chief of staff to Delaware Senator Joe Biden, who is now the vice president-elect. The 69-year-old Kaufman will now replace Biden in the Senate for two years. He says he will not run for the seat in 2010. There were reports that Biden's son, Beau, currently Delaware's attorney general, might step into his dad's shoes. Beau Biden is deployed in Iraq as a captain in the National Guard. He said last week that he would not take his dad's job if it were offered to him. John McCain is still in race, that is the 2010 Senate race. He talked to reporters last hour, in Phoenix. The former GOP presidential contender is setting up a committee as a first step toward running for the fifth term. He looked ahead, but also looked back on his losing campaign, saying that he picked Sarah Palin, as his running mate, because she was quote \"a real breath of fresh air\", meaning she is not from Washington. He also says that he is ready to help jump start the stalled economy, which he says changed the presidential race.", "When we started the campaign you would probably have argued that the war in Iraq was, you know - a major, major issue. And then, of course, the economic issues and success in Iraq, but that combined with the economy made that a major issue. And the American people decides -- and I respect that decision. I don't in any way criticize it. And that the economy was of vital importance - and it is.", "Well, the Treasury wants to give credit where credit is due, and so does the Fed. Together, they are rolling out a monumental plan to pump up the market for securities based on mortgages, credit cards, car loans, college loans -- you name it, the goal is to make all of those loans relatively cheap and available for people like us. And the stocks are getting cheaper on Wall Street as well. Investors are cashing in after the biggest two-day rally in two decades. CNN's Susan Lisovicz following all these developments from her post at the New York Stock Exchange. Susan, let's start with this new credit program, it is actually two programs, right?", "Two programs -- and it is an awful lot of money, Kyra. I mean, we are talking about up to $800 billion, which is more than the TARP program, basically trying to unfreeze the credit system. It is very few people outside of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett who can buy something without credit. I want to talk about one of them first. It is coming from the New York Federal Reserve committing up to $200 billion, really focused on small businesses and consumers. So these are everyday kind of things that we all need. Things like auto loans, student loans, credit card loans, and it is really trying to focus that, making them more available. That is the first one, up to $200 billion. This is, as I said, in addition to the TARP program, although about $20 billion from that remaining first half of the TARP is going to be used for that program, Kyra.", "So, the second program unwrapped today, is supposed to make it easier and less expensive to get a mortgage, right?", "Yes. And the housing market, of course, is the epicenter of where this mess began. That is where the bulk of the money, that was announced today by Secretary Paulson, would be going, up to $600 billion. And the idea here is to try to make home mortgage cheaper and more available. So Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, some of these government-sponsored entities would be seeing that. Secretary Paulson today, talked about the dual challenges that the administration faced when crafting this plan.", "The challenge in developing these programs is how to get the balance right between, you know, helping those homeowners who need it the most, and not providing government funds to those homeowners who don't need it, or government funds for modifications that would be taking place anyway; given all of the various things that are going on. And, again, how to get the balance right between the homeowners and the banks.", "And as you know, Kyra, basically these new programs being unveiled because we continue to see signs that the economy is weakening, and the secretary, others, saying that credit basically just dried up in October. Of course, we got a revision on GDP, we talked about it in the last hour. GDP, revised lower. One of the things that happened was consumers really reigned in their spending. You are not going spend if you don't have access to credit. It is just a given.", "Well, housing prices are fallen at record levels, too.", "That is right. That is another report that came out today showing the continuing weakness. And that would be an understatement in the housing market. A closely watched study S&P;/Case-Schiller showed home prices declined 16.6 percent in the third quarter. It studies 20 large metro areas, showed declines in every city, and in 13 of the 20, there were record declines, Kyra.", "All right. Susan Lisovicz, thanks so much.", "You are welcome.", "A mudslide warning, preparing for the worst, in burned out areas of Southern California. We are going to tell you what may trigger it. And a tragic mistake on the high seas, a pirate ship that wasn't up in flames. A live report from Kenya with details on how it all went down.", "Well, first the wildfires and now rain is in the forecast, and that has homeowners in Southern California on edge again, as reporter Suzie Suh, with affiliate KCBS, shows us it is neighbor helping neighbor in a race against time.", "Everyone is actually pulling together, and that is what this is all about.", "In Yorba Linda, an all-out defense strategy.", "Drop it down, Steve. Yes! Perfect.", "Clear!", "Against mother nature.", "You have to make plans for the worst case, that you can.", "Because when your house is hugged by hillsides charred by fire, the ash just days old.", "Survived the fires against all odds and now they may lose their home.", "Rain in the forecast may mean a downpour of danger.", "And now we are in a predicament of the hills coming down and who takes care of it.", "Warnings out and sandbags in driveways and in Cheryl Krueger's case, concrete walls on guard with an army of neighbors and helping hands.", "I don't know the people at this house, but you know, if you can help, you can help.", "Residents are hoping to shield themselves from the worst.", "Right now we are hoping to keep it standing because my kids have been here since babies.", "Hopefully we will get everything done before the rain starts.", "So when will that rain begin? Let's check that out with Jacqui Jeras back in the Severe Weather Center.", "Well, really extreme measures. But you know, this is a real serious deal, because when you have the fires that burn as extensively as they did, that is a lot of real estate that is just completely denuded of all vegetation. So there is just nothing on that hill other than burnt up debris. So, every raindrop that falls down is just going to slide right off of this. So, mudflows, debris flows are a very good probability. In fact, I'd be really shocked if we didn't get any out of this rain event. Our low pressure area is offshore here, but it is kind of a slow mover so it will stick around for a couple of days. Most of the heaviest rain has already been offshore. But we are seeing some light rain and drizzle already into Southern California. The rainfall potential will be heaviest into the foothills and into the mountains where we could see one to three inches. You'll likely see some lesser amounts in the valleys, but what matters is what's falling into those higher elevations where things have been burning. That is something we will be watching closely over the next couple of days.", "Well, how are you spending your Thanksgiving holiday? We have heard from some I-Reporters, or we've heard from I-Reporters out there. Bijou from Los Angeles says that he's exploring the open road. Here is a picture that he took at Yosemite National Park. He is going to travel historic Route 66 from Santa Monica to New Mexico. It actually is a beautiful route. Tell us about your plans this week and send us your I-Reports at IReport.com. Well, the president-elect is rushing to get his team together and he's vowing to hit the ground running when once he takes office, that makes for a quick vetting process, but one that does allow little room for error. CNN's Jim Acosta reports.", "Good morning.", "Barack Obama is already making presidential history by naming, or leaking, his Cabinet picks faster than nearly all of his recent predecessors.", "And if we do not act swiftly and boldly, most experts now believe we could lose millions of jobs next year.", "With an economic crisis spiraling out of control and a lame duck in office, presidential scholars say the next commander-in- chief simply had no choice.", "This is really unprecedented, but it is an unprecedented situation. Obama is doing what the public and the markets demand be done, and that is to show that the next president is in charge even before he takes the oath of office.", "The conventional wisdom was that the Obamas transition team's vigorous vetting requirements, including a probing seven-page questionnaire would slow down the selection process, or scare away talent altogether, but potential Cabinet high-level White House posts are filling up fast from Health & Human Services to Homeland Security.", "Nobody believes that these individuals, Larry Summers, for example, has produced every e-mail that might have been embarrassing to the president-elect or the new administration. There simply was not enough time.", "In recent times, only President Bush, Sr., moved more quicker, but that was to name confidant James Baker secretary of State, just days after the election. The second President Bush and Bill Clinton waited until December for their fist picks. And two of Mr. Clinton's choices for attorney general were scuttled over revelations they had hired undocumented workers. The Obama team started early to avoid getting blind-sided by unexpected problems.", "There is no question that plenty of work was done in anticipation of victory.", "It's a delicate balancing act. Vetting experts say the early roll out of Mr. Obama's team could calm markets, as long as there aren't any surprises.", "I think calling it a high-wire act is a very good term, because this is high-stakes. These are high-profile positions and the last thing you need is something to blow up in your face.", "Mr. Obama is not out of the woods yet. There are confirmation hearings coming and one prominent Republican is promising a good old-fashioned Capitol Hill grilling, saying in times of crisis, the public deserves nothing less. Jim Acosta, CNN, Washington.", "The sinking of a pirate mother ship, or was it? Did Indian navy make a mistake? We will bring you a live report from Kenya.", "More than 25 million Iraqis are free, and a young democracy has taken root where a tyrant once ruled. Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision then, and it is the right decision today.", "President Bush rallying the troops and defending the war at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The president says that the day that the troops can come back from Iraq is approaching, and he adds, quote, \"They will come home in victory.\" A gut-wrenching report on the fighting in Congo as more and more people are forced from their homes. A U.N. report accuses the army of arbitrary rape, torture and executions. The U.N. also accuses both army and rebels of abusing civilians. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch says that some 500 opposition members were killed on orders by the Congo's president. The government calls the report nonsense. The Gulf of Aden, a paradise of sorts for Somali pirates; their latest victim is a Yemeni freighter. Our David McKenzie joining us now live in Nairobi, Kenya. David, tell us about the latest hijacked ship.", "Well, that is right, Kyra. The latest, as you say, is that a Yemeni freighter - we don't have very many details at this stage, but what I can tell you is that cargo ship disappeared about four or five days ago. They are just getting wind that it is taken by pirates, most likely going to those pirate dens off of the coast of Somalia. Piracy has been on the rise here, in the east part of Africa in the past few months. In the last week, there are scores of ships attacked and many hijacked. The latest though, Kyra, as well is what we thought was a great news out of this region of a successful attack against pirates might in fact be a mistake. The Indian frigate, which said that it attacked a pirate mother ship. Now it turns out from the Thai shipping owner, that that in fact was his ship and that it had 16 sailors, at least, on board when it was attacked. One of those sailors was found days after he had been stranded in the Gulf of Aden, saying they had been attacked by the Indian ship. And the rest of those sailors are now missing, presumed dead. So that one successful attack, in fact, might have just grave mistake, Kyra.", "Now, David, also I think a lot people don't understand that a lot of these hijackers, formerly used to work on these ships, correct? So they know the ships well. They know the security angles. They know exactly what they are doing when they come aboard and hijack them, correct?", "Well many of them were in merchant sailing in some shape or form. They were either merchant sailors or if not that they were at least fishermen in the area, who would know the waters, who would know the tides, and the places to wait for passing vessels. So they do realize that this is how they can do this, whether they are from those exact ships is debatable. But they know these waters really well, Kyra. They can use it to their advantage.", "David McKenzie, live from Nairobi. Dave, thanks. Well, chaos in Thailand's capital today, anti-government protesters swarmed Bangkok's international airport forcing the suspension of all departing flights. The unrest also spilled into the streets, where opponents and supporters of the government fought each other with guns, knives and slingshots. Police say that 11 people were injured. The opposition accuses the prime minister of being a puppet of his disgraced predecessor and are demanding that he step down. The president-elect is electing to get out in front of the economic meltdown, but what is going on behind the scenes? We will get an inside look from adviser, scholar, author and friend of the NEWSROOM Robert Reich.", "Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Kyra Phillips at the CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta. And you're live in the CNN NEWSROOM It's 2:28 Eastern Time and here are some of the stories we are working on in the CNN NEWSROOM. Michael Vick back in court. The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback pleaded guilty to a state dog fighting charge in Virginia. He got a three-year suspended sentence. Vick is still serving 23 months in federal prison for his role in a dog fighting ring, but today's plea is expected to speed his return to the NFL. The suspect in Sunday's deadly church shooting in New Jersey, also in court today. A nationwide manhunt tracked Joseph Pallipurath to a motel in Georgia last night. He's accused of killing his wife and a man who tried to help her. A third person was critically wounded. And another appointment by President-Elect Barack Obama. He says he'll nominate Peter Orszag to head up the Office of Management and Budget. Orszag is an expert on health care, pensions and Social Security. Well, love him or hate him, Henry Paulson is a lame duck and, and Timothy Geithner is Treasury secretary-to-be. What will that mean for the meltdown and the government response? CNN's Allan Chernoff wondered the same thing.", "At a time of economic crisis President-Elect Obama's pick of Timothy Geithner to be Treasury secretary is highly celebrated.", "Timothy Geithner is the right guy. I mean he has long experience with dealing with financial crisis.", "Investors have been frustrated with current Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's flip-flopping through the financial crisis. Paulson lobbied hard for Treasury to gain $700 million to buy trouble mortgages from the banks, and then abandoned the plan. That accelerated the crisis facing Citigroup, a major owner of mortgages. And helped force Monday's bailout of the bank. Geithner, economists say, should know better than to cause such uncertainty for the financial markets.", "Secretary Paulson was making it up as he went along. It wasn't very clear about the rules.", "Another contrast, Paulson spend his career at Goldman Sachs rising to chief executive, Geithner has no allegiance to any Wall Street firm. He is a product of the Treasury Department where he spent years handling financial crises around the globe. Even Secretary Paulson expressed admiration of Geithner saying Monday, I have great confidence in his understanding of markets, his judgment and leadership. Allan Chernoff, CNN, New York.", "Well, my next guest calls the next president's economic brain trust a wonderful team. He is a former team player himself as labor secretary under President Clinton. And today, Robert Reich is a university professor, economic adviser to the Obama transition team and best selling author, most recently of \"Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy and Everyday Life.\" He joins us from the University of California at Berkeley. Great to see you again.", "Hi, Kyra. How are you? Well I know you know a number of these players very well. Why don't we start with Tim Geithner. What do you think? Obviously young, experienced -- fits that whole fresh, new cabinet-type position.", "Yes, in fact, I think that there is a kind of consistency in vision here because most of the new additions to the economic team are pretty young. Now, from my standpoint, 47 is pretty young. They also are fresh in the sense that they are not schooled in the same way. I think that Allan just pointed out Hank Paulson and other Treasury secretaries of recent vintage (ph) have been from Wall Street. But Tim Geithner is really a Treasury person. He understands the Treasury Department very well. Another very important point is that he understands the global economy and global finance probably better than any recent Treasury secretary. He understands the importance of consistency with regard to the signals that come out of Treasury. And finally, he very much understands and agrees with the president- elect's focus on getting liquidity, getting money, getting loans, down to Main Street.", "Got another name out there today, Orszag. You know him also. What is your take on this pick?", "Well, Peter Orszag, who is going to be head of the Office of Management and Budget -- Peter has been, for the last few years, in charge of the Congressional Budget Office. And he has really made that office entirely. Everybody I know up on the Hill tells me that he is a splendid manager. He knows the details of the federal budget. You need somebody at OMB who is a green eye shade person enough that they know exactly where the bodies are buried and what needs to be done and what needs to be changed. But Peter is also a superb kind of economist. He is not just a technocrat, he's not just a technician. He really understands the big picture as well. And that combination of understanding the details and the understanding the big picture is going to serve the president- elect very, very well.", "In talking with a number of advisers, in addition to you, it seems that everyone has been saying -- we have been talking about Obama's stimulus package, that that is the way to create jobs, that's what President-elect Barack Obama has to do immediately to jumpstart this economy. Do you agree with that? And will that be his first move?", "It's going to be -- yes, I think it probably will be the first move. I wouldn't be surprised, Kyra. And again, this is my view and I'm not speaking out of school. He is probably going to have Congress tee up the big stimulus package before even inauguration day so that he can maybe on January 20th or January 21st or maybe January 22nd, he can sign this very big, very substantial stimulus package. Now, again, this is my view, but it seems to me that the stimulus package, if it is going to have any impact in the economy that is a huge economy, it's got to be about 4 percent of the GDP at least, and that means $600 billion at least. And that is justified, in my view, in terms of the importance of getting the economy moving, given that consumers are cutting way back on spending, investment is almost dead in the water, exports are slowing because the recession is spreading around the world, so you need government as spender as last resort if we're going to have jobs and we're going to get an economic turnaround.", "You know -- and we've got this two-month lag before President-elect Barack Obama is officially in that seat. If he doesn't do anything now -- and really can he do anything now with the President Bush still technically in office? Could this hurt us? Could this damage us? Could this take to us a place where we cannot come back?", "Well, if there was really as much of a leadership vacuum as there was a couple of weeks ago, it could be very, very seriously damaging. But I think what President-elect Obama has done is three important things. No. 1, he has put the team in place. And this is in record time. He was only elected three-and-a-half weeks ago. We've never had a president before December 1st put so many people in place, particularly the economic time. No. 2, indicate to the public what his major, first priority is going to be. And he he has done that in terms of talking about a big stimulus package aimed at infrastructure and public investment. And No. 3, it is very important that he and his team work very closely with the Bush administration so it almost seems seamless, even though the approaches are different, even though the philosophies will be different after January 20th. And he is doing that as well. So I think he is doing everything he can to restore confidence, even though he is technically no longer president -- I mean he is technically not president yet.", "Yet.", "I slipped a little bit.", "Freudian slip.", "Bush is president right now.", "All right. Robert Reich, always great to see you. Great insight as usual. Appreciate it.", "Thanks, Kyra.", "Well, if you want to feel better about the economy, you might take heart in a surprising bounce in consumer confidence. That is one of the gauges that we talk a lot about because consumer spending makes up most of the economic activity in America. November's reading came in at 44.9, up from 38 in October. That was an all-time low. And speaking of economic activity, a second look at third quarter GDP shows that it was worse than we thought. The revised number is negative .5 percent, down from the original report of .3. On Wall Street, an early rally gave us hope that the market might jump for a third straight day. But that burst of enthusiasm has waned and stocks have pulled back. Susan Lisovicz is at the New York Stock Exchange with a check of the action. Hey, Susan.", "Hi, Kyra. Well you were just talking to Secretary Reich and he was talking about the spender of last resort being the government; the government has been spending an awful lot. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson rolled out another -- well two programs -- an $800 billion rescue plan from the government. It prompted an early rally right at the open, but we continue to see fundamental problems in a lot of different areas, jobs being cut, today -- the world's largest steel maker, ArcelorMittal. Housing prices, meanwhile, fell by a record amount in the third quarter. And the economy is shrinking, as you just mentioned. But the encouraging news? Well, things could be a lot worse. We are coming off of the best two-day-point gain for the Dow ever and the best percentage gain -- two-day percentage gain since the aftermath of the crash of '87. Right now, the Dow is down 81 points, or about 1 percent. The Nasdaq is down 2, techs are getting hit harder today. Home builders are surging, Kyra, after D.R. Horton reported better than expected revenue. D.R. shares are up 29 percent,", "Yes, that's true. Susan Lisovicz, thanks.", "You're welcome.", "A watchdog group has released its annual video game report card. It gives the gaming industry high marks for improving the ratings system. Retailers get a B-plus for making some progress on ratings enforcement. Parents, though, they score an incomplete. The group says that moms and dads need to stay on top of their kids' gaming, especially downloaded content. Can Barack Obama deliver on his promise to promote clean and renewable energy? Will market variables stand in the way? We're going to have a live report from New York.", "Family pets paying a high price in the economic crisis. Shelters are inundated with surrenderers (ph) their people can't afford to keep.", "Well, Ford and its subsidiary, Volvo, topped the insurance industry's annual list of safest vehicles. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says for the 2009 model year, Ford has a record 16 vehicles on the list; Honda has 13; Volkswagen 9; And GM and Toyota have 8. Ford's CEO testified along with other Big Three execs seeking government aid that the company was making significant strides putting safety first. President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to promote clean and renewable energy, but the gloomy economy, not to mention falling oil and gas prices, could threaten that promise. CNNMoney.com's Poppy Harlow has our Energy Fix from New York. Hey, Poppy.", "Hey there, Kyra. Yes the state of the economy is threatening to put a damper on what Obama has planed. He has pledged $150 billion over the next 10 years for alternative energy investments. To make that happen, though, we have to have the power companies onboard. Right now, though, a lot of them are scaling back their plans, that of course amid the ongoing credit crisis. That makes funding these new projects quite a daunting task. Here are some examples. Florida's FPL, that is a huge wind producer, slashing spending on new energy products by nearly $1 billion next year. North Carolina, Duke Energy, that is a big one, they have cut their capital budget by several hundred million dollars, also postponed construction of some natural gas plants. And then New Jersey's PSE&G; has cut its capital expenditures for next year by some 15 percent, more than a third of those cuts in renewable energy at that company. And even, Kyra, as you know, billionaire oilman, T. Boone Pickens, who turned to wind, he is now delaying his wind project.", "Well, are any companies looking past today's storm clouds and actually investing more in alternative energy?", "Some are. It's a good question. Some retailers, surprisingly enough, they are leading the way. They have to light, heat, cool all of those stores. Wal-mart just coming out with a deal, tying up with Duke Energy to use wind power at hundreds of their stores in Texas. Starting this spring, they are going to use about 15 percent of the electricity at those stores powered by wind and coal. That retailer -- they're going to power about 65 of their stores across the nation on solar power. That should start by mid-December. So clearly, Kyra, despite the economic environment and the tough time all those retailers are having, they think this is going to pay off in the end. It is their energy fix at least, Kyra.", "That's true. All right, well, you are right about times are tough economically, Poppy. Thank you so much. And so are the choices that many families are having to make. Animal shelters across the country say that they are swamped lately by surrenders, pet owners finding that they just cannot afford to feed and care for their cats and dogs. So larger animals, like horses and livestock, are also suffering, in many cases set loose to fend for themselves. Animal control officers have picked up everything from donkeys to goats. Let's get a sneak peek at the next hour of NEWSROOM. T.J. Holmes in for Rick Sanchez this week. What's up, T.J.?", "Hey there, Kyra. We've got an interesting one this week having to do with a woman who is having a tough time right now on her job. She works at an elementary school, she works in the cafeteria, she works out on the playground part-time. Everybody has given her rave reviews, says she's doing a great job. There is just one problem, she used to be in the adult film industry, Kyra. And that is now sparking some debate. People want her fired. But you know what? There is no legal grounds to fire her, she hasn't done anything wrong. And by all accounts, she has done a good job. We're going to delve into that, talk to someone who is -- who actually worked in that adult film industry and talk about just how tough it is out there when you have it on your resume that you used to work on the adult film industry. Also, Kyra, of course, we saw the markets spike after we heard that Timothy Geithner would be the new Treasury secretary that Obama picked. So it seems like investors, Wall Street and others, like him. Well, not everybody is sold on the new Treasury secretary to be. Of course he has to be approved, but the one that Obama has picked, Timothy Geithner, not everybody is so excited about him. We will talk to somebody who is saying maybe he is not the right guy for the job. That, and a few other hot topics. Come on back. Kyra, we will see you at top of the hour.", "Sounds good. Thanks, T.J. The musical stylings of Mr. Barry Manilow. Beloved by millions, but not so easy listening for one special group.", "Well there is probably no other animal in the world as feared as the great white shark. So you might wonder why people are willing to pay big money to get inside a cage and swim with them. It's for the thrill of course, the rush of adrenaline from seeing a one ton animal hurling towards you. For all the excitement, cage diving with great whites is becoming highly controversial. Some people say it might be making the sharks more dangerous, actually conditioning them to eat humans. As part of our Planet in Peril series, Anderson Cooper went to South Africa to investigate. Here's a look at part of what he found.", "When Great White sharks start to circle your boat, the feeling is unsettling. 15 feet long, thousands of pounds. These are the animals of so many nightmares.", "This is the famous shark, Ellie.", "We've come to dive with these Great Whites to get a up close look at them and the battle that's being waged around them.", "Please do not go down unless we tell you to.", "Mike Rutsgen (ph) takes tourists cage diving with Great White sharks off of the coast of South Africa.", "And then you can lean back and just hold on and be comfortable.", "It's become a big business. But it's also, he says, a conservation effort. He thinks if people can see these endangered animals underwater, they're learn to appreciate them and want to help protect them. Cage diving however is highly controversial. We'll tell you why in a second, but right now the water is filled with blood and fish parts called chum, and the Great Whites have arrived. (on camera): Are there any recommendations for what to do?", "Well, basically, don't scare the sharks. You're going to be in the water.", "I'm not worried about scaring the sharks. It's usually the other way around, I think. (voice-over): After we get used to being in the water with the sharks inside the cage, we have the chance to do something that few others have. We'll go swimming with Great White sharks without a cage.", "Well, you can watch Anderson's full report on the worldwide investigation, Planet in Peril, Battlelines, coming December 11th. Be sure to also go to CNN.com/planetinperil for a behind the scenes look at the making of Planet in Peril and dispatches from the field. Well, a warning. Some of you may find the following clips disturbing.", "Don't be too sure, that Barney. The purple guy is being used as punishment by a crafty Colorado judge.", "Well, it's a constant test for the court system making the punishment fit the crime. A Colorado judge wrestled with that when facing noise violators who'd unleashed their blaring music on an innocent public. His solution? Barry Manilow. Details from Chris Vanderveen of our Denver affiliate, KUSA.", "This is a way I, think now that I look back of teaching manners to people. .", "Why the teenagers members of Revolving Reverends got into trouble recently is pretty obviously.", "What happened is that --", "Well, it was my dad's birthday and he asked us to play there.", "We didn't keep track of time and kept playing music.", "And the cop's station is like two blocks away.", "So, yes. That's that.", "All right.", "Judge Sacco says he had no other choice.", "These people should have to listen to some music they don't like.", "From Barney to Barry.", "Particularly Barry Manilow. I think that's hard on the kids.", "I actually like the Barry Manilow stuff.", "Should you violate the noise ordinance in Ft. Lufton, you will get one hour of one really, really long hour of this --", "Those who run the town say it's really cut down on the number of repeat offenders.", "I want to choose my own music in my own house and not listen to my neighbor's music in my house.", "As for the members of Revolving Reverends --", "OK. That ends our class.", "Who knows if they will be back.", "Yes. All of us are going to still rock.", "We heard a little more from the Judge Sacco, on CNN's \"AMERICAN MORNING.\" Take a listen.", "Initially this started as I said, like any other traffic ticket. And I would look at the kids in the eye and I'd say, that will be an $80 fine plus $40 in costs. And it just didn't seem right, because No. 1, their parents were paying the fines. And No. 2, it just didn't mean much to the kids even if they paid their own fines. Whereas, inevitably what happened with this program I think, is that kids learned maybe a little bit about manners.", "So far no comment from Barry Manilow. 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{"id": "CNN-72128", "program": "CNN WOLF BLITZER REPORTS", "date": "2003-6-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/11/wbr.00.html", "summary": "Devastating Jerusalem Bus Bombing Shatters Hopes for Peace", "utt": ["Shattered hopes for peace, a devastating bus bombing in Jerusalem.", "And more missile strikes in Gaza. Is it time to fold up the road map.", "This is a time for us to remain steadfast.", "Where are Iraq's weapons? Lawmakers take their concerns behind closed doors. But the chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix goes public, blasting the Bush administration. Monkeypox, an exotic disease, an alarming outbreaks. Are you at risk? I'll ask an expert. And the young girl who revealed her soul while hiding from the Nazis. Now a stunning exhibit shows there is much more to Anne Frank's story.", "CNN live this hour, WOLF BLITZER REPORTS live from the nation's capital, with correspondents from around the world. WOLF BLITZER REPORTS starts now.", "It's Wednesday, June 11, 2003. Hello from Washington. I am Wolf Blitzer reporting. A devastating and deadly setback today for the road map, President Bush's backing for peace in the Middle East. In the latest of a series of an eye for an eye attack a Palestinian suicide bombing killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens other in one of Jerusalem's most heavily policed areas. Only less than an hour later an Israeli air strike targeted Hamas militants, killed seven people and wounded 30 in Gaza. The attacks triggered chaos. Ambulances rushed the wounded to hospitals, in both Jerusalem and Gaza. We have two live reports. Our Jerusalem bureau chief Mike Hanna standing by with the latest on the attacks and our White House correspondent Chris Burns has reaction from President Bush. First, a day of death in the streets.", "A witness across the streets said he saw a plume of smoke, people flying through the air and then silence. Then screaming. The suicide bombing aboard a Jerusalem bus detonated by what they say was a Palestinian dressed as an Orthodox Jew. In addition to the dead, Israeli hospital officials say dozens were injured. Within minutes, Israeli helicopter gunships attacked three targets in Gaza and operation Israeli military sources insist was planned before the Jerusalem bombing. Four missiles were fired into one car. Two members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas were killed. Palestinian hospital sources say civilians were also among the dead, dozens wounded. The military wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for the Jerusalem bombing.", "I think if the Israeli continue killing Palestinian civilians, the Palestinians have no other choice except to continue their resistance.", "Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack and called for an end to all violence. Israel was also quick to condemn the bombing.", "What we are talking about is deliberated, premeditated campaign at murdering innocent Israelis.", "These latest attacks come just a week after President Bush's trip to the region for a peace summit with the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Palestine Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. Do their meetings have any meaning now? Joining us, Mike Hanna. Let's ask Mike Hanna directly what's happening right now in Gaza -- Mike. If you can hear me, tell us what's happening right now in Gaza. We're clearly having some audio problems with Mike Hanna. We're going to go back to Jerusalem in a minute. But Chris Burns our White House correspondent hopefully is standing by at the White House to tell bus the president's reaction to these disturbing developments today -- Chris.", "Well, hi, Wolf. This was a day after the Israeli targeted attack on Palestinian militants, during -- after which the president here said that he was troubled about that attack. Today the president stepping back and giving diplomacy a chance.", "A day after diplomatically riding herd on Israel, President Bush faces yet more Mideast turmoil. He lashes out at Palestinian militants he says are intent on scuttling the road map to peace.", "It is clear there are people in the Middle East who hate peace.", "The president appears to hold out hope the new Palestinian Prime minister Mahmoud Abbas can forge a truce among the militants. Though there is growing frustration in the Bush administration with Abbas' current inability to do so. This as Ariel Sharon seeks to neutralize the militants by force.", "It is not dead yet, but it is in a coma, and it's essentially on life support until and unless the president can find a way to get Prime Minister Abbas to act to stop the terrorism and in the process to get Prime Minister Sharon to hold back.", "Instead of direct public pressure on either side, the president calls on the world the Arab world, the help shut down the militant sources of support.", "I strongly urge all of you to fight off terror, to cut off money to organizations such as Hamas, to isolate those who hate so much that they are willing to kill to stop peace from going forward.", "But for a second day, the president avoids reporters' questions.", "Would Israel be justified going after Hamas sir.", "Little more overt action beyond reports of feverish phone contacts with the Middle East and plans for the U.S. promised troubleshooting team to arrive the region in the coming days.", "Although the president has committed himself to going to distance in the coming days, it appears that he's trying to give the behind the scenes diplomacy a chance and hoping for a period of calm -- Wolf.", "Chris Burns at the White House, thanks very much. Let's go back to Jerusalem right now. Our Jerusalem chief Mike Hanna is standing by. He's following up-to-the-minute developments. I understand there are developments unfolding right now Mike, in Gaza.", "Yes, indeed, Wolf. Reports we are receiving from Gaza say there's much air activity. Israeli helicopters are flying overhead Gaza City. We are told they are dropping flairs. There has not been an attack as yet but residents fearing an imminent Israeli attack, bearing in mind there has been Israeli air attacks in Gaza in the course of the afternoon. So, that's developing at the moment.", "Have the Israelis taken any additional steps to close off the borders, to increase security in the aftermath of this bus bombing not far from where you are right now?", "Well, there has been intense security put in place in the wake of that failed assassination attempt in Gaza Tuesday, after which Hamas militants in particular had threatened to carry out attacks against Israeli civilians. Now there has always been a high state of alert in place. However, this was tightened even further in the wake of that failed attempt in Gaza. Nonetheless, the suicide bomber managed to slip through the cordon. The area that bombing took place is probably one of the most tightly guarded place in Israel. It's two square miles in which there had been a number of suicide attacks in the past. Certainly it is one area that the police have tried to keep as tightly closed as possible. But the bomber managed to get through. Perhaps because his disguise. We are told by police he was disguised as a religious Jew, of which there are many in that particular neighborhood. And perhaps that's how he managed to sneak through the police patrols and border patrol into the very middle of downtown Jerusalem and detonate that bomb -- Wolf.", "What an awful situation. CNN's Jerusalem Bureau chief, Mike Hanna, thanks for much for that report. The chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee is proposing a bold and potentially high-risk plan to bring peace to the Middle East. Earlier today I spoke with Republican Senator John Warner about his suggestion of sending a NATO force, possibly including U.S. troops, to the West Bank and Gaza.", "We should have both the governments of Israel and Palestine invite NATO to come in temporarily, and provide such security and visibility to the infrastructure of those who send these hopeless bombers into this thing that we mean business.", "Do you really want U.S. Soldiers and marines to be sent into the West Bank and Gaza where they clearly could be the target of suicide bombers themselves?", "It would not be a risk-free mission, but, mind you, the NATO forces would be composed of a number of countries, probably some of our Americans would be a part, a relatively small part of the total equation.", "And here's your turn to weigh in on this important story. Our web question of the day is this, \"Should U.S. troops be sent to the West Bank and Gaza to keep the peace?\" We'll have the results later in this broadcast. You can vote right now. Go to cnn.com/wolf. While your there, I'd love to hear from you. Send me your comments. I'll try to read some of them on the air each day at the end of the program. That's also, of course, where you can read my daily online column, cnn.com/wolf. U.S. troops in Iraq have not turned up weapons of mass destruction, which the Bush administration cited as a key reason for going to war. U.S. lawmakers are now battling over the intelligence on Iraq's weapons and the way it was used. Let's go live to our national security correspondent, David Ensor -- David.", "Well, Wolf, under pressure from all the talk of cooked intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, terror ties, Republican leaders called a news conference to say they are looking into the matter. They will hold closed hearings next week. But they reject Democratic party calls for a full, formal investigation.", "In my view, some of the attacks have been simply politics, and for political gain.", "The evidence that I have examined does not rise to give the presumption that anyone in this administration has hyped or crooked or embellished such evidence to a particular purpose.", "Leading Democrats, angered at not being invited to the news conference, said a review is not good enough.", "I'm not satisfied with the way we're proceeding. In fact, we're not proceeding.", "Rockefeller said Congress should formally investigate whether intelligence was manipulated to make the case for war.", "We need to have public hearings, and we need to be able to call witnesses. Witnesses who don't agree who work with what the intelligence agencies don't agree. Witnesses who have said, well, we were pressured, and they have said it.", "For their part, bush administration officials say they are focused on finding Iraq's hidden weapons.", "More experts are going in, and I think one should be careful about making judgments as to whether it was hyped or not hyped until the exploitation is finish.", "Republicans Warner and Roberts are in no hurry to hold open hearing, but warner says they probably will do so eventually. But Democrats questioning the president's primary case for war the stakes could be high indeed as we head into next year's presidential election -- Wolf.", "David Ensor, our national security correspondent. Thanks, David, very much. The U.N.'s chief weapons inspector is no longer necessarily on the weapons hunt. Dr. Hans Blix is retiring this month and the Swedish diplomat is not very diplomatic when it comes to his view of some U.S. Officials. Here's CNN senior United Nations correspondent, Richard Roth.", "And then we have the presidential sites.", "Satellite photographs on his office wall are the only way Hans Blix can see Iraq these days. The chief weapons inspector and his international searchers are shut out of Iraq by the U.S. But in his final days on the job Blix is speaking out more, angry over how he feels he was treated by some in the U.S. government. In an interview in \"The Guardian\" newspaper, Blix said, \"I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media, not that I cared very much.\"", "I said it vexes me and I have what I regard as totally unjustified accusations, but I don't lose sleep over it.", "You used the word beginning with \"b.\"", "Yes. Well, I wasn't sure that would be printed. I don't think that will be printed in America.", "Do you think they were, to use the word printed bastards.", "Well, I certainly had a low opinion about these detractors, but it's really, not worth much time.", "Blix, in print said some elements in the Pentagon were behind a smear campaign against him.", "Clearly, when a former Swedish deputy prime minister writes, in the \"Washington Times\" or the \"Wall Street Journal,\" and I haven't met the guy since the '70s and evidently some of the information must have compromised the sources in the U.S. There was something wrong.", "There's no smear campaign I'm aware of. I have high regard for Dr. Blix. I worked very closely with Dr. Blix over the last eight or nine months. I know the president had confidence in him as well, and what we're doing now is looking forwards, not looking backwards.", "Secretary Powell's briefing to the Security Council has yet to bear fruit on the ground. Blix said he received little intelligence during his time in Iraq that in his time in Iraq, his team could ever confirm. And the former Swedish foreign minister had this warning for the future.", "I think one has to be cautious in making use of the armed force on flimsy or shaky grounds.", "Hans Blix may have even more to say. He's expected to write a book. Secretary General Annan defended him saying, we haven't heard the last of him. Richard Roth, CNN, United Nations.", "They are driving some seniors into poverty. Prescription drug costs that is. Is there any pain relief in sight for you? Find out what a new Medicare plan could mean for your pocketbook. Serial rapists in Miami targeting children. Do you know this man? Police are asking the police for help. And Miss Universe 2003, she's only 18 years old, but on top of the world. Amelia Vega, will join me live. First, today's news quiz. Which country has won the most Miss Universe titles? The United States, Brazil, Thailand, Venezuela. The answer coming up.", "A potentially deadly virus in the United States now pops up further east. Could the smallpox vaccine stop its spread? The nation's top man on infectious diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci. He's ready to share what he knows. What's at risk, what needs to be done? That's coming up on WOLF BLITZER REPORTS.", "Welcome back. Now to a story that literally affects 10s of millions of retired of Americans, and", "For the first time since its inception 40 years ago Medicare may be poised to cover the cost of prescription drugs.", "Costs of medicines to seniors is a huge domestic issue that President Bush wants to act on before next year's elections. The president is taking his Medicare reform campaign on the road, starting in Chicago.", "America's seniors deserve a modern system of health care.", "Instead of a bureaucracy that covers the latest medical treatments slowly and sporadically.", "With 40 million recipients and ringing up at roughly $27 billion a year, Medicare covers hospitalization and doctors' visits. That's bound to explode when today's baby boomers start reaching age 65 between the years 2008 and 2030. For many seniors, the missing link in Medicare is prescription drug coverage. Congress is now talking about spending another $50 billion a year to include it. Nothing is final yet, but House and Senate leaders are crafting somewhat different plans to help seniors pay their drug bills. Both bills envision a $35 a month premium. Under the Senate bill a Medicare recipient would pay a $275 deductible. After that, they would be responsible for half the bill, up to $3450. But above that, there is a gap, up to $5,300, where seniors will have to foot the whole bill. Above $5,300, the Senate would have seniors paying only 10 percent of the cost. The House leadership plan follows a similar track, but with different payment brackets. The deductible is $250. Between $250 and $2,250, seniors would pay 20 percent for their medicines. There's a gap in this plan, too, from 2,250 to $3,700, seniors pick up the entire check. But after that, Uncle Sam would cover the entire cost, unless the senior makes more than $60,000. It's not clear yet how much wealthier recipients would have to pay. Seniors advocates and many Democrats are not sold.", "We are concerned about many things. One is the gap, a huge gap in coverage during which seniors have to pay 100 percent of drug costs. And this really concerns seniors.", "Bipartisan consent, this is closest in the Senate where a liberal Massachusetts Democrat, Ted Kennedy, says he's encouraged by the proposal and top Democrat Tom Daschle has already predicted it will pass. The president wants to see the bill on his desk by the 4th of July.", "Louise Schiavone, thanks very much. We'll see if that happens. Let's turn to the first outbreak of monkeypox in the western hemisphere and the government's aggressive move to try to stop it from spreading in this country. The disease produces puss-filled blisters, fever rash and aches. Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that smallpox shots for those exposed to the African disease that's jumped from prairie dogs to humans, potentially be used. U.S. officials are investigating 50 cases of monkeypox in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and New Jersey. The government also banned the sale of prairie dogs and the importation of African rodents. Here to talk to me about this disease, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infections Disease. Dr. Fauci, thanks very much. This sounds like a very serious problem. How serious is it?", "It's not serious in the sense of spreading from person to person because it does not do that essentially. But it's serious that this disease can be quite serious. It's a close relative of smallpox. It doesn't have as high as a mortality. The mortality ranges between 1 and 10 percent as opposed to 30 percent to smallpox. But the difficulty is, animals that get infected if they have the pusstules and the illness, they can spread it easily to humans. So that's how all of this start. And the rat that was infected probably spread it to a large number of prairie dogs that were sold as exotic pets, and the individuals who had direct contact with those rodents have gotten infected. It's something we have to take very seriously.", "Most of us have heard of smallpox and chickenpox. Monkeypox, I thought that someone was pulling a joke on us.", "It's not a joke. It was first recognized in monkeys in the early '50s, 1958 the first case in humans was in 1970. It's a very close relative. It's what we call an orthropox virus. And many of the signs and symptoms the rash and headache and back ache and cough and et cetera are very closely related to smallpox.", "What your doing to make sure this doesn't spread and can be reversed, in fact.", "The CDC has as what they do very well, they have jumped on top of this quickly. And what they are doing right now, and Secretary Thompson himself just announced the ban on the importation and the CDC can enforce that ban, of rodents from Africa. And the ban on the selling distribution and moving around of prairie dogs and other rodents within the United States. So, once you put the lid on animals that are either infected or could be infected, that's the best way to put the end to this epidemic.", "And the smallpox vaccine will work to deal with this?", "Clearly, historically, people who are vaccinated for smallpox in Africa, were people who were relatively protected from monkeypox. The reason why monkeypox has not been up to this time, a serious problem in spreading from person to person and also from animals to humans. But, now we have less immunity to smallpox in the world. Something like monkeypox, which had been contain previously because of the general smallpox vaccination is something you have to pay attention to.", "Dr. Anthony Fauci, arguably one of the busiest men in Washington. You have got a lot issues on your agenda. Thanks so much taking a few moments explaining this important issue to us. Thank you very much. As we reported, monkeypox in the United States has been traced to an exotic rat from Africa. Now the government is taking efforts to stop more sick rodents from infecting the country. Today the Department of Health and Human Services, banned importing all rodents from Africa, and within the United States, restrictions are in place on prairie dogs and six species of rodents. A vicious sexual predator is on the loose right now in Miami. Police are in hot pursuit of what they describe as a serial rapist that is targeting children. We're there live. We'll go there in a few minutes. And cell phones triggering explosives. The FBI is issuing a new warning on possible terror tactics. Sammy Sosa gets a break. His penalty cut after getting caught red-handed with cork in his bat. Find out the final verdict. Stay with us.", "Hello, Wolf. Police started making the connection after three little girls were attacked been the last few weeks. Then they found a probable link to the rape of a 79-year-old woman who was assaulted last month. Then police made three definite DNA matches to two more women who were attacked between last September and December. Miami police then started putting out composite sketches made from descriptions from the last three victims, three little girls, ages 11, 12 and 13, all of them attacked after school. In the last case the attacker was waiting for her inside her home. All of the victims, including women from the very same neighborhood. Police have formed a task force and are trying to avoid a panic.", "This serial rapist is not only targeting our children, but also our women of all ages. The sixth case is a 79-year-old female. We have extended a warning to all parents to be watchful over their kids. However, we are now expanding that to the general public.", "Parents in particular are concerned, more than usual, taking their children to school this day, the last day before school is out for the summer. In fact, now as you heard police say, they want everyone, all women to be on guard, and they are looking for more possible matches among unsolved cases. So, Wolf, there could be even more cases linked to this serial rapist.", "Susan Candiotti, thanks very much for that alarming report. We'll stay on top of it. Appreciate it. The war may have been easy, but what about the peace? We'll go live to Baghdad and talk to a Congressman who has been there. Plus, cell phone terror attack. The FBI issues a warning on explosives. And Miss Universe 2003, Amelia Vega will be my special guest. She's got a special mission she wants to tell you all about. Stay with us.", "There are other important developments unfolding right now. Indeed, it seems every day there are attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq with steadily mounting casualties. Iraq's infrastructure and economy don't seem to be improving all that dramatically, at least on the surface.Are things really so bad? Are there success stories in Iraq? In just a moment we'll hear from a top U.S. lawmaker who says there is indeed good news coming from Iraq. But let's go first to CNN's Matthew Chance. He's in Baghdad -- to see where things stand right now. Matthew, update us.", "Thank you, Wolf. And it has been just over two months since U.S. forces entered the Iraqi capital. Without question the tyranny of Saddam Hussein's regime has been lifted from the people here. They now have the freedom to express their own opinions, even air their grievances in a way that none of them could really imagine ever doing under Saddam. Having said that though, no one really likes the idea of being under occupation. As we've been witnessing, particularly over the past couple of weeks, that there have been attacks on U.S. patrols across the country. Soldiers have been killed and injured in what U.S. military says appear to be attacks that have been organized, at least, and coordinated at least on a local level. Saddam loyalists, of course, have been held responsible for carrying out those attacks. But I think it's important to remember, as well, the other factors that contribute, if not for the attacks themselves, then at least to kind of the atmosphere of resentment that exists amongst the -- in the community at large here. People are very concerned about a number of issues, about the political future, about what role their religion or political faction might play in the future Iraq, but also more simple issues as well, like electricity and clean drinking water. Iraq's infrastructure was very badly damaged during the conflict, damaged as well by the chaotic aftermath And although things are getting done now to try to get the essential services restored to many areas, many ordinary Iraqis believe enough was not done soon enough, Wolf.", "Matthew chance with an update for us from Baghdad. Matthew, thank you very much. And joining me from Capitol Hill is the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Congressman Duncan Hunter. He recently returned from a trip to Iraq, suggesting that the country is getting off to a good start. Congressman, thanks very much for joining us. Are we getting the accurate picture from the news media, from our reporting, other news organizations? What did you see there?", "Well, Wolf, of course it depends on where you're at. If you're in Baghdad you're going to get a different story than if you are in Karbala, where they had a good story today from \"The Washington Post,\" no less, about how American forces are welcomed and when we went to Kirkuk, which is north of Baghdad near the Iranian border, we actually had people come out of their houses and cheer when the American troops came by. What we've got to do is get the wheels turning. We have to turn on the electricity, turn on the water. And in the old days, Saddam Hussein would pull electricity out of the other communities and bring it into Baghdad. Now that those communities no longer have a Saddam Hussein to fear, they're less -- they're inclined to want to send their electricity to the big city. So we've got about 3,000 megawatts turned on right now. We've got to get to about 4,400 megawatts. We are right now repairing the major lines and we're going to be up to 44,00 megawatts in a month or two. With respect to water, we've got about 50 percent of the drinking water turned on that we need to have. We need good, potable water to avoid a cholera epidemic this summer. So there's lots of things we need to do. But let me tell you, Wolf, the G.I.s are doing this. These great division commanders and battalion commanders are treating water, they're putting together police operations where people go out, the police go out. They actually patrol. They don't take pay-offs. We're training them. We've got about 500 on the streets now in Baghdad. So we;'re starting the wheels to turn. And, you know, people are complaining. But, Wolf, if there was not a single American soldier in that country, these people who haven't been allowed to complain for 30 years and speak their mind, would be out speaking their mind to somebody.", "That's a fair point. Matthew Chance just made it. They're allowed to complain, which is something they never could do under Saddam Hussein. But a lot of Americans, as you well know, are getting very concerned. It seems to be that the U.S. soldiers and Marines and soldiers on an average of one a day are dying. And the resistance, if you could call it that, the Iraqis are going after them, seem to be getting better organized. How concerned should the American public be that these U.S. troops are being targeted?", "Well, of course, Wolf, we've got 160,000 G.I.s in that country. Believe me, their commanders have got them on high alert. They're looking for people who are coming to attack them, and these people in ones and twos and threes coming by to throw an RPG here or let off an AK burst there have been coming after the G.I.s But I just want to remind you that, you know, we lost 20 people killed in this city I'm in right now, Washington, D.C. in the last 30 days. Nobody suggested that we abandon Washington, D.C. So we're not going to be able to absolutely close down the guy with an AK or the two or three people with a rocket-propelled grenade. You're always going to have those elements. You've got those Ba'ath Party members who are still coming back and hitting American forces. We've had eight people killed in 14 days. It's still dangerous. It's a little bit like the days in El Salvador when we put that fragile democracy in place, which now is staying and enduring without American troops.", "Clearly.", "You have to have that umbrella, that protective umbrella to put the government in place and get the wheels turning.", "Clearly you seem some light at the end of the tunnel. We only have a few seconds, Congressman, but I want you to react to what your counterpart in the Senate, Senator John Warner, told me earlier today -- that he's open to sending NATO troops, including U.S. troops into the West Bank and Gaza potentially to try to bring some sort of semblance of peace. Is that a good idea for American forces?", "You know, I think what we've got to do, in that part of the world, Wolf, is we've got one president. I think American foreign policy has to go with one voice. I'm not on the ground out there, and I think we've got to follow the president's lead very, very strongly. We're all secretaries of state. Let's let President Bush lead us on that one. That's the toughest one out there.", "Congressman Duncan Hunter, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, thanks for spending a few minutes with us.", "Good to be with you.", "Thank you. Let's take a quick look at some other headlines making news this hour.", "Little known writings from the best known victim of the Holocaust. Images and words from Anne Frank that you haven't -- any of us have seen before. That's just ahead. Plus, beauty, brains, and a conscience. Miss Universe, Amelia Vega, is joining us live. She'll talk about her new cause. First, a look at some other news making headlines \"Around the World.\"", "Iranians demand changes. Thousands of Iranians, including hundreds of university students, took to the streets of the capital, Tehran, in the biggest anti-government protest in months. Police swinging batons broke up the demonstration. A student news agency reported dozens of people were arrested. Violence in France. Strikes continue but are less violent in Paris today, one day after thousands of protesters clashed with riot police. For weeks now, massive demonstrations by striking workers irate over government pension reform plans, have disrupted air, train and bus travel throughout the country. Shocking abuse case. A secret home video captures a nanny in Mexico hitting a one-and-a-half-year-old on the back and slapping him in the face. The nanny is charged with assault and battery and faces up to four years in prison if convicted. Peru hostages released. Leftist rebels released the 71 workers seized from a pipeline construction camp high in the Andes Mountains. Soldiers are searching for the guerrillas in the jungle, 250 miles southeast of the capital, Lima. Peru's president blames the kidnapping on what he said were remnants of the Shiny Path guerrilla movement. British Sex Crisis. Lawmakers warn of a sexual health crisis with cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and other infections soaring. A parliamentary committee also reports there are more HIV cases than ever before in the country, and teenage pregnancy rates are the highest in Europe. Cuban pop star defects. Carlos Manuel of the band Carlos Manuel and his Clan has been granted asylum in the United States after walking across the border from Mexico to Brownsville, Texas. Manuel says he defected to find personal and artistic freedom. And that's our look around the world.", "Welcome back. The incredible story of Anne Frank's remarkable effort to survive the nightmare years of Nazi Germany is well known and has inspired people the world over. Now there's a new exhibit, a firsthand documents of her life up until her death in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945.", "How did you react to adversity when you were a teenager? When she was just 13, Anne Frank's world became a nightmare. That's when she began turning out some of the most inspiring writing the world has ever seen.", "A child that has to hide because she had a religion that some government regard as they called the Jews, underhuman, is a terrible thing and Anne wrote about it.", "For decades, millions of us believed that Anne Frank wrote one diary. Then last fall, officials from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington were given access to a vault in Amsterdam. What they saw was dizzying. Three notebooks, hundreds of loose leaf pages from other diaries, a photo album, closely held for years by the family and the Dutch government. Reflections of a missed adolescence.", "Cycling, dancing, whistling, looking out at the world, feeling young, to know that I am free. That's what I long for.", "Some of this material is now on display for the first time.", "I hope people look at Anne the way I think Anne wanted people to see her. And that is as a writer.", "But still a child, hiding with her family in an attic in Amsterdam, the Nazis closing in.", "All of a sudden, this talent exploded. But in hiding two years, hiding in a back room without school, without girlfriends, without somebody to talk to. She made her diary her friend.", "Buddy Elias, Anne Frank's first cousin, her closest living relative, the guardian of her legacy.", "She was a real little wild girl and I was a little wild boy and we fit very well together.", "The last time he saw her she was 9. He was 13. Both of their families escaped Germany. His family went to Switzerland. In Amsterdam, Anne Frank developed a stark awareness of how bleak her world had become.", "I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness. I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and, yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right -- that this cruelty, too, will end.", "It didn't end in time for Anne Frank. That passage, written just before her family was betrayed, arrested in August 1944. Family records say they were sent to Auschwitz, where her mother died. Fifteen-year-old Anne and her sister, Margo, separated from their father, sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. March, 1945, Anne and Margo died of typhoid, weeks before the British liberated the camp. Only her father, Otto, survived. As he got the news of his daughters' deaths, he saw for the first time what his youngest had left behind.", "Her father said, I didn't know my child until I read her diary. And that's the same feeling I had. I didn't know Anne that way.", "A lost child's gift to her father, and to us.", "The exhibit is entitled \"Anne Frank, the Writer: An Unfinished Story.\" it opens for the public tomorrow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum here in Washington. The first lady, Laura Bush, is touring the exhibit tonight. Tomorrow would have been Anne Frank's 74th birthday. A young woman with an important cause, only 18 years old and now on top of the world. Miss Universe, Amelia Vega, joins me live to talk about that cause and more when we return.", "Earlier we asked: \"Which country has won the most miss universe titles?\" The answer: the United States. It's taken seven titles since 1952. Puerto Rico and Venezuela have each won four.", "And the new Miss Universe plans to use her celebrity status to help the worldwide battle against AIDS. Amelia Vega is of the Dominican Republic. She captured the crown just a week ago. She's joining us now live from New York. Amelia, congratulations to you. Good to have you on our program.", "Thank you, Wolf.", "Tell us a little bit about this -- tell us about mission that you now have to deal with", "OK. I'm going now, like, to 20 countries around the world, like, May conference and talking about HIV and AIDS awareness now, and with being part of the Global Health Council.", "This is a serious problem, not only around the world, but in the Dominican Republic as well. Is that right?", "Yes. But there is news -- good news. And I remember when I went to Panama, I read something in newspapers. They thought that this year it gets down, the percent, like 4 -- 4 percent low than other years.", "You're only 18-years-old. You're so beautiful.", "Yes.", "You're poised. Why have you decided to take on this mission? You didn't really have to do it.", "Why?", "You didn't have to. You're 18. You're beautiful. You're poised. But you're take on this important mission to deal with the problem of AIDS. Why?", "No, you know, I think that when you get through the pageants like me -- well, in my case, I really love my world -- my work. It's not just something like beauty or take care of how you look. You have a mission. You have something to do. They're people that needs people that care about the things that they're happened to them. So now they're kids they have AIDS, woman that have AIDS and that need people that tell them how to take care of AIDS too. So this is part of my work that I really like, and I'm so glad to Miss Universe organization give me the honor to be part of them to work with HIV and", "Amelia -- what -- very briefly, what's it like to be Miss Universe?", "What it's like? Well, I'm so glad now because I'm the first Dominican that have got the title. And, you know, the support of my people have -- are giving me, it's so much. So I feel the -- it's not like a compromiso to be and represent well my country with honor.", "Well, you're doing a beautiful job.", "Thank you.", "Only one week with the title. Congratulations. Please come visit us often and good luck.", "Of course. Thank you, Wolf. It was a pleasure.", "Thank you. Amelia Vega, a beautiful Miss Universe indeed. And our hot \"Web Question of the Day\" is this: \"Should U.S. troops be sent to the West Bank and Gaza to keep the peace?\" You can still vote. We'll have the results immediately when we come back.", "Here's how you're weighing in on our \"Web Question of the Day.\" The question: \"Should U.S. troops be sent to the West Bank and Gaza to keep the peace?\" Look at this: 19 percent of you say yes, but 81 percent, not surprisingly, say no. Remember, this is not a scientific poll. Standing by with his scientific polls, Lou Dobbs. He's in New York. He's picking up our coverage -- Lou.", "Wolf, thank you very much. Indeed, they are scientific. 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{"id": "CNN-405137", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2020-07-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/10/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Trump Refuses to Wear Mask Publicly in Virus Hot Spot; Georgia Adds a Record 4,484 COVID-19 Cases in One Day; Trump Claims Fauci \"Made A Lot of Mistakes\"; Trump Visits Virus Epicenter but Not to Address Pandemic; Florida's Average Daily New Cases Up 1,237 Percent Since Reopening; Trump and Fauci Not Speaking As Pandemic Worsens; California Suing Trump Admin In Fight Over Intl Students; Disney World Reopening As Cases Surge In Florida.", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer in THE SITUATION ROOM. We're following breaking news. Almost 134,000 Americans now dead in the coronavirus pandemic. As the country sets another single-day record of 63,000 new cases and the death toll climbs in 10 states. Right now, President Trump is in Florida. That's an epicenter of the pandemic. But rather than address the crisis, the president is just minutes away from attending a closed-door campaign fundraiser as the state sees a record number of cases. A record number of hospitalizations and deaths as well. And as you can see here, despite the gravity of the crisis in Florida, the president still is refusing to follow the advice of his own health experts and simply wear a mask in public. Let's get more on the pandemic right now. CNN's Erica Hill is joining us from New York. Erica, some truly troubling new numbers right now coming out of Georgia.", "Yes. There are. And, of course, Georgia one of the first states to reopen, Wolf. The state adding nearly 4,500 new cases. And that is a pretty significant jump from the last high that we saw only a couple of weeks ago. And as we look around the country, this is a trend we're seeing more and more of.", "Long lines for testing in Florida. As the numbers there continue to move in the wrong direction.", "The situation is really concerned here in South Florida.", "Florida is now averaging more than 9,000 new cases a day. A staggering jump of more than 1,200 percent since the state began reopening two months ago. The President in hard hit Miami-Dade County today though not because the positivity rate there is nearly 30 percent.", "There seems to be this lack of understanding or awareness that we are in one of the most extraordinary public health crises that our nation has ever faced.", "U.S. is shattering new case records almost daily. West Virginia now has the highest transmission rate in the country.", "The only bullet in the gun right now is this right here. This little mask.", "10 states seeing an increase in COVID related deaths over the past week, half of those posting their highest average for new cases since the pandemic began.", "I think the numbers are going to look worse as we go into next week and we need to make sure that there's going to be plenty of hospital beds available in the Houston area.", "It's not just hospital capacity and ICU beds, personal protective equipment is once again in short supply in some areas.", "We've had plenty of time to plan and take action and it has yet to happen.", "As some states paused or roll back their reopening plans, many jobs are also on hold. The $600 weekly unemployment boost will run out at the end of July. But the needs of struggling families will not. Back to school looming with some states just weeks away.", "I don't think there's anybody who can make an argument that this is especially risky for kids. We have to accept that and then figure out you know how you fashion policy around it.", "The viral loads in children are equivalent to that in adults. What does that mean? That means that they can transmit the virus equally well to other people whether or not they show symptoms.", "As districts work to find the right balance, the one constant in every decision, a virus that is here to stay.", "In our current situation, it is very unlikely that we can eradicate or eliminate this virus.", "And knowing that the virus will be something that we'll all have to learn to live with. The mayor of New Orleans today was talking about hurricane season, which, of course, we are in, Wolf. Noting that if a mandatory evacuation is ordered, she expects everybody to follow that directive. There will be buses to help. There will be assistance for those who need it. And she said at the shelters, masks will be provided. They will do as best they can when it comes to social distancing. One other interesting note. She said normally they'll make the call for an evacuation about 72 hours in advance. She said this time around, if it needs to be done earlier, they just might do that. Wolf?", "Just hope it doesn't happen. Let's pray it doesn't happen as well. Erica Hill, thank you very much. Let's go to the White House right now. White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins is joining us. Kaitlan, the president is in one of the states currently hardest hit by the pandemic. But, correct me if I'm wrong. So far at least he's had little to say about it.", "Yes, Wolf. This is a trip that could have happened at any other time in Donald Trump's presidency when a pandemic wasn't sweeping the nation. He barely talked about COVID-19 today in Florida and said that he thought about doing it as a phoner phoning into this briefing he was at on drug trafficking in South America but said he wanted to be there in person.", "Air Force One touched down today in one of the nation's worst coronavirus hot spots where a mask less President Trump was greeted by local officials wearing face coverings. The positivity rate in Miami-Dade County has hit a stunning 33 percent. But the president isn't here to talk about the pandemic. Instead, he's in Florida for a drug trafficking briefing and a campaign fundraiser. Though he briefly mentioned COVID-19.", "As you know, in the United States at least before the COVID came to us, the flu, the virus, the China virus, whatever you'd like to call it, it's got many different names.", "Trump left Washington amid lingering tensions with one of his top health experts, Dr. Fauci, who told the \"Financial Times,\" he is trying to figure out where Trump got his misleading claim that 99 percent of coronavirus cases are harmless.", "99 percent of which are totally harmless.", "Fauci told \"The Times\" what I think happened is that someone told him that general mortality is about 1 percent, and he interpreted that 99 percent is not a problem. When that's obviously not the case. After calling into Sean Hannity's Fox News show last night, Trump publicly criticized Fauci.", "Dr. Fauci is a nice man, but he's made a lot of mistakes. A lot of mistakes were made. A lot of mistakes.", "Though Trump has insisted things are fine between him and Fauci, the two are barely speaking anymore. Fauci told the \"Financial Times\" he hasn't seen Trump in person since June 2nd and hasn't briefed him in at least two months. Shortly after Trump left for Florida today, Fauci was seen arriving at the White House for a task force meeting. The tension between the two comes as Fauci is offering dire warnings about the state of the country while Trump is relaying a different message entirely.", "Everybody says we have so many cases. That's because we test so many people.", "But while Trump tries to reassure Americans about surging numbers, a new poll from ABC News shows that 67 percent of Americans disapprove of how he's handled the pandemic. Trump has been anxious to return to the campaign trail. But that effort hit another roadblock today when the president announced he's canceling a scheduled rally in New Hampshire tomorrow, but not because of the record number of new cases.", "We are fully prepared. FEMA's ready in case it's bad.", "Instead, Trump said he's postponing the third large gathering he's hosted in recent weeks because a tropical storm is approaching the east coast. Trump is still expected to travel to Walter Reed Military Hospital outside of Washington, Saturday, after a lot of pleading from aides who worry about him being the last leader to endorse face mask, he's agreed to wear one.", "I expect to be wearing a mask when I go into Walter Reed. You're in a hospital setting. I think it's a very appropriate thing. I have no problem with a mask.", "Walter Reed is where the president also receives his annual physical. In 2018, Trump took a cognitive test as part of his, which he still brags about to this day while criticizing former Vice President Joe Biden.", "The radical left was saying, is he all there, is he all there? I proved I was all there because I aced it. I aced the test. And he should take the same exact test. A very standard test, I took it at Walter Reed Medical Center in front of doctors, and they were very surprised.", "Now, Wolf, the president told Sean Hannity he took that test recently. We asked the White House when he took this test, which test it was that he took. But they have not gotten back to us with any answers yet. But the last test that we know he did take was as part of his 2018 physical. That was the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test. And if you look at this test, Wolf, it's not exactly difficult. It's a 30-point test that lasts about 10 minutes. And you could see there, it's things as simple as drawing a clock, labelling animals like a lion and a camel. It's to see if you have any cognitive dysfunction, which, of course, you know, that is what the president has bragged about so much as he has tried to put the focus on Joe Biden's health, even though there have been plenty of questions about his own. And we still don't know what was behind that mysterious visit that he made to Walter Reed last fall when they claimed that he was doing part of his physical.", "All right. Kaitlan, thank you very much. Kaitlan Collins during her reporting off from the White House. Thank you. Let's get some more on the worsening crisis in Florida right now. It is dramatically worsening. CNN's Randi Kaye is joining us from Palm Beach County. So, Randi, what are you seeing? What's the latest?", "Wolf, another terrible day in terms of case numbers here. More than 11,400 new cases in the last 24 hours here in the state of Florida. We've had several days now where we've had higher and higher amount of cases than New York at its worst. But take a look at this graph because we looked at the re-opening and we charted it for you. The number of average daily new cases since the state reopened back in early May is up now more than 1,200 percent. So, if you look at when we reopened on May 4th here in Florida, we were averaging about 680 new cases a day. We're now averaging more than 9,000 new cases a day. The governor was asked about whether or not maybe we reopened too early here in the state of Florida. Today in his press conference, he played that down basically saying that the positivity rate was hovering about 5 percent in May and even through the first couple of weeks in June. So he didn't see any reason not to go forward on the re-opening. He also tried to say that it wasn't just Florida -- it was really the whole sunbelt that was experiencing trouble. But let's remember, he did take that victory lap, Wolf, back in April at the White House when he criticized reporters for saying that New York - that Florida would be like New York or Italy. Well, look at where we are today. Meanwhile, about 50 hospitals already at capacity for the ICU beds running out. The governor also playing that down today saying that we are not at surge levels and that there is plenty of ICU bed capacity available. And also, Wolf, we know that Miami-Dade is still in trouble. 88 percent increase now in ICU beds and 123 percent increase in the ventilator usage. But Wolf, here we are in Florida. So, life goes on. We have Disney World reopening tomorrow. People will go, they'll have to wear masks. They will get their temperatures checked. They'll have to social distance while waiting in line. They won't be able to touch the characters up close and personal because of the pandemic. And also, the NBA is sort of hanging out in their own bubble on campus at the Disney resort. 22 teams, the season starts July 30th. They are getting regular tests. No fans of course at the games. But life goes on here in Florida.", "Yes. We'll see how that works out. Randi Kaye, thank you very much. Lots of questions about what's going on in Florida right now especially. Thank you. Let's get some more on all of this. Our chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is joining us. Sanjay, right now as we've been reporting, the president is in the country's epicenter for the virus, Florida. And yet is not addressing the crisis the state is facing, the nation is facing. Does that make any sense to you at all?", "This is the biggest public health crisis the world has faced for most of us in our lifetimes. So, no, it doesn't make any sense at all. This is issue number one and affects everything else I think that is happening in our lives. Also, Wolf, I mean you know we saw what happened in Oklahoma, right? You send a lot of people in, you know, and then people can become infected, as happened with the secret service agents in Oklahoma. The president does a trip like this. There's a lot of people that have to go ahead of time. They have to go to the hospitals to make sure hospitals are ready. They have to use personal protective equipment. They have to set aside resources. So, it's a significant demand in a state that already has significant demands because of COVID. You know from Randi's reporting you just heard, I can tell you there's a lot of ICU beds that are full. While they still have some depending on the county that you live in, there's a real concern at this point when you look at the trajectory that they are going into exponential growth. So that's when you have enough virus that it just starts to really build on itself. And you can start to turn into, you know, go from thousands of cases a day like we're seeing now to tens of thousands and so forth. So, they've got to get this under control, Wolf. I mean I know we've been saying that for weeks, for months now but they've got to get this under control because at some point you really are not going to have many options left.", "And the president is still refusing to even wear a mask which is so simply with that an example, he would encourage a lot of his supporters to go out and do the same. If he were to wear mask, but he's still refusing to simply wear a mask. As you know, Sanjay, Florida cases have gone up more than 1,200 percent since they opened up the state in May. Just how dire is the situation in Florida right now? And what does the state need to do to turn things around?", "When you're dealing with a public health crisis like this, Wolf, what ultimately happens, and I say this from a clinician level. I'm still working in the hospital. I see patients in the hospital. At some point, you start to look at the real demands that are happening at the hospital level. Can you take care of patients that need to be cared for? Someone calls an ambulance, right, from their home. My loved one, my spouse, whoever, is having difficulty breathing. The answer you never want to get back is, um, we don't know where to take your loved one. We're not sure there's a hospital bed available for that person. That obviously would be a very dire situation. It happened in Italy. We know that. That's what they're trying to avoid here. So, that's the worst-case scenario where you start to have these preventable you know hospitalizations that aren't happening. Deaths that are preventable that occur. That's the worst-case scenario. That's the dire situation. What needs to happen? Well, I mean, you know this is a more aggressive situation now. It may require more aggressive therapy, if you want to put it in medical terms. If people were wearing masks and keeping physical distance, we know this virus isn't that great at jumping person to person. It can be pretty easily contained by a mask. It can't jump really more than six feet. Typically, certainly not outdoors. So, the answers become clearer and clearer. But, Wolf, again at some point if the hospitals are getting to this real problem of surge capacity, it probably means that things are going to have to be shut down again. That's how you probably really start to try and stamp down transmission.", "And amidst all of this, Sanjay, we're learning the president is no longer even speaking to the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Fauci. How dangerous is that from a public health perspective? You know Dr. Fauci. I know Dr. Fauci. We know him well. He's the top expert on this whole issue.", "Yes. I mean, he's the guy that people from around the world will call and ask these questions of to try and get guidance in terms of what they should do. And he's given good guidance. And you've seen countries who have had tremendous success. By the way, Wolf, I want to emphasize that point. You know as dire as this all is, it is worth looking at other countries around the world and being inspired by what they've been able to do to return to some sense of normalcy, to measure their cases in the dozens or maybe hundreds but certainly not the thousands or hundreds of thousands. So, you know, there is plenty of examples around the world of what is still possible here. But I think it's a real problem that you know the president's not talking to the guy who is probably the best person to be talking to, Dr. Fauci, about this. It shows that I think they're not acknowledging the problem. How do you solve a problem if you're not acknowledging it? But I think what I've even become more concerned by, Wolf, lately is I think this minimizing or even demeaning of Dr. Fauci. I did an interview with him, you remember, about football. Dr. Fauci gave his thoughts about that. The next day the president tweets what does Dr. Fauci know about football? He's a nice guy but he's made mistakes. Yes. You can concede the point that nobody knew everything there was to know from the very beginning about this novel coronavirus. We have learned as we've gone along. But I think this minimizing or even demeaning becomes dangerous. That becomes this sort of assault on science which takes us in the exact wrong direction.", "Yes. It certainly does. I just want to point out that the White House economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, just a while ago dismissing the difficulties of reopening schools, saying, and I'm quoting him now, \"just go back to school, it's not that hard.\" Just go back to school, it's not that hard. When you hear that, what's your reaction, Sanjay?", "Well, look. I put my parent hat on for this. You know and I can tell you I think a lot of parents, they want their kids back in school. But it is hard. I mean these are hard decisions. We want our kids to be safe. There's evidence that kids are less likely to get sick from this. But we are hearing about kids getting sick. An 11- year-old died in Florida. It's rare, absolutely. I'm not trying to create unnecessary fear here. But as you get more and more young people infected as is happening, you are going to see more and more people getting sick and possibly, sadly, even dying. I think a couple of points. We still don't know all there is to know certainly about how kids transmit or don't transmit this virus. A lot of the data will suggest they don't transmit virus very much. But you've got to keep in mind, Wolf, especially little kids have largely been at home since March. There's not a lot of data on especially younger kids in terms of how they transmit the virus. We also know it's hard in a lot of school districts to maintain six feet of you know physical distancing. There's just not enough square footage in a lot of schools. So, the basic public health measures may be harder to enforce. And also, you know the idea that ultimately, you know, what's going to happen if there is a big outbreak in one of these schools? And a lot of people test positive? What are the triggers going to be to possibly having to shut down again? This is the thought process that needs to take place. It's challenging. I talk to school administrators all day. I talked to one today. These are the real-life decisions they are having to make.", "Yes. Let's not forget that. I checked earlier today, yesterday, 990, almost a thousand, 990 Americans died from coronavirus in just one day. Hundreds of Americans are dying every single day. And that continues. Sanjay, we'll have you back later here in THE SITUATION ROOM. Thanks, as usual. Up next, we'll have more on President Trump's fundraising trip to Florida today amid the state's coronavirus surge. 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{"id": "CNN-233265", "program": "@THISHOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2014-06-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/25/ath.01.html", "summary": "Team USA Prepares to Face Germany", "utt": ["We are counseling down the hours here. Fewer than 25 to be exact now until the World Cup match of the century. The U.S. takes on Germany right after @THIS HOUR tomorrow.", "We are the pre-show right? The U.S. men taking on second ranked and uber talented Germany in an epic battle. The U.S. men's soccer team and their German coach are holding a news conference in Brazil, @THISHOUR, to let the world know they are ready. Let's get straight to Fred Pleitgan. He is in Brazil where the battle will be played.. We'll get to your allegiance, first, because Fred we know you are a German. We will talk to you about that in a second. But first, we want to talk about some of this brouhaha that has been brewing, if you will, about this one player in Uruguay who is accused of biting an Italian player in the middle of the game. It's sending shock waves here. How about there in Brazil?", "Oh, it's absolutely sending shock waves here as well. It's something that seemed quite bizarre while the game was happening. It seemed as though it was two players who were just, sot of, getting at it in the penalty area. The all of a sudden, the Italian player was saying, wait this guy just bit me. This is Luis Suarez who is a player for the Uruguayan team. The Italian player, afterwards, was showing that wound that he had. Now what's going on is that FIFA, the governing world football body, has launched an investigation into all of this. There appears to be some sort of video evidence and we'll wait and see. Apparently this player Suarez has a history of doing this. He's been banned twice before for several games for biting other players. It is a bizarre incident making headlines in Brazil and, of course, also in Europe as well. It is quite bizarre.", "Can you imagine having a long record, as a player, of biting other players? That being in your biography. This guy, who is one of the top five players in the world, may not play another game at this World Cup. It is simply crazy.", "It is bananas.", "I want to talk now about the big game tomorrow, Fred, and I'm not sure where your allegiances are. They should be with the United States of America, really the most hopeful, and inspiring team playing in the World Cup, certainly tomorrow. But they have this big game against Germany. Jurgen Klinsmann played for Germany, he coached Germany. A lot of people thinking, you know both teams, all they need is a draw, maybe there will be a little gentlemen's agreement there.", "Well first of all John, I want to make clear that I'm rooting for Germany, but I want both teams to go through so I can have the best of both worlds. I love America, I love Germany, my allegiance is in the middle. I'll be wearing the German jersey tomorrow. As far as Jurgen Klinsmann is concerned, yes, there is that talk of possible collusion, of them possibly having a phone call. After all this is sort of the master taking on the apprentice because, Joachim Loew the German coach, was actually the assistant under Jurgen Klinsmann. Both coaches have said it's nonsense, it is not going to happen. There are some German and American players who came out and said, listen, every time you try to do something like this, it usually backfires. So we're just not going to do it. It seems as though it's something that is sort of in the air and both teams have something to play for. The Americans want to prove they can beat the best teams in the world and go through. The Germans want to prove they are better than what they showed in the last game against Ghana, cause there was some criticism against the Germans there, as well it was a 2 to 2 draw and they really want to wrap things up in this group. So I do expect it is going to be a fast game, it is going to be a tough game. But one thing I will agree with John on it is very good to have the U.S. in the World Cup and it will be very good to have the U.S. advance because a lot of football power houses and a lot of fans here in Brazil are saying this is one of most exciting teams in the tournament right now.", "Should we do a friendly wager between Fred and John? Thought fellas, yes, no, are you in?", "If we win, I want one of your cities. Give us Munich. If we win, we get Munich; if you win I will send you a hat. Sound like a fair deal.", "Oh, yeah. But a CNN hat, and \"EARLY START\" hat.", "I love how he says, without humor or irony, I'm actually rooting for Germany, like, make no mistake about it. I want the Germans to win.", "He didn't bring up the fact, there's a lot of German American players or the U.S. team too. They are infiltrating, I am just saying.", "They chose to play for the United States of America. Tells you something.", "Ahead @THIS HOUR, Iraqi prime minister rejecting U.S. calls for an emergency unity government, but he still wants U.S. help in pushing back those rebels as they advance and march toward Baghdad. How exactly should Washington react?"], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN COMMENTATOR", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PLEITGEN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PLEITGEN", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA"]}
{"id": "CNN-391779", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2020-02-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/03/es.04.html", "summary": "Coronavirus Prompts New U.S. Travel Restrictions", "utt": ["All right, good morning. Americans are in for three days unlike anything seen in the U.S. for a long, long time. Democrats voting today in Iowa -- a fractured party struggling to coalesce around a nominee. A fractured party that needs to heal to face President Trump who will be cleared by the Senate this week as well.", "Joining us from Des Moines this morning, \"Washington Post\" White House correspondent Toluse Olorunnipa, a CNN political analyst as well.", "Good morning.", "Thanks so much for getting up with us this morning. So --", "Good morning.", "Good morning. So, who needs a big standout performance tonight? Really -- you know, obviously, we don't have a poll right now to reference one that would sort of guide us on this, but who really -- who really needs a big night tonight?", "Well, there are several candidates that are looking to have a win of some kind out of Iowa even if they don't --", "Sure.", "-- come away with all the delegates or come away leading. There are people like Amy Klobuchar, the senator, who has been trying to have a spark for the last several months. This is her best state so far and if she does not have a great night it may be difficult for her to build a case for her candidacy. Similar to Mayor Pete Buttigieg. This is his best state so far when it comes to polling --", "Yes.", "-- and he needs a strong showing tonight to be able to show that he can compete in places like New Hampshire. Joe Biden has also kind of gone up and down in the polls. He is someone who is looking to have a solid showing tonight to be able to say that he can continue on to New Hampshire and get to South Carolina, which is seen as his best state. And there are other people who have been organizing her for several months, including Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, and they're both vying for the top spot so they can claim a victory out of Iowa and sort of launch into New Hampshire with a lot of momentum.", "You know, Iowa really matters for Democrats. I mean, maybe even more so than it does for Republicans.", "Sure.", "You know, I mean, when you look at who wins Iowa in recent history -- except with a couple of exceptions for Tom Harkin and Dick Gephardt -- that person tends to go on to be the nominee. What is so interesting about what happens in those polls -- in those caucus sites --", "Those church basements.", "-- those church basements and school gyms, is these are Iowans who will convince each other how to line up with a candidate as well. So, it just feels so undecided today heading into these caucuses.", "That's exactly right. There are a lot of undecided voters who are going to decide tonight who to vote for. And maybe if they vote for someone who doesn't show they're viable and doesn't meet that 15 percent threshold, they're going to have to choose a second choice. There's going to be a lot of convincing going on at the last minute with the various candidates and campaigns trying to convince people that maybe I wasn't your first choice, but vote for me on the second ballot. And that's why it is so undecided. That's why we may have multiple winners out of this.", "Yes.", "Someone who says I won on the first ballot or I had a great showing on the first ballot but the second ballot did not do -- I didn't do as well on the second ballot. So, we could see a lot of spin coming out of tonight with different candidates showing ways to say that they were victorious or that they did well, in part, because there is so much uncertainty and there are going to be multiple different results out of tonight, not just the one top winner.", "Sure.", "Toluse, you're on the ground there. Have you noticed -- is there a wedge issue of sorts that really is separating folks?", "Well, there are a few different wedge issues and there's a lot of tension right now within the party. You had a congressman, a supporter of Bernie Sanders, boo Hillary Clinton. So, there's a lot of angst over the last election and this divide between sort of the moderates and the insurgent wing -- the Bernie Sanders, the Warren wing of the party. Health care is the biggest argument and in that front, people who say Medicare for All is the only way to go and others who say that that would hurt the economy, hurt the insurance industry. Make it hard for people to keep their private insurance. That's probably the biggest wedge issue within the party. But there's a lot of residual concern and angst since 2016. Some of those wounds have not healed since Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton had a very difficult primary that went longer than expected and that left a lot of sore feelings within the party. And we're seeing some of that bubble up and it could continue in 2020 as well.", "Yes. Obviously, we've seen the sore feelings continue --", "Yes.", "-- between the two of them -- trading barbs in the press as well.", "You're going to have some good weather -- 36 degrees, 21 low tonight. That's great -- that's a heatwave by Iowa in February standards, so that should be good for turnout.", "Toluse, nice to see you.", "Thanks so much for getting up with us. See you soon.", "All right, thank you.", "All right, 44 -- almost 45 minutes past the hour. Chinese stocks having their worst day in years. Investors finally have a chance to react to the coronavirus. Shanghai stocks plunged almost eight percent on the first day of trading an extended Lunar New Year holiday. That's the worst day since August 2015. Now there's an escalating back-and-forth between the U.S. and China over the response. CNN's David Culver is in Beijing. And, the United States enforcing some travel restrictions now and China saying wait, you're overreacting.", "Right, it seems that China is quite frustrated with this, Christine. And they came out through their Foreign Ministry today and they essentially said look, China -- by doing this travel restriction, the U.S. has set a precedent, OK. They've got other countries now following suit and China is becoming increasingly isolated. It's hurting here and that's what the country is pushing back against. But at the same time, they also point out that other countries have stepped in to help, namely Japan and South Korea, for example. When they bring their flights in to evacuate their citizens, they are also bringing in medical supplies. And then, the citizens get on those planes and go back to their home countries. In the case of the first flight with the U.S., it appears that didn't happen. And we're now hearing that there's a holdup for this second flight. You've got hundreds of Americans still within the city of Wuhan, the epicenter of all of this, who are trying to get out. And they were telling me over the past several hours that they were supposed to leave today, it's been delayed. They're not sure what's going on. And it's possible that it's this back-and-forth between the two governments right now. Now, we asked the Chinese Foreign Ministry is this punishment for the U.S. issuing this travel restriction against China? They didn't comment directly but they did say that they need to keep room at the Wuhan airport for aircraft that bring in enough supplies, which they are in dire need of. So, it seems to suggest that they're looking for that goodwill exchange, Christine.", "All right, David Culver for us in Beijing this morning. Thank you, David. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, THE WASHINGTON POST", "JARRETT", "OLORUNNIPA", "JARRETT", "OLORUNNIPA", "ROMANS", "OLORUNNIPA", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "OLORUNNIPA", "JARRETT", "OLORUNNIPA", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "OLORUNNIPA", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "OLORUNNIPA", "ROMANS", "DAVID CULVER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-236683", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2014-08-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/14/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Breaking News: Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki Steps Down; Crisis in Ukraine; Ukrainian Economy Struggles; Euro Area Growth Stalls", "utt": ["The market is closing, it's up some 60-odd points towards the end of the trading day. They've moved the gavel, it's on the other side. He still hits it three times. I don't know why they always hit three times. It is -- it's Thursday, it's August the 14th. Tonight, breaking news, we'll start. Iraq's prime minister is stepping down. You're going to hear the details from Baghdad in a moment. Also, a country on the brink of war. A currency on the verge of collapse. Tonight's Ukraine economy minister tells me what happens next. And growth has broken down. Europe hits a second quarter slump. I'm Richard Quest. We have a very busy hour together, and I mean business. Good evening, we start with breaking news, though. Nouri al-Maliki, the former prime minister, has now stepped down as the country's leader, making way for Prime Minister-Designate Haider al-Abadi to become the new PM. Iraqi state television has reported in an urgent banner on Thursday. Nick Paton Walsh is in Baghdad and joins me now. The decision for al- Maliki to go now was a manifestation of the obvious and the reality.", "And days, really, of pressure and the political writing on the wall here. We know little about the conditions around this key statement, but we know now that, according to a banner on state television, he has taken the decision to step down from power in favor of Haider al-Abadi. Days, now, he appeared to defiantly be holding out in the hope that somehow someone may come to his rescue, holed up in the green zone with a lot of loyal firepower, yesterday making a defiant speech, asking the federal courts to rule on the constitutionality of the new president nominating Haider al-Abadi as prime minister-designate. Hours ago, there was said to be an urgent announcement coming from Haider al-Abadi on television. We haven't heard that yet -- sorry, from Nouri al-Maliki on television, we haven't heard that yet, but we have seen this urgent banner on the bottom of the screen saying that yes, he has taken the decision to step down in favor of Haider al-Abadi. A sigh of relief, I think, here for many in the capital of Iraq, Baghdad. You just saw there a power cut, precarious life here, but now potentially a moment of political healing, perhaps, between the sectarian divides of this country. Many have been waiting for this daily tension to pass, Richard.", "OK, now that might solve -- or at least pour some oil on the troubled waters of the domestic politics, but a shift from al-Maliki to al- Abadi, what does that do for the battle in the north?", "Very simply, in the eyes of those in the international community, particularly the Americans, who wanted to see, quote, \"more national unity\" before they bolster any aid to the Iraqi government here, it perhaps provides a degree of a clean slate. Now, Haider al-Abadi, in the eyes of many, certainly Barack Obama, speaking hours ago, is somebody who could potentially heal the sectarian divide. Nouri al-Maliki, a Shia who many accuse of targeting Sunni politicians, marginalizing Sunni communities during his years in power. Haider al-Abadi is from a similar stock, the same party. Spent some time in London during the Saddam years, but is clearly in the eyes of the White House somebody they feel more comfortable with. Still someone to be tested, actually, in the office of government. Still to have a resounding endorsement by Sunni politicians, although the Sunni speaker of parliament did shake his hand after he was nominated, so there is a glimmer of light there. But he has a very difficult job. But I think for those who were sitting here watching this political deadlock, really, paralyze the country, the fact that it's now lifted is a real cause for some sense of jubilation, perhaps premature. Richard?", "Nick, thank you. The moment you hear from al-Maliki in his resignation speech, please come back to us. We'll need to talk about that in more detail with you. Our other big story tonight, Vladimir Putin says he wants to stop the blood flowing in eastern Ukraine, and the humanitarian situation on the ground is worsening. City leaders in Donetsk say shelling has hit nearly all districts of the city on Thursday, 74 people have died, and more than 100 have been injured in fighting in the past three days as Ukrainian forces try to encircle the rebel forces. The convoy that Russia says is carrying humanitarian supplies is still outside Ukrainian borders. The Ukrainian government says it, too, is sending much-needed aid to eastern Ukraine. If we put this in economic situations, come and join me at the super screen, and you'll see just how the Ukrainian hryvnia -- the dollar -- has fared against the dollar, and what a dramatic -- Now, it's very interesting. We had this stability late last year, obviously. But then as Crimea picks up the pace, it goes down. Little bit of an uptick, then once again, let's get right in there and you'll see, this latest crisis is pulling the market well and truly down. That's the way things are looking now. So, joining me now is the economy minister, joining me now, the economy minister, Pavlo Sheremeta. Minister, we need to begin with this issue of the -- aid convoy that is heading towards Ukraine. What is it that the government fundamentally fears is happening with this convoy?", "Well, the worry that the Ukrainian government has is that through that very border, there are lots of Russian militants with Russian weaponry coming in, so the natural worry, what kind of that convoy is? So, that is why the Ukrainian government says that it will receive the convoy on the Ukrainian territory only under the strict supervision of the International Red Cross.", "Right. So, let's be blunt about this, Minister. You're fundamentally saying you fear these trucks are not carrying water, rice, and goods, but some of those trucks could be carrying arms, bullets, missiles, whatever.", "Well, we just knew that this is coming through. So, that's why we are naturally worried. But trusting the International Red Cross and trusting the supervision of the International Red Cross, we believe that the Red Cross will supervise and ensure that it's truly humanitarian aid.", "Right. And is it your belief and your understanding that Russia will allow the Red Cross to intercept or to take control of this convoy once it reaches your borders that will enable it to go down to Donetsk and the affected area?", "Well, this is our request, and we believe that it should be done according to the international law, and we believe that the International Red Cross is the best organization best-suited for this operation.", "We need to talk now about the economy and how the economy is weathering --", "Sure.", "-- because you're about to apply for and receive the second tranche of the IMF loan, the IMF standby agreements and loans. There is a vast difference in the geopolitical system today than when that loan was negotiated and agreed. Are the economic fundamentals vastly different as well?", "Yes, that's true. We have a seriously different situation, and we appreciate the understanding of the international financial organizations of the situation that Ukraine is really in.", "But how can you convince the IMF now that it's not pouring more good money down the drain by continuing with a program in a country which -- where there is still such a civil war taking place?", "Richard, I have to tell you that I disagree it's a civil war going on in Ukraine. I visited Donetsk in the spring. It was peaceful and quiet city, which tells that the situation that we have at the moment, this war conflict, is instigated from abroad. And that's why our request to Russia that the best humanitarian aid would be actually to stop the inflow of militants and weaponry. And it's - - actually, it's quite good that international financial organization understands, too, that this is not a civil war. Ukraine is not at war with itself, not at all.", "Right. So, finally, Minister, are you seeing any signs of external investment coming into the country? Are you -- in your private conversations with bankers and with Western companies, are they saying, \"Get your act together and we'll plow some money in and build a factory\" or whatever?", "Thank you, Richard, for that question. I'm meeting with - - in my capacity, of course -- I'm meeting with investors very regularly. And I should say it's a big interest to Ukraine. I usually have the halls full of investors. They are worried, of course. And absolutely the three worries that they have are that, when you guys will take full control of your country? Are you guys serious about the corruption in your country? And the third one, what are you doing to be solvent? And actually, on all three fronts, the Ukrainian government is going forward to ensure that we have the full control of our territory, that we are serious to fight corruption, and to deregulate the business, to make it simpler, to make it less expensive so that all the investors, Ukrainian and foreign investors, can get a good profit operating in Ukraine.", "Minister, thank you for joining us. You and I will talk many more times as these investment decisions and --", "Thank you very much.", "-- as it moves forward. The minister joining me, there, from as you can see, it's a very busy day today. Now, the crisis in Ukraine has hit Europe's economy hard, and worse may be to come, because it's still extremely early days. Eurozone GDP stalled in the second quarter, according to this. And it actually surprised analysts. So, if you take a look at the various performance, eurozone economies are most definitely running at different speeds, you can see in the car.", "You've got Germany, which of course is the star performer. It's consistently -- it's ahead of the bad performer in Italy. We know that Italy is in recession, they are near the back, but Germany's number was considerably lower than expected. It was expected to have a reduction of 0.1 percent -- 0.1 tenth of a percent. It was actually 0.2 tenths of a percent. Moving forward, you've got -- or backwards if you like, you've got -- so, we've got Italy in recession, Germany slowing down, and then you've got France, which is just basically stagnant at the moment. The reason for France's stagnation, of course, is manifold. Austerity, it's all to do with the questions of what's happening with the reforms and whether those reforms have actually been stalled. The Russian sanctions, of course, are what is really causing the biggest headache and could be coming right across the road in the middle of it. An escalation could fall -- could push the team further back. Germany is Russia's biggest trading partner. You get the idea of the way things -- One good performer, Portugal is pulling out the surprising, beating Spain, near towards the front of the pack. Elga Bartsch is Morgan Stanley's chief European economist. She's optimistic about the team's chances.", "I actually think this is more a case of recovery interrupted than recovery aborted. There are a number of special factors that dented second quarter GDP. And I do think that growth will resume in the third quarter, and in particular in Germany, where these technical factors were particularly severe. The payback from the unusual warm winter weather, for instance, that really hit the construction industry in the second quarter.", "Joining me now, James Shugg, senior economist at Westpac. You and I spoke about this. One reason I really wanted to talk to you --", "Hi, Richard.", "-- tonight, because we spoke a couple of -- I think it was last week or the week before that -- and we put it into some sort of context. But I read your article, and I read your comments today. You're not worried about Germany, you're worried about France.", "That's right. Absolutely. Germany, as we just heard, had a small contraction because the economy was actually very strong in the first quarter because of mild weather. But the French issue -- look, the economy is, as you said, is stagnant. It's an uncompetitive economy, because markets haven't forced them to put in place reforms, like we've seen in places like Spain and Portugal, or because they haven't had some inspired leadership to direct the economy in that direction, France is just being left behind. The boss of Peugeot a year or so ago said that their most efficient plant is now in Spain. Spain's the star performer. They've gone through a real tough time over the past few years, but they're coming out at the end with a more refined, efficient economy. And that's what's been demonstrated by the figures, which showed 0.6 percent growth in the latest quarter, 0.4 percent in the previous quarter.", "I look at the eurozone and the E28 and the E18 numbers, and we're not quite talking about the whole lot falling back into recession, but when you talk about the inflation number, which we saw, which was down at 0.4 tenths of a percent, you've got deflation, which has de facto arrived. You've got some major economies slowing down. Or maybe, James, we are talking about the potential for it slipping back into recession.", "Look, Richard, the issue of deflation is a really concerning one. I'm sure the ECB council are thinking about this all the time. Already, 40 percent of the population of the eurozone are living on the cusp of or actually in deflation. We've got Spain, Portugal, Italy on zero. Estonia on zero. Slovakia and Greece. That's 6 of the 18, a third of the countries. And that's why we need to look at the very weak growth numbers as well. Even if it is just a pause in the recovery, the ECB is likely to want to do more in terms of policy to prevent deflation from becoming entrenched --", "Right.", "-- and to ensure that the recovery is only pausing and that we see a bit of an uptick. And that's why we think there'll be an asset purchase plan announced by ECB chief Draghi, probably by October.", "Asset purchase, LTRO, or they've given it a new acronym, IFLLTRO or something, which is even longer range. Thank you, sir, nice to have you on the program again. Good to see you.", "Thanks, Richard.", "Now, when we come back, President Obama says the situation for refugees trapped on Mount Sinjar is greatly improved. 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{"id": "CNN-23592", "program": "Sunday", "date": "2001-1-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/14/sun.01.html", "summary": "El Salvador Quake Baffles Rescuers", "utt": ["Thousands of injured have been pulled out from under tons of earth. At least 222 people are confirmed dead so far; thousands more are missing. As Suzanne Kelly reports, landslides triggered by the quake, are presenting a huge challenge to rescuers.", "The people of Santa Tecla had no warning. The small neighborhood outside San Salvador was virtually buried by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck just before mid-day on Saturday. Nearly a day later, rescuers -- many of them family members -- focused on trying to find anyone who may have been buried alive.", "It happened so fast. We're bringing people out here. They are bringing up a friend from the house. She is alive, thank God.", "But for others, the news isn't so good. Authorities say they expect the death toll to rise in El Salvador, where some 12,00 people are still unaccounted for. El Salvador's president has declared a national emergency.", "The priority is in the southern part of Santa Tecla, and the area of Berlin (ph), which has been greatly affected. We have heard there could be people still buried in this area, due to the collapse of the cathedral.", "Rescue teams from Taiwan and the United States are on their work to the region. The Red Cross is already on the scene, assisting with medical care and providing blankets and other supplies to those that lost homes and loved ones. The quake knocked out virtually all communications in Guatemala; it shook buildings as far away as Honduras and Mexico; but few areas were hit harder than Santa Tecla, where a lack of earth moving equipment is making the search for relatives and loved ones a slow and painstaking process Suzanne Kelly, CNN."], "speaker": ["GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR", "SUZANNE KELLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "KELLY", "FRANCISCO FLORES, PRESIDENT, EL SALVADOR (through translator)", "KELLY"]}
{"id": "CNN-357559", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-12-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1812/20/es.02.html", "summary": "President Trump's Decision To Order A Full And Rapid Withdrawal Of U.S. Troops From Syria Is Running Into Fierce Resistance; North Korea Says It Will Not Denuclearize Until The U.S. Eliminates Its Own \"Nuclear Threat; \" The Senate Has Passed A Stopgap Spending Bill To Prevent A Partial Government Shutdown At Midnight Friday; A Newly-Released Memo Could Really Complicate William Barr's Nomination For Attorney General; The Catholic Church Abuse Scandal Appears To Be Widening In Illinois.", "utt": ["This is a stain on the honor of the United States.", "Even the President's closest allies slamming the move to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. Russia, Iran and the Assad regime all in line to benefit.", "A bill to fund the government until February passes the Senate but did it deal a death blow to the President's border wall?", "\"Fatally misconceived.\" The man poised to oversee the Mueller probe had harsh words for the investigation just a few months ago.", "And the Dow now at its lowest point of the entire year. Investors spooked after another rate hike from the Fed, a wild swing in the markets yesterday. Welcome back to \"Early Start.\" I'm Dave Briggs.", "It was. Good morning, I'm Alison Kosik. I'm sitting in for Christine Romans at 30 minutes past the hour and President Trump's decision to order a full and rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria is running into fierce resistance this morning. In the words of one senior administration official, \"The decision by tweet will recklessly put American and allied lives in danger around the world. A mistake of colossal proportions.\" A U.S. Defense official tells CNN planning for the pullout is already underway. Reactions to the President's move ranging from shock to outrage.", "A group of bipartisan senators firing off a letter to Mr. Trump urging him to reconsider. They believe if there is a pullout, \"any remnants of ISIS in Syria will surely renew and embolden their efforts in the region.\" Top Republican senators not pleased about getting blindsided.", "Now we're dramatically less safe. This is an Obama-like move.", "It's a terrible mistake and unfortunately, I think we're going to pay a price for it if it's not reversed.", "It's hard to imagine that any President would wake up and make this kind of decision with this little communication, with this little preparation.", "Pulling the plug on these troops without giving due consideration to the consequences, I think is something that I don't think any of us what to do.", "To say they're defeated is an overstatement and is fake news. We have been dishonorable. This is a stain on the honor of the United States.", "The President did not make himself available for questions about Syria on Wednesday. Instead, the White House released a video of Mr. Trump explaining why he made the move.", "And we have won against ISIS. We've beaten them and we've beaten them badly. We've taken back the land and now it's time for our troops to come back home.", "One big problem in all of this, the Defense Department disagrees. They released this statement. \"The coalition has liberated the ISIS-held territory, but the campaign against ISIS is not over.\"", "The White House struggling to articulate the President's full Syria withdrawal plan. They can't say how many troops have come home, what the timeline is, or when other personnel will leave. The administration official referring questions to the Pentagon. The Pentagon referred them back to the White House.", "The President's order to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria is being met with universal condemnation and there are a lot of reasons why. Nima Elbagir joins us now live from London. You know, members of the President's party, members of the President's administration, they are all giving reasons why we should stay and not go. Foremost, this could put the U.S. in danger.", "Absolutely, and tellingly, it's not just within the U.S. that people are disagreeing with President Trump's logic. Key members of the anti- ISIS global coalition are disagreeing with him. First, the U.K. and now France just came out and said, this fight is not over and it makes the world measurably less safe. The Secretary of Defense, General Mattis has consistently argued that this fight is in the U.S. national interest. This is about an enduring victory and that word is really key, Alison, enduring. It's not just about defeating ISIS territorially, it is about defeating the ideology, not allowing it to reconstitute in the way that we saw Al-Qaeda in Iraq reconstitute to become ISIS eventually, but it is also about putting in place systems that allow local groups, local security officials to be able to fight against ISIS should it rear its head again. And that campaign is only 20% done.", "By the Pentagon's own statistics, only released back in August, there are 14.5 thousand remaining ISIS fighters in Syria and the concern is that without a U.S. defense, without a U.S. bull-work to that presence in Syria, that they will be able to start looking again to operations abroad.", "All right, Nima Elbagir, live for us from London. Thanks for your reporting.", "All right, it could be just a coincidence, but President Trump is giving Russia two big gifts in the same day. Pulling U.S. troops out of Syria and lifting sanctions on major Russian firms controlled by friends of Vladimir Putin. The United States is also sanctioning 15 Russian intelligence agents and four entities for interfering in the 2016 election. Now this morning, President Putin holding his annual end of the year news conference about the state of his domestic and his foreign policy. Let's go live to Moscow and bring in CNN Moscow Bureau Chief, Nathan Hodge. Nathan, these things have known to go several hours. Any expectation that Putin will comment about the U.S. decision on Syria?", "Dave, we've been watching Putin in the very beginning of his marathon press conference, thus far, Syria has not come up, but it's certainly going to be a topic for discussion. Putin's press conferences are usually very wide ranging. They cover everything from domestic issues and the economy to Russia's standing in the world. So we'll be certainly watching for that. And as you had said, this is - it's like an early Christmas present for Putin in many ways. While President Trump's move caused a lot of consternation in Washington and in other capitals, it can be nothing but welcome news for the Kremlin. Just last night, we saw comments from Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who had described this as a very - a real, real prospect for a political settlement, and President Putin as you know intervened on the side of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad back in 2015. They are back to the regime and they have been saying for months that they think the United States has no legal standing to stay in Syria. So this is certainly going to be welcome news. We will be waiting for comment from that, Dave.", "It will be hard to imagine Putin not commenting about the U.S. decision. Nathan Hodge, we'll check back you in the next hour. Breaking overnight. North Korea says it will not denuclearize until the U.S. eliminates its own, quote, \"nuclear threat.\" That's from commentary published by state media, which suggests one of the obstacles could be the U.S. military assets in South Korea. All of this will pose another big obstacle for the U.S. and Pyongyang. They've been deadlocked in talks about denuclearizing in exchange for sanctions relief. Another summit between the President and Kim Jong- un has been rumored for early next year.", "The Senate has passed a stopgap spending bill to prevent a partial government shutdown at midnight Friday. The measure to fund the government through early February, it still needs House approval, it also needs the President's signature. The deal kicks the can down the road on critical issues like funding for the President's border wall, so that's going to be a tougher task for Republicans once Democrats take over the House next month. Any funding for a wall would have to go through Nancy Pelosi. The White House suggesting it could get creative to find the money. Instead of the budget route, they could get funding from other departments or carve out money for border security rather than a wall specifically. The Dow tumbled to the lowest level of the year after the Federal Reserve voted to raise interest rates despite new signs of economic softening and weeks of market volatility. What a day it was yesterday. The Dow tumbled 352 points or 1.5%, Wednesday. The sell-off left the Dow at its lowest level in 13 months and wiped out a 382-point rally that actually happened before the Fed made its decision. The S&P 500 fell 1.5%, the NASDAQ lost more than 2%. Central Bankers unanimously agreed to lift the Federal funds rate to a range of 2.25% and 2.5%. Interest rates have increased seven times since President Trump took office. Four of those increases have been under Fed chair Jay Powell. The President though has repeatedly attacked Powell and blames these rate hikes for some of the market's recent drops. Now when asked about pressure from the White House, Powell said this. \"We're going to do our job the way we've always done them.\" Stressing the importance of the Fed's independence from political pressure, \"Nothing will cause us to deviate from that.\" Now what rattled the market here is that while the Fed sent a dovish signal to investors, it just wasn't dovish enough. The Central Bank now appears to be eyeing at least two more rate hikes in 2019. But investors were actually expecting an even slower pace of rate increases.", "A newly-released memo could complicate William Barr's nomination for Attorney General. In a memo from June of this year to senior Justice officials, Barr writes Special Counsel Robert Mueller's obstruction investigation is, quote, \"fatally misconceived.\"", "And that President Trump's interactions with ex-FBI director James Comey do not constitute obstruction of justice. The fact that Barr weighed in on such a sensitive issue and would be poised to oversee Mueller's work could put his nomination in peril.", "Barr who was once a AG for George H.W. Bush also wrote that Trump asking Comey to let go of the Michael Flynn investigation and then firing Comey were within his powers as head of the Executive Branch. According to a Justice Department official, Barr's memo was unsolicited. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said this on Wednesday, many people offer unsolicited advice and Barr's memo has quote, \"no impact\" on the investigation.", "South Carolina Republicans could forego their Presidential primary in 2020 to show their support for President Trump. The move would be designed to frustrate the efforts of potential GOP challengers to the President. The states GOP Chairman asking why of taxpayers pay for a primary when the party totally supports Mr. Trump? A decision is expected by next summer. This would not be the first time Republicans nixed the first in the state primary. They did for President Reagan in 1984 and again in 2004 for President George W. Bush - one key difference back then, the party paid for primaries, now taxpayers do and you wonder, Alison, if this could give a challenger an even bigger megaphone in 2020 because they'd have all the press asking them questions for that entire time. They'd have the national stage virtually to themselves.", "Well, we'll know soon enough. 2020 around the corner.", "Yes, that's an interesting development.", "The Catholic Church abuse scandal appears to be widening in Illinois. New accusations that diocese failed to report accusations against 500 priests.", "The Illinois Attorney General says the state's six diocese have failed to disclose accusations of sexual abuse against at least 500 priests and clergy members. Illinois diocese have publicly identified 185 clergy members who are credibly accused. But State Attorney General Lisa Madigan says the accusations have not been adequately investigated. She says, the Church failed in its moral obligation to provide survivors, parishioners and the public a complete accounting. In a statement, the head of the Illinois archdiocese, says since 2002, all allegations have been reported.", "Disgraced movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein set to appear in the New York Supreme Court to learn whether criminal rape and sex charges against him will be dismissed. Weinstein faces five felony counts. He is accused of raping a woman in a New York hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on another woman in 2006. Weinstein has pleaded not guilty. The prosecution's case has not gone smoothly. In October, one of Weinstein's six felony charges was dismissed after an NYPD officer was found to have mishandled evidence.", "Actress, Eliza Dushku is breaking her silence after it was revealed she received a $9.5 million settlement from CBS. She accused star, Michael Weatherly of making repeated remarks about her appearance, a comment about a threesome and rape joke. She confronted Weatherly and reported the harassment and then she was fired. In a new \"Boston Globe\" op-ed, Dushku writes this, \"In explaining his bad behavior, Weatherly who plays Dr. Bull claimed I didn't get his attempt at humor. I did not overreact. I took a job and because I did not want to be harassed, I was fired.\" CNN reached out to CBS and Weatherly's representatives for comment. When contacted by \"The Times\" last week, Weatherly said he was mortified to have offended Dushku and claims, he immediately apologized.", "Shipping is usually about weather or the economy, so what does it say that a trade war has FedEx concerned about business in 2019? CNN business is next.", "Would you look at that? A bright light that lit up the internet of the skies above Northern California last night. It was most likely a meteor. That's according to the National Weather service. An unusually bright smoke like trail was spotted over the Lake Tahoe area. It raised speculation that the cloud-like formations were related to a planned rocket launch at an Air Force base near Santa Barbara. However, the launch was scrubbed because of signs of booster complications.", "An outbreak of hepatitis A is being investigated in Louisiana. The disease causes a highly contagious liver infection. There are now 24 known cases. Most are in Morehouse parish. But there are reports of cases in other parts of the state. Health officials hopes declaring an outbreak will raise the public's awareness and convince those who are at risk to get vaccinated. Transmission seems to be through direct person-to-person contact and drug use.", "Heavy rain and storms from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes. The system is heading east just in time to impact holiday travel plans for millions. Here is Pedram Javaheri.", "David, Alison, good morning. Yes, the Gulf Coast here really, the home for severe weather, some strong thunderstorms, some activity here pushing it farther towards the East, as well as we head in of course towards a very busy Friday for travelers across the region. You take a look at the wet weather is going to be the story from Thursday and to at least, Friday morning across the Gulf Coast and then we get a surge of warm air to the north as well. But put all of this together at least, over the next few hours here and then going into this afternoon, severe weather threat has returned once again to the forecast. Portions of Central and even South Florida, on a scale of one to five, a two and a three, they are for severe weather, which includes some strong winds and also damaging hail and maybe even a few isolated tornadoes possible with this, but notice, it will quickly ride up the eastern seaboard and by Friday afternoon, we are talking about very warm temperatures pushing in across the northeast. So with that said, expect all of this to come down in the form of rain, not snow on the first day of winter, which at least is one piece of good news for the travelers out there. We're not going to have snow fall to go around, but back behind us, just like that, we drop in some seriously cold air. So a quick warm up for the next couple of days across the northeast and then, once again we come back down to reality, upper 40s on Saturday.", "All right, Pedram, thanks. SNL's Pete Ddavidson getting support from the Congressman-elect he once mocked on national television. Soon to be Representative Dan Crenshaw reaching out to Davidson after the comic appeared to be suicidal in a post on Instagram. Davidson had to apologize to Crenshaw after joking about his appearance on \"Saturday Night Live.\" Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who lost an eye in Afghanistan, he just reached out to the struggling comic to offer words of advice.", "What I told him was this. Everybody has a purpose in this world. God put you here for a reason. But it is your job to find that purpose and know you have value and that you maybe do more good than you realize for people, especially a guy like that. He makes people laugh. Sometimes he makes people mad. But he also makes people laugh a lot and that's what we talked about. It was a good conversation.", "Very nice. Davidson expected to be back with the rest of the SNL cast when the show returns in January. Elf on a Shelf - a great holiday tradition, but Jimmy Kimmel had a new invention for this Christmas.", "From creators of Elf on a Shelf comes the toughest investigator of all. Mueller on a Cruller. This holiday season, he knows you've been naughty because he subpoenaed your diary and made all your friends talk. He grilled your G.I. Joe. Flipped your Furby, and threatened Barbie with a big house. Mueller on a Cruller knows about the magazines under your mattress.", "I want to see my lawyer.", "Your lawyer has been sentenced to three years in time out.", "Everything I do is legal.", "Mueller on a Cruller. From the maker of Elf on a Shelf. Trump on a Stump, Pence on a Fence, Huckabee in a Tree, and Kellyanne in a Trash can. Comey on Pony sold separately.", "Where can I get one of those? All right, let's get a check on CNN business this morning. Global markets are lower after the Federal Reserve voted to raise interest rates for the fourth time this year. In Asia markets closed in the red, the Nikkei fell close to 3%. The Shanghai fell 0.5% and the Hang Seng fell 1%. We are looking at European markets opening lower as trading begins there. On Wall Street, we are looking at red arrows as well. The Dow tumbled to the lowest level of the year yesterday after the Fed's decision. The Dow declined 352 points or 1.5%. The selloff left the Dow at a 13-month low wiping out a 382-point rally that happened before the Fed made its decision midday. The S&P 500 fell 1.5%. We saw the NASDAQ lose more than 2%. FedEx is worried trade tensions with the U.S. and China could severely hurt its business next year. The company dramatically cut its profit outlook for the full fiscal year lowering it to 10%. Because FedEx ships goods for consumers and businesses all over the world, it is often looked to by investors as a bellwether of global economic activity. However, it says international business especially in Europe has weakened significantly over the past three months. To control cost, FedEx announced it will offer buyouts to its U.S. employees and to scale back hiring plans. It also is considering a buyout offer for international staff. FedEx did not say how many jobs it expects to eliminate. America's prominent cigarette company looking beyond tobacco for growth. Altria is reportedly interested in buying a huge stake in e- cigarette maker, Juul. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, Altria is seeking a 35% stake in Juul, that's worth almost $13 billion. The investment gives Juul access to Altria's massive distribution network which is international. Juul has come under intense regulatory scrutiny after teenagers become addicted to its products. According to the National Youth Tobacco survey, more than 75% of high school aged children they say, they have used e-cigarettes. Altria recently invested $1.8 billion in Canadian cannabis company, Cronos Group. And actually, the legal cannabis space, that's actually seen as a huge growth area in decades to come.", "Well, a big nicotine entering, Juul, that's a scary thing for parents that have no idea how to contain this issue. All right, \"Early Start\" continues right now.", "This is a stain on the honor of the United States.", "Even the President's closest allies are slamming the move to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. Russia, Iran and the Assad regime all in line to benefit.", "A bill to fund the government until February passes the Senate, but did it also deal a death blow to the President's border wall?", "\"Fatally misconceived,\" the man poised to oversee the Mueller probe had harsh words for the investigation just a few months ago.", "And the Dow now at its lowest point of the entire year. 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{"id": "CNN-322742", "program": "WORLD RIGHT NOW WITH HALA GORANI", "date": "2017-10-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/04/wrn.01.html", "summary": "FBI Interviews Shooter's Girlfriend Marilou Danley.", "utt": ["Returning now to our top story, the brutal massacre in Las Vegas and the investigation into the shooter's possible motive. His girlfriend could provide some clues. The FBI is interviewing her. Her name is Marilou Danley. She just returned from the Philippines and an attorney is expected to deliver a statement on her behalf later in the day. Nic Robertson reports from Manila.", "Well, Philippine authorities have been very cautious about what they are telling journalists here. The reason for that according to the spokesperson at the Immigration Bureau, is that they don't want to damage what is an active and ongoing U.S. investigation. But Marilou Danley's arrival back in the United States does appear to have triggered them being able to pass on some information. What the spokesperson at the Immigration Bureau said was that Marilou Danley arrived here in Manila on the 25th of September. But what was less clear when I talked to her was precisely the nature and conditions under which Marilou Danley left here.", "When she arrived on the 25th, she was processed like a regular passenger and on the 3rd of October, just yesterday, she passed through immigration at around 4:56 p.m. and -- to board her flight to Los Angeles.", "And she passed through immigration when she was leaving with FBI agents?", "I cannot confirm that, sir. That is not something that is in their travel records, but what I can say is that all the information with respect to the travel of Ms. Marilou Danley has been communicated with the Homeland Security as well as the", "And as far as you know, she left on her own freewill?", "Well, we cannot say that if she was - we cannot confirm or deny that because it is an information that we do not have, but what we can say is that she passed through the immigration process and was cleared by an immigration officer to board her flight departing the country.", "With the FBI?", "We cannot confirm, sir, whether she was accompanied by the FBI or she was traveling alone.", "The spokesperson also told me that wasn't Marilou Danley's only visit to the Philippines in September, that she arrived here on the 15th of September from Tokyo, left seven days later on the 22nd September for Hong Kong, then three days later traveling back on the 25th of September from Hong Kong. So, this raises many, many more questions than it answers for authorities here. They remain very, very cautious about opening up to details of Marilou's visit here - Marilou Danley's visit because they say they don't want to damage this ongoing, active US investigation. Nic Robertson, CNN, Manila, the Philippines.", "Thank you, Nic. Now, we're hearing from Marilou Danley's sisters about why she may have traveled to the Philippines. They spoke exclusively to our affiliate, 7 Network Australia. They asked for their identities to be concealed.", "And I know that she don't know anything as well, like us. She was sent away. She was sent away, so that she will be not there to interfere of what he's planning.", "Marilou was there. And this maybe as well didn't happen because she won't let that happen. She would definitely stop something, whatever what he was planning.", "Those were the sisters of the girlfriend of the shooter in Las Vegas. Las Vegas where we're seeing the US president speak at a police operations center. I don't know if we have that footage. There it is. The image has frozen, OK. We'll unfreeze that as soon as we can and bring it to you. So, you just heard from the sisters of Marilou Danley. If their theory holds up, it's another sign of how carefully this shooter planned this attack in advance. Las Vegas police found at least 23 weapons inside the hotel room alone. Several were altered to fire like automatic weapons. Yet somehow Paddock managed to sneak them into the Mandalay Bay hotel without being detected. Though it's been explained that you could do that in several times and in suitcases. He also had thousands of rounds of ammunition. And from his vantage point on the 32nd floor, Paddock was virtually unassailable. CNN senior law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes joins me from Washington. He worked for the FBI for nearly 30 years. Tom, I guess, my first question is, this guy, 64 years old, no military experience, no background in law enforcement, do you think it's possible that he bought and modified those semi-automatic rifles to become automatic rifles and set up that whole hotel room all on his own?", "Well, Hala, it certainly looks like he did and it wouldn't have taken that much other than how many trips it took from the lobby upstairs to bring all of his luggage pieces containing the guns to his room. But that and the modification of those guns, very easily done.", "So, the modification - sorry to jump in. This bump fire stock, which is legal to buy, that's easy if you just follow instructions on the Internet or something?", "Absolutely. It's easy to do. And a man like him, with plenty of money, could easily have found gunsmiths and other gun enthusiasts that would've helped him with that modification if he needed it. If I could backup one second to what Nic Robertson was reporting, the FBI had no authority to bring his girlfriend back to the United States. She was not being deported. She could not be deported back to the US. She's not a citizen here and there was no extradition. She hasn't even been charged with anything yet. So, her trip back, being escorted by the FBI agents assigned in the Manila FBI office, was absolutely voluntary on her part to come back here. The escort would've also been for her safety, fearing that somebody might want to do harm to her, thinking that she may have been involved in this. so, this is absolutely voluntary on her part to come back to the US and, hopefully, she might be able to shed some light on what he was thinking, besides just buying the weapons and modifying them.", "So, if you're the FBI agent in charge of talking with this lady, what would your first question be?", "My first question would be who else was close to him, who else would he have been in contact with. If she didn't know about all of these weapons or his intention to use them to murder people, did anybody else seem to be close to him that she knew of, a friend, a neighbor, a relative, a work associate, anybody that he had been talking to, so that the FBI and the Las Vegas police could go and contact any other person. And by the way, the FBI is just providing the assistance because of its considerable international assets. The Las Vegas authorities are still in charge of this investigation because there has been no indication of terrorism.", "By now, if there was suspicion of any kind of terrorism, whether it's white supremacist terrorism, another form of terrorism, would we have seen the FBI take over at this stage?", "Yes, absolutely. If there was an indication that it was a white supremacist group, KKK, Aryan Brotherhood, neo-Nazis, any of that type of what would be classified by the FBI as domestic terrorism, a group originating or emanating from the United States as opposed to ISIS or someone overseas. So, if there was any indication, international or domestic, of terrorism, the FBI would absolutely take over.", "Now, I keep coming back to this because this is the thing I found the most confounding. This murderer was 64 years old. Really, really, his intention, very obvious. You don't have to be an expert, was to massacre as many people as possible. In your experience in the FBI, once someone is that age, wouldn't you expect that they've learned how to process whatever sick motivation pushes them to commit these types of mass crimes?", "Yes, it's unusual for somebody his age. But, remember, a couple of years ago, we had a shooting incident in the United States at the Holocaust Museum where we had someone older than him kill a guard and exchange gunfire with another guard. He was a member of a white supremacist group who kicked him out of the group because they thought he was too old. So, he was trying to prove to them that he was fully capable of being a bad guy and that he shouldn't have been kicked out. And he was later apprehended. And I think he died in prison shortly after.", "And when you see how this was all executed, the operation itself, there is - no part of you is surprised that a 64-year-old civilian was able to organize himself so horribly efficiently? I mean, because it's not just - no, but it's not just the acquisition of the weapons, it's how he knew that was the best vantage point. He had cameras inside, outside the room. I mean, just feels military, doesn't it?", "Hala, I'm 65. And I don't think most of us at my age are too feeble to carry out what he did.", "No, no. Not feeble physically. I mean, he doesn't have the training is what I'm saying, obviously.", "It wouldn't take much training. You could buy these weapons. They are very simple to put bullets in a magazine, put the magazine in the gun, cock it, pull the trigger and off it goes. In this situation, he would not have to have been a skilled marksman because the group in this concert were not that far away from him and they're packed so tightly that he could just fire in that general direction and just spray bullets at that crowd, and that's how he could hit 50 people. If this individual was a trained special forces member, he would've killed three times that many people. So, it's not that difficult to do what he did. It took a lot of organization to, obviously, accumulate that many weapons, to put them in luggage, to bring them up to the room, and then set up like he did with a vantage point down the Las Vegas Strip, which gave him a long view of the thousands of people that were down there attending or nearby the concert venue.", "All right, Tom Fuentes. Thanks so much for joining us. We always appreciate your analysis and shedding some light there on some of the questions people still have about this case.", "Thank you, Hala.", "He has been in the job for around nine months, but the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said he has no plans to resign and denied that Vice President Mike Pence had urged him to stay in the job. It stems from a report by \"NBC News\" that reported that Tillerson had called the president a moron in July. Here is how, after that report came out, he walked up to the podium at the State Department and addressed that accusation.", "There is some news - I'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that. This is what I don't understand about Washington. Again, I'm not from this place, but the places I come from, we don't deal with that kind of petty nonsense.", "President Trump never one to miss a chance to bash the media immediately tweeted, \"The @NBCNews story has just been totally refuted by Sec. Tillerson and @VP Pence. It is #FakeNews. They should issue an apology to AMERICA!\" Meanwhile, \"NBC\" says it stands by its reporting. Let's get more with Elise Labott. She's at the State Department. So, Elise, the secretary of state says he's committed to the president, that he stands by him. He didn't exactly deny that he called him a moron.", "He didn't deny it, Hala, but later his spokesman Heather Nauert, State Department spokesman, came out to the podium at the briefing today, told reporters that he did, in fact, deny ever having used that language. Other officials say he didn't want to kind of - as he said, get into that kind of petty talk and that disparaging talk upstairs, but sent his spokesman out to say that he did not, in fact, call the president a moron. Now, Secretary of State Tillerson, as you know, has been quite frustrated in the job. He's constantly undermined by President Trump. But aides tell us that he has continued to plow ahead, working with, as he says, Secretary of Defense Mattis and others on the president's foreign policy. He kind of went through some foreign policy successes. I will say that Heather Nauert said that after Secretary Tillerson made those remarks today, Hala, that he did have a phone call with the president. He said that president was - that call was a good call. And privately, aides are saying that things are blowing over. Obviously, the White House not happy with how this is playing out, telling our White House team that president, obviously, not happy that this is boiling out into the public and there's been frustration between these two men. But it seems as if this has kind of reached a plateau. This is a story that started in July and we have to see now if they're going to kind of just be willing to move on. Clearly, a lot of tension there, Hala.", "All right. Thanks very much, Elise Labott at the State Department. Just listening to instructions there, we're still expecting any minute now the president to speak in Las Vegas. He - you can see there, there's a podium that was set up, I understand, in a police command center area. He is surrounded there by about 150 officers, I understand, and journalists are gathered as well. We'll bring you that live when it happens. 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{"id": "NPR-38922", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2006-04-17", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5345471", "title": "Supreme Court Hears Employee Retaliation Suit", "summary": "The Supreme Court hears a case attempting to define what constitutes retaliation by an employer against an employee who has filed a discrimination suit against their company.", "utt": ["In this country, the U.S. Supreme Court examines employment discrimination today. Here's the question at issue: if you charge your boss with discrimination, under what circumstances can you also sue for retaliation?", "The court's decision could affect tens of thousands of employment cases and could affect retaliation claims brought under dozens of other federal laws. Here's NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg.", "The nation's civil rights laws bar not only discrimination, but also retaliation against employees who filed discrimination charges. Today's case tests what kind of employer actions are considered retaliation under the law. The case was brought by Sheila White, a 5-foot, 1-inch mother of three, who at age 41 went to work for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Company. On her previous job, she'd been a forklift operator and she says she was hired for the same task at Burlington Northern, the first woman hired to work on the tracks.", "Burlington Northern says she was hired for a mix of track duties, including forklift operator. Two months into her job, she complained to company officials that she was being sexually harassed. Her supervisor was suspended for ten days and she was reassigned.", "I was told the very same day that I would no longer be operating the forklift. They were putting me on the railroad tracks.", "That meant lifting hundred-pound jackhammers, hauling rocks, jumping on and off trains, constant travel, and longer hours. She filed a retaliation claim with the EEOC, and a week later she was suspended for insubordination. She challenged the suspension; 37 days later, a company hearing officer ruled in her favor and reinstated her with back pay.", "That 37 days were the worst days I want to think of. Two children in school, and I was the supporter, and no income coming in at all.", "The Company's position is that the reinstatement with back pay made White whole.", "Carter Phillips represents Burlington Northern.", "At the end of it, she ended up precisely where she would have been otherwise.", "A federal jury didn't agree, awarding White $43,000 dollars to compensate her for illegal retaliation by her employer.", "A federal appeals court upheld the award, ruling, among other things, that White's forklift job, though technically in the same job category as a track worker, was in fact an entirely different, physically easier job, and that by permanently removing her from the forklift job, as well as suspending her, the company had retaliated against her.", "Today, Burlington Northern's Mr. Phillips will tell the Supreme Court the lower court was wrong.", "Our argument there is that that's not the right way to characterize it. She was hired as a laborer. She applied for the job of laborer. She didn't apply for the job of forklift operator. There wasn't such a job at the time.", "Phillips will tell the high court that Congress did not intend to authorize retaliation lawsuits unless there's been some change in the conditions or privileges of employment, some act involving hiring, firing, promotion, demotion, acts which typically have an economic effect on an employee.", "But Sheila White's lawyer, Donald Donati, counters that Congress never intended such a limit on retaliation suits.", "The reason is that retaliation comes in all types and forms. The only limitation is what the human imagination can devise.", "Burlington's Phillips responds that in the last twelve years the number of retaliation lawsuits has doubled from, 10,000 to 20,000, because increasingly trivial matters have become the subject of such lawsuits.", "Every slight, whatever that means, will be a source of retaliation. And if you adopt a standard that says that everything that is viewed as adverse by the employee is a basis for retaliation, the 100 percent increase in claims for retaliation that you've seen in the last few years will be a 1,000 percent increase.", "But Sheila White does not see her case as involving small slights.", "Small? I consider my complaints very large for all the abuse and harassment and treatment I have received out there. Day by day it went to a different level, higher and higher, where they were trying to force me out.", "And her lawyer, Mr. Donati, says some 42 other federal laws are modeled on this one, laws involving regulation of health, safety, even the securities industry, all laws written to protect from retaliation individuals who bring enforcement complaints.", "Without that protection the underlying statutes will be severely diminished, because it doesn't take much to have an individual intimidated and fearful about the consequences. If employees don't know they'll be protected by the statute, they'll stop bringing these claims.", "A decision in the retaliation case is expected by summer.", "Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "NINA TOTENBERG", "NINA TOTENBERG", "SHEILA WHITE", "TOGENBERG", "SHEILA WHITE", "NINA TOTENBERG", "NINA TOTENBERG", "CARTER PHILLIPS", "NINA TOTENBERG", "NINA TOTENBERG", "NINA TOTENBERG", "CARTER PHILLIPS", "NINA TOTENBERG", "NINA TOTENBERG", "DONALD DONATI", "NINA TOTENBERG", "CARTER PHILLIPS", "NINA TOTENBERG", "SHEILA WHITE", "NINA TOTENBERG", "DONALD DONATI", "NINA TOTENBERG", "NINA TOTENBERG"]}
{"id": "CNN-275763", "program": "IDESK", "date": "2016-02-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/05/id.01.html", "summary": "Pope to Meet Head of Russian Orthodox Church; Militants Attack U.S. Base in Mali", "utt": ["Welcome back.", "Now look at that. An active volcano in Japan has begun erupting and the images are spectacular. This is Sakurajima volcano in Southern Japan. You can see fountains of hot magma shooting into the sky. About 4,000 people live nearby. The alert level has been raised but no one is being asked to evacuate. And there are no reports of damage or injuries at this point. The volcano has been erupting regularly for more than 60 years.", "The Vatican says an unprecedented meeting of church leaders will take place next Friday in Cuba. Pope Francis will meet the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Cyril (ph). The heads of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches have never met since they split into Eastern and Western Christianity almost 1,000 years ago. The leaders will sit down together at Havana's airport and sign a joint declaration. Well, CNN contributor Barbie Nadeau joins me now from Russia. And I mean, we can say historic but this meeting really is. Why?", "Oh, it's very historic, especially given the fact that both Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II tried in vain to set up this sort of a meeting. The fact that Pope Francis has been able to do it is really a feather in his cap. He's proving himself to quite the global diplomat. It's also curious that they have chosen to go to Cuba. Obviously logistically it makes sense. The pope is on his way to Mexico next week. As it is, it makes sense logistically but it's also important because it brings Cuba a little bit back into the diplomatic fold as well. And it makes sense on a lot of different levels. The pope is doing what he says he's going to do, which is spread his message, spread peace and no one seems to stop him really -- Robyn.", "And they have many common things to talk about, persecution of Christians around the world. And this is also a common theme with the Kremlin. Is there some symmetry as well in terms of growing relationship between the Kremlin and the Vatican?", "Well, I think you can really read into that. Of course, they have 1,000 years worth of catching up to do. There are many, many things, I suspect, on that agenda, especially from the side of the Holy See and the side of Pope Francis. We'll know a lot more, I think, as the days get closer but it's interesting. This was a surprise announcement that the Vatican actually was able to produce their press release in Russian, which is not one of their official languages. So you might think they probably had this in their back pocket a couple of days before they made the announcement. They made the announcement before they laid out the final plans of his trip to Mexico, which is going to be seen as a very, very important trip, as well he's giving a mass on the U.S.-Mexican border and things like that. This won't overshadow that trip to Mexico but this is an interesting way to start it -- Robyn.", "Indeed. This is a meeting that many popes before, as you said, have been trying to engineer for decades now. What is interesting, then, is do you think we'll see a papal visit to Moscow anytime soon?", "Well, we understand that something like that is in the works. Of course, this pope has --", "-- a very long list of places he wants to visit. Going to Moscow has been on that list for quite some time. This very well may be the groundwork for that if he's extended an invitation. I'm sure he won't say no to that -- Robyn.", "Barbie, thanks so much. Well, to Mali now, where militants stormed a U.N. police base in Timbuktu early Friday. Now they blew their way in with a car bomb, sparking a gun battle. One Malian soldier was killed, along with four suspected jihadis. A spokesman says the fighting is over and the base has been retaken. No word on who was behind the attack. The U.N. established a peacekeeping mission to stabilize Mali in 2013 after fighting between rebels and Islamists. And this just into CNN. Police in Dublin, Ireland, are responding to what they call a serious incident at the Regency Hotel there. Witnesses say gunmen entered the hotel during a boxing weigh-in and started firing. Police haven't confirmed that yet. But we are keeping a close eye on the story. We'll update you if we get any more details. Moving on, investigators looking into an explosion on a Somali airline. They think the cause was a bomb that was inside a laptop computer. That comes after we got word from a source on Wednesday that initial tests on residue from the aircraft revealed a military grade TNT. One passenger was killed after the explosion. And Zimbabwe declared a state of disaster over a severe drought. More than 16,000 cattle have died across the country and now about 2.5 million Zimbabweans are considered food insecure. An El Nino weather pattern has contributed to the drought that is hitting several nations in the region very hard. However, some critics charge President Robert Mugabe's policy set up -- have set up their conditions that made Zimbabwe most vulnerable, including politicizing farm ownership, which some believe has negatively impacted the country's agriculture sector for years. Now this disaster declaration will make it easier for international donors to raise money and send aid more quickly. Still ahead, harsh words at the first one-on-one debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. What's at stake as they head into the next big test of their campaigns."], "speaker": ["CURNOW", "CURNOW (voice-over)", "CURNOW", "BARBIE NADEAU, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CURNOW", "NADEAU", "CURNOW", "NADEAU", "NADEAU", "CURNOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-32219", "program": "CNN TAKE FIVE", "date": "2001-6-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/09/tf.00.html", "summary": "McVeigh Execution Draws Near; Will Europeans Warm to Bush Agenda?", "utt": ["Good evening. See the fight last night? The daughters of Ali and Frazier duking it out. Well, we've got three women here ready to get scrappy, too, so join us and TAKE 5 with Tamala Edwards, \"TIME\" magazine staff writer; Danielle Crittenden, and author of a serialized novel on opinionjournal.com; our regular panelist Robert George of \"The New York Post\" and my brilliant co- host, Michelle Cottle of \"The New Republic.\" I'm Jake Tapper from salon.com. Bon voyage, Mr. President: Can Bush charm angry Europeans next week? And a Los Angeles jury awards $3 billion to a 40 year Marlboro man. And our Takes. These and other hot smoking issues all just ahead.", "But first, the McVeigh countdown ticks toward Monday morning. With images of the Oklahoma City bombing burned into the national memory, sympathy is scarce for the bomber. But while Monday's execution ends McVeigh's drama, it's unlikely to end debate over a moratorium on the death penalty, especially after the release of controversial Justice Department research that found no racial bias in federal executions.", "I think there is no reason for us to have a moratorium in the federal system on the death penalty, and the judgments we have reached in the studies affirm that.", "So, Tam, do you buy the findings?", "No, I don't. Here's why. I think Ashcroft made a good point. A lot of these guys did horrible things, they were prosecuted the way they should be and they happen to be minorities. But two problems. They looked at federal cases of people getting the death penalty. By far, the larger pool are people who get it in the states, and they didn't really compare. Are they taking people who have been prosecuted for distributing drug, are they prosecuting people who smuggle drugs, when tend to be white as much as they do people who tend to be black. It's the old, if you get caught with crack, are you prosecuted as much as if you get caught with cocaine. The answer is no.", "Tam, I hate to tell you this, but in a sense, there is no bias in federal executions...", "How can you go on this report?", "... because there has been no executions in 40 years at the federal level. The fact is many of the people who are on death row have been involved in gang activity, which as anybody who lives in L.A. can tell you, unfortunately, there's a preponderance of black gangs, of Latino gangs and so forth...", "There are also white people who do crack.", "It's not surprising that you are going to have an oversampling of gangs -- drug kingpins on death row.", "But Robert is right in that more people killed by lightning every year than receive the death penalty any where in the states. But we don't punish people according to the percentage that they are in the population, we punish them according to the crimes they commit. And yes, it's true that blacks are 13 percent of the population, but they commit more than half of the most violence crimes.", "But there is a disturbing point in the report that hasn't gotten a lot of attention that they do a lot more plea bargaining with white offenders, apparently, and I think Ashcroft called it a statistical disparity, or something like this, but this statistical disparity then winds up with 14 of the 20 people on death row being black.", "Robert, do you really think that a white person and black person for the same crime get the same justice in America? Do you really think that?", "Generally speaking, yes.", "You really do?", "Yes.", "We're talking, too, about the death penalty, and the death penalty is not given away lightly, as it were, and to say that they are going to compare somebody who is on death row to somebody who is caught with cocaine smuggling, those are just completely different cases", "But the death penalty is just one American policy that infuriates many Europeans, who are now preparing to greet President Bush next week. It's his first-ever presidential trip to Europe. He'll shoot the bull in Spain, flex his muscles in Brussels at NATO HQ, chew the fat in Sweden with European big fish, avoid making Polish jokes in Warsaw and we hope he'll be \"Putin\" the Russian president in a friendly mood at a stop in Slovenia. The question, of course: Can he smooth over opposition to U.S. policies on missile defense, climate change, and the rest of the heavy baggage he's packing. Robert, that's a tall order for this president. Do you think he can do it?", "Around the world in 6 days with George W. Bush. You know, I think he can. It's going to be difficult because what he is going to have to convince the Europeans of is that he wants to, in as sense, move America out of these kind of binding, this kind of multilateral commitments that Clinton put the country into which, considering both our economic and military strength and so forth, is frankly inappropriate and he is pushing the country more in a unilateral mode, and he has to sell the Europeans on that.", "But he's starting out on a bad foot even before he goes. I mean, he told the European Union officials that he was going to cut down the number of times they meet. They only meet twice a year. This is not getting him off on the right foot.", "Has anything actually seriously come out of these meetings?", "But that's not the point. The point is he's politically tone deaf on this and he knows he's got to be careful.", "What I don't understands is why we're deciding that our foreign policy is bad if the Europeans don't like it.", "It's more of a question of our foreign policy toward the Europeans being bad. Now, listen, I have say, it's a bad wrap to blame the Kyoto thing on him. That thing couldn't get through the Senate, and European countries have yet to ratify that. That's not a fair charge against him, but he promised a foreign policy of humility and that is the exact opposite of his foreign policy.", "But we can't rely on Europe to be humble, and I think what he's going...", "But the Europeans, this is not about what Bush or America does, this is about what America is. They resent it that it's powerful, that it's rich.", "I'm going to have to cut this off, but we have to go. From the Republican White House to the newly Democratic Senate, you couldn't miss Tom Daschle this week. The son of South Dakota wins the TAKE 5 \"Employee of the Week\" award for striking a note of bipartisanship at the end of a rancorous three weeks. Robert, what do you think? Is it all downhill for Daschle from here for Daschle?", "Gag me with a spoon. Everybody come in promising -- Clinton bipartisan, Bush change the tone. It usually lasts for five minutes.", "But then we have Lott declaring war on the Democratic Party, as he did yesterday, you have to at least say that Daschle put -- maybe you don't buy it, but it has been an affable and bipartisan phase.", "It's so different from Gephardt.", "If Trent Lott has declared war on the Democratic Party a year ago or something, I think conservatives would have been a lot happier. It's a little bit too late now.", "The Democrats declare war every week against the Republicans.", "I think Tom Daschle is know for being a sweet, reserved, laid-back guy compared to many of his colleagues, but I think the nature of this Senate, by next week, there'll be fighting anyway. It doesn't matter how nice a guy he is.", "Tam, coming up, we're going to have the embarrassment of riches in the Bush Cabinet; playground teasing or dangerous behavior, kids and sexual harassment; plus our takes, all just ahead."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, HOST", "MICHELLE COTTLE, CO-HOST", "JOHN ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL", "COTTLE", "TAMALA EDWARDS, \"TIME\" MAGAZINE", "ROBERT GEORGE, \"THE NEW YORK POST\"", "EDWARDS", "GEORGE", "EDWARDS", "GEORGE", "DANIELLE CRITTENDEN, OPINIONJOURNAL.COM", "COTTLE", "TAPPER", "GEORGE", "TAPPER", "GEORGE", "CRITTENDEN", "TAPPER", "GEORGE", "COTTLE", "GEORGE", "COTTLE", "CRITTENDEN", "TAPPER", "CRITTENDEN", "CRITTENDEN", "COTTLE", "GEORGE", "TAPPER", "CRITTENDEN", "GEORGE", "CRITTENDEN", "EDWARDS", "COTTLE"]}
{"id": "CNN-394811", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2020-03-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/09/es.01.html", "summary": "Presidential Race 2020, All Eyes On Michigan; Severe Restrictions In Italy", "utt": ["Coronavirus is affecting more people and more events worldwide. The biggest wild card right now is the Tokyo Summer Olympics. Organizers say they are keeping a close eye on developments. Meantime, Saudi Arabia is suspending schools and universities starting today. Israel is considering quarantines for everyone entering the country which could mean big changes for people planning to travel for Passover next month.", "France has announced a ban on gatherings of more than 1,000 people. Greece also restricting public gatherings announcing that all sporting events will be held behind closed doors. School trips are banned for two weeks and northern Italy has imposed the largest lockdown outside of mainland China. Restricting the movements of nearly 16 million people. CNN's Delia Gallagher is live in Rome with the latest. It's remarkable to see the pictures of just -- you know, quiet on the streets, people at home, what is the effect?", "Well, you know, Christine, since yesterday there has been major disruption in the lives of Italians, not only there in the north where the lockdown measures are in place, so not much freedom of movement except for essential work or medical reasons, but also in the rest of the country. Museums are closed, historical sites like the coliseums are closed, no weddings or funerals can be held. Anything you had on your calendar for the next few weeks has been cancelled. People are especially trying to get used to this recommendation to maintain three feet of distance between each other in public spaces. We spoke to one restaurant owner yesterday, he said, he's trying to figure out how waiters can bring food to the table if they have to maintain that kind of distance. Of course, he also said, people aren't really coming to his restaurant. So there is concern also for the economic repercussions of these measures. The government is begging Italians to please abide by them. Of course it is difficult to enforce and police movement of people. That they're appealing to Italian's common sense to try and accept these changes for the next three and a half weeks in the hopes of containing this virus. Christine, Laura?", "All right. Delia Gallagher, thank you so much for that, Delia.", "Well, this could be a make or break week for Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign. Six states vote tomorrow. Senator Sanders is stumping in Michigan with a sense of urgency trying to stop the resurgence of former Vice President Joe Biden. Sanders surprised a lot of people with a win over Hillary Clinton four years ago in Michigan. He's hoping for a repeat tomorrow following a disappointing Super Tuesday. On CNN, he tapped into the anti-globalization message that help elect President Trump and slammed Biden for trade deals, he says led to the loss of four million jobs.", "In Michigan the people here have been devastated, devastated in Flint and Detroit by these disastrous trade agreements that Joe Biden voted for. He voted for NAFTA. He voted for TNTR with China which forced the American workers to compete against desperate people who are making pennies an hour.", "Biden now leading in delegates striking a more positive tone.", "Presidents have to heal. Presidents cannot hold grudges. Presidents have to bring us together. We must beat Donald Trump and the Republican Party. But we cannot become like them.", "Biden and Sanders picked up big name African-American endorsements, Senator Kamala Harris for Biden. Civil Rights leader and a former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson for Sanders. As Democrats start to coalesce around Biden, the Trump campaign is arguing he's just like Sanders. During a call with reporters on Sunday, one official said they are two sides -- they are two sides of the same coin. Sources say, Trump is frustrated by Biden's comeback.", "All right. Still ahead, they're already best friends. Turns out they're so much more."], "speaker": ["JARRETT", "ROMANS", "DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (I-VT), U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ROMANS", "JOE BIDEN, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 2020 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ROMANS", "JARRETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-22974", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2001-1-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/03/ee.03.html", "summary": "Transition of Power: Bush to Gauge U.S. Economic Health, Meet With Business Executives", "utt": ["As Congress prepares to get down to business, President-elect George W. Bush is busy on his agenda. Today and tomorrow, he's focusing on the economy. So let's get details on that from CNN national correspondent Tony Hill -- actually it's Tony Clark in Austin, Texas. Good morning, Tony.", "Good morning, Carol. President-elect Bush says he is worried about the prospect of an economic slowdown just as he's ready to take office in the White House. So he has invited business executives to come here to Austin to give their prognosis of the economy and their solutions. He's invited business executives from all over the country.", "With Christmas retail sales off, and the economic indicators showing a slowdown, George W. Bush's first major challenge as president may be trying to keep the economy strong.", "This is an administration that certainly hopes the economy remains strong. It'll make our job a heck of a lot easier. But ours is going to be an administration that anticipates any potential problem.", "To get a better read on the economy and what needs to be done to stave off a recession, Mr. Bush is bringing business leaders from around the country.", "They're the people who are best versed at telling the American people and the president-elect, how strong is the economy? How serious are the problems of potential weakening?", "People from major conglomerates, like Jack Welch from General Electric; people who have their finger on the pulse of consumers, like Kenneth Langone from Home Depot; from the high-tech industry, people like Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computers; and flat tax proponent and former Republican presidential hopeful Steve Forbes. For the president-elect, it is a chance to hear a wide range of views.", "I think he'll go into this meeting with an open mind. He wants to listen to people. And if people have any ideas of anything short term, he'll listen.", "Yet Mr. Bush has already made clear what he believes the cornerstone of American economic policy should be. First, during the campaign:", "It's conservative to cut taxes. It's compassionate to give people their own money so you can save and you can dream and you can build for your children's future.", "And later in his acceptance speech as president-elect.", "Together we will give Americans the broad, fair and fiscally responsible tax relief they deserve.", "Now, if anything, the president-elect says he feels stronger about the need for a tax cut than ever.", "I believe that a tax relief package, if properly structured -- and I'm confident ours is properly structured -- will encourage economic growth and vitality and more job creation.", "Bush's two-day conference at an Austin hotel will be private. Aides say he wants participants to feel free to speak their mind.", "While there will be business executives from all over the country presenting their views here, two key players for the economy from the proposed Bush administration will not be here. Treasury Secretary-designee Paul O'Neil and Commerce Secretary-designee Don Evans will be on Capitol Hill preparing for those confirmation hearings that Kate Snow was just talking about. Tony Clark, CNN, Austin.", "Thank you, Tony."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "TONY CLARK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CLARK (voice-over)", "BUSH", "CLARK", "ARI FLEISCHER, BUSH PRESS SECRETARY", "CLARK", "FLEISCHER", "CLARK", "BUSH", "CLARK", "BUSH", "CLARK", "BUSH", "CLARK", "CLARK", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-184074", "program": "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS", "date": "2012-4-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/08/fzgps.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Ahmed Rashid, Peter Bergen", "utt": ["Last week, the United States put a $10 million bounty on this man's head. His name is Hafiz Saeed, the man Washington blames for masterminding the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India. So imagine the surprise when he shows up openly at a press conference in Pakistan, and he had a message for the State Department. \"Why give the $10 million to someone else? Why not give it to me,\" he said. It is a message of defiance that also highlights the state of relations between Washington and his Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. I have two superb guests to talk about that relationship as well as another crumbling partnership across the border in Afghanistan. Ahmed Rashid is an award-winning journalist and the author of a new book \"Pakistan on the Brink.\" And in Islamabad itself, we are joined by CNN's terror expert, Peter Bergen. Welcome. Ahmed, was it a mistake to have put that bounty on Hafiz Saeed? What do you think was the thinking behind it?", "Well, I fear now that, you know, both countries have been in this very dense relationship for the last six months. I fear now what we are seeing is a kind of tit for tat, a kind of proxy war going on now. Because Pakistan did not open the road when the Americans expected. That is the road that is transporting goods from Karachi up to the Afghan border for the U.S. forces in Afghanistan. That road has been shut now for nearly five months. Pakistan was supposed to open that road after a parliamentary debate, it hasn't done so. I think this is an American response to that. A week ago, we saw an earlier tit for tat when the chairman -- when the head of CENTCOM, General Mattis, was in Islamabad, and that very day the Defense Department releases a statement saying that the Americans were not responsible for the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in -- on the border, five months ago that sparked this present problem. So, you know, both sides are, instead of coming together and really healing the rift, I fear that they are going further apart.", "You wrote in a piece in the FT that it really is time to start serious conversations with the Taliban and find some way to create some level, a kind of political stability. You know, this is something we have all talked about for two or three years and somehow is doesn't seem to -- nothing seems to move. Is there any sense that there is movement on the U.S. side, the Taliban side, the Karzai side?", "Well, you know, I mean, talks have started. There have been direct meetings between American officials and the Taliban in Qatar. They have been stymied for the moment because of all these terrible incidents in Afghanistan. But it's very clear that the Taliban do want to talk. We should remember, Fareed, that, you know, it was the Taliban who approached the Americans for talks two years ago, through the Germans and through Qatar. And they sent messages to the Americans saying, we want to talk. Now I really believe that the Taliban do not want to see the Americans leave, and a really even worse civil war erupting in Afghanistan as a result of that.", "So they are looking for some kind of a deal?", "Yes. They are looking for a deal with the U.S. so that there can be, first of all, I think, a reduction in the violence. In other words, that they want -- both sides would have to build trust with each other and take measures, which would hopefully reduce the violence, ultimately, of course, ending in some kind of cease-fire between them. And then, you know, they would obviously want to talk to Karzai about some kind of power-sharing agreement with the Afghan government. But I think the decision has to be made in Washington that they want to pursue negotiations with greater determination than before, even perhaps with more determination than the military track. And the military has to be told -- the U.S. military has to be sold that these negotiations are vital. And, you know, the military -- there will come a time when the military will have to play second fiddle to the negotiations. I don't think the U.S. military is ready for that yet.", "Peter, do you get a sense that in Pakistan if there were to be some settlement, if the U.S. were to withdraw, does Pakistan believe that the Taliban are basically there -- you know, is their path to influence in Afghanistan? That, you know, the last time around, the Taliban effectively came to power on the backs of the Pakistani army. Do they view the return of the Taliban as something that they, the Pakistani military, want to push for?", "I don't think there is any great desire by the Pakistani government to have a Taliban- controlled Afghanistan, not at all, partly because there has been so much blowback into Pakistan by, you know, Taliban groups. I think they do want to have control and one of the ways they see control is through the Haqqani network in eastern Afghanistan. But that doesn't mean that they want a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan at all. And they certainly don't want another civil war because, you know, an Afghanistan that blows apart on their western border will produce huge refugee flows. Pakistan has already lived through that with one of the largest refugee populations in the world during the Soviet war. They don't want a repeat of that. So I think they want a semi-stable government that isn't aligned with India. They see the Taliban -- elements of the Taliban as part of that. But, you know, just zooming out for one second, Fareed, I'm very skeptical that negotiations with the Taliban will succeed because we have already run a controlled experiment on this question in Pakistan repeatedly. The Taliban government has done -- the Taliban has done peace deals with the Pakistani government in '06 and '05, in Waziristan, north and south, in Swat in 2009. And the Taliban took each of those peace deals, so-called, as an opportunity to regroup and to kind of spread their influence. So I don't think they are sort of rational actors, a sort of group of Henry Kissingers in waiting, with whom that you can do a deal, that won't necessarily stick. And as you indicated at the beginning of this discussion, you know the talks of whatever status they were, they are not going very well. We don't have a huge amount of time before 2014. And I think it is much more important to be focused on the free and fair election in Afghanistan in 2014, a very predictable event, if that election is not seen as free and fair and -- you know, and resources are not put into it to make sure that that is the case. That could be a sort of instigator of greater conflict in Afghanistan. And I think the U.S. has sort of put this in this binary thing. If we have a deal with the Taliban, somehow that solves the Afghan problem, when really it's a much larger political problem that, to some degree, a free and fair election in 2014 might begin to solve.", "Quick final thought, Ahmed?", "Well, you know, I think, you know, there are going to be so many complications which are not necessarily being addressed by the administration or by NATO. For example, not only is there this question of the Taliban, there is a question of a regional dialogue with the neighbors. And in fact that regional dialogue is even further away than before because now the U.S. is at odds with Pakistan. The U.S. is at odds with Iran. These are key neighbors of Afghanistan. How are you going to prevent these countries from interfering in Afghanistan after the Americans leave in 2014? You have to try and get these countries together now. And it doesn't look like this will happen. The internal dynamics, the elections in 2014, what role is the Northern Alliance, the non-Pashtuns, going to play? These are all very important questions. And finally, the economic question. There's no sustainable economy in Afghanistan, even 10 years after American intervention. The American forces will leave. Thousands of Afghans who have been servicing the Americans will be out of a job.", "Ahmed Rashid, Peter Bergen in Islamabad, thank you for discussing a subject that isn't going to go away. Up next \"What in the World?\" Understanding the problems in the Arab world by exploring events that took place 1,000 years ago. Don't miss this."], "speaker": ["ZAKARIA", "AHMED RASHID, AUTHOR, \"PAKISTAN ON THE BRINK\"", "ZAKARIA", "RASHID", "ZAKARIA", "RASHID", "ZAKARIA", "PETER BERGEN, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "ZAKARIA", "RASHID", "ZAKARIA"]}
{"id": "CNN-397440", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-04-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/13/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Tornadoes Ripped Through Southern U.S.; Prime Minister Boris Johnson Grateful for His Second Life; U.S. Tops COVID-19 Cases in the World; CNN Shows You One Day Inside a New York Hospital; Worldwide Coronavirus Case Count Now Approaching Two Million", "utt": ["Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. Welcome to CNN Newsroom. Well, two big stories this hour. The death toll from the coronavirus nears 115,000 lives with much of the world still on lockdown. And even as the U.S. stay indoors this Easter weekend, deadly tornadoes are cutting apart the destruction across the south right now. Well, eight people are now confirmed dead in those tornadoes. You are looking at Alabama, one of the states hit very hard. Some of those areas are also dealing with flooding. Hundreds of houses just spleen to the part in the storms and the violent weather isn't over yet. In fact, those storms are in the Atlanta area right now. And our Pedram Javaheri joins me now to give us an update. Pedram, as if people don't have enough to deal with COVID-19 of course. How bad is this looking right now?", "They were in the height of it. Certainly, we've seen some incredible reports coming out of areas not just across portions of Mississippi and Alabama, as you noted now, into metro Atlanta. The cab county portions of Fulton County near the Atlanta Hartsfield?ackson Airport are report of a tornado, confirmed tornado on the ground across the region. The tornado warning across the area expected to be a lot to expire within the next minute or two. But certainly, enacted pattern across the region. I want to show you what's happening as we've had a wild night, and I often talk about. When you get overnight, tornadoes they are statistically two times more likely to be fatal than ones you get into the daytime hours. So, certainly it goes without saying, this is dangerous as it gets. We've had significant run-off tornadoes. The one in the Atlanta metro has been a lot to be expired. There is a little one, a smaller one farther to the south, they're near Forsyth, that is a town of Forsyth east of McDonough near Eatonton. That's an area where the tornado is on the ground at this hour, moving farther towards the east. But again, into the metro region where the population density far, far greater. The tornado warning that was in place, the tornado that was on the ground has retreated back up into the cloud. So certainly, better news coming out of that region. Heavy rainfall continues though throughout the overnight hours. And we think this is the height of it. Beyond the next couple of hours not much left for metro Atlanta but all that energy of course will migrate farther towards the east and then park itself off the eastern seaboard. We do have tornado watches through at least seven in the morning, not only through northern Georgia but portions of North Carolina, that includes the city of Charlotte, also the city of Greenville in South Carolina as well. Reports shipped out (Ph) as such with nearly 40 reports of tornadoes so far in the past several hours. You notice the vast majority of them related to straight- line damaging winds, almost 200 of those in the past couple of hours, and about 30 large-scale reports as well. But again, the energy shifts toward the east. We think the coastal region of the Carolinas, coastal Georgia, other parts of the mid- Atlantic states really going to be most impacted into the morning, and eventually afternoon hours. And climatologically, April into May is peak season for tornado activity. But of course, so much has been happening around the world the last several weeks, several months, this kind of let up on people without people realizing this is the time of year activity is heightened. And of course, at its highest within the next couple of weeks. But you notice, much of Alabama into Georgia probability of about 15 percent for tornados. And we know of course confirmed tornados in the region. And that, Rosemary, it looks as such here that Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Raleigh and then up towards Richmond, Virginia as the cities we're watching carefully when it comes to severe weather from Monday morning, and eventually Monday afternoon about 55 million people in that area at risk.", "Yes. And, Pedram, what's heartbreaking about this is that people are already on stay-at-home orders, trying to stay in their home to shelter. And of course, they've got this to deal with. And some people have lost their homes as a result of this. So, it's very important that we keep an eye on what is happening on the ground.", "Absolutely.", "And Pedram, we appreciate you keeping us up to date. Many thanks. We'll check back in with you very soon.", "Thank you.", "Meantime, the world is now dealing with close to two million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. As people pray for the worst to be over, on Easter Sunday, the U.S. reported nearly 1,500 more fatalities. And that brings the national death toll to more than 22,000. That is according to Johns Hopkins University, the highest in the world. And the head of the American Food and Drug Administration is offering a little bit of hope. He's saying models show the U.S. is very close to its peak and that he believes the worst may have passed. Meanwhile, the leading U.S. expert infectious disease tells CNN's Jake Tapper that earlier action could have saved lives. Take a listen.", "I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier you could have saved lives. Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated. But you're right. I mean, obviously, if we had right from the very beginning shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different. But there was a lot of push back about shutting things down back then.", "And CNN's Jeremy Diamond brings us the latest on the coronavirus response from the White House.", "Well, President Trump on Friday said that it could be the biggest decision of his presidency. That is the decision on when to reopen the Unites States economy. It's a question that has been on President Trump's mind this past weekend, this Easter weekend when President Trump initially said he wanted to see the United States economy back open again. That of course, was before the president decided to extend those social distancing guidelines for the entire month of April. But now the president is once again mulling whether or not to extend those guidelines and whether there's a way that next month he can already begin to reopen the economy. But Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the government's top public health experts, he said on Sunday on CNN's State of the Union that while he does see the possibility of reopening part of the economy next month, it can't happen in one fail switch (Ph).", "It is not going to be a light switch that we say OK, it is now June, July, or whatever, click, the light switch goes back on. It's going to be depending where you are in the country, the nature of the outbreak that you've already experienced, and the threat of an outbreak that you may not have experienced. So, it's going having to look at the situation in different parts of the country. I think it's going to have to be something that is not one-size-fits-all.", "Dr. Fauci though will be just one of the voices weighing in as President Trump mulls this decision. The president is also hearing from other aides inside the administration and advisers outside of the White House who are urging the president to put a date on the calendar for when he can begin to reopen the country. Some of those advisers pushing the president to reopen the economy by May 1st. That is something that no public health expert so far is willing to endorse. That's not a date that they are willing to endorse. One thing is clear though from the public health experts perspective is that the United States really needs to continue to ramp up testing capacity, not only to test to be able to detect if individuals have the coronavirus but also that serology testing that is designed to detect if an individual has the antibodies, meaning that they've had the virus in the past and they've built up some immunity. So, that is the question that the president has been pondering. Again, we know from his public comments, even as the president faces some of the grimmest realities of this virus, he continues to talk about wanting to get the economy open as soon as possible. Jeremy Diamond, CNN, the White House.", "And on that point, the U.S. president has again been insisting that it's up to states to take the lead in the fight against the virus. Donald Trump addressed state governors directly in a terse tweet, saying there are, quote, \"no excuses for them not to have their systems sorted out.\" Mr. Trump claims it's the federal government's role to support them and not necessarily take the lead. Meantime, some good news from one COVID-19 hotspot. New York remains the worst hit state in the U.S. with hundreds of new deaths every day and nearly 200,000 reported infections. But Governor Andrew Cuomo says hospitalizations are dropping and the curve is flattening.", "Let's start with the good news because we deserve some good news, lord knows. Change in total number of hospitalizations is down again. This is the number that we have been watching because the great fear for us is always overwhelming. The hospital system, the capacity of the hospital system, you're not seeing a great decline in the numbers, but you're seeing a flattening. And you're also seeing a recurrence of the terrible news which is the number of lives lost which is 758.", "And the Democratic challenger set to take on Donald Trump in this year's presidential election is laying out his own plan for how to safely reopen America. In an op-ed in the New York Times, Joe Biden insists that people need to keep social distancing and that much more testing needs to happen on a much wider scale. The former vice president wrote this and I'm quoting. \"This isn't rocket science. It's about investment and execution. We are now several months into this crisis and still this administration has not squarely faced up to the original sin in its failed response. The failure to test.\" Meanwhile, a stock warning from the British health secretary.", "Today marks a somber day in the impact of this disease as we join the list of countries who have seen more than 10,000 deaths related to coronavirus. The fact that over 10,000 people have now lost their lives to this invisible killer demonstrates just how serious coronavirus is and why the national effort that everyone is engaged in is so important.", "Now despite this, he says Britain's health service has not been overwhelmed and still has more than 2,000 spare critical care beds. Other health experts say the worst for the U.K. is yet to come and the country could be one of the worst affected in Europe. Well, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now out of the hospital and recovering from the coronavirus at home. Mr. Johnson was hospitalized last week when his symptoms suddenly and dramatically worsened. He spent days in intensive care and he's thanking the people who helped him pull through.", "I hope they wouldn't mind if I mention in particular two nurses who stood by my bedside for 48 hours when things could have gone either way. That Jenny from New Zealand Invercargill on the South Island to be exact, and Luis from Portugal near Porto. And the reason in the end my body didn't stop to get enough oxygen was because for every second of the night they were watching and they were thinking and they were caring and making the interventions I needed.", "And CNN's Max Foster joins us now live from London. Good to see you, Max. And of course, the hospitalization of Prime Minister Boris Johnson was clearly more serious than the people of Britain were initially told. What more are you learning about that, and of course the grim milestone just reached in terms of deaths across the", "Well, that 10,000 figure is a grim milestone as you say. Only five countries have reached it. So, you know, sort of achievement you don't want to come up with during this crisis in any country. And also, there is this pressure also in the U.K. to perhaps loosen some of its lockdown measures in the same way as Italy and Spain as such, still. But we're behind the curve in that sense. As far as Boris Johnson is concerned, he is recuperating at his country, Rosie, outside London while his government is run from here. You're right to point out there's sense in the U.K. that perhaps Brits weren't fully informed about how serious the case was for Boris Johnson. Certainly, he talks there about pretty much coming close to death within that 48-hour period but he bounced back from that because of the NHS staff around him. He named them individually and he also uses it as a reason to emphasize to the nation that you need to stick by this lockdown. He describes the lockdown as a shield against around our treasured National Health Service in the United Kingdom. So that's what his message was really about. But as you say, Rosemary, many people struck by how well he looked in it considering how critical he was just a few days ago.", "Yes, it is extraordinary. And Max, I wanted to ask you because the prime minister is clearly very appreciative of the care he received while in the hospital. Could his experience change the level of help the medical professionals across the U.K. have been receiving in terms of personal protective equipment and ventilators like so many other countries there's not a lot of it around.", "Now ventilators have been an issue because U.K. companies haven't been able to come up with the ventilators required in the same way that other countries have been able to. So, Britain is actually been going to other countries like Germany asking for ventilators. So that's a big issue. You have seen communities coming together though, to try to support the health service. So, lots of small communities sewing these masks that health service workers need, and also other items that can help them in their work for lack of this PPE that should have been coming through. They've been sewing masks. You can put the professional filters into to try to support the health workers as well. Prince William stepping into the fold as well, very much supporting other key workers. So, he's working with charities to try to support them as they support vulnerable members of the community. For example, this farmer in Wales who he is speaking to, these farmers delivering food to people living in isolation.", "I think Britain is at its best weirdly when we're at crises.", "Yes, absolutely.", "That community spirit, that community feel comes rushing back quicker than anything else.", "So, the next big question for the U.K. due on Thursday is whether or not the lockdown is ease. Nothing we're hearing here in Westminster suggests that that is the case, I think all the scientist is suggesting we need to know when we're at the peak before you can even start talking about easing the lockdown, Rosemary.", "Yes, very true. Max Foster, many thangs to you bringing us that live report from London. I appreciate it. We'll take a very short break here. Still to come, are Spain and France starting to turn a corner. The latest from two of the world's hardest countries. That is next."], "speaker": ["ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR", "PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "CHURCH", "JAVAHERI", "CHURCH", "JAVAHERI", "CHURCH", "ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES", "CHURCH", "JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "FAUCI", "DIAMOND", "CHURCH", "GOV. ANDREW CUOMO (D-NY)", "CHURCH", "MATT HANCOCK, BRITISH HEALTH SECRETARY", "CHURCH", "BORIS JOHNSON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER", "CHURCH", "U.K. MAX FOSTER, CNN LONDON CORRESPONDENT", "CHURCH", "FOSTER", "PRINCE WILLIAM, DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WILLIAM", "FOSTER", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-375844", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2019-07-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/25/ip.02.html", "summary": "Biden and Democratic Rivals Spar Over Policies", "utt": ["-- aggressive with his competitors about certain issues. And so we were seeing him ramp up on issues like criminal justice where a lot of his competitors actually say that he is responsible for a lot of the mass incarcerations because of the 1994 criminal justice bill. And so he's having to defend himself but to also go after their records on these issues. Same thing with Medicare for All and he's trying to find the gaps in that, as well as foreign policy issues. And so, yes, definitely starting to kind of gear up for next week's debates but going after some of these people that he feels will target him.", "And he's also polling very poorly. So he realizes that that helped give Kamala a boost and he is seeking something similar to that. This fight has also kind of been brewing for a while between the two of them, Cory Booker and Joe Biden because remember, after Joe Biden talked about working with the segregationist senators, they got into that scuffle where Cory Booker was like you should apologize. Joe Biden was like no, you should apologize to me. Well, they didn't get the chance to have their moment because they weren't on the debate stage together and now they will be. So it seems like it's going to come to ahead.", "And nice always ends. Remember, the 2016 Republican primary was never nice once Trump got in. That the nicknames and insults came in. Sanders/Clinton was not nice. Obama/Clinton was not nice. So this had to happen at some point, ambition ends nicely even if you're really friends.", "The thing is, John, I mean, you're actually heading on an important point because when you were talking about Sanders versus Clinton, this race is wide open, it really is. I mean, that was the lesson of the last debate. Is, you know, Booker is taking the shot because there is a path for Booker. He is polling low but there is an opportunity, it doesn't necessarily mean he'll hit it but he could. And I think that you are going to see Biden has some of the same -- that's why I think you're talking about this. Biden has similar challenges that Hillary Clinton had with Black Lives Matter protesters in her 2016 race where she found herself on really the wrong side of a generational issue where there had been a civil rights issue that had changed a lot over time. Biden is obviously not going to be as complacent as he was last time. I think that's been drilled into him. But that doesn't mean we know what this is going to look like for him either.", "Right. And the question is does it actually happen on the debate stage.", "Right.", "What candidates often, you know, say on television interviews, say in one speech when it's just them, they get more aggressive. And then they're standing side by side, and it will be Biden in the middle, Booker on one side, Harris on the other one. We'll see if it plays out but if you listen to Senator Booker in recent days, the vice president is target one.", "I'm disappointed that it's taken Joe Biden years and years until he was running for president to actually say that he made a mistake. That there were things in that bill that were extraordinarily bad. Now that he's unveiled his crime bill, for a guy who helped to be an architect of mass incarceration, this is an inadequate solution to what is a raging crisis in our country.", "And again, you can tell the vice president, former vice president is preparing. He says Senator Booker, you want to talk records? Then let's talk records.", "If you look at the mayor's record in Newark, one of the provisions that I wrote in the crime bill of pattern and practice of misbehavior, his police department was stopping and frisking people, mostly African-American men. If he wants to go back and talk about records, I'm happy to do that, but I'd rather talk about the future. I'm happy to debate with anybody the effects of the things that I did as a United States senator, as I did as a vice president. I'm anxious to have a debate with Senator Booker.", "He doesn't sound very anxious. You do get -- in the week before a debate when candidates talk to reporters, you get their briefing books. They started today just talk about what they've been reading and what they've been preparing. So it's clear he's been studying Senator Booker's record, it's clear in recent days he's been studying Kamala Harris' record as a prosecutor out in California so that he can exchange fire. He does not seem terribly energized by the prospect of fighting his fellow Democrats, but he has to, given his slide in the polls, right?", "Yes. And I think this is an evolution for Biden because when he first came out he acted like he was the only Democratic candidate and Trump was the only opponent of his. And now after the segregationist comments, he had to respond to Booker. And ever since then, we've seen him kind of punch Booker and Harris on various things. And I think he's realized that he can't just be the presumed frontrunner and not respond to these criticisms from his fellow Democratic candidates.", "A lot is also responding to the changes within the Democratic Party itself. President Obama remains very popular within the Democratic Party, but the party is also changing. And a lot of his opponents actually reflect those changes and so he's having to juggle the two where he's trying to also stay true to his roots with the Obama administration but also to communicate to this changing tide within the party itself.", "And you have this fierce competition for the Democratic base, African-American voters. And if you go back to 2008 and early on, that was all for Hillary Clinton. Even though Senator Obama was in the race, because nobody thought he was ready yet, nobody thought he was viable. Once he proved he was viable, the floodgates open. And so that's why you have Senator Harris and Senator Booker saying look at me, but they need to prove themselves. And that's why you have -- this is former vice president Biden on the Tom Joyner show again targeting African-American voters saying I guess I'm going to have to mix it up with Kamala Harris too.", "I thought we were friends. And I hope we still will be. You know, she asked me to go out -- called me and asked me to go to her convention and be the guy from outside of California to nominate her at her convention for the Senate seat. I did. We've talked, we worked a lot together. She and my son Beau were attorneys general who took on the banks.", "She did invite him for the California convention. There's no nominating piece of that, so there's a factual discrepancy there. But again, he says I guess I'm going to have to -- he doesn't sound enthusiastic about the challenge he faces next week, which is, stand your ground, defend your past, but then pivot and don't be afraid to attack.", "He sounds like he wants to keep talking about being victimized by her which I have to say at a certain point is going to annoy voters, specifically women voters. Why would he think that she's not going to fight for the race that she entered because they were once friendly at a convention?", "Right.", "Just making a point.", "Friends and nice as we have learned. Pay attention to any campaign, friends and nice gives a way to ambition every time. That's how it works. As we go to break, some insight from some of those African-American voters. This is from yesterday's NAACP presidential candidate forum in Detroit.", "Joe Biden is of my era, OK. And I think he has been second in command for quite a while.", "I am leaning more towards Cory Booker. I just felt like he has that determination.", "Bernie Sanders really -- I hear that if he gets elected we won't have any more student debt so I'm cool with Bernie Sanders."], "speaker": ["VIVIAN SALAMA, WHITE HOUSE REPORTER, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL", "KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "JOHN KING, CNN HOST", "MAGGIE HABERMAN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "KING", "HABERMAN", "KING", "SEN. CORY BOOKER (D-NJ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "KING", "JOE BIDEN (D-DE), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "KING", "HEATHER CAYGLE, CONGRESSIONAL REPORTER, POLITICO", "SALAMA", "KING", "BIDEN", "KING", "HABERMAN", "KING", "HABERMAN", "KING", "DORETHA BROOKS, FLORIDA VOTER", "JACKIE VICKERS, FLORIDA VOTER", "TERRI HUGHES, UTAH VOTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-392696", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2020-02-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/14/ath.02.html", "summary": "CDC Director Warns Coronavirus Will Likely Stay Beyond This Year & Explains How Officials Are Preparing for Outbreak in U.S.", "utt": ["As health officials scramble to control the novel coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control is out for a new warning: This virus is likely to stay around even beyond this year. And health officials have growing concerns about it spreading in the United States. Fifteen people now infected across the country. And more than 64,000 are infected across the globe. CNN chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, joins us now with the latest. And, Sanjay, you got a rare opportunity to discuss the outbreak with the director of the CDC. How big of a challenge has this been?", "Well, I think this is a -- it is priority number one. Certainly for the head of the CDC, the entire organization. I'll tell you, Bianna, it was a fascinating discussion. I mean, the stance is clearly aggressive containment when it comes to this virus. And you're seeing strategies going into place that haven't been used in this country in 50 years. But what I was trying to get at with him was understanding how they arrived at these decisions and how effective they think they're going to be. Take a listen.", "You know, this is going to, you know, obviously be a significant investment.", "On the same day the CDC confirmed a 15th U.S. coronavirus case, I went inside the agency's emergency operation center with director, Dr. Robert Redfield. (on camera): How good is the public health infrastructure at reporting in? (voice-over): To give you an idea of how rapidly the situation is changing. (on camera): By the way the numbers changed I can tell you that's actually 15 there. (voice-over): It's a lot to keep up with. (on camera): What is the worst-case scenario here in the United States?", "So far we've been able to contain it. But I think this virus is probably with us, beyond this season or beyond this year. And I think eventually the virus will find a foothold and we will get community-based transmission. And you can start to think of it in the sense of like seasonal flu. The only difference is we don't understand this virus.", "Which is exactly why the CDC wants to be on the ground in China. It's probably Redfield's biggest frustration.", "Right now, there's no evidence to me that this outbreak is at all under control. It's definitely not controlled. And the sooner we can help them get this under control, the better for the whole world.", "So I guess that does raise the question: Why are we sitting here in Atlanta talking about this, versus the CDC being in China collecting some of this data?", "I don't think it's a medical decision that we are not being invited in.", "What do you think it is?", "I think it's above the medical.", "You think it's a political decision?", "I think it's above the medical. I don't think the director of CDC is making that decision.", "You think it's a political decision?", "I think -- all I can say is I think it's above the director of CDC because I know he would love to have us assist them.", "China has accepted help from the World Health Organization. The CDC is waiting to hear whether it's going to be a part of that team. In the meantime, Redfield says his priority is to keep Americans safe.", "Our whole issue right now is, as I said, aggressive containment to try to give us more time that it's going to take, you know, one to two years to get that, probably develop an out to prepare the health systems, to be able to be flexible enough to deal with the potential, second major cause of respiratory illness.", "One of the other things I took away, Bianna, from all that, is that, when Dr. Redfield talks about buying time, I think what he's saying is, look, this is a little virus. It doesn't respect boundaries. It doesn't respect geography or borders. It is going to get into these places around the world. Buying time does have value, though. With that time, you can start to better define the virus, maybe come up with some therapeutics, and maybe a vaccine, which everyone has been asking about.", "You can sense his frustration though. They want to be on the ground there in China to do more of their own research.", "That's right.", "That must be stunning for you to see the numbers change before your eyes before that interview. Very important story. Thank you for the reporting, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.", "Yes. Thank you.", "And coming up, one more sign that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are stepping back from their royal duties. The details, up next."], "speaker": ["GOLODRYGA", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "DR. ROBERT REDFIELD, DIRECTOR, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "REDFIELD", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "REDFIELD", "GUPTA (on camera)", "REDFIELD", "GUPTA", "REDFIELD", "GUPTA", "REDFIELD", "GUPTA", "REDFIELD", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "REDFIELD", "GUPTA", "GOLODRYGA", "GUPTA", "GOLODRYGA", "GUPTA", "GOLODRYGA"]}
{"id": "CNN-223945", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2014-1-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1401/30/acd.01.html", "summary": "Amanda Knox is Convicted, Again, in Italy", "utt": ["Good evening. Tonight, the breaking news that plunges a young American woman back into the nightmare she thought she escaped. Inside the newest Amanda Knox verdict and the evidence with some called the bogus evidence behind it. Also tonight, the latest on the mess in Atlanta and how at least some of the officials who got it so wrong are now owning up to their mistakes. And later, he is the face of the deadly problem American combat vets who answered the call but can't get the VA to give them badly needed and in some cases life-saving medical care. We're keeping them honest. We begin tonight with breaking news. Amanda Knox convicted of murder for the second time.", "A judge in Florence, Italy reading the verdict. Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito guilty of murder in the alleged drug and sexual stabbing death of Meredith Kercher. More than six years ago as one that occurred in the Italian town of Perugia. Now her sentence, 28 and a half years in prison, extradition a possibility, highly unlikely. Amanda Knox, if you recall, is already done hard time in Italy spending nearly four years in jail in prison until her first co conviction was overturned. She went home Seattle to try in live in normal life. She issued a statement this evening calling the verdict unjust, but hasn't spoken to cameras tonight. She did, however, talk with Britain's \"Guardian Paper\" earlier this week about what a guilty verdict would do to her.", "It would feel like a train wreck. They would order my arrest and the Italian government would approach the American government and say, extradite her and I don't know what would happen.", "Well, Knox has also spoken with \"NEW DAY's\" Chris Cuomo about the possibility of going back to prison.", "Could you do more time?", "Me? Could I do more time?", "Could you handle it? Could you handle it?", "I'm having to handle things. I have not been given a choice, and I think people sort of underestimate what that means and what effect that has had on me and my life. I have no choice but to face this, and I constantly ask myself why, why me? I have no choice but to confront this. And I don't know. I'm afraid, I'm so afraid.", "If you go back, you may not wind upcoming back to America for a very long time.", "Yes. And I'm afraid of that.", "Well, in her statement tonight, she says she's indeed frightened by what would come next, even if she never sets foot in Italy again. Now in a moment, we'll have more on the investigation that first landed her in prison and serious question about the evidence or lack of said evidence against her. First, Erin McLaughlin in Florence of what went in today's verdict and what could come next. So, explain what happened today in court. I mean, the verdict came far later than expected and talk about who this court is compared to other courts.", "Hi, Anderson. We didn't really know what to expect from this court today going into this verdict. In the end, it took six jurors and two judges almost 12 hours to reach this decision when the presiding judge read the verdict out before a very packed courthouse, it was met with silence. Amanda Knox's lawyer later describing to CNN the moment he had to call his client in Seattle and inform her that once again she had been convicted of Meredith Kercher's death. Amanda Knox was understandably shocked, Anderson.", "So she can appeal, though. I mean, this is not it.", "She can absolutely appeal this decision. In fact, the defense has already said they are planning on doing that. They'll appeal the decision to Italy's Supreme Court. But keep in mind that is the same Supreme Court that overturned the 2011 acquittal decision. Basically in the prosecutor's words, raising it to the ground, saying it was full of contradictions and deficiencies, send thing trial back to Florence, urging them to take a comprehensive look at all of the evidence. So at the moment, things really aren't looking too good for Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. That appeals process so, Anderson, could take months.", "All right, Erin McLaughlin, appreciate the update. And her reaction to the verdict this evening, Amanda Knox called it the product of a quote \"prejudice and narrow minded investigation.\" Drew Griffin has managed to re-trace the steps that investigators took and how it, what many believer, the mistake that were made along the way? He spent hours talking to the original lead prosecutor. It's a rare opportunity to decide for yourself whether he was a crusader for justice, we are talking about the prosecutor, as critics say, a man obsessed. Take a look.", "Amanda Knox in this statement told police she was in the house the night of the murder and saw her boss, nightclub owner, Patrick Lumumba, and Meredith Kercher go into Meredith's room and she heard screams. Amanda's statement adds, I am very confused. I imagined what could have happened. Police apparently didn't bother to check the facts about Lumumba. They immediately arrested Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito, and Patrick Lumumba for the murder of Meredith Kercher.", "After the first few weeks, we were convinced because of the behavior of the two people and especially Amanda, that they were both involved in the crime.", "But almost immediately after the arrests, Manini had a problem. The third suspect, Patrick Lumumba, had an airtight alibi. He was in his crowded bar that night. He could not have been involved. Then the actual forensic tests came back.", "When I looked at it, I was horrified.", "Greg Hampikian is a forensic biologist at Boise State University and director of Idaho's innocence project. He says Italian investigators did a good job processing the crime scene, collected excellent evidence, but clung to shakier evidence that proved their theory. A classic error, says Hampikian, a prosecutor who trusted his gut feeling instead of the science that at that time was pointing to another suspect.", "That's Drew Griffin reporting. Now, the other suspect was a man named Rudy Guede, who was convicted and sent to prison. He implicated Knox and Sollecito, after which his sentence was reduced. Joining us now is Amanda Knox's attorney, Ted Simon and Greg Hampikian who you just saw in Drew's report. Ted, you saw this verdict as obviously a historic miscarriage of justice. What happens now? Because a lot of people are talking about her being extradited, but there's a lot of steps before anything like that. I mean, there's an appeal, correct?", "That's correct. And let's understand, some things haven't changed despite this unwelcomed verdict. You know, she was previously found innocent by another appellate court jury, not just not guilty, but actually found innocent. And that is why, when we think about that, and we realize there was no evidence back then and there's no different evidence today, why this is such a horrific miscarriage of justice, of really historic proportions. In fact, it's somewhat incomprehensible to understand how there can be a difference, how can there be a verdict other than what happened before?", "So, why do you think they made this decision, is it politics, face saving? What do you think?", "You know, look, the last appellate court jury did a searching inquiry, they reviewed all the evidence, independent experts were hired by the court that debunked the two key pieces of evidence, purportedly, you know, thought to be persuasive by the prosecution. They were eviscerated, evaporated, held to be without any probative value. And there was nothing else really in the case. So we left it to a discerning eye. But I can tell you, a careful review of the evidence, you have to ask yourself, how is it possible that an appellate court jury found her actually innocent and now another jury of equal stature has reviewed the evidence again and there's no new or different or favorable evidence? In fact, now the knife was retested and the prosecution was basically throwing a hail Mary pass, hoping that they would find Meredith Kercher's profile on the blade. In fact, it was determined that she absolutely was not on the blade, you know. There was a finding that Amanda Knox was on the knife, but that was already the case and she had used that knife. So there's nothing unusual or significant about it. It simply remains no evidence.", "Let me bring in Greg. Because, Greg, you went to Italy to aid the defense team. You looked at all the evidence. You know about the retesting of the knife in the second trial. Is there any doubt in your mind that Amanda Knox did not commit this crime?", "No, there is never any doubt about this case. We disputed the DNA evidence at the very beginning that was used to convict her.", "What did they get wrong about the DNA evidence?", "Well, what they did was, they went way below where we look, so there's a level at which we set our instruments for sensitivity. And you don't want to go below that, because, frankly, there's DNA that comes into lab and chemicals or on gloves or small bits of transfer that can occur. That's one of the reasons. But if you want to go that far down, you have to demonstrate through a validation process that you can. So the normal level for those instruments was at a level called 200 relative fluorescent unit. They took them down far below that. The FBI wouldn't even look at anything below 200 at that time to incriminate anybody. My lab would go maybe to 150. There was no DNA at that level. So we disputed it. The appellate court wisely said we're not going to hear from defense experts. We are not going to hear from the original prosecution experts. And the judge appointed two experts out of Rome, Italian experts. They independently tested the DNA evidence. And they agreed with the defense. And that's why she was freed. So science freed her.", "You know, Anderson --", "Ted, what happened now? I mean, where do you go now? Do you appeal?", "Well, yes. There's certainly an appeal. But you know, when you look at the case, and I know you're familiar with the case, and this was a horrific, bloody murder. And if Amanda had participated in any way, part of herself would have been left in the room or on the person of Meredith Kercher. No hair, fibers, footprint, shoeprint, handprint, palm print, sweat, DNA, saliva of any sort of Amanda Knox was found in that room. And you simply can't remove what you can't see. That in and of itself is absolutely unassailable, unquestioned evidence that shows she could not have been involved. That has never changed.", "Ted, what does it mean for Amanda Knox in terms of -- I mean, obviously she's not going to travel to Italy. That would not be wise. What about if she traveled somewhere outside of the United States, is that a concern?", "Well, you know, I know people ask a question ant extradition. But it's really not in play right now, because first of all, she has another appeal to the Supreme Court of Italy. In Italy, under their system, you're still actually presumed innocent until that third final stage.", "So they wouldn't request of extradition of her?", "No. It would be way, way premature. And the prosecution asked for cautionary or provisional arrest warrant today, it was rejected. The court recognized she's lawfully in the United States. She was never required to attend these proceedings, in this form of proceeding. So she has done everything lawful. Everything correct. She's abiding by all court orders, and her appearance then was not necessary, and it's not in issue today. If it ever becomes an issue, you can rest assured there are very substantial defenses that can be interposed. But, you know, I think we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves. The bottom line is, there is no evidence, there was no evidence, and there never will be any evidence, and that's why this is such a gross miscarriage of justice.", "Ted Simon, I'm glad to have you on. Greg --", "In fact, they retested --", "Go ahead, Greg.", "We in fact have new evidence, which is this test reported just in November, ordered by the court, which confirms once again that the evidence we disputed, the DNA was not reliable. There's no evidence of the victim on the knife. That's new, and that came out in November. For the court to ignore that and to increase her sentence when Rudy Guede, whose DNA is in the victim's body is all over that, his hand prints are there, they lowered his sentence. It has nothing to do with science.", "Yes, Rudy guide, they lowered his sentence. Ted Simon, Greg Hampikian, I do appreciate you guys being on. Thank you. You can follow me on twitter. Let me know what you think about this case @andersoncooper, the twitter hand out. Tweet me using #AC360. All right, up next, getting one of America's biggest cities rolling again, we'll take you out on the streets and show you how the public servant who has finally taking responsibility for one of the biggest traffic jams on record in city of Atlanta. And later, delays in diagnosis and treatment at VA hospitals. This is an important story. Veterans put their lives on the line for all of us and they are dying. 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{"id": "CNN-102843", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2006-2-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/14/lol.03.html", "summary": "Hunter Shot By Vice President Cheney Suffers Minor Heart Attack", "utt": ["He was hit in the face, neck and chest, but it's that last part of the body that's now of great concern for doctors treating the man accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney. Harry Whittington is back in intensive care, after suffering a minor heart attack this morning. CNN's Ed Lavandera is outside the hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas. Ed, it's clear now that the wounds are much worse than we were made to believe.", "Well, for the last couple of days, doctors and friends of Harry Whittington had been saying that the wounds suffered from this buckshot wound were superficial, at best. But -- but, over the last day or so, one of the B.B.s from that buckshot has moved its way closer. It actually is touching the heart, from what we understand -- because of that, that it has caused some irritation in the heart -- doctors this morning, about 6:30 this morning, performing a cardiac catheterization to check the blood flow of Mr. Whittington's heart. And that is why he was put back in the intensive care unit this morning, where he will stay, we understand, for another seven days. There had also been talk, perhaps, of Mr. Whittington going home yesterday, or perhaps either today, or even as late as tomorrow. But now we understand that he will be here another seven days, around -- going under 'round-the-clock supervision, as doctors continue to see just what kind of damage these B.B.s might be causing internally. They say, so far, they only have evidence to suggest that only one of these B.B.s is actually touching the heart. And they say that he suffered a mild heart attack, but that is what they say is a -- a layman's term. This isn't the kind of heart attack most people have heard of, they say.", "We picked up an irregular heartbeat. Bear in mind that, at no time, did he ever have any chest pain or the classic signs of a heart attack, anything like that. And we all know well that there are tens of thousands of people every year that have silent heart attacks that never even go into the doctor to be taken care of. But we figure probably some time around 6:30-ish this morning. We can't put a real timetable on exactly when it did occur, though.", "Doctors continue to say, though, that Mr. Whittington could go on to live -- live a productive, healthy life, even with a lot of these B.B.s, perhaps 100 or so, still lodged in his body, that won't -- will not become a problem. They say it takes about two, three, maybe four days for these B.B.s to stop moving, as the scar tissue forms around -- around them, and -- and -- and they settle down. So, they will continue to watch the movement of these B.B.s. They do show up on X-rays, they say, but it's hard for them to pinpoint exactly where it is. And that's why doctors are saying, at this point, there are no plans to go in and remove the B.B. For a man of his age, to go in there, that -- that kind of surgery would be much more, perhaps, dangerous to him, than just monitoring at this point, because they don't know the exact location of it. Mr. Whittington, as far as we know, will continue stay here at the Corpus Christi Hospital. There are no plans to move him that we know of so far to Austin, where he lives -- Betty.", "Ed, you recently mentioned these other B.B.s. Perhaps maybe even 100 or so, is what you said. So, those are going to stay inside his body? They're not going to be removed?", "Yes, that's what doctors say, that in -- in this case, to go -- the idea of going through and removing -- let's say there are 100. They don't know for sure, but if they were to go through and remove all of those, it would be a much too invasive procedure, and that, in these types of hunting accidents, that there are -- you know, in most cases, many of these people just continue to live with the B.B.s lodged in their bodies, and that is what is -- what is done in these cases. However, in this particular case, once it starts getting closer to the heart, that poses another -- another level of threat.", "I guess they're treating it kind of like shrapnel and just kind of leaving it in there.", "Exactly.", "All right, CNN's Ed Lavandera, thank you for the latest there out of Corpus Christi -- Tony.", "Well, Betty, Harry Whittington is getting extensive care, besides the team of doctors in Texas. White House physicians are also involved in his treatment. CNN White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux has details for us, in addition to a statement, I understand, Suzanne, from the vice president's office.", "Well, that's right, Tony. Of course, what we have been doing is, we have been tracking the vice, president, essentially, with this story. We saw the vice president enter the White House this morning for morning meetings in the West Wing. That is when this statement -- according to the statement, that he learned of this procedure that was done to Mr. Whittington, a cardiac catheterization. The vice president then went on to meetings on Capitol Hill. According to the statement, it was about 12:30 or so that his chief of staff handed him a note, essentially saying that there had been some complications regarding his condition, Mr. Whittington's condition, and that there was going to be a 1:00 press conference from the doctors explaining just what was occurring. The vice president then returned back to the White House, we understand, and he was actually watching part of that press conference unfold. After the press conference, at about 1:30, the vice president called Mr. Whittington. And, according to the statement, he spoke to him, saying: \"The vice president wished Mr. Whittington well, asked him if there was anything that he needed. The vice president said that he -- he stood ready to assist. Mr. Whittington's spirits were good. But, obviously, his situation deserves the careful monitoring that his doctors are providing.\" What is very interesting to note here, Tony, about this, is that this is really the first official paper statement that we have gotten from the vice president -- president's office, even acknowledging that this happened. The only other statement that we got officially on paper about this was the fact that the vice president failed to pay a $7 stamp on his hunting license. So, this is really kind of a -- a turn, if you will, the kind of level of detail that we're now getting from the vice president's office regarding the update on his condition. Should also let you know as well, here at the White House, a couple of briefings with Scott McClellan, the press secretary -- a very interesting turn of developments. This -- this was a press conference -- or a briefing, rather, where the emphasis was all about moving on, moving forward. There were a lot of unanswered questions that we had about this incident, and, yet, they made it very, very clear that they are putting this aside. Let's take a listen.", "I don't want to make this about anything other than what it is. It is what it is, David (ph). I was very respectful and responsive to your questions yesterday. I provided you the information I knew based on the facts that were available.", "Clearly, there were a number of unanswered questions. First of all, I had asked whether or not there was any kind of dissatis -- sense of dis -- being dissatisfied by the president here, the fact that he did not hear directly from Cheney, that he was, in fact, the shooter in his incident. He heard it from his adviser Karl Rove. He heard it from his chief of staff, Andy Card, that line of communication. Later on, why was it that Scott McClellan didn't actually know or was aware that Cheney played that significant role in this incident until 12 hours later? Having said that, McClellan and others acknowledged that, yes, they would have done things differently the second time around, but, clearly, this White House, this administration, wanted to put this behind them. Obviously, Mr. Whittington's condition is of -- of great concern now.", "White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux for us -- Suzanne, thank you -- Betty.", "Let's bring in a cardiologist to explain what happened to Harry Whittington. Dr. Paul Simonoff is with the WellStar Kennestone Hospital, right here in Atlanta. Doctor, we appreciate your time. So that we fully understand exactly what has happened with this birdshot, take us back to the fact that this piece of bird shot is lodged in the heart there, and the possibility that it could move and cause even more damage.", "Well, this is indeed a very concerning. There -- there is a question as to whether the birdshot is lodged inside the heart muscle, or is located near the heart muscle. Doctors were alerted to this by virtue of Mr. Whittington demonstrating an irregular heartbeat.", "Like a minor heart attack, is what they said.", "Well, the irregular heartbeat was a tipoff that there indeed was a problem.", "Mmm-hmm.", "And that led the physicians to determine that, indeed, a -- a minor heart attack was sustained.", "So, should they be concerned at this point? What do you do to prevent or to make sure that this little piece of birdshot does not move into the heart?", "This is something that his physicians are looking at closely. They will do the appropriate tests to determine exactly where the birdshot is located, in relation to the heart muscle itself. I would expect that this would also include diagnostic studies, such as a cardiac catheterization, which is a dye test to look at the...", "Which...", "... arteries.", "... they did one today.", "Indeed. And that would determine whether there is blockage within the coronary arteries and how best to -- how best to address that.", "All right, worst-case scenario, if it does get into the heart, into the system there, what could happen?", "Well, there certainly can be bleeding complications related to blood or fluid accumulation around the heart. Again, this is all hypothetical.", "Correct.", "And this would require that Mr. Whittington be watched closely. Among the studies that I'm certain have been done would include an echocardiogram, or ultrasound, to look at the heart muscle, and to make certain that there is no significant fluid accumulation around the heart.", "Let me ask you this very quickly -- quickly, because Bill Nye, \"The Science Guy,\" in fact, brought up this question. With this B.B. in there, could there be a chance of blood poisoning in the system?", "Well, that's a very good question. Mr. Whittington is being treated with antibiotics to cover for the potential of infection. Of course, it depends on what the contents are of the B.B., but blood poisoning is very rare and uncommon. In fact, in many instances, B.B. pellets or even bullets may be left in place without surgical removal, provided that there is no significant migration...", "Right.", "... that may threaten...", "The movement is key here...", "... a vital organ.", "All right. Well, Dr. Paul Simonoff, we appreciate your time this morning to help us understand exactly what's going on, and the possibilities of what could happen. Thank you.", "My pleasure.", "Tony.", "Well, politicians may want to think twice about picking up a shotgun and going after game. Then again, maybe not, since hunting and politics go way back. Here's our national correspondent, Bruce Morton.", "Do politicians love to hunt? Well, some. Theodore Roosevelt went after big game, went exploring -- a genuine enthusiast. Dick Cheney loves to hunt. There has been story after story about his hunting trips, though none, fair is fair, quite as dramatic as this last one. Harry Truman? He would rather have played poker. Dwight Eisenhower organized a partridge hunt in North Africa during World War II and hunted as president. But, when he had his druthers, you would him on a golf course. John Kennedy, a biographer recalls that Lyndon Johnson bullied him into shooting a deer once on the LBJ ranch. But he didn't like it, and didn't fish much either, though, of course, he loved to sail. Johnson himself hunted deer and doves on his ranch, though he sometimes stocked game so heavily, you could argue there wasn't much sport in it. Richard Nixon? This man was so out of tune with nature, he went walking on a beach in a business suit. Stalking game in the wild? Forget it. Jimmy Carter grew up in rural Georgia, fished as a child, went hunting with his father when he was a kid who could only carry a B.B. gun. Ronald Reagan? No -- chopped brush and rode at his ranch, but cared so much about wildlife there, he had rattlesnakes trapped and carted away, not killed. George Herbert Walker Bush loved fishing -- grew up in Maine, after all -- hunted some. Bill Clinton went duck hunting in Arkansas, but, one friend recalled, like the people, the camaraderie, more than actually seeing how many ducks he could kill. This president likes to hunt quail with family and friends, especially on New Year's Day. John Kerry, the man he beat, spent time posing with guns, but voters probably saw more of him pursuing exotic sports, windsurfing and so on. So, some do and some don't. But if I were a quail or maybe even just a hunting companion, I know who I would steer clear of. The vice president is often in what's called a secure location. But that means secure for him. The last vice president to hit anyone, by the way, was Aaron Burr, who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804. Harry Whittington was much luckier. Bruce Morton, CNN, Washington.", "I would say so. Well, he won't shut his mouth in court, but wait until you hear what Saddam Hussein is doing now. All of the courtroom drama, that's straight ahead -- when LIVE FROM returns."], "speaker": ["BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-193975", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2012-10-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1210/09/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Giving It Another Chance", "utt": ["Tonight the brand-new evidence that Robert Pattinson is taking Kristen Stewart back. Plus, a huge payday for the creator of HBO`s pop culture phenomenon, \"Girls.\" And one of Hollywood`s longest married couples splits. That tops the buzz today.", "Danny`s not so sunny marriage. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman are calling it quits. DeVito`s rep confirmed to us that the long-time Hollywood couple are separating after 30 years of marriage. The \"It`s Always Sunny in Philadelphia\" actor and the former \"Cheers\" star tied the knot in 1982. DeVito and Perlman have three children: Danielle is 25, Grace, 27, and Lucy who is 29. \"Twilight\" romance re-ignited? Are Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart giving it another chance? Well, according to a brand-new report by people.com, Rob and K-Stew have gotten back together. The \"Twilight\" pair allegedly broke up after Stewart admitted to having a brief fling with her \"Snow White and the Huntsman\" director, Rupert Sanders, back in July. Let`s hear it from the girls. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you Lena Dunham, creator of HBO`s \"Girls\", has just signed on with Random House to publish a collection of her essays. A spokesperson for the publisher tells us they won`t comment on reports that Dunham will get a whopping $3.5 million for the essays, which will be titled, \"Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She Has Learned\".", "Tonight, the Jerry Sandusky sentencing. Did letters from the family of the former Penn State coach affect the judge`s decision? Dr. Drew investigates right now. END"], "speaker": ["HAMMER", "HAMMER", "HAMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-224621", "program": "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS", "date": "2014-2-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/09/fzgps.01.html", "summary": "Karzai's Not-So-Crazy End Game; U.S. Ambassador to Russia Resigns", "utt": ["This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I'm Fareed Zakaria. We have a terrific show for you today starting with Sochi. I will talk live with Michael McFaul, the outspoken U.S. Ambassador to Russia who has just announced his resignation. We'll talk about the games, the security threats and, of course, the mastermind behind it all, Vladimir Putin. Then, a seasoned investor warns of the event everyone is worried about, the great fall of China, or the Chinese economy, something that will slow growth across the world. Also, the Tiger Mom is back. She tells us why some ethnic groups succeed much more than others. Racism or research? We'll talk it over. Then, technology seems to be moving ahead at warp speed, self- driving cars, computers playing chess and more, but where are the jobs? Two MIT experts explain the paradox. And, Syria is a calamity, Egypt is a mess, but I will bring you one bright spot in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. But, first, here's my take: Is Hamid Karzai crazy? That's what many Americans thing and on the face of it, the Afghan President has said lots of odd, inflammatory and contradictory things. Over the past year, he has wondered whether the American presence in Afghanistan has done any good at all, refused to sign an Afghan- U.S. security pact and called members of the Taliban his brothers. This week the New York Times revealed that he has been conducting secret negotiations with the Taliban. What can he be thinking? Well, maybe Karzai is looking at what happened to one of his predecessors. In 1989, the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan. The President it had backed, Mohammad Najibullah, stayed in power, but within months a civil war broke out, forcing him eventually to seek refuge in a U.N. compound. In 1996 the Taliban rode into Kabul, captured Najibullah, denounced him as a foreign puppet, castrated him, dragged his body through the streets and then hung him from a traffic light. For good measure, they did the same to his brother. Now, there are many important differences between the past and present, but Karzai is probably looking at the evolving geopolitical landscape. The U.S. has tired of its longest war, debating only the size of the small force it will leave behind, mostly for training purposes. The Taliban continue to have many strongholds in significant parts of the country. Pakistan continues to support the Taliban from across the border support that is likely to expand as America withdraws and Islamabad seeks to fill that power vacuum. So Karzai might be playing an erratic game of brinkmanship in his negotiations with Washington, but he might also be trying to navigate a post-American Afghanistan. While American troops might well remain and some American aid will continue, Afghanistan is going to look very different in 2015 than it does today. Consider these facts from a highly intelligent forthcoming book, \"War Front to Store Front,\" by Paul Brinkley: In 2009, Afghanistan had a nominal GDP of $10 billion. Of that number, 60 percent was foreign aid, 30 percent was the cultivation of poppy and the production of raw heroin, all of which is informal and underground. So that leaves 10 percent of the economy, $1 billion, of self- sustaining, legitimate economic activity. During the same year, the United States military spent $4 billion per month to protect a country with a real annual economic output of $1 billion. \"Kabul is a metaphor for the country,\" Brinkley said to me. \"It is a city sized for 500,000 people. It has grown to 8 million, who have been drawn to the city by the massive influx of foreign money, military and nonmilitary. But that money is going to slow down very significantly soon. What happens then?\" he asks. Brinkley worked for the Pentagon to start up build companies in Iraq and Afghanistan, fascinating experiences he recounts in the book, and he came to the conclusion that the single most important task in both countries was to create a self-sustaining economy, which the U.S. paid little attention to. He is pessimistic about Afghanistan's prospects, and he said the national mood there is worsening. \"Imagine living in a nation,\" he writes, \"In which your national government was totally dependent on charitable donations from other countries. \"Would you respect that government? Would you not assume they were puppets of the international donors who were propping up the government?\" Hamid Karzai might be pondering just these questions as he plans his next crazy outburst. For more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my Time column this week. And let's get started. Joining me now, live from Sochi, Russia, is Michael McFaul, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, who on Tuesday announced he will be leaving his post to return to Stanford University. Over his more than two-year tenure in Moscow, McFaul has, at times, been deeply critical of the Putin administration. In return, he's been accused by the Kremlin of arrogance and undiplomatic behavior and he's been hounded by pro-regime media outlets. McFaul is in Sochi as part of President Obama's official delegation. Welcome, Mike. Let me ask you, do you think at the end of the day it was a mistake ...", "Thanks, Fareed.", "It was a mistake to hold the games in Sochi? This is essentially a war zone, or very close -- perilously close to a war zone and Russia could have held the games anywhere. This is literally the southernmost part of Russia. Was this a mistake?", "Well, that decision was taken long before my time in government. Whether it's a mistake or not is for others to judge. I do know that we've been working closely with the Russian government for the last two years, since I've been here, in preparation for these games. Our focus, number one, of course, is security. As of today, we have about 150 people from the embassy and from the United States here working closely with the Russian to focus so that we have a safe and secure games. Mike, when you look at whether it's Syria, the Magnitsky Law, Snowden, American adoptions, it feels like Russian-American relations are in bad shape and that the reset really hasn't worked. Why are they so adversarial?", "Well, I wouldn't put it that way, Fareed. I would say we did reset relations five years ago with just a basic premise that if we engage with the Russians, we do have some common interests and, through cooperation, it can be good for Russia, good for the United States. And when you think about our national security interests, whether it's Afghanistan, Iran, chemical weapons in Syria, trade and investment issues or reducing nuclear weapons in the world, those are all areas where we cooperation with the Russians.", "But let me ...", "Now, it doesn't mean we don't have our disagreements and the list -- go ahead.", "Let's take a look at one of those. In an interview last week with Kommersant you said that one of your two failures that you admitted to was that you couldn't get the Russian media, particularly I think the pro-regime media, to stop fomenting the rumor that the United States and Washington were trying to foment regime change in Moscow. But Henry Kissinger, on this program recently, said that he thought on Ukraine, Washington should be much more or at least more sensitive to Russia's interest and its concerns. And he said, \"Putin is probably assuming that we in Washington think that Kiev is a dress rehearsal for Moscow.\" Was that a fair -- Is that fair that we should be more concerned about Russia's interests?", "My job here is to explain our policy and to be as transparent as possible about our support for civil society, about our engagement with regimes around the world, but most certainly Russia. To say I failed, I said that, is because if I look at public opinion polls, most Russians still believe that we're seeking to foment regime change in Russia. Having said that, I'm glad you added regime-oriented media because there is a real debate in this country and if over the spread of the country, that may be still the case, when asked to evaluate my work in Russia, 91 percent of those polled on a liberal outlet, Echo Moskvy, approved, only 9 percent disapproved. So, in that respect, I think we've made some progress in trying to explain two the Russian government and to the Russian people exactly what we do and don't do with respect to support for civil society, democracy and human rights. Transparency is our policy.", "Do you believe that the Russian government leaks the phone conversation between Victoria Nuland, the State Department official, who said, \"F the European Union\" with regard to their passivity on Ukraine?", "Well, I haven't seen any confirmation that it came from the Russians. I've been down here in Sochi during this period. I can say that the Russian government does have tremendous capacity when it comes to listening to conversations. I've had one of mine put on the web before when I was -- a couple years ago and most certainly we respect their capacities. We don't respect what I consider, if it's true, to be a real breach of diplomacy. That's just not the way we do business between countries.", "Mike, before you were a diplomat, you wrote an article in Foreign Affairs in 2008. It was a very tough piece on Putin's Russia, really tough. Now, is it easy to understand, in that context, why the Putin government and why Putin himself probably mistrusts you?", "I don't want to make it about me personally. I think my record as an advisor to President Obama, which really goes back seven years, not just the five years. I've been with the government for five, but with him for seven. We have developed a very, you know, clear strategy for how to engage with Russia. We've achieved a lot through cooperation and mutual respect. And I would hope that President Putin understands that in the same why that I wrote that Foreign Affairs piece, I also was part and, you know, an intimate player in developing that strategy which I think has made Russia better off and the United States better off.", "Thirty seconds, Mike. Did Putin say anything to you in what was your, what I assume would be your last meeting with him?", "I haven't seen him yet. I'm sure -- I've exchanged conversations about these very issues with him personally and I hope I get to see him before I leave Russia to thank him. I've had a fantastic time here as a U.S. ambassador. It's been -- I'm very proud to represent my country here.", "Michael McFaul, thank you so much for joining us. We look forward to hearing from you when you're back at Stanford. Lots more ahead on the show including a dire warning about China. One very prominent forecaster says the world's second biggest economy is going to have a sharp slowdown and he has data to prove it."], "speaker": ["FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN HOST", "MICHAEL MCFAUL, UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA", "ZAKARIA", "MCFAUL", "MCFAUL", "ZAKARIA", "MCFAUL", "ZAKARIA", "MCFAUL", "ZAKARIA", "MCFAUL", "ZAKARIA", "MCFAUL", "ZAKARIA", "MCFAUL", "ZAKARIA"]}
{"id": "NPR-6412", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2012-03-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/03/09/148317341/jobs-added-in-feb-but-unemployment-holds-steady", "title": "Jobs Added In Feb., But Unemployment Holds Steady", "summary": "The jobs report for February came in a bit stronger than expected. The Labor Department said jobs outside of agriculture grew by 227,000 last month. The unemployment rate held steady at 8.3 percent.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.", "And I'm Melissa Block. The government's monthly jobs reports has brought some welcome news. Employers continued the positive trend of the past few months by adding 227,000 jobs in February. Still, the unemployment rate did not fall. It remains at 8.3 percent. Here's NPR's Jim Zarroli with more about the numbers.", "There was job growth across the board in February in just about every sector of the economy, including education, manufacturing and health care. And job growth didn't just pick up last month. The Labor Department said payrolls increased more than first estimated in December and January, too. In the past three months alone, the economy has added nearly three-quarters of a million jobs. Cary Leahey is senior economist at Decision Economics.", "The economy was feared to be dipping into a recession last summer and lo and behold, the economic numbers generally improved. Things got perkier. And in particular, the U.S. labor market is starting to heat up.", "Today's report confirms what many economists have been saying for months, though the jobless rate is still uncomfortably high, there are unmistakable signs that the worst of the downturn is behind us. Although a gain of 227,000 jobs in a single month is not huge, it is enough, over time, to bring down the unemployment rate, albeit at a slow pace. Alan Krueger is chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors.", "Today's report, combined with the past six months' report, as well as other data coming in, like unemployment insurance claims, show an economy on the mend. We are digging our way out of the deep hole that the president inherited when he took office.", "Despite the increase in payrolls, the overall U.S. unemployment rate stayed where it was at 8.3 percent. That was because of a sudden increase of nearly a half million people in the U.S. workforce. Some economists said that was something of a statistical fluke, but Gus Faucher, senior economist at PNC Financial Services, sees it as a positive sign.", "Although there was a big jump in the number of jobs, we actually saw a lot of people coming back into the labor force, people who'd given up and stopped looking for work and then started to look for work again.", "Faucher says the numbers today point to persistent, but moderate economic growth over the next two years. Of course, the U.S. economy appeared to be on the mend last year, too, only to get derailed by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and the European debt crisis. Cary Leahey says something similar could happen this year. The rise in gasoline prices, in particular, is a worrisome sign. But Leahey says, the U.S. economy is strong enough to withstand pressures in a way it wasn't last year.", "If you are generating these kinds of jobs and it improves people's confidence about the economy, then you have a greater case for a self-reinforcing recovery where better jobs lead to better spending and better spending leads to better jobs.", "And, Leahey says, this kind of recovery can be a powerful force for growth, generating optimism that feeds on itself. Jim Zarroli, NPR News, New York."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "CARY LEAHEY", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "ALAN KRUEGER", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "GUS FAUCHER", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "CARY LEAHEY", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-4956", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-3-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/22/ee.10.html", "summary": "Clinton Appeals to India's Parliament to Back Away from Nation's Nuclear Weapons Program", "utt": ["President Clinton appealed to India's parliament today to back away from the nation's nuclear weapons program and to reach out to Pakistan for peace talks. After addressing parliament in New Delhi, Mr. Clinton left for Agra to tour the Taj Mahal. Our senior White House correspondent John King is there. He joins -- we join him now live -- John.", "Leon, a mix of business and pleasure for the president here in Agra. Just moments ago in the shadow of the Taj Mahal, the president delivering a speech in which he promised some environmental help to India. The Taj Mahal in danger because of pollution from steel plants near here. As you mentioned, the president took a tour of the majestic building with his daughter, Chelsea. It was his first time here. She visited previously with the first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The president, in quite a relaxed mood, stopped for just a moment to chat with reporters.", "How do you feel, president?", "I had a wonderful day. I was honored to speak in the parliament. And I've wanted to come here all my life. So, I'm very happy.", "In that speech to the parliament, the president said this was a new day in U.S.-Indian relations. But also, there were signs of the tension in this relationship. Mr. Clinton saying he wished India would push aggressively for direct negotiations with Pakistan over the dispute of the Kashmir region; also saying he wished India would curtail its nuclear weapons program. But, reflecting the sensitivity of India's parliament, the president insisted he was not here as the leader of a lecturing super power.", "I say this with a great respect. Only India can determine its own interests. Only India can know if it truly is safer today than before the tests. Only India can determine if it will benefit from expanding its nuclear and missile capabilities, if its neighbors respond by doing the same thing.", "Some tense moments in that parliament speech. But also applause for the president when he promised that, when he moves on to Islamabad, to speak to Pakistan's military rulers, he will call for restraint in the Kashmir and urge Pakistan to honor the line of control dividing the disputed region. John King, CNN, reporting live from Agra, India. Search CNN.com CNNSI.com CNNmoney.com The Web"], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KING, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "QUESTION", "WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KING", "CLINTON", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-408028", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-08-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/12/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Joe Biden Picks Kamala Harris as Vice Presidential Running Mate; Biden and Harris to Make First Appearance Today in Delaware.", "utt": ["Very good Wednesday morning to you. I'm Jim Sciutto.", "And I'm Poppy Harlow. Well, an unprecedented moment, that is for sure, in American politics. We are just hours away from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris appearing for the first time together as running mates on the Democratic presidential ticket. Senator Harris will join Biden for a speech today. It will happen in his home state of Delaware and she will do so as the first black and South Asian woman to be on a major party's presidential ticket.", "She is the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants. Those were her parents there. That's her mother. The California senator has broken barriers her entire political life. She's only the second black woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. Remarkable in the year 2020. And the first woman and first black woman to serve as California's top law enforcement official. Attorney general there. This morning, we're learning new details about how Biden decided to make this pick, to pick Harris. Let's go to Arlette Saenz. She's in Wilmington, Delaware. She's been covering the campaign since the beginning. So what made the difference for the former vice president?", "Well, Jim, after a month long search process, Joe Biden finally landed on his decision, choosing Kamala Harris as his running mate. We're actually told that Biden interviewed 11 of the women that he was considering for this spot. Some of those interviews done in person. Some done virtually. But ultimately, he decided to go with his former rival, Harris, to join him on the Democratic ticket. Now Biden informed Harris of his decision yesterday over a video call from his Delaware home. Both Biden and Harris have actually tweeted out a video that features a little bit of a snippet of that conversation when he asked her if he was ready to join her and take on this job. And as you mentioned, Harris is a historic choice. She's the first black woman and woman of South Asian descent to be on a major party ticket as a vice presidential nominee. She also had a close relationship with Beau Biden. They served together as state attorneys general back when he was serving as the attorney general here in Delaware. Biden said that he has always valued his late son Beau's opinion and that that factored into his decision to choose Harris. Now we will see Harris and Biden for the first time together as the Democratic ticket here in Wilmington, Delaware. They are slated to deliver remarks later today. We'll see what the format of that event is like as many of Joe Biden's recent events in the age of coronavirus have been more socially distant. He usually walks in wearing a mask. We'll see if that is something that the two of them do together today. After that event, they are holding a grassroots virtual fundraiser with their supporters as they are trying to drum up and energize their supporters heading into the fall election.", "Arlette Saenz, thank you very much. Let's discuss, Abby Phillip is with us, CNN political correspondent, Errol Louis, political anchor from Spectrum News, also the host of a fantastic podcast, and Molly Ball, national political correspondent for \"TIME.\" Good morning, one and all. Abby, let me begin with you. And let's look back if we could to February, to what Joe Biden said then about who he might like as his running mate. Listen.", "I very much like my administration to look like the country. Like Barack and our administration looked like. Black, brown, women, men, gay, straight. Across the board to look like the country. As vice president, I think it would be wonderful to have a woman or a person of color as vice president.", "And he has chosen both. Not only the historic moment that this is, Abby, but what it does for this ticket.", "Yes. I do think that this really doubles down on something that Biden has been very up front about really from the beginning which is that he understands that he is not the future of the Democratic Party. If he were to be elected president, he would be the oldest president ever elected in this country's history. And as a result, he has to think about in this first moment, this first big decision, how to pass the baton. And that's what that message seemed to largely be about. It's one of the reasons why there was so much pressure from Democratic activists and strategists and surrogates to pick a black woman because there was a feeling among Democrats that there was a need to make that point clear, that Democratic women, black women in particular, have been the cornerstone of the Democratic Party. They have been a reliable constituency. They have been there when other constituencies haven't been there and they have been there for Joe Biden, and so to pass the baton to a black woman is very important for that reason. And to pass it to someone who is 55 years old. She is a young -- has been seen as a rising star for many years now, it sends a very strong signal of who he thinks and what he thinks the future of the Democratic Party looks like.", "Errol Louis, let's talk about how this plays out in November. You know better than me that this is going to be fought out among independent voters. Senator Harris is someone who actually had a very centrist record but has moved to the left as the party has moved left, and I wonder what your view is of how this pick will play among swing voters in swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.", "Well, to be sure, the states that you just mentioned, Joe Biden himself is going to do the heavy lifting. I think where Kamala Harris comes in is reversing the mistake of four years ago from the Democratic Party's standpoint. As we know, we've said it many, many times on this program, it was fewer than 80,000 votes spread across those three states that cost the Democrats victory. And so robust turnout in Detroit and in Milwaukee and in Philadelphia could actually turn it around. Clearly the campaign aims to do that and that's why they base their headquarters in Philadelphia. That's why they wanted the convention to be in Milwaukee. That's why they selected Kamala Harris who is going to do a phenomenal job I think in boosting black turnout. Keep in mind, four years ago it wasn't just the fact that Obama wasn't on the ticket. Black voter turnout had been rising and it fell to a 20-year low just a few years ago. Percentage wise. And so they've got to rebuild the coalition, they've got to get out and get to the base, and that's going to be the job of Kamala Harris.", "Molly Ball, let's talk about the way that the Trump campaign is already attacking her. But it doesn't seem like, at least from the outside, that they can really figure out which way go here. I mean, if you look at the very brief initial statement they put out when she was named yesterday, in the same sentence they contradicted themselves, going after her record as a prosecutor and then calling her, you know, anti-police or appeasing anti-police extremist. So -- and then all sorts of things from the president, not to mention his tweet this morning about suburban housewives, which is a whole other thing we need to talk about. But what's their play here?", "They seem to be figuring that out on the fly and we have seen some reporting from inside Trump world that this was not the pick that they were hoping for their own political purposes but I think what you saw in that statement was the sort of -- the conflicting messages that the Trump campaign has been also putting out about Joe Biden suddenly colliding, coming into one place in a way that really made it obvious how contradictory and sort of nonsensical it was. They have been messaging for a while now on the one hand to the African-American community saying, you know, Joe Biden was too tough on crime with the crime bill and so forth, but on the other hand, trying to message to white voters that he and conservative-leaning voters that he's some kind of scary radical who's in bed with, you know, the Black Lives Matter movement which they also depict as scary. And so having to put those two messages in one sentence really shows you how contradictory they are. And I think also it was telling that, you know, they had to -- that they were accusing Kamala Harris more than anything of flip-flopping, of being politically malleable, of being a, quote-unquote, \"phony\" and then trying to associate her with figures like Bernie Sanders and AOC. It's clear that they don't think that Kamala Harris on her own strikes people as a scary left-wing radical. They feel like, as they've done with Joe Biden, they have to put her in the frame with other people to make that case.", "Yes. Yes.", "So that clearly signals that it's going to be an uphill battle, that they will try to brand her as, you know, a scary left winger, but it's going to be something of an uphill battle considering the public image she's already carved out.", "Right.", "Abby Phillip, Kamala Harris in the primary underperformed among black voters. Sometimes coming behind not just Biden and Sanders but also even Elizabeth Warren. And there's some reporting that the Biden campaign's own internal polling showed something of a lack of enthusiasm among black voters for her. Is that something they believe they can overcome? They're not worried about it? What's the campaign's view of this?", "Well, you make a really good point that Kamala Harris was one of several black candidates who ran in the primary and they all lost to Joe Biden. So black voters were in the primary very pragmatic in a certain way, where they were looking at different -- different priorities for them, most importantly who they thought could beat Donald Trump and in the primary they made the decision pretty early on that that person was Joe Biden. Now, secondly, I mean, as someone who covered Kamala Harris I can tell you that she has had some real challenges particularly with black men on the issue of her criminal justice record. And it's something that they had struggled with, to try to explain her evolution on that issue. That's how they described it as both talking about the nuances of her record, she had some reforms but there were other parts that were tougher on crime in the era that she was a prosecutor.", "Yes.", "That's something that they worked on considerably in the primary. However, when you look at Kamala Harris' supporters and her crowds, there is an enthusiasm there among black women in particular who came out to see her, who were enthusiasm about her. Many of them, however, when you talk to them, would say we think that she is great, we think that she could be a great president someday.", "Yes.", "In this particular election, they wanted Joe Biden.", "Abby Phillip, Errol Louis, Molly Ball, thanks to all of you. Still to come this hour, South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn, he's going to join us. His endorsement, you may remember, of Joe Biden in the primary particularly in South Carolina made a huge impact on the campaign. What this now choice for vice president means to him.", "Also the largest district in Georgia starts the school year today with an all online program. More schools that opened for in- person learning in the state are closing their doors because of more COVID-19 cases. We'll take you live there."], "speaker": ["JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "SCIUTTO", "ARLETTE SAENZ, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "JOE BIDEN (D), PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "HARLOW", "ABBY PHILLIP, CNN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "SCIUTTO", "ERROL LOUIS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "HARLOW", "MOLLY BALL, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "SCIUTTO", "BALL", "LOUIS", "SCIUTTO", "PHILLIP", "SCIUTTO", "PHILLIP", "SCIUTTO", "PHILLIP", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-48055", "program": "CNN SATURDAY", "date": "2002-1-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/26/cst.12.html", "summary": "Death of Former Enron Executive Ruled Suicide", "utt": ["The death of a former Enron executive has been ruled now a suicide. An investigator with a Harris County, Texas medical examiner's office says that Clifford Baxter shot himself in the head yesterday. Baxter's death adds to the fallout surrounding the financial demise of Enron, and CNNfn's Fred Katayama is covering this story for us. He's joining us now from Houston. What's the latest from there?", "Well, Catherine, an investigator at the county medical's office tells CNN that J. Clifford Baxter was found with a penetrating gunshot wound to the head. It was self-inflicted. She added that there were no signs of foul play. Police in Sugar Land, Texas where Baxter was living have no comment on the situation. They say expect a statement at 10:00 a.m. local time, 11:00 a.m. Eastern on Monday. Now Baxter was found dead at 2:30 a.m. Friday in his car parked near his home in Sugar Land. Police found a 38-caliber revolver inside the car. Earlier I spoke with some friends of Baxter, they said they noticed that Baxter was disappointed, a bit depressed, and concerned over the collapse of his firm Enron. Baxter had been vice chairman. He resigned from the company in May of 2001, a half-year before the company's collapse. Now earlier today, in a separate matter in a corporate case, we've learned that Enron is closer to naming a new chief executive. Enron's board is meeting today, and a source familiar with the search tells CNN that the front-runner is Stephen Cooper. He's a bankruptcy turnaround specialist at the New York-based firm Zoflo Cooper. The other candidate, we're told, is a male executive. That's about as much as we know. The source says expect an announcement in three to four days. As you may recall, the chief executive of Enron, Ken Lay, suddenly stepped down earlier this week -- Catherine.", "Well, Fred, this is such a tragic story, but is there any indication on why he would actually take such a drastic move?", "Well, Catherine, as I said earlier, some of the friends noted that he seemed a bit depressed of late, and when you take into consideration that Baxter was named in that internal memo written by the whistler-blower Sherron Watkins, and in that memo Watkins said that Baxter questioned the accounting practices of Enron. He brought it up before Enron's then President Jeff Skilling. Now keep in mind that it was those accounting practices that eventually led to the collapse of Enron. Also, Baxter was named in some shareholder lawsuits. He was one of 29 defendants named and so, he may have been facing pressure on the legal front plus some congressional investigators wanted to talk to him. In fact, they were talking to his lawyer the day that his lawyer later found out, and the news media found out that he had actually died earlier that day -- Catherine.", "All right, thank you, Fred Katayama joining us from Houston. Thanks Fred."], "speaker": ["CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR", "FRED KATAYAMA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CALLAWAY", "KATAYAMA", "CALLAWAY"]}
{"id": "CNN-351168", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2018-09-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1809/30/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Dubai Airport Denies Houthi Claims Of Drone Strikes", "utt": ["Well, you're watching CNN, and this is CONNECT THE WORLD. I'm Lynda Kinkade. Welcome back. All right, now rescue teams are struggling to reach survivors of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia. The tremors have crushed roads and bridges making it difficult to access some areas. Dozens of people have been trapped under collapsed buildings for days. The country's president has ordered emergency responders and the military to work day and night to clear the debris. Hospital workers are pleading for tents, for medicine, and for aid. Many residents have caused road up terrified of aftershocks have been sleeping outside. Were to understand the power of Indonesia's earthquake. Let's bring in meteorologist Allison Chinchar. Allison, can you explain for us how the shape of this iron of silhouette see the north of at how that shape could have impacted -- I guess, how strong, how, how -- what sort of impact this tsunami had as it made landfall?", "Yes, because to a certain extent, it actually probably made it worse because of the topography at play. So again, so take a look at the graphic behind me. OK, this was a 7.5 magnitude earthquake. That red dot indicates where that epicenter was located. But Palu, if you'll notice is a little bit further south of that. But just above it is that very narrow inlet. So, as that water from that tsunami was coming down, it gets funneled into that very narrow passageway and you get what's called wave shoaling. It's where the waves begin to get higher but slowed down as that water gets a little bit shallower there. And unfortunately, that makes those wave heights really, really high. We know already that some of those waves were about six meters high. Again that's incredibly large coming at you at such a rapid speed. So, again, whereas other areas along the coastline, it may not have been quite as dramatic. Here you can kind of see, this is how that tsunami forms. When you get that displacement that water comes up at as it reaches the shoreline there because that shoreline is a little bit shallower. That water has to go somewhere. So, it's basically pushed up. And that's what causing that wave to rise. That's why you're going to have taller waves onshore rather than out over open water which is the worst possible case scenario there. And that's why that topography unfortunately probably played a role on the bad side rather than say if it was a much more open space.", "Right. And, of course, this was a 7.5 magnitude earthquake. Massive earthquake. There have been so many aftershocks. I just explained how many more can people expect that?", "Right. So, it's very common when you have a magnitude something say above 6.0 or a 7.5 magnitude quake to get one, at least, about a 6.5, you'll get about 10 that are 5.5 or higher. And then you can get as many as a hundred on this magnitude 4.5 or higher. We had a four within about the last 24 hours. The good news is the longer you go after the initial quake, the less likely you are to get a lot of them. They're going to begin to taper off. We've really only had one in the last 24 hours. So, while it is still possible to get maybe a couple more after this, they're not going to be many more and the intensity of them should also start to decrease as well.", "And this is an area that has been earthquakes quite recently. Why does this area get so many?", "Yes. So, we often hear the term, Ring of Fire, which kind of -- kind of say the area where not only are earthquakes very common but also volcanoes are very common. In Indonesia gets both, they get both earthquakes and they get volcanoes. And quite a lot of them. I mean, that area makes up about 90 percent of all of the world's earthquakes that are there. Again, it's just -- it's a very common area there. Plate tectonics come into play along with that Ring of Fire. And basically, that the ground underneath is constantly moving, it's constantly changing and that's why that area tends to see a lot more say than -- you know, portions of like -- you know, the eastern United States, or portions of the eastern -- you know, South America which where it's not quite as common.", "Allison Chinchar, look to -- I get across for us. Thanks so much for that. Appreciate it. All right now, there is another force of nature battering Japan. Typhoon Trami unleashed fierce winds and heavy rain with a strength of a Category 2 hurricane this weekend. Officials say nearly 300,000 homes of lost electricity. The time pin is expected to make landfall on the main islands in the coming hours. Making it the fifth Typhoon to hits the main island since July. Well, the U.K. is ruling Tory Party conference kicks off today as the sand quickly falls through the Brexit hourglass. The stakes could not be any higher. Six months until the deadline for Britain to leave the E.U. Accused of putting a cherry-picking plan on the table, Theresa May continues to sing the same song that no deal is better than a bad deal. The question on everyone's lips this week is will she change the tune of her much to criticize Brexit plan. A plan ex-foreign secretary Boris Johnson cause deranged. So, what are the odds for the Battle of Brexit ending well? CNN's Bianca Nobilo has more on the big gamble.", "Britain took a gamble when it chose to leave the European Union. Staking its independence against a less-certain future. And with only six months to go, there's all to play for. The referendum was 27 months ago, and the future is as uncertain now as it was then. One thing is for sure, both sides are running out of time. So, much so there's growing concern in Britain about a blind Brexit. Paying over the 39 billion pound divorce bill to the E.U. without knowing exactly what Britain would get in return.", "We don't really know what's going on with it. It feels just really up in the air.", "If is this messy, what is going to happen when we leave?", "It's just crazy because nobody knows where we stand at the moment.", "Bingo depends on probability and chance. Just like Brexit, you need to hit several targets to win. Theresa May, says that U.K. must respect the result of the referendum. That means leaving the customs union, single market, stopping free movement, and ending vast sums of money going to the E.U. Both the U.K. and the E.U. have committed to avoiding a hard border in northern island. And the E.U. maintains that Brexit must respect the integrity of its single market. Get all three, Bingo. Brexit. And what are the chances of that? It's hard to see how Theresa May has the numbers to get any deal she's likely to get with the E.U. through Parliament. And if she can't get it through Parliament, or she can't get the deal in the first place, or she's replaced by a leadership contest or a general election. Then --", "All bets are off.", "And even a second referendum could be on the table. Bianca Nobilo, CNN, London.", "Let's get you up to speed on some other stories that are in our radar right now. Dubai Airport authorities deny claims by Yemen's Houthi rebels of drone strikes on the city's international airport. Houthi run media said the attack was launched using an unmanned long-range drone. Last month, the Houthis claimed a similar claim which Dubai International Airport also denied. Iraqi Kurds are voting today in parliamentary elections. The polls come a year after a controversial referendum to break away from the rest of Iraq. That be its failed and led to a year of economic hardship and violence in the region. Despite growing discontent with the major political parties, it is expected that both establishment parties will extend their rule. A single tweet will cost Elon Musk $20 million and his seat as chairman of Tesla. It's part of his settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It says musk misled investors when he tweeted that he has funding to take Tesla private, causing its stock to sour. Well, the choice builders would make leaving the comforts of home to travel to war-torn Syria, of one of the most dangerous places on the planet today. But the two medical professionals, the calling to save lives outweighed any fear of danger. Small Christian evangelical's delegation went to work in Southern Syria. Getting in and out with the help of the Israeli army. Where now they're back in Israel and CNN's Ian Lee went to meet them.", "This journey begins with a strong heart and faith in Jesus. Over the Hermon mountains into Southern Syria. The war-torn towns you've never heard of. For Dr. Tania Cabrera, the calling was overpowering.", "It was a very important decision in my life. I know Christ was acting through me. I was able to give to these people the way Christ gave of himself to us.", "Nothing could prepare the 29-year-old from Peru.", "One day, a lot of children arrived. I am not going to forget evaluating a child with a wand on the back of his head. It was open and I could put my hands in. And it was very hard to see him cry.", "For nearly a year, dozens of volunteers from the Christian organization, Frontier Alliance International live, worked, and provided comfort to the injured, dying, and newly born in Syria. Now, back in Israel, they recall the moments of hope for the helpless. Like a baby's first lullaby. Dalton Thomas organized the relief work, finding those willing to take the risks to help a stranger.", "So many nights of heavy bombings and mass casualties where the locals would say -- you know, you can leave, right? I said we're not leaving, we're here. And finding that kind of a person who has the character, the integrity, the courage, the composition to put themselves in that kind of an environment, and -- because these guys weren't going in, coming out, going in, coming out, they're going into live in the community.", "FAI teamed up with Operation Good Neighbor, an Israeli mission that delivered tons of food, medical supplies, clothes, and tents while treating thousands of injured Syrians in Israeli hospitals.", "What I've learned in this last 2 1/2 years is there is anything that making you feel better than to save people lives. Even though if this is all your enemy and from the past.", "It sounds like at the beginning of the joke -- you know, like sensitive Israeli army, a Christian organization, Sunni Muslims in Syria, it's a bizarre relational triangle.", "The volunteers couldn't stay the Assad regime and its allies closed in. Certain doom awaited any remaining foreigner, Operation Good Neighbor had to end. So, one night the call came for them to leave.", "This separation was a pain. Like they were taking away a child from your womb. A child you developed with such love and they took it away from you. We left in tears.", "But they left making their mark carried there and back by faith. Ian Lee, CNN, in the Golan Heights.", "Incredible efforts there. We're live from Atlanta. This is CONNECT THE WORLD. Coming up, why is Japan helping to restore thousands of ancient artifacts in the Middle East? We'll have the details just ahead."], "speaker": ["KINKADE", "ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "KINKADE", "CHINCHAR", "KINKADE", "CHINCHAR", "KINKADE", "BIANCA NOBILO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NOBILO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NOBILO", "KINKADE", "IAN LEE, CNN FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT", "TANIA CABRERA, GENERAL PRACTITIONER (through translator)", "LEE", "CABRERA", "LEE", "DALTON THOMAS, FOUNDER, FRONTIER ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL", "LEE", "LT. COL. EYOL DIER, ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES", "THOMAS", "LEE", "CABRERA", "LEE", "KINKADE"]}
{"id": "CNN-73308", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2003-7-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/06/se.02.html", "summary": "Presidents of Liberia, Nigeria Hold Press Conference", "utt": ["... what we thought was well happened not to be well. And people will ask or may ask, why, again, why again? Why again is because we have an unfinished job. And it doesn't matter what sacrifices we have made in the past unless the job is finished. Those sacrifices will amount to not much. So, we take heed that, for now, the situation in this country deserves the understanding of the world and the understanding of the people of Liberia and, particularly, the understanding of all of those in West Africa. When we met in Ghana last month, President Charles Taylor, on his own free volition, said to us that he believes that he is not the problem of Liberia. But if people believe that he is, he was ready to make the sacrifice of stepping aside, so that those who believe that they have solution to the problem of Liberia can bring that solution about. And that, after some time, if that solution works, he will thank God and thank the people who have made it to work, that he believe that, sooner than later, people will know that the problem of Liberia is more than Charles Taylor. Now, we took that very seriously, and we thought that we worked out a program that will lead to gradual disengagement and change of government in this country, not knowing that an indictment was being slapped on him by the court in Sierra Leone. That disturbed us a little bit. But then we decided that, yes, even with that indictment, we must move ahead with finding a durable solution to the problem of Liberia. I want to take this opportunity to thank the international community, because all by ourselves, alone, West African leaders, we may have the men, we may have the personnel, but we may not have adequate resources in material terms, in financial terms, to be able to do what is necessary. Because President Charles Taylor has been invited by Nigeria, and he has not hesitated to accept that invitation. But then how does the exit take place? We believe that the exit should not take place in confusion. It should not take place in such a way that it will lead to more bloodshed. We believe that the transition should be orderly and peaceful. We believe that we all have to join hands with the people of Liberia to make the creation of peace, creation of resolution of conflict and improvement of democracy the thing that we will be able to achieve within a very, very short time. I want to express my position to all the people of Liberia, who are bearing the brunt of the destruction, the conflict, the war, the valiance. May the soul of those who have lost their lives in the process rest in perfect peace. That we are here as brothers, as neighbors, as those who feel that whatever is happening in Liberia today will happen anywhere in Africa, and Liberia needs a lifeline to solve its problem. (inaudible) nobody provide that lifeline. Then, any other thing we are saying, we are (inaudible). I found that the people of Liberia are not averse to a multinational force to come in and help. And President Charles Taylor is not averse to making the sacrifice of exiting to give his country a chance of making peace. Thank you very much.", "Well, I -- after hearing you, I'm not sure if there's anything much I can say. But I would just like to praise God today, today being Sunday. I'm a Christian, and my brother is, and to thank God for your safe arrival here, and I pray that God will give you a safe arrival back home. I want to express my thanks to ECOWAS, the EU, the international community, and even more particularly to President George Bush, that apparently has remained seized of the Liberian crisis. We believe that the participation of the United States right now is crucial in whatever way. We embrace it; we accept it. We invite the United States to come full force and assist in this process in bringing peace back to Liberia. We believe that it is not unreasonable to request that there be an orderly exit from power. We believe that this is going to help in the long run, in the short run and the medium term. I want to thank again my brother, my big brother for coming. As he mentioned, diplomatically, he has extended an invitation. We have accepted the invitation. I think it's a matter now of making sure that it is done using our brains, that it is done properly, orderly, that no one feels disenfranchised and begins to act disorderly or disruptive in any way. I think it is proper that we proceed gingerly and with haste, because I did understand President Bush that things must be done quickly, because as there's a window of opportunity, we accept that window and we act hastily. I want to thank you again, my dear brother. I want to thank the international press. We're very sorry that you have come here at this time of crisis. We hope that you had come here earlier before we had all of this rigamarole, but thank you anyway. We hope that you don't only come to Africa when you have crisis but at a time that we have peace. Thank you very much. God bless you.", "President Obasanjo, let me see if I get this right. Has President Taylor accepted -- he said he's accepted to come to Nigeria. Does that mean temporary exile? And if so, what are the conditions and the timeframe? President Taylor, if the region (ph), ECOWAS, sends in peacekeepers, is that a condition for you to step down and leave?", "Well, for me, yes, I have extended invitation on behalf of the government and the people of Nigeria that President Taylor has a safe haven in Nigeria any time he chooses to take advantage of it. And, as you heard, he has said he has accepted. As to conditions, maybe he would want to say that for himself. But what we have discussed today is that, as you have heard him say, it can be any time. The only thing is that it must not lead to confusion, it must not lead to violence, it must not lead to destruction. It must be smooth and orderly.", "If I may just add, sometimes you hear buzz words coming -- what are the conditions? I consider that word \"condition,\" because conditionality sometimes can be harsh. What we're talking about are necessary actions to prevent chaos and disruptions. And I think he's dealt with it, and I think we ought to leave it at that. Thank you very much.", "Thank you, gentlemen.", "Now, I also want to add one condition...", "Yes.", "... by anybody.", "Yes.", "For inviting President Taylor to Nigeria, Nigeria will not be harassed by anybody or by any organization or any country for showing this humanitarian gesture...", "Exactly.", "... and a gesture that is necessary for us to solve the problem of this country. Thank you very much.", "Are you insisting that ECOWAS, in your discussions, revokes or puts aside the indictment order that he said was slacked off?", "I'm not insisting on anything. I'm just saying that I will not subject myself or my country to harassment. Thank you.", "We've been listening to a news conference, a live news conference coming to us from Liberia, the capital city of Monrovia, where Charles Taylor, who has been the president of Liberia, a war- torn country over the last few years, meeting with the visiting president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo. And as you heard, the Nigerians are offering Taylor asylum, allowing him to go to their country. This is the condition upon which U.S. President Bush had told Liberians that the U.S. would be willing to send in peacekeeping troops, if Charles Taylor left the country. And he was the gentleman on the right, you saw there. He is saying he will leave the country. The only thing he says, he wants to make sure is that there is no disruption, no violence, and that it is done in an orderly way. Obviously, many more questions to be answered in terms of what are the terms of this move, whether he will be given political asylum, whether he will still have to stand trial in any way for war crimes in neighboring Sierra Leone. All those questions that going to be out there, and very much we'll be seeking answers to them."], "speaker": ["PRES. OLUSEGUN OBASANJO, NIGERIA", "PRES. CHARLES TAYLOR, LIBERIA", "QUESTION", "OBASANJO", "TAYLOR", "QUESTION", "OBASANJO", "TAYLOR", "OBASANJO", "TAYLOR", "OBASANJO", "TAYLOR", "OBASANJO", "QUESTION", "OBASANJO", "JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-398281", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-04-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/23/cnr.22.html", "summary": "Las Vegas Mayor Pushes to Reopen Casinos, Hotels; Nevada Governor Says State is Not Ready to Reopen; Union Leader Says the Push to Open Las Vegas is Crazy; Army of Tracers Needed to Control the Coronavirus Spread; UNESCO Says Covid-19 Leaves 90 Percent of Students Stuck at Home", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. Well, the Mayor of Las Vegas is doubling down on her push to reopen the city's casinos and hotels despite the pandemic. During a contentious interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Carolyn Goodman refused to provide guidelines on how gamblers could socially distance safely. She said that's up to the business owners.", "I mean, hundreds of thousands of people coming there in casinos smoking, drinking and touching slot machines, breathing circulated air and then returning home to states around America and countries around the world. Doesn't that sound like a virus petri dish? I mean, how does that safe?", "You know what it sounds like you're being an alarmist. I'm not. I've lived a long life. I grew up in the heart of Manhattan and I know what it is like to be with subways and on buses.", "I'm being an alarmist?", "-- and crammed into elevators. I think you are by saying what you have just said, I am the one that is --", "So, you don't believe there should be any social distancing? You don't believe --", "Of course, I believe there should be. Of course. I'm a rational --", "How do you do that in a casino?", "That's up to them to figure out. I don't own the casino. I don't know anything about building a casino.", "Wait a minute, wait a minute.", "Well, the Democratic governor of Nevada is firing back against Mayor Goodman. He told my colleague Anderson Cooper that his state and Las Vegas are not ready to open yet and he will do what he can to protect his citizens. Listen.", "It's important that we protect the health and the future and the well-being of our citizens. We can rebuild our economy. We will rebuild our economy. Las Vegas will continue to thrive, but I can't do that if I lose more people. We need to protect their health and the well-being. There will come a time to open Las Vegas in a phased in approach, and I urge everyone. Nevada has been incredible. The vast majority of citizens are wearing face coverings. They're practicing social distancing. They're doing everything they can. And we need to send a sincere message and a consistent message and it's difficult when we get one person that's kind of leading people astray and I'm disappointed in that.", "Joining me now is D. Taylor, president of UNITE HERE. And many of the labor unions members work in the casino and hotel industries. We appreciate you talking with us.", "Thank you, Rosemary.", "Now the mayor of Las Vegas, Carolyn Goodman, says she wants hotels and casinos and everything else according to her open up right now. And she insists that private businesses better figure it out that's their job -- her words. What's your reaction to that? And what do the workers you represent think about what she's suggesting here?", "Well, we're not going to be canaries in the mine as test cases. As you know, the coal miners did that 100 years ago. I thought we were done with experimenting with workers' lives to see if it's safe to work. We are prepared to go back to work when it's a safe environment, not just for the workers but for the guests. So I think it's not only irresponsible, I think it's crazy what she's suggesting. I'm more interested in what scientists and health experts say as compared to politicians. And our members, they're very worried about their safety of work and their loved ones. You know, just in Las Vegas we've had 11 more members die of COVID-19. We've had scores of our members die throughout the United States and the idea that people would have to choose between their life and work is just unacceptable.", "Yes, that seems to be the option the mayor is giving everyone. Doesn't it? And Nevada's Governor Sisolak and his medical advisory team say the data related to the spread of COVID-19 doesn't support the reopening of gaming establishments in this state at this time, but they are working on establishing and implementing protocols. What discussions, if any, have you had with the state's governor, and what's your response to his approach to this pandemic?", "We've been very supportive of Governor Sisolak. And we thought he's done a measured way of dealing with this that first and foremost put the safety of Nevadans and then all the guests who come from all over the world. We want places to open as soon as possible but we want them to be safe for the workers and the guests. I've had discussions with the governor. Other leaders from our local union have had discussions. We don't want to have one more member die of COVID-19 because they're at work. At the same time, we want to listen to the scientists and the public health experts. They're the ones who understand this. They're the ones that the governor is listening to. So our incidents of cases have not been that bad because he was proactive and got ahead of it.", "Right, and as you mentioned, 11 culinary members of the union have died so far from COVID-19. So for their families and other workers in this industry, this situation is very personal. Tell us about some of those stories and how vulnerable some of these frontline workers would be if they were sent back to work in the midst of this pandemic.", "Well they pick up bags. They pick up plates. They pick up ashtrays. They pick up drinks. They clean rooms. All those touch points which could potentially transmit COVID-19, so they're very worried. They want to make sure there's PPE when they go back. What the social distancing policy is, hand sanitizer, thermal checks. All of those things that I guarantee you executives or any white collared jobs would insist upon. We want that for our workers, and not just the workers we represent, all the hospitality workers in the United States and Canada. No one should have to choose between the effects and their health and potentially their life and their job.", "So we're hearing that pressure coming from the mayor of Las Vegas. Are your workers feeling pressure from any other areas at all to get back to work?", "Of course our folks want to go back to work. Not just here in Las Vegas but throughout the United States and Canada. But they want to go back to a safety safe and healthy environment so they don't have to worry about whether going back to work means they might contract COVID-19 and die. All I have to say is we've -- and I've talked to many of our members about people who know who have perished. I've known some of those people who have died. There're no words that can express our sorrow, and I'll be damned if a politician is going to treat us like experimental animals before it's safe.", "We all need to see smart heads prevail. Let's hope that that is the outcome. D. Taylor, thank you so much for talking with us.", "Thank you so much. Stay safe.", "Well, horrifying photos from Pennsylvania show bodies being transported from a hospital to a medical examiner's office in the open back of a pickup truck. The photographs from the \"Philadelphia Inquirer\" show seven bodies arriving under mats in the back of the truck and being unloaded into the medical examiner's storage area. The Philadelphia Department of Health says it was a breach of protocol and the hospital where the bodies came from has ended its contract with the funeral home responsible. Well crematoriums in New York face more than a month of backlog because of the pandemic. And licensed funeral director volunteers are stepping in to help. The organization Hands with a Heart was started by Dr. David Penepent and four of his students. During Easter weekend they transported 70 bodies to crematoriums out of state and the numbers have continued to increase. Penepent says his reward is knowing that families can grieve. Aware that their loved ones have been laid to rest. Well despite the move by some U.S. governors to begin reopening their states, many health experts are warning that doing so prematurely could see the coronavirus spread even further and make contact tracing much more difficult. CNN's Brian Todd has our report.", "The mission, build an instant army.", "I have to put together an army of tracers. That's thousands of people. It's never been done before.", "Contact tracers who track down the people who a coronavirus- infected person has had contact with to monitor them for infection. Public health officials say it's a crucial component to being able to reopen the economy so new cases can be contained. A Johns Hopkins study says an army of about 100,000 contact tracers may be needed to track the number of cases in the U.S. Other experts suggest two or three times that many. But a crisis within this crisis could be brewing. According to various reports, the U.S. has nowhere near the number of contact tracers needed. By some estimates, only a couple thousand people have been doing it before the outbreak started.", "Health departments are completely overwhelmed. Health departments are not designed to send out field armies of people to trace every single case that pops up in their community. Some communities have hundreds of cases in a single day.", "States are rushing to ramp up.", "We're already training hundreds if not thousands of contact tracers.", "But among the concerns tonight, how quickly states can build armies big enough to call dozens of people for each new person infected and who's going to pay for them. As for the type of person needed --", "It's a detective -- investigator in the public health space.", "For example, this Massachusetts job posting seeks people who can make calls, follow a script, and give instructions or referrals. Quote, A headset is preferred. They have to interview an infected person. Get them to help identify anyone they've been in close contact with over the past two weeks.", "You could define it as anyone within six feet for more than one minute or it can be anyone within six feet for more than 10 minutes.", "And contact tracers have to race against the clock. Experts we spoke to say they have on average less than three days to find someone who an infected person has been in contact with and get that person to isolate. At this contact tracing center in Arizona, now working virtually, a team leader tells us it's time-intensive, emotionally taxing work.", "Our biggest challenge, honestly, is just getting people on the phone initially and talking to them, and then getting them to open up once you get ahold of them.", "And there are more obstacles. Health professionals says the decision by some governors to reopen businesses so quickly, like Georgia's governor throwing open gyms and hair and nail salons this week, will make accurate contact tracing harder.", "If you reopen businesses, now you infinitely increase the number of people that people have been in contact with. It makes contact tracing so much more difficult than if we have a lockdown or shelter-in-place.", "Experts say another major challenge regarding contact tracing is that it's like a police officer trying to get a witness account of a crime. People's memories of encounters are often shaky and unreliable. To help with that, Apple and Google will soon have apps that people can download. Where they can share data on anyone they've been in contact with, with health departments through their cell phones. But that raises concern over privacy issues. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "And you're watching CNN NEWSROOM. Still to come, Germany's Chancellor addresses Parliament about her government's response to the pandemic just as the company confirms more deaths. We'll have a live report from Berlin. Back with that in a moment."], "speaker": ["ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR, AC 360", "CAROLYN GOODMAN, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA MAYOR", "COOPER", "GOODMAN", "COOPER", "GOODMAN", "COOPER", "GOODMAN", "COOPER", "CHURCH", "STEVE SISOLAK, NEVADA GOVERNOR", "CHURCH", "D. TAYLOR, PRESIDENT, UNITE HERE LABOR UNION", "CHURCH", "TAYLOR", "CHURCH", "TAYLOR", "CHURCH", "TAYLOR", "CHURCH", "TAYLOR", "CHURCH", "TAYLOR", "CHURCH", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ANDREW CUOMO, NEW YORK GOVERNOR", "TODD", "ERIC FEIGI-DING, FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS", "TODD", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TODD", "CUOMO", "TODD", "FEIGI-DING", "TODD", "KRISTEN POGREBA-BROWN, EPIDEMIOLOGIST, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA", "TODD", "FEIGI-DING", "TODD (on camera)", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-6857", "program": "Newsday", "date": "2000-4-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/26/nd.03.html", "summary": "Elian Gonzalez Case: Miami Relatives File Motion for Court- Appointed Guardian; 6-year-Old to be Joined by Cuban Guests at Wye River Plantation", "utt": ["And to the Elian Gonzalez case now: The boy's teacher, cousin and a pediatrician from Cuba are expected to come to the United States today to visit Elian and his immediate family. But the uproar over the government raid which removed him from Miami has not subsided. Protesters showed up at the Justice Department this morning wearing black and carrying the photo of the boy being taken by an armed federal agent. Republicans in Congress say they will hold hearings as early as next week on the government's use of force. CNN Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas joins us now with more on that -- Pierre.", "Well, Frank, the legal debate over Elian Gonzalez continues. Yesterday, a motion was filed in the 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta in which the attorneys for the Miami relatives asked for a number of things. They want Cuban officials blocked from being able to see the boy. They also want Cuban doctors and psychiatrists to be blocked from seeing the boy as well. Also, they want a guardian appointed to look out for the boy's interest. So this case is only having more and more legal twists and turns.", "Let's talk some more about the legal guardian, especially as, as we mentioned, the Miami relatives remain here in Washington. They are trying to make their case as they make the rounds. They're trying to see the boy. So far, unsuccessful. There you see the great-uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez. The guardianship: Talk some more about that.", "The guardianship issue could be critical for the following reason: The government has maintained that only the father can speak for the boy. If the court were to appoint a guardian, some would argue that perhaps the guardian would have the legal right to speak for the boy. So that will become critical. We expect the Justice Department sometime after 4:00 p.m. this afternoon to respond to these latest demands by the Miami relatives' attorneys.", "Pierre Thomas, thanks. Elian and his father, his stepmother and his half-brother will wait out the legal process at a remote but historic location in rural Maryland, about an hour's drive from Washington. And CNN's Kate Snow joins us now with more on what the family is doing -- Kate.", "Frank, a pastoral setting for their new home here. They're located about two farms behind me over my shoulder, under tight security back there. Elian Gonzalez and his family staying at what's known as the Carmichael Farm. It's on the property of the Wye River Plantation; that being a campus that's used frequently for conventions for conferences. It was famously used for Middle East talks in 1998. In fact, the farm where they're staying the same farm where the King of Jordan stayed at that time. We're told there's plenty of space here for visitors. And, indeed, they may be getting some visitors. This morning, a group of Cubans -- three of them -- Elian's pediatrician, his former teacher, and also a cousin -- flew to Mexico. They are passing through there en route to Washington, D.C. We understand they're expected here in the area this evening. A new photo also released today by the Associated Press showing Elian Gonzalez with his little half-brother Hianny (ph). That photo taken, though, on Saturday. And interesting to note that we have not seen any recent photos of Elian Gonzalez; not for the last several days. And we're certainly not being allowed very close to this farm where they're staying. Kate Snow, CNN, live in Maryland.", "And, Kate, before you go, if I may, you point out we're not being allowed very close to that farm. There is some discussion and dispute, really, over the access and the information surrounding the family.", "There is, and the media being briefed by the U.S. Marshals Service, trying to get closer access. In fact, our producer talking to them now about getting a camera a little bit closer. As I say, we're a good distance away, probably about a mile away right now. But, again, they're trying to protect the privacy of the family, the lawyer for the -- the attorney for Juan Miguel Gonzalez saying all along that they need a private setting.", "All right, Kate Snow, thanks."], "speaker": ["FRANK SESNO, CNN ANCHOR", "PIERRE THOMAS, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "SESNO", "THOMAS", "SESNO", "KATE SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SESNO", "SNOW", "SESNO"]}
{"id": "CNN-387164", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-12-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/05/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Three Legal Experts Say President Trump Committed Impeachable Offenses, One Disagrees; President Trump Meets With Turkey's President Erdogan at NATO Summit; Gathering Tense as Trump Clashes with World Leaders", "utt": ["Hello everyone, I'm Nick Watt. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles. Ahead this hour, new calls for Donald Trump to be impeached as Republicans try just about anything they can to slow the process down. Plus, Trump slams \"two-faced\" Justin Trudeau after Canada's prime minister is caught dissing the U.S. president behind his back. And a who's who list of politicians and movie stars team up to fight climate change but can they succeed where so many others have failed?", "The impeachment of the U.S. president Donald Trump is one big step closer to reality but still many miles to go. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has taken over the historic process. It began on Wednesday with a public lesson on constitutional law. What are impeachable crimes and did President Trump commit any? The news is not good for him. CNN's Alex Marquardt has more.", "The blistering conclusion from all but one of the witnesses that the president should be impeached.", "I believe the framers would identify President Trump's conduct as exactly the kind of abuse of office ...", "Professor Noah Feldman from Harvard laying out the reasons the president committed impeachable offenses alongside professors Pamela Karlan and Michael Gerhardt who agreed. All three were invited by the Democrats.", "If what we're talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable.", "Karlan hitting back at ranking member Doug Collins who dismissed the hearing and suggested the experts hadn't digested all of the facts of the investigation.", "Mr. Collins, I would like to say to you, sir, that I read transcripts of every one of the witnesses who appeared in the live hearing ...", "The lone witness called by Republicans, Professor Jonathan Turley said he was not a supporter of the president's, but argued the record for impeachment is wafer thin.", "Close enough is not good enough. If you're going to accuse a president of bribery ...", "Turley, who testified in the Clinton impeachment warned that a slip-shot impeachment process could pave the way for more in the future.", "That is why this is wrong. It's not wrong because President Trump is right ...", "From the get go, Republicans blasted the hearing and the entire process.", "But this is not an impeachment. This is just a simple railroad job ...", "GOP members interrupting and delaying proceedings with procedural maneuvers.", "Mr. Chairman, may I make a parliamentary inquiry before you ...", "While Chairman Nadler previewed possible articles of impeachment, which may include obstruction of justice. Going back to the Mueller probe.", "President Trump took extraordinary and unprecedented steps to obstruct the investigation.", "The experts drew on history, repeatedly making the case that the country was founded on principles opposing absolute power.", "So kings could do no wrong because the king's word was law. And contrary to what President Trump has said Article II does not give him the power to do anything he wants.", "In comparing President Trump to a king, Professor Karlan also said that the president could name his son Barron, but not make him a baron. And that got a lot of blowback, including from the White House for invoking the president's teenage son. Just a short time ago, Professor Karlan apologized saying she was wrong to do that and she regretted it. But also said that she wishes the president apologized himself for all that he's done -- Alex Marquardt, CNN, Washington.", "Former assistant U.S. attorney David Katz joins us now. David, it was pretty remarkable; even the Republican witness called today said that President Trump's phone call with President Zelensky of Ukraine was not appropriate. And his sort of defense, I suppose, seemed to be, just slow it all down. Listen, I was expecting a bit of a yawn fest but it was anything but that.", "It was not dusty and dull, it was really interesting. They brought the Constitution to life. These professors showed that this is not a coup, this is a key part of our Constitution. The way we elect presidents is one way and the way we remove them is another way, by impeachment. And so what Adam Schiff's committee did and what Nadler did today was to follow down that path, which is exactly what is prescribed by the law of the land and regarding the Republican law professor, I think he had to conceive that the facts are terrible for Trump. I mean, one thing that Republican senators seem not to be willing to come out and say is that the facts are terrible. This is not a perfect call. This was an awful call. It was hidden on a secret server so nobody would find it. It was only on account of the whistleblower and his courage that we found out about it. And then there has been all the spin and hiding ever since. And Nadler is right. There has been tampering with witnesses. There has been obstruction of justice. You know, the other presidents who have come under impeachment inquiries have actually cooperated with the investigation. Only Trump has stonewalled, told his officers, cabinet officers and other employees not to testify. And as Nadler also said, there has been the creation of false records. That is what happened with McGahn. They still are going to try to get to McGahn perhaps down the road. But for now we have this conspiracy, this plotting to do this quid pro quo with the Ukrainian incoming president. We have the obstruction of Congress and we have the obstruction of justice along the lines Nadler has pointed out.", "David, it almost seemed today that the framers of the Constitution had Donald Trump in mind when they wrote about high crimes and misdemeanors and bribery and their concerns about influence and foreign power. I'm sure they did not, I imagine the president would be a reality TV star or that foreign power would be Ukraine but it almost seems tailor made for the situation and this president.", "Well, yes, they were very worried that in replacing a king and a king's absolute powers they were just end up with a president who would arrogate to himself those powers. Of course, they thought of a man at that time. And they wanted to make sure that Congress had a way to remove someone who acted unlawfully, who abused his power, because history had another way to remove autocrats and tyrants. And they did not want to go the way of Caesar and Brutus, right? And so they set up this impeachment but as I say it is not a coup; it is the means that are set forth and even the Republican law professor got dressed down for the fact that he thought there was a strong case against Clinton. He testified to that effect. He had also represented a judge and he had made a bunch of specious arguments and none of the senators accepted the arguments on behalf of the judge. So he had his own problems, the Republican law professor. The other three professors were, I, thought dynamic. And as one of them said, if this does not warrant impeachment, what does? It is exactly what the framers had in mind, although as you, say they probably thought it would be England or France who would give a bribe of some sort to a weak American president. It would not be Ukraine. But the world turns and we have Trump and Ukraine and we have this, I will do you a favor. Now he is trying to gloss that now but it was very clear from the context and the follow-up, that Trump wanted a personal political favor for himself, not something for the entire --", "David, let's just talk about this, because the president just tweeted in the past hour or so, trying, it seems like a pretty new defense for this call, which, remember, the transcript came out, what, two months ago? The president now in a tweet is saying, \"When I said in my phone call to the president of Ukraine, 'I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it,', with the word 'us,' I'm referring to the United States, our country.\" So it seems that he is trying to rebut this idea that this was bribery. But two months later, this comes out.", "Yes, it is certainly after the fact. It reminds, me I'm a criminal defense attorney now, of something which is not good for a criminal defendant where, suddenly after all these things come out, there is a big explanation.", "And a lot of times, once you really vet what is going on, you have to tell a client, you know, you really have to plead guilty in this case before you make it even worse. Of, course the president does not plan to plead guilty. He plans to have the senators go to bat for him and he is betting that they cannot get 20 Republican senators, no matter what the evidence is, to vote to remove him from office. But I don't buy this explanation for several reasons. First of all, there is this thing known as the kingly we, you know, do something for us. And I don't think he meant the kingly we, meaning us, the country. I think what he meant is do something for me personally and if he ever used the word us, if refers to me and my team, because it is so easy, Nick, to always say, well, of course, I thought I would be a better president, I thought Biden would not be a good president, yes, I wanted to hurt my main rival but it was not for my political advantage, it was because I'm so good for the country and so good for the country, if Ukraine gins up a case out of nowhere on this man and his son, because that would help me get reelected, boy, that is good for all of us. I don't buy it. I think this is a very late in the day 11th hour spin.", "But David, as you, say the Democrats will need 20 Republican senators to join them in order to remove Trump from office. David Katz, thanks as always for joining us.", "Pleasure to be with you.", "Now as the impeachment storm clouds cause get darker, U.S. president Trump is now back in Washington after the NATO meeting in the U.K. And he has had an unpleasant few days, that very public spat with French president Emmanuel Macron, then becoming the butt of the joke behind his back for other world leaders. CNN's Nina dos Santos has the details.", "Day two of the NATO gathering brought the usual pledges of unity and collective support that you would expect from a transatlantic alliance that now has 29 members and has brought peace and stability to around about a billion people across the globe these days. However, behind the scenes, the cracks quickly began to show, with bad temper and discord very much being recorded at various bilaterals and press conferences and also behind the scenes at this event in Buckingham Palace that took place on Tuesday evening when the queen hosted a reception for world leaders. Four of those world, leaders including the leader of Canada, the U.K., France and also the Netherlands, were overheard discussing the U.S. president, the biggest guest of all at this summit, behind his back.", "Is that why you were late?", "He was late because he takes a four -- 40-minute press conference off the top every time. Oh, yes, yes, yes, 40 minutes. He announced -- I just watched, I watched his team's jaws just drop to the floor.", "That's in turn prompted President Trump to call in particular the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, \"two-faced.\"", "Well, he is two-faced.", "Do you think that Germany's", "And honestly with Trudeau, he is a nice guy. I find him to be a very nice guy. But you know, the truth is that I called him out on the fact that he's not paying 2 percent and I guess he is not very happy about it. I mean, you were there, a couple of you were there, and he is not paying 2 percent and he should be paying 2 percent in Canada. They have money and they should be paying 2 percent so I called him out on that and I'm sure he was not happy about it. But that's the way it is. Look, I'm representing the U.S. and he should be paying more than he is paying. And he understands that. So I can imagine -- I can imagine he is not that happy but that is the way it is.", "The president decided to leave early and then canceled a press conference that had originally been planned. Now aside from these strained interpersonal relationships that also saw Presidents Trump and Macron spar after a bilateral that they had, there were some really serious issues that NATO has to contend with. In fact, it is the likes of President Trump and President Macron who sort of set the stage for this after the U.S. president a few years ago called NATO obsolete and criticized other members for not contributing their fair share of defense spending. More recently President Macron went into the summit calling the alliance brain dead. They have various issues to contend with over the next few years, some of which were discussed at the summit, including the likes of Russia. But also whether or not terrorism should play a bigger part in some of the challenges they have to consider, things like cyber crime and so on and so forth. One of the biggest challenges for NATO actually comes within its own ranks. That's Turkey. After this country recently controversially decided to purchase a missile defense system from Russia, one of the big original foes of NATO when it was born during the height of the Cold War. Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also taken time to lobby other leaders to try and gain support for his fight against Kurdish troops in Syria.", "Ones that he deems to be terrorists and other NATO members have seen as allies. Either way, this was supposed to be a celebration of unity and what NATO had achieved over the last 70 years. Instead, it appears as though this bloc is having something of a three-quarter life crisis these days -- Nina dos Santos, CNN, London.", "Joining me now from Washington is David Sanger. He's a CNN political and national security analyst as well as a national security correspondent for \"The New York Times.\" David, let's start with that hot mike video captured by the pool camera man, my friend, Andy Lawrence. There is little that would annoy President Trump more than that, the cool kids mocking him behind his back. But will there be any serious repercussions?", "Donald Trump is not somebody who lets up on a grudge early on. When he said that he thought prime minister Trudeau was being two-faced, which I think is what he said to reporters before he left somewhat abruptly, it was clear that it got under his skin. He likes to be the one who not only dominates the conversation and does the disruption himself but who others feel as if they have to fall in line behind him. A few years ago that is exactly what happened at these summits. But now, basically the other leaders are on to him. I think they understand what -- how they are going to manage him. You notice prime minister Trudeau was not exactly full of apologies for anything that he said today. I think he sort of felt like he had been caught uttering a truth in private.", "And putting that aside, NATO is now 70 years old, pretty much founded to keep Stalin out of Europe. Stalin's successor Putin must be enjoying not just that but the general level of disunity that appears to be within", "In some ways they would've been better not holding the 70th anniversary, first of all if you are going to hold it, you would have expected to hold it in Washington because that's where the treaty was signed. But having decided to hold it not in Washington, at least what you wanted to do was come out with a common understanding of mission. And separate and apart from the issues with President Trump, they were incapable of doing that. Is the mission at this point to contain and push back at a revanchist Russia that is once again trying to flex its muscles? Is it to deal with a rising China, as many suggested, was a new task? Was it to finally build up some offensive cyber capability that could push back at the one type of attack that all of the member countries are receiving, much of it from Russia? Is the real goal out here to operate out of area as President Trump seemed to suggest? I'm not sure that President Trump recognized it in Afghanistan and the Balkans; NATO has already operated out of that area. But he looked to be moving toward any other purpose for NATO other than trying to contain Russia.", "And what about Erdogan? They did manage to bring him slightly more back into the fold this time.", "Slightly and then he dropped his objections to some of the activities that NATO was going to take in Eastern Europe. But on a fundamental issue, which is that President Erdogan is getting ready to deploy a Russian S-400 anti-aircraft system that is designed to shoot down the aircraft that he is buying from the West and will probably help the Russians understand a little bit more about the patterns of those aircrafts, that issue was completely unresolved. Or if it got resolved in some way in the private meeting between President Erdogan and President Trump, we certainly did not hear about it. So you have one truly outlier nation within NATO that is flaunting the rules, buying their equipment from a significant adversary. And they do not have a mechanism for dealing with this. There is no way to throw out a NATO member. They wouldn't even if there was such a mechanism. And that was the elephant in the room. And nobody wanted to debate about it.", "I have to say, watching this summit and the general diplomatic shenanigans going on recently. I am no longer convinced that if one member of NATO was attacked, the others would be certain to rally around. Am I wrong in that?", "No, you are not wrong in that. That is the essence of what President Macron was saying when he declared that NATO was brain dead. He was not saying the organization itself was incapable of coming up with strategy, although I think they have not been fabulous with that. What he was saying is that they could no longer trust that the United States would be there to defend them. And, in the one area where we have all seen the most form of attacks in the past three or four years, which is cyberspace, it is certainly not clear that they have agreed on a collective form of action to go deal with that issue. I cannot think of any more urgent, short of war issue that could bring together the members of NATO. And yet, they do not seem to be seriously grappling with it.", "David Sanger in Washington, thank you so much.", "Always great to be with you.", "North Korea sends a warning to the United States and its leader takes a ride on the back of a white horse up a sacred mountain. 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{"id": "CNN-349007", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-08-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/31/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Catholic Church Haunted by Decades of Abuse.", "utt": ["The demands are growing for an independent investigation of a cover-up of sexual abuse by priests in the United States. The attorney general of Pennsylvania says he doesn't know if Pope Francis knew about it but that the Vatican certainly did.", "His investigation found hundreds of priests abused at least 1,000 children over decades. CNN's Rosa Flores reports survivors of sexual abuse have taken their demands to the Vatican embassy in Washington.", "Survivors from three global organizations came here to the Vatican embassy in Washington, D.C. holding pictures of themselves as children to show the age at which they were abused by clergy. Now, they came here asking for transparency and accountability and asking the United States Department of Justice to get involved. Now, all of this comes on the heels of the Pennsylvania grand jury report and also the release of a letter by a former nuncio, Carlo Maria Vigano. In that letter, he implicates Pope Francis, and that's why these survivors were here at the embassy, because the files to prove what Vigano says in that letter are somewhere between this nuncio and the Vatican.", "We all want to find out what's going on. We're not going to be able to find out what's going on unless he releases McCarrick's file. He can do that. He's the pope. It's his embassy if it's in there, and he needs to release it because we've got to clear this up but fast.", "This is an issue that is dividing bishops across the United States. On one side, you have a bishop in New Jersey saying that the allegations in this letter are innuendo, and yet there's a bishop in California defending the allegations. And meanwhile, back here in Washington, the cardinal at the center of this storm is saying that he does not plan to resign, that he plans to stay in his post. Now, these survivors that were here, where they're calling for the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl. They're not asking for the pope to resign. They're asking the pope to act. Rosa Flores, CNN, Washington.", "In the meantime, Australia, the Catholic Church has refused to require that priests report child abuse when they learn about it in the confessional.", "They're refusing that. The country's top Catholic body says it accepts recommendations of a government investigation, but the seal of the confession is not negotiable.", "Let's go live now to Brisbane. Brendan Smith is a reporter with Sky News Australia and joins us now live. A pleasure to have you. Tell us more about this. What has been the reaction so far to the Catholic Church saying essentially we can abide by the 98 percent of this report, but the other 2 percent when it comes to protecting children, well, that's a no-go.", "that's right, George. Well, the church says that lifting the seal of confession wouldn't be appropriate. And they say it would actually discourage victims and perpetrators from confessing to abuse. Now while saying this, the church did say that it has the utmost respect for the law and doesn't believe it is above the law. But of course after this was released in the media today, it caused absolute controversy here in Australia. Social media really is blowing up. We have thousands of people commenting on our threads here at Sky News. People saying that it's not a disgrace to the church, why lift to the deal of confession. And one person even likened the Catholic Church to a criminal cartel.", "Suggestion has been made that breaking the seal would somehow make children less safe. Can you explain that suggestion?", "It will really just be a test right now of the church when they really do implement these changes. There have been a number of recommendations made throughout this royal commission. It did recommend that all religious leaders or ministers who have been convicted of a sexual offense should be removed from the church. They also took on the recommendation that there should be a national office for child safety and also celibacy should be voluntary. Ultimately, it's really up to Pope Francis and the Vatican to implement the majority of these recommendations. So only time will tell, George, once they do recommend these and put them into practice.", "And, look, this is all coming off of a very busy weekend in Ireland with the pope for sure, where scandal, the scandal of predator priests was thick in the air. Does this news from your nation does it put more pressure on the Catholic Church? Is there a sense that that's happening from this?", "It will undoubtedly put more pressure on the Catholic Church. It really brings the church back into the spotlight even more so. It has said that it will ensure there will be an abuse-free future. It has thanked all of the victims and survivors of this horrific child sex abuse. It does say that it will not happen again. They have been very insistent on that. They've been insistent that it will be far more transparent into the 4ture. And George, today is really a step forward for all of those victims in Australia and undoubtedly across the globe to really start that healing process. Thousands of people and agencies were involved in this landmark royal commission. So today is a good day for those victims but still plenty of work ahead.", "Reporter Brendan Smith with Sky News Australia. Thank you so much for your time and the reporting.", "Here in the U.S., an emotional send-off from the State of Arizona. Now Washington gets ready to remember the war hero. Two-time presidential candidate and longtime Republican Senator John McCain. Also thousands of people, saying good-bye to another warrior. A woman whose powerful voice demanded respect. Remembering Aretha Franklin. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "HOWELL", "ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FLORES", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "BRENDAN SMITH, REPORTER, SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA", "HOWELL", "SMITH", "HOWELL", "SMITH", "HOWELL", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-65378", "program": "NEXT@CNN", "date": "2003-1-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/11/nac.00.html", "summary": "Cloning Claims Feed Junk Science", "utt": ["Human cloning, you have seen the headlines, you have watched the Raelians make the rounds on the talk shows, so you will no doubt have to agree with me when I say that we are just shocked. Shocked, I tell you, to see the whole thing starting to fall to pieces. The story started when Clonaid's Brigitte Boisselier called a press conference on December 27 to announce the birth of the first of two babies that Clonaid claims were clones.", "This was a story just too sensational for the press to resist. Even with absolutely no proof offered up to support such an extraordinary claim. To many the Clonaid announcement was just plain weird right from the word go. Clonaid is backed by the religious movement called the Raelians, who follow a guru named Rael, and believe humans are the clones of extra terrestrials who visited the Earth thousands of years ago, but also troubling was the involvement of this man, Michael Guillen, a science journalists formerly with ABC news. His presence may have lent an air of credibility to this incredible story.", "For the record, I know as little, and as much, as you do about the baby and child that Dr. Boisselier has just announced. But Dr. Boisselier has invited me to put her claim to the test.", "This week, Guillen was doing something that looked an awful lot like backpedaling. Appearing on news shows like CNN's \"", "We were not given the access that we were promised to take the required DNA tests and therefore I have to say tonight, there is a possibility that this was a hoax.", "Here to talk more about all that is Bob Park, expert in junk science, author of a book called \"Voodoo Science.\" Dr. Park, thanks for being with us. The Raelians were weird from the get go. We, you know, kind of accept that by now, but ever since Dolly the cloned sheep, cloning is no longer just the stuff of science fiction. So, how should the media have covered the story?", "It's not clear how they should have covered it. They should have covered it with a lot of skepticism, and they did. So, I think that was pretty good. The presence of Michael Guillen in this who affair was disturbing, but otherwise, I would say the press did rather well. They were skeptical right from the start.", "What about Mr. Guillen's role in this? A player in a possible hoax or maybe somebody duped and used by the Raelians? Or possibly duped by the Raelians?", "Well, if he was duped, that does not reflect very well on his abilities as a reporter, but it's not clear. What has come out since is that before, well before, these births were announced he was out trying to pedal an exclusive story about it, which raises serious questions about his independence in the whole affair.", "And one of those networks that he tried to sell that to, including CNN. Doesn't junk science rely, on the part, on the fact that our viewers kind of eat this stuff up?", "Oh, they do love it. And, of course, that's what's dangerous. The more science succeeds, the more we're going to see these fraudulent efforts based on science. Science is the thing to imitate these days.", "Sounds like. Well, in your book, \"Voodoo Science,\" you talk about the seven warning signs of junk science, which one of those were visible with this Clonaid and clone situation?", "Well, really there were more than one of the warning signs that were present here. The most -- the one that is most common, I think, is that the story is pitched first to the media, real science progress you first got sell your colleagues. So present the material at scientific conferences, publish articles in scientific journals. When the first people that hear about it are the media, you've got a problem.", "And there always is kind of an us-against-them kind of perspective as well. Somebody in the establishment is trying to suppress You try to pitch that as well?", "That's another clear warning sign, is that there is this always an establishment force, usually very powerful, that is trying to suppress this wonderful discovery.", "We should point out that Dr. Bob Park is also a professor of physics at the University of Maryland. His book is \"Voodoo Science.\" Dr. Park, always good to have you on, hope to have you on again. Thank you for joining us.", "Surely.", "Well, when we come back, that's right, one of those who's hot stories, but we're not talking about celebrities. Actually, talking about all of us. Some scientists warn that 2003 could turn out to be the hottest year on record. How global warming could make for some hot politics."], "speaker": ["SAN MIGUEL", "SAN MIGUEL (voice over)", "MICHAEL GUILLEN, SCIENCE JOURNALIST", "SAN MIGUEL", "CONNIE CHUNG TONIGHT.\" GUILLEN", "SAN MIGUEL", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-321741", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-09-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/21/cnr.18.html", "summary": "25 Killed In School That Collapsed During Quake; Hurricane Maria Winds Lashing The Dominican Republic; Dominican Republic Expects Dangerous Storm Surge; Risks Of Additional Collapse At School Building", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "Hello and welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm John Vause live in Mexico City, where it has just turned midnight. We are following two big stories this hour. Here in Mexico, rescuers racing against the clock to find earthquake survivors trapped beneath the rubble. And in the Caribbean, Hurricane Maria is on to its next target after hitting a day it spent pounding Puerto Rico. But first to the deadly earthquake and the painstaking search for survivors. Mexico's President, Enrique Pena Nieto, says more than 50 people have been pulled alive from the debris of collapsed buildings. Rescue workers are not giving up just yet. And one school here in Mexico City, they've made contact with a 12-year-old girl trapped in the rubble of her school. There may be two others trapped with her, possibly more. The magnitude 7.1 quake killed at least 25 people in that school, all but four them were children, 230 are dead across the quake zone.", "The empathy is like super strong from us because we were there. We know the people that are -- that were there. So, we are like super nervous because we're trying to know if they are safe if they are alive, and if they are in there, I don't know.", "Joining me now, Journalist, Ioan Grillo. So, Ioan, good to see you. You were just telling me that your daughter goes to school not far from here. To see what's happening at this school right now must send chills, to say the least.", "Yes, very close to home. My daughter goes to a school just around the corner of this street called Las Burucas. So, I drive past here once every day taking her to school and see the kids going in there. My daughter's 9-years-old.", "She was, probably, the same age as this little girl.", "Yes. So, she was, you know, extremely upset. She was describing how her classmates were crying, and she's still very, very tensed saying will there be a replica? Will there be another earthquake? You know, really upset by this. So, really to think that children in their -- what a child is going through being trapped in the rubble for 28 hours, you know. What is in their mind?", "This rescue, though, there's so much focus on it. It's playing out live on national television. It seems symbolic in so many ways that if they can save this girl, that just means so much to this country at that point.", "I think it's very good, the effort, to do that. And the fact that President Pena Nieto was here. He's not a popular president. So, to come here with a good gesture, to face the parents and to face the mother saying that, you know, our children in that school was a good gesture. And I mean, there's nothing stronger, I think, to human emotion than a young child, a young girl in a school like this trapped under. But I've been around, you know, all the great", "And you've got this incredible civilian response. You know, I don't know whether it's leading the government response or whether it's supporting the government response, it's hard to say. How long can they keep this up? I mean, it's miserable here tonight -- it's raining, it's getting cold. You know this is going to go on for a long time.", "Well, that response is incredible. And one thing about Mexico is all this big collective memory of 1985 and can drill into people the 1985 earthquake that pain. So, people really came out and they're now really -- it's really inspiring. A lot of the young professionals, young people coming out now. I think the energy can keep up. I know these people will have to go back to work, and they've got jobs do and you need people to work to keep the city moving. A real problem in disaster zones is when food starts to run out, water runs out. So, you need people working to keep the economy, to keep the machine going.", "There's a commotion behind us right now.", "Yes, there's -- I mean, there's constant movement like this at the site.", "Yes. Usually, it seems that something is happening, we just don't quite know what it is. What about beyond Mexico City? Because, obviously, you know, this is wealthy part of the country, there are a lot of resources here. Beyond here, in those other areas that have been hard hit, is the government, you know, dedicating the same sort of resources? Are they getting the same kind of help that these people getting?", "Not necessarily. I mean, it's a good point. I mean, we have -- Mexico City's on everyone's mind, especially this earthquake has hit middle-class neighborhoods like this one. This is a middle-class Mexico City neighborhood, the same as what other Condessa, Colanco, where businesses, where journalists are based -- a lot of journalist's homes are in those areas. But then, you go out to Puebla, to Morello State, and there are villages there, and we don't have a good idea about how bad the damage is in those places. And I'm sure there's not the same amount of marines, and military, and media attention that this place.", "What, what -- I mean, obviously, they're hard to get to. Is that the only reason why? Or is that there's a political", "I mean, it's hard to get to do so. It's, you know, what people know. I mean, the media, ourselves, you know, the fact journalists live in these neighborhoods. They have children that go to schools in these neighborhoods. Government officials live in these neighborhoods. So, that -- and the fact they're very close to officials. I think that has played a big part as well. But you know, think about the earthquake, it's very democratic in its way of going -- hitting rich, a middle-class and poor that you see in slums, you see in the rich neighbors, and the middle-class neighborhood's devastation.", "Norms there. Ioan, good to see you.", "Thanks so much.", "Appreciate you for being here. Thank you. One big relief, though, so far, there have been no major aftershocks since the quake happened. And more on that, Pedram Javaheri, brings us from the International Weather Center. So, Pedram, there was this expectation that there would, at least, you know, some powerful aftershocks, but so far, nothing, why is that?", "You know, it's very unusual, John. And you know, the epicenter of this quake being about 400 miles away from the main fault line, well to the south of Cocos fault line that dives underneath the North American fault. That is why we think the aftershock has not occurred yet. But, typically, aftershocks occur in the decrease, what's reciprocal of time. Meaning, if he had a hundred of aftershocks the first day, you would get 50 on the second day, you would get about 33 on the third day and so on, and we have not seen that yet. But they can continue weeks, months, and sometimes years. In the case of Japan, several years of aftershocks were seen. But with a magnitude 7.1, you would expect to see a 6.1, that is still a probability across this region and of course in the 5s and 4s you get into the hundreds, even thousands of aftershocks expected, but this is a little different. And you take a look, of course, you're talking about people surviving across this region. Typically, the average human can make it three to five days, that is assuming no injuries, no trauma to the head, up to eight weeks without food, but keep in mind, you can't digest food without water. So, you've got to keep factors of metabolism, the fat stores in your body, the temperatures outside, all of these play a role. And we do have a tropical disturbance and it's trying to form down there, south of Acapulco, 50 percent chance says the National Hurricane Center that this could form. But, of course, the heavy rainfall you're seeing right now across Mexico City is the result of that disturbance across that region. Now, also following what's happening with Hurricane Maria. Impressive storm system because it spent five hours over the mountains of Puerto Rico, reemerging right now and the eye beginning to becoming more and more symmetrical here. This storm system approached the island -- an island that has 22 weather observation sites, knocked 21 of those observation sites out of service. And the fact, because the island is completely out power right now, the National Weather Service in Miami, responsible for forecasting for San Juan and for Puerto Rico at this hour. But the next story developing across this region is the significant storm surge -- four to six feet across portions of the east area of Hispaniola, nine to 12 feet above what is typically a dry ground. That's, you know, you assume two feet that move your car. You get up to four to five feet, that water comes into the first level of your home up to 12 feet. And keep in mind, Turks and Caicos do not have 12 feet to work with around the immediate coastline. So, that is complete submergence of the island in parts across that region. Where is the storm headed? You've got to look at Tropical Storm Jose, it is the longest living system we've had since 1980, going on 14 days. And the reason I say that is the steering environment that Jose is sitting in place could essentially be where Maria ends up as it kind of meanders of the Eastern United States. Look at the American model in red, the European model in blue. This is for this time next week, potentially. The storm system could still be with us as Maria parks off the Northeastern United States coastline. And again, at that point, there is tremendous air with the forecast, as far as a prediction of where it will end up. We think in the immediate future, this will get stronger over the very warm waters approaching the Turks and Caicos. It looks at this point, at best case here for Turks and Caicos, it could skirt about 40 or 50 miles east of the islands. But again, notice the counterclockwise spin that brings in tremendous storm surge on an island here that is essentially made of corals. So, you're bringing that and increasing the water levels up to 12 feet over what is typically dry ground. But you notice the forecast, keeps this as a hurricane going into the beginning of next week. And at that point, we're talking about concern for rip currents on the immediate coast, and the element of good news out of this is the water temperatures will want to cool. So, there is weakening that is almost, certainly, going to take place. But when you're talking about the Northeastern United States with a hurricane offshore, it is still a big deal, John.", "OK. Pedram, thank you for the forecast, thank for the update. Let's get the very latest, though, from the Caribbean. Polo Sandoval is in the Dominican Republic in Punta Cana, and also Nick Valencia standing by in San Juan, in Puerto Rico where Maria has been. But let's start with Polo. So, those winds, Polo, they're kicking up as the rain increasing, what are you experiencing there right now? And how are residents there preparing for the, you know, arrival of Maria?", "Absolutely, John. Those winds certainly continue to kick up and that's because the eye of Hurricane Maria is still about 70 kilometers just offshore here. We are not expecting a direct hit, however, those outer bands, certainly, do have that damaging potential, as you can see behind me there with those palm trees just waving in the wind. Tonight, there are, really, thousands of tourists who are spending the night here. They are hunkered down; many of them -- some of which I had an opportunity to speak to only made it as far as the Punta Cana airport. There were headed back to the United States. There were some flights to Spain, South America. They didn't make it much further than that. You see the airport shut down earlier because of some of these wicked winds. They do expect, and again, I use the word expect, the airport to reopen at noontime tomorrow according to officials that we heard from earlier today. However, at this point, really, those people can only wait and see what happens. Back to the other question that you asked -- the preparations. We certainly saw some of that, in fact, here at the hotel that we're using for shelter and to bring you some of these live pictures. Many of the guests have been moved into some of the more interior rooms, to the more of the sought-after rooms. Some of those oceanfront suites and villas are empty tonight because of those safety precautions. And finally, I should mention this, John, a lot of the focus right now is not necessarily on what we're seeing right now, but what we could see in the days ahead. Officials here in the Dominican Republic, using Puerto Rico as an example that they are seeing, potentially, even more, rain than what they witnessed during the main event itself. That is something that we could see here as well. Irma, Jose, these are a storm that is dumped an incredible amount of rain in the Dominican Republic, leaving streams swollen and the ground saturated, which means some of the precipitation we'll see in the coming hours and perhaps days could lead to devastating flooding, John.", "Well, Polo, with that in mind, let's go to Nick Valencia who's in San Juan, Puerto Rico. And Nick, there are some incredible devastating flooding right now in Puerto Rico, along with a lot of other problems with damage to infrastructure. This is not over, not by a long shot for Puerto Rico.", "The core of the hurricane has come and gone, John, but the outer bands of that system still remains so much. So, the weather is still a factor. You talk about flooding, there's still a flash flood warning in effect not just for San Juan, but the entire island territory. We had a chance to see exactly just the extent of the damage and in around San Juan. We wanted to try to give our viewers a better perspective and understand the extent of the damage. But the problem was, we couldn't get very far because of so many downed trees, down power lines, telephone poles. It made it very hard for our crew to get passed about three miles outside of the city. It took us about an hour and a half to get that short distance. And what we saw was incredible devastation, catastrophic devastation. A heavy police presence, police checking in on businesses, going in to make sure that they were not being looted. We saw residents also out hours after the storm, already cleaning up debris to try to get a semblance of normalcy. But this is anything but normal, John. You know, it may look like it that way, looking behind us here, but that's because we have the luxury of a generator here at the hotel that we're at -- tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans aren't so fortunate. There are still of them -- thousands of them in shelters, thousands without power, thousands without clean running water. John.", "OK. Nick, thank you. Nick Valencia there live in Puerto Rico, and also Polo Sandoval live in the Dominican Republic. Thank you, both. We will take a short break. And then, coming back from disaster, how one group is helping victims of both Hurricane Maria and the earthquake here in Mexico. Also, ahead, the U.S. President reaches out to his counterpart in Mexico offering help, more on that in a moment."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR", "ANA CAROLINA OJERA TREVILLES, STUDENT", "VAUSE", "IOAN GRILLO, JOURNALIST", "VAUSE", "GRILLO", "VAUSE", "GRILLO", "VAUSE", "GRILLO", "VAUSE", "GRILLO", "VAUSE", "GRILLO", "VAUSE", "GRILLO", "VAUSE", "GRILLO", "VAUSE", "PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "VAUSE", "POLO SANDOVAL, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "VAUSE", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "VAUSE"]}
{"id": "CNN-308481", "program": "STATE OF THE UNION", "date": "2017-03-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/26/sotu.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders", "utt": ["Welcome back. Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House, yet they were still unable to muster enough votes to repeal and replace Obamacare. On Friday, President Trump publicly took the easy route: blaming Democrats.", "I think the losers are Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, because now they own Obamacare. They own it, 100 percent own it.", "But might he actually be more inclined now to strike deals with Democrats? A senior administration official tells me that the president is extremely frustrated with the conservative House Freedom Caucus, who they say moved the goalposts on the president as he tried to negotiate the repeal of Obamacare. And with the president looking for a win, he needs to build different coalitions. And that may just have to include Democrats.", "If we had bipartisan, I really think we could have a health care bill that would be the ultimate. And I think the Democrats know that also. And some day in the not-too-distant future, that will happen.", "But the question is, will Democrats actually come to the table? Joining me now is Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Senator, thank you so much for joining me. Now, the president, as you heard, is trying to blame Democrats for the GOP failure to repeal and replace Obamacare. But he also said that he'd be willing to work with you and Democrats in the Senate and House on a solution. So, given that, and given the fact that you have long said that there are problems with Obamacare, and the president wants to work with you, but obviously doesn't want to go as far as you do, insurance for everyone, do you think that you can take your position and take his position, and you can actually pick up the phone and reach out to him and say, at least let's fix what's happening now?", "Well, Dana -- Dana, let me just begin by saying this. The bill that was defeated should have been defeated. It was a disastrous piece of legislation primarily designed to provide $300 billion in tax breaks to the top 2 percent, throwing 24 million people off of health insurance, raising premiums for older workers in a very, very significant way. It was defeated. The American people wanted it defeated. And I'm glad that we were able to accomplish that. Now, as you indicated, of course, Obamacare has serious problems. Deductibles are too high. Premiums are too high. The cost of health care is going up at a much faster rate than it should. Ideally, what -- where we should be going is to join the rest of the industrialized the world and guarantee health care to all people as a right.", "OK.", "And that's why I'm going to introduce a Medicare-for-all single-payer program. Short term, this is what we can do. John Kasich was talking about chatting with the president about the high cost of prescription drugs. Well, you know what? I have introduced legislation that would allow pharmacists and distributors to buy lower-cost medicine from around the world. The American...", "OK, so let's start -- so, let's start there. Is that something that you will not just introduce on the Democratic side of the aisle, but actually pick up the phone and call the White House and say, hey, this is something I know the president cares about, too; can we work together?", "Absolutely.", "You're going to do that?", "Well, here -- President -- well, let me right now. President Trump said a whole lot of stuff on the campaign trail. One of the things he talked about was lowering the cost of prescription drugs. There is wonderful legislation right now in the Senate to do that. President Trump, come on board. Let's work together. Let's end the absurdity of Americans paying by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and enormously important that...", "And what about -- what about the idea -- what about the idea of broadly fixing Obamacare? I know you want to have insurance for all.", "Sure.", "And that's what you campaigned on.", "Right.", "But living in the Republican-led Washington world that you're living in, the idea of at least fixing what exists now, will you also tell your fellow Democrats, stop being intransigent, let's get together, and work with the president to do it?", "Oh, well, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Well, Dana, Dana, Dana, these guys, Republicans have the majority.", "Absolutely. But they clearly need...", "They did not include -- they did not in...", "I'm with you.", "Oh, one second. I mean...", "They didn't include you. They didn't include you. But they need you now, so let's look forward.", "Fine. So, look, what rational people would do is say, what are the problems? How do we fix it? Are deductibles too high? Of course they are. Are there some parts of the country where people don't have a choice? Yes, that's true. Let us do, among other things, a public option. Let us give people in every state in this country a public option from which they can choose. Let's talk about lowering the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 55. Let's deal with the greed of the pharmaceutical industry.", "Yes.", "Those are areas that we can work together on.", "OK. I mean, I just want to say -- want to move on -- that the Democratic-led Senate and White House couldn't even and wouldn't even do a public option. So -- but I want to move on to a different -- a different issue, which, of course, is Russia, and that has been also enveloping Washington this week. We learned that the FBI has been investigating the Trump campaign's potential coordination with Russia. They have been doing that since July. And yet it wasn't made public during the election. Back in December, former Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said that James Comey should be investigated for the way he selectively interfered in the 2016 election. Do you think Comey should be investigated?", "Well, what I think the issue right now is, and what the American people want to know, is what relationship, if any, what kind of collusion, if any, there was between the Trump campaign and Russia. I think the American people are scratching their head and wondering how it is that you have an authoritarian leader in Russia who gets nothing but very positive statements from the president of the United States. That is the issue that needs to be investigated.", "Right. But, Senator, I'm asking about James Comey.", "The answer is, I don't know. The answer is, where we are right now is that the FBI has got to do a thorough investigation of that issue. And, by the way, we need an independent commission. If the Intelligence Committees are unable to do the right thing, we need to go to an independent commission.", "I want to talk about something else that's on the Senate's plate right now. And that, of course, is the Supreme Court nomination. Your -- the leader of the party you caucus with, Chuck Schumer, said that the Senate Democrats will filibuster Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court. Republicans are already saying that they're going to go nuclear, which means that the Supreme Court nominees would only need 51 votes, not 60, which is required now, if necessary, and that, if that happens, not only would Gorsuch get on the court, but you are going to be giving President Trump a wide opening to nominate the most conservative person he can if and when another vacancy opens up. Is that something that concerns you, the long-term implications of the filibuster?", "Well, first of all, what concerns me is that, right now, we have a rule that says, appropriately, I think, that for a Supreme Court justice, a lifetime term, one of the most important positions in the United States government, that it should require 60 votes, because that would make it bipartisan. And I think that that's where we are right now. And I certainly hope that the Republicans do not change the rules in order to push Gorsuch through. I chatted with Gorsuch for about 45 minutes. And, frankly, it was a very pleasant conversation. But on the most important issues facing our country, the issues of billionaires able to buy elections because of Citizens United, the issue of taking away a woman's right to choose, the issues of voter suppression, I was not impressed by his response.", "But we know...", "Right now, you have got Republicans governors all over this country trying to make it harder for poor people to vote. He had nothing significant to say on that.", "We know you're not going to vote -- we know you're not going to vote for Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court. But do you think that the Democrats should actually filibuster his nomination?", "What I think is, if he does not get 60 votes, the Republicans owe the American people the obligation of bringing forward somebody who is more moderate, who is not an extremist.", "It sounds like a yes. You're for a filibuster.", "And that's what the American -- it's not a question of filibuster. I am for a -- I am for the Republicans obeying the rules that currently exist, and not changing those rules. That's -- and the rules right now, for good reasons, are 60 votes.", "Well, OK. The rules do allow for a filibuster for the Supreme Court nomination, but it certainly doesn't require Democrats to use that.", "You're -- you're using the word filibuster.", "Because that's what it is.", "All it is, is there will be -- no, it is not. There will be a vote. If he doesn't get 60 votes, he does not become Supreme Court justice. That's the rule right now. It's not like people are going to be there standing for months and months, bringing down the government.", "OK.", "That is what the current rule is. And I think it's important that it be maintained.", "OK, Senator, thank you so much for your time this morning. I really appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "And coming up: A senior administration official tells me that the president was a captive in an internal House Republican fight. 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{"id": "CNN-403424", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2020-06-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/22/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "Six Pro Women's Soccer Players Test Positive For Coronavirus", "utt": ["The coronavirus is spreading across the sports world, infecting an alarming number of professional athletes. Six players on the Orlando Pride of National Women's Soccer League are tested positive, forcing the team to withdraw from the tournament that is supposed to mark a return to play. So here to discuss are CNN contributor and NFL player for the New Orleans Saints, Malcolm Jenkins, and Dr. Michael Chang, professor of infectious diseases at UTHealth McGovern Medical School. Gentlemen, thank you so much. Malcolm, you first. We have seen cases reported across nearly every major sport. The NFL is planning to start on time. The NBA is planning to resume its season on July 31st. Will players want to play if this keeps up and keeps getting worse?", "Well, I think they are concerned. As we see, you know, college players who are coming back to campus for these voluntary workouts, they are not practicing, they're not playing games, and you're starting to see outbreaks there and across other sports. I think -- I know the NFL is really watching kind of how these other sports handle it and see what they are doing. The NBA has the opportunity to isolate, you know, fully in one place where we don't have that option.", "Mm-hmm. Well, let's talk about that, OK, because you mentioned college, right? So, Dr. Chang, at least six colleges have reported coronavirus cases on their sports team since Friday. Louisiana State, LSU, where I attended, also quarantined dozens of football players as a precaution. Does this add another layer of complication since this, you know, it's also students, they are also students?", "Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think, you know, universities have a responsibility to the health of their students not only as players but as, you know, members of their university community. So, you know, and I think parents trust that these universities have their children, the students, kind of in their best interests. So, you know, I think adding the complexity of college campus is another major issue that needs to be really thought carefully about.", "Malcolm, you were saying?", "I'm saying, you know, when we have students coming back on, you know, what happens then? Because, right now, this is the off- season for football and we are having problems already. So, what happens when you add a population and you add practice and contact?", "How does that work? I think we still have yet to see, you know, what those plans are.", "Dr. Chang, if this keeps up, the numbers keep going up, do you think leagues will have to reconsider whether it's safe to play? That goes for even college football.", "Yeah, absolutely. I think if cases continue to increase, you know, you really have to consider the safety of everyone involved. We have talked about before, it's not just the players and the staff, but everybody else involved in the running of the leagues and the games and the facilities. And so, you know, I think you really need to consider the safety of everyone involved and be very cautious about pushing ahead with opening up all the locations and all the games.", "Yeah. So, I'm just wondering if this is going, you know, set the season back or if they are actually going to be able to play it. I don't know if college footballs are going to see like the NBA and the NFL and hockey league and so on and so forth really have to end their seasons because of coronavirus. We will continue to check in. Malcolm, thank you. Dr. Chang, thank you so much, as well. I appreciate it. Who will Senator Mitch McConnell -- absolutely. Who will Senator Mitch McConnell face in November? Tough questions, considering the Democratic primary to pick his challenger is heating up fast."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "MALCOLM JENKINS, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "LEMON", "MICHAEL CHANG, PROFESSOR OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, UTHEALTH'S MCGOVERN MEDICAL SCHOOL", "LEMON", "JENKINS", "JENKINS", "LEMON", "CHANG", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-114321", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2007-2-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/05/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Battle Over President's Budget Begins Today; Interview With John Edwards", "utt": ["To our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM, and it's happening right now. As violence rages in Iraq, the battle over the president's budget begins here in Washington today. It could and probably will pour billions more into the war. Would it also hurt health care at home? I'll speak about that with the Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards. And Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama may battle for the African- American voters. But some African-Americans are warning don't take our votes for granted. I'll speak about that with the Reverend Al Sharpton this hour. And Arnold Schwarzenegger caught on tape with more stunning revelations. What did he say this time? I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. What can you buy for about $3 trillion? The president's new budget is now out and it takes four hefty volumes to show you where your money is going. The president's budget would add billions to fight the war in Iraq. Does that come at the expense of social programs here at home? Democrats say it's filled with debt and deception. And even some Republicans are betting against this budget's chances in a Democratic controlled Congress. Let's go live to our White House correspondent, Suzanne Malveaux. She's checking all the fine print -- Suzanne.", "Well, Wolf, it's a budget that the president and his top economic advisers say is more detailed and transparent when it comes to the costs of the war on terror. But, again, it is a big question whether or not it is going to be able to pass Congressional leadership, a Democratically-controlled Congress. And, Wolf, the numbers are really staggering.", "It's our money and President Bush wants to spend almost $3 trillion of it. It's a staggering figure that's hard for any of us to imagine. But consider this. After you crunch all of the numbers, it's estimated that the total cost for the war on terror will approach $800 billion within the next two years. President Bush says the increases he's seeking in the new budget are justified.", "And our priority is to make sure our troops have what it takes to do their jobs.", "The breakdown -- more than $93 billion additional for this year's war operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of $70 billion already approved. More than $140 billion for 2008. And an 11 percent increase in the Pentagon budget. Mr. Bush insists the country can afford to boost military spending, while balancing the budget in five years without raising taxes, a claim members of Congress, now controlled by the Democrats, quickly dismissed.", "That's why I say this budget is a combination of deception and debt in a way that's disconnected from reality.", "The day of the blank check for the president and the war is over.", "The president's budget aims at paying for the military increases by cutting out more than $95 billion in other areas over the next five years, including sharply reducing or eliminating more than 140 government programs, for a savings of $12 billion; and squeezing $78 billion out of Medicare and Medicaid, health programs for the elderly and poor.", "Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid, they are now more than half of the budget. And what the president proposes is actually less than a 1 percentage point reduction in Medicare over five or 10 years.", "And the president's budget, of course, asks for less war costs, considerably, in 2009, just $50 billion, and asks for no money the following year. But the president says this is no indication of a timetable for the end of the war or for bringing American troops home -- Wolf.", "Numbers so huge it's amazing. Suzanne, thank you. Meanwhile, a series of bloody bombings ripped through Baghdad today, killing at least 35 people and wounding more than 120 others. One of the blasts went off near a children's hospital, killing nine people. And this follows a truck bombing which took a terrible toll this weekend. As Iraqis clean up and try to cope, some are saying it's America's fault. And joining us now, our correspondent in Baghdad, Michael Ware -- Michael, they seem to be blaming, at least some elements in the Iraqi government, the United States for this massacre over the weekend that killed more than 100 Iraqis, wounded more than 300 others, horrendous pictures. It looks like the worst suicide bombing over the past three and-a-half years. What's going on?", "Yes, Wolf, I mean this was a massive truck bomb in a crowded marketplace on Saturday evening that killed at least 128, and, as you say, wounded more than 300. Now, the great irony is that there's elements, Shia elements within the government, that are blaming the U.S. for creating this security situation or poor security situation that they say has created an environment that is allowing al Qaeda and others to launch these attacks. This feeds a common conspiracy, particularly among Shia, that says America is so all powerful and all pervasive, al Qaeda could not conduct these bombings if America was not complicit. We're not hearing that echoed in the wake of this bombing by elements of this government.", "Because what they're saying is by the United States pressuring the Iraqi government to clamp down on Muqtada al-Sadr's Shiite militia, the Mahdi Army, in effect, that's making the Shiites in these marketplace areas and elsewhere in Baghdad, even more vulnerable.", "Yes, they're arguing that this has increased the Shia public's exposure. I mean the government has never been able to underwrite people's security, nor has the U.S. military. So more and more in these days of civil war, they've turned to their own neighborhood or to the local militias. Now, what these people are saying is that on the eve of what's perceived as a massive American led operation, which, indeed, it is not, many of these militias have evaporated, or their leadership has taken its troops or its fighters off the streets, thereby creating a vacuum which is being filled by these bombers. Hence, they ultimately blame America for these deaths.", "Michael Ware reporting for us from Baghdad. Michael, thanks.", "Thank you, Wolf.", "And as opposition to the war intensifies among the American public, there's a stunning new development within the U.S. military. A court-martial began today for a U.S. Army officer who refused to ship out with his unit to Iraq. Let's get some details from our Brian Todd -- Brian.", "Wolf, First Lieutenant Ehren Watada took a stand about seven months ago. He's now facing a jury likely to comprise young officers like himself in a case that even his family doesn't expect to go well for him.", "As his former unit takes casualties in Iraq, Ehren Watada puts his freedom on the line at Fort Lewis, Washington. Watada, considered an exemplary soldier until last June, when he became the first commissioned officer to refuse to go to Iraq. The reason? 1", "It is my conclusion that war is not only morally wrong, but is, in fact, illegal.", "Watada is not a so-called conscientious objector. While he believes the Iraq War is illegal, he did say he was willing to fight in Afghanistan. The Army declined and Watada is now being court-martialed for failing to deploy with his unit, conduct unbecoming an officer and contempt toward officials. That last charge, for all the public statements he's made against the Bush administration since last June.", "I felt betrayed by my leadership.", "But the judge has already ruled that Watada's central defense, that the war is illegal, is a political question and can't be ruled on by this military court. Then there's the challenge of jury selection. By rule, it has to be a panel of peers, likely Army lieutenants.", "It's highly improbable that this jury will include no one who's been there. So I think the jury selection is going to be an interesting exercise because obviously it's a concern if you have people who have had the actual experience to go to Iraq.", "The case has made Watada a poster boy for the anti-war movement, some of whom are protesting near Fort Lewis as his trial gets underway.", "But Watada is said to be resented by some inside Fort Lewis, where he held a desk job until recently. His family tells CNN they expect this court-martial to be over by Thursday. If convicted, he could face four years in a military prison -- Wolf.", "We'll watch it together with you, Brian. Thanks very much. Let's go to New York and Jack Cafferty -- this is going to be a big case at Fort Lewis up in Washington.", "I don't think it's going to be that big a deal. When you're wearing the uniform, you're not allowed to decide whether the war you're ordered to fight in is moral or not. You follow your orders and you go where your unit goes and that's just the way the military -- I mean how would it be if every soldier was allowed to say well, I'll fight in Afghanistan, but I won't fight in Iraq, or I'll go here but I don't think I should go there, because I don't like the way those people -- I mean that's nonsense. He's dead. Senate rebuke on Iraq is loud and unclear. That's how one newspaper headline put the story today. The Senate spending all of this time talking about these resolutions criticizing President Bush's plans to escalate the war in Iraq. Republicans are threatening to block the vote. One Democrat calls that threat obstructionism and they just blather on and on and on. But when it comes right down to it, all this debate and fussing are about non-binding resolutions. They really don't mean anything in terms of the conduct of the war. They're just sort of a way to register a complaint. President Bush is the commander-in-chief. The country is at war. He's probably within his rights to do pretty much whatever he wants in terms of adding troops, withdrawing troops, moving troops, whatever. He is the commander-in-chief. In the meantime, the hopes of a new Congress coming in, getting right to work on this nation's problems, are being held captive by these resolutions, just like the entire country has been held captive by this war for almost four years now. Nothing that's important to our citizens here is being addressed. Instead, we get posturing and speechifying and bloviating or, as Shakespeare so eloquently put it, a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. The question is this -- how important is it for the Senate to pass a resolution opposing President Bush's troop increase plan in Iraq? E-mail your thoughts to caffertyfile@cnn.com or go to cnn.com/caffertyfile -- Wolf, whatever they're going to do, I wish they would just get on with it.", "Usually they don't do it that quickly here in Washington. It takes a lot of time.", "All right. We'll wait.", "Jack, thank you.", "All right.", "Still to come, my interview with Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. I'll ask him about his call for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, his ambitious health care plan and raising your taxes. That's coming up. Also, with a growing roster of Democratic candidates, are African-Americans facing a growing divide, especially when it comes to frontrunners like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama? Former presidential candidate Al Sharpton, he's stopping by live right here in THE SITUATION ROOM to talk about it. And a massive slaughter underway right now as Britain tries to contain Europe's huge outbreak of bird flu. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, HOST", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX (voice-over)", "GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "MALVEAUX", "SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV), MAJORITY LEADER", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "MALVEAUX", "ROB PORTMAN, WHITE HOUSE BUDGET DIRECTOR", "MALVEAUX", "BLITZER", "MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "WARE", "BLITZER", "WARE", "BLITZER", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TODD (voice-over)", "ST LT. 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{"id": "CNN-299072", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2016-11-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/25/wolf.02.html", "summary": "First U.S. Member Killed in Syria; Trump Names Don McGahn as White House Counsel.", "utt": ["We have another transition alert to report. CNN has confirmed that Don McGahn will be named White House counsel. McGahn served as President-elect Trump's campaign lawyer. He is currently advising the transition team. He is the counsel on the transition team and he's going to face the complex task of keeping Donald Trump's business dealings separate from his presidency. In a statement, the president-elect said McGahn has, quote, \"a brilliant legal mind and will play a critical role in the administration.\" We'll have more on that as we learn more. And for the last six weeks, this is story we've followed. Iraqi forces have been fighting to drive is out of Mosul. While the offensive made significant gains, it's come with a heavy price. CNN international correspondent Phil Black visited one neighborhood that was liberated from ISIS but residents are reminded daily militants are never far away. And we have to warn you, some of the scenes in the history are graphic.", "These people have just lived through the horror of urban warfare. They cowered in their homes for days, prayers and white flags their only protection as Iraqi forces fought their way through the neighborhoods of eastern Mosul against fierce ISIS resistance. Now, there is little food, water, or medicine. No electricity. But there's much relief.", "A dark thing on the chest.", "ISIS is like a dark thing on the chest.", "Yes.", "And it's gone now?", "Yes, Daesh, the dark thing is gone.", "You could hear the fighting in the near distance.", "It's still dangerously close. ISIS is gone from the streets, but its ability to harm these people hasn't passed. Just 24 hours ago, we're told, a family was sitting here outside a home when a mortar struck a short distance away, and an 18-month-old girl was killed. Her name was Amira Ali (ph). Her father, Omar, is overwhelmed with grief. He cries, \"What did she do wrong? She was just playing. She's gone from me, and she's my only one.\" Every day this makeshift clinic inside Mosul sees the terrible consequences of mortars fired into civilian areas. It's a bloody production line. The wounded are delivered, patched up quickly, and loaded into ambulances to transport to hospital. At times, it seems endless, as one ambulance pulls away, another military vehicle speeds in carrying more wounded civilians. They're unloaded with great care as the medics work to help the victims of yet another ISIS mortar attack. But they can't save everyone. This man's 21-year-old son was killed. He says, \"A mortar just fell in front of the door, we came, and he was just a piece of meat. Four or five of my neighbors were standing with him, and they're all dead.\"", "Right, U.S.-backed Iraqi forces have completely surrounded the city, meaning that ISIS fighters are trapped inside. They can not escape, they can not call for backup and they can not get new supplies. Let's discuss now with Colonel John Dorrian, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve. Colonel, thanks for being with us. As we hear this, that Iraqi forces say they don't expect an imminent victory, what is your assessment on the battle for Mosul?", "We've reached the toughest part of the battle. ISIL is desperate, they're using brutal tactics, they're taking it out on the civilians that are around them. These are the tactics that just make these people the worst in the world. The Iraqi security forces have conducted themselves in a manner that all Iraqis should be proud of. They fought very bravely and they are really working hard to protect civilian life. As you can see, though, very, very heart-wrenching situation, very difficult in Mosul right now.", "And as we see, for instance, ISIS back on its feet in places like Mosul. We also saw this explosion, this bombing south of Baghdad that killed dozens of people yesterday so even as you see ISIS back on their feet, I think people wonder, \"back on their feet\" doesn't mean they aren't doing considerable damage, that aren't spurring on sectarian divides. How do you govern against that? Talk about that challenge.", "Well, one of the most difficult things about this enemy is they don't care anything about human life at all. So, what we expect to happen after their terrain that they've controlled for so long is taken away, they'll devolve back into a terrorist organization and conduct these types of spoiler attacks. It's an effort to maintain relevance. The Iraqi security forces are working very hard to prevent these types of attacks, but it's going to be a very difficult situation and what we've done is we've prepared the Iraqis and trained them and we continue to train them so that they will be able to create wide area security forces, the police forces that control these areas and try to reduce the amount of damage that ISIL can do.", "What can you tell us about the American service member killed in Syria? First American service member killed in Syria. Important to note it's not the first U.S. service member killed in the theater. We've seen some special forces members killed in Iraq as well. We know there are about 300 Special Forces in Syria, a number of these are operators. A number of them are support staff. Can you shed any light on the identity of the service member?", "Well, we're not going to do that yet because we need to make sure that this hero's family has been notified, and given the proper amount of time to deal with the enormity of the loss. Our hearts and minds are with this member's family. His friends and his teammates because it's very, very tough fighting, this person volunteered for our defense of our nation and for all of us around the world, and he made the ultimate sacrifice. So, we're definitely going to honor that. It's very tough fighting. This happened in Syria and -- when the member's vehicle struck an improvised explosive device.", "All right. We do appreciate that. As we were looking to confirm that as well, we know that it had something to do with an IED. We weren't sure if it was a vehicle and as you said, and we believe this, too, our hearts are certainly with the family as they've lost their loved one on Thanksgiving. Colonel Dorrian, thank you so much for an update on this story. We'll be checking back with you in the days to come. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLACK (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLACK", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLACK (voice-over)", "BLACK", "KEILAR", "COL. JOHN DORRIAN, SPOKESMAN, OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE", "KEILAR", "DORRIAN", "KEILAR", "DORRIAN", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-413252", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-10-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/13/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Trump's Supreme Court Pick Faces Senators' Questions; Barrett: \"No One Ever Talked About Any Case With Me\" Before Nomination; Barrett Won't Say Whether A President Can Delay A Federal Election; Barrett: You Wouldn't Be Getting Justice Scalia, You'd Be Getting Me; Judge Barrett Asked About George Floyd Case.", "utt": ["That's what FDR wanted to do. Notwithstanding the fact that he had an overwhelming super majority in both houses of congress, fortunately, FDR's idea that he pushed in the fall of 1936 didn't make it anywhere. It didn't gain progress. It met enough opposition even with both houses of congress being overwhelmingly controlled by his political party, that it stalled quite mercifully and it's remained ever since then at nine justices. I think it would have been a colossal mistake. Joe Biden himself as a U.S. Senator, as a member of this body in a proceeding of this committee in 1983 gave a rousing speech that I recommend to all, talking about that very thing. Acknowledging that the constitution doesn't require it, but our respect for the separation of powers really ought to lead to a sticking to the number nine. Don't pack the court. In recent days, I have seen some in the media and some in this body try to redefine what it means to pack the court? Some have suggested well court packing takes various forms, and it can mean confirming a lot of people all at once. Some have defined it so as to suggest that it consist of doing that which the Trump Administration and the Republican Senate have been doing over the last three and a half years, which is filling vacancies as they have a reason and doing so with textualist, originalist judges. This may not be something that some like, but this is not court packing. Court packing is itself manipulative, it's something that has great danger to do immense political and constitutional harm to our system of government, in part because it would set up a one way ratchet. Once you create a position and confirm someone to that position, absent death, retirement or impeachment of removal that position remains in place. So if, for example, future Congress and White House were to decide to get together and to pack the court and increase the number, say, to 11, and let's say it's Democrats who do that. And we've got Joe Biden now as a presidential candidate who is refusing to say whether he would do it. There's a reason he is not saying whether he would do it. There's only one reason why you refuse to answer that question, and if you're wanting to be able to do it, but you don't want to take the heat for the fact that you're thinking about doing it right now. So if they do that, where does it lead? Inevitably leads to the point where the next time Republicans have control of both house of Congress and the White House, they'd increase it as well. You would end up increasing it incrementally. Before long, it looks like the Senate in \"Star Wars\" where you've got hundreds of people on there; I don't know what the total number would be. But you increase it at all, you change the number of all, you do so for partisan political purposes at all, you delegitimize the court. And you can't delegitimize the court without fundamentally threatening and eroding and impairing some of our most valued liberties. You can't do that without inevitably threatening things like religious freedom. Things like free speech, things that are themselves often unpopular, but are protected by the constitution precisely because they're unpopular, and yes, in that respect the constitution is sometimes counter democratic. Sometimes it can be described as fundamentally undemocratic. In fact it's the whole reason to have a constitution is to protect us from the impulse of a majority that might be bent on harming the few in the name of the many. That's why the law is so important. That's why the position for which you're being considered is so essential. And that's why we've got to do our job to make sure that the only people who get the job for which you've been nominated fit the bill. You, Judge Barrett, are someone in whom I have immense confidence, immense trust. And I look forward to voting to confirming you for that very position.", "Thanks, Senator Lee. We'll take, let's come back at 12:45. We'll start with Senator Whitehouse. We have 15 Senators left. Everybody takes the 30 minutes, seven and a half hours; we'll take a break for dinner tonight sometime later on and a short break. Are you doing OK? Three hours of outright? So we'll come back at 12:45. And right now we're on schedule to be here until 9:00. But we'll do whatever the Committee wants. We're in recess until 12:45.", "I am John King in Washington, thank you for sharing your day with us. You are watching right now Judge Amy Coney Barrett leave the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room. Three hours now as she has been taking questions from senators in this confirmation hearing. Judge Barrett of course, President Trump's pick to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court of the United States. And Justice Barrett would shift the court. If she's confirmed, it would mean a 6-3 conservative majority, that's defining judicial legacy for this president. And that is why you have a giant cause for alarm among Democrats, worried for example, Justice Barrett might throw out Obamacare might throw out abortion rights. It has been a fascinating discussion. Some about of it about her legal views, some of it, politicians giving speeches. That is what happens at Supreme Court Confirmation hearings. Some of the controversy is about her views, what does she think of the Affordable Care Act, what does she think of Roe V. Wade and subsequent abortion rights decisions with some of the controversy is about the timing. President Trump trying to get this court changing nominee confirmed in the days before a presidential election. Let's discuss what we've seen so far with our great panel, Dana Bash, Joan Biskupic, Jeffrey Toobin, and Nia-Malika Henderson. Dana, we'll get to the legal complications in a minute, but first and foremost, this is a political conversation, the challenge for Judge Barrett not to lose any Republican votes. She doesn't have to need any Democrats, she just can't lose any Republicans and she will be within a couple of weeks Justice Barrett. So far even from the accounts I am getting from Democrats, they believe she's had - they may not like the answers, but they think she's been very impressive, handled herself well and not made any mistakes.", "Absolutely. I am hearing the same thing from Democrats. And what she has done is try to follow the lead of people who have been nominated before her, even by Democratic Presidents. And she even cited Alan Kagan, she cited Ruth Bader Ginsburg, although she said that she didn't want to give hints, forecasts or previews of what she's going to do on the bench? Ironically, Ruth Bader Ginsburg said flatly that she is for Abortion Rights that she is sort of in the vernacular pro-choice and that is obviously not something that Amy Coney Barrett would give in at all. I mean, she said judges can't just wake up one day and said, I have an agenda, I like guns, I hate guns, I like abortion, I hate abortion and walk in line like a royal queen and in part pose that well on the world. That is exactly what if you are hoping that a judge or a judicial nominee particularly for the Supreme Court goes before a Committee like this that they are, that they walk that line as carefully as possible. The other thing that I will just note which I think is going to be an instant meme, John, is the fact that she had no notes. Then she was asked, but I think it was Senator John Cornyn to hold up the notepad in front of her, and it was blank except for the United States Senate kind of stationery that was on it. And that's it. I think that is going to be very impressive to Republicans and Democrats, not that everybody didn't think she was smart, but because she was that confident in how she was going to express herself.", "Right. And let's be honest. Number one, if we can roll back the clock, and we're not so close to election, number two, if we can roll back even further and this to another Republican President in another age, I've been in Washington long enough, Judge Amy Coney Barrett would be getting 70 votes or more in the United States Senate, because of her qualifications.", "No question.", "But we don't live in that age, Joan Biskupic. We don't live in that age and Democrats were trying to make that point saying that President Trump is on the record saying he wants the Supreme Court to overturn Roe V. Wade. President Trump right now is asking the Supreme Court to throw out the Affordable Care Act. President Trump in picking Judge Amy Coney Barrett has said he needs a ninth justice on the court because this election could lead to court challenges that make their way to the Supreme Court. President Trump of course saying on record any election he loses, in election that is clearly been rigged. So one of the questions, this is an exchange with Senator Pat Leahy; he is essentially trying to say, did you promise the president anything?", "Senator Leahy, I want to begin by making two very important points. And they have to do with the ACA and with any election dispute that may or may not arise. I have had no conversation with the president or any of his staff on how I might rule in that case? It would be a gross violation of judicial independence for me to make any such commitment or for me to be asked about that case and how I would rule. I also think it would be a complete violation of the independence of the judiciary for anyone to put a justice on the court as a means of obtaining a particular result. Let me be clear. I have made no commitment to anyone, not in the Senate, not over at the White House about how I would decide any case?", "By the books answer there, Joan, and by the books answer that of course has more gravity if you will, the question has more gravity at the moment because of the way this president conducts himself and makes clear he expects and demands loyalty.", "That's absolutely right. And he has run against the Affordable Care Act, he's one - since its inception has been arguing against it. And he suggested that he was choosing someone who would both be against that and also might help him out if an election dispute came before the justices. She seemed to want to make clear that obviously she made no promises. But the Senators had a reason to press her, especially on the Affordable Care Act, because she in the past had written critically of Supreme Court rulings that upheld the act. She had said that Chief Justice John Roberts' rationale for upholding the ACA in 2012 had pushed the statute beyond its plausible meaning. So, they wanted to ask about that. They wanted to ask why she said in 2015 when the Supreme Court again upheld it. Why she thought the dissent had the better view? So they were legitimate questions, but she stressed that as a judge she is not precommitting to anything. But it's a very relevant question for them to have. On the overall recusal, I just want to note an answer that I was sort of surprised that she gave. I wasn't surprised that she said that she would assess the situation when it came up whether to recuse from a particular case. But she said that she would consult with her colleagues, and said that, that was the usual practice. I frankly don't know that that is the usual practice for justices to talk to the full court about whether to recuse. As you know, John, it is in the hands of individual justices whether they will sit out a case. Supreme Court Justices are not bound by the federal ethics law, but they generally do follow them, but it is in the individual justice's hands.", "And Jeffrey, let's continue on ACA for a minute. And you're the justice here as our Chief Legal Analyst, Justice Jeffrey Toobin, because the Democrats know they can't trip her up on a basic question, how would you rule? So they're trying to get a little bit more granular. The challenge to the Affordable Care Act before the court, many people believe if the high court has the potential just got it, throw it out, say it is on its phase unconstitutional. There's this question of severability, a legal term, but being that if there's ten elements of a piece of law, and you don't like one of them, do the other nine stand. Listen to when that subject came up.", "There is a doctrine called severability, which sounds like legalese, but what it means is, is it OK with the statute, could you just pluck that part out, and let the rest of the statute stand? Or is that provision which has been zeroed out so critical to the statute that the whole statute falls? So really the issue in the case is this doctrine of severability, and that's not something that I've ever talked about with respect to the Affordable Care Act. Honestly, I haven't written anything about severability that I know of at all.", "So you have no thoughts on the subject?", "Well, it's a case that's on the court's docket and the canons of judicial conduct would prohibit me from expressing a view.", "Jeffrey Toobin, did you take anything away from that or the broader conversation, about the specifics of the court challenge that she could hear literally in our first week or two on the job or more broadly about her philosophy?", "Well, first of all, Mr. King, I'd appreciate if you call me your honor if you're going to call me.", "You're Excellency.", "I thought she gave a very good and clear definition of what severability is. Can you pluck a piece of the legislation out without having to get rid of the whole thing? In doing so, I think she minimized the significance of the case because at other points she said well, the case is not really about pre-existing conditions, it's not really about lifetime limits on benefits. It is about that, because if you find as the Trump Justice Department has urged the court to find that you can't pluck out this piece, you have to get rid of the whole piece of legislation. So the case that is being argued on November 10th, if the Trump Justice Department gets its way, the whole ACA is gone. All of pre-existing condition protections, staying on your parents' insurance till you are 26, all of that is at stake in that case, and I thought she was trying to sort of say well, the case isn't that big a deal. It is that big a deal.", "It is that big of a deal. And so, Nia-Malika Henderson, we have this remarkable collision if you will. She has a compelling remarkable personal story, a family of seven, two of them adopted. She makes no secret of the fact that she's conservative, she's a Catholic, and she's pro-life personally. It is a compelling personal story against a compelling political moment in the fact that democrats do not want to give this president a third Supreme Court pick, especially because we are three weeks from a presidential election, and add in that the Republican majority before Donald Trump was in Washington blocked President Obama from getting a pick in the final year of an election.", "So you have this collision if you will of without a doubt an impressive judge, whether you agree or disagree with her views, whether you worry about what she might do as a Supreme Court, that remarkable personal story, that again in any other time we'd be having a very different conversation. But because it is this president at this moment, this is Armageddon in Washington.", "That's right and Democrats both privately and publicly admitting that it's unlikely that they're going to be able to stop her going to the Supreme Court. I think Amy Klobuchar yesterday essentially said that, what Democrats obviously want to fight, they want to highlight the issues they want to highlight, the importance of the ACA, particularly during this pandemic. So you see a lot of campaigning of Lindsey Graham there in his opening statements, talking about South Carolina. He is in a tough fight for his political light down in South Carolina. Talk about all the money that's flooded into that race on the other side. So it is a very unusual moment for this country, just three weeks before Election Day to be replacing RBG, who is a legend on the left with someone who basically says, she's in the mold of Scalia, the female Scalia, even though she tried to sort of back away from that, that is likely what her judicial record has been in the past and will likely be in the future. It was interesting to sort of see her hold up that blank piece of paper, but it is in keeping with what she's trying to present herself as sort of a blank slate that people can't really predict what she's actually going to do. When in fact she is there because our conservatives want somebody to rip out the ACA, they want somebody to overturn abortion rights in this country. So it is sort of an irony there. And then you see Republicans also, I think was Mike Lee essentially say, do you have anything to do with the fact that people do have health care? Should anybody who gets health care through the ACA be worried about your ascent to the Supreme Court? And it's like, well, she does have something to do with it. She will likely rule on that she'd be confirmed, which it looks likely. That case comes before the Supreme Court a week after Election Day. So there is a sort of disingenuousness going on here. Republicans want her to act in the way they want her to act and overturn abortion, overturn the ACA. And she's sort of acting like well no, she doesn't really have anything to do with that.", "Dana, you were about to jump in.", "Yes. I am sorry about that, Nia. Nia talked about the fact that she distanced herself from the label of female Scalia, I thought that was another key moment.", "Right.", "Not just because she is trying to differentiate herself from the person she clerked for her mentor. But also because even though that is how she was described for many years in conservative judicial circles, it is kind of inherently sexist. Why can't she just be her own person? And that's basically what she was saying. So I think it had multiple, it sort of landed in multiple ways when she said that she is Judge Barrett or would be Justice Barrett, not the female anybody.", "I'm not sure that I would agree with that because, you know, it's very unusual for a justice or a nominee as Amy Coney Barrett did at the White House at the famous infamous super spreader event, where she said, I follow Justice Scalia's judicial philosophy. He was a controversial figure on the court.", "Right. But that's the different than being called the female anybody. That's the point I was trying to bring in.", "OK. Yes. Certainly that. But I think most justices, one justice who is pretty uncontroversial is Justice Robert Jackson who served in the 1940s and 1950s. He is sort of some of the liberals and conservatives can always agree on him, because he offered something to both sides. To say that you follow Justice Scalia's philosophy is a very distinctive thing, and something that tells you a lot about what kind of justice she's going to be. And that's the kind of justice that Donald Trump wanted to put on the court.", "It also tells you she understands the outside legal operation that this president has accepted, to pick his judges and vet his judges for him, the federalist society which has made clear that's what it likes on the court. Let's go up to Capitol Hill, and CNN's Phil Mattingly who is trying to keep track of the math and whether or not it changes? Because if it doesn't, and Judge Barrett will be Justice Barrett and all of the politics playing out in this election year, final election weeks, confirmation hearing. Phil, what have you learned so far?", "Well, I think there are a couple things to keep in mind, one that this nomination to this point in time is still on cruise control for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He already has the commitments of 51 Republicans who support this nomination. And so, long as those Republicans stay healthy, which of course has been a little bit in question over the course of the last ten days or so, they're very on track to get this nomination through.", "And nothing that I've seen at least in talking to Republican officials over the course of the last couple of hours this morning is going to change that. If anything, it's made Republican Senators even more enthusiastic about the nomination. I wanted to pick up, John, on one thing that you guys were just talking about, where Amy Coney Barrett separated herself in terms of the idea of being the female Antonin Scalia. There is also a strategic reason to do that as well. Democrats went into this hearing talking about that fact that they were going to look, its Scalia is to sense, and if she is supposedly a carbon copy of him, then that should help give them some - a sign or signal in terms of how she might rule on certain issues that she made very clear as most Supreme Court nominees do, that she will not comment on during this hearing. So doing that right out of the gate was actually helpful to some degree when those questions were almost certain to come. I do think the other interesting element here John is how Democrats have approached this. So if we saw yesterday, exactly what they were trying to do, you've covered this town as long as most, as long as anyone. Democrats saying that unified and that on message, that many of them for that long is a bit of a rarity here on Capitol Hill. And they've made clear they're going to continue that throughout the course of the day. And I think the expectation is that you have kind of the upper tier of the dice that the ranking member, Dianne Feinstein, Richard Durbin as well kind of lay the ground work for a lot of the more granular questions that will be coming about specific cases, kind of what you were talking about earlier, John, trying to draw out. You're not going to get specific answers or specific responses to the big picture items that democrats most want Amy Coney Barrett's views on. Perhaps you can dig in a little bit on past cases and draw out a little bit more. I do think one other issue to that I've heard from both sides, that I think you can expect some questions about going forward, is more about her judicial philosophy. Obviously, she explained it, she's talked about her ties to Scalia, and his views on things and she explained her version of that to Chairman Lindsey Graham earlier today. But I do think you're going to get some more questions about that. Obviously Democrats and Republicans differ quite sharply on how they view those issues and how judicial philosophy should operate here. I think one thing I would close with, John, and then I'll let it get back to you, just keep an eye I think throughout the course of the day about how Democrats dig in. I mentioned it. I think the granular nature, you touched on it as well, and the granular nature of these questions is going to grow over the course of the next several hours. And again, nobody expects them to trip her up to a point where she can't be confirmed. There's no sense at all of any cracks in Republican unity for this nominee right now. But I do think Democrats to their point that they made through the course of the day yesterday, this isn't about necessarily blocking a nomination. They understand they don't have the tools to do that. This is about trying to bring forth the conversations about issues that they think can help them in three weeks, that they think can help them as the issue of the courts becomes more front of mind I think as it has over the course of the last couple of years.", "Right. And so, we're having this great Washington conversation right now as we bring the conversation back. And Democrats know they don't have the vote. So as Phil notes, they are trying to mobilize voters in the elections. You shouldn't like the president for doing this, trying to ran this down in the country, go vote, you got the president. If you're worried about Obamacare, send a message to Republicans by voting in the election. That's the Democratic argument. Part of the question is, how does it play out in America? The country pretty evenly divided on the question of should this be done before the election or should the senate wait to see who wins the election? And then if President Trump loses, wait and let Joe Biden make the pick. Part of that, is can Amy Coney Barrett change those numbers? Can she make a compelling case to the American people? I want everyone to listen here, remember her compelling personal story. Seven children. Two of them adopted black children. Senator Durbin asked her, had she seen the video of the death of George Floyd at police hands?", "As you might imagine given that, I have two black children that was very, very personal for my family. Myself 17-year-old daughter Vivian was adopted from Haiti, all of this was erupting, it was very difficult for her. We wept together in my room and then it was also difficult for my daughter Juliet who is ten. I had to try to explain some of this to them. I mean, my children to this point in their lives have had the benefit of growing up in a cocoon where they have not yet experienced hatred or violence. And for Vivian, you know, to understand that there would be a risk to her brother or the son she might have one day of that kind of brutality has been an ongoing conversation. It's a difficult one for us like it is for Americans all over the country.", "Dana Bash, Senator Durbin was asking that question and questions like that to try to explore her views on race, explore her views on gun control, explore her views on other issues. But any issue aside, again, if you're trying to make the case that this person doesn't belong on the court, that's a pretty compelling story she's telling the American people.", "Yes, and in fact, she went, I don't think it was during that line of questioning, but somewhere else, brown versus board of education, that was kind of the one precedent that she was OK with and was very clear in saying, that I think she called it a super precedent, that will not be changed, should not be changed.", "But you're right. On those issues, on others, what she tried to do because she has the personal story that allows for this, was to say, I'm not just the kind of conservative boogie woman if you will that Democrats are warning about. I'm a mom, I'm a wife, I've adopted children, I am a mother of two African-American children. And those are very much part of who she is, which in another section, somebody was talking to her about the fact that yes, she can believe what she wants to believe about being an originalist, being looking at - all of those things. But at the end of the day, a judge or a justice is a human who brings certain things from his or her background into the decision-making process, whether they want to admit it during a confirmation hearing or not?", "And it's become part of the play book. If you're appointed by a Democratic President, you quote the Republican nominees before you in saying, I can't call balls and strikes, I can't talk about specific cases, if you're appointed by a Republican President as Judge Barrett is, Nia, she kept talking about what Judge Kagan said, and Justice Ginsburg said. And she said it's not the law of Amy, it is the law of the American people. And to trying to say, I'm just going to call like I see him. I have no preconceived notions that Democrats are course deeply suspicious about that, but she's answering the questions just as she should.", "Yes, she is. This is the play book we've seen from justices over these last couple of nominations. It wasn't necessarily like this in years past but because things are so partisan at this point, we have these justices or nominees come before the American people. And essentially say they don't really have a past, that they're going to rule in the way that they rule based on those circumstances, and they don't come with any sort of preconceived notions, that they aren't essentially partisan, that it doesn't matter whether or not they were nominated by a Republican or a Democrat. Americans know better at this point based on the past justices we've seen. And you know this is the point that Donald Trump made it very plain that the point of nominating this particular person was because of how he thinks she would view on any number of issues in the past? That hasn't necessarily worked out well for Republicans, you think about somebody like - or you think about somebody like Roberts even who is in some ways a disappointment to some Republicans. But in this person, in Barrett who again has likened her judicial philosophy to Justice Scalia, the late Justice Scalia, they feel pretty good and Democrats are likely nervous about what her presence will mean on the Supreme Court?", "John, can", "Go ahead.", "--make an observation about this idea that your prior views or your political views have nothing to do with your judicial views? Give me a break. I mean, this is just not believable. The idea that the fact that she signed ads against abortion rights has no influence on how she will view abortion cases, I mean, it's just ridiculous. I mean, this is why she was chosen. As Donald Trump said over and over again, I will appoint justices to the Supreme Court who will vote to overturn Roe versus Wade. And what I think he meant by that was, he will appoint justices to the Supreme Court who will vote to overturn Roe versus Wade. That's why she's there, that's what she's going to do. And the idea that her views on abortion are some kind of mystery is, if I may be impolite, a joke.", "Well, we will see, 15 Senators still to come, including the Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee, Kamala Harris. The questioning will resume any minute. And we'll take you back to the hearing live when it does as all of our panelists know, an interesting afternoon, and then tomorrow, still to come. A quick break, when we come back, we'll keep our eye on the Supreme Court confirmation hearing, we're going to get you back there as soon as it begins. But also one of the Coronavirus vaccine trials, one of the vaccine trials that president tells you will come up with a vaccine any day now, put on hold."], "speaker": ["SEN. MIKE LEE (R-UT)", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-298642", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2016-11-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/21/acd.01.html", "summary": "Talkin' Trump's \"Hamilton\" And \"SNL\" Twitter Tirade.", "utt": ["Apparently being elected president is not going to stop the Trump Twitter finger from tapping. This time, target, as we mentioned before the break was \"Hamilton.\" It all started over the weekend when the Vice President-elect Mike Pence went to see the hit Broadway show. When it was over, the cast had a message for him, a call for unity.", "Vice President-elect pence, we welcome you and we truly thank you for joining us here at \"Hamilton: An American musical\", we really do. We, sir, we are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our families, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights, sir. But we truly hope this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us.", "Donald Trump wasn't pleased and wrote a series of tweets saying that Pence was harassed, the cast was very rude and quote, \"The cast and producers of \"Hamilton,\" which I hear is highly overrated should immediately apologize to Mike Pence for their terrible behavior.\" Now, Mike Pence was not bothered by the cast statement, he said the show was great and that went some of the audience booed or cheered, he niches kid said, that's what freedom sounds like.", "I wasn't offended by what was said, I'll leave it to others whether it was the appropriate venue to say it. But I want to assure if people who were disappointed in the election results, people are feeling anxious about this time in the life of our nation and President-elect Donald Trump meant exactly what he said on election night, that he is going to be the president of all of the people of the United States of America.", "As for the president-elect's demand for an apology, the \"Hamilton\" actor who delivered the message said, Brandon Dixon said, there's nothing to apologize for.", "We are here together and we need to listen to one another and speak with one another, and those of us who feel like maybe their voice had been marginalized or might become marginalize, mean is important that they recognize that there are allies all over the place.", "You know, this could be just the kind of publicity this little show needs to get off the ground. Ever since Election Day, we've been reaching out to voters across the country getting their take on Donald Trump, his plan and the daily controversy surrounding him as president-elect. Tonight the \"Hamilton\" fracas as seen just south of Atlanta. Our Gary Tuchman reports.", "In places like Coweta County, Georgia, where Donald Trump did very well on Election Day, there is great awareness of Trump, his Twitter account, and the Broadway musical, \"Hamilton.\" Donald Trump spent so much time campaigning and talking about being tough, being tough on tyrants, tough on terrorism. Does it strike you as unusual that he's so offended by theater people?", "I just think that's Trump.", "Here in the county seat of Noonan, many Trump voters sound as angry as he does about what happened to Mike Pence during his night in the theater. Had you heard of the play \"Hamilton\" before?", "I have.", "OK, have you -- did you have seen it?", "No, I haven't.", "Would you want to see it?", "Probably not.", "I mean after this incident?", "Not after this incident.", "So you don't feel good about it?", "No, not at all.", "Donald Trump says, the theater must always be a safe and special place. The cast of \"Hamilton\" was very rude last might to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize. Do you think that was a good thing for him to tweet?", "Absolutely. I love it. Yeah, he should, he has the right to do that. Yeah, and I thought Pence acted with a lot of class.", "But I think Pence didn't say anything, its Donald Trump speaking out about it. But do you think Donald Trump should be using Twitter to complain about theater people?", "It's good media. You know, I don't tweet. I just don't take a time to do that.", "But you don't think it's perhaps a little childish to be doing that?", "No, no, not all why would I think that?", "I mean that's Trump, that's what he's known for. I mean he's a vocal person. It's not changed and see this campaigning and it's not change for now, I mean he won based on being different from other politicians.", "And then there's Trump's tweet about being made fun of on \"Saturday Night Live,\" the president-elect calling the show totally one-sided and biased.", "Every time I turn it on, they're making fun of him.", "Google, what is ISIS?", "That is \"SNL\" has been joking at the expense of every president since it went on the air in the days of Gerald Ford's presidency. Why is a bias show, but it's not a news show, its comedy. Comedies suppose to be a -- they made fun of presidents all the way back to Gerald Ford.", "Yeah, well, I don't watch it, you know.", "But it's not OK ...", "It's not fine.", "But do you think it's OK that Trump tweets that?", "Yeah, yeah, I think it's all right, he wants to tweet that.", "It doesn't seem unpresidential?", "No, not this day in time.", "But not all who voted for Trump here support all his Twitter battles.", "He's not the president-elect. He needs to start treating that position with the respect that comes with it. He's no longer a free agent to go out and spew what he wants to -- on Twitter, and I was hoping that when he was elected, that he would take that to heart.", "As a businessman, as a presidential candidate, Donald Trump's Twitter feed served to inform, enthrall, entertain, and infuriate. And as president-elect, it continues to do so. Speaking his mind has served him well, say so many here.", "I agree with what he's saying, and now he, you know, I think that the vice president and the president-elect should better respect that they're getting.", "Gary joins us now from Atlanta. So Gary, did any of the people you spoke would think it was notable that the man who, this was all directed at Mike Pence didn't really complain about it?", "And most of the Trump voters we talk to John, do think it's notable and think it's admirable. They like the fact that Mike Pence is diplomatic, they like that he is the yin to Donald Trump's yang. And I asked people, if they think though it's strange that, you know, this happening to Mike Pence's who say nothing about it, he just saying good things, and Donald Trump is all upset about it, and they're saying, no maybe a little strange, but that's Donald Trump, that's the guy we're used to. That's the guy we've voted for. John.", "Gary Tuchman, thanks so much. There's a lot more ahead on our next hour of \"360,\" including Donald Trump unveiling his agenda for the first days in office and what he's planning to focus on and not do in their days. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "BRANDON DIXON, ACTOR \"HAMILTON\"", "BERMAN", "MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF UNITED STATES", "BERMAN", "DIXON", "BERMAN", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "TAMMY PROSSER, TRUMP SUPPORTER", "TUCHMAN", "JAY BOREN, TRUMP SUPPORTER", "TUCHMAN", "BOREN", "TUCHMAN", "BOREN", "TUCHMAN", "BOREN", "TUCHMAN", "BOREN", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MORGAN PROSSER, TRUMP SUPPORTER", "TUCHMAN", "BOBBIE CARR, TRUMP SUPPORTER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TUCHMAN", "CARR", "TUCHMAN", "CARR", "TUCHMAN", "CARR", "TUCHMAN", "CARR", "TUCHMAN", "STEPHANIE CARNEY, TRUMP SUPPORTER", "TUCHMAN", "BOREN", "BERMAN", "TUCHMAN", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-307451", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2017-03-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/13/acd.01.html", "summary": "CBO: 24 Million More Uninsured in 10 Years", "utt": ["Good evening. Thanks for joining us. There is breaking news on three fronts. The Justice Department fails to meet a deadline to supply evidence to support the president's allegation that Obama wiretapped him. More than 100 people are facing what could be the biggest, nastiest late winter storm in decades. All that pink, that means a foot or snow or more, up to three feet in some place we're told. And this -- 20 million more people could be without health coverage by 2026, 14 million next year alone. Now, that is not what President Trump has been promising. It is what the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says about the House Republican bill to replace the Affordable Care Act. And that is where we begin tonight. Phil Mattingly has the latest on the CBO report, reaction to it, joins us now. So, let's talk more about the headlines, first of all, from the report.", "Yes. Anderson, start with the context. Republican aides knew this was not going to be a great number. They did not know it was going to be this bad. And you kind of hit the top lines -- 14 million uninsured after the first year. By 2026, that number jumps up to 24 million. Those are huge issues right now. They, again, knew it was going to be a bad number. They knew the numbers weren't going to match up perfectly well with Obamacare. But that is a big number with very real political repercussions and very real policy repercussions. Now, on the positive side for Republicans, there is a $337 billion decrease in the deficit based upon this bill. That is important for procedural reason, Anderson, moving forward. But it's also important because this is what they promised they would do. This is what they campaigned on. Now to the premiums, and I think this is one of the most important elements here that you're going to hear Republicans talking about a lot going forward. They're saying we don't necessarily want to promise that everybody will have care, but everybody will have access to care. In the near term, the premium numbers aren't as good going forward. There will be increases in premiums based on this bill. But as the bill moves forward, as it's implemented, you'll see premiums by 2020, by 2026 drop by roughly 10 percent. That is where you're hearing Republicans seize on right now. The top line budget numbers and the end game on the premiums are at least positives right now that the Republicans are trying to seize on, Anderson.", "Right. And Paul Ryan is certainly trying to do that. I mean, he is saying he is surprised as good as it is.", "Yes, glass half full mentality I think from the speaker. But I think it's important to note -- this is exactly what Republicans campaigned on. They campaigned on repealing the individual mandate. They campaigned on repealing the Medicaid expansion program. These are the two primary drivers of why these numbers are so poor right now. And the speaker made very clear, this is exactly how they designed it. Take a listen.", "I'm excited about this analysis. And, yes, I think they sort of overestimate the uninsured number, just like they overestimated who would be insured by Obamacare. But I do believe that if we're not going to force people to buy something they don't want to buy, they won't buy it. And that's kind of obvious. They say costs are going down in 2020 when our reforms kick in. As you know, we're doing a transition period because we don't want to pull the rug out from under anybody.", "Now, Anderson, that's going to be the pitch you hear going forward. But on the idea of not pulling the rug out of anybody, that's where the Medicaid expansion issue comes in. And when you talk to both conservatives and moderates on Capitol Hill, there is obviously sharp differences on how they view this going forward. This number only starts to cloud those defenses even more than they already stand as Speaker Ryan tries to make sure that they can move this bill forward through the House. These numbers just aren't helpful.", "What's the reaction from the White House?", "Dismissal. I think this is the interesting element. While Speaker Ryan is willing to look at this report and say he's got some positive things, the White House is just saying -- rejecting it outright. Take a listen to what Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price had to say.", "We disagree strenuously with the report that was put out. We believe that our plan will cover more individuals at a lower price and give them the choices that they want, for the coverage that they want for themselves and for their family, not that the government forces them to buy.", "Now, Anderson, an interesting element of this. The director of the CBO is somebody that Republicans put in place before this ever started to take place. The individual who put that director in place, then-House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, who is now attacking that individual. But I think you recognize by that response, by Speaker Ryan's response, kind of the divergent responses I've heard over the past hours on Capitol Hill, that Republicans know this is a project. I want to read one message I got from a Republican official who supports the House proposal right after he saw this number. He texted me, \"Oof, we can recover. But this is not a good look for us.\" They recognize that keeping their moderates happy, making sure that conservatives are OK with the plan, those are all necessities just to move this forward in the house. Then you get to the Senate. This is very complicated process going forward, before this number came into play. This top line showing up, this top line number being the headline in all the newspapers going forward and the headline in Democratic attack ads going forward -- well, they're going to create problems going forward, Anderson.", "Yes. Phil Mattingly -- Phil, thanks. Just to underscore now before our panelists debate this. So, we're all talking about the full set of CBO conclusions. The report estimates the deficit will shrink a lot. Medicaid spending will shrink a lot more. Eventually, average premiums will drop. And not before rising in the next couple of years. And for older Americans, it will rise by up to 25 percent. Again, the CBO estimates that by 2026, 52 million Americans will be without coverage compared to 28 million under the Affordable Care Act. Joining us is CNN senior economics analyst Steven Moore. He's a former economic adviser to the Trump campaign. Also, Robert Reich, professor of public policy at Berkeley, former Clinton labor secretary and author of \"Saving Capitalism for the Many, Not the Few\". Steve, so, how do you square 20 million more uninsured by 2026, a 15 to 20 percent rise in premiums, we should point out in the short-term. Longer term, it's better. With what speaker -- how do you square that with what Speaker Ryan says the legislation does, which is lower premiums and improve access to quality affordable health care?", "Well, Anderson, I don't believe this report. I think it's hocus-pocus. Remember, the Republican plan on health care throughout campaign and what they're saying today was two features. Repeal Obamacare. That's what CBO has scored. What they haven't scored is replace Obamacare. So, it's going to be replaced with something else that will reduce cost, that will provide more competition and will make it more economical for people to buy insurance. You can have a system -- I talked to the Republicans where they say for the first two or three years, people are in the system are not going to lose their health insurance as the CBO reports. One other thing, Anderson, I thought this report was a little bit exaggerated because under the current system, if we don't change things, tens of billions of people are going to lose their insurance because these costs are escalating so much. I was just in Arizona two or three weeks ago, Bob Reich. There, the premiums for health insurance have doubled. Well, people can't afford it. They're going to drop their health insurance. So, this idea that everybody is going to have insurance under Obamacare and nobody is going to have it under the Republican plan is I think fatuous.", "Secretary Reich?", "Well, look, it's obviously a blow to the Republicans who are supporting this repeal and replace. And it was a replacement. That's what they advertised it as. It was supposed to replace Obamacare. And Donald Trump said over and over again during the campaign and he said again after he was president that nobody would lose coverage. Well, here you have the Congressional Budget Office whose director was appointed by the Republican Congress, saying in effect that you've got huge losses. I mean, 14 million people the first year, 24 million people over 10 years. Look, if I were a Republican, a member of Congress right now, I would be worried that possibly this bill could be enacted because then I'd have to run for Congress again and again, or I'd have to run for Senate when people were losing their health care and their health insurance and they're angry about that.", "Secretary Reich, is it people losing their health insurance or people choosing not to do it? I mean, it's not --", "Well, look, now, that's mincing words. I mean, what kind of choice do you have if you can't afford it? I mean, that's when the Republicans are using these words like, well, you don't lose access. Of course, you lose access if you don't have any wherewithal. I mean, 80 percent of the people under the Affordable Care Act had subsidies, and they could afford to get the Affordable Care Act. Steve, when you say the premiums are going up, and yes, overall with regard to American health care, premiums and copayments and deductibles are going up. But if you have subsidies, if you are in the Obamacare Affordable Care Act, you are being subsidized. You are not actually suffering that kind of a loss. Under this Republican plan, people actually are going to be hurt. And we can debate politics all we want. There are real people who are really going to be hurt.", "Steven?", "Look, first of all, I think if the Republican plan is going to fly, the Republicans have to make a guarantee the people are not -- who are currently ensured are not going to lose their health insurance, through Medicaid or whether it's through the exchanges and so on. So, I think that's necessary, Bob Reich, that people will not lose their insurance for the first two or three or four years until we adjust to this new system.", "But, Steve, how do you square request with what you just said with what the OMB said? I mean, do you think the OMB was completely out to lunch, that Keith Hall, a Republican conservative economist, you know him, I know him. He was appointed by the Republican Congress, you think he is wrong?", "No. I think he is not scoring the plan that Republicans are talking about. What he scored is what happened if you totally repeal Obamacare. What he is not taking into account, there is going to be a new system that reduces the costs of health care, brings premiums down. And, Anderson, the point I would make and I think Donald Trump would make this point is when you reduce the cost of the insurance, more people can afford it. I mean, the problem we have right now is we're going off this cliff, Bob Reich, where people average increase in the premiums across the country was almost 25 percent last year. Middle class --", "Steve, I don't know --", "-- families cannot afford the current system.", "Can you just -- can you just help me for a second. You say that he scored the repeal. He didn't score the replacement.", "Right.", "Now, where is the replacement if it wasn't in the Republican bill? When are we going to see a replacement if it wasn't already provided by the House Republicans and it is now being -- it has been marked up by at least two committees?", "Right.", "That's not a replacement? Where is the replacement?", "Steve, the Republicans are basically saying he didn't take into account other things that they're going to do in the future. But those things -- but there's no details on that.", "What things?", "Well, there are no details because there is no plan.", "Steve, go ahead.", "Let me give you a couple of examples. Number one, allow people to buy insurance across state lines. So, if I live in Virginia, I can buy a health care plan in Ohio or Pennsylvania or Utah that dramatically increases competition. Under Obamacare, one in three counties, Bob, there is no competition at all. There is only one insurance company. So, that's going to lead to higher costs over time. Another thing, we can do medical malpractice insurance reform. Another thing, well can provide subsidies to provide medical savings accounts that have proven in companies around the country.", "You say that these are all possible. The Republicans had a chance to come up with a bill. They did not put any of this in the bill. They didn't put across state lines that you could buy health care across state lines.", "But it will be, though.", "Why not -- but, but, you know --", "It's going to be a two or three-step process.", "Why should Americans believe --", "The first step is to get rid of Obamacare. Step two is to come forward with things we just talked about. Step three is get rid of some of the regulations that add to the cost of Obamacare, the mandated benefit package and so. And if you do all those things and we have real competition in health care, prices will go down. But, Anderson, I'll make this point again --", "Why -- I don't understand something.", "Don't talk at the same time. No one can understand you. Secretary Reich, just finish up and we've got to go. You're saying they should have done it all at once.", "If Steve is correct -- if Steve is correct, why is a political matter when Republicans have put through this plan without a replacement? They would -- I mean, why would they have gone to all this trouble just to repeal without replacing when they say over and over again that it was repeal and replace? What is their strategy, Steve?", "Steve?", "What I'm saying is what the CBO said was essentially everyone who got health insurance under Obamacare is going the lose insurance under the Republican plan. That's a flat-out lie. There will be a system to provide subsidies to people who can't afford health insurance, but in a way that doesn't mandate various kinds of coverage, that doesn't destroy the job market and push people into part-time jobs and all the other problems that Obamacare has.", "So, you think the Congressional Budget Office lied?", "We're going to continue this debate with our panel. Steve more, Stephen, great to have you. Robert Reich as well you. To be continue speaking politics. We'll talk about that, and possible implications for the 2018 elections, next. And later, breaking news on the deadline to provide evidence on the president's wiretap allegations, and new evidence the White House is trying to redefine what President Trump meant when he claimed that President Obama wiretapped him."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "MATTINGLY", "REP. 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{"id": "NPR-47228", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2005-08-12", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4797499", "title": "Bob Saget Riffs on 'The Aristocrats'", "summary": "Comedian and actor Bob Saget talks about the new documentary The Aristocrats. The film features Saget and 100 other comics discussing and retelling one famous dirty joke that has been handed down in comedy circles since the vaudeville days.", "utt": ["A new film called \"The Aristocrats\" is about a joke, one infamous dirty      joke that comedians have retold to one another for more than a century.", "Unidentified Man #1:  A guy goes into a talent agent's office.  He says,      `I have the greatest act in the world.'", "Unidentified Man #2:  Hey, oh.", "Unidentified Man #3:  Me and my wife go on stage.  We get undressed and I      start (censored) my wife.", "Unidentified Man #4:  I remember my grandmother sitting me down and      telling me the joke.  So she only spoke Yiddish.  The only English word      she knew was (censored).", "So when I would tell a joke like this,      you know, it would be all about dripping (censored) and maybe pulling      this (censored) back and maybe making helmets out of them.  You know, it      would be a whole thing.", "Whoopi Goldberg and Chris Rock join more than 100 comedians in      \"The Aristocrats.\"  Although, or maybe because, it pushes the envelope      beyond vulgar, the documentary earned rave reviews at this year's      Sundance Film Festival.  Bob Saget turned up in the movie with his own      smutty version.  It's a surprising performance from the man who played      the straight-arrow father on the family sit com \"Full House.\"  But      Saget's been in the world of stand-up comedy for a long time, long enough      to know where this joke wouldn't be welcomed.", "It's the kind of joke you wouldn't really give      to mass consumptions, not something you would tell on stage.  It's not      something you would--it's--behind the school yard is where a joke like      this originates. But the movie's dedicated to Johnny Carson.  Supposedly,      Buddy Hackett was on \"The Tonight Show\" once and during the commercial      break told the audience and Johnny this joke and then told the punch line      when they came back from a commercial:  \"The Aristocrats.\"  It's not even      a good punch line.  Paul Reiser's hilarious.  He's kind of, `Is it \"The      Aristocrats?\"  Is it a Disney film?'  But it's the antithesis of that.      It is a joke about how desperate people would be to make it in show      business.", "One of the other interesting points here is ofttimes those of us      who are not comedians don't see the craft of comedy, particularly if you      get different people in the same room, you will be able to craft a joke      that started out one way and is a better joke in the end, is it not?", "It is.  It's--and if you can make a joke out of this joke,      you are quite a constructor.  But it's the gallows humor of it that make      it fascinating and to watch a comedian really love telling it.  George      Carlin launches into it, and he loves it because this man stands for      freedom of speech, started with the seven words you can't say on      television.  This movie is full of 400 things you can say on television.", "You get to play with people's little      danger zones.  I do like finding out where the line is drawn,      deliberately crossing it, bringing some of them with me across the line      and having them be happy that I did.", "Let me ask you this.  In relation to the times that we're in      now, so many people talk about whether or not we are in need of      censorship, whether or not we have allowed our society to go too far.      Where do you fall on that in relation to where we sit and, again,      juxtaposing it to this movie?", "Whenever we go to a very conservative time, obviously this      kind of stuff comes out.  And this is where extreme art comes from.  It's      been an interesting thing that this came out.  It does lower the bar in      some ways as far as it's so dirty that--dialoguewise.  There's no nudity.      There's no violence.  And in the ad campaign, Penn Gillette is saying,      `And no penguins.' But what's interesting about it is we live in a      society where this movie can get released.  And there's something I say      beautiful about it.  And it's--the movie's about censorship, too, and the      freedom of speech and bad language and sexual situations with people that      are reasonable people.  It is not damaging. My 18-year-old saw it.  She      was in a theater in Santa Monica.  She saw it with 600 people.  They were      laughing hysterically.  But she's not damaged.  She's smart.  So if we      communicate with our kids--my kids are sophisticated. They're not      aristocratic.", "Comedian and actor Bob Saget joins more than 100 other comics in      the documentary \"The Aristocrats\" opening nationwide today.", "This is NPR NEWS."], "speaker": ["ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "Ms. WHOOPI GOLDBERG (Comedian)", "ED GORDON, host", "Mr. BOB SAGET (Comedian)", "ED GORDON, host", "Mr. BOB SAGET (Comedian)", "Mr. GEORGE CARLIN (Comedian)", "ED GORDON, host", "Mr. BOB SAGET (Comedian)", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-378960", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-08-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/29/es.03.html", "summary": "Serena Survives Scare to Reach U.S. Open Third Round.", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. The University of Texas at Austin has a new professor.", "All right, all right, all right. How you doing?", "Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey who graduated from U.T. in 1993 will be a professor of practice at the Moody College of Communication. McConaughey has been a visiting professor since 2015, co-teaching the script to screen production class.", "That'll be fun. Serena Williams surviving a scare last night in the second round of the U.S. Open. Andy Scholes has more in the \"Bleacher Report\". Good morning, my friend.", "Yes, good morning, Dave. You know, Serena had never lost a set in the second round of the U.S. Open. So, when it happened last night, fans got a little nervous. Seventeen-year-old American Katie McNally taking the first set, but Serena was able to get it together. She went on to win the next two sets. 6-3, 6-1 to take the match and it ended right at about midnight. Serena seemed a little tired afterwards.", "Serena, you made way too many errors today. What were you thinking? But it's OK. I'm alive. I'm still here. I'm happy to be on this court somehow and I'll do better, I promise.", "Serena's sister unable to rally like she did. The 39-year- old took on Elina Svitolina. And Venus, she didn't go down without a fight though. She stayed off five match points, but she would eventually lose this one, 6-4, 6-4. It's Venus's earliest exit at the Open in six years. All right. To baseball, Rangers and Angels last night, Brian Goodwin hits this deep to center field. Check out Delino DeShields tracking it perfectly leaps at the wall, robbed the home run. He didn't reveal he had the ball for a moment to mess with Goodwin. Both of them having a nice laugh. DeShields playing around like he was taking a bite out of that baseball. Pretty funny stuff. All right. Finally, here's a little peewee football. Check out little guy named Dom. He gets the handoff. He goes behind the back with the football not once but twice before taking it to the house. Dave, I would love to know what his coach had to say about going behind the back with the football because that's not really the brightest strategy in terms of ball security, I would think, right?", "Wow, Andy. Already worried about ball security. That is outstanding.", "That goes to fundamentals.", "Nice analysis though. I appreciate that. Andy Scholes, good stuff.", "All right.", "What's coming up?", "We are tracking Hurricane Dorian. The path shifting west, putting the entire state of Florida on alert. We're going to speak with the mayor of Miami when we come back."], "speaker": ["WALKER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WALKER", "BRIGGS", "ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "SERENA WILLIAMS, 23-TIME MAJOR WINNER", "SCHOLES", "BRIGGS", "SCHOLES", "BRIGGS", "SCHOLES", "BRIGGS", "WALKER"]}
{"id": "CNN-195761", "program": "EARLY START WITH JOHN BERMAN AND ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN", "date": "2012-11-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1211/15/es.02.html", "summary": "Obama to Visit Storm-Damaged Staten Island", "utt": ["In just a few hours, President Obama will get a firsthand look at the recovery from superstorm Sandy here in New York City. The President will visit storm-ravaged Staten Island, viewing the devastation from the air before meeting with storm victims and local officials on the ground. Many people there saying they feel simply abandoned by FEMA. CNN's Victor Blackwell is live on Staten Island this morning. Victor, you spoke with some residents there. How are they reacting to this visit today?", "Well, it's mixed, John. There's not one person I spoke with who said they did not want the President to come. But they are saying, Mr. President, if you come, bring some tools, bring some people ready to work, bring some heavy equipment so we can start to rebuild Staten Island. There is a lot of what you're seeing behind me. This was a tech store that was just devastated by the storm. And not just the items, not just the homes, but more than half of the people who died as a result of Sandy in New York died on Staten Island. The President, we heard from the White House, will walk along the Cedar Grove Avenue, in the section of Neudorf here on Staten and I met a man who moved here in 1959. His name is Dominick Traina, he was 13 years old, he moved in with his parents there. And then when he turned 18, he got married and bought a house up the street. He told us how he felt, what he did when he came back and saw that both his childhood home and the home where he raised his children were both destroyed.", "When you came back and saw this, what did you feel? What did you think?", "Cried. You know, I don't know what I thought. I'm still in shock. You know, right now, we're living in the basement. We have nothing. We have nothing.", "How do you start over?", "At 66 years old, I don't know. I really don't. We're just going to stick together with the kids and try to make the best of it.", "Fifty-three years on Cedar Grove Avenue in Neudorf, and I asked him, are you going to rebuild, are you going to stay? And he said, I don't think I want to live here anymore. He's 66 years old. This is all he's known in his adult life. But he's hoping to speak with the President when he walks down that block today and ask for support for his neighbors, although they will not be his neighbors for much longer -- John.", "All right. Thanks -- Victor Blackwell on Staten Island. A tough situation there, still. Thanks, Victor.", "It is 16 minutes past the hour. Jon Bon Jovi's 19-year-old daughter is recovering this morning after a heroin overdose. Authorities say Stephanie Bongiovi overdosed in her dorm at Hamilton College in Upstate New York. She and a fellow student were charged with drug possession.", "It's the beginning of the end for the \"Twilight\" film franchise. \"Breaking Dawn Part 2\" debuts tonight in midnight shows from coast to coast. Critics say the fifth and final chapter may be the best of all the \"Twilight\" films. It's been described as a love letter to all those twi-hards who I'm told by reliable sources are, in fact, everywhere.", "We have some on our staff, actually.", "Vampires or?", "No, not vampires.", "Oh, Twi-hards.", "Yes, Twi-hards.", "Speaking of vampires, later on \"STARTING POINT,\" Elizabeth Reaser joins Soledad. She plays Esme Cullen who is the matriarch of \"Twilight\" vampire clan.", "Seventeen minutes past the hour. One of the most frustrated things about flying is getting through airport security, right?", "Yes, I'd say that. In today's \"Road Warriors,\" Christine Roman tells us how some technology may help travelers zip through that line.", "And we have all been on the plane a lot lately, haven't we? And hope we won't be for sometime. But, right, security lines, you guys, can add hours to your trip, can add an awful lot of frustration. There are a few programs out there, though, that cut your wait time. The TSA's pre-check program allows travelers to jump to the front of the line, move through security without removing their shoes, belts, or laptops. You can -- John Berman apparently is in this program. These are the people I kind of like scowl when I see in the plane because they're moving so much more quickly. Passengers become a member by becoming part of a frequent flyer and then invited by the airline. Or you can apply to the U.S. Customs trusted traveler program like Global Entry -- Global Entry -- to be eligible. You're not guaranteed to enjoy the benefits every trip. Members are randomly picked to go through the designated pre-check line. Others are sent through regular security but are able to skip the line. Pre- check not available at all U.S. airports, but TSA plans to roll out more, you guys , by the end of the year. So, keep a lookout in your city. And the Clear Card is back. After shutting down in 2009, Clear has returned and is now in four airports, Orlando, Denver, San Francisco, and Dallas-Ft. Worth with more to come. Clear allows travelers to bypass regular security lines. The process is simple. You swipe your clear card in a kiosk. You verify your identity with a fingerprint or iScan and you move through security. A few things to note: Clear costs 200 bucks a year almost. While members do not have to pay to be part of pre-check. There's a cost of about $100 to apply to a U.S. Customs trusted traveler program to become eligible. So how long you've been doing this?", "Just -- six months ago, all of a sudden, they said, you're pre-check, get in the pre-check. For a long time, I traveled a lot, like a wicked lot. And so if your a frequent traveler, they put you in that program.", "Wow.", "And so, it is about a tenth, I get through a tenth of the time that I use to.", "But I thought with pre-check, you have to actually sign up for it.", "Nope.", "And go through a background check?", "They may have done a background check on me, I'm clean. But it wasn't at my request. The airline, my frequent flyer programs may have put me up for it.", "That's so interesting. But you don't always know if you can do it, so you still have to plan for the time in the line. That's a big surprise.", "I'm surprised every time when they put me in this magical line that passes like instantly. Sorry, everyone. It's kind of awesome, though. Nineteen minutes after the hour right now. And there is a troubling trend on Wall Street. It began really as soon as the election ended. We'll have more, coming up."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLACKWELL", "DOMINIC TRAINA, STATEN ISLAND RESIDENT", "BLACKWELL", "TRAINA", "BLACKWELL", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-203274", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2013-3-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/18/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Banking Crisis; Market, Currency Fallout", "utt": ["The market numbers tell their own stories today. Start with the European markets, where you have the FTSE was down half a percent, Frankfurt DAX, Paris CAC 40, Spain was off 1.25 percent. The banking sector was very badly hit. Barclays down 4.5 percent, UniCredit was off 3.5, SocGen in the Paris market down 3.5. All of the same reason, because the fear is how this will affect the banks and the contagion that it could move into other markets, like in Spain. What happens, for example, if one of these -- the next country that may require a bailout? Will the Cyprus formula of deposit tax levy confiscation be used for that? Look at the markets in New York, down just 18 points, but as this graph shows, we were very sharply down at the beginning, off nearly 100 points. Those losses have trimmed right the way through the session, even going positive just a short while ago. So, that is the Cyprus effect, but it's obviously eliminated as the session's moved on. Spain and Italy not only saw their stock markets hit hard, but they saw bond yields rise four basis points to 4.96 and 4.63, just a fraction up there. So again, we're starting to see the transmission of the worries. And if you've done equities and you've done bonds, then next, obviously, it has to be currencies. And whoops, there she goes. Euro down against the dollar, a slight recovery midday, but overall, you can see exactly the reason. If you think this is all just a storm in a teacup, to quote one banker on another occasion, you'd be seriously wrong. Paul Donovan says Cyprus's package is only -- is the only one that a politician could dream up when economists would do something completely different.", "The word \"disastrous\" springs readily to mind. Someone forgot to mention to the euro group that monetary unions, when they die, die because of bank runs. And bank runs happen when people have no confidence that they're going to get their money back. And today, we have a situation in Cyprus where people have no confidence they're going to get the full value of their bank deposits back. This is not a good situation to be in.", "And this is exactly what they avoided successfully in 2008 and 2009 with Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and with Northern Rock.", "Well, indeed. And the issue here is that people who thought their deposits were guaranteed are now finding they're paying a tax on those deposits. Now, calling it a tax is a polite fiction. Part of the deposit has, of course, been seized. And what that means, of course, Richard, is that the value of a euro in the Cypriot banking system is worth less than the value of a euro elsewhere in the monetary union. This is not supposed to happen in a monetary union.", "Why would they take the risk?", "Because they're politicians, not economists. And it's a sad fact of life that whilst politicians rather than economists run things, we will get economic errors being made with alarming frequency.", "How far back does this take us into the crisis?", "What this has done, I think, is raise the cost of any future crises that come out, because now if there is a wobble of insecurity in a banking system anywhere in the eurozone in the coming months and years, people are going to be worried that they will be treated the same way that the Cypriots are being treated. And if I say to you that there's a ten percent chance that you might lose ten percent of your bank deposits, how happy are you going to be to keep your money on deposit in a bank? It increases the risk of panic in the event of future crises. And that's where the real damage from this deal, I think, is coming.", "Particularly since we still have the potential for some form of deal, even though Spain's banks have been recapitalized, there is still the potential in, say, Spain, for needing EU central -- ESM money.", "In November last year, the European Union made an enormous step forward in the eyes of economists in admitting that they needed to have a banking union alongside their monetary union. Now, economists have been saying this right since 1992, so of course, we're pleased that it's only taken 20 years for politicians to listen to us. Now, we seem to be moving away from that. This is nothing like a banking union. This is penalizing one part of the eurozone. It's certainly not providing deposit guarantees, because those are being negated by this tax or levy or whatever it's going to be called, this raid on bank deposits. That, I think, is a really fundamental problem.", "Paul Donovan of UBS with the blunt language that gives you a good indication of why this is such a major development that's taken place in the eurozone crisis. At a joint press conference between Angela Merkel of Germany and Francois Hollande of France, along with Jose Manuel Barroso, Fred Pleitgen is in Berlin for us tonight. Interestingly, the three of them were talking about competitiveness, and none of them wanted to really grasp the nettle of why they'd done this on Cyprus.", "Yes, you're absolutely right, Richard, that was exactly the case. And the other interesting thing about this whole Cyprus bailout is that it is very different than many other bailouts. And one thing that's very different is that with all the other bailouts, you always had a German handwriting on them, and you always had the German government making very clear that they were, maybe not dictating the terms, but certainly influencing them and writing them, to a large extent, in those other bailouts. This time, the German government is saying seizing people's bank accounts or parts of their bank accounts, we have nothing to do with that. The German government is saying they would've hoped that it could have been done without the Cypriot government seizing part of those bank accounts. In fact, Angela Merkel was very, very vague at that press conference that she had with Francois Hollande and Jose Manuel Barroso. Let's listen in to what she had to say.", "Usually in our political functions, we see to it that the euro as a whole is rendered stable. We've done that in the past, we're going to do that in the next years to come.", "The German government, of course, Richard, in the past has taken a lot of heat for the austerity measures that were imposed on Greece, also the ones that were in play with Spain, as well. So, in this case, the Germans are saying we have nothing to do with the tough conditions that are there now. But they're also saying they believe that all of this could have a calming effect on the market if, in fact, that law is passed, Richard.", "Fred, you answered the question. So, if it wasn't the Germans, who was it?", "That's a very good question. The Germans were actually asked that today, and they were saying they believe that a lot of it came from the European Central Bank. They also said that they believe that some of it actually did come from the Cypriot government itself. Certainly, some of those terms were negotiated. But there's a lot of political discussion about that as well, about that haircut that private people are supposed to have to take, and there's a lot of discussion within Angela Merkel's coalition government, because it is something that, of course, also is highly detrimental to the confidence of savers here in Germany. But it goes to the point where Angela Merkel came out today through her spokesperson and made absolutely clear that German savings accounts are safe, that the German government stands by those. The last time she did that was in 2008 after the Lehman collapse. And certainly now, she's been compelled to do that again, so that shows how worried the Germans are about all of this and how a big a discussion all of this is within the German government, Richard.", "Fred Pleitgen with the German side of this story tonight, and you and I are now starting to see exactly why this small country on the southern periphery of Europe is having such an enormous effect on the eurozone crisis tonight. A Currency Conundrum: apart from Cyprus, which other country adopted the euro on the first of January 2008? Was it Malta, Slovenia, or Greece? The answer later in the program. The dollar is flat against the pound. Look at the euro, up against the yen. Those are the rates --", "-- this is the break."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "PAUL DONOVAN, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL ECONOMICS, UBS", "QUEST", "DONOVAN", "QUEST", "DONOVAN", "QUEST", "DONOVAN", "QUEST", "DONOVAN", "QUEST", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ANGELA MERKEL, CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY (through translator)", "PLEITGEN", "QUEST", "PLEITGEN", "QUEST", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-9487", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-6-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/05/mn.04.html", "summary": "Holland: Many Dot.coms Are Now 'Dot.bombs'", "utt": ["With more now on what's going on in Wall Street, what was happening last week, could it continue into this week? Let's bring in Michael Holland, he is chairman and -- of the investment advisory firm Holland & Company. Michael, good morning, thanks for joining us.", "Daryn, thank you for having me.", "Let's look at some of these incredible numbers that took place last week after some very kind of funky, in the funk markets recently. The Dow -- you like my technical terms there, the Dow last week up 495 points for the week.", "Right.", "The Nasdaq up 608 points, incredible jumps.", "Right.", "What is going on here? It's not just about some encouraging unemployment numbers.", "No, I think it's even more direct than that, Daryn. What it is, is the stock market has said that it believes that Alan Greenspan and his Federal Reserve governors have won the fight, that they've taken a lot of the steam out of the market and out of the concern that inflation was going to be a problem. And therefore interest rates would have to go even higher than they were. The market is saying, as of last week, we've got some very strong indications that the economy is cooling a little bit and we won't have any more interest rate increases.", "Enough already, in other words.", "Enough already, take a summer vacation, exactly.", "Yes, just give it up, Mr. Greenspan. So do you think this is a rally that's going to continue?", "I actually do, I think that we've had such huge declines in so many good companies. Now there was, to be sure, a large group of companies that probably had no business even being in the public marketplace and they're down a great deal. But a lot of the really good, great companies, for example, have been taken down dramatically. I think that we probably have very good buying opportunities here through the year end.", "So what's a small-time investors to do? Mention some of those companies that you're actually thinking of.", "Well, the small-time investors are the smartest investors, if you look at the numbers. He or she has been buying on these dips as they refer to them, ever since this bull market began, while we institutional traders have actually been selling them, and wrong therefore. The large technology companies, the Hewlett- Packards, Intels, even Microsoft look -- have extremely good futures and are -- have been knocked down a reasonable amount and are very reasonable in terms of their valuation, in terms of their earnings: what people are paying for them. In addition, a lot of the financial companies, Daryn, have been knocked down as well, in fear of interest rate increases. So a lot of the banks and brokerage houses, I would look at things like Merrill Lynch or J.P. Morgan, Bank One out in Chicago. There are a lot of really good companies, it's actually a buyer's paradise right now, for a lot of industries.", "So do you think the lesson's been learned by investors: don't jump in on these stocks that don't have great earnings and whose prices are way inflated?", "Boy, that's a great question. I think that there's been a chastening there that will last for awhile. Memories grow quite short on Wall Street, but I think this last chastening, this last decline in a lot of these companies, they've been wiped out. A lot of people in these, particularly the dot.com companies, which referred to the Internet companies that shouldn't be public, they now have become \"dot.bombs.\"", "\"Dot.bombs,\" that's a good way for -- to remember a hard lesson learned.", "Exactly.", "Michael Holland, thanks for joining us this morning.", "Thanks, Daryn.", "Appreciate it."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "MICHAEL HOLLAND, STOCK MARKET ANALYST", "KAGAN", "HOLLAND", "KAGAN", "HOLLAND", "KAGAN", "HOLLAND", "KAGAN", "HOLLAND", "KAGAN", "HOLLAND", "KAGAN", "HOLLAND", "KAGAN", "HOLLAND", "KAGAN", "HOLLAND", "KAGAN", "HOLLAND", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-317998", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-08-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/01/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Kelly Considered Quitting over Comey Firing, Los Angeles to Host Olympic Games.", "utt": ["Exclusive new details this morning about White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. Sources tell CNN Kelly was so upset by how President Trump handling the firing of FBI Director James Comey, he actually called Comey and told him that he was considering resigning over it.", "All right, let's bring is CNN's Shimon Prokupecz, who broke this story. And, Shimon, this is really interesting, this phone call after Comey was fired.", "Yes. So this dates back to May 9th, when Comey, obviously, was fired. The day he was fired he was in Los Angeles speaking to FBI agents at a scheduled meeting. And it's when he first learns, you know, watching the news in this room that he's in, that he's been fired. So, you know, they kind of get their act together and then they leave. And while he's on his way back to Washington, we've been told by at least -- by two sources that he gets a phone call from John Kelly, who was the head of Homeland Security at the time, basically expressing his outrage at what Trump did and how he fired him. There was a lot of talk about how angry he was, the frustration he felt in the way the president fired Comey. And then, during the conversation, we're told, that Kelly even suggested, perhaps, quitting, resigning from the top job at the Homeland Security, and we're told Comey kind of calmed him down saying, you know, this is not necessary. But the sense that everyone sort of -- who is familiar with this conversation got was that, you know, Kelly wanted to do this kind of in solidarity, to show his support for Comey.", "What's interesting is the two were not particularly close. These are not like best buds from way back in the day.", "Right.", "But they had a deep, mutual respect for one another.", "Yes, that's exactly right. So they developed this relationship working together basically. You know, he's the FBI director, Comey, Homeland Security. They worked together on terrorism cases, cyber cases.", "Yes.", "So there was a mutual respect for each other. It did catch us by surprise when we learned of this because we -- no one certainly expected this. And certainly now that he's, you know, the chief of staff over at the White House, it's very interesting.", "Well, look, because it begs the question, does the new White House chief of staff not think that the various investigations into possible collusion with Russia, does he not think they are a witch hunt like his boss, the president of the United States, does?", "Right. Right. I mean that certainly does. I mean he clearly believed what happened to Comey here and how he was fired was wrong, and he expressed it.", "Fascinating. All right, Shimon Prokupecz, thank you so much for that report. You know, it got lost a little bit over the last 24 hours in a lot of the things going on because there has been a lot going on.", "Yes.", "Thanks, Shimon.", "Sure.", "What are you doing in like 11 years? The Summer Olympics are coming back to the United States. It took a lot of wheeling and dealing, though, to get this done. We'll explain. A live report from Los Angeles is next."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "BERMAN", "SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTER", "HARLOW", "PROKUPECZ", "HARLOW", "PROKUPECZ", "HARLOW", "PROKUPECZ", "BERMAN", "PROKUPECZ", "BERMAN", "PROKUPECZ", "BERMAN", "PROKUPECZ", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-175109", "program": "PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT", "date": "2011-11-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1111/01/pmt.01.html", "summary": "Jaycee Dugard's Mother Speaks Out", "utt": ["Tonight, an extraordinary story of survival against all odds. A child abducted in broad daylight on her way to school.", "You may like her but we love her, too. And it's time that she comes home to her family.", "Jaycee Dugard's mother lived a nightmare for 18 years not knowing if her daughter was dead or alive. Then the impossible. Jaycee, her two daughters fathered by her captor, finally saved and rescued. But after all the headlines, how is Jaycee doing now? Tonight her mother tells their incredible story. Plus the inside story of Michael Jackson's inner circle. What really went on the hours before Michael died and two men who worked with the king of pop for years.", "He said tomorrow, we're going to discuss all the vocals for the tour. You know? And that was the last time I spoke to him.", "This is PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT. Jaycee Dugard's mother never gave up hope that she could see her daughter again. But it took 18 agonizing years. Jaycee's story made headlines around the world. And as she and her family are putting their lives back together, joining me now is Jaycee's mother, Terry Probyn, and Rebecca Bailey, who's Jaycee's therapist. Welcome to you both. An extraordinary story. One of the most extraordinary I think I have ever encountered in sort of 30 years of journalism. The obvious question is, how are things going? I mean how is normal life? Can it be normal for you and Jaycee?", "Absolutely. This is what's normal for us and every day is a challenge and we've worked through it and, you know, therapists help us and we help each other and it's one day at a time.", "How's she?", "Pretty awesome. She's happy. And healthy. And learning and experiencing new things every day. And I get the joy of watching that. I missed 18 years of that kid's life and every day is a blessing in my eyes.", "Do you -- I mean, how hard is it to be relentlessly positive given the horrors that she had to endure, given the horror that you had to endure as somebody who didn't even know if she's alive or dead? Obviously, it ended happily and you got Jaycee back but you've lost this huge amount of time with your daughter. And she must be scarred by what happened to her in ways you may not even realize yet. So how easy is it to just say, OK, we're going to rebuild and get on with our lives?", "I think a lot of it depends -- is dependent upon Jaycee and her attitude. She is strong and she's a survivor and she has proved it over and over again. And I actually find her picking me up every once in a while with just her joy of life and her simple happiness that she and I are reconnected and, you know, life is -- life is OK. You know? You can get through the worst of the worst and she's living proof.", "She wrote this - again, extraordinary book \"A Stolen Life,\" which I read in one sitting.", "Yes.", "And it was searing and incredibly detailed and very self aware, I thought, about what had happened to her and the implications of all of this. But I was struck by something that she said in the acknowledgments about you, which I wanted to just read to you -- just parts of it because it was so moving. \"There are people many people I want to thank. First and foremost, I want to thank my mom. Mom, you're the bravest person I know, the ultimate survivor. If I was ever to harbor any hate in my heart it would be for all that you have suffered because of Phillip and Nancy Garrido. Mom, you never gave up hope that I would one day come home. And here I am, so glad to be back. \"You are everything I remember and more and you've embraced your grandchildren in a way I never believed possible. They truly have a grandmother that loves them unconditionally. Thank you for supporting me. As a single mother, you've always been my hero. I knew in my heart when I stared at the moon that you were still holding on to hope and that hope somehow helped me get by.\"", "It helps me get by, too.", "I found myself getting emotional. Never mind what you must have felt when you read that. I mean it's -- this picture of your daughter staring at the moon from this awful situation she was in. Believing that you were somewhere there.", "Yes.", "Never giving up hope.", "That's right. I have to share two days before I found out where she was I had worked a double shift. I had come home. I was tired. There was a full moon. I looked up at the moon. I said, OK, Jaycee, where are you? And my younger daughter came out to see who I was talking to. The moon, just the moon. And so I did that all through the 18 years. That's one of my survival techniques was to just stay connected, finding something that we shared, and stayed connected with that kid. And it got me through and it paid off.", "Let me take you back to the awful days she disappeared. And everybody knows the story now but for you that moment when you thought she'd gone, I mean, it's every mother's nightmare, it's every parent's nightmare. Can you remember that feeling?", "Absolutely. Absolutely.", "I mean, like it was yesterday?", "It was -- I had a really hard time accepting it. I -- it was a nightmare. That I'm going to wake up and Jaycee experienced the same thing at the beginning. You know? OK. I'm going to wake up from this nightmare. I'm going to get through this. And it -- it was a nightmare. I hate going back and it's really hard for me. I want to live in the present. I want to enjoy every moment I have with that kid but, you know, there's a lot of anger for what happened and I will somehow get through it.", "Although Jaycee has been very forgiving, extraordinarily so, of the people that took her, you haven't. I totally understand why. I don't think I could forgive people who did that to a child of mine.", "Absolutely not.", "How do you feel now two years later? Has your feeling subsided at all or do you feel this awful hate towards them?", "I -- the hate fuels the fire for the changes that need to be made. One of my big -- really big ones is that anybody that does a heinous crime to a child or anybody, anything that it's life without parole. You know? Bottom line. You don't give them second and third and fourth chances. I strongly believe in that and I want to push for legislation and change. I want to -- don't want this to happen to anybody else. How many times -- I'm not here to point fingers but how many times was that house observed and gone through and, you know, the right thing to do is to speak out and say what you believe and if change needs to be made then let's do it.", "You know, I mean, there were horrendous failings in the system that allowed this man who was a convicted kidnapper, sexual predator, nobody ever thought to look in the backyard.", "Nope.", "I mean, just extraordinary that that could have happened. But it did end happily for you.", "It did.", "Unlike many people that go through this where it ends in a terrible way.", "It taught us a lesson. It fueled a fire for the need and we formed a Jaycee Foundation where we're asking people to slow down, stop, care. Excuse me. Slow down, stop and care and take a minute and do your job.", "And it stands for Just Ask Yourself to Care.", "Yes.", "And the pine cones that --", "Yes.", "You're both wearing, actually, around your necks. That is the symbol of this foundation.", "Absolutely.", "And the significance of that is what?", "Well, it was not only the last thing that Jaycee touched that was her reality back then but it's also a symbol of new beginnings.", "Because she actually touched a pine cone as she was being forced in to this nightmare.", "Yes.", "Physically dragged away.", "And she has an attraction to pine cones and, you know, delving in to that with Dr. Bailey, just gave us an opportunity to say, wow, this could be a new beginning. We could make these changes. We're very hopeful that, you know, something -- somebody else doesn't have to go through the things that we went through.", "I want to play you a clip from the interview you did with Diane Sawyer for ABC. A very moving interview. This is the happy bit so I think you'll enjoy this.", "And I was crying, you know, and you're crying, you can't speak. I just said, come quick. I remember saying come, come quick.", "And I remember telling you I'm coming, baby. I'm coming.", "And the rest was a blur.", "Yes.", "What a moment. What a moment for you. Eighteen years and you get a phone call. How do you hear?", "Wow. Yes. I was at work and the FBI had left me a message saying that it was urgent that I speak with them. And in the --", "And what was your first thought when you -- when they did that?", "I kind of blew it off because I had heard it so many times. I need to talk to you, Terry. What's going on? We think we have a lead. We don't have a lead. Not really misleading me but keeping me up to date, keeping me informed, and after 18 years I pretty much became immune, and so I didn't feel it was real urgent to call him back. That I would call him back the next day or whatever or when I got off work and in the interim the sheriff's department had contacted my younger daughter and told her what was happening and she called me and said, mom, you really need to talk to the sheriff. He has news for you but she wouldn't say anything.", "She knew?", "She knew. She did.", "But she wouldn't tell you?", "She needed it to come from them. And it did.", "So you called the sheriff?", "No. The sheriff actually -- I picked up the phone the next phone call because I knew it was important enough to pick up and I did.", "I mean, you're sensing it's good news now?", "I -- no, I -- no. I just said, OK. Something's up. I don't know what's up. I'll figure it out. I'll take care of it. And -- so when I talked to them and they told me that we have your -- we know where Jaycee is, it was that disbelief again. It was not reliving the nightmare but the shock of having this happen and then having her come back was a little overwhelming and I wasn't going to get on that roller coaster and ride. I was going to be real and then, you know, my excitement, being able to talk to her was phenomenal.", "What were the first words that you exchanged? Do you remember?", "No. What did I say?", "You were too excited?", "Too excited. Way too excited.", "What did her voice sound like after all that time?", "Same, same.", "You knew instantly it's this little girl even though --", "I knew it was her instantly. Yes, I hadn't seen her in 18 years so -- of course the rest of the evening wasn't anything I remember much of. Just getting on the plane and getting to her as quickly as I could.", "Could you -- could you quite believe it?", "No.", "Could you quite believe it was happening? Was it like some strange fairytale ending to the nightmare?", "Yes. It was. It's a good happy ever after.", "And it's a fantastic happy ever after. Let's have a little break and come back and talk about the darker moment when you came face to face with the man that had taken your daughter.", "We agree that serious errors were made over the last 10 years. We obviously deeply regret any error that could have possibly resulted in the victims living under these conditions for even one additional day.", "An extraordinary moment in 2009 as California officials admit that mistakes were made in the hunt for Jaycee Dugard. Jaycee's mother Terry Probyn is back with me now and her doctor Rebecca Bailey, Jaycee's therapist. You came face to face with this guy, Phillip Garrido. You saw him.", "I wouldn't say face to face. I watched him being interviewed as sheriff asked him what happened that morning. Trying to get --", "What emotions did you go through?", "All kinds. Hate, anger, sadness. All of the above. No compassion. I have a lot of compassion and a lot of empathy for a lot of people but not him and certainly not her. How could another woman hold another woman's child for her sexual predator husband? Unbelievable.", "Beyond comprehension.", "Beyond.", "And, you know, he was allowed to do because he'd been let out just 11 years for kidnap and rape, in itself is reprehensible for someone who had done this in that way before, could be back on the streets free to do it all over again. I mean no wonder you feel so anger -- angry. What's I think amazing about you, you talk about your lack of forgiveness for the Garridos but actually the remarkable compassion you've shown for the two children that Jaycee had.", "Oh, those are my grand babies. I love those grand babies.", "Yes, I find -- I find that profoundly moving that you can do that.", "How can you not? They're innocent children. I -- they're Jaycee's babies. You know? It's funny, you know. We find things that are alike in us and it's just really cool. I have two granddaughters.", "Can you block out his involvement in their lives? Can you block it out completely?", "I have to. For their sake. For their health. For their wellbeing. They don't need my anger. I need to direct my anger to do the better good of the foundation. You know? We want to service families. In fact, the foundation mandates us to service family that go through this kind of tragedy.", "Let me bring in Dr. Bailey here because this -- you specialize in this kind of reunification I think you call it where you have experienced of lots of cases like this, not obviously as horrific as this I would imagine. I mean, a very complex situation psychologically, emotionally, physically. You know, a young girl taken in her -- before she's even 10 years old and she's had two babies who grow up and still in this captivity, and then she gets saved and, you know, in many cases that's when a lot of the problems really start, when they try to come back to real life. How's it been with Jaycee? How have you been able to rehabilitate her back to some kind of normality?", "We have a fantastic team. We have a great group of therapists. We have a fantastic family. We have wonderful animals. We have a whole group of people and she --", "We choose not to be the victim actually.", "Right. And as strange as this sounds she was living a life. It wasn't a life she chose. It wasn't a life anyone -- any of us would choose for her either but it was a life. She was getting up in the morning. Going to bed at night.", "Surviving.", "Surviving. And she's taught all of us an awful lot. And to say the word complex is not even a strong enough word.", "Understatement, right?", "It is the understatement of the year. This -- the experience has been incredibly challenging. At the same point, my approach and the approach of the therapists that I work with has always been to take each case individually and let the families teach us about themselves.", "What advice do you give in terms of how the family should think of the people that did this to them? And also, the guilt that came through clearly from Jaycee's book that she didn't try and get away when she had maybe some opportunities? The guilt that she feels to her children that she didn't somehow get out of it. How do you tackle that kind of emotional dilemma?", "Well, I think guilt is your word. I think that, again, when people are in a situation, they do what they have to to survive and in many homes in this country, in this world, there are horrendous things happening, and people come out scarred certainly but nevertheless people survive through amazing circumstances so I think Jay is -- Jaycee is -- the most important thing she has taught all of us is in the word she said during her interview is that she refuses to give them one more moment of her time.", "Yes.", "And these children are signs of hope. They are not signs of despair.", "How are they dealing with the reality of discovery of the whole thing?", "I think it's been extremely important that the media has respected -- thanks to the fabulous PR person, has respected their space.", "I found her amazing in that interview. Her poise. Her intelligence. Her -- you know, her confidence almost actually which I really wasn't expecting. You expected to see a broken woman. Were you surprised by --", "She could have been.", "Yes.", "But I think that immediate response to our needs, our dilemma was what saved us. We had a team of specialists come in and just pretty much take over and spend time with us and care for us.", "Hold that thought for a moment. Let's have a break and come back and talk about what the future holds for Jaycee, for the girls, for you.", "She's pretty, young, innocent child, and you may like her but we love her, too. And it's time that she comes home to her family. Her sissy's been asking for her. And she needs to be with us.", "That was Terry Probyn just days after her daughter Jaycee Dugard was abducted in 1991. I'm back now with Terry and Jaycee's therapist, Rebecca Bailey. I mean hard for you to even look at that, isn't it? Unsurprisingly.", "Yes. Just brings back all the haunting nightmares and the memories and, you know, reading her book validates what she was going through. You know, all of the imaginations, the truth.", "The one big positive out of this is this foundation. We discussed it earlier. It was called JAYC, Just Ask Yourself to Care. And I want to play a little public service announcement which is --", "That would be great.", "It's very powerful.", "Hi, this is Jaycee Dugard. Just ask yourself to care. If you see something that looks wrong or amiss, speak out. You might be wrong but you might just save someone's life. This is presented by the JAYC Foundation.", "What's been the best thing do you think for Jaycee since she came back to you and her old life? What's been the thing that she realized other than just seeing you again that she missed the most?", "Having a life. Not being told what to do, when to do, how to do, where to do. She pretty much makes her own decision. She's an adult woman.", "Can she lead any kind of -- does she want to work? Does she want to -- well, she works for the foundation but does she want to do anything else with her life? Does she have ambition now?", "Absolutely. She truly believes in this foundation. She wants to pay it forward. She wants -- she doesn't want somebody else to go through what she had to go through even for a moment and I think caring about people and working with animals has been her whole life dream. The diary that she kept while in captivity, you know, all of her dreams are coming true. That's what makes Jaycee happy.", "What's been the best part of it for you?", "Being able to hold her. Kiss her, hug her. Yes. I miss that kiss good-bye that morning. It's a constant reminder, constant, you know, guilt thing but I see she forgives and I can forgive and forget.", "Do you think she'll -- may meet a Mr. Right, get married, live a fairy tale life that you would imagine you wanted for your daughter?", "I hope so. I hope so. That's her decision, though. You know? It's what makes her feel comfortable.", "And Dr. Bailey, is it very hard for someone like Jaycee in this position to form a normal relationship with a man again? I mean what advice do you give for that aspect of her life? Because she's 31 now?", "I don't think -- she's had a normal relationship with a man at all. She has her horse and she's passionate about her horse and working with her horse. I think that that's a question best left unanswered. Who knows? She lives fully and she's extremely happy. She embraces each other day with an awful lot of joy and excitement, just the little things that we take for granted.", "Does she have terrible days? Sort of awful flashbacks, nightmares?", "She worked through some material early on and that's where the horse work was tremendously useful with her was that some of the early difficult experiences she was able to get in touch with in the arena with the horses, with my assistant and the other therapist assistants and --", "What's the idea behind that? When you bring in horses to somebody who loves animals, loves horses and so on, what's the concept for how that acts as therapy?", "It's actually so simple that it's hard to describe sometimes.", "I would say insight.", "Insight into to your own. Horses are archetypes. They represent the themes we see over and over in our life. The best example I can give you is of a young girl that I was working with whose best friend had been murdered by her mother, and one day we walk and she wasn't able to talk about it. It was a 6-year-old. We walked down in to the arena and laying in the arena, in the sand were the horses, the dog and the cat flat out in the sand and this little girl's jaw just dropped as did mine, and she looked at me and she said, I think that's what happened to my friend. It was sort of you can't describe some of the things that happen. You can't really put a word to it. It's certainly not magic but it has the ability to bring forward images that might be -- they're difficult to sit in an office and talk about so for Jaycee to go in to the arena and work through some of these experiences. I was asking her to give me an example of one that she particularly liked. And it was when she first came out the first week, she made a box out of posts in the sand. And after the first day, the horse wouldn't come out of that for the next four or five sessions. And she said she was able to look at that and say, well, that's how I feel. It's really hard to be out of that box which she just in talking, sitting in the office we weren't getting to that.", "How important finally is the love and the strength of a mother like Terry who just never gave up, who made sure this picture of Jaycee that the famous iconic images were seen again and again and again? How vital is that do you think to what happened?", "You can look at this wonderful woman right here, and you can see where so much of Jaycee's strength comes from, in her poise, in her ability to stare things straight down. So everything, everything to come home to a mother who you talk about forgiveness, to come home and have a mother who didn't even skip a beat in accepting those two daughters. Didn't even skip -- didn't even --", "It's been an amazing thing that you have done. I think you're a remarkable woman. Your daughter's a remarkable woman.", "Thank you.", "And I'm just so happy for you and your family that it ended the way it did.", "Thank you.", "Thank you very much for joining. It's been a real pleasure.", "Thank you.", "Thank you for joining me.", "Thank you.", "Coming up, Michael Jackson's last days from two of the men who really did know him best.", "Joining me now two members of Michael Jackson's inner circle. Men who may have known him better than even his famous family. Lavelle Smith and Michael Durham Prince worked with Michael as he prepare to go on tour and with him in those fateful, final days. Gentlemen, thank you very much for joining me.", "My pleasure.", "Pleasure.", "Having followed Michael a long time and reported on him and see him in concert, I know how integral you guys were to his world. Strange times for you it must have been.", "Very strange.", "Since the death.", "Very strange.", "I mean, how would you sum up your feelings?", "Sadness. Sadness but I do feel really blessed because the happiness that he left with me was all the work we did together. You know? That won't go away. But the sadness that we don't get to create anymore with him. That's sad.", "You were dancing with him since 1987.", "Yes. \"Smooth Criminal\" was actually the first video. The first tour was \"Bad,\" and then \"Dangerous,\" and then \"History.\" And then we started working on \"This Is It.\" When he called that in 2008 in Vegas, and that was going to be -- he was excited. You know? We were both bringing out costumes, picking props. You know, thinking about what that show could be. Had no name. And just had a great time for six months in Vegas working like crazy. He was excited. I was excited. You know, whenever he gets excited, I get excited.", "Michael, you can't believe what happened? I mean, you guys, had been working with Michael right to the end. Was there a massive shock? I mean, were there any signs that he was -- you know, I've heard contrary views. I heard that he was very frail, that the stuff you didn't see in the movie, he was fainting. He was always kind of faint. That's what some of the family believe. What did you see?", "All of 2008, I was in Vegas along with Lavelle. He'd show up on dance days. I showed up on music days. And I just had the feeling, Michael is getting ready for his close up. He just started looking better. You could tell he was -- his energy was going up. And then in 2009, extremely excited. You know? He gave us a speech about how important this was to him. That he could spend the rest of his life doing his greatest hits, but that's not what he wanted to do. He said, I want to write new songs. I want to have better songs than I ever had. We're going to add those to the show. And I really have never seen him that energized before. That in the moment before, right up until the last night when I gave him a hug and he gave me a hug, you know. And he felt strong. He said tomorrow we're going to discuss all the vocals for the tour, you know. And that was the last time I spoke to him.", "I mean, from a dance point of view, from a voice point of view, where was he do you think given all the experience you have had with him? Was he ready to go?", "Yes.", "There was no stopping him.", "To do 50 shows?", "Oh, yes.", "Yes, 50, but at first --", "Remember his pace -- not to interrupt, but his pace was going to be two, two and a half shows a week. His family was going to be there. He was going to have a house in London, outside of London. And we had a good chat. He and I about that. How this was the hard part, rehearsing is the hard part. You know, four, five, six nights a week. Doing videos during the day. Once we got to the U.K., once we started the shows, that was going to be almost a vacation. Truly, you know. I don't want to say that because they were going to pay me, but I mean, honestly, it would have been. And he knew that.", "So originally it was ten shows.", "Yes.", "Then he got made in to 50. I remember that happening. I think, you know, Michael, you're talking about a guy who was not as young as he used to be. 50 shows is pretty demanding, even if you're only doing 2, 3 shows a week.", "Absolutely.", "I remember him saying there's ten shows. It's going to be fantastic. And I do remember a day when the ten shows turned to 34. He said, Lavelle, you know, there's 34 shows, I got to do them. That seemed to be a little bit like, you know, wow, this is a lot. And Then I remember it kept growing. What I remember is that he was really honored that that many people wanted to see him.", "I had tickets to the first one.", "Yes.", "I was excited. I mean, he -- I saw him in Paris once. It was the best concert I ever saw.", "Men, he was just honored that people wanted to see so as much as maybe 34 or the 50 shows were like, oh man, this is going to be crazy. The smile on his face showed me that he felt so honored that people really wanted to see him.", "Let me ask you a different question. Did you ever see him taking drugs of any kind?", "Never.", "He seems to have been a very closed world. What we're hearing from all this trial that's happened and from interviews of people involved is that there were two Michaels. There was the Michael that people thought they knew and there was the guy who chronic pain from when he had the terrible Pepsi accident and then to counter this, the terrible insomnia he used to get, mixed with the pressure and everything else, and so he got more and more into sleeping medication ending up with Demerol for the pain and the Propofol for sleeping. I mean, you put it all together and he was leading two lives. I mean, there was a night time Michael Jackson that you guys I assume didn't see.", "Did not see. And honestly, most of the time, when we were with him, I don't think that night time Michael Jackson was around because he had the kids around. We were at the ranch. We were at a hotel almost like a vacation and we're working on new songs. And there was no pressure on him. He didn't have to get up the next day if he didn't want to. He didn't have to perform the next day. I think that pressure comes in to play when there's a show. You know? When there's a huge tour.", "Exactly.", "Let's take a little break. I want to come back and talk to you about the dreadful day that you both found out that Michael died. And how you see his legacy developing. How you would like it to develop.", "Breaking news on \"360.\" At 10:00 p.m. Eastern, we'll talk to an attorney for one of Herman Cain's accusers. He says his client is, quote, \"very upset\" and believes Cain is not telling the truth about the sexual harassment allegations against him. Cain is also speaking out tonight saying he's the victim of a smear campaign. Does he have the facts to back that up? We're keeping him honest. Also tonight, more fallout from the investigation of \"Fast and Furious,\" the botched operation to let guns go to the hands of Mexican drug cartels. New information about how that disaster could have been prevented. Those stories and tonight's \"Ridiculist\" at the top of the hour. PIERCE MORGAN back in a moment.", "Yes. That's a cool move.", "OK.", "Cool move.", "Just spreads out too much at the end.", "We need to stop it.", "Boom.", "Go to infinity.", "Back with two of Michael Jackson's closest work colleagues. Lavelle Smith and Michael Prince. I've got to ask you a difficult question because I know how close you were. Where were you both? I'll start with you, Lavelle, when you heard that Michael had died.", "I was at home in my bedroom watching CNN and I heard Michael Jackson went to the hospital with a heart attack. And I thought, OK. That's -- kept watching and it kept getting worse and worse. And I just thought this really either is a really bad publicity stunt or something is desperately wrong.", "And you knew that Michael, you know, he could do publicity stunts.", "Of course. He's a show man.", "I mean, he'd been in wheelchairs before to create an impression that he was somehow in a terrible state.", "Yes.", "And then the next -- because he always had this thing, make the public go low in expectation and then dazzle them with the high. This was", "Absolutely.", "P.T. Barnum. That's what you do as a showman. Yes, you build it.", "A part of you is thinking --", "Yes.", "-- Is this another Michael stunt?", "Yes. And I really was hoping for that. I kept hoping, and then it got worse. And then when they finally said, dead, of course, even that I didn't believe until it stayed there.", "You saw that on CNN?", "Yes. It all went up from heart attack to something happened.", "Not breathing.", "Not breathing, and then dead. And I was like, OK, just wait a few more minutes. And then it didn't go away. And I thought this is really crazy. I called his assistant. And she said, it's a madhouse around here. And I thought, OK, this is the real deal. I just went numb. I remember being numb for days and days. I couldn't cry. I think anger. Just every emotion except I couldn't cry. I didn't cry until I did the TV shows with Jermaine in London. \"Move Like Michael Jackson,\" and I was doing a little outtake like, you know, how you do for the show reading something that said Michael Jackson was -- I kept saying Michael Jackson is -- and they're like, you have to say was. I said, I got it this time. Michael Jackson is -- OK. Finally when I got was, it was over. It was over.", "And for you? Where were you?", "I was at the Staples Center. I was getting ready for that day's rehearsal. I had a list of changes to do from the night before, instructions from Michael. And when they said that the first thing I thought was he wants two more weeks to rehearse, you know. And then when they finally announced that he was D-E-A-D, I still -- I went back to my computer. I made all the changes from the night before, because I was stunned. I said, well, no, he might come back, you know. And later that day, I just -- I finally had to ask somebody what to do? And he said pack your stuff up, you know? And that was -- it was dreadful. For anything, I feel for his children, you know? He was the greatest dad in the world. Those were the loves of his life. You know? And --", "They are extraordinary children.", "They are.", "When I saw them in public recently, at the concert, I mean, they had remarkable confidence. And I guess you might expect it from Michael's --", "They were brought up so well. So much love. They read a lot.", "Disciplined.", "A lot.", "It's amazing.", "Well-spoken, beautiful children. And I just want them to know how much he loved them. And I saw the love that they had for him. And he and I talked about that in his dressing room, you know, about when we get to the UK, and when this seven-day week thing is done, you are going to be with your family, you know, again and have a lot more quality time with them.", "What do you guys make of the trial? Did you know Conrad Murray? Did you see him much?", "No, not at all.", "So all this was sort of brand new to you?", "Yes.", "Right.", "To me it is simple.", "Does it seem like a weird other world?", "It does. It is a world that I'm forced, I don't know why, but I'm drawn to I have to have the information, and the stuff that I'm hearing is out of this world. Out of this world. To me, it is really about a legend, a doctor and something going horribly wrong that I feel like none of us will really ever get to the bottom of. There's more that --", "My gut feeling is, I mean, Michael Jackson is not going to want to kill himself. There's no way he was in any kind of suicidal mood.", "Absolutely.", "Oh my God, no, no, no.", "He was enjoying the preparation. He was enjoying being a father, and so on. And just from everyone I have talked to about Conrad Murray, he didn't want to kill Michael Jackson.", "Why would he?", "So you're left with a terrible accident. And I think you are left with the technicalities of how this happened and who did what, and so which we may never know answers to.", "I have a feeling, I've said, we may never know.", "But was it a shock to you when the tapes were played? I mean, I was staggered.", "I had no words.", "When I first heard this, I thought this can't be Michael Jackson.", "But, listen, I know that voice, over 23 years. I knew that was him, but I didn't know why it existed. Why do that tape exist.", "Have either of you ever heard him speak like that?", "Never. Never.", "Never. And honestly, I told Lavelle this, I said, I think the doctor might have made that to show Michael maybe the next day, Michael, you did fall asleep, because Michael might have said I didn't fall asleep, you know. But no I mean -- I would have never made that recording.", "I mean who knows what he could have done with it later. That is the only --", "That's sort of weird.", "It is weird, but it's -- it happens. Things happen that way.", "I mean, Michael's whole life was a bit crazy, ever since the people around him and the circus element and, you know, I just felt the whole thing just unraveled in a very, very strange way and we will probably never know what really happened.", "Yes.", "I don't think so.", "I hope we get to. But one thing I know is important is that, what Michael taught me, all the dance and all that stuff will live on because his -- his goal was to take dance and continue to take dance to higher and higher levels.", "There were lots of theories about what Michael was planning to do. What was he planning to do?", "We were going to do short films. You know, Michael loved the short film. We were working on a cowboy film.", "Legs Diamond --", "Legs Diamond.", "He wanted to do like a modern musical on \"Legs Diamond.\" Because Michael already had some gangster-ish, sounds like \"Smooth Criminal.\"", "Yes, \"Dangerous\" and \"Criminal.\"", "I heard he also wanted to release singles every few months.", "Right. And that way you don't get compared to \"Thriller\" every time you put out an album. So he was going to do it while we were on tour, maybe a single every eight weeks. And then once you had ten out, you add two new songs and you have a record. He also wanted to do a children's album. Because he loved to write these, you know, beautiful, innocent songs for children. He wanted to do a classical album, because he had a lot of melodies that he didn't want to write words to.", "How good was Michael Jackson, as an entertainer?", "The best.", "Let's talk voice, first of all, his voice. How good a singer was he?", "Amazing. I mean, he could go from a ballad, a soft song, to -- he had one of the best rock voices. I mean, I would compare it to, you know, somebody like in -- not like Led Zeppelin, but I mean, he could sing rock 'n' roll like you wouldn't believe, you know. I always wanted to like get him on some really hard rock stuff.", "And dance-wise, mesmerize?", "Top. Just top of the line, you know.", "Have you ever seen a better dancer?", "A better natural dancer? Not in my life so far ever. I mean, I was trained ballet dancer and we would share, he would teach me, because his stuff was always so strange to me, but once we started sharing, I shared ballet moves or technical things, and he would share his stuff. And that's where our bond came from, just a sharing of dance and a love of dance.", "How do you think, finally, Michael would like to be remembered?", "I think he would like to be remembered as someone that was always, you know, making sure that what he delivered to his fans and to his audience was original. It was innovative. And he didn't mind if people copy it, but he would always wanted to be the one that did it first.", "Michael, you were going to say?", "I was going to agree with that and say that anything he wanted to do, he wanted it to be the best. He wanted himself to be the best, every dancer behind him, every musician, down to the lighting, down to whoever was running what piece of equipment, they had to be the best.", "Cameras. Everything had choreography. I love it when he use that word. The cameras have choreography. The light have choreography. And that's kind of stuff he taught me.", "That's what he was. He was remarkable. I mean, to me, he achieved that. He was the best. The best entertainer I ever saw.", "He really was.", "Lavelle, Michael, thank you both very much. A pleasure meeting you.", "It has been my pleasure.", "My pleasure.", "Tomorrow, I'll talk to Condoleezza Rice for a live, no- holds-barred interview. She was the ultimate Bush White House insider. So I will ask her why she says former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked her integrity. And why she threatened to resign after 9/11. Condoleezza Rice live tomorrow night. 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{"id": "CNN-62886", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-11-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/11/lt.01.html", "summary": "Deadly Storms: At Least 35 Killed", "utt": ["And as we are at five minutes past the hour, I want to get back to our breaking news story and that is the situation across the U.S. with these series of storms and tornadoes that have left many dead across the country and we're looking at storms and tornadoes that have cut a deadly path across the eastern U.S. At least 35 people have died in five states, dozens more are still missing this morning. Authorities in Tennessee report that at least seven confirmed tornadoes touched down in that state. One emergency management official says the tiny rural town of Mossy Grove has been wiped off the face of the earth although we were hearing from our Gary Tuchman that that's not exactly accurate. Our national correspondent Gary Tuchman is in mossy grove and gives us a more accurate account of what has taken place in that town. Gary, hello.", "That's right. The town certainly has not been wiped off the face of the earth. As a matter of fact, many of the towns people are standing right now in front of a Citgo station in the town that suffered some damage, but still stands as do many of the businesses in the town. However, this is very important, many houses have been completely destroyed. We're standing next to a", "All right Gary. We're still dealing a little bit with that spotty cell phone service where you are in Mossy Grove. But we did get most of that report and we'll check back with you. Leon.", "Well, right now we have with us on the phone Governor Sundquist of Tennessee who's been notified of course I'm sure immediately after these storms actually hit the ground. Governor, what can you tell us that you've heard so far from your emergency management folks?", "this is a very serious tornado. I'm headed out in about an hour to go on site, but the most serious area is in a corner of three counties, Mossy Grove community where at least seven have been killed plus a fireman who died of a heart attack. There are 140, 150 missing, not accounted for. That doesn't mean that they're all missing but they're not accounted for. The tornado that hit in this community was an F5. We've only had one other in the history of Tennessee, that was in 1950. It's a very, very strong tornado.", "So you had that actually confirmed that it was an F5?", "This was what our emergency management organization, that's what they've told me. Cumberland County is not far from there, four dead and 30 injuries and then Coffee County two dead and 20 injuries and then the day before, we had several deaths in a couple of other counties. So we've been hit hard. I'm going out to the scene soon. I've talked to FEMA, Joe Albaugh, and he's coming in Wednesday, and we have a good volunteer organization, a good Tennessee emergency management organization, and we're on top of it.", "Well, so you haven't had a chance to see firsthand any damage from any helicopter tours in the area or anything.", "I will within an hour or two.", "OK. How about what you've been hearing about what's being done to track down these 140 to 150 missing or unaccounted for people?", "Well, a lot of them that are missing or unaccounted for is as a result of no power. So relatives calling and asking for people and they can't locate them. So I don't even mean to imply there are that many that are seriously missing or injured, but this is typical when you have serious problems like this, that there are large numbers of unaccountables.", "And of course, considering as well the fact that we're talking about some pretty sparsely populated areas, some rural areas out here as well.", "That's true. We had several churches collapse. I think that was one of the reasons for one of the deaths of a 10-year- old I think in Coffey County.", "Sorry to hear that. That's terrible. How about what you've been able to get done or at least information you have found (ph) out about the restoration of power to these areas? Are you getting help from neighboring states?", "You know, I've been governor eight years, and we just -- we have way too much experience with this sort of thing, but we have good teams, and I have yet to have one complaint about any of the storms or emergencies that we've had in terms of getting power on as quickly as we can, rescuing people, helping them financially. We have a good operation in Tennessee both from volunteers and from our emergency management and we've always received incredible support from Washington, the Federal emergency management.", "At this particular point, do you need to make a call for any help of any kind from the public at this point or what?", "Not yet. We have had great response, have always had great response and the Salvation Army and the Red Cross, Red Cross generally is in there right away and I know I can tell people look, who have lost their homes, you will be put up tonight. You'll be given clothes. You'll be given food. That's never been a problem. It's a great organization and so is the Salvation Army.", "Well, Governor, we thank you for the time.", "We're the volunteer state so we don't lack for volunteers.", "There you go. There you go.", "Thank you.", "Well, here's wishing all you volunteers lots of luck.", "Thank you very much.", "Governor Don Sundquist, we'll let him get back to work so he can get out there and tour that area and get a first hand report.", "Absolutely. Unfortunately Tennessee had plenty of company in the devastation, the pain coming from the storms, including those in Alabama. That's where we find our Charles Molineaux. He is on the way to Carbon Hill. Charles, hello.", "Hello, Karen. Actually, the Red Cross is stepping in here also to help in Alabama. A shelter has been opened up in Walker County, the area which was the hardest hit. It's interesting, the state of emergency because of the tornadoes is statewide but coming out between Birmingham and Carbon Hill where the worst of the damage was, we really got to see how sporadic and capricious this damage was. We saw trees blown down and one church with its roof all chewed up. On the other hand, you go a little ways and you see houses, trailers, even a yard full of boats that were untouched so we're seeing really scattered damage but in some cases very severe damage, trees blown out on roads or across houses. We do have word of nine people dead in Walker County, possibly as many as 11 or more dead statewide. The state emergency management is still trying to figure out what the situation is. We're looking out on the scene right now of a house with its roof pretty much blown off and surrounded by trees blown all around it. Again, a very spot location where you saw the heavy winds come in, possibly a tornado because you look right across the street and sure enough, there's a very narrow path of destruction, power lines down as you continue looking off. Meanwhile, the house next door to it looks just fine as does the shed and the cars parked nearby so a very precise and capricious hits by the storm system in this area. The requests from -- for help are coming into the state from places like Walker and Coleman (ph) Counties, Winston County, Fayette County, Cherokee. The estimate from state emergency management which of course is now coordinating relief efforts is six to seven counties have suffered what they're calling severe damage, meaning major roads blocked, major power outages, major trees knocked down, homes destroyed as well as people killed and of course we're still waiting for word on when we're going to see power restored to some of these areas. Actually en route up from Birmingham, we were in the middle of a convoy of Alabama power trucks. The word from state emergency management is that something in the neighborhood of at least 30,000 people did have their power cut off and this is as a result of both major and minor power lines knocked down. So the entire infrastructure is going to need to be gone over to get it restored as this rebuilding effort is to get underway.", "Charles Molineaux, thank you so much in Alabama.", "All right, let's go now to our weather center and Chad Myers has been tracking all of this now. He's got the latest on the storm situation in Ohio. We're covering that one as well. Chad.", "Good morning Leon. Yes, Van Wert County hit very hard yesterday by damage from a tornado. In fact we even some amateur video, some home video to show you of this what we call wedge-like storm. A couple of different things. We talked about the Fujita scale from F0 to F5 at times. This is what I want to show you now and I want to go to the telestrator because I can show you the scouring effect. Do you see the little circles? Do you see these, the lines coming in like this around and around and around. That's pieces of aluminum, pieces of shingles, all being strewn around here and actually scouring the landscape. Clear that off for you. As the tornado went across this damage, this area, I mean, how long has it been since we even saw any kind of building across that entire farm field. Well there you go, in the trees, the aluminum siding, parts of the shed, the rough from the barn itself, all then caught in that part of the little hedge row. There's a little fence line, a little tree line there. Now we're seeing more in the way of scouring. Do you see these little lines coming around here? Again, more pieces going through and around and around and around and here's one of the real telling signs I saw yesterday, why you don't want to be in the school gymnasium or in a theater. Look at this, the roof completely gone. You can see the seats of this theater and the cars are inside and I'm not sure whether that was a movie theater, whether that was a high school theater or what that was, but clearly there the school just or whatever, the roof completely gone from that little complex there, all part of this wedge system. Now, I teased you and I told you about the video of the tornado itself. What do you need to get damage like this? Typically, this is an F3, possibly an F4 type storm to get that scouring and there's a picture of one. That could be a 4. You can't tell because I don't know how far away we are. I don't know how wide the base is. But this is not that little white tornado that we used to see on commercials. This is a wedge storm. The base of the storm cut off because it is so wide. I'm saying at least a quarter mile, possibly a half mile wide, and to get that type of a wedge tornado, you need winds almost 200 miles per hour. And that's what the folks in Van Wert County, Ohio saw yesterday and to see the video of the damage now from the air clear that the width of that storm was well over a football wide, possibly a quarter mile wide as that storm moved on by. There's the scouring. Do you see the circles going around like a circular sander going across this farm field, around and around and around. It picked up things. It picked up branches. It picked up shingles. That's why you don't want to be outside in a tornado. Go inside anywhere, get away from these things that are flying around. What was flying around, what was causing all of that scouring? That stuff that you see right there in that tree line, in that hedge row all getting caught up. You can see shingles. You can see the tops of roofs, you can see whatever, parts of barns, and then some of the trees, now you just saw go by and as we zoom out over here on this side, the scouring continues again around and around and around, wind speeds close to 200 miles per hour and we're very happy that there were farms in the way and not cities in the way. Daryn, Leon back to you.", "Good point. And once again, a great illustration of why you don't want to be in a car either. You see those cars getting picked up and thrown...", "Just turned upside down. There's no place -- even though we see commercials of cars rolling over and race cars going over and over and over, when a tornado picks up a car, turns it over and dumps it on the top, there's no room for you inside.", "We are going to be going live to Arlington National Cemetery in jut a few minutes. President Bush expected to speak on this Veterans Day. Also we've been getting a lot of e-mail from all of you out there about the weather in your town and pictures as well and we're going to look at some of those as we go to a break, this one from Fairview, Tennessee."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAREN", "HARRIS", "GOV. DON SUNDQUIST, TENNESSEE", "HARRIS", "SUNDQUIST", "HARRIS", "SUNDQUIST", "HARRIS", "SUNDQUIST", "HARRIS", "SUNDQUIST", "HARRIS", "SUNDQUIST", "HARRIS", "SUNDQUIST", "HARRIS", "SUNDQUIST", "HARRIS", "SUNDQUIST", "HARRIS", "SUNDQUIST", "HARRIS", "KAREN", "CHARLES MOLINEAUX, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAREN", "HARRIS", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "HARRIS", "MYERS", "DARYN"]}
{"id": "CNN-353307", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-10-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/28/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Man Suspected of Mailing 14 Pipe Bombs to Appear in Court Today.", "utt": ["Tonight the man who authorities say mailed 14 pipe bombs across the country is in a Miami federal detention center. He's awaiting his first court appearance that's due to take place tomorrow. Cesar Sayoc was arrested on Friday and charged with five federal crimes in connection with those mailed pipe bombs. The targets of the bombs included two former presidents, a former secretary of state, a former vice president, and all people who have criticized Trump. You can see that list there. CNN's Joe Johns joins me from Miami. Joe, you've been following this story closely. What is the latest on the investigation and what we expect to see with Sayoc in court tomorrow?", "Well, Alex, let's start with what we expect to see. He is expected to appear in court here in Miami tomorrow afternoon. He's expected to be advised of his rights, advised of the complaint that was filed against him in the Southern District of New York. Asked if he needs an attorney. We have gotten conflicting information on that. There's a report in the \"New York Times\" yesterday suggesting his family wants him to hire an attorney. However, the family attorney on \"AC 360\" on Friday said that he was suggesting in fact that Sayoc should, if he needed to, hire a public defender. We do know he is essentially homeless and has been, we're told, sleeping in his van. The most important information probably out of all of this is that the federal authorities will be seeking to get Sayoc rather quickly out of Miami and back to New York where the complaint was filed against him and where he would stand charges. Of course the other issue is whether he is going to plead guilty or not. It's just not clear what he's going to do if the magistrate asks him if he's going to plead guilty or not guilty. So that's very important. The evidence against him does seem to be overwhelming. Our colleagues here at CNN have reported that once the authorities got inside his van, they discovered, among other things, soldering equipment, stamps, paper, printing equipment and so forth. Even some powder. All of that could play into this case. We have to see what happens tomorrow afternoon. Back to you, Alex.", "Yes, we will. All right. Joe Johns in Miami, thank you so much. Now coming up, words of wisdom from a legendary TV figure on how to cope with all the troubling headlines in the news these days."], "speaker": ["MARQUARDT", "JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "MARQUARDT"]}
{"id": "CNN-308423", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2017-03-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/25/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Kremlin Critic Killed Outside Hotel In Ukraine", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Hala Gorani in London.", "And I'm Paula Newton in New York. These are the top news headlines we're following for you this hour.", "The terror attack at British Parliament has claimed another life. London police say a 75-year-old man that had been receiving medical treatment in hospital for his injury has been taken off life support. Tonight, the death toll now stands at four. British police have made eight arrests as they investigate Wednesday's deadly attack. Detectives swarmed locations in Birmingham and other cities over night. And Thursday morning, they've also identified the attacker. He's 52-year-old, Khalid Masood, a British native with a history of violent crime. In Antwerp, Belgium, authorities say they thwarted an attempted terrorist attack. Now, they intercepted a French man driving toward a busy pedestrian area at a very high speed in the red car you see being towed in the distance there. Authorities say inside were weapons and a canister with an unknown substance. Officials say the U.S. won't be voting on a Republican health care plan, Thursday, as expected. Party leaders and present Donald Trump have been holding meetings to try and get the votes pass the measure as Republicans are set to go behind closed doors in the coming hours to discuss that situation. Israeli police say a teenager has been arrested in connection with bomb threats against Jewish institutions and community centers across the U.S. and in several other countries. Now, a police spokesperson said the 19- year-old used advanced camouflage technology to cover his tracks, a motive still unknown. [0:35:07] The president of Ukraine is calling the killing of a Kremlin critic a \"Russian state terrorist act\". Denis Voronenkov, a former Russian lawmaker, who fled to Ukraine last year was shot and killed outside the Kiev Hotel in broad daylight. Officials say a suspect is now in custody. The Kremlin spokesman says any claims that Russia is tied to the killing are \"absurd\".", "All right, Paula, we'll get back to you in a moment. But to recap the fourth fatality in the London attack has just been announced. Police say he was a 75-year-old man. Earlier today we learned more about the other three victims. They were the police officer Keith Palmer along with an American tourist and a British teacher. These flags represent the nationalities of the victims and casualties in Central London on Wednesday. There were three children from France, two people from Romania, four from South Korea, one from Poland, one from Ireland, one from China, one person as well up from Germany, Italy and America, two from Greece and 12 people from right here in Britain. They all required treatment. The American who lost his life was Kurt Cochran. He was celebrating his 25th wedding anniversary with his wife Melissa. She survived. Another victim was Aysha Frade. She was 43 years old, s teacher of Spanish descent, partly. The mayor of her hometown said she lived here for several years. At the United Nations in New York, the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson who was also mayor of London said that an attack on London is an attack on the world. Listen to Johnson.", "You may know that today there are victims in London from 11 nations, which goes to show the attack on London is an attack on the world. And I can tell you from my talks here in the United States with the U.S. government and with partners from around the world that the world is uniting to defeat the people who launched this attack and to defeat their bankrupt and odious ideology.", "Well, that was Boris Johnson. He's in New York today. He was visiting with the Trump White House a couple days ago in Washington. Nick Paton Walsh joins me from Westminster with more about the victims, what we know about them. Nick.", "Absolutely. And as the days gone on, we have learned more about the lives tragically lost in the violent acts that began pretty much where I'm standing here on Westminster Bridge. Now, we don't know vast amounts of details about how people were injured, the sequence, but the Hyundai four-by-four vehicle rose up on the pavement where I'm standing, here. And the vicinity of where I am moving down here, it was Kurt Cochran here on his 25th anniversary with his wife Melissa. He was killed by that car moving quickly. Amateur video showing people actually flung into oncoming traffic. One woman in fact, it's either thrown over or jumping off this bridge in sort of attempt to escape further injury and also, too, as well as you said Aysha Frade, a 43-year-old Spanish teacher, resident for quite some time here in London killed, too. The car then continues further to cross this bridge down to the other side. Now passed or early on this after, police lines, it crashed into the railings there. Interestingly enough, we saw this bridge teeming with people, obviously it's less tonight. In fact, behind me it appears that police and medical staffs have pulled over a car on this bridge now and having quite impassion discussion with what are these occupants. But that goes to show how the city is still very much on some sense of alert here because it was Khalid Masood who drove that Hyundai further across the bridge. It crashes the railings, gone out and then tried to -- seems getting to the Parliament court yards with that knife. He was then shot dead, but not before he took as life of his third of four victims. During that afternoon, I met with PC Keith Palmer, killed this evening by that knife wilted by Khalid Masood. And as you said as well now the 75- year-old man has in fact died of his injuries in hospital, Hala. But that death toll hasn't grown tragically in the last hour. So about 40 people injured, possibly showed about 10 of those in are pretty serious conditions as far as we understand now. Hala.", "All right. Thanks very much, Nick Paton Walsh. Not far from our position here there on Westminster Bridge. Thanks very much, Nick, reiterating there the breaking news. In the last just half-hour or so, we learned from authorities that a fourth person has died as a result of this attack, a 75-year-old man who was taken off life support, who was fighting for his life and unfortunately died as a result of the car attack on the bridge. [0:40:07] Now, in a sign of solidarity in Germany, a Union flag was projected on to the side of the famous Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. There you have it just showing, you know, unity. We saw it with the French flag and the Belgian flag and it just goes to show you that just of the last several years, Paula, in New York we have had so many of these attacks and we have covered so many of them including one in fact in Germany quite similar to this one, except that it was with the truck on that Christmas market in Berlin, this one causing the deaths of four people. Paula, back to your in New York.", "Yes. And it is obviously a heartening just to see all of those tributes. As you said, we've had to go through this kind of thing before. I mean, Hala, it so struck me. You're talking to Paton Walsh (ph) earlier and you know he made it clear. The good news is that they haven't found this kind of hardcore cell there that was part of this terrorist attack according to police, at the same time Hala, I mean you are there. You're at Parliament when this happened. It must strike you that one person can cause just so much devastation.", "Yes. And the issue too is that these are very common items. I mean everyone has access to a weapon like a knife. Everyone pretty much can rent a car as long as you have driver's license. So if you want to cause mayhem and damage like this on this the type of scale, you can if you have the intent, especially if in the end, you accept the fact that you are probably going to get killed. It's just that pretty typical murder suicide scenario of someone -- probably according to official who is inspired by this radical ideology, this twisted ideology. Whether it was inspired or a copycat attack were directed from the ISIS-controlled territory, but, you know, in the end, the question is, does it really matters? It's just this ideology is finding a home in the twisted mind of some people, but it takes just one person to bring complete chaos to a very busy area like Westminster. How do you stop it? Every, you know, expert you talked to is basically, I hate to say it, it's very, very difficult especially if it is a lone-wolf type person, especially if it's someone who's not part of a network because how do you monitor someone who is sort of a solo operative? There is no real chat or they're not are really exchanging ideas with anyone. So, you know, ultimately either you can have to sort of figure out a way to make sure that people who have any kind of potential to slide into this type of activity are monitored or, you know, fight the ideology at the base, try to figure out a way, a brag to make ISIS less of an attractive option for some of these people on or in the communities. We were speaking by the way with Lord Admiral Allen West. He was saying in some of these communities to make those communities perhaps more of a part of the wider community as well. In some instances would probably help combat this. So it's multi-pronged approach, but a very, very difficult problem to address especially when it is just one individual, Paula.", "And if any country has been looking at how to do that multi- pronged approach, it is a Britain as they will continue to do. Our Hala Gorani remains there at the scene for us. We will get to you just a little bit later on. And from us now, the future of President Trump's pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare is in jeopardy. The bill doesn't have the support it needs. The vote for tonight is up."], "speaker": ["HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "NEWTON", "NEWTON", "GORANI", "BORIS JOHNSON, BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY", "GORANI", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "GORANI", "NEWTON", "GORANI", "NEWTON"]}
{"id": "CNN-352486", "program": "CRIME AND JUSTICE WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2018-10-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/17/ptab.01.html", "summary": "Hunt For Missing Girl After Parents Killed. ", "utt": ["Thanks for watching.", "Everyone`s feeling very helpless right now.", "I`ll be honest, you know, I`m struggling with this.", "Tonight, a 13-year-old girl is believed to be in danger.", "Jamie is a sweet quiet girl, who is a loyal friend and loves to dance.", "She vanished from home two days ago.", "I haven`t seen anything like this in rural western Wisconsin. We just don`t see this.", "Disappearing from the same home where her parents were soon found dead.", "Really frightening.", "The police say, she is not a suspect.", "I`m telling you Jamie is missing and endangered.", "So who killed the Closs parents and why.", "There was some kind of disturbance going on.", "Who called police from the house without saying anything to the dispatcher?", "I don`t know that if the word help was said.", "Where is young Jamie tonight?", "Every second counts in this case.", "From frat President to alleged attacker.", "I just found it unbelievable.", "He is accused of raping a fellow student after a party.", "Facts are incredible. He nearly choked her to death. He raped her violently. He left her passed out in the room.", "So, how could he totally avoid jail?", "Let it be a rich kid from Dallas and suddenly --", "And does this sound like a story you`ve heard before?", "Good evening, everyone, I`m Ashleigh Banfield, this is Crime and Justice. And tonight the hunt is on for a missing 13-year-old girl believed to be endangered tonight. She vanished early Monday morning as gunshots rang throughout her house. While the country is banding together to keep their eyes open for this face. Jamie`s Closs` parents are not able to join in that search. Because they were found dead in that home. That same morning their daughter went missing. That same morning those haunting gunshots rang out. It is also the same morning a mysterious phone call came into 911. From somewhere inside that home, but no one responded to the dispatcher. Police say there were sounds of a disturbance somewhere in the background. And they believe that Jamie was there, but she was gone by the time the police arrived.", "We don`t know where she is gone, but we have her entered as missing and endangered. I`ll be honest, you know, I`m struggling with this. I haven`t seen anything like this, in rural western Wisconsin. We just don`t see this.", "With me now, CNN correspondent, Athena Jones, also trial attorney Randy Kessler, and retired detective Karen Smith. Also on the phone with us tonight. Baron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald. Athena Jones, I am going to begin with you, just to report out this story. It doesn`t sound believable.", "It`s remarkable and it`s frightening. We know that Jamie Closs attended a family gathering on Sunday. They don`t believe that she ran away, they believe she is in danger. And we know that this 911 call came in just before 1:00 a.m. on Monday morning. As you mentioned, no one talked to the dispatcher, but they could hear sounds in the background. We know they brought in the FBI and other experts to try analyze that --", "They know the call came from inside the house.", "They know the call came from inside the house. In fact we believe it came from a cell phone inside the house. But they`re not saying who the call came from. We believe that they know who that is, but they`re not sharing that information. There`s a lot of information that they`re not sharing that they may know, they don`t want to share with the public, because of the investigation.", "And that is something that always surprises me, because an amber alert went out for Jamie Closs. And that is usually a case whereby every piece of information, every shred that you can dig out of every corner and crevice is given to the public. But there are things being held back.", "Much more interesting, because usually with an amber alert they have more information on the suspect or a vehicle. Certainly they know who the victim is, the intended victim here, the abduction, but this is interesting the things that they are keeping back. They would not for instance comment on whether there was any sort of sign of forced entry. They probably know the answer to that, but they`re not sharing it with the public, because it is a part of the investigation.", "They may say that, but at the same time, you know, reporters see with their own eyes, detectives and investigators are carting away the door to the home, right?", "Right. It`s interesting. We saw this press conference ended a short while ago. There were some questions, it`s clear they know the answers to, but they just don`t want to share it. We heard the Sheriff --", "Look at the pictures. This is the kind of thing you see. They are taking away -- it looks like a dining room chair. They`re cloaked top to bottom in a Kevlar -- those suits. The investigative suits, they`re gloved, they are booted. This is the door, I don`t know if it`s the front or the back. It`s hard to believe there isn`t some formed of forced entry when they are going to investigate this door.", "Right and they talk about this disturbance that is what could be heard on this 911 call, so those items they`re removing from the house may have something to do with that disturbance, with the noises they say they heard, they`re analyzing. One thing we did just learn is that authorities were able to get on to the scene within four minutes of the end of that 911 call. So that would be just after 1:00 a.m.", "Four minutes?", "Very, very quickly.", "Four minutes.", "That is when they found Jamie Closs`, Denise and James dead.", "And no signed of this 13-year-old Jamie. Let me bring in Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald Barron County Sheriff`s Department. Sheriff, can you hear me OK?", "I can.", "Sir, I am confounded. I think like everyone else who has heard about this story, and I`m hoping that you are not as confounded as me. Is there a lot that you know that we don`t know?", "Well, I mean, yes, I think there`s parts of -- an active part of an investigation that we don`t want to put out yet, but I don`t have any good you know, concrete information that we`re asking for the public`s help on. And I think that is what`s key in this. Yes, we know a few more things and we`re able to release some stuff, in just a short while ago as you talked about, about the gunshots and the manner of death. And things like that. But there is a lot of parts of this case that we are still actively working and looking for signs. I don`t know where Jamie is, and I want to bring her home safe. And that has been our focus for our investigation.", "So, Sheriff, obviously you have two massive crimes you`re dealing with here, the murders of her parents and the disappearance of Jamie. Let me just start with the first investigation and that is the murders of these two people. You mentioned in the press conference just a few short moments ago, that they indeed died from gunshot wounds. Was it execution style?", "I can`t comment on that, and I actually don`t know the answer to that question. We are not going to discuss the manner except that they died from gunshot wounds and that is all we released on that. Really it`s a double homicide now. So, you are right, we are investigating two separate crimes, a double homicide and a missing child. So we continue to work both leads on that.", "And what about the disturbance inside the home, we`ve been looking at these pictures of investigators bringing out a chair, looking like they`re carting away the front door to the home. What did the inside of the home look like?", "And again, I can`t comment a lot on that, but there was an active crime scene. That is why remove evidence to take to the Wisconsin crime lab. To look for DNA, to look for fingerprints, and look for any other piece of evidence. Gunshot residue. Things like that is what we`re collecting at a scene like this. This scene or any other scene that you know, you`ve talked about on your show.", "Can you tell me if there were more than two shots fired. Meaning, was each of the victims killed with a single bullet. Because the neighbor only heard two gunshots.", "I can`t comment on that. We`re still following up on tips like that neighbor tip and that is why we asked people to continue to call in their tips. And you know, we don`t know where Jamie is, and that is why we`re on shows like yours, because we don`t know where Jamie is, we don`t know if she is in Barron County or somewhere in the United States. We ask people to keep calling in tips, no matter how little or how insignificant they think it is. It could be part of a bigger piece of the puzzle here.", "So, I am with you. That is a lot of the reason that we do this show. There are unsolved crimes every single night that we pursue on this program, and it is for that reason I`m going to continue to press you. You`re not going to like it, but at the same time it`s an advantage to you to keep this story on the air as a lead story as well. So for that, with that preface, can you tell me if you think this is a targeted attack or is it random?", "I wish I knew the answer to that question. Because that would clear up some more things. And I agree, I want to keep this the lead story. I don`t mind your questions. Also, we respect that we are not going to interfere with the investigation or put something in somebody`s mind that they call in tips or don`t call in tips, because of information we give, but that is the key question that we continue to work on every day. Talk about at our daily briefings and are part of, so you`re exactly right. That is the question that we are looking at every day, when we open up our briefings and I don`t know the answer to that question yet.", "Can you tell me this? There were neighbors that said they heard two shots, and if you are a neighbor, anywhere near this home, clearly you are living in fear. Do they have reason to live in fear? Is anyone else in that vicinity in direct danger right now?", "Yes, again, I don`t know the answer to that question, but I can comment on the fact that they don`t received no other threats, no other complaints or other suspicious activity in that area or any other area. But we continue to follow up on tips about that. So, well, I can`t say that community or the Barron County community in our northwest Wisconsin area here is in danger, we want people to stay vigilant and just continue to call in those tips and continue to help us bring Jamie home.", "Well, we`ll try to get them there. Because often times it is just a tweak of information that they haven`t heard before, that may just bring them to think of something they hadn`t thought of before. In that vein, can you tell me about the cell phone that launched that 911 call? What do you know about that cellphone aka who owns it? Where is it and has it yielded any further information?", "Well, I can tell you, we have the cell phone. We know whose cell phone it is. It came from inside the house. The call came from inside the house. No one was on the line, and I called that call different in nature or odd, because when a 911 call is taken. 911 what`s your emergency. And somebody says I need help at whatever address. There was no address given, there was no somebody asking, or giving a specific instructions or reasons of what`s going on. We just heard what we believed to be a commotion. Again, that is why I brought in agencies like the department of investigation for Wisconsin, and you know, using resources by Wisconsin Attorney General and our FBI friends and partners, because they are the experts in breaking down 911 tapes, looking at our phone phones and taking care of all the evidence in that manner. That is being done 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to try to give us more information that we can give to the public so we can bring Jamie home.", "So, I`m going to read a little into what you just said. And as I understand it sir, correct me if I am wrong, you have somewhere in the vicinity of 200 law enforcement officers on the ground who have come in from surrounding areas, nationally as well, to try to help you crack this case. And you just mentioned, they are experts in breaking down 911 calls as well as phones. Does that mean that you are trying to access this phone, but have not accessed it yet? And it`s going to be a two part question. Are you into the phone? And is it Jamie`s phone.", "Again, I will not interfere with the investigation. And a digital analysis -- the audio we`re looking at doing, and we`re continuing to look at that information. We have all the pieces of evidence that we need from inside the home, or we believe we have, again as we analyze stuff, we continue to go back and maybe look for something else or a different piece of the puzzle here, that is again when a tip comes in, we can use the evidence collected to go back and look at something or something that we didn`t think was significant at the time. Based on a tip we can go back in and look at that digital analysis of that evidence.", "Can I ask you this Sheriff, where you able to find the phones that belong to Jamie`s parents, James and Denise?", "We have all the evidence that I feel is necessary. It was collected by our investigation team.", "Ok. So often times when a young person goes missing, the digital trail is almost like a popcorn trail, which leads me to the question about Jamie`s social media. 13-year-old girls are almost always on their phones or on some form of social media, I`m guessing, and I think it`s a good guess. You have been blanketing that angle. Have you found any information from her social media? Is it possible she has a phone with her?", "I do not know the answer to the second part of the question, if she had the phone with her. I can tell you that we are looking at the social media platform. Again, that is why our partners in the FBI are so key in this, because they have the experts for smaller agencies like mine in a county of 44,000 people. I depend on our friends and our partners in the FBI and our DCI agency to help us with that, and that is why they -- I asked them to come in and help me on that. And then when we find the tip through some of the social media platforms.", "Is it helping, sir. Have you found anything throughout her social media that has led you somewhere?", "We continue to follow up on all the information in her social media. And again, if there was something credible that the public could help us with, we will release that one. And when it`s appropriate.", "Forgive me for pressing. I know you`re short on time. I am just going to go there, we cover too many stories of sexual offenders who reach out via social media to young 13 year-old girls, boys, anybody. And then show up. Have you been able to track whether that is a possibility in this case? As we show the registered sex offenders just in the immediate vicinity of her home?", "We look at everybody on this, we don`t key on any one type of offender, and across the nation. We`re looking at everyone or anybody --", "Has her social media shown that there may have been someone communicating with her, who may have shown up?", "We`re exploring multiple theories on that, at this time I don`t know of any that have been reported to me, but again with, having 200 plus people on the ground, I have not been alerted to anything significant, we need to get out to the media. Again, I would not hamper the investigation to you know, answer your question or anybody`s question for that fact. And I appreciate the respect you`re giving me for not answering some of these and I am respecting to answers the questions you`re giving. But again, we just can`t answer some of those questions, because it`s an ongoing investigation. And our goal is to bring Jamie home.", "I completely respect that and our goal is as well. To inform the public as well and not impede what you are doing, because as god works, my friend and I really wish you luck and I hope you`ll come back tomorrow and update us and tell us how you are doing. In the meantime, comb those files and see if there`s something else that you can provide to us. Like you said, the smallest it can tweet someone`s thoughts or someone`s memories. That could provide a lifesaving phone call to you. Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald, joining us from Barron Wisconsin. Athena Jones, just back to you. Obviously, the questions about this 13-year-old girl. I went there with the notion that we cover these stories about predators who just leech themselves through the phone lines and the computer lines to get into these kid`s lives. I don`t know that that is the case here. I don`t know this little girl, do you know anything about her life?", "We know a little bit about her, of course, she is 13 years old, she is only 5 feet tall, and she weighs 100 pounds. She has green eyes, Blonde hair or strawberry blonde hair. And by all accounts, she was a sweet girl. The sheriff describes her as a sweet girl, a shy girl, who enjoys dancing and sports. We know she ran cross country in school. Her school district superintendent called her a loyal friend. And here`s another glimpse into what kind of person she was. We learned that recently she had a school assignment and she was asked, what would you do, if you were given a million dollars? And she answer, her answer is that she would feed the hungry and give the rest to the poor.", "That is what this little 13-year-old girl said? I want to talk about her in present tense, because she is present tense. I know this is the person that we`ve learned before missing. She is without question, she is still there, god, I hope she is still there and they will find her. Athena, thank you for your reporting. I still have a lot more questions about this, though, I have to be honest. When you have a case like this, who could better provide clues than the people closest to the victims. You cannot get much closer than the next door neighbors. What did they see? More importantly, what did they hear just after midnight screeching through the dark? You are going to hear from one of them next.", "We`re still talking about the nationwide search for missing 13 year-old girl Jaime Closs was last seen Sunday afternoon at some kind of a family gathering. But just a few hours later, something terrifying happened at the Closs house. The police were called to the scene by a person who would not speak to the 911 operator. Or maybe could not speak to that operator. Because when the police got to the house they found Jaime`s parents dead, and Jaime was nowhere to be seen. Joan Smrekar is James and Denise Closs` neighbor. He joins me now from Barron, Wisconsin. Joan, thank you for being with us tonight. And I`m so sorry we`re speaking under these very upsetting circumstances. Can you tell me what it was you heard just after midnight the night that Jamie went missing?", "We had come home about 11:30. We went to bed about quarter after 12:00. We were not sleeping and we heard the first shot and just a couple seconds is the second shot. And I asked my husband, I said, were those gunshots? Because they were so loud? And he said, yes, and he said, it`s a big gun and I rolled over and looked at the time on my clock, and it said 12:38. My clock is off by seven minutes per the Sheriff`s department, so this happened roughly around 12:30.", "And you said you heard those two shots and by your best recollection, those shots were a couple of seconds, like two, three, four seconds in between?", "It was just bang and bang. That close together.", "Did you hear any other shots after that? Or was that it?", "That was all we heard. We have people that hunt in the woods around us, and we hear gunfire out here off and on, people like in a rifle, whatever, but this was so totally loud that it -- you couldn`t help, but have a feeling about it, because it was just so loud.", "Can I ask you Joan --", "It was a lot closer than usual, that we would hear something at that time of night.", "Even though this is fairly rural, you are right next door, correct?", "Right.", "Yes. Can I ask you, just prior to hearing those two shots, as you said, a couple seconds apart, would you have been in a position to hear any other shots before or after? Was there anything noisy that you may have missed?", "When we came home, we noticed nothing different in the neighborhood. And there was nothing prior to that. No noise, no nothing. And when that happened, it was so overpowering, the noise, we did not hear anything else. There was no -- we hear the shots, like I said, from the woods, and they`re not anything near the sound of this gun.", "Can I ask you about the Closs family? I mean, this is just such a horror that is been visited on them. I think most people are wondering, what were they like?", "They were very quiet people. We only saw them come and go from their home. We took mail up to them that got delivered to us, and they didn`t even want to come to the door. They were just quiet, preferred I guess to be alone. You didn`t see them out in the yard doing anything. At least we didn`t.", "Did you ever see Jaime with any friends? Or did she ever come and go and get picked up by friends in vehicles of any kind?", "That I can`t tell you, I just know that the school bus dropped her off?", "And you would see her dropped off daily in front of the house by the school bus?", "Yes.", "But other than that, you didn`t see collections of friends coming and going from that house?", "No. We didn`t even know they had any children. They just weren`t out there doing things.", "That is remarkable. And that night, I guess it goes without saying you didn`t hear any vehicles coming or going, especially right around the time of the gunshots?", "No, and I don`t sleep well at night and I was about at the boat. 1:00 --ish and our dog was on the porch and he was doing some light noises and I knew something was up. But I could not see anything anywhere that looked or felt out of line. And I told the FBI people that have been here a couple times. I said, you know, from now on, if I hear something that doesn`t sound appropriate for that time of night. I`m going to call in immediately, because we just thought it was maybe a neighbor chasing a bear out of their yard, you know.", "Well, Joan, don`t think anything otherwise, because I`ve lived in a rural area for a long time, and there are just many sounds that you wouldn`t think twice about. Thank you for being on with us, and thank you for helping us sort through these very difficult details. I want to bring in Karen Smith if I can. She is a retired detective with the Jacksonville Sheriff`s Office and a forensic specialist. So, Karen, I`m going to ask our control room to roll some of those pictures we saw in the first block of the investigators carting away what looked like the front door. Part of the front door. At least one of the interior doors. Glass in color, it looks like it is maybe been dusted for prints. I am not sure but it looks a little bit opaque and then what might be a dining room chair -- wooden dining room chair. It looks as though there may be ties on the back of it. That could have been a cushion tied to it. Walk me through what you think investigators were doing, given what the sheriff was telling us earlier?", "I am looking at these photos, Ashleigh and there are a couple things that are catching my eye. I don`t know what that is on the glass door. I can`t tell if its gunshots and I can`t tell if it`s in prior process or maybe stickers or something that is on it. It`s really hard to tell, but I can tell you a couple things that they`re doing. They`re being very careful not to touch the glass as you can see that. They are not cross contaminating, they are tie back. They are taking it to a place that is safe and secure, so they can process it for the evidence. They`re going to look for latent prints, they are going to look for DNA. Touch DNA and swipe Marks. The door handle, any handprints that are on that glass. You know, crime scenes are not the easiest place to process evidence. The lighting`s not great, you have a lot of items around you, if you take that item to a safe and secure location. It`s a little bit easier to be more meticulous with it, and get the evidence off of it. Now, if you just roll back here for a second and say, if those are bullet holes through that glass, I`m not sure, because I`m not sure that glass would be laminated. That would be two pieces of glass pressed to a laminate and it would prevent that glass from shattering. If that`s the case like a car windshield, they can sequence those bullet holes. There are radial cracks that come from bullet holes, and you can sequence based upon where one radial crack terminates at the point of prior gunshot. So, that`s a little bit tedious work. I don`t know if they would necessarily do that.", "Can I ask you this? Since we were just listening to", "Right. I mean, what send chills down my spine was the fact that she said it was so loud. That tells me it`s a high caliber gun. I don`t know if we`re dealing with a rifle. I don`t know if we`re dealing with a handgun. I have no idea. And at this point with two gunshots, whether those were outside the house, fired in toward the house through the door or through an open door, or what she heard was actually inside the house and it was so loud that it disturbed her at a neighboring home, I just don`t know whether it would be muffled and she may not have heard additional gunshots.", "Yeah.", "These are all questions that we`re just going to have to wait for.", "I think what we know at this point was that those parents were killed inside the house and at that point they think that she might have been there. They think she might have been in the background noise. Jayme might have been in the background noise. There`s the information in the tip line, 855-744-3879. It`s the tip line. You can from anywhere, 1-855-744-3879. There are the specs on Jayme. She`s little. She`s just 13, 5`0\" feet, 100 pounds, green eyes, blonde hair. If you know anything, call the police. A young woman is sexually assaulted at a fraternity party. The suspect has offered a sweetheart plea deal. And of course that poor young woman is face down outside. And I think you know who I`m talking about, right? And I think you`re going to have to think again. Because this time it happened in Texas. The suspect, Jacob Anderson. Good looking young kid. President of his fraternity. And instead of serving minimal jail time, he`s poised to serve none.", "This story might just sound familiar to you. A young man partying at a frat house, meets a girl, girl isn`t feeling great just after someone offers her a drink. Boy takes girl outside, and that`s where girl says she`s sexually assaulted before being left alone, passed out, face down in the dirt in a pile of vomit. Boy then charged with sexual assault. Girl finds the bravery to share her story but boy gets a sweetheart of a pass by the justice system. That`s really familiar. If the boy in this story sounds like Brock Turner from Stanford University, the dumpster sex assault story, it should sound familiar, because Brock Turner, that former swimmer, was sentenced to just six months after he was caught violating an unconscious girl next to a dumpster outside a college party. But tonight, it is my deep regret, ladies and gentlemen, to introduce you to a man who might just end up being Brock Turner 2.0. Because an eerily similar case is unraveling in Texas. Twenty-three-year-old Jacob Anderson stands accused of meeting a girl at his frat house. The frat where he used to be president, and taking her outside to get some air. That`s where she says he raped her.", "Facts, they`re incredible. He nearly choked her to death. He raped her violently. He left her passed out in her own vomit. The rape exam confirmed rape.", "Jacob Anderson was expelled from Baylor and his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, well, that was suspended. And folks, that might just be the end of it and the very worst of it, because even though he was no sweetheart to this girl, he`s been offered a sweetheart deal, one that requires no jail time at all. I want to bring in the Jeff Boney. He is the associate editor for \"The Houston Forward Times.\" What am I missing, Jeff? This doesn`t make sense.", "Ashleigh, unlike the Bill Cosby high profile case that went to trial, Jacob Walter Anderson, who got indicted on four accounts of sexual assault back in 2016 after allegedly assaulting this female victim at a frat party, got this sweetheart plea deal including no jail time, doesn`t have to register as a sex offender, and so he pleaded no contest to a lesser charge of unlawful restraint. And under the prosecutor`s deal, they worked this deal -- he would only be sentenced to three years of deferred adjudication probation, meaning that the four counts of sexual assault would completely be dismissed as if it never happened. If he satisfies probation terms, he would also pay a $400 fine and seek counseling.", "So four counts of sex assault go away in favor of one count unlawful restraint, which sounds like what I do to my son near the cookie jar. This is just astounding, especially when you hear the victim`s attorney explaining that this wasn`t just messy sex gone wrong. This was violent, according to this victim. This was ferocious. She was left unconscious face down in a pile of her own vomit in the dirt, all after --", "Absolutely.", "-- receiving one drink from someone else. I want to bring in Randy Kessler, if I can. As a defense attorney, I want you to sort through this with me.", "Yeah.", "I want you to hear what Vic Feazell says. This is the victim`s attorney. This is what he has to say about this. Have a look.", "I just found it unbelievable, because this county has a reputation for being tough on sexual assault. All the former football players were prosecuted. Let it be a rich kid from Dallas, who`s president of a fraternity, and suddenly it`s slipped differently.", "So there is where it gets crazy. Baylor University was in the headlines for years because of the football team and its sexcapade. And, you know, even Ken Starr of Clinton thing (ph) as president had to step down amid the sex scandal. It did result in charges and prison sentences for some of those players. And now this. What do you make of this?", "So, you know, the easy thing to believe is, there`s some conspiracy. Rich people get off easy. Rich people are connected. They got some dirt on the other side. But, that`s the easy way to think about it. We don`t know all the facts. They didn`t feel like they could prosecute and get a full conviction or they would have prosecuted. And the defense must have felt pretty darn good about the ability to go to trial and get off to be able to push this kind of plea. That has to be the case.", "Well, what doesn`t make sense is what the victim`s family has said in a statement. By the way, we invited them on and they didn`t want to be on. She wants to remain anonymous. I think she is being called Donna Doe (ph). But this is what the victim`s family said about the process and about working with the D.A. in this. The victim was told there was an enormous amount of evidence and a conviction was almost sure. And now two and a half years after living through hell, having the trial delayed a week before it was to occur and then never rescheduled, the D.A. has decidd not to bother even trying to get justice. What does this mean? An enormous amount of evidence and a conviction was almost sure. How do you get from that to let`s maybe do away with four sex assault charges?", "Maybe they shouldn`t have said that. Civil war, criminal war, we all hear a case. The first time you hear the case, you think, that is a great case. You got all the facts. There`s always another side. And as you dig and you learn, cases are never as strong. This one apparently was not nearly as close and maybe they shouldn`t have raised the expectations that high. Maybe that was the dilemma or the fault. But they did it and they`ve got some explaining to do.", "OK. I want to bring in Shari Karney. She is a survivor rights attorney and the founder of Roar As One. That`s the group that fights for the civil rights of survivors. I know what you`re going to say. I feel the same way. I don`t even -- honestly, I don`t even know what to ask you. I just feel like we`ve been down this road too many times to be interviewing about this again.", "Ashleigh, first of all, thank you for having me. And secondly, here`s what this says to me. Rape is no longer a crime in Texas and it`s no longer a crime in the United States. We have a Supreme Court justice who was accused of sexual assault who was confirmed. We have a president of the United States who was accused by 17 women of sexual assault, he is the president of the United States. We have white males of power and privilege being let go, let off for sexual assault, sexual abuse. We tell survivors, report, speak your truth, speak up, and then the legal system doesn`t do anything about it. So that`s why I have formed this nonprofit called Roar As One to make sexual assault a civil right. That means that if the local authorities don`t take action, then the U.S. attorney and the attorney general could step in. Because honestly, Ashleigh, we have heard the story. We tell women and men speak up. Tell us your truth, report Title IX.", "-- on you Kevlar (ph) because even if you`re Dr. Ford and you`re brilliant and you`re believable and you`re humble and there is really nothing wrong with your story other than you don`t remember stuff when you`re 15. I don`t remember standing in line for my graduation, by the way. Big deal for me, but I don`t remember standing in line when I was 17 for my graduation. I must be an idiot.", "Exactly.", "What I`m saying is that when you have two equal people and one`s a lady and one`s a dude, apparently she`s mistaken. Just automatic. She`s mistaken.", "I just think --", "I got to go to break, but I want you to stick around. Can you stick around until after the break?", "Sure.", "When we come back after the break, there`s one more voice that has to weigh-in on this story, before everything just goes the way of Brock Turner, and that is the judge, because the judge in the case against Jacob Anderson can still make a decision. The judge can still say yes or no to the sweetheart deal. Talk about that, next.", "Why would a kid get a sweetheart deal in a sex assault case when the victim was told by the prosecutors at one point it looked like this was almost surely a conviction and that there was an enormous amount of evidence? Well, the prosecutor is telling us something different. And here in a statement they say, the McLennan County D.A.`s office is known throughout the state for our aggressive prosecution of sexual assault cases, to say otherwise is simply absurd. Let us remind everyone that our oath is to seek justice. This office stands by the plea offered and believes we have achieved the best result possible with the evidence at hand. Randy Kessler, that`s what the D.A. says, but ultimately the judge is the one who`s going to have to step in --", "Right.", "-- and actually decide if this plea deal is fair or they go back to the drawing table and actually go to trial on those four counts. The judge in this case is the 19th state district judge in Texas, Ralph Strother. Ralph Strother. We have seen judges go down for this. In the Stanford rape case, what happened was disastrous. The judge in that case is gone.", "The judge shouldn`t be persuaded by the press or by the public reports. This was not a conviction. This guy is getting this deal because there`s some sort of compromise. The judge can say, I don`t like it, go to trial.", "It`s judicial discretion that this judge needs to use and know they shouldn`t be persuaded by pitchforks outside --", "That`s right.", "-- but they do represent the people who elect them.", "But so does the prosecution. The judge has to have a lot of respect for this prosecutor`s office. If this judge thinks this prosecutor made this deal because --", "Why is it just a rubber stamp?", "Because it got publicity and because they said at the beginning it is such an easy case.", "Because the judge has judicial discretion.", "Right. So the judge can listen to what the pundits and what everyone else is saying, the victim is saying, or the judge can say, this prosecutor`s office is known to prosecute harshly and if they thought they have a good case, they would prosecute it, they would not have offered this deal.", "But if the prosecutors told the victim they had enormous amounts of evidence, it would almost surely result in a conviction, doesn`t that count?", "It does but but now in that statement you just read, they`re basically saying, we made a mistake. Based on the evidence at hand, we think this is the best deal we can get.", "I can tell you this. Donna Doe (ph) and her family are devastated over this.", "I understand.", "And it feels as though they weren`t even a part of the process, and that is horse you know what.", "That part of it I agree with you.", "Devastating. Randy, thank you for that. And my thanks also to Shari Karney and Jeffrey Boney for their input into this repetitive, disturbing theme story. Two Ohio teenagers stopped by a police officer because they were flashing a gun.", "I could have killed you. I want you to think about that tonight when you go to bed. You could be gone.", "How that cop`s cool head and tough talk diffused what could have been a nightmare confrontation, and parents, if you have teenagers, you need to see this next.", "In Ohio, body cam video shows the startling moment a Columbus, Ohio police officer confronts two teenaged boys with his service weapon drawn.", "Here`s the thing. Are you scared?", "Yes, sir.", "OK. You know why you should be scared? This is getting kids killed all over the country.", "Officer Peter Casuccio approached those teenagers after getting a call about a boy flashing a gun. And as he approached, one of the teens tossed that gun to the ground.", "That thing looks real, bro.", "I`m so sorry.", "You should be sorry and you should be scared.", "You see the gun leaving his hand and out the corner of my eye, you saw it bust into a million pieces once it hit the sidewalk. That`s when I realized it was a BB gun.", "You heard right, it was a BB gun that just looked like a real gun and it almost escalated into a deadly confrontation with some very real consequences.", "How old are you, boy?", "Eleven.", "How old are you, young man?", "Thirteen.", "Do you think I want to shoot 11-year-old? Do you think I want to shoot 13-year-old? I could have killed you. I want you to think about that tonight when you go to bed. You could be gone. Everything you want to do in this life could have been over.", "A great lesson for these kids. And a great lesson if you have kids. I tell my kids all the time, don`t go flashing anything that looks like a weapon outside, because you are no match for the real thing, and the real thing comes out when officers are scared. Thank you for watching, everybody. The next hour of \"Crime & Justice\" starts right now.", "Everyone`s feeling very helpless right now.", "I`ll be honest, you know, I`m struggling with this.", "Tonight, a 13-year-old girl is believed to be in danger.", "Jayme is a sweet quiet girl, who is a loyal friend and loves to dance.", "She vanished from home two days ago.", "I haven`t seen anything like this in rural Western Wisconsin. We don`t see this.", "Disappearing from the same home where her parents were soon found dead.", "Really -- really frightening.", "But police say she`s not a suspect.", "I`m telling you Jayme is missing and endangered.", "So who killed the Closs parents and why?", "there was a disturbance going on.", "Who called police from the house without saying anything to the dispatcher?", "I don`t know that -- I don`t know if the word help was said.", "And where is young Jayme tonight?", "Every second counts in this case.", "From frat president to alleged attacker.", "I found it unbelievable.", "He`s accused of raping a fellow student after a party.", "Facts are incredible. He nearly choked her to death. He raped her violently. He left her passed out in her own vomit.", "So could he totally avoid jail?", "Let it be a rich kid from Dallas and suddenly --", "And does this sound like a story you`ve heard before? Good evening, everyone. I`m Ashleigh Banfield. This is Crime and Justice. And tonight, the hunt is on for a missing 13-year-old girl, believed to be in danger tonight. She vanished early Monday morning as gunshots rang throughout her house while the country is banding together to keep their eyes open for this face. Jayme`s Closs` parents are not able to join in that search because they were found dead in that home that same morning their daughter went missing. That same morning those haunting gunshots rang out. It is also the same morning a mysterious phone call came into 911 from somewhere inside that home. But no one responded to the dispatcher. Police say there were sounds of a disturbance somewhere in the background. And they believe that Jayme was there. But she was gone by the time the police arrived.", "We don`t know where she`s gone. But we have her entered as missing and endangered.", "I`ll be honest. I`m struggling with this. I haven`t seen anything like this, in rural Western Wisconsin. We just don`t see this.", "With me now CNN Correspondent Athena Jones, also trial Attorney Randy Kessler, and retired detective Karen Smith. Also on the phone with us Tonight, Barron county sheriff Chris Fitzgerald. Athena Jones, I`m going to begin with you just to report out this story. It just doesn`t sound believable.", "It`s remarkable and frightening. We know that Jayme Closs attended a family gathering on Sunday. They don`t believe she ran away. They believe she is in danger. And then know that this 911 call came in just before 1:00 a.m. on Monday morning. As you mentioned no one talked to the dispatcher. But hey could hear sounds in the background. We know they brought in the FBI and other experts to try to analyze that call --", "they know the call came from inside the house.", "They know the call came from inside the house. In fact we believe it came from a cell phone inside the house. But they`re not saying who the call came from. We believe they know who that is. But they`re not sharing that information. There`s a lot of information they`re not sharing that they don`t want to share with the public because of the investigation.", "And that`s something that always surprises me because an Amber Alert went out for Jayme Closs. And that`s usually a case whereby every piece of information, every shred that you can dig out of every corner and crevice is given to the public. But there are things being held back.", "That`s right. It`s interesting because usually with an Amber Alert, they have more information on the suspect or the vehicle. Certainly they know who the victim is. the potential victim here, the abduction victim. But this is interesting the things they are keeping back. They would not for instance comment on whether there was any sort of sign of forced entry. They probably know the answer to that but they`re not sharing it with the public because this is part of the investigation.", "They may say that, but at the same time, reporters see with their own eyes, that detectives and investigators are carting away the door to the home, right?", "Right. It`s interesting. We saw this press conference ended a short while ago. there`re some questions, it`s clear they know the answers to but just hey don`t want to share it. We heard the sheriff --", "I mean look at these pictures. This is the kind of thing you see -- they`re taking away a dining room chair. They`re cloaked top to bottom in the Kevlar or those suits, the investigative suits. They`re gloved. They`re booted. This is the door. I don`t know if it`s the front or the back. It`s hard to believe there isn`t some sort of forced entry when they`re going to investigate this door.", "Right, and they talk about this disturbance. That`s what could be heard on this 911 call. So those items they`re removing from the house may have something to do with that disturbance, with the noises they say. They heard the noises that they say that they`re analyzing. One thing we did just learn is authorities were able to get on to the scene within four minutes of the end of that 911 call. So that would have been just after 1:00 a.m on Monday morning.", "Four minutes?", "So very,very quickly.", "Four minutes?", "That is when they found Jayme Closs` parents Denise and James dead with a gunshot wound.", "And no sign of this 13-year-old girl Jayme. Let me bring in the Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald of Baron County Sheriff`s Department. Sheriff can you hear me okay?", "I can.", "Sir, I am confounded. i think like everyone else who has heard about this story, and I`m hoping that you are not as confounded as me. Is there a lot that you know that we don`t know?", "Well, I mean, yes but think there`s parts of it are an active part of an investigation that we don`t want to put out yet. But I don`t have any good, you know, concrete information that we`re asking for the public`s help on. And I think that`s what`s key in this. Yes, we know a few more things and we`re able to release some stuff a short while ago as you talked about, about the gunshots and the manner of death and things like that. But there is a lot of parts of this case that we`re still actively working and looking for signs. I don`t know where Jayme is, and I want to bring her home safe. And that`s been the focus of our investigation.", "So Sheriff obviously you have two massive crimes you`re dealing with here, the murders of her parents and the disappearance of Jayme. Let me just start with the first investigation and that is the murders of these two people. You mentioned in the press conference a few short moments ago, they indeed died from gunshot wounds. Was it execution style?", "I can`t comment on that and I actually don`t know the answer to that question. We`re not going to discuss the manner, except that they died from gunshot wounds and that`s all we released on that, really it`s a double homicide now. So you`re we are investigating two separate crimes, a double homicide and a missing child. So we continue to work both leads on that", "And what about the disturbance inside the home. We`ve been looking at these pictures of investigators bringing out a chair, looking like they`re carting away the front door to the home. What did the inside of the home look like?", "And again, I can`t comment a lot on that, but there was an active crime scene. that`s why remove evidence to take to the Wisconsin crime lab to look for DNA, to look for fingerprints, any other piece of evidence, gunshot residue. Things like that is what we`re collecting at a scene like this. I mean this scene or any other scene that you`ve talked about on your show.", "Can you tell me if there were more than two shots fired. Meaning, was each of the victims killed with a single bullet. The neighbor only heard two gunshots.", "I can`t comment on that. And we`re still following up on tips like that neighbor tip, that`s why we asked people to continue to call in their tips. And, you know, we don`t know where Jayme is, and that`s why we`re on shows like yours, we don`t know where Jayme is, we don`t know if she`s in Baron County or somewhere, you know, in the United States. So we ask people to keep calling in tips, no matter how little or insignificant they think it is. It could be a bigger piece of the puzzle here.", "So I am with you. That`s a lot of the reason we do this show. There are unsolved crimes every single night that we pursue on this program and it is for that reason I`m going to continue to press you. You`re not going to like it, but at the same time it`s an advantage to you to keep this story on the air as a lead story as well. And so for that -- with that preface Can you tell me if you think this is a targeted attack or is it random?", "I wish I knew the answer to that question because that would clear up some more things. And I agree. I want to keep this the lead story. And I don`t mind your questions. And also with respect that we`re not going to interfere with the investigation or put something in someone`s mind that they call in tips or don`t call in tips because of information we give. But that is the key question we continue to work on every day. Talk about at our daily briefings and are part of, so you`re exactly right. That is the question we are looking at every day. I don`t know the answer to that question yet.", "Can you tell me this? There were neighbors that said they heard two shots, and if you are a neighbor, anywhere near this home, clearly you are living in fear. Do they have reason to live in fear? Do they have reason to live in fear? Is anyone else in that vicinity in direct danger right now?", "Yes, again, I don`t know the answer to that question, but I can comment on the fact that I don`t -- we`ve received no other threats, no other complaints or no other suspicious activity in that area or any other area, But we continue to follow up on tips about that. So while I can`t say that community or the Baron County Community in our Northwest Wisconsin area here is in danger. We want people to stay vigilant and continue to call in those tips and continue to help us bring Jayme home.", "We`ll try to get them there because iften times it is a tweak of information that they haven`t heard before, to make them think of something they hadn`t thought of before. And In that vein, can you tell me about the cell phone that launched that 911 call? What do you know know about that cell phone? AKA, who owns it? Where is it? And has it yielded any further information?", "Well can tell you we have the cell phone. We know whose cell phone it is. It came from inside the house. The call came from inside the house. No one was on the line, and I called that call different in nature or odd, because when a 911 call is taken. 911 what`s your emergency and then somebody says I need help at whatever address. There was no address given. There was no somebody asking, or giving specific instructions or reasons of what`s going on. We just heard what we believed to be a commotion. Again that`s why I brought in agencies like the Department of Investigation for Wisconsin, and using resources by Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel and our FBI friends and partners because they are the experts in breaking down 911 tapes, looking at our phones and taking care of all the evidence in that manner. That`s being done 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to try to give us more information to give to the public so we can bring Jayme home.", "I`m going to read a little into what you just said. and as I understand it, sir, and correct me if I`m wrong, you have somewhere in the vicinity of 200 law enforcement officers on the ground who have come in from surrounding areas, nationally as well, to try to help you crack this case. And you just mentioned, they are experts in breaking down 911 calls as well as phones. Does that mean that you are trying to access this phone but have not accessed it yet? And it`s going to be a two part question. Are you into the phone? And is it Jayme`s phone.", "We`ll not interfere with the investigation. And a digital analysis is the audio we`re looking at doing, and we`re continuing to look at that information. We have all the pieces of evidence that we need from inside the home, or we believe again as we analyze stuff, we continue to go back and maybe look for something else or a different piece of the puzzle here. And that`s again when a tip comes in, we can use the evidence collected to, you know, go back and look at something or something that we didn`t think was significant at the time. But based on a tip we can go back in and look at that digital analysis of that evidence.", "Can I ask you this? Were you able to find the phones that belonged to Jayme`s parents, James and Denise?", "we have all the evidence that I feel is necessary and was collected by our investigation team.", "OK. So often times when a young person goes missing, the digital trail is almost like a popcorn trail, which leads me to the question about Jayme`s social media. 13-year-old girls are almost always on their phones or some form of social media, I`m guessing. And I think it`s a good guess. You have been blanketing that angle. Have you found any information from her social media? Is it possible she has a phone with her?", "I do not know the answer to your second part of the question about if she has a phone with her. I can tell you that we are looking at the social media platform. Again that`s why our partners in the FBI are so key in this because they have the experts for a smaller agency like mine, in a county of 44,000 people. I depend on our friends and partners in the FBI and our DCI agency to help us with that, and that`s why they -- I asked them to come in and help me on that. When we find the tip through some of the social media platforms --", "Is that helping? Is it helping, sir. Have you found anything throughout her social media that`s led you somewhere?", "We continue to follow up on all the information in her social media. And again, if there was something credible that the public could help us with, we the release that one and when it`s appropriate.", "And forgive me for pressing, and I know you`re short on time, but I`m going to go there. We cover too many stories of sexual offenders who reach out via social media to young 13-year-old girls, boys, anybody. And then show up. Have you been able to track whether that`s a possibility in this case? As we show the registered sex offenders just in the immediate vicinity of her home?", "We look at everybody on this. We don`t key on any one type of offender, and across the nation. We`re looking at everyone or anybody --", "Has her social media shown there may have been someone communicating with her who may have shown up?", "We`re exploring multiple theories on that. At this time I don`t know of any that have been reported to me. But again with, having, you know, 200 plus people on the ground, I have not been alerted to anything significant where we need to get out to the media. But again I would not hamper the investigation to, you know, answer your question or anyone`s question for that fact. And I appreciate the respect you`re giving me for not answering some of these. And I`m respect the answers -- your questions you`re giving. But again we can`t answer some of those questions, because it`s an on going investigation. And our goal is to bring Jayme home.", "I completely respect that. And our goal is as well to inform the public as well, and not impede what you`re doing because that`s God`s work, my friend. And I really wish you luck and I hope you`ll come back tomorrow and update us and tell us how you`re doing. In the meantime, comb those files and see if there`s something else you can provide to us because like you said, the smallest thought can tweak someone`s thoughts, someone`s memories. And that could provide a life saving phone call to you. Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald joining us from Baron Wisconsin. Athena Jones just back to you obviously, the questions are myriad about this 13-year-old girl, I went there with the notion that we cover these stories about predators who just leech themselves through the phone lines and the computer lines to get into these kids lives. I don`t know that that`s the case here. I don`t know this little girl, do you know anything about her life?", "We know a little bit about her. Of course she`s 13 years old. He`s only five feet tall. She weighs 100 pounds. She had green eyes, blonde hair or strawberry blonde hair. And by all accounts she was a sweet girl. The sheriff described her as a sweet girl, a shy girl who enjoys dancing and sports. We know she ran cross country in school. Her school district superintendent called her a loyal friend. And here`s another glimpse into what kind of person she was. We learned that recently she had a school assignment and she was asked what would you do if you were given a million dollars? And she answered -- her answer is that she would feed the hungry and give the rest to the poor.", "That`s what this little 13-year-old girl said. And you know I want to talk about her in present tense, because she is present tense. I know this is the person we`ve learned is missing. But she is without question, she`s still there, God, I hope she`s still there and they will find her. Athena, thank you for your reporting. I still have a lot more questions about this, though, I got to be honest because hen you have a case like this, who could provide clues than those closest to the victims. You cannot get much closer than the next door neighbors. What did they see? More importantly, what did they hear just after midnight screeching through the dark? You`ll hear from one of them next.", "We`re still talking about the nationwide search for a missing 13 year old girl, Jayme Closs was last seen Sunday afternoon at some kind of a family gathering. Just a few hours later, something terrifying happened at the Closs house. Police were called to the scene by a person who would not speak to the 911 operator or maybe could not speak to that operator because when the police got to the house they found Jayme`s parents dead, and Jayme was nowhere to be seen. Joan Smrekar is James and Denise`s neighbor. She joins me now from Baron Wisconsin. Joan thank you for being with us tonight. And I`m so sorry we`re speaking under these very upsetting circumstances. Can you tell me what it was you heard just after midnight the night that jayme went missing?", "We had come home about 11:30. We went to bed about quarter after 12:00. We were not sleeping, and we heard the first shot followed just a couple seconds by the second shot. And I asked my husband, were those gunshots? Because they were so loud? And he said, yes, and he said, it`s a big gun and I rolled over and looked at the time on my clock, it said 12:38. My clock is off by seven minutes per the Sheriff`s Department, so this happened roughly around 12:30.", "And you said you heard those two shots and by your best recollection, those shots were a couple seconds, like two, three, four seconds in between?", "It was just bang and bang. That close together.", "Did you hear any other shots after that? Or was that it?", "that was all we heard. But, you know, we have people that hunt in the woods around us, and we hear gunfire out here often on people sighting in their riffles or whatever. But this was so totally loud that it -- you couldn`t help but have a feeling about it, because it was just so loud.", "Can I ask you Joan --", "And it was a lot closer than usual than we would hear something at that time of night.", "Because even though this is fairly rural, you are right next door, correct?", "Right.", "Yes. Can I ask you, just prior to hearing those two shots, as you said, a couple seconds apart, would you have been in a position to hear any other shots before or after for instance. Was there anything noisy you may have missed ?", "No. When we came home, we noticed nothing different in the neighborhood. And there was nothing prior to that. No noise, no nothing and when that happened, it was so overpowering, the noise, we did not hear anything else. There was no -- we hear the shots, like I said, from the woods, and they`re not anything near the sound of this gun.", "Can I ask you about the Closs` family? I mean, this is just such a horror that`s been visited on them. I think most people are wondering what were they like?", "They were very quiet people. We only saw them come and go from their home. We took mail up to them that got delivered to us, and they didn`t even want to come to the door. They were just quiet, preferred I guess to be alone. You didn`t see them out in the yard doing anything at least we didn`t.", "Did you ever see Jayme with any friends or did she ever come and go and get picked up by friends in vehicles of any kind?", "That I can`t tell you, I just know the school bus dropped her often?", "And you see her dropped off daily in front of the house by the school bus?", "Yes.", "But other than that, you didn`t see collections of friends coming and going?", "no, no. We didn`t even know they had any children. That`s how -- they weren`t out there doing things.", "That`s remarkable. And that night it goes without saying, you didn`t see or hear any vehicles coming or going, especially around the time of the gunshots?", "No, and I don`t sleep well at night. And I was up about 1:00 o`clock-ish, and our dog was on the porch. And he was doing some light trumping noises. And I knew something was up. I couldn`t see anything anywhere that looked or felt out of line. And I told the FBI people that have been here a couple times. I said, you know, from now on, if I hear something that doesn`t sound appropriate for that time of night. I`m going to call in immediately, because we just thought it was maybe a neighbor chasing a bear out of their yard.", "Well, Joan, don`t think anything otherwise, because I`ve lived in a rural area for a long time, and there are just many sounds that you wouldn`t think twice about. Thank you for being on with us, and thank you for helping us sort through these difficult details. i want to bring in Karen Smith if I can. She`s a retired detective with the Jacksonville Sheriff`s Office and a forensic specialist. So Karen I`m going to ask our control room to roll some of those pictures we saw in the first block of the investigators carting away what looked like the front door, part of the front door or at least one of the maybe interior doors, glass and color it looks like it`s maybe been dusted for prints. It looks a little opaque. And what might be a dining room chair, a wooden dining room chair. It looks as though there may be ties on the back of it. That could have been a cushion tied to it. Walk me through what you think investigators were doing given what the sheriff was telling us earlier.", "I`m looking at these photos Ash and there`s a couple things that are catching my eye. I don`t know what that is on the glass door. I can`t tell if it`s gunshots. And I can`t tell if it`s been prior processed of if it`s maybe stickers or something that`s on it. It`s really hard to tell. But I can tell you a couple things they`re doing. They`re being very careful not to touch the glass. You can see that. They`re not cross contaminating it. They`re wearing", "So -- but can I ask you this, since we were just listening to Jones", "Right. I mean, what sent chills down my spine was the fact that she said it was so loud. That tells me it`s a high-caliber gun. I don`t know if we`re dealing with a rifle. I don`t know if we`re dealing with a handgun, I have no idea. And at this point, with two gunshots, whether those were outside the house fired in toward the house through the door or through an open door, or what she heard was actually inside the house, and it was so loud that it disturbed her at a neighboring home, I just don`t know. Whether it would be muffled and she may not have heard additional gunshots. These are all questions that we`re just going to have to wait for.", "I think, you know, -- I think what we know at this point was that those parents were killed inside the house. And at that -- at that point, they think that she might have been there, they think she might have been on in the background noise. Jayme might have been in the background noise. There is the information in the tip line: 855-744-3879. It`s a tip line, can you dial from anywhere. 1-855-744-3879. And there are the specs on Jayme. She`s little, she`s just 13, five feet, 100 pounds, green eyes, blonde hair. If you know anything, call the police. A young woman is sexually assaulted at a fraternity party. The suspect has offered a sweetheart plea deal. And of course, that poor young woman is face down outside. And I think you know who I`m talking about, right? And I think you`re going to have to think again, because this time, it`s happened in Texas. The suspect, Jacob Anderson, good looking young kid, president of his fraternity. And instead of serving minimal jail time, he`s poised to serve none.", "This story might just sound familiar to you. A young man partying at a frat house, meets a girl, girl isn`t feeling great, just after someone offers her a drink. Boy takes girl outside, and that`s where girl says she`s sexually assaulted before being left alone, passed out, face down in the dirt in a pile of vomit. Boy is then charged with sexual assault. Girl finds the bravery to share her story, but boy gets a sweetheart of a pass by the justice system. That`s really familiar. If the boy in this story sounds like Brock Turner from Stanford University, the dumpster sex assault story, it should sound familiar because Brock Turner, that former swimmer was sentenced to just six months after he was caught violating an unconscious girl next to the dumpster outside a college party. But tonight, it is my deep regret, ladies and gentlemen, to introduce you to a man who might just end up being Brock Turner 2.0. Because an eerily similar case is unraveling in Texas. 23-year-old Jacob Anderson stands accused of meeting a girl at his frat house, the frat where he used to actually be President, and taking her outside to get some air. That`s where she says he raped her.", "Attacks that are incredible, he nearly choked her to death. He raped her violently. He left her passed out in her own vomit. The rape exam confirmed rape.", "Jacob Anderson was expelled from Baylor and his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, well, that was suspended. And folks, that might just be the end of it. And the very worst of it, because even though he was no sweetheart to this girl, he`s been offered a sweetheart deal, one that requires no jail time at all. I want to bring in Jeff Boney, he`s the associate editor for the Houston Forward Times. What am I missing, Jeff? This doesn`t make sense.", "Well, Ashleigh, unlike the Bill Cosby high-profile case that went to trial, Jacob Walter Anderson who got indicted on four accounts of sexual assault back in 2016 after allegedly assaulting this female victim at a frat party got this sweetheart plea deal, including no jail time, doesn`t even have to register as a sex offender, and so, he pleaded no contest to a lesser charge of unlawful restraint and under the prosecutor`s deal, they worked this deal - - he would only be sentenced to three years of deferred adjudication probation. Meaning the four counts of sexual assault would completely be dismissed as if it never happened. If he satisfies probation terms, he`d also pay a $400 fine and seek counseling.", "So, four counts of sex assault go away in favor of one count unlawful restraint, which sounds like what I do to my son near the cookie jar. This is just astounding. I mean, especially when you hear the victim`s attorney explaining that this wasn`t just messy sex gone wrong. This was violent according to this victim. This was ferocious. She was left unconscious face down in a pile of her own vomit in the dirt all after receiving one drink from someone else. I want to bring in Randy Kessler, if I can. As a defense attorney, I want you to sort through this with me.", "OK.", "Because I want you to hear what Vic Feazell said, this is the victim`s attorney. This is what he has to say about this. Have a look.", "I just found it unbelievable because this county has a reputation for being tough on sexual assault. All the former football players were prosecuted. Let it be a rich kid from Dallas, who`s president of a fraternity, and suddenly it`s looked at differently.", "So, there`s where it gets crazy. Baylor University was in the headlines for years because of the football team and its sexcapades. And, you know, even Ken Starr of Clinton fame as president had to step down amid the sex scandal, it did result in charges, in prison sentences for some of those players. And now, this. What do you make of this?", "So, you know, the easy thing to believe is, there`s some conspiracy, rich people get off easy, or rich people are connected, or they`ve got some dirt on the other side, but that`s the easy way to think about it, we don`t know all the facts. They didn`t feel like they could prosecute and get a full conviction, or they would have prosecuted. And the defense must have felt pretty darn good about the ability to go to trial and get off to be able to push this kind of plea. I mean, that just has to be the case.", "What doesn`t make sense is what the victim`s family has said in a statement. And by the way, we invited them on and they didn`t want to be on, and she wants to remain anonymous. I think she`s being called Donna Doe. But this is what the victim`s family said about the process and about working with the D.A. in this. The victim was told there was an enormous amount of evidence and a conviction was almost sure. And now 2-1/2 years after living through hell, having the trial delayed a week before it was to occur and then never rescheduled, the D.A. has decided not to bother even trying to get justice. What does this mean? An enormous amount of evidence and a conviction was almost sure. How do you get from that to let`s maybe do away with four sex assault charges?", "Well, maybe they shouldn`t have said that. We`re civil lawyers, criminal lawyers, we all hear a case. And the first time you hear the case, you think, that is a great case. We`ve got all the facts -- there`s always another side. And as you dig and you learn, cases are never as strong. This one apparently was not even nearly as close, and maybe they shouldn`t have raised the expectations that high, maybe that was the dilemma or the fault. But they did, and they`ve got some explaining to do.", "OK. I want to bring in Shari Karney, she`s the survivors rights attorneys and the founder of ROAR as ONE. That`s a group that fights for the civil rights of survivors. I know what you`re going to say. I feel the same way. I don`t even -- honestly, I really don`t even know what to ask you. I just feel like we`ve been down this road too many damn times to be interviewing about this again.", "You know, Ashleigh, first of all, thank you for having me. And secondly, here`s what this says to me, rape is no longer a crime in Texas, and it`s no longer a crime in United States. We have a Supreme Court Justice who was accused of sexual assault who was confirmed. We have a President of the United States who was accused by 17 women of sexual assault, he`s the President of the United States. We have white males of power and privilege being let go, let off for sexual assault, sexual abuse. We tell survivors, report, speak your truth, speak up, and then the legal system doesn`t do anything about it. So, that`s why I have formed this nonprofit called ROAR as ONE, to make sexual assault a civil right. That means that if the local authorities don`t take action, then the U.S. attorney and the attorney general could step in. Because honestly, Ashleigh, I -- we have heard the story. We tell women and men speak up. Tell us your truth, report Title IX.", "Well, speak up and then -- and then put on your Kevlar, because even if you`re Dr. Ford and you`re brilliant and you`re believable and you`re humble, and there`s really nothing wrong with your story, other than you don`t remember some stuff when you`re 15. I don`t remember standing in line for my graduation, by the way, big deal for me, but I don`t remember standing in line when I was 17 for my graduation. Oh, I must be an idiot.", "Exactly.", "What I`m saying is that when you have two equal people and one`s a lady and one`s a dude, apparently she`s mistaken, just automatic.", "I just think --", "She`s mistaken. I`ve got to go to break, but I want you to stick around. Can you stick around until after the break?", "OK. Sure.", "Because when we come back after the break, there`s one more voice that has to weigh-in on this story, before everything just goes the way of Brock Turner, and that is the judge because the judge in the case against Jacob Anderson, can still make a decision. The judge can still say yes or no to the sweetheart deal. Talk about that next.", "Why would a kid get a sweet heart deal in a sex assault case when the victim was told by the prosecutors at one point, it looked like this was almost surely a conviction, and that there was an enormous amount of evidence? Well, the prosecutor is telling us something different, and here in a statement, they say, \"The McLennan County D.A.`s office is known throughout the state for our aggressive prosecution of sexual assault cases to say otherwise is simply absurd. Let us remind everyone that our oath is to seek justice. This office stands by the plea offered and believes we have achieved the best result possible with the evidence at hand.\" Randy Kessler, that`s what the D.A. says but ultimately, the judge is the one who`s going to have to step in and actually decide if this plea deal is fair or if they go back to the drawing table and actually go to trial on those four counts. And the judge in this case is the 19th state district judge in Texas, Ralph Strother, S-T-R-O-T-H-E-R, Ralph Strother. We have seen judges go down for this. In the Stanford rape case, it was -- I mean, what happened was disastrous. The judge in that case is gone.", "Well, the judge shouldn`t be persuaded by the press or by the public reports. This was not a conviction, this guy is getting this deal because there`s some sort of compromise. The judge can say I don`t like it. Go to trial.", "It`s judicial discretion that this judge needs to use. And no, they shouldn`t be persuaded by pitchforks outside, but they do represent the people who elect them.", "But so does the prosecution. And the judge has to have a lot of respect for this prosecutor`s office, and if this judge thinks this prosecutor made this deal because --", "So, why isn`t it just a rubber stamp?", "Because it -- because it`s got publicity and because they said at the beginning, it`s such an easy case.", "Because the judge has judicial discretion.", "Right. So, the judge can listen to what the pundits and what everyone else is saying, the victim`s saying, or the judge can say, this prosecutor`s office is known to prosecute harshly, and if they thought they had a good case, they would have prosecuted, they would not have offered this deal.", "But if the prosecutors told the victim they had enormous amounts of evidence that would --", "That was a mistake.", "-- almost surely result in a conviction, doesn`t that count?", "It does. But now in that statement you just read, they`re basically saying we made a mistake. Based on the evidence at hand, we think it`s the best deal we can get.", "I can tell you this that Donna Doe and her family are devastated over this.", "I understand. I understand.", "And it feels as though they weren`t even a part of the process, and that is horse you know what.", "Yes, that part of it, I agree with you.", "Devastating. Randy, thank you for that, and my thanks also to Shari Karney and Jeffrey Boney for their input into this repetitive, disturbing theme story. Two Ohio teenagers stopped by a police officer because they were flashing a gun.", "I could have killed you. I want you to think about that tonight when you go to bed. You could be gone.", "How that cop`s cool head and tough talk diffused what could have been a nightmare confrontation. And parents, if you have teenagers, you need to see this, next.", "In Ohio, bodycam video shows the startling moment a Columbus, Ohio Police Officer confronts two teenage boys with his service weapon drawn.", "Here`s the thing, are you scared", "Yes, sir.", "OK. You know why you should be scared", "Yes, sir.", "This is getting kids killed all over the country.", "Officer Peter Casuccio approached those teenagers after getting a call about a boy flashing a gun. And as he approached, one of the teens tossed that gun to the ground.", "That thing looks real, bro.", "I`m so sorry.", "You should be sorry and you should be scared. When you see the gun leaving his hand and out of the corner of my eye, I saw it bust into a million pieces once it hit the sidewalk, and that`s when I realized it`s a BB gun.", "You heard right. It was a BB gun that just looked like a real gun and it almost escalated into a deadly confrontation with some very real consequences.", "How old are you, boy?", "11 years old.", "How old are you, young man?", "13.", "Do you think I want to shoot an 11-year-old? Do you think I want to shoot a 13-year-old?", "No, sir.", "I could have killed you. I want you to think about that tonight when you go to bed. You could be gone. Everything you want to do in this life could have been over.", "There is a lesson not just for those kids but all of our kids in that moment. Thanks for watching, everyone. We`ll see you back here tomorrow night at 6:00 Eastern. \"FORENSIC FILES\" begins right now. 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{"id": "CNN-294819", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-09-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/24/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Senator Ted Cruz Endorses Donald Trump; Man Shoots Five in Washington Mall", "utt": ["It's 10:00 here and so grateful for your company as always. I'm Christi Paul.", "I'm Victor Blackwell. Good to be with you. This is CNN newsroom.", "And we're going to start with what's new this morning. Donald Trump thanking Ted Cruz for his surprising endorsement. He tweeted, in fact, \"The Ted Cruz endorsement was a wonderful surprise. I greatly appreciate his support. We'll have a tremendous victory on November 8th.\"", "Cruz's support now comes just days before the presidential debate. And this is really a complete 180 for the Texas senator who had called Trump a pathological liar, a bully. Here's what Cruz said yesterday.", "I made a promise I would support the Republican nominee. That's a promise I made to the people across this country. And I thought about it, prayed about it, what to do. What my conscience told me is I need to keep my word.", "Now, meanwhile Hillary Clinton is picking up a surprising endorsement of her own. \"The Cincinnati Inquirer,\" one of Ohio's largest newspapers is back being her after supporting Republican presidential candidates for nearly 100 years. I want to bring in CNN's Sunlen Serfaty here. So let's talk about Ted Cruz. How much credence to people give this endorsement based on all the back and forth that really got very nasty during the primaries between Cruz and Trump?", "It sure did, Christi. I think it was only 160 days ago or so that Senator Cruz once called Trump a pathological liar, and who can forget that big showing he did at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland when he told Republicans in the room to \"vote your conscience.\" So this certainly is a complete 180, and certainly Senator Cruz' words do have some credence with the tried and true conservatives in the party. And we saw quickly the Trump campaign and Donald Trump himself tweeting out thank you to Senator Cruz. But certainly this does have a lot to do with Senator Cruz's own political ambitions. He's facing a primary challenge in his Senate race and the potential that he might be in the presidential mix for 2020, certainly something he felt that he needed to do at this point when he sees others coalescing around Donald Trump and his campaign.", "So I was reading that both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are looking at tapes of each other in other debates to prep for what's coming up Monday, 9:00 p.m. right here on CNN, the big debate. What are you hearing about debate strategies for both?", "Well, it does definitely seem that they are taking a page from certain playbooks. They are studying the quirks of each other during their past debate performances. But it seem like they are distinct in how they are prepping, how much they are prepping for this debate. We know that Hillary Clinton first started about a month ago. She largely has been absent on the campaign trail, this week really prepping. We know that she's reading briefing books on Donald Trump's policy and really trying, it seems, to get a window into his personality. What things set him off in past debates, even talking to the author of \"The Art of the Deal,\" who wrote that book on Donald Trump, to get a window into his personality, figure out what makes him tick, potentially figure out what could potentially get under the skin at the debate stage. We also know that she is running through some mock debates and she does have someone standing in for Donald Trump, someone on her staff, a longtime aide. Donald Trump by comparison has been out campaigning this week, and yes, he is running through some briefing books of his own. He's watching clips of Hillary Clinton's debate performances. We know he's meeting with RNC Chair Reince Preibus this weekend prepping for the debate, but it doesn't seem like he's going to do a full scale mock debate. He said he's never done it in the past. He doesn't think he'll do it right now, Christi.", "Hey, Sunlen Serfay, we appreciate it. Thank you so much. We're also following, we should point out, some breaking news out of Washington state this morning. At the top of the hour state police are expected to give an update on this ongoing manhunt for this man. Please take a look at your screen here. Police say he opened fire inside a shopping mall, killed five people. Tom Fuentes, CNN senior law enforcement analyst and former FBI assistant director is with us now. Tom, thank you for being with. So this man as we understand it, walks into this mall at 7:00 p.m. last night, just about an hour outside of Seattle, shoots five people, all of whom have now died. He walks out, and it looks as though he's walking towards the interstate. He's not leaving in a car that they could see. Witnesses say the saw him walking towards Interstate 5 and then essentially just disappeared. Where do you start at this point looking for this man as we are now how many hours later?", "Well, Christi, they've taken the first step and that is publishing a pretty clear photo of him, and he's holding the rifle. So it's inside the mall. And, you know, putting that out over the Internet and media, TV media and other social media, has been a very great first step because somebody should be able to recognize him from that photo if they know him, if they are a friend, family, colleague, neighbor, that's a pretty clear picture of him. But also the next step would be you would want to alert everybody in the area, including the FBI has an office in Vancouver, Canada, notify them, to notify the Canadian authorities because Burlington, Washington is about halfway between Seattle and the Canadian border. So it's only about another hour north on Interstate 5 to the Canadian border. So it's possible he used that rifle, went out, could have carjacked somebody and driven off that way, stolen their car, any number of things. So that's the preliminary step, get his photo out there and do the broadcast of being on the lookout for him.", "Which they have done. Authorities have been very diligent in making sure this area that is primarily commercial as we under it, that people are staying indoors, that they are not going to that area specifically. I know K-9s were there overnight last night. This is a 400 plus -- 400,000 plus-square-foot facility in this mall. Does it seem odd to you, tom that somebody could just walk into a mall, shoot, walk out and disappear?", "No, I don't think so because it would depend on the mall. If there's no security at all, we don't expect security at every single door of every single mall. We don't have that already. But if that mall did not have nearby security at the time he opens fire and then walks out -- I think most people if they see somebody holding a rifle and they hear shots they are going to be reluctant to approach him. They are heading for cover and not be in a position to stop him and he would be able to just walk right out.", "Certainly there would be surveillance video of the parking lot, would there not?", "There would. But that's wouldn't be even as clear as what we have here with the picture of him inside the mall. It's brightly lit. We have a pretty good photo of him. Now the surveillance in the parking lot, certainly they will try to pick him out leaving the mall and see if there was a car waiting for him or if he left the area of camera coverage on foot, in which case then they wouldn't know if he had another waiting let's say a couple blocks away where the cameras wouldn't cover it. So they will be looking at every possible camera angle that they may have in the area and certainly alerting the local population to see, because it's possible he could do a home invasion or a carjacking as I mentioned.", "We were talking about that earlier. Had there been a carjacking we would think we would have heard about it by now some 12 hours later unless of course there was a carjacking and he took that person with him. We just don't know. Tom Fuentes, always appreciate your expertise. Thank you, sir.", "You're welcome.", "Charlotte police are now under fire for not releasing the video of the deadly shooting of Keith Scott. Now there are more rallies and protests planned, one coming up in just a few hours, demanding justice."], "speaker": ["CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-209931", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2013-7-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/03/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Coverage and Analysis of the George Zimmerman Trial", "utt": ["Welcome back. Live in Sanford, Florida, where the George Zimmerman murder trial goes into possibly week three. We are going into a vacation day tomorrow and the prosecutors aren't over yet. So, they are close to wrapping up their case. But you know what? Two weeks to present the evidence against Zimmerman. Sometimes the evidence seems more like defense evidence. So, did the prosecutors do enough?", "He has been portrayed as a gun-toting wannabe cop, an exaggerating liar, and a reckless profiler.", "Is it inaccurate that he is profiling Trayvon Martin as a criminal?", "But after eight days, the prosecution may have also handed George Zimmerman the key to avoiding conviction on second degree murder. It came in the form of a simple question and a single one word answer.", "Do you think he is telling the truth?", "Yes.", "The lead investigator in the case puts his stamp of approval on George Zimmerman's story, that he was acting in self defense, an extraordinary moment for any trial.", "The lead investigator, the number one person in charge, said there were no material discrepancies. So, you're prosecutor who is trying to make him -- a claim (ph), but the person spend all the time investigating this case says there are none. How do you better than that as a defense lawyer?", "It was potentially so damaging that the prosecution convinced the judge to throw the statement out and tell the jury to somehow forget about it.", "The jury has heard it. So, they are instructed to disregard it, but they are human. They've already heard it. And that's going to be something that they take into consideration and carry with them.", "Regardless, Zimmerman himself may have already emerged as his own best witness. His story of self-defense remained relatively consistent through multiple police interrogations, from video --", "And then he was here, and he punched me in the face.", "-- and from audio.", "He just started punching me in the face. And I started screaming for help.", "George Zimmerman gets to put his story in front of the jury without being subject to cross examination. That is gigantic for George Zimmerman.", "And now, Zimmerman may not have to utter a single word in the courtroom. (on camera): What would have to happen now for George Zimmerman to take the stand?", "I would have to convince myself the state has proven their case beyond a reasonable doubt today, or when that decision is made in order to decide it to put George on the stand.", "A possibility that seems increasingly remote, giving rise to speculation that if Zimmerman is to be found guilty it might be of a lesser charge than second degree murder.", "Ah, the lesser, as David Mattingly is here with me live. That is something that a lot of people have talked about.", "Right.", "Did the prosecution go too far with second degree murder? Were they aiming high, hoping to end low on a compromise by this jury?", "It certainly appears that they are headed that way. The way this has to work, the prosecution and the defense has to ask for it. The judge has to agree with it and then the jury has to go with it. What we're seeing right now, there was no real change in strategy. The prosecution is still going after the emotion, showing us the bullet hole in Trayvon's clothes, showing us the gun, and then the defense is going after the details. That's where they think they're going to find acquittal no matter what the charge might be.", "Oh, the devil is in the details.", "Right.", "Got it. Well, usually, that's a really good defense strategy. But the weird thing is, I'm watching these witnesses and they seem like defense witnesses. Not always, but for a large part you don't need to pick apart a lot of what they say.", "That's right. And for anyone at home who has been watching this trial, it seems like a lot of the witnesses called for the prosecution have been very, very helpful to the defense. And even when they put George Zimmerman on the stand so to speak, be it video when he was talking to police, via audio when he was talking to police, it always came out better for him.", "So, stand by for a second. I think, listen, we have been juggling a lot of breaking news at CNN today, not only here in Sanford, Florida, but also, David and I have been watching on other monitors what's going on in Egypt. So, we are keeping a live eye on Egypt. And we are hearing some breaking news out. We are trying to scramble our reporter. Ivan Watson has been doing an amazing job because there is this report that the ousted president Mohamed Morsy is actually being held now, that he is being held by authorities. We have been asking all day, where is Mohamed Morsy? Ivan Watson, I know you are live with us. If you can hear me now, out of Tahrir Square, this report is coming from \"Reuters\". And it's according to a Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson and security personnel that the former and ousted president is being held. Do you know anything more about this?", "The only follow up we have from that initial \"Reuters\" news agency report, Ashleigh, comes from one of the spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, Gehad El-Haddad, who has put out a note on Twitter saying that Morsy is being held at this point by Egyptian authorities. So that's about all we have right now. I'm sure we're going to ill perhaps learn a little bit more. It is remarkable to consider that Mohamed Morsy is Egypt's first elected president ever in the history of this really, an ancient civilization, the first elected leader and after barely a year in office, now according to these preliminary reports has not only just been stripped of the position of president but now appears to also be being held by Egyptian security forces. Within the last couple of hours, it's not just Morsy who appears to be a target but the Egyptian security forces have also moved to shut down a number of media outlets supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood, at least three TV stations and some of their employees have been arrested. But also have been rounding up top officials in the Muslim Brotherhood, as well. All of that going on while the people back here are celebrating with fireworks and waving Egyptian flags, what they argue is the Egyptian military simply defending the will of the Egyptian people or at least one part of the Egyptian population -- Ashleigh.", "Well, and I think that's critical. There have been so many other protests in favor of Mohamed Morsy. I think it begs repeating, Ivan Watson, that this is a \"Reuters\" report saying the ousted president is being held by authorities, that according to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'm actually going to tell you, CNN has been able to get confirmation. That \"Reuters\" report is also a CNN report that Mohamed Morsy is being held by authorities. This flies in the face of what the United States president said in a strident statement: no arrests, no political arrests the president or of people of his party. We will be watching this carefully. \"A.C. 360\" is working very hard on this story as well. Ivan is collecting more information. They're going to have a whole lot more coming up just moments from now. In the meantime, again, two breaking stories all day long here in Sanford, Florida, small place with a very big issue on its hands, the guilt or innocence of George Zimmerman. Crucial DNA. The CSI effect taking center stage in this small courtroom. What was found on the gun? What was found under Trayvon Martin's fingernail? Why does all of that matter? 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{"id": "CNN-44980", "program": "MORNINGS WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2001-12-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/04/ltm.10.html", "summary": "New Book Criticizes CBS News", "utt": ["Welcome back. Can a media outlet be so biassed it actually slants the news? Well, a new book takes an inside look at CBS News and blames two of the network's editorial leaders for consciously tilting news to the left. \"Bias\" is written by Bernard Goldberg, a man who has spent a career at CBS. We invited him to come on the show. So far, he has declined our invitation. We're hoping to get him on at some point, but joining me right now with his take is Howard Kursk, media critic and host of CNN's \"Reliable Sources.\" Welcome back, Howard.", "Thank you, Paula.", "Have you had a chance to go through this book?", "I have read it pretty carefully.", "And what do you make of it? Sour grapes, or does he make a legitimate point here?", "The book is an indictment of everything that Bernie Goldberg thinks is wrong with CBS News, having worked there for 28 years until his last year. Some people will obviously see sour grapes because of the rift that developed between him and his bosses, but I think that his message, and he makes some good points in the book, is likely to be overshadowed by these sort of bunker buster bombs that he drops on Dan Rather and Andrew Heyward, the CBS News president, and he likens them to the Sopranos, calling Dan a Mafia don, who wanted me whacked, saying he has a touch of Nixon's paranoia. And on the other side of the equation, CBS News executives I've talked to in recent days are basically describing Goldberg as a cross between Benedict Arnold and Osama bin Laden. So, it's kind of shaping up as a media jihad.", "It's interesting, because I read one account that said Bernie Goldberg actually called Andrew Heyward, the president of CBS News, and said, whatever you do, don't call me a liar. And subsequently, Andrew Heyward says he won't comment on this book. But, let me put up on the screen something that Bernie Goldberg had said before that about Andrew Heyward. He had Andrew Heyward saying to him in a conversation -- this, actually, is something different. This is Bernie Goldberg's take on the media elites. Let's start with this since it's up on the screen. What originally got Bernie Goldberg into trouble at CBS is what he wrote in the Wall Street Journal in '96. Here's what he said. \"The old argument that the networks and other 'media elites' have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it is hardly worth discussing anymore. No, we don't sit around in a dark corner and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.\" So, Howard, is he telling the truth on that one, particularly when it comes to story selection, and how individual organizations approach those stories?", "Well, the book, to me, didn't make a persuasive case that CBS is any worse than NBC or ABC or CNN as Goldberg sees it, in terms of leaning to the left. But I certainly wouldn't dispute the notion that on social issues particularly; abortion, gay rights, religion that most journalists are to the left of the general population. And Goldberg does come up with anecdotes that are going to attract a lot of attention. For example, he describes a conference call, daily news discussion, CBS, in which one editor in Washington described Gary Bauer, the former presidential candidate, as \"that little nut from the Christian group,\" and nobody piped up to offer any --", "Well, that's ridiculous.", "Well, that's --", "I mean, I can't imagine no one would react to that in an editorial, maybe. If that happened in the Washington Post news room, wouldn't there have been someone sitting there saying, what are you talking about here?", "I certainly hope so, and it's that kind of arrogance in the anecdotes that he shows that I think will convince some people, at least, that he has got a good point when he talks about journalists at CBS and other news organizations being out of touch with the general public. But, the book does not contain a sort of a detailed analysis of these kinds of stories and here is where they were clearly showing some kind of liberal leaning.", "I wanted to go back to that statement that Bernie Goldberg claims the president of CBS News made to him. He said -- quote -- \"look, Bernie, of course there's a liberal bias in the news. All the networks tilt left. If you repeat any of this, I'll deny it.\" Now, Mr. Heyward went on to say, in a statement put out by CBS News, \"Mr. Goldberg asked for a meeting and told us he does not want to be portrayed as a liar or disgruntled employee, therefore, CBS News has no comment about the book or Mr. Goldberg.\" So, no one --", "Well, I gave Andrew --", "-- knows whether Mr. Heyward actually said this or not to Bernie Goldberg.", "Well, I -- when I talked to Andrew Heyward, I certainly gave him the opportunity to deny it. He didn't take that. Instead, he issued this very carefully crafted statement about this dinner he had with Bernie Goldberg in which he said, \"don't portray me as a liar or disgruntled employee.\" And so Heyward, I think, doesn't want to pump up this book by directly engaging Bernie Goldberg. On the other hand, Eric Engberg, a CBS correspondent who was sharply criticized by Goldberg, responded in kind to me, calling Bernie Goldberg a sleazy snake in the grass. I -- my concern here is that there are some legitimate points. I mean, this debate about liberal bias in the media has been going on for 30 years. It's something news organizations ought to take seriously, ought to grapple with, and all of the name calling on both sides may -- may well serve to obscure that.", "Yeah, some of that subtle language you shared with us today was quite interesting. All right, thanks so much, Howard Kurtz. Appreciate your input on this new book. I have just been told that Bernie Goldberg has accepted our invitation. He will be joining us here tomorrow. See, Howard? We focus in on the book and he's going to take our call -- he actually did take our call over the weekend. So, we are delighted to have him come on to defend some of his accusations here. Thank you Bernie. Thanks, Howard. 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{"id": "CNN-213323", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-8-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/25/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Syria To Allow U.N. Weapons Inspectors; California Wildfire Spreading; 12-Year-Old Dies From Brain-Eating Parasite; Unclaimed $1M Lotto Ticket Expires Today", "utt": ["Plus, the baffling disappearance of a Pennsylvania schoolteacher. Authorities say he went on a hiking trip a month ago and hasn't been seen since. As the sound of bombs and accusations of chemical weapons use goes on in Syria. The Syrian government now says it will allow U.N. weapons inspectors access to the site of the alleged chemical attacks but they are also warning the U.S. not to take any military action. Our Fred Pleitgen is in Damascus and Chris Lawrence is at the Pentagon. So Fred, let me begin with you. How soon will the weapons inspectors be allowed to begin inspections?", "Hi, Fredricka. Yes, I spoke to Syria's deputy foreign minister right after he came out of the meeting with the United Nations where that deal was struck and he said that the weapons inspectors will be about to wherever they wanted to go and it is strict where this allegedly happen effective immediately. Now, of course, that doesn't mean that they are actually going to be on the ground that quickly. They still have to sort out logistical things. The United Nations is saying they are going to send the weapons inspectors out on their first mission to these areas starting tomorrow. And I want to listen in to some of the other things that the deputy foreign minister said to me earlier.", "What sort of agreement have you reached with them?", "We worked for two days. I have adopted the possibility of reaching an agreement.", "So they have complete access and they can go anywhere they want any time they want?", "Yes.", "Is that the case in all of these areas?", "Yes.", "OK. And that can start immediately?", "Yes.", "And, Fredricka, the main concern, of course, that the weapons inspectors have is the safety of their team. They do, in fact of course, have to cross the front line to get in the opposition-held territories. The Syrian government will allow them to pass from their side but they have to talk to the rebels to see if they're going to have safety on the ground. And the other big thing is that apparently the Syrian government has given them also the go-ahead and said they are not going to be shelling these areas as long as the U.N. troops are on the ground. But I can tell you from tonight we're hearing and we're seeing major shelling here in the Damascus area and a lot of that seems to be hitting exactly the neighborhoods that the weapons inspectors want to go to tomorrow -- Fredricka?", "And then, Fred, all this at a time when we are hearing the governor of Hama province being assassinated.", "Yes, absolutely. That's news that came earlier today that apparently the governor of Hama province was assassinated in a bomb attack as his convoy was going through the capital which also poll town and it has been a place that seeing a lot of fighting in the -- since the conflict started but seem to have gotten a little quieter in the recent weeks and months. So, this is something that is very significant and shows that the opposition of the rebels are still capable of striking even in area where's the government believes it has control. So certainly, this is a very significant fact. And it shows that while we're talking about the chemical weapons which are the main issue right now, the civil war here still continues and rages on unabated -- Fredricka.", "All right, Fred. And I'm mentioning Chris Lawrence is at the Pentagon. So Chris, you know, the president of the United States meeting with the national security team yesterday and likely again over the course of days. What do we know so far that's been discussed?", "Well, basically, it's the fact that they think at this point and their assessment is it's too little too late from the Syrian government. They say if the Syrian government had nothing to hide it would allow those inspectors in five days ago. Senior administration officials saying basically at this point they have little doubt that this was a chemical weapons attack and that it was perpetrated by the Syrian government. They think that the evidence at that site is corrupted at this point because of all that shelling that Fred just mentioned, consistent shelling over several days may have corrupted some of that evidence. But at this point, they seem to already be very close to making the conclusion. And I can't stress enough the fact that the president of the United States not only working on Saturday but convening his entire national security team, from the CIA to the director of national intelligence, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., defense secretary Chuck Hagel calling in via videoconference from his trip to Asia. So this was a significant meeting. And it seems to move the ball in terms of the U.S. taking more action in Syria.", "All right, Chris Lawrence, thank you so much and Fred Pleitgen in Damascus, thank you, as well. All right, meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has some strong words for Syria. He said, quote \"what happened in Syria is both a terrible tragedy and an awful crime.\" He went on to say, quote, \"ours is a responsible finger and, if necessary, it will also be on the trigger. We will always know to defend our people and our state against whoever attacks us, tries to attack us, or has attacked us,\" end quote. All right, back in the United States now, California, a huge wildfire still burning in and around western edge of Yosemite National Park. So far, more than 130,000 acres of forest has been scorched, 2600 firefighters are on the front lines right now, and the fire is still only about seven percent contained. Nick Valencia is just outside Yosemite. So Nick, there doesn't appear to be much hope that this fire can be put out quickly. What are you hearing there on the ground?", "That's right, Fred. Firefighters have made some progress on containment but this fire continues to grow.", "It was cooking. It was moving fast.", "This is the time of year the Yosemite National Park is usually packed with tourists, not firefighters. But on the western boundary of the forest, about 40 miles from the heavily visited Yosemite Valley, fire crews are dealing with this.", "Yosemite is certainly iconic worldwide so it's on the minds of the public in this area and beyond.", "Fast moving, fierce, and so far unpredictable, the so- called rim fire could potentially be the largest fire in California's state history. Getting a handle on this fire has been difficult. It's being fueled by extremely dry conditions and canyon winds. CNN was escorted through the fire zone by the U.S. forest service. On the tour, the steady march of the fire is evident. Here at Yosemite National Park firefighters are making progress but with limited resources they're dealing with a lot of hot spots like these.", "It's critical at this time. We have teams out nationwide and we do have to share resources. But because I say we are, number one priority, we're getting what we need.", "But what these firefighters also say they need is for the weather to cooperate.", "And, Fred, joining me now is Pam Martin with the U.S. forest service. Pam, this fire is out of control. It's creating its own weather system. Why is it so difficult to get this under control?", "Well, we are looking at extreme drought here in California. And we are looking at steep topography and with relative low humidity. And today, we're going to have wind gusts from 25 to 30 miles an hour. And all of that combined will increase the fire activity today. They are anticipated.", "We know you're dealing with a lot. We know that there are a lot of firefighters on the frontlines there. We wish them the best and you as well. Fred, this fire is being unpredictable so far. They have made some progress. Since we have been here, already, it's grown more than 15,000 acres in over a day -- Fred.", "Incredibly fast moving. All right, thanks so much. Nick Valencia, keep us posted. All right, now take a look at this picture, a shot of the Yosemite fire taken from a NASA satellite in orbit. You can really see that burned out area and, of course, the smoke. The winds in the fire area have been dying down just a bit but the conditions overall are still feeding the flames, as you heard nick mention there. Alexandra Steele is in the severe weather center and she explains.", "Hi, Fred. I mean, the weather is just not cooperating on myriad fronts -- temperatures, rain, and wind. So in terms of the temperatures, you know, the temperatures in the morning haven't gotten as low or as cool as they have been earlier in the week. So the fire activity has picked up earlier in the day. Also, this fire is really creating its own weather pattern. It's so ferocious now and so large. And what's happening is that smoke column is building up, it's breaking down and collapsing on itself. And when it collapses it sends these down drafts and wind gusts in op operate and desperate directions. So, it's harder for the firefighters to know the direction from which the wind is coming. All right, so here's what we can expect from the winds. Strongest late this evening and it is the overnight hours. This is sustained winds between about 16 and 20 miles per hour. Gusts will be even stronger than that and you can see that here in this legend when the winds really fire up, really late in the day and overnight. So on so many fronts, the temperature, staying in the 70s, no rain at all to cool things down, and, also, of course, the strong winds and the temperatures during the morning hours. So, on so many fronts this fire is t not getting a break from the weather at all. Fred.", "All right, thanks so much, Alexandra Steele. All right, a 12-year-old boy has lost his fight against a brain-eating parasite. According to the facebook page that was providing updates for Zachary Reyna, he died yesterday afternoon. The site says he's on a ventilator so his organs can be donated. His family says Zachary may have lost his battle but he won the war.", "I look at the big picture and I see like he said how he's affected the world. As a family we stand strong together but the whole world was behind him.", "Zachary's family believes that he was infected with a rare parasite while knee boarding in a ditch three weeks ago in Florida. Doctors had been treating him with an experimental drug. Investigators in Louisiana say an 8-year-old boy shot and killed his 87-year-old caregiver after playing a violent video game. Police say the boy was playing Grand Theft Auto 4 just minutes before he grabbed a gun in the home and then shot her. The child told police it was an accident. He will not face any charges. Under Louisiana law the child under 10 is exempt from criminal responsibility. Amanda Knox will not return to Italy for retrial in the 2007 death of her British roommate. That's what a spokesman for the family says. Italy's Supreme Court plans to retry the case this fall. The court says the jury that acquitted Knox two years ago didn't consider all of the evidence. It is still possible Italy could request Knox's extradition from the U.S. New York's attorney general is suing Donald Trump for millions, claiming he scammed students at his for-profit investment school. Hear the skating (ph) accusations and the billionaire's angry response. Plus, U.N. teams are on the ground in Syria investigating chemical weapons allegations. And President Barack Obama is weighing his options. We will tell you what they are and the potential consequences, next."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "PLEITGEN", "FAISAL AL MEKDAD, SYRIAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER", "PLEITGEN", "MEKDAD", "PLEITGEN", "MEKDAD", "PLEITGEN", "MEKDAD", "PLEITGEN", "WHITFIELD", "PLEITGEN", "WHITFIELD", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "WHITFIELD", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "VALENCIA", "BJORN FREDRICKSON, U.S. FOREST SERVICE", "VALENCIA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "VALENCIA", "VALENCIA", "PAM MARTIN, U.S. FOREST SERVICE", "VALENCIA", "WHITFIELD", "ALEXANDRA STEELE, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "WHITFIELD", "TAMMY YZAGUIRRE, ZACKARY REYNA'S COUSIN", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-350157", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2018-09-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1809/15/ndaysat.04.html", "summary": "Protestors rally and demand justice for Botham Jean", "utt": ["There was noise in downtown Dallas last night as demonstrators were rallying to protest the police shooting death of Botham Jean. The group was demanding that the officer involved to be fired and charged with murder, not just manslaughter. Botham Jean was shot and killed inside his own apartment last week by an officer who claims that she mistakenly entered his apartment believing it to be her own. Well, CNN's gained an exclusive look inside Botham Jean's apartment and CNN Correspondent Ryan Young has the details for us here.", "Unit 1478 was Botham Jean's apartment. It's where the 26-year-old's young life was cut short when he was shot by a police officer in his living room. A small memorial of flowers and a photo with his mother adorn his front door.", "At 26 years old, he had done so much.", "With permission from the family, we're getting a look inside Botham's apartment. It's a typical single man's apartment except for the bullet hole in the wall indicated by an evidence marking more than six feet high. There's also a pool of blood on the floor which we will not show you. There's laundry towel (ph) in couch and Botham's half eaten bowl of cereal still had milk in it. He may have been reading one of the many books littering the apartment, before he was shot and killed by Officer Amber Guyger. This is a video, a witness says, of Amber Guyger pacing around upset moments after the shooting. Officer Guyger tells investigators she shot Jean after mistaking his apartment for her own. Guyger tells investigators that after work, she parked her car on the wrong floor, walked to the wrong apartment and that John's door was slightly open. In her statement to police, Guyger says she gave verbal commands before firing two shots. Lee Merritt says witnesses tell a different story.", "--and they both heard a knock or a pounding on the door followed by a female's voice saying, \"Open up, let me in.\" She said the voice didn't sound like an officer command, but sounded like somebody who wanted to be let into the apartment. She says that was shortly followed by the sound of gun shots and the sound of a man's voice saying what she believes to be, \"Oh my God, why did you do that?\"", "The Jean family's attorney and the family are now upset by the leak of a search warrant that indicates officers went inside Jean's apartment looking for drugs. Officers say they did find and removed several items, including a small amount of marijuana. The warrant does not indicate who the items belong to. It's unknown if the search warrant was executed at the officer's apartment.", "26 years on this earth, he lived his life virtually without blemish, and it took being murdered by a Dallas police officer for Botham Jean to suddenly become a criminal. There is a clear intent here to smear the name of Botham Jean.", "During a moving funeral service, we learned much more about Jean and his accomplishments. Family and friends talked openly about his love for people, for singing and the fact that he was a high achieving employee on a partnership track at the accounting firm,", "PWC is hurting, not just in Dallas but all across our country.", "He was so joyful and we know how much he loved to sing. He was the biggest extroverted accountant you'd ever find.", "Amber Guyger is on administrative leave during the investigation and the DA's office will take the case before a Grand Jury to determine the next course of action. CNN has reached out to the Officer Guyger's attorney and they have not returned our calls. The heartbroken mother wants answers.", "So I'm calling on the Dallas officials, please come clean, give me justice for my son, because he does not deserve what he got.", "Ryan Young, CNN, Dallas.", "We're going to stay on that story. Of course also watching Florence moving at two miles per hour and now getting word from the U.S. Northern Command that more than 6,500 soldiers and airman are on duty to help with the recovery. Of course they can't start recovery yet. We have to get through the next several days. Smerconish is up after a quick break. We'll see you again in an hour."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ALLISON JEAN, MOTHER OF BOTHAM JEAN", "YOUNG", "LEE MERRITT, ATTORNEY, JEAN FAMILY", "YOUNG", "MERRITT", "YOUNG", "PWC. TIM RYAN, SENIOR PARTNER AND CHAIRMAN, PWC", "ALEXIS STOSSEL, FRIED OF BOTHAM JEAN", "YOUNG", "JEAN", "YOUNG", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "NPR-12742", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2019-03-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/700289793/internet-cheese-challenge-is-the-latest-to-go-viral", "title": "Internet Cheese Challenge Is The Latest To Go Viral", "summary": "Parents everywhere are tossing slices of American cheese at their babies' faces and recording the reaction. Those reactions range from surprise to tears.", "utt": ["Good morning. I'm David Greene. Now I am convinced if aliens are watching us, they think we're the weirdest species in the universe because we have begun throwing cheese at our children and laughing about it. This began with one father's video that went viral. Parents everywhere then agreed it was cute to toss cheese slices at babies' faces and record their reactions, which have ranged from surprise to tears. What are aliens going to see us doing next, talking to our refrigerators? You're listening to MORNING EDITION."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, HOST"]}
{"id": "NPR-16937", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2017-07-24", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/07/24/539087912/billy-manes-voice-for-orlandos-gay-community-after-pulse-shooting-dies-at-45", "title": "Billy Manes, Voice For Orlando's Gay Community After Pulse Shooting, Dies at 45", "summary": "Billy Manes, a leader in Orlando's gay community, died suddenly last week at the age of 45. Ari Shapiro met Manes in the days after the Pulse night club shooting last year and has a remembrance.", "utt": ["Someone we have heard on this program over the last year died suddenly on Friday. Billy Manes was a leader in Orlando's gay community. He edited the city's LGBT newspaper, Watermark. Our cohost, Ari Shapiro, has this remembrance.", "If you're picturing a grizzled and jaded newspaper editor, erase that image. Billy Manes crackled with energy. Platinum blond hair seemed to shoot off his head like an explosion in an old \"Road Runner\" cartoon. His clothes added to the effect, like a favorite vintage leather jacket in bright lemon yellow.", "Billy.", "Hi, Ari.", "Hi.", "It's nice to meet you.", "The first time I met Billy was just over a year ago. It was one of the most difficult times in Orlando's history - days after a gunman killed 49 people at a gay club. Billy Manes was an anchor and a voice for a community that needed both. And even in the middle of his grief and the fear of another attack, he couldn't help but crack a joke.", "Even being here and being on national networks and whatever, it puts me in the spotlight then. And then I am Whitney Houston in \"The Bodyguard,\" you know?", "Oh, my God.", "I know. I'm not trying to make light of it. But, I mean, that's the first thought that came to my mind.", "When's the last time you felt fear like that? Have you ever felt that in your life before?", "Yes, I was shot by BB guns when I was a 20-something going to gay bars.", "Out of homophobia?", "Yeah.", "Really?", "I don't want to say the F word. But yeah, it was said. And I was shot from a truck.", "They called you homophobic names...", "Yes.", "...And shot you with a BB...", "Yeah.", "...Gun.", "Yes.", "Billy Manes overcame a lot in his life. He had a partner who committed suicide. And because same-sex marriage was not legal at the time, Manes had to fight in court to keep the car, the house, even his late partner's ashes. He wrote vividly about that fight in Orlando Weekly, the newspaper where he worked before Watermark. Last December, Billy Manes came back onto this show for a year-end check-in. He told me that after the presidential election, he and other gay people in Orlando felt even more vulnerable than they did just after the Pulse shooting.", "Nobody wants to seem too gay, do they? There is so much licensed hate right now.", "Can you give me an example of how that fear, that not wanting to be too showy, plays out in your own life? I mean, are you, like, putting away the more flowery scarf and putting on something more low-key? What are you actually doing? What does that translate to?", "No, I'm doing the opposite of that actually (laughter). I mean, if this is the new Wild West, then my role is not the defeatist or the defeated.", "So what do you do then?", "Well, what I do is try and love more, I guess. That sounds so flaky. But honestly, my response to my friends who are having rough times with this is it's a generosity.", "Manes was 45 years old when he died on Friday of complications from a sudden onset of pneumonia. Two years ago, Billy Manes legally married Tony Mauss. Mauss said in a statement to Orlando Weekly, grieve, Orlando, grieve, but don't forget to laugh, create joy and love each other wildly. That would honor him."], "speaker": ["KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "BILLY MANES", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "BILLY MANES", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "BILLY MANES", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "BILLY MANES", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "BILLY MANES", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "BILLY MANES", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "BILLY MANES", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "BILLY MANES", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "BILLY MANES", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "BILLY MANES", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "BILLY MANES", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "BILLY MANES", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "BILLY MANES", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-139291", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-6-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0906/11/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Orlando Magic May Have a Lucky Charm in Young Singer", "utt": ["Fifty-one minutes past the hour. Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. You know, superstition is part of sports, and seven-year-old Gina Marie Incandela is the latest example. Her voice has been magical for the NBA's Orlando Magic during the playoffs. And tonight, when the Magic host the LA Lakers in game four of the NBA Finals, she will be singing her star-spangled heart out. And Alina Cho has her story. A lot of pressure for this adorable little 7-year-old.", "Yes, but she has pulled through time and time again, guys. Good morning, everybody. You know, Dwight Howard may be the Orlando Magic's biggest star, but this 7-year-old girl, just 4'3\" tall, is the team's secret weapon. Every time she sings the national anthem, something magical happens -- the team wins. And she's not just the team's lucky charm. Singing has helped her, too.", "When the Orlando Magic take on the Los Angeles Lakers at Amway arena tonight, the team will have a good luck charm, front and center. The Magic are undefeated whenever 7-year-old Gina Marie Incandela sings the national anthem at their games.", "Every time I sing, they win. So that's why they usually call me lucky charm. They need my singing power.", "So far, she's 6-0.", "When you've got something going good, you just got to stick with it.", "She's been our magic weapon.", "What's even more remarkable is that this 4'3\" girl was diagnosed with a form of autism at age two and unable to speak until she was three with the help of music.", "It got to the point where music therapy really seemed to be, you know, sort of the key to Gina's door. She was very drawn to music. We always knew that. And when she started to get involved in more of the music therapy, we noticed that she started to progress in all aspects a little bit, you know, faster.", "Gina's first big break was singing the National Anthem at a Houston Astros game. And even the pros are impressed by her cool composure.", "I'm nervous playing every night, I can't imagine she's going up there and singing like an old pro. She's absolutely terrific.", "So what does she want to be when she grows up?", "I want to be a rock star, a ballet girl, a dancing girl, a basketball player. And I wish all is in the Magic team. Then nothing can stop us.", "She's so cute. Not bad with the hula hoop, either, by the way. You know, Gina's mom says the family is trying to make sure that her daughter doesn't get too disappointed if that winning streak is broken. But she also said that Gina told her she won't accept defeat. So maybe she knows something that we all don't know yet. But interestingly enough, guys, you know, during the Eastern Conference Semifinals, when the Orlando Magic were playing the Boston Celtics, during Game Three, she sang, they won. Game four, she didn't sing, they lost. And so they've brought her back for every single home game since, and they've also brought back the same color guards. So, you know, Magic, you know, they're superstitious. But they are in sports everywhere.", "The pressure is on them now, too. They have to win it for Gina.", "They've got to deliver for her, you're right.", "Lovely young lady with a great voice.", "She is. She's so cute.", "Thanks, Alina.", "You bet.", "Well, you know about the two people who are being held in custody, accused of being Cuban or spies for Cuba. Well, apparently, according to the government, they had an escape plan. We'll tell you what it is, coming up. But we will let you in on this -- it involved a little boat and a lot of ocean. Fifty-five minutes now after the hour."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CHO (voice over)", "GINA MARIE INCANDELA, 7-YEAR-OLD SINGER", "CHO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ADONAL FOYLE, ORLANDO MAGIC PLAYER", "CHO", "MICHELLE INCANDELA, GINA'S MOTHER", "CHO", "FOYLE", "CHO", "G. INCANDELA", "CHO", "CHETRY", "CHO", "ROBERTS", "CHO", "ROBERTS", "CHO", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-360394", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2019-01-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1901/25/cg.02.html", "summary": "Roger Stone Indictment; He Sought Stolen Emails In Coordination With Trump Campaign Officials; Roger Stone To Be Arraigned In A DC Courtroom Tuesday; White House Claims Stone Charges Have Nothing To Do With The President; Stone: I Will Never Testify Against President Trump; Roger Stone's Long History Of Dirty Politics; Roger Stone Indictments: He Sought Stolen E-mails In Coordination With Trump Campaign Officials; Ex-Trump Campaign Char Manafort Could Face More Charges.", "utt": ["Stone was contacted by senior Trump campaign officials to inquire about future releases by WikiLeaks. Prosecutors also allege a senior Trump campaign official was directed to contact Stone about any additional releases. It's unclear who deliver those instructions and which officials Stone was in touch with about WikiLeaks. At least one of them was Steve Bannon, the former White House Chief Strategist and Chief Executive of the Trump campaign. But Stone was not charged with conspiracy. He faces one count of obstruction and five counts of making false statements, both related to his alleged lies before the House Intelligence Committee.", "Any error I made my testimony would be both immaterial and without intent.", "He also faces one count of trying to tamper with testimony from New York radio host, Randy Credico. At one point even threatening to steal Credico's dog. Stone has claimed Credico was his back channel to WikiLeaks which Credico denies. According to the indictment, Stone told Credico, \"Stonewall wall it. Plead the Fifth, anything to save the plan,\" and made references to Richard Nixon and a character in The Godfather movies.", "I never knew no godfather.", "A long time political operative, Stone encouraged Trump to run for President and served as an adviser in the early months of Trump's presidential campaign. As the White House made this claim ...", "This has nothing to do with the President and certainly nothing to do with the White House.", "Today, Stone double down on his loyalty pledge.", "There is no circumstance whatsoever under which I will bear false witness against the President.", "Now, in a court filing, the Special Counsel's office is giving us an indication of why this indictment was originally handed down under seal and also why they probably use such heavy handed tactics in picking up Roger Stone this morning says they wanted this indictment under seal, because they were concerned that Roger Stone may decide to flee or to destroy evidence. Now, Roger Stone has been under scrutiny for the better part of two years, so it's interesting if he decide to destroy evidence just last night. At any rate, he'll be appearing in DC, in court on Tuesday for his arraignment, Jake.", "All right, and Sara Murray joins the panel of experts here. And, Sara, I just want to clarify something because it seems like a very important part of this on page 4.12, after the WikiLeaks release of stolen DNC emails, a senior Trump campaign official was directed to contact Stone about any additional releases and what other damaging information WikiLeaks had on Hillary Clinton. Do we have any idea who the senior Trump official was that directed a different senior Trump campaign official? Because presumably you can only be directed if you are also senior.", "Right, and we don't know the answer to that. I mean, we know that Steve Bannon was one of the people that Roger Stone is in touch with in the Trump campaign, but that's basically all we know, and that tells you that there were multiple senior campaign officials who are involved in this conversation about trying to get this information they believed Roger Stone had about WikiLeaks. I think the obvious question is, was this then candidate Trump who is making this direction and we don't have an answer to that question yet, Jake.", "Yes, and this was July 22, Bannon hadn't joined the campaign yet.", "Pre Bannon, yes.", "So this would be when Manafort was in the campaign.", "So this would have been a senior Trump campaign official who contacted Stone and then another senior Trump campaign official who made that direction.", "Who made the direction. Yes. And it's important whether it was Manafort telling Rick Gates to do it or whether somebody else was telling Manafort to do it. Kim Wehle, let me bring you in, because the Trump campaign is all over this despite what Sarah Sanders says. I mean, the President is not referenced, but the Trump campaign is all over it. Is this conspiracy? Is this \"collusion\"?", "Well, collusion is a non-legal term, conspiracy is a legal term. I think the point was made that charging does not include conspiracy, that requires a meaning in the minds in addition to a step towards some kind of crime. But here we do have, as you mentioned, throughout this indictment references to Trump and the campaign and Mr. Stone being the intermediary, basically communicating in a really brazen way about these leaks of damaging information from the Clinton campaign. And I think what people need to keep in mind here is why this matters. This matters because it could have affected the actual outcome of the election. Our democratic process could have been distorted by virtue of these leaks and the stolen emails, which is also a crime.", "Of course, President Trump mentioned WikiLeaks all the time. I want to get your take on something Jen Psaki because you used to speak from the podium on behalf of the Obama campaign. Take a listen to this exchange between John Berman on CNN New Day and Sarah Sanders, the White House Press Secretary, trying to get to the bottom of whether or not President Trump was the one who directed anybody to talk to Stone.", "Did the President direct someone to contact Roger Stone about stolen emails?", "Look, John, I'm not an attorney. I haven't read through that. Even if I had, I'm not going to be able to provide you some type of insight or legal analysis. What I can tell you is that the specific charges that have been brought against Mr. Stone don't have anything to do with the President.", "Well, do you know whether that individual was the President?", "Look, I know that the charges are about whether or not he gave false statements.", "Did the President know or not? Was it the President who made that direction or not?", "Once again I haven't read this document.", "Okay.", "I mean, it would seem like before the interview you would settle as to whether or not the President was the one that directed the campaign, the senior campaign official to reach out to Roger Stone.", "Since that would be the most obvious question you would be asked. I mean, watching that, one, it's very painful to watch even though I'm not a Trump supporter, obviously. That would have been what you would have prepped you could have decided you were going to cancel the interview, you could have been criticized for that, but what she did there, she made it seem like maybe he did know, maybe he was the person who directed it. And that actually did more damage than it did clean anything up and that's never where you want to be as the spokesperson after an interview.", "And presumably you would have read the indictment before coming on that.", "Presumably you would have read the indictment certainly before coming out to do an interview, but you also would have decided whether it was a wise thing to do an interview at all.", "I want you to take a listen to what Roger Stone had to say today, Bill.", "There is no circumstance whatsoever under which I will bear false witness against the President. I am one of his oldest friends. I am a fervent supporter of the President. I think he is doing a great job of making America great again.", "There's nothing in this indictment that suggests that President Trump talk to Roger Stone at all, but there is stuff about people on the campaign. So he doesn't have to testify against President Trump.", "Right. It's interesting that that occurred to him that he might have to and it does raise the question of whether it wasn't the President who directed the senior official to deal with WikiLeaks or that the President would have known about such a direction. I do want to say in the last panel I said incorrectly that the Senate had voted in December to keep the government open through the whole fiscal year, it was just through February 8th, so just to clarify that.", "Thank you for the correction.", "Yes. But, no, I mean look as of now the - let me put it this way, because of what Sarah Sanders said. As of now the White House does not denied, I believe, that the President might be the person at who's direction the senior campaign official dealt with WikiLeaks. That remains an open question. He could deny it now. Sarah Sanders could deny it now. She could walk in and ask the President and the President could say, \"No, it wasn't me,\" and then they could deny it. \"I had no knowledge of it.\" But as of now that has not been denied.", "I think that we've been told that Manafort was not the one that reached out to Stone.", "So we've gotten a lot of denials from the left people, but I'm thinking - I'm running back through some of these denials in my head and I know that Roger Stone has denied that he ever discussed WikiLeaks with Donald Trump, President Trump, candidate Trump. I also know that Trump's folks, his legal team have said that he never discussed WikiLeaks with Roger Stone. We haven't ever gotten the denial that there was a conversation through an intermediary, perhaps, about WikiLeaks. We still didn't get that denial today, obviously, from Sarah Sanders. But as I'm racking my brain for previous denials, I can't remember that when he's rolling that out either.", "Yes, Kim, as an experienced prosecutor, is Mueller is not done, do you think?", "Oh, no. I think one thing that this demonstrates is that the notion that the whole thing will wrap up in the next month is kind of folly. I think there's a lot here as was mentioned we just see the tip of the iceberg. What's really interesting about this is there's a lot of documentary evidence, texts and emails from Mr. Stone. In this indictment, I encourage people to actually read the actual indictment. But no this is going to go on.", "And also all the denials from Stone. Sara, President Trump tweeted today, \"Greatest Witch Hunt in the history of our country. No collusion,\" blah, blah, blah, \"Who alerted CNN to be there?\" That's a reference to the fact that CNN have this great exclusive video this morning. And to be clear, CNN was not alerted to be there, it was through a reporting that there was a hunch. Tell us more.", "Yes. I mean we did have a hunch. We heard that the grand jury was going to be meeting on Thursday and that struck us as unusual and they did actually. They heard testimony from Jerome Corsi's step son on Thursday and we heard through our sources that there was a reason that it was scheduled for Thursday. There were some suggestion that they might be busy, Mueller's team might be busy on Friday and we have a couple of our eagle eyed reporters who spotted one of the prosecutors who has been working on this Roger Stone case leave the office with a suitcase and so ...", "A suitcase, where are you going?", "It just didn't seem like the right time for a prosecutor on the Roger Stone case to be taking a fun weekend away and so we decided that out of an abundance of caution, we should stakeout Roger Stone's home just in case something did happen. And Stone and his attorney I think we're very convinced that he would have an opportunity to turn himself in, that they would not get this kind of treatment from the FBI. But we followed what was unusual court activity, unusual prosecutor activity and it was Roger Stone day.", "Great reporting, great hunches. I'm glad it all worked out. Thanks, everyone. Stick around. Stone has been called the cockroach of American politics. He was even fired ones from the Dole campaign because of a sleazy swinger ad. The take a look at Roger Stone sorted and downright shady past next.", "You're now under oath, were you at anytime a member of a crime organization headed by Michael Corleone.", "I don't know nothing about that. Oh, I was in oil business with his father, but that was a long time ago. That's all.", "That was the character, Frank Pentangeli, from the movie Godfather Part Two. A one time ally of Michael Corleone who cooperates with the FBI and then recants before that committee, claiming that the FBI told him to lie. Today we learned that Roger Stone, President Trump's longtime confidant ...", "-- cooperates with the FBI and then recants before that committee claiming that the FBI told him to lie. Today we learned that Roger Stone, President Trump's longtime confidant has been charged with instructing a witness in the Mueller investigation to \"pull a frank pentangle which as you see means to lie. Stone has been a fixture in Republican politics for more than four decades including a stint on the Trump campaign but now his sleazy take-no-prisoners approach might actually land him in the slammer.", "I'm Roger Stone", "He's been called The Dirty Trickster, The Prince of Darkness, even the Cockroach of American Politics by the left-leaning New Republic. And Roger Stone flaunts many of these monikers as proudly as he flaunts his Nixon back tattoo.", "I'm an agent provocateur.", "Stone's reputation is hard-earned. His notorious political rap sheet goes back to the Nixon campaign when the then-19-year-old donated money to Nixon's opponent. He said it was from the Young Socialist Alliance and gave the receipt to the press. It didn't get any more ethical from there. In 1980, Stone began a lobbying firm with Paul Manafort that unapologetically catered to human rights abusers. Stone once boasted they \"Lined up most of the dictators in the world that we could find. Pro-western dictators, of course. The good ones.\" Nevertheless, the questionable consultants resume is filled with work for Republican stars. Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr., and of course --", "I'm a political adviser to Donald Trump.", "While working for Bob Dole, Stone's personal I have caused the public stir. He was forced to resign from Dole's presidential campaign after a tabloid revealed that he and his wife had placed an ad for a sex partner in a paper called Local Swing Fever. But Stone did not go away He continued to stir the political pot. In 1999, Stone helped Donald Trump navigate his first short-lived campaign for the presidency.", "I've got to give my best advice but Mr. Trump makes the decisions. And frankly, the polls so far kind of reflected voters like it.", "A year later, in 2000, Stone took credit for disrupting the Florida recount by organizing a Republican riot at the Miami-Dade Elections Office. All the while, the Stone list of dirty tricks and black ops continued to grow. Stone took credit for the downfall of then-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer saying he found out about Spitzer's penchant for prostitutes from a sex worker he met at a Miami swingers club.", "Welcome to Stones Zone.", "Through his online channel the Stones Zone and national T.V. appearances, Stone has four years pedaled countless deranged conspiracy theories.", "I am not a conspiracy theorist I'm a conspiracy realist.", "And through all of this, there has been a mainstay, his longtime friend Donald Trump who reportedly continued confiding in stone even after firing him from his campaign in 2015. Stone claims he quit.", "We go back a very long time. I have -- Donald Trump came to my wedding, I went to two of his. I was at both his parent's funerals. I have great affection for Trump and the Trump family.", "So what advice might the president have received? One passage from Stone's book of life lesson stands out \"Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counter-attack.", "So take a listen to Roger Stone today.", "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.", "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. He's being talked about because he was indicted.", "Jake, he's looking like a mini Nixon there. The only thing he didn't say is I am NOT a crook directly and it's really not a good look. I mean, there have been 35 -- 34 people charged, three companies, almost 100 -- you know, it's -- something wrong with this man and it's something wrong with all of the President's men. It seems like that this entire -- I mean he has been -- the President -- I want people to wrap their minds around this. President Trump has been under some type of investigation ever since he took office. Imagine that.", "So President Trump tweeted in December about Roger Stone, Kevin. Take a listen to this or take a look at this. I will never testify against Trump. That's President from quoting Stone. This statement was recently made by Roger Stone essentially stating that he will not be forced by a rogue and out-of-control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about \"President Trump.\" Nice to know that some people still have \"guts.\" That does seem to be paramount to President Trump more than anything else, loyalty to him.", "Yes. And he is the personification of the Trump approach to politics too, right? Which is forget -- it's not so much about ideas but whatever you do and Brian Stelter quoted this earlier, whatever you do don't be boring, right? And that's Donald Trump's approach to politics. It's the same thing with Roger Stone. I think the bet here and it's -- and it's -- and it'll be interesting to see whether it has to right but the bet here that Roger Stone is making is that this can be won in the court of public opinion. The Special Counsel is making the bet that this is going to be won in the court of law and that that ultimately is what will win the day. We're going to have to see that play out over the next few months.", "I think Roger Stone is making the bet that he will be pardoned by Donald Trump.", "That's it. And with public opinion from Donald Trump's base.", "Oh, I see. I see. For the base. So -- and the indictment makes some incredible allegations against Stone. I should say they're not the allegations, there's evidence of them including he threatened to kill the dog of Person Number Two in the indictment Randy Credico. He tells Credico, \"You are a rat, a stoolie, you backstab your friends, run your mouth, my lawyers are dying to rip you to shreds. I am so ready. Let's get it on. Prepare to die.\" And then there's also some stuff about his dog. Let's show a picture of the dog because I just want to show you. It's a sweet little dog.", "And he complained about the FBI raid waking up his dog. So we know if anything that they're dog people.", "I mean, the truth is no one's going to cry if Roger Stone goes to jail or when he goes to jail.", "He might like it.", "He might. Who knows? But the real question is given all of their history here between Trump and Roger Stone, is it actually plausible he didn't know what he was up to.", "That's right.", "What did Trump, know when did he know it, we don't know it yet but I'm sure we'll learn it, and that's why it's interesting --", "That's why the court of law is much bigger than the court of public opinion.", "Can I also just say like it's pretty remarkable that the President of the United States has a close associate like Roger Stone. I mean, there are dirty tricksters in every party in every you know, every corner of politics but this is a close friend of President Trump and this guy is awful.", "Birds of a feather.", "Has a Nixon tattoo. That's a big red flag right there.", "I think that's unfair to Nixon, really. I just want to say.", "All right, everyone, stick around. Roger Stone was not even the only Trump associate in court today. That's next."], "speaker": ["SARA MURRAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "STONE", "MURRAY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MURRAY", "SARAH SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "MURRAY", "STONE", "MURRAY", "TAPPER", "MURRAY", "TAPPER", "MURRAY", "TAPPER", "MURRAY", "TAPPER", "KIM WEHLE, FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR", "TAPPER", "JOHN BERMAN, ANCHOR, CNN", "SARAH SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "BERMAN", "SANDERS", "BERMAN", "SANDERS", "BERMAN", "TAPPER", "PSAKI", "TAPPER", "PSAKI", "TAPPER", "STONE", "TAPPER", "BILL KRISTOL, CONSERVATIVE WRITER", "TAPPER", "KRISTOL", "TAPPER", "MURRAY", "TAPPER", "WEHLE", "TAPPER", "MURRAY", "TAPPER", "MURRAY", "TAPPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FRANK PENTANGELI", "TAPPER", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "ROGER STONE, TRUMP ASSOCIATE", "R-O-G-E-R S-T-O-N-E. 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{"id": "CNN-369323", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-05-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/11/cnr.22.html", "summary": "U.S.-China Trade War; North Korea Waiting for Trump to Blink or Leave Office; Children at War", "utt": ["A trade war is brewing. U.S. president Trump threatens China with more tariffs after talks between Beijing and Washington stall.", "Plus, House Democrats subpoena the Treasury Secretary for President Trump's tax returns, escalating the battle for information about the Trump administration.", "Also this hour, thousands of people without power and it could get worse. You're looking at severe weather and flooding, battering the south central U.S. Derek will have the forecast.", "Looking at that reminds me of Hurricane Harvey. So bad there. A warm welcome to viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm George Howell.", "I'm Natalie Allen. CNN NEWSROOM starts right now.", "Our top story, U.S. president Donald Trump dealing with trouble in at least three points around the world with no indication of what is coming next.", "First in China, which now faces tariffs of 25 percent on imports to the United States. This after trade talks break down and no word when those talks will resume.", "In the Middle East, the U.S. has deployed additional firepower, the U.S. calling it a deterrent to Iran. A military carrier group is already in the area.", "And also the issue of North Korea, Mr. Trump, downplaying recent short-range missile launches. The diplomatic efforts are at a standstill. But the president says he is still open to talks. CNN has reporters covering all angles of this story.", "Our Matt Rivers is in China. Ben Wedeman is in Beirut, following the U.S. missile system deployment. And Anna Coren is in Hong Kong for the latest on North Korea.", "Let's go to Matt Rivers. It comes down to exactly how China will retaliate and when, at this point.", "Yes, the when, it's not an if question, you're right, George. It's when. China says they're going to retaliate. They've done it before when the U.S. has hiked tariffs on Chinese imports to the U.S. So we're just waiting word from the commerce ministry as to exactly how China's going to retaliate. I would expect that information is going to come out relatively quickly, either this weekend or on Monday. But that's what we're waiting for. In terms of how China can retaliate, there's a number of different ways you can do it. Interestingly, because of this trade war, most American imports to China are already under tariffs. So when America sends goods here, Chinese importers have to pay a tax. That's the initial retaliation that China first did. But what we could see China to is increase those tariff rates like what the U.S. just did on Friday. We could also see them restrict market access for American companies. And interestingly, they could resume restrictions on Chinese buyers buying American soybeans. It may seem obscure, but Americans sell billions of dollars of that crop to China each year. That had been a casualty of the trade war. There were restrictions put on last year then China lifted those restrictions. But they could easily come back up again. That's where we're at, George and Natalie. We're not exactly sure how China is going to retaliate. We know they will; it's just a question of mad.", "Matt, we hear from the United States president, saying the U.S. is negotiating from a place of strength. There in China, what is the word from Xi Jinping about the nation's economy and how they will endure in the long term?", "If you believe what the White House is saying, that it was China walked back on an agreement, that's how it came back from where it was looking like a deal to where we are now, China would deny that. But if you believe what the White House is saying, look, China knew what they were doing when they got into that. It knew that the United States was not going to be happy and that this was a possibility. So I think in the halls of power in Beijing, you, at least, can infer a sense of relative position of strength, in terms of they're looking at the economy here and saying we're resilient. We can get through this. That's the line you're see in state media. Trying to drum up nationalistic support against the Americans in this trade war. Now whether that's true, economists really have a wide range of opinions on this. I think the general feeling is that China's economy might not last as long as the American economy could, in terms of being OK during a trade war. There's really a whole bunch of opinions. But looking at China's actions, you're seeing --", "-- at least for now, Beijing thinks they can weather this.", "Matt Rivers following the story, Matt, thank you.", "There is another growing dispute involving the U.S. This one with Iran. The Pentagon saying it has deployed more Patriot missiles to the Middle East in order to deter potential attacks by Iran or its allies.", "This comes days after the U.S. decides to send a carrier strike group to the region. Still, the U.S. insists it doesn't want war. It also gave Switzerland a phone number that Iran can use to call President Trump.", "We'll see if they make that call. Let's talk about the standoff with CNN's Ben Wedeman, live this hour in Beirut. The United States seems to take these threats very seriously. The question is, how and why Iran is making these reported threats, Ben?", "Well, I think the fog of prewar, Natalie and George, is very thick at the moment. For instance, the deployment of this -- the Abraham Lincoln carrier group. It wasn't decided a few days ago. It was decided months ago. It was announced a month ago that it would be deployed to the Middle East. It was only late on Sunday night that U.S. national security adviser John Bolton announced it was because of unspecified Iranian threats. What we're hearing is a lot of intelligence or so-called intelligence from unnamed sources. But there's nothing much solid you can put your hands on at the moment, somewhat reminiscent of the leadup to the 2003 war against Iraq. We all know how that happened. Now the latest moves by the United States is that it's announced it's going to be deploying one Patriot anti-missile battery in the region. But just a few months ago, it withdrew four such batteries as the war against ISIS was winding down. They're also going to be deploying the USMC Armament, which is an amphibious vessel that delivers Marines and military vehicles. That, in fact, was also planned to be deployed in the region. Its deployment, however, has been accelerated. So certainly, we see the moves from elements within the U.S. administration certainly heading toward an escalation. But we've also heard President Trump said the Iranians should give him a call, because all he wants is for the Iranian nuclear program to come to an end, which is exactly what the 2015 Iran nuclear deal was designed to do, at least until the year 2030. Now President Trump doesn't seem to be on the same page as Mr. Bolton, who has long been a proponent of regime change in Iraq. He -- rather, President Trump -- saying that he wants the nuclear program to end. Bolton, obviously, has a much broader program or agenda. He wants to see an end to the regime itself in Tehran. So confusion reigns but definitely, the fog is very thick.", "Absolutely. Yes, relations between the two countries have been deteriorating ever since President Trump withdrew from that nuclear deal. Ben Wedeman for us in Beirut. Thank you, Ben.", "So again in the face of all of these different crises that are playing out, the U.S. president is downplaying North Korea's latest missile tests.", "On Friday, President Trump told \"Politico\" that he did not consider the short-range missile launch Thursday to be a breach of trust by North Korea's leader. He called it, quote, \"very standard stuff.\" And the U.S. special representative for North Korea says the door for talks is still open.", "Let's go live to Hong Kong. Our Anna Coren has been following the story. Anna, it doesn't feel like the response from both sides has been measured for this relationship.", "That's right. Because there's so much at stake. Not only are we talking about the difference between peace and war on the Korean Peninsula, I should say, but we're also talking about a U.S. president who wants to have that foreign policy accomplishment. He wants to be the U.S. president to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula and bring about peace. We have to remember when those two leaders, Kim Jong-un and President Trump, met in Singapore last year and that bromance that flourished, shortly after that, President Trump said there was no longer a threat from North Korea. Well, since then, we've seen a deterioration in that bromance, although, as you say, they're keeping things quite measured.", "But North Korea is, without a doubt, testing America. It desperately wants its attention. It wants to return to the negotiating table. It wants those sanctions lifted. But the United States, under this administration, Trump is saying that North Korea denuclearize before those sanctions are lifted. So as we say, George, there's so much at stake. But there's a lot of face to save as well. As you mentioned, you know, Trump has many foreign policy issues happening all over the world. And he is stretched. He does not want to see this unravel on the Korean Peninsula, what he has worked so hard to achieve. But it is a big gamble. For all we know, these short-range missile tests could soon become long-range missile tests. And that will certainly get up the nose of the United States because those are what they are most concerned about. As for now, Donald Trump says the relationship remains. Nobody is happy about what is taking place. But North Korea clearly isn't ready for the talks. And that would suggest that the United States is not prepared to go into the negotiating table with North Korea anytime soon, George.", "Anna Coren, thank you.", "And that, of course, is the global front. But the president certainly faces much on the domestic front. The U.S. attorney general seems to think Donald Trump did not obstruct justice. So why won't the former White House counsel, that you see here, say that? We'll talk about that story coming up here.", "Speaking of denied requests, it looks like the U.S. Congress won't get a look at Mr. Trump's taxes anytime soon. We'll take a look at how they're trying to change that."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "ALLEN (voice-over)", "HOWELL (voice-over)", "ALLEN (voice-over)", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HOWELL", "RIVERS", "RIVERS", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "ANNA COREN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "COREN", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-151334", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2010-5-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1005/24/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Rising Threat of New Korean War", "utt": ["The threat of all-out war between the Koreas ratcheting higher right now. The Pentagon saying the U.S. and South Korea will, in fact, conduct new military exercises together in response to the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship in March. North Korea has denied any responsibility. But an international team of investigators concluded last week that the ship was, in fact, sunk by a torpedo fired from a North Korean submarine. Let's bring in our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, who is working the story for us -- talk about these exercises -- military exercises, which often are pointed and have a strong message intended that are about to be conducted between the U.S. And South Korea.", "The message is being sent, Wolf. Will the North Koreans hear it? The exercises are, indeed, very focused. One set of exercises will focus on antisubmarine warfare -- operating under the ocean's surface, hunting bad guys, all related to this torpedo attack that sunk the South Korean ship. The other exercise will be about maritime surveillance -- tracking North Korean shipping all around the Pacific Rim. The North Koreans are very savvy at sending their ships out with suspicious cargo, possibly carrying weapons of mass destruction. What we have learned in the last several hours, in fact, the U.S. Navy tracked a North Korean ship just a few weeks ago all the way to Burma, where it even unloaded suspicious cargo. So these exercises all demonstrated that sending that message. Will North Korea hear it. Will it change its behavior? Very unlikely -- Wolf.", "I've -- I visited the DMZ that separates North and South Korea. As you know, there are a million North Korean troops only within miles of that DMZ. There are 30,000 U.S. Troops just below it, plus hundreds of thousands of South Korean troops. One miscalculation could spark all-out war.", "You know, this is really the bottom line. And that's what nobody wants that. On the Korean Peninsula, there is no room for miscalculation. The distances are very close. Troops are on hair trigger alert most of the time. Nobody wants to see war there. It would catastrophic. All of this is about sending a message. All of this is about getting the allies, like China, in the region, to help send a message and to try and convince North Korea not to do this again. But they have engaged in many provocations over the years. Nobody is really betting they're going to quit.", "Yes. As you say, even under the best of circumstances, it's always very tense along the", "Absolutely.", "Stand by for a moment, Barbara. I want to remind our viewers how the Koreas reached this point in their volatile history. The Korean War was the first significant armed conflict of the cold war, pitting the communist North, supported by China and the Soviet Union, against the South, backed by the United States and the UN. It began back in 1950, when North Korea invaded the South. It ended in 1953 and not with a peace agreement, with a truce that restored the border between the two countries and created a buffer zone between them, where thousands of U.S. troops still patrol. (", "The signing of the truce took place at Pyongyang, the first step on the long and still torturous road to the ultimate solution of peace and a unified Korea. Signing for the United Nations was American General William Harrison. For the Reds, North Korea's Nam Il. But the hopes kindled this day faded as the year ran out.", "Over a half a century later, hopes for reunification are dim. Nuclear-armed North Korea pulled out of the armistice agreement last year. The two Koreas are still technically at war -- now threatening to explode into a full-fledged conflict. This is a tense moment, indeed. Let's go back to Barbara Starr. She's over at our Magic Wall with CNN's Tom Foreman -- walk this out for us a little bit, Tom. Map out the situation along the Korean buffer zone, the", "Absolutely, Wolf. This is China over here, which you were meaning just a moment ago -- always a very important player that you have to pay attention to in that region. And this is where the trouble began, right out here in this little island. This is where that ship was put down. And it was put down in water that actually is quite shallow. So the belief is that this torpedo may have been released from below by a sub from the North Koreans. However, important to note, this is the DMZ here. The DMZ also extends into the water. And just as it moves around on land, out here, it slides around. So the actual sinking took place about six miles south, in South Korean waters -- Barbara, that's why this is such a big deal.", "Well, it is. You know, think of it this way. This is essentially the DMZ extended out into the water. The U.S. Navy does not sail here. But this -- generally. But this is very rich fishing territory. There's a lot of blue crab and other fish harvesting going on in this region. So it's very busy waters. And clearly a provocation by the North Koreans to try and destabilize the situation. You see just how close everything is, how quickly it could all go bad.", "Let's talk about that. Wolf mentioned the power of the units here. I'm going to bring that up for a minute. I want you to talk about the power up here and the proximity to Seoul right down here.", "Well, look, this is why it would be so catastrophic if, heaven forbid, war were to break out. The North Koreans -- more than a million under arms, not terribly well-equipped, not terribly well- trained. You know, they suffer a lot of poverty in their military...", "In my cases, they just take all sorts of citizens and say you're military.", "You're -- you're in. But nonetheless, how quickly could they get to Seoul? How quickly could they really cause havoc in this region?", "Because, you know, the South Korean soldiers, who are better trained, look far less numerous.", "Right. I mean, look, any way you cut it, this would be disastrous. US troops, however, in the last several years, have moved much further south, away from the DMZ -- about 27,000 or so U.S. troops. The U.S. military strategy is to let the South Koreans deal with it initially. The U.S. has warships off the coast, has long-range bombers to the east in Guam. There would be U.S. naval power, U.S. firepower. Everyone hopes it doesn't come to that.", "And the North Koreans have what -- what we might describe as cunning treachery to a degree. Along the border here, for example, we've marked them here -- four different secret tunnels that were found from North Korea into South Korea that are among the ones that have been discovered here. How much does it play into this equation, the notion that North Korea, particularly under the -- the not so well Kim Jong-Il, is simply unpredictable?", "Well, that's -- that's really it. In fact, nobody really knows whether he ordered this torpedo attack or not. The suspicion is that he did, because nobody in the North Korean military would do anything without his approval. He is not well. He is concerned about succession. There is concern that if he dies, that the regime will implode. And nobody can predict what happens after that. That is the ultimate uncertainty. That's why it's in everyone's interests, from South Korea to China to the United States, to send the message, but not let this situation get out of hand.", "So what happens over here, Barbara? This is where it began, again. This is the initial sinking of the ship over here. And they had months of problems -- I guess really years of problems over here, where there is a clash in the military exercises. Quickly, what happens with this exercise?", "The exercises will go on, as we said. The message will be sent. We'll see if North Koreans are listening.", "All right, Barbara Starr -- Wolf.", "Tom, thanks very much. Bomb suspect, thanks to you, as well. Surprising new allegations about the company behind that West Virginia mine disaster. Did Massey Energy send warnings to their workers when inspectors were approaching? We have new details. And the GOP wants to know what you think the political priorities of the country should be. They have a new Web site for you to weigh in. CNN is the only network to get a sneak peek."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BARBARA STARR, PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "STARR", "BLITZER", "DMZ. 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{"id": "CNN-292770", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2016-08-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/30/lvab.01.html", "summary": "FBI to Release Clinton E-mail Report; Trump Backer Apologizes for Blackface Tweet", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. I'm Ashleigh Banfield. Welcome to LEGAL VIEW. There are now exactly ten weeks left for the candidates for president to win friends and influence voters and a little more than one day left for Donald Trump to do what we're all awaiting for, and that's hammer out those pesky details of a very long awaited immigration plan. Donald Trump's major address comes tomorrow night in Phoenix, Arizona, the same day that we could see another big development in the Hillary Clinton e-mail saga. That's because the FBI just told us something, that they are expecting to make more of their investigation public for you to view and read and parse and decide upon. So I want to go right to our justice correspondent Evan Perez with more of the details. So what exactly are we expecting from the FBI tomorrow, documents, notes, all of the above? How is that different from what we already have? Lay it out.", "Well, one of the things we're going to see is this report that the FBI prepared to present to prosecutors to recommend that there not be any charges brought in this e-mail investigation against Hillary Clinton. And so it's about a 30-page report. It was provided to the Justice Department prosecutors with the FBI's recommendations to not bring charges, as well as another 12-page summary essentially of the FBI's interview with Hillary Clinton. Again, that occurred last month just before the FBI made its recommendations, Ashleigh.", "This is weird. I mean I think - to put this in context, the FBI, when it conducted - they don't take this as standard operating procedure. You don't put it on the video or the audio.", "Right.", "But you do take notes old school style, like gum shoe detective style.", "Right.", "The weird thing is, in this day and age, we don't ever get that stuff.", "That's right.", "Whether you're Hillary Clinton or not, the public doesn't get to see the work behind these interviews. But they do this time. I don't get it. Explain.", "Well, that's right. I mean, look, this is extraordinary. Nothing like this has been done. It's without precedent. And I think Jim Comey - what Jim Comey did last month as well was without precedent, for you to go out there and describe the details of an investigation in which you did not bring any charges. It's just not done. Obviously, because of the context of what's happening, the investigation of a presidential candidate, the FBI decided that it was important to explain to the public why there would not be any charges. And, again, this is - this release, which we expect to happen under the Freedom of Information Act, as soon as tomorrow, Ashleigh, is in answer to that because there is such great public interest in what exactly the FBI did. So we expect we're going to learn a little bit more than what the details that Comey provided in his - in his press conference, or his press announcement last month.", "I know that you and your producer, Shimon Prokupecz, are working your phone lines to get more.", "Absolutely.", "We're going to tap in with you throughout the day. Great breaking news. Thank you for that, Evan.", "Sure.", "I want to jump over to the Trump front. Immigration topping this week's agenda, but the spotlight remains on the nominee's attempt to win blacks and Hispanic support. And my colleague, Jason Carroll, joins me now live with that. In this whole effort of outreach to the minority communities, there's a lot of pullback going on today, particularly with the black pastor, a prominent black pastor, who said and did some things and now has some regrets about it. So lay that out, if you would.", "Definitely regrets. I mean, look, today was supposed to be the day when much of the talk would be about Trump's muchly anticipated speech on immigration. But then you have this Trump surrogate, Pastor Mark Burns, apologizing repeatedly for posting that picture of Clinton in blackface. Burns says he has not spoken to Trump about it and again repeatedly apologizing for tweeting the cartoon, you see it there, which he admitted was, quote, \"divisive.\"", "Obviously, my message, I stand by it. But the methodology, I do not. The message is simply this, I believe that the Democrat Party has been using the black vote, that black voting bloc. And because the Democrat Party already knows they own that voting bloc, the promises that have been made to the African- American community are not being cared out.", "Well, you see there him apologizing again repeatedly, say - talking about methodology. What was also interesting about that, Ashleigh, is he said, what he was trying to do was he was trying to be inclusive. You know, only he can sort of try to get through how -", "Sure.", "Posting a racially charged image like that would be inclusive, but it most definitely complicates the Trump campaign's position on some -", "Yes, it made a lot of headlines, Jason. Made a lot of headlines that -", "Yes, trying to reach out -", "Yes, that he probably didn't want. He didn't want those headlines. And then there are these headlines and it's all about the KKK again, which is something I'm sure the Trump campaign doesn't want either. David Duke is running for Senate, for U.S. Senate, and he put out one of those fancy dancy robo calls that we hear about all the time. But in his robo call asking for voter support, he threw The Donald in there, too. Have a listen.", "Unless massive immigration is stopped now, we'll be outnumbered and outvoted in our own nation. It's happening. It's time to stand up and vote for Donald Trump for president and vote for me, David Duke, for the U.S. Senate.", "So with that fancy technology comes a real quick response from the Trump campaign, Jason.", "Yes, you know, I bet the Trump campaign just wants David Duke just to go away. As you know, Trump has been criticized for not disavowing Duke's endorsement during the primary quickly enough. The time, though, the Trump campaign was quick to disavow Duke and that robo call that you heard there. The campaign released a statement saying there is no place in the Republican Party for Duke's racist views. The Trump camp now looking or trying to look ahead to tomorrow's immigration speech. I mean there are some people out here who do want to talk about policy. Trump's hardline supporters are concerned he is softening his position on using that deportation force that he promised to deport some 11 million people living - undocumented people living in the United States. Trump's campaign manager saying Trump may be softening his approach to illegal immigration, but not softening his policy position. A bit of parsing words there. This morning, Trump did tweet about the wall that he intends to build, saying, quote, \"from day one, I said I was going to build a great wall on the southern border and much more. Stop illegal immigration. Watch Wednesday.\" Ashleigh, I know you will be watching. I will be watching.", "You bet.", "A number of people are going to be watching.", "I've been waiting for weeks. I' dying to know because I'm having trouble reporting it. Jason Carroll, thank you, sir. Good work today, as always.", "You bet.", "So - so much for my think tank to dive into now. Where should I begin? I'm joined by CNN political analyst and \"New York Times\" correspondent Alex Burns, \"Washington Post\" correspondent Philip Bump, and politics editor of theroot.com, Jason Johnson. Jason, I'm going to begin with you. What we just sort of dove-tailed off of with Jason Carroll's reporting, and that was this minority outreach, the David Duke ugliness, the Trump campaign disavowed that right away. But Anderson Cooler had Spike Lee on his show last night and said, so how's that while minority outreach thing going do you suppose? And this was how the response came off. Take a look.", "Donald Trump says he's reaching out to African-American. He says, what the hell have you got to lose? Your - he says - when you hear that, as a black man in America, what do you think?", "I laugh.", "So, Jason, he laughs with a dead serious face. How many people within the African-American community do you think that Spike Lee is speaking for?", "He's probably speaking for a lot of people according to the polls, Ashleigh, because every poll has shown that not only is Donald Trump only at zero or maybe 1 percent with African-American voters, but none of his efforts to reach out have improved anything. And I always say this is a very key point. This is a Trump problem. This is deeper than the Republican Party because John Kasich, Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, George W. Bush, there are plenty of Republicans who can get African-American Republicans out to vote for them. Trump has turned off black Republicans. So his outreach is having the absolute opposite effect and it's going to hurt down battled Republicans. I think everybody is terrified right now of getting dragged down in this nonsense with him and his poorly run campaign.", "And just when you think that's going to be the headline of the day, out comes the FBI. So, Alex, I'm going to get you to just in on here if you can with the news that we have more FBI e-mail information to digest tomorrow, which is the drip, drip, drip, drip that obviously the Clinton campaign does not want. No one's really gotten to any smoking guns, right, but does that mater?", "look, I think in terms of the trust issues, I mean, honesty issues that Hillary Clinton obviously has with a lot of voters, you know, people have reached those conclusions without the presence of a smoking gun. The challenge I think for the Clinton campaign is looming out of this really quiet and slow August for her campaign when she has been mostly behind closed doors, you know, down day after day, holding private fund raisers, and not necessarily driving an aggressive public message, which just allows all this information about e-mails, about the Clinton Foundation, about foreign donations to just flood into the vacuum. I think coming out of Labor Day you're going to see a lot of Democrats hoping, and I think you're going to see the Clinton campaign delivering a much, much more intensive schedule, a much, much more aggressive, louder message, a positive message about her in addition to the contrast she's been drawing with Trump.", "Since you mentioned those private fundraisers, sometimes you get an iPhone going during those private fundraisers and for Hillary Clinton I think it was - it might have been last night, the New York, she was overheard during one of the fundraisers talking about the upcoming debates and Donald Trump. Have a listen to what she said.", "And I'm running against someone who will say or do anything. And who knows what that might be. I do not know which Donald Trump will show up.", "Which Donald Trump will show up. And the truth is, Philip Bump, I don't even know that his own closest aides know because he has said I don't need the mock debates, according to reports. It's an unusual debate prep mechanism that he's employing at this point. And now the co-writer of \"The Art of the Deal,\" which is his famous book, is actually working for the Clinton camp. I just figured he'd have a non-disclosure agreement. He wouldn't be able to do much. But that's a - that's a lot to sort of chew on for a moment. What do you expect they're trying to do in the Clinton camp to cope with what they have no clue is coming?", "Right. Well, I think the first thing they're trying to do is set expectations. They want to make sure - I think one of the things that we want to look back to is the debate in 2000 between Al Gore and George W. Bush. Al Gore went into that. He was presumed to be able to mop the floor with George W. Bush. George W. Bush came off as very accessible and Gore was kind of frumping (ph) his way through it and it didn't do Gore any good. I think the Clinton camp is trying to do their best to set expectations that this is a -", "Yes, I heard that. And I heard interviews this morning -", "Right.", "With some of her surrogates saying, you know, he's going to be hopeless. He's never going to -", "Right.", "He's not going to be able to handle the issues. Like, that's not setting low expectations.", "Right.", "Or that guy didn't get the memo.", "Sure. It's very possible that guy didn't get the memo. I mean, you know, it's standard, it's standard that you want to, you know, puff up your opponent. But I think the question is very real, how is Donald Trump going to perform in this debate? What's he going to do? How's he going to come after Hillary Clinton? We've all seen what he did in the Republican debate where there were a lot of people that were on the stage and could absorb a lot of the attention. This is one on one and I think the Clinton team thinks they have an advantage when it gets down to policy, because they can really hammer him in a way that the Republicans weren't able to. The question is how he responds.", "Jason Johnson, I want you to do a quick response for me to some new polling that's just come out. It's the new Monmouth poll with registered voters. Clinton's come in 7 points ahead of Donald Trump at 43 percent to Donald Trump's 36 percent. We've been seeing some polls like this before, but I think the one that screams the loudest headline is the combined unfavorability of these candidates, which, by the way, is 2 percent. Favorable is 2 percent. When you put them both together, I'm not sure exactly how they'd frame the question, but basically what do you think of these guys? Two percent together says I don't.", "I always said, this is like \"Game of Thrones\" if you had to choose between like Joffrey and Ramsay. Like these are two horrible leaders that no one seems particularly enthusiastic about. I think this is a problem for both candidates. I think you've got a lot of Republican who are like, I'm never Trump, but I got to vote. You've got a lot of Democrats who are like, I guess I'm going to have to hold my nose for Hillary Clinton. These debates are going to be very, very key because whichever candidate finds themselves to be somewhat less unsufferable to the American people is going to have a huge advantage in what was going to be I still think a very close and very tight election in the popular vote come November.", "Yes, that - it's hard to say that whole 2 percent business because I think that's the crissy cross of both, you know, both of those unfavorablities coming together because there's plenty of people who think these candidates are fantastic. They certainly are.", "Right.", "It's going to be fun to do, isn't it, all the way through the next 70 days? Alex Burns, Philip Bump and Jason Johnson, thank you.", "Thank you.", "All three of you, appreciate it.", "Thanks.", "Coming up next, as I said, 70 days, ticking away, but the polls are open right now in a couple of key states with some big time, long time politicians and their careers on the line. You recognize them. Where do they stand and what is today going to bring for them? 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{"id": "CNN-14856", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-8-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/29/mn.07.html", "summary": "'Willie Fire' Threatens Montana Estates", "utt": ["But first, we want to get started and start talking about the western wildfires. A lot of focus on the state of Montana today and a wildfire that compared to others is relatively small. Let's bring in our Rusty Dornin, joining us with the latest. Rusty, this latest fire that we're talking about, the Willie fire, not even, I don't think, 5,000 acres and yet it's getting a lot of attention. Can you tell us why?", "Well, Daryn, I think it's getting a lot of attention because it threatened -- well, 150 homes had to be evacuated and also it was threatening some million-dollar estates. And any time it threatens property like that, they're going to send as much manpower as they can to that area. But that's a difficult fire. It's representative of what a lot of the fires in this area are on. It's steep terrain. There's very erratic fire behavior. It's tough for firefighters to get in there and do a direct attack, so they're sort of confined to at least protecting property in some of those areas. So they're keeping a close eye on that. Now here, a few hours ago, some very weary firefighters tumbled out of their tents. These guys are on two-week shifts, guys and women, on two-week shifts. They work 16-hour days. They're breathing a lot of smoke. They're climbing to very high altitudes, very tough work. And the latest that we're hearing now is that there are no replacements for them. We spoke to a firefighter from Spokane, Washington just a few moments ago who said he was supposed to leave today, and now they're telling him he has to stay indefinitely. So there's going to be more problems as they keep saying that these fires are going to be ongoing until the snows come. They're just completely running out of manpower -- Daryn.", "What do weather conditions look like there today, speaking of snow?", "Well, there's supposed to be a cold front coming in tonight or tomorrow. Of course, they're hoping for that. But today it's supposed to be get warmer and the winds are supposed to kick up. So...", "Bad news.", "... at this morning's fire briefing, you know, they were talking about, you know, being careful of torching of trees, about when the fire gets out-of-hand and does what they call \"running,\" which is when the firefighters really have to back off. So they're prepared for some very erratic behavior today, and then hoping that this cold front, when it comes in, is going to bring some rain. But that rain is only supposed to be about a half inch, and that's not nearly enough to do anything to these fires.", "And Rusty, we heard earlier that access to Yellowstone National Park from that Montana side, from Red Lodge is now blocked so that you can't get that way. But are there other ways to get into Yellowstone?", "There are several ways to get into Yellowstone, also, from Wyoming and those areas. So there are -- Yellowstone is a huge national park, and there are other ways to get in there.", "OK, Rusty Dornin in Hamilton, Montana. Thanks for joining us."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN", "DORNIN", "KAGAN", "DORNIN", "KAGAN", "DORNIN", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-272715", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-01-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/01/nday.03.html", "summary": "What to Expect This Election Year; Global Outlook for 2016; Clemson, Alabama Advance to National Title Game; What to Expect This Election Year.", "utt": ["The gunman went into the offices during the editorial meeting...", "Police raids linked to the Paris attacks are underway in Belgium.", "Active shooter in San Bernardino, California.", "ISIL wants to frame this as a war between the United States and Islam.", "Unbelievable scenes of lawlessness in Baltimore.", "To the youth of this city, I will seek justice on your behalf.", "Another tape the city of Chicago does not want you to see.", "They're bringing drugs. They're rapists. Complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.", "I cannot wait to stand on the debate stage with Hillary Clinton.", "Sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails!", "I've lost more sleep than all of you put together.", "You are a strong people!", "The pope of the Holy Sea.", "If there's anything true about Pope Francis, he is close to the people.", "God bless America.", "Yes.", "Happy new year. Welcome to this special edition of NEW DAY. Chris Cuomo, Alisyn Camerota, Michaela Pereira, all here for you. We're going to look at all that 2016 has to offer. Trump, will he continue on the road to becoming the Republican nominee? What will happen on the Democrat side? Could there be any shake-ups there?", "And could this be the year of incredible medical breakthroughs? How will new treatments and advancements in medicine affect your health? Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins us with a look at the medical horizon.", "So much possibility and, speaking of that, Hollywood getting ready for the award season. Oh, it's going to be exciting. Who's going to be up for top honors and take home the coveted Oscar? That and so much more ahead. But first, let's give you a check of your headlines from the news desk.", "All right. Good morning again, everyone, and happy new year. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Let's take a look at the top stories. The new year rung in around the world with huge parties and celebrations. But all eyes turn to New York City when the ball drops there.", "Four... three... two... one!", "Four... three... two... one!", "Four... three... two... one!", "Oh, very exciting. One million-plus jamming Times Square to greet 2016 amid some of the tightest security ever. Six thousand officers on duty following terror threats aimed at New York, Washington and Los Angeles. In Belgium, officials cancelled Brussels festivities outright in the wake of an arrest connected to a suspected new year terror plot, and in Munich, Germany, train service resuming today at two major rail stations there after a reported ISIS terror plot forced the evacuation of stations on New Year's Eve. Authorities say an alleged plot involved between five and seven potential suicide attackers from Iraq and Syria. They say intelligence officials from another country tipped off German police about the threat and the ISIS connection. And President Barack Obama preparing to leap over congressional road blocks with executive action to address gun violence. White House officials say the president has been frustrated by his inability to get gun control legislation through Congress. Gun-control advocates expect the executive orders to be announced next week ahead of the State of the Union. And only two teams left standing in the battle for college football's national championship, Clemson and Alabama, rolling over their opponents in the Orange and Cotton Bowls, setting up an epic showdown one week from Monday. Coy Wire has the latest live for us from Fort Lauderdale. Good to see you. Happy New Year.", "Happy New Year, Fred. Good to see you, as well. Now, Clemson entered this match-up as the nation's lone unbeaten No. 1 ranked team, and they were an underdog, though, to Big 12 champion Oklahoma. So Clemson, seeking their first national title since 1981, had to find a way to stop the Sooners' third-ranked scoring offense, and they did. This game was close until Clemson exploded in the second half, outscoring Oklahoma 21-0. Led by the dynamic duo of Wayne Gallman on the ground, who scored twice, and Deshaun Watson, who is the game's offensive MVP with over 330 total yards and two touchdowns, Clemson stays perfect with a 37-17 victory. Now, the other semifinal matchup featured the only team to make last season's playoffs. Alabama taking on the Big 10 champs, Michigan State. The Crimson Tide's Cyrus Jones had the big play of the night. This 57-yard punt returned for a touchdown. And quarterback Jake Coker, he played the game of his life, throwing for two touchdowns in 'Bama's 38-0 smack-down of the Spartans. Now, in just ten days, Alabama and Clemson, they're going to play for that national championship in Arizona. And more big bowl games today, Fred, including the Rose Bowl, between Iowa and my former team, Stanford, and that game is under heightened security today -- Fred.", "All right. Good luck to all. Thanks so much, Coy. All right. Back to Alisyn and Chris.", "The political season about to pick up speed. The Iowa caucuses just one month away. It will be the first time that we have real results from real voters.", "We can't just mindlessly speculate anymore?", "That is over. And we actually have a real political panel here now to give us some insight. CNN political commentator and former communications director for Senator Ted Cruz, Amanda Carpenter; CNN political commentator and former Reagan White House political director, Geoffrey Lord. He's a Trump supporter. And CNN political commentator and Jeb Bush supporter, Ana Navarro. Hey, guys. Great to see you.", "Hey.", "Happy new year.", "Happy new year to you, too. Great to have you with us today. OK. Ana, let me start with you. Look into your crystal ball. What's about to happen now?", "Oh, lord, Alisyn, that crystal ball was so -- was so hard to read in 2015. I'm not sure I'm going to do a better job of it in 2016. But you're right. We are in a sprint. Chris, I'm glad to -- I'm very happy to tell you we do have about two more weeks of mindless speculation left.", "Oh, good.", "You know, you do know that -- Iowa voters, New Hampshire voters, these folks just take their time. They like to look under the hood. And a lot of them, half of them, don't make up their mind until that last week, but certainly, we are in the sprint. And I think you're going to see a lot of candidates spending a lot of time, some of them focused on Iowa, some of them more focused in New Hampshire.", "Too reasonable. Let's bite off some stuff and chew on it. OK?", "Oh, good.", "Geoffrey Lord. Here's the proposition. You tell me why it's true and/or false in the new year. Trump cannot hold on in Iowa: the evangelical base, too big. They don't like the negativity. They go Cruz. True or false and why?", "Sure, possible. Sure, possible. Absolutely.", "Possible?", "What's all the hedge, Geoffrey? Come on, it's 2016! Take a risk.", "Are you asking me, could Ted Cruz win this in Iowa? Yes. The question is what can he do beyond that? And the one thing that I would add is Ronald Reagan, of course, lost Iowa and became president. Rick Santorum and Governor Huckabee both won Iowa and never became president. So winning Iowa, in and of itself, doesn't do anything. I really do think this is going to be a long march here, a long march. New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and on beyond that. So whoever wins, even if Donald Trump wins Iowa, that's not going to solve anything.", "Amanda.", "Or settle anything.", "Amanda, winning Iowa doesn't mean anything?", "It's always good to win Iowa, but here's the thing. Iowa doesn't crown a king, but it knocks out a lot of princes. I think that we're going to see a lot of GOP candidates -- remember how big this field is -- are going to get knocked out, and then we're going to have another big shake-up when all that polling gets redistributed. Think about it. The guys in the undercard debate may only have 1 or 2 percent in the polls, but 1 or 2 percent can mean a lot for the top- tier candidates. And so after Iowa, we're going to see a big shake- up, and we may start again. It's always good to win, but winning Iowa is not everything.", "I can't trust the other two with this next one, Amanda, so I'll stay with you.", "Great.", "After what we saw with Trump and Jeb at the most recent Republican debate, where Trump -- I know you're sick of it, but I'm saying it again...", "Oh, I love it. I could never get sick of this metaphor.", "Trump looks at Jeb and says, \"Who's talking, me or you, Jeb? Me or you?\"", "I'm talking.", "And then she gives a little of that action, which is what Jeb Bush did, and I say this is a new Jeb Bush. He has decided to be the anti-Trump, and it is going to give him a boost. Yes or no, Amanda?", "Yes. I mean, it's always good to see Jeb assert himself on the national stage. I think a lot of people are clamoring for that, waiting to see real personality come out. And I think the more -- the less guarded Jeb Bush is, the better it is for him. That said, I still think it's a very bad idea for try -- for Jeb Bush to define his candidacy via Trump. He needs to be his own man, quit looking back on his Florida record, trying to run on that, and look forward at the current fights that have happened with the Obama administration and get in the middle of that.", "Ana, you're close, of course, to Jeb Bush. Was that the moment in the last CNN debate where he found his sea legs? Does he feel that he found his voice that night?", "You know, I'm seeing a different Jeb Bush in the last several weeks. I think that, really, since what seems like ancient history, but since the very bad debate in Boulder, I think he figured out that theatrics is part of the job description, and he's now doing it. I also see him doing much more focus on New Hampshire, which I think is smart, you know, as we've discussed. Iowa means something. It doesn't mean everything. The only time Iowa means something huge is when it's an upset, like in 2008 when Barack Obama upset, then, Hillary Clinton. If we see that kind of thing, either on the Democrat or Republican side, it would be huge.", "But wait...", "On Jeb, I think you're going to see him, you know, keep grinding away. A lot of retail politics, spending a lot of time in the early states, New Hampshire and South Carolina, and I think you're going to see him try to do this the old-fashioned way, one voter at a time.", "Amanda, do you want to jump in?", "But -- yes. Well, one thing about that, the interesting part of the new Jeb dynamic is that a rising Jeb, a rising Chris Christie makes life a lot harder for Marco Rubio. In many ways, they're competing for the same type of voter. And the more they clash, the more, you know, those three continue to be competitive with each other, makes it easier for a Cruz or a Trump to take the bigger lane.", "Well, actually, I think it's the two young bucks that have been locking horns. And I think we're going to continue seeing Cruz and Rubio, who are so evenly matched, who are both rookie senators, who are, you know, both lawyers, very different styles. One goes poetic. The other one goes legalese on us. And I think you're going to see the two of them clash a lot, which I'm not sure doesn't open up a space for another candidate, maybe Geoffrey's, maybe somebody else.", "All right. Geoffrey, what about this one? The chance that Donald Trump picks a female running mate before the convention?", "Before the convention?", "Yes.", "Possible, yes, sure. I can see it.", "Possible. It's possible that Alisyn knocks me unconscious in the next 15 seconds.", "Probable!", "I heard (ph) that once. You know, so I think, sure, absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, if Donald Trump wins this nomination or it becomes certain ahead of time that he's going to do it, yes. Yes. That's possible. He could pick Carly Fiorina. He could pick Ted Cruz...", "Oh, come on, Geoffrey! He can't stand Carly Fiorina. He has said over and over again that five -- five minutes of hearing her voice is, you know...", "But Carly holds her own in the debate.", "Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait. JFK couldn't stand Lyndon Johnson either, but he made him vice president.", "Yes, well, Donald Trump is no", "There's one -- there's one other thing here. I really do think this is going to be the year of the outsider. Again. And, I mean, election year itself. So whether it's Donald Trump or Ted Cruz or whomever, I think the outside is winning. I think that's why Donald Trump picks on Jeb Bush all the time. Not because he thinks Jeb Bush is a threat, but because Jeb Bush is the very symbol of the establishment. And whether it's Jeb Bush or John Kasich or some of these others, I think that's a real weakness, and I think that somebody on the outside is going to win this nomination.", "I think we're going to leave it there.", "Absolutely.", "Geoffrey...", "Happy new year.", "Thank you, guys. Thank you, Amanda and Ana, great to see you.", "Feliz ano nuevo.", "Thank you.", "Mick.", "Hillary Clinton is the Democratic frontrunner. But that doesn't mean she has clinched the nomination. What does she have to do to stay on top? Does Bernie Sanders stand a chance? All of that, next."], "speaker": ["JIM BITTERMANN, CNN SENIOR EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARILYN MOSBY, STATE'S ATTORNEY, CITY OF BALTIMORE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-239873", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-09-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/29/cnr.04.html", "summary": "CDC Launches Investigation Into Source of Paralysis for Colorado Children", "utt": ["Getting a check of top stories now. Could a virus that has sickened hundreds of children in recent weeks be the source of paralysis in some Colorado children? The CDC has launched an investigation. Nine children suffering from paralysis or muscle weakness are being treated in a Colorado hospital. The children first had respiratory problems before developing the muscle problems. The CDC is looking at a possible connection to the enterovirus 68 -- that's the respiratory virus that had spread to 40 states now. In money news, the fee to use ATMS that are not owned by your bank have jumped about 5 percent over the past year. On average -- that's more than $4 per transaction. While there are a few banks that reimburse those fees, the simplest way really to avoid them is to use your bank's ATM. All right. Move over Ben Roethlisberger, there's a new number 7 in town. As Jeanne Moos shows us, this number seven is getting a big -- make that a huge break in life.", "It's normal for cows to have spots but can you spot a number on this newborn calf? It's plain as the nose on his face, lucky 7. The calf was born at Veil Wood Farms in Pittsburgh Steeler country.", "So, of course, when we saw a number 7 our thoughts right away jumped to the number 7 with big Ben Roethlisberger.", "Number 7, the quarter back for the Steelers. The calf was christened Baby Ben and Big Ben must have approved because next thing you know, a photo of number 7 the calf was on number 7 the quarterback's official web page.", "Each cow's markings are like fingerprints so no two cows have the same spots.", "This isn't the first time spots ended up in the spotlight. First there was Mickey Moo whose marks looked so much like Mickey Mouse that Disney spent an undisclosed amount to acquire the cow. But the one who looked like she was metaphorically scratching her head with question marks. She has since gone on to the great unknown in the sky, but I had the honor of meeting the quizzical cow. Does she have any other punctuation marks on her? Any periods or exclamation points? Question mark went on to have bit parts.", "The old cow was smeared with new cow scent.", "Questionable roles in movies such as \"Someone Like You\". now that she's gone there's no question who's inherited the top spot. But, you know, Baby Ben 7 really is lucky. I mean really, really lucky. As one poster noted, one day he will be used for some Roethlisburgers (ph). It's true that the dairy farm where Ben was born normally keeps the girls and sells the boys for eventual slaughter. But Baby Ben's 7 makes him so special he'll be spared and put on display. You're promising that Baby Ben is not going to become a Roethlisburger?", "Not on our watch, I promise. Not on our watch will he become Roethlisburgers.", "Lucky 7 saved from the grill. Here's hoping he'll end up where old quarterbacks do -- put out to pasture. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York. .", "Let's hope he's put out to pasture. Thanks so much for joining me today. I'm Randi Kaye. \"@ THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA starts right after a quick break."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "JEANNE MOOS, CNN SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS", "KAYE"]}
{"id": "CNN-105523", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2006-5-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/02/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Duke Lacrosse Team Rape Case; A Day Without Immigrants", "utt": ["And meltdown in the roof of the world. A glacier in Tibet is melting, changing the weather, offering more proof the planet is warming, on this AMERICAN MORNING. Good morning to you. I'm Miles O'Brien.", "And I'm Soledad O'Brien. We start this morning with some new developments for the Duke lacrosse team and a decision on the team's future. There will be a next season. A university committee says that while they found a pattern of misconduct, it's not enough to warrant disbanding the team. Listen.", "You know, sexual assaults, we didn't find, you know, harassment. That was not the nature of the misconduct. And so in our judgment, based on the record that we reviewed, it didn't warrant suspension or termination of the program. The conduct of the lacrosse players did not differ from the misconduct of other students who drink too much and unfairly impose upon their neighbors.", "Well, here is what the committee report did find. They found a large number of players have been socially irresponsible, that the players need strict monitoring, because of the their alcohol- related problems. They report also says, though, that the team performed well both athletically and academically. The university committee did not take into account the current rape allegations, instead focusing on the team's behavior over the past five years. The Duke report coming out the same day attorneys for one of the team members charged in connection with the rape called for the removal of the district attorney in the case, who coincidentally is seeking another term in office. AMERICAN MORNING's Alina Cho has our story.", "Today's election is important, because if D.A. Michael Nifong loses, he could be out of office before the trial of the two Duke lacrosse players even begins. Regardless, defense attorneys want him off the case. In one of 12 motions Monday, an attorney representing one of the suspects said, in Nifong's zeal to make national headlines and win a hotly contested primary, he intentionally ignored evidence.", "There are some lawyers who there way of trying a case in the media is not to call press conferences, but to simply file motions, court papers that contain outrageous or false statements, and assume that people report them as if they were facts.", "Yet Freda Black, who wants Nifong's job, some say the D.a. is most interested in winning the election.", "I've had a number of people suggest to me that because he did not have name recognition price to the lacrosse case, that he tried to use this case in order to obtain recognition, name recognition, to try to beat me.", "The two Duke suspects, sophomores Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty await a court appearance on charges of rape, kidnapping and sexual assault. A lawyer for Seligmann has just admitted what he says are time-stamped photos, showing his client was at ATM making a withdrawal at the time he says alleged rape occurred. The prosecution has not responded. Nifong is pressing ahead, and says he is looking to charge a third suspect. Alina Cho, CNN.", "The New Black Panther Party and some area residents held a rally in Durham on Monday to support the accuser in the case. They weren't allowed to march across the Duke campus. Instead, they went to the house where the alleged attack took place. They're calling for the house to be turned into a rape crisis center -- Miles.", "A Security Watch now. The agency created in the aftermath of 9/11 to keep us safer from terrorism may not be doing the job. The former internal watchdog for Homeland Security says the agency makes us only margin marginally safer. Clark Kent Ervin charges in a new book that the agency has not corrected security problems at airports and along the borders, as well as in mass transit systems. He accuses Tom Ridge, the first head of the agency, on being more focused on fighting critics than terrorists. Ervin's book is called \"Open Target: Where America is Vulnerable to Terrorism.\" We will talk with him in the 8:00 Eastern hour. Be sure to stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security. Protesters seeking amnesty for illegal immigrants skipped work, took to the streets all over the nation yesterday. The total head count, somewhere around a million people. Unclear if it caused more than a small ding on the U.S. economy, however. Carol Costello now live in the newsroom with more. Hello, Carol.", "Hello, Miles. Good morning to all of you. It is back to business as usual today for scores of immigrants and their supporters after huge crowds packed the streets and cities from coast to coast Monday. The protests designed to show Americans just what they missed in A Day Without Immigrants.", "I am so proud to be an American! We are all proud to be Americans today. Fly your flag with pride!", "Flag-waving immigrants, legal and illegal, turned out in force for two major rallies in Los Angeles. In all, some 600,000 demonstrators hit the L.A. streets Monday. The city's mayor insisting there's strength in those numbers, saying their voices must be heard.", "We say to the Congress, listen to us. We are America! We want to be a part of the dream. We love this country!", "In Las Vegas, a day and evening of demonstrations, with some 10,000 people punctuating the day's massive protest. Many of those at the evening rally worked during the day, and hit the streets after they clocked out.", "We are at a crossroads.", "It was billed as a national day without immigrants. And many heeded the call to flex their economic muscle by staying home from work, from school and out of stores.", "I think it's important that we do a boycott today, to show that we are important.", "A sea of protesters from sea to shining sea. In Chicago, more than 300,000 marched to a rally in Grant Park. Attendance was down as much as 33 percent at predominantly Hispanic schools. In Denver, a two-mile march to the state capital drew more than 50,000 demonstrators. In New York, protesters formed a series of human chains in the city's five burroughs, then marched to the federal courthouse in Manhattan. In South Florida, several thousand protesters gathered in Homestead, which has a large Mexican community. And in San Francisco, an estimated 55,000 people took to the streets. Many businesses in the traditionally Mexican mission district were closed.", "I think the people who come here illegally in order to support their families back home, in order to make a living for themselves, are very brave and noble people, and I admire them enormously.", "But not all immigrants agree with Monday's action. One group spoke out against the mass protests and the reasons behind them.", "We're all here today to tell those illegal protesters, you do not speak for me.", "People in Mexico City also showed their support for the U.S. rallies, calling for a boycott of hundreds of U.S. businesses operating south of the border. We'll see what happens today, later today. Back to you, Soledad.", "All right, Carol, thank you. A mass disruption, that's what's being predicted by Washington if bird flu pandemic actually hits the U.S. Washington D.C. coming up with a report. An early copy of the report includes quarantines and limits on travel. No mention, though, of borders being shutdown yet. The White House is expected to release full details tomorrow. Seven minutes past the hour. Time to check CNN's Gas Gauge this morning. The U.S. energy secretary says we're in an energy crisis. The White House agrees. Listen to Scott McClellan here.", "This is an issue that has been building for decades. This is a problem we didn't get into overnight, and we're not going to get out of overnight. We are dependent on foreign oil.", "Despite concerns about gas prices, the White House press secretary says the economy is doing well. Government figures show spending increased by 2/10 of a percent in February. Checking the latest average gas price, $2.92 for unleaded regular. A month ago, that was $2.55. And one year ago it was $2.23. Schools in Rhea County in Tennessee are expected to reopen this morning after being closed on Monday and last Friday, all in an effort to save money on gas for the school busses. The school system officials estimate that two days of canceled classes will save somewhere between $4,000 and $5,000. Pretty much what they did was take over those snow days. And remember Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's plan for a one- time only $100 rebate? Well, he says he still wants to do it. He's backing off, though, from going for a tax increase on oil companies and other businesses to fund it. The rebate would cost about $10 billion. Senator Frist is going to talk to us about how he's going to fund it now. That proposal coming up in our next hour when we talk to him live -- Miles.", "No break from global warming. Greenhouse gases have increased. The government reports more carbon monoxide from cars and coal-burning power plants went into the air in 2005 than in 2004. Ten states, plus New York City and Washington D.C., are suing the EPA for not doing enough to limit emission. That can lead to global warming. To China now, where that country says global warming is causing its glaciers to melt, and that could lead to drought and sandstorms. Global warming is also related to stronger hurricanes and intense heatwaves.", "Still to come this morning, cellphone cameras, part of a cruel crime spree in Britain. Take a look at this video. They call this happy slapping. There's nothing happy about it, though. We'll explain in a moment.", "Also ahead this morning, run, Rudy, run. Is the former of New York City mayor taking some small steps toward a big leap in 2008? We've got a political reality check just ahead this morning.", "And David Blaine's underwater world. We'll explain this latest stunt, and we will ask the question, why? It's the only question that comes to mind really. What else is making news this Tuesday morning, you ask? We have the answer."], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "PROF. JAMES E. COLEMAN JR. 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{"id": "CNN-164166", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-4-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1104/01/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Kate Middleton's Dress Topic of Discussion", "utt": ["Cue the royal wedding music. What is trending today? Have you saved the date? The royal wedding is this month. I can't believe it's April. Monty Durham, TLC's \"Say yes to the Dress Atlanta.\" You're headed to London. I'll talk about that in a moment. But I want to talk about, this is the home stretch.", "We're down to the wire right now.", "What are they doing right now?", "I would imagine the response cards are coming in to the palace. I'm sure people sent it in immediately. Seating arrangements are being readjusted for people that aren't coming. It's not really a state affair so it's really a family gathering for the luncheon in the palace.", "It's a family gathering. I'm curious if Kate -- how involved would she be?", "Very involved. You've got to invite people you don't want --", "Who do you sit next to whom?", "I think what we're having here is she's pretty much going to show up and do as she's told.", "Show up and say \"I do.\" When we talk about the dress, do you like the blue?", "Stunning. Kate blue.", "When it comes to the dress -- and we don't know yet.", "We don't know anything.", "Everybody is watching to see what it looks like. When will designers start sketching that dress for future brides?", "The minute she steps out. With TLC, I'll be outside her hotel. This is huge. I'm going to get that first glimpse as she gets into that beautiful car and rolls away. Artists will be sketching it, designers, the minute she hits any door way.", "Are you serious?", "Oh, yes. That dress will be in the market if not seven days, definitely 12 days after she goes down the aisle. It will be in stores for sale.", "She's tall.", "She's 5'10\", Lady Di.", "Tall girl like me. He would be the tallest monarch.", "He's going to be the tallest monarch when he ascends to the throne. He's 6'3\" and his brother 6'2\" and his father 5'9\".", "Let's speak of Lady Di, let's explain this.", "Let's explain this doll. Lori, how sweet of her, she dug this out of her attic I home. Anyway, her parents brought this back to her.", "This is Lori Daniels, your -- Lori Allen.", "Of \"Say yes to the Dress Atlanta,\" my co-host there and her parents brought this to her as a souvenir from the wedding and a replica of what they thought it was going to be.", "So when we think of what's the saying, something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Do they have traditions in England?", "They have a horseshoe most American girls don't do.", "A horseshoe?", "Of all things.", "Please explain.", "They put it in their bouquet, and it catches all the well wishes offered them on their wedding day and they hang it over their cottage door frame, in this case a palace probably, to continue the good luck and Lady Di had a gold one made out of welsh gold, the nugget her wedding ring was made from and set in diamond stone at the back of her dress, as well as a blue bow.", "Wow.", "And her old was a piece of lace from queen marry.", "What do they think Kate will have? What will be passed on along to her?", "It will be -- it will be very interesting to see what she wears on her head. Lady Di was given a love knot tiara from the queen and she chose to wear the Spencer tiara, no royal significance but her sisters have worn it so it's a family piece.", "Do you think Kate will be in flats?", "No.", "Like Di, Di was in flats.", "Because she and the future king are the same height. He's 5'10\" and she was 5'10.\" So she wore little low heel stack shoes and had the monograms on the bottom, their initials. How sweet was that.", "Since Kate is 5'10\" and William is 6'3\", she can swing the heels.", "She'll be in shoes, definitely.", "What about the shade of the dress, so many shades of white?", "What we see traditionally when you look at royal weddings, and I've been researching it, royals have been getting married in this era, the younger royals that are cousins, not at Westminster abbey, they have been sleeveless, strapless gowns with tiaras and veils. However they are not marrying the future king and not getting married at Westminster Abbey, so with that being said I think she will be in ivory. All the gowns tend to be ivory. They feel that it complements the English complexion.", "Are you so excited, so up your wedding wheelhouse?", "I am so excited, I can't even talk. The place to watch me is", "When do you leave for London?", "I'm leaving Easter morning, right after sunrise service, there you go. I'll get up and enjoy that and get on a plane.", "And a quick preview, you said you'll be at the spot when she walks out of the hotel? You'll get the first glimpse.", "And I'll be telling you all about it.", "You'll send me a quick twit picture.", "Of course, the minute I get it.", "And we'll watch Monte and CNN, the whole big live coverage.", "We'll team up and make a great coverage team.", "Monte, thank you so much.", "My pleasure, as always.", "Thank you. And CNN's Richard Quest will be bringing us even more wedding lowdown at 2:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern. We're calling it a CNN royal wedding special. Are you going to be watching?", "I'm going to be watching.", "He'll be watching. Coming up next, a warning from former President George W. Bush. We'll tell what you he said last night. And then I know many of you have heard about this by now. This is definitely the talker of the day, an online video of Go Daddy's CEO killing an elephant. He's getting a lot of flak for this video. But guess what? He'll be joining me in a matter of minutes, and I'll ask him why did he do it? 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{"id": "CNN-107092", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2006-6-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/14/acd.02.html", "summary": "Car Crash Scams; Easing L.A.'s Traffic", "utt": ["Well, there are a lot of addictions in Los Angeles. Driving is definitely one of them. Not everyone follows the rules of the road. Now, every year thousands of collisions are reported, including those that weren't accidents at all. They were actually staged. An estimated $14 billion a year scam, with doctors and lawyers cashing in. Peter Viles investigates.", "Miguel Perez works hard for a living. He sometimes drives a truck. Almost two years ago on an L.A. freeway he did something he thought would get him fired. It started when the car ahead of him suddenly stopped.", "He slammed on his brake and I tried swerving to the right to miss him, but I clipped him in the back.", "Next, Perez did what anyone would do.", "I asked the guy, why did you stop? And his answer was that he didn't want to hit the car in front of him.", "And then Perez realized he would probably lose his job over the accident.", "Usually, when you hit somebody from behind you're always as fault.", "What authorities later told him was that he'd been set up, victimized by a staged crash technique so common there's a name for it.", "What we call what we call the swoop and squat. And that's probably the most dangerous because those are typically orchestrated on the freeway or your busier surface streets.", "There's a swoop and squat demonstration, staged by the insurance industry in which the green car is the victim. Now let's watch in slow motion. The gray car is the swoop car. It swoops in, causing the black car, the squat car, to slam on the brakes, causing the green car, the victim car to rear-end it.", "I've seen men targeted, women being targeted. Truck drivers being targeted. Female truck drives, male truck drivers -- I've seen it all.", "Then come the false insurance claims, usually for back and neck injuries from several passengers in the squat car.", "It's all money. There's a lot of money to be made. In California alone, it's billions of dollars every year going to fraudulent claims.", "The numbers are staggering. The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud estimates $14 billion a year in auto insurance fraud, much of it from staged crashes. And they can be deadly. Authorities say these were staged crashes -- Long Beach, California, 1997, an innocent family of three burned to death. Queens, New York, 2003, a 71-year-old grandmother, crushed to death. And Lawrence, Massachusetts, 2003, this time the victim, a 64- year-old woman was allegedly part of the fraud ring, but didn't survive the wreck. Now, Miguel Perez was lucky. He wasn't injured and whistle- blower spotted the fraud in time to save his job.", "I was stunned when she told me that it was staged.", "So what can do you to avoid becoming a victim? Well, first of all, don't tailgate. Keep a safe distance. (on camera): If you feel like you are being watched too closely by another driver or followed by another driver, you need to pull back and change lanes, even if that means getting off the freeway. Peter Viles for CNN, Los Angeles.", "Well, avoiding staged or real accident in L.A. is not easy. After all, this is a city built along freeways. More often than not, those roads grind to a halt, creating miles of traffic and endless aggravation. Some see a simple solution, however, to the problem. CNN's Tom Foreman has that angle of the story.", "So if you're right there at about San Fernando and Mission, it's and injury crash...", "To the right shoulder...", "It's starting to slow here at...", "Rush hour in Los Angeles lasts from 5:00 until 9:00 -- that's 5:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. And this is coming your way. Especially if you live in a large city, where studies show delays already devour 47 hours of your life every year. But not if Mark Pisano can help it.", "We need to think differently how we grow and develop.", "He runs a southern California association, working to make bad traffic better.", "Each city cannot be an island unto themselves. They're now impacting on their neighbors. And furthermore, within large cities, the communities are impacting one another.", "At first glance, solving L.A.'s problem of too many people, about 18 million, and too little highway, would seem to be simple. Solution one -- add more lanes. But experience has shown when highways expand, businesses and neighborhoods expand right along with them, eating the extra roadway as fast as it's built. Solution two -- encourage carpools. Good idea. Problem is, carpool lanes are faster. So drivers think they can live further from their jobs. That promotes sprawl and ultimately more cars coming from afar. Solution three -- more public transit. Another nice idea, but in most cities, the number of new buses and trains it would take to make a difference is staggering. Just ask Planning Director Hasan Egrata (ph). HASAN EGARTA (ph),", "Out of 48 million daily trips...", "48 million daily trips?", "...we have in this region, we have about 2 percent in the public transportation.", "So what can work? Well, traffic planning experts say, maybe this -- more planned communities built around jobs. Houses, shopping and recreation, all in one relatively small place. Maybe this -- more driver education. (on camera): This allows people to test things that previously they could never test. Right?", "Correct.", "They want commuters to see what computer models now show so well. How even one car stopped by an accident or a poor maintenance can have an enormous impact.", "About 50 percent of our congestion could be solved if we had drivers doing everything perfectly.", "That's right, 50 percent of congestion could be ended, not with better roads, but with better drivers. And maybe this -- they want you -- business people, commuters, casual drivers -- to pay more for the congestion you cause through toll roads, fees on new housing developments or shopping areas. They hope this, along with soaring gas prices and tedious traffic jams will finally convince you to change the way you live.", "They have to live in more dense areas around transit stations. They have to use transit.", "Yes, but I don't want to do that. Nobody wants to do that.", "And I contend that if people try, they might like it.", "Or maybe not. As it is, over the next 20 year, L.A.'s highways are expected to pick up another 6 million drivers.", "...will start to slow here just south of the 134 and from that point stay slow...", "Tom Foreman, CNN, Los Angeles.", "But traffic isn't the only problem in L.A. and across country. There are many other issues going on. And well, celebrities aren't afraid to tell you about them again and again. That story coming up. Plus, Mentos and Diet Coke, an explosive combination. We've seen the Internet video. It is sweeping the country right now. I'll try the experiment myself. 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{"id": "CNN-159425", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-12-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1012/13/ltm.01.html", "summary": "A December to Forget: Cold Grips Country; Snow Deflates Metrodome Roof", "utt": ["Welcome. Happy Monday. It's only 12 more days until Christmas. Time's flying.", "And it sure looks like it out there.", "I know.", "The weather is absolutely incredible. Weather nation. That's what I'm calling it.", "I know. The snow in huge amounts in much of the Midwest and, boy, I don't think it's going to melt until Christmas.", "Yes, absolutely. Well, you know, at least it's better than 95 degrees.", "Yes.", "I'm Joe Johns. I'm in for John Roberts this morning. And we all know Kiran Chetry who's been very busy over the past few days and weeks.", "Oh, you know how it goes this time of year.", "Yes. Yes.", "It's good to have you with us this morning.", "I'm really glad to be here. Yes. All right. Let's get caught up on what's happened overnight. The wild, almost winter storm that brought the Midwest to a halt is not over yet. Many people stranded at the airport and stuck in their homes this morning. And dangerously cold temperatures are closing in right behind it.", "Yes, and all the snow, too much for the Metrodome's Teflon roof. This was in Minnesota. It deflated and collapsed under the pressure of one of the biggest snowfalls in Minneapolis history. And all of it was caught on tape. There you see actually from the inside --", "Wow.", "-- some of the Teflon tearing and you see the snow that's coming right in.", "Terrible.", "It sent the Giants and Vikings scrambling to try to find a place to play. That's now been moved to Detroit. And we're going to have more amazing video from the inside of the dome just ahead.", "And a showdown looming in the lame duck Congress over President Obama's tax cut compromise. A large chunk of your 2011 take home pay on the line today. The Obama administration predicts passage, but House Democrats promise a fight saying the president rolled over for Republicans. We're live at the White House ahead of today's key Senate vote.", "Up first, though, the extreme weather, the snow, the bitter cold, turning lives upside down this morning. In fact, it's still snowing in many places across the Midwest, around the Great Lakes, round two on its way. And it is dangerously cold, as well. There's no telling how many people are stuck on the roads, at the airports, and in some cases in their own homes. And it may not get better for days.", "And this morning, the Metrodome in Minneapolis is an outdoor stadium. It's an inflatable roof, flat as a pancake, caved in under 17 inches of snow. The amazing collapse all caught on tape from inside an avalanche of snow pouring on to the field. The Minnesota Vikings will now play a home game tonight in Detroit against the Giants.", "We'll go live to the Twin Cities in just a moment. Chris Welch is standing by there. But first, we're going to check in with Rob Marciano to find out more about this system and how much more snow they could be looking at. Hey, Rob.", "Good morning, Kiran. Yes, quite a storm. You know, you think about 17 inches in Minneapolis, that's a place that should get a lot of snow. Well, the fact of the matter is that part of the country to get over a foot of snow is definitely a major, major event. It's not the first major event of the season. And this storm, at least for the Midwest will go down in the record books.", "This storm that deflated the Metrodome and stranded the New York Giants at airport in K.C. was the fifth greatest snowstorm of all time in the Twin Cities. Saturday was the snowiest December day on record with just over 17 inches of the white stuff. And as the storm moved east, bone-chilling 50-mile-an-hour winds moved in.", "That's a bus. It's stuck in the snow. It can't get out.", "Creating whiteout conditions that made travel so dangerous that plows were even pulled off the roads.", "That's the best way to get around, in cross- country skis.", "And at O'Hare, a totally depressing departure board, especially for the guy who's packed deep dish pizzas as Christmas gifts.", "Good Chicago pizza may end up -- I don't know, end up in a snow drift tonight just to try to keep them cold.", "In all, some 1,400 flights canceled and countless nerves frazzled in Chicago. The only person the snow couldn't slow down, Tom Brady.", "Brady and Branch again for 59.", "As the Patriots rolled over the Bears at the snowy Soldier field.", "In the rain at the meadow lands, and it's still warming up for rain across the northeast. So this is definitely not a northeast storm. But typically once these fronts come through, you'll change over to snow. Most of the moisture now across the northeast is headed to eastern New England and not a ton of snow behind this even when you see start to see things change over, which they will this afternoon. But the moisture for the most part will be gone. So accumulations in the northeast I believe will be minimal with this. But look at this, snow is getting all the way down to parts of the south. Atlanta, we had quite a bit of flurries yesterday and up through Nashville, we're seeing some snow. Birmingham, Alabama, seeing snow, and it will remain cold enough for snow across the Deep South today, but we don't expect any sort of accumulation. We do expect to see accumulation here, though. From Chicago back to Cleveland, this area could see one to two feet of snow in the favored areas. Now that we're starting to see the cold air roll in and now we'll get into the typical lake effect snow showers and some of the snow is going to be obviously heavy at times. Not only for today, but tonight and tomorrow and ongoing. As far as what we're looking at for temperatures, it's 43 right now in New York. So you're not even below freezing. It's much, much colder down to the south, colder out to the west, as well. And again, the snows, the accumulating snows are going to be held to upstate New York, maybe a little bit down through Pennsylvania and the Great Lakes. Six degrees right now in", "All right.", "Wow.", "You got lucky, Joe.", "Yes.", "Because you flew in from Washington,", "From Washington, D.C, it was raining like crazy, but we're able to get out. You, of course, weren't even able to fly. So you end up in the studio instead of out in the cold. Huh, Rob?", "Well, you know, I have to say it's not so bad.", "Yes, you poor thing.", "Too bad.", "You could have been stuck out in Cleveland snow, but instead you're in warm Atlanta. At least inside, not outside.", "Could be worse.", "Thanks, Rob.", "All right, guys.", "Well, the pictures really tell the story, as well. The massive storm dropping tons of snow on the inflatable roof of the Metrodome in Minneapolis, home of the Vikings.", "Right. It was simply too much weight for those old Teflon panels to take. Our Chris Welch is live inside the Metrodome this morning. Chris, what's the situation like?", "Well, as you guys alluded to, as Rob alluded to, it all started with this brutal, brutal weather. We're talking about record breaking weather here, 17 inches of snow piled up on top of the Metrodome roof. I don't know if you can see very well behind me, but there's a flapping piece of Teflon fabric. Three panels on Teflon fabric on the roof of the Metrodome, basically ripped, caved in and you can see there's ice, there's snow. What was melted snow on the roof has dripped down on to the field, covered it with water which is now frozen over because it's just as cold in here, just about, just as cold in here as it is outside. Now, I talked to the facilities director here, Steve Maki, last night. He gave me a little bit of context with this. He says, you know, this is more of a spectacle. The media likes to show these pictures. Obviously those are pretty amazing pictures. He says, though, it's actually worse than what it looks like -- excuse me, not worse, it's better than what it looks like. So we don't have to worry for too long, he says.", "Actually, I think -- I'll say it looks worse than what it is. In some respects because as the repair, as I understand, will be basically to unclamp the old fabric and clamp new fabric in its place and then blow the roof back up.", "Now, in the meantime, the game that was supposed to take place here in the Metrodome between the Minnesota Vikings and the New York Giants has been moved to Detroit for tonight. So if you want to see that game, if you had a ticket, if you were in Minneapolis, you've got to make your way to Detroit basically.", "So you basically have to travel 500 miles. They say they're going to get you, what? Some prime seating I guess at the 50-yard line? But I mean, there's a lot of people that simply can't get there. Either it's too much money to fly or they're not going to drive.", "That's right. It's a very long drive. I mean, you've got to drive south past Chicago and then back up again if you want to drive. Expensive flights. But they're telling people if you do make it, if you have tickets, you can get preferred seating on the 50-yard line. Not a bad deal, but, you know, is that enough of a consolation prize to make it? I suppose if you ask the hardcore fans, they would say yes, absolutely. Now, on the other end of the spectrum, if you can't make it, because obviously there are going to be a lot of people who can't make it, they're going to be giving away free tickets to this game, as well.", "Cool. All right. Chris Welch for us this morning, thanks. Well, take a look at one of our I-reporters, what they sent in. It shows just how severe the conditions were in Minnesota. \"Busy boy pro\" posting this video from St. Paul where you could see cars completely buried in the snow. The only way to get around, a pair of cross-country skis. Road conditions are reportedly improving this morning, though, as plows begin to catch up and the snow starts to slow down. So we'd love to air your I-report. Shoot it, send it. Head to CNN.com and click on the \"iReport\" tab to find out how.", "Serious weather problems too out west where the rain just won't let up. Flooding and mud slides forcing evacuations in portions of western Washington State. Rivers cresting at record levels with more than three inches of rain in Seattle in a 24-hour period. Meteorologists say the worst of the flooding danger is over, but more rain is expected today.", "Well, the White House says it will pass, but some members of Congress are saying maybe not. The president's tax cut compromise, the first vote just hours away, but will House Democrats ultimately derail the deal?", "And FedEx about to get slammed. Today could be their busiest day of all time. We'll take you to their Georgia headquarters to find out why.", "And what could be a real life Da Vinci code. The hidden symbols discovered in the Mona Lisa's eyes? We'll tell you about this newest mystery still ahead. Nine minutes past the hour."], "speaker": ["KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR", "JOE JOHNS, CNN GUEST ANCHOR", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "ROB MARCIANO, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "MARCIANO (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARCIANO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARCIANO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARCIANO", "ANNOUNCER", "MARCIANO", "MARCIANO", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "D.C. JOHNS", "MARCIANO", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "MARCIANO", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHRIS WELCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "STEVE MAKI, FACILITIES DIRECTOR AT THE METROPOLITAN SPORTS FACILITIES COMMISSION", "WELCH", "CHETRY", "WELCH", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY", "JOHNS", "CHETRY"]}
{"id": "CNN-219300", "program": "AROUND THE WORLD", "date": "2013-11-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/22/atw.01.html", "summary": "Accused \"Slave Keepers\" Released on Bail", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. Today marks 50 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Take a look at these live pictures of Dealey Plaza in Dallas, where he was gunned down. The city is holding its first official ceremony to mark the tragedy.", "Yes, it seems extraordinary, doesn't it? Now, that ceremony starts actually at the bottom of the hour, about 15 minutes or so from now. Of course, it is set to coincide with the time of day that JFK's motorcade passed through downtown Dallas. Crowds had filled the streets, of course, to see the president. And, today, crowds are there to honor his legacy.", "It's interesting to see that historical footage, which we're all so familiar with. And then today, Dallas, the city will hold a moment of silence at the exact time of the assassination. Military jets will fly over. And some of Kennedy's speeches will be read. We'll bring you all of the key moments live.", "Yes, interesting, a gloomy day in Dallas. Fifty years ago today, it was bright and sunny. All right, a man and a woman who police believe held several other women, three of them, in captivity in their home for decades are no longer in custody. They're out on bail.", "Well, and that has, by the way, we're going to ask our correspondent why that is. This is south London, a borough called Lambeth. More shocking developments in this case are coming out. Police say it looks like the victims were not just kept inside against their will but they were used as slaves.", "CNN's Diana Magnay has been following this from London. She is at Scotland Yard. New details coming out, for example, the one woman, 30-years-old, apparently had spent her entire life in of this house. First of all, why did the authorities allow the people accused of doing this to get out of jail? It is a point of law, isn't it? I don't think they've been charged yet, have they?", "It does seem surprising, Michael, but I think it's because those two were arrested on suspicion of being involved in forced labor and human trafficking, but the police now don't seem to be able to quite put their finger on what they should charge them with. Under British law, you have to charge someone within 36 hours or release them on bail. They've been released on bail. The police are now saying they don't think this comes under a category of domestic slavery or of human trafficking. In fact, they're saying this is like something we've never seen before. We're trying to unravel what happened to these women over the last three decades. It wasn't sexual abuse but it was a very, very complex picture of emotional and psychological abuse that they went through. Although they've let these two out on bail and they say there weren't any other people involved, they didn't have any accomplices, they don't believe this to be part of a broader human trafficking ring. At the same time, they have their entire human traffic unit here at Scotland Yard, 37 officers, working on the case. You get the feeling the police here don't know what they're dealing with and are working hard to try and work it out. One of the big questions is the relationships between the three women and the captors. As you said, Michael, the British woman, 30-years- old, we believe from the Freedom Charity, which orchestrated their release, may even have been born in captivity. Apparently, police say she wasn't related to the other two prisoners. Could it be she's the daughter of these two captors? These are all unexplained questions. This is what the police did have to say about the relations between them all.", "That really is what I'm investigating at the moment, what the relationships between these people are. When I say relationships, I'm both looking at the relationships as in bee logical and I'm also looking at relationships how they interacted. Clearly, the allegations are that people were being controlled subject of oh coercion, violence. And as you're aware, this goes back at least three decades. So there's a lot for us to untangle.", "It's clear it's very difficult to get much detail owl of these highly traumatized women.", "All right, Diana Magnay, thanks very much, more shocking details in an alleged slavery case in London. The cabin of an airplane might be losing its unique status. Oh, no!", "We were talking about this yesterday. This is scary. Are you going to be allowed to use your cell phone during the flight? Heaven forbid.", "The jet calm could be drowned out by the sound of your fellow passengers yapping. It says talking in the prompter, but I just edited on the fly.", "Yapping. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["GORANI", "HOLMES", "GORANI", "HOLMES", "GORANI", "HOLMES", "DIANA MAGNAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KEVIN NYLAND, MET POLICE HUMAN TRAFFICKING UNIT", "MAGNAY", "GORANI", "HOLMES", "GORANI", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-173011", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-9-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/26/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Saudi Women Gain Right To Vote", "utt": ["A reminder to vote for today's \"Choose The News\" winner. Text 22360 for the story you'd like to see. Text 1 for Apple's toxic gases. A Chinese watchdog group says an Apple plant is letting off fumes that are making folks sick. Text 2 for flying ambulances. Ride along doctors who use special planes to rescue patients in Africa. Text 3 for importing style. One of Cuba's best known designers is re-inventing the island's classic style and some big-name celebrities, they're wearing the new look. So, winning story is going to air later this hour. Next story. They still are not allowed to drive, even open a bank account, but women in Saudi Arabia now have the right to vote and to run for office in local elections. But change may not happen right away. We're going to go now to Mohammed Jamjoom in Abu Dhabi for the story.", "By Saudi standards the announcement was historic. On Sunday, Saudi Arabian King Abdullah making a major announcement that in the next round of elections that women in Saudi Arabia would be able to participate more in the political arena. That they would be able to nominate themselves as candidates and that they would be able to nominate other candidates. Now, while that's being interpreted in Saudi Arabia and outside of Saudi Arabia as the king saying that women will be granted the right to vote, now in Saudi Arabia some women activists who yesterday were elated at the news that they would be able to have a greater participation in the political process, are starting to wonder what exactly this statement means. And some disappointment is starting to set in. I've spoken to some women's rights activists today and they've said that while it's great that the king is now suggesting that they will have the right to vote, this next round of municipal elections won't happen for at least another four years. That's 2015. The king also said that women would be appointed as full-time members of the consultative council, the Shoura (ph) council, but that's not going to happen for at least another year and a half to two years. Women's activists saying they wished that the king had said that this could happen now and they're wondering why that didn't happen. They're saying that a lot can happen in the next year-and-a- half, two years to four years before the next round of elections happen. A lot can happen in that time. The more conservative aspects of the government there could try to reverse this decision. It could try to take the right for women to vote out of their hand before they actually officially get it. And that's where the disappointment lies today. Some are saying this is a real reality check and that the king should actually come out and re-assure them that this will happen and will happen as soon as possible. Mohammed Jamjoom, CNN, Abu Dhabi.", "We're getting a lot of responses to today's \"Talk Back\" question. We asked, is President Obama's new fiery persona resonating? Well, Chris Yount says, \"well, since he has made little attempt to work with Republicans, I think he's starting to unravel.\" Carol Costello's back with more of your responses."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "MOHAMMED JAMJOOM, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-336090", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2018-03-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/27/ip.01.html", "summary": "Officers in Louisiana will not be Charged.", "utt": ["We have breaking news. The Louisiana attorney general has decided the two white Baton Rouge police officers involved in the shooting death of an African-American man, Alton Sterling, will not be charged. In 2016, an officer shot and killed the 37-year-old during a struggle outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge. He was shot at close range while the officers pinned him down. Sterling did not display a gun during the struggle. Police say that he was reaching for one and a gun was recovered after he was killed. Sterling's death was caught on camera, and I do want to warn that you this is a very disturbing video.", "Now, during a news conference just a few minutes ago, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said the evidence doesn't support a prosecution of the officers.", "After a thorough and exhaustive review of the evidence, the facts that can be established beyond a reasonable doubt, the law and jurisprudence of the state of Louisiana and the obligations of prosecutors under the code of professional conduct, the Louisiana Department of Justice cannot proceed with a prosecution of either Officer Lake or Officer Salamoni.", "Joining me now from Baton Rouge with more on this, CNN correspondent Nick Valencia. Nick, you talked to the family today. Tell us about that.", "This has been an announcement that has been months in the workings here, months of anticipation from the local community. And unfortunately for those that are supporters of Alton Sterling, it did not come as a surprise that the attorney general decided not to bring charges, state criminal charges, against the two officers involved in the shooting. It was just a couple of minutes ago, Brianna, that the family of Alton sterling spoke to the media saying that they would get justice, but their justice is going to come, quote, from a higher power. I spoke to Sandra Sterling as well about the frustration among the family and the Alton Sterling supporters that three pieces of video, including individual surveillance from the SSS convenience store where that shooting happened, as well as body cam footage have yet to be released. We understand the mayor has that video in her possession and has had that according to the family attorney for the last several days. I asked Sandra Sterling, who's effectively the mother of Alton Sterling, who raised him as a young child, what that video would mean to her to see that video.", "Shame on him and shame on him and his committee for making that decision that he made on Alton Sterling. And for all the people that say that Alton Sterling was a bad man and he should have been killed, shame on y'all for that. Because you know what? You all have kids, too. And to put Blane Salamoni back on the streets of Baton Rouge, you're putting a killer back on the streets. So you watch your kids at night. That's all I have to say.", "You may have noticed that Sandra is now in a wheelchair. That's over the course of the last two years. She's had a couple of strokes. The family attorney says the health concerns that they have are related to all the pressure and the stress that the family has gone through. They went on to say that the Baton Rouge Police Department is filled with bullies and that they will continue on with their civil lawsuit against the Baton Rouge Police Department and the two --"], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "KEILAR", "JEFF LANDRY, LOUISIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL", "KEILAR", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SANDRA STERLING, AUNT WHO RAISED ALTON STERLING", "VALENCIA"]}
{"id": "CNN-371902", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2019-06-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/10/ath.02.html", "summary": "California Wildfire Forces Hundreds to Evacuate.", "utt": ["Hundreds of firefighters are battling fires across California right now. Mandatory evacuations are being ordered. And folks there will also be looking at record-breaking heat. A heat wave coming in that could make conditions even worse. The opposite of what they need right now. CNN's Dan Simon is in Yolo County with fire crews and he joins me now. Dan, what are you seeing and hear there today?", "Hi, Kate. This fire, known as the Sand Fire, is the first big one to hit northern California this year. Right now, it's had about 2,200 acres. It did not grow overnight, so that is the good news. It's also a 30 percent containment. What's especially noteworthy about this particular fire is that PG&E, the power utility, cut power to about 20,000 customers simply as a preventive measure to prevent other wildfires from breaking out. This is the first time the utility has ever done so much. Of course, they are under tremendous pressure after the utility was found to have caused the fire in Paradise, which destroyed the town last year where you have 85 people who died where that will happen continually over the summer. Kate, we'll send it back to you.", "All right Dan, thank you so much. Watching those pictures. Always so scary out there."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "DAN SIMON, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-393022", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2020-02-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/18/ath.02.html", "summary": "Judge & Lawyers Wrap Up Conference Call in Stone Case; Federal Judges Association Calls Emergency Meeting over Stone Case", "utt": ["There's no reason to delay for the new trial motion. There's already a three-month delay built in when the Bureau of Prisons decides where he will be designated and so on. She can decide on all of that while that process is going on and not delay the sentence any further.", "And the judge -- you say it is not surprising she didn't weigh into it and she is full steam ahead. But there's no way that Judge Berman Jackson isn't aware of what has been going on outside the courtroom, and on the president's Twitter feed even. What does it mean to you that she seemed to, as Sara said, staying above the fray, that she seems to be at the moment ignoring the outside issues? Is that a message?", "I think it is the message that she is going to do her job. Her job is to sentence him. She will be potentially persuaded by the party's positions on sentencing. But she sat through the trial and, therefore, now knows more about it than the current prosecutors on the case. So she is not really relying on the parties to tell her what to do. She is going to make that sentence up in her own mind. She doesn't have to kind of get embroiled in all of that. She knows what she's going to do, I'm sure, already. She'll listen to the party's arguments and so on. So I think it is smart of her just not to mention it. Let the executive branch deal with their own problems and she'll just do her job.", "Also noteworthy, as you just said, and Sara did as well, you have two new prosecutors on the case, as the prosecutors who were on the case have all resigned from the case in protest after all. So now, in addition to the letter that you signed onto, there's an Association of Federal Judges, they're also holding what \"USA Today\" is describing it as an emergency meeting to discuss the same thing, this controversy and -- around this case. And the way it is described is \"growing concerns among members\" and a, quote/unquote, \"deepening crisis\" involving the department and Bill Barr. And there's, yes, a lot of un-precedents that have happened. But this is a lot. From 2,000 former DOJ officials signing on to this letter, that is not only a statement to Barr, but also to other employees currently at DOJ and then this Association of Judges. It is a lot.", "What you're seeing is people who are apolitical, who are independent officials, right, not political people, very concerned about where this is going, and people who wanted to kind of wait and see how things played out. A year ago, I signed onto a letter with a thousand former DOJ employees complaining about how Bill Barr treated the Mueller report and how misleading he was in that context. Now we have seen a series of events that take us much further than that. We're seeing essentially political activity in prosecutions. And it's not just about one person's sentence, you know, what Roger Stone gets. It is about where they're going from here, what is DOJ going to investigate. The president is on Twitter calling for political opponents to be thrown in jail. Is that where Bill Barr is going? That concerns a lot of people.", "And there's a real question now. Bill Barr sat down in order to kind of do some damage control into the department for an interview last week, he said very, very directly, the tweets make it impossible for me to do my job. And then the president is continuing to do the same thing this morning in a series of tweets, attacking and in tweets and retweets, and quoting people, attacking the case, attacking anything related to the Mueller investigation. And I think there's a very real question not just what Bill Barr did, but as you're saying, what Bill Barr does now as it continues.", "Of course. And, you know, many people think, including me, that what he's really concerned about is this all being out in the public, being so obvious. He's working behind the scenes, setting up U.S. attorneys to evaluate political cases, pushing John Durham to try to find some credence to, you know, the myths around CrowdStrike and Russia investigation, all of these politically charged activities of the Department of Justice. It looks like Bill Barr wants those to be on the downlow. And the president yelling about them on Twitter gets everybody riled up and concerned. And it seems like that's actually what Bill Barr is complaining about.", "Let me ask you, back to this kind of emergency meeting that will be happening with the Association of Federal Judges, what do you think could come out of this meeting? It is a group of judges that has 1100 members on the federal bench.", "Well, what is really interesting about that is, unlike the letter I signed, these are active judges, current judges, not former judges. That said, they don't really have any power to do anything, per se. What it would be was perhaps they would make a statement like the letter we signed and it just, you know, shows their grave concern about what is going on, talks about the principles of justice and integrity under the law. So we'll see if they make a statement or not. It looks like now they're just talking it over. They must have been getting a lot of concern from judges around the country about this. And we'll have to see where they go from here.", "Well, that's understandable. It's good to see you, Jennifer. Thank you so much. Really Appreciate it.", "Thanks.", "We're just four days away from the Nevada caucuses. And Democratic Party officials there, they're feeling the pressure. After the chaos in Iowa, can Nevada guarantee a drama-free caucus? We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["JENNIFER RODGERS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "RODGERS", "BOLDUAN", "RODGERS", "BOLDUAN", "RODGERS", "BOLDUAN", "RODGERS", "BOLDUAN", "RODGERS", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-402218", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2020-06-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/09/acd.01.html", "summary": "George Floyd Laid To Rest After Emotional Final Memorial", "utt": ["Right, right and the excited ones are going to vote for him regardless. It's the others that he needs to make inroads with. Thank you so much Jeff Zeleny. Appreciate your time and all of yours. Anderson starts now.", "Good evening. George Floyd is at rest tonight and the country that showed him its very best and finally, its very worst is now changing all around him. After two and a half weeks of worldwide protests and memorial services in Minneapolis, North Carolina and Houston, Mr. Floyd was buried today. In the hour ahead, what may come of his passing. Dr. Cornel West joins us, so does filmmaker Spike Lee. First the funeral and CNN's Omar Jimenez.", "In the final moments before he died, George Floyd called out for his mother who passed away two years ago. Today, he was laid to rest next to her after an emotional funeral in Houston.", "All I think about is when he was yelling for momma. And I know how our momma is, she is just right there. She got her hands wide open.", "The Fountain of Praise Church was packed with hundreds of mourners. His family dressed in white, paused to promote each other and prayed before the ceremony began. Floyd was remembered as a man of faith, a brother, an uncle, a father, a friend. While the ceremony celebrated his life, his death and the movement it sparked was invoked time and time again.", "The assignment of George Floyd and the purpose will mean there will be no more eight minutes and 46 seconds of police brutality.", "Go on and get your rest now. Go on and see momma now. We're going to fight on. We're going to fight on.", "We honor him today because when he took his last breath, the rest of us will now be able to breathe. So therefore I, Sylvester Turner, Mayor of the City of Houston hereby proudly proclaim June 9th, 2020 as George Floyd Day in the City of Houston. To God be the glory for the good he has done.", "Former Vice President Joe Biden delivered this video message echoing the call for change.", "Now is the time for racial justice. That's the answer we must give to our children when they ask why. Because when there is justice for George Floyd, we will truly be on our way to racial justice in America.", "Today's funeral ended days of memorials and public viewings all over the country, but this isn't the end for Floyd's family who vow to keep fighting for justice.", "I will miss my brother a whole lot. I want to say to him, I love you and I thank God for giving me my own personal Superman. God bless you all.", "\"And I'll take with me the memories, to be my sunshine after the rain. It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.\" [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]", "Do we know what is next for the Floyd family in terms of speaking out in his memory and with the protest?", "Well, Anderson, part of the energy we have seen here is not just stemming from George Floyd's death. It is about the spark that his death has now created and the push toward long-term changes in police. Now, even with that, we have seen steps taken in places like Minneapolis and even here in Houston with Mayor Sylvester Turner saying he is going to sign an Executive Order banning the use of chokeholds. But even with all of that, the family still feels far away from justice. They say that won't come until the officers in this case face convictions and to take from the eulogy they feel if the law is not upheld, police officers will feel as though there are no consequences for committing actions like this, if, again, they do not face the consequences of the justice system. Even though George Floyd was laid to rest today, his name and legacy doing anything but in the push toward long-term change -- Anderson.", "Omar Jimenez, thanks very much. And the question now of course is where does this leave us as a country? What possibilities are open to the country that might not have been two weeks ago? Joining us, Dr. Cornel West, Harvard University Professor in the Practice of Public Philosophy and Professor Emeritus at Princeton. He is also cohosting a new podcast called \"The Tight Rope\" With Professor Tricia Rose.", "Dr. West, it is good to see you on this sad day. Just watching the funeral today and hearing the chants of, \"We will breathe\" outside of the church, I am wondering what was going through your mind and your heart.", "It was a heavy day, my brother. And yet I was buoyed up because I saw in the hearts and minds and souls, not just of the Floyd family, but of the church, of the music, of the preaching a love. Not one reference to hatred or revenge. It was all about love and justice. It's in the great tradition of the best of black people, a people who have been hated chronically systemically for 400 years, but have taught the world so much about love and how to love. You saw John Coltrane's \"Love Supreme\" in that church service. You saw the love of the children in Marvin Gaye's \"What is Going On\" and Toni Morrison's \"Beloved.\" You saw Mama \"Raisin in the Sun\" Lorraine Hansberry. White America ought to give black people a standing ovation. After 400 years of being terrorized, we refuse to create a black version of the Ku Klux Klan. After 400 years of being traumatized, we wanted to be healers. That's Frederick Douglass, that's Martin King, that's Curtis Mayfield, that's Benny Lou Haymoth (ph). What is it about these black people so thoroughly subjugated that want freedom for everybody? That is a grand gift to the world right in the bowels at the center of American Empire that has enslaved Jim Crow, Jane Crow, lynched them still dishing out the love voice. That is what I saw in the Floyd family and I was buoyed up. It reminded me of the West family. It reminded me of Irene and Cliff and Cliff -- that's where we come from. Shiloh Baptist Church. You could put us down, but you're not going to put us down in such a way that we're going to hate you because you've become the point of reference. No, we're going to put a smile on Larcenia's face. That his momma. That is where he is right now. He is lying right next to Larcenia whose way of engaging the world was embracing it with all of the love. Now, I am not saying we don't have black thugs and gangsters. I am talking about the best of our tradition. Because brother, brother, brother, if we have created a black version of the Ku Klux Klan, there would have been a Civil War every generation. It would tear ourselves in every hood and that is what Brother Trump needs to understand because it looks like he's trying to push us to a race war. But the good news is, if there was a race war, we have got a whole lot of white brothers and sisters on our side now. That makes a big difference and we've got black folk and red folk and indigenous people and Asians and so forth. This is a matter of integrity and honesty, a matter of justice and love. They kept it on the high ground. That was a beautiful thing, but I did break there, brother and I saw those brothers marching in, like to use in the Shiloh Baptist Church, and pick up that coffin and go and walk out. My daughter was there. I couldn't take it, man. I mean, I've been at this for over 50 years. And yet, I've got to bounce back. And I will bounce back. Because we've got a love that the world can't take away. The world -- white supremacy may make being black a crime, but we refuse to get into the gutter and we are going to go down swinging like Ella Fitzgerald and Muhammad Ali in the name of love and justice. And we do it for Brother Wyatt, we are doing it for my daughter. We are doing it for the Asians. We are doing it for the whole world. Because that is the only hope of the world and that kind of love is always tragic, comic and cruciform. We have got to get ready to get crucified with that kind of love. And you have to keep dishing it all generation after generation after generation. The Floyd family lifted up that spiritual moral banner in the midst of a moment in which we've got all of the lies and crimes and be it a cop, The Pentagon or Wall Street or White House or even Congress itself, we know they don't represent the best of this country. It is just that the best of this country right now seems to be so powerless, but in the streets of our nation, we see this multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-gender, different sexual orientations and different religions, Jewish brothers and sisters holding up Rabbi Abraham and have their heads up, the Catholics holding up most of the day, the Protestants holding up the coffin and lifting every child and the agnostics and the others holding up the Norman Thomases and Edward Zahids and others. That was my mixed wresting with what I saw today, my brother. And I think we've got hope in the form of motion, but we have got to get ready for the backlash. We have got to get ready for the neo fascist clamp down because it is coming. It is coming.", "Yes. I've had that -- I've got to say, you're -- I've never had the honor of taking one of your classes. But I feel like I'm a student of yours and I've learned lessons every time you speak. And I just think it's --", "No, we're in it together, brother and the beautiful thing about here, Socrates never cries, but Jeremiah does and so does Jesus. We cry because we care. We're concerned. It is not about political correctness or self-righteousness. We cry because we are not numb on the inside. We don't have a chilliness of soul and a coldness of mind and heart. We cry because we connect, but then we must have a vision that includes all of us and I have an analysis of power that is honest in terms of the greed, especially at the top. In terms of the hatred, running amok. In terms of corruption, not just the White House and Congress. Too much churches, too many mosques, too many synagogues and too many universities, too many civic organizations and then the greed in us. You and I would talk about this all of the time, right? The gangster in us. Because we're wrestling with this day by day and that's why we need each other, my brother.", "You know, you said something -- I follow you when you're not on my program. I follow you wherever you go and I read what you had to say and you said something a couple of days ago in somebody else's program. You said, \"Can we hold on to integrity, honesty and decency?\" And it seems to me, as you said there is a lot of people who have remained silent, who have just been watching this and as you said, there is going to be a backlash and that is something to be prepared for because I think there are a lot of people just waiting on the side lines waiting to kind of start to chip away at this and cause doubt and divide people. But I think that is so important that at its core, this is about integrity and honesty and decency and fortitude and courage, which are two other things you've spoken a lot about.", "Absolutely. Especially the fortitude and courage. We must have the integrity and honesty and decency, not purity. No one of us are pure and pristine. We all have our spots and our wrinkles as it were. But it is the courage and the fortitude. That is what is necessary. The backbone. We don't need lukewarm folk. We don't need summer soldiers. We need all season love warriors. That is the tradition that we saw represented in that church, at the spiritual level. And my dear brother Sharpton, you know, I love brother Sharpton. We come out and save black church traditions and so forth, and we fight all of the time. But we come together and so forth. And he was powerful. But I always want to connect the police -- fallen police, crimes with the Wall Street power and the Wall Street crimes. We live in a culture in which people feel as if they could do and say anything and get away with it with no accountability and no responsibility. We saw on Wall Street in terms of all of that insider trading and market manipulation and fraudulent activity and predatorial lending, how many went to jail? Zero. Trump say anything? Do anything? He thinks he could get away with it. Pentagon can drop drones on precious folk in Yemen and Pakistan and others and think they could get away with it. We have to have accountability. Our politicians could tell us anything in front of our faces and we know what is going on behind closed doors, they're inside the big money. Just be honest. That is what integrity is. Malcolm X used to say sincerity is my only credentials, that is why we love Malcolm. We didn't always agree with Malcolm, but he said what he meant and he meant what he said. You see what I mean? That is what we need. We need that in our lives. We need that in our communities. We need that in our civilization and we need that as a critique of the worse of the American Empire, the worst of American white supremacy, the worst of American predatory capitalism and the worst of American patriarchy and the worst of American homophobic and transphobia. Have you any idea how one loses sight of the humanity of folks? I don't care. It wasn't the Palestinian, Jewish or whatever. It has got to be all the way down. You know, the English word human comes from the Latin humando which means burial and that is what we saw today. We saw the humanity, because they were ascribing significance to this precious person in the image of God whose body was now going -- undergoing extinction and his soul ascending and this is what connects us as human beings, and at the deepest level, you see and in many ways we're losing it, but we have got to keep on fighting, my brother. We have got to keep on fighting that.", "Yes.", "So, I salute the Floyd family and I salute all of the people there and we just have to bear witness. But love you though, brother.", "Love you, too. Thank you, Dr. West. Appreciate it. We are going to continue the conversation. Later this hour, filmmaker Spike Lee is going to join us. He has made the question of race in America such a central and vital part of his work. Next, tonight where most people react with horror to this video, police knocking an elderly man to the ground. The President reacting today by attacking the victim. And most Republicans reacted by -- Republican senators, I should say by sticking their heads in the political sand. We're keeping them honest next. Also, breaking news on the victim, surprising view toward the police who did this to him. Ahead on this program."], "speaker": ["ERIN BURNETT, CNN HOST", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "JIMENEZ (voice over)", "REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE (D-TX)", "REV. AL SHARPTON, CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST", "MAYOR SYLVESTER TURNER (D), HOUSTON, TEXAS", "JIMENEZ (voice over)", "JOE BIDEN (D), PRESUMPTIVE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "JIMENEZ (voice over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (singing)", "COOPER", "JIMENEZ", "COOPER", "COOPER", "DR. CORNEL WEST, PROFESSOR IN THE PRACTICE OF PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY", "COOPER", "WEST", "COOPER", "WEST", "COOPER", "WEST", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-383205", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-10-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/17/nday.04.html", "summary": "A Tentative Deal Reached To End The General Motors Strike", "utt": ["All right. New this morning, the week's long strike between 50,000 workers -- of 50,000 workers at General Motors appears to be over. The two sides reached a tentative 4-year deal. Specifics of the agreement not exactly clear yet but we do know union members are meeting today and are expected to approve it. CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich, who has been following this from the very beginning, live this morning in Detroit. What do you know, Vanessa?", "Good morning, John. Well, today is critical for the nearly 50,000 workers who have been on strike for nearly five weeks now. The union's council will be voting on this tentative agreement a little bit later this morning at GM headquarters just behind me. If they vote yes, it will then be taken to members across the country and they will get their chance to vote. So what is in this deal? We know that temporary workers will now be able to become full-time employees after three years of service. GM has also committed to investing $9 billion in the United States and that's including bringing an electric truck to the Hamtramck plant here in Detroit, which was slated to close. Another plant that was slated to close, however, Lordstown, will not receive a new product line. We spoke to a couple of workers just after this tentative agreement was announced yesterday to get their reaction.", "Yippee! I was very happy. Kind of elated, you might say. It gets a little emotional for me --", "Oh.", "-- because -- I mean, I -- you know, before, it seemed like we'll be on strike -- like I say, we are fighting, like, for us. This seems more like a we. Like we're fighting for Middle America.", "Some of us are still living paycheck to paycheck. Like, you know, I'm single. It's just my income. And so I was actually going out and looking for a part-time job. But hopefully, now I won't have to. I mean, I may have to because Christmas is coming up and I've got go back a little bit and help -- you know, catch up on the bills.", "You hear from that woman there. This has been a struggle for many of the workers who have been out here for nearly five weeks making $275 dollars a week. We know about $800 million in lost wages to workers. But the workers I've been speaking to, John and Alisyn, over the past five weeks have been committed to this cause. But as we know, they are very eager to get back to work, hoping this vote today is a yes -- John and Alisyn.", "Oh my gosh. I mean, Vanessa, we talked to some of the workers on the picket line weeks ago. They were hoping that day it would be resolved. I mean, they have had, obviously --", "Yes.", "-- monetary issues, childcare issues that they prayed it wasn't going to extend this long. So let's hope that they get some good news today. Thank you very much. OK, so the energy in the Democratic Party feels like it is lurching to the left. Is that true? John Avlon has our reality check. Hi, John.", "Hey, guys. So look, President Trump has a lot of problems when it comes to his reelection. He's the only president in the history of Gallup never to have hit 50 percent approval. Six out of 10 Americans say he doesn't deserve a second term. Fifty- three percent say they'll definitely vote against him. And all of those stats were before a majority of Americans said he should be impeached. But, Democrats are still more than capable of screwing up the 2020 election by lurching too far to the left and playing right into Republican hands. Look, it's no secret Trump has been calling Democrats socialists, radical, extreme, and anti-American, but there's definitely a method to his madness. Check out this poll from mid-summer. It shows Joe Biden Trump by 10 points with the rest of the top tier candidates either beating him by a few points or tied. But when Trump is pitted against a, quote, \"Democratic candidate who you regard as socialist\" he wins by six. And here's the thing. Beyond the fearmongering of the phrase and even the fact that six percent of Democrats think it means being social, there are policies being advanced by major candidates that can credibly be called socialist. I'm talking in particular about single-payer health care now rebranded as Medicare for All. Now, it would eliminate all private insurance and put everyone on a free government plan at an astronomical cost of more than $30 trillion over 10 years. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are its most outspoken advocates. And look, 64 percent of Democrats say Medicare for All is a good idea. But, 90 percent of Democrats like the public option now called Medicare for All that want it and backed by folks like Biden and Buttigieg. Check this out. Among Independent voters, support for Medicare for All falls to 39 percent while support for the public option rockets up to 70 percent. Even 46 percent of Republicans think it's a good idea. It's not hard to see what's the better policy when it comes to winning a general election -- public option, hands down. Even the populist Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown told CNN that, quote, \"I think it's a terrible mistake if the Democratic nominee would publicly support Medicare for All.\" That danger of alienating swing state voters is also why things like Beto O'Rourke's call to seize AR-15s or Julian Castro's calls to decriminalize illegal border crossings may draw cheers in Democratic debates, but they can also be used to validate conservative fears about Democrats doing things like seizing guns or being in favor of open borders. There's no question Democrats are becoming more liberal as a party. But as our Harry Enten points out, Democratic voters are older, more moderate, and more blue-collar than you might. And it might surprise you to know that Democrats who call themselves very liberal only make up 19 percent of the party's voters. That's a small but loud sliver of the electorate. Look, these are polarized times. A new Pew survey found that both parties are perceived as being too extreme in their positions, but nearly six in 10 Democrats say they want a candidate who can work to find common ground. And maybe that's why we've seen Joe Biden beating Donald Trump in states like Ohio, by eight points, while Trump edges Sanders or Warren by single digit. We see the same dynamic in Wisconsin where Biden leads Trump by nine points. A logical purity test may play well in town halls and on Twitter but it could make Democrats lose to a deeply popular incumbent. And that's your reality check.", "Thank you very much, John. You've rendered us speechless. Thank you. All right, now to this story. You'll remember the case of Harry Dunn, a British teenager who was killed by the wife of a U.S. diplomat in a hit-and-run accident. His parents have been asking President Trump for help getting justice. But on Tuesday, something very different happened at the White House and his parents are here to tell us about that, next."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "VANESSA YURKEVICH, CNN BUSINESS AND POLITICS REPORTER", "SCOTT FERGUSON, GM EMPLOYEE", "YURKEVICH", "FERGUSON", "KATHY FAITH, GM WORKER", "YURKEVICH", "CAMEROTA", "YURKEVICH", "CAMEROTA", "JOHN AVLON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-304070", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-01-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/28/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Trump Defends Controversial Travel Ban; Protesters at Airport Demonstrate Against Travel Ban; 11-Year-Old Syrian Refugee Reacts to Ban", "utt": ["Absolutely. Athena Jones live at the White House. We appreciate it. Thank you so much.", "Thanks.", "Top of the hour, 5:00 p.m. Eastern. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Poppy Harlow in New York. Breaking news, President Trump speaking about his controversial executive order. One that bars 134 million people from seven Muslim majority countries from coming to the United States.", "It's not a Muslim ban but we are totally prepared, it's working out very nicely, you see it at the airports, you see it all over. It's working out very nicely, and we're going to have a very, very strict ban and we're going to have extreme vetting which we should have had in this country for many years.", "This comes as protesters gather outside of New York's JFK Airport right now. After word spread that at least two Iraqis were detained there despite holding valid U.S. visas, a lawsuit has been filed on their behalf. One of the men has been released and addressed the media.", "I have a special immigration visa in my passport, me and my family because I work with the U.S. government, I support the U.S. government from the other side of the world. But when I come here they say no. And they treat me as if I break the rules or I do something wrong. I'm surprised, really.", "New York Congressman Jerry Nadler saying that 11 others are stilling being detained at this hour at JFK Airport. Part of this travel ban that targets Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen. But not included in the ban, the four countries where the 9/11 hijackers came from. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Lebanon. Reaction is pouring in from across the globe including from Iranian officials who say they will reciprocate by banning U.S. citizens to their country. All of this as the President signs three more executive actions. Let's begin this hour with Rachel Crane, she is live at JFK Airport. The protests still very much on going on behind you.", "This crowd is growing, Poppy. I mean, we've seen this crowd grow from just a handful of people to what seems like hundreds and hundreds of people here. Protesting, calling for the release of the detainees that are being held here at JFK. Also for President Trump to reverse his controversial executive order. And it's very peaceful here and very spirited, Poppy. We've seen children, we've seen puppies, families. One family spoke about saying how this is the best civics lesson they could ever give their child. Bringing them here to this protest. We've also recently learned that this is terminal four right here where this protest is being -- where this protest is taking place, and we know that 11 detainees are still being held here. We also have learned that a terminal one, at least six people have been detained today. Several of whom are students. One of which is a student at NYU. Also we heard a student from Stony Brook being held. We're hearing this from a lawyer that's working with families over there. I had an opportunity to speak with the daughter of a family that's being held. Her parents came to visit her. She goes to Stony Brook University. Her parents coming here for the very first time. They've been held since 11:00 a.m. -- Poppy.", "Rachel, what are they chanting behind you?", "We're having some technical difficulties. Yes.", "I just said, what are they chanting behind you?", "Okay. She can't hear me. Rachel Crane, at JFK, thank you. Iran's response to the travel ban, they're slapping their own, no U.S. citizens will be allowed to enter Iran, they say it for as long as President Trump's order is in effect. Joining me from Washington, CNN's international diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson. And Nic, let's begin with this. Because President Trump has signed several new executive actions just moments ago. One of them gives a deadline to his top generals to deliver their plan aimed at destroying ISIS. Do we know anything else about what this new plan will be? Because as you well know, the President was incredibly critical of the former administration's plan to defeat ISIS and the generals themselves.", "Well prior to the signing, we were expecting, we've been told the details would include that there's a 30-day deadline for the generals to come up with this plan. The other details we have at the moment, really what we have from President Trump as he read it out, and I found that very interesting. Because he said this will be to tackle ISIS, in Iraq and Syria. As we know, ISIS is manifesting itself in other countries such as Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan. These countries as well. But he said specifically here, these were his words. ISIS in Iraq and Syria. And he has said absolutely he's going to double down, bomb ISIS, essentially off the face of the map. That he will eradicate and get rid of ISIS. But it appears as if now he is limiting that in what he is asking in his executive order to ISIS in Iraq and Syria. This of course is the biggest grouping of ISIS. But not all and they've been growing in Libya recently.", "What is not included in the executive order signed this week on, with this travel ban, Nic, is a safe zone in Syria. This is something that the President campaigned on. He said we should have a safe zone in Syria, so that refugees could go there. Rather than necessarily coming to the United States. Talk to me about that and also how this ban will impact the already-strained refugee programs in other countries? Like Jordan for example. Like Turkey?", "Well that tiny valve that allowed refugees out of Jordan, out of Lebanon, out of Turkey, that allowed them to sort of go through a screening process against the United States or other European countries, it throttles back that valve so that exacerbates the situation for them. The difficulty of course for those governments is, is now they have potentially an even more angry population of refugees on their hands. Who feel that their, you know, their opportunities are limited and curtailed here -- Poppy.", "Nic Robertson in Washington. Nic, thank you very much for that. Joining me now, California Congressman Adam Schiff, he is the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. Congressman, thank you for joining us.", "You bet. Good to be with you.", "Your reaction to the President and this travel ban. It essentially would impact, you know, 134 million people, if you look at it in totality of those seven countries. Your reaction?", "I think it's a terrible mistake. And a terrible irony that on holocaust remembrance day he would issue a ban, effectively a religious test for people coming here as refugees. It's an awful decision and it plays right into the ISIS and al Qaeda narrative that the west is essentially inhospitable to Muslims. There's a clash of civilizations. It's going to make relations with Muslim countries that we depend upon, in this war on terror much more difficult, much more front. So, I think it's going to be deeply counterproductive. If you look to the problems that we've had in the United States, the attacks that we've had that come from home-grown radicals. They have not come from refugees. And so I think it's a very poor decision. I'm writing today, our letter will go out within the hour to Secretary Kerry. Kelly, rather. Demanding information about anyone being detained at Los Angeles Airport. And my constituents that may be detained or family members of my constituents because we want to make sure that they can have access to legal regress.", "Congressman, let's listen to what the President said about the need for better vetting procedures. Because his team has pointed to attacks for example in San Bernardino. As sort of a ground for this, even though those attackers were not from any of the countries included. Let's listen to the President's justification.", "We've taken in tens of thousands of people, we know nothing about them. They can say they vet them. They didn't vet them. They have no papers, how can you vet somebody when you don't know anything about them and they have no papers? How do you vet them? You can't.", "Why do you think he's wrong?", "Well, unfortunately it's the President that knows little about the vetting process. These refugees that we've taken in often have to go through a year and a half, two and a half years of vetting, where their backgrounds are checked out. Where their stories are checked out. In fact the people that he's targeting are the most vetted people coming to the United States. If he wants to pay attention to those that may pose a threat, there are Europeans that can come to this country without a visa, as part of the visa waiver program. We know that there have been a great number of foreign fighters that have left Europe and gone to join the fight. Have come back to Europe. Some of which we know who they are, some of which we don't. That's probably a much greater likelihood of a problem ultimately than those that are going through this two-year vetting process. So I think he needs to familiarize himself exactly with where the threats are coming from. This is again the President shooting from the hip. Going on his gut. When unfortunately these decisions are ill-informed and are going to have serious repercussions.", "The attackers in San Bernardino who took 14 lives. You know, they were carried out by a woman who came to the United States from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. She moved there to Saudi Arabia when she was 20. Better vetting, the argument is, may have stopped her, right? She and her husband took these 14 lives. Does that bolster Trump's argument? Noting that those countries by the way, the man in the attack was born in America, she was born in Pakistan. Pakistan is not included on this ban. Does that though help bolster Trump's argument that there should have been better vetting?", "No, not at all. And as you point out, Pakistan is not even covered by this order. It's not one of the Muslim countries that's singled out. Moreover, you have one assailant who was born here, another didn't come as a refugee. But came as part of the fiance process. And yes, there are always ways to improve vetting of anyone. This order isn't going to help improve vetting. It is going to cause a lot of distress and a lot of I think animosity within the Muslim world. We're already seen people that have risked their lives for the United States, people serving as interpreters in Iraq, being detained. Now, some of them have been released apparently, but only because of public attention. How many others have been detained around the country, prevented from getting here, that have not gotten the benefit of publicity and are still in detention, we simply don't know. But the fact that these orders would not have prevented San Bernardino, indeed none of the 9/11 hijackers came from these countries. Tells you that the examples that he gives really don't support the orders he's signed.", "We know that President Trump will give this country, will give priority to Christian refugees. Here's how he put it to the Christian broadcasting network just yesterday.", "As it relates to persecuted Christians. Do you see them as kind of a priority here?", "Yes.", "You do.", "Yes. They've been horribly treated. You know, if you were a Christian in Syria, it was impossible, very, very, at least very, very tough to get into the United States. If were you a Muslim, you could come in. And I thought it was very, very unfair. So we are going to help them.", "I should note that is not factual. Because when you look at the number of refugees that came to this country last year, you had almost an exactly equal number according to pew of Christians and Muslims. Forty six to 44 percent. But do you believe that, do you believe that he's going to correct an unfair system as he puts it?", "No. And I'm glad you called the President on this. He is someone who makes up his facts as he goes along and we're going to have to continue to call him out on this. Because unfortunately the basis for a lot of these misguided policies is a misstatement of the facts. But you know listen, Christians have been persecuted in the Middle East. They have been the victim of terrible atrocities. We ought to try to help the Christian populations. But Muslims have also been the victims. In fact more Muslim victims than any other religious group in the region. And I don't see us have a religious test where we say we're not going to accept refugees from Muslim countries. Or if we do, we're only going to accept Christians. That would be a terrible turn of affairs for country that was founded on the idea of religious liberty. And to announce this policy on Holocaust Remembrance Day just adds additional salt to the wounds. This is a man who has learned very little from history. And we don't want to repeat the mistakes. Because frankly, this is how it starts. It starts with a ban on certain countries and then it becomes a very overt ban on a certain religious group.", "Obviously there's other religious minorities, including the Yazidis who have been persecuted there as well. Congressman, thank you very much for being with us.", "Thanks, Poppy.", "Coming up, we will get a Trump supporter's take on this controversial travel ban. Also an 11-year-old Syrian refugee reads her thank you letter to America. In front of an audience filled with those who have supported the President through the campaign. You'll hear about her dream of being a doctor. And this, we take you inside the vast network of tunnels under the U.S./Mexico border. Our special series on the promised border wall is ahead."], "speaker": ["POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HARLOW", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HARLOW", "RACHEL CRANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "CRANE", "HARLOW", "HARLOW", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR", "HARLOW", "ROBERTSON", "HARLOW", "REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D), CALIFORNIA", "HARLOW", "SCHIFF", "HARLOW", "TRUMP", "HARLOW", "SCHIFF", "HARLOW", "SCHIFF", "HARLOW", "BRODY", "PRES. DONALD TRUMP (R), UNITED STATES", "BRODY", "TRUMP", "HARLOW", "SCHIFF", "HARLOW", "SCHIFF", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-384151", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2019-10-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/28/qmb.02.html", "summary": "Stocks At Record Highs Amid Strong Earnings And Trade Hopes; Iconic U.S. jeweler, Tiffany Has Become A Takeover Target.", "utt": ["Welcome back. You`re watching QUEST MEANS BUSINESS. I`m Eleni Giokos. The U.S. markets continue to surge, and that`s thanks to strong corporate earnings and high hopes for a U.S.-China trade deal. Take a look at this. You`ve got the S&P 500 and NASDAQ both sitting at record highs. The Dow is around a percent away from new records, but it`s incredible to see how these stock markets have been performing over the past while. So investors are looking at the massive number of earnings due this week and look at this. It`s incredible. I mean, 150 companies are out with earnings this week, I`m told, so it`s pretty incredible. You`ve got a lot of the FAANG stocks that are going to be releasing and some of the more sort of traditional stocks. You`ve got GM, ExxonMobil as well as Chevron up with some numbers to look at as well.", "Alphabet is going to be an interesting one, and of course, Starbucks. Those are the numbers that we`re going to be focusing on later on this week. And with me, we`ve got Art Hogan, joining us, and he is ready to give us some details in what kind of numbers we can expect. He`s the Chief Market Strategist at National Holdings. Thank you, sir, for joining us. Good to have you with us.", "Thank you very much for having me.", "Fantastic. Okay, so 150 companies, you need to look out for what, what is going to be really important? I mean, the bellwether companies, the barometers, in terms of the health of the U.S. economy, what are you looking for?", "That`s such a great question. And typically you look at the things that are most popular first, right? So you think about the FAANGs and you brought that up in the last piece. I think it`s more important to look at the companies that we`ve forgotten about that haven`t done as well. So the most interesting thing to me in a takeaway from the earnings that we`ve heard from so far as the banks are doing better. The Bank Index has caught up in the S&P 500, they diverged a lot in the month of August. I think the industrials are actually doing much better than we thought and that`s part of the economy that I am most worried about and then some of the consumer facing names that are actually doing much better. So, you know, away from those sexy sort of household names in the FAANG group, I think it`s more important to look at the companies that have been under invested this year, because that`s where the opportunities are.", "I mean, are earnings shooting the lights out? Because we know that when you take out the energy stocks, the markets would have performed a lot better and actually earnings would have looked a lot better. We`ve got, you know, Chevron and Exxon up with numbers this week. Are we just like now moving and pivoting more towards like the sexier kind of move techy stocks that are going to be offering growth for instance?", "Yes, that`s a really good point. So not just taking energy out. But when you think of what our anticipation was coming into this earnings season, we thought the S&P 500 will probably lose somewhere between three and five percent on a year-over-year basis, and we`re actually making about three percent. So the difference there is significant and the difference is coming from the financials and certainly coming from technology. It`s coming from healthcare and the biotech which are doing very well. It`s not going to come from energy, I think we know that. This is another one of those quarters where just like energy investing is very difficult in this environment.", "Are you going to be buying into cool new stocks like Virgin Galactic. Is that something you`d be interested?", "Well, that`s such an exciting story. There`s so many exciting stories out there where we love the product, but don`t love the stock and this is one of them.", "Are you going to wait until they make some money. Right?", "Really?", "That`s the whole thing.", "You know, I think in this day and age, I think it has been proven, this is the year that we wait until companies make money.", "Yes, absolutely. Look at the markets are looking expensive for you. What are you doing right now? What are you investing in? Are you holding out? Are you going to be cashing out anytime soon? Because even the general economic matrix are looking really strong. I mean, you know that even the PMI numbers are well above 50, which of course is very hurtful.", "Right, and I think not just the U.S. PMI`s, I think we`re going to see a bottoming in the global PMI`s and I think a lot of that has to do with the tone around U.S.-China trade. You touched on that in the beginning. I think that`s a massive improvement of what we are looking at in the month of August. And I think with that improvement, you might see a release of some economic energy globally, and I think if we can see the global PMI`s improve at least bottom and not get worse. I think that`s very --", "Are you guys pricing in a good news scenario in terms of the China-U.S. trade war?", "We are.", "I mean, bad news has been priced in this --", "Bad news has been priced in and what the market does very effectively is compartmentalizes this when it`s not escalating and right now, if we`re going to have a Phase 1 deal that means we`re not going to be escalating and that`s really important.", "FOMC meeting, Wednesday? What are you pricing in?", "We are pricing in, like 95 percent of the rest of the Street, we`re pricing the fact that we cut rates one more time, but we`re going to hear a relatively neutral command in the statement. I think he`s going to take a positive after this and say, hey, now we`re data dependent.", "Markets all-time high, economic data is looking good. Let`s cut rates.", "I know.", "It is mind boggling to think. Thank you so much, sir, for joining us. Great to have you in studio. Much appreciated. All right, so iconic U.S. jeweler, Tiffany has become a takeover target. LVMH, the French company that owns Louis Vuitton is making all cash offer for the firm known for its little blue boxes. Tiffany shares are up more than 30 percent on the proposal. The deal would value Tiffany at $14.5 billion. We`ve got Anna Stewart with us from London taking a very close look at the deal. Is it shiny enough for Tiffany, do you think?", "Well, it seems pretty sparkly, but possibly not sparkly enough. Tiffany`s Board are considering this offer, but we`ve had no result from that yet and the general consensus is they`re likely to want a higher price. Now, why does LVMH want to buy Tiffany? Because this is a stock that`s actually performed quite badly over the past year. It has had a bit of a sales slump. Jewelry is still one of the most attractive categories in luxury. It`s doing quite well for LVMH. They bought Bulgari in 2011. This actually broadens out the consumer because it`s a lower price point, it is a little bit more affordable, all of that silver jewelry. And it also would really increase LVMH`s U.S. exposure because overall, LVMH has a huge presence in America. But when it comes to watches and jewelry, actual sales is just nine percent North America. Tiffany, 44 percent in America, so that would really give them geographical exposure -- Eleni.", "Yes. Okay. So look, we know that you know, there`s a lot of things going around to the markets and I mean, when I`m looking at the share price now, it`s up around 30 percent. That`s pretty incredible. But we are hearing that perhaps Tiffany is not going to be, you know, the shareholders are not going to be as excited about this down the line.", "Could they be a takeover target by another company? I mean, do they want to be sold at the right price?", "I think this could be it and we`re seeing as you see up 30 percent. There could be a rival bid. People are pointing at Reshma as a potential. Also some analysts simply saying this does not value it quite right. $120.00 per share is a 20 percent premium on their share price closing on Friday. One analyst from Cohen says it could go all the way up to $160.00. That would actually be a 60 percent premium. It sounds crazy, but that`s the exact premium that LVMH bought Bulgari for in 2011, so it is not unheard of. Now although Tiffany has been in trouble, we`ve had a big sales slump, particularly wealthy tourists not buying as much. There are some good spots and bright spots and sparkly spots, particularly Mainland China and I think there could be a lot of synergy and growth here. So I think LVMH will likely come back with another offer if this one is rejected -- Eleni.", "Thank you so very much, Anna. Great to have you on the show. Much appreciated. The European markets closed higher today. Let`s take a look after hitting the highest levels since January 2018. Stocks were buoyed by the latest Brexit extension and optimism over a trade deal between the U.S. and China. Shares of HSBC, Europe`s largest bank fell more than three and a half percent as protests in Lebanon drag on. In the meantime, the head of the Central Bank warns financial collapse maybe just days away and he is speaking exclusively with CNN. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["GIOKOS", "GIOKOS", "ART HOGAN, CHIEF MARKET STRATEGIST, NATIONAL HOLDINGS", "GIOKOS", "HOGAN", "GIOKOS", "HOGAN", "GIOKOS", "HOGAN", "GIOKOS", "HOGAN", "GIOKOS", "HOGAN", "GIOKOS", "HOGAN", "GIOKOS", "HOGAN", "GIOKOS", "HOGAN", "GIOKOS", "HOGAN", "GIOKOS", "HOGAN", "GIOKOS", "ANNA STEWART, CNN REPORTER", "GIOKOS", "GIOKOS", "STEWART", "GIOKOS"]}
{"id": "CNN-354549", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-11-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/13/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Camp Fire Now Deadliest in California History, 42 Dead, More Missing; Israel, Gaza Militants Trade Deadly Rocket, Mortar Fire", "utt": ["This as the camp fire has become the deadliest wildfire in the state's history. At least 42 people have died in that blaze.", "Many of those deaths in the Town of Paradise. This home reduced to ashes, a mailbox now all that stands remaining. Dan Simon, he is in Paradise with more. I mean, we have heard people say, you know, why would God take away a town named Paradise? But there really is just shock and sadness there.", "It really is. And let me first explain where I am. This one of the first burned out structures I saw when I first came to Paradise. This is a Safeway grocery store. I wanted to come back here today and show you because it's just so massive, how big this is. And you can see just the destruction inside. And it's representative of the bigger problem that you have in the Town of Paradise. We're talking about a small town, and quite frankly, a lot of people relied on this grocery store. And so, you know, going forward, it's going to be really challenging because you have to rebuild businesses just like this. In the meantime, we got that horrible news yesterday that the death toll has risen. We're now looking at 42. That's a record for the amount of fatalities for a wildfire in California. And all along, officials fear that the death toll would continue to go up because this fire spread so quickly and combined with the fact that you have a lot of elderly retirees who live in the Town of Paradise. We know that's going to be the focus today. More search and recovery crews are on their way to Paradise to look for more bodies. And you also have the grim task of trying to identify the victims, so many of them were badly burned, beyond recognition, quite frankly. So officials are asking folks in the community. They're asking loved ones to provide DNA samples so ultimately those remains can be identified. In terms of the overall fire itself. Right now, it's 30 percent contained. There hasn't been much growth in the past few days. So that's good, but obviously, looking for those bodies today is going to be key, and just one other thing. Perhaps you can see just how smoky the conditions are outside. That's another thing that folks here are battling. We'll send it back to you guys.", "Wow.", "Don't sit there for a long time, going to take a long time to recover. Dan Simon thanks very much. About 500 miles south of Paradise, near Malibu, the Woolsey Fire, as it's called, that intensified overnight. The fire now has scorched more than 96,000 acres. Crews could soon be facing up to 60 miles per hour winds today. Fanning the flames, at least two people killed while they were likely fleeing this fire over the weekend. State-wide, more than 8,000 firefighters are now battling those flames. A lot of you have asked about this, for ways that you can help those affected, hurt by the California wildfires. Please go to CNN.com/impact.", "All right. Israel may be pulling back from the brink of war after an incredibly volatile 24 hours. Hundreds of rockets and mortars have been raining down on both sides of the Israeli/Gaza border. You see some of the shots in the middle of the night there.", "There are sadly casualties on the ground. CNN's Oren Liebermann is in Sderot, Israel, and he joins us now. Still lighting up the sky as you have been seeing?", "It has been now a few minutes of quiet, perhaps over the last hour or so, we have not seen any red alerts indicating rocket fire or mortar fire from Gaza and we have not heard any Israeli airstrikes. We have not gotten any reports of those from our CNN teams inside Gaza. Just over the course of the last few minutes, we have gotten statements from Hamas as well as a Hamas source telling CNN that a cease-fire has been reached between Israel and Gaza. Egypt and the United Nations have worked frantically over the course of the last 24 hours to get to this point, to get to the point of a cease-fire. Israel generally does not comment or does not confirm any acknowledgment of any cease-fire and they haven't commented in this case. Yet what they have said in the past is simply quiet will be met with quiet. If this cease-fire holds, it brings to an end the most volatile, worst 24 hours in terms of hostilities between Israel and Gaza since the end of the 2014 war. The Israeli military says more than 400 rockets and mortars have been fired from Gaza into Israel. Many have been intercepted by Israel's iron dome aerial defense system. A number have hit residential areas including one that hit a residential building inside Ashkelon City near where we're standing right now in Israel. One person was killed in that rocket attack, making that the first person killed in a rocket strike in Israel since the 2014 war. In that wave of Israeli airstrikes carried out against Gaza, against largely Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic - military targets, the Palestinian Ministry of Health says seven Palestinians have been killed. A number of others have been injured. Poppy and Jim, the critical question now is this cease-fire in fact in place and is it holding as we head into the dark hours here?", "Yes, a very important question. Oren, thank you for being there and reporting for us. Ahead for us, a grieving family says a security guard just doing his job when he was shot dead by police. Now they're demanding to know why."], "speaker": ["POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR", "DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-47272", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-1-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/14/lad.09.html", "summary": "England's Prince Harry Admitted Drinking and Drug Usage To Father", "utt": ["Boys will be boys, that's what they always say. But when the boy is Britain's Prince Harry and he's been smoking pot and getting drunk in a pub, well, that's another story. CNN's Hala Gorani has details.", "Splashed all over the Sunday papers, the youngest son of Britain's heir to the throne, 17-year-old Prince Harry admitting last summer to his father that he got drunk and smoked marijuana. He was then sent for a day to a rehab clinic to see for himself the dangers of drug abuse. Even the country's prime minister, whose son was also caught drinking underage last year, had something to say about it.", "I think that the way that Prince Charles and the royal family handled it is absolutely right, and they've done it in a very responsible and, as you would expect, in a very sensitive way for their child.", "It's claimed Prince Harry smoked pot in and around his father's country home in western England and drank heavily in a nearby pub. Perhaps not unusual behavior for a teenager and his friends, but for royal watchers and gossip lovers, this is finally a story they can sink their teeth into.", "And they'd come back there and, you know, a bit of naughtiness going on there and drinking and smoking.", "On the street, the reaction from her majesty's subjects was a bit more subdued.", "That's youngsters nowadays, do you know what I mean? That's what they do.", "And he is the one that sets the example so he can't be leading people down the wrong path. But, you know, it's not uncommon.", "It's not a big deal. Not at all.", "The story of Harry's underage drinking and pot smoking will die down eventually, but this is a fresh generation of royals coming of age. So expect many more tabloid stories on the young royals to come your way in the future. Once Harry and his older brother William enter public life in earnest, their lives are sure to be reported from every angle and in great detail. Hala Gorani, CNN, London.", "No doubt about that."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "TONY BLAIR, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER", "GORANI", "NICHOLAS DAVIES, ROYAL AUTHOR", "GORANI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GORANI (on camera)", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-265285", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-09-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/24/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Donald Trump Attacks Clinton and Republican Rivals; North Korean Woman Says She's Trapped in the South", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. Volkswagen's chief has resigned amid growing scandal that has shaken up the auto industry. U.S. regulators say the company cheated on environmental standards in its diesel powered vehicles. Volkswagen revealed that 11 million cars worldwide have emissions discrepancies.", "The numbers are incredible. CEO Martin Winterkorn says there was no wrongdoing on his part. The head of the company's supervisory board says those who are responsible will be held accountable.", "We agreed at today's meeting that all procedures must be clarified with the utmost decisiveness. And misconduct has to be punished. At the same time, we are determined to make a fresh start.", "Volkswagen has been ordered to recall the affected vehicles and stop selling some cars in the United States. U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is going after Barack Obama's faith, saying he pretends to be a Christian.", "Now Huckabee was answering a question about Republican rival Ben Carson's recent comments that he would not support a Muslim president. Listen.", "There is no religious test to hold public office in America. I am less concerned about what faith a person has, I'm more concerned about the authenticity of their faith and how that plays out in their policies. I'm also concerned about a guy that believes he's a Christian, and pretends to be, and then -- and says he is, but then does things that makes it very difficult for people to practice their Christian faith.", "Now Donald Trump says he will unveil a detailed tax plan next week with tax cuts for the middle class and increases for hedge fund managers.", "On Wednesday, he was on attack mode on the campaign trail in South Carolina. Sunlen Serfaty reports.", "Republican frontrunner Donald Trump back on offense, going after his Republican and Democratic rivals alike.", "Hillary who has become very shrill. You know the word shrill? Marco Rubio as an example, he's had no money, zero. Now I think that's OK, it's fine, maybe it's good politically to say you owe money because you over borrowed your credit cards.", "Mocking his opponents for their appearance at last week's debate.", "In a room that was 100 degrees, that room was hot. I mean, poor Chris Christie. No. It's true. It was an amazing thing. I was like a piece of water. Rubio, I've never seen a young guy sweat that much. Huckabee, nice guy. He was seriously hot. He was soaking wet. I grabbed him around his back. I said, good job. And it was soaking wet. I immediately -- he was drenched.", "Trump also going on a two-day Twitter tear against FOX News, declaring he is boycotting the network \"for treating me very unfairly,\" and calling Megyn Kelly a lightweight and highly overrated. FOX News says Trump announced his boycott after FOX canceled his interview with host Bill O'Reilly scheduled for Thursday, and directing fire at Senator Rubio, saying he has the worst voting record in the Senate. But in an appearance with Stephen Colbert, still refusing to answer the question whether he believes President Obama was born in the", "Right there, just right there. Come on.", "You want to know, I don't talk about it anymore.", "This as Ben Carson can't change the subject away from his controversial comments, that a U.S. president shouldn't be a Muslim.", "Anybody, and that includes any religion, who lives according to American values and principles, and is willing to put our Constitution above their religious ideology, is acceptable to me.", "But claiming the fallout had led to a big boost in donations.", "I mean the money has been coming in so fast it's hard to even keep up with this.", "Meanwhile, Carly Fiorina now polling at second place says she thinks Trump's rumblings are a sign he's getting nervous.", "Maybe I am getting under his skin a little bit.", "And riding the post-debate wave in South Carolina, Fiorina says she sees that momentum turning into something tangible.", "We're seeing a big up-tick in our crowds and our fundraising and interest and support, and obviously that's really gratifying.", "And the Fiorina campaign would not divulge how much interest they're seeing, how much money they're seeing, in hard numbers, only saying that they're seeing a significant up-tick across the board. Sunlen Serfaty, CNN, Rock Hill, South Carolina.", "Thousands of North Koreans have escaped to the South and only a few have asked to go back. One North Korean defector is desperate to return to her family in Pyongyang.", "But she says she is trapped in South Korea because of a mistake. Will Ripley shares her story in this CNN exclusive.", "Every hour, every day, this wife and mother says she suffers, living with the consequences of what she calls a horrible mistake. \"The wrong choice I made, my choice of wanting to earn money for my treatment led to the worst situation of my life,\" says Kim Rion-Hi. Kim went to China four years ago seeking medical care for liver disease but found she couldn't afford it. She says a broker tricked her into going to South Korea, promising she'd make a lot of money to pay her bills. Kim says she didn't realize once she signed the papers renouncing her North Korean citizenship, she could never go home. At the time, she says, she didn't even know what a North Korean defector meant. Desperate to return to her family, Kim says she pretended to be a North Korean spy, hoping to be deported. Instead ending up in prison. Today she is out on parole, working at a recycling plant. Kim says she is trapped in South Korea. Her arms bear the scars of multiple suicide attempts. In Pyongyang I meet Kim's husband and 21-year-old daughter who hasn't seen her mom since she was 17. She asks why, why can't she come back? Why do we have to go through such suffering? We ask if they'd like to send her a message. \"To my wife in South Korea, don't forget here you have parents, a husband and daughter, and a socialist nation. Keep on fighting until the end.\" We show their message to Kim. The first time she has seen her family in four years. \"What am I going do,\" she says. Kim also asked to send a message. A tearful apology to her family. We meet once again with Kim's husband and daughter. They promise to relay her message to her aging parents, unsure when or if they'll ever be reunited. (", "To these two chairs right here, please. (", "South Korea's Unification Ministry says the law does not allow them to bring this family back together. Like so many others on the divided Korean peninsula, the anguish of separation, one of thousands of families torn apart. As the video plays, no words, just heartbreak. Will Ripley, CNN, Pyongyang, North Korea."], "speaker": ["BARNETT", "CHURCH", "BERTHOLD HUBER, VOLKSWAGEN SUPERVISORY BOARD (Through Translator)", "CHURCH", "BARNETT", "MIKE HUCKABEE (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BARNETT", "CHURCH", "SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SERFATY", "TRUMP", "SERFATY", "U.S. STEPHEN COLBERT, HOST, \"THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT", "TRUMP", "SERFATY", "BEN CARSON (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SERFATY", "CARSON", "SERFATY", "CARLY FIORINA (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SERFATY", "FIORINA", "SERFATY (on camera)", "CHURCH", "BARNETT", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "On camera)", "Voice-over)"]}
{"id": "CNN-212791", "program": "SANJAY GUPTA MD", "date": "2013-8-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/17/hcsg.01.html", "summary": "5 Foods You Should Never Eat", "utt": ["The truth is most of us probably avoid certain foods because we simply don't like the way they taste. But even if we're told that they're healthy, there are many foods in the market that will taste great but still contain ingredients that are potentially hazardous to your health. And this is where it gets interesting. Food industry experts compiled this list of foods they say we should never eat. David Jack has insight on this. He's a nutrition expert. He's also contributing editor to \"Men's Health\" magazine. Thanks for being here.", "It's a pleasure to be here.", "You know, this is going to open up a lot of eyes I think because, again, you know, and I'm guilty to this as well. As a doc, you tell people what you think are the rights to food eat. And nutrition is such an important part of their health, but then, we have to dig deeper sometimes, as you've done here. We've got some of these foods that are laid out. Maybe we can just sort of talk through this.", "Sure.", "The strawberries.", "Right here.", "Healthy food.", "So, strawberries, Environmental Working Group that comes up each with this list of a clean 15 and a dirty dozen.", "Right.", "And basically what they look at it is, they look at fruits and vegetables, how they're grown and how they're treated with pesticides. So, we have a fruit like a strawberry that actually when they spray strawberries with pesticides they're in gear that protects them while they're spraying the strawberries with the pesticides. Is that good for our body? So they've studied there's over 13 pesticides in the common strawberry. So we think we're eating healthy, but really we have to choose in this case organic to get away from those pesticides, which are so detrimental to our health, and ultimately get back to good food as it was designed.", "You don't need to buy everything organic?", "Correct.", "Then this dirty dozen, if you're peeling the fruit.", "Yes.", "You're getting rid of it. But strawberries, you don't have that luxury.", "Yes, this year, we're finding kale on that list which never was because it's in such popular demand now that some of, it's getting the overspray because it's grown in crops near other things. So, it's really getting interesting.", "It's fascinating. White chocolate -- now, a lot of people aren't going to put white chocolate on the healthy list, but there's again more than meets the eye here?", "Well, chocolate is something that actually in its rare form, cacao, that bean, is really very healthy and high antioxidants, that really helps our body to be well. There's obviously things that help brain function in chocolate. What happens like with other foods is the beauty of that food gets stripped down and stripped away and gets processed. So, what we end up with this kind of healthy snack we want to give ourselves just to feel good, and we think we're doing good for ourselves. It takes out all the nutrition. We really want to stay closer to the dark chocolate at organic cacao that keeps all of those key nutrients inside of it. You get the healthy snack, but you also get benefit from it.", "So, it's more of the cacao butter, right?", "Yes.", "Not really chocolate per se?", "Correct. It's the butter. It's the actual -- that actual --", "It's marketing genius. We'll call it white chocolate.", "Further away from the truth as you get down to it.", "And then you realize.", "Yes.", "Sprouts, again, you know, this is something that a lot of doctors recommend?", "Yes. Healthy. Here's the problem. Sprouts, the seed generally needs moist, warm environments to grow, which is a breeding ground for bacteria.", "All sorts of different organisms and food recalls.", "Exactly. They found sprouts are usually the cull pretty at the sent of these massive food recall and getting people sick. So, if you're going to do sprouts, we recommend that you heat them to try to kill some of the bacteria, or you get some crunch with the sprouts. So, you take your carrots, you take your cabbages and you shred them and use those instead.", "To try to get that texture.", "Sure. Get the texture. Stay away from the bacteria.", "Canned tomatoes. Is it the can or is it the tomatoes?", "It's really the can. So, there's a resin n the can that brings these synthetic estrogens into our body, which starts to mess with our hormones. And hormone regulation is really the issue that a lot of people are facing and being unwell and unhealthy weight gain. So, we want to get away from the can and we want to move to things like glass that don't have those resins in there or even like a tetra pak like Trader Joe's has tomatoes in a tetra pak, which also helps get us away from the dangers that would be inside the can.", "And, finally, and specifically swordfish over here.", "Sure.", "And I should point out, you guys interviewed a lot of different experts for this column.", "We did.", "Dr. Lander (ph), someone I know well, weighed in on this. What do you say?", "Swordfish is really high in mercury. The other thing, it's not sustainably fished a lot. So, they'll use methods that damage other sea life. So, you're getting double whammy with it. You're getting high mercury, which there's tons of issues with that. It's a toxin. But you're also having this insustainable fishing practices. So, you want to move to things like, you know, wild Alaskan salmon. You want to move to things like Pacific -- even Pacific tuna, closer. Snakehead fish now, they're saying, tastes a lot like swordfish but these are more sustainably fished. They're line caught, they're trolled for, the mercury is down, so, it's better for the environment. It's better for your body.", "Have you had snakehead fish?", "I haven't yet.", "I heard it tastes a lot like swordfish.", "I know. I got to get over the name a little but I'm willing to give it a shot.", "Change that name. I really appreciate it.", "Thank you so much.", "Thanks for being here.", "Pleasure.", "We appreciate it. We got a check's of your top stories just minutes away. But still ahead on SGMD, we're chasing life. 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{"id": "CNN-56093", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-6-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/18/lad.04.html", "summary": "In John Walker Trial, Motions to Dismiss or Change Venue Denied", "utt": ["Here in the United States, N-O. It's a two-letter word that attorneys for Taliban American John Walker Lindh heard over and over in federal court. As CNN's Bob Franken reports, the judge dealt the defense several legal blows.", "\"No,\" said the judge, nine times, \"No.\" So John Walker Lindh left the courthouse facing the same charges he faced when he arrived. All of the defense requests were denied. He will be returning to the same courthouse. Motions to dismiss or change venue because of prejudicial publicity were denied, even though this building is only nine miles from the Pentagon, where the attacks by terrorists on September 11 are still a burning memory. \"One would have to go to planet Pluto,\" said the judge, \"to find those who had not heard of this.\" Nevertheless, he was confident a fair and impartial jury could be impaneled here. The judge ruled that Lindh is not covered by the international principle of combat immunity. President Bush declared him an unlawful combatant. Even so, the judge was not willing to accept the administration argument that the courts had no right to even consider the question, nor did he accept the defense argument that Lindh had been the victim of selective prosecution. The defense contention that Lindh was exercising his constitutional right of association while fighting for the Taliban was also rejected. Lindh's lawyers tried to put their best face on the case.", "We thrive on adversity, as you may have noticed, and we have a secret weapon. We have a secret weapon, and his name is John Lindh.", "Lindh's father, mother and sister sat in the front row. As he departed, John Walker Lindh, the son and brother, nodded a silent greeting. And before the judge left, he ordered a three-week investigation into the leaks of confidential e-mails published in \"Newsweek\" expressing questions by some lawyers in the Justice Department about the interrogation of Lindh. That interrogation is being challenged by defense attorneys, who want to suppress an alleged confession that is considered vital to the government's case. That hearing is scheduled next month. (on camera): First, this Wednesday, another complex question in this case: What classified material is necessary for the trial? It's part of the difficult job of balancing national security concerns with the rights of the defendant, much of which the judge calls, \"unchartered territory.\" Bob Franken, CNN, Alexandra, Virginia."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JAMES BROSNAHAN, WALKER LINDH ATTORNEY", "FRANKEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-138490", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-5-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0905/21/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Pittsburgh Steelers, Walter Reed and the National Naval Medical Center at the White House Today", "utt": ["Live pictures from the White House right now waiting for the President of the United States to step up with his special guest, the Super Bowl champions, Pittsburgh Steelers. They're actually there at the White House, along with 50 wounded warriors from Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Also the National Naval Medical Center and a number of their families. We'll tell you what they're doing for troops together. We're also pushing forward on this morning's unique double take on America's national security. At the top of the hour, what President Obama and former VP Cheney had to say about Guantanamo, terrorism and how sacred -- or how scared rather, we all should be. Plus, you've seen the video. Now meet one of the victims. Students at a Texas state school for the mentally disabled forced into a fight club by workers. Our exclusive interview coming up. And a related issue we've been covering this week are children with special needs facing shockingly abusive practices behind some classroom doors. We're going to talk with an inspirational educator, a woman who teaches teachers to be the best that they can be with kids with special needs. Well, in New Zealand -- all right. Here comes the president. We're going to take that live from the White House to see what he, along with the Pittsburgh Steelers, also members from Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Naval Medical Center as well, what they're going to be doing to assemble care packages for our troops.", "Hello, everybody. I, first of all, want to just acknowledge a few people that are here. First of all, some of my cabinet members, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who grew up as a maniacal Pittsburgh Steeler fan. He is here.", "All right. I guess we can figure out that the President is a big Pittsburgh Steelers football fan. He's pointing out all the players, all the great moves that they've throughout the season here. But actually, the football team is there with also the 50 wounded warriors from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Also the National Naval Medical Center and their families. They're all going to working together to assemble packages for the troops. But I do want to point out too, that Art Rooney, his son Dan, the owners of the Pittsburgh Steelers, were big supporters of President Obama when he was campaigning. They helped support him to win the state of Pennsylvania. So, he's got his heart in football, and also support from the Rooney family. But, we'll follow up on those packages they are going to put together for the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and follow those efforts. Well, being black could get you killed just four decades ago in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Now the town has elected its first African-American mayor. We're going to go live in Philadelphia, to find out how James Young won that race."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-355368", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-11-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/23/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Facebook Under Fire; Celebrity Chefs Cooks for Fire Victims and First Responders.", "utt": ["The Thanksgiving holiday did not keep President Trump from talking politics. Asked what he was thankful for, the president praised himself and, the quote, \"tremendous difference he's made in the country.\" He had been speaking by phone with members of the U.S. military around the world. Jeff Zeleny is in West Palm Beach where the president is spending the holiday.", "In a Thanksgiving Day phone call from his resort in Mar-a-Lago President Trump talking to military commanders across the world. Talking to a general in Afghanistan, talking to a commander of a ship in Bahrain and other military officials. Now this would all be a normal course of events for a commander in chief to call in on troops serving around the world but the president quickly turned it political talking about a variety of hotspots around the world, including the U.S. southern border. The president essentially asking members of the military if they agreed with his position. The president also blasting other countries for their policies against the U.S. also disposing some operational details. But it was the conversation with the president doubling down on his defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, that certainly raised eyebrows all over that brutal murder of Washington Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The president said he believes the Saudi crown prince feels badly about it. Let's listen.", "I hate the crime, I hate what's done, I hate the coverup. And I will tell you this. The crown prince hates it more than I do. And they have vehemently denied it. The CIA points it both ways, you know, and as I said, maybe he did, maybe he didn't. But I will say very strongly that it's a very important ally, and if we go by a certain standard, we won't be able to have any allies with almost any country.", "So, the president there drawing a moral equivalence to what he believes is an ally in Saudi Arabia versus other allies around the world, never once talking about the moral leadership and the moral questions here that so many others have raised, including Republican allies of the White House. Now the president went on in that unusual phone call with military advisors followed by a Q&A session with reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort for nearly an hour talking about troops along the borders and that controversial ruling that ended up with the president in a fight with the Supreme Court justice here in the U.S., Chief Justice John Roberts. He called him an Obama judge. Of course, the chief justice pushed back so the president pushed back as well, and it was essentially bringing in the independent judiciary into his political argument fray here. So, the president certainly unscripted and unsupervised in many respects. Most senior White House advisors are not here in Florida for the Thanksgiving Day vacation. But the president after doing all of that spent most of the rest of the day on the golf course. Jeff Zeleny, CNN, West Palm Beach, Florida.", "So, is President Trump trying to pit the U.S. military against the U.S. judicial branch over his border policy? I post that question earlier to Scott Lucas, professor of international politics at the University of Birmingham in England.", "From the military side, Donald Trump over the wishes of military advisers, including the Defense Secretary Jim Mattis ordered almost 6,000 U.S. troops to that border to stop immigrants who in fact are thousands of miles away. Not in near Texas but near in California. Donald Trump has ordered that the military, possibly unconstitutionally should be allowed to use armed force against those immigrants and that has the military concerned. At the same time over immigration, Donald Trump is trying to overrun the courts. He has tried to say that the ninth circuit court is unjust when it tries to rule, for example, that there is a right to asylum. And when John Roberts intervened to talk specifically about judicial independence Donald Trump tried to push him back and say sorry, chief justice, you need to be quiet here because courts, in order words, should not act against Donald Trump, the military should not respond to Donald Trump. That cutting-edge issue right now of immigration will continue for weeks because of Trump and his advisor Stephen Miller. And the question is, does the White House get its way or is there some attempt by the military and especially the courts to defend their position in the American system?", "U.S. House Republicans have issued subpoenas to former FBI director James Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch. The House judiciary is asking for private depositions early next month on FBI actions during the 2016 presidential campaign. Comey tweeted that he received the subpoena and he's happy to answer questions publicly but he says, he doesn't want to speak privately because of what he calls selective leaking and distortion. In Northern California, the nonprofit group World Central Kitchen teamed up with celebrity chefs and businesses to provide 15,000 meals to fire victims and first responders this Thanksgiving. They're in the Paradise region, an area hard hit by the so-called Camp Fire over the past two weeks. Our Nick Watt has more on this generous deed and the latest efforts to control this deadly fire.", "Well, a moment of respite here for the people in Chico, California. Two weeks ago, this fire broke out and it's still not fully extinguished. Although we had some rain last night that did help dampen those spots. In fact, more rain tonight that authorities fear might actually cause some problems and cause some mudslides, they are fingers crossed that is not going to be the case. But it is of course, Thanksgiving here in the United States. And that means Thanksgiving dinner. Now here we got chef Jose Andres who is over there and Guy Pierre, both celebrity chefs in this country who have made Thanksgiving dinner for 15,000 people and it is being served by volunteers and members of Cal Fire who have been fighting this blaze as well. The destruction one firefighter told me unlike anything he's seen in his 25 years fighting fires here in California. Nearly 14,000 homes have been destroyed. The death toll will sadly probably continue to rise as the searchers make their way through more and more devastated neighborhoods. Some people are being allowed back in, but not yet to the town of Paradise, that town of 27,000 people virtually burned off the map. The hurt goes on here in California. But for now, a bit of respite, thanks to chefs, and some pie. Back to you.", "We've all had plenty of pie. Now we got to move on. The Trump administration is just hours away from releasing a major report on climate change. President Trump of course has been openly skeptical of global warming. And critics argue the report is being released on black Friday, that's one of the lowest news days in the year in the U.S. And that it is being released at this time in an effort to bury the story. Our Derek Van Dam joins us now to talk about it. Certainly, at every occasion, President Trump will not acknowledge climate change.", "Right.", "So, the timing is kind of interesting.", "Yes. Regardless of the controversial early release of the important assessment, the one thing is for sure. It's an important report for us. Because specifically in the U.S., because it puts in the context the state of our climate as we speak right now. And what it is going to do is this is going to contribute to this overwhelming amount of evidence that's piling up that global warming is happening, it is manmade and its serious impacts like the California wildfires, for instance, are only going to become more frequent and more severe in the future. We do know that 17 of the top 18 warmest years have occurred since the year 2000. This just puts it all in perspective as well. The period of warming that the earth has gone through lately. Now we're releasing volume two of the national climate assessment. What was volume one about? Well, that was actually the science, the driving forces behind climate change. The difference with volume two is that it is going to break down the U.S. into regions, instead of a national outlook, we'll going to talk about the specific impacts, the risks and the potential adaptations for individual cities and locations across the country. Two thousand seventeen was a record-breaking year, 16 record disasters costing the U.S. over $1 U.S. billion. That tie to previous record back in 2011. Volume two of the National Climate Assessment report as I mentioned, is going to talk about the specific impacts and threats for individual locations across the U.S., like sea level rise, for instance, or about the frequency in occurrence of heavy rain events that cause widespread flooding along the East Coast that's increasing. We also know that wildfires are increasing as well. The burn year is becoming longer and our ongoing drought that we talk about so frequently. One thing for sure, global greenhouse gas emissions they are going up as we emit these warming gases into the atmosphere, from transportation, electricity, our industries, our agriculture. And we're seeing that direct link with this explosive amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and extreme weather events like droughts, wildfires, and even hurricanes and the intensity of hurricanes, for instance. So, lot to talk about in this report, it's going to be released on black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. It is a U.S. specific climate analysis, but there is a lot of really good information. I can't wait to sink my teeth into this 300-page report, Natalie.", "Yes. You'll be reporting on it and hopefully I will be talking with a climate scientist about this as well.", "I'm looking forward that as well.", "And you know, Derek, I want to show our viewers this treat -- this tweet from President Trump. So, we just mentioned, he does not acknowledge climate change and he tweeted this. He says, \"The brutal and extended cold blast could shatter all records. Whatever happened to global warming?\" He's often looking for ways to debunk it and this is something he often says a lot and we address it.", "yes. You know, this is a really misleading tweet for people around the world. And it's because he's misleading the person who is reading the tweet that weather and climate are the same thing. But, indeed, they're not. Weather is what happens to us in the short-term. It's snowing outside, it's raining today, the temperatures are very cold in the northeast today, a climate is weather average over a long period of time, like 30, or 40 years or even longer periods. And analogy to better understand this, is weather is like your mood today, maybe you're angry, maybe you're sad, maybe you're happy, but climate which is a long-term average is like your personality, it's how you and I behave over the course of our entire lives.", "All right. Thank you for that. Of course, again, we'll covering that story tomorrow. Derek, thanks very much. All right, unwanted attention. This is a fascinating story, unwanted attention on a remote tribe on a forbidden island after they allegedly killed a missionary who was there to try to reach them and spread the gospel. We'll tell you why that was so dangerous, not just for him obviously, but for these people. Plus, Facebook under fire after a marriage auction goes viral on its site. Why some say the social network is responsible for allowing the bidding to take place."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ZELENY", "ALLEN", "SCOTT LUCAS, POLITICS PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM", "ALLEN", "NICK WATT, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN", "DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "ALLEN", "VAN DAM", "ALLEN", "VAN DAM", "ALLEN", "VAN DAM", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-65648", "program": "CNN SATURDAY", "date": "2003-1-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/18/cst.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Crew of Space Shuttle Columbia", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Miles O'Brien, live at CNN Center in Atlanta. \"MONEYLINE WEEKEND\" will be back in just a few moments, but we're going to take just a few moments to say hello to the crew of the space shuttle Columbia, now traveling above the Pacific at 17,300 miles, 150 miles above us, waiving to us. Let's give you an idea of who's who. This is Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli ever to fly in space. Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist, on her second mission. Rick Husband, the commander, second mission. Laurel Clark, another space rookie, book-ended by space rookies here. Commander Husband, let's talk first of all about how everything's going. You got a menagerie of animals up there. Too many scientific experiments to enumerate here, but generally speaking, how's it going?", "Well, things are going really great, Miles. We're having a great time up here. We had a great ride to orbit, and all the activation of the experiments and the space apps (ph) went extremely well. And we've really got our space legs up and up running.", "Send it over to Colonel Ramon, please. Colonel Ramon, I'm curious what it was like when you had that opportunity on one of those early passes to look down at your home country in the Middle East in general. What were your thoughts at that time?", "To tell you the truth, it was pretty fast, it was actually today, and it went too fast. It was partly or mostly cloudy. So I couldn't see much of Israel, just the north of Israel, and, of course, I was excited.", "What are your thoughts now that you're in space about what it represents to your nation?", "I think it's a great", "Was the launch what you expected?", "The launch was really exciting, yes. A lot of noise, shaking, but after about a minute or so, and it went really smoothly.", "Security was very tight. A lot of concern before you ever fired off those solid rocket boosters. Did you ever -- how aware of that were you, how much of an added concern was that for you?", "Well, since NASA security and the county (ph) security were unbelievable and helpful, I didn't have any doubt that everything would go really good, and so it did. And I was aware of it. I got there with my family, and I knew exactly what was going on there.", "It's interesting, when you consider the risks astronauts take, to be concerned about that on top of everything else. Send it over to mission specialist Chawla. I'm just curious if you could share for us a moment of what it's like being in that space hub? It's a scientific juggling act, isn't it?", "It really is.", "And let's send it over to Laurel Clark. Laurel, are these experiments working? You have 80 some experiments. They couldn't all be working as planned.", "Well, things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready. As for our science experiments, on the other hand, it's very that fortunate we've had such thorough training, we've had an excellent team on the ground. With the minor glitches that have occurred, we've been able to take care of them. And the teams on the ground are getting tons of incredible data.", "Let's close with Colonel Ramon. I have an e-mail question for you, colonel, this comes from Great Britain. \"Don't you think it would have been a powerful evocation and image of humanity if you had flown with a Palestinian or an Arab crew member?\" And he wishes good fortune to you. Have you thought much about that?", "Well, as you probably know, an Arab man already flew in the '80s, in the '80s. So I am not the first one from there. And I feel like I represent, first of all of course the state of Israel and the Jews, but I represent also all our neighbors, and I hope it will contribute to the whole world, and especially to our Middle East neighbors.", "All right. We're going to have to leave it at that. The crew, or at least a portion, the awakened crew of the Columbia. There are some of them asleep right now. Three of them in bunks in the mid-deck. Thanks very much for taking a little bit of time while you are in orbit to visit us from the flight deck of the space shuttle Columbia. We wish you well as this space marathon, 24-7. Oh, my goodness. Look at that. A little chalice going by there. Anyway, thanks very much, and have a great mission. We appreciate it. It's always fund to watch that. 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{"id": "CNN-202268", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2013-3-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/01/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Forced Spending Cuts Less Than Seven Hours Away", "utt": ["And you're in the SITUATION ROOM. Happening now, President Obama warns the pain will be real. Just hours before forced spending cuts hit Americans all across the country. BERMAN And the embattled CEO of the popular daily deal site, GroupOn, makes a dramatic exit from the company he co-founded. Also, a show dog dies only days after the renown Westminster dog show. Why a vet suspects poisoning and its owner suspects foul play? We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in the SITUATION ROOM.", "$85 billion once again of forced spending cuts about to kick in all across the country less than seven hours from now, all because Republicans and Democrats here in Washington failed to come together once again to stop it from happening. Just hours ago, a feisty President Obama entered the White House briefing room. He laid the blame squarely at the feet of the GOP.", "None of this is necessary. It's happening because a choice that Republicans in Congress have made. They have allowed these cuts to happen, because they refused to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole to help reduce the deficit. As recently as yesterday, they decided to protect special interests tax breaks for the well-off and the well-connected, and they think that that's apparently more important than protecting our military or middle class families from the pain of these cuts.", "Chances are you're going to eventually feel these cuts at least one way or another and our CNN reporters are covering every angle of the story. Let's get straight to Capitol Hill. Our chief Congressional correspondent, Dana Bash, is standing by. Dana, so, what's the Republican reaction? What are they saying now? Is there a risk of a domino effect being set in motion here? What's going on?", "Oh, there's always that risk, but you know, Wolf, the president said that he wants to stop careening from one crisis to another, but thanks to a budget process that Congress passed and the president signed into law. We are going to continue to do that, and another Washington drama is right around the corner.", "The House speaker walked out of an unproductive White House meeting about spending cuts going into effect now, and instead, focused on the next looming crisis, the end of this month, March 27th, when funding for the government runs out.", "I'm hopeful that we won't have to deal with a threat of a government shutdown while we're dealing with the sequester at the same time. The House will act next week and I hope the Senate will follow suit.", "How'd it go --", "John Boehner and House Republicans plan to pass a bill next week to keep the government funded through September 30th, the end of the fiscal year, and along with that, deal with some of the pain from forced cuts going into effect now, just for the military, by giving the Pentagon some leeway in its new budget.", "It is going to help update the categories which will reduce some of the damage.", "But that does not necessarily mean crisis averted. Why? Congressional Democrats are skeptical about helping the military and not other Americans hit by spending cuts like children and head start (ph) programs.", "We need to have programs in there, the need compelling (ph) human need, housing, education, health care, and we also need to look at transportation.", "Senator Barbara Mikulski who heads the community and charge of spending at work while most of her Senate colleagues are home for the weekend, expressed frustration that Congress is gone.", "I'm here. I'm ready to go. I'm waiting for the photo-op at the White House to come here to give me instructions.", "Speaking of Congress skipping town, the president took note of the empty capital while trying to put real life faces on forced spending cuts.", "Now that Congress has left, somebody's going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage. They're going to have less pay. The janitors, the security guards. They just got a pay cut, and they've got to figure out how to manage that.", "But we checked on that, and it turns out the president was not exactly right. The Senate sergeant at arms told CNN neither Capitol police nor janitors will see salaries slashed, only limited overtime. The only annouced effect so far at the Capitol is some entrances will close, a small inconvenience to lawmakers and their aides.", "Now, when it comes to the prospects of a government shutdown, the president made it pretty clear today that he does not want that to happen, and Wolf, I'm told that Senate Democrats took that as a signal that they better figure out a way for them to actually bridge their differences, very real differences over the budget in the next potential shutdown with Republicans in the House.", "What's the difference between giving the president some flexibility and how to deal with these spending cuts as opposed to the leeway that some Republicans want to give them? There's a nuance here that potentially could be important as far as a government shutdown.", "There is an important nuance. I'll try to do this without my weed whacker. We spent a lot of time this afternoon on the phone with people who are experts on this, but the bottom line is that when you talk about the term flexibility in budget terms, that is a signal that it would give the president a lot of ability to move money around, which Democrats and Republicans, mostly Democrats at this point say that they don't want to do because it gives up Congress' power of the purse and for a lot of other reasons. The way that the House Republicans are writing this legislation is more about giving -- and, again, this is the controversy from their perspective, which is the Pentagon, giving the Pentagon the ability to deal with some of the shortfalls in the Pentagon budget from these forced spending cuts and from other problems of the past three years of not having new spending bills pass because they've just been kicking the can down the road. So, that is the big difference. But again, when you look at the bigger level difference between the parties, it's that Republicans want to just deal with the military and Democrats say, well, if we're going to try to help the military, we want to help everybody else domestically. And that really is the fundamental -- again, philosophical issue that we're probably going to see play out over the next couple of weeks.", "Nobody wants to see the government shutdown, but the devil, as we say, is in the details. All right. Dana, thank you very much. Just a little while ago, the new defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, gave some strong warnings about these forced cuts. Our Pentagon correspondent, Chris Lawrence, is covering this part of the story. What did he say, Chris?", "Well, Wolf, we have now learned that the navy is going to shut down an entire air wing in April. Now, the navy only has nine of these, and these squadrons of jets are the primary fire power onboard aircraft carriers. The navy will also shut down three more air wings over the course of the year.", "Wars have been planned inside the tank, this secure room in the Pentagon few get to see.", "Mr. Secretary, welcome to the tank.", "Now, it's where military officials are making plans to cut $46 billion from their budget.", "Effectively immediately, air force flying hours will be cut back.", "If you stop training for a while and you're a combat pilot, then you lose your rating, and eventually, can't fly at all.", "Here's what's already happened. The Pentagon warned its 800,000 civilian workers to expect furloughs and instituted a hiring freeze. It also curtailed building maintenance. The navy postponed the U.S. Harry Truman's deployment to the Persian Gulf and delayed the overhaul of the USS Lincoln. Here's what happens next. The Pentagon will cancel maintenance on 25 ships and nearly 500 aircraft. The army will cut training time for most soldiers. Down the road, it could lead to a delay in deploying troops to Afghanistan.", "We'll have to make a decision somewhere along the line to either extend those already there or send people there that are not ready.", "And families will have to wait longer for veterans' funerals at Arlington. Furloughs will be fewer people to schedule services and dig graves.", "Now, not all civilians workers are going to be furloughed. But for the ones that are, they're going to get an official notice in the next two weeks. And starting in April, they will likely lose one day, you know, per week, lose one day of pay per week for about 22 weeks, Wolf.", "That's 20 percent of their salary. That's significant. All right. Chris Lawrence, thank you. Some of the Obama administration are warning that these forced budget cuts could take on a big toll on children. Our national political correspondent, Jim Acosta, is here in the SITUATION ROOM looking into this part of the story. What do you see?", "Wolf, all week, cabinet secretaries have been warning of all of the various ways these cuts will hurt. Republicans have accused the administration of hype, and now, the nation is about to figure out who's right.", "When two cabinet secretaries visited this elementary school just outside of the nation's capital, there was music and even a reading of the Dr. Seuss classic, \"Green Eggs and Ham\".", "I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them.", "All of it stage to drive home their point that it's the kids who will have to swallow some of the forced budget cuts.", "Dumb government at its finest.", "I guess I'm a little more blunt. To me, it's stupid government.", "The secretaries Arne Duncan and Kathleen Sebelius were careful not to accept any of the blame. (on-camera) Didn't this dumb and stupid idea come from the White House?", "Actually, the idea was designed in such a way and really inserted in the bill by Congress because they thought it was such a bad way to run government that it would never happen.", "Worried about how the cuts will affect the schools' programs for at-risk children, the head of the PTA, Mindy Kassarba, has a message for the politicians.", "I think that they need to grow up. Act like our children would. Talk to one another. Resolve the conflict. Maybe they need to come to the playground.", "Perhaps, they might need fifth grader, Erik Perez. You're worried that it might hurt your school?", "it might hurt my school, it might hurt my education, the teachers.", "It's not just cuts at schools. Across Washington, reality is settling in for federal workers.", "I know I will get furloughed. I've accepted that.", "The furloughs, as it's explained in this letter to justice department employees says, \"you will be in a non-pay, non-duty status.\" Back at the school, Arne Duncan tried to clarify his own comments about job cuts from earlier this week.", "These are teachers who are getting pink slips now.", "When he seemed to suggest teachers were already being laid off.", "That's not what I said. That's not what I meant. But let's not --", "You said now. You said they're being laid off now.", "I said they're getting slips now, notices now. So, that's, I think, were some of the misunderstanding was.", "Mindy Kassarba says, perhaps, it's time for both sides to go back to school.", "If there's a conflict on the playground and two kids want the same basketball, they have to talk. They have to decide. They may not be friends. They may never be friends, but they have to decide that one gets it for a little bit and then you get it later.", "What a concept. Sharing. Something like that.", "Negotiating.", "Yes. Negotiating.", "Compromise.", "Compromise.", "Yes.", "For now, there is no talk of compromise. Both sides are still holding their ground and the budget knives are coming out. And Wolf, as far as it stands right now, these cuts won't be saved by the bell.", "They won't be, indeed. They're going to go into effect, although the pain won't really be felt, I'm guessing, at least for two or three or four weeks.", "That's right. And that's when we're going to find out who's right in this scenario. There's been all this criticism of Arne Duncan, the various cabinet secretaries. They've been accused of hyping these numbers and so forth, but when the cuts start settling in and people start feeling them, then perhaps, we might have to revisit those conversations.", "I'm sure they will. Thanks very much.", "You bet.", "Anderson Cooper, by the way, is going to have a lot more on these forced spending cuts later tonight, 8:00 p.m. eastern. Republican senator, John McCain, will be his special guest. He'll talk about what it's going to take to get out of this mess. When we come back, the governor of Michigan announced his plans for an emergency takeover to pull Detroit back from the brink of bankruptcy. The governor standing by to join us live. That's next. Plus, a show dog dies only days after the legendary Westminster dog show. 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{"id": "CNN-101685", "program": "CNN IN THE MONEY", "date": "2006-1-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/14/cnnitm.01.html", "summary": "Is Dow's Close Over 11,000 Important?; Malcolm Bricklin Wants Chinese Cars In America", "utt": ["The North America International Auto show kicked off this week in Detroit and a car company called Geely is creating a lot of the buzz. It's the first Chinese care company to have an exhibit at the show, and although the first Geely isn't expected to be available to American drivers until late 2008. Another Chinese automaker will likely beat Geely to the U.S. market. There you go. The first five models are expected to debut late next year. Malcolm Bricklin, founder and CEO of Visionary Vehicles is working to make that happen. Malcolm, welcome to the program.", "Thank you, Andy.", "So, is this for real? Are Chinese cars really going to be zipping up and down U.S. highways and by-ways?", "Absolutely. They'll be zipping up and down U.S. highways in great numbers very shortly.", "OK, I have a question. We know they're cheap; some of them are pretty good from the pictures. What's the tradeoff? If you're out there buying a car, you know you what to get it cheap, but what do you have to give up? Luxury seating? Safety?", "Well in some of the cars that are going to come from China that's exactly what you will have to give up. Our model is going to be redefining the price of luxury. So what we're going doing is going after BMW and Mercedes and Lexus and Jaguar and Audi and instead of selling them for $35 and $40,000, they'll be sold for under $20.", "I will take that.", "What's going to make an American that has more than one or two options available to buy a car, to go and decide to buy a Chinese car. They're untested, they are unproven, they are unknown and they have funny names.", "You are right with all those things except the funny names aren't going to be with ours because General Motors told us that we can't use Geely because it sound like Chevy but we will come up with a good name. But actually why? There is no reason for anybody to come in with another car unless it's coming in from a market that hasn't been served. And we believe the high price of luxury cars is too darn high. And we're going to be selling luxury cars for 30 and 40 percent less than you can buy luxury cars now and if we fulfill our promise, we think a lot of people who will want to buy our cars.", "But how is it luxury car if it is 40 percent less than say Lexus or BMW? Doesn't that make it a mid-priced, mid-sized car?", "It will be a mid priced car, but it will be luxury, meaning the interior will be as good or better. Engines will be as good or better and the warranties, of course, will be better. So you are going to end up with a car that drives as much fun. And it is just better every way around and it just costs less.", "All right, Malcolm, you have been involved with importing, shall I say, interesting cars over the past several decades. I want to revisit history a little bit. You did the Yugo, what went wrong there? And what's to say, this wouldn't be another Yugo?", "Well see what went right there. I was given 50,000 cars a year. That's how many I sold in the first three years. It was the fastest growing car ever brought in from Europe. Dealers were charging $3,000 over list and I sold it out to an investment banker, three years before the country became impossible sell to because the U.N. So it was a successful adventure from my part and from the dealer's part. But the difference is, this company and this country has a factory that is state of the art. And they had a factory that was the reverse of state of the art. When you have a good partner that knows what they're doing on the factory side, you end up with a car that will last.", "Can we go with safety? Will these cars go through all of the, you know, government-mandated tests? How do you expect them to rank? Do you expect them to do well, better, on the low end but still relatively safe?", "Here's our mandate. Our mandate is to put in every air bag, meet five-star crashes, make sure everything we put in this car for safety and for looks and for performance so we take advantage of the price and that's why we're pricing in midsize instead of coming under $10,000. You can't afford to do it in a car under $10,000. We're expecting to have no compromises when we bring in our cars.", "What about mileage and hybrids and some sort of sensitivity toward the oil and gasoline situation? Tell us about your cars.", "Well, first of all China is a country that needs desperately to clean up their act environmentally. And one day they are going to sell 50 million cars into the market that year. So they are desperately trying to come up to clean and to that event, they are spending a fortune buying technology for hybrid and fuel cells and this year, '06, they'll be introducing their first hybrid from Cherry into the Chinese market. And by '08 or '09, we're hoping to segue almost 100 percent into hybrids.", "Malcolm, are people going to be resentful, though, of a Chinese vehicle in the sense that you know, jobs are disappearing over there? Do you think there is going to be any stigma attached to these cars?", "Absolutely. Just like when I brought Subaru in 1968 for the first couple of years, as we know the Japanese were doing so well, they were buying up Rockefeller Center and you name it. And there was a big backlash and it was a voluntary quota to put in. I'm expecting the same thing here, too. But I believe if everybody really gets the facts, for every job that is lost in the factory, we add three or four jobs in distribution. And although it doesn't do any good for the guy who lost its job, it does do good for the people who end up getting the new job.", "Malcolm Bricklin thank you so much for joining us. And there is more ahead here on IN THE MONEY. Coming up all revved up and nowhere to go. We'll tell you about some hot new entries in the Detroit auto show this week. And if you've got something on your mind, four wheels or not drop us a line at INTHEMONEY@CNN.com."], "speaker": ["SERWER", "MALCOLM BRICKLIN, VISIONARY VEHICLES", "SERWER", "BRICKLIN", "WESTHOVEN", "BRICKLIN", "SERWER", "CAFFERTY", "BRICKLIN", "CAFFERTY", "BRICKLIN", "SERWER", "BRICKLIN", "WESTHOVEN", "BRICKLIN", "CAFFERTY", "BRICKLIN", "SERWER", "BRICKLIN", "WESTHOVEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-288802", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-07-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/13/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Three Arrested in Alleged Plot to Kill Officers; Obama Tries to Defuse Tensions, Bridge Gap; Trump Calls on Justice Ginsburg to Resign", "utt": ["DL Hughley, I feel you're doing both of those things. Thank you for being here. Let's continue the conversation.", "I will indeed. Thank you.", "Our coverage continues as well. Let's get right now, \"NEWSROOM\" with Ana Cabrera, in for Carol Costello -- Ana.", "Happening now in the NEWSROOM, stolen guns and a mass search for bullets. The target police. How officers foiled the plan. Plus consoler-in-chief again.", "We are not as divided as we seem.", "Can the president's meeting with law enforcement and civil rights leaders bring change. And she says he's a faker. He says her mind is shot. The feud between Justice Ginsburg and Donald Trump just got more intense. Let's talk in the CNN NEWSROOM.", "Good morning, and thanks for joining me. I'm Ana Cabrera in for Carol Costello on this Wednesday. We begin with a national debate over the police killings of African-American men and the very personal heartbreak of one victim's son. Just minutes from now, we will hear from Cameron Sterling, just a teenager. He will speak at Louisiana convenience store where his father Alton Sterling was shot to death. You see him there just crumbling under the weight of his grief there on the left with his mom. Meanwhile, Baton Rouge police are saying they uncovered a plot to harm local officers in Louisiana in the wake of Sterling's death. Two men are now under arrest as well as a 13-year-old who is not being identified because of his age. A fourth suspect still remains at large in what police are calling a credible threat. CNN's Polo Sandoval is joining us now with the latest. And, Polo, do police know who they're searching for?", "You know, that's still a question this morning Ana. We do know that officials have mentioned that there was a possibility that there may have been a fourth individual that they were trying to track down, but at this point we are still waiting for more information from investigators because we have to remember this all started over the weekend with a break-in at a local pawnshop. Reports now indicate that there was at least eight guns -- eight handguns that were stolen from that business. Throughout the course of the investigation, officers were able to track down at least three individuals and arrest them as well as recover many of those guns. However, during the interview process with some of these individuals, a very disturbing detail that emerged here from Antonio Thomas, the 17-year-old that's currently in custody. He said to detectives, quote, \"They planned to look for bullets to kill police.\" Now it's unclear whether or not he actually meant it or if there was actually a plot in the works to target officers in and around the Baton Rouge area, but at the same time, we have to remember it's been about seven days or so since the Dallas shooting. So information like this, statements like this is something that would not be taken lightly by investigators as they continue to keep a close eye on the protests and those demonstrations which I have to tell you so far have been relatively peaceful. Obviously things did clear up over the weekend, did lead to several arrests, but last night there was a fairly small demonstration on the street corner here in Baton Rouge, and there are, I guess you could call them marshals that are essentially keeping that crowd on the sidewalk, keeping things under control as we await to hear from 15- year-old Kevin Sterling later today at the very spot where his father was shot and killed just over a week ago -- Ana.", "So heartbreaking. Polo Sandoval, thank you very much. The families will hold funerals now for three of the police officers killed in last week's Dallas ambush. Senior Corporal Lorne Ahren, Sergeant Michael J. Smith and DART officer Brent Thompson will be remembered in separate ceremonies today. This after President Obama and George W. Bush spoke at a private memorial service for all five of the slain officers yesterday. Now today the president tries to bridge a growing chasm, bringing together leaders in both civil rights and law enforcement. CNN's Athena Jones is at the White House where this afternoon's meeting will be held. Good -- good morning, I should say, Athena.", "Good morning, Ana. That's right, this long and difficult conversation about race and policing continues here today. You talked about the president needing to try to bridge a growing chasm. We heard from him in Dallas yesterday saying that amidst the anger and the pain, it's as if the deepest faults of our democracy have suddenly been exposed, perhaps even widened. And yet a central part of his message is that we aren't as divided as it seems and that it is possible to find common ground if people who offer different perspectives just to listen to one another and try to understand one another. Take a listen to more of what he had to say in Dallas.", "We cannot simply turn away and dismiss those in peaceful protests as troublemakers or paranoid. We can't simply dismiss as a symptom of political correctness or reverse racism. To have your experience denied like that, dismissed by those in authority. We also know what Chief Brown has said is true that so much of the tensions between police departments and minority communities that they serve is because we ask the police to do too much and we ask too little of ourselves.", "And we expect those two points the president raised there to come up in this afternoon's meeting, for him to urge all sides to listen to one another. And also to address this idea that police are asked to be social workers, parents, teachers, drug counselors. There's a lot that has to be discussed when he meets this afternoon with activists, civil rights leaders, faith leaders, law enforcement leaders, also elected officials will be part of this conversation. The goal, of course, trying to figure out how to keep people safe, how to build trust between law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve, and of course, to find that common ground. But the president's central message today will be that progress is possible. Just look, he'll say, most likely as he did yesterday at some of the recommendations from his 21st Century task force that came up with all kinds of ideas over a matter of months. A series of meetings and testimonies, came up with recommendations for how communities like the Dallas PD and others, what they can do to improve the trust in the community and he has held up Dallas as an example of a police department that is -- that is done a lot to try to implement those recommendations. So we expect the recommendations to be part of the discussion today as well -- Ana.", "There are certainly an effort to make changes and to make progress. Athena Jones, our thanks to you, to give you an idea of the current climate and the challenges this country is facing. I want to take you live right now to Minnesota where protesters are again taking to the streets, you can see them here. This is in Minneapolis on Interstate-35 where you see traffic is at a standstill right now on the interstate because of protesters currently trying to advance on to the roadway there. We will continue to watch these pictures. Of course, Minneapolis and that area is where Philando Castile was killed last week. Sparking a lot of outrage especially after his girlfriend who was in the car next to Castile during this fatal traffic stop started live-streaming the aftermath sparking a lot of emotions again in this part of the country. This picture from Minneapolis this morning where protesters have shut down Interstate 35. Let's turn to politics. Lots of news to talk about morning and the next 48 hours could be some of the most important in Donald Trump's political career. The presumptive GOP nominee is set to be getting much closer to picking his choice for vice president. And the rumor mills largely focused on a couple of people. Indiana Governor Mike Pence and former House speaker Newt Gingrich, but this morning a source now tells CNN another high profile Republican is also still in the mix. Let's get to CNN's Sara Murray covering all the fast-moving developments for us. She's joining me now from Indianapolis -- Sara.", "Good morning, Ana. Well, I think we need to be skeptical about ruling anyone out this morning until Donald Trump rules them out himself. And what we are hearing is that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is still very much in the mix for this. We know that Donald Trump campaigned of course with Mike Pence last night, and part of that is still about getting, you know, more of a sense of how comfortable he is around Governor Pence. The two had very different personalities. They don't know each other particularly well and Trump said in an interview with the \"Wall Street Journal\" that he wants someone he has good chemistry with but he also wants someone who could be an attack dog. Now we certainly saw Mike Pence on the attack last night. He went after Hillary Clinton about her e-mails and her personal e-mail server. He went after her about Benghazi. But Chris Christie is still in the mix in part because he is very close to Donald Trump and that they've known each other for over a decade. They have a pretty good working relationship. And we all know that Christie knows how to go on the attack. And when I talk to sources about this, they said, look, Chris Christie already knows how to handle the campaign trail. He's proven himself an adept campaigner, but he is also a guy who could go out on the debate stage, interview debate, and not only defend Donald Trump's positions, but also go on the attack against Hillary Clinton and whoever she chooses as her running mate. These are all things that Donald Trump will be considering in the final hours. We're expecting him to make a decision before the end of the week most likely on Friday. And so we're very much in the throes of the veepstakes and on high alert at this point, Ana.", "He sure knows how to create suspense for sure. Sara Murray, thank you very much. Now the battle between Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is growing more intense this morning. Trump tweeting, \"One demand, Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me. Her mind is shot. Resign,\" he writes. Now this attack is after Ginsburg hit Trump during multiple interviews including one with CNN when she called Trump a faker, saying Trump has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. With me now is CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. Welcome, Jeffrey. Good to see you.", "Hi, Ana.", "So Ginsburg hasn't just gone after Trump once now, she has criticized him multiple times and even after she herself was criticized for making her initial comments, are you surprised?", "I am surprised because this is really unprecedented behavior for a Supreme Court justice. You know, Supreme Court justices express their opinions about all sorts of things relating to their work, you know, whether the -- what the Constitution means, what the laws mean, but there has been a very strong tradition for judges not to express direct political opinions about elections. And Justice Ginsburg's statements have really been very unusual and frankly, in my opinion, very inappropriate for a Supreme Court justice.", "We read Trump's tweet saying, Ginsburg's mind is shot, and he called on her to resign. What are your thoughts? Should she?", "Well, no, I mean the -- it's quite clear that Ruth Bader Ginsburg's mind is not shot. She remains a very active part of the Supreme Court. She writes as many opinions, she participates in oral arguments in an extremely vigorous way. This has nothing to do with an intellectual decline. I think, you know, she is 83 years old and like a lot of people, I think she's become more like herself as she has gotten older, and she has gotten more outspoken in her political views. But, you know, there are -- there are guidelines, they're note laws, but there are guidelines for judges that are very clear that they should not express views about pending elections. And I think those are wise rules especially because, you know, as we all remember, 16 years ago, the presidential election wound up in the Supreme Court. And I think if that were to happen again, which obviously isn't likely, but if it were to happen again, Justice Ginsburg almost certainly would have to recuse herself after expressing these opinions. So I think for all sorts of reasons, it's a good idea for justices not to express these kinds of views.", "You know, it's really interesting because her comments really have sparked a lot of, at least conversation. The \"New York Times\" editorial board writing that Trump is right, in fact I want to read you a quote from the paper this morning, saying, \"Washington is more than partisan enough without the spectacle of a Supreme Court justice flinging herself into the mosh pit.\" I heard you say she did cross a political line, possibly an ethical one from a political standpoint. Do you think her comments are going to help or hurt Donald Trump?", "You know, I think by the time we get around to November, there probably will not be one person in America who is voting for or against Donald Trump because of what Ruth Bader Ginsburg said. We got a long way to go. There's a lot of stuff that's going to happen. But I think it's characteristic. The \"New York Times\" editorial page is a pretty liberal institution. Very supportive of Justice Ginsburg in general. Even they are saying, you know, she shouldn't be the talking this way. And I have heard, basically no defenses of what Justice Ginsburg has been saying, even among people like me, who are generally admiring her. She is certainly one of the most distinguished lawyers in the history of the country, not just in the history of the Supreme Court. She was the founding mother of the feminist movement. She argued many important cases before the Supreme Court before she became a judge. So this is a very formidable person, but that doesn't mean she's always right, and I think it's quite clear she's not right in what she's saying about this election.", "All right, Jeffrey Toobin. Again thanks for your time this morning.", "All right, Ana.", "Still to come, a swing state surprise. Both candidates fending off controversies, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, but one just got a bump in some new polls."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "HUGHLEY", "CUOMO", "ANA CABRERA, CNN ANCHOR", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CABRERA", "CABRERA", "POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "OBAMA", "JONES", "CABRERA", "SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICS CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST", "CABRERA", "TOOBIN", "CABRERA", "TOOBIN", "CABRERA", "TOOBIN", "CABRERA", "TOOBIN", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-403575", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2020-06-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/23/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "President Trump Set To Hold Campaign Event In Arizona; Dr. Fauci Warns Of Coronavirus Surge; Texas Governor Warns Safest Place Is At Home As New Cases Surge", "utt": ["We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer in THE SITUATION ROOM. This hour, President Trump is in Arizona, preparing to hold another indoor campaign event, in defiance of coronavirus concerns, in a state seeing record spikes in new cases and deaths. His response to the pandemic remains alarming and confusing. He now suggests that he did ask for a slowdown in testing here in the United States, as infections have surged, contradicting the White House spin that he was only kidding. All this as Dr. Anthony Fauci and other Coronavirus Task Force members have been painting a rather dire picture of the spread of the virus during hours of congressional testimony today, the CDC chief warning that COVID-19 has -- and I'm quoting now -- \"brought this nation to its knees.\" Also breaking, the FBI says it's determined that NASCAR's only African-American star driver was not -- repeat -- not a target of a hate crime. Authorities say a rope fashioned like a noose found in a garage assigned to Bubba Wallace was a door pull that had been there as early as last fall. First, let's go straight to Arizona and our chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. Jim, as the president prepares for tonight's rally, he's clearly not on the same page as health experts or his own top aides.", "That's right, Wolf. President Trump is on his way to a campaign event in Phoenix after visiting his border wall earlier today. The president is in damage control mode, trying to clean up a comment that he told administration officials to slow down testing for the coronavirus. First, aides to the president said he was just joking about that. Then the president contradicted his own aides by saying he doesn't kid.", "Even after more than 120,000 deaths from the coronavirus in the U.S., the president and his top aides are having a tough time explaining whether Mr. Trump is just kidding or being serious when it comes to testing for COVID-19.", "Were you just kidding, or do you have a plan to slow down testing?", "I don't kid. Let me just tell you. Let me make it clear. By having more cases, it sounds bad. But, actually, what it is, we're finding people.", "The president is trying to talk his way out of the mess he started at his rally in Tulsa over the weekend, when he said he's ordered officials to slow down testing.", "So, I said to my people, slow the testing down, please.", "White House officials first claimed the president was kidding.", "It was a comment that he made in jest.", "Asked about Mr. Trump's comment that he does not kid, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters on Air Force One: \"He was noting he was making a serious point, but he was using sarcasm to do that at the rally.\" At a hearing in the House, Dr. Anthony Fauci testified, the administration is not dialing back testing.", "I know for sure, but, to my knowledge, none of us have ever been told to slow down on testing. That just is a fact. In fact, we will be doing more testing.", "But the president's no-kidding claim runs counter to excuses he's used in the past, like when he suggested to Americans that they inject themselves with disinfectant to kill the virus.", "When I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute.", "Mr. Trump later said he was kidding.", "I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you, just to see what would happen.", "Or when he claimed to be chosen by God.", "I am the chosen one.", "Mr. Trump tweeted: \"The media knew I was kidding, being sarcastic.\" Contrast all of that with the somber warning from Fauci that the coronavirus is surging in some parts of the", "We are now seeing a disturbing surge of infections. Right now, the next couple of weeks are going to be critical in our ability to address those surgings that we are seeing in Florida, in Texas, in Arizona, and in other states.", "That contradicts Mr. Trump's repeated claims the virus is disappearing.", "If you look, the numbers are very minuscule compared to what it was. It's dying out.", "The president is visiting Arizona to tour parts of his border wall, the pet project he turns to when he needs to play to his base. Mr. Trump has only managed to build a fraction of the border barrier he sold to voters. Instead of Mexico paying for the wall, as he promised, American taxpayers are picking up the tab.", "I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall.", "To rev up his supporters, the president is also seizing on the latest destruction left by demonstrators protesting police brutality with threats of jail time, tweeting: \"Numerous people arrested in D.C. for the disgraceful vandalism in Lafayette Park of the magnificent statue of Andrew Jackson, 10 years in prison. Beware.\"", "We actually had a nice crowd, despite the fact that we had some pretty bad people waiting there waiting. They shouldn't have been.", "Now, it's no secret why the president is in Arizona. Polls show former Vice President Joe Biden could win this state. If the president loses Arizona, it is hard to see how he wins a second term in office. On the coronavirus, the European Union may be about to construct a wall of its own, as E.U. officials are considering blocking American visitors from entering that part of the world due to the surge in COVID-19 cases. Now, back here, here in Arizona, as you can see from this wall behind me, building a fence is easier said than done. Plenty of wall behind us where we're standing right now, but where we are panning over to right now, you can see there is no wall. Crews are working on that stretch as we speak. And, Wolf, as we mentioned, this is a wall that Mexico is not paying for. Is the American taxpayers -- Wolf.", "Yes, indeed. All right, Jim Acosta in Arizona, thanks very much. Let's stay in Arizona. Let's go to Phoenix right now, the site of the president's political event that's coming up fairly soon, we're told. Ryan Nobles is on the scene for us. Ryan, the city of Phoenix has an ordinance requiring face masks in public. But at this event and the folks behind you, I saw earlier, I didn't see many face masks.", "No, you're right, Wolf, very few, if any people complying with that ordinance that was passed by the City Council and the mayor not long ago, and it was passed because of a surge in coronavirus cases in the state of Arizona and specifically here in Phoenix. In fact, there's been very little, if any precautions taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus at this event. The folks that came into this venue that seats about 3,000 people did not get their temperatures checked. There's little to no social distancing and, as you mentioned, Wolf, no masks either. So, the president expected to be here in about a half-an-hour. There is six feet between him and the crowd, but we are inside a venue where there is a lot of people talking. As you can tell, they're very enthusiastic. There's a lot of cheering. It's a recipe for what many public health experts say could be a disaster when it comes to the spread of the coronavirus -- Wolf.", "Yes, Saturday night, you were in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at that event where there were about 6,200 people in that arena. And we know that six of the president's advance team, campaign advance team, they tested positive. They didn't go to the event in Tulsa. They were there, two Secret Service agents as well. But two of the campaign advance personnel, they did go to the event, they did test positive. Were their tests before, and are there going to be tests after this event where you are in Phoenix?", "It's a good question, Wolf. We haven't been given specific guidance on that, because this particular event, not run by the White House, not run by the Trump campaign, instead being run by a third- party organization called Turning Point Action and their subsidiary called Students For Trump. So they have not made us aware of any attempts to test folks that are here, the staffers that are associated with it, and those that are going to be surrounding the president. And, as I can tell you before, Wolf, very few people taking any sort of precaution to spread the -- for the potential of the spread of the coronavirus -- Wolf.", "Yes, those young people there should all be wearing masks. Even if they think they're not going to get very sick, they could clearly pass it on to their moms and dads, their grandparents and others, if they get this disease. All right, thanks very much. We will stay in close touch with you, Ryan Nobles, on the scene in Phoenix for us. Let's bring in our chief political analyst, Gloria Borger, our chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and our senior political commentator, David Axelrod. Sanjay, looking at how the United States has handled the virus, does it make sense for the E.U. to now consider a more long-term ban on American travelers trying to get into European countries?", "Yes, it's hard to believe this is a consideration, but there is some logic to it, Wolf. I mean, just look at the right side of your screen. I mean, out of the world, we represent now 25 percent, roughly, of the world's infections of this coronavirus, and, sadly, 25 percent of the world's deaths as well. So, that's what's driving the decision, I'm sure. That's the criteria. Other countries as well, such as Brazil and Russia, have also -- they're sort of these hot spots. So that's what's factoring into this. Having said that, just from a pure public health standpoint, it's not a silver bullet to think about these travel bans. I mean, they can be very disruptive. The World Health Organization is an organization that is generally against them, thinking that the risks outweigh the benefits of these things. There's other sort of stopgap measures you can put in place, like people who are traveling to a country, they may need to quarantine themselves for 14 days before they can actually go out into the country. Testing, which we talk about all the time, Wolf, if there was more testing in place, that would also obviate some of these concerns. People could be tested, and have some confidence that at least at the time that they are negative. But, again, because we don't have enough testing, that makes that more difficult to address as well.", "It would be, Gloria, a big embarrassment to the president if the Europeans did impose this longer-term travel ban, at a time when he says it's dying out -- his words -- dying out here in the United States. How will he react, do you think, if they do this?", "Well, Wolf, I think he will probably be pretty angry about it, because he likes to say that the that the curve is going down, which, of course, it isn't, as we know, in parts of the country. And he likes to say that the United States is having more success with its testing than any other country. It also brings to mind that the president, at the outset of all of this, was very fond of saying that: I acted first. I banned anybody flying in from China. And now, if the European countries are banning us from flying there, it kind of puts those -- U.S. and China, in a way, on a par that would not make the president happy. The notion of Americans being banned from going to European countries will, I think, make him crazy. He will be very upset about it, because he wants to portray the success the United States is having, not the failures.", "Yes, that's an important point. David Axelrod, Dr. Fauci and other Coronavirus Task Force members, testifying before Congress today, said, the president never asked them to slow down coronavirus testing. But also today, the president said he wasn't joking when he made that comment Saturday night at that political rally in Tulsa. So what do you make of this mess on messaging, when more than 120,000, right now, more than 121,000 Americans are dead from this virus?", "Well, Wolf, first, let me say, I worked with Dr. Fauci back in 2009 when I worked in the White House on the H1N1 flu pandemic. And, yes, I saw what I think the country has come to see during this crisis, which is that he is a total straight shooter. I'm sure that if he says that the president never asked him to slow down on testing, then the president never asked him to slow down on testing. It doesn't mean the president hasn't expressed himself to others around him to slow down testing, including his most immediate aides. He's made his view on this very clear. He views it as inconvenient to know the truth about how pervasive this virus is. He wants to will it away. He thinks it is politically inconvenient. Look what he's doing today, modeling the wrong behavior. He's the president of the United States, and he is engaged in an activity here that completely contradicts the advice that public health experts are giving. And he's doing it in a state that is currently hurtling toward a public health disaster because of this pandemic. So, I believe Dr. Fauci, but I also believe the president when he says he doesn't want a lot of testing because he finds it inconvenient to know the numbers, because he has said that before. This wasn't the first time, Saturday night, that he said it. He's expressed that sentiment before. And it goes right back to the beginning of this pandemic, when he, for six weeks, ignored all the warning signs because he did not want to concede that this was going to be a crisis.", "At the same time, Gloria, the president seems to be using Dr. Fauci's credibility, his trustworthiness to bolster his own response.", "Right, because, as David was saying, Fauci said, I haven't been told to do fewer tests, we're going to do more testing, not less. And he said, nobody told him to slow down. It was interesting to me today that the president in a tweet noted Dr. Fauci's popularity, which is at a stratospheric level of, I believe, 72 percent. And his whole point is, well, if you like him so much, and he says we're OK, why don't you like me? Why don't you believe me that I'm not doing better? So, also, by the way, anybody having a higher popularity rating than the president is a dangerous place to be for somebody working in the White House. But the president is saying, wait a minute, you trust Fauci, but what about me? He works for me.", "Sanjay, let me get your thoughts on what the president's about to do. He is about to speak to these young people who support him. We're looking at live pictures, a pretty crowded room right there. A lot of young people. You heard Ryan Nobles tell us very few, if any of them are really wearing face masks. They're all jammed in pretty close together right now. The president is going to walk in there probably in a half-an-hour or an hour or so from now, deliver a speech. This could be awkward and potentially dangerous.", "I don't think history will judge us very well for what's happening right now, Wolf. I mean, you can look at the right side of the screen. Again, we're not even 5 percent of the world's population, 25 percent of the world's cases, 25 percent of the world's deaths. The European Union is considering a travel ban for people coming from the United States. The numbers are going up in just about all these places where the president has been, Oklahoma, now Arizona. Arizona had an emergency order that went into place because they're concerned about their hospitals becoming potentially overwhelmed with patients. And you see the -- what's happening in this rally, basic public health measures not being followed. It's the worst-case scenario, from the CDC's perspective, indoors, lots of people close together, no physical distancing, not wearing masks, duration. If you're next to somebody for longer than 15 minutes, that adds another level of risk. People will then go home, potentially spread this virus to their -- to their families, to their communities. I mean, it defies logic to do this sort of thing, especially given where we are in the country right now.", "Yes, it's a serious issue, indeed. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Gloria Borger, David Axelrod, guys, thank you very much. Just ahead, we're going to hear more from Dr. Fauci and other task force members testifying about alarming spikes in new coronavirus cases here in the United States. And the Texas governor now urging residents to simply stay home after that state was among the earliest to reopen."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "ACOSTA (voice-over)", "QUESTION", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ACOSTA", "TRUMP", "ACOSTA", "KAYLEIGH MCENANY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "ACOSTA", "DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, NIAID DIRECTOR", "ACOSTA", "TRUMP", "ACOSTA", "TRUMP", "ACOSTA", "TRUMP", "ACOSTA", "U.S. FAUCI", "ACOSTA", "TRUMP", "ACOSTA", "TRUMP", "ACOSTA", "TRUMP", "ACOSTA", "BLITZER", "RYAN NOBLES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "NOBLES", "BLITZER", "DR. 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{"id": "NPR-26805", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2014-07-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/07/13/331199081/germany-and-argentina-face-off-in-world-cup-final", "title": "Germany And Argentina Face Off In World Cup Final", "summary": "The World Cup final takes place on Sunday in Brazil. NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Russell Lewis in Rio de Janeiro about the match, which went into extra time with a score of 0-0.", "utt": ["It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR West. I'm Kelly McEvers. The final match of the World Cup is almost over. Right now Argentina and Germany are still tied 0-0. NPR's Russell Lewis is on the line from Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro where thousands of fans are gathered to watch the game. Hey Russell.", "Hey Kelly, it's more like tens of thousands perhaps hundreds of thousands here.", "Wow, It gets to be a pint where it's hard to count. How - tell us about the game so far.", "Wow, it's been pretty exciting of course, you know, there's no score yet. Both teams actually have been evenly matched. Argentina's star Lionel Messi has had a couple almost - several of Germany's strikers have also had a couple of shots but nothing has gone into the back of the net yet. It is been a very sort of, exciting game at this point and fans just can't wait to see what the final outcome is.", "Right, so they can't wait but what's the mood been like so far, especially among Brazilians there?", "Well it's been very crazy, as you would imagine, of course Argentina is right next-door to here, Brazil, tens of  thousands of Argentinean fans have rolled in here in the last couple of days. It is definitely a pro-Argentina crowd here, there are not as many Germans here, but they certainly can make themselves heard. But the Argentines are the ones that are really make their voices heard. They are the loudest by far.", "And even though they are the archrivals of Brazil they're being treated well?", "Everything that I've seen so far, of course the Argentines have been sort of rubbing it into Brazil just a little bit, talking about the 7-1 loss to Germany and then of course the loss yesterday to the Netherlands. You know, there's always a little bit of playfulness of course, and as you say Argentina and Brazil are archrivals on the soccer field and elsewhere as well, but so far it doesn't seem to be anything so bad yet.", "So, the atmosphere there where you are sounds pretty good but earlier today outside the actual stadium things turn a little violent. Can you tell us about that?", "Yeah, we weren't too far away from the stadium and there was one of several protests that were held in Rio de Janeiro today and protesters sort of got mixed up a little bit with police. There were probably four or 500 protesters showed up (unitelligible) the protesters just continued basically, they're protest against the high cost of hosting the World Cup, against public corruption and against police violence, for the right to continue to demonstrate. So it was sort of a, you know, the moments of tenseness of course - the protesters are sort of moving up and down the street, they had blocked one of the streets from cars and the police had actually henned them in and basically had them circled, and wouldn't let them leave. And so the protesters sort of kept moving block to block, block to block and then at one point something happened and all then all the sudden the police started firing these stun grenades and firing off tear gas, the whole crowd dispersed and everything. And it just continue to get a little bit worse and at one point police were using batons on a protester right in front of me, seemingly for no reason. So definitely some moments - some tense moments there.", "That's NPR's Russell Lewis in Rio de Janeiro. Russell thanks so much.", "You're welcome."], "speaker": ["KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-36294", "program": "CNN TALKBACK LIVE", "date": "2001-8-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/02/tl.00.html", "summary": "Does Condit Have a Political Future Following Levy Scandal?", "utt": ["The affairs, the lie, the silence. Is Congressman Gary Condit's political career in trouble?", "He was highly respected, and I think there's a diminishment of that respect right now.", "These developments have led to a lot of questions being raised by his constituents.", "Whatever he says, nobody really believes.", "I'm sorry for what he's done, but would I vote for him again? In a minute. He's a good congressman, he's a good representative.", "The election is a year and three months from now. Let's find Chandra Levy and then figure out what we do from there.", "Can Condit recover in time to rescue his political future? Hey, everybody, welcome to TALKBACK LIVE. We will cover a couple of topics today, along with Congressman Condit's political career. We'll talk about the death of Vikings tackle Korey Stringer and why coaches think football practice in blistering weather is a good idea. But first, the search for Chandra Levy took an odd twist yesterday. There was a lot of excitement over an anonymous tip phoned in to the Web site Wetip.com. The tipster said Levy's body was buried on the Fort Lee military base outside Petersburg, Virginia. CNN national correspondent Bob Franken has been following the chase here, and he joins us, along with CNN consultant Mike Brooks. Mike was a detective on the D.C. police force and managed the department's FBI terrorism detail. Bob, as we said, there was a lot of excitement about this 24 hour ago. What a difference a day can make. What has happened here? Is this still a credible tip, or is it losing steam?", "Quite, frankly, it is not a credible tip. The CNN justice correspondent Kelli Arena has just been told by a top law enforcement official, who is directly knowledgeable about this case, that the tip was quote, \"a hoax,\" that a statement that came out earlier from the FBI said that the details of it were not consistent with any site at or near Fort Lee, Virginia. And of course the tip was that Chandra Levy's body had been buried around Fort Lee, Virginia -- about two hours from Washington driving -- buried in a parking lot site that was under construction. It interested police a little bit, simply because there had been construction on a parking lot site in recent times, they thought. So they were checking it out. And I should also point out that they check out every particular lead. This is one that caught the attention of the media. Now, we have a top, knowledgeable source saying that this is a hoax, the source being a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation.", "Well, Mike, that turned out to be fairly easy then for the FBI to figure it out, because earlier in the day we were all trying to speculate as to how the FBI would figure out whether or not this tip was valid or not, especially since it was anonymous.", "Exactly. They took the information inside that was contained in the phone call and transcribed onto a three-page, single-spaced letter did contain anything that they thought was credible. There were -- I was hearing from sources last night that they did not hold much credence in the information and able to confirm it today that it was, in fact, a hoax.", "So, can that guy be prosecuted for obstructing justice or anything like that?", "There is a technicality, since he did not technically make a police report, it will have to be looked into to see if he could be prosecuted for filing a false police report. I think that there is some meat there that they possibly could take a look at prosecuting him. And secondly, he called it in. He or she called in the tip to Wetip.com. So if it's an 800 number, they can go back and maybe take a look at that, but I'm sure law enforcement officials are going to be looking into that to see if they can find out what the source of that hoax was.", "Wetip.com has, you know, said that they have never lost a tipster. I mean, they never identified one through a subpoena or anything else. So, how would -- how would the FBI go about trying to identify him? Would they just go straight to phone records, could they do that?", "Well, if it was an 800 number, you can go back and take a look at whether it was 800, 888, 877, a toll-free number, they can go back and take a look at that. Whether they are going to pursue that is not known, but it's easy to go back and take a look at these toll-free numbers and find out where they originated from, easier more so than someone who was just calling in from a -- calling from a regular 404 or 202 or 703 type area code.", "Bob, why do you suppose the police latched onto this tip over the hundreds of others that they get?", "Well, the impression I get is, first of all, that they have been \"latching on,\" quote/unquote, to just about every tip. Remember now, it's more than three months since the disappearance of Chandra Levy, and they really have no clue as to where she is, so they are really grasping at straws, that's number one. They check out every tip. This particular one had a bit of credence, more than some of the others they've gotten, simply because it included some details that could have been accurate. What they decided to do to is to check out more of the details to see if it was feasible to actually begin a search. As the day wore on, the night wore on, the details proved that it really was not feasible, that it was just something that was made up. And now, as I said, we are told that this is a hoax.", "Well, how did it become public over the hundreds of others that they get?", "Well, it sort of catches catch can. We were able to find out about this one and to find out that it was not entirely without some details, so we in the media, of course, who have been following this very closely, thought this is one that we should follow. The one thing that it does give us is some insight into how closely the police are following everything, trying almost desperately to come up with any sort of lead that might pan out. I think that it's fair to say -- and I really defer to Mike on this -- it's fair to say that the police operate on the premise that a lot of these may look like they're really not very solid leads, in the hope that one of these that looks like it's not a solid lead surprises them and turns into something.", "Yeah, I understand following them all, although isn't it true that the majority of these tips do not pan out?", "Most of them don't.", "Absolutely, but you have to follow up on it, just as Bob was saying. And this particular tip, the person who called it in said that they had been hired to dispose of Chandra Levy's body. So, when you have someone saying that in a tip, it's something that the law enforcement is going to take seriously and take a look into. But then again, you look at where they said the body was, at a military base. What place, you know, you have 20 people 24 hours a day -- if you're going to dump a body on a military base, that would not be the best place to do it, especially with security cameras, military police 24 hours day on the base. It wouldn't be that good of a place.", "Once this tip became public, Mike, why did the police confirmed that they were following this tip with some credibility? I mean, how does that help their investigation? Why would they make that public?", "I think that what they were trying to do is try to kind of calm everyone down and say, remember, this is just a tip. The media kind of took off with it. Everyone took off with it, because it was the first lead that they had really had in quite some time, and everyone was doing some -- was reporting on it and wanted to find out was there any credibility to this themselves. So, I think metropolitan police were the first ones to put out a press release, to kind of say, OK, let's step back, let's take a look at this, let's see if there is any credibility. Again, it was an unsubstantiated rumor. Then, a little bit later on that evening, the Richmond office of the FBI said that until they received further information it was credible, that they were not going to conduct a search of the Fort Lee area.", "Well, Bob -- yeah.", "Bobbie, I think I have to in fairness say the Washington, D.C. police, metropolitan police, when they put out their news release, when they were speaking with me on background, they made it clear that this was just nothing more than a lead, an unconfirmed lead. They went to great lengths to say, look, this is just another one of those -- feel free to check it out with us, but there is nothing more than this unconfirmed lead that they decided to check out. It had that one nugget of possible credence, and that was the fact that there had been some parking lot construction at Fort Lee. It turns out it was not even within the period that was specified in the letter.", "Well, speaking of lead, of course we've heard the D.C. police say all along that the congressman is not a suspect. Now, they are saying also that he is not the central focus of this investigation. So, is anyone or anything the central focus now? Has there been any other leads made public?", "Well, the police have said all along that they did not consider Congressman Gary Condit the central focus of their investigation, although given the knowledge, the particular knowledge he had of Chandra Levy, that he was somebody that was of great interest to help flesh out where she might be. The police have always said it's not us -- meaning the police -- who have made him the central focus. The media have made him the central focus, and of course that certainly is a fact.", "What about the hardware salesman? Is there anything on that front? The gentleman who says he made a key for Chandra Levy, possibly a day after she was last thought to be seen?", "Well, both Mike and I have checked our sources, and we both conclude that what they're politely saying is that this guy did not really have any evidence that holds up.", "And if I think that she was going to get keys made, there is a hardware store within two blocks on her house that she would pass by on a regular basis, and she would kind of be going out of her way to go to that one. I think Bob would agree with me on that.", "It was across the street from the health club where she worked out. But the actual interrogation of this man by investigators ended up with them coming out and saying, well, when he talked to us, he said, you know, I can't really be sure that it was before or after April 30, I can't really be sure how many keys she had made. The story fell down a little bit.", "And where does the investigation go from here? Does anybody know?", "That's up to you. Go ahead, Mr. Investigator.", "Not that we are in the homicide business, right.", "No, but there are still -- there is leads, and you know, they have talked about before about this being a cold case, it's nowhere near a cold case yet, and they still have got leads. They are still running down leads. They're doing some re-interviews, and they're far from being done with this case.", "All right. Bob Franken and Mike Brooks, thank you so much for keeping us up to date. Appreciate it. We will take a break. Does Congressman Gary Condit have a future in politics? A statement issued by California Senator Dianne Feinstein just hours ago might leave you wondering about that. I'll read that to you in just a few moments. In the meantime, take the TALKBACK LIVE ONLINE VIEWER VOTE AT CNN.com/TALKBACK, AOL keyword: CNN. While there, check out my notes and send us an e-mail. We'll be right back.", "We're back. And speaking of wetip.com, CEO Bill Brownell is on the phone with us. Mr. Brownell, was this news to you that this tip turned out to be a hoax, or were you given advance word on that?", "I haven't heard that it was a hoax. I heard that the FBI has not been able to identify a location as it was described in the anonymous crime report. It may be a tip. It may be that they just haven't located it yet. However, it could very well be a tip. This is a very high-profile case, and that's always a possibility.", "So you still feel that there's enough credible information in that tip for it to be still alive? Do you think?", "Well, I certainly wouldn't argue with the FBI. If they say it's a dead case, why it certainly is. All we do is take an anonymous tip with our 24-hour telephone crime reporting line. We've been taking tips for the past 30 years, and there have been over a thousand murder suspects. There have been arrests due to our tips.", "And we should reiterate, too, that you guys at wetip.com do not evaluate the information that you get -- correct? You just pass it on.", "Absolutely -- even material that might even be a little embarrassing because it looks bad. It's not up to us to prejudge a tip for law enforcement, because what we might think is trash, they may find treasure. So we try to provide a valuable public service, allowing people to call us on our 800-78-CRIME line and make a report in Spanish or English 24 hours a day, or they can access our resources through the new program we have...", "What if it turns out that the FBI -- and I am not saying this is going to happen -- might have the option to prosecute this guy for sending in a hoax tip to you. How does that affect the anonymity of your business if they were to do that?", "Like I say, we've been taking anonymous crime reports. We've received the thumbs-up from law enforcement all over the United States for 30 years. They know that there is always the odd that not every tip is going to be valid, and it's up to every law enforcement agency to read the disclaimer at the bottom of the tip, that the information is anonymous. Anything that is anonymous is suspected to being false. A good citizen will always call law enforcement, but many people are too fearful of reprisal to call. And that's why our program was set up 30 years ago, so that those people that are fearful of drug pushers, violent gang members, or other people, like the person who killed Chandra Levy, would not have reprisal against them. So we augment law enforcement investigations; we don't start them.", "Understood. Bill Brownell wetip.com, thank you very much for joining us. In our studios -- Victoria, we know you are an attorney -- that's for sure -- and a former federal prosecutor -- we'll let it go at that. Also with us is prominent Washington trial attorney Jack Jacobovitz. Good to see both of you. This tipster thing -- I am just curious to ask you, Victoria -- this is such a high-profile case -- do you think it's possible that the FBI might pursue some sort of prosecution of this guy? This was quite an elaborate hoax.", "I don't know how elaborate it is, Bobbie, but it probably would not be good policy, because then if somebody gets a piece of information and wants to turn it over through this kind of a system, he or she might be fearful that if it's not accurate, somebody's going to come back and prosecute him. Even though there was something wrong done here, and even if it was even intentional, perhaps on the basis of weighing all the factors, as a matter of public policy, there should not be any kind of indictment.", "I have to say that part of the reason this became such an elaborate story and somewhat of a fiasco, to some degree, people might say, is because of the media involvement -- right, Jeff? Once the media got ahold of it, it became the biggest lead in the case since day one.", "Absolutely, and the media is searching around for the leads. I disagree with Victoria; I think if they find the person who sent out in the tip was lying intentionally -- a potential obstruction of the D.C. government's investigation -- then you have a potential wire fraud, because he used the phone. However, it's unclear at this point -- and there are so many tips pouring in -- next thing we know, we'll be looking under the end zone in Giants Stadium.", "How will people give anonymous tips anymore and be secured that they are not going to be tracked down if they track down this one. That is my concern. I don't want to end people feeling comfortable about giving anonymous tips.", "I don't think it's going to end the process; however, you do have to have some verifiability in the tips. Obviously, the anonymous process will go on. It would be unlikely, I think, for the police to be able to find out who, in fact, made this anonymous tip.", "Let's move on to the Congressman's political future. Dianne Feinstein just a few hours ago issued a statement saying, \"I have been quoted as saying...that I cannot forgive. If I gave that impression, I apologize, because, of course, I can forgive...Condit's failure to come forward and to be fully candid, combined with the conduct involved, really does violate the public trust and affects his integrity and credibility as a legislator.\" Now, we know as a moderate Democrat, Ms. Feinstein does not make these sorts of statements lightly. Is the death now sounding here, Victoria, for his career?", "Well, Dianne Feinstein is a very thoughtful and a very deliberate lawyer -- not lawyer, senator. Much respected by her comrades in the Senate. It, no, it's not going to be the Republicans that will bring Gary Condit down, and I don't even think it will be the voters in his home district. What it will be, is the Democrats. And California gets an additional seat for the next election. And because of that, there will be redistricting. It could be all of the districts -- congressional districts in California. Or it could just be a few. Whatever, the Democrats are in charge. And so, they will decide, I think, to get rid of Gary Condit's district.", "But stranger things have happened, as we know, Jeff. It's a long time between now and March, and March and November, and you know, the one thing the congressman has going for him is that he is very popular with his constituents; they overwhelming thought he was doing a good job, they're concerned about this, but I am guessing that they will not get rid of him easily, and they could do a lot of forgiving between now and next November.", "And you have to look at the Barney Frank situation and the Bill Clinton situation and his popularity ratings. And I think the bottom line is this: if in fact there is an obstruction investigation against Gary Condit for lying to the police and it's a serious investigation, he's in significant trouble. If in fact he's linked to the murder at all, if Chandra Levy was murdered, he's finished, absolutely. If not, it looks like his fund- raising is still going on. Although, most of the funds raised prior to this whole investigation, he has a chance. But he is in trouble.", "The Democrats are sure not going to let him resign, I can tell you that, Bobbie. Because they want to hold that seat until the next election, and if he resigns now, and there would be a new election, it's the probability that a Republican would get elected and the Democrats certainly don't want that to happen.", "Let me get a little bit of audience reaction here. Dale Ann?", "Hi. Even though I don't agree with the type of lifestyle that he keeps, I think it's not really going to affect his career because in that arena things like that happen. And I think the public seems to overlook that, even though it's something that they don't agree with. They seem to overlook and vote the way they want to vote.", "That makes me very sad that people think that that is what happens in Congress or accept that, the behavior that goes in Congress. I think we should find it unacceptable.", "But the American people are forgiving and you look at the Marion Barry situation and you look at Bill Clinton. Every time another piece of the scandal came out, his popularity rating rose.", "Let me go to Maddox here in the audience.", "But even with all of those situations, there was never a person missing. There was never a person presumed to be dead. And so, if, when they find Chandra Levy's body, as you said earlier, it will create major problems for Condit. And he will be forced to resign. First of all, the man has lied repeatedly to the public. To his colleagues in the Congress. He said he didn't have an affair and then he admitted that he had an affair. So he's a liar. He's an adulterer. What else does it take?", "I will tell you one other thing that the Democrats are in control of and should take action on, and that is: to get him off the House Intelligence Committee. He is a security risk. He lies, he hides evidence, all to conceal his conduct. That's a person who's blackmail-able. And he's a security risk and he should not be hearing our nation's secrets.", "I have a couple of e-mails here. Sherri in Wisconsin says \"Condit would have had a future in politics, had he been honest and forthright from the start. And now he looks as if he was only concerned about himself.\" Mike in Virginia says Condit's career is over, even if he is elected again. His influence in Washington will be severely affected.\" We'll take a break and continue with the topic in just a few minutes, and then talk about who's to blame when a 27-year-old pro football player dies of heat stroke. We will try to find some answers. Stay with us.", "Victoria and Jeff, Congress is heading into a break. Presumably the congressman will be heading back to his district in California. What does he need to say to his constituents to try to salvage his career, if he can?", "I think what he needs to do is sort of lay low. I believe he is coming out too much and talking to the police and having his attorney hold these press conferences and trying to deflect public criticism. He is in trouble. He's being looked at; and he needs to lay low. I think he will have to lay low with his constituents. Because whatever he says will be attacked in every direction.", "As I understand it, he's got a three part scenario. The first part is to get together with his wife and two grown children and get his family a little bit back together; and secondly, is to talk to his constituents; and then third, is to do some national interview with some network that has not really covered this in depth. I guess that will not be CNN.", "I guess that rules us out.", "I think -- if he is going to do anything, he needs to apologize to his family first.", "Do you think he needs to go national with this, though?", "You know, he could but I don't know what he's saving by going national because I don't think the Democrats will let him run again. He ought to be looking to his family; that's what should be important to him.", "It's not clear what he could say nationally, as well.", "Yes -- but it's interesting that he is entertaining that idea, so I guess he feels the need to address the nation over this and not just his constituents.", "Well, Dan Rather will probably get the interview. Sorry, Bobbie.", "I guess that's the national network we are talking about.", "Almost. Let me go to the chatroom and see what it happening in there -- Benjamin.", "The tips aren't being -- being blown out of proportion and should not be taken seriously, that the media just blew situation out the water, and have now ruined Condit's career and that they should have investigated the tips before they released it.", "Would it be fair to say the media has contributed to ruining his career?", "Well, I think the media has to be, actually, looked at in a favorable light. Because what they have done is they've put pressure on this investigation, a lot through Billy Martin and Miss Levy's parents, and kept the investigation going, kept everybody pushing along, because a lot of what has come out and has transpired would not have been known, if not for the media pushing the story.", "If it were not for the media interview of the aunt of Chandra, I don't think the congressman would have ever admitted the affair.", "What about the House -- the possibility of a House Ethics investigation here? It would seem unlikely, you know, on the obstruction of justice charge -- I don't know whether he'll...", "Why?", "Well, because the history in Congress is that even congressmen that have been indicted are usually not punished or disciplined by their fellow colleagues.", "Well, maybe Henry Hyde will be looking to do another investigation.", "I'm not sure that that's the history, Bobbie. I think people with behavior less than indictable conduct have been looked at by the Ethics Committee.", "They have put it on hold right now, because they say there's an ongoing investigation, but I think at a certain point, and particularly, there should be some pressure to get him off the House Intelligence Committee.", "It's a difficult investigation, because what you're going to run into is what you've run into before during the Clinton administration, where there were congressmen actually resigning because they were in fact doing similar types of behavior, and it was coming out.", "So you're saying they didn't bother to wait for the House Ethics -- you know, there is no House ethics rule on adultery.", "It's not adultery we are talking about.", "Right, but if they don't consider the obstruction of justice, then...", "Well, they have to consider the obstruction of justice. He did not tell the police the whole story. He did try to get a witness to sign a false affidavit. He did throw away evidence. That seems to be a no brainer as far as basis to proceed.", "How long will they wait?", "You are asking me?", "In the sense that is the police are insisting that he is no longer a focus in this investigation, in the search for where she may be, certainly, sort of winding down as well, then it would easy for the House to simply avoid the whole issue, wouldn't it?", "No, it would easy now for them to proceed because then the police are no longer looking at him. Now the House can proceed.", "Right, but they have deferred it and they certainly don't look like they are going to revisit it any time soon.", "They said they deferred it because there was an ongoing investigation of him and so of that is no longer proceeding then they ought to.", "I think this will be an ongoing investigation for quite some time because of the publicity that has been generated and the body hasn't been found yet.", "Well, the U.S. attorney's office has to decide whether to bring the obstruction charge and that would take maybe another month or so to decide that.", "Victoria Toensing and Jeff Jacobovitz, thanks you both very much for joining us. Appreciate it. In a moment: heat on the NFL following the death of Viking's tackle Corey Stringer. Are professional players pushed too hard, too long, and too far? We will ask two former players who have been there, done that. Stay with us.", "Welcome back. Korey Stringer, a 335-pound right tackle for the Minnesota Vikings collapsed during training on Tuesday. Early Wednesday morning he died of heat stroke. Stringer was just 27 years old.", "I don't even know where to start. It's like, he was here today, gone tomorrow.", "We have lost a brother, a teammate and a friend. It's been very tough on our football team.", "We never thought he would die. We knew it was critical. We knew the facts. We knew what his body was saying. We all had faith that this was something he would walk out of here. But that wasn't the case here.", "Stringer's core body temperature reached more than 108 degrees. How does that happen? How could he get so sick and no one notice? Joining us today, Chuck Smith a former player for the Atlanta Falcons and the Carolina Panthers. Rob Beck is with us, a litigation attorney that writes a column on sports and the law for foxsportsbiz.com. And Trev Albert is with us,a former player with the Indianapolis Colts and host of CNNSI's \"NFL Preview.\" Welcome to all of you. Let me start with you guys because you have been in that environment. How does that happen? How does a player push himself so far that he pushes himself to the brink of death?", "You know, Bobbie, it's the culture of football, not just the NFL, but ever since we were five years old we were taught to fight through the pain, dig deep, find an extra motivation to go all the way. I think in this instance, Korey, the day before had to be carried off on a golf cart. He was throwing up, clearly needed some medical attention and yet was allowed the next day to go back on the field. It's my position that you can't depend on the players to tell the coaching staff, to tell the trainers, I'm done, I can't play anymore, because it's the culture. Nobody wants to be called a weenie. Everybody wants to be the tough guy. They are encouraged to be tough. And so you can't depend on the player. It's time for the NFL to have it's coaches and its training staff step in when they can clearly see that something is wrong. He should have never been on that practice field the next day.", "So, Chuck, the way I understand it too, he was so embarrassed about throwing up and having to leave practice the day before that he came back and pushed himself even harder the next day because of that environment, correct?", "That's the nature of the beast. Everyone is going to try that. In the National Football League you are judged what do you do on Sundays but people don't get a chance to see what happens on Mondays. Korey Stringer was a great player but I think it has come to the point where the players have to be accountable to themselves. I disagree with Trev. The players -- are you willing to die for football? No one here is willing to die for football. Sometimes you have to step back and say, hey, I'm dizzy, I am nauseous, it's time to sit down.", "Aren't you going to get mocked? Aren't they going to make fun of you for saying that though?", "No, you won't get mocked. Would you rather get mocked, or die?", "I agree, but the environment you are talking about, Trev, says they are pretty rough on guys who don't want to play through the pain.", "The reality is I think the National Football League and player's association -- I think Paul Tagliabue did a real disservice when he came out this week and just made a statement that says, I would like all teams to go out and reevaluate their training camps. That is not the issue here. You can't let teams police themselves. It is a competitive sport, a competitive environment. And if they think they have a competitive advantage to go in full pads the next day, they will do it. I think the NFL player's association has to come out and say let's set a uniform set of standards, that if it's 110 degrees you don't wear full pads, you don't practice.", "You know, let me get Rob in here real quick. I certainly understand playing through the pain if you have a broken finger or a pulled muscle, something like that. These things don't kill you. But heat stroke or not having enough water in your system, this is a silent killer and it comes up quickly.", "Yeah, I definitely agree with Trev. In addition to the peer pressure, you have to remember that one of the effects of heat exhaustion is that your mental capacity is impaired. You don't have the ability to figure out for yourself whether you should stop. That's why the league has to have a set of objective standards that you look at, such as repeated vomiting and having been removed from the field the previous day, say, OK, this guy's got to get off. And furthermore, you have to have medical personnel who can overrule coaches and just say, this guy is off. I don't care what you think.", "Go ahead, Chuck, you want to answer.", "If you are going to start at the top, let's start with the owners then. Let's go where it starts. The owners put pressure on the head coaches, the head coaches put pressure on the players. And also, where do the owners get pressure from? The fans. They want a winner at all costs.", "At all costs, Chuck? What makes you say at all costs? Do you think the Minnesota Vikings fans want Korey Stringer dead? They care about these players.", "No. I am not saying they want him dead. I am saying the owners want a winner. They are willing to do whatever. Have you been out there? I do not think so. So, you cannot tell me this. You can't talk to me about an NFL training camp.", "Oh, please. You mean to say you have to be an NFL player to be able to assess whether they've gone too far?", "I have been to nine NFL training camps, when I got tired, I sat my butt down.", "If you say it's up to the player...", "When you can go to an NFL training camp, you tell me then.", "You need people to be paternalistic and overlook them.", "I love Korey Stringer. I never said anything about wanting him to die. Pressure comes from people like you, who talk about people like us...", "Where do you get off penalizing and saying that -- I'm the guy who wants more protection for players. You are the guy saying they should make up their minds even though their minds aren't there.", "All I am saying as a man, you have the right to make your own decision. No one makes you do anything. It was unfortunate what happened to Korey. Yes, maybe he should have been a little more understanding of what his situation was, and maybe someone should have taken him off the field. But it didn't happen. Let's not attack the Mississippi Vikings. Let's talk about where it start -- at the top.", "You don't think you can look at a guy who's thrown up three times, been carted off the field the previous day who has a history of always failing on the second day of practice. He has a history of always losing out, not being able to finish the second day of practice. You don't think they should do something like that and rely on him to make up his mind when his mind is going to be impaired. I don't think you care enough. I think you are off an a little macho kick because you are a tough guy. You are looking at me and you are saying, you just said to me, I'm not on field, you are.", "Through the history of time. This has happened many times.", "It's actually on the increase, did you know that?", "I am going to jump in here and break this up. I have to go to break. Real quickly here, let me get a comment from the audience.", "Arnie is from Texas. Arnie, go ahead.", "Yes, this is not a culture specific to football only. I would be willing to bet that any self-respecting athlete pushes himself beyond personal his personal limits, not just Korey or football.", "I agree, but I have to take a quick break. Stay with us.", "Couple of e-mails here. Susan in Ohio says, \"Coaches treat players like machines. But a human being can only take so much. Players will not say when they have had enough.\" Bill from California says, \"Professional athletes are paid to train for endurance toughness and ability. Without these proven training methods we can not have professionalism in sports. Why call for change after one incident?\" I don't think anybody wants to change that. We are talking more about maybe why don't they train indoors or in cooler climates or something so they are not subjecting themselves to something preventable, like heat stroke. Let me take Jim on the phone really quickly. He's been hanging on from California. Jim, go ahead.", "I think people are missing whole idea with this. You really can't perform to your top level and as good as you need to do if you are dead. They find it a lot easier if you are alive. From the high school level on, I was taught -- I was a kicker -- and I was taught that you do not get water or you do not do anything during the two-a-days back then. I even would try to pull a thing where I could go into the bathroom and get a drink of water by saying I had to the restroom. They would send an assistant coach or someone with me to make sure I did not drink any water.", "What kind of Neanderthal attitude equates drinking water with being a wimp. I don't get that. You don't drink water, you are a wimp, because you can't perform.", "When we were kids, chuck and I were kids, and we played football in high school and little league, that's what it was. When the coach got mad at you for having a bad first practice, he would come out an say no water second practice. Thankfully we've learned from that. The whole point to me now is this tragedy has happened. Let's not make another tragedy by after a couple days saying well, it's just something that happened. Let's really look that this and lets say how can we make sure that this thing doesn't happen again. Let's make sure that Korey Stringers of the world don't do something, and if a guy is throwing up the day before he shouldn't be allow to go back to practice. Something needs to be done and I hope the NFL is smart enough this time to step up and say, we are going to do something.", "Chuck, you agree that something needs to be done, but you think it needs to start at top.", "I think it needs to start at the top. There is so much pressure for the players to win, they are willing to do anything. I have been player who has been willing to do anything. So looking at it like that, it has to start from up top. There is so much pressure from the fans, from the owners, from the coaches, the trickle effect. It just doesn't start yesterday. This has been going for as long as the NFL has been going on.", "It's amazing there haven't been more deaths.", "It's amazing. I have been in the league, if you took everyone off the field that throws up, there wouldn't any NFL. I'm not saying, making an excuse for what happened...", "Let me ask the two of you if either one of you ever came close to heat exhaustion.", "I think Chuck would say he probably came close, and I know I came close. I think the point is that that happens every day. If you knew -- on a typical two-a-day practice in training camp, there may be 19 guys at the end of practice get IVs. And I think the point is now you have to think, if you are an NFL football player, at what point do you say to yourself, how close am I? Do I need stop now? There has to be a line where you realize, because you know all the symptoms. When you start becoming really dehydrated you will see guys lose control of all bodily fluids. They will start urinating on themselves. It's not a nice sight, but that happens. The next thing you know, their whole body goes into spasms where the muscles contract. The trainers then haul them quickly into the training room and you get IVs. And then guess what happens, the next day all your teammates make fun of you for being such a wuss that you had to get an IV and miss part of the practice. That's the culture of football. It's not an NFL problem, it's a culture of football that start way down there at the little league level.", "And why would changing that affect the game?", "That's my point. Training camp was instituted years and years ago when guys worked in the off-season to get them in shape. Now guys work year around to stay in shape. And six weeks and two-a- days and pads and I think it's been proven, you play for George Seifert, they won Super Bowls in San Francisco, they don't hit anybody all week. Buffalo Bills made it to four Super Bowls, they don't hit anybody all week. So you don't have to do all this hitting. You can still get your work done and I think that's what teams need to take a look at.", "Rob and Chuck too the other thing that we need to keep in mind I think is that the players are getting bigger and faster. Doesn't that change -- how much can the human body take, you know? When you are -- what was he 340 pounds or something? I mean, if the player are getting bigger and faster, the organs can only sustain so much.", "That's why you have to take in account their weight. And that should be one of the factors that you have in an objective set of standards for who is going to have to be yanked off the field. And certainly offensive and defensive lineman would be among the first. Maybe Chuck doesn't want to hear that, but that's what I would do. There are several other things that need to be done. Following up on what Trev said, it's true that in the old days you weren't allowed to get water and now you are allowed to get water. But the way to improve that is you enforce water breaks. In other words, you say, at this time, everybody is going to take a water break. Then no one has to worry about peer pressure and everyone gets the water they need. Secondly, you have your practices earlier in the day and later in the day so you're not in the heat of the sun. And then here's the biggest one. You should remember that the Vikings had their first two days of practice this week, this is when this tragedy happened. They went straight to full-blown practices. Now, I realize that Dennis Green is not one of the really tough coaches, in terms of practices, so there's an irony here. But the whole league has to say, we can't start right in with full practices. What everyone has to listen to is one thing: the labor department of this country and their Occupational Safety Health Agency has the following thing to say on this. It says: \"New employees and workers returning from an absence of two weeks or more should have a five-day period of acclimatization. This period should begin with 50 percent of the normal workload and time exposure the first day, and gradually building up 100 percent on the fifth day. I guarantee...", "Chuck, they don't do anything like that, is what you're saying. You just hit the field.", "Man, will you please just keep it real? No, they don't do that. I've been playing...", "I've been playing football since 1983. I remember in little league, the coaches telling me, Chuck, stay hydrated. I played nine years in the National Football League. I remember Atlanta Falcons trainer, Ron Medlin, saying, \"Drink, drink, drink.\" No one's going to -- this is the National Football League. They tell you all that stuff. You know about hydration. You know about taking care of your body. So that's not even realistic, thinking the NFL is going to be -- they don't drink. Man, the trainers in the National Football League know everything that you need to know and the players do, too.", "Hold on, guys. I'm sorry, I have to break. We'll be back in a moment.", "Sorry, I've been sneezing all day. I don't know what's going on. Let me go quickly to the audience, then I'll do this e-mail.", "Football players are grown adults. They have to take responsibility like the rest of us do for their own health and their own safety. A thousand rules aren't going to save them if they choose not to follow them. It has to start with them. They have to say, \"I'm thirsty, I can't do this. I have to sit out.\" But then the coaches and the trainers have to respect that. It's a two-way street.", "Yes, Tony in Florida says: \"When I was in high school, I broke my collarbone after a tackle. The coach grabbed me by the jersey and said, 'Get up, you dog.' When I screamed, he finally realized that I was actually hurt. Who is at fault, me, or the coach?\" He wants to know.", "I think it's pretty easy. I think it's the coach. And I think that's part of the issues. I remember in my three years, I mean, I saw guy after guy who was seriously injured get shot up and choose to get shot up, or didn't know the repercussions and got shot up and played the whole season long, and are dealing with it now when they're 40 and 50, when they're in \"Sports Illustrated\" explaining why their left leg is being amputated. So, like the earlier young lady said, yes, the players have to step up and take ownership of their body. But the second point is equally as important. The trainers and the coaches have to allow the players to do that. And right now in the NFL, it is not allowed to happen. There's definitely a lot of pressure coming from the coaches. There's no doubt about that, no doubt. But a lot of players, you have to understand the mentality. If you're a rookie trying to make the team, this is your only way right now of making money, a livelihood -- you might have a child. A lot of guys are going to do what they have to do. And so they take responsibility for themselves. There's no problem -- the trainers will tell you the warning signs, but the high school coach there, he's...", "He needs to be fired.", "Yes, he's out of here. Get him out of here.", "Well, you know, that's where -- obviously, we're seeing the deaths happen more in high school and college. Rob, I mean, 18 in the last five years or so?", "Yes, there's been a huge increase. In the middle of the 20th century we were having about one death every five or six years. Now this problem has gotten much worse. I mean, the very problem, as Chuck Smith, when he says, OK, this guy goes into camp and he's got to earn money for his family. He's under rookie pressure. That's what gets him in trouble.", "Quickly, Rob, we're out of time. Rob Becker, thank you very much. Chuck Smith and Trev Albert, thank you very much for joining us. Appreciate all of you being here. And we will see you guys again tomorrow for more TALKBACK LIVE. Join us then."], "speaker": ["BOBBIE BATTISTA, HOST", "MAYOR CARMEN SABATINO, MODESTO, CALIFORNIA", "REP. 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{"id": "NPR-38698", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2006-05-18", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5414291", "title": "Letters: Guerilla Gardening, and More", "summary": "Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne read listeners' letters, including praise for stories on China and gardening in London.", "utt": ["It's Thursday morning. And most Thursdays we hear from your comments.", "A story on Guerilla Gardeners, a group in London that covertly plants flowers and plants on public land, delighted Phyllis Malonis(ph) of Mary Esther, Florida.", "It was a wonderful to hear a story of flower bombing and planting flowers in the dark of the night, instead of terrorist bombing and people dying in overnight fights. If this could be the only type of guerilla warfare, what a beautiful world this would be.", "And our report from Beijing on the sounds of old Beijing, brought fond memories for Jeremy Wong(ph), who now lives in Fresh Meadows, New York.", "The sound brought me back to China during my childhood. It tipped off a flashback of my worry-free years, when, for a moment, I was able to see what I saw, hear what I heard, smell what I smelled.", "Not all of you were quite so happy with all of our reporting. In a report about ethanol, Trish Hekan(ph) thought we gave switchgrass a bad name by calling it a weed.", "(Reading)\"Switchgrass is not a weed,\" she says. \"It's an important species in wetlands and moist grassland meadows.\"", "And we have a correction this morning. We mentioned this week that it was the birthday of filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, who's made such classics as Last Tango In Paris. As some of you pointed out, our birthday wishes were belated.", "This is Charles Latner from Salt Lake City, Utah. His birthday was, in fact, March 16th. Being as his work is as controversial and full of nudity and sex as it is, what does it say about me that I know so much about him?", "(Singing) Zoom a little zoom in a rocket ship; home we go on a trip. Coming back to earth at a rocket clip, we're going to zoom, zoom, rocket.", "And this from John Sebastianski(ph) in New York.", "(Reading) \"Last week, I woke up, as I always, do to MORNING EDITION. But then I was coaxed into consciousness by this song, and I've spent every free minute since then searching for it.\"", "John, you can now rest easier. The song is called Zoom A Little Zoom, and it's the theme for the video blog, Rocket Boom that we've profiled. It was written long before blogs existed by folk singer Tom Glazer back in the 1940s.", "If you want to get that song stuck in your head, you can hear a little more of it and email us your comments by going to npr.org.", "(Singing) Zoom, we'll see if the moon is made out of green cheese. Ha-ha-ha-ha. Zoom, we're here at the moon, let's see what the moon is.", "This is NPR News."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "Ms. PHYLLIS MALONIS", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "Mr. JEREMY WONG", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "Mr. CHARLES LATNER(ph)", "Mr. TOM GLAZER (Musician)", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "Mr. TOM GLAZER (Musician)", "STEVE INSKEEP, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-50939", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-3-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/15/lt.08.html", "summary": "Closing Arguments for Penalty Phase of Yates' Trial Now Concluded", "utt": ["We are going to move from that story now to Houston, Texas, if you were watching the closing arguments for the penalty phase of Andrea Yates' trial, now concluded. Jurors now on a lunch break. They will come back. Final instructions from the judge, and then deliberating one more time the fate of Andrea Yates. Ed Lavandera outside the courtroom joins us live with an update from there. Ed, good afternoon.", "Good afternoon, Bill. What I can tell you is that the jury in the case listened to the hour-long closing arguments in the punishment phase of this trial, very stoic, looking straight ahead, paying attention to everything that the attorneys on both sides were saying in this case, as I'd been sitting throughout the trial, we're just across the aisle from the Yates family. They also as well, most of them, leaning forward on the benches in the courtroom, Russell Yates taking notes of all the words that were said. Perhaps he has a little notepad he keeps for his own preparation. The Yates family sitting -- Andrea Yates' family sitting -- excuse me -- sitting on the other side of the courtroom, very quietly, no emotion on their faces, just looking ahead at what the attorneys were saying. But without a doubt, both sides of the families here feeling a lot of pressure during this lunch hour as they wait for the jury to begin deliberations in this punishment phase. One note that we want to pass along before we came on CNN with the live coverage of the closing arguments, defense attorneys were requesting a mistrial, and let me fill you in on what has happened. Dr. Park Dietz, the medical expert for the prosecution, testified earlier in the case that Andrea Yates, one of her hobbies was to watch the \"Law & Order\" show on NBC television, and part of what testified to was that a few weeks before the murders, there had been a episode of a woman who drowned her children, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, and the suggestion on Dr. Dietz' part of was that perhaps this is what might have inspired Andrea Yates to commit the crimes in this fashion. A couple of days ago, defense attorneys spoke with the producers of the \"Law & Order\" show, saying that that episode was never made, never created, never produced in any kind of fashion. They requested a mistrial. The judge has denied that motion. We are waiting to hear from defense attorneys as to exactly how they might handle this down the line, but perhaps all indications are that they will use this, obviously these cases, capital murder cases, are automatically appealed once the verdict is back, and perhaps how this will play out further down the road, in the legal -- in the courts, remains to be seen with this one -- Bill.", "All right, Ed, thank you. Ed Lavandera, reporting on the Yates trial there outside -- in Houston. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Concluded>"], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "NPR-32015", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2010-03-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124346487", "title": "House Lawmakers Move To Withdraw From NAFTA", "summary": "In this election year, Democrats are having second thoughts about free trade. Some House members want to repeal NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico. And some Senators are worried about the stimulus bill sending or financing jobs overseas. Free trade may fly with economists, but it can be a hard sell on at home with near 10 percent unemployment.", "utt": ["It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.", "Finally, somebody is creating jobs - and people in Congress are furious because of where the jobs are. Lawmakers say federal stimulus dollars and trade policies are creating jobs overseas. That has led to calls for stronger buy- American provisions as well as the repeal of the North American Free Trade Agreement. NPR's David Welna reports on the outbreak of protectionist fever.", "This week, four Senate Democrats, led by New York's Charles Schumer, held a news conference at the Capitol.", "We're here today to discuss something so outrageous, it just makes your blood boil.", "The outrage, Schumer said, was that the Department of Energy was about to send a grant of nearly half a billion dollars in economic stimulus funds to a west Texas wind-farm project. He asserted the project would create a few hundred jobs in the U.S. - and 3,000 jobs in China.", "The stimulus is a golden opportunity, because it's dollars to buy those things and to say they have to be made here. China doesn't import our stuff when it's using its government's money. Why do we have to do that? Why are we sometimes, it seems, Uncle Sap, not Uncle Sam?", "Schumer said the problem was that Democrats forgot to include a buy- America clause for private firms receiving economic stimulus money. He called on the Obama administration to stop issuing grants until that loophole is closed. But administration officials dispute Schumer's allegations.", "At a Senate hearing yesterday, Energy Secretary Steven Chu was asked about the west Texas wind-farm project.", "Although that has gotten a lot of press coverage, we have not gotten an application for a wind farm made with China parts in Texas.", "Cielo Wind Power is the west Texas firm that's building that wind farm. Its president, Walt Hornaday, says while the windmills will be assembled in China by maybe 100 workers, 70 percent of their content will be American, and the same goes for more than 2,000 workers on the project.", "Hornaday says a buy-America provision is not needed.", "It just simply sends the wrong signal on our industry where you're trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist. If you already have 70 percent U.S. content in turbines and 90 percent U.S. content in the balance of the project, what problem are you trying to fix?", "Meanwhile, a bill was introduced in the House yesterday that would have the U.S. withdraw from NAFTA. Three Republicans and 25 Democrats are co-sponsoring the measure, which effectively repeals the 16-year-old trade agreement with Canada and Mexico.", "Mississippi Democrat Gene Taylor is leading the effort. He says with 10 percent unemployment, the U.S. can't afford a trade deal that he says is costing American jobs.", "Remember, every single member of Congress is up for re-election in November. I guarantee you if the American people who know that this is a bum deal for America get riled up about it, we can repeal this.", "None of the anti-trade fervor on Capitol Hill surprises Linda Lim, of the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. She's an expert on trade protectionism.", "It always rises to the fore when you have a bad economy. This is a standard response, particularly from politicians in an election year.", "Lim doubts this latest outbreak of protectionism will last, but it could well continue through November.", "David Welna, NPR News, the Capitol."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "DAVID WELNA", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "DAVID WELNA", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "DAVID WELNA", "DAVID WELNA", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "DAVID WELNA", "DAVID WELNA", "M", "DAVID WELNA", "DAVID WELNA", "R", "DAVID WELNA", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "DAVID WELNA", "DAVID WELNA"]}
{"id": "NPR-14215", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2017-07-27", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/539682654/what-hospitals-think-of-the-gop-health-care-plans", "title": "What Hospitals Think Of The GOP Health Care Plans", "summary": "Tom Nickels of the American Hospital Association talks with Rachel Martin about the showdown over repealing the Affordable Care Act.", "utt": ["For the third day in a row, lawmakers will take to the Senate floor and cast votes for a plan to fix the country's health care system. The Senate has already rejected some of the proposals on the table. But Republican leaders now appear to be focusing on what they're calling a, quote, \"skinny repeal.\" This is something that would roll back parts of the Affordable Care Act that are the most unpopular. We're going to get one perspective from the health care industry itself. Tom Nickels is the executive vice president of the American Hospital Association. He joins us now. Thanks so much for being with us, Mr. Nickels.", "Glad to be here.", "I imagine this perpetual ambiguity over health care is making your life rather stressful these days?", "These are busy times for sure. And things keep changing by the day. Things changed last night. And I'm sure they'll be different tomorrow than they are today.", "You represent thousands of hospitals. What's on the line for those facilities that you represent?", "Well, I think the most important thing for us and for my members is coverage, coverage of individuals under Medicare, coverage of individuals who purchase insurance on the markets. And that's what we've been completely focused on. And we'll keep being focused on it until this is over.", "Is there anything about this, quote, \"skinny repeal\" idea that you like?", "Well, looking at it on the merits, there are parts that we like. For example, they get rid of the Medicaid cuts, you know, in excess of $700 billion in cuts to the Medicaid program. And they don't roll back the expansion of the program. That's a positive move. On subsidies, they don't reduce the subsidies, practically $400 billion in the underlying bill. They don't do that either. So that's a plus and a recognition, I think, that those are not policies that can pass the Senate.", "However, there are also some downsides to it, which is the elimination of the individual mandate. And what will that do to the marketplace? Will it destabilize? And how many more people will lose their coverage? The other concern, of course, is we can look at the bill on the merits. That's one thing. But also, what is this in terms of a political move? This is potentially - and I think Senator Corker talked about this pretty publicly yesterday. This is potentially just an effort to get something passed to get to a conference with the House. And we have real, serious problems with the House bill.", "So talk about those. What is the most egregious part of the House bill, as you see it?", "Well, I think the most egregious part is Medicaid. And in two parts, one is, again, it rolls back the expansion of the Medicaid program, beginning on January 1st of 2020. And secondly, it completely restructures the Medicaid program into a per capita cap arrangement. And it's not so much that arrangement but the dollars that come out of the program in excess of $800 billion under the House bill. And to us, that is just untenable. And it will do significant harm to people who really need that coverage.", "We have seen an effort for a wholesale repeal of the Affordable Care Act. That didn't work. But if the substance of the Affordable Care Act or at least a significant part of it, the individual mandate goes away through something like a skinny repeal vote, what would be the consequences? I mean, that lowers the number of people who are paying into the system.", "Right. So I think you could look at two consequences right out of the box. The first is - and the Congressional Budget Office has said this - that potentially as many as 15 million people could drop coverage. Now, again, we'll need to see the CBO - a new number from them to know that for sure. This is a two-year-old piece of data. But that's the first problem. The second thing is what does it do to the market?", "Yeah.", "Because the whole notion is to have people, healthy people, sick people in between, all need to be in. And this could potentially really disrupt the market.", "Tom Nickels, he's executive vice president of the American Hospital Association. Thanks so much for your time this morning.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "TOM NICKELS", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "TOM NICKELS", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "TOM NICKELS", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "TOM NICKELS", "TOM NICKELS", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "TOM NICKELS", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "TOM NICKELS", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "TOM NICKELS", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "TOM NICKELS"]}
{"id": "CNN-37817", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-8-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/23/lad.07.html", "summary": "Investigators Still Searching for Nikolay Soltys", "utt": ["And it is now 3 1/2 days since the man police think killed six members of his own family has been seen. We heard reports that Nikolay Soltys is driving another car. There are also reports that a trucker picked him up hitchhiking near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Well, joining us on the phone now to update the investigation is Captain John McGinness of the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department. Good morning, Captain. Tell us what you know about this car.", "Well, we developed information that the suspect was seen driving a green Ford Explorer Monday evening at around 8:00 Pacific time in the company of his 3-year-old son. And frankly, that information defied what many of us believed to be likely but the credibility of the witness who saw it was so great that we had to consider it as valuable information. Since that time, additional information has been developed to suggest that it's -- that it really is valid.", "And any suggestion yet of where he would have got that other vehicle?", "Well, in this community where our suspect lives and has for some time, transaction -- cash transaction of vehicles is not at all uncommon, and frankly, the -- they're not terribly judicious in -- or timely in taking care of the appropriate Department of Motor Vehicles transfer documents. So it's possible he's had this vehicle for some time and it's just not in the system as belonging to him.", "So it's your -- it's your belief he bought it, not stole it?", "That's correct, although anything is possible.", "OK. OK, also the report about a trucker picking him up, that he was seen somewhere near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Tell us what more you know about that this morning.", "Frankly, we don't believe that's likely going to be our suspect, although it, just as every other bit of information comes in, we need to analyze it objectively and not close our minds to options because much of the information that has come in throughout the course of this investigation has been somewhat surprising to us initially. Much of it -- for instance, the information regarding the green Explorer has proven to be very likely valid. So while we, frankly, still have some strong belief that he continues to remain in the Sacramento area, nothing is outside the realm of possibility.", "So at this point, Captain McGinness, have you had any promising sightings of him?", "Not promising sightings. Of course, as you may anticipate, the green Ford Explorer is not an uncommon vehicle, certainly not in the state of California, so we're getting a lot of calls that really don't have any substance to them. But we are working on information developed through sources, not just limited to sightings, that suggest a strong likelihood, at least, that he still continues to remain in this area.", "All right, Captain John McGinness, thanks very much for your time this morning. You just heard Captain McGinness say that police do believe that he is still in the Sacramento area at this point, but nonetheless, this is a nationwide manhunt for Nikolay Soltys. And we want to look now at what goes into such a manhunt. Joining us now from New York to talk about this is Bill Daley. He's a former FBI investigator. Good morning, Mr. Daley.", "Good morning, Colleen.", "Based on what you know about this case, where would you be focusing the resources in terms of this manhunt?", "Well, actually the two-pronged approach. One would be there in the Sacramento area. Just like we heard from the Captain where they're devoting a tremendous amount of effort and manpower to the actual investigation. You know knowing some more about his background, knowing the people he has contact with, trying to find out how he's going to go about living, does he have any money with him, would he be going and taking that money from ATM machines, would he be making phone calls, trying to track his whereabouts through, you know, proven investigative techniques. The other would be to put more of a broader spread on this and that is through the National Crime Information Center -- NCIC as it's known to law enforcement officers -- where if he is stopped in a green Ford Explorer and they run the plate, even if they haven't heard this broadcast or they're not familiar that he's in a green Explorer, it will pop up and say this could possibly be somebody who's wanted, proceed very carefully. So there are several different approaches that people will take or that the government takes when conducting a manhunt.", "Well, so what kinds of resources does that take?", "Well, on the ground, from what I understand, they have literally dozens of both patrol and detectives working on the investigative side. Even though it may cross country lines, they're still going to pursue them with the Sacramento police officers. And when we're talking about a nationwide effort, you know we're really talking about literally, you know, thousands of people who may be eyes and ears out there. That's not even counting the public who we really count upon in law enforcement to help us. As the -- as the Captain said, they've had some sightings, they have to dismiss some others. But you know, we found that in the most recent past, even with the apprehension of the seven convicts who escaped from Texas, it was the public -- the public who identified them and called police. So the public is a very key component of this manhunt.", "That's right. And also I'm wondering what kind of cooperation they get in terms of watching the borders? There was a suggestion that this suspect has relatives in Oregon, perhaps even in New York, so presumably they're looking at the Canadian border, other areas, right?", "Right, Colleen. What they do is they spread out information out to Immigration Naturalization, Customs and even as far into the Customs officials in Canada and Mexico so if someone's trying to cross the border, they could be identified. So even though it may not be on, you know, the forefront of everyone's mind, there are systems in place, there are procedures in place to hopefully catch this person. And the end of the day nothing is foolproof, but you know, I think in this country I believe we have the best opportunity to be able to catch people like this and the best law enforcement system that has some connectivity between computers and disbursement of information.", "All right, Bill Daley, thanks very much, appreciate it.", "Thank you, Colleen. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN MCGINNESS, CAPTAIN, SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT", "MCEDWARDS", "MCGINNESS", "MCEDWARDS", "MCGINNESS", "MCEDWARDS", "MCGINNESS", "MCEDWARDS", "MCGINNESS", "MCEDWARDS", "BILL DALEY, FORMER FBI INVESTIGATOR", "MCEDWARDS", "DALEY", "MCEDWARDS", "DALEY", "MCEDWARDS", "DALEY", "MCEDWARDS", "DALEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-255850", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-05-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1505/25/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Record Rain Kills 3, Sweeps 350 Homes Away; Iraqis Showing No Will to Fight?", "utt": ["We're seeing multi-generations come to honor those who have gone.", "And we want to invite those of you at home to share your photos, memories and stories of the veterans you've lost. You can go to CNN.com/memorialday. And with that we turn to Carol Costello for \"", "Thanks so much. NEWSROOM starts now.", "Happening now in the", "Oh, my gosh. Stop, stop, stop. He needs to get out.", "Record rain sweeps away cars, trees, even homes.", "Never did we in our wildest imagination think about the wall of water that would come down and do the destruction.", "Lives lost and the relentless downpours and tornadoes. Even a first responder is killed. And it's not over yet. Also --", "The Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight.", "Are Iraqi forces willing to fight ISIS and defend themselves? Defense Secretary Ash Carter has his doubts. As the brutal terror group murders hundreds of women and children. Plus, President Obama enjoying an ice cream cone. LBJ chowing down on Texas barbecue. These pictures from the Democrats' official Twitter feed. But this isn't what Memorial Day is about. Let's talk. Live in the CNN NEWSROOM.", "And good morning, I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. After more than a decade of war and an endless debate mired in politics, a nation pauses to honor the sacrifices of those who have served. Right now in Washington, a day of remembrance and reflection begins to unfold. This is a live picture of observances at the World War II Memorial. President Obama honors the war dead later this morning. Over the next couple of hours we'll check in on Memorial Day events around the country. But first, we have to talk about the weather because, boy, it is brutal. Thousands fleeing for higher ground, as deadly flash flooding ravages parts of Texas and Oklahoma. Three people have died. Several others still missing. And the threat is not over yet. SUVs tumbling like toys in the powerful rapids. This driver escaping to safety just before the plunge. Bridges completely washed out. The current consuming everything in its path. Raging waters knocking this home right off its foundation. Other homes simply swept away. The now saturated ground could see several more inches of rain triggering fears of more dangerous flash flooding. We're awaiting a police press conference that's expected at the top of the next hour. CNN's Alina Machado is in one of the hardest-hit areas, Wimberley, Texas. Good morning, Alina.", "Good morning, Carol. Yes, if you walk through this hard-hit area you get a sense of just how bad the devastation is. Look at this debris field. There is just debris scattered all over this place. There's downed power lines, furniture, and this house, tipped on its side. Knocked over by the force of the floodwaters, all the product of this historic flood.", "Oh, my god. Oh, my god.", "Ravaging floodwaters and severe weather across central Texas and Oklahoma, forcing more than 1,000 people to stay in shelters this morning.", "Right now is not the time to try to return to your homes.", "Oh, my gosh. Stop, stop, stop.", "Vehicles and hundreds of homes destroyed. Swept away by the deadly deluge.", "This flood is the largest I've seen in a 25 years.", "Waters continuing to rise through Sunday in central Texas. The flood's height swelling one river to a record-breaking 43 feet in San Marcos, according to officials.", "At this point it's mainly an operation of rescue.", "Emergency crews scrambling to pull people from the floodwaters. Bridges washed out, unable to handle the force of the rising tide. Roller coasters at the Six Flags Amusement Park near Dallas, Texas, submerged in water. In Wimberley, many residents returned to homes unsalvageable. (", "We've seen houses that have been knocked off their foundations or tipped over just by this one here just by the sheer force of those rising floodwaters.", "There's no electricity at the complex now.", "In Houston, hundreds are now homeless, after an EF-1 tornado packing winds of 100 miles an hour slammed into their apartment complex. The severe storms turning deadly in Oklahoma. A firefighter swept away from a dramatic rescue just north of Tulsa. Captain Jason Farley, a nearly 20-year veteran, died while trying to rescue 10 residents from the flood. The waters so high the firefighter never saw the storm drain that carried him under.", "We suspect that he drowned. Got caught in the storm drain itself. It's something I'll have to live with for the rest of my life.", "We could see several more inches of rain in this area sometime today. The ground is already saturated so that could spell some big trouble for the people who are trying to recover from this flood -- Carol.", "All right, Alina Machado, reporting live for us this morning. To find out how you can help those affected by severe flooding and storm damage in Texas and Oklahoma visit CNN.com/impact. Turning now to the war on ISIS. Syria is striking back. This morning we've learned that it has launched at least 15 airstrikes on the militants who control the city of Palmyra. Now according to a watchdog group of activists some of the bombings have been near those ancient sites we've been talking about. The United Nations is among the groups calling for ISIS to spare the ruins that date back to Roman times. There are also new tales of horror and brutally. ISIS militants are blamed for murdering more than 250 people including at least 13 children. The group has underscored its ruthlessness in newly captured cities by beheading government soldiers and anyone who helped them. The growing reach of ISIS is igniting new frustration and fingerpointing between Washington and Baghdad and now Tehran. In his first comments since ISIS militants captured the Iraqi town of Ramadi Defense Secretary Ash Carter lays the blame on the collapse of Ramadi on Iraqi forces there. Here's part of his exclusive interview with CNN.", "The Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. They were not outnumbered. In fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force. And yet they failed to fight. They withdrew from the site. And that says to me, and I think to most of us, that we have an issue with the will of the Iraqis.", "So let's get the view from Baghdad. CNN's Arwa Damon is there. Hi, Arwa.", "Hi. And those comments are being viewed here largely as being an attempt by the U.S. to perhaps shirk any sort of responsibility it may have for the current failures of the Iraqi army, since it was, after all, America that trained the Iraqi military. And America that trained and declared the Iraqi Security Forces combat ready before they withdrew. We did hear from Iraq's prime minister, an interview to the BBC, reacting to those comments. Here's Haider al-Abadi had to say.", "I'm surprised why he said that. I mean, he was very supportive of Iraq. I'm sure he was fed with the wrong information.", "And we have also heard from Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force. He himself has been quite active in the battlefield in Iraq, especially when it came to the battle for Tikrit. He said that it was the U.S. that has no will to fight ISIS, and is, quote, \"doing nothing.\" Going on to state today, nobody is confronting ISIS properly, except Iran. Even the countries that Iran is supporting saying that basically, Iran was confronting ISIS more than even Iraq itself. Interesting in all of this, Carol, was some of the reaction that we heard from Baghdad, residents were out in the street, they said that they were yes, concerned about ISIS advancing towards the capital but they felt that Baghdad would not fall. Why? They said not because they believe that the Iraqi Security Forces would defend the capital, but because they said Iran would not allow it to fall to", "All right, Arwa Damon reporting live from Baghdad this morning. One expert says defending ISIS after the fall of Ramadi is like a game of whack-a-mole and writes this, quote, \"The problem is that the coalition efforts and the Iraqi government's actions are canceling each other out. When the coalition makes military advances, the Iraqi government sabotages them by antagonizing the very people who are needed to help root out ISIS and that would be the Sunni population of Iraq.\" So let's bring in CNN military analyst, Lt. General Mark Hertling, to parse this out for us. Welcome, sir.", "Good morning. Carol.", "Good morning. So let's go back first to what Ash Carter said. Do Iraqi forces have the will to fight?", "I believe the soldiers certainly do. The challenge is with the government. I think all of these narratives that you're starting to hear, Carol, are talking about exactly that. There are too many factions within Iraq right now to include the supporting Iranian Shia forces to include the U.S. coalition forces with air power. The Iraqi government has to pull it all together and find ways for the parliament of Iraq to really fight this scourge as a single body as opposed to individual actions.", "Isn't that what the new Iraqi president was supposed to be doing?", "Well, yes, but he's got a tough row to hoe truthfully. I mean, he's got several years of distrust between Sunni, Kurds and Shia. He's got to build a government, first of all, and also I mean I hate to say this, but you still have prime -- the former prime minister Maliki within the parliament. So he is -- he is sabotaging in many cases as well as some of the other Shia lawmakers what's going on? You know, when you're talking about a consolidated Iraq, you need the Sunnis, you need the Kurds, and you need the Shias to fight together. And I think that's what we saw when we left there in 2010. It was beginning down that road. And unfortunately, the politicians created a divide truthfully.", "OK. So you say Iraqi leadership is needed. There are a few other ideas being tossed around here in the United States by various lawmakers. I'm going to run some of the ideas by you. This is from Congresswoman Tulsa Gabbard, she's a veteran, she's on the House Armed Services Committee. She says you have the solution, arm the Kurds. So why not do that?", "Well, because you're then going to see another civil war in the north. The Kurds have their -- truthfully have their own agenda. The Kurds are not going to go in to Anbar Province. They are not going to contribute to a unifying element of the entire Iraq because they have not been treated well by the central government, as well. So they have a requirement to defend along what they call their green line. And that's where I think unfortunately I disagree with Congresswoman Gabbard, she doesn't understand the situation in the north. That's where I lived for awhile. The Kurds have a very succinct agenda on their own as to develop an independent Kurdistan. They're not going to fight in other Anbar Province or in many areas of the north. But they will attempt to gain territory for the Kurdish regional government.", "OK, this idea from Congresswoman Kinsinger. Of course America is not losing and it's not winning, because America's not really engaged in this fight. So he's saying send his advisory American force to Iraq and they can work things out from there. Is he right?", "Well, I -- that's an interesting commentary, too. I, while I understand where the congressman is coming from, I also have problems with that as a military guy because there are a lot of people who are suggesting we put forces on the ground with Iraqi units. When you don't have the support for those forces, even though you might have 10,000 alleged special operators, which I'm not sure we have that many in the force truthfully, you're going to dissipate other actions throughout the world. First of all. But secondly you need legal protection for those forces. You also need support, administrative support for those forces. We at one time had over 25,000 advisers in Iraq in 2008, '09, '10. And they were building an Iraqi army. The problem is you can do that and you can potentially defeat ISIS, but then what? What happens next? Even though you kill all the ISIS fighters in there, is there going to be another element that will crop up if the government isn't good enough to take care of the people?", "Safe to say this is a complicated issue with no easy answers.", "Absolutely.", "All right. General Hertling, thanks so much for being with me. I appreciate it. As we head to break the national anthem at the World War II Memorial."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "PEREIRA", "NEWSROOM.\" CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "COSTELLO", "NEWSROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-330080", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-01-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/09/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Feinstein Defies GOP, Releases Fusion GPS Testimony", "utt": ["Breaking news on the congressional Russia investigation. The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has unexpectedly released the interview transcripts of co-founder of Fusion GPS. That is a private investigation firm behind a controversial dossier alleging ties between President Trump and Russians. Senator Dianne Feinstein decision to release Glen Simpson's testimony goes against the wishes of Republicans colleagues on the committee. Let's go to The Hill to our senior congressional correspondent, Manu Raju, who along with a team has been going through these 400 pages of testimony that we know Glen Simpson had wanted released. What are some of the headline so far?", "Well, the big headline out of this is what Glen Simpson said about Christopher Steele. Who of course, is that British agent who compiled this dossier during the 2016 campaign. Who had gone to Russia, investigated the president, then candidate Trump's connections to Russia. And what he said is that steel was so alarmed at what he found that he went on his own volition, went to brief the FBI about his findings. Because according to Glen Simpson, Steele thought that this candidate, candidate Trump could be susceptible to Russian blackmail. Now this is according to this rather lengthy testimony. Now, what Christopher Steele said during this testimony, during his interviews with the FBI, he said that there was an internal campaign source who essentially corroborated a lot of what Mr. Steele said. A lot of what he found about these Trump Russia connections. The one thing that we have now learned though, Brooke, is that point is not entirely accurate. A source who is close to Fusion GPS tells us that there was actually no internal campaign source who separately briefed the FBI about Trump Russia connections. In fact, what Mr. Steele appears to have been referring to, was an Australian ambassador who had passed along information to the FBI after having discussions about Russia and Trump potential connections with that Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos. Who, as we know, pleaded guilty late last year to lying to the FBI about these Russian contacts. Now, according to this testimony from Glen Simpson, he goes really into length to defend Christopher Steele. He said he was hired as expert to understand exactly what happened during candidate Trump's past. Why he took trips to Russia? Why he had connections with Russia? And that's how Steele came across what he believed was rather concerning information. Now, Brooke, Republicans are very, very angry about this, particularly the Republican chairman of the committee. Because they thought this was done behind closed doors, in private, as part of larger investigation. But Chuck Grassley, spokesman, released a statement saying they were confounded by the decision by Feinstein to release this information. Said it would undercut exactly what they are trying to do moving forward. Including trying to secure testimony from other witnesses like the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. And some Democrats, too are saying this just shows this is a bipartisan impasse this investigation. Chris Coons telling me earlier that Democrats saying, this shows that this could be that the two sides are not in agreement. And that's what the Democrats had to take it this rather extraordinarily step in releasing the transcript showing the concerns that Christopher Steele had about president's ties to Russia and why he decided to talk the FBI last year -- Brooke.", "400 pages. Worth keep going through it. We want to keep hearing the reporting we know Glen Simpson so badly wanted public. Manu Raju, thank you so much for that for now. Coming up next here on CNN the U.S. says it welcomes the second round of talks between North Korea and South Korea. This time focused on the military. But if nuclear weapons are off the table, what's to discuss?"], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "MANU RAJU CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-96738", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2005-8-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/09/lad.02.html", "summary": "Shuttle to Land at Edwards AFB", "utt": ["Speaking of the shuttle, yes, it's time to talk about the shuttle Discovery landing, and it will land, we promise. Let's head out to Kennedy Space Center and, Miles O'Brien, explain.", "Well, Carol, it's -- I guess the simple explanation is the weather is terrible here. That's the simple explanation. A lot of questions, though, from people as to all these decisions, why they pick certain landing points at certain times. Got a little animation here, which may or may not help explain a little bit of orbital mechanics. There won't be a quiz on this, don't worry, folks. Shuttle going around the globe, 56 degrees inclination to the equator. The Earth spins beneath it, OK. So it's at that angle. The Earth moves at about 1,000 miles every orbit. There's the Kennedy Space Center opportunities, because you see how the orbit goes. And then, as the morning goes on, suddenly White Sands, New Mexico is available. And then as the morning gets a little later, now we can make it to Edwards Air Force Base. That's why you see first Kennedy Space Center and then, as the morning progresses, we get into Edwards' opportunities. Let's talk about the opportunities here that are now history. The weather plane here, shuttle training aircraft it is called, was flown this morning by astronaut Kent Rominger. And he spent a lot of time. You can see the infrared shot. This would have, if we were luckier, this would have been a shot, this camera would have been used to document the shuttle's arrival. Instead, we got a Gulf Stream jet, modified to fly like a shuttle, flying all around. And what he saw was bad news, lots of embedded thunderstorms, rain showers, clouds offshore, and more importantly, ominously developing inland. There you see the pictures we captured this morning. When you're headed to a shuttle landing and you see that you think maybe that's not going to happen today. So where are we going, Edwards Air Force Base, long way from where I'm sitting, unfortunately, but it's hard to predict shuttle landings. The Edwards Air Force Base approach, let me take you through that right now. It comes down into the California's high desert. This is, you know, fighter pilot country here. And, as you can see, it's a long runway, about as long as the runway here. Off to the south and west, Runway 22. This will be the 50th landing of the space shuttle at Edwards Air Force Base. Astronaut Cady Coleman has never landed there, as far as I know. You came back here?", "I did, both times.", "And we talked a little bit a little while ago about whether the crew cares one way or another. They're just ready to come home. They want to see their family as soon as possible. Their families are here. So, ideally, here is a good place to be.", "It's true. But you know you've got to go where the weather is, and the weather looks great at Edwards. And it was a tough call here today.", "Yes, actually, probably today more of a black-and-white call than yesterday, right? Yesterday was a tougher call.", "Yesterday's second attempt was definitely a tough call.", "So, as far as the weather-making decision, the rules are black and white; but the situation is, because it's weather, very fluid, and you're predicting a couple of hours in advance. So, truly, if there is any sort of doubt, they really do err on the side conservatism on this -- Cady?", "They need to. And you know the problem is they need to predict the weather, what it will be like in, you know, an hour. And if it's something that is developing and moving, that's difficult to do.", "We should point out, and perhaps we take this for granted with viewers here and there, this is a glider. There's only one opportunity for landing. Why don't we elaborate on that just a little bit?", "Well, we actually sort of point our engines into the wind and do our deorbit burn halfway around the world. And even though we're going 17,500 miles an hour, we slow down by just a few hundred miles per hour, about 200 or 300, and then that is enough. That means we're going to land on the other side of the Earth. So once we do that burn, we are landing on the other side of the Earth somewhere. We prefer it to be on a nice runway with nice weather.", "Yes. A little after 8:00 a.m. Eastern, 8:12 to be precise, we will see a scene that looks not unlike this. This is one of the previous 49 Edwards Air Force Base arrivals. And I can almost guarantee you the sky will look like that, CAVU, ceiling and visibility unlimited. About 14 seconds before landing, that landing gear comes down. And knowing Eileen Collins, she will grease it, as they say. Cady Coleman can attest to that fact. She came back from space on an Eileen Collins piloted/commanded shuttle and didn't even know she was on the ground.", "It is true. When we went to go de-rotate the nose, I was almost out of my seat because I didn't think the main gear had touched the ground. She's great.", "All right.", "It will be a night landing today, as well. About 53 minutes before sunrise is my understanding?", "Good point. It'll be clear skied, but we won't be as confident of that because it will be a dark sky. Cady Coleman, thank you for keeping me honest, appreciate that. Carol, looks like I went to the wrong city. I don't think I have time -- I don't think I have time to get out to Edwards, so we're going to get Ted Rowlands there in a little bit. We'll check in with him and see how things look at Edwards.", "Well you can watch it and explain right from where you are. Thank you -- Miles.", "That's right.", "Now we want to go to a woman who knows firsthand what the shuttle astronauts are going through. Former NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space. She joins us now from Columbus, Ohio. Good morning once again.", "Hi -- Carol.", "So you have actually landed at Edwards Air Force Base?", "I have. And, in fact, it was aboard Discovery in 1990 coming home from deploying the Hubble Space Telescope.", "So what's it like?", "It's a great runway. It's a great place to land anytime. I might be slightly biased having grown up in southern California. But the runway, as Miles was pointing out, it's just as long as the runway at the Cape is, it's not quite as wide, but that's no real issue for Eileen with an expected normal landing. There's that huge lakebed complex right nearby, which of course will not be what they will use or need today. But from a crew onboard point of view, both Eileen and Jim are so familiar with both runways. They've flown hundreds of approaches in simulation practice to each one, so this will be fine with them. And they're probably taking bets and flipping coins for who buys the margaritas tonight.", "I bet they are. OK, so once they get all of their preparations done and they prepare to actually land, how long does it take to get way down from space to land on Earth?", "Well it literally does take one-half a revolution around the planet. And normally that would be about 45 minutes with an orbit just taking 90 minutes. But of course you're slowing down, so the total process is about an hour. So they'll start with a burn back over the western part of the Indian Ocean, start hitting the atmosphere way out in the still western Pacific, around the Tuamoto Islands (ph). And then begin picking up atmospheric affects at 400,000 feet and shifting the space shuttle from acting like a satellite to step-by-step acting like an airplane, until they line up and touch down on the runway.", "OK, I just have a few more questions about how it feels. Can you feel the shuttle moving really fast? And can you see anything as you're landing?", "Entry is a fascinating set of perceptions. You don't feel any sense of motion while you're weightless and zero gravity. But as you begin to feel the deceleration, the air and the drag slowing the outside of the vehicle, you're very precisely aware of your body beginning to be restrained by the seatbelts. You do feel some of the G-force as you do the roll reversals, especially later in the re-entry. You hear wind noise building up around you as you get thicker and thicker into the deep atmosphere just a minute or two before landing. And finally, when you rollout, you know one of the key signs is everything that's been dangling at the end of a tether starts now hanging at the end of a tether and acting like it's back on Earth. And you feel pretty heavy as you pick that pencil up.", "How fascinating. So once you hit the Earth's atmosphere, does the scenery like starkly change or is it gradual?", "It's fairly stark. The big roll reversals the shuttle does are not the kind of things you're used to in an airliner coming in for landing. We're talking 80 or 90 degrees to make sure that you slice down into the atmosphere. And the route, we roll back and forth from one angle to the other quite rapidly. So it's really sort of like flip-flopping back and forth five times. The horizon moves very, very quickly in front of your eyes. It's very, very dramatic. And of course in the midst of all of that and running through it is the great drama of atmospheric penetration itself, those eight minutes or so where it's like you're sitting inside a blast furnace that has wind streaming through it.", "That just sounds fascinating. So all of this will go down at 8:12 Eastern this morning, at least we hope so.", "Well we hope that's when the wheels touch the runway.", "I hope so, Kathy, I do. So you stick around for a while, and thanks for informing. That was fascinating stuff. Let's head back out to Kennedy Space Center and, Miles, because, boy, Ted Rowlands, he's quick.", "Thank you very much, Carol, appreciate that. Thank you, Carol. Are you there?", "I am here.", "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. There are all kinds of people talking to me, Carol. We've got a little party line going here. Are you talking to me now?", "I'm talking to you now, Miles, and I'm asking you about Ted Rowlands.", "Is it my turn?", "It is your turn.", "All right. It's always nice to hear from the Control Room, it's just sometimes it's not. Let's head over to Edwards, because we're in the wrong place to see a shuttle landing today. The good news is, you here at home, it will be transparent to you. You will see the shuttle regardless. We just won't have it right behind us. I'm sitting beside astronaut Cady Coleman. She's upset about that. Ted Rowlands, however, is the lucky guy today who will actually be there. Ted, set the scene for us there in the high desert of California.", "Well the weather is terrific, according to NASA, ideal weather conditions. There is a slight wind here, but it maxed out at seven knots, not going to be a problem at all. The skies are clear. The adrenaline level sure went up here in the media room and amongst NASA employees within the hour when it was determined that indeed the shuttle would be ending the mission here at Edwards. And of course it's been since 2002 since Endeavor landed here. But folks here are used to shuttle landings. As you mentioned earlier, 49 shuttle landings have taken place here at Edwards Air Force Base. And this used to be the preferred landing spot. So, that said, there's a lot of excitement here. The public will not be able to see anything. The public is not allowed on to the base here, and this base is massive. Plus, it is going to still be dark. It will be 5:12 local here. So the viewing opportunities are going to be minimal, despite the fact that the shuttle will be going over southern California. Had it been light, it would have been viewing -- there could be a lot of viewing. That will not be the case. That said, a lot of excitement here. And we are expecting that the astronauts will, in some form, speak to us. There's a news conference panel all set up. They expect that at least Eileen Collins will make some statements when she's inspecting the craft after the landing. And then about six hours after they touch down, a full news conference is expected here at Edwards.", "Well it sounds like, Ted, you've got a long day at Edwards. We should point out to our viewers, of course it's kind of early there right now, but southern California is going to get quite a show. Let's show you the animation, which shows you the flight track as Discovery will come in across the southern California area part of the world. Let's see if we can zoom in and show you that animation. We can give you the flight path. And there you go. That's a little late in the game, but what you can see is before that part of it what was there, if we could have rolled that back I could have showed you. What I'm trying to tell you is, if I could get my little graphics to come along with me, is if you're in southern California this morning, go outside a little bit before 5:00 a.m. local time and look up. And there's a very good chance you're going to see this streaking meteor go overhead. You might hear a couple of sonic booms. They usually come in pairs, ba-boom. And don't call the police, it's OK, it's the space shuttle coming home. It'll be quite a sight. Ted Rowlands, by the time it gets to you, it'll be subsonic, so you won't get -- you'll still hear sonic booms in the distance. But the beauty, of course, of the technology is that we'll be able to see the shuttle with an infrared camera as it comes down there at Edwards Air Force Base. What time -- the sun comes up, what, about an hour or so after it lands?", "Yes, so it's going to be difficult to see it. In fact, there's an opportunity to go out onto the -- to the viewing area, but the NASA folks say because it is going to be a landing in the evening hours, or early morning hours, it's going to be dark out. Literally you're going to see the landing gear hit and it's going to zoom by. So it's going to be very difficult to see. But, as you mentioned, there will be full coverage with NASA TV and the infrared cameras. As for people, the general public, the flight path originally is to come above about Santa Monica and through the L.A. area. So a lot of folks will have an opportunity, if they do go outside, possibly you'll see some lights. But I think it's going to be pretty quick and they may not be able to appreciate it, but they should hear something, the sonic booms.", "Yes, they will be moving rather smartly, even as they pass over Los Angeles in the wee hours this morning. Ted Rowlands has got the front row seat. We're on the other coast this morning. I'm with Cady Coleman. She's landed in the shuttle a couple of times here but never at Edwards. Let's point out one thing, everybody, of course, two-and-a-half years ago, we saw the loss of Columbia, wreckage falling down on Texas. There was a lot of extra effort taken to ensure that the flight path did not go over populated areas. We're going right over Los Angeles this morning, but at a very different phase of the flight. Why don't you point that out so that people understand the relative risks?", "Well the peak heating is actually about six-and-a-half or seven minutes after entry interface, that's 40 minutes before landing. You know, over L.A., that's just a couple of minutes before landing. And so, you know, basically, it's a pretty safe place to be.", "Yes, I mean if you think about where the shuttle was when it broke up in Texas versus Florida, that is the critical moment. Here we go with that animation. Now we can show you as the shuttle comes in across the Pacific, right about there is about the peak heating. Then down in right over Los Angeles. People there will wake up in it. Or it should be something, because the shuttle will probably be illuminated by the sun at its altitude, so you'll see a wonderful show there. And then down to the high desert there of California where shuttles have landed 49 times before onto that long landing strip, about three miles long there, Runway 22, which is a southwesterly direction is what we're going to see at 8:12, assuming all goes well for the shuttle re-entry. So we are watching this very closely, Cady and I, watching it from afar. Ted Rowlands up close and personal. And either way, you'll get a wonderful view right here on CNN live as the shuttle comes home after two weeks on this \"Return to Flight\" mission -- Carol.", "All right, Miles and Cady, thank you so much. We're going to take a short break. We'll be back with much more. 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{"id": "CNN-144389", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-10-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/26/cnr.05.html", "summary": "GAO Finds No Follow-Up on Some Fast-Tracked Drugs", "utt": ["Well, you trust them to protect your health, but is the FDA failing you? A new government study now showing that the FDA did not pull certain drugs, touted to fight cancer, HIV and others diseases, off the market, even after they didn't live up to their claims. Among those drugs investigated: ProAmatine for treating low blood pressure. Also, Iressa, to shrink lung cancer tumors. Marcia Crosse put out the report. She's the director of health care for the Government Accountability Office in Washington, D.C. And Marcia Crosse, let me just play devil's advocate for a second. Let's say -- actually, when I first read about this, read about the report, I was outraged, thinking, oh, my God, if I had one of these life-threatening diseases or illnesses and I was taking a drug that apparently there was no follow-up on and I could be taking it for nothing, that really upset me. But at the same time, you know, I tried to put myself in the shoes of, say, an HIV patient, and say this drug had a 1 percent chance of saving my life, and there wasn't a follow-up report, heck, I'd be -- you know, it would be worth taking the gamble for me.", "Well, I think the concern we have is there are a small number of drugs that FDA either has waited a very long time to get the evidence of effectiveness or has obtained evidence that's shown that the drug isn't effective, and yet has not followed up with the kind of actions that their own regulations say they would take. So, the vast majority of the drugs that have gone through this process for accelerated approval to get on to the market more quickly to treat serious or life-threatening conditions, those manufacturers have gone on to conduct the studies. We did have concerns that FDA wasn't tracking what was happening with those studies. But the biggest concern we had was when there was a lack of evidence or negative evidence and FDA didn't act.", "So, did the FDA fail us? Should there have been more enforcement, more follow-up on the studies of these drugs in the accelerated program?", "Well, we certainly think there should have been more follow-up. FDA itself wasn't aware of the status of many of the studies that it had required as a condition of approval of these drugs. They have been taking steps to clean up their process for tracking the study status, and so they have better information right now about where those studies stand, but we did find some instances where the manufacturers had failed to conduct the studies and FDA hadn't done anything about it.", "Now see, here comes the outrage part. OK, let's say I am an HIV patient, and I've been taking this drug, but the FDA, I feel like the FDA failed me, and there was no follow-up, and I'm taking a drug that really has done nothing for me. Did I miss out possibly on a drug that could have saved my life?", "Well, we don't have any evidence of that, and we weren't looking at individual patients. HIV patients were not patients for the particular drugs we saw that were of concern.", "What about lung cancer? What about diabetes? What about cardiovascular disease, all the other things that were listed in your report?", "We have concerns about how well FDA was overseeing those follow-up studies to know the status, particularly the non-small cell lung cancer patients, which is a small group of lung cancer patients. Those patients had been receiving this particular drug Iressa that when the follow-up studies were conducted, they were shown -- the drug was shown not to be effective in extending patients' survival. And there are now other treatments available. But FDA did take some action. They limited the drug so that no new patients could be given that drug, but they did allow doctors to continue prescribing that drug for patients who had already been put on that medication.", "OK, so let's take Iressa for example. And by the way, the FDA says that millions of patients with serious or life- threatening illnesses have had earlier access to new, safe and effective treatments, thanks to this program, so of course, the FDA is standing by this program right now of the accelerated drugs. But let's take Iressa, since you brought it up, as an example, that's supposed to shrink lung cancer tumors. Finding out what you did, and you found out that really it wasn't doing what it was supposed to do. Should drugs like that be taken off the market?", "Well, I think FDA needs to clarify when they will take a drug off the market. If that drug had come in under the traditional approval process, not under this accelerated process, the kind of evidence that they later obtained would have been such that the drug would not have been approved to go onto the market in the first place. We are not taking issue with the idea of the accelerated approval process. There certainly is substantial reason for FDA to allow certain drugs, as I said, to treat serious and life-threatening conditions like HIV or cancer to get onto the market quicker, and they do require that the manufacturers conduct these post-market studies, though, to follow up, to obtain the same kind of evidence that they otherwise would have had to obtain to go through the traditional approval process. Our concern is that they weren't tracking the status of what was happening with those required follow-up studies, and that when the follow-up studies weren't being completed or were showing negative information, FDA wasn't doing anything about it. That's where we have a concern.", "Understandably. And we depend on the FDA to be in touch with that kind of information because it's an issue of life or death. Marcia Crosse, interesting report. Sure appreciate your time.", "Thank you.", "So, as a consumer, how can you tell if there is a problem with the medicine that you are taking? Our senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen here with some help. I think that was one of the things we wanted to know, Elizabeth. Let's say we're told that a certain drug is good for us. Is there any way to track it and see what its success rate has been or if there has been follow-up to the drug?", "Well, I'll tell you, Kyra, after hearing the segment that you just did, I bet people are wondering, how do I know? Maybe I'm taking one of those drugs that the FDA approved quickly and then didn't follow up to make sure that it really worked and was safe. So, we've given you a link on the NEWSROOM blog for how to find the GAO report. You can look your drug up here and see if it's in this group that you were just discussing. Now, the issue, though, is that it's not just these fast-track drugs that are a potential problem here. So, there are other drugs, too. So, the FDA Web site has an alphabetical list of drugs. You can look it up very easily, and they'll tell you about side effects. Anything with a red star -- you can see one there, see one there -- means that there's been some kind of a safety alert. And as you can see, there's quite a few red stars. Another way, Kyra, to try to figure this out is on the FDA Web site. There's something called MedWatch. And MedWatch is a tracking system for problems with drugs. And you can type the name of your drug in and see if it's there. Now, Kyra, I know I've just given you three different Web sites. Obviously, no one's going to remember exactly where all of these are. If you go to the NEWSROOM blog, you can see links to all these sites.", "There we go. That's easy enough, NEWSROOM blog. Elizabeth Cohen, sure appreciate it.", "Thanks.", "And are any of the medicines that you're taking on the GAO's report? Well, you can find out about that also. Just go to my Web page, CNN.com/kyra. We've actually got a link to the full list and the full report. You can check it out for yourself. From culture clash to car crash? A young woman's in the hospital, and her father is nowhere to be found, a week after he allegedly took the wheel and ran her down."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "MARCIA CROSSE, DIRECTOR, HEALTH CARE, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE", "PHILLIPS", "CROSSE", "PHILLIPS", "CROSSE", "PHILLIPS", "CROSSE", "PHILLIPS", "CROSSE", "PHILLIPS", "CROSSE", "PHILLIPS", "COHEN", "PHILLIPS", "COHEN", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-53493", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-5-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/01/lt.09.html", "summary": "Police in Miami-Dade County, Florida Looking For 5-Year Old Rilya Wilson", "utt": ["Police in Miami-Dade County, Florida are looking for 5-year old Rilya Wilson today. She disappeared from state care more than a year ago. But Florida Department of Children Services did not seem to notice, until last Thursday. Our national correspondent Susan Candiotti is in Miami this morning. She has the troubling story of a little girl lost in, or by, the system. Susan, it doesn't appear to be clear at this point exactly what happened to Rilya.", "That's for sure. That's what a lot of people would like to know right now, Daryn. Florida's historically troubled child welfare agency admits it failed and failed miserably in this matter, involving the case of a little girl who had been put in the state's care. Her name is 5-year-old Rilya Wilson. The state put her in grandmother's care in late 1999, authorities say, because the child's mother had a drug problem. Well, in January of 2001, the grandmother claims she turned over the little girl to a social worker who showed up at her doorstep, and said the little girl need to be evaluated, and then about a week later, the same worker showed up and asked for the child's clothes. But the grandmother said she kept calling the state about the little girl but got no answers. Fast forward 15 months to last week and now this happens: State welfare workers called the grandmother to make an appointment to see the little girl, and that's when they discovered that they had no idea where the child was. The state of Florida was supposed to be checking in on the little girl once a month. Clearly, it did not, and it says has no contact of any record with the child since January 2001. The case worker who is involved was forced to resign after it appeared she had falsified documents in another case. The state admits they have a major foul-up on their hands.", "Do you fear the worst has happened to her?", "Yes, I do. I fear the worst.", "And the responsibility, and whose lack does this fall?", "The responsibility for the failure to keep up on a monthly basis with this child falls squarely on the Department of Children and Families, there's no question about that. We don't know and, perhaps tragically, we'll never know, who came and picked up the child.", "And now, Daryn, we have this development, police in Kansas City, Missouri are now comparing a fingerprint of the missing Miami child to an unsolved case in Missouri, involving a little girls they called \"precious doe.\" In early 2001, the body of a murdered unidentified little girl there, about the same age and weight of the Miami youngster are discovered. Authorities are trying to see whether they have a match. Police in Miami are playing down the possibility, but authorities of course in both states are very anxious to solve both cases, hoping someone will come forward and say they recognize little Rilya Wilson. But it's unclear where the case is headed from here. They hope to have word from Missouri later today if they are lucky to see whether there's match between the case there and Rilya Wilson.", "So many questions on this case, Susan. I mean, if it does end up being a match of Precious Doe and Rilya Wilson, the big question, how did this child make it to Kansas City, Missouri? What happened to her? But the big, big question, how could a little child just get lost in the system and nobody knows where she is and where she's been.", "The state of Florida is very, very embarrassed about what happened here. Clearly, there were massive errors made, without checking on the child every month that they were supposed to be, without the supervisor in the case keeping track of the matter, according to the state. Authorities do say that at this point they do not suspect the grandmother in this case of being involved in this in any way. They say that she is fully cooperating. She, for example, is looking at photographs of employees of the state welfare department to see if she recognizes anybody. But so far they have no match. They're trying to track down the mother, the father, everything they can possibly think of in trying to find the little girl.", "So many questions. Susan Candiotti in Miami, thank you so much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Old Rilya Wilson>"], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CANDIOTTI", "CHARLES AUSLANDER, DISTRICT DIRECTOR, CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES", "CANDIOTTI", "AUSLANDER", "CANDIOTTI", "KAGAN", "CANDIOTTI", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-20097", "program": "", "date": "2000-11-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/17/aotc.06.html", "summary": "Courtis: Clinton Vietnam Trip to Be Remembered 'A Long Time'; Japan's Economic Problems 'Very Particular to Japan'", "utt": ["President Clinton is winding up his final trip to Asia as the leader of this country. He is in Vietnam. However, he just finished attending the APEC summit in Brunei. and we're here to talk a little bit about the Asian region.", "It's been a busy time in the Asian region. Kenneth Courtis from Goldman Sachs Asia is here with us this morning. As far as Vietnam is concerned, anything of substance coming from that region out of the president, or is this mostly just sort of a PR move here?", "I think it's important. It's the 25th anniversary of the end of the war, so he addressed the past and therefore the reconciliation. And then he talked about the future and I think Vietnam in that sense is really fascinating. You know, when the war ended, they were 40 million people. Today they are about 80 million. In 20 years, they'll be the size of Japan, about 120 million. But 80, 85 percent of people in that country are under 35. So in addressing the future, he's addressing those people who don't know the war. And he's talked about openness, about free trade. They just signed a trade agreement to broaden trade, investment. And this is a country, of course, that's proud: It's beat the Chinese, it's beat the French, it's beat the Japanese and it held America to a standoff. So it's a very interesting dynamic. And I think if you think of Bill Clinton's life, it's also a very interesting dynamic. So I think we'll think a lot about this speech and remember it for a long time, and this visit.", "From an economic standpoint, what's the motivation for going?", "Well, its to bring Vietnam finally back online, to complete this eight-year project, in effect, that Clinton's had. Vietnam is basically where China was in the 1980s in terms of economic reform and development. But because they've got such a dynamic and young population, if they can really embrace reform and open, this country could really do well; actually, over time, become a dynamo in Southeast Asia.", "You just are back from Brunei where the APEC summit was taking place.", "Right.", "What did you hear there of interest?", "Well, I think the really important thing this year is that they finally got together and started to focus on trade again. The last three years, it was the crisis, the political crisis in East Timor that preoccupied everyone. The year before that, it was the financial crisis. And now they're back to what APEC was all about. It was creating a free-trade region around the Pacific, and we still have those targets of 2010, 2020 for free trade throughout all of the Asia Pacific. Next year, the meeting is in China and I guess that will be the real test. It will be the first Asian trip of whoever the new U.S. president is. But I think we're starting now to get APEC back on the rails after really going off track.", "Got to ask about the region's biggest economy, Japan. There were some comments this morning from the country's top economic planner to the effect that he believes a downturn took place in the July-September quarter after the economy grew for six months. If Japan couldn't pull its way out of recession with the world booming, what's going to happen as the world economies slow down?", "Japan's problems are very, very particular to Japan. It's carrying a Himalaya of debt, the debt's probably four and a half to five times GNP, if you take the government debt and the private sector debt. And it's being held up by incredible government spending. Debbie, in the last two years, Japan has spent, to hold its economy up, about the equivalent of the GNP of France.", "Wow.", "I mean, it's amazing. So if that government spending slows, then the economy is going to roll over. The other thing that's holding it up a little bit has been the international economy. And the world economy is now slowing and there's no real end in sight to the slowdown that started the international economy. So the exports of cars and semiconductors and electronic-related equipment is all starting to roll over now, and that's really, really starting to squeeze Japan.", "But while the problems might be inherent to Japan, they certainly will affect the region if the economy doesn't manage to pull out of its problems itself. So what impact do you see it having on the surrounding region?", "That's right, because about 20, 25 percent of the exports, depending on the country, the rest of Asia, come to Japan. And if Japan rolls over again, of course those exports are going to be in trouble. It's difficult, really, to think of the rest of Asia finding itself in very healthy dynamic economic conditions without Japan being stabilized. And the rest of Asia, of course, still has many problems to fix from the crisis of '97, '98. And as the world economy slows and the terms of trade move against Asia, a lot of those problems, especially the debt problems, are coming back to the surface, as we can see in Korea and Taiwan and elsewhere.", "That's one we'll be hearing more about. Ken Courtis, Goldman Sachs Asia vice chairman, thank you so much for being with us this morning.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "KENNETH COURTIS, GOLDMAN SACHS ASIA", "MARCHINI", "COURTIS", "HAFFENREFFER", "COURTIS", "HAFFENREFFER", "COURTIS", "MARCHINI", "COURTIS", "MARCHINI", "COURTIS", "HAFFENREFFER", "COURTIS", "MARCHINI", "COURTIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-118583", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2007-7-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/26/acd.02.html", "summary": "Deadly Home Invasion: Family Terror", "utt": ["We learned tonight that the two men accused of killing a mother and her two daughters in a home invasion in Connecticut -- in Connecticut will be charged with capital murder. Now, if convicted, they could face the death penalty. The defendants are career criminals, arrested dozens of times both in and out of prison. And, tonight, we have new details about their lives, their pasts, and how their paths crossed. CNN's Randi Kaye investigates.", "If Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky did attack the Petit family, this is where they may have hatched their plan, Silliman halfway house in Hartford, Connecticut, where they lived for four months. (on camera): Hayes and Komisarjevsky were roommates here, until last November, when the company that runs the halfway house says Hayes tested positive for cocaine. He was immediately sent back to prison. Komisarjevsky stayed on and completed the program, until he was paroled in March. (voice-over): Hayes got out of prison two months ago, and they hooked up again. Bob Pidgeon heads the company that runs Silliman and the residential drug treatment center where the two suspects first met. (on camera): Was there any sign that this might have been coming?", "You always second- guess yourself when something like this happens. What did we miss? Did they do something that would have indicated that somebody could have predicted this? And we went -- we went through the files. We talked to the staff. There was just nothing.", "Pidgeon says the two men worked full-time, but had plenty of free time to hang out together. (on camera): What have you been able to learn from your staff about them? What were they like?", "They were routine residents, that there wasn't anything particularly noteworthy about them. There was no talk of violence in the house and there were certainly no violent actions taken by either of them while they were in the house.", "Yet, both have long criminal histories. Hayes has been in and out of prison for two decades. His rap sheet includes 27 arrests, including illegal possession of a firearm, burglary, and forgery. Komisarjevsky's past is just as ugly, 20 arrests for burglary and larceny. And that doesn't even include juvenile crimes. Police say he started robbing homes when he was just 14 and sometimes used night- vision goggles. One sentencing judge called him a cold, calculating predator. Hayes grew up in Winsted, Connecticut, about 40 miles from the Petits' home, where Jennifer Hawke-Petit and the couple's two daughters were murdered -- Mrs. Petit strangled, the girls left to die in the fire set by their attackers. Komisarjevsky grew up here, less than two miles from the victims' home. A source close to the Komisarjevsky family says he was adopted as an infant. His grandfather was a leading Russian theatrical director and the son of a princess; his grandmother, a well-known modern dancer. That same source says his parents, born-again Christians, had trouble controlling him. He was home schooled, along with his sister. In recent months, he's been in a custody fight with an ex- girlfriend over their 5-year-old daughter. We tried to talk to Komisarjevsky's parents, but nobody answered the door. His uncle, Chris Komisarjevsky, released this statement: \"The crime and the murder of members of the Petit family in Cheshire are horrible. It was a monstrous, deranged act, beyond comprehension. We cannot and will not condone anything the accused have done. Justice needs to take place.\"", "Randi joins us live now from Cheshire, Connecticut. Randi, you have learned some new information about what the suspects may have been doing within hours of the attack of the Petit home. What -- what have you learned?", "That's right, Anderson. We have learned that police are investigating -- at least, there are reports tonight that police are investigating these two men in two other burglaries in the same neighborhood, Anderson, within just 24 hours of the attack on the Petit family. We're also learning that those families, too, were at home asleep with their young children. In one case, we're -- we're being told that the -- a carving knife was left on a table. In another case, a picture of the family was taken -- one of those families reportedly saying tonight that we were just one family away from being the family. Police are not commenting on this -- Anderson.", "Unbelievable. Randi Kaye, thanks for that. Up next, in \"Raw Politics,\" the presidential race meets \"The Simpsons.\" Trust us, you will -- you will want to see this. Also ahead, one of the NFL's biggest stars has his day in court. Michael Vick faces a judge, a lot of boos from the crowd, and dog fighting charges. And the bizarre story and dramatic video behind this police chase and fiery crash, ahead on 360."], "speaker": ["COOPER (on camera)", "RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BOB PIDGEON, CEO, COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC.", "KAYE (voice-over)", "PIDGEON", "KAYE (voice-over)", "COOPER", "KAYE (on camera)", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-385644", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2019-11-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1911/14/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview With Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley; Bill Clinton's Message To Trump, You Got Hired To Do A Job; At Least Two Dead In California School Shooting; Budget Official Expected to Testify in Impeachment Probe.", "utt": ["Verdict watch. Roger Stone's case is now in the hands of jurors, who will decide whether the longtime Trump ally lied to Congress and tampered with witnesses. And deadly school shooting. Shots ring out in a Southern California high school, leaving at least two people dead and three wounded -- tonight, new details on the student gunman. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Let's get straight to Capitol Hill right now. Our congressional correspondent, Phil Mattingly, is on the scene for us. Phil, Republicans have argued that everything revealed so far is simply hearsay. How significant will tomorrow's impeachment proceedings be for Democrats to cut into that argument?", "Wolf, it could be enormously significant. It will be a day of split-screen significance. The first will take place in public, the second impeachment inquiry hearing, featuring Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine, someone who was pushed out, removed from her position by President Trump with what other officials who have testified called a smear campaign, a smear campaign they say was led by the president's outside attorney, Rudy Giuliani. Now, Democrats working on the impeachment inquiry say that this will represent the first chapter, laying out kind of how this all happened on the U.S.-Ukraine policy and how, to some degree, they believe it went rogue throughout this process. That's one element of this. The second and perhaps most important element of this is what will be happening behind closed doors. That's where the closed-door deposition of David Holmes, the U.S. political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, will be sitting in front of lawmakers for the first time for a closed-door deposition. Why David Holmes matters is this. He was the unnamed official mentioned by Ambassador William Taylor on Wednesday and that bombshell in his testimony that no one was aware was coming, that he overheard a conversation between U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland and President Trump where -- quote, unquote -- \"investigations\" were specifically brought up. He then asked Sondland what Trump thought of Ukraine. And Sondland responded: \"He cares more about the Bidens than Ukraine.\" This will be lawmakers' first opportunity to speak today to David Holmes. And this will certainly be an important closed-door event -- Wolf.", "Today, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, she went further in her accusations against the president. What does that signal, Phil?", "Yes, Nancy Pelosi today, the speaker, laying out the full scope of scope and scale of the investigation, what she believes they found, but also one very important word. Take a listen.", "What President Trump has done on the record, in terms of acting to advantage his -- a foreign power to help him in his own election and the obstruction of information about that, the cover-up, makes what Nixon did look almost small, almost small. The president has admitted to and says it's perfect. I said it's perfectly wrong. It's bribery.", "Now, Wolf, it's that last word, \"It is bribery,\" that has significance, potentially legal significance. Bribery is one of two specific offenses listed in the Constitution as impeachable conduct. That is an increase, a raise in the rhetoric from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying, according to her, he has reached the threshold of one of those impeachable offenses, something that could factor into an article of impeachment. Now, Pelosi has made clear no decisions have been made. They're still in the inquiry process. But there's no question about it, Wolf. When you talk to Democrats, they fully expect articles of impeachment are coming when the hearings are done, and there will likely be a vote to impeach President Trump Perhaps bribery, at least according to what Pelosi said today, will be one of those articles -- Wolf.", "CNN's Phil Mattingly, thanks very much. And joining us now, the former ambassador to the United Nations, the author of a brand-new book entitled \"With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace,\" the ambassador, Nikki Haley. Ambassador, thanks very much coming in.", "Thanks, Wolf. It's great to be with you again.", "I could call you governor. I could call you ambassador.", "Just Nikki.", "I will call you ambassador. All right, let's start with the news of the day. We have got a lot to discuss. We will get to the book shortly. I want to play a key moment from yesterday's testimony, open-door impeachment hearing testimony, this from Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine.", "In the presence of my staff at a restaurant, Ambassador Sondland called President Trump and told him of his meetings in Kiev. The member of my staff could hear President Trump on the phone asking Ambassador Sondland about the investigations. Ambassador Sondland told President Trump the Ukrainians were ready to move forward. Following the call with President Trump, the member of my staff asked Ambassador Sondland what President Trump thought about Ukraine. Ambassador Sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for.", "All right, so, if this is true -- and we're going to hear more testimony in the coming days -- if it's true, the president was directly involved in following up in his phone calls with the Ukrainian leadership. They wanted -- the president wanted a formal investigation of his political rivals in exchange for the release of U.S. security assistance to Ukraine. Are you comfortable with that?", "Well, I -- the first is, I'm looking for something new, Wolf, because, if you look at the situation, there isn't anything new that wasn't in the transcript. The president wanted to know about the investigations. That was in the transcript. What you have here and from the testimony yesterday, it's perception on one side and hearsay on the other. I think we have to stick with the facts. And the facts are, was he interested in an investigation? Yes. Did he stop the aid? No. Did the Ukrainians go through with an investigation? No. So it's really hard to find where this rises to the level of impeachment.", "But he did stop the aid from going. That was U.S. military assistance to Ukraine that was appropriated and authorized by the House and the Senate, signed into law by the president, and he withheld it. He had the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, simply inform the State Department and others, it's not going. They never even provided an explanation for it.", "I mean, the money flowed.", "Eventually, but only after the whistle-blower's report came out, and there were a lot of Republicans in the Senate and in the House calling the White House, complaining about what was going on. And, as a result, the president decided to let the aid go.", "But we don't know what the whistle-blower's role in that was. The senators were calling for the aid to be released to Ukraine. He released the aid. That's what we wanted. At the end of the day, it was the right thing to do to release the aid. So it's -- it's hard for me to impeach a president. It is the highest level of punishment that you can possibly do. When an investigation didn't happen and the aid flowed, I just don't see how that rises to the worst possible crime --", "Do you agree with the president that the whistle-blower should be named and identified?", "I mean, I believe in whistle-blower laws. I think you have to protect a whistle-blower. And then I think, in turn, the whistle-blower has to abide by those laws and the fact that they don't allow any sort of partisan leaking or anything like that to have happened. We don't know that that's happened either. But, until then, I do think we should always protect whistle-blowers.", "So, on this -- on this issue, you disagree with the president?", "Oh, you can call it disagreeing. I think whistle-blowers should be protected, as long as they are in --", "Because he wants -- he wants the whistle-blower to be named.", "I understand, yes.", "But you -- in this area, you believe in the law, which is to protect the whistle-blower -- whistle-blowers.", "I do believe in the law, yes.", "Let's talk a little bit about the allegation. And we're going to hear from Ambassador Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, next Wednesday in open televised sessions. He revised his original statement. He now agrees with the others that, yes, the president was pressuring the Ukrainian president, Zelensky, for political help, in effect, in dealing with the Bidens. This is -- this is important, because if, in fact, the president was soliciting foreign assistance, soliciting a foreign national to help in a U.S. political campaign, that's against the law.", "I don't think it's ever good practice for us to ask a foreign entity to investigate an American. I have said that multiple times. I don't think that's good practice.", "Was that what the president was doing?", "At the end of the day, it didn't happen. So, I think that a lot of people say that the president was doing this with Ukraine. I can tell you that Ukraine -- the Ukrainian ambassador was my number one ally on the Security Council. I mean, the president was very adamant about making sure Ukraine had everything they needed. That's why they got the anti-tank missiles. That's why they got the military training. That's why he kept the sanctions on Russia and expelled diplomats and has increased our military and our energy component. So, I think, to look at the history, I can tell you, at least from my standpoint, he was always very adamant to help Ukraine. And I think he always has. I think what you saw were two presidents having a conversation. The president said that he would like to have an investigation. It didn't happen. The money flowed.", "But, for a few months, he suspended that aid. He didn't let it go through.", "It was like less than two months that was held. I mean, those things can happen. But, for some reason -- and we don't know whether it was senators, whether he decided to do it -- but he didn't demand an investigation.", "If Ambassador Sondland --", "That's the point, is, he didn't threaten or demand an investigation.", "If Ambassador Sondland says next Wednesday, before the television cameras, what he said in his revised addendum, in his statement, that this was done to force the Ukrainians into engaging in a political investigation on behalf of the president for political purposes, what would you say?", "Show me the proof, because I don't see anywhere where the president heavy-handed the president of Ukraine and said, you have to do this, or else", "Well, he did --", "And that's what everybody's going to come back and say. I mean, honestly, that's the nature of the defense here, is, look, I know that you all want there to be something wrong, but, at the end of the day, there's nothing that shows he threatened or he held their hand, saying, we're not going to release until you do this. And that's -- that's the issue. And that's -- obviously, that's the problem in Congress and why they can't come to a resolution on this.", "I don't want to -- I just want to point out that, when you say \"you all,\" we just want to report the news. We just want to report the facts.", "Appreciate that.", "We want to see where this leads.", "I appreciate that.", "We don't have a political position here in THE SITUATION ROOM. If the president did absolutely nothing wrong, if the phone conversation was perfect, couldn't have been better, as the president says, why not let, for example, the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, or the former national security adviser, John Bolton, come before the American people and tell us what happened?", "You know, I mean, I think that -- look, I was governor. And I know the political games back and forth. I think, if the president thought there was a genuine investigation, he would have no problem with them testifying. I think he feels like this truly is a witch-hunt. And so he has back up. And he thinks that this is all a way to you all -- for you all to trick everybody into saying something. I just know how he thinks. And so, from that standpoint, he's going to have his guard up. He's going to have his back up and think that you're trying to pull his people in, so that you can interrogate them, humiliate them, or do something else.", "But why would they be tricked, if they just have to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Why would they be tricked?", "I know, but you have to look at the fact we have got an impeachment going on, when there's less than a year for an election. I mean, it screams politics. It screams all kinds of political gamesmanship. That's just the reality of it. And I think that you have to look at the situation that he's going to say, why would I send them there when I see what they're trying to do for political gain?", "But the House of Representatives has that constitutional authority. If they want to launch an impeachment inquiry, they can do that.", "And they are.", "They certainly can. All right, let's talk a little bit about the book, \"With All Due Respect.\"", "Yes.", "The subtitle, \"Defending America with Grit and Grace.\" You write in the book about your role as the United States ambassador to the United Nations. Was it appropriate, based on everything you experienced in the world of diplomacy, for Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, someone who had no security clearances, to be engaged in what is being described as this shadow diplomacy, this U.S.-Ukrainian shadow diplomacy? Was that appropriate?", "I have -- during my time at the United Nations, I never saw Rudy engaged in that way. It is best practice if you have a special envoy to handle certain areas. And we do that all the time. These are part-time people that come in, and they just give them the title of being the special envoy. They probably should have done that, so that there wasn't any confusion.", "Yes, but, based on everything we know right now, was it appropriate for months and months for Rudy Giuliani to be so deeply involved in this Ukrainian policy, with a purpose, specific purposes -- and he makes it clear -- to get dirt on the Bidens?", "I think it could have been handled better.", "What does that mean?", "I mean, I think they should have named him the special envoy, so that everyone within the administration knew what his role was.", "Tomorrow, we're going to be hearing -- we're going to be hearing from Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. -- former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. First of all, did you -- did you know her? Did you ever work with her?", "I don't think I was ever in any meetings with her, no.", "Was it fair for the ambassador, a career diplomat, more than 30 years, highly respected, to be pushed out by a long campaign targeting her, that campaign led by Rudy Giuliani?", "Well, I will tell you, I worked with multiple Foreign Service officers. And we had fantastic ones. They are patriots. They go out there regardless of who the president is, and they do fight the good fight. And I was always grateful for them. And I know many other people have appreciated their expertise as well. So, I want to make sure that we say that about our Foreign Service officers. We did, however, encounter at times at the U.N. Foreign Service officers who had a political bias. And that became a problem in them stalling or trying to get something else done. I'm not saying that about this ambassador. What I will tell you about this is, every ambassador serves at the privilege of the president. And so, if the president did not want her to stay, he had that right to do it. We don't necessarily know exactly why he didn't want her to stay, but, I mean, every ambassador knows they can be pulled at any given time.", "Well, was it -- were you comfortable when you read the rough transcript of the president's July 25 phone conversation with President Zelensky, the way he spoke, the way the president spoke about her?", "I mean, that's how he speaks. You know, it's not my style. It's not the way I speak, but that is how he speaks.", "Let me play the -- we all saw your interview with -- on NBC, \"The Today Show,\" with Savannah Guthrie. And this exchange jumped out at me. Listen to this.", "Did you ever have any doubt about the fitness of this president to serve?", "I never did.", "Any doubt about his mental acuity?", "I never did.", "Any question about his truthfulness, his ability to tell the truth?", "Savannah, I talked to him multiple times. And when I had issues, he always heard me out. I never had any concern on whether he could handle the job ever.", "What about his truthfulness? Did you think he was a truthful person?", "Yes. In every instance that I dealt with him, he was truthful, he listened, and he was great to work with.", "All right now, according to CNN's count, the president has made about 1,200 false claims since this past July. He makes false claims even about things that don't even look good for him, like saying he won in Alabama, for example, by 42 points, when he actually won by a very solid 28 points. Obviously, 28 points is great, but he said 42 points. It looks very good for him. Can you really say that he's been truthful to the American people?", "My comment to Savannah was, in every instance that I dealt with him and every situation in which I worked with him over those two years, he was always truthful in all of those situations. And I stand by that.", "Well, what about to the American people?", "You know, I think that he is -- I know, from being a public official and being around lots of elected officials, you can slip up and -- at times and get things wrong, and that can happen. But I think, overall, everyone tries to be truthful. Everyone tries to do the right thing. And -- you know, but all I can tell you is from my experience. And in my experience, he was always truthful with me and always truthful in the issues that we were working on.", "I went -- I went through the book, your book, and, once again, \"With All Due Respect.\" And I will say this with all due -- in the book, you describe, especially during the campaign, very, very serious controversies, very serious disagreements you had with the president during the campaign, when you were supporting Marco Rubio. He tweeted: \"The people of South Carolina are embarrassed by Nikki Haley.\"", "Right.", "To which you respond: \"Bless your heart.\" Here are some of the things you were saying during the campaign:", "Donald Trump is everything I taught my children not to do in kindergarten.", "I taught my two little ones, you don't lie and make things up. During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices. We must resist that temptation.", "When you were talking about those loudest voices, those angriest voices, in that context, you were referring to Donald Trump, correct?", "He was one of them, yes. We're talking about a man --", "Liar!", "-- who has filed for bankruptcy four times. I will not stop until we fight a man that chooses not to disavow the KKK. That is not a part of our party. That's not who we want as president.", "We will not allow that in our country.", "I see you smiling.", "Yes.", "You were very serious in those days.", "Yes, it was good. That was a fun time.", "So what happened since then?", "Nothing happened since then. I mean, what I can tell you is, those issues that I had with him then, I did have with him. And the issues that I have had with him since then, I have talked to him about. So, a lot of people want to know how I got through the process. I told him the truth. If I saw something wrong, I said that I thought it was wrong, and gave options on how we could make it right. If I saw him doing well, I'd cheer him on and support him. You don't agree with a person 100 percent of the time. What you try and do is improve the situation to the best of your ability. That's always what I tried to do. I always tried to be honest. I always tried to be fair, and I always tried to fight for America. And, sometimes, that was disagreeing with him and, sometimes, that was agreeing with him.", "You believe he's a good example for children today?", "I have talked to him, and I have said very openly that his tone and his way of speaking is not something that I do. I have a different style of speaking. And there have been times where I would call him and say, did you have to say that? Did you have to do that? And he would be like: \"I know. I know.\" You know, so, I mean, I always talked to him about it. And I would tell him. But, at his age, I -- we're not going to change him. That is who he is.", "And you're comfortable with that?", "He is the president.", "But are you comfortable with that?", "When I wasn't comfortable, I called him.", "If he asked you to be his running mate in 2020, what would you say?", "It's not going to happen. That's not an issue.", "It's a hypothetical question.", "But there are no hypotheticals. He and Mike Pence work very well together. They're very strong together. I will be supporting both of them together. That -- it's just -- I know people like to talk about that. That's a nonissue. It just --", "A lot of people are talking about that. You close the book with these words: \"To all my brothers and sisters in our great country, thank you for the privilege and honor to serve the best country in the world. You made this small-town girl dream of something bigger than herself.\" Tell us about the dreams you have right now. Specifically, would you like to be president of the United States?", "You know, no one wants to believe this, but I don't think out that far. And you know this, Wolf. A year is a lifetime in politics. Why would I think about something five years down the road? It would be a waste of energy. What I want to do is continue fighting in some way, continue being relevant in some way. I wanted to take a break after eight years of full-time public service work and checking my phone in the middle of the night. I wanted to take a break from that and spend time with our son, who's a senior in high school and going on college tours. I wanted to spend time with our daughter, who's a senior in college. And Michael and I take care of my parents. They're both in their 80s. And my mom has Parkinson's. Be able to spend time with them. And I'm doing that. But I will always be out there trying to do what I can to make life better.", "Well, thank you so much for your service as governor of South Carolina. Thank you for your service at the United Nations. Thank you for writing this book and, of course, coming into THE SITUATION ROOM. The book, once again -- we will put it up on the screen -- \"With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace.\" Ambassador Haley, we appreciate it very much.", "Great to see you again. Thank you.", "And coming up: Could the Russians have intercepted that previously unreported cell phone conversation about Ukraine between President Trump and his ambassador, who was in a restaurant? Plus, we have new details of the deadly school shooting in Southern California and the gunman who opened fire on fellow students."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "MATTINGLY", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-82443", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2004-2-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/24/ldt.00.html", "summary": "President Bush Calls For Gay Marriage Ban", "utt": ["Tonight: President Bush calls for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.", "A few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization.", "They've had enough. Fair trade groups form a national alliance to fight the outsourcing of American jobs. Tonight, a battle for this country's oldest environmental organization, anti-population growth, anti-immigration advocates are trying to win control of the Sierra Club. In our special report tonight, \"Failing Grades,\" America now faces a national crisis in math and science education.", "I think we should have a moral outrage that this was allowed to persist for so long.", "And tonight, I'll be joined by one of this country's leading advocates for education reform, Congressman Chaka Fattah.", "This is LOU DOBBS TONIGHT for Tuesday, February 24. Here now for an hour of news, debate and opinion is Lou Dobbs.", "Good evening. President Bush today dramatically raised the stakes in the increasingly bitter debate over gay marriage. And President Bush introduced what most political strategists say is the strongest wedge issue of this heated presidential election year. President Bush proposed a constitutional amendment that would ban marriage between partners of the same sex. Mr. Bush said some activist judges and local officials have been making an aggressive attempt to redefine marriage in this country. Senior White House correspondent John King reports -- John.", "And, Lou, the president now at the center of what is guaranteed to be an emotional, not only legal, but certainly a political debate in this presidential election year. Mr. Bush has been under conservative pressure for months to offer his public views on whether a constitutional amendment is needed to ban gay marriage. Mr. Bush has been studying the issue. And today, in the Roosevelt Room here at the White House, the president said it is OK with him if states want to allow so-called civil unions and give gay couples legal and partnership benefits. But the president said he has now decided a national constitutional amendment is necessary to preserve the institution of marriage as a between a man and a woman.", "America's a free society which limits the role of government in the lives of our citizens. This commitment of freedom, however, does not require the redefinition of one of our most basic social institutions. Our government should respect every person and protect the institution of marriage. There is no contradiction between these responsibilities.", "Now, back in the 2000 campaign, then Governor Bush said that gay marriage was a state issue. But aides say, he has been watching as these ceremonies take place in San Francisco, thousand of gay marriages allowed, licenses issued in defiance of state law, also court rulings up in Massachusetts and words that other local governments, including a county in New Mexico, might soon allow gay marriages. So the president stepping into this debate, asking Congress to move quickly on a new constitutional amendment. Both Democratic presidential candidates oppose the president on this one, Lou. Mr. Bush says this is necessary. The Democrats say he is pandering to the right wing of his party. And public opinion is split. Two-thirds of American oppose gay marriage, but it is split just about 50/50 down the middle whether the question is whether the issue rises to the level of amending the Constitution. Aides, Lou, tell us the president will not focus on this issue only today, but it will become part of his campaign stump speech in this election year -- Lou.", "And, John, the Republican Party itself, are they united, the leadership? And Congress in particular, are they united with the president on this issue?", "It's an interesting question. Some conservatives believe that this issue does not rise or at least not yet rise to the level of needing to propose and work and act on a constitutional amendment. There are several challenges pending to the federal Defense of Marriage Act passed back in the Clinton administration. Many conservatives say, let those cases make their way through the courts first and then only deal with a constitutional amendment if the Defense of Marriage Act is rejected, thrown out by the Supreme Court -- Lou.", "John, thank you very much. The Democratic presidential candidates, as John just said, strongly criticized the president's announcement today. Senator John Kerry said Americans should be concerned that the president is -- quote -- \"toying with the Constitution for political reasons\" -- end quote. Senator Kerry does not support gay marriage and he says civil unions are the best way to protect the rights of gays. Both he and Senator John Edwards say it's an issue that should be left to the states.", "I do not support -- I am against the president's constitutional amendment on gay marriage. I don't personally support gay marriage myself, but my position has always been that it's for the states to decide and it's for the state of Georgia to decide or any other state to decide. And I think the federal government should honor those decisions.", "The strong opposition from the Democrats indicates the president may have a tough time convincing Congress to support a constitutional amendment. Some political analysts say the amendment would never win the two-thirds majority required in both the Senate and the House. Congressional correspondent Joe Johns reports.", "A constitutional amendment banning gay marriage is the kind of cultural issue that gets Congress all riled up, especially during an election year. For some, it's an appeal to their base voters.", "Marriage has been set up by cultures in the past not to affirm the love of one person of another. If that were the case, mothers and daughters and fathers and sons could be married, if all it was about affirming love between two people.", "For others, it's an opportunity to blast the administration.", "The Constitution has often been amended to expand and protect people's rights, never to take away or restrict their rights. By endorsing this shameful proposal, President Bush will go down in history as the first president to try to write bias back into the Constitution.", "But to pass the Congress and go onto the states for ratification, there are several hurdles. A constitutional amendment needs a two-thirds majority vote in both the House and Senate, which can be tough to achieve. The amendment also have to overcome concerns of some influential Republicans.", "I will say that I'm not supportive of amending the Constitution on this issue. I believe it's a states right issue.", "Leaders to the House and Senate have said they would like to hold a vote on this issue. But, as previously noted, some of the rank-and-file are simply all over the place. And, for that reason, the leaders say they want to be careful about it -- Lou.", "Joe, the leadership in the House and the Senate, what is the sense there that -- about their enthusiasm for this proposal?", "Well, it's really a mixed bag, quite frankly, Lou. Congressman Tom DeLay, the majority leader, has said he doesn't want a knee-jerk reaction on this. The problem is, they want to appeal to the conservative base and, at the same time, during an election year, they don't want to chase away social moderates, those swing voters who are so essentially in any election, Lou.", "Joe, thank you very much. Later here, we'll have more on the legal and political implications of this proposed amendment to the Constitution. I'll be joined by constitutional law scholar Noah Feldman and Ron Brownstein, national political correspondent of \"The L.A. Times.\" And of course, we want to hear your opinion on this issue in tonight's poll. The question: Would you support a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in this country, yes or no? Cast your vote at CNN.com/Lou. We'll have the results for you later in the broadcast. Politics of a different nature tonight splitting the nation's largest and oldest environmental group. The lack of a national immigration policy has divided the Sierra Club. Members of the Sierra Club are concerned about the impact of huge numbers of immigrants, both legal and illegal, on the environment. And tonight, a power struggle is under way within the organization. Casey Wian reports from Los Angeles.", "From the deserts of Arizona, where illegal aliens leave trash and trample plants, to the freeways of Los Angeles, where rising population threatens to overwhelm the city's infrastructure, it's clear that uncontrolled immigration is hurting the environment. It's the collision of concerns about population growth, including immigration, that is now threatening to tear apart the Sierra Club, the nation's oldest environmental group. Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm is one of a handful of dissident board candidates demanding the Sierra Club take a stand against an immigrant-driven population explosion.", "Mass immigration is what is happening right now. The United States will stabilize its population by 2040 at the current birth rate. But immigration is going to double the size of America and then double it again. So I'm really very concerned about what the future of America is if we have a half a billion people or a billion people living here.", "In 1998, members voted to remain neutral on the issue of immigration.", "It's an issue that divides us terribly. And we have always been much more effective working on issues where we're united. And, yes, there has been a small but vocal segment of the Sierra Club 700,000 members that would like to turn our policy around on this.", "Advocates of immigration restrictions in the Sierra Club have become more active. A few have drawn the criticism of at least one civil rights organization.", "There is no question that hate groups since last fall have been urging their members to join the Sierra Club specifically to try and sway the vote in such a way that the Club will adopt a kind of hard-line anti-immigration position.", "Dissidents deny any connection to hate groups who may support their efforts to win seats on the Sierra Club board. Lamm calls attempts to link them environmental McCarthyism; 13 former Sierra Club presidents warned in a letter to the current board that the 118-year-old organization would be destroyed if the dissidents win.", "Club members begin votes in March, with results announced in April. Dissidents say they only need three more seats to control the 15-member board. And even if they don't succeed this time, they say the Sierra Club will eventually have to confront the effects of immigration on the environment -- Lou.", "Casey, do we have any indication of the outcome of this vote?", "Well, like a lot of elections, it's going to depend on voter turnout. Last year's board election in the Sierra Club only drew 8.7 percent of the Sierra Club's members. So it depends on how many of those new activists turn out and vote in this mail-in election. A minority of the Sierra Club members could easily swing the outcome -- Lou.", "Thank you, Casey. Still ahead here, CIA Director George Tenet today issues a stark warning about the terrorist threat to this country. Also, a growing number of foreign countries have banned shipments of American beef and poultry. U.S. farmers are losing and stand to lose billions of dollars. \"Failing Grades,\" our special report this week, American high school students near the bottom of the class in mathematics and science. We'll have that report. And Congressman Chaka Fattah will be our guest. And fighting the export of American jobs to cheap overseas markets, fair trade forces join forces to stop the outsourcing of American jobs -- those stories, a great deal more, still ahead here. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "DOBBS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DOBBS", "ANNOUNCER", "DOBBS", "JOHN KING, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BUSH", "KING", "DOBBS", "KING", "DOBBS", "SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D-NC), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "DOBBS", "JOE JOHNS, CNN CAPITOL HILL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SEN. RICK SANTORUM (R), PENNSYLVANIA", "JOHNS", "SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY (D), MASSACHUSETTS", "JOHNS", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-22918", "program": "Larry King Live", "date": "2001-1-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/03/lkl.00.html", "summary": "Will Hillary Clinton Make a Good Senator?", "utt": ["Tonight, Hillary on the Hill: The most controversial first lady in U.S. history takes an unprecedented position in the world's most exclusive club. Joining us to talk transition politics: ABC News Washington correspondent Ann Compton; also in D.C., the best-selling author of \"Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton,\" former federal prosecutor Barbara Olson; in Los Angeles, former Clinton White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers; back in the nation's capital, a congressman from Mrs. Clinton's new home state of New York, Democrat Charles Rangel; and one of Mrs. Clinton's new colleagues in the sharply divided 107th Congress, Republican Senator Tim Hutchinson of Arkansas. They're all next on LARRY KING LIVE. We'll start with Charlie Rangel in New York. Congressman Rangel, who I believe was the first one to ever suggest that Hillary run for the Senate, did you really expect to see this day?", "Well, I tell you that I don't know whether I was the first. I know I was first go public with it because I saw the excitement and the glitter in her eye, and I didn't know what I was talking about when I first asked. But I knew I had a candidate when I finished, and when I went to see President Clinton on what I thought was a very, very important legislative matter, and I stayed up all night studying my materials, and he asked me, how do think Hillary would do? Then I knew New York state had a candidate that could win.", "Barbara, I know you're a critic and you wrote a very strong book about it, but there was a time you thought she wouldn't run. Are you surprised at this day?", "Not at all, actually, Larry. I mean, one of the reasons I wrote the book is I've also always thought Hillary Clinton was a serious political entity. I didn't think people were taking here seriously. Of course, when I wrote the book back about a year ago, I didn't realize she was going to be the next senator, but I've always thought that she was going to seek higher office, and that she was the more serious of the couple for political ideology, and we're seeing it play out as we saw today.", "Dee Dee Myers, are you surprised at today?", "Two years ago, I would have been surprised. I didn't think -- I certainly thought she could be a terrific and strong candidate for public office. I didn't think she'd choose a public path like running for Senate when she had a whole world of opportunities and options open to her. But once you got into the race, it was clear she was going to be formidable candidate and once Rudy Giuliani got out, I never thought Rick Lazio was going to be able to win that race.", "And Senator Hutchinson, what does it mean to you? You're a member of the opposition and she sits in the same house with this hundred select folks.", "Well, I think she'll probably be on the Health, Education and Labor Committee so it's going to make life very interesting and...", "That's your -- you're on that committee; right?", "I'm on that committee. You know, we always said in Arkansas when President Clinton was governor that the wrong Clinton was running, and we always thought she'd have political ambitions and run some day. And so I'm not at all surprised, and I think she'll be a very forceful, articulate advocate for viewpoints. That Health, Education, Labor Committee is a very philosophically polarized committee, so it's going to be ever more exciting with Hillary Clinton on that committee.", "We just see her gave a love touch -- touch Senator Orrin Hatch, an oft-critic of her husband. Ann Compton, as a journalist now, repertorally, what does this mean?", "Well, if Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't exist, the media might have to create her. Can you imagine anything more dramatic after the election year we've just been through to have a first lady not only run for the Senate, but now her name number one out there among the Democrats as potential presidential candidate in the year 2004. I mean, it just defies description. What's going to be fascinating is to watch not her swearing in, but her first votes.", "Is that jumping things a little, Congressman Rangel, to already talk about president when she hasn't sat one day in the Senate yet?", "I think it is, even though I think these senators put something in water. Once they get over there, they all start thinking about becoming president, and so I don't think you can stop her. But the truth of the matter is that coming from a great state like New York when all our problems and hopefully able to find some solution, I think she'll be able to be considered presidential material. But it's going to be a hard road. They're going to be looking at her with a magnifying glass, and I think that she'll have enough on her plate just being a good senator for a couple years.", "Barbara Olson -- by the way, Barbara Olson is the wife of -- you may not have known him that well earlier on, but she's the wife of Ted Olson, who was the lead election attorney on the federal level for George W. Bush's successful candidacy. You ought to be very proud of Ted.", "I am very proud of him. It was a tough few days. Didn't see a lot of him in the month, but I'm very proud of the way he operated and very proud of the work that the entire team did. I think it was something that everyone would be proud of, and the way that the issues were presented on both sides, and obviously I'm very happy with the way that the Supreme Court decided the case, and what ultimately happened.", "Back to Hillary, is it a leapfrog to already talk about the presidency? Is that a bit much?", "Well, you know what, Larry? I mean, do you remember back, and I'm sure you do, back in '92, two-for-one. We had in the blue plate special. Hillary Clinton did come in as the co-president. We all knew that watched the candidacy that she was very instrumental in bringing people into the campaign back in Arkansas. When Bill Clinton lost the governor's mansion, she brought in Dick Morris and a lot of the people that stayed with him. She's always been the person who has been the serious ideologue behind the scenes, and so I'm not surprised and I don't think it's too early because Hillary Clinton always had national agenda. We saw a lot of her issues in New York. I think they are national issues. I think New York was the perfect state to run for because it is a state that allows a senator to have those national issues, and if she does wind up on the Help Committee, as we call it, the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee, we'll see, I think, that national agenda going forward. If she's successful, 2004 is around the corner and people may not want to hear that, but I think the campaigning starts now.", "Dee Dee, you stood. You worked in that office. You must have seen a lot of her.", "I'm sure.", "Do you think it could go this far?", "Can she be serious candidate for president? She said publicly that she won't run.", "She said on this show. Absolutely not in '04.", "Right, exactly. She didn't say she would never run, she just said she wouldn't run in years, that she'd serve out her term. I take her at her word. I mean, Bill Clinton said the same thing in Arkansas back in 1990; went around and asked voters if they'd let him out of that commitment. They did, and he ran and won. Certainly, though, there will be a lot of Democrats who will urge her to get into the race. There is no front-runner at this point. I don't think Al Gore has a strong claim to the nomination in '04. He may choose to run again, but there will be a lot of Democrats, particularly on the liberal side, who will urge her to run. She has charisma. She's a proven fund-raiser. She's extremely popular in the Democratic base. She has a national constituency, and like Barbara pointed out, she's got a platform of national issues, and I think she'll do great job defending New York.", "When we come back, we'll ask Senator Hutchinson how she'll be treated in the Senate. What's it like with Secret Service agents in the gallery. Ann Compton's thoughts as well, and we'll discuss the entire transition. We'll include your phone calls. Tomorrow night, Ted Koppel will be with us. Next Tuesday night, N'Sync. We'll be right back.", "Do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you God? Congratulations.", "It was a wonderful day. I was very honored and excited to become the junior senator from New York, and I'm looking forward to representing the people of New York and the best interests of our country. So, it's a great day for me.", "Senator Hutchinson, can we simply say she's one of 100. How is she going to -- there's never been anything like it, so we have no precedent. How's it going to work?", "Well, I think she's going to be received very, very warmly. How warmly she is received will partly depend upon how she respects the Senate and how she treats the institution of the Senate. But, the days of being a back-bencher and biding you time are over. No one expects that she should not be very on the front and outspoken and involved in national issues. But I think that she'll have a -- she'll be not one of 100, obviously, but she'll be well- respected. She's still going to only have one vote no matter how much she leads the evening news, but she'll be respected by her colleagues and receive a warm reception.", "Senator, is it true what -- in other words, that freshmen are no longer expected, no matter who they are, to be quiet all the time?", "That's been changing for a number of years, and I think in the case of Senator Clinton. it will reach a new level. No one is going to expect her to quietly bide her time as the 97th in seniority, but there is certain, I think, expectations that she's going to respect the rules and the traditions of the Senate and I think she will be deferential to that.", "And what about covering her, Ann? What's it going to -- is she the first focal point when whoever covers the Senate goes to the Senate?", "She may be number 97 in seniority but she's probably number one in name recognition, and during the darkest days of Whitewater and the scandals that followed, she could choose the days on which she kept her mouth shut; when she wasn't accessible to the press; but she couldn't choose those times in which we would naturally see her walking to the helicopter with her husband. We would see her out in public. She's going to cast votes as early as on the nominees for the new Bush Cabinet, and she's going to have to explain those votes certainly to the New York press if not to national press. So, she may be able to control how she interacts with her colleagues and how she speaks on the Senate floor, but she can't control the incredible magnifying glass that the media will hold up to her.", "Charlie, what -- I mean, congressman, what concerns do you have for her in the Senate? What advice you would give her?", "Well, we've had many, many conversations, and I don't know whether it was advice, but one thing is abundantly clear that she has deep-seated interest in health. She's proven that in the past and as the senator said, that she seeks to get on the health committee. Education is a high priority, whether you're Republican, Democrat, liberal or conservative. It's important to our national security that we have a better educated work force, and the legislative body is one of the most exciting professions someone can enter because each and every day you're doing something that is so challenging, so that when she meets with the press, it will not have to be one of these scandals or some reporters that's trying to expose something, it would be something that's positive and good for the country, and give her an opportunity just to show how good she is for our country, for the Congress, and for New York.", "Barbara, how do think the Republicans in general, the Trent Lotts and others will treat her?", "Well, I think they're going to go out of their way to be courteous. I think they're going to go out of their way to make her feel comfortable. As Ann, said everybody is watching. Everybody is looking to see if she's being treated with the same courtesy as every other senator, and I also do think they're going to try to treat her as every other senator because although she's the former first lady and she's obviously the number one person that people are looking for. I think when people want to hear the Democratic side they're going to want to her Hillary Clinton and it's same that reflects on the Republican Party. But what I think will be interesting is the campaign promises. Hillary Clinton toward the last of her campaign, was real careful to try to run a New York campaign because she realized she had to win in New York. And she said her first bill was going to be to help the upstate economy in New York state. She obviously has education, health care issues on her plate, but it'll be interesting to see how many bills she puts forward that are New York specific, because we all know the senators from New York are very mindful. Senator D'Amato always had bills where New York state was front and center for what he was doing.", "With all this microscope, Dee Dee, no senator ever had this, can we safely say? No senator has ever -- maybe Bobby Kennedy had a little of it.", "Yes, I think Bobby Kennedy's probably the closed, but you're right, no senator has ever gone in with her profile.", "How's she going to handle it?", "Well, she's used to it. She's used to living under the glare of an incredibly...", "But not with 99 other people around.", "No, and you know, Senator Kennedy gave her some advice today. He said, work hard, respect the opposition, and do great things for New York. And I think, you know, she'll clearly work hard. She's worked hard every day she's been at the White House. Respecting the opposition will be interesting because it's not something she's done as well, and the opposition, quite frankly. hasn't been that respectful of her and we'll see how that unfolds and do great things for New York. You know, again, I think she has to do that. She understands that New York is not only her home constituency, it's also a great platform to make news for the rest of the world. You know, the media world is still centered in New York.", "All of her votes are going to be news?", "Virtually. I mean, on any controversial bill. I mean, you know, there's a lot of throwaway bills in vote every day -- not throw away but less...", "We're going to move to transition now: Her vote on Ashcroft.", "Hugely, hugely watched.", "We'll get...", "And her comments, you know, about it as the process moves forward.", "She will be expected to say something. We'll get the thoughts of all of our panelists beginning with the John Ashcroft as attorney general and then others and your calls as well. Former President Jimmy Carter on Monday night. Don't go away.", "It was really a very moving moment for both of us. I kept looking at him up in the gallery with my daughter, and I -- you know, it was very emotional for me.", "Senator Hutchinson, would you agree that now former Senator John Ashcroft will be the big story of the transition in the process of confirmation?", "Oh, I think the opposition is trying to focus on him, and to the extent they're going to Bork someone, they're going to try to Bork John Ashcroft. But I think he's going to be confirmed. I think he'll be an outstanding attorney general. He is a man of great integrity and honesty. The question -- the question that's been raised about his stance on civil rights, I think, is an absolute red herring. Here is a guy who voted for 90 percent of the African-American nominees to come before the U.S. Senate; who had a great record as governor of Missouri; whose wife, Janet, has taught five years at Howard University, a traditional black university. This is a good man, and will be a great attorney general -- the kind of person we need in the Department of Justice.", "Ann, from a media standpoint, is he the story of the transition coverage-wise?", "Oh, I think so. There's always a lightning rod or two. Linda Chavez, who is one of the nominees for Labor as well, is undoubtedly going to be something of a something of a lightning rod. But remember what happened to Bill Clinton when he was -- when he first became president. I remember was it Election Day or I mean, Inauguration Day, the day after, we were still looking at some of the nominees falling by the wayside because their background checks turned up nanny taxes that hadn't been paid. So, the story isn't completely written yet, but every Cabinet crowd has a lightning rod or two, and I think the rest are going sail through just fine.", "Congressman Rangel, did any appointment surprise you?", "Yes, Norm Mineta was a real Democrat, and that really pleasantly surprised me, and actually, I thought that the Ashcroft's, the nomination was controversial. I'm glad to hear from Tim that he probably will turn out to be a civil rights leader, but for those of us who've been monitoring his career, we really thought that Governor Bush went out of his way to have it his way and our way, but I think with all of the color and the culture and the diversity that he really got, and I think he's gone out of his way do this and the appointment of his Cabinet, we still have to find out where the policy folds out in all of these things, and I think that's where the Senate is going to have most of its problems.", "Barbara Olson, as a conservative Republican, did any nominee disappoint you? There are conservatives. Can't be happy with everyone.", "Well, you know, Larry, conservatives have a tendency to dislike the nominee because we're in search of the perfect, but I don't think that's the case here. I think the nominees are qualified. I think they're good people. I think they have deep, deep backgrounds in their areas. There is no one who has been nominated where you can say well this just a political nominee. All of these people have worked in their fields. Linda Chavez, whether you like her or not because of political affiliation, have to say she's one of the most qualified people in the labor field. She's worked many years, and the same thing with Senator Ashcroft. I mean, when I served as a staff in the Senate, there's not another senator that people would say was not a better senator, more on judicial issues and to have him head of our judiciary and head of the Justice Department is a wonderful nomination when you're looking for someone with background.", "So there is no doubt in your mind, Barbara, that he would prosecute fully those who may protest violently at abortion centers even though he so is pro-life?", "Senator Ashcroft knows he's moving to the executive branch and that is to execute the laws. You do not make the laws as a senator does, and I think that that is something that he is mindful of, as he was as a senator, when he was making legislation. He knew what the job was. It wasn't to make -- to execute the laws, it was to write the laws, and I think he will follow the laws as written.", "Dee Dee Myers, was Colin Powell the automatic?", "Absolutely, I don't think anybody in America who's paying any attention was the least bit surprised, and I think both Democrats and Republicans were sort of happy about it.", "Were you surprised it was State and not Defense?", "No, I think there's actually prohibition against a former commander serving as secretary of defense for 10 years. So, I think he was technically barred.", "Will he be a good secretary of state?", "I think he'll excellent. I mean, I -- you know, President Clinton tried to get him to serve as secretary of state in his administration. Certainly, a president...", "That's true; right? He did want him.", "Absolutely, and president -- and he -- President Clinton didn't talk to him, but other people, Vernon Jordan did approach him about it. IF gore had been elected, I think he may have gone back to General Powell said listen, I know you're a Republican but would you consider serving in my administration? I think he's that, you know, respected a public figure regardless of ideology. And he's not ideological, unlike Senator Ashcroft, who I think everyone agrees is a good man, but an ideological man. General Powell is a Republican, but he's not ideologue.", "We'll be right back with more. We'll be including your phone calls for our outstanding panel. This is LARRY KING LIVE. Don't go away.", "The majority leader, Senator Daschle, is recognized.", "Mr. President, on behalf of the entire Senate, thank you.", "Until the afternoon of January 20th, Tom Daschle is the majority leader. Senator Hutchinson, what do you make of the appointment of Mr. O'Neill, and I hyphen that with the stock market today.", "Well, I think it was -- obviously, the stock market responded well, so I think that's very good.", "Do you think O'Neill will do well?", "I think he'll do excellent, and I think he's going to reassure a lot of folks. And yes, I do. I think -- you know, I think Barbara said it very well. We've seen a very good transition; a very good team put together, and it's been done in a record amount of time. So, I think you're going to see pretty smooth sailing for the confirmations, and good marks on American people.", "Is -- Ann Compton, is as someone termed him today, is Dick Cheney the 101st senator and is he part president?", "No, he's not vice president either, Larry. He's prime minister. He's running the show, isn't he? And what's really strange for those of us who are old enough to admit it, covering Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, and Paul O'Neill when he was -- I think he was number two at OMB. I mean, we're looking at a cast of characters that looks remarkably familiar to what we covered back in earlier Republican administrations, but you're absolutely right, Dick Cheney is absolutely an administrator -- a prime minister is how I would describe him.", "What do you make of that? Rumsfeld, it's like the old names.", "It is. There are a lot of people making their second tours through Washington. I think that'll make confirmation process easy, and I have to say, living through the Clinton transition eight years ago, we made it look so hard. It was the Perils of Pauline every day. I think the Bush team has made it look easy.", "Secretary -- I mean, Congressman Rangel, John Ashcroft and your reservations aside, do you think they did a good job here?", "Well, I think in such a short period of time, I think they have put together a team that has wide support in terms of being competent, and I just hope and pray that they have a feeling that they have a special obligation in view of the closeness of the obligation to deep feelings by some of us on the Democratic side that the outcome of election was not fair to make certain that when we talk about bipartisanship, we're not talking about picking off a half a dozen Democrats, but trying to find out what's good for America whether it's Republican or Democrat, and move forward with an legislative agenda.", "Barbara, are we getting a paperback copy of your book now coming out?", "Well, actually they called me.", "Timing would be good.", "Well, what happened was they called me after the elections. They were going to paperback and then called me back and said the hardback is selling again. So, they're not going to do the paperback.", "Will you write an additional chapter for the paperback?", "I've already written the additional chapter. I think it's going to have to be revised on day-by-day basis. I do think Senator Clinton is going to be very active, and, you know, I wanted to say one thing about the Vice President-Designate Cheney. I think, you know, he's wise. He's well-known in Washington. He's well-known for all of his service to government and I think he shows that just how comfortable President-Elect Bush is. He's comfortable putting these people, as Dee Dee was saying, the wise people from prior administrations, elevating them. It's how comfortable he is with competency and bringing people into his administration. He had a very, very truncated transition period, and it's true he has done this in a record time with people that I think both sides of the aisle can be comfortable with, even if they would have liked Al Gore to have been there. They least know this is someone who's competent and can handle the job.", "We'll be right back. We'll reintroduce our panel and we'll go to your phone calls. This LARRY KING LIVE. Bill Maher on Friday; Ted Koppel tomorrow. Don't go away.", "The chair will remind the Senate that boisterous demonstrations are against the rules of the Senate.", "It's obvious, Mr. President, that you have still maintained your sense of humor.", "The Vice President Gore being greeted today as the Senate convened and put 11 new members in there. There are now 13 women in the United States Senate. We are going to your phone calls; let's meet our panel again, they are Ann Compton, ABC News, White House correspondent -- Washington Correspondent, she has been everywhere, we can put Ann in any post and she fills it well. Barbara Olson, best-selling author of \"Hell to Pay; the Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton,\" a former federal prosecutor, and the wife of Ted Olson, George W.'s top election attorney. Dee Dee Myers here in Los Angeles, former Clinton White House press secretary, contributing editor of \"Vanity Fair\" and the mother of nine-month old...", "Katherine Myers.", "Not bad looking little lady. Congressman Charles Rangel, Democrat of New York. He's starting his 16th term, founding member of Congressional black caucus, and Senator Tim Hutchinson, republican of Arkansas, in his first term, member of Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, to which Mrs. Clinton may well be assigned. Let's go to some calls. Long Island, New York. Hello.", "How are you doing? I just wanted to quickly ask your panel how they were feeling about the purchase of her house in New York, and how transparent that may have seemed to a lot of New Yorkers, and you know, vying for the Senate position.", "Congressman Rangel.", "Listen, we have learned in New York that you have to have homes in Washington, D.C., and you have to have homes in your home state, and so I don't know how transparent it is, you have to live somewhere. And I assume that they were looking for a place that they were accustomed to living in that type of a building. So, no. we are happy for her.", "Has anybody heard where they are going to sell that New York home and take an apartment or something?", "There's been a lot of speculation about it, but I don't think any transactions have taken place.", "Barbara, have your sources told you anything about the house in Chappaqua?", "It's been officially denied, although I have calls from every real estate person in the area guaranteeing me it is on the market, but they have denied it, so...", "Ann, what do you hear?", "Oh, that they went antique shopping -- the Clintons did over New Year's weekend up near Camp David, and bought little things for the house here in Washington, and there is a story that I haven't checked out completely that Mrs. Clinton registered for new china for the new home, I think it was an on-line store or on-line catalog but, had to, of course, pull that back as of today, because, once you are a senator you can't take anything -- any gift over $100.", "The soup tureen was $244.", "They are going to live near where Vice President Cheney will live, is that correct, Ann?", "That is correct. The little cul-de-sac on which this new house is, is right in the same neighborhood where, of course, Al Gore and Tipper Gore live now, but it is basically an embassy area -- lots of embassy residences, and right up the road from where Princess Diana used to stay every time she came to Washington.", "So, that big rumor about Georgetown was wrong.", "Now that you mentioned it: they looked at the big house there but they didn't buy it.", "How could they have worked Georgetown?", "It would have been a security problem.", "Toronto, Canada, hello.", "Hi, thank you, Larry. Can you tell me whether the scandals like i.e., White water, travel office; will they haunt Hillary or will the republicans move on and get their work done.", "Senator Hutchinson, will the scandals stay with the former --the soon to be former first lady?", "I don't even think they became an issue in that Senate campaign in New York. I think it is already -- we have already moved on. No, I don't think that those will be brought up again. We are going to be looking at how she votes on the issues, and dealing with ideas, not with past issues and scandals.", "You're from Arkansas, senator. Do you know her well?", "Well, I -- I have more than a passing acquaintance with her. I served eight years in the Arkansas house. Governor Clinton -- Hillary was the first lady during those eight years, and the earlier caller asked about transparency on the purchase of the house; it's pretty transparent. She left Arkansas to find a more conducive state for her Senate run. Now that is the fact that her views are much more compatible in New York than they would be in Arkansas.", "Was it a contentious House with Clinton as Governor?", "No. Arkansas at that time was even more one party than it is now. And Clinton usually got his way pretty much with a overwhelmingly democrat House and Senate. He had more problems with conservative democrats than he did with a handful of republicans that were in the Arkansas legislature. That is changing, fortunately.", "New Orleans, hello.", "Hi, Larry.", "Hi.", "I would like to ask your panel, Hillary Rodham Clinton won the senatorship of New York by more votes than George W. Bush won the presidency. Does that make her a more legitimate candidate in 2004?", "Is that a stretch, Dee Dee? She won by a bigger margin, of course, because Bush didn't win...", "Exactly. I mean, George Bush lost the popular vote by half a million votes, but that is not -- not half a million -- yes, half a million, but that is not how we choose presidents and I think we ought to accept the law. I think what troubles the Bush team and certainly, would be unnerving to anybody, the recounts going on by press organizations in Florida that may show -- although nobody will ever except his final results that he, in fact, lost Florida.", "Barbara, if Bill Clinton is indicted, a possibility, by Mr. Ray and the like, do you think that President George W. Bush would pardon just to get it out of the news?", "Oh, boy. I don't think President Clinton will be indicted, so it's hard to imagine, and go down that road. I agree with Senator Hutchinson. I think, you know, we are a party looking to the future, there is a great future for this country, and I think Bill Clinton has much more problems having to do with the committee down in Arkansas in trying to keep his license. Independent counsel Ray passed on Mrs. Clinton and passed on the others and so I don't think that will happen, Larry.", "Bentonville, Washington. Hello.", "It's Bentonville, Arkansas.", "I'm sorry.", "That's no problem. Hi, Larry. Great guest list. I'm wondering if you and the panel think that the media is going to continue giving special attention to Hillary?", "Senator, we will start with you and go around. HUTCHINSON I think that is without question, she comes in with star status, and, she will justify that, I think. I don't agree with her on most issues, but yes, I think she is going to continue to garner a lot of attention nationally.", "Charlie Rangel?", "Well, it all depends on the subject matters. I assume the press would like to have newsworthy names of people, that are talking about issues that impact America, and so they will be coming to her more from than not, but I think to a certain extent, she would be able to control just which issues she would like to be known as a specialist in, rather than just commenting on everything that passes through the Senate.", "Dee Dee.", "Yes. I agree with what Charlie just said. She has developed, I think, a lot of savvy over how the press works. I think she will pick and choose her moments, but there'll be a tremendous amount of attention upon her, and she will be able to choose to speak out on any issue that she wants.", "Ann.", "Absolutely -- I have got to disagree for two reasons: one, she is the former first lady, she has the biggest name identification of anybody in the U.S. Senate, second, you know, anytime your name is dropped as a potential presidential candidate, sometime in the future, for both those reasons, every move she makes, every vote she casts, is fair game.", "Barbara.", "Well, I was going to add, too; Hillary has always been interesting since we were first introduced to her on a national level. She's been interesting since Bill Clinton walked into the White House. The early interviews that she did with the media, where she answered certain questions and didn't answer others; the media is going to be pushing her, they're going to want her to answer, she is a candidate, in her own right. I found her interesting. I spent a year of my life researching and talking to people, and the more I studied her, the more interesting I thought she was, and the more I thought she was underrated, so I think the media is going to want to see what is there. We know her debacles, and she comes back. There is no disaster that Hillary -- Mrs. Clinton -- now Senator Clinton, doesn't come back from, so I think that is going to continue.", "We'll get a break and pick up with Dee Dee and we'll take more calls right after this.", "We started this great effort on a sunny July morning in Pindars (ph) Corner on Pat and Liz Moynihan's beautiful farm, and 62 counties, 16 months, three debates, two opponents, and six black pants-suits later, because of you, here we are!", "We're back. You were going to add something to what Barbara said.", "Oh, I was just going to say that I think she's -- Mrs. Clinton has learned over years how to deal with the press, how to speak on issues she wants to speak on, how not to speak out on issues she doesn't want to speak on. We saw that certainly throughout the impeachment process, and I think she'll try not to get her head up too much so as not to offend other senators, although that will be difficult, because of her status, as everyone pointed out.", "Suffolk, Virginia.", "You know, what, Larry...", "Sorry. Go ahead, and then we'll take Suffolk. Go ahead, Barbara.", "I was just going to add, one of the issues that we haven't talked about is Senator Clinton has a book that's going to come out, and this is going to be in the middle of her term.", "Right.", "And this is a book that she's gotten $8 million to sort of tell it all. And so, that's going to be politically very interesting, what happens, how she writes that, how she deals with that as an author and a senator.", "Well put. Suffolk, Virginia hello.", "Good evening. My question for the panel is, since Ms. Clinton is out of the White House now, she'll still be having Secret Service protection. Does anybody feel that'll be particularly troublesome in the Senate chambers at all?", "Well, you don't get as much when you're the former first lady. Former first ladies generally get about two to three following her around. They'll be in the galleries, is that right, senator?", "That's my understanding. They've negotiated with the Secret Service, and I think everybody's pretty happy that the decorum of the Senate will not be disrupted and she'll be able to have the protection that she's afforded.", "It goes beyond that, though, Larry. The first ladies before, of course, have Secret Service for the rest of their lives if they want it.", "Yes, but they don't have -- they don't have 52 people. They don't stop.", "Well, no, they have...", "But they don't go through red lights, they don't have sirens.", "They have -- they have a delegation.", "They don't have sirens.", "They don't -- no, they might even have motorcades, small motorcades.", "I've never seen it.", "But Barbara Bush walked out of the U.S. Capitol Building at the end of the Bush term, and at -- what? -- 12 noon, 1 o'clock in the afternoon, dismissed her agents she decided she did not want, and I think she went down to Houston and bough herself a Buick and drove herself around. So Mrs. Clinton could cede her coverage if she wanted to, but -- and on Capitol Hill, they have lots of security, including a whole office of Secret Service.", "I think, Larry -- I think that that's going -- I'm sorry, senator. But I think that's going to have to be a consideration, because every week we from the New York delegation have to go to Ronald Reagan Airport and wait for the shuttle plane that takes us to La Guardia, and there's a long line, and there is no line- cutting. And so if you're going to be in that line...", "You're right.", "... with three other agents, it's going to be very, very difficult to negotiate.", "I know that Nancy Reagan has told me many times she waits at airport lines. You stop at red lights.", "Sure, and I think that they'll be Mrs. Clinton's expectations, though. But I think she has been a tremendously polarizing figure. She's not an ordinary citizen certainly, and she's not even like 99 other members of the United States Senate in a lot of ways. And I think that's a decision she should make in consultation with the Secret Service about what's best for her to protect her and her family.", "Well, Larry...", "Yes.", "No one's going to dispute that she needs to be kept safe and she needs to have security. But we're walking back and forth from our offices to cast those votes several times a day, you're not going to be -- these senators -- I know my colleagues. We have pretty big egos, and they're not going to be shutting down those -- those aisles for Secret Service. There's going to have to be some accommodations, and I think there will be. I think it's going to work out OK.", "And I'm sure that's -- I'm sure that'll be worked out.", "We'll be right back with more and more phone calls. Don't go away.", "You are watching scenes of a reception at the Mayflower Hotel honoring Hillary Rodham Clinton tonight, the United States senator from New York, junior senator from New York. This reception is still going on. This tape is from a couple of minutes ago, and there she is with the president. She's being honored at the Mayflower Hotel as her first night as United States senator. Fort Smith, Arkansas, hello. Are you there?", "Yes.", "Go ahead.", "My question is for Senator Hutchinson.", "Go ahead.", "I want to know if he believes that Hillary is going to stick to her platform or is she going to come in and be a bull in a China closet, and also I would like to encourage him to continue to look into the Dr. Phil Roberts matter.", "I don't know what that is -- do know what that is, senator?", "I'm not sure what that is either.", "OK.", "But it's not one or the other as far as sticking to her platform. I think she will, but I also think that she'll do so -- do so in a way that she doesn't have to be a bull in a China closet. I don't think she'll do that. It certainly wouldn't be wise, and she's smart enough not to approach it that way. But I also think she'll be forceful and she won't be a shrinking violet.", "Ann, is she going to be the first senator that the Sunday morning shows want?", "Oh, of course, and she's going -- and somebody named Larry King is probably going to want her on every once in a while, and the cameras around Capitol Hill at every corner are going to trail her around. But she's so used to this. Dee Dee is absolutely right: This is a woman who has been in the public eye not just for the eight years in Washington, but for all the years beyond -- before that. And she's a woman who knows how to parcel out what she gives of herself. What she can't control is the intense scrutiny of everything she does. And there are always the external events that come in: the stories that arise, the books that are written. And those are what will be maybe most difficult for her to handle, is how do you explain all the externals. She's going to have to have a very aggressive and a very good press staff on Capitol Hill.", "And Barbara, what does Bill do all day?", "I think Bill is going to be quite a happy man, and we already said that he -- I think he said he was glad that they got in a -- Hillary needed an address in Washington so we could visit her, which gave us a hint of what he was going to be doing, that he's not going to necessarily just be in Washington. We know he's going to have an office in Manhattan and an office in Washington, and I would think he's going to be the most sought- after speaker of any ex-president we've ever had. So I would imagine he will have a foundation within a few months that he will work from.", "Charlie...", "Jimmy -- Jimmy -- Dee Dee, Jimmy Carter's here Monday night. Could he be like that?", "Absolutely, because as much as some of his political opponents in the United States hate to admit it, he's the most admired man on Earth, and he has, as Charlie pointed out, done great work trying to bring peace to troubled regions. And he's...", "He could be a great former president.", "He could be a great former president, and he has a long, hopefully healthy, life ahead of him. So yes, I think he can.", "But like Carter doesn't do speeches for money.", "I think the President Clinton is planning to do some speeches for money, because he doesn't have any...", "As they said in the movie, show me the money.", "Yes, show me the money.", "We'll be back with our remaining moments with Compton, Olson, Myers, Rangel and Hutchinson. Sounds like a law firm on K Street. Don't go away.", "Let's get another call. Franklin, Massachusetts, hello.", "Hi, Larry.", "Hi.", "My question is, with so much media scrutiny already and that she seems to be a target of so many people, will she even be given a chance or an opportunity to see how she will represent the state of New York?", "Ann?", "Absolutely.", "Is she really between a rock and a hard place here, in a sense?", "No. In fact, she's on top of the rock and the rock is the hard place. And the New York press corps, there's none more aggressive in the world, and everything she goes and everything she says and every position she takes, on the Middle East -- which is a hot area right now -- on foreign affairs, domestic affairs and on her personal life, all of that will be under scrutiny.", "Speaking of the New York press corps, we failed to mention at the time -- he was guest on this program -- a great writer who passed away much too young, a New York writer, Lars-Erik Nelson, who covered Washington for \"The New York Daily News,\" and covered other things for \"The New York Review of Books.\" He was a great man, and he deserves more mention than he got. Charlie Rangel, is she going to pay attention to New York first?", "She has to. New York is -- is -- it's a very jealous type of state, and we're going to hold onto her, and she's going to respond. No -- she did so well in upstate New York, no one expected her to do that well. But she won in each one of the 62 counties, and so they love her.", "And Barbara, she owes them, right?", "Well, she made a promise in all of those 62 counties, and now I think people are going to look to see if she's going to live up to those promises. She did very well, but she also made a lot of promises to a lot of New Yorkers about the upstate economy, small businesses, utility prices, energy. And she's got a huge plate that she's got to fulfill just to fulfill those promises.", "A lot of people don't know it...", "Well said.", "... but a lot of New York's problems are really national problems as well, you know.", "Senator Hutchinson, does she defer to Charles Schumer, the senior senator from New York, which you should do in the Senate, right?", "Right. I think she'll try to, but it's going to be very, very difficult because of the attention that she's going to receive. You know, the hit on Hillary has always been that she had a political tip ear. I think it's going to be interesting to see whether she really has learned all of these lessons and whether she makes the mistakes which some of us think that the book deal may have been.", "Dee Dee.", "Well, but I think the thing that gets lost is what a serious policy person Mrs. Clinton is. I think she ran for the Senate...", "She's a policy wonk...", "Yes, she absolutely is. I mean, both Clintons are. And it's been sort of a rap against them. I think it's gotten somewhat lost in all the conversations about her stature. The reason she chose to run for the Senate when she had a whole world of options, she likes getting into the nitty-gritty of policy, trying to solve problems. And you know, whether she has a political tin ear or not will resolve itself. But whatever else happens, I think you can be rest assured that Mrs. Clinton will be working very hard on the specific issues every single day, and riding her staff very hard.", "She'll be tough-driven.", "You betcha'.", "Ann, what's the public reaction to the $8 million?", "Oh, I think that the public that's paying attention to that probably has some questions about it, but in the economy we're living in right now, I don't know that 8 million sounds all that high. I think the public...", "You know, when baseball players make $250 million, I don't think the public is up in arms that Mrs. Clinton...", "But she -- when you get 8 million you've got to write about, you know what she's got to write about.", "Well, and the proof will have to be in the pudding.", "But it's not the public; it's the media that's going to say for $8 million let's see what you have to deliver. I think the American public and other women politicians are looking, can you name another woman politician who's had a really good shot at being elected president of the United States? Hillary Clinton is being looked to by women, and including the three states which as of today have two women senators, not just one.", "I can't wait for the movie.", "Thank you all very much. Ann Compton, Barbara Olson, Dee Dee Myers, Congressman Charles Rangel, and Senator Tim Hutchinson. It ain't going to be dull. Tomorrow night, Ted Koppel. They've got a series coming, a special week on \"Nightline\" looking at the legacy and the years of Bill Clinton. We're going to talk about that with Ted tomorrow night. Charles -- Chuck Bury will also be along, who reports on that series. And Friday night, our regular visit with Bill Maher of \"Politically Incorrect,\" Monday night former President Jimmy Carter, and next Tuesday night 'N Sync. No fooling, all of them here, live, 'N Sync. They're already selling places on the street. Stay tuned for my man, my main man, Bill Hemmer and \"CNN TONIGHT.\" And then, don't forget the two daddies of the \"CROSSFIRE,\" formally -- well, one of them is -- watch it in a half hour. Good night."], "speaker": ["LARRY KING, HOST", "REP. CHARLES RANGEL (D), NEW YORK", "KING", "BARBARA OLSON, FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR/AUTHOR, \"HELL TO PAY\"", "KING", "DEE DEE MYERS, FORMER WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "KING", "SEN. TIM HUTCHINSON (R), ARKANSAS", "KING", "HUTCHINSON", "KING", "ANN COMPTON, ABC NEWS", "KING", "RANGEL", "KING", "OLSON", "KING", "OLSON", "KING", "MYERS", "KING", "MYERS", "KING", "MYERS", "KING", "AL GORE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-104501", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2006-4-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/cst.04.html", "summary": "Mayor Bloomberg of New York Speaks Out About Illegal Immigration", "utt": ["Still no word on the status of the crew aboard a U.S. military helicopter that went down eight hours ago, southwest of Baghdad. The chopper was apparently on combat patrol when it crashed. Freed American hostage Jill Carroll touchdown in Germany this morning and is set to arrive in Boston tomorrow. Just in the last hour, a statement released by Carol called her kidnappers criminals, who threaten her repeatedly, and that she was forced to make a propaganda video before she was released. Jesse Jackson joined hundreds of protesters in downtown New Orleans today. At issue? The voting right thousands of displaced city residents after Hurricane Katrina. Minority groups want to delay upcoming mayoral elections scheduled three weeks from today. And from the Big Apple, a huge turnout of protesters opposing proposed tougher laws on illegal immigration. Marchers say they simply want to take part in the American dream. One possible solution to America's immigration problem is to expel everyone that's in the country illegally. It's a drastic and highly unlikely scenario, but CNN's John King asks New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg the hypothetical question, what if?", "The Seven Line through Queens weaves through more than 300 years of immigrant history, legal and illegal. A lesson Mayor Michael Bloomberg believes those in Washington calling for a crackdown.", "We're not going to deport 12 million people. So let's stop this fiction. Let's give them permanent status.", "Over coffee in an Indian diner, pondering the what if. What would a New York City and America would look like if illegal immigrants were forced out of shadows and forced to leave? (", "What would happen to the economy here?", "Well the economy would collapse, because there are whole industries that couldn't survive. And even if Americans were willing to take those jobs, would take a long time before they could.", "Take illegal day laborers out of the picture and the impact would be on the construction industry.", "I've just arrived, barely four months ago. We all deserve an opportunity. We all deserve a chance to work because it is hard in our countries.", "Overall, illegal immigrants make up 5 percent the U.S. workforce, but they hold 24 percent the jobs in farming; 17 percent in the cleaning sector and 14 percent in construction; and 12 percent in food preparation. Edwin came illegally from China 17 years ago. Works as a cook. (", "Are you ever afraid? That police or somebody will try to check your papers or for some reason throw you out of the country?", "This is such a country of opportunity, I'm willing to stay and take the risk because from day it day, life is pretty good here.", "Those advocating a crackdown say secure the borders first, then deal with the 12 million or so illegals already here.", "We actually calculate that over a period of five years you could probably cut it in half, if you put your mind to it. And I'm not talking machine guns and land mines, I'm talking normal law enforcement.", "Finding them would be a nationwide challenge. An estimated 12 million in all; 3 million in California; 1.5 million in Texas.", "Florida, Illinois, New York. But nowadays, Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, so they've been spreading out around the country.", "Shamila is the face of another dilemma if Congress wanted any major crackdown. She has been here illegally for 20 years. Her nine-year-old son was born here, so he's a U.S. Citizen.", "I am afraid when I go outside that, God forbid, for some reason I'm pulled over or something like that happens and I'm sent back, or be even separated from my son.", "It's not the job of the American people to make up for the mistakes and bad decisions of these illegal alien parents.", "The mayor calls such talk nonsense.", "These people are going to be here permanently let's recognize it and get on with it. And I just don't have a lot of patience listen to people that say, it shouldn't be. Maybe it shouldn't be. You have a right to that opinion, but it is.", "A half million illegal immigrants blended to this city 170 languages, a place the mayor says should serve as an example for those he believes are trying to ignore both history and economic reality. John King, CNN, New York.", "And what if you have a business that depends on immigrant labor? That's why we invited Tom Demaline to talk with us. He has a business called Willoway Nurseries, that really depends on immigrant labor. Good afternoon, Mr. Demaline.", "How you doing?", "Good to talk to you. You're out there in Cleveland, Ohio. You have this terrific business, the dream of your family. You hire guest workers, right? They are actually here legally, so far as you know?", "Correct. Right.", "But why do you hire Mexicans and not Americans?", "Well part the H2A program that we go through, it requires us to source American people that want to work here, work are documented people, or people that live in that area. And we bring in about a hundred local people each year in the job search, and we give them opportunities to get started in the nursery business. Some work for us for a day, some work for a week, some work for a month and --", "But backbone of your work force is Mexican labor, right?", "Correct. We need about 350 people on a seasonal basis to start at the beginning of the season, and stay with us throughout the entire year to get our product to market.", "So how will you characterize how person this labor force is to you?", "Well, it's very important, because it's -- we need them in a timely manner, we need them to be able to come to work. And agricultural business is seasonal. And it's also hard work. Working in the wet, and cold and the spring, the hot, and the heat in the summer, and it's tough work.", "And aren't Americans willing to do that work?", "Generally, most people just aren't willing to do it. They would rather may be work in a food industry, or other areas like that, but we're not raising people anymore to come out and pick tomatoes and grow trees work on lawn maintenance.", "But in your particular business, if you know, under some scenarios that you're hearing in public, if all the undocumented workers were rounded up and sent back to their native countries, would that affect you?", "Well it would affect our industry, because you know, we supply a lot of landscape contractors and other nurseries, and if they lose their workers, even though we would have a legal workforce, it's going to affect the whole economy. If there's nobody to put the plants on the ground, we're going to lose out. Currently, agriculture supports about 3.5 jobs for each worker that we employ. Well, if you take half of workers that are in agriculture, which would be about 750,000 people, in that times the 3.5 people, like 2.6 million people that are tax paying American citizens that could lose their jobs.", "And also potentially the price of produce go up?", "Yes. The price of everything's going to go up we have -- if simple price and demand. If there are less workers, going to have to pay more for labor to get the products picked, and growing and to market.", "And even worse if businesses end up going overseas? Is that a scenario? Because by some pie in the sky scenarios is well if you get rid of all the undocumented workers, more Americans would have jobs. But that doesn't necessarily -- that isn't necessarily the outcome.", "No, no. If we have to shove stuff offshore, it's going to -- it's two or three problems there. And we've done that with so many industries so far, with a lot of manufacturing has been moved offshore. Some of the computer workers have been move offshore. If we move food source offshore we're in risk in many different ways. One, we're at risk of embargoes or Third World countries holding us hostage and not having any food, similar to the problems we're having with oil right now. The second is in offshore of our food products is the safety, health and safety issues. Most countries don't have this stringent EPA regulations for food safety and pesticide controls.", "I hear you. Tom Demaline, what you're saying grow in the USA and that may very depend on immigrant labor.", "It does depend on immigrant labor to grow a good product.", "That's an education. Thank you very much, Tom Demaline, appreciate.", "Thank you.", "Well, at the top the hour, a special edition of \"Lou Dobbs\" titled \"Broken Borders\". Lou reports from Cancun, Mexico, following the North American Summit that just wrapped up there. And tomorrow, on \"Late Edition\" with Wolf Blitzer. 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{"id": "CNN-209897", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2013-7-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/02/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Zimmerman Murder Trial; Sex Abuse Lawsuits Against Kevin Clash Thrown Out", "utt": ["(Bleep) they will always get away.", "Is that something you would use in reference to somebody that you`re going to invite over to dinner? Would you call them a piece of (bleep)?", "Tonight on the showbiz countdown, today`s top three showbiz justice game changers, including George Zimmerman`s own explosive words about Trayvon Martin. Are they going to sink Zimmerman`s defense? Plus, showbiz royal baby bonanza. Just revealed duchess Katherine`s delivery plans if she gives birth before her due date. \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT\" is live in London on royal baby watch with CNN international`s Max Foster. \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT\" starts right now. Hello. I`m A.J. Hammer. Thank you for watching. Tonight, showbiz justice game changer. So, we are counting down today`s top three biggest bombshells in the legal world and we kick things off with number three. It`s George Zimmerman in his own words. George Zimmerman is accused of second degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. And today, the jury got to hear more of Zimmerman`s self- defense story straight from the defendant. Today, prosecutors asked the lead police investigator in the case about colorful words that Zimmerman used as he called the cops on that tragic night.", "(bleep) they always get away.", "Is that something you would use in reference to somebody that you`re going to invite over for dinner? Would you call them a piece of (bleep)?", "No, sir, I would not.", "Does that seem like to you like a friendly comment about somebody else?", "No, sir, it`s not.", "OK. So, do Zimmerman`s own words that night prove in any way that he murdered Trayvon Martin? Joining me right now from Hollywood, criminal defense attorney Darren Kavinoky. He is the host of \"Deadly Sins\" on Investigation Discovery, also from Hollywood tonight, defense attorney, Anahita Sedaghatfar. So guys, all day today, you`re watching it on HLN`s live coverage of the Zimmerman trial. We heard the prosecutors just hammering home Zimmerman`s words, the very words that he used that night as he called the cops. She said f`ing punks and a-holes while he followed Trayvon Martin. Darren, let me start with you on this. What exactly is the point prosecutors are trying to make? Is it all about showing Zimmerman`s potential bias here? Is there more to it than that?", "Yes. This is a trial chuck full of spicy adult language, you know. It is time for the ear muffs, kids. And today, of course, we saw a lot more of that today. And yes, it`s exactly that. What the prosecution is trying to show here is that Zimmerman was profiling Trayvon Martin, that Zimmerman had an agenda, that this is something Zimmerman was out to do, and the prosecution is trying to lengthen the time period that we`re focusing on here to not make it just about that incident where they`re tussling, but to get into Zimmerman`s mind to show that hatred for him.", "OK. But still, at the end of the stay, it in itself doesn`t prove anything, Anahita. So, how much does the language Zimmerman used that night matter in this case do you think?", "Absolutely, I agree with what Darren was saying. But the fact of the matter is that George Zimmerman was talking about this a-hole that had previously tried to break in. There were previous break-ins. They did get away. That statement is corroborated by the fact that Zimmerman made numerous 911 calls and other witnesses said there were break-ins in that neighborhood. So, to the extent the prosecution wants to use these words against Zimmerman to show that he actually profiled Trayvon Martin, or went after him because he`s black, I think that argument failed. And we saw that with the FBI. They conducted an independent investigation, A.J., and found that Zimmerman acted with no racial motive here. And we also saw yesterday with two of the state`s witnesses which in my opinion again turned into defense witnesses, the police investigators who said race played no role in Zimmerman`s actions that night. So, it`s an argument the prosecution is making, but it fails.", "It`s an argument that is at the heart of what has drawn so many people in to watching this live coverage here on HLN. And some other testimony that could or could not play into it all, we heard from a witness today who said Zimmerman is his best friend. We heard him testifying about what Zimmerman told him about the shooting. So when he was on the stand, Mark Osterman made a shocking claim. He said that Zimmerman said that Trayvon reached for Zimmerman`s gun during their struggle.", "Tell me what he did say about having to grab his gun.", "He said that Trayvon had reached down and grabbed for the gun. Whether it was on the leather holster or on the actual metal part itself, at the time I didn`t see a difference, I just thought that the intent was clear, and that`s when he had to -- he freed one of his hands and went and got the gun. He either broke contact or knocked somebody else`s hand away or Trayvon`s hand away from him reaching for the gun or grabbing the gun and then he drew it.", "OK. So, Darren, right there, you have another version of another story from that fateful night. I`m putting you in the jury box for just a moment. You`re sitting there. You are listening to this guy who says he`s one of Zimmerman`s best friends testifying. Does it change anything in your mind what he said?", "Well, yes, with friends like that, A.J., you don`t need enemies. And by the way, one of the big headlines from Osterman was how he showed up on the witness stand. Did anybody notice the flop sweat that was going on there? And frankly, for good reason because what he was saying was bad, bad, bad for his friend Zimmerman. This was an inconsistent statement. This is entirely different than every other interview that Zimmerman gave police. And those are the little facts that can help turn cases around. If the jury doesn`t believe Zimmerman, then they may not buy his position about self-defense. So this isn`t good for him.", "Yes, it doesn`t seem like it is. Although, you know, pretty warm in that courtroom there, Darren, and we keep your studio pretty cool and that`s why we`re not seeing you sweating there, I`m just saying.", "Thank goodness.", "What we`re hearing a lot from George Zimmerman`s police calls, police interviews, what he told friends. Anahita, do you think we`re getting to the point where it is going to make a whole lot of sense where Zimmerman himself to actually take the stand and just speak?", "Well, you know A.J., as defense attorneys, we never want to put our criminal defendants on the stand, unless we absolutely have to. And I think what we saw yesterday where the prosecution played the audio tapes and videotapes of George Zimmerman`s interview with the police. That was essentially Zimmerman testifying. And the prosecution didn`t have the benefit of cross-examining him. So, I think that helped the defense. And the way the case has gone so far, I think the defense has poked hole after hole after hole into the prosecution`s case. But quite frankly, they don`t need to put Zimmerman on the stand. I don`t think they will and I don`t think they should.", "How about you, Darren?", "Well, look, it`s a decision that`s not usually made until much later in the case. And I absolutely agree that here we are, in the prosecution`s case, things seem to be going pretty well for the defense, and they`ve certainly gotten their narrative out through those videotapes and other interviews. All of that said, a defendant has an absolute right to testify. So it may not be until this entire thing unfolds before George Zimmerman finally makes that decision. But I agree, unless you`ve got to put your client on, never good idea. It`s a high-risk move.", "Yes. I don`t know a whole lot, but I`ve watched enough coverage here on HLN to know. Yes, probably not a good thing to do. All right. So while Zimmerman is having his day in court, it actually looks like now another possible defendant may avoid court altogether. Number two in our showbiz justice countdown, sex abuse lawsuits against the man who played Elmo on Sesame Street, are no more. So, there were three suits alleging sex abuse by Kevin Clash that had been thrown out by a Manhattan court. The judge ruled that the statute of limitations had run out. And that leaves only one pending lawsuit against Clash. Clash`s lawyers say they are moving to have that suit thrown out as well. Let me ask you, Darren, again, our countdown question, with most of the lawsuits now dismissed, do you see any way clash will ever be able to return to Sesame Street? A lot of damage done here.", "Yes, there has been a lot of reputation al damage. And I will say this, that a lawsuit being dismissed for statute of limitations reasons, which is fancy legalese for saying to the plaintiffs, you didn`t sue him quickly enough. It`s hardly a ringing endorsement, or a total exoneration. But certainly Elmo is a beloved character. This is a man who has won a massive number of awards, including a recent Emmy award. You know, as much as we love to see people fall, we love to see them come back. So this may be just another comeback story.", "Yes. I mean, potentially, really sad, sad situation right here. Regardless of the legal reason it was thrown out. It was thrown out. And as you said, Darren, the guy gets a lot of respect for his work on \"Sesame Street.\" He won that Emmy just last month for playing Elmo. Even though his sex scandal was known by the time the voting process was under way. Anahita, I`m curious to get your take on that. The lawsuits, let`s say they`re all dismissed, the final pending one, do you think Kevin Clash could ever return to \"Sesame Street\" at this point or is it something that people just won`t want regardless because of the damage that`s been done?", "Yes. I mean, I think what Darren said is also very true. That the court dismissed these three lawsuits based on a technicality. Basically, the statute of limitations only means that the plaintiffs didn`t file their case in time. The judge made absolutely no ruling on the merits of the case, A.J., and there is still one other pending case. So it is a semi victory for this guy. But you know, whether or not he should make any career moves or career decisions yet, I just think it`s best to wait. And we don`t even know if \"Sesame Street\" wants him back. He probably should just stay away.", "Yes. And let me just remind everybody --", "Private employers have a lot of discretion in this space. It bears mentioning, if they don`t take him back, they`re well within their rights for a variety of reasons.", "Yes, and to be clear, but innocent until proven guilty. Darren, Anahita, I want you to stay right there. We have the big reveal coming up. The question now, why is Paula Deen number one in our showbiz justice countdown tonight? That is coming up in just a moment. But now, I have to move on to what could very well be a game changer from Mariah Carey`s reputation tonight.", "Did Mariah just get caught lip syncing again? Did she make a bad move? Tonight, the madness over Mariah. Plus, it is the showbiz baby newsmaker`s countdown you cannot miss. Kanye West just stepped into the spotlight for the first time since little North West was born. So tonight, I`m revealing papa Kanye`s brand-new daddy swag. Will it top our showbiz countdown tonight? This is SBT, \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT\" on HLN."], "speaker": ["GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, KILLED TRAYVON MARTIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "A.J. HAMMER, HLN HOST, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "ZIMMERMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HAMMER", "DARREN KAVINOKY, CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER", "HAMMER", "ANAHITA SEDAGHATFAR, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "HAMMER", "MARK O`MARA, ZIMMERMAN DEFENSE LAWYER", "MARK OSTERMAN, ZIMMERMAN`S FRIEND", "HAMMER", "KAVINOKY", "HAMMER", "SEDAGHATFAR", "HAMMER", "SEDAGHATFAR", "HAMMER", "KAVINOKY", "HAMMER", "KAVINOKY", "HAMMER", "SEDAGHATFAR", "HAMMER", "KAVINOKY", "HAMMER", "HAMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-32253", "program": "CNN SUNDAY", "date": "2001-6-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/10/sun.03.html", "summary": "Protesters Prepare March Against Capital Punishment", "utt": ["You may remember in our conversation with Bill Hemmer, we were talking about protesters that were planning to show up for the execution of Timothy McVeigh. Jeff Flock is in Terre Haute, amongst the demonstrators, and he joins us now live -- Jeff.", "Marty, indeed, that is our mission here over the course of the next 24, 36 hours, to keep track of those who are massing in this town both for and against the death penalty. Perhaps you can see we are at Saint Margaret Mary Church at this hour, with those who are massing on behalf of those who don't think the death penalty is a good idea. Abe Bonowitz is one of the people that leads them. You would be here if it wasn't for Timothy McVeigh, wouldn't you, Abe?", "We have been planning this for over a year.", "I want to ask you about what that plan is. But first, perhaps the most poignant sign, you see the gentleman in the back with a blue sign. \"Thou Shalt Not Kill, Not Even Him.\" Some people, Abe, have suggested that, if there was ever a reason for the death penalty, it is with this man. You don't buy that.", "We don't buy that; we don't believe that the government should have the power to take a human life. Because, even with a case like this, where it seems like this is the one, it is really about having a broader look at this. It is about the people that are not so famous; it is about whether the government should have a public policy that allows them to kill citizens.", "I am going to ask, Bruce, to -- go ahead if you would Bruce, to the table. This is a place to mass your selling shirts and bumper stickers and all that sort of thing. What is your plan for today? You have a march that is going to be coming up here in just a little bit.", "That's right. We will be marching from here to the prison, where we will be clear in our message, that killing should not be done in our name, and we oppose...", "You will march directly to the prison.", "That's correct. We have been working with prison officials so that everything goes smooth and clear.", "Abe Bonowitz, we appreciate the time very much, we will be checking in with you throughout this day. As I said, Marty, we will keep our eye on this group, as well as the other group, people who are expected here as well who support capital punishment. That's the latest from Terre Haute, back to you.", "Thank you, Jeff, very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ABE BONOWITZ, PROTEST ORGANIZER", "FLOCK", "BONOWITZ", "FLOCK", "BONOWITZ", "FLOCK", "BONOWITZ", "FLOCK", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "CNN-222784", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-1-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1401/12/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Apple to Sell in China", "utt": ["Well, investors on Wall Street looking forward to Tuesday. And that's when we're going to find out how retailers faired in December. The Consumer Price Index will point the direction inflation -- will point the direction of the inflation, rather, is heading. Stocks ended last week mixed on reports that hiring was up in the private sector. But the jobs report showed weaker numbers than expected. Also on Tuesday big banks, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo will release some key numbers. Their fourth quarter earnings. Alison Kosik at the New York Stock Exchange with what else investors will be watching when trading opens in the morning -- Alison.", "Hi, Kyra. It's a big week for Apple. The company will begin selling its iPhone 5s and 5c in China this coming week. That's after it inked a deal with China Mobile. It opens Apple up to 700 million new customers. But the gadget maker isn't a market leader in China. The problem is, China's wireless carriers don't subsidize the iPhone so it costs $700. Still analysts expect Apple to get a 20 percent sales bump this year because of the release. On the economic calendar retail sales numbers from December are coming out. The holiday season is expected to have been fairly solid for the major stores. Deep discounting encouraged consumers to buy more. Also out this week reports on home construction, manufacturing and consumer sentiment. And finally remember this guy? One of the most infamous faces of corporate greed is about to be a free man. Dennis Kozlowski, the former CEO of Tyco, is tentatively scheduled to be released from prison on Friday. Convicted in 2005 of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from Tyco, Kozlowski was known for his extravagant lifestyle. He once spent $6,000 on a shower curtain. Kyra, that's what's coming up on Wall Street.", "Alison, thanks so much. Also ahead, a video that has America talking still. A toddler in diapers, swearing, even flashing the middle finger. Next, could this little boy who's been taken into protective custody actually be returned home this week?"], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-63361", "program": "CNN SATURDAY", "date": "2002-11-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/23/cst.07.html", "summary": "Space Shuttle Prepares for Lift-Off", "utt": ["The countdown is on. Space Shuttle Endeavor prepares for lift-off and we're going to go live to the launch pad. In fact, there it is. God, that's a view you don't often get to see as they actually work at the doorway to Endeavor. Don't forget, you can watch that lift-off tonight right here on CNN, about 8:30 Eastern. Well, the crewmembers of the Space Shuttle Endeavor probably have their fingers crossed after nearly two weeks of delays, including one last evening because of rain in Spain. They actually - well they do plan on lifting off later today. We're going to keep our fingers crossed. CNN's Space Correspondent, Miles O'Brien, keeping an eye at the Kennedy Space Center, Miles is it looking good so far?", "Well, Carol, it's just perfect here and, as a matter of fact, Jim Weatherbee, the commander of the Space Shuttle Endeavor said gosh, what a great day for a launch, and the reply was well, we hope so. A great day here doesn't mean necessarily, of course, a great day in Spain. And, for those of you who don't understand what Spain has to do with where I am right now at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, if for some reason the space shuttle on its way to orbit lost an engine, they had to do an emergency landing, they would go to Spain, about an hour after they left here. How's that for a quick trip across the Atlantic Ocean? No time for a movie. No time for even some peanuts on that ride. In any case, that would be kind of a bad day for NASA needless to say. The trick is it's got to be good weather, good enough for the world's most expensive, complicated, glider to do its one-time, one shot only landing and we're watching that weather very closely. Look at this scene here, though. Isn't that a beautiful shot as we look at that shot high above the Vehicle Assembly Building? This area here, this lagoon, they call it the turn basin in there and that's where they bring some of the big pieces of the shuttle back, the external tank and so forth. Right at the center here is Pad 39-A, and at the core of that is the Space Shuttle Endeavor. You notice it's a beautiful clear day here, barely a cloud in the sky. This air space around here is secure and yesterday about three small planes were intercepted by F-15s. The pilots have quite a story to tell. We're told they were innocent intrusions. Anyway, take a look at the close shot there of the Space Shuttle Endeavor, and as I point your attention to right up here, you can see this thing called the gaseous oxygen vent hood, beanie cap for a lot of people here. It has some oxygen coming out the stove pipe there if you will. That's designed to keep ice from forming on the top of the external tank, liquid oxygen very cold. They had some problems with the hydraulic motor in it but apparently that's OK. Down at the bottom, you'll see some of the liquid hydrogen that's coming out of there. There's about 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen onboard there. That would put it in the category of a relatively small nuclear bomb. Now, let's take a look at what's going on inside as they get ready. Carol, you were talking about the people inside the White Room. Well, that shot's not there anymore but you can see the countdown and then you can see the space shuttle on the pad, Endeavor. Their mission is to go to the International Space Station. It will take them about two days just to catch up. When they get there, the key - well there are two big keys to this mission. They're going to attach a big piece of the station, about a school bus size truss that will carry some solar rays and some radiators. That's important. But more important for the crew onboard, having just spent 170 days in space, their relief crew will be onboard Endeavor, and they are ready to come home. We've been told directly by Peggy Whitson, the American crewmember onboard that she is just sick and tired of the food, Carol, and is dying to come home and if not have Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving, she will have a feast whenever she gets back. So, we'll be watching the weather here, not here so much as we will be watching in Spain. The weather here is not a problem at all. So far, the shuttle itself is doing well. Let's go back quickly to that shot of the White Room that you were fascinated with. I'll tell you very quickly about this team. This group, they call them the Caped Crusaders. They all have numbers on their backs so they can keep track of them all. John Herrington, one of the crewmembers onboard who just got strapped in, the first Native American to go to space when it happens, spent two and a half years here working as a Caped Crusader. He says he's pretty happy to be on the inside of the hatch this go-round. There's John Herrington before he strapped in a little while ago getting ready to go. The Chickasaw Nation is a very proud Native American Nation right now. We got some tape. We'll lose that live up at the left here. This is taped shots from a little while ago. The right-hand corner there, Jim Weatherbee, and then one of those Caped Crusaders, doing his job, strapping in, waiting for the day when he gets to be on the inside of the hatch - Carol.", "Oh, so that's what Caped Crusaders grow up to be, astronauts.", "Yes.", "Yes, our hero.", "Astronauts.", "All right, thanks so much Miles. We'll be looking forward to your coverage later tonight. We'll keep our fingers crossed for Endeavor. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN SPACE CORRESPONDENT", "LIN", "O'BRIEN", "LIN", "O'BRIEN", "LIN"]}
{"id": "NPR-21794", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2015-06-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/06/09/413069530/japanese-author-builds-monument-to-honor-dead-insects", "title": "Japanese Author Builds Monument To Honor Dead Insects", "summary": "It shows a man with his head bent, bowing to a massive beetle crawling over a rock. Takeshi Yoro tells the Kyodo News agency, he hopes the monument will console the souls of the insects he has killed.", "utt": ["Good morning. I'm Ari Shapiro. In Japan, Takeshi Yoro is a best-selling author and insect obsessive. A few years ago, he was in a movie called \"Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo.\" And now he has created a new monument at a Japanese Temple. It shows a man with his head bent bowing to a massive beetle crawling over a rock. Yoro tells the Kyodo News agency he hopes the monument will console the souls of all the dead insects he's collected. It's MORNING EDITION."], "speaker": ["ARI SHAPIRO, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-244157", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-11-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/28/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Exclusive Interview With Benjamin Watson", "utt": ["Welcome back. You're watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin. You know, you've been watching. We've been reporting this week on the reaction to the grand jury's decision to not indict police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown. But there's this essay, it is making the rounds online that's resonating with hundreds of thousands of people. More than 750,000 people have given it thumbs up on facebook and that's just facebook. Almost half a million have shared with it friends. It details one man's very real, very candid range of emotions about what happened in Ferguson. The man who wrote this essay joins me now. He's NFL player of the New Orleans Saints tight end Mr. Benjamin Watson. Benjamin Watson, it is truly an honor and a plea sure to have you on.", "Thank you. It's an honor to be here, Brooke.", "So you and I were chatting a little bit this week about your piece and an asked you because it's much more poignant coming from you than from me, two of your favorite paragraphs, can you read those for me?", "Yes. I will. Luckily I have my iphone.", "Thank you.", "I want to read about being an introspective. The first one is I'm introspective because sometimes I want to take our side without looking at the facts in situations like these. Sometimes I feel like it's us against them. Sometimes I'm just as prejudice as people I point fingers at and that's not right. How can I look at white skin and make assumptions but not want assumptions about me. That's not right. I'll go down and the second paragraph that I think kind of struck a chord with me was the last paragraph of the piece. And it is kind of how I closed it up, kind of on a positive note because after thinking about all these emotions and going through them, I'm encouraged because of this. I'm encouraged because ultimately the problem is not a skin problem it's a sin problem. Sin is the reason we rebel against authority. Sin is the reason we abuse our authority. Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced and lie to cover for our own. Sin is the reason we riot, we loot and we burn. But I'm encouraged because God has provided solution for sin through his son Jesus. And with it, a transformed mind and heart, one that's capable of looking past the outward and seeing what's truly important in every human being. The cure for Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamara Rice (ph) and Eric Gardner tragedy is not education or exposure it's the Gospel. So finally, I'm encouraged because the gospel of his mankind hope.", "What -- you know, its one thing for all of us to have conversations around the water cooler or on the football field or what have you this past week. But I'm curious, Benjamin, what specifically possessed you to take the time to write this and then have the courage to share it?", "Great question. I do a little bit of writing, and I wouldn't consider myself a writer by any stretch of the imagination. But I do from time to time like to write about things that I see in football and kind of relate them to life, or to even to spiritual lessons. So I do some writing at times. But after the Monday night game, we didn't hear the announcement made. And so, after the Monday night game, we came on and heard about it, turned on CNN, turn on FOX and just kind of saw what was going on, saw everything that was going on in Ferguson. And my heart went out to the people there. My heart went out to both sides. And you know, over the course of the next day, we had that next Tuesday off. So I was with the kids. I made -- you know, I helped make breakfast. And then I went out to get a couple of things and so I started getting my thoughts together because there are so many emotions in this one event. And I wanted to get it out to kind of flesh out how I felt about the situation and didn't really know how I was going to write this piece or didn't know the format it was going to be in. But throughout that day, I literally took my iphone and started typing in the note section. And by the end of the day, I'm actually sitting in the parking lot of a Target on Clear View Avenue in New Orleans. My wife was in the Target. The kids were in the back. And she was getting some things, actually, for a few homeless people in the city and I just started writing. And I finished it, sent it off. I don't even know how to logon to my facebook.", "Benjamin!", "I'm serious. I do twitter, but facebook, I'm not that good at.", "It's alright. You get a pass.", "I will be honest with you. And then, you know, I sent it to the folks to put it on there. And then a couple of hours later, my phone died and my wife was looking on her computer and she said Benjamin, did you post something? I said, yes. I posted something. And she said, everybody's blowing my facebook up and asking me questions. And I actually looked and I was really speechless and floored by the response that it was getting. You know, that was two days ago on Tuesday -- actually three days ago on Tuesday. Now we're where we sit now.", "I mean, you know, you and I were talking this week over twitter as you were saying that you were overwhelmed. And I think -- I mean, I've had discussions on my show about your piece. I'm just thrilled to actually talk to you about it. And I think one part that really resonates with, you know, a lot of America is the \"I'm sympathetic\" section, where you talk about, I'm sympathetic to the officer. I'm sympathetic to Michael Brown and so much of America really perceiving. this story as divided along racial lines. I talked to Lz Granderson on the show yesterday and her said, his biggest frustration he was ion Ferguson, he saw it all. And he said neither side is sympathetic to the other. That's a problem.", "Yes. And I think that's a natural reaction. That's why I started off by saying that I'm angry. It's OK to be angry and to identify your emotion as being angry because like I said later, we like to protect our own. And because of our life experiences, whether it is being a black American or a white American, because of stories that you've heard overtime, because of injustices that have happened, because of maybe being accused of something you didn't do or maybe being accused of being racist when you're not. We have these certain histories and we react because of those. And so, you know, anger is OK. But when you get past that first level of emotion, it's important to understand, why are you angry? And then take it a step further. Am I any different than anyone else if I'm in their situation? And I think the sympathetic part, you know, I've had a lot of teammates that came up to me and actually read it. It was that really warms from my heart. Because for them to actually come to say they enjoyed the piece. But I think it was what a lot of people were thinking but didn't know how to express it. And for whatever reason, God gave me the words to put on paper and it kind of resonated with a lot of people. But I think it's really important that we take a step back sometimes and think about the other side before we make accusations and assumptions.", "Sit in the silence, let it flow, be it on paper or in the note section of your iphone. You know, so much, I think, also, Benjamin, of this about discussion about preconceived notions, about police and involving minorities. And let me keep you up of a commercial break. I want you to sit and think and"], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "BENJAMIN WATSON, NEW ORLEANS SAINTS PLAYER", "BALDWIN", "WATSON", "BALDWIN", "WATSON", "BALDWIN", "WATSON", "BALDWIN", "WATSON", "BALDWIN", "WATSON", "BALDWIN", "WATSON", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-323594", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2017-10-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/13/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Trump Assails Major Parts of Obama's Legacy; Trump to Dems: 'Come to Me' and Negotiate on Health Care; Trump Decertifies Iran Nuclear Deal But Doesn't End It; Pelosi Reacts To Trump Feud With Top GOP Senator; Trump Assails Major Parts Of Obama Legacy", "utt": ["Happening now, raw deal. President Trump accuses Iran of cheating on its agreement to stop pursuing nuclear weapons, even though top members of his own administration say that isn't the case. Tonight, he's forcing Congress to make the next move. Will the president's refusal to certify Iran's compliance open the way to a better deal or isolate the United States? Raising premiums? In his most direct assault yet on Obamacare, President Trump puts a stop to subsidies designed to help millions of lower-income Americans afford insurance. He calls the money payouts to insurance companies. But will people who voted for the president now see their health care costs soar by thousands of dollars? No conspiracy. In a combative and emotional news conference, the sheriff leading the investigation into the Las Vegas massacre angrily denies allegations of incompetence. He also reveals the killer targeted police and revises the timeline of what happened and when. But are we any closer to understanding why he opened fire on thousands of concertgoers? And high winds. Forecasters now fear 60-mile-an-hour winds will push California's wildfires into more neighborhoods. With the death toll rising and hundreds listed as missing, could California's worst wildfire season get even worse this weekend? I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We're following multiple breaking stories as President Trump took major steps to keep his campaign promises, rolling back significant parts of former President Obama's legacy. This afternoon, the president announced he will not certify that Iran is complying with terms of the nuclear deal negotiated during the Obama administration. He stopped short of pulling the United States out of the multinational agreement, but accused Iran of violating the deal's spirit and some of its provisions. The president's actions are drawing anger in Iran and pushback from Russia. Also this afternoon, the president told Democrats -- and I'm quoting now -- \"Come to me and negotiate on health care.\" His demand comes as his administration stopped reimbursing insurance companies for providing lower cost, lower deductible Obamacare policies to millions of lower income Americans. Angry Democrats accuse the president of deliberately sabotaging the Affordable Care Act that he failed to get Congress to repeal and replace. Also breaking, in a defensive and emotional news conference, the sheriff leading the investigation into the Las Vegas mass shooting clarifies the timeline of what happened once again and says the killer targeted police. The sheriff also says he is absolutely offended by allegations his investigation is incompetent. Meanwhile, President Trump's budget director, Mick Mulvaney, is here with me in THE SITUATION ROOM. He'll take our questions about Obamacare and more. And our correspondents and analysts, specialists, they will have full coverage of the day's top stories. Let's start with our senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. Jim, the president is trying to live up to his campaign promises by taking down two major parts of the Obama legacy, involving health care and the Iran nuclear deal.", "That's exactly right, Wolf. President Trump spent the day chipping away at Barack Obama's legacy by going after two of the former president's signature achievement, Obamacare and, as you said, the Iran nuclear deal. The president defended those decisions as well as handling of Puerto Rico, claiming that he, in fact, loves the people on the island.", "Today, President Trump turned his campaign rhetoric into action, threatening to unravel the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal, but only after he kicks the issue to Congress, giving lawmakers a chance to toughen the agreement. If Congress fails to act, he warns, he may scrap the deal.", "Well, I may do that. I may do that. The deal is terrible. So what we've done is, through the certification process, we'll have Congress take a look at it, and I may very well do that.", "The president arrived at his policy after senior leaders in his own cabinet pleaded for him to stay in the agreement now. The president was still in a defiant mood, insisting that Iran had violated the agreement.", "The Iranian regime has committed multiple violations of the agreement.", "Just one day after his own secretary of state told reporters, quote, \"We don't disagree. We don't dispute that Iran is under technical compliance.\" Still, the president's move stops well short of his campaign threats to completely pull out of the agreement.", "Our leaders never read \"The Art of the Deal,\" one of the great books, of course. The Iran deal, this recent deal which is a catastrophe.", "The president is taking dramatic action to undermine another piece of Barack Obama's legacy, Obamacare. Ending the payments to insurance companies that help provide health care to lower income enrollees.", "And one by one it's going to come down.", "Mr. Trump said his actions won't harm the poor. (on camera): Mr. President, aren't you concerned about poor people losing health care?", "No, because I think what we'll do is we'll be able to renegotiate so that everybody gets -- we just took care of a big chunk, and now we'll take care of the other chunk. What would be nice, if the Democratic leaders could come over to the White House, we'll negotiate some deal that's good for everybody.", "Experts say the president's move will hike rates for both middle-class and lower-income Americans at an estimated cost to the government of more than $7 billion next year. The president is acting to dismantle Obamacare, even though he said he would let it collapse on its own earlier this year.", "Let Obamacare fail. It will be a lot easier. And I think we're probably in that position where we'll just let Obamacare fail.", "Holding an impromptu mini news conference on the South Lawn of the White House -- the president also defended his actions in Puerto Rico, including his tweets slamming local leaders on the island, as well as his warning that assistance won't last forever. (on camera): Why do you keep going after Puerto Rico and saying you won't stay there forever?", "We've done a great job.", "You didn't say that about Texas or Louisiana. You say it about Puerto Rico. Why?", "We've done a great job in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico has to get the infrastructure going. We're helping them with their infrastructure.", "Now, as for the Iran deal, there are mixed messages coming from the administration. While the president said today that he may end up cancelling the agreement altogether, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters that the U.S. would remain in the deal if Congress does nothing. And it's unclear Republican lawmakers will be able to find the votes on Iran when they have failed to act on so many other fronts -- Wolf.", "Jim Acosta at the White House, thanks very much. We're going to have much more on the Iran deal in a few moments, but first, let's get to the president's moves to change the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare. Despite the president's call for Democrats to come and negotiate about health care, they're furious right now about his refusal to pay the Obamacare subsidies. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is accusing the president of the United States of deliberately forcing up the cost of health insurance.", "Make no mistake: last night the president single-handedly decided to raise America's health premiums for no reason except spite and cruelty.", "Our congressional correspondent, Phil Mattingly, is up on Capitol Hill. Phil, despite Republicans' total contempt for Obamacare, is it possible they may take action to undo what the president has actually done today?", "It certainly is, Wolf, and that's because of the Republican conference. It is not unified on this issue specifically. Now, absolutely, they are opposed to Obamacare. They want to repeal and replace the law, even though they haven't figured out a way to do that legislatively yet. But when it comes to these payments, when it comes to these subsidies, a lot of Republicans, including high-ranking Republicans, like Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, like House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady say these subsidies are necessary so long as Obamacare is the law, and a fix is needed. Now Wolf, Republican leaders at least publicly haven't tipped their hand on what their next steps are. But I can tell you, behind the scenes, several aides have told me this has led to an extremely complicated process going forward. On the policy, they are very cognizant of what this could do to insurance markets, what this could do to individuals who receive subsidies through Obamacare, specifically to their premiums. On the politics, there's also a recognition, as you heard from Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democrats are absolutely going to say that this has to be in any spending deal or any future deal before the end of the year, and they recognize for their members, for the policy and the politics, this is going to be very complicated. And think -- and keep in mind, Wolf, they have a very complicated next ten weeks already on the schedule. This only adds to that.", "Certainly does. Phil, was this move by the president done in concert with Republicans up on Capitol Hill where you are? Did they know this was coming? Because lawmakers will have to take action even though they have had some trouble doing much so far.", "Wolf, I'm told that this was a complete surprise to several, if not all, Republican leaders here on Capitol Hill. Many of them reading about it before hearing anything from the administration. Now, look, keep in mind, Republicans in 2014, House Republicans, actually launched the lawsuit that found that these subsidies were unconstitutional, that they should be appropriated by Congress. They are opposed to the subsidies. But implicitly, they were more than willing to accept the administration continuing to pay them until they found a pathway forward. Now as I noted, the idea that the administration would move forward on this not flag this for congressional leaders heading into this kind of very contentious debate has created all sorts of complications here as they try and almost thread the needle here on an issue that has already divided their conference, and as they are very cognizant of, could create major problems in insurance markets, which could have a fallout not just on the policy side but also the political side, Wolf.", "It certainly could. All right. Phil Mattingly up on Capitol Hill, thanks very much. Joining us here in THE SITUATION ROOM is President Trump's budget director, Mick Mulvaney. Director Mulvaney, thanks very much for joining us. MICK MULVANEY, Wolf, thank you very much for having me. The criticism you're getting, not just from Democrats but even Republicans who are telling you, you just heard this comes as a surprise, that this step to remove these subsidies is going to wind up hurting a whole bunch of people who wound up voting for the president of the United States. Their premiums are going to skyrocket as a result of this.", "Yes. I had a chance to watch the presentation of various folks who just spoke there, and it was interesting that they used the same language, subsidies to people, subsidies to folks. That's not what these are, Wolf. This is money -- if you follow the money here, which is what we do at the Office of Management and Budget. These are checks from the treasury to some of the largest health insurance companies in the country. That's what this was. This was not a subsidy to you or me or anybody else who's on Obamacare.", "All these subsidies are designed to subsidize premiums for individuals.", "And those companies are already required by law to keep the premiums at a certain level. What this was was essentially a pay-off to the insurance companies to support Obamacare in the first place back in 2009/2010. It's been a terrible policy. And only at the very end of the last segment there that you saw was the comment about how they're unconstitutional. This money was never appropriated. In fact, I was in the House in 2014 when I voted to give Paul Ryan the ability to file a lawsuit on this, because these monies cannot be...", "But aren't you concerned if you remove these subsidies a lot of these big insurance companies are going to pull out and not provide any insurance to these individuals? It's going to -- the competition is going to go way, way down. Some people won't be able to get anything.", "I'm absolutely -- I welcome the left, the Democrat Party to the conversation about what it's like to have insurance companies pull out on states...", "These are Republicans who are worried about that.", "Well, the point of the matter, though, is that it seems like the Democrats were not very concerned about premiums going up when they went up because of Obamacare in the first place. They weren't very concerned about bare counties back when we had them. These payments are payments to insurance companies. I cannot believe that Nancy Pelosi was just on your screen there defending bailout payments to large corporations. Typically, the Democrats are against that. So it's sort of like the shoe is on the other foot here. The bottom is these are bad policy, and the payments are not appropriate.", "Once again, they're designed as subsidies to help with the premiums for individuals. The premiums are going to go up if the subsidies go away. But here's the other criticism, that the president is doing this because he wants to see Obamacare fail.", "Again, the president doesn't want to write a check of your and my tax money to these large health insurance companies that are making hundreds of millions of dollars. Let's make -- let's be perfectly clear. These companies have done extraordinarily well since Obamacare became the law of the land. And the president didn't want to simply stand by and see that continue to happen. That, married to the fact that these are unappropriated payments -- and you and I know what that means. It means Congress made no appropriation for this. The Department of Justice came out with a letter earlier this week, said they can no longer defend the Obama position that these are legal payments, and we had to stop them.", "Does the president want to see Obamacare fail?", "I think the president, along with most of us, know that Obamacare is failing on its own and didn't need any help to do so. We've made this decision because it was bad policy and because the payments were...", "But this will speed it up?", "It was going fast enough as it is. If you're willing to admit to me here tonight that Obamacare is going to fail and that we need to repeal and replace it, I'll agree with your premise.", "The Congressional Budget Office still says it's relatively stable right now. But let me read to you what the president tweeted this morning: \"The Democrats' Obamacare is imploding. Massive subsidy payments to their pet insurance companies has stopped. Dems should call me to fix.\"", "Yes.", "All right, so if they call the president to fix, is he willing to sit down with Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leadership, the Republican leadership, and come up with a plan to fix the problems of the Affordable Care Act but stop short of repealing it?", "I think that word depends on who you're talking to. We are interested in repealing Obamacare and replacing it with something better.", "But that's not going to happen.", "If the Democrats want to fund that, fixing Obamacare.", "You're not going to have a chance to do that, at least according to the legislative director at the White House, Marc Short, who was here yesterday, until at least the spring of next year. That will be the first time you'll have a chance to repeal and replace. In the intermediate time, Director Mulvaney, are you willing to sit down with the Democrats and come up with some improvements that both sides can agree on?", "If it's -- if it's better for the American people and it's better for the public, it's better for health care in this nation, why would the Democrats be against it just because it repeals Obamacare? Because his name is on the front part of that?", "You know they're not going to accept anything that repeals Obamacare.", "Why not?", "That's their position.", "And it is. If you ask them why...", "They say they're willing to fix. They're willing to improve it. They know there are problems. They're willing to improve it. And you have a Republican senator, Lamar Alexander, Patty Murray, a Democrat, they're working to try to fix it right now, stopping short of repealing and replacing. Are you willing to go along with Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray?", "My understanding -- and I could have this wrong -- but my understanding of the Lamar Alexander/Patty Murray bill was to simply appropriate these unappropriated payments. Appropriate or legalize...", "To improve the current system.", "Well, no, to fix the problem.", "But would you go along with Lamar Alexander on that?", "I think I've said a couple of times today that, if it's just a clean bill. If what -- the only thing that Congress can do is to try and force the administration to bail out these insurance companies. The answer is no. If they're interested in talking about health care more widely, to fix it in the Democrats' word, to repeal and replace in our words, the answer is absolute yes. The president is interested in working with anybody who wants to work with him.", "\"Democrats should call me to fix.\" And he's suggested that on a number of occasions. Apparently had a pretty good dinner not too long ago with Chuck and Nancy, as he likes to call them. So are you confident that something with the Democrats can be worked out in the interim?", "I was at the dinner, the Chuck and Nancy Chinese food dinner. I'm absolutely confident something could get done on DACA, because the president wants to see it; so many people do.", "On the DREAMers. But what about on health care?", "DACA and the DREAM Act are two entirely different things. But on health care, the president's interested in making this system better. We call that repeal and replace. It's what we want to do. If anybody wants to help us do that, that's fine.", "The president has promised, as you know repeatedly, cheaper, better health care. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that premiums will rise 20 percent, on average, for what's called the silver level plan in 2018. Is the president keeping his promise?", "Fascinated how they could do that so quickly, and yet they can't score Graham-Cassidy in a month when we give it to them. But that's another story entirely. Here's how I would answer that. Yesterday -- and this didn't get discussed in the opening segment of the show. The president took some sweeping actions to actually lower premiums for millions of Americans. The associated health plans, the short-term limited-duration plans, some of the other things we're doing yesterday in that executive order, will dramatically lower premiums on folks. It's what the president wants to do. The reason we took the action today that we did on the CSR payments, the cost-sharing reduction payments, is because they were terrible policy giving money to companies that don't need it. And they were not...", "We did cover that extensively yesterday with the president...", "Thank you.", "... when he announced yesterday that he signed that executive order. But what will the president say to the millions of Americans potentially out there -- and you're familiar, a former member of Congress -- whose premiums are about to go up as a result of the decision? He had the Justice Department take today.", "Keep in mind, most of the insurance companies, in fact, I think the only exception is in North Dakota, South Dakota and Arizona. Most of the insurance companies who filed their proposed rates for next year have already assumed that these payments were not being made. So there's not going to be any additional increase over what they...", "You don't think premiums will go up for a lot of Americans as a result of this?", "I think -- premiums are already going to go up.", "But will they go up?", "Premiums have gone up every single year under Obamacare. If insurance companies want to try and raise their rates because they're no longer getting a bailout, that's their problem.", "Let me get -- before I let you go, you're the budget director. Tax cuts, that's a big proposal the president wants to move forward. When you were a member of Congress -- and I remember this well -- you were a big deficit hawk. The Congressional Budget Office now estimating that if these proposed tax cuts, the tax reform that the president is putting forward, go up, it could increase the deficit by trillions, trillions of dollars. Are you ready to accept that?", "I'm not familiar with that. I've seen the report from the Tax Policy Center. I didn't realize the CBO had scored this yet.", "They haven't scored it yet, but there's a preliminary estimate that it could be trillions of dollars.", "OK. Well, again, the CBO's job is to score proposed legislation. There isn't any proposed legislation. But let me deal to the larger issue of proposed deficits. Keep in mind, the Senate instructions on the budget, the Senate, I think, will take up the end of next week, will cap that potential impact on the deficit at $1.5 trillion over the next few years.", "Are you -- are you ready to go with $1.5 billion [SIC] increase in the national debt, the deficit, if your legislation goes through?", "I've said many, many times the only way we're going to balance the budget, OK, in the current atmosphere in Washington, D.C., is fiscal restraint, growing government more slowly than we otherwise would, plus economic growth. And that's what we think the effects will be...", "But a trillion and a half dollars, you're willing to see it go up a trillion -- $1.5 trillion?", "If you're 30 years old...", "When you were in Congress, you wouldn't have accepted that.", "If you're 30 years old and you're watching this program, Wolf, you've never lived and worked in this country as an adult with a healthy American economy. It is a tremendous wealth-creating machine for the rich, the middle class and the poor alike. And we will do everything in our -- that we possibly can to get back to that. And if that means taking short-term increases in deficits, yes.", "So you're willing to go along with it. Because as you know, a lot of Republicans in the House and the Senate, they say they want tax cuts, but they don't want it -- they want it to be deficit neutral. They don't want to see $1.5 trillion increase in the national debt to pay for these kinds of tax cuts.", "I am not the only deficit hawk in this town who wants to see economic growth and is willing to incur short-term increases in the deficit in order to get that. That is the only way you actually pay off the -- excuse me, balance the budget. It's what happened in the 1990s. Slower growth in government expenditures and tremendous economic growth. That's how we balanced the budget in the past. That's how we're going to do it again.", "One final question on the health care. As you saw the polls, more Americans thought Obamacare was working. They didn't necessarily like -- in the numbers that they supported Obamacare repeal and replace. Are you willing to keep on pushing for repeal and replace, even though a minority of Americans say that's the way to go?", "You know, I'd love to see a poll of the people actually on Obamacare. People don't realize this. When I was in Congress, I was on Obamacare, and it was terrible. I lost my doctor. My wife lost her doctor. My kids lost their doctor. Our premiums went up. Our co-pays went up. It cost us a fortune to be on that program. We had insurance, but it cost us tens of thousands of dollars to...", "But there -- there are, what, 20 million more Americans, at least they have some insurance. Isn't that good?", "Well, there's 28 million people right now who don't have insurance despite Obamacare, which is why what we did yesterday was so important.", "So there's a lot of work that you guys need to do. But the repeal and replace, you agree with Marc Short, the legislative director of the White House: it's not going to happen, repeal and replace, at least until spring of next year?", "I think that's probably fair. If the Senate wants to pass it next week, they're welcome to, and we welcome that. But I don't see that happening.", "They had plenty of opportunities.", "Yes, they did.", "Didn't happen yet.", "Yes, they did.", "Mick Mulvaney, thanks very much for coming in.", "Thanks, Wolf.", "The director of the Office of Management and Budget. Up next, will Democrats take up the president's offer to negotiate on health care? I'll ask Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego, whose home state has seen a very dramatic spike in Obamacare premiums. Plus, more details emerging right now about President Trump's charge that Iran is violating both the spirit and the terms of the deal on its nuclear program.", "Finally, we will deny the regime all paths to a nuclear weapon."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "THE SITUATION ROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-54695", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-5-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/23/lt.28.html", "summary": "Milwaukee Archbishop Asks Church to Accept His Resignation", "utt": ["The Archdiocese in Milwaukee is the latest focal point in the Catholic Church's priest abuse scandal. Today the Archbishop Rembert Weakland denied allegations of past abuse, but there is a statement now where he is asking the church to accept his resignation. Jeff Flock joining us from Milwaukee following this story. Jeff, good afternoon.", "Indeed, Bill, good afternoon to you. We are here at the headquarters of the Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese. Perhaps you see it behind me. And it is fair to say, having heard from some Milwaukee Catholics already, that they are -- in their own words -- \"shocked by news\" about Archbishop Weakland this morning. He is a man who has been archbishop in this diocese for now 25 years, a prominent Catholic Church leader. Perhaps you know him as one of the perhaps more liberal-leaning prominent Catholic Church leaders in the U.S. He is a man who early in his career was even considered a possible first U.S. pope. But now news today -- word today -- that there were allegations of sexual assault against Weakland dating back now 20 years ago by a man, and I do say a man, not a boy. This man was already in his mid- 30s. He essentially says he was date-raped by Weakland 20 years ago. And there is now evidence that Weakland paid some several thousand dollars of his own money to initially settle the claim, and then in 1997 expended $450,000 of Milwaukee Catholic Church money in the claim. A short time ago, Weakland issued a statement in which he defended himself, though he confirmed that there in fact was a settlement. His statement.", "I have never abused anyone. I have not seen Paul Marcoux for more than 20 years. When I first met him here in Milwaukee, he was a man in his early 30s. Paul Marcoux has made reference to a settlement agreement between us. Because I accept the agreement's confidentiality provision, I will make no comment about its contents. However, because I have financial responsibility for the well- being of this archdiocese, I want to let the people of the archdiocese know that through my 25 years as -- of -- as bishop, I have handed over to the archdiocese money obtained by my lectures and writings, together with other honoraria. Cumulatively those monies far exceed any settlement amount.", "So Weakland essentially saying that if there was a settlement amount, that any money that was paid essentially was his own money, money that he contributed to the church anyway. And I can tell you, having heard from some Milwaukee Catholics, that is clearly on their minds this morning. Weakland goes on to say that he does not want to provide a distraction given the current climate around this issue. He points out that he has already tendered his resignation -- that because of church law. He reached the age of 75, and every bishop -- archbishop must tender a resignation to the pope at that time. He did so. Has not had it accepted yet, and fully expected to serve through the summer and perhaps into the fall and appear at the prominent U.S. meeting of Catholic U.S. bishops in Dallas. But at this point, he has said that he will ask the pope to accelerate the process of replacing him and essentially make that resignation happen a lot sooner than initially was expected to. So shocking news here in Milwaukee today. And, Bill, throughout this day we'll be talking to folks and get some sense of it and let you know. That's the latest from here, back to you.", "Jeff, quickly, any word thus far since the announcement from the accuser?", "I can tell you that this was a story initially reported by ABC News. It turns out the \"Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\" also had it, did not publish because they felt that they could not confirm it. But they say that he is now living in San Francisco. And they describe him as a -- as a man who is out of work in San Francisco and has had a lot of difficulty as a result of this -- what happened to him 20 years ago and that in his mind justifies the amount of that settlement that he sought from the church here about five years ago.", "Thank you, Jeff. Jeff Flock in Milwaukee. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Resignation>"], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JERRY TOPCZEWSKI, ARCHDIOCESE SPOKESMAN", "FLOCK", "HEMMER", "FLOCK", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-372115", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-06-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/12/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Sanders Makes Case For Democratic Socialism. F-35s Flying Over The White House To Mark This Deal That President Duda And President Trump Just Inked. ", "utt": ["Slide into socialism, this was his latest jab while in Iowa.", "More than 100 Democrats in Congress have signed up for the Bernie Sanders' government takeover of healthcare. Democrats also support the $100 trillion Green New Deal -- how about that beauty, the Green New Deal. The Democrat Party is really now the Socialist Party.", "And any minute now, the man President Trump name-checked, Vermont Senator, Bernie Sanders, is set to push back on the President and define Democratic socialism all on his own terms to give a preview to CNN's Dana Bash just this past weekend.", "Well, I think it's important for the American people to understand what my definition is of Democratic socialism. It's certainly not how Donald Trump defines it. But what I believe when we talk about Democratic socialism is number one, we have to deal with the massive levels of income and wealth inequality in this country. What I mean by Democratic socialism is creating a government that works for everybody, not controlled either legislatively or politically by a handful of very wealthy people.", "Senator Sanders' speech comes as President Trump hosts his Polish counterpart at the White House. The two leaders will hold a news conference in just a couple minutes from the Rose Garden, much more on that in just a moment but let's go straight to Senator Sanders setting -- about to speak there -- let's dip in.", "Thank you all very much for being here. And let me begin by saying, my friends, we are in the midst of a defining and pivotal moment for our country and our planet. And, with so many crises converging upon us simultaneously, it is easy for us to become overwhelmed or depressed -- or to even throw up our hands in resignation. But my message to you today is that if there was ever a moment in the history of our country where despair was not an option, this is that time. If there was ever a moment where we had to effectively analyze the competing political and social forces which define this historical period, this is that time. If there was ever a moment when we needed to stand up and fight against the forces of oligarchy and authoritarianism, this is that time. And, if there was ever a moment when we needed a new vision to bring our people together in the fight for justice, decency and human dignity, this is that time. In the year 2019 the United States and the rest of the world face two very different political paths. On one hand, there is a growing movement towards oligarchy and authoritarianism in which a small number of incredibly wealthy and powerful billionaires own and control a significant part of the economy and exert enormous influence over the political life of our country. On the other hand, in opposition to oligarchy, there is a movement of working people and young people who, in ever increasing numbers, are fighting for justice. They are the teachers taking to the streets to make certain that schools are adequately funded and that their students get a quality education. They are workers at Disney, Amazon, Walmart and the fast food industry standing up and fighting for a living wage of at least $15 an hour and the right to have a union.", "They are young people taking on the fossil fuel industry and demanding policies that transform our energy system and protect our planet from the ravages of climate change. They are women who refuse to give control of their bodies to local, state and Federal politicians. They are people of color and their allies demanding an end to systemic racism and massive racial inequities that exist throughout our society. They are immigrants and their allies fighting to end the demonization of undocumented people and for comprehensive immigration reform. When we talk about oligarchy, let us be clear about what we mean. Right now, in the United States of America, three families control more wealth than the bottom half of our country, some 160 million Americans. The top one percent own more wealth than the bottom 92 percent and 49 percent of all new income generated today goes to the top one percent. In fact, income and wealth inequality today in the United States is greater than at any time since the 1920s. And when we talk about oligarchy, it is not just that the very rich are getting much richer. It is that tens of millions of working-class people, in the wealthiest country on earth, are suffering under incredible economic hardship, desperately trying to survive. Today, nearly 40 million Americans live in poverty and tonight, some 500,000 Americans including many veterans will be sleeping out on the streets. About half of the country lives paycheck to paycheck as tens of millions of our people are an accident, a divorce, a sickness or a layoff away from economic devastation. While many public schools throughout the country lack the resources to adequately educate our young people, we are the most heavily incarcerated nation on earth. After decades of policies that have encouraged and subsidized unbridled corporate greed, we now have an economy that is fundamentally broken and grotesquely unfair. Even while macroeconomic numbers like GDP, the stock market and the unemployment rate are strong, millions of middle class and working people struggle to keep their heads above water, while the billionaire class consumes the lion's share of the wealth that we are collectively creating as a nation. In the midst of a so-called booming economy real wages for the average worker have barely risen at all. And despite an explosion in technology and worker productivity, the average wage of the American worker in real dollars is no higher than it was 46 years ago and millions of people in our country today are forced to work two or three jobs just to survive. And here is something quite incredible that tells you all you need to know about the results of unfettered capitalism. All of us want to live long, happy, and productive lives. But in America today, the very rich live on average 15 years longer than the poorest Americans.", "In 2014 for example, in McDowell County, West Virginia, one of the poorest counties in the nation, life expectancy for men was 64 years. In Fairfax County, Virginia, a wealthy county, just 350 miles away, life expectancy for men was nearly 82 years, an 18-year differential. The life expectancy gap for women in the two counties was 12 years. In other words, the issue of unfettered capitalism is not just an academic debate. Poverty, economic distress, and despair are life- threatening issues for millions of working people in the country. While the rich get richer they live longer lives. While poor and working families struggle economically and often lack adequate health care, their life expectancy is declining for the first time in modern American history. Taken together, the American Dream of upward mobility is in peril.", "All right. So, Senator Bernie Sanders, listening to him giving the speech here. He said it a couple of years ago and he was running the last go round and he's doubling down again. He's basically saying, you know, America is ready to elect a Democratic Socialist. So let's analyze all things Bernie Sanders said. David Chalian, is CNN's political director. M.J. Lee is CNN's local correspondent. And David just first to you, what did you think of the message that we listened to so far and do you think that, you know, at least according to Senator Sanders that that socialism is no longer a dirty word in politics.", "Well, this is Bernie Sanders at his most authentic self, right? I mean, he's been remarkably consistent over the years and in his positions as it relates to these issues, Brooke. And being able to frame what Democratic socialism means to him and how he interprets that in terms of the policy he puts forth is a very important thing for him to do. Because obviously, it is a word that Donald Trump, even as recently as last night in Iowa, was using against Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party more broadly. He is going to, as are his surrogates -- the Republicans are going to try to paint the Democrats as too far left and try to make socialist a dirty word so it is incumbent upon Bernie Sanders, the declared Democratic socialist in the race to try and counter that frame. That's what this speech is about and that's why he's leaning so hard into his beliefs because he believes it's exactly those beliefs that got him to where he is right now in national politics.", "What do you think?", "And he's clearly -- I agree with David absolutely, that he's clearly trying to get ahead early and explain for people what could be one of his biggest political vulnerabilities. I mean, as David put it so well, this is a label that frankly scares off a lot of people. They see Bernie Sanders and the label Democratic Socialist and they think this is not for me. This is an ideological view and a label that is so far left from where I am and I don't know that I understand that I don't know that this. I don't know that is for me. And I think it's really interesting that Bernie Sanders is explaining this in part through economic policies, that he's saying this is not a label that is necessarily scary and in fact this is a label that is important for explaining where I stand on the economic policies. Because that is going to be such an important factor for the Democratic candidates making the case in this race in this race.", "So just quickly, Senator Elizabeth Warren, someone who shares some of the same beliefs as Senator Sanders', you have new poll numbers that show she's gaining on him.", "Yes, I mean, this is the field shaking out in a really interesting way. You know, for the longest time we had Joe Biden as the clear front-runner and then we had Bernie Sanders as a clear second-place person and then everybody else sort of packed together below Biden and Bernie Sanders. Recently, we have seen a couple of polls including a national poll, an Iowa poll, and a Nevada poll just out today that shows Elizabeth Warren standing in that second place spot alongside Bernie Sanders. Obviously, we don't know the many reasons why she is having this sort of upswing moment right now. Her allies would certainly say this probably is because she bet big on being sort of the policy and the ideas candidate and they feel like it is catching on. I just do want to emphasize this big caveat but this is one snapshot, a single moment right now in the in the race. This is what the race looks like in June of 2019. Who knows what this could look like ten days from now by the time we get to Iowa.", "Sure. M.J., thank you very much. David Chalian, my thanks to you. Right now, just a reminder to all of us, we are waiting to hear from President Trump himself. He's going to be taking questions from reporters in the White House Rose Garden. We'll take his news conference President of Poland live. Plus, Donald Trump Jr. is back before the Senate Intelligence Committee today.", "Why he says he's not worried about perjury charges after this closed-door meeting? And he is the first person to be sentenced in that massive college admissions scam that involved those two Hollywood actresses. The former sailing coach at Stanford could actually get more prison -- more time in prison than a year. Is that fair? You're watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin.", "Let's get you back to this rare sight of the skies over the White House. Just moments ago, ahead of President Trump's joint news conference with the President of Poland that is slated to start any moment now. You see on the right side of your screen there. These are F-35s flying over the White House to mark this deal that President Duda and President Trump just inked. The President spoke about it when they were in the Oval Office just a bit ago.", "We're doing that because Poland has ordered 32 or 35 brand-new F-35s at the highest level -- and the latest model. And I congratulate you and that, that means you have good taste.", "A U.S. defense official says that President Trump and President Duda have also signed a joint declaration that will add more U.S. troops to Poland on a rotational basis. The Polish President has even pushed for naming a U.S. base in his country calling it Fort Trump. No doubt the Russians would take notice of that. Reportedly, Poland, a member of NATO has been intensifying its efforts to improve its armed forces since Russia took over Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. Abby Phillip is our White House correspondent. She is in the Rose Garden waiting for President Trump and Barbara Starr is there live at the Pentagon. Barbara, I just want to go to you first on this deal between the U.S. and Poland regarding these troops. Give me the specifics on the deal.", "Well, as you say, Poland according the President, wants to buy a good number of this F-35 aircraft, the most advanced aircraft in the world, according to the Pentagon and perhaps the most expensive. The price tag, topping out, somewhere close to $90 million per plane. It will be up of course to the Polish government to decide if they have the money to spend on buying these aircraft and perhaps equally important to maintain them over the years. Expensive aircraft means expensive maintenance. You know, just like your car, right? On top of that, now, we do have this -- the Pentagon said it was a thousand additional troops. The President saying 2,000 additional troops to Poland. But the bottom line, all of this is part of this military security effort to boost Poland's defenses. The U.S. troops there would help be some of the confidence-building measures, if you will, for Poland to be able to have to have a credible deterrence against Russia to the east. All part of what is going on in Eastern Europe is to have that presence so Russia sees that the U.S. is committed to that East European flank. The question always is -- is Vladimir Putin listening to any of this? Does he even care? There's very little indication he does. He continues -- the Russian military continues in Eastern Europe very much to go it's own way -- Brook.", "All right, Barbara stand by. Abby over to you in the Rose Garden, when we were listening to the Q&A between, you know, President Trump and the White House press corps, we heard President Trump blasting these reports that he's slipping in internal polls, right, looking at the 2020 race. What are you hearing?", "Well, Brooke, the President is coming out right now. So, I'll turn it over to you.", "Let's dip in.", "Thank you very much, please. Today, Melania and I are honored to welcome President Duda and Mrs. Kornhauser-Duda of Poland back to the White House. They've become friends. We last hosted them in Washington in September and it's wonderful to see you both again. Thank you, thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "Great honor. Since our last meeting the unbreakable bonds between the United States and Poland have grown even closer. This year is our nation's mark 100 years of diplomatic relations. The U.S.-Polish alliance is stronger by far than ever before. Earlier today, President Duda and I signed a joint declaration affirming the significant defense cooperation between our nations and as the declaration makes very clear, the United States and Poland are not only bound by a strategic partnership but by deep common values, shared goals, and a very strong and abiding friendship. Our people are united by the enduring ties of civilization, culture, and history.", "We respect the rule of law, revere individual rights, and prized our timeless traditions. We embrace country, faith, family, and freedom. Over the past century, brave American and Polish Patriots have repeatedly stood together to defend our sovereignty, our liberty, and our noble way of life. When I was last in Poland, I was very proud to stand among veterans of the Warsaw Uprising and recall their incredible courage in the face of Nazi tyranny. Today we honor the sacrifices of all those who came before by doing our part to see guard our independence and strengthen the incredible U.S.-Polish alliance. As stated in the joint declaration, the United States and Poland continue to enhance our security cooperation. Poland will still provide basing and infrastructure to support military presence of about 1,000 American troops. The Polish government will build these projects at no cost to the United States. The Polish government will pay for this. We thank President Duda and the people of Poland for their partnership in advancing our common security. Poland's burden-sharing also extends to the NATO alliance, where it is among eight NATO allies including the United States currently meeting the minimum two percent of GDP that's for defense spending. And Poland is there and you've been there from a very early date. We appreciate that very much and we've been there also. There has been a been a total of eight -- eight out of 28, and the rest are coming along because nations at my urging have paid more than $100 billion more toward the NATO defense. Last month I was very pleased that Poland announced the intent to purchase 32 American-made F-35 fighter aircraft like you just saw. Moments ago, we witnessed that impressive flyover of this cutting-edge F-35 as it flew over the White House and actually came to a pretty -- close to a halt over the White House. I always say, what's wrong with that plane? It's not going very fast. But it's an incredible thing when you can do that. That plane can land dead straight and it's one of the few in the world that can do that, it's considered to be the greatest fighter jet in the world. I applaud President Duda for its efforts to strengthen and modernize Poland's defenses. I also want to congratulate Poland for its progress on meeting U.S. criteria for entry into the Visa Waiver Program. Today our country signed a preventing and combating serious crimes agreement, a significant and necessary step for Poland's entry into the program. Though we still have some work to do, we hope to welcome Poland into the Visa Waiver Program very soon and that's a very big deal. Both of our nations understand that immigration security is national security. In our meeting, President Duda and I discussed the vital issue of energy. Reliance on a single foreign supplier of energy leaves nations totally vulnerable to coercion and extortion. For this reason, we support Poland's construction of the Baltic pipeline which will help European countries diversify their energy sources. It's desperately needed and that's the way to go. During the past year, Poland has also signed approximately $25 billion worth of new contracts with U.S. firms to buy more than six billion cubic meters of U.S. liquefied natural gas. Today our nations just signed another contract for an additional two billion cubic meters worth approximately $ 8 billion. So between the planes, and the liquefied natural gas, and many other things that Poland is doing, which is doing very well because Poland is doing very, very well. We appreciate it, thank you very much, Mr. President. Our countries also signed an agreement to expand U.S.-Polish civil nuclear cooperation which will likewise advance Poland's energy and security and deepen our bilateral commercial ties. Economic relations between the U.S. and Poland are thriving. We're committed to further expanding commerce based on fairness and reciprocity -- perhaps my favorite word, across many critical areas from defense and diplomacy to energy and economics, the alliance between."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES", "BALDWIN", "SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BALDWIN", "SANDERS", "SANDERS", "SANDERS", "BALDWIN", "DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR", "BALDWIN", "M.J. 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{"id": "NPR-37890", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2006-09-15", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6080554", "title": "GOP Senators Break with President over Detaineess", "summary": "Four Republican senators are at odds with the White House over proposed legislation on terrorism suspects. The White House does not like a version of the bill passed by the GOP-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee. The Bush administration's goal of signing a measure into law before mid-term elections now seems in doubt.", "utt": ["This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne with Steve Inskeep. Good morning.", "Four leading Republican senators yesterday clashed with the White House over proposed legislation on how terror suspects should be treated. The GOP-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee passed a version of the bill that the White House says is unacceptable.", "NPR's Don Gonyea reports that the Bush administration's goal of passing the measure it wants before mid-term elections is in doubt.", "When President Bush announced last week that al-Qaida leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 13 other detainees who had been held in secret CIA prisons were being transferred to Guantanamo, Mr. Bush called on Congress to quickly pass legislation he sent to the Hill laying the legal foundation for tribunals to bring them to justice. The president presented it as a clear choice for lawmakers. But as yesterday's developments played out, it was evident that this would not be resolved quickly.", "Press Secretary Tony Snow acknowledged that.", "It is not unusual for people to work hard through these things. And I don't think either side wants to be pressed into a corner.", "But what makes this very unusual is that the big obstacle for the president in the Senate comes from three top Republicans: John McCain of Arizona, John Warner of Virginia and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. They have expressed concerns that the president's plan denies detainees some basic rights. They argued that that could call into question the legality of any detainee trials that are held. They also say it could affect the treatment of U.S. military personnel if they are captured by the enemy.", "The Bush administration and these Republicans are also in disagreement over a section of the Geneva Conventions known as Common Article 3. The White House says it speaks of cruel and inhuman treatment of prisoners but doesn't spell out what that means. Tony Snow tried to downplay the conflict yesterday.", "This is not a crisis. This is, in fact, the very important business of trying to figure out how to proceed, how to write laws.", "Also unusual yesterday: a pair of letters to Senators arguing different points of view, one by current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and one by her predecessor, Colin Powell, who wrote to Senator McCain. Powell wrote, quote, \"The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. To redefine Common Article 3 would add to those doubts.\"", "Rice's letter to Senator Warner countered that the legislation the president wants would strengthen U.S. adherence to the Geneva Conventions because it would, quote, \"add meaningful definition and clarification to vague terms.\"", "There was one other letter of note, this one released by the White House. It was from senior military lawyers saying they do not object to what the president wants regarding some changes to Common Article 3. Earlier, in testimony before Congress, these military lawyers had expressed strong concerns, and yesterday's letter still stopped short of a full endorsement of the White House position.", "Yesterday in the Oval Office, the president was asked about the debate.", "President GEORGE W. BUSH: If there's any doubt in our professionals' mind that they can conduct their operations in a legal way with support of the Congress, the program won't go forward and the American people will be endangered.", "But that's clearly a point on which the president is finding strong disagreement, even from within his own party.", "Don Gonyea, NPR News, the White House."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "RENEE MONTAGNE, host", "DON GONYEA", "DON GONYEA", "Mr. TONY SNOW (White House Press Secretary)", "DON GONYEA", "DON GONYEA", "Mr. TONY SNOW (White House Press Secretary)", "DON GONYEA", "DON GONYEA", "DON GONYEA", "DON GONYEA", "DON GONYEA", "DON GONYEA", "DON GONYEA"]}
{"id": "CNN-382121", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-10-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/05/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Impeachment Inquiry Coming Up In Major Labor Summits In Los Angeles", "utt": ["Political passions ran very high this week at a town hall in rural Michigan.", "That is Democratic Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin. She invited voters to join her in a conversation about why she supports the formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump's conduct. Some people there really let her have it. Listen.", "The issue that got to me was this idea that the president, the most powerful man in the world, reached out to a foreigner, a foreign leader, and asked him to dig up dirt on an American --", "Not true!", "Fake news. Don't buy into it.", "We can't hear her.", "So this is something the president himself acknowledged. This is something that the president's lawyer acknowledged. This is something -- this is not -- he's not disputing that fact. What he is disputing, and I acknowledge it completely, is whether there was a quid pro quo, a trade for our military assistance in exchange for information and dirt.", "And that is to be determined. That is to be determined. But I'm telling you, from my perspective, that that idea, that we would reach out to a foreigner, which again the president acknowledged, and we would ask for dirt in an American political election, was too much for me.", "Nope, looking into corruption. Corruption.", "Words matter. Words matter.", "The impeachment issue, the inquiry, the accusations, should the president stay or go, it's coming up a lot at a major labor summit in Los Angeles this weekend. I want to bring in CNN's Leyla Santiago who is at that summit. Leyla, several of the Democratic candidates for president have been there yesterday and this weekend. I want you to hear this from Senator Amy Klobuchar just a short time ago.", "I think that all of us believe the evidence is there. So I just think it's nuance of how you answer this. But for me and my colleagues, we've got to look at all the evidence. You may decide on five counts it's impeachable and one it isn't. You have to look at everything. But the point is that, as a former prosecutor, when I look at this, I consider these documents smoking guns. I've said that many times. And it just keeps getting worse.", "Leyla, do people you've talked to agree with her?", "Well, listen, let's go to the candidates first. They've been bringing this up, whether they are being asked about it or not. Senator Warren actually took it one step further, saying that she believes that impeachment -- there's enough evidence to convict right now in the Senate. Congressman Beto O'Rourke just said, I've been calling for impeachment for quite a while. Then you have Vice President Biden, who took the opportunity and got pretty worked up when he called Trump unhinged and said it's not a conflict of interest for his son, Hunter Biden, to serve on the board in Ukraine. So those are a few of the highlights from candidates. Let's talk voters. I've been talking throughout the week with voters about the impeachment issues. We're right now at the SEIU summit. So know your audience, a bunch of labor unions and workers here that applaud any time the impeachment push is brought up. But I want you to hear when I've asked voters about actual decision making for 2020 and how the impeachment issue will play out. Listen to what they said.", "Some people say it will affect the 2020 congressional elections. I don't know, but even if it does, I think it's come to the time where it's a moral issue now. I think we have to do it no matter what the consequences are.", "The impeachment push is a made-up thing. He has proven that time and again. The Democrats, I'm sorry to say, are poor losers, and they just cannot give it up.", "So interesting to see how this plays out among Republicans and Democrats. We spoke to Trump supporters who are attending some of these events to protest the candidates and really focusing in on saying, don't impeach, whereas Democrats, many of them, are saying, it's about time -- Ana?", "OK. Leyla Santiago on the campaign trail for us. Thank you. Get ready for what could be a make-or-break moment in the race for 2020. The fourth Democratic presidential debate is coming to CNN live from the battleground state of Ohio. Will one candidate break away from the pack? Find out at the CNN and \"New York Times\" Democratic presidential debate. It's Tuesday, October 15th, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. Get it here on CNN. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "CABRERA", "REP. ELISSA SLOTKIN (D-MI)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SLOTKIN", "SLOTKIN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CABRERA", "SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN)", "CABRERA", "LEYLA SANTIAGO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SANTIAGO", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-156805", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2010-10-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1010/11/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Who Will Be a Bigger Star Between Levi and Bristol?", "utt": ["We welcome you back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood with A.J. Hammer in New York. And just in today, big news about Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston`s future in Hollywood.", "Yes, Brooke. These two are actually going head-to-head in the fame department. And SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is breaking the news today about who has more staying power in Hollywood. With me right now in New York, comedian Chuck Nice. OK, Chuck, here`s the deal. Bristol and Levi - they`ve both been making their mark in Hollywood. Both are now starring in music videos. Bristol has been busy competing on \"Dancing with the Stars.\" Of course, Levi is trying to get a reality show on the air. So we had to ask in our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive poll this - \"Bristol Versus Levi: Who has a brighter future in Hollywood?\" I was just handed the results. Look at that, 64 percent say Bristol has a better shot in Hollywood. Levi only getting 36 percent of the vote. I`ve got to tell you my friend, I am not at all surprised but these results. Levi has become all but a joke in Hollywood and beyond. Do you agree that Bristol`s future is bigger in Hollywood?", "I would say that`s kind of like asking which is heavier, a 50 pound bag of feathers or 50 pound bag of rocks.", "All right.", "No, truthfully, of course, I`ll tell you this much. Whoever going to be - has a brighter future, I`m not going to say it`s not going to be Bristol, because I was once attacked by a grizzly bear. I don`t know if it was a mama grizzly bear.", "OK.", "Not that it didn`t make any difference because it was hurtful just the same.", "I hear you loud and clear.", "But the fact is, she is definitely had - just her association with Sarah Palin gives her a better chance in Hollywood.", "Yes. Levi is that much more removed from the situation.", "Exactly.", "Brooke Anderson, you`re a huge fan of \"Dancing with the Stars.\" Do you think Bristol`s popularity on the show has helped her chances of making it big in Hollywood? I think we`ve seen a whole new side of her.", "Well, sure. She`s got visibility. She`s obviously got fans who are voting for her on \"Dancing with the Stars.\" It can`t hurt. But the question is does she want to make it big in Hollywood? Is that her end goal? Or is she just riding this wave to support herself and her baby? All right. We`ll leave that there. I do want to move now to another big story making news today. Our Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher in Israel to renew their wedding vows? Ashton and Demi, who have been fighting reports that their marriage is in trouble, are in Israel right now. And of course, they`ve been tweeting about their trip. Ashton tweeted this, \"Sharing love and light while in Israel asking for the energy to forge bonds with our similarities and find compromise in our differences.\" OK. Chuck, if they`re going through a rough patch with their marriage, do you think it`s a good idea to keep tweeting so much personal information? Or should they take a step back and focus on the marriage?", "Let me think about this for a second. No. What is your problem? Leave something back, man. You`re already famous. We don`t need to know everything that`s going on in your marriage. I`m waiting for a tweet to come by, \"Just consummated our new vows with my wife.\" And then three minutes later another tweet, \"That was really good.\" I mean, I don`t understand why they have to give us every single little detail.", "Yes. Well, time will tell what is happening if they`re renewing their vows, if their relationship is on the rocks or not. Because one thing we can be sure of, Chuck, we will find out via Twitter. Chuck Nice, thank you.", "Yes. We will. If we get a tweet where Ashton`s at the Wailing Wall, we know it`s not going well.", "Right, right. Good to see you.", "All right. Lots of Facebook posts and calls coming into \"Showbiz on Call\" today about Nick Hogan, Brooke.", "That`s right, A.J. Hulk Hogan`s son speaking out for the first time since the car crash that nearly killed his best friend. Shannon O. will never forgive Nick, \"He`s a punk. The whole family are punks. And I, for one, will be glad when they all go back under the rock they crawled out of.\"", "Now, to the \"Showbiz on Call\" phone lines. This call is from Michelle in Arizona.", "That`s right. She thinks it`s time to forgive Nick.", "I think Nick Hogan needs to be forgiven because the parents of the victim are never going to have any relief on their own end and they`d have more peace if they did. So he does need to be forgiven. At what point, I don`t know. It depends, I believe, on how long the parents want to continue suffering because they won`t have any peace of mind until they have forgiveness, in my belief.", "Thank you, Michelle. Call us at \"Showbiz on Call\" and let us know what you think about this or anything else that is on your mind.", "The \"Showbiz on Call\" phone lines are always open.", "Call us 1-888-SBT-BUZZ; 1-888-728-2899. Leave a message. We will play some of your calls here on", "A shocking court verdict today in the sex abuse scandal that hit Oprah`s school for girls. Oprah`s furious about this. All right. This proves there are no limits to what celebs will sell. Justin Bieber coming out with a line of nail polish. Wait until you hear the colors. And this is cool. Grover doing the Old Spice Guy. You know, those really popular ads with the good-looking Old Spice Guy. Check out the little blue monster`s take on these ads.", "Where am I? Yes. Oh, I`m on a pool.", "And we`re playing the whole thing for you today. This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN news and views. And now, the \"SHOWBIZ News Ticker\" - more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news today.", "\"The Social Network\" wins weekend box office for the second straight week. Fran Drescher getting a daytime talk show.", "The reason why I wanted to do a daytime talk show is because I think that is such a wonderful platform to continue to educate women on things that I think are important to them - everything from pedicures to politics."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "HAMMER", "CHUCK NICE, COMEDIAN", "HAMMER", "NICE", "HAMMER", "NICE", "HAMMER", "NICE", "HAMMER", "NICE", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "NICE", "ANDERSON", "NICE", "ANDERSON", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "MICHELLE, CALLER FROM ARIZONA", "ANDERSON", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.  HAMMER", "GROVER", "HAMMER", "TEXT", "FRAN DRESCHER, ACTRESS"]}
{"id": "CNN-289124", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2016-07-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/18/ath.01.html", "summary": "Source: Tape Shows Attack \"Meticulous, Planned; Interview with Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. I'm Kate Bolduan, live in Cleveland where just a short time from now the Republican National Convention is kicking off. We're getting word at about possibly a surprise appearance here tonight.", "I'm John Berman, live in Baton Rouge where a gunman unleashed a deadly attack on police officers. And we have breaking news. Brand-new information about the ambush. And it is now being called an ambush. A source with knowledge of the investigation tells CNN a tape of the attack shows a meticulous planned approach toward the officers. Three policemen were shot and killed. Three other officers wounded, one overnight clinging to life. The fallen heroes, husbands, fathers. 32-year-old Montrell Jackson had a new baby boy, just 4 months old. Matthew Gerald, Army veteran, had two daughters. He worked on a helicopter crew in Iraq, on several tours. And 45-year-old Brad Garofalo was the father of four. Authorities trying to learn more about the killer, an ex-Marine, who ambushed the police in their own neighborhood, just about a mile from where I'm standing now in broad daylight. The officers were responding to a 911 call about a man dressed in black, armed with an assault-style rifle. Police did kill the gunman in a firefight. CNN's Boris Sanchez is at the scene of the shootout, just down the street from here. Boris, what are you learning this morning?", "Here's what we know so far about the investigation. Gavin Eugene Long, a 29-year-old, was the shooter. He actually carried the attack out on his birthday yesterday. We know about him so far, he was active on social media, involved with conspiracy groups and anti-government websites. We know that shortly after the attacks on Dallas, fewer than two weeks ago, he rented a car in his hometown of Kansas City and drove to Dallas where he filmed a YouTube video calling for people to take up arms against police. At some point after posting that video, he came here to Baton Rouge. We don't know exactly how long he was here but investigators tell us he was not alone. We don't know who he was with or how much they knew about this plot against police officers. What investigators have told us is they've interviewed several people. They were interviewing persons of interest up until 1:00 a.m. So far, no arrests have been made. No charges were filed against those persons of interest. We're expecting a press conference at 3:00 today where we're hoping to get more information about any potential accomplices or whether or no more charges may be pending. In the meantime, we're still holding out hope that this officer, this deputy in critical condition, will pull through. His name is Nicholas Tullier. He's 41 years old, and he dedicated 18 years to the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Department. We're told he's fighting for his life right now. Obviously, the entire community is pulling for him to get through this.", "Boris Sanchez, just down the street from us here in Baton Rouge. Thanks so much, Boris. I'm joined now by Mayor Kip Holden, longtime mayor of Baton Rouge. You've been going through so much, Mayor. Thank you for being with us.", "Thank you.", "We heard him talking about the officer, Nicholas Tullier, who was wounded, critical condition. We were told he was clinging to life overnight. Update.", "Basically, there's not a lot of change. A very serious wound. Some have said he might have to have another operation or two. We're all praying for him and his family and all of the other officers involved in this terrible tragedy.", "The latest information we have in the investigation is this was a meticulous attack. The colonel with the state police said this killer was certainly seeking out police officers. You could tell by the way he was moving. There was something about it that made it clear he was targeting police officers. Can you elaborate on that?", "Basically all of the information we're getting right now is indicating this guy was not just a kook out there. You look at his military background. You look at how he planned this out. Some are saying he was in Baton Rouge several nights even before this happened. We're finding out somebody that was methodical in the planning and really an outright murderer in terms of taking the lives. Somebody who knew how to position them so they can be within range of him killing them.", "He had been here for several nights. You said may be in contact with other people.", "Right now, we are getting some new information that will maybe be divulged later this afternoon but there's something we're looking at based on other tips we're getting --", "People?", "Whether or not there were other people involved in this and some people stepping forward and telling about suspicious things they saw.", "Anybody else in custody?", "Not anybody else in custody but we're looking at the FBI, ATF, state police, sheriff's office, city police and the Intel that's coming in, I would say we are following up every lead and we're not going to let this rest until everybody involved in this is brought to justice.", "Mayor, are your officers safe this morning?", "I'm saying the officers are safe. I can tell you this. These men and women go out there either day and make an effort to make sure we're safe. I told some people yesterday they're our first responders. Now it's time for us to be their first responders, because they set a lot of things aside. And yesterday morning, when you walk into a room and his 7-year-old daughter is there and the mom is crying and holding a baby in her hands and so the young lady said no, my daddy is not dead, he's coming home this afternoon. Man, you talk about gut-wrenching, because there's nothing anybody can say. She's holding out a hope that her dad will come back and, unfortunately, the news was already there.", "Same officer working in his garage, fixing up a car for a 15- year-old daughter, who is getting ready to drive. That's just the kind of guy he was. And there's two other lives lost with similar stories. You have been talking about the rhetoric, the level of discourse going on in this town. You said it's time to dial it down to zero.", "Without a doubt, you know, you got people there going back, protesting the sterling killing or shooting. OK, then they called, they wanted me to resign. I told them I resign 12/31 of this year, my last day in office. You have folks out there trying to stoke things. We tell people tune them out. Doubt in to people telling you the right things to do. Put null and void on their phone when they call you. These are people who, regardless of what an officer does, they paint everybody in the same brush. These officers are individuals. They have families. They're going out here to protect the community. Give them a break, because they've given us a break every day we get up and we're safe.", "This killer, this guy drove 800 miles across the country to do this act. We're not aware he's in any connection with the protesters on the ground.", "No aware. I can tell you, I'm just going to speak gut instinct, there's a gut instinct this guy just didn't come here. I would venture to say, and this is not attributed to anybody else, that this guy probably has somebody here he was in contact with.", "That's your gut instinct?", "That's my gut instinct.", "What does this tell you about the community coming together to move forward now?", "We've come together in many circumstances, you know, over the course of my professional years. I've also been public information for the city of police. This community's very resilient. We've gone through the first year I've had Katrina, other disasters, but something special about the people here, their hearts, their minds, their bodies, their souls. We will not be defeated. All the spirit I'm trying to put into all the officers in the community, it's basically based upon job. Ye though you slay me, I will rise again.", "Officers around the country feel like they're being targeted.", "Not only that, I received calls from many mayors just this morning and last night. We're all speaking with one voice. We're all together. Many of those mayors are saying we're going to be there, or send representatives there, because we want you to know we stand by you. All across the country, even the mayor, Mayor Rawlings, of Dallas, called this morning. He said last week, Mr. Mayor, I this week, you're going through this. We're standing by, whatever you need for us to do, we're willing to do.", "Thank you for being with us. You do a great job.", "Thank you.", "Keep the city moving forward.", "Yes, sir. Thank you.", "Kate, let's go back to you in Cleveland.", "All right, John, thanks so much. We'll get back to John in Baton Rouge throughout the hour. Any minute now, Hillary Clinton will be giving her first remarks since the deadly police ambush in Baton Rouge. She's expected to talk about race and talk about policing. We'll bring that to you live as soon as it happens. Plus this, \"There's something going on.\" Those are Donald Trump's words talking about President Obama's response to deadly police shootings in America. What is Trump suggesting here? We're live in Cleveland. We got a lot to discuss. The Republican National Convention kicks off just a short time from now. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "KIP HOLDEN, MAYOR OF BATON ROUGE", "BERMAN", "HOLDEN", "BERMAN", "HOLDEN", "BERMAN", "HOLDEN", "BERMAN", "HOLDEN", "BERMAN", "HOLDEN", "BERMAN", "HOLDEN", "BERMAN", "HOLDEN", "BERMAN", "HOLDEN", "BERMAN", "HOLDEN", "BERMAN", "HOLDEN", "BERMAN", "HOLDEN", "BERMAN", "HOLDEN", "BERMAN", "HOLDEN", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-44586", "program": "LOU DOBBS MONEYLINE", "date": "2001-11-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/28/mlld.00.html", "summary": "Enron Stock Nearly Worthless and its Multi-Billion Dollar Merger Deal with Dynegy Off.", "utt": ["This is LOU DOBBS MONEYLINE for Wednesday, November 28. Here now, Lou Dobbs.", "Good evening everyone. The United States continues to strike at the Taliban and al Qaeda network in Afghanistan. U.S. warplanes bombing leadership targets, more U.S. forces have arrived in the country. And the first American has died in combat in Afghanistan. We'll have those stories for you and a live report from Afghanistan. We'll also be going live to Bonn, Germany. Talks there to form a post-Taliban government continuing, but they are facing new problems in reaching a conclusion. Then, a sobering assessment of Osama bin Laden and nuclear weapons. Bin Laden may not have a nuclear bomb, but what he does have may be equally disturbing. We'll have that report for you. And also tonight, Enron once an energy success, now its future in doubt. Its stock nearly worthless tonight and its multi-billion dollar merger deal with Dynegy is off. We'll tell you what happened to Enron and what it means. The collapse of the Enron-Dynegy deal reverberated through Wall Street today, stock prices sharply lower. Turning now to the latest developments in the war against the Taliban and al Qaeda terrorists: A CIA officer has been killed, killed during the prison uprising near Mazar-e-Sharif. Johnny Spann was gathering intelligence from Taliban prisoners when he was killed. His is the first U.S. combat related death in Afghanistan. The Pentagon says pressure is building against the Taliban and al Qaeda and that troops are becoming increasingly disorganized. Yesterday, U.S. fighter jets hit a Taliban complex near Kandahar. That complex was believed to house Taliban leaders. Two of the largest Afghan delegations at a conference near Bonn, Germany have agreed to a transitional council. It would oversee setting up an interim government. But differences remain over who would make up a security force to oversee Kabul. U.S. officials tell CNN that speculation about taking the war against terrorism to Iraq is premature. Officials say the focus remains on Afghanistan and will remain there for some time to come. Meanwhile, British and American aircraft monitoring Iraq's southern no-fly zone today struck a command and control system. The U.S. central command says it was in response to hostile Iraqi threats against coalition aircraft. A top Taliban official denies that U.S. air strikes hit a Taliban leadership compound and says their spiritual leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, remains alive and safe. For more now on this and the fighting in Afghanistan, Christiane Amanpour in Kabul -- Christiane.", "Lou, indeed, the top Taliban official is the representative to Pakistan. It's not clear whether this is confirmed and, of course, we don't have a way of independently confirming this. But he has said after the U.S. said it bombed a leadership compound, that Taliban leader Mullah Omar was -- quote -- \"safe and sound\" and that indeed a leadership compound was not hit. Again, we can not confirm these claims. He also said that Osama bin Laden was not anymore under Taliban control, in other words, not in any territory under Taliban control. This conflicts with what people here in Kabul, the government of the Northern Alliance here in Kabul believe, that Osama bin Laden must be somewhere in the territory that is still controlled by the Taliban, that shrinking territory. And they believe it is around the Kandahar region. Now at the same time, the United States beefed up the number of U.S. Marines in the Kandahar region. We're told there is some 800 U.S. Marines on the ground there now and also continued air strikes around the region there in Kandahar. We're told that the focus of the last couple of days of air raids have been on leadership and command and control and the chain of command target for the Taliban and the al Qaeda network. In the meantime, at Spin Boldak, which is a key Taliban controlled town on the border with Pakistan, there has been a couple of days of wrangling there as the Taliban has apparently offered to surrender. But there is an argument between two Pashtun tribal groups there over who will take control of the area once the Taliban does surrender. So that is the situation in the south of Afghanistan at the moment as the hunt goes on for Taliban and al Qaeda leadership targets -- Lou.", "Christiane, tonight we really have no better sense of where Osama bin Laden may be hiding than at any time previous in this conflict, right?", "Yes, I mean, for us it's been a matter of speculation. You know, we hear these eyewitness accounts, sometimes throughout this conflict, that he's been seen here or he's been seen there. But it's very, very difficult and of course, as you know, there are no journalists allowed in the Kandahar region either with the Taliban or indeed with the U.S. forces. There is a very small pool that report of journalists there. But it's very hard to get a good grip on what's going on. And, of course, in these situations, the world's most hunted man -- it's pretty difficult to get a grip on exactly where he may be. But, of course, the U.S. and the others have extremely sensitive technology, heat-seeking technology and all the rest of it. So they would have the best way of knowing.", "OK. Christiane Amanpour from Kabul, thank you. More U.S. troops are on the ground in Afghanistan tonight. The 10th Mountain Division, a quick reaction force, has been moved to an airfield near Mazar-e-Sharif. Jamie McIntyre at the Pentagon with more on the story -- Jamie.", "Well, Lou, today the Pentagon released some videotape showing the strikes yesterday that were precipitated by an intelligence report that indicated that senior that indicated senior Taliban leaders, including perhaps Mohammed Omar, were at a complex southeast of Kandahar. Video from a U.S. Air Force F-16 shows a shower of satellite- guided, 2,000 pound bombs dropped from a single B-1 bomber destroying the compound southeast of Kandahar. But by morning, after this morning, Taliban officials were insisting that Omar was safe in Kandahar. The Pentagon says, nevertheless, it will continue to keep the pressure on leadership targets.", "If we break the leadership of the Taliban and break the leadership of al Qaeda, there is very -- or there is reduced emphasis or reduced motivation for troops to stay loyal to the cause and continue to fight. There will always be pockets who are going to fight to death in any case. But, getting the key leadership and breaking the chain of command is going to render much of that ineffective. And so, therefore, the pressure is on that leadership.", "Meanwhile, the Marines continue to bring in some troops and equipment southwest of Kandahar. And the U.S. is flying more than 100 combat missions a day, although many, if not, most of the planes have to return to base without dropping their bombs, an indication that good targets are being harder to fine. And as you mentioned, Lou, the U.S. is increasing its presence of ground troops on the ground, but just modestly. The United States has moved a handful of soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division from Uzbekistan to the airport at Mazar-e-Sharif. Pentagon sources say the two dozen or so soldiers will provide security at the airfield while the U.S. presses other countries to pick up the pace of humanitarian relief -- Lou.", "Jamie, turning to the strike against the leadership compound last night, the story which you broke here on CNN last evening. Is it simply that we have to wait for confirmation by ground forces there? And how close are U.S. military forces on the ground to the leadership compound that was struck?", "Well, they are not going to be sending any troops in to inspect that facility. They will be relying on other means of intelligence to figure out exactly what happened there. You know, the intelligence that they had that indicated Mullah Omar might possibly be there was never anything that firm. They said that today that they always hoped that he would be there. They didn't necessarily assume he would be there. And they will just continue to hit leadership targets. If he is, in fact, killed in one of these air strikes, the U.S. expects to find out through a variety of sources on the ground through their regular intelligence network.", "OK, Jamie, thank you very much. Jamie McIntyre, military affairs correspondent tonight from the Pentagon. Talks on forming a new government in Afghanistan reportedly are going well. But today, an indication of the challenges that face those negotiating a post-Taliban government. The Northern Alliance doesn't want to use an outside, multi-national security force. Instead, they want their own troops to do the job. Jim Bittermann is in Bonn, Germany where those talks are being held and brings us up to date now -- Jim.", "Lou, there was a small breakthrough today at the talks here. The two largest delegations, the Northern Alliance and the supporters of the former king, agreed on a method for getting government going in Afghanistan. What they have decided is to set up a transitional council of about 120 to 200 prominent Afghans who would sit on this council and then eventually choose an interim government. They have already got a joint commission going, taking a look at who should be on the council. And they hope to have the names of that council decided before they leave the conference site here in the next day or two. But there's a hang up and that's the hang up you mentioned. And that's security. Basically, the supporters of the former king say that since the Northern Alliance control Kabul, that that would not be a place where the transitional council could sit in safety. And so they are thinking that an international force should be brought in to provide some kind of a neutral zone for the transitional council to meet in. The Northern Alliance, on the other hand at a news conference early in the day, said that was totally unnecessary. Here's the way they put it.", "We don't feel the need for an outside peacekeeping force. And at the moment there is full security in place. If there is need for extra security, then of course we can have combined forces from the ethnic groups inside Afghanistan.", "So, for the moment, Lou, it looks like they are going to put off that security issue, looks like it could be a divisive one -- Lou.", "And, Jim, the role of the United Nations here -- is the United Nations strongly suggesting a role for U.N. troops within, certainly, Kabul?", "What they're talking about, actually, is an international peace force. They would rather not have the U.N. blue helmets trying to do this one. They would like to have some kind of multi-national force of the sort that has been set up in Kosovo, a heavily armed force, different governments involved, that sort of thing, a real armies in there which would patrol the streets. That's what the U.N. is pressing for. They say that an all Afghan force might be a little premature, trying to get something that will represent all the ethnic groups of Afghanistan together in one military force. Might be a little tricky right now.", "A likely role, Jim, for Russian and U.S. troops?", "Well, it could be Russian-U.S. I think they're thinking also of some Muslim troops, perhaps Turkey and Jordan, countries that have already stepped forward and volunteered. So, I think that they try to make it as Islamic as possible in order to calm the fears there might be in Afghanistan -- Lou.", "OK, Jim, thank you very much. Jim Bitterman reporting from Bonn -- thank you. Hundreds of people are being detained by the United States government as part of its investigation of terrorism. Critics say the Bush administration is overstepping its legal bounds. But officials say the tactics are necessary to stop terrorism. Eileen O'Connor joins us now from Washington with more -- Eileen.", "Well, Lou, there are 104 people in total that have been charged with federal offenses. Now the charges run a full gambit, but few seem to show direct involvement in the conspiracy to commit the attacks of September 11. Some are charged with making false statements to a grand jury, others for the unlawful production of identification documents. Others are being held on credit card fraud, some on passport and visa fraud. About 20 people were charged with obtaining fraudulent hazmat licenses. Now, that happened in Pennsylvania, but it appears to have happened well before the attacks. Despite concerns that al Qaeda was planning to use trucks of hazardous materials to stage some kind of attack. These men, though, do not seem related. Still, there was a plan for them to get these hazmat trucking licenses without the training or documents. Now, in addition, you have some who have appeared in court, like Louise Martinez Flores and three others Salvadoreans who helped some of the hijackers here obtain Virginia driver's licenses. But this looks like a scam that the Salvadoreans, at least, engaged in with a lot of people hanging out at the department of motor vehicles and offering to vouch for people's residency in exchange for money. Then there are people like the man you see here, Osama Awadallah, accused of lying to a grand jury. Awadallah is a student, a permanent U.S. resident. He lived in San Diego. He's a student who, police say, knew two of the hijackers while they were in San Diego. And they say Awadallah lied to investigators about knowing those hijackers. A judge now says there's no real evidence linking him to the activities of the hijackers relating to September 11. So he is going to be released on bond. But, there are some who have been caught in this dragnet who may be more ominous. One man in New York is held on illegal possession of firearms. But he also, according to affidavits filed, took pictures of the World Trade Center before the attack and also had a handheld, global positioning satellite and showed some interest in nuclear facilities. Now all of this, the people being held under these visa violations, as you mentioned at the beginning, and these arrests on seemingly unrelated charges remind some legal experts of the way the Justice Department once got some major crime figures, organized crime figures, not through murder charges, but through charges like tax evasion. And, you know, you have the attorney general yesterday saying we are going to use everything we have at our disposal within the criminal justice system to hold those we suspect of any involvement or even unwittingly helping the hijackers -- Lou.", "Eileen, these critics right now of some of these tactics being employed, is there any sign that John Ashcroft, the president, this administration are in any way considering changing approach?", "No, they aren't, although some people said that the release of a lot of this information, the documents -- the charging documents -- we had about 40 of those documents. But a lot them were given to us today by the Justice Department and, at least, releasing the countries, not the names of those detained under INS violations -- all of that information, a lot of people think, that that is in part an answer to the critics. So while they are not really changing the way they're doing business, they are at least being a little bit more transparent about what is going on. And the attorney general, you know, yesterday came really out with no apologies to anyone about what he doing. He said, this is a time of war and any information that they are withholding is because, he says, this is a country at war -- Lou.", "And, Eileen, an extraordinary development -- William Webster -- eight including William Webster, former director of the FBI, criticizing some of the FBI tactics here which, if nothing else, have been effective to this point because we haven't had another incident since the 11th. What's the reaction that the Justice Department to that sort of criticism, if you will, from brothers in war here?", "Well, you know, they are saying -- and the FBI director, Robert Mueller says -- look, he felt that this is now a new world. And the -- as you've heard the attorney general as well say the mission now of the FBI is to prevent terrorism. And what they have been very good at doing is investigating things after the fact. So -- and what the critics are saying is that it's if they are trying to rebuild the FBI. And I think you'll hear Robert Mueller saying, yes, you're right. We are trying to rebuild the FBI because we think that the mission is having to shift post-September 11 to one very much of prevention, not just investigation after the fact -- Lou.", "The FBI director has a lot of evidence on his side as well as support. Eileen O'Connor, thank you very much for bringing us up to date. Does Osama bin Laden have a nuclear weapon? A special House task force on non-proliferation received a sobering assessment today. Osama bin Laden may not have a nuclear bomb yet. But what he does have could be devastating. Steve Young has the report -- Steve.", "That's exactly right, Lou. The former CIA director's judgment is that Osama bin Laden probably doesn't yet have the bomb, but he almost certainly has some of the piece parts, at least, for a dirty bomb. Late this afternoon, James Woolsey told a bipartisan group of congressman a lot of attention has properly been paid to nuclear materials getting into al Qaeda's hands from Russia. .", "There has to be said to be some possibility that a few kilograms of plutonium or highly enriched uranium in one way or another through organized crime circles into terrorist circles have made their way into al Qaeda's hands.", "He doesn't believe bin Laden has an atomic bomb that would leave a mushroom cloud, but he thinks the terrorist could combine radioactive materials with conventional explosives. That's the makings of a so-called dirty bomb that could shower a wide population and cause tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of excess cancers. Britain's defense minister, Geoff Hoon, by the way, recently said he's reached the same conclusion. He told the BBC bin Laden is a man with no scruples, no morality, nor reservations about killing civilians to achieve his perverted ends -- unquote. Woolsey says he believes the greatest potential source of radioactive materials for al Qaeda today is Pakistan, which is widely believed to have to makings of up to 45 medium-yield bombs. Let's put that in perspective. The 1993 World Trade Center terrorist attack wreaked its devastation with 1,200 pounds of explosives. Even a crude, small nuclear bomb would be at least a thousand times more powerful. And a medium-yield bomb would be far more powerful than the bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima. Woolsey says Islamabad's bombs are kept in component parts that Pakistani fanatics might collaborate with al Qaeda but it would be hard to put the parts together in an Afghan cave. Of course, Osama bin Laden has been talking about obtaining a nuclear weapon since 1993. al Qaeda has cells in 60 countries, so an Afghan cave wouldn't necessarily have to be the assembly point? Woolsey also said the Bush administration should make available American bolts, censors, tamper-proof seals to identify, track and secure Islamabad's nuclear materials and he thinks the U.S. has to target Iraqi's state support of terrorism early in the new year -- Lou.", "And what is the likelihood that Pakistan will accept those preventative measures?", "Certainly some resistance -- interesting too in what Woolsey said. He says go after Iraq, but not Iran. Interestingly, he says, half the population of that country is now 21 years old or younger.", "That country being?", "Iran. And that the students are cheering the United States now for the boldness it took starting in October and because the mullahs hate the", "OK. Steve Young, thank you very much. Well, still ahead here, progress has been made on an economic stimulus package. We'll tell you who's given ground and what it could be mean for you. We'll also hear from the national commander of the Salvation Army on charitable giving in the wake of September 11, and now the holiday season. Then what might be the biggest corporate collapse in history. We'll report on the rise and the very sudden, dramatic fall of Enron, next.", "Enron, the once mighty energy company is on the verge of bankruptcy tonight. Dynegy pulled out of a deal, a proposed deal, to buy the company. Enron's stock today plummeted, dropping 85 percent after its last hope, its credit rating, was cut -- cut in fact to junk status. More than 180 million shares today were trading -- traded making it the most actively traded stock ever on the New York Stock Exchange. The dramatic decline, the speed of Enron's decline simply stunning. Shares traded at more than $80 a year ago, tonight it's only 61 cents a share. $62 billion of shareholder value wiped out. Enron's spectacular flame out is unprecedented in business. Casey Wian has more on the story now from Enron's hometown Houston, Texas.", "The fatal blow to Enron's efforts to salvage its merger with Dynegy came early Wednesday, when Standard and Poors downgraded Enron's debt to junk status. That triggered a clause in the original $9 billion deal that allowed Dynegy to walk away, a move the company says it made to protect the interest of shareholders. The downgrade and subsequent collapse of Enron stock likely makes bankruptcy the company's best option.", "I think it pretty much seals the fate of Enron in the sense that a bankruptcy filing will be short coming -- very quickly in the offing here.", "Why is that?", "Basically because it's going to hamper Enron's trading ability to such an extent that they're not going to be able to enter into even the shortest term type of trades and agreements with counter-parties.", "Enron employees say they expect a bankruptcy filing soon, though the company would not comment. This woman photographed Enron's headquarters, saying she wanted to preserve her memories. Layoffs are expected, especially in the company's trading operations. Some were suspended Wednesday, because market participants wanted to avoid dealing with Enron because of its deteriorating financial condition.", "As for Dynegy, Chairman Chuck Watson says the company tried hard to salvage the deal. But in his words, sometimes the company's best deals are the ones it does not do. Watson also says you just have to know when to say no, and Lou, today, Dynegy said no.", "Was it in point of fact the -- the downgrade and the rating of Enron's bonds that led to the decision? Was it that simple?", "Absolutely. That's what -- that's what got the ball rolling, it wasn't as direct as that, but when the downgrade happened it triggered several other clauses within the original $9 billion buyout deal that allowed Dynegy to back out. Now, of course, Enron says it's still studying Dynegy's decision to pull out of that deal, so this could be one for the lawyers and in fact Enron does end up in bankruptcy court it's definitely going to be one for the lawyers, Lou.", "Yes. It seems like this is going to be a halcyon period for lawyers, irrespective of the course this -- this takes. Dynegy has some exposure as well to Enron, how significant?", "Not very much according to the company on its conference call with analysts and reporters today. They said that their exposure is limited to about 75 million dollars, and they've taken steps over the past several weeks to limit that exposure. They took further steps today, suspending their dealings with Enron's trading operations.", "Turning to the anticipatory, I hope it's anticipatory rather than simply speculative, but the likely fate of the employees of Enron in this situation?", "Hard to tell. And employees within the company that we spoke with said that there are a lot of rumors swirling around, of course there's the expectations that there are going to be layoffs. There have been layoffs over the past several days. And some employees said that those were continuing today. Others said, though, that they heard that layoffs have been halted in anticipation of a likely bankruptcy filing -- Lou.", "OK. Casey thank you very much. Casey Wian reporting live from Houston, Texas. Coming up next here, the United States sends more troops into Afghanistan. We'll have the latest developments on the war for you. Then, the incredible story of a family who tried to cash in on a national tragedy, claiming that the wife died in the collapse of the World Trade Center. Also tonight, we'll be joined by the national commander of the Salvation Army on the impact September 11 has had on charitable donations in this holiday season. All of that, a lot more ahead, stay with us. Now the latest developments in the war against terrorism in Afghanistan. The Pentagon saying the leadership of the Taliban and al Qaeda -- that leadership has been isolated according to the Pentagon. Yesterday U.S. warplanes dropped about 10 bombs on a Taliban complex near Kandahar that was believed to be housing Taliban leaders. The father of a CIA officer killed in Afghanistan says his joined the CIA, because he thought it could make the world a better place. 32-year-old Johnny Michael Spann was killed during a Taliban prisoner uprising near Mazar-e Sharif earlier this week. Spain's Prime Minister is downplaying suggestions of a rift between the United States and Spain over the extradition of suspected terrorists. Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar says his country would consider any such extradition request. Aznar expressed full cooperation with the United States in the war against terrorism during a meeting with President Bush today. Talks on Afghanistan's political future making some progress during a meeting near Bonn today. Two large Afghan coalition members agreed to a transitional council, which would oversee setting up an interim government. Differences remain about the make up of the security force in Kabul. The Bush administration has reached a deal to expand its stockpile of Smallpox vaccine. For the government, the deal with Acambus and Baxter International valued at $428 million. They will provide an additional 150 million doses of smallpox vaccine by the end of next year. That would give the government an expected 286 million doses of the vaccine. That enough to cover the entire population of the United States. In after-hours trading, Acambus rising almost $4.00 a share on top of the more than $4.00 gain in regular trading on Wall Street. Baxter up almost up $1.00. That after the bell, building on a fractional gain during the regular session. There has been a breakthrough on the economic stimulus plan. As we speak, Senate Democrats and Republicans, along with a representative from the administration, that's all three parties, about to sit down and try to work out a deal. The face-to-face talks follow compromises from both sides, as compromises are want to do. Tim O'Brien joins us from Capitol Hill and has the story for us. Tim?", "Lou, you'll recall just 24 hours ago, Senate Democrats were insisting that any stimulus package include $15 billion for homeland security. Senate Republicans balked, so did the White House. Well, this morning after a breakfast meeting at the White House, Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle relented. The Democrats are willing to cut the amount of money in half from $15 billion to $7.5 billion. But more important, they're taking it off the table for now, out of the stimulus package debate.", "We have decided to offer the homeland security package, in part, as an amendment to the defense appropriations bill next week when the bill comes to the Senate. We're also going to do something else to make it even more acceptable to our Republican colleagues. We're going to cut the $15 billion in half.", "Yesterday, it was the Republicans making concessions. They still want to repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax, but they've agreed not to make that repeal retroactive, an idea many Democrats just hated. They're also suggesting a payroll tax holiday. No Social Security taxes for businesses or individuals for the month of December. It could also, or either or, December or January. And that could help low and middle income taxpayers, upper income taxpayers in January. It appeals to Democrats and President Bush. Well, he sidestepped questions this morning about the payroll tax holiday, but he did say this.", "Here's what I support. I support the Senate coming together and getting a bill moving as quickly as possible, so that we could get it to conference and get the differences resolved. The Senate must pass a stimulus package.", "Lou, there's still a great deal of work that needs to be done. Whatever the Senate comes up with must be reconciled with a very partisan House bill. But tonight's meetings are progress. And they greatly enhance the probability that President Bush will get what he wants, a stimulus package for Christmas.", "What he wants, Tim, and what the country needs. This a major breakthrough, the Republicans willing to relent on that retroactive corporate AMT. That was an idea that just -- whose time simply had not come?", "No, and you know, there's a great deal of support for it, but not at this time. There's a lot of question as to whether it was really a stimulative. The fact is both the House measure and the Senate measure, the original Senate bill, were very partisan. Senate -- the Democrats, they control the Senate. They were not listening to Republicans. And you had the same situation in the House where the Republicans are in control. Now they are coming together. And there's a real chance that they can work this out.", "That is terrific news. Tim, thanks very much for bringing it to us. Tim O'Brien from Washington. Millions of dollars of U.S. grain and food are on their way to Cuba over the next few weeks. Despite the economic embargo, companies are selling food to Cuba to help it recover from Hurricane Michelle. These sales are the first of their kind in four decades. Kitty Pilgrim has the story.", "Havana, Cuba, the hard-line government doesn't change its mind quickly, but it has just made an exception to its vehement statement that it will never buy U.S. food or agriculture under current U.S. restrictions. In recent weeks, Hurricane Michelle devastated the island, flattening houses, ruining crops, and killing five people. Cuba decided to cave.", "The fact that it's taken place is significant due to the fact that the Cuban government has said since October of last year that they were not going to buy anything under the provisions of the current law.", "Archer Daniels Midland is the first U.S. company since 1962 to have a contract for food exports to Cuba. They are scheduled to ship 20,000 tons of wheat this month. Arkansas-based Riceland Foods will ship 15,000 tons of rice over the next two months. Other companies involved, Minneapolis-based Cargill will ship corn and vegetable oil. In the last year, U.S. agriculture companies lobbied and won legislative changes for U.S. companies to be able to access Cuba's $700 million import market. They can now legally sell crops for cash to Cuba. But Cuba has stubbornly objected to the all cash terms, demanding credit. So up until now, no deals have been made. Some see this sale, made under humanitarian auspices, to be a significant exception.", "So in a sense everybody is sort of happy. The U.S. companies are happy because now they have access to that market. The pro-embargo people are a little unhappy that the embargo, you know, has a hole in it, but on the other hand, it's not a big hole, as long as it requires cash for the sales.", "Now the ultimate question is where does this leave the embargo? And that appears to be still firmly in place, supported by many, including President Bush. Not likely to be changed unless Cuba changes a little bit more than its mind -- Lou.", "Kitty, thank you very much. Kitty Pilgrim. Coming up next here, a sell-off on Wall Street for the second session in a row, pressured by a collapsing energy deal and a somber Federal Reserve report on the economy. We'll have that for you. Also, the latest on a couple accused of trying to cash in on the September 11 tragedy. Also, the holiday season is a crucial time for charities. We'll take a look at how those not raising money just for September 11 victims are faring in these extraordinarily difficult times. That and a lot more coming right up on", "Next Lou speaks with John Busby, commissioner and national commander of the Salvation Army.", "And incredible story about a couple who attempted to cash in on a national disaster. Charles and Cynthia Gavett, held on insurance fraud charges, were denied bond today. The couple allegedly filed fraudulent insurance claims and ordered to collect on a $200,000 mortgage insurance policy. Charles Gavett allegedly reported his wife was missing shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11, claiming she had a 9:00 a.m. appointment at the World Trade Center that morning. The Gavetts face felony charges that carry up 10 years in prison and a maximum $10,000 fine. Well, last year, the Salvation Army raised more than $1.7 billion for the nation's poor and needy, but the organization faces obstacles this year. It's dealing with both a faltering economy and in fact competition with charities raising money for September 11 victims. Joining me now, the head of the Salvation Army, John Busby. Good to have with us, commander.", "Thank you. Nice to be with you.", "Let's start first, how much money have you been able to raise since September 11 for the victims, the families of those victims in the September 11 tragedy?", "The last figure that I've had is that we've taken in some $62 million to assist us in our disaster work.", "And what types of things are you doing in terms of the September 11 of tragedy?", "Oh, within an hour of the planes striking both in New York and Washington, our mobile canteens were on the scene serving and helping those who were assisting in recovery. And of course, we are at the present time working with many of the victims. I was talking with both our New York office today and our Boston office. Interestingly in Boston, the divisional commander there was telling me that they are visiting in the homes of all those who had relatives on the planes that took off from Logan and are having a time of prayer with them and also giving a check to them, to assist them during this time. And the same is true in New York, where we have our disaster set up on Pier 94. And individuals are coming to us there.", "And in the wake of September 11, is it making your fundraising easier or more difficult?", "Well, you know, I have the theory that the more people give, the more people give. That was proved to me 10 years ago, when I was divisional commander in Florida and Hurricane Andrew hit. And we were very worried about our Christmas program that year. You may recall the hurricane came in late summer.", "Right.", "And that year, our Christmas program was up. I've made some spot checks around the country today. And in 10 locations, 5 were up and 5 were down. So I guess we're running about even with what we've done in the past. Last year, we had some $85 million that were given in the red kettles. And we have 20,000 of those spread across the country now. And we hope people will be very generous in helping individuals in their own community, who are suffering at this time.", "Well, one of the things that we've learned with all the concern and criticism of, for example, the American Red Cross, other charities who are raising money in particular for the families of the victims have September 11, was that there's a great focus now on how much money is actually going to victims and to the charities, to those who really need the money. What is the administrative cost for the Salvation Army?", "Well, as far as our disaster is concerned, 100 percent of funds that are given to us for disaster go into disaster. And if a check is given to a local Salvation Army Corp anywhere in this country, and we have over 9200 locations around the country, that money comes through the system to the point of need, where the service is being rendered. That's been our policy as far as disaster funds is concerned before September 11 and is certainly continuing on.", "I actually, I have to be honest, I knew the answer to the question before I asked it, but I thought we ought to get it out on the record. And your administrative costs run about what percent of the money that you do raise each year?", "Well, it's hard to indicate a total amount, but normally we say around 85 percent of the funding that comes to us goes for our programs. So it runs around 15 percent.", "Well, as everyone knows, you and all the volunteers do a wonderful job. Much continued success in raising money and the good work that you're doing. And I'll make sure my check's in the mail.", "Thank you very much. We greatly appreciate that.", "Commander, thanks for being with us. Well, let's turn to Wall Street, going from charity to good old business. Today it was bad business, a losing session on Wall Street. Blue chips suffered back-to-back triple digit losses. Prompting the selling today, news that Dynegy had ended that proposed merger with Enron. The Fed's Beige Book Report, showing more signs of a sluggish economy. The Dow, as a result, falling 160 points. The Nasdaq dropping 48. And the S&P; 500 losing 20 points on the day. For more on the selling, Jan Hopkins at the New York Exchange, Greg Clarkin at the Nasdaq You get to begin the festivities, Jan.", "Thanks, Lou. The story of the day was definitely the Enron-Dynegy merger falling apart. Both of those stocks trade here at the New York Stock Exchange. And as you mentioned earlier, Enron stock broke a record. 183 million shares traded. If you add all exchanges, 343 millions shares traded. That's half of all the shares outstanding. At the end of the day, you can see the damage. Enron down to 61 cents, an 85 percent decline today. Dynegy down about $5.00. And then the lenders to Enron, J.P. Morgan and Citigroup also down sharply. Now if you look at the day in the market, you'll see that the market declined early on and tried to recover, but it lost ground throughout the session as this deal fell apart at noon. And then in the afternoon when the Fed told us that the economy was slipping further, then the market continued to fall and was not able to recover. Now Lou, maybe this news of a stimulus package progress will help things tomorrow, because the market was also concerned that the stimulus package was falling apart.", "I think you're exactly right, Jan. Thank you, Jan Hopkins from the New York Exchange. And turning to the Nasdaq, the Nasdaq fell 2.5 percent on the day. Greg Clarkin to bring us up to date. Greg?", "And Lou, this was one of those days where there really just wasn't any good news out there for investors to focus on. Jan mentioned the Beige Book. That affected stocks in the afternoon. In the morning, we saw a number of news reports weighing on stocks, especially on Intel. A Taiwanese newspaper saying that Intel may have trouble meeting demand for its Pentium 4 chip. The Nasdaq all totaled, closing at the session lows, down about 2.5 percent. Networking stocks very weak as well. Shares of Ciena dropped significantly. That fell on fears that telecom companies may cut their spending more in the first quarter. That dragged JDS Uniphase and Sycamore Networks down with it. Intel, as I mentioned, was off on that newspaper report. And Applied Microcircuits, a communications chip operation, they say visibility is limited for the first quarter. Now what we didn't see today is something that we have seen in many instances over the last couple weeks, in this latest Nasdaq run. That is investors coming into the market during the session points, the low points in the session, basically. We didn't see that today. We didn't see any investors coming back in, as the Nasdaq was falling. And subsequently, we did get the Composite closing at session lows -- Lou.", "OK, Greg. Thank you, Greg Clarkin from the Nasdaq marketsite. Just ahead, Enron reshaped the way energy is bought and sold in this country. Tonight, it's facing bankruptcy. The rise and fall of an energy titan. And \"Fortune\" magazine's Rik Kirkland will join us in just one second. Stay with us.", "After the break, Lou is joined by Rik Kirkland, managing editor of \"Fortune\" magazine.", "Here we again. Of the 15 analysts covering Enron stock, 7 have a buy or strong buy recommendation on the stock tonight. Just one has a sell rating. Allan Chernoff takes a look at Wall Street, pardon, what is turning out to be one of the biggest meltdowns in corporate history.", "Enron's crown jewels, its trading operations, had accounted for 90 percent of the company's profit at their peak, a dominant force in financial products tied to oil, natural gas, and electricity. But the value of those jewels eroded rapidly in recent days, as few companies wanted to trade with Enron, fearing the company's creditworthiness was at risk.", "The way Enron Online was set up, there is no clearinghouse to absorb the credit risk. Enron itself stood behind every deal. In fact, they were either a buyer or a seller on every deal. So Enron was the credit risk.", "Standard and Poors was watching volume on Enron Online carefully. As volume sank, the firm decided Dynegy was going to pull out of its deal to buy Enron. So S&P; downgraded Enron to junk status.", "We had always connected Enron's investment grade rating to Dynegy's interest in Enron trading operation. And to the extent that the trading operation was going downhill, we thought Dynegy's interest in the deal was following that very closely.", "Enron Online went offline, as Standard & Poor's announced its decision. Quotes frozen at 10:54 Central time. A company spokesperson said Enron Online did some afternoon trading in natural gas. Though many traders turned to the natural gas pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange to do their business. Enron's latest troubles leaves its trading partners wondering if the company will be able to pay its debts. The immediate losers are shareholders, who received little help from Wall Street analysts, many of whom had been recommending stock till the bitter end. Last Friday, C.S. First Boston reaffirmed the strong buy in Enron, saying the company is significantly undervalued. (on camera): Only this morning, UBS Warburg downgraded Enron to a hold from a strong buy. Ironically, one of the firm's unit investment trusts had liquidated its Enron holdings, according to a filing with the SEC last Friday. Allan Chernoff, CNN Financial News, New York.", "Well, for more now on the stunning rise and stunning fall of Enron, I'm joined by Rik Kirkland. He's managing editor of \"Fortune\" magazine and MONEYLINE regular. Rik, good to have you here.", "Good to be here, Lou.", "This is just an unbelievable story in Enron. It looks like we're headed straight for bankruptcy.", "I was on last week. And said the market predicting this dog wasn't going to hunt given the spread between the price and what the merger deal was. The market saying today this dog is dead.", "Yes. And we look at Enron for a period of about three year's, a remarkable success story. Just about everybody was saying Ken Lee and Enron were the just premiere example of how to run a modern business in a new millennium.", "Absolutely. It reminds me, you know, of my old Greek mythology, the myth of Icarus. You know, he flew too close to the sun. I mean, this was just an incredible high-flying company. And I don't think any company has fallen this far, this fast in American business history.", "But you know, Rik, I also know a number of people, and a number of people in the energy business, I would say to them, \"Exactly describe for me Enron's business,\" in talking obviously with some people at Enron. And by the time you get through with it, I have to tell you, a very difficult business to understand, at least for a television journalist. Perhaps not for a magazine.", "It's hard for us. You know, back in February, we did a piece in \"Fortune,\" asking is Enron was overpriced? And part of our -- we said yes. And part of our confusion was the accounting was so opaque, we couldn't figure out what was going on.", "In the trading side of it, the broadband side of it, they positioned perfectly to trade everything as Ken Lee once said in the company.", "I think one of the real casualties of this thing is this whole notion that Enron was the avatar -- trading business was going to be the salvation of the energy business. You can make more money trading than you could actually moving gas and oil around. This is a 20 percent a year growth business with better margins. I think that's going to -- I think there's some funky accounting that Enron was the most guilty of, but I think it's probably going to have to be rethought across the industry. It's a slower growth business.", "And in terms of Enron, Ken Lee, a terrific guy. What do you make of it?", "I don't know. It's a tragedy. I mean, Ken, as you say is a good guy. He's a smart guy. He's a real industry statesman, but right now, his reputation is completely tarnished.", "And those analysts who still tonight have a buy rating or a strong buy rating?", "Just say no. Don't listen to them. I mean, these guys are bozos.", "There you got it. There are certainly out of 15 that are. Rik, as always, good to have you with us.", "Thanks.", "Rik Kirkland. Well \"WOLF BLITZER REPORTS\" begins in just a few minutes. Let's go to Wolf now to find out what it is store. Wolf?", "Coming up next here, we'll take a look at some of your thoughts and tell you a bit about what to expect tomorrow. Stay with us.", "Tomorrow will be a very exciting day on economic reports. Those reports include durable goods, new home sales, weekly jobless claims. And corporate America's chief executives are convening in New York City for a CEO \"bootcamp,\" a crash course in running public companies. And there seems to be a real demand for those skills today. One other programming note, earlier we had promised you a look at the advertising slump, its effect on Madison Avenue. Because of news developments, we'll be bringing that story later this week. Taking a look now at some of your thoughts. A question on the markets. Bonds in particular. Ann writing, \"What do make of the return of the yield curve to normal over the last two weeks versus the inverted curve of the last six plus months?\" The inverted yield curve, when short term interest rates rise above long term rates, inverted mainly because investors drive down long bond yields in anticipation of Fed rate short cuts. And now, the opposite is happening. The Fed has cut short-term rates and the long end of the curve is rising again. Investors obviously feel the rate cuts are working and that the economy is headed to recovery. So the shape of the economy very often depends on the shape of the yield curve. And a big beneficiary, banks that can borrow cheaper and lend at higher rates. Well our story last Friday about the surge in patriotic country music, prompted Brett McCormick of Austin, Texas to write us on the subject of entertainment during wartime. McCormick and his rock band \"Octane\" are performing for U.S. troops in Diego Garcia. That's the military base in the Indian Ocean and in four countries, he's not at liberty to name. Brett writes us to say, \"The response we have had from the soldiers is phenomenal because they say it is so refreshing to hear some American rock and roll. We play for the airmen who fly the bombers. We play for the people who load the bombs on the bombers. And it was such an honor to do it.\" Brett, thanks for the note. Keep up the good work. And you'll never have a better audience. Send us your thoughts at moneyline@cnn.com. Include your name and address. That's MONEYLINE for this Wednesday evening. Thanks for being with us. I'm Lou Dobbs. Good night from New York City. 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{"id": "CNN-56841", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-7-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/02/lad.01.html", "summary": "Seventy Killed in Midair Collision", "utt": ["In Germany, search teams have found the flight recorder of a Russian jetliner involved in a collision with a cargo plane. At least 70 people have died in the accident; 52 of them were children. The collision of the jetliner and the DHL cargo plane occurred over southern Germany. A spokesman for the air freight carrier said air traffic controllers tried to prevent the accident.", "Air traffic control Zurich, who are in charge of the air space there, repeatedly contacted the Russian pilot and asked him to change his altitude, because he was in a place he shouldn't have been. He did not respond. At the very last minute, alerted by the traffic collision air avoidance system, our pilot tried to correct his altitude. However, it was either too late or the other plane maybe did not have this on board, because if you don't know where the other guy is, as it were, it's hard to say where you should go to avoid hitting him.", "The Russian...", "The most clear (ph) explanation, if there is really no response at all from an aircraft, is that the crew of that aircraft, through some sort of misunderstanding or possibly they had written information down wrongly, but for whatever reason, they have changed the frequency of the radio that they are using. And then there can be a situation, where sometimes for several minutes the controller and the pilot are not in contact with each other.", "The Russian plane was carrying the children to Spain for a holiday. CNN's Moscow bureau chief, Joe Dougherty, has more on the victims.", "Russian President Vladimir Putin is now expressing his condolences to the families of those who perished in this airline catastrophe over Germany. The latest information is coming from a representative of Bashkirian Airlines, Sergei Rybanov. He says that the total number of people aboard was 69; that included 47 children under the age of 16. They were on their way from Moscow to Spain for a vacation in Spain. The tour operator, which chartered the flight from Bashkirian Airlines, says that this trip was organized under the auspices of UNESCO, the United Nations organization. UNESCO so far is not confirming that. The children and the adults who were aboard came from an area that's called Bashkiria, east -- far east of Moscow in the Urals region. The families, presumably, are there, and a hotline has been set up by the Russian government for them to get more information on what exactly happened. Also, Russian investigators will be taking part in this investigation. They are going to be going to Germany, today presumably, and also a government commission has been formed to help out in the investigation of this very sad tragedy. Jill Dougherty, CNN, Moscow."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "AXEL GIETZ, DHL SPOKESMAN", "COSTELLO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COSTELLO", "JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN MOSCOW BUREAU CHIEF (on camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-365078", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-03-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/21/es.04.html", "summary": "A Critical Day For Brexit; Crews Scramble To Save Cycle Survivors In Mozambique", "utt": ["The deal is good for this country. It delivers Brexit and it shall be supported.", "It is a critical day for Brexit with just eight days to go until Britain is scheduled to leave the E.U. Prime Minister Theresa May travels to European Union headquarters in Brussels. She'll request an extension of next Friday's deadline. Now, what happens if all sides agree and what happens if they don't? CNN's Phil Black joins us from outside Parliament -- Phil.", "Hey, Christine. So, Prime Minister Theresa May wants to extend the Brexit deadline by a few months, to the end of June. That's what she's asking for and it seems that the European Union -- its leaders are open to that or something around that length. They're going to thrash out the details in Brussels today, but we know they're going to attach a very strict condition. That extension will not be made official. It will not be confirmed unless Theresa May is able to come back to Parliament here in London and convince a majority of members to back the divorce agreement that her government has negotiated with the European Union. Now, that's a really big challenge because Parliament has already rejected that deal twice and rejected it by pretty spectacular, really humiliating numbers. The only thing that's really changed now is that the deadline is so much closer. So if she's able to pass that deal next week, she'll then have a couple of extra months in order to put everything into place -- put everything in a row so that Brexit can happen relatively smoothly. If she can't get it through next week, then the default position remains Brexit on March the 29th, with or without a deal because as it stands, that's what British law says. It's been written into law and unless that happens -- unless it is changed within the next week or so, then Britain is -- well, looking very much at that potential no- deal scenario which everyone fears because of the predicted dire economic consequences, Christine.", "A lot of no good solutions there. All right, thank you so much for that, Phil Black.", "OK. Rescue crews are scrambling to save some 10,000 survivors of Tropical Storm Idai who are clinging to rooftops in Mozambique. The threat of floodwaters rising further as heavy rain continues in hard-hit areas. CNN's Farai Sevenzo on the ground in Beira, Mozambique.", "When CNN landed at Beira International Airport just about a few minutes ago, you could see the scene as it was at this place, which was the first landfall of Cyclone Idai. There were several choppers belonging to humanitarian agencies. The South African Defense Force were here, as was a helicopter from the World Food Program. Then you entered the airport and you see a massive wall with rudimentary written words in dire response. And in there, according to the Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations, there are over 22 international organizations that have come to do this Idai response. The response, of course, comes about a week after the cyclone hit and puts so many people's lives in peril. But this is where it first hit in Beira. It then moved on upcountry and created what people are calling inland oceans, which is masses -- massive bodies of water throughout Mozambique. And it went on to Zimbabwe where it crushed people in their sleep by breaking down massive mountains. And, of course, it is quite unclear how many people have been killed -- what the death toll is in either Mozambique or Zimbabwe and, indeed, in Malawi. So at that the moment, as we are here in Beira, we're trying to see the extent of the damage for ourselves and, of course, what can be done to rescue people that still need lifting from very heavily drowned and watered-down villages in and throughout the interior of these three nations. Farai Sevenzo, CNN, Beira, Mozambique.", "Farai Sevenzo there, thank you. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["THERESA MAY, PRIME MINISTER OF UNITED KINGDOM", "ROMANS", "PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "FARAI SEVENZO, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS"]}
{"id": "CNN-403025", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-06-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/17/nday.01.html", "summary": "Pence Misleads Americans as Some States Set Virus Records; Senate Republicans to Unveil Police Reform Bill; Prosecutor Could Decide on Charges Today in Brooks Killing.", "utt": ["Vice President Mike Pence is playing down any concerns over a second wave of the virus.", "Make sure and continue to explain the magnitude of increase in testing.", "We're seeing increased testing, but the increased case counts are outpacing that increased testing.", "Today, I'm signing an executive order encouraging police departments nationwide to adopt the highest professional standards to serve their communities.", "I appreciate the discussion happening, but it -- that's not enough. That's not true reform.", "I think it's progress. It's the caboose. It's not the engine, but it's on the right track.", "This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.", "We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is NEW DAY. It is Wednesday, June 17, 6 a.m. here in New York. Jim Sciutto joins me. We begin with the Trump administration trying to put a new spin on the coronavirus pandemic, trying to spin it as a success. Vice President Mike Pence, the head of the coronavirus task force, published an op-ed Tuesday that doctors say is riddled with misinformation. Here are the facts. This morning, 21 states are reporting an increase in new cases. Ten of those are -- ten states are seeing a spike of 50 percent or more. Florida, Texas, and Arizona setting records for most cases in a single day. Arizona and Texas also reporting a spike in hospitalizations, meaning more people are getting seriously sick. We do not know the number of hospitalizations in Florida or Oklahoma, because those numbers are not shared in the same way, but local officials are concerned about what they are seeing.", "A senior CDC official tells CNN that the vice president is, quote, \"cherry-picking data\" to fit his and the president's narrative. The American people need facts. The last White House task force, coronavirus task force briefing was more than seven weeks ago. Dr. Anthony Fauci admits in a new interview that he has not talked to President Trump in two weeks. Meanwhile, we're hours away from Senate Republicans unveiling their police reform bill this morning, as protests continue across the country, calling for real and lasting change. Let's begin our coverage with CNN's Rosa Flores. She is live in Miami. So Florida, it's in the numbers, Rosa, is it not, a rise, a sharp rise in cases in Florida. How are state officials there reacting?", "You know, state officials here are very concerned, of course, but Governor Ron DeSantis really not focusing on that and, instead, focusing on testing. But back to the Trump administration downplaying, continuing to downplay the pandemic, despite the fact that 21 states are seeing upward trends this morning, and despite the fact that medical experts say that this first wave is far from over.", "Here in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis is continuing to reopen the Sunshine State, despite seeing its highest single-day increase of confirmed coronavirus infections since the start of the pandemic.", "No, we're not shutting down. You know, we're going to go forward. You have to have society function.", "Florida will now host the Republican National Convention and could be the temporary home of the NBA and the WNBA. But as crowds return to public spaces like restaurants and malls, a warning from one woman who says she's one of 16 friends who tested positive after visiting a recently-reopened bar in Jacksonville.", "At the time, it was more out of sight, out of mind. We hadn't known anybody who had it personally. Governor, mayor, everybody says it's fine. We go out. It's a friend's birthday. It was a mistake.", "At least 21 states are seeing an uptick in daily new coronavirus cases over the past week. This as Vice President Mike Pence made stops in Iowa without wearing a mask. The leader of the coronavirus task force downplaying the severity of the disease as President Trump encourages states to ramp up their economies more quickly. Pence writing in a \"Wall Street Journal\" op-ed, \"The media has tried to scare the American people every step of the way, and these grim predictions of a second wave are no different. We've slowed the spread, we've cared for the most vulnerable, we've saved lives. That's a cause for celebration.\"", "The problem is the pandemic is not done with us. Unfortunately, it's still in the early days. If we do not want to end up with hundreds of thousands of deaths across the country by the time this all -- this whole thing is over, we've got to change course and really move towards suppressing this virus.", "On a call with governors Monday, the vice president making this claim.", "In most of the cases where we are seeing some marginal rising numbers, that's more a result of the extraordinary work you're doing expanding testing.", "But according to Harvard researchers, the United States needs to do at least 20 million tests per day to safely reopen by late July. The current rate is roughly 500,000 tests daily. And with the president still set to hold a campaign rally in Tulsa, Pence falsely claiming that numbers in Oklahoma are on the decline.", "Oklahoma has really been in the forefront of -- of our efforts to slow the spread and -- and, in a very real sense, they flattened the curve.", "The truth is, Oklahoma has seen newly-reported cases increase since late May. A senior CDC official slamming Pence for selectively choosing data to highlight, telling CNN, \"You can cherry-pick a handful of counties and use that as a way to say things are not as bad as they look, but that's not the reality.\"", "Now the coronavirus task force has not held a briefing since April 27. That's three [SIC] weeks ago. And in an NPR interview, Dr. Anthony Fauci saying that he has not met with President Donald Trump in two weeks -- Jim.", "It's not the first time that happened. The same thing happened a couple of weeks ago in terms of that gap in communication with the president. Rosa Flores in Florida, thanks very much. In just a few hours, Senate Republicans will unveil their police reform legislation, their proposal. CNN has obtained an advanced academy of that bill. CNN's Joe Johns live with more from the White House. And Joe, you look at this. And what it is, it's about incentivizing police to do things like not use the chokehold, but not require them to do so.", "Right. It's all about carrot and stick. It incentivizes. It encourages the states to take certain action, but it stops short of the mandates with teeth Democrats have been asking for. As you said, on the issue of chokeholds, it incentivizes a ban by making federal money contingent on policy changes, but again, stops short of the outright ban on chokeholds that Democrats have been calling for. And the issue of tracking police officers with records of misconduct when they try to move from one department to another, it creates a system of record sharing, as opposed to the national registry Democrats have been asking for. And on that important issue of making it easier to sue the police in the event there has been misconduct, it's simply not in there. That's the so-called qualified immunity changes Democrats have been saying they want to see. Now, Democrats, apparently, do have the numbers to block this bill from advancing. They need -- the Republicans need 60 votes in order to get to debate on this issue. We also have to note that this comes after the president of the United States unveiled his own executive order that deals with some of these issues, including the question of excessive use of force. He would create a federal database. And he also would ban chokeholds, except when an officer's life is in danger. So there is a lot to do before the sides come together on these issues up on Capitol Hill. Back to you, Alisyn.", "Thank you very much, Joe. So the lead prosecutor in the Rayshard Brooks case could decide as early as today if he will charge the two police officers involved in that deadly encounter. CNN's Dianne Gallagher is live in Atlanta with more. What do we expect, Dianne?", "So, Alisyn, this is something that pretty much everyone in Atlanta has kind of been waiting, holding their breath for this day. Fulton County district attorney, Paul Howard, indicated that he would announce charges against the officers, if he chooses to bring them, beginning midweek, as early as today. So this has kind of been the date that everyone has had circled, waiting to exhale to see what's going to happen. Howard indicated that it could be murder charges, felony murder charges, voluntary manslaughter charges against the officers. And he says that he's looking at both officers. Officer Garrett Rolfe, of course, according to the investigation, is the one who fired those shots that killed Rayshard Brooks. He was fired from his job, as well. But Officer Devin Brosnan, he was just put on administrative duty. As far as we know, he did not discharge his weapon at this point, according to the investigation. Still, Howard said he's looking at those charges for both of the officers. And Brooks's widow indicated that she wants them both charged the same, because she says Officer Brosnan did not try to intervene and stop Officer Rolfe. And that's something that Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has addressed in these new executive orders here in Atlanta. It's very similar to the 21st Century Obama policing reforms that were put into place before. Those recommendations include a duty to intervene, as well as recommendations on use of force and also de-escalation tactics. She said that making sure the officers hold those other officers that they partner with accountable is important in their quest to make things better between the community and the police here in Atlanta.", "Our police officers are to be guardians and not warriors in our communities. There is supposed to be a partnership with our communities, and that trust has been broken. And we've got to rebuild and reimage and transform how we are policing in our communities across this country.", "Now, if there are charges that are brought against the officers, Alisyn, you can expect a lot of discussion around the Taser that Mr. Brooks had in his hands. We've spoken with the police union. They believe that even the discussion of charges right now is premature, because they say that due process has not been given to the former officer and Officer Brosnan at this point. And they told us that they do plan to make that Taser a point of contention.", "All right. We'll see what happens in Atlanta later today. Thank you very much, Dianne. Well, doctors say that Vice President Pence is misleading Americans about the coronavirus pandemic. So what is the actual situation in hospitals? That's next."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MIKE PENCE (R), VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (via phone)", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ANNOUNCER", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT/ANCHOR", "ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FLORES (voice-over)", "GOV. RON DESANTIS (R-FL)", "FLORES", "ERIKA CRISP, TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19", "FLORES", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-23713", "program": "Inside Politics", "date": "2001-1-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/16/ip.00.html", "summary": "Ashcroft and His Critic Face Off in Confirmation Hearing", "utt": ["When I swear to uphold the law, I will keep my oath, so help me God.", "Attorney General-nominee John Ashcroft confronts his critics, head on, on day one of his confirmation hearing.", "Also ahead: an update on President Clinton's health after the removal of a skin cancer.", "From Washington, this is INSIDE POLITICS with Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff.", "Thank you for joining us. One Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee greeted John Ashcroft by saying, \"Welcome to the pit.\" It was one of many acknowledgements that Ashcroft's nomination as attorney general is the No. 1 issue of contention, as the divided Senate weighs President- elect Bush's Cabinet choices. Our Chris Black has been following the questioning, and Ashcroft's lines of defense -- Chris.", "Bernie, George W. Bush won't take office for four more days, but the philosophical battle between the new Republican White House and Democrats on Capitol Hill is already joined. The hearing began today with a confirmation hearing for John Ashcroft's nomination as attorney general. And the former senator, who was defeated in November in his bid for reelection, was immediately put on the hot seat. The senator, though, tried to address some of the issues that have been raised by his opponents; he started with the issue of abortion. Senator Ashcroft is strongly opposed to legal abortion, including in cases of rape and incest. But he told his former colleagues that he understands there's a big difference between his philosophical position on the issue and his duty as attorney general.", "I believe Roe v. Wade, as an original matter, was wrongly decided. I am personally opposed to abortion. But as I have explained this afternoon, I well understand that the role of attorney general is to enforce the law as it is, not as I would have it. I accept Roe and Casey as the settled law of the land. If confirmed as attorney general, I will follow the law in this area and in all other areas.", "The issue the Democrats repeatedly raised is whether this passionate, conservative, deeply religious man can separate his personal views and his personal beliefs from his responsibility to be even handed in the administration and enforcement of the law. In a very dramatic close to his opening statement, he raised his hands and he made a pledge to his former colleagues.", "As a man of faith, I take my word and my integrity seriously. So, when I swear to uphold the law, I will keep my oath, so help me God.", "The hearing began with great civility as is the custom up here on Capitol Hill, particularly in the Senate. But Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the liberal lion here in the Senate, didn't waste any time getting to the point. During his question-and- answer session with Senator Ashcroft, they got into a rather tense exchange over Senator Ashcroft's role, when he was attorney general in the state of Missouri and when he was governor, in the desegregation of the St. Louis public schools. Let's listen:", "1982. We again note that the state and the city board. My question is: how costly was this going to be, Senator Ashcroft, before you were going to say, that those kids going in lousy schools, that you were going to do something about it?", "In all of the cases where the court made an order, I followed the order; both as attorney general and as governor.", "Republicans focused today on Senator Ashcroft's experience: 30 years as a public servant, in both Missouri and here in Washington. They said he was eminently qualified for the job, and said that George W. Bush should have his choice as attorney general. But the battle is not over yet. They've quit for the day. They'll be back first thing tomorrow morning. Senator Ashcroft will once again be on the hot seat by himself, answering the questions from his former colleagues on this committee, which he did serve on up until just a month ago. On Thursday, there will be panelists, including Ronnie White, the judge from Missouri whom Senator Ashcroft, when he was in the Senate, blocked from being put on the federal bench -- Bernie.", "Chris, is Ashcroft's nomination, in any way, in jeopardy?", "Well, it's hard to say. If the vote was today, Bernie, he would win. Republicans, so far, indicate that they are going to support him, unless something comes out of these hearings. These hearings are critically important; it is very possible that the hearings will change the political dynamic. It hasn't happened yet. But again, they've just begun, much of today was spent in opening statements in which all the senators on the committee got to, sort of, put in their two cents worth in, and Senator Ashcroft was able to make his opening statement. But the real exchange will come tomorrow, and then when the panelists begin to make their presentations on Thursday, then we'll have a better handle on it.", "Chris Black -- Judy.", "Today, Ashcroft urged senators, literally, to \"pummel\" him with questions. And the Democrats certainly did. But you might say they tried to proceed with some caution. Our Bill Schneider joins us to explain why -- Bill.", "Judy, Democrats would like to defeat John Ashcroft because of his views on the issues. The problem is, you're not supposed to do that with Cabinet nominees.", "When a Cabinet nominee is up for confirmation, ideology is not supposed to be an issue. For many Democrats, however, John Ashcroft's views are precisely the issue. They're anathema to liberals. Does being a staunch opponent of abortion and affirmative action and gun control make Ashcroft unfit to serve? Democrats have to make a more subtle argument.", "I think there is such a potential for his views to be divisive, and President-elect Bush has said he wants to be a uniter, not a divider.", "Is divisiveness disqualifying? President Clinton's attorney general has been pretty divisive. In any case, Ashcroft has an answer for his critics.", "It's my job, will be my job upon confirmation as attorney general, to support the views of the president, and I would want to reflect his views in this respect.", "Some Democrats see a precedent in the Senate's rejection of Robert Bork for the Supreme Court in 1987. Bork was defeated because of his views. But there's a difference between a judge and a Cabinet member. A federal judge serves for life, in an independent branch of government. A Cabinet secretary serves at the discretion of the president. He's part of the administration. The test of a Cabinet member's fitness to serve is supposed to be character, not ideology. Democrats have to look for evidence of moral or ethical improprieties in Ashcroft's past. Or evidence of bigotry. Or evidence that Ashcroft will refuse to enforce laws he disagrees with. But the Bush team seems prepared.", "John's a man of enormous integrity.", "President-elect Bush, you have my word that I will administer the Department of Justice with integrity. I will advise your administration with integrity, and I will enforce the laws of the United States of America with integrity.", "What we're seeing in Washington is ideological conflict disguised as personal conflict. You discredit your opponents personally. The Republican's did it when they impeached President Clinton. Now the Democrats are trying to do it with John Ashcroft -- Judy.", "All right, Bill Schneider, thank you very much. Well, in the hours before Ashcroft's confirmation hearing, a number of his political friends and foes went before the cameras to press their cases. About 150 supporters, mostly African-Americans and Latinos, greeted Ashcroft when he arrived on Capitol Hill. It was a visual rebuttal against those who have questioned Ashcroft's support for minorities. And a group calling itself Americans for Ashcroft held a news conference to defend his nomination.", "If you look at Senator Ashcroft's background, you know that this man comes to the nomination with more abilities and more qualifications, and certainly more character and integrity, than we have had in a long time in the Department of Justice.", "On the other side: Representatives of several women's groups banded together to charge that Ashcroft's record makes him unqualified to be attorney general.", "He has spent the last 25 years of his public career trying to impede the progress this nation is struggling so hard to achieve: equal opportunity for all women, blacks and immigrants, not just some white people on the outer fringe of conservatism.", "The women's groups also criticize Bush's nominee for secretary of health and human services: Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson. When we come back, Bernie will talk about this and more with CNN senior analyst Jeff Greenfield.", "Now let's turn to CNN senior analyst Jeff Greenfield. Jeff, in your mind, how clear are the lines of questioning?", "Oh, I think there are -- you can't get much clearer, Bernie. There is a lot of Kabuki theater in these confirmation hearings, in general, when they get to this level of political division. The Democrats -- or at least most of them -- have been armed by the interest groups opposed to Ashcroft with the most -- what they see as the most damaging stuff in his past about where he has stood, about positions he has taken. And they are going after him to say: You are outside the mainstream. You are not just a conservative. And, by the way, the standard you used on sub-Cabinet appointees is: You can criticize them for their views. The Republicans -- you know, they alternate from one side of the aisle to the other on these hearings -- are all designed, so far, to shore up Senator Ashcroft -- that is, to say: Isn't the true that you supported a lot of civil rights? Isn't the true? We've already heard two Republicans make the point that, as attorney general of Missouri, he went along with orders that were on the side of abortion-rights people, even though he was personally was opposed to it, and rejected demands, say, to list hospital abortions. So that is what happens at the -- at hearings like this. I mean, it's -- the idea -- the interesting thing, Bernie, will be: Somewhere in the next few days, are we going to hear, on other side, a senator who seems genuinely undecided and genuinely interested in getting answers, as opposed to making debating points? We will see.", "Do Ashcroft opponents have to be careful in their approach?", "I think they do. Bill Schneider is quite right, I think, in noting that, generally speaking, the rules of about a Cabinet nominee are: Look, he's the president's man or woman. If the president wants that person in -- it's not a lifetime appointment -- you got to, you know, let him have his person. So what they have to do is not simply say: I don't think that you were right about this or that position. They have to be careful to say: We are opposing you on grounds of mainstream vs. out of the mainstream. And they also have to be careful, I think, about how they use the race issue. I think the attempt to say that John Ashcroft is a racist as opposed to having views that are outside the mainstream is very dangerous. That word is loaded with dynamite, and I think the idea that Senator Ashcroft say look, as governor I appointed all these minorities to positions. I voted to confirm all of these Bill Clinton minority appointees is a pretty effective counter-argument against that explosive charge.", "And what care do you suppose John Ashcroft must take -- how must he comport himself?", "Well, you know, I was thinking back to the Bork hearings, which I grant you are not on point because a Supreme Court judge is subject always to a tougher standard. But one of the things that really hurt Robert Bork was his demeanor. People felt he was a little -- fairly or not by the way, people felt he was a little arrogant. At one point he was asked, what do want to -- what is the Supreme Court nomination mean to you? And he said it would be an intellectual feast and in the subsequent appointments, like with Clarence Thomas, the then-Bush White House took the appointment -- took the appointee and put him through a political test; made sure that his appearance before the committee was both deferential, was expansive, was inclusive. You already saw that, I think, today at the end of John Ashcroft's written testimony when he put his hand up to swear. I mean, everybody understood that that was a moment for the evening newscast and the sound bytes. So, he has to be careful in his demeanor to be calm, to be moderate, if you will, and the biggest mistake you can make, although as former senator I can't believe he would, is to get personally angry or indignant at a senator. They don't like that.", "And lastly, for President-elect Bush, symbolically, how important is this confirmation process for this man and for his incoming administration?", "Actually, I think it's not just symbolic; it's real and it's one of the reasons why I think the odds so heavily favor the Ashcroft nomination. If you are a Republican senator, do you want as your first vote in the new Bush administration to vote down a nominee in whom he has placed such confidence? I think -- I don't think it's a disaster, but certainly I think that an early rejection of the most controversial Cabinet nominee would suggest that George Bush doesn't have his own party united behind him. My suspicion, as of now, is that he clearly does and it's why, I think, the opponents have such a high road -- or rather a high mountain to climb. If they can't find something that really raises questions about Ashcroft's character, I don't see how they're going to defeat this nomination.", "Jeff Greenfield, thank you. And still ahead, our John King looks at President Clinton's record by the numbers.", "A president's legacy, of course, is shaped by much more than statistics, but there is no ignoring some.", "We'll also have details on President Clinton's cancer scare. \"INSIDE POLITICS\" will be right back.", "On a cold March 4th, 1841, aging war hero General William Henry Harrison spoke on the Capitol steps for more than one hour and 40 minutes, a record, so long that he paused near the end to take the oath of office. Old Tippecanoe, as he was called, wasn't wearing a hat or coat, and died a month later. Vice President John Tyler succeeded him, giving the nation two presidents from one campaign slogan: Tippecanoe and Tyler, too. Civil War hero General Ulysses Grant's 1869 inaugural speech was interrupted when his young daughter Nell ran up to hold his hand. Nell had her White House wedding during Grant's second term, but the marriage didn't last. 1885's bachelor President Grover Cleveland, who also married in the White House, had a short voter honeymoon. His second inaugural was interrupted by President Benjamin Harrison. Four years later, Cleveland beat Harrison and took the oath again in 1893, the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms. Mark Leff, CNN.", "Back to today, the White House says that a lesion removed from President Clinton's back has tested positive for skin cancer. The lesion was removed last Friday during a routine physical. For the latest, let's go to CNN's Major Garrett, who's standing by at the White House. Major, what can you tell us?", "Hi, Judy. Well, as you said, this is a skin cancer scare, but as the White House likes to say, a very low-grade one. The president did have that exam on Friday, the lesion was removed, a biopsy was performed, and the White House said today that that biopsy revealed what it calls a \"superficial basal cell skin cancer,\" which means it's a concentrated skin cancer right in one area, described as the middle part of the lower back of the president. All of it was removed. There is no skin cancer in the surrounding area. But just to make sure, the president agreed and the doctors advised to have the area around this lesion scraped and burned. That's a rather standard operating procedure that dermatologists undertake to deal with this type of skin cancer. Now, the president has been advised that this particular area of his back is now at a higher risk of developing another one of these basal skin cancer lesions and he's asked to come back for another exam in 4 to 6 months. And if everything is clear then, then to have regular checkups on this area every year thereafter. But as the White House says, all the skin cancer removed. It's a very low-grade skin cancer: 800,000 to 1 million Americans suffer from it every year and are treated in exactly the same way. The White House says if there's going to be a cancer scare here, this would be the kind they prefer -- Judy.", "And Major, once again, this was just part of a routine physical exam as he closes out his presidency?", "Sort of an exit exam, you might call it, Judy.", "All right, Major Garrett, thanks very much -- Bernie.", "The numbers are in from the final job approval poll for President Clinton, and 66 percent of the respondents say they approve of the way he's handling his job as president. That means he will leave office with a higher approval rating that any other president since the poll's inception more than a half-century ago. Former President Reagan had the next highest approval rating on leaving office at 63 percent, followed by Dwight Eisenhower at 59 percent. Our John King now continues his week-long look at the Clinton legacy, today examining the president's love of certain numbers.", "... by this figure.", "There is a reason he knows them by heart, recites them at every opportunity: By the numbers, it is a remarkable record.", "Eight years ago, when I came here, 10 million Americans were out of work. The deficit was $290 billion and rising. The debt of the country had quadrupled in the previous 12 years, imposing a crushing burden on our children.", "A president's legacy, of course, is shaped by much more than statistics, but there is no ignoring some. A record 115 months of economic growth at an average annual rate of 4 percent, 22 million new jobs since the beginning of 1993, the lowest unemployment rate in 30 years, the lowest crime rate in 26 years, and the smallest welfare roles in 32 years.", "The people who had been left out and not heard to much from over the previous 12 years found a voice and found a leader in this president, and I think that's what he'll be noted for.", "And there's more. From a federal budget deficit of $290 back in 1993 to a projected surplus of 237 billion now. The Dow Jones industrial average has more than tripled. It is true, as critics often note, that the economic recovery started before Mr. Clinton took office. Also true: that Mr. Clinton's first instinct was more spending, not just deficit reduction.", "To create jobs and guarantee a strong recovery, I call on Congress to enact an immediate of job investments of over $30 billion.", "Congress said no, dealing the new president an embarrassing early defeat. Advice from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan began to sink in, and top economic adviser Robert Rubin provided an echo: focus on the deficit -- Wall Street will cheer, and Main Street will benefit. It is worth remembering that the first Clinton budget passed by the narrowest of margins, the vice president's tie-breaking vote.", "The Senate being equally divided, the vice president votes yes.", "Eight years and one remarkable boom later, and Mr. Clinton was still reveling in reminding Republicans they had predicted disaster.", "Their leaders said our plan would increase the deficit, kill jobs and give us a one-way ticket to a recession. Time has not been kind to their predictions.", "It was Ross Perot who put the country's long-term debt in the middle of the political debate, but President Clinton who believes he deserves credit for putting the country on a path to pay it all off.", "This health care security card...", "Not all the statistics are favorable. He promised health care for all, but nearly 43 million Americans have no health insurance, up from 38.6 million in 1993. A cold winter and a power crisis in California: reminders that the United States relies on international sources for 28 percent of its energy needs, up from 25 percent in 1993. But any statistical assessment of then and now is striking. There is talk of a slowdown, some say a possible recession, but no longer, as there was at the beginning of the 1990s, any talk of a United States in decline.", "We're probably the most influential, powerful country since the days of ancient Rome, and I think the 1990s will be remembered as one of the brightest decades of the 20th century. Now Bill Clinton doesn't deserve all the credit for that, but he was one of the architects and he was a principle architect.", "Mr. Clinton views this as a promise kept. Remember, he first ran for president promising to focus like a laser beam on the economy.", "Let's bring this economy back, and we can solve a lot of our other problems!", "So it is no surprise as he prepares to leave office and the debate over his legacy begins in earnest that Mr. Clinton takes comfort in the numbers. John King, CNN, the White House.", "There is much more ahead on", "Coming up, security along the inaugural parade route. Protesters and police already are clashing over that issue.", "And later: bouquets for Bush.", "Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life, a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves, which is essential to victory. And I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.", "Not everyone coming to Washington for Saturday's inauguration is a fan of President-elect Bush. Thousands of protesters say they will be here on hand, including anti-death penalty groups and civil rights activists. One big problem, they say, is how they are already being received. CNN's Kate Snow has details.", "At federal court in Washington, protesters filed suit, saying police and security officials are trampling their First Amendment rights.", "The security set up by the government, by the police agencies is constitutionally invalid.", "Employing lawyers is a new tactic for these enemies of corporate globalization. The International Action Center says even though it's obtained permits, access to the parade route and the protesters message will be blocked by bleachers. And they complain about unprecedented security checkpoints around the parade route perimeter.", "These checkpoints -- what's up with that? There's no criteria. Who are they going to stop? What are they going to ask for? ID? Are they going to target some people: young people, African-Americans from out of town, people who live in the District?", "Law enforcement agencies say their only interest is protecting public safety.", "People have a right in this country to protest. That is what makes the United States the great country that it is. And our job is to protect their right to protest. But at the same time, the new president of the United States and those who that support him have a right to have a parade.", "But officials also acknowledge dealing with protesters has become an increasingly difficult game. Protests in Seattle in 1999 put police across the country on notice and led to controversial changes in tactics. In Washington last spring, police shut down a meeting center for anti-globalization protesters, citing fire-code violations. On the day before the scheduled protests, they arrested 600 people, clearing the streets.", "Really, since Seattle, every major demonstration that has been announced in this country has seen increasing levels of police reaction.", "Police insist they're not overreacting to inaugural protest plans. But demonstrators planning to fill this plaza along Pennsylvania Avenue say they would rather have a court decide. Kate Snow, CNN, Washington.", "President-elect George W. Bush's inaugural moment will be marked by flowers, thousands of them. In all, about 150,000 roses, tulips, orchids and other flowers will be on display as centerpieces, podium pieces and stage arrangements. Some 100 professional floral designers from across the country are volunteering their time. Before it's all over Saturday, it's estimated that more than 5,000 hours of work will be put into that lovely project. The fight over John Ashcroft's confirmation has just started. We will look at how it's going and hear from some of the participates when INSIDE POLITICS continues. Also ahead: What will President George W. Bush do about international terrorism?", "Over the White House of Washington, the flag flies at half-staff as a grief-stricken nation mourns the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the United States. Inside, in the historic Cabinet Room, Vice President Harry S. Truman takes the oath of office as 32nd president, administered by Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone. Mrs. Truman is at his side. President Truman asks the full Roosevelt Cabinet to remain in office, expressing his intention to carry on American polices as formulated by the Roosevelt administration.", "... will be the truth, the whole truth...", "John Ashcroft swears to enforce the nation's laws: no ands, ifs or buts.", "Is that likely to calm the controversy over his nomination as attorney general?", "From Washington, this is INSIDE POLITICS, with Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff.", "John Ashcroft's confirmation hearing resumes at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, after an opening session that, in many ways, lived up to expectations. Democrats zeroed in on Ashcroft's conservative views and whether they would interfere with his ability to enforce the nation's laws as attorney general. Ashcroft, in turn, defended his record and his nomination with the help of Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Here now, excerpts from the hearing.", "Do you swear or affirm that the testimony that you are about to give before the committee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?", "I do.", "The attorney general is the people's council. The attorney general must lead a professional, nonpartisan Justice Department that is uncompromisingly fair defined by integrity, and dedicated to upholding the rule of law. I pledge to you that if I am confirmed as attorney general, I will serve as the attorney general of all the people.", "What assurances can you give us that you would serve as the chief enforcement officer of this country with the kind of balanced view that you acknowledge is necessary for a top official in the Department of Justice, the balanced view that you said others must have before you would vote for their confirmation?", "I would like to just have a chance to go back to that list, the litany of things.", "Of course.", "And positions you attributed to me. You said I opposed voluntary desegregation of the schools. Nothing could be farther from the truth.", "Is there anything in your religious beliefs that would impair you from faithfully and fully fulfilling your responsibilities as attorney general of the United States?", "Well, I don't believe it's appropriate to have a test based on one's religion for a job. I think article V of the Constitution makes that clear. In examining my understanding and my commitment and my faith heritage, I'd have to say that my faith heritage compels me to enforce the law and abide by the law, rather than to violate the law. And if in some measures, somehow I were to encounter a situation where the two came into conflict so that I could not respond to this faith heritage which requires me to enforce the law, then I would have to resign. I do not believe that to be the case.", "CNN's Chris Black has been covering the Ashcroft hearing. She rejoins us, now, from Capitol Hill. Chris, is it too early to ask whether or not the Democrats drew any blood this afternoon?", "Well, they certainly began to make their points, Judy. It's a little bit too soon. What they did is, they sort of showed the road map of where they are going to go, showed what questions they're going to ask. What was very interesting today was hearing people like Russ Feingold, a very liberal Democrat on the committee, who's worked very closely with John Ashcroft on the past on issues like racial profiling, and to see the personal dilemma that he spelled out. He said I like this guy, I work well with this guy. But even he was not totally convinced that John Ashcroft can separate his personal views, which he holds quite passionately and deeply, from his responsibilities to be an even handed enforcer of the law.", "Chris, Ashcroft seemed, at least to me, remarkably subdued in much of the questioning, and his response. And at several points he was simply reading from decisions that he had made as attorney general of the state of Missouri. Do you think that that is going to be the demeanor he adopts pretty much for the balance of these hearings?", "Well, usually it's a smart thing for nominees, especially when they're undergoing this kind of intense scrutiny and intense questioning to keep cool as much as they can. Remember, these committee members know John Ashcroft very, very well. He not only served on the committee, he was the subcommittee chairman. So they know exactly how conservative he is. And he knows them personally, and it's -- has a personal relationship with all these members including people he doesn't agree with and hasn't agreed with. It was interesting today to see Senator Kit Bond, who is not on the committee, who tends to be a little more volatile than John Ashcroft, get angry enough with Ted Kennedy that he pointedly criticized the remarks that Kennedy made in his opening statement. That brought a little bit of a demurrer from Senator Pat Leahy, the chairman of the committee, who defended Kennedy's rights to say anything he wanted to in the opening statement, which is, of course, the right of all the senators.", "And Chris, when Senator Leahy opened up the questioning of John Ashcroft, he started by quoting from Ashcroft's standard, so to speak, when the nomination of Bill Lann Lee to the Justice Department was up before the Senate, and what do we make of Ashcroft's response to that?", "Well, the interesting thing is that Pat Leahy has, even before this hearing, expressed concern that if the Democrats on this committee held him to the standard that he had held some Clinton administration nominees to, he wouldn't have a vote. So, that was the point to him calling it so pointedly the Ashcroft standard. It's the beginning of a succession of decisions that Senator Ashcroft is going to have to defend. He's going to have to explain why if he thought it was enough to vote against a Bill Lann Lee or a David Satcher or whomever because he had philosophical differences, why it isn't a good enough reason for Democrats to hold that standard against him? And again, going back to something Russ Feingold said, Feingold said it was going to be very tough for Democrats not to behave the way Republicans, some Republicans, particularly the conservatives like Ashcroft, behaved against Clinton administration nominees during the eight years of the Clinton-Gore administration.", "And we should clarify David Satcher, of course, was the nominee to be surgeon general...", "Surgeon general.", "... and went onto adopt that post. Just quickly, Chris, what do we look for tomorrow?", "More of the same. A little more intensity because now that the sort of opening statements have been done with, the committee members will really get an opportunity to almost cross-examine this witness. Each senator gets 15 minutes. The Republicans will, of course, try to defend them as much as they can. They don't have sort of a set game plan. They're going to sort of react off what the Democrats are going to do. The Democrats have divvied up the labor. Ted Kennedy, today, we heard what he was going to do. Each committee member -- Chuck Schumer, for example will focus on gun laws. So, they will go down the island; go through every single issue, and he will have to answer those questions.", "All right, Chris Black at the Senate. Thanks very much. And when we come back, Bernie will talk with two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee: Democrat Dick Durbin; Republican Jon Kyl. We'll be back.", "Now, we talk to two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee: Democrat Dick Durbin of Illinois and Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona. Senator Kyl, with you first. In your judgment, what's the most important thing John Ashcroft said this day?", "I'm not sure it's what he said, but by the way he acted. I noted, in Chris Black's piece, she -- or Judy, rather, said he was a bit subdued. I think that may surprise people. But John Ashcroft is not a volatile person. He's a very careful, considerate kind of person. I think that's the way he'll approach this job. And if I could quickly correct something that Chris Black said: The Ashcroft standard is not as some Democrats would like to portray it or as she indicated it was. It's not a matter of differing ideologically with someone like Mr. Satcher or Bill Lann Lee, but rather whether or not they would enforce the law, or whether there may be some ethical problem in their background. And with regard to Satcher, John Ashcroft believed that his activity was in violation of medical ethical standards, something has not been -- no one has accused John Ashcroft of -- and secondly, with respect to Bill Lann Lee, that he was unwilling to take the Supreme Court decision in Adarand and indicate he would apply it fairly the way the Supreme Court enunciated it. So it's not a matter of differing ideologically with these people. John Ashcroft applied the same standard as anyone else. Namely, he didn't think that they would enforce the law the way they should or that there was an ethical issue.", "Senator Durbin, what's the most important thing said by the nominee today, in your judgment?", "Well, I thought it was an interesting presentation. Of course, he was back on the field of battle that he knows well, having served on the Judiciary Committee himself. And he knows most of the members personally, having served with them. I thought he was poised. I thought he made a good presentation. But there were several questions that were raised. The Bill Lann Lee nomination, for example, I thought was really a terrible experience here in the Senate Judiciary Committee. I was here. Bill Lann Lee said under oath: I will uphold the Adarand decision. Senators like John Ashcroft said: We just don't believe you. Now, if that's going to be the standard, John Ashcroft doesn't want to be held to that standard. He wants to be accepted as saying truthful things to us under oath and to be held accountable accordingly. And I just hope that we can have a little more candor tomorrow than we had today.", "Your reaction to what you just heard, Senator Kyl?", "Well, Bernie, it's a difference of opinion between Dick Durbin and me. He didn't just say he would -- I'm talking about Bill Lann Lee now -- he didn't just say: I will uphold Adarand. He said: This is the way I interpret Adarand and that's what I will do. His interpretation of Adarand was not what the Supreme Court said in the Adarand case. And, as it turns out, when Bill Lann Lee was nominated by President Clinton and served under an interim appointment, he ended up applying Adarand as he interpreted it, not the way the Supreme Court ruled -- and, as a matter of fact, has been chastised by at least one federal district judge for trying to go beyond Adarand. So John Ashcroft's judgment and mine and many others was -- has been vindicated with respect to Bill Lann Lee.", "Well, now, given what our viewers have just heard from both of you on this point, I have to ask you: In this case, is John Ashcroft's conservative ideology an asset or a liability -- Senator Durbin?", "Well, of course, we expected a conservative appointee from president-elect George W. Bush. But John Ashcroft is not just an ordinary conservative. During the course of his political career, he has taken positions on conservative issues, I think, a little further to the right than most United States senators. And that's why there's so many questions being asked. Going back to the Bill Lann Lee thing, one of the things that continues to concern me is that John Ashcroft seems to draw those bright lines when it comes to questions involving affirmative action, what our laws are going to be in relation to minorities in this country. And these things, over and over, pop up during the course of his public career. And they're going to continue to be asked during this hearing.", "Mr. Kyl?", "Nothing in John Ashcroft's record suggests that he would not apply the law precisely as it has been written or interpreted by the court. As he said over and over today: Where the law is settled, I will -- and I have, as the state attorney general of Missouri and as governor, applied the law, even though, in some cases, I wasn't crazy about the law. And there were a recitation of opinions that he had issued as attorney general by Orrin Hatch, which -- which clearly were not necessarily in accordance with his personal views, but were the law as he understood it.", "Jon Kyl, in your judgment, are liberals using, invoking a double-standard in the way they are comporting themselves in these hearings?", "I'm not going to accuse any of my colleagues of knowingly applying the wrong standard", "Well, I'm not asking you to make an accusation, Senator. I'm asking what you think.", "No, I think this: I think that there are some very liberal special-interest groups which have put a lot of pressure on some of my Democratic colleagues. And one of the senators, Senator Feingold today, specifically alluded to it. And they're finding it very difficult to look at this objectively. I understand that. But as Russ Feingold said, we've got to look at it objectively and even if we think that John Ashcroft might have erred in some of his votes in the past, we shouldn't be tempted to reject him just because of that.", "Your response, Senator Durbin?", "Well, it's interesting to me that these groups are being characterized as extremist liberal groups: groups, for example, that support a woman's right to choose which, incidentally, a majority of the American people support; groups which support sensible gun control, which a majority of the American people support. These are not extreme positions, and I've not felt the pressure from these groups. It was a decision by President George W. Bush to nominate a man who has a very, very conservative political background, and it is natural for us to have some concern that many of the very laws he's condemned during his public career will not be enforced as they should be. That is the reason for this hearing; that's the reason why there is any kind of controversy behind it, and I hope that at the end of it, we'll satisfy ourselves that in this situation, either John Ashcroft will be a man to serve as attorney general or perhaps should not be.", "Democrat Dick Durbin of Illinois; Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona, two very distinguished members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Gentlemen, thank you.", "Thank you, Bernie.", "You're quite welcome -- Judy.", "And from one high-profile, important post to another. President Clinton's CIA chief will remain in that post, at least for the time being. President-elect Bush has asked Director George Tenet to stay on for an undetermined period of time and Tenet has agreed. Tenet has been in charge of the CIA for three and a half years. He has been credited with raising morale at the agency, which had been battered by staff cuts and espionage scandals before his arrival.", "In recent years, the Central Intelligence Agency has turned much of its attention to the fight against international terrorism. As CNN national security correspondent David Ensor reports, the new administration will inherit many challenges.", "Osama bin Laden has been a persistent thorn in the side of the Clinton administration, but it may now fall to Mr. Bush to decide how to respond if, as appears likely, the evidence becomes persuasive that bin Laden's group bombed the USS Cole in Yemen.", "The administration doesn't have the option of doing nothing.", "Cruise missiles might be part of the answer, but the last time, in 1998 in Afghanistan, they failed to hit Bin Laden and hitting a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan prompted charges its connection with the fugitive terrorist was unproven. What about going after bin Laden himself with special forces? Tempting, perhaps. But easier said than done.", "It's not almost a commando raid, it's a military operation of some size, considering that he's got several hundred people guarding him.", "Some experts argue going after the fundamentalist Taliban government that harbors bin Laden in Afghanistan might make more sense.", "Bin Laden helps the Taliban militarily in terms of money and men, and the Taliban give him shelter and the ability to plan future operations. So, really, they're just sort of two links in the same chain.", "Also on the new president's plate concerning terrorism: A series of new reports saying major terrorist attacks inside the U.S. are inevitable and that biological or chemical weapons will some day be used here.", "And the United States must be ready for that attack.", "The Gilmore panel recommended creating at the White House a powerful Cabinet-level counterterrorism director. But the Clinton administration's counterterrorism coordinator disagrees.", "I think the experience we've had indicates that we should not have a terrorism czar.", "Terrorism, and how to structure the government's response to it, is not generally at the top of the list of any incoming administration's priorities, but events have a way of changing that. They will not be surprised, say U.S. officials, if combating terrorism ends up taking even more of President Bush's time than it has of President Clinton's. David Ensor, CNN, Washington.", "We have this report in to CNN, Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was shot and killed Tuesday by one of his own bodyguards. That information comes to CNN from a spokesman for the Dutch foreign ministry. Earlier today, shots were fired around the home of Kabila amid reports of a possible coup attempt. Throughout the day, reports conflicted as to whether Kabila was hit. Once again, CNN confirming Congolese President Laurent Kabila is dead. He was shot today in the Congolese capital by one of his bodyguards. The country is under a state of emergency, and this addendum to the story, the same sources talking to CNN say that Kabila's son, Joseph, was also killed -- Bernie.", "We have been looking at President William Jefferson Clinton for eight years now. And over those years, his appearance has changed. Is he getting older or getting better? Jeanne Moos will try to help us decide when INSIDE POLITICS continues.", "It has been eight years since William Jefferson Clinton took the first presidential oath. And if you look at the pictures from the 1993 inauguration today, you'll notice some changes. CNN's Jeanne Moos takes a look back.", "Everybody loves before and afters. Before and after cosmetic surgery. Before and after posterior improvement. Before and after the presidency.", "He looks much more distinguished in that second picture.", "He looks smarter than he does here, intellectual. He's learned more from being a president.", "Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley thinks Bill Clinton has handled the stress of being president as well as anyone could.", "He is the official \"Energizer bunny\" of American politics, and he seems to go and go and go.", "But the woes of some presidents are written all over their face.", "Carter aged before your very eyes.", "More visible to the eye, perhaps, than the camera. Carter, before and after.", "Lyndon Johnson, in the White House, became extraordinarily haggard and disconnected.", "LBJ, before.", "I will ask for your help.", "And after. Historians blame Vietnam. Nixon before. Nixon after. Think Watergate.", "We'll see you again.", "I've heard the presidency adds 10 years to your life.", "Sort of like dog years?", "Yes. Yes.", "I wonder if that applies to White House dogs as well. Among the presidents who wore the strain well, Ronald Reagan -- before and after.", "Not bad. Not bad at all.", "And if you need convincing that youth is not always preferable; Even Helen Thomas, who has covered eight presidents, was taken aback by this 1979 photo of the Clintons. For years, it's been the most consistent seller at this Washington, D.C. card shop.", "What's it say?", "I don't know.", "It says, \"you've improved with age, too.\"", "Happy birthday!", "After eight years in office, after scandals that you'd think would leave scars, folks tend to think Bill Clinton is looking liberated.", "And now I can pinch any woman I want, and you can't do a thing about it.", "That's why you think he looks so good now?", "Yes. He looks satisfied, confident, he looks like he's in control.", "His gray hair gone white is a hit with women. But that's not the only color mentioned.", "Why do you like this one better?", "His face is pink.", "Historian Douglas Brinkley sees a blue side to the pink president.", "There's a melancholy look into the eyes and the face that clearly wasn't there eight years ago.", "Melancholy, maybe, but growing older with \"amazing grace.\" Jeanne Moos, CNN, Washington.", "Changed in so many ways.", "Yes!", "So many ways.", "As have we.", "Absolutely. We all do, and we have. That's all for this edition of INSIDE POLITICS, but, of course, you can go on-line all the time at CNN's allpolitics.com. AOL keyword,", "These programming notes: former Labor Secretary-nominee Linda Chavez will be a guest host tonight on \"CROSSFIRE\" at 7:30 p.m. Eastern. The guests, Senators Barbara Boxer and Arlen Specter, will discuss today's hearing for John Ashcroft. At 9:00 p.m. Eastern, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris will be the guest on \"LARRY KING LIVE.\" I'm Bernard Shaw.", "And I'm Judy Woodruff. 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{"id": "CNN-347737", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2018-08-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/15/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Congressman Brenda Lawrence of Michigan.", "utt": ["New tonight, the Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is under fire for saying America, quote, was never that great. Cuomo's comments made at a bill signing event today were met with gasps. And I want to play them for you in full. Here he is.", "The simple point is all of this comes down to this. We're not going to make America great again. It was never that great. We have not reached greatness. We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged. We will reach greatness when discrimination and stereotyping against women, 51 percent of our population, is gone. And every woman's full potential is realized and unleashed and every woman is making her full contribution.", "Cuomo is up for re-election, trying to fend off a challenge in his own party from actress Cynthia Nixon which he massively leads in the polls at least until now. President Trump has even dared Cuomo to run against him in 2020. OUTFRONT now, the Democratic congresswoman from Michigan, Brenda Lawrence, who sits on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. And I appreciate your time, Congresswoman. So, you know, when this happened, you heard when he first said, we're not going to make America great again, it was never that great, there were sort of oohs, ahhs, and gasps. I mean, people are pretty shocked. He then, of course, went on to try to explain what he meant. What's your reaction?", "First of all, thank you, Erin, for being here. My reaction is this; we've had some dark moments in our history in this great country that I call my home. You know, there was slavery. There was a time that I as a woman was not allowed to vote. There were civil rights movements. There are times in our history that we had to confront something that was wrong in our country. And the thing that gives us a sense of saying that we're moving in the right direction is that our democracy stood up. There was never an easy process. It was that we stood up and we fought back, and we changed things. We have a lot to change now, and, unfortunately, it feels almost like the clock is being rolled back, because we had made so many accomplishments in this country.", "Yes.", "I still pledge of allegiance to one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.", "Yes.", "But freedom is not free.", "Now, I do want to ask you, though, because, you know, Cuomo is the Governor of the state of New York. He is up for reelection, he is obviously also a very potential candidate for 2020. His Republican challenger said that Cuomo owes the nation an apology and he should be ashamed of himself. Do you think these comments will haunt him until November? Because, obviously, the way you just describe this country getting better is not at all what he said, right? I mean, maybe he was trying to be cute with his play on words. But, you know, that's a sound byte made in heaven for somebody running against him for office.", "Yes, it is. But, you know, every person has to tell their own story. But what I will say is that we cannot run away from the truth. We cannot run away from the fact that I was once -- my forefathers were enslaved. But we as a country, our democracy and our Constitution, we fought through that. We resisted. We resisted as women to have rights. And now, we have to resist what we see happening every day, being led by a president that is trying to divide us again.", "President Trump has been under fire when you talk about being divisive for his attacks on Omarosa Manigault Newman, right, his former aide. He has called her, among other things on Twitter in the last couple of days a loser, a low life and a dog. And now, Republicans are even saying he went too far. Here is Orrin Hatch, your colleague.", "I'm not comfortable with that, and, you know, I don't -- I don't think words like that should be used, especially by the president.", "You don't go lower than her low. The White House is on the verge of winning this one, and now they're losing it again because the president went too far.", "And that, of course, was Ari Fleischer, Former White House spokesman. Are Republicans doing enough to denounce Trump for words he is using, whatever Omarosa may or may not be, honest, dishonest, it's besides the point. We're talking about the president's words to describe her.", "You know, it's interesting to see a white man say he's uncomfortable. I'm sitting here in America as a black woman and knowing that one of the things -- tools that were used during slavery was to dehumanize you, to call you names and not treat you as a human being. To hear this is insulting. And then we have the president of the United States who took an oath to serve, protect, defend, and here he is destroying relationships and not having the political understanding or compassion to understand the power and the damage his words make every single time he does it. It is so frustrating. And I can tell him shame on you, the fact that you are comfortable on a national platform to address a woman in that way, shame on you and you are the president. And, unfortunately, you're my president too. And I'm telling you, I always think he's hit rock bottom. This is totally unacceptable.", "All right. Well, Congresswoman, I appreciate your time. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "And next, Paul Manafort taking a stand in court, refusing to put on socks. Jeanne Moos is next."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "CUOMO", "BURNETT", "REP. BRENDA LAWRENCE (D), MICHIGAN", "BURNETT", "LAWRENCE", "BURNETT", "LAWRENCE", "BURNETT", "LAWRENCE", "BURNETT", "SEN. ORRIN HATCH (R), UTAH", "ARI FLEISCHER, FORMER WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN", "BURNETT", "LAWRENCE", "BURNETT", "LAWRENCE", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-153970", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-8-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1008/05/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Fight is Not Over Against California's Proposition 8", "utt": ["It's 13 minutes past the hour now. Welcome back to the most news in the morning. Same-sex marriage supporters are celebrating in California this morning after a federal judge's decision to overturn California's Prop 8, a state ban on same-sex marriage. Still getting reaction on both sides of the debate. Let's listen.", "Just a great moment today, because now we're a giant step closer to restoring that basic freedom of marriage in California.", "It's a great tragedy. It's a fantastic attack upon our nation, our children, on our families. So hopefully, we'll have to rely on the Supreme Court now to save the nation.", "It's really hard to talk because I'm so excited and so happy. Earlier today I was shaking because I was cold. Now, I'm just shaking out of joy.", "Well, groups in favor of the ban are vowing to appeal the judge's ruling before the ink even dries. John?", "Legal representatives on both sides of the Prop 8 debate can agree on one thing. This fight is far from over. For more, let's bring in former New York prosecutor and criminal defense attorney Paul Callan. Paul, great to see you this morning.", "Nice to be here, John.", "So this is pretty heavy reading here. It's 136 pages that actually goes thump when you drop it. But it's very interesting when you read through his findings and fact-based arguments for the decision. One of them says the court determines that the plaintiffs equal protection claim is based on sexual orientation, but the claim is equivalent to the claim of discrimination based on sex. He's put those two things together?", "Yes, he has. This decision, 136 pages, big, big factual records supporting Judge Juan Walker's decision here. He's looking down to the appellate process which is going all the way to the Supreme Court. And I think what he's done here is he's laid out a very compelling case with evidence, with scientific support. Remember, proponents of gay marriage called 18 witnesses in this case, and they created a very lengthy record. Opponents of gay marriage only called two witnesses, and their case was a very, very sparse case in terms of actual evidence presented. So if you just weigh the amount of evidence on both sides of the question, the proponents of gay marriage really carried the day in the court.", "When you take a look at how sort of, quote, \"thick this is\" with fact-based evidence, scientific studies, that sort of thing, as opposed to just a legal opinion, how do you think that will carry it through the appeals process?", "Well, I think he's in very, very good shape. When I say \"he,\" the judge, in terms of upholding the pro-gay marriage decision. Remember, it's being appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which is a very liberal court which has been favorable on these sorts of issues. So I think he's created a good record. It's likely he'll be sustained at that level. But you know, once you get to the U.S. Supreme Court, then that depends upon how many conservative justices there are, how many liberal justices there are. And you may have a whole different situation there.", "But this fellow is a conservative justice. He was appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1989. He's taken to be something of a libertarian as well. So do you think that his arguments, at least, will be reflective by some of the conservative justices on the Supreme Court?", "Well, they may very well be. Because one of the interesting arguments he makes is he says that the constitution says that if you're going to pick out a group and discriminate against that group in some way. Like For instance, kids. We have laws saying that kids can't drive until they're 18 or 21 years of age, or they can't drink. You can single out a group if you have a rational basis for a different set of laws for that group. He says, with respect to gays in America, there's no rational basis to discriminate against them, to treat them differently with respect to marriage than non-gay individuals and heterosexuals. So it's the rational basis test and he makes a compelling argument that there's a violation of both the due process clause of the constitution and the equal protection clause.", "He also said that Prop 8 means that California fails to live up to its obligation toward all people in the state. Here's what he wrote. He wrote, quote, \"Domestic partnerships do not satisfy California's obligation to allow the plaintiffs to marry.\" He went on to say domestic partnerships which were created sort of as a loophole around all of this, do not provide the same social meaning as marriage. So he's basically saying it's the state's responsibility to allow these people to marry and give them the same social standings as a man and a woman?", "Yes, that's exactly what he's saying. But I think the other thing we have to fall back on and we have to understand that there are huge numbers of Americans who are strongly opposed to gay marriage. And those people would strongly disagree with this assessment. And what they would say is that there is nothing in the United States constitution that makes any reference to gay marriage. Indeed, it makes no reference to marriage at all. So where does this judge get off saying it's unconstitutional. I think, you know, the opponents say, hey, these are judges who are not elected trying to make laws. The majority of people in California voted against gay marriage. Where does a federal judge come off saying that the voters will be overruled? So this is a very, very heated discussion and debate among individuals interested in the question.", "So this is one state of 50. There are no federal laws regarding gay marriage, though there the Defense of Marriage Act. But when you look at him putting together this idea that not allowing gays and lesbians, same-sex couples to marry, equates to discrimination based on gender, it's the same sort of thing. And there are federal laws governing that. So, if the Supreme Court upholds California, this rumor, does it spread across the country?", "Oh, it most definitely will spread across the country. But it's interesting how the Supreme Court handles big social questions like this. Usually, they will allow many of the state courts and many of the lower federal courts to make decisions like this. There'll be a New York decision, a California decision. And they kind of let it percolate in the lower courts. And then the case eventually, or many cases come up to the Supreme Court, and they make the big decisions. So I don't think you're going to see the Supreme Court jumping in on this immediately. I think it's probably going to be another couple of years. A lot of cases will be decided by the lower courts. And then they'll move in and make the big decision as to whether it's legal or not. Gay marriage in the United States.", "Well, that will give us two years of news to cover on.", "Yes, it will, John.", "Paul, it's great to see as always. Thanks so much for coming in.", "Nice to be here.", "Kiran?", "All right, thanks. And we also want to know what you think. The amFIX blog is up and running. We have been getting some comments. We'll read a few of them for you as well. You can head to CNN.com/amFIX. Also, U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan operating under new guidelines this morning. But what are the new rules of engagement? And will they make a difference? We're live at the Pentagon with more. Twenty minutes past the hour."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "PAUL CALLAN, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "ROBERTS", "CALLAN", "ROBERTS", "CALLAN", "ROBERTS", "CALLAN", "ROBERTS", "CALLAN", "ROBERTS", "CALLAN", "ROBERTS", "CALLAN", "ROBERTS", "CALLAN", "ROBERTS", "KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-318159", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2017-08-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/02/cg.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Oklahoma Senator James Lankford", "utt": ["Welcome back. We're continuing our politics lead. President Trump has signed the new Russia sanctions bill into law, but called the measure -- quote -- \"seriously flawed.\" In a statement, the president said the bill -- quote -- \"encroaches on the executive branch's authority to negotiate\" and that -- quote -- \"As president, I can make far better deals with foreign countries than Congress.\" Joining me now to talk about this and much more Republican Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma. He serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee. So, Senator, thanks for being here. Appreciate it.", "Glad to be here.", "So, the president said the bill is filled with -- quote -- \"clearly unconstitutional provisions\" and that the Constitution puts foreign affairs in the -- quote -- \"hands of the president.\" Are you worried at all about the president's commitment to these sanctions? He kind of had to sign the bill. It was going to become law either way.", "No, I'm not worried about his commitment to it. The issue was the same thing we had with President Obama before, that Congress put in place sanctions on Iran and the president, President Obama at that time, chose to pull those down. Something Congress is learning its lesson to say, if we're putting sanctions in place, there is common agreement among the American people we need to do this. Then we need to be able to leave it in place. And if the president wants to be able to put those sanctions down, he needs to come back to Congress. We all agreed together to put them in place. We should all agree together to be able to take them out.", "And specifically the reason for imposing sanctions on Russia -- I know the bill also deals with Iran and North Korea, but Russia is because of the election interference and also because of its encroachment into Ukraine?", "Ukraine and Crimea, that's correct.", "Yes.", "The Russian engagement all over the whole world, but they have also pushed back on us obviously in our elections from 2016. There is no reason to believe they affected our election. There is also every reason to believe they tried to, to be able to reach into election to be able to find it in every way they could. What's happening in Ukraine, what's happening in Crimea currently is a major issue. We think that there needs to be a pushback on Russia, and if there is not a forcible pushback, they're going to just keep going.", "What do you make of the fact that President Trump disagrees with you, as far as I can tell, the entire Senate and House Intelligence Committees, everybody who has spoken about this from the intelligence community, including his own director of national intelligence, NSA, CIA, FBI, et cetera, and he doesn't accept this? He doesn't accept that Russia tried to interfere in the elections.", "Of late, he has made the comment about that it's most likely Russia, that he's seen all the evidence, that he thinks it's most likely them, but it could be some others that are also participating as well. I think that's good movement. I have no question that it is Russia that was actually trying to engage to interfere in our election. I would be glad to be able to continue to be able to show any evidence as well as all the other people around it.", "On the question of Russia, there does seem to be just a question about his posture toward Russia. The president in recent days has had a lot to say about Republican senators, about Democratic senators, about the media. I don't think he's said anything publicly about Russia's retaliation for the sanctions, the insistence, the demand that the U.S. remove 755 individuals from the missions and embassies in Russia. Does that disappoint you? What do you make of it?", "It does disappoint me, but it also disappoints me that Russia is going to respond that way. I understand they're going to respond back to sanctions. We're stinging them because of what they have done in their actions. The issue of them trying to kick out 755 people that are Americans working there in Russia is their way to try to do a tit-for-tat, back and forth. It's nonsensical, quite frankly. They're still mad about us removing those facilities that the Russians had here in the United States. We have every reason that they'll be removed those two facilities and should not get them back.", "Were those facilities being used for spy craft? Or is it being used for espionage?", "Yes, there is no question those facilities were being used for trade craft and for Russian spies. They call them vacation homes. They were gathering spots for that and they know it full well and so do we.", "Sebastian Gorka told me a few weeks ago that the White House is considering giving them back, and he said something like, why not give cooperation and collaboration a chance?", "I think we've already given cooperation and collaboration a chance. There's an opportunity to be able to do that in a lot of areas. But I have no reason to help Russia in their spycraft against the United States. We are going to have to cooperate with them in Syria. What's happened over the last ten years in Syria is the United States have pulled back from that as a vacuum. Russia has run into that vacuum. If we're going to resolve the issues in Syria, we are going to have to work with the Russians. So, where we can work with them, we should, but I'm not going to help them spy on us.", "You penned an op-ed in \"The Wall Street Journal\" today. It's called \"How to Make the Senate Work Again\". Among other things, you write, quote: The Senate should not go to a 51-vote majority for every vote because the Senate is the one entity in the federal government where the minority view is heard and deliberation is protected. So, clearly, you disagree with President Trump who has said the 60- vote threshold should be disposed of and it should go down to 51 votes.", "Right, he and I have had this conversation. My proposal back is most people don't understand there are actually two 60 votes before the 51 votes actually pass the bill. There's the one, the motion to proceed to begin debate. Not only you have to 60 people agree to start debate, then 60 people agree to end debate and then you vote on the bill with just 51. My statement is, it's not rational for us to have two 61 votes or two 60 votes in every time. Let's let the majority party regardless of who it is, get on a bill, debate the bill, bring it up. If the minority is not heard, you don't get enough amendments, you don't get inside in that, then the minority can prevent it from going forward. But the majority party should always be able to get a bill and to be able to debate it and then the minority makes sure they get a hearing before it ends.", "What would you say to Democrats in the Senate, your colleagues, who would say, Senator Lankford, you're talking about making the Senate work better. Last year, Senate Republicans wouldn't even allow a hearing on a Supreme Court nominee?", "Sure, I understand that full well. We go from the nomination process. That's currently in fact you're seeing right now. There's never been a time in the history of the Senate that we've had so few nominations work through and so little legislation that's been allowed because Democrats are preventing that. Typically by this point, any president has about 200 people on his staff. This president has 50.", "How much of that -- and I really honestly don't know the answer to that. But how much is that is obstructionism and how much is it is the administration not nominating people?", "Oh, no, they have enough people to be able to go through the process. There are quite a few people who have gone through our committee process. They're literally waiting to get to the floor. And because 30 hours are required to be able to do the debate before a 51 passage, if the Democrats continue to require 30 hours for each person, it will literally take 11 years for the president to get his staff. My concern is that this has not happened before and it's setting another new precedent in the Senate, that every time there is a president that comes up, the president can't get his staff. And the gridlock that's happening in Congress is now a gridlock that is Washington, D.C.-wide. In every agency, they can't function because they don't have staff. We can't move it that way.", "Another, one of your colleagues, Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona, was on yesterday. I want you to take a listen to what he had to say about what he thought was happening to the Republican brand because of President Trump.", "We've kind of, as Republicans, taken up an unfamiliar banner that, you know, is populism. And, you know, in some cases xenophobia, anti-immigration, protectionism. That's not familiar to us, and I don't think that that is a governing philosophy.", "What do you think?", "Yes, I think every person represents their own people and where they are. I represent the 4 million people of Oklahoma. Those are the voices that I speak for and they've sent me here to Washington, D.C. to represent their voice. Their president has been elected. He has a role. Jeff Flake has been elected and he has a role. So, for me, it's not about Republican brand. It's about trying to identify the people at home and what their basic values are and trying to be able to coalesce those values here. So, I'm not so much worried about protecting the president. I don't know if that's a party issue or not. I don't come from a political background. The values coming from my state are the values I need to articulate here.", "What do you think about his criticism, that the values or the Republican Party in his view now represents are too often xenophobic and indecent ones, ones that are protectionist and nativist and not what he's used to?", "Yes, there's no question that President Trump when he was elected had a very different message than the typical Republican that's out there. He ran as a Republican. In fact, there was some dispute early on whether he would run as a Republican, Democrat or independent because of his own background on that, and I think most people in America see him as a different kind of Republican with a different set of issues that he's bringing up. That's fine. He's the president of the United States. He's head of our party as president of the United States, de facto in that role. But I think people also know what basic Republicans' values are, dealing with people in poverty, dealing with opportunity for every single individual, trying to protect life at every stage of life, trying to find ways to be able to help people achieve new things they haven't been able to do before, whether it's education or whatever it may be. Those are basic values that will continue to articulate. We have differences in our party. There's no great shock with that, that we all don't see it the same. But that is the uniquenees of what we are. Republicans in Oklahoma don't think the same as Republicans in Ohio or New York or California. But we all share the same party and we're all trying to work through the differences in that.", "All right. Senator, good to see you. Thanks so much for coming in.", "Good to see you as well.", "Really appreciate it. We hear Republicans calling for bipartisanship. So, are Democrats open to making deals and getting some work done on Capitol Hill? We'll talk to Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, a leading voice in his party, right after this quick break."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "SEN. JAMES LANKFORD (R), OKLAHOMA", "TAPPER", "LANKFORD", "TAPPER", "LANKFORD", "TAPPER", "LANKFORD", "TAPPER", "LANKFORD", "TAPPER", "LANKFORD", "TAPPER", "LANKFORD", "TAPPER", "LANKFORD", "TAPPER", "LANKFORD", "TAPPER", "LANKFORD", "TAPPER", "LANKFORD", "TAPPER", "SEN. JEFF FLAKE (R), ARIZONA", "TAPPER", "LANKFORD", "TAPPER", "LANKFORD", "TAPPER", "LANKFORD", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-368174", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-04-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/27/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Trump Reacts to News of Deadly Synagogue Shooting; Witness Describes Shooting at Synagogue.", "utt": ["We're following breaking news. I'm Ana Cabrera. You are live in the CNN Newsroom. Another shooting at a house of worship on the final day of Passover. The mayor of Poway reporting one person is dead, three are injured after gunfire rang out at the Chabad Poway Synagogue in what the mayor is calling a hate crime. We do know a man was detained for questioning and local police say there is no ongoing threat. Following this story for us, CNN's Ryan Young along with CNN Law Enforcement Analysts, and former FBI agents, Josh Campbell and James Gagliano, and former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, Juliette Kayyem. Josh, I want to start with you. What are you hearing? What have you learned? OK, let me -- let me turn to Ryan Young and get the very latest information from you. Ryan, what can you tell us about what happened?", "Well, some tough details that you just confirmed with that mayor, the fact that one person has died in this shooting. And, in fact, when we had that reporter on earlier from the local affiliate there, he talked about maybe the rabbi having his fingers blown off during the shooting. We know three other people have been shot. We have been told they did suffer nonlife-threatening gunshots so far. But when you think about this, on last day of Passover, having someone come into a synagogue and open fire. We do know this happened around 11:30 this morning. Police acting very quickly to get to the scene. That last person that we had talking before a witness, who talked about hearing five or six shots and then the screaming that was going on afterwards, apparently there were several people who were inside the synagogue who tried to confront the shooter. And then, a short time later, the sheriff's department was able to corral that person and take them into custody. They are investigating this as a hate crime. But then, on top of that, in an extreme caution, the San Diego Police Department is making sure extra patrols are set up around all places of worship. So, we have, at this point, 22 miles outside the city of San Diego. You have this shooting that happened around 11:30. We do know one person has been shot and killed. Three others who have been injured who have been shot but nonlife threatening injuries. And when you hear the information from the witnesses on the scene, you can understand how terrified they are. But, at this point, we're still learning information. And we do know a news conference is coming soon. Let's not forget this is considered a hate crime, at this point, according to the mayor.", "OK. Ryan, stand by. Our Josh Campbell has been working his sources on this story. Josh, we just spoke with the mayor of Poway who said that they believe this is a hate crime because of words they heard from this suspect who is now, presumably, in custody. The man that they say they have been taken in for questioning. What can you tell us about how they may be going about this? And, in fact, if they have this as a hate crime now, what does it mean?", "Well, first, Ana, let me say that that was good that you pressed him on that. Because it's one thing for an elected official to describe an incident, and it's something very different from a prosecutor or a law enforcement officer to describe it. And it sounds as though, after you had pressed him, what we learned is that he's basing his assessment on what witnesses heard during the act which is going to be a key piece of evidence for the investigation. Again, if the subject didn't admit himself to law enforcement officers what he did, if he's not proud of what he's doing, if he is not cooperating, then that witness testimony becomes very key and then that, obviously, becomes a large part of that investigation, what was motivating him. And if it was hatred, then this is an entirely different case. One thing that will be interesting for us to note, as we learn from law enforcement officers at their press conferences. What were -- what were the circumstances surrounding his arrest? We know that it took place, at least according to witness testimony, outside the facility. Whenever they arrived, did he surrender? Was there some type of exchange between the subject and law enforcement officers? That we don't yet know. But, again, it helps us build out this picture of what this person was intending. Did he intend to go and get captured, and, you know, again, be proud of what he did? Did he want to go out in some type of a change of the law enforcement? That we don't yet know. But, again, those will be the details that we'll be looking for from authorities.", "And, James, how do police so quickly determine that there's no ongoing threat?", "Well, in this instance, Ana, I have to believe that they're going to use the public safety exception. Now, the public safety exception is the part where you can do away with Miranda rights. So, you're going to talk to the subject who's in your custody in a clear, specific and focused manner regarding the incident that just occurred. And that public safety exception allows you to ask him questions. And, of course, the first question I'd ask, is anybody else involved? Are there any other imminent threats? Is anyone else in imminent danger? Is this it? Was it just you? And then, going beyond that, now build that out. Because, obviously, somebody like this, if this is -- in fact, does turn out to be a hate crime, which it, obviously, clearly, looks like from the outside, then to determine who else he was in contact with. We talk about this all the time in terrorism. Was this person inspired? Was this person directed to do this or was this person enabled? Those are the two things -- there are three things: inspired, directed or enabled. And find out if there is anybody else who could have been part and parcel of this to make it a conspiracy. Beyond that, again, that's the most important fact is just get out there and make certain that there is nobody else that's in imminent danger, there are no subsequent plans for any other attacks anywhere else. And then, put together a rock-solid case to send this person away for a long time.", "Juliette, it's the last day of Passover. It's been six months since the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. Given the recent attacks we've also seen at Christ Church, New Zealand, and what we saw last weekend in Sri Lanka. How much has surveillance and security ramped up at houses of worship here in the U.S.?", "Significantly so. Pittsburgh, in particular, especially at synagogues. And the challenge in this kind of security is, of course, you don't want a fortress synagogue. The whole points of synagogues or mosques or churches is to be welcoming to not just congregants, but, of course, strangers. Right? That you are welcoming the -- welcoming them in. The combination of this anniversary date six months with Passover, and, of course, now what we've heard from the mayor, that things were said that one has to interpret as this being a hate crime, you obviously will be of concern. Not just in California, but, of course, nationwide. Given the context of these kinds of attacks on minority religions here in the United States, we still have a lot to determine what happened here. But if you -- but if you are, sort of, worried about security at these synagogues or mosques or churches or wherever else, that is something that has been addressed. I will say one thing, someone -- the mayor I think said there was security at the synagogue. We don't know what that means. But we do know that this was not an incident that seemed to last a long time. And it does seem that the assailant was either taken down by civilians or at maybe a police presence. That is good news. But the challenge of being welcoming, because it's your faith with security, is something that, unfortunately, we're never going to get perfectly right, because these places want to -- these places of worship want to be welcoming.", "Josh, if this is investigated now as a hate crime, does that, sort of, alter how police do their job and how this is processed?", "So, at the outset, the basics of the investigation will be at play, gathering information about the subject, gathering information about people in his orbit. We can expect the law enforcement officers will be conducting search warrants on any type of social media, if he has it, his communication devices, his place of residence. All of that is textbook law enforcement investigation. Now, what happens with the hate crime, that -- if it is, indeed, determined that by prosecutors, then that will determine what happens at the prosecutive phase and what type of punishment then comes. It will be interesting for us to wait and see whether or not the state of California prosecutes that here, there are enhancements under the state law as far as working on hate crimes, or if the federal government asserts federal jurisdiction here, and then you see federal prosecutors coming in and them going that route. That we don't yet know. But to your question. Right now, it's the basic investigative steps that are underway to get to that motive to get to why this person showed up today and did exactly what he did.", "And, Ryan, what more are we hearing now from witnesses?", "Yes, absolutely. I think one of the things that stood out to us when the mayor was talking to you as well was he was talking about how safe this city was. And then, you had the people who were there who said, basically, this will not stop them from going to their synagogue. That they will not be deterred. And you could hear that women talking about the fact that her husband was on the inside when this shooting happened. But when you hear about those facts that we've learned so far, like the man who was nearby and heard the gunshots one after another. He believed he heard six. Then, he heard screaming and yelling. Then, you had another witness basically telling that reporter who was on scene that the rabbi might have had his fingers blown off. Then, you had someone else basically saying that someone was able to tackle maybe the shooter or take that person on. You see the interactions when the people are being very upfront. I will want to say something else. The last time we covered something like this, I know there were synagogues across the country that started beefing up their security. And some of them even hiring private security themselves, to make sure they were ready for any sort of threat. So, you have to understand maybe they have a heightened sense of awareness, at this point. But, at the same time, you understand how painful this has to be, especially on the last day of Passover. We know the San Diego Police Department are stepping up their patrols in areas around places of worship, at this point, because of this recent shooting.", "We heard from a member of the congregation just a moment ago. She said her husband was inside at the time of the shooting. Let's listen.", "My husband called and he said that there has been a shooting in the synagogue. And, unfortunately, one of my friends is down and my rabbi has been injured. Two other people are injured. And that one guy came and shoot everybody and cursing. And, of course, they took them to hospital and we are praying for them. But just one message from all of us, from our congregation, that we are standing together. We are getting stronger. Never again. You can't break us. We are strong. You can't break us. We all are together.", "Was there an -- was there a service going on, an event going on there?", "It's Pesach (ph), the last day of Passover, an escor (ph) which is a very important ceremony for us.", "And the description of -- you said what -- you said it was a guy?", "It was a guy, yes.", "And he was screaming. He was cursing.", "Yes.", "Do you have another description of what he looks like?", "Yes. Yes. And since that day, he has been arrested.", "And who is your friend that was shot or what do you know about --", "I can't -- I can't tell -- say her name but it's my -- one of my friends.", "How do -- where was your husband?", "My husband is shocked. Shocked like any -- like everybody else. This community, it's unbelievable. We are talking about Poway, a very peaceful place. Everybody knows everybody. It's like a (", "Rabbi Goldstein does things for everybody.", "Rabbi Goldstein is such a nice man. He -- everybody knows him. He's so friendly. He goes everywhere. And why? The question is why? People are praying. If you have guts, go and fight people that you have to fight. Don't kill innocent people.", "And your husband was inside, you said, during that?", "Yes.", "That's how you found out?", "Yes.", "Oh, my gosh. And he's OK but he's just shocked?", "He is shocked.", "And this -- what else did you hear from him? What else did he have to say?", "He just -- he is shocked. He can't talk. He has high blood pressure, unfortunately. So, I'm hoping that they let him come -- they release him earlier.", "And you are parishioners of the church -- what's the name of the synagogue exactly?", "It's Chabad of Poway.", "Chabad of Poway?", "Yes.", "And you would be -- what would you -- what would you call yourself, parishioners or would you call members?", "I'm a member. One of the members.", "Members, got you. Members.", "Yes.", "Again, that from a member of the Chabad of Poway. The latest shooting taking place in a house of worship. And I just keep coming back to this thought, James, going on that, I mean, we've been covering this all too often now, right, in churches. Last weekend in mosques, not too long ago in New Zealand, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting just six months ago. What is going on?", "Yes, it's having a chilling effect not only on the United States, but on the world. I mean, to your point, six months ago today, it was October 27th of last year that the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting took place. Eleven people killed, seven wounded in the largest attack on the Jewish community in our country's 243-year history. You then fast forward and, boom, we're dealing with two attacks in mosques in New Zealand, followed by the attacks at the Christian churches last weekend on Easter, and now this today. And, Ana, I've got to tell you, terrorism has a particular point. And, yes, it's the people that get killed or hurt or maimed, but it's also the chilling effect it has on the community and on the country and on the world.", "Yes.", "And it's the same thing with hate crimes. People ask all the time, well, if somebody hits somebody because they don't like him because of this, that or the other, why would you give them additional charges? And the reason is hate crime statutes are there because of the chilling effect it has on people. It is a form of terrorism. And if what we're hearing now about this is true, that this individual entered into this house of worship on one of their high holy days and looked to kill and maim and injure innocent people, this is absolutely a hate crime. And just last week, a 1998 case, the James Byrd dragging death, one of those hate crime perpetrators and terrorists was put to death. We do have the death penalty in place for these and I -- and I trust that they're going to seek at least, you know, life in prison or the death penalty in an innocent like this if there -- if there was a casualty here where somebody had a fatality.", "Josh, how is it distinguished between a hate crime and terrorism in a situation like this?", "Well, so, on the federal side, there is no federal domestic terrorism statute, for example. But there is a way that investigators can look at it under a federal hate crime. And that is, again, if they meet the certain threshold, where prosecutors at the Department of Justice and the local U.S. Attorneys Office say, we're going to take this federal. Then, they will come in and assert federal jurisdiction. But regardless of whether it goes federal or state, it gets to that motivation. Did this person come there for the purpose of killing people, injuring people, harming people because of their faith? That is one of the protected classes that would fall under the prevue of a hate crime. And if they can prove that, which it sounds like, based on the witness testimony we were hearing about from the mayor, that that is a likelihood. And we'll have to wait and see what it is that he had actually said whenever he went in and conducted this attack. Then, obviously, that is evidence that investigators will use. We'll also have to wait and see. Again, based on the unfortunately fact that we've seen many of these, oftentimes these people will have, you know, manifestos or some type of online writing or musings perhaps in throughout investigating and talking to witnesses that knew this person, they may learn additional details about him. Again, that will all get to that state of mind. If it turns out that this person -- a person who had a grief against Jews and wanted to go act that out, then that is a -- appears to be a slam-dunk case of a hate crime. And it will be up to prosecutors to prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law.", "OK, thank you. And everyone stand by. We do expect police to bring us an update on this shooting in just a short time from now. When that happens, we will bring to you. Please stay right there as we monitor this, yet another shooting at a house of worship in America."], "speaker": ["ANA CABRERA, CNN ANCHOR, NEWSROOM", "RYAN YOUNG, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "JOSH CAMPBELL, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "CABRERA", "JAMES GAGLIANO, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "CABRERA", "JULIETTE KAYYEM, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "CABRERA", "CAMPBELL", "CABRERA", "YOUNG", "CABRERA", "MINOO ANVARI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANVARI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANVARI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANVARI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANVARI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANVARI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANVARI", "INAUDIBLE.) 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{"id": "CNN-243913", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-11-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/24/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Obama Urges Calm in Ferguson", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "Hello, everyone. Don Lemon, here in Clayton, Missouri near Ferguson Missouri. We're waiting for an announcement from the prosecutor. The grand jury has reached a decision and they will make an announcement this evening. We're expecting that announcement will be whether or not to indict the officer in this case, Darren Wilson. I'm joined here by my colleagues. One of my colleagues on the scene is CNN's justice reporter, Evan Perez. Evan, we have been here following this case. You got the information regarding the announcement. As we have been saying, we're expecting the announcement will be an indictment or a no true bill non- indictment.", "Right. Exactly. We know officials are getting ready. We know some officials who were out of town are coming back in, making sure that now they can put in place the plan that they were preparing for when this decision was made. You know, they know there will be a public reaction to this. Don, you and I were talking about that, despite the pictures that people saw back in August of some of the unrest, some of the protests, really, it's not representative of the vast majority of what we see here. I mean we're talking about a relatively small area. Even downtown Ferguson itself, which is just like half a mile away from the Canfield Apartments, even that feels like a world away. Here in Clayton, Missouri, which is down the road from Ferguson, you can see, you know, some businesses have boarded up. You can tell people are getting ready for the same thing because they are very concerned.", "Some of the businesses as we're standing here aren't open today because they don't know what will happen and they don't want to take the chance. It's unfortunate. As we're getting close to the holidays this is when people make a lot of their money, shop keepers, business owners make a lot of their revenue.", "I'm told, from some of the conversations that we've had, that some of the merchants in town met with state officials and voiced that concern. A lot of them, Don, already have their inventory for, you know, Black Friday, for the day after Thanksgiving, which is one of the biggest weekends of shopping weekends in America. So they were, you know, very concerned that there's looting and, obviously, also if they have big protests that affect how people can get about and maybe do their shopping.", "The reason I'm looking here is because what we're seeing is reflected on the front of the local newspaper here today, and it says that everyone -- basically the sentiment is that everyone here is apprehensive, living among apprehension. As you can see, the stores are boarded up in the areas. Then you'll see, again, it says, \"An undercurrent of unease spread as life goes on.\" That's at that really good way of putting it rather than the streets of Ferguson are on fire, everyone is on edge, on pins and needles. It's not quite that but there is a feeling of, \"We don't know what's going to happen.\"", "They don't know what's going to happen.", "Yet, as a resident, the person that lives here, told Sara Sidner, we want to get this over with. We want it to be better and we want to move on with our lives. This has gone on for a long time.", "Right. We know that the economy of the region is already getting affected. You know that there are big meetings being cancelled. People who are afraid to come to town because they don't know what to expect. And that's unfortunate because, you know, in some ways -- you know, I met with Michael Brown Sr., earlier in the week, when he was shooting a public service announcement, trying to urge public calm, and one of the things he was very concerned about is the idea that this has ceased being about his son, and it stopped being about Michael Brown.", "It's becoming about agendas, people's personal agendas.", "It's people coming into town with their own agenda and are trying to get --", "Also, I saw some breaking news that we haven't reported here on CNN that I got from one of the sources close to Officer Darren Wilson, is that Darren Wilson and his fiancee married a week ago Friday. They got married. And she is an officer who also works for the Ferguson Police Department. So, Officer Darren Wilson has not been seen in public, has not been heard from. We heard from a couple of friends and associates but haven't heard from the officer. Again, now we're learning they filed for the marriage license back on October 24th, and then, a week ago Friday -- I believe it was the 14th -- that they did get married. And she's an officer with the department as well. I want to go now, Evan, to our colleague, Donna Brazile, in Washington. Donna, we heard the president, as well urge, calm, saying listen everyone has a right to protest, that is your right, but he wants to urge calm. What do you think the president should be doing as we wait for this announcement?", "Well, there's no question that the president has designated Attorney General Eric Holder to be the one that's in touch with, not only state and local officials, the police department and others, they have been providing assistance, they have been providing training, they have been providing resources. Of course, Eric Holder has been a steady hand in making sure all the parties are communicating so that people and the public know that the Justice Department is also monitoring this situation. So the president has designated not just Eric Holder, Valerie Jarrett, and I'm sure they are in touch with Governor Nixon. The president talked to him a few weeks ago. We'll learn more once this announcement is made.", "Donna, I probably wasn't as articulate as I could have been when I spoke with my panel regarding the racial makeup of the grand jury. Race has been the overriding factor in this case at least in the mind of the public. And seven are men, five are women, as you see, three black, nine white. And they need nine really to come to a consensus about indictment. My question is, as we know in this country, many times, African-Americans and whites see race differently in this country, and I find I want interesting that the racial make up of this grand jury may, in some way, be a deciding factor.", "Well, I hope it's not. I hope what's a deciding factor is the fairness that they've looked at all of the evidence and come to the right conclusion based on the evidence. I've learned that much from listening to Jeffrey Toobin. With that said, African-Americans and whites share many of the same values and the same beliefs in terms of what it means to liver in a society like ours where we want to do the right thing. We want the best for our children. African-Americans have a unique experience, however, with say the police department, the Justice Department, and in many ways, we've expressed that and throughout the long months since Michael Brown was murdered. We talked about, you know, what it takes in this society to have accountability, transparency, but also sensitivity training of these police departments. So I'm hoping that this episode will soon bring us to a different level of conversation, not only about race relations but really how we work with the police department. You know, all policemen are not bad. All police women are not bad."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "LEMON", "PEREZ", "LEMON", "PEREZ", "LEMON", "PEREZ", "LEMON", "PEREZ", "LEMON", "PEREZ", "LEMON", "DONNA BRAZILE, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "LEMON", "BRAZILE"]}
{"id": "CNN-2980", "program": "CNN International Diplomatic Linense", "date": "2000-2-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/19/i_dl.00.html", "summary": "Indonesia and East Timor Welcome Kofi Annan", "utt": ["Tuesday morning, Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Jakarta. That group down there pulsating with cameras, notepads and tripods awaits the latest act in one of the most bizarre dramas of diplomacy ever on the world stage. Hello, I'm Richard Roth. Welcome to DIPLOMATIC LICENSE. It's an amazing time here in Indonesia. The country is now in the midst of emerging democracy. One day, the new president fires a senior military figure, the man implicated by many in humans rights violations in East Timor, formerly controlled by Indonesia. The next day, he can keep his job. Then a change of heart. He can stay as long as he's investigated. Then, literally overnight, another change. He's suspended. And into all of this walks United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.", "This is a very fortunate and historic moment for us to welcome the secretary-general of the United Nations.", "A diplomatic embarrassment was avoided on the eve of Annan's arrival when Indonesian president Wahid suspended security chief General Wiranto from his cabinet. The decision came after two weeks of wavering by the president who, on one day, would demand Wiranto's resignation - later letting him stay in office - then Monday suspending him from duties pending a probe.", "It was the president's decision, and I think he has to exercise his prerogative.", "Wiranto's army is implicated in two human rights reports for directing a campaign of violence against the people of East Timor, the island territory now run by the United Nations. A major topic of Annan's talks with Indonesian government figures - will Indonesia or an international tribunal conduct the trial on what happened in East Timor? For now, Annan is willing to test Indonesia's vow to investigate the accusations and hold a trial handled domestically, if warranted.", "I'm personally very pleased that the Indonesian government has taken on the responsibility of ensuring that those accountable for the atrocities in - and those responsible for the atrocities in East Timor will be made accountable and will be brought to trial.", "And with that early praise from its guest, Indonesia's foreign minister bid Annan a safe journey into Jakarta. The motorcade is low-key. No blaring sirens. On the left, agriculture, the low flooding of rice fields. They fade away as the big city, with its skyscrapers, looms in the distance, housing hotels and financial interests. Indonesia is just starting to pick up the pieces after the major financial crisis that swept Asia. The secretary-general may have seen this banner welcoming him to Indonesia. It is an early symbol of much of the discussions he will have - people who want their province to separate from the rest of Indonesia. While the secretary-general checks into his hotel, another demonstration outside, this one more nationalistic. They called themselves \"Formula.\" Only their leader spoke English, but their signs read in English. It did have all the appearances of an organized protest by somebody who wanted to send the UN secretary-general a message. (on camera): You're camped outside here, the hotel of the UN secretary-general. He's high up there; don't know if he can see you. What do you want?", "The people of Indonesia can do - can do or can accomplish human rights and can do it by ourselves today. So I don't like foreign countries to interfere.", "How long has your group been together?", "About a week ago.", "A week? (voice-over): The Formula was gone by the time the UN motorcade hit the streets of the capital again. Among the diplomatic rounds, the vehicles turned into the national parliament, a building overrun by outraged students at the height of the last days of the regime of President Suharto, a man who may now face corruption charges. Fresh democracy here also brings new freedoms for the press. Last fall, the government abolished requiring government licenses for the press. It could make for some alarming moments for the secretary- general.", "One by one. OK, OK, one by one.", "We've gone straight up, high atop Jakarta, Indonesia, to get some street perspective form two journalists who have been here for years and covered the story very close up. With me, Maria Ressa, CNN's Jakarta bureau chief, and Aristides Katoppo, long-time journalist here for over 40 years. Once ran a newspaper that was banned by former President Suharto. Maria Ressa, what is the impact of Secretary-General Annan's visit coming at this delicate time for Indonesia?", "Well, it's a fascinating time for Indonesia because it's being torn apart by a lot of different factions, not just in the military, but also within politics. He comes in a symbolizes really the international community. That has been the pressure on Indonesia during President Habibie's - former President Habibie's term. It's still the pressure now on President Wahid. The pressure of the - of perhaps a tribunal - an international tribunal coming in. It's going to be very, very difficult for Indonesia to hold together during a time when it's being torn apart, not just domestically, but also by international forces.", "But does Kofi Annan's visit help the Indonesian government or, as some people fear, the international community is just waiting to get its hooks on in Indonesia? What is the impact?", "Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab said - talked about latent nationalism. That nationalism is very real, and it's one of the factors that his government must keep in mind. But at the same time, international pressure is also necessary to keep democracy moving forward, and I think President Wahid is very aware of how to use that to his advantage. So it's a very hard balancing act for him trying to use it, at the same time, keep a balance with the concerned here domestically.", "Mr. Katoppo, put some long-time perspective on this situation. And will Indonesia hold? Is there going to be an emerging democracy here? Is there enough foundation? What do you think?", "That's, in fact, what we all hope for. And I think a lot of the dynamics you see now is the clash within those who want democracy and those who want to stay in the old autocratic order of President Suharto.", "This is an amazing time here. I mean, in the government. What is happening in the higher echelons of this city and in this government? Is there factions, turf battles going on? How is the president managing affairs here?", "I think the president is managing very well. Indeed, there are factions as in any society. And, of course, there's rivalries. There are submerged or even open conflicts. But at the same time, you must know that President Wahid is the first legitimately elected president in a democratic way. So he has great legitimacy unlike - and, of course, that is his main strength.", "Is he a magician among other strengths? I mean, his European trip included, \"If it's Tuesday, it must be Belgium. I'm going to fire my minister of security. And if it's Paris on Wednesday, he can stay.\" Have you ever seen such - something like that? How did this affect affairs here?", "Well, people think he's, in a ways, kind of a genius. They may not always understand the actions he takes, but I think that it's quite some trust. You know, it's like the water flowing into the - from a river. It meanders. It looks as if there is no direction. But in fact, it's very consistent. It seeks the lowest point, which is democratization. And it consistently seeks the way of least resistance, which means nonviolence, a nonviolent way.", "I saw some rice paddies, though, that flooded and overflowed on the way in from the airport. Maria Ressa, how essential is what happens in East Timor mean to the Indonesian situation here. Or is the international community making that a bigger deal than it is for the people here?", "Well, it's certainly left a lot of scars here. I mean, the military that started, in effect, a lot of the fighting that we've seen over the last year. Ethnic, religious, separatist violence out of East Timor definitely fueled a lot of separatist movements in other parts of the country in as many as five different areas. So it's still a factor on how Indonesia deals with it. It's going.", "Very briefly - all this coup talk - is that going to happen?", "No, it's not. I think, just to add to what Ari was saying about the president. He smokes people out, and he gets things done. You know, if you take a look at what he's accomplished in four months, it's quite a lot. He's put the military in place. A dramatic fall from power of General Wiranto, and that's something that you couldn't have expected a year ago.", "All right. Thank you, Maria Ressa, Jakarta bureau chief for CNN, and Aristides Katoppo, long-time journalist for over 40 years here, high atop Jakarta. (voice-over): On day two in Jakarta, a highly significant first appointment for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Indonesian Defense Ministry. The military has been accused of inciting much of the violence that swept East Timor following UN-sponsored elections last year. But democratic reforms have now swept through Indonesia, and there's a civilian at the head of the Defense Ministry for the first time in 40 years.", "There's no question of any imminent long-term military coup. The president and the cabinet is in full power over the military.", "More positive tones from a meeting with Indonesia's mercurial president, where the two men exchanged promises of cooperation and some jokes. Some at the UN aren't laughing at a presidential promise to pardon General Wiranto if he is found guilty in an East Timor human rights trial.", "We know that between our friends, there is no need for", "Annan, who met with Indonesia's attorney general, who is now investigating Wiranto, said again only a creditable by the Indonesian government would deter international tribunal. The secretary-general bristled when asked his definition of justice.", "What is yours?", "UN officials were struck by the forceful pleas by Indonesia to let it administer justice for what happened in its former territory. Insiders here think the suspension of General Wiranto by the president is a good starting point.", "It was a test case. I mean, not now - I think his position was, indeed, kind of a", "But more trouble is at the doorstep, with dozens of other islands and regions rumbling with threats of a breakaway from Indonesia. The secretary-general warned against a Timor-style blowup.", "Although they may have security implications, they are, in essence, not security problems. They are political problems, and as such, they require political solutions.", "These have certainly been tumultuous times for the Indonesian president. Besides dealing with the separatists' talk in places such as Aceh and Ambon, there is East Timor and General Wiranto. A keen observer of all this and perhaps a man with some influence here is the United States ambassador to Indonesia, Robert Gelbard. What is your view? You've been here only six months, but a lot of development has happened. What's your view right now of the political situation in this country right now?", "They've come a long way in a few months from the fact that over 50 - for over 50 years, they had a non-democratic tradition and now, just in the last few months, they have moved dramatically to establish a solid democratic government that has widespread support throughout this country.", "Everybody saw the comment by the president every day regarding General Wiranto. That may now have been stymied a bit by the suspension of his post. But is the president fully in charge, you think?", "Absolutely. He has moved very strongly to assure a strong economic policy and to really consolidate his political situation. His first structural priority is clearly military reform, something we support really strongly. And what he's shown through a variety of measures - including putting reformists into some key military posts, but now particularly with the removal of General Wiranto - is that he wants to make the military subject to civilian control as Secretary Cohen had emphasized in his visit here in September. We obviously support that, and we want to see what we can do to reinforce it.", "Indonesia is a very important country besides being the fourth most populous. Very significant to the West and to a lot of other parts of the world, isn't it?", "Obviously. This is a country, which has never realized its full potential. But now they have an opportunity, which is one reason why they're receiving so much international support.", "Are they doing enough regarding the prosecution of those responsible involving Indonesian abuses, atrocities in East Timor?", "Yes. They have started on a serious, sensible course to try to bring those responsible for crimes in East Timor, as well as in Aceh, to justice. We and others are supporting this process. Now, with the suspension of General Wiranto, there's been a powerful signal given to the military and to the people of this country as well as to the international community that President Wahid means business.", "You think it's going to lead to an international tribunal, or will Indonesia be able to prosecute domestically as they wished?", "It's our strong hope that they can succeed in pursuing domestic prosecutions because that will be, ultimately, the best way to internalize the lessons of East Timor. If they can do that, and we think they can, then we strongly believe that this will provide a very strong basis for consolidating the democratic process.", "How much does the U.S. government fear what's happening in Aceh, these other places where there's religious violence, a need many feel, to break away from Indonesia? Are we going to have a rerun in a different way on what happened in East Timor?", "No. The government - obviously, these are serious problems. These are problems that President Wahid and his government have inherited from the past because of policies with non-democratic governments. The military and the police simply didn't know how to handle security issues in places such as Aceh and the Malukus. There needs to be a serious reorientation there. But the government has begun to try to establish comprehensive integrated policies to deal particularly with Aceh. We strongly support the territorial integrity of Indonesia. East Timor was a special case. And we and others are working very hard to support what the Indonesians are trying to do there.", "The U.S. ambassador was among the elite of Indonesia society attending the secretary-general's speech entitled \"Unity and Diversity,\" a call for the country to come together as, quote, \"the best solution for all concerned.\"", "If there are any words I will always remember from this visit to Indonesia, it is", "Welcome back to DIPLOMATIC LICENSE. Finally on East Timor, we're all waiting here for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on his way from Jakarta, Indonesia.", "The devastation I have been able to see so far is worse than what I had imagined from the reports and what I saw on television. Today, we are here to work with you to establish a free, independent East Timor. That was the clear message of your vote. We will also never forget the extreme violence that erupted. I want to express my most profound revulsion of the murder, mayhem and destruction of last September. I wish we could have prevented or contained it.", "It is fitting that the coastal city of Darwin was Secretary-General Annan's first stop in Australia. Darwin was the launching pad for the emergency international peacekeeping force that went to East Timor after violence erupted last year.", "It was your city that provided basic human needs such as shelter, food and clothing for almost 2,000 refugees.", "Australia has been the backbone of the East Timor rebuilding mission. The country even imposed a so-called \"Timor tax\" to help pay for billions of dollars in aid. Annan personally thanked senior leaders of Australia's Northern Territory. Annan's jet was delayed because a cargo plane carrying 29 people and Annan's personal luggage had a landing gear problem. UN staffers scrambled out as emergency crews foamed the plane. 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{"id": "NPR-19475", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2016-05-06", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/05/06/476993975/glacier-national-park-gives-montanans-a-close-view-of-climate-change", "title": "Glacier National Park Gives Montanans A Close View Of Climate Change", "summary": "David Greene visits Glacier National Park in Montana to explore the extent to which concerns involving climate change may inform Montanans' view of the presidential election.", "utt": ["Getting the view from Big Sky Country, we are in Bozeman, Mont., with a live audience at the Feed Cafe. You want to wake up the rest of America?", "You know, I have to tell you all, you live in a beautiful state and...", "No amount of research could've prepare me for just how stunning Glacier National Park was going to be and...", "David Parker is sitting with me. He's a political scientist from Montana State University. And, David, you must go to Glacier a lot. You're lucky to be so close.", "I go to Yellow Stone a lot. I've been up to Glacier once but, you know, it's stunning. The whole state is stunning. And to be a Westerner, you can't escape a connection to the beautiful landscapes that we live in, right? We recreate on the land and most Montanans, in one way or another, make a living from that land.", "Well - and the land is changing. And that's one thing that we wanted to see when we decided to go up and visit Glacier. And, you know, we're getting the view this election year from Montana and we wanted to understand the role that climate change and the environment might be playing in voter's minds.", "And when we were up at the park we met up with Daniel Fagre. He is the expert on climate at Glacier. He's a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey. We were standing right on the shore of one of the lakes there. He said he's been watching the glaciers, these massive sheets of ice clinging to mountains, getting thinner and thinner.", "How ominous is your prediction for these glaciers?", "Well, the glaciers will be gone. It's already too warm to keep them, so it's just a matter of watching them decline and ultimately disappear. So we're already past the tipping point for these glaciers.", "A lot of changes he's watching. There's a longer fire season now. The lake we were standing on, it used to freeze. There was ice skating back in the day but no longer. And he is certain about what's happening.", "From a science standpoint, it's really clear. It's human caused to a large degree and that it is happening more and more quickly.", "Now, down the road from this lake, we pulled into another place that is named for the glaciers, the Glacier Bible Camp. And we found Zella Whitter, who works there. She's been in this community most of her life, cares about it as deeply as anyone. She is worried about those glaciers but...", "I guess I have a different take on it because, I mean, we had an ice age and weather evolves. But I also know that God's in control and whatever is going to happen is going to happen.", "And when we asked her about the election...", "I put my faith in Christ. I don't put in politicians because politicians will let you down.", "David Parker, let me bring you back here. Two starkly different views in a state where the environment is so, so important - what do we take from that?", "Well, one of the things I think listeners need to realize is that Westerners see the effects of climate change. And perhaps more than most places, we have to deal with those effects in our daily lives. This is an extreme place. We are a dry state, the fifth driest in the country, and a low snowfall effects us throughout the year, right? It effects our water supply. It effects our fire season.", "And the problem with climate change - and I think this is why it's so difficult - is that while we experience its effects, it is so big as an idea that many of us have trouble wrapping our heads around it. And it's really hard to think of ways that we can solve the problem or make a difference. It's just - it's overwhelming.", "And sometime - I mean, so overwhelming you really don't know where necessarily to kind of explain it. I mean, obviously a lot of people listen to scientists and they make an incredibly compelling case, but she really struggles with that.", "Yeah, it is very, very difficult but certainly we here in Montana see the effects when it comes to fishing. Warmer water hurts the trout. And certainly those fire seasons, last summer in Bozeman in August, it was difficult to run or be outside.", "Let me bring in another voice here. I met Kelsey Moates-Conners along the river right near Glacier. And she pulled up in her pickup with her two dogs who were jumping around the bed of the truck. They were desperate for a swim.", "I am a wedding planner", "Oh, cool.", "Yeah, so I have a wedding...", "This is an ugly place to get married, I'm sure this is not...", "I know.", "...Attractive at all.", "Nobody wants to get married with these, like, stunning mountain backdrops.", "Now, just think about this - if August is sweltering, if there is a forest fire, a couple postpones a wedding, it's a huge hit on Kelsey's business, which she runs by herself. And she said she would love to hear a candidate talk about protections for her, like maybe more accessible insurance for small businesses operating in risky environments.", "It's more than sort of saddling yourself up with a candidate who believes in climate change or who is passionate about climate change. But I think it's a little bit more complicated in terms of, you know, like, how do you balance out regulations that will help slow down climate change while also allowing small businesses to not be, you know, totally buried.", "So she votes generally for Democrats but she's open to Republicans who support small businesses. And let's hear from a Republican who seems to fit that mold. Her name's Becky Beard. She's a first-time politician. She runs her own business. She does grant writing for local governments and now she wants to serve herself. She's running for a House seat in the Montana legislation. And we met her at a park right here in Bozeman.", "Do you really have a blanket there? We can sit in the park...", "I'm a former...", "...On the blanket?", "I'm a former Girl Scout leader...", "Oh, wow.", "...Yeah, I have a blanket.", "That's perfect.", "So Becky Beard - not convinced by the science on climate change.", "It's not all man-made. It is a cyclical thing throughout the millennia.", "She is convinced that she's the kind of leader, if elected, who could help Kelsey and her wedding business.", "What would you tell someone like her?", "OK. I would tell her think about a Republican like me because the more we talk to each other the more we can see that we are working toward a balance.", "You said tell her that she should talk to Republican like you.", "Yes, because I am not a party Republican. I'm not a moderate Republican. I'm not an overt conservative Republican. I'm not a tea party. I am all of the above.", "Are you a Republican like Donald Trump?", "I wish I could say I was. I like that he's not politically correct. I like that about him. We need a shakeup.", "Let me bring back David Parker here from Montana State. Does a Republican like Becky Beard stand a chance of capturing a young voter like Kelsey who owns a business, cares about the environment?", "You have to understand the first thing about Montanans is they're independent, so they split their tickets more than any other place in the country. Now, many of my college students would say they're Republicans, but they feel pulled in these two different directions. One, they worry about making it here. It's hard to make it here, and many young people do leave the state to get jobs elsewhere. And one of our gubernatorial candidates is talking about that.", "At the other time, the other force is that they're socially liberal. So they support gay marriage, they tend to be pro-choice, and they think climate change is a problem. And the GOP, in that respect, feels out of touch to them.", "All right. That's David Parker from Montana State with us here at the Feed Cafe in Bozeman. And here's a little more from Montana singer-songwriter Jenn Adams.", "(Singing) Well, I am driving to the mountains. Don't even ask to slow me down. The Kansas plains..."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID PARKER", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DANIEL FAGRE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DANIEL FAGRE", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "ZELLA WHITTER", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "ZELLA WHITTER", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID PARKER", "DAVID PARKER", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID PARKER", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "KELSEY MOATES-CONNERS", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "KELSEY MOATES-CONNERS", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "KELSEY MOATES-CONNERS", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "KELSEY MOATES-CONNERS", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "KELSEY MOATES-CONNERS", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "BECKY BEARD", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "BECKY BEARD", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "BECKY BEARD", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "BECKY BEARD", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "BECKY BEARD", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "BECKY BEARD", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID PARKER", "DAVID PARKER", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "JENN ADAMS"]}
{"id": "CNN-314141", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2017-06-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1706/10/ndaysat.03.html", "summary": "Biden Tells Romney To Run For Senate.", "utt": ["House and Senate investigators firing off a litany of requests now for former FBI Director James Comey's memos after his sworn testimony against President Trump.", "A defiant President Trump, though, is challenging James Comey's claims that the president demanded his loyalty and asked him to let go of the investigation into fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Listen here.", "So he said those things under oath, would you will willing to speak under oath to give your version of (inaudible).", "One hundred percent. I didn't say under oath. I hardly know the man. I'm not going to say I want you to pledge allegiance. Who would do that? Who would ask a man to pledge allegiance under oath? I mean, think of it, I hardly know the man. It doesn't make sense. No, I didn't say that and I didn't say the other.", "So if Robert Mueller wanted to speak with you about that --", "I would be glad to tell him exactly what I just told you.", "All righty, our panel is back with us. Paul, you wrote a piece for cnn.com saying for Trump a prosecution of Comey would be a disaster.", "Yes. You know, Christi, I think it is going to be catastrophic for his presidency because the last time this was done where a special prosecutor began investigating a sitting president was in Bill Clinton's administration and of course, that resulted in impeachment charges being filed against Clinton. Of course, they were dismissed in the end, but it was a disaster and I think he's setting the scene for this. Just one other thing, the clip you were playing. I chuckle when I watch it. Wolf Blitzer ran a piece yesterday with the president standing in front of I think around 30,000 people.", "A crowd, yes, in Orlando in March of 2016.", "And he said to them I want you all to raise your hands and pledge loyalty to me, the whole crowd. I think in the past he's asked strangers to pledge loyalty to him. So there you go.", "All right, Lynn Sweet, let me ask you this. We obviously live in very interesting times. Even more so now because here we have Joe Biden, former vice president, and a Democrat, who is apparently encouraging Mitt Romney to run for Senate. What is going on there?", "Well, I think we have to put an asterisk, it depends on what state. Certainly Mitt Romney who is the governor of Massachusetts with the Democratic -- you don't want to have him run in Massachusetts where you could elect a Democrat. I think the intent is if he runs in Utah, where Mitt Romney has a home and has connections and is well known there to replace Orrin Hatch, if indeed Orrin Hatch decides not to run for an eighth term, then Biden is saying Mitt Romney would be an addition to the Senate. And in the context of these times, someone with his background, experience, to put in a more or less moderate Republican could make sense to Joe Biden. But step one is Joe Biden talking about Utah, which is going to elect a Republican, that's what I think Joe Biden is talking about. Because if he's talking about running in Massachusetts, that won't be great for Democrats necessarily. I think he's talking about Utah. So that's a great cross aisle move for Biden, both look like senior statesmen now.", "Good point. I want to get back here and look forward to what is to come yet in the Russian investigation. We know that Jared Kushner is going to be meeting with the Senate Intel Committee sometime this month, Andre. How candid do you think he'd be?", "I think he'll be very candid. They need to get this past them. I think they need to be clear and concise on what they say. You don't need to muddy the water any more. Earlier it was talked about how this could drag on, as an American I don't want to see it. I don't think good comes out of it. The whole statement was ambiguous anyway. Really, Comey should have had whatever you want to call it to question the president then, say Mr. President, I didn't understand exactly what you were asking me to do. And he should have done it. This is absolutely drain the swamp. This is probably the biggest bureaucrat that there was in Washington. He was right to be fired, but he should have right then questioned the president on what he meant, if he thought there was any impropriety whatsoever. I hope Kushner will get right to the point and move past this because it is hindering so many accomplishments they could be having right now with control of both houses.", "Juliette, in the time we've got left, I just would be interested to hear what you're hearing from law enforcement and those that you talk to about former FBI Director Comey's testimony. What's the reaction from law enforcement?", "I think look -- I think most people view Comey as truthful although a lot of us I think across the aisle sometimes question his judgment, so the difference between is he telling the truth that Trump said those things, yes. It was his judgment. Andre just said maybe he should have been more forceful or maybe he should have done something else, that's a legitimate debate. But the question of the truthfulness of those interactions I don't think no one doubts. Just picking up on what Andre said, look, the White House has a big problem not just from the Thursday testimony but from the Wednesday testimony where every head of the intelligence agencies refused to say no to the question, did Donald Trump try to get you to stop this investigation. And now next week we not only have Jared Kushner coming up in the next couple weeks, next week Sessions, our attorney general, who was definitely implicated in some of those conversations, what does Sessions know, why did he not disclose certain meetings? Sessions testifies this coming week as attorney general, but the chances that he talks about the Department of Justice are pretty minimal at this stage. This will be yet another Russian and Trump series of questions.", "Yes, he's supposed to talk about budgetary issues. I don't see that happening.", "You and I can agree, that is not going to happen.", "All right. Thank you so much. I know you're all going to stick around, we have another conversation coming up in a couple of minutes.", "New developments, the special counsel has just introduced a new player to help in this Russia investigation. What are the government's top criminal law specialists, more on that and what it could mean for the probe after this.", "And in its second season, \"UNITED SHADES OF AMERICA\" with W. Kamau Bell explores the far corners of our country, its various groups and sub cultures. Tomorrow night at 10:00 Eastern right here on CNN, Kamau unlocked some of the myths surrounding Puerto Ricans. There is an epic journey from New York City to the captivating island itself.", "So Puerto Ricans are American citizens.", "Not by choice. In 1898, the United States invades Puerto Rico and claims it as a prize from the Spanish American war.", "So you believe that Puerto Rico would be better off if it was officially a state?", "Yes.", "Independence hasn't worked, not because we haven't tried but because we have been so repressed.", "Puerto Ricans can't vote for the president.", "That is true.", "That doesn't make sense, right?", "That doesn't make sense.", "If Barack Obama would move to Puerto Rico, he would lose the right to cast an absentee ballot.", "On the business front, we're limited in growth, even in the poor states, they have income per capita that's more than twice.", "People of color have always been invisible.", "We are American citizens, yet we don't have the same rights."], "speaker": ["SAVIDGE", "PAUL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PRESIDENT TRUMP", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PRESIDENT TRUMP", "PAUL", "CALLAN", "PAUL", "CALLAN", "SAVIDGE", "SWEET", "PAUL", "BAUER", "SAVIDGE", "KAYYEM", "SAVIDGE", "KAYYEM", "CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "SAVIDGE", "PAUL", "W. 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{"id": "CNN-62545", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-11-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/04/ltm.08.html", "summary": "Update on Tight Minnesota Senate Contest", "utt": ["In just about three hours, the two leading candidates in one of the country's closest Senate races will face off for the first time. Covering the contest in Minnesota is our own Bob Franken. He joins us live from St. Paul this morning -- good morning, Bob.", "Good morning, Paula. Nothing typical about this race. Of course, in the aftermath of the death of Paul Wellstone, the Democratic candidate, the incumbent, Walter Mondale, has come out of political retirement and has shown that he still knows how to do this after 18 years. It'll be his first debate in 18 years when he and his Republican opponent, Norm Coleman, come to the Fitzgerald Theater, outside of which we are standing in St. Paul, for a debate that's going to last an hour. It's at 11:00 Eastern, 10:00 here. It's a format that includes questions from moderators, questions from reporters and the audience, and, we're told, even e-mail questions. Walter Mondale, of course, is somebody who was last in office before we really had e-mail and the Internet and that type of thing, something his Republican opponent has tried to at least imply over and over again. Norm Coleman is 53 years old, which is what they call up here a young whippersnapper compared to the 74-year-old Mondale -- Paula.", "What do you think will end up being the major issue that's of concern to Minnesota voters?", "Well, whether it's of concern to voters or not, the two of them are kind of stuck on the question of, what word shall I use? Shall we use the future, as Norm Coleman likes to talk about it at 53 years old, or as the 74-year-old Mondale, former vice president, likes to say, experience? Nobody else is using the word, but sort of the implied word here is age. It's also, by the way, a race that is too close to call. So this debate is probably vital.", "We're looking at that balance of power map right now to give people a better idea of just how critical this race is. Bob Franken, we will, of course, be coming back to you live before that 11:00 news conference, not news conference, but debate, gets under way. Thanks, Bob.", "Back to our election coverage now. President Bush traveling to several key states today to boost Republican candidates in close races again considered too close to call, quite pivotal, too, in the fight for Congress. He will stop in Missouri, where the Senate race is a true tossup. Carol Lin now joins us live in St. Louis with more on that critical race -- Carol, good morning to you. How are things shaping up?", "Good morning, Bill. Well, things are shaping up here, and it's shaping up to be an extremely tight race. As you mentioned, President Bush is expected to be campaigning here for the Republican Senatorial candidate, Jim Talent. And I want to give you an idea of the character of the state here, which may explain why it is such a tight race. It is a bellwether state. Missouri has voted for the winners of the last 24 of the last 25 presidential races. It's an indicator of what may happen in some six to eight other hotly contested Senatorial races around the country. And as we all know, the Senate is up for grabs now between the Democrats and the Republicans. The Democrats needing to hang onto their seats. In the meantime, I want to share with you the latest CNN/\"USA Today\"/Gallup poll, which came out just last night, to show you how tight this race is. In taking a look at likely voters, these are people who are expected to cast their ballots tomorrow, Jean Carnahan, the Democrat, standing now at 44 percent. Jim Talent, the Republican, at 48 percent. But, the margin of error in this poll is plus or minus four percent, which leaves it literally at a dead heat. Political analysts here are pointing to yet another poll by Zogby International that has the two candidates within two tenths of one percent. That is how tight this race is. In the meantime, let's take a look at these candidates and show how different and distinct they really are. Jim Talent, a young 46 years old. He served in the House for eight others. He's running this 96 hour campaign for the last four days, nonstop campaigning across the state. And he's closing the gap with Jean Carnahan by utilizing the star power of President Bush, who's already been campaigning here for Jim Talent the last three times, coming again today, the day before election day. The vice president, Dick Cheney, has been here. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been here. You're seeing Jim Talent here at an event in Kansas City where really the key to his winning this election is going to be getting the vote out among men, suburbanites as well as the Republican rural population, which, according to one political analyst here, is a little suspicious of Jim Talent because he's a city slicker. He's from the St. Louis suburbs. Then you have got Jean Carnahan, 68 years old. She's a grandmother. She has never held office. She is the accidental senator, a woman who was swept into office, swept into power after her husband, Governor Mel Carnahan, died in a plane crash, but still won the Senatorial election against John Ashcroft. This is a special election to see whether the voters want Jean Carnahan to finish out her six year term. She is focusing on her base of labor. Here she was at an event, a labor event in Kansas City, as well, over the weekend. She's got to get the vote out amongst women and minorities, the classic Democratic base here in the State of Missouri. She has been campaigning like a madwoman, 15 events over the last 48 hours. And, Bill, what's really interesting about this year's election, not only is it so tight, but for the first time Missouri is actually going to allow provisional ballots. What that means is you may be a registered voter, you go to your polling site, they don't have you on the docket to vote there. But if you can show proof that you're a registered voter, they're going to allow you to vote anyway. Now, they're expecting some 40,000 provisional ballots to be cast and those ballots have to be hand checked, Bill. And what that means is we may not know the winner of this race on election night. And some people are predicting here that it's going to be election month before the election here is certified for the Senate.", "I hope you packed a little more than you thought you would then, Carol. I can tell you from experience, oftentimes you will find yourself in that situation.", "Yes.", "Enjoy. Thanks, Carol. Carol Lin live in St. Louis watching the battle for the Senate there -- Paula.", "Jeff Greenfield made a very astute prediction last night.", "Yes? Which was?", "He said maybe we'll know by the time the NBA finals are on.", "Which is June, by the way.", "Yes, he was being a little cynical with that, a little tongue in cheek.", "Yes, he was."], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ZAHN", "FRANKEN", "ZAHN", "COMMERCIAL BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "CAROL LIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER", "LIN", "HEMMER", "ZAHN", "HEMMER", "ZAHN", "HEMMER", "ZAHN", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "NPR-4898", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2018-06-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/623451402/more-adopted-children-who-are-adults-now-look-for-birth-parents", "title": "More Adopted Children, Who Are Adults Now, Look For Birth Parents", "summary": "More international adoptees in the U.S. are looking for their birth parents than ever before. This has to do with a culmination of factors — from the rise of social media to better record keeping.", "utt": ["Beginning in the 1950s, the U.S. experienced a surge in international adoptions. It peaked around the mid-2000s but in that time, millions of children were adopted and brought here to the U.S. As they've grown into adults, some of them are trying to learn more about where they came from, which is something that NPR's Ashley Westerman knows a little bit about.", "Four months ago, I took a plane halfway across the world to find a woman I hadn't seen in 30 years, my birth mother.", "Did you see that sign that says Heart of Mary Villa?", "Yes.", "A left turn.", "Turn left.", "It was a steamy Saturday morning when I arrived at the Heart of Mary Villa, a home for unwed mothers in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. I spent the first 10 months of my life here as an orphan, given up by a young, unwed Filipina who couldn't afford to raise a child.", "I'm walking up the path here to get to the house.", "When I arrived, I was greeted by one of the nuns who had helped search for my birth mother.", "Hello. (Foreign language spoken). Good morning.", "Welcome.", "Thank you.", "Nice to meet you. I'm Sister Lea.", "Sister Lea Comia (ph) and I spoke for a bit, and then she led me into a cream-colored room with green trim. This is the room, she says, where the reunions happen. It turns out a lot of adoptees have been in this position. And, like me, they also want answers.", "The key motivating factor, I think, is, you know, filling that void of really wanting to know more about who I am and where did I come from, and, what were the circumstances of my relinquishment?", "Debbie Riley is the CEO of the Center for Adoption Support and Education, or C.A.S.E., in Maryland. Her adoption agency is one of the many who say there's been an uptick in adoptees searching for their biological parents. While there aren't hard numbers on who or how many are searching, one thing for sure is that more adoptees than ever are entering adulthood. I just turned 30 this year, and I've always wanted to search. Now just seemed like the right time. Like many in my generation, I want to know more about who I am. I already know the Ashley who grew up with a white family in rural Kentucky. I want to know more about the Ashley born in the Philippines. Who was I? Who could I have been? Who was my mother? Do I even look like her? While doing this story, I talked to several adoptees who had also searched for their birth parents.", "Yeah. I'm Shana Kaufman (ph).", "Shana Kaufman is one of them. She didn't think about searching for her birth parents until she and her husband started the process of adopting their son from South Korea. Kaufman was adopted from South Korea in the early '80s. She had her own reasons for wanting to find her birth mother. We met at a restaurant in Harrisonburg, Va.", "For some reason, I sort of thought, you know, something must have happened between my birth mother and I. Maybe she had me and just felt nothing. Maybe she just knew she couldn't love me.", "Kaufman says it only took about three weeks for the Korean adoption agency to find her birth parents. Record keeping all over the world is just better today than it used to be. Soon they were exchanging letters and photos.", "And I remember looking at her photo and seeing my face in her face, and it was so nice. I had never seen a face that looked like mine before. That was really emotional for me.", "Kaufman found out the adoption story she was told wasn't true. Instead of being given up by a single mother, she was given up by a married couple who had already had two daughters and decided they couldn't afford a third daughter. Kaufman found out that she does have a younger brother. Within six months, she met them. Kaufman remembers being very nervous walking into the room to meet her parents and older sisters.", "I had to tell my feet, you know, what to do. Move forward. Turn left. Smile. That stuff. I had watched a couple of reunions on YouTube, and I was sort of expecting loud wailing or, like, aggressive hugging. But she didn't do that. She cried silently. And it was really touching.", "A lot of adoptees have different reunion experiences. Kaufman's reunion has been positive so far. She still keeps in touch with her Korean family, as she calls them. She texts her older sisters and has spent weeks in Korea with them. Others aren't so positive. I've heard stories of biological families asking for money and struggles between birth parents and adoptive parents. Luckily, my parents have always supported my decision to look for my birth mother. I didn't have any expectations when it finally happened.", "Hi. When Lucita Timbal Picana (ph) walked into the room, she hugged me like a mother who had been missing something for decades.", "(Speaking Spanish)?", "(Foreign language spoken).", "As we talked, I realized I didn't recognize her. I didn't see my face in hers. I was prepared for this, though. I'd already seen photos on Facebook. That's how she was found, on Facebook. Social media is actually making these kinds of reunions a lot easier. The Internet has also given rise to online communities where adoptees are not just talking about finding their birth parents, but some are even trying to conduct their own searches that way, too.", "This is my family. So I'm the oldest.", "We sat flipping through a photo album of my life. Sister Lea had to translate. Lucita doesn't speak a lot of English, and I speak hardly any Tagalog. Though it was kind of a strange interaction, we talked this way for a while. As it turns out, my adoption file was accurate. When I came along, Lucita was unmarried and couldn't afford to keep me. She wanted me to have a better life. When she got pregnant, she left home and pretended to work in Manila. She gave birth to me in secret. She's married now and lives in a village by the sea with her husband and four children, my half-siblings. That's the family and life Lucita went back to after our meeting, just like I went back to my family and life in the U.S., but we were both changed, at least a little bit. I got some burning questions answered about where I came from, and Lucita, well, she got some peace of mind. While we were talking, Lucita told me she was worried I would be angry with her for giving me up.", "She's thankful to God that you are successful and you have a good life.", "I have. I have had a really good life. And you did the right thing. And I'm not mad about it.", "Then I watched as 30 years of guilt and sadness melted away. Ashley Westerman, NPR News."], "speaker": ["NOEL KING, HOST", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED PERSON", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED PERSON", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "LEA COMIA", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "LEA COMIA", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "DEBBIE RILEY", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "SHANA KAUFMAN", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "SHANA KAUFMAN", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "SHANA KAUFMAN", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "SHANA KAUFMAN", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "LUCITA TIMBAL PICANA", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "LEA COMIA", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE", "ASHLEY WESTERMAN, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-167507", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2011-6-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1106/13/ctw.01.html", "summary": "David Beckham Kicks Off Search for 2012 Olympic Torch Bearers; Did Hosting 2010 World Cup Make a Difference for South Africa?; Financial Successes and Disasters for World Sporting Events", "utt": ["For it to be in the east end of London, first off, is a proud moment for myself. And to be there with my sons, possibly my daughter, my wife, it's going to be a proud moment for myself, but for many people in this country.", "David Beckham, there, on why his first goal is to be a fan at the London 2012 Olympics. The star footballer is here to officially launch the search for torch bearers at the Games. Now, just to host a major world sporting event takes countless hours of planning and preparation, and the financial burden alone can be crippling. London Olympic officials, for example, will be tapping the private sector to the tune of $3.3 billion. But it's an economic risk that many countries are willing to take. A gamble, they hope, will be worth it. For South Africa, staging the 2010 World Cup was not just a privilege, but a chance for a fresh start. So, did it pay off for the people of Johannesburg? CNN's Nkepile Mabuse takes a look.", "The vuvuzelas made it a noisy World Cup but, in the end, South Africans deserved to blow their own horn. They organized a successful football tournament.", "I watched the opening game on June the 11th right here in Alexandra Township with some of the country's poorest citizens. Many of them were dressed in the colors of the national team, and they really got into the spirit of the vent, but the euphoria didn't fool them. They told me then that they didn't expect hosting the World Cup to change their lives.", "Some of the benefits touted from hosting the event included improved infrastructure, tourism, and jobs, but many in the target sects were never reached.", "Initial estimates were that the event would cost $2.5 billion, attract nearly half a million visitors, and create jobs. In the end, government expenditure nearly doubled, only 300,000 visitors came and, according to statistics, South Africa at 25 percent, the unemployment rate is back where it was before the World Cup.", "\"Here, it only benefited those who could provide accommodation for visitors. The rest of us, didn't gain anything,\" this man tells me.", "\"All four of my brothers are unemployed,\" this woman says. \"There are no jobs, and the World Cup didn't make a difference.\"", "Organizers blame the global financial crisis for robbing the country of the desired economic boost.", "When we were awarded the event in 2004, not a single one of these economists predicted that in 2008 there would be a serious economic crisis and a global one at that.", "It was a crisis out of which FIFA emerged unscathed. The football governing body raked in nearly $4 billion from the World Cup, making it their most lucrative ever. For South Africa, the biggest gains may lie in the future. While some economists say it was an expensive marketing campaign, others believe the hosting of the event has altered the country's image in the eyes of investors and travelers.", "Most tourists, when they talk South Africa, they said \"Is it safe?\" That's the first question, and throughout the bidding and also the state leading up to the deliberation, that was the first question all over the world. And after the World Cup, that question disappeared.", "And as for the country's poor, Jordaan says not a single cent was diverted from programs earmarked to improve their lives. Nkepile Mabuse, CNN, Johannesburg.", "Well, let's take a look into some of the financial successes, but some of the horror stories of some other major world sporting events. The US held the football World Cup in 1994, and the end result -- well, it was a tiny profit, really, $60 million. If you take a look at Canada, another story there worth telling you about. Canada's try at an Olympic Games was a financial disaster. The cost for the 1976 Montreal Games skyrocketed and taxpayers were still making payments on debt more than 30 years later. They weren't really expecting that. Barcelona had better luck, though. Back in 1992, the Olympics are credited with transforming Barcelona into a truly global city. Germany, well, there, the World Cup in 2006 brought local businesses some $2.6 billion, so some financial success, there. Over to Japan. Well, Japan and South Korea were the first joint hosts of a World Cup, but almost ten years later, they'll still paying the costs. Taxpayers spent up to $6 million a year on maintenance of stadiums, many of which, disastrously, lay empty. Benefit or burden? Well, before you decide, just wait until you hear what our next two guests have to say. With us now is Dennis Coates, he's professor of economics from the University of Maryland in Baltimore in the US, and Michael Fennell also, president of the Commonwealth Games Federation. He's in Kingston, Jamaica. First of all, Michael, what's the reason for holding one of these big events. Is it to make money, is it to make a profit?", "I think one has to be -- I've always said, be very, very careful with the reasons for the excess expenditure. And quite often, if not in most cases, that excess expenditure resulted from local decisions, not because of requirements for hosting the event itself. You'll find that governments and cities and other authorities decided on their own that they wanted to put in excessive expenditures to host the games, but those were not precise requirements for the hosting. So, I think we need to be quite clear on that, that those are local decisions outside of the scope or the responsibility of the body that owns the games or the event.", "Fair enough, but we often hear with these big events, even Commonwealth Games, that the promises are made that it's not going to cost anything, it'll at least break even. But that's rarely the case, right?", "Well, not in all cases. If you take the case of Melbourne in 2006. They were quite clear that in their budgeting and planning their operational costs would not be covered by the operational income. But they justified it by the value of the legacy that they saw themselves achieving from those games. Now, Melbourne was unique in that they did not have a lot of need for new capital expenditure. They had basically all the infrastructure in place already. By contrast, in Manchester in 2002, they saw as a big part of what they wanted to do was the regeneration of the city, a certain part of the city that was pretty run down, and I think that was done very successfully, and that legacy continues to pay dividends today.", "Yes, it's a great city, isn't it? Professor Coates, if I could bring you in. How -- Barcelona is a good example, I guess, in this Manchester another example. They have given a legacy to those cities. How do you value that? How do you work out whether or not it's a positive value?", "Well, I have a hard time believing that there's any meaningful legacy. If you want to be a world class city, as I believe Barcelona and Manchester are, I don't think that you really need to host the Commonwealth Games to do that. You can do that in a much more cost-effective way simply by upgrading your community in terms of the infrastructure, the highways, the public transportation, airports, making it a tourist destination. You can do all of that without hosting a world-class sporting event.", "But the event does subsidize is, doesn't it, through sponsorship and the like? And it also gives a spotlight to all of that infrastructure that's shown around the world.", "Certainly it does that. I'm -- I'm at a loss to believe that there are very many people who would travel to Barcelona that never heard of Barcelona before it had the Olympics. Likewise, I have a hard time believing there are many people who would travel to Manchester who had never heard of Manchester before the Commonwealth Games. So, the question is, really, what does all of that expenditure really get you? Is it really that it's turning this place into some sort of tourist mecca? Or is it a lot of hype that you could have gotten for far less expenditure? And I believe that you could get it with far less expenditure.", "Michael, if we take an example of Japan, they're paying off debts years and years into the future. Do you really think that a big sporting event in Japan is really worth that immense amount of debt when you can't really predict what situation the economy's going to be in in five, ten years' time?", "It's up to their local decision-makers, because some people feel that they've gone way over the top. Others feel that it's justified. But may I just come back to a point that the professor just made, that some of these developments will take place in any event and, certainly in theory, that could be true. But what is a fact, and it has shown itself all over the place for many, many years, that some of these developments really do not take place until cities and countries are forced to do it by the imposition or the commitment to host the games. I can recall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1998, although they had planned a brand-new airport at the time, they brought it forward by years because of the games, and that gave them almost a commitment to do that. If I could draw another very simple example, you know that whenever dignitaries are visiting countries, there is always a lot of preparation work, cleaning up, and so on. And many of the citizens say that they wish they had more visits of these dignitaries because they would get their cities fixed up and spruced up in time. It just doesn't happen. The theory is not the same as the practice.", "OK. They've become very big corporate events, haven't they, as well, Professor? Do you suspect that this is about big business as much as anything else? And it's not always about the people of the city benefiting.", "Oh, absolutely. I believe that it's all about the big business, it's all about the organizing entity, FIFA or the International Olympic Committee or the Commonwealth Games Federation. When people talk about the World Cup and how profitable it has been, or the Olympics and how profitable it has been, usually the idea is that somehow that's profitable to the citizens. But in actuality, it's profitable to FIFA or the International Olympic Committee. The enormous profits from the Los Angeles Olympic Games that you often hear about, they didn't go to Los Angeles. They didn't go to the citizens of Los Angeles. They went to the International Olympic Committee and the Los Angeles Organizing Committee.", "OK.", "So, you need to be careful when you think about if these are profitable events or not.", "OK, Professor Coates, Michael Fennell, as well. Thank you both very much, indeed, for joining us. Now, a little earlier, you heard some of what David Beckham had to say about London's 2012 Olympics, the next big sort of global event, I guess. For the full interview with \"World Sport's\" Pedro Pinto, do make sure you stay tuned to find out what his future plans are in football. That'll be coming up in about 45 minutes on \"World Sport.\" Still to come on this program, the Lebanon-born beauty who made history in the United States. Your Connector of the Day, Miss USA, is preparing to hand over her crown. She talks to us about the controversy surrounding her win, up next."], "speaker": ["DAVID BECKHAM, MIDFIELDER, LOS ANGELES GALAXY", "FOSTER", "NKEPILE MABUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MABUSE (on camera)", "MABUSE (voice-over)", "MABUSE (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator)", "MABUSE (voice-over)", "DANNY JORDAAN, FORMER CEO, LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE", "MABUSE", "JORDAAN", "MABUSE", "FOSTER", "MICHAEL FENNELL, PRESIDENT, COMMONWEALTH GAMES FEDERATION", "FOSTER", "FENNELL", "FOSTER", "DENNIS COATES, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY", "FOSTER", "COATES", "FOSTER", "FENNELL", "FOSTER", "COATES", "FOSTER", "COATES", "FOSTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-198498", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-1-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/02/cnr.04.html", "summary": "ESPN Anchor Back to Work", "utt": ["Just in to CNN. House Speaker Boehner says he'll make a vote on Superstorm Sandy a top priority, but not until the new session. Boehner outraged lawmakers in the hard-hit northeast area when he refused to bring the matter to a vote yesterday. Some lawmakers, including fellow Republican Peter King of New York, called the sleight disgraceful. The best moment of yesterday's Rose Bowl parade in Pasadena was -- probably able to bring a tear to your eye because an army sergeant who was deployed to Afghanistan stepped off a parade float and surprised his wife and little boy three months early. He was", "I didn't know what to do other than I'm left-handed, reach and get the shirt off as much as possible. That's why my hand is so badly damaged. I yelled inside to my 15-year-old daughter who was in the kitchen, \"Mommy's on fire, you have to call 911.\"", "\"Mommy is on fire\". I cannot imagine. She looks great. Senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is back with us. First and second degree burns. How serious, how do you treat these? It's unbelievable when we see those pictures. She's being really open about this.", "It's so wonderful that she's being so open because people do need to be careful when they're grilling at home. It's wonderful to see how well she's doing. This was just three weeks ago. So first and said degree burns are serious. We can see in these pictures, here it's no little thing. It can cause blistering. You see I think those are probably scars from the blisters, that intense redness. This is over a pretty significant part of her body. She does absolutely the right thing. You don't want to treat this at home. You're going to call 911 to get medical attention immediately.", "She's back after three weeks off from this burn. She has said that she wanted to kiss the makeup artist when they first put on their first eyebrow and she's wearing hair extensions. But she looks great. Is this level of recovery so soon typical?", "You know, I think she really is doing terrific. She really is. I mean to come back after three weeks, she looks terrific. She looks like she's full of energy, even after having gone through this incredible trauma. I was talking to a specialist that people have done this. If the burn is treated mealy and treated well. It sounds like they got terrific care at a place that specializes this, you can come back, but other people aren't so lucky. They don't necessarily get the exact care at the exact right moment", "Aside from the physical scars, there are lots of emotional scars, not just for her, but also for her daughters.", "I mean Can you imagine being 15 years old and hearing mommy is on fire? What a great 15-year-old. She obviously got to work, got on the phone and called 911, yes, this is a different things to get over. There will be scars most likely for a while. I was talking to a specialist, those scars may not look like what we just saw forever, but there will likely be some scars forever, but chances are she's not in pain. The pain goes away after a shorter period of time.", "That's good to know. She looks great, she's back at work. Of course we wish her the best. Elizabeth Cohen thank you.", "Thanks.", "I'm Victor Blackwell, thank you for joining us today. CNN NEWSROOM continues right now with Ashleigh Banfield."], "speaker": ["BLACKWELL", "HANNAH STORM, ESPN ANCHOR", "BLACKWELL", "ELIZABETH COHEN, SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLACKWELL", "COHEN", "BLACKWELL", "COHEN", "BLACKWELL", "COHEN", "BLACKWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-319713", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2017-08-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/24/ath.02.html", "summary": "Kushner Tries to Revive Mideast Peace Talks", "utt": ["The relationship between Israel and America is stronger than ever. And we really thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for his leadership and his partnership.", "Let's bring in CNN's Oren Liebermann. He is live for us in Jerusalem. Oren, how did the meeting go? What came of it?", "From the reading we got, a short readout of the introduction of the meeting, there wasn't anything concrete. These two have a long history together, decades together, Kushner and Netanyahu. We didn't get much in terms of a vision or a definitive statement about what's coming next, next steps, time line for any kind of start for negotiations. Frankly, nor did we expect any. Both sides, Israelis and Palestinians, tempering their expectations of what comes next. Kushner did something very smart before coming here to meet with Israeli's and Palestinians. He toured the gulf, meeting with regional Arab leaders who would be critical if Trump wants to start some sort of regional initiative. But it doesn't change the fact of the reality that Kushner faces hear in trying to get Israelis and Palestinians to make concessions. Netanyahu is under criminal investigation. In doing so, and being under investigation, he's shifted sharply to the right to appeal to his own voters in a show of support with his voter base. That's left him little flexibility on a peace process, flexibility to make negotiations, to make concessions. Meanwhile, the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who will meet with Kushner shortly, is waiting for the Trump administration to commit openly and definitively to a two-state solution, something the administration hasn't yet done. That makes it difficult for Abbas to engage on a peace process or negotiations under a Trump administration's leadership. Additionally, Abbas faces his own in-fighting between Fatah, his own party, and Hamas, which runs Gaza, for influence and political power within the Palestinian political sphere. That makes it difficult for both leaders to make concessions towards each other and towards a peace process. Yet, Clarissa, the fact that Kushner is here for the third time since Trump took office indicates how interested Trump is on making progress here. Because of that, you can never write it off, at least not yet.", "I want to get a feel as well, Oren -- we know that Kushner has a relationship that goes back many years with Netanyahu, close family ties there. What sort of relationship has he been able to strike with the Palestinian leadership, with Mahmoud Abbas?", "Because Kushner hasn't been here many times, it doesn't seem there's a strong relationship built there yet between Kushner and Abbas. It's because of the ties between Kushner and Netanyahu that some Palestinian leaders view this skeptically, as Kushner being the one leading a peace push here under Trump. And yet, it has to be pointed out that Jason Greenblatt, Trump's special envoy for international negotiations, who comes from a religious Jewish background in the U.S., has been here multiple times and is viewed quite seriously by both sides, Israelis and Palestinians. He's had far more meetings than Kushner. He's met with regional Arab leaders, all to try to advance the regional peace initiative. He's viewed quite seriously. The problem is, there's no vision yet from the Trump administration. As Kushner tries to build his own relationship, there is a time limit that is definitely ticking in the background of all this, of Trump's attempt to push for an initiative or peace process.", "Oren, I have to ask you, because a lot of people in the U.S. and the Jewish community were very disappointed with the lack of any public statement from Jared Kushner regarding the Neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville. I'm wondering, has there been any pushback in Israel on this matter? Is it a topic of conversation, even?", "Trump, Kushner, Netanyahu all face criticism for a lack of response or delayed response. It's worth remembering that Netanyahu's response came three days after the Neo-Nazi, white supremacist rally, and only on social media, and only after Trump, himself, responded. Kushner was a target of some of that criticism. Yet, I would say it doesn't affect in any significant way Trump's ability or attempt to make progress here. Why? Because Trump, himself, remains very popular with Netanyahu and Netanyahu's voters. All that criticism hasn't affected Trump's ability to affect change or influence change here. We'll see how it plays out. It didn't come up in the public statements between Kushner and Netanyahu. Netanyahu very much wants to stay away from that topic with Kushner in town.", "One can imagine. Oren Liebermann, thank you so much. Coming up next, the White House is putting the final touches on the president's transgender military ban. According to a new report, the guidelines may reach the Pentagon as early as today. Details coming up."], "speaker": ["JARED KUSHNER, WHITE HOUSE SENIOR ADIVSOR", "CLARISSA WARD, CNN ANCHOR", "OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "WARD", "LIEBERMANN", "WARD", "LIEBERMANN", "WARD"]}
{"id": "NPR-2838", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2011-02-14", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133752701/President-Prepares-For-Congressional-Budget-Battle", "title": "President Prepares For Congressional Budget Battle", "summary": "President Obama released his 2012 budget Monday, proposing $90 billion in cuts to government spending. Republicans argue that the plan does too little to cut the deficit. NPR's Ron Elving explains what's next in the contentious budget approval process.", "utt": ["President Obama released his 2012 federal budget this morning, all $3.7 trillion of it. Before it was even out, Republicans were saying it doesn't go far enough to reduce the deficit, which is projected to reach an all-time high in the package Mr. Obama proposed. So now the months of political wrangling begin. Meanwhile, the 2011 budget still isn't finished, so a possible shutdown of the government looms in the background.", "What are your concerns about the federal government? Give us a call. I mean, not about the federal government, about the federal budget. Give us a call: 800-989-8255. Email: talk@npr.org. Or you can join the conversation at our website. Go to npr.org and click on TALK OF THE NATION.", "Joining us to explain it is NPR's senior Washington editor Ron Elving. Ron, good to see you.", "Good to be with you, Rebecca.", "So the president has released his budget. What do we know about it in the couple of hours we've had it?", "Well, we've had a chance to break it down really over a slightly longer period of time because most of the key elements of it had been leaked in advance. We know, as you said, that it's $3.7 trillion. That is almost one quarter, or equivalent to almost one quarter, of what is almost a $15 trillion annual economy in the United States. And so we are talking about some enormous, enormous numbers here. And the engines that drive both the spending of the federal government and the revenue gathering of the federal government are enormous fiscal engines. And...", "Like what?", "Well, we're talking about the ability to tax incomes. We're talking about the responsibility, on the federal government's part, to meet all the obligations that have been made by all the presidents and Congresses that have ever sat in Washington, and that includes all the military commitments that we have around the world. It includes the enormous obligations that have already been issued, trillions and trillions of dollars in debt going back four decades and - well, really going back all the way to the beginning of the Republic.", "And we also have an enormous number of promises that the federal government has made to all of us really. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, these are the enormous drivers that are moving money not just in billions anymore. Trillion is the new billion in Washington, and we now deal, regularly, in increments of a trillion dollars.", "So from what has been leaked on - the strategy of what is leaked and what is not is also interesting to talk about. But from what has actually made it to the public with time for some analysis and reflection, what are the highlights?", "One highlight, I think, is that the president is not attempting to do what everyone knows must be done on his own. He is saying I'm going to give you a budget that trims. We're going to, for example, put in a freeze on discretionary spending for the next several years so that that portion of the budget that the president and the Congress have the most control over would not grow. It would remain. And that would save a great deal of money over what would happen if it just naturally grew as much as it's been growing. So that's one way of saving some money.", "And we're also trying to restrain the amount of annual deficit so that that would come down by a trillion dollars over the next 10 years. That being, in some part, the saving of some of the debt service if we borrow a little less money. But we're still going to be servicing an enormous existing national debt. And that, I think, is getting an awful lot of attention. It's going to grow by another $7 trillion even if the president got his way with respect to these budget cuts.", "Now, the other thing, of course, that's very distracting - and you've already mentioned it - but it is terribly confusing, I think, for the average person who's trying to get - make some sense of the news coming out of Washington is that while we're talking about the president's budget, which is for fiscal year 2012, which begins next October 1st, next fall, we are also still struggling with the unfinished process of the current year budget which never really got done.", "They didn't really do the process the way they are supposed to do in 2010. It was a political year. It was a big struggle. There was an election. The appropriations bills didn't get done. And the federal government has been funding itself by a series of what are called continuing resolutions, which just freeze everything in place temporarily. Those do not make the changes in policy that people want to make. They don't make the changes in priorities that people want to make, but they keep the government up and running.", "The latest one expires on March 4th. And that could be a fiscal train wreck, as they like to say, if the president and the Congress can't get together about this year's spending. Forget 2012.", "Now, you talking about the priority changes that people want to make. It seems that there's a whole lot of deficit reduction talk going on this year. A lot of people were elected on that kind of rhetoric. First of all, give us a sense of the scope and the history of the deficit. And does this budget that -for 2012, the next budget, that came out this morning do much to address it?", "Well, the budget that came out this morning for 2012 is projecting that we could bring down the annual deficit, which for 2011 is projected now to be not just the one and a half trillion that we knew about. You know, here again, we didn't ever used to talk about trillions. But just in a very recent past we have moved into the trillions world. One point six trillion, that's the current projection for 2011. Bring that down all the way to 1.1 for 2012. Now, that's a big reduction, but it's still an enormous number, an unprecedented number. So that would be a step in the right direction.", "This deficit, as I say, has been with us in some measure or another back throughout the nation's history. But it has exploded in recent decades for a number of reasons, having to do with both cutting taxes and committing the country to a lot of different spendings, primarily military spending and those promises to individuals - Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Those are the big ones. And a certain amount of discretionary spending as well. But the discretionary is really the smallest child on this particular block, and the big ones are the others that I mentioned.", "That was actually brought under a species of control in the 1990s in mixed government, divided government - President Clinton, a Democrat, a very Republican Congress in the later years of the 1990s - and using the tax increases from the first President Bush and from President Clinton's first budget, and the spending cuts of the latter part of the 1990s, and most particularly using the breakneck economy, the runaway train of an economy we had in the late 1900s, especially in the dot-com boom, all those revenues came together with some spending cuts to project a balanced United States government budget for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003. And as soon as that money started to come in and produce a surplus, everything turned around.", "We had a recession. We had the 9/11. We had tax cuts. Because even before 9/11 happened, the president and the Congress, President Bush and his Congress at that time, felt that bringing in a surplus was not a good idea. We shouldn't be taxing people that much if it was bringing in a surplus. So they cut taxes.", "And, of course, revenues went south because of that, because of the recession, because of the dot-com bust that followed the dot-com boom. Then we started with the wars that followed 9/11 - Afghanistan, Iraq. They dragged on for years. They were put largely off budget. They were not paid for. We expanded Medicare to include prescription drugs for seniors. That was not paid for. That was put off budget.", "And so we passed a period of time in which that budget responsibility of the 1990s turned into a, well, turned into a circus, essentially of revenue decreases and expenditure increases that brought us back into the soup we're in today, with the cherry on top, of course, being the 2008 recession, the crash in the financial markets, the toxic asset recovery program that cost a lot of money, at least temporarily, then the stimulus, which cost a lot of money and that's all out the door - with those wars still continuing and with the revenues still depressed because of the post-2008 recession.", "Right, which obviously means we don't have the runaway economy we had in the mid-'90s, but we do have a similarly divided government. What has the Republican response been?", "Well, most recently the Republican response, driven largely by the politics of 2010, has been horror-stricken by the new levels of the federal budget deficit. Now, we saw hundreds of billions of dollars a year in budget deficits in the 1980s and in the early 1990s. That got under control, as I was saying a moment ago. Now that the deficit problem is back, it's back with a vengeance. And since 2008, with all those factors that I totaled up over that whole bad decade - since 2008 it has exploded to this trillion, trillion and a half level of deficit. And that has a lot of people in the country in shock and was largely responsibly - not solely, but largely responsible - for the rise of the Tea Party.", "The new Republicans in Congress are highly responsive to the Tea Party, even the ones who aren't members of the Tea Party Caucus. Ones who have been there for decades are still highly responsive to those politics. They're worried about their own primaries coming up and they want to be responsive to the Tea Party on this question of cutting the deficit. So in the House, where they do have a majority, the Republicans are trying to cut a hundred billion dollars immediately from currently obligated spending for the current year 2011.", "And what are some of the targets on that list?", "Well, it's across the board discretionary world. In fact, they've even begun to extend it into security functions, not the military so much, but into homeland security, a billion dollar cut there. And cutting all kinds of social programs, community development grants - of course those are cut to some degree, lesser degree, in the president's budget as well. And any place where the number is not already fixed by something like Social Security promises or Medicare promises, the Republicans are looking to cut back in every kind of service area that the federal government participates in.", "And I should mention that Neal Conan will host a more detailed conversation about exactly what is in the budget and - well, answer some more in-depth, detailed questions about what is likely to be on the chopping block, coming up on another episode.", "Let's hear from Shawn in Rochester, Michigan. Shawn, welcome to TALK OF THE NATION.", "How are you doing? Nice to speak with you.", "Welcome to the program.", "Thank you. I - my question is this: Where does this begin, as far as the federal government getting the authority to promise all this money. You know, I think if the federal government had their way, they'd like to participate in everything. But, you know, back in the Civil War, Andrew Jackson was very, very much against the federal government then and their ability to participate or put themselves in the middle of a lot of these things. So (unintelligible) to reiterate my question - that is, where does the federal government get the authority to come in and make these promises as far as create this budget deficit and then leave it to somebody else to clean up?", "Shawn, thanks for your call. Ron Elving?", "Well, the federal government took on these obligations willingly, of its own accord, a long time ago, really. The Social Security began in 1935 and Medicare, which has greatly expanded the costs of caring for our senior population, came in in 1965, which is getting to be quite a long time ago as well. It is in recent years, as people have lived longer and as inflation has driven up the costs of both Social Security and especially medical care, that programs that at first seemed relatively modest and manageable when Congress passed them in 1935, in 1965, have in our time exploded in cost and will be even more explosively costly in the 10, 15, 20, 25 years to come. That's what's happened.", "It's a congressionally accepted responsibility supported by FDR in the '30s, LBJ in the 1960s. Those programs were popular and remain enormously popular today. People don't want to see them cut. And yet those are the programs with the costs, along with defense, Medicaid and a few other things, that are driving this deficit.", "You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. We have an email from Craig in Redwood City. He says: What's the current talk about the Republicans not raising the debt ceiling? And what are the odds of the USA defaulting on the national debt? And would there be a good side of doing that?", "Those are three great questions. The talk about raising the national debt ceiling, which happens periodically as we reach the...", "Quickly define what we're talking about there.", "Well, the federal government has, as I was saying earlier, trillions of dollars in obligations outstanding, and they've come due periodically, five-year, 10-year, 30-year, and so forth. And these various obligations have to be paid at the time they come due. And new obligations are always being issued, as I say, as the deficit and the  as the deficit continues each year and adds to the previous debt, this pile of debt gets higher and has to be refinanced.", "As it's refinanced, it - at a higher level, we have to go back to Congress -that is to say the administration, whoever it is, Republican or Democratic, must come back to the Congress and say give us a higher debt limit than you gave us last time you authorized us to borrow this much money. It's an ugly vote, usually. Whoever is in the majority in the Congress is more or less obligated to do it, because the United States does not want to default on its obligations. That would have enormous global implications as far as the worldwide financial system, if the most reliable country with the most reliable debt obligations were to default. Don't even want to think about it. So it's probably just talk to say that we would not raise the debt ceiling.", "But if we were not to raise the debt ceiling, either the government would have to stop spending money or we would have to default on some of those obligations coming due. Now, there are lots of little wiggle arguments here. We could do this. We could do that. We could push it off for a certain number of months. It might not happen on a day certain. But basically, if we don't borrow more money and we keep spending money without taking in enough money to pay for it, something's got to give.", "Let's hear from Art in The Villages in Florida. Art, welcome to TALK OF THE NATION.", "Thank you very much. I appreciate you having me on today. I have a comment, and then I have a question, if you will, for me, please. I can't quite understand how we could ever even consider pulling funding from our most vulnerable people, such as people in the mental health clinics, people in the heating assistance programs. I can't - I don't think that's conscionable for us to even consider doing something like that, to put people on the streets or have them freeze to death.", "The other question I have, though - and I'm not an economist - but with the deficits that we have and the tax relief that we're offering to our citizenry these days, how on Earth are we ever going to make any money or be able to pay these debts off if we don't increase taxes? I hear no talks about increasing taxes, and obviously we have to do that, especially with the unemployment rate as it is today. I'll hang up and listen to - online - offline. Thank you.", "Thank you, Art.", "This is the essential philosophical argument that we have between, if you will, people who are seen as fiscal liberals and fiscal conservatives. Fiscal liberals think we should raise more revenue by taxing those who have the most money in order to provide the services that we have historically provided to the underprivileged, to the poor, to people who might not be able to heat their homes, and to a wide variety of other worthy programs most people would say the federal government ought to do. At the same time, there is the fiscal conservative philosophy that says we are living beyond our means in that we are now taxing with the states and the local governments and the federal government more than a fifth of the total value of the economy away, and that when it gets that high in our economy or possibly in other capitalistic economies in the Western world, there starts to be a pushback, a pushback in terms of people evading taxes, taxes become less efficient, it gets more difficult to actually see the benefit of each tax increase, actually, in terms of producing revenue. So we get into arguments there of an economic nature but also of a philosophic nature. How much should the people who have give up for the people who have not? That is a philosophical, perhaps even a moral argument, for a great number of people.", "And we should just mention quickly that this is the first day of this budget, that a lot of things get reinstated, a lot of things get added to the cut list. It's a long process.", "Indeed. And perhaps one would have to say that these moments when it gets in the news, because the president drops his budget to the House votes for something or the Senate then votes for something, and they have a conference and it goes back and forth and on and on, there's a certain amount of kabuki theater to a lot of it too, before we get down to the actual numbers that are really written into law.", "NPR's senior Washington editor, Ron Elving, joined us here in studio 3A. Thanks so much.", "Thank you, Rebecca."], "speaker": ["REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "RON ELVING", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "RON ELVING", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "RON ELVING", "RON ELVING", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "RON ELVING", "RON ELVING", "RON ELVING", "RON ELVING", "RON ELVING", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "RON ELVING", "RON ELVING", "RON ELVING", "RON ELVING", "RON ELVING", "RON ELVING", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "RON ELVING", "RON ELVING", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "RON ELVING", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "SHAWN (Caller)", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "SHAWN (Caller)", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "RON ELVING", "RON ELVING", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "RON ELVING", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "RON ELVING", "RON ELVING", "RON ELVING", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "ART (Caller)", "ART (Caller)", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "RON ELVING", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "RON ELVING", "REBECCA ROBERTS, host", "RON ELVING"]}
{"id": "CNN-181970", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2012-3-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1203/01/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Tim Tebow and Taylor Swift: Match Made in Heaven?", "utt": ["It could be a match made in heaven -- Taylor Swift and Tim Tebow. There is big buzz tonight that they could be a couple. They were spotted chatting at a pre-Oscar bash and then reportedly having dinner together. I want to bring back in matchmaker, Lori Zaslow, star of the new show, \"Love Broker.\" You can see it on Bravo. All right. So you are one of the country`s busiest matchmakers. You have set up many, many couples. You`ve been very successful at it. You obviously know what works. So in terms of this couple, what do you think? Taylor Swift, Tim Tebow, match made in heaven?", "I think it is a match with a lot of potential. He seems very grounded. He`s the youngest of five children. He`s very into religion and he seems chivalrous. And she needs a guy close to her age that is going to respect her and love her, someone she`s not going to have to write a song about, at least a sad song.", "Yes, hopefully.", "And he`s known for his Tebowing, getting on one knee, so you know, it definitely could have potential.", "And I think, and I always say this, usually, when you put two stars together, it can cause some friction. But very often, what is helpful is that one star can relate to what the other goes through, particularly when you get so much notoriety. Taylor, one of the most popular stars in the world. Tim Tebow, obviously, a household name by now.", "And they`re both in the spotlight, but different spotlights, so there`s no competition and they can relate to one another, so I think that`s amazing.", "Look at who she`s been linked to before. I mean, John Mayer, Joe Jonas, Jake Gyllenhaal --", "They`re too old for her.", "What`s that? Too old?", "For her. For her.", "Do you think though that Tim Tebow is a better match than all of those guys?", "Absolutely.", "Why`s that?", "He`s motivated. He`s grounded. He`s comes from a great family. He`s from the south. He`s chivalrous. I mean, he is what -- she needs him.", "OK, so it sounds very, very healthy. All right.", "It`s promising. Very promising.", "You know, the John Mayer thing, I never really quite understood that, if that actually, in fact, ever happened, because, of course, she never flat-out confirmed it, but there we go. A match made in heaven. All right. Lori Zaslow, thank you so much. And you can catch Lori on her new show, \"Love Broker.\" It premieres this Monday on Bravo. Don`t miss it.", "Thank you.", "Tonight, Miley`s war on Twitter. Miley Cyrus, sick and tired of tweets threatening her life. Who could blame her? Tonight, will Miley actually quit Twitter if the threats don`t stop?"], "speaker": ["HAMMER", "ZASLOW", "HAMMER", "ZASLOW", "HAMMER", "ZASLOW", "HAMMER", "ZASLOW", "HAMMER", "ZASLOW", "HAMMER", "ZASLOW", "HAMMER", "ZASLOW", "HAMMER", "ZASLOW", "HAMMER", "ZASLOW", "HAMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-128856", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2008-7-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/21/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Two Storms Churning Out the Atlantic", "utt": ["Welcome back to the \"Most News in the Morning.\" Barack Obama is in Iraq this morning. He's talking with Iraqi officials and U.S. commanders. The Democrat hoping to show his foreign policy credentials, and the press giving him a lot of coverage. Is it too much, actually? Joining me from Los Angeles, conservative radio talk show host Michael Reagan and also here in New York, syndicated talk show host Lionel. He is the author of \"Everyone's Crazy Except You and Me\" and \"I'm Not So Sure About You.\" Great title. Thanks to both of you for being here.", "Thank you.", "You know, it's interesting, Michael, we're sitting here talking about whether Barack Obama is getting too much coverage for his trip and we have you guys to talk more about the fact that he's getting too much coverage. But, you know, he certainly is getting a lot of attention. All three of the network anchor, nightly anchor are there following every single step of his trip. Why?", "You tell me why? You try to figure out why they're doing this. Here's a man who chairs a committee under foreign relations who has yet to have a hearing on Afghanistan, NATO, and the military, which he has oversight on. And he probably decided to take the trip because John McCain says -- hey, you better take a trip with me. He takes the trip and the media goes crazy with this event. Pope Benedict called me this morning and said how does anyone get this publicity? I need this kind of publicity. I mean, it's nuts. It's absolutely nuts.", "Lionel, weigh in for me. John McCain has been to Iraq eight times and been to Afghanistan four times since 2000, not getting nearly as much attention about it. Why?", "Well, I think because of the fact that he's been there so many times. Listen, let's start off with a couple of things. First of all, if you want to talk about stats, look at how many votes John McCain missed regarding certain aspects of Afghanistan and the war itself. But I've got to be honest with you. If the media's duty is to give a -- dare I say, a fair and balanced take of what's going on, clearly, that's not the case. What I have a feeling is that, people are programming news to what we like. And right now, like it or not, Barack Obama is a rock star. And his coverage in my humble opinion is nothing short of a deification of", "You know, in this --", "Go ahead.", "It's not fair, and the fact is, I don't think the people want to make him a rock star. I think the media, in fact, has made him a rock star through all of this. They have fallen in love with this man. He did do no wrong. Right, the edification would be a good choice of words to make about Barack Obama. But he's going over there. If you want to look at this tour that he's on. It's a tour of retraction. It seems every day something is said. The next moment, somebody retracts what he said a moment ago, whether it's Reuters, whether it's Maliki, whether it's Obama. It's like the tour of retraction. What's he going to say when he gets back home? What kind of decisions is he going to make. Has he learn anything about this war, if anything? John McCain was for the surge, while Barack Obama was against the surge before the democrats before.", "Now, Michael, my dear pal Michael. If ever there was the poster child for flip flopping...", "Don't call me dear.", "...It is Mr. McCain, Senator McCain. And we'll go through that later on. But here's the --", "Later on. How much time do you think we have?", "No, no. Here's the bottom line. Nobody cares about this. We're going to get out of Iraq one day whether you call it a surge, whether you call it a timeline. What people are worried about right now is gas, and money, and the economy, and food. So, this is terrific. And what this does for Barack Obama, he looks so presidential. He looks -- it is perfect.", "You know, actually, let me ask Michael about this. Because is there a danger of him looking too presidential? What I mean by that, of course, is the big dust up about him wanting to give a speech on Brandenburg Gate. Your father, of course, is where he gave his famous speech in 1987 calling on Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the wall.", "Absolutely, right. I think so. I think the ego has really gotten away here to even asked to speak to Brandenburg Gate was outrageous. I addressed to the Brandenburg Gate about three weeks ago where my father did give that speech back in 1987. That has hallowed ground for special people. He is not that special. He is a junior senator from Illinois. He is the presumptive nominee. He is not the president of the United States. He is not the pope. He is not viable. Last word, Lionel?", "Well, that's true. And also, keep in mind that in Germany, the popularity poll according to Bill Crystal of \"Today's Times,\" (ph) 67 percent for Obama. About 6 percent for McCain.", "They're not voting. Germany's not voting.", "Yes. But Michael, how does McCain break through and get any -- I mean, one of the things is, he did support that surge initially. The surge appears to be working. He can't get that message out because of what all the coverage that Barack Obama is getting?", "It's very tough, but it does stay on target. Remember, this would not be happening if Barack Obama was not running for the president of United States. He wouldn't be where he is today. He wouldn't be in Iraq today. He wouldn't in Afghanistan. He wouldn't have been in Germany. He is there because John McCain found a chink in the armor and challenged him to go with him to Iraq, and if that was not working, if the polls do not tell him, like they did last week. 72 percent of the people said John McCain would be a better commander-in-chief, he wouldn't be in Iraq this very day, sitting down with Petraeus --", "But, Michael, how could he not go to Iraq? Every senator has been to Iraq. I'm sure, you go to Iraq.", "Because he has -- he's been -- listen, the reason he hasn't, because it's not that important to him. He's running for president. He didn't think he'd ever go to Iraq. He was against the war. He was against this. He was against that.", "Yes. And by --", "He wouldn't have a hearing on Afghanistan", "And John McCain would have probably skipped that as well.", "All right, you two. We got to leave it there. But I want to thank both of for being with us. Great discussion. Lively discussion this morning. Michael Reagan and Lionel, thanks.", "Thanks.", "30 minutes after the hour. Two storms we're watching this morning. Cristobal in the Atlantic and Dolly in the Caribbean. Tropical storm Dolly's effects are already being felt in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Rain and winds struck the popular tourist spots overnight. Some low lying areas said to be evacuated. The storm is expected to intensify and then head into the Gulf of Mexico. For the first time since World War II, the government will begin a military war crimes trial today. Salim Hamdan, once a driver for Osama Bin Laden, he is charged with conspiracy in supporting terrorism. The government acknowledges that he is not a so-called high-value detainee. One military law, experts say, people will be watching for missteps that could call the trial's fairness into question. A female soldier from Texas missing from Fort Bliss since Friday found wounded but alive. According to her sister, Army Private First Class Janeesa Lewis was stabbed twice in the legs, beaten and choked. Her husband Clinton W. Lewis has been charged with aggravated kidnapping. Police in El Paso say there were signs of foul play in the couple's apartment. General David Petraeus says Al Qaeda may be switching its focus back to Afghanistan. He says fighters heading to the border with Pakistan in order to cross over into Afghanistan. Both candidates talking about redeploying troops there. And as Elaine Quijano tells us this morning, military officials are dealing with renewed violence in the country.", "In a region where terrorists planned the 9/11 attack, the threat is gathering again. And the Pentagon's top military officer worries that threat will go steadily along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border could emerge stronger than before.", "The joining, a syndication of various extremists and terrorists groups which provides for a much more intense internal to Pakistan as well as the ability to flow greater freedom to flow forces across that porous border.", "Already in Afghanistan, the Taliban had stepped up the fighting with deadly results for American troops. A week ago in a remote eastern province of Kunar, nine American troops were killed by insurgents firing machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Mike Mullen acknowledged violence is up but he stopped short of saying the U.S. was losing the fight.", "I would say the progress is mixed there, but I am not concerned at all at this point that we're losing in Afghanistan.", "For the presidential candidates whose campaigns have differed sharply on Iraq, both men agree on a need for more help in Afghanistan.", "I believe U.S. troop levels need to increase, and for least a year now have called for two additional brigades, perhaps three.", "Our enemies are on the offensive. And it's precisely the success of the surge in Iraq. It shows us the way to victory over the Taliban.", "Complicating the picture, Pakistan where extremists continue to find sanctuary.", "U.S. officials say Pakistan's government is working to rein in the terrorists but say more needs to be done. A point the candidates agree on as well. Elaine Quijano, CNN, Washington.", "Alina Cho joins us now with some other stories new this morning. Good morning, Alina.", "Hey there, guys. Good morning again. Good morning, everybody. New this morning, it could be the latest case of the human form of mad cow disease but health officials say it's highly unlikely that a Massachusetts patient has it. Only three cases of the human form of mad cow disease been confirmed in the U.S. in the past several years. It will be several days before we know for sure if the Cape Cod patient has it. A new tax on cigarettes, seems to be helping people kick the habit. Several programs in New York City are seeing more people sign up and many say their main motivation is the city's $1.25 tax increase per pack. That amounts to $10 a pack in some cases. The tax took effect on June 3rd. The Centers for Disease Control says the tax increase well is of the most effective ways to get people to quit. The \"Dark Knight\" sets a new record at the box office. The latest Batman movie earning more than $155 million in its first three days. The movie, of course, got a lot of buzz from Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker. The previous record was $151 million earned by \"Spiderman 3\" last year. And two fast driving females got into a bit of dust up at an Indy car race in Ohio and one of them was Danica Patrick during practice Saturday. Patrick complained that Milka Duno cut her off several times. So she went over to chat with her about it.", "What the hell!", "You're slow.", "When you're in the [bleep] and you turn down -", "Please go away, go away!", "You know it's a good one when there's a bleep, right? Patrick has had confrontations with at least two other male drivers in the past. She placed 12th and she's a little upset. She's used to placing first.", "What was her name? Milka Duno?", "Duno.", "She didn't throw the towel in. She through the towel at.", "That's right. Right in her face. Yes, she didn't appreciate that.", "What a slam. It's not my fault, you're slow.", "It's the ultimate --", "All caught on tape.", "Alina, thanks so much for that. Well, tough times these days for sin city. Fewer blackjack bets even though more people are visiting the casinos. Why the house says it's still going to win in the end, though.", "The Iraq war. Here in America -", "In the Mojave desert in Southern California, the Army had constructed a fake Iraq.", "A military training facility creates a faux war to prep troops on U.S. soil. You're watching the most news in the morning."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHETRY", "MICHAEL REAGAN, CONSERVATIVE RADIO TALK SHOW HOST", "CHETRY", "LIONEL, TALK SHOW HOST", "CHETRY", "CHETRY", "REAGAN", "LIONEL", "REAGAN", "LIONEL", "CHETRY", "LIONEL", "CHETRY", "REAGAN", "LIONEL", "REAGAN", "CHETRY", "REAGAN", "LIONEL", "REAGAN", "LIONEL", "REAGAN", "LIONEL", "CHETRY", "LIONEL", "ROBERTS", "ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ADM. 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{"id": "CNN-44127", "program": "MORNINGS WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2001-11-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/20/ltm.02.html", "summary": "U.S. Offers Money For Information and Bounty Hunters in Bin Laden Manhunt", "utt": ["The Pentagon, of course, is hoping the reward offer will help cut off Osama bin Laden's options for escape as U.S. troops close in on him. But at this moment, just what are his options? For a look at that, and the latest on the campaign in Afghanistan, let's go to CNN's Jonathan Aiken, who is standing by at the Pentagon -- good morning, Jonathan.", "Good morning to you, Paula. As for Osama bin Laden and his options, they appear to be somewhat limited and focused primarily on the natural advantages that exist in the mountainous terrain that he is thought to be in, in the region east of Kandahar. Well, the U.S. military hoping to shrink those options even further on the ground through action in the air. Leaflets and radio broadcasts all over Afghanistan now making details -- offering details of that $25 million reward for information leading to bin Laden, a reward that has been on offer for sometime by the United States, but being detailed now in Afghan language broadcasts or from Commander Solo (ph) EC-130 aircraft that fly over the country, and also leaflets being dropped over wide portions of the area. And there's also an activity that goes on on the ground too. There are reports that Special Forces Operations, within southern Afghanistan in particular, are using cash, primarily to attract bounty hunters, to recruit fighters and also buy information about bin Laden. The idea being that the U.S. would much prefer to have the locals do the cave-to-cave searches for bin Laden, which would minimize the risk to U.S. troops and also minimize the number of U.S. forces necessary to be on the ground in that part of the country. Now, there are some who have criticized this offer. They say it rubs against one of tenants of Islam, and that is charity. That you shouldn't turn away an invited guest, and to many people in southern Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden is the invited guest of the Taliban government. But overall, CNN's Jim Clancy was pointing out earlier this morning, some of the locals at his position, at the Pakistan- Afghanistan border, said they'd be interested in a reward. The defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, says that's the general idea.", "We have large rewards out. And our hope is that the incentive -- the dual incentive of helping to free that country from a very repressive regime, and to get the foreigners and the al Qaeda out of there, coupled with substantial monetary rewards, will incentivize through the great principle of the University of Chicago economics, incentivize a large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves, looking for the bad folks.", "And that's spoken like someone who's from Chicago. As for what's happening on day 45 of the U.S. activity over Afghanistan, Paula, relatively light activity to speak of. The problems started a little later than usual on Tuesday. There was a report about four hours ago of some heavy B-52 activity in eastern Konduz Province. But generally light by comparison to days past, and also the weather, Paula, becoming a factor. Rain has moved in, heavy cloud cover, fog and also some fierce winds out of the east, making things difficult, not only for people in the air, but also on the ground -- Paula.", "Come back to, if you would, the specific mission of these Special Ops. The defense secretary made it clear that they will not be involved in a cave-by-cave hunt, right?", "That's right. They fear that -- that fear that, frankly, it would take too many men and take too long and put U.S. troops at far greater risk than they need to be in order to search for bin Laden. They feel that the bounty hunters will have an incentive with this reward, and also their natural advantage over U.S. troops. The fact that they're locals, they know the terrain. They also know, not only the entrance points to these caves, but also more importantly, the exit points, where these caves come out to, and what other caves and tunnels they may link up with. Information the U.S. just doesn't have right now, so that's where they're figuring they're going to attach (ph) their lot with the locals and hope for the best.", "All right, Jonathan Aiken, thanks -- appreciate that report."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "JONATHAN AIKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY", "AIKEN", "ZAHN", "AIKEN", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-188153", "program": "EARLY START WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD AND ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN", "date": "2012-6-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1206/21/es.02.html", "summary": "House Committee: Holder In Contempt; Sweltering Heat In Northeast; Zoo Animals Flee Flooding; Rains Wreck Roads In Duluth Floods; Closing Arguments Today In Sandusky Trial; Sanford Police Chief Fired; College Football Playoffs; Lebron Could Win First Title Tonight", "utt": ["It is dangerous heat as the mercury rises. Records keep falling all over the weather map.", "Washed out in Minnesota, flash flooding, wiping out roads, bridges, and making a very dangerous condition for a zoo.", "He's never been closer to a ring, Lebron James takes the court with a chance to win his first NBA championship win. Miami Heat could win, too.", "Yes, that could happen as well for all the Heat fans out there. I'm not talking heat outside. We're talking Heat inside on the hardwood.", "All right, good morning, everyone. Thanks for being with us. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm Zoraida Sambolin.", "Good morning. I'm Ashleigh Banfield. We have the news from A to Z for you this morning, 6:00 on the East Coast. Let's start with this, shall we? Attorney General Eric Holder is really caught in a political cross fire this morning. He is in Copenhagen this morning and after a pretty bad day yesterday for him. Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a vote and it came out along party lines to recommend citing him for contempt. All of this for failing to turn over certain subpoenaed documents from the botched \"Fast and Furious\" gun operation. Those documents though are now completely off limits, subpoena or no subpoena because President Obama stepped in and decided to invoke executive privilege for the first time since taking office. Joe Johns is live in Washington this morning and your legal head must have been popping right off yesterday. Seriously, the developments were fast and furious themselves just for starters. But what we're looking at here, Joe, is for lack of a better way to describe this, a legal mess.", "Yes, I think you're right. It is a legal mess. Whenever you get into one of these executive privilege fights, it is going to be that way. What seems clear is that barring some negotiated solution, this thing ends up on the House floor as early as next week. That means Eric Holder could get cited by the full House of Representatives, which is controlled by Republicans for contempt of Congress. After that, the process that is set in place is for all of this to go to the United States Attorney's Office and he would convene a grand jury. The problem is, of course, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia is basically an employee of the Justice Department and head of the Justice Department is Eric Holder. So it is kind of a weird situation though, one way or the other it is clear if they don't figure something out, it will end up in the courts as the kind of thing that could go on for years. And many other times in the past, these fights have ended up being negotiated out and they figure out how to get some of the information to Congress to avoid a long protracted court battle -- Ashleigh.", "Joe, for a lot of people it starts to sound a lot like white noise bickering, but we're talking -- when you say the legal process in the courts, we're not just talking civil here. This could have a civil outcome. This could have a criminal outcome.", "Yes, it could have a criminal outcome, and you know, people waking up this morning who haven't really focused on all of this the question sort of is what's it all about? We have heard of this operation \"Fast and Furious.\" It was a gun walking operation to sort of try to figure out if you could get some big fish in the cartels south of the border by letting some guns go into criminal hands, probably not a very good idea. Certainly, a real question of mismanagement on the part of the people who were handling it and the problem is it is occurring, this controversy is, during an election year, which raises the question of politics as you know. And listening to some of the arguments that were made in the committee just yesterday really points it out. Let's listen.", "This is a stall in the Justice Department I think to get by until the next election because I think there is something embarrassing politically to this administration that they want to keep out of the public's minds and that's why we have been stone walled.", "This comes in an election year and I think there have been a lot of efforts on the part of our Republican colleagues to embarrass this president. And I think that this is a situation today that definitely could have been avoided.", "Well, that wasn't inside actually the hearing room, of course, because Senator Grassley wasn't there. He is on the Senate side. Nonetheless, you get the idea. People are saying it is politically motivated. On the other side of the coin, Republicans are saying they need to get to the bottom of this because at root it was a mismanagement problem at the Justice Department.", "All right, Joe Johns, thanks. I've a million other questions for you, but we're going to save that for a little bit later on. Because also Soledad O'Brien is going to be very busy on this topic too. So thank you, Joe. At 7:00 Eastern on \"STARTING POINT\" with Soledad, she's going to have those two people you just saw, the Democratic Congressman, Elijah Cummings. He is a ranking member of the House Oversight Committee and he will be live with her and then at 8 a.m., she will go one-on-one with the other guy you just saw, Iowa's Republican Senator Chuck Grassley. He is the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee. They both have a lot to say about this issue and you can bet Soledad will as well.", "Well, the northeast sweating through high humidity and sweltering heat. Temperatures expected to break records again today. This morning as I was coming in, I was on Facebook, Rob, and I said it feels like 80 degrees and guess what? I was right on the money.", "You were. Not only that, it was actually 80 degrees and the temperature didn't dip below that and the humidity bumps it up even more. So, yes, it is miserable out there and New York is not the only spot. D.C., Boston, Philly, Baltimore, you're all in. These are the record highs from yesterday as measured in the shade. They don't include humidity. Newarks in 98, La Guardia 98 degrees to Central Park at 94, Richmond, Hartford and even Burlington, Vermont, so places in Northern New England and a lot of those folks don't have air conditioning. They are dealing with temperatures right now in the upper 70s with loads of humidity as well. All right, Boston, you will probably hit -- you get close to 99 degrees today. I think everybody in New York, Philly, D.C., these are the actual high temperatures from yesterday. These are the forecast highs for today. So we can probably bump everything up 2 degrees or maybe 3 degrees today. There were some records yesterday and probably some records today, but the bottom line is this is the warmest air that we have seen since the third week in July of last year. And this is the first real pulse of heat for the summer and it is always a shock to the system. Heat advisories and heat warnings out for 10 states across the northeast and heat indices and what it does to your body, doesn't allow you to sweat. That sweat to evaporate, it makes you feel even warmer than that. But there is a little relief on the way, this little front is going to push off to the east. Already cooling down Chicago and won't get to the New York, Boston, and D.C. area really until tomorrow or even Saturday. Until then, do what you have to do to stay cool.", "I blew up the slip and slide in the backyard yesterday.", "That's one way to do it.", "And I read the directions and if you're over 100 pounds you can't use it.", "That's why I don't read directions.", "You don't. OK. Rob, you were supposed to say you're under 100 pounds, Ashleigh? Dead silence.", "I've got a lot to learn.", "Marciano, your live shot is going to be shorter next hour. Thank you, my friend. One of these weather related stories we wanted to follow up on Rob's report because there was water absolutely roaring through the streets and almost a dozen zoo animals were killed leaving a seal in the street. Torrential over night flooding forcing an evacuation of a lot of low lying homes and even zoo animals all of these happening in Duluth, Minnesota. Zoo workers were able to safely recover two seals and a polar bear and over a dozen animals being killed in that flooding. And water wiping out a bridge, all of the rain softening up roads and opening up a full sink hole that swallowed up a car. Good to report too that there are no reports of any serious injuries though in that story.", "Quite a bit of damage though. All right, closing arguments in less than three hours away at the child sex abuse trial of Jerry Sandusky. The defense rested without calling the former Penn State assistant football coach to testify. Sandusky is accused of sexually abusing 10 boys this over a 15-year period. The jury is expected to begin deliberating after today's closing arguments. The Pedo bear made an appearance right outside the Sandusky trail court. Take a look at this. It is the internet born- bear and it was created to mock pedophiles. Many critics on the web who don't get the satire say he is a mascot for men who abuse little boys.", "After refusing to accept his resignation back in the spring, there has been a change of heart. Officials in Sanford, Florida, have now fired Police Chief Bill Lee. You may remember that Chief Lee came under fire for his handling of the Trayvon Martin shooting because he decided not to make an arrest of George Zimmerman, the gunman in that shooting. The city managers in Sanford said that they dismissed him because the people of Sanford, they say, need a chief they can trust and respect. The guy who's been doing the job since all of this went down, the interim chief, Richard Myers is going to stay on the job until that department can find a full permanent replacement for Bill Lee.", "A consensus has been reached on a college football playoff system. BCF commissioners have agreed to a four-team playoff system, the semi-final games rotating around the tradition bowl sites like the Rose Bowl and the Orange Bowl. The plan will be presented to university presidents next week for approval and could be in place by 2014.", "Lebron James has a chance to win his first championship tonight because the Miami Heat are taking on the Oklahoma City Thunder in game five of the NBA finals. The Heat leading the Thunders three games to one. So they're in a pretty good position in the best of seven. It is the first time that the Thunder have faced an elimination game during a 2012 pro-season. Miami's all-star trio of Lebron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh will all try to clinch that championship tonight and get this, it's in front of their home crowd at American Airlines arena. If it is going to happen, that would be a nice spot for them for it to happen.", "But it would be great if Oklahoma took it on their turf.", "You're always doing that, always coming in and cooling off the heat.", "Yes, I have to. Anyway, 10 minutes past the hour. Soaked but safe. Take a look, dramatic video of one couple's brush with danger. What were they doing? That is a waterfall. We're going to give you all the details coming up."], "speaker": ["ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN, CNN HOST", "ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, CNN HOST", "SAMBOLIN", "BANFIELD", "SAMBOLIN", "BANFIELD", "JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT", "BANFIELD", "JOHNS", "SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY (R), IOWA", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-85174", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2004-6-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/04/ldt.01.html", "summary": "Bush Defies Protests in Rome", "utt": ["President Bush defies protests in Rome and faces criticism from the pope as he visits Italy, one of America's staunchest allies. Five American soldiers are killed in Baghdad, but, tonight, a new deal to end the fighting in southern Iraq. We'll have a report. Senator Kerry says our military is stretched too thin. Kerry adviser General John Shalikashvili is my guest. The economy created a quarter of a million new jobs in May, nearly a million new jobs in three months.", "Today's job report shows that the American economy is strong and it's getting stronger.", "But hundreds of thousands of American jobs could be lost in the shrimp industry because of cheap imports.", "Tonight, we'll have a special report from Florida.", "This is LOU DOBBS TONIGHT for Friday, June 4. Here now for an hour of news, debate and opinion, sitting in for Lou Dobbs who is on vacation, Kitty Pilgrim.", "Good evening. President Bush today faced criticism from the pope and massive protests during a visit to Rome. The pope, a strong critic of the war against Saddam Hussein, declared he is troubled by what he called \"deplorable events\" in Iraq. Thousands of protesters tried and failed to disrupt the president's visit. Senior White House Correspondent John King is traveling with the president and joins us from Rome -- John.", "Well, Kitty, good evening from Rome. The president's goal on this trip is to look forward to the political transition in Iraq, not back at the pre-war bitterness, but, as you noted, it came up today during a remarkable day in Rome. Tonight, the president was in friendly company, having dinner with Prime Minister Silvio Berlisconi, a man who steadfastly supported President Bush and has sent 2,700 Italian security forces to Iraq to help Mr. Bush, despite public opposition here in his country. Friendly company tonight, but, on the streets of Rome today, evidence of just how unpopular the war is here in Rome and across Europe, evidence of what a risk Prime Minister Berlisconi took in backing President Bush by the tens of thousands demonstrators in the street. Some 10,000 police were deployed as well. The prime minister had worried these protests would turn violent. Instead, large demonstrations, but overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations criticizing the president of the United States and, more pointedly, criticizing his decision to wage war in Iraq. Mr. Bush also came in for some personal criticism earlier in the day. He had requested and came to Italy one day early to make it work on the schedule to have an audience with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. Mr. Bush had a private meeting with the pontiff that ran about 25, 30 minutes. Then, both men delivered public statements. In his, the pope said that the Vatican's opposition to the war in Iraq stood and was unequivocal. He talked about grave mistakes being made in Iraq now and also talked about deplorable acts, which the Vatican said was a clear reference to the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military personnel. Now the pontiff did call for a speedy transition to sovereignty in Iraq, and the White House took that as an endorsement of the current political plan under way in Iraq. From Rome, Mr. Bush moves on to France tomorrow to meet with a chief war opponent, President Jacques Chirac of France. Mr. Bush hoping to mend fences, not revive the bitterness, and focus instead on that new United Nations Security Council resolution endorsing the political transition, more evidence of the president's focus on that transition. Tonight, the White House announced, Kitty, that the new interim president of Iraq, Ghazi al-Yawar, will join other Group of 8 leaders and other Middle Eastern leaders next week in the United States for the annual G8 summit, this year being held in Sea Island, Georgia -- Kitty.", "John, the president today announced his choice for the next ambassador to the United Nations. What can you tell us about that?", "The president choosing a man he believes will be overwhelmingly supported in the United States Senate and welcomed fondly at the United Nations, especially in the Security Council. The president announcing tonight that Jack Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri, a veteran of the United States Senate, is his choice to replace John Negroponte as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Mr. Negroponte, of course, about to begin a very difficult mission as the new ambassador to Iraq. In Jack Danforth, the president has someone who he personally tasked to be his special envoy to Sudan. Mr. Danforth has met many world ambassadors in that role and someone who is highly popular, many friendships with Democrats and Republicans in the Senate. Because it is an election year, Kitty, the president does not want any major picks to face confirmation fights. They believe Senator Danforth will be quickly confirmed and overwhelmingly supported by his former colleagues in the United States Senate -- Kitty.", "Thanks very much. John King in Rome. Thanks, John. In Iraq today, a deadly attack on American troops in Baghdad. Insurgents killed five soldiers traveling in a humvee in a Shiite district of eastern Baghdad. Five other soldiers are wounded. The troops are all members of the 1st Cavalry Division. Eight hundred and twenty-five troops have been killed in Iraq since the start of the war. In southern Iraq, there was a new effort today to end weeks of fighting between American troops and Shiite gunmen. Both sides agreed to withdraw from the cities of Najaf and Kufa and turn over security to Iraqi police. Guy Raz reports from Najaf.", "This is what Kufa looked like a little more than 24 hours ago, U.S. forces battling a rebel militia. But if the latest plan to end the fighting succeeds, these Iraqi police will be patrolling the twin cities of Najaf and Kufa. Najaf's governor believes he's brokered an end to six weeks of fighting. \"I hereby order all fighting forces, both the coalition forces and the Mehdi Militia, to leave the holy cities,\" Zurufi said. In their place, Iraqi police will begin to deploy to restore order. For weeks now, the streets of Najaf and neighboring Kufa have often been deserted. Previous attempts to negotiate an end to the fighting, including an intervention from former Iraqi Governing Council Member Ahmed Chalabi, have failed. But this time, senior military officials are optimistic.", "If the security forces are able to take charge of the security situation, then I would say that there really is no need for us to move into those areas and conduct reconnaissance efforts that we've been conducting so far.", "At Friday prayers in the two cities holy to Shiite Muslims, hope as well for an end to the daily barrage of artillery and gunfire. Guy Raz, CNN, Najaf in southern Iraq.", "In Washington today, new calls for major reforms at the Central Intelligence Agency after the surprise resignation of Director George Tenet. Tenet will leave the CIA July 11, and his deputy will become acting director. National Security Correspondent David Ensor reports.", "For the intelligence community, for now, change comes in the form of John McLaughlin, George Tenet's deputy who will move up as acting director in July. A professorial, brainy CIA veteran who does magic tricks as a hobby, McLaughlin is regarded by professionals as a safe pair of hands who will mostly follow the Tenet line.", "I think he's a phenomenal talent, and I think we can be confident that in the interim period the CIA and the intelligence community is in very good hands.", "But, over the summer, the reports and recommendations will start to stream in from the 9/11 Commission and intelligence committees ion the Hill, proposals to change the CIA and U.S. intelligence to make it less likely to miss the next 9/11 attack and make it more likely to get estimates of weapons of mass destruction in a place like Iraq -- get them right next time.", "We are going to have to completely restructure our community of intelligence networks, our focus, bring it into the 21st Century so that, in fact, it's relevant to the threats of the 21st Century. We are dealing with a 20th Century institution, and that's part of the problem that we've had over the last few years with our intelligence community.", "The most prominent proposal thus far is to give whoever is the next intelligence chief more power over the 15 other intelligence agencies besides the CIA, the agencies that eavesdrop, crack codes and watch from outer space what rivals and potential enemies are up to. Old hands worry about changes decided in haste in an election year.", "The danger of moving too fast is that you actually can do damage to what is working well within the community. So, again, I think...", "But you still think that change is needed?", "I think change is needed. I think it has been needed and it has been taking place. I think the -- my own view and my own sense of accountability for when I was in the leadership in the intelligence community is that we were transforming, we just weren't transforming fast enough.", "But with reports emerging in coming weeks expected to be scathing about intelligence mistakes in the runup to the Iraq war, change is in the air. The question is how much. The time is likely to be 2005. David Ensor, CNN, Washington.", "One of the most critical reports about the CIA is likely to come from the Senate Intelligence Committee. Now lawmakers are also waiting for the findings and recommendations of the commission investigating the September 11 attacks. Congressional Correspondent Joe Johns reports -- Joe.", "Good evening, Kitty. CNN has been told this will be a harsh report, an indictment of the Central Intelligence Agency, as a matter of fact, the entire intelligence community. The chairman of the Intelligence Committee here on Capitol Hill, Pat Roberts of Kansas has been sharply critical. He even suggested before Tenet resigned that someone ought to be disciplined or fired. Roberts does have some ideas of his own on how to reform the agency.", "I do expect, however, and demand that the Intelligence Committee be candid with the president and Congress about what it does know and what it doesn't know. A golden rule should be drilled into all analysts and managers: Tell me what you know, tell me what you don't know, tell me what you think, and make sure that I understand the difference.", "Now CNN has been told that the findings are expected to say, among other things -- we do have a graphic -- that the claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction were based on unfounded assumptions, that information from a single source, for example, was characterized as from multiple sources, there was insufficient human intelligence on the ground, and that assertion of mobile biological weapons labs may have, in fact, been fabricated. So those are some of the findings we expect in that report. The question, of course: When will that report come out? We're told right now the report is with the CIA where they're working on trying to declassify it. Once that is done, some are hoping it could be out later this month. Kitty, back to you.", "All right. Thanks very much. Joe Johns reporting from Washington. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is visiting Asia where one of the main topics of discussion is restructuring the military. Radical changes are also expected in the deployment of American troops in Europe. Now the restructuring is the most extensive realignment of U.S. forces since the end of the Cold War. Senior Pentagon Correspondent Jamie McIntyre reports -- Jamie.", "Well, Kitty, for decades, the U.S. has maintained a formidable military force in Germany, part of the old Cold War strategy designed to repulse a Soviet attack on western Europe. But, with the new threat of global terrorism, the U.S. is about to bring many of those American troops home. Under the plan, sources say big bases in Germany, such as Ramstein Air Base and the U.S. European Command Headquarters in Stuttgart will remain. But as many as two divisions of Army troops will be brought back to the United States. When needed, those troops will be deployed to temporary expeditionary bases that have been offered by some of America's new allies in Europe, including Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania. And while some German politicians have accused the U.S. of punishing Germany for its failure to support the U.S. decision to topple Saddam Hussein. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, who is traveling in Asia where they're also making some military base realignments, insists this is something that's been in the works for quite a while and just makes sense.", "We have been for a long time in effect where we were when the Cold War end ended, and it's time to adjust those locations from static defense to a more agile and a more capable and a more 21st-Century posture.", "U.S.-European commanders point out that even when they need troops in Europe, such as for the peacekeeping mission in the Balkans, those troops usually come from the United States. So basing them in Germany doesn't necessarily give them an advantage. In fact, it's sometimes an advantage to have them in other countries where the U.S. has an easier time deploying them. Now Germany has a love-hate relationship with the United States over those troops. Obviously, the U.S. occupies a large amount of German real estate. But, at the same time, anytime you close a base or downsize a U.S. military presence, just as it has in the United States, it can have a devastating impact on the local economy. These changes have not been finalized, but we are expecting the changes to be announced fairly soon -- Kitty.", "All right. Thanks very much. Jamie McIntyre. We'll have more on the future of the military next. I'll talk about Senator Kerry's plan for the armed forces with his military adviser, former Joint Chiefs Chairman General John Shalikashvili. The economy created a quarter of a million new jobs last month. It's the strongest three months of the labor market in four years. And \"Outta Gas,\" the search for alternative energy sources. Even Turkey waste is being turned into oil. We'll have a special report."], "speaker": ["KITTY PILGRIM, CNN ANCHOR", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "PILGRIM", "PILGRIM", "ANNOUNCER", "PILGRIM", "JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "PILGRIM", "KING", "PILGRIM", "GUY RAZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "RAZ", "PILGRIM", "DAVID ENSOR, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JOHN GANNON, FORMER CIA OFFICIAL", "ENSOR", "SEN. CHUCK HAGEL (R-NE), SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE", "ENSOR", "GANNON", "ENSOR (on camera)", "GANNON", "ENSOR", "PILGRIM", "JOE JOHNS, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. PAT ROBERTS (R-KA), INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN", "JOHNS", "PILGRIM", "JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN SENIOR PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "MCINTYRE", "PILGRIM"]}
{"id": "CNN-37894", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2001-8-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/24/se.02.html", "summary": "President Bush Chooses New Joint Chiefs of Staff", "utt": ["We go from McAllen, Texas, now to Crawford, Texas, where the president is about to announce his choice for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.", "As the commander in chief, I have the obligation to make sure that America's military is properly trained, equipped and manned to meet the threats of today, while also preparing to meet the changing threats of tomorrow. When I took the oath of office and assume the title of commander in chief, our military faced significant challenges. I'm proud to report that, thanks to the leadership of Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld and the work of our military and civilian leaders, as well as the cooperation of the United States Congress, we're making progress. We've increased pay for our service men and women and funded improved military housing and medical benefits. I've asked Congress to provide our military an increase of $39 billion over the original 2001 appropriations. That'll be the largest increase in military spending since Ronald Reagan was the commander in chief. This is money our military needs and money our budget allows. We're not only going to spend more on national defense, we're going to spend it more wisely. Secretary Rumsfeld and our military leaders are in the midst of a comprehensive review of our entire defense structure, from which will come recommendations to accelerate the transformation of America's military. Transformation is a process, not a one-time event. It's not easy, because it requires balancing two sometimes conflicting priorities: the need to train and maintain our forces to meet all our security responsibilities in the world right now, with the need to research, develop, plan and deploy new systems and strategies that will allow us to meet our responsibilities in a much different world in years to come. Transformation is important, because the decisions we make today, or put off, will shape our nation's security for decades to come. I'm pleased that my administration has assembled an outstanding national security team. I asked Don Rumsfeld to come to Washington because of his creativity and his experience and because I know he is a results-oriented leader who will get the job done. Don and I will work closely with our new chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who will serve as my principal military adviser and who will make sure the military's point of view is always heard in the White House. The chairman, together with the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will make sure all our armed forces work in a coordinated and effective way. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is also charged with reporting faithfully to the U.S. Congress on the state and needs of our armed forces. For the last several years, our nation has been ably served by an outstanding military leader and a good man, General Hugh Shelton. He's done a great job as the most senior officer in the world's greatest military. I've appreciated his advice and counsel and our entire nation is grateful for his service. Today I name a new chairman of the Joint Chiefs, one of the most important appointments a president can make. This appointment is especially so because it comes at a time when we need great leadership. Secretary Rumsfeld and I thought long and hard about this important choice, and we enthusiastically agree that the right man to preserve the best traditions of our armed forces, while challenging them to innovate to meet the threats of the future, is General Richard B. Myers. General Myers is a man of steady resolve and determined leadership. His is a skilled and steady hand. He is someone who understands that the strengths of America's armed forces are our people and our technological superiority and we must invest in both. I'm also pleased to announce that General Pete Pace, current commander of SOUTHCOM, will serve as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs. General Pace is a proud Marine and represents a new generation of leadership and military thinking. I spent a substantial amount of time with both these men, and I'm convinced they're the right people to lead our military into the future. Times like these -- times of rapidly changing technology and ever-changing threats -- will require tough choices. This team of strong leaders -- Don Rumsfeld, General Myers and General Pace -- knows that our nation must think differently. And we will think differently to protect and defend America's values and interests in the world. To tell you more about our new chairman and vice chairman, it's my pleasure to welcome to Crawford the secretary of defense, Don Rumsfeld.", "Mr. President, thank you very much. Mrs. Bush, General and Mrs. Myers, General and Mrs. Pace, and ladies and gentlemen. Mr. President, you've spoken about the need to transform our armed forces. You told us to challenge the status quo and to work to build a 21st-century military that can deter aggression and help us extend peace well into the next century -- this new one. Change is hard, and changing so vital an institution as the U.S. Department of Defense is not undertaken lightly. It takes clarity of vision and unity of purpose, and it takes leadership. General Dick Myers is such a leader. I've had the great good fortune to work closely with Dick Myers and with General Hugh Shelton these past months. We have met for hours and hours, days on end, working and analyzing, discussing, debating. And you get to know someone pretty well after that kind of effort. What I have come to know and expect of General Dick Myers is candor, sound judgment, keen insights, fiber and good humor. He's from Kansas, a man of the prairie, who's conquered the skies from service as a fighter pilot in Vietnam to commander of the U.S. Space Command. His career is the embodiment of the transformation with which he will be charged as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mr. President, I am proud to join you today to welcome General Myers to the opportunities that we will share together over the period ahead. No one will have a greater responsibility than he to turn your vision into a reality for the two million-plus men and women who don the nation's uniforms to carry out their very vital assignments. General Myers, I am delighted with your nomination, and I look forward to working with you. It also gives me great pleasure to be here with General Pete Pace, the president will nominate to serve as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. From the jungles of Southeast Asia to the streets of Mogadishu, General Pace has fought the country's fights, small and large, and demonstrated an extraordinary capacity for leadership along the way. As a former deputy commander of U.S. forces in Japan, and as the current combatant commander of the Southern Command, General Pace brings a commander's perspective to a position that has responsibility for establishing the war-fighting requirements of the weapon systems and platforms our forces bring to the fight. Like General Myers, General Pace is well-suited to meet the transformation challenge we face. Never before has a Marine officer served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Peter Pace's background, expertise and insight will fit well and complement General Myers. Pete, we welcome you and your nomination to the Department of Defense's leadership team. Military command blends war-fighting capacity, intellectual rigor, and the willingness and ability to lead. I know of no better way to describe General Hugh Shelton, whose military service to our country is now coming to a close. Hugh has been a truly fine chairman. And I know that General Myers, as I, has benefited greatly from working so closely with General Shelton. On behalf of our Armed Forces, I thank General Hugh Shelton for his outstanding and his courageous service, and I commend him for his professionalism. Hugh Shelton leaves behind an institution that I know will be up to the challenges before it. In these two men, General Dick Myers and General Pete Pace, the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces are in fine hands. Mr. President, I thank you for all your support for the men and women of the Armed Forces, those who willingly put their lives at risk day after day so that all of the rest of our fellow citizens can go about their daily lives in peace and freedom. We thank you, sir. I would like to ask, first General Myers to take the podium, and before I do, I'd like to have Mary Jo (ph) join us up here and be a party to this.", "Thank you, Mr. President, Mrs. Bush, Secretary Rumsfeld, General Pace and Lynn (ph), ladies and gentlemen. Eighteen months ago, I went to the Pentagon to help General Shelton, and in that time I've learned a lot. I learned about vision and leadership from watching him work. I learned about physical and moral courage from seeing his example. And I also learned about how rewarding it can be coming to work and just from being able to call him my friend. I have, figuratively and literally, enormous shoes to fill, and Mary Jo (ph) and I are indebted to Hugh and Carolyn (ph) Shelton for their leadership. But I knew that when I went to the Pentagon, that it was a great opportunity to serve. So today, I'm honored by the chance to continue that service. And I'm humbled, Mr. President, that you have asked me to do so, as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. If confirmed, I very much look forward to remaining part of this terrific defense team, captained by a dedicated, a visionary and principled secretary of defense. And, Secretary Rumsfeld, I thank you for your vote of confidence. Like the hardworking Americans here in the heartland of Texas, I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and eager to get back to work to building the kind of military that President Bush envisions -- one that is poised to meet current obligations and emerging threats. As the president has said, we face tough challenges ahead and a lot of work remains. But with the help of God, my wife Mary Jo (ph), our family and our friends, along with our extended family of the hundreds of thousands of superb soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines and coastguardsmen, active and reserve, the task is less daunting. I'm absolutely delighted to have General Pete Pace join us as vice chairman. Pete and I have worked together before and I can tell you from personal experience that Pete will bring tremendous talent, skill and leadership to the vice chairman's position. Pete and Lynn (ph), we look forward to working closely with you again. And I think you'll all agree that we're fortunate to have him. It's with that larger family, our uniformed men and women along with our DOD civilian counterparts, that we'll conquer those challenges, and I look forward to doing just that. This is going to be great. Thank you very much.", "And now I'd like to ask General Peter Pace, the president's nominee for vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to say a few words. And I'd like to ask his wife Lynn (ph) to join us.", "Mr. President and Mrs. Bush, Mr. Secretary, General Myers, Mary Jo (ph) -- Honey -- this is an incredibly humbling moment in my life, to be nominated by the president of the United States and the secretary of defense to be vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I do not doubt the size of the workload that lies ahead, but I could not ask to be on a better team than one led by the gentlemen on this stage, our commander in chief, the secretary of defense, my great friend Dick Myers, his wife Mary Jo (ph), and my wife. It's humbling, but it's also a thrilling moment, and my heart's beating in my chest right now very hard. Mr. President, thank you for this honor, sir. Thank you for your trust and confidence in me. I promise you, sir, I will not betray that trust as we work to keep this nation the best nation in the world and to take great care of the wonderful young men and women who serve this country in uniform. Thank you, sir.", "Thank you, Mr. President. You mentioned thinking long and hard about these nominations, so I'd like to ask you about another long deliberation. The United Nations Conference on Racism convenes in just one week. Do you want your administration represented there? If so, at what level? And are the Zionism and reparations agenda items absolutely prohibitive to any U.S. participation?", "She's referring to a conference that will be taking place in South Africa. We have made it very clear through Colin Powell's office that we will have no representative there so long as they take on Israel; so long as they continue to say Zionism is racism. If they use the forum as a way to isolate our friend and strong ally, we will not participate. The secretary of state is working hard to resolve that issue. We've made it very clear from the get-go. I remember explaining to President Mbeki our position. As I understand, the reparations issue has been solved, at least the last information I had was that that issue looks like it has been resolved. But the fundamental question is whether or not Israel will be treated with respect at the conference. And if not, then we will assess prior to the beginning. So I'm not exactly sure where we stand at this moment. I do know what our administration's position is. And the position is, we will not participate in a conference that tries to isolate Israel and denigrates Israel.", "Participate at any level?", "That's my feeling.", "Mr. President, following through on Israel as well -- following up on that -- today, the Israelis pushed further into Palestinian territory, attacking two houses in Hebron. So far, the peace talks that were agreed to between Peres and Arafat haven't happened. I know you say that the U.S. is engaged, but Egyptians, Palestinians are calling for more U.S. involvement. What is it going to take for the U.S. to actually get more involved, take more action in order to help bring about peace in the Middle East?", "Well, let's start with this. In order for there to be any peace talks in the Middle East, the first thing that must happen is that both parties must resolve to stop violence. The Israelis have made it very clear that they will not negotiate under terrorist threat. And if Mr. Arafat is interested in having a dialogue that could conceivably lead to the Mitchell process, then I strongly urge him to urge the terrorists, the Palestinian terrorists, to stop the suicide bombings, to stop the incursions, to stop the threats. At the same time, we've worked very closely with Prime Minister Sharon to urge him to show restraint. Terrorism is prevalent now in the Middle East, and the first thing that all parties who are concerned about peace in the Middle East must do is work to stop the terrorist activities. The Israelis will not negotiate under terrorist threat; it's as simple as that. And if the Palestinians are interested in a dialogue, then I strongly urge Mr. Arafat to put 100 percent effort into solving the terrorist activity, into stopping the terrorist activity. And I believe he can do a better job of doing that. Go ahead. Follow-up, yes?", "Then what's your reaction to the fact that the Israelis are moving into Palestinian territory again?", "My reaction is, is that I would hope the Israelis would show restraint on all fronts. And we continue to urge restraint with both parties. We're constantly in dialogue. It requires two willing participants. People have got to make up their mind this is what they want to have happen in order for there to be the beginnings of peace discussions. We've got a framework for a peaceful resolution. It's called the Mitchell plan. And our administration, as have most of the world, embraced the Mitchell plan. But in order to get to Mitchell, it requires there to be a cessation of terrorist activity. If not a cessation, a 100 percent effort to get to a cessation. And we haven't seen that 100 percent effort yet. And if what you're asking me is, do we hear the Palestinians' call for discussions, of course we do. But my attitude is, if they are that interested in peaceful dialogue, they ought to do everything they can to stop the terrorist activity that has accelerated in recent months. And we will see whether or not the will is there.", "How realistic is it for you to expect Congress to move forward with your defense priorities when there's so little money in the budget outside of Social Security? And is it perhaps naive to expect Congress to just roll over and abandon their priorities?", "Yes, well, I would hope that a congressional priority is strong national defense. And it will be very interesting to kind of get a feel for the congressional priorities this fall. And one of the early tests will be to see whether or not the leadership will give us a defense number early in the process. That's what I've asked the Congress to do. I did so in Independence, Missouri. I repeat it today. And we hear a lot of dialogue on the Hill about the importance of national defense. If that's the case, give us a number at the beginning of the process, not at the end of the process. Let us know whether defense -- I think it's realistic to ask Congress to prioritize national defense and education. We've done so. The budget that Mitch Daniels outlined clearly shows that we've got the monies available for a good, strong national defense. Now, I readily concede, if Congress goes off on a spending spree in other areas, it's going to create competition for defense dollars. And my point is going to be to the members of the United States Congress and their constituents that national defense ought to be a funding priority, and I expect it to be. I expect it to be in '01, '02 and '03.", "So you're using a veto threat as the way of bringing a hard line...", "Well, my first -- wait, you put the word \"veto\" in my mouth. I have said that I will work for fiscal sanity in Washington, D.C. And one way for a president to affect the fiscal condition of our government is to express displeasure when certain budgets get busted. And so far we haven't had that. And that's why I praised Senator Byrd and Congressman Young. We've had a couple of supplementals. And as the Washington watchers will tell you, the supplementals have been restrained, they've been within the budget guidelines, and I appreciate that very much. There has been some fiscal sanity thus far. Hopefully -- you know, I'm optimistic there will continue to be some fiscal sanity in Washington. But we'll find out. And there's going to be a battle. There's always a battle over whether defense is getting too much or not enough. Our position is it's been underfunded, and we expect Congress to respond. And our job, as well, is to present a coherent strategy as to why, why there ought to be more money. And that's what the secretary's here to discuss with me in Crawford today. You know, there's a lot of discussion about transformation. Transformation isn't one document, it's not a moment in time, it is a strategy, and it starts with assessing the true threats facing America today and in the future, and then we size our forces depending upon the threats that face the country. And those are the dialogues we're now having. And one of the jobs of Dick, should he be confirmed, is to make sure the Congress understands why our force size -- why we are asking for monies for certain force sizes and how it relates to keeping the national security of the country in the long term, as well as today.", "Mr. President, to follow up on that, the administration's budget projections show these fairly thin surpluses outside of Social Security for the next several years. And the budget that you've been discussing, of course, does not include missile defense, does not include a number of the conventional weapons transformations that your team that you've introduced here today is going to be working on. Would it be reasonable to dip into Social Security and into the Social Security funds to pay for missile defense and to pay for this military transformation? Or is there any other contingency you can imagine that would make it worthwhile to go into the Social Security funds?", "Well, I've said that the only reason we should use Social Security funds is in case of an economic recession or war. Secondly, our budget does call for missile defense expenditures. If I'm not mistaken, I think it's to the tune of $8 billion. And you might recall, as we left town, there were some members of the United States' Congress saying that that was way too much expenditure on a missile defense program and they would like to divert that money to other programs, some within the defense budget, some outside the defense budget. And so, we do make -- and we've also increased research and development by a significant amount of money. But I think the thing that's important to know is that Secretary Rumsfeld is taking a long look, addressing -- assessing all the threats or the perceived threats that could face our country and how we address those threats. One of the threats that faces America is the threat of blackmail as a result of some rogue nation having a weapon of mass destruction. And that not only is a threat to our own land, it's also a threat to a forward-thinking foreign policy. Take, for example, you know, some nation in the Middle Eastern area developing a weapon of mass destruction and then threatening the United States if we were to move troops into an area to protect an ally. So in other words, the ability to have a weapon of mass destruction not only affects our people living in America, because some of these weapons have now got longer ranges than ever anticipated, but it also affects our foreign policy. It could be used as an attempt to isolate America, and we're not going to let that happen. And so, one of the things you'll hear us talk about is the need to develop an effective missile defense system. And we do have money in the budget for that. And there's going to be an interesting dialogue over whether it's too much. We're going to stand our ground and say the $8 billion -- I believe it's $8 billion, if I'm not mistaken -- is the right amount of money. And you'll see, as well, as you look at other parts of the defense budget request, particularly the '02, and then the add-on '03, which we haven't laid out yet, there's a lot of money for research and development, which is absolutely necessary. And one of the reasons Dick Myers is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs nominee is because he's had a lot of experience in space, for example. It's an area that we need to explore and know more about. He's had a lot of experience when it comes to the leading edge of technology that is becoming more and more prevalent in our military. And our budget reflects the need to fully explore and, at the same time, make sure that today's military can fulfill the missions. And it's a balancing act and I fully recognize it's one, but our budget does reflect that.", "Mr. President, looking ahead to those budget fights down the road, though, in '02 and '03, when you will, undoubtedly, be asking for more money for missile defense, many question your economic assumptions, more mixed signals today -- durable good orders down, home sales up. People question whether your 3.2 percent forecast for growth next year, even many economists who are allied with your administration say they think that's too overly optimistic. On what do you base it?", "Well, I think -- sorry, I miss Daniel in here to lay out all the forecasts that led to our assumption. And we're right in the middle, as I understand. We've picked a number that seemed reasonable. But the facts are, our economy has slowed down. We had an anemic 1 percent growth over the last 12 months, and that affected tax revenues. And our administration, instead of wringing our hands, put in place a fiscal stimulus package that was the first real tax cut in a generation. And we believe it's going to have a positive effect on our economy. No question, the economy has slowed down. And therefore, Congress must adjust its spending attitudes. The surest way to make sure that the recovery doesn't happen in a meaningful period of time or a reasonable period of time is to overspend. So my message to the Congress is, I'm proud of your vote for tax relief. It was the right thing to do because it responded to economic circumstances that our nation now faces. But don't go hog wild. I mean, appropriators appropriate. Don't overspend. And one of my jobs as the president is to make sure we keep fiscal sanity in the budget.", "If you're off by just a point or two, (OFF-MIKE) billions and billions short.", "Well, if I'm off by a point or two, then Congress can adjust their sights. You see, I'm glad that Congress finally, for the first time in a long period of time, has said we're not going to spend Social Security except on emergencies. That wasn't the case up until this administration. It's a useful part of the dialogue if you believe in fiscal sanity in Washington, D.C. It sets some important parameters. So we have the tax relief plan, which is important for fiscal stimulus, coupled with Social Security being off-limits except for emergency. That now provides a new kind of fiscal straitjacket for Congress. And that's good for the taxpayers. And it's incredibly positive news if you're worried about a federal government that has been growing at a dramatic pace over the past eight years, and it has been. Listen, the '02 budget we submitted has discretionary spending growing by 6 percent. That's a pretty significant number. Certainly not as much as some of the appropriators would like to see in Washington, D.C., but we think it's a nice, balanced number. It's one that will help meet the needs, and at the same time not overspend and therefore affect economic growth. Of course, the other side of things is if the economy gets back to where it was growing, Washington, D.C. could conceivably be awash in money. And so there's leverage on both sides.", "Sir, on stem cells, you said that these 60 stem cell lines can be experimented on. It now turns out they've been mixed in the laboratory with mice cells under FDA guidelines. Apparently, they could have no practical effect. Did you know that when you made this decision -- these possibly couldn't be used?", "Here's what I knew. I knew that I sat down with the NIH experts, the people who were charged by our federal government to follow the research opportunities on all fronts. And they feel like the existing stem cell lines are ample to be able to determine whether or not embryonic stem cell research can yield the results necessary to save lives. This is their opinion. And I can think of no better opinion on which to base my judgment. And so, I haven't changed my opinion in the least. As a matter of fact, I read some comments today where the NIH scientists again confirmed that we've got enough existing stem cell lines to do the research necessary to determine whether or not the promise of embryonic stem cells will be met.", "The NIH came into the Oval Office, and they looked me right in the eye, and they said, we think there is ample stem cell lines to determine whether or not this embryonic stem cell research will work or not. And I appreciated their candor, and I appreciated their advice. Root (ph), good to see you, my boy.", "Sir, you talked about the need to...", "How are you?", "Doing good, I'm good.", "Used to cover me as governor.", "You talked about...", "Fine lad, fine lad.", "You talked about the need to maintain technological...", "A little short on hair, but a fine lad.", "I am losing some hair. You talked about the need to maintain technological superiority. Given some of its well-known problems, do you think that part of that would include the V-22? And do you think, given some of the budget problems that have been discussed, that it compromises, maybe, your ability to go forward with the V-22, the F-22 and the Joint Strike Fighter?", "Root (ph) represents Fort Worth.", "I never would have guessed!", "The secretary and both the civilians who work with him and the military who works for him are charged with not only assessing the threats that will face us, but then will be -- are charged with not only designing a force structure to meet those threats, as well as the capital expenditures necessary to meet them. There is no question that we probably cannot afford every weapon system that is now on -- that's being designed or thought about. And you should ask the secretary this question, if you care to, because he is going to bring to my desk in a reasonable period of time what the Pentagon recommendations are as to what weapon systems should go forward and which should not. One of the things that happens inside the Pentagon is people are encouraged to think, you know, outside the box, so to speak, and to help design systems that could or could not affect security in the long term. And there are many good ideas. But this administration is going to have to winnow them down. We can't afford every single thing that has been contemplated. And when we make decisions, they will fit into a strategic plan. And we need one. And there's going to be one. And it's coming this fall, starting with the -- as the secretary will talk about.", "I'll take you up on your invitation to ask that...", "I'm on a roll here.", "Good morning, sir.", "This is where it'll give me a little time to think of the answers.", "You've talked about limits on spending. If your wish came true, that the federal budget is once again awash in money, what would your priorities be? Where would you like to...", "Education, defense and making sure the taxpayers had ample money to make choices for themselves. You know, I think one of the things we've got to recognize is that our government should fund priorities, but we've always got to remember where the money came from. And I can't tell you how proud I am to be traveling around the country and people walk up and say, \"Thanks for the $600.\" Now, there are some cynics who say $600 doesn't mean anything to a working family in America. That's not what I hear. I hear it means a lot to people. So, if we're awash, and, you know, I think our economy has got very strong underpinnings, that we're certainly going through a correction, but there are some signs that we're improving, and some signs, as John (ph) accurately noted, are still show that there's an anchor on economic growth. But I believe we'll be back and be robust. And when we are, then we'll deal with the budget. And in the meantime -- in the meantime, however, it's important for Congress and the appropriators to realize there's not as much money around Washington as there used to be. And therefore, they need to readjust their sights. And our priorities are going to be educating our children and national defense. Those are our priorities, and I hope a lot of Congress comes with me on that.", "Are you implying that another tax cut might be in the works?", "No, I'm not implying. I'm saying that -- I think you were implying we might be awash with money, and I hope we are. I think we've got a very strong economy. Let me say we've got a strong economic potential. We could have a very strong economy again. I think I'm going to get trade promotion authority, which should help. This tax cut will help. Monetary policy should help. And when we get economic growth going again, after the correction in some of our sectors like the high-tech sector, we may have good money. And if we do, then I want to always remember where it came from. It didn't come because of the genius of the federal government. It came because of the genius and hard work of the American people. So let's wait until that happens. Let's just hope it happens soon.", "Mr. President, you said yesterday that you oppose blanket amnesty for illegal immigrants from Mexico. But even if you only grant guestworker status to some illegals, doesn't that amount to rewarding illegal activity, when other immigrants are struggling to come to this country legally?", "Colin Powell and John Ashcroft are taking a hard look at our immigration policy. They're not only reviewing our policy in our own working group, they're reviewing that policy with their counterparts in Mexico. And we've had some very good dialogues. It's been a very constructive dialogue. I talked to Vicente Fox about this subject a couple of days ago, and we both agreed that the discussions thus far have been positive. I do not believe in blanket amnesty. One of the issues that you refer to is an important issue, and that is, how do we make sure that as we facilitate willing employer hooking up with willing employee, that we don't penalize those who've been waiting in line legally? And so our deliberations are taking that into account. And that's a far cry, however, from blanket amnesty. I strongly believe that if someone is willing to work and someone's looking for a worker and can't find anybody, we ought to facilitate the two hooking up. And so, there are ways to make sure that people are rewarded for hard work without affecting those who have been patiently waiting in line for legal status.", "Respectfully, sir, may I follow up and say...", "Is this a question or speech?", "Well, how do you respond to those who say you're courting the Hispanic vote with this outreach?", "Well, I respond by saying that, first of all, I can't think of anything more important for our foreign policy in our hemisphere to have good relations with Mexico. Mexico is our neighbor, and we ought to have a neighborhood that is prosperous and peaceful. The basis for good foreign policy is to make sure your own area, your own neighborhood, is in good shape. And I have got a great relation with the president of Mexico, symbolized by the fact that the first state dinner I'm going to have is with Vicente Fox, and it's going to happen in two weeks. The history of the relationship between Mexico and the United States hadn't always been smooth. I mean, it'd been pretty hostile, at times. And to me, that didn't inure to our country's benefit. We've got good relations. And one of the things we've got to do is discuss common problems. We've got problems on our border, we've got problems with drug interdiction, we've got problems with environmental issues on our border, we've got water problems and we've got immigration problems. And if we're going to have good relations with our neighbor, we ought to deal constructively with the problems. Admit there's a problem and figure out ways to deal with it. The long-term solution, however, for immigration is for Mexico to be prosperous enough to grow a middle class where people will be able to find work at home. And I remind people all across our country, family values do not stop at the Rio Bravo. There are people in Mexico who've got children, who worry about where they're going to get their next meal from. And they're going to come to the United States if they think they can make money here. That's a simple fact. And they're willing to walk across miles of desert to do work that some Americans won't do. And we got to respect that, seems like to me, and treat those people with respect. Now I get accused of being political in everything I do. I guess that's just the nature of being the president. And what I try to assure people of is I deal with problems as I see them. And if some people don't like the solution -- and some people are not. And we'll just let the chips fall where they may. I'm going to let Rumsfeld talk to you real -- listen, I've got to go get briefed. OK, one more, one more.", "Mr. President...", "Two more, two more. Make them quick.", "You said yesterday that you had no plans to watch the interview last night with Congressman Gary Condit but...", "Yes, I followed through on that.", "... but that you would read about it. I was wondering if you had, and if you have any thoughts?", "Actually, I haven't read about it yet. I have been briefed upon it by Karen Hughes and Condi Rice, who watched it. And you might ask them what their opinion is.", "Sir, seriously, though, if I could follow-up. You've been reluctant to talk about this issue. And 23.6 million Americans watched this interview last night...", "Well, I was one who didn't.", "There's enormous interest in it.", "There was 270-something million Americans, and I was one of the 250 who didn't watch it.", "But do you not have an opinion?", "Did you watch it?", "I did indeed.", "OK, good. I don't have an opinion yet on it. I do that -- I hope that the Levy prayers are answered. That's my hope. This isn't about a congressman or about a network. This is about a family who lost a daughter. And that's what I'm concerned about. And I hope that if she is alive, she's returned soon. And I pray she's alive -- that's where my heart is, and that's where concerns are on this issues. I'm not worried about the gossip or the, you know, Washington whispers. I'm worried about a young girl's life. And so should America, be worried about a young girl's life.", "But, sir, do think the congressman's evasiveness has impeded efforts to find her?", "I have no idea about the congressman. I'm not paying attention to the congressman. I'm paying attention to whether or not this poor girl is found, and that's what I'm interested in. I understand how Washington works. And there's all kinds of stuff that goes on in Washington. People are saying this about somebody, they're saying that about somebody. It's a town of gossip. And I'm not worried about the gossip, I'm worried about the facts. And there's a girl missing, and our prayers are with her parents. I have seen them on TV. I agonize for the mom and the dad. And that's where my heart is. Last question. No, next to last -- this is the last question, but there's two more answers.", "I'll go fast.", "Mine and Rumsfeld's.", "Thank you, sir. You've talked a lot about changing the tone in Washington, and you've had some success doing it. But lately there have been some shots across the bow -- the Democrats' ad this week on the surplus. I'm wondering if you think that the tone in Washington is changing back...", "Yes.", "... to the partisan bickering of the past.", "Well, it's not in Crawford.", "Yes, could you...", "But I know the answer.", "You know the answer.", "Well, the issue with respect to weapon systems is that there are several things that are required by Congress. One is a presidential budget to be offered in the first part of next year. And there's a process that precedes it in every department to produce that budget that the president then pulls together. The other is a so-called Quadrennial Defense Review, and another is the nuclear posture review. Those are all going on. And through an iterative process with the services, the budget for the 2003 presidential budget is being built. And those kinds of decisions get made. As the president suggested, we are balancing some risks. There are operational risks with respect to near-term threats. There are also risks of not transforming, of not modernizing the force at a rate that makes sense, or of not taking proper care of the men and women in the Armed Forces and the risks that you run then of not having the people you need to see that the United States of America can continue to contribute to peace and stability in the world. So it's that complicated process of balancing those risks that will lead the services to come back with their recommendations, which we then will all consider and take into account in our recommendations to the president. With respect to the specific aircraft you're talking about, we all know it's been a troubled program. It has had enormous difficulties, but it has not come to the point of a decision. And it will in the coming period of September and October.", "Thank you all very much.", "President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrapping up their comments, first about military expenditures, budget items, stem cell research. First and foremost, to explain that the president has appointed a new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers. He even spoke about the interview last night that Congressman Gary Condit gave. Said he hadn't watched himself, had no reaction. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["STEPHEN FRAZIER, CNN ANCHOR", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "GEN. 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{"id": "CNN-201256", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2013-2-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/14/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Examining the California Manhunt Case; Artist Continues to Display Banned Paintings", "utt": ["Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching NEWS STREAM.", "Now in the past three years, 100 Tibetans in China have set themselves on fire to protest Beijing's rule. That is according to a Tibetan advocacy group which says the grim milestone was reached earlier this month when a former monk set himself on fire in Aba prefecture. Now several other Tibetans have carried out self-immolations in other countries. On Wednesday, a man died after he set himself on fire in the Nepalese capital of Katmandu. Chinese authorities insist the self-immolations are isolated incidents and that most Tibetans do not sympathize with or support such actions. Echoing other leaders, one senior official from Sichuan, a province with a large Tibetan population, had this to say back in December.", "They plot, incite and instigate. The root cause for such acts is the Dalai Lama clique. Its loyalists have called those who committed self-immolation national heroes or freedom fighters.", "Blame being placed on the Dalai Lama clique. Now meanwhile, a spokesman for the Dalai Lama repeated a call from the Tibetan spiritual leader to end the protests. But it is a sensitive issue and here is what the Dalai Lama said when asked about the events while visiting London last year.", "I think that is quite sensitive political issue. I think my answer should be zero.", "Now the Dalai Lama clarified his position a few months later. In an interview with a Hindu newspaper, he said it is best for him to remain neutral. Now an artist in Beijing has created portraits that put a face to those who have set themselves on fire in protest. He sympathizes with their cause. Steven Jiang takes us inside his studio.", "Removing the tape the authorities used to seal his paintings, Liu Yi defies latest banned artwork on the ground at the studio to create a powerful montage.", "If you don't care about them, you should feel ashamed for being numb to their cries for freedom.", "The 40 men and women in Liu's stark portraits have one thing in common: they're Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest what they call increasing repression by the Chinese government. As seen in horrifying videos like these smuggled out by human rights groups, although the videos cannot be independently verified, state broadcaster CCTV has aired reports showing similar scenes.", "More than 90 percent of China's population has Han Chinese, an ethnic group distinctively different from the Tibetans. Although the Communist government often boasts ethnic harmony, observers say divisions run deep.", "Pro-Tibet groups like Free Tibet estimate since 2009 around 100 or more Tibetans have set themselves ablaze. But the topic remains taboo in China, and most Han Chinese seem indifferent to the plight of Tibetans. Liu is among the exceptions. The 50-year-old Han Chinese artist has never met any of his subjects. His portraits are based on their photographs. But he says they're all like family. And despite repeated warnings from officials, he continues to speak out.", "The current government policy on Tibet is hurting the Tibetan people too much, especially on the religious front. I feel their struggle is also our struggle because we all want more freedom.", "Prominent Tibetan writer Woeser has known Liu for years. She says many Tibetans feel touched by his portraits and message.", "(Inaudible) should -- he should (inaudible) many times and knows what's going on. That's why he paints with such sympathy and humanity. I hope more Han Chinese will be like him.", "But for now, activists like Woeser see darker days ahead under a new leadership in Beijing, the Chinese authorities have made self-immolation a crime, offered rewards for tipsters and arrested and tried Tibetans who officials say are instigators of such horrific acts.", "(Inaudible). This kind of policy has only created more backlash, pushing more Tibetans to fight for their rights.", "As the disturbing trend of Tibetan self- immolation continues, Liu is defying government orders and preparing to create more portraits.", "Those Han Chinese people's understanding of Tibet is still in line with government propaganda. I feel very lonely when I paint these portraits.", "But solitude, says the artist, has its benefit. It will allow him to keep drawing from the heart -- Steven Jiang, CNN, Beijing.", "Now police in California say that they are reasonably sure that the charred body found in a burned-out cabin is that of Christopher Dorner. Forensic experts are working to confirm that. And Dorner is suspected of killing four people in a revenge spree over his 2009 dismissal from the L.A. police force. Now Dan Simon reports that Dorner's case is generating support in some quarters and a lot of conspiracy theories.", "Sheriff McMahon (ph) has asked that all the helicopters pull back, relieve the area of the barricaded suspect.", "As police asked news helicopters to back off --", "We have shots fired, four or five shots fired.", "-- and as the cabin went up in flames, social media also lit up with users like this one, crying conspiracy. \"So U.S. authorities have apparently burned someone to death in a cabin and let it burn through the basement so no body is left.\" Another user, referring to reports that Dorner's ID was found, \"Come on, people. How in the world is Dorner body burned beyond recognition but they found his license he just so happened to be carrying?\" Another pervasive theory: \"I think Dorner probably killed someone and left their body in that fire while he escaped.\" Others blasted the police --", "We're going to go -- we're going to go forward with the plan, with the -- with the burn.", "-- blaming them for the cabin fire. \"LAPD was prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner yesterday. They burned him alive.\" \"Apparently burning people alive is now considered appropriate behavior for the police.\" From the very beginning, Dorner had found plenty of sympathizers.", "I just want to start off by saying that I perfectly support 100 percent what Chris Dorner is doing.", "I read this manifesto and I basically -- I believe him.", "On Facebook, more than 18,000 likes for a page titled, \"We Stand with Christopher Dorner.\" On Instagram, the rapper Ab- Soul spoke for many when he said this about Dorner's rampage, \"This was a necessary evil. God bless you, sir.\"", "People like antiheroes, and we have a history of rooting for everybody from Bonnie and Clyde and Butch Cassidy.", "USC Professor Karen North studies the intersection of psychology and social media.", "One of the things that social media has allowed us to do is to join conversations and not be as accountable for our opinion.", "In other words, people may express things online they wouldn't necessarily say to their friends in public. Others just like to be provocative. Still, this user poses a question many today are asking.", "Why is America showing so much support for him?", "Dan Simon, CNN, San Francisco.", "Still to come here on NEWS STREAM, more of our coverage of the shooting death in the home of South Africa's Olympic star Oscar Pistorius. The details continue to emerge about the death of his girlfriend. We'll keep you on top of all the latest developments. Keep it here."], "speaker": ["STOUT (voice-over)", "STOUT", "LI CHANGPING, SR. 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{"id": "CNN-346995", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-08-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/07/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Nicolas Maduro No-Show to Supporters; U.S.-led Military Admits Civilians Killed in Raqqa.", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. Well, are now to a stunning admission from the U.S.-led military coalition that fought in Syria. A little less than two months after slamming a report from Amnesty International, the coalition now admits airstrikes killed 77 people in Raqqa, Syria last year. The offensive to drive ISIS from their self-proclaimed capital began over a year ago. Amnesty International says airstrikes like this one killed and injured thousands and probably breached international humanitarian law. The rights group also blames the coalition's repeated use of explosives for leveling the city of Raqqa. The coalition says it investigated and released its own report, saying this, in part. \"The investigation assessed that although all feasible precautions were taken and the decision to strike complied with the law of armed conflict, unintended civilian casualties regrettably occurred.\" In a statement, Amnesty International said this admission was just the tip of the iceberg and their research indicates a much higher death toll. Donatella Rovera joins me now from London. She is the senior crises adviser for Amnesty International. Good to have you with us.", "Good morning.", "So how likely is it that the U.S.-led coalition would have admitted inadvertently killing dozens of civilians in its Raqqa offensive if Amnesty International had not pursued its own investigation? And do describe to us the evidence that your research uncovered.", "I spent two weeks in Raqqa with a colleague interviewing survivors and witnesses and carrying out site visits looking at the specific locations that had been bombed by the coalition, looking for remnants of munitions and any other pertinent information. It is possible to do that kind of work. We at Amnesty International did it on the ground in Raqqa and so should the coalition. However, until today, the coalition has not done any field investigation on the grounds in Raqqa. It has not interviewed survivors and witnesses. And it is fair to say that had Amnesty International not carried out this investigation, the coalition would not have admitted to these particular civilian casualties, these 77 civilians killed and many more injured. Now, this is really only the tip of the iceberg. Up to then, the coalition had only admitted to 23 civilian casualties. We know from everybody we've spoken to on the ground in Raqqa that hundreds and hundreds of civilians were killed in coalition bombardments. It is imperative that the coalition should do the right thing, which has not been done until now, and cry out a proper investigation so that the survivors and the victims' families can get justice and reparation. The coalition will always admit to having been responsible for bombardments when organizations like Amnesty International put in the time and resources to do the investigation but we cannot do the coalition's job. We've been able to investigate a very, very small number of civilian casualties. There are many hundreds more. And ultimately, it is the job of the coalition to do those investigations, to do them properly, and to come clean on how many civilians their bombardments have killed.", "Right. Just finally, what, then, if they go ahead and do these investigations -- because they claim they've done their own investigation. But what are you hoping to come out of this? What are you hoping that the victims' families may receive as a result of this? And, of course, this admission?", "Well, first of all, just to set the record straight, the coalition has promised to do field site investigations in Raqqa and to interview witnesses and survivors, and by its own admission it has not done so until today. So that must start without delay. And secondly, the victims, those who have been named, for lives injured, those who lost their loved ones, they deserve justice and reparations. So this is what the coalition must do. Proper investigation and then compensation and reparation to the victims' families and to the survivors.", "All right. Donatella Rovera from Amnesty International, thank you so much for joining us.", "Thank you.", "Well, after surviving an alleged assassination attempt, Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro skipped a rally of his supporters in Caracas on Monday. It's unclear why he didn't show up for what was supposed to be his first public appearance since Saturday's allege drone attack. But a few hours ago, Mr. Maduro posted this video on Twitter claiming he has enough proof to link the outgoing Colombian government to the attack. President Juan Manuel Santos has denied any involvement. More details now from Stefano Pozzebon in Caracas.", "And there are still many questions unanswered in relation with that alleged assassination attempt against the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. On Monday morning, the attorney general of Venezuela informed the president they have arrested every material as he called of this international terrorist group, and even the person who manufactured the explosive devices that were used in that incident on Saturday morning. But still, the questions about how could it be possible to fly a drone at such a close tight military event, who had the license, and what -- who were the people behind this after the Maduro government blamed? Its Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos to be the mastermind of this attack. Meanwhile, the situation, the economic situation in Caracas here is still very, very serious and goes from bad to worse. People here in Venezuela cue every day for food, water, public transportation have been constantly cut. And they're not really paying too much attention out of these allegations, or the supposed attempt to assassinate the president because they are too busy trying to get to the end of the day or trying to get to the end of the month. The situation, the economic situation in Caracas remains very, very serious and this is the thing that is very much in the forefront of every Venezuelan right now. From -- for CNN, Stefano Pozzebon, Caracas.", "Well, California is now facing the largest wildfire recorded in the state's history. The fire has burned more than 115,000 hectares, an area larger than all of New York City. It has destroyed more than 11,000 structures, and firefighters have contained 30 percent of the fire. The 16 large wildfires now ravaging California have become so intense, the U.S. military is now stepping in to help. So, let's turn to our meteorologist Pedram Javaheri who joins us now live. So, Pedram, 30 percent contained. How is the weather playing into all of this?", "It has not changed for the better for very long at least over the past several weeks. That's been the main concern here. We always say Mother Nature, the weather has the upper hand. If it's windy, if it's hot and dry enough, the fire will not be contained no matter how much manpower is put on top of these flames. If it' windy enough, it will continue to spread and that unfortunately has been the case. Certainly has been hot enough. Now you take a look. Coming in now as the number one most destructive fire as far as land consumption in the state of California. Incredibly surpassing the number two now becoming the 2017 fire in December, that was in Ventura County, you recall in Southern California. That amount of land, that's 1100 square kilometers of land roughly the size of the city of Istanbul. And of course you've seen the city itself situated on Asia, part of it situated across portions of Europe, incredible amount of land, right. That's how much ld has been consumed in a matter of a couple of weeks. And of course, eight of the hottest years on record have all occurred since 2005. Eight of the 10 most destructive years for the state of California wildfires have all occurred since the mid-2000 as well. So really kind of find the direct correlation to what's been happening here, and as I said the heat remains put across portions of the western U.S. very little change in the forecast unfortunately. The trend looks at such here, the three-day forecast, look what happens. It actually goes up, back up to 39 degrees above the average. That is about 37 for this time of year. So, unfortunately, the weather pattern certainly not going to be helping. We're hoping the firefighters at least continue putting as much power on these flames as possible. Because you notice we're up to 100 large active fires across the western U.S. And in fact, in Southern California, they have now raised a critical concern there across places from Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Palmdale, up towards Los Angeles for fire weather conditions that are in place. They are urging everyone to not only stay onto the roads because a lot of these fires much like the Carr Fire were due to a vehicle pulling off to the side of the road. The dry grass there really easily ignited. And of course, keeping the cigarette butts in the car, everything you can do to help is being urged across places such as southern California because big-time heat has been in place across that region as well. Quick glance here, Rosemary. We do have a lot going on across portions of the Western Pacific. We're watching what's happening to north. Because you know, it's been a busy season for our friends across Japan. This system comes in and we know that it's only going to weaken as it approaches land, but Tokyo certainly going to be on alert here towards the heart of this week here with heavy rainfall going into that region. Rosie?", "As always, a lot for you to cover there, Pedram. Many thanks.", "Thank you.", "All right. Time for a short break now. But when we come back, the prosecution's star witness takes the stand in the full trial of Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Plus, journalists are being targeted in Bangladesh as they cover unprecedented protests over road safety. We will speak with the spokesman from the committee to protect journalists. We're back in just a moment."], "speaker": ["CHURCH", "DONATELLA ROVERA, SENIOR ADVISER, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL", "CHURCH", "ROVERA", "CHURCH", "ROVERA", "CHURCH", "ROVERA", "CHURCH", "STEFANO POZZEBON, JOURNALIST", "CHURCH", "PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "CHURCH", "JAVAHERI", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-404798", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2020-07-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/07/ctw.01.html", "summary": "U.S. in Freefall as Coronavirus Spirals out of Control; GOP Governors in Florida and Texas Split as Coronavirus Cases Surge; Australian Health Authorities Taking Drastic Moves to Contain COVID-19", "utt": ["Hello. Welcome to CONNECT THE WORLD. I'm Kim Brunhuber in Atlanta. Ahead, Dr. Anthony Fauci sounds the alarm on the spike of cases in the United States and says it's still knee deep in first wave of the pandemic. Happening right now, Australia is closing the border between its two most populous states. And TikTok pulls out of Hong Kong after a new sweeping and controversial security law.", "We begin in the United States where the number of coronavirus cases has doubled in just the past 1.5 weeks. And now, a dire warning from the nation's top infectious disease expert. Dr. Anthony Fauci says the U.S. is still knee deep in the first wave of this pandemic. Meanwhile, at least 31 states are reporting higher rates of new cases this week compared to last week, according to Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. is nearing 3 million infections. More than 130,000 people have died. Now officials in at least 24 states are rolling back or pausing reopenings. And one of those states is Florida, where ICU units have reached capacity. Dr. Fauci warns the rapid increase in infections must be addressed now. Rosa Flores has the latest.", "A warning from the nation's top infectious disease expert, reminding Americans this is still just the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.", "We are still knee-deep in the first wave of this. We went up, never came down to baseline and now we're surging back up. So, it's a serious situation that we have to address immediately.", "Dr. Anthony Fauci says the number of new daily infections nearly doubled over the past week and a half.", "A series of circumstances associated with various states and cities trying to open up in the sense of getting back to some form of normality has led to a situation where we now have record-breaking cases.", "Some of Florida's reopening plan coming to a halt. In Miami- Dade County, by Wednesday, businesses like gyms and dine-in restaurants will be closed once again in an effort to slow the spread.", "We're starting to roll the carpet back up. You know, it's pretty clear we have this real problem. Two weeks ago, there were 60 COVID patients on -- on ventilators. Today it's 160.", "Ventilator use is up 127 percent across Miami-Dade County and hospitalizations are up 90 percent. Forty-three intensive care units are already at capacity and an additional 32 show a bed availability of 10 percent or less. Doctors reminding young people just how dangerous the coronavirus could be, regardless of age.", "We've seen everybody, from 34 to 45, dying in the ICU. So the message to young people is they can also get sick and they should also take care of themselves.", "In Miami-Dade, 26 percent of tests came back positive on Sunday, with a spike in cases involving 18- to 34-year-olds.", "We need to curtail the social activities of young people, because that's where our problem started. My concern is that we're going to reach the capacity, our medical capacity.", "Thirty-one states, including Florida, are experiencing a rise in new cases in the past week.", "It's all over the country now. It's spreading widely. It now relies on us as individuals, if we don't have a national plan. We have to wear our masks, watch the social distancing, avoid large groups.", "In California, the state capital shutting down after five assembly members tested positive. Texas crossing 200,000 confirmed cases and Dallas reporting another high in hospitalizations. The military announcing it is sending 50-some medical and support personnel to the San Antonio area to help with the surge.", "The cases are rising so rapidly that we cannot even do contact tracing anymore, I don't think. I don't see how it's possible to even do that.", "That was Rosa Flores. Now in California, showing no sign of flattening the curve with hospitalizations up and more than 11,000 cases reported over the weekend. CNN's Sara Sidner is live.", "There's some new hot spots as well, right?", "Yes. It really is dotted all over the state but some of the large population areas like Los Angeles County really experiencing dangerous spikes. Health officials are concerned about the spikes. Over the past three weeks they have seen hospitalizations rise about 40 percent. And they are very concerned that if it keeps going this way, the ICU beds they will be filled in Los Angeles County itself. But there are hot spots all over the place and we should mention there's an outbreak in prisons here that's causing quite a stir. The state medical -- the head of the state corrections medical examiner, he is basically been ousted, replaced because, at some point in one facility, where there were hundreds of people who had coronavirus, inmates, those inmates sent to another facility, San Quentin, where now a third of the inmate population there has coronavirus. Of course, some of those inmates also have to utilize the hospitals in the area and that's in Northern California as well. So a lot of concern there. And also we're hearing from the governor; there's a difference in who seems to be getting coronavirus. Now younger folks are coming out with it. And they're concerned that younger people aren't taking seriously all of the rules that are put in place before the reopening happened. Now the reopening is basically being put on hold. There are some changes to the reopenings here and they can't go forward with the next phase when they have such a spike here. So there's a lot of concern about the coronavirus spikes as well as the economy. And it's almost as if you can't have one without the other. You have to have safety, you have to have self-distancing, wearing masks. Those are the things that authorities and health officials are saying have to happen before we can get the reopening going and the way that people want to see it.", "Well, part of what you're saying comes down to individual responsibility. We heard from L.A. officials that about a third of restaurants, about half of bars aren't following social distancing protocols. Is that what you're seeing there?", "Yes. There's that and there's also the testing, right? So people need to have constant testing to make sure that they are infected. There are a lot of asymptomatic people. don't even know they have it. There are people that just a few days before they actually started to get symptoms they are going to be spreading the virus. And when you're in enclosed quarters -- that's what they're worried about. Sort of when people are in enclosed quarters, even family gatherings. Those are the times when you're more susceptible to potentially getting it. So there's responsibility to be spread throughout, individual responsibility, the business community's responsibility, the government's responsibility. All those things have been to be in place in order to get a hold on this coronavirus outbreak -- Kim.", "Absolutely. All right, thank you so much, CNN's Sara Sidner. The White House has so far been reluctant to encourage mask wearing, which is one of the key recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control to help curb the spread of coronavirus. But CNN has learned White House officials are considering switching that stance and taking a more active role in encouraging masks for the public, even as Mr. Trump continues to go without one. Joe Johns joins me now from Washington, D.C. So we have seen many senior Republicans like Mitch McConnell touting masks. How much pressure has there been in the Republican Party for the president to change his stance?", "There's clearly been some pressure from the Republican Party and it's evident because, over at the White House, you're starting to see a shift. And that shift is the people here trying to put together a strategy to encourage Americans to come to grips with the idea that the coronavirus could be around for a while and they'll have to live with it. In the process, they're also trying to fix the messaging that has been so mixed and confused over here at the White House, Kim, that messaging, on the one hand, the president of the United States resisting the idea of wearing masks in public. And he's done that almost all the way through the pandemic. Now on the other hand, his medical and health experts are saying, look, it's one of the very few ways we have to stop the spread of the virus. When you put that together with Republicans up on Capitol Hill, advocates of the president, including Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, all in support of this idea of wearing masks, that's certainly a potential for change. In the end of the day, though, the question is whether the president himself will sign off on this.", "Because it's a change of direction which he sometimes doesn't like unless he's the one pushing the boat, if you will. But he said last week as a matter of fact, that there was nothing wrong with masks and he thought they were a good idea. But he did not telegraph that message to his supporters out in the country and people here are waiting to see if the president does that -- Kim.", "Well, that's exactly it. The president's notoriously loath to back down. But he did notably on the Juneteenth question. So you know, how likely is it that he does this? And, you know, especially for his followers, certainly not wearing a mask has kind of become the new MAGA hat. It's an identity question.", "Very much so. I was out in South Dakota, Mt. Rushmore just last weekend, and really shocked by the number of people who did not wear a mask. And quite frankly, on the ground there, people would have been given a mask once they arrived if they didn't have one. And it didn't appear that people were asking for masks. So sure, at the MAGA rallies and other events where the purists, the loyalist supporters of the president are attending, we might not see as much mask wearing. On the other hand, when you look at the polling on the issue of masks and when you listen to the experts, it's pretty clear that most of the country has gone in one direction; that is, they understand what the experts say, what the science says and that there is a need to wear a mask to protect other people and to protect yourself at the end of the day.", "All right, Joe Johns, thank you so much. I appreciate it. A bit of good news from Beijing. Chinese health reports report no new coronavirus cases on Monday, the first time since the cluster of infections linked to a food market caused a partial shutdown last month. More than 11 million people in the capital have been tested since that outbreak. And across China eight new cases were reported on Monday. In just the last 15 minutes or so the border between Australia's two most populous states has been closed. The government shut down roads between Victoria and New South Wales at midnight local time. The aim is to stop the spread of coronavirus between two states. And that's also why the city of Melbourne is going back into lockdown. Starting at midnight Wednesday, residents can only leave for essential trips, like getting food and going to work or getting or giving care. Angus Watson joins us from the Victoria-New South Wales border. Explain where you are and the importance of what's happening there.", "That's right, Kim. So I'm here on the border between Victoria and New South Wales. And what you can see behind me is the beginnings of a massive police and military operation to try to keep coronavirus on one side of the border and not on the other. As you mentioned, coronavirus is spiking in Victoria, in the southern part of Australia. And over the border in New South Wales they're handling it very well. Seven cases here in New South Wales; 191 in Victoria. So that gives a sense of the difference between the two states. Now the Victorian government isn't shying away from that challenge. The premier Daniel Andrews was very stern about it. Take a listen to what he had to say.", "Let's not see this simply as an inconvenience. It's much more than that. It's a pandemic. And it will kill thousands of people if it gets completely away from us. And that'll be more than inconvenient. That will be tragic. We don't want that. We can avoid that. But we have a part to play in that.", "So this all goes to show, Kim, just how seriously the country as a whole is taking this virus. The shutting down of Victoria, of the Victorian economy is set to cost $1 billion a week. That's according to the federal treasurer. A quarter shut down, lost, that's what Australia is willing to do to get on top of this thing, Kim.", "Wow, on that note, we were talking in the news meeting how striking it is that the state should declare this lockdown after a daily increase of 191 cases in a population of 6.5 million people. And in a state like South Carolina, about 5 million poor people, 1,500 new cases. So it shows how serious that Australia is taking this. But how hard, you know, with the police and everything that we're seeing behind you there, how hard is it to close a border like this?", "And are you seeing resistance to these extreme measures?", "Well, it is very hard and the town I'm in crosses that border. Half is over on the river and on the other side, it is in Victoria, where the coronavirus is ripping through. Right here we'll have a situation in which the community is cut in half and the residents are going to have to have to deal with that as they can.", "Thank you so much, Angus Watson in Australia. Ahead on the show, TikTok is leaving Hong Kong. Why the Beijing based video sharing app is pulling operations from the city and the pressures it is facing from other markets. And international students in the U.S. have to worry about the format of their classes. Why it will determine if they can stay stateside."], "speaker": ["KIM BRUNHUBER, CNN INTERNATIONAL HOST (voice-over)", "BRUNHUBER", "ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FAUCI", "FLORES", "FAUCI", "FLORES", "MAYOR DAN GELBER (D), MIAMI BEACH, FL", "FLORES", "DR. DAVID DE LA ZERDA, ICU MEDICAL DIRECTOR & PULMONOLOGIST, JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL", "FLORES", "MAYOR CARLOS GIMENEZ (R), MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FL", "FLORES", "DR. WILLIAM SCHAFFNER, CDC EXPERT", "FLORES", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-98027", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2005-9-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/26/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Celebs Help Build Homes for Hurricane Victims; May-December Romances Flourish in Hollywood", "utt": ["I`m Karyn Bryant.", "I`m A.J. Hammer. TV`s only live entertainment news show starts right now.", "On SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, a remarkable effort to help hurricane victims. The stars come to New York`s Rockefeller Center as it`s turned into a construction site. Tonight the back breaking job in New York City that will change lives 1,000 miles away.", "The `60s pop group The Cowsills search for one of their own. First, a desperate phone message as Hurricane Katrina moves in. Then video on CNN.com provides a clue. Tonight Bob Cowsill, live on the search for his brother, Barry.", "Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, did they really tie the knot? She`s 52; he`s only 27. And they`re not the only stars with the May- December thing going on. Tonight, Hollywood romance: does age really matter?", "Hi. I`m Sela Ward. If it happened today, it`s on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.", "Hello, I`m Karyn Bryant.", "I`m A.J. Hammer. An extraordinary effort to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina from the ground up and right outside the studios of \"The Today Show\" in New York City.", "It began this morning with big stars, a lot of hammers, nails, lumber and more than a little sweat and tears. Our David Haffenreffer is live with the story in the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT news room -- David.", "Karyn and A.J., it`s been exactly one month since Katrina struck, and in time for that sad occasion, Rockefeller Plaza in midtown Manhattan has been renamed Humanity Plaza, courtesy of \"The Today Show.\" There, celebrities and regular volunteers are pitching in by hammering nails and building houses to help those along the Gulf Coast who have lost their homes.", "Changing lives one house at a time. To help those left homeless, Rockefeller Center becomes Humanity Plaza.", "A New York City landmark is now a construction zone as America`s Gulf Coast rebuilds, thousands of miles away volunteers and celebrities are working tooth and nail to build homes for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and SHOWBIZ TONIGHT was there.", "I`ve got a tool belt. I`ve got my handy tape measure. I got some nails.", "You don`t want to break a nail.", "And most importantly my powder and lip gloss.", "At New York`s Rockefeller Plaza, a well equipped Katie Couric and \"The Today Show\" are co-sponsoring the home building drive with Habitat for Humanity and Warner Music Group. This week on \"The Today Show,\" we`re watching them build homes in a box that will be taken apart, trucked to the Gulf Coast and rebuilt. Celebrities are turning out to help out.", "I heard about this watching \"The Today Show,\" and it feels like the most tangible way to help out.", "Edie Falco of \"The Sopranos\" told SHOWBIZ TONIGHT she was thrilled to pick up a hammer and join this construction job. Other celebs, such as Carson from \"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy\" and Donald Trump sidekick George Ross from \"The Apprentice\" showed up as well. Edie told me that star involvement can bring attention to this noble effort.", "I`m never quite sure how it helps to be a celebrity hammering nails, because most anybody can do this, but I would love to think it does help.", "You were doing it rather well a minute ago. We were spying on you. You didn`t hit your thumb once. Have you had any - - much experience in the building.", "Not my first barbecue, let`s say.", "And celebrities aren`t just raising hammers to help build these houses. Some are also raising microphones, names like the Ryan Cabrera, the Goo Goo Dolls, Tracy Chapman and others.", "During \"The Today Show,\" Josh Groban sang an old Charlie Chaplin song, \"Smile,\" to provide an inspirational message to the volunteers.", "And later blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd showed up and played for the volunteers, who all appeared to be having a good time helping out a good cause. (on camera) What`s your take as you look around at all the activity here today?", "We`re having such a great time. This is just a super build. Things are moving along better than we expected.", "Their work is already having a touching effect. This morning, \"The Today Show\" profiled Jacquelyn Collins, a Louisiana mother who lost her home and was separated from much of her family after Hurricane Katrina.", "I`m wearing down. I don`t know how much I`ve got left.", "On live TV, \"The Today Show\" reunited Collins with her family, and Couric presented her with an even bigger surprise.", "In addition to my powder and lipstick that I keep in my tool belt, I`ve got something else, Jacquelyn, for you. This is a key, because this house is going to go back to Covington, Louisiana, right away, and you and your family can finally have a house. So let me give you this key. Congratulations. You guys are going to have a house.", "An emotional scene which reminded celebrities and the volunteers of the true purpose behind this high profile effort.", "Right now it`s just a wall and we`re just building. But it`s so amazing to think that, like, we`re actually helping a person, to have an amazing end result.", "Habitat for Humanity says it will keep Humanity Plaza up and running 24/7 until Friday evening, by which time it hopes to have shipped off about 60 homes to the Gulf Coast. There are two other sites working on this job as well, one in Jackson, Mississippi and the other in Los Angeles, California. All are seeking volunteers, celebrity and otherwise -- A.J.", "So cool, David. And giving money is so good and important, but nothing beats getting in there and getting your hands dirty and doing something to help out firsthand. Thanks very much, David Haffenreffer. Still ahead here on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, we`ve got the story of a guitarist for the `60s pop group the Cowsills, who made a desperate phone call during Hurricane Katrina and his family hasn`t heard from him since. Barry Cowsill`s brother and sister will join us live. That`s a bit later in the show.", "Tonight two of the biggest stars in Hollywood are apparently husband and wife. After a secret under the radar wedding, Demi Moore has reportedly traded \"I dos\" with Ashton Kutcher and it`s got everybody talking about older women who love their men, even if they are ages apart. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s Brooke Anderson is live tonight in Hollywood with the very latest. Hi, Brooke.", "Hi, there, Karyn. Well, women, listen up. It seems as long as you have common goals, numbers don`t mean a thing. Ashton and Demi met two years ago through a mutual friend. The sparks flew immediately, and the rest, well, as they say, the rest is history.", "There`s the happy couple. \"People\" magazine reports Demi and Ashton tied the knot Saturday night at their Beverly Hills mansion two years after they first started dating after meeting at a dinner party. Although there was still no confirmation this morning, it didn`t stop everyone from talking about it, including, of course, Regis and Kelly.", "Ashton and Demi tied the knot. According to \"Us\" magazine and \"People,\" allegedly tied the knot.", "Allegedly, allegedly.", "It`s in every newspaper around the world.", "Again, we`d like to say...", "But we`re afraid if we don`t say allegedly, there could be a lawsuit.", "They`re going to sue us.", "I think it`s great. Good for them.", "\"People\" tells us the couple exchanged vows in front of 100 close friends and family members, including Demi`s ex-husband, Bruce Willis.", "Bruce Willis and Demi Moore have actually become really a poster couple for how to conduct yourselves after a divorce. He is very fond of Ashton. He remains very close to the kids. Ashton is very close to the kids. And Bruce appreciates that. I think that he`s thrilled that Demi didn`t, you know, find some lunkhead that he didn`t like.", "Ashton and Demi have gotten so much attention, in part because of their 15-year age difference. She`s 42. He`s only 27. Their relationship blossomed right around the time that Demi was making her highly publicized return to big screen in \"Charlie`s Angels: Full Throttle.\" The premier of that movie, seen here, was Ashton and Demi`s first public outing, and it happened with Bruce in tow. When Bruce stopped by SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, he told us at first it`s hard to get over anger and resentment but he and Demi had their three kids to consider, and now they all get along.", "People marvel at this, as if it`s some new invention that Demi and I get along and that I get along with Ashton and, you know, we kind of hang out together and we go on vacations together. And I suppose it is.", "While Ashton is younger than Demi, they are certainly not the only May-December romance in Hollywood. Take \"Lost\" star Naveen Andrews and actress Barbara Hershey, for example. She`s 57. He`s 36. Twenty-one years. At 49 years old, Geena Davis is 15 years older than her husband, Reza Jarrahy, who`s 34. Then of course there`s Cameron Diaz, who at 33 is nine years older than her boyfriend, Justin Timberlake. Older women, younger men, does it make the relationship more difficult?", "If an older woman falls in love with a younger man and he loves her just as much, they`re going to have a wonderful relationship. If it`s based on common values, if it`s based on common goals, then the age doesn`t really matter.", "Actress Fran Drescher dated a younger man for four years and told SHOWBIZ TONIGHT she`s not done yet.", "I had a great time, and I continue to date, you know, younger men. I think that it works out in many different respects. I like, you know, a lot of very contemporary music. I lock going to rock concerts and things like that. So I tend to end up having more in common.", "One thing that Demi and Ashton have in common is Kabbalah, which apparently was a theme at their wedding.", "It was basically a traditional Jewish wedding with orthodox touches like the men and women sat on opposite sides separate from each other.", "Ashton and Demi are both involved in Kabbalah. That`s something that brings them closer and it`s something that gives them views and values and a moral system that they both share.", "And now it`s time to look at the future, with Ashton now the stepdad to Demi`s three girls, who call him MUD, short for \"my other dad.\"", "This was Ashton`s first walk down the aisle and Demi`s third. Before Willis, she was married to rocker Freddy Moore in the early `80s. And the AARP says one third of women in their 40s, 50s and 60s are dating younger men. One third. Karyn, back to you.", "Right on! I have to say from experience, it`s the way to go.", "More power to them!", "Brooke Anderson, joining us live tonight in Hollywood. And now we want to hear from you. It`s our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day. Demi and Ashton, their marriage. Does age really matter? You can vote at CNN.com/ShowbizTonight. You can send e-mail to us at ShowbizTonight@CNN.com. We`ll read some of your thoughts later in the show.", "Well, a couple with a 10-year age difference is making news tonight but they aren`t getting together. They`ve broken up. \"Sopranos\" star Jamie-Lynn DiScala, who plays Tony Soprano`s daughter on the HBO series, and her husband/manager A.J. have reportedly split after two years of marriage. The 24-year-old actress and here 34-year-old husband were married back in July of 2003. \"The New York Daily News\" reported the split. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT called Jamie-Lynn`s people. They had no comment.", "Some sad news to report tonight. Don Adams, who played Maxwell Smart on TV`s \"Get Smart,\" has died. His sidekick, Agent 99 herself, Barbara Feldon joins us live next with memories of Maxwell.", "Plus, Pam Anderson says her two sons and her mother are in danger, and she is taking action to protect them. So what`s she going to do? The answer in the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT \"Legal Lowdown.\"", "Plus, Denise Richards live. She has got a hot new show and is living a Hollywood life that has her under the paparazzi microscope. Denise Richards is next. It`s the interview you`ll see only on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Now tonight`s \"Entertainment Weekly Great American Pop Culture Quiz.\" What did John Belushi`s Bluto character from 1978`s \"Animal House\" become, according to the closing credits? Was it a congressman, a senator, president of a corporation, or dean? We`ll be right back with the answer."], "speaker": ["KARYN BRYANT, CO-HOST", "A.J. 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{"id": "CNN-270088", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-11-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1511/28/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Donald Trump Demanding Apology From \"The New York Times.\"", "utt": ["Donald Trump is demanding an apology from the \"New York Times\" after flat-out denying accusations he mocked one of the newspaper's reporters for having a physical disability. Trump addressed the controversy a short time ago during a campaign rally in Florida.", "This reporter is so happy. People have heard of him now. Nobody ever heard of the guy. Now people -- he's having such a good time. The person has a disability. And the person said, I know him, I know him. And I said, when? In the 1980s. That's a long time, 30, 35 years. That's a long time ago.", "So at a South Carolina event this week that Trump flailed his arms as we see here on this video and seemed to distort his speech while talking about the Times reporter, Serge Kovaleski. He has a condition that limits the movement in his arms. And though Trump claims he had no idea what the reporter even look like, Kovaleski says he and Trump were once on a first name basis. Let's bring back our political commentators Marc Lamont Hill and Ben Ferguson to discuss. Marc, to you first again. If any other candidate said what Donald Trump said and did what he did, what do you think would happen?", "Well, I think different candidates have different leashes. Some are short, some are long. But I can't imagine anybody getting away with this but Donald Trump. It's remarkable what he's been able to say or do with almost no penalty. He is a side show. The one thing Bobby Jindal has ever been right about in his life is that Donald Trump is like a carnival barker. And as a result, everything he does is absurd and bizarre just creates more spectacle and bigger crowd. I don't know if it translates into votes when we get to Iowa. But it certainly right now is translating into a lot of attention.", "And Ben, Catherine Parker (ph) has an opinion piece in the \"Washington Post\" titled, \"the Nazi Trump's gets the more some people like him.\" And this is what she write. Trump display was reminiscent of Rush Limbaugh's similar mockery of Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease. Though, their critics may rival them in private, few are willing to call either of them out foe their callousness for the same reason. Both", "Look. I think there's people that like Donald Trump and there's virtually nothing that he is going to can say that is going to alienate them or make them stop supporting him. And that is what you call having fanatics that are around you. The big question is are there new people that are willing to come to Donald Trump's side and/or vote for him. And I think that's where these comments get him in trouble. He has become the Teflon candidate, yes. But when it comes down to actually walking in a voting booth, closing that curtain behind you and pressing a button, can you do it for an individual that you're literally saying I want to be president of the United States of America who has actually mocked a reporter for being disabled? Now, Donald Trump can sit there and say he didn't know who the guy was and he say, there's an unfair attack on me. I didn't know what he looked like. I don't believe him. And I think most voters that aren't fanatics for Donald Trump don't believe him. And sometimes the man have to say you are wrong when you are wrong and apologize and say that you are sorry because what Donald Trump did is reprehensible, it's disgusting, it's vile, and it certainly should not be a quality that people support when they are running for president regardless of what party they are in.", "Ben, Donald Trump is awaiting that apology from the \"New York Times,\" doubtful that's going to happen. Ben Ferguson, Marc Lamont Hill, thank you very much.", "Pleasure.", "Thanks.", "And we are just a little more than a week away from the night CNN recognizes this year's top CNN heroes. All of these remarkable individuals are making a difference. And what better time than Thanksgiving Day weekend to help them continue their inspiring work. Here is Anderson Cooper to show you how.", "I'm Anderson Cooper. Hopefully by now you have had a chance to check out the ten remarkable people we're honoring on \"CNN heroes: an all-star tribute.\" Each of them is proof that one person really can make a difference. And again, this year we are making it easy for you to support their greatly work. Just go to CNNheroes.com on your laptop, tablet or smart phone and click the \"donate\" button to support any of our 2015 top 10 CNN heroes. You will see this page where you can make a contribution for amazon payments to one or more of this year's honorees. It is fast, secure, and a 100 percent that your donation will go directly to your CNN hero's designated nonprofit. You'll also receive an email confirming your donation, which is tax deductible in the United States. CNN is proud to celebrate all these everyday people changing the world. And through December 31st, we offer you this simple way to make a contribution to their cause. Again, from your laptop, your tablet, or your phone, just go to CNNheroes.com. Your donation in any amount will help them help others. Thank you.", "And all of our top ten heroes will be honored on \"CNN heroes: an all-star tribute\" hosted by Anderson Cooper next Sunday night, December 6th. We will be right back."], "speaker": ["BROWN", "TRUMP", "BROWN", "HILL", "BROWN", "FERGUSON", "BROWN", "HILL", "FERGUSON", "BROWN", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST, AC 360", "BROWN"]}
{"id": "CNN-184846", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2012-4-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/23/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Iran Claims it Cracked U.S. Drone Secrets", "utt": ["This hour, what did Iran really learn from a spy aircraft it captured last year? Plus, the secret service prostitution scandal reaches into another federal agency, and the White House caves to pressure to investigate members of its own team. And proposed rules to improve airline safety might lead to a dangerous shortage of pilots. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in the SITUATION ROOM.", "One of the United States's most dangerous adversaries claims its building a copy of one of America's most expected weapons. If Iran unlocks the secrets of spy drone technology, the Obama administration would have very good reason to be worried. U.S. officials, though, insist they are skeptical. Let's go to our Pentagon correspondent, Chris Lawrence. He's investigating -- Chris.", "Wolf, if this war of words started from the moment almost that this drone went down back in December, but the U.S. is saying it malfunctioned and the Iranians claiming they shot it down. Now, experts say they may have exploited some of the features of this drone, but the big question is, could they build their own copy?", "Just four months after it paraded this captured stealth drone before the world, Iran claims it has unlocked the secrets of the classified American", "I don't have confidence at this point that they're really able to make a copy of it.", "Aviation experts said the Iran has adopted other American technology like the hawk surfaced to air missile.", "Since I have to be fired on the ground against the aircraft and I actually adapted that and putt it on that tomcat fighters.", "Bill Sweetman says the sentinel has agreed over the engine that blocks radar waves, it special cody (ph) to absorb radar. Designing a new one goes far beyond just duplicating its smooth edges.", "You would have to know how every little piece of that aircraft contributes to its radar signature or to its infrared images or to any way in which it can be detected.", "At the same time it's boasting (ph) to one success, Iran is crying foul over another alleged cyber attack. The world's fourth largest oil producer says, it has detected a virus in its main oil export terminal, which handles 90 percent of its oil exports. Officials say they have been forced to disconnect the oil ministry itself, and some data has already been affected.", "In fact, most of the world's oil is controlled by computers, which just shows you how important technology is in modern warfare. As for the drone, a lot of experts say that when you're developing something like this, it's not just a matter of the Iranians having scientists or a certain number of scientists dedicated to it. It's the fact that when you develop a drone like this, there's a knowledge base that's built up all along the chain of development, and they say there's no sense that the Iranians have built up that sort of knowledge with the time and investment that would be needed right now -- Wolf.", "Key words right. All right. Thanks very much for that, Chris Lawrence. So, let's dig a little bit deeper into what's going on. Joining us our national security contributor, Fran Townsend, the former Bush homeland security adviser. She's the member of the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security external advisory boards. Assuming, Fran, that the Iranians don't have the expertise to reverse engineer, shall we say, this drone, but there are plenty of other countries, maybe not plenty, but a few other countries who might be willing to cooperate with Iran in this area?", "That's right, Wolf. We know for certain that the Chinese had expressed interest to the Iranians in looking at examining the material that was the drone. And certainly if Iran cooperated with, work joint together with the Chinese or the Chinese and the Russians, they might be able to reverse engineer of the drone. That said -- I'd share the sort of skepticism you've heard about their ability to decrypt and understand what the collection capability was. That's a much more complicated problem, and I'm skeptical that given the time and the capability that would be required that the Iranians even working with others would be able to do that.", "Yes. But if the Iranians decide to, if you will, sell that equipment to China, let's say, or Russia, they could probably get a lot of money for it.", "Oh, they could absolutely get a lot of money. And, you know, the Chinese, in terms of capability in this cyber area that would be required, the Chinese have a very sophisticated level of capability and might, with time, be able to crack it. Not clear, it would be a big task, but it would be a substantial threat to the United States if they were able to do that.", "What do you make of this reported cyber attack on Iranian oil exports, the major oil terminal in Iran right now?", "You know, wolf, we have the sanctions. We're coming up on the deadline where the oil sanctions will come into effect. And so, one has to, you know, sort of question whether or not this is a targeted attack by western governments, whether that would be Israel, the United States. Others who are targeting, you know, it reminds of you of Stuntex (ph) virus that targeted Iran's nuclear infrastructure. And so, I think it remains to be seen. The Iranians are claiming that it didn't have much effect. I guess, we'll see, but it does sort of look like a state sponsored attack against their oil infrastructure.", "I've heard the U.S. analyst suggest to me on several occasions, you could try to get rid of Iran's nuclear program through economic, diplomatic sanctions. You could certainly try with a military operation, but probably the most effective would be what they describe is this covert operations, whether cyber warfare or assassinating Iran nuclear scientist. You've seen all these reports out there. What's your assessment?", "It's absolutely right. I mean, there's a whole series of ways you can go about covert action. You know, a cyber attack is one of them, human intelligence which enables sort of things, trying to influence people inside the nuclear infrastructure, their propaganda, attacking their financial infrastructure. There's a whole series of things you can do covertly to try to, frankly, undermine the program and avoid an overt confrontation using the military. And I think most people would say to you, Wolf, if it can be effective and avoid a military conflict, it makes the most sense.", "I wrote a blog today on what President Obama announced that the U.S. holocaust memorial museum today that he was ordering the U.S. intelligence community to prepare a national intelligence estimate to fight mass atrocities and genocide. This is a major new development. What do you make of this?", "You know, Wolf, look, we've seen -- remember -- we all remember President Clinton saying his greatest regret of his presidency was Rwanda. We've seen with President Obama, he'd took action in Libya, but has not -- has chosen not to take military interaction or military action in Syria. And so, these sort of mass attacks, these mass atrocities seem to be a growing problem. And it's often these governments acting against their own people where the rest of the world feel quite helpless to intervene in an effective way. And so, prevention is the idea. I find it a little bit ironic, however, that President Obama would make this speech having, frankly chosen not to intervene in Syria where the Assad regime continued to kill its own people.", "Fran Townsend, thanks very much. President Obama also announced, though, major new sanctions today to try to stop Iran and Syria from using technology to track down decedents and then torture or slaughter them. He outlines steps to prevent mass atrocities during a visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum here in Washington, and he adds some tough comments about the crackdown in Syria, warning that it's, in his words, a losing bet to side with President Bashar al-Assad.", "We have to do everything we can. And as we do, we have to remember that despite all the tanks, and all the snipers, all the torture and brutality unleashed against them, the Syrian people still brave the streets. They still demand to be heard. They still seek their dignity. The Syrian people have not given up, which is why we cannot give up, and so with allies and partners, who will keep increasing the pressure for the diplomatic effort to further isolate Assad and his regime. So those who stick with us ought to know that they are making a losing bet. And we'll keep increasing sanctions to cut off the regime from the money it needs to survive. We'll sustained a legal effort to document atrocities so killers face justice in a humanitarian effort to get relief and medicine to the Syrian people. And we'll keep working with the friends of Syria to increase support for the Syrian opposition as it grows stronger.", "Let's bring in CNNs Arwa Damon. She's done a remarkable job reporting for us from inside Syria. She's in Beirut right now. Arwa, it sounds like the president is trying to send a message to those military officers around Bashar al-Assad that it's time to go against him. Is it realistic, though, to think that these top military officials, officers will turn against against the Syrian leaders?", "Not because of anything that U.S. President Obama is going to be saying at this stage, no, and what is becoming increasingly clear is that more than a year on into this conflict, the government of President Bashar al- Assad does seem to be remaining at least on the surface, fairly strong. We have not been seeing these mass defections, and despite all of the rhetoric coming out from the U.S. and these allies, we have not seen that having a really significant impact on the ground, and what opposition activists are saying is that if the U.S. is really serious when it comes to bringing about Democratic change inside Syria, it needs to stop talking and start acting. There's a fundamental believe amongst opposition activists whether it is justified or not, that is another question, but to believe it's still there. But if the U.S. truly wanted to bring about regime change, it, in fact, could. And so, there's a realization amongst the opposition that at the end of the day, even though they do seem to have the verbal support of government's life side (ph) of United States, at the end of the day, they are going to have to figure out this on their own and that most certainly is going to lead to a very long and bloody conflict at this stage.", "And how do delay react, those who are opposing the Assad regime when they hear the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton or the secretary of defense, Leon Panetta, I interviewed both of them at NATO headquarters in Brussels last week, when they say you know what, until the United Nations Security Council passes a resolution authorizing use of force against the Assad regime, there's a limit to what the U.S. and its NATO allies can do militarily. What's the reaction to that argument?", "You know, Wolf, there's a lot of anger, there's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of frustration, and a lot of the members of the opposition fail to understand why it is when it comes to Syria the U.S. is reluctant along with its allies to push through or at least try to push through the type of resolution that went about to what transpired in Libya, for example. All that being said, there is no expectation at this point in time amongst the opposition that the U.S. and it's allies are going to be some sort of white knight, charging forward an armor to save them. Again, they do realize that they are in this on their own. They are trying to figure out as best they can how they are going to prepare themselves for the fact that this is going to be a very prolonged and bloody battle. But at the same time, they are very frustrated and fail (ph) to understand why it is that the international community is failing them when it did at the end of the day, stand by regime change when it came to other nations like Egypt and Libya, for example. So, there is that realization amongst the opposition, and with that, it does come a fair amount of frustration and this true, genuine ingrained sorrow because there is the knowledge that more lives are only going to be lost the longer this drags on, Wolf", "Yes. Good point. The major difference, obviously, China and Russia using their veto in the Security Council right now to block any similar kind of resolution. That's why there's no resolution authorizing the use of military force, at least, for now until China and Russia change their minds. Arwa Damon on the scene for us in Beirut, thank you. A former presidential candidate's fight to stay out of prison officially begins today. We're going to tell you what happen to John Edwards' trial on charges he used illegal campaign cash to hide his mistress. Plus, the U.S. secret service prostitution scandal keeps exploding. Even more people are under investigation right now. And people in Western Pennsylvania and Western New York, they are paying for a bizarre spring snowstorm."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "BLITZER", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "LAWRENCE (voice-over)", "SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN, (I) CONNECTICUT", "LAWRENCE", "BILL SWEETMAN, AVIATION ANALYST", "LAWRENCE", "SWEETMAN", "LAWRENCE", "LAWRENCE (on-camera)", "BLITZER", "FRANCES TOWNSEND, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTOR", "BLITZER", "TOWNSEND", "BLITZER", "TOWNSEND", "BLITZER", "TOWNSEND", "BLITZER", "TOWNSEND", "BLITZER", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BLITZER", "ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "DAMON", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-219633", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-11-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/27/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Former FBI Agent Kidnapped in Iran 2007; The GAP Responds to Racism", "utt": ["In a New York subway, a couple of idiots thought it would be funny to vandalize an ad by the GAP. The ad is part of GAP's \"Make Love\" campaign and features a Sikh model. Well someone replaced the \"make love\" with \"make bombs\" and other hateful phrases. After the GAP was informed about it, GAP decided to turn the tables and featured the ad ever more prominently on their Twitter page. Good for the GAP. Nischelle Turner live in New York with more on this. Good morning.", "Hey yes, the GAP firing back at racism -- all of this playing out on social media. Score one for the good guys in this case, Carol. This all started like you said when a GAP ad on the subway station in the Bronx was defaced with racial slurs. The ad's part of the company's new, make love this holiday season. It features Sikh actor and model Waris Ahluwahlia. But the vandals changed the slogan on the ad from \"Make Love\" to \"Make Bombs.\" It also scribbled, \"please stop driving taxis\" across the poster. Really, I mean really?", "Oh come on.", "Exactly. Now words starting to spread on social media because of this. And Arsalan Iftikhar who is the editor at the Islamic Monthly spotted the defaced ad, snapped a photo of it, then he shared it with his 35,000 followers on Twitter. But it's GAP's response here that has everyone talking. After becoming aware of the tweet, the company reached out to Iftikhar and they did this via Twitter. They thanked him for alerting them and they asked where they could find the ad. Then they take a very public stance against the racist graffiti they changed the company's background on their verified account avatar to the photo that was featured in the ad. That featured Waris and I have to tell you, I'm like you, whoever the idiots were and that is exactly what they were Carol, idiots that did this, I hope they see this outpouring and realize, you know, I really did something stupid. Maybe they can learn a lesson from this.", "That's right times are changing and you better change with them or we're going to let you behind.", "And the Sikh community is -- the Sikh community is actually starting this whole Facebook campaign, a thank you to GAP campaign for featuring a Sikh model in their ads. Because they, like you just said, times are changing. And they're glad to see that, glad to see the diversity that's being --", "I know and if those idiots do anything about them, they would, it's just like it's mind boggling. Like -- like at least do your research. OK?", "Exactly. Exactly at least know your hateful speech and who you're giving it to before you give it.", "Please target the right people, right?", "Right be smart racists.", "It's certainly nothing. Oh God I don't think there's such a thing.", "Exactly. Exactly my point exactly.", "Nischelle Turner, thanks so much.", "All right.", "Former FBI agent Robert Levinson was kidnapped back in 2007 on the Iranian island of Kish. Since then his family has heard nothing about his condition and only have this picture that confirms he is still being held. On the heels of Iran's nuclear agreement, Levinson's family is renewing the push to get him released. CNN's Chris Cuomo talked with his wife and son on \"NEW DAY.\"", "He was last seen Iran on Kish Island. That's the only information we have about his travels. As I said earlier, his passport has never been seen anywhere else. But six and a half years have passed and we don't know exactly where he is at this moment in time.", "When you go to the State Department when you ask the government for help, what do they tell you?", "They are working as hard as they can to get him home. Unfortunately, he disappeared in the country of Iran, and it is very hard to get anything done there. We need the officials in Iran to help us and make sure that Bob is safe and get him home to us.", "And that's where the frustration comes in, certainly, Dan, for you, where right now, we're negotiating with Iran, right now we're discussing what should be on the table in terms of establishing trust. There has been some news reporting given to Pastor Abedini, who has been held there supposedly for his practice of Christianity. Your father wasn't really on the radar. Did you make efforts to them? Do you think he should be part of this negotiation?", "We've been told and the U.S. officials have been saying in recent days that he's brought up in every opportunity to have on the sidelines of these negotiations. And they're going to continue to press his case and we have no doubt that the U.S. government is doing everything they can. But we're focused on the new administration. They seem very willing to cooperate with the U.S. on a number of issues and we're just hoping our Dad's returned home to us as one of those.", "Since he disappeared there have been numerous graduations. Two daughters have gotten married. We have a new grandson who was born just a month ago. Another grandson will be born in February. We have a granddaughter who is going to be five years old in December. And Bob knows nothing about any of these children. It's extremely difficult for our family, because this is something that can be resolved.", "Yes.", "The family went on to say that they were encouraged to hear that President Obama brought up their father's case to the Iranian president in a recent phone conversation. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, a strong winter storm blows through much of the East Coast just in time for the busiest travel day of the year. Some plane delays to ice and snow-covered roads. I'll talk to one expert about how to get you through safely this holiday."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "TURNER", "COSTELLO", "TURNER", "COSTELLO", "TURNER", "COSTELLO", "TURNER", "COSTELLO", "TURNER", "COSTELLO", "TURNER", "COSTELLO", "CHRISTINE LEVINSON, WIFE OF ROBERT LEVINSON", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "C. LEVINSON", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN HOST", "DAN LEVINSON, SON OF IRAN HOSTAGE", "C. LEVINSON", "CUOMO", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-267574", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-10-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/26/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Bieber Wins Big at MTV Europe Music Awards; James Bond:  Behind the Brand", "utt": ["The pop star, Justin Bieber, was a bit winner at the 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards in Milan, as you just saw. He had girls screaming as he performed his latest hit, \"What Do You Mean?\" He also took home five awards, including Best Male, Best Look -- not sure what that is but Best Look and Best Worldwide Act North America. Taylor Swift was a no-show but won Best Song for her hit, \"Bad Blood.\" An '80s band, Duran Duran, won the very first Video Visionary Award. It honors pioneers who've made a big impact on the music video", "And the world's most famous spy is seen as a style icon right around the world, one that many brands are hoping to cash in on. Isa Soares takes a look at how --", "-- 007 adapted to times and tastes of audiences over the film's 43-year history.", "Blink and you'll miss it: 7-Up, Seko (ph), British Airways among the first product placements to feature in a Bond movie, launching a trend that turned into a lucrative relationship between Bond and brands. sort of a Talk to us a bit about what brands get out of the franchise and what does the franchise get out of the big brand?", "When a brand ties in with James Bond what they tie in with a property that will have global reach, and it's also an identity and a personality that kind of says a lot about the brand. And what, what the production get out of it is brands who are willing to promote their association with James Bond on a global scale.", "There have been many. Take \"Die Another Day;\" the 2002 movie alone features as many as 20 brand partners, from champagne to cars to watches. They all have stood the test of time. Others, though, have faced criticism for diluting the traditional sophisticated Bond image. Many 007 fans feel shaken and not stirred after Bond's move to drinking Heineken in \"Skyfall.\" If you are a Bond fan, well, do not despair. Bond is reportedly returning to his drink of choice, a martini, in \"Spectre,\" this after Belvedere Vodka, owned by LVMH, signed a partnership deal for undisclosed sum. In the upcoming movie, Belvedere is among 14 official brand partners, all vying for the attention of mostly savvy male Millennials, who don't mind seeing products on the big screen.", "I think if the product placement is too obvious or too excessive then people can take against it. It is seen as a sort of crass commercialism and distracting from the narrative. But many say in a subtle way or maybe in a rather ironic way, incorporated in the film in a way that we associate with James Bond I think audiences appreciate it.", "With each incarnation, the enigmatic spy has evolved with the times and so have the products he uses, mirroring the changing tastes of his fans. While the secretive deals between 007 and advertisers are worthy of an MI-6 operation, it is no secret that this is a priceless partnership for both -- Isa Soares, CNN, London.", "Bond, can't wait to see the new one. Halloween is less than a week away. And celebrations are already taking place around the world. In Kawasaki, Japan, more than 100,000 people turned out to watch the annual Halloween parade. A \"Star Wars\" theme parade preceded the main one. Participants dressed as various characters from the films. And a brass band played songs from the movies. It looks like it was a fun time. Well, thank you for watching CNN NEWSROOM live from L.A. I'm Isha Sesay. \"WORLD SPORT\" is up next. And I'll be right back after that in 15 minutes with another hour of the latest news from all around the world. You are watching CNN."], "speaker": ["SESAY (voice-over)", "VIDEO CLIP, \"SPECTRE\") SESAY", "SESAY", "ISA SOARES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SOARES (voice-over)", "PROF. JAMES CHAPMAN, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER", "SOARES (voice-over)", "SESAY"]}
{"id": "CNN-122171", "program": "LOU DOBBS THIS WEEK", "date": "2007-12-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/16/ldtw.01.html", "summary": "Reviewing Campaign Statuses; God and Politics", "utt": ["The issue of God and politics in this country is front page news in the presidential campaign. Particularly in the fight between Mike Huckabee and Mitt Tomney. Huckabee posing this question in the \"New York Times\" magazine. Quote, \"Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers\" responding to and reacting to a question about Mormonism. Huckabee quickly apologized for his remark but it is clear that God is seemingly at every turn in this presidential campaign in both political parties. Tony Perkins is the president of the Family Research Council, one of the country's leading religious conservatives. Perkins says God is present on both sides of the campaign and in both parties.", "Lou, I think personal faith is defining. It's a characteristic that people want to see, but they don't want it to become a pugil stick by which candidates beat each other up and the media beats up candidates. That I think goes too far and Mike Huckabee was right in acknowledging that he went too far in his comments or his questions about Romney's faith with what he said.", "And the idea of faith as being defining. You said people shouldn't be beating each other over this issue. But the reality is, there's also freedom in this country not only of religion or freedom to believe whatever one thinks, that includes being an atheist or an agnostic. Wouldn't you agree?", "That's correct. In fact, the Constitution says when it comes to those holding office, that there shall be no religious test. That of course was put in particular because the Catholic population was about 1.2 percent of the population and they were being excluded at the state level and the feds said there's not going to be an exclusion. We're going to include people but increasingly, we're seeing some I think using a reverse religious test. We saw some of those attacks emerge against Mike Huckabee implying that if you have a religious faith that actually impacts the way you live, then somehow you are not qualified. Now, it's a few doing that but it is beginning to pop up a little bit.", "Well it is popping up. And in this campaign in particular, unlike any I can remember witnessing. Perhaps God was subtext, religion was subtext in previous religions some decades ago. But to move to the forefront and to be central in the public statements and the written materials by the campaigns of nearly every candidate is truly remarkable.", "Well, it is. And I think in part a number of the topics you've had on your show tonight, and the problems we're facing as society, there was a very common worldview, if you will, 50 years ago. There was a very set way, the we viewed the issues around us. There's been a battle raging with kind of elite secularists that have tried to keep religion out of the public square. So there's a push back. That's why I think you see a strong confrontation. Because there are those trying to reinsert it and those trying to push it out. And somewhere we will strike a balance.", "Well, one of the things that interests me, circulating around the Internet right now is a very interesting and popular e-mail talking about the role of religion in our culture. Basically saying you don't have to believe in God, you don't have to do all but it's a contest between the secular and the religious suggesting that if we're going be totally secular, then why are we giving people off on Sunday, which is a religious day of rest historically and also in sectarian terms the idea that everyone having Christmas off and Easter, etc. It's really quite an interesting turn.", "But the fact is we're not a country that has embraced a secular world view. We are a country that has embraced a Christian worldview. That is what our legal system is founded upon. It's embedded into our government, it's embedded into the fact that we do recognize Sunday. We saw it in the blue laws. We saw it in various ways. Now increasingly America is becoming more secular. And there is where you see the conflict. But there is clearly among the American people, a desire that their leaders have some for of faith. And I have never seen this dissected but my hunch would be there's some comfort in knowing that those are leading that you, that you have elected, believe that there is an omniscient God who is watching when they're not. And I think there is some comfort in that.", "Right now this nation could use a little comfort from a number of quarters.", "There's too many politicians for you and I both to keep an eye on so it's a good thing we do have a God.", "I think this is something we can agree we can all pray over. We thank you very much for being with us here tonight.", "Merry Christmas, Lou.", "We'll have much more on God and politics and presidential politics. The race for 2008. I'll be join by three of the sharpest political minds in the country. And so much for keeping the campaigns positive. An ugly turn between Senator Clinton's campaign and Senator Obama. A shake-up in the Clinton camp is the result. The latest on a Christmas gift from communist China. The danger that may be your Christmas tree. We'll have that story, a great deal more. We're coming right back. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["DOBBS", "TONY PERKINS, FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL", "DOBBS", "PERKINS", "DOBBS", "PERKINS", "DOBBS", "PERKINS", "DOBBS", "PERKINS", "DOBBS", "PERKINS", "DOBBS"]}
{"id": "NPR-15749", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2008-12-27", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98754553", "title": "Miriam Makeba: The Voice Of 'World Music'", "summary": "Africa and the world grieved earlier this year when South African Miriam Makeba died. She was 76. She campaigned tirelessly against apartheid, becoming one of the voices of Africa — and of conscience.", "utt": ["Africa and the world grieved earlier this year when Miriam Makeba died.  She was 76 and created world music before the term was used.  She was born in Johannesburg but left for Britain because in the days of apartheid, black singers could not keep the money they earned.  She tried to return to South Africa for her mother's funeral in 1960 but was refused entry.  Miriam Makeba lived in exile for the next 30 years but was made an honorary citizen of 10 different countries and campaigned tirelessly against apartheid, becoming one of the voices of Africa and of conscience.", "She returned to South Africa in 1990 at the personal request of Nelson Mandela. No matter where she sang around the world - and she died while singing at an anti-organized crime rally in Italy - Miriam Makeba was known around the world as Mamma Africa."], "speaker": ["SCOTT SIMON, host", "SCOTT SIMON, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-170446", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2011-8-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/11/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Cameron's Crackdown; Who's To Blame?", "utt": ["Cameron's crackdown -- the British prime minister promises swift justice, as police round up more than 1,000 suspected rioters. Speaking out -- the victim of this mugging during the London chaos now has a message for his attackers. No escape -- why some children in Somalia are getting sicker when they reach aid camps. And gold rush -- inside the trade for what some consider the safest haven of all. These stories and more tonight as we connect the world. We begin, though, with the whiplash on Wall Street. The closing bell has just capped yet another dramatic day. The Dow soared around 400 points. It's been an extremely volatile week and the only thing we can say with certainty is the roller coaster rolls on. Richard Quest joins us. I mean I -- you can't really grab hold of anything here, can you? But it's an interesting day.", "Oh, come on. It's -- it's more than just that. It's been a lively session, with gains -- we're off the top of the session. I noticed on one of those numbers, we were up nearly 500 points at one point. So we gave back a bit just toward the end. Why today? Look at that, up 422, a gain of 3.9 percent. Would have been considerably higher. Why, today, did it go up? Because it didn't go down. We had a very strong session. Down yesterday. A bit of a bounce back today. But the fundamentals do not justify this sort of move. It was a bit of -- better numbers on the jobless claims and rumors about Europe, whether France was going to be downgraded again. That was bescotched (ph), French banks. What we're seeing is volatility pure and simple.", "It's interesting, isn't it, because the economics is obviously dominating things right now. But the reporting season, the corporate figures have actually been quite good. So...", "Very good.", "-- people are grabbing...", "-- very good.", "-- grabbing hold of that a bit?", "No.", "Are they?", "No.", "No?", "Well, Cisco. Right.", "Yes.", "Cisco Systems' results were good.", "They -- that's not the reason. You've got to keep your eye on the underlying weakness in the economies, which has caused people to test the low levels of markets. And then when they find that level holding, it bounces back up again. This volatility, I can't remember seeing in 15 or 20 years.", "As you say, it is either up or down and there is a bit of an overreaction either way. Are we getting a sense of which way is going to go in the morning, by the end of the day? Because yesterday, it kept going down. Today it kept going up. Are we getting a -- is there any sort of pattern falling in the stock market?", "What we need to look for is GDP numbers, unemployment -- this is in the U.S. -- unemployment numbers. You need to see how this committee, the super committee in the U.S., is going about its work. In Europe, we need to make sure that the ECB's purchase of Italian bonds continues. And fundamentally, let's see what Sarkozy and Merkel come out with when they have their meeting next week about further European integration. Those are the fundamentals that will ultimately move this direction -- this market in one direction, not just the bling, bling, bling.", "-- ordinary times. Richard, thank you very much, indeed. We'll have more on the markets later in the show. But first, there weren't enough police on the streets initially and their tactics didn't work. But that was an admission that came from Britain's prime minister today, as he -- he promised the country would recover from the violence which has swept through its inner cities. As the arrest of suspected troublemakers continued, David Cameron warned those responsible that there were few places to hide.", "If you've had your livelihood and property damaged, we will compensate you. We are on your side. And to the lawless minority, the criminals who have taken what they can get, I say this -- we will track you down, we will find you, we will charge you, we will punish you. You will pay for what you have done.", "With just a year to go until the London Olympics, Mr. Cameron says Britain had to show it could move forward from all this violence. Phil Black is at Westminster, in Central London -- Phil, what else did the prime minister have to say?", "There are a number of suggestions to help police tackle some of the new practical problems they experienced in policing these riots. There was a list of them. First of all, interestingly, he announced that the government and the police are going to look at whether or not it is possible to block or shut down social networking sites or communications services like the BlackBerry messenger services, in cases where it's believed they are being used to coordinate crimes. Police say they were used for that during these riots. It enabled the rioters to stay a few steps ahead of them, made their job a lot harder. If this is possible, it's likely it's going to take quite a bit of cooperation from the companies themselves. Mr. Cameron said the police will also be empowered to order people to remove facial coverings or masks in instances were crimes are being committed. There's a little bit of detail here that still needs to be worked out, specifically, how you define that sort of facial covering, just when police will be able to issue those orders and what will happen to people who deny them, especially if there happens to be hundreds of them on the streets at any particular time. And the issue of gangs was something that David Cameron spoke about at length. He said that tackling the gang problem -- street gangs will become a national priority. Departments across government are going to come up with a plan for tackling this. And he said Britain would also follow the advice and the lessons learned by other countries, like the United States, that have made real progress in tackling gang culture. He specifically mentioned a name by the name of Bill Bratton, who's the former police chief of both New York and Los Angeles and who is credited with making real progress with his anti-gang strategies. Bill Bratton says that he hasn't been contacted by the British government just yet, but he believes he can help them. And if he's asked to do so, he will -- Max.", "It's lucky, he says he's available and he wasn't actually warned that he would be helping out the British government. But bring us up to date on a story. We've reported on this story of this young man being mugged on CCTV. It's a horrendous scene. But we've had an up -- update on that, haven't we?", "Yes, this was one of the examples of violence that David Cameron himself has referenced a number of times. A young man who was beaten up on the street. Smoot rioters then stopped, pretended to help him but actually robbed him while they were pretending to offer him assistance. This was captured on video. It's been seen from around the -- it's been seen around the world and really has triggered a global response. Take a look.", "I'm actually helping him up.", "When we see the disgusting sight of an injured young man with people pretending to help him while they are robbing him, it is clear there are things that are badly wrong in our society.", "It has become one of the defining images of the London riots.", "But aren't these bad? (ph)", "Bloodied and dazed after being attacked by a mob, Malaysian student, Ashraf Haziq, is helped to his feet...", "And he's just going from his", "-- only to be robbed.", "He said you realized that the people were taking things off your rucksack when they were pretending to help you?", "I realized that.", "Despite surgery on a broken jaw, the 22-year-old accounting student has recounted his ordeal, claiming his attackers threatened to stab him.", "I felt sorry for them, but it we are really sad, because", "Images of the mugging were posted on YouTube and have gone viral. Outraged, people across the globe have used social media to rally around Ashraf, calling for donations and justice. Everything from a new PlayStation, a replacement bike to airline tickets and dental work has been offered to the injured yet grateful student.", "Thank you. It was very nice of you to help me. I really appreciated it.", "Mostly, Ashraf is being sent messages of support. From New Zealand, this Facebook comment: \"We were disgusted and horrified to see what happened to you.\" From the", "\"I am ashamed to be British today.\" And from Somalia: \"Get well soon, Ashraf.\"", "I feel that there are lots of British people who wants to see that the country continues to be peaceful. They feel equally responsible to what happened to him. And they can't see how this can happen to a boy from Malaysia in the UK. So to -- to express that key", "Ashraf was attacked less than a month after arriving in the United Kingdom on a scholarship. In that space of time, he has seen the worst and the best of British culture. But he intends to stay on.", "I'd like to finish my study here. I will finish my study here and then after I finish it, then I'll return back home. That will be after two year's time.", "So Ashraf there insisting that he doesn't hold a grudge, he actually feels sorry for some of those rioters and he has now been released from hospital. The police, though, say they have made an arrest in connection to that assault -- Max.", "OK, Phil. Thank you very much, indeed, for that. Well, some have suggested that the violence was carried out by young people, the ones you saw in that video, for example, who are out of work and out of luck. But the British prime minister says poverty isn't to blame. Instead, Mr. Cameron points the finger at a culture which fails to teach children right from wrong. So want do Britain's teenagers think of all this? Well, Atika Shubert went to find out.", "As Britain reclaims its streets, many are now asking, how did a protest over the shooting of 29 -year-old Mark Duggan in North London trigger a countrywide looting spree? Some have pointed to a yawning gap between rich and poor. Youth unemployment is at record levels. One in five between the ages of 16 to 24 are out of a job, says the Office of National Statistics. On Monday night, at the peak of the violence in London, this young man attempted to explain his anger to", "I love England, everything about it, roast dinners, whatever, blah, blah, blah. But what I'm trying to say to you, sometimes there's -- there's like, you know, like -- there's like -- there's not a fair balance and we're getting the brunt of it. You have to start doing something for people like us.", "On Thursday, Prime Minister Cameron told MPs the problem was a culture of violence -- teens that don't know right from wrong, absentee parenting that leads to gangs. But teenagers on the street told me it was more than that. (voice-over): Nineteen-year-old Dominique smith says she understands the frustration and anger of those who rioted because she believes her brother was also a victim of police violence.", "Others, like 18 -year-old Kieza Silvera de Sousa, say that frustration doesn't justify the violence that followed.", "This is actually silly. I mean people are saying that it's because someone got shot by the police. OK, fair enough, someone got shot by the police and it was probably unjust. But that's no reason to ruin people's livelihood, you know, burning down houses, going and breaking people's shops. At the end of the day, that's not going to solve anything. That's not going to stop the police from, you know, being unjust.", "Cameron has issued tougher police measures and a gang injunction, market it illegal to engage in gang activities. But that anger and resentment is still on the streets and the government must now find ways to ensure the violence of this week doesn't flare up again. Atika Shubert, CNN, London.", "Where does the government even begin, though? These are big issues. To discuss that, I'm joined by social outreach coordinator, Alvin Carpio. He works with young people in some of the areas of London worse hit by the violence over the past week. Thanks so much for joining us.", "Thank you very much.", "David Cameron firmly pointed the finger today at boys, he said, from dysfunctional families in gangs. Are they at the heart of this?", "Well, in terms of why this happened, I guess we can point out two things. I mean one of the things is that this and everything that happened collectively was due to the individual decisions we made as people. Self-discipline is doing what should be done when it should be done whether you like it or not. But...", "What do you mean, self-discipline? There's -- there's been no self-discipline here, has there?", "Exactly. And this is the problem, is individual choices that we make in response to what was happening in the crowds. And I guess when you think about the individual we're then talking about, actually, the community. We have often talked about how these people who are on the streets aren't members of the community. But what is missing in the debate is, actually, this is a community unto themselves, as well. And, actually, the people who are doing this have their own code of conduct, which is very separate from the law and where loyalty is so important. And so when one person decides to break a window, it's disloyalty to not join in with that person and it's not backing up that person.", "So you wouldn't say that -- this community that you're talking about, you wouldn't say the whole community shares the -- the need to go and break into a shop? It's just the...", "No.", "-- there's a dynamic there which is driving them to do that?", "Yes. I guess it's the crowd mentality. And I guess one of the things that we are seeing talked about, when you're talking about who is to blame, is when we are looking at a minority of people who are doing this. And we look, then, at the response of the community. You know, on Sunday, when we gathered, 30 people, to decide what we're going to do about this. And then in less than 23 hours, we've gathered 200 people onto the streets of Tottenham to say that this is not what we stand for. We are peaceful, law-abiding citizens who want to make changes in our community and do not at all condone what was happening in -- in Tottenham. And that's exactly who the community is. And I think it's our responsibility now to see that, you know, we, as a community under people in power, now have a choice and there are decisions to be made, which are so important. And it's vital among the community.", "Well, one of the choices...", "I'm sorry. Just let me finish.", "Yes.", "And, actually, we cannot always build the future for our youth. But we can build the youth for our future. And I guess our responsibility now is to think about the young people...", "Well, let's talk about...", "-- that now, because David Cameron is saying he's going to throw the full force of the law at people found guilty.", "Right.", "And they really have been, haven't they? We've got one girl, an 11 -year-old girl in Nottinghamshire has been put in -- she was charged for an offense and she's been put in a cell. That wouldn't happen normally.", "Yes.", "And that's a good response, though, isn't it...", "Yes.", "-- to deal with the criminals in a hard way and to be seen to be dealing with them in a hard way, right?", "Yes. In terms of setting precedents, I think there need -- these cases that are going through the courts now, the people who are responsible for causing hellish nights where mothers and sisters -- my sister herself, fearful of going out at night, they need to be punished for the things that they have done accordingly. But also to set an example that this can never be accepted ever again.", "But isn't that almost enough? Why do we then have to go into a whole social arrangement with...", "Because...", "-- these groups?", "-- in the magistrates, the -- the maximum sort of penalty is six months. And not many will go on to further than that. And when they come out, we need to think about what it is we do. And I think as a community, we have a responsibility as citizens, as police, to keep safe and politicians to lead, to make sure that when they come out, we're working with them. As we mentioned, this is a community and we need to work with them in order to find out what they want to change but also how we can help them to get out, because they do have a choice still to make. And their punishments will make them think about those choices.", "OK, Alvin, we're going to be talking about this a lot in the future, I think, because it's a priority now for the government, isn't it?", "Yes.", "Thank you very much, indeed. Coming up, Syria defies international condemnation, more die as the government's crackdown against protesters continues. Then, Tiger Woods shoots his worst ever score in the opening round of a major championship. 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{"id": "CNN-376591", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-08-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/03/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) Discusses El Paso Shooting.", "utt": ["Let's get the latest now on the breaking news, the shooting, the mass shooting in Texas at an El Paso shopping center. Police now say multiple people are dead. We can confirm that the 22 injured victims are being treated at two area hospitals. One suspect, according to the police, is now in custody. Police say no active shooter remains at the Cielo Vista Shopping Mall. We've been seeing employees calmly helping people evacuate while SWAT teams were hunting for the shooters. Keep in mind, many stores were offering back-to-school specials just days before El Paso schools were getting ready to re-open after the summer break. Terrifying scenes of panicked shoppers running through the stores as the shooting went on unfolded. Watch this.", "Run, Mija, run.", "Hands up! Hands up! Hands up! Hands up! Let's go! Let's go!", "Let's go! Let's go!", "El Paso police are working with the FBI, the DEA, federal and state agencies in their investigation, which is only just beginning. However, the Cielo Vista Mall remains on lockdown right now, totally understandable. Evacuated shoppers are starting to process the terrifying events of this afternoon and they're describing what they saw. Watch this.", "There was people running from inside the mall to Dillard's and they were just screaming to get out and that's when everyone started getting out. And then the store manager said for everybody to evacuate so we had to stay behind and make sure everybody was out. And then the police came in.", "I want to bring in Texas Congresswoman Escobar. She's joining us on the phone right now. Her district includes El Paso. First of all, Congresswoman, how are you doing?", "Wolf, I'm heart broken. But I'm, you know, I'm far more worried about obviously about all of our families. There are a number of people who have been injured, a number of fatalities. People who were conducting their Saturday business, who were running their errands, going to the grocery store, shopping for school supplies. These incredible people in my community are warm- hearted, compassionate, kind people. And this was a massacre.", "What's the latest information, Congresswoman, that you're getting from local and federal authorities on the number of people killed?", "Well, we have received some confirmation from DPS and from local officials. But you know, it's an ever-changing -- it's a dynamic environment. We keep getting updated with different information, sometimes there's conflicting reports. So I don't want to announce anything, but I will say that the numbers are shocking.", "When we heard from the mayor, we heard from the local police department, we heard from a state representative that there are multiple fatalities. And I can only imagine how heartbreaking that must be. I assume they're waiting to give notification to next of kin. I can only imagine that that's what they normally do, right?", "Right. And they've -- El Paso police have set up a family reunification site that is maybe just a couple of miles away from the crime scene so that family members who know that their next of kin was in the area and in the shopping center. If they haven't been able to reach them, if they haven't heard from them, they're able to go there to try to gather some more information. There's obviously a lot of concerned families. I know I spoke with one of our hospital CEOs earlier and one of the individuals who -- who died in their care had really no identification and so there's going to be a lot of confusion and a lot of, you know, very, very, very worried families in the next few hours. And so I think the best thing that we can do is let law enforcement do their job. And what America needs to know is that this is a very, very heartbreaking moment for a very safe and wonderful, warm and beautiful community.", "What can you tell us, if anything, Congresswoman, about the suspect who is now in custody and a possible motive for this horrendous mass murder?", "We don't -- we don't have the motive yet. And I have received the name of the suspect in custody and have a little bit of information. But, again, I'm going to leave that to law enforcement to -- to share.", "You've been told that this is -- the person in custody is the shooter and one person is in custody, not multiple people, right?", "Right. And one of the -- we heard conflicting reports throughout the early afternoon that there might be three shooters, for example, and one person is in custody, but we don't know if there were others who were helping. I mean, we have been told that -- to stay away from the area that it's, you know, it's not quite secure yet. And so that leads me to believe that they are still looking for at least one other person.", "We heard the former congressman from your district, Beto O'Rourke, say as soon as he got word -- he was in Las Vegas at the time campaigning. As soon as he got word, the first thing he did was call his wife to find out and make sure she was OK and the kids are OK. What did you do first when you heard about this shooting?", "Wolf, we were having our town hall meeting, actually. And we were in the midst of the Q-and-A session and folks were lined up ready to ask their questions. We were in the middle of that. And a member of my staff approached me, and I immediately, of course, became concerned because that was unusual. But she walked up and told me that law enforcement asked that we immediately end the town hall meeting, send everyone home, and let folks know that there was an active shooter in the community in the Cielo Vista area. So we did that. We asked everyone to -- you know, calmly make their way out and get to their car, go home and get safe. And we immediately left, as well and en route to downtown El Paso. I, you know, spoke with law enforcement and with local leaders. And we've been in contact with DPS, the FBI, health care leaders. You know, we're all just trying to piece together what is unfolding in our community. It is unfathomable. It is -- there are -- Wolf, there are no words for the kind of pain that -- that this great community is experiencing. And it's, unfortunately, an all too common pain across America.", "It is so heartbreaking just the thought, Congresswoman, of you know, moms and dads walking around the mall holding the hands of their little kids and buying school supplies and getting new clothes for school set to start a week from Monday and all of a Sunday and, all of a sudden, a mass murderer shows up, but starts killing people and injuring people. And it's going to shake up not only your community, Congresswoman. It will shake up the country. And our viewers around the world who are watching right now are going to continue to ask what is going on. And then they will ask the next question, what can be done to stop this? Because, as you correctly point out, we've gone through too many of these horrendous mass shootings in our country in recent years.", "Wolf, we have the solution. They are right in front of us. What we need is the will to act as a country. And we have to, at some point, say that enough is enough. And we have to ask ourselves how many more wake-up calls does this country need. I -- I am imploring that those of us who have the capacity and the power to make change, that we work together to end this epidemic. This is needless. There are families in tear, weeping right now, and it did not have to be this way.", "It is so heartbreaking to think -- and we don't know the nature of the victims. We know 22 people were taken to two local hospitals. We know there are multiple fatalities. And what is so awful -- and every victim is so sad, but presumably we'll hear about kids being shot at this mall, and it is going to be so awful when we hear that, Congresswoman. I assume you've spent some time at the local mall and you know about the people who go there and you've seen the mall in action. It's never going to be the same.", "It was -- the shooting, Wolf, my understanding is that it took place on the same property as the mall, but at the Walmart that is right next to the mall. And the shooter or shooters were not -- we're not completely sure yet how many, if there was just one or if there were two -- started in the parking lot and walked into the Walmart. And there's, unfortunately, very graphic video that has been circulating. And I would encourage folks not to watch it. It is far too traumatizing. But then there were reports that the shooter or a shooter then went into the adjacent mall. And all of that is still being pieced together. So I am not sure if anyone went in after all or not. But the mall went on lockdown and everyone was doing everything possible to keep folks safe.", "As far as you know, Congresswoman, you represent -- your district includes El Paso. And we're speaking with Veronica Escobar, the U.S. congresswoman from El Paso. Has anything like this ever happened before, as far as you know, in your community?", "No, Wolf. El Paso has been one of the safest communities in all of the nation for decades. We routinely rank in the top-three safest cities of our size in the nation. We are a community of hardworking families, people who take care of each other, people who take care of others. We never imagined, I never imagined anything like this could or would happen. I suspect that we will have a lot of people in our community who are going to be in shock and disbelief. And this feels unreal. This feels so unreal. But it's real. And unfortunately, we are now part of a family of communities that have suffered this unspeakable tragedy.", "It is so heartbreaking. Congresswoman, we are getting some new information. A hospital official has told \"The El Paso Times\" that some people have died after being transported to the medical hospital. Earlier, we were told that 11 people -- that hospital received 11 patients following the shootings. I know you're getting more information all of the time. We've also just received some new video from the ground in El Paso. I want to play it for our viewers. And, Congresswoman, if you can stick around, I want to get your reaction. I want to warn our viewers that this is incredibly disturbing and it shows injured people laying on the ground outside the Walmart.", "Help! Help! Help!", "We need CPR!", "Help me turn him over! Help me!", "Congresswoman, it is so heartbreaking to see that. I know it's heartbreaking for you. It's heartbreaking for all of our viewers. And I know you've got a lot that you've got to do. But give us some final thoughts before I let you go.", "I would just encourage to all of us to come together. El Paso is a resilient, wonderful city. We are all going to step up and take care of one another during this very difficult time. And while we mourn and while we regroup and while we take care of one another, I -- again, I would implore that those of us who have the ability to create change, and I am among them, that we create the change that we desperately, desperately need.", "Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, whose district includes El Paso, thank you so much for joining us. Our deepest, deepest condolences go out to those families in your community, who are suffering right now. And let's hope all of those injured recover completely. It's such an awful situation that has unfolded. Thank you so much for joining us.", "Thank you, Wolf.", "I want to bring in Jonathan Wackrow, a former Secret Service agent, a CNN law enforcement analyst. And also joining us is Charles Ramsey. He is the former police commissioner of Philadelphia and former police chief here in Washington, D.C. Chief Ramsey, give us your thoughts as you just heard that painful, painful conversation we had and the video that is coming in.", "Yes, this is really going to be bad once the numbers are finally released. You have people outside the building, probably inside the building, as well. You know, they keep saying they have one in custody. It's important to note, I don't think we know the condition of the person in custody.", "We don't.", "We don't know if that person was shot or if they're in any condition to be interviewed at all. But this is not going to be good at all, especially when you start seeing victims in the parking lot. He was probably shooting before he even got in there, he was already shooting. So that's -- that's terrible.", "Terrible. Jonathan, what was your analysis based on what we saw?", "Wolf, these are unpredictable and dynamic situations. They can occur at any moment. And the key is here to survival is maintaining situational awareness and having a protection plan. We saw the benefits of that in the videos. We see people following DHS recommendations to run, hide and fight. People who can run and create distance from the threat, did it. We saw it in the videos. But people who could not, they hid. They tried to hide from that threat. Listen, these are survival tactics at this point in time. It's tragic that we are talking about this, but it is a necessary conversation that we must have.", "Are we going to need to do what is done in big parts of Europe and the Middle East? If you go to a mall in Tel Aviv, for example, in Israel, you have to go through security and you have to go through metal detectors. Chief Ramsey, is that going to be necessary here in the United States?", "I sure hope not. But, I mean, we do have to take a look, a serious look at security. Today, it's a mall. We've had churches. We've had schools. I mean, you know, venues like concerts. I mean, we do need to take a look, a strong look at security. But this is the United States, too. There's freedom of movement. People will come and go. You look at malls. You can leave a parking lot and walk right into the store that you want to go to. They have numerous ways to get in and out. It would be very difficult to really shut that down the way you would like to for purposes of security. So, yes, we need to look at it, but we need to be reasonable in our approach, too.", "Everybody, stand by. There's a lot more going on. And I also want to remind our viewers as we go to break that there's an urgent need right now for blood in the El Paso area. Blood donation centers are in El Paso right now, including at 424 South Mesa Hills and 133 North Zaragoza. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER", "UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER", "BLITZER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLITZER", "REP. VERONICA ESCOBAR (D-TX) (via telephone)", "BLITZER", "ESCOBAR", "BLITZER", "ESCOBAR", "BLITZER", "ESCOBAR", "BLITZER", "ESCOBAR", "BLITZER", "ESCOBAR", "BLITZER", "ESCOBAR", "BLITZER", "ESCOBAR", "BLITZER", "ESCOBAR", "BLITZER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BLITZER", "ESCOBAR", "BLITZER", "ESCOBAR", "BLITZER", "CHARLES RAMSEY, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BLITZER", "RAMSEY", "BLITZER", "JONATHAN WACKROW, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "BLITZER", "RAMSEY", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "NPR-49217", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2006-06-02", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5447292", "title": "Slate's Summary Judgment: 'The Break-Up,' 'The Peaceful Warrior,' 'B-13'", "summary": "Slate contributor Mark Jordan Legan reviews what critics are saying about his weekend's movie releases, including The Break-Up, The Peaceful Warrior and the French action film B-13.", "utt": ["Are the weekend's new movie releases worth your time and money? That's the question we try to answer every Friday with a digest of what the critics are saying. It's compiled by the online magazine Slate. Here's Mark Jordan Legan with Summary Judgment.", "First up in limited release, we have the coming of age drama Peaceful Warrior, based on the best-selling self-help memoir by Dan Millman.", "A talented Olympic hopeful meets a mysterious stranger who helps him learn strength of spirit is more important than strength of body. Nick Nolte stars as the mystifying mentor.", "(As Dan Millman) I have a medal rod in my leg.", "(As Socrates) A warrior's not about perfection or victory or invulnerability.", "The Hollywood Reporter enjoys it, saying, Strong performances ground the film in effective drama. But most everyone else begs to differ. The Christian Science Monitor yawns, This woozily uplifting saga is big on homilies and deficient in just about everything else. And the Arizona Republic warns that Peaceful Warrior is meant to empower and enlighten, but it tries so hard it's more like inspiration overkill.", "Next up also in limited release is the action thriller from France, District B-13. Co-written and produced by Luc Besson, who brought us Le Femme Nikita and The Fifth Element, this high energy overseas hit is set in Paris 2010, where two cops must infiltrate a sealed off ghetto to stop a terrorist attack.", "The nation's critics love this non-stop thrill ride. The Christian Science Monitor raves, It may be subtitled and the faces may be unfamiliar, but District B-13 is the best buddy action movie around. And Time magazine cheers, Let's put the matter simply, this French thriller makes everything Hollywood has lately done in the action genre look clumsy, dull and stale.", "And we close with the highly publicized, wide release comedy, The Breakup. Whether you wanted to know about it or not, Jennifer Anniston's marriage ended last year and she ran off to Chicago to make this film with Vince Vaughn and a few tabloid shutterbugs took photos of them every now and then.", "Meanwhile, the movie is now out and it focuses on a couple that moves in together, buys a condo, and then when the love fades the battle over who gets the condo begins. John Favreau and Judy Davis also star.", "(As Brooke Meyers) You got three lemons.", "(As Gary Grobowski) What my baby wants my baby gets, you know that.", "Yeah, but I wanted 12. Baby wanted 12.", "Why would you want 12 lemons?", "Because I'm making a 12 lemon centerpiece.", "So no one's actually even eating them? They're just they're show lemons?", "Yeah, they're show lemons.", "The critics really want to move on from this break up. Variety groans, The film is ill-conceived virtually from the opening frame. USA Today moans, Sitting through it is almost as painful as going through the demise of a relationship. And Newsday says, The Breakup fails to freshen the stale news that women are from Venus and men are from Mars.", "You know, I am so tired of that stupid cliché. Everyone knows that's not true. Of course women aren't from Venus. They're from the distant spiral galaxy NGC2903, which is continually strafed by high-energy radiation, thus making women extremely sensitive and unwillingly to compromise. Just ask any divorced astronomer, he'll tell you.", "Mark Jordan Legan is a writer living in Los Angeles."], "speaker": ["ALEX CHADWICK, host", "MARK JORDAN LEGAN reporting", "MARK JORDAN LEGAN reporting", "Mr. SCOTT MECHLOWICZ (Actor)", "Mr. NICK NOLTE (Actor)", "LEGAN", "LEGAN", "LEGAN", "LEGAN", "LEGAN", "Ms. JENNIFER ANISTON (Actor)", "Mr. VINCE VAUGHN (Actor)", "Ms. JENNIFER ANISTON (Actor)", "Mr. VINCE VAUGHN (Actor)", "Ms. JENNIFER ANISTON (Actor)", "Mr. VINCE VAUGHN (Actor)", "Ms. JENNIFER ANISTON (Actor)", "LEGAN", "LEGAN", "ALEX CHADWICK, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-227254", "program": "@THISHOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2014-3-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/26/ath.02.html", "summary": "Some MH370 Families Consider Legal Action; Aviation Attorney Talks Lawsuits", "utt": ["They are upset and in agony. Some of the families on flight 370 have been offered an initial payment of $5,000. It is possible they could be entitled to much, much more.", "Aviation attorney, Floyd Wisener, is not currently representing any of the families of flight 370. He knows a lot about how to make the case. He led the charge after several other plane crashes, including TWA flight 800. Good to have you with us, Floyd. I think one of the questions a lot of people are wondering, given the fact that they don't have wreckage or debris in hand, is this premature and if it is, how would the lack of physical evidence affect litigation down the road.", "Well, the lack of physical evidence definitely will affect litigation against the manufacturer, Boeing, or component manufacturer, such as the engine manufacturer, Rolls Royce. It will not necessarily affect litigation against Malaysia Air, the air carrier. It is going to be responsible under the Montreal Convention, which governs claims arising from debts and international carriage by air. That convention provides for an intention payment of 113,000 special drawing rights which is an international monetary unit coming to about $176,000, plus additional damage, unless the airline can prove that either it cook all necessary measures to avoid the loss. I don't think Malaysia Air will be able --", "So at a minimum, the Montreal Convention -- at a minimum, in your mind, the Montreal Convention rules will apply, which will be over $100,000 per person. Beyond that, frankly, this is an awfully complicated case, passengers from 15 countries, Malaysia Air and Malaysia Airline. An American plane, the Boeing plane. You know, the first legal steps we understand were just taken for some kind of possible suit in Illinois. What can you tell us about this?", "Well, John, I'll tell you. This is one of these days when I'm embarrassed to be a lawyer. I can tell you, first of all, this is not a lawsuit, it's a petition for discovery. It's wrongfully used, in my opinion. A petition for discovery is a unique procedure under Illinois law that allows an injured person to discover the identity of a party against whom they may want to bring a suit. It's not to be used for the purpose this law firm is using it. In my opinion, this is nothing more than a shameful marketing ploy to get clients. It's embarrassing to me personally, as a lawyer. I can guarantee you, I've been practicing in Illinois for 37 years. I can guarantee you, there is absolutely no chance that the families will obtain any investigation evidence as a result of the filing of this petition for discovery. It's just not --", "Very strong language.", "Not what it was intended to do. Well, it is. And I stand by it.", "I'm glad you spoke your mind here. I want to ask you about something we used to sort of reference, the fact this is a complex situation because there's so many people internationally who have got this American-made jet, et cetera, et cetera. We know that Americans generally are more litigious. Do you think we're going to see some Malaysians trying to find American representation here to pursue litigation or will they pursue in their own countries? How do you see it playing out?", "Well, definitely, I think that there will be other non- American seeking American representation. I've been in contact with some of the families discussing this already. It's a little early to be doing anything, but we have been in discussions. And, you know, what's funny, Michaela -- not funny, but what is in some ways shameful, again, is the despair treatment that they're likely to receive, based on their nationality. You could have the same person, same age, same number of dependents and may be worth a fraction of what an American's would be.", "You say what's going on in Illinois is shameful. But do you believe these families and passengers have some legal right to compensation here, yes?", "Oh, they absolutely do. And it's a matter of doing it the right way. My point, John, is just that don't go off filing something that's never going to work, and let other families think you're doing something for them when it's not going to work. Do it in a responsible manner that a competent, able, aviation attorney with that particular expertise will know what to do.", "And this is certainly not the time line yet, as you said, premature at this point. But we anticipate that we're going to be talking more about this in the coming weeks and months. Floyd Wisener, thanks so much for joining us from Florida. We appreciate you joining us.", "I've got to say, he opened my eyes to something I hadn't thought about yet.", "The difference in nationalities, and how that will affect the lawsuits and the unfairness. Something to think about. Ahead for us AT THIS HOUR, the recovery effort continues northeast of Seattle today after the deadly, deadly landslide. We'll have a live report from the scene in Washington, next."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "FLOYD WISENER, AVIATION ATTORNEY", "BERMAN", "WISENER", "PEREIRA", "WISENER", "PEREIRA", "WISENER", "BERMAN", "WISENER", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-114884", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2007-2-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/27/acd.01.html", "summary": "Stock Markets Take a Beating", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone. Tonight, a 13-year-old boy is not just lucky to be home safe. He's lucky, resourceful, gutsy, you name it. He was kidnapped at gunpoint, bound and gagged. But he got away, thanks in part to a safety pin. We will explain in a moment. This may be the survival story of the year. We begin tonight, however, with a big dose of pain for tens of millions of Americans who invest in the stock market. Stocks got hammered today. The Dow Jones average tumbled 416 points, its steepest drop since the markets reopened after 9/11, billions of dollars erased in just a few hours of very hectic trading. We have two questions tonight. Why did it happen? What happens tomorrow. For answers, we turn to CNN's Ali Velshi. Ali, what happened?", "Anderson, this is one of the biggest drops on Wall Street that we have ever seen. It started in Shanghai, a big drop on the Chinese market, one that had not been expected. And it was so big that it triggered sell- offs across Europe. And then finally by the time markets opened in the United States, everybody expected a drop. They didn't expect one this big. Through the morning, we saw losses, 100 points after the first six minutes of trading, and then through the afternoon 200 points, 300 points. And, then, at 2:59, it was down by 300 points, within a minute, 400 points, within another minute, 500 points, finally, 546 points lower, before things pulled back. Just before 4:00, the bell started ringing, and there was resounding boos on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, because the traders there sensed something was wrong. This wasn't normal, to see that kind of sell-off. Well, they were right. Within an hour after that, we heard from the Dow Jones and the New York Stock Exchange that there was some sort of technical problem, a problem we are still trying to get to the bottom of. But this has now started again in Asia Markets are open. And, if it doesn't stop, we might see more problems tomorrow morning -- Anderson.", "Well, if it was Asian markets which got this started, what are the markets doing right now in Asia, because that is going to affect what happens tomorrow morning here in America?", "The big one to worry, about, Japan. The Nikkei is down. It's been down between 3 and 4 percent. We have seen markets across Asia down. The one place where this started, though, Shanghai, it's actually sort of bobbing and weaving between up and down. If this doesn't get settled in Asia, if someone does not decide this has to stop, we are so interconnected -- that's what we saw this morning -- we could see it again tomorrow.", "A couple days ago, Alan Greenspan talked about the possibility of a recession. How likely is that?", "Well, you know, it was probably part of the perfect storm that caused today's rout. There were the problems in Asia. There was this bombing in Afghanistan. There were some economic reports that suggested the economy is slowing down. And then in the background was Alan Greenspan's comments about a recession. Probably, on its own, it's not that big an issue. It certainly got people thinking. The folks we have talked to say, don't panic. If you hold stocks, wait until we know what the story is. Nobody ever wins by locking in your losses.", "And 400-and-something points is dramatic. But what was really dramatic was just that it happened in such a quick amount of time.", "That's right.", "The actual points, in total percentage, is relatively small.", "This market has been going straight up for months and months and months. Most people say it was due to pull back a little bit. If this happened over a week or a couple weeks, we wouldn't blink. If it was 200 points today, we wouldn't blink; 400, 500 points, it makes people wonder. If it doesn't happen again tomorrow, we should be OK.", "All right. Ali Velshi, appreciate it.", "OK.", "Thanks very much. Now a look at how today's plunge compares to some record-setting days on Wall Street. Here's the \"Raw Data.\" As we mentioned, the Dow lost 416 points today, or more than 3 percent. But, as we also touched on, its biggest one-day point loss was 684 points, when the markets reopened on September 17, 2001, after the 9/11 attacks. Still, the biggest percentage loss in history, December 12th, 1914, when the Dow lost 24.39 percent or the first day -- on the first day of trading after the stock exchange shut for more than four months due to World War I. Now a phone call and six chilling words: \"It's Clay, and I have been kidnapped.\" Imagine getting a phone call like that from your son or your daughter. Well, fortunately, and amazingly, Clay Moore made it after his escape from captivity. His family spoke out today. They talked about Clay's remarkable getaway -- that's him at the press conference -- something straight out of the TV show \"MacGyver.\" Remember that? He was a 13-year-old boy, now safe. His suspected kidnapper is still on the run. Authorities on Florida's west coast, where the drama has been playing out since Friday, put it very simply today. This guy picked the wrong kid to kidnap, they said. Details now from CNN's David Mattingly.", "Thirteen-year- old Clay Moore's escape from an armed kidnapping was a happy ending to an ordeal that could have ended so badly. And, as details come out, how he got away sounds nothing less than astonishing.", "He really kept his head about him and did everything he was supposed to be doing. And that is why he is here with us today.", "Kidnapped at gunpoint while waiting for the school bus, all Clay had to stay alive were his wits, his poise, and something so small, something so seemingly insignificant, his kidnapper probably never noticed it hanging from the hole in his jacket sleeve, a safety pin, too small to use as a weapon, but big enough to become the key to his freedom.", "I asked him last night, as we were kind of going over the story, what made you think to put a safety pin in your mouth? And, in his words, he said, just thought it would be helpful.", "He had no idea how helpful it would be. Clay was driven out to the a farm, blindfolded, gagged with his own sock, tied to a tree with duct tape, and then left alone. When he was sure his abductor was gone, Clay went to work, spitting out the sock, but accidentally spitting out the safety pin as well. What could he possibly do?", "It was sweaty, he says, and so it helped get the -- the things off of his eyes. So, he was able to see where it was. So, he actually maneuvered himself around, and -- and grabbed a stick that he used to pick the safety pin back up off the ground with his mouth, incredibly enough.", "Even more incredibly, Clay was able to drop the pin from the stick into the palm of one of his tied-up hands. He then started poke away at the sticky tape, until he punched enough holes in it to break free. Much easier said than done, it took Clay 30 minutes to an hour to gain his freedom. But, in the end, it was an escape that would have made even MacGyver proud, as Clay calmly got help and called his stepdad.", "I heard a voice as calm as if he was calling from a friend's house. And he told me, \"Steve, it is Clay, and I have been kidnapped.\" And it went from there, and we found him, and he was safe. So, I think I got the story right.", "Incredible story, David. What is happening now with the case? And where is this alleged kidnapper? Do we know?", "Well, authorities in Florida say they are going to catch him, and they are going to catch him soon. There was a lot of optimism at this news conference today, in terms of getting ahold of Vicente Ignacio Beltran-Moreno. He is 22 years old, 5 feet, 5'', 140 pounds, goes by the nickname \"Nacho.\" Authorities are saying they give a lot of credit to young Clay Moore, who gave them a very accurate description of this man in the very early days of this investigation. So, they expect this to be wrapped up soon.", "Well, let's hope so. David, appreciate it -- David Mattingly. Stranger abduction is rare, as you probably know, but it does happen often enough that every child and parent should be prepared. Some tips now from family safety expert Bob Stuber. I spoke with him earlier tonight.", "So, Bob, what do you think about Clay Moore? His story is just incredible.", "Yes, it is a very incredible story. And it's -- it's good to hear the story, in a lot of ways. We are seeing more and more stories these days where kids are escaping because they are not just sitting back and taking a passive position. And that is the main message I think everybody has to get across that works in this field. For years, kids were taught don't try to do anything. You might inflame this guy or you might make him mad. First of all, the guy is a nut. He's crazy anyway. So, you are not going to make him mad. And, second of all, if you don't do something, then it's probably going to be a very tragic outcome.", "It seemed, with this young man, the key was him remaining -- I don't think calm is probably the right word, but at least thinking ahead. He saw this safety pin on him. He took it off and put it in his mouth before he was tied up.", "Yes. It is -- I think you are right. It's a matter of thinking ahead. Obviously, he was the kind of person who had either been taught there were things that he could do, or he has just that type of personality. A lot of kids don't. And that is why it is so important that parents and educators and such have to give them the kind of ideas that they will need in a situation like this, or they won't think of it. The one downside on this whole case, the escaping side was great, and thank God for it. However, he never should have never, ever gotten in that car to start with. Even though this guy had a gun, you still don't get in the car.", "Well, what do you do if someone is approaching you with a gun?", "Well, if somebody approaches you with a gun -- here, let me break it down for you this way. If somebody pulls up and they have a gun -- now, first of all, a child predator, in most -- a vast majority of all cases, is not going to shoot you, because that is not what this crime is about. And they don't want to attract any attention. But, if you were walking down the street, somebody came up to you in a car, they point a gun, they say, get in the car, you say, no. Now, if you get into car, you are probably going to die. If you take off running, there is only a 50 percent chance that this person will choose to shoot at you.", "Obviously, what a lot of people don't think about is, if you do run, you run in the opposite direction that the car is going.", "Yes. Run in the opposite direction, so that -- that the person has to turn around. And, still, you're at a place where people can come and help you. If you do end up getting wounded or injured, you are much safer there than you are out in the woods. So, getting away, I give the -- high marks, definitely high marks, but I wish he had never gotten in that car to start with.", "The other scenario people often talk about is the idea of being locked in the trunk of a car.", "Yes, locked in trunk of a car is not an uncommon place to be in this situation. And this takes us back to these commonsense types of choices. You could kick and scream all you want. Nobody is going to hear you. Nobody is going to see you. But, if you disconnect the brake or taillights, which is very easy to do -- I could show a 3-year-old how to do it -- they are right there, accessible in the trunk -- you have actually increased the percentage, 50 percent, that the cops will pull the car over, because it has no brake or taillights. Then, they are going to hear you, and -- and come to your aid. Little choices like that, common sense, is what makes the difference.", "Well, it is good to be here, talking about a little kid who got away, Clay.", "Yes.", "Great story. Bob, thanks for your perspective. Thanks.", "Thank you.", "It goes without saying Clay Moore's escape brings back memories of Shawn Hornbeck, the Missouri teenager who was freed last month, after four years in captivity. Here is an update on him. An attorney for his family says that Shawn has been in therapy since his rescue. They say he is grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder. The family is together, according to the lawyer, but not at their home, which is being renovated. Shawn, who only completed the third grade, is not yet in school. Ben Ownby was the other teen found in Michael Devlin's apartment. He went back to school just a couple weeks ago. And he is back with his Boy Scout troop, working to earn a merit badge in first aid, we are told. From terror here at home now to America's war on terror -- Vice President Cheney got a rude awakening today, a suicide bombing outside the air base where he was staying in Afghanistan -- up next, what happened and why the months ahead in Afghanistan may be particularly deadly.", "Unfinished business, unfinished war.", "You just leave a reservoir of infection, even stronger, to come back after you.", "He should know. He was the CIA's man in Afghanistan. Next: the Taliban comeback, the suicide bombings, what America's ally, Pakistan, is doing about it, and what it isn't. Later: She says she has got the secret.", "There is incredible power inside every single human being.", "In print, on \"Oprah,\" she says it can make you rich, bring you love, even keep you thin. And people are spending millions on it. So, what is the secret? Later on 360."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "ALI VELSHI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "VELSHI", "COOPER", "VELSHI", "COOPER", "VELSHI", "COOPER", "VELSHI", "COOPER", "VELSHI", "COOPER", "DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "STEVE KELLE, STEPFATHER OF CLAY MOORE", "MATTINGLY", "KELLE", "MATTINGLY", "KELLE", "MATTINGLY", "KELLE", "COOPER", "MATTINGLY", "COOPER", "COOPER", "BOB STUBER, FAMILY SAFETY EXPERT", "COOPER", "STUBER", "COOPER", "STUBER", "COOPER", "STUBER", "COOPER", "STUBER", "COOPER", "STUBER", "COOPER", "STUBER", "COOPER", "COOPER (voice-over)", "ART KELLER, FORMER CIA OFFICER", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-326513", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2017-11-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/20/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Toll Of War In Yemen.", "utt": ["It is a quarter past 7:00 in Abu Dhabi in the UAE from our Middle East programming hub. You're watching CNN. This is \"Connect the World\" with me, Becky Anderson. If you are just joining us, you are very welcome. It's simply hard to imagine that estimated 130 children are dying every day from starvation and disease in Yemen. Who knows how many will take their last breaths during this very show. From easily preventable causes. An aid group say things could only get worse. If the Saudi led blockade of Yemen continues. Tonight the World marks International children's day, we remember the United Nations declaration that all children have inherent right to life, to education and play and the right to health services. In Yemen, the reality is tragically different. We have an exclusive report now from Iona Craig and we warn you that the images you will see are very disturbing.", "It's very easy obviously to impact of the war when you are traveling through areas that have been conflicted affected, where there's a lot of destruction, whether it has been air strikes, but it's the impact on the wider civilian population that you often don't really get to see. This 9-year-old boy in the hospital and as you see from the footage, he is suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Obviously it was very shocking to see a young boy in a state like that. He is skeletally thin. And he was lifeless just lying there while the doctors were trying to administer glucose to him. His female family members were with him and they've been unable to bring him into the hospital any sooner, because of the cost of getting help to the hospital. There are many children like him. The hospital is actually overflowing quite literally with patients. The hospital normally before the war was taking in 700 patient or treating 700 patients a day and now they're treating around 2,500 patients a day. You can see that so clearly in the hospital. It has like a bus station. You walked in there and it's, elbow to elbow. People just barring through the corridors trying to get access to medical care.", "In that particular hospital that staff haven't been paid for more than a year. The government salaries haven't been paid. So effectively they're working as volunteers. When I was walking around the hospital with the Director, people in the corridors, staff was stopping him, begging for money essentially. And he wasn't able to give them anything. The hospital is struggling just over -- just to operate. And the Director of the hospital said to me, you know, if this continues on this sort of level, for the next six months, they don't know if they'll be able to stay open for six months' time, if the hospital will even still open.", "George Khoury is the head of office, OCHA in Yemen, he joins me now by skype. Let's drill down this. How complicit are countries who are part of all support, the ongoing Saudi led coalition campaign on Yemen in this?", "Well, thank you. The blockade was imposed on Yemen without any kind of notification to the United Nations or to the agencies here. So the country's leading the coalition, you know, have direct responsibility, have direct responsibility on what's going on right now in Yemen. Like you mentioned in your report, every day, 130 children die every day in Yemen. Or if you put it otherwise, every ten minutes a child dies in Yemen of preventable disease and of starvation. That was the situation before the blockade was imposed on Yemen. The situation since then, since the blockade, has deteriorated sharply and as you can imagine women and children are among the most vulnerable groups here. At risk not only because of the conflict and the conduct of hostilities, but also because of the malnutrition like you mentioned in your report and because of disease. We have 400,000 children, by the way, who are severely malnourished like the child you featured in your report. These children, they depend for their survivals on therapeutic feeding and is supplies that we provide to these people. So we cannot afford any break in our supply pipelines, in our humanitarian supply pipelines. As we speak, because of the blockade we have 29 ship, 29 vessel with half million tons of humanitarian supplies that are waiting in seaports and cannot reach humans. We cannot reach the seaport. We cannot get our humanitarian supplies. The country is running out of fuel, running out of food, and you can imagine without fuel there is no electricity, there is no cleaning water. So the situation is literally deteriorating by the day, because of the blockade.", "The Saudis and those involved in the coalition say there is a reason for this blockade. They are trying to prevent the import of weapons and they refer to the ballistic missile fired at Riyadh just a week or so ago. What are they telling you specifically as a humanitarian organization about how they will help to ensure that you can get this aid on the move? What are they doing to help?", "Well, right now there is a blockade. We cannot access the country humanitarian shipments, staff, aid workers cannot access the country. The United Nations last year has established a verification mechanism. It's called the United Nations verification and inspection mechanism. That is the mechanism that inspects vessels, before commercial vessels before they come to Yemen. This is the functioning mechanism. If there are any concerns, it has to be discussed within that context. The humanitarian aid does not carry any sort of supplies and cargo other than food, other than medicine that we bring to these people, so there is absolutely no reason for blocking the humanitarian cargo from coming to the country. As I mentioned earlier there are millions of people --", "Sorry. I'm just -- for our viewer's sake, and I hear your frustration, and I've listened to the frustration of so many humanitarian organizations of late. Can you explain why you think it is that this mechanism, this facility has broken down, that this humanitarian catastrophe is also failing to inspire a satisfactory response from the rest of the world?", "That is the question for the media. Here in Yemen this is the largest humanitarian crisis globally. We have the largest food and security crisis globally. Every month seven million people depend on their daily survival on the food that we provide them. So the question is why is it not getting that? That is a question mostly for media, for countries. As humanitarian organizations, we are doing our level best on a daily basis and extremely conflicts and extremely dangerous situations and sometimes to reach the people in need and to keep them. Of course, we're saying humanitarian organizations, we save lives. We are not the solution for the problem. There has to be a political solution for the problem.", "We do not need reminding of the consequences of this campaign. We see them in the reports. The world is aware. They see these terrible, terrible images, three rounds of U.N. sponsored peace talks have collapsed and the fighting and casualties as you say have just gotten worse. From your perspective, what do you want to see happen next?", "The first of all, you know from where is stand right now, the first thing that we want to see is the immediate left of this blockade. We need humanitarian supplies and cargo to come into the country, because we're heading towards a major, major catastrophe if we will not get our supplies. Any -- we cannot afford any shortages and we cannot afford any break in our supply pipelines. That is the first thing that we want to see, of course. Second thing, we want the parties to the conflict to respect their obligations under the international humanitarian law. The coalition has an obligation under the IHN to allow access and to facilitate access of humanitarian agencies to the people in need. Third, both parties to the conflict, they have also to respect their obligations under the international humanitarian law. They have an obligation to protect the civilians and steer the civilians from the war. So we call on them to respect all these obligations.", "With that we leave it there. We thank you very much indeed for joining us. Millions of people in desperate need of aid in Yemen. To find out how you can help, use CNN.com/impact. We will be right back."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "IONA CRAIG, INTERNATIONAL FREELANCE JOURNALIST", "CRAIG", "ANDERSON", "GEORGE KHOURY, HEAD, OCHA IN YEMEN", "ANDERSON", "KHOURY", "ANDERSON", "KHOURY", "ANDERSON", "KHOURY", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-395789", "program": "CNN RELIABLE SOURCES", "date": "2020-03-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/22/rs.02.html", "summary": "Three Top Editors on Coronavirus Coverage.", "utt": ["We're back on RELIABLE SOURCES, at a special time. Every corner of this economy is being upended by the pandemic, including every corner of the media industry. Let me show you a few examples you might not have thought of so far. You know, in the entertainment business, drive-in movie theaters are seeing a sudden comeback. In the area where people are still being given the encouragement to go out of their homes, drive-ins are doing well, at the same time while most movie theater chains have closed. And most movie new releases have been postponed. In the sports arena, networks like ESPN have had to come up with new plans. They're showing pretty obscure sports and old games, while newspapers are cutting their sports sections for now. Local newspapers are going to be especially hard hit by all of this turmoil, because many papers are already struggling to get by, as \"Axios\" says, this is a crisis, because advertisers are now slipping away. If the local car dealership is closed, it's probably not going to advertise in the town paper. You can read this full story on CNN.com, about the virus speeding up the death of local papers. And we're already seeing that with weekly newspapers, because they rely heavily on a vent listing. Some of those have already shut down and laid off staff in just the past week. I wish I could turn to some positive news here and tell you why it's all going to be OK, but we are, you know, we're living through a tumultuous, frightening period. There are positive signs, though. Local TV stations are producing fantastic coverage of the crisis, but they are also feeling the pinch from advertisers. Subscription business models are sort of the solution, but when people lose their jobs, it is harder to pay for news websites or magazines or cable TV or Netflix. Some media brands will not survive this downturn. Major networks are adding hours of special coverage, but if families can't pay for cable, then those networks will eventually feel the pinch, too. So, that's the sober picture of this business that tries to keep people informed about the world around them and about world war V, \"V\" for the virus. With me now is the editor in chief of \"The Wall Street Journal,\" Matt Murray, the executive editor of \"The Associated Press\", Sally Buzbee, and the editor in chief of \"The Atlantic\", Jeffrey Goldberg. All three outlets doing very important work in this moment in time. Thank you all for joining me from your homes or offices here. Sally, you have thousands of employees around the world. How are you keeping them as safe as can be while covering this crisis?", "Yes, that's really the trick, no question. So our journalists are obviously very in variance. This is obviously a new type of crisis, but many of them are battle hardened. So we've been talking a lot about how to go out and cover the story, but not endanger other people and not endanger themselves, as they do that. So protective gear, in some cases. We're rethinking, basically, everything we do. But I think our news report has been enormously strong, very fact-based and explanatory. And so far, we're pretty happy with the way we've been able to help news organizations across the entire world get the news and the information they need to distribute to their audiences and their readers and their viewers to stay on top of this.", "There have been so many cases of the virus being found at newsrooms. Staffers at CBS and CNN and pretty much every other major outlet have been affected. So, Matt Murray, you're at \"The Wall Street Journal,\" you share a building with Fox News and Fox Business. We know four Fox News media employees who have tested positive. How are you trying to keep your staff safe at \"The Journal\"?", "Well, I would echo what Sally said, Brian. We sent everybody home about a week ago. We did a number of work-from-home drills before that. And of course, starting in January in Asia, we had employees working at home. So we started to anticipate what was going to be needed there. We had through travels and different exposures. We've already had something like 200 employees in the newsroom who have had self- quarantine. Now, we did have our first case the other day. And we've been in close touch with the people who work with the individual, and we've got pretty careful protocols in place. But -- and I think we'll have more, but broadly similar to what Sally said. We've got people at home, we've got a pretty careful protocol, we've got pretty careful information. We're not sending anybody out to the story that they don't want to go cover, we're giving them predictive cover. We're making sure everybody is informed. And we're prioritizing the safety of the folks and their families before even the reporting if they feel uncomfortable.", "Yes. Jeffrey, it seems like very day, every hour, there are ten stories that could be the top, top story at that moment. What is number one to you right now?", "Number one to us, at \"The Atlantic,\" is I think the testing story. We were very, very early on the test historic, the lack of kits, lack of organization. Our reporters have been great on the CDC angle. And we just posted a brilliant reconstruction of, I guess you could call it, sort of the two lost months of this or the month and a half, where things could have happened that didn't. So that's an enormous story for us. We're approaching it from all angles. We have a very, very strong science team, and a very strong health team. And so, we're trying to give readers as much information, as much context as possible, because I think that's incredibly important right now. That just information without context, without science, background without really close adherence to facts, I think that could be dangerous. So we're really trying hard.", "Yes, it's like, don't believe the random people you see on social media. If they're telling you it's going to be the end of the world, or if they're telling you it's all going to be OK. Try to find established scientific voices and trust them instead. Jeffrey, do you think we're fully conveying the scope of this story? Meaning, is this a once-in-a-generation event like a Vietnam or a 9/11? Is that coming through enough?", "Yes, I don't know if it's coming through quite enough. It feels that way. Obviously, people have that inchoate feeling that this is something that's truly different. 9/11 is a touch point, but there's really nothing to compare this to, in our lifetimes, our collective lifetimes. And I think it's one of the things that we're focusing on here at \"The Atlantic.\" obviously, as a daily, hourly, updated website and also a venerable print magazine with long deadlines, we have to figure out ways and we're trying that right now, just to figure out what we need to tell people in two, three, four, five, six months about what this all means. And we've been -- we've been trying to go at two speeds at once, the hyper speed of getting information out as fast as possible. But also trying to contextualize this and finding the writers and ways to say this, because this is something that I don't think we have any -- we don't have any -- any reference points for.", "No, we really don't. That's partly why it's so anxiety- producing. And, Sally, I've seen news say that the \"A.P.\" is viewing this as the Olympics of explanatory journalism. Why is that? Tell me more.", "I think it's exactly what Jeffrey just said. There is facts alone, which are incredibly important and obviously the key part of this. We also need the context around them. We need our health and science specialists, and thankfully we have a very strong team, to be really engaged in every aspect of the coverage. I mean, the usage is off the charts. As you know, we provide news to news organizations all across the globe. And I think it's fair to say that every news organization across the globe is focusing on this story, almost to the seclusion right now of all others. So we are trying to make sure that we are providing both facts, very quickly, but also wrapping that into looking at the effect of the economy, looking at just how people are living their lives. There are so many ripples to this story. And I think it's just critically important to stay on top of those and to provide that context. It's really -- I mean, what if we get a second wave that then goes back into other parts of the world again? We need to stay on top of this. And we are sort of viewing it as a marathon. We're also very much viewing it as, this is the moment for explanatory journalism. People are actually turning to the media for information, which is a wonderful thing for our industry, and all of our journalists are rising to the occasion in a way that is just really extraordinary and inspiring in many ways.", "Yes, it is, it is.", "Matt, I wonder, you know, you're more of our business journalist here. You have \"The Wall Street Journal\" there. What are the business impacts for the media business, for local newspapers? Am I right that we're going to see a very, very difficult situation for some of these local papers?", "Yes, look, I think that you are going to see some of the trends that were already affecting the media industry just accelerate, Brian.", "It is, yes.", "At \"The Journal\", where everybody has risen to an extraordinary degree, it's literally touching every beat, every job, and people are responding in really incredible ways. Even features coverage, and how do you write about entertainment and features for a different world, and that's a galvanizing effect. And there's a lot of adrenaline going right now in journalism. And there is a silver lining to that. And it would be nice if people really felt a turn here in the need for quality journalism and trusted facts. One of the things that I would add that is funny at this point in time, there's a lot of information, but part of the anxiety is that we're at that peak moment where there's a lot we don't know. We don't know how bad it will get, how long it will last, whether the economy will come back, we don't even quite know yet what all the stimulus measures are going to be. Part of what journalism can be doing right now is getting the best information on all of those facts and staying on them to help people get the information through the situation. And that's really important right now. And I think people are respond to that.", "I think so, too. I hope so. Matt, Jeffrey, Sally, thank you very much. Thank you for all you're doing. After the break here on RELIABLE SOURCES, we've seen some Fox News hosts do U-turns in the way they are recovering this crisis. I'll be joined by an ex-Fox host who says it's been worse than malpractice. Hear her comments, next."], "speaker": ["STELTER", "SALLY BUZBEE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS", "STELTER", "MATT MURRAY, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL", "STELTER", "JEFFREY GOLDBERG, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, THE ATLANTIC", "STELTER", "GOLDBERG", "STELTER", "BUZBEE", "STELTER", "STELTER", "MURRAY", "STELTER", "MURRAY", "STELTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-31141", "program": "CNN AHEAD OF THE CURVE", "date": "2001-5-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/25/aotc.10.html", "summary": "'Financial Times': FCC Head Wants Deregulation", "utt": ["The head of the Federal Communications Commission is going to be speaking with European regulators today. He's already spoken with the \"Financial Times,\" and had some words of interest to telecom and media companies. Lionel Barber is the European editor of the \"FT,\" and joins me live from London, with more. And the newspaper got an exclusive interview here with Michael Powell.", "Yes, we were very pleased to see Mr. Powell, who gave us a very wide-ranging interview. Two things, I think, stand out. First of all, he was hinting that he really wanted to break with his predecessors in the Democratic administration and look at the rules on cross-ownership for cable TV stations and media companies -- that is not just on the share of the market, but also cross-ownership, suggesting, for example, that cable could own more newspapers. So that opens opportunities for media. The second area was on telecoms. I think he showed a bit of ankle, so to speak, on the fact that maybe local phone operators could get back into the long distance game, and that, of course, would be great for the Baby Bells, who've been suffering.", "All right, in the meantime, we could see more mergers? Is that the bottom line here?", "Well, we certainly had a bit of a pause recently, after the tremendous deals of WorldCom and others -- but definitely, opportunities, if Mr. Powell's line's followed. Of course, the question is whether the Europeans see it the same way. And I would be not so clear about that.", "Precisely.", "I think we're a bit more regulatory.", "Precisely. OK, Lionel Barber of the \"FT,\" thank you."], "speaker": ["DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "LIONEL BARBER, EUROPEAN EDITOR, \"FINANCIAL TIMES\"", "MARCHINI", "BARBER", "MARCHINI", "BARBER", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "NPR-9384", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2009-01-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99120518", "title": "Did Burris Pay To Play?", "summary": "Former Illinois attorney general Roland Burris testifies before the Illinois House committee Thursday. The same committee recommended impeaching Governor Rod Blagojevich for his alleged role in selling Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat.", "utt": ["The drama over Illinois' Governor Rod Blagojevich continues today. A draft report released by an Illinois Statehouse committee recommends the full chamber impeach Blagojevich. That vote could come tomorrow. In the meantime, the impeachment committee will hear from Roland Burris. Burris is Blagojevich's choice to fill the Senate seat, but federal prosecutors allege the governor tried to sell or to trade to the highest bidder. Joining us from the Capitol in Springfield is NPR's David Schaper. David, tell us about the committee report. What does it say?", "Well, the committee report - it's not unexpected - but the draft reports thus far says that the impeachment committee believes Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich has abused his power. Quoting from the report, \"The citizens of this state must have confidence that the governor will faithfully serve the people and put their interests before his own. It is with profound regret that the committee finds that our current governor has not done so.\"", "It's quite voluminous. It's 60 pages or so of documentation of things beyond just what the federal prosecutor in Chicago has alleged that the governor has done, many reasons to impeach him beyond just the alleged criminal activity that he has been arrested and charged with.", "Now, is there a rush to do this before - to possibly impeach the governor before Mr. Burris would be seated as the junior senator from Illinois?", "The report is drafted without Burris' testimony. To consider, they would add it to it, I suppose, if he says something remarkable this afternoon. But they seemed to feel that they have enough evidence to move forward with the impeachment. The rush is really to just get him out of office before they have to grapple with a huge budget deficit here in the state of Illinois. The relationship between the Legislature and the governor has been dysfunctional for quite some time, and it's only gotten worse since his arrest last month.", "Now, about Roland Burris in Washington. It seems like this was a complete turnaround this week. We saw him sort of dolefully out in the rain at the Capitol being turned out. And then you see him yesterday with people smiling, everybody talking about him in good terms. Where does that stand now? What do you think is going to happen?", "Well, I think that the democratic leaders of the Senate realized that Roland Burris wasn't going to just go away, that even though they had said, and that President-elect Obama had said, that the Senate should not seat anybody appointed by Rod Blagojevich, they felt that Roland Burris, after he was nominated by the governor of the state, despite the cloud hanging over him, he wasn't going to go away. He was going to pursue this. It was completely within the governor's legal authority to do so, apparently.", "And so they realized that this could be a long, prolonged fight, and it looks like they have laid out some ways that they can still maintain the integrity of the Senate, as they said yesterday, but would still be able to seat Roland Burris if he meets these criteria. One of which is testifying before the Illinois House committee about all of his conversations, possible campaign contributions that Burris has made to the governor, contracts that his consulting firm has had with the state of Illinois while Blagojevich has been in office.", "I think that they're going to look hard at a lot of these things, both the state Legislature with the U.S. Senate watching from afar to see what he says about how he came to be the potential junior senator from the state of Illinois.", "NPR's David Schaper talking with us from Springfield. Thank you, David.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["NOAH ADAMS, host", "DAVID SCHAPER", "DAVID SCHAPER", "NOAH ADAMS, host", "DAVID SCHAPER", "NOAH ADAMS, host", "DAVID SCHAPER", "DAVID SCHAPER", "DAVID SCHAPER", "NOAH ADAMS, host", "DAVID SCHAPER"]}
{"id": "NPR-25980", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2014-10-23", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/10/23/358363528/retrial-of-texas-arson-case-ends-with-surprise-guilty-plea", "title": "Retrial Of Texas Arson Case Ends With Surprise Guilty Plea", "summary": "Robert Siegel talks with Dave Mann of the Texas Observer about the conclusion of the retrial of Ed Graf on arson charges. Graf had been convicted of arson decades ago for setting a fire that killed his two young stepsons. Still, he has always maintained his innocence. A court found that the evidence used in his trial was so questionable that he deserved a retrial. On Wednesday, in a surprise move, Graf pleaded guilty while the jury was still in deliberations, apparently deadlocked on the question of his guilt or innocence.", "utt": ["The story of Ed Graf of Hewitt, Texas, near Waco is a real-life forensics thriller full of plot twists that would be hard to believe even in a fictional TV-crime-lab procedural.", "First, Graf was convicted of the arson deaths of his two young stepsons in 1986. He was sentenced to life in prison. And for 28 years, he protested his innocence. His conviction was based on expert testimony about arson that is now considered junk science.", "Last year, the Texas Court of Appeals agreed he'd been convicted on the basis of false expert testimony. They ruled and he deserved a new trial. Well, that trial ended this week in stunning fashion. With the jury out deliberating, Ed Graf changed his plea to guilty. Dave Mann of the Texas Observer has followed this story from its earliest days. Welcome.", "Thank you.", "Graf's first conviction was based at least in part on forensic evidence about arson that came under attack as specious. Now, after a trial I gather without forensic evidence, he pleaded guilty. Does that mean that way back then justice was served albeit very sloppily?", "Not necessarily. I think at first when he pled guilty earlier this week, a lot of people were surprised. And as the details of his plea agreement emerged, it began to make more sense. His plea agreement stipulates that he'll get a six 60-year sentence. And under those stipulations - under some quirks of Texas law - that would make him eligible for parole. And he'll actually be able to get out in few months. So essentially Ed Graf kind of gave up his quest for innocence and pled guilty for the opportunity to get out of prison in a few months.", "He's doing that at a time when the jury had been reported to be deadlocked. Do we have any idea where they were headed?", "Well, the evidence indicates that they were headed for a guilty verdict. They'd initially indicated after their first few hours of deliberations that they were 10 votes for guilty and two votes for not guilty. And as the deliberations went on, the prospect of a hung jury became more likely and the two sides began negotiating a plea agreement. And just as they finished that plea deal, the jury reached a verdict. And in fact, as they were finalizing the plea agreement, the bailiff was entering the courtroom with a note saying the jury had reached a guilty verdict.", "Of course, that verdict was never delivered because of the deal that had happened. This was the very same jury that I gather had sent a question to the judge - how many jurors would have to vote for a verdict to make it unanimous?", "Yeah, in a - in what's been a very emotional and very serious saga and a very emotional trial, that was one of the lighter moments. One of their first questions to the judge was how many votes does it take for us to be unanimous. And he informed them that all 12 had to concur with the opinion.", "This was a trial about two things - on the one hand, the guilt or innocence of Ed Graf and the other the validity of the kind of evidence that was used to convict him the first time - arson evidence. His - his story notwithstanding, there's been something of a revolution in how that evidence is viewed nowadays.", "Yeah, the Ed Graf case is really part of a complete overhaul in how we view fire investigations and fire science. Just about everything that fire investigators once believed were indicators of arson have now been shown to be unreliable. And many of the burn patterns and other indicators that fire investigators used for decades to convict people of arson have shown to essentially be junk science.", "We have a much better understanding of how fire behaves now. And arson cases are prosecuted under, you know, what is now probably true science. And that science would lead the experts to believe that the fire in the Ed Graf case was in fact accidental. And that's what some nationally-known experts testified to over the past two weeks.", "Ed Graf's case was championed by the Texas Innocence Project. What did they say about him suddenly pleading guilty?", "Well, I think there's a little bit of confusion because the director of the Texas Innocence Project was quoted in the Waco paper kind of saying well, the most important thing here is the science and not whether each individual person is guilty or innocent. The most important thing is that we reexamine the science and that the proper fire science was offered in the courtroom, no matter what the verdict is.", "So I think there was a little bit of hedging there. The reality is that Ed Graf is going to get out of prison because of the quirk in Texas parole law. But I think that the fact he got up in court and admitted guilt definitely rattled some people who for a long time had believed in his innocence.", "Dave Mann, thanks for talking us today.", "My pleasure.", "Dave Mann is the editor of the Texas Observer."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "DAVE MANN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "DAVE MANN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "DAVE MANN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "DAVE MANN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "DAVE MANN", "DAVE MANN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "DAVE MANN", "DAVE MANN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "DAVE MANN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-250158", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-02-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/26/cnr.02.html", "summary": "LeBron James' Son Being Recruited", "utt": ["A once homeless college football player is no longer part of his team, all because a family friend offered him a place to live. Andy Scholes has more on this morning's \"Bleacher Report.\" Good morning, Andy.", "Good morning, Carol. Yes, this is another ridiculous incident of an NCAA rule just not making any sense. The player's name is Silas Nacita. He's a walk-on running back for Baylor and he received national attention not too long ago when people learned he had been homeless for a year. When he enrolled at Baylor, a family friend insisted on putting Nacita up in an apartment and helping him with his expenses and because he accepted that for free, Nacita apparently violated an NCAA rule and as a result, Baylor announced Wednesday that Nacita was no longer a member of the team. But this story, it does get a little confusing because the NCAA tweeted yesterday that they have not rules Nacita ineligible and Baylor has not requested a waiver for him. So who made the decision that Nacita can't play anymore isn't exactly clear. Either way Nacita, he's taking the high road. He tweeted that, \"All I wanted to do was go to school and play the game I love but I respect the decision by the NCAA.\" The Los Angeles Angels announced yesterday that star outfielder Josh Hamilton was in New York meeting with Major League Baseball officials. And according to reports, the former AL MVP has had a drug relapse. Hamilton was suspended from baseball from 2004 to June 2006 for issues related to cocaine and alcohol addiction. According to CBS sports, Hamilton confessed to going on a binge that involved cocaine a couple of months ago. Hamilton was already going to be out of action until May after having shoulder surgery, but now he could be facing a lengthy suspension. LeBron James has a message to colleges all around the country. Quit recruiting my 10-year-old son. LeBron James Jr. has become an Internet sensation after video of him just dominating other fourth graders has made the rounds. Some colleges have already offered LeBron Jr. a scholarship. And dad, well, he doesn't like it. LeBron told CBS Detroit, it's pretty crazy, it should be a violation. You shouldn't be able to recruit 10-year-old kids. Well, the old man is going to take center stage on tonight's NBA on TNT double header. LeBron and the Cavs is going to host the Golden State Warriors at 8:00 Eastern. The game followed by the Thunder visiting the Suns at 10:30. And, Carol, we've got some great news. Our friend over at TNT, Craig Sager, he's going to make his return to the sidelines a week from tonight. Of course Sager, he's been battling leukemia, but has been in full remission since late last year. Can't wait to see him back on the sidelines wearing all those crazy outfits and suits he's always wearing."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "SCHOLES"]}
{"id": "CNN-321230", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2017-09-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/14/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Trump White House; Aftermath of Irma; Trump denies making new deal with Democrats.", "utt": ["We are live from Hong Kong. Welcome back. This is \"News Stream.\" U.S. President Donald Trump is heading to Florida to assess the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. But before leaving Washington, he denied claims that he has made another deal with Democrats. Democrats say Mr. Trump agreed to protect undocumented migrants who came to the United States as children. They also say he agreed to border security legislation that does not include a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. President Trumps says there was no deal, so who is telling the truth? Senior Washington correspondent Joe Johns is standing by with the latest. Joe, what happened here? I mean, did President Trump strike a deal with the Democrats or not?", "Kristie, it certainly sounded at least like an agreement to agree and also seemed like it was signaling where the president was going on this issue. But this morning here in Washington, he tweeted firmly that there was no deal and that occurred after strong objection from some of the president's strongest conservative reporters.", "Democratic leaders are hailing another agreement with President Trump to protect hundreds of thousands of DREAMers from being deported in exchange for beefed-up border security. Key details about the agreement are unknown, but we do know it does not include the president's controversial border wall. House and senate Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi say, \"we agree to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that's acceptable to both sides.\" But White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders disputes their characterization, tweeting, \"while DACA and border security were both discussed, excluding the wall was certainly not agreed to.\" A senior administration official tells CNN the wall discussions were the same as the White House publicly suggested this week. The president will keep pushing for a wall, but it doesn't have to be part of this agreement. The framework hashed out at a White House dinner over Chinese food with Pelosi and Schumer. They were joined by eight others to discuss tax reform, DACA, and health care. Notably absent, the top Republicans in congress: the senate majority leader and the speaker of the house.", "Why not also invite Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan?", "Look, you've got the leader of the Republican Party sitting at the table.", "This potential deal on DREAMers comes after comes after the president infuriated his own party last week when he brokered a three- month deal to raise the debt ceiling and speed up relief funding for hurricane victims. But the president insists there's no reason to be skeptical.", "More and more, we're trying to work things out together. It's a positive thing, and it's good for the Republicans and good for the Democrats.", "The new approach a far cry from his usually harsh rhetoric.", "I think the losers are Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.", "Now, about those conservative supporters and reporters would certainly include Breitbard, the conservative website here in the United States, overnight, labeling President Trump amnesty Don, two words that went viral on social media. Another conservative congressman here in Washington, Steve King, indicated that if an associated press report on this issue was true, the president's base is blown up, destroyed, irreparable, disillusioned beyond repair. Kristie?", "Incredible to hear the criticism coming from Breitbart and from Trump's own base. Now, the bigger here, Joe, deal or no deal, what does it mean, this ongoing trend of Trump sidelining his own party and making deals with the Democrats? What does this mean?", "Well, it's a clear indication that the president wants to get things done. He knows how difficult it has been to get signature legislation through the congress. So, it appears, number one, that he is trying to get some things done. He is also sending a very clear signal to Republicans on Capitol Hill that they need to get their act together to work with him. He has been very disappointed with both the speaker of the house and the majority leader, Mitch McConnell. So, it's a signal to them and Republicans on Capital Hill that if his own party won't work with him, he will work with the Democrats.", "Joe Johns reporting live from the White House. Thank you, Joe. Now, turning to the challenges and dangers that are just beginning in the wake of Hurricane Irma. Authorities suspect a power outage may be to blame for the death of at least eight residents of a nursing home in Florida. The home said it was prepared for the storm with a working generator and a week's worth of food and water, but it may not have been prepared for Irma to knock out the air conditioning in the oppressive heat. For three days, staff scrambled to keep the residents hydrated and cool. They were kept in hallways near portable air-conditioning units and fans. Early on Wednesday morning, the facility was finally evacuated after three calls to 911 over residents in distress. The deaths prompted checks of other nursing homes in the area as well and the criminal investigation has been launched. Over three million customers in Florida are still without power. The death toll for Hurricane Irma is now at 77. While Florida fears it could take weeks to restore power, in the Caribbean, it could take many months. On parts of the British Virgin Islands, 90 percent of the homes there are severely damaged. The U.K. has pledged $75 million in aid and hundreds of military troops and police officers. CNN's Polo Sandoval tells us how the island of Tortola is coping.", "On Tortola's east end was no hiding from Hurricane Irma's wrath.", "The roof, gone. Gone.", "The eye of the deadly storm swept across the largest of the British Virgin Islands just over a week ago. Wicked winds consumed this once lush countryside. As Robinson Guzman describes it, it's as if a bomb went off in the middle of this Caribbean paradise.", "If I look around with a different island, it's like a fire feeling with the island. We'll lose the island. That's really terrible.", "This is the reality for the island of Tortola and its residents. Irma destroyed infrastructure. Critical supplies like food, water, and fuel are limited.", "We need international help because the island is destroyed completely.", "The damage only seems to worsen as we drive down the winding hillside roads into the island's capital. Crippled communications are sending residents to phone and internet businesses, their only hope of connecting with the outside world, picking up a wi-fi signal. Not far from here, we found one of Guzman's neighbors facing a challenge of her own.", "Need prayers. Pray for us. Pray for us.", "Shammica Stevens waited hours with her son for medicine at a local hospital.", "I don't know. I can't talk anymore because it's so devastating. I've never seen my country like this.", "Back at Steven's east side community, neigbors seem to be coming together.", "We got to stay here, to help the island stand up. We got to rebuild it and make it again.", "Amid the rubble, there are signs of resilience of rebuilding. Though these islanders have a long way to go, they're already on the path toward restoring their paradise. Polo Sandoval, CNN, on the British Virgin Island of Tortola.", "The U.S. and European governments have stepped up their efforts in the Caribbean, but many victims of Hurricane Irma say that they still feel abandoned. Clarissa Ward is in the hard hit island of St. Martin. She joins us now live. Clarissa, are residents fending for themselves? I mean, how much food, health supplies is there for them on the island?", "Well, according to the residents that we have been speaking to, Kristie, basically the role that the French military and authorities who have been kind of managing relief efforts here have been playing so far is to supply some minimal rations in terms of food and drinking water. The rest at this stage is up to the locals and you really see that. I want to show you some drone footage right now that we've managed to shoot yesterday after we arrived. It's just extraordinary, from up above, you really get a sense of those powerful winds of Hurricane Irma, how they just battered this island. You can also see residents have been trying to clear some of this debris themselves by hand often. And the real concern though now, if you can see along that street there, bags and bags and bags of garbage, Kristie. I'm talking more garbage I think I have ever seen in my life. The smell was just choking. Putrid trash smell. And of course, the big concern is where you have trash, you have rats. Where you have rats, you have disease. We spoke to one local who said they have already seen a lot of rats now. And their real fear is that there is potentially going to be some kind of outbreak. Because in addition to the huge problem with trash, you are also seeing a real problem with sanitation. There is no running water here. That means, there is no way for people to dispose of human waste. They haven't yet been able to bring in sort of disposable chemical toilets. Those will be particularly essential at this sort of choke points like the airport and a checkpoint that has been set up about just under a mile away from the airport to cope with the volume of people, the crush of people who are trying to get out of here every day. So, it is still a desperate situation here, Kristie. People can't even really think about trying to move on with their lives. I asked one man, I said, do you live here? He said, we're surviving. So, I think that tells you what you really need to know there, Kristie.", "You are describing this as a desperate situation there on the island. You know, people are very afraid of potential outbreak of disease. Clarissa, there have also been report of looting. On top of all, growing lawlessness on St. Martin after the hurricane.", "So, to give the authorities here some credit, the military has flown in hundreds and hundreds of personnel. I believe it's now over a thousand militarily personnel. They do appear to be getting a grip on the security situation. They are going out on patrols every day. There has been a curfew which has been in place from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. every single night. That curfew is not supposed to happen tonight because the situation in the past few days does appear to have improved. But for those first few days, Kristie, we spoke to a lot of people who said it was downright scary. There were just gangs of men roaming around, looting. Many of them carrying machetes. We saw one man ourselves yesterday carrying a machete down the street. You know, he didn't appear to be attempting to do anything with that machete. But still, obviously, unnerving. What it meant was all the food in those stores, all the medicines in those pharmacies, all of that was looted. All of it is gone. That leaves locals of course in a very vulnerable position. But as I said, security situation does appear to be improving as the French military stages these patrols, Kristie.", "All right. Good to hear that the security situation has improved as you have been reporting. Still not enough food, water. Sanitation is dire as well. And all of that has to be addressed to avoid just another tragedy, another disaster hitting the island. Clarissa Ward reporting live for us. Thank you so much and take care. You are watching \"News Stream.\" Still to come, Russia is carrying out a massive show of fire power and military prowess with Belarus. Why these war games are drawing international attention, next."], "speaker": ["LU STOUT", "JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "JOHNS (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "JOHNS (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "JOHNS (voice-over)", "TRUMP", "JOHNS", "LU STOUT", "JOHNS", "LU STOUT", "POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ROBINSON GUZMAN, RESIDENT OF TORTOLA", "SANDOVAL (voice-over)", "GUZMAN", "SANDOVAL (voice-over)", "GUZMAN", "SANDOVAL (voice-over)", "SHAMMICA STEVENS, RESIDENT OF TORTOLA", "SANDOVAL (voice-over)", "STEVENS", "SANDOVAL (voice-over)", "GUZMAN", "SANDOVAL (voice-over)", "LU STOUT", "CLARISSA WARD, CNN FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT", "LU STOUT", "WARD", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-154", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-1-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/04/tod.07.html", "summary": "OSHA Decides Existing Safety Regulations Applies to Telecommuters", "utt": ["Companies may not know it, but they are responsible for the health and safety of their employees who work from home. In a clarification of existing regulations, the government says federal workplace rules do apply to the estimated-19.6 million adults who telecommute from home offices. Here's CNN's Kathleen Koch with the story.", "For the nation's nearly-20 million telecommutors, the advisory means their home work site must now meet the same broad health and safety requirements that apply in every workplace. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration isn't establishing a new rule but is responding to a 1997 inquiry from an employer to clarify the regulations already on the books. It applies not just to telecommuters but also employees who work at home occasionally.", "I think that is's going to cause some barriers to companies that perhaps haven't started a telework program, yet teleworkers have increased from four million in 1990 to our recent survey showed 19.6 million.", "Companies are now responsible for not only making certain all home work sites are safe, but are liable for any illnesses or injuries that occur if the work sites aren't safe. Employers say the decision goes too far.", "This is nuts. This goes far beyond what the Occupational Safety and Health Act or the Constitution ever anticipated. This, plain and simple, is the long arm of OSHA reaching into people's homes. We think it's wrong. We oppose it.", "OSHA says it has no intention of inspecting private homes. Instead, it suggests employers conduct periodic safety checks of employee home workspaces. It makes clear there are limits, saying, \"an employer is responsible for ensuring that its employees have a safe and healthful workplace, not a safe and healthful home,\" and it puts responsibility on workers to notify employers of problems, saying, \"the employer is responsible for correcting hazards of which it is aware or should be aware.\" Unions believe the advisory makes sense.", "This is a matter of common sense. We don't think that OSHA should be going out and inspecting people's homes, but we do think that employers and employees should be thinking about safety and health on the job regardless of where the work is conducted.", "So while the decision extends protection to home workers, it may mean there will be fewer of them and more employees back in the nation's offices and on its highways. Reporting live in Washington, I'm Kathleen Koch. Back to you."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GAIL MARTIN, INTL. TELECOMMUTERS ASSOCIATION", "KOCH", "PAT CLEARY, NATL. ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS", "KOCH", "PEG SEMINARIO, AFL-CIO", "KOCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-192618", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2012-9-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/13/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Senator Wants to Cut Funding to Middle East Countries; Romney Softens Tone against Obama", "utt": ["Breaking news now. CNN has just learned the identity of the fourth person killed in Tuesday's attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The U.S. official confirms to our Chris Lawrence that Tyrone Woods also died in the attack. Woods was a former Navy SEAL. Well, what has happened in Libya and in Egypt and now in nine countries around the Middle East has led to a standoff in Washington. In the Senate, Republican Senator Rand Paul trying to force a vote today on his measure to cutoff aide to Libya, Egypt and Pakistan, which totals about $4 billion a year. Democratic leaders blocked Paul's move.", "They know if they vote their position, which is to send your money to Pakistan, and to Egypt, and to Libya, that the American people won't like it.", "Cutting the aid to any of these countries right now in this fashion is not the way to honor the memory of an Ambassador Chris Stevens, who went there in great danger to help that country be free and have an opportunity to have democracy.", "The exchange became much, much more testy. And I spoke to Senator Paul about it and asked him why he wants to cut funding.", "I think until we have the assassins who killed our ambassador and until both countries, Libya and Egypt, can verify that they can provide support and protection for our embassies, I see no reason to keep sending them money.", "Let me ask you, because obviously you and John Kerry had it out on this today. But John McCain also is on the other side of this. Here's John McCain.", "If we turn our backs now on the millions of people in Libya and Egypt and Syria and other countries across the Middle East, people who share so many of our values and interests, people who are the true authors of the Arab Spring, we will hand our common enemies, the terrorists and extremists, the very victory that they seek.", "Senator, what do you think about that? I mean the Libyan leadership apologized immediately. Would we be handing terrorist, extremist a victory by pulling the funding back?", "I think too many people misinterpret that you have to bribe people to be your friends or that your disengaging by not giving people money. We're pretty well engaged with England but we don't send any money to England. We're borrowing $50,000 a second. Where is the money going to come from. But often foreign aid is stolen by the leaders. Mubarak stole probably billions of dollars. His families secreted it away in Swiss bank accounts. They had mansions around the world. Most foreign aid is stolen and is counterproductive.", "Senator, do you think -- you know, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked a question today about whether Egypt is now allied with the United States. President Obama had said the country is, quote, \"not an ally nor is it an enemy,\" and a lot of people, \"So what was he saying? What was he saying?\" So press secretary said, well, ally is a legal term of art. We do not have a mutual defense treaty with Egypt like we do with our NATO allies.", "Right. What I would say is --", "Do you think -- is Egypt an ally? Yes, what --", "Well, that may be semantics but I would say if you want to be an ally of America, act like it.", "So I want to throw up the top five recipients of foreign aid from the United States in 2012. Israel is number one, then Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Egypt. And our Egyptian number is $1.6 billion. Would you cut off to all these countries, though, or just the ones that you wouldn't deem currently friends? I mean obviously I'm getting very specifically here at Israel.", "Yes.", "The number one recipient of American aid in the world.", "What I would do is start with the countries who disrespect us and are not acting like allies. Start with countries like Egypt who can't even protect our embassy. Do you know that news reports said that they called and said the mob is coming but then nobody did anything? In my budget, we took the $30 billion of foreign aid and made it down to $5 billion but we didn't specify who those are but if we're going to have some foreign aid I would start out by giving it to those who are our allies.", "And by that, Israel?", "Well, Israel has always stood with us and there's been no question. But I think really we have to reassess all money every where considering that we're bore roger the money we're sending overseas.", "A final question about how this has played out politically. As you're well aware, Mitt Romney criticized the president very early on. His first statement after the attacks read, and I know you're familiar with it, but I'll read it for the viewer. \"It's disgraceful the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.\" He has been criticized by many in the Republican Party for that statement. Did he do the right thing or did he go too far?", "Well, it was kind of the same as my first response also when I read that and people have said oh, look at the sequence of time when it came out. Sort of a bad statement to come out when any embassy is under any kind of assault. To come out and say, we under you're angry. I think really probably and, you know, the president disavowed it. But it essentially came from an extended part of his administration so I think the first statement was a mistake. President Obama has said it was a mistake. So by Governor Romney pointing out it was a mistake he now agrees with President Obama. So I think it's somewhat of people making a mountain out of a mole hill now.", "I have to say, you just did a very masterful job of spinning it to your point of view.", "Everyone who does this --", "Thank you.", "With rhetorical -- that's why it's become Mt. Everest. Thank you so much. Good to see you as always, Senator.", "All right. Thank you, Erin.", "All right. Rand Paul is not backing down but is Mitt Romney? Or is he at least trying to refocus the conversation? His tone today seemed a little softer.", "As we watched the world today, sometimes it seems we're at the mercy of events instead of shaping events. And a strong America is essential to shape events.", "Jamal Simmons, Democratic strategist is with us, along with Reihan Salam, Republican strategist, and John Avlon from \"Newsweek\" and \"The Daily Beast.\" OK. Great to see all of you. Reihan, that was a little bit of a toning down, no, he's not backed off of what he said. I think that's important to say. But he is shifting his rhetoric a bit.", "Well, there's a very straightforward reason for that. Because when we actually focus not on the political back and forth but what's actually happening you're looking at an incredibly chaotic situation. You're looking at the president having said on one day that Egypt is not an ally and then the next day having that walk back.", "Right.", "It's a great deal of uncertainty and then you're also seeing this chaos spread and there are deep questions, are we protecting our diplomatic missions adequately and who's have -- who was keeping their eye on the ball because this is a volatile region and that's something that everyone is -- really ought to have understood since the start of the Arab Spring. There's an opportunity here but there's also a tremendous danger.", "Right. Which I think everyone can agree with, wherever you are on this politically. But John, one thing that does all seem to be true is the U.S. was taken by surprise by all of this, which I think a lot of people might say look, given the situation maybe you shouldn't have been taken as much surprise as it seems we were.", "Certainly. I mean the dynamics that we know now.", "Yes.", "The fact that this all sprung up from a film that everyone was unaware of created by an obscure studio in California, and then over-dubbed to create a controversy picked up by anti- Islamists here in United States and then amplified by Islamist radicals in the Far East, it is a surreal parable, a cautionary tale about what can happen in the Arab globalization. But clearly Ambassador Stevens felt secure in Benghazi. He had done so much to try to secure and liberate that country. So we were taken by surprise. Should there have been more defenses at the consulate, obviously the answer is yes.", "Right.", "I think the problem is the politicization. During the attack, when we had incomplete information, for Governor Romney's campaign to say that the Obama administration was sympathizing with the people attacking our embassies, I think that went beyond the pale and that's why he's softening his tone rightly because it's not the right approach to take in a such a volatile time.", "And Jamal, I'm wondering, there's something I don't know if you've heard, but Ben Wedeman at the top of the program was reporting and he had spoken to a protester who was impassioned and saying, Obama is guilty, Obama is guilty, Obama is guilty.", "Yes.", "And then what Ben Wedeman said is that protester was not aware that the United States had said that this film was not OK and -- and now I'm wondering, and he said when he was aware, now who knows what would have really changed about is point of view. But the president backed off that statement the embassy put out. Should he embraced it?", "Should the president embrace the statement? I don't --", "Embrace that statement saying, look, these kinds of action -- against a religion are not acceptable.?", "Well, if you look at what Secretary Clinton said today in her remarks, I mean she pretty much came out and said that these things aren't acceptable. We don't agree with the content of the video. I think to couple that statement, though, if you're the president of the United States with a strong statement of, you know, but we're not going to tolerate violence against our people or against our nation or against our assets, because you're upset about a video that was produced here, and I think for most people around the world, they don't understand that in the United States we do have freedom of press, we do have the ability --", "That's true.", "-- to say what they want. And maybe in their countries they don't, and so it's hard for them to understand the society where we have as much freedom as we do here in the United States.", "Yes.", "But to get back to Mitt Romney I do think -- his statement was ill-timed and it was ill-informed and temporary. And I think he's digging himself out of this hole. I think that's why you saw him today trying to soften it up a little bit because now he's got to get back to a place of statesmanship so that he can continue to argue the points he wants to make.", "All right. We have to hit pause there. All I have to say is when I was in Cairo during the revolution I was lectured by person after person about the peace treaty with Israel as if I could do something about it. And there is -- there was a real, obviously, not understanding the distinction between individuals and the government. Thanks so much to all three of you. We appreciate it. And next for days we knew almost nothing about the person behind the film sparking worldwide outrage. But tonight that has changed and in a very important way."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "SEN. RAND PAUL (R), KENTUCKY", "SEN. JOHN KERRY (D), MASSACHUSETTS", "BURNETT", "PAUL", "BURNETT", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA", "BURNETT", "PAUL", "BURNETT", "PAUL", "BURNETT", "PAUL", "BURNETT", "PAUL", "BURNETT", "PAUL", "BURNETT", "PAUL", "BURNETT", "PAUL", "BURNETT", "BURNETT", "PAUL", "BURNETT", "PAUL", "BURNETT", "MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BURNETT", "REIHAN SALAM, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BURNETT", "SALAM", "BURNETT", "JOHN AVLON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BURNETT", "AVLON", "BURNETT", "AVLON", "BURNETT", "JAMAL SIMMONS, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "BURNETT", "SIMMONS", "BURNETT", "SIMMONS", "BURNETT", "SIMMONS", "BURNETT", "SIMMONS", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-245193", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-12-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1412/13/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Report: U.S. Prison Camp A Breeding Ground For ISIS", "utt": ["A chilling new report is out about the U.S. prison camp in Iraq, Camp Buka. It began as a holding cell for prisoners, but we are also learning how it became a breeding ground for terrorists, including the notorious Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS. CNN's Brian Todd reports.", "He may be the most vicious terrorist leader in recent years, possibly more brutal than Bin Laden. Now, a former inmate at a U.S.-run prison camp in Iraq, says ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, the man behind scores of ISIS beheadings, was once a trusted inmate by his American captors, allowed to roam freely around the camp.", "The Americans seem to see Abu Bakr as somebody who could keep the prison quiet. There are 24 camps within the Sunni side of the camp and he was allowed access to all of them.", "\"Guardian\" reporter, Martin Chulov interviewed a senior ISIS commander. He calls Abu Ahmed, not his real name. He told Chulov, Baghdadi was a fixer at the camp. Quote, \"He was respected very much by the U.S. Army. Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, he said, was seen by other detainees as clever, scheming, quote, using a policy of conquer and divide to get what he wanted. A U.S. intelligence official tells us, Baghdadi built street cred inside Buka. Baghdadi and other jihadists at this American prison were not always segregated, allowed to meet freely to plot, and they had an ingenious way of communicating.", "He and others were able to write their contact details on the white elastics of their boxer shorts, prison-issued boxer shorts, and that was a way that they networked. And when they got out of prison, they had phone numbers and details of fathers, uncles villages.", "Abu Ahmed depicts Abu Bakr as the management school for ISIS leaders. If there was no American prison in Iraq, there would be no Islamic state now.", "A good level came from Buka. Because, you know, tens of thousands of people were held in Buka, over the years. And so, just when they got out, they had little to do, and they had these wished networks and it's clear that they had done their homework in the prison.", "And as he left, according to a former camp commander, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi had a chilling parting shot.", "He looked over to us, and as he left, he said, see you guys in New York.", "Responding to the camps that Camp Buka was a breeding ground for is, where jihadists could strategize, a Pentagon official told CNN, quote, these types of detentions are common practice during armed conflict.", "U.S. commanders tried to separate the most violent hard-core inmates. But they said Buka was packed with detainees. The army was short staffed, and no one at the time thought Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi would go on to do what he's doing now. A U.S. intelligence official tells us, camp buka was not a turning point for Baghdadi. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "Wow, so interesting. Minutes from now in Washington, protesters will march to the U.S. capitol, calling for justice after the recent police killings of unarmed African-Americans. We will go there live at the top of the hour, as soon as we come back."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MARTIN CHULOV, CORRESPONDENT, \"THE GUARDIAN\"", "TODD", "CHULOV", "TODD", "CHULOV", "TODD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TODD", "TODD", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "NPR-35720", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2010-04-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125788679", "title": "Week In Politics: Stupak To Retire", "summary": "There's more angst for the Democrats as they look to this fall's midterm elections. Congressman Bart Stupak of Michigan, who easily won re-election last term, now says he will step down after his term and \"looks forward to begin a new and exciting chapter.\" The 58-year Democrat played a key role in negotiating an anti-abortion compromise in the national health overhaul legislation last month. Key leaders in the Democratic Party, including the president had urged Stupak to stay in office. The open seat leaves another opportunity for the GOP in November.", "utt": ["And back here in the studio with E.J. Dionne and David Brooks. David Brooks, Bart Stupak today said the Tea Party did not run me out. Did they run them out?", "I don't know, it's a multi- factored thing. He was obviously exhausted. He talked about this in years past. But this happens to be a year where on the generic ballot, the Democrats are in terrible shape. It's supposed to be tough for any Democrat in a tough race. And it's especially tough for a Democrat who's socially conservative and economically liberal as he was. There just aren't many Democrats like that. He got hit from both sides. So it's going to be, I would think an unlikely race he couldn't have won anyway.", "And E.J., a sign of things to come, do you think?", "Some on the right end of the pro-life movement said he shouldn't have accepted any compromise, but this was a pretty strong pro-life compromise. You've had other retirements this year that suggests some Democrats know it's going to be tough. But I think it was the emotional sort of feeling he had of being really attacked by some of the people on the pro-life side for whom he had been a hero for so long. And I think that was really tough for him.", "Thanks to you both, and have a great weekend.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of The New York Times."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "DAVID BROOKS", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "DIONNE", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "DIONNE", "DAVID BROOKS", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host"]}
{"id": "CNN-72154", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-6-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/12/ltm.16.html", "summary": "U.S. Forces on Offensive Against Loyalists of Baath Party", "utt": ["In the meantime, U.S. forces in Iraq have been on the offensive all week against loyalists of the Baath Party and Saddam Hussein. Today, in a raid west of Baghdad, an Apache helicopter was shot down. Ben Wedeman live in Baghdad right now to talk about all these stories. He was embedded with that operation known as Operation Peninsula, earlier today -- Ben, good afternoon there.", "Yes, good afternoon, Bill. There's a variety of operations going on. Now, the latest on this Apache helicopter, it apparently was shot down by hostile fire during a raid on what U.S. officials are describing as an extremist camp. Now, this occurred 90 miles west of Baghdad, which would put it roughly in the area of the town of Ramadi, which is on the Amman- Baghdad highway. Ramadi has a history of fairly intense anti-American sentiment so it's a good chance that this helicopter was downed in that area. Now, according to Central Command officials, the two pilots of that Apache were rescued shortly after their aircraft went down. In addition to that, an F-16 crashed, that due to mechanical failure, according to U.S. officials. Now, during this raid 90 miles west of Baghdad, there was a firefight between troops of the 101st Airborne Division and what are being described as irregular forces. One U.S. soldier apparently received minor wounds during that clash. Now, since the beginning of the week, we've seen a real intensification of U.S. military efforts against what are being described as holdouts from the old regime. My crew and I tailed along with, on what has been described as Operation Peninsula Strike. That occurred in the Zilawea Peninsula (ph) about 50 miles north of Baghdad, involved on the ground, at least, about 1,000 troops of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. It began very early Monday morning. Many armed personnel carriers and Humvees coming into that area with air cover from U.S. helicopters. Now, the initial focus of their efforts in that area were some houses that belonged to members of the former Baathist regime. Now, we were there. We saw them rounding up women, children and men under the cover of darkness. No lights there. We were taking all these pictures through a night scope. We saw the men, women and children with their hands tied behind their backs, sitting in the front lawn of one of these houses that belong to former Baathist officials. The women and the children were shortly afterwards released, but we know that the Americans detained and questioned around 400 people. But the man they were looking for, Ali Hassan al-Majid, otherwise known as Chemical Ali, was nowhere to be found -- Bill.", "Ben Wedeman covering everything for us there in Baghdad. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-145898", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2009-12-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/09/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Inside Elin`s Heartbreak; Kate Gosselin`s New Gig", "utt": ["Right now, on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, breaking Tiger Woods bombshells. Tonight, inside Elin`s heartbreak. Brand-new details just out today about how Tiger`s wife is dealing with the devastating cheating scandal. Plus, one of alleged other women speaks out. And SHOWBIZ TONIGHT asks, is there anything Tiger could do at this point to rebuild his image? SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has the brand-new Tiger bombshells you haven`t heard before. Saving David Hasselhoff. David`s ex-wife makes a desperate public plea to David`s fans to help save his life. Was it wrong for her to go public? Plus, David`s daughter calls 911 -", "You`re with him right now?", "Yes. He has collapsed.", "Tonight, the desperate plea to save David Hasselhoff`s life. Kate Gosselin`s new gig. As her marriage and her reality show comes to an end, Kate goes solo with a new job. Is she trying to reinvent herself as a different kind of TV star? And will it work?", "TV`s most provocative entertainment news show starts right now.", "Hello. I`m A.J. Hammer, broadcasting tonight and every night from New York City.", "Hi there, everyone. I`m Brooke Anderson coming to you tonight from Hollywood. And tonight, Tiger Woods` shocking cheating scandal has placed a searing spotlight on his wife, Elin.", "Yes. And we`re getting brand-new insight into Elin`s nightmare. Just how is she coping with the controversy that has rocked her famous family? Friends of hers now coming out and saying Elin is no fragile flower. But does she really want Tiger to suffer for his transgressions? Well, that is just one Tiger Woods bombshell that made for big news breaking today. Also breaking today, the first woman romantically linked to Tiger is on the defensive. Today, Rachel Uchitel speaking out for the very first time since Tiger`s shocking transgression confession which happened to come on the same day Uchitel mysteriously canceled a big press conference with her high-profile attorney. Wait until you hear what Uchitel is saying now. And just in tonight, a different woman linked to Tiger Woods is now apologizing to Tiger`s wife. Is this just too little, way too late? Joining me tonight in New York, Megan Alexander, who is a correspondent for \"Inside Edition.\" Also tonight, in Atlanta, Ryan Smith, who is an attorney and host for the legal network, \"In Session.\" You know, with all these women coming out of the woodwork, Tiger`s wife, Elin, has got to be beyond upset, beyond stressed out at this point. Brooke Anderson, friends of Elin are actually now saying that this woman is tough as nails. I would imagine she would have to be.", "She certainly would. And it`s true, A.J. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT obtained an advanced copy of \"People\" magazine today. And in it, folks reportedly around Tiger and Elin say he`s feeling low and embarrassed. And though she is devastated, make no mistake, she`s very tough. \"People\" magazine sources say that Tiger has now told Elin everything. So all these alleged mistresses coming forward, not news to her. Although before the incident, she reportedly didn`t have a clue he was cheating on her. \"People\" also quote sources saying that Elin is a fighter and that because she`s a child of divorce, money would not play a role in whether or not she would fight for this marriage. A.J., it sounds like Elin is no shrinking violet here. The question is, will she stand by her man?", "Yes. And that certainly is something that a lot of people are saying - well, absolutely not. She should get the heck out of there. The decision is pretty clear. Megan, what do you think? No matter how strong her friends say she is, I`m feeling like this is a woman who would have to have superhuman strength to endure all of this.", "I completely agree. I don`t care how tough you are. Adultery is difficult enough to deal with in your relationship in private. But to see it played out in this media circus that we`re seeing as woman after woman comes forward now in the double digits - I don`t care how tough she is, A.J. You said it. She is hurting like any other woman would, whose trust in her relationship has been broken.", "Well, it sounds like Elin`s friends do think that she is going to fight for this marriage, despite reports she bought a $2.3 million house in Sweden. And people might think she would be crazy to stay with him. But let`s look at the facts here. You have Tiger`s multimillion dollar fortune. You have two young kids in the mix here. And of course, what could be a really, really messy, very public legal battle. Ryan, can you see why perhaps leaving Tiger may not be that simple?", "Yes. It would be a very tough thing. I mean, first of all, you have to ask, is there a prenuptial agreement involved? And if so, that`s going to play into a lot of this. But the ultimate factor here is whether or not she still wants to stay in this marriage. If they talk about it behind the scenes, remember, we don`t see that part. If they talked about it behind the scenes and they`ve said, \"You know what? We`re going to push through this. We`re going to try to get through this in our relationship and make it work.\" Then that won`t be a factor and they`re just going to keep pushing through it and try to make it work.", "Yes. And of course, from the outside looking in, I mean, it just seems so insurmountable. But a lot of people in Hollywood are speaking their mind about Elin`s predicament here. In a brand-new interview with HLN`s own Joy Behar of \"THE JOY BEHAR SHOW\" seen every weekday night here on HLN, the very outspoken Roseanne Barr had her own advice for Tiger`s wife. You`ve got to take a look at Roseanne.", "She should leave him. She has her own money. She doesn`t need anything from him. She should be just like, \"I`m not one of whores.\"", "I don`t know.", "She has enough money that she doesn`t have to stay with a guy like that who has gone with every waitress he ever met.", "Yes. So Roseanne saying what a lot of people are saying - Elin should leave Tiger. But Megan, can you see, Megan, why maybe it`s not all that cut and dry?", "It`s not cut and dry because of two children. They have two kids together. Elin herself is a child of divorce. She shared that. She says she wants, you know, to be in a good marriage. I mean, some of these things have come out when they first met, and so forth, that she was hesitant when she finally went out with Tiger Woods. Any time there`s two kids involved, you know, this is the death essentially of a marriage and family breaking up. I don`t care how much money you have, the fame, the glory. This is a family breaking up. I think it`s got to be hard for anybody. And that`s why it`s a tough decision.", "Yes. And everybody is feeling certainly for Elin, but feeling for those kids right about now. There`s another big Tiger bombshell breaking today. I`ve got to get to you. The first woman who was romantically linked to Tiger - her name, Rachel Uchitel - she is speaking out. Now, Brooke, this is the same woman who mysteriously canceled her press conference last week. What is she saying?", "A.J., Rachel Uchitel is on the cover of the new issue of \"OK\" magazine. Basically, she`s defending herself. Uchitel tells \"OK,\" quote, \"In every story, you need a villain and a hero. I`ve been characterized as a villain. People have called me a home wrecker, gold digger, tramp, whore. I make mistakes, but I`m not those things. I have very good qualities. When you`re judged by the nation, it`s really difficult. It`s horrible.\" Remember, this is the woman who initially denied an affair with Tiger. So you have to wonder why she`s talking so much without really saying anything at all. Ryan, she says people are judging her. Do you think anybody is going to have sympathy for this woman?", "It`s tough to have sympathy for her. I mean, depending on what actually happened here. And again, we don`t know exactly what happened. But if there was some sort of impropriety, I think people are going to look at it and say, \"You know what? They have this pristine, perfect image and here you came and disrupted all that.\" But the bottom line is, you know, when she canceled the press conference and everything that happened around that, you have to ask yourself, what`s happening there? Why would that happen unless there was some sort of dealing? A lot of times, when you see press conferences canceled, sometimes it means there`s money involved. Sometimes there`s something - you know, you never really quite know what`s happening. But I`ll tell you, it`s hard for people to have sympathy if there`s no talking about actually what happened and no ability to really find out the details.", "Yes. You hit that on the head, I think, right there, Ryan. The sympathy factor is going to be very low if there`s not a little more transparency about what`s going on. Let`s move on to yet another big Tiger bombshell today. Get this, Tiger`s alleged mistress Jamie Grubbs is speaking out and apologizing to Tiger`s wife. Take a look at what she told \"Extra\" today.", "I have no words to explain, you know, what I have done to her and her family. I guess I would be deeply sorry for her, never considering her during the whole process.", "Now, this is the same woman who released that infamous voicemail from an apparently frantic Tiger pleading Jamie to take her name off her outgoing message. Remember that? And same woman who says she had an affair with Tiger for over two years. Megan, if you ask me, this just adds insult to injury for Elin, Tiger`s wife.", "It is putting salt on the wound, A.J. I agree. Look, an apology, simple apology yes, this is good. Our Jim Moret from \"Inside Edition\" has actually interviewed Jamie. That interview will be airing tomorrow. The thing with this is everybody in the world knew that Tiger Woods was married, unless you lived under a rock - the most famous celebrity sports athlete there is. You know, there`s no excuse. And I hope this shows people that these chain reactions, one little decision you make, it doesn`t affect just that other person. It affects the family. It affects so many people with these decisions that people make.", "Yes. This goes way beyond celebrity at this point. I think a lot of people are looking at marriages and their situations, hopefully making better decisions. Ryan, would you agree that, you know, perhaps Elin doesn`t really want to hear this woman`s apology?", "No. I think in a lot of cases this the last thing people want to hear. I mean, the more people speak out like that in public, the more it becomes an embarrassment to her. And look, it may not be the case for her. Maybe, in some ways, it`s good to hear this. But when you`ve got to think - you know, the last thing she wants to see is more and more press about these different women.", "Yes.", "She would rather it just goes away.", "Ryan Smith, Megan Alexander, thank you both. I appreciate it. Now, over to you. Here`s our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day - \"Saving Tiger Woods: Is his image beyond repair?\" Well, let us know what you think by voting at CNN.com/ShowbizTonight. You can also E-mail us, showbiztonight@cnn.com.", "Tonight, a desperate plea to save David Hasselhoff.", "What`s the problem? Tell me exactly what happened.", "My dad - scary. 911", "You`re with him right now?", "Yes, yes. He has collapsed. 911", "How old are you?", "He gets back up but he keeps falling back down.", "That was his daughter`s emotional 911 call. And today David Hasselhoff`s ex-wife making a public plea to fans, help save David`s life. Also, Kate Gosselin`s new gig. After her marriage and her reality show come to an end, Kate goes solo with a new job. Can Kate reinvent herself as a different kind of TV star? Also, Lady Gaga meets the queen.", "When Lady Gaga meets the queen, what`s a girl to wear?", "You`ve got to see what happened when pop royalty met real royalty. This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN. Now, the \"SHOWBIZ News Ticker\" - more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news right now.", "Susan Boyle`s \"I Dream a Dream\" tops Billboard chart for second week. Tyler Perry`s mom dies - she was one of the inspirations for Madea character.", "The fact I`m able to take care of my mother - so that is my proudest accomplishment, because to see all that she`s gone through and all that she`s endured and still be - that`s what I`m the most proud of."], "speaker": ["A.J. 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{"id": "CNN-324586", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-10-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/26/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Interview With Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker", "utt": ["You're watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin. CNN is getting more clarity today about what happened in the hours before that ambush attack in Niger that resulted in the death of these four American soldiers. Accompanied by troops from Niger, U.S. military officials tell CNN that these soldiers were gathering intelligence on a terror leader. They came under attack on their way back to the operating base when they stopped in a village to enable Nigerian troops to replenish resupplies. They also met with local leaders as a courtesy. A remotely piloted drone arrived overhead within a couple of minutes of requests for help, but was unable to carry out airstrikes because it wasn't armed. Five Nigerian soldier were also killed. The Senate Armed Services Committee received a classified briefing today from the Pentagon. And my next guest is senior member of that committee. He is Republican Senator Roger Wicker, who is with me now. Senator, thank you so, so much for the time.", "Hello, Brooke. Glad to be with you.", "All right, so I know there is a lot you can't say, as this was a classified briefing.", "That's right.", "But of the information that you can, how can you describe to us what you learned today?", "Well, I think you have given a pretty good gist of what happened. Let me just say, in a general sense, I think we're right to be there. And we have some 800 troops in Niger. About 100 of them are Special Operations. And they are there in the American national interest. They are assisted greatly by our French allies and by British allies. And what we are doing is trying to prevent this area of Africa from becoming another staging ground, another training ground for terrorist groups like Boko Haram and al Qaeda. So, if we want to prevent another 9/11 being staged from a place like Afghanistan, we need to be where we are now in Africa. And so I think it's an important mission. And we got specific details about this tragedy, but also some overall guidance about where we are in the region.", "Senator, I just jotted down what you said off the top there. You said we are right to be there.", "Yes, ma'am.", "Do you think we should have a greater presence there, based upon what you know?", "Well, we're going to listen to the generals on that. But we are there in a train, assist and advise capacity. We are not there to have combat troops. And, clearly, if we are fired upon, as we were in this situation, we are going to engage and defend ourselves. But we continue to listen to the top experts in the Pentagon. And when they say we need something to get the mission done and prevent terrorism from coming to our shores, we will listen to these generals and give them what they need, give our troops what they need.", "Senator Wicker, obviously, there were questions, and I'm sure you all asked, about this 48 hours later, when Sergeant La David Johnson's body was found. He was separated from the team. Found about a mile away. Did you get any clarity into why that was?", "No, we didn't, actually, no.", "Were those questions asked?", "And the clarity we got is that the Pentagon acknowledges that they need to drill down more on that particular question and get back to us, get back to the families. The information that we have indicates that he was killed in that exchange. And it wasn't some hours later or some days later. But we don't have that information. And they are not able to tell us. But I know they owe it to the families and to the American people to get better information, and I expect they will. I thought that they were being very forthright with us. They told us what they knew and they told us what we still had questions about. Still need to dig further.", "We heard from the president yesterday and he addressed this. And he said he himself did not specifically authorize this particular mission in Niger, but that he had given his generals the authority to make these sorts of calls. Is that at all a concern for you?", "Well, this particular exercise was -- it turned into kinetic activity when they were fired upon. But, certainly, the commander in chief knows that we have troops in the Lake Chad area, and he knows exactly why we are there. And why we are there is to fight international terrorism and to protect Americans here in the homeland. So, that particular event would not have required authorization. Our folks were attacked and they fired back. And tragedy happened. Let me also add, I heard today on one of the news stations that these particular Americans were not highly trained. And I do want to make it clear that that is not accurate. These were Special Operations personnel. They volunteered for the most dangerous type of military action. And they were highly trained. And they are all the more honored because they stepped forward into something very, very dangerous.", "Absolutely. And we thank them and their families for their service.", "Absolutely.", "I hope we and the families and you get the information that we are all looking for. Senator Wicker, I appreciate you. Thank you.", "They owe us some more information, and I do think we will get it.", "They do. Keep asking for it. Thank you, Senator, very much.", "Thank you.", "Coming up next here, veteran journalist Mark Halperin of NBC News is out today after five women accused him of sexual harassment. CNN has his response to this. 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{"id": "CNN-275535", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-02-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/03/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Trump Accuses Cruz of Stealing Iowa Vote; Cruz Campaign Responds to Trump; Clinton and Sanders Prep for CNN Town Hall; Clinton and Sanders Intensifying Fight for New Hampshire", "utt": ["Happening right now, you have a Rubio town hall, a Kasich tow hall in Durham and a Cruz town hall in Henniker. Wonder if the Iowa winner has seen Trump's tweets yet. Started off his rant with this, this is from Donald Trump. Quote, \"Ted Cruz didn't win in Iowa. He stole it. That's why all of the polls were so wrong.\" CNN's Dana Bash is covering the Cruz campaign but I want to start with Sara Murray because she has this -- she has the news on the Trump tweets. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. Yes, Trump has been on something of a Twitter storm this morning. He's even calling for a new election in Iowa or the results to be nullified. He has a number of complaints today. He basically is saying that Ted Cruz stole the election by sending out these mailers that were a little bit questionable in Iowa. They said they were voter violations and suggested that people should turn out for Ted Cruz in order to improve their voting scores in Iowa, otherwise their neighbors would know that they're the kind of people who don't turn out. Of course, the Iowa secretary of state said there's no such thing as a voter violation. You don't get a score based on turnout. Now Trump is also taking issue with the fact that there were a couple of Cruz staffers and supporters who suggested that Ben Carson was going to drop out of the race and tried to convince people to caucus for Ted Cruz instead of caucusing for Ben Carson in Iowa. Of course, Ben Carson is not dropping out of the race. This was all based on a CNN report that just said that Carson would be taking a little bit of time off the trail. He was going home to get fresh clothes and there were a couple of Cruz supporters and Cruz staffers who took that a step further and suggested to people that Ben Carson was dropping out. All of this setting off a Donald Trump Twitter storm as we see. He is clearly not as complacent with coming in second in Iowa as he seemed in that not very gracious concession speech -- Carol.", "All right. So Ben Carson is also angry at the Cruz campaign saying that it probably cost them some votes by saying that Ben Carson had dropped out of the race.", "Yes. That's right. And Ben Carson is taking this issue with the Cruz campaign. The Cruz campaign has apologized and Carson has essentially said the damage is already done. You already took those votes away from me. Obviously here's no way to prove that and now we move on to New Hampshire but this is a territory that's not as friendly for Ben Carson. There are not as many evangelical voters here. And the next place where Ben Carson could potentially have a stronger showing is South Carolina. But it's also worth noting that the Carson campaign, of course, was struggling. They have a lot of issues leading up into Iowa. And while they did have a foundation of support, the polls in these final weeks did not show Ben Carson as one of the folks who was vying for the first, second or even the third slot there.", "All right. Sara Murray reporting. Let's go to Dana Bash, she's at a Cruz event. And has Senator Cruz responded to all of this, Dana?", "They have. Ted Cruz, I should say, is just about to come in here for a town hall. But I spoke with his communications director, Rick Tyler, who said the following. He said, the reality has -- excuse, reality hit the reality TV star in Iowa so nobody is talking about him now. So he's trying to regain some attention on Twitter. He said there are Twitter addiction support groups so he should seek out his local chapter. Tongue firmly in cheek there, obviously, Carol, but that is what the Cruz campaign privately and now publicly have been saying, that they think that Donald Trump is in the unusual position of not being the headliner, not getting all of the attention that he generally does and he wants to try to kind of soak attention back up. That's why he's doing this. He's trying to attack Ted Cruz.", "Isn't there just one little problem with this? The Cruz campaign did tell caucus-goers in Iowa that Ben Carson was dropping out and they should throw their support behind Ted Cruz. That did, indeed, happen and the Cruz campaign apologized for that. So the damage is done.", "Damage is done and that's exactly what I was just going to say. I was going to say that the \"but\" part of that, which is that what the Cruz campaign insists is that their precinct captains, their people who are in touch with the grassroots on caucus night didn't actually say Ben Carson is dropping out or at least they weren't directed to. Some might have but they weren't directed to by the Cruz campaign. That they were just simply repeating what we were reporting on CNN, that he was going back to Florida. Regardless our understanding is that Ted Cruz called Ben Carson and apologized, saying, if anything, we went over the line, we apologize, we shouldn't have done that. But this is a peak at how things work and how real-time in a campaign and in an election where motivation and intensity really matters. Every campaign is going to use everything that they have to their advantage and sometimes it goes right up to the line of dirty tricks. Other times, it crosses them.", "All right. Dana Bash reporting live from Henniker, New Hampshire. Big stakes, small state. The presidential candidates are blitzing New Hampshire and as the Republicans go on the road the two remaining Democrats go primetime. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton getting ready for tonight's town hall meeting right here on CNN. And Sanders, after rallying to a virtual tie in Iowa, offers a glimpse of the sharper elbows to come.", "Hillary Clinton has a super PAC. I don't have a super PAC. You have a super PAC which has $25 million from Secretary Clinton, $15 million coming from Wall Street. Our campaign contributions are $27 a piece coming from $3.5 million individual contributions.", "Our senior political correspondent Brianna Keilar is in Derry with more on this big event tonight. Good morning.", "Good morning. Perhaps that's a preview, Carol, of what we're going to see here tonight. It will be the first time that we have seen these two candidates in the same place since Iowans had their say. This is going to get under way tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern. Anderson Cooper is going to be moderating. They'll be weighing in a little bit with questions and follow-ups but really this is going to be driven by New Hampshirites. They will come with the questions. They are going to dictate the conversation that they have with the candidates and so it provides us really unique forum aside from some of the debates that we've seen and this is also happening, of course, on the tails of Iowa where, you said it, Bernie Sanders almost tied there with Hillary Clinton and he's not ruling out that he may contest the results. Listen.", "She ends up getting about 22 delegates. We got about 20 delegates. We started that campaign about 40 or 50 points down. We ended up losing it by .02 of 1 percent, although to tell you the truth, the Iowa caucus is so complicated, it's not 100 percent sure that we didn't win it. But we feel fantastic. We came a long, long way in Iowa. And now we're in New Hampshire. We have a lot of momentum.", "Really quickly, would you contest those results?", "We're being looking in it right now.", "Not ruling it out. Very interesting. Bernie Sanders is going to be taking the stage first tonight for his time with voters having some Q&A. It's a bit unpredictable, Carol, because you don't really what these voters are going to ask. So we saw some unpredictable moments when we did this in Iowa. I think we're going to see that tonight in New Hampshire. And they're going to be inside. Bernie Sanders then Hillary Clinton here at the Derry Opera House. Just a little bit of information about this very interesting place. It was built with money, willed by a distant cousin of John Quincy Adams. And this building behind me has actually survived two fires. So perhaps it's an apt metaphor for what has unexpectedly become a crucible of a Democratic primary race -- Carol.", "Interesting stuff. Brianna Keilar, thanks so much. This time around CNN's town hall is likely be with firing. You heard Brianna Keilar say it. Bernie Sanders wants a big win in New Hampshire and with that, it seems Sanders has forgotten his promise not to run a negative campaign. And so has Hillary Clinton.", "I am a progressive who likes to get things done. I'm actually a progressive who likes to make progress.", "Do you think Hillary Clinton is a progressive?", "Some days, yes. Except when she announces that she's a proud moderate and then I guess she's not a progressive. I think, frankly, it is very hard to be a real progressive. And to take on the establishment in a way that I think has to be taken when you become as dependent as she has through her super PAC and in other ways on Wall Street or drug company money.", "With me now, Bill Press, CNN political commentator and a Bernie Sanders supporter. Welcome. I have to mention your book, too. You're also the author of \"Buyer's Remorse: How Obama Let Progressives Down.\" Welcome, Bill.", "Hi, Carol. Thank you.", "Hi. So Bernie Sanders said he wouldn't go negative but obviously he is. Why?", "Well, look, I don't think that real negative, frankly. I mean, campaigns would be boring. Number one. And a campaign wouldn't be a campaign if the candidates don't point out the differences between them. I think Hillary Clinton is legitimately doing that and so is Bernie Sanders. I think the reality is, Carol, coming out of Iowa, that what a lot of people didn't expect, we've got a real horse race here. We've got two strong candidates. Bernie Sanders, you know, he didn't win in Iowa. Let's give Hillary the win, barely, right? But Bernie Sanders comes out of it a very, very strong -- you can't dismiss him as a crank anymore. Right? You can't dismiss him as somebody who's even impractical. This guy is for real. He's serious. He's got a great organization.", "Well --", "He's got money, money, money. And he's in it for the long haul.", "He does. And I understand that but -- OK. So you gave Hillary Clinton the win in Iowa. Why doesn't Bernie Sanders just give her the win? Why say he's looking into voter irregularities?", "Well, I don't think -- I don't think -- look, Donald Trump has called for cancelling the election and having a new one. I think Bernie just says there are some serious questions about Iowa, but he's not focusing on that. He's focusing on getting as big a win as he can in New Hampshire and then building beyond that. There are officials who are looking into the Iowa thing. I think he'll just let that happen. He's not going to make that his focus. He's moving forward. And you know what I find interesting, Carol is that --", "Well, he's not moving forward.", "Go ahead.", "He keeps saying it to reporters. He's not moving forward.", "Well, when they ask him about it, he's going to say,", "I'm looking into voter irregularities instead of I'm going to leave the Iowa win to Hillary Clinton.", "Yes. But I'll just say, he's not making that, come on, his number one focus. Look what he's doing today. He's out there campaigning. This is what I find so strange is now the Hillary -- Clinton campaign is now saying well, you know, we can't really promise everybody everything. We've got to be practical. We have to lower our expectations. I find that a strange message. I mean, I think it's -- it's like the head and the heart and Hillary is saying, you can't go with your heart, you've got to go with your head, and I think in an election, people want to go with their heart.", "Well --", "If I can use a phrase, for hope and change.", "For hope and change. OK. So -- and I hear you. But when you look at the entrance polls from Iowa, Bernie Sanders captured mostly liberal Democrats. He didn't get moderate Democrats, right? He didn't get somewhat --", "But wait --", "He didn't. So doesn't that mean that a lot of Democrats really think that his ideas are pie in the sky?", "But wait a minute. He got about 80 percent of people younger than 45. That's the Barack Obama vote. That's the -- that's the future. They're the people that the Democratic Party needs. When people are asked, caucus-goers were asking, who do you find -- would you vote for the kind of the most trustworthy and honest, 83 percent they would vote for Bernie Sanders. When people said, would you vote for somebody who would fight for somebody like you, I think it was like 75 percent say would go for Bernie Sanders. So that's a message that is resonating and I think for the Clinton campaign or anybody else to discount the appeal of Bernie's message are just not facing reality.", "All right. I have to leave it there. Bill Press, thanks for stopping by.", "Hey, Carol. Great to be here. Thank you.", "Thanks. You're welcome. Now I want to bring in Karen Finney, she's the senior spokesperson for the Hillary for America campaign. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. How are you?", "I'm good. So everybody is saying that this town hall tonight, it's going to be fiery and kind of negative between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. What do you say?", "You know, I don't know about that. Look, I think what Hillary is trying to do is engage in a contest of ideas and obviously she and Senator Sanders share many of the same values, the differences between where we are as Democrats and where the Republicans are and what they want to do in terms of stripping away the progress that we've made couldn't be more stark. So I think tonight what you'll see is, you know, Hillary Clinton is going to lay out her ideas and talk about what she wants to do for this country and how she wants to get it done and then you'll hear from -- and I guess Senator Sanders is going first and I hope that's what you hear from Senator Sanders rather than suggesting -- sort of attacking her for sort of not being progressive, which is just the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.", "Well, I think -- I think the reason he's saying that it's because of the words that came out of her own mouth. I mean, she told an audience in Ohio, quote, \"I get accused of being kind of moderate and center. I plead guilty.\"", "Yes.", "And then last night in New Hampshire, she called herself, in her own words, a progressive who likes to get things done. So which is it?", "Yes. Well, she's been saying she's a progressive who likes to get things done for quite some time. And I guess, when I look at Hillary Clinton's record, when I look at the things that she's been fighting for, you know, when I first started working for her back in the '90s, she was already well into her career, fighting for children and families. She was talking about things like equal pay and paid leave and child care. You know, 20 years ago when those ideas were thought crazy. And very progressive, if you will. And that's what she's been fighting for. She's fought for civil rights, she's fought for equal rights for women, for gay people. I mean, all of these issues are issues that she has been fighting for for a very long time. My goodness, health care. I mean, you know, she started that in the '90s. We couldn't get it done then. Obviously then she kind of went back to the table and helped get --", "Right. But --", "But those are progressive -- universal health care is a progressive idea.", "No, I hear you. But I think a cynic might say that, you know, this is a year where backlash against the establishment is very real. So when Hillary Clinton said she's moderate, that probably didn't rub some voters the right way so she changed it to progressive.", "Well, yes, I mean, look. She's -- when she says she's a progressive who likes to get things done, I think part of what people should hear in that is and we still have big things to accomplish in this country and I sort of take issue with the idea, I heard my friend and colleague, Bill Press, on before to suggest that she doesn't want to do big things or suggesting anybody lower expectations, that's absolutely wrong. I mean, when we talk about getting equal pay for women, when we talk about what we have to do to protect the Voting Rights Act, I mean, those are big things and they are going to be hard to do and I think what you're seeing and what you saw in Iowa with the win that Hillary had there is people saying this is the person that I trust to take on that fight and win for myself and my families. And so I think that's what you're going to hear tonight from Hillary. And I have to tell you, Carol, I also take on -- take issue with and I've seen a lot of folks online saying the same thing, this idea of the establishment. I mean, I can tell you that the man that she met in New Hampshire who takes his mother to work because she has Alzheimer's and he can't afford care, he is not establishment. He's supporting Hillary Clinton. Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon -- Trayvon Martin's mother, is supporting Hillary Clinton. She is not establishment. So I think that's a little bit offensive to all of the people working so hard for her campaign, who have worked so hard and got out to caucus, you know, in Iowa, they are not establishment. They are people who believe in Hillary Clinton and I think it's a little offensive.", "All right. I have to leave it there. Karen Finney, the senior spokesperson for Hillary for America.", "All right.", "Thanks for stopping by.", "Thanks.", "Keep it right here on -- you're welcome. Keep it right here on CNN because today, 1:00 p.m. Eastern, Wolf Blitzer sits down to talk with Bernie Sanders about Hillary Clinton, the town hall, and what it's like to be the frontrunner in New Hampshire. Also tonight, Clinton and Sanders answer questions directly from voters as a presidential town hall tonight in Derry, New Hampshire, moderated by Anderson Cooper. That's tonight 9:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN. 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{"id": "CNN-212460", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2013-8-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/13/nday.01.html", "summary": "Anthony Weiner in Candid Interview", "utt": ["Welcome back to NEW DAY. New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner is opening up for his most extensive interview since new sexting allegations and revelations rocked his campaign last month. Weiner is facing some of his worst poll numbers yet. It remains to be seen if this sit-down with Buzzfeed will help or hurt him. Here's CNN's Jim Acosta.", "As he sat down for a Buzzfeed Brews interview, Anthony Weiner passed on having a beer in what was perhaps the easiest question of the evening.", "Are you back in therapy?", "I -- you know, apparently you never go out of therapy.", "For nearly only 40 minutes that can only be described as quintessential Weiner, the embattled candidate for New York City mayor veered from one uncomfortable subject to the next.", "I feel that what I've done has hurt her, yes. It's hurt her professionally. It's hurt her personally.", "From his marriage to Hillary Clinton aide, Huba Abedin.", "Is Huma still working on the campaign?", "She's helping out every day.", "Is -- do you know what her role in Hillary's 2016 campaign is going to be?", "I do.", "What will it be?", "I'm not telling you.", "To the latest revelations that he continued sexting other women well after leaving Congress.", "I did these things. No one did this to me. I did this to me. I made these mistakes.", "But his campaign for mayor has been more than a personal train wreck. Weiner's had a few political ones as well.", "Had I conducted myself in the manner in which you conducted yours, my job would have been gone.", "In the privacy of your home?", "No shocker that a recent poll found 80 percent of New Yorkers have an unfavorable view of Weiner.", "So are you on the way back up? Or are we bottomed out?", "Numbers that were likely not helped when he dropped an F-bomb near the end of his interview.", "I said to Mike Bloomberg, you know, the first thing I was going to do as mayor was hold a press conference -- this is the Internet right? -- tearing out your", "The question for Weiner is whether he can stay in his own lanes between now and Election Day. Jim Acosta, CNN, Washington.", "It keeps getting more and more interesting.", "It's bad.", "Exactly right.", "Coming up on NEW DAY, Hillary Clinton back in the political limelight making a sweeping policy speech. You know what we're going to ask? A sign of things to come? What do you think? John King has your political gut check.", "Reading the tea lives. Also coming up, a former Bank of America executive charged with plotting to have his wife killed. He's behind bars and she's appearing live on NEW DAY exclusively to talk about the ordeal next hour."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANTHONY WEINER, NYC MAYORAL CANDIDATE", "ACOSTA", "WEINER", "ACOSTA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEINER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEINER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEINER", "ACOSTA", "WEINER", "ACOSTA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEINER", "ACOSTA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ACOSTA", "WEINER", "ACOSTA", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-278128", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-03-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/03/nday.06.html", "summary": "Path to Victory for Kasich", "utt": ["Ohio Governor John Kasich hasn't won a state yet in the Republican primary, but he says that's OK. He's looking forward to states better suited for him, including, and most importantly, his home state of Ohio. Is that a good enough path to stay in the race? That's a question that a lot of people are asking themselves this morning. So, let's discuss with a top Kasich supporter, Tom Ridge, the former director of Homeland Security for the Bush administration, former Pennsylvania governor. Governor, it's good to have you with us this morning.", "Chris, it's nice to join you and Alisyn again. Thanks for the invite.", "Always. Make the case for Kasich staying in the race?", "Well, you need - you started with 17. We're on the eve of March madness. We're down to the final four. We have one individual with a consistent record, not rhetoric, a consistent record of applying conservative principles of the operation of government. We're moving into the Midwest. We're going to win Ohio. We can unite the party with a candidate best suited to defeat Donald Trump and to defeat Hillary Clinton. Game on.", "What do you make of these concerns that Kasich staying in really one of either Cruz or Rubio staying in is hurting the party and has led to this hostile takeover by Trump and now this bizarre reaction by a lot of elder statesman coming out trying to attack Trump. What do you make of what's going on in your party?", "Well, I would like everybody to just exhale a little bit. Donald, the leading candidate right now and obviously I haven't been in support of since way back in November, he still is about a thousand delegates short. And I think everybody ought to settle down. And we've got a series of debates coming up. We've got primaries in very favorable areas for John. You notice some of the exit polls even on Super Tuesday show people are starting to move away from Trump. I think the grass roots is finally beginning to understand that even Donald Trump probably doesn't believe the outrageous statements he's making about walls and getting oil from ISIS without putting boots on and ground et cetera, et cetera. So I think everybody ought to just relax a little bit and let the process play out.", "But I think that what is happening as we watch the process play out is why they're excited. I mean Trump is doing better and better as the races go on. He's won eight states now that no Republican had ever won in a primary process since 1960. You've got Mitt Romney coming out this morning. He's going to use really hard language to personally attack Donald Trump. Do you think this is a mistake?", "Well, I think everybody is entitled to their opinion about Donald Trump. I mean I said it a long time ago, I thought he was an embarrassment to my party. I think he's an embarrassment to my country. And I have enormous respect for Mitt Romney and he has his opinion. He's - obviously he deserves to express it publicly, and he will. But I think John's just going to stay focuses on his record. I mean there's a lot of people aspiring to be president right now who offer the promise of a conservative leadership. But we're down to the final four and there's only one candidate who's done more than promised conservative leadership from his days in the House of Representatives, to his extraordinary record of service of principled conservative, consistent leadership in Ohio. He's the only one that can demonstrate a proven record. And I think the grassroots will respond to it in a very favorable way.", "Why hasn't it happened yet, gov?", "Good question. I think, frankly, now that you've narrowed the stage - remember, the stage was as wide as a football field and fortunately, you know, there's just a super individual, just an extraordinarily talented and gracious man, Dr. Carson, has moved on. We now have it narrowed to four. There's only one with a record. Now the focus is on just the final four. And you know what always happens in the final four, there's always surprises.", "Well, that's certainly true. One of the surprises we've seen before the final four, I guess you could say, was in the great eight, the elite eight, was that you had Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, former presidential candidate, come out and support Trump. A lot of hacks went up in the GOP, calls for him to resign and editorials. What did you make of that move?", "Well, you know, I think John Kasich, again showing the kind of man he is and the kind of leader he would be, admitted publicly that he had talked to Governor Christie, had hoped to get his support. Governor Christie made another decision. And John just lives with it. I mean I just go back to my days when working with John Kasich, we go back to 80 - getting elected in '82 together. He's got this great ability to reach across the aisle and get things done. I personally was a little disappointed and surprised. I thought given his assault on Marco Rubio that he was obviously leaning towards supporting a governor when he left the race. But as John Kasich pointed out, the gentlemen that he is, everybody makes a choice and we're down to four choices now and John's going to play very, very well in the Midwest.", "If Trump is the nominee, if he gets the number of delegates, what do you think happens at the convention and will you back him?", "No, I've already said, Chris, a long - many, many months ago, I just - Donald Trump's not my kind of man. He's not my kind of Republican. As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure he's a Republican. He's certainly not a conservative. And I can't vote for him.", "Tom Ridge, appreciate you being on NEW DAY, as always.", "My great pleasure, Chris. Thank you very much.", "Alisyn.", "Chris, the new CNN original series \"Race for the White House\" premiers this Sunday. I sat down with the executive producer, Kevin Spacey, to hear all about the series and which candidate in history he most likens to Donald Trump. Find out coming up."], "speaker": ["CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "TOM RIDGE (R), ENDORSING GOV. JOHN KASICH", "CUOMO", "RIDGE", "CUOMO", "RIDGE", "CUOMO", "RIDGE", "CUOMO", "RIDGE", "CUOMO", "RIDGE", "CUOMO", "RIDGE", "CUOMO", "RIDGE", "CUOMO", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-182954", "program": "JOHN KING, USA", "date": "2012-3-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1203/19/jkusa.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee", "utt": ["Tonight, there's increasing pressure for state and federal action in the wake of the shooting of an African-American teenager in Florida. As CNN's David Mattingly reports, the neighborhood watch guard who killed the boy is free, not charged, and because of that the case is sparking outrage.", "Listen as calls to 911 tell the story of a tragedy in the making.", "They always get away.", "That's the voice of neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, apparently frustrated by recent break-ins. He gives a dispatcher his poor first impression of Trayvon Martin walking alone and acting strangely.", "This guy looks like he's up to no good or he's on drugs or something.", "Less than a minute later, Martin is running away and Zimmerman gets out of his car. 911", "Are you following him?", "Yes. 911", "OK. We don't need you to do that.", "OK.", "But, instead, Zimmerman and Martin end up fighting. And a neighbor calls 911. 911", "Nine-one-one. Do you need police, fire or medical?", "Maybe both. I am not sure. There is just someone screaming outside.", "In the background, listen for the sound of a fight and a panicked voice yelling for help followed by a gunshot. 911", "And is it a male or female?", "It sounds like a male. 911", "And you don't know why?", "I don't know why. I think they're yelling help. But I don't know. Just send someone quick, please. 911", "So you think he is yelling help?", "Yes. 911", "All right, what is your...", "There was gunshots. 911", "You just heard gunshots?", "Yes. 911", "How many?", "Just one.", "The cries for help stop. But whose voice was it? The answer could make the difference between a case of self-defense or a deadly crime.", "Who is that crying?", "Trayvon crying.", "Monday morning, cries for justice for Trayvon Martin continue, demonstrations outside the Seminole County Courthouse.", "It could so easily have just been any one of us, so I feel like the reason you all are out here is because you all are affected the same way I was affected.", "David Mattingly, CNN, Atlanta.", "Not only are Trayvon Martin's parents furious about the conduct of the Sanford police. Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, wants the U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder, to launch a federal investigation. She joins us now. Congresswoman, thanks for being here. Let me up front play it this way. I'm always a little skeptical when Congress tries to get involved in what is a local investigation. What convinces you that federal government needs to -- the attorney general needs to get involved and Congress needs to keep an eye on this?", "Well, what you see is an outpouring of both sympathy and outrage by parents across America regardless of their color or background, because what they see is a child being in the line of fire. It is OK to have a neighborhood watch, but not a neighborhood vigilante, and frankly the question has to be whether this young boy's life was taken and his civil rights denied and an ineffective investigation. Now, at this point, not knowing what will happen going forward has been waged if you will, no lie detector test, no detaining of Mr. Zimmerman, seemingly no extensive review of eyewitnesses who heard the shots, no analysis, at least to date. This happened in February. This is now March 19. No analysis of that 911 call. Was it the young boy's call for help, a young boy who had nothing but candy in his pocket who was legitimately there, who was being judged because he wore a hoodie? The question to Mr. Zimmerman is, did you see him in the act of a crime? And then the final axe is that the law enforcement -- and this has happened all over the country -- law enforcement has said do not follow him. Stay in your car. We're on our way. That would have been the appropriate vehicle to be able to address this young boy. And no parent should send a child for candy and a drink and wind up preparing for his funeral.", "And in terms of a jurisdictional issue, it sounds to me like you obviously don't trust how the Sanford police have handled this. Why shouldn't the next process be the Florida attorney general, somebody at the state level to look at this first? You think this should come straight to Washington as a potential civil rights case?", "Well, let me just say that I'm working with the congresswoman in that area, Congresswoman Corrine Brown, who has been outraged, who been with the family members. The Congressional Black Caucus has called on it, other leaders. But, again, I want to emphasize parents of all kinds have called upon -- and let me say this. I believe the investigation does not need to be mutually exclusive. Let the Sanford police show us what they can do. But I believe it is important to move that evidence, if you will, up to Washington, D.C. And certainly we welcome the attorney general. This happened February 26. It is now March. They had a long enough time to see some of the failures of the investigation to say we will take a look at it. Not even a major investigation would take a look at -- this family is in pain. I frankly believe, as I indicated, that I think this young boy, this deceased child, this active child that baby-sat for people, that played football, that had all of the life before him, every parent right now in the United States is probably wondering, can I send my child out no matter what their background is? I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.", "And this has become for better or worse a big story getting a lot of media attention, and the family is out there. Mr. Zimmerman, we have tried to reach his attorney and get him to come, get someone to speak for him. And he is presumed innocent. I assume you would agree with that...", "Absolutely.", "Here is what his father wrote in a letter to \"The Orlando Sentinel.\" \"He would not last to discriminate for any reason whatsoever. The media portrayal of George as a racist could not be further from the truth.\" And I want you to listen here. The issue here is the police department and their preliminary investigation. And what they're saying is that under Florida's self-defense law, they don't have any evidence to charge. Let's listen to the police chief.", "Based on the facts and the circumstances and the stories that have been reported, I can certainly understand how they would jump to that or make those assumptions. I can assure you that the Sanford Police Department is conducting a fair investigation, no matter what the color of anyone involved in it is.", "Sounds to me like you don't trust the chief.", "Let me say this. There are a lot of state laws, and I am quite familiar with Florida's very strong self-defense law, very strong self-defense law. But I am also aware that you have to question the motives and/or the tactics of the perpetrator or the individual who shot the gun. We now have a deceased boy who cannot testify for himself. I don't believe even with this law that there was an extensive review of Mr. Zimmerman's actions. The Sanford police have to take some responsibility. They told him to stay put. We have had these kind of cases across America. The reason why I suggest that this is a civil rights case, no matter what background the individual has -- civil rights belong to all Americans -- is that sometimes a federal law has to say the protection of this child's life is superior to state law and federal law trumps state law in terms of protecting his life. Did he have a civil right to walk on a sidewalk? That young boy was not caught behind someone's home coming out of a window, attacking someone. He was walking along a street. Do we not have rights of Americans, free access, free movement? The First Amendment guarantees us that. I believe it is a federal case. And I believe it is a case where we respect police authority and at the same time citizens have to be protected as well.", "Congresswoman, we hope you will keep in touch if the attorney general responds to your letter. We will follow this case as we go forward.", "Thank you, sir.", "Thank you for your time tonight. A deadly shooting at a Jewish school in France prompts fears of attack in Jewish neighborhoods here in the United States. We will have new information about precautions being put in place. Plus, the duchess of Cambridge speaks and of course the world listens. 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{"id": "CNN-274614", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2016-01-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/22/lvab.02.html", "summary": "Major Snow Storm Cancels Flights on East Coast", "utt": ["It is our breaking news on CNN this hour and throughout the weekend as well, this massive winter storm. The heavy snow fall, the ice, the wind and of course, all of the drifting snow. The whole thing is bearing down on the Eastern Seaboard and we are on the edge of it, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., the Carolinas. About 30 million people right now, 30 million Americans living under a blizzard watch, a blizzard warning or some other kind of weather warning. CNN Meteorologist Jennifer Gray is live in Washington, D.C., right now on the mall. It is looking kind of nice behind you, but I know this it is the calm before the storm. There are a lot of people are getting off work right now, and heading home. So, just sort of walk me through where you are. You are in a state of emergency, and it doesn't look it, but you are.", "Yeah. You would never know it, Ashleigh. Look behind me. There are thousands and thousands of people behind me at the national mall. And, these aren't people trying to go home, these are people walking around, they are protesting, it looks like any other normal Friday. It is unbelievable. People are urged to get home by 3:00 p.m. We are in that state of emergency and the snow is coming. That leading edge is inching towards the D.C. area. And once it starts conditions are going to deteriorate in the snap of a finger. And so hopefully this people will be making their way home soon but you would never know that a storm is coming just by looking at behind me. Let's get to this graphics, you can see that snow line is getting very very, very close to the D.C. area, filling in little by little, like you said, 29 million people under the blizzard warning, and that stretches from D.C., Baltimore, Philly, New York, Philadelphia could see more snow than originally expected. We could see up to 20 to 30 inches here in the D.C. area, and it is going to continue to snow for hours and hours on end. We are looking at the 24 to 36 hours. The winds are going to pick up. We're going to see winds at a 30 to 40 miles per hour with the gusts up to the 60 or higher as the storm makes its way up the coast. We will continue the feel the winds through tomorrow, and then finally starting to slack off by Saturday night. Look at that, D.C. definitely in the bull's eye. The nation's capital getting the very, very strong winds, and then it is going to continue up, Ashleigh, the East Coast, we're also going to get the possibility of the major coastal flooding and beach erosion up and down the coastline, Ashleigh.", "OK Jen, I have to scoot, but not before I ask you once again to ask your cameraman to pan back over to all those tourist, because they have two hours and change, until they need to be on their way. Are the capitol police telling them that there is a massive dangerous storm on the way?", "Well, there are a couple of police officers right where the roads are barricaded, but as far as we can tell, they are letting the people through, and I don't know if you can see as far as we can see the sea of people, thousands and thousands of them. It is a really unsettling, the metro is supposed to stay open until 11:00, but once it starts, it is going to deteriorate quickly. There is a lot of traffic on the road, but we saw what happened the other day, which is a tiny, tiny bit of snow and we need just really to see people to get home quickly.", "That's just unbelievable. Well, I sure hope they have plans, because driving is going to be very difficult. Jennifer Gray, thank you update, surprising update. I want to take a couple of live pictures of if I can right now. Nashville, Tennessee, yeah Nashville, this is not what you are used to seeing there, traffic just inching along on that ice. They are not used to snow and ice on the roads on a regular basis, there, also I want to show you some live pictures from further east. These are from Roanoke, Virginia, and our affiliate WDBJ7, snow coming down there, traffic seem to be moving along. Not a lot of cars out on the road, that's a good thing, the governor of Virginia saying that he is especially concerned about the northern part of his state, at Washington D.C., area. He has also activated upwards of about 500 members of the Virginia national guard to fan out and help people who are in need, especially in the rural areas. On the phone with me, Cotton Puryear is a spokesman for the Virginia State National Guard. Thank you for joining me, Cotton. Give me the state of the union on the job right now, because I can only imagine, you have got hundreds of people coming into active duty, they're going need a lot of assignments, and their job is going to be real tough.", "Well, thanks for the opportunity for us to talk about what the guard is doing. We really appreciate the governor getting us that declaration to get the personnel in place before the bad weather hits, because that is really key to us being able to provide a rapid response if we need to get the folks in place safely. And we are currently staged at key e locations across the commonwealth. We've got soldiers with vehicles that are capable of moving through large amounts of snow. So we are standing by and ready to assist.", "May I ask you about the readiness stations that I've been reading about. You've got the stations set up along the freeways and particularly I-81, what exactly is the readiness station?", "Right, well, these are the -- the readiness centers -- that's the new term centers. That's the term that we've used for our armories though it's the places where the soldiers to go and conduct the drill. That's where their vehicles are stationed. And there -- we just happen to have them in all the right places along the I-81 corridor to be able move to where they need to go. So, they're in their armories and in most cases. But now we're also starting to move forward to link up with Virginia state police, and co-located their facilities along with the Virginia Department of Transportation, and we have a few localities that have requested guard support. So we're co-locating with them. So have a combination of strategies that again allows us to be able to get our personnel and equipment in the right place so that they are able to respond.", "At a time when the rest of us just thinking about hunkering down with Netflix all weekend long, you and your colleague, about what, up to 3,000 to 3,500 of you are gearing up and doing the dangerous work. Do you have all of the gear and everything that you need to do to do what's coming?", "Yes, we are very fortunate, you know, the guard is a dual status force so we have the federal state mission, so we have the federal equipment, we've got the latest the Humves we've got medium truckload (ph)tracks, our soldiers have the cold weather gear. So they've got the equipment that they need to then be able to turn around and be of assistance to the citizens in the commonwealth. And we are also fortunate when you are talking about everybody else hunkering down, we're fortunate that the employers, because all of the guardsmen do something else before they are guardsmen. So our employers have let all of the employees go, and we got the families back home. I know my wife is not happy about all of the snow she has the shovel while we are out here doing this, but it is what our soldiers signed up to do, and we really look forward to the opportunity to be able to assist the citizens of the commonwealth when they need us.", "Well, let me thank you in advance, because I know also your families that are going to be left on their own, and that's really tough for all of you and your colleagues. So thanks you work, thank you for your service, and thanks for doing the interview, Cotton. Good luck.", "Thanks very much. We appreciate the opportunity to tell you about the great things the guards are doing.", "Well, we'll check in with you throughout the course of the storm. Cotton Puryear joining us live. National guardsmen, tough workers folks, thank them if you get the chance. Mayor of Washington D.C said the storm has life and death implication. Coming up in the next hour, the mayor of New York expected to speak live about the preparations in this city. We're going to bring you those updates as we get them live."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "JENNIFER GRAY, AMS, METEOROLOGIST", "BANFIELD", "GRAY", "BANFIELD", "COTTON PURYEAR, VIRGINIA NATIONAL GUARD PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER", "BANFIELD", "PURYEAR", "BANFIELD", "PURYEAR", "BANFIELD", "PURYEAR", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-193386", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2012-9-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/27/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Ad Runs Romney \"47 Percent\" Comments; Romney's \"I Dig It\" Trust", "utt": ["Happening now: an extraordinary moment at the United Nations. Israel's prime minister literally draws a red line in a dramatic fashion on Iran's nuclear program. But will the U.S. do the same? The presidential candidates make simultaneous stops in the same state and even target the same set of voters. Plus, the Obama campaign combines Mitt Romney's words with some potentially devastating pictures. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. As of today, we're just 40 days away until the presidential election. And for the second day in a row, both Mitt Romney and President Obama have been campaigning in the same battleground state. This time, it's Virginia, where both men targeted the same group of voters. Let's walk over to CNN's national political correspondent, Jim Acosta, who's been out on the campaign trail watching what's going on. Another dramatic day. Virginia, Virginia, Virginia, pretty important place.", "That's right. A rare visit to Washington for me. But it's good to be home, Wolf. All politics is local. So it was no surprise to hear both candidates hit on national security themes today in their speeches in Virginia. But the state is much bigger than that. It's really a Republican firewall for Mitt Romney.", "In battleground Virginia, both President Obama and Mitt Romney pulled out the heavy artillery. Before a group of veterans, Romney slammed the president for the massive defense cuts that are part of the fiscal cliff coming at the end of the year.", "It is still a troubled and dangerous world. And the idea of cutting our military commitment by a trillion dollars over this decade is unthinkable and devastating. And when I become president of the United States, we will stop it. I will not cut our commitment to our military.", "The president once again blasted Romney's hidden camera comments on the 47 percent of Americans he dubbed victims of government dependence.", "I don't think we can get very far with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives.", "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what who are dependent upon government.", "The Obama campaign turned Romney's secretly recorded remarks into a devastating new ad, playing the GOP nominee's words under the faces of families and veterans.", "And they will vote for this president no matter what. And so my job is not to worry about those people. I will never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.", "Romney, who has courted veterans two days in a row, is out to link national security to the nation's sluggish recovery. He's seizing on new economic data showing the Commerce Department revised down the country's GDP in the second quarter of the year from 1.7 percent to 1.3.", "This is not just one quarter. This has been going on now for years. China's growing much faster than we. Russia's growing faster than we. Our economy needs to be reinvigorated.", "But not all of the numbers paint a gloomy picture. The Labor Department announced it undercounted nearly 400,000 jobs in 2011, meaning that 4.4 million jobs have been created since the president's inauguration, slightly more than the number lost in that same period. But the president said there's still measuring work to do.", "We're not where we need to be. Not yet. We have got a lot more folks who have to get back to work. We have got a lot more work to do to make the middle class secure again. But the question is, whose plan is better for you?", "An Obama win in Republican-leaning Virginia could deal Romney a crushing blow. The president won here four years ago, becoming the first Democrat to do so since Lyndon Johnson. But in this state, the military vote is not the only game in town. Football fans are everywhere. So it's no surprise a reporter asked Romney about the deal to end the dispute between the NFL and its referees, a question Romney appeared to fumble.", "So what do you think about the NFL refs...", "I sure hope they do.", "Well, the refs will be back and they will be back tonight playing in Baltimore. But Romney continues his push on national security issues at an event at a military college in Pennsylvania tomorrow. That is a state where he is trailing the president according to recent polls. But it's one the campaign thinks it could put into play, Wolf.", "Why do they think that? Because the polls have been very lopsided in Pennsylvania for not just recently, but for weeks and weeks.", "They have looked at that state for some time. They think it's something they could put in play. Obviously, they know it would be an uphill battle because obviously in recent elections that state has been pretty solidly blue. But, Wolf, I have to tell you even though these recent battleground polls have shown Romney falling behind in places like Ohio and Florida, if you look at the posture, if you look at attitude of the campaign, they are showing no worry, no concern. They are very confident at this point that they will start to make up some ground during these debates and that this will still be a tight election come Election Day.", "Still plenty of time to go. Three debates. A lot can clearly happen. I haven't seen the Romney folks though put a lot of money in advertising in Pennsylvania. That's a sure sign that they're maybe not convinced it's really in play.", "We will see if that changes.", "Yes. That could change. You're right. Thank you very much. Today is the first day votes can be cast in one of the battleground states that will help decide the 2012 presidential election. Our chief national correspondent John King is in Iowa right now where in-person absentee voting actually started today. It's pretty early, but they're voting not only in Iowa, but in other parts of the country as well, John.", "Wolf, 35 states plus the District of Columbia allow some form of in-person early voting. As you noted, the Iowa voting kicked off today. We're here in Iowa City. We saw a pretty healthy line. Mostly students, mostly Obama supporters at public library here. Floyd Yarmouth, one of our photojournalists, is in Des Moines. he saw a line there before he drove out to join us here, again mostly Obama supporters on day one. Now, Republicans say that's overblown. They say if you have made up your mind to vote even before the debates, you are going to be for one candidate or the other no matter what and you are going to vote. So if you're voting early, voting later, it doesn't matter. But one of the places the Obama campaign thinks it helps and the reason I'm on the University of Iowa campus is they had a big swell in the youth vote last time. They had the support in the polls of the youth vote, but, Wolf, frankly they think turnout could be down this time. It's not history making. Youth unemployment is pretty high. Sometimes college students get a bit distracted. One of the things, Kathy Valde is the president of the University of Iowa Democrats, her job is to tell all of her friends, all of the fellow students vote now.", "Things come up. You can have an exam. You can wait until Election Day and realize you don't know where your precinct is. A lot of student haves to go to elementary schools around town, they don't have cars, they don't really know where it is. Any extra obstacle can keep students home on voting day. With early voting, it just gives us 40 more chances to catch people.", "Now, Republicans traditionally don't invest as much time in early voting. But, Wolf, as you know, this comes as a time, this is one of the battleground states, Iowa is, that's gone from a tie to breaking at least breaking a few points in the president's favor. And that has some Republicans here and elsewhere in the country a bit nervous. They're worried now about congressional races and other races. They think if things don't turn around soon, Governor Romney could be a drag on the ticket. I talked to Steve Grubbs. He's a veteran Iowa organizer, a veteran Republican, former state party chairman, and he says, yes, people are voicing those worries, but he also says be calm, that Governor Romney has time.", "Clearly if a candidate loses by more than five, it starts to affect down ballot. That's a big issue for Republicans. But the way I look at it, we're starting the fourth quarter, we have a strong quarterback. And anybody that knows football knows that fourth quarter's when most of the action happens. So October will be big. And if Romney has a good start to the month, we will be fine.", "You hear him say there October will be big. That starts the month. That would be the first debate, Wolf, on October 3. And, again, the Republicans say this is overblown. If you identify your voters, doesn't matter if they vote early or on Election Day. But look at just the request for early mail-in the Democrats have a 5- 1 advantage. In the county I'm in, more than half the votes were cast early last election. That's where most of the students are. It will be fascinating to watch. One thing Republicans are worried about as this early voting opens, the president has momentum at the moment. They say it's critical that Governor Romney switch that momentum as that voting continues, Wolf, 40 days right up to Election Day.", "Everyone agrees, John, Iowa very much in play right now, right?", "Yes. It's one of the states that's -- we have nine states we call tossups. This is one of them. Seven of those nine states allow some form of in-person early voting. Iowa is still in play, but Iowa is one of those states that have drifted a bit in the president's favor. And, again, this is a state where Republicans did very well in 2010. They believe they have some energy on the ground. But they have watched the last 10 days, Wolf. If you talk to them privately, they're not happy with the Romney strategy. They're not happy with the Romney advertisements. And they think first and foremost he must have a very, very strong debate on the question of which candidate can better handle the economy. They say he must do that in that first week of October to turn the tide here.", "All right. John will be joining us later in THE SITUATION ROOM as well. Thanks, John, very much. Today, we learned the president plans a Friday phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Over at United Nations earlier today, the prime minister literally, literally showed the world where to draw a red line to stop the Iranians from enriching enough uranium to make nuclear weapons.", "If these are the facts, so if these are the facts, and they are, where should a red line be drawn? A red line should be drawn right here, before, before Iran completes the second stage of nuclear enrichment necessary to make a bomb.", "Truly historic and extraordinary moment at the U.N. General Assembly. Let's discuss the political fallout with our senior political analyst Ron Brownstein. He's the editorial director of \"The National Journal.\" What is the political fallout when the visiting prime minister of Israel shows up at the United Nations General Assembly and he draws a red line and he suggests by next summer, as he said earlier, six or seven months, it will be too late? This is the time. It's got to be done. That puts enormous pressure I assume on the president.", "This has been extraordinary watching this over the past few weeks as Prime Minister Netanyahu in a series of media appearance speeches and now this U.N. appearance has really I think tried to maximize the leverage afforded by the U.S. presidential campaign to put the most pressure possible on President Obama to align with him on this idea of establishing a red line that would trigger military action. The president so far is saying no. Polling this week shows the country divided evenly on who would better handle the challenge, Romney or Obama. But it's also true there's been no appetite I think in the American public for another war in the Mideast. In that sense, I think Netanyahu has kind of an uphill argument here to push.", "How important is this issue though out there for those undecided voters specifically the undecided voters in those key battleground states that will determine who gets 270 Electoral College votes? We're talking about Florida, Ohio, Virginia and a few others.", "Well, this is overwhelmingly an economic election. To the extent it isn't, it's really about the role of government. Kind of ideological divergence between Romney and Obama over that. Those are the two critical issues here. On foreign policy, generally the president has had an advantage. Somewhat unusual for a Democrat. He's been seen as more capable handling foreign policy. His job approval rating on foreign policy have been better than his ratings on domestic policy. But certainly with Netanyahu raising the question -- with the differences being Netanyahu and Obama being made so visible by Netanyahu's own visibility, the question for the president is whether there is some erosion in Jewish support in a couple places where that could matter, particularly Florida. So far, we haven't seen that much of it, but it's not inconceivable given the extraordinary visibility of these arguments from the Israeli prime minister.", "The Israeli prime minister and the American president, they're not going to meet face-to-face. They're both obviously here in the United States. But there will be a phone call tomorrow. What's the political fallout from this decision that someone made that the president should not get together with Netanyahu during these final weeks of this election?", "Well, look, relationships are fraught between President Obama and Netanyahu as they were between Clinton and Netanyahu. Netanyahu in his view of the world and what it takes to make Israel secure is clearly closer to kind of a neocon Republican view of what it takes to achieve security for Israel. There is that inherent tension there. I don't think the president wants there to be the sense of a complete and utter breach politically at least in the U.S. going into the election, nor in fact does he want that in practice. The underlying relationship is very solid. The immediate relationship between these two current leaders clearly has some differences, Wolf.", "Ron Brownstein. We will be speaking in the next hour with the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. We will get some more on this subject, a dramatic moment indeed at the", "Absolutely.", "Ron, thanks very much. There's important news out today about jobs. And it may have pulled the rug out from under one of the Republicans' favorite attacks on President Obama. Stand by."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ACOSTA (voice-over)", "MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ACOSTA", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ROMNEY", "ACOSTA", "ROMNEY", "ACOSTA", "ROMNEY", "ACOSTA", "OBAMA", "ACOSTA", "QUESTION", "ROMNEY", "ACOSTA", "BLITZER", "ACOSTA", "BLITZER", "ACOSTA", "BLITZER", "JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "KATHERINE VALDE, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA DEMOCRATS", "KING", "STEVE GRUBBS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST", "KING", "BLITZER", "KING", "BLITZER", "BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER", "BLITZER", "RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "BROWNSTEIN", "BLITZER", "BROWNSTEIN", "BLITZER", "U.N.  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{"id": "CNN-399580", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-05-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/08/cnr.17.html", "summary": "U.S. and China Talk Economy, Public Health; One in 5 Americans File Jobless Claims Since Mid-March; U.K. Government to Announce Lockdown Plans Sunday", "utt": ["Welcome back. The United Kingdom on track for its worst economic crash in more than 300 years. Yes, that's right, 300 years. That's according to a new forecast by the Bank of England. It has Britain's GDP making a 14 percent decline this year, due to the coronavirus. Based on the bank's own historical data, that weight of contraction has not been seen since 1706. And amazingly, the bank warns the reality is likely to be even worse than they have forecast. Meanwhile, the U.S. and China are working to put phase one of their trade deal into place. The Chinese vice premier spoke with top U.S. trade officials in just the last few hours. CNN's Steven Jiang is in Beijing for us. Steven, it's almost odd to see trade reps talking about, you know, working together to carry out phase one while, on a political level, the two countries are trading accusations on coronavirus. What do you take from what we're hearing?", "Well, Michael, the takeaway is, at this stage, both governments are not ready for a complete breakdown in this very important but increasingly complex relationship between the world's two biggest economies. Now, for all the talk about a new cold war between the two countries, these two economies are so much more intertwined than that of the U.S. and the former Soviet Union ever were. So that's why, despite these increasingly vitriolic rhetorics [SIC] we have been hearing on both sides on the coronavirus issue, this implementation process of this phase one trade deal has never really stopped. That's what I have been hearing from both Chinese, as well as U.S. officials. Now, U.S. diplomats recently told me, actually, even during the peak of the outbreak here in China, back in February, when this virus was ravaging through China, they actually got calls from Chinese officials, unprompted, to reassure them about a Chinese commitment to this trade deal, to these purchasing commitments they have made. So this is really the kind of behind the scenes, flying under the radar process we are talking about. That's why this phone call between the two countries' trade negotiators is not entirely surprising. Some may have seen this as a result of Mr. Trump's recent threat to slap new tariffs on Chinese imports again, but this is actually not the case, according to officials here. Now, this kind of commitment by the Chinese government is reflected in these numbers released by the authorities here. During the first quarter, total trade volume between the two countries was down, not surprisingly. But the decrease in Chinese imports of American goods was much smaller than that of the Chinese exports to the U.S. So as a result, the Chinese surplus over the U.S. actually shrank by more than 20 percent. Now, the Chinese, of course, have also been highlighting their purchasing of American agricultural products, especially soybeans and pork. These have grew [SIC] significantly during the first quarter, as well. And Michael, as you know, these agricultural products are very important to Mr. Trump, because many, if not most, American farmers have been his staunch supporters. So he really needs to keep this base as we move closer to the November election -- Michael.", "Absolutely. Good to see you, Steven. Thank you. Steven Jian there in Beijing. Now, in the United States, one in five Americans have filed for unemployment since mid-March, think about that. That is when coronavirus lockdown measures began. Now, with a total of 3.2 million jobless claims just last week, April will likely paint the grimmest picture for U.S. employment since the Great Depression. CNN's emerging markets editor John Defterios joining me now, live from Abu Dhabi, on that. I mean, these economic numbers out Friday, boy, the signs are not good.", "Not good at all, Michael. In fact, we'll see numbers today we probably won't see again in our lifetime, post-COVID-19. There is a question, though. Is this the worst? Because companies are just starting their restructuring. So let's take a look at what's expected here. An unemployment rate probably around 16 percent. That was 3 and a half percent at a 50-year low back in February. Extraordinary. Our economy usually creates about a 100, to 150,000 jobs a month during normal times. Incredibly abnormal, we're looking at a drop of nearly 22 million. That's why I said that number, we'll probably never see that level again. And finally, you talked about the unemployment benefits that were filed for yesterday, 3.2 million. It takes the lost jobs, those asking for benefits, to 33 million in seven weeks. And that's why many think the month of May report will be worse, because those unemployment benefits that were filed yesterday are current, and active, and the number is, indeed, still extremely high. Again, for a little bit of context here, Michael, in the two-month starting here from COVID-19, we've wiped out more jobs than the two and a half years of the global financial crisis, 2008, '09 and going into 2010. It is extraordinary. Flexible labor laws, of course, allow Americans to lay off workers. These are faces behind these numbers here right now. But if you get a snapback, they can get rehired. It's just not clear at this stage whether that's going to happen.", "Yes. And meantime, John, you know, you've got both digital, and bricks and mortar, some big names, too, getting absolutely slammed. Bankruptcies going on.", "Yes. This is extraordinary, because it's decimating all levels of the economy. The old economy and the new economy. Nieman Marcus, founded in 1907 in Dallas, Texas, filing for bankruptcy, the fabled retailer. There are 15 other names being floated around that could tumble into bankruptcy at the same time in 2020, Michael. Uber, founded in 2009 in San Francisco, first quarter results, a loss of nearly $3 billion. It's laid off 14 percent of its workforce this week. But after those results in the first quarter, the company is suggesting they may not be finished with it. If you're looking for some kind of light at the end of the tunnel, if you will, Uber is suggesting that they're starting to see ridership pick up again, so the stock actually rose. That's -- that's kind of crazy, in a world like we're living today, if you can lose nearly $3 billion and your stock rise is coming after hours in market trade.", "Three billion-dollar loss, and not real profitable anyway so far. John, good to see. Thanks for that. John Defterios there in Abu Dhabi.", "Thanks, Michael.", "All right. Well, questions are being raised about coronavirus protocols inside the White House after one of the president's staffers tested positive for the virus. CNN's Jim Acosta reports to us from the White House.", "For President Trump, the pandemic just hit home, as in the White House, as one of his military valets has tested positive for the coronavirus. But the president is insisting it's no big deal that a personal aide was infected.", "Know who he is, good person, but I've had very little contact. Mike is -- had very little contact with him. But Mike was tested, and I was tested. We were both tested. Yes, it's a little bit strange, but it's one of those things. But the potential for the virus to spread around the White House does exist. White House officials tell CNN few aides to the president actually wear masks around the West Wing, just as the president decided to forego putting on one earlier this week during a factory tour in Arizona.", "Well, I just wouldn't wear one myself. I think wearing a face mask as our great presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, I don't know. Somehow, I don't see it for myself. I just -- I just don't.", "One White House official said of the president, \"He's a unique individual. He can't be seen walking around wearing a mask.\" Another close advisor pointing fingers at the press.", "I think if anybody should start wearing masks, and showing more respect, it should be the media.", "White House officials have said it's not necessary for the president to wear a mask because he and aides around him are routinely tested for the virus. But the director of the National Institutes of Health said one of the test often used by the White House has a notable false negative rate.", "I think the other concern has been that it does have about a 15 percent false negative rate. If you're in a circumstance where you really, really don't want to miss a diagnosis of somebody who's already carrying the virus, you'd like to have something that has a higher sensitivity than that. And I know they're working on how to make that happen. As for restarting the economy, the White House is rejecting proposed guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control, offering recommendations on just how to reopen restaurants, schools, and other public spaces. A coronavirus task force official told CNN, \"Issuing overly specific instructions -- that CDC leadership never cleared -- for how various types of businesses open up would be overly perspective and broad. Guidance in rural Tennessee shouldn't be the same guidance for urban New York City.\"", "I find it very concerning. You don't want to get into a situation where public health, and public health science, is set up as the enemy of restarting the economy.", "The economy could use a shot in the arm after 3.2 million people filed unemployment claims last week, making for a stunning 33 and a half million since mid-March.", "He was an innocent man.", "But the president is welcoming a development away from the pandemic, after the Justice Department dropped charges against former national security advisor Michael Flynn, who had pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators. After once firing Flynn for lying to Vice President Mike Pence about the Russia investigation, the president now views Flynn as an innocent man. Mr. Trump appeared to signal what was coming last week.", "I'll tell you, for sure, when I looked at what they did to him, they tormented him, dirty cops, tormented General Flynn. Because he's in the process of being exonerated.", "As for taking precautions here at the White House, the president said he'll be receiving a coronavirus test on a daily basis. Same goes for the vice president, other aides who work closely with the president. That is a major change in protocols here at the White House and provides a stark contrast with what many Americans have experienced across the country, that it is sometimes difficult to get tested. Jim Acosta, CNN, the White House.", "And former U.S. Vice President Al Gore says the Trump administration has utterly failed in its handling of the pandemic. He told our Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta he's worried about what's to come as states begin to reopen.", "He has failed as president, particularly on this challenge. The warnings were ignored. Then, after the warnings were met, he has failed to mobilize the resources of the federal government to straighten out this testing catastrophe, to get the swabs and the so- called reagents they need to do the tests; and the gowns and masks and all of the other stuff. He has not done that. And now, I think we're in grave danger. I have to tell you both. I think that we are seeing the start of a botched reopening.", "And you can hear more from Mr. Gore, along with White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, filmmaker Spike Lee, and author of \"The Coming Plague,\" Laurie Garrett. That will be coming up next hour on CNN's global town hall, \"CORONAVIRUS FACTS AND FEARS.\" We're going to take a short break again. When we come back, businesses forming plans to bring employees back to work, and ahead, we'll tell you why you shouldn't expect it to be the same place you left. 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{"id": "CNN-260300", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2015-07-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/23/es.02.html", "summary": "Sandra Bland Death Investigation; Trump Defends Attacks on Opponents; Selling the Iran Nuclear Deal; Secretary Carter lands in Baghdad", "utt": ["New information in the jail cell death of Sandra Bland. What she said about her depression and previous suicide attempt ahead. Donald Trump heading to the border defending his attacks on opponents to CNN. Welcome back to EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans. It is exactly 30 minutes past the hour. Nice to see you this Thursday morning. Let's start with those developments in the death of Sandra Bland, the Illinois woman who police say hanged herself in a Texas jail cell three days after she was arrested during a routine traffic stop. The results of an autopsy ordered by her family expected to be available today. And there are still questions, many questions about the surveillance tapes of Bland's arrest, tapes that appear to be edited. Look at how the car disappears in this tape. See that? Police denying the video passing it off as technical issues. We are also learning from authorities that Bland told a jail employee she tried to commit suicide. We are hearing for the first time, a voicemail bland left for a friend one day after her arrest.", "Hey, this is me. I'm -- I just was able to see the judge. I don't really know, they have me at a $5,000 bond. I'm still just at a loss for words, honestly, about this who process. How did this witching lanes with no signal turn into all of this, I don't even know. But I'm still here. So I guess call me back when you can.", "For the latest on the Sandra Bland investigation, the death investigation, here is CNN's Ryan Young.", "Christine, just a lot of information coming from the jail. In fact, new documents show that when there was an intake here are at jail with Sandra Bland, that she marked here that says she attempted suicide in 2014 after losing a child and apparently she tried to use pills to commit suicide. On page four, though, it says that she suffers from epilepsy. But the question number 12 of page 4 says, \"Have you ever attempted suicide?\", and that's marked no. So, there are questions about the paper work that's coming from the jail. But jailers putting to page 2 where it says she did try to commit suicide. A lot of questions about how the jail manages people who obviously have said they tried to commit suicide before. Are there more checks for somebody who has gone through that process? That's something that we'll be asking the next couple of days. We have also learned from officials about the idea that she may have been cutting her arm and using marijuana to self-medicate. All this goes into the background and makeup of Sandra Bland, questions that need to be answered as investigators try to find out what happened in the jail -- Christine.", "Still a grieving family and a lot of questions out there. All right. Thanks for that, Ryan. Donald Trump heading to the Texas/Mexico border today. The Republican front runner scheduled to meet with border patrol and law enforcement officials in Laredo. He says they invited him to come because they want to honor for speaking up about immigration. The billionaire businessman is also defending his treatment of fellow Republicans. He told CNN's Anderson Cooper he is just reacting to their personal attacks.", "They are saying horrible things, like, I don't even know these people and they're saying this. Now, am I supposed to -- you know, to say oh, it is OK for them to say -- one guy, I guess it was Lindsey Graham called me a jackass. So, am I supposed to say, oh, it's OK if I'm called this? I'm called a jackass. You have to fight back. The country has to fight back. Everyone's pushing our country around. We can't allow that, Anderson.", "Is it presidential, though?", "I think it's presidential to fight back.", "To give out a personal phone number of your opponents?", "Well, that was a long story. I mean, you have to see the long story, the whole story the way it morphed, OK? That was a whole long story, where he wanted to get on \"Fox & Friends\" and he called me out of the blue. I never met the guy. Then he wanted to come in for campaign contributions. And then he starts hitting me years later, then I happened to have this crazy phone number. And I held it up. I said this guy was over here. And actually, as you probably know, the room was packed, standing room only, in fact they had, theaters, it was overflow crowd, closed circuit television into other rooms. The place went wild. We all had a good time.", "But is that presidential?", "I think so. I think it's fine.", "Is that something as president, when you're opposed by somebody in Congress, you would give out their personal phone number?", "I was hit by somebody unfairly. I was called names by somebody. So, he was up, somebody's hitting me saying what a bad guy I am, was up in my office asking for money asking and asking if I can get him on television --", "When you are president of the United States, you're going to be hit by half of the country.", "That's true.", "Are you going to call them, dumb, stupid?", "No, I think it's a little bit different. Right now, I'm trying to do something to make the country great again. Politicians will never make this country great again. Now --", "As president, you would change your tone?", "Oh, I think so.", "That war of words with graham not stopping. Listen to the South Carolina senator's latest comments about the billionaire businessman. He spoke yesterday to CNN's Brianna Keilar.", "I think Donald Trump is a political car wreck, and people slow down to look at the wreck, but they eventually move on.", "He is high -- very high in the polls right now. We also have information about Trump's wealth. His filings with the Federal Election Commission say he earns income from more than 150 separate deals ranging from real estate projects to footwear. He holds executive or board positions with more than 500 different companies and partnerships. Turning now to the Iran nuclear deal. The White House selling the agreement hard here and abroad. Secretary of State John Kerry, along with the energy and treasury secretaries expecting to face tough questions in the Senate hearing this morning. House Speaker John Boehner already vowing Republicans will do everything possible to kill this deal. Defense Secretary Ash Carter meeting with Saudi leaders trying to assure them the agreement will not help Iran expand the military reach across the Middle East. Breaking this morning, Secretary Carter touching down this hour in Baghdad. An unannounced visit. Let's get more on that from CNN's Jomana Karadsheh live from Amman, Jordan. What's the secretary doing in Iraq, Jomana?", "Christine, as you mentioned, an unannounced stop on this Middle East tour by Secretary Carter. And he arrived in Baghdad in the past half hour or so, and he is expected to meet with Iraqi leaders, including Prime Minister Haider al Abadi, also the defense minister there, and members of the Sunni leadership in the country, including the speaker of parliament, a key Sunni figure in the country. Now, while this Middle East tour has focused on the Iran deal, the Iraq stop, we would expect to be dominated by the fight against ISIS, and hearing from Iraqi officials about how this fight is going on, on the ground, what they require, and also, the U.S. pushing them to do more. As we heard from Iraqi officials, Christine, over recent months, they feel one year into the start of the coalition's fight against ISIS that not enough is being done. They say they are grateful for the air strikes and support they're get from the coalition, but they need more. They have a long list of things they need, including more air strikes, they say, and also more training and also expedited weapons shipments that we are seeing, the U.S. saying that they are starting to do so. In the past week, we have seen the U.S. provide Iraq with the first batch of F-16 fighter jets, something that Iraq said is key when it comes to its fight against the terrorist organization. They say they need to empower their own air force in that fight. But we also expect the secretary also to push the Iraqis to do more when it comes to, for example, Sunni inclusion. They want more Sunni fighters brought into the fight against ISIS. Of course, the fight on the ground is being led by Iraqi forces, Iraqi military and also Shia militias. But they want to see Sunni fighters in Sunni areas also being a key part of that fight as it happened in the past when it came to the fight against al Qaeda in Iraq. The secretary also during his visit is expected to meet with U.S. officials there, State Department officials, as well as U.S. troops. More than 3,500 U.S. advisers, trainers in that country overseeing that fight against ISIS, Christine.", "All right. Jomana Karadsheh, and again, the defense secretary, an unannounced visit to Baghdad this morning, just landing within the hour -- thank you for that. We know you will keep watching it for us. ISIS is now a bigger threat to the U.S. than al Qaeda because of its ability to inspire Americans to commit acts of domestic violence. That's the assessment from the director of the FBI. James Comey admitting there is no way to know just how many troubled Americans have been influenced by ISIS during the terror group's year-long social media campaign to, quote, \"kill where you are.\" He says the FBI has arrested a significant number of people who have been radicalized in the last eight weeks with hundreds of other ongoing investigation. The FBI director also warning lawmakers, terrorists are becoming increasingly more interested in launching cyberattacks against the U.S. Comey says the plotting appears to be in its early stages, but the bureau is picking up a lot of chatter and the threat level could be growing. The White House now in its final stages of drafting the plan to shut down the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay permanently. Any plan would have to be approved by Congress. Right now, lawmakers have a ban in place blocking the transfer of Gitmo inmates to the United States. And officials in Havana are demanding the U.S. turned Guantanamo back over to Cuban control. All right. Thirty-nine minutes past the hour. Time for an early start on your money. And this morning, we have the pleasure of Alison Kosik this morning after a bad day for stocks. What's happening?", "Yes, we saw red arrows again for the Dow falling for the second day in a row. Sixty-eight points down for the Dow for the Dow yesterday. This is after we saw a 4 percent decline in shares of Apple. That's after Apple said it didn't sell as many iPhones last quarter as expected. But today, U.S. futures are pointing higher. Also, we are seeing green arrows for European markets as well. Fast food workers are closer to making $15 an hour. A state wage board yesterday approved Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposal. Now, the state's labor commissioner still has to approve the raise. Businesses have been against the increase saying higher wages will lead to fewer workers getting hired. The higher wage would happen first in New York City by 2018 and then by 2021, and the rest of the state. Now, this applies to fast food chains that have more than 30 locations. But you're seeing New York, Christine, you're seeing New York joins Seattle and San Francisco and Los Angeles and also Washington, D.C. They're pushing through $15 wage as well.", "Yes, they haven't been able to get a $10.10 minimum wage increase on the federal level. And, you know, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, saying he's calling their bluff, those businesses who say they're going to hire fewer workers. He says, no, I think you need all those workers and I'll call your bluff. We're going to raise those wages. It will be interesting to see how that pans out. Thank you so much, Alison. Talk to you soon.", "You got it. A new lawsuit accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault. Why this case is moving forward, next."], "speaker": ["CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "SANDRA BLAND'S VOICEMAIL FROM JAIL", "ROMANS", "RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "TRUMP", "COOPER", "TRUMP", "COOPER", "TRUMP", "COOPER", "TRUMP", "COOPER", "TRUMP", "COOPER", "TRUMP", "COOPER", "TRUMP", "ROMANS", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "ROMANS", "JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN MONEY CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "KOSIK"]}
{"id": "CNN-69779", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2003-4-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0304/22/lol.08.html", "summary": "Shiite Pilgrimage Reaches Climax Near Karbala", "utt": ["In Iraq's holy city of Karbala, a religious ritual that was largely unobserved for decades is being revived now that Saddam Hussein's regime is over. Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims have made pilgrimages to the city in a mix of religious fervor and anti-Americanism. CNN's Nic Robertson, live in Karbala, joins us now from this celebrations -- Nic.", "Kyra, this is an odd day that's been all about freedom, about religious freedom about freedom of expression, freedom of speech. People here have been -- have been gathering in Karbala for the last couple of days. They've been coming from cities across the country many people walking. Under Saddam Hussein's regime they could not have gathered in this way in these numbers. They could not have walked from, let's say, Baghdad or any of the other cities that they've come from. People tell us if they tried to do that, they would have been arrested, they could have spent years in jail or even death. What we've been witnessing here, people, like these people here right now, even at this late hour, marching between the two holy shrines here in Karbala. The people beat themselves. It's self flagellation, a way of expressing their guilt. Their religious leader who is buried here, Imam Hussein (ph), died in a battle that they Shia community never came to support him and they -- they beat themselves in this way to express their guilt. This couldn't have happened and didn't happen under Saddam Hussein. And while people here say they're very grateful for the United States for getting rid of Saddam Hussein, they are also telling us that they're very happy for the United States to go. They saying the forces can pull out. They're not need at this time. That the Iraqi people, they say, are quite happy to be left on their own. Perhaps the reason that the Shia community, that it makes up two- thirds of the population of Iraq, feels happy for that to happen, or says it's happy for that to happen, is because their religious leaders have already begun to fill these power vacuums left by Saddam Hussein's regime. They're providing security for their people, they're dealing with welfare issues, dealing with education issues, providing security on the streets of some areas. These religious leaders already giving a political voice, and certainly some of these religious leaders who have been speaking politically say they think that the United States would try and divide their Shia community, to lessen their political voice in the whole of Iraq. And this comes at a time when some of these leaders are calling for theocracy, are calling for an Islamic state inside Iraq -- Kyra.", "Well, Nic, I hope you can hear me OK. The energy and the singing is so strong, you can't help but feel it. And I just wanted to ask you, we've seen these pictures of the slapping of chests and -- and the fake blood on the faces and the shirts. And I just -- could you just expand a little bit on the symbolism behind this? You see it and it's -- you don't really understand it at first, so explain it to us.", "Hugely symbolic. Imam Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Mohammed, who is so important to Muslims throughout the world -- Imam Hussein fought a battle here in Karbala, about 13 centuries ago. He was massacred. The reason he was massacred? Because the Shia community who supported him did not come and fight on his side. Today these people expressed their guilt, seek atonement by beating themselves because their ancestors didn't support this religious icon, Imam Hussein, who is buried in one of the shrines here. That's why it happens. So brutal has been the beating -- people beating themselves today, that some of their religious leaders have called on them to calm down. They're saying that just because you haven't been able to do this for so many years, calm down. Take it easy. Don't beat yourselves up so much. And that's been coming from their leaders here -- Kyra.", "Well, it's an interesting twist of irony. Our Nic Robertson there in Karbala, thank you very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "ROBERTSON", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-28920", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-4-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/23/ltm.18.html", "summary": "What is the Safest Small SUV?", "utt": ["Let's check and see just how tough some sports utility vehicles really are. There is some testing being done by a highway safety group, which has updated its crash test results on small SUVs. And the best performer on this list may actually surprise you. CNN's Eileen O'Connor joins us now live from the testing facility of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. That is in Ruckersville, Virginia. Good morning, Eileen.", "Good morning, Leon. Well, the institute has done three tests on three new small utility vehicles: the Toyota Rav4, which is a redesign of that car; the Ford Escape, brand new car by Ford; and the Hyundai Santa Fe. And with me is David Zuby, who is the vice president of the institute. This is a new car, isn't it?", "That's right. The Santa Fe is a new model for Hyundai this year.", "And this turned out to be the best. But what kind of test did you do?", "Well, all of the cars are subjected what we call a 40 mile-per-hour, 40 percent offset frontal crash test. What that means is that the front of the car crashes into a barrier, where only the left part of the front of the car engages the barrier. So the structure in the left part of the car has got to manage all of the energy for the crash.", "OK, and why -- it turns out -- and this is surprising -- that the Hyundai was in fact the safest, although it's the cheapest, the least expensive of these three cars. What makes it the best?", "Well, what makes it is the best is that the area around where the driver sits is pretty well preserved. There's a little bit of deformation, but plenty of room to survive the crash. Also, the dummy that was sitting in the driver's seat measured low forces, indicating that the risk of serious injury was pretty low in this crash.", "OK. Now, let's walk over here to the Ford Escape, which actually turned out to have the least favorable rating of these three. And, as it turned out, this was a marginal rating. That got a good rating. This got a marginal rating. Why was that?", "Well, in comparison to the Hyundai Sante Fe, you can see that the area around the driver is considerably more crunched up, meaning that parts of the car are coming in and closing in around the driver. We measured high forces on the dummy's right leg and moderately high forces on the dummy's head when his head pushed through the air bag and hit the steering wheel and then bounced back and hit the b-pillar here -- so although not really high risk of serious injury, a moderately high risk of injury for the head and a very high risk of injury for the right leg in this crash.", "And you can really see that the gas pedal is pushed actually pretty far forward. And, in fact, there is a lot of damage to the floorboards under wear the driver would sit. Now, our third car is the Toyota Rav4. And this got an acceptable rating, correct?", "That's right. This is acceptable overall -- no big problems here like super high forces on the right leg that we saw in the Escape, but some -- a lot of things that weren't quite good. So in the end, it ends up only acceptable overall.", "But it was actually better than some of the other 10 -- you've actually tested about 10 of these small utility vehicles.", "That's correct. Compared to some of the other 10, this is a pretty good performer with an acceptable overall rating -- a little bit more intrusion than we saw in the Santa Fe, a little bit higher forces on the dummy, but still a pretty good performer.", "And, Leon, it's really surprising -- is that, again, comparing it to the other 10 that they've arrested -- they've tested -- the Hyundai Sante Fe actually also turns out to be better than the Subaru Forester. So, as it turns out, you know, cheaper isn't always bad. This actually turns out to be safer -- Leon", "Interesting. Eileen, just one last -- I have got to ask you this one question, because I've always wondered about these testing facilities. After they wreck a car, what do they do with it? Do they sell it for parts or what?", "You know what they do? Well, David, we were just talking about that. Now, what happens to the cars afterwards?", "Well, after we have finished all the studying that we do with the cars, we eventually sell them to auto salvagers. Auto salvagers typically take the cars apart. And the parts that are still good get sold for -- as used parts. And then the rest of the scrap -- the stuff that is crunched up -- is just sold as scrap metal.", "So we could get you some deep, deep discounts here, Leon, on your next car.", "Thanks, but no thanks. Eileen O'Connor, reporting live this morning from Ruckersville, Virginia, thanks much. 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{"id": "CNN-59999", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-9-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/02/lad.08.html", "summary": "No Deal at Earth Summit", "utt": ["No deal yet at the Earth Summit in South Africa. World leaders having trouble agreeing on a plan to ease poverty and clean up the environment, a big task. Our Jeff Koinange is joining us by telephone now from Johannesburg with the latest on the conference there -- Jeff, hello.", "That's right, Catherine. Hello from Johannesburg, where about a half an hour ago, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, keynote speaker, one of the heads of state who are here, one of the more than 100 heads of state. And you can put this headline on, Catherine. You can say world leaders throw down the gauntlet at the world summit. Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a very impassioned speech, saying, in his words, \"We know the problems. We know the solutions. What's needed here is the political will.\" Now, many people wondered whether Prime Minister Blair was going to address the Zimbabwe situation. He, of course, did not, but he did mention Africa in particular. He says Africa, to him, is a passion and he was very committed. He went on to say if Africa is a scar on the conscience of the world then we must heal it. German Chancellor Gerhardt Schroeder also came out passionately and said agricultural subsidies must be reduced and eventually eliminated. The same thing by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Cretien. So world leaders are really speaking out this morning, Catherine. It looks like it's going to be a very interesting day because everybody seems to be speaking the same language. Earlier on, President Thabo Mbeke said it. He summed it all up. He said, \"Now is the time to act and speed and commitment to implementation will be key.\" So it looks like hopefully by the end of this day that one sticking point that's remaining, and that's on renewable energy, hopefully they will resolve that to put targets and timetables and make sure that the entire document, everyone is speaking with the same language at the end of the document -- Catherine.", "Right. You know, when you mentioned targets and timetables, as you did, you know, I wonder about these type of plans. Is it really to come up with a working plan or just to bring the issues to the forefront among all of the leaders that are there?", "You know, Catherine, if there is a commitment -- and the targets and timetables are all scheduled around the year 2015, which is basically 13 years away. It's not that far away. But you're right, if there is a concerted effort, if there is a commitment then it will work. And the fact that it's such a sticking point to put a target and a timetable on it means that they are really committed to giving themselves, you know, 13 or 20 years to reach that goal -- Catherine.", "Jeff Koinange, thank you so much for being with us today."], "speaker": ["CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFF KOINANGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CALLAWAY", "KOINANGE", "CALLAWAY"]}
{"id": "CNN-198329", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-12-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1212/29/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Rape Victim in India Dies", "utt": ["You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Martin Savidge, in today for Fredricka Whitfield. Very glad to be with you. All right. In three days, America will go off that fiscal cliff, unless these folks right here prevent it. They are in control of whether your taxes go up come New Year's Day. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner, and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi: all four met at the White House yesterday afternoon with the president and vice president. Here's where things stand right now. The Senate leaders are meeting, aiming to avoid tax hikes, and they may vote on a deal Sunday or perhaps on Monday. Jessica Yellin is our chief White House correspondent. Lisa Desjardins is on Capitol Hill. The president used his bully pulpit to reinforce the idea that senators need to get busy. So let's listen.", "The American people are watching what we do here. Obviously, their patience is already thin. This is deja vu all over again. America wonders why it is that in this town for some reason, you can't get stuff done in an organized timetable, why everything always has to wait till the last minute. Well, we're now at the last minute. And the American people are not going to have any patience for a politically self-inflicted wound to our economy. Not right now.", "So Jessica, you were in the room for the president's remarks. On a scale of one to 10, let's measure the anger perhaps that was emanating from the president right now with Congress waiting until this last-minute deal. How angry is he?", "Well, he definitely was using the bully pulpit to pressure Congress to get something done this weekend. I'd say he seemed frustrated, but I definitely have seen him more frustrated. And today he wasn't totally out of patience. And today, Martin, he said that he believes \"we may be able to reach an agreement.\" That's what he believes that can pass both houses in time. That's in addition to the fact that yesterday, he said he's moderately optimistic. So there's still a window of hope, and it seems that window just opened a bit more yesterday after the meeting among all those leaders. The president is at the White House today working. His negotiators folks are on standby ready to be in touch with people on Capitol Hill, but they're waiting for any word of any kind of breakthrough up there, and that's where a lot of the focus is today to see if that deal can be hatched between the Senate minority leader and majority leader, Martin. Lisa, well, we've seen both Speaker Boehner and Senator McConnell at the capitol today. But we haven't heard anything from any of the players. So what's happening right now?", "Believe me, we've been asking. We've been trying to get any sort of detail about anything we can. I actually think that this sort of silence that weigh hear from the players right now may be a good thing. I think it's an indication democratic sources told us yesterday if there's a deal going back and forth that's possible, they may be motivated to not talk to the press because they're going to want to try and give that deal a chance. That may be what's happening right now. Of course, we don't know. I think right now, no news might be good news. We know Senator McConnell's been in his office for more than hour now working with his staff. Senator Reid is not here yet. It does seem like the Republicans are perhaps either working with other Republicans or working out the details of this possible deal. I think we're in the real working hours right now and perhaps the less said by these major players at least for the moment, the better.", "Yes, well, let's hope that's the case. Jessica, both sides still seem to be always from what they want and everyone seems to be saying no one is going to get 100 percent of what they want, right?", "It's a compromise. Everybody knows that at this point. I know the staffs of the two leaders are in touch and contacting each other trying to get closer. I can tell you what Democrats want is, as you know and the president has made clear, a tax increase for people who make households that make $250,000 and more, an extension of unemployment benefits that affects some 2 million Americans or so, a delay in those massive spending cuts that Congress put into a package a year ago, increase in the estate tax. Now, what do Republicans want ideally to be included? They'd like to limit the tax increase for high earners, place that threshold somewhere other than $250,000, avoid the estate tax increase, no delay in those spending cuts, and figure out an agreement to pay for the extension of unemployment benefits. No guarantee either side's going to get all or any of what they want. What they're trying to do now is probably whittle out middle ground and see if they can get there.", "Lisa, let me ask you this. We've seen a number of the key players, heard from others. But there's someone noticeably absent and that is speaker John Boehner. Where is he? And has he been benched sort of in this process?", "He was here at the capitol this morning. Our producer on Capitol Hill reports he was meeting with his chief of staff. We don't know what they were talking about. He was here at the capitol. Only he and Senator McConnell have been here today. You know, I think the situation is such that after Speaker Boehner lost that vote, and there he is walking in from earlier in the week, after Speaker Boehner lost that vote in his own caucus in the House, it was clear and he even said as much, that the Senate needed to act. That's for a couple of reasons. One, the Senate has that 60-vote threshold to get anything through. And conservatives in the House want some cover. They don't want to pass something and have it run into trouble in the Senate because they would be sticking their neck out to some degree especially those conservatives or Republicans worried about a tea party challenge next time around. So for a lot of reasons, everything has to start in the Senate. That's why we're seeing a lot less of Speaker Boehner. But I think what's interesting in the capitol today martin, in the last few minutes we've seen the sun come out. This place is full of tourists. That kind of concern about the average American is getting these leaders to the table.", "All right, I love your optimism. Thanks very much, Lisa Desjardins and Jessica Yellin joining us from the White House. Thank you both. We'll stay in close touch and follow this. Thank you. In New York, police have a woman in custody in connection with a case of the man pushed to his death from a subway platform in that city. Police had targeted a woman who looked like this police sketch, a heavy set woman in her 20s caught on a security camera running away after that attack on Thursday. David Ariosto is live in New York with the latest developments on this, and pretty quick work here, wasn't it?", "It seems to be. They have this woman in custody right now because that she had implicated herself, the statement we got from chief of police department spokesman Paul brown. And this is a case that certainly has rocked New York. This is the second time this has taken place within the month of December. It's something that doesn't happen all that often here in New York. And 8.5 million people in the city and many, many people take the subway. So to have something like this take place, you would think it's got the city in sort of a tizzy. This thing happened in Queens. The woman was walking back and forth. It's not clear if the one that they have in custody is indeed the woman that was seen on that security video that you showed earlier. However, this woman apparently made implicating statements regarding that push. It happened in queens like I said. It was the seven train. She was apparently walking back and forth when all of a sudden she lunged forward, pushed this man, who was then crushed to his death. Again, the second time this has happened in New York in this month.", "And what if anything do we know, David, about statements that this woman supposedly has made where she may have implicated herself?", "That's a good question. You know, we always have to be careful with these types of things what implication means. Whether she's somehow tied or connected to someone that she knows might have done this or whether she herself was the individual who committed this heinous act. It's really not clear. We have calls out to the nypd trying to decipher exactly what that means and get more clarification. Hopefully as the hours proceed and the investigation continues, we'll be able to bring more information to you.", "We hope that too, David Ariosto. Thank you very much. More snow on the way to the east coast. New York, D.C. seeing some of the action today. It's been brutal weather, at least this week for the people in the Midwest, the south and along the east coast, which is almost everybody and the west coast is going to share in this, too. Bonnie Schneider will have more on which areas can expect the most snow this weekend at the half hour. Moving on, internationally now, in India the young woman gang raped on a New Delhi bus has died. She died peacefully in the Singapore hospital where she was being treated. Authorities plan to add murder charges against the six suspects under arrest in that rape. Mallika Kapur has details from New Delhi.", "Her identity is a secret. But the Indian public has given her a name, brave heart. And thousands of people across the country are taking to the streets to mark this courageous young girl's death.", "We are speechless about what happened with the girl.", "Her brutal gang rape on December 16th has shaken India and triggered an unprecedented outpouring of grief and anger, anger at the system protesters say repeatedly lets its women down. They say Delhi isn't a safe place for women.", "Common people like us have come out because we feel strongly about this. We feel that we are not safe. You know, our relatives, nobody's safe in the city anymore. We don't really see the government picking up that as an issue. I mean safety is the first thing that you would assure to a citizen, right?", "This isn't the first time a rape case has been reported. But many more never are, but this case has become a lightning rod in India. Dissolution with the government -- protesters say enough is enough.", "The brutality of this crime and the way it has been handled kind of insensitive treatment that some of the statements that some of the politicians and some of the people have made ensure that not only me -- I mean everybody has come out to see that this is not done and we are not OK with this.", "They want to see the government take concrete steps to address their concerns.", "Surely, definitely. Then you know, just faster justice systems. You need to have special courts when it's not open to the public. I think that's still a provision, but you need to have more courts and better hearing and stronger systems.", "It's no longer about one girl or one particular rape case. It's about India's attitude toward its women and about making sure that brave heart did not die in vain.", "In other international news, four people are dead after a plane crashed at the international airport in Moscow. Four others injured. Eight people were on board, all of them crew members, when the plane apparently overshot the runway. From the rollercoaster Republican primary race to that infamous phrase \"The 47 percent,\" 2012 was the year in politics, and we've got the top ten stories. And while politicians are still scrambling to reach a deal that will stop your taxes from going up, you're telling us what you think about that fiscal cliff."], "speaker": ["MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR", "BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SAVIDGE", "JESSICA YELLIN, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "LISA DESJARDINS, CNN RADIO CAPITOL HILL CORRESPONDENT", "SAVIDGE", "YELLIN", "SAVIDGE", "DESJARDINS", "SAVIDGE", "DAVID ARIOSTO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SAVIDGE", "ARIOSTO", "SAVIDGE", "MALLIKA KAPUR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KAPUR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KAPUR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KAPUR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KAPUR", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "CNN-144192", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2009-10-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/20/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Afghanistan to Hold Runoff in Disputed Presidential Election; President Obama Visits Counterterrorism Headquarters", "utt": ["All right, the president of the United States has just started speaking at the Joint Terrorism Task Force headquarters in New York. He's trying the FBI director, Bob Mueller, right now. Let's listen in.", "And we are grateful to him. I also want to commend Police Commissioner Kelly, Assistant Director in Charge Joe Demarest and the leaders who've helped to put together a team that is more integrated, more collaborative and more effective than ever before. You know, here at the Joint Terrorism Task Force we have folks from the FBI working side by side with some of New York's finest, as well as countless federal, state and local partners. I was taking a look at the list, and it looks like 45, 46 different agencies represented here. And together your success in thwarting terrorist attacks, the strong intelligence you've gathered, and the hard-nosed investigations you've pursued has proved to be a model for law enforcement officials across the country. And for that, you should all be extremely proud. No one knows better than you how important this work is, because you've always been on the front lines in fighting extremism. Last month, we marked the eighth anniversary of the attacks on 9/11, and on that terrible day when terrorists brought so much death and destruction on our shores and so many lives were lost, many of you were the first on the scenes, saving lives, working tirelessly to bring those responsible to justice, and guarding against future attacks in subsequent weeks and months and years. That effort continues to this day, quietly, doggedly, courageously. Most New Yorkers, much less most Americans probably don't know this office is here and they don't know what you do. Obviously, you're not doing it for the glamour or the glory or the pay.", "You do it to serve and protect your country. And because of the effort and sacrifices that you're making on a daily basis, we are making real progress on our core missions of disrupting and dismantling and ultimately defeating al Qaeda and its extremist allies. I said this when I had a chance to speak to some of the NYPD leadership team last month over the phone, but I particularly want to express my appreciation and admiration for your terrific work, especially in the recent weeks. Working together, you've saved countless lives. And your collaboration earned the respect and gratitude not just of New Yorkers but Americans everywhere. This level of cooperation and integration is going to be critical in defeating the type of determined and resourceful, and oftentimes in the shadows, opponents that you're up against every day. Nerve centers like this one help you share intelligence, answer questions, and give support instantly. And because each organization is on its own, this task force has shown how much stronger all of you can be when you're actually working together. You're setting the standard for everybody else, as I said, and you're showing what focused and integrated counterterrorism work really looks like. And the record of your service is written in the attacks that never occurred because you thwarted them and because of the countless Americans who are alive today as a consequence of that work. And so America's in your debt for that. Of course, we all know that we're facing a determined adversary. They are resourceful. They are resilient. They are still plotting, as we have become all too aware. No one can ever promise that there won't be another attack on America's soil. But I can promise you this: I pledge to do everything in my power as president of the United States to keep the American people safe. And that means I pledge to give all of you the tools and the support that you need to get the job done, both here at home and around the world. And I pledge that I will stay as focused on this mission as you are. So, we all have to redouble our efforts in the face of threats that persist. We're going to have to draw strength from the values that we hold dear. We're going to have to keep our eye fixed on the world we seek to build, one that not only defeats our adversaries, but that also promotes dignity and opportunity and justice for all who stand with us. To do that, I'm going to need all of you to continue the extraordinary work you do and the collaborations you do. That's how we're going to prevail in this fight. That's how we're going to protect this country that we love. So, I know that all of you are extraordinarily business. And I do not want to draw you away from the work that you do. I just want to let you know that we appreciate it. We acknowledge it. We thank you for it. And I'm going to continue to be standing behind you each and every step of the way. So, thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.", "The president thanking members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York City. This is a joint collaboration, New York City law enforcement and federal law enforcement. You heard the president thank the FBI director, Robert Mueller, who's there, the New York City police chief, Ray Kelly. This is the task force that's charged with trying to prevent another 9/11 happening in New York. And by all accounts, they are doing an outstanding job. The president making this stop over at the headquarters to thank the men and women who work there personally. Right now, though, you are handing President Obama yet another first. But this is a milestone the president is not necessarily celebrating. It comes from our fresh CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll. And we're seeing a few other startling items the White House may not necessarily like. Indeed, they may have to start worrying about. Let's bring in our Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley. She's going through all the numbers. And some pretty stark numbers there.", "What's interesting is, after nine months of the Obama administration, the president's poll numbers are beginning to show some wear and tear. For the president, today's poll really is a mixed bag.", "What did I say during the campaign? I said change is hard and big change is harder.", "And he's got the polls to prove it. As the president navigates his way through a series of issues as controversial as they are vital, he's getting a yellow flag from the American people. New polling finds for the first time fewer than half of Americans agree with the president on issues important to them. A majority, 51 percent, disagree. That's a 10-point jump since April.", "We love you.", "It's all -- I love you back.", "Despite the majority disagreement on issues, the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll also found the president's approval rating remains in the healthy mid-50s. And two-thirds of Americans say he has the personal qualities a president should have. A popular president who is less popular on the issues. There's a way to work this.", "They still like the messenger. That's important for Obama because he'll be able to look presidential, and Americans may respond to that as he's trying to make a pitch for his health care plan, financial reform, whatever he decides to do in Afghanistan and Iran.", "And about the Nobel Prize, even the president seems stunned he got it.", "To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize.", "Americans agree. Only about a third believe the president deserved the prize. Fifty-six percent say they disapprove of the decision by the Nobel Prize Committee to give it to him. Still, there's a hometown hero effect here, with almost 70 percent of people saying they are proud an American won it. And then further proof of that old adage that Americans like their politicians most when they are not running for anything, the most popular person in the Obama administration is not the still-popular president.", "Good morning.", "It's his secretary of state. You remember her, once seen as a sharply divisive politician, the \"also ran\" of the 2008 primary season. Hillary Clinton is now viewed favorably by 65 percent of Americans, outshining even Michelle Obama.", "And for the president there is a lesson in that. These poll numbers, Wolf, as you know, have a way of changing. Nothing like, say, a health care reform bill that works, that might bring more people on board as to agreeing with his policies.", "Any explanation why Hillary Clinton is all of a sudden so popular?", "Listen, I think it is true. I think we have seen this over time with a lot of politicians, that once they are not running, people like them. So, \"I like that person.\" She is in a non-political position. She is a policy wonk. She is shining in a place that she really likes working. And people see that and they like her, as long as she's not running.", "As long as she's not in politics, it helps her politics.", "That's right. Exactly.", "Thanks very much for that. Candy Crowley. The commander-in-chief working the phones, as we've reported. President Obama had an Oval Office phone conversation with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan today. The president applauds President Karzai for agreeing to a runoff election amid complaints of voting fraud in Afghanistan's recent presidential election. Let's bring in our senior political analyst, Gloria Borger. Gloria, how does this election that's going to come up November 7th, the runoff election, affect what the president of the United States now has to decide on, namely whether to accept the recommendation and send another 40,000 troops to Afghanistan?", "Right. Well, first of all, Wolf, they are really happy about this election. They have been pushing for it. Senator John Kerry was there at their behest, pushing Hamid Karzai to have it. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the phone. Because they believe that if they are going to send more troops into Afghanistan, as the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said this weekend, you have to be dealing with what he called a credible partner over there. I think the big question right now, Wolf, is whether this election on November 7 is going to affect the timetable for the president's decision. You had the secretary of defense, Robert Gates, this morning coming out and saying that whatever emerges in that election is going to be what he called an evolutionary process. So, he seemed to be pushing for the president to make a decision, regardless of the election on November 7th. There are some in the White House who are saying, you know, you might as well wait to see if it happens.", "If the U.S. does go ahead, if President Obama authorizes sending thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan, and there's a new election, Karzai is elected, he did get more votes, presumably, than Abdullah Abdullah, his main opponent, how does the U.S. balance the legitimacy of the new government, assuming it emerges in Afghanistan, with all these additional troops and a lot of money going there? Because there's potential for a lot of fraud and abuse.", "Sure. And you're right, Wolf. The betting is that it is going to be Karzai who is elected, but I think the key word here is \"accountability.\" You cannot just throw more troops into Afghanistan. You cannot just throw more money into Afghanistan, really, without setting up very tight criteria, very tight benchmarks that the government is going to have to adhere to. Because as you point out, this is a government that has been known in the past for its corruption. Something else in talking to experts, I think you are going to have to come up and hear from this White House, I believe, a clear plan for what happens after we send these troops. And that is what we call in Washington an exit strategy. People are going to want to know, if you are sending more people in, Wolf, when and how are they going to come out?", "Easy to ask that question. Not that easy to get an answer to it. All right. Thanks, Gloria. We'll be back. Members, at least some members of the news media, were fooled big- time. We are learning about a hoax by environmental activists. Should their claims though have raised a red flag earlier? And how Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama and Sarah Palin are busting some myths about women in politics. Leslie Sanchez, she has a brand new book out on the subject. She and Paul Begala are standing by live for our \"Strategy Session.\" And the diagnosis that rocked his world. The drummer for the group KISS talks about breast cancer and reminds men, they're at risk as well."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "OBAMA", "BLITZER", "CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SR. POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "OBAMA", "CROWLEY (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "OBAMA", "CROWLEY", "KEATING HOLLAND, CNN POLLING DIRECTOR", "CROWLEY", "OBAMA", "CROWLEY", "HILLARY CLINTON, SECRETARY OF STATE", "SCHULTZ", "CROWLEY", "BLITZER", "CROWLEY", "BLITZER", "CROWLEY", "BLITZER", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN SR. POLITICAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "BORGER", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-384227", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-10-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/29/es.03.html", "summary": "Raging California Fires; Astros One Win Away from World Series Title.", "utt": ["The raging California wildfires could get worse today, with winds picking up, putting 25 million people in the middle of a red flag warning. Let's go to meteorologist Pedram Javaheri.", "Good morning, Dave and Christine. The opportunity here for the firefighters to get the upper hand is going to be in the next 12 hours, as winds are expected to pick up again, not only across northern California but also across southern California, the cross portions of the south. Talking about a pretty widespread coverage here, be it the north or the south, about ten active fires around the state of California right now. You work your way into areas around Los Angeles, work your way towards Malibu, winds 50 to 70 miles per hour. That's later tomorrow night to tomorrow morning. Humidity is expected to drop below 10 percent yet again. So, this is explosive fire weather across this region, that will allow conditions to continue and potentially to grow over the next several days. And you notice, the temperatures also want to warm up with the offshore winds in store, as high as the middle 80s a across southern California. Now, that's the story there. Across the eastern U.S., we've got multiple fronts beginning to push through with it. Much colder air on the horizon, and heavy rainfall across the Gulf Coast States, but even some Midwestern snow to be had. In fact, the forecast across Chicago on Halloween, snow showers, highs only at 36 degrees. A gradual warming trend into Friday. But still, a pretty cool temperature trend there across the Windy City -- guys.", "All right. OK. Pedram, thank you. The Miami Dolphins snatched defeat from the jaws of victory against Steelers on Monday night football. Carolyn Manno, I didn't write that. Good morning.", "I was confused by it, as well. I think I get what you're getting at.", "How is tanking going for the Miami Dolphins? They are working hard at it.", "You said it, not me. Listen, they opened the game with the best quarter of football we've seen all season. But the key is in the details. Just a quarter, the Dolphins splashing cold water in the face of anybody that thought an upset was remotely possible, certainly after that. The first 15 minutes were glorious. Miami's defense came out swinging. Howard's interception, led to a touchdown. Looking good so far. Dolphins up early, 14-0. But things started to unravel before halftime. This is under a minute to go. Steelers within in field goal range, Dave. No defense in sight. The rookie, Johnson. They blitz. He heads to the end zone. The Steelers quarterback, Mason Rudolph, settling in as the game progressed, 26 yards to score. Pittsburgh scored 27 unanswered points. The Dolphins are winless. That's all I will say. They're winless. Meantime, after a brutal 0-2 start to the season, the Golden State Warriors, no longer winless. The team never trailed against the Pelicans. They led by as many as 29 throughout the fourth quarter. Steph Curry and DeAngelo Russell leading their way on offense against New Orleans. Curry finished with a team-high 26 points on the 11- point win. The team's best shooting performance of the season was enough to leave Curry and Russell skipping with joy as they begin a four-game home stand tomorrow, where the three best friends", "This is how it goes. When I hoop, I have no friends. On the court, they know not to talk to me. Steven is a close friend of mine. Inside the lines, there's no friends. Spalding, that's my friend and my teammates, that's it.", "And the Houston Astros have a chance to win their second World Series championship in three years tonight. There's going to be a familiar face in the crowd, besides our own Andy Scholes, who has been doing due diligence. Jeff Adams, becoming a legend on Sunday night, when he took a home run off the chest, rather than giving up his two beers. Bud Light, of course, tracking him down, offering to send him to tonight's game six in Houston. Not sure where he will be sitting. But he should be pretty easy to find. He's going to be wearing a t-shirt of himself, with the caption, always save the beers. Good on Bud Light for finding him right away. He's got to be out there, among the people. He's got to be among the people. Don't put that guy in a suite.", "You have to be near a home run. He's a World Series legend. Jeff -- legendary, Jeff. Thank you, Manno. Good to see you, my friend.", "You're welcome.", "Always save the beers. A key White House expert set to testify today on Capitol Hill. He will tell investigators he was afraid that Trump's demands to Ukraine's president could undermine U.S. national security. More details, next."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "BRIGGS", "CAROLYN MANNO, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "MANNO", "RUSSELL WESTBROOK, HOUSTON ROCKETS GUARD", "MANNO", "BRIGGS", "MANNO", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "NPR-45800", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2007-02-08", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7273540", "title": "Astronaut Arrest: A Story with Padding", "summary": "The story of astronaut Lisa Nowak's alleged attempt to kidnap and possibly murder a perceived love rival is one ripe for media fascination. It becomes even riper when you consider one of the more salient details: the part about the diaper.", "utt": ["For those of us in the news business, this astronaut story is sort of like a delicious ice cream Sunday of news.", "NPR's Luke Burbank.", "I mean, they're astronauts. Okay, that's the ice cream. It's a possible love triangle, which is sort of the hot fudge. And then there's the cherry on top, that weird little detail that elevates the story from a mere news dessert to the full-blown media obsession it's become.", "Unidentified Woman: And in a bizarre display of NASA ingenuity, diapers.", "And when they wear those suits, you know, they cannot go to the bathroom, so they wear a kind of diaper...", "Unidentified Man #1: It was like she approached this would-be kidnapping like it was a shuttle mission.", "Unidentified Man #2: Exactly, and apparently that prompted the use of the - of the adult diaper.", "Who's that last guy?  Anyway, yes, the diapers that Lisa Nowak allegedly wore while driving to Florida have captured the imagination of a nation. Some NASA blogs have dubbed her trip the 900 mile diaper drive. News outlets have scrambled their space experts to find out everything they can about the fancy NASA diapers that astronauts wear. Not that we at NPR would ever dignify such a crass topic, but if we did, we'd tell you that in the space world the diapers are called MAGS, or maximum absorption garments. We'd also tell you that they can last from up to eight to ten hours and that they're filled with a chemical called sodium polyacrylate which absorbs a thousand times its weight in water.", "And if we'd already gone that far, we'd probably tell you that unless Nowak boosted a pair of those official NASA MAGs, she's probably just wearing an over the counter pair of adult diapers. Depend undergarments, many have speculated. And since we'd already gone there, we'd tell you that a quick check of the stock of Kimberly Clarke, the company that makes Depends, that stock peaked on Tuesday, the very day this ice cream sundae of a story about diapers hit the news. But we wouldn't talk about that on NPR.", "Luke Burbank, NPR News."], "speaker": ["LUKE BURBANK", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "LUKE BURBANK", "LUKE BURBANK", "Ms. BARBARA WALTERS (Co-Host)", "Ms. BARBARA WALTERS (Co-Host)", "Ms. BARBARA WALTERS (Co-Host)", "LUKE BURBANK", "LUKE BURBANK", "LUKE BURBANK"]}
{"id": "CNN-63700", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-12-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/02/lad.09.html", "summary": "Overview of Week 13 in the NFL", "utt": ["Time to check out the NFL's week 13 highlights. Boy, that's a switch of subjects, isn't it? We want to check in with our friend Jimmy Barrett at WRVA News Radio 1140 in Richmond, Virginia. Chad, come on up here. Come on up here.", "Yes.", "David is in my seat.", "Jimmy?", "Come up here, Chad. Join us, Chad.", "Well, I've got to get David out of my seat.", "Hi, Carol.", "Hey, Jimmy, nice to hear from you.", "Hey, nice to see you again. I thought you went underground there for a while. I had like a hard time finding you on my television set.", "Well, they were having a hard time finding the ball in Buffalo, too, weren't they? How's that for a segue?", "Yes, reason number 2,567 why I'd rather live in Richmond, Virginia.", "Yes.", "If you saw that game at all yesterday, especially the fourth quarter, I mean you couldn't even see from sideline to sideline, just a little bit of snow in this one. Yes, it made it slick but that's OK. You know, the Buffalo Bills know how to play in this weather. The team that had the problem are the fish. Fish do not swim well in snow.", "Snow, no, no.", "Oh, no.", "The Miami Dolphins are like something like two in 10 or two in nine, something like that, when the temperature is 27 degrees or colder. They don't, they don't even like cold weather, let alone snow.", "They did, they just made a lot of mistakes, had a lot of penalties and that's really why they lost.", "Yes, we had a great day. Lots of great catches didn't stop. Drew Bledsoe to Eric Moulds for a big touchdown that put Buffalo ahead for good in that one and they needed up by a score of 38-21.", "I mean you're not going to see, the fourth quarter, though, it started to be a blizzard.", "Oh, yes. Well...", "Yes, where are the good pictures? What is that about?", "Here's the snow, folks. Of course, we all know what snow looks like, right?", "I got it.", "Oh, yes, thanks, Jimmy. We appreciate that.", "You mean there's no lake effect snow off the James River?", "No. None. I'm very pleased to report that this morning.", "Yes.", "Let's talk about another big game, the Giants and the Titans.", "I think this is one of the best games of the day. Tennessee was down 26-14 in this one. They make it all the way back, score with less than 10 seconds left in regulation, here it is. Steve McNair to Frank Wycheck for the touchdown. There's some question about whether or not he caught it, but he did. Then a quarterback drop or two point conversion. That tied the game in regulation.", "Nice.", "The Titans went on to win in overtime field goal. Here it comes. Thirty-eight yards out. Joe Nedney. That's the game winner.", "Oh, how exciting.", "22-29, three overtime games yesterday.", "Hey, we must talk about Michael Vick. Did he rush for 173 yards or did I read that wrong?", "Wow.", "No, you read that right. If you can't get it...", "That's a beautiful sight.", "If you can't get it done with your arms, get it done with your feet. Here we go. Here he goes. I mean, he's going to change, I think, the prototypical quarterback of the NFL future is going to be just like Michael Vick, if you can find him. There's the game winner in overtime.", "Hey, he's better than James Stewart on the Lions.", "Who? The Lions? I never heard of them. They served up, by the way, my second helping of turkey on Thanksgiving Day.", "Oh, yes, it was bad, it was really bad.", "I thought it was crow, but OK, whatever.", "Yes, exactly.", "Oh, man.", "Just an amazing day. Here's the game winner. And, oops, that's one of the blocked ones.", "Yes.", "We had two of them blocked in regulation. Here's the other one that's going to miss, wide...", "Just a little outside.", "When you try to hit it from a, you know, over 40 yards, he...", "There it goes. There's the winner. Yes! That's exciting football.", "Anybody else interested in changing the rule of kicking field goals in overtime? I, you know, after two teams slug it out for an entire game, wouldn't you rather see them forced to score a touchdown in order to win?", "Exactly. I think that's a great idea.", "I would, too.", "Jimmy Barrett, I wish we had more time to talk about that, but we've got to wrap it up. Thank you very much for bringing the...", "See you J.B. in the a.m.", "That's right."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "JIMMY BARRETT, WRVA RADIO CORRESPONDENT", "CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "BARRETT", "MYERS", "BARRETT", "COSTELLO", "BARRETT", "COSTELLO", "BARRETT", "MYERS", "BARRETT", "MYERS", "COSTELLO", "BARRETT", "COSTELLO", "BARRETT", "MYERS", "BARRETT", "COSTELLO", "BARRETT", "MYERS", "COSTELLO", "MYERS", "BARRETT", "MYERS", "COSTELLO", "BARRETT", "MYERS", "BARRETT", "COSTELLO", "BARRETT", "COSTELLO", "MYERS", "BARRETT", "MYERS", "BARRETT", "COSTELLO", "BARRETT", "COSTELLO", "MYERS", "COSTELLO", "COSTELLO", "BARRETT", "COSTELLO", "BARRETT", "MYERS", "BARRETT", "COSTELLO", "BARRETT", "COSTELLO", "BARRETT", "COSTELLO", "MYERS", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-663", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-1-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/12/tod.09.html", "summary": "Justice Department Rebuffs Florida State Court in Elian Gonzalez Case", "utt": ["The Justice Department today told a Florida state court judge to stay out of the Elian Gonzalez case. The attorney general, Janet Reno, says the decision to send the boy home to Cuba is a federal not a state matter. CNN's Mark Potter is covering the story in Miami.", "The attorney general's letter reiterates the original INS position that the only person who can speak for Elian Gonzalez in immigration matters is his father in Cuba. It also went on to say state courts have no jurisdiction in this case. The letter said the original date of Friday, January 14 set by the INS for the boy's return to Cuba will likely be extended now to accommodate federal court hearings. Lawyers for the family in Miami, who poured over copies of the letter faxed from Washington, say they will, indeed, file a claim in Miami Federal Court arguing that Elian be allowed to stay in the country. Attorney Jose Garcia-Pedrosa says, at this stage, the family has no intention of returning Elian to Cuba.", "... by the Congress, is under a court order in a state court, which is a valid order saying he's not to be removed. If the attorney general wants to challenge that order, she should come here and do so. That's the legal way.", "Meanwhile, Cuban exile political activists say their civil disobedience campaign against the INS, which was suspended over the weekend, will remain on hold as long as court action is under way.", "We want to use civil disobedience only, only as a last recourse in this situation so that we don't inconvenience anybody. But we are prepared to utilize immediately if we need to.", "In her letter, Attorney General Reno said, \"once again, it is my strong hope that we can work together to resolve this child's status as soon as possible.\"", "Well, working together to resolve this child's status as soon as possible seems unlikely, though. The attorneys for the family here in Miami say, early next week, they will file a federal lawsuit to argue their claim that the U.S. government has denied Elian his legal and constitutional rights -- Lou.", "Mark, we've been reporting for weeks now about the high emotion, high passion in Miami's Havana community over this case, and now we understand there's some local bubbling-up over something Elian Gonzalez supposedly said to a playmate. Can you put that one into context for us?", "Yes, context is definitely needed. Yesterday, with other children around, Elian, playing in this yard behind me, said something -- a plane flew over and he made a comment about going back to Cuba. Some people have seized on that to say the boy wants to go back to Cuba. We've heard people say that, we've heard the boy say he wants to stay here in Miami. I think there are a lot of serious adults here who don't put much credence in what this boy has said or what he has reportedly said. It's a very emotional issue and I think there are a lot of people here who think that we ought to be very careful about all this -- Lou.", "All right, Mark Potter in Miami, we'll be back to you."], "speaker": ["LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "MARK POTTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JOSE GARCIA-PEDROSA, GONZALEZ FAMILY ATTORNEY", "POTTER", "RAMON SAUL SANCHEZ, CUBAN EXILE ACTIVIST", "POTTER", "POTTER", "WATERS", "POTTER", "WATERS"]}
{"id": "CNN-202197", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2013-2-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/28/sp.04.html", "summary": "Justices Question Voting Rights Act", "utt": ["Welcome back to STARTING POINT everyone. Some stories we're following at this hou: the late General Norman Schwarzkopf, Stormin' Norman, he will be laid to rest today at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, his alma mater. He became a household name after the first Gulf War. Schwarzkopf died December, 27 from pneumonia complications. He was 78 years old. How about a honeymoon on Mars? Multimillionaire space tourist Dennis Tito wants to send a couple, preferably a married U.S. couple, to Mars and back in 2018.", "I could do that.", "That seems awfully soon. Tito is the first space tourist visiting the International Spacestation aboard a Russian rocket in 2001 at a reported cost of $20 million.", "Would you do that?", "No. What are you asking?", "I've been fighting with him all morning. I don't want to marry him.", "That would be weird.", "No, I meant my husband. Would you take your wife?", "I would not take your husband. This is all very confusing. I don't think I want to go to Mars anyway, but I have one more story here. Pandora is going to limit how much free music you can listen to, capping free listening to 40 hours per month.", "Wow.", "Once you hit that limit you can pay 99 cents for unlimited music for the rest of the month. Pandora says it's because of rising royalty costs. It's not much money but I do suspect that anyone who listens to Pandora will have to pay the 99 cents. Forty hours is not that much.", "Right. Not at all.", "A buck a month.", "I'm going to Mars, but not with you. The vice president says that he cannot believe the country is reliving a civil rights battle from the 1960s. That's what's happening before the Supreme Court. Conservative justices suggest that a key piece of legislation that was born out of the struggle might be unnecessary and unfair today. Here's CNN's justice correspondent Joe Johns.", "While supporters of the Voting Rights Act rallied outside, conservatives on the court were picking the law apart led by Justice Antonin Scalia, he produced audible gasps when he suggested the law's repeated renewal since 1965 might be the perpetuation of racial entitlement. He called it not the type of question you can leave to Congress. Scalia's turn to of phrase galled civil rights advocates. But is it a racial entitlement?", "It is a racial entitlement, it is an American entitlement, it's a birthright to cast your right to vote.", "The court is hearing a challenge to the portion of the law that gives the federal government the power to pre-approve any voting changes in nine southern states and parts of seven others. A power some see as a violation of states' rights.", "If it wasn't a direct infringement on the sovereign states, that might be an argument. But here we're in a very different situation.", "Conservatives on the court also ask why the law allows the federal government to treat states in the south differently from the rest of the country. Chief justice John Roberts asked the Obama administration, \"is the government submission that the citizens in the south are more racist than the citizens in the north?\" Liberals pushed back. Justice Sonia Sotomayor asking the lawyer for Shelby County, Alabama, which brought the case, why the court might rule in a favor of a county whose record is the epitome of what caused the passage of the law to start with. The county argues things have changed in the south.", "We've made great strides over the years. We have minority participation at record levels. We have minority candidates elected by 90 percent white populations.", "Many at the proceeding were already bracing for the very real possibility that part of the law could be ruled unconstitutional.", "We stand challenged in this court to do the right thing. I hope it does. But if it does not, we will not go back. We've come too far. Marched too much, bled too profusely. We will not go back.", "Among the civil rights leaders at the court on Wednesday Congressman John Lewis who was beaten in Selma, Alabama in 1965 in a march for voting rights. Joe Johns, CNN, Washington.", "Coming up next, she landed a vault that will go down in Olympic history, helped her team win the gold, U.S. gymnast McKayla Maroney is here, find out just how impressed she is with her new job."], "speaker": ["O'BRIEN:  BERMAN", "O'BRIEN", "BERMAN", "O'BRIEN", "BERMAN", "O'BRIEN", "BERMAN", "O'BRIEN", "BERMAN", "O'BRIEN", "BERMAN", "O'BRIEN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "O'BRIEN", "JOE JOHNS, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "DEBO ADEBGILE, NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE", "JOHNS", "BERT REIN, ATTORNEY FOR SHELBU COUNTY ALABAMA", "JOHNS", "FRANK ELLIS, SHELBY COUNTY ATTORNEY", "JOHNS", "REV. JESSE JACKSON, RAINBOW/PUSH COALITION", "JOHNS (on camera)", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-268818", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2015-11-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1511/10/acd.01.html", "summary": "Donald Trump Still Leads the National Poll", "utt": ["The undercard debate has just ended. The main event is yet to come, several main themes there, Donald Trump and Ben Carson jockeying obviously for the lead. Marco Rubio seen by many as the next so-called establishment alternative. Ted Cruz as a potential surprise. Jeb Bush certainly struggling to re-launch yet again his campaign and new polling that could shed light on why he is struggling. Our chief national correspondent John King has a look by the numbers. He joins us now. So let's take a look at the national state of play going in to the debate tonight.", "Anderson, you could say there's three, maybe four tiers in the Republican race. Let's start with the national average in the polling. This is all 14 candidates. It's a little confusing if you look at the numbers. So let me take it to just the top five. Carson and Trump at the top of the pack there around 23, 24 percent. Rubio and Cruz, you just mentioned that, you have to call them the second tier. They are at 12, 13 percent in the average of the national polls. This is Jeb Bush down here, a little above six percent. One tier, two tier, three tiers and then there is everybody else. That's a look at the national. I want to quickly just to show you this. If you look at Iowa, the state that votes first, and again let's focus just on the top five. It is pretty much the same, Trump, Carson, Rubio, Cruz and Jeb Bush. So Iowa essentially nearing a national polls. Iowa votes first in 82 days. What's interesting going into the debate tonight, the stakes are high. If you look at the next state, New Hampshire, Trump is still all alone. Let me just put up the top five again. Trump is still all alone. Carson, Rubio, Bush down here at the bottom of the pack. So you have tight national race Trump and Carson, a tight Iowa race, Trump and Carson. But New Hampshire, Trump all alone. So in the dynamic tonight, there has been a lot of focus on getting Carson, Trump, Anderson, still a huge, huge, huge factor in this race.", "And half or more of the Republican electorate says they haven't locked in on a choice yet. So all the candidates there is still an opportunity.", "There is an opportunity. But there is also some evidence that there are some candidates having a harder time than others getting Republican voters to listen. This is from the NBC - I mean, the McClatchy Marist poll that just came out the other day. The red is the more you hear the more you like. Look at this. It is off the chart, 67 percent of Republicans say the more they hear Ben Carson the more they like it, 58 percent the more they hear Marco Rubio the more they like him. Majority say more they hear Ted Cruz the more they like that. Only 44 percent say that about Donald Trump. If you are Jeb Bush in either compact, this is the problem. Only 32 percent of Republicans say the more they hear you and the more they like you. And come down this in. Nearly six in ten republicans say the more they hear Jeb Bush, the less they like him. Nearly half say the more they hear Donald Trump the less they like him. So if you're Carson, Rubio and Cruz you want to keep the trend going. If you are Trump or Bush, you need to turn it around. One other way to look at this, Anderson? Who would you definitely not support? Thirty-seven percent of Republicans say they would definitely not support Donald Trump, 32 percent they would definitely not support Jeb Bush. Talk about room to grow, only six percent say that about Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and only three percent say they would never support Ben Carson. So these guys have a lot of room to grow. They guys have to turn the general dynamic. This just breaks it down, 43 percent of moderates say they would never support Trump, 42 percent of conservatives, 22 percent of the very conservatives. Again, though, 41 percent of Republicans who say they are very conservative, these are the kind of voters who show up for Republican primaries, very conservatives say they would never support Jeb Bush. He has to change that dynamic if there is going to be a comeback. Trump also needs to open some more minds if he wants to grow, Anderson.", "It is fascinating looking at the numbers there. John thank you very much. So back with our panel. We are also adding to it, Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney's chief strategist during the last campaign and author of \"the last season: a father and son and lifetime of college football.\" Stuart, what are you expecting tonight on the main stage? I mean, last night at his rally, Donald Trump was very vocal when it came to Ben Carson's personal story, feeding into question that have been out there the past week or so about accuracy. Do you think he was test driving an attack for the debate or do you think he stays away from that tonight?", "Listen I wouldn't want to be in the business of guessing what Donald Trump is going to do. But if you're trying to win an election for the guy in a gambling business to attack the guy who saves people's lives, it seems pretty sketchy strategy to me. All these candidates need to talk about what they are going to do to be the president of the United States. I think if you are going to attack someone, or you are Jeb Bush, you need to attack Donald Trump. He is the biggest guy in the room. You get credit if you walk up to the biggest guy in the room and punch him. The problem I think he has, if he goes after Marco Rubio, it's sort of like getting in a wrestling match with your little brother. I just don't think it helps you at best.", "There's this report - you know, Stuart, if you were Jeb Bush, I mean, you look at those numbers, we just looked at John's report on the numbers, the more people hear of Jeb Bush the less they like him. If that's the case, then if you're Jeb Bush, I mean, not getting an opportunity to talk a lot in the last debate, maybe that wasn't such a bad thing.", "No. Listen, you know, when things aren't working in a campaign, nothing works. Then they turn around and they start to work. You saw that with Hillary Clinton. These things can turn on a dime. I think that Jeb Bush could come back here. Personally, and listen, I was in a campaign where everybody in the world was giving us advice, some of it good, some of it not. But personally, I think that Jeb Bush needs to talk more about the future and less about Florida. He was a fantastic governor of Florida, but I don't think being a fantastic governor of Florida qualifies you to be the next president of the United States. So he needs to I think to offer really specific suggestions, advice, plans, of what he's going to do as president and just talk about that.", "I want to bring back in -- Stuart, stay with us. I also want to bring in Gloria Borger and Jeffrey and Nia-Malika Henderson and Ana Navarro. Do you expect, I mean, you know, some people said look, when debates get more into details Donald Trump, Ben Carson kind of fade back a little bit. We have seen that in past debates. Do you expect that to tonight or is this an opportunity with again just the eight people on the stage?", "Coming with the trade proposal, I believe, a fairly detailed trade proposal. So maybe he is going to talk about that tonight. But I have already seen some details of it. So I imagine he could talk about that.", "You know, the economy is his terra firma. And if you look at polling, Republicans believe he is best able to handle the economy, Trump, not so much with Carson, and I think it's a higher hurdle for Dr. Carson, because he is less comfortable. We are talking about the economy. And I think if I were Carson, that is what I would be talking about or trying to talk about.", "His people have said this is the debate he's been waiting for. He wants to talk about the economy. He wants to talk about the issues. Even they said the same thing before the last debate, and that was about the economy, he didn't come off that credible in terms of detailed plans about his 10 percent or 15 percent tax plan. And so, we will have to see what he is going to do tonight. I think if you're Jeb Bush you probably feel good about what you've seen so far. But as he has always said he's the wonk. He wants to talk policy and go into detail.", "I think one of the things that we have seen so far is in the undercard debate we are seeing big contrast from what we saw moderator wise in the last debate. They have stuff to policy. They have stuff to fix the policy-economy questions, and you didn't see from the candidates on the stage all the whining and moaning that you heard in the last debate because they didn't have eye reason to. So I think you are seeing a different debate tonight than what we saw ten days ago.", "Stuart, I mean, I have no doubt that the moderators are going to go into this - I mean, very, you know, they are very smart and folks at FOX are very smart, they are going to go into it, wanting to contrast themselves to what happened at the CNBC debate and really, just stick to very detailed economic issues which is what everybody on that stage says they want to see as well.", "Maybe be able to cite the sources for the quotes they use?", "The biggest number of all those numbers you put up on the screen before, I think is 26 or 27 percent. That is a number of people in the country that think the country is going in the right direction. That's the key that this entire election is being played in. It's a wrong track election now. And I thought Chris Christie very effectively played to that, contrasting with Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton right now is running in the democratic primary successfully as a third term of Barack Obama. We are yet to see if that is a successful case you can prosecute a year from now. For Republicans, I think you have to really take it back to the economic issues. And this is a great opportunity. People are going to vote based on the economy and in this election.", "Everybody here agrees.", "I agree. And if I were Marco Rubio who has had questions about his personal finances and how can you possibly balance a budget get you can't balance the checkbook? I would stick to the economy no matter what anybody was saying to me because I think that that's a line he has to cross and say look, I can handle the federal deficit. I can do that. And Jeb might attack him on that.", "Does anybody have to attack tonight? I mean, does -- in order to try to, you know, punch up, get their name out there? Does --?", "Maybe Ted and Marco, keep going - I mean, I think what we are in the process of seeing is this race is coming down to four people and that would be Trump, Carson, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, and then we will see how that goes from there. But I think we're slowly evolving into that.", "And certainly, I mean, Marco Rubio a lot more people have been talking about him of late. What do you think he has to do?", "I think he has, well first he has got high expectations because Marco has been very good in all three previous debates. He is good at debating, he is quick, he is witty, he is humorous, he can turn things around, he can gauge the audience's emotion, so I think he has to deliver another great debate. And yes, I expect people will be coming at him from all sides. He has been up to now very able to turn some of those arguments around and say hey, I'm your average Joe. I'm everyday America. Everyday America can relate to me and my debts and my finances. He does that very well. Now I do think there is somebody on the staining we haven't mentioned at all who does have to show a pulse who has to show an attack line and that's John Kasich. He is practically disappeared from the radar screen and our mouths.", "And he tried to do that at the last debate going after Donald Trump and Ben Carson.", "He had one very good moment on gay marriage in the first debate. He hasn't really had a stellar moment since then and needs it badly.", "We got to take a break. I want to thank everybody, Stuart as well. Thank you. Just ahead the leading Republican candidates have a chance tonight to widen their leads and win over voters undecided. What will evangelical Christians be looking for tonight to help them make up their minds? We'll look into that ahead."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "KING", "COOPER", "STUART STEVENS, FORMER ROMNEY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN MANAGER", "COOPER", "STEVENS", "COOPER", "LORD", "BORGER", "HENDERSON", "NAVARRO", "COOPER", "NAVARRO", "STEVENS", "COOPER", "BORGER", "COOPER", "LORD", "COOPER", "NAVARRO", "HENDERSON", "NAVARRO", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "NPR-6464", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2016-05-20", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/05/20/478886089/far-right-candidate-tops-first-round-of-austrian-presidential-elections", "title": "Far-Right Candidate Tops First Round Of Austrian Presidential Elections", "summary": "Voters in Austria totally rejected the mainstream parties in the first round of presidential elections, so the two candidates in Sunday's runoff are from the political fringe, including one from the far right.", "utt": ["In Austria, a populist far-right candidate could win Sunday's presidential runoff thanks to his blunt talk against immigrants and Muslims. The Austrian presidency is largely a ceremonial post, but the vote is getting a lot of attention. It could be the first significant victory for the far-right parties that have been growing stronger in Europe. Joanna Kakissis sent this report from Vienna.", "(Foreign language spoken).", "(Foreign language spoken).", "The debate was tense, and the two candidates could not be more different - on one side, Alexander Van der Bellen, a retired economics professor with wiry gray hair and a cigarette-cured voice. He used to chair for the leftist Green party - on the other side, the man interrupting him - Norbert Hofer of Austria's Freedom Party, a career politician who trained as an airplane mechanic. He sometimes wears a blue cornflower on his lapel, a symbol once favored by Austrian Nazis. Hofer says he wants to secure Austria's southern borders, stop the Muslim invasion and shake up the European Union.", "(Foreign language spoken).", "\"I don't need Europeans to vote for me,\" he declares. \"I need Austrians.\"", "Mr. Hofer is No. 1 for Austria, and Austrian people for Mr. Hofer, number one.", "That's businessman Fritz Stein. He's drinking a beer at a boisterous pro-Hofer rally in a working-class neighborhood in South Vienna. He says moderate politicians only care about foreigners.", "(Foreign language spoken).", "\"They would give lots of welfare money to an Afghan family,\" he says, \"not an Austrian family.\" Also at the rally is waitress Karin Schwartz, who says Austria has admitted too many migrants - 90,000 last year.", "(Foreign language spoken).", "\"We don't need any more Muslims,\" she says. \"They cause problems. We only want Christians.\"", "(Singing in foreign language).", "The night before, at a much smaller anti-Hofer rally, Van der Bellen supporters sang about solidarity and waved posters supporting refugees. Van der Bellen is a child of refugees. His parents fled the Soviet occupation of Estonia.", "(Foreign language spoken).", "He says immigrants help a country's economy. Just look through Vienna's phonebook, he says, and you will find many successful immigrant businesses. That's one reason why the bohemian neighborhood of Neubau in central Vienna strongly backed Van der Bellen in the first round of the presidential election last month.", "Ursula Berner, a publisher and longtime Green party supporter, stops by a cafe where volunteers offer free German lessons to refugees. She says that besides railing against immigrants, Hofer has won support by playing the antiestablishment card like other national politicians across Europe.", "(Through interpreter) I'm worried about radicalization in Europe. Look at what's happening in Poland and Hungary or with the rise of Marine Le Pen in France. We don't need another politician in Europe who divides us by blaming everything on an outside enemy. That could kill the European Union.", "Polls show a tight race, but Hofer is already acting like he's won. He threatens to dissolve Parliament if the government, a coalition of long-ruling establishment parties, does not deal with migrants and the economy within six months. For NPR News, I'm Joanna Kakissis in Vienna."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "ALEXANDER VAN DER BELLEN", "NORBERT HOFER", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "NORBERT HOFER", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "FRITZ STEIN", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "FRITZ STEIN", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "KARIN SCHWARTZ", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED SINGER", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "ALEXANDER VAN DER BELLEN", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE", "URSULA BERNER", "JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "NPR-37406", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2009-03-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101627997", "title": "Stem Cell Move Fulfills Obama Pledge", "summary": "President Barack Obama's decision to allow federal funding for stem cell research represents the fulfillment of a campaign promise. Both Obama and his campaign rival, John McCain, vowed to repudiate the Bush administration's willingness to let policy imperatives invade science.", "utt": ["From NPR News it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.", "And I'm Michele Norris.", "President Barack Obama said today his administration plan to depart from the Bush administration and take a different approach to scientific research. Fulfilling a campaign promise, Obama signed an order allowing federal funding for the study of embryonic stem cells. Supporters believe studying these cells could lead to cures for illnesses from diabetes to paralysis.", "With the Executive Order I am about to sign, we will bring the change that so many scientists and researchers; doctors and innovators; patients and loved ones have hoped for and fought for these past eight years. We will lift the ban on federal funding for promising embryonic stem cell research.", "But he said his administration only would support research that follows strict ethical guidelines.", "We will support it only when it is both scientifically worthy and responsibly conducted. We will develop strict guidelines, which we will rigorously enforce, because we cannot ever tolerate misuse or abuse. And we will ensure that our government never opens the door to the use of cloning for human reproduction. It is dangerous, profoundly wrong, and has no place in our society or any society.", "The President promised to restore scientific integrity to the federal government.", "Promoting science isn't just about providing resources, it's also about protecting free and open inquiry. It's about letting scientists, like those who are here today, do their jobs free from manipulation or coercion and listening to what they tell us even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient.", "It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda, and that we make scientific decisions based on facts not ideology. By doing this...", "President Obama there speaking in the East Room of the White House.", "For more now on what these statements will mean, we're joined by NPR science correspondent Joe Palca.", "Hey, Joe.", "Hey, Michele.", "Now, why did this order on scientific integrity draw cheers from the crowd?", "Well, I think Aretha Franklin captured the idea when she said R-E-S-P-E- C-T. I think scientists have spent the last eight years feeling dissed. That's the way they felt. It wasn't true 100 percent of the time but that was the gestalt in the scientific community. And I think now they're seeing - they're hearing a president say, we love you and we respect your ideas. And, you know, that feels good.", "So brand new day. Now, what does the new order actually mean for stem cell research?", "Well, for stem cell research it's very specific what it means. President George W. Bush allowed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research with the following major caveat: that all the stem cell lines had to have been created prior to August 9, 2001.", "President Obama today said that restriction is gone. You may now apply for federal funds for embryonic stem cell research for embryonic stem cells created whenever, provided they meet certain ethical guidelines.", "Interestingly, though, the federal government will not be making those embryonic stem cell lines because there's still a congressional restriction that prevents that from happening. So somebody else has to make them but federal funds can be used to study them.", "Just give us a sense if the gates are now open, what kinds of things will start to happen?", "Well, the gates are open to a certain extent. I mean, the first thing that happens is that the National Institutes of Health that will actually hand out this money will set up those guidelines that you've heard President Obama describe about what's the ethical use of these stem cells.", "Now, in some cases, that means asking the donors, do you approve of us destroying this embryo in order to obtain these stem cells? What should they be used for? Under what circumstances should they be studied? Is this really a valid research project that has a promise to do something or are you just wasting our time?", "Now, we've been talking about what the President did do with these statements. Let's talk a little bit about what he did not do, specifically on embryonic stem cell research and funding.", "Well, it's not going to happen tomorrow. Nobody is going to back their, you know, pull their wheelbarrow up to the outside of the NIH and fill it up with cash. It's going to take some time to work out the procedures.", "Happily for the government, several other major scientific organizations have already discussed it and come up with guidelines, so the government will have to decide which among the ones that are already out there they want to adopt.", "The President, with this Executive Order, has heralded in an entirely new day for scientific research. But what about people who were not in the room, people who've pushed for these restrictions? I imagine the debate continues.", "Oh, right. I think that people who are morally opposed to the destruction of embryos for any purpose are still going to be upset that they're going to be destroyed for the purpose of deriving embryonic stem cells.", "But I think more broadly, what's happened here is the President has taken the perspective not to diss anybody's opinions, or not to say your point of view isn't valid, but we're in a pluralistic society and most people feel that this is acceptable.", "And so, if you don't think it's right, don't apply for the funds, don't use the therapies, don't - you know, don't benefit from it. But if you do, and a majority of Americans, according to the President do, then we're allowing it.", "that's NPR's Joe Palca.", "Joe, thanks so much.", "You're welcome."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "BARACK OBAMA", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "BARACK OBAMA", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "BARACK OBAMA", "BARACK OBAMA", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "JOE PALCA", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "JOE PALCA", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "JOE PALCA", "JOE PALCA", "JOE PALCA", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "JOE PALCA", "JOE PALCA", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "JOE PALCA", "JOE PALCA", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "JOE PALCA", "JOE PALCA", "JOE PALCA", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "JOE PALCA"]}
{"id": "CNN-191675", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2012-8-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1208/25/smn.05.html", "summary": "Armstrong Stripped of Tour de France Titles", "utt": ["He is a seven-time Tour de France winning cyclist, but Lance Armstrong has been slapped with a lifetime ban from competition for allegedly doping. I asked CNN legal contributor Paul Callan earlier if Armstrong could lose all his Tour de France titles as well.", "There's an International Cycling Agency, there's a U.S. Cycling Agency, and there's this U.S. Anti- Doping Agency, which is the subject of our discussion today. And Lance Armstrong has said they don't have jurisdiction over him. They don't even have the right to hear this case and that their findings will not be recognized on a worldwide level. That's essentially his position. And of course, the agency, which is a federal agency, a quasi-federal agency, differs very strongly.", "Armstrong, of course, has consistently denied allegations of illegal doping, we should point out, but has decided to stop battling the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after losing his legal bid to stop the probe, saying he just didn't think it was fair setting to make his case, calling the process \"one-sided.\" Does this imply guilt?", "It does in the sense that if you -- I mean, if you thought you were going to go into court and win, why wouldn't you go into court and win? Now, he went to a Texas judge, Judge Sparks, a federal judge, with a very competent lawyer representing him, and they tried to convince the federal judge to dismiss the case, saying the U.S. Anti- Doping Agency has no jurisdiction here, and the judge was highly critical of Armstrong's complaint, saying it was nothing but a glorified press release. But in fairness, he also, the judge, was highly critical of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, saying what are they doing investigating allegations that are 14 years old in some cases? The statute of limitations only goes back eight years. But in the end, the judge said you know something, Armstrong agreed to be governed by an arbitration procedure of this organization, and he has an obligation to go through the arbitration. And Armstrong has responded to that by walking away, saying you know something, I'm not going to submit my evidence. This is a kangaroo court that made up their mind, I'm just walking away from it.", "Yes.", "So, does it imply guilt? A lot of people would say yes, it does. Others would say he's just had enough. So, it depends on where you stand on Lance Armstrong.", "He has said, though, that he's taken something like 500 or 600 tests and all of them were clean. So, from a legal standpoint, I mean, doesn't that mean something?", "Well, he has made that claim. However, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency says that they examined as part of their investigation a number of blood samples taken from him in recent years which they describe as -- and watch the wording here -- they say not inconsistent with doping. They don't say that they actually found chemicals that were indicative that something was in his bloodstream, but that the results were consistent with the use of doping drugs. Now, this would have to do with how many red cells are present in the blood. So, they would disagree with his conclusion that he tested negative on all of these occasions, and they also say they have testimony from fellow riders who say that he did dope himself. But Armstrong says, you know what, these are secret witnesses, they were given immunity for their testimony, and it's an unfair procedure, you can't trust it --", "Yes.", "And that's what he and his lawyers say.", "What about his legacy? What happens to that?", "Well, I think his legacy will be seriously damaged by this. And you know, if you look at, for instance, what happened to Barry Bonds in baseball and Mark McGwire. You know, all of these athletes who have faced serious claims of the use of illegal, banned drugs have really sustained extreme damage to their long-term reputations. So you know, unless he fights and wins in court, I think his reputation has really, really been hurt. I mean, look at Roger Clemens as an example.", "Yes.", "As a different. You know, a lot of people said he was crazy to fight the case against him. It was a very, very strong case against him. And you know something, he fought, and in the end, he was exonerated. So, I think he saved a little bit of his legacy, but it's going to be hard for Lance Armstrong to save his, given what's going on.", "The World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Cycling Union will review the USADA's findings with the option to appeal. A candidate and his wife locking lips? Children try their hand at humor. We'll look back at some of the most memorable moments of past political conventions."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR", "KAYE", "CALLAN", "KAYE", "CALLAN", "KAYE", "CALLAN", "KAYE", "CALLAN", "KAYE", "CALLAN", "KAYE", "CALLAN", "KAYE"]}
{"id": "CNN-23400", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2001-1-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/11/mn.21.html", "summary": "Street Pilot Helps Drivers Navigate Streets", "utt": ["All right, for you direction-impaired folks out there, our gadget guy, Ed Curran, has the latest little gadget that could help you out from this week's consumer electronics show in Las Vegas.", "Getting around Las Vegas here at the Consumer Electronics Show is easy because I'm using one of these. This is from Garman (ph), and it's the latest in their Street Pilot line. This unit uses global positioning satellites, which tell you exactly where you are on the face of the planet, to get you around and show you on an electronic map where you are. But it also will route you to your destination and show you how to get there. And the really neat thing is this unit...", "In 23 miles, turn left.", "... actually talks to you. It's a speaking Street Pilot that can go in your rental car, go with you across the country. At a price of about $1,000, it is routing, talking, portable GPS from the Garman company. I'm Ed Curran at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.", "Thank you, Ed, very much."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ED CURRAN, \"GADGET GUY\"", "COMPUTER VOICE", "CURRAN", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-143939", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2009-10-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/13/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Brand-New Jon and Kate Smackdown; The Dave Letterman Intern Shocker", "utt": ["Right now, on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, the brand-new Jon and Kate court smackdown. Just today, Jon and Kate battle it out in court over money. Tonight, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT reveals what was decided and why the judge is absolutely furious with them. Plus, we asked the controversial question - should Kate pay Jon spousal support? The Dave Letterman intern shocker. Tonight, is a big-time university making changes to its intern program because Letterman slept with his former intern?", "I have had sex with women who work for me on this show.", "Obviously, I`m very upset. I can`t sleep at night.", "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you Jon and Kate`s custody battle is nasty, epic and no-holds-barred. But this custody fight is not over Jon and Kate`s eight kids. No. Today`s big court showdown is over who has custody of the money.", "This divorce is getting really nasty.", "It`s Gosselin versus Gosselin in \"Not Without My Money.\"", "It seems like the Jon and Kate story has finally reached a new low.", "In this TMZ video, we see Kate and Jon arriving in court for their face-off which began when Kate accused john of looting their joint account of more than $200,000.", "The judge ruled Jon is to put back $180,000 that he took out.", "Mike Walters of TMZ tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT Jon`s been ordered to return a bunch of money to the account and that today, the judge smacked him down.", "He said that basically it was improperly taken and if it`s not there by October 26th, he will face contempt proceedings.", "But Walters says Kate has to answer for her financial dealings, too.", "They did say that Kate took $55,000 out of that account also, but she`s to provide accounting to the court on October 26th, the same date, to show what she spent it on.", "Everyone was tightlipped as they left court. In fact, all Jon wanted to talk about was the World Series.", "The Phillies will win the series.", "As a Philly fan I don`t know if we necessarily want Jon on our side.", "Kate`s accusation that Jon was looting their account has put the Jon and Kate divorce in super-bitter territory. In a tearful \"Today\" show appearance, she said Jon`s financial shenanigans were hurting their eight kids.", "The last thing I wanted was to do this show and end up not being able to pay my bills.", "But Jon continually said he took out far less than the $230,000 Kate claimed and that the money he did take out in recent months was his salary for the reality show \"Jon & Kate Plus Eight,\" which Jon says has helped earned the family more than $2 million over the last four years.", "Fame and fortune has not only destroyed their marriage, but it seems like it has really taken a toll on both of them psychologically.", "In fact, Jon and Kate`s money custody battle is far from their only fight. Jon is still trying to pull the plug on the Gosselin`s reality show saying it`s harmful to the kids, while Kate has teamed up with TLC to fight Jon to keep the show going without him as \"Kate Plus 8.\"", "It`s not just a family breaking up. It`s not just a couple breaking up. It really is the breakup of a quasi-corporation.", "PopEater.com`s Jo Piazza tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT Jon and Kate`s big custody fight over money is a long way from the everyday parents they were when we first saw them.", "We`re talking six-figure salaries, hundreds of thousands of dollars in bank accounts. Not every American family can relate to that and it makes them seem very unrelatable and also kind of nasty.", "And after today`s big court fight, both sides were claiming victory. Kate Gosselin tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, \"As difficult as this as has been for me, I`m pleased the court has ruled fairly on behalf of myself and my children.\" And Jon Gosselin`s attorney tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, \"We were very pleased with the outcome of the court proceedings and the arbitration session. And we are very hopeful that there will soon be a resolution.\" And what are the chances of a Jon and Kate resolution?", "I think there`s zero chance of that ever happening.", "So it looks Jon and Kate`s \"Not Without My Money\" battle will continue to be a very public performance.", "I think it`s very, very likely that he is freaking out going, \"How am I going to come up with this money because I spent it?\" I mean, take a look at his lifestyle. It`s right out of \"Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.\" He has two fancy cars, a BMW and Mercedes. We all watched him shop for his bachelor pad. That`s got to cost a lot of money. He goes over the pond and is hanging out at \"Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous\" locals with young women. Champagne. You know, all of that costs money. It doesn`t take that much to burn through $180,000 these days. And if he has, how is he going to come up with the money? He doesn`t have a job right now. This is wild.", "Maybe we`ll see him at some kind of a shack, selling clams before too long. Here`s the other big development today. A judge asked Jon and Kate - and this is my favorite thing to come out of the court hearing - please, please, keep your business out of the limelight. Keep your divorce, as the judge put it, \"private and amicable.\" Carlos, do you think Jon and Kate have it in them to keep things chill and civil? Because I certainly do not.", "Well, Jon had a tie on today proving that anything is possible. I mean, there`s no way they can keep quiet. They haven`t kept quiet the entire time. It`s like, you know, one side is going to say something. You know, maybe Jon doesn`t like Kate`s statement that she put out to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, so he`s going to respond with his own statement that`s going to escalate that one. The bottom line is, the most relevant thing that came out of court today was that Jon predicted the Phillies to win the NLCS. Being here in Los Angeles, Jon, you didn`t do too well with your last handling of nine people. I don`t think the Phillies want you on their side, all right? Seriously.", "Well, you know, another development crazier than even Jon wearing a tie - Jon Gosselin getting some divorce advice from a pretty unlikely source, if you ask me - Lindsay Lohan`s dad, Michael. Now, why in the world would Jon, let alone anyone team up with this controversial dad when he`s already under such scrutiny? We will tackle that very provocative question a bit later on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. But first, I must move on to this explosive new development today in the David Letterman sex scandal. Top leaders at a Quinnipiac University in Connecticut are vowing to do everything in their power to protect their interns from the likes of Dave Letterman. Here`s what a representative from Quinnipiac told TMZ, \"Due to recent circumstances, we will have a discussion with those in charge of placing our interns at the David Letterman show in the future. We will diligently oversee the internship program to ensure that our interns are out of harm`s way.\" Out of harm`s way. Jane, is this - I don`t want to make light of it if it is a valid and important precaution. Or is it a bunch of unnecessary grandstanding.", "I think it`s a great idea, and they need to tell these interns before they walk into these situations what their rights are, what the sexual harassment laws are that exist, how they can respond to something inappropriate. Because, let`s face it, the casting couch is as old as show business itself.", "Yes.", "But today, there`s a lot less tolerance for it. Let`s say, for example, A.J., somebody, a TV producer, interviews an intern. At the end of the interview he says, \"Let`s consider this our first date,\" wink, wink.", "Yes.", "What do they do? You know why I use that example? That happened to me many, many years ago.", "Wow. A university official does tell SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, and this came in just hours ago, it`s not the official stance of the university. This was a rogue professor who made this statement. But Carlos, let`s face it. The fact that this is even coming up really shows how the whole Letterman scandal struck such a major chord all across the nation.", "Yes. And it`s something that is coming to light, you know. And maybe the whole David Letterman thing really brings it to the forefront where you have interns in a situation where they feel intimidated, where they feel they need - in order to get ahead, they will agree to something they can`t agree to. I really can`t speak on this because the interns here at \"Extra\" are not allowed to talk to me.", "All right. I`m sure they`ve been warned by their universities as well. Letterman is not the only one feeling the heat, by the way. Late night host Jimmy Kimmel - he came clean to the world that he`s been dating a writer on the show. Well, in our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT question of the day, we asked this - \"Jimmy Kimmel dating a staffer: Is there anything wrong with dating the boss?\" Jane, Carlos, stay right where you are. I`ve got those unbelievable results, coming up next. But first, oh no, Oprah! Oprah Winfrey getting grilled about Dr. Phil right in the middle of a live broadcast? Let me tell you, this was totally awkward. I`m talking a capital A here. I will show you this incredible tape. And poor Jessica Simpson. I mean, think about it. She loses her dog to a coyote, happening right in front of her eyes. People made fun of her for that. And now, people are still going after her by reporting fake sightings of her precious little dog. I`ve got to ask, why the heck are people being so mean to Jessica? This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN. Time now for the \"SHOWBIZ News Ticker\" - more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news right now.", "Taylor Swift leads the pack with six American Music Award nominations. Michael Jackson is posthumously nominated for AMA`s Artist of the Year award. Janet Jackson to release greatest hits album called \"Number Ones\" on November 17th."], "speaker": ["A.J. HAMMER, HOST", "DAVID LETTERMAN, HOST, \"THE DAVID LETTERMAN SHOW\"", "KATE GOSSELIN, REALITY TV STAR, \"JON & KATE PLUS 8\"", "HAMMER", "MIKE WALTERS, TMZ.COM", "HAMMER", "JO PIAZZA, WRITER, POPEATER.COM", "HAMMER", "M. WALTERS", "HAMMER", "M. WALTERS", "HAMMER", "M. WALTERS", "HAMMER", "JON GOSSELIN, REALITY TV STAR, \"JON & KATE PLUS 8\"", "PIAZZA", "HAMMER", "K. GOSSELIN", "HAMMER", "PIAZZA", "HAMMER", "PIAZZA", "HAMMER", "PIAZZA", "HAMMER", "M. WALTERS", "HAMMER", "JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HOST, \"ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL\"", "HAMMER", "CARLOS DIAZ, CORRESPONDENT, \"EXTRA\"", "HAMMER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "HAMMER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "HAMMER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "HAMMER", "DIAZ", "HAMMER", "TEXT"]}
{"id": "CNN-126148", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2008-5-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/01/ng.01.html", "summary": "D.C. Madam Dead of Apparent Suicide", "utt": ["Breaking news tonight. As we go to air, Florida police announced the so-called \"D.C. madam,\" the convicted madam of a high- end prostitution ring whose clients included senators, a former deputy secretary of state under Bush, think tank military strategists, corporate CEOs, military officers, lobbyists, International Monetary Fund members, the World Bank members -- she has been found dead, high-priced hooker Deborah Palfrey found dead, ostensibly by hanging, near her mother`s home, handwritten notes pointing to suicide discovered. Was Palfrey threatening to come forward, naming names of high-end clientele in order to get a lighter deal for herself in court? And with sentencing set down, was foul play involved in the death of a highly publicized \"D.C. madam,\" Deborah Palfrey?", "This is really a sad, tragic ending to a story that dominated the headlines. A woman known as the \"D.C. madam\" apparently committed suicide. Deborah Jeane Palfrey was convicted just two weeks ago. You remember she ran a high-priced prostitution ring that catered to D.C.`s elite lawmakers and politicians. She was scheduled to be sentenced in July. But at one point, she told ABC News last year she would never return to prison, not for one day, let alone eight years.", "I`m facing perhaps the remainder of my life in a federal penitentiary. This is not a misdemeanor crime, by any stretch of the imagination. There`s no thousand-dollar fine, year`s probation, slap on the wrist and wink from the judge as I exit the courtroom. I am looking at 55 years in a federal penitentiary, and at my age, that is virtually a life sentence. Realistically, we estimate between 8 and 15 years. I am also looking at the complete forfeiture of my entire life`s savings and work.", "And tonight, Hollywood superstar Rob Lowe and his wife of 17 years locked in a bitter legal battle after not one but now two former nannies file sex harassment lawsuits in California courts, one against Lowe, one against his wife. Is it legit, or is it just a big grab for money? Tonight: Reports surface one of the nannies demanded $1.5 million before even filing suit. Did nanny number two just line up at the gravy train?", "Hollywood superstar Rob Lowe and wife Sheryl are being sued for sexual harassment. Court documents reveal the former nannies of the Hollywood actor say Lowe and his wife Sheryl were sexually and verbally abusive to them, causing them severe mental and emotional distress.", "In her lawsuit against the Lowes, the ex-nanny is claiming that Rob Lowe sexually harassed, groped and exposed himself to her over the years she watched the Lowes` two kids.", "I worked for the Lowes from April to November 2007. During that time, I worked in their home four days a week, mostly 14 to 16 hours a day. I traveled with them. I cared for their children. I respected the Lowes and did everything I could to assist in running their home and taking care of the children. Oh, my gosh! When I left, they didn`t give me my paycheck. Oh, my gosh! I was devastated to find out that the Lowes had sued me because she actually called me the week before to offer me my job! I can`t believe she`s doing this to me!", "Did you understand any of that? All I know is that one of the nannies asked for $1.5 million before even filing lawsuits. Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. In the last hours, the so-called \"D.C. madam\" found dead -- a clientele of D.C. politicians, lobbyists, employees of NASA, the World Bank, even allegedly a deputy secretary of state under Bush. And with her own sentence looming, was foul play involved?", "The victim of an apparent suicide by hanging has been identified as Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 3/18 of `56, by her 76-year-old mother, Blanche Palfrey. Blanche Palfrey had awoken from a nap and began to search the residence for her daughter. When she went outside, she noticed the three-wheel bicycle had been moved that was normally kept in the shed. Upon entering the shed located on the west side of the residence, Blanche Palfrey discovered her daughter, Deborah, had apparently hung herself using a nylon rope from a metal beam on the ceiling of the shed. She then called 911.", "I think all escort services are benign. These are all usually operated by women, to a large extent. There`s no violence. There`s very little, if any, drug activity. There`s very little, if any, fraud. Basically, just a bunch of benign women who wish to make a living. This is not racketeering, by any means. This is running a business.", "Straight out to Rory O`Neill, reporter with Metro Networks. Welcome, Rory. What happened?", "Well, good evening, Nancy. It was around 11:00 o`clock this morning when -- it was the mother of the victim, Blanche Palfrey, who awoke from a nap and went out to the backyard shed and found her daughter there hanging inside. She`s 52 years old. Apparently, she had taken her own life, and police are now going through the documents that she left behind.", "Why do you say apparently she had taken her own life?", "Well, that`s -- the medical examiner is now investigating what is believed to be a suicide, but they will confirm that. And the medical tests have not yet come back, especially the blood work. They will then make that determination.", "Also joining us tonight, Neal Augenstein, reporter with WTOP. Neal actually interviewed the \"D.C. madam\" and covered the trial. Neal, when was her sentencing set?", "Well, her sentencing was rescheduled from July to June 24. She faced a maximum of just over 50 years, but sources on both sides of the case said that she probably would have gotten something between four and six years.", "So looking at just four years behind bars -- it was a federal case, right, Neal?", "This was the first time that federal prosecutors in D.C. had ever prosecuted anyone in a prostitution-related case using the RICO, or the racketeering laws. So this was a very serious crime that she faced. She was convicted on those charges, as well as the money laundering and conspiracy charges, too.", "To Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst and author. Bethany, four years in a federal pen? You know, the federal pen can be a little sweet, kind of like \"Club Fit (ph).\" And also, Palfrey was no stranger to a jail cell. She had done 18 months back in California, I believe, back in the `80s for prostitution. I mean, four years is not that -- that severe of a sentence, especially in light of what she could have gotten, to take her own life?", "It`s true, but who knows what she`d been told about this? Who knows if her attorneys were preparing her by saying, Think that you might get the max. Sometimes when you`re really anxious, it binds your ability to think. Sometimes suicidality can be when a person is extremely enraged at other people, and that rage gets flipped and turned back against the self in the form of a suicidal gesture. So this may be inverted rage towards others. And the number one cause of suicidality...", "Oh, please! Hold on!", "... is extreme hopelessness.", "Bethany, Bethany, let`s just think this through for a moment.", "OK, let`s.", "After sleeping your way through lobbyists and D.C. politicians, come on, after that, I think you can handle anything. After that, I would think a federal penitentiary would be a vacation.", "Yes, but what`s interesting in the ABC interview, she doesn`t seem to be ashamed. So it wouldn`t be the shame component of being found out, it would be more the rage and the injustice. She really doesn`t sound like a woman who feels that she`s done too much wrong. So someone who has an overdeveloped sense of having been wronged can sometimes hurt themselves to get back at other people. As strange as it sounds, it does happen.", "And another question to Ninnette Sosa. She`s a supervising producer at CNN Radio. She interviewed the \"D.C. madam.\" Ninnette, were any of the Johns ever prosecuted, or was it just her? Did they let -- let`s see, we`ve got Randall Tobias admitted, other politicians, members of think tanks, employees of NASA in her little black book. Did any of them ever get prosecuted?", "Just her. Just her. That was it. And that`s what she was astounded by, also. She used to call her business -- it was just a \"mom and mom\" shop. And she would always emphasize there were the three levels of how to run an escort business. One is the social services, the fantasy sex, and then there is the prostitution and oral sex side. She insisted she was just about fantasy sex.", "You became very close to her in working with her during these interviews. What did you learn, Ninnette?", "I think I learned most is that she really had tenacity. She really stuck by what she said. She was very forthright. She was open. In the various times that I had interviewed her, I didn`t hear doublespeak from her. It was just the way it was, and I would think so. If you`re going to be the person handling 143 women and writing out their schedules, I think you need to be on track. And she was.", "You know, what did you make of it when you first heard she died, ostensibly by suicide?", "I -- no way. That was my first -- I was just -- first thought, body double, is it someone else and she`s in the U.K., murder, anything, but not suicide.", "Joining us right now, special guest Captain Jeffrey Young. He is with the Tarpon Springs Police Department. Captain, thank you for being with us. When were police notified?", "Good evening, Nancy. Thanks for having me.", "Yes, sir.", "They were called out to the residence around 10:52 AM, and they located Ms. Palfrey inside the shed adjacent to the trailer where her mother lives.", "Captain, what did the officers find at the scene?", "Well, when they came into the shed there, they did find Deborah Palfrey hanging inside the shed there. Medical personnel were on scene, as well. And at 11:01 AM, she was pronounced deceased.", "Captain, where had she been just prior to her death?", "Earlier in the morning, she was with her mother at the residence. They were conversing in the morning. The mother had advised her that she was tired, and Deborah had said the same thing to her. The mother went and took a nap, and after she awoke from her nap is when she started looking for her daughter. And she went outside after calling for her inside the residence, not finding her in there, and went outside and noticed the three-wheel bicycle had been moved out of the shed and found that strange and walked inside. And when she opened up the door of this shed, she discovered her daughter.", "Captain, did the mother state that Palfrey had exhibited any despair, any depression, any angst just before her alleged suicide?", "Well, the detectives were with Ms. Palfrey, senior, for a good while. She`s obviously distraught. They`re still trying to put the pieces together with Ms. Palfrey and see why her daughter would feel that she needed to be brought to do this. So they are investigating that, along with the Pinellas County medical examiner`s office, who will be completing an autopsy tomorrow. And they will determine the causation of death.", "Joining me now is Tom Shamshak. He`s a private investigator joining us out of New York. Tom, there are a lot of people who wanted her to stay quiet.", "True. And given the backdrop of what you`ve talked about, I`m quite certain the crime scene investigation is not going to jump to an immediate determination of the cause and manner of death. I think they`re going to be very methodical and be very, very thorough, looking for fingerprints other than hers on the writing instrument and on the paper, and in looking for injuries about her body to see if there was a struggle.", "The lines are open. We`re taking your calls live. To Phyllis in Texas. Hi, Phyllis.", "Hi, Nancy. Love your program.", "Thank you, dear. Thank you for watching and for calling. What`s your question, dear?", "I was wondering if the \"D.C. madam\" took the names of her clients with her in her death, or if there might be a record of those names somewhere else?", "Oh, Phyllis, there is a record! What about it, Rory O`Neill?", "... perhaps the captain can speak more to it, but there were some other diaries that were found around the victim and in the home, and he did mention earlier today that that was part of their investigation. That`s part of the reason the FBI was called in on this case, not just the local authorities. They want to investigate all these possible connections, and really, as was mentioned earlier, dot every \"I,\" cross every \"T\" to make sure that this is what it appears to be.", "Neal Augenstein, at one juncture, didn`t she post phone numbers of some of her clients on the Internet?", "Yes, she posted all of the phone numbers at one point. And getting back to number of -- of whether she went to her grave with the names -- now, there are several hundred names of former escorts and customers that have been sealed by the judge in this case. The judge was taken aback during the case by the number of escorts who were called to testify. At one point, prosecutors wanted to introduce all of her records, in which case, all of the names would have been made public. The judge asked the question, Is there no end to the collateral damage in this case? Prosecutors said, Unfortunately not. The judge did accept that evidence, and it is part of the record. But at the very end of the case, before he announced -- before the verdict was announced, the judge announced that all of those names would be sealed and they would never be revealed.", "And not one of those customers, all the way to some of the highest echelons in the D.C. power structure -- not one has ever been prosecuted. And now you want to tell me just about a month before she`s set for sentencing to go to the federal penitentiary, that this lady wasn`t still trying to work a deal maybe by using some of those names? Let`s unleash the lawyers. John Burris, veteran trial lawyer out of San Francisco, Joe Episcopo, also a veteran trial lawyer, out of the Tampa, Florida, area -- yes, please, fix those glasses, Joe! John Burris, what do you make of it?", "Well, certainly, if I`m her lawyer, I`m trying to work as good a deal as I can. And certainly, she has something to trade, names, but more than names, potential testimony, potential witnesses. If the government was really interested in doing -- going after the Johns in this particular case, then she had valuable information. I would have thought, though, that some of that was taking place before. But certainly, she had something to trade. It`s the kind of thing she would get a reduction in terms of her sentence with a judge...", "Right.", "... when she gave out valuable information.", "To Eleanor Dixon, veteran felony prosecutor. Eleanor, anything can happen before a sentencing goes down.", "That`s so true. And she could have tried to play fast and loose with these clients, but there are federal sentencing guidelines which the judge would have to adhere to.", "But the reality is, in federal court, Eleanor, if you are willing to name names and hand over evidence, those rules are very different. In fact, there are lawyers, aren`t there, Eleanor, who do nothing but work the federal guidelines. If I can get a letter of cooperation, you lose a year. If you can rat out X number of people, you lose another year. If you don`t do it, you gain a year. It`s true, Eleanor.", "Oh, it`s true. You can go below the guidelines. And I think it`s very interesting that she had all this information, and you know it`s still out there. And the sad thing is, the men aren`t prosecuted for this crime. They`re as guilty as she is.", "Joe Episcopo, it`s very unusual to me, with so many enemies that this woman, who has managed to prevail for so many years in Washington, suddenly takes her own life?", "Well, you know, I disagree with your shrink. I don`t see rage and injustice here. This is a woman that`s material. Everything in her world is in this world. She doesn`t believe in heaven or hell. It`s here. She did not want to live like that. She killed herself because, in her opinion, there was nothing anyway. She was too old to get back into business and make a living. Even if she had done what we call \"rule five\" and continued to help the government, she still would have gone to prison. She didn`t want to go to prison. She killed herself not because of rage but because she`s material and everything was taken away from her. Her life ended because this world is all she had.", "Very quickly, everyone, we are taking your calls live tonight. Let`s go to tonight`s \"All Points Bulletin.\" The manhunt in high gear for a former cop on the run, wanted for the shooting death of a public safety trooper, east Texas, a capital murder warrant out for 37-year-old Brandon Robertson, accused of gunning down Trooper James Scott Burns during a simple traffic stop. Burns leaves behind a wife and a 5-month-old baby girl. Suspect Robertson, 6-2, 250 pounds, red hair, green eyes. Police on the lookout for a `97 blue Dodge Intrepid, Texas plates, a $30,000 reward. If you have info, please call 888-244-0827.", "I`m facing perhaps the remainder of my life in a federal penitentiary. This is not a misdemeanor crime, by any stretch of the imagination. There`s no thousand-dollar fine, year`s probation, slap on the wrist and wink from the judge as I exit the courtroom. I am looking at 55 years in a federal penitentiary, and at my age, that is virtually a life sentence. Realistically, we estimate between 8 and 15 years. I am also looking at the complete forfeiture of my entire life`s savings and work.", "That`s an interview conducted by CNN producer Ninnette Sosa, who is with us tonight, \"D.C. madam\" Palfrey found dead near her mother`s home. She is set for sentencing -- it turned out to be between four and six years -- in June. And Ninnette Sosa is not so sure that this was a suicide. Ninnette, of all the people that we have spoken to, you may have spent more time with her. Why were you so surprised to hear suicide?", "Because it went against everything that she had discussed. All the way, at the very last five seconds on that interview that you showed at the intro of the show, she even said, Let`s go. Let`s go. They`re not going to take me, this is absurd. She thought it was absurd that she was being harassed the way she was for mail fraud. And then if she didn`t plead guilty, she said, that she would be charged under RICO laws, and so forth. So she went on. And she just was not -- not going to bite.", "My case is the only case of its kind ever, ever, we think in the United States, not just in the federal district -- for the District of Columbia, but in the entire United States. Nobody in this country who has run a, quote, unquote, \"benign\" escort service has ever been charged with racketeering. I mean, racketeering is Tony Soprano territory.", "Out to the lines. Betty in Hawaii. Hi, Betty.", "Hi. And congratulations on your beautiful twins.", "Thank you, dear. What`s your question?", "My question, as an ex-nurse, retired nurse -- isn`t that an odd way for a woman to kill herself, by hanging?", "To Dr. Zhongxue Hua, a New Jersey medical examiner. It is an unusual way for a woman to commit suicide. It`s usually by poison, carbon monoxide. What do you think, Doctor?", "It`s -- I mean, it`s unusual, but in a way, it`s fairly common for people choosing different ways to end their life. It`s fairly common, not a daily (ph) practice (ph).", "To Dr. Bethany Marshall. What, statistically, does it say to you?", "Well, I have something to add about the suicidality that has to do with the hanging, and that is when you see the spectrum of personality disorders that have to do with narcissism, which she certainly could fit into because she felt she was above the law, often they feel that it`s death before dishonor.", "OK, we`ve run out of time. Quickly, on the stats I asked you about?", "Oh, with the -- I don`t know specifically the stats about that.", "Everyone, death by hanging with -- can be isolated down to race, gender, age. When we come back, Hollywood superstar Rob Lowe headed to court.", "Two former nannies are suing Hollywood star Rob Lowe. In court documents, both nannies are claiming sexual harassment at the hands of Lowe and wife Sheryl Lowe, alleging inappropriate sexual contact and other explicit sexual behavior. The Lowes have also sued both nannies saying nanny Jessica Gibson threatened to spread lies about the couple if they didn`t pay up and conspiring to leak false rumors and accusations against the Tinseltown couple.", "In her lawsuit against the Lowes, the ex-nanny is claiming that Rob Lowe sexually harassed, groped, and exposed himself to her over the years she watched the Lowes` two kids.", "Is it legit? Or is it just a big grab for money? Out to Michael Yo with E! Newsradio on XM and Sirius. Michael, fill me in.", "Here`s the deal. Well, first Jessica Gibson, she turns in a claim to Rob Lowe`s lawyers and say, \"I want $1.5 million.\" They`re calling it hush money. Instead of Rob Lowe dealing with this.", "Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on. Who is calling it hush money?", "Well, Rob Lowe`s people is calling it hush money.", "OK.", "Jessica Gibson is just saying, hey, I want $1.5 million. Here`s what`s going on.", "Or what? I want $1.5 million or what?", "Or I`m going to come out with these claims. Now that`s what Rob Lowe is saying. His team is saying, she said if I don`t get what I want, the 1.5, I`m going to come out with all these claims.", "OK.", "Rob Lowe is saying, OK, he`s taking this, and he`s taking the winds out of her sail by going on the \"Huffington Post\" and posting a blog about this saying he`s being extorted and blackmailed for money. And here`s the honest truth about it. Even if he would have paid the hush money, if this story would have broke, it would have made him looked guilty. So he had to do something. And this is how everything started with nanny number one. So that where we are right now. Today, nanny number two files her claim. Now the one thing about Rob Lowe, why I`m on the fence on this, is Rob Lowe said, he went after Jessica Gibson, but then he put Laura Boyce in the mix, too, right at the beginning. She didn`t even file a claim against him. He just threw her name in there and the chef`s. So it almost like he was very defensive at the beginning like, oh I know some other claims are going to come. And that`s why I`m kind of questionable about Rob. And with nanny number two, she put in a claim and saying she was sexually harassed, too. Rob Lowe saying it was breach of contract, you know, confidential...", "Sexually harassed in what manner, Kelly Zinc, with CelebTV.com?", "Good evening, Nancy. The interesting thing about Laura Boyce and why the claims don`t exactly match up is because Laura`s claiming that she was only sexually harassed by Sheryl, Rob Lowe`s wife, where Jessica said she was sexually harassed by both of them, that Sheryl was walking around naked, and Rob was touching her inappropriately.", "OK. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me get this straight. We got two nannies, Laura Boyce and Jessica Gibson.", "Correct.", "Both claim sexual harassment. Laura Boyce claims it against Rob Lowe`s wife. Gibson claims it against both. Yes, no, Kelly Zinc?", "You are correct, Nancy.", "OK. Back to Boyce. Boyce is filing a sex harassment claim against the wife for what?", "Well, she`s saying that Sheryl said many inappropriate things, especially against her boyfriend, who is an NBA player, an African-American gentleman, and she`s claiming that Sheryl used the N word, that Sheryl was being inappropriate, pulling out sexual objects and all around being completely inappropriate with her.", "OK. And what`s the crux of the claim by Jessica Gibson, Kelly?", "Jessica Gibson is saying that Rob Lowe touched her inappropriately, put his hand down her pants, and that Sheryl walked around naked in front of her and said sexually suggestive things.", "Joining me right now is a special guest, the lawyer for the nannies, Gloria Allred. Gloria, it`s great to see you. I`ve got a question right off the bat. Is it true that one of the nannies wanted $1.5 million before the lawsuit was even filed?", "Well, I think that allegation goes back to Jessica, when she was represented by another attorney. And I was not representing her, nor was my law firm representing her at that time. So we have no comment on that. I personally have never spoken to her prior counsel.", "Well, I know you`ve spoken to her. I know, Gloria Allred, you`ve won a lot of case in court. I know you know this case like the back of your hand. And by you telling me, no comment, Michael Yo, that means you`re dead on. They asked for the 1.5 million before a lawsuit was filed. Yes, no?", "I believe so, yes. I mean any time anybody in the press says no comment, you know what that means. I mean it`s obviously she came out with this, and Rob Lowe, he turned it around real quick. He had to take the winds out of her sail or she was going to have a claim against him.", "Out to the lines. Vivian in Indiana, hi, Vivian.", "Hi.", "What`s your question, dear?", "If she was being harassed, why did she stay? And she reminds me of Susan Smith after she drowned her children. She`s not sincere with her crying.", "Gloria Allred, now before you strike a jury, take a listen to what Vivian in Indiana is saying about the demeanor of your client. Gloria, is it true that one of your clients -- I believe it was Gibson -- would leave and then come back, and then she`d leave and then she come back. Left their employment twice before the final time she left for the third time. Is that true?", "Well, that`s true. She quit. I might add neither nanny was ever fired by the Lowes. They left. They resigned. Both of them resigned. We say that`s being forced out, constructively terminated is the legal term. But -- so the point is this, though. The reason they stayed is because they both loved the children, they both needed the job, and they both hoped that things would get better. But guess what? It never did, and they just simply couldn`t take it anymore, Nancy.", "OK. Here`s another -- OK, that`s you know, Gloria, you think like a trial lawyer. You figure out what the other side is going to say, and you get ready with your preemptive strike before they can say it. So you know you got a problem with one of your nannies leaving and coming back and leaving and coming back, then wanting $1.5 million before the lawsuit. So if it`s so bad, why did she keep coming back? You`ve got another problem and that -- these e-mails that Jessica Gibson sends saying, \"Thank you so much. I`m really sorry I left. You`re wonderful. You`ve done so much for me. It`s all on me that I`m leaving.\" And then she files a lawsuit. Ouch.", "Well, that`s not a problem for us at all, Nancy. And the reason is this. She was attempting to appease them. She was afraid of what they might do if they got angry. And guess what? Her worst fear, and, of course, Laura Boyce`s worst fear, was justified, because look what happened when they did get angry.", "Whoa, whoa, whoa.", "When she was.", "She was the one that wanted $1 million first. I guess they did get mad. I`d get mad, too.", "Well, when she did go to an attorney, when the attorney attempted to resolve the matter, when the attorney presented a copy of the lawsuit that might be filed, what the Lowes did was, through their attorney, they went out and did this so-called preemptive strike. Perhaps some people believe -- hoping to deter the nannies from filing against them, hoping to intimidate them. Guess what? It didn`t work. We`ve now filed against the Lowes for retaliation against a person who was protesting sexual harassment and -- alleging abuse of process against them as well. And so that now has added another cause of action to our lawsuit because an employee has a right to protest sexual harassment without being trashed in the media, without having a lawsuit being filed against them.", "Out to the lines. Sean in Alabama. Hi, Sean.", "Hey, how are you doing, Nancy?", "I`m good, dear.", "Congratulations on the twins.", "Man, I still can`t believe it happened to me. What`s your question, dear?", "The question is, you know, sexual harassment is the easiest thing to get money for nowadays and get charges brought against people in the workplace. You ever think that this was the quickest way for two people working for this guy to get quick, easy money off of him?", "Oh, yes. I`ve thought of it. And back to you, Gloria Allred -- everybody, Gloria, high profile lawyer out of California, is representing both of these nannies. How come the second nanny didn`t come forward until she found out the first nanny filed a lawsuit?", "Well, actually, that`s not really the way things happened.", "OK.", "The way things happened is Laura Boyce, the second nanny, resigned finally. She couldn`t take it. And the reasons are stated in the lawsuit about that last phone call. And in -- then she didn`t hear from them for five months. Suddenly she gets a call from Sheryl Lowe, which is in our lawsuit, asking her to come back and work for them, or does she want to work for a friend of Sheryl Lowe`s as a nanny? Obviously, she must have thought she was a great nanny. And then when she didn`t respond to that, a week later she finds that a lawsuit is filed against herself. Why? Perhaps because the Lowes were then becoming aware that Laura Boyce`s allegation about why she left the Lowes was included in the lawsuit that the Lowes` attorney saw, Nancy. And so now, perhaps they got angry at her, then they filed a lawsuit against her, perhaps thinking that both nannies wouldn`t be able to find a lawyer to represent them, wouldn`t be able to afford to fight the rich, the powerful, the famous, the Lowes.", "They already knew they had a lawyer. They already knew they had a lawyer. The lawyer had approached them for over $1 million. They got some problems, Eleanor.", "Oh I totally agree. Where`s the sexual harassment? They weren`t -- the nannies weren`t required to do anything to keep their job, at least not sexually.", "When they left, they didn`t pay me my paycheck. Oh, my gosh, it was devastating to find out that the Lowes had sued me because she actually had called me the week before to offer me a job. I can`t believe she`s doing this to me.", "I worked for the Lowes from April to November of 2007. During that time I worked in their home four days a week, mostly 14 to 16 hours a day. I traveled with them. I cared for their children. I respected the Lowes and did everything I could to assist in running their home and taking care of the children. Oh, my gosh. I left because I could no longer take Miss Lowe`s conduct towards me at all. When I left, they didn`t pay me my paycheck. Oh, my gosh, I was devastated to find out that the Lowes had sued me because she actually called me the week before and offered me my job. I can`t believe she`s doing this to me.", "Both sides squaring off for legal battle. Superstar Rob Lowe and his wife of 17 years versus two former nannies claiming sexual harassment. Let`s unleash the lawyers. Eleanor Dixon, John Burris, Joe Episcopo. To you, Eleanor Dixon, lurking in the background is a case that goes way back all the way to the `80s. Lowe was about 24 years old, in Atlanta for the Democratic national convention, picked up two women at a bar, went back to a hotel, have sex, they videotaped it. One was underage. He never pled guilty. In fact, as I recall I was in the D.A.`s office at that time. I begged to prosecute the case. The elected district attorney said no. And he got, I believe, pretrial intervention, did a little community service. There was a civil settlement, a money settlement, out of court. And that was the end of it. That`s video from FOX and \"A Current Affair\" of the 1988 sex tape scandal. It nearly cost Lowe his career, but it didn`t. He made a comeback. So my legal question, Eleanor, I don`t think that`s going to be relevant. I think that Lowe`s attorneys can keep that out if this goes to trial.", "Unfortunately, you may be right because there you had consensual sex even though one of the people was underage. But that`s a criminal charge, Nancy. It has nothing to do with the civil suit. And certainly, as you said, he`s changed since then. He`s a different person.", "Out to the lines. Gary in Indiana. Hi, Gary.", "Hi, how are you?", "I`m good, dear. What`s your question?", "Actually two real quick. Why is it so common nowadays that people file claims before or after the fact instead of during the act?", "OK. And your second question?", "If I was the one making, say, $50,000, $60,000, $70,000 a year, I wonder what the odds would be that I`d be getting sued for the same thing.", "That`s a really good point, Gary in Indiana. You know, why is it, John Burris, you hear of deep pockets always getting sued for claims like this. Of course, you hear it in other contexts. Maybe it`s because we only hear of high profile ones, John?", "Well, it`s true. I mean, these cases go on all the time. But at the end of the day, any lawyer who takes the case has to know whether there`s going to be any money, deep pockets, if you will. That doesn`t mean these cases aren`t occurring all the time. Sexual harassment does occur in the workplace, hostile work environment, all these things occur. But you don`t hear about them as much, and they don`t get sued in lawsuits on an ongoing basis because there may not be any money in a small environment so...", "And to Joe Episcopo.", "That`s the reality.", "To part two of that question. I`ll throw this one to Episcopo out of Tampa. Do you think the fact that the claim was not contemporaneous with the act, at the same time as the act, will hurt? And why wasn`t there ever a police report? Will that hurt, Joe?", "All that`s going to hurt and so are those phony crocodile tears. But let me tell you this, the preemptive strike is low. Lawyers don`t take cases to sue people like Laura and Jessica. They have no money. You can`t win anything. So he did a preemptive strike. The counterclaim, the sex harassment, only mentions the wife. So Rob Lowe`s past is not only irrelevant, it`s immaterial. It doesn`t come up.", "To Gloria Allred -- everybody, you know, Gloria Allred, high profile lawyer joining us out of L.A. Gloria, did either of the women -- they claim -- one of them claims that Rob Lowe exposed himself, that he didn`t have any clothes on, that he improperly touched them. Did they ever call the police?", "No.", "Why?", "Well, again, they were afraid of losing their jobs. And by the way, the allegation that Laura Boyce made in the lawsuit which we filed for her yesterday is only against Sheryl Lowe. On the other hand, we are also suing Rob Lowe because he is also an employer, and therefore responsible for sexual harassment in his workplace. But Jessica Gibson`s lawsuit is alleging actions by Rob Lowe against her.", "To Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst and author of \"Deal Breakers,\" Bethany, part of the claim is that Rob Lowe`s wife Sheryl would walk around without her clothes on in her home. And I`m just wondering if the barrier between being a nanny and being a family member or relative or friend got blurred and she walked around without her clothes on. I don`t think there was anybody on this panel that hasn`t paraded through their living room without their clothes on at one point or the other.", "I think we have to acknowledge, in this very intimate setting, taking care of children, bringing someone into your home, it would be easy to blur the boundaries between a professional relationship and a personal relationship. But when I think of Gibson and Boyce, I don`t know them, but I also wonder if they interpreted events very negatively, felt diminished, snubbed, enviousness in fact didn`t motivate some of this as well.", "But, Eleanor, when you bring someone into your home for employment purposes, it`s not like you`re walking through your own den anymore. You are an employer, and that is a place of employment.", "Yes. But what we have here is not necessarily sexual harassment. It sounds like just daily living, and they didn`t require her to walk around naked.", "After weeks and weeks on the hunt for parents who inspire, thank you to each and every one of you for your entries. We received thousands. We`re close to selecting the winner, and we plan to feature that winner on a Mother`s Day special May 11, 8:00 p.m. sharp Eastern. And now tonight`s final extraordinary parent.", "I think the word freak had came to mind. I`d never look like the same person ever again.", "Alicia Mauter was shocked when the doctors delivered the devastating diagnosis. The young single mother to 10-year- old daughter Lexy had breast cancer. After a double mastectomy, Alicia had difficulty adjusting to her new body. But she found hope in the sport of body building.", "I remember getting a subscription to some magazines that were all about working out and fitness and diet. And I thought, well, you know, I`ve come this far. I`ll just try.", "Alicia began to train and compete, but then love entered the picture and took a bizarre twist. Shortly into her courtship with Jim Mauter, he confided to her that he was dying of kidney failure. Alicia insisted on being tested as a potential donor, and miraculously they matched.", "He made a choice and decided if I wanted to save his life, and accept the fact I`d never compete, I`ll never step on stage and give up the dreams of ever, ever body building or doing figure fitness.", "The decision was simple. Alicia had to save Jim`s life. Today the couple who have since married is doing well.", "Fighting breast cancer changed my life and it made me realize that, you know, life is short.", "What a story. Let`s stop and remember Army Specialist David Stelmat, 27, Littleton, New Hampshire, killed Iraq. A combat medic, also served Afghanistan. Loved helping others, making friends, laughing, outdoors, skiing, hiking, dreamed of being a physician`s assistant. Leaves behind parents Mary Ann and David, four siblings, and girlfriend Joanna. David Stelmat, American hero. Thanks to our guests, but especially to you for inviting us into your homes. 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{"id": "NPR-42016", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-08-11", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5638194", "title": "Pakistani Authorities Probe Bomb-Plot Suspects", "summary": "The suspects held in a plot to blow up planes bound from London to the U.S. had a common link: Pakistan. How is the investigation into the plot proceeding in the Islamic nation? Ahmed Rashid of The Daily Telegraph — author of Jihad: Islamic Movement in Central Asia — talks with Melissa Block.", "utt": ["For more on the Pakistan connections of this alleged plot, we called author and journalist Ahmed Rashid. He says a week or so ago, Pakistani authorities arrested seven men in the Lahore and Karachi. Two of them were born in Britain.", "They haven't said anything else about them, except they have, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry has said that it's possible that one of them belongs to al-Qaida, and in particular, they said al- Qaida in Afghanistan.", "Now this raises some problems because there is a feud going on between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with each country accusing the other of hosting Osama Bin Laden.", "And if he is al-Qaida, certainly it's well known that there are many Pakistanis who are members of al-Qaida, and it is possible that this could be either a facilitator for al-Qaida that is acting as a go-between between Pakistan and the group, the terrorist group in England, or is somebody, a regular member of al-Qaida in Pakistan who has been sent to England.", "There are a number of reports that those who were arrested in Britain went back and forth to Pakistan, attended training camps in Pakistan. Do you know anything about that?", "Well, this is not something that we have had confirmed by anyone, but certainly last year, when the underground bombings took place in London, at least two of the four British-born Pakistanis had recently been to Pakistan and then had trained and had been in contact with extremist groups in Pakistan. So it's quite likely that some of these British-born Pakistanis may have traveled to Pakistan for training.", "What do you think the sequence of events with these arrests, both in Britain and in Pakistan, shows about the level of cooperation between Pakistani and British and also U.S. intelligence?", "I think what has happened in this case is that according to the Pakistani authorities, the British and the Americans and the Pakistani intelligence have been on this case for many months, some say perhaps as many as eight months, and it seems that possibly the arrests in Pakistan, which may have been triggered off by the fact that somebody was about to fly off to Britain or somebody was about to disappear, maybe, into the mountains of (unintelligible).", "Those arrests, in fact, then seemed to send a signal to the militants in England to perhaps go ahead with their attack, and I think once the arrests in Pakistan had been made, the British had no choice, I think, but to make the arrests in England fairly soon.", "Would you assume that these intelligence agencies in Britain, the United States and in Pakistan are communicating openly, or are there tensions there that haven't been resolved?", "Well I think on this case in particular, I mean they are probably cooperating quite closely, and we've seen very close cooperation between the British and the Pakistani intelligence services last year when the underground bombings took place in London. And two of the bombers arrived in Pakistan, and Pakistani intelligence tracked where they all had gone on behalf of British intelligence.", "I think, you know, the problem is here that as far as the Pakistanis are concerned, with individual cases, if it involves British Muslims or Arabs or anybody else, there is cooperation on a kind of case-by-case basis. But when it comes to pressure or the lack of international pressure from the Americans and the British on the Pakistani government to clamp down on extremism in general, that is check out the religious schools, close down these extremist parties that are operating here, on that, the government has been much slower.", "Ahmed Rashid, thanks very much.", "Thank you.", "Journalist Ahmed Rashid is author of the book Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia. He spoke with us from Lahore, Pakistan."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "AHMED RASHID", "AHMED RASHID", "AHMED RASHID", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "AHMED RASHID", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "AHMED RASHID", "AHMED RASHID", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "AHMED RASHID", "AHMED RASHID", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host", "AHMED RASHID", "MELISSA BLOCK, Host"]}
{"id": "CNN-177804", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2011-12-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/16/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Life and Death of Journalist Christopher Hitchens", "utt": ["Welcome back, it's Friday in London at just after half past nine in the evening. You're watching CONNECT THE WORLD here on CNN, I'm Becky Anderson for you. Let's get you a check of the headlines this hour. Massive protests and more violence reported in Syria. Crisis groups say 17 people were killed across the country, nine of them in Homs. CNN cannot independently confirm reports from inside Syria as we are not allowed to report from there. Escalating violence in Cairo. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports four people have been killed and more than 200 injured in clashes between protesters and security forces there. It's the worst violence in weeks and overshadows the vote count in Egypt's historic general election. A setback for the defense of US soldier Bradley Manning. The 24-year- old allegedly funneled thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. Now, his legal team today tried and failed to get the presiding officer in the case to step aside. Customs agents in Moscow's main airport say they've seized baggage packed with radioactive material. They say they've registered radiation levels 20 times above normal and belonging to a passenger bound for Tehran. That passenger wasn't detained, and apparently traveled to Iran. Those are your headlines this hour. Iconoclastic, argumentative, admired, and reviled. There is rarely a shortage of opinions when talking about the British-born author and journalist Christopher Hitchens. His topics range from religion to waterboarding to his own battle with esophageal cancer. Sadly, Hitchens succumbed to that cancer on Thursday night. Our Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson now takes a look back on what was a controversial life.", "Christopher to you. We've never met.", "Never missed a deadline.", "I'm sitting at the same table as you, either.", "Rarely missed a chance to stir it up.", "Now wait a minute. That is the most outrageous thing --", "Excuse me.", "-- that I have ever --", "Excuse me.", "Spanning four decades in journalism, Christopher Hitchens' biting, acerbic intellect had many victims. The Vietnam War. Mother Theresa. Princess Diana and her husband, Prince Charles, to name but a few.", "I am the only person who wrote when they got engaged, this is a farce.", "A farce?", "And no good can come of it. And it wasn't just because I was a Republican.", "He was so much more than just a contrariran or a controversialist. He was somebody who -- thought deeply about an issue, but once he came to a view, was fearless in its pursuit.", "Blair knew Hitchens because he debated him on the writer's most controversial topic, God and religion.", "Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well. I'll repeat that. Created sick and then ordered to be well. And over us to supervise this, is installed a celestial dictatorship. A kind of divine North Korea.", "He wasn't unpleasant about people who themselves had faith. The debate we had was tough and hard, but it was actually very good-natured at the same time.", "Hitchens' book in 2007, \"God is Not Great,\" in which he calls the church \"violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry\" made more headlines than anything else he'd done, heaping fame on his infamy.", "The Soviet Union's let him down.", "British-born, Oxford educated, publishers ate up his polarizing prose. \"Vanity Fair,\" \"The Nation,\" \"The Atlantic,\" Slate.com. A powerful, sharp with few of his contemporaries could serve up. But as his life began to fade, ravaged by cancer, fueled in part by his love of cigarettes and drink, it seemed he was as tough on himself as those he scorned.", "You've said to me you burn the candle at both ends. You think --", "And it gave a lovely light.", "It gave a lovely light. But do you think part of that -- the way you lived is responsible for this?", "Well, it would be very idle to deny it. And I might as well say to anyone who might be watching, if you can hold it down on the smokes and the cocktails, you might be well-advised to do so.", "To the end, he never flinched from his Godless reality.", "I'm -- I do resent, always have resented, the idea that it should be in some way be assumed that now you may be -- now that you may be terrified, or miserable, or as it might be, depressed, surely now would be a perfect time for you to abandon the principles of a lifetime. I've always thought this to be rather a repulsive mode of approach.", "Christopher Hitchens, dead, age 62.", "Well, on Twitter there's been a wide range of tributes to the outspoken writer. This one from Richard Dawkins, a fellow author, an atheist. He said, \"Christopher Hitchens, finest orator of our time, fellow horseman, valiant fighter against all tyrants, including God.\" Also on Twitter, the Christian author and pastor Rick Warren says, \"My friend Christopher Hitchens has died. I loved and prayed for him constantly and grieve his loss. He knows the truth now.\" And book-winning prize novelist Salman Rushdie wrote, \"Goodbye, my beloved friend. A great voice falls silent. A great heart stops.\" I wonder what Chris would have said about that. We are going to take a very short break. We'll be back after this."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, AUTHOR/JOURNALIST", "ROBERTSON (voice-over)", "HITCHENS", "ROBERTSON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HITCHENS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HITCHENS", "ROBERTSON", "HITCHENS", "UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT", "HITCHENS", "TONY BLAIR, FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF BRITAIN", "ROBERTSON", "HITCHENS", "BLAIR", "ROBERTSON", "HITCHENS", "ROBERTSON", "COOPER", "HITCHENS", "COOPER", "HITCHENS", "ROBERTSON", "HITCHENS", "ROBERTSON", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-180833", "program": "EARLY START WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD AND ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN", "date": "2012-2-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/09/es.02.html", "summary": "Miramonte School In L.A. Reopens Today; CPAC Conference Begins In Washington; Conservatives Gather for CPAC", "utt": ["Welcome back. It is 30 minutes past the hour. Time to check the stories that are making news this morning.", "And a big one that you're probably going to appreciate. Even if you're not under water in your home, so many people are, and there may be relief on the way. In fact, as many as a million people who are suffering with properties that are worth less than their actual debt, they could be -- they could get part of a $25 billion settlement with the nation's largest banks. It's all expected to be announced later today, and it could mean big money for you -- $20,000 per homeowner.", "Boy, that would be great. The Mississippi Supreme Court holds a hearing to decide whether former Governor Haley Barbour's controversial last minute pardons were legal. Up to 200 convicted criminals prisoners could be headed back to prison.", "Also, students at Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles are heading back to that school today. But they are going to be greeted by an entirely new staff. This after two former teachers were arrested on child abuse charges, and entire staff was actually redirected.", "The founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure is speaking out since reversing a decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood. Nancy Brinker admits to \"The Washington Post\" that she mishandled the situation, and that she made some mistakes. The first time she is saying that. So, it is the hottest ticket in town for the Republicans, CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference. It begins in Washington, D.C., today. The who's who of the GOP will be there.", "I know, I love this time of year because it's like such a huge convention and like a really big party, too. But big headline names, folks. It doesn't get any bigger than this. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, conservative bestselling author Ann Coulter. Also, three of the four presidential candidates. Only three of the four? Me thinks there is something going on. So, joining me now is Goldie Taylor, who's an independent political analyst ands managing editor of the Goldie Taylor Project. Also, Ed Espinoza, Democratic political consultant. And Matt Mackowiak, who's a Republican strategist and founder of the Potomac Strategic Group. OK you three. Thanks so much for being here. Let's start with you, Matt, because some people say this is just like a whole super silliest process to do king-making with the straw poll. But now I hear that Ron Paul, the guy who won the big straw poll at the end of CPAC for the last two years isn't even going to show up? Matt, what's this about?", "Well, there's a caucus that ends on Saturday in Maine and Ron Paul has a strategy about accumulating delegates. It's extraordinarily unlikely he'll be the nominee, but he does want to have an impact, you know, at the convention, in terms of the platform and sort of starting anew, but going forward. So, I don't understand why he's not going, the convention CPAC starts today -- today through Saturday. There's a straw poll Saturday afternoon. He certainly could have come for a little bit. But this is a big thing for Governor Romney, for Senator Santorum, and for Speaker Gingrich, because you got 10,000 activists, you got 1,500 credential media. It's the largest conference anywhere in the country that's held by an outside group. So it comes at an important time when you look at what happened the other night in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri.", "Sure. Sure. Ed, jump in here with this, because I oftentimes wonder at this point whether CPAC is going to be sort of having an internal dialogue, what's our mission here? Is the mission to come up with a big endorsement and make a front-runner and give the front-runner momentum or conversely, is our mission to kind of kick-start the general election and just bash the administration? Because we've got some serious power here.", "Well, as a Democrat, I've never been to CPAC. I don't know it would be a good idea for me to go here.", "I'd like to see you go. I'd like to see that. Take a webcam.", "The closest I got was being surrounded by CPAC attendees on the metro last year. We all had very different buttons on.", "I bet.", "But I'll tell you what? My impression of these events, it's not necessarily to define who your nominee is going to be or to give anyone a boost, as much as it is to define what the issues are that you care about, to really implore those upon who your candidates are and what issues are going to come up. So, here, they're going to talk about, Matt would know more than I, but I'll tell you -- a lot of it is going to talk about what they are for as opposed what they are against. One of the problems Romney has, in particular, is he's running as the not Obama. And that's just not good enough. One of the reasons that Santorum is doing well is because he's actually espousing things that he stands for. CPAC is one of the places that could help him.", "Those conservatives --", "Correct.", "The core issues that so many people say is critical at CPAC, but Rush Limbaugh has been one of those people who's actually been avoiding CPAC, saying it's not just conservative enough. So, here's that question for you, Goldie Taylor, there was a time when everybody hung on every word of Rush Limbaugh, especially when he was the keynote address speaker, I think, it was a couple years ago. And now I come to hear that Sarah Palin, who is the keynote speaker this year, and has said no to the invitations in the past several years, I'm curious how much influence she's going to have and if she's going to reverse course and actually decide to endorse somebody.", "You know, I think it behooves her really not to endorse anyone. I think it's her interest to keep the Sarah Palin train running for whatever, you her outcome is -- whatever her outcomes she wants to be. You know, I think CPAC is an important convention. I think Mitt Romney has an opportunity if he misses it. This campaign process is going to drag on that much more longer. People like Senator DeMint, you know, are saying he really has to step it up. He's really got to get in touch with tried and true conservatives in a meaningful way. They just don't trust him and he's got to figure out, you know, where the keys are to the kingdom when he gets to", "OK, guys, this is that round table game, one word answer only. And it's the name. It's the winner of the straw poll. Let's start with you, Matt. Who's it's going to be?", "Santorum. I think 10,000 activists. He's got the momentum.", "That's not one word, Matt. Come on, play by the rules. Ed Espinoza, who's going to win?", "Santorum.", "All right. Goldie?", "Santorum.", "OK. How about that? Thanks, guys. We'll see what happens, a couple days from now, but it should be interesting. And we've also, by the way, got some big names coming up on \"STARTING POINT\" this morning. First with Arizona Senator John McCain who's going to talk to our Soledad. And then, Congressman Paul Ryan will be interviewing. So, you may be watching EARLY START, but make sure that you stay tuned for \"STARTING POINT\" as well. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["SAMBOLIN", "BANFIELD", "SAMBOLIN", "BANFIELD", "SAMBOLIN", "BANFIELD", "MATT MACKOWIAK, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST", "BANFIELD", "ED ESPINOZA, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "BANFIELD", "ESPINOZA", "BANFIELD", "ESPINOZA", "BANFIELD", "ESPINOZA", "BANFIELD", "GOLDIE TAYLOR, INDEPENDENT POLITICAL ANALYST", "CPAC. BANFIELD", "MACKOWIAK", "BANFIELD", "ESPINOZA", "BANFIELD", "TAYLOR", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-411774", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-09-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/24/nday.01.html", "summary": "Protests Erupt Over Lack of Charges in Breonna Taylor's Death; Trump Refuses to Commit to Peaceful Transfer of Power if He Loses; Trump Claims He Could Override FDA on Stricter Vaccine Standards.", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is NEW DAY. It's Thursday, September 24, 6 a.m. here in New York. And the breaking news this morning, questions around the country about how a black woman could be killed in her apartment by police and no one charged in her death. Her name, as we know, was Breonna Taylor. Overnight, protests in city after city after a grand jury in Kentucky issued a single indictment, not for the six shots that hit Breonna Taylor, but for shots fired into a nearby apartment. We have a lot of new information this morning about the legal matters at play here, including the information we don't have: the holes in public knowledge about why police were at her apartment in the first place.", "Shots fired. Shots fired. Officer down, right there!", "Officer down?", "Yes. Yes.", "Overnight, two police officers in Louisville were shot. They are both in stable condition this morning, and a suspect is in custody. We're also getting reports of vehicles driving into protesters in Buffalo and Denver.", "We'll get to all of that in a moment. But we need you to stop what you're doing and mark this historic moment. The president of the United States just refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses in November. Mark your calendars. He is serious as a heart attack.", "Will you commit to making sure that there is a peaceful transferal of power after the election?", "Well, we'll see what happens. You know that. I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots. And the ballots are a disaster.", "I understand that, but people are rioting. Do you commit to making sure that there's a peaceful transfer of power?", "We won't have -- Get rid of the ballots and you'll have a -- you'll have a very peaceful. There won't be a transfer, frankly. There'll be a continuation.", "President Trump means that. He doesn't want any transfer of power. And he appears to be open to, even encouraging violence to stay in power. So we have a lot to cover. Let's begin with CNN's Brynn Gingras. She's live in Louisville with all of the breaking news there. Brynn, what's the latest?", "Hey, Alisyn, good morning. Well, we're about a half an hour away from this curfew being lifted on what was a very emotional and a very chaotic, at times, night here in Louisville, Kentucky. You know, listen, ever since March 13, when Breonna Taylor was killed inside her home, this is a community that has fought for justice and has wanted answers. And now this is a community who feels it's been robbed of both.", "Say her name!", "Breonna Taylor!", "Breonna Taylor!", "Breonna Taylor!", "In cities across the nation, the sound of Breonna Taylor's name echoing through the streets.", "What do we want?", "Justice!", "Justice!", "Justice!", "Here in Louisville, protesters crying out for justice from the day into the night, frustrated and outraged by a grand jury's decision to make no direct charges in the fatal police shooting of the 26-year-old EMT killed in her home when three officers opened fire while executing a warrant during a narcotics investigation in March. And as some demonstrations turned chaotic --", "Officer down, right there! Officer down.", "Two Louisville Metro Police officers were shot Wednesday night.", "One is in alert and stable. The other officer is currently undergoing surgery and stable. We do have one suspect in custody.", "None of the three Louisville Metro Police officers involved in Taylor's shooting face any charges related to her death. But former detective Brett Hankinson faces three charges of wanton endangerment in the first degree for firing bullets into a neighboring apartment. Sergeant John Mattingly and Detective Myles Cosgrove were not indicted on any charges.", "If we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice. Mob justice is not justice. Breonna Taylor's death has become a part of a national story and conversation. But we must also remember the facts and the collection of evidence in this case are different than cases elsewhere in the country.", "The Kentucky attorney general says Mattingly and Cosgrove identified themselves before breaking down Taylor's door. Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who was there with her that night, disputes that claim, saying he fired a warning shot, because the police did not identify themselves.", "They refused to answer when we yelled, \"Who is it?\" Fifteen minutes later, Breonna was dead from a hail of police gunfire.", "The attorney general says an FBI analysis shows Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Taylor, but a state investigation was inconclusive on that point.", "Because our investigations show and the grand jury agreed Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified in the return of deadly fire after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker.", "Mattingly's attorney writing in a statement, the system worked, adding, \"These officers did not act in a reckless or unprofessional matter [SIC].\" But for Taylor's family, their attorneys say it's difficult to make sense of the ruling.", "They're upset, justifiably, and I'm -- we're upset and outraged at the decision that was made.", "And as you can imagine, the fight for justice is only going to continue. The boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, Kenneth Walker, he's filed a civil lawsuit. There's hope that some new evidence, some new information will come out of those proceedings, as that goes through the court system. There's also calls from Kentucky's governor to the attorney general to release information that was presented to the grand jury, information that cannot compromise or will not compromise the pending criminal case that's going to go on with that one officer. And then there are still active investigations going on with the FBI and also, internally, with the Louisville Metro Police department -- Alisyn.", "OK, Brynn, thank you very much for all of that. Now to this jaw-dropping news. President Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses the election. CNN's Joe Johns is live for us at the White House -- Joe.", "Alisyn, you know, peaceful transfer of power is a hallmark of the American system. It's what sets us apart from authoritarian regimes, dictatorships, and the president's refusing to commit to it, even though he took an oath to uphold the Constitution, is surprising, but not necessarily shocking, simply because the president has repeatedly attacked the system and also made baseless claims of fraud in an election that's not going to conclude for weeks.", "With just 40 days to go until election day, President Trump refusing to commit to a peaceful transition of power, should he lose re-election.", "Will you commit to making sure that there is a peaceful transferal of power after the election?", "Well, we're going to have to see what happens, you know that. I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster.", "When pressed again, he continued to make baseless claims of election fraud.", "Get rid of the ballots, and you'll have a very transfer -- we'll have a very peaceful -- there won't be a transfer, frankly, there'll be a continuation. The ballots are out of control. You know it. And you know who knows it better than anybody else? The Democrats know it better than anybody else.", "Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden not surprised by the president's comments.", "What country are we in? I'm being facetious. I said, what country are we in? Look, he says the most irrational things. I -- I don't know what to say it, but it doesn't surprise me.", "Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer firing back at Trump.", "This man has no, no honesty, honor, values, or faith in the American system. He doesn't deserve to be president. And hopefully, he will learn his lesson.", "In a tweet, Republican Senator Mitt Romney calling out the president, writing, \"The peaceful transfer of power is fundamental to democracy,\" and adding, \"Any suggestion that a president might not respect this constitutional guarantee is both unthinkable and unacceptable.\" Back in 2016, then-candidate Trump refused to say he would accept the results of the 2016 election.", "I will look at it at the time. I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time.", "And after losing the popular vote by nearly 3 million in that election, the president falsely blamed widespread voter fraud.", "You have people that are registered who are dead. There were illegals who are in two states. There are millions of votes, in my opinion. Now, I'm going to do an investigation.", "Trump launched an election integrity commission to look into his claims. It found no evidence to back him up.", "I'm going to say this again. There's no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. The only fact-based concerns about mail-in voting relate to the slowdown at the United States Postal Service. The president's stated urgency to get a ninth justice on the court in the event the court has to decide an election case is highly likely to raise questions about the political impartiality of the person he wants to put on the court -- John.", "Joe Johns at the White House, thanks very much. I just want to make one thing clear. I do think this is shocking. This is next-level stuff here when you're talking about the peaceful transfer of power. I've been in countries and seen people killed over the transfer of power. It is not something to joke about. And to be clear, the refusal to commit to the peaceful transfer of power is an implicit of violence, an implicit threat of unprecedented action from a president of the United States. And it happened on another front overnight in a way that impacts every American during this pandemic. The president threatened to overrule new safeguards being discussed by the FDA in the vaccine approval process.", "It sounded to me -- it sounded extremely political. Why would they do this when we come back with these great results? And I think you will have these great results. Why would we -- why would we be delaying it? But we're going to look at it. We're going to take a look at it, and ultimately, the White House has to approve it.", "Overruling the FDA on vaccine approval would be unprecedented. Experts tell us they have never heard of such a thing. CNN's Lucy Kafanov live Denver. And Lucy, this is happening as cases, new cases begin to rise again in the country.", "That's right, John. Look, vaccines take time to develop, and they only work if there's public confidence that people feel that it's safe enough to take them. You have a president who's repeatedly predicted that a vaccine would be ready by election day, contradicting his own top health officials, who say a shot won't be ready until the end of 2020 at the earliest. We learned yesterday that the FDA is now preparing these stricter guidelines that would basically oversee the emergency authorization of any type of vaccine. This is to add a new layer of vetting, a new layer of safety, by including outside experts who might weigh in on any new vaccine. And then you have these stunning comments from the president yesterday, basically saying that the White House -- his administration may or may not approve these new stricter guidelines that, again, are intended for vaccine safety. This as Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top Trump administration officials yesterday told a Senate panel that scientific data, science and data, is guiding their decision, not politics. Take a listen.", "Every single vaccine trial has what's called an independent data and safety monitoring board, who is not beholden to the president. It's not beholden to the FDA. It's not beholden to the company or even to me, a person who is involved in the vaccine trial.", "This is raising fears that the president might rubber stamp a shot based on political calculations as opposed to scientific data. And that, frankly, could be playing with people's lives. We saw 1,098 Americans die of coronavirus yesterday, on Wednesday. This as at least 21 states across the country are reporting at least a 10 percent increase in new coronavirus cases. Colorado is one of those states. One of the biggest causes of the outbreaks here is among 20-year-olds, young people who are returning to college. There was a very large outbreak at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Governor Polis, though, the governor here, saying that, actually, all age groups are experiencing a rise in cases, and they're still investigating the cause. But one of the reasons could be Labor Day gatherings, as well as lessened vigilance. And I also want to add that there is a new report from the CDC that found that people in their 20s accounted for 20 percent of all cases in August and July. Now that folks are returning to school, we could see those numbers rise, John.", "More than a thousand new deaths reported overnight. And again, the daily case rate continues to rise as we head into the fall. Lucy Kafanov, thanks so much. We have new information this morning on what is missing in the non- case against the officers who killed Breonna Taylor. That's next."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BERMAN", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIAN KAREM, JOURNALIST", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KAREM", "TRUMP", "CAMEROTA", "BRYNN GINGRAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GINGRAS (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GINGRAS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GINGRAS", "ROBERT SCHROEDER, INTERIM POLICE CHIEF, LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE", "GINGRAS", "DANIEL CAMERON, KENTUCKY ATTORNEY GENERAL", "GINGRAS", "KENNETH WALKER, BREONNA TAYLOR'S BOYFRIEND", "GINGRAS", "CAMERON", "GINGRAS", "LONITA BAKER, ATTORNEY FOR BREONNA TAYLOR'S FAMILY", "GINGRAS", "CAMEROTA", "JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "JOHNS (voice-over)", "KAREM", "TRUMP", "JOHNS", "TRUMP", "JOHNS", "JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "JOHNS", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-328936", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2017-12-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1712/21/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "Andrew McCabe Testified with Congressional Committee", "utt": ["This is CNN Tonight. I'm Don Lemon. Breaking news. What could the bombshell testimony by the FBI's deputy director? Sources say Andrew McCabe telling congressional investigators that he can back up James Comey's claim that President Trump asked the former FBI director for his loyalty which the president denies. Also tonight, President Trump's constant slamming of the Russia investigation coming back to haunt him. A brand-new CNN poll shows a clear majority of Americans feel his statements about the probe are mostly or completely false. Yet, nearly half of Americans approve of special counsel Robert Mueller's handling of the investigation. And more breaking news to tell you about, Congress avoiding a government shutdown tomorrow night, approving short-term spending for federal agencies but not for long. Now a new shutdown deadline looms over Washington. We have a lot to get to tonight. But I want to begin with our breaking news. The FBI -- the FBI's deputy director's testimony today. And I want to bring in CNN's senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju. Manu, good evening to you. I understand you have learned tonight what FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has been telling lawmakers behind closed doors. What can you tell us?", "Yes, that's right, he has met with multiple committees this week for two different investigations and one of the committees he met with this week was the house intelligence committee. In a private testimony earlier this week, he was asked about James Comey, his former boss of the FBI, before Comey, of course, was fired by President Trump. And he was asked about conversations that occurred from Comey's telling with President Trump, where Trump apparently had asked James Comey for loyalty, had suggested they should back off on the investigation of Michael Flynn, and had said things that made Comey uncomfortable. This is according to Comey's own public testimony before the Senate intelligence committee earlier this year. Now, when he testified before the Senate intelligence committee, Comey said that he had told some of the senior leadership about these conversations at the time. Well, Don, now we have learned that one of the people that he told was Andrew McCabe. McCabe testified before the House intelligence committee that Comey in did, indeed, tell him about all these conversations soon after they occurred. So that suggests, Don, that he could presumably be a witness. He can provide this contemporaneous account of what Comey had said occurred between him and Trump, and presumably dispute what the president said which is, of course, denying Comey's account saying he did not ask for loyalty, but McCabe says that's not what Comey said, Comey told him the opposite in their private conversation, Don.", "Well, Manu, McCabe, he's been, I mean, he's questioned for hours over the past couple of days. What else have lawmakers been grilling him on?", "Well, in large part today it was about the Clinton e-mail investigation. The -- two of the republican-led committees in the House have launched a separate investigation into FBI's decision- making during the 2016 campaign. In a large part, about how they handled the Hillary Clinton investigation. A lot of republicans are not happy with the way they handled it. They believe there was some bias there. They believed that Hillary Clinton should have been charged with a crime and she should not have been exonerated. And they've questioned Comey's handling of it. So when Andrew McCabe went behind closed doors today, Don, he was asked questions at length by republicans, in particular, about the Clinton e-mail investigation, and McCabe gave his answers about what happened, but I'm told that they provided e-mails and records and it, that republicans showed McCabe in an effort as undermine Comey, undermine the investigation. And I can tell you, Don, afterwards, republicans that I talked to who are in that hearing said they felt pretty good about it. They felt that he actually reinforced their belief that Clinton, in their view, was treated favorably by the FBI, don.", "All right, Manu, I want you to stand by. Because I want to bring in now CNN national security analyst, Juliette Kayyem, CNN contributor John Dean, the former White House counsel for President Nixon, and legal analyst Michael Zeldin, Robert Mueller's former special assistant to the Department of Justice. Thank you, guys, for joining us. Welcome to the show. John, let's get right into it. What do you make of reporting from that you just heard from Manu?", "Well, of course, it's hearsay at this point as far as Comey's testimony is concerned but it is a corroboration and it just makes Comey look more truthful. And so it's supportive in that regard.", "Yes. Michael, President Trump has previously disputed Comey's claim that he asked for a pledge of loyalty. Here's what Trump said when he was asked about Comey's account of the meeting, this is back in June.", "So He said those things under oath. Would you be willing to speak under oath to give you version of these events?", "One hundred percent. I didn't say under oath. I hardly know the man. I'm not going to say I want you to pledge allegiance. Who would do that? Who would ask a man to pledge allegiance under oath? I mean, think of it, I hardly know the man. It doesn't make sense. No, I didn't say that, and I didn't say the other.", "How much of an impact would this new information have?", "Well, if he does go under oath, and he does say that he never asked for Comey's loyalty, and he never asked Comey to let the Flynn investigation go, and now you have McCabe, Comey, and Comey's memos all saying the opposite, then you've got a tough decision as a prosecutor to determine whether or not the president has made a false statement under oath which is a chargeable crime or as in the case of Bill Clinton, something that can be reported to Congress for consideration of an article of impeachment. So, it's a very important matter that is arising today if especially the president goes under oath. If he doesn't go under oath, then it lets Mueller make a decision independent of the lie part of it to determine whether or not the McCabe testimony supporting the Comey memo and the Comey testimony is enough to support an obstruction of justice inquiry.", "Yes. Juliette Kayyem, as we have learned from Manu, McCabe spent over eight hours in closed-door hearings today. Yesterday he answered questions for over eight hours as well. What message are republicans trying to send by questioning Andrew McCabe and other prominent members of the FBI?", "I think that they will never let go of Hillary Clinton even though she is not president. It seems that they just want to use the opportunity to go back to a campaign that many people viewed Comey as somewhat responsible for Trump's victory. I mean, in other words, his release of re-opening the investigation was what may have been a contributing factor to Trump's win. I think more importantly, though, just taking a step back, remember that the questions that McCabe is answering are about potential obstruction of justice questions about Michael Flynn. And whether he was compromised by the Russians. So outside of the legal framework that we're talking about, there are major national security concerns which is Donald Trump seemed to be unconcerned that his national security adviser could have been compromised by the Russians, and then the question is, why was he unconcerned? And so I think that that gets to the heart of McCabe's relevancy about Jim Comey's firing.", "I want to bring Manu back in here. Manu, what are you hearing from democrats who participated in these hearings?", "Well, they are pushing back. They said that they believe that republicans today brought Andrew McCabe in as an effort to distract from the Russia investigation. They believe that one reason why they're focusing on the 2016 Clinton e-mail probe is because Donald Trump is feeling some pressure from Bob Mueller's investigation. Now, Jerrold Nadler, who is a top democrat in the House judiciary committee, made this point earlier today. Listen to this.", "This hearing is part of an ongoing republican attempt to divert attention. It's just an attempt to divert -- part of the attempt to divert attention away from the invest -- from the real investigation into the collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. And the subject matter is frivolous.", "Now, Don, republicans, of course have a completely different view. I asked them about their -- the democratic concerns. They said, look, we are just trying to get the facts, trying to figure out exactly what happened here. Now if there was anything improper or wrong that the FBI did, the public deserves to know particularly as these other major investigations are happening. So it just shows the two sides on completely different sides on such a key issue and a key investigation as we head into an election year, Don.", "John Dean, despite republicans' attempts to discredit Robert Mueller, this is what new polling is showing from CNN. That 47 percent of Americans approve of how Mueller is handling the investigation, while 34 percent disapprove of his handling of it. At the same time approval for how President Trump has handled the Russia investigation has sunk two points from November to just 32 percent. Do you think these polling numbers might convince republicans to back off a little?", "Well, it should. They've certainly been hammering at this and trying to discredit the orchestrated effort at the House judiciary committee, recently the constant barrage by the conservative media trying to undercut the investigation. It's clearly not sticking, so they might be wise to recalibrate and try to get on the right side of this issue.", "Go ahead, Michael, is that Michael?", "I was going to say, Don, my recollection, and you'll know better than I, but my recollection from the polling numbers also is that 56 percent of the American people do not believe the president is being truthful when he talks about the Russian probe.", "Right.", "If I'm correct about that number, that supports John Dean's position that this strategy may be working with republicans, but generally speaking, it's not working with Americans.", "Yes. Well, Juliette, Mueller -- go ahead, Juliette, what did you want to say?", "No, I was going to -- I mean, I agree with both of them because we are probably all coming from the belief that if you have nothing to hide, why would you have this strategy? The strategy by the Trump and the Trump White House and the republican supporters makes sense if the only other option is that Mueller is actually on some steady drum beat closer and closer to the Oval Office. I mean, he's appointed in May, by early October he has indictments. By late October, he's got Manafort. By late November, he's got Flynn. This is as close to the Oval Office as you can imagine, so in some ways, I see what's happening as sort of potentially a last resort. There's really no other -- no other explanation than that hay perceive they have no other option at this stage.", "All right, Manu, thank you very much.", "Don, can I...", "Everyone else stay with me. John, you'll get a chance when we come back. Up next, a key republican congressman turning up the heat on the Justice Department and the FBI and issuing subpoenas. 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{"id": "CNN-403804", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-06-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/26/cnr.18.html", "summary": "New Infections Rise In 31 U.S. States; Coronavirus Task Force To Resume; Resurgence Of COVID In Europe - From Risk To Reality; Crowds Overwhelm British Beach Town in Major Incident; U.S. Economists Worried about Virus Resurgence", "utt": ["Welcome back, and thank you for joining us. This is CNN NEWSROOM. I'm John Vause. Was it just too fast, too soon? With most U.S. states reporting new cases of the coronavirus increasing, how did they get it so wrong? It's not exactly the kind of defense Formula One may have wanted but the former F1 boss, Bernie Ecclestone, defends his sports record in his own way on diversity. And the tragedy of Madeleine McCann. Thirteen years later, German police believe they know what happened. And what we're learning about the man they think did it. The United States is once again in the midst of the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. For weeks the rate of transmission has been accelerating and on Thursday Johns Hopkins University reported 37,000 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, the highest daily total since this pandemic began. Chances are, though, it's much worse. The Centers for Disease Control says the actual number of infections is likely 10 times the official count. That would mean 23 million people. Dr. Robert Redfield says now there's more testing, it's clear that a large percentage of the population either have mild or no symptoms that all. And younger people, 18 to 44 years old, are testing positive at a much higher rate.", "This virus causes so much asymptomatic infection. We probably recognized about 10 percent of the outbreak.", "New infections are now rising in 31 U.S. states. Texas and Florida are reporting new daily records. Hospitalizations in California up more than 30 percent in the past two weeks. And again, the head of the CDC says social distancing remains quote, \"the most powerful tool we have to fight the virus.\" In Chicago, they are deploying social distancing ambassadors, in parks and other public areas. But in one British beach town, not so much a pandemic but pandemonium. Thousands of sun-seeking tourists crowded the shores of Bournemouth on Thursday with little regard for the virus. The local council declared it a major incident, urging the public to stay away from the beach. Well, the surge in the number of U.S. cases is prompting the White House to hold its first coronavirus task force briefing in nearly two months, expected Friday morning. CNN's Erica hill has the day's other headlines from across the country.", "In the nation's three most populous states California, Florida and Texas things are going from bad to worse.", "I don't think history's going to look back forgivingly upon the United States and Americans for going down this road.", "Los Angeles County now has more confirmed cases than any other county in the country.", "We're still in the first wave of this pandemic.", "Texas pausing its reopening to quote, \"corral\" the spread of COVID-19. Also restricting elective surgeries in four counties.", "We're running out of that time.", "Texas Medical Center now using nearly all its regular capacity ICU beds in the greater Houston area. Hospitals also are concerned in Florida, which just added more than 5,000 new cases. Governor DeSantis resisting calls for a statewide mask mandate.", "I think it's incredibly unfortunate that this has become so political.", "While in hard-hit Miami where masks are required, the mayor is now considering a fine for anyone who ignores his order.", "If we don't want to go backwards, the only option that we have right now is to order masks in public.", "The CDC confirming more young people are contracting the virus. In Ohio, where cases have jumped in the last 24 hours, nearly 60 percent of the state's cases are people between the ages of 20 and 49.", "We have increased testing but no analyst that I have talked to believes that the total increase is due to that at all.", "Hospitalizations and ICU admissions also up, especially in the Cincinnati area. Across the country, for every person diagnosed, 10 more were likely infected. As many as 20 million people, according to new findings from the CDC.", "That's about 10 times more people who have antibodies.", "There is new concern for pregnant women. The CDC reporting Thursday they may be at higher risk for severe COVID-19 symptoms, especially black and Hispanic women. Disneyland's reopening now delayed, California says it hasn't met the criteria. Apple closing more stores in Florida because of the virus.", "The data is telling us yes right.", "While in New York City, plans are underway for phase three bringing back indoor dining, sports and dog runs on July 6th. Erica Hill, CNN, New York.", "Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider is an internal medicine physician at California-Pacific Medical Center and founder of endwellproject.org. And she is with us from San Francisco. Doctor, thank you for being with us. We appreciate your time.", "Thank you for having me.", "OK. So much for that second wave towards the end of the year. Clearly, the virus never went away. I want you to listen to the Governor of Arizona with a grim statement about the weeks ahead.", "I don't want there to be any illusion or sugar-coated expectations. We expect that our numbers will be worse next week and the week following in terms of cases and hospitalizations.", "Okay. So bad times ahead. The reason why we had the national lockdown, it was to buy us some time so the health system wasn't overrun, so that hospitals could keep up with the people who were infected. Essentially, to get ahead of this. And to prepare for, I guess, for this moment which we were expecting a little later. But are we prepared to deal with this now?", "Gosh, John -- in some places yes, and other places no. I think hitting another record in the number of new cases just today in the U.S. is extremely distressing. And points to the fact that maybe we're headed in the wrong direction here. Young people are now the biggest sources of cases as was pointed out and hospital beds in places like Texas and Arizona are filling up. There still isn't enough testing and contact tracing happening to find these new cases and isolate them from the general population. So there's really no question about what's needed here. We need mask- wearing in public to be mandatory, we need more testing and contact tracing all over -- of cases -- to find their recent contacts. And anyone with even a slightest COVID-19 symptom or with close contacts with a known case needs to get tested and self-isolate immediately. And most of all, we need clear, consistent messaging from all of our government officials that support these efforts.", "Yes. That is something which -- you can hope for that, it's just not going to happen, it seems. At least from the federal level. The CDC dropped a few headlines on Thursday. Including this belief that the number of real cases in the U.S. could be 10 times the official number of 2.3 million. That's 23 million people. On the one hand it's a staggering number considering, what, there's 10 million [sic] cases worldwide, 23 million would be in the U.S. But isn't that in line with the expectations, isn't that a formula they do for countries which have inadequate testing?", "Well, John, I think from looking at the blood samples across the country for the presence of antibodies to the virus which is what was done -- so for every confirmed case of COVID-19, as you pointed out, 10 more people had antibodies. So these are the proteins in the blood that indicate whether a person's immune system has previously come in contact with coronavirus. So estimating that around seven percent of the U.S. population or more like 23 million people are walking around either with active infection or recent infection is really significant. I think looking at these numbers, taking them very seriously and then planning accordingly for an increased number that we're planning to see going forward, is really what we need to be doing right now.", "Yes. This time round compared to the last time with the surge in cases, it seems to be coming with a twist. I want you to listen again to the director of CDC. Here he is.", "I think, obviously, that we're seeing right now, infections that are targeting younger individuals.", "It seems young people were spared for the most part. In Europe they sort of became vulnerable, they're as vulnerable as anybody else. Here in the U.S., it seems that they're the ones who are bearing the burden of the infections. Is there a simple way to explain how that has transitioned?", "Not really. I think that with wide spreads or community spread as it's happened here in the U.S., it makes sense that there are many more cases of young people that are turning up. And the best possible way for young people, for older people, for everybody, to reduce the spread of infection is to stay away from other people. So this social distancing being so important. And I understand it's summertime. People, young and old want to be outdoors, enjoy themselves, be with friends and family. People, I think, are tired of staying home. But the stakes are just so high. We need people to know that, of course, this virus is invisible, it spreads so easily from person to person via droplets from talking or from breathing. And when people congregate, even outdoors, much like what we saw at the beaches in the U.K. and they don't wear masks, this is a recipe for a disaster. I think our behavior every moment matters. And our actions today can put the lives of the people that we love in danger.", "I'm glad you mentioned --", "So I think --", "Sorry. I'm glad you mentioned beaches in the U.K. because here's kind of a report from CNN's Nic Robertson. Sorry to interrupt. But listen to this.", "Here in the U.K. authorities have declared a major incident at one of Britain seaside holiday towns. Why? Because it's not holiday time but the beaches were absolutely crowded with thousands of people flocking out on what has been a very hot couple of days here. The concern is that they're not social distancing and the people in that town are not ready for people from other parts of the country to come on vacation.", "You know what I find really incredible is that the number of young people I know who heard the -- the initial report that came from China that young people were sort of almost immune to all of this -- but they've heard nothing since.", "Yes. I think seeing situations like this where probably, in about two weeks, as is the typical lag time between people congregating and seeing spikes of infections, if somebody -- if people who are on those beaches in fact do have COVID-19, that is the perfect storm. The perfect recipe for disaster. People being close together despite their being outdoors but not wearing masks. Talking, laughing, spending many, many hours with one another. That is how this virus spreads. And so we need to be talking about what everybody, including young people, should be doing to prevent the spread. Our behavior absolutely matters and we all have the power to save lives. If we listen and pay attention.", "Yes. As you say, just looking at that beach, it's understandable why people want to be there but this is not 2019 anymore. So, Shoshana, I'm going to leave you there. Thank you so much for being with us. Appreciate it. And there are concerns, once again, the coronavirus could overwhelm healthcare systems in some parts of Europe.", "In 11 of these countries, accelerated transmission has led to very significant resurgence that if left unchecked, will push health systems to the brink once again in Europe.", "According to the World Health Organization, what was once a risk of resurgence in Europe is now a reality. The 11 countries which were mentioned stretch from Sweden in the north down to Albania in the south, Kazakhstan to the east. And now for the mass invasion of an English beach by tens of thousands of tourists, there are now fears of a surge in COVID-19. Adding to those concerns, plans to relax the lockdown there in England in two weeks. ITV's Juliet Bremner explains.", "The plea was to stay away but nobody seemed to be listening. Tens of thousands from across Southern England and the Midlands descended on Bournemouth today. It was impossible to keep a safe distance from strangers, and there was little or no awareness of any health risks.", "Why did you come to Bournemouth today?", "Why? I'm enjoying -- today's really nice weather, yes.", "It was a really hot day. I thought I'd take advantage of it, by the time the rain goes back. All of the rules on lockdown are just being kind of like eased on.", "What's fairly obvious is that people don't believe COVID is a problem anymore. That's fairly obvious from people's behavior.", "The M3 was close to a standstill as sun-seekers drove from as far away as Birmingham and London. The local Conservative MP told me police must be given more powers to deal with the deluge.", "Dorset can't cope with this. If we need messaging at Waterloo Station or Birmingham International or, indeed, on the M3 -- there's big signs on the motorway to say Bournemouth is now closed, there is a major incidents in play, please turn around or go somewhere else. If the police don't have the necessary powers, we should be operating very quickly in Westminster to give them those powers to deal with this enduring (ph) emergency.", "For people living close to beauty spots like Durdle Door in Dorset, it feels like an invasion. One counselor trying to turn back vehicles was physically and verbally abused.", "Unfortunately, a gentleman spat at me through his car window. Fortunately, it landed at my feet. I think the main problem is the aggression. People have traveled four, five hours in their car. They're hot, they're grumpy.", "Along the south coast, they're attempting to stop the crowds and a second wave of COVID. But it's a battle they fear they may be losing. Juliet Bremner, \"ITV News.\"", "Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, was one of the first to warn about the dangers of a global pandemic. He did so years ago. 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{"id": "CNN-375838", "program": "HALA GORANI TONIGHT", "date": "2019-07-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/25/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Record-Breaking Heat In Europe; Jeremy Corbyn Holds Rally On Last Day Of Parliament", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. Live from CNN London, I'm Hala Gorani. Tonight, parts of Europe have never been hotter as the continent swelters under an intense heat wave. We'll be live in London and Paris, hitting record high temperatures there. Also tonight, Boris Johnson lays out his vision to the House of Commons, calling for a turbo-charged no-deal Brexit response. What does that mean? And as the fallout from Robert Mueller's testimony continues, I speak to one of the congressmen who grilled the former special counsel. It doesn't matter where you are in Europe today, almost everyone is talking about the same thing: the heat. A scorching heat wave has brought temperatures never before seen since records began in Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands. And Paris broke a record when the thermometer topped 42 degrees Celsius today. That's 107 degrees if you work in Fahrenheit. Climate scientists say July is shaping up to be the hottest month ever on the planet since records began, at least since those records started being kept in the 1880s. CNN's Jim Bittermann is braving the heat in Paris. And there are concerns with Notre Dame's roof. We'll get to that in a moment. Salma Abdelaziz is on the ground in London. You're near Trafalgar Square. I understand it rained a little bit for a few minutes, which would have been -- brought some measure of relief. What's the situation now like in London, Salma?", "That's right, Hala. After the hot, there has to come the storm. So we just had a big downpour. We have a few kids behind us, still trying to play in the pool here and keep cool. The sun is back out, so we are seeing those temperatures again. And right now is the time that people are commuting back home, and that's where a lot of the concern comes in. The public was told, actually, to stay at home today, if they could avoid. Because those train carriages are going to be hot, packed. There's very little ventilation across the country. Commuters were saying they were spending hours on these carriages will little water.", "All-Time Heart Record, United Kingdom: August 2003, 38.5 degrees; July 2015, 36.7 degrees. Cambridge, 38.1 degrees. A lot of that is due to the fact -- because these temperatures are rising, the trains actually have to move at a slower pace, half as fast as they usually do, so that the train tracks don't buckle. So we're seeing this all across the country. Of course, the biggest concern is for the young and the elderly. Most people in the U.K., most people in London don't have air conditioning in their homes. So they come to parks, public spaces like this one, to try to keep cool. And while it's all fun and games, this is a very serious concern for the country because the fear is, is that these temperatures will continue to climb, not just this year but on and on through the coming years. But all we can do for right now, Hala, is just stay cool.", "Yes. That's all we can do. It's difficult in some cases, as you mentioned. If you're commuting, if you're in a bus, if you're in a train, if you're elderly as well. We're going to get to some of these dangers in a moment. But Jim Bittermann, you're in Paris, hitting record highs as well there. And there are concerns for Notre Dame, the roof of Notre Dame. Explain why.", "Well, exactly. So the architect, the chief architect who's in charge of the reconstruction of Notre Dame -- and it's still a very fragile reconstruction, in fact it hasn't actually begun, but -- he's worried about the vaulted ceiling in the church of Notre Dame. Not the roof. The roof, a lot of the roof is all --", "All right. We just lost the shot there, with Jim Bittermann, live in Paris. But Jim was talking about the roof of Notre Dame after that terrible fire. Of course, that there are issues with how structurally sound it is. And this heat is putting a lot of pressure on what is left of that structure in Notre Dame. And it's a question of underpinning some of these beams. We'll get back to Jim as soon as we can. Tom Sater, I want to get to you. it feels like you've heard this heat wave story before. It's because Europe was scorched by another one just last month. They're becoming more and more frequent.", "Yes.", "Talk to us a little bit about where we are now and what the forecast is.", "If we can hang in there, Hala, through the night and into tomorrow morning, I think things are going to be a lot better. Remember, last week in the U.S., 500 temperature records were broken. It wasn't the all-time high for the U.K. or London, but it was the warmest July temperatures. Many may remember in the U.K., the infamous 1976 heat wave. Those numbers don't even crack the top 10 anymore. Hey, let's go back the year 1500 for Europe. These are your five hottest summers. No doubt, 2019 could be the top or very top of the list.", "Europe's Hottest Summers Since Year 1500: 2018, 2016, 2010, 2003, 2002", "But let's go back to last month's heat wave. All of these areas -- Andorra, France, breaking records. Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, 37.1.", "Andorra, 28 June, 2019: 39.4 degrees. France, 28 June, 2019: 45.9 degrees. Switzerland, 27 June, 2019: 37.0 degrees. Luxembourg, 26 June, 2019: 36.8 degrees. Liechtenstein, 30 June, 2019: 37.1 degrees.", "The list goes on and on. Germany, Czech Republic and Poland, only to be shattered yesterday.", "Germany, 30 June, 2019: 39.6 degrees. Czech Republic, 26 June, 2019: 38.9 degrees. Poland, 26 June, 2019: 38.2 degrees.", "Yesterday, France had 145 locales break July records, 85 all-time records. And of course, Paris breaking their record, which is a -- you know. Gosh, it feels like 109 Fahrenheit. That's at, you know, 42.1.", "Hottest Day on Record, 24 July, 2019: Netherlands, 39.3 degrees. Belgium, 39.9 degrees. Germany, 40.5 degrees.", "Yesterday, 39.3. Belgium, 39.9 and Germany -- only to be shattered again today. First time Netherlands and Belgium have ever topped 40 degrees.", "Hottest Day on Record, 25 July, 2019: Netherlands, 40.4 degrees. Belgium, 40.7 degrees. Germany, 42.6 degrees.", "Now, it does get better. Take a look. Thirty in Paris tomorrow. Saturday, you're at 23. And the same goes for many other areas. London, you've missed your all-time record by 0.2 degrees Celsius, mainly because of the cloud cover associated with this rain. The problem is, when you get that kind of heat, you're really going to see tremendous thunderstorms with damaging winds. Thirty-four in London. Paris, 37 currently. Things, I promise, do get better for everyone. The problem is, though, the heat now surges, Hala, up towards Scandinavia. Remember last year in Sweden, the fires, we've got 100 large wildfires in Siberia, Canada, Alaska. Firefighters are still on alert down in parts of Portugal because the heat will continue there. Hang in there, it will get better.", "All right. Tom Sater, thanks very much. But it'll happen again. That, we can pretty much be sure of. Scientists say this hot, hot summer can be blamed on climate change. Joining me now is someone who studies how governments can fight climate change, adapt to the new reality. Michal Nachmany is the policy officer for the Grantham Research Institute. So these are becoming more and more frequent, these heat waves.", "Yes. They're becoming more frequent, they're also becoming more intense. And what else they're becoming is on the way to being the new normal. The Met Office in the U.K. says today that if we continue at this track, we are on the way to having this kind of summer, every other summer by mid- century.", "Yes.", "So this is not an extreme weather event. I mean, it is an extreme --", "Yes.", "-- weather event, but this is not some isolated event. We're going to be living this as the new normal.", "This is -- could be our new normal. I saw some research that was published in the press a few days ago, that London could have the same climate as Barcelona by 2050. We have to adapt the way we live in these cities that are not used to these high temperatures.", "Absolutely. First of all, cities tend to suffer more because of the urban heat island effect. He is trapped, it bounces off surfaces, off roads, off glass surfaces. It doesn't have enough green spaces. So temperatures in cities are two to three degrees higher, potentially, than outside of cities. Half of the world's population today lives in cities and works in cities, so that means a lot for them. We have to adapt our homes. We have to adapt our workspaces. We have to adapt our commutes in order to be able to survive those. And I mean literally survive, because these are causing excess deaths that are preventable.", "Especially among those who are more vulnerable among us. The elderly, I remember a heat wave in France about 10 years ago -- in Paris, I should say, about 10 years ago, where hundreds of elderly people died because, you know, people weren't necessarily checking in on them, and not aware that this could be extremely dangerous for them.", "Absolutely. Last year -- only last year in London, just under 500 deaths. And if you go back to the 2003 heat wave across Europe, that was a 50,000-death toll from the series of heat waves.", "So what do we need to do?", "Well, first of all, we need to start adapting and planning for this. Because this is not going away. So we need to make sure that we can open the windows in our homes, that our commutes are -- routes are air conditioned, that our workspaces are adapted. We need to make sure that our health systems are ready because more illnesses occur during these times. We also need to take care of our most vulnerable by making sure our social structures and processes --", "Yes.", "-- are in place. Do we regularly check in with our neighbors, with our elderly relatives? And so on.", "Especially in cities, where that doesn't happen very often, where people often live alone. Whether they're old or not, in fact, it's more common for people to live alone in cities. Is any of this reversible? I mean, if humanity takes action now, decisively? Can we start reversing these effects?", "That's a very good question. So there's a lag between the emissions that have already been emitted and the --", "Yes.", "-- effects of them. So we are definitely going towards an intensifying period of extreme weather events, even if we halted everything now. But in order to make sure that this is as bad as it gets, we need to start reversing our emissions right now. The U.K. and other countries have already set net-zero emission targets and so on, we need to start acting on them now, change our energy structures, the way we consume, the way we travel and so on.", "When you communicate with governments and policymakers, and you say all this to them, and you say, \"This isn't a drill, this is an emergency,\" are they listening? Are they taking you seriously?", "I think there is definitely movement in the right direction. But definitely not in the right pace.", "Yes.", "so the U.K. has declared a climate emergency, another few countries have declared climate emergency. The policies are not there in place yet to start doing this at the real pace that we need to be acting (ph) --", "Yes. And you can't do it alone. One country can't do it alone. It's a global problem.", "This is a group exercise.", "Michal Nachmany, thanks so much for joining us. Really appreciate your time on the program.", "Thank you.", "The U.K. is feeling the heat politically as well, after an overnight slash-and-burn saw 17 of 22 of Theresa May's cabinet members replaced. And while you can get rid of old staff, you can -- you can't get rid of old issues. In his first speech to Parliament as prime minister, Boris Johnson said he wants to, quote, \"turbocharge preparations for Brexit,\" saying he's committed to getting out on October 31st, with or without a deal. Anna Stewart joins us now, live from London's Parliament Square. How was that speech greeted in Parliament? And there's a protest behind you. Tell us about that as well.", "Yes. Well, I'll just explain what's happening behind me because it's kind of hard to hear you, Hala. We got Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition party. He called this rally outside Parliament to call for a general election. He thinks, of course, that Boris Johnson shouldn't be the prime minister. He thinks that the vote should be put to the people. However, I think this is fairly interesting, given today, this Labour leader did have an opportunity to table a motion of no confidence in the government, to potentially spark an election, of course, if he won it. But he didn't, which means he has to wait all the way until September, when they all come back from their summer recess. Today was the last day M.P.s sat in Parliament. As to Boris Johnson's first speech in Parliament as prime minister, well, I'd say largely, it wasn't that surprising. He says that, as usual, he will take the U.K. out of the E.U., 31st of October, deal or no deal. He wants a deal, but he said he's going to turbocharge no-deal preparations to ensure they are ready. And I think that has some in the E.U. fairly concerned -- Hala.", "As far as Theresa May is concerned, it looks like she's taking her post-premiership in stride. She was pictured enjoying a gin and tonic, I understand, at a cricket match with other dismissed members of government. Let's put that picture up. What is the future -- what does the future hold for Theresa May?", "Well, that remains to be seen. She said yesterday, as she was leaving, that she would remain an M.P. She'll go to the back bench, she'll probably watch on with great interest. But for now, as you say, she's taking some time off. Quite rightly, given the last few months and years that she's had. She looked fairly happy, I'd say, at the cricket at Lord's. I think as a backbench, she'll be very interesting to see, whether she's a rebellious one. She hasn't been in the past. She's always been very supportive of whichever government she works for, although she's largely been a cabinet minister of late, so it will be a first, really, for her to be such a well-known backbench M.P. But we know her position, of course, on Brexit. We know that she does not want a no-deal. So if Boris Johnson pushes towards that way, you wonder how many Tory rebels, including, maybe, the former prime minister, could be there to defeat him on that -- Hala.", "And I wonder, what is Labour's strategy? Because in their minds - - and I spoke to several Labour M.P.s over the last few days -- they want a general election because they seem to think that if they get an election, they'll win. But that's far from certain, isn't it?", "I think it's very uncertain. And I think they're very worried that they certainly wouldn't win a confidence vote at this stage in Parliament. Because if they thought that, then they could have got general (ph) election, they could have done that today. They had the opportunity. The other opposition party, the Liberal Democrats, said that they wanted Labour to do this. They would have supported that, but they didn't. I think Labour do want a general election, if you listened to Jeremy Corbyn behind me, he's certainly calling for one. Trouble is, will that happen now? Unlikely. I think the summer recess will be filled with political noise from both sides of the divide. But if we approach the October 31st deadline -- if we approach that and a no-deal is looking likely, that is when we're more likely to see a confidence motion table. Because at that stage, you may see rebellious Tory M.P.s deciding to vote with Labour, with the opposition. And that would spark a general election. The current government won't be calling one before Brexit, at least that's what Boris Johnson always maintained during his campaign -- Hala.", "All right. Anna Stewart, thanks very much. A lot more to come. The dust is settling after Robert Mueller's long-awaited testimony on Capitol Hill. The question now is, what happens next? We'll look at the fallout and speak with a congressman who's calling for impeachment proceedings against President Trump to begin. 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{"id": "CNN-211121", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-7-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/25/cnr.02.html", "summary": "\"Rocky\" Spin-off in the Works; Pope in Rio De Janeiro", "utt": ["The iconic film \"Rocky\" just might be getting a redo.", "I was thinking the same thing.", "Like whoo.", "I was doing the same move, Carol, when you just did it.", "No.", "I mean, you know, it gives me goose bumps still a little bit. And, you know, after six sequels, it's about time for a spin-off. You know this movie that we're talking about, the new one is reportedly going to be about the grandson of Apollo Creed and not actually focused on Rocky Balboa. Now this is all according to deadline.com, which broke this story. The movie will be called \"Creed\" and it will follow Apollo's privileged grandson as he decides to become a boxer. Now he needs a mentor. One plus one equals two. You see where this is going.", "Yes.", "He finds his father's old nemesis turned friend. He convinces Rocky to come back to boxing and train him. But you know what has really me excited about this movie, Carol, Creed's grandson is reportedly to be played by Michael B. Jordan who is currently starring in \"Fruitvale Station.\" And \"Fruitvale's\" director Ryan Coogler is going to be behind the cameras directing it. It will be his sophomore film. Now I can't tell you how much I love, love, love \"Fruitvale Station.\" If you haven't seen it, go see it. It opens in wide release this weekend on July 26th. Now, you know, Michael B. Jordan, if you look at his face there and you think where have I seen him? He's got a cult following. He's been on \"The Wire,\" \"Friday Night Lights\" but this is really a huge step-up in terms of Hollywood stardom for him, and also for Ryan Coogler, who is a very talented young man, just graduating from USC Film School. So this is going to be I think very cool. Seeing them with Stallone back in -- in the ring and working them out. I love this idea. I love it.", "I do, too. I can't wait. Nischelle Turner, thank you so much.", "Absolutely.", "All right. I got to take you back to Brazil for these unbelievable pictures. You see the Popemobile there. The Pope is on his way to a poor city in Brazil outside of Rio de Janeiro. We showed you pictures earlier of the Pope traveling in the Corolla. Well, he got into his Popemobile and moments ago, you can see what happens. Security again having trouble keeping people away from the Pope. In fact, from what I understand, some people were throwing things at the Pope. I don't know why that was, whether it was in anger or love or what it was but as you can see security surrounding the Pope having a hard time keeping people away. The Pope decided to use that modified Pope mobile with the open sides, because he wanted to get close to people. He wanted to reach out and touch people. Often he'll kiss babies who are standing by in the crowd. But the security risk in Brazil is now at high. They are concerned about the Pope. We understand that shortly the Pope will actually, after he visits the poor in this community will then walk a short distance to the soccer stadium. That too has security in Brazil very concerned. Our Miguel Marquez is in Brazil out -- I think he's in Rio De Janeiro or he may be in this town. We're going to take you there live at the top of the hour, so stay with CNN. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "TURNER", "COSTELLO", "TURNER", "COSTELLO", "TURNER", "COSTELLO", "TURNER", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-122880", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2008-1-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/16/acd.02.html", "summary": "Kenya - A Country in Turmoil", "utt": ["You're looking at a video there of Kenya, a nation in turmoil. Renewed violence on this, the first of three days of mass protests called by the main opposition party that recently lost a very disputed presidential election there. It's hard to imagine this in a country that, just weeks ago, was considered one of Africa's most stable and prosperous democracies. It also one of America's closest allies in the region, with a growing population of Al Qaeda sympathizers. Tonight up close, a look at the crisis from a CNN reporter who is a native of Kenya and got caught in the crackdown. Here's Zain Verjee.", "The police here on their horses are trying to intimidate journalists, and they're trying to disperse us. The people of Kenya have never seen anything like this before. The country is bitterly divided over a presidential election gone wrong. (on camera) Opposition leaders have been scattered all around Nairobi. What they're tying to do is rush Uhuru Park. (voice-over) More than 600 people have been killed here in the past three weeks, 250,000 driven from their homes. The concern is this U.S. ally could completely destabilize, bringing down all of East Africa with it. (on camera) In Uhuru Park, if you take a look there, what you see is hundreds of police and paramilitary forces. They've just added another truck now, in for reinforcements. They've been firing teargas canisters at both supporters of the opposition, opposition leaders themselves and journalists, as well. They're beginning to make their move, and it's very likely that, from the other side, they will start firing back. Ow, ow! Ow, they hit my back. Hit my back. (voice-over) You never expect to be shot, but when it happens, it's a shock. You don't see it coming. Teargas canisters travel as fast as bullets. The incident left me a little shaken, but luckily nothing more. Literally, a bruising reminder of how quickly my country's unraveling. (on camera) They shot me here in by back. Yes.", "It almost hit your head.", "Yes.", "Are you OK?", "Yes, it's OK. I'm standing. (voice-over) Zain Verjee, CNN, Nairobi.", "Next an I-reporter says he has proof, proof there was a UFO hovering over Texas earlier this week. See his video for yourself next."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "VERJEE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "VERJEE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "VERJEE", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "NPR-16986", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2005-06-15", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4704727", "title": "'30 Days' in Someone Else's Shoes", "summary": "Our own Day to Day television critic reviews the new FX network series 30 Days. The show, hosted by documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, plays with the idea of what it's really like to live in someone else's shoes for 30 days. Spurlock was the subject of the film Super Size Me, where he charted his weight gain while eating exclusively at McDonald's for 30 days.", "utt": ["This is DAY TO DAY from NPR News.  I'm Alex Chadwick.", "For his experiential documentary \"Super Size Me,\" Morgan Spurlock videoed      himself eating nothing but fast food from McDonald's for a month.  Now      he's trying experiential TV with a new series on the FX cable network.      The show's called \"30 Days.\"  Here's DAY TO DAY TV critic Andrew      Wallenstein.", "The premise of \"30 Days\" is simple:  A person spends 30 days in someone      else's shoes from an entirely different walk of life.  For example, a      Christian man lives with a Muslim household, or a straight man immerses      himself in the gay community.  In the process, the subject learns how the      other lives and the viewer gets a vicarious education, as well.  In a      country where diversity and divisiveness often go hand in hand, \"30 Days\"      is a blessing.", "Spurlock, who serves as host of the series, makes himself the subject of      the first episode.  It focuses on what life is like living on a      minimum-wage salary.  Instead of 30 days of Big Macs, it's 30 days of      little money, as he and his fiance gave up all their worldly goods and      attempts to subsist on $5.15 an hour.  The cameras capture their every      move as they literally start from scratch.", "I'm concerned about what's going      to happen just because I am so bad with money.  It's--I mean, I'm the      worst.  I'm the worst.", "You are the worst.  You're going to have to learn      how to budget.  When was the last time you made a budget for living?", "A budget for living?  What's that?", "There's a helpful counter and ticks off how much money they      lose with every expenditure.  Needless to say, the results aren't pretty.      Here's Spurlock getting a harsh estimate of his new living conditions      from his new landlord.", "Two days ago, there was a street person living in      here.  We just changed the locks this morning.", "Oh, wow.", "And downstairs there was a crack house.", "Right downstairs was just a crack house?", "Yeah.", "Oh, my God.", "This is a little bit rougher area.", "OK.", "OK.", "What's so great about what Spurlock does is he becomes part      of the story rather than simply observing from the sidelines.  The format      helps illustrate the plight of millions of Americans in a way no average      report could capture.  It's not the most innovative format in the world,      but Spurlock himself brings a kind of `Awe, shucks' charisma to his      filmmaking that is really engaging.  The episodes of \"30 Days\" where he      serves as host instead of subject are not as interesting, but still      enlightening.", "\"30 Days\" is no average reality show.  It blends education and      entertainment with real panache, and does it especially well when      Spurlock serves himself up as a guinea pig.", "The show \"30 Days\" starts tonight on the cable channel FX.      Andrew Wallenstein is an editor with the Hollywood Reporter and a TV      critic for DAY TO DAY."], "speaker": ["ALEX CHADWICK, host", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "ANDREW WALLENSTEIN reporting", "ANDREW WALLENSTEIN reporting", "Mr. MORGAN SPURLOCK (Host, \"30 Days\")", "Ms. BRIDGET BENNETT", "Mr. MORGAN SPURLOCK (Host, \"30 Days\")", "WALLENSTEIN", "Unidentified Man", "Ms. BRIDGET BENNETT", "Unidentified Man", "Mr. MORGAN SPURLOCK (Host, \"30 Days\")", "Unidentified Man", "Ms. BRIDGET BENNETT", "Unidentified Man", "Mr. MORGAN SPURLOCK (Host, \"30 Days\")", "Ms. BRIDGET BENNETT", "WALLENSTEIN", "WALLENSTEIN", "ALEX CHADWICK, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-288533", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-07-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/10/cnr.05.html", "summary": "President Obama to Visit Dallas", "utt": ["The president right now heading back to the White House after ending his trip to Spain early, but the country he returns to is hurting and it is different than the one he left. On Tuesday he will confront that as he travels to Dallas to speak at a memorial service there. So what can he say to help heal a battered nation? Let's bring in CNN senior political analyst David Gergen and CNN law enforcement analyst Cedric Alexander. Thank you both for being here. And David, let me begin with you. I mean, as an adviser to four former presidents, if you were sitting on Air Force One with President Obama tonight, perhaps he's drafting some of the remarks that he'll make on Tuesday, what does he say?", "Well, Poppy, President Obama hardly needs advice from staff at a moment like this, speaking to a grieving nation. Just remember how well he did in Charleston not so very long ago. But I would that -- to his speech writing staff that if they haven't already that they familiarize themselves deeply with three speeches given by Americans that were so healing in the past. First by Bobby Kennedy the night that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, speaking to a political crowd in Indianapolis, mesmerizing short speech, speaking from the heart, no notes. The second, Ronald Reagan after the Challenger disaster, and when he drew us together so well. And remember the last picture we had of them as they went to the spacecraft. Brave astronauts. And the third is Bill Clinton, when President Clinton went to Oklahoma City after the bombing there. That was a turning point for his presidency because it was a healing speech. So I think the role the president plays here is unifier-in-chief, healer-in-chief.", "Unifier-in-chief. Cedric Alexander, to you, you were assigned to the president's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, and I want your reaction to something that we heard from Newt Gingrich this week, the former speaker of the House. He said, normal white Americans don't understand being black in America. He said it's more dangerous to be black in America. As you look at this from those comments, from a policing perspective, and in your role on the task force, how should that inform this country as we move forward?", "Well, he's exactly right, and certainly there are a number of African-Americans across this country that feel that way. If we certainly look back at the history and still look at many of the challenges that we have in this country today. But we got to move forward. And in regards to the president's reaction when he gets to Dallas, he's going to do what he's always done. He's going to be presidential, he's going to be kind, he's going to be caring, he's going to try to bring people together, and he's going to be loving of this country and the people who live in it. And he's going to be great support to law enforcement. But us as a whole, all of us as a nation, we're at a very critical place in our -- in our country. And for us to move forward, we all got to do this collectively, and certainly there is a lot of pain and a lot of hurt to go around, but we still got to survive as a nation, we still got enemies abroad to fight, and we can only do that if we stand collectively, and this is a real critical time that we move forward and try to do everything we can to do that.", "David Gergen, to you, Dan Balz of the \"Washington Post\" wrote a column that really struck a lot of us this week. And he talked about the Kerner Commission report coming out under LBJ and what it informed this nation of when it comes to race relations then and looking at it now. And he quoted it saying, \"Our nation is moving towards two societies, one black, one white, separate but unequal.\" That from the Kerner report. And then he went on to ask, \"What would a similar commission say about the country today, nearly half a century later? Perhaps only to add that the country is only divided red and blue.\" David Gergen, your thoughts?", "Well, I think the Kerner report was very important, but it did -- Martin Luther King was assassinated about a month later and there were over 100 riots that broke out across the country after his assassination. So we look back upon that troubled time. Hard to heal, the country hard to move forward. I do think it takes a sustained effort because this is not exactly 1967, '68 again, in part because the rioting frankly has not been as big, but the gulfs are big. They're very big. Because we thought we'd be much farther along than we are in race relations and the fairness of the criminal justice system. And it's heartbreaking that we have so much still to do. But I do think that we have to understand that '67-'68, there were division within the Democratic Party but we were not as divided politically as we are today, so we now have racial tensions playing and mixing in to the political tensions in the country. We're heading into a campaign which sounds -- you know, really, the level of discourse has already descended to the depths. There is already serious name-calling going on. And I think that's the fear that we are -- if we don't pull ourselves together and draw upon Dallas to seek unity and take some steps, we could really be in much worse shape six or eight months from now than we are today.", "The political divide adding onto it.", "Yes. Absolutely.", "David Gergen, thank you very much. Cedric Alexander, thank you as well.", "Thank you.", "Thank you. Thank you for having me.", "Coming up next, we're going to talk about the Black Lives Matter movement obviously known and discussed and debated in this country. Where does it go from here? We'll talk more about that with our panel of experts about how they've done so far and what is affecting real change. We're live in the CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "HARLOW", "CEDRIC ALEXANDER, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "HARLOW", "DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "HARLOW", "GERGEN", "HARLOW", "GERGEN", "ALEXANDER", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-223414", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2014-1-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1401/21/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Secrets of TV Crimes Shows", "utt": ["Right now on this special edition of \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT\" \"Secrets of TV Crime Shows.\" We are counting down the top five TV crime show myths or truths? Do the cops really use their guns as often as we see on TV and just how fast does evidence really get analyzed? Also, we are taking you behind the police tape and revealing the stunning secrets of TV`s biggest crime shows.", "It`s not a good idea to lie to people. This much gas around.", "What are you doing? You`re going to kill both of us!", "Yes, I am. I missed you. Answer my questions.", "So, what are the secrets to making the drama behind shows like \"Burn Notice\" look so real? \"Burn Notice\" star Jeffrey Donovan reveals all the secrets of the nail-biting CIA drama. \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT\" continues tight now.", "Welcome back to \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.\" I`m A.J. Hammer. And this is a special edition of \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.\" \"The Secrets of TV Crime Shows.\" Now, get ready for us to investigate the TV investigators. Of course, sometimes our favorite crime dramas feature brave, dedicated good guys, sometimes, of course, they feature murderous meth making bad guys. But how realistic are they? Well, we have with us tonight two real life crime solvers who are the minds and inspiration behind two of these biggest shows on TV right now. And they are going to tell us what TV crime show get right then, what they get wrong. But first, \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT\" is counting down the top five myths and truths about TV crime shows. As we watch the gang from \"NCIS\" solve crimes .", "That may be also in downtown.", "Or Walter White from \"Breaking Bad\" commit them .", "I`m the danger.", "It`s easy to wonder how much of what we see on TV crime shows is fact and how much is fiction? Crime show producers do try to get it right.", "The writers in this business are doing themselves a disservice if they don`t attempt to try to find out what the reality is.", "Still, just like criminals on \"", "Sometimes we have to wait for a killer to make a mistake.", "TV crime shows make some factual mistakes, too. So in our \"SHOWBIZ\" countdown we are investigating, TV crime show myths or truths? Number five cops using their guns often. Cops on TV crime shows tend to get in a lot of shootouts. Even the forensic investigators on \"CSI.\" In fact, on \"Criminal Minds\" the law men and women are able to follow up a tense shootout with humorous bickering.", "Are you out of your mind? You blew out my eardrums.", "And now, at number four on our countdown, TV crime shows myths or truths .", "Wow. Talk about death by chocolate.", "Cops making jokes at gruesome murder scenes?", "So, that red stop is my (inaudible)", "OK, Castle is a writer, not a cop. So, we`ll excuse his corny crime scene jokes. But what was Horatio Caine`s excuse on \"SCI Miami?", "It`s as cold as ice.", "Do real cops make crime scene jokes and are they really followed by a song by the Who? And now, number three on our countdown, TV crime shows myths or truths, extremely prolific murderers. In \"Breaking Bad`s\" first few seasons, Walt White`s body counts soared well into the double digits and Dexter`s? We stopped counting at 30. Do Dexter and Walt even have police in their hometowns? Number two on our countdown \"TV Crime Shows Myths or Truths?\" Crime scene evidence is always found, collected and analyzed quickly.", "There`s something in here.", "In \"CSI\" the technicians can locate crucial clues after only seconds at a crime scene.", "Did you notice the female ghost hunter was missing and earring?", "While back at the lab the fingerprints matches .", "You got prints?", "We have those, partner.", "And complex lab analysis take about as long as it does to get a pizza delivered.", "The (inaudible) results of the tissue reveal fluid loss from damaged blood vessels.", "And speaking of \"CSI\", here is number one on our countdown, \"TV Crime Shows Myths or Truths?\" Forensic labs are modern and well equipped. The gleaming TV crime labs like the one we see on \"CSI\" are certainly very high-tech and sleek. But that`s one of the things we see on TV crime shows all the time. Are they myths or truths? Only the real cops know for sure.", "No need now. The verdict is in.", "Well, fortunately, my guests tonight have worked to crack hundreds of real life criminal cases. They are with us to separate fact from fiction as we count down the top TV crime show myths and truths. With me tonight from Hollywood, Jim Clemente, he is a retired FBI agent, now consultant for CBS`s \"Criminal Minds.\" From Las Vegas, crime scene investigator Yolanda McClary who solves real cold cases on TNT`s \"Cold Justice.\" Yolanda also inspired Marg Helgenberger`s character on \"", "Crime Scene Investigation.\" So great to have you both here. I want to get right to it with one of those classic shoot `em up scenes. Because it really seems that most TV crime shows, they just can`t do without the big gun battles. This one comes from \"", "Miami\".", "Speak!", "Pretty typical on TV. We get the gun toting bad guy really risking it all to battle it out with the law. Yolanda, the first secret we want you to reveal is this: Is it a myth or the truth, do the cops really use their guns as often as we see on these TV crime shows?", "I would say that is a myth. They do not. They would age 20 years every day if their life - if their days actually went like that all the time.", "I was going to say, I had a feeling about that. Because it seems like it`s such a dramatic and traumatic thing, obviously, when guns are pulled and gunfire is exchanged. So, that is good to know. A myth. And it allows us to move on toward our next TV crime show secret. And when are we not seeing this scenario playing out on a TV crime show? A serious crime is going on and somehow humor gets mixed in. This scene is coming from \"Castle\".", "How did it look?", "Like you waited too long.", "OK.", "She was strangled, but she went down with a fight. Prelims suggest the sign of a struggle. She took one to the face.", "A well-dressed attractive woman in a city motel and a guy who flees the crime scene. Gone wrong.", "Are we talking about the victim or Castle?", "OK. Now, listen, sometimes a serious situation, those require a little levity. But Jim, I want you to take this one, because we do see it all the time. Myth or truth? Do real cops make crime scene jokes?", "Absolutely. That`s not a myth at all. Actually, it`s a psychological mechanism that they use to defend themselves from the horrors they have to live with every day. It is very common to have a lot of dark humor in the middle of a crime scene. And it`s actually refreshing to see some of that on TV, because a lot of shows won`t show that.", "Yeah, it does seem a little untoward, but, of course, you should expect that. Again, whenever there is a serious situation like that, people do have those defense mechanisms. Everybody also seems to love the TV serial killer. We the lives of \"Showtime`s\" Dexter, we see \"Breaking Bad`s\" Walt White on AMC. You know, just kind of going about their business almost without a care. So, this myth or truth for you, Yolanda, do most murders go unsolved?", "You know, do most murders? No. I think the ratio to them being solved versus unsolved is definitely higher than your cold cases. But people like Dexter, serial killers, and as we know from the past, we have serial killers that definitely got away with what they did for a while. But they eventually get caught. I don`t think they ever get to the numbers that Dexter has or ever will.", "Fortunately. Fortunately. But yeah, it does seem if you watch and pay attention to only TV crimes and not what goes on in the real world you would think, now, these guys get away with it all the time. But let me move on now to the next secret they would like to know about. It comes from yet another classic cop scene. You know, they walk into the room, right away somebody knows exactly what happened just from looking around. Watch this from \"Criminal Minds\".", "The position of the body suggests he is one of the last ones killed. He tried to escape and almost made it to the exit.", "Jane Bernie and Vinnie and Dave were here.", "Jane tried to run and Vinnie didn`t.", "How do you know?", "She is half under her desk, which means she tried to hide and found her.", "OK. I mean I realize they have to cram it all into a one-hour TV show. But Jim, let me go to you on this as a consultant on \"Criminal Minds.\" Myth or truth here? Are investigators really able to analyze the crime scene that quickly?", "Well in \"Criminal Minds\" case they are talking about crime scene behavior. This is a process called \"crime scene reconstruction.\" It`s not actually the forensic science. That takes days and weeks, sometimes months to do. But the behavior exhibitor at the crime scene you can walk in there, you can see how they got in, how they got out, what the different movements were. It`s very easy for somebody who is very sophisticated and experienced at this to actually tell what is going on. The behaviors that occurred at the crime scene in a very short period of time. So, that`s actually not a myth.", "Really cool to get your perspective on all of this. Both of you, Yolanda and Jim, thank you for separating fact from fiction.", "Thank you.", "And thanks for being here.", "All right, well now that we have busted the myths about TV`s hottest crime shows, I can`t wait to reveal their biggest secrets to you. Get ready, I`m taking you right behind the crime scene tape tonight to reveal just how much real life drama is actually represented in your favorite TV addictions? Like the smoking hot \"Burn Notice.\"", "It`s not a good idea to lie to people with this much gas around.", "What are you doing? You`re going to kill both of us", "Yes, I am! I missed you! Answer my question!", "What a great show. Seven amazing seasons of crime fighting in that show. And tonight, I`m putting the star of \"Burn Notice\" Jeffrey Donovan in the \"SHOWBIZ\" hot seat. He`s got to reveal all is behind the scene`s secrets. This is a special edition of \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT,\" secrets of TV crime shows. And now the secrets of ABC`s \"Castle\".", "I`m wondering if my character`s police buddies might have .", "Well, if you`re hero`s fictional cop buddies are anything like your real cop buddies, then they`d have real work to get back to.", "Seamus Dever and Jon Huertas played detectives on \"Castle\" and I asked them how they make their performances seem so real.", "First, the pilot episode we got to ride along with some homicide detectives from the NYPD, which was great. It was great inside. But now we use kind of, you know, cops that are local and homicide procedures, I think, across the board in most agencies are kind of very, you know, similar and you know, we stick to the procedures as much as we can."], "speaker": ["HAMMER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HAMMER", "HAMMER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HAMMER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HAMMER", "GREG PLAGEMAN, CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, PERSON OF INTEREST", "HAMMER", "CSI\" . 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{"id": "CNN-398874", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2020-04-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/30/se.01.html", "summary": "New Model Projects 72,000+ U.S. Deaths by Early August; Fauci: COVID-19 Vaccine \"Doable\" by January if Things Fall Into Place; Sweden Does Not Require Social Distancing as Death Toll Climbs", "utt": ["Welcome back to our CNN global town hall, the latest coronavirus modeling is showing an increase in the estimated deaths nation wide to just over 72 thousand by early August. Those numbers, which of course are only projections are from the institute of health metrics and valuation at the University of Washington -- they've been cited by the White House coronavirus task force. Dr. Chris Murray is the director of the institute and joins us now. Dr. Murray, thanks for being with us, your newest model increases the predicted number of deaths by thousands. What specifically has made the number take up?", "Well, the number has gone up because we've seen these protracted peaks in some places. It took a while for New York, for example, to come off the peak of this, now fortunately it's on it's way down. We've seen that phenomenon in a number of places, we've seen states adding presumptive deaths to their death counts -- not all states are doing that. So, we're in this sort of funny zone where we've got the confirmed deaths and then some states adding in quite a large number of presumptive deaths where people couldn't get tested before they passed away. And so, we're seeing quite a lot of fluctuation in the numbers that's contributing and remember that our -- the increased numbers there are still assuming what's not going to happen -- namely that people would've kept to social distancing through the end of May. We're working hard to factor in how that's going to bump up the numbers as we expect to see some longer and resurgent epidemics in some states.", "Yes, there's no doubt as people lessen the social distancing the deaths will go up.", "That's certainly what we're expecting to see, we're trying to figure out, because our model's driven in a large part by changes in mobility, so we've traced the changes of the social distancing mandates into changes in mobility and how that translates into fewer deaths, less cases, less transmission. And now coming out of that where we're seeing already some increases in mobility in some of the cell phone data, the question is how quickly will people change their behaviour and how quickly will they go back to having more contact, more contact means more transmission and sadly eventually more death.", "So, just to be clear this increase in numbers then does not account for these re-openings? Because we know that they're coming and some have already come, but you say that numbers have gone up to spite that. So, they're definitely going to go up even more, you're predicting?", "The numbers are up despite that, we are really hard at work trying to translate these changes in the mandates into what that's going to mean. And the reason that's harder than you might think is we know mobility's a driver of transmission, but at the same time we're seeing states ramping up their testing and if the more you test, the more you find infectious individuals or even asymptomatic individuals and get them to isolate, the more you can tamp down transmission. So these two opposing effects and the goods news is the US has doubled testing in the last week, not equally in all states, but we've got to try and figure out how the balance of those two forces will play out, but certainly our numbers are going to go up once we take that all into account.", "When you look at the data, I mean, are the flatter, longer peaks, is that unique to the United States or has that happened around the world?", "You know, it's happening in different places in the world. You know, if you can go to two adjacent places in Italy -- you know, Liguria and Lombardia -- and one of them had a pretty up and down sort of pattern -- you know, the down swing was really quick like Madrid was in Spain. And then, you know, an adjacent region has this long- protracted peak and a very slow decline. And nobody's really come up with a great explanation for who gets the long-protracted peak and who's lucky enough to have the quick decline -- must be related to, at some level to, you know, behavior and social distancing. But we're having a hard time predicting in advance where that's going to happen.", "Many of the models I look at, Dr. Murray, don't extend out a few days or a few weeks. Yours goes to August. I'm curious, how did you pick August? And what are your expectations after that?", "You know, August just started when we started off this effort and we were talking to the hospitals that we were primarily trying to help plan for the surge. And we said, \"So, what time frame do you want some planning numbers for?\"", "I see.", "And the response we got back was, \"Four months.\" That's the way they were thinking about it. So, we said, \"OK, we'll try to -- we'll do forecast out to August.\" We haven't changed that farther going out because there is so much uncertainty about what will seasonality and temperature do to transmission. And then, on the other hand, we're also being asked by a lot of groups to make forecasts of when there may be a resurgence in the fall.", "Right.", "So, we'll get there. We'll come up -- we'll extend our forecast window into the fall, but first priority for us is to really capture what's happening now in the country and the relaxation of social distancing and the warmer weather and how that all plays out as well as the rise in testing.", "Got it.", "You know, it's interesting because we've obviously been talking to you throughout this. And, I mean, I remember when the modeling that -- your projections to August were, I think, like, 61,000. And I feel that was, like, several weeks ago. And correct me if I'm wrong because this is just from memory. And then there was better social distancing in southern states in some of your modeling.", "Yes.", "So, when I saw that, you know, the death toll had actually, basically, you know -- was coming close to what you projected for end of August already -- is that just the longer -- that the peaks had been longer? Is that or is it that social distancing hasn't been followed as much as you had anticipated?", "You know, our approach to forecasting -- I think we've talked about it before, Anderson -- is really very data driven. It's like weather forecasting. So, we're trying to forecast the path of a hurricane. And so, our models adapt to what we're seeing in the data. They're not sort of like a theoretical stand about what we think the epidemic will be. And so, we've seen a number of swings happening. So, we started off at about 80,000 deaths with a wide range -- you know, 35 to about 150,000. And then we saw as you mentioned, that mobility metrics suggested that the south was doing a better job than we originally thought. That brought the numbers down. And then you had this very long-protracted terrible epidemic in New York --", "Yes.", "-- where New York stayed at the peak with you know, thousands of deaths a day at the peak that really racked up the death toll. And we've seen protracted peaks much smaller. But even here in Washington state, we stayed at the peak longer than we expected to see mostly for hospitalizations, a little bit for death. Put all those together, you're getting these changes and then the new thing that's happening on top of that is this presumptive deaths that were missed -", "Yes.", "-- in nursing homes and elder care facilities. So, people are back-reporting. They're sort of rewriting the history by telling us about deaths that the states missed in the past.", "Yes.", "And, you know, our net forecast for the country is the balance of all this new information feeding in on a daily basis.", "Well, Dr. Murray, we appreciate your expertise as always. Thanks so much.", "Happy to be here. Thank you, Anderson.", "Quick reminder, at the bottom of your screen you'll see our social media scroll shows some of the questions that you're sending us. You can tweet us your questions with the hashtag #CNNTownHall or leave a comment on the CNN Facebook page. Back now with Sanjay. And also, I want to bring in a veteran of many of our Town Halls -- Dr. Leana Wen, a visiting professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health, also Baltimore's former Health Commissioner. So, Dr. Wen, with this latest coronavirus modeling showing an increase in the estimated deaths nationwide and as they are going to now incorporate the ending of social distancing, it's likely to go up, does it concern you that so many states are relaxing their orders?", "Yes, it does. I mean, I'm worried for three reasons. One is that the numbers are going up, as you were saying, Anderson. And also, we don't know the true numbers because of under-testing.", "Right.", "Second is we have lack of capabilities. We just don't have the public health infrastructure to do the tracing and quarantining that we need. And third, I'm not sure that the American people are ready for another wave of -- not only resurgence of deaths, but also for another wave of shut downs if necessary. So, I hope that all those who can will continue to shelter in place, stay at home and those who have to go out should take additional precautions like wearing a mask, washing our hands and trying to stay six feet apart, because we can all do our part to continue to protect each other and our loved ones.", "All right. Let's get some viewer questions. Sanjay, Andrew in New Jersey sent in this question which reads \"Why was a vaccine never finished during the original SARS or MERS outbreak?\" And then there is a follow-up about -- well, let's answer that one first.", "Yes. So, they were started, these vaccines were started and some of the techniques that they used for those vaccines are actually being built upon now. But a couple of things, one is that the other outbreak SARS and MERS, because of some of the strategies we've been talking about we were able to make those epidemics, pandemics sort of really sort of fizzle out. So, a vaccine wasn't as necessary and you know, vaccines cost money. So, as things started to die down in regards to those other infections I think the vaccine plans that guys like Peter Hotez were working on just sort of went away.", "And how similar are those diseases to COVID?", "Well, so, the coronavirus is the same thing that caused SARS and MERS, a type of coronavirus. So, that part is similar and some of the techniques to use sort of a genetic vaccine, some of that was started -- some of that knowledge was sort of gained back started with SARS back in 2003. So, able to build on it but each vaccine's still going to be different, each pathogens going to be different.", "Dr. Wen, Alex Miller in Connecticut sent in this video, let's take a look.", "Hi, my name is Alex, I'm 16 years old and I tested positive for COVID-19 two weeks ago. And since then, I have had small painful bumps on my tongue. So, I was wondering if you knew of any other cases for this symptom or any remedies for this symptom? Also, I haven't lost my sense of taste, thank you.", "Dr. Wen.", "Well, as far as I know there is no association that we know of between the bumps on the tongue and COVID-19 although Alex brings up a good point about the loss of smell and taste that even though COVID-19 is a respiratory virus, it is believed to cause these other types of symptoms. So, I would say for Alex specifically about the bumps, if they are causing enough pain and discomfort that he's having trouble eating and drinking he should call his doctor and in the meantime I hope that he recovers well.", "Dr, the CDC actually added new coronavirus symptoms to it's list earlier this week and I want to put them up on the screen just to go over them. It's fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, loss of taste or smell.", "Yes, so what we knew before about the most typical symptoms for COVID-19 were the fever, the cough and shortness of breath. Now it's important that CDC added six more symptoms, because one of the criteria for testing from a lot of places is having these symptoms. So, many of these new symptoms are what you would expect for a viral syndrome -- the chills, the shaking, headache, etcetera, that's what you see for viral syndrome. The one that's different is the loss of smell and taste and again, I think that illustrates that COVID-19 is not just effecting the lungs, it's effecting potentially the nervous system, other parts of the body too and we're learning a lot more as the disease goes on.", "Yes. Sanjay, this next question came in via Twitter with our hash tag CNN Town Hall, it's at the bottom of your screen there reads \"As long as you follow social -- hash tag social distancing, is it OK to continue solo outdoor activities like jogging or running? Any other steps to make sure we're safe as we workout?\"", "Yes. No, I think so, that's the key is whether you're inside or you're outside, you want to maintain that physical distance. That's the key in terms of breaking the transmission, that's what we're trying to do here is break that transmission of spread and hopefully start to make the virus die down like other viruses have.", "I can make a tutorial video on how to watch Netflix safely or stream other movies cause that's about the only activity I've been doing. But you made a video Sanjay that shows us the best way of running safely outside. Let's take a look.", "OK.", "Everybody wants to be outside. I want to be outside, people are going stir-crazy inside and it's OK out here for certain. You also want to run and running's OK, the risk of getting the virus while you're running is really, really low, but it's not zero. So, here's a couple of caveats to keep in mind.", "Same rules apply, you want to maintain a physical distance when you're running, just like when you're inside. We hear six feet, according to Lindsay Marr at Virgina Tech, when you run, maybe you make that closer to 10 feet or 12 feet. Why? You're breathing harder, you may be putting more virus into the air. Avoid people as much as possible, maybe you're going to run at odd times, early morning or late at night. Maybe you're going to run different routes, just to sort of mix it up. And let's say you see someone in front of you a few feet. Lindsay says maybe you switch over to the other side of the road at this point because you do want to avoid someone's as she calls it \"breath cloud\". There's a thing about masks, if you're truly going to be running by yourself, you don't need one. But if there's a chance that you might be sharing a path or a sidewalk with somebody else, then probably have a mask with you. At a minimum, it's a courtesy to let people know that you're taking this seriously and trying to protect them. Keep in mind, if you have any symptoms whatsoever, you should be staying home.", "So, go ahead and do it, I do it, Dr. Fauci does it, it's good for your physical health, I think it's good for your mental health as well.", "So, if you're running near, you know, on a path where there's other people nearby you should you wear a mask?", "I think so, yes. I think if you're truly not going to come in contact with other people and still able to maintain a safe distance, which you heard maybe closer to 10 or 12 feet because you're breathing harder, then I think it's OK not to wear a mask. I carry one with me if people are going to be around, I think it's a courtesy as well, I mean people are frightened, Anderson, so I think it shows that you're taking this seriously.", "Yes. Dr. Wen, this next question came in via Facebook with our hash tag CNN Town Hall, it's there at the bottom of the screen. The question is \"Should we change our clothes after returning home from being in public places like the grocery store?\"", "With the chance of actually acquiring COVID-19 from your clothes that somebody else may have transmitted virus to those chances are very low. But I would say that if you are a heath care worker, if you're somebody who is around a lot of virus potentially at work, then it makes sense to come home, change your clothes, leave your shoes outside. You can still do so out of an abundance of caution, but the chance of actually acquiring COVID-19 that way are very low.", "All right. Sanjay, yes, your go.", "And I tell you one thing I've been doing, I don't know if you've been doing this Leana, at the hospital, I actually change my clothes there now so, I go and change into scrubs and then change back to try and reduce the chance of bringing it home.", "Dr. Wen, Carly in Virginia sent in this video, let's take a look.", "My son was born two weeks ago during a peak week of this crisis and since then we've been quarantining at home. I expect it will be many months before he's held by anyone outside of the family or before he goes to any public places. My question is this, does spending the first few months of life in an ultra-sterile environment have any lasting impact on a child's immune system? Thank you.", "Dr. Wen.", "Well, Carly, I'm in the same boat as you. First of all, congratulations, but I also have a four week old and no-one else has held the four week old other than my immediate family and we're certainly not planning to go to any public places. Look, I wouldn't worry about lack of exposure for now, because actually for newborns they have such limited immunity anyway and we wouldn't want to expose the baby to all kinds of other germs anyway. And this outbreak is going to be over at some point and we will be able to see people again and in the meantime, I would say you can also boost the baby's immunity by breastfeeding if you can, doing a lot of skin-to-skin contact and just enjoying the baby.", "All right. Sanjay, Eric in New York sent in this video, let's take a look.", "Is it appropriate to compare the infection fatality rate of COVID-19 to the infection fatality rate of the seasonal flu when we have a flu vaccine? What would the infection fatality rate approximately be for the seasonal flu if we had no vaccine?", "Sanjay.", "That's a really good question and a good point. I mean, what we say is that the fatality rate for those who get infected with the seasonal flu is around point one percent. Now keep in mind though, keep aside the vaccine for a second, because we all have lived on this planet, we all have some immunity to this seasonal flu because there's some variation of the flu changes a bit every year, but we do develop some immunity. And because a lot of people have been exposed, we start to develop some herd immunity to the seasonal flu as well, so those things help us. Then you layer on top of that the vaccine, so again -- but the fatality rate to the question, which is a good question is point one percent for those infected, so in this country, if 30 million people become infected with the seasonal flu which is not that atypical that means 30 thousand people roughly would die of that. So that's -- I think that's the way to sort of think about it.", "All right, Sanjay. Dr. Leana Wen, thank you so much as always. Sanjay, stay with us. Up next, Bill Gates shares his thoughts on testing vaccines and how we successfully reopen the country. 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{"id": "CNN-294772", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-09-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/23/es.04.html", "summary": "Clinton Stares Down Galifianakis On \"Between Two Ferns\"", "utt": ["Donald Trump says he may visit Charlotte after Monday night's big debate with Hillary Clinton. Yes, there is a debate in three days --", "What?", "-- and it is big.", "I hadn't heard.", "It is big. Trump is calling for a national anti-crime agenda, but claiming violent protests are making America \"look bad to the world\". On Thursday, he ramped up his tough law and order message at a rally in Pennsylvania. Joining us this morning to talk Trump and Clinton, \"CNN POLITICS DIGITAL\" reporter Tal Kopan, live in Washington. Good morning. And, you know, it was just a few days ago we were talking about how this bomber in New York and New Jersey -- this suspected bomber -- how that was going to influence the tone of the race and direction of the race. But now it has completely shifted and we're talking about law and order, we're talking about communities and police distrust, we're talking about racism and opportunity in America, and that will clearly be front and center, I think, on Monday, won't it?", "Yes, absolutely. You know, presidential elections always tap into the sort of feelings of the electorate, right? You know, when the economy is suffering it's all economic. And when you have major events like we've seen, whether it be terrorism or these really unfortunate incidents with the police shootings and protests that have followed, that is what people are talking about and that is what people are feeling. And if presidential candidates don't respond to that I don't really know what the point is. So, of course, this is going to be front and center during the debate. It depends on how the moderator handles it. But we've seen it sort of dominate the conversation from the candidates on the trail in recent days and so I expect it to be front and center, for sure.", "So both candidates off the trail today. Both candidates doing debate prep including Donald Trump, by the way. You know, for the last several weeks Trump advisors would have you thinking this debate prep thing, we don't need to do it. We're having cheeseburgers at golf clubs instead of rehearsing questions here. They're both off the trail. They're both getting ready for this thing. In the Clinton campaign they would have you believe that it's very hard for them because we don't know what kind of Donald Trump we're going to get. And they point to pictures like this from past Donald Trump debates. Let's watch.", "Most of the people on the stage I've given to, just so you understand. A lot of money. First of all, Rand Paul shouldn't even be on this stage. You get along with nobody. Excuse me one second.", "No.", "I didn't want to forget --", "The simple fact is, Donald, you cannot take --", "More energy tonight. I like that.", "No.", "He referred to my hands. If they're small, something else must be small. I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee it.", "I'd almost erased that from my memory, that last one.", "Yes, here's betting -- here's betting that line doesn't come up at the debate on Monday night. But, Tal, how are both sides working the refs here? I mean, it really does seem like we're full into the expectations game and more than expectations. Both sides talking about what they need from the moderator. The moderator -- he needs to be aggressive to check the facts or not, depending on who you listen to.", "Yes, absolutely. I mean, this is gamesmanship. The debate doesn't start and end only on the debate stage. There's an expectations game you set. The Clinton campaign really wants to sort of go out there and say expectations are low for Donald Trump, don't let him off easy. They're trying to make it seem like he needs to be held to a higher bar. And then, of course, the Trump campaign is saying Clinton should be wiping the floor with them. She's an experienced debater. But, you know, Donald Trump's pretty good, too. I mean, watching those folks. Remember the primaries? Those were some debates to watch. You never really knew what to expect. So it's not just about what they say on the stage. They're trying to set the ground for themselves to succeed. And, yes, they're trying to influence the moderators and what those moderators might feel comfortable asking. It's all part of the game.", "You know, Hillary Clinton also trying to go after that coveted millennial vote -- the kids these days -- and whether they're going to vote for her. She was on with Zach Galifianakis \"BETWEEN TWO FERNS\". Can we listen to a little bit of this? Do we have a little bit we can listen to?", "First, you supported Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership deal and then you were against it. I think that people deserve to know, are you down with TPP?", "I'm not down with", "No, you're supposed to say yes, you know me, like the hip-hop group.", "Don't tell me what to say.", "I guess, you know, millennials or Gen Xers is what this is going for here. But as our resident millennial expert and political guru, does this -- does this do well for her?", "Well, you know, it's about humanizing her, to a certain extent, and also showing that she can be in on the joke, right? If you've watched \"BETWEEN TWO FERNS\" before, Zach Galifianakis is sort of out there and ridiculous and then it's up to the guest to sort of deadpan and play the straight sort of sidekick, and so she delivered. She did her role within that sketch. And we actually had some reporting that this was her idea. So the idea behind it is to show that she can be human, she can be in on the joke, she can be relaxed, and sort of cut through some of the negative noise that might be out there and speak directly to those people watching viral videos. So, in some ways it was probably effective in that regard. I don't know if it like wiped everything off the map in terms of the millennial vote but it was certainly effective.", "All right, Tal, great to have you with us. Thanks so much.", "Thank you.", "All right, somewhere Steve Grogan is smiling as the Patriots third-string rookie quarterback --", "You have no idea what that means.", "-- comes up with his first NFL start -- John, I can read the prompter and make it appear that I know what I'm talking about. Details in the Bleacher Report, next.", "Do you make conference calls? Today, companies are using virtual hubs to get everyone on the same page. Vanessa Yurkevich looks at how Boeing uses technology to spur collaboration and design.", "It takes five to 10 years to take an airplane from the drawing toward the runway, and every year on an assembly line is another year manufacturers aren't getting a return on their investment. So companies like Boeing are speeding up that process right from the beginning by cutting the design time.", "The complexities are only going higher and higher because the demands of the customers are also getting higher and higher. They want to be able to do a lot more with their airplanes for a lot less. Let's start with Spain. Go ahead, Ramon, introduce yourself, please.", "Boeing has 11 different design centers, hundreds of different offices around the world and almost 20,000 suppliers who make everything from engines to seats to software. To get everyone on the same page, Boeing created the Casa Lab in Huntsville, Alabama.", "We deal with a lot of data. We've been able to put in place the computing infrastructure to be able to deal with that.", "So, I'll take it from here, Andrew.", "And you will see the handoff of the design between the different sites, which is the power of collaboration.", "It can cost $400 million just to develop one plane. Researchers are hoping better collaboration can reduce that cost.", "Designs used to be done in what I would refer to as silos. You don't want that system of marking up a design and saying here's my input, and passing it on to the next person. If there is an error in it and it's not caught, it keeps getting passed on. And you don't discover that you have a problem until you start to build the thing.", "The power of being together virtually allows us to be a lot more productive, but also be able to come up with solutions much faster."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "TAL KOPAN, REPORTER, \"CNN POLITICS DIGITAL\"", "BERMAN", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "GOV. JEB BUSH (R-FL), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "TRUMP", "BUSH", "TRUMP", "BUSH", "TRUMP", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "KOPAN", "ROMANS", "ZACH GALIFIANAKIS, HOST, \"BETWEEN TWO FERNS WITH ZACH GALIFIANKIS\"", "HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "TPP. GALIFIANAKIS", "CLINTON", "ROMANS", "KOPAN", "BERMAN", "KOPAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "VANESSA YURKEVICH, DIGITAL CORRESPONDENT, \"CNNMONEY\" (voice-over)", "HAMSEL ADAM, BOEING EMPLOYEE", "YURKEVICH", "ADAM", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ADAM", "YURKEVICH", "ADAM", "ADAM"]}
{"id": "CNN-267876", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2015-10-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/29/ampr.01.html", "summary": "China's One-Child Policy Shift; Imagine a World.", "utt": ["Tonight: China abolishes its controversial one-child policy. The rising power needs to grow its workforce. And the IMF chief, Christine Lagarde, joins me for an exclusive interview on that and how women are key to igniting global growth.", "It's a moral issue. It's an equality issue. It's a human right issue. But if none of that is convincing people, bottom line, it makes economic sense.", "Also ahead: a new political era in Poland. What a sharp swing to the right means for that country and for Europe. The former Polish foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, joins us live.", "Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. I'm Christiane Amanpour. It is now legal to have a sibling in China. For the first time in four decades the Chinese government will allow couples to have more than one child but no more than two.", "It's widely seen as a reaction to a rapidly aging population and a slowing economy. And the problem isn't China's alone.", "Europe is still struggling to recover from the crash nearly eight years ago. And the United States reported today that its economy grew only 1.5 percent, down from 4.3 percent the same quarter last year. So what is to be done? The answer may lie with women. In a landmark report, the International Monetary Fund says that as gender equality increases, so does GDP and income inequality goes down. The person leading the charge is, of course, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF. And she joined me for an exclusive interview from headquarters in Washington to discuss this.", "Christine Lagarde, welcome back to our program.", "Thank you, Christiane.", "There was an incredible announcement today that captured the world's attention. China has officially now said that people can have more than one child, a two-child policy. Apart from the social dynamic, what do you think it might mean for China's economy? Do you think it was done with an eye to spurring the economy?", "It's indeed a big news. And it's probably related to both family life issues but also the economy. It's clear that, with an aging population, with entitlement issues that are on the horizon, it is certainly, from a demographic point of view, a good move for China to head in that direction of a second child being legitimate and actually authorized, yes.", "What do you think it can actually do? And is the time lag between when these second children become into the working force, is it actually going to make an impact that is useful soon?", "Well, the impact is, of course, a generation away because, for the actual impact on the workforce, will take time, will take the making, the raising and the education. But it becomes then part of the horizon. It becomes part of what people expect. And it changes the perspective. So I think the impact will begin to -- I don't know whether it will be visible. But it will have a short-term impact in people's expectations, in how they forecast their future and how they see themselves and their families going forward. And it will, of course, have a direct impact a few years down the road.", "How do you assess China's economy right now today?", "We had a forecast of 6.8 percent for 2015, down to a bit less than that in 2016. So we see a very large economy which is undergoing massive transitions. One, it's going from being predominantly manufacturing to being much more into services, from being very export driven to being much more domestically focused, from being very control-and-command when it came to the --", "-- monetary policy and the currency variations. It's now moving into the direction of much more market-driven principles. So those transitions are huge. And it's now, I think, expected by the authorities that the growth rate is going to slowly moderate over the course of the next few years as a result of those transitions.", "You, the IMF, has just come out with, I don't know, perhaps an unusual report, one that talks about gender equality and income inequality. Why have you put out that report? What is it saying about gender and inequality in the world today?", "As far as gender is concerned, we are -- this is now our third report that we published on the topic. And the first finding really is that reducing gender inequality is actually good for growth. And it's good for growth in countries like the United States, like Japan, like India, like Saudi Arabia. There are many instances where, actually, if the gender gap was closed, the GDP would increase by a significant amount, 5 percentage in the U.S., 27 percentage in India. That's finding number one. Finding number two, not only is it good for growth but it is good for reducing excessive inequality. So if you really close the inequality gap between men and women, you reduce, by the same token, the inequality in society. And that matters as well for growth because we really have now done some solid research that demonstrates that excessive inequality is not conducive to sustainable growth. So if you want to start attacking those issues of growth being too slow, fragile, uneven, not sustainable, you have to attack at the root of the issue. One of those roots is the gender inequality.", "It's been a very difficult nut to crack, despite all the facts and figures that you put forth, not just now but in your previous reports and the common sense notion of this, it's still a difficult nut to crack. And there are all sorts of movements now to call for transparency in salaries, for instance. The British prime minister has called for all major companies to publish salaries and to, therefore, judge the disparity between men and women for equal jobs. We've also got a landmark achievement that's been announced today, the top FTSE companies now -- there are no more all male boards. They've achieved a target of 25 percent of women on boards and they want to extend that to 35 percent in the next five years. Is there a tipping point, a momentum, is it? Are people beginning to realize that actually it's all about the money, the dollars that will make the world grow faster and better if women are fully included?", "You know, whatever it takes. I'm tempted to borrow from Draghi. I think it's a moral issue. It's an equality issue. It's a human right issue. But if none of that is convincing people, bottom line, it makes economic sense. And if people are concerned about growth, are concerned about jobs, then it's a good idea to have transparency of salaries and to identify who is paying what to whom and what is the gap between compensation at equal jobs and equal qualifications. So good of Prime Minister Cameron to ask for that transparency. And as far as board compositions, I think it's excellent to actually have quotas, targets. And as soon as those quotas and targets are reached, to revisit and to increase. As I said, there is now empirical evidence of the fact that women contribute both in terms of growth, in terms of reducing excessive inequality and in terms of stability. We are seeing a lot of studies concerning the financial stability of companies, the success, which is clearly correlated to membership of women on the boards.", "Do you think you are being paid the same salary as your male predecessors?", "Oh, I specifically ask for that. And in any job that I took after a boy, I always asked to be paid the same or more.", "Yes, indeed. Excellent. That's a great example. Can I just move on to the COP 21 summit on the environment that's coming up? Do you call, like the World Bank, for a carbon tax?", "Well, the Paris summit is taking place in a few weeks now. The easiest way to deal with it, the less controversial, is a carbon tax, which can be budget neutral. Now we had controversies about it because some countries said, well, all well and done. But if we do that at home and nobody else does it, it's an issue. Granted. But even if a country, isolated as it could be does it, it will bring benefit because the indirect consequences of carbon and proliferation of carbon are costly for a particular country, irrespective of what the others do. Better to have a corrective approach. Better to have a minimum floor for the price of a ton of CO2 emission, for instance. And then we can talk about other emissions down the road. But there is a path. It's available. And it can be budget neutral. So I think that those are pretty important facts.", "Christine Lagarde, thank you very much. Just as we say goodbye, your term is coming up as managing director. You've said you're open to a second term. Will you go for it?", "It's for the membership to decide. And if they think that I can continue to do a decent job, I would certainly be prepared to consider.", "Wonderful. Thank you so much for joining us tonight.", "And so while Christine Lagarde and others try to create an equal playing field for women, women in Iran can't even get near it.", "Since 2012, Iranian women have been forbidden to even enter stadiums where men's volleyball is played. Now Watch for Women, which is a campaign just launched by Human Rights Watch to end this ban, is pressuring volleyball's ruling body to ban Iran from hosting the world championship until women are allowed to watch the games.", "And after a break, the hardliners in the West where anti- refugee fervor is pushing an entire continent to the Right, I speak to the former foreign minister of Poland about the seismic shift in Polish politics. That's next."], "speaker": ["CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST (voice-over)", "CHRISTINE LAGARDE, MANAGING DIRECTOR, IMF", "AMANPOUR (voice-over)", "AMANPOUR", "AMANPOUR (voice-over)", "AMANPOUR", "AMANPOUR", "LAGARDE", "AMANPOUR", "LAGARDE", "AMANPOUR", "LAGARDE", "AMANPOUR", "LAGARDE", "LAGARDE", "AMANPOUR", "LAGARDE", "AMANPOUR", "LAGARDE", "AMANPOUR", "LAGARDE", "AMANPOUR", "LAGARDE", "AMANPOUR", "LAGARDE", "AMANPOUR", "AMANPOUR", "AMANPOUR (voice-over)", "AMANPOUR"]}
{"id": "CNN-257913", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2015-06-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/22/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Greek Stocks Surge on Day of Hope", "utt": ["Finland's finance minister says there has been no progress made toward securing a deal with Greece. Now that's his interpretation. He still said that the glass was half full, but listen to this. Alexis Stubb says Greece had five months and now they've left it to just five days and he's not really keen on the proposals that are on the table right now. Now going into Monday's meetings in Brussels, he did struck - strike - one of the most pessimistic tones yet. Take a listen.", "I mean we have an inkling of what Greece has been looking for. But as I said, you know, there seems to be a little bit of a Monday when we have wasted a lot of air miles both on the finance ministers' side and on the prime ministers' side because I don't foresee a breakthrough today.", "A little bit of travel fatigue there and blaming Greece for it. Now after the meeting, Mr. Stubb spoke to me on the phone from Helsinki and I asked him what needs to happen for him to see progress.", "Oh I'm usually an optimist and I guess the assessment is the glass half full or half empty. I think progress has been made in the sense that we finally have a proposal from the Greeks. It took five months and now we have five days to deal with it. That's the progress. But to be quite honest, it needs to be verified and identified by the European institutions, namely the European Central Bank, the", "That goes counter to some people who are saying, look, they're going to bend on early retirement - that's going to happen, they're going to extend the VAT. Are these not good enough? Are they not enough yet to get to deal?", "I think what's good enough is what was agreed on in the memorandum of understanding on the 20th of February. They have things that have to do with structural reform, say pensions or labor markets, they have to do with VATs, they have to do with corporate rate taxes, they have to do with tax collection. And we'll just have to look at the overall package and the details. At the end of the day, this is about debt sustainability and about the credibility of both the Greek economy and the Euro area.", "In terms of the proposals that are there now, if you had to put something on it, are they halfway to where you want them to be, are they three-quarters of the way?", "Well, to be quite honest that's why we have professionals making the assessment. The IMF, the ECB and the European Commission. We the politicians then listen to what the institutions and the economists have to say and make our final assessment. So in that sense I can't tell you whether the glass is half empty or half full at this stage.", "You sound annoyed. You said we had an agreement five months ago, they're now giving us five days on a wholly new agreement? You sound more than a bit annoyed.", "No, I'm not annoyed. I mean, at the end of the day, we all have to find a deal. It's just a matter of fact that thing have taken quite a long time and we're pushing this to wire. We could have done this I think much earlier had we stuck to all the agreements that were made on the 20th of February.", "Now Greek stocks, despite what the Finnish finance minister just said, they surge on the day in hope of that possible deal and there was plenty of emotion playing out as you can see from this one-day chart. I mean, what a rollercoaster on that Greek stock exchange. The benchmark utire (ph) at the open, and back down and then finally rested at a nice tidy gain of 9 percent. Now this was interesting - Greece's four largest banks closed up about 20 percent higher, Piraeus up 21 percent, Alpha 24, National Bank of Greece up more than 20 percent and Eurobank up 19 percent. It has to say - these are among the most battered stocks in Greece right now and I think people were betting, look, they've got the liquidity, they can do this, they will be a good bet going forward. Now Thanos Vamvakidis is the head the European G10 Foreign Exchange Strategy for the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global and he's here with me in London. I can only imagine what it was like for you on the sidelines today. I mean, with everything that we're hearing, we have concrete proposals on the table from Greece. Do you think this deal can be done? Markets seem to already be saying yes.", "Well clearly it was a step in the right direction. The markets were actually surprised to see how far the Greek government went with these proposals. However, we are not out of the woods yet. The proposals need to be evaluated by the technical teams, and more important is that these proposals by the Greek government are conditional on debt relief. This is extremely important -- in order for the Greek government to be able to approve these proposals which are unpopular measures in the Parliament. Everything has to be discussed in the next few days, time is very, very short and even if everything goes right, it might not be enough time to disburse money to Greece before their payment to the IMF that is due on June 30th. So a lot of challenges still ahead.", "That's a technical default -", "Yes.", "-- if that happened.", "That's true. There is flexibility. Although Ms. Lagarde has indicated that if", "Thanos, I have to ask you. You know, many people today - commentators - have said look, this is not going to be the last Greek crisis we are going to have even if there is a deal by the end of the week. In your opinion, what does Greece really have to do in order to return to any kind of growth scenario? Because that's really what they have to do no matter what kind of a deal they get.", "There are three basic things. Greece needs economic reforms, structural reforms to increase the growth potential of their economy. The Europeans need to put together a plan that addresses Grexit", "And very quickly I'm just going to lean on you for a minute -", "This is actually the big question. It will help a lot if he gets something on debt relief, but this is a key risk.", "OK, thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "Appreciate you being here this evening. Now, call it a case of swift justice. 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{"id": "NPR-28206", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2013-12-03", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=248568479", "title": "For First Time, Americans Say U.S. Power In The World Is Declining", "summary": "For the first time in 40 years, a majority of Americans say that the U.S. plays a less important and powerful role as a world leader than it did a decade ago, according to Pew's America's Place in the World poll. The Pew poll also finds that more Americans disapprove than approve of President Obama's handling of foreign policy. Robert Siegel talks about the poll results with Michael Dimock, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, to make sense of what the results might mean.", "utt": ["Americans see U.S. power in the world declining. That is the key finding of a survey by the Pew Research Center. It also finds that most Americans think the U.S. should be engaged in the global economy, but ought to concentrate on solving domestic problems. Michael Dimock is here to talk about this poll. He's the director of the Pew Research Center. Good to see you again.", "Hi, Robert.", "And first, how many Americans say the U.S. role is declining and how significant a number is that?", "Well, it's 53 percent, so just over half feel like America is less important and powerful in the world than it was 10 years ago. That's the highest we've seen in over 40 years on this question, a real sense that America's role is less powerful and the respect for the U.S. has declined as well.", "Now, 10 years ago, the U.S. was the leader of a multinational assault on al-Qaida and just getting into a war with Iraq. Is one message here, please, no more Iraqs, take care of things at home?", "Yes, definitely. There's a corollary with this, is a sense of hesitance among the American public, at least, if not resistance, to foreign engagements, both military and even diplomatic or other roles the U.S. can play geopolitically, a sense from the public that we should be focusing on the issues at home, both economic and political, more so than engaging with the rest of the world.", "But you note, people draw a distinction between global leadership and participation in the world economy. You said that this means we're not seeing evidence of a broad isolationism among Americans.", "Absolutely. Isolationism is far too strong of a word and too blunt of a word for where the American public stands right now because they see much more opportunity than risk when it comes to economic engagement. They think that participating in the economy is going to bring more good to the U.S. It'll grow our economy.", "The highest numbers we've seen, in terms of support for international trade and closer ties between businesses in the U.S. and elsewhere, a real sense that the way we get out of this economic problem is not through retraction or protectionism, but engagement.", "But people have very different views in this survey of foreign companies coming to the U.S. and presumably hiring Americans and American companies going abroad and outsourcing jobs.", "That's right. That's right. I mean engaging economically is not without risks, to be sure, and jobs are a high concern for Americans. One of the highest foreign policy priorities they have is protecting American jobs. And they do see U.S. companies setting up operations overseas as problematic because it does potentially risk U.S. jobs.", "Place this poll in time with respect to U.S. moves with regard to Syria and Iran recently.", "Yeah. I mean Syria was a real nadir for Barack Obama's foreign policy. He came into office with actually very strong public support for his foreign policy agenda. Syria has been a real problem. It was a sense of weak leadership, a sense that it's really damaged America's role. From the public's perspective, there was never any interest in active military engagement, and once that was on the table, the public got very hesitant to get involved with Syria.", "But even though that was averted in the end, the public looks back on that event in a very negative light.", "And Iran?", "Iran continues to be seen as a big threat. People are concerned about Iran's nuclear program, but diplomacy is far preferable to other approaches that could be taken here, and while people may not be terribly optimistic that we're going to solve the issue within the next few months, they do want to support these engagements.", "One basic message here, though, for somebody who would be facing the public on foreign policy is anti-interventionism is a strong stream in American thought right now.", "It really is. Any way that the U.S. is trying to inject itself into the affairs of other parts of the world are viewed with a lot of skepticism right now and it reflects not just war fatigue, but there's a broad sense among the American public right now that our efforts to affect policy in other parts of the world often either do little good or in fact may do more harm than good. And that's a big part of why they're so hesitant right now.", "Michael Dimock, thanks for talking with us about today's poll.", "Thank you.", "Michael Dimock is the director of the Pew Research Center."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "MICHAEL DIMOCK", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "MICHAEL DIMOCK", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "MICHAEL DIMOCK", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "MICHAEL DIMOCK", "MICHAEL DIMOCK", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "MICHAEL DIMOCK", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "MICHAEL DIMOCK", "MICHAEL DIMOCK", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "MICHAEL DIMOCK", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "MICHAEL DIMOCK", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "MICHAEL DIMOCK", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-214068", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-9-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/06/cnr.10.html", "summary": "Momentum on Syria Shifting Against President in Congress", "utt": ["I know that you have been following the political fallout from the president's plan to possibly strike Syria. You know that earlier this week the word from a lot of political types was that Obama was looking good to get Congress on board to authorize this plan. Some of the Republican party's heaviest hitter, House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor had offered up support for the president, but it appears now momentum is shifting against the president. Jake Tapper, chief Washington correspondent, anchor of \"THE LEAD,\" Tuesday is a big day. How does that momentum swing back for the president?", "Well, it's -- according to one House Democrat with whom I spoke, the plan has been, in his words, \"a smart plan of multiple touches that build up over time,\" individuals reaching out to a number of key undecided members of the House and Senate, Vice President Biden, Ambassador Rice, Ambassador Power, reaching out to these individual members. The issue right now, this House Democrat said, is that members are still in their districts and proximity is key, proximity to the White House, proximity to each other, proximity to leaders. The clock actually starts ticking, this Democrat said, 6:30 p.m., Monday. That's when Congress reconvenes, and that is when the real hard sell will begin. But I agree with you, Brooke. The momentum has completely shifted against action in Syria.", "Jake Tapper, we'll be watching you, top of the hour, on \"THE LEAD,\" lots to talk about here as next week is a big, big week for Congress and the president. Coming up here, Ashton Kutcher, pretty excited about this video you're about to see next. You are watching a test flight for a commercial spacecraft. Kutcher has signed up for the flight. Many others are as well. The flights could be ready to take paying customers, if you've got the change, into space next year. That's coming up."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "NPR-4642", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2014-06-01", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/06/01/317843622/new-orleans-closes-its-last-traditional-schools", "title": "New Orleans Closes Its Last Traditional Schools", "summary": "Last week, the New Orleans school district became the first all-charter district in the country. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Sarah Carr, a reporter who's been following the city's changing schools.", "utt": ["In New Orleans, school is out for the summer. But in the city's largest school district, the last traditional public schools have closed their doors permanently, making this the first all-charter district in the country. This transition started after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city in 2005.", "At the time, most of the public schools were absorbed into the recovery school district. Gradually, those public schools have turned into public charters.", "Sarah Carr covers education in New Orleans for the Hechinger Report. We asked her how public charters are different than the public schools they replaced.", "Basically, the principals have a lot more independence and autonomy to run the schools as they see fit. They really have carte blanche to hire and to fire and decide with the curriculum will be and how the money will be spent. So in a lot of ways, they're sort of public-private hybrids, in that they're publicly funded, but they're somewhat more privately run.", "And the idea is also to have sort of a choice landscape where parents can pick from this array of charter schools. And that's where - I think, that there is still a ways to go, in terms of empowering low income families, in particular, to really be able to navigate this new landscape well.", "What do you mean by that? Where are families getting lost in the system?", "It's much better than it was five or six years ago. Then, you might have had, you know, 50 different application and admission processes across the schools. And that really favored the families with the time, with the transportation, with the means, with the connections to navigate those different admissions processes. They do now have a common application process that nearly all of the schools participate in. And I think that has leveled the playing field, to some extent.", "But I think you've seen this cycle of sort of schools opening and closing when they don't meet tests score bars. And I think it's, oftentimes, the most vulnerable families that are sort of shuffled from one school that's closing to another that's going to close and don't really have stability, in terms of schooling at this point in the city.", "So if this change likely to bring more stability to this district?", "That remains to be seen. I think the theory is that it is going to be a very Darwinian type of structure, where the strong schools survive and the weaker ones are closed down. And I definitely would not want to see schools that don't serve children well staying open in the long run.", "But there also has to be attention paid to - if you're going to close a school, is there a better option that we can send those kids to? And are we really giving the families the tools that they need to make the best decisions for their kids?", "Is there a way to measure whether or not students are thriving? Are they performing better in charter schools?", "Overall, the test scores have gone up considerably. Before Katrina, there were less than half of the city's public school students who were meeting the basic level on the state's standardized tests. And now you have close to two-thirds meeting that level.", "But I really think we need to watch what happens moving forward, because a lot of the charter schools are still pretty young and are graduating their first students. And whether or not they're producing students who are going to go on and thrive in college remains to be seen.", "And Sarah, I understand you've been talking to students about how this transition in this particular district has affected them. Could you share with us a little bit about what they had to say? What perhaps surprised you when you had these conversations?", "Sure. One of the things that was surprising to me was just the diversity of viewpoints. I mean, you had one student arguing that Teach for America has really been fundamental to the success of the schools post-Katrina. And you had another who was lamenting the firing of thousands of veteran black educators and who was saying that a lot of the young white teachers who come to the city are unable to connect with students.", "Sarah Carr is an education reporter for the Hechinger Report. She's also the author of the book \"Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City And The Struggle To Educate America's Children.\" Thanks so much for talking with us, Sarah.", "Thanks for having me on."], "speaker": ["RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SARAH CARR", "SARAH CARR", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SARAH CARR", "SARAH CARR", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SARAH CARR", "SARAH CARR", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SARAH CARR", "SARAH CARR", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SARAH CARR", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SARAH CARR"]}
{"id": "CNN-209464", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2013-6-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/24/nday.01.html", "summary": "Nik Wallenda Completes Canyon Walk", "utt": ["That guy.", "We're talking about. Welcome back to NEW DAY. Last night, this pretty extraordinary feat. Take a look at this. This is high wire walker Nik Wallenda pushing himself to the limit, walking across the Grand Canyon and doing it with no safety harness. Our Miguel Marquez is live in Arizona with more. It makes you dizzy just looking at it. Hey there, Miguel.", "Oh, my goodness. We're east of the Grand Canyon in the Little River Gorge, Navajo Nation -- whatever you call it, death defying, stomach churning, hair raising -- it was scary.", "Shoes feel slippery. There's dust on the cable.", "It didn't start well.", "Need to relax more. Hard to relax 1,500 feet above the canyon.", "Twenty-two minutes and 54 seconds of death-defying, vertigo- inducing thrill.", "That's a view there, buddy.", "A two-inch cable stretching a quarter mile across the little Colorado River.", "I'm not liking it.", "The most hair-raising part of the Discovery Channel- sponsored feat --", "Lord, help this cable to calm down.", "When the seventh-generation daredevil's balance pole began swinging, teetering higher and higher.", "The winds are way worse than I expected.", "Was he losing control.", "You'll have to tell me how long I'm on the wire.", "Twice, he stopped, kneeling to regain his composure and steady the wire quivering under his feet.", "We're just a long way down.", "Over hell hole bend and without a tether or safety harness, the 34-year-old thrill seeker sounding more like a preacher.", "Thank you, Lord.", "The feat finished. Wallenda says it was his faith that kept him focus as he battled the winds and dusty conditions.", "It took every bit of me to stay focus that entire time. My arms are aching like you wouldn't believe.", "You make nervous into focus, is that how you --", "Yes. I mean, once it's time to go, it's time to go. After the first step, there's no turning back.", "Life on a wire, cheating death one more day.", "On a scale, one to ten, what he did tonight was unbelievable. I mean, I'd give it a ten.", "For the finale, Nik Wallenda ran to the finish.", "Now, he actually said, if you're keeping count, he said the word Jesus 61 times during his little walk across the gorge there, and his next feat, he's already lining it up. It's going to be in New York City, two skyscrapers and then walking across those. Crazy. Back to you guys.", "You should have heard everyone here. Everyone was ooh, aah.", "Sixty-one times, that's nothing. I would have been saying Jesus 60 times a minute.", "He says who else is he going to talk to while he's up there?", "Praying everybody at anything.", "No one better to talk to when you're going to keep your composure.", "He was wearing jeans. I don't know if I thought he was going to wear some daredevil like unitard or something.", "I asked him that when I interviewed him. He said, what am I supposed to wear? He wears whatever is comfortable. It's all about for him the moccasins. His mother makes special moccasins.", "Did you have those on when you did your thing?", "No, I did not have those on. Maybe not especially --", "We see you doing it again?", "I don't even think need them. I was two feet off the ground.", "Come on, watch Kate. Kate right now is 1,800 feet above the ground.", "This is me above the Grand Canyon or 30 feet up, 30 feet up is scary enough. And I not if I ever would --", "Did you look down?", "I look down and he actually said he does look down. He takes time to enjoy the view that nobody else gets to see.", "Is this true that you told him using the balance pole makes it weak and soft --", "No, I did not say that. But I did say, does it at least built up your biceps, when you do workout in there while you're up there?", "Got a two for going?", "Congratulations, Nik. We're glad you made it to the other side.", "Boy, oh, boy. Twenty-three minutes after the hour. That means it's money time. Christine Romans is here with all the business news you need to know. I assigned you a time, and you must be here.", "I know. I'm telling you, it's scary, just like Nik Wallenda was, looking at the stock market, right? I mean, it's kind of a rough week last week. Stock futures weaker this morning following last week's selloff. The Dow, NASDAQ, S&P; each fell 2 percent after Ben Bernanke signaled an end to the Fed's stimulus program. And this morning, China's main stock index plunging 5 percent today. Lowest close there since 2009. Worries in China, you guys, about a credit squeeze. So we're really watching China and its problems right now to see how that's going to reverberate for us. Futures are lower. > And earlier today -- Michaela said it's a two cup of coffee morning. Starting tomorrow you're going to pay more for your Starbucks latte, my dear.", "How much more?", "Yes, 1 percent. The price tag is going to affect brewed coffee, tea, latte, and espresso drinks.", "Everything.", "Yes, except for maybe the cake pops. Starbucks blames rising rent, labor, and material costs. You're going to pay more.", "And the desire to make profits.", "And money, of course. Making money. And the wait is over. Twinkies and Hostess cupcakes returning to store shelves July 15th. Our national nightmare has ended. There will reportedly be a new tag line, I love this one, the sweetest comeback in the history of ever. The recipes have been tweaked. Cupcakes are going to be made with dark cocoa instead of milk chocolate. Hostess filed for bankruptcy last year, but was bought by a private equity firm, and they're taking the most famous brands and bringing them back. We'll see how they do.", "We might giggle this morning. People were furious. They were buying them off the shelves. Are you people?", "I'm people.", "When was the last time you bought a Twinkie?", "First of all, I had at least three boxes in the house when we found out they were going away. I had friends sending them to me as gifts. I thought they were delicious. And I don't understand why do they have to make new ones? Don't they have a half life of like 100 years?", "There's still one in your stomach digesting.", "All Twinkies right here.", "Nice. You want a Twinkie with your coffee, it's going to be more expensive.", "Thank you, Christine.", "You're welcome.", "All right. Still ahead, we're talking to the Taliban. How critical peace talks could determine the fate of the only known American prisoner of war in Afghanistan. A huge story we've been following since last week.", "Plus, El Ray (ph). LeBron James talks about life after his NBA finals win. An exclusive conversation only here on NEW DAY with Rachel Nichols. Stick around. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["PEREIRA", "BOLDUAN", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "NIK WALLENDA, DAREDEVIL", "MARQUEZ (voice-over)", "WALLENDA", "MARQUEZ", "WALLENDA", "MARQUEZ", "WALLENDA", "MARQUEZ", "WALLENDA", "MARQUEZ", "WALLENDA", "MARQUEZ", "WALLENDA", "MARQUEZ", "WALLENDA", "MARQUEZ", "WALLENDA", "MARQUEZ", "WALLENDA", "BOLDUAN", "WALLENDA", "MARQUEZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARQUEZ", "MARQUEZ", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "PEREIRA", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "PEREIRA", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "BOLUDAN", "CUOMO", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "PEREIRA", "ROMANS", "BOLDUAN", "ROMANS", "CUOMO", "ROMANS", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "PERIERA", "CUOMO", "PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "ROMANS", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-149043", "program": "RICK'S LIST", "date": "2010-3-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/15/rlst.02.html", "summary": "Israeli Prime Minister Under Fire", "utt": ["Hey, Rick. It's Al. These bigwigs have to stop squeezing the poor little guy so much, taxes on top of taxes on top of taxes. It's just making it the point where nobody can afford to live.", "Welcome back. I'm Rick Sanchez. Making the list of the most embattled politicians: the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu is feeling the heat, both at home and from abroad. Let's begin with the United States. The Obama administration is the latest administration to attempt to jump-start the peace process between the Israelis and the Palestinians. One of the bigger points of contention has been how far Israel will build settlements in East Jerusalem due to both sides disagreeing over who owns the land. Not only did officials announce new settlement construction in the disputed territory; they announced it while Vice President Biden was in Israel, a major diplomatic faux pas that has increased tensions between the U.S. and Israel. Here's what Secretary Clinton had to say.", "And the announcement of the settlements the very day that the vice president was there was insulting. I mean, it was just really a very unfortunate and difficult moment for everyone, the United States, our vice president, who had gone to reassert America's strong support for Israeli security. And I regret deeply that that occurred and they made -- made that view known.", "So, Secretary Clinton calls Netanyahu and gives him a set of four demands that must be done to show Israel is serious about peace negotiations -- the biggest demand, canceling construction of the new settlement. Meanwhile, Netanyahu has set up a team to investigate why officials announced the new settlement construction while Biden was visiting the country. This leads to Netanyahu's problems at home, which are huge. Israelis are starting to wonder who is truly in charge, if the prime minister was caught by surprise by this announcement. This afternoon, Netanyahu was at a welcoming ceremony for the Brazilian president. Naturally, he was asked about the settlements again.", "The development of these Jewish neighborhoods never hurt in any way the Arabs in East Jerusalem. Today, half the Jewish population in Jerusalem lives in these neighborhoods.", "So, Israelis are angry at the prime minister. And it sounds like they're determined to build, nonetheless. Fighting words? We will continue to follow it for you. Meanwhile, take a look at this.", "I want to ask the president, why did he kill my son? What did my son die for?", "Which president? You thought she was just anti-Bush. It turns out Cindy Sheehan is also anti-Obama. Why she's in the news, that is ahead. And is Glenn Beck against Jesus? That is a question that \"TIME\" magazine has asked, and we drill down on what he said to cause this furor that he has apparently brought on to himself."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SANCHEZ", "CLINTON", "SANCHEZ", "BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER (through translator)", "SANCHEZ", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SANCHEZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-361176", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-02-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/04/nday.01.html", "summary": "New England Patriots Win Sixth Super Bowl; Trump at 40% Approval in Latest Poll; Axios: 60% of Trump's Schedule is 'Executive Time'", "utt": ["We have now set the table beautifully, and everybody knows what's going on because of the shutdown.", "He's getting increasing pushback. The president has to see Tuesday as a moment to reunify Republicans behind him.", "The president is dead set on keeping his campaign promise. I support border security, whatever it takes.", "To the end zone, and it's intercepted at the three-yard line!", "I'm so happy for my teammates. This is a dream come true for all of us.", "It's all about the players. These guys worked so hard all year. They played like champions.", "This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.", "All right. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is NEW DAY. It's Monday, February 4, 6 a.m. here in New York. Alisyn is off. Poppy Harlow joins me. Long time, no co-anchor.", "I'm just glad they won so you're smiling.", "I was thinking, you must be so psyched that you picked today --", "I am.", "-- to come in and sit next to me.", "Of course.", "Are you ready for this? They say you always remember your sixth time, and no one will ever forget the Patriots' sixth Super Bowl title. Six rings for Tom Brady to go with the crown he deserves for being king of the universe. This is the front page of the Boston Globe today. It says, \"Dynasty Rolls On.\" And let me just clarify: this is this morning's paper, not the one from two years ago or two years before that or 2005 or 2004. You get my point where I'm going here.", "Endless.", "Last night in Atlanta, the oldest coach/quarterback duo in Super Bowl history, Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, defeated the youngest, Sean McKay and Jared Goff. It was 13 to 3, Super Bowl LIII. The lowest scoring Super Bowl ever. Taking home MVP honors, Julian Edelman. He caught ten passes for 141 yards, which is nine more catches than had he in his entire college career.", "Can I just go home now?", "Yes.", "I don't think I'm needed until at least half an hour into this show. I'm just going to let you take over. I feel bad saying this, though Berman.", "It's true. It's true.", "This was kind of the snooze bowl.", "It stunk.", "It ranked a very low on the excitement scale. There was even that interesting Mercedes Benz tweet and then deleted by the stadium, which we'll get to in a little bit. But it was historic, as Berman just laid out for you. And if you're one of the millions of Patriot haters, which I am not -- their skill is real. I am not a hater. I just wish, you know, the Vikings would do it a little bit more often. This is the end of a dynasty. That's what you were hoping. No, you're out of luck. And by the way, Tom Brady is not going anywhere --", "No.", "-- anytime soon. Let's go to Coy Wire. He is live in Atlanta with the highlight of the big game. My friend, if folks went to sleep like I did, walk us through it.", "Yes, so Poppy, John, good morning to you. There are so many ways that we can remember this Super Bowl. It's two of the highest-scoring offenses in the league, only combining for 16 points. Bill Belichick becoming the oldest coach to ever win a Super Bowl at 66. Or because John Berman will never let us forget that Tom Brady, despite not throwing a single touchdown pass, wins a sixth title. Let's walk you through it. It did not start off well for you, did you it, John? Kind of worried here. On his very first pass attempt of the game, Tom Brady dropping back, looks right and throws it, interception. Nothing really came from that, though. It kind of set the tone. It was a lot of defense. Great for guys like me who played defense in the NFL. Bad for people who love offense. But late in the game, here we go. Fourth quarter, Rob Gronkowski gets the team down to the one-yard line there. And Sony Michel, he lost the college football national championship while at Georgia a year ago on that very field; scores the only touchdown of the game. Jared Goff late in the fourth quarter would have a chance to prove he's savage. He throws one to Brandon Cooks and the great defensively play there breaks it up and on this play, an all-out blitz by the Pats. Jared Goff proves he is not savage. He is not Tom Brady. An interception by Stephon Gilmore. And the confetti is flying. There you have it, 13-3, your final. And would you believe those ten points is the largest margin of victory for the Patriots in any of their Super Bowl wins. After the game, Hines caught up with Tom. Is he the GOAT now, he asked him.", "What does it mean it win six, man? You're the greatest of all time.", "You know, I don't believe that. I don't believe that. I don't think about that. I just think I play with so many great guys on so many great teams, and I still get to do it. Forty-one years old, playing the sport I grew up loving and I'm proud of my team tonight.", "What about Jules, man?", "He was like a little Hines Ward tonight. Wasn't he?", "He balled (ph) off, man.", "He played his butt off. And I knew he was going to play his butt off. He was so focused, and we needed him big-time, and he came now.", "Congrats, my brother.", "Thanks, baby.", "MVP of the Super Bowl. What does that mean?", "It's pretty crazy.", "Is it surreal?", "It's pretty surreal. I'm still, you know --", "You're not going to sleep tonight. I guarantee you that.", "I don't know yet. I just want to say hello to my little baby girl Lily. I love you. I miss you, and I can't wait to see you.", "All right. So Julian Edelman, you noted to it earlier, John. The guy wasn't recruited out of high school. He played quarterbackken at Kent State, and there he is, your Super Bowl MVP. And that confetti you saw flying, John. I got you some from the field, so you will have that coming to you via mail there in New York. A little token for you. We do have to talk a little bit more about the halftime show. OK? Because this was highly anticipated, as it always is. And there you see Maroon 5's Adam Levine. And if you're a Maroon 5 fan, you would say this was great. Some say it was a little too much Maroon 5. Some called this performance trite and artless, many hoping that the band would pay a tribute or a nod, at least, to Colin Kaepernick or social activism or the take-a-knee movement. There was none of that. There was a lot of Adam Levine, though, as you see. Very little Big Boi from Outkast, Atlanta's own. He did roll out in a Cadillac at one point, paying tribute to the rich hip-hop and rap culture here in the city. For the most part, though, many thought, like the game itself, the halftime show was a bit of a snooze fest. So there you have it, guys. John Berman, congratulations to you yet again. I feel I have said this to you way too many times during my time here at CNN reporting on the big Super Bowl.", "Coy, thanks very much. Look, it was not a good game, but you know how many other teams would like to win a game that bad? All of them. All of them.", "There you go. Have the world seen your mug?", "No.", "Can we, please? Please?", "Yes.", "Because this wonderful woman in our lives, Lisa Zay (ph), right?", "Yes.", "Our colleague.", "I don't know if you can push in closely enough. But the important thing to know here is there are two faces on here. I don't deserve to be on this mug, but it's me and Tom Brady put all over the mug there. And just one last thing. I don't have a Patriots tie, but I do have a Red Sox tie.", "Yes, because they're --", "Because it was 85 days since they won the World Series. I'm very sensitive to the fact that I don't want to lose all of our viewers by gloating about the Patriots all day. So we should probably move on now.", "Can I go home now? All right. But let's turn to politics. Congrats, Berman.", "Yes, please. Thank you.", "I'm very happy for you and all the Pats fans. So to politics, we do have a new CNN poll this morning on how Americans people feel about the president and the prospects of whether the president and Congress can strike a deal to avert another government shutdown on February 15. On the eve of his State of the Union address, the president's approval rating stands at 40 percent. Our political director, David Chalian, with us this morning on our new poll numbers. I'm fascinated by this poll. His approval is slightly higher, and there's some really interesting nuggets in here.", "Indeed. And Poppy, you know, we've seen Donald Trump operates within a very narrow band, but you're right. He's now coming back a little bit, an uptick. Take a look. He's at 40 percent now, as you said. In January, during the shutdown, 37 percent. He was at 39 percent right before the shutdown. Clearly having the shutdown over has helped him a little bit here, but it's all within a range. Look at how he stacks up to his predecessors as they were about to give their third State of the Union address. Take a look here. Only Ronald Reagan in 1983 at this point in his presidency was below where Donald Trump is now. Now that may give Donald Trump hope. You'll recall Ronald Reagan went on to win a resounding victory for a second term. But Trump's still near the bottom of the heap here. As for the deadline that we're facing 11 days from now, with government funding, the country is rather pessimistic that there will be any deals. Sixty-four percent of Americans tell us in this survey by SSRS that no deal is likely between Congress and the president. And what about the potential solutions there? Take a look at this. Thirty-nine percent only support shutting down the government again if no wall funding. Fifty-seven percent oppose another shutdown. How about that action of a national emergency that Donald Trump has telegraphed maybe announcing in the State of the Union? Two-thirds of Americans say he should not declare a national emergency. Only 31 percent says he should. And here's the trick. This is the box Donald Trump is in. You just saw a majority oppose another shutdown, oppose emergency action, but majorities of Republicans support them. That's the box Donald Trump's in. And now, of course, he's going to be facing a new reality in Washington. When he takes to the House chamber tomorrow night, you'll see Nancy Pelosi above his shoulder. Fifty-one percent of Americans say that the Dems in Congress should take the country in the direction. Only 40 percent say that about Trump. And here you see Speaker Pelosi's favorability rating is really on the rise. She was at 34 percent before the shutdown. She's now at 42 percent favorability. She hasn't had a number like that in CNN polling since 2007. This is largely due to Democrats, specifically liberal Democrats getting more and more enthusiastic about their view of Speaker Pelosi -- John, Poppy.", "David Chalian, great to have you here. Thanks for sharing this historic morning with us.", "My pleasure.", "I know you're going to join in this conversation. Also joining us are Margaret Talev, senior White House correspondent from Bloomberg News; and Joe Lockhart, former Clinton White House press secretary, who also worked for the NFL. I'm just putting that out there, since football is a theme this morning.", "Why not?", "I have to say, Joe, I'm actually fascinated. As Poppy was saying, there's a lot in this poll if you dig in deep. If you look at the president's approval rating now, which is 40 percent and look at where it was in January, which is 37 percent and also before the shutdown 39 percent, look, you know, you can say it ticked up a tiny bit. It's all within the margin of error. But the bottom line here is this just illustrates something we have known. But this really makes it rock-solid. He's got a floor here that just is around that 37, 39 percent, and there's not anything that is going to push him below that. This shutdown was a real problem for him politically. At the same time the Mueller investigation is happening. Roger Stone. And his numbers are still stable.", "Well, I think that highlights the box he's in. You're right. I mean there is all within the margin of error, so it says that his base is solid. And we all say that there's not anything that he could do that would -- you know, he said, \"I would walk down Fifth Avenue and murder people, and they wouldn't care.\" He may have to test that if he decides to keep the government open, not declare a national emergency and abandon his wall, now, because that is a central principle of why his base supports him. So you understand his problem, which is most of the country isn't with him. Congress is no longer really with him. They don't want to shut -- they won't shut the government down over this. He's got to make a choice. And for two years, he's never violated the principles that, you know, the base believe in. He has no good choices.", "I don't know if he feels that pressure, Margaret, right now that he has to make this -- this choice because, yes, those numbers do show that most Americans don't want a shutdown even for a wall if they support a wall. But as Berman just laid out, his approval number just doesn't move. I mean it just doesn't seem to impact him, like Teflon.", "Yes. And part of this, you know, I think, Poppy, is the president is a good showman. He understands what makes good TV. He doesn't want to show all of his cards before the State of the Union address. He wants to keep the drama and the tension sort of high. But I was in the cabinet room on Friday when he ended up doing one of these supposed to be a quick pool spray and ends up being, like, a half an hour news conference. And it was interesting to listen to him test different messages on whether he's going to -- whether there's going to be a shutdown, whether he's going to do the emergency, whether it's going to be neither. He seemed to be, you know, hinting with rhetoric that was ready to pull the trigger on the national emergency, but he wouldn't quite let himself be pinned down. We saw this again in the CBS interview that actually was conducted the same day, even though it aired over the weekend. And -- and also, he was testing the idea that he could just build a wall without doing either. Even if there wasn't a shutdown or even if he didn't declare the emergency, he was already moving ahead with the wall was another message he was working on. So I think, you know, he's not sure: is he really going to face push back from Republicans if these threats that the Republicans would jam him up on a national emergency panned out. Would that be worth doing? I think he's trying to keep all of his options open, because he understands this political box.", "Let's play a little bit of that interview that the president did with Margaret Brennan which aired before the Super Bowl which the Patriots won. Let's listen.", "Would you shut down the government again?", "Well, we're going to have to see what happens on February 15. And --", "You're not taking it off the table?", "Well, I don't -- I don't take anything off the table. I don't like to take things off the table. It's that alternative. It's national emergency. It's other things. And you know, there have been plenty national emergencies called. You need a wall. And anybody that says you don't, they're just playing games.", "David, it's interesting. You know, we're talking about the options that the president has here. It really does seem to me that this is headed toward one place and one place only, which is some kind of executive action that involves an emergency of some kind. He just doesn't seem willing to accept what Congress is going to come up with here. And everything he's doing seems to be laying the groundwork for the emergency.", "John, that's my read of it also, but that doesn't necessarily solve his political problem. It does seem to be a bit of an off-ramp here to avoid another shutdown which nobody, including the president, it seems to me, is at all interested in. I mean, they felt, you know, the heat of the stove when they touched. And I think that that is clearly something that everyone is going to try to avoid. But you have heard Republican after Republican come out and warn about this national emergency action, even if it is an off-ramp for the president sort of from the precipice here. You just saw in the polling numbers that we released, the country is opposed to it. He -- it does, indeed, perhaps get him over the hump of February 15. It obviously would be fought out in the courts. But I don't think it's going to be a long-term victory for him. Let's turn the page here and talk about the executive time. David Chalian, let me just get you on this quickly. Axios, exclusive reporting lays out. We have some images of it here, how the president spends his time. Nearly 60 percent, Axios reports of his scheduled time is unstructured executive time. You see the comparisons there. The blue, obviously, is the executive time. What does he do during executive time? We know he likes to consume cable television news. David, the White House is not happy that this is out there. But beyond the leaking part of it, what's the significance of that, David?", "Well, I mean, this -- this is now sort of the data, Poppy, right, that matches the reporting that we had seen previously that he does spend a ton of time in this, as you called it, unstructured time. And not only does he -- yes, he's a big consumer of cable news, but he's also calling up aides. He's calling up various officials his cabinet when he sees a story he doesn't like or he reads something, he is trying to figure out his way forward on various things. So it's not as if he's channel surfing, I would imagine, but we have not seen a president's schedule like this before with that much unstructured time before they go down into the Oval Office.", "And Margaret, the other thing that this does, by having this executive time, it lets the White House slip things in there that aren't a matter of the public record. Because the schedule is --", "Well, that's interesting.", "-- you know, a matter of the public record later on. So we don't necessarily know what the president's doing here. Sometimes there could be meetings or phone calls or scheduled things of interest, of public interest that we never hear about.", "You know, I think that's a really good point. And we know that that's true, because the president is concerned about internal leaks; and this kind of shows why he should be, right? But -- so he goes out of his way to keep stuff off of the triple private schedule that nobody except for five people are supposed to see so that he has maneuvering room to do stuff that some of his aides either don't want him to do, would be telling other aides about, would be telling people on the outside and might be leaking. That's part of it. I still think, when you look at the visualization of this, it is just striking that -- and many reporters, many of us who cover him know this, that he spends so much time trying to manage the optics and kind of the narrative, rather than kind of getting nitty-gritty on the policy meetings being in the room with people who are shaping the policies. But that really is true. The president is very visual, television- minded president. For him, the messaging and how he splits that messaging between the base and kind of his political opposition and everyone else, he's constantly thinking about everything from lighting to -- to getting one key line out into the atmosphere and repeating it. And that's, I think, how a lot of this executive time is playing out.", "Joe, final thought on that.", "Yes. It's ironic. When I worked in the Clinton administration, we actually put in executive time to give the president time to, like, read and think. When you look at it, it really is unprecedented, because we know a couple things about Donald Trump. He doesn't read. So he's not in there reading, you know, intelligence reports and policy position papers and trying to decide where to --", "He did tell Margaret Brennan in the interview over the weekend that he read the entire IC report.", "Yes, well, that's 8,000 --", "We asked him, point blank.", "-- 8,563 false statements. I can guarantee you, he did not read that report. And we know from his actions, he spends a lot of time watching TV and tweeting. You know, again, it is an unprecedented presidency. It's one where it's -- he not only doesn't get into the details, he doesn't have a top-notch staff. He's got a bunch of sycophants there. He's pushed out a lot of the more professional people. And it really does, I think, leave the rest of the world wondering, what are they up to? And the other thing is all presidents don't put things on the schedule, because they don't want them to know. There's nothing unprecedented about that. The really big thing here is that I think he's doing nothing.", "We don't know. Look, we don't know exactly what he's doing there. I think one thing is clear. This may work for him, but it is not a rigorous schedule. You cannot look at this and say this is a particularly rigorous schedule.", "Maybe that's why he just said in the interview on CBS that he loves the job so much. It's not --", "All right. David Chalian, great to have you. Margaret, Joe, appreciate it. Calls growing this morning for Virginia's governor to resign over the racist yearbook photo. Does his own staff support him staying in office? We have new reporting about a meeting last night. 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{"id": "CNN-264134", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-09-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/09/cnr.17.html", "summary": "British Airways Plane Catches Fire on Runway; Clerk Who Denied Same-Sex Licenses Freed From Jail; Hillary Clinton Apologizes on Private E-mail", "utt": ["Despite the smoke and flames, the passengers on board this plane that caught fire in Las Vegas escaped with only minor injuries.", "Plus, as the world's migrant crisis deepens, another nation offers to shelter more refugees.", "And a county clerk at the center of the same-sex marriage debate in the United States is greeted by a huge crowd after her release from jail.", "Lots to get to today. Hello. And welcome to our viewers here in the states and all around the world. We are your anchor team for the next two hours. I'm Errol Barnett.", "And I'm Zain Asher. Glad to be with you. This is CNN NEWSROOM. OK. I want to begin in the United States with passengers who are leaving Las Vegas aboard British Airways Flight 2276 are no doubt feeling especially lucky right now.", "Yes, this was frightening.", "Absolutely. The Boeing 777 was about to take off for London when, there you have it, a fire broke out in the aircraft's left engine and within just minutes, just minutes, all 170 passengers and crew members had evacuated the burning plane.", "The pilots quickly aborted the takeoff. Clark County Fire Department responders from McCarran International Airport station 13 were notified of a potential engine fire at 4:13. At 4:14, firefighters were at the aircraft dousing the fire and evacuating with the passengers.", "So this all unfolded very quickly. Fire officials say at least 14 people were hurt. Most of those injuries are minor. Our Dan Simon spoke with one passenger.", "We were just getting speed to take off. And we saw a big thud. I opened up the cover of my window and saw flames on the engine. And we suddenly stopped. We sat still for about a minute, just waiting to hear what to do and then we just heard the captain say this is an emergency, evacuate.", "How scary was it?", "It was pretty scary. Yes. Like, I mean, yes, it was just shocking more than anything. I don't think anyone was too hurt. Otherwise, I don't know. But yes, it was pretty scary stuff.", "Our Dan Simon who actually interviewed that passenger is joining us live now on the phone from Las Vegas. So, Dan, before we begin, I just want to pull up on the screen an image of the plane on fire so we can see exactly what we're talking about. So this is the plane moments after it caught fire. You can see black smoke billowing in the air. Of course if you look very closely you can actually see the left engine is where the flames started. So, Dan, it is remarkable to me when you see just how dramatic this fire was that only 14 people were injured. How is that possible?", "Well, this was a quick reaction by the pilot and the crew. Obviously they knew right away that there was something wrong and they quickly deployed those chutes, those emergency chutes. You know, we happen to be in Las Vegas working on another story and once we realized this was a potentially serious situation, we raced over to the airport. And I have to tell you, it was kind of surreal for a while. We were just hanging out in the international terminal and all of a sudden we saw lots of ambulances show up. This is about an hour after this all happened. So we figured that, you know, mostly everybody had been evacuated at that point. But no, they were still assessing people and lots of passengers were coming out. Thankfully these were minor injuries, but from what we understand when people are going down those emergency chutes, some had, you know, some friction injuries, basically going down. They may have, you know, burned their elbows and such. So the paramedics were tending to them. Everybody seemed to be in relatively good spirits, although we did see one passenger who seemed to, you know, be in emotional distress. This is somebody who actually had some smoke inhalation and she just looked she was, you know, really torn up. And you can imagine, you know, looking at that video, how frightening that must have been. You know, we saw some other video of passengers literally, you know, running for their lives. You know, going down those chutes and just running away from the aircraft -- Zain.", "Absolutely frightening. And before we continue, I understand from my producers that we have some new video. So if we could play that for our viewers. OK. You can actually see in the corner there, that was the plane engulfed in flames there and I believe that was a fire truck heading towards it. And I believe, I'm not entirely sure but this could passengers leaving the aircraft, fleeing the aircraft. So, Dan, in terms of the investigation, OK, we know that the left engine, that's where the fire started. Do we know what caused the fire and what is next in terms of this investigation?", "We know that a go-team from Washington, D.C. from the National Transportation Safety Board is on its way to Las Vegas where they'll start, you know, looking at how this occurred. We don't know how or why this fire started. What we do know, from talking with one of the passengers, is just as the plane was beginning to pick up speed, that left engine caught fire. He said it was something like a thud and then he looked out his window and saw that engine on fire. So it's really going to be up to the authorities to examine how this happened. Of course any time you have a mishap with an aircraft, they will interview passengers, they'll talk to the crew, they'll look at maintenance records. Just pretty much anything you can think of.", "And so clearly a mystery in terms of the investigation, in terms of what caused that fire. But how soon -- I know that 14 people were injured. But in terms of the passengers who are OK, how soon will they be able to re-board another flight to London?", "Well, from what we understand, British Airways put the passengers up in a hotel this evening in Las Vegas. They did not hop on another plane tonight. From what we understand, arrangements are being made to get them on another plane tomorrow. As far as those 14 people are concerned, I don't know precisely when they will be going home. As we know, these are minor injuries. So perhaps they have already been released from the hospital. I would imagine that it was, you know, precautionary in a way to take them by ambulance to take them to area hospitals just to be on the safe side. But, you know, I would imagine that most of those passengers will be heading home tomorrow, Zain.", "At least the good news is that the response during this emergency was so rapid. Obviously everybody was able to evacuate very quickly within minutes and of course as Dan was just saying 14 people injured. Only minor injuries. Thankfully. OK, Dan Simon, thank you so much. We appreciate that.", "And in other aviation news, an internal investigation prompted by an ongoing federal investigation has led to the ouster of the CEO and two other top executives at United Airlines. Now in a statement on Tuesday, the company announced the chairman and CEO Jeff Smisek has stepped down.", "The U.S. government has been examining United's dealing with former chief of the Port Authority in New York and New Jersey, including adding a flight convenient to a home he owns in South Carolina. United says it is cooperating with the government's investigations.", "Now surely you've heard the name Kim Davis bouncing around social media in these past days.", "Who hasn't? Unless you've been living under a rock.", "Surely. Well, if you don't know, this county clerk in the U.S. state of Kentucky is now a free woman some five days after she was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.", "And our Martin Savidge has more on the woman who finds herself at the crossroads of a very changing society.", "It was a stage fit for a presidential candidate, but it was embattled Rowan County clerk, Kim Davis, who stole the show, fresh out of jail and welcomed by cheers from hundreds of supporters.", "I just want to give God the glory. And people of Rowan, you are a strong people.", "Davis went to jail for contempt of court after refusing to authorize all marriage licenses following the June Supreme Court decision on gay marriage. She said she was religiously opposed to having her name appear on a document for same-sex couples. She spent five days behind bars while support from Christian conservatives grew.", "The Bible trumps man's law.", "The effort to free her drew two Republican candidates to her jail cell, Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz. This despite the fact that Davis is a Democrat. But even before they arrived, the judge that sent her to jail suddenly freed her on one very big condition, that she shall not interfere in any way with the efforts of her deputy clerks who are issuing marriage licenses. Some of them to same-sex couples. Davis' attorney says she hasn't changed her position on same-sex marriage and hinted another legal showdown could be brewing.", "She will do her job good, she'll serve the people as they want her to serve, and she was elected, and she'll also be loyal to God and she's not going to violate her conscience.", "To many, the small-town Kentucky clerk has become a hero of her faith.", "And I feel like she has shown more courage than most any politician I know and most every pastor I know, because she has not only said something, she has been willing to put her life as risk.", "But as Davis goes home after spending nearly a week in jail, many of her followers and her detractors wonder how long that freedom will last. Martin Savidge, CNN, Grayson, Kentucky.", "Our CNN political commentator Ryan Lizza joins us from D.C. to talk about this. Ryan, great to have you. Kim Davis has become an icon these past 24 hours. Two evangelicals, who have been staunchly opposed to gay marriage but we should explain the Supreme Court, the highest law in the land here in the States, has settled this issue legally and elected officials have to follow the law. So what is it really that Mrs. Davis represents?", "Well, I think the first thing to say is it might -- maybe it's surprising how little resistance of this kind there has actually been since the Supreme Court decided this. I think a lot of people predicted there would be a lot of more resistance. But there are small patches in very conservative places in the United States where people are arguing that their religion makes it impossible for them to follow this law. Now as the judge pointed out in Kentucky, that's not legal. She's an elected official. She has to do this. The Supreme Court has already settled this issue. And so, you know, I think you're going to see isolated cases like this until people -- until people move on. But to a certain segment of very religious Americans, this does resonate what she's doing.", "And the fact that you call it isolated is kind of the key aspect here. You have one of the Republican candidates, Governor Mike Huckabee, he emceed the event and he said, quote, \"I'm not willing to spend the next years in tyranny under people who think they can take our freedom and conscience away.\" I mean, the U.S. Constitution makes it clear the government isn't to endorse any religion and to be frank, Christians are overwhelmingly represented in government anyway. So what is this tyranny that they speak of exactly?", "Yes. And there's a little bit of a sense of victimization among some white evangelicals in the United States that they are now a persecuted minority, which to be frank is not really the case. And I -- look, once you get a presidential campaign going and you get American politics involved in these issues and in the Republican Party, in the early states that matter in our nominating process, evangelical conservatives represent a larger than typical percentage of the electorate. Specifically in a state like Iowa. So there is incentive for people like Mike Huckabee to go down and associate themselves with this case. And that's what you're seeing here. You're seeing politicians exploiting this issue in Kentucky to boost their credentials among Iowa religious conservatives.", "And maybe because it happened so quickly, this, you know, Kim Davis in a way got to make this statement but the fact remains she and others still have to follow the law.", "That's right.", "Ryan Lizza, our CNN political commentator, great to get your insight today. Joining us from", "My pleasure.", "And staying in the United States, she is saying she's sorry. For the first time U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is publicly apologizing for using a private e-mail server when she was secretary of state.", "Now as Brianna Keilar reports, Clinton's mea culpa comes as her popularity among voters shrinks.", "Hillary Clinton's numbers are taken a dive, down 10 points nationwide as she tries to turn a corner. Tonight for the first time, she directly apologized for her use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state. Telling ABC News --", "That was a mistake. I'm sorry about that. I take responsibility.", "According to the \"New York Times,\" aides are crafting a strategy for her to show more spontaneity, heart and humor.", "I do kind of know what Donald is going through. And if anyone one wonders if mine is real, here's the answer. The hair is real. The color isn't.", "What President Obama's former adviser David Axelrod is poking fun at the reboot, tweeting a report, \"read more like 'The Onion'. Her detailed plan to show more authenticity and spontaneity, just do it.\" In Iowa this weekend Clinton tried to shore up her shrinking lead in the polls.", "I believe I've got the vision, the policies, the skill, the tenacity and the determination to get us back on the right track.", "Her loss is Joe Biden's gain. New poll numbers out today show a swell of support for the vice president. He's up 10 points since last month and he's still deciding whether to get in the race. Dodging questions about a possible run.", "You know, I talked to my wife about that. I've got to talk to my wife about that.", "Nationwide, Biden is running neck and neck in the polls with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders who is beating Clinton in a new poll of New Hampshire primary voters.", "And don't tell anybody. I think they are getting nervous.", "But while this summer has been all about the Sanders surge, it really is the Biden bump that's dominating headlines right now going into the fall. Talking to Clinton campaign sources they say they're not too worried. They think that if Biden were to enter the race he would see his poll numbers dip under the harsh spotlight of the campaign trail. Brianna Keilar, CNN, Washington.", "Now Australia's prime minister ups his country's commitment to the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. Coming up next, what he's offering and how it will impact Europe's migrant crisis.", "Also ahead, a new name is lighting up late-night television in the U.S. And politics may never be the same again."], "speaker": ["ZAIN ASHER, CNN ANCHOR", "ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR", "ASHER", "BARNETT", "ASHER", "BARNETT", "ASHER", "ROSEMARY VASSILIADIS, DIRECTOR OF AVIATION, MCCARRAN AIRPORT", "BARNETT", "JAY JENNINGS, FLIGHT 2276 PASSENGER", "DAN SIMON, CNN ANCHOR", "JENNINGS", "ASHER", "SIMON", "ASHER", "SIMON", "ASHER", "SIMON", "ASHER", "BARNETT", "ASHER", "BARNETT", "ASHER", "BARNETT", "ASHER", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "KIM DAVIS, ROWAN COUNTY CLERK", "SAVIDGE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAVIDGE", "MAT STAVER, ATTORNEY, LIBERTY COUNSEL, REPRESENTING KIM DAVIS", "SAVIDGE", "MIKE HUCKABEE, (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SAVIDGE", "BARNETT", "RYAN LIZZA, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BARNETT", "LIZZA", "BARNETT", "LIZZA", "BARNETT", "D.C. 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{"id": "NPR-15022", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2005-11-25", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5027520", "title": "Senegal's Koranic Schools Seen as Haven for Beggars", "summary": "Students of traditional Koranic schools once garnered respect in the Muslim world. But that image is under threat in the Senegalese capital Dakar. There, students are increasingly viewed as beggars instead of diligent disciples.", "utt": ["This is DAY TO DAY.  I'm Madeleine Brand.", "In a few minutes, we get a look at the latest handheld gadgets on the      market now.", "But first, a look at an institution that frowns on Western-style      consumerism: Muslim religious schools.  In the majority Muslim West      African nation of Senegal, there are concerns about the reputation of      traditional Koranic schools.  Mass urbanization has tarnished the image      of these once-respected village schools.  NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton      reports.", "Coins clinking in a large, red tomato paste tin can is a familiar sound      on many street corners in downtown Dakar, the Senegalese capital.  That's      the tell-tale trademark Begenfo(ph), slung around the necks of young boys      known here in Senegal as Talibae(ph), or disciples.  These children are      meant to be studying the Koran, but most of the barefoot boys with runny      noses and dirty, ragged clothes are not learning the Muslim holy book.      The Talibae spend long days trudging up and down the streets of Senegal's      cities with their hands outstretched as they approach you for a little      money with a whispered prayer. Begging for a coin or two, they say the      collections are for their marabu(ph), their teachers.", "Unidentified Boy #1:  (Foreign language spoken)", "These boys say they've come from far, all the way across      the border from Guinea-Bissau and neighboring Mali to Senegal.  For some      unscrupulous adults, the Talibae make excellent business sense.  Some of      the boys say they get beaten if they don't deliver a daily quota,      sometimes as much as a dollar, and that's a princely sum in Senegal.  But      when asked to recite the Koran, they can barely do so.", "Unidentified Boy #2:  (Foreign language spoken)", "Ian Hopwood is the head of the United Nations children's      agency UNICEF in Senegal.  He says the child beggars are a growing      problem, with an estimated 100,000 in a country of 10 million.  That's      about 1 percent of Senegal's population.", "It is extremely emotionally distressing to see      these children in these streets living in these circumstances and having      a childhood totally ruined and destroyed.  What sort of adults, what sort      of future is there for these children, who are away from their families      in a situation of poor health care, poor nutrition, bad treatment and      exploited through these daily activities?", "The issue of these beggar boys remains socially sensitive      in this predominantly Muslim nation.  It's a problem the Senegalese      government does not publicize.  But journalist and commentator Amadu      Ticanci(ph) says just about everyone is talking about the Talibae.", "It was accepted in traditional societies      that these boys who are learning go to beg but--just to infuse humility,      but it has been corrupted, deeply corrupted by the urban societies,      transformed in the way that some teachers have now found wealth.  I think      the number of beggars in the streets gives a bad impression, but it also      shows the poverty.  It's not only the Talibae factor, but it's a general      picture of how far poverty has taken root in this country.", "About an hour's drive east of the Senegalese capital, 20      young boys are studiously reciting the Koran from their wooden handheld      blackboards in a sandy-floored classroom.  This is a conventional dara, a      Koranic school near Lushisque(ph).", "(Foreign language spoken)", "They're learning the Koran, Arabic, linguistics and      Islamic law and sciences from their unsalaried religious teacher,      Hustasmanso Gai(ph). He's deeply concerned that what he calls charlatans      are giving a bad name to genuine Koranic schools like his.", "(Through Translator) It's very painful to see.  It      brings our profession into disrepute and tarnishes our image as marabu.      People are saying religious teachers are no good and we only want to make      money.   But we're making great sacrifices to teach, guide and look after      the children in our care.", "Back in Dakar, the tomato tin can boys say they must beg      to survive.  Ian Hopwood, UNICEF's country director in Senegal, says      meanwhile they're struggling to reverse the worrisome trend of child      street beggars.", "The problem is big, so we're trying to work with the      Senegalese government to put an end to this problem, this exploitation.      We're also working with action groups who are very much concerned, so      we're trying to build this public debate, which will help Senegal as a      society to say, `We have to put an end to this.'", "UNICEF says everyone in Senegal must understand that      children should be protected and not exploited.  Ofeibea Quist-Arcton,      NPR News.", "More coming up on DAY TO DAY from NPR News."], "speaker": ["MADELEINE BRAND, host", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "OFEIBEA QUIST-ARCTON reporting", "OFEIBEA QUIST-ARCTON reporting", "QUIST-ARCTON", "QUIST-ARCTON", "QUIST-ARCTON", "Mr. IAN HOPWOOD (UNICEF)", "QUIST-ARCTON", "Mr. AMADU TICANCI (Journalist)", "QUIST-ARCTON", "Unidentified Teacher", "QUIST-ARCTON", "Mr. HUSTASMANSO GAI", "QUIST-ARCTON", "Mr. IAN HOPWOOD (UNICEF)", "QUIST-ARCTON", "MADELEINE BRAND, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-389629", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2020-01-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/06/es.03.html", "summary": "Anger Grows in Iran Over General Soleimani's Death; Trump Threatens Iraq if U.S. Troops Get Expelled; Trump Administration Deploys 3,000-Plus U.S. Troops to the Middle East.", "utt": ["Routine.", "EARLY START continues right now.", "Huge crowds in Tehran following the U.S. strike that took out an Iranian commander. The nuclear deal now in jeopardy, and President Trump doubles down on a threat which could amount to a war crime.", "Flying in fire, a desperate evacuation effort from wildfires in Australia. The smoke is so bad the emergency management agency has shut down. CNN is live this morning in Tehran, Baghdad, Nairobi and Australia. Good morning and welcome to EARLY START, I'm Laura Jarrett, good morning Christine --", "Good morning, good morning, I'm Christine Romans, it is Monday, January 6th, it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. And breaking overnight, huge crowds on the streets of Tehran. Anger growing over the U.S. airstrike that killed the head of Iranian special forces. Giant crowds at the burial Sunday of General Qasem Soleimani. Iran now weighing how to retaliate against the U.S. Death to America chants from Iranian lawmakers. The Iranian cabinet voting to no longer obey restrictions imposed by the 2015 nuclear deal including limits on uranium enrichment.", "President Trump aboard Air Force One, repeating his threats to target Iran's cultural sites, action that would likely be considered a war crime. He said \"they're allowed to kill our people. They're allowed to torture and maim our people. They're allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people, and we're not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It doesn't work that way.\"", "Two senior U.S. officials describe widespread opposition within the administration to targeting cultural sites. But earlier, Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo backed the president's position.", "So cultural centers are theoretically fair targets in your view?", "Jake, we're going to do the things that are right and the things that are consistent with American lives. I've been part of the discussion, planning process, everything I've seen about how we will respond with great force and great vigor if the Iranian leadership makes a bad decision. We hope that they won't. But when they do, America will respond.", "Meantime, President Trump appearing to notify Congress of potential military retaliation for an Iranian attack via Twitter. \"The United States will quickly and fully strike back and perhaps in a disproportionate manner. We should note that a disproportionate strike would also violate international law.\" Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a letter to Democrats says the house will vote on a war powers resolution aimed at limiting the president's military actions against Iran. Senior international correspondent Frederik Pleitgen standing by live in Tehran for us. Fred, obviously, a lot of angry down there, what are you hearing the most from folks on the ground?", "Well, hi, Laura, yes, absolutely right. I mean, there is definitely a lot of anger here on the streets of Tehran. A lot of people who are -- who are quite angry and who have been chanting the moment that we go on air, and have been chanting things like \"death to America\", have been very critical also of President Trump and the Trump administration. And so, you could see also the large crowds that have been turning out. It's really something that I haven't seen in this country even though I've been here, I would say about 15, 16 times already. There have been a protest that have been organized, but these certainly are a lot bigger than anything that I've seen here in Iran before. It all started very early in the morning today when the body of Qasem Soleimani and the others who were killed were essentially eulogized -- that's Tehran University, the supreme leader himself there speaking the prayer. And that also goes to show how important a figure Qasem Soleimani was for many people here in Iran. You can see people here have Qasem Soleimani's likeness, many people here also saying that they want revenge for the death of Qasem Soleimani. It was quite interesting because I spoke to the main adviser of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and that adviser told me first of all, there would be revenge, it would be military revenge against military targets, but also that Iran does not want a full-on-war with the United States. Let's listen in.", "The response for sure would be military and against military sites. Let me tell you one thing, our leadership has officially announced that we've never have been seeking war and we will not be seeking war. It was America that started the war. Therefore, they should accept appropriate reactions to their actions. The only thing that can end this period of war is for the Americans to receive a blow that is equal to the blow they've inflicted. Afterwards they should not seek a new cycle.", "So, the Iranians, they're essentially saying they're going to strike back against the United States -- there's a bit of breaking at least, chants of \"death to America\" -- essentially saying, they're going to lash out at the United States, but they want it to end there. They don't want this to escalate any further. It's also quite interesting, Laura, because that senior adviser also telling me that despite the fact that obviously Qasem Soleimani was a big and important figure to so many Iranians and also in the military structure, they've already named his successor. And they say, as far as their foreign operations are concerned, they're not deterred and they're going to be able to operate exactly the way that they had before, Laura.", "All right, Fred, stay safe there in Tehran, we'll see you real soon.", "All right, President Trump is threatening sanctions on Iraq after its parliament voted to order all foreign troops out of the country. Sources tell CNN administration officials tried unsuccessfully to convince Iraqi leaders to prevent this non-binding vote. Too soon to know whether U.S. troops will actually be expelled. President Trump telling reporters on Air Force One, \"if they do ask us to leave, we will charge them sanctions like they've never seen before ever. It will make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame.\" Let's go live to Baghdad and bring in CNN's Jomana Karadsheh. This is -- this is an ally of the United States, I'm sure Iran will like nothing better than to see the United States leave Iraq for good. What's your view from there?", "Absolutely, you know, when you mention those comments by the president, Christine, that is definitely going to anger Iraqis, when he talks about sanctions like they've never seen before. Well, you know, Iraqis did go through some of the worst sanctions here. You know, the U.N. imposed sanctions in the '90s where thousands of people died, and that was attribute to the limits on imports of food and medicine. So, this is really not going to go down very well with Iraqis. And as you mentioned, this is the key ally that the U.S. president is threatening. The message from the Iraqis has been clear. The Shia majority in this country, the Shia political leadership have said they want U.S. and foreign forces out. And the Prime Minister explained that to parliament yesterday saying that they are currently in a situation where the only option really for the interests of the United States and Iraq is to ask these forces to leave because Iraq is basically turning into a battleground between Iran and the United States. And Iraq is going to be ending -- it will end up paying the price, and there, forces cannot protect or guarantee the protection of U.S. forces here. So, they're now -- you know, they've passed this resolution in parliament. The Iraqi government is going to have to work on a way of asking these forces to leave. Of course, there's legal, legislative and procedural issues here. This is a caretaker government. But the biggest concern of course is the repercussions of a decision like this, asking forces to leave especially when it comes to the fight against ISIS. We've heard from the U.S.-led coalition, saying that right now, they've halted all their operations and they're focusing on protecting their forces, Christine.", "All right, Jomana Karadsheh for us in Baghdad this morning. Thank you.", "Well, President Trump is not ruling out the possibility that he can release intelligence related to the air strike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. Top U.S. national security officials continue to defend White House claims of impending -- of an impending threat to American lives. But some congressional Democrats are questioning how imminent the threat was. After a briefing with administration officials on Friday failed to provide any convincing evidence.", "Over the weekend, the White House officially notified Congress of the drone strike that killed Soleimani under the War Powers Act Notification is required within 48 hours of an action that could lead to armed conflict. Even though President Trump said this, Friday.", "We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war.", "More than 3,000 service members are being deployed to the Middle East, many from the immediate response force of the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Here's the wife of one of those service members.", "It's stressful for sure especially with everything that has escalated with Soleimani. He was supposedly only doing like training, and now it has obviously transpired into something else. So, we are making it through, though.", "The soldiers will first go to Kuwait, one of several countries with a big U.S. military footprint, and then military leaders will decide where they need to be deployed.", "Growing fires in Australia have now burned an area the size of West Virginia, and this is just the beginning. CNN is live with more on the largest peace time evacuation effort in Australia's history."], "speaker": ["CHRISTINE ROMANS, CO-ANCHOR, EARLY START", "LAURA JARRETT, CO-ANCHOR, EARLY START", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "JAKE TAPPER, HOST, THE LEAD", "MIKE POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE, UNITED STATES", "JARRETT", "FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HOSSEIN DEHGHAN, MILITARY ADVISER TO IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER (through translator)", "PLEITGEN", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ROMANS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ROMANS", "JARRETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-155105", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-9-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/01/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Fix Our Schools: How to Turn Around Public Schools", "utt": ["We're going to continue our coverage of the situation in Silver Spring, Maryland. This is just outside of Washington, D.C. These pictures brought to us by a helicopter courtesy of our affiliate there, WJLA. That is the Discovery Building, 1 Discovery Place on Wayne in Silver Spring, Maryland. There is a gunman in that building. The building and the campus, if you will, has been evacuated. We don't know who's left in there. We know there's a gunman. Police say they've got a visual on this gunman who has apparently got a hostage with him. They don't know if there's more people involved, but he apparently has a hostage with him. Let me tell you -- what they know. They reported there was a suspicious device on this man. Well it turns out that he's got a revolver, they seem to be able to see a revolver and they seem to be able to see tanks on his back. I don't even know what that means, but that's what we're hearing, that there's these suspicious devices or the suspicious device are tanks on his back. So they've called in explosive experts to try and get a closer look. Police say they do know where he is. They see him, they've got a visual on him. He does appear to have a hostage and he has tanks on his back as well as a gun. SWAT teams are on the scene. We'll continue to cover this for closely for you and bring you updates immediately as they develop. That is the situation at Discovery Place -- 1 Discovery Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. \"Fix Our Schools,\" words that you are going to hear a lot of on CNN this week. We have sent reporting teams across the country to document the education crisis in America. Most importantly, we're going to shine a light on success stories that can empower us to offer our children more than they're getting right now. Now imagine a school achieving the following -- 90 percent of its teachers and other staff say that they are satisfied; 100 percent, that's the number of eighth graders who have been accepted to further their education at preparatory high schools; thousands, the numbers of high-school scholarships the students have earned. The school is not fiction, it actually exists. There are two of them actually, both of them are charter schools in Brooklyn founded by Morty Ballen. He -- listen to this, though, Morty says give him a public school and he can get the same results. Morty Ballen is the CEO and founder of Explore Schools. He joins me now. Morty, welcome.", "Thank you.", "We think about charter schools as small samples that grow a grade at a time and turn things over over time and run, some arguments go, more efficiently than regular public schools. You think you can do what you're doing here in a public school, how?", "So that's right and that's exactly why we're doing what we're doing what we're doing, because we're not getting to enough kids fast enough. What we learned at Explore Charter School is in one year, we had double-digit gains with our students, and that's because the grown-ups changed their minds. The grown-ups did different things --", "The grown-ups being the teachers? The administrators?", "The teachers, the administrators, the entire staff worked together as a team to change how we were using time, the change the material we were using with our kids and to change how we were selecting and retaining staff. The kids change when the grown-ups change and we think we can apply those lessons to any public school.", "OK, so in science, you would use a control group. Did anything else change? Are the facilities substantially improved? Is the class size substantially smaller?", "No, it was the adults who said, this is not good enough and our kids were almost waiting for the kids to change their minds.", "This is red meat, though, to some people. I mean there are some people who think all we do is bash on public schoolteachers. Is that the implication that your teachers can do better than public school teachers do?", "I think any teacher in the right environment and help with the right expectations and working toward the same mission can achieve to the goals we set for our kids. I think too often what we do in our country is blame the kids or the families if they're not achieving, when really it's the adults in the school building who can be asking themselves --", "What part of a kids' success is actually about the kids or the families? There has got to be something.", "Again, you're talking to a guy who believes strongly that schools have a profound impact on a kid's life. We are with kids nine hours a day, outside the institution of family, I know of no other institution that can have that profound impact. If we're spending our time correctly, doing the right things, working with kids over years, we'll achieve those goals.", "Let's get down to brass tacks then. What are the things that the adults in the school environment -- the teachers, the staff -- decided to do differently that have resulted in better results for the kids in the school?", "So one, dig into data. Individual by individual student, look at the interim test results every eight weeks. What does each kid need in order to achieve the standards? And then we had freedom, as a charter school, with resource allocation. Change how teachers are using their time, change the number of kids who --", "Let me stop you there. You said as a charter school, we had freedom. Which means, could a public school under the system, without being a charter school, do what you did? Or, does something have to change?", "We need the same freedoms. We need freedoms around human capital and we need the freedoms around resource allocation. And --", "OK, so this isn't just a bunch of teachers and administrators in public schools not doing it, it's that there's a system that prevents them from achieving what you want to --", "I think there are two parts. One is you need the freedoms, which is the DNA and the structure. And two, you need the specific levers that you're going to change, and we've learned about both of those at Explorer. So what we have right now, Ali, is we actually have a charter from the state of New York, we have a principal hired, we are awaiting for the school to turnaround. We have -- we wrote a charter to say, give us a school that's failing, give us all of those students, we don't want to grow one grade at a time.", "And what grades would you take?", "Our goal is K through 5. Our goal is to work with --", "So that could be a few hundred students?", "It could be a few hundred students. And that's why --", "So you're telling me that if the state of New York gives you a school, K to 5, with a few hundred students that are underperforming, you can turn it around?", "Absolutely. The kids are waiting for us. Those families are waiting for us.", "So the idea here is that, can this be -- this can be replicated, in your mind, at any level throughout --", "So part of -- that's a great question, and part of what we're doing is charter schools serve 3.5 percent of our country's population. It takes too long each year to grow. We need a more systemic solution to our country's educational crisis, turnaround gets to more kids faster.", "Thank you for bringing us this information, we appreciate it. Morty Ballen is the CEO and founder of Explore Schools, joining us today. For more information about Morty and his Explore Schools program, go to my Web site, CNN.com/Ali."], "speaker": ["VELSHI", "MORTY BALLEN, CEO & FOUNDER, EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL", "VELSHI", "BALLEN", "VELSHI", "BALLEN", "VELSHI", "BALLEN", "VELSHI", "BALLEN", "VELSHI", "BALLEN", "VELSHI", "BALLEN", "VELSHI", "BALLEN", "VELSHI", "BALLEN", "VELSHI", "BALLEN", "VELSHI", "BALLEN", "VELSHI", "BALLEN", "VELSHI", "BALLEN", "VELSHI"]}
{"id": "CNN-408404", "program": "CNN RELIABLE SOURCES", "date": "2020-08-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/16/rs.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL); The QAnon Cult Is Spreading On Social Media", "utt": ["QAnon is a virtual cult that casts Democratic politicians and celebrities and other targets as evil child abusers, satanic pedophiles, that sort of thing. QAnon believers seem to be gaining and more and more power. There are groups on Facebook that have millions of members and we are seeing some of these believers creep into Congress. One of these candidates won a primary runoff in Georgia this week. She's in a heavily Republican district which means she's almost certainly going to win and be elected to Congress this fall. Keep in mind if you talk about QAnon, this is not happening in a vacuum. This is not a game. It's not fun online. An FBI field office described QAnon as a potential domestic terror threat last year. And we have seen acts of violence perpetrated by QAnon adherence. Still that woman who won the primary runoff, she was congratulated by President Trump. She's been celebrated by other GOP leaders as well. Most Republican leaders have just kind of remained silent about QAnon, just tried to avoid it, even though there is a disturbing amount of overlap between Trump support and QAnon belief. But let me tell you about one Republican congressman who is speaking out. Adam Kinzinger is with me right now for his first interview about this topic because -- Congressman, thank you for coming on. You just posted a YouTube video I thought was outstanding where you discuss QAnon. And you have a message for people who might have QAnon believers in their family. So, let's start with what you want people to know about what QAnon actually is.", "So, you know, we don't necessarily know where it comes from, if it's one person, if it's a basement dweller where this started as a joke, if it's multiple people now, if it's Russian intelligence even. We don't necessarily know. But it started with basically (ph) in October of 2017, it's what they're calling Q drops. Like -- it's very vague conspiracy theories about this satanic network in the government that Trump was sent to basically tear out. They've had predictions about this thing called \"the storm\", which is a mass roundup and arrested everybody and executions of thousands of people. And people have adhered to this. And, you know, again, what happens is, if it -- it kind of confirms what you already believe and it's dark, it's really attractive in some cases. I haven't addressed it for a while but it's started making into the mainstream. And now, I think it's when it's important for leaders to come out and push back on it because it's already had the attention, frankly, that it doesn't deserve.", "Yeah, I hope your video goes viral because you point out, the initial precisions made by \"Q\" were bogus. Of course, they didn't come true. So, they've been disbelieved -- disproven again and again and again. When it comes to -- there's a lot of families that are -- that are torn apart by this stuff, where you've got some people that believe in conspiracy theories and others who don't. And you make the point, it's not about hating other people, it's not about looking down on folks who buy into crazy theories. It's about recognizing each other's humanity. How do you think we should talk with each other about this?", "So, I think that's the key, is if anybody buys into a conspiracy theory, whether it's on the far left, far right, you know, we never landed on the moon, whatever it is, it's out of an interest of if only the truth is known, life would be better for me and other people. And so, everybody thinks they're the good guy. Everybody wants to do right. And I think understanding humanity from that perspective and then engaging them in that perspective through love and understanding is far different. You're never going to offend somebody onto your side. You're never going to offend somebody away from something they believe. In fact, it emboldens them. So, I think it's understanding that they're still human. And if you believe in this conspiracy theory stuff, especially QAnon, do some independent research. There's a lot of stuff debunking it, including all the predictions that didn't come true, and now, the new Q stuff reads league be a tarot card reader who gives you something so vague that it will absolutely fit into something that happens in the next months.", "Right. Are you disappointed in the politicians that are not denouncing this, that are not speaking out?", "I think time is going to tell. So, I think up to maybe about a week ago, there wasn't a reason to denounce it because it didn't need the attention, but now that it's made mainstream, we have a candidate that embraces it that won a primary. I supported her primary opponent. The president hasn't fully denounced it or denounced it at all. Now, it's time for leaders to come out and denounce it. The key here isn't this -- it's not Democrats denouncing it. It's Republicans denouncing it. Democrats and Republicans have to denounce extremism in their own party, because that's where it's effective. It's not going to be effective from the other side denouncing it. It again just emboldens them and says, see, that's exactly what we told you. They don't like us because --", "But you've got a Trump campaign official --", "-- you know, they have their constituents at heart.", "Congressman, you even have a Trump campaign official hitting you, punting at you for denouncing QAnon. What's your reaction to Matt Wolking's tweet?", "It was pretty surprising. You know, to that point, obviously, they haven't since, so I think that was not a campaign decision. It was a decision by that staffer. The campaign has to, you know, deal with that and I'm sure they are. But it was probably not a really good political move on that staffer's part.", "Congressman, thank you very much for being here. What you said about, you know, how to reach out to folks I think is vital. I'm glad you're talking about it. Yeah.", "You bet. Thanks.", "A quick break on the program, and then we'll talk more about this twisted appeal, right, what it is about conspiracy theories that are so appealing. Remember this one? Fox News promoted these lies about Seth Rich. And there's brand new information about that case next."], "speaker": ["STELTER", "REP. ADAM KINZINGER (R-IL)", "STELTER", "KINZINGER", "STELTER", "KINZINGER", "STELTER", "KINZINGER", "STELTER", "KINZINGER", "STELTER", "KINZINGER", "STELTER"]}
{"id": "NPR-16640", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2017-08-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/08/09/542468222/as-nfl-preseason-gets-underway-quarterback-colin-kaepernick-remains-unsigned", "title": "As NFL Preseason Gets Underway, Quarterback Colin Kaepernick Remains Unsigned", "summary": "NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick remains unsigned even as preseason is underway. Some believe the league is blackballing him for taking a knee before games to protest police violence.", "utt": ["There's less than a month to go before the start of the NFL regular season, and quarterback Colin Kaepernick is still a player without a team. Last season he was with the San Francisco 49ers. Now, during the preseason, he began a silent protest of social injustice against minorities and police violence. Instead of standing during the national anthem before games, he would kneel. This sparked outrage among those who said he was being unpatriotic. He also had a lot of supporters, and now those supporters allege that NFL owners are freezing him out because of his political beliefs.", "NPR's sports correspondent Tom Goldman joins us to talk more about this controversy. Hey there, Tom.", "Hi Audie.", "So is there any way to prove this idea of collusion to keep Kaepernick out?", "It's very hard to prove, Audie - no evidence of backroom deals being made. But it doesn't look good as one quarterback after another gets signed and it's not Colin Kaepernick. Jay Cutler this week signed with Miami, coming out of retirement and basically having to be talked into playing again. Baltimore signed a quarterback without NFL experience, a guy who played most recently in the Arena Football League. Now, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said last week, no collusion. Although it is safe to say there are NFL owners who worry about signing Kaepernick and the message that would send.", "Now, before we get to that, I want to ask about Kaepernick's abilities on the field. I mean how does he compare to these other quarterbacks?", "Excellent question. He led San Francisco to one Super Bowl following the 2012 season and to two conference championships. Of course that's ancient history to teams that want to win now. A more important stat is last year. On arguably the worst team in the NFL, the San Francisco 49ers, Kaepernick threw 16 touchdown passes and had only four interceptions in 11 starts. So he showed he can still play. And when you consider there are 32 starters, 32 backups, 32 emergency quarterbacks who carry clipboards during games and Colin Kaepernick isn't on a roster, it's questionable.", "The other thing that his defenders note is that when you look back at the controversies the NFL has had over the last couple of years, there are players who have done a lot worse than kneeling during the national anthem, and they're still playing.", "Yeah, players who have committed domestic violence, rape, vehicular homicide. They've been busted for drugs and brutal dogfighting. We remember that. You know, there are people, though, who consider what Colin Kaepernick did beyond the pale, taking a knee during the National Anthem, which really took on a life of its own. He says he was protesting overall treatment of people in black communities during a time of great tensions following shootings by police of African-Americans. Kaepernick said early on he was not against the military but wanted to help motivate social change. But for many fans, it was interpreted as un-American, unpatriotic. And some owners worry about that.", "What is the NFL saying about all this?", "Well, as I mentioned Roger Goodell denies collusion. He said recently that teams make decisions based on what's in the best interest of their team, and they make these decisions individually. I talked to Dr. Harry Edwards today. He's the well-known sociologist who's really been at the intersection of sport and politics and activism for 50 years. He thinks the NFL needs to get out in front while it can. Here he is.", "I sent an email to the commissioner of the National Football League urging him in the strongest possible language not to make Colin Kaepernick a martyr. Let him play football. Let him do whatever he's going to do, and manage it.", "And Audie, you know, this isn't going away. A protest was announced yesterday in front of NFL headquarters for later this month. Filmmaker Spike Lee is taking an active role in that, as are several protest groups. And there's a petition circulating on change.org targeting the NFL, its teams and league sponsors and threatening boycotts of the NFL and sponsors' products. The petition is hoping to get a million signatures by the start of the regular season next month.", "That's NPR's sports correspondent Tom Goldman. Tom, thank you.", "You're welcome."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "HARRY EDWARDS", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-305065", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2017-02-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/10/ath.02.html", "summary": "Mexico Warns Citizens Living in U.S.; Jeff Sessions Takes Over Justice Department.", "utt": ["This just in. Mexico has now issued a warning for Mexican citizens living in the United States. Part of the warning is this: Take precautions and stay in contact with the nearest consulate. This comes after the deportation of this Arizona mother of two. Her case has gotten a huge amount of attention. She was convicted -- arrested and convicted for living in the country with false papers, false identification for years. The statement says this: \"This case demonstrates a new reality for the Mexican community living in the United States.\" That mother of two, Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, was one of the first undocumented individuals to be deported since President Trump took office.\" Her 14-year-old daughter spoke out against the decision. Listen here.", "No one should ever go through the pain of having their mom taken away from them. No one should go through their mother's clothes seeing all is they going to need this, is she going to need that? No one should be packing their mother's suitcase.", "That's her daughter. Her children will remain here in the United States with her husband, living in Arizona. Let me bring in right now Matthew Miller. He is a former spokesman for the Justice Department under President Obama. Thanks for coming in.", "Thank you.", "What's your reaction? What's your take on this case?", "It's really heartbreaking. When you look at the woman who was deported, she's been here for two decades, she has two children who are American citizens. This is not the type of person who we ought to be prioritizing for deportation from the country, someone who is obviously a longstanding member of the community. Yes, we ought to be sending violent criminals to the front of the line to be sent back to Mexico, but not mothers who are here or the parents of American citizens. I think it's a real heartbreaking and is a real warning of what we're likely to see as immigration policy from the Trump administration.", "Again, but what the administration will say is she broke the law, and this is -- they're putting in place -- they're enforcing immigration law. And kind of, when you take a step back, Matt, you have immigration advocates -- of course, we all remember. They called President Obama the deporter-in-chief because of how many people he deported under his watch. This is one of the first to be deported under President Trump's watch. What's different here?", "So what's different here is, yes, advocates did use that term for President Obama. But then you saw a big shift in the last few years of the administration where, obviously, the DOCA program that he put in place, and then other prioritization or removals. What you see are, yes, she had committed a crime, but it wasn't a violent crime. She was working with false papers, something that millions of people have done. She wasn't a threat to anyone. What I think you see here is, no matter what Trump says I is going to do about immigration, people at these agencies take signals from the White House, and they want to please the president. And I think you're going to see aggressive removal efforts out of ICE because they know that's what the White House wants. So, you see someone, like this mother, who had been checking in with authorities for years, and then suddenly finds herself removed from the country.", "Let me ask you about the ninth circuit's decision to not reinstate the administration's travel ban. Justice attorneys, it was their job, it was their -- they were tasked with arguing this case before the ninth circuit. They lost this case. Where did they go wrong?", "You know, I don't think the president made their case very easy for them in two ways. They did the best they could. But the executive order was, obviously, put together very poorly. It included people who had obvious due process rights in the courts, green cardholders, and they were smacked down very hard by the court for that. Then the president, through his comments outside the court, both in talking about how he would give prioritization to Christian refugees in the future, and then his attacks on the court, I don't think did those lawyers any favors either. And one of the arguments you have to go into court and make is that the president has unreviewable authority in this area, which is the argument they made. When you have a president, who is out attacking judges and showing that he thinks he is accountable to no one, that burden gets even higher for the government, I think. And so, they did their best but --", "One thing the court definitely didn't rule on --- what was the question of was there religious discrimination here?", "No --", "But today, I do want to get your take. It was not long ago that you were over in that Justice Department. Today is Jeff Sessions first full day on the job as attorney general. What can he do to reassure and bring together Justice employees after what was a pretty brutal confirmation process for him?", "I think he needs to do two things. One, he needs to assure people that he is going to enforce the law, and that means enforce all the laws, including civil rights laws that he has been hostile to throughout his career, not just as U.S. attorney but even in the Senate. He could start by reaching out to employees in the Civil Rights Division. He could reach out to civil rights groups that have been hostile to him and try to make peach and assure them that he is going to enforce the law. And, second, he needs to show that he can be independent from the president. That's one of the biggest questions. You have right now the FBI investigating members of the Trump campaign, apparently, still looking at General Flynn's phone calls with the Russian ambassador. Sessions needs to show that he can be independent. And the first way to do that is to recuse himself from those investigations and show he is not going to tamper with them in any way at all.", "At this point, Matt, do Democrats need to give him a chance since he is the attorney general? We have Elizabeth Warren, who obviously spoke out very forcefully against him. She said she believes he would -- he will, would, absolutely discriminate as attorney general. Is it fair to make that judgment when he hasn't even found his office yet?", "We do need to give him a chance. We need to see what he does. But he really needs to show, also, given his track record -- look, it's a longstanding hostility to civil rights. He has been very vocal about it.", "Republicans say in is 20 years in the Senate that he was not hostile to civil rights.", "Yeah, that's just not true. I can tell you how many hearings I sat through where Sessions questioned DOJ witnesses about why they were enforcing civil rights laws. He needs to prove he will actually enforce that law. And I think the burden is on him.", "Well, we will -- and we will watch along with you. Matt, thanks so much.", "Thank you.", "Thanks so much for joining us AT THIS HOUR. \"Inside Politics\" with John King starts right now."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "STEPHANIE GARCIA DE RAYOS, DAUGHTER OF DEPORTED MEXICAN WOMAN", "BOLDUAN", "MATTHEW MILLER, FORMER JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN", "BOLDUAN", "MILLER", "BOLDUAN", "MILLER", "BOLDUAN", "MILLER", "BOLDUAN", "MILLER", "BOLDUAN", "MILLER", "BOLDUAN", "MILLER", "BOLDUAN", "MILLER", "BOLDUAN", "MILLER", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-107666", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2006-6-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/29/ltm.07.html", "summary": "Floodwaters Forcing Mass Evacuations in Northeast", "utt": ["Take a look, everybody. These pictures of the destruction of the flood. Flood waters forcing mass evacuations in the Northeast. Rivers are approaching record levels. We're live at some the hardest hit areas for you this morning.", "In Gaza, rising tensions. Israel has arrested several member of the Palestinian cabinet, lawmakers, as well. They're still searching for that kidnapped Israeli soldier, as well.", "Responsible reporting or a threat to national security -- Republicans in the House ready to take on the \"New York Times\" with an official slap on the wrist.", "Staying fit in your 30s, 40s and 50s -- new guidelines now on just how much exercise is enough. That's ahead on", "And welcome back, everybody. I'm Soledad O'Brien.", "And I'm Miles O'Brien. That devastating flooding in the Northeast at the top of the news this morning. Homes, parts of cities under water along the Susquehanna and the Delaware Rivers. All throughout Pennsylvania, Northeast, New Jersey; still some worries down in Maryland, as well, as you look at some affiliate pictures from our affiliate WPVI. This is the Delaware River. And clearly it has crested over its banks. There is still concern that it is still rising. We just talked to the governor of Pennsylvania a little while ago, as they watch very closely the Delaware River as it continues to rise. This is from New Hope, Pennsylvania here. And as we move farther to the south, remember Rockville, Maryland and the Needwood Lake at the headwaters of the Rock Creek. There you see the sand bags as they try to shore up that earthen dam there. Concern that it could give way because of the swollen waters. About 2,200 people downstream of it are evacuated, as well. We're tracking it from just about every location -- Soledad.", "That's right. Three live reports for you this morning. Jason Carroll is near Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania. Allan Chernoff is in Binghamton, New York. And Chad Myers is watching it all from the CNN Weather Center. Jason, let's start with you -- good morning.", "Good morning to you, Soledad. And we do have an update for you from where we are. The Susquehanna River levels have really dropped over the past several hours, dropped, in fact, two feet, from 33 feet to about 31 feet. Let me just tell you how that translates. If you look behind me, you can see where the flood waters are right now. Again, that's where they are now. But yesterday the flood waters were all the way up to where I'm standing at this point. So you can see how much the flood waters have receded in the past several hours. So things looking much better today. Yesterday, though, it was a much different story in terms of how things looking out here. Things looked much more grave. The river actually crested at about 34-and-a- half feet. The levees are built to hold about 41 feet of water. At least four people died in Pennsylvania as a result of the flooding. Forty-six counties declared a state of emergency. Fifteen thousand people even at this point without power. Several thousand still without water. Two hundred thousand people had to be evacuated. They were under a mandatory evacuation. But not everyone decided to evacuate. We spoke to one woman who has lived in this area for several decades, at least since the 1960s. When you watch her interview, Soledad, pay particular attention to the water levels behind her.", "No one knows how bad it is to be in a flood unless you're in it. And every time it happens, you just die a little bit.", "All right, now I'm going to walk right over and stand in the exact same position where I did that interview yesterday. That was right here. And so you can see, there's no water where I'm standing right now. But as you just saw in that last interview, you can see where the water levels were right behind that woman. So, again, things have receded in terms of water here significantly. In the next few hours or so, officials are going to be meeting to determine in terms of whether or not to lift the mandatory evacuation order -- Soledad.", "And, in fact, we're going to get a live update, Jason, in just a little bit from the mayor of Wilkes-Barre just ahead. Thanks, Jason. Appreciate it. All right, let's go 80 miles north to Binghamton, New York. It's also being flooded by the Susquehanna. Governor George Pataki says there's going to be at least $100 million of damage. CNN's Allan Chernoff is there for us this morning -- Allan, good morning.", "Good morning, Soledad. And from where I'm standing, it's easy to see how the governor made that estimate. Let's illustrate for you how things have improved. But they do remain quite severe. First of all, where I'm standing right now, yesterday this was entirely under water. So you can see how much the water has receded, a good four feet in the spot that I'm standing. Now, why is that? Partly because the water is moving so rapidly. We've had a nice sunny day yesterday and the sun-again coming out now. You can see the rapids here. And what you're looking at is not the Susquehanna River proper. In fact, the normal bank of the river is a good 80 yards from what you're looking at right now. So the water moving very rapidly. And if our cameraman can pan back, Joe, and have a look at the garage just to my left, you'll see that in the screen, the water has just been flowing by. This garage is owned by Anton Lucas, the owner of this house. He's a contractor. He normally keeps his lumber in that garage. And we have been seeing it just swept out gradually. And you can see the garage may not hold on much longer. Now, I'm going to show you how the situation remains pretty severe walking in here. The water is still quite deep. And this is Anton's basement. This is where he keeps a lot of his tools. He's, as I said, a contractor, a home construction worker. So he's got plenty of tools. And the water inside the basement -- you can't actually see inside here -- but his tools are floating. All sorts of material, some metal, as well, I can see here. So really a very tough situation for so many residents here, just facing devastation of their homes.", "Oh, that poor guy, and everybody there who is obviously dealing with the same thing. Allan Chernoff for us this morning. Allan, thanks. Let's get right to Chad Myers, our severe weather expert, at the CNN Center -- hey, Chad.", "Hey, Soledad, I don't know if Allan is still there, but I'd actually like to ask him a question about the flood wall. The mayor of Binghamton was very concerned about the water either breaking through or going over the flood wall. Does he know anything about that? Did it happen? Allan, can you still hear me?", "Yes, I can, Chad. What happened certainly yesterday is that the floodwalls were holding. We did have water flowing through at seams of the floodwalls. And in certain areas, yes, water was cascading over in the late afternoon.", "Wow!", "But generally those floodwalls were holding. And the mayor told me last night that, in fact, he believes those floodwalls saved the City of Binghamton.", "Wow! Great news there. I just noticed the river gauge for the Susquehanna at Binghamton. And it went up to about 33 feet or so and then never got any higher. And it stayed flat for hours. And I thought the only thing that could make that happen is if water cascades over the wall, then obviously the gauge can't go any higher because the water just goes over. But at least, though, not a lot went over. Thanks, Allan. Thanks for knowing that. Appreciate that. From Scranton all the way back down into Bloomsburg, we are still seeing flooding there. And I know we talked about where Jason Carroll is. He's actually on the high side of the river. If you go on the other side of the river, that's where all the flooding is, not really Wilkes-Barre proper, because they have a huge levee system there and the levee, unlike New Orleans', didn't break. It held. And it was way below the top of the levee. But the other side of the river, all the people over there, they don't have a levee. And water just goes on that side. So we'll try to get some pictures on the other side of the Susquehanna, where the flooding really was.", "All right, thank you very much, Chad Myers.", "OK.", "The Israelis are taking prisoners as they turn up the pressure on Palestinians in Gaza. Israel rounding up and arresting dozens of Palestinian government officials and lawmakers. Their tanks rolled in after the Palestinians killed two soldiers, kidnapped another. So far, no sign of the kidnapped soldier. Just a short time ago, an Israeli air strike hit a car in Gaza City. CNN's Paula Hancocks is live now from Gaza with more -- Paula.", "Hello, Miles. Well, we're having word from", "Paula, in the midst of this constant shelling, we are aware that the Israelis have excellent intelligence about Gaza, which is an area about the size of two Washington, D.C.s. But somewhere there is a kidnapped Israeli soldier. Are they concerned they might be firing shells into an area that might harm one of their own?", "Well, this is what I've been asking the politicians for the past couple of days. It's a good point, I think. But they're saying that they couldn't just sit around and wait for the Palestinian Authority and the militants and the Egyptian mediators to try and negotiate with these militants to let this soldier go. They said they have no choice but to take matters into their own hands. Now, they do believe he is in southern Gaza. Israeli security sources believe that he is close to the Khan Younis Refugee Camp, which is to the southern part of Gaza. And we know that tanks and troops are surrounding that particular area and around Rafah. So there's certainly a presence down there. Now, whether or not they'd be able to do a house-to-house search to search for their soldier is really quite unlikely. This refugee camp is incredibly densely populated. And, also, it would be very dangerous for both sides for them to launch that kind of campaign -- Miles.", "Paula Hancocks in Gaza City. Thank you very much. Be sure to stay with us for more on this developing story. At the bottom of the hour, we'll get more on Israel's invasion into Gaza from the Israeli Foreign Ministry -- Soledad.", "On Capitol Hill today, the House is expected to pass a Republican resolution condemning several news organizations. At issue, news stories about a secret program to monitor private bank records and track possible terrorists. The report first appearing in the \"New York Times.\" The seven page resolution condemns those in the administration leaking information to the media. It also demands the cooperation of the news media in not disclosing classified intelligence programs. The Supreme Court is expected to rule today in a key case. The justices are deciding whether President Bush went too far in ordering war crimes trials for so-called enemy combatants at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. Let's get live right now to Bob Franken. He is in D.C. for us this morning on this story -- hey, Bob.", "Good morning, Soledad. You've been to Guantanamo Bay, as well as I have, and we know about the intrigue that has accompanied, since its opening, the Guantanamo prison. Now, the question has turned into one of the large constitutional questions that you only get every once in a while from the Supreme Court -- whether the president has the authority to create the military commissions, often incorrectly called tribunals, that would try -- already 10 defendants are facing criminal charges under the system. The lawyers for Ahmed Salim Hamdan, who is allegedly a former bodyguard and taxi driver of Osama bin Laden, claim that the commission does not meet the minimum legal standards both of U.S. law and international law. The justices will have to decide whether that's true, whether the Geneva Convention should be applied. The Geneva Convention, of course, the protocol that is supposed to protect prisoners of war. The administration has claimed all along these are not POWs but enemy combatants. The decision might also rest on whether Congress passed legislation which made this entire hearing moot, that the justices have no reason to make a decision. It will be only eight of them. The chief justice, John Roberts, recused because he had decided this case on a lower court in favor of the administration. A 4-4, vote if that would happen, would favor the administration because they would revert back to the lower court ruling. This is complicated. President Bush is watching it closely to decide what steps he takes next on Guantanamo Bay -- Soledad.", "Bob Franken for us this morning. Bob, thanks.", "Coming up on the program, in Wilkes-Barre, they were planning a big party. But no one there is in the mood for that right now. We'll ask the mayor what's next for his city.", "Also, spy satellites are America's eyes and ears in space. How useful are they in the war on terror? We'll take a closer look this morning.", "Plus, we're going to feel the burn -- how much exercise is enough in your 30s, 40s and 50s? We'll hear from a fitness guru to the stars. Stay with us.", "In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, they are -- were preparing for a big bicentennial celebration this holiday weekend. The Beach Boys slated to headline the party on July 3rd, but they got no good vibrations from Mother Nature and the party is now postponed on account of flooding. A couple hundred thousand people ordered to evacuate in and around Wilkes-Barre. The Susquehanna River crested below the 39-foot high dikes, we're glad to report. But nonetheless, a lot of damage there and people still out of their homes. Joining us now is the Wilkes-Barre mayor, Thomas Leighton. Mr. Mayor, good to have you with us. Some bicentennial celebration this is.", "Oh, yes. It's -- we're all disappointed. We put a lot of time and effort into the planning of this. It was going to be a great weekend. It was starting tonight, with our $31 million movie theater that was opening up, Archie (ph) Theaters in downtown. And it was going right through the 4th of July. So we're all very disappointed, but we definitely will rebound from this and we will have a great celebration.", "When are you going to have it, do you know, at this point? Or is it just -- it's too early to say, I imagine.", "Well, it's too early to say. We're going to sit down today and analyze the infrastructure damage that occurred. And some day next week, after the 4th, we'll regroup and we'll contact the Beach Boys and see when they're available. And we're hopeful that they will be available some -- for some date throughout the summer and we'll schedule around their schedule.", "It'll be an event to remember, one way or another, unfortunately for some bad reasons. Bring us up to date now on the statistics -- the number of people out of their homes, injuries, fatalities.", "I believe there's been very minimal injuries. I've been not made aware of any fatalities. We gave people enough notice to get out yesterday during the daylight hours. They had eight hours of daylight to evacuate the city and the surrounding valleys. So we're confident that everybody got out in a timely manner and there's been no fatalities.", "What about the damage at this point? We were talking a little while ago with Chad Myers. And on one side of the river, you have very high dikes. On the other side, you're not as well protected, correct?", "Well, just in certain low lying areas where there's not a lot of population, there's very minimal dike protection. But we pretty much were secured throughout the valley yesterday. And there was a $175 million dike levee raising project that took place and was completed approximately five years ago. And the dikes held up very well and the water stayed within it banks downstream. In the area where we're standing here now, they did have some flooding.", "So a lot of money was spent on that. It seems like money well spent this morning. Do you have any way of assessing how much property you might have saved by doing that levee project?", "It's too early to determine how much it is. But in 1972, based on the devastation that we had with Hurricane Agnes, we probably saved billions of dollars in property damage.", "Overall, how has the response been from the federal and state authorities? Have you gotten the help you needed and you have gotten it in a timely way? We ask this, of course, remembering what happened with Katrina nearly a year ago.", "We were very satisfied with the response that we got from FEMA and FEMA officials yesterday, as we were with Hurricane Ivan. So we've had a great working relationship with them here in the Greater Wyoming Valley. And I don't foresee any problems with working with them and getting the damage control from this current storm.", "All right, as this water recedes, what are your big concerns, mayor?", "Well, what we've got to do now is we have to go out and inspect all the infrastructure. When the water recedes, it kind of sucks the underground out. And we -- we're -- we had a lot of sink holes occur after Hurricane Ivan now. And our concern is that underground utilities can be affected, such as a natural gas line or a sewer line. So we'll go out and we'll check the areas that were affected after Hurricane Ivan and see how they responded to this storm.", "Well, we're glad the worst of it is over. We wish you well as your city gets back on its feet. And keep us posted. And I hope the party does, in fact, go on, at some point.", "No, we'd love to have you.", "All right. Thomas Leighton, the mayor of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Thanks for being with us.", "You're welcome.", "Soledad.", "Coming up this morning, a developing story out of the Middle East. Israel is stepping up its offensive in Gaza. We're going to take you live to Jerusalem and get an update from Israel's foreign ministry. Up next, some basic exercise guidelines for folks in their 30s and their 40s and their 50s. Just how fit should you be as you get older? We'll take a look. Stay with us.", "Exercise, we all know, is vital for long-term health. So this morning in our health series, \"30, 40, 50,\" we're taking a look at some basic fitness guidelines for those of us in our 30s and our 40s and our 50s. Here is medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.", "Maybe you don't have J. Lo's body or you wish you had Cindy Crawford's abs. Well, you might not look like them, but you can be fit like them, says their trainer, Radu.", "It's come down to the issue of what you do is what you are.", "Bend. One second. Bend. One third. And down again. Ready? Let's go.", "We asked this fitness guru to the stars to show us workouts for people in their 30s and 40s and 50s. Meet Carrie (ph), who's 31; Joe, who's 46; and Brooke, 57. The American Council on Exercise has guidelines for what we should all be able to do based on our age. First, pushups.", "Let's", "Without resting, men in their 30s should be able to do an average of 20 push-ups. In your 40s, it's 15. And if you're over 50, 10. For women in their 30s, 15 is average. For 40s, it's 12. And for 50s and beyond, at least seven.", "OK. Let's work these abs guys.", "Now, your abs. In one minute, women mid-30s to mid-40s should be able to do 30 curls. Mid-40s to mid-50s, 30 again. Mid-50s and beyond, 20. For you guys mid-30s to mid-40s, give me 38 curls. Mid-40s to mid-50s, 36. And mid-50s and beyond, 33 is average. Not quite up to those baseline levels and wondering how do I get there? Slowly, says sports medicine expert Dr. Kevin Eerkes.", "If you start too fast or work your way up too quickly to what your goal is, then you're liable to get an overuse injury and come into the office and see a doctor like me.", "And, of course, with lots of dedication, you can battle gravity in time and go well beyond what's expected for your age.", "I can come here and work out with people that are in their 30s and I can -- and I feel like I can -- I'm competitive with them.", "From here, we go back and push back. Push back.", "As for the motivation to get fit, Radu, who, would you believe, is nearly 60, offers this. Don't be motivated by the gym mirror. Instead, find an activity you love and share it with friends.", "And jump! And go jump!", "Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, Atlanta.", "If you are over 40, according to Elizabeth, you want to check with your doctor before you begin a fitness program. Last year, President Bush and the G8 leaders committed to provide treatment for all HIV and AIDS victims by 2010 in Africa. Coming up, part of my exclusive interview with Bono, who has been keeping track of the pledge. He's going to tell us where the U.S. stands in its promise. Plus, New Orleans water woes -- the city ruined by water after Katrina. But now, weirdly enough, it may not have enough water. We'll explain just ahead on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "AMERICAN MORNING. S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JEANNE CHOPKA, RESIDENT", "CARROLL", "S. O'BRIEN", "ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "S. O'BRIEN", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "CHERNOFF", "MYERS", "CHERNOFF", "MYERS", "M. O'BRIEN", "MYERS", "M. O'BRIEN", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "M. O'BRIEN", "HANCOCKS", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. 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{"id": "CNN-68874", "program": "CNN LIVE ON LOCATION", "date": "2003-4-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0304/02/lol.01.html", "summary": "Coalition Tightening Noose Around Republican Guard Division", "utt": ["All day long we have been on the move, pushing about 80 kilometers from our last position in central Iraq. It's not hard to guess that we are moving north, pushing north with not just the 1st Battalion 7th Marines. But take a look at the roadway and the distance there. And the reason the progress has been so slow is the fact that the roadway is utterly jam- packed with military hardware.", "A traffic jam on two key highways to Baghdad. U.S. troops in armor surge within 25 miles of the Iraqi capital. Perhaps significantly closer, meeting what's described as minimal resistance even inside the so-called red line of defense. Hello. I'm Wolf Blitzer reporting tonight from Kuwait City. It is Wednesday evening here in Kuwait City. Wednesday evening, of course, also in Baghdad. That's described as the \"heart of the regime,\" in CENTCOM's words, at which the dagger now is clearly pointed. The Central Command alleges more than 50 oil trenches are blazing around the city, and Iraqi munitions are being deliberately set off in populated areas. Indeed, right now, explosions once again being heard in Baghdad. We have live pictures of what's happening there this time of the night as it gets dark. That's usually a target of opportunity for U.S. warplanes and missiles looking for Republican Guard positions, looking for other so-called strategic targets; especially communications capabilities. We're watching what's happening on the streets of Baghdad, as well as over the skies of Baghdad. More air pounding not only in Baghdad, but elsewhere throughout Iraq. We have cameras throughout much of this country. From military briefings and our embedded correspondents, we know this about the drive toward Baghdad. U.S. Army troops from the 3rd Infantry pushed through the town Karbala earlier today, while some 100 miles to the east U.S. Marines took a bridge across the Tigris River near the town of Al Kut. An embedded correspondent for \"The Boston Globe\" tells us Republican Guard units there put up what was described as a relatively fierce firefight, but were defeated, leaving scores of Iraqi dead. Karbala is roughly 40 miles from Baghdad. Al Kut roughly 100. In Karbala, the Army's 3rd Infantry rolled over the so-called Medina Division of Iraq's Republican Guard. The Medina Guard has been pounded for days now by coalition air strikes. And our Walter Rodgers reports the guardsmen that remain, \"didn't put up much of a fight.\" And as our Martin Savidge described right at the top of this program, the Tigris River valley is clogged today with hardware and U.S. Marines. Convoys are moving virtually nonstop, though Rodgers points out, \"it isn't any faster than the slowest truck in the unit.\" For insights now on how this drive is progressing, what may lie ahead, we turn to CNN's military desk in the CNN newsroom in Atlanta. Our Renay San Miguel is standing by with our military analyst, retired Major General Don Shepperd -- Renay.", "Well, Wolf, the coalition says it is indeed tightening the noose around Baghdad and the Republican Guard Division scattered around there. We've been talking about two key cities all morning, Karbala and Al Kut. We've got satellite imagery to show you from earthviewer.com and digitalglobe.com. I wanted to talk about the strategic importance of these two cities, starting with Karbala. Are we talking about an important river crossing here, better terrain for the armored vehicles to go to Baghdad?", "Karbala is important not because it is anything of real strategic importance. It's where the Medina Division was deployed -- just north of. There are river crossing to the west of Karbala. Karbala itself is not on the river, so it's important.", "And then al Kut, over here, the Baghdad division, supposedly gone now.", "Same thing. The Baghdad division", "OK. And so we've got the -- this is how the advance should look right now as they get closer and closer to Baghdad. And the two-pronged approach working there so far.", "So far it's working very well. You have to be careful beating the brass. Things can get tougher as you get toward Baghdad. And always a danger of weapons of mass destruction, Renay.", "Let's go to the map table right now and give some idea of what could be heading up here pretty soon. Give us an idea of the Republican Guard divisions that are now closer into Baghdad.", "OK. First of all, this Republican Guard division, the Cross Rifles (ph) the Baghdad division, has reportedly been destroyed. The Marines now moving toward Baghdad on the west. Not much fighting encountered there. The Medina Division supposedly has been really weakened and perhaps retreating toward Baghdad. And the 3rd Infantry Division not meeting a lot of resistance there. So a lot of movement. What we have to worry about, the Hammurabi Armored; we still don't know much about that. Medina has been weakened. Up here in Tikrit, the Adnon (ph) Division, the Nebekanezer Infantry Division down here backing up these divisions. And you still have the Alnidah (ph) Armored over here to worry about. Lots of Republican Guard forces still left in the Baghdad area, Renay.", "And they are all inside the so-called red line or red zone. So this is where the danger increases. One other quick question. We saw Martin Savidge talking about those supply lines and those traffic jams. How important is it to get all of that squared away in a hurry?", "Well, there's only so much you can do to square it away. You've got thousands of vehicles moving north. They all have to be gassed, fixed. If one of them breaks down you have to rescue the personnel or fix it en route. It's a very complicated logistical problem. You are moving cities northward. And you have to stop and refuel, consolidate your supply lines behind them, just as we've seen in Nasiriya.", "Only moving as fast as the slowest truck, is how I believe Martin Savidge put it.", "Indeed.", "General Shepperd, thank you so much for your time. We do appreciate the insight. Back over to you, Wolf. Division>"], "speaker": ["MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR", "GEN. DON SHEPPERD (RET.), CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "SAN MIGUEL", "SHEPPERD", "SAN MIGUEL", "SHEPPERD", "SAN MIGUEL", "SHEPPERD", "SAN MIGUEL", "SHEPPERD", "SAN MIGUEL", "SHEPPERD", "SAN MIGUEL"]}
{"id": "CNN-227548", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-3-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/31/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Flight Attendant's Husband: We Want The Truth", "utt": ["Malaysian authorities holding what they call a high-level briefing for grieving families. They say the briefing will include international experts including experts from China who will update the families on the investigation. Perhaps too little too late for these families who still believe Malaysia is hiding information. This candlelight vigil was held before today's regular briefing for family members in Beijing. Steve Wang, whose mother is one of the passengers, organized it. Chinese relatives were also sending up prayers at a Buddhist temple in Kuala Lumpur. Families traveled from Beijing to the Malaysian capital to be closer to the investigation. We have heard from passengers loved ones but little from the relatives of crew members. Now, for the first time, the husband of a flight attendant is speaking out about how he is struggling with what to tell his children. He sat down with CNN's Paula Hancocks.", "Fungwa Yong's 10- year-old daughter and 4-year-old son keep asking where she is. Eighteen years as a Malaysia Airlines flight attendant, she was working aboard MH-370.", "Mommy is going to take a bit longer to come home this time. I even promised them, I'm going to bring her home. I have no idea where she is now. Now, I'm not sure whether I can bring her home.", "Lee Khim Fatt asked me what he should tell his daughter. He says she is caring, loving. He speaks in the present tense.", "I am still hoping for God to create a miracle. What we want is the true story.", "Showing me mobile photos of his wife, he tells me he is angry at the way he has been treated. His wife was part of the cabin crew. He feels the airline tells the media more than what it tells him. He gets most of his information from televised press conferences, part of the reason he has hired a lawyer.", "It is not their fault that this happened to the plane. Therefore, they have to be compensated for their damages.", "Lee and Fung were together for 20 years. He says they were happy. Now, she is lost. Lee says he has lost all direction. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "We will have more in the search for Flight 370 in just a minute. But first, people run for cover as North Korea and South Korea exchange artillery fire. So what does this mean for the United States? What does it mean for the Korean Peninsula? We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "LEE KHIM FATT, HUSBAND OF MH370 FLIGHT ATTENDANT", "HANCOCKS", "FATT", "HANCOCKS", "MANUEL VON RIBBECK, ATTORNEY FOR FLIGHT ATTENDANT'S HUSBAND", "HANCOCKS", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-80265", "program": "CNN NEWSNIGHT AARON BROWN", "date": "2003-12-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/16/asb.00.html", "summary": "What's Next for Saddam?; Interview With James Risen", "utt": ["We have talked so many times of the crimes of Saddam Hussein. We have seen all the mass graves, the thousands of people buried there, another few thousand here. But somehow hearing of one crime against one person makes it all more real in an odd sort of way. A guest you'll hear from tonight. You will hear from him as he calmly says how he was arrested and tortured not once, not twice, but three different times. He tells his story, where also telling with his meeting with Saddam over the weekend, the questions he asked, the answers Saddam gave. We can and should continue to debate the policy and the timing of the war and all the rest, but we ought not forget who this man Saddam Hussein was and what he did, and how, despite all that is troubling about Iraq today, and there is plenty, it is still a world better than it was. But catching Saddam hasn't brought calm to Iraq. So we go first to the Pentagon and CNN's Barbara Starr. Barbara, a headline from you tonight.", "Aaron, as Saddam Hussein settles into captivity, Iraq does remain a complex environment for U.S. troops.", "Today proved that. We'll get to you at the top tonight. Next to Iraq, and a day that saw a major raid that netted another big prize. Nic Robertson is there. Nice, a headline.", "Aaron, that prize a high-value Fedayeen target and 73 associates in what could have been a Fedayeen-run bomb-making cell in Tikrit. Another of those bombs went off, injuring three soldiers.", "Nic, thank you. Politics next and the beating Howard Dean is taking on Iraq and foreign policy generally. Call this one a friendly-fire incident. CNN's Kelly Wallace on that for us tonight. So Kelly, a headline from you.", "Aaron, Howard Dean stumping throughout the Southwest, finding himself the target of a new Democratic attack ad. This ad accusing himself of not being able to compete with President Bush on foreign policy. Dean says the attacks, though, will not hurt his campaign -- Aaron.", "Kelly, thank you. Finally, to Virginia and the sniper trial. CNN's Jeanne Meserve had the watch in the courtroom today and is with us tonight. Jeanne, a headline.", "In closing arguments, the prosecution says Lee Malvo was not insane at the time of the sniper shootings. The defense says he was. The jury must now weigh their arguments and weeks of testimony and evidence and reach their own conclusion. Back to you.", "Jeanne, thank you. We'll get back to you and the rest shortly. Also ahead on the program tonight, an FDA panel gives the go- ahead to Plan B, the first over-the-counter morning after birth control pill. But the FDA still must act. In \"Segment 7\" tonight, a very powerful homecoming. An Iraqi exile who just went home, just as the dictator who terrorized him and his family was captured. And for dessert, of course, a giant helping of morning papers and a bit of rooster as well. All of that and more in the hour ahead. We begin with Iraq. When the first frames of video came in of Saddam Hussein in custody, it was hard not to wonder what the next pictures out of Iraq would be, what the next few days would bring. Tonight things have started to take shape. There is progress against the insurgency to report, defiance on the part of Saddam, and a messy and mixed reaction from the people he once ruled. We begin tonight with CNN's Barbara Starr.", "At a pro-Saddam Hussein rally, a gun battle breaks out. In Fallujah, a train carrying supplies to U.S. forces is attacked. The Iraqi people still absorbing what it means for their former leader to be in captivity. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has asked the Central Intelligence Agency to oversee what could be years of questioning of Saddam Hussein. CIA director George Tenet will be in charge.", "He and his people will be the regulator over the interrogations. Who will do it, the questions that will get posed, the management of the information that flows from those interrogations.", "If they find Saddam Hussein was directing the insurgency that has killed dozens of U.S. troops, Rumsfeld held open the possibility the U.S. may take a role in Saddam Hussein's prosecution. The Pentagon also defending these pictures, saying it was no violation of the Geneva Convention, which prohibits displaying prisoners.", "If lives can be saved by physical proof that that man is off the street, out of commission, never to return, then we opt for saving lives. And in no way can that be considered even up on the edge of the Geneva Convention protections.", "And Aaron, the secretary also said that Saddam Hussein is now, in his word, \"resigned\" to his fate as a captive. One final postscript today, you'll remember those pictures, of course, of the physicians taking a swab from Saddam Hussein's mouth, a bit of saliva for a DNA test. Well, the official DNA results came back today and officially it is Saddam Hussein that they're holding -- Aaron.", "Wouldn't that have been a kick in the pants, though? Do they really anticipate the questioning going on for years?", "Well, they don't know. That's a very interesting point. I mean, you know, so far, when you look at some of the al Qaeda prisoners they've had, the track record has been, Secretary Rumsfeld says, that they question the people extensively for some extended period of time, months at least, and then suddenly they give up the goods. No one's really sure why. And it was quite interesting today, Secretary Rumsfeld was asked what motivation, what might motivate Saddam Hussein to actually tell the truth? What might motivate him to talk if he understands that he would be facing a death penalty, perhaps in an Iraqi tribunal? The secretary saying he didn't know what would motivate Saddam. That would be a question he would look at. The only potential answer he offered is if there was something perhaps that would benefit Saddam's immediate family if he was to talk. So very early days. No one's really predicting at this point how it all might go.", "Barbara, thank you. Barbara Starr at the Pentagon tonight. More now on the question of how you go about interrogating a dictator, which as Barbara Starr just reported, will now be overseen by a team from the CIA. James Risen is reporting the story for \"The New York Times\" already filed for tomorrow. He joins us tonight from Washington. Good to see you again.", "Hi.", "Just on this question of what they learned or what they are learning from their interrogations of al Qaeda biggies and how that might help them here, do you have anything on that?", "Yes. I think one of the interesting questions is why the Pentagon turned Saddam over to the CIA. And I think the reason is because the CIA has been the ones handling almost entirely by themselves the interrogations of top al Qaeda leaders, like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah, and others like that. They have not been held as widely as assumed. Those top leaders have not been held at Guantanamo. They've been held in secret locations around the world in groups of one or two, away from military interrogators, away from kind of a broad number of other agencies. And the CIA has learned how to do those very quietly and very efficiently, and I think -- so they've decided to handle Saddam the way they've handled the top al Qaeda leaders.", "So far, he chats with them, it sounds like. He doesn't give them what they want, which may or may not be the seem as he's not telling the truth.", "Well, I think there's a little bit of dispute in the first day between different administration officials about exactly the status of what he said so far. Some people have told us that he has, in fact, talked about some substance. He did deny having any weapons of mass destruction. He's denied leading the insurgency. He's denied knowing the status of Scott Speicher, the Navy pilot. At the same time that we've been told he said these things, other administration officials are denying that he's saying anything. And I think there is some dispute, some disappointment within the administration that maybe he's saying things that aren't really helpful to the Bush administration.", "That's going to be -- I don't want to turn this into a political discussion, but ultimately I suppose it's going to end up that way. He could be telling the truth. I'm not suggesting he is or he's not. But he could be telling the truth and not saying what they want him to say, and that's a problem.", "Exactly. And I think there's some -- what I've heard today is that in the first day or so, after he was captured, the product of his debriefings was fairly widely known within the Pentagon and the intelligence community, and then we began and other media outlets began to report on what he was saying. Today, we were told that they were narrowing dramatically the distribution list about his debriefings. And it's going to be much more closely held in the coming days, I believe.", "Do you know, can you describe at all how he's being interrogated? I mean, what methods they're using, where he's being kept, how often he eats? Is he seeing anyone else? Do you know any of that?", "Not in detail, no, I don't. But I believe that what I was told today, or at least indicated to me, was that, while the CIA has learned a lot about how to deal with al Qaeda leaders, using behavior modification techniques that are in some ways short of torture, that they're going to be more careful in how they deal with Saddam. They're not going to use the same coercive techniques, I don't believe, from what I've been led to believe, with him that they used with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or Abu Zubaydah because they know that in the end he's going to have to face some kind of court. Whereas Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will probably never see the light of day again.", "Jim, it's good to see you again. We look forward to reading the piece in the paper tomorrow. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Jim Risen of \"The New York Times.\" We alluded at the top of the program to the complicated state of play in Iraq since the capture of Saddam as if it were a picture of simplicity before. It certainly wasn't. But military commanders say they like the scene a whole lot better today. They now have a new batch of solid intelligence to work with, they claim, momentum on their side. And tonight another victory. For the latest on that and other developments of the day, we turn once again to CNN's Nic Robertson, who is still in Tikrit -- Nic.", "Aaron, that raid you referred to came at 4:30 in the morning in Samarra, 25 miles south of here. Coalition troops were looking for a high-value target. They found him at his house. He is believed to be a cell leader, a Fedayeen financier. In his house along with him were 73 young men. We are told they were all young men, all of military age. We were told there were no women and no children in that house. Along with all these people, and the Fedayeen financier, were armaments, 135 pounds of gun powder, detonation caps, artillery shells, mortar rounds, and all of the equipment, we are told, for making these improvised explosive devices, the roadsides bombs that are proved so deadly against the U.S. and coalition troops throughout Iraq. This find is important, coalition officials say, because they believe they may have found a bomb-making cell. And that is important in Samarra because there have been many, many attacks against coalition troops there. In Tikrit today, there was a similar attack, as well as outbreaks of protests on the streets.", "Raising schoolbooks bearing Saddam Hussein's picture, children angrily denounce President Bush. The apparently organized protest in Adwar, where Hussein was captured. \"He was our pride, he was our beloved leader,\" she screams. A few miles away on the outskirts of Hussein's hometown, Tikrit, police search for his hard-core supporters. This police officer, who doesn't want to be identified, telling me, since Hussein's capture, security has worsened, although he thinks it will improve with time. \"Most in this town,\" he says, \"opposed to Hussein's capture, and those who aren't remain quiet.\" In the center of Tikrit, plenty of people want to talk when we show up. \"Saddam's capture is no good,\" says Nori (ph), the cigarette vendor. \"What are the people celebrating for?\" adds his friend Hussein (ph). \"Celebrating their shame and occupation?\" As we talk, helicopters circle, and U.S. tanks roll by. A massive show of U.S. force following violent demonstrations the day before.", "There's been some demonstrations. We're just trying to let the people know and reassure them that everything is fine and we're just out here to protect them and to help them establish the economy and get back on its feet.", "Along with the U.S. troops, Iraqi soldiers from the Civil Defense Corps. \"Saddam's relatives sold him,\" out says this soldier. \"The demonstrations will do these people no good. Saddam Hussein's gone.\" Away from the crowds, and close to the patrolling troops, passerby, Abu Muhammad (ph), is brave enough to speak his mind. \"In general, it's a good thing Saddam is gone,\" he says, \"and my view is the same as everyone else's.\" (on camera): Even with shows of force like this, the dangers for U.S. troops here remain very real. Just hours before this patrol went out, three U.S. soldiers were wounded by a roadside bomb, two of them seriously.", "And commanders here say they are hoping -- they hope this raid in Samarra, just south of Tikrit, will be another piece in their information jigsaw, allowing them to reach out from these individuals to other people to begin to roll up more of these cells -- Aaron.", "Nic, thank you. Nic Robertson in Tikrit. Now to winning the hearts and minds in Paris and Berlin. Hearts and minds and euros. The issue on the table, of course, debt relief for Iraq. To that end, James Baker met today with the French president, Jacques Chirac. The former secretary of state winning a commitment in principle from Mr. Chirac. He also apparently provided a welcome bit of diplomacy. Said one French observer, \"He's a sign the adults are back in Washington, not the ayatollahs.\" From there, Mr. Baker traveled on to Germany, which is owed about $5 billion by Iraq. After meeting with Germany's prime minister, the German government also promised to help, but again registered its disagreement over the decision to lock French and German companies out of any contracts for the rebuilding of Iraq. Still to come on the program: the sniper trial. The jury gets the case in the trial of the accused teenage gunman. And then an over-the-counter morning after contraceptive gets one step closer to your drug store shelf. From New York, this is NEWSNIGHT."], "speaker": ["AARON BROWN, HOST", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "BROWN", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. 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{"id": "CNN-251440", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-03-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/17/nday.06.html", "summary": "Will Tsarnaev Take the Stand?", "utt": ["This is now the third week of the Boston Marathon bombing trial. So far the jury has heard from 58 witnesses. The big question right now, will Dzhokhar Tsarnaev take the stand in his own defense? We're going to get to that question after we go through some of the key pieces of evidence in this case so far with Paul Callan, CNN legal analyst and criminal defense attorney, also a former prosecutor, and Joey Jackson, HLN legal analyst and criminal defense attorney. Gentlemen, thank you so much for being with us.", "Sure.", "Paul, I think this trial started off with a notable really barrage, a parade of witnesses, people who suffered at these bombings, the graphic images, this carnage, these awful pictures of what happened here. What effect do you think that had?", "It's going to have an enormous effect. And this case has been moving very, very quickly, as we know. But when you talk about the death penalty, even people who are conscientiously opposed to the death penalty often have one exception. In a case that involves a family member, a friend, or carnage of this extent, and that's what prosecutors are showing here. This is a special case. It's a poster child for the death penalty. It's -- you know, Massachusetts is a liberal place. They generally oppose the death penalty up there, but prosecutors are making a very persuasive case here.", "And I -- and I think these images are extraordinary, even for the people who were there at the time. Joey, we've been talking about key pieces of evidence here.", "Sure.", "And the boat keeps coming up. The boat and the message that he wrote inside the boat, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did. We're looking at a picture of those messages right now, bullet riddled, talking about the United States attacking civilians, essentially saying this was in defense of Islam. What's the effect here?", "John, understand that this is compelling for the following reason. The whole defense is predicated upon the notion that he did not have a mind of his own. His brother put him up to everything. He led him. He radicalized him. He was in that boat, John, by himself. He had an opportunity by himself to give his views about what he felt about America, about what he felt about the actions that he engaged in with his brother in the bombing, in killing innocent civilians that, in his view, deserved it. And so I think what the prosecution is going to do is to align that with his tweets to make it clear that he acted, he acted knowingly, he acted intelligently and he acted on his own volition to kill and destroy", "Here's -- here's one of these tweets right here. Listen to Anwar al-Awlaki. He, of course, was the -- was the al Qaeda terrorist in Yemen. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev says you will gain an unbelievable amount of knowledge if you listen to him. Paul Callan, if you're a juror, you see that.", "Well, you know, once again, I mean the portrayal here through the use of the tweets is that this is a soldier in furtherance of an ideology that supports killing innocent American citizens. And he clearly understood what he was doing when he executed that ideology.", "Let's talk about the demeanor right now because there's been all this new evidence that we did not see two years ago.", "Right.", "Surveillance in and around the bombing. I think the one that the most people are talking about is though is right here, this simple moment where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, after killing three people at the end of the Boston Marathon, maiming dozens of others, goes and buys milk. What effect does a video here -- what does a -- what does a jury think when they see that?", "He did not care will be the prosecution's argument. He affected a nation, devastated a community, changed lives forever and took other lives. And what did he do after that? He went and he purchased milk. And then his brother said, you know what, we don't like this milk, let's take it back. And then certainly thereafter he goes for a workout and does other things that are just inconsistent with a person who really cares about anything.", "Other side --", "I think there -- there are two pieces of video. And I think, John, you're right on this one because it shows cold heartedness after this carnage. The other one is, when he's actually at the scene placing the bomb in a place where there are children --", "Right.", "Where there are women, where there are innocent people. And you really get a sense that he knew exactly who was going to be destroyed, utterly destroyed by this explosion.", "And this is all prelude, of course, to this trial right now and the big question, if you are the defense, do you have your client, do you have Dzhokhar Tsarnaev take the stand? And it's a two-part question, right, because you could have him take the stand before the determination of guilt or innocence or you could have him take the stand after during the sentencing phase.", "John, no way would he take the stand. You're talking about skilled attorneys who would rip him to shreds. If your ultimate argument is he had no mind of his own, didn't know what he was doing. Remember, the defense is not contesting guilt. They stood up during the opening statement and they said, our guy's guilty, but let me tell you why he's guilty. The defense will confront him with what we talked about, which is the evidence in that boat. The defense will confront him with running over his brother in addition to other police officers. The defense will confront him with \"Inquire\" magazine, and him reading it and reviewing it. Confront him with his tweets. He'll stand no chance. He doesn't get on the stand.", "Paul, even in sentencing?", "Unlikely that he takes the stand. I can't say 100 percent no only because this case is going so badly for the defense. They're crashing and burning. The one shot, the Hail Mary pass they might have, is putting him on the stand and making him sympathetic to the jury that he's the pawn of his brother. And you know something? I've never met him. You've never met him. Only the defense attorneys can know how he will project to a jury. Will he be human? And what would they have to lose by putting him on? They know what's going to happen if they continue to follow this road -- the death penalty.", "Paul Callan, Joey Jackson, great to have you as always.", "Thank you.", "Thanks so much, guys. Michaela?", "All right, John, you know, most teachers don't get the recognition they deserve. We are going to speak with one teacher who just received the most incredible award, giving her 1 million reasons to smile. You have to hear her story."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "JOEY JACKSON, HLN LEGAL ANALYST", "BERMAN", "PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BERMAN", "JACKSON", "BERMAN", "JACKSON", "BERMAN", "CALLAN", "BERMAN", "JACKSON", "BERMAN", "JACKSON", "BERMAN", "CALLAN", "JACKSON", "CALLAN", "BERMAN", "JACKSON", "BERMAN", "CALLAN", "BERMAN", "JACKSON", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA"]}
{"id": "CNN-339901", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-05-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/12/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Grassley's Message to Supreme Court Justices: \"Retire Yesterday\"", "utt": ["Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley sending a blunt message to any U.S. Supreme Court justice thinking about retirement. The Republican Senator from Iowa urging them to step down immediately.", "Are you prepping for a Supreme Court vacancy this summer, Chairman Grassley?", "I hope it's now or within two or three weeks because we've got to get this done before the election. So my message to any one of the nine Supreme Court justices, if you're thinking about quitting this year, do it yesterday.", "Wow. A lot of focus has been on the court's swing vote justice, Anthony Kennedy, and whether he'll retire when the current term expires next month. A Kennedy departure would give President Trump the opportunity to craft a more conservative Supreme Court perhaps. But with midterms six months away, the Republicans fear they could lose their majority in November, making it more difficult to confirm a conservative justice. Joining me is Steve Vladeck, a CNN legal analyst, professor of law and constitutional law. Good to see you.", "Good to see you.", "OK, so if Justice Kennedy were to retire, what kind of battle would ensue in your view?", "Oh, a cataclysmic one. I think everybody understands that Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has been the swing vote on the Supreme Court since 2006, replacing him would tilt the scales of the Supreme Court -- certainly if it's Trump doing the replacing -- in a very conservative direction. I think we would see a fight unlike any we've seen certainly in a generation and perhaps in modern times over any possible replacement for Justice Kennedy.", "It's to be presumed, right, that Justice Kennedy is thinking about that, too? I mean, being mindful of if you were to step down and now, versus later, who would likely succeed him?", "This is the irony of Chairman Grassley's comments. The Supreme Court justices are quite aware, not just of the timing of the confirmation process but really of their own legacies. When a justice thinks about the timing and circumstances of their departure from the court, they're thinking about personal reasons, family reasons, health reasons, but also what it's going to say about them 10, 15, 20 years on, when scholars, commentators, are assessing their legacy. What we know about Justice Kennedy is he is deeply, deeply sensitive to how he's perceived, and I think that's going to be a big part of his very personal choice with regard to when he's going to step down.", "Talk to me about the awareness of the political climate a justice would have. You mentioned all those things they take into consideration, but it almost seems like all of those things come last and, you know, political climate, legacy are at the top.", "I think that's right. Obviously, every justice is different. Every case is different. Plenty of examples of justices who were, you know, forced basically to leave court because of personal or medical issues perhaps during a presidency or when there was a Senate controlled by a party that they didn't want picking their successor. So, you know, I think for Justice Kennedy, the question is, does he want to step down. Is he still enjoying his job, which, you know, frankly, he's got a lot of power. And if he does want to step down, does he really think that now's the time to do it, not just given the upcoming midterms but given the broader political division and divisiveness in our American political system now.", "Hasn't it been the tradition that most of these justices, when they, you know, feel like if, you know, it's an issue of retiring, they do it on their own terms, not because everybody else is at -- you know, urging them to do so?", "Yes. I know, the thing that struck me that's the most discordant about Chairman Grassley's remarks is he knows as well as anybody that these nine people are not about to be bullied by the Senate Judiciary Committee. They're not about to feel like the timing is up to the Senate as opposed to whatever their personal predilections and preferences are.", "During the last justice opening, when Obama was president, the majority leader, Mitch McConnel, kept that position vacant. Sighting an election year, there wasn't enough time and consideration, et cetera. Might that now come back to haunt the GOP if there were an opening soon?", "Maybe. Although I think, you know, no one will be surprised to hear that Senate Majority Leader McConnell, Chairman Grassley, have both said, hey, if it just so happens that President Trump has a vacancy to fill while we're still in charge of the Senate that, you know, rule we evoked in 2016 to deny seat to President Obama, all of a sudden, is not going to bind us. As with everything, I think it's very circumstance specific. And I think, you know, if a justice resigned in the next couple of weeks or, you know, some time before the end of the summer, I think they'll be a lot of pressure on Trump, on Senate Republicans, to get a confirmation done before the midterms, lest the midterms themselves become a referendum on the future of court and who's going to be able to fill that seat.", "Back to Grassley, how unusual is it for a Senator, especially one heading up a Judiciary Committee, to talk like that?", "I mean, you know, I think it's unusual for a random Senator. I think Chairman Grassley is not exactly someone who's, you know, shy. I think I mean, realistically, I don't think he's talking to the court when he's talking about the timing of nominations. I think in many ways he's actually talking more to the White House, basically, saying, if this going to happen, you guys are going to have to move fast.", "Really, because I felt like he was talking to a justice, like, if you're going to do it, yesterday.", "I think that's how it's perceived. But, you know, Chairman Grassley knows that, you know, Anthony Kennedy is not sitting by the phone waiting for permission from Chairman Grassley to announce his resignation. So, you know, I don't think this is about what Justice Kennedy is going to do. Only Justice Kennedy, at the end of the day, knows that and is going to be the decider of that. I think this is Grassley signaling to everybody else, if we do get a retirement announcement from Justice Kennedy, which he hopes is soon, people are going to want to move and need to move fast, lest the midterms become a referendum on the conservative balance on the Supreme Court.", "All right, Steve Vladeck, thanks so much.", "Thank you.", "All right, still ahead, the families of those who lost their frozen embryos when a freezer malfunctioned at an Ohio fertility clinic are speaking out about their heartbreak as we learn new details of how the legal cases may or may not go forward."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "HUGH HEWITT, RADIO SHOW HOST", "SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY, (R-IA), CHAIRMAN, SENATE JUDICARY COMMITTEE", "WHITFIELD", "STEVE VLADECK, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "WHITFIELD", "VLADECK", "WHITFIELD", "VLADECK", "WHITFIELD", "VLADECK", "WHITFIELD", "VLADECK", "WHITFIELD", "VLADECK", "WHITFIELD", "VLADECK", "WHITFIELD", "VLADECK", "WHITFIELD", "VLADECK", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-128903", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2008-7-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/22/acd.02.html", "summary": "Hurricane Dolly Heads for Texas", "utt": ["Breaking news tonight - Dolly is now a hurricane and gathering force. We'll have the new advisory from the Hurricane Center on where it's headed and when.Also tonight, face-off: Barack Obama in the Middle East talking about peace and the surge; John McCain at home taking a tough shot at Obama, saying Obama would rather win the election than win in Iraq. And what many Democrats will no doubt jump on tomorrow, McCain tonight saying Obama has the timeline of the surge all wrong. But does in fact McCain have it all wrong? We'll check the facts. Also breaking tonight, Warren Jeffs, the fallen polygamist leader, new charges against him, stunning new legal developments. We'll bring you all of that; a very big night of breaking stories. We begin with Hurricane Dolly targeting the Texas Gulf Coast. Warnings are up tonight, from Brownsville to Corpus Christi. The major concern there, not just the wind, but what is expected to be massive amounts of rain. CNN's severe weather expert Chad Myers as always is tracking the storm. He joins us with the latest -- Chad.", "Well, the 11:00 o'clock advisory Anderson, finally came off. The only good news and bad news is that we have is that the bad news is I don't have time to make any graphics here before I can get it to you here. But here it is word for word from the Hurricane Center; Dolly is a little bit stronger tonight. And you can almost begin to see that the backside of this is getting a full-sized eye. This is still open as we call it over here. The eye wall has not made its way all the way over to the east side. But an 80-mile-per-hour sustained wind now, with gusts probably to almost 100 miles per hour moving towards the Brownsville area, Matamoros, this will be northern Mexico; a very populated part of northern Mexico here as well. And then into Brownsville and then we get back over here into South Padre Island and then McAllen from there. So what we're talking about is a lot of rainfall. We are talking about some wind damage and some of the computer estimates bringing in the wind damage here to about three -- yes, there it is, right there, $3.6 billion dollars across south Texas because of this. Now, this is economic loss because of people not being there as tourists. This is economic loss because of broken windows, shingles, buildings out of work, people out of work, people displaced because their homes are knocked down, whatever it may be. This is forecast to about 120-mile-per-hour gusts. We don't have that quite yet; not 120 miles per hour gust. 100-mile-per-hour gusts but not 120. So this may be a little high on the estimate scale, but think about $3.6 billion compared to what Katrina made on up there into New Orleans, numbers exponentially -- exponentially higher there as we've looked at this storm compared to that storm. So the good news/bad news, yes, the storm is here. This is the latest here. This is the very, very latest; the graphics coming in automatically for me, 25.1 north, 96.0 west. Winds are 80, gusting to 100 miles per hour and the middle of the line. Now we can pretty much focus on the line. Its close enough, we don't have to worry about the cone because the cone is only that wide. So we're not talking about Corpus Christi anymore for a landfall possibility. But all the way up to about -- that's north of South Padre Island. Now the good news is there's a county right here called Kennedy County. There's 414 people live there. Have you ever seen the King Ranch? Ever seen the big ford F-750 King Ranch trucks? That's what they're talking about, we're talking about King Ranch. This is a huge almost the state of Rhode Island ranch here, where there are more cows than people. I guess that's good news to get the cows out of the way. But then the rain moves into the Rio Grand Valley, Anderson, and that's when the rain starts. And because it isn't going to move, see it's kind of dying right here, it is going to sit there and it is going to rain for days and that will cause flooding; 15-inches of rain possible with this storm.", "How quickly will it dissipate as a hurricane once it's over land?", "Oh probably, because this is the desert, I mean we're not talking of like going over the Yucatan peninsula, which is essentially a wet kind of a swampy area, marshy area, this is a desert down here. And I would say this is going to die in, it will be less than a hurricane in 15, 16 hours and then after that it'll be a tropical depression in two days.", "All right, Chad Myers with the latest. Chad, thanks. It's not going to be a picnic on Padre Island, those words of warning echoed by Chad about Hurricane Dolly today, from the director of the National Hurricane Center. About 1.5 million people are in the path of the storm along the Texas coast and South Padre Island is right in the bull's eye. That's where \"360's\" Gary Tuchman is tonight. He joins us again live. Gary, what's going on now?", "Well, Anderson, the outer bands are just starting to move in. We're having sporadic heavy rains and high winds behind me. I think this a fascinating story. This is the Blue Sky Souvenir stand; almost every business is boarded up and closed. But the guy who owns the Blue Sky says he has too many windows to put up boards, so he's flying his flag and he's staying open until his normal midnight closing time, because he says he has nowhere else to go. But as you could see, there are even some customers who've come in, to buy some souvenirs, tourists. Most of the tourists however, have left. This is South Padre Island, this is the furthest south you can go in the state of Texas along the coast. And as you'd said, this is in the bull's eye, Anderson. There's a lot of concern about the possibility of immense flood damage here. This is a Category 1 hurricane; this is not a hurricane that normally will blow down buildings like we saw in the coast of Mississippi during hurricane Katrina. One thing you got to remember in New Orleans most of the damage were from the levees is breaking, not from the wind. That was a category 3 storm, ultimately Katrina. This is a category 1 storm but there's great concern about floodings and similar concerns Katrina with levees. Behind us, Mexico, at a 15 minutes drive from here, the Rio Grand River and there's concern that levees may not be strong enough. And there may be immense flooding. A lot of concern in northern Mexico; concern because it's very hilly there. And people here are very worried but the fact is they are not used to get hit directly by a hurricane here. Anyone under the age of 30 doesn't remember a hurricane directly, hitting it 1980, the last one Hurricane Allen, a 150 miles per hour went came to here, killed two people, caused big problems with flooding and that what authorities are very concerned about. Midday tomorrow, the brunt of Hurricane Dolly is expected to be here -- Anderson.", "So most of the people have evacuated?", "Most of the people have evacuated, there's not a mandatory evacuation order in effect, only a voluntary evacuation but as we know, mandatory orders don't mean they arrest people that just means the police say you're at your own risk at this point. They're telling people they should leave. Most people and there are more than 100 between 100,000 and 200,000 people here, in a busy summer weeks and most people it seem they are gone. But we still see people going up and down the road. We still see people going in to the Blue Sky Souvenir stand to buy their souvenirs.", "All right, Gary Tuchman, stay safe. Up next, Barack Obama in the Middle East, John McCain here at home, actually saying Obama would rather win the election than win the war. Later, \"Breaking News\", new charges against Warren Jeffs this time involving the notorious ranch in Texas. And he cleaned up Gotham City, but now Christian Bale \"Batman\" is in hot water with authorities in London. Details when \"360\" continues."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "COOPER", "MYERS", "COOPER", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "TUCHMAN", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-45996", "program": "CNN NEWSNIGHT AARON BROWN", "date": "2001-12-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/21/asb.00.html", "summary": "Kabul Prepares For New Government", "utt": ["And good evening again everyone. It's Friday. It's the Friday before Christmas. It's the Friday before a week off. This program tonight could be an adventure. I can't prove this, but it just seems to me that Christmas feels different this year. The weather here in the East has been remarkably warm for much of the last few weeks. No sign of snow. But it's not just the weather and it's not just here. Across the country, we talked with friends and we've gotten the sense that everything is more sober this year. Concern for the troops overseas, concern for the economy at home, and of course the scars of September 11th are still quite raw. And we haven't helped much around here, have we? The news over the last several weeks has been a bit tough to take, so we'll try to throw some fun into the mix tonight. After all, it is a Friday. But as always, and as it should be, the hard news comes first. In Kabul today, there was preparations for something that happens just hours from now. A new government takes over, at least for the short term. And there's also tonight some concern that U.S. warplanes hit tribal chiefs near Tora Bora, friends of the Americans, not terrorists and we'll look at that tonight as well. As for bin Laden, President Bush today said \"he may have tried to slither out to Pakistan.\" He also said the country is safer than it was September 11th but the United States remains a target. And September 11th rushes back when you look at this picture, but something good did come from Ground Zero this week. In the relative universe we find ourselves in, the fires are out there and the death toll, which has slowly but steadily come down. It's down below 3,000 today. Now imagine that. Imagine thinking a death toll in the thousands could be anything other than horrific. We'll talk about the controversy over how to compensate the families victimized on September 11th tonight. This is troubling. We'll talk with two brothers who are unhappy about the way it's being handled. I also have Jason Bellini's final collaboration with MTV News in Afghanistan, and Bruce Morton tonight on whether Christmas this year is, in fact, different. And then there's this holiday travel piece that's a bit of an experiment for us. That's all we're going to say about that right now. We'll start as we always do with a whip around the world, the correspondents covering it. It starts at the Pentagon tonight and CNN's Bob Franken who has the duty. Bob, a headline please.", "And the cliche of the night, Aaron, is the more things change, the more they stay the same. And that could describe the day's story of the view of the war from the Pentagon.", "Bob, back with you shortly. Now, to Afghanistan, Kabul the capitol, where a government is preparing to take power. CNN's John Vause is there. John, a headline.", "Aaron, on a bitterly cold morning here in Kabul, just a few hours from now that interim authority will take power, but the party may be short lived. There is an enormous job ahead.", "John, thank you. And next, to the White House, and the President's day today. CNN's Major Garrett is there. Major, a headline, please.", "Aaron, the president who once referred to John Walker as a poor fellow, today called him an al Qaeda fighter, a terrorist in other words, and that's a label that no one, especially an American wants to wear right now. That it was applied by the commander-in-chief, who will hold John Walker's legal fate in his hands, make it all the more important.", "Major, thank you. Back with all of you shortly. We begin with the war and signs tonight that it's entering a new phase, certainly a more narrow focus and perhaps a whole lot riskier. U.S. troops are going into cafes and giving chase through the hills and mountains of Afghanistan. And today, after three days of quiet, U.S. warplanes bombed in eastern Afghanistan. There is some dispute over exactly what they hit, though apparently there is no doubt at the Pentagon, at least last time we checked. We turn once again to CNN's Bob Franken. Bob.", "And you talk about the new phase and that's how the Secretary of Defense described it today. But there are some remnants of the old phase, some old charges, old denials, but also according to the Defense Secretary, some new successes.", "As the dust settles from the all-out war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says that a methodical search through the debris has already made a significant contribution to the war on terrorism.", "There has been information that has been gathered in Afghanistan that has directly resulted in the arrest of people across the world, at the other side of the globe, and undoubtedly have prevented other terrorist activities.", "Which countries? Which terrorist activities? Could the Defense Secretary be more specific?", "No. I thought I did well.", "No, certainly can", "I could but I won't.", "Rumsfeld did confirm that U.S. troops have joined the search through the hundreds of caves and tunnels, and that more are on the way for work that is very tedious and, at the same time, very dangerous.", "The assumption is anyone in there is dead, but if you make that assumption you can get in an awful lot of trouble awful fast. So they're exercising a great deal of care and they're properly trained and they're doing a good job.", "They'll get some help from a new weapon, brand new. It was less than two weeks ago that an intense heat bomb was still being tested in the Nevada desert. It's called a thermoberic bomb.", "We skipped a laser- guided bomb into a tunnel an exploded it with a delay fuse and experienced a significant growth in over pressure for the tunnels and temperature. It's something that we would clearly have a need for in Afghanistan, and they're on their way over there.", "Ten are being sent. They'll be dropped into the caves and tunnels from F-15 jets, even as the air war is scaling back. There was a three-day lull before U.S. planes attacked a convoy near the town of Khost, not far from Tora Bora, and not far from a facility identified as a terrorist training camp. The attack they said here killed Taliban leaders, but on the ground some local officials claimed the dead were tribal elders on their way to the inauguration of Afghanistan's new government. Pentagon officials reject that possibility.", "I'd like not to address the specific indicators that caused us to strike that particular convoy, but the intelligence that we gathered at the time indicated to us that this was, in fact, leadership and we struck the leadership, as we will do next time we get that kind of intelligence.", "Pentagon officials provided no identification, but all of this seems to be an indication that although the war may seem to be rolling back, the fog of war definitely has not. Aaron.", "Well the - you know, this story I heard it early in the afternoon that perhaps the wrong target was hit. Has there been any change in what the Pentagon's been saying through the course of the day, from the afternoon briefing until now?", "No. In fact, they're even more emphatic. First of all, they point out that the information is coming via the Islamic agency press, which they continuously point out is closely associated with the Taliban. Also they say, they have checked and rechecked and they just firmly believe this time that the targets that they hit were with ones that they set out to hit.", "We'll see what shakes tomorrow on that, thanks. Bob Franken at the Pentagon tonight. From Day One, there's been a concern that getting the Afghans to agree on a post-Taliban government would not be an easy thing to do, and it hasn't. But they did agree and tomorrow early, an interim government will take power in Kabul. If all goes well, it will be a tense moment, but it will be a peaceful one. The story takes place in the capitol, the ceremony does. CNN's John Vause is there. John, good morning to you.", "Hello, Aaron. Well, there is a sense of hope and optimism here in Kabul. But as I said, there is a message up ahead to this new interim administration. Nine billion dollars is the price tag the U.N. and the World Bank puts on rebuilding the infrastructure in Afghanistan. It says that the money will be coming over the next five years, providing this interim administration and the governments which follow, can maintain the peace. In the short-term, $600 million just to reopen schools, improve the health care system, give seed to farmers, and improve the water supply; $20 million for the interim administration simply to go out and buy office equipment, to pay salaries, to buy everything from paper clips to pencils to desks and chairs. Now security here in Kabul for this swearing in ceremony is extremely tight. On the streets this morning, troops were lining the streets every 20 to 30 feet. They were stopping and checking every card. It's a very visible security presence. Not so visible, the British Royal Marines, who last night moved into the British Embassy. They say they will take up positions around Kabul during the ceremony. They say they'll have a low-key, a very low profile role for the next few days. They're of course the advance guard before the international stabilization force arrives. They say they're merely here to offer advice and to be on hand should the interim administration need their help. Also yesterday, a security sweep across Kabul, apart of that security sweep, bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in as well as security and heavily armed troops on checkpoints. There is also a number of diplomats who have arrived in the capitol, Kabul. Among the foreigners and the foreign dignitaries here, Tommy Franks, the Commander of the U.S. Central Command who led the bombing campaign which ultimately ousted the Taliban from power. Now one final thing, yesterday they did in fact solve one problem. Someone found a cassette tape with the Afghanistan National Anthem on it. They needed that cassette tape because they couldn't find enough musicians to play, to form the band to play the National Anthem. Now that National Anthem hasn't been heard for many, many years so it will be very interesting to see how many people here actually know the words. Aaron.", "That is an absolutely priceless anecdote there. You talked about troops lining the streets. Whose troops? Who are they? Who's commanding them?", "These are the municipal authority troops. They're essentially the police, if you like. They wear the gray uniforms, not the fatigues of the Northern Alliance, although ultimately they do come under the umbrella we're told of the Northern Alliance. But these more, if you like, a civil authority rather than the hard and battle weary troops of the Northern Alliance who fought the war just a few weeks ago. They're heavily armed though. They carry RPGs and those Kalashnikov AK-47 rifles.", "And will many of the citizens of Kabul be allowed to watch it all?", "Well that's the interesting point. They're expecting about 2,000 Afghan citizens who will actually be allowed in to watch the proceedings. They are making provisions to put this on television, although we're not quite too sure how that will work. Afghan TV isn't the most reliable source of communications in the country. It's a very difficult thing to try and get messages out to the population. But essentially, the vast bulk of the million population which makes up Kabul will not be able to see the proceedings which are taking place here today.", "John, thanks. John Vause in Kabul on a historic day in the Afghan capitol. We mentioned earlier the president took another jab at Osama bin Laden today. Tough words as well for world leaders who say one thing about terrorism and perhaps do another. \"Thank you for your condolences,\" the president said. \"I appreciate your flowers. Now arrest somebody if they're in your country.\" He also had a lot to say about the American Taliban John Walker. So we go back to the White House and CNN's Major Garrett who's on the lawn tonight. Major, good evening.", "Good evening, Aaron. Senior administration officials tell CNN that as they deliberate what to do about John Walker's case, what they want to do is bring a case they can win in court. No real surprise there. But that has a lot of bearing on exactly what kind of case will be brought and exactly where. Will it be a military court? Will it be a civilian court? The administration is still debating that. The president took some questions today in the Oval Office about John Walker and a range of other topics and he actually made a little bit of news about the John Walker case.", "The administration's heard from his lawyer and we told his lawyer that at the appropriate time, we'll let everybody know, including his family how we're going to proceed with Walker, as well as others that have become captured during this war.", "Aaron, nobody knew that John Walker's attorney, James Brosnahan had been in touch with the White House Counsel. In fact, CNN learned that he was in touch with Alberto Gonzalez, the White House Counsel on Monday. Senior administration officials privy to those conversations tell us the conversation was about five minutes. It was serious, had no legal bluster in it, and was not a part of any posturing maneuver by Mr. Walker's attorney. Overall, the administration considers the conversation generally good. Here's one interesting note, Aaron. James Brosnahan is no mystery figure to people at this Bush White House. He was a lead prosecutor in the Iran Contra Scandal, and he handled the perjury case against Caspar Weinberger, a case that was nullified when, at the last minute, George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president, pardoned Cap Weinberger right before that case was to go to trial. Aaron.", "Well, the key thing as I listen to this was the change in tone. I mean, we've gone from an almost empathetic description from the president to a much harsher one. The president sending signals here?", "The president knows, and his senior advisors know, that John Walker's peers or might we call them his former peers, the American public want the maximum charge brought, and they want that charge successfully prosecuted. That's why the administration is being very careful in the gathering of facts. Also, as they gather those facts, they're trying to extract more information from John Walker, dangling lesser charges in exchange for more information, a common prosecutorial tactic. We're not expecting any definitive word from the White House as to what will become judicially of John Walker for at least a week. Aaron.", "And, Major, this is probably unfair to ask you, so beg off if you might, if you wish, do we believe that his lawyer, Walker's lawyer has had any contact with his client at all?", "I don't - I simply do not know.", "OK.", "I've made several attempts to talk to James Brosnahan today. He declined to return my phone calls and said, issuing a broad statement just talking about his general efforts on Mr. Walker's behalf, no comments back to me. His bad luck, not mine.", "Thank you. I'm sorry to put you on the spot there.", "That's all right.", "Have a good weekend, thank you.", "All right.", "Major Garrett at the White House tonight. In a moment, health problems facing New York's firefighters who spend days, weeks, long day and weeks breathing the smoke at Ground Zero. More on that as NewsNight continues on the Friday before Christmas."], "speaker": ["AARON BROWN, \"NEWSNIGHT\"", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BROWN", "JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BROWN", "MAJOR GARRETT, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BROWN", "FRANKEN", "FRANKEN (voice over)", "DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY", "FRANKEN", "RUMSFELD", "UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT", "RUMSFELD", "FRANKEN", "RUMSFELD", "FRANKEN", "EDWARD ALDRIDGE, UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "FRANKEN", "GENERAL PETER PACE, VICE CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS", "FRANKEN", "BROWN", "FRANKEN", "BROWN", "VAUSE", "BROWN", "VAUSE", "BROWN", "VAUSE", "BROWN", "GARRETT", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "GARRETT", "BROWN", "GARRETT", "BROWN", "GARRETT", "BROWN", "GARRETT", "BROWN", "GARRETT", "BROWN", "GARRETT", "BROWN"]}
{"id": "CNN-245802", "program": "@THISHOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2014-12-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1412/23/ath.01.html", "summary": "Tensions Between Police, Protesters Continue Despite De Blasio Call for Unity; Bill de Blasio Versus the NYPD", "utt": ["No mayor, big city or small, can govern effectively if he doesn't have the local police as his backup. And New York Mayor Bill de Blasio most definitely, right now, does not have the support of New York's finest. The animosity has been simmering below the surface for months, but after two NYPD officers were gunned down in cold blood on Saturday, tempers certainly did flare. Fingers were pointed directly at City Hall. Police unions and others said the killings were the result of de Blasio being, quote, \"anti-cop,\" end quote. And here's why perhaps they felt that way. Mayor de Blasio campaigned against the police tactic known as 'stop and frisk.' It stopped after he became mayor, as well. He told his biracial son to be extra careful in his dealings with police because he's non-white, and he announced that publicly. The mayor is accused of allowing recent anti-police demonstrations to get out of hand and not punishing those who broke the law during those demonstrations. He referred to two police officers who were roughed up by protesters as an \"alleged assault,\" not as an assault. And he's been close with protest organizer Al Sharpton who's been extremely critical of the New York City Police Department. My guests today are Jonathan Moore, who is the attorney for the family of Eric Garner, who, of course, you'll know, died after being put in a police chokehold last July. And former NYPD Captain Mark Novak who has been a guest just this week, as well, on this program. I'm glad the both of you are here because this is one of those weeks where the mayor is calling for a moment of Kumbaya. Look, everybody just take a deep breath, it's a holiday week and we haven't even buried the dead. For the protests to go forward, everyone needs to just have this moment. Is that what Eric Garner's family wants?", "Yes. I think they've made a conscious decision to not be involved in anything while these families grieve for their lost sons. They spoke very eloquently on Saturday expressing their deep condolences toward the family. They've experienced the loss of a son, his mother experienced the loss of a son, she understand what that is. They're not interested in ratcheting up the emotion. They're not going to give up their struggle for justice for Eric Garner and for other victims of police abuse, but I think we all would benefit by a cooling off period.", "But, Mr. Moore, after the funerals -- and that will be soon -- then what?", "Well, then we have to begin to deal with the issues, again, of what caused the death of Eric Garner. We have to begin to tell the truth about why New York City is in the situation it is. For roughly the last ten years, the police department has been engaged in a policy of stopping and frisking people without reasonable suspicion and because of their race. That's not me saying it, that's not the Garner family saying it, that's the Federal Court and the United States District Court for the Southern District in New York, concluded that after a ten-week trial, after hearing over 100 witnesses, after having 400 exhibits, concluded that the police department, not the officers, the police department, had maintained a policy and practice of racial profiling. When you have that kind of culture within the police department, you're going to have problems like what happened to Eric Garner.", "So Mark, what does this mayor have to do? If this is true and the critics are writing it at length today that if you don't have the support of your police department, you can't govern a major city or a minor one. What does he have to do to fix this?", "He's going to have to try and restore that trust with the police department.", "How?", "By -- what the officers want to see and what the officers feel is that when they are correct, when the officers are doing the right thing, he wants them to have -- they want him to have their back. The officers understand that if something went wrong, if there is any kind of things that need to be addressed then so be it. Let's look at what happened, we'll take our lumps and move on. But what the officers are not feeling right now is that anybody has their back. They feel under attack. They feel they're being painted with one broad brush stroke. I hear over and over again how we're not supposed to judge an entire community or an entire organization by the actions of one or two people. Well, this is what the officers are feeling right now when you have these protests going about with the signs for racist police, all police are racist, KKK, NYPD, you know, calling for the death of police officers. They feel under attack and they feel that no one, including the mayor -- in fact, some of the officers, whether rightly or wrongly, feel that the mayor has fostered this.", "Jonathan, has the message reached the public? Certainly the public -- when I mean the public, those who are taking to the streets and calling the NYPD racist or calling the policies racist, has the message reached the streets? That -- Mayor de Blasio is the first mayor to preside over a city as it has now shifted to majority, minority. Meaning there are more black people, Asian people, Hispanic people than there are white people in this city and that is also reflected on the force. This police force in this city is majority, minority. Is that known?", "No, I think that's a good point and I think people understand that the city has changed. That's why we now have a new mayor who has spoken quite eloquently of his own personal experience, his family's experience, and the need to begin to address some of these issues. We have been in the process over the last several months of meeting with the police department. We, I mean the lawyers and the", "Does the Garner family want to be the face of the protests in New York? Michael Brown's family in Ferguson was okay with being the face. I mean, they went to Geneva to be the face of that movement. Do the Garners want to be the face of this movement?", "No, I wouldn't say they want to be the face. I think they were thrust into this situation and they didn't want it and wherever they speak about it they say they wish they weren't here to have to speak about it. They've spoken very eloquently, I think, particularly his mother and his wife, about the pain they feel. And they've actually gone out of their way to say over and over that they're not anti- police, that they support the police. And this movement, to the extent that I can speak for the movement and I certainly wouldn't pretend to do that, but in all the events I've attended, the message hasn't been very clear. We're not anti-police, we're about effective, fair, bias-free, constitutional policing. That's the standard that should apply to all citizens of this city. All residents of the city.", "Jonathan Moore and Mark Novak --", "And I'd like to say that's the goal. What most police officers go out on a daily basis and do.", "Somehow they have to figure out how they still have the same message and actually show that they still have the same message to one another. I appreciate the both of you being here. Thank you and happy holidays to you. Ahead this hour, www.noservice.com. No kidding. North Korea's Internet service is out again. Second day now, according to DIN Research. And Kim Jong-un is pointing a finger directly at the United States of America. Ed Royce, who's the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is going to be here with the reaction. He's got a couple of suggestions for Kim. You're going to hear what they are next."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "JONATHAN MOORE, GARNER FAMILY ATTORNEY", "BANFIELD", "MOORE", "BANFIELD", "MARK NOVAK, FORMER NYPD CAPTAIN", "BANFIELD", "NOVAK", "BANFIELD", "MOORE", "BANFIELD", "MOORE", "BANFIELD", "NOVAK", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-174128", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2011-10-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1110/15/smn.01.html", "summary": "Occupy Wall Street Gets Bigger; Occupy Wall Street Gets Bigger", "utt": ["From the CNN Center, this is CNN SATURDAY MORNING. Good morning, everybody. I'm Alina Cho. T.J. Holmes is on assignment. 6:00 a.m. in Atlanta, 3:00 a.m. in Las Vegas. That's where T.J. is right now for the upcoming presidential debate. He'll be with us later this morning. But first, Occupy Wall Street goes global. Protesters taking to the streets all over the world. And in some cities, they're being met with strong resistance from police. We'll show you what's going on. Plus, you know the fact, J.R. Ewing, from the 1980s hit TV series \"Dallas,\" announces a very public health battle. But the actor, Larry Hagman, has no plans to step down. And we're all guilty of it, eating and driving. But one community is working to put a stop to it. The Occupy Wall Street movement just keeps getting bigger. More protests inside and outside of the United States, along with more arrests. In New York alone, 14 arrests after protesters staged a sit- in in the street blocking traffic. In Flint, Michigan, dozens of demonstrators protested in front of a Bank of America building. And in Seattle, Washington, dozens more remain in a downtown park. Just yesterday police in riot gear arrested 41 people there. And in San Diego, police clashed with Occupy protesters who had formed a tent city. And things got pretty intense. Officers used pepper spray to make the demonstrators comply with an order to remove their camping gear. Here's Salvador Rivera of affiliate KGTV.", "Protesters try to hold their ground as officers try to hold protesters back. \"We don't need police\" is what they were saying as officers formed a wall and pushed protesters away.", "Shame on you!", "A few minutes later, officers used more than just their might to get a handle on the protesters.", "Ow! They", "Some protesters scramble to get water and other liquids to wash away the effects of the pepper spray.", "And they shouldn't come in here and just do this", "That's not right. We're trying to protect something we stand up for, we believe in, and they're coming in there with force?", "Eric Hauser says the officers went too far. Only one person was arrested during the confrontation.", "We're not the violent people. They are.", "This all happened after officers began removing tents, especially this one, which, according to protesters, held a symbolic meaning. \"", "To us that tent represents every house that's being closed, that's being foreclosed on. That tent represents every kid that's going to be out on the streets.", "Police say they were very patient, but the tents had to come down to prepare for the World of Dance event taking place this weekend at Golden Hall.", "We understand that people have a right to protest. But somewhere along that line, people have a right to conduct business. That's what this is all about.", "Occupy Wall Street and the discontent behind it has even gone global. Protests are happening today in Europe, North America and Asia. In Japan, about 200 people marched through the streets of Tokyo. One target, the Tokyo Electric Power Company and its handling of the disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. In Canada, organizers have been drumming up support for protests in at least 15 Canadian cities. Thousands of demonstrators are expected to turn out. Two Afghan civilians were killed in a suicide attack on a U.S.-run facility in northern Afghanistan. One official says four attackers armed with suicide vests and weapons tried to storm the base. One exploded his car at the gate. The others tried to rush in. Two detonated their vests, and two were fatally shot by police before their devices went off. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. The son of U.S.-born militant cleric Anwar al Awlaki is dead. A security official says he was killed in a series of drone attacks in Yemen last night. The attacks killed a total of seven suspected militants. Once a key member of al Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, he was killed in a drone strike a little more than two weeks ago. In Libya, the streets of Tripoli are tense this morning after new fighting between revolutionary forces and pro-Gadhafi loyalists. Watch. Yesterday a group of about 10 Gadhafi loyalists opened fire in a neighborhood that has remained mostly loyal to Gadhafi. Revolutionary soldiers surrounded the area and fought back. Two Gadhafi loyalists and one national transitional council fighter were killed. Prosecutors will ask for the death penalty against a California man charged in what they call a two-minute murder spree. Police say 41- year-old Scott Dekraai shot and killed his ex-wife and seven other people inside a hair salon. It happened in Seal Beach, California. The district attorney said Dekraai wanted revenge for a custody fight he was having with his ex-wife over their eight-year-old son. The ex-wife was a stylist at the salon. The catholic bishop of Kansas City faces criminal charges for failing to tell police about child pornography he found on a priest's computer. Bishop Robert Finn pled not guilty to a misdemeanor. If found guilty, the bishop could face up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. The diocese, incredibly, was also charged. A federal appeals court temporarily blocks key parts of Alabama's tough immigration law, at least until they decide whether the law is unconstitutional. Most notably, the move stops public schools from checking the immigration status of students. But police will still be required to check someone's immigration status when they are stopped or arrested if the officer suspects the person is in the country illegally. And now to a sign of the times. A Chicago suburb may put a stop to drivers chowing down in the car. This certainly caught my attention. The village of Oak Park is considering a proposal that would ban eating while driving. That's right, this has nothing to do with a cell phone. An effort to get distracted drivers to pay more attention to the road, of course. Now, if Oak Park ends up enacting such a law, it would be the first in the nation to do so. \"Men's Health\" magazine released its second edition of \"Eat This, Not That,\" and it's a list of what the authors call the worst foods in America. Here's what you should not get next time you go out. The worst fast food burger in America, Wendy's Triple Baconator is what it's called. Take a look at that, 1,350 calories, 90 grams of fat, 40 grams of saturated fat and almost 3,000 milligrams of sodium. Now, to give you some perspective, that's as much saturated fat as you'd get in a medium supreme pizza from Pizza Hut. If you're still hungry later on, I'll tell you which chain got the honor of worst fries in America. All right, Bonnie Schneider is in the severe weather center. You're always a good eater, aren't you?", "Yes, I'm pretty healthy. I can't -- I was thinking, that's almost calories for the whole day in one burger.", "It is the calories for a whole day. Who are you kidding? So you've got a storm system in the Great Lakes that you want to talk about, right?", "Absolutely. We'll be monitoring that. This one's going to be a big one in terms of wind and waves. Right now in Atlanta, it's a beautiful morning out there. You can see behind me, it's still dark outside. We'll be looking forward to a nice day. Temperatures will be pleasant, Near 80 degrees. I'll tell you all about the rest of the forecast for the nation coming up.", "All right, Bonnie, thank you. A huge championship boxing fight happening tonight, but it's this 52- year-old ex-con fighting on the undercard who got a good-luck phone call from, you guessed it, the president of the United States. 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{"id": "CNN-235554", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-07-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/29/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Bombardment on Gaza City; Can Israel, Palestine Go Before ICC for War Crimes?", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "All right, these are pictures just taken by CNN of Gaza. You can see huge plumes of smoke over the area, so the bombardment continues. This bombardment comes minutes after we learned that Palestinian leaders of the West Bank are offering a 24-hour truce. According to the official Palestinian news agency, Hamas and Islamic jihad factions agree, though there's still no word from Israel. It is worth noting these leaders are in the West Bank and not in Gaza. Now, as I said, this news comes on the heels of Israel's biggest bombardment yet. Much of Gaza City is still shrouded in smoke and the dust of what had been buildings. Israelis pounded 70 Hamas targets, including a radio station, with some strikes appear to be horrible accidents. Neither Israel nor Hamas will accept the blame for an explosion at a refugee camp that left at least eight children dead. Karl Penhaul spoke with some of those witnesses, including children whose guardians granted us permission to interview them. Karl now joins us from Gaza. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. And let me bring you up to date on what is going on now. Since last night, in fact, the Israelis have been pushing an offensive on all parts of Gaza, as some of the fiercest air strikes that we have seen in the course of this three-week confrontation. And just behind me, in fact, you may still be able to make out some of the smoke there on the eastern horizon of Gaza, some of the largest explosions we've seen at any point during this three-week-old confrontation. It appears Israelis have been dropping 2,000-pound bombs from the air. We've seen at least four of those huge bombs go up from there. Difficult from here to tell what the target may be. It could be some of those tunnel complexes that Israel and its military is so keen to destroy. But, of course, this war is much more than air strikes, about munitions, about troops on the ground. Most of the casualties so far have been civilians. Yesterday, as you say, no different -- again, children in the firing line, children seeing things that they shouldn't have to see.", "You'll never get to meet little Mohammed. But his friend next door wants to tell you a bit about him. \"Top of the class at math, Barcelona football star Lionel Messi was his hero. He would always say Messi was an amazing player. He loved football, he worshipped Messi,\" she says. Orla (ph) is 12 years old. \"Glass sprayed on me so loud, so terrifying I can't even describe it,\" she says. Mohammed was just yards from his front door. Witnesses say he and the other kids were playing toy guns. They call it doom-doom (ph). The plastic pistol now broken, the children all dead. Annas (ph) reels off their names.", "It's a sight he should never have seen. \"I saw a boy cut up right there. Over there a man, he looked dead. And I saw a boy who was dead, too,\" he says. Just 8 years old, he mans up and describes the explosion. A bloody handmark in a doorway, a lucky escape for them, but not for their grandfather. They say he died buying them holiday candy. \"I saw Grandpa. His head was cut, his arms and legs were cut, he was all cut up,\" they say. Witnesses young and old say they heard a drone and then the sound of a missile fired onto their street. While we were there, we saw a militant rocket launched about a mile away. The warring factions blame each other. We've heard their excuses before. But there's no excuse for this. Or this. (on camera): Just look at the hole this shrapnel blasted in this car door. Imagine the damage that that would do to a child's body. (voice-over): As I sit on the pavement with Annas (ph), the ambulance arrived with young Mohammed's body. \"I want to go and see my cousin,\" he says.", "Sorry, we may not have met Mohammed, but it's already time to say good-bye.", "Carol, I've stepped out of the way of our camera so that you can see that shot in eastern Gaza. That is what is called the Tufa neighborhood. It has been the scene of fierce fighting between Hamas commandos and the Israeli military. And what we're seeing now is the aftermath of renewed bomb strikes on that area, a series of 2,000-pound bombs slamming into targets across there and that pall of smoke now rising hundreds of feet into the air. Those are, by far, the largest explosions and the most concentrated set of explosions on a single target that we have seen in the course of this three-week confrontation. It is not clear from our vantage point right now what kind of target that may be. It could well be that it is one of the tunnel complexes that the Israeli military said it is going after. Possibly, too, an indication that there could have been Hamas fighters on the ground, but certainly from that type of bunker-busting bombs they're using, probably something very deep underground. I can once again hear fighter jets overhead. It could be that they're coming in for more strikes there. We will keep you informed if they are, Carol.", "All right, Karl Penhaul, you stay safe. Thanks so much. The carnage has prompted U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to call not only for a halt in the violence in the Middle East but for those responsible on both sides to be brought to justice. His comments come just days after the U.N. human rights chief said war crimes may have been committed.", "The fighting has claimed well over 1,000 Palestinian lives, most of them civilians, hundreds of them children. Hamas rocket fire has claimed the lives of three Israeli civilians. There must be accountability, and justice, for crimes committed by all sides.", "Joining me now, Bill Van Esveld, a senior research for Human Rights Watch. In a CNN.com piece, he writes how such charges have not been pursued in the past, saying, quote, \"Dismal as Israel's record is in prosecuting war crimes, Hamas has prosecuted no one. West Bank Palestinian leaders intimated they may seek action in the International Criminal Court, which has indiscriminate rocket attacks from Gaza as well as unlawful Israeli air strikes.\" Bill, welcome and thank you so much for being here.", "Thanks for having me.", "We have seen few war crimes tried in the Hague. Why would this conflict or any other conflict be different?", "Well, there's a number of factors, one is that this is the third major escalation in Gaza and southern Israel since 2008-09 alone in which hundreds and hundreds of Palestinian civilians have been killed and there have also been Israeli civilians killed by rocket strikes. What's different about this is that the Palestinians now have an open door to go to the International Criminal Court. They did not before. They tried in 2009, after the end of what the Israeli military called Operation Cast Lead. But, at that point, Palestine was not recognized as a state, or rather the court said they couldn't figure out whether Palestine was a state or not so they couldn't accept jurisdiction over it. That problem from the Palestinian perspective has been resolved. The United Nations said Palestine was a non-member observer state in 2012 so that door is now open to them and we're strongly encouraging them to go not just for justice for Palestinian victims but for victims an all sides.", "Can the Hague or the U.N. adequately investigate alleged war crimes during an active conflict?", "Well, investigating war crimes is obviously very difficult at the best of times and even more so when the conflict is ongoing, but I can give you some examples of cases that we have already investigated for Human Rights Watch and that the U.N. has a human rights team on the ground already that's also been looking into some cases. So, for example, you can check out the kind of weapons that have been used in an air strike by the Israeli side. You can talk to witnesses. You can try and double check everything you hear, cross-checking against any militants that have been claimed to have been killed by one of the armed groups, or rather that they claim as martyrs. So you can check whether there was a military target that the Israelis could have been attacking. You can check what kind of munition was used. For example, there was a strike on the Gaza Beach just outside a hotel that was full of journalists and we identified the weapon used as a spike missile, which actually has a camera in the nose of the missile, and that missile can see what it's being shot at and be steered on the way to the target. And yet the target in this case was young boys who'd been playing on the beach. Similarly, you can investigate the rocket attacks on the other side. So it is possible, difficult but possible.", "I know the U.N. is actively investigating the shelling of a U.N. school that served as a shelter, 13 died there, many more were wounded. Why is it so difficult in that case to determine who's to blame?", "Well, in that case, you know, it's a question partly of identifying the weapons used. The Israeli military released a drone video of a mortar hitting the courtyard of the school, but there was damage to other parts of the school as well. We have preliminary information about several types of weapons used there, but we can't be sure yet if they were found in the school or if they might have been brought in from air strikes outside the school, and then taken inside. So you've just got to look at all the evidence, talk to as many witnesses independently as you can, as soon after the attack as you can, check out the physical evidence, check out what both sides are saying. You've just got to look at a huge amount of evidence and it's not easy.", "If Hamas is to blame for the deaths of its own civilians and some people claim Hamas is causing the deaths of civilians on purpose, could it, too, be brought to justice?", "Yes, it certainly could be. Members of Palestinian armed groups who are responsible for deliberately launching rockets at Israeli cities, which are full of civilians, you know, civilians cannot be attacked by either side, by the Israelis or the Palestinians. So yes, absolutely. But I would just say that there's a lot of, I think, misleading or not helpful discussion about human shielding on the Hamas side. And there's a very specific legal definition for human shielding, and that's forcing a civilian to be right next to your military target when you're shooting a rocket or something like that. We haven't seen that kind of forcing or coercion happen yet, although we are investigating it. So that's just to say that it's not necessarily illegal to fight in an urban environment and I say that because, this is often used as an excuse for Israeli air strikes that are described as tragic mistakes, but really the blame is all on Hamas and that's not correct. Each side is responsible for what it's doing and just because your enemy is violating the laws of war, doesn't allow you to.", "Bill Van Esveld with Human Rights Watch, thanks so much. I appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "I'll be right back."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "COSTELLO", "KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PENHAUL (voice-over)", "PENAHUL", "PENHAUL", "PENHAUL (on camera)", "COSTELLO", "BAN KI-MON, U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL", "COSTELLO", "BILL VAN ESVELD, SENIOR RESEARCHER, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH", "COSTELLO", "VAN ESVELD", "COSTELLO", "VAN ESVELD", "COSTELLO", "VAN ESVELD", "COSTELLO", "VAN ESVELD", "COSTELLO", "VAN ESVELD", "COSTELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-147635", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-2-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1002/02/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Planes with Problems Allowed to Fly", "utt": ["All right, don't know if you're going to want to go flying after you hear this story. There's a \"USA Today\" investigation just out that finds 65,000 airline flights over the past six years should not have happened because the planes were not maintained to FAA standards. Sixty-five-thousand flights. It's possible you were on one of them. Millions of passengers were on those flights. The reporter on this story, from the \"USA Today,\" was Gary Stoller. He joins us now on the phone from Connecticut, and also rejoining the conversation is former Department of Transportation inspector general Mary Schiavo. Gary, let me ask you this simple question: after doing this study, are you more nervous about flying these days?", "I wouldn't say I am more nervous about flying, because I've known about these problems for many years and reported on them. I think, certainly, there's a reason for many consumers to have deep concern about the maintenance on their airplane. To have at least 65,000 flights flying in un-airworthy condition is certainly not a good thing.", "How were these things, these flights, allowed to take off? I guess we say they shouldn't have taken off, but I guess what mechanisms or lapses are in place that allows them to take off?", "Well, often the FAA will only find these problems after the flights have taken off. It could be many months before the FAA looks through records and finds the problem. I also found that something the FAA would find a problem, mention it to the airline. The airplane would continue to fly despite the FAA pointing out the problem to them.", "Mary, let me bring you back in here. Where is the breakdown, would you say? And I know some of this has to do with the fact that many airlines are, surprised to hear, and a lot of people would be surprised to hear it, outsourcing the maintenance, even outsourcing it to -- not just some other company, but foreign companies.", "That's right. And Gary is right on, spot on in this article. What's occurring is we've kind of got a perfect storm. The airlines are outsourcing more and more maintenance issues, and this is a trend that started in the early '90s, except it's increased three- fold. The FAA often follows the airline. They have maintenance inspectors that find to the airline. But the airlines are allowed to farm out, including to non-FAA approved repair stations.", "Mary, why?", "All they have to do is -- yes. All they have to do is recertify, and they're pretty much on an honor system. We just -- we don't have any more inspectors today than we had 15 years ago, and yet the airline industry is dramatically different.", "Why is that allowed? Mary, that sounds nuts.", "Well, it is nuts. But the FAA has the theory; it's their way of doing business. They believe, and they have said this publicly in hearings, et cetera, that they are in partnership with the airlines and that the airlines should be allowed to self-report. If they find a problem and they report it, they receive amnesty. So, the FAA has taken a bit of hands-off approach, in part. In all fairness to the FAA, they only have about 3,600 inspectors to cover the world. You know, for example, in China alone there are 100 -- over 100 repair stations. And so they have to cover the word -- world with a very small workforce, so they allow the carriers to self-report. And if the carriers turn themselves in, then they don't get a work action. But what has happened is they have now farmed out so much of the maintenance...", "Wow.", "... that quality control has really suffered, and no one can really -- no one can really police it, because a lot of it is simply outside the United States.", "Well, let's put up on the screen here a response from the FAA. And Gary, I'm going to bring you back in after we read this statement here. But the FAA saying, U.S. Airlines \"regard safety as their highest priority\" -- excuse me -- \"responsibility. Their maintenance programs reflect that commitment to safety.\" Now, after your reporting, Gary, do you have a problem with that statement?", "Well, I believe airlines do want to have safe flights. No one wants to have flights that have problems. However, these problems just keep recurring. The inspector general for the Department of Transportation has pointed out that airlines and the FAA have poor oversight over a lot of the repair-station work. So the oversight is not being done; the work isn't being done. Yes, I believe that airlines would like to have safe operation, but there are so many problems.", "And last thing here to both of you, if you can, quickly, for me. Do the airlines, frankly, need some kind of help? Of course, they are trying to keep a business running, and we historically, over the past few years, several years at least, they have been losing, hemorrhaging money, in a lot of ways. Do they need some kind of federal help to raise these standards, because a lot of this seems to be the result of them just trying to cut corners and save money. Gary, I'll let you take it, and Mary, I'll let you wrap up.", "John Gollier (ph), a former member of National Transportation Safety Board, had suggested that some of these fines or maybe even all of the fine money at the FAA, when they find a problem, actually be invested back into the airlines' programs to improve these maintenance programs. That's one idea. Whether it work -- whether it will work, I guess we don't know.", "Mary, you go ahead. What do you think will work?", "I'm going to use the big \"R\" word: regulation and re- regulation. The problem is that the airlines are in a situation very much like they were in the '30s. They're breeding -- bleeding red ink. They need help on safety. They have lost control on some of their operations. And the airlines were regulated because they asked for it in the '30s. I think we're in a situation where we have to seriously consider whether we don't need additional federal oversight over these operations to ensure that we don't backslide. We want to keep safety right where it is: No. 1 priority.", "All right. Well, Mary Schiavo and Gary Stoller, again, from the \"USA Today.\" It is an interesting, albeit a scary read. But thank you both for being here. We will hopefully continue this conversation later. Thank you both so much. Well, no matter what you do out there, send a text, maybe buy some popcorn, raid that mini bar, chances are you've done at least one of those things. But you have to realize how much you get ripped off when you do so. We're going to be breaking down just how much you are paying through the roof."], "speaker": ["HOLMES", "GARY STOLLER, REPORTER, \"USA TODAY\"", "HOLMES", "STOLLER", "HOLMES", "SCHIAVO", "HOLMES", "SCHIAVO", "HOLMES", "SCHIAVO", "HOLMES", "SCHIAVO", "HOLMES", "STOLLER", "HOLMES", "STOLLER", "HOLMES", "SCHIAVO", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-198893", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2013-1-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/07/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview with Mohamed Morsy; Two Controversial Nominations", "utt": ["And you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now, my exclusive interview with Egypt's controversial new president, making news with an announcement you'll hear first right here in THE SITUATION ROOM. Also, President Obama picks someone to lead the CIA and the Pentagon. We're going to hear from a former Senate colleague who says Chuck Hagel is the wrong man to become the next Defense secretary. And chances are you've either had it or know someone who does. We have new information about the flu that's spreading across the United States and beyond. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. He's the highest profile leader to emerge from the Arab Spring revolutions and Mohamed Morsy's tenure as president of Egypt has been marked by controversy. I sat down with him yesterday at the presidential palace in Cairo for an exclusive one hour interview, during which Morsy revealed his plans to visit the United States soon.", "When will you come to the United States? When will you meet with President Obama? What do you think of President Obama?", "God willing, I will plan for this trip. There is no set date yet, but it will most likely be before the end of the first quarter of this year. President Obama is an elected president by the American people and he grants the will of the American people by working for the interests of the American people. And this is the American people's right in their president. I respect him and I value him. He played an effective and important role in the cease-fire in regards to Gaza and the end of attacks against Gaza. He cooperated with us in a big way and I'm still in constant communication with him. When we meet, there will be a chance to talk about cooperation in different areas, like scientific research, manufacturing and production, investments and tourism.", "So you plan on coming to the United States, god willing, inashallah, as we say, in the first quarter of this year, between now and the end of March?", "Before the end of the first quarter, god willing, I will visit, as you said I will visit, the United States of America. And I will be happy with this visit.", "I also asked the Egyptian president about the blind Egyptian cleric who was convicted here in the United States in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Omar Abdul Rahman is serving a life sentence in a U.S. Prison.", "Just clarify your position on what you want the U.S. Government to do as far as the -- the blink sheikh is concerned, who's being held in prison in the United States, convicted of his involvement in the blowing up of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing incident?", "I want him to be free, but I respect the law and the rule of law in Egypt and the United States. What I am talking about isn't a violation. I don't want a violation of the rule of law, but there are also many humane aspects. There could be things like visitation, assistance, his children, his family, assisting him. He is an old sheikh and sick and blind. We need to respect that in this sheikh. Is there a chance for him to be freed? I wish this, but considering my respect and appreciation for the American rule of law and the American government, our relationship, Egypt's relationship with America deserves that these issues be reviewed, if that is OK according to the law. If it isn't possible -- and I hope that it is possible -- if it wasn't possible, then these humane aspects need to be taken into account for him to be in a humane prison, to be able to have visitors, to be able to have company, to be able to visit with his sons and children, for his family to visit, for us to see him, for people to see him and know how he is doing, because he is a man, an old man, and he deserves full care. I wish that there could be a big possibility for the American administration to look into this matter about this sheikh, who is very old, without there being, I don't intend on violating the rule of law in anyplace. And I don't like anyone asking me to violate the rule of law in my own country. But the humane aspects, at the very least, need to be guaranteed.", "Will you make this appeal directly to President Obama when you see him?", "When I meet with him, I will talk to him about this issue.", "All right, let's get a little bit more on what's going on. Our CNN national security analyst, Peter Bergen, is joining us -- Peter, you've studied the case of the so-called blind Sheikh for a long time. What do you make of the -- this very bold public announcement that he's going to ask the president when he comes here before the end of March, before the end of March, to release him or at least do something to give him a better -- better treatment for his role in the effort to blow up the World Trade Center back in 1993?", "Sheikh Rahman is in sort of an unusual situation, I mean, in two ways. First of all, as you know, Wolf, he's -- he's in ill health. So he's sort of in a medical prison facility. And, secondly, he's under something called special administrative measures, which basically people convicted of terrorism who are regarded as a threat are not allowed to communicate with anybody, really, outside their lawyers. And so he's not only just in prison, he's under some pretty tight controls. You know, these controls could be lifted, but I think there would be a lot of federal prosecutors who were involved in the cases in the Southern District of New York who would be very reluctant to let Sheikh Rahman certainly go back to Egypt. But he -- but even on a lesser level, to have more visitation, because he's used visits from his -- even from his lawyers, in the past, to get messages out to his followers, which have actually led, in some people's view, to more violence.", "Because he would, presumably, the fear is he would inspire other terrorists out there to go out there and kill Americans.", "Yes. And, in fact, one of his lawyers was convicted, a female American lawyer was convicted for passing messages to his -- essentially, to his group in Egypt. She spent -- she's probably still in prison. So this is a kind of sensitive issue, beyond him going back to Egypt, but just the idea that he might have the ability to communicate with people other than his immediate -- the people he has to communicate with on his legal team.", "Tell us why this is important for President Morsy to raise this issue. Why is this a popular cause within his base, The Muslim Brotherhood, for example, in Egypt?", "Well, Sheikh Rahman is regarded as a fairly important religious scholar. I mean he went to al-Azhar University, which is the sort of Harvard of Sunni theological thought. He's been the leader of a very violent group in Egypt, a theological leader. The Muslim Brotherhood is, you know, kind of, you know, at least on the ideological spectrum, on which Sheikh Rahman is the more extreme version. And they, you know, they clearly have a different view of him than, let's say, American federal prosecutors did in the case. It wasn't just the World Trade Center case, Wolf, it was also plots to blow up landmarks all around New York, the Holland Tunnel, the -- you know, and other places that didn't, luckily, happen.", "We're going to be releasing a lot more of this interview throughout this week. He goes in-depth and he talks about what's going on in Egypt, dissent within in Egypt, what he plans on doing with those, like Mohamed ElBaradei or Amr Moussa and other Egyptian leaders who criticize him. More -- much more of this interview, obviously, going to be coming up, including under what circumstances he would be willing to sit down with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, or the Israeli president, Shimon Peres. That's coming up. But as far as meeting with the president of the United States, everything I'm hearing -- U.S. officials, so far, are relatively pleased with what President Morsy has done over these past six months, especially his role in that cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.", "Yes. And I think it's also been U.S. government policy for some period of time to engage with The Muslim Brotherhood, because The Muslim Brotherhood is a major political force in the Middle East, not only in Egypt, but in many other countries. There was a period when, certainly under the Bush administration, when talking to The Muslim Brotherhood was something that was not U.S. government policy. Clearly, that has changed.", "You know, he -- he's a graduate of the University of Southern California, a Trojan, if you will. He spent seven years living here in the United States. And when he comes back to the U.S. as president of Egypt, I think he wants to go back to USC and see some of the folks he studied with or whatever. That's going to be a fascinating visit once he comes.", "Indeed.", "I'm sure you're looking forward to it, as well.", "Indeed.", "And Egypt is the largest of all of the Arab countries, what, almost 90 million people there. And I think it's, arguably, the most important of all of the Arab countries, as well, not only in North Africa, but in the Middle East. So we go through a lot of stuff. Much more of the interview coming up. Peter, thanks very much. President Obama has announced his picks for two critical national security posts. He's tapped the former Republican senator, Chuck Hagel, to be the Defense secretary, and his counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, to lead the CIA. Our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, is joining us now -- Barbara, how telling are these nominations?", "Well, look, Wolf, both of these nominations are already mired in controversy. But the president is making clear he picked two men he knows, he likes, that he feels close to. This is his second term national security team. The president wants who the president wants.", "In announcing his nomination of Chuck Hagel as the next Secretary of Defense, President Obama made certain he sent this message about his second term foreign policy.", "Chuck recognizes that American leadership is indispensable in a dangerous world. He understands that America stands strongest when we stand with allies and with friends.", "The White House knows the Hagel confirmation hearing could become a free fire zone over whether the nominee is tough enough on Iran and supportive enough of Israel, criticisms Obama himself has faced. Hagel seemed to try to deflect that criticism in speaking of traditional diplomatic friends.", "I'm also grateful for an opportunity to help continue to strengthen our country and strengthen our country's alliances.", "In Hagel, Obama gets an independent-minded Vietnam veteran and a one time Army sergeant who strongly believes war is a last resort, a view Obama shares.", "And Chuck knows that war is not an abstraction.", "But global threats could, at any point, compel him to recommend military force, in particular, if Iran's nuclear program continues.", "If it becomes clear that sanctions are not enough, then there's going to be a discussion that any secretary of Defense, including Hagel, as well as the national security team, has got to decide whether that means limited strikes against facilities.", "But in choosing John Brennan, one of his closest national security advisers, to become the next CIA director, the president is showing he will not back down from the CIA's aggressive use of lethal force, both in partnering with the military, as it did on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and in relying on lethal drone attacks -- a drone policy that critics say amounts to targeted killing.", "Whatever your views of the drone campaign, John Brennan is one of its principal architects, whether that's in Pakistan or whether that's in Yemen.", "But back at the Pentagon, Chuck Hagel's most immediate challenge may be cutting the military budget, something he's on the record as favoring. You know, with the war in Afghanistan wrapping up in the next two years and a Congress very much looking for spending cuts, Hagel may be the man for that part of the job -- unless, of course, another national security crisis rears its head -- Wolf.", "Let's hope it doesn't. Thanks very much for that. There's enough national security crises out there already. We're going to have much more on the Hagel nomination coming up -- why he could be in for a rocky confirmation process. Stand by for that. 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{"id": "CNN-140044", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-7-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/03/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Legal Battle Over Jackson's Children Looms Over; A Look Inside Neverland Ranch; New Video of Michael Jackson's Last Rehearsal Released", "utt": ["Good Friday morning to you. It's the third of July. It's a holiday today. So -- why are we here?", "I know. And you were here last night covering for Campbell as well, huh?", "Just have to set a cot at my office and just stay there. Thanks for joining us on the \"Most News in the Morning.\" I'm John Roberts.", "Well, we're here because we're following a lot of developments this morning and we're going to be breaking down the top stories for you in the next 15 minutes. One is a potential bombshell regarding the custody of Michael Jackson's two older children. The singer's ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, says that she will fight for custody but her lawyers are telling reporters something different. Also, there are some new details of a public memorial for Jackson.", "This morning, CNN takes you inside Neverland, the fantasy home that Michael Jackson lived in for nearly 20 years. It's now vacant but still filled with so many memories for better or for worse.", "Also right now, the first big test of President Obama's new strategy for the war in Afghanistan is under way. Thousands of U.S. Marines deep inside enemy territory the same time U.S. forces are desperately trying to rescue one of their own captured by insurgents in that country.", "But we begin with a number of major developments in the Michael Jackson investigation. This morning the legal battle over Jackson's children taking another twist. Debbie Rowe, Jackson's former wife and mother of his two eldest children, told the Los Angeles television station that she wants custody. But her lawyer told reporters that she hasn't quite made that decision yet. Meantime, a judge has pushed back a guardianship hearing scheduled for Monday. And this morning, the Jackson family firming up details for a public memorial in downtown Los Angeles. CNN's Kara Finnstrom is live outside the Staples Center in downtown L.A. And, Kara, what are the details of that memorial as we know them now?", "Well, Jermaine Jackson did share a few details. It's Michael Jackson's brother. First off, we should say that he has also shared that the family will be holding a private memorial service for family and friends Tuesday morning before that massive public memorial is set to take place here at the Staples Center starting at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning. This is home to the Los Angeles Lakers and the Clippers. It seats some 20,000 people. We are told that 10,000 tickets will be given away to the public and a press conference is set for later this morning to share the details of it. Those tickets will be free, but fans are going to have to register for them. You also mentioned, you know, another major development. The lawyer for Debbie Rowe coming forward. Debbie Rowe, the mother of the two eldest Jackson children. He said yesterday that he just wanted to clarify that Debbie Rowe's position right now is that she hasn't made up her mind and has not decided whether she will seek custody of the children. What she told that L.A. TV station is that I do want my children. And he wouldn't really provide any further clarification of how you move from one statement to the other but simply said, standing by itself, it was a distortion of the truth. No final statement has been made. Now Debbie Rowe did give up custody of her children back in 2001. But two years later, she decided that she wanted to seek temporary guardianship. And a court ruling at that time said that her parental rights had been improperly terminated could open up the way for a custody battle. We can also tell you that the next court date now has been set for July 13. It's been moved back and this is a temporary guardianship court date. Right now, Katherine Jackson has temporary guardianship and the judge will decide whether that should remain so.", "All right. Kara Finnstrom for us this morning outside the Staples Center. Kara, thanks so much for that.", "And meanwhile, the Jackson family says it is preparing to go to court over custody of the late singer's three children. Last night at a primetime exclusive, Jermaine Jackson told Larry King that the kids are right where they need to be, with their grandmother.", "Do you think it's proper that she be responsible for the kids?", "Yes, I think it's very proper because the way my mother raised us, the way we know how she's very just beloved, the joy and making sure that they'll be OK, I thought it was the right choice.", "What do you make of the ex-wife possibly seeking custody?", "We'll see. Larry, the will is what it is. And the will was really written well. And it was executed by the executors and they did a great job. It's what it is.", "And the topic also came up on \"Anderson Cooper 360.\" CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin discussed whether Debbie Rowe has a strong case if she were to, in fact, try to fight for custody.", "Clearly, this is what Michael Jackson wanted. We're not sure now what Debbie Rowe wants. What do you make of her sort of stepping in now saying, well, maybe she does want to fight for custody?", "Well, this could get complicated because ordinarily the biological mother does have first claim. But this is to put it mildly not an ordinary situation. She's had virtually no relationship with the kids. Katherine Jackson apparently has had a relationship with the kids. But there's another factor here that we haven't mentioned yet that's very important. What do the kids want? They're 12, 11 years old. Blanket is 7. A judge will ask the three of them who they want to live with and that will have a big impact on the resolution of this case.", "And Rowe has said that she was concerned about splitting up the three children. She also said she would accept custody of the youngest child but did not expect the court to actually go along with that. Meantime, Neverland Ranch, of course, was Michael Jackson's dream home. It was based on the fictional fantasy island in the story \"Peter Pan.\" It had an amusement park there, a merry go round, roller coasters, even a zoo.", "But the property was nearly sold at auction. And last night during Larry King's primetime exclusive, we got a rare tour of Neverland. Here's CNN's Ted Rowlands with that.", "Miko Brando, the son of the late actor Marlon Brando, spent much of the last 20 plus years at Michael Jackson's side. He was our guide taking us through Neverland Ranch. Miko, you spent a lot of time up here. This place is so big that obviously this isn't just for decoration. This train station was a real train station with a real train.", "A real train, steam engine train, a large one. He used it for years to get from the residence up to the theater and the zoo.", "It's about a quarter mile away. (on camera): Michael would put on videos on each of the monitors.", "Right.", "Same video.", "He'd put videos and cartoons, whoever wanted to see him, watch him on all the screens. He'd sit here and eat candy, eat all of those sweets he'd want. And the kids would just hang out here and watch videos all night long.", "And this is just a minuscule part obviously of the compound here, one small portion of it where people would come and hang out. The outside, here's where the train would come through, Miko. This room is what?", "This is the living room. The piano used to be over here with a bunch of photos on the piano. A castle he had built sitting over here. Living room chairs, furniture, sofa, the TV on the wall. He had a beautiful marble front here in front of the fireplace. He had the Oscar that he got standing on the right side of the fireplace.", "The Oscar from --", "\"Gone with the Wind.\"", "\"Gone with the Wind\" that he apparently paid $1.-some million for it.", "Yes, sir.", "Inside the house, 13,000 square feet. As for Michael Jackson's bedroom -- (on camera): You're looking at the doors and you could see the locks on the doors, Miko. Privacy was key in this room, obviously.", "Yes, he liked his privacy. When the doors were open, you know, it was OK. But when it's locked, he wants privacy. He had his privacy.", "This is one of the bathrooms. There are two bathrooms in the suite. And this is the area where Michael Jackson also slept sometimes. There's a staircase up there with a small bedroom upstairs. You say he slept on both levels.", "Yes. He slept wherever he felt like sleeping. He crashed out so he had a choice of two.", "There's been a lot of talk about this closet. It is massive. And in the corner of it is a secret compartment or secret little area. And, Miko, you said this is sort of a safe room just in case.", "Yes. This was just some place, you know, in case something ever happened. It will be -- went around.", "When you look at the house now, Miko, it is unfurnished, obviously. Give us a sense how different it was fully furnished?", "Oh, it was the place. I mean, I've seen a lot of houses in my life but this was the house.", "Ted Rowlands, CNN, at the Neverland Ranch.", "An interesting inside look there.", "Sure enough. Is it going to turn to another Graceland? I mean, are they going to open it up to the public for thousands and thousands who loved Michael Jackson to be able to tour for themselves?", "The problem might be access, though, because there's just one little mountain road in and one road out. And, you know, Graceland, you've got pretty good traffic areas. So I don't know if the county will allow them to do that. But we'll see. I mean, there's going to be a lot of wrangling over so many things in the years to come. New this morning, President Obama gearing up for a visit to Russia and the G-8 summit in Italy next week. In an interview with \"The Associated Press,\" the president warned Russia's government against using old cold war tactics when dealing with Washington. President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev also plan to discuss Iran's political situation and its nuclear program.", "Pakistan now where U.S. missile strikes target militant hideouts in the lawless tribal area of South Waziristan. According to Pakistani security officials, at least 15 people are reported dead, more than two dozen others injured. The missile strikes again happening near the Afghan border.", "And the U.S. offensive continues in Afghanistan. Marines are pushing deeper into Taliban strongholds this morning. American troops have suffered their first casualty of this massive campaign. Gary Berntsen who is the CIA operative in charge of the operation against Tora Bora back in 2001 is coming up in just a couple of minutes to talk more about that offensive in Helmand province. Nine minutes now after the hour."], "speaker": ["JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR", "KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "KARA FINNSTROM, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "LARRY KING, HOST, \"LARRY KING LIVE\"", "JERMAINE JACKSON, MICHAEL'S BROTHER", "KING", "JACKSON", "CHETRY", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR, \"AC 360\"", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MIKO BRANDO, MICHAEL JACKSON'S FRIEND", "ROWLANDS", "BRANDO", "ROWLANDS", "BRANDO", "ROWLANDS", "BRANDO", "ROWLANDS", "BRANDO", "ROWLANDS", "BRANDO", "ROWLANDS (voice-over)", "BRANDO", "ROWLANDS", "BRANDO", "ROWLANDS", "BRANDO", "ROWLANDS", "BRANDO", "ROWLANDS (voice-over)", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-277215", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-02-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/22/es.01.html", "summary": "New ISIS Attacks Syria Ahead of Agreed Ceasefire", "utt": ["Welcome back. New developments this morning in Syria. Secretary of State John Kerry says a ceasefire there could begin in a few days. The truce put together by more than a dozen nations including the U.S. It was supposed to go into effect Friday. But that didn't happen. Meantime, the violence has raged on. ISIS has claimed responsibility for several attacks over the weekend that left more than 120 people dead. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh is for us in Oman, Jordan this morning with more details. And again it's a very urgent situation on the ground even as the diplomacy grinds forward here, Jomana.", "Absolutely, Christine. A day of devastating violence first on Sunday morning in the city of Homs. Two cars packed with explosives striking a busy commercial and residential area in that city, killing more than 30 people. This is an area that is from the Alawite sect, that is the sect of President Bashar al- Assad. As you mentioned claimed by ISIS. This is the fourth such attack by the group in the same area in three months. Later on in the day, we saw a triple bombing in southern Damascus in a predominantly Shia area there in the capital. First a car bomb detonating and as first responders and crowds gathered at the scene two suicide bombers struck killing more than 80 people and wounding more than 100 others. And this coming, as you mentioned, as Secretary of State John Kerry speaking here in the Jordanian capital on Sunday, said that U.S. and Russian officials have reached a provisional agreement on the cessation of hostilities agreement. Of course they have been trying to iron out the details of this agreement over the past few days. And Secretary Kerry saying it is not a done deal yet, but they have some sort of an agreement and in the coming days, we would see President Obama speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree on the details of this agreement. But again, a more cautious optimism there, Christine, from Secretary Kerry after we heard that that agreement was supposed to go into effect last Friday and it did not. And of course the kind of violence that we saw unfold in Syria on Sunday is unlikely to cease anytime soon. This sort of violence that is carried out by ISIS, of course the terrorist organization in Syria, ISIS and the al Qaeda affiliate, Jabbath al-Nusra, are not part of any peace talks or cessation of hostilities agreement -- Christine.", "All right. Jomana Karadsheh, again with the very urgent situation even as they are trying to get that cessation of hostilities in place. Thank you so much for that, Jomana.", "The Pentagon now increasingly concerned about the growing ISIS threat in Libya. The \"New York Times\" reports that ISIS commanders have been sent from Syria to Libya to establish what they call a new caliphate. The terror group has an estimated 6500 fighters inside Libya. Late last week, U.S. officials said air strikes killed dozens of suspected jihadists believed to be training for new attacks there against Western targets.", "All right. Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, they emerge as frontrunners, but the race for president, it's only about to begin. We've got probably the most exciting 10 days in politics ahead of us. Brand new challenges that those frontrunners face ahead."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-215678", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2013-10-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1310/01/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Tragic Tale Of Failed North Korean Defectors", "utt": ["Under the manipulation of the United States, the forcible adoption last January of the unfair sanctions resolution was conducted by making an issue of our legitimate satellite launch for peaceful purposes. What was conducted is recognized by international law. And it represents a typical example of how and for what purpose the power of the UN SC is being abused.", "North Koreans who try to leave the country face an almost impossible task. Most enter China, Pyongyang's biggest ally, before attempting to get to a South Korean embassy. But it's a long and often torturous journey and one that can easily end badly. Paula Hancocks has this exclusive report on one such case.", "Trekking through the jungle at night to avoid detection. Nine young North Koreans crossed the border from China to Laos believing their next stop was South Korea and freedom. They were wrong. Aged between 15 and 23, some escaped North Korean four years ago into China looking for food. This video was filmed by a South Korean missionary who calls himself MJ. MJ and his wife hide their identity because they try to help refugees that China regularly arrests and sends back to North Korea. \"They look for fish bones and rice,\" he tells me, \"to mix together to make porridge. Then they eat toothpaste to help them digest it.\" This boy says he wants to live in China because here even the beggars don't go hungry. The nights were spent living in an abandoned building, the days avoiding Chinese border guards. When MJ met them in December 2009, it was minus 30 Celsius. Most had frost bite on their hands and toes and skin diseases. Some had injuries they say came from beatings by guards when they were caught stealing food. \"All of them seemed to have suffered from tuberculosis,\" says MJ. \"And as they were malnourished, their growth was stunted.\" MJ and his wife offered to help them leave China for Laos and then on to South Korea or the United States to claim asylum, a route they had successfully taken with other defectors. But after crossing into Laos this time, their plan went wrong. \"There was a search made while we were on the bus,\" MJ says. \"This is the first time it ever happened.\" The defectors and missionaries were investigated by Laos immigration for more than two weeks, calling the South Korean embassy repeatedly for help. MJ says they were told everything was fine and the youngsters were being processed. No embassy official came to visit. May 27, the defectors were told to pack as they were leaving for South Korea. As the missionaries tried to follow them, they say the door of the immigration office was shut and they were locked in a room for two hours. According to the United Nations, the young defectors were deported to North Korea via China. MJ's wife breaks down, saying \"it is unbearable that these children were taken away from us. But what makes me really angry is the response from the South Korean embassy.\" South Korea's foreign ministry tells CNN it is unfortunate and regrettable the nine young North Korean defectors were forcefully taken and they are inspecting the problems revealed from this incident and have improved and strengthened the overall support system. (on camera): The foreign ministry in Laos says that the North Koreans were in their country illegally and they also accuse the missionaries of human trafficking. But the United Nations and human rights groups are criticizing the country for deporting the refugees. (voice-over): The defectors were last seen on North Korean state television saying they had been tricked into leaving the country and it was by the grace of North Korea's leader Kim Jong un that they were allowed to return. Human rights groups say defectors who are sent back are sometimes tortured or even executed. Fears are high for the nine young North Koreans who thought they had escaped. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.", "The latest world headlines are just ahead. Plus, more than 130 years in the making, a look at one of the world's most iconic buildings and what it will finally look like. And the mission to find and destroy Syria's chemical arsenal. We look at what international inspectors could face on the ground."], "speaker": ["PAK KIL YON, NORTH KOREAN VICE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (through translator)", "FOSTER", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "FOSTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-187050", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2012-5-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1205/31/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Edwards Not Guilty On Count #3; Live Feed: Edwards Gives Statement on Trial", "utt": ["A verdict in the corruption trial of former Senator John Edwards. He is acquitted on one count and the five other counts have been declared a mistrial. A very good day for John Edwards in this verdict. He faced 30 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine. That is not going to occur. This was a risk John Edwards took. He rejected a plea agreement, decided instead to go to trial on what was a very sordid case and a complex campaign finance case. Again, John Edwards acquitted on one count, five counts mistrial. Let me go to Joe Johns in Greensboro to kind of reset the scene for us. Joe, you watched those jurors day in and day out struggle with this. In the end, they could only come up with a verdict on one count. What happened here to the prosecution's case?", "Tough case, tough law, tough facts, and politics probably played a role in it, too. Gloria, I just wanted to show you this. This is the verdict sheet that the judge always gives to the jury. They work off of this sheet as they go through the counts to try to determine the guilt or the innocence of the individual who's on trial. And as you can see, the way it's put here, no unanimous decision, and it goes all the way through. No unanimous decision on five of the counts. The only one that has an \"X\" here next to guilty or not guilty is count three. That is a count from 2008 involving alleged illegal contributions from Rachel \"Bunny\" Mellon in Virginia to John Edwards. So, the jury just didn't buy it, at the end of the day, as that seemed to be the case, and the rest of it was just too difficult to decide. It was clear from the body language of these jurors, now, looking in hindsight, that they really were torn on many of the issues that were put before them. And while John Edwards took a gamble in some ways, his attorneys took a gamble, too. Abbe Lowell deciding to keep their defense lean and mean after something like 14 days of testimony from the prosecution, the defense only took three days to put on its case and kept it very tight and focused on the issue of whether campaign finance laws have been broken. Again and again they said, he may have committed a lot of sins by cheating on his wife and having an affair with a mistress, having a child with a mistress, but he committed no crimes. And from this, it looks as though the jury agreed with him, Gloria.", "Let me bring in David Frum, a former Republican presidential speechwriter. David, as you well know, the decision was made not to have John Edwards testify. That his attorney, Abbe Lowell, did not want him to testify. So, that turn out to be a smart move?", "Look, I am -- I have no appetite to see John Edwards go to prison, and to the extent this case is about John Edwards, I think we can have some human sympathy. But to the extent, this case is about what is about to happen to the American campaign finance system, I think we should be very, very afraid. Supposing John Edwards had been elected president and supposing this story had been kept secret, as you say, we don't know very much about these campaigns anymore and we know a lot less than we used to these days. Wouldn't he have owed a colossal favor to Fred Baron (ph)? Wouldn't he have been in a position where he could not have refused anything Fred Baron (ph) ask? And if this verdict stands --", "Or his aide, Andrew Young, I might add.", "Exactly. We are in a situation where vast, undisclosed amounts of money can be raised outside the campaign finance system, for a presidential candidate, to use for any purpose, including buying the silence of people with damaging information about them. That is a very scary outcome. I think with this and combined with Citizens United, we have a lot of annoying paperwork requirements, but there's no campaign finance system in the United States at all anymore. We have gone back, essentially, of a system of unlimited, secret donations for any purpose.", "Right. Jeff Toobin and I were talking about that earlier, and he called it wild, wild west. And let me just bring in Mike Duffy for a moment, who covers politics, Washington bureau chief for \"Time\" magazine. Do you agree that, now, this kind of is sort of anything can happen when it comes to campaign finance at this point?", "We've known for a long time that these are really hard cases to prosecute, but I think the Edwards team had a special wild card, and that was John Edwards. This is a man, who before he was a vice presidential candidate or a presidential candidate or even a defendant, was one of the best courtroom readers North Carolina had ever seen. He knew how to read a jury, he knew how to read a judge. He was really good at that. And his defense team had him as a consultant in his own case. And you could see, that's why they did --", "Not as a witness.", "Not as a witness, and they had made that decision not to. So, I think that was just another \"X\" factor in this outcome. I think both sides had been expecting for days that it would end with him walking.", "So Jeff Toobin, talk a little bit about what this means about money in politics now?", "It means that this is really something that is being deregulated. The message of Citizens United, the message of this trial is that the legal system is less and less involved in American politics, at least, the financing of it. And we are simply leaving it to the private market. You know, I thought David Frum made a very good point about how dependent John Edwards would have been on Fred Baron (ph). How about if Newt Gingrich were elected president, how dependent would he have been on Mr. Adelson, who essentially single handedly funded his campaign.", "Or what about being dependent on unknown donors that the candidate may know about, but maybe we don't?", "Right. At least at the moment, disclosure requirements are still OK with the Supreme Court. They still uphold the requirement that donations to Super PACs have to be identified by who gave the money. But, as a result of Citizens United and the cases that followed, there are no limits on how much anyone can give. So, we have situations now where single people underwrite entire political campaigns as it was with Mr. Adelson and the Gingrich presidential campaign. Here you have a situation where a great deal of money changed hands between Bunny Mellon, Fred Baron (ph), and people associated with John Edwards, and that is not something that is part -- you know, we now know, a jury has found as criminal. Now, my mentor in journalism was Michael Kinsley, and he likes to say, the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal, because it's what society chooses not to punish that tells you sort of where you are as a society. And I think all this money sloshing around with nobody being prosecuted, nobody stopping it, that tells you much more in a way than any criminal prosecution will tell you.", "Mike Duffy?", "We were also seeing both parties say nothing about this. They're both going to be at this trough for this entire political cycle. Neither party is really saying, hey, let's fix this. I don't think John Edwards is going to start a fourth career and become ever campaign finance performer. So, over and over, I think what we're going to see is just a period where there are no rules, and this is --", "Well, let me bring in Paul Begala. Are you still with us?", "I am, Gloria. I've agreed to Mike Duffy's (ph) but that's not true. I'm part of the Super PAC that's supporting a president, yet, I want to see the system reformed. The president, I'm pretty sure about this, has even called for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. So, it's not true that both sides like the current system. It is true that both sides are participating in the current system. But let me put a little finer point on it. Even before Citizens United, individuals could give unlimited amounts to independent groups. That's how we got the swift boat attacks on John Kerry or various liberal billionaires who help fund progressive independent organizations. Citizens United was about corporate money. And so to take David Frum's analogy further, what if the next time there's some scandal like this, instead of wealthy friends, and I knew Fred Baron, he was a dear friend of John Edwards, instead of wealthy friends, what if it is corporations? And that need never be disclosed, because it could be done through various groups. A corporation could give money to some other group, the group could then support your mistress, in the case of Mr. Edwards, Senator Edwards, and you would not just even owe your friend, Fred Baron, you would owe X, Y, Z corporation. And that's the new wrinkle of really pernicious and worrisome wrinkle --", "Paul --", "-- corporate money.", "Paul, let me interrupt you for a moment, if I might. We're just about to get a statement from John Edwards. You see him there with his mother and his father and his daughter, Cate. We're told he's not going to take questions, but will speak.", "Well, we wanted to say first thank you for the jurors and their incredibly hard work and their diligence. They took their job very, very seriously, as we saw both during the trial, the attention they paid to the evidence during the trial, the presentations of the lawyers, and the fact that they've now spent nine, almost nine full days deliberating, trying to reach a fair and just result under the evidence in the law. And all I can say is, thank goodness, we live in a country that has the kind of system that we have. And I think those jurors were an exemplar for what juries are supposed to do in this country. They were very, very impressive. The second thing I want to say just a word about is responsibility. And this is about me. I want to make sure that everyone hears from me and from my voice that while I do not believe I did anything illegal or ever thought I was doing anything illegal, I did an awful, awful lot that was wrong. And there is no one else responsible for my sins. None of the people who came to court and testified are responsible. Nobody working for the government is responsible. I am responsible. And if I want to find the person who should be held accountable for my sins, honestly, I don't have to go any further than the mirror. It's me. It is me and me alone. The next thing I want to say a word about is for the people that I love, because it's been an incredible experience for me to watch my parents, my dad just turned 80, my mom, who's 78, tromp up here from Robin to North Carolina every day to be with me and to support me. And I love them so much, and they did such a wonderful job raising me and my brother, Blake, and my sister, Cathy, who I also love dearly. I also want to say a word about my own children. Cate, who most all of you have seen, has been here every single day. She has been here no matter what, no matter how awful and painful a lot of the evidence was for her. Evidence about her dad, evidence about her mom, who she loves so, so dearly, but she never once flinched. She said, dad, I love you, I'll be there for you, no matter what. And I'm so proud to have had her with me through all this process. And then, finally, Emma, who turned 14 recently, Emma Claire and Jack, who just turned 12, who I take care of every day. And, I've not been able to see them quite as much, but I see them in the morning, I get their breakfast ready, get them off to school, and then, we get home at night and we all eat supper together, and I love them both so dearly. And they're such an important part of every day of my life. And then, finally, my precious Quinn, who I love more than any of you could ever imagine. And I am so close to and so, so grateful for, so grateful for Quinn. I'm grateful for all my children, including my son, Wade, who we lost years ago. But you know, this is the last thing I'm going to say. I don't think God's through with me. I really believe he thinks there's still some good things I can do. And whatever happens with this legal stuff going forward, what I'm hopeful about is all those kids that I've seen, you know, in the poorest parts of this country and in some of the poorest places in the world, that I can help them, in whatever way I'm still capable of helping them. And I want to dedicate my life to being the best dad I can be and to helping those kids who I think deserve the help and who I hope I can help. Thank you all very much.", "That was an amazing statement from senator, former senator, John Edwards, who spoke about the legal case, but really spent most of his time taking responsibility for his personal actions. And he said, if I want to find a person responsible for my sins, it's me and me alone. And then named all of his children whom he loved, including Quinn, the child he had out of wedlock with Rielle Hunter, and his son Wade, who died in a car crash at the age of 16. And then, he made a statement saying, I don't think God is through with me. I'm hopeful there are things I can do and I want to dedicate my life to helping people. Let me go right to Joe Johns who's there on the scene to get your reaction -- Joe.", "Yes. The first thing, I think, you have to say is, that's the kind of statement that you would have expected him to say to a jury if he could have said to a jury and was not subject to cross-examination, which he would have been if he testified. Clearly, he's remorseful for all that he did. I was going to say, all that happened, but all that he did, and clearly, he's now trying to look forward, even though he sort of pointed out in that statement, he doesn't know what's going to happen going forward on retrial or no retrial of these charges, which the prosecution, the United States government, has the option of doing if they want to. Now, the other thing that was very interesting in there, Gloria, I mean, you pretty much covered everything, but very interesting that he referenced all those kids I've seen in the poorest places of the world. John Edwards had suggested that one of the reasons he fought very hard and actually took this case to trial was because he wanted to retain his freedom and his law license, because he wanted to start some type of poverty law practice to help some of the poorest people in the world as you know, for years and years, back during the time when he was running for president, he talked about poverty, the two Americas, the least among us. It's been a continuing theme in his life, and it's pretty clear that he wants to continue with that theme, presuming he doesn't have anymore legal exposure here. But that, of course, is still an open question. A lot of speculation that the government wouldn't try to bring a case like this again. There's been some other speculation that the government just might want to bring a case like this again simply because during an election year, the Obama administration might think twice about playing favorites for a Democrat in a state like North Carolina. Be that as it may, it's down the road and who knows what's going to happen next. A big day for John Edwards, one of the biggest of his life, not to mention for his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, who took this case against a lot of people's recommendations, perhaps, and went ahead and won it for him.", "OK, Paul Begala, David Frum, I want to get your reactions quickly to what we just saw from John Edwards -- Paul.", "Well, you know, what you saw there was a terribly emotional man. I think you'd have to have a heart of stone not to feel at least something for the guy, particularly, when he talked about that baby who he had disavowed on national television when she was born. And you could clearly see that he knows the pain that he's caused. I think that's a good thing. You know, the only dumb thing as Scott Fitzgerald (ph) ever wrote was that there are no second acts in American life. There are second and third and fourth acts, as we have seen. But Senator Edwards has got a long way to go. I think he probably did himself some good. I do -- I was -- the one omission, Joe Johns already pointed out, he needs to thank that lawyer of his, Abbe Lowell, who did a remarkable job.", "Right -- David.", "Well, I have no appetite to see John Edwards punished further. He's been dragged through the limelight in a way that that has to be pretty horrible for him and for his family. But I think we will rue this day. If this is a legal precedent, we have just ripped off the last limits on what people who might be president can do with the money they ask for from powerful friends.", "OK. And let me just go to Mike Duffy, quickly, about you've covered John Edwards, you've watched him a lot.", "I'm aware of how good a speaker he can be. Even having said that, that was one of the most, I think, unprecedented moments of self-contrition I've seen in a while. Who knows of you, you know, genuine it is. I can't speak to that. You can't imagine that he's going away. I think he's -- I see a charitable foundation in his future somewhere.", "Here is John Edwards leaving the courthouse now, heading into his car. There is his daughter, Cate.", "The pick-up truck.", "The pick-up truck. Let me ask you, Mike, you know, I heard a little bit in the end of his speech, the two Americas that we used to hear so often on the campaign trail when John Edwards ran, and also when he ran as vice president on the ticket with John Kerry.", "You just can't make any predictions anymore about what becomes of someone like this. He's just -- it's in his blood. We'll see what he does. But he is not done.", "No, I don't think so. Jeff Toobin, I want to bring you in on this. He did thank the jurors for their hard work and their diligence. And he thanked God he lived in this country, because -- and thanked the legal system, because in a way, more than anyone else, John Edwards seemed to have faith in this legal system and decided not to cut any kind of a deal before going to court.", "He knows his business. And he was a trial lawyer long before he was a politician, and he was apparently one of the best in the country. He was famous for not taking many cases. He was not one of these plaintiff lawyers who took a high volume of cases. He would investigate cases very carefully and decide these are the ones that I think can generate a tremendous amount of money in damage awards, and he had an extraordinarily high batting average. He decided to roll the dice with this jury, and he won. I mean, you know --", "Right.", "Frankly, I mean, you know, I'm not sitting there in Washington with you. I thought it would have been better if he simply stopped after he said, this is all my fault. It sounded a little bit like a campaign speech to me after that.", "Oh!", "You know, helping young people and all that. You know, like, why don't you just go off and do something privately. I mean, I just think, you know, what he did was wrong. He, I think, was prosecuted in a case that shouldn't have been brought. But, I mean, I think that's it.", "And he did take responsibility, which is something we don't hear a lot in political speeches.", "I thought that was the best part of his statement. Hse said, this was just my fault. He repeated the refrain that Abbe Lowell, his lawyer, did so effectively, which is that I'm a sinner, but I'm not a criminal. But I thought that was enough.", "OK, Jeff Toobin, thanks so much. All of these fine folks will be with us. Stay with us. We're going have much more on the John Edwards verdict and other news, so stay with us for the next hour.", "And this is about me. I want to make sure that everyone hears from me and from my voice that while I do not believe I did anything illegal or ever thought I was doing anything illegal, I did an awful, awful lot that was wrong."], "speaker": ["GLORIA BORGER, CNN ANCHOR", "JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT", "BORGER", "DAVID FRUM, CONTRIBUTING ED., NEWSWEEK & DAILY BEAST", "BORGER", "FRUM", "BORGER", "MIKE DUFFY, WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF, \"TIME\"", "BORGER", "DUFFY", "BORGER", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST", "BORGER", "TOOBIN", "BORGER", "DUFFY", "BORGER", "PAUL BEGALA, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "BORGER", "BEGALA", "BORGER", "JOHN EDWARDS, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BORGER", "JOHNS", "BORGER", "BEGALA", "BORGER", "FRUM", "BORGER", "DUFFY", "BORGER", "DUFFY", "BORGER", "DUFFY", "BORGER", "TOOBIN", "BORGER", "TOOBIN", "BORGER", "TOOBIN", "BORGER", "TOOBIN", "BORGER", "EDWARDS"]}
{"id": "CNN-146534", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-12-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/31/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Security Tight for Times Square Event", "utt": ["So, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to ring in the new year in New York, Times Square to be exact. And of course police will be out in force to protect the partygoers. Senior Correspondent Allan Chernoff joining us now live from New York. And Allan, it is one of the toughest jobs, protecting the signature New Year's Eve event, really for the world.", "No doubt. The police work on this all year long. And you could think of the NYPD as the bouncers for the world's biggest New Year's Eve party, but the fact is the police here in New York actually do far more to ensure that Times Square is the most secure public place on the planet for tonight's big celebration.", "From the perspective of the New York Police Department, every reveler in Times Square is a potential terror threat. That's why the NYPD will essentially lock down the Square.", "We want people to have a happy experience, but we're also concerned about a terrorist event. We have to do that after 9/11.", "Security sweeps begin well in advance of New Year's Eve. Detectives gain intelligence from local hotel and restaurant personnel on the lookout for suspicious activity. Police search garages and subway tunnels for bombs, remove trash cans, seal mailboxes and manhole covers. A search on Wednesday of a suspicious van led to a partial evacuation of Times Square, though the van turned out to pose no threat. Beginning at 3:00 on New Year's Eve, traffic is banned, and all streets leading into Times Square are blocked off. Police sample the air for biological agents. They wear radiation detectors, and dogs sniff for bombs. As the crowd gathers, thousands of police, uniformed and undercover, converge on Times Square. From the ground and air, the NYPD watches Times Square like a chessboard. (on camera): Times Square is essentially now the safest place on New Year's Eve.", "That's right. Yes. Absolutely, it's the very, very safe place.", "It wasn't always this way. Twenty years ago, before terrorism was such a concern, this center of the world on New Year's Eve was a dangerous place. (on camera): Times Square used to be a madhouse.", "True. True. It was somewhat rowdy, disorderly. You would see a lot of drinking that started early on. So, by the time midnight rolled around, a lot of people were feeling no pain.", "People were rolling around.", "People were rolling around. Right. And doing some strange things.", "The NYPD began placing the crowd into pens, fenced in by interlocking barriers in the late '90s, which brought order to what had been the world's biggest mosh pit. Today, alcohol and backpacks are banned, and the crowd is generally orderly and well-behaved. Still, Commissioner Kelly is ready to toast the New Year only after the party is over.", "When the ball drops, it's a certain feeling of relief, and we've made it through another year.", "A sigh of relief.", "Right.", "It's a lot of stress on the police department.", "There is some stress, no question about it. But that's -- you know, that's all part of the business.", "Even with the threat of terrorism, the fact is Times Square is much safer, much more secure than it used to be. And the party here has gone from a terribly rowdy event to a family celebration -- Tony.", "Yes, it really has. And Allan, maybe we can help the authorities a little bit here. What time should people actually start to show up? And how many are expected?", "All right. Well, let's, first of all, take the time. Given the weather, we've got snow right now. It could rain. That means maybe we'll have a few less, but if you really want to be here in Times Square seeing the ball, really, you need to be here by 3:00, 4:00 at the latest to be certain that you'll be actually in the square. Afterwards, they start moving people up. Now, Tony, let's talk about the numbers. OK? The Times Square alliance always says at least a million people. That's the number thrown around. It sounds great. It may have been true in the past. There's no way it's true anymore. Let's break this down here. Inside of the pen that we referred to, there are 2,500 people approximately in each pen. Four pens to each block. That gives us 10,000. Each block, you've got Broadway and you've got 7th Avenue, 20,000 per block. Let's expand Times Square, go all the way from the park, Central Park, 59th Street down to 39th Street, south of One Times Square. That gives us 400,000 in those pens. Maybe add another 100,000 of police, media, performers, et cetera, and then you've got some people on the side streets, not that many because they can't see the ball. Maybe 600,000.", "That's a big number.", "Nonetheless, it's a big, big party -- Tony.", "It really is. Good stuff, Allan. Appreciate it. Boy, let's just for a second here, where's that shot of Times Square once again? That's a great shot. Look at that. Roger (ph), I don't know, whenever we can, let's sort of loop this in here whenever we're talking about New Year's. That's a great picture. All right. We've got to go. We have to get to the top stories here in a second. They're back for more. We're talking about GMAC Financial Services, in line for a third round of taxpayer-funded bailout money. So how much this time?"], "speaker": ["HARRIS", "ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN SR. 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{"id": "CNN-367903", "program": "CUOMO PRIME TIME", "date": "2019-04-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/24/CPT.01.html", "summary": "Joe Biden To Announce 2020 Bid Tomorrow.", "utt": ["LET'S GET AFTER IT.", "The former VP Joe Biden now just hours away from officially joining the 2020 race, crowded field, lot of Democratic contenders. They've already participated in multiple Town Halls. But none has consistently polled higher than Biden. What are his chances? What does he mean? What are the limitations? What are the challenges? Jay Carney was the Vice President's Communications Director before becoming President Obama's Press Secretary. He's here along with fellow Obama White House alum, The Axe, David Axelrod. It's good to have you both. So, he's getting in tomorrow. Is this the right time, Jay? Why did he wait so long?", "I think it's a good time. I think the conventional wisdom that he should get in earlier that he had to get in early turned out to be useless advice because he's managed to stay out of the race while maintaining his, you know, perch atop the polls. He's viewed with great affection by a vast majority of Democrats. And he's been able to, you know, watch the field assemble, and make evaluations of the candidates as they've tried to get their own names recognized. So, I think as long as he's able to hit the ground running and - and demonstrate that he has the support through fundraising and - and the events he does, I think the late start probably works to his advantage.", "So, Axe, he's got the name. What does he have to show in terms of his game?", "Well, first of all, I agree with Jay. I think that he benefits from a shorter race, and he waited about as long as he thought he could. And the reason he can't wait any longer is money. He was on the phone tonight apparently with donors. It was reported that he told them that the first primary is not Iowa and New Hampshire. It's money. And he's absolutely right. Bernie Sanders raised $10 million in his first day. Beto O'Rourke, $6 million online. He is not a social media candidate. He is from a different era, and he doesn't have that social media fundraising base, so he's going to have to raise money the old-fashioned way. And he's going to have to raise it quickly to show that he has broad support and the resources too. And that's the first primary. And that's what he's going to have to do in the next few days.", "You know I hate that the money matters so much. But you'd be Pollyannaish and foolish if you didn't think that that is the case. We all say we want money out of the business. Everybody knows that everybody uses it as one of the main metrics at this point. So Jay, here's his problem though, once you put the money aside. Is Joe the old Democrats, the Obama-Biden Democrats, the new Democrats, what are his challenges in-house?", "Well he's Joe Biden. And - and that comes with a lot of, you know, positive, I think, momentum for him. He's - he's recognized and - and appreciated by Democrats. He's not a divisive figure within the party. He's a serious person with high integrity. He also has enormous empathy. I think - I think Van was talking about earlier in - in your - in your show about the empathy deficit we're seeing in - in our country. And - and Joe Biden has empathy that is borne out of his own personal experience. There are very few people I know who have suffered in life as much as he has. And yet, he wakes up every morning, thinking about other people, thinking about how to make their lives better and, you know, with great concern for the, you know, the fate of people who have less than he does. And that's what you want in a leader. And I - I think those - those advantages outweigh issues around generation. After all, he's not even the oldest Democrat in the race. So, I think that he'll be fine on those issues.", "Well he's not going to be in a hug-it-out race though if he gets the nomination.", "No.", "President Trump acts--", "He's plenty tough too.", "Well yes, I know. Look--", "Look--", "--I'm not doubting his bona fide he's - as - as a tough guy. But it's how will you campaign and how will you deal with somebody who's a very unorthodox fighter, you know? What do you think, Axe?", "I think it's - before he gets to - his - his issue is before he gets to run against President Trump, he has to become the nominee of the party.", "True.", "And some of the very qualities that make him appealing as a candidate against Trump can work against him in the primary that - that he has a great appeal to - to older working-class White voters, particularly in those Midwestern industrial states that Trump must have in order to win the Presidency. And in that respect, and for the reasons that Jay suggested, he is potentially the strongest general election candidate. But there is - Jay - Jay was polite about this. 45 years of experience has its value, a track record with people has its value. But 45 years also is a problem in the sense that he's got 45 years of record, 45 years of comments, some of which we've seen already. And he is not necessarily the candidate in best step with the contemporary Democratic Party, which is younger and more diverse. He's going to have to fight for this nomination. It is not going to come to him simply because people think he might be the strongest candidate against Donald Trump.", "You know, Jay, people are starting to nip at Mayor Pete Buttigieg because it's time to see if he can put some meat on the bones of his obvious intellect and, you know, what are his policy ideas. With Biden, I kind of see it in the obverse or at least the reverse, which is people know that he can do the job. People know that he's been at the highest levels of it. He can talk the talk. On a personal level, what can Joe Biden introduce to people that they wouldn't know about him already?", "I think that is a challenge. The - the - the upside, as I mentioned before, is that what they know about him, they generally like about him. But what - we are in a party especially that loves, you know, the new thing and--", "The new.", "--and the idea of a fresh face. And that will - will be a challenge. I think if he - if he focused - if he - if he resists the urge to be a policy wonk, which he, in many ways, he is, he's - he's - he's very focused on and deeply in - in policy substance and foreign affairs, and aspects of economic policy, and he - and he engages instead with, you know, individuals on the campaign trail, and shows his human side when he's doing Town Hall - Halls and things, I think - I think he'll - he'll make up some of that gap, and - and just show, I think, in contrast to other candidates, and just in - in terms of revealing of himself, you know, what kind of President he would be. I think he has an opportunity here to reintroduce himself, not as a second-tier Presidential candidate, which he basically was, in the other races he ran, and not as a Vice President, but as Joe Biden, the Potential President.", "Axe, any insight into what may be his gimmick or device in the video tomorrow that announces?", "You know, I think he's going to hit many of the qualities that Jay speaks of, and he's going to talk about fundamental American values and virtues, and it is going to be in implicit contrast--", "How? Sleeves rolled up? Is he sitting down? Is he fit - changing his oil on - on his muscle car? What's he doing?", "I don't think changing his oil at this point would necessarily be the most authentic thing for a former Vice President to do. But I think he'll do what he's done before and draw - draw on his own story, and draw on the stories of others. But let me say this. Joe - Joe Biden has to run as who he is with all of the strengths that come with it, and all of the weaknesses. He is utterly authentic. That's one of the people - things that people appreciate about him. But he also is, because of that, sometimes gaffe-prone, sometimes he has made political stumbles. Remember, he hasn't gotten out of Iowa in his previous--", "True.", "--Presidential ventures. He's never really flown very far on his own. So, this is a - a challenge for him. And to have the kind of discipline that he - that he hasn't had in past campaigns, and the organizational depth that he hasn't had in past campaigns is going to be very necessary here for him to pull something off at, let's face it, at the age of 76, when people don't generally change. So, this is not going to be a walk in the park for Joe Biden. He has enormous strengths. But he's going to be challenged. He's not going to get a pass. It's not going to be an easy road to the nomination.", "I agree with.", "It'll be the fight of his life. Jay?", "I agree - I agree with all of that. I mean I think even - even as a putative front-runner, you know, no candidate stands within the Democratic field more than maybe a 20 percent chance of winning right now. And so, I think the Vice President's will have to fight for it, and he has to accept the fact that he might not win, but he's got to give everything he can to it.", "And that's going to be the voice in the back of his head, of his dear departed son who we all knew and loved, Beau Biden saying, \"It's not about whether you win. You've got to fight Pop. You've got to get in and fight.\" And that's what he says he's going to do tomorrow. Jay, Axe, thank you very much. Let's see how it goes. Appreciate it. The President thinks he has a get-out-of-impeachment card. Is he exposing a weakness in the process or exposing his own ignorance? The answer, and the man, D. 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{"id": "CNN-286557", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-06-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/14/es.03.html", "summary": "Orlando Club Massacre: Stories of Survival; Obama: Orlando Attack Example of Homegrown Extremism", "utt": ["New investigations into the Orlando gay club massacre, 49 people killed, 53 injured. New stories of survival, as we learn new information about the killer from his online radicalization to why he targeted that particular club. Patrons telling CNN they had seen him in that club many times before. Welcome back to EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans here in New York.", "I'm John Berman, live in Orlando this morning. It is Tuesday, June 14th. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Still a crime scene out in front of the Pulse nightclub. You can see the officers, hundreds of officers and vehicles out here investigating that scene for any clues that they can piece together as to what happened in the hours of that brutal attack. There's also new information this morning, new details about how the gunman carried it out and how he planned it in the hours and days before. Regular patrons of the Pulse nightclub tell CNN and the Orlando sentinel that they had seen the gunman there several times before, maybe as far back as three years. Now, it's not clear whether he was casing a target. Three years can be an awful long time to case a target, or if he was there for personal reasons. Everywhere you look in this city right now, people are coming together. I'm standing on the street right. I can see a sign at a dry cleaner saying \"our prayers are with you\". And at a McDonald's saying \"Orlando Strong\". You can see a vigil that took place in downtown Orlando overnight, beautiful with thousands of mourners out. President Obama, he is coming to the city on Thursday to pay his respects and stand in solidarity with this community. The investigation, as we said, is exposing new details of the attack, including information on the planning, the preparation, the motive, the hours before the attack. Let's get the very latest on that. I'm joined by CNN's Boris Sanchez. Boris, the new details, what are learning?", "Essentially, these details reveal this was something calculated. That wasn't simply an emotional outburst that happened just from one moment to the next. We know that two weeks ago, he purchased the three weapons that he had for this shooting. One was a SIG Sauer AR-15 assault style rifle. He also had a .9 millimeter Glock with him, as well as a 38 caliber handgun that officials found in the car after the shooting. We know that he also had some extensive training with weapons, specifically with at least one of these weapons before. Aside from that, we know that at least a week ago, he tried to buy body armor and that he was denied being able to purchase the body armor. Who knows how much worse this could have been if he had that kind of defense on him? Aside from that, we're learning about his influences, some of his mindset. He was a -- one official described it as a heavy consumer. He consumed a hell of a lot of jihadi propaganda. We know he was watching ISIS beheading videos. And aside from all that, one very interesting thing you mentioned, patrons of the club had seen him there multiple times before. Whether he was casing the club, we don't know. But what that tells you is that he was familiar with the layout. When officials told us that he had that initial scuffle with the off-duty police officer outside they sent in additional officers. It's clear that he knew where to go, he knew where he could hide best in there. And the one disheartening thing about all of this, when you listen to the descriptions of his demeanor from survivors, let's play that for you now.", "I know friends that actually, their bodies were dead as well. It's just a senseless act of violence. A true face of evil.", "We were in a stall. I was in a stall, the handicap part. So you have the first part of the bathroom, which is the entrance, and the urinals, the sink, and then you have the big handicap, and that's where I was at. Then we started hearing pop, pop, pop, pop. And me and my best friend went inside the stall.", "Once he shot him, he laughed.", "The gunman laughed?", "Yes. And that's something that's imprinted in my head for the rest of my life. I've literally been in the hospital for two days trying to sleep. And one of the first things I hear when I close my eyes, guns, bullets hitting the floor and just that laugh. It's like a villain in a movie.", "Laughing during this horrible shooting. So, you've got the intention, the planning of it, the jihadi influence and now you have the story from survivors that he was seemingly enjoying himself as he was carrying all of this out.", "We also learned where he was in the hours before this attack, which is concerning I think to a lot of people in community here.", "It has to be. It's known as Disney Springs. It used to be known was Downtown Disney. I went there several times when I was young. It's a place you take your kids to go to as a restaurant, to go to a concert. There's all kinds of shopping there. And the most frightening about it, it's not really a Disney Park. There's no one entrance. It's kind of an outdoor mall, so there are no metal detectors out there. Investigators figured out essentially that using the cell phone tower data, that he was there likely alone by himself hours before the shooting. You can bet that the next phase of the investigation will be interviewing people that were there that may have seen him to try to figure out what his demeanor was like when he was there, just hours before coming here and carrying out the worst shooting in American history.", "You can tell there's still so much work for investigators which is why they're here in force and will be at Disney Springs, trying to talk to as many witnesses as possible. Boris Sanchez, thanks so much. The killer's family members, they are cooperating with this investigation. They're offering new information about the killer's actions in the days and weeks before the attack. We're also learning more about the claims that he had visited this nightclub Pulse many times before. Some patrons tell CNN he had been coming for as long as three years, as long as three years. Others suggest maybe a couple times a month. As for the plans about the radicalization, the president said that he said this was a case of home-grown terrorism. He said there was no evidence that a foreign terror group had directed these actions, but one official tells CNN that the gunman as Boris reported, consumed a hell of a lot of jihadist propaganda online. Let's get more on this investigation now from CNN's Pamela Brown.", "Well, good morning, John and Christine. We've learned that investigators have been talking with the wife of the gunman, and she has been giving helpful insight into where the gunman visited. The places he went to prior to the attack, and investigators are using that information to piece together a timeline of his movements, leading up to that mass shooting. According to \"The Orlando Sentinel\", four patrons who were regular at this club said that they had recognized him and that he had gone multiple times prior to that shooting. So investigators are trying to figure out whether he was doing operational, preoperational surveillance or if there was another reason why he was at that club. According to the FBI director, James Comey, he had been consuming propaganda online from terrorist groups, and that is in part why he was radicalized. In fact, my sources tell me that he was taking in a lot of ISIS propaganda, including propaganda from other terrorist groups. Back in 2013, the FBI looked into him based on some comments he made to co-workers that he had associations with Hezbollah, and his family was associated with al Qaeda. At the time, the FBI looked into it and interviewed him twice, and he said he did make those comments but he did it because he was being taunted by his co-workers for being Muslim. Ultimately, the FBI closed that investigation. He was taken off a watch list at that time the FBI interviewed him again the next year. But he was not the subject of that investigation and found that he didn't have any terrorist ties then. Still a lot to learn, more than 100 leads have been looked so far, and the investigation still very active -- John and Christine.", "All right. Pamela Brown, thank you so much. Not only have regulars here at Pulse told CNN and other media outlets that the killer came to this club several times over the period of several years, but many witnesses also say they chatted with the killer on gay dating apps like Grindr and Jack'd. The obvious question: was he gay? Was he leading a secret gay life that others did not know about? CNN's Erin Burnett asked his ex-wife.", "He very much enjoyed going to clubs and the nightlife, and there were a lot of pictures of him. So, you know, I feel like it's a side of him or a part of him that he lived, but probably didn't want everybody to know about.", "Do you think he was gay?", "I don't know. He never personally, or, you know, physically made any indication while we were together.", "All right. Erin Burnett there speaking to the ex-wife of the killer here. Let's talk about the investigation, joined by CNN military analyst Cedric Leighton, former deputy director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Cedric, thanks a lot for being with us. Your area of expertise is military, but you've been involved in investigations before the one of the key pieces we've learned overnight is that this killer had been coming to this nightclub behind me for three years, for three years as often as a couple times a month. That seems like an awfully long time to be casing a building if that's what he was doing. You know, just on the face of it, it seems like he was there for other reasons, personal reasons, perhaps, just as a patron.", "Well, that could very well be, John. One of these things that we look at when we are investigating cases like this is, you know, is there something that happened. For example, is it possible that he was rejected by somebody? Maybe he made an advance and things went bad, you know, in a personal relationship or an attempt to establish a personal relationship. One of the other things to look at is, you know, was he casing other areas as well? Was he not only looking at the Pulse night club, but was he looking at the Disney shopping center that Boris and you talked about earlier. So these are many different things that have to come together. The one key thing that is, of course, very disconcerting here is the fact that he was very much a consumer of all the different jihadi propaganda elements on social media. So, that is obviously a red flag. You couple that with statements he allegedly made to his co-workers at the security firm G4S, and that really starts to paint a picture of somebody who is perhaps uncertain of their position, their philosophy in life. And they may also be looking for ways to act out certain things. And in this particular case, of course, that acting out was the terrible tragedy that we see in Orlando.", "Yes, and to be clear, none of these threads are mutually exclusive. He could be involved in all of this. It paints a clearer picture of what was going on. As you said, another thread we picked up is three consumed, quote, \"a hell of a lot\", a hell of a lot of jihadist propaganda online. And that's got to be something very concerning to investigators because you imagine that happened right up until very recently. And this was a guy who was on their radar as far back as 2013, investigated, questioned by the FBI, and yet, they're learning that up until recently, that he was consuming just tons of this very dangerous stuff. Beheading videos, Anwar al Awlaki videos. He, of course, that Yemeni cleric who's connected to a lot of terrorist activity around the world. He's deceased, he was killed, but his influence is still very much active, Cedric.", "The other thing I thought was interesting is that he may be ideologically diverse in the sense that he may very well have looked at al Qaeda, you know, you mentioned Anwar al Awlaki. He may also have been inspired by ISIS. In fact, that's what he allegedly said in that 911 call that was made. So there are many different threads here. He may have been in one of those ideological dark spaces where he supports the tenets of what we call radical Islam but the other part of it is that he is, you know, looking for ways in which he can act out his frustrations. It seems like he was personally frustrated in terms of personal relationships. His marriage didn't work out. There's the question of whether or not he was gay. There's the business about, you know, did he have any other connections to the outside world. So far, you know, that relate to terrorism. So far, indications are that he acted alone, and that's probably true, but the problem is, he consumed this kind of propaganda. He also understood what it was all about, and he took that upon himself, internalized a lot of this and then acted upon it, and that's really the most dangerous kind of terrorist that we're faced with today.", "Exactly the kind of terrorist that ISIS is hoping to breed. Again, no direct connection, no direct link, no sign of an order from overseas to this man, yet, he carried it out on his own. Cedric Leighton, thanks so much for being with us.", "You bet, John.", "What happened here in Orlando is dominating the conversation in the race for president. What should the next president do in the battle against terror? What can the next president do? Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have wildly different ideas about it. 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{"id": "CNN-157759", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2010-11-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1011/03/se.05.html", "summary": "Prop 19 Lost in California", "utt": ["Crossing the half hour. It's 4:30 in the morning on the East Coast, it's 1:30 on the West Coast. Sex. Did we get your attention? We're breaking it down this morning to find out how people across the country voted by sex and by age. Christine Romans has got the exit poll up on her right for us this morning. Good morning.", "Good morning. The exit poll information is in. And you're right, it's fascinating to look at some of these numbers and see who came out to vote. This is what we found when you break it down by sex in the nationwide House races. Total vote by sex, male, 47 percent, female, 53 percent. So you have women more likely to vote this time around than men. Let me go back and give you another one here. Let's break it down further from there by party. Roll it out. The nationwide House vote, take a look at this. When you break out Democrats, women were more likely to be voting, 49 percent of women, 54 percent of men. There you go. And if you take a look at the Republican part of the vote, 55 percent male, 48 percent female. So that's how it breaks down sex by party break down. Let's take a look at race now, John. Let me give it a double tap there. Not too many surprises overall, 78 percent of the vote was white. African-American 10 percent. Latino 8 percent. Asian and others, 4 percent of the vote. And pull back by age now, 18 to 29-year-olds, this is one -- this one kind of surprised me, John. Because we had such a huge youth vote turnout the last election. There's usually a drop off to midterms, but 11 percent the youth vote, 30 to 44 years old, 22 percent, 45 to 64 years olds, those are the baby boomers, 44 percent, 65 and older, 23 percent. So I don't know. Do you see any surprises in there for you?", "No, not really. I mean it seemed like a pretty typical midterm elections. One of the big surprises, though, is that among people 18 to 29 years old, fully 50 percent of them now, half of those voters identify themselves as independents. So they're sort of rejecting the tradition of two-party system. We'll see how that plays in to the political landscape in the years to come.", "The president took a big push yesterday doing radio --", "Yes.", "Trying to kind of energize that youth vote again, carry over from the general election. But 11 percent, I wonder if they're disappointed.", "All right. Christine Romans for us this morning with the exit poll out. Thanks -- Kiran.", "The Republican wave, it did not reach California bucking the national trend. Democrats actually scored big victories in the Senate with incumbent Barbara Boxer holding on to her seat, beating back the Republican challenger Carly Fiorina. And also in the governor's race, Jerry Brown, blast from the past. He was first elected governor in 1974. Headed back to Sacramento after defeating Republican Meg Whitman. The news was not as good for supporters of California's Proposition 19. That was the measure that would have made recreational use of marijuana legal. That went up in smoke. CNN's Ted Rowlands is live in Oakland. There's so much we could do with that, right? But it went the easy route. Hi, Ted.", "Hi, Kiran. Yes. Someone actually was talking about that and said the first person that says up in smoke as a headline when we were out here earlier this evening -- there were a couple of hundred people here at Oaksterdam University, which is in Oakland, the sort of the heart of the cannabis movement in Oakland which started with the medical side years ago. And this was really the epicenter of this push for Proposition 19 to try to legalize marijuana use for recreation -- marijuana for recreational use. There was a lot of recreational use of it last night as supporters came to watch the returns on a big screen. In the end, though, they did not make it. The young vote did not come out in the numbers that they were hoping and Proposition 19 was defeated.", "Definitely disappointing, but then also, you know, it's an opening. So we've been -- you know, this is all we're going to say. We've managed to forge really in a national and international debate on the issue. So we win -- we win rhetorically, we don't win with votes. And we win next time by making a better coalition.", "But for this ballot initiative, people would not have had the national conversation that we're having right now. And this is just going to continue. I mean it's not going to get -- it's not going to get smaller. It's just continuing. It's just getting bigger from here.", "It's not going to stop. It's going to keep coming back. It's positive. It's a positive day.", "Now, from the White House, a statement was released saying -- today saying in part, today California recognized that legalizing marijuana will not make our citizens healthier, solve California's budget crisis or reduce drug violence in Mexico. A lot of people thought -- were watching this very closely and they really thought there was a chance that this would pass, but in the days leading up to the election, the polls started to shift and then on Election Day, we saw that shift go even farther with sort of an overwhelming, and there were a lot of surprised people here, but it was a resounding no by California voters. They're just not ready for recreational use of marijuana -- Kiran.", "All right. I guess they're sad at -- what did you call it again? What university? Oaksterdam University?", "Oaksterdam. Named after drug-friendly Amsterdam here in Oakland.", "All right. Well, Ted Rowlands for us this morning. Thanks so much. We're going to take a quick break. 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{"id": "CNN-205497", "program": "EARLY START WITH JOHN BERMAN AND ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN", "date": "2013-4-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/23/es.04.html", "summary": "TSA Delays Small Knife Policy; NBA Playoff Game Down to the Wire", "utt": ["Welcome back to EARLY START. Fifty-two minutes past the hour. The TSA's plan to let passengers bring small knives on planes is now officially on hold. The new policy was supposed to go into effect Thursday, but the agency says that they want more input. Critics, including flight attendants, say letting knives back in the cabin is a dangerous idea, but supporters say it will speed up lines and let agents focus on bigger threats. That will go back and forth for awhile. So, big time NBA playoff action in full effect in Los Angeles last night. It did not involve the Lakers. The Clippers, I can't even say it, and Grizzlies had one go down to the wire, I understand. Jared Greenberg is here with this morning's \"Bleacher Report.\"", "Now, Zoraida, it still feels weird to say it -- dramatic finish, the second buzzer beating win in the first three days, the NBA playoffs while you were sleeping, the L.A. Clippers took a commanding advantage in their best of seven series. Trailing by as many as 12 points in the fourth quarter, insert Chris Paul, arguably, basketball's best point guard. Tied game, final seconds, Paul drives for the win. You betcha! A two-point Clipper victory. A franchise known best for its inability to win. The Clippers have taken the first two games of the playoff series for just the second time ever. Needing just two more wins to advance to the second round the series now moves to Memphis for the next two. Boston continues to remember and honor. Watertown police officers that were involved in Thursday's gun fight took center stage on the top of the Fenway dugout. An inning later, The Red Sox down a run, bases loaded for Nike Napoli and he got all of it, some spring yard work. That's a grand slam. The first place Red Sox -- hope John could hear me -- the first place Red Sox beat the A's 9-6. Earlier in the day, more than 100 New England Patriot employees spelled out \"one Boston\" on the football field. Best retirement strategy in history. From the Andes mountains in Peru, Scott Fujita signed a one-day contract then announced that his football career is done. Not sure the best decisions are made 10,000 feet above sea level overlooking Machu Picchu, but, then again, maybe those are the best decisions in life. Fujita played 11 seasons in the NFL, including four in New Orleans where he helped the Saints win a Super Bowl. Unfortunately, Fujita may be best remembered for his role in the Saints bounty gate program. Another reason to be envious of a professional athlete, Shane Battier won at NBA title last year with the Miami Heat, and he's a key reason why the Heat are favored to repeat this year. Bud Light found out Battier has a pregame ritual, get this, to indulge in a beer prior to each game. So, naturally, the beer company donated a truck load of beer to a man who has already earned more than $50 million during his playing career.", "Good morning, sir.", "What's up, man? How are you doing?", "Good man. Mr. Shane Battier?", "Yes, sir?", "We've got a special delivery for you, man, from Bud Light.", "Get out of here.", "Yes. Got a whole truck full.", "I'll take it all. I'll take it all.", "Let me know where you want --", "Oh, man.", "Can't say that I have the same preshow ritual, but Zoraida, how about getting sports casters involved here?", "Hey, what's the shelf life of beer? That's a whole lot of beer.", "It is. More than 1,100 cases. So, good thing he's a pretty popular guy and he knows a few people and I'm sure he'll have no trouble getting rid of that.", "Yes. If he wasn't popular before, he is now. Jared Greenberg, thank you very much.", "You got it.", "And \"STARTING POINT\" on deck. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["SAMBOLIN", "JARED GREENBERG, BLEACHER REPORT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GREENBERG", "SAMBOLIN", "GREENBERG", "SAMBOLIN", "GREENBERG", "SAMBOLIN"]}
{"id": "NPR-30182", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2012-12-29", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/12/29/168269588/cautious-optimism-for-behind-the-scenes-fiscal-dealing", "title": "Cautious Optimism For Behind-The-Scenes Fiscal Dealing", "summary": "The deadline for the so-called \"fiscal cliff\" is fast-approaching. The combination of automatic spending cuts and tax hikes go into effect in just three days. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with host Jacki Lyden about where congressional leaders are on a deal.", "utt": ["This is WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden.", "Three days, that's how long Congress has to pass legislation that would avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. The combination of expiring tax cuts and across-the-board spending cuts become effective midnight on Monday. So happy New Year.", "It's not exactly the way Republicans, Democrats or most Americans want to celebrate the New Year. To find out if we're any closer to a deal, I'm joined by NPR's White House correspondent Ari Shapiro. Hi Ari.", "Hey, Jacki.", "Everything seems pretty quiet in Washington today. Perhaps something's going on behind the scenes, she said hopefully.", "That's the hope. The two leaders of the Senate, Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid, and their staffs are presumably furiously working behind the scenes to figure out if they can come up with a deal that everybody can vote on. They met yesterday with the president at the White House and came out sounding very different than they had just a day before. Remember, when they came back to Washington and the Senate came back into session, they were really kind of sniping each other, pointing fingers, placing blame.", "Yesterday afternoon, they were much more cautiously optimistic. They talked about working together to see if they can get some kind of a deal by tomorrow that Congress could vote on.", "Ari, yesterday, we heard from the president. Where is he in all of this?", "He's really urging Congress to vote on something - anything. And his message is if they can't reach a deal that they're willing to vote on, then they should give an up or down vote to the president's last offer, which would've extended tax cuts for income up to $250,000 as well as extending unemployment benefits. Here's part of what he said in his weekly address this morning.", "If an agreement is reached on time, then I'll urge the Senate to hold an up or down vote on a basic package that protects the middle class from an income tax hike, extends vital unemployment insurance for Americans looking for a job and lays the groundwork for future progress on more economic growth and deficit reduction.", "And, Jacki, that would mean no filibuster in the Senate, which sounds like something Republicans are probably unlikely to agree to if Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid can't reach a deal on their own.", "So what happens if there's no vote tomorrow night?", "Well, if there's no vote tomorrow night, it looks like we're probably going through this midnight Monday deadline. The House and Senate are both back in session on Sunday, and they have vote scheduled for 6:30. But if the Senate hasn't passed anything by tomorrow afternoon, it's unlikely that the House will be voting on anything at 6:30. And then Monday, if there's no bill to vote on, it looks like we're going over this deadline.", "Hmm. That's NPR's White House correspondent Ari Shapiro. Whatever happens, Ari, I know you'll keep us posted. And I'm wishing you a happy New Year.", "Thanks. You, too, Jacki."], "speaker": ["JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "JACKI LYDEN, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-126325", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-5-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/07/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Jihadist Web Site: Ex-Guantanamo Detainee was Iraqi Suicide Bomber; Myanmar Death Toll", "utt": ["Worst comes to worst in Myanmar. Days after a cyclone bearing 150-mile-an-hour winds and 20 inches of rain, a U.S. diplomat says more than 100,000 people may be dead.", "Well, the outside world is begging to get in to help, and Myanmar's military rulers, well, they aren't saying no to emergency supplies, but they're not exactly throwing open the borders either. Hello, everyone. I'm Don Lemon, live here at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta.", "And I'm Brianna Keilar. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. We will get you the latest on the situation in Myanmar in just a moment. But first, a story just into the CNN NEWSROOM. Let's bring in Senior Pentagon Correspondent Jamie McIntyre. I understand, Jamie, we're talking about a former Guantanamo Bay detainee. What can you tell us?", "Well, Brianna, it's not often that you find a jihadist Web site and the Pentagon agreeing on something, but today both say that a man named Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi was responsible for a suicide attack in Mosul against Iraqi police officers, and the Pentagon says that this man was a former detainee at the Guantanamo prison in Guantanamo, Cuba. The Web site lauds him as a martyr and hero. The Pentagon says he was someone who was picked up in 2001 in Afghanistan, alleged to have been fighting with the Taliban against the Northern Alliance during the fighting there in 2001. He was held in Guantanamo Bay, according to U.S. military records, until 2005, when as a Kuwaiti citizen, he was returned to Kuwait. After facing justice in Kuwait, he was released. And now the Pentagon says he's one of at least 10 former Guantanamo detainees who has shown up on the battlefield, either been captured, or killed, or in this case, believed to have carried out a suicide attack last April 26th in Mosul -- Brianna.", "And Jamie, I know the details are really just coming in on this, but you said he went back to Kuwait, he faced justice there. Do we know what type of justice was handed out there?", "Well, he was charged with terrorism offenses. Of course, during his stay at Guantanamo, he wasn't formally charged with anything, although the U.S. believed he was an enemy combatant. But he denied that he had anything to do with fighting with the Taliban. He said he was in Afghanistan to study the Koran. He was apparently acquitted by a Kuwaiti and released sometime after his transfer in 2005. And then flash forward to 2008, he shows up in Iraq, in Mosul, according to this jihadist Web site, responsible for that terrorist attack. Again, the Pentagon says this is the problem they have with the detainees -- and there are about 270 left -- in Guantanamo. They're never sure when they release somebody if they may be a threat in the future.", "All right. Jamie McIntyre for us at our Washington bureau. Thanks, Jamie.", "Late word now that more than 100,000 people possibly lost their lives in this cyclone that hit Myanmar, and the U.N. is pleading with the government of Myanmar to let aid workers in to help storm victims. Food and medicine are trickling into the country, with some difficulty though. But volunteers from the outside are having a tough time getting visas, and once they get in, they face poor or nonexistent roads, no communications, and a government not used to outsiders. It is four days since a Category 3 hurricane wiped away much of the low-lying parts of the country. The official word from Myanmar's hard-line government is that 22,000 people lost their lives, but we're hearing now as many as 100,000. That figure is not universally trusted. The 14,000 is not universally trusted. But it may in reality be much, much higher, as we have been saying here. Now, look at these amazing pictures just into the CNN NEWSROOM. It's video taken as a cyclone was ravaging towns on the Burmese coast. People struggling just to stay upright there. And of course the video is telling you the story. Look at the trees bending under the cyclone winds, and the terrible, terrible aftermath that follows that. Homes weren't built to withstand wind and rain like what happened in that cyclone. There's also a question of how much warning -- how much warning villagers had and whether they were told the size and strength of that oncoming storm.", "And as we just told you, more dreadful news here in the past few minutes. A U.S. diplomat in Myanmar saying that, yes, more than 100,000 people may be dead. CNN's Dan Rivers saw some of the most ravaged neighborhoods.", "Not even the Buddhist temples were spared the fury Cyclone Nargis. Even the venerable symbols of religion have somehow been toppled by the wind. It brought unremitting fury to this landscape, sending much of the Irrawaddy delta into a wasteland. A land where funerals and death are at every turn. Some are buried, but many bodies are still lying beneath the rubble. And everywhere, those haunting hollow faces, the drowned world that feels beyond hope. (on camera): But it's not just people's homes that have been destroyed here. The very infrastructure of Myanmar has taken a severe battering. This is all that remains of a school science laboratory, completely flattened by Cyclone Nargis. The school says it doesn't know what it's going to do, and it still hasn't heard anything from the authorities. (voice over): This is the schoolyard. The water was three feet deep, and it's miles from the river. Save the Children estimate that 40 percent of those who have died are children. The classrooms have no roofs. It will be a long time before the lessons can be taught again here. State television has shown aid being distributed by the army, but the need here is immense. So far, many foreign aid agencies haven't been able to get their staff and equipment into Myanmar. They say the red tape of this reclusive country is preventing progress. Food shortages are critical in some areas, and opposition groups are cynical about the army's motives.", "We are also learning the military junta, not to politicize the delivery of relief services. This is one of our concerns, because it might be that the military structure supporting the delivery of relief and rehabilitation services will be very selective and prioritize their communities that are a stronghold of the military junta. And intentionally miss out on those communities supportive of the democratization movement.", "Another crippling problem right now is fuel. This is the line of cars waiting for gas. (on camera): It just goes on and on and on for -- for miles, really. Just this never-ending queue, all the way down here. And I guess the people at the back are going to be waiting, God knows how long, hours and hours, you think. (voice over): Here, the gas is $1.50 for a gallon, or for four liters. And if you don't want to wait for hours, you can pay the black market rates of 10 times that amount. But it's here in the Irrawaddy River delta that the real misery and suffering is happening. These people are reaching a breaking point. How much longer will they be made to wait before the help they desperately need arrives? Dan Rivers, CNN, southern Myanmar.", "Wow. Well, many nations, including the U.S., are pleading -- or pledging, I should say, millions upon millions of dollars in aid to help Myanmar. But that's long term. People there need help on the ground, and they need it right now. And U.S. forces in the Pacific are offering as well. Let's go straight now to the Pentagon and our correspondent there, Barbara Starr, with the very latest on this. What's going on now with the forces in the Pacific? Are they able to get in, Barbara?", "Well, not yet, Don. And gloom is mounting here at the Pentagon about the ability to go do anything to help this devastated area. I think it's very clear to everyone, calls are mounting around the world from the United Nations to Europe to Asia for the military government, the military junta in Myanmar, to open the door and let the international relief community in. U.S. military officials confirm they have even approached the Chinese to act as intermediaries to approach the government in Myanmar and ask them to let the international relief community in. The U.S. military does have a good number of humanitarian relief capabilities in Asia right now. They were conducting a relief exercise off the coast of Thailand, so there's plenty in place. A little bit earlier today, CNN spoke to Admiral Timothy Keating, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command.", "We've been watching this through our command center as the storm came ashore over the weekend. We began moving forces very soon thereafter. We've been in extensive dialogue with our Department of Defense leaders and listening as the Department of State leaders and our president himself have implored Myanmar, Burma to let us come in, and it's been several days now. We do not as yet have permission.", "Not only do they not have permission, they don't have a \"yes,\" they don't have a \"no.\" According to top officials, they are hearing nothing from the government in Myanmar, and that is leading to some considerable distress and considerable worry about the people there. What could the U.S. military in the region do? Very quickly, they have a number of helicopters they are already putting on the ground in northern Thailand, next door, so they could quickly, if they got permission, begin flowing relief supplies in that way. There are six U.S. military C-130 aircraft in Thailand. They could also bring in supplies and relief. U.S. Navy ships have considerable water purification capability. They could be on scene within a number of days. But there's a lot of concern, Don, that time is running out for the people there, and a lot of concern about what may happen next -- Don.", "All right, Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr. Barbara, thank you.", "Let's go and go ahead now and bring in CNN State Department producer Elise Labott. She was on this conference call when the top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar told the world, really, that the death toll there is much higher than previously we believe that it was. Elise, are you there? What can you tell us?", "I'm here, Brianna. The U.S. charge d'affaires in Myanmar, Shelly Villarosa (ph), told reporters just moments ago in a conference call that the death toll there could exceed about 100,000. These reports coming from NGOs in the area, international NGOs that work in Myanmar and are familiar with the situation on the ground. She said most of the deaths are coming from the rural areas, the delta, as you say. There's not potable water. There's -- because of the cyclone, the seawater contaminated the region. Not only are people missing and presumed dead, but there's additional possible deaths because of no access to water. The basic sanitation situation very bad right now. And as Barbara and others have said, that the military government there is not allowing relief workers in to help the situation. So there's danger of even more death because of very real risk of disease outbreak is very possible.", "Now, at last count, we heard, Elise, coming from opposition groups, as well as state-run media there, the death toll was at 22,000. That's the number we were reporting yesterday. Did this diplomat talk about why there may be a discrepancy?", "Well, based on the people in the area, there's about five to six million people in the area, and not only are they dealing with the number of people that they believe to be dead, but the number of missing makes them believe that the death toll could reach eventually as much as 100,000. She was careful to say that they don't believe 100,000 people are dead as of now, but as they fine the missing, as they find the missing that are believed to be dead, they believe that this figure could reach as high as 100,000 when they figure out who is -- who is missing, who is dead, and who is accounted for.", "CNN State Department producer Elise Labott. Thank you so much for joining us on the phone.", "OK. So if you went to bed last night without knowing who won the Indiana Democratic primary, Lake County is the reason, of course. Or you were just too sleep to stay up. The second largest county in the state, on the outskirts of Chicago, saw a much bigger vote than unusual, especially from absentee voters. Our Susan Roesgen tried to find out why it took so long to get those results.", "Election commissioners here at the Lake County administration building kept the state of Indiana and the entire nation waiting for the results of the Democratic primary. Those commissioners told us that it was simply a case of 11,000 absentee ballots that had to be counted, mostly by hand.", "They verify signatures from the application to the ballot. Then they separate those, then they open up the ballot envelope. Then they look for two sets of initials on there to make sure it's been validated. Then they separate those out, they commingle them. Then they come over to a scanning team. We match them up to the report, make sure that our numbers match. If you have 25 ballots, you have 25 returns and so forth.", "We had the most excitement here in Lake County since 1964. And we had a chance to shine. And we had a flaw in it. And unfortunately, it was -- it went all over the nation. And now we have to live with that until we can rectify it.", "Elections officials also told us that as soon as they realized that everybody out here was waiting for their results in there, they stopped counting the absentee ballots and went back to doing the precinct tallies, which took much less time. In fact, it took them until 5:00 a.m. this morning, a full 24 hours, to count all the absentee ballots in. In the end, results showed that this county went overwhelmingly for Senator Obama. But the state of Indiana was a barely-get-by win for Senator Clinton. Susan Roesgen, CNN, Lake County, Indiana.", "Let's get a overall look now. Here is where we stand in the delegate race. By CNN's estimate, Barack Obama now has 1,842 delegates. Hillary Clinton, 1,686. Obama is 183 delegates short of the 2,025 needed to win the nomination. Up next is the West Virginia primary. That is next Tuesday, where 28 Democratic delegates are up for grabs there.", "All right. All the latest campaign news of course right at your fingertips. Just go to cnnpolitics.com. We also have analysis from the best political team on television. It's all there, cnnpolitics.com.", "A police beating caught on tape. Does the video of a violent arrest tell the whole story of what happened? We'll go in depth ahead in the NEWSROOM. And as many as 100,000 people dead after that devastating cyclone in Myanmar. Now the United Nations has a message for the leaders of that country -- let the rest of the world in to help the victims. 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{"id": "CNN-361992", "program": "CNN 10", "date": "2019-02-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/14/sn.01.html", "summary": "Preview of North Korea and United States Summit; \"Kona Low\" and Its Effects; History of Valentine`s Cards; Black Panther Caught on Camera in Kenya", "utt": ["Well Happy Valentine`s Day everyone. We love that you`re taking 10 minutes for our show. I`m Carl Azuz at the CNN Center. We have a Valentine`s related report coming up but we`re going to start across the Pacific. Because two weeks from right now the leaders of the United States and North Korea will be holding their second ever summit. The first time they met, it was the first time that sitting leaders from these two countries ever came face to face was last summer in the Asian island country of Singapore. On February 27th and 28th, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un will sit down and Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam to discuss their priorities for a possible peace agreement. The nation`s have been rivals since fighting stopped in the Korean War in 1953. More than 65 years later, the U.S. is pushing for North Korea to completely get rid of its nuclear program and to stop trying to develop nuclear weapons. North Korea is pushing the U.S. to remove it`s sanctions, it`s penalties on North Korea`s economy and promise that America won`t attack the Asian country. Analysts say the results of their last meeting are a mixed bag. It was a foreign policy success for President Trump and leader Kim and military officials say that tensions have calmed down on the border that joins North Korea and South Korea, a U.S. ally. On the other hand, analysts say there hasn`t been lasting, concrete results from their first summit and the North Korea`s military is still a risk to South Korea, the U.S. and their allies.", "A sobering assessment commander of U.S. forces Korea General Robert Abrams. He`s sitting there in South Korea watching the Korean people`s army conduct their winter training exercises. He says they`re the same size, scope and at the same time the North Koreans done it over the last four years even during the height of tensions. Meanwhile U.S.-South Korea joint drills have been significantly scaled back or suspended on orders from President Trump. Obviously the concern here, you know, as U.S. soldiers rotate out of South Korea and new soldiers come in, well they don`t have that joint training. And over time, the U.S. and South Korean militaries are less and less prepared to counter any potential action by North Korea. Now speaking of that, about two weeks from now President Trump and Kim Jong-Un will be meeting in Hanoi for the second time and my colleague in DC, Kylie Atwood is learning from her sources that U.S. negotiators are asking North Korea for a list of nuclear scientists. They know a lot about the nuclear program from spy satellites but they don`t really know about the people behind it. Even if North Korea does eventually get rid of nuclear weapons, which U.S. intelligence officials have said is unlikely to completely happen. North Korea will still always have the knowledge and analysts like Adam Mount do say though with realistic expectations this diplomacy does have the potential to make the world safer.", "Kim Jong-Un has substantially slowed the progress of his nuclear and missile advancements in order to hold this dialogue. At the same time, it`s clear that sanctions pressure has slipped. It seems clear that there`s a deal that could still be on the table here. It may not be the deal that John Bolton and Donald Trump want.", "Diplomacy has already greatly reduced the North Korean threat according to a new report from Stanford University in the U.S. It was co- authored by Siegfried Hecker who`s the former director of the Los Alamos Weapons Lab in the United States and he says basically because North Korea has not conducted a ballistic missile or nuclear test in more than a year. The program is far less dangerous now than it was a year ago for example. And even though he says satellite imagery shows that North Korea is continuing to produce bomb fuel, possibly enough for up to seven additional bombs during this period of diplomacy. Nonetheless, you know, they still - - because they`re not testing the weapons it is a safer situation today than it was. Will Ripley, CNN, Hong Kong.", "10 Second Trivia. What is a kona low? Is it a type of coffee, a weather system, a surfing trick or a Hawaiian region? While kona is a part of Hawaii`s big island a kona low is a weather event that often brings cooler weather to the islands. Rain and gusty winds are also part of a kona low and the island state was recently hit with a big one.", "Check this out.", "What he wants you to check out is exactly what it looks like, snow at Polipoli State Park on the island of Maui. Hawaii`s Department of Land and Natural Resources says this might be the first time ever that snow has fallen in a Hawaii state park. It`s common at the tops of the state`s volcanoes but not at all common at elevations as low as 6,200 feet but there`s a lot more to this kona low. As it approached the islands last weekend, the mayor of Hawaii county tweeted that every beach, park and every state park would be closed. And as the system moved away from the state earlier this week, it left behind broken trees, power lines and traffic lights. At one point, 10`s of thousands of Hawaiians were without electricity. At the summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the big island, wind gusts of 191 miles per hour were recorded. That`s the same wind speed of a very powerful hurricane. As you might expect, the system brought some high and dangerous surf. In northwest Maui, Hawaii News Now says a man from California was killed after he got stuck in rough ocean conditions. Some waves near the islands measured 60 feet and there was coastal flooding on Oahu`s north shore. The National Weather Service expected more cool, rainy weather on Thursday. That also happens to be St. Valentine`s Day, a holiday probably named for a Christian religious leader who lived in the third century. Though its history`s been debated, one thing that isn`t is that Americans spend money on the holiday. In fact an annual survey released by the National Retail Federation, a U.S. trade association, indicates that Americans plan to spend more than $20 billion this year. That works out to about $162 for every person who plans to celebrate and that`s despite the fact that the survey says fewer Americans are celebrating the holiday. It`s down to 51 percent this year from a high of 63 percent 12 years ago. The NRF doesn`t know why fewer people are celebrating but for those who do, greeting cards are a big seller. They account for more than $900 million of spending. That tradition dates back decades.", "With sweethearts spending sweet sentiments inside, no two valentines will be exactly alike but they all share similar roots. Hallmark cards archivist Samantha Bradbeer says their company Valentines date back more than 100 years. Postcards as early as 1910, cards with the traditional fold, 1916. Also in their collection, Valentines that predate Hallmark back to the 19th century.", "These are all antique, Victorian Valentines designed by Esther Howland. She was the daughter of a well known bookstore and stationary store owner out of Massachusetts and she received her first lace Valentine in 1847 as printed in England. And she thought she could make something very similar.", "Howland`s handmade Valentines bear a lot of the same icons of today`s cards. Hearts and of course cupid who was long been a natural fit for the holiday.", "Cupid is sort of the junior partner of Venus in Rome or Aphrodite in Greece where he would be known as Aros. And he is often depicted as this kind of playful, mischievous character.", "Playful, mischievous, serious and silly each Valentine is a collaboration like the one between designers like Kelly Blocksome and writers like Renee Daniels that produced this Hallmark card.", "We`re taking kind of puns and using them in Valentine`s Day cards. So Renee gave us the awesome writing and then I took it and we kind of want to give it a more casual design feel. And I worked about putting dimension on it and using the whole heartbeat as a reference for Valentine`s Day.", "And while Esther Howland had to round up her friends to help mass produce her handmade cards, today`s card companies get a little more help. During Valentine`s Day week at Hallmark Headquarters artists were already at work on Valentine`s Day 2019. Knowing their cards may leave a lasting impression. In Kansas City, Missouri, I`m Karen Cappa.", "Black panther rates a 10 out of 10, in this case we don`t mean the movie we mean the animal that was recently caught on camera in the African country of Kenya. It`s also known as a black leopard and there hasn`t been a confirmed sighting of these cats on the African continent since 1909. Most of them live in South East Asia. A zoologists says that now they`ve been caught on camera, there`d be a lot of value in protecting them in Kenya. Assuming the animals let \"prrrrardon\" the effort. Though they might think posing for more pictures is \"panthering\" but they are some \"cool cats\". So you can`t blame the researchers who spotted them from \"rrrrroaring\" with excitement. For CNN 10, I`m Carl Azuz. END"], "speaker": ["CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ADAM MOUNT, NUCLEAR SCIENTIST ANALYST", "RIPLEY", "CARL AZUZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CARL AZUZ", "KAREN CAPPA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SAMANTHA BRADBEER, ARCHIVIST FOR HALLMARK", "CAPPA", "BRADBEER", "CAPPA", "KELLY BLOCKSOME", "CAPPA", "CARL AZUZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-140257", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-7-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/09/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Four People Charged in Alleged Grave-Selling Scheme", "utt": ["Breaking news right now in an alleged grave-selling scheme near Chicago. CNN has confirmed that four people have been charged and will appear in court this hour. The Cook County sheriff says employees at the historic Burr Oak African-American Cemetery allegedly dug up more than 300 graves. Let's get more from reporter Cheryl Jackson. And Cheryl's on the phone with us. Cheryl, who are these people who have been charged and will appear in court this hour? And what jobs did they hold for the company that -- I don't know if the company owned or just simply operated the cemetery.", "Yes, they operated the cemetery. One office manager and three grave diggers have been charged. They've been charged with felony, dismembering of a human body, and that is a Felony X. I don't know exactly what that means, but they said it's a very serious felony. Right now, you should just see the scene out here. I mean, people wandering around looking for their family members. We have actually gone back into the cemetery where we saw piles that the police are working on, where you can see literally bones. We talked to the sheriff who said he was wandering around, just trying to assess things, and he actually stepped into a pile of bones. I mean, that's how bad the situation is. And he said, like you said, about 300 people is what they admitted to. Police believe it's going to be turn out to be much more than that.", "Hey, Cheryl, did the people who have been charged with this provide the information that's leading to this search for these remains?", "Yes, they did. They told police that it was in this one location. But now I guess one other person has admitted that maybe the bodies are buried on top of each other. And that's inside the cemetery. The piles of bones and rubble is on the back side of the cemetery, on the outside. So, it looks like there's going to be some internal investigations inside the cemetery. FBI is coming from around the world with imaging equipment and that kind of thing to be able to figure out exactly what's going on.", "Have you been able to talk to any of the people who you've described poignantly to us as wandering around on the grounds looking for their loved ones?", "Yes. One woman just looked at me and said, \"My brother is not here.\" And then she said, \"What do you do if your family member is gone?\" And I think that's the question that's going to be the hardest to answer.", "Oh, yes.", "You know, is what do you do, you know?", "How did this scheme, this -- oh, boy -- this scheme come to light?", "Well, actually, some people who actually worked in the cemetery actually told police about it. That's how it came to light. Now, they don't believe the cemetery ownership has anything to do with this. They believe these four people actually are the ones who hatched this scheme. And it was very sloppy scheme in a lot of ways because there are bones, according to police, just strewn throughout the cemetery, on the inside and on this back side, where there's -- several of the bodies are piled.", "Do we have any idea -- and I'm asking questions, and it may just be too early in the investigation to know the answers to some of these questions. But do we have any idea of how long this plot, this scheme, had been operating?", "I have not heard any information about that, about how long.", "Yes.", "But the woman whose brother was -- she was unable to find her brother -- he was actually buried in 1983. And today she said, \"When I walked to where his grave was, the grass has been recently mowed and there's no stone, nothing there.\" So...", "And Cheryl, just for clarification, the people who reported the plot, are they the same people who have been arrested, or different employees?", "Different employees. Different employees.", "OK. And any statement yet from the company that owns the cemetery?", "No statement yet. We are expecting at least from police and some official statements here at about 1:00.", "OK.", "But we have had no statement. Actually, we've been told by police that no one involved from the cemetery is even on the scene. And that's causing a little bit of chaos, because you see hundreds of people filing through these gates.", "Oh, my goodness. Are you kidding me?", "And nobody inside to say where the plots are. So they really don't even know where to start.", "So, wait a minute. You're talking about no one from the company that is operating the cemetery, no one from the company that owns the cemetery, is on site right now?", "No. They are trying to get someone in here, but no one is on the scene. And so police tried to break into the computers in order to be able to figure out how to help people find the bodies of their family members, but it is a big mess. And there are hundreds of people walking through these gates every few minutes.", "The significance of this cemetery, the historic significance, frame that up for us.", "Well, it's -- you know, it used to be the only place in Chicago where blacks could be buried, African-Americans could be buried. And, you know, Emmett Till is buried here, and one of the Globetrotters is buried here. And right now, we don't think their graves have been tampered with. And what we think the people involved in this did was they looked at graves where people didn't visit very often. So, some of those famous people, they believe their graves are intact.", "Cheryl Jackson. Cheryl, thank you for your help on this story. We appreciate it so much. How horrible is this? We're going to take a quick break. Twenty-two minutes after the hour. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["HARRIS", "CHERYL JACKSON, REPORTER", "HARRIS", "JACKSON", "HARRIS", "JACKSON", "HARRIS", "JACKSON", "HARRIS", "JACKSON", "HARRIS", "JACKSON", "HARRIS", "JACKSON", "HARRIS", "JACKSON", "HARRIS", "JACKSON", "HARRIS", "JACKSON", "HARRIS", "JACKSON", "HARRIS", "JACKSON", "HARRIS", "JACKSON", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-178828", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2012-1-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/04/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Critics: Observers Failed in Syria", "utt": ["We'll get back to the latest political news in a minute. But, first, another important story we're working on. The situation in Syria, it is dire right now. Just today, at least 21 more civilians were reportedly killed. Arab League observers are still there on a mission to try to stop the violence, but critics say they are totally failing. CNN's Arwa Damon explains why.", "In a darkroom amidst wails of sorrow, hands gently caress the dead girl's face. A voice on the tape says her name is Dalal Al-Halup (ph). She was just 16 years old. According to activists, she was killed in Hama by Syrian government forces while shopping, just as the Arab League observer mission arrived to the city last week. It's the type of death many hoped the mission would help prevent. Abdel Rahman (ph), an activist from Hama who we reached on Skype cursed the Arab League. He was among the few who managed to actually talk to the observers. \"We were initially cheered,\" but then he says, \"They didn't even stop in the hardest hit area. They just drove through like tourists. We were following the cars like beggars, like slaves. When they eventually did stop, they were surrounded by people clamoring for help.\" \"The monitors,\" Abdel Rahman says, \"simply nodded.\" This video posted to YouTube is said to be from Hama on Tuesday. People are heard telling the observers about snipers. The man says the tanks are just being hidden from sight. A woman shouts at another observer, \"My 30-year-old brother was killed. Killed. We collected his brains with our hands.\" \"Come to the office and file a complaint,\" the observer responds. \"They will detain us,\" voices cry out. \"They say come se us in our office. File a report,\" Abdel Rahman recalls resentfully. \"I responded, do you want us all slaughtered?\" From the onset, the Arab League mission has come under sharp criticism. Its head Sudanese Lieutenant General Mohammed al-Dabi himself is accused of human rights violations in his homeland. And contrary to Arab League's statements, activists say the military hasn't withdrawn anything, pointing to numerous YouTube videos. In one, people wearing the orange Arab League vests are clearly seen in front of a government armored personal carrier. Rami Khoury, a Beirut-based analyst said the failure of the mission is no surprise. They report a foregone conclusion. It will state, he says, that the Syrian government has partially complied.", "So, there's no way they're going to be successful on the ground. They'll do a little bit and being an institution that reflects the Arab governments, they're structurally incompetent as most Arab governments are. But they are also politically dynamic. They're trying something new. The critical thing is what will happen in Cairo when the report is submitted?", "But for these people, living the brutality and bitterly disappointed by the observers' visit, there was little hope the Arab League will find the teeth to save them. Arwa Damon, CNN, Beirut.", "Lisa Sylvester is monitoring some other top stories in THE SITUATION ROOM right now. Lisa, Egypt has not made good on promises to the United States to let U.S. based nongovernmental organizations get back to work. I got to tell you, I'm not surprised.", "Yes, Wolf. Two of the U.S.-based rights organizations say they can't lose their offices and still don't have the money seized in the police raid last week. Egypt's leaders initially accused prodemocracy organizations of activities that included giving money to Egyptian political parties. But the U.S. groups denied it. The raids could jeopardize more than $1 billion in aid that the U.S. taxpayers give each year. Detroit's big three are on the road to a higher market share. December sales were very good for Chrysler group, up 37 percent, which boosts full year sales by 26 percent. Number one U.S. automaker G.M. put up a 4.5 percent gain last month, a 13 percent increase in sales for the year, and a 10 percent rise in December sales was the best for Ford Motor Company in five years. A stock plunge, though, for Kodak, amid reports that bankruptcy may be weeks away. Shares already dropped 92 percent in the last year, but dipped again today after \"The Wall Street Journal\" reported Kodak may file Chapter 11 if it can't sell several digital patents. The New York Stock Exchange threatened to delist the company in six months if stock prices do not recover -- Wolf.", "You know, on that story in Egypt, Lisa, I've been very, very worried about what's going on. When Leon Panetta, the defense secretary, calls General Tantawi, the head of the Egyptian military, and gets a commitment from the Egyptians to allow the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, Freedom House, to reopen and get all their stuff, their computers, their laptops, everything back, gets that commitment, and now this -- there's going to be outrage in Congress about the billion plus dollars a year U.S. taxpayers provide the Egyptian military. I think this is a crisis that's going to be huge.", "Yes.", "Stand by. We're going to get more on this information, Lisa. Thank you. A woman in the Oval Office, Jack Cafferty is standing by with your e-mail. Plus, tragedy and controversy marking Rick Santorum's family life. Details you may not necessarily know about him. Stand by."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "RAMI KHOURY, ANALYST", "DAMON", "BLITZER", "SYLVESTER", "BLITZER", "SYLVESTER", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-347182", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2018-08-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/09/ath.01.html", "summary": "Giuliani to Mueller: End the Investigation by September; Nunes in Secret Recording: \"We Have to Keep the Majority\" to Protect Trump", "utt": ["No. All right. Keep us posted, Rene. Thank you for that. And thank you, everyone, for being with me today. I'm Poppy Harlow, in New York. I'll see you back here tomorrow morning. \"AT THIS HOUR\" with Kate Bolduan starts now.", "Hello, everyone. I'm Kate Bolduan. Robert Mueller, you are on the clock, or that's at least what President Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, would like you to think. President Trump's legal team is telling the special counsel to wrap-up the Russia investigation within the next three weeks, or else. Or else what? That is not entirely clear. But this is part of the very latest round in the game of cat-and-mouse that has been playing out for months and months and months about the possibility of Trump sitting down for an interview with the special counsel. Giuliani says it's now Mueller's move with a deadline fast approaching.", "Well, I think if it isn't over by September, then we have a very, very serious violation of the Justice Department rules that you shouldn't be conducting one of these investigations in the 60-day period. Look, he's got plenty of time to either decide -- we offered him an opportunity to do a form of questioning. He can say yes or no.", "A moment on that. There's no hard-and-fast rule saying any investigation must stop two months before an election. There's a DOJ policy that no overt moves should be made in an investigation of a candidate within 60 days of that candidate's election. That's not the case here, of course, because as everyone knows, and goes without saying, President Trump is not up for re-election, not on the ballot in November. But former U.S. attorney, Rudy Giuliani, seems to be glossing over that in a very big way. Regardless, if the investigation continues past September, Giuliani also says that works in their favor. So in summary, it should end, but if it doesn't, it's good for them. Got it? CNN's Abby Phillip is New Jersey traveling with the president with much more on this. So, Abby, we hear what Rudy Giuliani is saying, and Rudy Giuliani is talking quite a lot about it. Are we likely to hear the president on any of this today?", "Well, Kate, it is not clear whether the president is ever going to tweet or, you know -- no one knows, whether it's his lawyers or his aides. But I think what we're seeing here with Giuliani is an attempt to keep this story going. I mean, the -- Giuliani just a few days ago was saying wrap this thing up. And now he's saying, even if it doesn't wrap-up, maybe it will be good for us. Perhaps an acknowledgment that what's happening here is that the ball really is in Mueller's court. That they don't have control over the timing of this. But in their response to Mueller, sent back this week, it didn't really bring us much closer to a resolution. But here's what Giuliani and his team are saying about what they think the parameters ought to be for a sit-down interview with the president. They are OK with the prospect of an interview, but they're saying any questions about obstruction of justice should be limited in scope, and perhaps only answered on paper. Meanwhile, Mueller's team not at all interested in that. They have basically said they want to ask the president about collusion, about obstruction of justice, and about his associates' contacts with Russians. But the question about whether or not the president answers obstruction questions from Mueller is all about the prospect of what Giuliani is calling a perjury trap. Now, listen to him explain what he's worried about in the context of a perjury trap on \"Hannity\" last night.", "The reality is, he doesn't need to ask a single question on obstruction. He has all of the answers. They're not going to change. The president is not going to change his testimony. So stop the nonsense. You are trying to trap him into perjury, because you don't have a case.", "While common sense might say that if you don't have anything to hide, if you're not going to lie, then you shouldn't be worried about a perjury trap. So it's not really clear what exactly Giuliani is saying there. But that's the crux of the issue right now. This is the center of the negotiations between the two camps and I don't know that we're getting much closer to a resolution -- Kate?", "I feel like we're never going to be any closer to a resolution until it just finally pops up out of nowhere. Because we're just going to continue like this. Great to see you, Abby. Thank you so much. Joining me now, to try to make sense of it, Seth Waxman, criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, and CNN senior political analyst, Mark Preston. Mark, let's start with the politics of this. I feel like it's more than the legal side of this at this point. No offense, Seth. Because it does seem like more of a P.R. strategy right now than a legal one. What is Rudy Giuliani up to, Mark?", "He's doing a couple of things. One is, he's continuing to try to create an incredible amount of white noise around the situation, try to bring doubt into this investigation. If you heard him over and over again, saying, look, Mueller has all of the information. If he wants to, you know, pursue something as a president, then he should do so. What's wrong with that logic and that thinking is that Mueller isn't -- it's not his goal to try to go out and find if Donald Trump did something wrong. That isn't his goal. His goal is to find out if there was any collusion in -- you know, with Russia and in between the campaign, as well as what other things happened around that. So what you are hearing from the Trump folks and the Trump supporters is they're acting like this is Mueller's sole goal, is to try to get the president. That is absolutely not the case. But Rudy Giuliani and other surrogates and lawyers are going to continue to do so, to try to create an atmosphere that is very divisive, you know, against this investigation.", "Seth, Giuliani told NPR yesterday that, in his view, this kind of counter, counter, counteroffer they sent back, they say that this may be the last best chance, is the way Giuliani put it, for Mueller to get an interview with Donald Trump. What do you think that means? What does that mean to you?", "I see this whole dance that we've been watching for months as kind of a sham. A sham on both sides. You know, Donald Trump does not want to be in the room with Bob Mueller and his investigators. This is like he's heading out to the playground to the fight and he's telling his friends to hold him back. But on the other side, Bob Mueller, in my opinion, doesn't want to be in that room right now, either. Federal prosecutors want to wait until the end of their investigation to question their subject, or target. Most importantly, they want to accumulate all of the evidence, including their key cooperators that they haven't yet brought into the fold. People like Paul Manafort of Michael Cohen or Roger Stone. If Mr. Manafort were to flip after this trial, if he were convicted, for example, Mr. Manafort could potentially walk Mr. Mueller through his conversations with the president before, during and after that Trump Tower meeting. That is critical information for the prosecution to be in the room with the president and question him on. So, you know, I see this dance as going on, you know, through the election, through the end of the year. I tell people to sit back and relax, be enjoy their summer. I think there will be a grand jury subpoena after the new year, that that will be challenged. It will go to the Supreme Court. It's my opinion that Mueller wins that fight. But I think this is still a long road and we're going to see this dance continue on.", "Seth likes to dance, because we're going to get your dancing shoes on, Seth. Because it is continuing. Mark, Giuliani is making the case that they would like to have it wrapped up by September. But also tells CNN that if this goes beyond that, he thinks it's good for them. In his view, he told Dana Bash that nothing would energize Republicans more than let's save the president. In terms of saying that obviously this continues. Do polls bear that out, do you think?", "I don't necessarily buy that, that is actually going to energize Republicans. What it will do is energize a certain segment of the Republican base, and that is, you know, the 33 to 37 to 38 percent people who look at the president and are die-hard supporters. When we talk about the president's approval rating, Kate, we always talk about him being in the high 80s and into the 90s. Those are folks who think that he's doing well with policy. It doesn't mean that those are the same folks that are going to come out and vote for a congressman or a Senator because Donald Trump tells them to do so. Look what happened up in Ohio this past week. We saw a Democrat contest a seat and, quite frankly, could still potentially win that seat in an area that has been very strongly Republican. So I think when we look at that, you have to look at all of the politics of it all. I think Rudy Giuliani, by saying that, is trying to energize a certain part of Donald Trump's base, and also, again, to try to cast any kind of divisiveness and questioning anything that has to do with this investigation.", "On the point of what should be allowed and what shouldn't be allowed in an interview, Seth, when Giuliani says he doesn't want anything to be included that would -- that would be a perjury trap, he -- Giuliani suggests that would include questions like, what did you say about Flynn, and why did you fire Comey. If those are off limits, do you think Mueller would ever agree to conduct an interview and not ask about these central themes?", "Absolutely not. No federal prosecutor is going to limit themselves that way. And this idea of a perjury trap is just a red herring. I'll tell you, from Department of Justice perspective, a perjury trap, at its base, is when a federal prosecutor does not have a basis in law or fact to interview a person, because they don't believe there are charges. Yet, they bring that person in simply to try to catch them in a lie. The example that has come up, in my experience, is when a prosecutor immunizes a person, in other words, will never be charged with a substantive crime, be it murder, bank fraud or whatever, and then the prosecutors hears that person out telling others, friends or associates, they didn't commit the crime. And the prosecutors want to bring that person in, just to hear what they have to say on that point, knowing full well, they can never charge that person. That's a perjury trap. Where there's no basis to ever bring a charge. Because there's immunization in that case. Here, Mueller has got this investigation. By all accounts, it's legitimate. Rod Rosenstein has said it's legitimate. The best way to avoid a perjury trap or what Mr. Giuliani is most concerned about and maybe the president, just don't lie.", "It's a good suggestion. I'll take it to heart. Especially when I've got to do this interview next. Good to remember. Things to live by. Great to see you, Mark. Great to see you, Seth. Thank you.", "Another Trump ally is speaking out about the Russia investigation, but these remarks not intended to be made public. It's a secret recording of one of Donald Trump's biggest allies on Capitol Hill, Congressman Devin Nunes, at a closed-door fundraiser. And in the recording, first obtained by NBC, Nunes makes the case that it is their responsibility, Republicans, the Republicans and the House of Representatives, to act as the last line of defense to protect the president of the United States. Listen.", "So therein lies -- so it's like your classic catch-22 situation, where I mean, we're at a -- this -- what puts us in such a tough spot. Recessions won't cover -- Mueller won't -- the president. We're the only one. Which is really the danger. That's why -- thank you for saying that, by the way. I mean, we have to keep all these. We have to keep the majority. If we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away.", "CNN's Manu Raju is in Washington with much more on this. Manu, as I listen to this, you on one hand, not surprising to hear Devin Nunes make the case that he doesn't want the president to be impeached. On the other hand, he seems to be saying it's Congress' job to protect the president rather than serve as a check on the executive branch, which is their job.", "No question about it. And it's also Congress' job, in his view, House Republicans' job to protect the president from the Mueller investigation, which is actually what the Democrats have been accusing Nunes of doing for the past year. Ever since when he initially was running the Russia investigation, he came across what he viewed was something as controversial. He went to the White House, briefed the president about what he viewed as a concern and some intelligence reports, and not even brief his own committee. That prompted outrage from Democrats. There are questions about how he handled some of the classified intelligence, forcing him to temporarily step aside from running the Russia investigation. But outside, he continued to wield power. He squashed Democratic efforts to bring forward witnesses to the committee, to issue subpoenas, and the like. And, Kate, this essentially -- these public -- private comments at this fundraiser feeding into the narrative that Democrats have been pushing for some time that is all about Nunes protecting the president as he investigates the investigators, the FBI and the Justice Department, rather than what Russia did in 2016.", "And, Manu, there's much of more in this, as well, in this fundraiser that he talked about. He talks about it -- almost seems to be acknowledging a strategy when it comes to possibly impeaching someone else, the man overseeing the Russia investigation, Rod Rosenstein.", "Yes, he raises some questions about the timing of impeaching Rod Rosenstein, suggesting it's best to do this after the Senate were to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to be the Supreme Court -- next Supreme Court justice, because of concerns that the process could tie up the Senate and imperil the efforts to confirm Kavanaugh before the midterms. Here's what Nunes said.", "Yes, well, it's -- so it's a bit complicated, right? And I say that, because you have to -- so we only have so many months left. So if we actually look to impeach, OK, what that does, that trigger the Senate then has to take it up. Well, you have to decide what you want right now. Because the Senate only has so much time. You will have to drop everything and not confirm the new Supreme Court justice. You're not getting from -- like I said publicly, Rosenstein -- impeached. So I don't think you're going to get any argument from most of our colleagues. The question is, the timing of it right before the election.", "So the Senate has to start --", "They would have to start -- they would have to start -- the Senate would have to drop everything they're doing and start to -- start with the impeachment of Rosenstein. And then take the risk of not getting Kavanaugh confirmed.", "So it's a -- it's not a matter of -- Rosenstein. It's a matter of timing.", "Now, Kate, there are not the votes in the House to impeach Rod Rosenstein. Certainly, not the votes in the Senate to convict him. But clearly, Nunes has been pushing this line for some time. And Kate also, I've asked both the speaker's office and also Cathy McMorris- Rodgers, a member of the House Republican leadership, who Nunes' fundraiser was attending -- that fundraiser, if they agreed with Nunes on these two points, I have not heard back yet. So we'll see if they align themselves with Nunes, particularly about whether or not -- they believe the House majority is necessary to protect Trump from Mueller -- Kate?", "Yes, absolutely. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, you heard right there on the tape with him. Really interesting to hear what she has to say on that. Manu, great to see you. Thank you so much. Coming up, refusing stepdown and still running for re-election. Republican Congressman Chris Collins remains defiant after being arrested for insider trading. So what happens now? Plus, a stunning development in the Manafort trial. The judge admitting he made a mistake. Details on that, ahead."], "speaker": ["POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "RUDY GIULIANI, ATTORNEY TO PRESIDENT TRUMP", "BOLDUAN", "ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GIULIANI", "PHILLIP", "BOLDUAN", "MARK PRESTON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "BOLDUAN", "SETH WAXMAN, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY & FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR", "BOLDUAN", "PRESTON", "BOLDUAN", "WAXMAN", "BOLDUAN", "BOLDUAN", "REP. DEVIN NUNES, (R), CALIFORNIA", "BOLDUAN", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BOLDUAN", "RAJU", "NUNES", "CATHY MCMORRIS-RODGERS, (R), WASHINGTON", "NUNES", "NUNES", "RAJU", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-204697", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2013-4-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/09/sp.01.html", "summary": "North Korea Continues Threats; Anti-Missile Batteries Prepared in Japan; Two U.S. Children Kidnapped and Taken to Cuba", "utt": ["Good morning, everyone. I'm John Berman.", "And I'm Christine Romans. It's a busy Tuesday morning. First, breaking news out of North Korea is warning foreigners to evacuate over the possibility of all-out war. That as Japan starts deploying missiles for defense. We're covering the story only in CNN camp on Seoul and Tokyo.", "And then, as Iran announces a new nuclear effort, the U.S. unveils this. This is a laser that can shoot planes and drones out of the sky. It is a developing story. We're following it.", "New this morning, wild weather from California wildfires to Colorado tornadoes and blizzards in the Midwest. We have live team coverage.", "Two brothers abducted by their father, reportedly in Cuba this morning. We're going to go live to Havana with what's going to happen to them now.", "And in case you were sleeping, Louisville is the new NCAA champ. An incredible game for a team that rallied behind an injured player that brought its coach nearly to tears.", "The spontaneous emotion from that event today makes me as proud as any moment I've ever had in coaching.", "It's Tuesday, April 9th, STARTING POINT begins right now.", "This is CNN Breaking News.", "And we do begin with this breaking news. North Korea telling people to evacuate the south because of the threat of war.", "CNN ass reporters all over the story this morning. Diana Magnay is in Tokyo, but first, let's go to Jim Clancy who's live in Seoul, South Korea. Jim, what are you making this morning of these warnings and what's the response been so far?", "Well, you know, from the time I saw it first delivered on North Korean television today, until I went back and read an accurate translation, it's really crafted to intimidate, to make people fearful, to sow those seeds of fear here on the peninsula and cause economic harm to South Korea. It doesn't seem to be working out that way, though. Let me show you what the U.S. embassy is saying about all this right now. It informs citizens that despite current political tensions with North Korea, there is no specific information to suggest there are imminent threats to U.S. citizens or facilities in the Republic of Korea. Now there's a part of this, you have to understand, what is the message from North Korea? The message is that it would intend to bomb innocent civilians, civilian targets, not military targets, civilians. That's why this kind of warning would have to be issued. Did it intimidate anybody, intimidate tourists? I've got a tweet from somebody who just signed up called the \"Lizard of Oz.\" That would be somebody from Australia saying, \"Thanks for the reporting from Seoul. We are not canceling our trip this week to South Korea.\" And that tells the story. Back to you.", "All right, Jim Clancy. Meantime Japan deploying missile defense systems at three locations around Tokyo. Patriot missiles in place in the central district of Ichigaya and the suburbs of Asaki and Narashino. Our coverage of the Korean crisis continues with Diana Magnay in Tokyo.", "They were delivered in the dead of night. Residents surround the ministry of defense where I am waking up this morning to see two patriot missile battery systems where normally there is a baseball pit. But it's not the first time that they've seen this. Every time since 2009 that North Korea has announced it will launch a satellite the Japanese self-defense forces have deployed this patriot missile defense systems in the heart of Tokyo, and around Tokyo, whilst also moving Aegis destroyers into the sea of Japan which themselves have a sophisticated missile interception system on board. I was talking to a security analyst who said those two systems combined, these patriots and the aegis destroyers, could have the capabilities of protecting the Japanese archipelagos from any kind of missiles that might come over or any kind of debris that might come off a missile that North Korea might test, and which might malfunction. And that is a big concern. It's not so much that North Korea will target Japan, although it has accused the Japanese of blindly following U.S. policy and saying that it would strike U.S. military bases in Japan. Jan there are, of course, 38,000 U.S. troops positioned here. So Japan is essentially saying a low profile, but doing what it must, which is protect its citizens, whatever it is that the young leader of North Korea chooses to do. Diana Magnay, CNN, Tokyo.", "It is something to see Diana literally standing in front of a patriot battery in Tokyo. There is another developing story we're following this morning. Iran announcing its opening a new uranium enrichment plant and mining facility. This comes just hours after the U.S. Navy demonstrated a new laser weapon that it's deploying in the Persian Gulf that can blind or destroy aerial weapons like drones and planes. CNN's Chris Lawrence is live at the Pentagon for us. Chris, this sounds like something out of Star Wars.", "It does, John. This is a beam of light that really is no bigger than this dime, and for the first time it's going to be deployed on board a Navy ship. It is connected to Iran but not quite in the way you might think. This laser is going on board the USS Ponce which is sort of a floating platform that patrols the Persian Gulf. It has a lot of issues out there with Iran's fast attack boat and that is what this laser has been tested on. Shooting down not only drone, but you see in the video right here, but also the very fast small boats that can lug around some of the larger ships. The advantages to this laser? About a dollar a shot. And if the ship's got electricity you never run out of ammunition. Got a couple disadvantages. It can't take out fighter jets, can't knock down a missile. But again, the Navy is looking for some cost savings, and with Russia and China investing very heavily in this technology, they think this is the time to put it on board a ship. John?", "Chris Lawrence, thanks so much. A dollar a shot compared to more than a million dollars a pop for some missiles they use.", "Happening now, while we enjoy warm spring-like weather in the northeast, in the Atlantic coast you're looking at Washington, D.C. live there right now.", "Beautiful.", "Out west it's quite a different story. Wild weather has the region in turmoil this morning. Look at this. Hail pelted parts of Kansas. This was the scene in northern Colorado. Tornadoes in Colorado leaving a trail of damage and rattled nerves. Jennifer Delgado is monitoring the storm in the severe weather center and our Jim Spellman is in Colorado. Jim, let's start with you. Let it snow, let it snow.", "Yes, you know, it says spring on the calendar but it sure feels like winter. Here in golden, Colorado, and the outskirts of Denver now covered with snow. We know that they have about 400 snow plows ready to keep these roads clear. Schools are closed for the first time this school year, an April snow day. About 300 flights canceled out of Denver International Airport. That's bound to go up. And the snow is starting to pile up, about two inches at this point. And it's really coming down fast. They say this is going to be an all-day snow event here. People at home with their kids. They're going to be bundling up, staying warm, while people are driving those plows out keeping everyone safe.", "An April snow day, a snow day around tax time.", "Where is it headed next? Jennifer Delgado tracking the storm for us at the weather center.", "Hi there, guys. We are tracking that snow. And it's moving more northerly, as we've gone through the last couple hours. You can see the snow from anywhere from Denver all the way up towards South Dakota. And we're also talking a wintry mix. This is going to be very tricky travel conditions for areas right along southern parts of South Dakota, as well as in the northwestern part of Minnesota. We're talking sleet as well as freezing rain. But back to the snow, big snow for April. We're talking nearly a foot in some of these parts. You can see the winter storm warnings in place. And we still have blizzard warnings in place, and that's because we're expecting wind gusts up to 40 to 50 miles per hour. That will drop down visibility. We won't be able to see it. So if you don't have to go on the road, don't do it. It means you can stay at home with the kids and their snow days. Severe weather is going to be our big concern as we go later into the afternoon and evening. Anywhere you see in this orange shading moving through Oklahoma down towards Texas, this is our first moderate threat for severe weather for the season. And that means we do have a possibility we could see some tornadoes out there. But even in the yellow area, that's the slight risk, and that is going to affect millions of people today. Now keep in mind, typically, you see on average about 155 tornadoes, for the month of April. The severe weather threat continues for Wednesday, as well as into Thursday and more big cities. It is very active out there, warm in the south, with temperatures in the 80s for the afternoon highs. Back over to you two.", "We'll take that temperatures in the 80s. Jennifer Delgado, thanks so much. There is crazy weather out there. New this morning, hundreds of people evacuated from their homes as strong, gusty winds fueled brushfire just north of Los Angeles. This was sparked by downed power lines. So far it's burned about 170 acres and damaged two structures, about 400 firefighters right now trying to get things under control. No injuries have been reported so far.", "New developments this morning in the case of those two little Florida boys we told you about yesterday kidnapped by their father, and taken to sea. Now law enforcement officials in Tampa say they've received information that two-year-old Chase Hakken and four-year-old Cole are in Cuba this morning.", "They were allegedly abducted from their grandparents' home by their father, Joshua, last week. It is believed he took them and his wife by sailboat to Cuba. The newspaper in Miami reporting they are all in custody of the Cuban immigration officials right now. We've got this story covered from all angles this morning. Victor Blackwell is live in Tampa. But we're going to begin in Havana with Patrick Oppmann. What's the latest in Cuba?", "Good morning, John and Christine. And law enforcement authorities say they believe the Hakken family is in Cuba. U.S. diplomatic officials have said that they've asked the Cuban authorities to cooperate. But you talk with Cuban authorities here and they say they've received no such request. The kind of diplomatic dysfunction is all too characteristic of the U.S.-Cuba relationship. Where for years both countries have simply ignored one another's requests to extradite people. There are dozens of American fugitives here, mainly people who've been charged with being involved with politically violent. But Cuba, really when it comes to Cuba politics is always involved here. We're waiting to see if Cuba says they have this family. What the next step is. Cuba typically does not extradite fugitives back to the United States. And this is one thing Christine where the long arm of American justice simply does not reach. All right, thanks Patrick in Havana this morning.", "Let's get to Victor Blackwell standing by for us live in Tampa, Florida. That's where the boys were living. Victor, what are police saying?", "Well, Christine, it was the local sheriff's department here in Tampa, the Hillsboro County sheriff's office, that first announced that connection to Cuba. Saying they'd received information that the Hakken family had arrived in Cuba. They would not elaborate. Now, it was five days ago when we're told by authorities that Joshua Hakken broke into his mother-in-law's home, his children's grandmother, tied her up, and took the children, and then set off in her car. That car was found, his truck was, as well, and that boat, we're told, as we're reporting this morning, from the sheriff's office, in Cuba. Now, why weren't the children with the parents in the first place? For that answer we've got to go back to June of 2012 when in Slidell, Louisiana, police say that the Hakken parents, Joshua and Sharon Hakken, and their boys Chase and Cole were in a hotel room. But also there were drugs, alcohol, guns, and they say the parents were erratic, saying that they were on their journey to Armageddon, journey to the end. And the children were taken away. There are charges that are filed in Slidell, in Hammond, associated with allegedly Joshua Hakken going to the foster home with a gun trying to take his children, and now a list of growing charges here in Tampa, cruelty against children, kidnapping, false imprisonment. So if they are extradited back to the U.S., that list is growing. We hope to find out today if charges will also be filed against the boy's mother, Sharon Hakken. Christine?", "All right, Victor Blackwell, thanks live for us this morning in Tampa. In about 17 minutes we're going to hear from Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen about this case.", "It's 11 minutes after the hour right now. And many of you have probably been up all night after watching an incredible game. Louisville Cardinals, national champs after a rim-rocking, heart- pounding, 82-76 victory last night over Michigan. This is just an incredible game. In the end there were a lot of great players, but there may have been one player who never set foot on the court last night who made the difference in the title game. Our Joe Carter live from the Georgia dome in Atlanta this morning. Good morning, Joe.", "What a game. So thrilling John, 75,000 behind me rocking throughout the entire game. First half was incredible, an unlikely story for an unlikely freshman. Michigan got a game out of a guy named spike, it was incredible. Of course you've got Kevin Ware and the great story line and Spike Albrecht, a freshman who scored basically averaged one point a game all season scored 17 points gave Michigan a big first half lead but then Luke Hancock the MVP brought Louisville back and they did as they've done all season closed the game. Coach Rick Pitino the first coach in college basketball history to win a championship with two different schools spoke with our Rachel Nichols after the win.", "Was there a moment as the clock is ticking down that it hit you, we're going to win this game, we're going to be national champions?", "I was trying to find the clock. When it was 16 seconds I knew it. And then for the first moment, because when we prepared for after North Carolina for Colorado State I knew it could end with them. They were that good. Then I knew it could end with Oregon. Then I knew it could end with Duke. We were playing so many great teams, so many great coaches. But this is a special group of young men.", "Obviously, congratulations to Louisville and the champions last night. But John you got to tip your hat to Michigan. They played a great game. They are the youngest team in the field of 68 in the tournament this year. So they certainly have a bright future, John.", "There are so many images from last night that are just seared in my head. First you have Spike Albrecht hitting three after three after three. Then you have Luke Hancock hitting all those threes. But it may have been a moment after the game that really provided the most indelible image. That was just Kevin Ware.", "Yes you said it, John. Obviously millions watched as he broke his leg last week against Duke. We followed him on twitter. We followed him on Facebook. We followed him through the media this week and for them to lower the basketball rim down for him last night so he was able to cut down the net was an incredible moment. He spoke with our Rachel Nichols afterwards. He wakes up today a champion.", "It was all worth it. This is a great, great game. And I really enjoyed every moment of it.", "And the reception you got from everyone around the country and the fans tonight?", "It was big. The support has really been keeping me in my good spirits. Honestly that's what's getting me through right now. I just want to say thank you to everybody.", "Of course the party continues for Louisville as the women will play UConn tonight for the championship. John, real quick, you know we talked a lot about the fab five and the 20-year anniversary for Michigan last night. All five of that team's five members of the fab five were in attendance last night. Four of them sat together. We saw some short video of Chris Webber walking in. But just an incredible story. What a great way to end the season obviously college basketball, they got it right.", "They sure did. The two best teams certainly faced off last night. Joe Carter, thanks so much. Ahead on STARTING POINT, hallucinations, wild animals, and dirt. A teenage girl explains how she survived five days lost in a California canyon. And then, meet Prez Billy Jeff.", "Now President Clinton was taken. William Jefferson Clinton was taken. But Prez Billy Jeff was available.", "Comedian Stephen Colbert brings president Clinton near the 21st century. The hilarious exchange coming up next. 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{"id": "CNN-285662", "program": "WORLD RIGHT NOW WITH HALA GORANI", "date": "2016-06-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/01/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Police: Two Killed In Shooting At UCLA; LAPD Chief Says Shooting Was A Murder Suicide", "utt": ["Actually standby, Stephanie, we're going to go to Evan Perez, our justice correspondent, who has some new information. Evan Perez, what are you learning?", "All right, welcome, everybody. I'm Hala Gorani. I want to update you on that breaking news out of Los Angeles. We begin with that dangerous situation unfolding right now on the campus of UCLA. That American university. Police say two people have been shot and killed. They've confirmed this. Reports were a little bit sketchier earlier, but according to police sources, two people killed inside the Engineering Building at the University of California in Los Angeles. The campus is still on lockdown. You are seeing new images now of police officers searching the campus inside the buildings. The Los Angeles police chief says one of the two victims may fact have been the shooter, that that is a possibility, though it is not confirmed. The facility is located in a very densely populated part of Los Angeles, so you can imagine that security forces and officials are saying, listen, this situation is still potentially unfolding, you want to be as safe as possible and shelter in place, especially if you are on campus. This is the final week of classes at the university. Commencement is next Friday, June 10th. People are taking final exams. Kyung Lah joins me now live from Los Angeles with all the very latest. What can you still us on this still developing story, Kyung?", "I can tell you how it all unfolded, Hala. We got first reports little bit more than a couple of hours ago. There was an alert from the university telling students to shelter in place. The campus was going to be on lockdown, that there were multiple reports of shots being fired in or around the engineering building. This is a building that's right in the center of campus. Students were told to not leave where they are, to avoid the engineering campus. We've seen a tremendous police response. Officers from the university police as well as the LAPD arriving in full force. We have seen them carrying long guns. They are working their way through the various buildings. They are trying to clear each floor. This is a massive job and they are right now still trying to figure out what was happening that led up to this shooting. We're talking to a number of students that are still inside all of the buildings, all of the rooms in this university and they are telling us that they have not been told to exit, that they are still in place. We are getting some new reporting from CNN justice correspondent, Evan Perez. He is he hearing from investigators, from his sources telling CNN that this does appear to be a murder/suicide, that that is one of the theories that investigators are looking at. We do know that there are two victims who are deceased according to the university, as well as LAPD. Those two victims are male and we are hearing from our justice correspondent that this may be a murder/suicide. If that is indeed the case, if one of the victims is the shooter, that will change much of the dynamics on campus. Right now the entire university, as well as UCLA Medical Center, remains on lockdown -- Hala.", "You are saying Evan Perez, our justice correspondent, reporting that potentially this is one of the avenues being explored, but still though telling students at UCLA -- we are talking 43,000 students, plus staff and workers on campus, to shelter in place, means they're not 100 percent sure that they believe there potentially still might be some danger on campus.", "Absolutely. What we've heard from people who are still on the campus who have barricaded their doors that they have not been told that they can leave. The entire university, which is in a very dense section of Los Angeles on the west side of Los Angeles, has ground to a halt, including the medical center. This is the Ronald Reagan Medical Center. It is a Level 1 trauma center. People who are inside that trauma center have been told they can't leave. So everything from the medical center to the university remains on lockdown. They have not been given an all-clear. This is one of the avenues that the investigators are looking at. At this point, they have not come out and held a news conference to say that this is what has happened. LAPD chief, Charlie Beck (ph) is on the scene here and we expect to hear much more news soon -- Hala.", "We are expecting in fact in the next few minutes potentially in the next 15 minutes another update from the LAPD. Hopefully we'll get some new information regarding this shooting. Now we know that two individuals are dead inside the engineering building, that they are both male. Do we know anything about other potential injuries, other people who may have been involved at this stage, Kyung?", "The only reports that we've gotten, Hala, is that there are two victims, that they are both deceased, and that they are both male. That is all we have heard. There's been nothing we've seen as far as other victims being transported to the nearby trauma center. We have seen ambulances that basically are sitting there, that there have been some gurneys that have returned to the ambulances. We've not seen any victims coming out. What we have been able to watch from some of our affiliate pictures is you are starting to see some students and staff it looks like that they are coming out with their hands up in what is now a classic American scene when it comes to these active shootings on campuses. It is a very sad thing about America that we now know how to behave when there is a gunman on a university campus.", "We know the journalists says well, we cover these pretty often as well, Kyung. Talk to us a little bit about the security forces deployment here? Because it is impressive, by any standard.", "By any standard it is. Then if you consider how densely populated this is, you will certainly understand why they have deployed so many officers. Almost immediately, right after that tweet went out warning students to stay in place, shelter in place, aerial pictures that we got showed dozens, dozens of police units from the university. You would expect every campus officer would certainly respond to this but then the LAPD. The entire city of Los Angeles was put on tactical alert. That doesn't mean that Los Angeles was shut down. But that does mean that every police officer is told to be on a higher state of alert because they weren't quite sure what this was. Because of the incredible population density of UCLA, because of the west side, because of, frankly, how difficult it is to get to, LAPD has a massive problem if they have a gunman on the loose. So that is why they've had such a tremendous response.", "All right. Kyung, we are expecting, as I mentioned to our viewers, a press conference by the LAPD any moment now. Just to put some context around this story for our international viewers, what is the campus like? Because this isn't just a couple of buildings inside of an urban environment. It's very big, it's sprawling. So in order to police that and check every building, this could be hours before -- We'll get to that in a moment. Do stay tuned. The LAPD is holding a press conference right now. Let's go to that for more information.", "-- no continuing threat to UCLA's campus. We're in the process of releasing students from lockdown, but we need to do so in an orderly fashion and in a way that allows us to make sure there are no other participants. At that point, this investigation will be handed over to robbery/homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department. The coroner will take custody of the bodies and this will become a homicide investigation. I can't hear you. The method of suicide is gunshot wound. I won't go any further. It is early in the investigation. Many, many questions are unanswered at this point. But I think important thing for people to take away from this is that the campus is now safe. The issue that has occurred has been contained. We are in the process of releasing the campus back to the students. They're in their finals. This is a very stressful time for them and we are trying to alleviate that. We do not believe there -- there is no evidence to support outstanding suspects at this point but we are, out of an abundance of caution, going to continue our search of several of the buildings adjacent to the crime scene. There is evidence there that could be a suicide note, but we do not know that at this point.", "(Inaudible question).", "I do not know that. Two male adults.", "Chief, where did this happen? In a classroom? An office?", "In a small office in the engineering building.", "Did they know each other?", "We don't have the identities, nor would I release them until the coroner has verified that. So you can ask all the questions you want about identity, but you're not going to get anywhere.", "One gun recovered?", "There was a gun at the scene.", "Was the dead at the scene or dead at the hospital?", "They were both deceased at scene. UCLA PD responded to a report of three shots fired. We don't know if there were more than that, but at least three. All right, thank you all very much. There will be continuing information. The school will go about its business of re-opening. Thank you very much.", "That was the Los Angeles Police Department chief, Charlie Beck there confirming one of the avenues that investigators were looking at, which is that it appears as though this was a murder/suicide at UCLA in the engineering department, in one of the engineering department buildings, Engineering 4. And Charlie Beck also went on to say that at least there is some relief here for the students because the campus is in the process of being released back to the students, that there is no continuing threat. That the investigation is now being handed to robbery/homicide, that department at the LAPD, and that the situation is contained, and importantly, that there is no evidence of any outstanding suspects. Juliette Kayyem is our CNN national security analyst. She joins us live now via Skype from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Julia, I guess a sad situation. It appears as though someone was shot, and then there was a suicide. This all happened with a firearm. We understand that a gun was found at the scene, but at least there is no active shooter.", "Exactly right. But as we saw over the course of the last few hours, they -- the UCLA police, with the LAPD, have to assume that it is an active shooter scenario. That's why you saw this massive police presence. I grew up on the border of UCLA. Its border, right? If you go for a run around the UCLA border, it is four miles. So it is a mini city. So they probably just have to come on very strong, tell students to stay put until they knew what seems to be confirmed right now, that this is a tragedy, but it is not going to get bigger.", "I understand even the president, Barack Obama, was briefed on this. Is that standard now for a campus shooting, that the president is given a briefing at the White House?", "It's not always standard, but any time that there is an active shooter situation in particular at a university or college, public university like UCLA in a major city, he will likely get briefed just so let him know that something's occurring just in case a reporter or someone asks him about it. But, unfortunately, that's the sort of default briefing standard at this stage because what we don't know in any of these situations is whether or not they are ongoing or not. I do have to say, having been part of a lot of these cases, I do reviews of campus safety active shooter. You saw exactly how it should unfold. You need to protect the students. You tell them to stay put. And figure out what's going on. It may feel like a big lockdown, but they needed to do it because there is really no way to secure that campus, how big it is, how open it is. Unless you just tell people you've got to sort of lockdown.", "Right. Juliette, stand by. Harry Houck is a CNN law enforcement analyst, a retired NYPD detective and he joins us as well. So what do you make of the response here? This was a pretty massive response. We are talking LAPD, FBI, the fire department, everybody really went in when it was thought perhaps that there was a shooter on the loose here.", "You never know what you've got until you get there. So the fact that the -- this is standard procedure now for active shooter incidents and it is also good training for the officers. One of the key things here is that we had a shooting inside an engineering area which tells me right off the bat it is probably not going to be a mass shooting. Number two, whenever you got two bodies and a weapon left at the scene, it is more than likely almost every time a murder/suicide. All right? So I think like the LAPD had said that there is no longer any kind of danger. And that the students will probably be coming out of the lockdown very soon. But what they are doing is they are taking extra precautions just to make sure there is that very, very slight possibility there might be another shooter involved. I can't tell by being at the scene. But it does look like just like exactly LAPD said, it is a murder/suicide because there was a weapon found on the scene.", "Right. That's what the LAPD chief was saying, in fact, Charlie Beck, that it appeared as though that is what it was, there was no suicide note that they know of, but a gun was left at the scene. I mean, you have all these departments. You have the fire department as well. When you see this type of response, this has become sort of a familiar scene. I mean, sadly it has to be said. We see the helicopter shots and everybody knows what to do and there is a complete campus lockdown. It seems as though the response is immediately anticipating, Harry, the worst case scenario.", "Right. Always expect the worse and thank God it's less. Fact is, just shows you that law enforcement has learned from the past and that these situations are very well coordinated. Federal authorities, state authorities and local authorities that have coordinated. You could see how fast the response in UCLA, which is a large institution out in California. Where they probably worked very closely with them in the past, probably had some active shooter drills in the past so that everything, the response today, was almost perfect.", "All right, Juliette Kayyem, Harry Houck, thanks very much to both of you for joining us. Well, it is a sad story, appears a murders/suicide took place in one of the buildings at UCLA. But the good news here, of course, if you can call it that at this stage, is that there is no active shooter, that it was not some sort of shooting spree. It appeared as though it was contained to that building according to the LAPD chief. So that brings an end to that particular development in California. We'll bring you more if we hear more. There is a lot more news to come this evening. Major headlines out of the UK as the \"leave\" campaign makes a big push. And on the other side of the Atlantic, Hillary Clinton calls Republican rival, Donald Trump, a fraud. Strong words from her. We'll take a closer look at her campaign's fresh tactics to take on the frontrunner. That's just ahead. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "HALA GORANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR", "KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (via telephone)", "GORANI", "LAH", "GORANI", "LAH", "GORANI", "LAH", "GORANI", "CHARLIE BECK, CHIEF, LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BECK", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BECK", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BECK", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BECK", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BECK", "GORANI", "JULIETTE KAYYEM, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "GORANI", "KAYYEM", "GORANI", "HARRY HOUCK, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "GORANI", "HOUCK", "GORANI"]}
{"id": "CNN-191437", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2012-8-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1208/21/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Oh, Ye of Little Faith", "utt": ["Tonight, a heart-pumping, high-flying thrill ride that`s causing a worldwide sensation. Now, if you, like me have gotten a bit numb to the unusual viral videos, you know, the cute pets, the dancing babies, all that, we have just the thing for you. It`s a viral video that`s going to keep you glued to the edge of your seat and keep you guessing to the very end. So hold on tight. Here`s Jeanne Moos for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.", "Two trucks hurtling down the highway with a woman walking a line between the two barreling toward a tunnel. Will she get splattered in what looks like a scene right out of a movie like \"Mission Impossible\"? Or will she survive like Tom Cruise? And who is this woman?", "Faith is nuts. And only a crazy person would try anything like this.", "Take it from the director, Henry Alex Ruben, who shot this last year on a brand new hasn`t yet opened highway in Croatia.", "Many countries said no before Croatia.", "What Faith Dickey is doing is called slack lining like walking a tightrope only slack and bouncy.", "I have high-lined on longer lines and I have high-lined in harsher winds, but I`ve never slack-lined moving forward before.", "Faith dickey is the women`s world record holder in various categories of slack lining, which is why they got her for this, what`s called the ballerina stunt. The object was to get across the line before the trucks got to the tunnel. She fell once. They did three takes. Faith was wearing an ankle safety harness. (on camera): The question is, what is this an ad for? Is it for shoes? Is it for the camera on her head? Nope, it`s for trucks. (voice-over): Volvo trucks, pretty risky for a brand associated with safety as one of the precision drivers remarks.", "Too far apart, the rope breaks. Too near together, she falls off.", "The trucks headed for the tunnel, top speed of about 50 miles per hour. Some thought more than the rope was being stretched -- \"faketastic\", \"megafake\", posters said. To which the little director replied --", "A little bit of Hollywood editing makes everything seem more exciting. And obviously we cut three takes together.", "But Ruben says she came within seconds of the tunnel entrance.", "She did do it. She did that stunt and it was pretty was sick. I mean the crew applauded her afterwards.", "Ye of little faith have faith in Faith Dickey.", "Yikes. That was CNN`s Jeanne Moos for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. And by the way, it`s not just Faith who is an adrenaline junky. The video`s director was nominated for a best documentary Oscar for \"Murderball\", that`s the film about quadriplegic athletes who play wheelchair rugby. We move on now to Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj`s war over \"American Idol\". Could it be? Well, tonight there are reports that the judging format could change dramatically, and Mimi is said to not be pleased, not pleased at all. The details are next."], "speaker": ["HAMMER", "JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "HENRY ALEX RUBEN, DIRECTOR", "MOOS", "RUBEN", "MOOS", "DICKEY", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "RUBEN", "MOOS", "RUBEN", "MOOS", "HAMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-151315", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-5-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1005/24/cnr.04.html", "summary": "The Oil Beneath the Surface", "utt": ["All right, we are expecting a news conference by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on the oil leak in the Gulf. That is expected to happen any moment now. You'll see it live right here in the CNN NEWSROOM. In the meantime, let's get you caught up on our top stories right now. Let's start, yes, in Yemen. Two American tourists are kidnapped in Yemen. Their driver and translator were taken too. Yemeni officials say it happened today near the capital of Sanaa. Their captors say they will hand over the tourists in exchange for a jailed tribesman. And give me a second here, because I've got to take you on a bit of a journey here. I think I've got it. Nope, wrong story. Wrong story. Stay with me. Let's get you to the Gulf. Take a minute. But there we go. And, all right. Anger, of course, growing in the Gulf of Mexico over BP's apparent inability to stop a massive oil spill. BP says it is doing the best it can to cap the leak. Its latest plan is to try to plug the well shut on Wednesday. Now let me take you back. All right, there we go. One more time, all right, and our last top story. Tensions are certainly racheting up between North and South Korea. South Korea is halting trade with the North and adopting a tougher military posture. The North is accused of sinking a South Korean warship in March. President Obama is promising full support to North (ph) Korea. Did you catch the movie \"Parent Trap\" on television yesterday? It was certainly on my cable system. I don't know about yours. Let me get out of the way here. Lindsay Lohan, man, what a star, right? What happened? A lot, apparently. Just a few moments ago, Lohan was in a Los Angeles courtroom learning what she has to do to stay out of jail. Entertainment correspondent Brooke Anderson is with us from Los Angeles with the very latest. And if I heard correctly, Brooke, she's not going to have to go to jail, correct?", "Not right now, no, she's not, but she needs to behave herself, Tony, or she might in the future. The judge this morning, in about a 15-minute hearing, outlined new terms for Lindsay Lohan's probation. She has to wear a scram alcohol monitoring bracelet, which means, Tony, one drop of alcohol means a one-way ticket to the slammer. So she's got to keep that on at all times. She has to undergo random drug testing. And a full probation violation hearing has been set for July 6th at 8:30 in the morning. But, Tony, she was late. She was late to her court date this morning, if you can believe it. And I was here, you know, for a couple of hours ahead of time. The traffic was light. They had the thing roped off like a red carpet for her. Security was tight. No paparazzi. Nobody could get near her. So they made it very easy for her to pull up to the front and walk in the door. But she arrived about four minutes late. Sat in her car, after that, for a few minutes.", "Hey, Brooke, Brooke, Brooke, Brooke, Brooke --", "The judge on the bench waiting on her for five minutes.", "Brooke, I apologize. I apologize. I've got to get us down to Louisiana and there is the Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. My apologies.", "-- some forward motion in the sense of solving the spill. But, in the meantime, we're fighting this oil on the sea. The goal is to either disperse it, to boom it, to burn it, to keep it from reaching landfall, to do everything possible that needs to be done to make sure that BP protects this valuable area. And if it should happen to reach landfall, be it beach or marsh, and to have the wherewithal to get it cleaned up and to make sure that claims are paid. And it's not until this well is sealed and this ocean and this area is cleaned up and the claims are paid that this incident will be deemed over. This is the largest incident response to an oil spill ever in the history of the United States. We have over 22,000 personnel working this spill. Literally hundreds of thousands of feet of boom have been laid. There are over 1,000 vessels that are on the water to skim, to lay boom, to pick up oil, to do what needs to be done to try to keep the ocean as free as possible from the oil. In addition, we have formed an independent estimates group with the best scientists available within the federal government, with peer review by others, to really estimate how much overall oil BP has now spilled into the Gulf of Mexico out of the Deep Horizon spill. That work is ongoing. So we continue to hold BP responsible, as the responsible party. But we are on them, watching them. We know the value of these lands of these parishes. We know, for example, Grand Isle, which is one barrier island that has a large population, 100 people, living on it. We're heartsick that Grand Isle is now at risk. We are going to do everything we can to protect these lands, protect these parishes and to make sure that claims are paid, the oil well is sealed and this area comes back. So it's been a very productive session I think for all of us today. We are glad that we came. For some of us, we have been down -- this is my fourth time to this area, the area of the spill. Secretary Salazar has been here repeatedly as well. We are going to stay on this and stay on BP until this gets done and it gets done the right way. With that, let me turn it over to Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana. He has a few words. He'll be followed by the secretary of the interior, Ken Salazar.", "I want to thank our secretaries and the senators for coming to Louisiana again. I want to give you an update. We had some very good, some very direct, some very frank talks. Over the past weeks, you know, I've visited each of the different parishes and cities and have met with local officials. We met often to discuss resources we would need to protect our coast. Unfortunately, our visits have now also included on the ground assessments of the damage caused by this oil spill. For anyone who has seen this damage or seen the impact of this oil firsthand, you know that what we've been saying is true. This oil threatens not only our coast and our wetlands, this oil fundamentally threatens our way of life here in south Louisiana. Yesterday, just yesterday I went out on a boat to Cat Island with the president of Plaquemine's Parish. We saw islands covered in oil, where our brown pelican's nest. We could actually see multiple birds that were oiled, some to the point where they couldn't fly. Wildlife and fishery officials tell us that critical birds are likely not even visible because they move to the inside center of the island. The brown pelican is, obviously, our state bird. Recently -- it was only several months ago it was removed from the endangered species list. The oil on those islands yesterday may actually kill off much of the marshlands that are so important for not only those birds, but for migratory birds, in addition to damaging that bird population there. It's not just at Cat Island. A few days ago we took out a boat out to Pasalutra (ph). We saw thick black and brown colored oil covering much of the perimeter of the marsh out there. And again, our biologists tell us that marsh may begin dying in as soon as five to seven days. It is clear that we don't have the resources we need to protect our coast. We need more booms, more skimmers, more vacuums, more jack- up (ph) barges that are still in short supply. And let's be clear, every day that this oil sits and waits for cleanup is one more day that more of our marsh dies. Over in Terrebonne Parish, oil is moving through their days. Boom and workers sat for days waiting for their orders to be deployed. Yesterday, we met again with coastal parish leaders, just like we did when we formed our own detailed parish protection plans. We know we've got to take action. We've got to take matters into our own hands if we're going to win this fight to protect our coast. We met with parish leaders, emergency professionals, levee district officials to discussed strategies to fill the void we are currently seeing in response efforts to stop this oil. And let's be clear, our goal is not to just clean up this oil once it hits our marshes, our top goal must to be to keep this oil out of our wetlands, our of our marshes, out of this fragile ecosystem. The marsh is not a sandy beach. It would be difficult to clean up. Environmental experts say trying to clean it up could actually do more harm than good in many cases. That means we, as a state, we've got to do everything we can to stop this oil before it comes to our marsh. We've initiated a number of strategies, including tiger dams, hesco (ph) baskets, sand bag drop operations, fresh water diversions, sand fill operations and the proposal of our sand boom, our dredging plan. Had the chance to talk to the secretary and the president about that yet again today. Working with parish leaders yesterday, we came up with new additional strategies to fill the current void in response efforts. We developed a strategy for state and parish officials to have better situational awareness of the oil's movement within our coast and our offshore waters. Wildlife and fisheries have divided up the coast into sections. They'll be patrolling these sectors continuously so the containment and cleanup efforts can be operationalized quickly. Their efforts will be supported by the National Guard and parish officials. We will communicate our findings to BP and the Coast Guard on a daily basis to insure our coast is continuously monitored and quickly cleaned. We will also report these findings publicly so the media and the public can keep updated and make sure that BP is held accountable for their cleanup efforts. We've also asked the Coast Guard to refocus their efforts so they have greater command and control on the ground where action needs to be taken quickly to save our coast. We ask for the Coast Guard to forward deployed troops into every basin area of the coast so they can work closely with parish officials there, see the impact of the oil firsthand so they're better able to have eyes on the problem and respond quickly. We need decision makers from the Coast Guard there on the ground. We've been frustrated with the disjointed effort to date that is too often and too little too late for the oil hitting our coast. We need folks in each of the vulnerable basins. For example, the Betton (ph) Sound, Timbalier Terrebonne Bay, Baratary (ph) Bay. That can mobilize resources quickly to contain oil when it arrives. We don't need to wait 24 hours or 48 hours. BP is the responsible party, but we need the federal government to make sure that they are held accountable and that they are indeed responsible. Our way of life depends on it. The actions taken in response to this oil today are going to determine the future of our state. We've also identified additional equipment and personnel available from parishes, agencies, levee districts that will help us take our own proactive measures to keep oil out of our marshes. We plan to use this equipment to expand ongoing efforts by the guard, the National Guard, to close gaps in our coastal areas. We've identified 40 cuts, prioritized 14 of those. We're identifying additional cuts to -- we're going to work to expedite fill-in efforts wherever we can with equipment from the state and parishes. The National Guard has already asked for additional helicopters from other states. We've gotten positive responses from other states on that request. On May 2nd, we leaned forward. We requested a large amount of resources that our parishes would need under a worst case scenario in response to this oil spill. The very next day we announced all of our coastal parish detailed protection plans. We formally requested three million feet of absorbent boom, 5 million feet of hard boom, 30 jack- up barges to allow us to keep this oil out of our wetlands. Today is May 24th. We have received to date a total of 815,569 feet of hard boom. Not even a million feet. And 680,249 feet of this total hard boom has been deployed. And 135,320 feet of hard boom sits and waits to be deployed. In the last 24 hours - in the last 24 hours, we have only received 5,040 feet of hard boom. We need more boom. We need more resources. We need the materials we've requested to fight this oil, to keep it out of our marsh, off of our coast. I'll close by saying, we continue to await a decision of our dredging, sand boom claim from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. We have made the modifications suggested by the Corps. We've answered every question they submitted in the same day they asked their questions. We have shown them and the media pictures of the sand boom in Fushon (ph) that is actively holding the oil back from farther inland traveling into our marshes. We know this strategy works. That is why I've taken matters into our own hands yesterday to do more of these sand fills ourselves while we wait on approval for the larger dredging plan. To date, a total of just under 70 miles of our coast has been hit by oil. That is more than the seashore line of Maryland and Delaware combined. Let's be clear, and I'll close with this, we've only got two options in Louisiana. There's only two options in front of us. We can either fight this oil off of our coast, 15 to 20 miles away on barrier islands, on sand booms, where it will do much less damage to our marine life and to our wetlands and our fragile eco system. But every day we do not fight this oil on a barrier island, every day we are not dredging sand means one more day this oil has a chance to come into our ecosystem, into our wetlands that are home to some of the nation's most important fisheries. Thirty percent of the nation's oil and gas comes off this coast. Thirty percent of the nation's fisheries. These are America's wetlands. Let's make no mistake about what is at stake here is our way of life. This is not just about keeping oil off of a rocky land or a beach. This is about a way of life for our people and for our state. So we need to get this plan approved as quickly as possible. Every day that it is not approved, is another day this choice is made for us and we are forced to fight this oil farther and farther in our wetlands instead of off of our coast where we'd rather right this. We don't want a drop of oil to hit our coast. And as governor of Louisiana, I'd much rather fight this oil on a barrier island, on a hard, rocky coast than have to fight it inside of our wetlands. Thank you all very much.", "From day one President Obama has made it very clear that the United States of America will not rest - we will not rest for one minute until this problem gets resolved. And that is why Secretary Napolitano is here today, on her fourth visit here. I've been in Houston at the command center about (ph) four times and this is also my fourth visit here to Louisiana. And we will not rest until this job gets done. It is also important to note that with us today is the leadership of the United States Senate. When we think about the assistant majority leader of the United States Senate, Dick Durbin is here with five of the colleagues in the U.S. Senate because the eyes of the United States Senate are on Louisiana, what's happening here in the Gulf Coast today. I want to make it very clear. Under the law, BP is the responsible party. BP is charged with capping their leaking oil well and paying for the response and for the recovery without limitation. They will be held accountable. We will keep our boot on their neck until the job gets done. And as I said yesterday, we will make sure that all of their responsibilities are fulfilled to the people of the Gulf Coast and to the United States government. When Admiral Allen (ph), as a commander of this situation, is not satisfied with the actions of BP, he calls and we'll call BP and push", "Thanks. Thanks, Secretary Salazar. I want to thank Secretary Napolitano as well. I also want to thank our host here, our colleague, Senator Mary Landrieu and Senator David Vitter, who are hosting us, with Congressman Kyl here from Louisiana. We put this trip together on sort notice. I contacted my colleagues late last week and said, we'd like you to come and see firsthand what's going on in the Gulf of Mexico. And the turnout was amazing. We ended up not only with those you see from the state of Louisiana, but clearly, in addition to those, we have Senator Jeff Bingaman, who is the chairman of the energy committee in the United States Senate, Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, who is a member of that committee - ranking member of that committee, the energy committee as well and a member as well, Senator Whitehouse of Rhode Island. The reason we came here was to see firsthand what has happened. I can tell you, after seeing it and after listening in that hall to the men and women, whose lives have been affected, that I've come away with a new feeling about BP. BP, in my mind, no longer stands for British Petroleum, it stands for beyond patience. People have been waiting 34 days for British Petroleum to cap this well and stop the damage that's happening across the Gulf of Mexico. There are options and alternatives that we hear a lot about. But what we've heard from this administration and what we need to tell BP is, excuses don't count any more. You caused this mess, now stop the damage and clean up the mess. It's your responsibility. My listening there to the oystermen, the fishermen, the charter boat operators, some of them were emotional. They're talking about their ways of life. They're talking about their families. They're talking about businesses that they've had for generations that are at stake right here and now. Now, I've seen something like this before in Lisa Murkowski's state 21 years ago. I went up to see the Exxon Valdez spill. I'll never forget those scenes. They were heartbreaking. That crude oil, that swamp, that sound, that beautiful, beautiful sound, changed the way that that sound works today. Lisa Murkowski can tell you, it's different. And the people who live there face a different life because of it. That's what's wrong with this situation. We never should have been where we are today and now this administration will continue to put the pressure on BP to do what's right, to clean up this mess and pay for every dollar of it. Not the taxpayers of America, but British Petroleum. They're t he ones who have to foot the bill here for their mistake, for their accident and the damage they've caused. It's my honor now to introduce my colleague and friend from the United States Senate and senator from Louisiana, Mary Landrieu.", "Senator Durbin is going to be a strong ally to all of us in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast as we fight for justice and fairness in this situation. Secretary Salazar has been an extraordinary leader, and Secretary Napolitano, as the commander of this situation. As they've both described, this is unprecedented and they are putting the full force of their offices, their departments and all the assets of the federal government to tackle this problem. Secretary Salazar recognizes, as he said, that BP is responsible. But I recognize that the federal government is in charge of this situation and he is pressing BP at every level with every scientist at his disposal and every engineer available to him and to the secretary to get this well shut at the earliest possible convenience -- or earliest possible date, not a convenience, earliest possible date. And they are doing that. I hope it could be done today, if not in the next few days. Secondly, we need all to do a better job of processing these claims. There was very emotional pleas today but I've heard them before. I've been here a half dozen times and on the phone with hundreds of Louisianans and people from around the Gulf Coast. I want to say again, if you made $50,000 last year and you can't work this year, BP is going to write you a check for $50,000. If your business made a million dollars last year, and you can't make that million this year, BP is going to make your business whole. There is no question in my mind or the minds of these senators or these leaders up here who will pay this bill to individual individuals, to businesses, to parishes, to the state and to the federal government resources that have been spent to date. So I wanted to just, you know, clear that up, because there's still some uncertainty. We're working the details of that out. But those bills will be paid in full. And finally, just I want to say that I could not expect more from Secretary Salazar, who's running this department, to have a balance of prosecuting -- and that's a good word -- prosecuting this incident, but preparing the right way for the future for our state, for the Gulf Coast and for the nation that needs to mine these resources safely. So as we clean up this mess, handle the thing right before us, he also has his eye on the future and how we manage the fisheries industry, the oil and gas industry, and all the industries that call this working coast home in a way that protects us and protects the nation. So I thank him for that and thank Secretary Napolitano for her leadership, too. And call on Senator Vitter from Louisiana.", "Thank you very much, Mary. I want to thank the governor for his great leadership; want to thank the two cabinet secretaries and our Senate colleagues for being here. We very much appreciate it. I agree with all of the statements that have been made about BP. But I've spent my time today with these federal government officials, focusing on what I think millions of Louisianans feel and know is the greatest inadequacy of the federal response. And that's our inability so far to get a timely, positive response to this crucial emergency dredging barrier island plan. That's been going on and languishing, unfortunately, for more than two weeks. Because of that, I wrote President Obama on Friday a very clear but respectful letter. And I said, \"Mr. President, \"We appreciated you coming to Louisiana. We appreciated the clear commitment you made to act in a timely manner and do whatever it takes. But that commitment is now being broken, because we cannot get, so far, a timely, clear answer from the Corps of Engineers and others on this emergency dredging barrier island plan. We need more boom; we need more boom deployment; but we need that land boom immediately to block oil from our marsh.\" And so I'm asking the president respectfully again, we need that immediate positive answer. I'll be following up again with Admiral Allen today, again with the leadership of the Corps, and working with the state until we get that positive response. Thank you.", "Senator Bingaman.", "It's great to be here with my colleagues and with Secretary Napolitano and Secretary Salazar. I'm persuaded after the meetings we've had today and what we've been able to see that -- that this is the nation's problem. It's not just Louisiana's problem. And the nation is pulling together and moving aggressively to solve it. And I'm persuaded that the president has this solving of this problem as his top priority and that, of course, he's -- he's delegated these two secretaries to get that job done, and they're working night and day to get it done. So we're anxious to help in the U.S. Senate. I'm glad to be here to learn about it and continue with the effort to come to the aid of the Gulf region and of Louisiana. Thank you.", "Senator Murkowsi.", "We had an opportunity to fly over the spill area before we came here to the -- Port Fourchon. And I looked down at the ocean with great sadness. Because your ocean, as warm and lovely as it is, looks just like my ocean up north, except my ocean is a little bit colder. But we experienced a similar tragedy just a little over 20 years ago. And it's a devastation that lives with you forever. And so to listen this afternoon to your fishermen, to your shrimpers, to your chartered boatmen, to your oystermen and to hear their fears and concerns, unfortunately it's like deja vu all over again for those of us from Alaska. And if there's one thing that we learned from the tragedy of the Exxon Valdez, it's not to repeat the mistakes from history. It's not to treat the plaintiffs in that case, the fishermen and their families, who waited decades for compensation from Exxon -- we want to work together to make sure that this claims process works fairly and efficiently and in a manner as is promised. We need to make sure that those that are accountable, BP, are held accountable to the fullest extent. But it's going to take a commitment to make sure that the people of Louisiana and the fishermen and their families are not treated in a similar manner as we saw played out some 20 years ago. So know that we're committed to working with you so that the mistakes that were made in Alaska are not repeated here in the Gulf of Mexico.", "Thank you. We are here to represent the Senate, particularly the energy committee and the environment committee, which will have a lot to do with overseeing this and making sure that the restoration continues effectively and that an incident like this does not happen again. We are here from a variety of states, including the largest coastal state in America and the smallest coastal state in America, in solidarity with the coastal economy and the coastal way of life of this part of Louisiana and the Gulf. And many of us are here because we know firsthand what a relentless and formidable advocate for Louisiana Mary Landrieu is in our caucus. And we want to make sure that we don't get in trouble with her, because she's a powerful advocate for Louisiana. And so looking forward, we want to make sure that the work continues. I think we've all been impressed by the unprecedented nature of the involvement that the administration -- in getting this done. More people, more boats, more action than ever before. But also the continuing need for further action and to bring this home to a point where the people of Louisiana can say, the water is clear, the leak is capped, and we are made whole. So, thank you all very much.", "Thank you. Thank you. Well said, and we're happy to take questions. I want to reiterate one more time: BP is the responsibility party. We are going to make sure that BP does what is necessary. If we need to put more supervisors in the Coast Guard in the field to get it done, we've already said, yes, we're going to do that. Boom is an issue. We are dealing with that. Senator Vitter mentioned the issue about a special kind of dredging and boom at the barrier islands as Admiral Allen, who will be -- is the national commander, has already said. That is on an expedited review process. Looking at that, looking at whether there are some options that would be as effective or even more effective and less environmentally sensitive. But hopefully, have some response, direct response on that within the next few days. So we move forward and understand, all understand and have from the first day, the urgency, the uniqueness of this situation and the importance of holding BP responsible. Let's take a few questions. Clark (ph), you want to lead that?", "Good. That's Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napoliano (sic) -- Napolitano and a whole lot of other government officials and senators in Port Fourchon, Louisiana, which is sort of the central point for oil that comes in from offshore."], "speaker": ["HARRIS", "BROOKE ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "ANDERSON", "HARRIS", "JANET NAPOLITANO, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY", "GOV. BOBBY JINDAL (R), LOUISIANA", "KEN SALAZAR, INTERIOR SECRETARY", "SEN. RICHARD DURBIN (D), ILLINOIS", "SEN. MARY LANDRIEU (D), LOUISIANA", "SEN. DAVID VITTER (R), LOUISIANA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SEN. JEFF BINGAMAN (D), NEW MEXICO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI (R), ALASKA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NAPOLITANO", "ALI VELSHI, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-267997", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2015-10-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/30/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Syrian Family Trapped in Moscow Airport", "utt": ["Now, we want to take a moment to bring you this, the latest video -- live video of something that we are following very closely here at CNN -- the influx, the deluge of refugees going into Europe mainly from Syria and Afghanistan. And what you see on your screen are live pictures coming to us from Slovenia's border with Austria as thousands of migrants try to pass through the small, small Alpine state. You can see the crowd of migrants gathering there, barricades all around them, the authorities trying to manage the situation. Now, as we've seen in our coverage, you've heard of how many of these people are trying to take this route and others to ultimately get to Germany. Now Germany has promised to send hundreds of border guards to help with the situation to help with the sudden and growing flow of people there. Now Slovenia, it has become a key transit point since Hungary sealed its border with Croatia some 10 days ago. Live pictures on your screen there of the migrant chaos from Slovenia's border with Austria. Now, Syrian refugees trying to escape war, they find themselves facing more battles abroad. And one Kurdish family knows that all too well. Now, they want to settle in Russia, but authorities won't accept their travel documents. As Nic Robertson reports, that has left them stuck in a Moscow airport for 50 days.", "Stuck in limbo at a Moscow Airport, a family of Syrian refugees with only their phones to plead their plight.", "My name is Reynass. We are from Syria. We are living in an airport. And this is our life. We are living in airport in terminal in transition.", "For the past 50 days they've been held in a transit area as authorities checked their documents.", "I have two brothers and one sister and father and mother. We want you to help us, please. Here it's very cold for sleeping or for sitting for came in here is very cold.", "His father, Hassan, is desperate. \"We need your help,\" he says, \"because here there is no rights of refugees, no one listens to us. I don't know it's such a strange law.\" The airport, Sheremetyevo, is no stranger to surprise guests stuck in its bureaucracy. Controversial whistleblower Edward Snowden skulked its labyrinthine corridors for about 40 days in 2013 before the Russians finally let him in. The family's lawyer say border officials claim their passports were bogus, but subsequent checks with Damascus prove both them and their visas valid. Foreign ministry officials say the family is being treated no differently to other Syrian refugees and expect their case to be resolved soon. Levin (ph) is the youngest, just 3-years-old. The children's aunt lives in Russia, has a home for them, is trying to help them. Charity workers have been delivering some food and toys. And for the past few days the family have been allowed to spend nights in an airport capsule hotel. Their big fear, they may get sent back to the war they fled.", "Please help us. Here is very bad. They didn't give it anything for us, no water, no food, no anything. Please, help us. We (inaudible) with nice hand.", "For now, lost in transit, a limbo with a very uncertain future. Nic Robertson, CNN, Moscow.", "You just saw him, you just heard that young boy, this young Syrian refugee plead for help. And for ways that you can help ease the plight of refugees, go to our website CNN.com/impact. Now still to come right here on News Stream. We will introduce you to an American volunteer who has paid his own way to Syria to join the ground offensive against ISIS. And China, ends the biggest population control experiment of our time. We'll talk to an expert about the effect of the country ending its one- child policy and introducing the two child policy."], "speaker": ["LU STOUT", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "RAYNASS MOHAMMED, SYRIAN REFUGEE", "ROBERTSON", "MOHAMMED", "ROBERTSON", "MOHAMMED", "ROBERTSON", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-375679", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-07-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/23/nday.05.html", "summary": "Boris Johnson to Become New British Prime Minister Tomorrow; Robert Mueller Will Testify Tomorrow; Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) Interviewed on Democrats' Preparations for Upcoming Testimony of Robert Mueller before Congress.", "utt": ["The former Special Counsel has been warned in a letter to remain in the boundaries of his written report. Democrats want to ask questions like, would Donald Trump be charged criminally if he were not the president? If Mueller follows the Justice Department's guidance, he likely would not be able to answer that.", "But there's a little bit of a wild card. CNN has learned that Mueller has prepared an opening statement which will not be reviewed by the Justice Department. So will Mueller's testimony change the minds of Americans about his investigation and the president? We're also following breaking news in the U.K. this morning. Boris Johnson was named leader of the Conservative party, effectively making him Britain's new prime minister tomorrow, which is the breaking news. We will have a live report from London in just a matter of moments.", "OK, but we do begin with Mueller's testimony tomorrow, so joining us now is the man who is leading the charge. It is Congressman Jerry Nadler. He's the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee where Robert Mueller begins his testimony tomorrow morning. Congressman, thanks so much for being here with us.", "Thank you.", "Let's talk about this new directive from the Department of Justice that Robert Mueller got last night in the form of a letter warning him, basically, to stay within the confines of his report. How big of an impediment is that for you and your committee?", "Well, I don't think it's much of an impediment simply because Bob Mueller had indicated repeatedly he was going to do exactly that. I think it's incredibly arrogant of the department to try to instruct him as to what to say. It's a part of the ongoing cover-up by the administration to keep information away from the American people. But I think that it's not going to have a real impact.", "You don't think they have any authority to instruct him in that way. Must he comply with that letter?", "No, he doesn't have to comply with that letter. He doesn't work for them. And that letter asks things that are beyond the power of the agency to ask even if he still worked for them.", "Have you all been operating under the assumption that Robert Mueller will go beyond his report, that he will be able to say things that are not in there?", "No, we've been operating under the assumption that he'll do essentially what he said, he'll stay more or less within the bounds of the report. But it's important that the American people hear directly from Mueller what the report found. They found that the Russians interfered in the election very systematically to help Trump, that the Trump campaign welcomed that assistance, that the president repeatedly obstructed justice and repeatedly tried to hamper the investigation, and repeatedly instructed people to lie to the investigators and to the American people. Anyone else who had done what the report finds that he has done would face criminal prosecution.", "Are you going to ask that very question of Robert Mueller? Would anyone else have faced criminal prosecution?", "I don't think we'll ask it in that form because I don't think he'd answer it in that form, but the report makes it fairly clear. But again, remember the report found 37 indicted -- Mueller's investigation resulted in the indictment of 37 people including the president's campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, national security advisor. It found -- it details 10 instances, 10 instances where the president obstructed justice, and repeatedly where the president tells people to lie to investigators. And anyone who did that, anyone other than the president who did that would face serious consequences.", "It's been reported you all have been having mock hearings preparing for tomorrow. Can you just tell us a little bit what that looks like, who is playing Robert Mueller?", "We haven't had mock hearings yet. We're having one today.", "Oh, you're having one today.", "Having one today.", "So what's the plan for those?", "The plan is very simple. We want to tell the story to the American people. The attorney general and the president have repeatedly lied about the investigation's findings. They've repeatedly said the investigation found no collusion and no obstruction, and that it totally exonerated the president. Each of those three statements is simply not true. The investigation certainly found, as I said, 10 instances of obstruction by the president, that the president repeatedly lied to the American people, that they welcomed the assistance of the Russians, they knew about it. And we want to get these facts out so the American people know what we're dealing with, and hear it from Mueller himself, rather than the lies that are coming from the president and the attorney general, who has been functioning as the president's personal lawyer, not as the attorney general of the United States.", "Who is going to be playing Robert Mueller in the mock hearing that you're having?", "I'm not going to get into that, or if anybody is playing him.", "Here's what Neal Katyal, the former acting U.S. Solicitor General, has suggested that the three questions that must be asked, and that basically would answer everything. Here they are. Did your report find no collusion? That seems like a really important question to ask. What if Robert Mueller says I refer you to my report?", "He may very well. We will be referring to specific pages and specific sections in the report and asking him to comment on them.", "Yes, but I mean -- OK, so let me think about that. You're going to refer to specific pages and ask him to comment on that. How's that going to sound? What's the question you're going to ask him?", "Well, paragraph two and page whatever says the following, is that correct? Did you find that? Does this describe obstruction of justice?", "That's a good one. Because then if he says yes, it does, then where does that lead you?", "Well, as I said, our goal is to break the lies of the president and attorney general in saying that the report found no collusion, found that there was no collusion, that there was no obstruction, and exonerated the president. It did not exonerate the president. The report is chock-full of very damning information against the president. Again, as I said, it found 10 instances of the president obstructing justice. It found instances of the president instructing people to lie to investigators and to lie to the American people. And the American people need to hear this from Mueller. And then after that, we need to get some of the witnesses cited by Mueller before the committee. Now, the administration has done what no administration has ever done before. They've stonewalled all subpoenas. They've said no one will testify. We will break that and we will hear from people like Don McGahn, et cetera, and they will testify. And the American people will know what the report found, will know the facts, and then can make judgments, instead of -- remember, people have not read the 448-page report, but they have heard for five months of the lies of the president and the attorney general of no collusion, no obstruction, and total exoneration. The report did not exonerate the president, and there's plenty of obstruction detailed in the report.", "Are you frustrated by Robert Mueller's take on all of this?", "No, I think Robert Mueller has been an excellent public servant and has done a very honest report. I think there is a catch- 22 in the interpretation of the law, and that is that normally you say that a prosecutor shouldn't comment on someone who's not being indicted -- on the conduct of someone's who's not being indicted. And that makes sense. If someone is not being indicted, you don't say but he was terrible anyway. But if someone is not being indicted because the interpretation by the Department of Justice is a president cannot be indicted no matter what the evidence, which is their interpretation, then I think it's just wrong to say you're not going to present the American people the facts about what he did so the American people can make a judgment, and so that Congress can use its, or choose whether to use its remedies.", "You're talking about the president of the United States. Do you think there's a possible scenario by which Robert Mueller says I cannot speak about President Trump because he was not indicted? Is that possible he will not be able to speak at all about --", "No. He can say about President Trump what the report says, what the report finds, which, as I said, is very damning.", "There were at least 10 instances of what legal experts believe are obstruction of justice that the report laid out.", "Yes.", "And yet Robert Mueller didn't go any further than just saying, here Congress, here you go.", "That's right.", "What do you think he wanted you to do with that?", "Well, I think that he took the position that -- and he's part of the Justice Department so he had to take the position because the Justice Department says as a matter of law that a president cannot be indicted, and therefore he says in the report indicting the president was never an option no matter how much evidence there is. He presents evidence. He then gives it -- he also says and I'm not sure I agree with him that since you can't indict the president you can't say that he would have been indicted but for this, because that would be unfair to the president because he can't defend himself in a trial which won't occur. I think that that's unrealistic, that in effect he's saying to Congress we can't indict the president. You have to make your judgments, you have to remedies, censure, impeachment, whatever. You have to make your judgments, and to do that we need all the facts, including all the evidence and the conclusions about the alleged crimes.", "By the way, there's a person who agrees with you, and that's Attorney General Bill Barr. On May 30th he agreed that Robert Mueller should have gone further. Here's a moment from his interview that he gave just to remind people of what Bill Barr said back then. Listen to this.", "I personally felt he could have reached a decision.", "In your view he could have reached a conclusion?", "He could have reached a conclusion. The opinion says you cannot indict a president while he's in office, but he could have reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity. But he had his reasons for not doing it.", "Well, he states what his reasons for not doing it are, because it would be unfair to the president who couldn't defend himself in a trial that wouldn't occur. Now, Barr reaches the conclusion that he left it to Barr. No. I think it's very clear he left it to Congress and we have to exercise our powers. And again remember the key point of these hearings now is to break the lies that we've heard from the attorney general and the president, and to show to the American people what the report found about the president's obstructions of justice, about the Russians interfering with the election, about the president's obstruction of justice, about the 37 indictments, and about the president repeatedly telling people to lie to investigators and to the American people. People have to know that.", "Nancy Pelosi just sent this memo out to Democratic House members this morning. It was literally hot off the press when it got to me because we got a copy of it, and it's basically how she thinks Democrats should talk about this after the fact, just what you're saying, remind people of the sort of top line findings of this. Did you help craft this memo?", "No, I haven't seen it.", "Well, here it is if you want to take a look. But the point is, I think, it's not going to be over tomorrow for all of you.", "Oh, no, it is certainly not going to be over.", "Then what?", "Well, we're going to court in the next few days, as I said before, to try to force people like Don McGahn and Hope Hicks and various other people who are fact witnesses who testified to the Mueller committee to come before the committee and testify in open hearings as to what they saw so that the conclusions of the Mueller investigation can be laid open, not only the conclusions but that people can see the testimony of these people and form judgments. The American people can see this.", "And what do you think would ever get Nancy Pelosi into the category of impeachment? Eight-eight Democrats, House Democrats have come forward in saying they would like to pursue an impeachment beyond an inquiry, to begin the process of impeachment. And so what could happen tomorrow?", "Well, 88 Democrats have said we should have an impeachment inquiry.", "OK, impeachment inquiry. But Nancy Pelosi hasn't gone that far. So what would ever get her into that category?", "I can't speak for Nancy Pelosi and to what would get her into that. I can only speak for what I said about impeachments. And in order to impeach a president I think there are really three tests. One, do you conclude that there is real proof the president has committed impeachable offenses? Number two --", "But you've already answered that yourself. You say yes.", "I say there's substantial evidence, but yes. Number two, are these impeachable offenses serious offenses? And number three, is there enough evidence public so that impeaching the president would not tear the country apart? And I think it's very important that the people understand the evidence that there is so that they and therefore the committee and the Congress can make that judgment.", "So that's what you think is going to change tomorrow, the public evidence component of this?", "Well, it's going to be influenced tomorrow. I hope it changes because what people are reacting to now is, as I said, the lies for five months. What they heard from the president, from the attorney general, from FOX News, from other places repeatedly over and over again that the report found, that the Mueller investigation found that there was no collusion, that there was no obstruction of justice, and that it totally exonerated the president. Those are three false statements. It did not exonerate the president. It found plenty of obstruction. And there's a lot of evidence of not criminal conspiracy but of cooperating -- of welcoming the assistance of the Russians.", "We have to go, but very quickly, why did it take five months? It's been three months since the redacted version of the Mueller report came out. Why did it take so long to have this hearing?", "It took so long because, frankly, we're having difficulty -- the administration is doing something that is unprecedented in American history, and that is refusing and instructing all people to refuse subpoenas from Congress. And it has taken -- and it took us, and even Mueller was not going to -- we had to negotiate the terms of his talking to us and that's why it's limited to three hours. Even in prior to this, if the committee issued a subpoena, people came. They might claim a privilege and not answer specific questions, a Fifth Amendment, executive privilege, but they came and they testified. The president has said out loud we're going to refuse all subpoenas and they have refused all subpoenas, not only about this but about the separations of families at the border, the decision on the census, about everything. They have systematically tried to stymie Congress' duty to oversee the administration and hold it accountable. And this is why it's taking time.", "Congressman Jerry Nadler, thank you. NEW DAY will be in D.C. tomorrow for all the coverage of these hearings. We'll be watching with rapt attention obviously. Thanks so much for all the information here.", "You are quite welcome.", "Great to have you. David?", "Alisyn, thanks. We are following breaking news this morning. Moments ago, Boris Johnson was named the leader of Britain's conservative party. Johnson will now replace Theresa May who resigns as prime minister tomorrow. CNN's Nic Robertson is live at 10 Downing Street in London with more on Johnson's colorful speech this morning -- Nic.", "Yes, David. I think, you know, many people might have expected Boris Johnson to quote Winston Churchill or some Greek author who he is apparently in great awe of. He didn't. He spoke to his party, he spoke to his base of support and he laid out the challenge ahead, the same challenge he said he had getting elected party leader and that deliver on Brexit, unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn the leader of the opposition who's by the way already challenging Boris Johnson for a leadership challenge, again, a general election he's challenging him for. But Boris Johnson using the humor we have known him for, the gesture if you will taking that deliver, unite, defeat. And this is what he had to say about it.", "I know somewhere it was already pointed out deliver, unite and defeat was not the perfect acronym for an election campaign since it spells dud. But they forget the final E, my friend, E for energize, and I say to dud-ers, dude, we're going to energize the country. We're going to get Brexit done on October 31st, we're going to take advantage of all the opportunities that it will bring in a new spirit of can-do.", "And this is the optimism that Boris Johnson wants to bring to the position. But already, the pressure is piling onto find new cabinet members to replace those resigning because they don't like his Brexit policies. The Iranian foreign minister also tweeted, essentially doubling down on the rising tensions with Iran. The European Union leaders have already tweeted saying don't think you can get a different Brexit deal to the one Theresa May had. His political allies in Northern Ireland essentially have tweeted saying don't forget about us and the union of the United Kingdom. So, the pressure is on him already. He's not even through the door. That will happen tomorrow when he officially becomes prime minister -- Alisyn.", "Nic Robertson, thank you very much for standing by and reporting on this historic moment we've been watching all morning. Thank you very much. Not many people know the pressure of testifying before Congress with the presidency at stake, but our next guest does. Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean is going to join us so stick around."], "speaker": ["ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID GREGORY, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "CAMEROTA", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-245667", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-12-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1412/20/cnr.09.html", "summary": "RNC Chairman Addresses Movie Theater Owners; Obama Says Sony Should Have Consulted Him", "utt": ["There was a new political voice weighing in on Sony's decision to yank \"the Interview\" after Sony suffered a large-scale cyber attack and threats removed the planned release. The Republican national committee chairman, that is Reince Priebus, just sent a very strong message to movie theatre owners. And our senior media correspondent Brian Stelter got this exclusive story. He joins me now on the phone. And Brian, what exactly is the RNC leader saying to theatre owners, and why?", "He's saying, I want to speak clearly on behalf of the Republican party. I urge you to show the movie. It's an interesting twist, Martin, because we are, you know, now seeing this sense of public pressure on Sony and on theater owners to have \"the Interview\" actually be screened in theatres. This comes a few days after Sony pulled the movie. And Sony says it pulled the movie only because theater owners, big chains like AMC and Regal, decided not to run the movie at all. Basically, Sony says they had nowhere to air it. So what is happening now is there is pressure being put on theater owners and that's where this letter is directed to. We can put part of it on screen because this is the most interesting part, I think. Priebus says, as a sign of my commitment, if you agree to show this movie, I will send a note to the Republican Party's millions of donors and supporters urging them to buy a ticket, not to support one movie or Hollywood, but to show North Korea we cannot be bullied into giving up our freedom. Martin, I think what's significant here is the Republican Party and perhaps other politicians as well are seeing this as an opportunity to stand up against North Korea and support freedom of expression.", "Right. But they're asking Sony to basically bear the brunt of it here. I mean, how -- what is Sony supposed to say to something like that?", "Well, right now Sony has no comment. I actually just got a text message from the spokesperson there saying they're not going to comment on this RNC letter. What I'm curious about is to find out whether the theater owners, the AMCs and the Regales and the Cinemark's (ph), whether they are going to comment because there are active discussion this weekend between Sony and the theater owners and other potential distributors, maybe Netflix, maybe You Tube, to find out if any of them are now willing to step up and help Sony release this movie. You know, Sony's point of view, rightly or wrongly, is they can't do it themselves. They need some help. And that's what I think is -- why it's interesting now that Priebus is coming forward, calling on the theater owners to help. He said this, like many Americans, I'm deeply concerned we would allow a foreign regime to dictate the movies we can and cannot watch. It's that kind of rhetoric that we may see from others in the days to come also.", "So how far do we go with this? Do we then say it's the patriotic duty of every American citizen to go to those theaters to watch that movie, because we are not going to take it from North Korea?", "You know, on one level it sounds absurd, doesn't it? On another level, though, it tugs at people's patriotism in a way that I think a lot of folks are feeling. I have been seeing this on twitter and facebook for the last two days. People calling on Sony to reverse these decisions. The letter, by the way, also says that the Republican national committee suggests that a portion of the profits from the theater owners and Sony should be donated to the USO or the yellow ribbon fund if they do indeed decide to go ahead and release this movie now. You know, it's been cancelled for a few days now, that Christmas release is off. But I do think we're going to see this movie come out in some way, some form, and the Republican national committee here is getting ahead of that with this letter.", "And, you know, I'm in agreement with you that I think many people believe that it is totally inappropriate that some of the nation dictate what the American populists can get to see. It would be very interesting to see how this can twist, though, in the American commercial society of the movie business. I mean, essentially, now the pressure is going to be on the movie theaters, show that movie.", "That's right.", "Or I may not come in the future.", "That's right. It's a very interesting situation. And it's a little bit of a strange bedfellow situation. And you know, the Republican Party isn't the closest to Hollywood. I think we all know the impression Democrats and liberals being much closer to Hollywood. And actually Priebus acknowledges that in his letter. Maybe this is the rare issue that can actually unite almost everybody in the country. Nobody in the United States wants to feel bullied by a cyber hacker from anywhere whether North Korea or somewhere else.", "Wow. That's an interesting idea. All right, Brian Stelter, thank you very much. Let's bring in Mel Robbins, she is, of course, CNN commentator, analyst. And Mel, you've got to be chomping at the bit here. But this is an interesting dynamic that place out how a political battle between nations could boil down to whether you sit in the movie theater seat.", "Well, you know, I heard Brian say something really interesting, which is he thinks that it's going to come out at some point, and it already has. Over the break, we noticed that the assassination scene of all scenes has already been leaked online. So if anybody wants to watch it for free, you can watch it online right now. But you know, this is what I think is really important. Sony stood alone, Martin, for three weeks, the White House wouldn't stand by him, Hollywood executives would not sign a petition that George Clooney was circulating around, basically urging people to stand together in Hollywood. Movie theater owners would not stand with him, and why? The reason why nobody would stand with him is because the threat was credible. These hackers had terabytes of information. They have only released a tiny amount of what they have on hand. And they also, keep in mind, threatened anybody that goes to a movie theater to watch it. And on top of it, you've got to weigh in the fact that Sony now has a class action lawsuit that's been filed against them by their employees, because of the information, the medical records, the salary information, the Social Security numbers that came out of the Sony employees. And these hackers have made it very clear that they will do nothing else, as long as the movie isn't released. If Sony now buckles to public pressure and releases it, and they don't have the backing and the protection of the FBI and of the White House, and they're doing it solo, they are putting their employees, Martin, in harm's way. It's a really, really fascinating and I think difficult decision they have in front of them.", "I agree. It's an extremely difficult and I can't imagine for the individual theaters what do they do, bring on extra security, are there supposed to be anti terrorist groups that are standing by to respond to the local multiplex theater? I mean, I just don't see where this goes. But it's an amazing development here.", "Absolutely. I mean, you know, the other question is you distribute it online. Are you going to log on to your Netflix account with your information online knowing there are hackers out there preying on people that are watching this movie, and they could easily, I'm sure, if they can find the Sony CEO's passwords, I'm sure they can find yours. And keep in mind, this plays so well into the dictator's hands. Since 1990, North Korea has had a military first policy, martin, where they have basically starved and terrorized their citizens, and they have operated on a system of isolation. And so this is a very important piece of the dictator's narrative. He's basically able to tell his countrymen that the U.S. is putting out a movie in which they have him killed. And he's also able to tell his countrymen that look, I am feared by the United States. I have defeated the United States. I have made the evil United States not release this movie where they're trying to kill me. And he has been able to put this message out there, without any kind of physical threat. And so this --", "But I will --", "Part of a very strategic -- go ahead, I'm sorry.", "Well, I will just point out that it may turn on him yet. I mean, we are still watching this develop. It is quite possible that suddenly the American public says, you know what, I'm going to go see that movie, and they're going to show up in numbers that Sony never would have dreamed. Mel Robbins, thank you very much. We're going oh have to leave it there. We got other news we're following. We'll continue to follow Sony, as well. Thank you very much. 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{"id": "CNN-82064", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2004-2-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/13/lad.12.html", "summary": "Massachusetss Legislature Unable to Get Majority Vote For Gay Marriage Ban, Will Try Again in March", "utt": ["For two days, Massachusetts law makers debated, negotiated and argued. It was an anguished attempt to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriages, but they failed. About five hours ago, in fact, the law makers called it quits. As CNN's David Mattingly reports, they will try again next month.", "As the midnight hour approached, demonstrators supporting gay marriage lifted their voices in patriotic song.", "And we wanted to stand up and let people know if they were going to vote for discrimination, we wanted to be here. And they did not vote for discrimination.", "The Massachusetts legislature, unable to find a majority vote banning same-sex marriage, called it quits for now. State law makers failed three times in two days to pass an amendment defining marriage as strictly between one man and one woman.", "What was so good about these past two days is you saw a legislature struggling with trying to find that language. If that language does not exist, it might mean that it should not exist.", "Law makers could not overcome disagreements over how to legally protect gay couples, many acknowledging during the previous 48 hours how divided the legislature remains on this volatile issue.", "We saw a lot of people taking the podium and working hard to express a point of view that is clearly reflective of our society right now. We are in conflict over this question.", "Conflict with no compromise appealing enough, apparently, to produce a ban on gay marriage in Massachusetts. The state legislature will reconvene and try again in March. David Mattingly, CNN, Boston.", "Adding fuel to the fire, San Francisco's county clerk issued almost 100 same-sex marriage licenses yesterday. Many got married on the spot, despite the fact that gay marriages are illegal in California. The first couple to be married, two women in their 80s who have been together for 51 years. Wow. Gay Marriage Ban, Will Try Again in March>"], "speaker": ["CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MARTY ROUSE, GAY MARRIAGE DEMONSTRATOR", "MATTINGLY", "BYRON RUSHING, MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE", "MATTINGLY", "MIXE FESTA, MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE", "MATTINGLY (on camera)", "CALLAWAY"]}
{"id": "CNN-200128", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2013-1-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/28/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Lionel Messi Youngest Player With 200 La Liga Goals", "utt": ["You are watching News Stream. Let's show you back -- show you our visual rundown of the stories that we are covering today. We told you about the relationship between Hillary Clinton and the U.S. president. And later we'll show you about what's happening to London's Olympic venues now that the games are over. But first, football and the incredible feats of Lionel Messi and another day brings yet another record for the Barcelona superstar. Let's join Alex Thomas in London for the details on that. Hi, Alex.", "Yeah, hi Monita. Surely, Lionel Messi's favorite song is anything you can do, I can do better after again stealing the headlines from rival Christiano Ronaldo. The Barcelona megastar became the youngest ever to pass 200 La Liga goals after hitting the net four times as Spain's championship leaders beat Osasuna 5-1 on Sunday. Messi scored in 11 consecutive league games, also a new record. And his tally for the season already stands at 33. And that overshadowed Christiano Ronaldo's own landmark day when he scored his 300 goal in club football as Real Madrid beat Getafe 4-0. The Portugal international went on to claim his fourth hattrick of the season. And he now has 21 league goals from 21 games, although Real are 15 points adrift of Barcelona in the table. Tiger Woods would almost certainly clench the 75th tournament victory of his remarkable golf career later on Monday after remolding his swing for a fourth time, Woods declared himself happy with every aspect of his game after moving to 17 under par after seven holes of the final round at the Farmer's Insurance Open. Bad weather means the event will need to be finished later on Monday, but Tiger isn't expected to falter at Torrey Pines, a course he likes so much that he's already won there seven times in the past -- with shots like that you can see why. Let's take a look at the leader board confirming Tiger's dominant position after three rounds -- well, after three completed rounds and a bit of the final round gone. Fellow Americans Brandt Snedeker and Nick Watney the closest challengers. Now Kobe Bryant says the Los Angeles Lakers have come up with a new identity after another season high for assists helped his struggling team produce a shock win over the Oklahoma City Thunder. He only scored 21 points, but had 14 assists and 9 rebounds as they beat the second best side in the west 105-96 win the second in a row for the Lakers, as they try to get back into the playoff picture. A season ending knee injury for Rajon Rondo was announced during the Celtics latest game, slightly marring their win over the reigning NBA champions. With less than 10 seconds on the clock, a 3-pointer from LeBron James tied the scores at 87 apiece and sent this game into overtime. Paul Pierce outstanding for Boston with a triple-double. He sets up Kevin Garnett for the basket that levels the scores again. Later the Miami Heat's Dwayne Wade tries to draw a foul on Pierce and then attempts the fadeaway jumper, but doesn't hit the target. And this one heads into a second overtime period. Now with just over 30 seconds on the clock, Pierce knocks down the jumper over LeBron to give Boston a one point lead and they eventually clench a 100-98 point win, ending a six game losing streak. Now let's finish with this lucky escape for snow mobile rider for Jackson Strong. A midair trick going wrong. He loses his grip on the 450 pound machine which speeds off when it lands heading towards a group of spectators who have to quickly get out of the way. One fan did suffer minor injuries after the accident at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado. The rider, Strong, wasn't hurt at all despite falling around 40 feet onto the snow. Glad everyone is OK. That's it. More on World Sport in just over three hours time. Back to you, Monita.", "I guess he lived up to his name, huh? Pretty strong guy. Alex, thank you very much for that. Now six months ago the eyes of the world were on these sporting venues in London, the site of the Summer Olympic games. So what happened to the area now? Jim Boulden fills us in.", "The crowds are gone, the name has changed to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Snow is on the ground. But six months on since the opening ceremony, the transformation of the site of the London 2012 summer games is well underway. The organizers have been planning this phase for years.", "The original $14 billion budget for the Olympic -- for the investment in Olympic Park and the games themselves included some $500 million for the transformation of the park after the games. So it was always -- it was budgeted for from day one.", "Gone already, the field hockey arena. So are all the seats in the basketball arena. While the athletes' village is being transformed into community housing. Soon, more housing and schools will be built nearby. What hasn't been settled yet, will the local football club West Ham agree to a 99 year lease to play in the Olympic Stadium. A final decision is expected in March. So the Olympic Stadium's long-term use is still uncertain, but its short- term use is now confirmed thanks to some concerts and athletics this summer. Two big summer music festivals are moving from Hyde Park to the Olympic Park. And concerts will soon be announced for the stadium.", "The Olympic Park is very, very easy to get to. So -- I mean, as we find out when they put 200,000 or 300,000 a day through the Olympic Park it's a great transportation hub. It's a compelling venue, an iconic venue, and that was very compelling. What we found is artists want to play there, so that's a good thing.", "The goal is to have part of the park reopened by the first anniversary of the games. The security fence will be removed. Grass and trees will replace parking lots. And the observation tower will reopen. Until then, tourists can book a free bus tour to see the transformation and soak up the post-Olympics atmosphere. Jim Boulden, CNN, London.", "So let's take a look at how other Olympic venues have fared. Well, here is Beijing's iconic Water Cube during the 2008 Olympics. Well, it's now used for events such as this swimming contest, very cute, and even as a catwalk for this fashion show. You want to take a look at Athens now, shall we? And here is a softball game back in 2004. And here is that same stadium eight years later. The Greek capital has been heavily criticized for spending so much on construction for the games and then letting the venues languish. The aquatic center suffered a similar fate. A biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is getting some mixed reviews.", "Freedom. This is freedom to create and to do and to build and -- as artists, as individuals.", "Look, you're overreacting. Even if you were developing this for freaks like us, and I doubt you are, nobody wants to buy a computer, nobody.", "How does somebody know what they want...", "Premiered over the weekend at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in the United States. Actor Ashton Kutcher has generally received favorable press for his portrayal of Jobs, but the movie itself is being called shallow, saccharine and unsophisticated. Ouch. One reviewer says it's like a two hour commercial. Apple's other founder Steve Wozniak is -- says it's totally inaccurate. Jobs opens in theaters next spring. And that is News Stream, but the news continues here at CNN. World Business Today is next. END"], "speaker": ["RAJPAL", "ALEX THOMAS, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "RAJPAL", "JIM BOULDEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DENNIS HONE, CEO, LONDON LEGACY DEVELOPMENT CORP", "BOULDEN", "JOHN REID, LIVE NATION EUROPE", "BOULDEN", "RAJPAL", "ASHTON KUTCHER, ACTOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KUTCHER", "RAJPAL"]}
{"id": "CNN-282195", "program": "IDESK", "date": "2016-04-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/22/id.01.html", "summary": "Countries Signing Historic Climate Change Deal.", "utt": ["Welcome to the INTERNATIONAL DESK. I'm Robyn Curnow. Thanks for joining me. Here's a check of the headlines.", "On Earth Day, a big moment in the drive to reduce global warming. The signing of the climate change pact reached last December in Paris is happening any minute now at the United Nations. Here are live pictures of speeches that are being given. Representatives from more than 160 nations are on board. But the pact will not take effect until certain thresholds are met. Our senior U.N. correspondent Richard Roth joins me now live. Hi, there, Richard. What's happening at the moment?", "A woman from civil society from Chad in Africa is addressing the general assembly. Leonardo DiCaprio, the Best Actor winner this year, is scheduled to speak, perhaps next. You have over 171 countries ready to sign this climate agreement that was reached in Paris last December. But it's a two-step process. They have to sign and then these countries have to get it ratified through their national governments or parliaments, not so easy in some cases. China and the U.S., though, have made major commitments further than they've ever gone to curb carbon emissions over the next few years. And that has helped spur the momentum, which French President Hollande has mentioned must be followed up on, as he again used the term about sounding the alarm regarding climate change. Secretary of State John Kerry just spoke, again mentioned how each year has been the hottest on record -- Robyn.", "When is the actual signing going to take place and how long is that going to take?", "They're going to line up in droves to sign here. Many countries. That's the easy part, in effect, and it's a good photo op. They're going to use two different rooms, heads of states, prime ministers. But then each country will have to have it ratified. In the United States, where there is a Republican Congress and a Democratic president who favors this climate agreement, the U.S. doesn't consider it a legally binding international agreement. So President Obama can use an executive order to sign it. Some concern among climate activists that, depending on who's in the White House, it would be better if President Obama took action this year since the Republicans, including Donald Trump, are opposed to this climate change agreement -- Robyn.", "Richard Roth, always great to have you on the show, coming to us there from the U.N., thanks. Let's get more on this from our Chad Myers. Chad, hi, there. Obviously climate change, global warming, we're feeling it all. It's been one of the hottest years on record. Do you think this will make a difference? And how quickly does this need to be implemented?", "It needs to happen years ago. We are already past where we want to be at this point in time. And I will show you that on a graphic. Ironically here, Earth Day, the Earth being helped a little bit today by 1 billion people trying to do something positive. But let's get to the numbers here. March was the record warmest March ever. The warmest March ever on record since we've been keeping track. Maybe not a billion years ago but you get the idea. Now we move to the last 11 months. It was the warmest February on record, it was the warmest January on record, it was the warmest December. All the way back to May of last year, every consecutive month has broken the record across the globe. So how does that change and how does that really affect what we're seeing here across the globe when it comes to temperatures? Well, the benchmark, the old 2014-2015, 1998 benchmark record years are here. Where are we now? There. Way up, way above 1.2. Now the leaders of all these countries are trying to keep 1.5 degrees Celsius the maximum, hopefully we can keep it under 2. But we're already at 1.2 this year. Can we get there? Can we keep it? Here is how quickly it has changed and there are people that are arguing, saying it has been warmer -- sure and I know it has. But, we have gone from a --", "-- below normal couple of decades in the '50s to the '60s, to the '70s to the '80s, to the '90s to 2000. We're going up so rapidly. It's what's called the hockey stick. It's now even the El Nino years and the La Nina years and the neutral years are in white, the La Nina years are in blue, usually the La Nina years are cool and the El Nino years are warm. We're just warm all the time now, above 1 degree all the time. And we're trying to keep this thing below 2, obviously optimistically, 1.5. But if we're already 1.2 this year, we have a long way to go. And I think we're probably going to start to hear about methane more than maybe even carbon dioxide emissions. Because methane is about 20 times more potent as a carbon keeper, just a gas that keeps the heat at the surface. That greenhouse gas and if we can reduce methane, one part methane is like taking 20 parts of carbon dioxide out. So there's a lot going on here and the countries are finally working this out. I don't think it's too late but it's a long time coming.", "OK. Very sobering assessment there, Chad Myers. Thank you. Next here on the IDESK, the performer who inspired Prince talks about the loss of a dear friend. Stevie Wonder on Prince's death. That's just ahead."], "speaker": ["CURNOW", "CURNOW", "RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT", "CURNOW", "ROTH", "CURNOW", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "MYERS", "CURNOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-241889", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2014-10-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1410/27/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Legal Cases Building Against Graham Suspect", "utt": ["There are new pictures in another story we've been following here in THE SITUATION ROOM. It's the latest sighting of the North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un. Photos released by the country's state news agency show him touring an orphanage over the weekend in North Korea's capital of Pyongyang. At one point, he arranges some Hello Kitty dishes on a table. Till the middle of this month, he had been out of the public eye for about five weeks, raising questions about his health. But there have been several still photos of him released over these past few days. Let's get to another story we've been following in THE SITUATION ROOM. Now that her remains have been identified, the Charlottesville, Virginia, area is coming to grips with the death of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham as legal action develops against the suspect in the Graham case, as well as in other cases. CNN's Brian Todd has been looking into all of this for us. What are you finding out, Brian?", "Wolf, tonight we've learned that Jesse Matthew is going to face a Fairfax County judge, Fairfax County, Virginia, this Friday. He's going to be video-conferenced in from his jail in Charlottesville. But prosecutors near Charlottesville have yet to reveal their plans. It's a careful strategy, but it's playing out in a wounded community looking for justice.", "With chalk wall memorials and flower displays, the University of Virginia community tries to process the death of 18- year-old Hannah Graham.", "The impact that it's had on our community has been really difficult for all of us.", "Made even more difficult with the knowledge that a man with strong ties to Charlottesville, a local high school football and wrestling star, is the prime suspect. Confirmation of Graham's death now means Jesse Matthew could be charged with murder and could be eligible for the death penalty. But experts say it's not clear what the best evidence in a murder case would be, and it may take a while to indict.", "That is a complicated case that will probably take a couple of weeks.", "Less complicated, analysts say, is the case against Matthew in Fairfax County, Virginia, where he'll likely be tried first. There, he faces sexual assault and attempted capital murder charges from a 2005 incident where a woman was abducted while walking home from the grocery store.", "Fairfax is the strongest case, because it's a case that has been in the works for the last nine years. They have a live victim who can come in and testify.", "There's a forensic link between that case and the abduction and murder of Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington. She vanished in October 2009 while visiting UVA. Her body was found on a farm outside Charlottesville more than three months later. No one's been charged in Harrington's murder. What's the link to Fairfax? The man who found Harrington's shirt here on this bush in downtown Charlottesville says police later told him they had a DNA match to the Fairfax case. Harrington's parents recently spoke about the ties between their daughter's murder and Jesse Matthew's arrest in the Graham case.", "I'm so pleased that that has happened, but it doesn't change a lot for us, in some ways. You know, our bedroom is still empty upstairs.", "And analysts say the Harrington case may be the weakest one legally against Jesse Matthew.", "There has been no evidence that we are aware of that establishes to any kind of degree of certainty that Mr. Matthew and Ms. Harrington were ever together.", "That, of course, departs from the Hannah Graham case, where surveillance video and witness accounts put Jesse Matthew and Hannah Graham either together the night she disappeared or at least in close proximity to each other. We reached out to James Campbell, Jesse Matthew's attorney. He told me he would not comment on any aspect of the Graham, Harrington or Fairfax County cases. But he did send a statement on behalf of Jesse Matthew's grandparents expressing sympathy to the families of Morgan Harrington and Hannah Graham.", "Brian, thanks very much. Brian Todd reporting. Let's get some more now with investigative journalist Coy Barefoot and CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes, a former FBI assistant director. Coy, what's the latest that you're hearing on those charges Jesse Matthew faces in the 2005 rape and attempted murder case in Fairfax, that's just outside of Washington, D.C., in northern Virginia?", "Right, Wolf. That took place on September 24th, 2005. Three felony charges in that case. Abduction, rape and attempted capital murder. Big development today to learn that Mr. Matthew will have his arraignment by video court. It's not Skype. I've been asked that many times. It's not Skype. It's a private phone line that's used at the jail. He will not be leaving the jail. And that's going to disappoint him because I have sources at the jail that tell me all last week he was sharing with people in the jail that he was looking forward to going to Fairfax, something a road trip for him, I guess. The big news in Fairfax, Wolf, is, as far as I am concerned, is the courage of the young woman who was assaulted. I mean, just think about this for a minute. This young woman was brutally raped, she was nearly beaten to death. And then she voluntarily subjected herself to a rape kit test. She was swabbed. She was scraped. Her entire naked body was photographed. She was poked. She was prodded. They took samples of her hair, her blood, her urine, her skin, her fingernails. It's a grueling process that can last up to four hours. But she did it. And too often the victims of rape and of sexual assault, they're silenced by fear or intimidation or shame or murder. And that did not happen. And the evidence that this woman is bringing forward from the 2005 case, that could very well be the evidence that is possibly used to convict a serial killer.", "All right --", "We can thank her courage for that.", "Yes. All right. Stand by, Coy. Tom Fuentes, stand by as well. We have more to discuss, other developments in this case that has really sparked an enormous amount of concern around the country. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TODD (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "TODD", "SCOTT GOODMAN, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "TODD", "GOODMAN", "TODD", "GIL HARRINGTON, MORGAN HARRINGTON'S MOTHER", "TODD", "GOODMAN", "TODD", "BLITZER", "COY BAREFOOT, INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST", "BLITZER", "BAREFOOT", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-172494", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2011-9-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/16/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Eye on Poland: Cosmetic Queen; iReporter Shares Polish Road Trip", "utt": ["All this week, we have been turning our Eye on Poland and how the European country's making its mark on the global stage. Tonight, the lens is on the woman known as Poland's cosmetic queen. As Jim Boulden found, her company has had a stunning makeover since the fall of the Berlin Wall.", "Irena Eris is often in the lab with her employees testing what could be the next big product for Poland's biggest cosmetic label, Dr. Irena Eris. It all began in 1983, just Eris on her own in a makeshift lab.", "When you started in 1983, could you imagine what you have today?", "Never. Never. It was another time, it was not so easy to make business in those times.", "Quality skincare products were not readily available in Communist Poland. But she guessed correctly, Polish women craved pampering. And at the time, Eris says, despite the confines of Communism, the government preached equality when it came to business. Before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, Eris had some 15 employees. But she says she could no longer grow under Communism. Under capitalism, it all changed.", "After 89, I started to think with another way.", "Now, it's all about service and branding to go along with cosmetics.", "You have to be better and better because our customer trusts us. Which means good brand name, yes?", "But Irena Eris is not just about selling cosmetics. It's also about treatments.", "One big way she wants to grow the business, get Polish men to walk through the treatment door. No better time, then, for me to have my first facial. Another talent, says Eris, selling a brand with \"made in Poland\" on the label. Though it's the homeland of Helena Rubinstein and Max Factor.", "We export now to seven countries, but it's not a big amount of our products. We want to be stronger and to export more.", "That's a big goal.", "Yes, it's a big goal. But to start, it's a very heavy job.", "A hard sell outside Poland, a lot of competition at home.", "And now we have big competition on our market, all of the biggest players international contents are here. They have experience, they have money, they have tactic. And we are local -- local company.", "Yes. Right.", "And choosing her products has made this woman's name one of the most recognizable brands inside Poland. Jim Boulden, CNN, Warsaw.", "Now, an expert in facials as well as business. During our week-long Eye on Poland coverage, we've been asking you to share your images of the country with CNN's iReport. Before we go tonight, we'd like you -- to show you some photos that Christine Rabbitt took during a two-week road trip in Poland last month. She's from the US, but her boyfriend is from Poland. After being separated from him for two months, she says she used her college savings to book a trip to the country so she could finally see where he grew up. Christine sent the bulk of her time on a road trip from Warsaw to Smoldzino in the north, and these images were captured as she hiked and biked her way to the Baltic. If you have images you would like to share of Poland, do log onto CNN.com/eyeon and click on the iReport Poland. I'm Max Foster, thank you so much for watching. Have a great weekend. The world headlines and \"BackStory\" will follow this short break."], "speaker": ["FOSTER", "JIM BOULDEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BOULDEN (on camera)", "IRENA ERIS, FOUNDER, DR. IRENA ERIS COSMETICS", "BOULDEN (voice-over)", "ERIS", "BOULDEN", "ERIS", "BOULDEN (on camera)", "BOULDEN (voice-over)", "ERIS", "BOULDEN (on camera)", "ERIS", "BOULDEN (voice-over)", "ERIS", "BOULDEN (on camera)", "BOULDEN (voice-over)", "FOSTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-413830", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-10-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/20/cnr.10.html", "summary": "Study: Desk Arrangement, Glass Shields Help Cut Classroom Virus Spread; NIH Director Says \"Very Unlikely\" Vaccine Ready Before Late November", "utt": ["But remember, you know, this was a very sort of rarified situation where the desks were very far apart. As you said, almost eight feet apart, so more than six feet we generally talk about. And there were only nine students in the classroom when they did the simulation. How practical this is for most schools around the country? That is not clear. But there are some interesting and important learnings from it. Ventilation was very important. It showed it can make a difference in how many virus particles will stay in the classroom as opposed to exiting through the windows. Windows absolutely should be open whenever possible. But they also stress that hand washing is going to be very important still with all of the measures because you do still have significant amount of virus staying in the classroom, even with the best measures. The glass shields were also found to be effective. That was another point that I think schools will take into account.", "Yes. It is so hard to hear these recommendations when they're talking about windows. A lot of classrooms don't have windows that open. That isn't even an option for them. I want to talk vaccines with you because Dr. Francis Collins, the NIH director, firmed up the vaccine timeline on NPR today. Let's listen.", "Many uncertainties here. But I am guardedly optimistic that we will have, by the end of the year, one or more of these that will pass this very high standard of safety and efficacy.", "Probably not in the next couple of weeks, though, we would assume, right?", "I would think it is very unlikely given the timetables and standards that have to be followed that you will hear about emergency use authorization before late November at the earliest.", "Does this make you feel more confident about the safety of the vaccine when it's ready? And if approval happened before then, is that something you might be skeptical about?", "Well, it gives me confidence that the top leaders and scientists in the country are being cautious and saying we're going to wait as long as it takes until we have a safe and effective vaccine. If they actually, by a lot of good luck, are able to make that declaration earlier than the end of November, I would trust them and have confidence in what they're saying. But the truth is it is very unlikely, as he just said, because there has to be so much data that needs to be collated. And really all the side effects potentially need to be explained or understood. It will take some time. If he's saying end of November is the soonest, that's, I think, a realistic, even optimistic, perhaps, point of view. If we could get it by end of the year, we should consider ourselves lucky.", "Yes. Dr. Raj, it's great to see you. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Good news for Americans who are purchasing their insurance on Obamacare exchanges, even as the president tries to kill the law without a replacement for it. And a Republican lawmaker in South Dakota is battling COVID and he says it is the most devastating thing he has been through. He is going to join us live. And another FOX host pedals a new baseless smear against Joe Biden. We'll roll the tape."], "speaker": ["DR. ROSHINI RAJ, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE, NYU LANGONE HEALTH & CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, \"HEALTH\" MAGAZINE", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN HOST", "DR. FRANCIS COLLINS, NIH DIRECTOR (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COLLINS", "KEILAR", "RAJ", "KEILAR", "RAJ", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-368531", "program": "CNN RIGHT NOW", "date": "2019-05-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/02/crn.02.html", "summary": "GOP Senators Deflect from Barr by Blaming Obama, FBI; Trump's Fed Pick Withdraws after Sexist Remark Firestorm", "utt": ["So no hearing for attorney general William Barr today. He chose to sit this one out. But really we had two hearings for Barr yesterday. One by the Democrats with questions about the Mueller report and obstruction of justice, and another by Republicans on the committee, who were much more interested in the Clinton e-mails and taking aim at some of the FBI agents who were involved in the Russia investigation. We have James Clapper, who was the director of National Intelligence in the Obama administration, with us. And it was Republican Senator John Cornyn who asked, why didn't the Obama administration do more about Russian interference starting back in 2014 when they were warned by the Intel Community that this was going to be an issue, that Russia was going to try to influence the election? What do you say to that question?", "Well, first of all, there's a long, long history of Soviet and then Russian interference in our election process going back to at least 1960s. So unfortunately, you know, there's a certain ambient level of Russian activity that we kind of anticipated. For me, just speaking for me, through '15 and '16, we began to see -- and by the way, all truth isn't revealed in one day -- that as this unfolded, we gained more and more insight into what the Russians were doing and the magnitude of it. And certainly, by the summer of '16, it was very, very disturbing, certainly to me personally. I've seen a lot of bad stuff in 50 years in intelligence but nothing bothered me as much as this. So yes, speaking personally, I would have -- I was an advocate for doing more earlier and more aggressive. But to say that the Obama administration did nothing is not true. For one, the president, unlike our current president, directly confronted very pointedly Putin and told him to cut it out. Didn't ask him, are you doing this, because he accepted the intelligence that he was getting. We made an announcement about it, put out a public release. I say we, secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and I on the 27th of October 2017. Unfortunately, I got emasculated by -- on the very same day the revelation of the \"Access Hollywood\" tapes and the dumping of John Podesta e-mails, so our message got lot. I do think -- and then, of course, the criticisms levied on the Obama administration. We might ask, what was the Trump campaign doing at the same time, with aiding and abetting the Russians and having dozens of contacts with Russians, some of whom were connected to -- officially to Russian intelligence. And --", "Not legally --", "And not reporting that.", "To be clear, not meeting the legal definition of aiding and abetting.", "Well, I'm using that in a parochial or colloquial sense, I guess.", "Yes.", "But -- and certainly, the president, Candidate Trump, on the 27th of July exhorting the Russians to go out -- an adversary, an enemy of ours -- to help him and his campaign against his opponent. And by the way the Russians complied with that request about five hours later.", "So it's a bit much. And then the other thing, of course, is -- is probably the stiffest action that the Obama administration took on the 29th of December, with the sanctions, the expelling of 35 Russian operatives and the closure of the two intelligence doches (ph), and what did the incoming administration do but undermine it by informing the Russians, you know, disregard the sanctions.", "Michael Flynn, you mean?", "Exactly.", "We've talked about this a few times but I want to see what you think now because Barr addressed this in the hearing last month. He used the word \"spying,\" which is a pejorative. I think it's very widely accepted -- you feel this way and others in the Intel Community feel it's a pejorative way to talk about surveillance. He was talking about surveillance of the Trump campaign members and associates, who had contact, which is often repeated, with Russians during the election, Kremlin-linked Russians. He was asked about that. Let's listen.", "Have you ever referred to authorized department investigative activities officially or publicly as spying? I'm not asking for private conversations.", "I'm not going to abjure the use of the word \"spying.\" I think -- my first job was in CIA. I don't think spying has any pejorative connotation at all. To me --", "To me, the question is always whether or not it's authorized and adequately predicated spying. I think spying is a good English word that, in fact, doesn't have synonyms because it is the broadest word incorporating really all forms of covert intelligence collection. So I'm not going to back off the word spying, except I will say -", "-- I'm not suggesting any pejorative. And I use it frequently as did it the print media.", "When -- when did you decide to use it? Was it off the cuff in the hearing that day or did you go into the hearing intending --", "It was actually off the cuff to tell you the truth.", "It was actually off the cuff he said. Although to be clear, he paused, thought about -- you could tell he was thinking about what he was saying and used the word spying. And he seemed to double down on that, and I just want to be clear about that. He said, \"I don't think it has a pejorative connotation at all.\" What do you say at all?.", "Having spent 50 years in the intel business, I would respectfully disagree with that. I do think it's a pejorative term. It connotes illegality, rogue operations, this sort of thing. It's not a term of art that's used within the Intelligence Community. And I always used to cringe whenever I would say my name in the headlines somewhere where head spy testifies or something. It just --", "I have an aversion to the word.", "And you think he knows that?", "I do. What made it pejorative particularly, of course, is in the context of what the president has been saying about spying on his campaign, which in my view is -- is not true.", "Because you hear him co-opting the language of the president, which is clearly pejorative.", "Right.", "And you can't divorce those things.", "Exactly.", "There were a couple questions raised about the Trump campaign and offers of help from the Russians. Here's part of that.", "Does the fact that Mr. Mueller found the Trump campaign was receptive to some of the offers of assistance from Russia or the fact that the Trump campaign never reported it in -- reported any of this to the FBI, does that trouble you?", "What would they report to the FBI?", "That they were receptive to offers of assistance from Russia.", "What do you mean by receptive?", "What about that exchange?", "Well, I thought it was a valid question on Senator Leahy's part. And I thought this is one of -- one example of the attorney general parsing words and hair-splitting. You know, quibbling over definitional issues which, you know, I don't think, you know -- you hope that he would rise above that. I will just say that, during my time as the DNI, we began to observe all these contacts with Russians, not that we understood necessarily the content of any of these discussions, but it -- it certainly raised the yellow flag on my dashboard, warnings were on, why all these contacts with Russians which, of course, weren't being reported.", "Should it have been reported? So when he says, well, what would they report --", "Well, one would think -- I mean, maybe I'm reflecting my -- my Korean War experience, but one would think when the Russians, and so many times were trying to engage people connected with the Trump camp, that there might be an -- perhaps a logical explanation for it. But they were very numerous. And, again, we didn't fully understand why. But when valid Russian intelligence targets, U.S. intelligence targets were engaging with members of the Trump campaign that was concerning.", "Director Clapper, thanks so much.", "Thank you.", "We always appreciate your perspective on this. Just in, another presidential Fed pick is out. Stephen Moore withdrawing his name after many of his misogynistic comments from the past were exposed. Plus, how much do you think an education at Stanford costs? For one family, it was $6.5 million, and they didn't pay it to the school. A new twist in the massive college admissions scandal."], "speaker": ["BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN HOST", "JAMES CLAPPER, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST", "KEILAR", "CLAPPER", "KEILAR", "CLAPPER", "KEILAR", "CLAPPER", "KEILAR:  I -- CLAPPER", "KEILAR", "CLAPPER", "KEILAR", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-49619", "program": "CNN WOLF BLITZER REPORTS", "date": "2002-2-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/19/wbr.00.html", "summary": "President Bush Visits South Korea", "utt": ["Now on", "In South Korea, President Bush will soon visit the DMZ, the backyard of his \"axis of evil.\" But furious protesters see no evil. So, should you be scared of North Korea?", "When the police arrived, Diane was crawling, trying to push herself up towards her apartment, unable to breathe, bleeding to death with one dog still loose.", "A San Francisco couple goes on trial for the dog- mauling death of their neighbor. Hello, I'm Wolf Blitzer in Washington. President Bush has called it the most dangerous spot on earth, and in a few hours, he will be there. That tops our news alert. President Bush will visit the American troops at the heavily- guarded demilitarized zone, separating communist North Korea and Democratic South Korea. He's not backing down from his \"axis of evil\" tough talk, but is expected to renew an offer to negotiate with the North. We'll have much more on this in a moment. U.S. forces in Afghanistan may have opened a new phase in the war. Over the weekend, two airstrikes near the city of Khowst were apparently aimed at warring factions opposed to the interim government. Up to now, the aim of U.S. forces has been the destruction of the Taliban and al Qaeda. In another move to help the new Afghan government, a U.S. general has begun a mission aimed at helping Afghanistan establish a national army. According to U.S. officials, American soldiers are expected to arrive in about a month to begin training fighters loyal to Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai. And at the Winter Olympics, amid the backdrop of the pairs figure skating scandal, Michelle Kwan goes for the gold tonight. She faces a tough battle, skating last among the other medal contenders in the short program. Kwan won the silver medal in Nagano, Japan, in 1998. Now, more on our top story. In just a few hours, President Bush will visit the Korean demilitarized zone, one of the most heavily- armed areas anywhere on the planet, guarded by almost two million troops on both sides of that zone. Mr. Bush's visit is one of the key stops of his trip to South Korea. For more on that, here is CNN's senior White House correspondent, John King.", "A warm welcome for the president at the American high school in Seoul. The challenge now is convincing a key U.S. ally a tough stance against North Korea is not inconsistent with the goal of a reunited peninsula. President Kim Dae Jung has staked his legacy on his so-called Sunshine police. And advisers worry now that Mr. Bush's labeling North Korea part of an axis of evil will discourage diplomatic progress.", "Whether wrongly or rightly, they are insisting, for instance, America not to have hostile actions or hostile stance on North Korea.", "Mr. Bush came to Seoul from Tokyo. In a speech to the Japanese parliament, he held out hope for Korean unification.", "We seek a region in which demilitarized zones and missile batteries no longer separate people with a common heritage and a common future.", "The DMZ separates South from North, nearly 50 years after the Korean War. Mr. Bush visits U.S. troops there Wednesday, and will make it clear, as he did in Tokyo, that in his view, the ball is in North Korea's court.", "We seek a peaceful region, where the proliferation of missiles and weapons of mass destruction do not threaten humanity.", "The focus on North Korea is just one reminder that Asia already is a second front in the war on terror. U.S. special forces are helping the Philippines crack down on the Abu Sayyaf terrorist network. And U.S. military officials are having talks with counterparts in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, about efforts to curb terrorism, and perhaps, weapons shipments. In Seoul, days of demonstrations objecting to the \"axis of evil\" characterization. And aides say Mr. Bush will not repeat the line while in South Korea. (on camera): But his hosts fear the damage is already done. As Mr. Bush arrived here, the North Korean government issued a tough statement accusing the United States of trying to incite a second Korean war. John King, CNN, Seoul.", "The standoff between North and South Korea with thousands of U.S. troops in between has been going on for decades. Successive American presidents have been warning that the demilitarized zone is potentially a flash point, one that could trigger all-out war. I was there almost nine years ago, when I was covering the White House.", "It is pointless for them to try to develop nuclear weapons, because if they ever used them it would be the end of their country.", "That was then President Bill Clinton in 1993 when he visited the DMZ. Things changed, but they also remained very much the same. Indeed, President Bush could make the same exact point today. The half-century U.S. security commitment to South Korea continues with no end in sight, physically backed up by some 40,000 U.S. troops. They have always been seen as a trip wire, potentially standing only a few miles away from a million heavily-armed North Korean troops. Here is how I saw it when I was there. (on camera): Behind me is what's called the Bridge of no Return, right in the middle of the demilitarized zone. It was here where nearly 100,000 prisoners were exchanged following the Korean War. (voice-over): By all accounts, this is still one of the most dangerous spots on earth. Don't be misled by the routine and eerie silence that almost always pervades the DMZ. Here's what one U.S. soldier told me then.", "Actually think it's pretty calm up here, real laid-back. Basically I don't have a lot of fears about North Korea coming down.", "And that superficial calm certainly has not misled the Bush administration. In often blunt language, top officials in recent weeks have expressed concern over North Korea's missile program and export of arms. And in recent days, North Korea has responded, calling the president the head of -- quote -- \"an empire of evil.\" Joining us now to talk about these harsh words and whether North Korea remains a major threat to world peace is James Steinberg. He's the former deputy national security adviser in the Clinton administration. Thanks for joining us, Jim. The key question, how much of a threat is North Korea right now to the West?", "There's no question, Wolf, that North Korea does pose a threat. It is a country that is the leading exporter of missiles and other weapons of mass destruction technology. And that's a legitimate area of concern. The question now is how best to deal with that? We had to start beginning to deal with North Korea's nuclear program back in 1994. And what we needed was a policy that was both tough on our position that they shouldn't develop that technology, but at the same time, recognizing that we needed to engage with them to bring it to an end. The same was true with their missile test. We became very concerned in 1998 with this new missile test, that posed a threat to Japan and potentially to the United States. But through engagement, we were able to get North Korea to impose a moratorium on that testing.", "But they're pursuing weapons of mass destruction even as we speak right now. That's why the president included North Korea in his \"axis of evil\".", "Well, their nuclear program is frozen right now. They still have steps to go to dismantle it, but they have stopped the reprocessing that proposed such a great danger to us. Similar, their missile testing is in moratorium, and we need to extend that. Now the challenge is to get them to stop exporting that missile technology and other weapons of mass destruction. At the end of the Clinton administration we were working on an agreement with them. We need to continue to press that. As well as deal with the other issues that the Bush administration has identified. But we're only going to get there if we have a combination of a strong stand and a willingness to engage.", "All of the evidence, though, does point to biological, chemical weapons that they've been working on over all these years, as well.", "Well, unfortunately, Wolf, there are lots of countries around the world. And in the administration's own study, there are dozens of countries that are developing biological and chemical weapons. We need to deal with those problems wherever we find them. But we have an opportunity to move forward on what are the most dangerous areas, which is these missile exports. And I do hope that both the North Koreans and the administration can take advantage of an opportunity to reach an agreement.", "So are you suggesting that the president's tough talk about North Korea has undermined that effort?", "I think there's a place for tough talk, but there's also a place for a good strategy, that turns that tough talk, and the leverage that it gives you, into an agreement. In the first place, we need to get a good understanding with our South Korean allies. Because if we're not together on this, we're not going to make progress. And then together we need to tell the North Koreans that we're not going to tolerate bad behavior. But we're also prepared to work with them to get a less tense and a less confrontational stance.", "You know the parallel that's been drawn to former President Reagan's evil empire speech, which eventually resulted in steps that saw the Soviet Union crumble. A lot of people are suggesting right now President Bush's tough talk about North Korea, Iran and Iraq, will eventually see those regimes go down.", "There's a lot of debate about why the Soviet Union came to an end. We need to give credit to the people within the Soviet empire who stood up against it for all that time.", "But the Bush administration people are saying what they're trying to do is give credit to those within North Korea, Iran and Iraq, to stand up and bring those regimes down, as was the case in the former Soviet Union.", "But don't forget, Ronald Reagan also negotiated arms control treaties with the Soviet Union during that time. And that's exactly the model we need to follow here. Be clear about our values and our principles, but also recognizing that the best way to protect our security is to stop these dangerous behavior. And if we can get it through engagement and negotiations, we shouldn't pass up that opportunity.", "In the meantime, you're not suggesting the U.S. withdraw from the DMZ?", "On the contrary. It's critical that we stay there. Our support is what helps stabilize the situation there. We need to make clear to North Korea that we're not going to tolerate any kind of risky behavior. At the same time, we ought to show them an alternative path that can lead to a more stable future for the whole peninsula.", "David Steinberg, deputy national security adviser to President Clinton. Thank you very much. This programming note: our senior White House correspondent, John King, will report. \"LIVE FROM THE DMZ\" tonight. That's at 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 Pacific, here on CNN. And our Web question of the day is this: which of these three axis of evil nations, as attributed by President Bush, poses the greatest risk to the United States? Vote at cnn.com/wolf. While you're there, let me know what you're thinking. Send me your comments. I'll read some of them on the air each day. That's also where you can read my daily on-line column. Turning now to some key shifts in the war on terrorism, one dealing with swaying public opinion overseas, including possibly spreading false information. The other involves U.S. warplanes attacking Afghan factions opposed to the new interim government of Hamid Karzai. Our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, is over at the Pentagon. She joins us now with details on both of these. First, Barbara, on the propaganda warfare strategy, what's going on?", "Well, that's a really interesting question, Wolf. Nobody's quite sure. It turns out that right after September 11th, the Pentagon established the Office of Strategic Influence. This is a 15-man shop with its own outside PR advisers that is aimed at, as one official told us, \"influencing the hearts and minds of the opposition in the war on terrorism.\" Now, of course, all of this used to be called propaganda, and we've seen some of it in the war in Afghanistan already: the dropping of leaflets, the broadcasting of radio transmissions into Afghanistan, all part of the traditional effort to influence the Afghan people to revolt against the Taliban and the al Qaeda. But now the question is whether the Pentagon's going to go a step further into this very controversial new, era which they call information operations. And part of information operations, in fact, is deception. It's classified, very covert. The Pentagon never talks about it. Now, officials tell us so far there has been no decision to engage in this kind of deception with the foreign news media. But the question is whether or not they might do it down the road, and whether they would see it as a key effort to try and influence public opinion abroad. Rumsfeld is not known to be particularly in favor of this, but the final proposal hasn't come to his desk yet, so we're not really sure where all of this may sort out. It's likely to continue to be very controversial.", "Barbara, on the other front, the air war. It used to be the U.S. was bombing Taliban targets and al Qaeda targets. But in recent days other targets are now the targeted, if you will, of U.S. bombs. What's going on on that front?", "That's also a very interesting development that emerged over the weekend, not noticed very widely here in the United States. But over the weekend, the U.S. conducted two sets of airstrikes on Saturday and Sunday, southeast of Khowst, in an area where there were a lot of opposition forces. But that's exactly right. The target was not Taliban and not al Qaeda. It turns out a group of supporters of Hamid Karzai, the head of the interim government, had come under small arms fire in this remote area. Airstrikes were called in to deal with this, but there was no indication that Taliban or al Qaeda were involved. And so far it appears that for the first time now, U.S. airstrikes were called in in a local fight against militia between competing warlords -- something that the Pentagon had stayed out of until now.", "Barbara Starr at the Pentagon. Thank you very much for that update. And joining me now to talk a little more about both of these developments, our military analyst, Retired Army Brigadier General David Grange. General Grange, let's start off with the last thing that Barbara just spoke about: the U.S. intervening on behalf of Hamid Karzai's interim government, in effect. Going after certain targets -- not al Qaeda, not Taliban -- but targets that represent a threat to the interim government. Should the U.S. military be involved in that? BRIG. GEN. DAVID GRANGE, U.S. ARMY", "So if the U.S. is going to train Hamid Karzai's interim military -- and there are threats to that military, in effect, threats to the government, the interim regime -- the U.S., understandably, you're saying, would have an interest in trying to help Karzai?", "I think we're committed to that. Even though there are some dangers there, we are committed, just like the international coalition is committed to them.", "What do you think about this other proposal -- and it's only a proposal right now -- as Barbara just reported, the Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has not signed off on it. The Defense Department getting into this office of strategic influence, spreading information and, at times, disinformation -- wrong information, to win the propaganda war on behalf of the United States?", "Well, the United States, we have to influence public opinion on both friendly and unfriendly countries around the world. We're going to do operations or we're going to engage through some type of diplomatic, or economic, or combat effort. However, I don't think it's right to spread disinformation around the world, for this reason: one is, our power is in telling the truth. American power is telling the truth. That's what we're known for. And that's powerful enough. Now, if there is a combat operation that requires surprise, and you must have deception in that target country, or the surrounding regional countries in order to achieve surprise, then it's OK, I believe.", "To what? To lie to news media?", "No, to deceive in what's going on in that operation, to save lives and achieve surprise. But the general idea of just putting out disinformation around the world, in order to gain public support, is wrong. That, I think, is wrong. And it won't only stay overseas. Because the world is so small with globalization, the information environment, it will come back to the United States media anyway.", "So if you spread disinformation in the Middle East or in Europe or in Asia someplace, it could, as they say in the trade, blow back into the U.S. news media. And that would in effect be illegal, for the U.S. government to be providing false information to the U.S. news media?", "It's illegal for the Department of Defense, for the Central Intelligence Agency, to spread propaganda in the United States. That is illegal. So, that would be the blowback problem if we did that.", "There would have to be new legislation to approve this, to authorize that kind of false information dissemination.", "I can't imagine us doing that. I think only in war and to save lives and to accomplish an objective. Never a carte blanche capability to do that.", "So, who is promoting this notion at the Pentagon right now? It's obviously got some serious consideration.", "Well, it may be blown out of proportion a little. I think that our ability to use information operations around the world is a necessity. You have to. But keep in mind, information operations also involves just good public affairs, sharing information. Soliciting what America and the West stands for: blue jeans, rock and roll and hamburger joints. I mean, there's great things to be put out there to tell the truth. And that's -- when others get caught off guard, our adversaries, with disinformation, that gives us the power.", "So you're saying there's a major difference between public diplomacy, public affairs -- psychological warfare, if you will -- as opposed to disinformation?", "Well, disinformation can be part of psychological operations, but only focused on the enemy, not on the world or our regional allies.", "General Grange, thanks for your insight. I appreciate it.", "Sure, thank you.", "And this note: Pentagon information versus disinformation. We'll discuss that tonight here in the CNN \"WAR ROOM.\" That's at 7:00 Eastern, 4:00 Pacific. Should dog owners pay when their pets kill? Today, jurors start gathering the facts in a high-profile trial. And the first account was hard to hear.", "The back of her neck, which was pierced so deep, it almost went down to the vertebrae.", "Later: why the killer mom trial became surprisingly tense earlier today. And forget about Vegas and Atlanta. There's a new place for Mike to fight. You might be surprised to hear where he might show up. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "WOLF BLITZER REPORTS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLITZER", "JOHN KING, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "YANG SUNG CHUL, SOUTH KOREAN AMB. TO U.S.", "KING", "BUSH", "KING", "BUSH", "KING", "BLITZER", "WILLIAM J. 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{"id": "CNN-296596", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2016-10-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/21/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Reports:  AT&T Nearing Deal to Buy Time Warner; Cyberattack Shuts Down Several Major Websites", "utt": ["The closing bell is ringing on Wall Street. The Dow is down just 12 points. But it a raise most of lot of loses of the session was much heavily much further down. And we're going to have a gavel to end trading. All right, stop now, you can stop pushing the button. It was a long bell and a wimpy gavel, but trading is over. It's Friday. It's October the 21st. Tonight, ma bell is on the prowl, and the reports say AT&T may be looking to buy Time Warner. Don't blame Canada, Europe's trade deal, the giant deal is being walloped by the Walloons. And the internet goes out across America's East Coast. And we're tired of turning it off and on, and off and on and off. I'm Richard Quest. It may be a Friday, but I still mean business. Good evening, tonight a new media giant could be in our midst, quite literally and figuratively. AT&T, that giant of telecom that goes back decades in the United States, whose very catchphrase used to be, \"reach out and touch someone\" might be reaching out for new friends.", "Don't let those new friends get away. A telephone call now and then will bring them closer. They're wanting to hear from you. So, reach out and touch someone. Give them a call.", "A commercial from the 1970s, which goes to show the age, extent, and depth of AT&T. But the report is that AT&T is now in advanced talks to acquire Time Warner. And let's be blunt about this. Time Warner is the parent company of Turner Broadcasting. Turner Broadcasting owns CNN. The takeover would completely alter the media world as well as giving me a new boss. Adding a huge amount of content for AT&T over its vast distribution outlet. So, let us parse exactly who these two companies are. Well, Time Warner has the three big divisions. Warner Brothers Pictures, HBO, and Turner Broadcasting. Which has CNN, Turner Sports Cartoon Network, TBS and TNT. Time Warner is a pure content company having divested itself of Time Warner Cable, the magazines, the books and the records. On the other side of this equation, you've got AT&T. Now it used to be a telco, an old-fashioned telco. Now it's a model that still got landline, it's got broadband, it's got wireless. It's got U-verse and it's got DirecTV, which is satellite television. However, what it doesn't have is much content. And that is where you probably see the synergy and the genius, if such it be, AT&T and Time Warner. Is this going to happen? And bearing in mind we've made the calls up to the 19th floor in this very building and got absolutely no reaction from anybody. So, we can't tell you yes or no. But let's have a look at the Time Warner share price, which today closed 7 percent higher on Wall Street. The rumor is it could be a deal done by the end of the weekend. This is where it's been most of the time. Around the 70s. It hits a peak of 75 and now it's way up over 85. As for AT&T, it's not your average phone company. It has gone through all kinds of transformations, and AT&T having been broken up in the 1980s, reformatted in the 1990s. Completely turned itself around in the 2000s, has somehow managed to remain part of the fabric of America.", "Over the years we have seen the results of a successful formula. Planned research to anticipate the demands of a growing nation. Available resources plus the continued efforts of many people. This combination has given America steady improvements in telephone service. And the story of long distance dialing points the way to even better telephone service for you tomorrow.", "Brian Stelter, out senior media correspondent, and Paul La Monica our guru is here to put this into perspective. It is never easy talking about your own company, is it?", "They make it easier when they don't return our calls. And today as you said, Richard, we are in the dark. I think that is because the advisors and the executives are trying to get this deal done by Monday morning.", "AT&T, for what it's worth, did get back to me with a no comment. So at least it was something. Dallas more friendly to us than --", "But this is no surprise.", "We asked the 19th floor. We asked if Jeff Buckus, would come on the program. And we got a very nice \"we'll let you know.", "But what we do know is this is no surprise. Time Warner has been quietly on the market, on the block for a little while now. We think about two years ago. Rupert Murdoch's bid, $85 a share for Time Warner. A failed bid. Time Warner rejected it at the time. I remember a very senior source at the time saying, Brian, this was the wrong bidder at the wrong time. Wait two or three years. Well, it's now been two years and it's time for Time Warner to sell.", "Think culturally. I mean, we all know the fundamental differences between the CNN network and the Fox network. And I think there are a lot of people wondering how those two can mesh. When you look at AT&T, you don't have that baggage. You talk about the content you had up there before, DirecTV has the NFL Sunday ticket. Even though there's a lot of concerns about declining ratings for the NFL this year, that's still a big driver of subscribers for AT&T. You throw in Turner and bleacher report and some of the sport assets that we have, you know CNN Turner, it does make some sense for AT&T to be interested.", "The core question is, why do we need them? Jeff Buckus turned this company into a pure content company. What is the advantage to a Time Warner other than premium on the stock price?", "What we see are several major players taking over content and distribution together in the U.S. Comcast is one of them. Verizon is one of them. You can argue Google is one of them, Facebook, and AT&T. AT&T believes it needs to own not just the distribution, but the content.", "But from Time Warner's point of view. Why does Time Warner want to do such a deal? I can certainly see the advantage from AT&T's perspective.", "When the price is right it's hard to say, no. And I think that people look at Time Warner, and you know this obviously, more than me. The reason why Time Warner is always in play because it's the major media company that isn't family run. You don't have some dynasty.", "And it's got a little bit of everything. It's got HBO. It's got the Warner Bros. movie studio. And it's got CNN and TNT and TBS. It brings a valuable number of assets. But let's think about strategically. Time Warner is looking smaller and smaller in a world where Google, Facebook, and Comcast and Verizon are looking bigger and bigger. So, that's why even a couple of years ago there was his view toward selling down the line. Once they shed the magazines and they shed other assets. This is a pure play video company. And it makes a lot of sense if you're AT&T to have access to that.", "So we've got Verizon. It's got a variety. It's got AOL. It's got Huff Post. It may or may not have Yahoo before we're finished. So, that would be very much a third also. Because Comcast, NBC Universal has got the television network and the studios, and of course NBC Universal putting more money into BuzzFeed in a variety of other things. So, that's moving forward. But this would catapult AT&T into a bigger league.", "Yes, I view it as on the same level of that has Verizon and Comcast in Google in terms of the future media. We should mention the serious regulatory concerns. If there is a deal announced on Saturday or Sunday, it is going to be reviewed by the government for many months. Whoever the next administration.", "I spoke to a fund manager at Mario DeBellis' firm that owns both AT&T and Time Warner. He thinks the deal is going to happen, but he pointed that out. He said it will be a year minimum before a deal is approved.", "And the government applied onerous conditions to Comcast's recent deals. So, you would expect conditions on this deal as well. AT&T has tremendous market power already. We have very intimate relationships with AT&T and Verizon and T-Mobile in this country because of our phones. It is probably the intimate connection you have as a customer with a company. So, I would argue that makes us very interesting, a lot of opportunities, but also a lot of challenges.", "You will -- we'll all remember around this table, I covered it. We all covered it. The debacle of AOL and Time Warner in the 1990s -- the turn-of-the-century. We were told and this that was the creation of a new synergy for a new era. Well, all it did was destroyed shareholder value. So, Paul, is this deal different because times are different?", "I think times are different. I think people have legitimately learned from the mistakes that were made in the early part of the 2000s. When, let's be honest, most of these media companies and tech companies we're talking about, it was so different than now. No one thought that the good times would ever end. I think people now have a little bit more of a sane view of what the future will be like. And that is a big difference between now and 2000.", "I always remember a boss telling me that covering stories on your own network or about your own network is a career limiting event. So, let me take the career man, you first, Paul. If the lifeboat going down you're in there with me.", "This is me begging for my job from Randall Stephenson you say?", "Just may be before we finish. Is it your gut feeling these rumors are true?", "Something I think has to give at this point. When the Fox rumors were around, I understood why there was a reluctance to sell, as Brian pointed out. Not the right company. Not the right time. But Time Warner, time is running out so to speak, I think on its days as in independent companies.", "If it's not AT&T it will be Google or it will be another bidder. No matter what, Time Warner is being sold. The question is to who? And if it's not to AT&T this weekend, there will be someone else. You have to wonder, if the rumors today are causing the phone lines to light up with other potential bidders tonight.", "Gentlemen.", "Thank you, sir.", "Wonderful to see you, thank you. We will have a new boss by this time next year. I'll be the telephone switchboard operator if it's AT&T. U.S. markets fell 100 points at the open before staging a light recovery. The market was down very sharply and then it sort of pulled back. If you really want to know the reason why, there isn't one. It was -- Paul La Monica I think agrees with me today. It was just one of those days where it starts down and pulls back by the close. The U.S. government is investigating a massive international cyber-attack that took down some of the biggest websites on the internet. The sites were out for several hours this morning in the eastern part of the United States. By the afternoon, it had spread to Europe. And among the websites were Twitter, Amazon, Netflix and Reddit. Samuel Burke Is in London for us. Who was behind it?", "Richard, nobody is pointing fingers quite yet. But this is a serious situation. They went after the middlemen. Companies like Dyn and possible also Amazon web services. Think of them like the telephone operator. You call up and they connect you to somebody else. It wasn't, actually, Twitter and Netflix that were hacked, it was actually an attack carried out against these middlemen. It's called the DDoS attack. Basically, they just overwhelm their servers with traffic and that's brought them down. I think what this highlights, Richard, is how vulnerable so many businesses can be to what is a relatively simple hacking attack. It makes you think you need, just like we have at our house, a spare key that these companies need a backup plan.", "So, if you like, the pipe, the route by which you get to these companies was hacked and therefore the companies themselves. But this is really, once again just emphasizing the fragility of the infrastructure. They like to portray it as robust, but the truth is, anything but.", "First they build it and then they think about the security plans later. The proof is in the pudding. Think about Sony. Here is a company that was attacked by North Korea, according to the United States government. They didn't even have a way of contacting each other. In fact, Brian Stelter, who was just done with you. Was reporting at the time that the company had to figure out how they would do chain text messages. All calling each other and texting each other that way. So much infrastructure has been built digitally, but nobody's thought what happens if it all goes down. Now you could say thankfully this is just Twitter and Reddit. Our economies don't depend on them. But imagine if this was your banking website or a major financial institution couldn't do business for a few hours, then may be a few days. And then you start to get into a very serious situation where stock prices could be affected, the way that Sony's was. So, I think that this situation right now has the potential to be serious. But it's giving us a window into some of what could happen in a much more serious situation.", "If you're right, Samuel, and I don't doubt that you are here, then is there an inevitability about these? I mean let's face it, we've now got to the situation that when we are told that our private data from a department store, a garage that we visited, or a gas station a gas station --", "Like Yahoo.", "Or Yahoo, has been compromised. Most of us shrug our shoulders and wait for any consequences, is it inevitable?", "Hopefully, these types of situations are a wakeup call to the CEOs of these companies and to the government as well to start thinking about a backup plan. After Sony, you and I both know very well that lots of major corporations started taking different measures, including our own. And so, I think every time this happens I hope and I pray that companies look at this and think about building better walls and having better backup plans.", "Samuel Burke, thank you for staying late on a Friday night in London. Go home and enjoy your evening. Samuel joining us from the U.K. Walloped by the Walloons. 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{"id": "CNN-71856", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-6-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/05/lad.07.html", "summary": "Taco Bell Ordered to Pay $30M Over Chihuahua Suit", "utt": ["Time for a little business buzz. Remember that talking Chihuahua from the Taco Bell ads? Who could forget him? Well he may not be on the air anymore, but he certainly has made two men very rich. Susan Lisovicz has the details from New York. Tell us.", "I will tell you, Carol, that a federal jury has ordered Taco Bell to pay two Michigan men mucho dinero, $30 million to be specific. The plaintiffs had sued the fast food chain in 1998 claiming they had pitched the idea for a character called \"Psycho Chihuahua\" more than a year before Taco Bell began airing the dog commercials in 1997. They claimed Taco Bell advertising executives stole the idea from them and never paid them. The Chihuahua, of course, went on to star in ads for three-and- a-half years, earning a cult following for issuing this catch phrase...", "Yo quiero Taco Bell.", "And there he goes. Yum! Brands, which owns Taco Bell, says it will appeal the verdict. And, Carol, bonus trivia question, what is the name of the Talking Chihuahua?", "Gosh, you know I don't know. I do know that he recently appeared with GEICO's talking gecko though.", "So making a revival. The name of the talking Chihuahua is Dinky.", "What is it?", "Dinky with a", "Kinky.", "Dinky, as in David Dinky.", "Well no wonder it's not well known.", "Go figure. Yes, I know, it doesn't sound Spanish, now does it, because the dog talks Spanish. But in any case,...", "Dinky.", "... that's the name. You'll be the hit of any party that you attend...", "Yes, hopefully it'll be a...", "... with that kind of knowledge.", "... Trivial Pursuit question and I'll win on Dinky. Thank you, Susan, appreciate it.", "My pleasure. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN FINANCIAL NEWS CORRESPONDENT", "DINKY, TACO BELL TALKING CHIHUAHUA", "LISOVICZ", "COSTELLO", "LISOVICZ", "COSTELLO", "LISOVICZ", "D. COSTELLO", "LISOVICZ", "COSTELLO", "LISOVICZ", "COSTELLO", "LISOVICZ", "COSTELLO", "LISOVICZ", "COSTELLO", "LISOVICZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-103040", "program": "CNN LIVE SUNDAY", "date": "2006-2-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/19/sun.02.html", "summary": "Parades in New Orleans for Mardi Gras", "utt": ["Well, the crowds are a little smaller and the mood is a little more subdued, but the Mardi Gras parades are rolling through New Orleans just like usual this weekend. It would not be Mardi Gras down there without Arthur Hardy. He is considered the foremost authority on our annual party in New Orleans. He's also known as the voice of Mardi Gras. Arthur Hardy joins me from, where else, New Orleans. Hey, Arthur.", "Hey, Susan, how are you?", "I'm doing just great. You and I know that New Orleans depends on Mardi Gras for an economic boost, a huge boost to the local economy, but if I were a tourist in Lincoln, Nebraska I would not think that this is a good year to come to New Orleans. What do you think? How would we get tourists to come down even next weekend for the last four days of the real big parades?", "Well, if you can get a flight and that's a big if, if you can find a room and that's a big if, I'd say come. It's a very historic Mardi Gras. It's the 150th anniversary of the first parade in New Orleans. Most of all, it's a comeback from hurricane Katrina. It's telling the world that we ain't dead yet. Instead of people in rowboats on Canal Street, we have people on floats in Canal Street so Mardi Gras is going to show the world we're alive and pretty well.", "Arthur, have you heard how many hotel rooms are open for the last four days, say next weekend on into fat Tuesday?", "Susan, it changes every day as FEMA workers and reconstruction workers check out and visitors check in. So I have not. We don't know. It's a moving target. You can bet it's not many, but there still are some rooms available. We expect a lot of day- trippers. Half of New Orleans is living in Baton Rouge and St. Tammany Parish and certainly they're going to drive in for a day's worth of celebration. So I think the crowds are going to be bigger than we first thought.", "I hope so because I know in my neighborhood just yesterday there were five parades that turned the corner at Napoleon and St. Charles in just one hour. I mean really short parades this year. Do you think the biggies Orpheus and", "They're almost at full strength. In fact, even today we had two parades uptown at the same corner that were four times as big as yesterday and the crowds are bigger, too, in spite of what for New Orleans is cold weather. We had wind chills in the 30s and for us, it's kind of cold. But the crowds are getting bigger and very enthusiastic so we're looking for a great celebration. It's a little bit smaller, but the big news is that we're doing it, not that it's a little bit tinier.", "You know, you can't ignore the debate that's gone on. I've said before that Mardi Gras is a date on the calendar just like Christmas or Easter. You can choose to celebrate it or not. How do you think things are changing now Arthur? Do you think evacuees have been displaced are accepting it any more than before? What's your take?", "I think they are, because it's not an either/or. Certainly if we canceled Mardi Gras and some of the levees would be rebuild, Mardi Gras makes money and the key point, Susan, as you well know is that the city could cancel it, but it can't make it happen. We choose to celebrate. The people on the floats are paying for this. It's their gift to us and to our visitors. So I think that debate is long gone. We're doing it and it's going to be -- not bigger and better than ever, but we're doing it. That's the main thing.", "You know, Arthur, I know that in a really good year, Mardi Gras is like a $2 billion boost to the New Orleans economy. Any thoughts on how much money we might take in this year?", "We don't know. Actually the record is a billion 56 million, which is an awful lot of money. Normally it costs the city about $5 million and brings in $21 million in direct tax. All of that will be down a bit, but it's certainly not going to cost us anything. We will make money on it, but the biggest thing for us I think is it's group therapy. We need to do something other than being in this Katrina funk where we're ripping out wet carpets and sheetrock. That's behind us. This is the new us and this tells the world we're on our way back.", "Yeah, I think what folks in the rest of the country don't understand is how could we be partying when we've got so much misery. I think you said something really nice in your magazine this month. You said, some cities hide their treasures in museums. New Orleans shares hers on the street. That's a nice line. That's a nice way of looking at it.", "Well, actually, I stole that from somebody else, but it is a good line and it's true. This is what we do. I think it's genetically encoded into our DNA when we're born. We celebrate; we come together. It's a remarkably culturally diverse festival. So many people just embrace each other, particularly now. We just need to come together and Mardi Gras is going to be the catalyst to bring people together back on the streets of New Orleans.", "All right, Arthur. I'll be looking for you on fat Tuesday.", "Happy Mardi Gras.", "Happy Mardi Gras. Well, as New Orleans does try to continue its recovery, the homeland security chief is telling CNN's Wolf Blitzer that it's time to look ahead. On CNN's \"LATE EDITION,\" Michael Chertoff also acknowledged that his department fell short in its response to Katrina.", "I thing first of all there was a failure to have real clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real time accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.", "But you knew that for days that this hurricane was coming towards New Orleans.", "Wolf, putting these capabilities together is not a matter of putting them together in a few days. It's a matter of planning and preparing for months.", "But there have been these tabletop exercises. There was this fictional hurricane Pam a year earlier in which they basically outlined all of these dire consequences that nobody seems to have paid any attention to.", "I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane. So all during the '90s and for the first half of this decade, we've had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place, but rather than look backward, my obligation now is to make sure we do a lot of the work we need to do between now and June 1st.", "Now earlier this week, Secretary Chertoff told a Senate committee that his department's slow reaction to Katrina was in his words, unnecessarily prolonged and it unnecessarily prolonged the suffering of Gulf Coast residents. And yet all week, CNN has reported on a glaring example of the disconnect between homeland security and FEMA, the agency it oversees.", "Welcome to hope, Arkansas, a small town with a huge problem. These are nearly 11,000 mobile homes FEMA has parked in Hope, more mobile homes than the town has people. But no one's living in these mobile homes. They're 450 miles from the Gulf coast and Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu says FEMA just can't get it right.", "Well, it's another example, Susan, of the mismatch in planning that has gone on, and it really is again to the point that even on FEMA's best day, they're not suited to manage this catastrophe.", "On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security which oversees FEMA released a report criticizing FEMA for buying so many mobile homes and allowing many in Arkansas to sink.", "Since they were not properly stored, as you can see from this second picture, the homes are sinking in the mud and their frames are bending from sitting on trailers with no support. Insofar as many of these homes fail to meet FEMA specification requirements or FEMA has no qualified, prearranged site location to place them, they may have to be disposed of.", "But FEMA Chief David Paulison told CNN Tuesday that the mobile homes have not damaged.", "The mobile homes are fine. There's not one mobile home that's been damaged. They're going to be usable. Mobile homes last a long time, 15, 20 years, so we are going to use them. I don't know where the information came from that the inspector general got, because somebody gave him bad information.", "On Wednesday, FEMA allowed CNN to see the mobile homes on the FEMA lot. In a two-hour driving and walking tour, we saw dozens of mobile homes, but nowhere near the full 11,000 and it was hard to tell from our vantage point what was going on with the mobile homes. FEMA managers at the site say the largest ones, about 1,600 of them, are sagging under their own weight and workers were bringing in jacks to prop them up, but FEMA denies that the mobile homes might not be usable. In your opinion, are these so badly damaged that they might have to be destroyed?", "There are no damaged trailers here, none?", "Why aren't they moving then?", "You need to talk to somebody else about that.", "Richard Skinner, the Homeland Security inspector general has begun qualifying his earlier testimony that those mobile homes may have to be disposed of. He told CNN on Thursday that his bigger concern now is making sure that those mobile homes are properly stored and beyond that, not one of those mobile homes has left that lot, not one has been sent to a hurricane victim who needs a place to live. A new weapon in the fight against terror. Straight ahead on CNN LIVE SUNDAY, sure they sting. We'll tell you why the Pentagon is all abuzz about wasps. And the close encounter of a wannabe bandit with a stubborn defender of a gas station cash register."], "speaker": ["ROESGEN", "ARTHUR HARDY, VOICE OF MARDI GRAS", "ROESGEN", "HARDY", "ROESGEN", "HARDY", "ROESGEN", "HARDY", "ROESGEN", "HARDY", "ROESGEN", "HARDY", "ROESGEN", "HARDY", "ROESGEN", "HARDY", "ROESGEN", "MICHAEL CHERTOFF, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "CHERTOFF", "BLITZER", "CHERTOFF", "ROESGEN", "ROESGEN (voice-over)", "SEN. MARY LANDRIEU, (D) LOUISIANA", "ROESGEN", "RICHARD SKINNER, HOMELAND SECURITY INSPECTOR GENERAL", "ROESGEN", "DAVID PAULISON, ACTING DIR., FEMA", "ROESGEN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROESGEN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROESGEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-95166", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2005-6-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/07/ldt.01.html", "summary": "Nuclear Reversal; Bush and Blair; Milk in Danger?; Military Procurement Scandal", "utt": ["Good evening, everybody. Tonight, is our nation's milk supply safe? Hundreds of thousands of Americans could be killed if terrorists succeed in poisoning our milk supply. General Motors announces massive job cuts. Our automobile industry is under siege. Can U.S. car companies survive the onslaught? And non-indigenous plant and animal species are invading the country, threatening our environment and costing the United States billions of dollars each year. We'll have a special report. Our top story tonight, a major reversal by North Korea and its nuclear standoff with the United States. North Korea now says it will return to six-country talks about its escalating nuclear weapons program after a year's absence. It was only four months ago that Pyongyang threatened to turn U.S. military bases into \"a sea of fire\" if the United States attacked North Korea. Dana Bash at the White House with the report. Dana.", "Well Lou, it's a diplomatic breakthrough that has the White House certainly breathing a sigh of relief. The Bush administration has been trying very hard to get North Korea back to those six-party talks, even over the last couple of days, letting some mixed messages get out about whether or not the U.S. was ready to just give up on the talks altogether and instead go to the United Nations and pursue sanctions. But North Korean diplomats did tell U.S. officials yesterday in New York that they would agree to restart these talks over their nuclear program. But they did not say when. We are hearing, though, from China, from its ambassador to the U.N., that perhaps they would take place in the next few weeks in Beijing. It is certainly important for the White House after a year of no diplomatic discussion at all over North Korea's nuclear program, but it is increasingly concerned. The White House is very concerned that over the past year North Korea really developed and stepped up its production of nuclear material, perhaps even making more nuclear weapons. But it is important to note, Lou, that these were negotiations over negotiations, if you will. That it is still very much an open question of what will come of these talks when they happen. Again, we expect that perhaps in the next several weeks. The U.S. has made it clear that they did not offer any new incentives, no new proposals in order to get North Korea back to the table. Lou.", "Dana, thank you. Dana Bash from the White House. President Bush and his closest foreign ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, today met at the White House. The war in Iraq among the top issues. Bill Schneider has our report. Bill.", "Well Lou, you could call this the summit of the survivors. Both leaders survived their reelection efforts, despite voter backlash against the war in Iraq. Blair came to Washington looking for payback from Bush, specifically on the issue of Africa. That's always been high on his agenda. He didn't get everything he wanted from Bush, but he got some additional commitment of aid and debt forgiveness. But the Iraq issue was the elephant in the room, the issue that the two leaders could not ignore. Here's what they had to say about Iraq.", "Our strategy is clear. We're training Iraqi forces so they can take the fight to the enemy, so they can defend their country. And then our troops will come home with the honor they have earned.", "On the Middle East and the Middle East peace process, of course we had a discussion about this. I would just like to emphasize, again, the vital necessity of making sure that democracy succeeds in Iraq. Our troops work together very, very closely there. And I would like to pay tribute not just to the bravery of the British troops that work there, and other coalition troops, but to the United States forces that do such a magnificent job there, and often in very, very difficult circumstances. And yet it is absolutely vital for the security not just of that country and of that region, but of the world that we succeed in Iraq.", "Now, voters in both the United States and Britain are losing confidence in this Iraq policy. In May, both -- most Americans said it was not worth going to war in Iraq. And in April, by 2-1, the British said they did not support the war in Iraq. Now, one question that emerged in this press conference was concerning a memo. In the summer of 2002, a foreign ministry official in Britain wrote a memo to the Blair government reporting on what a British intelligence official concluded after he visited Washington. The memo said, \"Military action was now seen as inevitable. The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.\" This was eight months before the war in Iraq. Bush and Blair today both denied that the U.S. was already determined to go to war or that the facts were being manipulated. Bush even hinted that the memo was leaked in the heat of the British political campaign for political reasons.", "Somebody said, well, you know, we had made up our mind to go -- to use military force to deal with Saddam. There's nothing farther from the truth. My conversations with the prime minister was, how can we do this peacefully? What could we do? And in this meeting, you know, evidently it took place in London, happened before we even went to the United Nations -- or I went to the United Nations. And so it's - look, both of us didn't want to use our military.", "This raises the question, was that memo from the summer of 2002 incorrect or fraudulent? What we're faced here with is two conflicting accounts. Lou.", "Bill Schneider. Thank you very much.", "Sure.", "On Capitol Hill today, another of President Bush's judicial nominees is tonight headed for a final confirmation vote. The Senate is expected to confirm Justice Janice Rogers Brown tomorrow to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Democrats had delayed her confirmation for two years. Ed Henry reports from Capitol Hill. Ed.", "Good evening, Lou. A big victory for President Bush in his effort to reshape some of the most influential courts in America. In this case, as you mentioned, the Senate voted to end this two-year filibuster of Janice Rogers Brown. She got 65 votes, five more than she needed to actually break the filibuster. There will be more debate tomorrow on Brown. But now that she's cleared this hurdle, the way has been paved for her to face a confirmation vote Wednesday about 5:00 p.m. Then Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist hopes to move to a procedural vote on William Prior, yet another one of President Bush's stalled judicial nominees. What's at stake here is the president is basically trying to tip the balance on some of these key courts in the so-called culture wars on issues like abortion, same-sex marriage. That's why this affects people all across the country. And that's why it's not just an arcane procedural debate about filibusters, and that's also why it made for a very fiery debate on the Senate floor today. Here's Democrat Chuck Schumer and Republican Jeff Sessions.", "Again, what does Janice Rogers Brown want to be nominated for, dictator, or grand exalted ruler? Please.", "He said this: did she want to be a grand exalted ruler? Was that some reference to the Ku Klux Klan? This African-American, from my home state of Alabama, who left as a teenager, I'm sure one reason -- to go to California. One reason she left was for discrimination and segregation that existed in rural Alabama where she grew up at that time. The daughter of sharecroppers, to have it suggested that somehow her ideas are consistent with the Ku Klux Klan is really offensive to me.", "I mentioned at the top that this was a political victory for the president. Also, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist feeling pretty good about all of this. As you know, he's taken some lumps over the fact that he was cut out of that filibuster deal. He also got beaten up a little bit about losing the initial vote over John Bolton to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Frist now feeling good that he's making some progress on some of these judicial nominations, but at this point the Bolton nomination is still stalled. Lou.", "And we thank you, Ed Henry, from Capitol Hill. A top-level urgent meeting today between the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Academy of Sciences. At issue, the terrorist threat to our nation's milk supply. The federal government is urging the National Academy of Sciences to not release its new report on bioterrorism because, it says, that report could teach terrorists how to carry out the poisoning of our milk supply. Jeanne Meserve reports from Washington.", "Terrorists could buy botulism toxin or make it, the paper theorizes. If they then poured it into a milk tank on a farm or truck, the paper says 100,000 gallons of milk could be contaminated. Some of the toxin would survive pasteurization. And large numbers of people, including children, would drink it and die before the problem was discovered. The National Academy of Sciences posted the paper, which included specifics about dosages and casualties, on a password-protected part of a Web site used by reporters. When the Department of Health and Human Services got wind that it was going to be published in the National Academy journal, Assistant Secretary Stewart Simonson wrote the academy asking them not to publish, saying, \"The article is a roadmap for terrorists, and publication is not in the interests of the United States.\"", "The government has a responsibility not to simplify mass casualty terrorism. And so when it has an opportunity to delay the release of information that would assist very particular mass casualty terrorist attacks, that, I think, is an appropriate action for them.", "The academy pulled the article from its Web site and this afternoon is meeting with Health and Human Services before making a next step. The cat is already out of the bag, however. Before it was pulled, the paper was downloaded from the academy Web site, and Professor Wein has published its broad outlines in an op-ed in \"The New York Times.\"", "Experts say milk, like so many other parts of the food supply, is vulnerable. Professor Wein makes some specific suggestions on how to make it safer, including improving pasteurization to eliminate more toxins and testing milk trucks for toxins before they unload, just the way they're tested now for residues of antibiotics, and making voluntary milk safety measures mandatory. And Lou, let me tell you that what we've told you about this scenario is nothing like the sort of specific detail that has the government so upset.", "Absolutely. And very important to point out, Jeanne. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, is famous for having said he does not understand why terrorists have not attacked our food supply, Jeanne. Precisely, what is the Health and Human Services Department doing to deal with that still very large threat?", "Well, actually, this is -- a number of different departments within the federal government have some play in this -- the Food and Drug Administration actually more than any other. We're going to be talking with them in some more detail tomorrow about some of the specific things they've been doing. Richard Falkenrath, who we interviewed this afternoon, who is a former Department of Homeland Security official, insists that this is one area where vulnerabilities are recognized. He says that money is being spent to try and address some of the things that are apparently of concern.", "Jeanne Meserve from Washington. Thank you.", "You bet.", "Still ahead, American troops launch a new offensive against insurgents and terrorists in Iraq. We will have exclusive video. And scathing criticism of top Pentagon officials tonight. 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{"id": "CNN-148746", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-3-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/08/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Should Police Use Tasers?; Iraq's Milestone Election", "utt": ["Welcome back to the Most News in the Morning. Twenty- five minutes past the hour right now. There's a legal case in California that's reigniting the controversy over police using Tasers. Back in 2006, Steve Butler was arrested. A police officer used a Taser on him three times. Doctors say that Butler immediately went into cardiac arrest and that his brain may have been deprived of oxygen for as long as 18 minutes. Our Dan Simon has the breakdown in this \"A.M. Original.\"", "We met Steve Butler on a Tuesday afternoon.", "Do you know what day of the week it is?", "No. Monday?", "I can tell you, today is Tuesday.", "Oh, Tuesday. OK.", "This is 2010.", "Doctors say Butler has almost no short-term memory. It wasn't always like this, until October 7th, 2006. That's when Butler took a bus ride through Watsonville in Northern California.", "The ride was anything but smooth. When the bus pulled into the station, the cops were called. According to police, Butler was drunk and belligerent and refused to get off. He even challenged the responding officer to a fight.", "And that's when it happened.", "It had to be something for me to get Tased.", "To bring Butler under control, the police officer indeed fired his Taser, striking him in the chest. According to the police report, three separate jolts of electricity went through Butler's body. When it was all over, he was in full cardiac arrest, not breathing. Paramedics revived Butler, but his brain was deprived of oxygen, leaving him permanently disabled. Steve Butler and his family filed a lawsuit, not against the police, but against the maker of the weapon, TASER International. It's the first time the company has been listed as the sole defendant in an injury case.", "Can a Taser cause cardiac arrest?", "Oh, absolutely. No question about it.", "Attorney John Burton says he has data showing that Tasers, when fired at the chest, can cause fatal heart injuries, and he says the company has known about it for several years.", "We can prove that they must have known by early 2006, but we suspect that they had all the necessary data in 2005, since they were funding the study.", "Published in early 2006, the study, funded by TASER, focused on Tasered pigs, with the conclusions, quote, \"generalized to humans.\" The authors wrote that being Tasered is unlikely to cause cardiac arrest, but recommended Taser darts not be fired near the heart to, quote, \"greatly reduce any concern for induction of ventricular arrhythmias.\" In plain English, says heart expert Dr. Douglas Zipes, who is being paid to testify against TASER, it means there was concern about Tasers causing cardiac arrest in some cases.", "I think Taser has been disingenuous, and certainly up to 2006, the case we're talking about, TASER said in their educational materials that there was no cardiac risk whatsoever.", "A TASER spokesman e-mailed CNN saying it would not comment on any ongoing litigation. But in a court filing seeking to dismiss the suit, the firm said the Taser devices, quote, \"are repeatedly proven safe through testing, including on human volunteers in controlled, medically approved studies, and there's no evidence Tasering of people induces cardiac arrest.\" But the company has significantly changed its recommendations for how Tasers should be used.", "TASER put out a directive last year telling the tens of thousands of police officers who use the device to no longer aim for the chest area. Instead, they should go for the back, the legs or the lower pelvis.", "TASER says the reason, in its words, \"has less to do with safety and more to do with risk management for law enforcement agencies.\" As for Steve Butler --", "What's up? How are we doing?", "Pretty good.", "He doesn't dispute that he was drunk, but he blames TASER for what happened to him. He says he's not frustrated or even angry, just resigned trying to spend the rest of his life trying to remember what happened. Dan Simon, CNN, Watsonville, California.", "When CNN first reported this story, TASER International refused to comment, but then the company sent us what it called a fact sheet about Steven Butler's case. The company said that the 2006 study we quoted produced no cardiac arrest in animals, and while the company says cardiac arrest in people is rare, TASER International insists it does not claim a zero possibility of cardiac arrest. Now, Taser also claims that Steven Butler had a preexisting heart condition and his blood alcohol level also made him vulnerable to cardiac arrest. Butler's medical and legal team told CNN that he had no documented heart problems and that his alcohol level played no role in his cardiac arrest.", "Well, that brings us to the half-hour and means it's time for this morning's top stories. Confusion this morning over whether an American member of al Qaeda has been arrested in Pakistan -- Pakistani officials had first said Adam Gadahn was captured yesterday. Gadahn grew up in California, and since 2004, has appeared in numerous videos calling for the destruction of America. But this morning, there are reports that it was actually another American who was arrested. We're working our sources at this hour. We'll bring you the very latest just as soon as we get them.", "Well, President Obama wants a health care reform bill passed and on his desk by the end of the month, and he'll be trying to close the deal when he hosts town hall meetings in Philadelphia and St. Louis this week. The president says 15,000 people a day are losing health care in this country. He insists that waiting any longer to get a measure passed is not an option.", "And the Oscar goes to \"The Hurt Locker.\" The small budget war film with a big upset over \"Avatar\" for Best Picture at the Oscars last night, and Director Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win Best Director in the Academy's 82-year history. President Obama says the responsible withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq will continue. That commitment coming yesterday after the polls closed in Iraq and despite a wave of violence, Iraqis turned out for the second national election since 2003. So, what does it all mean for the future of Iraq? Joining us now from Baghdad, General Ray Odierno, he's the commanding general of the Multi-National Force in Iraq; and the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Christopher Hill. Gentlemen, great to see you this morning. Ambassador Hill, more than 30 people killed in violence yesterday, but turnout higher than expected. It's certainly higher than it was in 2005. What does that say about the Iraqis' desire for representative government?", "Well, I will leave some of those issues to General Odierno to answer. But let me tell you that we had 26 monitoring teams all over the country, reporting in from 18 provinces. We're looking at some 8,300 polling centers. And we would say the vote went really very well. It was very orderly. People knew what the rules were. We had very few problems, and we think it was a very good election. We have to wait for the results of the election. And after that, we will move on to something called government formation where the Iraqis will need to sit down and figure out how to piece together a new government from this. But, you know, overall, this was a very successful election. The Iraqi people deserve a lot of congratulations for this.", "General Odierno, Ayad Allawi, who is the candidate for president, accused the government during yesterday's election of the inability to provide safety and security which led to the bloodshed that we saw, including more than 20 people killed when insurgents brought down an entire apartment building. What do you think about the Iraqi security agency and their ability to keep the peace in the country, particularly after U.S. forces leave?", "I think, first off, I believe the Iraqi security forces did a very good job yesterday. Across the country, there are very few effective incidents. There's one that you mentioned. There was one building that fell which was responsible for most of the casualties. But frankly, in the rest of Iraq, it was extremely peaceful. Many people are able to go to the polls. And I was very impressed with the coordination and work done by the Iraqi security forces. It shows their continued improvement as we move forward.", "So, do you have confidence that when U.S. combat forces leave and the schedule drawdown date is August 31st of this year, that Iraqi forces will be able to fill in?", "I think, over time, we've been naturally moving towards this point. Iraqis have been taking more and more control for security. I think, over the next several months, we'll drawdown to 50,000. We'll end combat operations. We'll go to a train and advise mission. And I think they are ready to do that. And I think the election and the security they were able to provide proves that.", "Ambassador Hill, you said going into the election, quote, \"If this goes well and the government formation goes well, it could usher in a whole new beginning for this country, and also U.S. relations with Iraq.\" It's unclear at this point who's going to lead the country, because it was very close between the incumbent President Nouri al-Maliki and the challenger, Ayad Allawi. Both coalitions fared very well. The government formation in 2005 following the election was fairly problematic. What do you expect this time around?", "Well, I think the first thing to understand is: this election was supported by the overwhelming majority of the Iraqi people. There were no boycotts from any political parties, any political coalitions. So, there's a great deal of support for this political process. And I would say more so now in 2010, a very different era, from 2005. Now, obviously, they're going to have to get on with the task of government formation. You mentioned a couple of the coalitions, but actually, there are three other coalitions as well. We're prepared to do business with any coalition, democratically-elected. We know all the main actors here. We have worked very closely with them over the years. And so, we would look forward to seeing the Iraqis form up a new government and we would like to develop this broad relationship with this key country in the Middle East, a country that will have economic significance, security significance, political significance in the rest of the region. So, we look forward to a longstanding, broad relationship with this country for many decades to come.", "General Odierno, in 2005, it took 156 days to put together a government. There was a power vacuum, sectarian violence filled that void. Do you expect that there could be a similar result in whatever time it takes from the election yesterday to put a government together?", "Well, obviously, we're very aware of what happened in 2005. We've been working very hard with the government of Iraq and their caretaker government in order to ensure that security will continue during this time. And I think they have a good plan in place. We're working closely with the Iraqi security forces in order to sustain security during this key piece of time as they form the government.", "Right. And one more question to you, General Odierno, and then we'll let you go because I know that you got a number of interviews to do this morning. You recently signaled to President Obama that you may have to leave one combat brigade in the northern part of the country past the August 31st deadline. Where are you with that?", "Well, first off, we run many different scenarios. And that's -- there's different scenarios that are presented if there are some sort of catastrophic problems that we would have to react to. The bottom line is: we're planning on being at 50,000 by September. We're planning on ending combat operations. We do much contingency planning, but that's all that it is, it's contingency planning in case. My thoughts are, we'll be at 50,000 by the 1st of September.", "All right. General Ray Odierno and U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Chris Hill -- thanks for joining us this morning, gentlemen. We appreciate your time.", "Thank you so much.", "All right. Well, still ahead on the Most News in the Morning, we've talked about the White House considering switching gears and having military trials for suspected 9/11 attackers. But now, a plea from an unusual source to keep these cases in federal civilian court -- details ahead. It's 37 minutes past the hour."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SIMON (on camera)", "STEVE BUTLER, HAS CARDIAC ARREST BECAUSE OF TASER", "SIMON", "BUTLER", "SIMON", "SIMON (voice-over)", "SIMON (on camera)", "SIMON (voice-over)", "BUTLER", "SIMON", "SIMON (on camera)", "JOHN BURTON, BUTLER FAMILY ATTORNEY", "SIMON (voice-over)", "BURTON", "SIMON", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-100179", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2005-11-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/30/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Showbiz Tonight for November 30, 2005, CNNHN", "utt": ["I`m A.J. Hammer, live in New York.", "I`m Brooke Anderson, live in Hollywood. And TV`s only live entertainment news show starts right now.", "On SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Hollywood and Iraq. President Bush`s major move today to turn the tide of public opinion, but will it change the minds of some of Hollywood`s biggest stars? Tonight, what the stars have been telling us about the war, in the story you`ll see only on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. The straight story on gay movie roles.", "The rest of the evening, she`ll be snoring (ph).", "Tonight, a \"SHOWBIZ Special Report,\" why Hollywood`s biggest stars are playing gay characters. \"The Biggest Loser.\"", "Get up!", "He lost the most and won the prize. Tonight, Matt Hoover`s amazing story of how he lost 157 pounds. Matt is here, live, in the interview you`ll see only on", "Hi. I`m Loraine Bracco. If it happened today, it`s on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.", "Hello, I`m A.J. Hammer, live in New York.", "Hi there. I`m Brooke Anderson, live in Hollywood. Tonight, President Bush on the offensive about Iraq. But can he change the minds of some of his biggest critics in Hollywood? The president today delivered a major speech to reassure Americans there is a solid plan to end the war in Iraq. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has been speaking to some of Hollywood`s biggest stars about Iraq, and we have found that, like most Americans, it is a topic that stirs emotions, passion and, sometimes, outrage.", "With criticism mounting against the war in Iraq, President Bush took to the airwaves and spoke out, asking the American people for the patience.", "And it`s worth the time, and it`s worth the effort. Because Iraqis and Americans share a common enemy. And when that enemy is defeated in Iraq, Americans will be safer here at home.", "But with more than 2,100 U.S. troops dead, and nearly 16,000 wounded since the March 2003 invasion, polls show patience is not something many Americans don`t have. Count some Hollywood A-listers among them. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has spent the last couple months talking with the stars about their sentiments on the Iraq war. And many stars aren`t happy. Here`s Bette Midler.", "I find the level of deception fascinating. I find the level of defense fascinating. I find the whole thing so unbelievable.", "Musician Carlos Santana spoke out in an interview with", "It`s very insulting to me as a human being that we only count Americans. We don`t count the children and women and men who died over there also. So that`s not fair.", "Jake Gyllenhaal, who plays a Marine fighting in the first Gulf War in the movie \"Jarhead,\" told SHOWBIZ TONIGHT he had a lot of judgments before making the movie, but now, that`s all changed.", "I just think about the guys over there, and I think about what an extraordinary job they`re doing. Like and just to think of myself over there for real, I question whether or not I could handle it.", "Oscar winner Jamie Foxx questioned the war.", "I don`t think what we`re doing, like right now, the going back and forth with each other, is really helping the situation. You know, what`s the end game?", "And George Clooney, whose new movie, \"Syriana,\" tackles American foreign policy in the Gulf region, told us it`s all about one thing.", "You know, so the truth is, is it about oil? Of course it`s about oil. It`s always been about oil.", "Actress Blythe Danner went one step further. She told us she thinks this is the saddest time in American history.", "All I do is think about our girls and boys and all the innocent people, lives that have been massacred and killed in Iraq. And all I do every day is pray that this is over soon.", "For or against the war, does Hollywood influence public opinion? SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has the pulse of the people with CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider.", "I don`t think the fact that Americans as a whole have become antiwar is a tribute to Hollywood`s influence. I think Americans think for themselves. Hollywood came to that conclusion very quickly, because Hollywood`s disposition is to be liberal and to be antiwar.", "But Oscar winner Tim Robbins told SHOWBIZ TONIGHT an outspoken Hollywood is effective.", "I think everyone should have a right to express their opinion and do so in whatever venue they can. And if I have access to the media, and I do, I think that`s my right as an American.", "In a CNN poll taken earlier this month, the majority of Americans, 63 percent, said they disapprove of how the president is handling Iraq. And only a quarter said they think the U.S. will definitely win the war. We`ll have to see if those numbers change after today`s speech.", "Well, tonight, Tom Cruise grabs the spotlight in China, along with a stranger`s cell phone. Yes, Cruise is in Shanghai, where he`s just wrapped up scenes for the new \"Mission: Impossible\" film. And at a press conference, a reporter pulled out a cell phone, and Cruise insisted on talking to the person on the other end of the line.", "(speaking foreign language) How are you? You`re good? Are you working?", "Can you imagine? Those were the Chinese words for \"thank you\" and \"hello\" that you were hearing Tom say there. A translator did step in and helped Tom ask the woman whether she would get engaged soon. When the woman said that she was married, Tom told the translator to wish her happiness. As for Tom`s own engagement to Katie Holmes, well, he said they haven`t set an exact date, but the wedding will happen sometime next summer or fall. Well, tonight, a new survey is revealing the best paid actresses in Hollywood. \"The Hollywood Reporter\" today released its annual list of who gets paid what. The numbers are truly eye-opening. Joining us live tonight for a Hollywood -- in Hollywood for a \"SHOWBIZ Newsmaker\" interview, Christy Grosz from \"The Hollywood Reporter.\" Thanks for being with us, Christy.", "Thank you.", "Everybody talks about Julia Roberts and her million-dollar smile. But I guess we could star calling it a $20 million smile. She`s No. 1 on your list. What makes her worth $20 million a flick?", "Well, the interesting thing about Julia Roberts is that she has a star quality, I think, that a lot of other actresses don`t have, in that she can get people into movie theaters to see her movies, and that`s what makes her earn a premium in the industry.", "And I suppose the same would apply to Nicole Kidman. She`s No. 2 on your list. She`s getting $16 million to $17 million a picture. But the truth is, her last few flicks, \"The Interpreter,\" \"Stepford Wives,\" last summer`s \"Bewitched,\" weren`t really hits. So why does Nicole Kidman make so much money?", "Well, you know, she is also a great actress. And I think that she`s got a good reputation. But you know, our list is based on the previous year and previous deals that have already been put together. So I mean, it could be that their price will go down for next year`s list, but I don`t think that anyone doubts that Nicole Kidman is worth that amount of money.", "OK. Then let`s move on, further down the line, tied for No. 3, you have Reese Witherspoon and Drew Barrymore making $15 million each. Next on the list, Renee Zellweger, Angelina Jolie and Cameron Diaz. They`re all making in the $10 to $15 million movie range. Which of these three actresses would you say best bring out the audiences to the big opening weekends of their movies?", "Well, I think if you look at the last year, Angelina Jolie is obviously the one who`s done that. But it`s hard to say. I mean, I think that if you look at the list, Julia Roberts is still the only one that has a tried and true box office record.", "Really, it`s almost a guarantee when Julia`s in a film that people are going to show up on the opening weekend. Somebody that has not been so much a guarantee lately, although certainly in the news an awful lot, Jennifer Aniston. She`s tenth on your list, $9 million a picture. She was in the press a lot lately, among other things, talking about her new movie, \"Derailed.\" It tanked at the box office. She`s got two more flicks coming up, \"Rumor Has It\" and \"The Break Up.\" Now, the question is, of course, if those fail, can she continue to make that kind of money, not that she`s hurting for money these days, I`m sure?", "Yes. Well, I think it`s -- I think this is kind of her time to prove herself. She`s been able to get a lot of roles and really do a lot of stuff in the last year or so. And now it`s all coming to fruition. Certainly, if all three of these movies don`t do well, then there is a possibility that she won`t be earning as much. But I think, based on the amount of money she`s getting from \"Friends\" residuals, she`s going to be just fine.", "Sure. And I`m sure besides the monetary amount that she commands, she wants to see \"Rumor Has It\" and \"The Break Up\" do well anyway. Christy Grosz from \"The Hollywood Reporter,\" thanks for joining us tonight.", "Thank you.", "George Clooney helps someone get out of jail. We`ll tell you how he did it, coming up.", "Plus, the straight story on gay acting. Coming up, a \"SHOWBIZ Special Report\" on why so many actors are gravitating toward gay movie roles.", "And he`s one of the biggest producers in Hollywood, behind movies like \"Cinderella Man\" and \"A Beautiful Mind.\" Hollywood heavyweight Brian Grazer joins us, live, ahead in the interview you`ll see only on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. But first, tonight`s \"Entertainment Weekly Great American Pop Culture Quiz.\" Thomas Crown steals a painting by what famous artist in the 1999 version of \"The Thomas Crown Affair\"? Was it Renoir, Rembrandt, Manet or Monet? We`ll be right back with the answer.", "So again, tonight`s \"Entertainment Weekly Great American Pop Culture Quiz. Thomas Crown steals a painting by what famous artist in the 1999 version of \"The Thomas Crown Affair\"? Renoir, Rembrandt, Manet or Monet? The answer is, D, Monet.", "Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. I`m A.J. Hammer. Tonight, a prisoner gets out of jail early, and he has George Clooney to thank for it. That`s right. According to \"People\" magazine, the actor wrote letters to the king of Morocco on behalf of someone who was held in connection with a drug investigation. In these letters, Clooney talked up the beauty of Morocco. His latest movie, \"Syriana,\" was partially filmed there. And he invited his royal highness to the film`s premiere. The prisoner was released two weeks ago. Clooney tells \"People\" that the king should be commended for being fair. For more on this story, you can check out \"People\" magazine on newsstands this Friday.", "Tonight in a \"SHOWBIZ Sitdown,\" Brian Grazer. He has produced some of Hollywood`s biggest movies, including Oscar winners like \"Apollo 13\" and \"A Beautiful Mind.\" Grazer is also the mind behind such acclaimed TV series \"Arrested Development\" and \"24.\" In a new Sundance channel series, \"Iconoclasts,\" Brian Grazer interviews another icon, Viacom mogul Sumner Redstone. Brian Grazer is live with us tonight, here in Hollywood. Brian, welcome.", "Welcome to you. Thank you for having me on.", "Of course. Of course. Now, in \"Iconoclast,\" big names interview other big names. You`ve got Renee Zellweger interviewing CNN`s Christiane Amanpour. You sit down with Sumner Redstone. What was it like being the interviewer rather than the interviewee?", "Oh, my God. Well, it was hard. I was -- I can`t get around this word. I was somewhat intimidated even though I know Sumner, and I`ve known him for quite awhile. I was a little -- I was anxious. A little nervous.", "In the time that you spent with him, what was the most fascinating or the most surprising thing you learned about him?", "Well, there are a few things. One is Sumner has been going - - traveling around the world and been doing business in -- around the world for probably 30 -- at least 30 years. And recently, at least 15 years in China. And I learned that he -- there are no barriers for Sumner in terms of a creative vision or economic vision for Viacom because of his unlimited travels overseas. And particularly, as I said, to China, where he`s become kind of a rock star, I guess.", "He is quite a successful businessman, of course.", "Yes, he`s phenomenally successful and really makes no judgments of other -- of third worlds or any other countries. And I think the -- that and the ability to understand their currencies and how entertainment works in transfer, for example, their BET or their MTV or any of their cable shows, I think you can see how the vision works throughout the world. So that`s kind of -- I learned that.", "Wow. Well, Brian, it is fascinating. I do want to talk about you a little bit, as well.", "OK.", "Since 1978, you have been involved in, what, more than 80 movies and television shows. What is the one thing that you`re the most proud of?", "I was -- the symbol of critical success that is offered by winning the Oscar for \"A Beautiful Mind.\" And that, married to the objective of \"A Beautiful Mind\" which was, for me, to help destigmatize mental disability. So both of those things were accomplished by having produced that movie. So that was the movie that kind of did it for me.", "And from movies to television. As we mentioned, you were behind \"Arrested Development,\" one of the most critically acclaimed TV shows out there, won an Emmy for best comedy. And then, Brian, it gets cancelled. How do you make sense of that?", "I don`t know. It`s -- it`s just the art form itself, maybe. I don`t know. There`s some sort of food chain. But I think we`ll get it picked up by some other network, possibly. You never know. But going back to your original question, it`s hard to know, you know, how the life of a series or a movie can -- can go. So have hope that it will stay on the air.", "Well, is that in the works, moving to, possibly, another network, another home?", "It`s -- yes. It`s in the works. I`m hoping it`s in the works.", "What can you tell us about that?", "I can`t tell you anything other than I`m hoping it works out in the way that we want it to. But I`m optimistic, Brooke.", "Well, I didn`t mean to put you on the spot there.", "That`s OK.", "And I don`t want to put you on the spot here. But before the show, you told me you brought something really cool from the set of the upcoming movie that you produced, highly anticipated movie, \"The Da Vinci Code.\"", "Well, I brought it, but I kept it concealed in my bag. It`s a really -- it was just a one of a kind prop that was a cross that was used in the movie that we just wrapped, \"The Da Vinci Code,\" three weeks ago. We`re now -- actually have the movie finished, and we`re editing it. We have a rough cut. And it`s very -- really quite a thriller. It`s intense and it`s thrilling. And I think people will be -- will be certainly very excited. It has some combustability to it, I guess.", "Was there any -- were you intimidating at all making this film? It was from such an explosive novel, such a popular novel by Dan Brown.", "Yes, I mean, we`ve never actually embraced or had the opportunity to make a literary phenomenon, which -- which \"The Da Vinci Code\" is, and Dan Brown, of course, wrote it. Sony made the movie. It`s just that every choice we wanted to make, we wanted to make it be exactly parallel to the book, to either the book or the book`s intention. By the casting, by one American, really, which is Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou as Sophie. Sir Ian McKellen, of course, from England. And Jean Reno from France. We wanted to make sure that every cast member was not only the right actor, but someone from the original country. And once again, the -- every intention of the book, it was followed as Dan Brown was on the set most of the time.", "Well, I look forward to that, Brian. Thank you so much for being here. And I`ll have to check out that cross after the show, maybe.", "I`ll show it to you. And I was glad to interview Sumner. It was terrific.", "I bet it was. And that \"Iconoclast\" special featuring Brian Grazer and Sumner Redstone airs tomorrow on the Sundance Channel.", "Well, a dog known as the world`s ugliest dog recently went to that great doggie heaven in the sky, I`m sorry to report. Since then, the dog`s owner has been overwhelmed by the response to her pet`s passing. Here is CNN`s Jeanne Moos for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.", "There`s one less dog at Susie Lockheed`s house. An empty dog bed, an empty dog bowl, and an owner who feels empty. Crying one minute, laughing the next.", "Really, it`s almost like a world leader has passed away. I`m overwhelmed.", "If looks could kill, Sam would have been a mass murder. Named world`s ugliest dog at California`s Sonoma-Marin Fair.", "2003, 2004, 2005.", "It is the ugliest dog.", "Was the ugliest dog. He passed.", "That`s not very nice.", "It was.", "He died. He won it three years in a row.", "Let`s say I didn`t like the way you look. Well, would I say you`re the ugliest woman in the world?", "I hope not to my face. (voice-over) But Sam`s ugliness won him fans worldwide. When he died, put to sleep, it was in his owner`s arms.", "From the moment of life to the moment of death, he had the exact same look in his eyes, because he always kind of looked like death warmed over.", "But there was nothing warmed over about Susie and Sam`s relationship. Susie took him in from a shelter when he was 9 and considered unadoptable. He slept in her bed. Now she`s been sleeping with his favorite toy.", "People are going to think I`m a nut, Jeanne. There was some joking going around on the Internet about having him taxidermied for the Smithsonian Institution. But he`s actually being cremated.", "Sam`s oak box will join her five other cremated pets. In the wake of his death, Sam`s web site has gotten at many as six million hits in one day. Condolence cards and e-mails like this one, slugged \"Ugly is only skin deep,\" have poured in from all over the world.", "Someone made this for Sam. This really chokes me up because -- oh, God, I miss my dog.", "At a fan web site, Sam has been given angel wings.", "Oh, God.", "Sam was almost 15. What finally got him... (on camera) heart failure. He probably looked in the mirror.", "He looked in the mirror.", "Susie thinks Sam`s gift was to make people laugh. If she ever wants to hear Sam, all she has to do is dial her own phone.", "Please leave a message at the sound of the growl.", "Though Sam didn`t make it through the holidays, you can catch him in his Santa`s outfit, representing December 2006. Just be careful where you put the ugliest dog calendar. Don`t want to ruin your dog`s appetite. Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.", "For the record, I think Sam was beautiful. That was CNN`s Jeanne Moos for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. Well, Ellen celebrates 25 years in standup by sitting down with another famous person who reveals a secret crush on her. That`s coming up next in \"Talk of the Day.\"", "I think Sam was beautiful, too. Plus, a \"SHOWBIZ Special Report\": why so many movie stars are playing gay characters and the impact it`s having on their careers. That`s also coming up.", "And he walked away richer and thinner. \"The Biggest Loser\" winner, Matt Hoover, joins us live, coming up in the interview you`ll see only on", "But first, a SHOWBIZ TONIGHT birthday shout out, and this is where we give fans a chance to wish their favorite stars a happy birthday. Tonight, a birthday shout out to Clay Aiken. He is celebrating his 26th today.", "Hi, my name is Taylor Gold (ph). And I would just like to wish Clay Aiken a happy birthday. I loved you on \"American Idol.\" Have a happy birthday.", "It`s time now for \"Talk of the Day.\" On \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show,\" Ellen celebrated her 25th anniversary in the comedy business. One of her long-time comedian friends, David Spade, stopped by to reminisce about work and his little crush on Ellen.", "That was fun, the Dallas Improv. And they all know I had a crush on you. We used to do some of these gigs together. She was a headliner, so she`s, like, the high roller with a bigger condo. And I had to share one with some clown. And but we -- I would go over there to watch -- you had HBO, which was sweet in yours.", "Yes.", "And you had really white teeth. That was before teeth whiteners, everyone. She had them naturally, which is rare. And -- and I had a big crush on her, then I got the news. But you know, we -- we stayed friends.", "I imagine you did. And you might remember that in the mid- `90s, Ellen`s character announced she was gay on her TV sitcom \"Ellen.\" Millions of people would later discover Ellen was, in fact, gay in real life, as well. Apparently, David Spade was one of them.", "Well, from Philip Seymour Hoffman to Cillian Murphy. Tonight, why more actors are playing gay movie roles. That`s next in a \"SHOWBIZ Special Report.\"", "Plus, how Michael Ealy went from waiting tables to starring as an FBI agent in a new miniseries. Michael Ealy is here live, coming up in the interview you`ll see only on", "And, he lost a lot of weight and gained a lot of money. \"The Biggest Loser,\" Matt Hoover, joins us live to tell us how he did it, coming up on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.", "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT continues in just one minute. I`m Susan Hendricks with your \"Headline Prime Newsbreak.\" A wild ride in Southern California has landed three robbery suspects in custody. The trio led police on a high-speed chase today after allegedly robbing a house in Lake Los Angeles. At one point during the chase, one of the suspects jumped out of the car. The action ended two hours later when the final two surrendered. Boston`s murder rate is on the upswing. So far this year, there have been 66 homicides. That matches a 10-year high for the city. But compared to other large U.S. cities, Boston still has a relatively low rate of violent crime. And finally, who would you say is the most fascinating person of the year? ABC News and Barbara Walters says it`s Camilla Parker Bowles. Prince Charles` long-time love and now wife beat out Tom Cruise and also Condoleezza Rice. Walters gave Camilla props for her patience and loyalty to her husband. And that is the news for now. Good to have you with us. I`m Susan Hendricks. Now back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.", "Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. It is 31 minutes past the hour. I`m A.J. Hammer live in New York.", "I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood. And you`re watching TV`s only live entertainment news show.", "Well, Brooke, I sat there riveted in front of my television last night, in case what you wondering what I was doing last night, by the stories, by the emotion, by the discipline of all of the participants in \"The Biggest Loser.\" It was their series of season finale last night. The goal of the participants: to lose the most weight. The winner not only accomplished that goal, but walked away with $250,000.", "Wow.", "We`ll meet him, coming up in just a couple of minutes.", "You really get involved in their struggles, their victories. I`m really looking forward to that, A.J. Also, A.J., now more than ever actors are taking on roles in which they play gay characters. For example, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal in the upcoming film \"Brokeback Mountain.\" Coming up, a special report on how these roles are impacting their careers. But first, here are tonight`s \"Hot Headlines.\" A star has been swiped. Gregory Peck`s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been stolen. Today, honorary Hollywood Mayor Johnny Grant unveiled the replacement star and said, if the original is returned, he`ll forget the whole thing. Peck, the Oscar-winning actor, probably best known for his role in 1962`s \"To Kill a Mockingbird,\" died in 2003. \"The Apprentice\" is heading west. NBC announced today that the sixth season of the Donald Trump reality show will be shot in southern California. The first five seasons have all been New York-based. And in other Trump news, he`s going to be introducing a brand new vodka. But the Donald himself says he doesn`t even drink. And star baby news. We learned today that \"Law & Order\" star Mariska Hargitay is pregnant. It`s the first child for her and husband Peter Herman, whom she met on set of the NBC drama. And those are tonight`s \"Hot Headlines\" -- A.J.?", "OK, Brooke, it is time now for a SHOWBIZ TONIGHT special report: Gay characters in the movies, and how big-name actors are lining up to play them. As we`re heading into the winter when a lot of the studios are releasing their Oscar hopefuls, we`re also seeing a parade of popular actors landing in roles as gay characters, parts that may land them in the Oscar-winner`s circle. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s David Haffenreffer live in New York with more -- David?", "A.J., not too long ago, many actors had shied away from playing gay roles because they were worried about either getting typecast or facing some kind of backlash. Those days, though, are long gone. In fact, if you look at the movies out today, it appears that playing gay characters is not only widely accepted, it may be a good way for an actor to win great reviews or maybe even more.", "A lot of people are interested in the business of \"Brokeback Mountain.\" The movie, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, is generating Oscar buzz and a lot of attention for its explicit portrayal of two cowboys and their secret, gay love affair. Jake Gyllenhaal tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, while filming \"Brokeback Mountain,\" he wasn`t thinking about how people would react.", "If you knew how people were going to respond to the film while you were making it, then I don`t think you`d be able to make it.", "\"Brokeback Mountain\" is the most high-profile of a parade of films this fall that star big-name actors playing gay or transgender characters.", "This really is a historic time for film and for gay, lesbian, and bisexual, transgender representation in film, as well.", "After my operation, not even a gynecologist will be able to detect anything out of the ordinary about my body. I will be a woman.", "\"Desperate Housewives\" star Felicity Huffman is winning raves for \"Transamerica,\" in which she plays a man about to have a sex change operation to become a woman.", "I`m proud to represent the transgender community in the small way that I have.", "Huffman sat down with SHOWBIZ TONIGHT to talk about her unique transformation into a very unique character.", "I mean, she just represents one individual in a broad spectrum of people, like any group. So I`m proud, and I hope that the transgender community approves.", "Couldn`t bear the thought of losing you so soon.", "Meanwhile, Philip Seymour Hoffman is considered a near shoe-in for an Oscar nomination for \"Capote,\" in which he plays gay author Truman Capote. And then there`s Irish actor Cillian Murphy, who plays a cross-dresser in \"Breakfast on Pluto.\" With all of these movies and all of these memorable characters, some are saying acting gay is the new way for an actor to stretch his way to an Oscar.", "A lot of them are Oscar-based roles, because they`re acting with a capital A, acting in a very overt way, so that you can see the stretch, especially if you have actors who are known as straight actors. For instance, Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams just had a child together. He can play a character in \"Brokeback Mountain,\" and it`s that much clearer that he`s stretching to play somebody unlike himself.", "What`s behind this glut of gay-oriented prestige roles? Let`s go from 2005, 20 years back to 1985.", "If you`ve got the keys to that door, I will gladly follow.", "William Hurt plays a gay prisoner in \"Kiss of the Spider Woman\" and wins an Oscar. Nine years later, Tom Hanks wins an Oscar for playing a gay lawyer in Philadelphia. But it`s not just the Oscar hardware that attracts actors and audiences to these roles.", "I fell in love with the story. I thought it was a beautiful love story. Whether or not it was about two guys or it was about a guy and a girl, to me the idea behind it was what was most powerful. That was the thing that was more powerful to me than the idea of them being in a gay relationship.", "And there are more high-profile movies with high- profile gay characters out there or about to come out. They include the movie versions of the Broadway hits \"Rent\" and \"The Producers\" -- A.J.?", "All right, David, thanks so much. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s David Haffenreffer in New York. Well, tonight, another \"Showbiz Sitdown.\" This time, it`s with actor Michael Ealy. You know him from, among other films, \"Barbershop\" and the Hallmark Oprah Winfrey special \"Their Eyes were Watching God.\" Well, now, he`s starring in a new Showtime miniseries called \"Sleeper Cell.\" Ealy plays an FBI agent and a practicing Muslim under deep cover with a terrorist sleeper cell in California. He must stop the terrorists before they carry out a massive attack on the U.S. Michael Ealy, joining us live tonight in New York city. It`s nice to have you here. Quite a powerful show.", "Yes.", "It just kind of knocks you over.", "Yes, and that`s good entertainment.", "And your dealing with some timely issues here, naturally, speaking of terrorists. Certainly, while you were filming this, we have some things going on, like the war in Iraq, a constant terror threat. Where these things that you guys were talking about and were sort of on your mind, as you were filming this series?", "Yes. I mean, it was one of those situations where -- I remember, for example, the night of the London train bombing. We were filming on a bridge in Los Angeles. And, you know, someone made an announcement, \"They just bombed some trains in London.\" And everybody just got quiet. Everybody just got real quiet. And I remember driving home that night and thinking the timeliness of this show is so important. And it`s really happening. And we can ignore it if we want to, but it`s really happening.", "And, certainly, it was motivated by what has happened in the country, particularly September 11th. Were it not for 9/11, perhaps this would never have come about, this particular project. Where were you on September 11th?", "I was here in New York. I was living here in New York. And I was in my apartment. And I was just as terrified as everybody else. I mean, I didn`t know if I was going to ever get off of the island of Manhattan. I didn`t know if they were going to go for the bridges or anything else next.", "Something else that you guys, perhaps, were talking about during the filming of the series?", "Yes. I mean, there`s a lot of topical issues in this show, so...", "And one thing that`s quite striking is the fact that you are not dealing with what we may think of as stereotypical terrorists. You have a blonde, blue-eyed American. You have a Frenchman. Why did they decide to do this sort of against type?", "Well, I think, you know, the creators wanted to kind of make the show more real and less escapist, you know. They wanted to try to make it as real as possible, so they based all of the guys on real terrorists that exist around the world. And so they -- I think my character is the only fictional character. And he`s the one that you kind of hope wins and so forth and so on. But it`s very, very timely. And these guys are -- you know, at some point, we have to look at everybody as a possible terrorist. And I hate to say that.", "It`s really eye-opening in that way. It could be the person sitting next to you, you know, on the bus or walking down the street.", "It could be the guy who`s teaching your 16-year-old daughter how to drive. I saw a bus today in New York with a slogan from the", "\"If you see something, say something.\" And that`s kind of what we`re trying to say, as well. If you see something strange, be aware and say something.", "Another one of the stereotypes it addresses is that of -- there are a lot of bad stereotypes about the religion of Islam.", "Yes.", "And this shows the good and the bad. Was that something, I assume, they were trying to get out here?", "Yes. I mean, you know, this show is multifaceted in many ways. And one way is that you have the war on terror, which is my character as an FBI agent fighting against these terrorists. And then you have the war within Islam, which is my character, who is a Muslim and believes in true Islam, fighting the extremists, who have bastardized his faith.", "Well, it sounds like it gave you guys a lot to talk about and think about while you were filming it. And presumably people will walk away talking about it, as well. Michael Ealy, we appreciate you joining us on", "Thank you very much.", "Thanks for being here. \"Sleeper Cell\" will make its premiere on Sunday, December 4th, on Showtime.", "Coming up, he lost more than 150 pounds, nearly half of his body weight. And that gained him $250,000. \"The Biggest Loser\" winner, Matt Hoover, and his amazing weight loss story, live, in the interview you`ll see only on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, next. Plus, what do a potato chip and Jay Leno have in common? Well, apparently a lot, according to one \"Tonight Show\" viewer. See what we`re talking about, coming up in \"Laughter Dark.\"", "Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. I`m Brooke Anderson, live in Hollywood. Tonight, an idea about cable that could someday change what you see on TV. The head of the FCC says he thinks cable companies should let people buy single channels, a la carte, instead of packages of channels. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin says that would let parents keep out stations they don`t want their kids watching. Martin`s stance could end up pushing Congress to make cable companies offer a la carte pricing. But a research firm says that`s unlikely, and the head of the Commerce Committee says he would rather work out a voluntary system. Now we want to hear from you. It is the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT \"Question of the Day.\" Cable", "Would you rather pay for only the channels you want? Keep voting at CNN.com/showbiztonight. And write us at showbiztonight@CNN.com. Your e-mails are coming up at 55 past the hour.", "Tonight, an amazing and inspiring weight loss story. Matt Hoover used to be a championship wrester, but ballooned to 340 pounds. Matt succeeded in losing almost half of his weight, 157 pounds, by focusing strictly on exercise and eating right. Well, last night, he was crowned the biggest loser on NBC`s popular reality show.", "You are the biggest loser! Yes!", "Joining me now for a showbiz newsmaker interview, Matt Hoover, the biggest loser. But a big winner, $250,000. Congratulations on the weight loss and congratulations on the loot.", "Thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me.", "Well, let`s throw up this before-and-after picture right here. And take a look. Now, when you first started out with the show, you were at 340 pounds. That`s the picture we see on the left. And this was last night, I guess.", "Yes.", "When you see that, are you just amazed at what you`ve accomplished? You know, I have to be honest, it looks like two different people.", "It does. And, you know, besides the physical appearance, there`s an emotional and an inside transformation that took place that I can`t even begin to explain. So it is two different people. You know, a lot of people lose weight and say, \"You know, I lost weight, but I`m still the same person.\" I`m not. I am a completely different person. And...", "A lot of people do say that. They feel like a small person in a fat person`s body.", "It`s because you`re holding on -- yes, you`re trying to hold on to some of your old past. And, for me, I had to let go of everything and have a new lifestyle and a new look. And I`m happy. I love it.", "And the look, one of your accomplishments. How you feel emotionally, one of your accomplishments. Certainly, your health a big part of it. And the money, as well. But was is the single most important accomplishment? And I should also point out you announced on the show last night nine months sober, as a result of this.", "Yes, that might have been my biggest accomplishment, is I`ve battled alcoholism since I was a young kid. And for me to be sober for nine months -- and now I have the accountability of millions of people.", "Oh, yes.", "So now it`s like, hey, it`s going to be tough to go back to that. And I`m happy. That was probably my biggest accomplishment, was kicking that, and getting my life back, and being able to go on, and have goals, and dreams of things that I thought were buried. And it`s a great feeling.", "And it wasn`t accomplished through extreme measures. It was accomplished through diet and through exercise. Give me an example of, before this whole \"Biggest Loser\" thing happened, when you would go out and indulge in a big meal or bring food home, what would that meal consist of?", "Well, the biggest thing was, every Thursday night, there`s a little, local watering hole, two dollars, all you can eat wings. I could eat 80 buffalo wings in a sitting.", "Oh, man. And that was a regular thing for you?", "And still walk. And a couple pitchers of beer. That was every week. Now, you wouldn`t catch me doing that. You know, now it`s chicken breast, fish, lean meats, vegetables, good, clean eating that fills me up and gives me energy. And now I eat because I`m hungry, my body needs to, not because I`m happy or sad. So it`s a big difference.", "Well, that brings up an interesting point for a lot of people who try to diet. You know, food is a form of addiction. It is an addiction. Do you feel that you have beaten that?", "I have, but it`s also one of those things that, once you see yourself, you see a picture like that, where you see your old self, you know how easy it was to do that. So you have to make sure that you`re doing everything. For me, exercise is my outlet now. I love to go work out and get that energy out. But it is an addiction. A lot of people have a tough time kicking that. And it`s such an easy thing, too, because it`s everywhere. You can`t walk down the street without seeing a Mickey D`s or something like that. And so it`s easy when you`re feeling sad or tired, \"Man, I could use some energy. Well, let`s go throw down a couple Big Macs.\" Well, then you feel worse. So you keep eating. It`s just this vicious cycle where you continue to do things that are putting you -- making you miserable.", "You won $250,000.", "I did.", "What the heck are you going to do with the money?", "I`m going to get out of debt. You know, I`m going to be debt-free. You know, I`ve got myself a little boat picked out so that I can water ski in the summer times. And I`m going to invest the rest. You know, when it gets right down to it, it`s really not that much money. What I got for my new health is worth way more than what they are going to give me as a check.", "Well, congratulations to you. Best of luck. And congratulations, not only on what you`ve done for yourself, but I`m sure you`ve inspired a lot of people around the country.", "Thank you.", "So thanks so much, Matt Hoover, for joining us on", "Thanks a lot.", "What a terrific story. Good for Matt. Well, now it is time for \"Laughter Dark,\" SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s favorite moments from late-night TV. On \"The Tonight Show\" with Jay Leno, Jay shows some items that fans think look just like him.", "Now, these are things that people think look like me. I don`t think they look like me, like this one here.", "That`s incredible. I have to say, some of those items do look like Jay. And also, on \"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,\" a correspondent checks in on New Jersey`s search for a new state slogan.", "We paid a marketing firm $280,000 to come up with a slogan, which was, \"New Jersey: We`ll win you over.\"", "I love it.", "I don`t like it. It starts from a negative connotation. It reminded me of when I was single and I would ask a girl out. And she`d turn me down. And I would say to her, well...", "OK, wait, so you`re not the gay governor?", "No.", "OK. Well, these are useless then.", "The slogan for our state isn`t something that really serves the state residents.", "How about this one? \"New Jersey: Maybe a nice dinner and a walk on the beach will change your mind.\"", "No. That won`t work.", "\"New Jersey: This ring comes off.\"", "I don`t think so.", "OK, how about this one? \"New Jersey: Aww.\"", "See, I think that would get me to go to the Garden State, personally. Well, there is still time for you to sound off in our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT \"Question of the Day,\" which is: Cable", "Would you rather pay for only the channels you want? You can vote by going to the website, CNN.com/showbiztonight.", "Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. We have been asking you to vote online on our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT \"Question of the Day.\" Cable", "Would you rather pay for only the channels you want? It`s a landslide. You want it a la carte: 90 percent of you say, yes, you would rather pay for only the channels you want; 10 percent of you say, no. If you would like, you can continue to vote by going to CNN.com/showbiztonight.", "It is time to see what`s playing on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT tomorrow. So, for that, let`s take a look at the \"Showbiz Marquee.\" Marquee Guy, what`s cooking for tomorrow?", "Tomorrow, Paula Abdul live. She`s bringing along the best and worst of \"American Idol,\" Kelly, Justin, Carrie, and those trying to sing just like them and failing. Oy, my ears. Paula Abdul tells us all about it -- straight up, of course -- live, tomorrow. Prince singing \"Purple Rain.\" And tomorrow, the daytime queen, Oprah, hits the great white way with \"The Color Purple.\" SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is right there live, as Oprah opens her very important play tomorrow. This is the Marquee Guy. And don`t you think purple is a very regal color for me? Well, you would if you could see me.", "It`s lovely on you, Marquee Guy. That is it for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York.", "And I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood. Stay tuned for the latest from CNN Headline News. END"], "speaker": ["A.J. HAMMER, CO-HOST", "BROOKS ANDERSON, CO-HOST", "HAMMER (voice-over)", "PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN, ACTOR", "HAMMER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HAMMER", "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. LORAINE BRACCO, ACTRESS", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "ANDERSON (voice-over)", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ANDERSON", "BETTE MIDLER, ENTERTAINER", "ANDERSON", "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. 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{"id": "CNN-408540", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2020-08-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/18/se.17.html", "summary": "Kasich on Voting for Biden: Party Takes Second Place to Responsibility", "utt": ["The latest CNN poll shows this race is far from over. Tight, just 4 points difference, which is exactly the margin of error. What does that mean? Well, it means it could be neck and neck. And why wouldn't it be? We talk about polls being a snapshot. The question is what this picture tells us. And that's why we have the wizard of odds. We pulled away his blankie, took his thumb out of the mouth and said, Get up and do some TV. And here he is. Let me ask you. You know, we've had this discussion many times, but to fill in our brothers and sisters who are up late or on the West Coast, my sentiment is, Boy, the Democrats should be nervous if, after months of ignoring a pandemic, this sitting president is just a few points away from Joe Biden. Scary times. What do you see, Wiz?", "Well, I would say your face is scarier than any poll number, but look, here's the deal, right? Look, if you look at the average of polls, and that's the thing I always stress, right, the average of polls, and we have the CNN poll of polls which is essentially that, right? It shows that Joe Biden has a nine-point edge. And when you have a nine-point edge and you have a margin of error surrounding the polls, sometimes you'll come in on the lower end -- you know, a CNN poll at 4 points. Sometimes you might come at the higher end -- ABC News/\"Washington Post\" poll. That was at 12-point edge for Joe Biden. And that doesn't mean that any of the polls are wrong. It just means that you're going to have this range. I will say that there has been some slight tightening over the last month, and that is consistent with the CNN poll showing some tightening. But of course, the one other thing I will point out which gets the point, perhaps, of why this race is a little bit tighter than the national polls would indicate is the Electoral College. Right? That's the name of the game that really matters in this situation.", "Took you 55 seconds, but you got to the only point of substance that you've made thus far. It's all about the Electoral College. It's all about the swing states. And in fact, it's really all about a handful of counties within the swing states. So let's go state by state. What is the story you see here?", "Yes. This, I think, is rather important, right? If you look at the nationwide average, it's Biden by 9, right? But then you look at Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Arizona. These are the five closest states that Trump won in 2016, and Biden needs to win at least two of them. And if he doesn't win Florida, he needs to win at least three of them. And what you see right now is a state like Wisconsin, Florida, those are the two most important states, because he needs to win one -- Michigan and Pennsylvania together don't add up to enough electoral votes. So the race nationally, in my mind, is actually closer to, say, a six- point margin then necessarily the nine-point margin. And so in that way, the CNN poll is generally representative of the fact that I do think that this race is closer than folks think it might be, just based upon the national polls.", "Well, I'm glad you've come around to that way of thinking, Harry Enten. It's better late than never. The question is why is it so close? What do you see within what we call in the business the cross tabs? Looking at the specifics of the polls and different demographic groups. Why is it as close as it is right now?", "I think there are a few reasons why it's as close as it is. No. 1, you have this fight within white voters, right, between those with a college degree and those without a college degree. Those with a college degree overwhelming for Biden, those without overwhelmingly for Trump, although perhaps by not the same margin as they were four years ago. And the other thing that I think is important to point out is that non-white voters, specifically African-Americans, while they're giving Biden a substantial margin at this point, it's not the same margin that Hillary Clinton was earning four years ago, and I think that's going to be something to watch as the convention sort of unfolds, whether or not Biden tries to bring back these traditionally Democratic voters. But the other thing I'll note, just Chris, is that Joe Biden is in a much better position than Hillary Clinton was four years ago at this point, right? He is still way out ahead, 9 points versus she was only up by 4. And more than that, he's over 50 percent. So he is in a much better shape than, say, Clinton was four years ago.", "Well, what's up with the minority vote? Why would they be for Trump?", "I think that there are a few things, not the least of which is that non-white voters overall tend to be lower educated as a percentage, and that, of course, is playing a big role in our politics right now, is education is a big deal. And more than that, younger black voters who were so strongly for Barack Obama in 2012, specifically younger black male voters, are not necessarily on board with Biden at this particular point. And you saw that throughout the primary, right, where Biden was running up these huge margins among older African-Americans, while actually, Bernie Sanders was winning those under the age of 30.", "Strong point. Preconvention margins, do we have that to put in? And this is the -- the context is incumbents who were in trouble, how they looked in the conventions and how that carried through to the election. Can we put that up, Vaughn (ph), for Harry to explain it to us? Tell us the story of this.", "Yes, I think that this is also key, right? This is so odd, the fact that you have an incumbent who is trailing by more than, say, a few points. There have only been three dating back to 1940, and the three of them are on your screen right now: Carter, Ford and Truman. Two of those guys lost. Truman came all the way back and won, but interestingly enough with the Ford notion right there, right, Ford actually was able to close the gap. So to me, look, Trump at this point is the underdog. I think we have to nail that in. But this race is far from over, as these poll numbers to election results indicate.", "D. Lemon, come in here for a second and talk at Harry Enten.", "What do you want to know?", "What do you think about Ford, Carter, Truman? You were alive for all those presidencies. What do you think is different today with Trump? Why might he be a different story than they?", "I know you're joking, but the only one I wasn't alive for was Truman. Why might Trump be a different story in what sense, you mean, then today? What do you mean?", "I don't think it's the right way to compare it. Harry's right to give us the historical perspective. But we are in a different place than we were as a country in any of those elections. Although Truman is probably the best comp. You did have a postwar society there that was trying to figure out who it was and where it was coming, and he wound up making a comeback in that election. But we weren't where we are right now, Don, in terms of the kind of cultural cataclysm we're dealing with right now. A president bringing us to each other's faces, creating conflict and becoming an agent of conflict. Carter never did that, and frankly, Ford never did that.", "Well, not in -- not in the way that we are now. But we were pretty divided when -- when Bill Clinton ran for president. And I think this is the first time that the polling for an incumbent has been pretty much the same as it was, or similar -- and Harry can correct me if I'm wrong -- as it was with Bill Clinton and George Bush. And so I think that I -- I would not underestimate this president. Certainly, you can't compare George Bush, the first George Bush and Donald Trump in the way that they conducted themselves. The first was a very classy man, mostly a traditional politician and didn't, you know, demonize people in the way that this president does. And polarize to the extent, even, you know, all elections are polarizing. But I do think that there is a good comparison between Bill Clinton and -- and George Bush in this one, when you look at President Trump's polling. And I have to agree with Harry. I do think that our -- our polling may be a bit of an outlier when you look at all of the polls together. But I still think, whether you are Donald Trump or you are Joe Biden, you need to run as if you're 20 points behind in this race. Because you can -- you know, one never knows. But I do have to say, in this particular race, Chris, I do not think you should underestimate the dislike of this particular president. People going out to vote, not necessarily for Joe Biden but against Donald Trump, considering the situation that we're in now with the intersection of race, COVID and politics. I think many more people are going to be voting, at least Democrats, against Donald Trump rather than for Joe Biden.", "Harry agrees with. He said it to me many times. But you both also know elections are more often about what people are for than what they're against. But we'll see. This is an unusual time.", "Uh-oh. Harry --", "You can make funny -- he can make faces. I'm just saying, if you look at the elections where we've had pivot points, generally, people find a reason to believe in somebody that they believe is transcendent; it's going to take them to a different place, captures their emotion.", "But Chris, you can't have it both ways. You can't say that we can't look at this -- this is a different time, right? You can't say this is a different time, but yet we should be looking at it traditionally.", "That's true.", "It's a referendum. It's a referendum, gentlemen. It's a referendum.", "If it's a referendum, then why is it so close? If it's a referendum.", "It's not that close. You just saw it on the slide right there. He's doing worse than most -- most of the presidents.", "Yelling doesn't make your point better.", "An average -- Chris, look.", "Go ahead.", "He's talking about an average of the polling, right? I mean, listen, yes, we have great pollsters, but we're also not the only game in town.", "Biden's not up double digits in any --", "There it is.", "-- news organizations.", "I know, this is the poll of polls, but he's not up 10 points in any state that mattresses. That's all I'm saying. This president has had the worst six months I've ever seen, and he's still within striking distance. I've got to go.", "That's true.", "I've got to go.", "Let him finish his point first and then go. What did you want to say, Harry?", "Look, all I'll say is the last president who was facing multiple crises, Jimmy Carter, who was also facing a very rough six months, ended up losing by 10. And that to me is a pretty good analogy for this election. Will it turn out the same way? I don't know, but there it is in the history books.", "What about my Clinton point?", "It wasn't that good. In fact, it made no sense in context.", "I loved that Clinton point, because it's the last president who was in as much trouble with his net approval rating as low as Trump's is at this point. So I think it was pretty good, Don. Chris, you can go to bed right now. I'll stay on with Don and do the rest of the hours.", "It's apples -- it's apples to lemons. It's apples to lemons. Clinton was in a totally different situation then Trump is in right now. But I appreciate both of your take. It's time for commercial. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "HARRY ENTEN, CNN POLITICS SENIOR WRITER AND ANALYST", "CUOMO", "ENTEN", "CUOMO", "ENTEN", "CUOMO", "ENTEN", "CUOMO", "ENTEN", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "ENTEN", "CUOMO", "ENTEN", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "ENTEN", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "LEMON", "ENTEN", "LEMON", "CUOMO", "ENTEN", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-405448", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2020-07-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/14/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Virus Devastates Indigenous Community in Rural Brazil", "utt": ["Well, the COVID-19 nightmare is accelerating in Latin America and there's a new milestone for the region. And I'm afraid it's a bleak one. It has now overtaken the U.S. and Canada in coronavirus deaths as of now. Latin America and the Caribbean have suffered almost 147,000 deaths due to the pandemic. Now CNN has analyzed the numbers from Johns Hopkins University. Brazil is the worst hit country in the region. It is trying to cope with more than quarter of a million new cases in just the past week alone. Many infections are now being reported in rural towns where indigenous communities have been quite frankly devastated. This is all happening as the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro continues to downplay the threat. Shasta Darlington is live for us in Sao Paulo. Mr. Bolsonaro is himself fighting the disease and said he'll get tested again some time today. He says he, quote, \"can't stand isolation\" and wants to get back to work. His behavior towards this public health crisis is described as ostrich-like, as \"a little flu,\" nothing to worry about. And says no need to wear a mask, despite getting the virus himself. What will it take for him to accept the dangers posed by this virus?", "I think that's a great question and I think we can answer pretty clearly at this point that being infected really hasn't changed his attitude. When he announced last week that he had tested positive for COVID-19, he also announced he was taking hydroxychloroquine at the recommendation of his medical team. In fact, it has been a source of conflict with his doctors here and health ministers. But he posted a video of himself while he took his third dose of the drug. He also told our affiliate, CNN Brazil, that he isn't suffering from major symptoms and, as you mentioned, can't stand the routine of staying at home and wants to get back to work, all of which suggests it will be business as usual for him once he no longer has the active infection. He has urged Brazilians to go back to work, insisting a kind of vertical isolation, isolating the elderly and those with risky conditions, would be the ideal approach. Yet the numbers are continuing to rise in Brazil with more than 72,000 deaths. And another grim milestone on the horizon. It looks like Brazil could reach a total of 2 million confirmed cases this week, Becky.", "Remarkable. Thank you, Shasta. My next guest is now one of the biggest critics of the Brazil president. It's amazing when you have two viruses to combat -- the coronavirus and the Bolsonaro virus. That's the view of Joao Dona, he's the governor of Sao Paulo, Brazil's wealthiest state. Wearing a mask, which your former ally, Mr. Bolsonaro, doesn't agree with. You clearly do. Wearing a mask is important, sir, correct?", "Becky, it's a pleasure to be with you. We have to combat as you said two viruses, the coronavirus and Bolsonaro virus importantly. The president of Brazil makes mistakes every time, every day. He gives the wrong example to the people, going to the streets without the mask, asking people to consume chloroquine and it's hard to keep people home when you have a president who turns our world weaker. It is very difficult.", "You called him a virus. Just how dangerous is his leadership at this point, sir?", "Well, when you have a leader with a bad example, this example is very difficult to the -- to the governors of Brazil. We are doing the right thing, following the World Health Organization recommendations and Bolsonaro is doing the opposite. He's doing the opposite every day. That's incredible. When you have a leader in the wrong way as the president of Brazil. Unfortunately, I would like to have a leader in a leadership role.", "Doing the right thing and asking the right way to the people in Brazil. I learn to respect medicine and health. Faced with a pandemic, that should determine the steps of the government officials. It's science, it's not politics, it's not the economy. It's not pressures. It's science. It's medicine.", "Your decision to impose tough curfews was slammed by president Bolsonaro. Did you get the support that you needed from the people of Sao Paulo?", "Well, we are supporting these people, the poor people in Sao Paulo, giving food baskets to the people and supporting the people in their social programs here in Sao Paulo. We are concerning (sic) about this. And also we are opening -- we opened seven campaign hospitals and doubled the number of intensive care beds, especially to the poor people in Sao Paulo.", "The numbers in Brazil and coming out of Brazil are awful. Do you believe that the situation in your country is actually worse than these numbers suggest at this point?", "Becky, I don't think so, especially in Sao Paulo. As you know, I'm the governor of Sao Paulo state. We at this moment are at a plateau. We -- it's stable in cases of infection, in Sao Paulo. Three weeks in this plateau in the under control situation and I think Brazil is also at this moment very close to this -- the same situation as Sao Paulo has at this moment. It is essential to maintain transparency with the death toll. It is very important to keep the quarantine as we are doing here in Sao Paulo and the obligation to use masks and now also to have the social distance -- the recommendation for social distance in the cities and also in the other areas in Brazil.", "You have said that you are confident that your city of Sao Paulo has -- and the state has reached a plateau. And you have also said that you hope that reflects a kind of wider story in Brazil. Just how concerned are you though, sir, you could be off here? I mean, there are clear concerns that this is a trajectory that may keep going. The numbers may get higher.", "Well, Becky, we created here in Sao Paulo a plan called Sao Paulo plan, which has the circumstances to ensure that we can gradually open up trade and other sectors of the economy in Sao Paulo. But we also require going back if we have indications that can put people's lives at risk. I have to tell you, step by step, concerning in order to make this flexibility easier, maintaining the quarantine, we have the support of the health committee of the state of Sao Paulo and increase the intensive care beds. We also increased the testing. Testing, testing, testing, a lot of tests and also decrease -- and also have to do what we are doing here with the quarantine, asking people to use masks all the time when we are out of home and following the health organization recommendations here.", "With that we'll leave it there. We thank you very much indeed for joining us. Our guest who was once an ally of the Brazilian president, Bolsonaro, now one of his biggest critics. As world leaders get scrutinized for their response to the pandemic, they also have to reckon with another layer of the crisis. The United Nations predicting more than 130 million people worldwide may go hungry this year due to the economic recession that's been triggered by COVID-19. That figure is on top of the nearly 700 million people already facing food shortages. The U.N. says Africa is the hardest hit region with nearly a fifth of the population is undernourished; 8.3 percent of Asia is struggling and more than 7 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean facing hunger.", "Well, the U.K. wades into tensions between the U.S. and China with the ban on one of China's largest technology companies. We're going to break that down after this. That is not all, unlawful and troublemakers: the U.S. and China swap taunts over the South China Sea. The latest reaction from each side is up next."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON", "SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON", "GOV. JOAO DONA, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL", "ANDERSON", "DONA", "DONA", "ANDERSON", "DONA", "ANDERSON", "DONA", "ANDERSON", "DONA", "ANDERSON", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-286029", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-06-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/07/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Lenient Sentence in Rape Case.", "utt": ["A slap on the wrist. That's what many are calling the six- month jail sentence given to a former Stanford University student. The star swimmer was found guilty of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus. The victim read a letter in court describing the pain the instant has caused her. Isha Sesay takes us inside the case.", "A terrible crime compounded by its aftermath. Outrage over a sentence some feel is too lenient. The case, highlighting questions of liability, punishment, and American society's attitude toward sexual assault. On Thursday, former Stanford student Brock Turner, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment after being convicted on three felony assault charges. The prosecution had sought a sentence of six years. The woman was unconscious at the time she was assaulted on the university campus. The incident occurred after a party during which both had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol. Turner will also be placed on the sex offender's register for life. His victim spoke out in a statement read at sentencing. Earlier, CNN's Ashley Banfield read part of that statement on the Legal View. \"One day I was at work, scrolling through the news. On my phone and I came across an article. In it, I read and learned for the first time about how I was found unconscious, with my hair disheveled, long necklace wrapped around my neck, bra pulled out of my dress, dress pulled off over my shoulders, and pulled up above my waist, that I was butt naked all the way down to my boots, legs spread apart, and had been penetrated by a foreign object by someone I did not recognize.\" \"I learned what happened to me the same time everyone else in the world learned what happened to me.\"", "Brock Turner's father has further filled anger surrounding the case, penning a letter to the judge in which he states, \"His life will never be the one he dreamed about and worked so hard to achieve. That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20-plus years of life.\" Social media reaction has been vitriolic. With many questioning why Turner's father would depict his son as a victim of the incident. And the prosecution has also condemned the apparent leniency of the sentence. District Attorney Jeff Rosen said, \"The sentence does not factor in the true seriousness of the sexual assault or the victim's ongoing trauma. Campus rape is no different than off-campus rape. Rape is rape.\" While Brock Turner denies he committed rape, his victim only became aware of the assault when she woke up in the hospital and was asked to sign papers marked rape victim before being allowed to shower. Stanford University has expressed regret over what happened, but in a statement claimed it had done everything in its power to ensure justice in the case. \"This was a horrible incident, and we understand the anger and deep emotion it has generated. There is still much work to be done, not just here, but everywhere, to create a culture that does not tolerate sexual violence in any form, and a judicial system that deals appropriately with sexual assault cases.\" Isha Sesay, CNN, Los Angeles.", "For more on this case, we turn now to CNN legal analyst, Philip Holloway who is a criminal defense attorney. All right. I want to get your reaction. You know, there's been so much outrage I'll be seeing on Twitter, online. Six months of a sentence for this Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted a woman who was unconscious. Six months. What do you think? Too lenient?", "I think the sentence is unconscionable. But almost as unconscionable is what the district attorney was asking for, which was six years to serve. You know, in many states, in fact, in the State of Georgia where I practice one could theoretically get the death penalty for this type of assault. So, the fact that the judge only had six years to work with is bad enough, but that he only gave six months to serve is an outright miscarriage of justice.", "Yes, right. So, you're saying the prosecutor was asking for six years, the judge only gives six months of a sentence. What exactly does the judge take into account, you know, to give a sentence like this?", "Judges theoretically are supposed to take into account any aggravating factors and any mitigating factors. Now those things that would tend to put the Senate higher and things that might tend to pull it lower. For example, the lack of criminal history. But specifically the facts of the case generally play the most important role. And I cannot imagine any set of facts involving sexual assault, as I understand them to be in this case, that would justify merely a six months' sentence. I don't care who you are, or in what state you live, this is an absolute inappropriate sentence.", "And a lot of angry people. Almost 100,000 people have signed this petition online and they're calling for the judge to be recalled over this. Your thoughts?", "On that issue, ironically, I think that the judge should not be recalled. I think the judge can answer for it certainly at the next election when he stands for re-election. But judges as a general rule, should not be bound by public opinion to sentence someone in any particular way either more harshly or more lenient. They should be allowed the discretion to do what they feel is right without bending to public pressure. That said, the sentence is wrong and I think the judge will have to answer for this, but he should answer for it in his regular election, not a special election.", "You really have to feel for the family and especially this poor woman who went through what she did. Is there any other legal recourse for her?", "She has no legal recourse whatsoever when it comes to sentencing. For him, he plans to appeal the sentence and the conviction, but for the victim, she's going to live with this for the rest of her life one way or the other, no matter what happens with the defendant's appeal.", "And just to clarify, in the United States, state by state, of course all the laws vary and you're saying California seems to have, I guess maybe not a stronger code when it comes to sentencing when it comes to sexual assaults.", "This is something that the California legislature should take a long look at, do some soul-searching, if you will, to decide how they collectively feel sexual assault should be penalized in the State of California.", "Good to have you on, Philip Holloway. I appreciate your time and expertise on this. Thanks.", "You bet. Any time.", "We want to bring you an update now on the breaking news story out of Turkey. A bomb blast in Istanbul has killed 11 people and injured 36 more. 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{"id": "CNN-32795", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-6-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/18/ltm.17.html", "summary": "Reporter Discusses Further Auction of Kennedy Memorabilia", "utt": ["More memorabilia from the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is going on the auction block. This time, though, you can place your bids on the Web. You may even be able to afford something this time around. Joining us from Washington is Annie Groer, who writes for the \"Home\" section of \"The Washington Post\" on collecting, design, decor and auctions. Annie, good morning. Good to see you.", "Nice to see you.", "First, explain to me how this auction is different than the one I remember from a few years ago, where her children were putting up some of their items.", "Well, for starters the quality of the items, if you will, are not so high. This is the memorabilia from her personal secretary of many years, Mary Gallagher, but a lot of it, by Gallagher's own admission, is stuff that Mrs. Kennedy gave her when she was cleaning out. So it was -- I don't want to call it trash, but it was leftover stuff. So there are some old dresses, old bathing suits, hand-written notes, a couple of tchotchkes. There were a lot of baby gifts that were sent to the White House when John John was born. There is a red maternity dress that Mrs. Kennedy wore when she was pregnant.", "I think we have a picture of that red maternity dress. That would be from when she was pregnant with John John?", "Exactly. And then, of course, when he was born, lots of people who were fond of the Kennedys would send baby gifts. So there are booties, bibs, and books and things for sale. There a couple of high-ticket items that will probably draw a lot of money. There is a rocking chair that was given to the president by the ambassador to the United States from the Dominican Republic. I think the highest-ticket item will probably be a book that actually belonged to another secretary who had worked for then Senator Kennedy, a woman named Lois Aykroyd. It was a first edition of \"Profiles in Courage,\" which was inscribed to Lois and signed by Jack Kennedy. There's not a lot of hand-written presidential material still out there, and this is a whole message, and it's in good condition, and there's an unbroken chain of custody.", "How much do you think this will to go for?", "The estimates have been pretty low. The estimate for the entire auction of 150 items has been between $60,000 and $80,000.", "Really?", "Yes, but I think it will go higher than that.", "Remember, the last time, even the high estimations for that last Jackie O. auction went through the roof.", "It was huge. That auction went made $34 million. Then there was an auction a couple of years later at Guernsey's, 500 lots of Kennedy memorabilia that went for about $7 million -- but again, it was much higher quality stuff, or kinds of things that collectors really wanted. We'll see, though. There are a lot of people who sort of worship at the shrine of the cult of the Kennedys who may want, perhaps -- there are three credit cards with Mrs. Kennedy's name on it that Mary Gallagher had been given to be her personal shopper. If you want the Washington Shopping Plate or the Pappagallo charge, you could have that for a couple hundred dollars. I think, since this auction continues until the 25th, that the last couple of hours will bring a bidding frenzy. I think people want this stuff, and there's not much out there.", "Since the time of the last auction, there's been the tragic death of John Kennedy Jr.", "Exactly. And you will notice that of all the items in this auction, there's nothing out there that is associated with Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, the last surviving child. In part, it is said by the action house Mrs. Gallagher knows Caroline and thought that might offend her, or she's very fond of her. I think also Caroline Kennedy is so protective of her own privacy, I think she would have insisted that this stuff be pulled.", "By giving her blessing by silence? She's just looking the other way, do you think?", "I think it's discretion. I think she is found of Caroline and thought this would not be an appropriate thing to do. But there's a lot of other stuff. There are some funny notes handwritten by Mrs. Kennedy. My favorite is one from a dress shop in Palm Beach that says, Dear Mary, don't pay this bill from X, whatever, for a dress that was altered; it was badly altered, and it doesn't fit. Either pay this bill if they can make it fit right, or forget it. So there are some really interesting sort of slices of...", "Human touches.", "... daily life in the White House, and of course, a lot of this stuff Mrs. Gallagher came to acquire after Mrs. Kennedy had to very hastily move out of the White House, following the assassination. So there are crutches that John Kennedy used when he had back trouble. There's a golf bag. So if people are Kennedy collectors, there may be something there for everyone, or at least people with a lot of money.", "We said that this is an online action.", "It's only an online action.", "How do you participate? How do you get it?", "You dial up www.sloansauction and you register. There is no live action. You can't go in there and wave your paddle around, but all the merchandised is displayed in the auction house outside of Washington, in the suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, and the stuff is arrayed there. It's interesting, because when I saw some of the dresses that had belonged to Mrs. Kennedy, they're on manikins, but the manikins, apparently, are larger than she was. She was extremely petite, so they have managed to put the fashions on these manikins, but they're afraid to zip them up. They didn't even want to steam the wrinkles out of them because they're fearful that the fabric may be degraded. There are a couple of cool little -- if you are a size zero or size two -- cocktail outfits you might want to think about and a couple of hats. Then there's black alligator purse; the clasp has her monogram,", "Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. If this is the black bag your dreams, that's probably going to go for $1,000 or more, in part because it is alligator, and in part because the provenance is unmistakable.", "So the auction is ongoing? You can do it right now?", "Ongoing. It started Friday and goes until the 25th. You can see now, as you dial up the various items, where the prices are at this moment, and I think you can bid in increments of $5 and $10 dollars. As I say, there's some interesting stuff. There's this funny little bowl, and without being unkind, it looks like dime store china. It's sort of white with flowers on the inside, and apparently, according to Mrs. Gallagher, it was -- Senator Kennedy, when he was in Senate, used to have his lunch delivered every day, from Georgetown. Either Mrs. Kennedy would bring it over or an assistant named Mugsy O'Leary (ph). This was his desert bowl. I suppose if you want Jack Kennedy's porridge bowl, there it is.", "We will track the items, the interest, and how much this action makes. Perhaps we'll have you back, Annie, and we'll see how this makes and what the items go for.", "Don't forget to place your bid.", "Absolutely. Annie Groer with \"The Washington Post,\" thanks for helping us take a look.", "Bye-bye. 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{"id": "NPR-9208", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2013-03-25", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2013/03/25/175277335/personal-stories-and-shifting-opinions-on-same-sex-marriage", "title": "Personal Stories And Shifting Opinions On Same-Sex Marriage", "summary": "The Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of California's ban on same-sex marriage Tuesday, and will hear a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act Wednesday. The cases come at a time when public opinion about same-sex marriage has shifted remarkably. Michelle Baunach, professor of sociology, Georgia State University", "utt": ["This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan, in Washington. In retrospect, it seems as if public opinion shifted on gay marriage all of a sudden. But as we await the start of Supreme Court arguments tomorrow, we might want to reconsider that idea. Yes, it happened quickly; but minds change one by one by one, and most often because someone they knew - a relative, a friend, a co-worker - came out of the closet and put a human face on what might have been an abstraction.", "Ohio Sen. Rob Portman changed his mind recently after learning his son is gay. How did someone you know coming out change your conversation at work or around the dinner table - 800-989-8255; email us, talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation on our website. Go to npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.", "Later in the program, some of the implications of the driverless car and truck but first, changing attitudes on same-sex marriage, Let's start with a caller, and Catherine's(ph) on the line with us from Tucson, Arizona.", "Hi, I am the mother of a beautiful gay woman, and I'm ashamed to admit that for seven years I refused to acknowledge her situation. But I was - I changed over once I met her wife. And I went to their wedding ceremony, and it just moves me to tears. I'm now the grandma of a six-year-old who I never got to know before, and I'm making up for lost time. I'm sorry I'm crying.", "It's OK. What was it that made you decide to go to the wedding?", "She invited me. She reached out and invited me. And then when I didn't want to come, she uninvited me, and I went anyway.", "That sounds like family.", "Yeah, yeah, it was just one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life to reach out to my beautiful, gay daughter-in-law. I love her, I really do.", "Well, I'm glad it all worked out, Catherine, thank you very much for the call.", "Thank you.", "And joining us now is Michelle - excuse me, Michelle Baunach - Baunach, is that correct?", "Baunach is correct.", "OK, I apologize. I was looking at the paper funny, at your department - professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgia State University. Thanks very much for being with us today.", "I'm happy to be here.", "And I wanted to ask you: That story we just heard, that's fairly typical, isn't it?", "Well, it is typical for people to rethink their views on an issue like this that they probably had never really thought of before until they get to know someone, someone in their family, someone that they work with, someone that they just know personally, that they go to the gym with or something. Once they get to meet someone, they personalize that group. They think more positively about them, and they often change their views towards gay marriage or other issues.", "And that's not the only reason people have changed their minds on gay marriage, but it's the biggest one.", "Well, to be honest I don't know if it is the biggest, but it is an important one, and I don't think we'd be where we are right now if we didn't have so many gay men and lesbians and bisexuals and everybody else out of the closet who are making themselves known to the people that they've always known, to their family, their friends, their co-workers. And that has been an important part of it.", "And we've had other conversations on this subject on this program, and have learned that people, of course, don't necessarily come out to their co-workers at the same time they come out to their family, or vice versa. This is a process. And nevertheless, it is also something that's uneven in different parts of the country and among different groups in the country.", "Correct, there is more acceptability, generally, for gay men and lesbians and other sexuality groups in the Northeast and in the West. The Midwest and the South are lagging behind. But it's not just regional. There are also other demographic groups that tend to be more or less supportive of gay men and lesbians and of gay marriage.", "For example?", "For example the people who live in urban areas, people who have more education, people who are Democrats, people who are not Evangelical Protestants, they tend to be more supportive of gay marriage.", "And are there racial divisions?", "There are some racial divisions. African-Americans are less supportive of gay marriage, although like most groups their support has grown over time, just not as much as many other groups.", "And as you look at the charts, and these are provided by the Pew people, the people who survey public opinion, it seems to be right. Yes, opinion is shifting among every single group, it seems, but obviously starting from a lower mark among some of them.", "Exactly. In my research I found that in 1988, approval for gay marriage was localized to certain groups: people who live in urban areas, who were secular, highly educated and lived in the Northeast. The most recent data I've been able to look at is in 2010, because I'm using different data sets. By 2010, disapproval has become localized, where now it's just found among Southerners, Evangelical Protestants, Republicans and African-Americans - predominately.", "And is this a true tipping point?", "It may be. It seems like it. The trends in attitude change really picked up in 2008. Since 2008 we've seen much faster movement towards approval on this issue.", "Let's see if we can get another caller in on the conversation, 800-989-8255. Email us, talk@npr.org. Call and tell us how the conversation changed when someone came out around your dinner table or at your workplace, 800-989-8255. And let's start with Catherine(ph), Catherine with us from Norman, Oklahoma.", "Hello.", "Hi.", "Thank you for taking my call.", "Go ahead, please.", "My daughter is 15, and she came out when she was 12, and we were quite supportive. She had a lot of heartache, though, at her middle school; and it was not from her students, it was from her teachers. And she silently chose to not say the Pledge of Allegiance, and she got in the car one day and told me: I'm not standing for the pledge until there's liberty and justice for all and until I can marry whomever I want.", "And it kind of started from there, but the school was harsh, and she then made some shoes that are beautiful, that they wanted to suspend her from school because she wrote on the shoes equality, love and love, and fag. And that's what started it all for her. It was very harsh, and she had teachers that were very unkind to her throughout her seventh grade year.", "And was this some time ago?", "Four years ago. She's now in 10th grade. She's a sophomore at her high school. She's class president. Her peers accept everything about her, but the adults - not her family, but the academics in her life - were where it was very hard.", "But we live in the South, we live in Oklahoma, and it's hard at school. Some days she feels frightened, because, just as your sociologist was talking about a minute ago, living in Oklahoma some days it is really hard and not accepted, and it's frightening sometimes.", "And you said the adults in her family were accepting right from the beginning?", "Absolutely. My goodness. We were - as her mother, I was telling your person earlier, I thought well, so what were you waiting for? Because mothers seem to know a lot, we think, anyway.", "But my daughter has explained to me over and over it's no one's story to tell but that individual, please respect that. And that is something that I have learned through the years. And she's brave, she's smart, she's articulate, and I think the world of her. And I think she has a great future ahead, but sometimes a long future. You know, some people are not very kind at all.", "Well, Catherine, thank you very much. We wish you and your daughter the best.", "Thank you so much for taking my call.", "Sure. And Michelle Baunach, as we listen to that story, one of the sharpest divides along public opinion on this question is generational.", "True, it is. The 18- to 29-year-old age group is overwhelmingly approving of gay marriage. However, again, in the research that I conducted, we found that the trend over time, from 1988 to 2010, was due mostly to people changing their minds on the subject, that two-thirds of the overall societal level of change was because individuals had changed their mind - either because they'd gotten to know people, or they're influenced by media, or they'd just gotten to know more about the topic.", "But most of the change in this attitude is because individuals have changed their mind. And not simply because that older, supposedly less tolerant individuals, have been replaced by younger, supposedly, more tolerant individuals.", "We read that changing your mind is difficult to do and more difficult to accomplish.", "But it's happened quite a bit on this topic. It's really quite fascinating, to be honest. This is a topic that I wouldn't have predicted before I went into this that the majority change would have been due to changing their minds. I would have thought, along with a lot of other people, that it would have due to generational changes.", "And while that does have an impact, it's that more and more it's because people are getting to know others, or they're just getting to know more about it, and they are changing their minds on the issue. And we see this with all the prominent politicians that have come out recently on this topic. We see this every day that people are saying, well, gee, once I got to know so-and-so, or once I had a gay son or a lesbian daughter or once I just thought more about it I changed my views.", "And thought more about it. Some people say wait a minute, if I see this as an issue of individual rights, of civil rights, suddenly it looks different.", "It does, and that's part of the success of the gay rights movement is that the gay rights movement has been able to frame this issue in terms of a civil right, and when people start thinking about it that way, when they don't think about it on a moral issue, but they think about it on an equality issue, a civil rights issue, they tend to agree with this topic.", "And where do you see this going?", "You know, it's hard to predict, but it seems that if the current trends continue that we'll have just greater support overall. We're now, like you mentioned, previously were about 48 percent according to the Pew poll. That'll probably continue to increase. There are some gay rights issues that regularly pull in the high 80 to 90 percent, such as employment discrimination protection.", "Those kind of issues or, you know, serving in the military tend to get even wider support. This issue may approach that level of support at some point. I doubt that we'll ever get to 100 percent, we rarely get to 100 percent on any type of attitude. There will always be some people for whom this is a topic they will disapprove or something that they disapprove of.", "But if current trends continue, we'll see even wide approval.", "Our guest is Michelle Baunach, we're talking about what changes when someone comes out of the closet. If you attended or worked at a high school like this, tell us the one change you would want to make, 800-989-8255. Email talk@npr.org. Stay with us. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.", "This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan. We're talking about how support for gay marriage has shifted as more people see relatives, friends, co-workers come out of the closet. Chief Justice John Roberts' cousin and her partner will be in the audience for the Supreme Court's hearings on California's Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act when those arguments start here in Washington, D.C., tomorrow. No idea what influence, if any, that might have on the chief justice.", "We're asking you how did someone you know coming out change the conversation around your dinner table or at your workplace, 800-989-8255. Email us, talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at npr.org. And click on TALK OF THE NATION.", "Our guest is Michelle Baunach, professor of sociology at Georgia State University, speaking with us from her office in Atlanta. Let's get another caller in, and this is Kyle(ph) and Kyle on the line with us from St. Louis.", "Hey, thanks for taking the call.", "Sure, go ahead.", "When I was a younger guy, I grew up in the rural South, actually in Georgia. And, you know, it was kind of a community that was a bit homophobic. The homosexual lifestyle was pretty taboo. And, you know, I kind of - I was a bit neutral on the issue at the time. I didn't really know whether I felt good or bad about it.", "But when I graduated high school, I took a job at a florist with an older man. At the time, I did know he was homosexual, but he came out to me after a while, after I had been working there for a few months. And he really changed my perspective on the thing, on the issue, and I realized he's just like anyone else, and he's such a nice guy. He was willing to bend over backwards to do whatever he could to help me out if I needed it, such a fantastic person.", "And it just kind of - it really changed not just my perspective on the issue but also, you know, really making me regret all those times when I was a younger man not having stood up for someone and not having said at least a little bit more than I did and just kind of sitting silently by as people were teased and made fun of, and, you know, especially rumors ran rampant at that point once I took that job and just to get a small taste of what it's like to live in a town where that is such a taboo and to be associated with a community of people that are just kind of shunned. It was...", "Just because you were working at a florist shop, everybody assumed you were gay.", "Well, it actually turned out - I found out a little bit later that he had a bit of a reputation around town as a homosexual. I mean, he was a well-known homosexual. I just, you know, I was blind to the idea.", "And so as this - did you have a conversation with him, I wonder?", "Yeah absolutely. He just - you know, I think after a while he felt it was the right thing to do to just let me know, just in case. Maybe he was wondering how I felt about it and didn't know if it would be comfortable to be working with somebody who had a problem with his homosexuality or not.", "And, you know, of course I didn't because it just really opened my eyes to this idea. I don't know what I was thinking before, that they were like green-eyed monsters or something, but...", "You know, he really let me know that he is just like anyone else, and being a homosexual man makes no difference on the type of person that you are. And, you know, he can be just as great and just as fun to be around as anyone else. So it really opened my eyes to the point now where I have a lesbian roommate. I have many, many gay friends, and it's just - it's really opened my eyes to a community of people that are just a lot of fun to be around.", "OK, thanks very much Kyle.", "Thank you, go Dogs.", "OK. Here's an email that we have from Teresa(ph): I would be a hypocrite if I changed my opinion of gay marriage just because my daughter or son were gay. I love my gay friends, and I show them my love and friendship without changing my core beliefs. And Michelle Baunach, as you look at the numbers, obviously there are any number of people who agree with Teresa and are not going to change their beliefs no matter what.", "True, there are still some people who are going to disapprove of it because it may violate some core belief of theirs. It may be very important to their political identity as a conservative, or it may be very important to them in a religious identity, if they're an evangelical protestant, or if they belong to another group, another religious affiliation that disapproves of gay marriage. They may never approve of it.", "Let's - here's another email, this is from Catherine(ph): I'm 28 years old and was raised in a very conservative family. My best friend since childhood came out to me when we were in high school, and it fundamentally changed my view of gay and lesbian people.", "Since college, I have met several people in the gay community and have come to embrace marriage equality as a crucial part of equal treatment for all people. What surprised me was when I was able to convince my mom that equality is important. I simply told her to think about my friend, whom she's known our whole lives. If my friend, who lives in New Zealand, gets a marriage there, she can never come home because her spouse will not have the same immigration rights. Now my mom supports gay marriage, as well.", "Let's go to Gregory(ph), and Gregory's on the line with us from Houston.", "Hello, I'm glad to be on.", "Go ahead, please.", "I'm African-American, Southern Baptist. I grew up in Mississippi. And gay - the whole gay issue has never been a topic that we really talked about. We didn't really think about it because nobody close to us was gay. But my brother, about two years ago, came out. And it really had an effect on us. He most recently committed suicide, and we don't believe it was necessarily because he was gay.", "But since he came out and since his suicide, we've completely done a 360. We actually changed churches because we felt like our pastor was - he demonized the issue a bit too much. And we completely changed our view about gay rights and the whole gay issue altogether.", "Gregory, did you say suicide?", "Yes, yes, but we don't think it was necessarily because of - because he was gay. We think it was because of something entirely different.", "And then what happened when you changed churches?", "We just went to a nondenominational church, a church that doesn't really talk about the whole gay issue, you know.", "And so they still don't talk about it, but they don't demonize it, either.", "Exactly, exactly. It was just too much to handle, you know?", "I can understand that. I can understand that. Thanks, Gregory, very much for the phone call.", "Thank you.", "And Michelle Baunach, is there any way go gauge how much taboo plays in this discussion?", "I don't think there is. There - excuse me, I'm sorry. There is a lot of taboo, especially among certain groups and especially when they hear it from leaders in their organization like some churches or some political parties. There is a lot of negative feeling towards this.", "However, that negative feeling has been dissipating. It has been going away. We can look at other survey data, not specifically on same-sex marriage, but we can look at a question that asks people about what they think the morality of homosexuality is. And people think - seeing homosexuality as being immoral has also gone way down, that more and more people see homosexuality as a gay rights issue, like we talked about previously, but also not as a morality issue. They just see it as maybe a to-each-his-own kind of perspective.", "And I wanted to ask you about precedent. There will be discussion tomorrow when the Supreme Court listens to this case, and of course the day after on the Defense of Marriage Act case, about the precedent of the Loving decision, where there were still a lot of states in the Union that had barred miscegenation, that's cross-race marriage, and of course the Supreme Court, what, 50, 60 years ago struck that down in the Loving case out of Virginia. Is there any polling on how attitudes changed as a result of that, or was your profession in - not taking those kind of polls at that time?", "There were some polls. The ones I looked at recently, because this topic has been coming up a lot lately, went back to 1972. But I know I have read about the history of that case, about the Loving versus Virginia Supreme Court case. There were still national-level polls that were showing majority disapproval of getting rid of those types of laws at the time that the case was decided in the early '60s.", "Since then, attitudes have become much more favorable towards interracial marriage. In fact the last data that I could find on this source that we tend to use as sociologists called the General Social Survey, they last asked the question in 2002. They don't even ask it anymore because there is so much general support for interracial marriage or at least disapproval of a law against interracial marriage, that in 2002, less than 10 percent of the people polled thought that there should still be a law against interracial marriage.", "Well, Michelle Baunach, thank you very much for your time. We know you've got another appointment, and we'll thank you very much and let you go.", "Thank you very much, Neal, this is a lot of fun.", "Michelle Baunach, a professor at the Department of Sociology at Georgia State University, with us from her office in Atlanta. Here's an email from Autumn(ph): In my case it wasn't a family member, it was a classmate in magazine article writing class at a church-sponsored university. We had been asked to write an article expressing a church doctrine and then we had to pass them around and let other students read them. The one I got was from a young man and his experience learning about his own sexuality. I suppose that ever since then, I have been more open to non-normal social characteristics.", "Not sure what normal qualifies in that - qualifies as in that regard, but let's get Bob(ph) on the line, Bob with us from Nashville.", "Hi, thanks for taking my call.", "Go ahead, please.", "I - my perspective on this issue is that my father came out to my family and caused my parents to get a divorce in 1982, I think. And I lived at the time in the rural Northwest. And I was so - and I grew up and went to a very small school. And I was immediately - my immediate fear was about the response my classmates - at the time, I was in seventh grade.", "And then after my parents got divorced, my mom took us to her ancestral home, which was the rural south, and it was the same thing. I was very uncomfortable with the idea of telling even close friends about it for fear of what kind of response it might engender not on those - not from those people, but from other people.", "Yeah.", "And it just is sort - that sort of has evolved over time. You know, as time has marched on, it's become less an issue, but it was really quite - I remember being pretty fearful of that time.", "I could understand that, and I can - also, I wanted to ask, kids can be very angry with the parents that they might hold responsible for breaking up the marriage, and the can play a part too.", "That's true. Yeah, it just - at the time, I mean, the AIDS crisis was, you know, full-blown and then the media everywhere. And there were just lots and lots of ways for people to - and I tended to be picked on anyway, so, you know, [laugh] it's just - it was, at a sense, you know, from whatever self-defense just not to talk about it.", "But, you know, over time, I think it's really has more to do with the climate of the country and the general - as it has been described on your program - the general, you know, increase in acceptance of the life of the sexual orientation.", "And how are...", "(Unintelligible) in me, but...", "Yeah. How are things with your dad now?", "My dad and I, we're okay. We - as far as his relationship in this matter concerned, I mean, I'm very respectful and it's - we don't - we actually - he lives abroad, so I don't see him that often. But when I do, it's, you know, that's not an issue at all.", "Well, thanks very much for the call and we're glad things - obviously, it took some time, but we're glad things worked out.", "Thank you.", "Here's an email from Emily. \"In 1994, I went around Idaho and campaigned for Prop 1 with my uncle, Kelly Walton. Prop 1 failed, but it would've prevented homosexuals from receiving minority status in Idaho. My mind was changed when I had a co-worker reveal to the company we worked for that she was gay. She has a partner and two children, and I realized the pressure she was always under to be a perfect employee so that she wouldn't get fired for being gay.\"", "\"I'm glad my boss didn't fire her. And last year, I volunteered with Add the Words, Idaho to increase protection to my gay friends and neighbors there in the state of Idaho.\" We're talking about how coming out has changed the conversation about gay marriage and other issues. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. Darren is on the line with us from Sacramento.", "Hello, Neal.", "Hi, Darren. Go ahead, please.", "Well, as I talked to your screener, I talked about I'm a local politician and in a very conservative part of California, if you can imagine that, in the foothill areas, more rural areas. And this is a question that's come up to, you know, in my election processes. And what I had to explain to people is that, what do we hope to gain on either side of the issue?", "My best friend that I've had since I was 12 years old, and I was the best man at his wedding, when he married a woman, in the Mormon temple the less, in Oakland, came out and is now living with his partner in Los Angeles. He's been out for about 10 years now. My sister, most recently, who is also married in the Mormon temple, came out and is now living with her wife in Albuquerque in Mexico.", "So these things have an ability to change one's perspective in terms of not necessarily the morality of issue, but if you could put that aside and just the humanitarian aspect of it, and what is it that our government hopes to accomplish by granting or denying the rights of marriage?", "And clearly, the community includes any number of Mormons, as the Mormons were seen as one of the big proponents of Prop 8 there in California.", "Sure, absolutely. And so that's something that also weighs heavily with me. You know, the pressure that I felt, you know, since a young man, to be on the side of the morality aspect of the argument. However, if you're looking at simply from the perspective of a civil rights issue, which you mentioned earlier in the show, there was gentleman that came out a few years ago, in flip side, I believe he works for the Cato Institute or something like that.", "And he is the one that helped pushed, at least here in California, the concept of a civil rights issue. And he changed lives and actually open to promote the Marriage Act (unintelligible). Now...", "The Cato Institute is the think tank of the Libertarian Party.", "Correct. So at that point, you know, with all these things mounted in my mind, I had to come to my own conclusion on this. And what I came to is that, what is it that the government hopes to accomplish with the issue of marriage license? This is so that we can see, you know, who are legally bound to each other in terms of if there's a divorce proceeding, if there's a death, those types of things.", "How the courts are going to handle the disbursement of a state, or those type of things like that. And in that particular instance, I mean, it doesn't really matter. The idea of being married or not married in the eyes of the government is simply a transactional issue that has to deal with financial matters, you know, for the most part, as far as I can tell.", "All right. Well, thanks very much.", "You're welcome.", "And here is an email that we have. This is from Tom. \"Listening from the car as my wife drives, I was a pre \"don't ask, don't tell\" army officer. My army roommate came out after we got out of the army. He was my best friend but couldn't tell me he was gay. I came from a small town, attended a catholic university, my friend's coming out was a life-changing experience. It made me look at any biases I might have and examine my conscience. My friend always had my back but was afraid to tell me who he was. And we'll end with this email from Miriam, a straight and strong supporter of gay marriage. She writes: I'm 68. My change in attitude took place in the 1970s when I was part of a women's group that included several sisters struggling with their sexual preferences. By the time these women realize they were lesbians, we had all become deeply involved in knowing and supporting one another. After one of these women, afraid of who she was in family and societal reaction, attempted to commit suicide. I visited her in the hospital, said nothing and just held her hand as tightly as I could. It felt like I was trying to pull her back from the cliff. After she recovered, she told me felt that I was really there for here and it helped. We have since lost connection but I hope she's married and happy.", "Thanks to all of you who wrote and emailed and contacted us. We're sorry we couldn't get to all of your stories. Up next, technology is speeding forward. But one critic says we may need to pump the brakes when it comes to driverless cars. What are some of the unintended consequences of these new futuristic vehicles? Stay with us. I'm NEAL CONAN. 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{"id": "CNN-243515", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2014-11-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/18/es.03.html", "summary": "Ukraine \"Preparing for Total War\"", "utt": ["Welcome back. Breaking news in the war on ISIS. Fighters from the terrorist group reportedly retreating from an oil refinery in Northern Iraq after surrounding it last month. We are being told Iraqi security forces have now entered the Baiji refinery. That's the largest in Iraq, an important piece of infrastructure. If the Iraqis have regained control of this strategic refinery, it would represent their biggest victory against ISIS to date. We'll continue to follow that this morning, all those developments. Ukraine this morning preparing for, quote, \"total war\", the words of the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. He tells a German newspaper his country is fighting for European values, but he says Russia does not respect any agreement. Russia denies it has any forces in Eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile, the shelling goes on from both sides. CNN's Phil Black is near Ukraine's border with Russia with more.", "Christine, this is Hrabove, in Eastern Ukraine. It is a location where four months ago, Malaysia Airline flight 17 broke up in the skies above, crashed to the Earth, over a wide debris field. It is only now after that length of time that much of the wreckage is being collected and an operation being overseen by Dutch investigators. Look behind me, you can see a twisted of the fuselage, wreckage like this is strewn across this incredibly wide area over the last couple of days. The Dutch investigators overseeing Ukrainian workers have been using cranes to lift up this wreckage on to trucks and get it out of here to a local train station where it will eventually find its way back to the Netherlands. But four months after the crash, it will be a couple of weeks before the experts start to look through it. It is an eternity in terms of an investigation, but important that this is finally happening now. It is getting in just before winter, which is crucial. The snow will be blanketing this area very, very soon. And, of course, there is the situation with the ongoing violence. Back in September, a cease-fire was signed. It saw a drop in the intensity of fighting which allowed the planning of this operation to take place. But as we know over the last week or so, the Ukrainian assessment, the NATO assessment, the concerns of European observers on the ground has been -- that there has been an influx of Russian soldiers, weaponry, into this region. And they feel the coming winter can also be a deadline for an imminent offensive of some kind. A new land grab, if you like, by the separatists, by Russian forces. That is what the Ukrainian government fears and says it is preparing for. That's why the Ukrainian president is talking about total war, the worst-case scenario. Of course, for the moment, the Russia, the separatists -- they deny the presence of those sorts of forces. But it remains to be seen just what happens here in a situation that is incredibly tense, where the fighting continues only a short distance from here, despite the fact that the cease-fire was signed back in September -- Christine.", "All right. Phil Black for us this morning in Ukraine. A critical vote at the U.N. this morning could lead to criminal prosecutions against the leaders of North Korea. If a U.N. committee approves the solution on Pyongyang's alleged human rights abuses, the entire general assembly will decide in December whether to send the case to the International Criminal Court. That would give North Korea that distinction of becoming the first non-African nation to be referred to the ICC for crimes against humanity. Baseball has been very, very good to Giancarlo Stanton, specifically the Miami Marlins who just gave him the richest contract the game has ever seen ever. Laura Rutledge has the details in the \"Bleacher Report\", next."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "PHL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORREPONDENT", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-279414", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2016-03-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/20/ip.01.html", "summary": "Can Sanders Make a Dent in Clinton's Lead?", "utt": ["Welcome back. There are six Democratic contests this week. Three on Tuesday and then three more on Saturday. Bernie Sanders could go 5 for 6, possibly even 6 for 6. That would be a game changer, right? Well, there's momentum and then there's math. Take a peek here. Hillary Clinton heading into this week has about 330-delegate lead. These are just pledge delegates. This is does not involve any of the super delegates. Three hundred thirty lead in pledge delegates. Now, let's say that Bernie Sanders wins them all right here in the West on Tuesday. Now, the Clinton campaign says, wait a minute. We're competitive in Arizona. We might win Arizona. But just for the sake of the hypothetical, say Bernie wins them all on Tuesday. Then, say, he wins three more, all out west, Alaska, Hawaii, Washington state on Saturday. Bernie Sanders, if he won all six of those contests, 55-45, he would cut Hillary Clinton's lead, the beginning of the week, 330, the end of the week, 302, somewhere in that ballpark. So he would make up a little ground but not a lot. Hillary Clinton says I'm so far ahead that even if you have a week like this, you can't catch me. Why don't you tone it down, Senator Sanders? He says such talk, though, is reckless.", "It would be extraordinarily undemocratic to tell the people in half the states in America, oh, you don't have a right to get involved in the nominating process for the Democratic candidate. If you write off or if you say to half the states in this country that they should not participate, their response may well be on Election Day, well, you didn't want us to participate in the primary process, you know, we're not going to come out to the general election.", "But so, Bernie Sanders is essentially saying my supporters, if you ignore us, treat us with disrespect, we won't be there in November. But how does he manage this moment in the sense that he could have huge week? He could win six contests. He could win 5 of 6 contests and make barely a scratch in her delegate math, which is going to -- his supporters are going to be all revved up, here comes Bernie. But?", "The problem is that a lot of Democrats and frankly a lot of media are also not treating like this race is still going on. I think that's his main challenge. He needs to have a bunch of wins and then say, look at how well I did. It's not justifiable that people are not treating us for real. He does still have this incredible low-dollar support base which I think will continue to fund him especially if he has a bunch of wins. His argument is not particularly different than what Hillary Clinton said in 2008 when she was running against Barack Obama. And I have been expecting his campaign would say more of that. His language also -- excuse me, his remarks in substance are not that different than what Donald Trump is saying either. It's just that the tone is very different. But I do think that mathematically, it is becoming extremely hard for them to make a credible case, and they have changed their argument, the Sanders campaign. Before it was that, you know, super delegates shouldn't count. Now, they're looking towards super delegates. And I think that becomes difficult to navigate.", "His point about staying home in November actually does cause a lot of fear for Clinton folks. And they realize that as much as she can talk about saying, get out, or suggest get out, they have to be very careful about that because should those young voters especially stay home in certain states, it could rob her of winning places like Colorado, Nevada, you know, even perhaps places like Pennsylvania if you have to make up a margin against a Trump. So, they have to be very careful. They know, though, that this is going to be a rougher week for them potentially because he will win. The problem is if he doesn't win with, like, 80 percent plus in each contest, he will not catch her. You have to keep doing that over the course of the next few weeks.", "Right, he would have to win just about everything from here on out if he wins one 60-40, the next one 80/20, he's got to above 70 percent essentially. But Maggie makes a great point. Hillary Clinton has been here. She's been in this very spot before. So she has to understand his mindset.", "Absolutely.", "He wants more wins. He wants to build himself up. He wants a role at the convention. He wants to validate his candidacy. But sometimes, she does sound like -- like senator, it's over.", "There's some urgency in her campaign. You are seeing her pivot toward Donald Trump. She's not talking about Bernie Sanders very much. What they -- they don't mind Sanders staying in the race if he's going to make cases broadly about his economic policies if he's going to turn his attention to Donald Trump. But if he is aiming a lot of fire at Clinton basically handing over general election arguments to the Republicans, that's when it's going to become problematic. They do know they have work to do in the Clinton campaign to try to get young people who are fervent Bernie Sanders supporters into her camp. That will take some effort on her part. She will need Sanders probably involved in trying to help that along. But she personally knows better than anybody what Sanders is going through and how difficult a process it will be to close down a campaign when you do feel like you're so close.", "And Sanders' issue, too, is not only just that the narrative has changed and that the media is increasingly not treating this maybe as a two-person race or that the narrative has changed that this is no longer a two-person race that she really has this, he needs someone to fight against, and I think the more that she talks about this and uses a tone as though she were heading into the general election, he doesn't have anyone to fight, right? When two people are in a fight and one person is yelling, the most frustrating thing the other person can do is to respond in a calm voice as if they are not engaging. And I think that is what we're starting to see happen here.", "She's been off the campaign trail. She's almost absent this weekend raising money. Raising money. So, we'll see what happens Tuesday. But a super PAC that supports her has an ad up that's interesting. It's already focusing on the general election. Listen here.", "Who are you consulting with consistently so that you're ready on day one?", "I'm speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain, and I've said a lot of things.", "It's kind of funny. This is Priorities USA, which is a pro- Hillary Clinton super PAC. And I asked some people involved why are they doing this now? What is the point here? And actually, what they said was that they're testing this message because they think Trump is going to be the Republican nominee. They think he's going to be the principal opponent. And their point is they're not going to underestimate him like the Republicans did and they're trying to see what would work.", "What's interesting is actually that ad was a response to something that Trump did. Trump did his own version of that, that featured video of Hillary Clinton at that rally that I never understood what was happening.", "She was barking.", "She was barking like a dog and then it concluded with I think it was Putin laughing. So, this is essentially the same thing.", "Right.", "What was interesting to me about the fact that the super PAC did this is I think less that they are testing messages although that's definitely true, but that they were responding to something that the campaign did not. Hillary Clinton has been navigating a careful line here in terms of how she wants to deal with Donald Trump. Remember, she was using him as sort of a rhetorical device at the end of last year-around, you know, Christmastime, right before it, and Trump went after her and her husband very hard. Both of them stopped talking about him after that. She made clear in one of the recent debates, you know, she's going to engage him on policy, but she doesn't want to trip over some kind of a line where he is firing nukes. He's going to do that anyway, to be clear. But I think she is trying to keep away from that as much as possible.", "Interesting, interesting, interesting. It was -- it's going to flip the map, and they know that. So, they're trying to figure out how do you go after white working-classmen, Donald Trump's case. We'll watch the advertising play out. Up next, though, a Supreme Court fight and a new attack on Mr. Trump -- the Obama factor. How President Obama plans to shape the campaign to replace him."], "speaker": ["KING", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-50064", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-2-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/28/ltm.10.html", "summary": "T-rex Much Slower Than Thought", "utt": ["A new report published this week threatens to take a bite out of the image of the famously fierce T- rex. A Stanford University researcher is challenging the theory that the T-rex could run 45 miles per hour, saying it was more like a lumbering 25 miles per hour at best. CNN's Chicago Bureau Chief Jeff Flock is at the Field Museum, home to a T-rex named Sue -- hey, Jeff.", "Anderson, good morning to you. I don't think we can get any closer to the T-rex than we are right now. Take a look. You talk about fierce. You can almost touch the teeth here. This is the biggest and most complete skeleton of a T-rex that has ever been found. It is called \"Sue,\" although we are not sure if it is a boy or a girl. It was found in South Dakota. It is now here at the Field Museum in Chicago, where it has already been viewed by -- I don't know, I guess it is fair to say thousands of folks, like the experts that I am joined with this morning -- where are you from, by the way?", "I'm from Chicago.", "Good. Well, that's good. You told me you like dinosaurs. How fast do you think this guy could run?", "About as fast as an elephant.", "Well, you know what, that's what the experts say. We're going to go over and talk to one of experts from the museum in a moment, and that's what they tell us, it may be as fast as an elephant, which -- do you remember that movie -- who saw \"Jurassic Park?\" Anybody see the movie? Put your hands up. Okay. Do you remember what the T-rex did in that movie? Does any body remember what the T-rex did in the movie?", "He chased the people in the car while they were driving.", "Right, and it was running pretty fast, wasn't it?", "Yeah.", "Do you think it could really run that fast?", "So, so.", "What do you think?", "Yeah.", "You do think it could run that fast?", "Yeah.", "Okay. Well, as we were talking, they're now saying it probably couldn't run that fast. But you know what, I want to bring somebody who is an actual expert over here. I've got Bill Simpson over here. Now he is one of the guys who helped put this whole skeleton together, and he's -- don't want to interrupt him (ph), he's talking to -- giving a little lesson to the school kids this morning. Give me some sense of what you think about how fast this dinosaur could run, this is no big news to you, correct?", "No, it's not. When we first got Sue, we were telling people that we didn't think the animal could actually break into a run. It could do a fast walk at something like 10 to 15 miles an hour. This new research basically confirms what we were suggesting. If they could break into a run, they still couldn't run fast. They still would have been limited by -- at maybe 20 to 25 miles an hour, and that's really pushing it, but...", "So they could clearly outrun people. Not that there were people there, but I mean -- so, give some people a perspective of how fast this would be.", "Well, it is interesting, actually. The predicted range of speed for a T-rex is about the same that you see for people. An Olympic sprinter can go about 25 miles an hour, which is what the best guess for the top speed here is. I could probably 10 to 15 miles per hour, running as fast as I could. So, the human range is about the same as that for T-rex.", "What have you been talking to the kids about this morning?", "We've been talking about how Sue might have died, and whether Sue is a female or not, and whether Sue was a predator or a scavenger.", "Yeah, that is another big question that is part of this research, is whether or not -- what do you know about that? Tell me everything you know about that. Who wants to tell me everything they know about the T-rex? Yes, go ahead. What do you know?", "Well, they're big and fierce and you wouldn't want to mess with them.", "Right. That's the notion, that they are fierce and that they ate other dinosaurs.", "Yes.", "We don't know that for sure, do we?", "We don't know it for sure, but, you know, there are no modern predators that don't do both. Eat live animals and carrion, dead animals, so I'm sure that Sue was the same way.", "Follow me around here, if you would, Bill, because I want to get a sense for how you determine these things, how fast the doggone thing could run. All you got is bones here. How the heck do you know how fast it could run?", "Well, we've number of different parameters. As you say, we know the bone lengths, so we have got that. We can take a guess at the posture. That is very important, actually. The different postures affect the results a lot.", "Because this is a two-legged creature, correct?", "It is a two-legged creature. You can have the legs very erect, very straight, like an elephant, and then you don't need so big a muscle to hold you up. But if you have got the legs bent as in a running pose, then you need a lot more muscle mass.", "And the other thing about these things. Two-legged creature, it is running, if it falls down -- I mean, two-legged creature can fall down fairly easily, right?", "Oh, as we all know, if we trip, we fall down. Now, with a four-legged creature, if they trip, they're unlikely to fall. A 12,000 pound creature tripping and falling, that is a disaster. It's going to break bones.", "In fact, I'm going to ask Bill, if -- if you could take a look -- look at those ribs. We were talking about this earlier. Those are breaks in the bones in that rib cage there, correct?", "They are healed breaks, that's right. That is an injury that the animal went through, and in fact, the shoulder blade over here shows the same thing. So, there was a big injury to this area of the chest and shoulder, an injury that the animal survived.", "So that might argue for -- if it fell over, that's potentially -- you don't know, but what the break could have come from.", "Yeah, we really don't know what caused that break. I almost wonder that if an animal like this fell over, it would be a much more massive break. The damage would be something that it might have not survived.", "Right. I'm fascinated by this, Anderson. as I bet you are. I don't know if you are a guy who likes to poke around with dinosaur bones or not, but what do you think?", "I thought it was pretty cool, Jeff. I actually didn't realize that the T-rex and I had so much in common. The muscles on my legs are so big I often have difficulty running as well.", "That's right. You have got what, 80 percent, of your muscle mass in your legs, is that what it is?", "Pretty much, yes. It is clearly not in my skinny little arms.", "Hey, Jeff, that's why you never see a wide shot here on", "That's right, we don't want to scare the viewers.", "I know, when we saw you in the park the other day, I thought we were going to get lucky, but no, we did not.", "Are those kids disappointed to learn that the T-rex couldn't run as fast as maybe some of them thought?", "You know, that's a really good question, and I do want to ask you, I mean, we were talking, and you said you think it runs as fast as a elephant. Are you disappointed that it didn't run as fast as maybe in the movie?", "Yeah, a little, because I thought that they would be more dangerous than we see them now, in the movies.", "You would kind of like it to be that way?", "It looked so neat.", "Would you have liked to have lived during that time?", "Well, not to really live to see some of it on TV, because I wouldn't want to get eaten.", "Truer words -- smarter words were never spoken. I don't want to get eaten, either. Thank you. There you go, guys.", "All right. Jeff Flock -- Jeff, thanks a lot. That was a really cool report.", "I tell you, Anderson, I don't know whether Sue was coming at me at 25 miles per hour or 45 miles per hour, I would have gotten out of her way. 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{"id": "CNN-151966", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2010-6-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1006/11/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Thank You, Sandra Bullock; Most Provocative Celebrity of the Week", "utt": ["The big reveal now as SHOWBIZ TONIGHT names the most provocative celebrity of the week. The nominees - Shannon Price for reportedly selling Gary Coleman`s deathbed photos and claiming they`re still married. Lindsay Lohan for her SCRAM-wearing, jail-avoiding alcohol drama. And Lady Gaga nominated for her shockilicious(ph) antics, everything, from her over-the-top music video to her double middle finger salute at New York Mets game. That`s where she stripped down to a black studded bra and panties. Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York. And we`re going to name the most provocative celebrity of the week in just a moment. You do not want to miss it. But first, just in today - Thanks, Sandra. Jesse James ex-wife is now publicly thanking Jesse`s soon-to-be ex-wife, Sandra Bullock, in a brand-new interview today. Janine Lindemulder expressed her appreciation to Sandra for taking such good care of Lindemulder`s seven-year-old daughter, Sunny, while Lindemulder was in the clink. With me right now, in New York, is Shira Lazar who is a digital correspondent for \"CBSNews.com.\" Also, in New York, Brian Balthazar. Brian is an editor with \"PopGoesTheWeek.com.\" So Jesse James` ex-wife, Janine Lindemulder, was feeling some Sandra Bullock love after a judge granted Lindemulder visitation rights with the daughter that Lindemulder had with Jesse James. Are you following along now? I`ve got to tell you, I was actually pleasantly surprised by what she said here. Watch this.", "I`m still very grateful. She did a wonderful job and I`m forever indebted.", "This is a woman that Sandra Bullock was going head to head with not that long ago, Shira. But she seems sincere to me. Do you think she was?", "Well, she wasn`t in court when she said that, so who knows? But at this point, she needs to be grateful. She needs to look good. I mean, this is someone who everyone pretty much hates. I mean, when all of the bloggers talk horribly online and obviously, the public. She`s, you know, been in porn, a halfway house. So she needs to say something good at this point. I mean, Sandra, to everyone at this point, is America`s sweetheart.", "Yes.", "So she did say something good. It would have looked really bad for her,", "Yes. Let`s hope that what she is saying is backed up by some real feelings.", "Exactly.", "But it does make me wonder if, you know, maybe Sandra Bullock and Jesse`s porn star ex might just become friends after all because they do have this little girl Sunny`s best interest at heart. I know both of them do. Brian, what do you think? Is that such a farfetched idea?", "I will jump out of a triple box if that happens. I think - I would be pretty surprised, because, you know, Sandra is doing anything she can to stay away from the tabloid element of the story. So I think she will do whatever she has to do to keep it civil. She`s not going to be going to Rodeo Drive with her.", "Yes.", "She`s not going to sit over coffee publicly. She`s just going to do the bare minimum.", "All right. Shari, are you jumping out of the triple box, too, if that happens?", "Yes. I mean, I just don`t want to see any more exes. I`m sick of the exes. Enough of them.", "And Chris, take her out of the triple box. There you go. All right. You`re safe now. Well, neither Jesse James nor Sandra Bullock made the cut to be named SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s most provocative celebrity of the week. But I`ve got to tell you, it was tough. This week`s celebrities certainly gave us a lot of, shall we say, outrageous shenanigans to consider. I want you to check out our three nominees, not the three people in the box. All right. It`s Shannon Price for reportedly selling Gary Coleman`s deathbed photo and her claim that they`re still married even though they`re divorced. Lindsay Lohan for her SCRAM-wearing, jail- avoiding alcohol drama. And then, Lady Gaga - it`s the week for her. Her over-the-top music video came out. Her double middle-finger salute at the Mets game where she stripped down to her black-studded bra and panties. Brian, back in the triple box, who do you think deserves the esteemed title of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s most provocative celebrity of the week? Who is it?", "I`ve got to eliminate Gaga. Being surprised by her acting crazy is like being surprised by Richard Simmons being flamboyant. Lindsay Lohan is more of the same. So I`m going with Shannon Price, posing for a, you know, new profile photo with your husband on his deathbed is just over the top and fighting for money you don`t even know he has. It`s just crazy.", "All right. Well, let`s move right to it. It is time now to reveal SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s most provocative celebrity of the week. For that, I need a drum roll, please. It is Shannon Price. Yes, Shannon got it. She, of course, reportedly sold Gary Coleman`s deathbed photo to a tabloid. I just think it doesn`t get more disgusting than that. She made the bombshell claim today that even though they are divorced, she is Gary Coleman`s common law wife, and her legal move now, of course, to become the heir to his estate. Shira, do you agree that the Price is right?", "I mean, come on. This provocative course of the week - she`s milking her 15 seconds of fame and it`s so sad to see in such a tragic way. I mean - and now this reality show coming up in 2008 - you know, he said, \"All she wanted was money.\" So surprise, surprise. It shouldn`t be that big of a surprise that she`s doing all of this. It`s just really tragic and it`s sad and disgusting to see as a public.", "Yes. And what`s sad and disgusting to me - and Brian, I`m certain you agree, it doesn`t appear that this is going to stop any time soon. And Gary continues to be betrayed after he`s gone.", "Yes. People wanted his money in life from the very beginning and they want it in death. And it`s really, really tragic.", "Shira, we did have a couple of write-in votes. One for Sandra Bullock because she is so strong in showing how good she`s doing. Should we have considered that?", "Yes, she appeared at the MTV Movie Awards, kissing Scarlett Johansson this past week, so she`s definitely made herself more provocative. But people still love her, so it`s a good provocative.", "All right. Shira Lazar, Brian Balthazar, I thank you both. Well, if there`s one thing I`ve learned working in this business all of these years - always assume your microphone is on, OK? Because otherwise, you could end up in a story about the most outrageous open- mike bloopers.", "Oh, my god! Get the snake! Somebody do something. No.", "It is time now for the \"SHOWBIZ News Ticker\" - more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news today.", "Tori Spelling`s husband, Dean McDermott says he and Tori want to have another baby. Star Jones to write a novel based on a \"View\"-like show. And now, HLN`s salute to Dads, Father`s Day, is coming up, of course. And we`ve been asking the stars what their fathers mean to them. Today, \"Get Him to the Greek\" star, Jonah Hill -", "Happy Father`s Day, Dad. I love you. More than anything, you will always be my best friend. I would be nothing without you. I love you. Happy Father`s Day.", "Very nice, Jonah. By the way, remember, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is in \"Get Him to the Greek\" so tell Dad to go see it. 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{"id": "CNN-303398", "program": "CNN 10", "date": "2017-01-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/18/sn.01.html", "summary": "Search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 Is Suspended; U.S. Troops on the Move in Eastern Europe; Historic Look at Inaugural Traditions", "utt": ["This is CNN 10. Ten minutes of world news explained. I`m Carl Azuz. And leading things off this Wednesday, January 18th, a mystery, one of the biggest in the history of aviation may go unsolved. The underwater search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been called off. On March 8, 2014, the flight left Kuala Lumpur and headed for Beijing, China. It had 239 people onboard. At some point during the journey, military radar indicated that the plane changed course and headed west. Investigators believe it eventually turned south, toward the southern Indian Ocean. After that, the train went cold. A few pieces of the plane have washed up on islands near the east coast of Africa. But despite years of searching 46,000 square miles and spending millions of dollars, no one knows what happened to the plane. Its black box, its flight data recorder may hold some answers, but it`s missing with the flight. And Malaysia, China, and Australia, the three countries leading the search announced yesterday they were suspending it. They said the decision was not made lightly or without sadness. But a group that represents family members of the flight`s passengers says stopping it at this stage is nothing short of irresponsible.", "Following a plane crash, the search for survivors always comes first. But just as important is a search for answers, the why and the how. Often, those answers are found in a black box.", "What is a black box?", "Since the `60s, all commercial airplanes have been required to have one on board. Now, the name is a little misleading because they`re actually orange. And when we`re talking about a black box, we`re talking about two different boxes -- one being the cockpit voice recorder, the other being the flight data recorder. Together, they weigh anywhere between 20 to 30 pounds, and they have to be crash-proof. Black boxes can survive just about anything: temperatures up to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour, forces that are 3400 Gs. Now, that`s 3400 times the force of gravity. They`re waterproof and they can save recorded data for two years. And it`s a lot of data. The cockpit voice recorder records that crew`s conversation and background noise. By listening to the ambient sounds in the cockpit before a crash, experts can determine if the stall took place, the RPMs of the engine and the speed of which the plane was traveling. When these sounds are cross- referenced with ground control conversations, they can even help searches locate a crash site. Then, there`s the flight data recorder. It gathers 25 hours of technical data from airplane sensors, recording several thousand discreet pieces of information. Data about the airspeed, altitude, pitch, acceleration, roll, fuel, and the list goes on and on. But to make sense of the data, first, you have to find it. Not an easy thing to do when a plane crashes into the ocean. Both black box components are outfitted with underwater locator beacons, which self-activated the moment they come into contact with water. They sent pings once per second to signal their location and can transmit data from as deep as 20,000 feet for up to 30 days, when their batteries then run out. But on land, there`s no such pinging to help guide the search. Investigators have to sift through the wreckage until they find it.", "Up next, it`s a force of 4,000 U.S. troops, plus 2,400 pieces of military equipment, including tanks, artillery and armored trucks. It`s all part of a deployment lasting nine months and it`s moving throughout Eastern Europe on training exercises. The Americans who recently arrived in Poland received a welcome ceremony and a greeting from the country`s prime minister. A commander of the U.S. land forces in Europe says their presence was a concrete sign of the continued U.S. commitment to the defense of Poland and the NATO alliance. But Russia said it saw the deployment as a threat, an action that threatens Russian interest and security. Here`s why there`s tension over this.", "The one thing you need to know about U.S. troop deployment across Europe is the word \"collective defense\". Let`s take this example, say, Russian tanks crossed the border and invaded Latvia, well, then, it would be U.S. soldiers that rushed to the frontline in Latvia`s defense. That`s the basis of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO, an alliance of 28 countries guaranteeing their region`s security. An attack on one is an attack on all. But the United States has, by far, the most powerful military in the alliance. The NATO was formed in 1949, just after World War II, in order to contain the Soviet Union. But in 1991, the USSR collapsed. In the next decade or so, NATO grew to include some of those former Soviet states. Then, in 2014, Russian forces entered Ukraine, seizing the Crimean Peninsula, a violation of international law. Now, Ukraine is not a member of NATO. So, the United States and other NATO allies did not mobilize troops to defend Ukraine, but many of Ukraine`s neighbors are members of NATO. Poland, Estonia, and Latvia are just some of the NATO allies that have called for more troops to come to their defense. And this is why we see thousands of U.S. troops now deployed across Eastern Europe, to create a strong deterrent against any further Russian aggression.", "Ten-second trivia. Which U.S. president gave the shortest inaugural address? George Washington, William Henry Harrison, Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Delivered in 1793, George Washington`s second inaugural address was the shortest ever in 135 words, just two paragraphs.", "Two hundred twenty-four years later, a presidential inauguration is a massive event. No matter how short or long the speech might be. The price tag can ring up at $200 million. That`s not just this year`s event, that`s what inaugurations can typically cost in the 21st century. According to the Washington Post\", both parties, Democrats and Republicans, tend to spend the same amount for inaugurations. Private donations can cover $70 million of the cost, give or take. The rest comes from taxpayers and the money goes to everything from security, the biggest expense, to the swearing in ceremony, the parade, the parties, and the inaugural ball.", "Inauguration day is a long one for the new leader of the free world. Traditionally, the president-elect wakes up at Blair House, the president`s guest house. President-elect Trump is planning to stay at Blair House, even with his hotel just down the street. Then the president-elect takes a ride around the corner to St. John`s Church. Then it`s time to take the oath.", "I, George Herbert Walker, Bush --", "That I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States.", "Next: deliver a killer speech.", "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.", "Do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.", "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.", "Grab lunch with the Senate.", "Thank you for a president who knows you and seeks your through Scripture.", "The lunch has been a thing since 1953. That`s followed by a brisk walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. (Or a drive. It`s cold in January.) Then it`s time to thaw out and watch the parade. (Or take a selfie.) Finally, it`s time to have a(n inaugural) ball. Optional: Show off.", "There`s a quick, easy and free way to find out in advance what`s coming up on CNN 10, by signing for our daily email. From our home page, all you got to do is click on \"sign up for daily emails\". Enter your email address, your first name, your state, that`s it. The night before each day`s show, you get a quick summary of our major stories sent right to your inbox.", "For \"10 out of 10\" today, you`d expect to see a polar bear playing in the snow. So, no surprises here. But when you see an Asian elephant doing the same thing, you know something is up. This ain`t the Arctic, it`s the Oregon Zoo. It shut down one day last week for an unusually strong snow storm, but some of the animals looked like they love it. They took advantage of a snow day to play like kids on a day off from school. Of course, the polar animals could bear it. As far as complaints went, the marine mammals` lips were sealed, and it didn`t seem like it bothered the elephant`s pachydermis. So, even if snow wasn`t part of their natural habitat, it wasn`t zoo cold for them to luzooriate in near blizood conditions. I`m Carl Azooz for CNN 10. END"], "speaker": ["CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR", "RACHEL CRANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SUBTITLE", "CRANE", "AZUZ", "ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "AZUZ (voice-over)", "AZUZ", "SUBTITLE", "GEORGE H.W. BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT", "RONALD REAGAN, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT", "SUBTITLE", "FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT", "REAGAN", "JOHN F. KENNEDY, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT", "SUBTITLE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SUBTITLE", "AZUZ", "AZUZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-299393", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-11-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/30/cnr.09.html", "summary": "Interview With Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan", "utt": ["It was November 9. This is the day after the decisive election made Donald Trump President Obama's successor, the day President Obama would sit with \"Rolling Stone\" publisher Jann Wenner for their fourth interview, an exit interview of sorts that would become the president's first public reaction to Trump's historic win. The piece is entitled \"The Day After: Obama on His Legacy, Trump's Win and the Path Forward.\" You see the cover right here. In part, Wenner writes: \"The last time I interviewed the president in 2012, it was a lazy afternoon. I had gone over our time limit by a half-hour. And on leaving the Oval Office, I ran into Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, sitting by the desk with the president's assistant waiting to come in. This time, it was her ghost.\" Here with me, \"Rolling Stone\" contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis. And with us, CNN political commentator Bill Press, a Democrat. Welcome to both of you. And, wow, incredible interview. Just totally fascinating interview. Kudos to Jann for doing this. And the way he describes -- I just want to begin with tone, because it almost feels like -- the description is like it's a funeral, a funeral and ambience in the White House.", "Yes. Well, it's a very interesting situation. Jann called him that morning, called President Obama that morning, and just said, look, obviously, we're in a situation we didn't anticipate. And do you need to cancel this and we will do it another time? That's perfectly fine. And Obama said, no, I want to do it.", "Wow.", "And so it has that feel of right after a cataclysm, really, and it's fascinating. I think Jann has been doing interviews for a long time and you see a lot of his strengths as an interviewer there.", "He's very comfortable with the president.", "Yes, completely.", "He trusts him.", "And also he has certain kinds of -- I think the \"Rolling Stone\" interview, whether it's Mick Jagger or President Obama, always has a kind of feeling, I think, for readers of as if a representative of the readership is there. And Jann had that feel. As informed as he is about politics, you definitely had his sense of, OK, but what happens now? What are we going to do now? That sense that I think a lot of Hillary supporters had the day after the election. You could feel that in his questions very ardently.", "Let me just read another piece of this. The president spoke of why Trump's win shouldn't come as a surprise\" -- this is what he told Jann -- citing his own massive rallies in '08. He said -- the president said this to \"Rolling Stone\": \"That's the thing about voting. It doesn't mean polls are irrelevant, but there's always a human variable involved in this. So I think the odds of Donald Trump winning were always around 20 percent. Doesn't seem like a lot, but one out of five is not that unusual. It's not a miracle.\" And, Bill, he chalked up Trump's appeal to voters. He had talked about -- you know he said FOX News is in every bar, in every restaurant in major chunks of the country. Whether that's entirely true or not, would you agree with sort of what the president was saying and what was so missed?", "Well, first of all, kudos to \"Rolling Stone\" and Jann Wenner again for keeping our journalistic standards high, Brooke.", "No kidding.", "They make us all proud, of course.", "Yes.", "I thought I was reading a Shakespearian tragedy reading this article. It's a fascinating interview. And I think the president was in denial on a couple of issues. I think he's in denial about how much of his legacy is going to be wiped out by this new administration across the board. The president sort of was saying, oh, we will keep this, we will keep this. Some things are in place. I think it is going to be a wipeout. And, secondly, I think he's in denial -- now, this gets to your point -- about what a shambles the Democratic Party is in. Under his presidency, the Democratic Party now has lost the White House, the House, the Senate, 900 and some state legislature seats, and over I think 12 or 15 governorships. So, I'm sorry, you can't blame all of that on FOX News. Some of it, you have got to blame on the Democrats not doing their job.", "Anthony, just back over to you. One the question that Wenner had asked was, what advice do you have for Trump? What did he share? And what, of this entire wide-ranging interview, just surprised you the most?", "Well, I was really struck. You know, the situation was pretty dramatic, obviously, the day after the election. But, you know, this is no-drama Obama."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "ANTHONY DECURTIS, \"ROLLING STONE\"", "BALDWIN", "DECURTIS", "BALDWIN", "DECURTIS", "BALDWIN", "DECURTIS", "BALDWIN", "BILL PRESS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BALDWIN", "PRESS", "BALDWIN", "PRESS", "BALDWIN", "DECURTIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-256772", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-06-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/06/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Funeral Held for Vice President Joe Biden's Son Beau Biden; President Obama to Give Eulogy for Beau Biden; GOP Presidential Candidates Gather in Iowa to Campaign; President Obama to Urge EU to Continue Sanctions against Russia.", "utt": ["Thank you so much for joining me. Don't forget you can follow me on Twitter if you can spell \"SMERCONISH.\" I'll see you next week.", "We begin this morning with the funeral for beloved son of Delaware, Beau Biden.", "Take a look at the screen here for you. The funeral mass for Vice President Joe Biden's son scheduled to begin in just about a half-hour. You can hear the music, though, that they're playing, as we have heard of long lines, lines five blocks long, outside the church waiting to be seated. They're entering St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church, there, in Wilmington. And also we need to take a look at this. The American flag at half-staff at White House right now in honor of Beau Biden.", "President Obama will deliver a eulogy this morning. Just a short time ago h\\He and the first lady boarded air force one to go to Wilmington. The White House says Mr. Obama will honor Delaware's former attorney general as a remarkable son, father and public servant.", "CNN national correspondent Sunlen Serfaty is going to be with us in a bit. But we do want to get right now to Douglas Brinkley and talk to you, Douglas, if we could, please, about Beau Biden and the legacy that he leaves.", "Well, in some ways it's fitting that today's D-Day, because it's a day we think of as a great day of military service. And Beau Biden, who had an opportunity to stay in politics, stay in Delaware, make money, work in a law firm, decided to dedicate his life to public service. In his mind that meant joining the National Guard, and that meant becoming a major in the armed forces and serving overseas duty in Iraq. So today's funeral will have a military feel to it. But it's also, he was a religious man, a child of Roman Catholicism, somebody who believed in God and Jesus Christ. And so it's, it's really a very sad loss. And you have to feel for the vice president losing a child, while he has the pressures of the world on your shoulders, and having to kind of soldier on. And at previous moments in American history sitting presidents or vice presidents have lost children. But it's always the darkest moment. So today's a very sad day.", "In fact I was reading some of the comments that are online. One person wrote \"Even though I don't agree with Vice President Biden's politics, my heart breaks for him. God bless this man and his family and give them strength.\" When you read about how people are embracing this family. Not just people in Delaware, but people all over the country, possibly all over the world, what is it do you think about this family that makes people care so much?", "Well, Joe Biden has been in American politics for a while. He's our vice president. He's beloved. And the fact of the matter is, we always think of the Kennedy family, as being surrounded with tragedy. But if you look at what Joe Biden has had to go through, and, you know, and what Beau had. Beau had lost his mother in an automobile accident which he was injured along with his brother, Hunter. And, you know, they lost, he lost a sister. And so the vice president is not new to loss. But he was so incredibly close to Beau, so proud of him. And Beau Biden was a bit of what we used to call in America a Boy Scout. He wanted everything to be right. He believed in old-fashioned public service. He joined the Justice Department to get bad people out of the public sphere. As I mentioned, he served in our armed forces and was a very shining light in Delaware politics. I mean, beloved as attorney general, was going to be almost a shoo-in to become governor. And his political potential was just sky-less. I mean, he was going to be going far. And any time you lose somebody that's in their 40s to cancer, in this case brain cancer, I think it reminds everybody watching, we're all, cancer has, touches all of us and just how heinous it is and how deeply the Bidens and the Obamas are in the Bidens extended family, and all of America are feeling right now. There's a lot of love going towards the Biden family this afternoon.", "A tremendous loss. Douglas Brinkley, stand by for us. We want to bring in CNN national correspondent Sunlen Serfaty. She's outside the church in Wilmington. OK, we'll have to go back to Sunlen in just a moment. We'll get Sunlen her in just a moment, so I'll stay with you, Douglas. And put it into a larger context, the role and of the president coming, not just to eulogize a friend he had in Beau Biden but to support his vice president. And we've seen this throughout history.", "Well, you know what, President Obama loves Joe Biden. It's not a word we often talk about in the political sphere, the love, but there is a huge amount of love. And this is a president and vice president who get along exceedingly well. Joe Biden is somebody who usually brings comic relief to the president. He has a great sense of humor and is usually somebody that helps the president kind of laugh through some of the day. In this case, you see President Obama coming to really probably give one of the most stunning eulogies imaginable. And the very fact that he's arriving there and honoring Beau Biden and Beau's service is very meaningful. Remember, Beau Biden was the one who introduced his father at the Democratic convention. That whole family narrative of how Joe Biden when his first wife was killed, how Joe Biden would take the train back to Delaware to make sure he was raising Beau and Hunter Biden and his children properly. And I think we have to think of Beau Biden's children, his two kids who now are fatherless suddenly. And so it's a very important funeral I think in American history today. The last time you had a death of a sitting president or vice president was John F. Kennedy back in August of 1963 when they lost Patrick. Patrick was only born for two days, was born premature, weighed five pounds, and died. So we really haven't had since '63 a sitting president or vice president that lost a family member like this.", "You know, you mentioned how he used to take the train back and forth. In his Yale University commencement address just this past year, I want to read you something that Joe said, Joe Biden said. He said \"Looking back on it, the truth be told, the reason I went home every night was that I needed my children more than they needed me.\" And he was saying this about pundits who suggested his absence from Washington would wreck his political career. And then he went on to say \"I realized I didn't miss a thing. Ambition is really important. You need it. I certainly never lacked having ambition, but ambition without perspective can be a killer\" is what he said. And they're such profound words that come from Joe Biden. I want to go to Sunlen Serfaty now, because she is, we're looking here at what's happening inside the church, but she's got a perspective outside the church. Sunlen we had heard at one point the lines to get in from five blocks long. What are you seeing there at this hour?", "That's right, Christi. And today is no exception to those long lines we saw at the public viewing here yesterday. Today at this funeral people started lining up at 4:30 a.m. and the line really stretched around the block. You can see behind me some people still making their way inside the church, which as you've been looking at, live pictures inside the church, that church is packed, holding hundreds. President Obama and the first family, including the first grandmother, Marian Robinson, they have landed here in Wilmington, Delaware. They're making their way to this church in the little Italy part of Wilmington, Delaware. We know that President Obama is feeling this loss very personally. That's according to his press secretary. We know that President Obama is taking a personal role in writing his eulogy that he will deliver here later today. And in addition to President Obama, though, we'll also hear from members of the Biden family. Beau Biden's sister, Ashley, and Beau Biden's brother, Hunter, will also give an address, as well as General Ray Odierno. He was the commanding in Iraq when Beau Biden served there, who certainly has some emotional remarks to come. Christi?", "We understand, Sunlen, that you have the program now that attendees of the ceremony will receive.", "That's right. We do have the program which they are of course giving to everyone as they come in here. And I want to make reference to just this picture that's on the cover of the program. As you can see, a very casual photo of Beau Biden. It looks like he's on a fishing trip. I imagine this is probably how the family wants to remember him, not in any formal picture from when he was attorney general or perhaps when he was serving in Iraq, but a casual picture of him enjoying life. And certainly we will hear many details of that life today. We know that among the pall bearers are his uncle, the younger brother to the vice president. And some of the readers are three of Beau Biden's nieces, daughters to his brother. Back to you.", "All right, Sunlen Serfaty outside the church there in Wilmington, Delaware. Thank you, and also our thanks to Douglas Brinkley for putting much of this into context for us. Let's switch gears now and turn to Dana Bash, with Republicans who are now -- running another lap in 2016. GOP candidates are in Iowa this morning. Are we going to that? OK, all right, taking part in the first annual roast and ride in the city of Boone. It's part of a memorial motorcycle ride. And it's also conservative campaigning. CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash is in the mix. Dana, tell us what's going on there?", "Well, we're still actually in Des Moines because this is where the ride part of the roast and ride is going to begin. You see behind me, this is a Harley barn, and what Joni Ernst, who is the freshman center from Iowa, and, as you can imagine, a Harley rider herself, decided what she wanted to do is to make this, perhaps, the first annual tradition of making this kind of fun day for Harley riders but also a very political day for would-be Republican presidential candidates. And of course this is a presidential year, actual presidential candidates. Let's just start here. There' going to be a gathering of a lot of Harley riders, and there are groups who have been gathered from police officer groups from veteran groups. They are going to be riding from here 38 miles to the town of Boone, Iowa. And it is there that the presidential candidates are going to be speaking. We're told that they are only going to have eight minutes each to speak. Seven of them are going to come. But there actually is going to be one presidential candidate who is going to take the ride along with Joni Ernst. Actually, he's not officially a candidate, but we expect him to be soon, and that's Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin. He is a Harley rider, a Harley lover we're told. And he is been talking with his aides. He's very excited to be riding in the race, not just speaking at the event later. Victor and Christi?", "So, Dana, we've been talking about the debates that are coming and the attempt to crack into the top 10. And what does, does a candidate have to do, specifically, to get into that top 10, to get into the debate?", "It's very difficult and there's a lot of angst here frankly, among Republicans and among the supporters of those like Lindsey Graham, for example, like Carly Fiorina, like Ben Carson, all of whom will actually be at this event today who are barely more than asterisks in the polls right now. And because of that and because there is such a huge field, and the first debate at FOX is saying only 10 people on the stage and it will depend where you are. There is so much effort right now going into getting support early to bump themselves up. And this particular event is, is a very good forum for a lot of these candidates, or potential candidates, to get themselves noticed, to get themselves more support so they can be on the national stage. But you know what, the thing about places like Iowa is that it really is still about one-on-one campaigning, and a lot of the candidates who are kind of at the bottom of the polling totem pole, they say that even if they don't get on the stage nationally that they are hoping that by spending a lot of time here gripping and grinning and going to house parties and meeting people one-on-one, that when it comes to the caucuses, which is really kind of a personal and organizing experience, then that may be at least in the short-term will matter more than the debate stage. But the debate stage is important for those donors where they look at the candidates and say this is somebody who I can put my money behind, and that matters when there are so many people in the race, and this is going to be a long slog. Victor and Christi?", "Indeed. Dana Bash in Des Moines for us this morning, Dana, thanks.", "There's another revelation in the Dennis Hastert scandal, a third victim now accusing the former House speaker of sexual abuse. This of course after a woman reveals her brother was molested, she says, by Hastert during high school. We have some of the new details for you coming up. 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{"id": "CNN-29965", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-5-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/08/lad.01.html", "summary": "Energy Experts Discuss Rising Petroleum Prices", "utt": ["A lot of people are battling sky rocketing gas prices. We're paying $1.46 here in Atlanta, folks in California are paying upwards of $2, but the people who are getting hit hardest are the people who actually need fuel to make a living. We're talking about truckers; the more they pay to get goods to market, the more you're likely to pay at the store. Let's go to CNN's Eileen O'Connor. She is in Jessup, Maryland. She's talking with some of these truckers and seeing what they can do about this -- Eileen.", "Well we're seeing a lot of truckers here, Carol, because this is the travel store along Route 95 near Jessup, Maryland. Route I-95, as you know, goes north and south along the entire East Coat of the United States. So it's a very popular route for truckers. They're saying that they are very worried about these rising prices. One of the reasons is that profit margins for trucking companies are only about 2 percent or 3 percent. Also, fuel costs are 5 percent to 20 percent of their expenses, and in the first half of the year 2000, when fuel prices were as very high, as high as $1.61 a gallon, there were more than 1,300 bankruptcies, and that was more than in all of 1999. Prices peaked at $1.67 a gallon in November, but they're rising back up. Here, they're $1.55 a gallon already. With me is Bob Costello. He's an economist with the American Trucking Association. Thanks for joining us, Bob. Why are prices going up so much now?", "One of the reasons is right now you have a very tight capacity situation at refiners. So if even one refiner goes down, due to a fire or -- they're running at near 100 percent capacity, and when you run something that strong for that long, you're bound to have problems -- you're seeing price spikes in that particular area.", "And there haven't been refineries built in a very long time.", "Not in over 25 years.", "That's one of the things the Bush administration is looking at, how to pique or build up more investment in refineries. What does diesel fuel actually mean to me as a consumer? What about the products in the local Wal-Mart? How many of them came in on truck?", "The trucking industry moves America. Over 87 percent of the freight transportation market is the trucking industry. Over 75 percent of towns and communities in the United States only get their freight via truck. So it's very important to you and me as consumers, but even more important is that one out of every 14 Americans is employed in a trucking-related job. So if these companies start going out of business because they can't afford the $450 to $500 to fill up their trucks, that's going to have significant consequences for everybody.", "Why don't they just pass this cost on to consumers? A lot of them go bankrupt instead.", "One thing is that this is a highly competitive industry, and that's actually good for you and me as consumers -- when we go to the store, that helps to keep prices down. But one of the consequences of that is when we get some price spikes like this -- actually, prices have been high for over a year now -- that's going to impact you and me. In fact, 10 percent of the price of goods we buy is transportation costs.", "One of the things that the Bush administration talked about is more drilling and more investment in refineries, and also conservation: What's the trucking industry doing about conservation?", "There are a couple of things. One is trucks have become more fuel efficient over the years. Another one is that this is really a high-tech industry. You hear everything about the Internet and the information superhighway; the trucking industry is really no different. They're using computer systems to tell them where to fuel up, where they can get the best prices, and when to fuel up.", "Thank you very much, Bob Costello from the American Trucking Association. One of the truckers we were talking to earlier said you have to imagine that if these price rises in gasoline mean maybe an additional $4 or $5 to you when you fill up at the tank, imagine what it takes to fill up one of these: about $450. So when they see a 10-percent price rise, that's $45 every time they fill up. I'm Eileen O'Connor, reporting live from the truck stop outside of Jessup, Maryland.", "Thank you, Eileen. Why are gas prices so high, and how much higher might they go? Arjun Makhijani is an energy policy analyst and the president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. He's in our Washington bureau this morning. Thank you for being with us, sir.", "You're very welcome...", "You heard our previous guest just a moment ago. Are rising gas prices a supply problem?", "It is not an oil supply problem. That's the thing that people should understand. It's a little bit different than last year: Last year, prices were rising because crude oil supplies were tighter and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries prices were rising. Secretary Richardson was doing shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East. Last September, west Texas crude prices were $10 higher than they are today. So over the last many months, crude prices have declined, and over the last few months, they've been pretty steady between $25, $24 and $30 a barrel. This price rise does not have to do with the supply of oil. It does not have to do with OPEC, and it does not have to with oil imports. It has to do with the domestic situation of tight refining capacity and people making more money from existing refining capacity.", "Is it a case of the market leaders manipulating the supply, or is this just a natural phenomenon resulting from years of neglect?", "I don't think there is any kind of conspiracy. At least I haven't seen any evidence of people sitting in hotel rooms fixing pricing, or anything like that. As the previous economists said, there is a tight situation with refining; however, runs to refineries have increased over the last month. It hasn't been tight for months and months. There were 15 million barrels a day going 1 1/2 months ago to refineries, and it's nearly 16 million barrels a day today. That's pretty close to capacity. However, this situation cannot be changed in the short term. I think refiners are taking advantage of the tight situation and making more money. Every penny increase in prices of gasoline mean over a billion dollars in additional profits in the current situation.", "Mr. Makhijani, the Bush administration seems to be focusing long term, in terms of an energy policy. It is telling California the residents are just going to have to put up with rolling blackouts this year. The rest of us are going to have to put up with high gas prices this summer. Is that the wisest thing to do? Should there be a short-term energy policy coming out of Washington?", "Well, I think you can't build refineries overnight, even if that's the energy policy. If you start drilling today, you still won't have significant return for many, many years. So I don't think the Bush administration is doing anything in the short term. There are lots of short-term measures that can be taken to ease the situation. The federal government has, for instance, a very large fleet of cars. I think this fleet of cars can be converted to natural gas. I think it would be a good thing to ease up on the gasoline supply in that way. Also, the government's fleet of cars can be made more efficient. I think the government can mandate efficiency standards. I'll give you an example. The cars on the road today that are being sold, the new ones, average about 25 miles to the gallon, but you can buy a car on today's market that will give you 60 miles to the gallon. It's made by Toyota. It's available on the market.", "So are you saying there are some things that can be done?", "Yes. I think the government should mandate efficiency standards. This has fallen by the wayside. Nelson: OK. It's much easier to recover a barrel through efficiency than it is to build new refineries.", "Thank you for taking the time this morning, sir. We've run out of time. Arjun Makhijani is an energy policy analyst in Washington. Thank you for being with us.", "Thank you very much. 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{"id": "CNN-154298", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-8-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1008/13/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Stabbing Suspect Arrested at Atlanta Airport; Federal Judge Lifts Stay, Kills Prop 8; JetBlue Flight Attendant Wants Job Back; New Orleans: Law & Disorder", "utt": ["Good morning, and thanks so much for joining us on the Most News in the Morning. It's Friday, and it's the 13th of August.", "I thought you weren't going to mention it because it would be bad vibes.", "Are you a triskaidekaphobiac (ph)", "I don't believe so.", "Oh, that's a good thing.", "But I could have that.", "That's if you're afraid of Friday the 13th, that's what you are. We'll be talking about that this morning. Triskaidekaphobiacs as well, people who are afraid just of the number 13. I'm John Roberts.", "Too much to wrap my mind around this morning.", "Good morning to you.", "I'm Carol Costello. Kiran Chetry has the day off. A lot to talk about this morning, so let's get right to it. Brand-new details of a serial stabbing suspect caught at the airport trying to flee to Israel. We now have a name and it turns out cops had him at least twice before he almost slipped out of the country.", "Same-sex couples in California could be free to marry once again. A federal judge striking down Proposition 8. The ruling taking effect next Wednesday giving the other side five days to appeal. In the meantime, city halls across the state are gearing up for what could be a tidal wave of weddings.", "And New Orleans right now dealing with a violent crime wave. The city averaging one murder every other day. People are scared and they want help. Drew Griffin of CNN special investigations unit has details on the new tactic to stop the violence.", "And the amFIX blog is up and running this Friday morning. Join the live conversation going on right now. Just go to CNN.com/am", "But first up this morning, the manhunt is over but the questions are just beginning. There is brand-new information this morning about the serial stabbing suspect and his prior brushes with the law.", "We were the first to break the news of his arrest yesterday morning, and now we know who he is. Police say Elias Abuelazam went on a violent rampage across three states and came this close to slipping out of the country. And authorities apparently missed chances to stop him sooner. Our Jeanne Meserve is live for us in Washington this morning. She has been digging through her sources, coming up with information. And, Jean, what are we looking at in terms of this guy potentially being within range of being caught but still going free?", "Well, they didn't know he was a suspect at the time, but now they do. He is an Israeli citizen and he was arrested as he was about to board a flight to his home country.", "Authorities believe this man is responsible for stabbings in Michigan, Ohio and Virginia. Five of them fatal. Elias Abuelazam, a 33-year-old Israeli citizen living legally in the U.S., was arrested Wednesday night as he was about to board a Delta flight to Tel Aviv.", "Suspect was loaded -- located, rather, at the boarding gate of Atlanta's Hartsfield airport and was called to the front of the boarding area where he surrendered without incident to customs agents.", "The stabbings began in May. The last one was just last weekend. They attracted national publicity because there were so many and so many of the victims were African-American. 17-year-old Etwan Wilson was one.", "I pushed off of him and ran -- ran to the first house I've seen with the light on.", "During the investigation, police released a composite drawing and surveillance tape of a green SUV. A tip eventually connected Abuelazam with the car and the crimes and when authorities realized he was en route to Israel, they moved in. Though Abuelazam recently worked in Michigan, he lived for a time in this house in Leesburg, Virginia. A man who lived just steps away was stabbed and bludgeoned to death last year. The murder is still unsolved. The victim's daughter remembers Abuelazam.", "Seemed to be pretty nice. His whole family did.", "Officials in Virginia and Michigan had different responses when asked if the stabbings were race related.", "My belief is he selected the victims in Leesburg based upon the color of their skin.", "We don't have any other evidence that suggests it's racially motivated. I'm not saying it's not, but what I'm saying is, is that without more evidence, I'm not going to make that statement.", "On August 5th, a week ago Thursday, Abuelazam was arrested in Arlington, Virginia on an outstanding misdemeanor assault warrant. He was driving a green SUV and inside, officials say, police found a knife and a hammer. A hammer was used along with a knife in one of the stabbings, but at that time authorities had not connected Abuelazam or the car with the crimes. He was released and just hours later there was another stabbing in Virginia. John, Carol, back to you.", "Jeanne, it's so confusing. If the killings weren't racially motivated, why did this guy allegedly do this?", "Well, they aren't speculating on why he did this. Yesterday, there were several questions at the press conferences about it. There was a refusal in the Michigan press conference to speculate on what the motive might be. There's still very much in the investigative phase now.", "Jeanne Meserve in Washington this morning with the latest. Jeanne, thanks. In the next five days, same-sex couples could once again be tying the knot in California. It is a watershed moment for gay rights activists who fought hard for the freedom to marry.", "Celebrations erupted yesterday after a federal judge announced the state's ban on gay marriage can no longer be enforced. More now on the ruling from Dan Simon in San Francisco.", "Barring a reversal from an appeals court, same-sex couples here in California can resume getting married next Wednesday, August 18th, at precisely 5:00 p.m. That was what was in the judge's ruling. Judge Vaughn Walker issuing that ruling here at San Francisco's city hall. We've got numerous same-sex couples in line hoping to get marriage certificates and get married, but now the judge saying that cannot take place until next Wednesday. We talked to people on both sides of the issue.", "It undermines the definition of marriage, the institution of marriage, in the same way that a counterfeit dollar bill affects the dollar bill, the real dollar bill in my pocket. It undermines the value of that because it takes away and puts something false in there as something that's true.", "It's life and it will happen for us.", "It's like one step forward --", "Yes. But you know, like, it's life and you got to take it through its courses. So we're not going to give up.", "Free to marry. Free to marry.", "We have a statement here from the National Organization of Marriage which supported Proposition 8. It says, in part, \"When a lower judge makes an unprecedented ruling that totally overturns existing Supreme Court precedent, the normal thing for that judge to do is stay his decision and let the higher courts decide. Obviously Prop 8 supporters making it clear that they plan to appeal this ruling and try to keep this ban in place but barring any sort of decision or reversal from the appeals court, same-sex couples can get married in California once again beginning next Wednesday. I'm Dan Simon reporting from San Francisco.", "But who knows for how long? We're going to get into that in the next hour of AMERICAN MORNING. OK. We have to talk about the saga of Steven Slater. I guess it's a never-ending story, isn't it?", "The 15 minutes are still taking on.", "That's right. And there's something kind of new this morning. The JetBlue flight attendant turned Internet folk hero, he wants his job back according to his attorney who added that's his life. His life is his job. But a JetBlue company memo obtained by CNN makes that sound quite unlikely. The memo states that \"using the safety slide for any reason other than to protect passengers and crew, quote, \"will not, and cannot be tolerated.\" The charges against Slater include two felonies, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief, so his troubles have begun.", "And now, some of the passengers who are on-board that flight are coming forward saying, hey, wait a second, this just didn't happen like that. This guy was surly. This flight attendant, Steven Slater, was surly through the entire flight.", "From the beginning of the flight through the end.", "Yes.", "And then the cut on his head? Some people are saying it was already there, and that it wasn't a case of somebody's bag falling and hitting him in the head.", "The full story yet to be told on this one. Now, though, to a true story of true love that got off to a bit of a rocky start. Matt Cawley thought he had the perfect plan to pop the question to his girlfriend. He tied the nearly $9,000 family heirloom diamond ring to a sand dollar and placed it on a Massachusetts jetty. Yes, you know where this one's going. But when his girlfriend picked up the sand dollar, the ring fell off and slipped between the rocks.", "I just kept saying the ring. And she was like what ring? She's like, wait, you bought a ring? Wait, we're getting married? What? It's like, what is going on?", "It's so indescribable, like all of our feelings at once. It was, you know, just you were panicked.", "The couple searched for hours but came up empty. Luckily, though, the ring was insured. Let's hope that the -- let's hope that the --", "And that makes it so much more romantic.", "She doesn't say whether she accepted or not.", "Well, after he did that kind of irresponsible thing with the ring, you'd have to think twice.", "Wait a minute. Irresponsible?", "OK, you're on a beach.", "Oh, you are --", "You tie the ring to a sand dollar.", "You are the hopeless romantic, aren't you?", "You notice she didn't say yes, though.", "Maybe she did.", "OK, we'll look it up. We'll get more information for you.", "We'll give them a call and find out what happened.", "I think we should. The biggest storms on the planet are controlled by the tiniest creatures in the sea. And they probably have that ring right now. Discovery.com has the goods on a new study showing that plankton can actually determine whether a tropical system spins into a monster hurricane, and plankton can even stir mature storms across the ocean. The study comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, better known as NOAA. Plankton are everywhere in the ocean, as you know from watching \"Sponge Bob Square Pants,\" and their bodies tint the blue water to a green color. That's what plankton does. That green-colored water traps light and heat and hurricane- like warm water.", "Wow.", "Got all that?", "Perfect opportunity to check in with Rob Marciano who's at the weather center in Atlanta. And that's some pretty interesting information. So what does that mean about what's going on with the storms like the tropical depression we saw in the last couple of days that fizzled out and a couple before that had?", "Well -- yes, those were -- you got to remember that, you know, half the equation is what's going on above the water with the winds and the weather patterns. And that's what's killed these past couple of storms. And the other thing is I really never liked plankton to begin with. So the fact that they're messing with hurricane is really --", "They're good sauteed in butter.", "Oh, no.", "Right up there with escargot, right? Yes. All right, guys, listen. A couple of rain showers across New York, down to Philly and D.C. Nothing like we saw yesterday morning where it was just coming down to beat the band across the nation's capital with severe weather in through Maryland. These are more, you know, run of the mill showers, just kind of wet the pavement on your way to work. More severe weather across parts of the upper Midwest, in through Minneapolis. Severe weather watch boxes up for that. This is a cool front that's trying to make its way south and east and will have a harder time to go south than it will east. And places like St. Louis and Dallas will once again be smoking hot today. A slew of triple-digit record highs which we'll detail later on. Hey, you didn't get outside last night. Check out these", "Oh.", "See you, guys. Yes, there's the romantic in me, Carol. Huh?", "Oh, would you tie your ring to a sand dollar and put it on the beach?", "No. Come on. That's just -- no. And you've got to have the bling that's why she didn't say yes. You made a good point there.", "You know, sand dollars are very spiritual things.", "They are?", "Yes.", "And quite unstable as far as holding rings go.", "Well, I guess it's just, you know, you've got to make sure that you attach it properly.", "He should have secured it more importantly.", "The all-important attachment.", "Figure it out when the tide was coming in and going out. Things like that.", "Thanks, Rob. Well, finding the good fight. See how New Orleans' new mayor is trying to rebuild the city he loves as the cycle of violence there continues. It's a CNN special investigation.", "And Dr. Laura Schlessinger apologizing for an \"n\" word barrage on the air. We will play you the tape. It's 11 minutes past the hour."], "speaker": ["JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "ROBERTS", "COSTELLO", "ROBERTS", "COSTELLO", "ROBERTS", "COSTELLO", "ROBERTS", "COSTELLO", "ROBERTS", "COSTELLO", "ROBERTS", "FIX. 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{"id": "NPR-10539", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2017-09-03", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/09/03/548255824/lessons-learned-after-a-north-dakota-flood", "title": "Lessons Learned After A North Dakota Flood", "summary": "Twenty years ago, 50,000 residents were evacuated from Grand Forks, N.D., after a devastating flood. Mayor Michael Brown talks with Lulu Garcia-Navarro about the town's new flood protections.", "utt": ["We're now going to take a look at another flood and what lessons it may have for Houston and other cities facing the possibility of disaster. Twenty years ago, 50,000 residents were evacuated from Grand Forks, N.D., when the red river burst its banks. At the time, it was the largest displacement ever in an American city.", "What followed was a painful process of raising homes, redrawing maps and building flood walls. The town has been well-protected ever since. Michael Brown has been the mayor of Grand Forks since the year 2000. And he joins us now. Good morning.", "Good morning.", "So can you remind us, first, of the devastation your city faced in 1997? Take us back.", "Oh, it was like looking out across the ocean. There was water from as far as you could see both ways. And I think it was over a billion dollars worth of damage to our community and East Grand Forks. Seemed quite hopeless, but our message today is one of hope. And I think FEMA has referred to us as a poster child for flood recovery because of what we've accomplished as a community.", "After the flood, the city decided some homes needed to be removed to make way for key infrastructure. How was that decision made?", "Decision-making - that's the most important thing about recovery is people have to make decisions, and whether they're popular or not, to allow the recovery to occur. So we had to choose places that were in the floodplain that couldn't be rebuilt. And those entry-level homes had to be taken to build the infrastructure for the flood recovery project.", "Your own home was slated to be raised to make way for this new flood system. Is that right?", "Yes. That's why I ran for mayor. I didn't think they needed to. And then in hindsight...", "So you were fighting it?", "Yes. You realize how small you are as a person compared to the community and the needs of that community. So we moved our home to another spot so that the flood recovery process could occur. So it was the right decision to do.", "And I think we have a very interesting book. It's called \"Grand Forks Flood Disaster and Recovery Lessons Learned.\" And we shared those with Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Biloxi, Miss., Bernard Parish, New Orleans. We're happy to share those lessons with anyone.", "Can you explain for people who may not understand, why did they have to move some of the houses?", "Because they were close to the river. And if you're going to build a flood protection project to protect a city - a dike - then those homes have to go on until the infrastructure is solid.", "Can you just give us a little example of some of the other things that were done to mitigate flood damage?", "Well, you have one-stop shops where you have - when a person comes for a building permit or something, you have everything available for them in one office. So they don't have to go from city hall to public works to somewhere else. So that one-stop shop really facilitated recovery.", "Meaning people would go to this one office, would be able to get all the permits they needed?", "Right, all the permits and permission. And it's also absolutely essential that there are solid partnerships between all agencies in the government, the county, the city, public works and the school district. Everybody has to be on the same page moving forward.", "City planners in Houston are going to have to make some tough choices. What advice do you have for them?", "Make them (laughter). And don't do what's popular. Do what's right. You have to protect the community, its future. Or it won't be able to grow up. It won't be able to attract industry or business. You need to have a safe, vibrant, prospering, growing community to do well.", "Michael Brown, mayor of Grand Forks, N.D. Thank you very much.", "Thank you. My pleasure."], "speaker": ["LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL BROWN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL BROWN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL BROWN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL BROWN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL BROWN", "MICHAEL BROWN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL BROWN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL BROWN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL BROWN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL BROWN", "LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST", "MICHAEL BROWN"]}
{"id": "CNN-70134", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-4-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0304/30/lad.06.html", "summary": "Rumsfeld Visits Troops in Iraq", "utt": ["A warm reception in Baghdad for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He's meeting and greeting and thanking the troops. Our Rym Brahimi live in the capital city of Iraq. Hello -- Rym.", "Hello again, Carol. Well, indeed, the U.S. secretary of defense in Baghdad at an interesting time when the Bush administration is seeking to announce a formal or an official end to the war with Iraq. Now, before arriving in Baghdad, Donald Rumsfeld landed at the airport in Basra, in the southern city of Basra. He was met there by British officers. Here's what he had to say.", "When one looks back on this effort, I think, and pray indeed, that what will be significant is that a large number of human beings, intelligent and energetic, have been liberated. And that they are out from under the heel of a truly brutal, vicious regime, and that's a good thing. It's not only a good thing for them, it's a good thing for this region, and it's a good thing for the world.", "A warm reception indeed by British officers, especially as Rumsfeld praised the cooperation of U.S. and British troops. That said, on the ground in Baghdad, a mixed reception. When we spoke to people about Rumsfeld's arrival, well, there were mixed reactions. Some people saying they were grateful; others saying there's a lot that the U.S. needs to deliver on, basically water, electricity and security, priorities among most in Iraq. And one example to highlight that concern is what happened in Fallujah. The western town of Fallujah, located about 45 kilometers west of the Iraqi capital, has again been the scene of heightened tensions. At least one person is reported to have been killed when U.S. troops are said to have opened fire on anti-U.S. demonstrators in that town. Now this comes right after another incident in which 15 Iraqis were killed and 53 injured in a shootout between Iraqis and U.S. troops. That incident on Monday night happened when protestors went to a school, where U.S. troops were based, asked them to leave because they wanted to be able to send their kids back to school. That erupted into a shootout. Not clear who shot first, but definitely very representative of the level of tension, especially as now it's followed by this new incident that occurred this morning in which, again, one person is reported to have been killed and there were a certain number of casualties -- Carol.", "Any steps to be taken to quell the violence there in Fallujah?", "Well, as far as Fallujah proper is concerned, we were made to understand that the U.S. troops were going to leave that school. Now, it's not sure where they were going to move to. And we also understand that an investigation is under way to determine exactly who shot who first. That said, the main steps to be done really, if you listen to what people are saying, is they want basic services. There's a lot of tension, because people feel they're dissatisfied. They've been rid maybe of the regime, but they don't have the better life that they say they were promised. In Baghdad, we understand that in the next 7 to 10 days the number of troops, which is currently 12,000, is going to be boosted to 17,000 to make sure that there is less looting and more security as well. Back to you -- Carol.", "Thanks for the update -- Rym Brahimi reporting live from Baghdad. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY", "BRAHIMI", "COSTELLO", "BRAHIMI", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-16845", "program": "Special Event", "date": "2000-9-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/29/se.02.html", "summary": "President Clinton Delivers Statement on New Census Numbers Showing Increase in Health Insurance Coverage", "utt": ["First we want to go to President Clinton at the White House, making an announcement about Census numbers and Social Security.", "Thank you very much. Thank you. Good morning. Thank you, Debbie. She did a good job, didn't she? Let's give here another hand. I was very -- thank you.", "We have been listening to President Clinton from the White House, talking about new Census numbers, looking at the new number of people with health insurance. About a million more people now insured. According the Census, according to last year's numbers, still more than 40 million people in America still without health insurance. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-355555", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2018-11-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/25/ndaysun.01.html", "summary": "Former Trump Advisers Allege He Has Embedded Enemies; Michelle Obama's Books Sold More Than 1.4 Million Copies In First Week.", "utt": ["Well, good morning to all of you wherever you are waking up and if you're waking up in the nation's capital, that is one beautiful view --", "It really is. It really is.", "-- right now.", "I'm Martin Savidge in for Victor Blackwell.", "We are so glad to have you with us. Glad to have you with us too here, Marty, as always.", "Good to be here.", "So let's talk.", "New speculation this morning on who maybe in and who may be out of the White House. The president's holding interviews for top level cabinet members and senior staff at the Mar-a-Lago estate this weekend. This as a new book by a former Trump campaign manager, no guess who that is, Corey Lewandowski will hit the shelves on Tuesday. And according to \"The Washington Post\" that book alleges dozens of officials in Washington are working to undermine the president.", "CNN chief media correspondent and anchor of \"RELIABLE SOURCES\" Brian Stelter with us now. Brian, there are some pretty loaded words in this excerpt according to \"The Washington Post.\"", "Yes, there have been two markets for two different kinds of Trump books in the past year. One is tell-alls from reporters and former aides who were disturbed about what's going on in the White House. The other kind is this book from David Bossie and Corey Lewandowski called \"Trump's Enemies.\" It's There are two books. One is tell-alls from reporters and former aides who are disturbed by what is going on at the White House. The other kind is this book called \"Trump's Enemies.\" It's an unabashedly aggressively pro-Trump book saying that Trump's only problem in the White House are all these deep state figures. This is a book guaranteed that's guaranteed to sell well among Sean Hannity fans and Rush Limbaugh fans because it paints this picture of a administration that is undermined by rats from inside. And it goes in names names. For example, saying that Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort, two former Trump loyalists who flipped on the president and cooperated with Robert Mueller, it describes those two figures as rats. It also describes figures like Gary Cohn, former administration official, as a limousine liberal and it goes on and on like that. So it's a reminder again that the book -- that the book is a reminder that this administration has been rocked by different", "OK. So with that said, how is Michelle Obama's book sales?", "Well, that's what I'm so intrigued by this. With Michelle Obama's book in its first week on sale had sold more than 1.4 million copies. This is an off the charts figure for any author even for a first lady. So 1.4 million copies in the first week. Now the publisher says more than 5 million copies will be out for print available for the holidays. Look, she timed this really well right after the election going into Thanksgiving and Christmas the time when book sales were really hot. But Michelle Obama has accomplished something that few others have, right? She is critical of Trump in the book but the book is not about Trump. So unlike so many other titles this year, Michael Wolff's \"Fire and Fury,\" Bob Woodward's \"Fear,\" all of these books that have sold like hotcakes at the Barnes & Noble and on Amazon, Michelle Obama was able to kind of stay above it and actually come out with an inspirational book that people were still interested in buying. So for the publisher one of the bestselling books in the company's history and like I've said it's only been a week. So Michelle Obama has a lot more weeks in this holiday season to rack up more sales.", "Yes, a very good point.", "The Lewandowski book they'll (ph) also continues to point out that there is a huge divide in the perception of this presidency, the depending on where you are politically.", "And people, you know, if you are standing by the president you're going to buy \"Trump's Enemies.\" If you are interested in a critique of the president and interested in reliving the Obama years, you're going to buy Michelle Obama's book. And there's barely any space in between. I completely agree with you, Martin. There's this problem of two different news world serving two different Americas right now which contributes to the divide.", "Yes. And depending on which book you get for the holidays it says a lot about you, unless of course you get all three.", "There you go.", "Right.", "Play it easily down the middle. Brian Stelter, as always, thanks very much.", "Thanks.", "Be sure to catch Brian and his show \"RELIABLE SOURCES\" that will be today 11:00 a.m. Eastern right here on", "So the White House wants the Supreme Court to bypass lower courts and fast track the military transgender ban. Kristin Beck is a former Navy SEAL and transgender advocate. She has something say about this.", "Plus, is dimming the sun really a feasible way to combat climate change? Some scientists seem to think so. We will explain how it might work."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "SAVIDGE", "PAUL", "SAVIDGE", "PAUL", "SAVIDGE", "PAUL", "SAVIDGE", "PAUL", "BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT", "PAUL", "STELTER", "PAUL", "SAVIDGE", "STELTER", "SAVIDGE", "PAUL", "STELTER", "SAVIDGE", "STELTER", "SAVIDGE", "CNN. PAUL", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "CNN-233362", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-06-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/26/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Toddler Likely Died from Being Overheated", "utt": ["Just when you think the story could not get any worse, new details coming out this morning about a Georgia man who police say left his 22-month-old son to die in a hot car last week. Justin Harris now charged with murdering his son, Cooper. Police say not only did this father lie about the time line in which his son died, but even returned to his car during his lunch break at work. CNN's Victor Blackwell has more for us this morning. Good morning, Victor.", "Carol, good morning. We got an answer to the question so many people were asking, where is mom in this whole story? Well, we understand that she was questioned by detectives here at Cobb County police department headquarters. They would not give details of that conversation. However, we are learning details of the claims police are making about what happened the day Cooper died.", "Early last Wednesday morning, Justin Ross Harris was seen at this Atlanta area Chick-fil-A. The newly released arrest warrant says, after breakfast, Harris was seen strapping his 22-month-old son Cooper into his car seat. He drove less than a mile away to his Home Depot store support center where he works as a web designer. Normally, Harris takes Cooper to a day care center on site, but not on this day. Instead, Harris headed inside the office and left his toddler in a rear facing car seat in the back, in a blazing Georgia sun. Investigators say Harris returned to the SUV at lunchtime, opened the driver's side door and placed something inside. He then closed the door and walked off. The temperature outside hit 88 degrees that afternoon. The temperature inside the SUV, potentially exceeded 130 degrees and Cooper was likely already dead. The arrest warrant says at 4:16 that afternoon, at the end of the workday, Harris returned to the SUV and started the drive home. Seven minutes later and about two miles down the road, Harris screeched into this parking lot.", "Hopped out of the driver's seat, opened the back door, pulled his child out, laid him on the concrete and tried to resuscitate him.", "But little Cooper was dead. Patrol officers were in the area when the 911 calls came in.", "Medical personnel arrived on the scene to determine that a child apparently had been in the automobile, the father's automobile since about 9:00 this morning.", "Harris told police he somehow had forgotten to drop Cooper off at day care that morning.", "He just screamed, \"What have I done,\" loudly. Obviously it was a bit dramatic, you know, hands in the air looking up towards the sky, \"What have I done?\"", "But police say it was all an act, charging him with cruelty to a child and felony murder.", "You'll be entering a plea of not guilty at this time.", "More than 10,000 people have signed an online petition urging the district attorney to drop the charges.", "There's no way it would have been intentional, especially from the father's reaction.", "Meanwhile, investigators continue to search for answers.", "Let's talk about those charges. The felony murder charge still stands, but we now know that the cruelty to a child charge has been downgraded from first-degree to second-degree. The difference here is that first-degree requires the state to argue malice, intent, that he intentionally meant to deprive his child of some sustenance, water, food. Second-degree only requires that the state prove negligence, so a major difference there. Also we learned from the medical examiner's office the manner of death here, homicide, cause of death, hyperthermia, which is simply an overheating of the body. Hopefully, we'll learn more today -- Carol.", "Going back to the wife, the mother, is the couple estranged?", "Well, we don't know much about that. There was a long obit written in the \"Tuscaloosa News\", the newspaper where this -- in the community where the child will be buried Saturday. It writes that he was a blessing to his mother and father. It writes -- it reads very rosy. So it's a good picture there. But as far as any problems between the couple, we've read all the public reports, no problems that we know of between the two.", "Did they any other children?", "Not that we know of. We know of this one child. We know that they were married for a little more than six years. They lived together in a small town, Moundville, Alabama, in Hale County there. And since Justin Ross Harris moved here and starting working for a Home Depot about two years ago, they've been in this community in Marietta just outside of Atlanta.", "Victor Blackwell, thanks so much. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, it's one of the biggest decisions left for the high court to decide, will a private company like Hobby Lobby be forced to provide emergency contraceptives to their employers -- or employees, rather? We'll talk about that next."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLACKWELL (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLACKWELL", "SGT. DANA PIERCE, COBB COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT", "BLACKWELL", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BLACKWELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLACKWELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLACKWELL", "BLACKWELL", "COSTELLO", "BLACKWELL", "COSTELLO", "BLACKWELL", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "NPR-29198", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2013-05-17", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=184845124", "title": "Week In Politics: IRS, Benghazi Emails, AP Phone Logs", "summary": "Audie Cornish speaks with political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss controversial IRS audits, the release of White House emails on Benghazi talking points and the Justice Department's seizure of AP phone logs.", "utt": ["And there is much to discuss with our weekly political commentators, E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and David Brooks of the New York Times. Hey, there guys.", "E.J. DIONNE: Good to be with you.", "Hello.", "So we've got this trifecta of controversies this week that came to a head in one way or another. We just heard from Peter Overby about the IRS, but there's also Benghazi. The White House released 100 pages of emails revealing the paper trail of edits to talking points for the attack on the U.S. consulate there. And lastly, Attorney General Eric Holder grilled by lawmakers as well this week over the Justice Department's decision to subpoena phone records from the Associated Press while investigating some national security leaks.", "So the question is actually which of these feels the most scandalous to you and I'll start with you, E.J.", "Well, I think the one that raises the most substantive questions is the IRS. I think the Benghazi scandal increasingly is all smoke and no gun. I mean, we've had word that the emails that caused such a ruckus a week ago were actually not exactly what the emails that were exchanged within the government were. And broadly speaking, what the Obama administration has been saying about those emails is true.", "And the notion that when we should be talking about how do we make our embassies more secure, we're arguing about talking points, is just crazy. And I think that one's going to fade. I think the press one is very serious. I'm not sure it's a scandal in the sense that it involves President Obama and it apparently doesn't involve Attorney General Holder because he's recused himself.", "Well, let me come back to you for a minute there because I want to let David jump in at least with his ranking of which of these feels the most scandalous to you.", "I got to start with the Holder one or the Justice Department attack. That seems to be the most upfront, the most obvious and the most thuggish government overreach, which really makes it impossible for the press to do its job. The IRS could rise to that level, but there are things we don't know. Who instigated the pressure on the Tea Party groups?", "Who in Treasury and maybe in the White House knew or if anybody knew in Treasury and the White House? And how soon were things known and did anybody try to cover it up? So those are open questions. I more or less agree with E.J. on Benghazi. I think the talking points thing is probably a non-scandal. There still is the larger issue of why we didn't come to support Ambassador Stephens when he was in peril. But the talking points are mostly nothing.", "Could I just say on the IRS, obviously any kind of political targeting by the IRS is wrong and that's why the IRS story is so serious. But I think we're not talking enough about the other scandal with the IRS, which is a whole lot of these groups, and I'm talking liberal, conservative, socialist, libertarian, almost all these groups should not get 501c4 status.", "Let's remember, we're not talking about the IRS going out and auditing conservative groups. These were groups applying for a status that gives them special privileges. The original law said that 501c4 status should be granted to groups that engage exclusively in social welfare activities. Five years later, the IRS changed that to primarily. Well, no wonder these IRS agents were confused.", "Imagine someone rewriting their marriage vow to say exclusivity when it comes to faithfulness really means only being primarily faithful. So there's a problem at the core of this that goes beyond the fact there shouldn't be political targeting. On the press, I agree. This is vast overreach. It's just not clear to me what the attorney general's role is in this.", "And I want to actually jump in on that because we did see some tension this week come out in an exchange between Attorney General Holder and Congressman Darrell Issa at a House Judiciary Committee hearing. Holder was in the midst of answering a question from the congressman about an issue that actually is not related to the AP leaks. Here it is.", "I'm sure there must have been a good reason why only the two and from parts were...", "Yes. You didn't want us to see the details. Mr. Attorney General...", "No, no, no.", "In knowing the two and from...", "That's what you typically do.", "...knowing the two and...", "No, I'm not going to stop talking now. Characterize something as something ...else (unintelligible).", "Mr. Chairman, would you inform the witness as to the rules of this committee?", "...is inappropriate and is too consistent with the way in which you conduct yourself as a member of Congress. It's unacceptable and it's shameful.", "And, of course, the subtext here is that Congressman Issa is the lawmaker who helped lead a successful effort in the House to hold the attorney general in contempt of Congress. David, what did this exchange reveal to you?", "Yeah, I actually don't think - so far, none of these scandals have gotten to some of the principles - President Obama, Attorney General Holder. I think they're more about government than about impeachment and some of the ridiculous things that are being said. They're more about how government agencies work.", "And what we've seen is in this climate, some government agencies have a tendency to work in unrestrained behavior, desiring to control other people in really an egregious way without any sense of self-policing. And I think that's the problem in the Justice Department. There was just no internal restraint.", "And I think that's also a bit of the problem in the IRS, no sense of internal restraint, that power does corrupt and that people who hold power really have to be very restrained in how they use it. And so it's just a laxity of culture here. But I do not think it's something that directly implicates a lot of the famous policymakers in Washington.", "E.J.?", "First on the Issa-Holder thing, I mean, Congress has really had it out for Eric Holder. And remember on this leak investigation, a year ago they were denouncing him as somebody who couldn't conduct a fair leak investigation because it involved the Obama administration. So they go all out on the leak and, as I say, I think overreach in - way overreach in the subpoena. And now they're on Holder for doing that, the very people who have supported very aggressive actions by government on anything having to do with national security, I'm talking about the Republicans.", "I very much disagree with David in trying to view all of this in one big government prism. I think the IRS agents were wrong, but I think they're dealing with a law that - a regulation that is almost impossible to understand as it's been interpreted. These 501c4s sprouted up after the Citizens United case, and they were struggling, and they made some bad decisions.", "But I don't link all of these together the way David does.", "So the question is, does the public? I mean, the other political conversation happening this week more generally has been about trust in President Obama, and has something substantial been lost in these last few days?", "I would say certainly distrust in government has to rise. Listen, the Tea Party and members - Republican members of Congress have been claiming for a long, long time that they were being politically targeted or at least targeted by the IRS. Now it turns out there's a lot of substance. For whatever motivation, that was absolutely true.", "And so how can you - that'll - this is a very cynical country about government right now, and a lot of these storylines, the overreach in the national security state, the IRS and the Justice Department, these underline the basic cynicism and distrust people have toward their government.", "E.J., you say these aren't linked, but what do you see here?", "Well politically, especially the IRS scandal, will be great for the Republicans because it remotivates the Tea Party, which we hadn't heard much from recently. In terms of Obama, I think he started the week in a deep hole. I think he's better off now than he was five days ago because he moved very aggressively to release all the emails on Benghazi. He's clearly gotten out front on the IRS. He's used words just like the Republicans used in denouncing this.", "And he is now for - he's again re-endorsed a shield law to protect journalists. So I think what started out as a really awful week for President Obama ended up as an unfortunate week, but it got a little better as it went along.", "And David, the last few seconds to you. On Republicans, we had House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former House speaker, this week say that they need to be careful of overreach. What are you thinking here?", "Yeah, they haven't - a  few people have certainly gone there, but they do have to worry about it. But the people responsible for the scandal generally are blamed for the scandal. I would say one thing about President Obama. He really does have to have some positive agenda to displace this news. Speeding up infrastructure programs is a make-believe policy.", "Part of the problem with this is there's a policy vacuum, an agenda vacuum coming out of the White House.", "That's David Brooks of The New York Times and E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution. Gentlemen, thank you.", "Good to be with you.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DAVID BROOKS", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DIONNE", "DIONNE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DAVID BROOKS", "DAVID BROOKS", "DIONNE", "DIONNE", "DIONNE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "ERIC HOLDER", "REPRESENTATIVE DARRELL ISSA", "ERIC HOLDER", "REPRESENTATIVE DARRELL ISSA", "ERIC HOLDER", "REPRESENTATIVE DARRELL ISSA", "ERIC HOLDER", "REPRESENTATIVE DARRELL ISSA", "ERIC HOLDER", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DAVID BROOKS", "DAVID BROOKS", "DAVID BROOKS", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DIONNE", "DIONNE", "DIONNE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DAVID BROOKS", "DAVID BROOKS", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DIONNE", "DIONNE", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DAVID BROOKS", "DAVID BROOKS", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "DIONNE", "DAVID BROOKS"]}
{"id": "CNN-286587", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2016-06-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/14/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview With Maine Senator Angus King; Orlando Mass Shooting Investigation; Source: Killer Told Wife about Interest in Terror Attack; Obama Blasts Critics Demanding He Say \"Radical Islam\".", "utt": ["Did she know? Investigators are focusing in on the killer's wife and whether she had provided any help for the attack or had knowledge that could have prevented it. We're getting new information right now. Living through hell. Survivors share new details about the slaughter in a gay nightclub, including the gunman's crazed laugh and how he calmly stepped over bodies. And radical response. President Obama unleashes a blistering comeback to Donald Trump, accusing him of dangerous yapping and dismissing his emphasis on a term to describe the terrorists.", "There's no magic to the phrase radical Islam. It's a political talking point. It's not a strategy.", "We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "The breaking news tonight, we have new information about what the Orlando attacker's wife knew about the murderous plans before the slaughter at that gay nightclub. A law enforcement official now telling CNN she noted violent changes in his behavior and he talked with her about interest in carrying out a jihadist attack. Authorities have seized evidence from inside the couple's home and they're learning more about the killer's preparations, including surveillance visits to the Pulse nightclub and to another potential target, a Disney entertainment complex. Survivors now sharing horror stories about the killer's actions during the massacre, including how he continued to shoot victims even after they were dead. Others revealing that Mateen was a regular customer of the club long before the attack. His ex-wife now acknowledging the possibility that he may have been gay and hiding it. All this as President Obama takes reaction to the shooting to a new level. He offered his angriest, more forceful reaction yet to Donald Trump and other critics of his handling of the war on terror. A top member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Angus King, he's standing by live. I will ask him what he is learning about the investigation. And our correspondents, analysts and guests, they will have full coverage of the breaking story. First, let's go to CNN justice correspondent Evan Perez. Evan, you're learning more about the killer's wife and what she apparently knew about the attack. Tell our viewers what you know.", "That's right, Wolf. Sources tell me tonight that the wife of the Orlando gunman knew more than they initially thought. We have learned that she has told investigators that she noticed violent changes in his behavior and that she says that he talked to her about his interest in possibly carrying out a jihadist attack. Law enforcement sources tell me that they do not believe the wife, Noor Salman, who you here on screen, was a co-conspirator. In other words, they don't believe that she was involved in plotting this attack. But, tonight, we have learned that she has told the FBI that she tried to convince him not to do anything violent. And, Wolf, she has told apparently the police she did not know anything about his plans to carry out this attack on the Pulse nightclub. Now, the wife -- the shooter's wife, Salman, also told investigators that when he left their home on Saturday, which was hours before this attack, he lied about where he was going. But there's a twist here. She did travel with him when he visited the Pulse nightclub and the Disney Springs complex in early June. Our sources think that that trip was to case those locations for possible attacks. Wolf, they're now looking at everything she has told them and comparing it to evidence and trying to figure out whether she should be charged with everything, specifically a charge called misprision of a felony for failing to report what he wanted to carry out, some kind of a report -- Wolf.", "I assume she has legal representation. She has a lawyer. Is she cooperating with the FBI, fully cooperating?", "She is. She is cooperating with the FBI. She's provided these interviews. It's just a matter now of trying to check what she's telling the FBI against all the other evidence that they have gathered, Wolf.", "I'm sure this investigation is only just beginning. We're getting more information. All right, this is a big, big development. Stand by, Evan. I want to go to our justice correspondent, Pamela Brown. She's in Orlando. She's getting more information on the terror investigation. What are you learning, Pamela?", "Yes, Wolf, we just spoke to the sheriff of Orange County. And he said it is clear through the course of the investigation that this gunman was looking at several possible targets here in the Orlando area in the days leading up to the attack. But why he settled on Pulse nightclub is still unclear to investigators.", "Tonight, authorities now believe the gunman's wife, Noor Salman, visited the potential target with her husband in advance of the attack at Pulse nightclub. They're trying to determine if she knew he was planning an attack.", "Did you know your husband of going to do this?", "Sources tell CNN she's been providing helpful insight to investigators. For the first time, we're seeing inside the couple's apartment. Clothes and children's toys can be seen shattered on the ground. Investigators have seized items and searches of this home, and those of the shooter's relatives, including a Dell computer, smartphone, digital camera and related media. Sources tell CNN Omar Mateen was consuming large quantities of jihadi propaganda online, including ISIS beheading videos.", "The killer took in extremist information and propaganda over the Internet. He appears to have been an angry, disturbed, unstable young man who became radicalized.", "One of the survivors today revealing what she heard the gunman tell 911 dispatchers.", "The reason he's doing this is because he wants America to stop bombing his country. And from that conversation from 911, he pledged his allegiance to", "He was simply making statements about who he pledged allegiance to and other statements that was in a language believed to have been Arabic.", "As authorities piece together clues painting a picture of the shooter's life, CNN is learning more about his movements in the hours leading up to the attack. Investigators say they used cell phone tower data to determine that he spent several hours the day before the shooting at Disney Springs, a shopping and entertainment center in the Orlando area, before the attack at the Pulse nightclub Sunday morning. Law enforcement sources tell CNN he also visited Disney Springs and the Pulse nightclub at the beginning of June. Investigators believe the visits were intended to conduct surveillance of the location.", "He came with plan of action. He had multiple rounds of ammunition. He moved through the facility fairly fluidly. So everything that he did indicates that he had given forethought to what he was doing.", "A performer at Pulse nightclub tell CNN Mateen visited the club dozens of times, averaging a couple visits a month over three years. CNN has learned that the FBI is now looking into claim Mateen was on gay dating apps such as Grindr. But it's unclear what his intentions were on those apps.", "So, this investigation still very active. But at this point, investigators believe that the gunman acted alone. However, if his family and friends such as his wife knew about his plans in advance and didn't come to authorities, that is a different story. Of course, Wolf, that would be a crime -- back to you.", "Certainly would be, Pamela Brown in Orlando for us. We're getting this new information, and we're going to have a lot more on the role of the wife. But there's other important news that is breaking as well. President Obama's fiery defense of his record in this war against terror, he took on his critics, most notably Donald Trump, with a mix of cold hard facts and raw emotion. It was part of a one-two punch aimed at Trump, with Hillary Clinton delivering the second, somewhat less powerful blow. Let's go our chief political correspondent, Dana Bash. Dana, this was a pretty remarkable moment for President Obama.", "It sure was, Wolf. Today will go down as one of the most memorable events in a very eventful 2016 campaign season, the day President Obama dove head first into the fray. A senior administration official told me that it was yesterday afternoon that the president was absorbing all that Donald Trump was saying about Muslims. He told his aides he wanted to say something and the results today was actually months, maybe in his case years of pent-up frustration.", "We are now seeing how dangerous this kind of mind-set and this kind of thinking can be.", "A rhetorical explosion, rare for any president, especially one who prides himself on keeping calm.", "We now have proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States to bar all Muslims from emigrating to America. We hear language that singles out immigrants and suggests entire religious communities are complicit in violence. Where does this stop?", "Tearing into Donald Trump with visible anger and disgust.", "That's not the America we want. It does not reflect our democratic ideals. It won't make us more safe. It will make us less safe.", "The power of his words amplified by the stagecraft, a commander in chief coming out of a counterterrorism briefing standing with his top military officer, a four-star general.", "We have gone through moments in our history before when we acted out of fear, and we came to regret it. We don't have religious tests here. Our founders, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights are clear about that. And if we ever abandon those values, we would not only make it a lot easier to radicalize people here and around the world, but we would have betrayed the very things we are trying to protect.", "And what really got him going, the GOP refrain that he's weak on terrorism because he refuses to use the term radical Islam.", "There has not been a moment in my 7.5 years as president where we have not able to pursue a strategy because we didn't use the label radical Islam. Not once has an adviser of mine said, man, if we use that phrase, we are going to turn this whole thing around, not once. So someone seriously thinks that we don't know who we are fighting?", "All that as the candidate Obama endorsed delivered a more measured version of the same message.", "He is fixated on the words radical Islam. Now, I must say, I find this strange. Is Donald Trump suggesting that there are magic words that, once uttered, will stop terrorists from coming after us?", "Hillary Clinton continues to use Trump's response to the Orlando massacre to define him as too volatile for the White House.", "Yesterday morning, just one day after the massacre, he went on TV and suggested that President Obama is on the side of the terrorists.", "Now, just think about that for a second. Even in a time of divided politics, this is way beyond anything that should be said by someone running for president of the United States.", "Now, both Hillary Clinton and President Obama were quite deliberate in not just going after Trump, but putting the onus on Republican rank and file and leadership to decide whether they support Trump's rhetoric and prescriptions, knowing full well that most don't. Now, as for Trump himself, so far, he has been uncharacteristically limited in his response, staying off Twitter so far. Here's what he said -- quote -- \"President Obama claims to know our enemy and yet he continues to prioritize our enemy over our allies and for that matter the American people. When I am president, I will always -- it will always be America first,\" rather. And I should say, Wolf, that we do expect Donald Trump to be live at an event at the top of the hour. We suspect he will elaborate on that just a bit.", "I'm sure he will. All right, Dana, thanks very much. Joining us now, Senator Angus King, independent of Maine. He's a top member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Senator, thanks very much for coming in. We will get to all of that, but, first, the new developments that this wife, the second wife of this terrorist may have had knowledge of his plot, his plans to slaughter all these people at that gay nightclub. I know you have been well-briefed. Tell us what you can.", "Well, we just had a briefing this afternoon with the Intelligence Committee. And essentially it's what you have been reporting. Number one, there is a second wife. Number two, she's cooperating, being interviewed. Number three, it appears she had some knowledge of what was going on, visiting some of the other sites. We don't know whether she was involved and knew about the purchase of the guns, which took place, by the way, only about a week before the attack. But she definitely is, I guess you would say, a person of interest right now and appears to be cooperating and can provide us with some important information on who this guy is, what his motivations were and what his plans were.", "So, basically, what I hear you saying that she may have known about his desire to kill people, but not necessarily at that gay nightclub at that specific operation? Is that what I'm hearing?", "Well, we don't have any confirmation of that. We do know that she was apparently with him at that club at one point, but apparently was also with him at the Disney facility. So whether she knew that they were casing the place when they were doing that, I think that's what is being discussed right now. I think the important thing is that she is talking to the investigators and hopefully will share some information that will help us get to the bottom of this.", "Is it your information she is fully cooperating?", "Yes, sir.", "But she has legal reputation, I assume?", "Yes, I assume that.", "And was is unusual though that he would take that woman, his wife, his second wife, to a gay nightclub?", "Well, I would think that would be unusual, but maybe he was saying, look, let's just see what's going on here, what this is like or something like that. Or he may have shared with her an idea that this is a place that I think is -- needs to be wiped out. We don't know yet. We don't know to what extent she had knowledge of what he had in mind.", "Because, to me, she was supposedly a religious Muslim, he was a devout Muslim. To go to a gay nightclub in Orlando, that seems to be against everything they would believe, as observant or devout Muslims.", "Absolutely. And that would lend credence to the idea that they knew -- she knew that they were casing the place. But that's what hopefully we will find out in the next day or so.", "Is there any information that others, anyone else may have had wind of what he was perhaps thinking of doing?", "Not that I have heard thus far, Wolf. And of course that's one of the things the FBI is really focusing on, is, are there other people, was it a plot? So far, that does not appear to be the case.", "When he went to buy that AR-15 and a pistol, do you know if she went with him to purchase those weapons?", "We don't know that.", "And was that OK with you that he could buy these kinds of weapons, an AR-15, even though he had been investigated, under surveillance by the FBI, he was on an FBI watch list? There's a problem there potentially.", "There is. And I think that's a place that -- it's a problem we need to fix. It's ridiculous to me that you can be prevented from getting on an airplane, but you can't be prevented from buying an AR- 15. So, that's something we're going to be looking at in the Congress over the next few days is trying to craft a no fly-no no-buy policy, if you will. I think it's important that such a policy have a constitutional escape hatch for people who may be wrongfully on the list. But in this case, this guy was on the list for a while. Then he was off. Then they investigated him again. And I think we really need to clarify what puts you on the list, what it entails. But clearly if you're on one of those lists and can't fly, to me, it's just common sense. You shouldn't be able to buy.", "But the argument has been that some people are inadvertently put on the list because their names sound like someone else's name.", "And that's why there should be a process whereby they can get themselves off the list, if it's proven to be a mistake or without sufficient basis. There are people that are very dangerous out there. And if they're on that list, they're there for a reason. And as long as they have a process by which they can in a sense prove they're not -- shouldn't be on the watch list, I think it makes sense to limit their ability to buy a gun.", "And this terrorist clearly was one of those people. All right, stand by, Senator. We have more to discuss, more on the breaking news we're following, the role of this second wife in this plot, if you will. What was her role, if any? We will stand by for more information."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BLITZER", "THE SITUATION ROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-273680", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2016-01-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/12/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "U.S. Officials: Ten American Sailors Held by Iran; Interview with Sen. Tom Cotton.", "utt": ["The State of the Union is just a few hours away. What does the president say about this? National security likely to be a central theme of the president's address. This urgent development could change what the president says tonight. That's it for THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. I turn you over now to Wolf Blitzer and", "Happening now, breaking news. U.S. sailors seized. Ten U.S. Navy sailors, they are now in Iranian custody after two small U.S. Navy vessels entered Iranian waters. Urgent high-level efforts are underway now to try to secure their release. Suicide blast. ISIS is blamed for a bloody attack on a U.S. ally. A bombing in Istanbul's tourist district kills at least ten foreigners. Turkey says the assailant recently arrived from Syria. Russian missile move. Moscow says it will create new army divisions based in Europe and make five nuclear missile regiments ready for combat. President Putin says it's possible they could give Syria's president asylum. Are we now in a new cold war? And President Obama's big night. The president puts finishing touches on his last State of the Union address. He'll speak just hours from now. Can he get his agenda on track or is he already just a lame duck? We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "In the breaking news, ten American sailors are now being held by Iran after their two small U.S. Navy vessels apparently entered Iranian waters. U.S. officials say they hope the matter will be settled quickly. The secretary of state, John Kerry, has already made an urgent call to his Iranian counterpart. A shattering blast ripped through historic district in Turkey's ancient city of Istanbul today. The area is popular with tourists. And at least ten foreigners were killed, most of them Germans. NATO ally Turkey is blaming ISIS for the suicide attack and says the bomber had recently arrived from Syria. And beset by crisis after crisis, President Obama's now preparing for his final State of the Union address, only four hours from now. Aides say he'll strike an optimistic tone, trying to portray a nation on the rebound, and he'll seek to draw contrasts to the negative messages coming from the Republican presidential campaign trail. I'll speak with Republican Senator Tom Cotton of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees. And our correspondents, analysts and guests, they will have full coverage of all the day's top stories. Let's get straight to the breaking news. Ten American sailors held by Iran right now after two small navy vessels apparently entered Iranian waters. U.S. officials are scrambling to get them released as quickly as possible. Let's go to our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, for the very latest. Barbara, what are you learning?", "Wolf, just a short time ago, a senior U.S. official told me these sailors may be spending the night in Iran, at least the hours of darkness at this point. It is not expected that they will be released, put back out to sea, on their boats until the daylight hours. Two U.S. Navy Rivering small patrol aircraft equipped with .50 caliber machine guns and 10 U.S. Navy sailors, at this hour still believe to be pier side on Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf, an Iranian island. The two boats were transiting, making a trip from Bahrain to Kuwait. We are told that right now, what the U.S. thinks may have happened is that one of the small boats experienced a mechanical problem, perhaps losing propulsion, perhaps beginning to drift, and of course, the other Navy boat would not leave those sailors behind. It was at that point, the theory goes right now, that they drifted into Iranian territorial waters. It is believed they were picked up by Iranian naval personnel from Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps which operates around Farsi Island. This is one of the most aggressive elements of the Iranian military and national security apparatus in that country. Right now, Iran has assured the U.S. that all ten U.S. sailors are safe, that they are being treated accordingly, and that they will be released, they will be allowed to continue their journey up to Bahrain, one ship, a boat, disabled. We don't know the status of that. But this could go on for several hours, Wolf, before it is finally resolved -- Wolf.", "This comes on the heels last year of several incidents, as you well know, in the Persian Gulf in the same very region where the U.S. suspected Iran was engaged in aggressive behavior. In December, U.S. Navy revealed video of Iran firing rockets near warships. That was in December back in July. Iran flagged ships targeted. The U.S. -- some U.S. Navy vessels with lasers. In May five Iranian boats fired shots in the Persian Gulf not far away from U.S. ships. A U.S. flagship in April that was intercepted by Iranian patrols. It looks like there's a pattern going on here, but obviously, it's been a long time since Iran has taken U.S. military personnel under arrest, if you will. That's what the Fars news agency is saying: these ten American sailors are under arrest by the Iranians right now. This is a big deal.", "Wolf, this is a very big deal, and it is substantively, militarily quite different than the incidents you're quite accurately recounting. Because what you're talking about in this case is small, vulnerable U.S. Navy craft in these very tight, very tense waters. They are quick with .50 caliber machine guns. But consider this. These are not big warships. They have a very limited ability to defend themselves. And if the Iranians come alongside and essentially say, \"You're coming with us,\" the prospect very dismal of seeing U.S. Navy sailors potentially -- and I'm just saying potentially -- with the -- surrendering their weapons with hands up is a very dismal prospect. But this has happened in the past. It happened to the British navy, several years ago during the height of the Iraq War in the Persian Gulf. Some small boats were boarded by the Iranians. The British naval personnel were taken to Iran for several days. A lot of propaganda value for the Iranians out of that incident. The British, not able to defend themselves. And a very little-remembered incident in the very opening days when a very small U.S. naval craft also, its personnel drifted into contested waters, and a small number of U.S. military personnel were taken into Iran overnight. They were later released. That's an incident very few remember. But the issue is on these small craft, very limited ability to defend themselves. The military, U.S. military always says everyone has the right to defend themselves. No reports at this point that shots were fired. That's a very difficult prospect in the face of Iranian naval authorities -- Wolf.", "These were small vessels, indeed. But the U.S. has some big vessels, the Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf headquartered in Bahrain. These two little vessels were going from Kuwait to Bahrain. The U.S. has some major fire power in that region. Let see what the Iranians do next. Stand by for more. I want to bring in our chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto. What are you hearing, Jim, because this is pretty alarming?", "Well, I've just been in touch with a senior administration official just in the last few moments who tells me there is nothing to indicate anything hostile on the part of Iranian authorities in the detention of U.S. sailors and repeat the point that you mentioned earlier, Wolf, and that is that the U.S. has received assurances that these ten sailors are in good health and that they will be released very soon. Whether that's tonight or possibly several hours until daylight, that is what the administration is saying right now. Keep in mind, the U.S. and Iran wouldn't have this kind of contact, for instance, Secretary of State John Kerry reaching out to his Iranian counterpart. A couple of years ago, that didn't exist, so they have channels there that didn't exist before. I'll tell you this. The version of the story that is being presented to the Iranian public tonight is very different. The Fars news agency -- this is a state news agency in Iran. It is reporting that these ten sailors and in fact, it has this detail, Wolf -- and this is just the Iranian news agency -- that it is nine men and one woman, that they were arrested. It also goes on to describe in great detail the weapons that were on these American boats. It says there were .350 caliber machine guns on the weapons. It says that the GPS detectors on the boats were confiscated by the Iranians. And keep this detail in mind, as well, because this is very key. The Iranians are reporting that this was an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps personnel who picked up these U.S. sailors. That is key, because the Revolutionary Guard Corps, certainly very much from the hardliner camp in Iran. In fact, Iranian hardliners, they -- they have their own military. They have their own ground forces and naval forces. And often in the past, those other cases you mentioned, Wolf, of firing rockets near a U.S. ship, chasing and detaining for a while a U.S. cargo ship, that was done by the Revolutionary Guard Corps. That shows a division in Iran. The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, who, in effect, negotiated this deal, a different camp from the Revolutionary Guard Corps. They have a different agenda. It could be a key detail as we watch this play out going forward. I would just make this note based on Barbara's reporting there, that if those sailors are held until daylight in Iran, we're talking about six, seven hours from now, with the time difference, keep in mind that would bring those sailors to be in Iranian detention during the president's final State of the Union speech tonight, when he is almost certain to mention the Iranian nuclear deal negotiated with Tehran.", "And as you well know, U.S. officials have long said there are two Irans out there, the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, which operates on the one hand, and the other government that the U.S. has been dealing with, Kerry has been dealing with, the foreign minister, the president. On the other hand, it's the ayatollah, who's the supreme leader. He makes the final decision, if the Revolutionary Guard wants to parade these American sailors in front of cameras, show that they were arrested. They can do that.", "That's absolutely right. The other key piece of timing here. The State of the Union address tonight. The Iran nuclear deal, it looks like, will be implemented in the next several days as soon as Friday, I've been told, by administration officials. But sometime this month. And when that happens, implementation means the lifting of these punishing economic sanctions on Iran. So the timing of this, even if it was an accident, if it wasn't planned, impossible not to make that connection between those two. Not to say that was the motive but that timing certainly does not look good for the administration.", "Yes. We're going to find out from the U.S. Navy what those two small vessels were doing. We know they were en route from Kuwait, where the U.S. has a major naval facility, on their way to Bahrain, which is the headquarters of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet in the Persian Gulf. We're going to find out exactly what they were doing, these two small Navy vessels, with ten sailors on board. Stand by. I want to bring in Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas. He's a key member of the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committee. He's also a combat veteran who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Your reaction, Senator, to the fact that Iran is now holding ten Americans. They say they've arrested these ten American sailors, and they are in Iranian custody, together with those two small vessels.", "Wolf, this kind of openly hostile action is not surprising exactly what I and so many others predicted when President Obama was negotiating the nuclear deal with Iran, that it would embolden their aggression towards the United States and our allies in the region. Also want to react, though, to something Jim Sciutto said just before I came on. He said, according to a senior administration official, there's no sign of hostile intent by Iran. Think about that for a second. Senior members of Barack Obama's administration are apologizing for Iran, seizing two U.S. Navy vessels and holding ten sailors hostage. The White House, tonight, is a hotbed of cold feet.", "It comes just before, four hours before the president's address, before a joint session of the U.S. Congress. And in that speech, we were told the president would mention the Iran nuclear deal as a very positive step you, together with all the Republicans, voted against it. It's about to be implemented, as Jim Sciutto said. Billions and billions of dollars in sanctions are about to flow to Iran. Is there anything you can do to stop that?", "Wolf I don't think the timing of this intercept of our two naval vessels in the Persian Gulf is coincidental. Rarely are matters coincidental when you're dealing with the ayatollahs in Iran. First off, it's humiliating to Barack Obama and, therefore, the United States to have American sailors held hostage during his final State of the Union. Second, as you say, the nuclear deal is about to be implemented, maybe as early as this week, in which Iran is going to get over a hundred billions of dollars to continue its campaign of terror and aggression throughout the region and around the world. This is the ayatollahs trying to inflict maximum humiliation on the United States and on President Obama. Unfortunately, that's been the story we've seen since the nuclear deal was signed in the summer, and it's what we can expect to continue for the next coming months. It won't be the final humiliation. It's just one more sip from this bitter cup that we'll be offered again and again.", "You used the word \"hostages,\" Senator. A lot of us remember, 1979, 1980 when American diplomats at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, they were taken prisoner. They were held hostage for 444 days. When you used the word \"hostage,\" are you referring to that experience? Because that would be awful, obviously.", "Well, Iran has a history of holding American hostages and trying to kill Americans, whether it's in Iran or Iraq or Lebanon. And now, they've seized two U.S. naval vessels. I would say put the map of the Persian Gulf back up on the screen, Wolf, and your viewers can see how improvable it is that those naval vessels go in from Kuwait to Bahrain along the Saudi coast would have ventured into Iranian waters. It would seem to me much more likely that Iran waited the time when they would have maximum leverage to conduct this operation, as Jim Sciutto noted by the Revolutionary Guard Corps, the shock troops of the Iranian regime.", "Because I've always suspected -- and I know U.S. intelligence analysts have always suspected that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, in this particular case much more hostile to the United States than the government, per se, the foreign minister, Jivad Zarif, or the president, Rouhani, that there are, in effect, two Irans. One supports the Iran nuclear deal. They're trying to make it work. But the Revolutionary Guard Corps has always been skeptical, opposed, but they've been forced to go along, because the ayatollah says they should go along. How do you see that division within Iran?", "Well, Wolf, there may be two Irans, but the division isn't between moderates and hardliners. It's between hardliners and harder liners. The Revolutionary Guard Corps is intent on spreading the Islamic revolution around the world. That's the founding principle of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Revolutionary Guard Corps is the keeper of that revolution, and they are largely responsible for killing our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's not surprising now that they're boasting on Iranian TV that they intercepted two small naval vessels and are holding 10 American sailors hostage.", "Stand by, Senator. We have a lot more to talk about, including some suspicion out there, already out there that this Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, they would like to scuttle this Iran nuclear deal for whatever reason. Stay with us. We're following the breaking news. Ten American sailors now being held by Iran, as well as their two small Navy vessels. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST", "THE SITUATION ROOM. WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "THE SITUATION ROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-341437", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-05-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/30/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Michael Cohen Returns to Court for Status Hearing", "utt": ["President Trump's attorney and self-proclaimed fixer Michael Cohen is in court right now for a status hearing. This as we've learned that federal prosecutors are set to receive more than a million files seized from his phone. Our Brynn Gingras is outside of the courthouse in New York. What is today about? I mean, why is this a significant hearing for this case?", "Well, it's just like you said, Poppy. It's a status hearing. This is just so all parties involved can give an update to the judge on all of those documents and other items that were taken during that FBI raid of Michael Cohen's home and his office and his hotel room last month. So basically you said there, a million items are going to be handed over to the government according to the special master, who is in charge of sifting through all of those to documents, all of those items to determine if there's attorney-client privilege there between Michael Cohen and the president or other clients. And a million just coming from three phones. She also mentions in paperwork that was filed prior to this hearing that there was other documents that she's gone through and about more than 250 of those items are going to be handed or considered rather attorney-client privilege. So the government will not be able to look at those. However, there are hundreds of thousands of other items that the government will be able to look at and it's just the beginning. The special master noted in her documents and her filings that she is not -- that she is going to be receiving more production of items taken from that raid to be sifting through them -- Poppy.", "And you've also got this guy known as the Taxi King who, you know, the feds said came down hard on to get him to agree to a plea deal to some are thinking potentially case about Michael Cohen who he's worked with on this taxi medallion business here in New York City. He already got a pretty sweet offer, a plea deal offer, but now they've sweetened it, is that right?", "Yes, that's right, Poppy. He pled guilty to tax fraud and he's basically not going to see any jail time for that. He was sort of in partnership with Michael Cohen many years, and we know according to \"The New York Times\" that it's possible he could be helping the government, he could be helping state authorities with their separate investigations, and we heard -- we were reporting rather on CNN that that deal got sweetened after that FBI raid of Michael Cohen's properties. And so there's certainly that to be looking forward to, to see how that plays out as well with these court hearings.", "Yes. And Michael Cohen for his part says look, we're not partners, we never were. The court will decide.", "Right.", "Brynn Gingras, thank you. It's a disease expected to claim the lives of more than 50,000 Americans this year alone. Coming up, the new screening guidelines for colon cancer that have just been released."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "BRYNN GINGRAS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "GINGRAS", "HARLOW", "GINGRAS", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-137401", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-4-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/23/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Former Labor Sec Grades Obama's First 100 Days; Experts Weighing in on Obama's First 100 Days; Facebook Habit Turns into Addiction for Some", "utt": ["Well, we expect to hear shortly from President Obama, surrounded by the people whose cards are in your wallet. He's warning the nation's top issuers of credit cards that new consumer protections are in the works. A White House aide says that the watch words are simplicity, transparency and fairness. And as banks try to boost their profits and cut risks, they've jacked up fees and interest rates. And they've lowered spending limits, even canceled cards despite regular payments. The Federal Reserve and two congressional panels have come up with separate versions of a credit card holder's bill of rights, none of which would take effect until next year, by the way. And Democratic senators Schumer and Dodd want the Fed to act sooner. So, with six days left in the president's first 100 days, most Americans like what they've seen. A new CNN poll of polls shows that a 64 percent job approval rating, 28 percent disapprove. That's almost identical, by the way, to George W. Bush's ratings in April of 2001. And, despite polls showing deep economic despair, an Associated Press survey finds more Americans than not believe that the country is headed in the right direction. It's the first time since 2004 that the right direction has outpolled wrong in the AP poll. Now we know everyone has an opinion, including Robert Reich. He's a former labor secretary under President Clinton, now a professor at UC Berkeley. And fittingly enough, he's graded the president's first 100 days. Professor, you do this very well. You're accustomed to giving grades, both good and bad. So let's get right down to it.", "Well, I -- I certainly am, Kyra. For about 25 years I've been giving grades. So this is -- this comes naturally.", "And I love this story. It's about your students and how you remember their grades decades later. I think that's fabulous. Well, let's get right down. Let's say -- let's go ahead and start with, let's say, the ten-year budget. What would you give him on that?", "I give an \"A.\" I think it's an extraordinarily bold document that includes not only his campaign promises but also a vision for where America ought to be going, with regards to universal health care; protecting the country and the world from climate change; and addressing inequality. Why inequality? In fact, we have inequality today that we haven't seen since the 1920s. We need to do something about that. And so that clearly gets an \"A.\" I'd give it an \"A\" plus, except for the fact that the -- there are a little bit rosy scenarios in that budget document. And perhaps a little bit too rosy.", "Really? Can you give an example of what you -- how would you define too rosy?", "Well, the budget document assumes that the economy will be growing again by the end of this year, certainly by the beginning of next year. Most economists believe that that is a little bit too optimistic. Maybe we'll see growth again in the middle of 2010 but probably not before.", "All right. What does the stimulus package get?", "I'd grade the stimulus package at a \"B.\" I think it is definitely as good as it goes, but it needs to be probably larger. Now, $787 billion sounds like a lot of money. And it certainly is a big stimulus. But when you consider, No. 1, that the economy is now functioning about a trillion and a half dollars below its full capacity, if we had near full employment. And you also consider that the states are cutting like mad services and raising taxes, we probably need a stimulus package that is bigger than the one that was enacted if we are going to get people back to work.", "But $787 billion over the next two years, it's -- can we afford bigger than that?", "Well, I suppose the question, Kyra, is can we afford not to? If we don't get the economy growing again and people back to work, then we're going to be in not only the recession for a very long time, but tax revenues are not going to be coming in. People are not going to be able to pay their own bills. We're going to see a -- just a continuation of this crisis. So, we do need to, at least in the very short-term, have a stimulus big enough to get people back into their jobs.", "All right, usually we save the best for last. But in this case, it's going to be the worst for last. What do you give the bank bailout?", "Well, first of all, I'm a great fan of this administration. I think the president is doing a wonderful job. That's why we have the 64 percent favorabilities. I think the public feels that way, too. But on the bank bailout, I have to give, reluctantly, Obamanomics an F because so far it hasn't worked. The banks are lending less now than they were lending five months ago. The bank executives are still giving themselves very sweetheart deals in terms of executive pay. They are still providing dividends and thinking about acquisitions and hoarding money. The money is not getting to Main Street. And that was the purpose of the bailout. So far, Americans have spent about $600 billion bailing out the banks, and we have very little to show for it.", "So, I'm curious. If you were able to sit down and advise the president at this moment, giving him an F on the bank bailouts, what would you say, OK, this is how you'd raise the grade? I would do maybe this point and point number two right away.", "Well, let me just say this, Kyra. The people on the right of the political spectrum generally think -- generally think -- that the banks ought to be in some form of bankruptcy or negotiating with creditors, that there's no reason for the government to protect them from their creditors, no reason for creditors to get a free ride. People who tend to be on the left of the political center say we ought to nationalize the banks. Now, I could probably make a pretty good argument for either the right view or the left view, but almost nobody agrees with the administration right now that we ought to continue the policies that Hank Paulson began under the George W. Bush administration and continue to shove money in the direction of the banks, public money, shareholder money. And again, I -- when I criticize the administration on this, believe me, I am very sympathetic with the notion that they are kind of making this up as they go. Nobody has been here before. No administration had to deal with a bank crisis on this scale since Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration. So, given the magnitude of the crisis, my failing grade is provisional. The administration can certainly improve their grade, and -- but something quite different has to be done.", "Sure. And if you average it out with all of the grades, it comes to a C plus. We still need better. Robert Reich, good to see you.", "Thanks, Kyra. Bye-bye.", "Well, you too can grade the politicians you elected. Join us on President Obama's 100th day in office for the \"CNN National Report Card.\" That's next Wednesday night. Grade them with CNN's best political team. Rate the president, Congress, state leaders, all of them next Wednesday beginning at 8:00 Eastern online and on TV. Well, it's a great way to keep in touch, or so I hear, but for some people, Facebook can take over almost like an addiction. How do you know when you've crossed the line? A lot of buzz on this story back here in the NEWSROOM. Senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen joining us now with this week's \"Empowered Patient.\" You've heard some interesting Facebook stories. Are you a Facebooker?", "I am, but...", "You are.", "... and I started to do it, and when I got all of these responses, and my little sister's best friend from seventh grade wanted to have a discussion with me, I'm like, I've got to go have to have dinner.", "I don't have time for this.", "I don't have time for this, exactly. That was exactly the discussion that happened. I thought with myself. I said, I do not have time for this. But I met a woman -- or I interviewed a woman over the phone, 51 years old, single mom. Her 12-year-old daughter came down to help her with -- ask for help with homework. And this mom was too busy on Facebook. She said, I'm embarrassed to say I was too busy on Facebook. Her daughter went upstairs, e-mailed her, saying, Mom, I really need your help. And the mom didn't get the e-mail because she was, well, on Facebook. This woman says she knows she has a problem. She calls it an obsession, a compulsion. She tried to quit, and she just can't. And this is -- these are -- I didn't hear a lot, like a ton of these stories, but I did talk to some psychologists. Like one woman said, I had three people in my office with Facebook issues one day last week.", "Oh, my gosh.", "People who just -- they find themselves getting lost in the Facebook world. That's sort of the best way to put it.", "All right, so, I know you gathered, what, top five ways that you know you're addicted. How do you know?", "Right, because it's important to note here that all of these psychologists said this isn't Facebook's problem, this is how people are using Facebook. So they said you need to keep an eye on yourself. Are you crossing the line from a fun, entertaining thing to do to a compulsion. So, five, if you are losing sleep over Facebook, this is a problem. If you are on Facebook until 2:00 in the morning, and then you're exhausted the next day, you probably ought to cut back. Number four, you spend more than an hour a day on Facebook. Now, that's not a hard and fast number, but the psychologists I talked to said, does anyone neat more than a more than an hour a day of social networking? Don't you have a real life? Number three, you become obsessed with old loves. This one is big. The psychologists I talked to said they are having people come to them, they started to have affairs with people who they met up with on Facebook -- high school boyfriends, college girlfriends, whatever. If you have a real life, you need to pay attention to the spouse or the real girlfriend or the real boyfriend. If you ignore work -- now, all of us play around on the Internet a little bit at work except for you and me, Kyra...", "Exactly.", "... but if you really aren't doing your work because you're so busy changing your Facebook status, that's a problem. The number one way that you know that you might be addicted to Facebook, if the thought of going off of it puts you in a cold sweat. For example, Kyra, I asked this woman, did you ever think about taking a break? She said, yes, my therapist told me to take a break. She said, I did it for a day. She said that's all she could handle. And Kyra, I want to add in here, we asked Facebook for a comment. They have not gotten back to us yet.", "OK, I appreciate it. I break out into a cold sweat seeing all my e-mails. You know?", "I know. That's bad enough. Right. That's bad enough.", "I can't even keep up with that. Thanks, Elizabeth. Well, it's one of our favorite parts of the day, the 30-second pitch. And we give you the air time. You give us the best shot you can at getting a job. 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{"id": "CNN-160223", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-12-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1012/31/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Oprah Coming Into Her \"OWN\"", "utt": ["All right. Welcome back to AMERICAN MORNING. Good morning, everyone. Oprah is making good on her New Year's resolution. The Queen of Talk launches OWN - new Oprah Winfrey Network tomorrow.", "It's supposed to be chock-full of series and shows hand- picked and created by Oprah herself. A preview from CNN entertainment correspondent Kareen Wynter.", "Joe and Christine, good morning. The final countdown, it's officially underway. No, not just to New Year's, but to the day millions of Oprah Winfrey fans have been waiting for - the launch of her very own cable TV network.", "It all begins here.", "It's arguably the most ambitious endeavor of her career. A 24-hour television channel dedicated entirely to the vision of Oprah Winfrey.", "I could take every hero who inspired me. MATTHEW BELLANY (ph),", "The launch of O.W.N. is a huge deal in the television business.", "TV expert Matthew Bellany (ph) says he knows what O.W.N.'s greatest strength and challenge will be.", "Oprah, she has a huge advantage in launching a network because she is a brand. The danger is that the programming may not live up to the brand. I mean, that's the big question mark.", "Here's how Oprah plans to answer that question.", "This is a time for new beginnings.", "In ask \"Oprah's All-Stars\", a live audience goes one-on- one with Dr. Phil, Suze Orman, and Dr. Oz.", "Everybody has a story.", "\"Master Class\" profiles eight world icons. \"Season 25\" takes fans behind the scenes of Oprah's hit talk show. While \"Big Bowl of Love\" invites viewers into the kitchen of Christina Ferrari.", "This is my dream come true chapter and this is what I love to do.", "And for those who love clutter, Peter Walsh has \"Enough Already.\"", "This is a show that looks at people's stuff but gives them a road map out of this overwhelming amount of clutter in their house.", "And by, Peter, so many new networks fail. Why do you think this one is different?", "People want - want to - to be the best they can be. People want heroes. People want inspiration. Here at last is a level of programming that brings people that.", "There are a lot of critics out there, and I personally don't understand why wouldn't she want to have this kind of programming when today all you see now are those shows about, you know, housewives pulling each other's hair.", "I know it's easy to be cynical or skeptical, but I for one am so excited about what's going to happen when that - that switch is flipped.", "The switch gets flipped New Year's Day when viewers will decide whether they will shine a light on O.W.N.", "And the first official program on O.W.N., it airs at noon on New Year's Day. It's going to be a two-hour special hosted by Oprah herself. It's going to be called Oprah's Guide to O.W.N. As for all of the Discovery health shows, only two will remain on the network, \"Deliver Me\" and \"Mystery Diagnosis\" - Joe, Christine.", "All right. Still to come, it's Google's world, you just live in it. Coming up, how Google could become your next phone company and whether that's a good thing.", "And rain, ice, and snow. Storms leaving the west a total mess. And this, by the way, may be coming your way, where the extreme weather is heading for the first weekend of 2011. It's 26 minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "JOHNS", "KAREEN WYNTER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT", "OPRAH WINFREY, TELEVISION PERSONALITY AND ICON", "WYNTER (voice-over)", "WINFREY", "TV EXPERT", "WYNTER", "BELLANY (ph)", "WYNTER", "DR. PHIL MCGRAW, PSYCHOLOGIST AND TV PERSONALITY", "WYNTER", "WINFREY", "WYNTER", "CHRISTINA FERRARE, \"BIG BOWL OF LOVE\"", "WYNTER", "PETER WALSH, \"ENOUGH ALREADY\"", "WYNTER (on camera)", "WALSH", "FERRARE", "WALSH", "WYNTER", "WYNTER", "ROMANS", "JOHNS"]}
{"id": "CNN-290133", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2016-07-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/31/ndaysun.01.html", "summary": "Texas Hot Air Balloon Crash", "utt": ["Thirty-eight minutes past the hour. It is the deadliest balloon crash in U.S. history. Sixteen people were killed yesterday when a hot air balloon on a sunrise tour, image this, appears to have crashed into power lines, burst into flames and fell from the sky. Correspondent Polo Sandoval is live in Caldwell, Texas. You know, Polo, I saw a picture of authorities. One woman putting her arm around, I think it was a sheriff's deputy. This has really affected the folks there, hasn't it?", "It certainly has, Christi. And what we're looking at here is a very tough task for investigators as they return to the scene later today. It's very difficult to make out since it's not yet sunrise but may be able to see some of the lights twinkling over my right shoulder. That is essentially where that balloon plummeted towards the ground nearly 24 hours ago. We're told by authorities that there were 16 people on board that sunrise sightseeing hot balloon tour early yesterday morning. Sadly, we're told there were no survivors. And details or names or identities of these individuals have not yet been released by the authorities who are handling this investigation which is the national transportation safety board. Ultimately investigators will have to", "First I heard a whoosh -- you know, like a whooshing sound and then it just -- a big ball of fire up. I don't think any of them even realized what was going on because we heard the popping sounds. And I didn't look in time to see the balloon go down. But the way it went up, I don't think any of them even had any idea what was going on.", "And so you have that witness statement, Christi. You also have information from at least two law enforcement sources here in Texas telling us that this is the predominant theory right now, this preliminary investigation now suggesting that this balloon may have clipped those power lines causing that fire and ultimately the deaths of at least those 16 individuals. But ultimately the National Transportation Safety Board, Christi, will have to be the ones to actually confirm the cause. We expect them here on the ground later (ph) today (ph).", "Polo, I've never taken a hot air balloon ride. So that is why I'm asking this question for a lot of people who have not. Is there a communication system for the person piloting a hot air balloon to people on the ground? And is there any recording of such that might lend some sort of idea as to what happened?", "It is going to be something that investigators are going to consider. Obviously those witness accounts here on the ground as they try to put this puzzle together because ultimately", "All right. Polo Sandoval, we appreciate it. Thank you.", "Just a few days now, continuing the countdown to the Olympic Games in Rio. Now less than a week away to these opening ceremonies. Rosa Flores is there with a preview. Rosa.", "Well, Victor, CNN gains exclusive access to an aquatic search and rescue mission. We have cameras by air and by water capturing all of the dramatic events. But how do these intense trainings help firefighters prepare for the Olympic Games? I'll let you know after the break."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "SANDOVAL", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SANDOVAL", "PAUL", "SANDOVAL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-215194", "program": "CNN'S AMANPOUR", "date": "2013-9-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/24/ampr.01.html", "summary": "French President Hollande on Syria; Sounding the Alarm on Terror in Africa; Imagine a World", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the program. I'm Christiane Amanpour. The diplomatic world is abuzz with the possibility that this could be the moment to chart a new course between the United States, the West and Iran. The new Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has arrived to join world leaders, taking the podium at the annual United Nations General Assembly right here in New York. He vows to present what he calls the true face of Iran. And everyone wants to know whether his overtures mark an actual change in substance as well as in style after eight antagonistic years of his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. President Obama in his address to the assembly earlier today said that he was, quote, \"encouraged\" that the Iranian people had given President Rouhani a mandate for more moderate course. And President Obama said that he had instructed his secretary of state, John Kerry, to lead negotiations with Iran on the nuclear issue. And I also sit down with Mr. Rouhani after his address to explore the possibility of a new way forward. I'll have that interview on this program tomorrow. But tonight, my exclusive interview with French President Francois Hollande. I spoke to him as he prepared for his U.N. address about what he hopes to hear from Rouhani when they meet here on the nuclear issue and on ending the war in Syria. I also asked Mr. Hollande about France's role in combating terror in Africa because among the many victims of that brazen attack in Kenya are two French citizens. I asked about France's robust intervention around the world including Syria.", "Mr. President, welcome to New York. Welcome to our program. Thank you for joining me.", "Thank you for your invitation.", "France was very proactive, calling for Assad to step down, even agreeing -- you agreed to go militarily to deal with the horror of the chemical attack of August 21st. What is your reaction now that the U.S. didn't go, the British and the U.S. decided to turn it over to their elected parliaments and they didn't get the go-ahead. But you were prepared to go. Do you think there should have been punishment for the attack on August 21st, the chemical attack?", "France was ready. I said it -- as I said, to punish, to sanction the Syrian regime, given that they used chemical weapons and it is because there was this pressure from the U.S., from France. Now the Russians took the initiative to look for an agreement. This agreement has been done. It now enables us to consider a different solution, different than the military solution that we considered. This solution is a resolution by the U.N. Security Council in the coming days that should enable us to implement the agreement signed between the U.S. and the Russians on this issue of chemical weapons, that is the destruction of the chemical stockpiles.", "Should there be a military component? Should it be enforceable by military action if they don't comply? Will France go for a military component to the resolution?", "A resolution without sanctions whatsoever, a resolution that would not consider any answer to a breach by the Syrian regime in terms of the control and the destruction of chemical weapons, this would have no scope whatsoever, no punch. So France is looking for a resolution that must be binding, enforceable, so that in case of a breach, we can could go back to the Security Council and allow it to take sanctions. So, yes, the resolution, a quick one, yes, we would like the agreement between the U.S. and the Russians to be translated, this agreement in order to destroy chemical weapons, but with a requirement, a requirement for a sanction in case of breach.", "Well, the U.S. doesn't seem to be going for that. Everything it says seems to be that it's not going to ask for a military or a coercive component. The Russians say they don't want that. Do you think there will be a veto?", "No. All we have to do is to hold the Russians accountable. They have to stick to what they said. They said there would be implementation, control of the chemical weapons and that they must be indeed a possibility of returning to Chapter 7 (ph). But we may not need to turn to Chapter 7 (ph) immediately. What we need is the possibility of this sanction in case of a breach on behalf of the Syrian regime. So I believe that the solution that we're putting forward, which is a demanding solution, and it means to have -- the Security Council must be in a position to act and to adopt sanctions if there is a breach. We also need to make sure now those responsible can be referred to justice. All of that has to be in the next resolution and both the Russians and the U.S. can see in that solution the implementation of the agreement that they've signed.", "France seems to be very forward leaning. I am going to use other people's language, not mine. During the time of the Iraq War, France was called \"cheese-eating surrender monkeys.\" I'm sorry, that's not my -- not my term. French fries were called \"freedom fries.\" Your policy seems to be a real reversal of what was going on during the Iraq War. You seem to be really willing to project French power where you think it's necessary around the world. Why is that? And do you feel that you're filling a gap, as the United States sort of moves back a little bit?", "But France doesn't want to get involved in any kind of adventure or initiative. I was proud that my country did not take part to what happened in Iraq. I considered this was not our role and that there was no truth about the weapons of mass destruction. But here we're talking about 120,000 people dead in two and a half years, 2 million refugees, 18,000 dead in a year, also adding to one another, the forces of the regime, al Qaeda, as well, which is now in Syria. And in the middle, the democratic coalition which cannot find a political solution. So it is urgent that we act. Of course it is about fighting the use of chemical weapons, as will be done at the Security Council anytime soon. But it is also about finding a political solution. And the role of France is not to apply conditions all around the world. We have no intent of influencing or defending commercial or trade interests. What we are fighting for are those principles, values. This is what gives France its specificity (ph) in the international family. So what I am fighting for regarding Syria is a political solution. But if they're not, with necessary pressure and but all the threats regarding the use of chemical weapons, we would not be where we are. So we will sort out the issue of chemical weapons within a couple of days. But we cannot satisfy ourselves with that single solution. We have to find a political solution in order to put an end to what is the worst massacre since the beginning of the century.", "Iran is an actor. Iran, by all accounts, has military personnel inside Syria, helping and directing the war on behalf of President Assad. You will meet President Rouhani today. What are you going to tell him about Syria, about Iran's role in a political solution? What are the conditions? What does Iran have to agree to?", "We all know the bond between Iran and the Syrian regime. So we need to talk to Iran. Even more so, given that President Rouhani made a number of gestures, maybe not overtly so far, but it is some sort of an opening regarding Syria, we'll be telling him that we should work on in Geneva to conference. The only purpose will be to organize the political solution, the transition that he's putting in place an interim government, that should include all the forces that will build the Syria of tomorrow. And even he can attend the conference, if that country agrees to the necessity of finding a political solution. And it is also in Iran's interests not to be isolated because of Syria as well.", "And that includes Iran having to agree to what the conference calls for, and that is eventually President Assad stepping down and moving out, moving away from the political dynamic? So Iran has to agree to that?", "The purpose of Geneva, as we have said, is that Bashar al-Assad can go and that there is a government that would represent all the Syrian components, all political forces willing to build the Syria of tomorrow, so that all of that can be put in place. So if Iran agrees upon that goal, Iran is welcome. On the other hand, if Iran wants, at any price, to keep the regime in place, I cannot imagine how this country could attend Geneva 2.", "Let me ask you about Bashar al-Assad. Again, you, the French yourself, the British prime minister, the American president, Barack Obama, for two years have been saying Bashar al-Assad must go. You've said it again now. But isn't Bashar al-Assad necessary? Isn't he actually going to have to stay in order to resolve this chemical weapons deal? Is he not now inevitably a partner in getting rid of these chemical weapons?", "Syria is the partner. It is Syria today which holds chemical weapons and must destroy them. A couple of days ago, both in the American and the French press, Bashar al-Assad was saying that he didn't have chemical weapons, there were no such weapons in Syria. And now, he says there are. So he cannot be a trustworthy partner for many months. It cannot be an opportunity for Bashar al-Assad to stay as the leader of Syria. This issue, dealing with the chemical weapons, must also be a step to allow for the political solution, that is a government that represents all of the Syrian communities. I believe that we cannot use the chemical agreement in order to maintain this regime.", "And on the issue of nuclear program with Iran, where do you see the possibility of compromise? Can there be a win-win situation? Is this a last chance, do you think, for some kind of resolution of this crisis, really?", "It's been ongoing for 10 years. The negotiations have been in a deadlock for 10 years. And each day, each extra day is an extra threat in terms of the answer that will come at some point. And we have to keep that in mind. The new president made a number of statements which I find of opening, development. And I think that, here again, we have to be hold him to his word. And I'll -- when I see him today, I will be telling him a simple thing: if Iran is willing to be negotiate, to give up on its military nuclear program they get a single (ph) nuclear program to be accepted, then there is a possible solution. On the other hand, if the deadlock remains, what will happen, more and more sanctions, burdensome for the Iranian economy and, at some point, the threat of an operation. We all are aware of that. So from that point, starting point, it is reasonable to find a compromise. So the Iranian president has to move from words to deeds.", "And as I said earlier, tomorrow on this program, my interview with the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani. Back in Tehran, the Jewish community -- small, but nonetheless, the largest in the region outside of Israel -- is celebration the festival of Sukkoth with song and prayer and a new sense of optimism, not only because President Rouhani wished them a Happy New Year on Rosh Hashanah, but also knowing that Iran's only Jewish member of parliament is traveling with him to the U.N., something that would have been unthinkable when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was president. Now when we come back, I have more of my interview with President Hollande. I dig into his reasons for an assertive foreign policy, terror and Africa, next."], "speaker": ["CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST", "AMANPOUR", "PRES.  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{"id": "CNN-135306", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2009-2-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/23/acd.02.html", "summary": "Inside the White House Kitchen", "utt": ["One of the delights of living here is working with everyone here who has just gone above and beyond to make this place feel like a home. Everything from Bill, you know, helping the kids make desserts with friends to, you know, Tommy and the guys making French fries whenever you want. They can do this, but they can also make a mean batch of French fries, when you want it done.", "Mmm, french fries. My guess is french fries were not on the menu last night. In a black-tie event to rival the Oscars, President and Mrs. Obama hosted their first formal White House dinner. Their guests: the nation's governors and spouses in town for the National Governors Association meeting. For the first lady it was more than a chance to wine and dine in style. Erica Hill takes us up close for a White House kitchen confidential, Michelle Obama style.", "Before the Obamas arrived in the state dining room for the administration's first official White House dinner, there was work to do, starting in the kitchen. For the first lady, this continued a long-standing tradition; reviewing the menu for the press with the White House chef.", "We tried to do really very good with choosing the best of the local products.", "As part of her pledge to open up the White House, six local culinary students were also invited and encouraged to ask questions.", "So you guys, any questions that you have, feel free.", "I thought that inviting in those young culinary students was a wonderful idea; really, really wonderful. Fresh idea to have those young people in to work with and learn from the great Cris Comerford, I remember her fondly from my days in the White House.", "Capricia Penavic Marshall was White House social secretary during the Clinton administration. She gives the current first lady high marks.", "Ideally, you want several months, but she wasn't afforded that time. She had to learn everything there was in the White House. What kind of table cloths do they own? Linens, do I need to find others? Learn about the china. There's a whole host of decisions that have to be made.", "Mrs. Obama decided on the Wilson china, a close-up here with the huckleberry cobbler dessert. The place settings were brought to the White House in 1918 and chosen by this first lady because they didn't take away from the food.", "This was a very simple, approachable, but elegant pattern. And this will probably be one that we use a lot.", "As for the meal, a heavy focus on American ingredients; many of them local like the crab cakes and also healthy. The creamed spinach wasn't made with any cream at all. The main course included a favorite of the president.", "The president loves scallops.", "The president is also a big fan of the pastry chef, William Yosses. He dubbed him the Crust Master. These culinary students seem to agree with the president's assessment. With the tastings behind them, the Obamas welcomed 130 governors and their guests.", "The last thing I want to do is hold up the food. So Michelle and I want to say welcome.", "After dinner, a chance to let loose with music from Earth, Wind and Fire and perhaps for the President and Mrs. Obama to reflect on the first of many dinners to come.", "Little boogieing down there with Earth, Wind and Fire. One other thing that I found interesting at one point, when the students got over their shyness and actually did start asking questions, Anderson, one of them said, \"Do you ever take interns?\" And they said, \"Absolutely. We're always looking for part-time help.\"", "Really?", "\"Especially around the holidays. We love new ideas, so send in your resumes.\"`", "Wow. Did I hear huckleberry pie?", "It was actually a huckleberry cobbler. And I don't know exactly what huckleberry is. I'm guessing it's sort of blackberry- esque. But I heard the chef talking about how it was a small blueberry, according to Marshall.", "I know what Huckleberry Hound is. I mean...", "Right. They're is totally different. I don't think that serve that as dessert, so much.", "OK. I like Huckleberry Hound. Not to eat.", "It's a berry, which I believe I heard the pastry chef talking about that it's difficult to cultivate, they just find them in the wild. Maybe you could use huckleberry hounds to find the wild huckleberries to bring home for the cobbler.", "Maybe that's what the Huckleberry Hound does.", "I think it may be.", "Erica, thanks."], "speaker": ["M. OBAMA", "COOPER", "HILL", "CRISTETA COMERFORD", "HILL", "M. OBAMA", "CAPRICIA MARSHALL, SOCIAL SECRETARY, CLINTON WHITE HOUSE", "HILL", "MARSHALL", "HILL", "M. OBAMA", "HILL", "M. OBAMA", "HILL", "B. OBAMA", "HILL", "HILL", "COOPER", "HILL", "COOPER", "HILL", "COOPER", "HILL", "COOPER", "HILL", "COOPER", "HILL", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-38732", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-9-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/04/lt.03.html", "summary": "Nikolay Soltys Has Been Charged With Seven Counts of Murder", "utt": ["We are going to take you live now to Sacramento, California, where accused killer Nikolay Soltys will make his first court appearance since he was arrested last week. Soltys is accused of killing his wife, son and four other relatives. CNN's Rusty Dornin is covering the story for us, and Rusty, we are hearing that you just received the official charges against him?", "That's right, Natalie. Under way right now is the press conference with the district attorney of Sacramento County and she has announced seven counts of murder with a dangerous and deadly weapon. Now, of course, Nikolay Soltys did kill six of his relatives, but his wife was pregnant, so are there seven counts of murder, all with special circumstances. The district attorney says she's not sure whether they will be seeking death penalty in this case or weather it will be life in prison without parole. Now, I did speak earlier with the defense attorney Tommy Clankenbeard (ph) who said that they are also considering an insanity plea, but that's one of many options. What Clankenbeard (ph) did tell me was that he claims he was denied access to Soltys for nearly a day and half, and that he had to get a court order to get in to see his client with the Ukrainian translator. Now, the significance of that could be that anything that the -- Soltys told the investigators could be suppressed if his attorney was not present. At least, that's what his defense attorney is claiming right now. Meantime, of course, investigators are trying to piece together the puzzle of exactly where Soltys was during the past 10 days. He claims he was alone living in the abandoned house before he went to his mother's house last week, but investigators are not ruling out the possibility that there was someone who might have been helping him. He is here at the Sacramento County jail, which is used for high- profile inmates. The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was housed here. He is being held in isolation and will appear at his arraignment here in the jail in a couple of hours. It will be his first court appearance. So, right now, he's looking at seven counts of murder, and we are not sure whether he will be facing a death penalty case or not -- Natalie.", "All right. And we'll hear back from you during that arraignment. Rusty Dornin in Sacramento, we thank you."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-78462", "program": "JUDY WOODRUFF'S INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2003-10-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0310/24/ip.00.html", "summary": "Blame Game Over Iraq Intelligence Intensifies", "utt": ["The blame game over Iraq intelligence intensifies. A Senate panel prepares a scathing report about information used to justify war.", "There was an underground war going on within the administration.", "The Asian experience. In his traveling abroad, did President Bush help himself at home?", "I want to bring everyone together.", "Can Arnold Schwarzenegger cross the cultural divide between bargain hunters at Wal-Mart and latte lovers at Starbucks? Now, live from Washington, JUDY WOODRUFF'S INSIDE POLITICS.", "Thank you for joining us. Get ready for another round in the political battle over Iraq. Sources say that a Senate panel is preparing a scathing report on U.S. intelligence before the war and finger pointing is almost sure to follow. Here now, our Congressional correspondent, Jonathan Karl. Jonathan, what are you hearing this report is going to say and what it's not going to say?", "Well, Judy, the report is still aways from coming out. But the committee has been investigating the Iraq prewar intelligence since April. They've gone through thousands of pages of information, they have interviewed 100 subjects including the CIA director, as you know, George Tenet, who has been before the committee on multiple occasions. Sources say that their report when they get to doing it, that their investigation has revealed incident specific cases of sloppy intelligence based on questionable single sources in some cases and also circumstantial evidence. One source says some of these examples are eye-opening examples of sloppy intelligence that made it into the national intelligence estimate that came out last December and was used to make the case for war. But Democrats who I've spoken to agree with that assessment of what they've found say that's only half the story. They also want to know how the White House used the intelligence. They think the committee still needs to look into whether or not President Bush, the White House, misused the intelligence that was gathered. So far, the committee has only looked a intelligence gathering not the use of intelligence. Now, one top Democrat, the top Democrat on the committee, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, says he thinks the Republican chairman is simply trying to protect the White House on this.", "What he wants to do is lay all of this off on the intelligence community and never get to any other branches of government. In particular, the White House and associated high and visible government agencies.", "But all sides say there's more work to be done before the report is actually completed. There are more hearings to do. They're not done with that phase. Even the gathering of information to write the report. They say before the report is finalized, CIA Director George Tenet will be invited back up to Capitol Hill to appear before the committee to respond to what the committee's investigation has found -- Judy.", "All right. Jon Karl, watching this developing story up on the hill. Thank you very much. Just a short while ago, I spoke with a top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, Carl Levin of Michigan. And started by asking him, based on the panel's findings, if CIA Director George Tenet should lose his job?", "I'd like to see the report first. None of the members of the committee, as far as I know, have even seen the report which was leaked apparently by staff. So I'd have to see that report first. But there's all kinds of evidence that the intelligence, which was provided to the Congress, to the administration, was clearly exaggerated and hyped and shaped. But that's just half the picture. The other half is what was done with the intelligence, how was it used by the policymakers and that's the real issue's going to around here. The picture of the Intelligence Committee is not going to be a pretty one. But what's missing is the willingness on the part of the chairman of the intelligence committee to take a look at the use of intelligence by the administration. So far, he's absolutely refused to go there.", "You're referring to Senator Pat Roberts...", "Correct.", "... who is the chairman of the Intelligence Committee. Do you think there's any give on his part? Are you and other Democrats going to continue to insist that the administration role in this be looked at?", "Sure. The ranking Democrat on the committee, Senator Rockefeller, has raised this issue on a number of times with Senator Roberts. So far, there's been no give. But there's no use painting half a picture. That half of a picture may not be a pretty one and won't be relative to the role of the Intelligence Committee. But to leave the other half blank, which what the administration did with the intelligence, whatever it was, when they got it is a totally incomplete picture.", "There are those, Senator, who say that may not be the committee's jurisdiction, to look at the role of the administration. That it's your committee's jurisdiction to look at the intelligence community alone.", "Well the whole resolution creating this Intelligence Committee talks about it looking at the use of intelligence. The very jurisdictional grant to the intelligence committee provides that it review the use of intelligence by the administration. Not just in this case, but in any case. If this committee doesn't look at it, who is looking at isn't it.", "Let me ask you also about what CIA Director Tenet himself was quoted as saying. Among other things, he's complained not enough people were interviewed at the CIA and elsewhere. A spokesman for the CIA said that this work, this estimate, this national intelligence estimate, this important document was based on ten years of work. In other words, disputing the notion that it was sloppy work that went into preparing it.", "Until we see the report, it's kind of hard to comment on it. But there's all kinds of evidence, however, that the intelligence community shaped and stretched and exaggerated the intelligence. No doubt, to please the policy makers. But for whatever reason, that it was done. There's very disturbing evidence of that and has been for a long time. But again, that takes you up to the water's edge. The question is what was done by the policy makers with the intelligence once they got it?", "What are you going to do, Senator, if Chairman Roberts is not prepared to expand the report and the findings to include what you're talking about here?", "Well, someone, somewhere, has got to have an assessment of the policymaker's use or misuse of intelligence. Now we've proposed and voted for -- we being Democrats and outside bipartisan or non-partisan, independent commission -- to look at both the production of intelligence and its use prior to the attack on Iraq. That has been rejected by the majority of the Republicans here. So that avenue has been closed, to have an outside, independent group look at the improve intelligence. That means it's going to be up to someone in the Congress to look at it. Now I've got a staff review going on at the Armed Services Committee. And we're going to look at the use of intelligence as well as its production. But that does not take the place of a full committee taking a look at the use of intelligence by policymakers. If the intelligence committees won't do this in the Senate and the House, I'm not sure who will. That means it will be undone and that's a real gap in terms of the oversight of this administration's use of intelligence.", "Senator Carl Levin on the Intelligence Committee. To the Democratic presidential race now. Dennis Kucinich is demanding that New Hampshire television stations stop airing ads from rival Howard Dean. Dean's spots criticize his Democratic opponents' records on the war in Iraq and on prescription drug benefits. Kucinich says the ads distort his position against the war and distort Dean's anti-war stand as well. One local station says it has no right to edit or decline ads from federal candidates. Checking the headlines now in our Friday edition of \"Campaign News Daily,\" Vice President Dick Cheney brought in more cash for the Bush/Cheney reelection campaign earlier today. Cheney spoke to about 350 people at a nighttime event in New York. The luncheon was expected to raise about $700,000. The nine Democratic hopefuls head to Detroit for their next debate this weekend. Sunday night's event is cosponsored by the DNC and Congressional Black Caucus. Key topics expected to include unemployment and health care. President Bush's campaign manager is headed out west. The president has met himself with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now, Ken Melman, the man running the Bush campaign is going to the Golden State next week to build on the momentum created by the Schwarzenegger victory. It's a two-way street between the California capital and the nation's capital. Governor-Elect Arnold Schwarzenegger comes to Washington, as we just said, next week. He's scheduled to meet with lawmakers on the Hill on Wednesday, perhaps including his uncle-in- law, Senator Ted Kennedy. Out west, you could say Schwarzenegger's political victory tells the tale of two Californias. One a bastion of Wal-Marts, the other a Starbucks kind of place. Here's what we found between the lines of the recall election exit poll.", "A discount store is probably the last place you'd expect to find Arnold Schwarzenegger. But it turns out the governor-elect is a hit with the Wal-Mart crowd. Californians who live near a Wal-Mart voted overwhelmingly for the recall and for Schwarzenegger. By contrast, the more upscale, more educated and more liberal voters who live near a Starbucks were evenly split on the recall and voted for Schwarzenegger in smaller numbers.", "There is sort of a class warfare to some extent going on in California between very elite suburbs and very downscale suburbs.", "Take white collar versus blue collar neighborhoods. Collar Schwarzenegger communities blue by a wide margin, while white collar neighborhoods voted against the recall. A movie star like Schwarzenegger would likely feel right at home in places like Pebble Beach, Carmel or Malibu. But voters there apparently were not that comfortable with him.", "They may like movie stars in some of those areas, but they don't necessarily vote for them. A bare majority of Californians in old growth suburbs voted to recall Governor Davis. They did vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger, but not like the boomtowns.", "In the new, fast-growing California suburbs or boomtowns, voters were big fans of Schwarzenegger and even bigger fans of removing Governor Gray Davis.", "From California to New York, we'll get the big picture on the '04 election from a political veteran, Tony Coehlo. And I'll be talking primarily to the former Congressman about a subject close to his heart, the rights of Americans with disabilities. And later, now that he's back in the U.S., what does President Bush have to show for his trip to Asia. This is INSIDE POLITICS, the place for campaign news.", "In Georgia, Democrats are going to have to continue their search for a high-profile Senate candidate. Michelle Nunn, who is the daughter of former Senator Sam Nunn, said today that she will not run for the seat being vacated by Democrat Zell Miller. Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and former Senator Max Cleland have also declined to enter the race. INSIDE POLITICS back in 90 seconds.", "Former Congressman Tony Coelho is a veteran of many political battles here in Washington. He is also a passionate advocate on behalf of Americans with disabilities. Tony Coelho is with me from New York. Tony Coelho, as somebody who has lived with epilepsy yourself, who was the author of the Americans With Disabilities Act, what are you today in a speech you made at New York Law School, asking the candidates for president to do?", "Well, basically, Judy, what I'm trying to do is to get the disability community to say to candidates that are running for president that we can't support you for president -- this is all 10, the nine Democrats and President Bush -- if you don't put our right to work, our desire to work, our desire to pay taxes -- if you don't put that up front and center and help us get that right. I think that the right to work gives us our pride, our dignity, our ability to support our loved ones and so forth. Without a job, we can't do any of that. And none of these candidates -- none of these candidates are doing that today.", "You're saying literally, none of them are addressing the issue of the disability community?", "Well, none of them addressing the issue of our right to work. I mean, specifically, a lot of them are doing health care plans or doing training plans or an education plan or something. But our basic right to work, you know -- addressing the issues of putting judges on the Supreme Court who are anti-ADA, and making sure that the federal government does go ahead and hire people with disabilities on the federal work force; that we go ahead and have entrepreneurs be able -- entrepreneurs with disabilities to be able to participate in the purchase of goods and so forth from the federal government -- all of these things that are at the center of our community. None of the campaigns have really concentrated on it. And that's the reason I've spoken out. And I intend to be very aggressive in trying to get these campaigns to do something about it.", "I notice that...", "We need to have -- by the, Judy -- we need to have the ADA Restoration Act. Basically, restore what we got in ADA 12 years ago, that the courts have taken away. These candidates have to address that issue.", "You praised in your speech the first President Bush, the farther of this president. He signed the ADA. What is your read on his son and how well has this president done on this?", "Well, you know, the first President Bush, in 1988, when he ran for the presidency, endorsed the ADA then, as well as Governor Dukakis. And it wasn't an issue. Both of them aggressively talked about it and supported it and President Bush signed it. He was our hero. He was our advocate. He believed it and he made things happen. This president -- I don't think that he's an enemy, but he just doesn't address our issues, our concerns. These -- Judge Sutton, who the Senate supported, by the way -- but Judge Sutton is anti-ADA, advocated that we aren't capable of doing certain things. An awful appointment. And yet he was put on there. He hasn't done anything about -- even though there's be a executive order in place that says that you have to hire 100,000 people with disabilities for the federal work force before the 15th anniversary. He has done nothing. WOODRUFF; Tony Coelho, there are people sitting out there listening saying Hey, we know this is important. But there's a war on terror under way. We're fighting the aftermath of the war in Iraq. We're worried about the American economy. Why should the issue of people with disabilities be on anybody's radar screen in a significant? I mean, is it really going to have an effect in this election?", "I hope it does. And if our community is 54 million -- if our community would get together and make these requirements for their support, this is going to a very, very close election. We can make a difference. And Judy, what we're talking about here is our rights as Americans to participate in society and this government that we love so well -- we want to participate. We want to pay taxes. Most Americans out there don't want to pay taxes. We want to pay taxes. but in order to pay taxes, we have to have a job. That's what this fight is all about. We're committed. We want to participate. We to be involved. We don't want any handouts. Just the opportunity to work.", "We're going to have to leave there it. And you were just telling me that you've already heard back from the campaign of Congressman Dick Gephardt, that he's going to be giving a speech on this in Iowa in the next month.", "Thank you, Judy.", "All right. Tony Coelho, good to see you. Thanks very much.", "Appreciate it.", "It is Friday. And that means it is time for \"The Political Play of the Week.\" So who is capturing this week's honors? Our Bill Schneider reveals the winner when INSIDE POLITICS returns.", "Was Senator Joe Lieberman joking this morning? The Democratic presidential candidate said that if elected, he would name Senator John McCain, a Republican, his defense secretary. Lieberman made the comment on a talk radio show. His spokesman initially insisted that it was a joke but later said his boss was somewhat serious. McCain's spokesman said the Arizona Republican heard the exchange on his car radio and got a good laugh out of it. Well, sometimes taking a stand overseas can make a strong political statement back home. Our Bill Schneider explains.", "When president bush met with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahatir Mohamad in Bangkok this week, he managed to turn an awkward moment into \"The Political Play of the Week.\" (voice-over): At an Islamic summit in Malaysia last week, Prime Minister Mahatir made some explosive remarks about Jews.", "The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by a proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.", "Several world leaders immediately denounced those remarks.", "Dividing the world into Jewish and non-Jewish groupings is historically indefensible and wrong.", "President Bush did not respond for four days. That gave his Democratic opponents an opening, says a reporter who covers Jewish politics.", "Howard Dean, in a meeting with Jewish leaders last Friday, took the president to task for not having responded at that point. And he said, You would have had to hold me back.", "In Bangkok this week, President Bush confronted President Mahatir in a one-on-one meeting, calling his remarks good about Jews -- quote -- \"wrong and divisive.\" But the White House made sure the president's private comments got plenty of attention.", "Everybody thinks that the comments were hateful. They were outrageous.", "Republicans see an opening with Jews.", "There is a big bid afoot in the Jewish community to make the case that President Bush is the best president for Israel ever.", "The GOP saw a payoff in last year's midterm elections. Nationwide, Jewish support for Republican House candidates had mostly been in the 30 percent range during the 1980s. In the '90s, GOP support among Jewish voters fell. Then suddenly, last year, the Jewish Republican vote went back up to 35 percent. Jews make up only 3 percent of voters nationwide, but they are a major source of campaign money for Democrats. Republicans are not as dependent on Jewish contributions, but they may have another motive.", "It's about peeling off money that might go to the Democrats.", "Especially now that President Bush has spoken out against an outrageous anti-Semitic slur.", "Whether you want to say he did it too late or he did it not loud enough or whatever, he did it.", "And it was \"The Political Play of the Week.\" Bill Schneider, CNN, New York.", "Hmmm. Well, the Senate remembers a lost colleague ahead. And we will find out which stocks took a tumble on Wall Street now that the closing bell has rung.", "One year ago tomorrow, the Senate lost a beloved colleague. Democrat Paul Wellstone was killed this time last year in a plane crash in his home state of Minnesota. On the Senate floor today, the Republican and Democratic leaders remembered Wellstone as an idealist in the best sense of the word.", "He used his wit, his charm, his astonishing organizing abilities and every ounce of his hyperkinetic energy to fight for people who have few champions in places of power.", "In Minnesota tomorrow, Wellstone will be remembered with a day of music. That is it for INSIDE POLITICS. We hope you have a good weekend. I'm Judy Woodruff. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANNOUNCER", "GOV.-ELECT ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIFORNIA", "ANNOUNCER", "JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "JONATHAN KARL, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-WV), INTELLIGENCE CMTE.", "KARL", "WOODRUFF", "SEN. 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{"id": "NPR-32216", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2012-01-18", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/01/18/145413358/keystone-proposal-rejected-on-technicality", "title": "Keystone Proposal Rejected On Technicality", "summary": "The Obama administration rejected the Keystone XL pipeline proposal, while allowing the parent company to reapply with an alternate route. Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Elizabeth Shogren for more.", "utt": ["This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.", "And I'm Robert Siegel. The Obama administration announced today that it is rejecting a permit for a controversial pipeline to carry Canadian oil to the Gulf of Mexico. Just before Christmas, Congress set a tight deadline for the White House to make its decision. NPR correspondent Elizabeth Shogren joins us to explain why this won't be the last that we hear of the Keystone XL pipeline. Elizabeth, why did the Obama administration reject the permit?", "Well, President Obama said in a statement that the rushed and arbitrary deadline set by Congress didn't give his administration any other choice. This is a $7 billion project that's been years in the making and there was a hitch last year when Nebraska said it didn't want the pipeline to go through an important aquifer. The company agreed to find another route through that state and it hasn't done that yet, so the administration can't finish its review of the project.", "If the administration had approved the permit in its unfinished state, the decision would have been vulnerable to legal challenges.", "So if today's announcement by the Obama administration is rejecting the pipeline more on procedural than substantive grounds, that would not be the kind of firm ideological rejection that, say, the environmental movement was hoping for.", "That's right. The administration said they weren't rejecting the permit on its merits. The State Department said the Canadian company can reapply or other companies can apply for a pipeline. TransCanada has been saying that it is - TransCanada is the company that's behind this pipeline - they've been saying it's very committed to this project. They've sunk a lot of money into it and I can't imagine that they're going to be easily deterred.", "The company wasn't ready to go ahead with the project now anyways since it's still looking for a route through Nebraska and it doesn't expect to have that new route until the fall.", "How might this decision affect the president politically?", "Well, it's a mixed bag. Environmentalists were elated. They felt that the president hasn't done enough for them on global warming and this is a big - they consider it a huge gift for them. On the other hand, labor unions are furious, some at least, because they thought that this project did include the prospect for lots of jobs, especially for laborers and construction workers and so they're disappointed and they call it a job killer.", "And the reaction from the oil industry?", "Well, even before the announcement officially came out, representatives from the oil industry were bashing the president, saying that he was chasing away jobs and chasing away a massive investment in the economy at a time when we need it so badly. The industry also says that this will stand in the way of America weaning itself from imports of oil from unfriendly and unstable countries.", "So the president has announced that unable to make a decision within the timeframe imposed by Congress, he must reject a permit now for the pipeline. What is likely to happen next?", "Well, congressional Republicans are meeting to come up with their strategy. They say they're going to keep pushing for this pipeline to become a reality and to try to make it - try to fast-track it anyway they can. And they're also surely going to continue to use this issue as a way to attack the president for not doing enough to create jobs in the country.", "Okay. Thank you, Elizabeth. That's NPR correspondent Elizabeth Shogren."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "ELIZABETH SHOGREN, BYLINE", "ELIZABETH SHOGREN, BYLINE", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "ELIZABETH SHOGREN, BYLINE", "ELIZABETH SHOGREN, BYLINE", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "ELIZABETH SHOGREN, BYLINE", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "ELIZABETH SHOGREN, BYLINE", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "ELIZABETH SHOGREN, BYLINE", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST"]}
{"id": "NPR-23613", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2014-08-22", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/08/22/342354091/charity-will-benefit-if-mayweather-reads-harry-potter", "title": "Charity Will Benefit If Mayweather Reads 'Harry Potter'", "summary": "Rapper 50 Cent challenged Boxer Floyd Mayweather to read a page of a Harry Potter book aloud without messing up. If he can do it, 50 Cent will donate $750,000 to the charity of Mayweather's choice.", "utt": ["Good morning. I'm Kelly McEvers. Rapper 50 Cent does not care about the Ice Bucket Challenge. But he does care about his ongoing feud with boxer Floyd Mayweather. In an Instagram video, 50 challenged Mayweather to read one full page of a Harry Potter book without starting and stopping or let's just say messing up. If the boxer succeeds, 50 will donate $750,000 to the charity of his choice. The gauntlet - or maybe it's the goblet - has been thrown. It's MORNING EDITION."], "speaker": ["KELLY MCEVERS, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-294529", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2016-09-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/20/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Trump Taunts Clinton Ahead of First Debate; Report: Trump Used Charity Money to Settle Legal Disputes; Sources: George H.W. Bush to Vote for Clinton", "utt": ["We're continuing to follow the breaking news in New York and New Jersey bomb investigation, but there are other developing stories right now, as well. With the first presidential debate just days away, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are locked in a very tight contest across several key battleground states. Our senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta is following the Trump campaign for us. He's in North Carolina right now. Jim, what's the latest?", "Wolf, less than one week before the first debate, and Donald Trump just mentioned it a few moments ago. The GOP nominee is mocking Hillary Clinton's stamina and questioning her ability to defeat ISIS, and he is holding out the recent terror attack in New York as proof his policies on immigration and terrorism are the way to go.", "Less than 50 days until election day and a bare- knuckle fight to the finish is on. The latest round on keeping Americans safe.", "Hillary Clinton talks tougher about my supporters than she does about Islamic terrorists.", "Donald Trump is once again questioning whether Hillary Clinton can go the distance, poking fun at her recent bout with pneumonia and showing off his busy campaign schedule, saying in a tweet, \"Hillary Clinton is taking the day off again. She needs the rest. Sleep well, Hillary. See you at the debate.\" Clinton isn't exactly napping. She's prepping for their first debate and making it clear she knows what's coming.", "I can take that kind of stuff. I've been at this and, you know, I understand it's a contact sport. But I am not going to take what -- what he says about everybody else, you know.", "Right.", "You know, his attacks on African-Americans and immigrants and Muslims and women and people with disabilities.", "Yes. There you go.", "It's just...", "There you go.", "It's just something we cannot tolerate.", "But in the aftermath of the terror in New York, Trump isn't backing off his fiery rhetoric, keeping the door open to the profiling of Arabs and Muslims if he's elected president, even as he's denying it.", "You want to profile Arab or Muslim men. How would that work?", "We have no choice. Look, Israel does it, and Israel does it very successfully.", "They do it...", "But I'm not using the term \"Muslim.\" I'm saying you're going to have to profile them.", "Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr., are continuing to sound the alarm over the flow of Syrian refugees into the U.S. Trump Jr. said in a tweet, \"If I had a bowl of Skittles, and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful? That's our Syrian refugee problem.\" The makers of Skittles were not amused, saying in a statement, \"Skittles are candy. Refugees are people. We don't feel it's an appropriate analogy.\" A former aide to President Obama responded by tweeting the image of a bloodied Syrian boy. But Trump says it's Clinton who doesn't get it.", "Where is her condemnation of these people? Where is her condemnation of these countries?", "Trump is also facing serious new questions about his charitable foundation. A \"Washington Post\" is reporting the Trump Foundation spent more than a quarter million dollars to settle lawsuits, including $120,000 in fines he racked up in a dispute over the placement of a flagpole at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, potential violation of U.S. tax laws. One dispute he hasn't settled is with the Bush family. After years of Trump's taunts aimed had his family, the former Republican president, George H.W. Bush reportedly will vote for Hillary Clinton. So says former Maryland lieutenant governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who said in a Facebook post, \"The president told me he's voting for Hillary.\"", "Now as for that Skittles tweet, the Trump campaign is putting out a statement defending Donald Trump Jr., saying he is a tremendous asset to the campaign and also saying he is speaking the truth, Wolf. Speaking the truth, they say, on Syrian refugees -- Wolf.", "All right. Jim Acosta in North Carolina. Thank you. Let's turn to our political experts for more analysis. Jamie Gangel, first to you. President Bush's spokesman, the first President Bush may not be confirming or denying it, but you're hearing that President George H.W. Bush did, in fact, say he would be voting for Hillary Clinton.", "That's correct, Wolf. I would say that the spokesman is dodging or deflecting the issue, but our sources have now confirmed for us that, in fact, President -- former President Bush did tell Kathleen Kennedy Townsend that he was planning to vote for Hillary Clinton. That said, however, this was -- she is a member of the advisory board for Points of Life Foundation, which is a bipartisan group. And we're told it was in a receiving line, that there were about 40 people there for the occasion but that he really thought it was a personal conversation, not a public conversation. And we're told also that the board, the other board members, Republicans and Democrats, were very upset that she posted it and went public at an event that everyone really felt was a private event. When I last spoke to them, I was told she had not called to apologize or explain what she had done, but she has taken the post down. But we can confirm that president -- former President Bush 41, in fact, did say it to her. And my sources also tell me that he has said it to other people in the past. This is not the first time that he has told close friends that this was the case -- Wolf.", "Thank you, Jamie, stand by. Gloria, there have been a whole bunch of other prominent, high-profile Republicans...", "Yes.", "... who said they're going to vote for Hillary Clinton, so how much of a surprise is this?", "Well, I think it's a surprise coming from a former Republican president who's been a stalwart of the Republican Party. But in specific, when you look at George H.W. Bush and you understand the names that Jeb Bush was called by Donald Trump. And let me just read for you a list of former top Bush administration officials who have also said they are supporting Hillary Clinton. Among them, very close friend to the former president, Brent Scowcroft. Paul Wolfowitz, Hank Paulson, Richard Armitage. And so it's not completely shocking that, of course, that Bush 41 would say, \"You know what? I'm not.\" What is surprising, of course, is that it's become public, which is, I am sure, as Jamie points out, he really didn't want to occur.", "Mark Preston, Donald Trump Jr., he's come under some criticism now for that Skittles comparison to the Syrian refugees. Was this a misstep by Donald Trump's son?", "No doubt it was. I mean, this is one of those moments during the campaign that I'm sure Donald Trump Jr. wishes he could take back. It won't hurt him with his supporters. His supporters probably believe that in many ways. It does fit into the whole narrative, certainly, the talking points that Donald Trump has been making about the Syrian refugee crisis, specifically having them resettle here to the United States. But what's interesting in this campaign, Wolf, is that an incident like this just becomes another piece in this narrative that is really hard to explain, because in many ways, the electorate doesn't seem to care about the little things, even though this is a very big thing. So will it affect him in the long run? Probably not. But what it does is takes the Trump campaign off message, certainly, for the day, if not a couple of days as they try to deal with this issue.", "Olivia Nuzzi, following the terror attacks in New York and New Jersey, Donald Trump said that U.S. law enforcement, in his words, should profile people that maybe look suspicious. So what is he doing here? Is he playing to his base? What is he doing?", "He's absolutely playing to his base. But it's interesting. If you go back to this time in 2015 Donald Trump seemed to be against racial profiling. Macy's, a brand that he's had problems with in the past, had to pay a settlement for racial profiling. He criticized them relentlessly on Twitter for it, saying that racial profiling was bad; and people should protest Macy's for that reason. But now, of course, he's playing into his base. He's trying to let them know that he's going to get the bad guys. He's going to do what Hillary Clinton won't do, which in this case means, I think, profiling people based on their race or religion.", "And we're getting two very different reactions to the terror attacks in New York and New Jersey, Gloria, from Donald Trump and from Hillary Clinton.", "Look,, Hillary Clinton -- they're both playing to form, to type. Right? Hillary Clinton is saying that she is the strong leader and that he does not have the temperament. He is saying she does not have the judgment. And so each of them are, you know, reverting to form. And it's not surprising. And by the way, the polls show, Wolf, that they are about equal on the question of who can best handle terrorism. She's a little ahead on foreign policy, but I think that, when this all plays out, it's probably going to be a wash for both of them. It's not going to -- it's not going to help either candidate.", "In our most recent poll he's a little ahead in who can best handle terrorism.", "Right.", "She's a little ahead in who would be a better commander in chief.", "Foreign policy, exactly.", "So there's -- there's mixed results. Everyone, stay with us. There's a lot more going on. We'll take a quick break. 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{"id": "CNN-214969", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-9-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/20/cnr.09.html", "summary": "President Obama Blasts House Republicans; Chicago Gun Violence", "utt": ["Here we go, top of the hour. I'm Brooke Baldwin. You may have seen it here live, the president speaking in Missouri last hour after House Republicans voted once again to defund Obamacare. It's about the 40th time they have done so. Each time, they have come up empty because the Senate won't agree to it. It's just that simple. But this time, the House Republicans coupled their anti-Obamacare bill to this measure, this continuing resolution to fund the government past September 30th. That means this urgent bill to avert a government shutdown is dead on arrival in the Senate, because it now includes this anti-Obamacare provision, and Democrats considered Obamacare to be really his biggest achievement, as Republicans seem to think it a blunder. Here was the president.", "Republicans in Congress, they have tried to repeal or sabotage this more than 40 times. They have had these repeal votes. Every time, they fail. This law that is in place is already providing people benefits. It's not holding back economic growth. It's helping millions of Americans, including some of you or your family members that you may not be aware of.", "I want to bring in another Republican to talk about this, CNN political commentator Ari Fleischer. He's also the former Bush II press secretary. Ari Fleischer, nice to see you. You know, I was talking to Newt Gingrich last hour, and he told me there is absolutely no problem with the Republicans coupling this bill to fund the government with this anti-Obamacare measure. He said, you know, Brooke, coupling legislation, happens all the time. But my question to you, Ari, is this -- the government funding bill, this is emergency legislation, is it not? Why weigh it down with something that spells doom?", "Yes. The way Washington works, it's not going to be emergency legislation until about October 30 or October 31 -- 10 days out is forever the way they do it in Washington. But, look, Brooke, if the president were to sign this bill, it would keep the government open and it would get rid of Obamacare. And that would actually be very popular among a lot of independents, ticket- splitters, moderates in this country. Obamacare has been an economic albatross across our country. It's making people move from full-time work to part-time work and making people lose their health insurance overall, and force them on to the exchange. So it would be popular. The problem is the president won't sign it. And therefore, in the next 10 days, something needs to be done. The Senate won't pass it. Something needs to be done to keep the government open. I suspect this is just the preliminaries and the real work is about to happen.", "OK. What about your party? Let's talk Republicans because you have this divide now between the so-called moderates and then the so-called conservatives. And now you have these conservatives, they're fighting one another over who's fighting harder to kill Obamacare.", "Yes.", "I want to play some sound. I know. Listen to this House Republican talking about Senate Republicans.", "We are going to give them exactly what they have asked for, the opportunity to fight in the Senate on defunding Obamacare. You saw us explode with anger publicly when they stood up and start waving the white flag, saying, listen, we're not going to fight here. We're going to surrender. We can't win. We have been abused by these guys for so long. What I see happening now is people coming out and calling them out for the hypocrisy of these big, tough, conservatives who know how to fight, but will never get in the ring.", "So I know, Ari Fleischer, you could come out and you could say, hey, Brooke, you know, a good debate is a healthy thing even within your party. But it's not unusual, is it not, to hear one Republican calling another Republican a fraud, which we heard last hour, and now you saw Republican Sean Duffy, we heard him right there, calling other Republicans hypocrites, all talk, no action.", "This is internally destructive for the Republican Party. Republicans need to stop setting their sights on one another. They need to start doing what's best for the country. The reality is, so long as the Senate is controlled by the Democrats and the president is President Obama, Obamacare is not going to be repealed. So it's disappointing when people raise expectations to give the indication that we can repeal it. All they do is let down the base of the party that would sorely love for it to be repealed. It's just not realistic. What is realistic is to fund the government in the next 10 days, to fund it at the level that it's funded at last year, which is actually recognizing Republican victories, it recognizes cuts in spending which we got through, and it should kept at that funding level, and then on to the debt limit fight, which is going to be another problem. President Obama says he refuses to negotiate. Well, that's just as obstructionist as anything else we have heard. Of course he has to negotiate. He's the president of the United States.", "This budget issue may just be the preview to the debacle that is the debt ceiling. I'm sure, Ari Fleischer, we will chat again. Mr. Fleischer, thank you very much. Nice to see you.", "Thank you, Brooke.", "Now I want you to take a look at this, this adorable little face. This is Deonta Howard. He is 3 years of age, and his family says he will need plastic surgery. It's not because of something he was born with. It's because of something seriously wrong with where he lives, Chicago. Deonta was shot in the face, one of 13 people hit by gunfire just last night at a park on the city's South Side. Chicago police say today it was likely gang-related and his family is thankful little Deonta is expected to recover. But, as for Chicago, where gun violence has killed more than 300 this year alone, the frustration, the fatigue, you can hear it all in the voice you're about to hear. Shundra Robinson's son Deon (sic) was murdered three years ago sitting on a porch in Chicago. And she was part of a group of activists, including parents from Newtown, calling this week for more gun control.", "And everybody wants to talk about the Second Amendment right. What about our children? They have a right to live. You guys can leave here and go on with your lives. We have got to go on to empty rooms, because our children's lives were taken away by people who should not have had guns anyway. Most of our children's lives were lost by people under 21. This universal background check is a start. We need healing, you guys. And it's a global thing. It's beyond an epidemic. This is genocide in America.", "Her son Deno -- Deno -- forgive me. Shundra Robinson joins me live from Chicago. Ms. Robinson, we played that actually earlier this week when you were on the Hill. I can hear your voice. I want to get to your personal story in a moment. But, if you can, just as a mother, given your perspective, can you just react to waking up this morning and hearing the news, 13 people shot, including a 3-year-old?", "My heart is so heavy. I have been crying all day and praying all day for the families, because I know how they feel. And there's no words that can describe the feeling of losing a loved one or a loved one being shot, like I said, like animals on the street. And there is a big problem in America, in Chicago, definitely, and as well as America.", "And I thank you for coming on. I wanted to have the discussion with you. There's so much talk, especially when we talk Chicago, about gang vs. gun. And I read an interview that you did with a Chicago TV station after Deno was killed. And you didn't deny, you know, that Deno was probably a gang member. You talked about, you know, being pulled in two different directions. So, you know this better than anyone. Do you think in Chicago, is it a gang problem or is it a gun problem?", "It's bigger than a gang problem. We know that. That's just a small entity, but it's definitely a gun problem. As I said before, in most of these cases, they were under 21. So how did they get guns? So it's bigger than a gang problem, much bigger.", "How did they get guns? If you, you know, are familiar with the culture, I have to presume much of it, is it illegal?", "I don't know how they're getting these guns. But we know that they're getting them illegally, of course. They're under 21.", "Yes.", "So how could they get guns in their hands? You know, so much gun trafficking going on, there's no telling how they got the guns.", "On the issue...", "Somebody knows.", "Several people know, I'm sure. But on the issue of guns, Ms. Robinson, there is -- it's a perspective from a colleague of mine. He's Don Lemon, and so he was on this radio show and he was wondering out loud, basically, if lawmakers aren't enacting tougher laws, which I know you and folks with the Newtown families were calling for. You know, that might mean, and I'm quoting Don, that by some of us not owning a gun or at least embracing the idea of one, are we setting ourselves up to be victims in a movie theater, in a school, a public building, most of all in our streets, in our own neighborhoods and in our own homes, and armed with just our cell phones, our fists, and our wits, are we setting ourselves up to be sitting ducks? Does he have a point at all? Are we defenseless?", "Yes, we are setting ourselves up. And I believe that's what has to happen. It has to hit some of their homes for them to realize that it's bigger than an urban community issue. It's bigger than black-on-black crime. As I said, Newtown can justify that, as well as Washington, on a Naval base. This is a big issue that has to be dealt with. We cannot continue to put a Band-Aid on it and nurse it like it's just a scratch. This is a cut. This is a deep wound that is infected. You know, just like when you get gangrene on your foot, you have to cut it off. This has to be dealt with, and it has to be dealt with soon. We cannot wait any longer. How many more lives have to be lost, as I said before, before they deal with this issue?", "Shundra Robinson, I'm sorry about your son. Thank you so much for coming on.", "Thank you.", "Coming up next, do you remember this man?", "Here's what I got to say. If you didn't get enough the first time around, go", "That is a small-town Pennsylvania sheriff who had a pretty stern message for anyone who he thought was threatening his Second Amendment rights, including some city council members. And now those city council members have a message for him. Plus, a controversial school field trip, students pretending to be in a slave ship, picking cotton, even having slave masters, at one point even called the N-word, an education in history or a lesson gone too far? We will ask the man who runs the program coming up."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BALDWIN", "ARI FLEISCHER, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "BALDWIN", "FLEISCHER", "BALDWIN", "REP. SEAN DUFFY (R), WISCONSIN", "BALDWIN", "FLEISCHER", "BALDWIN", "FLEISCHER", "BALDWIN", "SHUNDRA ROBINSON, MOTHER OF MURDER VICTIM", "BALDWIN", "ROBINSON", "BALDWIN", "ROBINSON", "BALDWIN", "ROBINSON", "BALDWIN", "ROBINSON", "BALDWIN", "ROBINSON", "BALDWIN", "ROBINSON", "BALDWIN", "ROBINSON", "BALDWIN", "MARK KESSLER, FORMER POLICE CHIEF", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-49154", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-2-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/13/ltm.10.html", "summary": "Comments by Bush Trigger Anti-American Demonstrations Throughout Iran", "utt": ["We turn now to the issue of Iran and the \"axis of evil\". The comments by President Bush triggered anti- American demonstrations this week throughout Iran. The protest also reflects the country's internal power struggle, a battle between Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami and its hard-line religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Both in effect are in power, and Joe Klein has just returned from Iran and in the current issue of \"The New Yorker\" Magazine he writes about the internal fight for Iran's future, and Joe Klein joins us this morning from Charleston, South Carolina. Good to see you again. Good morning Joe.", "Hi Paula, good to see you again.", "We're going to try to shed some light on this internal struggle going on as reflected through public comments made by both leaders. Let's start off with something the president of Iran told our Christiane Amanpour shortly after September 11. Let's listen to that first.", "The September 11 attack was the ugliest form of terrorism ever seen. There's no problem between our nation and the nation of America. We've had good exchanges over the last four years or so.", "Now at the same time, this is what Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was saying.", "How do they have the nerve to ask for help from the Iranian government after 23 years of brining harm to that nation?", "Now Joe if that doesn't show the internal power struggle going on, I don't know what else does. How severe of a rift is there, there?", "Well the first thing I should say is that those weren't the only two official statements from the Iranian government. Former President", "And before we analyze that, I wanted to put up on the screen something that you suggest in your article about the confusion that arises from trying to figure out who exactly is in control here. You write, \"it is practically impossible to get a clear answer to the simplest of questions. Who is running the country? Quite often the response is nervous laughter. There are shadow institutions everywhere -- regular courts and clerical courts, a regular army, and a revolutionary army, an elected Parliament, and a Clerical Council of Guardians\".", "And you know Paula ...", "Who runs this place?", "Well I think the safest bet is to say that Khatami, the supreme leader, is in charge. But people don't think very highly of him. They think he's kind of a mediocrity, and they often - I mean Iranians are very, very big conspiracy theorists, and they often talk about the dark forces and the dark forces in their minds are the security apparatus and the revolutionary guards, and some of the business interests. They have these huge charitable trusts that fund terrorism among other things, and so they really feel that you can't ever quite know who's in charge there. But the one other fact that you really always have to keep in mind about Iran is that 70 percent of the country is under 30 years of age, and the young people just think that all this is absurd.", "And before we let you go, I want you to provide some context to these reports that not only have there been allegedly numbers of al Qaeda leaders and Taliban slipping into Iran, there was also a report that Osama bin Laden made it to Iran, and he's hiding there. How seriously ...", "... do you take any of these reports?", "I think that that's entirely unlikely. The Iranians are Shiites. Taliban are Soonies (ph). The Iranians almost went to war with the Taliban three years ago after several Iranians were assassinated by the Taliban. They have absolutely no sympathy for al Qaeda. So I think that those reports are unlikely. Other reports like the shipping of arms to the Palestinians are very likely. However, I think we've got to be careful about the kind of accusations that we make, and we're going to have to be very, very delicate in our diplomacy here not to offend the vast, vast numbers of people in that country who essentially want to be friendly with us, and to separate that from the very small ruling group that really wants to use us as an enemy to unite the nation.", "Well you made some fascinating observations in your latest article in \"The New Yorker\", and I thought it was very - that you came up with an appropriate title called \"Letter from Tehran, Shadow Land\". Good to see you again Joe. Thanks for your insights this morning.", "Thanks. Bye.", "When's the next novel coming? We're going to have to wait for that. You remember what he did the last time around Anderson?", "I've got a non-fiction book coming in a couple of weeks ...", "With your name on it? With your name on the jacket? We'll see.", "Of course ...", "... my name was on the last one. You can only do anonymous once in a lifetime.", "Yes that's true. OK Joe, thanks. Anderson. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "JOE KLEIN, THE NEW YORKER", "ZAHN", "PRESIDENT MOHAMMAD KHATAMI, IRAN (through translator)", "ZAHN", "ALI KHAMENEI, RELIGIOUS LEADER (through translator)", "ZAHN", "KLEIN", "ZAHN", "KLEIN", "ZAHN", "KLEIN", "ZAHN", "ZAHN", "KLEIN", "ZAHN", "KLEIN", "ZAHN", "KLEIN", "ZAHN", "KLEIN", "KLEIN", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-155397", "program": "RICK'S LIST", "date": "2010-9-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/08/rlst.02.html", "summary": "Staten Island Brush Fires; Detroit Hit By Dozens of Fires", "utt": ["Breaking news is coming into us now and I was looking over at some of the tweets that we're getting as well, which seem to reflect there is something that officials are going to be dealing with here for sometime here. Before we do that, Rog, put up the shot that's coming in now from Staten Island. Take a look at this. These are, you know, Staten Islands, one of New York's five boroughs. Two brush fires burning on Staten Island this afternoon, this is what we're getting. No injuries at this time. New York City Fire Department on it. They're battling a four-alarm brushfire on Buffalo Street and Highland Boulevard. Apparently it's extended all the way to Fox Beach. Three alarms sounding at the 43 Ridgewood Avenue area. So there you go. We told you about the brushfires and the wildfires taking place outside of Boulder, Colorado, yesterday. Now these coming in from just outside New York, New York. Staten Island to be more exact. And let me show you this tweet from New York Office of Emergency Management, OEM. \"Emergency personnel are on the scene of a three- alarm brushfire in the vicinity of Highland Boulevard, Buffalo Street in (Staten Island) SI. Expect traffic delays.\" So breaking news coming into us right now. This is from Staten Island. Also now, I want to show you some of these new pictures that are coming in from Texas. Remember the other day we talked about this, the fact that, OK, the hurricane comes in and they miss, maybe not do as much damage, but if it sits up there in the inland parts of Texas, it will cause problems. Chad Myers is going to help me pick this up now. Chad, you know what we're looking at here?", "Six Flags over Texas in Dallas.", "Ooh, is that water?", "No, just kind of mud. I think water was up and now it's come back down and that's what flash flooding is about. Literally, some of these streams and creeks that are still downriver from where it rained yesterday could go up 12 feet in about three hours. We've seen that. That's not an abnormal number. And so, if you're 12 feet from the water, you want to make sure you know what's going on because this water has been going up so very fast and obviously the water still has to go somewhere. Just because it stopped raining in a lot of spots doesn't mean the flooding will stop. All of these counties all the way from Austin all the way back down here almost back to San Antonio, especially Round Rock and Georgetown really getting hard hit. Then all of these red counties here -- that's Dallas, Metro Ft. Worth right there -- that's where we got flood warnings going on at this point. And it's still raining in some spots. Not a lot of rain. It's kind of slowed down significantly since yesterday but all the way through Dallas, all the way down I-35 there have been numbers of 15 inches, 15 inches of rainfall in the past 24 hours. There's not a place in the world that can handle that except maybe the Amazon and then the water doesn't go very far, it just goes back into the river. The rivers here, the Trinity, back into the red, we will definitely be seeing significant flooding in the next couple of days and even right now where the water was and where it rained just a couple hours ago the flooding is there down river. If you live down river of Dallas or Waco or San Antonio or Austin, you better know what's going on -- Rick.", "All right, Chad. Appreciate it, man. Stay on top of that for us. Meantime, take a look at this.", "She lied right to my face knowing that my family was dying of cancer.", "What did this woman allegedly lie about? See her right there? You're going to be disgusted when you hear her story. That's ahead. Also, dozens of Detroit neighborhoods in ashes. The city's already dealing with enough economic turmoil, but now suddenly a string of devastating fires break out all over the city, from one neighborhood to the next. What happened? I'll take you through it. Stay right there. This is RICK'S LIST.", "Here are the lists of stories that we are following up on today. First of all did you see our newscast last night in primetime? Because suddenly something revealed itself to us out of Detroit, a bizarre rash of fires that look like this. I mean, flames tearing through whole blocks jumping from house to house in a city already devastated by years of hard, economic times. There were about 85 fires within just four hours in Detroit. What gives, right? So many that firefighters had trouble getting all of them out. Dozens of buildings destroyed, some of them commercial, most of them residential. But about 20 houses actually caught fire in one neighborhood, most of them empty. They were abandoned after hard times. The bulk of the fire were caused by a perfect storm, according to officials -- hot, dry weather, winds gusting to almost 50 miles an hour, and power lines that were crashing on top of buildings setting them on fire and then the wind would spread the embers from one roof to another. Electrical transformers started exploding to boot. You could actually hear them pop. In fact, watch this. (", "Fire all the way down there. Wires are on fire. There goes the boom.", "\"There goes the boom.\" Now, take a look at this. This is Detroit today. It's like a war zone. That's how one woman puts it. Her neighborhood was devastated. What were once houses and cars are now scorched hulks. Making the situation even worse there wasn't enough man power to fight all of the fires all at once. At least two are believed to be the work of an arsonist, though. Gloria Borger is standing by live in Kentucky where some congressional battles are heating up. We're going to take you to the very latest stop on the CNN Election Express. There it is. We're going to be right back. This is RICK'S LIST."], "speaker": ["SANCHEZ", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "SANCHEZ", "MYERS", "SANCHEZ", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SANCHEZ", "SANCHEZ", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, IREPORT BY JOE WILK) UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SANCHEZ"]}
{"id": "NPR-10730", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2019-04-24", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716872957/muslims-in-sri-lanka-are-worried-about-backlash-after-sundays-easter-attacks", "title": "Muslims In Sri Lanka Are Worried About Backlash After Sunday's Easter Attacks", "summary": "Authorities blame Islamist extremists for Sunday's bombings in Sri Lanka. Some Muslims are on edge. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Hilmy Ahamed, vice president of the Muslim Council in Sri Lanka.", "utt": ["Muslims in Sri Lanka are on edge. They're a religious minority in Sri Lanka - about 10% of the population. In recent years, they've been targeted by extremist Buddhist mobs setting fire to homes and businesses. Now, with authorities saying Islamist extremists are behind Sunday's bombings, many Muslims worry about the possibility of a backlash.", "Hilmy Ahamed is the vice president of the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka. He joins us on the line now. Welcome to the program.", "Thank you.", "Your organization, together with other Muslim groups, has condemned the attacks. You've also pointed out that this extremist group does not represent Muslim beliefs and called for their immediate arrest and punishment. Are you concerned that there may be a backlash against Muslims in Sri Lanka?", "Most certainly, you know, because when it's so many deaths and injured, emotions tend to run really high. And we're certainly worried.", "But so far, have you heard of any incidents of intimidation or violence?", "There has been a few minor incidents - nothing major. Pelting stones at a few mosques. And on Sunday itself, two shops were burned down.", "Two shops, I think.", "Two shops owned by Muslims were burned down.", "Now, you've also talked about the concerns that people had in the community about extremism recently. Can you talk about what was known by you and others?", "Well, you see people worried about the continued hate speech by one person, one religious cleric called Molovi (ph) Zaharan. And, in fact, we reported him about 3 1/2 years ago.", "And so Zaharan's speeches were available online. And it came to your attention because what was in the speeches, the tone of his rhetoric.", "Yeah. That is right because he has been uploading a number of videos on YouTube. He was calling, basically, for the killing off of nonbelievers.", "You talk about wanting the authorities to take action against Zaharan. But did you get any sense in recent years that he was attracting followers or that you saw men being drawn to radical groups?", "At the time, you know, we thought that Zaharan was a loner and that, you know, he had no major following as such, except a few people in his hometown. But in 2018, December, we realized that there were basically a bunch of youths going around and damaging Buddhist statues. And we found out that Zaharan has been their mentor.", "So this was in one particular village. You're saying that back in December of 2018, there were some young people who defaced some Buddhist statues.", "Yes.", "And this raised alarm for you and others.", "Yes. And we basically went back to the authorities with all the facts we had.", "I understand that in the aftermath of the Easter Sunday attacks, you and other Muslim leaders have also gathered to figure out how to respond to this incident. What kinds of actions are you considering?", "See, this Easter Sunday attack came as a shock to the Muslim community because we have never had this kind of extremism within the community. We are asking all our mosques to ensure that they have a vigilance committee to see whether there is any untoward activities by anybody and to report them directly to the police or to call a hotline, which we will establish, to address possible threats.", "So the idea is that each mosque would have a small committee that you said you're calling a vigilance committee. What kinds of things would they be on the lookout for?", "You know, they would look out for any suspicious activity, especially preachers from outside the area coming and preaching any kind of extremism.", "Hilmy Ahamed, thank you so much for speaking with us.", "Thank you.", "Hilmy Ahamed is the vice president of the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "HILMY AHAMED", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "HILMY AHAMED", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "HILMY AHAMED", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "HILMY AHAMED", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "HILMY AHAMED", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "HILMY AHAMED", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "HILMY AHAMED", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "HILMY AHAMED", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "HILMY AHAMED", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "HILMY AHAMED", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "HILMY AHAMED", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "HILMY AHAMED", "AUDIE CORNISH, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-27399", "program": "Ahead Of The Curve", "date": "2001-3-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0103/20/aotc.10.html", "summary": "'Financial Times': European Markets Factoring In 'At Least A 50-Point Cut, Maybe 75' At Fed Meeting Today", "utt": ["Well, European markets are higher this morning by better than 1 percentage point. Are they merely playing catch-up to yesterday's rally on Wall Street, or are they saying something about what they expect from the Federal Reserve? Here to answer that question is Hugh Carnegy, world news editor of the \"Financial Times\" in London. And, Hugh, how important is the Fed's action overseas?", "Good morning. Well, of course, all eyes over here are on the Fed as well this afternoon. I think that rise this morning just followed Wall Street's close last night. And people are pretty much in a holding path and now waiting to see what happens this evening. Rather as it is over there, people are factoring in at least a 50-point cut, maybe 75, to the extent that 50 might be seen as a bit of a disappointment here. So, there's very much wait-and-see mode at the moment.", "All right. Would the markets there sell off also if we only got a 1/2-percentage point cut from the Fed here?", "I think there are certainly some people that think that if we only got -- only got a 50-percent -- a 50 -- sorry -- a 50-point cut that the market could go down. But it will track Wall Street. It'll wait and see what Wall Street does and follow it almost certainly. The interesting thing here is I think if you kind of look at the broader context of the macroeconomy, the European economy as we've been saying for some weeks now is expected to perform better than the American economy this year, it would seem. And certainly the European Central Bank has not followed the Fed in all this aggressive cutting that we've seen over the last few weeks on your side of the pond. But there is, I think, a little bit of disquiet over here that maybe there's a bit of complacency at the political end, at the central bank level in Europe, that Europe, although it doesn't export as much to the American economy as some people sometimes think, I think the whole confidence issue is an important one. And there are certainly some people feel a little worried that the European economy may not prove to be quite as robust if there is a serious downturn in the U.S. as some people have been saying.", "Especially when you consider that it's not just the U.S. but Japan has got some financial problem as well. Hugh Carnegy of the \"Financial Times,\" thanks so much."], "speaker": ["DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "HUGH CARNEGY, WORLD NEWS EDITOR, \"FINANCIAL TIMES\"", "MARCHINI", "CARNEGY", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "CNN-411870", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-09-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/25/nday.02.html", "summary": "Ballot Requests Setting Record; Lawsuits over Mail-In Voting", "utt": ["This morning we're seeing all kinds of evidence that interest in early voting is skyrocketing across the country. A CNN survey of election offices in 42 states and Washington, D.C., finds that more than 28 million ballots have already been requested. Another 43 million are being mailed automatically to voters. That tops the more than 50 million pre-election ballots that were cast past in 2016. CNN's Kristen Holmes joins us now, more with the numbers, what's actually happening here, Kristen, which I think is important.", "Yes, John, that's right. So this is a sign of what is expected to be record-shattering voter turnout in this election. You know, of those 42 states that we surveyed, 15 of them reported that they have more requests for absentee ballots now than the entire amount of pre-election votes that were cast back in 2016. So, looking at it on a state-by-state level, for example, North Carolina, the number of absentee ballots there has already surpassed 1 million this week. At this point in 2016, there were 85,000 requests, 85,000 versus 1 million. Pennsylvania, the number of ballots requested there is eight times the amount of people who actually cast a ballot ahead of the election in 2016. Now, of course, I'm mentioning key swing states and I want to break down the party breakdown here for you in those key swing states because that's very important. You have 1.3 million more ballots that have been requested by Democrats than Republicans. While this is a big number, there is a big caveat here. It is not that surprising. All of the research that we have, all the data shows that President Trump's supporters, Republicans, are more likely to vote in-person on Election Day. So that number could easily be made up. Now, in terms of ballots that have actually been cast, we have data from about 12 states here and it's about 500,000 ballots that have actually been cast. There is some important things to keep in mind when we talk about these huge numbers. Not all of those mail-in ballots are actually going to be cast. They are not going to be returned. And, in fact, I spoke to people in Virginia who told me that they had requested a mail-in ballot, decided they wanted to cast their ballot in person, so we have to account for some of that. The other thing here is that the number of people requesting ballots does not in any way indicate how the election outcome will look. But this is very encouraging in terms of seeing people registering to vote, getting out there, and it shows just how important this election is to so many Americans, John.", "I'll take it, Kristen. You're so right, there is a high level of engagement and that is great for any side. So, thank you very much for giving us a snapshot of where we are right now. Joining us now is CNN analyst Jessica Huseman. She's a reporter at ProPublica. Jessica, we've really been looking forward to talking to you. Also, to kind of mentally prepare viewers and voters that this is not going to be a neat and tidy election day because of coronavirus, because of all of that voter engagement that Kristen was just telling us, it's going to look different. And it already is. For -- case in point, there's already legal battles happening in states around the country because of things like this, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Where will voters be able to drop off their ballots? That's one legal battle. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, when do voters have to mail in their ballots by? Michigan, will voters have the ability to fix any problems with their mail-in ballots? North Carolina, Republicans pledging to try to overturn a new agreement that extends the deadline for receiving mail-in ballots by six days. So give us your take on what we're already seeing. And are these measures designed to restrict voting access or just to clarify it?", "You know, I think that it's a mixed bag across the country. There are some states that are certainly not that thrilled that vote by mail is increasing. There are other states that are doing it enthusiastically. And still in those states it's a huge movement to switch from traditional methods of voting to vote-by-mail. And so a lot of these lawsuits are just about sorting out the details that haven't been worked out because we're just moving so quickly towards November and this pandemic in a very different voting environment. So, you know, I think that depending on the states that you're in, both of the things that you just referenced might be true.", "And let's talk -- let's just zero in on one thing that is confusing people in Pennsylvania, and that are these rather Victorian terms of naked ballots and secrecy envelopes. And this is, I mean I think you're about to tell us, an antiquated notion, but let's just listen to the Pennsylvania attorney general attempt to explain it.", "You fold it up and you stick it in the secrecy envelope. That's the second ballot -- or the second envelope. And the final envelope is the envelope you use to mail it back.", "OK, what's happening there?", "Let me just say that if 2020 brings me nothing but the phrase \"naked ballots,\" I will be just -- just fine with that. I -- you know, it's a really confusing and antiquated system. These secrecy ballots were really useful when, you know, we were counting votes by hand and there was a concern that the person counting your ballot might see the way that you voted. But that's really not how ballots are counted anymore. They are sorted by machines. They are counted by machines. And by the time human eyes see the ballots, they have been removed from any envelope that would contain the voter's identity. So for something like an audit, their secret ballot would still be protected. And so what's really interesting about Pennsylvania is that while most states that have secrecy envelopes still require you to sign the back of that inner envelope, Pennsylvania requires you to sign the back of the outer envelope that's looked at by the clerks. So there's really no purpose for the inner envelope at all. And so experts are telling me that they're really discouraged by the idea that such a useless by-product of the past is going to be disenfranchising voters in Pennsylvania.", "Now let's talk about another thing in Pennsylvania, and that's these nine discarded ballots. It sounds like they were military ballots that people might have thought were mail-in ballots. When they figured out they were military ballots, they threw them out. There were nine. That hardly suggests any sort of widespread problem whatsoever. However, the Department of Justice felt compelled to get involved and issue a press release about this. So what does that tell us?", "You know, it's really stunning to me that the DOJ issued a press release. It's obviously not policy for the DOJ to comment on investigations that are still pending. And so that was -- that was a striking thing for them to do. And given that they identified how these ballots were cast, which is very much not in line with America's history of maintaining secrecy and ballots and is, in fact, the exact reason why Pennsylvania's secret ballot envelopes, inner envelopes are being litigated right now, you know, it was just a really stunning announcement that kind of smacked of partisanship, the exact kind of partisanship out of the DOJ that, you know, the media and Democrats have really been concerned about this entire season. And so what we don't know is what discarded even means. So it said that the ballots were discarded. We're really not clear as to what that meant or how the ballots ended up where they did or why. It's clear from Pennsylvania officials that these were mistaken for something they weren't. It was a very small number of ballots. And then, also, this county went overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016, so that most of the ballots, you know, made -- they're aware of who was -- whose name was on seven of the nine ballots and that seven of those nine ballots were cast for Donald Trump is not that surprising. So there's really nothing about this that would suggest a larger problem. It is certainly true that these nine ballots should be investigated and what happened to them should be figured out because every vote does count and these nine ballots will matter, but it does not suggest an overwhelming problem as if -- which Trump's campaign, yesterday, tried to play it off as. And I just don't think that there's any evidence of that.", "That's really helpful because I think that that's the upshot of all this. Yes, there are these hiccups. People are desperately trying to iron them out over, you know, the next 40 days. But on a large scale, we are being assured by election officials everywhere that they are going to get this right. So, Jessica, thank you very much for all of your investigating and reporting and sharing it with us.", "Yes.", "OK, so, ahead, CNN takes you to a Trump rally where we ask the president's supporters to show us their FaceBook feeds. The content they're seeing and how it's influencing their vote. That's next."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CAMEROTA", "JESSICA HUSEMAN, CNN ANALYST", "CAMEROTA", "JOSH SHAPIRO (D) PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY GENERAL", "CAMEROTA", "HUSEMAN", "CAMEROTA", "HUSEMAN", "CAMEROTA", "HUSEMAN", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-332863", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2018-02-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/14/wolf.01.html", "summary": "House Launches Probe; Handling Of Porter.", "utt": ["We'll see you back here this time tomorrow. Wolf Blitzer starts right now.", "Hello, I'm Wolf Blitzer. It's 1:00 p.m. here in Washington. Wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. Up first, the Trump administration under new scrutiny over the Rob Porter scandal. The White House faces more questions about the handling of domestic abuse allegations against Porter, and the vice president saying he stands by the White House chief of staff, John Kelly.", "Are you 100 percent confident that General Kelly has been fully honest and transparent in his explanation of Rob Porter departure?", "There are very few Americans or American families that have served this nation more honorably or sacrificed more for this country than the family of General John Kelly. And John Kelly's service in uniform and his distinguished service at our Department of Homeland Security, where we saw a dramatic reduction of illegal crossings at our southern border, and his distinguished service as chief of staff, gives me and the president great confidence in this good man. And I want the American people to know, not just John Kelly, but family members in uniform, here and gone, have served this nation with a love and a patriotism and a passion that should inspire us all.", "On top of this, the House Oversight Committee is now investigating. Here's what Congressman Trey Gowdy, the committee Chairman, told our Alisyn Camerota on CNN's \"NEW DAY.\"", "Just so that I'm clear, will the Oversight Committee be launching an investigation into this?", "We did last night.", "So, it's official?", "We are directing inquiries to people that we think have access to information we don't have. I'm going to direct questions to the FBI that I expect them to answer.", "This comes a day after the FBI director, Christopher Wray, contradicted the White House timeline, explaining what officials knew and when they knew it. Let's go to our Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta. He's over at the White House right now. Jim, what more can you tell us about the focus of this House Oversight Committee's investigation? This is important news.", "I think it's very important news that the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Trey Gowdy, a Republican, volunteered on CNN that his committee has launched an investigation into all of this. There are some key points that they are looking at in the context of their investigation. But, Wolf, I just want to make sure that we focus pretty closely on what we just heard a few moments ago from the vice president, Mike Pence, talking to Mike Allen over at Axios just a few moments ago. It was interesting what the vice president said to Mike Allen. He said, at one point, I think the White House could have handled this better, in reference to the Rob Porter saga. That's a pretty stunning admission from the vice president. I think earlier, when he was at the Olympics, he told NBC's Lester Holt that while the White House says they could have handled it better, this was the vice president essentially saying, no, I think the White House could have handled this better. And it's in contrast with what the chief of staff, John Kelly, said to \"The Wall Street Journal\" that everything was done right. And so, once again, Wolf, we have, sort of, this gang that can't shoot straight. Everybody's talking in different directions about this Rob Porter saga. And the vice president, you know, saying, at this event just a few moments ago, that the White House could have handled it better is another indication of that. It's an indication that not only does he believe that they could have handled it better, but he's also, I think, perhaps, putting a little separation between himself and what's happening over here at the White House, in terms of the vice president. The other thing, as you were just mentioning. Yes, Trey Gowdy opening up his own investigation into all of this is just going to prolong the agony for people inside the White House. Because, obviously, the committee is going to be asking questions. They're going to be seeking documents. They're going to be seeking answers. Here's a letter on screen to the chief of staff, John Kelly, from Trey Gowdy. And I believe we have a tear-out of that letter which focuses on some of the key issues that they're looking at. You can see it up on screen. This is what they're going to be looking at, policies, practices, and procedures relating to the investigation and issuance of interim security clearances, including interim security clearances for White House personnel. Whether the adjudications of Porter's interim and final clearance were consistent with the policies, practices and procedures identified. The date on which any White House employee, Wolf, this is very, very important, became aware of potential derogatory or disqualifying information on Porter from the date of his appointment, February 12, 2018 -- to February 12, 2018, when he was, I guess you could say pushed out, but he says he resigned. And then, Wolf, the security clearance adjudication dates for Porter, including both interim and final clearance. Those questions go to the heart of the questions we've been asking in the briefing room over the last week or so. Wolf, this is a textbook example of how a White House should not handle a matter like this. They've given us four or five different answers over a series of briefings, in terms of what happened. Who did what to who. Who punched John and so on. And just yesterday, the White House was talking about this office of personnel security, that's where the FBI background check went to. We still don't have the answers as to what was done with that information, once it got to the office of personnel security. I suspect that'll be one of the key questions at the briefing this afternoon which, not surprisingly, has been pushed to 2:30 this afternoon -- Wolf.", "And Sarah Sanders is scheduled to do that briefing. They're not going to send out John Kelly, let him answer the questions. Lots of questions for him. Why not simply send out the White House chief of staff instead of sending lesser officials?", "Wolf, I think that is right on point. He has been, sort of, ducking in and out of press areas of the White House. And so, reporters have had the opportunity to shoot some questions at him from time to time. But he has not really answered any questions about this. The other point we should also make, Wolf, is that the president has repeatedly been asked questions about this since Friday, when he went ahead and said that, well, Porter is maintaining his innocence and did not say anything about Porter's alleged victims. And so, the president has also shied away from these questions. And, again, it's just a textbook example of how a White House should not handle a matter like this. They keep changing their story and avoiding the questions, Wolf.", "All right, Jim Acosta at the White House. We'll stand by for that briefing later. That's coming up fairly soon. Let's talk a little bit more about all of this. I want to bring in our White House Correspondent Abby Phillip, CNN Political Analyst David Gregory and our Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger. How safe is Kelly right now?", "Well, you heard the vice president there. I think that, last night, there was a lot of scurrying around and a lot of activity around the fact that the president had been calling people. One of whom he, sort of, remotely said, well, if I were thinking about changing chief of staff, would you be interested? And that was Tom Barrack. And he said, no. That was last Friday however. And so, there's all this, kind of, activity about replacements and people in the White House wondering what is going on here. And I think now we're seeing an effort, from the vice president and others, to say, stop. We're done.", "Right.", "It's over. There's not going to be a replacement for General Kelly. He is remaining where he is. And I think, obviously, that comes from the president.", "I think that's the important point. Mike Pence, the Vice President, and not speaking out of turn here. He may be all the way over there in the Olympics. But when he comes out and vouches for Kelly in this way, that means they're closing ranks. This is a president who doesn't mind letting someone he's upset with know, because they leaked a fact that he's talking to other people about potentially replacing him. And maybe that was him firing a shot across the bow. But I thought Jim said something that's important. And, Abby, you know this covering the White House day in and day out. You have to ask yourself, what's worse than chipping away at this story through multiple versions of the story? Somebody's got to come out and clean up and say, look, this was a great guy. We loved him. We didn't realize this was going on. We screwed this up. And it was out of an abundance of giving him a fair shake and our belief in him. But we've got to focus on these women. And this was just horribly done. Somebody's got to own that. The president has only made things worse and continues to do that by just staying away from it.", "Well, in a lot of ways, what we're seeing from John Kelly is something that we often see from the president himself. Which is you don't back down. You don't admit you did anything wrong. As recently as earlier this week, he told \"The Wall Street Journal\" that he thought everything had been handled perfectly. So, it's a pattern of behavior that, I think, is trickling down to -- in the ranks at the White House. And also, to Gloria's point about Kelly's future, there are -- there have been so many times, over the last several months, in which President Trump has talked about wanting a change in his top aides. He's been doing it, virtually, since day one with Reince Priebus. So, that's why a lot of people, even within the White House, are just not sure how this is going to shake out. But the fact they're talking publicly about Kelly having the confidence of the president is important. There's a reflection in the White House that more upheaval and chaos would be detrimental to what they're trying to do. They had some progress with tax reform. They're moving forward with immigration and with infrastructure. Getting rid of a chief of staff would be like turning the cart -- you know, upturning the cart at a really critical time for them.", "And a guy, by the way, who would be very important on final negotiations on immigration.", "That's right.", "And I think he'll play a key role in that.", "He's actually acting a lot more like the president, when he's criticized, right?", "Right, exactly.", "He's been acting a lot more like him.", "Exactly. But, you know, when you hear Sarah Sanders, all day yesterday and we'll hear today, say, to the best of my knowledge, as far as I know, you know, these kind of qualifiers, you have to assume that she's not being -- she's not being read in on a lot of this stuff. That this is something that Kelly held very closely. He's known for that. And then, when people are asking for explanations, they may not be getting the whole story from the very top.", "And, as you know, David, a lot of Republicans, you know, think that Kelly has got to have, and this is what they've said to me, the guts to go into that briefing room and answer reporters' questions from A to Z. And not leave until all of the questions are answered, if he wants to stay on the job and have credibility.", "Well, 100 percent, I agree. But I'm not sure that is what is required for him to stay on the job. I mean, I think it's very clear that the president --", "His credibility.", "Well, his credibility, right. And, you know, especially given who he comes from. I mean, what we've been told, over the past six months, is, you know, lauding his military experience and, of course, his sacrifices to the country which are immense. And, of course, to be admired but are not relevant here. This is about his credibility as chief of staff doing a very difficult job and who did what, when and what did they know when? And you're right. This is a guy who comes from a tradition of accountability. Let's see it. You know, we're tired of these questions.", "He's a retired four-star Marine Corps general.", "Yes.", "You know, and it's not going away. You heard on CNN's \"NEW DAY\" earlier today. Trey Gowdy, the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, they want to have hearings. They want to investigate who knew what and when. They want specifics.", "Right. There is, in fact, a broken system here. You know, CNN has reported, recently, that 30 to 40 White House staffers don't have full security clearances. That's a huge problem. And the Porter scandal is one element of that. I think Republicans need to inoculate themselves from this on several fronts. One, on the national security front about putting someone like Porter in a position where he's often dealing with classified information but may not have ever been able to get a full security clearance. And, secondly, this -- the idea that the White House is indifferent to domestic violence is incredibly damaging to Republicans. I think they recognize that. I think that's why you've heard people like Paul Ryan start to come out and say, this is -- you know, it's not acceptable to us. But the one person you haven't heard that from is the president. And that's a problem that the White House doesn't seem particularly eager to resolve. He could have walked from the Oval Office to the briefing room, at any point over the last week, and he hasn't done it.", "Yes, but everything in this story is context. If the president were to come out and say this, then, of course, we know what occurred during the campaign and these 17 women who were accusing him. And then, that raises -- that raises that specter all over again. And Donald Trump understands that. And I don't think he wants -- I don't think he wants to go there.", "And it's also worth noting that it's not clear that more information is going to help them here. Every time we've learned more about how this has gone down, it's looked worse for them.", "Right. All right, everybody stand by. There's more news unfolding right now. Up next, porn star pay off. The president's lawyer now claiming he paid Stormy Daniels six figures out of his own pocket. We'll discuss. And U.S. intelligence chiefs unanimously are saying that Russia is taking direct aim at this year's midterm elections here in the United States. But the president of the United States is still not convinced. Is the U.S. in danger? And just in, the vice president talking about that infamous scene over at the Olympics, sitting right near Kim Jong-Un's sister. 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{"id": "CNN-100077", "program": "CNN SUNDAY NIGHT", "date": "2005-11-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/27/snn.01.html", "summary": "Blizzards Hit in Colorado Rockies", "utt": ["This is CNN. Coming up, the rush to get back home hits major snags from East to West, North to South. Mother Nature bringing a sour end to the Thanksgiving weekend.", "I'm Susan Lisovicz with a holiday travel wrap. Two hour delays in Chicago, one and a half hour delays in Atlanta and Dallas. Minimal delays here in New York. I'll have details coming up.", "This and a lot more, next on CNN. Hello, I'm Fredricka Whitfield, in for Carol Lin. Perhaps you didn't travel today, but likely someone you know, did. From coast to coast, post-Thanksgiving stragglers are still making their way, wherever. East Coast is smoother than most places. Midwest, a mess. And in the Rockies, forget about it. Some main highways are closed. We're also on the scene of a dreadful bus accident, north of Los Angeles. More on that in a moment. But first, to the Colorado Rockies and the depth of our affiliate coverage, where blizzard predictions seem to have materialized. Anyone hoping to travel eastward from there, anytime soon had better pay attention. Eli Stokols from our Denver affiliate KWGN joins me now from Aurora, Colorado.", "Fredricka, good evening. Here we are, just off I-70 on a frontage road in Aurora, which is just east of Denver. And as you can see behind me, traffic being diverted off the interstate. The interstate's been shut down for several hours now, from here all the way to the Kansas state line, about 160 mile stretch. A state patrol officer behind us is helping the drivers as they get off of the interstate, find alternative routes. Now here, thankful, it is simply cold and very windy. But east of here, forget about it. Very snowy, conditions have been terrible. Many accidents all day. In fact, state police have said there have been too many accidents for them to even count. Thankfully, none of them too serious in and of themselves. But certainly serious enough to shut down eastbound traffic for more than 100 miles, as we said. Now, stretches coming westbound from the Kansas state line, some stretches have been opened. Drivers that have trickled through today that we've spoken with have described just a dreadful drive across the plain. Snow drifts, real low visibility, about 10 or 20 feet out the front windshield. And they say they've been going about 20 miles-per- hour, tops. So, a very slow commute. A lot of folks going through it. A lot more deciding to stop and wait out the weather at roadside motels in Lyman, which is about an hour east of here. The hotels are booked solid for the night, so a rough end to the holiday weekend for the travelers coming through the Rockies, that's for sure.", "And Eli, what about the forecast? Is it only expected to get worse?", "Well, I'm no weatherman, Fredricka, but I know that it's supposed to continue for some time. They are going to be closing, keeping the interstate closed for some time, although they've talked about opening it tonight. So, if conditions get better and they can clear some of those accidents, that's a big reason why some of the eastbound stretches have been closed. So they can get those out of the way, I think, well at least this stretch of interstate will be open. As for the weather, I don't know, you'd have to ask someone else about that.", "Well, we're going to ask our Brad Huffines about that in a moment. Eli Stokols, thanks so much. Well, to New York City now and CNN's Susan Lisovicz. Are people there feeling the ripple effect from all these weather delays?", "Not so far, yet. But you know, Denver, Fredricka, is not the only place where we are seeing travel problems. The end of the Thanksgiving weekend is typically crunch time for the nation's airports. Some of the biggest right now are struggling with a combination of big crowds and bad weather. Chicago's O'Hare, two hour delays. Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, 1.5 hour delays. Ditto for DFW in Dallas. Here in New York City's LaGuardia Airport, it appears we're getting off pretty lightly.", "Travelers wrapping up the long holiday weekend had an extra reason to give thanks at New York's LaGuardia Airport. No lines, no major delays, no problems.", "I came here two hours early because I think it was, I thought it was going to be crowded. But it's not crowded.", "Better than we thought. Not surprised. Yes, we thought it would be a pretty big hassle, but so far, it's been pretty easy.", "AAA says New York, like most of the nation, was blessed with good weather, which helps expedite the estimated 37 million Americans traveling during the five day Thanksgiving crush. Most of them, 30 million, were traveling by car. Motorists got an additional break with the recent sharp drop in gas prices.", "What we found historically is that high gas prices alone do not prevent people from traveling. It may alter their travel somewhat, but you'll be hard pressed to tell Grandma or your mother-in-law that you can't come see them because you can't pay that extra $10 in your gas.", "We're ready to go home.", "Many people traveling by air were pleasantly surprised after heeding warnings to arrive early to deal with heavy traffic and long security lines. This grandfather arrived at LaGuardia with his college bound granddaughter four hours early and spent most of it in the food court.", "Ordinary flights, we have a lot of problems. Parking, getting in, crowded lines. We went right through. We got in. She went through her baggage. Check in, got her ticket, five minutes. I'm parked right across the street in short term parking.", "Some travelers even said they were grateful for the extra time.", "We can go sit and spend some family time together.", "It's a gift to have her home, so the longer, the better.", "Family time, the reason why most people are traveling over the holidays in the first place.", "And while the skies are clear over New York City, well, we can't exactly say that the roads are. The George Washington Bridge has seen a lot of congestion all night long. And that's really not surprising, Fredricka, because most people traveling over the Thanksgiving holiday are going by car. Back to you, Fred.", "All right, Susan Lisovicz, thanks so much at LaGuardia. Let's check in now with meteorologist Brad Huffines in the Weather Center. And how does it look overall out there, Brad?", "All of that. All right, thanks so much, Brad.", "Sure.", "And of course, we'll be checking again with you throughout the hour. And that leaves us now to our last call question. If you were traveling today, what was it like for you? Give us a call at 1-800- 807-2620 and let us know your name and hometown. Now to Santa Maria, California. Highway 101 and a deadly holiday travel accident. A packed Greyhound bus that leaves the road and rolls down an embankment. CNN's Kareen Wynter reports.", "A horrific scene on the side of highway 101 in Santa Maria, California. Scattered clothing, passenger chairs, debris, the result of a fatal Greyhound bus crash.", "I remember the bus going off to a side. And the next thing I know, I'm picking my head up off the window, pulling dirt off my hair.", "Trucker Manuel Bonilla witnessed the accident.", "It kept on going over. Instead of straightening up in the slow lane and keep on going, he kept coming over. And then as soon as he hit the white fog line, I knew he was going to go over the edge.", "Killed in the crash, two passengers, including a 23-old woman police say was seven months pregnant. The California Highway Patrol says the bus driver, 63-year old Samuel Bishop, may have been asleep behind the wheel.", "We do have reason to believe that driver fatigue may have been a significant factor in the cause of this accident.", "Officers say Bishop was off duty Saturday night, when he was called into work from his home in Fresno, California. Bishop reportedly drove to Los Angeles, making several stops before starting another route Sunday morning, and was just a few miles from his Santa Maria exit when tragedy struck. Some passengers pinned beneath the bus had to be extracted with the jaws of life. Other victims were pulled through windows.", "I just want to thank the people who came out. They were very fast. The paramedics, the fire department, the people who stopped.", "The California Highway Patrol says there's no indication drugs or alcohol were a factor in this crash. And at this time, there are no plans to charge the driver. Kareen Wynter, CNN, Santa Maria, California.", "Onto Iraq now. Tensions are high, as the trial of Saddam Hussein is set to resume. Defense attorneys for Hussein and seven others want the case moved out of Iraq, because they say they won't get a fair trial and it's not safe. Iraqi police arrested eight Sunni Arabs yesterday for allegedly plotting to kill a judge in the case. CNN's Nic Robertson is in Baghdad.", "Loya Aquila Kinami (ph) remembers his two brothers he says were killed by Saddam Hussein's security forces in 1979. Last month, Kinami and his family watched the opening day of Hussein's trial on TV. Now he wants the trial over, so he can get answers about why his brothers, Yusseen (ph) and Taha were killed. KHAMEES AL-UBADI, HUSSEIN DEFENSE LAWYER (through translator) I really care to hear his answer. No matter if he would go on trial for my case or another case.", "Beset by technical glitches last time, the trial faulted in its opening hours. Hussein grandstanded, wasting time. Then his lawyers got a 41 day adjournment to study the charges that accuse Hussein and seven former regime allies a brutally repressing a 1982 assassination attempt.", "Speaking to me as an Iraqi and not as a lawyer, I would denounce the delays of the trial. And I would demand a court to execute him immediately. But as a lawyer, I see it as a legitimate process.", "For a while, even the return to court next Monday seemed to be in doubt. Since appearing at the trial, two defense lawyers were killed and another wounded in targeted assassinations. Only U.S. assurances to help investigate an office protection appear to her -- convince them to come back. Still in jail awaiting trial are other regime loyalists, like Hussein's former Deputy Prime Minister, Tariq Aziz. His lawyer is worrying about when his client will see trial.", "When I saw him last time, he was very sick.", "Iraq has had death threats. His concern now is that the trial is unjust. Not just because defense lawyers are being killed, but because they lack training in cases like crimes against humanity.", "They must also send the lawyers also to England, to America, to -- then and above this case.", "Well, the lawyers, the defense lawyers, we say it's defense lawyers and other lawyers in the trial, when they get up underway today. I hope we're going to tap into the legal knowledge of the former U.S. attorney general, Ramsey Clark, here right in Baghdad, yesterday, the defense teams hope to meet with them and hope to get him in the courtroom on their legal team today, Fredricka.", "And Nic, as these defense attorneys say they want the trial moved, they want a change of venue, who ultimately would make that kind of decision?", "The Iraqi high tribunal is the corpus in charge of this trial. There's been no indication that they plan to move it outside of the country. We know what the lawyers are now planning to go into the courtroom today. It's already Monday here in Baghdad. They're planning to go into the courtroom and immediately ask for a three month delay. It seems that they, although this is something that they would like to see having the trial moved out of the country, it's not something that they're pushing happily on -- or at least talking too much publicly about at the moment. It seems as if their tactic is going to be to try and get more delays to do more -- to get more documents and to do more studying, Fredricka.", "And how about security? Is it beefed up? Is it any different from the first time they were in the court, given the last five weeks we've seen a lot of violence involving the defense attorneys who have been killed?", "It's going to be the same as far as the courtroom is concerned. But as far as those defense lawyers are concerned, they've all been offered additional security. I talked to Saddam Hussein's defense lawyer yesterday. He wouldn't talk specifically about what security has been offered, about what security he's decided to take. He did say that it is a very big concern for them. And when we talked to U.S. officials here who are involved in these talks about providing security for the lawyers, they say that there are no outstanding requests for security, which is an indication that anyone, any of these lawyers who's asked for security, they're going to get it, Fredricka.", "All right, Nic Robertson, thank you so much. Also in Iraq, the investigation concerning a kidnapping. Four humanitarian workers, two Britons, a Canadian, and possibly an American, they're aid organization says all four were taken from a West Baghdad neighborhood this weekend. A U.S. embassy spokesman says an urgent investigation is underway. A troubling assessment now of progress or lack of it in Iraq. According to Iraq's former prime minister, human rights abuses are as bad today as when Saddam Hussein was in power. Ayad Allawi told a British newspaper that, \"People are doing the same as [in] Saddam's time and worse. It is an appropriate comparison.\" He goes on to say, \"People are remembering the days of Saddam. These were the precise reasons that we fought Saddam and now we are seeing the same things.\" A member of the current administration says that simply isn't true.", "In our curriculum for training these people, we have a very strict human rights standard. And we teach them these new -- which is totally new for Iraq, this observation of human rights. And I believe the violation of human rights in some of these corners of this huge country is the exception to the rule.", "Meantime, Allawi's comments refer to the alleged torture and unlawful executions of Iraqi prisoners. Stay tuned to CNN for extensive live coverage of the scheduled Saddam Hussein trial beginning on \"AMERICAN MORNING\" with a new start time of 6:00 a.m. Eastern. Next on CNN, \"Bullets in the Hood.\"", "When you have the gun in your possession, how do you feel? How does that make you feel?", "Yes, I'm going to show me how I feel.", "Ahead, the amazing story of two inner city kids who turned tragedy into triumph. Also, the manhunt is on for two convicts considered very dangerous. They used bed sheets to slip out of a county jail. And this week's hot topic in the Supreme Court, should teenagers be forced to get their parents consent to get an abortion? 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{"id": "CNN-228558", "program": "CNN SPECIAL REPORTS", "date": "2014-4-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/16/csr.01.html", "summary": "What's Next in Search for Flight 370?", "utt": ["I'm Don Lemon. Our breaking news tonight, the data from Bluefin-21's first full mission is being analyzed right now, along with samples from the oil slick in the area. We will bring that information to you just as soon as we have it. Meanwhile, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott telling \"The Wall Street Journal\" the best leads will be exhausted in about a week. So, where does the search go from here? CNN's Jean Casarez has more.", "The sea has gone silent. More than a week after the last ping was heard, black box batteries are likely dead. With no evidence in hand, searchers for Flight 370 are considering their next moves.", "We may not have all the clues, and we may have overlooked something.", "Australian officials say they will scale back the air search soon.", "The chances of any floating material being recovered have greatly diminished.", "But undersea recovery efforts may expand, if necessary, experts say, extending parts of the search area.", "I think that will involve retracing that initial arc of the suspected flight path, and that will require some very broad-scale sonar tools.", "Sonar even more powerful than the Bluefin-21 that can dive deeper and create even wider images of the ocean's bottom. It is still the best tool searchers have at their disposal.", "Until we actually locate some debris with sonar, there's no point in bringing in remote-operated vehicles or manned submersibles. So sonar is going to be the tool of choice for the foreseeable future.", "It could be weeks, months or even years before debris from Flight 370 turns up.", "My experience is that something always is found. Whether something is seen from a passing ship, something is spotted on a beach somewhere, along western Australia, there's always a clue that is unearthed somewhere along the way.", "The only option not on the table says McCallum, is to stop looking all together.", "The entire aviation industry is underpinned by this drive for safety. And so until we know what happened to MH-370, we won't know how we can avoid this kind of tragedy in the future.", "That is Jean Casarez reporting. Thank you, Jean. I'm back now with my panel of experts. To Geoffrey Thomas in Perth now. You know, Prime Minister Tony Abbott told the \"Wall Street Journal\" that authorities would need to regroup and rethink their entire approach if they exhaust their leads this week and the Bluefin fails to locate MH-370 under water. What are they saying would happen next?", "I'm more guided by Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, who cautioned us last week that this could be a long search. It will take us two months, approximately, to actually search the area of interest. So, I think three days in the underwater search, I think we should be guided by Angus Houston. A very measured man, very cautious man. He's done this before. And we're only on mission number three for Bluefin-21. I think we've got a little way to go before we start looking at Plan", "He has been very calm, very direct and he doesn't overhype anything. Paul, is the reality that sonar is pretty much the only useful tool at this stage in the investigation?", "Well, I think so. It's also the safest. And as some of you, the other panel has already said, why risk someone getting into trouble before we know where we're going. And mind you, we're looking for a nickel, somewhere with on the Yankees stadium playing field in the dark. So we've got to find that first.", "Arthur, investigators continue to look into signs that the co- pilot's cell phone was turned on in the cockpit. And we have a tweet about this. This is from Bob. He says, \"Is it possible that the co- pilot was trying to lay bread crumbs by turning his phone on to make someone aware of the plane's location?\"", "Yes, well, the issue with bread crumbs is some of them lead to the cheese and others don't. In this case, I'm of the mind that the cell phone hand shake with the cell phone tower when they overflew Pyongyang is actually very important. I analyze that in the context of the accident sequence. Beginning at 1:07 with the ACARS reporting. At 1:19 you have the final communication, \"Good night. Malaysia 370.\" Two minutes later, transponders off. We're invisible. We turn around and fly across the Malay Peninsula. Also, importantly, the captain finally, we know, was reported as communicating, which means the co-pilot was flying. Now we have a co-pilot's cell phone handshake with the cell phone tower, a cell phone that should have been off. When you look at it in that context, I think it leads you to at least consider that the co- pilot or someone with his cell phone was reaching out. But of course, there are a lot of unanswered questions, 238 other people on board. Someone else's cell phone surely made the same contact. I think it is very significant.", "Remember, we were here until 1 a.m. Sunday in to Monday morning. And they were saying they were scaling back. There have 12 aircraft that are involved in this search, despite officials saying that they plan to scale back the aerial search very soon. It doesn't sound like they are winding down that search yet, does it?", "No. They keep talking about it, but nothing seems to change a great deal, and we see them going out yet another day. So I think they must have something in mind. Maybe something we don't know about?", "Well, could be true. Jeff Wise, as the search continues, one possibility is that civilian contractors could take a larger role and the military effort recede somewhat. If that happens, would that change the search, you think?", "Well, I mean, as long as the resources continue to be committed, the search will continue. It really boils down to what information the authorities have, how confident they are that this investment of resources and material will yield results. And I think a lot of that will depend on what we find. As the prime minister said, I think the next week will be crucial. Because there is a fairly limited area on the surface that -- I'm sorry, on the seabed that corresponds to those pings. Remember, the towed pinger locater only had a range of about one or two miles, so it should be fairly compact. I think what the prime minister said is probably quite accurate. In the next week, we'll know where these resources should really be allocated.", "Mary, I have a quick question for you that's, you know, up your alley. How long will authorities continue with this active search operation? And will they stop at some point and have to make a decision on weighing the cost of a search -- of a search like this?", "Oh, absolutely. They'll have to do that. And I do think they'll stop the above-the-water search very soon. But they're going to have to do that for a couple of reasons. One is just practical. They've got all these different ships and people and man power out there. They're going to get tired, in addition to getting expensive. And they're going to have to direct their resources to the places where they're really going to matter. And then then they'll have to broach the subject with the airline and the airline's insurer about how much of the rescue and recovery they are willing to pay for. And there have been cases where there have actually been suits filed over that.", "Wow. OK. When we come right back, my team of experts will answer your questions."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ROB MCCALLUM, CNN ANALYST", "CASAREZ", "ANGUS HOUSTON, JOINT AGENCY COORDINATION CHIEF", "CASAREZ", "ROB MCCALLUM, OCEAN SEARCH SPECIALIST", "CASAREZ", "MCCALLUM", "CASAREZ", "MCCALLUM", "CASAREZ", "MCCALLUM", "LEMON", "GEOFFREY THOMAS", "B.  LEMON", "GINSBERG", "LEMON", "ROSENBERG", "LEMON", "TILMON", "LEMON", "WISE", "LEMON", "SCHIAVO", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-412763", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2020-10-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/07/es.03.html", "summary": "President Trump Scraps Stimulus Talks Until After Election; Pence, Harris Face Off In Vice Presidential Debate Tonight", "utt": ["The president kills stimulus talks with the livelihoods of millions of struggling Americans hanging in the balance.", "And tonight's vice presidential debate takes on new urgency with President Trump's health still in question. Good morning, this is EARLY START. I'm Laura Jarrett.", "And I'm Christine Romans. It is 32 minutes past the hour this Wednesday morning. And the art of no deal. President Trump kills stimulus talks, saying relief for millions of struggling Americans will wait until after the election. In a series of tweets, he said this. \"After I win, we will pass a major stimulus bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and small business.\" Now, the move stunned lawmakers, especially since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Sec. Steven Mnuchin had been talking over the last few days in a last-ditch effort to reach a deal. Now, investors hoping for any sort of agreement reacting quickly. The Dow swung more than 600 points before closing down 376 points. If we take a look at futures right now, a little bit more stability here -- I think coming to the conclusion that yes, there won't be new stimulus until next year. To be clear though, canceling talks means no money in enhanced unemployment benefits for jobless Americans, no new funds for struggling small business. Any new relief that would have allowed airlines to bring workers they furloughed back on the job, gone. The world's largest retail group coming out strongly against the president's move, saying the pandemic isn't over and neither is the economic crisis it has created. Now, the president's move came just hours after the Fed chief Jerome Powell said this.", "Too little support would lead to a weak recovery creating unnecessary hardship for households and businesses. Over time, household insolvencies and business bankruptcies would rise, harming the productive capacity of the economy and holding back wage growth. By contrast, the risks of overdoing it seem, for now, to be smaller.", "Translation: the economy needs more help from Congress right now. Now, perhaps realizing the bad optics of denying millions of Americans relief, the president, late last night, then dangled this on Twitter. Quote, \"If I am sent a standalone bill for stimulus checks ($1,200), they will go out to our great people immediately. I am ready to sign now. Are you listening, Nancy?\"", "It's noteworthy that he said unnecessary hardship, Christine. In other words, people can do something about this in Washington right now.", "The president also going at length about how great the economy is right now. How the unemployment rate is coming back so quickly and how well we're doing. I wonder if that's going to resonate with millions of people who -- we know that half of American families with kids under the age of 18 say that they've lost either a job --", "Yes.", "-- or lost income this year. It's a problem.", "It's a real problem. All right. The other big story this morning, the outbreak at the White House is spreading as top Trump aide Stephen Miller tests positive for coronavirus. Miller's diagnosis Tuesday adds to at least 10 others in the White House who have tested positive for the virus. Miller is also a member of the team that prepped the president for his last debate last week. Of that group, six people, including the president, have now tested positive. There's also Kellyanne Conway and Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien. Miller is best known for promoting his anti-immigration policies but he's also championed the president's message that the pandemic doesn't pose an outsized threat to the U.S. White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins has more.", "Yes, Christine and Laura, add Stephen Miller to this growing list of officials inside the West Wing who have now tested positive for coronavirus. He released a statement last night, along with this disclosure, saying that he'd actually been at home for the last several days. Of course, he was in close contact with a lot of people who have already tested positive and he said he'd stayed home out of caution and tested negative every single day. But we're told that when he went to go to work today, he got tested and it was a positive result. And, of course, now he's at home again. And viewers might remember it was actually just a few months ago when Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller, who is a top aide to the vice president, also tested positive for coronavirus. So this case is going to raise questions about whether or not living with someone in close quarters -- if he did not contract it then, what may happen now -- all of those questions about how this transmission spreads because, of course, now we are seeing just how prevalent it is in the White House. And an e-mail went out to staffers overnight saying that all contact tracing for the positive cases they knew about so far had been done and to reach out if they had not been contacted when they believed they should have been. But we are told by one official they actually did just that. They reached out because they believed they came into contact with someone who tested positive --they were not notified. And now, CNN is told that person was not told any instructions on how to proceed, what to do. So you do see how maybe they've done contact tracing but it has clearly been incomplete in some situations. And, of course, add Stephen Miller onto the four press aides who have now tested positive, making that list of those cases inside the West Wing just continue to skyrocket in recent days, Christine and Laura.", "All right, Kaitlan. Thank you so much for that. Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris square off later tonight in Salt Lake City at the only vice presidential debate. Vice presidential debates, of course, aren't typically expected to move the needle for voters. However, President Trump's coronavirus diagnosis puts tonight's debate in sharper focus. Voters will get a closer look at the person they're electing to be second in line should something happen to the commander in chief. Let's bring in CNN senior political analyst John Avlon for three questions in three minutes with Laura and I. You know, look, nice to see you this morning.", "Good morning.", "That debate really has been shaped by the pandemic. What should voters watch for tonight?", "Look, this is going to be the most consequential vice presidential debate perhaps in history because, as you said, the president is suffering from coronavirus and isolated in the White House. It elevates the entire attention people should be giving to the second person on the ticket. Also, Kamala Harris is an enormous jolt of energy into the Biden campaign and a lot of folks are going to be looking for her to really play that traditional attack dog role. Now, her team is trying to lower expectations because she does have a good reputation for being a debater. Pence, calm, cool, collected compared to Donald Trump, but he's going to be in a difficult position in terms of trying to defend some policies and actions which are difficult to defend. So this is going to be a big one -- watch it.", "John, one thing that may come up tonight is the president's blowing up stimulus talks for all intents and purposes. Then he tries to backtrack just dangling something on Twitter after 10:00 p.m. How is all of this supposed to sit with voters who are actually desperate for relief -- desperate for any help? Is this a -- is this a strategy at all just a month before the election?", "No, this is somewhere between a cry for help and a kamikaze mission. Look, this makes absolutely no sense from a political standpoint and Trump aides were face-palming after they saw the news. I mean, this comes minutes after Jerome Powell says we need another round of stimulus. Days and weeks of negotiation between Nancy Pelosi and Steve Mnuchin blown up, apparently impulsively, by the president who is, in his recovery, on some kind of cocktail drugs that might be increasing his instinct towards erratic behavior. A tweet does not compensate for a totally scuttled negotiation until after the election. So this is real, potential pain for the economy and people suffering right now. This does not make any rational sense less than three weeks before the election.", "Yes. I don't even know what the political advantage of doing that was. I mean --", "It's done (ph).", "-- the strategy just -- I just don't -- I don't even get it. Meantime, yesterday --", "-- in Gettysburg, Biden gave an address that you say was one of the best -- the best speech of his campaign. Let's listen to a little bit of that.", "Too many Americans see our public life not as an arena for mediation of our differences but rather, they see it as an occasion for total unrelenting partisan warfare. Instead of treating each other's party as the opposition, we treat them as the enemy. This must end.", "Yes.", "Unity -- he's talking about unity. We haven't had that in a while.", "I know, it's like an undiscovered country. Look, I was deeply impressed by this speech. This was his big unifying speech. This was a vision speech, it was not a policy speech. And yes, I am guilty of being a Lincoln nerd. But I was so inspired I wrote a column about it for CNN because this was a presidential speech about how we can unite as a nation. That we've been through divided times before but we need to remember that a house divided cannot stand. And I thought it was eloquent and it came from a place and at a time when people have forgotten what a unifying president sounds like.", "You say Lincoln nerd like that's a bad thing.", "Oh, no -- it's a good thing.", "That's a good thing.", "One hundred percent.", "We're big nerds on this show.", "Absolutely.", "All right --", "John Avlon --", "-- John. Thanks for getting up with us. Appreciate it.", "Take care, guys.", "All right. Tonight is the night -- the only vice presidential debate of 2020. CNN's special coverage starts tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern.", "All right. Up next, Hurricane Delta barreling toward Cancun right now on its way to the U.S. Gulf Coast. More on its path and the timing, next."], "speaker": ["CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "LAURA JARRETT, CNN ANCHOR", "ROMANS", "JEROME POWELL, CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL RESERVE", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "JOHN AVLON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "ROMANS", "AVLON", "JARRETT", "AVLON", "ROMANS", "AVLON", "ROMANS", "ROMANS", "JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "AVLON", "ROMANS", "AVLON", "ROMANS", "AVLON", "ROMANS", "AVLON", "JARRETT", "AVLON", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "AVLON", "JARRETT", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-64990", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-1-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/03/lad.04.html", "summary": "Bush Speaks About Stimulus Package to Reporters", "utt": ["Well, it's an issue that helped topple his father and the economy has also been a nagging concern for President Bush. Now, more than a year after signing a trillion dollar tax cut, the president is preparing a new economic incentive package. The plan, to be unveiled next week, could look like this. A cut in taxes on stock dividends, accelerated personal tax cuts that had been set to take effect in two years, tax reductions for businesses and an extension of unemployment benefits. Mr. Bush spoke about the stimulus package to reporters trailing him on his Texas ranch. As CNN's Dana Bash tells us, the president also touched on other weighty subjects.", "Good morning, everybody.", "Yes, that's the leader of the free world.", "I need somebody walking up here with me.", "Pointing out the wonders of nature at his 1,600 acre Texas ranch, giving reporters a brief glimpse of the place he says he comes to get away from it all.", "This is all us, all the way up to the very top of those cliffs.", "But for a president dealing with crises brewing around the world, there's only so far you can get. On North Korea, Mr. Bush says he still seeks a diplomatic solution, shrugging off suggestions allies in the region, like South Korea and Russia, are reluctant to pressure Pyongyang.", "They may be putting pressure on it, you just don't know about it. But I know they're not reluctant when it comes to the idea of nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula.", "On Iraq, more tough talk, restating his pledge to lead a location to disarm Saddam Hussein if he has to.", "For 11 long years, the world has dealt with him and now the -- and now he's got to understand, his day of reckoning is coming and therefore he must disarm voluntarily. I hope he does.", "Then there's the home front. Mindful of the perception his father focused on Iraq and not jobless Americans a decade ago, this President Bush says he'll unveil a plan next week aimed at jump starting the economy.", "What I'm worried about is job creation and I'm worried about those who are unemployed. I am concerned about those who are looking for work and can't find work.", "That economic package, White House and congressional aides say, is likely to include tax cuts on dividends for personal investors, tax breaks for businesses and a tax cut targeting lower income Americans. (on camera): Relief for Americans in the lower tax brackets could help blunt criticism from Democrats that the White House wants to help the wealthy and not the needy. President Bush intends to give a detailed speech in Chicago next Tuesday. Dana Bash, CNN, Crawford, Texas."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "DANA BASH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BUSH", "BASH", "BUSH", "BASH", "BUSH", "BASH", "BUSH", "BASH", "BUSH", "BASH"]}
{"id": "CNN-274441", "program": "WORLD RIGHT NOW WITH HALA GORANI", "date": "2016-01-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/20/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Rezaian Thanks Swiss Foreign Ministry Air Force", "utt": ["\"Washington Post\" reporter, Jason Rezaian, made his first public appearance since he was freed from Iran last weekend. Listen.", "Glad to be out.", "Joined by his family, Rezaian mostly kept quiet and he waved to journalists outside Landstuhl Medical Center in Germany. He was asked for privacy during his recovery. In a written statement, Rezaian says, \"For now, I want to catch up with what's been going on in the world, watch a Warriors game or two, and see the \"Star Wars\" movie.\" He also mentioned he wants to spend time with his family, perfectly understandable. Rezaian is one of four Americans freed by Iran as part of a prisoner swap. One thing you may not know is that Switzerland was deeply involved in the deal to release the Americans. In fact we're happy to be joined by the Swiss secretary of foreign affairs, Yves Rossier. He is at the world economic forum in Davos, Switzerland. Minister, thanks for being with us. First of all, explain to us how Switzerland facilitated the secret discussions between the U.S. and Iran that eventually led to the release of these prisoners?", "Well, if I would tell you the whole story, it might be a bit long. I think it's been 14 months of heavy work. Above all of course the political courage of people on both to bridge the gap that had been separating those two countries. What we did is what we usually do because first we are no real own agenda in the region. We are not a colonial power and above all we have been act as predicting power for U.S. interest in Iran for decades. So that allowed us to build a relation of trust between both sides, which was a big held between the long and tedious discussions.", "And concretely, what was Switzerland providing? I mean, I know you represent U.S. diplomatic interests in Iran and have done so since 1980. But concretely, were you providing communication? I mean, were you sometimes the go-between? Did you provide locations? How did it work?", "It's basically all that, all that together. I mean, there have been numerous meetings. There have been moments where there was a blockade, a big obstacle, and I think this relation of trust I mentioned before allowed us to go back and forth between the parties. But again, the political will was there and I think that's what made the deal possible. Then there was still lots of obstacles to overcome that it is definitely the result of the work of both. And as for our role -- sorry?", "Go ahead.", "No, please go ahead. Our role --", "I'm going to stop talking and let you finish that sentence. There is a bit of a delay.", "As for our role, we, Swiss, we are supposedly not very bright but trustworthy, independent, and above all very discreet. And we have been doing this kind of exercise for decades. It is an old tradition of my country and it goes along with our humanitarian tradition and administration is of course one of the main reason why we sometimes are being called in to help along those kind of process.", "So because you're saying there were obstacles. It was more than obstacles. There was a time when the discussions broke down. Was there ever a moment where you thought, as a Swiss secretary for foreign affairs, you thought OK, this is not going to work. This is not going to -- it's just broken down and what did you then end up doing at that point?", "Again, the main work has been done by the parties themselves, but this feeling now it is not going to work that happened probably a few dozen times, yes.", "So you did, at some --", "We never have to give up.", "And you did not give up.", "Above all, the delegations, two parties never gave up and that is what led to a successful outcome. But put it in the global picture, there were many things going on. The discussion in Vienna, the result of implementation day, the sentiment of any claims between both countries. So I mean, this was part of a bigger picture. It was very important for the people concerned and that was probably what our main motivation. It's people recovering freedom on both sides. But it's part of a global picture that was far beyond an exchange of prisoners as you obviously know.", "Right. And there was a Swiss representative, wasn't there, on the plane bringing the prisoners back in the first stop was actually in Switzerland. Was it this a Foreign Ministry representative? What was the role of that individual, the representative of Switzerland?", "I mean, there were Swiss people on the plane. It was a Swiss plane who got the people in Tehran and who flew them back to Switzerland. Our ambassador was involved. Our ambassador in Tehran, obviously. And we were a group in Geneva because the biggest part of negotiations took place in Geneva over 14 months. I was in Geneva and when I boarded the plane to greet the three Americans and the family of Jason Rezaian, it was a very, very good moment. Yes.", "Can I ask you then on a personal level, when you boarded the plane, because you boarded the plane in Switzerland and you met face-to- face with these American prisoners. Presumably the first time you've met with them. What was it like?", "I was -- I think my first impression was that the atmosphere on the plane was extremely friendly. There were good vibes on that plane. I think that was my impression. I didn't feel any tension. But frankly you should ask the people concerned because they went through difficult times during the years and I was expecting probably when I boarded, I was expecting more tension. But it was not the case and it was a good feeling.", "That's good. That's freedom for them. I understand there was even champagne and Swiss chocolates. On a more serious note, Switzerland has lifted its sanctions against Iran as a result of this nuclear deal having gone through with Iran respecting its end of the bargain. What concretely does that mean for Iranian businesses or any Iranians operating in Switzerland?", "Well, Switzerland had always a different approach on sanctions as we usually do. So Switzerland didn't take all the sanctions due to our position as a protecting power. But, well, due to our tradition, we did not apply the sanctions and the sanctions having an impact on the whole population. And probably as well the somewhat different attitude of Switzerland as far as sanctions were concerned was probably one of the reasons that gave us the possibility to help along this operation.", "All right, Yves Rossier, the secretary --", "Sorry.", "We have a long satellite delay. Go ahead and finish your thought please.", "But as far as our position now, Switzerland's all remaining sanctions have been lifted like the other European countries. So there will probably be a comeback to normality and that will definitely take more time than many people think because the Iranian economy has been delayed from the rest of the world for decades. So it will not be something that will be done overnight. That will take months. Definitely take months until some sort of normality is back. And I mean, I think the negotiations that started in Geneva on Monday about Syria would be definitely as this operation has been for the future of the region.", "All right, Yves Rossier, in Davos, the secretary of foreign affairs for Switzerland. Thank you very much for joining us sharing some of the stories. Perhaps the lesser-known stories of this Iran deal that led to the release of these Americans. Coming up, asylum seekers in one English town say their homes have become targets for vandalism and abuse. And they say the company that built the homes may have deliberately made sure to make them stand out. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["GORANI", "JASON REZAIAN", "GORANI", "YVES ROSSIER, SWISS SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "GORANI", "ROSSIER", "GORANI", "ROSSIER", "GORANI", "ROSSIER", "GORANI", "ROSSIER", "GORANI", "ROSSIER", "GORANI", "ROSSIER", "GORANI", "ROSSIER", "GORANI", "ROSSIER", "GORANI", "ROSSIER", "GORANI", "ROSSIER", "GORANI", "ROSSIER", "GORANI"]}
{"id": "NPR-42448", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2006-05-02", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5377333", "title": "Catching a Knuckleball for the BoSox", "summary": "The Boston Red Sox's new backup catcher, Doug Mirabelli, was re-acquired by the team for the express purpose of catching for pitcher Tim Wakefield. Wakefield throws one of the hardest pitches to hit — and catch: the knuckleball. Robert talks with Boston Globe sports columnist Bob Ryan.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris.", "And I'm Robert Siegel.", "It was something out of a boy's baseball book, the heroic last-minute arrival at the ballpark last night to save the day. But the hero was not a slugger who hit a late inning home run, although someone else did that. And it wasn't the starting pitcher who tamed the fiercest lineup in the league. Someone else did do that. And it wasn't a fireballing closer who sat down the sides in the 9th inning, although someone else did that too. It was that least heroic of contributors to a great baseball team, the backup catcher.", "This is the story of Doug Mirabelli, who rejoined the Boston Red Sox in a hurry yesterday, just in time for the Sox start against the Yankees.", "Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe joins us from Fenway Park. And, Bob, let's start with the starter, the Red Sox's Tim Wakefield.", "Tim Wakefield throws a knuckleball. It is a pitch that floats and flutters and dips and dives. And right now he is the most successful practitioner of the art currently pitching in baseball.", "But his pitches so completely fool the batters that they very often fool the catcher too.", "It's an extremely hard pitch to catch and not everyone can do so. Which brings us to --", "Doug Mirabelli.", "Yes. Doug Mirabelli joined the Red Sox in the middle of 2001 and in his capacity as backup catcher was given the task of catching Tim Wakefield exclusively every fifth day, a job description not every catcher in baseball would want. In fact, very few would want. Mirabelli struggled with it in the beginning, but he got quite proficient at it and began to embrace his identity as Wakefield's catcher. It gave him a spot in the lineup every fifth day guaranteed and it gave him an identity.", "But then he was traded last December to San Diego and thus began the Red Sox problems in the spring. His successor did not prove to be quite as good at catching that knuckleball as Mr. Mirabelli had been.", "And a week ago, the catcher who was then taking his place, Josh Bard, just made one passed ball after another. Couldn't hold onto Wakefield's pitches.", "Josh Bard had 10 passed balls, which is a scorer's judgment to differentiate between that and a wild pitch, which is where the pitcher is deemed culpable. 10 of them in five games was an alarming figure and the team felt that they couldn't live this way. So the wheels began to turn, how could we get Doug Mirabelli back from San Diego?", "So yesterday, the Yankees come to town to play the Boston Red Sox. Tim Wakefield is in the rotation, it's his turn to start. And a mayday, literally, goes out to Doug Mirabelli. Explain his arrival in town.", "The trade was consummated on Sunday. Mirabelli actually played in the game on Sunday against the Los Angeles Dodgers ending late Sunday afternoon. He was put on a charter plane yesterday, flew cross country to Boston, landed at the tarmac at Logan Airport at 6:48 p.m., jumped into an awaiting state police cruiser, changed into his uniform en route, sirens blazing, arrived at Fenway Park, ran through the dugout, picked up his equipment and ran out to home plate where for the first time since last fall, he had to catch Tim Wakefield's knuckleball. Oh, and by the way, it was the first game of the 19 that will be played between the Red Sox and Yankees this year.", "If someone had dropped this scenario as part of a subplot in the movie FEVER PITCH, it would have been rejected as being much too much over the top.", "But there he was.", "There he was.", "And by the end of the evening, we should say the Sox had won their first game against the Yankees.", "Yeah. Doug Mirabelli had thrown out a base runner, had had no passed balls, had had a homerun knocked down by the vicious wind here and went 0-4, but had done his job. Wakefield pitched seven excellent innings. The Red Sox came from behind to win 7-3. A good time was had by all and Doug Mirabelli was left to reflect upon the strangest day that not only he has had as a baseball player, but that perhaps any major leaguer has ever had in the history of the game.", "Bob Ryan, thank you very much for talking to us.", "You're welcome, Robert.", "It's sports writer Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe talking with us from Fenway Park about last night's extraordinary arrival and performance by backup catcher Dough Mirabelli."], "speaker": ["MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "BOB RYAN", "SEIGEL", "BOB RYAN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "BOB RYAN", "BOB RYAN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "BOB RYAN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "BOB RYAN", "BOB RYAN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "BOB RYAN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "BOB RYAN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host", "BOB RYAN", "ROBERT SIEGEL, Host"]}
{"id": "CNN-287246", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-06-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/22/es.04.html", "summary": "North Korea Test Fires Two Missiles; Prime Minister Cameron Makes Direct Appeal For Staying In E.U.", "utt": ["Breaking overnight, North Korea firing two more missiles from its eastern coast. According to U.S. military officials both are believed to be intermediate-range missiles. The South Koreans calling the launches a clear provocation. They say one of the test missiles failed but the other traveled nearly 250 miles and that data still being analyzed. I want to go to Seoul right now, live there. I want to bring in CNN's Paula Hancocks. She's been following this for us. Good morning, Paula.", "Good morning, Christine. Well, it's that second launch that everyone's looking at this point, as you say, 250 miles it flew. And also, according to the Japanese military, had an altitude of more than 600 miles. So this would appear as though it went a lot further than what we have previously seen, at least as far we know publicly. So, can we say that progress has been made? We certainly know from the Japanese military point of view. One official said that they are seriously concerned at what they have achieved during this launch. But from the South Korean point of view they are not calling it a failure. Now, we did have swift condemnation from the state departments. We heard from the spokesperson, John Kirby, saying that they strongly condemn this and other launches of missiles from North Korea, saying that they do violate United Nations Security Council resolutions. Also saying that this will just serve to make sure that the international community is even more resolute in trying to push forward these sanctions. South Korea saying they may come up with more sanctions of their own -- Christine.", "All right, interesting. Paula Hancocks for us in Seoul this morning. Thank you, Paula.", "And today is the final day for advocates on both sides of the Brexit debate in the U.K. before tomorrow's referendum on whether Britain should exit the European Union or remain in the block. The passionate debate driven by the recent surge of migrants flooding into Europe from the Middle East and North Africa.Now today, the Brexit vote is the focus of leaders all across Europe. In just hours leaders of France, Germany, Sweden, Austria, and Poland will address the media. CNN's Phil Black is live for us now in London. And, Phil, we know that the polls show that this race is too close to call, but are you getting a sense of momentum swinging in either direction?", "There has been a feeling in recent days, Ryan, that the momentum, for what it's worth, has swung towards the remain campaign -- those who want to stick with the European Union. But, it's unclear if that is enough to secure a win. In fact, there's still very much the feeling, really, that either side could pull through here depending upon how undecided voters cast their vote on the day, tomorrow. Even the prime minister, David Cameron, the leader of the remain campaign, says he doesn't know which way this is going to go. And that matters to him because there are people who believe that in the event that Britain votes to leave the European Union his job will be on the line. He won't survive as the country's leader. This matters to Europe because European countries believe that both Britain and the European Union will be weaker, will be diminished in the event of a Brexit vote. It matters to the international community more broadly because it is widely expected that in the event of a Brexit vote internationalmarkets would take a hit of some kind. And the United States is very concerned about its key ally, Britain, maintaining its influence within the European Union, as well. So there is so much at stake here for Britain, in particular -- for the world, as well. But really Britain's economic geopolitical direction for decades to come is about to be decided by the handful of voters that have yet to make up their minds, Ryan.", "All right, they only have one day left to decide. CNN's Phil Back in London, thank you.", "Let's get an EARLY START on your money, where what happens in London is going to make all the difference to markets -- markets waiting to see what happens with the Brexit vote tomorrow in the U.K. Asian markets closed mostly higher. European stock markets mixed. U.S. stock futures down a bit right now, barely movingbasically, after a modest gain for the Dow yesterday, up 25 points. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also closed higher. The big story on investors' minds, Brexit. Polls still too close to call. It's not only the U.K. worried about the effect a leave vote might have, there's global concern as well. Fed chief Janet Yellen warning of significant consequences if the U.K. votes to leave the European Union.She added, though that barring a Brexit the chance of a recession in the U.S. is quite low. She expects the economy in the U.S. to continue to grow. We'll hear more from Yellen when she testifies before Congress again later this morning. More Americans struggling to make rent or they're paying too much in rent. Eleven million people spend at least half of their income on rent. That's according to a new report by Harvard -- its housing institute. It's not just young people who are renting. Last year saw the biggest surge in new renters in history. Forty percent of middle-aged renters between the ages of 30 to 49 make up the most of the new demand. Personal finance experts generally suggest budgeting around 30 percent of monthly income to cover housing costs. It's getting harder to do as rent prices are rising faster than wages. Really interesting data there.", "Yes, definitely. Well, Donald Trump launching a new attack on Hillary Clinton in just hours. \"NEW DAY\" starts now.", "We can't let him bankrupt America like we are one of his failed casinos.", "She has a bad temperament. She would do so badly with the economy.", "The king of debt has no real plan.", "She's crooked Hillary, she always has been and nothing's going to change.", "Maybe we shouldn't expect better from someone whose most famous words are \"you're fired\".", "He went to the Pulse nightclub earlier Saturday night and then he left before returning to carry out his attack.", "We're working to identify anyone he had contact with that night.", "There were numerous avenues that the FBI heard about this young man.", "It was more than just me.", "Rory McIlroy pulls of this summer's Olympic Games in Rio over fears of the Zika virus.", "This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.", "He got some heat, Rory McIlroy, you know. They were teasing him about pulling out but I don't know, do you think it's funny?", "Well, he's not a woman and he's not a pregnant woman.", "Those are both true facts.", "And he never will be, so --", "He will never be.", "Right. So, it's interesting that he, high-profiled male athlete, would pull out.", "Well, he's afraid of getting sick. You can still get the virus as a man. It doesn't have that damning effect on any potential pregnancy.", "Yes, consequences. Well, that's interesting. There's a lot to talk about this morning. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your new day. It is Wednesday, June 22nd, 6:00 in the east. Up first, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton going after each other's economic prowess. Trump accuses Clinton of raising \"blood money\". Clinton blasts Trump over his casinos going bankrupt.", "Trump saying working the debt laws made him a fortune so he has plenty of cash on hand to fund his general election fight. And today, he's going to respond to Clinton's damning appraisal of his business skills by tearing into Clinton's record in a speech this morning. We have the 2016 race covered the way only CNN can. Let's begin with Sara Murray. Good morning.", "Good morning, Chris, good to see you. So it's no doubt that Donald Trump has had a rough couple of weeks. He fired his campaign manager, seemingly out of nowhere. He's been struggling in the money race. But today, he's trying to move beyond all of that and turn up the heat on Hillary Clinton.", "And so many of the things she said were outright lies."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "NOBLES", "PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "NOBLES", "ROMANS", "NOBLES", "CLINTON", "TRUMP", "CLINTON", "TRUMP", "CLINTON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LORETTA LYNCH, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "ANNOUNCER", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICS REPORTER", "TRUMP"]}
{"id": "CNN-65850", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2003-1-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/22/lt.12.html", "summary": "Battle of the Pirates Shaping Up for This Weekend", "utt": ["Now, let's talk about what's happening in sunny San Diego. They're getting ready for the Super Bowl, No. 37 this time around, and this one is shaping up as a battle of the pirates. Josie Karp is checking in with the latest. It should be a good show, since we're talking about the best defense in the country versus the best offense in the country, and now we have got the best sports reporter, Josie Karp, checking in.", "Well, I hope I can live up to that, as I hope these two teams can live up to that billing too. You talked about the two pirates. They come from vastly different backgrounds, though. The Oakland Raiders have been to the Super Bowl. This is their fifth appearance. But Leon, it's the very first appearance for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and there are a lot of people out there who probably thought they might never see this day come. That is because for so long, Tampa Bay was held up as a model of ineptitude in the NFL. The Buccaneers came into the league in 1976 and proceeded to lose their first 26 games. Twenty-six games still stands as the longest losing streak in NFL history. This is an organization that didn't just have bad seasons, they had bad decades. From 1983 to 1996, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did not have a winning record, and in 13 of those 14 seasons, they lost at least ten games. That's why they've been called the Tampa Bay Yuks and the Bad News Bucs, and it is why, even here on football's grandest stage, they cannot escape the memory of once being the NFL's laughing stock.", "I was a big time football fan. The one team I had never seen a game of was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers because out here, they just didn't play -- they weren't on TV. Direct TV wasn't around in those days, and that game was never on for whatever reason. So you know, I didn't know much about them, but I quickly realized that there was a perception around the league that it was the worst team in football, and you know it's been tremendous. I think you probably appreciate it more when you've been on the 5-11 teams, and now you have the opportunity to be here.", "Even though the Buccaneers have turned things around in the last five or six years, one of the worst moments in their history happened back in 1999. They lost a game 45 to nothing, and coincidentally, Leon, they lost it to the Oakland Raiders -- back to you.", "Oh, interesting. Talk about karma there. I think -- you know what? You have to also say -- got to say this is just the facts, folks, that the Buccaneers' record was only as ugly as their uniforms back then too. So they might have better luck this time -- this time around, since they actually look like a better team.", "They're going to look a lot better.", "That is for sure. All right. Thanks, Josie. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOSIE KARP, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "JOHN LYNCH, TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS", "KARP", "HARRIS", "KARP", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-106491", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2006-5-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/29/lol.02.html", "summary": "Ceremony at Vietnam War Memorial Honors Slain Soldiers", "utt": ["Want to take you live now to the Vietnam Memorial. A highlight of the ceremony today is the reading of four names that were added to the wall just last week. We want to listen to William Frank, a Vietnam veteran, who's speaking at today's ceremony.", "Let me conclude with a few remarks about the current generation of our military. I am in absolute awe of this generation. They are all serving willingly because they believe in this great country. One tenth of one percent of the United States population is serving in the United States military. This generation of men and women in uniform are as dedicated as any prior generation and much better trained. They are not summer soldiers or sunshine patriots who, in crisis, shrink from the service of their country. They still believe that the military is the noblest of callings. They are, again, doing what this country asks. They are, again, willing to sacrifice for this country. And, yes, they are again sacrificing. May I recommend to you when you see a man or a woman in uniform, you say hello and thank them. Whatever your politics or views, there should be no confusion between those who serve and those who ask them to serve. Remember, after September 11, the patriotic fever that went through America, people thanking military people all over. Let's not let that fever stop. My own son right after 9/11, when he was in the Marine Corps and before he went to Iraq, was offered drinks by almost every American he came across. Free drinks, by people even his own age. And General Coleman, being a Marine, the only time he declined a drink was when he misunderstood the question. Today, we salute all those who service this country, men and women, African-Americans, white, Asians, Native Americans, and, yes, Arab Americans. We should take pride in them all and should not forget them. Of course, I take pride as any family member, any father would in his son being in the Marine Corps. As you know, no mother raises her son to be a soldier, much less a Marine. But I'm sure if he were here, he would express his pride in his Marines, and he does not forget them. Let me conclude where I began. In establishing Decoration Day, General Logan from the headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic wrote in his general order following -- wrote the following: \"Let no wanton food -- foot tread rudely on such hallowed ground. Let no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generation that we have forgotten as people the cost of the free republic. If other eyes grow dull, others' hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us.\" God bless these souls, God bless our troops, and God bless America.", "William Frank served as a captain in the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War from 1967 to '68. Continuing the family tradition, his son recently served with the Marine Corps in Iraq. We're listening to a number of speakers at this special live event at the Vietnam Wall. A highlight of the proceeding will be the reading of four names added to the wall just last week. As soon as those names -- as soon as we hear the speaker announce those four names, we will take that live. Stay with us as we continue to pay tribute to the members of the American armed forces that made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam and in all conflicts."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "WILLIAM FRANK, VIETNAM WAR VETERAN", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "NPR-6497", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2018-11-24", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/11/24/670581501/backed-by-national-report-climate-change-is-affecting-every-sector-of-our-lives", "title": "National Report Confirms Climate Change 'Is Affecting Every Sector,' Scientist Says", "summary": "The economy could take a major hit if climate change continues at its current pace, according to the latest National Climate Assessment. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with climate scientist Michael Mann.", "utt": ["We hope you had a wonderful holiday connecting with family and friends and perhaps doing a bit of traveling or shopping. Remarkably, a new government report suggests that all of those activities could be affected by climate change. The Fourth National Climate Assessment represents the work of 13 federal agencies. According to the report, if climate change continues at its current pace, the United States will suffer major economic losses from crop failures to severe disruptions to trade to major stress on critical infrastructure - even the possibility of large-scale migration within the U.S. The report also confirms that a wide range of disasters from wildfires and hurricanes to famine and disease are the product of human-made changes to the environment.", "We asked Michael Mann, a professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, to speak with us about the report. And he's with us now from State College, Pa.", "Professor Mann, thank you so much for speaking with us.", "Thanks. Good to be with you.", "How significant is this report?", "I consider it quite significant. We've just lived through a summer - an unprecedented summer of weather extremes - droughts, wildfires, floods, superstorms. We are now seeing the impacts of climate change play out in real time. They're no longer subtle. And this report does a very good job in sort of putting meat on the bone - in providing the science behind what we can already see with our own two eyes - that dangerous climate change is already beginning to happen.", "The report says that the country's economic activity, the GDP, is actually going to shrink if the current policies aren't addressed, right? How does that actually happen? Like, what does that look like?", "Climate change is impacting every sector of our lives and every sector of our economy. There's a huge national security cost. We have to defend the new coastline and Arctic coastline as the Arctic sea ice disappears. There's increased conflict around the world as a growing global population competes for less food and water and space. There is a real cost when it comes to agriculture. We've seen devastating impacts on the breadbasket of the United States - California, one of our most important agricultural states, that's been hit very hard by extreme heat and drought. The health care cost - people who are suffering the health consequences, whether it's infectious diseases or the impact of exposure to extreme heat. And you can go on down the list.", "The cost of inaction is reaching into the tens of billions of dollars. And, as this report makes clear, we will be talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in the future. So what is now maybe a 1 percent tax on our economy from climate change impacts will become a 10 percent tax on our economy.", "Now, you may consider this to be outside of your wheelhouse, but the timing of the release is curious. The White House released it on Friday afternoon, the day after Thanksgiving. The former Vice President Al Gore views this as the administration trying to bury this news. On the other hand, the White House doesn't seem to have intervened in the report itself. What do you make of it?", "Yeah. No, this isn't outside of my wheelhouse. In fact, I've written a whole book, \"The Hockey Stick And The Climate Wars,\" about my experiences as a climate scientist under attack by politicians and fossil fuel industry groups. And Donald Trump has been a godsend to them. He has used the bully pulpit to attack the science of climate change almost on a daily basis. And he has appointed to his Cabinet fossil fuel lobbyists and climate change deniers who have done everything they can to literally dismantle the progress that we actually made in tackling climate change under previous administrations.", "And this is the latest example trying to bury a climate report that they couldn't eliminate. It's congressionally mandated, so they had to put out the report. And they chose to try to bury it over a Thanksgiving weekend when, ironically, the fact that they were trying to bury this report has probably garnered a lot more attention for this report than we would've otherwise seen.", "Well, as you noted, the president has consistently pushed for environmental deregulation. And he tweeted just this week, whatever happened to global warming? Evidently, that was in response to the cold snap in the Northeast. On the other hand, the fact is that these 13 federal agencies did produce this extremely blunt report. And so the question that I then have is, is there a track on which progress can be made without executive leadership? Or is that just a fantasy?", "No, absolutely there is. And, in fact, one of the sort of good pieces of news when you look at what's happening in the United States is that just based on what states are doing - individual states and cities and municipalities - and our largest companies who are all acting on climate change. It turns out that even without Trump's support we will still meet our obligations under the Paris accord. Most likely, you know, two years from now, we can obviously decide to elect a president who will build on the progress we are already making.", "That's Michael Mann, director of the Earth Systems Science Center at Pennsylvania State University. He was kind enough to talk to us.", "- Professor Mann, you so much for talking to us.", "Thank you. It was a pleasure."], "speaker": ["MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHAEL MANN", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHAEL MANN", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHAEL MANN", "MICHAEL MANN", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHAEL MANN", "MICHAEL MANN", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHAEL MANN", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHAEL MANN"]}
{"id": "CNN-133630", "program": "ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL", "date": "2008-12-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0812/29/ijvm.01.html", "summary": "New Developments in Caylee Anthony Case", "utt": ["Tonight, breaking news in the Caylee Anthony case. As mother Casey remains behind bars, a new bombshell development. Reports now say her brother could face charges.", "What I can tell you is my No. 1 focus is on Caylee.", "Yes.", "My second focus is you.", "Yes.", "My third is Mom.", "Uh-huh.", "Then Dad, then me.", "I`ll talk to Lee Anthony`s lawyer. Plus, could the 911 calls made way back in August by the very same meter reader who found Caylee`s body in December provide stunning new clues?", "I noticed something that looked white and there was -- I don`t know what it is. I`m not telling you it`s Caylee or anything of that nature.", "Does this guy deserve a reward or more scrutiny? These issues and much more tonight.", "Tonight, shocking new developments in the Caylee Anthony murder investigation. Nine-one-one tapes under close scrutiny tonight after reports there is a reward being considered for Roy Kronk. Listen to that meter reader who found Caylee`s body in December, begging police four months earlier to check out that very same location.", "There`s a swamp, and if you`re heading back out towards the main road, on the left-hand side in an area, I noticed something that looked white. And there was -- I don`t know what it is. I`m not telling you it`s Caylee or anything of that nature...", "OK.", "Very interesting. We`re going to play more of Kronk`s August 911 calls and analyze them. Meantime, another bombshell. The murdered toddler`s 22-year-old mother may not be the only one charged. Casey Anthony`s brother, Lee Anthony, could -- I`m saying could -- could also face charges for allegedly obstructing justice or aiding and abetting, even if it was not his intention to do so. That new information coming tonight from the brother`s own attorney, who we will talk to in just a moment. Brother Lee has been conducting his own investigation into the disappearance of little Caylee, following leads for suspects other than his sister. Also, there`s been increasing speculation and reports about Lee`s alleged misuse of funds donated towards the search for little Caylee. Both Lee Anthony and his lawyer flatly deny those allegations. Joining me now is Lee Anthony`s lawyer, Thomas Deluca. Thomas, thanks for joining us. I know this has to be very tough for your client. Our hearts do go out to him in this moment of grief. Tell us what you know about these possible obstruction of justice charges against Lee. And why is your client, who was little Caylee`s uncle, possibly facing them? It doesn`t really add up to me.", "Well, first of all, I`d like to thank you for your sympathy, as does the Anthony family. I want to make it clear that, again, no charges are pending as of yet. What we are concerned with, however, is that here in Florida the laws regarding tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice are extraordinarily broad as opposed to other states. And because of that, there is some concern that some activities that Lee might have been involved with during the investigation might have -- be seen by law enforcement to be misleading or to be in some way hindering the investigation. And that`s what we`re trying to make clear, that throughout this investigation, he has been cooperating fully.", "Well, you`re dancing around something, and we`re trying to play detective here and figure out what exactly you`re saying. It occurs to me a couple of possibilities. One: that his sister asked him to do something that he thought was a totally innocent request, and it turns out down the road maybe it wasn`t so innocent. Or perhaps he threw something out thinking it was completely irrelevant. People throw things out of their house all the time. Later it becomes relevant. Am I -- am I getting warmer?", "Actually you`re not.", "OK.", "You`re very cold at this time.", "Really?", "Mister -- again, Mr. Anthony is not -- did not throw anything out. In fact, he has talked to Casey several times in the jail at law enforcement`s request, in the search for his niece. He has been fully cooperating with police, including giving a DNA sample.", "Now, listen, you say he`s cooperating, but I just want to clarify, because I had read published reports that say he had to be subpoenaed before he would give his fingerprints. That`s not exactly giving them voluntarily.", "Well, actually it is and it isn`t. It also -- a subpoena simply preserves the chain of evidence in any criminal case. A subpoena can or cannot be issued. That`s up to the state attorney office. That`s up to the law-enforcement agency itself.", "All right. Can I ask you a question about money, because there is this report swirling around of possible misuse of funds? There was a fund set up to look for Caylee. We know that Lee was looking for suspects other than his sister, which is totally natural. I totally understand why he would want to do this as a brother and an uncle. So where -- where do these allegations that he might have misused funds come from, and what`s your response to them?", "To qualify, I don`t know where these allegations have come from. There is a great deal of rumor and speculation and innuendo surrounding this entire case. I think that Mr. Anthony is simply being caught up in the periphery of this. He was running a parallel investigation with -- to the police looking for his niece, and...", "Was he using those funds to do that? In other words, did people give him money thinking, \"Well, this is going to be for T-shirts and flyers,\" and he`s using it to basically try to come up with a defense for his sister?", "No. He`s trying to honestly use the money for what it was intended for, and he -- any money that was spent was spent appropriately. There was no misuse of funds. There was no misappropriation. This was a completely above-board...", "Quick question. Have the authorities indicated to you that they could be hitting him with charges?", "Well, they have not come to me as of yet. What they have done, though, is they have not yet issued him a subpoena for his trial testimony. That subpoena would give him immunity to anything he would say in court -- in a court of law. They have not -- the state attorney`s office has not issued a subpoena for him yet, and that is what troubles me, at least, as far as whether there might be charges on the horizon.", "All right. No subpoena. Well, listen, I want to thank you for your time and for speaking up for Lee. And, again, our hearts do go out to the Anthony family as a whole. They have been through a nightmare. And you totally understand why a brother would want to help out his sister and do anything he can to try to come up with a conclusion that somebody else was responsible for her demise. Thank you, Thomas. New developments every day in the Caylee Anthony case. I want to hear what you think. Call 1-877-JVM-SAYS. That`s 1-877-586-7297 with your comments and questions. And we have an expert panel here to answer all of your questions. Brian Russell, forensic psychologist; and attorney Jayne Weintraub, criminal defense attorney; and Kathi Belich, a reporter from WFTV, who has been following this case from the very beginning; as well as Anita Kay, criminal defense attorney and former district attorney. Let`s start with the reporter. Kathi, this has to be a horrific holiday for the Anthony family. Bring us up to date. What`s the latest? What`s happening at the Anthony home and the location where the remains were found?", "Well, the Anthony home is quiet. What we`ve reported today is the sheriff`s office plans to investigate a report by a private investigator who works with the Anthonys, who says that he videotaped the area where Caylee`s remains were found a month before they were found. Now, he says this videotape shows that the remains were not there in mid-November, but investigators want to know why he was focusing on that area in mid-November. Also investigators want to speak with another private eye who works for the Anthonys. They say they contacted him last week, and he has not gotten back to them for arrangements to talk to him.", "Well, Kathi, I`ve got to get back to what you just said. That`s a -- that is a bombshell. If there was videotape -- repeat what you said. There was videotape of the exact area that this Roy Kronk, the meter reader, where he discovered little Caylee Anthony`s remains a couple of weeks ago, and this is the same meter reader who called about this very same location in August three times, telling authorities to go down there. Now, you`re telling me at some point in between that somebody videotaped that area and didn`t see the remains?", "That`s what they`re saying. It was a private investigator that worked with the Anthonys. And he claims that the remains were not there in mid-November. He says he took a videotape of that area. And now investigators want to know why he was focusing on that area back in mid-November, what he knew, if he knew anything; who else knew anything.", "You know, Jayne Weintraub, every time this story -- every day it`s a wild turn of events. I mean, if that videotape is in existence and it is shown to investigators or the public, given how this case has been going, couldn`t that just throw a total curve into this entire case?", "Well, it could. The issue there, Jane, really is the police going to the private investigator that`s hired by the defense. Highly, highly, you know, impractical, unethical, and not appropriate under Florida law.", "Wait a second. If he`s got videotape that is of this area, and it doesn`t show any bag. And you have the meter reader calling in August, and then you have him finding it in mid-December, that to me is something that -- information that the authorities have to look at. Why -- why does it matter that it was a defense investigator?", "It matters, because the police do not have the right to interrogate, question, obtain evidence from the defense in their preparation of the case. Imagine. Nobody would ever talk to a defense investigator if they thought that it would be turned right over to the police. We need to level the playing field. The constitution isn`t just for the state. It`s for both sides, for the defense. So private investigator is an arm of the lawyer. That`s why Florida has a work product privilege that is given to an investigator working for the lawyer. Now, if this is leaked to the press or to the police or something, that`s a different story. They`re curious. It will come out in trial. Remember, Jane, this is not an investigation. This is a case that the state has announced...", "Something has just occurred to me, Anita Kay. This area was supposedly under water. There was a storm that moved in toward the end of August and inundated the area with water. That`s why Tim Miller from -- beg your pardon?", "August 30 was the date.", "OK. That`s why Tim Miller from Equusearch said he went there but wasn`t able to examine the area because it was underwater. So if the videotape shows -- Kathi Belich, let me go to you on this. If the videotape shows a bunch of water, that means nothing, because those remains could have been under the water. Right?", "He showed a short clip of that videotape to one of our photographers, who said he saw a multicolored blanket of some sort, and he saw the fence that he recognized as the fence in the area. Now, I do want to make something clear. There are two different private investigators that I was referring to. The first one, who allegedly took the videotape, is not a member of the defense team. The other private investigator who they want to interview was a member of the defense team until October, and he`s now working for the Anthonys. Investigators want to talk to him now. And the defense has concerns, obviously, about any privileged information that investigators might want to ask him about when he was a member of the defense team.", "Who as he -- you`re saying the private investigator took the video. Who was he working for?", "His name is Jim Hoover. It`s unclear. We`ve seen pictures of him with the private investigator who works for the Anthonys. He would not tell us who he works for, but we have seen him on the scene several times over several months.", "All right. Here`s the thing, Anita Kay, nobody knows exactly what videotape is taken. There have been stories where there`s a date on the videotape, and it turns out that was the wrong date. So you have another wrinkle. What if they present this tape, saying this was videotape proving the body wasn`t there, but that tape wasn`t taken when they said it was.", "Absolutely. And the defense can try to use it at trial to show, hey, the prosecution has one theory. But look at little Caylee`s body, was not here at this time. But what you would do as the prosecutor to cross- examine is be able to say can we prove this date stamp is correct? Can you prove exactly when this videotape was taken?", "This is a stunning development. Stay right there. Much more to cover on the Caylee Anthony case. And I`m going to be taking your calls. If you have a question or comment for our expert panel, give us a holler: 1-877-JVM-SAYS. That`s 1- 877-586-7297. But first, take a listen to Casey Anthony talking to her brother, Lee, from jail.", "I cannot speak to anybody else`s focus other than what they`ve told me. What I can do is speak to my own focus.", "Yes.", "What I can tell you is my No. 1 focus is on Caylee.", "Yes.", "My second focus is you.", "Yes.", "My third is Mom.", "Uh-huh.", "Then Dad, then me.", "Yes.", "OK? So I want to make -- and I don`t give a", "Perfect, thank you. Yes.", "You know, went down and there was a fallen tree (ph) with it. And it looked suspicious. I didn`t touch anything. And then a little bit further up you can tell where someone ran across with the mower, but the weeds are still real high in that area. It was like a fallen tree. It looks like someone had tried to cut on it at one point. Like, there was a white board hanging across the tree, and there was something round and white underneath of it. And I don`t know what it is, but it just doesn`t look like something that should be there.", "That was utility worker Roy Kronk`s second of three calls to authorities made back in August. Kronk called to report seeing something suspicious in the wooded area near the Anthony home. He called four months before actually finding a bag of remains in the very same area on his own. Kronk is now reportedly considering accepting a $5,000 reward for his discovery. Do you think Kronk should accept that reward, or should doing a good deed not come with a cash expectation? Give me a holler: 1-877-JVM- SAYS or 1-877-586-7297. Phone lines lighting up. Michael, North Carolina, your question or thought, sir?", "Yes, I`m a former police officer and a criminology -- I have a criminology degree, and I think this Kronk needs to be thoroughly investigated. If they don`t absolutely rule him out, the defense is going to have a field day. And my cop gut tells me that he is involved in some way, shape, or form. And by the way, I love your show.", "Oh, well, thank you so much, Michael. And we have to say as we go to Brian Russell, the authorities are saying that this man is not a suspect. He is a good citizen, a good Samaritan, who had a good gut and followed his instincts. Do you buy it?", "Yes, I really do. I think -- I listened to his tapes. He sounds like he might be a little -- little busy, a little busy-bodyish, but other than that, he certainly doesn`t sound to me like somebody who is involved in any way, other than as a concerned citizen.", "Well, we just got to listen to some of this stuff, though, because I want to get everybody`s response. This is Roy Kronk`s first call to 911 on August 11. He`s, of course, the meter reader who found little Caylee four months later, the same person. Listen to this.", "There`s a swamp. And if you`re heading back out towards the main road on the left-hand side in an area, I notice something that looked white. And there was -- I don`t know what it is. I`m not telling you it`s, you know, Caylee or anything of that nature...", "Do you know what street Anthony home is on?", "Yes. It`s on Good Hope, isn`t it?", "OK. Good homes. And what`s the nearest intersecting street?", "It`s the one that comes off of it. It`s like Suburban or something like that?", "All right. Kathi Belich, it doesn`t add up. I mean, not necessarily his involvement, but the idea that somebody videotaped in mid-November. That call was made in August, OK? He found the remains in December, and now we`re hearing that possibly in November somebody videotaped that area and that body was not there.", "I think that that person wants people to believe that the body was not there at that time. I think that videotape, it sounds to me that the videotape was taken to -- before the remains were found there to show somehow that they weren`t there. But the videotape was a small area, from what I understand, and that area is a pretty large area and very thickly wooded. The sheriff`s office said today, well, you know, \"If we were criticized for not finding it in that area after three days, then why didn`t this person who videotaped in November find it?\" But I think the purpose of the videotape was to try to show it wasn`t there, which brings the question how did he know to focus on that area a month before the remains were found? Big question.", "Exactly, Jayne Weintraub. Now, Roy Kronk, apparently is -- now that he`s got his 15 minutes, considering which media outlet he`s going to tell his story to. I really think he has got to tell it soon, because there are so many questions. I mean, either he is the amateur sleuth of the century and has this incredible honing device that leads him to this location where, remember, the whole world is looking for Caylee. The whole world, including Tim Miller of Equusearch, including the authorities, including the FBI, and he`s the only one who has that instinct that it`s got to be right there. I think he needs to tell his story.", "He`s trying to sell his story, that`s what he`s trying to do. And you know, Jane, this just begs the issue that we really need to pass a law and have rules that no witness or juror or participant can profit from their testimony in any way, shape, or form or jury service.", "You know what? I don`t know that he`s trying to profit. We haven`t -- we haven`t said that. I mean, I understand what you`re saying, but we don`t know that for fact. Nancy in Florida, your question or comment.", "Hello.", "Hi. Your question or comment.", "Hi. Hi, I`m just wondering about the charges pending against Lee Anthony. I was wondering if you thought that maybe he was admitting to some of the Internet searches over at the house. And also I just wanted to know if you can elaborate on the prosecution team for Casey. Like, I always hear about the Dream Team and how great they are, but what about the prosecution team? I mean, who are they. And I hope they`re good, and I hope they don`t mess it up like the O.J. case.", "All right. Well, those are excellent questions. I certainly don`t think that anyone could possibly say, Kathi Belich, who was searching on that computer. All they know is that it was Casey`s computer. What about the prosecution?", "Well, let me make a point there, though. This -- the evidence that they have released is evidence that they plan to use against Casey Anthony. So I believe they believe she was doing those searches. Otherwise, that information would not become part of this case, and it would not have been released as possible evidence in the case.", "All right.", "The prosecutors, however, are very, very experienced prosecutors. One of them did the first DNA case in the country.", "All right. We`re going to talk a little bit more about the prosecution in a second. Give us a holler. What do you think about these shocking new developments?", "We`re back, continuing our discussion and taking your calls on the Caylee Anthony murder investigation. Give me a call at 1-877- JVM-SAYS. That`s 1-877-586-7297. Let`s go right to the phones. Janelle in Michigan, your question or comment, ma`am.", "Hi, Jane. I`m calling regarding the meter reader issue. I used to be a meter reader, and we cover more areas by foot than the average person, you know, would normally ever see. And some of us learn to develop instincts about our surroundings, like what belongs, what`s out of place, you know, et cetera. And, you know, some of us, not all, made more observances than others, and we took this as a responsibility. I think Mr. Kronk should be applauded and thanked instead of being called a busy body just because he reacted to his instincts.", "Janelle, I think you make a very good point. Anita Kay, should he get a reward, in fact? There are reports that he`s being offered $5,000 by somebody who used to be the representative for Cindy and George Anthony, who apparently doesn`t want to profit. And he`s saying, \"I`m going to give this guy $5,000.\"", "Well, here`s the thing, Jane. If he`s entitled to the reward, sure, he should get the reward. But my understanding was he may not want it, because he was just doing what he felt was right, what he thought was right in reporting the information. So I say, you know, if he takes it, fine. If he doesn`t, fine. But something that we talked about earlier was if Mr. Kronk is going to sell his story. That`s been where I sort of draw the line, because as a prosecutor, if this were my case, I don`t want my witnesses out there giving interviews, getting paid to give interviews before the case even goes to trial.", "All right. Let me ask you a question about that. Is -- there is a lot of speculation as to how the defense team is paying for its slew of experts. These are some of the top-flight lawyers in the nation, some of the top-flight forensic experts in the nation. Linda Kenney-Baden, Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky, Dr. Henry Lee, the list goes on and on. Would it be illegal, Brian Russell, for the family to sell the story? In other words, there are laws that prevent criminals from profiting from their crime by selling their story, but what about family members?", "Well, I don`t think -- it`s a state by state thing, and Jayne and Anita can weigh in on this, but I don`t think so. I think it would be certainly very smarmy and not helpful to their daughter`s defense for them to be engaging in any talks about that at this stage.", "Well, how are they going to pay for it? I mean, Jayne Weintraub, how are they paying for all this? This has got to cost many, many tens of thousands of dollars, just the tests alone.", "I really -- I`m not in a position to say, and I wouldn`t know. Who`s paying for the state experts? We`re going to pay, taxpayers in Florida, just millions of dollars on forensic experts. I mean, what`s more of a concern, Jane, to me, for example, is about witnesses that are interested in rewards and interested in the money. For example, do we want to encourage people to be paid for discovering evidence? Or do we want to encourage them to just come forward and say what you saw? You know, normally Crime Stoppers, for example, is a leading tip towards the arrest and conviction of a guilty person. This is after the arrest of a perpetrator who`s already charged with a crime ready for trial. This is not like a Crime Stopper lead. Why is this guy taking any reward? Why should there be a reward?", "Well, he hasn`t said he`s going to, and I think we really do need to have him tell his story. If you`re watching, Roy Kronk, call us and tell us your story, because we want to hear it. We`re all very curious. Hold all of your thoughts. More viewer calls in just a moment. Call 1-877-JVM-SAYS. That`s 1-877-586-7297. Tell me if you think the prosecution will seek the death penalty.", "Bombshell developments in the death of Caylee Anthony. Casey Anthony is charged with murdering her daughter but could other family members also face charges. Plus, the shocking 911 calls from August by the utility worker who found Caylee`s body in December.", "I noticed something that looks white and I don`t know what it is. I`m not telling you it`s Caylee or anything of that nature.", "The meter reader is now being offered a reward. Do you think somebody should get a prize for finding a child`s remains? Call 1-877-JVM-SAYS, that`s 1-877-586-7297 and tell me what you think. We are back discussing the latest developments in the Caylee Anthony murder case and taking your calls. I am joined by my expert panel: Brian Russell, forensic psychologist and attorney; Jayne Weintraub, a criminal defense attorney; Kathi Belich, is a reporter from WFTV who has been following this case from the start; and Anita Kay, criminal defense attorney and former district attorney. We`re going to go to the phone line in just a moment. But I want to ask Kathi Belich, what is happening with funeral plans and memorial plans? And I understand they are dependent on the second autopsy that the defense wants to conduct. Tell us about it.", "That`s right. And they are keeping very quiet about this. We have been told that they want a private ceremony and a public ceremony but there have been no arrangements made public at this point. The defense did say they wanted to do a second autopsy; wanted to do it at the medical examiner`s office. That was not an idea that the medical examiner was fond of and we haven`t heard any details about that at this point.", "Has the defense begun going onto the area where the remains were found and doing their own investigation there?", "No, they said they wanted to do that. They were going to court before the investigators had left asking for the right to be there as investigators were working. Judge said no. And at some point they just decided they`re not going. They said that pretty much everything was gone at that point and their efforts to preserve evidence would have been futile at that point because everything was gone. So apparently they`re not going back. They have no interest in going there. And there are no trespassing signs up everywhere.", "But they`re going to get everything from the discovery -- the photograph and everything as it comes out in the normal of course of discovery.", "Right.", "All right, Peggy from Iowa, thank you for your patience, ma`am. Your question or thoughts?", "I just want to know what the prosecution is going to do because of all the evidence that`s been put on the TV. How are they going to guarantee Casey a fair trial? Even if they move it to a different town or state, with all the talking about it, I mean, I don`t think she`ll be able to get a fair jury.", "Well Jayne Weintraub, a lot of people are saying this is going to be one of these trials of the century and it`s going to be a circus. So how do they ensure a fair trial?", "Well, the issue -- as the caller correctly points out, she wouldn`t get a fair trial if it was just about whether or not you`ve heard or read about the case because everybody in this country has already read or heard about it. The question and the legal standard that will be asked and tested in court is whether or not what you read or heard in the newspaper or watched on television, whether or not that will influence or may influence your verdict for the listening of the testimony in this case. Will you be able to set aside everything that you`ve read or heard? Those are the questions that the judge will be asking. And I totally agree with the caller, there is no planet that she`s getting a fair trial on in the immediate future.", "Well all right. Harvey, in California, your thought or question.", "Yes, my question at the same time near the beginning of the trial, Lee Anthony was asked and his mom and dad were asked to take a lie detector test. And why, if he`s so innocent and they`re innocent, why did they and he tell his parents do not take a lie detector test?", "Well, I think it`s an interesting question, Brian Russell. From what I`ve heard the attorneys simply are saying that they don`t trust lie detector tests. That if people are very nervous, they can set it off. And they didn`t feel that it was something that was going to be of use in the courtroom, so they decided not to do it. Do you buy that explanation?", "Yes, I do. And on my own practice I`ve found that a lot of times that lie detector tests give you very accurate, a very good information, but as a defense attorney I think it`s almost standard -- almost be malpractice not to advise your clients that way.", "I thought I heard somebody trying to jump in on Jayne Weintraub saying --", "That was me.", "There`s no way she could get a fair trial on his credit.", "They will get a fair -- they can get a fair trial. You would be surprised. What Jayne said was right, the issue is, are they able to put aside anything that they have learned or heard about the case and people can do that, people have done it in lots of other cases. But if you went to a shopping mall in Florida and you stood there and you stopped people and said, what do you think about the Casey Anthony case? You would be surprised how many people would go, did she have something to do with the bailout -- or the Blagojevich -- you`d be surprised how many people would not know.", "Yes, you can find plenty of people who don`t know anything about anything and that is really shocking, but it`s true. I want to ask Kathi Belich, if she`s heard about this published report that to me is pretty stunning. Talk about another stunning development. Published reports claim somebody on Casey`s computer did a Google search for a show called \"One Tree Hill\" and their 100th episode right before Caylee disappeared. That episode reportedly featured a nanny kidnapping a child.", "That`s right. That was our report, and that search was done in March; back in March at the same time she was researching neck breaking, chloroform, how to make chloroform. So that was back in March, and that`s one of the things that was released in the discovery. At the time no one got in there and tried to find out the details of it until recently, but that information was released as part of the discovery. So it`s something prosecutors obviously are looking at.", "And she rented a movie from a blockbuster that had a similar story line.", "Really?", "Yes.", "Do you know which move that is?", "I think it was \"Jumper\" and it had something to do with the mother killing the kid and then traveling through time or something like that. We reported it on \"Prime News\" back in the summer.", "All right, well I want to get Anita Kay to weigh in on this. Because to me, if they could actually show in court that this Google search was made on Casey`s computer and then actually play a clip from that show -- and I haven`t seen the show -- but let`s say it`s correct that the show does show a nanny kidnapping a child, that`s a huge piece of evidence, is it not?", "Absolutely, Jane. It`s every little piece of the puzzle. We talk about this time and time again with cases that are circumstantial such as this case. And you look at each piece, each Google search that was done on that computer And while one of them may not mean a lot, put them all together. You look at the context, then you look how Caylee was found. You look at the stories that Casey told about this baby-sitter that doesn`t exist and you look at all the lies, and that`s how the state`s going to build a case, and that`s how they`re going to try and convict --", "My head is exploding. We`ve had so many bombshells just on the show tonight, and I`m thinking how is the prosecution going to take all this and assimilate it and turn it into a story line that is clear for the jurors given what the defense is likely to do. I understand that they`ve even set up a tip line trying to get more tips that could lead to information that could exonerate Casey. And if you think about the videotapes, this private investigator claiming he videotaped this area where the remains were later found, I mean it just -- sometimes Jayne Weintraub, does it get overwhelming? Does just the sheer amount of evidence in a case like this that is so watched that it really starts creating its own new developments become overwhelming for either side?", "Well, it becomes overwhelming for all the participants and all of the lawyers, absolutely. But what`s interesting is as your reporter -- as Kathi said, well, we`ll get it, the defense isn`t interested anymore in looking at the crime scene because they`ll get it in discovery. Well, they couldn`t be further from the truth. What they get in discovery, all we get as defense lawyers is what the prosecutors and the police write down they saw and what they found. We just basically in a larger part have to take their word for it. That has become very troublesome. That`s why there are so many innocent people on death row, and that, that is the whole reason for the \"Innocence Project.\" You know, the burden is on the state to be able to prove by a reasonable -- beyond a reasonable doubt that somebody is guilty. They`re not even at that state. They`re just gathering everything, putting it into theory. A blockbuster movie three months before the girl is even missing? Out of a whole series of a TV show? Come on. This can`t be real in evidence in a real murder case.", "I don`t know. I think if she Googled this particular TV show and this particular TV show has a story line, that episode that shows that a nanny kidnapped a child, to me given the fact that her whole argument is that the nanny, Zanny the nanny, took the child and we`ve never been able to find any nanny named Zanny, I think that that speaks volumes. What do you think, Anita?", "Absolutely. And that`s the thing; everything that Casey has done in the past year is going to be under a microscope when she goes to trial. And some of the things may be completely innocent. Some of the things maybe not and it`s the prosecution who is going to lay out a road map that says this is what this Google search meant.", "All right.", "This is what our theory is --", "Quick question --", "And then it`s up to the defense to tear it down.", "Quick question from Pat in Texas if you can get a quick one in.", "Hi, I was just wondering where does the average person get chloroform?", "Ok. Let`s see, let`s throw that one at Jayne Weintraub.", "Thanks. No clue. None in my house.", "The Internet, I think right, Kathi Belich? Haven`t you shown that people go on the Internet and get that stuff?", "People go on the Internet to find out how to make it. You can put household items together and make it. We found more than two million websites when we looked up how to make chloroform.", "All right, thank you so much. Wow. A lot of developments: Brian, Jayne, Kathi and Anita; fabulous job as always. Just a reminder, Nancy Grace is up immediately following this broadcast at 8:00 p.m. Eastern. She will have all the latest details on the Caylee Anthony case. Violence mounts in Gaza as Israel and Hamas conduct what some call all-out war. I will tell you if President-elect Obama can bring his message of change to the Middle East so that both sides could finally make progress.", "There you see hundreds protesting Israel`s Gaza air strikes. I`ll have an update on what some are calling an all-out war between Israel and Hamas in just moments. But first, at the top of the block tonight: 36-year-old Jennifer Seitz was on a Christmas cruise. Surveillance video from that cruise shows a woman falling overboard at 8:08 p.m. on December 26th. Here is the problem folks, her husband didn`t report her missing for another eight hours. And the husband was arrested for domestic violence back in April. The charges were later dropped. The search for Jennifer Seitz in the Gulf of Mexico has now been suspended, but the FBI is investigating to see if a crime was committed aboard the ship. Her family sadly believes she may have taken her own life. We will keep an eye on this developing story and give you an update once we have more information. Now, let`s turn to another tragic story. Israel is now in an all-out war with Hamas according to the nation`s defense minister. Palestinian officials have reported well over 350 people killed and more than 1,000 wounded so far. This is the third straight day of air strikes in Gaza. The U.S. has called on Hamas to halt the ongoing rocket fire on Israel. The United Nations Secretary General is urging an immediate cease fire on both sides and calling Israel`s use of force excessive. Protesters have gathered in cities all around the world from Paris to London and beyond, outraged at the Israeli air strikes. My question tonight is -- this is the 21st century. Are we ever going to get beyond the cycle of violence, revenge, and still more violence in the Middle East? When is the whole world going to stand up and say, enough? Here to hash it out, a fantastic panel: Joe Pagliarulo, who we know as Joe Pags who hosts San Antonio`s first news News Radio 1200 WOAI; Lisa Schirch professor of peace building at Eastern Mennonite University; and James Phillips, senior fellow at Heritage Foundation. Joe Pags, I want to start with you. Israel says it`s very sorry that it has killed children while it tries to do targeted air strikes against Hamas militants. But you how can you do targeted air strikes in an area that is twice the size of Washington, D.C., that contains 1.5 million people? I mean, come on, that`s like saying we`re going to do targeted air strikes in midtown Manhattan. Of course you`re going to hit civilians, and they have, including kids.", "Well, it`s a good question Jane, but at some point we have to ask the question when is enough, enough? You`ve had rockets flying into Israel. What exactly should they do? Hamas and Hezbollah these terrorist organizations, whether it`s a government or not there in the west bank, in Gaza, these groups hide behind women and children. What should you do? Just let them keep on launching rockets -- hey look some more rockets today and U.N. saying it`s successive ok, U.N. what should Israel do? Ok here`s a rocket for you, oh here`s come another rocket, I`ll send you another rocket. I think Israel is going in and trying to end this, ok. You`re going to keep on sending rockets since the ceasefire in December 19, we`re going to go and show you what can happen if you keep this garbage up. Boom, boom, boom, knock it off and we`ll knock it off. I think they did the right thing here.", "Well listen, I`ve got to tell you. I think Hamas definitely deserves blame. I mean, it`s idiotic, they`re hitting Israel with rockets. But a lot of these rockets are homemade and they`ve done relatively minimal damage compared certainly to this onslaught. Since the beginning of 2008, 17 people have been killed by the Hamas rockets in Israel; 9 of them civilians. And yes they deserve a lot of blame. They refused to extend the peace agreement that they have had with Israel, essentially a cease-fire. They are provoking Israel, but nevertheless, this response, Lisa Schirch, is what they call shock and awe -- Israeli style. And didn`t we find out during the Iraq war, shock and awe doesn`t work at the end of the day? It simply inspires people to become more violent. With every person that`s killed, the entire family of that person turns into radical militants?", "Absolutely, and I think what we need to remember are the words of General Petraeus, about Iraq when he said there is no military solution. The solution is economic and political. And I think that same wisdom that General Petraeus gave for the situation in Iraq is true also here for Gaza because while most Americans are friends and supporters of Israel, we haven`t found a way as a nation to be both pro-Israel and pro-peace. And so I think we need to find a new way forward in our relationship with this whole region to greatly increase our understanding of the root causes of this conflict. Because the story doesn`t start just with the cycle of violence of the rockets going into Israel and now the counter attack by Israel against Gaza. The story starts with the whole region of Gaza being like a prison with a humanitarian disaster. And just like a cat being cornered, the desperation, the sense of humiliation, the frustration and despair there is so great, that until that situation is dealt with, it`s hard to see a way out of this. So I think, you know, for the U.S. and Israel, a better strategy for Israeli security and security for the whole region is to think about dealing finally with the root causes of the situation rather than this tit for tat that we see now.", "Well, James Phillips, I mean, what are we going to do? The United States has signed an agreement to give Israel $30 billion over the next decade. That`s approximately $3 billion a year. Can money be tied to a policy of nonviolence?", "I don`t think money should be tied to such a policy. And I think such a policy would be a disaster. When an ally is up against a terrorist organization that is wedded to violence, to try to limit them to a nonviolent response I think would be courting disaster. And Lisa mentioned General Petraeus in Iraq, and General Petraeus has led an unrelenting struggle against Al Qaeda in Iraq and his distinguished between the irreconcilable terrorist elements that he must deal with --", "Well look, I understand what you`re saying, but I`m looking at a big picture. I`m not involved in the strategy of war. I`m actually more interested in the strategy of peace. You know, doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result, that is the definition of insanity. We live in a global village right now, Joe Pags, where basically the entire world sees everything that goes on. And judging from the demonstrations, this is a public relations disaster in some levels.", "Well, like I say, let`s not fall for the propaganda that comes out of Hamas or even Hezbollah the last time that something like this happened. It`s propaganda. They`ve got 2,000 people marching in countries that have millions and millions of people. People are marching -- kids are holding signs in Venezuela that were handed to them by somebody from the government. I`m sure the kids are smiling, as they say no more bombing in Gaza.", "All right. We`re going to hold it right there. But we`re going to be back with more in just a moment.", "We`re back with our fabulous panel, talking about the Israeli air strikes on Gaza. Joe Pags, President-elect Obama is not really weighing; he`s saying there`s only one President at a time. But let`s face it, he campaigned successfully on a mantra of change and he`s also considered an anti-war candidate.", "Yes.", "That was how he first made his name, was being in opposition to the Iraq war. So what can he do to change the dynamic? I understand that, yes, they had to do something. But listen, we`ve been down this road before. We just did this in Lebanon a couple of years ago. This is a new century. Can`t we come up with new alternatives than just bombing the hell out of civilian areas?", "It`s an interesting question. You know, but actually, President-elect Barack Obama sounded like George W. Bush today. I saw a quote, and I`ll paraphrase, where he said, \"Hey, if somebody keeps throwing rockets into my backyard, I`m going to do everything I can to stop that from happening.\" So he kind of sounded it like he likes war. I almost agree with him, Jane, if you can believe that. Some sort of change has to happen, but it has to happen at the end of violence. I think that Israel`s response here is big enough and bad enough that maybe, maybe Hamas and the Palestinians and Egypt and Jordan can finally say, \"Ok, wait a second, I remember George Bush said we should make a Palestinian state. Why don`t we go back and revisit that?", "Right, the Arabs are getting together, Lisa Schirch to discuss this. What is their responsibility in trying to come up with a peaceful solution so we don`t keep doing this over and over again?", "Well absolutely. As I said before, Gaza is like a prison, and they have no way out. They have no passports, they can go nowhere. So I think that we absolutely need to -- as in the United States put pressure and along with the international community for the entire region -- to deal with the crisis in Gaza. Because it`s not just Israel`s fault, it`s the entire region and the history of what`s happened with the Palestinian people. But I think that we do need to be thinking about the next steps, and we need an immediate diplomatic surge. So sending people over immediately, along with the international community to get another cease fire between Hamas and Israel --", "And you know what? I want to jump in here, --", "Ok.", "-- because to me, it`s almost like money could solve all this. We spend billions, and all these weapons cost many, many billions; and yet the problem, as you`re mentioning, is partially poverty. I mean, one-third of the Gazans live in refugee camps. Half of the population according to the U.N. Secretary General is under 18. We`re talking about kids here. We could give them a lot of money, and we could say, hey, turn your area into a resort, it would probably cost the same as it would to bomb, and wreak the havoc that we`re wreaking here. Listen, I want to thank my entire panel. We are out of time, but we`re going to continue to discuss this day after day, obviously. I`m Jane Velez-Mitchell, and you`re watching \"ISSUES\" on HLN. END"], "speaker": ["JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HOST (voice-over)", "LEE ANTHONY, BROTHER OF CASEY", "CASEY ANTHONY, CHARGED WITH MURDERING DAUGHTER", "L. ANTHONY", "C. ANTHONY", "L. ANTHONY", "C. ANTHONY", "L. ANTHONY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "ROY KRONK, METER READER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "KRONK", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "THOMAS DELUCA, LEE ANTHONY`S LAWYER", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DELUCA", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DELUCA", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DELUCA", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DELUCA", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DELUCA", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DELUCA", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DELUCA", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "KATHI BELICH, REPORTER, WFTV", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "BELICH", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "JAYNE WEINTRAUB, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "WEINTRAUB", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "ANITA KAY, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "BELICH", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "BELICH", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "KAY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "L. ANTHONY", "C. 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{"id": "CNN-100137", "program": "PAULA ZAHN NOW", "date": "2005-11-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/29/pzn.01.html", "summary": "Protecting the Border; President Bush to Make Latest Iraq War Pitch to Nation", "utt": ["And good evening, everyone. Tonight, a vital concern for all Americans -- is there a better way to protect a border that is thousands of miles long and doesn't seem to keep anyone out?", "They come by day, by night, illegally, and by the millions.", "Illegal immigration is a serious challenge.", "All they have to do to stay here legally is have one baby. Pole thieves.", "How can we lose 130 light poles?", "You heard right. Why would anyone steal a light pole?", "And it would be embarrassing to have a press conference in the dark, you know with...", "... where's that light? It was just in here.", "A mystery that has left a city in the dark. Webcam rescue. She owes her life to the tiny camera on her computer and an eagle-eyed son who was 7,000 miles away.", "Hello.", "We have kind of a weird thing here. The lady that called was calling from Norway.", "An amazing rescue that could only happen in our wired world.", "And, tonight, we want to give you a head-start by beginning with what is likely to be the big story tomorrow, when President Bush makes his latest pitch to win back support for the war in Iraq and outlines conditions under which he might start to bring home some troops. The war in Iraq is putting an awful lot of pressure on the White House. And, at the president's stop in Denver today, anti-war protesters greeted the White House press bus. And while the president may not have seen those demonstrators, we are now seeing some signs that he is getting the message, after taking a beating in the polls for weeks. White House correspondent Dana Bash joins me now with the very latest on what we can expect tomorrow. Hi, Dana.", "Hi, Paula. Well, the message the White House says they're getting is that the American public doesn't necessarily think that the president has an actual clear plan to win in Iraq. So, the goal of tomorrow's speech and several others after that is to show that he does.", "In a preview of what the White House is billing as a major speech on Iraq, the president, while touring the border in El Paso, suggested troops could start coming home from Iraq soon, but warned too soon would be a terrible mistake.", "I want our troops to come home, but I don't want them to come home without having achieved victory. And we've got a strategy for victory.", "The president will try to define that strategy, aides say, in more detail than ever before, focusing on progress Iraqis are making in securing their own country. A senior official says Mr. Bush will admit it's taken more time than expected to properly train Iraqi security forces, but he will cite some 120 Iraqi battalions in the fight, 40 leading missions, and tout specific regions, like a road formerly known as Death Street, that are now safe and under Iraqi control. The president will make clear more of what he calls Iraqi advances will mean U.S. troops can come home. When that can happen, he says, is still up to his military commanders.", "If they tell me that the Iraqis are ready to take more and more responsibility and we will be able to bring some Americans home, I will do that. A Democrat just back from Iraq who wants U.S. troops to stay reports progress, but warns, it may be slow-going.", "The Iraqis are beginning to show much more self-sufficiency. They're a long way from being able to take it on their own.", "The White House has tried several times before to turn around slumping support for Iraq with speeches billed as major. After Cindy Sheehan captured August headlines, Bush aides promised to explain their Iraq policy better with this VFW speech. That was two months after using the same tactic with this prime-time address.", "Is the sacrifice worth it? It is worth it.", "Yet, they lost support. In June, 52 percent of Americans said it wasn't worth going to war -- two months later, 54 percent. Now 60 percent, six in 10 Americans, say Iraq wasn't worth it.", "What the headlines say every day in Iraq is how many poor people got blown up and how many American soldiers were killed. That's the reality that's shaping opinions about Iraq.", "And Bush officials say they believe Americans will be willing to stay in Iraq as long as they think they can win. And that's why, that's a word we have already heard the president use more often, likely will continue to do in the next few weeks. And, Paula, as I mentioned, they do concede here that the public needs to understand that there is actually plan in Iraq. And that's why, tomorrow morning, the White House is going to declassify a 20- plus-page document that shows, they will say, that they do have plan -- Paula.", "Dana, it's -- it's pretty clear that the Democrats, so far, have not had a unified voice in reaction to the prosecution of this war. How are they likely to react to the president's speech tomorrow?", "Well, you know, we have -- we're likely to hear from Senator John Kerry, the president's former opponent in 2004, and we are likely to hear from the Democratic leadership, probably talking about what they have said and even voted on in the Senate, which is that they do think it's important for the president to give some kind of general timetable for withdrawal of troops in Iraq. That's what Democrats in general do have consensus on. But you are exactly right. The one thing that the president, the White House, wants to exploit, if you will, with tomorrow's speech -- and they want to continue to do -- is what they see as very clear divides within the Democratic Party about just how to approach Iraq. We saw that today, with Senator Joe Lieberman writing in \"The Wall Street Journal\" and coming out and talking to reporters, almost verbatim, saying the same things that President Bush has said about staying in Iraq, where, on the other hand, you have other Democrats saying the opposite, saying the troops should come home immediately. That is something that you are going to hear more and more from the White House about.", "Politics always making strange bedfellows.", "Dana Bash, thanks for the preview.", "Thank you.", "And you can get out of the rain now. Now, Dana just mentioned the president's stop in El Paso to press for immigration reform. According to one recent study, one out of every 10 babies born in this country is born to illegal immigrant parents. Now, those children automatically get U.S. citizenship because they're born on American soil. And there is a move on to change all of that. Here's Thelma Gutierrez.", "A new life comes into the world on the U.S. side of the border. By birthright, these children are citizens of the United States. But not all of their parents are citizens. In fact, some are illegal immigrants. Critics of birthright citizenship call these infants anchor babies, because they are entitled to social benefits that can lead to legal resident status for their families, the critics say, an incentive for illegal immigrants to give birth in the United States. That fear has been fueled by a report released this year by the Center For Immigration Studies, a Washington think tank that wants stricter limits on immigration. It claims that 383,000, or 42 percent of births to immigrants, are to illegal immigrant mothers. Steve Camarota was the author of the study.", "One of the things we did was, we looked at birth certificate records. This is a source of information that's very valuable on immigrants, because it's one place where all immigrants, at least when they have children, come into contact with state authority.", "The study alleges that birth to illegals now account for nearly one out of every 10 births in the United States, a number disputed by a Mexican-American advocacy group.", "It's really an exaggeration, both the number and the extent of this notion of anchor babies.", "John Trasvina says the study is flawed, because birth certificates don't reflect the citizenship of the parents, just their place of birth.", "I don't how they could come up with that number, because hospitals don't take into account the citizenship status of pregnant mothers who come in to have children at hospitals. So, how they get their number is really unclear to me and unclear to a lot of other demographers.", "... foreign and domestic.", "Whatever the facts, the results have touched off a national debate about who has the right to be an American and what so- called anchor babies cost the rest of American society. But both sides agree, the debate should not be focused on the issue of birthright citizenship, but on reforming immigration altogether, the same issue that has challenged this country for generations. Thelma Gutierrez, CNN, Los Angeles.", "The idea that you can cross the border just to have a baby, who will be a U.S. citizen, and then stay in this country legally has a lot of people outraged. And joining me now to debate this, Angelica Salas of the Coalition For Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, and Representative Tom Tancredo, a Republican from Colorado who serves on the bipartisan House Immigration Reform Caucus. Good to have both of you with us tonight. Welcome.", "It's a pleasure.", "Thank you.", "Congressman Tancredo, how big of a problem is it that illegal immigrants are having children in this country...", "Yes.", "... so that those babies will become U.S. citizens?", "It's huge problem. And it's growing every single day. There are people coming across the border specifically for the reason of having a child in the United States, having it anchored as a citizen, later on, then, to be able to have that child bring in their family, under family reunification. So many people are doing that, Paula, that there are neonatal wards in hospitals around the country, especially in -- in the southern part of the country, southern part of the United States, along the border, that have closed their -- their neonatal unit. They can't handle it. Get this. Over 60 percent of the -- of the births to mothers in the Los Angeles hospital district are -- are to people who are illegal aliens, over 60 percent of the births. So, to suggest that this is not a problem is -- well, is whistling past the graveyard.", "Ms. Salas, do you even concede tonight that this is a problem and that this is a burden for U.S. taxpayers?", "Well, what I do know is that immigrants are coming to this country to work, that they are producing tax -- tax-based -- taxes that actually pay for these hospitals, and that...", "But are you denying that they're having children simply so those babies will become U.S. citizens?", "That is not the reason that they're coming to this country....", "But it's happening, isn't it?", "Oh, Ms. Salas, Ms. Salas, that is...", "When -- when individuals work...", "You know that is not true.", "... and when they live in this country, they will, obviously, have families in this country. And that their children are born in this country and that they're citizens, it's because they're here working. And that's the reason people come. They don't come here to have...", "Ms. Salas, do you know -- Ms. Salas, do you know that there are people who show up and then -- I'm not talking about individual incidents. I'm talking about by the hundreds over a period of time. There are people who show up at the border, sometimes in an -- in an -- in an ambulance, sometimes just in a car, about ready to give birth, in order to get into this country and have that birth in the United States. Are you telling me they're working here and just by -- just happened to be here at the time that they're pregnant? Of course not. You know, ma'am, that this is happening. You cannot suggest that this is not a huge problem.", "I think that any parent wants the very best for their children. And if it means that, across the border, they are going to have a better life because they are citizens, I think any parent will want the best for their child. However, I do not concede that this is the reason that people...", "All right.", "... are coming to this country.", "Let me ask you this, Congressman Tancredo. We know that it would be...", "My God.", "... all but impossible to...", "Well, we don't even have a starting point here.", "... to round up 11 million undocumented workers. And there are folks that say that, if you did that, the U.S. economy would come to a grinding halt.", "OK. Let me -- could I have one more word on this anchor baby issue, however, for just a second?", "Sure.", "You know, Paula, the fact is that the -- we are one of the last countries in the world to continue to do this. Several other countries used to, but threw it away a long time ago. Mexico is the only other country now that allows it. And, really, they don't have much of a problem with people going there to have their babies. But the reality is that it is a huge problem. It's an economic problem. It's also, I think, a -- it's a real issue, in terms of what citizenship really means in the United States. Is it just coming across the line to have your kid and -- and, then, citizenship expands, or is it something more important? In terms of your question about the 11 to 20 million people...", "Quickly here.", "I'm sorry -- I know we have got to close up on this. In -- in fact, all you have to do is go after the employer, stop them from allowing -- I mean, from being the magnet. Don't employ these people, because it's against the law to do so. They will go home. You don't have to round up 11 million people.", "Ms. Salas, final question for you tonight. If a foreign diplomat has a child here in the United States, that child does not become a U.S. citizen. So, why shouldn't the -- the child of an illegal immigrant mirror the status of his or her parent?", "Because American values basically promote citizen -- birthright citizenship, because we are a nation of immigrants. There have been generations of immigrants that have come to this nation. And birthright citizenship allows us to become -- to continue to be integrated as a nation, so that people from all over the world can actually be united under their citizenship. We are different from any other country in the world, because there is no other country that -- whose -- whose real beginning, its founding, is based on immigrants coming to this nation.", "All right.", "And these are...", "We have to leave the debate here this evening. Angelica Salas, Representative Tancredo, thank you for both of your perspectives.", "Thank you.", "Thank you very much.", "And we move on now. Most thieves will take just about anything that isn't nailed down. But the ones we will hear about in a minute went above and beyond anything we have ever heard about before.", "To be so brazen as to actually go on to the street, set up a work zone, wear hardhats, wear safety vests.", "So, the question is, why would anybody steal streetlight poles, and not just one or two? We're talking about more than 100. And, a little bit later on, if you were a judge, how would you sentence a woman who abandoned nearly three dozen kittens? Nine of them ended up dying. We are going to hear from a judge who got very creative.", "I'm Ted Rowlands in Southern California. Coming up, an amazing story of how this Webcam may have saved this woman's life. Her family, halfway around the world, noticed that she collapsed. They called for help. It is an amazing story. We will have it coming up."], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "ZAHN (voice-over)", "GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-345481", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-07-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1807/19/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Man Walks 20 Miles to Work Receives CEO's Personal Car as a Gift.", "utt": ["All right. Time for my favorite story of the week. This is going to make you smile. An Alabama college student says he is incredibly grateful and also pretty sore after he walked nearly 20 miles to work for his local moving company. The night before his first day on this new job, Walter Carr's car broke down. He couldn't get a ride. He texted all his friends. No one could take him. So he set out to walk by foot 20 miles, leaving at midnight so that he would be there on time at 7:00 in the morning. He told this woman right here who found him along the way, his story brought tears to her eyes, so she posted it on Facebook. Well, guess what? Walter's boss, the CEO of the company, heard about this, and what did he do? He gave Walter his car.", "There's decisions in your life that are sometimes big, pretty quickly because they are the right thing to do and this was one of them.", "Walk a mile in my shoes, I swear that phrase means a lot to me. I tell people that think something that's too far, I'm just saying just look at this story and be like hey, if Walter can do it, I know I can do it.", "Well, Walter Carr and Luke Marklin are with me. Thank you both for being here. And Walter, as I told you in the break, you are a better person than I. I would not have walked 20 miles to work. But in all seriousness, you say look, walk a mile in my shoes. Why did you want to get there so much?", "It showed to my job how dedicated I am to my team to let them know whatever I say I'm going to do, I'm going to do it to my best capabilities. No challenge or obstacle can hold me back. So I just wanted to show it to my company that I'm dedicated like I said in my interview.", "Hey, Luke, I think Walter here is going to have a lot of job offers. How are you going to keep him?", "I think so too and I think he deserves them. You know, I think we -- we're going to do what we can do to keep Walter. He has everything it takes to be a phenomenal person in our company. And I think he's got a long growth trajectory with us. So we're going to make it worth his while to stay. Yes.", "You know, Walter, some pretty amazing things happened to you along the way on this 20-mile walk. Some pretty nice police officers stopped to see if you were doing OK, gave you a lift?", "Yes, ma'am. They did. And fed me, too. So I'm thankful for them for stopping.", "They fed you?", "They fed me breakfast. They said", "Yes.", "And they took me to what a burger and gave me breakfast and lunch.", "You're a student? You're a college student in Alabama. What are you majoring in? I mean, what's your dream job?", "My dream job would be in physical therapy. So that's why I'm going to school for. I'm graduating December with associate degree in sciences.", "You know, Luke, this is a -- this is one of those feel-good stories. It's one of those stories we don't get to report on enough. But I mean, in all seriousness, can you tell me what you felt personally when you got the call that your -- you know, your employee on his first day on the job -- I mean, you know, Walter is not making a million bucks a year. He is doing this to help pay his rent and he was willing to walk 20 miles overnight in the dark to get there. What did it mean to you personally?", "I mean, speechless. Blown away. Just shocked and awe are the words that come to mind. We have built a culture about creating a company in a space that usually lets people down and to create a company with heart and with grit. And I just didn't think that we would -- that someone could take it that far. And it really raised the bar for me and it raised the bar for our company. And we are nothing but grateful and inspired.", "I think it teaches us all when we want to complain about work, think again. Walter, you have a gofundme page in your name. And you've raised -- this morning we just checked in the commercial break, over $71,000. But here is what is even cooler about that. You say after 66 grand anything else goes to charity. What are you going to do with that money?", "With that money it will go to the Birmingham Air Foundation, a program I was into in high school. It helps out students to believe in themselves, listen to their voice and give them the ideas about the school system and how to help the community. So I'll be loving to donate to the Birmingham Air Foundation.", "So other people that want to help out, they should donate to the Birmingham Education Foundation, is that right?", "Yes, ma'am. Birmingham Air Foundation.", "OK.", "It's a great organization.", "Clearly. Walter, I think we can all learn a big lesson from you this morning. Thank you for what you did. Thanks for being here. Luke, to you, I think a promotion is in order.", "I think so, too. I agree.", "All right. A car and a promotion. Gentlemen, thank you very, very, very much. We appreciate it. And thank you all for being with me today. The White House is considering letting Russia interrogate Americans even though the State Department calls that move absurd. Up next, one of those Americans that could be grilled -- ahead."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "LUKE MARKLIN, BELLHOPS CEO", "WALTER CARR, WALKED 20 MILES TO GET TO WORK", "HARLOW", "CARR", "HARLOW", "MARKLIN", "HARLOW", "CARR", "HARLOW", "CARR", "HARLOW", "CARR", "HARLOW", "CARR", "HARLOW", "MARKLIN", "HARLOW", "CARR", "HARLOW", "CARR", "HARLOW", "CARR", "HARLOW", "MARKLIN", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-62139", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-10-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0210/25/lad.12.html", "summary": "What We Can Expect as Sniper Case Unfolds", "utt": ["We would like to turn our attention now to our legal analyst, Kendall Coffey to talk about what we can expect as the sniper case unfolds in the court system. Kevin joins us live by phone from Miami. Good morning.", "Hey, good morning, Carol.", "Seven jurisdictions involved in this. It seems like such an unwieldy process. How long will it take before they figure out where these guys will be in court?", "Well, in a legal sense, there's no emergency because they've got these guys held and they're going to be held -- they're not going anywhere -- on charges unrelated to the actual homicides. But I think for so many reasons, they're going to want to move very, very quickly on the charging decisions. And it's being reported that there is a prosecution summit conference that's going to take place today looking at not only the question of what charges -- and I think we can all expect that murder charges are coming -- but also what is going to be the jurisdiction that, in effect, takes the lead, what is going to be the state laws or the federal laws that are used to bring the first of these cases to trial.", "Yes, and, you know, a lot of people are pushing for the death penalty. And, of course, Virginia is the state most experienced at trying death penalty cases. Will that make a difference in the decision?", "Well, I think it's going to because the starting point is that Montgomery County and their state attorney has already indicated he believes strongly that that is the jurisdiction that should take the lead. There are five homicides there. Montgomery County Police Chief Moose has been the face of this investigation. So I think that that is likely going to be the lead case, the lead jurisdiction, unless it is demonstrated, and this is one of the things that's going to be talked about today, that there are features about their sentencing laws or other procedures that make it a more difficult jurisdiction in which to get the death penalty. In some ways, Virginia's laws are more suitable for a death penalty here. On the other hand, Maryland is going to argue strenuously that the death penalty is achievable under their laws and because so many of the victims were in Montgomery County, were in Maryland, that is the most logical jurisdiction to take the lead.", "I understand. A lot of people are e-mailing this morning, asking about the juvenile that will probably be charged in this case and if he will be tried as an adult. It's likely that he will be.", "Yes, it is, and the key thing from a prosecution standpoint is going to be do they perceive him to be a shooter as culpable as John Muhammad or in some sense was he somehow obviously acting in a horrible and criminal way, and yet less culpable? Because if he is seen as significantly less culpable, they'll very likely try to consider at some point cooperation on the part of Malvo, the younger one, against John Muhammad, a cooperation that might spare Malvo the death penalty. And that would also avoid some of the legal issues that are attendant to seeking the death penalty against a 17- year-old.", "Right. And just as an aside, Virginia is the only jurisdiction involved in this that executes minors.", "Yes, and...", "Just an aside for you. And one more question before you go, and I want to get this in. This 17-year-old is not an American citizen. How will that play into all of this?", "Well, it's not a factor in terms of U.S. laws. But from time to time foreign governments do become involved in trying to engage U.S. authorities, especially if it involves an attempt to execute a 17-year-old, because a lot of foreign governments are opposed to the death penalty as we know.", "We know. Kendall Coffey, thank you very much. It's very complicated. Of course, CNN will continue to follow this."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "KENDALL COFFEY, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "COSTELLO", "COFFEY", "COSTELLO", "COFFEY", "COSTELLO", "COFFEY", "COSTELLO", "COFFEY", "COSTELLO", "COFFEY", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-141534", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-8-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/09/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Detroit Schools on the Skids", "utt": ["Tropical turbulence is probably a good way of putting it, Jacqui.", "Yes. You know things are all of a sudden really kicking. We have things going on in the Eastern Pacific, we have a little disturbance at the Atlantic, and really incredible pictures from the typhoon in the Western Pacific. Take a look at this. These are pictures from Taiwan. This was a tropical storm at the time. Look at that. This is a hotel building -- six stories -- that collapsed due to the torrential downpours just eroding, just washing away the soil underneath. The winds weren't terribly strong but the system just sat there for like 24 hours and literally put down nearly seven feet of rain. And that is not even storm surge. Dozens of people are feared dead with this. The storm also hit parts of China and about a million people had to be evacuated as that typhoon made land fall earlier today. Into the Eastern Pacific -- a little bit closer to home -- there you can see, Hawaii, we have tropical storm Felicia. Felicia is producing winds around 50-miles per hour. We are not real worried about the wind as it approaches Hawaii. It should be weakening and it is going to be bringing in some pretty good waves. We are talking 15- footers likely here tomorrow and into Tuesday. In addition to that, some flood advisories are in effect. We could see several inches of rainfall. If you live in a flood-prone area be prepared with this for Felicia. Now a little bit farther to the east of here we have a new tropical development. There's tropical depression 9-E, it is forecast to become Guillermo (ph) before tomorrow and that is heading towards the direction of Hawaii as well. So we will have to keep an eye on that. In the Atlantic, one disturbance coming off the coast of Africa but right now the potential less than 50 percent -- Don.", "All right, Jacqui. Thank you very much. First Chrysler, then General Motors. Now the Detroit public school system could be headed for bankruptcy too. CNNMoney.com's Poppy Harlow joins me. Ok, Poppy, so what is going on? Obviously, education should be number one priority.", "Yes, you know, I think it is. But it all comes down to money, Don, and just how much money there isn't in a lot of municipalities especially in Detroit right now. We don't want to be alarmists, this is a story we've been following for a while here. But, yes, if we do see it, the Detroit public school system could be the first ever to file for bankruptcy. And let's show you why. You're dealing with a deficit of $259 million in Detroit. Take a look at the numbers we'll pull up for you. The graduation rate in Detroit proper -- the latest data shows 58 percent -- that's it -- versus the 76 percent graduation rate statewide. There's a lot of corruption that's been reported in the school system. And also, you have enrollment that is shrinking very quickly. So when I was in Detroit a few weeks ago, we spent some time with a parent and her daughter. We'll show you what they had to say in a minute but the numbers you are looking at now is the enrollment; Down 44 percent from 2000, Don -- in the last eight or nine years or so versus a population decline of just about 3 percent. So I spent a day with Fredericka Turner and her daughter, walking around Fredericka's old high school in Detroit. Take a listen to what she told us.", "My daughter has never attended any Detroit public schools and it is because of this. As a concerned parent, my daughter would never go to a Detroit public school as of now. Whereas I felt comfortable as a child going to school, I don't feel comfort to allow her to attend a Detroit public school.", "And why, it's because you are looking at those pictures of her high school. It is now shut down along with 29 others. The emergency planner there, Robert Bob (ph) just put in place a little over a hundred days ago by Governor Granholm, trying to shut down schools, cutting about 2,400 employees so far, trying to do what they can. And we are following it; we'll see if they do have to file for bankruptcy.", "All right. Terrible. Thank you very much, Poppy. We appreciate it.", "You're welcome.", "The fight over the future of health care is getting more heated by the day. That's a town hall in Tampa; it turned into a free-for-all. Why all the yelling? We are going to cut through all the arguing to give you the real debate. Plus, the inspiring story of Ruth Simmons, the first African- American woman to become president of an Ivy League school."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "LEMON", "POPPY HARLOW, CNNMONEY.COM", "FREDRICKA TURNER, PARENT", "HARLOW", "LEMON", "HARLOW", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-273827", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-01-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/14/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Trump, Cruz Escalate War of Words; Bombs, Three Tickets Split Record Powerball Jackpot", "utt": ["Brian Stelter, thanks for stopping by again.", "Good to see you.", "Appreciate it. The next hour of CNN NEWSROOM starts now. And good morning. I'm Carol Costello, thank you so much for joining me. We begin with a high stakes showdown in the key state of South Carolina tonight for the 2016 Republican candidates will gather for their latest debate. And that debate comes as a war of words between Donald Trump and his newest target Ted Cruz escalates. Joining me now from North Charleston, South Carolina, is CNN's Sara Murray. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. You're right, we are seeing this feud between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz grow even more pitched. Now even though Trump leads in South Carolina, the two are locked in a dead heat in Iowa. And that's why you're seeing this war of words, Donald Trump questioning whether Ted Cruz is even qualified to be president because he was born in Canada. And Ted Cruz essentially going from saying he wouldn't reciprocate these attacks to going after Trump for everything from having New York values to being too cozy with Democrats, to Cruz saying he would be more electable in a general election. Now I think the big question is how this plays out on the debate stage tonight. Donald Trump indicated that his campaign event last night that the citizenship stuff would come up, but it's possible he leaves it up to the debate moderators to sort of do his dirty work for him rather than going directly for Ted Cruz. Now, as for the Cruz camp they are very aware that Donald Trump can be unpredictable. And they tell me that they are preparing for everything, whether it's Trump essentially ignoring them to Trump going full boar against Ted Cruz. The other battle you're going to want to watch is the battle for the establishment lane, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, John Kasich, Jeb Bush. These guys are all vying for a win in New Hampshire. And they are going to be going after each other on this stage. So we'll essentially have two different fights potentially going on as each tries to claim the mantle of the most conservative and then the establishment candidate. So a lot to watch tonight, Carol.", "All right, Sara Murray reporting live from South Carolina this morning. The bromance as Sara said may be over for Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, we'll see tonight on the debate stage. In debates past Mr. Cruz has refused to attack Mr. Trump, tweeting just last month, quote, \"The establishment's only hope Trump and me in a cage match. Sorry to disappoint. Donald Trump is terrific.\" And as you can see the two men were quite friendly that night. And at previous debates back slapping and handshaking. But that was then and this is now. And in the face of attacks about Cruz's eligibility to be president he's taking the gloves off.", "I think he may shift in his new rallies to play \"New York, New York\" because, you know, Donald comes from New York and he embodies New York values.", "Oh. Here to discuss, Republican strategist Cheri Jacobus and columnist for \"Above the Law\" and Republican strategist Kayleigh McEneny. Welcome to both of you.", "Good morning.", "Hi, Carol.", "So will we see more of a fight between the two men, Cheri?", "You know, I don't think we will. And here's why, Donald Trump can say a lot of things at his rallies that are not true, that are over the top, and that might not slide very well with other people. And I think that he tends to play it relatively safe at the debates. He still tries to please his base, but he's a little bit more careful because he knows everybody else is watching. Not everybody in his audience is a Trump supporter. And he knows that debate moderators may call him on it. I do think that Sara's correct that he'll try and leave it to the moderators, but at some point they have to ask him directly about his comments about Ted Cruz. And he's going to be accountable for that. I think the lower tier candidates will probably go after each other because they're all vying for the spot, you know, to be third or fourth or whatever. But we're going to see a smaller group at this debate. I think the messaging is going to be crisper and clearer. And I think that is going to be incumbent upon each candidate to be very, very good. I expect Rubio to probably remain positive. He does better that way. I think it's going to be apparent that Trump is not quite up on the issues. So all the things that we've seen before will be a bigger spotlight on it. And it will just be seen if somebody is really good, they'll look really good. If they're weak in some area, we're going to see that weakness. Everything will be bigger than it was before.", "OK. OK. I want to go back to the Cruz-Trump thing for just a minute, Kayleigh, because Cruz brought up Trump's New York values. And that's code for he was a liberal in the past. I read on Politico this morning that's his new strategy in combating Trump so why wouldn't we hear that tonight?", "You know, I think we will hear that. But I think it's a flawed strategy on the part of Ted Cruz because there's an easy retort for Donald Trump, and it's this. You know, Ted Cruz has kind of meshed himself in the northeast establishment circuit, places like Princeton, like Harvard Law, like Goldman Sachs. These are not places known for Iowa conservative values. And I'm not faulting Ted Cruz for going to these institutions at all, but if he brings up the New York values, Donald Trump will simply retort with that. And it would be wise, I want to point out, for Ted Cruz not to attack Donald Trump. We've seen every candidate who attacks Donald Trump fall precipitously in the polls be it Carly Fiorina, be it Jeb Bush, who attacked Trump relentlessly. And folks in the establishment were praising him as having a stellar debate performance. But what happened? Just 1 percent of the people who watched the CNN debate thought that Jeb Bush won. So if Ted Cruz attacks, that will be a flawed strategy.", "Oh no, no. I hear you, but, Cheri, Ted Cruz has gone down in the polls since Donald Trump started to attack his citizenship, right? And there's nothing to that. And then Ted Cruz has come out and he's hit hard back against Trump. So isn't it the dawn of a new era?", "Well, at some point there does have to be a clear cut answer on this. And I think that there is. I think --", "There is a clear cut answer on it.", "Well, I don't think that Ted Cruz needs to use his debate stage to say, yes, I really am eligible. That should not be how he uses his time. I think that Donald Trump looks bad when he attacks him on it. And you can have that debate on the side. I don't think it's going to help them tonight. And, again, you have to look at this audience. These are people who are not all -- there's a lot of undecided voters out there. So while you've got the candidates that will be trying to appeal to the Iowa voters and the caucus goers as well as the New Hampshire primary voters, you know, there's this national audience as well. But they know very well that there are certain messages that are going to work in certain rooms that you cannot say nationally. And I think they know that with the attacks. With regard -- I'm going to disagree that people go down in the polls because they attack Donald Trump. They only have the courage to attack him when they're already slipping. And what we've seen is a lot of people in the media who have coalesced around Trump for various reasons and I've said this before on CNN and on Twitter and other places I think a lot of the right-wing media folks have coalesced around Trump because they know that this means Hillary and the White House, and that means ratings and book sales. You can't write an anti-Hillary book or sell one if she's in the White House. So it's been very confusing to a lot of Republicans why he's gotten this support, why Trump has not been called on the carpet for things that would do other candidates in.", "I don't think they're confusing. I think people appreciate Trump's straight talk. You know, we've had Mitt Romney, we've had John McCain. Folks don't want that anymore. People want straight talk. They want honesty. And for better or worse when Donald Trump speaks that's what you get, his honest opinion. And people believe him. They think he's authentic. That's why he's doing well on the polls. I don't think it's confusing.", "Well, I disagree. I think that there are many candidates who are authentic and who are straight talkers. And they don't have to be politically correct. And what we see with Donald Trump, it's not about him being politically incorrect. He goes a lot further than that. And I think that we're going to see that crystallized, again, the messaging will be crisper as this debate -- at this debate tonight because there's fewer candidates. We're getting closer now to when people actually go and caucus in Iowa and vote in New Hampshire. I don't think that Donald Trump is Teflon. I've never thought he's Teflon. I've just seen him basically not been responded to because the media has reported on him and covered him differently. He's gotten vastly more media coverage than all of the other candidates combined. And that has resulted in him getting an early boost as well as the fact that there's such a huge field which was very unfortunate. And until that field narrows, Trump still has an edge. I don't think he's going to win Iowa. Then he loses his frontrunner status and he loses his greatest talking point. And then it's a whole new ball game.", "OK. I've got to let Kayleigh have the last word.", "I just think it's naive to think that Donald Trump is succeeding because of media coverage. Plenty of other people get media coverage, they don't succeed. Donald Trump is reaching into the heart of voters and selling a very important message that's reminiscent of that of Ronald Reagan. He wants to make America great again. People believe he can create jobs, people believe he can defeat ISIS. It's a direct contrast to our current president. People are buying it. It's not the media coverage, it's the message.", "All right. I got to leave it there.", "But studies say otherwise.", "I got to leave it -- OK. Cheri Jacobus, Kayleigh McEneny, thanks to both of you.", "Thanks, Carol.", "The big Powerball number turned out to be three. Three lucky tickets will be split for that record $1.5 billion jackpot. And the owners of those tickets, well, their lives will be changed forever. One of those golden tickets was sold at a Chino Hills, California, 7-Eleven, where you didn't need to be a winner to celebrate. That's one happy 7-Eleven man. Hundreds of people flocked to the convenience store when they heard the winning ticket was sold there. Sara Sidner -- this is incredible.", "Isn't it cool? We were so thrilled to see that people were that enthusiastic when they didn't even win. And look at what just went on the wall here, on the door, I should say. Look, they made the front page of the local paper. Jackpot. That's Mr. Farooki with his hands up. And he's not even the store owner. The store owner has been here all night long with his family. He's been cleaning up the store, making sure that everybody can get to what they need even with all the media here and all the onlookers who've been inside and outside of the store. He's literally been cleaning up for the past five hours. He finally went home exhausted after talking to a lot of us. But here's what he had to say. I mean, can you believe this crowd out here? It was really wild. There were dozens of people that just kept coming. And you hear that, they're screaming \"Chino Hills,\" so proud of their community and they say it is very much like a football game on Friday night. Like a \"Friday Night Light\" celebration. But here's what the owner of this store who's been here 24 years had to say about the fact that he's getting a million dollars just for selling the winning ticket.", "What do you think about the crowd that just showed up here?", "Well, I just love them. And they love me.", "What is this selling the winning ticket mean for you and your store?", "It's feeling really, really good. And whoever the lucky person come here, I'm thankful for their purchase.", "And, Carol, we should mention this, too. People have been coming in. If you look right in there, you can, you know, take your ticket and you scan it to see if you've won. And the lottery officials are saying, hey, make sure you check that ticket. Just because you didn't win the big jackpot, there are still dozens of people who will become millionaires. They'll win either a million, most people a million or $2 million if they've got five out of six. So it's worth checking those tickets because there are plenty of people that never check them. And they never win because they didn't bother to check, Carol.", "And you're right about that because my producer, Alexis, checked her tickets and she won $7.", "Better than nothing, right?", "True. I didn't win anything. Sara Sidner, thanks so much. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, FBI director James Comey heads to Philadelphia just after the agency announces the shooting of a police officer being investigated as a terror attack. Plus, a bomb explodes and terrorists launch a brazen attack in the heart of Jakarta. We'll have a live report for you next."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "STELTER", "COSTELLO", "SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICS CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "SEN. TED CRUZ (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "COSTELLO", "KAYLEIGH MCENENY, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST", "CHERI JACOBUS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST", "COSTELLO", "JACOBUS", "COSTELLO", "MCENENY", "COSTELLO", "JACOBUS", "COSTELLO", "JACOBUS", "MCENENY", "JACOBUS", "COSTELLO", "MCENENY", "COSTELLO", "JACOBUS", "COSTELLO", "MCENENY", "COSTELLO", "SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SIDNER", "BABIR ATWAL, OWNER, 7-11 WHERE WINNING TICKET WAS SOLD", "SIDNER", "ATWAL", "SIDNER", "COSTELLO", "SIDNER", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-55813", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-6-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/13/ltm.14.html", "summary": "Catholic Bishops and Cardinals Meeting to Address Scandal", "utt": ["And we go back to Dallas now, where Catholic bishops and cardinals are meeting to address the scandal that has shaken the faith of many parishioners. A new church policy for punishing sexually abusive priests will be at the top of their agenda. Barbara Blaine is the founder of SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. And she joins us this morning from Dallas -- good morning, nice to have you with us, Barbara. Welcome.", "Good morning, Paula.", "So Barbara, I know that you and some of your colleagues met with Catholic leadership yesterday. What did you ask them for and what did you talk about?", "We are asking for three main points from the bishops. Number one, we are asking that all priests who have molested children be removed from the priesthood. Second, we're asking that all bishops and church leaders who have aided and abetted the priests who have molested children, that they be removed from their positions. And third, we're asking the church leaders to open up their records. And we want them to open them to law enforcement, we want financial disclosures, and we want the personnel records to be audited.", "Let's come back to the first point, because our own Jason Carroll is reporting there is an amendment to the draft proposal that's being considered that would be a true zero tolerance policy, as you were telling us, in the past, present and future. And he said the idea might be getting a little traction. But based on your conversations yesterday, do you think all of the bishops will support a tougher zero tolerance policy?", "Well we're not really sure, but it seemed as though the bishops who met with us did seem to have an openness and a change of heart having met with the victims. Because I think one of the problems has been that the bishops have really failed to understand the enormous pain and suffering that the victims and our family members experience. So we think that those who met with us did have a greater understanding of that. And we're hoping that by them hearing our pain and looking to that, that they would not want to leave even one child at risk. And so that's why we stress really strongly that clearly anyone who has molested a child does not belong in the priesthood. No other profession keeps child molesters.", "Yeah. The second goal that you mentioned perhaps is the most contentious one, and that is the accountability of bishops. And you said particularly bishops who aided and abetted sexually abusive priests you'd like for them -- to see them lose their jobs. What kind of feedback did you get on that idea?", "Well I think that what we are asking is really what most Catholics in the United States and are asking for as well. I mean, the church is, after all, a not for profit organization. And anyone in a position of leadership in that type of an institution who engages in criminal behavior does step down when it's found out. So that's what we were asking for. I mean, we wanted to make sure that when the bishops leave Dallas that they don't leave with just a mere group of suggestions, which is what the charter, as it stands now, really is. Because there's nothing in it that would have any consequences for bishops who didn't follow the policy.", "Short of removing a bishop from his job, what other disciplinary measures would you support if it is proven that a bishop allowed for a sexually abusive priest to be moved from parish to parish?", "Well we couldn't make specific recommendations for discipline, but what we believe is that for Catholics, for victims, for anyone to be able to look up to these men in their positions of leadership, that given their behaviors, we think that they should step down. The same way, for example, a judge who has taken a bribe is removed from the bench forever. So we just feel that the bishops need to have some type of mechanism within their policy when they leave Dallas, so that there can be some real change. After all, when you look at the policy -- I was just going to say, Paula, that 10 years ago the bishops issued a very strong policy. And unfortunately, all the bishops went back home to their dioceses and failed to follow the policy.", "Well Barbara, before we let you go, I think people might find your passionate advocacy more interesting if they understood your own personal story. You've come at this issue having been victimized yourself. Share, just very briefly, what happened to you and why it's even more important for you to fight for others who have suffered the same kind of abuse.", "Well the priest in my parish began to molest me in the summer between seventh and eighth grade, and that was in Toledo, Ohio and St. Pious Church. And I didn't tell anyone, and the abuse went on for many years. And he threatened me and I was led to believe that it was all my fault. And it wasn't until many years later as an adult -- actually, I was 29 before I really began to understand that what had happened to me was abuse and that it had caused pain and suffering. And it had a lot of consequences in my life. So I went to the church and thought that they would want to do the right thing and make sure that this priest didn't abuse anyone else. But that isn't what happened. They actually rebuffed me and then left me, and I didn't have any way to find healing. So I began to search for other victims and found them. And we started a self- help group, and that's how I have found some sense of healing, and many other survivors have as well.", "Well we appreciate your sharing your personal story with us this morning. And it will be interesting to see how many of the three points that you encouraged the bishops to adopt will eventually be adopted or enforced. Barbara Blaine, thank you very much. Appreciate your time this morning. 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{"id": "CNN-320327", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-09-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/01/nday.06.html", "summary": "Labor Department Releases August Job Report.", "utt": ["The Labor Department just released the August jobs report. And a strong summer of hiring has slowed down. The economy added about 156,000 jobs in August. A decent number by historical standards, but down from the previous month. The jobless rate rose slightly to 4.4 percent, but that's still near a 16-year low. Wages grew about 2.5 percent, roughly where they're hovered for the last two years. Remember, that's the big problem, good paying jobs. Important note, today's report does not include any possible job losses due to Hurricane Harvey. The survey was compiled before the storm hit. We're going to probably see Harvey's impact on the job market next month and beyond. So what does this report mean for President Trump's promise of 25 million jobs? Well, the U.S. has created about 1.2 million jobs during his first seven months. It's a strong number, but not quite enough to reach his sustained goal of 25 million in 10 years, Alisyn.", "OK, Chris. Thank you for all of that. So we've just heard from the mayor of Houston about what he says he needs from the federal government. Joining us again is CNN contributor General Russel Honore, commander of the joint task force for Hurricane Katrina. General, thanks so much for standing by with us. So we just talked to the mayor of Houston, Mayor Turner, and he is really making a treaty (ph) to the feds. He says we need more help. We need an army of FEMA responders down here and we need a lot of federal dollars. That basically, I think, dovetails with your assessment of what they need here.", "Absolutely. This is -- the scale of this -- you know, for a week now we've been communicating here on air that I thought the response scale needed to be bigger. When you get through the search and rescue phase, the hard work getting into helping people get in and out of their homes, which means that takes personal interface. You can come online and you can apply, you can get a check in the mail, but the party don't start for you in recovery until somebody come to your house. And the mayor has put his finger on it. Obviously they've had floods here before. And sometimes that can take weeks for a person to come and do the proper inspection. So he's setting the priority to work and that's what needs to happen. And this is going to be bigger than what FEMA has probably had done in the past anywhere. So they're going to have to up the game. At the same time look to the east because there's another hurricane coming.", "But it's your assessment that they have not sort of pulled out all the stop the yet. And who -- who would be responsible for that? Is it the governor who you're saying needs to call in more of the cavalry from the federal government?", "The way this White House is working, they are working on a bottom up. I mean you asked us, and we will deliver. And that's been the mode of operation so far. My personal opinion is that they needed to lean further forward and push stuff as opposed to -- because the local people are busy saving lives. At the time you're saving lives, you're getting ready for the next phase of the operation. And the federal government has to be good enough. That's why we established these commands after 9/11, Northern Command and Fifth Army and all those so they could come in to", "I see. So you think the White House should have been telling the locals what they need and coming in and offering it up?", "That would be the opinion I would have that -- because the local guys are trying to save lives. What he needs next week needs to be pushed to him.", "Got it.", "And that's real logistics.", "Well, the president is coming tomorrow. So we will see what the president has to offer what he comes here and what he can offer from the federal government. General, thank you very much. So we've watched a lot of dramatic rescues obviously here this week in Texas. Ant it's not just people who are being saved. It's thousands of pets as well. The Coast Guard says it has rescued more than 1,000 of them over just the last week. CNN's Rosa Flores tagged along with a woman who went home for the first time since her house flooded and you're about to see what made her break down in tears. Rosa is live for us in Houston with more. Rosa, tell us this story.", "Well, you know, this is the home of Willie Marie Burton. She says that the water started rising very quickly at about 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning. And you can see this morning the water level both here on this wall and also on this garage door. Now, while people rushed to safety, in many cases their pets were left behind. That was the case for her pet Lassy (ph). Now, she inherited this dog from her father. We were here when she returned to her home and also when she reunited with Lassy.", "I feel like crying, but then I'm joyful because I could have been in the water and it could have got. So I'm just grateful. I'm just getting back to see what's left. Water is a powerful thing. It toppled over the sofa. And that love -- that loveseat. And it just moved all of this stuff. When you see it, the wall, the sink came up.", "And the refrigerator fell.", "And the refrigerator's over. Lord, Lord. Whoa. Let's see what this is. I put this up here. Thank you, Lord. These are pictures from a long time ago.", "OK. And they're dry?", "And they -- yes, this thing kept that dry. It didn't get wet. That's good. Hi, Lassy. Hi. I know that storm scared you. But I'm glad you made it.", "It's OK. It's OK. It's OK.", "I know. This too shall pass.", "Pass. Yes, ma'am.", "It will. I know that it will. Today is my 66th birthday. What I'm going to do after we go through some of this is I just want to eat seafood. I love seafood. So if I can get some seafood, I'll be happy. And if I get a martini, I'll be happy. But if not, I'm just glad to be here. I'm glad to be here, so --", "Now, as we take another live look here, you can see that Willie has started moving a lot of the wet and soaked items out of her house, just like a lot of her neighbors are. You can see that this neighbor over here has couches and other things. Now, Chris, about that seafood and martini. Now Miss Willie was a little too tired yesterday to go have that martini and that seafood. But, from her family, we're hearing that she might be able to celebrate her birthday today and cheers with that little martini. So we'll keep you posted.", "Do so. Rosa, get involved. Make that happen because the simple pleasures can make such a difference in these hard times, especially on a birthday. And we wish her all the best. Rosa, thank you for bringing us that story. Just a little bit of a slice of the experience that's being lived out down there in so many different ways. All right, up next, we have a big name doing some really good stuff for those affected by Harvey."], "speaker": ["CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "CAMEROTA", "LT. GEN. RUSSEL L. HONORE, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "CAMEROTA", "HONORE", "CAMEROTA", "HONORE", "CAMEROTA", "HONORE", "CAMEROTA", "ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WILLIE MARIE BURTON, HARVEY EVACUEE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BURTON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BURTON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BURTON", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BURTON", "FLORES", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-54966", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-5-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/28/lt.02.html", "summary": "Out West, One Firefighter Injured Battling Wildfires Now Burning in Arizona", "utt": ["Out West, one firefighter has been injured battling the wildfires now burning in Arizona and the Chandler National Forest. The fire has the potential to threaten hundreds of homes. Elizabeth Vall of CNN affiliate station KVOA has the latest. Elizabeth, how's it going. Are you hearing us, Elizabeth?", "OK, the Bullet Fire continues to burn out of control. As of this morning, it has scorched 17,600 acres. And from where we're standing at the base of Mount Lemon, you can definitely tell it's gaining ground. There is much more smoky haze than there was yesterday. Now, I'm also standing in front of one of the most recent maps forest rangers just gave me. Now this black section here represents the 40 percent of the fire that is contained. This red line is the fireline. It is moving west. It is just four miles from Summer Haven, right here, where hundreds of homes and businesses are in jeopardy. Now, 913 people are fighting to contain this fire. This is a burning and steep rugged, hard to reach terrain. The fire is four miles away from Summer Haven, as I mentioned, and also one mile from Mount Bigalow, where numerous broadcasting towers are also at risk. Right now, two-thirds of available resources in the southwest are here fighting to contain the fire. One just drove right by, including 20 hot shot crews, 10 air tankers and six choppers. Now, there is no word yet when the fire will be contained. Dry, windy conditions today certainly aren't helping. A very stressful time for the hundreds of people who had to evacuate their homes on top of Mount Lemon this weekend. Also, a stressful time for nearby residents. I'm here joined by Jeff Crane, who lives right down the street,right? How are you feeling about the fire so close?", "A little bit nervous. My family and I go to bed at night looking at the plumes of smoke rising above Mount Lemon, and we wage up in the morning, and we smell the smoke. So it's a little unnerving, however, we are very proud and pleased with the work the hotshot crews are doing at containing the fire.", "What do your kids say? Are they a little nervous it may come directly to your house?", "No, they're not too concerned at this point, but they are fascinated watching the air show, the bombers and the helicopters dropping the slurry and the water. That's been quite educational for them.", "Now you're obviously an avid biker. How often do you come up to Mount Lemon?", "I ride Mount Lemon about once a week, although I'm not too worried about losing a bike route at this time. It's more important to have the fire contained.", "All of Tucson is waiting anxiously during the summer months when it's 115 degrees here. Cool temperature on Mount Lemon are invaluable to all of us. We're hoping to get this contained as soon as possible. Kris, back to you.", "Thank you, Elizabeth Vall of affiliate station KVOA. We appreciate you brining us that report. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Burning in Arizona>"], "speaker": ["KRIS OSBORN, CNN ANCHOR", "ELIZABETH VALL, KVOA REPORTER", "JEFF CRANE, RESIDENT OF TUCSON", "VALL", "CRANE", "VALL", "CRANE", "VALL", "OSBORN"]}
{"id": "CNN-46709", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-1-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/04/lad.03.html", "summary": "Miami Hurricanes Win Rose Bowl", "utt": ["The Miami Hurricanes are celebrating a national championship after winning last night's Rose Bowl. CNN's Tom Rinaldi tells us how they did it.", "You can forget the complex formulas, don't add up any equations, forget about the alphabet of the BCS, Miami showed everyone just where they could put their polls because excellence ultimately needs no analysis.", "We knew this team inside and out, and especially our defense did a great job all week long in preparing for the option and really showed it. We knew we were going to be dominant. We have so much talent on this team, and it's just a matter of going out there and executing the game plan.", "They did dominant, that's the truth. You know they came out and played a great football game. And we thought that -- you know we had to believe in ourselves and come out and try to give them the best shot that we could.", "They played well from the offense, defense, special teams. And when it came down to it, they executed, they made big plays, and they -- I think they proved to everybody tonight that they're the best team in the country.", "I don't know, and a lot of people might say Oregon should have been here after looking at the score and things like that, we just had to play whoever we -- was here. I can't really even judge if they deserved to be here.", "In every phase, in every facet, Miami needed just one half of football to show its complete power forcing Nebraska turnovers, stuffing the Huskers No. 1 rushing attack and then airing out its own offense in record-setting ways. Andre Johnson, 160 yards in the first two quarters. Ken Dorsey, 258 yards passing in the first half. Time of possession, just over 11 minutes, a performance that actually exceeded the numbers and the records.", "We knew we were going to come out and dominate. We knew we were going to get out on them early. What we -- what our problem -- what we needed to make sure to do was to maintain it the whole time. That was -- that was our focus.", "Usually during the season we come out on defense kind of flat during the first half. This time we talked about it in the locker room not coming out flat, coming out hidden, coming out showing who's going to be the bully, who's going to be the dominant person on the field, and we came out and proved it.", "I think we still had some mistakes early on and committed some penalties that stopped some drives, but I mean, you know, that's the type of -- you know that's the type of team we are. I mean even though we have a -- had a really dominant half, we still see -- we had room for improvement and stuff, but definitely we were happy with it, and it was just a matter of controlling the clock in the second half.", "I thought we had a good game plan for them. I felt we (ph) prepared harder for this game than they did, and it's kind of a slap in the face that first half just how well they came out.", "While critics of the BCS system will point to Nebraska's showing in this game, Miami is a champion beyond argument in winning its 22nd consecutive game and capping a perfect season in winning its 5th National Championship at the 2002 Rose Bowl. Miami gets the trophy every collegiate team wants, the Waterford crystal football that they hold over the collegiate football world. At the 2002 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, I'm Tom Rinaldi."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "TOM RINALDI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "RINALDI", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "RINALDI (on camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-211707", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2013-8-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/02/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Disgraced Former CIA Chief Rebuilds Career", "utt": ["Our third story, OUTFRONT, the rehabilitation of David Petraeus. So nine months after a scandalous affair forced the former CIA director to resign as America's top spy. The four-star general is trying to rebuild his career and his reputation. Pentagon correspondent, Chris Lawrence is OUTFRONT with the story.", "David Petraeus went from wearing four stars to directing CIA spies to disgrace ex-official. Nine months after an affair with Paula Broadwell brought his career crashing down. Petraues is reinventing himself in America's media capital, taking a teaching gig at City University of New York.", "Life doesn't stop with such a mistake and can and must go on.", "Petraeus joins a long line of officials who are re-emerging from scandals -- public relations expert, Marina Ein has counseled everyone from Gary Condit of the Chandra Levy scandal to Dominique Strauskahn. (on camera): So how would you grade Petraues?", "I think he gets an A plus.", "Ein says Petraeus followed the rehab playbook, take immediate responsibility, apologize to the right people, his wife and the American people, and remove yourself from controversy, meaning don't fight to stay on as CIA director. It didn't hurt that the president granted Petraeus a graceful exit.", "He has provided this country an extraordinary service.", "What could be a more attractive thing than that kind of send off.", "But Petraeus' past hasn't been perfect. He was set to make $150,000 for teaching 15 to 20 students three hours a week.", "My initial reaction was outrageous.", "Dr. Martin Snyder says most professors would get $3,000 for teaching that seminar, and the school's mission is to provide an affordable education.", "Its rule is not to make General Petraues look better.", "The former general retreated. Petraues quickly said he'll do it for $1.", "Once again, it's how he is quick on his feet. I would say before the ink was dry on that first story there was no story.", "but some becoming professors at colleges is nothing more than a holding tank.", "That kind of rehab center for people who have failed and they need to regain respectability somehow.", "Well, Petraues is also lecturing at the University of Southern California, and as a private school it doesn't have to reveal its salary. But in one e-mail made public, Petraeus wrote, you won't believe what USC will pay per week.", "Thanks very much to you, Chris Lawrence. Still to come, one of the women Ariel Castro held captive returned to that house. We're going to tell you why she went and why she wanted to go inside. Plus a death row crisis in Texas. The state is running out of the most important supply required to kill people. And Hawaii, it has a solution for its homeless problem. You're going have to see and hear this to believe it. Does it add up?"], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS, RETIRED, FORMER CIA DIRECTOR", "LAWRENCE", "MARINA EIN, PUBLIC RELATIONS EXPERT", "LAWRENCE", "PRESIDENT OBAMA", "EIN", "LAWRENCE", "MARTIN SNYDER, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS", "LAWRENCE", "SNYDER", "LAWRENCE", "EIN", "LAWRENCE", "SNYDER", "LAWRENCE", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "NPR-28362", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2013-09-24", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=225842866", "title": "Kenyan President: Mall Attackers 'Defeated' After Four-Day Fight", "summary": "Kenyan security forces continue their work at the Nairobi mall where terrorists say they continue to hold hostages the fourth day of the siege. Officials say 67 people are known dead. Kenya's president Uhuru Kenyatta said the attack was over but added that three floors of the mall had collapsed and bodies remained trapped in the rubble.", "utt": ["This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.", "And I'm Robert Siegel.", "The bloody siege of an upscale mall in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, is over. Islamists had seized the shopping center on Saturday with guns blazing, killing shoppers indiscriminately. Kenya's president, Uhuru Kenyatta, made the announcement in a televised address to the nation this evening. He said Kenyan security forces had ashamed and defeated the militants.", "These cowards will meet justice, as will their accomplices and patrons wherever they are.", "In the end, President Kenyatta said 61 civilians died along with six members of Kenya's security forces. Five terrorists were killed and 11 suspects captured.", "For more, we turn to NPR's Jason Beaubien, who is in Nairobi. Jason, those are the numbers of dead at this point. How many people are still counted as missing?", "We don't know how many people are still actually inside the building. President Kenyatta, however, did say that there are more bodies trapped inside the mall. He also said that three floors of the mall have collapsed. This is new information. We had heard earlier that one floor of the parking garage had collapsed, there was a huge fire going on inside there. But he laid out that three floors have collapsed. He said that there are bodies both of the terrorists and of potentially civilians still trapped inside the wreckage of this mall.", "I gather he acknowledged the intelligence reports that the terrorists included a British woman and as many as three Americans, that this was a multinational group. What did he say about that today?", "He did acknowledge that but he said that at this point in time they cannot confirm that a British woman and possibly as many as three Americans were involved in the attack. He said that they're going to investigate that. He pointed out that they've got 11 of the alleged terrorists captured. And he said that they're going to pursue this and really try to find out whether or not this was a very global terrorist attack that was on a much higher scale than just some Somalis who came over the border and carried it out.", "If it did involve a British woman and some Americans, that would certainly elevate the planning and sort of the advanced logistics that had gone into planning this attack on this mall.", "This crew of assailants, they entered the mall guns blazing but also cell phones tweeting. They were describing what they were doing and claiming responsibility for this as it was under way. Did they continue tweeting right up to the end?", "They did. Throughout the day today, even as government officials here were saying that they've just about got this wrapped up, they were saying they were in control of the ball, the government officials were - we were getting tweets coming out from Al-Shabab members say, no, it's not true at all; we've still got hostages in there, our guys ready to fight, ready to fight to death. And that really sort of amplified their ability to keep this city on edge.", "There were reports that possibly some of the assailants had escaped. I mean, a lot of people were coming out of that mall afterwards, so there was the potential that some of them were still running around in the city. And these tweets by Al-Shabab did have an effect on people, making them on edge, worried that, yes, there are people with guns to their heads inside their mall right as we're speaking.", "So it was a very interesting use of social media to sort of amplify what they were trying to accomplish there in carrying out this terrorist attack.", "And you find the city, it feels unnerved to you after this whole experience?", "It certainly was. I mean, the schools, many schools were canceled. People were sort of lined up outside the security perimeter trying to get more information. People were very much unnerved by this and the fact that it was unresolved was adding to that. So the president coming out, saying definitively this is over, I think has had a - it's what people were waiting to hear.", "So I think that that's going to have a positive effect. And certainly, just out here on the streets tonight, it feels a little bit more jolly now that this news is out there.", "That's NPR's Jason Beaubien in Nairobi. Jason, thank you.", "You're welcome."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "PRESIDENT UHURU KENYATTA", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE", "JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE", "JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE", "JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE", "JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE", "ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-270617", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-12-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/05/cnr.04.html", "summary": "President Obama Weighs in California Shooting Rampage", "utt": ["After the female shooter in the California massacre allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS, President Barack Obama says the U.S. is prepared for ISIS threats. And he says we have never, I'm quoting now, \"never been more protective,\" end quote, here at home. Meanwhile, Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, said today that the U.S. should call this what this is, quote, \"a war.\" CNN's Chris Frates is here to explain what both men are saying -- Chris.", "Hey, Fred. So the news that the attacks may have been inspired by ISIS is fueling Republican criticism that President Obama's strategy to defeat the terrorist group has failed. Now Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, today called Obama's response to ISIS weak and ineffective and, along with other Republicans, continues to pound on Obama for not calling ISIS-related attacks radical Islamic terrorism.", "This is a war. We're in a war. If we are not senator and if we're not really cunning, and if we don't beat them to the punch, it's going to be very ugly over here. It's going to be very bad.", "So on the day of the attacks but before the possible ISIS link was discovered, Obama again downplayed the danger, saying ISIS does not pose an existential threat to the United States. And today he talked about the threat of lone wolf terrorists who are incredibly difficult to track because they work in isolation.", "It is entirely possible that these two attackers were radicalized to commit this act of terror. And if so, it underscores a threat we have been focused on for years, the danger of people succumbing to extremist ideologies. We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people around the world and in our country to commit terrible acts of violence. Oftentimes as lone wolf actors.", "But even before the massacre in California, Americans were expressing doubts about Obama's strategy. A survey out last month found that more than half of those polled disapproved of how the president has handled the issue. And that's not a good sign for Obama as his administration comes to grips, Fred, with what could be the biggest terrorist attack in America since 9/11 -- Fred.", "All right, Chris Frates in Washington, thank you.", "Thank you.", "All right, coming up, CNN has obtained police accounts of what happened the night Chicago teenager Laquan McDonald was fatally shot by a police officer. And there are discrepancies between the story and the video of that shooting, next."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "CHRIS FRATES, CNN INVESTIGATIONS UNIT CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "FRATES", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "FRATES", "WHITFIELD", "FRATES", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "NPR-33373", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2011-04-18", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/04/18/135519615/searches-continue-after-storms-devastate-the-south", "title": "Searches Continue After Storms Devastate The South", "summary": "Storms ripped across the South over the past few days. Tornadoes and downed trees killed dozens of people. Now, as the weather improves, rescuers and residents are taking stock of what happened as the cleanup continues.", "utt": ["But first, NPR's Kathy Lohr reports on efforts to measure the extent of the damage and to pick up the pieces.", "Governor Bev Perdue towards several of the hardest hit areas today, and she says she reached out to President Obama, who sent in federal assessment teams within 20 hours after the storm hit.", "They are active across North Carolina today and they will be today, tonight, tomorrow. And then we hope by Thursday we'll know the first rough estimates on loss of life and property both to individuals and to businesses.", "The governor declared a state of emergency after tornados shattered homes and businesses, uprooted trees and whipped down power lines. One tornado stayed on the ground for 62 miles from Sanford to Raleigh in Wake County. Commission chair Paul Coble told reporters this afternoon some of the damage is not readily apparent until you take a second look.", "If you stand on the outside of the fire station, it looks like there's nothing really wrong with it. But you walk inside and you look up and the roof has come apart. And you can look up and you see that all the struts and structure has been torn up, all the wiring. It really does look like the tornado just stopped, reached out, picked the roof up and then slammed it right back down on top of the building. It's incredible.", "Coble says damage estimates may be as high as $100 million in this county alone. This type of storm is not unusual during the springtime, but it was the deadliest storm to batter North Carolina since 1984. There are reports of more than 60 tornados hitting the state Saturday. Greg Carbin with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says some funnel clouds were likely counted more than once.", "Some of them were probably on the ground for 50 miles or so. You may end up with 40 reports along that track and those are now being counted as preliminary tornado reports. But in the end result, it's going to be one tornado. So the numbers will come down again. That's still going to be quite a few tornados in one day for eastern North Carolina.", "Carbin says many of the fatalities occurred in trailers, despite advanced warning that this was a particularly dangerous storm. It turns out, more than 14 percent of North Carolina's homes are trailers, which just can't stand up to these strong winds.", "And it is unusual to see the large toll that we saw, especially during the daylight hours. It's a little sobering. And we have to, you know, try to reach as many people as we can with the word that danger is on the way. But sometimes people are just not in the position to receive that information.", "Kathy Lohr, NPR News, Atlanta."], "speaker": ["MICHELE NORRIS, Host", "KATHY LOHR", "BEV PERDUE", "KATHY LOHR", "PAUL COBLE", "KATHY LOHR", "GREG CARBIN", "KATHY LOHR", "GREG CARBIN", "KATHY LOHR"]}
{"id": "CNN-259797", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2015-07-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/16/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Gunman Opens Fire at Military Facilities, Killing Four Marines; FBI Investigating Tennessee Shooting as Terrorism; FBI: Shooter Identified as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez.", "utt": ["OUTFRONT tonight, we have breaking news on many fronts. Four marines shot and killed outside a military site in Tennessee. New information at this hour about the alleged shooter Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez. His wrestling coach will be my guest OUTFRONT. Also breaking, the FBI investigating these attacks as terrorism across the country. Security stepped up. And more breaking news, the sole survivor of a plane crash in Washington State telling her story to CNN for the first time. You will hear her speak about how she survived right here OUTFRONT for the first time. Let's go OUTFRONT. And good evening. I'm Erin Burnett. We begin OUTFRONT tonight with breaking news. CNN has learned the alleged gunman who opened fire at two military sites in Tennessee today is 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez. Four American marines were killed. At least three others wounded. The shooter is dead. Law enforcement source says the FBI is investigating the shootings as terrorism. And this is a picture of Abdulazeez. We have this just in to CNN, as you can see, smiling picture. Notable there with a freckle. Otherwise, a normal looking young man.", "What we do know is that somebody brutally and brazenly attacked members of our armed services and officers of the Chattanooga Police Department and the sheriff's office responded immediately. And they were able to make sure that no further loss of life happened.", "Tonight, the Department of Homeland Security increasing security at federal buildings here in New York, security already amped up at military recruiting stations and other sensitive locations. And moments ago, the President of the United States speaking and saying, given the nature of the shootings, he is putting military bases on alert.", "We've also been in contact with the Department of Defense to make sure that all our defense facilities are properly attentive and vigilant.", "Victor Blackwell begins our coverage OUTFRONT in Chattanooga. And Victor, I know there are breaking developments that you have involving the shooting where you are standing right now.", "Yes, Erin, we know that the other location, that Naval Reserve Center, four marines were killed. But we know just moments ago receiving word from the Marine Corps that the shooter's bullets hit more than just doors and windows at this location. A marine recruiter was shot in the leg. Has been released from the hospital. The FBI teams are here on the ground pacing, looking for shell casings and a motive in this shooting.", "Around 10:45 this morning, the first shots fired. A witness says a silver mustang convertible pulled into this plaza lined with military recruiting offices.", "He just pulled up and I didn't think anything of it. He had his drop top and he looked to the side and next thing you know he lifted up his arms like this with a big black gun and just -- it was one shot and then it was endless shots, one after another, just unloading.", "From there the alleged shooter, now identified as 24- year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, took off racing to a naval reserve center about seven miles away. Police responded giving chase, catching up with him at the reserve center where a gun battle broke out.", "They arrived on the scene extremely quickly. And they actively and enthusiastically engaged this brazen criminal.", "The response by the local law enforcement was overwhelming. They were able to neutralize the threat.", "Four marines were killed on the scene. At least three others were wounded. Sources tell CNN the shooter also died on the scene. It was all over within 30 minutes. A former recruit is devastated to see the aftermath.", "We are treating this as an act of domestic terrorism.", "And late tonight, a law enforcement source tells CNN the FBI is working the case as a potential terrorism investigation.", "And Erin, while investigators on the other side of that crime tape are taking photographs and collecting evidence, on this side of the tape, members of this community are coming, some in tears, leaving flowers and notes for the people who have been killed and injured in this attack at two locations tonight -- Erin.", "Victor, thank you. And Gary Tuchman, I want to go to him now, he's outside the alleged shooter's family home. It's in Hixson, Tennessee, that's just a few miles outside of Chattanooga. Gary, you have found a lot out about Muhammad Abdulazeez, the alleged killer. What do you know?", "Well, I can tell you this, Erin. This neighborhood, which is about a 15-minute drive away from where the four marines were killed, is a beautiful upscale neighborhood. And it appears that Abdulazeez lived here for most of his life. We've talked to one particular neighbor who lives two doors down from where Abdulazeez lived. He says he has known Abdulazeez since he was seven-years-old. He says that his two sisters, an older sister and a younger sister, used to baby-sit for his own children. He says that Abdulazeez was in his house at times. Very pleasant and he was totally stunned when he heard about this. But right now, you see the police cars behind me, Erin. And that's because they have closed off the street not only to the news media but also to residents. Because right now, federal, local and state officials are inside the house going through it, making sure there's no booby traps, no explosive devices, seeing what evidence they can find. They have been there for at least an hour and a half now. We saw an ambulance go in. We believe that was for precaution. But right now they are in there looking through the house. We are told by another neighbor that at one point, people inside the house, we presume his family members, were told to come out with their hands out. They came out. So right now the police are inside searching the home.", "Have you had a chance to speak to some of the neighbors there who have known Muhammad for many years. And what are they telling you about him, what kind of person he was?", "Yes. What they are telling us -- first of all, they are telling us that this is a fine family. That they have gotten along with people in the neighborhood. The people in the neighborhood have gotten along with them. They also say that Abdulazeez himself did not talk very much. But this one neighbor we talked to who his sisters baby-sat for his kids, told us he was a very nice, polite young man. And when he heard about this and this is the sad part. When we heard this and we've covered a lot of tragedies, this man we talked to, he heard about this on the radio and he says, I hope that's not in my neighborhood. And he starts driving home and he saw all the police cars there. And then he heard it was Abdulazeez and he was stunned out of his mind. He says, he never could have imagine that. Never saw anything wrong with this kid in any way, shape or form and just totally stunned.", "And now the President says there's going to be answers, Gary. The FBI is obviously working overtime to try to nail down his motive, right? Why this could have happened? Is there anything on that front that you know about at this moment?", "Yes. No. What we know about this young man, and he was 24-years-old. He graduated three years ago from the Chattanooga campus of the University of Tennessee with an electrical engineering degree. He had a couple of internships. But if he had a full-time job, we don't know about it. His trail seems to stops around 2012 when he had his last internship. So, he's an educated, college graduate. On his resume, he talks about how he is proficient in all these things. If you look at his resume, you think this is a career guy with a bright future had. Instead, he is dead and he's the gunman who is killed all these innocent people.", "All right. Gary, thank you very much. As Gary gets more information -- and literally, I want to emphasize our viewers, what we know about the alleged shooter Muhammad Abdulazeez is developing moment by moment. I want to bring in now his high school coach, his wrestling coach. Kevin Emily joins me now on the phone. Kevin, let me just start with you, what was he like? You just heard what our reporter was able to gain from neighbors who knew him. You knew him well. You coached him. What was he like?", "Yes, I did. I knew Muhammad very well. And Muhammad was -- he was a great student. He was, you know, a good wrestler. And you know, he was a smart individual. He was very friendly. And, you know, and got along with the whole team. He actually started for me. And he always contributed, always did what I asked him to do. And never had any problems with Muhammad. And he was very humble when he was in high school. You know, he always listens to me, he looked me in the eye. And he was just -- in high school he was a great kid.", "So, you know, that sounds very consistent with what Gary is hearing. You are adding in the word humble. Gary also was reporting the neighbors are saying that the family attends a local mosque regularly. Do you know or when he was in high school, did faith play any role in his life?", "I don't want to go into it too much. You know, when he would, you know, he would need to pray, he would say, you know, hey coach, I have to go pray. And I would say, okay. You know, sometimes he would miss practice. But other than that, no. You know, his mom and dad would come to the wrestling matches. You know, I have had conversations with his father. And they were always very supportive. And, you know, to the best of my ability, they're a great family. And like I've said, I'm totally in shock. A lot of my former wrestlers have been reaching out to me. And, you know, my prayers to the families, and even Muhammad and his family as well. Because it's just -- I don't have answers for it. Doesn't seem like him.", "So, it sounds like this is someone who was, you know, faith was important in his life. He was humble. He was a good student. He was a starter for you. It sounds like what you are saying is, whatever happened here, it happened after you knew him, something must have changed.", "I mean, I don't want to agree to that extent. I just know that as a student -- Muhammad was a regular student. You know, there was no red flags about anything. You know, that I could say, you know, here or there, yes I saw that. No, Muhammad was, he was, you know, one of the guys that, you know, we had a tight bond together. So, no, I mean, his everyday activities were normal. You know, I took one summer at wrestling camp to talk to Muhammad because I was interested in, you know, some things about him.", "Uh-mm.", "I just wanted to know. After our conversation, I felt like I knew more about him than I had, you know, taken the time to know, which made me feel better about him. Because a lot of people don't take the time to get to know a person once they find out their religion. So, I didn't see anything different in Muhammad at all. I even talked to him, you know, I talk to all my wrestlers after high school. And he reached out to me last year and let me know how he was doing.", "You did speak to him in the past year. Yes.", "Yes. He contacted me. Yes.", "All right. Well, Kevin, I really appreciate your taking the time to share all of this with us. A lot of this is new information as we're learning and trying to understand more about what could have caused this horrific act. The Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke is OUTFRONT. He joins me on Skype. And Mayor Berke, I appreciate you're taking the time. You just heard our reporter with the latest information that he had about Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez. His wrestling coach talking about him as a humble student, a great student. There were no red flags. He was a young man of faith who had missed practice to pray at times. A very polite young man. That's what he was able to tell me. What else can you tell us about Muhammad?", "Well, I don't know anything about Muhammad except for what I know from today. And of course, today's incident was a horrible and violent scene in our city. We had four marines tragically killed. A couple others wounded. And one of our own, a Chattanooga police officer, was shot in the leg by the shooter. And so for us, you know, and for me, I think, today our hearts are breaking in this city from what happened.", "And are you concerned at this point, Mayor, from the briefings that you are receiving, that he could be part of something that would involve anyone else, any sort of a cell or bigger operation?", "I'm not concerned that there is an issue right now in Chattanooga. Everything that we have seen indicates that there was nothing else going on today. But every one of our resources right now is devoted to fully investigating whether he was part of something bigger. And if so, what? I know that the FBI, the ATF, the Chattanooga Police Department, Hamilton County sheriff's office, all of us have everybody on duty to make sure that we know everything about this incident possible.", "And was there any warning in advance? Any kind of a threat? Anything similar when you look back that you now say, that could have told us?", "No. There really wasn't. And in fact, you know, we have already had discussions with the FBI about that. Most of our information that's homeland security related comes from the federal government. There was not any indication that something was going to happen today. I will say though that our officers were prepared and acted heroically. You know, I spent several hours listening to them describe what was really a harrowing and violent scene.", "Uh-mm.", "Bullets whizzing around them. And you know, they were telling me about the training that they had received and how it kicked in when they encountered really this, you know, horrible incident.", "All right. Well, thank you very much, mayor. I appreciate your time tonight. Our breaking news coverage continues OUTFRONT next with security stepped up across the country. Was this act of terror inspired by ISIS? An eyewitness describing the moments the alleged gunman opened fire and how she got away from police. She is OUTFRONT, next. She will be my guest. 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{"id": "CNN-292914", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-09-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/01/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Zika in Florida; Interview With Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano", "utt": ["Breaking news out of Florida here when it comes to the Zika virus We now know, according to officials, that mosquitoes carrying the virus have been identified in, of all places here, Miami Beach. Three mosquito samples tested positive for the virus. This is a big deal because this is the first conclusive proof of Zika-carrying mosquitoes in all of the United States. These are samples, they were collected from the same area of Miami where the virus has been spreading. So, I have got Dr. Sanjay Gupta with us. He's a CNN chief medical correspondent who has been covering Zika for a while now. We have been talking about human -- or people, I say, with Zika in Miami, but now we are talking, Sanjay, mosquitoes.", "Yes, Brooke, that's exactly right. And I will preface by saying, Brooke, that I think, in many ways, this was expected. We knew that there was what is known as locally transmitted Zika infections. And what that means is -- we have been talking about this for some time, is that we know that people who were getting Zika in the United States prior to what we have been seeing in Florida, they got it because they traveled to a place where Zika infection was located. And they brought it back. But the thing that they have been on the lookout for, for some time is local transmission, meaning mosquitoes actually biting someone who has the Zika virus in their system, carrying the Zika virus in the mosquito's body, and then biting someone else. And that's local transmission. They knew that it was happening because they already identified people who have not traveled and yet still had the infection. But now, as you point out, Brooke, they have found mosquitoes that also contain the Zika virus. Again, not surprising. It is a little stark reminder, but not a surprising one, because we knew that this was already happening.", "All right, Sanjay, thank you so much for jumping on the phone on the breaking news out of Miami Beach. Thank you for that. Let's get back to politics here and Donald Trump. Donald Trump is doubling down on his signature campaign proposal to build that wall right along the U.S.-Mexico border. And he said it over and over. He wants Mexico to pay for it. In a major address on his immigration plan, Mr. Trump said that Mexico would pay for the wall 100 percent. But the president of Mexico, with whom he met just yesterday, President Enrique Pena Nieto, says, no. Pena Nieto says that during his meeting with Trump behind those closed doors that he made it crystal clear that Mexico would not be footing the bill. Trump, for his part, says the wall wasn't discussed. So, even so, here at CNN, we have been looking into what it would actually take, the feasibility, the practicality, to build a wall. Here is national correspondent Jason Carroll.", "You're talking about an area 1,954 miles stretching across California, Arizona, New Mexico, and right here in Texas, just about 100 yards away from Mexico. The experts that we spoke say the way to go is precasted cement wall panels. Those panels would be lined side by side, sort of like what you might see on a highway. Each panel would be about 20-feet high, again, five feet below ground, about 10-feet wide, and eight-inches thick. Again, that wall would be stretching some 2,000 miles. And our expert says it would require 339 million cubic feet of concrete. And that's just for the panels. You're also going to need reinforced steel, at least five billion pounds. So, what about the estimated cost? Because it hasn't been done before, let's use those highway panels as an example. They cost about $40 a square foot. That would end up costing about $10.5 billion. Sounds like a lot of money, is a lot of money. But, again, remember, Donald Trump says the U.S. government wouldn't end up footing the bill on this one. It would be Mexico. And what about the timing on all of this? How long would it take to build? According to our expert, if you are ambitious, you could get it done within a presidential term, four years.", "Jason Carroll, thank you. Here she is. I'm joined by former Homeland Security Secretary and former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano. She is now the president of the University of California system. Secretary Napolitano, thank you so much for taking a minute with us. We appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "So, as someone who grew up in a border state, governed a border state, now lives in another border state, I have to ask you, what do you think of the wall?", "You know, we have heard the wall idea for years. And I remember, in 2004, when I was the governor of Arizona, the wall idea was around. And I said basically, show me a 10-foot wall, I will show you a 12-foot ladder. That's not the way you do border enforcement. And the amount of resources it would divert from a real border plan that involves more manpower, technology, air coverage, all the things that are now in place currently at the U.S.-Mexico border, and we know that illegal migration across that border is the lowest it's been in decades.", "Is there anything about Mr. Trump's immigration plans that seem admirable, palatable, realistic to you?", "Very little, to be quite frank. And I will point out two other areas that I found unrealistic or unfair, not wise. One was to repeal the president's executive order allowing young people who have grown up in this country, who are here undocumented, to stay in this country. They get their education. We have probably 3,500 or 4,000 of these so-called DACA students at the University of California. These are wonderful young people. They will contribute a lot to our country. They are the so-called dreamers. That's how they're known in the vernacular. And it's -- it would be such a shame to repeal those orders. And a second area that I find I can almost say un-American is this idea that you are going to do an ideological test on people...", "Right, the screening.", "... before they emigrate into the United States. First of all, there is a lot of vetting that goes on, particularly from areas of the world that -- where there is a lot of conflict. And that's never reported on enough. But the amount of vetting that already occurs is quite substantial. But how do you do an ideological test? That's not the way America has always viewed itself.", "Well, that's a question people are asking. I hear three examples of, to use your word, un-American ideas from Mr. Trump. But what about his visit to Mexico? I have to ask you about that. We know the former Mexican President Vicente Fox called the current Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto a traitor for even having Trump to the presidential palace, to Mexico. Do you think the current president got burned by Trump?", "I was surprised that he invited Mr. Trump. And I will say this, however. If all they talked about was a wall, what a missed opportunity for Mr. Trump to actually engage in a substantive conversation with the president of Mexico on all of the issues that we share, for example, trade between the United States and Mexico. It's the second or third leading trading partner with the United States. How do we operate those legal routes of traffic? How do we run the ports of entry along that 2,000-mile border. That's just one area where we have a lot to discuss with the leadership of Mexico.", "OK, so missed opportunity, you say. What about Arizona? You have Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who said -- back to the wall -- who says he doesn't care who pays for this wall. Did the sheriff give Trump an out?", "You know, he may have. But...", "He may have.", "You know, I don't know. Sheriff Arpaio's been down there forever. But, again, this is a sheriff now who is -- has been found --"], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "JANET NAPOLITANO, FORMER U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY", "BALDWIN", "NAPOLITANO", "BALDWIN", "NAPOLITANO", "BALDWIN", "NAPOLITANO", "BALDWIN", "NAPOLITANO", "BALDWIN", "NAPOLITANO", "BALDWIN", "NAPOLITANO"]}
{"id": "CNN-14727", "program": "World Report", "date": "2000-8-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/27/wr.02.html", "summary": "South Africa: HIV-Positive Woman Pays the Price for Speaking Out", "utt": ["South Africa is said to have the highest rate of gender-based violence in the world for a country not at war. Females are especially vulnerable to sexual violence. In South Africa, a woman is raped every five minutes. This kind of violence leaves and women infected with HIV. And as SABC reports, those AIDS-infected women face persecution at home and in the courts.", "On the day when I been, it was on Sunday, in the", "I tried to stop my father, but I couldn't so he burnt us both.", "If I knew that he be cruel to me, I would not have told him that I am HIV positive. MIA MALAN, SABC REPORTER (voice-over); It is not only Tumi and his mother that have suffered. The cost of speaking has left scars the whole family is battling to let go.", "It is not only Susan's problem. We had to intervene -- like, you know, we were caught between, like it is our brother-in-law. It's our sister.", "While Susan Teffo and four-year-old child live with HIV, she's also dealing with an ongoing case of attempted murder against her husband. But it will be a long time before she seeks any justice.", "Every time when I go to the court, they -- the case has been -- and they -- it is too far from where to go to the court. It is about one-and-a-half hour to travel the court.", "Money is what makes Susan leaving her husband impossible. Without his medical aid and financial support, she has nothing.", "I don't have any help in medical aid. And it is very important to me to use his medical aid because the medicine that I use is too expensive.", "The only other option is family support. But most of them are poor, leaving Susan and her child in extreme poverty, to a life with a man that she believes that this, to her and son, that that has not broken her spirits.", "You don't have to take this inside your heart. You have to be open to one of your sister or mother, that you are HIV positive.", "If we are going to keep it a secret, and the person would go out and infect other people. And then our nation is going to die.", "Susan and her child have paid one of the possible prices for speaking out and breaking the silence. They have been branded for it.", "I don't know what to do, what to say, just to say thank God when I am still living.", "Mia Malan at the SABC for CNN WORLD REPORT."], "speaker": ["OCTAVIA NASR, CNN ANCHOR", "SUSAN TEFFO, HIV PATIENT", "TEFFO:  (through translator)", "S. TEFFO", "MAGGIE SHEUENYANE, VICTIMS'S SISTER", "MALAN", "S. TEFFO", "MALAN", "S. TEFFO", "MALAN", "S. TEFFO", "SHEUENYANE", "MALAN", "S. TEFFO", "MALAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-353000", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-10-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/23/es.04.html", "summary": "President Trump Labels Himself A \"Nationalist\"; Turkish President Addresses Parliament About Journalist's Death; Mega Millions $1.6 Billion Drawing Tonight", "utt": ["And in that caravan, you have some very bad people. You know what I am? I'm a nationalist, OK?", "The campaign of fear in full swing two weeks to the midterms. The president ripping on Democrats, taxes, a migrant caravan, and more. Much of it fails the fact-check.", "Right now, Turkey's president laying out new details from the Jamal Khashoggi murder. Cameras inside the consulate were removed before the journalist arrived.", "And who wants $1.6 billion or $900 million with the lump sum? The Mega Millions jackpot drawing is tonight. Welcome back to EARLY START, everyone. I'm Christine Romans.", "I'm Dave Briggs. You could buy every combination for $600 million and still make a profit.", "It would be a lot of time.", "Then you could fill out all those forms. All right, it is 31 minutes past the hour. We start with the midterm elections now two weeks from today and President Trump in full campaign mode. Last night he was in Texas embracing Sen. Ted Cruz. Perhaps ironic because during the 2016 campaign Trump famously criticized the appearance of Cruz's wife, Heidi. He suggested Cruz's father was involved in the JFK assassination. The man formerly known as \"Lyin' Ted\" is now \"Beautiful Ted.\" And the president officially tagged himself the label that has characterized his populist rhetoric.", "A globalist is a person that wants the globe to do well, frankly, not caring about our country so much. And you know what, we can't have that. You know, they have a word that sort of became old-fashioned. It's called a nationalist. And I say really, we're not supposed to use that word. You know what I am? I'm a nationalist, OK? I'm a nationalist.", "The president escalated his rhetoric against the caravan as the estimated 7,500 migrants slowly make their way through Mexico.", "I think the Democrats had something to do with it and now they're saying I think we made a big mistake. That is an assault on our country. That's an assault. And in that caravan, you have some very bad people.", "Migrants in the caravan say they are fleeing violence and looking for economic opportunity. But Monday, the president threatened to cut aid to several Central American countries he said failed to stop the migrants.", "The president also claimed that unknown Middle Easterners were embedded within the caravan. A senior counterterrorism official rejecting that claim, saying there is no evidence it's true. The rally, a chance for the president to hone his pitch to his base with early voting now underway in 21 states.", "All right. Let's bring in \"Politico\" reporter Daniel Lippman, co-author of \"Politico Playbook,\" live in Los Angeles. Good morning. Let's talk -- we'll stay on the --", "Good morning.", "Good morning.", "-- migrant caravan. That's something that is more than 1,000 miles away from a U.S. port of entry. But the president really is enthusiastically seizing on misinformation about that group of migrants and it's working for him, isn't it?", "He is talking about how George Soros is apparently funding the caravan when there's no evidence of that. And he constantly accuses Democrats of being open borders and welcoming the caravan and wanting the caravan to come into the States when that's just not the case. And so he sees this as a real rallying cry for his voters. They are not talking about the economy, and jobs, and tax cuts that we had talked on the show a few months ago about how that's what Republicans wanted to run on. They are going to kind of go their partisan divide.", "I will say, though, I did hear from him yesterday three times talking about a middle-class tax cut of 10 percent.", "Yes.", "And a couple of times he's been -- at a couple of other locations in the past few days he's talked about more tax cuts and how they're coming -- Congress is not in session. So he is trying to play that economic message. But this mystery tax cut is a fantasy, right?", "Yes, it's like where's Waldo. There's no -- he does not have the power to just write an executive order giving a tax cut to middle-class families. And so, this is fantasy. I mean, he does not know that Congress is out of session? But he can't do this before the election so it's a false promise that he's playing on, hoping that people don't realize that that's not something he can deliver.", "Well, he did have an economic message last night. He said, in fact, if you want high-paying jobs, rising wages, and a booming economy, then go out and vote Republican. But some interesting reporting on \"Politico\" that if, in fact, things don't break his way, the president's fully prepared to escape blame for it. What is \"Politico\" reporting in that regard?", "Yes, my colleague Gabby Orr and I talked to a couple of White House sources and people around Trump and he says -- and they say that if Trump loses the midterms he's going to blame Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan and say it was their fault. They didn't do enough to bring Republicans out. And he's also described internally to friends in conversations that 2020 is the real election and so the midterms don't count if he loses.", "If 2020 is the real election. We did hear from Joe Biden on the campaign trail -- vigorous on the campaign trail in Florida yesterday. Let's listen to what he said.", "Folks, it's time to get up -- lift our heads up. Remember who the hell we are. This is America. Let's take back the Senate and we will change the world as we know it -- now -- now, now, now. Thank you very, very much.", "We heard from the president yesterday. Look, how is the Democratic message resonating there and do you think that Joe Biden is going to run?", "I think Joe Biden is definitely looking at it. I don't if he's made his decision yet on whether he wants to pull the trigger. But I think the Democratic message is playing on the unpopularity of Trump. Even though he's ticked up a few percentage points in approval ratings he is still at historic lows in terms of how well the economy is doing. And so they are going to say that we need a check on power -- that chaos in the White House is distracting the U.S. government from focusing on real issues. And so, I think Democrats are feeling very optimistic that they will at least gain the House, but the Senate is looking much more difficult to surmount in terms of getting a majority.", "Yes, it looks like they could pick up a few, in fact, in the Senate. If they do take the House, that means another Nancy Pelosi speaker time. And she was here at CNN at the CITIZEN Conference yesterday and talked about the power of subpoenas they might have if, in fact, Democrats take the House -- listen.", "Subpoena power in interesting. To use it or not to use it. It's a great arrow to have in your quiver in terms of negotiating on other subjects.", "How's that going to play?", "It reminded of \"to be or not to be.\" No, I think it's -- Democrats are trying are trying to avoid the perception that they are going to overuse that subpoena power and go too far investigating Trump. And he has talked about how Democrats are going to go crazy in investigating him and paralyze the country. I think Democrats are saying that there are a lot of scandals that we need to investigate. Every day that there is a new thing in the news -- a new cabinet member that is under investigation. We saw Wilbur Ross at the Supreme Court yesterday saying that he doesn't have to be deposed in that suit about citizenship. And so, I think Democrats feel like the American people deserve some answers on what's going on in their government.", "All right, Daniel Lippman, \"Politico,\" thank you. Nice to see you this morning.", "Thank you.", "He's going to have a busy day -- a busy two weeks. Thank you, sir. All right. Prominent members of both political parties targeted by violence in the last few hours. A suspicious package intended for Democratic super-donor George Soros found in a mailbox near his home in Bedford, New York. Authorities say an employee opened the packing, revealing what appeared to be an explosive device. It did not detonate. The case has been turned over to the", "And, Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy's office in Bakersfield, California vandalized last night. In a post on his verified Instagram account, the House Majority Leader McCarthy shows surveillance footage of the suspects and asks, \"Does anyone know these two guys?\" McCarthy says they threw a boulder through his window and took office equipment.", "Turkish President Recep Erdogan is addressing Parliament right now with details of the investigation into journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death. One critical new detail so far. Cameras inside the Saudi consulate were removed before the journalist walked in for his appointment about a marriage license -- some paperwork. Let's go live to Turkey and bring in CNN's Ben Wedeman. What is the president saying?", "Well, what we heard was really, with the exception of that detail about the cameras inside the consulate -- is really a recounting of pretty much what CNN and many other news organizations have been reporting in terms of a time line. And then, he did come out and ask a series of pointed questions and he said -- he said I want to know on whose orders did these people -- the hit team -- come to Istanbul to kill Jamal Khashoggi, and why was the consulate not opened immediately to the Turkish investigators trying to find out the whereabouts of the \"Washington Post\" columnist? He says why has a body not been found yet? He said, who is the local collaborator? Now, this was a statement that we heard from Saudi officials saying that they handed the body over to a local collaborator which, of course, raises the question why on earth does a consulate have the number of, obviously, some criminal who is in a position to dispose of a dead body? And so it really comes down to these questions that he is asking. And he has proposed that Saudi Arabia hand over the 18 people who the Saudis say have been -- are currently detained as part of their investigation. He says they should be handed over to Turkey to be tried in Turkey, itself. Most significantly about this -- in this speech, however, is the absence of any reference to this audio recording of Mr. Khashoggi's torture, murder, and dismemberment that we've heard about repeatedly from anonymous Turkish officials.", "We want to know what kind of evidence they have and how they knew so quickly what was happening there to start an investigation. All right, thank you so much. Ben Wedeman, thank you.", "And the assumption was that perhaps the consulate was bugged and maybe that's why this audio has not been turned over. That is everything in this investigation. Gina Haspel, CIA director, is in Turkey -- in Ankara today -- so hopefully, she will find some answers. Meanwhile, the search is on for a gunman who apparently shot and killed a student on the University of Utah campus. Police say a series of shots were reported and the woman's body was found inside a vehicle. Police believe she had a previous relationship with the suspect, identified as 37-year-old Melvin Rowland. Campus police say they don't believe they're dealing with an active threat. Classes are canceled for today.", "All right, you've have to believe tonight is the night. The Mega Millions $1.6 billion jackpot that you won't win is a world record. And if you want the cash up front, the lump sum you won't win is $904 million. The odds are super long. OK, so we have a backup plan, the Powerball. That jackpot is Wednesday -- $620 million. That's a cool $354.3 million for the lump sum. That's a lot of clams.", "Eight hundred million tickets were sold in the prior drawing in which nobody won.", "You know, they tweaked -- they tweaked that formula so that they can figure --", "Yes.", "-- jackpots. They roll over and get longer so that it creates more public relations frenzy around it. But --", "Yes, it gets us talking about it.", "Invest is your 529.", "Ahead, category four Hurricane Willa bearing down on Mexico's west coast, but the rain threats extend all the way to the northeast this weekend."], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVE BRIGGS, CNN ANCHOR", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "TRUMP", "ROMANS", "TRUMP", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "DANIEL LIPPMAN, REPORTER, POLITICO, CO-AUTHOR, POLITICO PLAYBOOK", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "LIPPMAN", "ROMANS", "LIPPMAN", "ROMANS", "LIPPMAN", "BRIGGS", "LIPMANN", "ROMANS", "JOSEPH BIDEN, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "ROMANS", "LIPPMAN", "BRIGGS", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), HOUSE MINORITY LEADER", "BRIGGS", "LIPPMAN", "ROMANS", "LIPPMAN", "ROMANS", "FBI. BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS"]}
{"id": "CNN-299765", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-12-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/04/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Jerusalem to be Recognized as Israel's Capital; Theresa May to Iron Out Brexit Issues", "utt": ["Welcome back, everyone. Well, the world is waiting for U.S. President Donald Trump's Jerusalem announcement. Sources say he might formally recognize the city as Israel's capital this week. Palestinian officials have warned against the move and say it could plunge the region into more violence. CNN's Ian Lee is in Jerusalem and joins me now with the very latest. So, Ian, past U.S. president have backed the way from recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and decided against moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. If Mr. Trump overturns that policy, what are the likely consequences here?", "Rosemary, past U.S. presidents didn't move the embassy or recognize Jerusalem as the capital because they understood the ramifications in the absence of a peace deal. We've heard from PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat who said, if the United States does do this it would disqualify them from any role in the peace talks. We also heard from the Jordanian foreign minister who have warned dangerous consequences also saying that this could trigger anger across the Arab and Muslim world, as well as fuel tensions and jeopardize the peace process. Israeli officials have been quiet on this. But in the past, they've enthusiastically advocated for this move. On the streets of Jerusalem, though, we found a stark divide.", "At one level it's a city like any other. People sell. People buy. Normal life. But Jerusalem's old city is special, and this is the best vantage point, here on the Mount of Olives. The Dome of the Rock in all its magnificence, a key holy site for Muslims. Behind it, if you know where to look, the church of the Holy Sepulcher. Built on the site where many Christians believe Christ was crucified. And out of sight from this vantage point, the Western Wall. Holy to Jews, supporting the mount where the temple once stood. It's not Jerusalem's significance that's in dispute. It's its status. After nearly 20 years divided by barbed wire, Israeli forces took control of the whole city east and west in 1967. The international community did not recognize what Israel called the unification of Jerusalem. Embassies stayed in Tel Aviv. And east Jerusalem was accepted by the international community as the capital of a future Palestinian state in a negotiated settlement between Israelis and Palestinians. This area is called Abu Tor. And it's a bit of a rarity in Jerusalem. That's because it's a mixed neighborhood. People who live on this part of the street identify as Palestinians.", "Inside I am Palestinian. And I'm a Muslim. And I'm proud about that. \"I don't think it's a successful step to move the embassy,\" Hamid tells me. \"And it's not the time to do it. But the Israelis and the Americans have other agendas that we can't change.\" A bit further down the road, and let's talk to some folks here.", "I'm an Israeli woman. I live in Jerusalem. I love Jerusalem.", "Palestinians say they want east Jerusalem to be part of their capital. What do you think about that?", "I don't like to talk this. I think Jerusalem is Israeli for Jewish.", "What are your thoughts on the United States moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?", "Great, great. First of all, it's not going to be a Palestinian country. And it always was Israel.", "Some Israelis who didn't want to be on camera told us they don't support moving the embassy. Whatever President Trump announces, the position of the vast majority of the international community remains clear. East Jerusalem is considered occupied territory. All settlements are illegal. Their view likely won't change quickly, even if the U.S. embassy changes addresses.", "Rosemary, Jared Kushner told the Saban Forum yesterday that President Trump hasn't made up his mind yet. We do know, though, that U.S. diplomatic missions are bracing. They've increased security ahead of any potential announcement. Rosemary?", "Certainly a lot at stake here. We will await to hear the president's decision on this. Ian Lee joining us from Jerusalem. Many thanks. Well, Monday is looking like a make or break day for British Prime Minister Theresa May to fulfill her Brexit wish list. She is set to meet with E.U. leaders to hammer out the remaining issues in the so- called divorce. The E.U. has warned that this is the last day for Britain to negotiate before they will enter trade talks. And for more on what's on the table, let's get straight to CNN correspondent Erin McLaughlin in Brussels and CNN producer Bianca Nobilo at 10 Downing Street. Great to see you both. Erin, let's start with you. And Prime Minister Theresa May is set to hold these critical Brexit talks with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in just a few hours from now. What are the expectations? What's at stake?", "Hi, Rosemary. Well, the expectations, the original hope was that Theresa May would arrive here in Brussels with a comprehensive offer in hand that would cover the three main areas that matter most to the E.U., the financial settlement, the rights of E.U. and U.K. citizens and the Northern Ireland issue. And the hope was that that offer would be sufficient to pass to the next phase of negotiations, the future relationships, the transitional agreement, something the U.K. has very much wanted to do. But that does not seem the case at this point. Sticking points remain chief among those sticking points, the Northern Ireland issue. The Irish government wants assurances in writing from the United Kingdom that there will be no hard border as a result of the Brexit process as a result of the U.K. leaving the E.U. And that really at this point is no small feat. I was speaking a short while ago to a spokesperson for the Irish government who said that there is still some way to go on this issue. He also told me that he is hopeful of a deal. But it's difficult to make a prediction at this point. So it will be very interesting to see what comes out of the meeting between Prime Minister Theresa May, the president of the European Council Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker later today, Rosemary.", "It certainly will. Thank you so much for that, Erin McLaughlin. Bianca Nobilo, let's go to you now at 10 Downing Street. While the prime minister is in Brussels, what's on the agenda at the House of Commons for the next stage of Brexit. And why is it so hard to come up with a decision on Northern Ireland?", "There is still plenty of Brexit movement here in the U.K. today. In fact, the Brexit bill is having its fourth day of scrutiny in the House of Commons. And on the agenda for today is discussing how leaving the E.U. is going to affect the other parts of the U.K. besides England. So, Wales and Scotland. And ministers there are really concerned that powers which once resided with Brussels are going to go back to Westminster instead of going to their devolved administrations. That's a really big problem for ministers in Wales and Scotland because it's chief -- chiefly important for them that they have control over several of their affairs which the E.U. currently controls. And they don't want that power going back to Westminster. So there is pressure from the devolved administrations on the U.K. government today. And then you mentioned Northern Ireland and Ireland, Rosemary. And of course, that is a huge issue. Theresa May's government is propped up by the democratic Unionist Party, the DUP. That is the largest party in Northern Ireland. They're pro-Brexit. But they're also putting pressure on the Prime Minister to ensure that there is no hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit from the E.U. So there is a lot of pressure on the Prime Minister today. But E.U. officials are sounding encouraging the progress will be made.", "And we will of course be watching to see the outcome of that. Bianca Nobilo and Erin McLaughlin, many thanks to both of you for your live reports. I appreciate it. And with four indictments and two guilty pleas, the Russia investigation is getting closer and closer to Donald Trump. So who is the next person in the crosshairs? We will take a closer look when we come back. 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{"id": "NPR-46946", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2018-04-25", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/04/25/605839494/sacramento-police-say-they-have-taken-the-golden-state-killer-into-custody", "title": "Sacramento Police Say They Have Taken The Golden State Killer Into Custody", "summary": "Police in Sacramento announced they have arrested a suspect in the Golden State killer case — allegedly responsible for 12 homicides and 45 rapes in the 1970s and '80s.", "utt": ["We turn now to Sacramento, Calif., where authorities today announced the arrest of a suspect in the decades-old Golden State Killer case. Here's Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert.", "We found the needle in the haystack, and it was right here in Sacramento.", "Police have been hunting a man they say is responsible for 12 murders, about 50 rapes and more than 100 burglaries in a crime spree that terrorized the state in the 1970s and '80s. Bob Moffitt of Capital Public Radio has been following the case and joins us now. Welcome.", "Happy to be here.", "So this suspect was identified as a 72-year-old man, Joseph James DeAngelo. What can you tell us about him?", "Well, we know that he was a police officer in Exeter, Calif., which is down by Fresno. He was there for three years, from 1973 to '76, and then went to Auburn from '76 to '79 before he was thrown off the force for shoplifting a couple of items from a local store and prosecuted in Sacramento and lost a job. After that, he just sort of disappeared.", "And investigators from 10 counties have been working on this case for years. What finally led to this arrest?", "Well, DNA evidence. The question is, where did the DNA evidence come from? The district attorney's office and the sheriff's department is not letting us know, but they are saying that, in some way, a DNA link was identified between the suspect in the case and an unknown member of the public, who also shared various components of DNA with a bunch of other people - several dozen people.", "And so the sheriff's department then had to take that information, whittle out the people that couldn't possibly be suspects, and then zero in on people who could be suspects, which is how they ended up at Mr. DeAngelo's door.", "And how did the arrest go down? Do you know the details?", "Well, according to Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones, they were concerned that the suspect might have some sort of escape plan in place, and so they waited for him to come out of his house. Staked out his house for, I believe, five days.", "Wow.", "Collected some DNA evidence in the process.", "They didn't leave for five days?", "Well, they were monitoring. They were seeing what his habits were and when they could, they believe, safely apprehend him. He came out of his house, was going to leave somewhere, and that's when they swooped in and arrested him.", "So this suspect is being charged in four homicides. What happens to all the other cases believed to be connected with him?", "Well, all the district attorneys that spoke to media today promised to prosecute their cases as well. It's unclear as to whether they may all prosecute them together in the same venue or whether they may prosecute them independently. That discussion is ongoing, and there has not been an outcome yet announced.", "All right. That's Capital Public Radio's Bob Moffitt in Sacramento, Calif. Thank you very much, Bob.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["AILSA CHANG, HOST", "ANNE MARIE SCHUBERT", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "BOB MOFFITT, BYLINE", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "BOB MOFFITT, BYLINE", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "BOB MOFFITT, BYLINE", "BOB MOFFITT, BYLINE", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "BOB MOFFITT, BYLINE", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "BOB MOFFITT, BYLINE", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "BOB MOFFITT, BYLINE", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "BOB MOFFITT, BYLINE", "AILSA CHANG, HOST", "BOB MOFFITT, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-180320", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-2-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/01/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Nevada Caucus is 3 Days Away", "utt": ["Mitt Romney has momentum, and Gingrich defiant. Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are still hanging on. The Nevada caucuses are three days away. And joining us to talk about the Republican race going forward is Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. So, we are moving from the Florida primary to the Nevada caucuses, and very different situation. Caucuses you need organization and passion from the folks, because they come out to listen to the speeches at a public hearing and then they cast their vote. I don't suppose that a lot of money for commercials makes that much difference in Nevada. What does that actually benefit? Do we know?", "Well, in Nevada, it has to be Romney simply because he has the base there. He won 51 percent of the Nevada vote at a time he was losing elsewhere in 2008. So he's a very heavy favorite in Nevada. There is also a very large Mormon population that will vote in the Republican caucuses. Now, other states, it is different. You know, there's a poll out from PPP showing that Rick Santorum is leading Mitt Romney in the beauty contest, Missouri primary, which is next Tuesday. There are caucus states where I'm told Ron Paul is making a fair bid to win or to play very close to winning in Maine, Minnesota, possibly the Washington State caucuses right before Super Tuesday. So, look, to say that Mitt Romney is the clear favorite to be the Republican nominee is obvious, but I think that it is also important to note that it is not over, and that the other candidates will almost certainly win at least some contests between now and June.", "And I should say Nevada. I have been told that is how folks say it there. And we have a new study out, and it says this is the most negative campaign in history. We have a group, the Campaign Media Analysis Group, that says that 92 percent of the ads in Florida were negative. Romney and Gingrich have both talked about it. This is how they responded to it.", "Did you let your guard down to Mitt Romney, would you say?", "No, I would say when you are outspent with ads five to one that are dishonest.", "he really can't whine about negative campaigning when he launched a very negative campaign in South Carolina, and when the people here in Florida looked at the different campaigns and considered his were the most negative.", "Larry, there's no doubt, no question this is a negative campaign. What kind of impact will it have on the general election?", "Well, it doesn't help the nominee simply because it creates divisions within the party that are then tougher to heal. Sometimes they heal, as they did in the Obama/Hillary Clinton contest in 2008. Sometimes they don't heal, as in the Carter/Kennedy contest back in 1980. And look, it was an extremely negative campaign, but number one, it worked and number two, Suzanne, maybe it is my age, but I have seen so many highly negative campaigns. I would put the LBJ/Goldwater race in 1964 and the Bush/Dukakis race of 1988 right up with this one or right down with this one, I guess you could say. We have had a lot of extremely negative race, and somebody still wins.", "Well, it is not the age there, because I remember the slugfest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was a drag out, and knock out kind of fight, that went on for a long time. And do we think that Rick Santorum and Ron Paul will stick this out for a little bit longer?", "Well, it is an easy bet for Ron Paul. Yes. He will stick it out all of the way through, and will be at the convention, and in some role, I would think, given the number of delicates that he will have. Rick Santorum, I'm less sure about simply because he is -- he is young. He has a future, and he can run again. Gingrich is not running again, and Ron Paul is not running again, and Romney is not running again. So there is a different dynamic with Rick Santorum, and it may encourage him at some point to make the peace with the eventual nominee and the party establishment.", "All right. Larry, good to see you. Thank you as always. All right. Super Bowl coming up, and are you thinking of buying a TV? Don't do it until you check out the \"Top Tips,\" up next."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "LARRY SABATO, DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR POLITICS, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA", "MALVEAUX", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "NEWT GINGRICH, (R), FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MITT ROMNEY, (R), FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MALVEAUX", "SABATO", "MALVEAUX", "SABATO", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "NPR-26557", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2014-08-07", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/08/07/338639664/white-house-seeks-ways-to-go-it-alone-in-keeping-companies-stateside", "title": "White House Seeks Ways To Go It Alone In Keeping Companies Stateside", "summary": "The Obama administration is exploring ways to prevent U.S. businesses from relocating abroad to save money on taxes. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew indicated that Congress would need to act, but now the administration says it is looking for ways to act on its own.", "utt": ["President Obama says he's looking for ways to stop the spread of corporate inversions. Here's how they work. A U.S. corporation merges with a smaller foreign company, then moves its legal headquarters overseas to lower its tax rate. But as NPR's Jim Zarroli reports, there are limits to what the administration can do to discourage these transactions without the approval of Congress, and that's unlikely to anytime soon.", "The number of corporate inversions is small. The Congressional Research Service says just about a dozen were in the works at the end of May. But some big companies such as Medtronic are pursuing the strategy, and Edward Kleinbard of the University of Southern California says the phenomenon is growing.", "It's a very attractive technique, and that's the reason why one might expect exponential growth if left unchecked.", "There's nothing illegal about inversions. Congress passed a law in 1994 that set limits on corporations looking to move overseas. Kleinbard, author of the book, \"We Are Better Than This,\" says the law was probably too lax and helped make the current surge in inversions possible. But until the law gets rewritten, there's not a lot that can be done about it.", "That is a rule that Congress, as keeper of the tax model - Congress, in my view, alone, can change.", "The problem is that in the current political climate, Congress has shown little desire to deal with the issue. Republicans have made clear they will address the problem only in the context of broader reform that lowers corporate tax rates, which they say are way too high. The Obama Administration first said there was little it could do to stop inversions without the help of Congress. More recently President Obama has said he's looking for ways to discourage inversions within the scope of current law. Here he was at a press conference last night.", "What we are doing is examining are there elements to how existing statutes are interpreted by rule, or by regulation, or tradition, or practice that can at least discourage some of the folks who maybe are trying to take advantage of this loophole.", "The administration appears to have some steps it can take on its own. It might bar companies that do inversions from getting federal contracts. It also might challenge some of the tax avoidance strategies that such companies use, such as shifting money from one foreign subsidiary to another and calling it a loan. Lee Sheppard, contributing editor of Tax Notes says that kind of aggressive treatment by the IRS could discourage some inversions.", "When the administration comes and he says we're going to make it difficult, and we're going to make your accountants look twice at it - that, you know, sort of throws a monkey wrench into things.", "But Sheppard also says there are real limits to what the administration can do because federal law sets the bar for inversions pretty low. She also believes the current focus on inversions could bring about a sudden surge in new deals. Even now she says lawyers and hedge fund executives are going to corporate chief executives and telling them...", "You really got to think about this thing because if you don't do it now, they're going to fix the laws and you won't be able to do it all if you ever thought you wanted to do it. It's kind of like, buy now. You know, stuff's on sale.", "Sheppard says for various reasons, inversions just aren't right for many companies. But until the law is changed, companies that can carry out such deals will be tempted to do so. Jim Zarroli, NPR News, New York."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "EDWARD KLEINBARD", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "EDWARD KLEINBARD", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "LEE SHEPPARD", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "LEE SHEPPARD", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-19977", "program": "Crossfire", "date": "2000-11-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/16/cf.00.html", "summary": "What's the Fairest Way to Tally Florida's Presidential Ballots?", "utt": ["Tonight, let the hand counting resume. Florida's Supreme Court gives Palm Beach County the green light to manually count ballots. So will this give an edge to Al Gore, and will Florida's secretary of state accept the new numbers?", "Live from Washington, CROSSFIRE. On the left, Bill Press. On the right, Mary Matalin. In the CROSSFIRE, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, a Gore supporter and Senator Bill Frist from Tennessee, a Bush supporter.", "Good evening, welcome to CROSSFIRE. Some day, this election will be over, but not yet. For now it's just more of the same -- the big tug-of-war in Florida between the secretary of state, county election officials, the Supreme Court, the Gore camp, the Bush camp and all those lawyers who now outnumber alligators in Florida. And they're twice as mean. With two U.S. Senators, we'll debate the politics and the policy of Florida's recount. But first, we want to ask CNN's Martin Savidge down in West Palm Beach to bring us up to date on today's developments. Martin, there have been a lot of twists and turns. Where are we now and how did we get there?", "... that being the hand recount that has now been given the green light by the Florida state Supreme Court. That's what they have been waiting on, here. The canvass elections board, they got that ruling, an interim order from the Florida Supreme Court about 4:00 this afternoon. They called in the election workers for the first staff to come in around 6:00 and they got ballots about five minutes ago. Now as the ballots start to be counted, the elections canvassing board still has to come up with the exact criteria. They have done that now, keeping in mind here this is the criteria they will use to try to determine voter intent. That's a controversial subject down here and across the nation. They were ordered yesterday by a judge that they could not arbitrarily discount a ballot if had a dimple in it. In others words where the stylus put pressure on the ballot but did not necessarily puncture it. They will be looking at dimpled ballots and that could greatly alter the vote. There is no talking rule going on inside that room right now. The election workers, if they find a questionable ballot, take it to a canvass board member and that canvassing board member will try to make a definition as to what the voter intended. There are representatives from both political parties. They can say only one word if they choose, object. If they object, their objection is duly noted and that ballot is placed in special envelope, but it is counted if a determination can be made by one of the canvassing board members. They hope to go perhaps to midnight tonight, maybe later. They'll start again 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. And its a process they predict will take six days -- Bill.", "All right, thanks, Martin. All right, so things -- the hand counts under way there in Palm Beach County and we'll be keeping track of it. Mary, tonight's guests.", "Senator, as we all know, both candidate made a public appearance last night. How heartening to know that they both still exist. There's a possibility for a president here, and unlike Vice President Gore who wanted to play let's make a deal, Governor Bush reasserted a very basic principle that he's held from the outset of this madness. Let's listen to that principle.", "Everyone in Florida has had his or her vote counted once. Those votes have been recounted. In some counties they have been counted a third and even fourth time.", "OK, now you just heard our reporter say Palm Beach people said it would only take six days, but Governor Bush's attorney Michael Carvin did the basic arithmetic. It took them, according to Michael Carvin, nine hours to count 1 percent of the vote. So at that rate, it will take them 900 or 75 days or until January 30th. Please, senator, are we going to keep counting until we get the result we want here?", "I think what we're going to do is keep counting until every vote is represented, until we have a fair and accurate count of how people voted in Florida. I think they deserve no less than that. I think the principle is not one of trying to cut the thing off, but let's get a fair accurate count. I know how long it's taken to do 1 percent, but you can have more people counting the ballots than what they have. I think that's what they're going to do. They're going to enlarge the pool of people counting the ballots to shorten the time. But it's still -- it's going to take several days. But we're not in a crisis. So it takes several days. So what? The Electoral College doesn't meet until December the 18th. Surely it's worth it to wait a couple weeks to get an accurate count.", "Several weeks. So you're agreeing it's going to take several weeks.", "It may take -- if it takes two weeks, so what? So what? I mean, the Electoral College doesn't meet until December 18th. It is worth it to make sure that every vote is counted.", "OK, let me ask you another basic principle that the governor asserted last night. Let me not put words in his mouth. This is the second basic principle Bush made last night.", "Each time these voting cards are handled, the potential for errors multiplies. Additional manual counts of votes that have been counted and recounted will make the process less accurate, not more so.", "See, senator, this is not about counting votes -- excuse me -- it's about manufacturing votes because even after the governor spoke today the police confiscated 78 of those chads that just fell out. These were not devices meant to be manhandled and mangled and chads are just falling out. They're not randomly, they're falling out in favor of Gore.", "They are, really?", "That's not counting votes, that's manufacturing votes.", "The hanging chads.", "The Bush chads don't fall out. I mean, this is sheer nonsense. All of this about the chads and stuff and the fact that if you handle a ballot it's going to -- something's going to happen to it. Look, you know, George Bush campaigned on this idea that he trusted people. Now it seems like he doesn't trust people at all. You know, these are people charged with a very serious charge and that is to count these ballots, and let's face it, this not happening behind closed doors. This is happening with Democrats and Republicans sitting side by side, with CNN there with their cameras. The whole world is watching. So this is an open, above board process.", "Senator, we get so involved in this -- in all of the details of how this is going, I think sometimes we're losing track of exactly what's happening in Florida and what's at stake. And I think that, senator, one of your colleagues, Senator Joe Lieberman, put his finger on right on it today. Please listen to what he had to say. Sums it right up.", "We think if all the votes in Florida are counted, not only will we have won the popular vote in America, Al Gore and I, but we will have carried the state of Florida and therefore the Electoral College and would have won the election.", "Now, isn't that true that if all the votes are counted, Al Gore wins? If Bush is successful in not getting all votes counted, he wins and that's what this is all about, isn't it?", "There was an election. The votes were counted. They were counted. The votes in Florida were counted according to the rule of law in Florida and who won? Governor Bush won. A few days later, those votes, again in accordance with the law of Florida were recounted. Who won? Governor Bush won. Now they've been count add second time and recounted a second time and in some counties a third time, and according to the rule of law in Florida that has been certificated just now two days ago, Governor Bush won once again. Al Gore wants to change the rules, not in accordance with the rule of law in Florida, had them counted yet another time. And he's going to keep doing that until he gets the results that he wants. And the issue itself does boil down to what is fair and accurate. Governor Bush and I agree that a fair and accurate means that this manual count are not fair and accurate. You introduce bias. We heard just on this introduction this whole dimple. Does a dimple mean you did push it through or tried to vote or you started to and you hesitated and said, no, I don't want to vote for Governor Bush or Al Gore?", "We'll talk about these hand counts just a little bit later. But I want to came back to your basic premise here. Let's say I voted in Florida, OK, and that machine read that ballot and didn't register my vote. It went through the machine a second time. It did not register my vote. Did I vote in Florida? Did my vote count? No. How can you say -- pardon me -- how can you say every vote was counted when every vote clearly was not counted. Ten-thousand votes in Palm Beach were not yet counted.", "Did you not push it hard enough? Did you push it twice? Did you push it three times? There are rules that are laid out according to the law to statute in Florida and your vote is going to be determined ultimately by that particular rule.", "Do you know what that rule is?", "I do know exactly what that the rule is.", "The rule is when the machine screws up, you trust human beings. That's what the rule is.", "That's not what the rule is. The rule is basically machine will determine -- those cards -- those punch cards were designed to be interpreted by machine. Not human beings.", "Machines are perfect? Machines are always perfect?", "No, but they are objective. They don't have emotion. You can't tamper with them. You can't introduce bias to them and you can't have human errors. That the advantage of having ballots which were designed to be interpreted by machines.", "How did we count ballots before there were machines?", "Before computers, what did you used to do. Did you ever use a calculator? Yes. You used calculators and now you use computers.", "But before that you did it by hand.", "That's right, you did it by hand. And do you want your bankers and accountants to use -- to not use calculators of computers or machines today?", "I always reduce it to a simpler term. Did you ever take a dollar bill and put it in a soda machine to get a soda and it spits it back out? Then you take that dollar bill to cashier and they accept it and they'll give you four quarter for it.", "Yes, but did you ever do heart-lung surgery and you depend on that machine over -- for that heart-lung machine to keep them alive or fly an airplane through there and trust those instruments?", "Bill, I don't want any heart-lung-blood machine unless you're there. I want a doctor there. I don't want the machine without a doctor there.", "But the point that this senator is making and Governor Bush's camp has been making is that the machines err in proportion. They're erring equally on the downside for Bush, but we're only counting in favor of Gore, we're only counting in selective Democratically controlled...", "Count statewide.", "... Gore strongholds. Well, you want Bush to ignore the law like Gore is, because the law says you can't have a recount now in the rest of the state.", "Wait a second. First of all, it's the Bush campaign that came in and went to court to try to stop the recount. It wasn't the Gore campaign. The gore campaign was operating under the rule of law to seek a recount, a manual recount in these counties. It was the Bush campaign that first went to court. Secondly, three times Mrs. Harris, the secretary of state...", "Secretary of state.", "... three times she has tried to stop a manual count, three times she's been rebuffed by the courts in Florida. Now, the Bush campaign has gone to federal court. Oh, you know, the big believers in states rights and states courts, now the Bush campaign, they're in federal circuit court in Atlanta. That's where they are right now. You know, this whole thing, let's -- you know, this would be over with right now, this would be over with right now if the Bush campaign had not tried to stop a manual recount in those four counties.", "The fundamental issue is a manual recount is not fair, and when you achieve and when you want that achieve fairness -- why? I've gone through the list once. It introduces the potential for bias in the interpretation. It introduces the potential for human error that the machine does not have. The whole issue that Mary brought out that these ballots were designed to be read by a machine, not to be looked at, punched at, bent, where, as you said, the chads will pop out. Eight days after the election, 75 or 78 chads were found in Broward County. That's eight days later because that's what these cards are built for.", "First of all, it is a...", "OK, senators, we've got to go to break.", "It's well-settled that we have manual recounts.", "Can we just -- can we just -- timeout for a minute, because even if the recount ever is completed, the debate is never going to end. For that matter, I'll be debating right after the show tonight on cnn.com/crossfire. Don't miss that, I guess. And when we come back, we'll continue this debate. And everybody's weighing into this act. Everybody wants recount. Watch this.", "I wish I had the opportunity to ask for a recount. Unfortunately, it wasn't that close.", "Welcome back to CROSSFIRE. That was a scene from the latest, hopefully the last -- I can't even count how many more recounts from Palm Beach County. The Bush campaign announced today they would not recount closely contested Iowa at about the same time that county we just saw, Palm Beach, announced it would hand count that Gore stronghold. Are coming to a conclusion or a new beginning? Supporters for each side weigh in. Fore Gore, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, and for Bush, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee -- Bill.", "Senator, you were just telling us how bad these hand counts are. What I find so amusing about that is, as you know I hope, in 1997 in the state of Texas, Governor Bush signed a law which said -- not only said that we want hand counts in Texas. He even -- the law even goes further than that. Let me just read you one sentence. \"If more\" -- this is from the election code in Florida -- \"If more than one petition for recount is filed and more than one method of counting is requested, a manual recount takes precedence over an electronic recount.\" So boy, he loves hand counts in Texas, but he hates them in Florida. Bottom line, right?", "Well, if you look at the issue of the chads and the particular ballots that are used, it is more of a problem in Florida than it in Texas. I think one of the issues, which I haven't mentioned, hasn't been mentioned, is this whole idea of the \"spoilation\" of ballots: The more you look at it, the more you handle it. And that's a particular problem with the type of ballot that has been used, to a large degree in Florida where you have a chad there, where the more you manipulate it, the more you count it and recount it, the more it's likely to have been altered in some way, and therefore, will not necessarily reflect the intent of the voter.", "Well, I know that's what everybody says, that things are different in Texas. So today, I went to a lawyer friend of mine and asked him to show me what the standards are in Texas. I'm sorry to get this specific, but here we go. Here's what it says in Texas. You count it if -- quote, from the election code -- \"at least two corners of chad are detached, light is visible through the hole, an indentation on the chad from the stylus or other object is present. It indicates a clearly ascernable intent of the voter to vote, or the chad reflects by other means a clearly ascertainable intent of the voter to vote.\" So again I say in Texas, they count...", "Let me.", "... if I may finish.", "Yes.", "They count hanging chads, they count pregnant chads, they count dimpled chads in Texas, but not in Florida.", "Bill, that...", "It's crazy.", "...", "Right here. That's it. Exactly.", "In Florida? In Florida?", "That's it. That's it.", "In Florida -- it's not it. But in every county in Florida that is not true.", "It is so.", "The problem -- and one of the reasons this case went to the federal court is the whole due process. There is no uniform definition published in Florida in statute. That's why we just heard about the dimple.", "That's not so. That's exactly what these people were told. The judge said count...", "In every county, in every county in Florida?", "... the dimples and the other judge said count the hanging chads.", "You know, your viewers don't know that, because it's been argued day after day. Is it a dimple? Is it a pregnancy? Is it a flying (ph) chad?", "Just read the law.", "Senator, let me just ask you the question before you answer this, because this is exactly the question that the Gore people went back to court for, because there is no standard in Florida unlike there is in Texas. But my question goes to this: Why do you Democrats, if your case is so strong, just make up stuff and distort it? As you kept saying, Bush supports a hand count, he signed a hand count as preferable in Texas when in fact 240 of the 254 counties there are -- you're supposed to hand count. They're optically scanned. They were made to be looked at by a hand. You're just distorting what the record in Texas is to make a political point, just like the vice president's PR stunt last night. If you're so secure in your position, why are you...", "Question?", "I'm asking it. Will you sit here and distort what the Texas record is?", "Did he sign a law or not? Yes!", "In Florida, in Florida -- the issue's in Florida.", "You know...", "Is there a uniform standard about dimpling, pregnancy, two corners, four corners?", "Yes.", "It is not true, Bill. That's the whole...", "All right, just answer this question, senator. Gore himself said yesterday that the reason -- that he's objecting to now -- what he wants is a standard. Tell", "Mary, keep in mind, when these ballots go through a machine -- there are optical readers. If a chad -- that's one of these little things -- is hanging and it folds back over and it goes through there, it won't count that ballot. A human being sitting -- a Democrat sitting next to a Republican holding it up to the light can see that there's light through it, and they can count that.", "Tell me about a dimple. We just heard in the open that...", "Let him finish, senator, please.", "What I'm saying is that, first of all, Bill, you're absolutely wrong about the manipulating of these ballots. I've been watching it. This is not behind closed doors. This is in open view of everyone. The police are there, Democrats are sitting right next to Republicans.", "Not that it's intentional -- I'm talking about unintentional.", "It's not happening. You watch them; and I've talked to people down there, they are very carefully looking at each one of those ballots, Democrats and Republicans together. It gets down -- do you really...", "But, please, can we make a key point here -- that there are two Democrats and one Republican. And when there's a difference the Democrats in every case out-vote the Republican.", "That is not so.", "It is totally so.", "Why do you have a bunch of people who could be partisan, they may not be partisan -- they may have emotion, they may be partisan -- they're determining intent for a voter who is not there today. Is that dimple a hesitation or is it pushing all the way through? And they have to decide?", "And then they can decide that by looking at the rest of the ballot and what that person did on the rest of the ballot.", "Who else they voted for?", "That's what it is; it comes down to human -- do you trust human beings? I think there is a standard. You know what the standard is? Common sense.", "On that point, we are out of time. Senators, thank you very much. More common sense, that's was we're for. Senator Frist, thanks for being here; Senator Harkin, thank you for being here too. Mary and I will be back with closing comments and, as we go to our break, of course, here are those people we've been talking about: the people in West Palm Beach. They're counting and the entire world is watching. We'll be back with closing comments.", "Now can you find out what's coming up in the CROSSFIRE. Sign up for a daily e-mail sent free of charge telling you what we are planning for that night. Log on to cnn.com/crossfire to sign up for your daily CROSSFIRE e-mail.", "Test your political debating skills with me tonight -- or speaking skills for that matter -- just go to cnn.com/crossfire right after this show. Then tune in this Sunday for CROSSFIRE's special Sunday edition at 10:00 p.m. Eastern where we want to hear from you if you have questions or comments about the election -- or Bill or anything else -- log on to cnn.com/crossfire tonight. Send us an e-mail and on Sunday's show we will respond.", "Just don't send us any chads.", "Senator Harkin just said that you could divine the intent of the voter no matter what he punched by looking at rest of the ballot. Does the word \"ticket-splitter\" mean anything to you. Inherently, incredibly biased here.", "Now, I think what the senator was saying -- I'm not speaking for him -- is that if the voter, you know, voted down there you could -- and how he voted down there might indicate what he did on that upper point. But the point is, Mary, there is no fair vote, there will be no fair vote in Florida until all the votes are counted. And you know as well as I that if all the votes are counted Gore wins. So count them all. From the left, I'm Bill Press, good night for", "That's right, only if we continue counting only in democratic counties. 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{"id": "CNN-111014", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2006-10-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/07/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Has Rehab Become Refuge For Famous Names In Trouble?", "utt": ["With his career wrecked by scandal, Mark Foley is taking a familiar road to recovery, having entered a treatment center for alcoholism. But has rehab become a refuge for famous names in trouble? Here's CNN's Ted Rowlands.", "As Mark Foley rides out the storm in rehab, a storm he created by allegedly sending sexual messages to teenage boys, his lawyer is blaming alcohol for the former congressman's behavior.", "He is absolutely, positively not a pedophile.", "Over the years, it's been a familiar drill. When the going gets tough, politicians and celebrities go to rehab. Just this year, Ohio Congressman Bob Ney checked into rehab for alcoholism after admitting he accepted inappropriate gifts and Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy retreated to a clinic after crashing his car on Capitol Hill.", "That's not even excuse for what happened Wednesday evening. But it is a reality of fighting a chronic condition for which I'm taking full responsibility.", "Mel Gibson blamed the booze after his drunken anti- Semitic tirade and checked in for treatment as did TV personality Pat O'Brien, who went into rehab after his sexual phone messages were leaked to the media.", "What rehab does is it creates the safe haven for the celebrity. He basically has this kind of, this past to be able to do what he needs to do to for four or six or eight weeks and hopefully, for him there will be another scandal and people will be off his case.", "Politicians going to rehab after getting in trouble is nothing new. More than 10 years ago, Oregon Senator Bob Packwood apologized for his behavior and checked into rehab after more than a dozen women accused him of sexual harassment. You can even go back more than 25 years to Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills.", "What was it like when you first had to admit to yourself that you were an alcoholic?", "Oh, it was devastating. I had become the lowest thing that God ever let live.", "Mills ran into trouble after he was caught with this exotic dancer, Fanny Fox, that caused an uproar on Capitol Hill. Mills checked himself in for treatment and retired two years later. While skeptics may think that treatment is a copout, experts say alcohol and drugs can truly cause some people to do outrageous things.", "Things they do when they're intoxicated, when they're in their disease, are shameful. They feel awful about it up. When they sober up, they look at it and can't believe they've done some of those things.", "Mark has been admitted into an alcoholism, substance abuse and mental health facility as an in- patient and we anticipate that he will be there a minimum of 30 days and possibly, if not probably, longer.", "Medical experts say rehab should last as long as it takes for somebody to start responding to treatment. But when it comes to politicians, or celebrities in trouble, some people think that rehab lasts as long as it takes for a story to go away. Ted Rowlands, CNN, Los Angeles.", "And so our legal guys have not gone away. Here they are again, Avery Friedman and Richard Herman, joining us to talk more about this. So, Avery, what's the real objective here? Aside from the fact that some who really have a problem are seeking to get help by going into rehab, but is the bottom line really already trying to build the defense just in case there is an appearance in court?", "Well, of course. I mean, this is -- for politicians, this is what law enforcement refers to as the Marion Barry syndrome.", "Oh, no.", "As soon as you catch them, they either get religion or they go into rehab. And, you know what? Pardon my cynicism, but for a guy that wrote the exploited children law -- he's a smart guy. And he knows what he's doing. He knew how far to go. So I'm gay, I'm drunk, I'm going to go into rehab and everything is going to be just fine.", "So Richard is this how you see it, kind of tainting the potential jury pool if it comes to that?", "Fred, this is not going to be a defense for him. If anything, it'll be used in mitigation if charges are brought against him. But, Avery hit it. He was a co-chair of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus. His lawyer in that meeting -- you know, less is always better, Fred -- in that press conference the other day, his lawyer said, when he wrote these e-mails, he was drunk, he was intoxicated and he was suffering from mental illness. And during this last week, we saw that some of those e-mails took place when he was on the very floor of Congress voting. Can you imagine this Congressman...", "Maybe he was drunk. He might have been drunk on the floor of Congress. I don't know.", "... mentally ill, drunk, voting for the welfare of the United States of America. It's incredible. Whitfield: And so, what do we say about the other allegations, you know, according to his attorney, that perhaps he was molested by a clergyman when he was a young person. I mean, that's a pretty serious charge to play around with if you don't really mean it and if you can't stay by it.", "Well, in all fairness, I think, you know, this is going to be a factor. I mean, it's very difficult to explain this behavior. And I'm presuming that that representation about abuse is something -- in fact, what's interesting is the diocese in Palm Beach has asked the former congressman to come forward and identify who the abusers were. So I don't think that should be discounted. I think it's a serious matter. And again, as we said in segment one, we have so far to go, Fredricka, in learning what the facts are here. So far to go.", "Richard?", "Right. His lawyer said, I don't want to make excuses, except that my client is gay, he's suffering from mental illness and he's an alcoholic. Other than that, I mean, it's preposterous. It's only going to benefit him in sentencing if criminal charges are brought, it will not be a defense to any prosecution against him.", "All right. Richard Herman, Avery Friedman, thanks so much. And Avery you get the kudos for, you know, coining the phrase of the day. Exfoliate.", "I'll take it.", "I'm not going to forget that one. All right gentlemen...", "What's that?", "Fred, I got censored on mine. I just want to let you know. I had a good one.", "I know. OK. OK. We had to beep it?", "Yes.", "All right. Good to see you guys.", "Nice to see you. Take care.", "Take care.", "Well, it doesn't matter if you have the greatest MP3 player around. If you can't hear what's being played, what difference does it make? Straight ahead, tips for getting the most out of your music."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ROTH", "ROWLANDS", "REP. PATRICK KENNEDY (D), RHODE ISLAND", "ROWLANDS", "HARVEY LEVIN, MANAGING EDITOR, TMZ.COM", "ROWLANDS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WILBUR MILLS, FMR. U.S. CONGRESSMAN", "ROWLANDS", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-407036", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-08-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/01/cnr.03.html", "summary": "CDC: Hundreds Infected At Georgia Camp In Just Days", "utt": ["New York State's Coronavirus infection rate now has dropped under 1 percent, the state continuing to make significant progress. All this is a dire new forecast from the CDC projects another 20,000 lives could be lost in this country over just the next three weeks. CNN's Polo Sandoval joining us now from New York. So Polo, what more are we hearing this morning?", "Erica, one of the big areas of concern is actually right across the River in New Jersey where the Governor is saying that he's alarmed by a recent rise. They confirmed about 2,000 COVID cases in about four consecutive days. Those are numbers that we haven't seen in about a month. You're about to hear what the Governor believes is behind it and why he's even considering possible rollback in reopenings? The Coronavirus may kill another 20,000 Americans by late August, according to a sobering fresh forecast from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC projections warn of an increase in increased deaths in Puerto Rico, Washington State, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee and New Jersey. The Governor there says house parties are contributing to COVID spread among young people.", "We are not past this. Everyone who walks around refusing to wear a mask or who hosts an indoor house party or who overstuffs a boat is directly contributing to these increases.", "The White House Coronavirus Task Force says COVID cases are plateauing in the hard-hit states of California, Arizona and Texas. Florida is also on that list, though it may face further complications with approaching Hurricane Isaias. Nearly 8400 COVID patients remain in Florida hospitals and there's a possibility some Floridians near the storm's path may have to turn to shelters.", "The storm just exacerbates the conditions. What it does, it forces people to remain in close quarters and this is the - this is where we need to get that message out that people need to make sure that those protocols are not sacrificed, that they understand how important it is to wear face masks.", "This week, Texas became the latest state to surpass New York in the number of COVID cases. The hot spot is in South Texas where death counts are staggering. Ron Rivera, a Funeral Director in hard hit Hidalgo County says his facility is overwhelmed. They are turning to additional storage for the influx of bodies and worried surviving family members may worsen the spread of the virus.", "It's the loved ones, the families that come in to give their condolences to the family. That's where the danger is. And you get all sorts of people coming in at one time, and that's what really makes these families vulnerable to having this disease spread amongst the living. Not actually the dead.", "With many schools nearing reopening, a new CDC study offers insight into what can happen when young people are allowed to assemble? Researchers looked at a Georgia summer camp not named in the study and found high infection rates among campers at that facility. The data shows the camp followed most but not all of the CDC's safety guidelines.", "As this study shows, when you have large groups of people and children especially because you really can't expect children to strictly adhere to some of these safety precautions, there's a high risk of transmission.", "Students already back in the classroom at Indiana's Hancock County where the local health department confirmed on the first day of school that a middle schooler tested positive for the virus. Officials with the school district told parents the student was immediately isolated. Another similar case in Northern Mississippi where authorities confirmed that a high school student tested positive for the Coronavirus this week after the first week of classes here, this is certainly not surprising to health officials who have warned school districts that they can expect these kinds of cases. But Erica the key here is to isolate these kinds of cases as soon as they are identified to try to limit exposure to students and staff.", "That's for sure. Absolutely, Polo, thank you. Joining us now to discuss, Dr. Michael Saag (ph), who is an Associate Dean for Global Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Medical Professor in the School's Division of Infectious Diseases? As we look at this CDC study that looked at this overnight camp in Georgia, what's interesting is a parent of a child who went to that camp who ended up becoming infected, weighed in this morning, I just want to play a little bit of what this dad had to say, take a listen.", "The camp had done everything they possibly could to ensure that our kids were safe. And they had the best laid plans. Well, we know that the best laid plans as we saw with camp, something could happen.", "There's always the possibility that something can happen. The CDC said they followed most of the guidelines but they didn't follow all of them. The kids didn't wear masks. We know there wasn't as much ventilation, the windows and doors in certain areas weren't open, per CDC guidelines and the way they recommended. And there was a lot of singing and chanting. How important is the planning as we look forward to school, which as we, you know, as Polo just pointed out, has are started in some areas?", "Well, it's an issue of planning, but it's also an issue of implementation. So in the case of the camp, the counselors wore masks, the campers did not. And if you dig into those data a little bit, you'll see that the rate of infection among the counselor was about half of what you saw in that camper. So that kind of makes sense. When we translate this into school reopening, we need plans for sure. And they need to be different than just business as usual. But once the plan is made, the implementation has to follow in lockstep. If it doesn't, we should be expecting cases in schools and it won't be news that somebody in Mississippi or somebody in other school system became infected. That's going to be the rule. The question is, what are we willing to live with?", "Yes. I think that's a question that people are having a hard time answering, right? But when you look at the protocol, you mentioned the student in Mississippi that Polo mentioned. We also know there was a student in Indiana who tested positive, that student was isolated per protocol in the school district, they said. It's not just isolating, though, it's about quarantining. We heard here in New York City yesterday from the city, that if there are positive cases, for example, in a classroom, where they're trying to limit kids to staying within that classroom pod and limiting adult interaction, that there could be a two-week quarantine for the class. How broad do you think a quarantine would need to be in a school if there's someone in one classroom where they are pretty much contained to that group of kids?", "Right. So let's take that one single individual who tests positive. The problem is if that person was probably symptomatic. In the days before the symptoms came on, they were spreading virus to others. So that means a fair number of people in that class were also infected. Certainly everybody in that class was exposed. So then the question becomes, are you quarantine the whole class? And if you do, 10 days is probably long enough to pull them out. But at some point, it becomes impossible to quarantine everyone. And this is why the decisions of when do we go back to school matter so much. If we were in Canada, where the rates are about 128, on what they are saying now, you can do that with a little bit more confidence. But coming back to these, what we call red zone states, the ones you mentioned earlier and some more, the rates are so high of infection, that the chance of at least one person in a classroom of 25 being infected starts to go up to about 75 percent likelihood. And how are we going to manage all that? One other point real quickly, we have to ask the question, are we willing to live with the end result of the inevitable situation where teachers are going to become infected, that's going to happen. And then the teachers because they're older have a higher likelihood of getting sick. And God forbid if one of them passes away. Are we willing to live with those consequences? Because I think that's what we're going to see in about three months from now, unfortunately, with the rates of infections that we have, and those are individual decisions.", "What we're seeing in terms of the rates of infection, as you know, while things may be plateauing in these current hotspots, Arizona, California, Texas, even showing a little bit of a decline yesterday on their seven day average, they're plateauing in such a high level. We know deaths arriving -- are rising and that there a lagging indicator, at least two to four weeks in this new prediction from the CDC, we could see an additional 20,000 deaths in just three weeks. A, do you agree with that prediction? And B, is there anything at this point to make sure we don't get there?", "The deaths are relatively easy to predict, unfortunately, because that's what follows that spike in cases. So you get transmission, infection, reporting, hospitalization, and then it's just a simple calculation to say we're going to have about 1,000 deaths a day based on the number of people in the hospital right now. Those certain proportion are going to die. That's understood. But I think the real question here coming back to the notion of how do we mitigate this? Everybody knows what we're supposed to do. Everyone can tell you about distancing and mask. The question is, can we do this reliably? And finally, when you see those things plateauing, that's not good enough. That's obviously a step in the right direction. But look at how New York manages. It wasn't just plateau. It was actually going down to pre epidemic levels. And unfortunately, that's what we have to be patient and wait on.", "The patience for a lot of folks is the hardest part, but boy, is it worth it? Dr. Michael Saag, I appreciate your time and your expertise this morning. Thank you.", "Thank you, Erica.", "President Trump dropping a bombshell this week floating the idea of delaying the election even though, let's be very clear here, the President does not have the power to do so. So what's behind that move? And does it actually undermine the President's effort to reopen schools?"], "speaker": ["HILL", "POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GOV. PHIL MURPHY (D-NJ)", "SANDOVAL", "MAYOR DEAN TRANTALIS (D), FORT LAUDERDALE", "SANDOVAL", "RON RIVERA, OWNER/DIRECTOR, RIVERA FUNERAL HOME", "SANDOVAL", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-65998", "program": "CNN SUNDAY NIGHT", "date": "2003-1-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/26/snn.03.html", "summary": "If U.S. Goes to War, White House Says Nuclear Weapons Will Be in Arsenal", "utt": ["If the U.S. goes to war against Iraq, the White House made clear today that nuclear weapons will be in the arsenal. That of course does not mean nuclear weapons would be used, just that they might. Retired Air Force Major General Don Shepperd joins us from Tucson, Arizona with his take on the emerging military picture. And joining us from Washington for the first time is a CNN contributor, Iraqi expert Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution. Thanks very much for being with us. Ken, let me start off with you. What are you expecting to hear from Hans Blix tomorrow?", "well, I think the -- that is the big question. I think that we're pretty certain what we know is going to be in the report. He's going to go through both the things the Iraqis are doing, and the things that they're not doing. But I think that what -- big question out there is which does he choose to stress? Does he try to give a neutral report, which lays out both of these halves of the equation? That the glass is both half empty and half full? Or does he try to stress that the Iraqis are cooperating, which would be much more of a political message, saying give me more time.", "And if he does take this sort of middle of the road approach that is half empty, half full scenario, that's almost the most difficult scenario for the Bush administration to deal with?", "Well it's better than him putting his own political spin on -- I think that's what the administration is really concerned about is that Blix will come out and he will stress the fact about glass is half full, and that will play to the French and the Germans, who are saying give more time to the inspectors. The administration wants Blix to come out and say we gave Saddam Hussein a choice. It was comply or don't comply. And he hasn't complied. And that more neutral take will be much more in keeping with what the administration would like to hear.", "We had hoped to have General Don Shepperd in the discussion. We're having some technical problems with him. So Ken, I'm just going to stick with you until General Shepperd's available, if at all. How important do you -- or what sort of import do you put on this word that Andrea Koppel reported earlier tonight that the U.S. State Department is drafting a second resolution possibly to submit to the U.N. Security Council?", "I think it's very important. I think it's also very positive step. It indicates that the administration has not lost faith in the United Nations process as a whole, and is willing to go back to the United Nations and say look, we've decided to go to war, but we'd really prefer to do it with the rest of the world on our side. It's a very positive step. I don't know that the administration actually is certain that it can get the second resolution, but it's a good sign that they're not simply saying to heck with the U.N., we're going to do this alone.", "I'm told General Shepperd is available now. General Shepperd, thanks for joining us, glad you could make it. Word earlier today that nuclear weapons are sort of on the table, that they are in the arsenal. Is that unusual?", "No, it's not unusual at all. It's nothing new, Anderson. The value of nuclear weapons is their deterrence, not their use. And any would-be adversary of the United States has to worry that those weapons are available. We made it clear during the Gulf War that if Saddam employed chemicals and biological weapons, that he risked the use of those weapons. And he has to wonder if we would do it again.", "Militarily, can we go it alone?", "We can go it alone. We have the capability to do it alone. As Ken just said, that is not the ideal way to do it. We'd like to get the support not only of the American people, which is absolutely essential. We learned that in Vietnam. We'd like to have the backing of the world community, too. And we don't want to go it alone, but we can.", "Ken, politically, can we go it alone?", "Look, we can if we want to, but the big question is, what is the impact of the war and the diplomatic course we take in the future? As General Shepperd just pointed out, militarily we can do this. But the question is the reconstruction of Iraq is going to be much longer than the war itself. We want allies helping us with the reconstruction. And in addition, once Iraq is done, once Saddam Hussein is gone, we are still going to have to live in a world with lots of problems. And we're going to want the support of our allies, as much as we can in those future endeavors. And the more that we can bring them along in this one, the more likely it is we're going to have them with us in the future.", "We are obviously hearing some things from France, from Germany, obviously from Russia. We have not yet heard from England in the last couple of days. President Bush is going to be meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair I believe on the 31st. How significant is that meeting, Ken Pollack?", "It's a very important one. Tony Blair's under a lot of pressure at home. And it's critical that the British be with us. I think the indications are that the British will be with us under pretty much any circumstances, but I think that President Bush wants to show his close friend, his good ally Tony Blair, that we're going to do everything we can to make it easier for Tony Blair to join this operation.", "General Shepperd, a final thought from you? Is this a done deal? Do you think we're going to war?", "A betting man would say we're going to war. We wouldn't move that many forces and have them sit for a long time, although we could. Nor would we bring them home without using them. But a case has to be made to the American public and the world community. It all starts on the 28th with the State of the Union, Anderson.", "Ken Pollack, your thoughts? Is the momentum simply too much to stop at this point?", "I tend to agree with General Shepperd. I think that the amount of troops that we're sending to the region suggests that the president has made up his mind.", "All right, interesting stuff. We will be watching this week, as will much of the world. Ken Pollack, General Shepperd, appreciate you joining us tonight. Thanks very much.", "Thank you, Anderson. Be in Arsenal>"], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "KENNETH POLLACK, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION", "COOPER", "POLLACK", "COOPER", "POLLACK", "COOPER", "MAJ. GEN. 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{"id": "CNN-256384", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2015-06-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/01/ebo.01.html", "summary": "TSA Fails 95 Percent of Undercover Security Tests; Republicans Slam Rand Paul Over NSA Debate", "utt": ["OUTFRONT next. Bombs and guns making their way to TSA checkpoints. We have the details of a new investigation that will shock you. And according to my guests, the problem is much worse than what we're even being told. Plus, a pastor shot to death by police. The dash cam video breaking tonight OUTFRONT was the use of force justified? And goodbye Bruce Jenner. Call her Caitlin. The former Olympic star athlete new look on the cover of \"Vanity Fair,\" a new details tonight on her transition from man to woman, let's go OUTFRONT. Good evening. I'm Erin Burnett. And OUTFRONT tonight, bombs on planes. A massive failure. We are learning new details tonight about just how often TSA screeners allowed guns and explosives through security checkpoints, the last line of defense before those weapons could be on a plane. CNN has learned the Department of Homeland Security undercover investigators posed as passengers. In 67 of 70 tries, 67 of 70 tries, yes, you can do the math. That's nearly 100 percent of the time. TSA screeners didn't detect the fake weapons. And maybe the most incredible part of the report is this. In one test, an undercover investigator reportedly was stopped after setting off an alarm. You would think good news, right? Well, okay, then they gave this person a pat-down. And they failed to detect a fake bomb that was taped to the investigator's back. You can't make this up. But in a statement, the Department of Homeland Security is defending the TSA tonight. Saying, quote, \"the number on these reports never look good out of context, but they're a critical element in the continual evolution of our aviation security.\" This is unclear how numbers like this would look good in context. But the bottom-line is this. After years of getting liquids confiscated, taking off your shoes, pulling out your laptop, bombs still got through security no problem. Raising fears of terror attacks in the sky. Rene Marsh is OUTFRONT.", "TSA officers failed 95 percent of the time during undercover operations designed to test their ability to detect explosives and weapons at airport security checkpoints.", "These are anomalies that TSA screeners and/or their equipment should locate and at least flag for an additional screening.", "Teams with the Department of Homeland Security inspector general's office posed as passengers and attempted to pass through airport checkpoints with mock explosives and weapons. A government official with knowledge of the results say TSA failed 67 out of 70 tests.", "To miss 67 out of 70 different instances is extremely alarming. And I would say even dangerous.", "I am putting a detonator into the plastic explosive.", "CNN was there in 2008 for a similar covert operation. That time it was TSA testing its own officers.", "Okay, check.", "at the checkpoint, the tester is wanted and patted down where the fake explosive device was concealed. But the screener missed it. It's not until the tester lifts his shirt up.", "Oh, I see it now.", "The Department of Homeland Security says it, quote, immediately directed TSA to implement a series of actions, several of which are now in place.", "Is it the technology that's failing or is it the screeners themselves not following proper protocol? If TSA's screening equipment is failing in not doing the job, that's a larger systemic issue that TSA needs to address.", "Well, Erin tonight DHS will not say what actions were taken, only saying that several actions were implement, and many of them are now in place. They also point out that what happens at the security checkpoint is just one part of their layered approach to security. Also, you know, many of these tests are intentionally made difficult so that they can find the vulnerabilities. However, one former TSA official says that a 95 percent failure rate is just way too high. As you know, TSA has received millions and millions of dollars from Congress. And today just a short time ago, Representative Jason Chaffetz, he sent me this statement. He said that he's alarmed after spending, quote, $540 million on baggage screening equipment and millions more on training, the failure rate today is higher than it was in 2007 -- Erin.", "That's pretty atrocious no matter how you look at it. Rene, thank you. OUTFRONT tonight, republican Congressman John Mica. He sits on both the oversight and transportation committees. And he co-authored the 2001 legislation that created the TSA. And Congressman, I really appreciate your time. When you hear that number, bombs and weapons getting through security, 95 percent of the time during this test at American airports, airports in the United States, what concerns you the most?", "Well, that does concern me. But that's the DHS and TSA testing themselves. Unfortunately, the results when I have independent testing by others who are not part of that, the results are even worse.", "You co-authored the bill that created the TSA back in 2001. You also taught to be fair raised concerns early on. So before the program was even fully implemented the next year, you said, I'll quote you, \"the TSA has become a monster\" that was 13 years ago.", "Well, it has. It has. It started out with 16,500 screeners. We're now at over 60, 000 employees. We have 15,000 administrators. Just here in Washington we have 4,000 administrative personnel. This has grown completely out of control. It isn't doing the job we need to. What we need to do is be able to connect the dots, get intelligence information, go after people who pose a risk. And they can't do it with the current system. And they're failing to detect even these test incursions that are within their own realm.", "And I know that you've been privatizing a lot of the TSA functions. Obviously, that's been an option. A couple dozen airports out of 450 in the country have actually done that. You know, I'm just wondering why you see that as such a solution. The former president of the union -- well, though let me just finish the question quickly. He says look, if you're going to allow private contractors to bid, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. That's one concern. The other of course is, as we have all learned in this country, someone like Edward Snowden, right, worked for a private contractor contracted by the NSA. Private contractors are not a panacea.", "Well, the private contractors are used for actually the screening. And screening is not a law enforcement function. What is a government function is setting the standards but a government function is connecting the dots, finding out who poses a risk, making certain they don't get through the airport security. Almost every program they had, we could take you behavior detection -- I'm sorry, 3,000 employees and we spent a third of a billion dollars a year on that. And they let what is it, 25 terrorists -- 17 terrorists through airport 17 times. That means some terrorists have gone through multiple times. Government's responsibility is the security, the intelligence and not the mundane chore of screening passengers.", "All right. Well, Congressman, I appreciate your time. Thank you so much, sir.", "Thank you.", "And with the shocking TSA failure, tonight's battle in Congress on the NSA's authority to investigate terrorism is center stage. It's a debate that matters for all Americans and has major implications for the 2016 race for the White House. Dana Bash is live in South Carolina tonight. And Dana, that debate really heating up today between some of the major presidential candidates.", "Absolutely. And right here in South Carolina, you saw Lindsey Graham announcing that he is running for president, primarily because he wants to push back on the kind of foreign policy, kind of National Security that Rand Paul has been talking about.", "Lindsey Graham is quite specific about why he wants to be commander-in-chief.", "I want to be president to defeat the enemies that are trying to kill us. Not just penalize them or criticize them or contain them, but defeat then.", "Barely scratching one percent in most polls, Graham knows he has a steep hill to climb. CNN is told he is running primarily to force a debate within the GOP on foreign policy.", "Those who believe we can disengage from the world at large and be safe by leading from behind, vote for someone else.", "There a not so subtle dig at Rand Paul, a noninterventionist and Graham's chief foil, particularly on national security. For months, the two have exchanged long distanced barbs, and Graham was even caught rolling his eyes last month as Paul talked.", "Tonight begins the process of ending bulk collection.", "Paul's headline making filibuster temporarily stopped the NSA's data dragnet program which Graham calls essential. And it was a welcome contrast on his announcement day.", "So little by little, we have allowed our freedom to slip away. We allowed the Fourth Amendment to be diminished.", "Graham is hardly the only republican candidate who disagrees with Paul. Most do and are eager to say so.", "The first duty of our national government is to protect the homeland. And this has been an effective tool, along with many others. The Patriot Act ought to be reauthorized as is.", "It's very dangerous. This is probably the most dangerous time for Americans here since September 11th.", "I don't think there is anything, anything that we should be doing to lessen our ability to protect the homeland.", "Yet Paul is pursuing a very different kind of GOP primary voter, libertarians. His stand with Rand social media hash tag is generating buzz online and dollars for his presidential campaign.", "When fear and complacency allow power to accumulate --", "He even used some of his epic Senate floor speech in this campaign video, which violated Senate rules prohibiting video of Senate proceedings for political purposes. His rhetoric is generating some unwanted headlines like making this accusation against opponents.", "Some of them I think secretly want there to be an attack on the United States so they can blame it on me.", "This morning, he walked that back.", "I think sometimes going after people's motives and impugning people's motives is a mistake. And in the heat of battle, I think sometimes hyperbole can get the better of all of us.", "Now Paul is wearing it as a badge of honor that he stands virtually alone in the republican primary field when it comes to this issue. He claims that the others just don't get it. That in places like Iowa and New Hampshire, there are very specific voters who like the idea of the government staying out. And that being more important than national security, especially in a place like New Hampshire, live free or die, Erin. And in fact, Lindsey Graham is going to go there for his very first official campaign stop tomorrow. So, he'll test whether or not Paul and his advisers are right about that.", "Hmm, and as the country waits to see what happens to this Patriot Act. All right, Dana Bash, thank you so much. And OUTFRONT next, crime surging in major cities across America. Are police backing down out of fear of arrests and being called racists? Plus, Caitlyn Jenner once known as Bruce making a very public debut today revealing her new body and even more, stunning details about her transition from man to woman. And a pastor caught in floodwaters. One minute police are trying to rescue him. The next they shoot and kill him. What went wrong? We just got the video tonight."], "speaker": ["ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR", "RENE MARSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "CHAD WOLF, FORMER TSA OFFICIAL", "MARSH", "WOLF", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "MARSH", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "MARSH", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "MARSH", "WOLF", "MARSH", "BURNETT", "REP. JOHN MICA (R), TRANSPORTATION AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE", "BURNETT", "MICA", "BURNETT", "MICA", "BURNETT", "MICA", "BURNETT", "DANA BASH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BASH (voice-over)", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BASH", "GRAHAM", "BASH", "SEN. RAND PAUL (R), KENTUCKY", "BASH", "PAUL", "BASH", "JEB BUSH (R), FORMER FLORIDA GOVERNOR", "GEORGE PATAKI (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-308485", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2017-03-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/27/acd.02.html", "summary": "House Intel Chair Nunes Cancels Closed Door Session; W.H.: Trump Serious About Working With Dems; White House Looks To Tax Reform", "utt": ["--in November, December and January, after the election, during the transition. Still, despite his big announcement, Nunes himself seemed unsure about all that he had been privy to.", "You said that the president's communications were incidentally collected, but then you said it's also possible. So, was it collected or is it possible that it's collected?", "You know, I just don't know the answer to that yet.", "So you don't know if the president's communication --", "I know there was incidental collection regarding the president-elect and his team. I don't know if it was actually physically a phone call.", "And you don't know if it was the president himself, his communications?", "I do not know that.", "His press conference was just the beginning. That afternoon, Chairman Nunes had bigger plans.", "And I will be going to the White House this afternoon to share what I know with the president and his team.", "But before Nunes had a chance to brief the president, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was peppered with questions about the curious timing of it all.", "Because the president said that he had additional information that he believed the White House or he or his representatives would present related to this investigation, what Congressman Nunes has is not related to that?", "I don't -- you're asking me questions that he has not briefed us. He has not briefed the president.", "Nunes was back in front of the cameras Wednesday afternoon after talking with the president. And when asked about those claims by Donald Trump that he was wiretapped, Nunes' response was, \"You could say a bit complicated.\"", "Does this seem to describe what the president was talking about, he was talking about quote, wiretapping, which they then said was broader surveillance?", "You -- when you -- what I've read seems to me to be some level of surveillance activity, perhaps legal, but I don't know that it's right and I don't know that the American people will be comfortable with what I've read. Let us get all the reports.", "So the president was correct with what he tweeted?", "It is possible.", "The president said that President Obama tapped his phones. Have you see anything", "No, no, no. That did not happen.", "Nunes was also asked why he made the decision to brief the president.", "Why is it appropriate for you to brief President Trump even that it's his own administration or campaign associates that are a part of this investigation? Does it appear to be interference in some form?", "Because what I saw has nothing to do with Russia and nothing to do with the Russian investigation. It has everything to do with possible surveillance activities and the president needs to know that these intelligence reports are out there and I have a duty to tell him that.", "Later on Fox News, Congressman Nunes went even further.", "I felt like I had a duty and obligation to tell him because as you know, he's been taking a lot of heat in the news media.", "President Trump, meanwhile, saw and opening and took somewhat of a victory lap.", "Do you feel vindicated by Chairman Nunes coming over here?", "I somewhat do. I must tell you, I somewhat do. I very much appreciated the fact that they found what they found. But, I somewhat do.", "By Thursday, both Democrats and Republicans in the nation's Capitol were reeling. Democrat's going so far as to suggest Nunes is colluding with the White House, compromising his committee's investigation into alleged ties between Trump's team and Russia. They point to his campaign ties to the president as proof.", "In another diversionary tactic, deflector-in-chief created some kind of a scenario where he either duped or the chairman of the committee was a willing stooge. He committed a stunt at the White House yesterday raising questions about Chairman Nunes' impartiality, especially giving his history as a part of the Trump transition team.", "We can't conduct a credible investigation this way and the chairman really has to make a decision about whether that's his intention and that's what he wants to do or whether he is still acting as surrogate for the president.", "Then on Friday to button the week, Nunes abruptly cancelled what was supposed to be an open hearing this week about Russia's interference, explaining that he wanted FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Mike Rogers to be able to speak freely in a close session. The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee blasted Nunes calling it an attempt to choke off public info. But unlike the cancelled hearing, the controversy was very much alive. In fact, Congressman Eric Swalwell hinted earlier at something that was just around the corner.", "Where did he receive this information? From our knowledge, no one on his staff and no other members were a part of this, so that meant it had to be outside of the Capitol. So did he go to another agency and does that mean that the White House was a part of this? It sure seems like the White House after what came out on Monday was scrambling to do anything it could to put another smoke bomb into this investigation.", "Was the White House part of this? That's the question everyone now asking, that's because we now know that Chairman Nunes was at the White House the day before his bombshell announcement. Was 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue where he mysteriously disappeared to after abruptly leaving his staff? (voice-over): He did tell CNN he was not in the White House itself and that no one in the White House was aware he was there. The purpose of his visit, he said, was to, \"confirm what he already knew.\" It was a disclosure that put the White House on its heels today, namely, who at the White House cleared him for his visit?", "Clarification on your answer to Margaret, you said I don't know that members of Congress have to get cleared in. There is some question about that. Who in the White House signed him in essentially?", "I don't know that you had -- I'll be glad to check on that. I'm not sure that that's how that works, but I will follow up on that point.", "We followed up on that point and members of Congress do have to be cleared onto White House property. So it seems someone in the White House knew Devin Nunes was there. Who that is remains a mystery at least for now.", "And Randy joins us. Now, it's -- I mean, it's fascinating to see that long timeline. Congressman Nunes spoke out this evening. What did he say about who let him into the White House grounds?", "Well, Anderson, as you know, he was asked directly about who cleared him onto the White House grounds and he refused to say. He did not want to get into the whole process of how he got onto the grounds, but we do know, Anderson, that he would have needed a White House staffer to actually clear him to get through that gate and get onto the grounds. So, even though he's not giving out a name, we do know that that is how the process works. So I can also tell you that Nunes' quick to say that this was not some big secret operation that he was there on the White House grounds during the day that the sun was shining. He spoke with (inaudible) that he recognized. He spoke to people. He was trying to hide it and didn't want people to know. He said he could have gotten onto the grounds during the night. His main point today, Anderson, was to let people know that he was there for one reason, to get into one of those skiffs, those secure rooms so he can look at those confidential documents, Anderson.", "All right, Randi thanks very much. Back now with the panel. Joining the conversation as well is CNN Political Commentator Jason Miller and Angela Rye. He's a former senior communications advisor for the Trump campaign and was the communications director for the Trump transition. She is the former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus. Gloria, I mean, does this timeline make sense? I mean, is this unusual, this whole --", "Yes. It's all very unusual, particularly since you have foreshadowing of this kind of information that is going to be revealed from the president and then Sean Spicer.", "Well, the president said we're going to be submitting something later on and then Sean Spicer said, \"Well, let's wait and see.\"", "Right. And then you have Devin Nunes showing up on the White House grounds. And, you know, I was told today that this, by a source who's familiar with what Nunes was looking at, that the documentation was in control of the White House. So that's why he had to got fly, he had to go there. And so, you know, you have to put one and one together and say, this is an effort to divert attention to change the subject. Nunes may have very good reasons for complaining about the unmasking of names in intelligence and, you know, this incidental collection, and that's a legitimate thing to look into. But it is not what he was -- is supposed to be looking into, which is the Russia investigation.", "What it looks like is Trump tweeted something that had no grounding and fact.", "Exactly.", "And so the White House and the head of the House Intelligence Committee had to spend days figuring out what's something that could sort of be a fig leaf that would justify what he said even though it's not really what he said and that's what this entire process was and they turned to incidental collection as that fig leaf.", "But even when he came out with what he said, it wasn't actually what Donald Trump had alleged?", "Absolutely.", "But what was interesting in the timeline, of course, it ends with Donald Trump coming out and saying he's been vindicated. So it's just whole, like, just leading all the way up to this of him being vindicated even though he wasn't vindicated, and so it sort of the charade.", "And, Jason, I mean, first Chairman Nunes said that the story was about surveillance activities, that he felt the president needed to be aware of. And then to Sean Hannity he said that it was his duty to brief the president because he was, \"taking a lot of heat in the news media.\" Does that seem --", "You know, look, I think the biggest surprise today is that Nancy Pelosi is still around and we haven't seen her in a quite a bit, and so for her to jump in and --", "But, I guess, is it the chairman's job to protect the president from taking heat in the news media?", "I think, clearly, Chairman Nunes saw something that really concern. I mean, he brought it forward. I mean, look, the focus right now shouldn't be on the palace intrigue and the tick talk, it should be on what exactly Chairman Nunes saw and what he was so concern about that he brought to the president. And quite, frankly, I don't understand why the Democrats are calling for Chairman Nunes to step aside. This is supposedly an investigation into alleged collusion between the campaign and some (inaudible) before the election. Chairman Nunes has said very clearly, this is something that was after the election. It had nothing to do with Russia.", "They were looking for any contacts, but this has nothing to do with Russia at all.", "But that was to my point that it such a political stretch and quite, frankly, as someone who's partisan as a Republican, I'm glad to see the Democrats really overplay their hand here and I think it will be egg on their face.", "Mary Katharine?", "So what is worth, Nunes did tell to Eli Lake, Bloomberg News, that his source was an intelligence official, not a White House official.", "Right.", "Just to put that out there. Look, I think it was a far better way to handle this because he's in the situation -- I think it actually is part of his job to investigate wrongdoing if he thinks it's there in the Intel community as the House Intelligence had. But, because you're doing this other investigation, you do it in the cleanest way possible, and you bring forth this information and you got it in a very serious way and it does not appear to be what happened here. But I will say, I have no chill about the idea, the incidental information on any American citizen that sort of passed around like candy in a fun way within any administration. I do think that we give tremendous power to these entities and as a libertarian, I just want to say that that can be a problem. The Russian investigation is also an issue.", "Mary Katharine, speaking of no chill, I don't have any either, because we're talking about Donald Trump once again throwing a story line, instead of us talking about missing D.C. girl, instead of us talking about a white supremacist that killed a black man and had plans to kill more black people just because of who they were, instead of us talking about the health care debacle, we're talking about something that didn't happen that your president can't even spell, tap.", "No, no, I'm not directing that to anybody else besides me, because --", "So, I think that the bigger issue that I have, speaking of having no chill, is that if this would have been under the Obama administration, there would be no end to this. Barack Obama had to be the next best thing to Jesus and here we are just two months in and isn't change and there is issue after issue. Maybe it's not Russian collusion, maybe it's collusion with the Intel committee chair, but it's highly problematic. There are skiffs on the hill that this chairman could have went to, to get the classified information that he needed to be briefed on.", "But not to contain that information, he said that today.", "I think that the bigger issue that we have here is the Intel committee chairman all of a sudden has forgotten what procedures he needs to undergo, to study and learn and/or brief someone on classified information.", "But it's also interesting, I mean, there was at the beginning of last week, this bombshell of a hearing where Director Comey makes the statement and there was a certain amount of momentum to that and then Chairman Nunes has made several unilateral decisions basically to cancel the public hearing, which was supposed to take place tomorrow, which was essentially going advance this investigation, said it was going to be a closed door hearing with bringing back Comey and Rogers. That's now been canceled.", "And, you know, what it looks like to me is Schiff and Nunes negotiated a very wide scope for a serious investigation and after Monday's hearing Nunes said, \"Wait a second, maybe I made a mistake here. These guys just killed us, killed Republicans that talking about a criminal investigation of Trump. Maybe I need to put the genie back in the bottle, because everything he has done since Monday has been to dismiss, put up a smoke screen about what happened that hearing and shut down the public about the hearing.\"", "We got to just take a quick break. We're going to continue this conversation. Ahead, the united fund that House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes and Ranking Democrat Adam Schiff had been presenting. That is certainly history (ph). Schiff now, calling for Nunes to step aside. What Congressman Schiff told Phil Mattingly just before we went on air, plus the panels' take and the White House playing blame game before and wide for the failed GOP health care bill. The blame game they're playing sounds familiar to some who've watched Donald Trump over the years. Details on that, ahead."], "speaker": ["RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MANU RAJU, CNN CONGRESSIONAL REPORTER", "REP. DEVIN NUNES, (R) HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN", "RAJU", "NUNES", "RAJU", "NUNES", "KAYE (voice-over)", "NUNES", "KAYE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SEAN SPICER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "KAYE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NUNES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NUNES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NUNES", "KAYE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NUNES", "KAYE (voice-over)", "NUNES", "KAYE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT", "KAYE (voice-over)", "REP. NANCY PELOSI, (D) HOUSE MINORITY LEADER", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-64666", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-12-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/26/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Retail Woes: Post-Christmas Bargains Plentiful", "utt": ["We're going to keep talking shopping and see what's yet another disappointing year in sales, what it means for retailers, the healthy economy in general. Joining us now, Dana Telsey, a retailer analyst for Bear Stearns. A happy holiday to you. Thanks for joining us.", "To you, too. Good morning.", "And not so happy from what we're seeing for retailers. Really bad, and not just this year, but the third straight year in a row.", "Yes, this was a disappointing Christmas. Don't forget that Christmas doesn't end until December 31 in retails term, and overall, it didn't start off as bright. There was no must-have item. There were six fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. And also a concerned economy causes consumers concern.", "But in the past, that shortened Christmas season -- because if you look at the calendar and go back -- that hasn't been a problem in better economic environments for retailers.", "Yes, we have had shorter Christmas seasons, both in 1991 and 1996 when the holiday season sales rose around 2.7 percent and 2.9 percent. If we squeak by with even a positive gain, that would be a victory this year.", "Let's talk about this from a shopper's perspective. If you were in the stores before Christmas, and who wasn't, you saw so many discounts and sales then, and you do this, and then you go to the cash register and they'd give you another coupon. Some places, they practically were giving you money to walk out of the store with their items. If it was like that before Christmas, what's it going to look like after Christmas?", "There's even better bargains. Today, we're hearing of some stores having you take 50 percent off marked down merchandise, and so those early bird and late bird specials, take an additional 15 percent off.", "So, it's good stuff.", "Yes.", "How do you know where to look for the best bargains?", "Go to the department stores, go to consumer electronic stores. They're going to be all over.", "And then finally, January 9 for economic people like you, you're looking for that retail sales number. That's when we'll really know what the number is on Christmas?", "Right, that's when all of the individual stores will report their sales. You do have some of the bigger chains giving out numbers every Monday, and they haven't looked good.", "It hasn't looked good. But as I said, on the other side for shoppers...", "For shoppers, there's a bargain.", "There's a bargain out there. Go shopping. All right, Dana, thank you so much.", "Thank you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "DANA TELSEY, RETAIL ANALYST, BEAR STEARNS", "KAGAN", "TELSEY", "KAGAN", "TELSEY", "KAGAN", "TELSEY", "KAGAN", "TELSEY", "KAGAN", "TELSEY", "KAGAN", "TELSEY", "KAGAN", "TELSEY", "KAGAN", "TELSEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-56929", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-7-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/04/ltm.05.html", "summary": "Red Cross Official Discusses Child Summer CPR", "utt": ["Summertime is also, unfortunately, prime time for accidents involving young children. As we've seen too often, summer fun can turn fatal in seconds, especially at a swimming pool. It can also at picnics. Nancy Edmunds (ph) with the American Red Cross is here to show what to do if there is a breathing or a choking emergency. Welcome. Glad to have you with us today.", "Thank you very much. Glad to be here.", "So Leon and I were talking today. I mean, lots of folks, they're going to be lucky enough to be outside, enjoying picnics with their families. Sometimes we let our guards down. But what should a parent do if they happen to be outside and they see their child choking. What's the first thing they need to think about?", "Well, one of the first things is to always use prevention, if you can. Supervise your child on a regular basis, and watch them, especially when they are eating. And keep an eye on them, because if something does happen, you have to be able to react. And one of the first things that you do is what we call a system called check, call, care. First of all, you check out the scene, to see what the situation. Make a quick assessment. Then you are going to check the child to see if they -- especially if they're choking if they have good air exchange, yes or no. OK? If they don't have good air exchange, then you may have to go into a maneuver to help save the child from a breathing emergency.", "And you can actually walk through one of those maneuvers with us this morning.", "Sure.", "You want to start with reviving an infant.", "Actually, I'd rather start with a child if you don't mind -- OK?", "OK.", "One of the key things about child choking -- and again, when we talk about children, we're talking about ages 1 to 8. Usually when you talk about 9 and up, you're referring to adults in CPR. And that's an important point to remember. But in the case of a child, the choking skills for a conscious victim are going to be the same as you would be with an adult, with some slight modifications. The key maneuver's what we call the abdominal thrust. To find the correct portion of the abdominal thrust is that you find the navel, make a flat fist, put your hand right above the navel, and you are going to do sharp, upward, inward thrusts. In other words, to produce an artificial cough.", "You push it up and in under the diaphragm. You, hopefully, if see that and continually do that, the object will come out. And I've seen it working very effective.", "And what position does the child have to be in to make that work?", "Generally, standing. This is for a conscious standing child. And as an adult, you would need to kneel down, get behind the child", "So is that a variation on the Heimlich?", "Yes, it is. Basically, it is the Heimlich, but you're adjusting yourself to a child as far as the height is concerned.", "If the child is laying down, if the child is choking and he happens to be, or she happens to be, lying on the ground, you can't do that while they're there. Is there any danger in moving them?", "Generally, there is another technique that we use for somebody who is lying down, but that is a little more complicated. You would have to go take the class to really get that answered and practice that.", "Why don't you quickly show us what you would do with an infant, because this is technique is very, very different.", "Yes, because an infant, we have a different technique that we have to use. And it's what we call a series of back blows and chest thrusts. We cannot do an abdominal thrust, because that is not good or effective on this age group. So what you want to do, basically, is support the infant with your thumb and forefinger supporting the head. OK? And what you also want to do is make sure the infant's head is lower than the feet and position them for back blows. So you can either get on your hands -- down this way.", "Continue bending down -- there you go.", "But anyway, you can hit between the shoulder blades, and you make five effective blows with the heel of your hand: one, two, three, four, five.", "About that hard?", "Yes. You want to use enough force to be effective. Not harmful, but effective. So a lot of people are afraid to really use force on an infant.", "So it's kind of hard -- especially you're afraid of hurting your own child, so how do you gauge what's an effective strength, I guess?", "Well, you have to do it enough to vision yourself pushing the object out. So you have to use a little bit of force because you are here to save a life. So you've got to be a little more forceful than you might want to think. After you do the five back blows, you continue on by sandwiching the infant between your forearms, again supporting the arm, head lower than the feet, and doing what we call chest thrusts. Usually, there's an imaginary nipple line between the nipples. You take your middle finger, put it between the nipples. And you want to make sure that you hold it along your forearm. I know you're holding it like this, but you want to hold it straight along your forearms. Support it like that. And then you put the two fingers down.", "I'm going to switch hands here.", "Raise the ring finger. Again, support the head also. And just go, one, two, three, four, and five. And then repeat that process by going back over it: one, two, three, four, five. And go back. And do this. And again, this is on a conscious child -- or a conscious infant. If the infant is unconscious when you come upon them, it's a whole different technique. And you really need to take a class for that.", "I went to this class many, many years ago. And it's very frightening when you take it. And you really need to practice this, so we should recommend that people really go in and take courses. This would be good in an emergency situation, but we really should all know more about this. Go through the foods that parents really should be very careful with.", "In general, parents need to be careful of foods that can tend to block the airways, such as grapes, popcorn, hot dogs that aren't properly cut.", "Some pediatricians won't even allow hot dogs.", "I know ours didn't -- yes.", "Yes.", "Yes. And anything else that can block the airway. Generally, peanuts are not good either. So there are a lot of different things. And again, talk to your pediatrician, which is a good idea.", "Well, thanks for dropping by. Hopefully, this will be of great help to some parents. What we are really doing is keeping our fingers crossed that no one will ever have to deal with it. Nancy Edmunds (ph), thanks for your time. Take the course.", "Yes -- very much. 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{"id": "CNN-389046", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-12-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/29/cnr.03.html", "summary": "One Dead, One Injured After Texas Church Shooting; Five People Stabbed at Hanukkah Celebration in New York", "utt": ["We want to go straight now to CNN correspondent Paul Vercammen. He is following this story for us. And, Paul, I understand that there was some confusion about the initial death toll. What can you tell us?", "Well, they're calling it nothing short of a miracle, Martin. That's because there were three patients being transported to the hospital and all three were in critical condition. And from what we understand, one of those patients died, a second who they believe was the shooter, also dead and then this third patient in what seems to be just an unbelievable incident here. In a good way, they say the paramedics were furiously working on restoring a pulse, administering CPR to a patient who was described as dead. Well, it worked and this patient, said to be a male, was revived, this according to Medstar. That's the ambulance company that was transporting the patient and they called it nothing short of a miracle, something very, very rare in their experience when they are able to restore life to someone who they have called dead. That person transported to a local hospital. And more details now emerging about the shooting itself. We spoke with the wife of the minister. She talked to her husband via the phone. She said that this happened during communion, that quite often they have about 280 parishioners during these services. They're not sure that that was the case today and a video has emerged of someone who has a long gun who is in the back of that church who opens fire and then it is seen that someone pulls out a handgun and shoots this shooter. We'll learn more shortly, but the count would be this, one parishioner dead, one parishioner brought back to life, and the shooter also dead according to the ambulance company -- Martin.", "Yes. Stunning to believe that all of this plays out in a house of worship, but as you said, the good news that life appears to have been preserved out of this. All right, Paul Vercammen, thank you very much. And we want to alert the public. We're standing by for a news conference that will come from law enforcement down in the scene there in Texas. We'll bring to you as soon as it happens. You can see the microphones are set for that. Now to the developing news on that attack on members of a Jewish holiday celebration. A 38-year-old New York man has made his first court appearance. He is now being held on $5 million bond. He's charged with five counts of attempted murder after a mass stabbing at a Hanukkah party last night outside of New York City. Witnesses say the suspect walked into the home of an orthodox rabbi in the town -- in a town north of New York. Pulled out a long knife and stabbed five people. The house was full of more than 100 worshippers who had gathered together to light the Hanukkah candle. CNN has obtained these exclusive images of the aftermath and of course I'll warn you that they are graphic images. All of the victims are Hasidic Jews, two are in critical condition. A witness describes the moment the suspect arrived at the home and began the rampage.", "Started walking in by the door. I asked who was coming in in the middle of the night with an umbrella. While I was saying that, he pulled it out from the", "CNN's Alison Kosik is live at the scene for us. And Alison, what more are you learning about this attack?", "Martin, we are learning just how the suspect, 38-year-old Grafton Thomas, got in into the rabbi's house behind me. He walked in through the front door. It was unlocked but it wasn't unusual for Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg to leave his door unlocked and had this open-door policy, especially on a night like last night, the seventh night of Hanukkah. He was having a big celebration at his home. Almost 100 people inside the house celebrating. And in fact he was lighting the menorah when Thomas walked in with that large machete-style knife and started that stabbing spree, injuring five people including the rabbi's son. As you said, two of them seriously injured. All of them recovering at the hospital. One of the guests, Josef Gluck, is being hailed, though, as a hero. He threw a coffee table at Thomas and wrote down his license plate number before he fled. That's how police were able to spot him on the George Washington Bridge heading back to New York City. They arrested him in Harlem. They found Thomas with blood all over him and he smelled like bleach. Prosecutors believe that was a way for Thomas to try to conceal what he had allegedly done. This is a tight knit Jewish Hasidic, Orthodox Jewish community. Ninety thousand people live in Rockland County and a third of them are Jewish. And tonight was a special night because there was a dedication of a new Torah to a synagogue down the street. We want to show you some video because there was a parade that sort of came out of nowhere. It made a special stop here at the rabbi's house to show strength and resilience during this time of violence. And when one Orthodox Jewish leader spoke to me earlier today, this is a time unfortunately where he said if you're a Jewish person, you have to be looking over your shoulder. Martin, back to you.", "Alison Kosik, with the update there from New York. To Texas now and the update we're getting from law enforcement. Let's listen.", "Jeff Williams, regional director of Texas Department of Safety. Chief Edwin Kraus, Fort Worth PD. Sheriff Bill Waybourn, Tarrant County, and Eric Cast (PH) for the Texas Rangers. This will be the first press conference. We anticipate having another one around 4:30 to 5:00 in that area. We should be able to answer more questions. But in this first one, the chief is going to give you a statement and there will be no questions in this first press conference. So, Chief Bevering.", "Good afternoon. I'm Chief Bevering, White Settlement Police Department. First of all, I want to give my condolences out for all the parishioners and -- the parishioners at the church and our community. We're all hurting right now. And I just want your prayers for everybody at this time. Today it will be just a brief statement about what is going on so far. At this time we just want to tell the community that there is no ongoing threat to this incident. So today at approximately 11:50 a.m., a gunman entered the West Freeway Church of Christ, White Settlement, Texas, during the church service. The preliminary reports indicated that the man entered the church and fired a weapon. A couple of members at the church returned fire striking the suspect who died at the scene. Tragically the person shot by the suspect died at a local hospital and a second parishioner has life-threatening injuries. As we stated, the suspect is deceased and the threat has stopped thanks to the heroic actions of those two parishioners at the church. While the resources -- with the resources available, with the Texas Rangers and DPS, they will be leading this investigation. If we have additional information, we'll release it to the media and the public. In the meantime, like I said, we just ask for your thoughts and prayers for our community and the parishioners of the West Freeway Church of Christ. This is Agent DeSarno with the FBI and he'll make a couple of statements.", "Good afternoon, and thank you, Chief. I would like to echo the chief's comments for the entire community, the West Freeway Church of Christ. We're very sorry about this incident. The FBI is dedicated significant resources to aid in these investigations, those are investigative resources and technical resources. We are working very hard to find motive to get to the bottom of what happened. We're working very closely with the victims of this incident. And we will continue to provide partnership and resource support throughout this. As you see from the group assembled behind me, an incident like this doesn't get -- does not get solved and we don't get to the bottom of it without significant partnership with the Fort Worth Police Department, White Settlement Police Department, obviously the Texas DPS and the FBI working together in concert to find justice for these victims. So I'd like to introduce Jeff Williams, the regional director of Texas DPS for North Texas.", "Good afternoon. My name is Jeff Williams. I'm the regional director at Texas DPS. Like the chief and special agent in charge DeSarno said, I'd like to echo those same sentiments that our hearts go out to the victims and their families. I'd ask everyone to take a moment today just to lift them up in prayer. We have an enormous response here today to get to the bottom of what occurred. The resources that are represented behind me and the men and women who are inside the church working this crime scene. Unfortunately, this country has seen so many of these that we've actually gotten used to up to this point. And it's tragic and it's just terrible situation especially during the holiday season. I would like to point out that we have a couple of heroic parishioners who stopped short of just anything that you could even imagine and saved countless lives. And our hearts are going out to them and their families as well. This is an ongoing investigation. We don't have all the answers. I'm sure there are a bunch of them out there right now. We will continue to turn over every rock so we can get to the bottom of what have occurred. I want to thank you for your support in getting the message out that there is no threat to the public. We want everyone to know that we're doing our best to get to the bottom of this and as soon as we have some more information, we'll pass that along. At this point, I'd like introduce the Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn.", "Just reiterating what you already heard, this is a horrific day in Tarrant County, and our prayers and thoughts are with the folks over here at the church and the people that are lost. But today evil walked boldly among us. But let me remind you, good people raised up and stopped it before it got worse. I know we're not taking any questions. There will be a further brief later. But we've got a lot of resources to bear. Everybody is involved. We will get to the bottom of it. Thank you.", "All right, folks, thanks. Again no questions now. But we'll be back around 4:30 to 5:00 for a follow-up.", "All right. And there you have the latest update from law enforcement there. The primary message is that this could have been worse had it not been for what they described as heroic parishioners who returned fire against the gunman. We'll take a break and be back after this."], "speaker": ["MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN HOST", "PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SAVIDGE", "ARON KOHN, WITNESS", "SAVIDGE", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SAVIDGE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHIEF J. P. BEVERING, WHITE SETTLEMENT, TEXAS POLICE", "MATTHEW DESARNO, FBI SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE, DALLAS FIELD OFFICE", "JEFF WILLIAMS, REGIONAL DIRECTOR, TEXAS DPS", "SHERIFF BILL WAYBOURN, TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "CNN-375953", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2019-07-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/26/ip.01.html", "summary": "Pelosi on Impeachment; Nadler Speaks About Impeachment.", "utt": ["Welcome to INSIDE POLITICS. I'm Nia-Malika Henderson. John King is off. Moments from now the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler will brief reporters. Nadler today is going to court to enforce subpoena against the Trump White House. That action, part of the big, big debate over how, when or if Democrats should move on impeachment. Just last hour, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, denied that she's trying to stall.", "No, I'm not trying to run out the clock. Let's get sophisticated about this, OK. OK. Will that be --", "But how long do you think these court fights will take?", "We will proceed when we have what we need to proceed, not one day sooner. Their advocacy for impeachment only gives me leverage. I have no complaint with what they are doing. I'm willing to take whatever heat there is there to say when we -- when we -- the decision will be made in a timely fashion. This isn't endless.", "But the clock is ticking. The number of Democrats who support opening an impeachment inquiry is now at 96. Judiciary Committee Democrats, including the chairman, have debated opening an inquiry without Speaker Pelosi onboard. Pelosi met this morning with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, another show of outreach, and an attempt to paper over big and very public rifts with the New York freshman. In this post-meeting picture, you see it there, all smiles, and a promise from Pelosi to work together. But a clear message from Pelosi afterwards to Congressman Ocasio-Cortez and others who want to beat the impeachment drum. Don't do it.", "Democrats intend to own August, to make so many of the bills that we passed too hot to handle for the Republicans in the Senate, not to raise the minimum wage or end gun violence by common sense gun violence prevention measures. The list -- equal pay for equal work. The list goes on and on. A drum beat across America. Lower health care costs, bigger paychecks, cleaner government.", "Let's get straight to Capitol Hill and CNN's Manu Raju. Manu, the sophisticated reporter who's been on this beat all along. Manu, what do you make of what Pelosi has been trying to do with this press conference closing out the end of this week after the big Mueller hearing and going off to now what will be a six-week recess?", "Well, she's trying to frame their message in August. And one thing that she does not want to be talking about is the issue of impeachment, which a number of her members, of course, are now agitating about. Now, when you talk to a number of Democrats, they made clear that their concerns are that the window could be closing to moving forward on an impeachment probe because of the calendar. They are moving to the six-week recess. Then there's not many legislative days left in 2019. Then we head into 2020 where the election season will get into full swing and it gets much harder to do complicated things in an election season, such as impeachment. So the question that I tried to pose to her is whether or not her current strategy of moving to the courts, which she has now been advocating, is an attempt to essentially run out the clock, as some Democrats believe given her resistance to moving forward. She tried to make clear that she is not simply trying to run out the clock. And interestingly there saying that she has political leverage in the people who are calling for an impeachment as she resists it, suggesting that perhaps if she were to change her position, it would be a much stronger call given that she has said so far that she would not be open to moving forward. And trying to pin her down on exactly what that means in terms of her time frame is unclear as well. I tried to ask her whether or not these court fights -- you know, how long it could take. She said it will not be endless. And then when another reporter asked if it would be -- is it a drop dead date, she would not say there. But in a matter of moments, we're going to hear from the House Judiciary Committee chairman, Jerry Nadler. We will have -- we will hear what he has to say about his next steps as well, Nia.", "And Nancy Pelosi is sort of setting the table for what we'll hear from Chairman Nadler, as you say, moments from now. Thank you, Manu. We'll toss back to you when Nadler appears. Here with me to share their reporting and their insights, Seung Min Kim with \"The Washington Post,\" Julie Hirschfeld Davis with \"The New York Times,\" Laura Barron-Lopez with \"Politico,\" and Catherine Lucey with \"The Wall Street Journal.\" We saw there Nancy Pelosi ending this week. We probably won't hear from her much -- many of these other members. They're splitting town for six weeks. Nancy Pelosi there, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, really trying to bury the hatchet with Pelosi. This has been a big, big fight that they've had. I'm sort of surprised that they hadn't really met much before. What do you make of this? Is this going to work?", "Well, I mean, I think you're totally right that she's trying to sort of have this sense of unity going into the recess. And, actually, there is, I think, when you talk to members, there's a lot more unity today than there was last week and even two weeks ago when she was, you know, very openly feuding with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and these other freshmen women who often vote with her. And so some of that has dissipated. There still are, you know, substantive differences on impeachment, on policy, but they do go out of Washington, I think, this week on somewhat of a high, having passed this budget agreement with a lot of unity. They lost 16 Democrats on that deal that passed yesterday. That was, you know, a lot -- I think a lot fewer than at some points they thought they might have had. And they can point to an agenda where she has managed to keep them pretty unified, but that doesn't mean that there isn't going to be behind-the-scenes fighting and I think that we're going to continue to see that going forward. I think they were just able to end on a friendlier note today.", "Yes. And here's what she had to say in terms of whether or not there was an attempt to bury the hatchet between her and AOC.", "I don't think there ever was any hatchet. I would never even say that it was a hatchet. But I do think that we -- we sat down today. We had a good meeting. And the congresswoman is a very gracious member of Congress. I've always felt -- I -- again, it's like you're in a family. In a family, you have your differences, but you're still a family.", "Laura, no hatchet to see here, Nancy Pelosi saying here about her relationship with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This had been a bitter feud, right. You had Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of the so-called squad feeling that they'd been disrespected by Nancy Pelosi.", "Right. And they were very vocal about that and they were tweeting repeatedly about this. And there were feuds going on between staffers. And we saw Pelosi do the interview with Maureen Dowd, which also set off another round of this by her saying that she didn't think they had that much support, that this squad wasn't actually that powerful in the caucus. And so it definitely was, I would say, a hatchet. Or it was a bigger feud than Pelosi wants to let on.", "Yes.", "And we are seeing, though, as Julie mentioned, that it seems that everything has quieted down a lot heading into this August recess and it was not like that just a matter -- a few weeks ago.", "Yes. And part of the feud, obviously, all about impeachment. You heard Pelosi there essentially saying he doesn't really feel that much pressure. And whatever pressure she does feel actually gives her leverage. But here was Jackie Speier essentially saying, listen, the clock is ticking.", "If we don't take action come September 1st, then we should just shut it down because we're not going to be able to do anything at all. I feel strongly that we should, but I think we're running out of time.", "Ninety-six at this point House Democrats for opening an impeachment inquiry. Jackie Speier, in that same interview, also said she feels like there are 30 or so other members of the House Democratic Caucus who are also for impeachment but are kind of not being as vocal about it. Is that your sense as well?", "Well, I think a lot of times, especially for those 30 or so members that you mentioned, you do need a little bit of cover from the leadership to say, OK, this is OK to say, go out there and say you support opening an inquiry. And you're starting to get a little bit of that. I thought Representative Katherine Clark, who is a member of leadership, come out yesterday saying she does support opening impeachment proceedings was a pretty notable, a significant move. Also, remember, 96 is less than half of the Democratic caucus --", "Right.", "But more than half of the Judiciary Committee actually supports opening an impeachment inquiry. So that's why you see that friction, the private friction between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Chairman Jerry Nadler, who I think, if he had his own druthers, he would have already gone forward with it by now. We'll look at his tone in his press conference coming up. But that's a tension. And whether in that open question of whether the committee is even contemplating moving forward on its own is a really important one to watch.", "And here is what Nadler had to say this morning about impeachment.", "What if the administration defies these court orders that you believe are imminent?", "Well, if the -- if -- without question, if an -- no administration has ever defied a court order. If they did that, that is so far beyond the pale that it's totally, totally eliminating the rule of law, there would have to be an impeachment.", "And we'll, of course, hear from Nadler later today, Catherine.", "Yes. I think -- I think one of the things to look to as this fight continues its members in some of the more moderate districts. Those are the people that Pelosi is really trying to give a certain amounting of cover to. People who --", "People like Joe Cunningham of South Carolina, right?", "Yes, people who flipped -- people who flipped districts from Republican to Democrat who aren't interested in walking so far out on this. I was just in Michigan this week talking to voters in the suburbs of Detroit and you're not hearing a lot of talk about impeachment, about Mueller, about some of these things.", "Often on the campaign trail too, right --", "Yes.", "When you're covering these presidential candidates. Laura, you want to jump in here?", "Yes, because two more, as we're sitting here, just came out for impeachment. Two more House Democrats. Mike Levin of California. He's actually in a swing district. One that Democrats just flipped last cycle. And also Ann Kuster, who's in New Hampshire. So we're getting more and more probably near -- getting pretty close to 100 in the next few days.", "In some ways it wasn't the flood, I think, that people wanted and hoped for after the Mueller hearing.", "Right.", "Right.", "But certainly some flipped.", "Right. I mean I think definitely members that I've talked to in the last several -- the last couple of days since the testimony have said that they did think it was somewhat of a turning point one way or the other. But I do think it's important to look at what Nancy Pelosi said in that news conference, which I think is really true. This is not necessarily a problem for her. Every member who comes out and says they're in favor for this, it essentially builds the case for, well, if you don't cooperate in court, I've got people who are ready to impeach you tomorrow, you know? So as much as this drumbeat increases, I think there's a possibility that it could actually be helpful to her and helpful to the litigation prerogatives of the House.", "And we're going to -- Julie, we're going to have to end it there. Nadler is coming to the mics here and we're going to bring you his -- here he is, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jerry Nadler.", "We all here? Good afternoon. I am joined today by many of my colleagues from the House Judiciary Committee. We want to say a few words about Director Mueller, what we learned from his testimony, and next steps in our work to hold President Trump accountable for his conduct. Robert Mueller is a man of honor and integrity. He has led a life defined by service to his country. Some have argued that because Director Mueller was reluctant to testify, and seemed older than some remembered him, his work is somehow diminished. It is not. Before he ever stepped into our hearing room, the director had rendered our country a great and necessary public service. He showed through his report and his indictments that the United States was attacked and remains under siege by a foreign adversary. He showed that the Trump campaign both welcomed and benefited from this attack on our country. And he showed that the president repeatedly lied to cover it up. And if that were not enough, Director Mueller's testimony removed all doubt. He told us that Donald Trump obstructed justice and abused his office by tampering with witnesses, attempting to block the investigation and attempting to fire the special counsel. He told us that Donald Trump lied to the public about the Trump Tower meeting in New York, lied to the public about his plans for Trump Tower in Moscow, and lied in his written responses to the special counsel. He told us, in a remarkable exchange with Mr. Lieu, that but for the Department of Justice policy prohibiting from doing so, he would have indicted President Trump. Indeed, it is clear that any other citizen of this country who behaved as the president has, would have been charged with multiple crimes. Notably, my Republican colleagues were unable to refute a single one of these facts. So where do we go from here? We will continue to seek testimony from key fact witnesses. As many of you know, the committee has authorized several additional subpoenas. Our work will continue into the August recess and we will use those subpoenas if we must. We will also continue to seek important documents from the Department of Justice and the White House. We have made some progress on this front. There appears to be compelling evidence of the president's misconduct outside of the four corners of the redacted version of the Mueller report, and we will work to uncover that evidence as well. Finally, today we are filing an application for the grand jury material underlying the Mueller report. That information is critically important for our ability to examine witnesses, including former White House Counsel Don McGahn, and to investigate the president's misconduct. I will not comment on reports of our ongoing negotiations with Mr. McGahn. But unless he complies with our accommodation efforts in very short order, we expect to file an additional suit to enforce our subpoena for his testimony. And that will be next week, or earlier next week. I should note that the committee could not have brought these lawsuits without the help and support of Speaker Pelosi, who is as dedicated to holding this president accountable for his crimes as any of us gathered here today. Before I share -- before I take your questions, let me share just a few sentences from the petition we are filing with the court today. Quote, \"Because Department of Justice policies will not allow prosecution of a sitting president, the United States House of Representatives is the only institution of the federal government that can now hold President Trump accountable for these actions. To do so, the House must have access to all the relevant facts and consider whether to exercise its full Article I powers, including a constitutional duty -- power of the utmost gravity, recommendation of articles of impeachment. That duty falls in the first instance to the House Committee on the Judiciary,\" closed quote. As I said, that was from the court filing today. We take that responsibility seriously. No one can be above the law, not even President Trump. We'll now take some questions.", "So half of -- half of the members up here have (inaudible)...", "And I -- let me just say, as you take questions, I'm going to ask members of the committee to field the questions, as well. Go ahead.", "OK. Half of the members up here have come out in support of impeachment. How are you dealing with disagreement with the speaker on that issue? And especially heading into this six-week long recess, do you expect that those divisions -- to go away soon?", "I don't know that there are real divisions with the speaker. I would refer you to her earlier comments, in which she said that we must make the strongest case. If -- if our committee is going to recommend articles of impeachment to the House, we must make the strongest possible case both to our colleagues and to the American public. On that, we're in total agreement.", "So there's got to be a point, though, Mr. Chairman, where you break from the speaker and you announce publicly your support for impeachment?", "We are -- as I said, and as is clear in the court filings, we are exercising our full Article I authority, and we are looking -- we're going to be -- we are continuing investigation of the president's malfeasances, and we will do what we feel we -- and we will consider what we have to consider, including whether we should recommend articles of impeachment to the House. That's the job of our committee. We may decide to recommend articles of impeachment at some point; we may not. That -- that remains to be seen. And there's no point speculating on whether the speaker or anybody else will -- will agree with our decision at that point.", "But what -- what's holding you back from publicly voicing your support for impeachment (inaudible)?", "Well, if I can jump in, I mean, impeachment's...", "Impeachment isn't a binary thing that you either are or you aren't. What -- what we've been saying and what we've been doing is starting a process where we're engaging in an investigation to see if we should recommend articles of impeachment. It's a process. We started it some months ago in some ways while waiting for the report and holding the hearings that we've already had. So, you know, it's an ongoing process. The court filings today are -- are the next step. And we'll continue down that road, you know, to see whether we have the strong case that is needed to put to the American people.", "What about the idea here, though, that -- that at the hearing yesterday -- on Wednesday here, Speaker Pelosi said that they crossed a threshold, called this historic. What did Robert Mueller fail to do? Obviously, you said that he -- you know, he should not be diminished by his presentation, but what -- what would you have liked to have gotten out of him in that presentation on Wednesday?", "He didn't fail to do anything at yesterday -- two days ago (inaudible).", "He didn't fail to animate this? We heard that repeatedly from members on your side of the aisle that he failed to breathe life into that report.", "Well, if you showed up expecting a Broadway show, sure, you may have been disappointed. But if you listened to what he said, he said that the Russians attacked us. They had a preference for Donald Trump. The Trump campaign welcomed it and planned around it. And when the police investigated it, they took great lengths to cover it up, including the president. And the president is the only person in America who would be shielded from being held accountable because of what they did. That is pretty cut-and-dry. And what you have seen is not members who have called for impeachment saying, \"Take me off of that call in light of what Mr. Mueller has said.\" Six members since have come forward and have said, \"Add me to that call for impeachment.\"", "I'm sorry. The one thing Robert Mueller failed to do in that hearing is he failed to exonerate the president. In fact, he said he could not exonerate the president. So that, I think, is the answer to your question.", "When -- when members answer, will you identify yourself? That's Mary Gay Scanlon.", "Mary Gay Scanlon.", "May I just add an extra point?", "Sheila Jackson.", "On -- thank you, Mr. Chairman. Throughout the entire time of Mr. Mueller's presence before the House Judiciary Committee, he evidenced elements of a crime. He was not in any way shortchanging his answers that crimes had been committed. He said yes to the three elements of obstruction. He said yes that one element of instruction -- of obstruction could result in jail time. He also said that -- when I say said, answered a question, that said you did not have to have an underlying crime to be able to be convicted of obstruction. I don't think the American people have ever heard that in that manner before. I know there are some who may have read both volumes but they never heard it as it was laid out with the members of this committee that when you finish the Judiciary Committee's questioning and when you started with Chairman Nadler, who did an enormous job on framing our questioning by getting right to the meat of the issue of obstruction and then exoneration, which Director Mueller openly, and I think quite vividly, said that he was not, the president, exonerated, and then we continued methodically to reinforce that to the extent that the elements of obstruction, which I wanted to just mention here (ph) for a moment, an obstructive act, a nexus between the act and an official proceeding, and corrupt intent was associated with the actions of this president. The American people have never heard that. And I will close by simply saying on this question that you asked, for those of us who've seen Director Mueller before this committee on a number of years as FBI director, he has always been stoic and a former Marine, just right to the point. He certainly has a enormous talent of investigation. So when he came today -- or yesterday -- on Wednesday, he made true of what he said to the committee. He was going to stick with the report. He did that, but in doing so, every single question that would warrant someone being convicted of a crime was answered.", "Steve -- Steve Cohen?", "Thank you. I'd just like to add one thing that I think's been overlooked. Mr. Mueller made a point of saying, in a response to a question from Mr. Buck, which I think he probably would like to take it back, that the president could be indicted after he left office. Now, Mr. Mueller earlier said -- it may be in the report -- that one of the reasons to get all that information was to get it from witnesses while it was fresh in their mind and to most -- to preserve it for later use. If you didn't believe you had a criminal act, why would you want to preserve the evidence? So by the very fact that he preserved the evidence and said it was necessary to get these people while it was fresh in their mind and the best recollection, meant that he's basically saying he obstructed justice and the time may have to come after his first term -- or his last term, which would be his first term.", "The -- let me just summarize one thing here. I believe that the hearing with Director Mueller was an inflection point. It was an inflection point because it accomplished two things. One, you heard Director Mueller say that the -- that we were attacked by the Russians, that the Trump campaign welcomed the attack, welcomed the assistance of the -- of -- of the Russians, that the substantial evidence of crimes that are obstruction of government -- obstruction -- I'm sorry, obstruction of justice by the president, and that he was not exonerated. And that the mantra that the president and the attorney general have been telling the country for -- for months now, that they found no collusion, no obstruction and that the president's totally exonerated, is totally untrue. It changed that. Even you heard the president now saying that the -- the investigation was treasonous. He wouldn't be saying that if he still thought he could get away with saying the investigation established no obstruction, no collusion and totally exonerated him. So he broke the lie that has been propagated by the attorney general and by the president and we can -- and -- and -- and presented to the American people as stark conclusions, which we can now fill out by getting other evidence and getting the witnesses and so forth.", "Mr. Chairman?", "Madeleine Dean from Pennsylvania. I think -- I just wanted to say two things. One, about the performance of Mr. Mueller. I have nothing but the highest regard for Mr. Mueller and his life of service to this country. And what I believe we really should be focused on is not the performance of Mr. Mueller, but the performance -- or behaviors -- of this president, obstructing justice. That's the performance you need to be examining: the performance of the Trump administration welcoming, wallowing in interference by Russia. The performance of Russia, interfering with our elections in massive and sweeping ways that will continue. And a Senate yesterday that did nothing, in fact blocked, attempts to take care of or protect our elections. Those are the performances we need to be looking at. Those are the behaviors: Trump, his campaign, Russia and obstruction. That's what we need to be looking at.", "Mr. Chairman, you've been -- you've been fighting for these grand jury materials for some time. But you've also been engaging in an accommodation process with the Department of Justice. They've allowed you to view some documents. Even in a May letter, you said you've made clear, you're not seeking from the department any information or documents that are properly subject to rule 6(e), to grand jury material. So why is this material so important to you? What do you think you will find? And will that hurt the accommodation process you already have with the department for these other documents you want?", "Well, we have been -- all right. We have been engaged in accommodation processes with the Justice Department and various other witnesses to -- to get testimony and to get documents and so forth. It has been largely fruitless, but it is necessary to do that if you're going to go into court to enforce your subpoenas, which we're doing. With respect to 6(e), that is to say grand jury testimony, we have not requested it -- I mean, we -- previously. You have to go to court and request it. In previous cases, the special prosecutor -- I'm sorry, the committee went into court and requested this, 20 years ago, 40 years ago. And the attorney general went into court and supported the application. This time, we're going into court today. I don't expect the attorney general to support the application. Indeed, he may oppose it. But we want to -- we have to see the underlying grand jury material. We have (ph) a lot of things about the Mueller report which will be very informative to us.", "But doesn't this set a dangerous precedent, if this were to get leaked out? Why -- why is this information so important?", "The information is important -- and I can't characterize the specific importance because it's specifically because I don't know the specific contents, obviously -- because it's at the foundation. Much of the investigation by the special prosecutor -- or the special counsel was in the form of grand jury presentations, and that's what we -- and you have to see that. And in the case of -- of Leon Jaworski and Ken Starr, the committee in both cases was given that -- was given access to that information. And we should -- we need that information, too, to make a lot of different judgments.", "Mr. Chairman? Mr. Chairman, there's a vigorous debate in your caucus about whether or not to formally open an impeachment inquiry. You know, given what you've said about this file (ph) in comments that you've made in hearings in recent weeks, I mean, are you all beginning to shade into an impeachment inquiry, even if you haven't held the formal vote of the House? Is that what's going on here?", "What's going on?", "What's going on is that -- I think too much has been made of the phrase, \"an impeachment inquiry.\" We are doing what our court filing says we are doing, what I said we are doing. And that is to say, we are using our full Article I powers to investigate the conduct of the president and to consider whether to -- what remedies there are. Among other things we will consider are -- obviously, are whether to recommend articles of impeachment. We may not do that; we may do that. But that's a conclusion at the end of the process. Now, you may want to call that an inquiry or not. I think people, when they think of an inquiry, think of a formal House vote to -- to direct the committee to hold an inquiry. That's happened in the past. But there are -- there have also been instances where it didn't happen. The committee is exercising its authority to investigate all these scandals and to recommend -- to decide what to do about them, which could include articles of impeachment. And we've filed that with the court and we told that to the court and we're going to do that."], "speaker": ["NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, CNN ANCHOR", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PELOSI", "HENDERSON", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA)", "HENDERSON", "MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HENDERSON", "JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "HENDERSON", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA)", "HENDERSON", "LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ, NATIONAL POLITICAL REPORTER, \"POLITICO\"", "HENDERSON", "BARRON-LOPEZ", "HENDERSON", "REP. JACKIE SPEIER (D-CA)", "HENDERSON", "SEUNG MIN KIM, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "HENDERSON", "KIM", "HENDERSON", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR, \"NEW DAY\"", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-82932", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2004-3-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0403/13/cst.06.html", "summary": "John Kerry Calls For Monthly Debates Starting This Spring", "utt": ["The campaign trail took Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry to Illinois today. He visited the site of some famous debates to suggest some of his own.", "And so here in Quincy...", "John Kerry is directly challenging his Republican rival.", "I am asking George Bush to agree to a series of monthly debates starting this spring, to talk about the real issues in our country.", "The Massachusetts senator pitched the idea in Quincy, Illinois, where one of the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took place almost 150 years ago.", "This should be a campaign worthy of the great issues before us, a campaign that truly can give the election of America's president back to the people.", "Kerry's trying to focus on the issues after a week of a lot of negative back and forth.", "New government spending...", "At the same time, President Bush unleashed a multimillion dollar TV ad campaign, charging Kerry would raise taxes and questioning Kerry's record on defense.", "And he wanted to delay defending America until the United Nations approved.", "Once again, George Bush is misleading America.", "That forced John Kerry to respond with his own ads in key battleground states.", "...wants to cut taxes for the middle class.", "A Bush campaign official rejected the possibility that Bush would debate Kerry until after the Republican and Democratic conventions. The official response? The senator should \"finish the debate with himself before he starts to explain his positions to the voters.\" The Bush campaign accused Kerry of trying to change the subject after Republicans criticized the senator for calling them crooked and liars, while talking casually with Chicago workers. The Kerry campaign believes that going head-to-head with Bush would highlight the senator's debating skills, which helped him win his tough 1996 re-election bid. Recalling the steamer Lincoln and Douglas took after the debate, Kerry joked he probably won't be sharing a train ride with President Bush anytime soon.", "Who knows? Maybe it's possible that when it's all over, George Bush and I will be able to sit down together at a Red Sox/Rangers game and shake hands as friends.", "We shall see. This year's presidential campaign seems to have started earlier than ever. President Bush and Senator Kerry have already exchanged jabs, as you just saw, but will the negative tone continue? CNN White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux reports.", "After weeks of both sides swinging, President Bush's opponent seemingly offered an olive branch.", "President Bush and I can do better. And America deserves better.", "A call to drop the negative campaigning and a challenge to the president.", "I am asking George Bush to agree to a series of monthly debates, starting this spring, to talk about the real issues in our country.", "While Mr. Bush has already committed to three debates, his campaign is still smarting from Senator Kerry's offhanded comment...", "These guys are the most crooked...", "A Bush campaign spokesman said after calling Republicans crooks and liars, John Kerry is now calling for a civil debate on the issues. Senator Kerry should finish the debate with himself, before he starts trying to explain his positions to the voters. Earlier in the day, in dueling radio addresses, the president and Democrats faced off over the economy. Mr. Bush said his critics' plan would kill jobs.", "They want to increase federal taxes. Yet punishing families and small businesses is not a job creation strategy.", "Senator Kerry has said he would not raise taxes, but only roll back the tax cut for America's most wealthy. Liberal icon Senator Ted Kennedy fired back.", "Job creation in America is in the basement.", "Some political observers say the early hostilities between the Bush/Kerry camps will make it harder to make nice later.", "With a 24-hour cycle between cable TV and the Internet, you have attacks followed by attacks, followed by rebuttals, followed by rebuttal to that, too. So it's -- not only is it uglier than ever, but it starts earlier than ever. And it's more - I think it's more intense than ever.", "Both sides acknowledge the negative campaigning could backfire. So Senator Kerry offered this scenario.", "Who knows? Maybe it's possible that when it's all over, George Bush and I will be able to sit down together at a Red Sox/Rangers game and shake hands as friends. I'll tell you this. That would be an election that Americans would win in the end.", "But considering the way things have been going lately, that's not likely. Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, the White House.", "Joining us now to talk about this and other matters, \"Newsweek\" political correspondent Trent Gegax and Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. Excuse me, Larry. I know we've spoken many times before. Let me start with you. What do you make of the fact that the Bush campaign is debuting its ads so early in the political season?", "Well, there are seven and a half months to go, but you know, the election's tomorrow in their mind. And it ought to be. Bush has slipped well behind. Most of the surveys show either a tie or Bush losing by six to eight points. They can't start too soon. And I think they recognize that. They're behind the eight ball in a lot of the big states that they absolutely have to be at least competitive in if Bush is going to win November 2nd.", "Yes, and it seems, Trent, that it's a race as to who's going to define John Kerry first, John Kerry or the Bush campaign.", "Yes, that's right. The definition is the word of the month. And I think the Bush people think that the voters really know George Bush. They don't know a lot about John Kerry. So they're going to get out there and define him as a soft, flip-flopping elitist. But I think they're probably surprised by how quickly the Kerry camp is counter jabbing. And it sort of reminds me of the -- back in 2000, the candy gram committee that Dan Bartlett headed up. They were very effective in counterpunching Gore. And I would imagine they're a little surprised at Kerry's effectiveness.", "But Trent, what could the fallout be amongst the voters when the negative campaigning starts so early?", "Well, they're engaged right now. I'm not convinced voters will hate the idea of a nasty campaign this year.", "Really?", "They're evenly divided right now. And especially, John Kerry, he's got an interest in showing people he's got, you know, the fire in the belly because he has this sort of lackadaisical reputation. And he is out there showing people he's a fighter. And that could help him.", "Larry, what do you think? Do you think this is going to inspire voters? I mean, claims like, for example, President Bush is running in his ads that John Kerry, if he's elected, would raise taxes $900 billion. I mean, that is such a huge number, it's hard to even get your head around.", "Well, it is. Keep in mind, Carol, it's a long time to November. I think the key consideration is whether we go from legitimate negatives, which are really contrasts about issue positions, they're all right, to negatives that involve name calling or even investigation into personal lives. That would really turn voters off and I think turnout would decline.", "But usually, those are the soft money ad campaigns that are run by the parties. How badly can it really reflect on the candidate himself?", "Well, I think people have gotten video-wise about these television campaigns. Even if they're \"independent committees,\" most people who show up to vote can figure out exactly who's behind them.", "All right, we've got a few seconds left. Trent, the Nader factor. Ralph Nader. Is he going to be an upset for John Kerry?", "Well, he'd be a lot more dangerous if he was running as the Green Party candidate, but he's going to have difficulty getting access to a lot of ballots in states. So if the Democrats can use him to bring voters out, to bring their base out, then I think he could actually help.", "Larry, does he - is he likely to have an effect in any particular part of the country?", "Well, he could. I'm betting this year, he gets less than 1 percent of the vote. In 2000, he got 2.7 percent of the vote. So he's about as third as damaging to Kerry as he was to Gore.", "Thank you very much, Frank Gegax of \"Newsweek\" and Larry Sabato of University of Virginia for joining us tonight. We'll see what happens.", "Thank you.", "It is early in the season. We'll be talking again. A bold proposal to avoid another political blunder. 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{"id": "CNN-40466", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2001-9-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/26/se.10.html", "summary": "America's New War: OPEC Not To Change Policy", "utt": ["The OPEC ministers are meeting in London right now, and the word we're getting is that they're not talking about making major changes in the world's oil supply. Let's check in now with Richard Quest -- he's in London. He's got the very latest for us on this OPEC meeting -- hello, Richard.", "Oh, hello, Leon. Now -- yes, indeed. The meeting, which takes place at the moment. The ministers are gathering in Vienna, and basically what they have to do is decide whether they're going to raise or cut production, because of the way oil prices have fallen so very sharply in recent weeks. Remember, just on Monday, we saw the largest, single fall in the price of a barrel in 10 years. Leon, just bear with me a second. I want to just give you a bit of background, just for a second or two, about OPEC -- the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. There are 11 members of OPEC, and basically they're from the biggest, Saudi Arabia, to the smallest countries, Qatar, Venezuela, UAE -- United Arab Emirates. You name the big Middle East countries; they're part of OPEC. And together, they form 40 percent of the world's oil supply. So what they decide on how they decide to up and lower production makes a great impact. What OPEC has said is it wants to keep the price of oil between this price: $22 and $28 a barrel -- ideally, $25 a barrel. And now, of course, what we're seeing on the International Petroleum Exchange is as the threat of a recession comes along, the prospect of a general slowdown -- global recession even, we're now seeing the current price: $20.51. This, as far as OPEC is concerned, is very bad news. Of course, for the motoring and traveling public, it's good news indeed. It means cheaper prices at the pump. We have seen some companies, like British Petroleum, already cut the price of gasoline, Leon. That's what's worrying OPEC at that meeting in Vienna -- Leon.", "Well, Richard, you mentioned the recession and the worldwide slowdown economically here, but are you hearing anything about any concerns among the OPEC members there about this new war against terrorism? Do they suspect anything there may have an impact on oil prices?", "Oil prices will move if there's a threat to the supply. That was the whole point about the Gulf War. That's why we saw such enormous moves in the price of oil. There was a threat to Kuwait, to Saudi Arabia. In this particular case, Afghanistan -- possibility of attacks there doesn't threaten supply. So to some extent, it's not the same dynamics. There is one important point to remember, and that is that most of these Middle Eastern countries have large Muslim populations. So if there is disruption, if there is civil unrest, if there is riots or anarchy in any of these countries, that, of course, plays into it. You know, governments in Saudi Arabia may break off relations with the Taliban, and other governments may support the U.S. coalition, but the Muslims within these countries may, indeed, cause more problems within that. So it's all a question of supply, Leon. Keep your eye on that. When supplies are at risk, that's when prices rocket.", "Thanks. That's Econ 101 with Richard Quest. Thanks a lot -- we'll talk with you down the road, pal -- take care."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "QUEST", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-248717", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-02-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/05/nday.04.html", "summary": "U.S. Surgeon General Talks about Measles Outbreak", "utt": ["There are more than 100 cases of measles across the country. 99 cases alone in California. In his first in-depth interview as surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy addressed the growing outbreak with our chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.", "We know the numbers now, the number of people who have the infection, the number of states that have been involved. How do you quantify how bad this is from a public health standpoint? I mean are we on the precipice of this potentially getting much, much worse? Given how contagious this is?", "Well, measles is highly contagious, in fact if not the most contagious virus that we know of. You know, as you know, if you are not vaccinated, and you are exposed to measles you have a 90 percent chance of getting it. Which is that extremely infectious. The flip side is that if you are vaccinated, then your chance of getting it is only about, you know, it's much, much lower. I mean you get a 97 percent protection rate if you get both doses of the vaccine. So that's very good. But I think right now we are at a critical tipping point. Where you know, if we need to closely monitor the number of cases that we have. We need to continue to do contact tracing.", "Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins us now from Atlanta. It's interesting, Sanjay, getting to see the two of you sit down together, his first major TV interview. He is one of the young -- he is the youngest surgeon general. He is the first of Indian descent and he's taking on this job while this measles outbreak and controversy is going on. Did he address that, about taking the job on right at this time?", "Yeah, he did. And remember, he was nominated in November of 2013. It wasn't confirmed until just December of 2014. Just recently, so he just started. This is, you know, obviously was ongoing. Even as he was getting confirmed. So yes, he is saying he's going on a listening tour around the country trying to understand what's happening in the states. But he hadn't done much in the way of interviews. I asked him why now? You know, I think it's just because he just wants to sort of travel around for a little bit and understand what's happening out there, first.", "Well, if he's going on a listening tour, he doesn't have to listen too closely, because the sound is resounding there. There are people yelling from the rooftops about this vaccination debate. From a public health prospective, did he address the problem when people choose not to? Did he talk about that specifically?", "Oh, yeah. No, absolutely. And I give him credit for one thing, that, you know, he's not being equivocal on this, he's not wavering, sort of giving both sides. You know, he's very strongly wording the fact that if you drop below a certain vaccination rate in the country, then you start putting the average person more at risk. So, you know, babies, for example, Michaela, they can't get vaccinated. People ...", "Right.", "Who are -- have cancer, who are undergoing chemotherapy can't get vaccinated. So, there's going to be a certain percentage of the country that's always at risk. What they count on is what is known as herd immunity, meaning having enough of a herd of people around them to protect them. Until they can be vaccinated. Until they recover, until the child grows old enough. If you don't have herd immunity, all of a sudden you start to see what is known as sporadic cases of measles popping up and that's how something starts to become endemic again. That's how something starts to spread. Right now we're about 91.9 percent vaccination in this country. If we drop below 90, that's when that could start to happen.", "Well, you talk about the herd, the herd is not just here in our country. The herd extends, because we know our borders are open. And you look around the rest of the world. Did you guys talk about that? The immunization rates in other countries?", "Yes.", "Because there's difference there. In fact, some countries have better rates of immunization than we do here in the United States.", "Michaela, did you know that Russia has better immunization rates ...", "I didn't know.", "China does. Zimbabwe. Iran. I mean the list goes on and on. Those are countries that are doing better than the United States when it comes to vaccinating against measles at a year of age. I asked the surgeon general about that. Let's listen to his answer.", "Part of the challenge that we have had is in part we're a victim of our own success. Because we were able to eradicate diseases like polio, because we were able to eliminate measles in the United States. Many people have not seen these diseases. And they, they become, they become less of a threat. They become more theoretical.", "What he's basically saying is that we're not slapped in the face with seeing these diseases on a regular basis. And all of these other countries, they see measles, they see mumps on a regular basis and they say, we don't want that. So that's why vaccination rates are much higher. We're just not -- we're not as acutely aware of the risk here.", "Right. I want to read, you wrote incredible and strongly worded op-ed for cnn.com. I want to read your words to you and for the rest of our viewers. Here's what you say, that you are 100 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to have a serious allergic reaction to the vaccine that protects you against measles is not a matter of opinion. You go on to say \"facts should matter and science should win. But after 13 years as a medical reporter I know it's not that simple.\" There's a lot of emotion in this debate, Sanjay. Not often based on scientific fact.", "I think people get lured into the emotional part of the debate and it's easy to see why. I mean it's children and it's autism.", "Sure.", "I mean you cannot think of two more emotionally evocative things anywhere than those two topics. But that doesn't, you know, that doesn't change the science. You know and I think it's people are uncomfortable not knowing what causes autism. So we want to fill the void. We are not comfortable with voids, we want to fill the void with anything. And that's where a lot of people point is to vaccines. You know, you can understand that part of the sentiment. But I think that people who don't forcefully say, I get that, but that doesn't change the science. People who are not saying that are not doing a service to, because this is dangerous. People could die from not getting vaccinated. And this is totally preventable thing. There's so many problems in the world we don't know how to prevent. We don't know how to address, we don't know how to tackle ...", "This is one that ...", "This one we can fix.", "Right. Dr. Sanjay Gupta from Atlanta, thank you so much. Go to cnn.com, you can read the article in full. Chris?", "All right, Mick. Two deadly crashes, one by air, one by rail. The key to both is what caused them. And we have the latest on both investigations. Hear what a former head of the NTSB has to say."], "speaker": ["MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR", "SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "DR. 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{"id": "NPR-36862", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2009-05-30", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104755965", "title": "Pakistan Secures Key Swat Valley City", "summary": "The Pakistani army says it has recaptured the city of Mingora, a key victory in the government's battle against the Taliban in the Swat Valley. The military victory comes nearly a month after Pakistan launched its biggest offensive yet against extremists whose dominion over Swat drew international concern.", "utt": ["In Pakistan today, the army says it has recaptured the key city of Mingora. It's the main town in the Swat Valley where the army is battling to take back control from Taliban militants.", "From Islamabad, NPR's Julie McCarthy has the story.", "Winning back Mingora was one of the principal objectives for Pakistan's army. What began as a fierce house-to-house fight for the city last week ended with the militants not putting up much resistance at all, according to military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas.", "He told an afternoon news conference that when the Taliban, quote, \"realized that they were being encircled, they decided not to give a pitched battle.\"", "Defeating the Taliban in Mingora was militarily as well as psychologically significant. Extremists held a grisly sway over the city. Beheaded bodies were dumped in town squares. Women were harassed if they failed to adhere to the strict moral code of the militants.", "While the recaptured Mingora was a milestone, the battle to rest control of the entire valley is far from over. Unable to capture or kill major Taliban commanders in Swat, the army has offered cash rewards as much as $600,000 for information leading to the arrest of top militant leaders. They may have retreated into the hills along with many fighters.", "Yet the overall military campaign may have eased U.S. concerns that the Pakistani government was not up to the task of taking on the Taliban. It has not come without a huge price.", "According to government officials, the conflict in the Swat Valley area has displaced nearly three million people from their homes. The government would like to get them back home as soon as possible but services damaged in the fighting first need to be restored. The army conceded that it could take at least two weeks to get electricity back up in the city of Mingora. A medical team has been dispatched to tend to those who remain stranded in the city during the siege.", "Julie McCarthy, NPR News, Islamabad."], "speaker": ["JACKI LYDEN, host", "JACKI LYDEN, host", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY", "JULIE MCCARTHY"]}
{"id": "CNN-243206", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2014-11-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/14/acd.01.html", "summary": "Robert O'Neill Gives Details of Killing of Osama bin Laden", "utt": ["Good evening, I'm John Berman in for Anderson. Tonight, the two window washers rescued above New York City speak out. And we give you look at just how risky their job is. They are some of the bravest workers on the planet. Plus, a feline fugitive that advantage to alluded huge search outside Paris. Now, the suspect has been downsized from a tiger, but an estimated 175 pounds, that's what they are saying. It is definitely a big cat. But whose cat? We begin, though, with the man who is taking credit for killing Osama bin Laden. And in doing so, has enraged many of his former Navy SEAL brothers, not to mention top military brass. Many are calling Robert O'Neill a traitor for breaking the code of silence that SEALs hold so sacred. What is more, his version of how the raid went down is disputed by some of his comrades in SEAL Team Six. Tonight, Robert O'Neill has a response the intense backlash that his claim has triggered. The 2011 raid on Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad Pakistan was more than a sensitive mission. It was really the Mount Everest of commando operations. A team of 25 SEALs breached outer walls of the compound and fought their way inside the three-story building. Bin Laden and his family lived on the top two floors. That is where team six was headed. Today. Robert O'Neill sat down with CNN's Jake Tapper and told him his version of what happened.", "In the brief moment you had with him, did you get a sense of him at all? Was it like this is the world's most evil man or was it, this is a coward, this is just another guy? What did it feel like?", "The sense was recognition. First of all, an ID of him, and then he's a threat. And then I had to shoot him. And it wasn't the first time I had done that on a target. This wasn't the first target I have been on. And at this point, it was a target. I recognized the threat. I recognized the individual we were after, which was Osama bin Laden and I engaged.", "A sniper friend of mine wants to ask you, what did it feel like?", "At that minute, it was just, it felt like that was the initial threat I had to take care of. And then there were more threats. Threats are just potential unknowns. There were two more -- there was a woman and a child. I wanted to put them in a place they weren't in danger. So they went under the bed. And then there were other spots that need to be cleared. It wasn't until the room was cleared and more SEALs were in the room and it kind of hit me that this felt like -- I had a moment of pause. And I talked to a friend of mine who was in the room and he came up to me, and he put his hand on my shoulder. And I said hey, what do we do now? And he kind of smiled and he goes now we go find the computers. And I said OK, I'm back. That was quite a thing that just happened.", "Fascinating. Jake Tapper joins me now along with former Navy SEAL Jonathan Gilliam, CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen who was, by the way, one of the few journalists who have ever interviewed Osama bin Laden. He also went into that compound after bin Laden was killed. Jake, I want to start with you. This was a terrific interview. I was struck by the fact that O'Neill says he thought he was going to die on his way there and really through much of the mission. And I was also struck by, when you asked him what it felt like to actually kill him. And he really just said it was part of the job.", "Yes.", "I'm wondering what struck you?", "Well, it is so interesting. As you point out, that he thought they had a 90 percent chance of not coming back. And that was his thought as he was on the Blackhawk headed to Abbottabad in Pakistan. Ninety percent chance the Pakistani military was going to shoot them down, 90 percent chance that the compound would be hard wired. And that the idea that before he went into that room, he was stealing himself for bin Laden to be there and covered with explosives. And he went in thinking this is how I'm going to die, but it's OK, because bin Laden is going to die, too. And that is when he went in. And then it turned out bin Laden did not have explosives on and he shot him. That, I thought that was very telling. And said a lot about the willingness of our troops, of our service members to do things that they know may very likely result in their death or mutilation.", "Peter, there have been a lot of questions raised about O'Neill's account. If it's true, if it really went down the way he said went down, you are one of the very few people who have been in that room where bin Laden was killed. Does his version of events square with what you saw?", "It's not consistent with what I saw. You know, I was there in daylight. I wasn't there with a big fire fight going on with. You know, there was no electricity that night, there is no moon. People with night vision goggles. You know, and I'm not a forensic investigator. From what I saw is very consistent with what he said. That said, there's another very distinct account, which is not his account, which is account of other people on the team, either that I have spoken to or spoken to others. And at the end of the day, I don't think anybody is lying. I think that these are -- it was a very confusing situation. And even when there's a car accident, often people have very different accounts of what happened. This is the world's most wanted man. There have been three fire fights, I mean, a helicopter down. And the whole event that we are talking about probably took about ten seconds from first seeing bin Laden to him being killed. So, you know, at the end of the day, we are never going to settle who actually killed bin Laden. We have Robert O'Neill's account. He's very clear. I spoke to him yesterday in detail about it. That it was his shot that killed bin Laden. But there -- others on the team who say something different.", "Jonathan, you have been on missions. Does this sound like any of the missions you have been on? Was this ordinary in the sense of how it was performed or extraordinary?", "Well, I mean, just from the nature of this mission and the amount these guys practiced this mission, there was nothing overwhelmingly big about this particular mission, maybe the fact it was going into Pakistan. Definitely the fact of the high value of the target. And the way and secrecy it was practiced over and over again. But the actual mission itself, I'm sure Robert O'Neill is probably done hundreds of those missions, you know. That's the type of missions SEALs do.", "We are going to talk about whether it's right or wrong for him to come forward because of the code, those that exists among the SEALs. But I want to ask you specifically about the idea that he's talking about the mission in some detail. Not necessarily to Jake, but he has been out there talking, giving some details about how he did his job. Does that concern you?", "Well, it concerns me in a couple of ways. One, from just a legal standpoint. You know, when you look at national security, anything that is classified, whether be classified secret to top secret and on to the other classifications. These are things that will injure the nation if these secrets are given. They can injure the nation. And so, it is alarming that some of these things are out there because it can put troops in harm's way. When you tell how long it takes to get from, you know, one base on target, they know how long they have to actually carry something out or maybe there's a base, for instance, in a certain location they flew from and they flew to that certain people didn't know about before. Some people may. But when you say it's 90 minutes in the air in this direction, they now know that or the fact they are looking at certain things when on target. He said multiple times that, you know, they were arranged in this way, so they knew there was a high value target there. There may be some enemies that -- parts of enemy that don't know that.", "Jonathan, Jake, Peter, stick around for a moment. We are going to play more of Jake's interview ahead. Robert O'Neill talks about the controversy surrounding the fact that he came forward. He credits the discussion with 9/11 families. Plus, the window washers rescued from that broken scaffold dangling above lower Manhattan. Now sharing their story how they kept their cool, 68 stories up in the air."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN HOST", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "O'NEILL", "TAPPER", "O'NEILL", "BERMAN", "TAPPER", "BERMAN", "TAPPER", "BERMAN", "PETER BERGEN, CNN SECURITY ANALYST", "BERMAN", "JONATHAN GILLIAM, FORMER NAVY SEAL", "BERMAN", "GILLIAM", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-286248", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2016-06-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/09/ng.01.html", "summary": "High Powered Financial Guru Suspected of Stabbing Wife.", "utt": ["`Can I go to her funeral?` A high-powered financial guru actually jokes with police when he is suspected of stabbing his gorgeous wife 22 times in a \"Psycho\"-style shower attack.", "Reich ambushed his wife, Dr. Robin Goldman, while she was in the shower. He used an 8-inch kitchen knife to repeatedly stab her some 22 times in the chest, stomach and back, puncturing her heart, lung, liver and kidney.", "When we say, \"Psycho\"-style attack, let me show you what we`re talking about. Look.", "That is \"Psycho\" from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. And that`s what we`re talking about. And after that kind of attack where his wife is stabbed 22 times, he actually jokes with police. Joining me, Lisa G., with 24/7 news WOR. Lisa, thank you for being with us. What exactly did he say? What happened, Lisa?", "Well, they said, like you hinted at, that he was a little psycho. He allegedly requested anxiety medication and speculated that his wife`s death was probably a homicide. And Nancy, he also asked cops for a pastry. He wanted a Danish.", "OK. Wait. Matt Zarrell, let me understand something. So he asks police for, what, coffee and doughnuts?", "Yeah. He wanted a turkey sandwich with mustard and coleslaw. And at one point, he mentioned he was grieving and in the same breath that he mentions he`s grieving, he asked if he`ll be able to go to the services for his wife.", "Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst, author of \"Deal Breakers.\" Dr. Bethany, his wife has been stabbed 22 times. His response, yeah, that might be a homicide. He`s the only one in the house, Bethany. But what I want to ask you about, Dr. Bethany, is demanding a turkey sandwich with mustard, pastry and hot coffee. He also complained about the temperature where he was sitting and asked for a magazine. Help me.", "Can we say big, fat baby? I mean, honestly, Nancy, what we see with sociopath is this would fit the profile of sociopathic behavior, and that sociopaths have very little anxiety about getting into trouble. They lack cause and effect thinking. They have a difficult time anticipating negative consequences to their behaviors. They have low levels of empathy towards others and honestly, they often commit homicide in response to very small insults or because they are not going to get their way. I mean, my understanding is that they were going through a divorce. They were about to meet with their financial -- the person is going to plan the financial settlement that day, and there is a possibility that if this alleged homicide was his fault, that there was some financial motivation to get rid of her. But that obviously, sociopaths lack big-picture thinking, so he couldn`t grasp the fact that when the policemen come to the house, that they might think that he did it or that the financial reward would not make him look very good.", "Unleash the lawyers, Troy Slaten and Yosha Gunasekera. All right, to you, Slaten, she`s dead in the shower, 22 stab wounds. He is the only one in the house and he demands a turkey sandwich with mustard, a Danish coffee and a magazine. Thoughts?", "He is obviously nuts. I mean. he wasn`t trying to hide this. He is asking the cops what they think about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. He is asking for a turkey sandwich. This guy is out of his mind. And so clearly ...", "He had enough wherewithal, Yosha, to hide the knife in his newspaper.", "I still don`t think that rules out a potential insanity defense. He still might not understand what`s right from wrong. I think ..."], "speaker": ["GRACE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GRACE", "GRACE", "LISA G., 24/7 NEWS WOR RADIO", "GRACE", "ZARRELL", "GRACE", "DR. BETHANY MARSHALL, PSYCHOANALYST", "GRACE", "TROY SLATEN, DEFENSE ATTORNEY", "GRACE", "YOSHA GUNASEKERA, DEFENSE ATTORNEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-364823", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-03-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/19/cnr.18.html", "summary": "P.M.: Tougher Gun Laws On The Way; Three Dead Five Wounded In Rush Hour Attack; Yellow Vest Rallies To Be Banned In Parts Of France; U.K. Parliament Speaker: May Cannot Resubmit Same Deal", "utt": ["New Zealand's Prime Minister promises answers and gun law reforms, try to make sure the worst terror attack in that country's history never happens again. Plus, police track down the man suspected of opening fire inside a tram in the Netherlands, the motive though still unclear. Also ahead this hour, and emerging disaster in Mozambique, more than 1,000 people are feared dead after a tropical cyclone hairs ashore. Live from CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta, welcome to our viewers all over the world, I'm George Howell. The CNN NEWSROOM starts right now. The Prime Minister of New Zealand continues to speak out about fellow citizens who lost their lives in Friday's terror attack. She's vocal about changing laws to make sure that it never happens again. But the one thing the Prime Minister will not say, she will not say the man accused -- the name of the man accused of killing people in cold blood. His name not even worth mentioning. Jacinda Ardern and made that message quite clear when she spoke to Parliament's first meeting since those shootings. She called the suspect a terrorist who will face the full force of law. 50 people were killed when a gunman attacked two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday. The Prime Minister mostly used her comments before Parliament to comfort victims, their loved ones, and her country. She also promised justice.", "There are many questions that need to be answered. And the assurance that I give you is that they will be. Yesterday, cabinet agreed that an inquiry, one that looks into the events that led up to the attack on the 15th of March will occur. We will examine what we did know, could have known, or should have known. We cannot allow this to happen again.", "Our Senior International Correspondent Ivan Watson is live in Christchurch, New Zealand. And Ivan, the Prime Minister spoke about a nation that is certainly mourning the loss of many of its citizens, but again there is one name that she says is he not even worth mentioning.", "That's right. She confronted the suspected terrorist behind the two mosque shootings on Friday that have resulted in the deaths of at least 50 people and so many more wounded including nine in critical care at Christchurch Hospital down the road from where I'm standing. Take a listen to another excerpt from her speech in Parliament.", "He's a terrorist. He's a criminal. He's an extremist. But he will when I speak be nameless. And to others, I employ you speak the names of those who were lost rather than the name of the man who took them. He may have sought notoriety but we in New Zealand will give him nothing, not even his name.", "So let's speak about one victim and survivor Farid Ahmed whose wife was gunned down here in Christchurch on Friday. He described that agonizing responsibility of explaining to their daughter that their mother -- her mother was gone. And then he had some incredibly -- incredible words to say for this now unnamed suspected gunman.", "I want to hug him and say I have forgiven him. I want to tell him, if he has any mother, I want to hug her too. And I want to tell her that I'll treat you exactly like my auntie. If he has any sister, I want to hug her, and I have to tell her from my heart I'll treat you exactly like my own sister.", "Now, George, we are hearing about growing impatience from families of the victims that who are desperate to get their loved ones back so that they can conduct proper burials. That is a process that has taken days. It has been slowed by the sheer number of victims and the complication of identifying everybody. And it has clearly overwhelmed the authorities here because they've had to push back there scheduled for when they are going to release the bodies of the victims again, and again, and again. And it is something we are watching, and of course, the families of the victims watching very closely in agony. George?", "And, Ivan, you know, having covered mass shootings here in the United States and seeing that process play out, it is a great deal of agony for the families and the thing about it that is not the best news. It truly could take many more weeks and even longer as that process plays out but of course, has to be specific in the identifications. Ivan, I also wanted to ask you about Jacinda Ardern speaking out about social media platforms. How they should have greater accountability for the content that they make available and their ability to monitor it.", "That's right. Because not only have the New Zealand authorities but also the major social media sites, they're all scrambling to try to remove the images that the suspected shooter was live-streaming as he was carrying out the attacks on the mosques here in Christchurch. And Jacinda Ardern said that it can't just all be profits. There has to be responsibility. The social media sites cannot just be the postman, they're also the publishers of this content. Now Facebook just put out a statement in the last two hours that reveals some possibly chilling details. It says that the actual live stream of the video on Friday was viewed less than 200 times but there were no viewer reports about it. It was posted to this site 8chan before Facebook was even alerted about its highly controversial just appalling content. And that the first user report only came in 29 minutes after the start of the video stream and a full 12 minutes after that live stream ended. Facebook has also said that in the first 24 hours, it removed 1.5 million copies of that same video to give you a sense of how much and how rapidly it spread like wildfire across the internet. A court here in Christchurch -- in New Zealand rather has declared that any images of the shooter himself must be blurred and they're illegal here. An 18 year old has had to appear in court facing charges of violating a censorship act here for redistributing that kind of content. And the deputy prime minister of New Zealand has raised this issue with the foreign minister and vice president of Turkey when they were visiting in the aftermath of the terror attacks because the President of Turkey was showing excerpts, blurred excerpts of the gunman's video at political campaign rallies in Turkey ahead of elections at the end of this month. The Deputy Prime Minister saying that that could misrepresent New Zealand and endanger New Zealand citizens. George?", "Wow. Ivan Watson, following the story in Christchurch. Ivan, thank you. Let's take a moment now to get some perspective with Steve Moore. Steve is a retired FBI Supervisory Agent and CNN Law Enforcement Contributor. Steve is joining us this hour from Los Angeles. Steve, good to have you with us.", "Hi, George. How are you?", "Good, Steve. The Prime Minister of New Zealand zeroing in here on strengthening gun laws in the wake of what happened to her country. Let's listen.", "Part of ensuring the safety of New Zealanders must include a frank examination of our gun laws. As I've already said Mr. Speaker, our gun laws will change. The Cabinet meet yesterday and made in principle decisions 72 hours after the attack.", "Steve, such a clear, sharp, swift response to what happened in that country in quite contrast, a stark contrast to what we see here in the United States.", "Yes. And part of that is because you know, they have a different culture. Part of that though is because they have a different type of government. The other thing I noticed that they -- that the Prime Minister did is immediately start an investigation of what the country itself, what the government itself knew and didn't know. They seem to hold themselves and hold the populace to a pretty high standard on those things.", "So curious on that point, is there -- the fact that they don't have a gun lobbyist group there similar to what we see in the states?", "Well, I don't -- I don't know if that's part of it. It's probably very likely part of it. But the United States wouldn't have a gun lobby if this -- if some of the citizens didn't want it. So again that goes to the cultural thing.", "Certainly. Just a noteworthy to kind of look into that as well. And as for the people who commit such violent acts for sport and social media, I'm curious to get your perspective. Given your background in law enforcement, what do you think of the prime minister's comments saying that social platforms need to have more accountability and how they monitor and manage the content that's out there?", "You know, I try to balance this with freedom of the press and people's right to know and the danger that we have in secret trials, things like that. But I couldn't agree more that these people -- and I've investigated these things for decades. People who do these mass shootings want the notoriety. They want to be infamous. They want people to look at them and think that they were something amazing as horrible as that sounds. So somewhere along here, we need to examine how we can do exactly what she's saying. I'm not going to say the person's name unless it's -- unless it's important to public knowledge. But it's not important to know the person's specific name. But it is important -- or their image by the way -- but it is important that social media start taking some responsibility for being the pulpit the people can get up and say and do horrible things with. And it can't be a free-for-all. And I tend to be somewhat libertarian you know, don't let the government get in our way, but at the same time you can't become just an outlet for things that are just unspeakably horrible.", "So the Prime Minister not saying the suspects name. You'll notice we haven't said it either here during the show.", "Good.", "Social media accounts or platforms, the Prime Minister saying, should you know take some responsibility for it. But here's the question to you Steve. What about people right, who see this content available who decide to share it or even who decide to look at it, tricking algorithms to make it seem like people want more of that content.", "Yes. And you know, that's -- I don't care if they want more of that content. It's just -- it is just an announcement to what society is. And frankly, if you are someone who just needs to see this or needs to needs -- to share it, you might as well have loaded the person's guns because they are -- they are counting on you to do that and you're helping them.", "That's a good point, Steve. Thank you for your time today.", "Thank you.", "A morning rush hour shooting in the Netherlands to tell you about, it's raised regional terror threats to its highest level for some time on Monday. Three people were killed and five others wounded. A suspect is under arrest but as our Erin McLaughlin reports, the motive still unclear.", "Authorities say they've arrested the key suspect in Monday's attack but they've yet to establish a motive. They've yet to rule out the possibility that what happened here at 10:45 in the morning onboard that busy tram was the product of terror but also have yet to rule out the possibility that this was some sort of family dispute. As suggested by an eyewitness that we spoke to earlier in the day who was on board the tram at the time of the horrific shooting describes the shooter opening fire seeming to target a woman on board the tram and anyone who tried to help her. An eyewitness account such as that that authorities no doubt are going to be going over very carefully. The suspect 37-year-old Gokmen Tanis was arrested 800 meters away from where the tram attack took place. Authorities say they've made one other arrests although have yet to link that arrest to the attack itself. They've yet to also release the identities of the victims. Three people killed in total, five injured, three critically injured. The Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte a saying that the Netherlands mourns the lives lost on that Monday attack and that Tuesday morning the flags will be flying here at half-staff. Erin McLaughlin, CNN Utrecht, The Netherlands.", "In France, the government is cracking down on Yellow Vest rallies in some areas after protests turned violent on Saturday. Some demonstrators smashed up shops and restaurants and set fire to a bank on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. The French Prime Minister blames radical groups who aren't part of the Yellow Vest movement for vandalism and says the government wants to protect people's right to demonstrate peacefully. With only ten days to go before the U.K. is due to leave the European Union, the British government's Brexit plan has been thrown into turmoil. Our Bianca Nobilo has more on this story from London.", "A fresh blow to Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal from a familiar face and voice in Parliament.", "Order!", "The Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has skippered the government's plans for a third vote on her Brexit deal this week.", "What the government cannot legitimately do is to resubmit to the House the same proposition or substantially, the same proposition as that of last week which was rejected by149 votes.", "Bercow made this ruling after questions from lawmakers concerned the government would ask them to repeatedly vote on her Brexit deal until it passed. When I interviewed him recently, he said that he wasn't trying to direct the course of Brexit but to ensure that all of the views here in the House of Commons are heard.", "It's not for the Speaker, let's say in the context of Brexit to prescribe one route or another. And I think the record shows that I've always been particularly keen, for example, to give a voice to the minority or dissident voices in the House of Commons rather than in any sense to side with the majority.", "But Brexiteers question Bercow's neutrality in the Brexit debate. They say he's not consistent about which rules he chooses to follow and which he doesn't. Hear on Monday, Bercow cited a 17th-century convention which blocks Theresa May from bringing her Brexit deal back for a third time. Just arcane law, says the prime minister cannot resubmit the same proposition without changing it. What does this mean for the government? Theresa May must either get substantial new changes from the E.U. which European leaders have ruled out before or come to an agreement on an extension. Last week, the British Parliament voted against a no-deal Brexit in any circumstances. But next Friday remains the date, the U.K. leaves the E.U. in law unless something else can be agreed. Bianca Nobilo, CNN, London.", "Bianca, thank you very much. Massive and horrifying. That is how some are describing the impact of Tropical Cyclone Idai in Mozambique. We will have the very latest for you as that community, of course, begins to assess the damage that you see. Plus the war against ISIS in Syria has produced a number of orphans with no place to call home and no family to lean on. Some of their heartbreaking stories to tell you about. 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{"id": "CNN-87815", "program": "CNN NEWSNIGHT AARON BROWN", "date": "2004-9-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/07/asb.00.html", "summary": "Senators McCain and Lieberman Propose Legislation Addressing 9/11 Commission Recommendations", "utt": ["Congress returned from its summer recess today to a long list of unfinished business with just weeks to complete it before breaking again for the November campaign, at the top of the to-do list the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for improving U.S. intelligence agencies, reporting the story for us tonight CNN's Joe Johns.", "With time running out to act on the 9/11 Commission's recommendations before Congress breaks for the election, Republican Senator John McCain and Democrat Joe Lieberman, two key players on national defense and security issues, unveiled legislation that addresses all the commission's proposals.", "The recommendations of the 9/11 Commission have been embraced by virtually one and all, clearly with some reservations because it's not a perfect document but overall the overwhelming majority of Americans expect that we should act on this blueprint.", "The commission's recommendations should be our starting point and I believe in many cases, probably most, they should be our ending point as well.", "The bill would create a new National Intelligence Director and National Counterterrorism Center. It would strip power from the Pentagon over 80 percent of the nation's intelligence budget, improve information sharing throughout the intelligence community, set up a terrorism screening network at U.S. borders and ensure the protection of civil liberties. The bill won the endorsement of the 9/11 Commission co-chairs.", "This is a dream.", "The proposal has bipartisan support but it also faces considerable resistance.", "The idea that we would just carte blanche accept everything the commission came up with I personally think would be a big mistake.", "But a warning from the bill's backers that the political price for inaction could be severe.", "For those who would seek to delay, for those who would seek to temporize, the burden will be very heavy.", "The president is meeting Wednesday morning with top congressional leaders on how to proceed with the commission's recommendations. A senior Republican aide says Mr. Bush is expected to outline which proposals he wants Congress to pass and how quickly. Joe Johns, CNN, Capitol Hill.", "Senator Bob Graham, the Democrat from Florida, is serving his third and final term in Washington. He spent a decade on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, co-chair of the Joint House/Senate inquiry into the failures of U.S. intelligence prior to 9/11 and his new book is \"Intelligence Matters,\" and we're pleased to see him tonight. Welcome.", "Thank you, Aaron.", "Let's see how much ground we can cover quickly. Congress needs to reform its own oversight over intelligence?", "Yes, particularly to streamline it. Today there are a dozen or more committees in the Senate that have some aspect of oversight of the intelligence community. That's too cumbersome. It takes too much time from the executive agencies in order to service all those committees.", "Is Congress likely to reform itself?", "I think so. I think that they will reform themselves in terms of focusing more responsibility on the intelligence committees, strengthening the intelligence committees' control over the appropriations for the whole intelligence community and making an investment in improving the training and expertise of members of the congressional intelligence committees.", "OK. A couple things from the book, you write: \"Two hijackers had a support network in the United States, including agents of the Saudi government.\" What does that mean that the Saudi government knew or that the Saudi government, like Pakistan, is something less than pure?", "Well, probably some of both but I think the Saudi government was aware of the fact that they had set up an infrastructure. They had been requested through that infrastructure to support at least two of the terrorists. We laid this out in some detail in 27 pages of the joint inquiry report, all of which has been censured by the president. For that reason, I think that action verges on being a cover-up.", "Did they, did the Saudi government, you say they knew about these two terrorists, did they know what they were up to?", "I don't know if they knew what their specific goal was but they had been requested through their network, particularly in San Diego, to provide them assistance and they did.", "Why is the American government protecting the Saudi government?", "Well, I don't know. I think some of the reasons could be that there's been a long time close relationship between the Bush family and the royal family in Saudi Arabia. We've had a special relationship with Saudi Arabia since the end of World War II. We provide them security. They provide us oil but at this point in our nation's history...", "There's 3,000 dead Americans.", "I know and the fact that we are covering up the role of this so-called ally in facilitating that horrendous slaughter is absolutely stunning and unacceptable.", "On Iraq, you saw the prewar intelligence, do you believe there were WMDs there?", "I was suspicious but I was prepared to accept the statements of the president of the United States that he knew that there were weapons of mass destruction there but that wasn't -- to me that wasn't the basic issue. The basic issue is there are many evils in the Middle East. Did we pick out the right one to go to war with? I think the answer is no. We should have stayed on task in Afghanistan and finished the war against al Qaeda.", "OK. But if tomorrow Osama bin Laden is caught or dead or whatever and his top ten guys are caught and dead or whatever does it actually change anything?", "It's much less significant today, Aaron, than it would have been even two years ago. Al Qaeda was like a blob of mercury. We've slammed our fist on it. It's broken up now into dozens of small droplets, so the central control is much less significant than it was originally and yet we have not laid out a battle plan to go after all those droplets.", "Good to see you. The book is called \"Intelligence Matters,\" Senator Bob Graham retiring but not retiring I suspect. Thank you.", "I've got a few other things to do.", "Nice to see you sir, thank you.", "Good, thank you.", "Always welcome here. Coming up on the program, now that the damage and the destruction has been done the cost in dollars and dreams in rebuilding Florida. We'll take you down there. Also, is Iran influencing the war in Iraq? We'll take a break first. 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{"id": "CNN-413742", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-10-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/19/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Election Day Approaches as U.S. Case Count Spikes; Washington Post: Birx Went to Pence's Office to Push for Scott Atlas' Removal from Task Force", "utt": ["Hello, everybody. I'm John King in Washington thank you so much for sharing a very, very busy news day with us. The coronavirus is making an aggressive fall surge just as the clock ticks us ever closer to Election Day. 15 days until America's choice and the president plans a full week of battleground travel to Arizona, to Pennsylvania and to North Carolina. All that before Thursday's final debate. The final sprint overlaps with what scientists warn will likely be the darkest weeks of this entire pandemic. The numbers on the right side of your screen there, a daily reminder of just how bad things are. And they are getting worse. Look globally. The case count tops 40 million now. The United States responsible for a world worst 8 million recorded COVID-19 infections. The end is not near no matter what the president says. Look, 48,000 new cases recorded on Sunday. That is the second highest COVID tally on a Sunday since July 26th. The numbers also missing new case totals from six states so it's actually higher. The weekend total of new cases from Friday through Sunday, just under 175,000. The United States now growing its case number on average by 56,000 cases per day. The spring spike was driven by the northeast, the summer surge was centered on the south, but this fall tsunami is not regional. It is everywhere. Take a look. 27 states across the United States, 27 of the 50 right now trending in the wrong direction. 21 treading water. Only two - only two of the 50 pushing down their case curves right now. The president blames more testing for more cases. Experts blame reckless behavior and pandemic fatigue. Either way, the numbers tell us worse is coming before better. Look at this map. 14 states with a positivity rate north of 10 percent. That means 14 states with what scientists consider uncontrolled coronavirus spread right now. 2020, of course, is the pandemic campaign. Thursday night's final debate will remind us the choice is Trump versus Biden. Everyday reminds us it might just as well be Trump versus science.", "If I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now have a country that would be in a massive depression.", "You know, I think deep down he believes in science if he didn't he wouldn't have entrusted his health to the very confident physicians at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. But he sometimes equates wearing a mask with weakness.", "Does that make sense to you?", "No, it doesn't. Of course, not.", "Joining our conversation to begin the hour, CNN medical analyst Dr. Celine Gounder and Toluse Olorunnipa of \"The Washington Post.\" Toluse, I want to start with you because of this new reporting by several of your colleagues. Dr. Scott Atlas, the doctor who has the president's ear most of all right now when it comes to the coronavirus, tweeting out over the weekend, no, when it comes to masks. Again, saying masks don't work in his view, when all the scientists say they are. And \"The Post\" is now reporting that Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of that task force, went to the vice president's office said this is bad advice. He should not be giving this advice. I'm not comfortable with this advice and I wish that he would be removed from the task force. Startling development when you consider not only the case surge but the fact that we are two weeks from an election.", "Yes. It's absolutely startling that there's infighting in the task force that's supposed to be managing the national response to this pandemic. Somewhat unsurprising is the fact that there would be disagreement between career epidemiologist, people who have expertise in infectious diseases and someone who President Trump recruited to the White House because he appeared on Fox News, not because he has any expertise in this area. Not because he has been shown as someone who studies this very closely. He's a radiologist. He's someone who the president got to know because he was on Fox News, you know essentially repeating what the president wanted to hear about this virus not being as bad as it should be, herd immunity, allowing the virus to spread, allowing people to get back to their normal lives. While the experts, the scientists who studied this, including Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci have been saying we need to take this seriously, we need to put in all kinds of mitigation efforts in order to make sure the virus does not spread and we don't have all of these spikes that we're currently seeing. So, it's somewhat unsurprising that there would be disagreement but the fact that this is now spilling out into the public and the fact that the president has elevated Dr. Atlas over the experts, the people who you would expect to be leading the charge and he has downplayed and sort of downsized their role is somewhat surprising ahead of an election which is going to be all about the coronavirus and the president's failed response to it.", "Right. And Dr. Gounder, that's where it gets -- I don't know what the right word is for it, but it gets frustrating in the sense that at a moment Americans need to be extra vigilant, at a moment, we're going up a third peak, at a moment we're heading up that peak starting from a baseline of above 40,000 new infections a day. So, all the projections tell you it's going to go higher than the summer surge unless it is stopped and stopped quickly. You have Dr. Atlas saying don't wear a mask. They're not effective even though we know they are. And you have the president in this campaign travels saying nothing to worry about, we're almost done. Listen.", "It's rounding the turn. You'll see that. Normal life, that's all we want. We want normal life.", "Yes, we want to be where we were seven months ago, but the president is not announcing any new steps, encouraging governors to do anything new and the doctor he listens to most is telling Americans be reckless.", "Well, first of all, Dr. Atlas really has no place speaking about this. He is a neuroradiologist. He has no training or experience in public health or epidemiology or infectious diseases. It would be like seeing a podiatrist for your heart attack or calling up a plumber when you need an electrician. He's completely unqualified. And this anti-mask rhetoric is really the equivalent of a herd immunity approach. The only time we've ever achieved herd immunity is through vaccination. We have centuries of experience, millennia of experience with other respiratory viral infections like smallpox and measles. Smallpox we had spikes over centuries, epidemics over centuries, and same thing with measles. And only with vaccination have we been able to control that.", "And Toluse, again back to the moment. The White House Coronavirus Task Force at the beginning was quite helpful. The initial guidelines to stop the spread. If you go back and read the reopening guidelines, they're actually quite good. The president then just said days later, never mind, please blow through them. go through my redline, get the company back open. Now, we have this remarkable moment. Dr. Birx has become waldo. There are no more briefings. She's traveling the country talking to governors but where in the world is Dr. Birx is a daily question. There are no more - Dr. Atlas has the president's ear. And Dr. Fauci seems to be almost daring the president to fire him or to pick a fight with him. Listen to more of this conversation last night on \"60 Minutes.\"", "Were you surprised that President Trump got sick?", "Absolutely not. I was worried that he was going to get sick when I saw him in a completely precarious situation of crowded, no separation between people, and almost nobody wearing a mask. I do not, and nor will I ever, publicly endorse any political candidate. And here I am, they're sticking me right in the middle of a campaign ad, which I thought was outrageous.", "He is being public with a purpose right now. Number one, the president shouldn't have me in his campaign ads and number two, let me translate what he said at the beginning of that. I thought the president might get sick because the president is routinely behaving in a reckless way.", "Yes. That's exactly right and it happens to be the truth. And it may sound political because he's saying it in a way that is so, you know, public and straightforward and a way that we don't normally hear from people who are close to power. But he is essentially just speaking the truth. The president has been reckless. He has been holding these massive events which are superspreader events and do increase the risk of the virus spreading among high ranking officials within the White House, which in essence is reckless. But I think Dr. Fauci said something on \"60 Minutes\" which I thought was really interesting, which is that the White House has been limiting his media appearances. They have not been allowing him to go out and speak publicly. And that's part of the reason. They don't like the fact that he is willing to speak the truth. He's willing to give a public health message that's accurate and sometimes in discordance with what the president is saying, which is that everything is going to be fine, we're rounding the corner, everyone should go back to their lives. Dr. Fauci is saying everything is not fine. We're losing hundreds of Americans every day. This case count is spiking. We are ahead of what could be a really bad third wave as people go indoors for the winter. And instead of having the White House have someone who is trusted by the American people giving that message, they are muzzling him and not allowing him to speak as much as he would like to.", "And again, Dr. Gounder, it is the moment. You're a doctor, not a political analyst, but campaigns routinely -- there's a lot of shay between taxes and spending. There's a lot of missed truths. There's a lot of hyperbole. There's a lot of generally accepted if you will political wandering from the facts. But at this moment with the case count up, the president of the United States is on the road saying we're rounding the corner. I'm not wearing a mask. My chief adviser says you don't have to wear a mask. That's one message. Dr. Scott Gottlieb says something very different. Listen.", "Where are we headed as a country?", "Probably the most difficult phase of this epidemic. I think the next three months are going to be very challenging. There's really no backstop against the spread that we're seeing. We're probably two or three weeks behind Europe. And Europe is in a very difficult position right now. So, I think as we enter the winter, we're going to see continued spread.", "Help people understand that because it is well put by Dr. Gottlieb. If we go back to March and April, we were a couple of weeks behind Europe, climbing the hill. Europe is climbing the hill pretty steeply. Now, guess that, we are following behind again. We don't hear that from our president. What must the American people hear from the experts?", "I think we need to end the war on science. I think we need to listen to the scientists. And understand what is facts -- fact-based in terms of public health recommendations. We should all be wearing masks when we're outside of our household bubble. We should be trying to spend as much time outdoors versus indoors when we're around people outside of our household bubble. We should be washing our hands. We should be social distancing. We should be doing all of these things that we know work. And masks are number one, two, and three in terms of what would prevent transmission of coronavirus. If we don't take this seriously now, we are going to find ourselves in a very difficult position in just weeks to maybe a month or so. And many of us in the health field are really stealing ourselves because we know what it was like back in March and April. Many of us have frankly PTSD from that experience and are very nervous about what we're about to face again not having learned the lessons of that.", "Dr. Gounder, Toluse, grateful for your time time and your important insights today. We will continue this conversation including up next, we'll dig in deeper on this mask question. The doctor the president trusts most about coronavirus reups his dangerous take on masks. Dr. Atlas says just say no."], "speaker": ["JOHN KING, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-294435", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2016-09-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1609/20/acd.01.html", "summary": "Report: Trump Used Charity Money To Settle Lawsuits", "utt": ["Tonight there is even more reporting on allegations surrounding the Trump Foundation. Namely that Donald Trump took money intend forward charity donations and used it to settle lawsuits against his own businesses. According to the \"Washington Post\" this happened to the tune of $258,000. The Trump Foundation was already under scrutiny because the allegation that Trump used the foundation to funnel other people's money not his own to other organizations. But this new report says he actually wrote checks from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits from his for profit businesses. David Fahrenthold of the \"Washington Post\" broke the story, he joins me now. So of all things reported about the Trump Foundation, this is pretty surprising. I mean can you explain exactly what Donald Trump was using money from a foundation to pay off?", "Sure. So the money in his foundation was given by other people to Donald Trump. It belongs in the charity. It can only be used to do charitable work. But instead we have these two cases where Trump's businesses, one a club in Florida, the other a golf course in New York they got in legal trouble and they made settlements to get out of that legal trouble as part of the settlements, the clubs, the businesses agreed to make donations to charity. What Trump did was then take out money out of this foundation and use that to pay off those obligations. So they neither is a -- his resort or his gold club had actually make any donations.", "And in my understanding in the case of I think it was Mar-a- Lago, the club in Florida. There were a bunch of -- was it fines, or liens or something that the local community, that he was supposed to pay but the local community agreed to get rid of those if he made this donation.", "That's right, Trump had put p a gigantic flag poll that was like 30 feet too tall for the town's code. And so after he fight -- with fought with the town for while, he build up $120,000 of unpaid fines for his club. So in the court settlement, the town said look, we're not going make you pay the $120,000, but you the club have to make this $100,000 donation to a particular veterans charity. And that's the chair -- the donation that Trump paid off with his foundation, the golf club didn't actually pay anything.", "And is that OK under the law? I mean is it ethical?", "The law says that there is a bar against something called self dealing. That is, if you are the head of a foundation you can't take the money out of the foundation and use to it buy things for yourself or things that benefit your businesses. So people I've talked to said this is a pretty clear case where Trump took the money out of his charity and did a thing that saved his own business money.", "So what might happen? I mean he did take up the -- if somebody looks at this, does he potentially pay a fine or?", "The penalties could include Trump may have to give the money back that the foundation paid on his behalf, like he have to reimburse the money to the foundation. He would also pay penalty taxes. He could pay penalty taxes for having filed a false IRS return because he told the IRS he had not engaged in acts of self dealing. He could even have his charity's non profit status taken away.", "The New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has open investigation in his foundation. Do we know if he's going to be looking at these specific transactions or is he looking stuff in New York?", "Well, since the Trump Foundation is head quartered in New York all of these attractions are under his purview. And I think he will be looking at these transactions.", "Is there any kind of timeline do we know for this investigation? I mean is there any chance that it will be done before the election? Because obviously Trump's supporters say look, this is politically motivated.", "I don't have a time, I talk to them yesterday and didn't get a comment from them. I imagine they find a work on a fast but I don't know if they'll before election.", "Last time you were on the program you are trying to track down a 6-foot tall painting of Donald Trump that he bought with foundation funds, and I understand he bought a second portrait of himself using money from the foundation. I saw just a little while, you tweeted out a picture apparently of that portrait from trip advisor, is that right?", "That's right. Trump bought this painting with $10,000 with the charity money in 2014. And since the charity bought it, it has to be use for charity purposes. It can just hang on the wall in Donald Trump's club. Yet it is hanging on the wall in Donald Trump's club apparently, trip advisor a user at Trump's dural golf resort outside Miami took that picture where apparently the tore (ph) bought was charity money is hanging.", "David Fahrenthold, thanks very much. Appreciate having you on again.", "Thank you.", "Up next, the American white working class, they are the core of Donald Trump's support. But what is driving their decision to support him over Hillary Clinton? 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{"id": "CNN-218217", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-11-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/06/cnr.10.html", "summary": "Gary Sinise Helps Vets; Hunter Chooses to End Life Support After Fall From Tree Stand", "utt": ["Monday is Veterans Day, a day to recognize the men and women who have served in our armed forces. But Emmy-award winning actor Gary Sinise is trying to honor veterans each and every day. Here's how he and his iconic character Lieutenant Dan are impacting our world.", "Thought I'd try out my sea legs.", "But you ain't got no legs, Lieutenant Dan.", "Long before Gary Sinise played Vietnam veteran Lieutenant Dan in \"Forrest Gump,\" he was a passionate supporter of the military.", "Well, I have a long history with working with veterans starting with the relationships that I have in my own personal family My dad was -- served in the Navy. My two uncles were in World War II. My grandfather served in World War", "With the success of \"Forrest Gump,\" wounded veterans began to identify with Sinise.", "How many veterans we got here tonight?", "He formed the Lieutenant Dan Band and has entertained troops around the world with the USO. The actor says his call to action became very clear after 9/11.", "When our men and women started deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan, they started getting hurt and killed. Having Vietnam veterans in my family, it was very troubling to think that our men and women would come home to a nation that didn't appreciate them.", "So he started his own charity dedicated to veterans. The Gary Sinise Foundation helps build customized homes for the severely wounded and helps vets find civilian careers.", "I have met hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of wounded veterans who continue to not let their circumstance get them down. Countless Lieutenant Dans out there that inspire me every day.", "It is one of those questions many people prepare for, but all of us hope never to hear, that being whether to end life support. Thirty-two-year-old Tim Bowers chose to take himself off life support after falling some 16 feet from a tree from the stand he was on when he was hunting. Bowers was paralyzed from the neck down, and the Associated Press reports his family brought him out of sedation in order to ask what he wanted to do. Let me read this for you. \"We just asked him, 'Do you want this?' And he shook his head emphatically no, said his sister, Jenny Shultz. \"Doctors asked him the same question and got the same responses. They then removed his breathing tube.\" Bowers had just gotten married. His now widow is pregnant. Joining me now, Arthur Caplan, the head of the division of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center. Arthur, Tim Bowers, we know, died, hours later. It is heartbreaking to think about this, but just from your expertise, how rare is a situation like this? Can a person who has just learned he will be paralyzed for the rest of his life make this kind of decision?", "Well, Brooke, it's a terrible, tragic case, but there are some lessons here. So the first is everybody has a right, as a competent adult, to say no to medical treatment, whether it's a Jehovah's Witness who says no to blood transfusion or this gentleman who said no to artificial ventilation. That's clear. The problem is when you have a terrible accident like this, while they're rare, people often say, having been terribly burned or injured or they know they're paralyzed, that they don't want to live. Some adjust. Some come around after a few days or a week or a couple weeks and say, I've changed my mind. I can deal with this. This gentleman made a decision under, let's say, relatively quick circumstances. I know there are those who are going to say, did they give him enough time to think about whether he could live as a paralyzed person?", "Isn't that a valid question?", "A very valid question. I'll tell you what makes me feel more comfortable about the case. You read the A.P. excerpt with his family. His family had had a conversation with him about a month earlier saying, what if you got severely injured? What would you want? He was adamant, no life in a wheelchair. I don't want to be paralyzed. That makes me far more comfortable with this than if you wake up, last thing you know you're in a tree, now you're here. What do you think? That's a tougher call, which is a reminder, you have to have that conversation. I know it's hard. Thanksgiving is coming. Use this case, talk to your friends, talk to your family. Say this is what I would want. I would want everything, or you know, I'm not a person who would want to be wheelchair bound.", "A tough conversation, a great point. What happens, though, Arthur, in the hours after we have this 32-year- old man, they bring him to consciousness out of sedation to be able to say no, I don't want to live? What happens in those hours until the point of death? What's discussed? Are there papers that are signed?", "Brooke, it probably doesn't require signatures. His oral statement twice, once to the family, once to the doctors, probably would have done it. The family will gather. They're going to make sure he doesn't suffer at all. You know, if you stop breathing, that can be difficult and burdensome, so they're going to give him enough oxygen to go peacefully. The family assembled, talked to him, sang their songs together. He had what many people would consider a reasonably good death. Just an awful circumstance, again a reminder, you don't have to be an old, old person to sometimes face life-and-death decisions.", "It is a reminder to have that conversation with your loved ones soon. Arthur Caplan, thank you so much.", "My pleasure.", "We, of course, wish the family well in such a horrendous time. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "GARY SINISE, ACTOR, \"FORREST GUMP\"", "TOM HANKS, ACTOR, \"FORREST GUMP\"", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN HOST, \"NEW DAY\"", "SINISE", "I.  CUOMO", "SINISE", "CUOMO", "SINISE", "CUOMO", "SINISE", "BALDWIN", "ARTHUR CAPLAN, DIVISION OF MEDICAL ETHICS, NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER", "BALDWIN", "CAPLAN", "BALDWIN", "CAPLAN", "BALDWIN", "CAPLAN", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-209873", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-7-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/02/cnr.14.html", "summary": "Live Coverage And Analysis Of George Zimmerman Trial", "utt": ["Want to give you a little backgrounder here on this man by the name of Mark Osterman. He testified after the detective today. He is -- consider himself George Zimmerman's best friend. He is the reason why George Zimmerman ultimately purchased and carried this gun. But here's a little bit more about him. This is from David Mattingly.", "When George Zimmerman was worried about an aggressive neighborhood dog in 2009, he decided to buy a gun and went to his friend, Mark Osterman, for help.", "He had felt that, once you -- one he gets married -- once you get married, you kind of -- he said that he possibly changed his perspective in life and that he was responsible not just for himself anymore, but for his wife.", "Osterman, a federal law enforcement officer, helped Zimmerman weigh the pros and cons before he settled on a thin, lightweight nine-millimeter. It was easy to conceal, easy to carry, and acting on Osterman's advice, Zimmerman carried it everywhere.", "Always. He carried it always, and I -- the one thing that I did tell him for the reason for doing that was, if it is on your person, it can't be anywhere else.", "It was on Zimmerman's person the night he encountered Trayvon Martin, and he told Osterman how Martin grabbed the gun during their fight.", "According to what he told me was, when the head bashing on the concrete stopped and Trayvon reached for the firearm that was at his side, grabbed a hold of it.", "Osterman wrote about it in a book, quoting Zimmerman. \"Somehow I broke his grip on the gun, where the guy grabbed it, between the rear site and the hammer. I got the gun in my hand, raised it towards the guy's chest and pulled the trigger.\" And this is where the problem lies for George Zimmerman because comments quoted by his friend Osterman do not match what Zimmerman told police. Listen to what he says as he walks investigators through the crime scene.", "And he reached for it. He reached. I felt his arm going down to my side. And I grabbed it and I just grabbed my firearm and I shot him, one time.", "In multiple recorded interviews, Zimmerman never tells police that Trayvon Martin ever touched his gun. DNA testing seems to agree. There was no trace of Trayvon Martin's DNA on the gun's grip. Prosecutors list Osterman's book with Zimmerman's conflicting account as potential evidence, possibly to challenge Zimmerman's credibility. As for his connection to the gun Zimmerman was carrying, Osterman says it's hard to answer the question, does he feel regret.", "He didn't have it to go out and commit a crime of hunting someone down and harming them. It was for self-protection, and I'm glad that that firearm was used to protect George.", "Mark Osterman could appear as a witness for the prosecution and for the defense. As far as what he has to tell them, Osterman says he sees no difference in a case of self-defense if someone is grabbing your gun or grabbing for it. David Mattingly, CNN, Sanford, Florida.", "David Mattingly, thank you. As we now know, he testified today. Darren Kavinoky, to you, do you want to talk about why Zimmerman's friend was so sweaty? Do we know why now?", "I don't know. You know, with friends like that, Brooke, who needs enemies? I mean, well, first of all, as far as the sweatiness factor, maybe he just felt like he was on the hot seat and before I start getting hate tweets and so on, God forbid the guy has anything medically wrong with him, but I can just see the \"Saturday Night Live\" skits now. I mean, that was like, oh, my God, I just felt for the guy as he's mopping his brow on the witness stand. But you know what, he should be sweaty because what he is saying is just horrible for his friend. And I'm sure they're friends. He didn't set out to do this. But let's remember, and there's an important legal ruling in all of this, that generally what people say out of court, what Zimmerman told to his friend, generally that's considered to be hearsay, and it's generally unreliable and doesn't come into evidence. But there's an exception to that hearsay rule called an admission. And that's a word or an act by a party to a case that's offered against them. That's how the prosecution is able to get these statements that Zimmerman gave to his friend into evidence. And it's conflicting, it looks bad for Zimmerman, it affects his credibility and so it's quite understandable why he would be sweating.", "Why he's wiping the brow. Darren, thank you. Let me just bring you back -- everyone up to speed as far as what's happening right now inside this Sanford courtroom. Right now, again, this hearing is under way. Those jurors, they're out of the room because this judge right now is talking specifically about the stand-your-ground law in Florida and whether or not what is admissible here in the court as far as evidence goes as far as George Zimmerman's knowledge of this law, and what is not. We're going to talk about that, and why that's clearly significant in this trial, after this."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MARK OSTERMAN, GEORGE ZIMMERMAN'S FRIEND", "MATTINGLY", "OSTERMAN", "MATTINGLY", "OSTERMAN", "MATTINGLY", "GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, DEFENDANT", "MATTINGLY", "OSTERMAN", "MATTINGLY", "BALDWIN", "KAVINOKY", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-174969", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-10-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1110/30/cnr.04.html", "summary": "A suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan today", "utt": ["This hour in the", "Trying to stay warm and trying to get home. An early snowstorm leaves millions without power and thousands more stranded. \"Occupy Seattle,\" what's it like to spend the weekend with those camping for a cause? You are looking at all of those pictures on the screen. And sweet victory in St. Louis -- the Cardinals celebrating there World Series championship with a parade right through the city streets.", "But we're going to start with this, this hour. I'm Don Lemon. Thank you for joining us. More \"Occupy\" protesters are taking up space in jail cells. Dozen of arrests in the last 36 hours.", "We got you. We got you, you hear me?", "Their message -- fighting corporate corruption -- maybe getting lost in the mayhem. These scenes from Austin, Texas that you are looking at. Police there say they took in 38 people who refused to leave city hall. Portland and Denver saw the same story. Protesters refused to move out so police say they have to move in.", "Let them go! Let them go! Let them go!", "Well, these clashes played in a park in northwest Portland. Two dozen people were arrested there by police in riot gear. And in Denver, occupiers show off their wounds from pepper balls in a faceoff at the city civic center.", "Denver police are saying they were forced to fire. They ended up making 20 arrests on Saturday night. In total, more than 80 arrests of protesters who say police used too much force.", "Only thing that happened is they asked us to take a tent down. Some kid was standing too close to them. They just started attacking everybody, spraying people with mace, arresting them. We did nothing. This is supposed to be a peaceful protest and they're attacking us like we're in a third world country.", "But officers say they give protesters multiple chances to follow the rules. You know what, though? Not all the occupy events this weekend ended with arrest and police in riot gear. CNN's Patrick Oppmann live in Seattle for us. So, Patrick, you followed protesters there overnight. You are finding they are developing a real culture of their own.", "That's absolutely true, Don. Just look here behind me -- hundreds of protesters camping on this quad at a community college. None of this was here yesterday. The protesters were in a downtown park like where many other parts of the country. Police told them they need to leave. So, they marched here and occupied this quad, setting up tents, bathrooms, kitchens -- you name it. They really created a little community here. The school administration initially said they weren't welcome here and then back down. So, basically, as long as they don't wear out the welcome, they are here. They said that police have let them be for the time being. They are not confident, though, that will remain the case. They got a legal committee that's headed by a law student who can't pay his bar fee. So, he is teaching people how to protest. How to defy police without getting into some those altercations we saw. And they created an iPhone app, Don, in case they are arrested. They can hit one button and it will ping all those friends and families, let them know they need to be bailed out, Don.", "So, folks there are connected. I think all of the occupiers are connected there on social media. They had their cell phones. So the people there, are they aware -- I want to ask you this -- are they aware of what happened to their fellow demonstrators in other cities?", "Well, I was here last night, Don. We were following the arrests in Portland, what took place in Austin, Colorado. A lot of these protesters move back and forth. They have friends. They have been inspired by people in some of those other communities. You know, we're on the other side of the coast from Wall Street, from Manhattan, but the sentiment feels just as strong here perhaps as anywhere else in the country. People say they were planning on staying in this park, come what may for weeks and months to come, Don.", "Patrick Oppmann, appreciate your reporting. Thank you. And make sure you join me later when we get a frontline perspective of the occupy dilemma. City officials who support the right to protest but can't ignore the simple laws of curfews and permits. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is going to speak with us live at 10:00 Eastern. He actually closed the park and he kicked some of the occupiers out. We're going to talk to him. In the meantime, a tragic story out of Africa features what could be a dramatic twist involving an American citizen. Reports from Somalia say two suicide bombers launched an attack Saturday in Mogadishu. It is unclear how many people were killed or injured. But a Web site associated with the al-Shabaab Islamist movement, which is linked to al Qaeda, says of the bombers was an American of Somali descent. The FBI has not confirmed the report. A Somali diplomat at the United Nations tells our affiliate WCCO that the suspect was from Minneapolis and identified him as Abdel Ism Ali (ph). He also says al-Shabaab enjoys support from some elements of the Somali community in Minneapolis.", "As far as -- you know, he left here in 2008, November the 4th -- I think right before the election or after the election of Obama -- and he got married. He was militant on the street fighting. And it is another, he engaged in combat with Somali government. There's sympathizers and support and basically I think one can cause", "U.S. officials say at least 20 young men, most of them Somali Americans, have travelled from Minneapolis area to Somalia in recent years to train with al-Shabaab. The death toll is now official from that suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan on Saturday -- nine Americans died, five civilians, and four U.S. troops. The blasts also claimed the lives of two British civilians, a Kosovo national, and a Canadian soldier. Four Afghans were also killed when a car packed with explosives struck an armor bus in Kabul. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Syria's president meanwhile warns his country will turn into another Afghanistan if the West dares to intervene. Speaking to Britain's \"Sunday Telegraph,\" Bashar al-Assad defended his army, saying it is only fighting terrorists. But this video appears to show soldiers brutally beating suspects in their custody. CNN can't confirm the authenticity of the video. New video also seems to show the scars of shelling in the western city Homs. Opposition activists say 11 people were killed as the military pounded that city on Saturday.", "Hello, winter. The Northeast gets blasted with an early snowstorm and more than 4 million people are now without power. Hundreds of passengers trapped on planes for hours at a time due to the storm. Isn't there a law in place to keep that from happening? Live reports from across the snow-covered area, two minutes away."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "CNN NEWSROOM", "LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LEMON", "CROWD", "LEMON", "LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LEMON", "PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "OPPMANN", "LEMON", "OMAR JAMAL, SOMALI DIPLOMAT", "LEMON", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-95668", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2005-6-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/27/lad.03.html", "summary": "Supreme Drama; Missing in Aruba", "utt": ["It is Monday, June 27. The high court ends its term today with the chief justice in the spotlight. He's been sitting in the seat of power on the nation's highest bench, but is William Rehnquist ready to hang up his robe? Plus, what happened to Natalee Holloway? It's been nearly a month; still no answers. And the beaches are opened again, but do people in Florida think it's safe to go back in the water?", "From the Time Warner Center in New York, this is DAYBREAK with Carol Costello and Chad Myers.", "And good morning to you. We'll have more on the Supreme Court in just a minute. Also ahead, the suspected BTK killer back in a Kansas court today. He's accused of killing 10 people. And later, was there a high-level cover-up surrounding Notorious BIG's death? Some say yes. We'll take a look at the ongoing court case. But first, \"Now in the News.\" Just under two hours ago, a Kenyan judge acquitted three men of conspiracy in a 2002 suicide bombing. The attack at an Israeli-owned hotel killed 15 people. The judge says prosecutors failed to prove their case. They have a lot to talk about. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder meets with President Bush at the White House later this morning. On the agenda, the war in Iraq and a proposed expansion of the U.N. Security Council. A shakeup in Saudi Arabia's diplomatic ranks. Arab sources tell CNN that Prince Bandar plans to leave his longtime post as the Saudi ambassador to the United States. Since 9/11, there's been growing criticism of Bandar's ties to the Bush family. Firefighters have their hands full in southwestern Utah this morning. They're trying to fend off a fast-moving wildfire that's threatening the small town of St. George. The blaze has quadrupled in size to 8,000 acres. And we want you to know you can experience the power of CNN on your computer. Long on to CNN.com, click on the video link and browse for yourself. To the forecast center now and Chad. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol.", "Thank you, Chad.", "Sure.", "We have just gotten word within the hour of a helicopter crash in Iraq. The U.S. military says an Apache attack helicopter has crashed north of Baghdad. The helicopters carries a crew of two, but it has not yet been determined if there are any casualties. Of course we'll bring you more information as we get it in. More and more Americans are asking when will the war in Iraq end? Recent polls show public support falling. Insurgency attacks continue to take their toll on Iraqis and Americans. On the Sunday talk shows, the commander of U.S. forces in the region and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were asked about Iraq.", "Clearly, there is an end to this. That the end comes when Iraqi security forces and Iraqi governance come together in such a way that they're able to dominate the insurgency. The end comes when the insurgency clearly understands and recognizes that they can't achieve any progress. The only thing they can achieve is killing innocent people.", "Anyone who tries to estimate the end, the time, the cost, or the casualties in a war is making a big mistake. You don't -- you -- war is your absolute last choice. And you don't, as George Washington said, make a decision to use war unless you're willing to stick with it.", "General Abizaid also expressed concern about public support for the conflict. He told Wolf Blitzer that American soldiers don't need to fight this war looking over their soldiers, worrying about support back home. The Iraqi prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari is calling for Marshall Plan for Iraq and the Middle East. The Marshall Plan was designed to bring Europe's economy out of the chaos of World War II. Here's what Mr. al-Jaafari writes on the editorial page of today's \"London Times.\" He says -- I quote -- \"Today is the time for a new international Marshall Plan towards Iraq and the broader Middle East, directed not for or against any policy, but against ignorance, tyranny, hatred and anarchy.\" What he really wants is he wants help and money from European nations, as well as from the United States. A report out today from two human rights groups will criticize the Justice Department for its handling of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay. The report from Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union claims the Justice Department has abused its authority. The groups say the report will shed light on what they call a wall of secrecy surrounding a law allowing the indefinite detention of some suspects. Coming up in the next hour of DAYBREAK, I'll talk with the father of one Gitmo detainee and a detainee's attorney. And Chad, that brings us to our e-mail \"Question of the Morning.\"", "It certainly does. Keep it open, close it? Do you have enough information? Is it just rhetoric from both sides? What do you think? Is it time to close Gitmo, yes, no, and why? DAYBREAK@CNN.com. E-mail. We'll be answering those e-mails -- reading them in a few minutes.", "We certainly will. On to another top story this morning. Supreme drama at the Supreme Court. The justices end their current term today. And we're watching for some big decisions. The court will likely rule on whether The Ten Commandments can be displayed on government property. Also, whether Internet file-sharing services can be held liable if customers illegally swap songs or movies. A ruling could also come in a death penalty case. The question: how much leeway do courts have to reopen such cases? But there's a lot more than legal issues on the nation's highest bench. Speculation is mounting that Chief Justice William Rehnquist might announce his retirement. The aging Rehnquist is battling thyroid cancer, but he's putting up a tough fight. CNN National Correspondent Bob Franken has more for you.", "This is a man who delights in fighting the odds. So there was Chief Justice William Rehnquist on January 20, swearing in the president, when so many experts said he would be too sick to do so.", "And repeat after me...", "And here he is back on the bench, taking an active role, leading the court, even while he struggles with his thyroid cancer, surprising many medical experts. And here he was in May, giving a brief videotaped message to graduates from an Arizona College.", "I shall always be honored by having received the degree.", "Still, the expectation he'll resign and trigger a brutal confirmation battle over his replacement has permeated Washington politics.", "I'm obviously going to spend a lot of time reviewing the records of a variety of people.", "That review has been going on for quite some time now, but the speculation about the chief justice is just that, speculation. And whatever he does will almost certainly be kept secret until he does it. (voice-over): The man who would chair a confirmation hearing for a successor, a senator fighting cancer himself, says he believes a hearing won't soon be necessary.", "That thinking about my own situation, it seemed to me that he just might want to stay there because he's doing some very useful work. And for him, it's the best therapy.", "Many of his former clerks say they were quite pleasantly surprised at how much more robust Rehnquist seemed to be at his recent annual reunion. Still, Washington rattles with the chatter over a possible replacement for the chief justice, even before anyone really knows whether he's ready to be replaced. Bob Franken, CNN, the Supreme Court.", "So what is your take on the future of the Supreme Court? If there is a vacancy at the end of this term, do you want a new justice who could make the court more conservative, more liberal, or who would keep things the same? According to a CNN-\"USA Today\"- Gallup poll taken this month, 41 percent of the people who responded said more conservative. Thirty percent say more liberal, and 25 percent want no change. There is some movement in the case of Natalee Holloway, but it may not bring -- be bringing police any closer to solving the mystery of her disappearance. Two people in custody have been giving their walking papers. That leaves three still in custody. CNN's Karl Penhaul is in Palm Beach, Aruba, with the latest.", "Police took five suspects into court on Sunday morning. By the time the judge had finished his deliberations several hours later, there were only three suspects left in the case of the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The judge, who had flown in especially from the neighboring island of Curacao, ordered the release of Paul Van Der Sloot. He's the father of another suspect, 17-year-old Joran Van Der Sloot. This is what Paul Van Der Sloot's attorney had to say about the reasons for his release...", "The judge gave a decision. And that's", "The judge also ordered the release of Steve Croes. He was the deejay on the Tattoo party boat. Aruba's police commissioner, Jan van der Straaten, said Croes would likely walk free some time before midday Monday. Just look at the reaction of Croes as he came out of the court after being told the news. He was all smiles. Back at the Holiday Inn, though, Natalee's family were less than delighted about the release of the two suspects. This is what Natalee's father, Dave Holloway, had to say...", "My focus has always been the search and rescue efforts. Basically, what I've seen in the investigative side of it has been what has been portrayed on TV and through Natalee's mother. So my role in this has always been, you know, to find Natalee. And if we find her, that will resolve the entire case. That's where I stand on it.", "Beth Twitty, Natalee's mother, was too upset to talk in front of the camera. She said she felt that the release of these two suspects was a severe setback to the case and for the search of her daughter Natalee. Karl Penhaul, CNN, Palm Beach, Aruba.", "In news \"Across America\" now, the search for a missing Boy Scout will resume this morning at Yellowstone National Park. Thirteen-year-old Luke Sanburg fell into the Yellowstone River while playing with other scouts. Park officials say they found two tennis shoes they believe belonged to the missing teenager. The NAACP has chosen a former Verizon executive as its next president. Fifty-nine-year-old Bruce Gordon is the choice to replace Kweisi Mfume, who resigned in November. Gordon still must agree on the financial part of the deal and also has to be confirmed during the national convention next month. An unusual scene during Sunday's mass at a church in Los Angeles. This man was supposedly upset with the way the Catholic Church has handled the priest abuse scandal, so he handcuffed himself to Cardinal Roger Mahoney's chair. The cardinal continued the service. The man was arrested afterward. Coming up, fear on the beach. A family mourns after a summer camping trip turns deadly. Carol Lin will have more on the shark attack. An Italian judge orders the arrest of 13 American citizens believed to be CIA agents. Alessio Vinci has more about that. And the man accused of leaving a trail of bodies around Wichita, Kansas, for 30 years is back in court this morning. Jonathan Freed is on the case. But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Monday."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "ANNOUNCER", "COSTELLO", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "COSTELLO", "MYERS", "COSTELLO", "GEN. JOHN ABIZAID, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND", "DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY", "COSTELLO", "MYERS", "COSTELLO", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "WILLIAM REHNQUIST, SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE", "FRANKEN", "REHNQUIST", "FRANKEN", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "FRANKEN (on camera)", "SEN. ARLEN SPECTER (R), PENNSYLVANIA", "FRANKEN", "COSTELLO", "KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ARIE SWAEN, ATTY. 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{"id": "CNN-204759", "program": "EARLY START WITH JOHN BERMAN AND ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN", "date": "2013-4-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/10/es.01.html", "summary": "Back from Havana; North Korea's Next Move?; Texas College Stabbing Attack", "utt": ["They are back in the United States. New this morning, two boys abducted by sailboat and taken to Cuba returned a short time ago, now in Florida.", "Was it a sick fantasy turned to brutal reality? New information on the suspect in a mass stabbing attack at a Texas college.", "And it could happen at any moment now. the United States and the world waiting, with North Korea expected to launch a ballistic missile.", "And do we have a breakthrough on background checks, folks? We're just hours away from a bipartisan Senate announcement on gun control in America. Good morning to you. Thanks for being with us this morning. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm Zoraida Sambolin.", "And I'm John Berman. It is Wednesday, April 10. Empanada Day here on", "He's had four empanadas this morning so far.", "Could be a tough morning, ladies and gentlemen.", "It could be.", "It is 5:00 a.m. in the East. We're going to start with news overnight. The end of a kidnapping drama that turned into a manhunt and ended really under the shadow of the Cold War. The parents accused of abducting their two young sons and sailing off to Cuba are back on U.S. soil this morning where they have been placed under arrest. It was Cuba that turned the Hakken family over to United States after they were spotted Tuesday at a marina in Havana. Also tracked down by CNN's own reporting. Florida authorities sent a plane to Havana to bring them back to Tampa overnight. CNN's Victor Blackwell is live in Tampa this morning. Good morning, Victor. What's the latest?", "Good morning. The latest is and this is the headline, Chase and Cole Hakken are safe at home with their grandparents. Their parents, Joshua and Sharon Hakken, are in jail. And we have the first video of their arrival overnight in Hillsborough County on that plane that you said, John, that was sent to Cuba to retrieve them. And here is how it all went down. This is from the FBI and from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. It was the State Department that received information that the Hakken family had arrived in Cuba. Initially the FBI said that it received information that the family was headed south so they started that search on land and by boat. After the information came to the State Department that was shared with the FBI, shared with the sheriff's office, and that was late Monday when it was released to the media. And Patrick Ottman of CNN confirmed Tuesday morning that indeed the Hakken family was in Cuba. After that, we're told the Cuban authorities were cooperative through the entire process. That plane was sent to Cuba with officials locally here, also the FBI, to retrieve the family. They arrested the parents Joshua and Sharon Hakken, took the boys into custody. They landed here last night. The parents were taken to a jail just a few hundred yards for questioning for several hours. And those boys are back at home with their grandparents. It was just a week ago on Wednesday when they were snatched. This Wednesday they're waking up in their beds at home. And their grandfather, Robert Hauser, thanked everyone in this process for bringing those boys back home. And here's what he said last night at the news conference.", "Right now we're just looking forward to sitting, getting them in our arms and hugging them, and being with them and getting them home where they'll be safe again.", "There were the four Hakkens that were taken into custody there, the parents and those boys, but also the family dog, a terrier. We're still working to get the name of that dog. But that dog is with the boys back home here in Tampa -- John.", "We're thrilled that the boys are safe and the fact they have their dog, Victor. What charges will Joshua Hakken face? And what about the wife? Do we -- know any details about her involvement in this whole thing?", "We do know now that she also will be facing charges. Two counts of kidnapping, cruelty to children, burglary charge with battery, also grand theft auto for Joshua Hakken for stealing Patricia Hauser's car. And also now the federal charge for flight to avoid prosecution. So there are state charges and now a federal count, both behind bars here in Hillsborough County -- John.", "A whole litany of charges, it sounds like, Victor. Again, we are so thrilled that those kids are back in the United States and back safely. Victor Blackwell in Tampa, thanks so much.", "And our other big story this morning, the United States and the world bracing right now for North Korea's next move. CNN has learned the White House believes that it's likely the North could test fire a mobile ballistic missile at any moment. And based on recent intelligence reports as well, it appears Pyongyang has already completed the necessary launch preparations. Jim Clancy is live from Seoul this morning. So, Jim, you know, a couple of things here. I have a list in front of me. It's a brief history of North Korean missile tests, and it's quite a few of them. They've done this before. There's been a lot of rhetoric before, and typically around the birthday of North Korea's leader, they like to show their military prowess. So what is different here?", "Well, this is coming during these military maneuvers. It's also coming at a time when Pyongyang itself and Kim Jong-Un Himself have really raised the stakes with some fiery rhetoric. Talk of thermonuclear war on the Korean peninsula. It's upset a lot of people including the neighbors, the Russians, the Chinese especially. The Japanese have upped their -- their Patriot ant-missile defense system, so do the South Koreans for that matter. Everybody is more or less on edge, precisely because of what we've been hearing coming out of Pyongyang over the course of the past three weeks.", "So, Jim, is there any way to gauge how far Kim Jong-Un is willing to go this time?", "Well, there isn't -- you know, we don't know that much about this young leader. We don't know who may be pushing him to do this. There are some older relatives of his that are also involved in the government there. They may be counseling him that he's got to take it further than did his father or his grandfather. But, you know, here in South Korea, I talked to the Unification Minister today, and he was very clear. He doesn't see a war here on the Korean peninsula. Listen.", "It is impossible for war to break out on the Korean peninsula unless North Korea makes unreasonable and insane decisions. The U.S.-South Korea alliance creates a strong deterrent, and also China and Russia will never allow war to break out.", "You know, it may also be, Zoraida, that North Korea is saying one thing and doing another. They told us, if you recall, 24 hours ago that diplomats should be leaving Pyongyang, considering getting out of the country. Well, now today we find out that they're inviting athletes from 16 different countries who are going to be in Pyongyang to run a marathon for, guess what, Kim Il-Sung's birthday that comes up on the 15th -- Zoraida.", "Jim Clancy, thank you very much.", "Seven minutes after the hour right now. New developments this morning on the stabbing rampage on a college campus in Texas. The suspect under arrest, 20-year-old Dylan Quick, is accused of injuring 14 people in yesterday's attack. Officials say quick told investigators he planned the assault, and that he has fantasized about be stabbing people to death since he was in elementary school. CNN's Ed Lavandera is live in Cypress, Texas, for us this morning. Good morning, Ed. What's latest?", "Well, good morning, John. Classes here at the Lone Star College campus in Cypress, Texas, will resume. Everything back to normal today. But yesterday everything was far from normal, but it thankfully came to an end when three students jumped into action and took out an attacker.", "Investigators say Dylan Quick unleashed a rapid and frightening attack on 14 people as he walked through a hallway at the Lone Star College campus in Cypress, Texas. Cassie Foe says it was surreal to watch the horrific scene unfold. She was in a classroom when she heard students screaming. (", "How in the world did someone stab 14 people?", "Basically he used his backpack as a shield and he gets close to the person, kind of bumps into them and stabs them at the same time. So it's --", "So it was that quick?", "So it's that quick just -- and then out and down the other way.", "So this guy is walking and he's just leaving this trail of pain behind him, right?", "Basically. He was just stabbing anyone in his way. There was no pattern. There was no method. It was completely random.", "Fourteen people were wounded in the surprising assault. Four had to be airlifted to hospitals. For many, it was all over before they could figure out what had happened. The wounds were gruesome, a piece of a blade broke off in one victim's cheek. Others were stabbed in the throat and face. As students ran from the chaos, a group of three students went after the attacker. One of them was Steven Maida.", "And the next thing was there was a guy stabbing girls in the face. I was like, all right, I've got to go in there, I got to go help, and see what I can do.", "Maida says he and two other students started chasing Dylan Quick through the buildings and finally caught up with him outside by a parking lot.", "I jumped on him. And I didn't want to take a chance. I put him on his stomach and put his hands behind his back, and that's when the first cops came and put the cuffs on him and started searching him.", "And when you guy get on top of him, what did he say?", "He did -- he's like, I give up right away. I give up. And I was on top of him, it's like, why did you do this? What made you want to stab these girls?", "Maida said he didn't get an answer, but investigators say Dylan Quick said he's had fantasies of stabbing people since he was in elementary school and had planned this attack for some time. Investigators also say Dylan Quick used a razor type knife and has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.", "And, John, the latest we have heard is that two of those students that were wounded are still in critical condition. We'll continue to monitor the updates on those students. And a lot of thoughts and prayers going out to them this morning. But as I mentioned off the top here, classes resume as this campus tries to get back to normal today -- John.", "All right. Ed Lavandera, thanks so much. A lot of questions still about this story. And coming up a bit early on EARLY START, we're going to speak with Maya Khalil. She's a student at Lone Star College. She was on campus yesterday as that violence erupted. That's going to ahead. That discussion at 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time this morning.", "She actually also took pictures throughout. So we have those as well. And also new this morning, President Obama's budget for fiscal year 2014 will be released in just a few hours. Copies will be delivered to Capitol Hill to both the Senate and the House. Then later this morning in the Rose Garden, the president will make a statement. His budget will propose changes to Social Security and Medicare and calls for new tax increases.", "In France, the Senate there passing a key portion of legislation that would make marriage and adoption legal for same-sex couples. The \"Marriage for All\" bill as it's called passed the Lower House of France's parliament back in February.", "And the University of Connecticut rewriting the history books last night by winning the NCAA Women's Basketball championship for the eighth time.", "Eighth time.", "Yes. Freshman sensation Breanna Stewart scoring 18 of 24 points in the first half as the Huskies crushed Louisville 93-60.", "Look at that steal.", "Yes, it was the most lopsided win ever in a final.", "Wow.", "UConn and Tennessee are now tied for the most women's national titles with eight each. Congratulations, ladies.", "That's awesome. What a program they have up there in Connecticut.", "Yes. Exactly.", "Fantastic to see. Eleven minutes after the hour. And we could out in a matter of hours whether a deal has been reached to turn a major gun control proposal into reality. We'll give you the details coming up."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN, CNN ANCHOR", "BERMAN", "SAMBOLIN", "BERMAN", "EARLY START. 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{"id": "CNN-333242", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2018-02-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/20/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "Mueller Indicts 13 Russians For Election Interference Says They Communicated With Unwitting People Tied To Trump's Campaign", "utt": ["Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicting 13 Russian nationals for interfering in the 2016 election using what the Russians themselves called information warfare. We are learning about the methods they allegedly used. But not everyone believes it. The story tonight from senior investigative correspondent Drew Griffin.", "She may well be one of the unwitting Americans, Trump supporters who helped the internet trolls infiltrate U.S. communities by spreading Russian made messages without knowing it. But Florine Goldfarb still runs the Team Trump Broward Facebook page think that's all B.S. Right down to the timing of when Robert Mueller decided to release his indictments.", "They are covering it up that they have blunder on the -- on the shooting that was done at the high school.", "One group, the Russians operated under was called, Being Patriotic, calling themselves an online community, they were actually Russian internet trolls according the FBI, trying to direct unwitting Americans to holding rallies, posting Russian made anti-Hillary Clinton messages, even telling them what to print on their homemade signs. According to the indictment, the Russians under the online name, Being Patriotic, encouraged supporters to stage a flash mob on August 20th, and 2the Team Trump Broward group responded. Florine Goldfarb posted the information for the flash mob on the Facebook page she still runs. Co-chair of the team, Trump Broward, Dolly Rump, was there holding a crooked Hillary sign. Dolly Rump, wouldn't talk to CNN. Her husband told us by phone, we are disgusting and not to bother them. Florine Goldfarb told us, we are fake news. But what part of this is a cover- up? Are you saying that's not true or what?", "The Russians? I don't care if they were the involved or not. That's -- that to me is the least important thing.", "But they were involved with you. Did you guys know that?", "They weren't involved. You know, just make sure that you report it correctly, that, you know.", "But you guys were involved with being patriotic, right?", "Very, very patriotic. But not...", "Being Patriotic was the group that contacted and helped organize some these activities that you posted on your own Facebook account?", "Those were legitimate.", "Those were Russians.", "They were not Russians. I don't go with the Russians. Come on give me a break.", "That group was Russians.", "I have nothing with the russians.", "Well, apparently you did.", "No.", "Even though the indictment says the Russians organized the rally, Ms. Goldfarb, says she never communicated with any Russians and no one at any of her events were anything about Americans for Trump. The Russians pretending to be Trump organizers also reached out to Harry Miller in Boynton Beach, Florida, paying him to build a cage large enough to hold an actress depicting Clinton in prison uniform. He did just that, appearing at rallies. On Friday, Miller who now lives in Pennsylvania tweeted, this is the cage the Russians paid for. By phone, he says he learned about his unwitting involvement from the FBI. And now believes it was Russians who called him on the phone, paid in between $500, to $1,000 to build the cage.", "How can you be embarrassed? They have the beautiful website, they very supportive of the candidate. There was nothing -- nothing at all to lend to you think that it's anything other than people trying to support a candidate.", "The Russians weren't just recruiting unwitting Trump supporters. As CNN reported last October, a group calling itself Black Fist turned out to be Russians, trying to infiltrate black communities and seed social unrest. Other groups were encouraged by Russian Internet trolls to hold protesting against police for and against immigrants, sometimes encouraging both at the same location to increase the possibility of violence. The indictment also reveals this post election protest outside New York's Trump Tower was organized by Russians on Facebook. It grew so large even CNN covered it. Micah White, one of the original Occupy Wall Street organizer says he believes he was contacted by Russian trolls in May of 2016. He worries about the long-term effects.", "If it's true that a Russian created activist group is indistinguishable from an American created group, that will make -- that will have negative impacts on our ability to create social movements that are positive, that actually benefit ourselves and not some sort of foreign power. So that...", "People will always be wondering, well, is this a real event.", "And I think that may have been part of the goal of the Russian thing.", "To Florine Goldfarb there is no Russian thing. It's all as she repeatedly told us,", "B.S.? 2", "And please, please report that, I don't believe that. That's bull shit. I know all the people that were with me, OK? They were at my meetings. They're all Trump supporters, OK?", "But did you realize that you guys were in communication electronically with Russians?", "Not me. Not me. I don't know.", "You were posting stuff on Facebook.", "Hillary -- Hillary Clinton was and so was all her bandits.", "You are in charge of the Facebook account, right? You were posting and reposting almost word for word the information that was coming out of this Internet Research Agency...", "No. Goodbye.", "... in St. Petersburg.", "No.", "You don't believe that?", "No. It's bull shit.", "Don, she just refuses to believe what appears to be fact, that these Russian trolls were so adept at infiltrating the online political discussion in this country, they even at times convinced Americans where and when to stage protests, demonstrations, and even to build a Hillary Clinton cage on the back of a pick up truck. Don.", "Thanks, Drew. Unbelievable. When we come back Russian trolls didn't stop trying to influence Americans after the election. In fact, they're busier than ever disrupting the conversation on gun control in the wake of the Florida shooting. 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{"id": "CNN-203709", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2013-3-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/25/sp.02.html", "summary": "Service Today For Colorado Prison Chief; Kremlin Critic's Mysterious Death; Skydive Takes Tragic Turn; Survivor Story; Caddy On A Hot Tin Roof; Republicans And Same Sex Marriage; Sandusky Speaks; Sandusky's Prison Interview", "utt": ["-- caught in a very strange position between his friend, Tom Clements, who was murdered, and his long time friend, Jack Ebel, whose son Evan Ebel is the suspected shooter. Listen to Governor Hickenlooper yesterday morning speaking with Candy Crowley from \"STATE OF THE UNION.\"", "It sort of felt like I was in a -- caught in a nightmare I couldn't wake up from, right? All these things kept happening. People that I loved they didn't seem to be connected in any way. To me the emotional toll has been much deeper than worrying about security.", "Investigators hope to have final confirmation of the ballistics from Texas and the Tom Clements shooting to confirm that link. But the investigation will be far from over until they figure out his motive and if he worked with anyone else -- John, Christine.", "All right, Jim Spellman. Thanks, Jim. We could find out today how a powerful Russian businessman died. An autopsy is set for later this morning for 67-year-old Boris Berezovsky. He was found dead Saturday in his London area home. Berezovsky was living in England after a falling-out with the Kremlin. He was a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and that has led to a lot of speculation about his death. British investigators say they wouldn't found any evidence of third-party involvement. He was found locked inside his bathroom. The door locked from the inside.", "A group sky dive taking a tragic turn. An instructor and student from Iceland found dead in a wooded area in Zephyr Hills, Florida outside Tampa. Investigators say neither of them attempted to deploy their main parachutes. They may have somehow lost their altitude awareness. Their back up chutes activated automatically, but apparently too late to save them. An extraordinary tale of survival by a 9-year-old girl after a horrifying accident that killed her father, the California Highway Patrol says she was with him in an SUV when it left California's remote Sierra Highway and rolled hundreds of feet down an embankment. The girl who had only cuts and bruises escaped and ran up the hill in complete darkness to a nearby house. No one answered. So what she did she went and checked on her dad again then climbed 200 feet up a steep embankment where a passerby found her and called for help.", "It's mind boggling that a little girl at that stage could do something like that. She's a survivor.", "The father, as we said, did not survive. The girl says they were returning home to Los Angeles after a party. Investigators are saying that alcohol played a role in the crash.", "And here's something you don't see every day. The driver was heading down a hill near Los Angeles and couldn't stop. That's when the Cadillac rounded a corner, went airborne and landed on this roof.", "We took the corner the back air bag deployed and I don't even see where we're going from there, because the view was obstructed and I just heard when we stop I could see myself and my husband's really, really lucky.", "A neighbor used a ladder to help get the couple down. It took a crane to get the Cadillac down. Authorities say there was a man inside the house, but he wasn't hurt. Best headline, Cadillac on a hot tin roof. Same-sex marriage front and center this week with the Supreme Court taking up two appeals beginning tomorrow. The first Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio is already on record saying he supports it. Now listen to Karl Rove answer a question from ABC's George Stephanopoulos about it.", "Can you imagine the next presidential campaign, a Republican candidate saying flat-out I am for gay marriage?", "I could.", "Rove quickly changed the subject after that. This is interesting for a variety of reasons. First of all, in 2004 when he was the architect for George W. Bush, you know, legend has it that Rove tried to drive a wedge issue on the issue of same-sex marriage, of course, coming out against it at that point. Now he says the Republicans could actually have a candidate who supports it, though, let's put the question to Connie Mack, Mary Bono Mack, what do you think, possible?", "Well, I certainly this issue -- I said this weekend to some friends that it's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when and how. And I think really we're starting to see the debate more about definition. So when you talk about marriage, marriage is a religious institution that I think we ought to protect and marriage should be between one man and one woman. But I also believe that we ought to afford the same rights and privileges to people who love each other and want to have a family with each other. They ought to be allowed to do that and get all the same rights.", "In California, we've had Prop 8, which started, people didn't know could they or couldn't they marry their loved one. I've seen it my neighborhood. You know, in my family certainly. I think Senator Portman's credit, when you have someone like this in your family it takes on a whole different meaning to you and you're willing to come out and be brave and say something this brave. So in my instance I have a lot of, you know, great dear friends who are gay and they're married and I support it.", "When someone says, like Karl Rove says it's possible, though, does that carry weight among Republican candidates? Does that open up the door for someone to perhaps now say they support same-sex marriage?", "I believe it does. Absolutely, look I believe it opens the door for people to take risks and to sort of step away from the orthodoxy. And not only Karl -- I know my husband's going to disagree with me. He's leaning over to give me the hook. But you know, it opens the door, I think, for people to step away from --", "I don't think it's that simple. I mean, just because that's Karl Rove's feeling doesn't necessarily mean that candidates across the country now are going to say, well, if Karl Rove said it, then we're going to start moving in that direction.", "This issue is moving so fast. Public opinion on this issue is moving so fast. And right here we have the two faces of the Republican Party, the more modern face, and the still evolving face of the Republican Party.", "I'm more modern.", "I will go right here and go further than Karl Rove went and tell you that I think if public opinion continues to move as quickly as it has recently, in four years from now, I guarantee you that this will not be an issue in the presidential race, and both parties will have candidates that support marriage equality.", "And it shouldn't be an issue, shouldn't be an issue.", "All right, guys, it's 36 minutes after the hour right now. Convicted child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky speaking out for the first time since he was sent to prison in the Penn State child sex abuse case. This morning a documentary filmmaker is playing excerpts from phone conversations that he recorded with Sandusky. The filmmaker is appearing on NBC's \"Today\" show. CNN's Sara Ganim joins us now with more. Good morning, Sara.", "Hi, John. You know, this guy, John Ziegler, he's a documentary filmmaker out west. He kind of does this thing where he attaches to big stories. He did it with Sarah Palin several years ago. He did it a little bit with Steubenville rape case a couple of weeks ago and he also did it with Joe Paterno story. His agenda, according to his web site is very clear. He is trying to clear Joe Paterno's name. But, he's doing it this time with an interview with -- the jailhouse interview with Jerry Sandusky who we all know is a convicted child sex predator and the family is very upset at what he's doing. Sources tell me that it's an interesting case because he actually had some Paterno followers on Twitter. He was raising some money to do a documentary to help exonerate Joe Paterno and the family has said look, we don't support this. We don't support using, you know, having Jerry Sandusky basically speak for Joe Paterno from jail and Jerry Sandusky is clearly not that credible at this point.", "All right, Sara Ganim, thanks for joining us right now. We want to bring in Tom Kline. He represents Sandusky victim number five. He was present for the entire Sandusky case from the preliminary hearing to the verdict. And Tom, let me ask you right now, what do you make of Sandusky speaking from prison in these recordings that are being played this morning?", "Well, to whom he's speaking is interesting. Sandusky and a Paterno advocate are certainly odd bedfellows. Mr. Paterno certainly was complicit, and there certainly were major problems with his conduct. Mr. Sandusky was the root of all of these problems, and Mr. Sandusky is now saying the same old thing that he has said over and over and over again. He is a convicted felon, and he's going to spend the rest of his life in jail. That's the reality here.", "So what's the motive behind Sandusky cooperating with this documentary, and for allowing himself to be taped behind bars and allowing these conversations to be aired? What does he gain?", "Mr. Sandusky has always looked for a friendly forum. Most interesting part of the Sandusky trial, as far as he was concerned, was his lawyer explaining to the jury at the very end in the closing argument that Mr. Sandusky didn't take the stand because he didn't need to face the prosecutor in cross-examination because he faced the most -- the toughest prosecutor in the world in Bob Costas, which, of course, is all silliness. He looks and he seeks for attention. He's narcissistic. He can't accept his punishment and he's looking to tell his story again. He's looking to tell it in a friendly forum and I'm sure he was convinced that this would be a friendly forum.", "How does that make the victims feel?", "Terrible. Enough is enough. My client insisted that he testify at the sentencing hearing, which he did. He faced Mr. Sandusky, and he told him all of the things that he did to ruin his life. I am quite sure that every victim feels the same way.", "Tom, do you think he'll admit some of the things he says right now against him if you take this to civil court try to get some money out of it. Will this help you anything he says from behind bars?", "Nothing Mr. Sandusky says or doesn't say is going to affect the civil lawsuits in my opinion. He, as a convicted felon and in fact, Mr. Paterno's family and Mr. Paterno back when blamed Mr. Sandusky. Penn State blamed Mr. Sandusky. Everyone believes that he is the root cause of this problem. There's no controversy about that. The only issue remaining is Penn State's complicity. Penn State's enabling Mr. Sandusky to do what he did. That's what's on the table in the civil cases.", "So, so one of the, one of the pieces of sound from Jerry Sandusky in this interview that was aired on NBC where Jerry Sandusky essentially saying he doesn't understand how somebody could have walked into the shower room, Mike McQueary and -- and jumped to the conclusions that he did about what was going on in there. I mean, he's really attacking the McQueary witness, and also that whole episode that really turned the stomachs of the jury.", "I was there. I saw Mike McQueary testify with conviction, and without a doubt he was believed by the jury. He told a compelling, compelling story. And I don't understand how Mr. Sandusky doesn't understand that Mr. McQueary saw what Mr. Sandusky had repeated over and over again in the shower room with little boys. He saw it. He -- he told people about it. Mr. McQueary did and the facts were the facts. So Mr. Sandusky now saying, I don't understand what Mr. McQueary saw, well it was evident in the courtroom what he saw, with clear conviction, and without any doubt, at least to my credibility, having been a trial lawyer for 35 years.", "You know what do you make of the Paterno family so quickly saying that they don't endorse this documentary? They don't endorse any of this, you know, that they, the truth will be the truth, not, not this, or, or any other, even the Louis Freeh report. What do you make of that?", "Well, it's very interesting. Mr. Ziegler's had this web site up for a long time, which is, you know, called the lies about Joe Paterno or something like that. The fact of the matter is that I haven't heard them discredit him previously. He now gets discredited when he gets into bed, if you will, with Mr. Sandusky. Then they want to set some distance. Of course, the Paterno family wants to set distance from Mr. Sandusky. He is a convicted felon, and he was the root cause. The problem the Paternos have is that Mr. Paterno in the documents that we all have, and that have been aired in public by Mr. Louis Freeh, clearly shows that Joe Paterno was complicit in this whole, sordid, ugly affair.", "All right, Tom Kline, attorney for victim number five. Thank you for coming in and talking to us about this, this morning.", "My pleasure.", "-- Jerry Sandusky speaking for the first time by phone from behind bars everyone hearing tape of that for the first time this morning. It's 42 minutes after the hour right now. Tonight, the man behind that documentary I'm just telling you about John Ziegler will be on \"PIERS MORGAN LIVE.\" You want to watch that. Ahead on STARTING POINT, Mother Nature may be getting in the way, but Tiger Woods could be within hours of reclaiming the number one world ranking. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["JIM SPELLMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GOVERNOR JOHN HICKENLOOPER (D), COLORADA", "SPELLMAN", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "JOE GOMEZ, LIVES IN THE AREA", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "GALINA WYNN, PASSENGER", "ROMANS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KARL ROVE, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST", "BERMAN", "CONNIE MACK, FORMER FLORIDA CONGRESSMAN", "MARY BONO MACK, FORMER CALIFORNIA CONGRESSWOMAN", "BERMAN", "MARY BONO MACK", "CONNIE MACK", "RICHARD SOCARIDES, WRITER, NEWYORKER.COM", "MARY BONO MACK", "SOCARIDES", "MARY BONO MACK", "BERMAN", "SARA GANIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "TOM KLINE, REPRESENTS SANDUSKY'S VICTIM NUMBER 5", "ROMANS", "KLINE", "ROMANS", "KLINE", "BERMAN", "KLINE", "ROMANS", "KLINE", "ROMANS", "KLINE", "BERMAN", "KLINE", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-295970", "program": "AT THIS HOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2016-10-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/13/ath.02.html", "summary": "Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr. Defends Trump Amid Scandals", "utt": ["The president of the largest Christian university in the country says he will vote for Donald Trump, saying so, even in light of the new allegations against Donald Trump.", "I want to bring in Liberty University president, Jerry Falwell Jr. Mr. Falwell, thanks so much for being with us. You were on Erin Burnett last night and made a little bit of news. She asked you outright that if the allegations in \"The New York Times,\" these two women who accuse Donald Trump of inappropriate contact, if they were true, would you still vote for Donald Trump. You suggested the answer to that question was yes. Do you still feel the same way this morning?", "I told her it was a hypothetical question. I couldn't answer a hypothetical question. That's like asking somebody if the candidate you support murdered somebody, would you still support them.", "These are actual allegations. No one's accusing Donald Trump of murdering anyone. These are women who have come forward on the record, on camera, making an allegation against Donald Trump.", "And there are allegations that the Trump campaign categorically denied last night before I went on Erin Burnett's show. I talked to Mr. Trump later last night and he explained why they were not true. He just -- I think his statement will be very strong in a few minutes when he comes out.", "What did he say? How did he explain they were not true?", "He told me about e-mails that he had from these accusers who wanted to work for him afterwards, after the supposed event occurred. He told me about other e-mail evidence that supports the fact that it didn't happen. And I agree with what one of your other guests just a little while ago said, that Donald Trump's a billionaire. If this had happened, I have no doubt in my mind that the have brought suit many years ago. And I just -- I don't -- that videotape that was released last week, I think there's a different Donald Trump now, unlike Hillary. I believe all people are redeemable. I believe his life has changed. I believe he's a different person now. So that's why I'm still supporting him.", "Don't want to get lost. Do want to ask you about that, but that is very important what you just said. If Donald Trump told you last night that he has evidence that would be contrary to what these women have put forward, be very interested to see that. And hopefully, he will be putting that out. You have said this before, that Donald Trump is a changed man. You say he's even a different man than he was two or three years ago. When did this change happen? Where is the evidence that makes you confident of that?", "Well, I have seen his relationship up close with his family, with his employees. I have seen -- had long discussions with him. I have heard from people like Dr. James Dobson, one of the most respected evangelicals in the country, over the last four decade talk about how he is personally aware of a conversion to Christianity by Mr. Trump and a rebirth experience. So I'm not sure when exactly it happened, but Donald Trump -- I think just interacting with the American people and saying how much they are suffering and how much they have been betrayed by their leaders and the establishment, I think that in itself has had a big positive impact on him. And I think he's gone from being a New York businessman, entertainer, to being a politician who is completely willing to sacrifice all of that to save the country great things in this nation.", "So you said \"betrayed.\" There are some students at your own university right now who say they feel betrayed. A group of Liberty students put out a statement protesting your support of Donald Trump. Let me read you some of it. It says, \"We are Liberty students who are disappointed with President Falwell's endorsement and are tired of being associated with one of the worst presidential candidates in American history.\" It goes on, \"Not only is Donald Trump a bad candidate for president, he is actively promoting the very things that we, as Christians, ought to oppose.\" Your response to your own students?", "We do have a small group. We have 15,000 students on campus, 90,000 online students, who are adults all over the country. We do have a small group of the Never-Trump crowd on campus who would rather see Hillary elected than Donald Trump. But that group, they claim to have 200 signatures, then they claimed they had 1200. I don't know what the number is. But I have received many, many tweets and messages from people who say, I signed it, and I'm not a student, I'm an alumni, or I'm not affiliated with Liberty at all. And some of the things they said in that statement are untrue. They said I have been traveling all over the country promoting Trump and that I had somehow associated Trump with Liberty. I have always been careful to make it clear that my endorsement of Trump is mine only. I'm not speaking for the university. But I also say this. I'm proud of those students because unlike a lot of ivy league schools, Liberty University promotes free expression of ideas, promotes academic freedom, and I'm proud for speaking their mind, for going against the grain. Yesterday, when Michael -- when Mike Pence spoke at Liberty, he received thunderous applause when he talked about Donald Trump, and it encouraged the students to vote for Donald Trump. He received five standing ovations. So if there is a group that is embarrassed by my support of Trump, it's very small in relation to the whole student population. But I am proud of them for being bold enough to speak out. That's not true. A lot conservative students are scared to say what they think.", "Jerry Falwell Jr, thank you so much. Standing by Donald Trump. Thanks for coming on this morning. We appreciate it.", "Let's reiterate --", "Absolutely.", "-- what Mr. Falwell just told us. He claimed that Donald Trump told him overnight and Trump has e-mail evidence that some of the allegations against him either are not true or --", "Or there's more to the story, than we know now, which -- we'd love to know more of any of the stories.", "We're standing by for Donald Trump speaking. That will happen in a few minutes. Will he, you know, reveal what he told Jerry Falwell Jr? We'll see that. Also, First Lady Michelle Obama, she is going to speak in New Hampshire. Looking at live blurry pictures from that event in New Hampshire. We will try to take that to you live. This is her first chance to respond to these new allegations last night. She has always said, when the Trump campaign, goes low, we go high. Stay with us. A lot going on."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "REV. JERRY FALWELL JR, PRESIDENT, LIBERTY UNIVERSITY", "BOLDUAN", "FALWELL", "BERMAN", "FALWELL", "BOLDUAN", "FALWELL", "BERMAN", "FALWELL", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN", "FALWELL", "BERMAN", "BOLDUAN", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-72036", "program": "LIVE FROM THE HEADLINES", "date": "2003-6-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/09/se.14.html", "summary": "Who is Sam Waksal?; Analysis With Any Serwer, Jeffrey Toobin", "utt": ["The saga continues. The founder of the biotech company ImClone faces sentencing tomorrow in the insider trading case that's also bedeviling Martha Stewart. Samuel Waksal could receive a hefty fine and up to seven years in prison. CNN Financial reporter Allan Chernoff looks back at Sam Waksal's rise and his fall.", "Sam Waksal is an enigma: a Scientist devoted to fighting cancer, yet a businessman who has admitted to lying cheating and defrauding", "I called him and I asked him if he could help me find her an oncologist and he did. And he was working at Mount Sinai at the time, and he went every day to see my mother. He was there when she died.", "Battling cancer, friends say, is an obsession for Sam Waksal who relentlessly pushed his drug Erbitux, also called C225.", "We feel very confident that we'll be on the market next year with a very important new drug.", "Sam Waksal lives in a penthouse of this building in Manhattan's SoHo Neighborhood. His annual holiday parties here have been packed with a broad range of celebrities ranging from media tycoon Mort Zuckerman to Mick Jagger and, of course, Martha Stewart. (voice-over): Waksal used social connections to push his company, ImClone Systems. Financier Carl Icahn found him to be persuasive and persistent. He'd sit around, uninvited, and wait until you got of the court, you know , to have a drink? And he'd be talking about financing -- you'd laugh. He'd just keep talking about it until, eventually, I got interested in it.", "Waksal bet heavily on his company and when he heard that the Food and Drug Administration would refuse to review the drug, he tried to illegally bail out of the stock.", "I made some terrible mistakes and I deeply regret what has happened. I was wrong.", "Sam Waksal lived beyond his means. These documents obtained by CNN reveal he was in default on $4.5 million in loans from Bank of America which last month forced him to auction off paintings at Sotheby's. Waksal also pled guilty to evading taxes on the artwork. This enigmatic man now faces an incredible irony: after laboring for years to bring his drug to market, new trial data from an overseas partner has convinced the Food and Drug Administration to give Erbitux a second look. Waksal's greatest success may be achieved once he's behind prison bars. Allan Chernoff, CNN, New York.", "Well we have seen quite a few business barons being accused, even charged with financial wrong doing. But tomorrow Sam Waksal may become the highest-ranking of them all to actually receive a prison sentence. For more on this, let's turn to CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and \"Fortune\" magazine editor at large Andy Serwer. Guys, thanks for being with us. All right, Sam Waksal tomorrow, this is going to happen. Jeffrey, what kind of time is he going to face?", "Guaranteed prison sentence. Big, big sentence. His sentencing guidelines are between 70 and 87 months. The government is going to ask that he get more than that. There's no circumstance where he'll get less than 70 months. So you're talking about six, seven, eight, nine years in the federal system, which means no parole.", "Let's talk about the charges. We've got a screen -- full screen of them. Securities fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury, tax evasion. This is like a potpourri of...", "He was a one-man crime wave basically. It's absolutely true.", "Are you surprised by all the charges and the fact that he's going to do time?", "No, I mean this guy has been on the radar screen of investigators for a while. He did something and was caught doing something that was easy for prosecutors to nail him for as opposed to some of the executives at Tyco and Enron, Global Crossing, WorldCom. Those are much more complicated accounting cases. This was basically a simple case of fraud, securities fraud, insider trading and tax evasion...", "So is he paying the price for the fact that his alleged crime was pretty simple.", "Well I don't think that's really the case. I mean a cop catches you going 85 miles an hour and you say everyone's going 110, you're still breaking the speed limit.", "But this was a fragrant, flagrant case of insider trading. It is, of course, the same set of trades that led to the Martha Stewart investigation and he was the CEO of ImClone. He got the news that the FDA was going to give a bad report on the drug Erbitux. That day he tried to sell stock, he got his relatives to sell stock. I mean it was textbook insider trading. There was really no defense. That's why...", "And he was selling stock through the same broker that Martha Stewart would sell stock through.", "Peter Bacanovic of Merrill Lynch. This is why Martha Stewart is in trouble because basically the government found this flagrant case of insider trading, decided to look at other trades at ImClone in the same day, saw that his close friend Martha Stewart sold stocks. That's why they launched the investigation.", "It's not just the stock sells. I mean he's pled guilty to -- there was an art tax scheme he was doing.", "Right. He bought millions of dollars worth of art and had it shipped in theory to New Jersey so there would be no sales tax. It was $1.2 million in sales tax he avoided when the sale was going within New York City...", "To save $1.2 million in sales tax.", "Do we know -- is some part of this, is there a deal to protect his child, to protect his father? Because there are those charges as well.", "I'm not sure that exists. I mean basically this guy has said that in fact he wouldn't plead guilty to the charges that involve tipping off his relatives. And in fact, Jeffrey, correct me if I'm wrong, but it's that lack of contrition, because he's not contrite about that that may lead to more prison time. He has basically not acknowledged that he tipped them off.", "It's a very weird situation. There is no plea bargain. He just pled to most of the counts in the indictment and essentially said to the government I dare you to prove the rest. Why bother?", "They're not proving it. But they're using that conduct to say that the judge tomorrow, give him extra time which they're allowed to do under the rules because there's so much more here.", "And it's a horrible thing too. I mean it's his daughter and father who is a holocaust survivor. He basically got him involved in all this shenanigans.", "I mean it is astonishing how bad this guy is.", "Now is he going to testify against Martha Stewart?", "Well, no, apparently not. That's another interesting part of this case is that, you know, he had every incentive to make a deal with the government, turn on Martha Stewart, because, after all, she's the big fish here. But as far as we know, and this will be something that will be interesting to find out in court tomorrow. He had nothing bad to say about Martha Stewart. He says he didn't tip her off. The accusation against her is that the tip came through the stockbroker, not from Waksal himself.", "That's correct. And actually through the broker's assistant, Douglas Faneuil. But I think this also speaks to this guy Waksal. He's charming, engaging, very smart, extremely manipulative. He had New York society wrapped around his fingers. He had Pete Peterson, a former commerce secretary join the board for a while. All these people were involved because of the power of his personality.", "And part of what makes this a great story is that Erbitux, the drug that caused all this, you know what prompted the insider trade was this bad report from the FDA. Now just last week it turns out Erbitux might turn out to be a great cancer drug and the stock is going back up...", "... may go back down. I've seen this before. I've been following the stock for a long time and Erbitux has come and gone and back and forth. So the jury's still out on the drug. But it is true that through all this it is a potentially promising drug.", "All right, let's leave it there, We'll see what happens tomorrow. 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{"id": "CNN-401912", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-06-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/05/cnr.18.html", "summary": "NFL's Drew Brees Apologizes for \"Insensitive\" Comments.", "utt": ["Britain's Duchess of Sussex is speaking out against racism in America. She recorded a message for students graduating from her old Los Angeles high school saying they will effect real change in a broken nation.", "We are going to rebuild and rebuild and rebuild until it is rebuilt. Because when the foundation is broken, so are we. You are going to lead with love. You are going to lead with compassion. You are going to use your voice. You are going to use your voice and a stronger way than you have ever been able to because most of you are 18 or you're going to turn 18 so you're going to vote. You are going to have empathy. For those who don't see the world through the same lens that you do because of this diverse and vibrant and open-minded as I know the teachings in Immaculate Heart are -- I know you know that black lives matter.", "The Duchess says she agonized over saying the right thing about the issue before realizing the only wrong thing to say would be quote, \"nothing\". One of the biggest stars in American football has now apologized for controversial comments he made about demonstrations against racism in the U.S. New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees said on Monday it is disrespectful for players to kneel during the national anthem. Our Patrick Snell has more on Brees' apology and how his teammates are reacting.", "Drew Brees is a very popular figure in American sport but his comments during an interview with Yahoo Finance on Wednesday had fans, fellow athletes and even his own teammates in an uproar. Early Thursday morning, Brees taking to Instagram to apologize. He said, \"In an attempt to talk about respect, unity, and solidarity centered around the American flag and the national anthem, I made comments that were insensitive and completely missed the mark on the issues we are facing right now as a country. They lacked awareness and any type of compassion or empathy.\" Brees added that he needed to do less talking and more listening. Meantime, wide receiver Michael Thomas is one of the first Saints players to criticize Brees' comments. After the apology, Thomas tweeted, \"He apologized and I accepted it because that's what we were taught to do as Christian's. Now, back to the movement. #George Floyd.\" Fellow teammate, Demario Davis said the apology showed true leadership.", "He admitted that he missed the mark. For him to come out and say, you know I missed the mark, I have been insensitive, but what I'm going to start doing is listening and learning from the black community and finding ways that I can help them, I think that is a model for all of America. Because historically, in general, most of America has missed the mark.", "And the question now is how many players will feel empowered to defy a league ban and kneel during the anthem when the NFL season starts this fall? Patrick Snell, CNN -- Atlanta.", "Thanks for watching. I am Nick Watt. John Vause is next."], "speaker": ["WATT", "MEGHAN MARKLE, DUCHESS OF SUSSEX", "WATT", "PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT", "DEMARIO DAVIS, NEW ORLEANS SAINTS LINEBACKER", "SNELL", "WATT"]}
{"id": "CNN-169912", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-8-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/01/cnr.07.html", "summary": "New Lead in 40-Year-Old Mystery", "utt": ["All right, breaking news. Divers have found a female body in a river not too far from the home of 11-year-old Celina Cass. She is the young girl who just vanished from her bedroom in New Hampshire one week ago today. Reporter Adam Harding from CNN affiliate WMUR is outside that command center in West Stewartstown, New Hampshire. And, Adam, just bring me up to speed. What can you tell me in terms of the details about this body found today?", "Well, today marks day seven of this investigation. And investigators had pretty much stayed tight-lipped as for how their investigation was moving forward. I can tell you, though, the attorney general here for New Hampshire just a few minutes ago did release a statement saying that they found what appears to be a body in the Connecticut river. A source is confirming that it is that of a female. But any identification, that has not been made public yet. This is where the media will be addressed. We understand it should be relatively soon from the state's attorney general. But to bring you up to speed, so to say, was earlier today, investigators within minutes at around 11:00 a.m. just swarmed around this dam on the Connecticut River, which separates New Hampshire and Vermont, because think about this. This town is about a mile from Vermont and about a mile from Canada. So we're talking a lot of agencies, state and federal level agencies working this investigation, and really within minutes, the most activity this small town has ever seen in this investigation now on day seven here.", "I'm going to go ahead and presume obviously it's too early, the body hasn't been I.D.ed yet. You said it was found right around 11:00 a.m. And I think this is interesting. I was speaking to the assistant attorney general last week and she made the point to me that every single person in this town, Adam, I think she said it was 800 people, every single person was being questioned. Talk to me a little bit more about the search here and the fact that I imagine there are neighbors talking. I know now that the father of this young girl is talking. What are you hearing as far as that?", "Yes. Well, investigators really have been back and forth across this town, up and down. In fact, they were in a pond yesterday and they said the bottom line is, they weren't considering it a recovery mission. And it's not the same body of water where today's developments came from. They just wanted to make sure that every stone, as they put it, did not go unturned. You mentioned the community, a town of 800. I will go one step further. There were only nine students in the fourth grade class. That's where this little 11-year-old girl, Celina Cass -- she was in the fourth grade, just finished up the fourth grade, heading into the fifth.", "Wow.", "And you might see this little ribbon that I'm wearing. This was actually made by one of the nine students who really there's been such a grassroots effort to get her name, her face, her picture. And you did talk about the biological father.", "You spoke with him, didn't you?", "No one in the family had made any public -- yes, we spoke with him last night. Now, this case was interesting because there had not been one public plea from any family members up until last night. And the father, the biological father was in the hospital in a medically induced coma just days ago. He found out his little girl was missing on Tuesday of last week. He was still in the hospital. He said it was his faith that really got him healthy. And he wanted to make a public plea for any information. It was very hard to listen to this man, very heartbroken. And a lot of people are confused and angered as well because they just -- they want closure. And right now, authorities still have not ended this investigation up here.", "Quickly, Adam, do we know yet when the next briefing will be held? We want to stay on the story too here at", "We are hearing, but it's unconfirmed, anywhere from 4:00 to 5:00 this afternoon. Again, that could easily change. A lot of the times, they say 5:30, it's ended up being 6:30, closer to 7:00.", "OK.", "So we're all still waiting. As you can see, there's a podium here. And we're just waiting now for authorities to make official statement.", "Adam Harding reporting for me from New Hampshire, from our CNN affiliate WMUR, Adam, thanks so much. And there's another podium we're staring at here. This is on Capitol Hill. We're waiting to hear from Speaker Boehner any moment now. CNN's John King was just telling me that the Senate -- did you hear this? The Senate may actually delay the vote on this deal all the way potentially until tomorrow. We know it's going to the House first, then the Senate. So what's going on up there? What's going on in the House? We're going to hear pretty shortly. Also coming up, Donald Trump, he is going to call in to the show. He called the debt deal earlier today a joke. He accuses the president of maneuvering for political gain. What's he thinking about all this? We're covering the story from every angle -- be right back."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "ADAM HARDING, WMUR REPORTER", "BALDWIN", "HARDING", "BALDWIN", "HARDING", "BALDWIN", "HARDING", "BALDWIN", "CNN. HARDING", "BALDWIN", "HARDING", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-3276", "program": "Breaking News", "date": "2000-2-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/24/bn.01.html", "summary": "Fmr. Mafia Hitman 'Sammy the Bull' Gravano Arrested on Drug Charges", "utt": ["A reputed mob figure has been arrested today in a drug bust. Our justice correspondent Pierre Thomas is working the story in Washington. He joins us -- Pierre.", "Natalie, CNN has learned \"Sammy The Bull\" Gravano, a key witness in the trial against New York Mafia leader John Gotti, has been arrested on drug distribution charges. Law enforcement officials tell CNN Gravano was arrested in a probe of a major ecstasy distribution ring which operated in Arizona, Phoenix and Ohio. The arrest was the result of a joint operation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Pheonix Police Department and the Arizona attorney general's office -- Natalie.", "And what -- what more do they know about this drug ring that he allegedly was involved in?", "Well, sources are telling me that this was a very major drug organization, that they were responsible for putting between 20,000 and 50,000 ecstasy pills on the street every week, and that the operation included not only Arizona but also Ohio and New Mexico, and that Mr. Gravano's role in this particular investigation, I'm told, or in this particular ring was to finance the operation, that he was a very high lieutenant. And this is somewhat embarrassing for federal law enforcement in the sense that, again, Mr. Gravano was a key witness, a person who apparently had gone on the straight and narrow but now they found perhaps otherwise.", "All right, Pierre Thomas working the story in Washington. We'll continue to have developments throughout the day. Thank you."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "PIERRE THOMAS, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN", "THOMAS", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-204789", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2013-4-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/10/cg.01.html", "summary": "Where Have You Gone, Jackie Robinson?", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. The World Lead. North Korea collapses. The country is in chaos, and American forces drop the ball on locking down the regime's nuclear stockpile. Good thing. It was only a game. The Sports Lead: a new movie about Jackie Robinson's life is opening on Friday. He cleared the way for African-Americans to play Major League Baseball, but these days fewer and fewer actually want to. How Major League Baseball is trying to change that. The Pop Culture lead. He's been to places you only heard about and eaten things you would never dream of. Chef Anthony Bourdain joins us to talk about what's next on his plate: his new show on CNN. The World Lead: it could be bombs away any minute now in North Korea with the latest intel indicating multiple missile launches may be planned. Defense secretary Chuck Hagel said today Kim Jong-un is coming close to a very dangerous line.", "Our country is fully prepared to deal with any contingency, any action that North Korea may take or any provocation that they may instigate. And we have contingencies prepared to do that.", "Prepared for any contingency? Really? That's not exactly what the military found during a recent war game exercise.", "Imagine this. The North Korean regime is toppled. Either because the U.S. or South Korea take it out or because of a coup. And the U.S. now has to surge troops to secure the country's nuclear stockpiles to make sure they don't fall into the wrong hands. It's a frightening scenario played out recently at the U.S. Army War College, one that did not end all that well. The military set the scene for their war game in the fictitious land of North Brownland, essentially an alias for North Korea.", "It was a family regime, had nuclear weapons, lost control of nuclear weapons. The population was considered to be essentially brainwashed.", "Paul McCleary, a writer for Defense News, was present as the military officials debated the plans. U.S. troops, he says, had immediate problems surging into the North Korea-like country. B-22 Ospreys zoomed U.S. soldiers deep beyond the border, but with reinforcements so far behind, they are quickly surrounded by the enemy and need to be pulled out. American troops eventually make it over the border, but with nuclear sites located in populated areas, their mission grows more difficult. U.S. forces make humanitarian aid drops to draw people out of the cities.", "They made the game as difficult as possible to really test their capabilities. They have not spent a lot of time or money modernizing their nuclear and chemical troops. So that's a big concern. It takes the U.S. a staggering 56 days and a huge force of 90,000 troops to secure the country's nuclear weapons. Seen by many as way too long and way too many troops.", "We're not very well prepared to deal with a collapsed North Korea.", "North Korea expert Bruce Bennett says his numbers for containing the regime's nuclear arsenal run much higher. 200,000 troops. That's larger than the forces in Iraq and Afghanistan at its peak.", "We would have to send perhaps a third of our army to South Korea in order to deal with the weapons of mass destruction.", "It's thought that North Korea has 100 sites linked to their nuclear and missile program, but with a black tarp shrouding intelligence on the locations, U.S. troops would likely have to fight their way through the country to find and secure them.", "North Korea has about 1.2 million people in the military. That's a very large military for us to deal with. But they also have according to the South Korean defense ministry about 200,000 special forces. And those special forces would be prepared to fight you like Taliban or the Iraqi insurgents.", "The Army today was quick to remind CNN that the fictional North Brownland in the war game may not expressly be North Korea per se but any one of any 28 countries that have weapons of mass destruction capabilities. General Walter \"Skip\" Sharp was commander of U.S. forces in Korea until 2011. Thank you for being here, General.", "Good to be here.", "So you just received a briefing at the Pentagon. In terms of the war game that we just saw, it took a long time for U.S. troops to secure the various weapons of mass destruction that the North Koreans are thought to have: nuclear, chemical, biological. Why? Why did it take so long?", "We obviously know of some sites, some of the bigger sites we're able to see from imagery. We suspect where there's other sites. But we also clearly believe that with the great underground facilities that they have in North Korea there are many, many other sites of weapons of mass destruction. And when you look for, you know, six to 12 rounds of nuclear capability that could be hidden anywhere in that country, it's going to be very difficult.", "How different is this from what we thought we knew about, for instance, Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program that turned out not to be correct? How do we know this information is right?", "In this case, the leader, Kim Jong-il and now Kim Jong-un, have said they are developing this nuclear capability and have this nuclear capability.", "And intelligence has picked up evidence that -", "We've seen the nuclear tests, and we believe that they have been at least partially successful in the nuclear test. And I mean, this is not new. They have been trying to develop this nuclear capability for many, many years. So, the idea is, and what we have planned for and exercised is you form a task force that has the experts out of the United States and Republic of Korea to go in and do site surveys when you forcefully get into North Korea to the known sites. You very quickly look at the documents. You try to determine where are there some others. You do interviews, and you try to very quickly secure the sites, exploit them, and then move to other sites that hopefully some of the intelligence has been able to garner, either through the documents or talking to people that you think there could be actual nuclear weapons.", "The amazing thing is from this war game just from my own reporting, there's so much we do not know about what's going on in North Korea. So you met with officials at the Pentagon. You obviously as former commander in the region know a lot about this. They are concerned at the Pentagon and the national security apparatus. They think this is different from previous episodes with North Korea. How it is different?", "In the past, especially before 2010, these provocations would be met by, we would like to talk, you stop doing this we'll give you food and we'll give you aid. That is totally different after the artillery attack in 2010.", "Well, after 2010, just to remind our viewers, the North Koreans attacked a South Korean ship, killing 46 South Koreas sailors. And they also shelled an island, killing four South Koreans. And there was some small response but not anything major and not anything by the U.S. You think it's different now. You think the U.S. military and the Obama administration, they are not likely to let something like that happen again.", "The first -- when you get attacked, the first self-defense response try to kill what's trying to kill you is all going to be from South Korea. We'll provide some intelligence from our intelligence assets that we have to help more accurately target. But the actual kinetic response going back will be from South Korea. And we'll work this as an alliance. It will take a presidential decision to go beyond, OK, the immediate self-defense. But that's what this -- this provocation plan is lined up.", "All right. General Walter \"Skip\" Sharp, former commander of U.S. forces in Korea, thank you so much for joining us.", "Thank you.", "Next in our Money Lead: I know the rules for a peaceful dinner party. Don't talk money or politics. Good luck with that tonight, Mr. President, as the Republicans head to the White House to dine and discuss his new budget."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "CHUCK HAGEL, U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY", "TAPPER", "TAPPER", "PAUL MCCLEARY, DEFENSE NEWS", "TAPPER", "MCCLEARY", "BRUCE BENNETT, SENIOR DEFENSE ANALYST, RAND CORPORATION", "TAPPER", "BENNETT", "TAPPER", "BENNETT", "TAPPER", "GEN. WALTER \"SKIP\" SHARP, FORMER CMDR. 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{"id": "CNN-391155", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2020-01-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/25/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "Trump's Defense Team Tries to Undercut Dems' Case; Recording Shows Trump Talking with Lev Parnas about Ukraine Ambassador; NPR Reporter: Pompeo Screamed Obscenities when Questioned About Ukraine Policy.", "utt": ["This is CNN TONIGHT. I'm Don Lemon. It is a busy Saturday night, and we're going to catch you up on all the big headlines. President Trump caught on a tape at a dinner in 2018, talking with indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, a man the president claims that he doesn't know. Trump demands the firing of U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and asks how long Ukraine can hold back Russia without U.S. military aid. A new phase in the impeachment trial. President Trump's defense team begins opening arguments, trying to undermine evidence presented by House impeachment managers, evidence they say shows the president abused his office and obstructed Congress. NPR standing by its reporter, who was subjected to a profanity-laced tirade by the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, after she repeatedly questioned him about the Trump administration's policy on Ukraine. And the state of the race. With just over a week to go before the Iowa caucuses, Elizabeth Warren gets a big endorsement tonight, and there's also good news for Bernie Sanders. But let's get to President Trump's impeachment trial. His defense team beginning their opening arguments, trying to undercut the House manager's case that the president abused his office and obstructed Congress. CNN's Sara Murray has more now -- Sara.", "Well, Don, look, the arguments were brief. I think they were more reserved than a lot of people thought that they would be. And at the end of the day, the president's defense team really pleased President Trump in the first day of arguments.", "The president did absolutely nothing wrong.", "President Trump's defense team took to the Senate floor arguing the Democrats have failed to make their case that Trump should be removed from office for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.", "Today we're going to confront them on the merits of their argument. Now they have the burden of proof, and they have not come close to meeting it.", "They accused Democrats of trying to overturn the last election and preempt the next one.", "They're here to perpetrate the most massive interference in an election in American history, and we can't allow that to happen.", "Trump's team aimed to poke holes in the arguments House impeachment managers presented, claiming the Democrats didn't provide context around witness testimony, and using clips of witnesses from the House inquiry that bolstered Trump's defense.", "The fact that they came here for 24 hours and hid evidence from you is further evidence that they don't really believe in the facts of their case.", "They insisted Trump never made a White House meeting and security aid for Ukraine contingent on Ukraine opening investigations into Joe Biden and the 2016 election, noting Trump never explicitly asked for such a quid pro quo in the call with the Ukrainian president.", "The transcript shows that the president did not condition either security assistance or a meeting on anything. The paused security assistance funds aren't even mentioned on the call.", "And they raised testimony from some administration officials who believed Trump's call for investigations was simply a request, rather than a demand.", "Do you believe, in your opinion, that the president of the United States demanded that President Zelensky undertake these investigations?", "No, sir.", "Trump's lawyers also made the claim that the president is legitimately invested in cracking down on corruption Ukraine and taking a tough stance toward Russia.", "You will hear that President Trump has a strong record on confronting Russia. You will hear that President Trump has a strong record of support for Ukraine.", "But there's little effort of Trump's interest in corruption, save for the call of an investigation into the Bidens, which also directly involves the president's personal interests. And while the administration has taken steps to crack down on Russia, Trump's public statements have undermined those efforts. Over the course of their brief two-hour arguments, Trump's lawyers took shots at Democrats' lengthy and often repetitive presentations.", "We're not going to play the clip seven times. He said it. You saw it.", "As well as House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff.", "Do you know who didn't show up in the Judiciary Committee? Chairman Schiff.", "They wrapped up just afternoon, leaving senators enough time to escape for a bit of the weekend.", "I thank you for your attention, and I look forward to seeing you on Monday.", "Afterward, House Democratic managers argued the president's team did not refute the claim that Trump solicited foreign interference in a U.S. election.", "What was most striking to me about the president's presentation today is they don't contest the basic architecture of the scheme. They do not contest that the president solicited a foreign nation to interfere in our election to help him cheat.", "The president's team has 22 more hours to make its case but says it's not planning to use it all.", "Now, Don, the president's team has the run of the floor on Monday when they get back. But you can bet the Democrats are still going to be making their case in press conferences, and they're going to be pushing any moderate senators they think they can get to swing in their direction that they need to hear from more witnesses; they need to see more documents.", "All right. Sara, stand by. I'm going to bring in Philip Bump, a national correspondent for \"The Washington Post\"; also Guy Smith, a former Clinton impeachment advisor. Welcome to the program, guys. And speaking of the guys, Guy, you're going to go first. President Trump's defense team argued the president did nothing wrong when it comes to Ukraine. Since when is asking a foreign power to investigate a political rival OK? Since when is that right?", "Well, it's more of -- interestingly, it's more of the gaslighting that they do all the time, and it's staggering to do it on the floor of the United States Senate. And if you or I solicited a foreign -- a foreign person, not just a foreign government, it would be a violation of law. And -- and they are completely ignoring that that. They -- they were lawyerly. Notice they didn't even wear flags on their lapels, and -- and they were brief. That's nice. And then you saw the White House counsel on the floor of the United States Senate propagating a Russian spy service propaganda that Ukraine was involved in the election. Unbelievable.", "But even -- even President Clinton admitted that he did something wrong, but, I mean, it's not something Americans will ever hear from President Trump or even from anyone who is associated with him or your attorneys.", "You're right. Well, President Clinton did. He apologized repeatedly, but not at the beginning, but then he did. And he did it repeatedly. And he was genuinely contrite. And think about if we were at that point in the trial now to where President Clinton was at this point in his trial, if President Trump had said, you know, I really -- I really screwed up here, and I shouldn't have said that, and let me tell you what I really was trying to do. You're right, you'll never hear anything like that.", "Yes. Philip, Trump's defense team is trying to assert that the Democrats are trying to steal the 2020 election. Will that resonate with -- with Republican voters?", "Frankly, I'm surprised --", "With the senators, I should say.", "Well, that's a whole different issue. But I think you really hit the nail on the head in who he's actually trying to appeal to, right. So to first answer to your question, I'm sort of fascinated by the extent to which this -- they're trying to reverse the 2016 election narrative has taken hold. It's obviously not that. And this is a constitutional procedure for addressing things which can be addressed immediately through election. This argument about 2020, I think they see as obviously part of what has compelled Donald Trump to a lot of his base, is this fact that he's constantly being embattled. And so they think that they are going to be able to rise to his defense, stand with him, and say, no, he deserves to be on the ballot. We want to vote for him again. This is a way of getting them engaged and riled up about this. But at the same time, that's who everyone is talking to. The only people that Republicans -- that Trump's legal team knows to keep those Republicans in line, they just need to keep Republicans happy with Trump. And so they are making a case. Donald Trump needs you to stand with him. So Democrats are trying to keep him off the ballot in 2020. And those people are going to stand with Donald Trump, and therefore, the senators are going to stand with Trump.", "But it's interesting how they always say he's embattled. He's always being attacked. He's always attacking other people, or he's always counter-punching. He's always attacking and punching other people. It's just -- it's fascinating to hear the Republican senators, especially the ones who are supposed to be, you know, on the fence, right, who are saying they're so offended. And like, oh, my God, I have the vapors. Somebody said a bad word on the Senate floor. Have they ever heard this president? Do they -- have they met Donald Trump before?", "Well, they are all having a case of the vapors. And for your viewers, the vapors are, Oh, my God, this is really happening to me, for those of you who aren't from the South. But -- but what's happening, think about this when they were all upset, this fake being upset about talking about head on a pike. Yet, when Marsha Blackburn, the senator from Tennessee, attacks the patriotism of Colonel Vindman, not one of them said a word. I mean, this is an example of this -- this dichotomy of -- it's just hard to describe.", "It's just -- it's really -- it's outrageous. I can't -- I can't believe it. Listen, Democrats are saying, Guy, that -- that the Trump folks, the lawyers helped their case for witnesses today.", "Yes.", "Did they?", "I think they did. And the reason was they created more questions. And the only way to answer those questions is to hear from Mulvaney and Pompeo and Bolton, for sure, and the whistle-blower.", "What are we going to hear Monday?", "Well, I just want to say on that point, they specifically said that no one has tied Donald Trump directly to these actions, except that Mick Mulvaney did in a press conference, and it just really made the case. OK, let's get Mick Mulvaney in here. What are we going to hear Monday? We're going to hear a lot of misdirection. We're going to hear Jay Sekulow continuing this culture war fight that he's been pushing --", "Yes.", "-- for days and days now. And frankly, I think we're not going to hear a lot that's -- really undercuts the evidence of the hard facts (ph).", "And we are going to have witnesses.", "Yes.", "Is that right?", "OK. We shall see.", "You heard it here.", "Thank you, Guy. Philip, you're going to hang around. The new recording that shows President Trump talking at length with Lev Parnas, the indicted Giuliani associate the president claims that he doesn't know. The tape made public tonight by an attorney for Parnas. I want to bring it back to us. CNN political correspondent Sara Murray, who is working all the big stories tonight. Sara, thanks for rejoining us here. President Trump and Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, they're talking Ukraine, and they're talking about firing Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, right?", "That's right. I mean, this is a very curious conversation for the president to be having with somebody he says he doesn't know. It lasted, the tape, around 90 minutes. And there's a portion about it where they talk about Ukraine and Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. Listen to the president talking to Lev Parnas about her.", "The biggest problem there, I think, where we -- we need to start is we've got to get rid of the ambassador. It's -- she's still left over from the Clinton administration.", "Where -- the ambassador? Where, Ukraine?", "Yes. And she's basically walking around telling everybody, Wait, he's going to get impeached. Just wait. I mean -- It's incredible.", "She'll be gone tomorrow.", "Yes, well --", "I don't remember the name.", "So one of the things that will be -- now that we have a secretary of state that's been sworn in --", "Get rid of her. Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out, OK? Do it.", "So you hear him say, \"Get her out. Take her out.\" This is in the spring of 2018. So it's long before she's actually removed from her position as the ambassador to Ukraine. But it's telling, Don, that you see President Trump there. You hear President Trump there, essentially taking the word of Lev Parnas that Marie Yovanovitch is saying these things about him. Remember, Marie Yovanovitch testified that she never said these things about the president, but he seems all too willing there to take Lev Parnas's word on this issue.", "Let's bring Philip back, as well. Also Matthew Rosenberg joins us, investigative correspondent for \"The New York Times.\" So Matt, a donor at the dinner can apparently manipulate the president into dismissing an ambassador on the spot. Really?", "Apparently so. I mean, this has got to be great if you're, like, foreign intelligence service, or like, a businessman in the U.S. who wants to get some deal done got some regulatory issue, just get in with the dinner with the Trump -- with the president. Get a donor who's -- maybe you know. Tell him to, you know, tell the president what you want him to hear, and hey, maybe he'll get rid of an ambassador for you. It's amazing how casual. The president just kind of dismisses an ambassador on the word of a guy whose business, you know, was known as fraud guarantee. You know, it really is something. It really is.", "Philip, I want you to listen to President Trump and Parnas talking about Ukraine at this dinner. Here it is.", "They have everything there. They're just right now waiting for your support a little bit to make sure, because obviously, if they go on their own, Russia won't let them do it; because they'll cut off a lot of their revenue.", "How long would they last in a fight with Russia?", "Not very long.", "I don't think very long. Without us, not very long. But Russia, also keep in mind, talks a big game, but they're not ready to play -- he's not -- they're not ready to play.", "Wow. You hear President Trump, he asks how long Ukraine would ask without aid a full year before he withheld aid. This is outrageous.", "I mean, it's -- it is something. There's a lot in there. There's another point in which Donald Trump, they're talking about oil exploration in Ukraine. Donald Trump says Ukraine has oil? I mean, then he asks this random guy, this donor. It's not even like this is a GOP meeting. This is at a separate PAC called America First Action that Parnas bought his way into. And Parnas essentially just makes these cases. And he's asking for, you know, foreign policy advice from this random guy who he may have met or has met a couple of times before. But I think there's also an interesting subtext here that's really going unnoticed, which is that the next month Parnas and his associate, Fruman, go, and they talk to this Texas congressman, Pete Sessions. Sessions then calls for Yovanovitch's ouster. Then he gets in with Rudy Giuliani. And then Giuliani starts his push. It's possible that Parnas is the through line of all of this, and it's why Yovanovitch got ousted. Why? Who knows at this point? We know at the time she actually got pushed out. It was in part because this Ukrainian prosecutor, who was mad at her, was really advocating for it. But it really goes back a lot farther than we realize.", "This is where the -- our foreign policy is possibly coming from?", "The back room of the Trump national hotel from random donors, I guess so.", "Wow. OK. So -- this is crazy. Matt, the fact that Parnas associate Igor Fruman was able to tape this entire conversation, remember, this is the president of the United States. At the beginning, you can see video of what appears to be President Trump. I mean, you can see it, right? There it is right there. Aren't there security risks there? Matt?", "Yes. You know, of course there are. Look, I think that any kind of ordinary presidency, you know, who gets to bring electronic devices into these dinners is limited. This is a casual dinner. Also, the president is not talking about affairs of state, you know, with random donors and previous presidencies. Now it's kind of a free-for-all. And I think that's one of the issue here, is the president doesn't get to have to behave like the rest of us do. I can go to dinner with friends or some random people and complain about work or talk about things that are on my mind. That's fine. The president, you know, he chose this job. He ran for it. And one of the responsibilities that comes with it is, you know, discretion. You know, minding who your audience is, remembering who they are, and what they might be. And then moderating yourself and not just kind of pawing off, asking for advice or deciding you're going to fire an ambassador because some donor who you don't really know that well told you it was a good idea.", "This is unbelievable. Really, I just -- I've got to play more, because this is really, really unbelievable that this is happening. I just -- and it's unbelievable that this is not part of what's happening now in Washington, this trial. I want to play another big chunk from the recording where they talk about everything from Ukraine to the Bidens. Listen.", "We're in the process of purchasing an energy company in Ukraine right now. That should help cut off Russia's --", "And how's Ukraine doing? Don't answer.", "They love you, though. I can tell you that much. They love you. Great.", "I tell you, they're great fighters.", "They're great fighters. They love you.", "They're great fighters. They've been fighting for so long, they don't know what to do without fighting.", "Russia's had them on their -- on their -- under their wing for so long. They need directions. They're waiting for direction, I can tell you that much. They're ready. I think there's a definitely good opportunity for --", "But it's a problem, though.", "A big problem.", "But you just sent an order of javelin missiles over there, right? They're the anti-tank missiles.", "Yes. Yes.", "Today?", "I saw -- I read about it today. I don't know what happened, but it must have happened within the last couple days.", "They're getting it, but --", "Do you think Russia ever goes in and gets Ukraine?", "I -- They would love to. They would love to, but they're scared of you.", "But they got what they wanted. They wanted access to the sea.", "Not really. No, they want Ukraine. Ukraine is a vast -- Ukraine, not even Crimea, the resources in Ukraine are tremendous.", "Like West Texas.", "Exactly. And right now, not only that, but Ukraine is a sore thumb in their throat because of supplying the pipeline, because all of the pipeline goes through Ukraine to Poland.", "Ukraine has oil?", "A lot.", "Yes.", "Ukraine?", "Yes.", "How come they --", "-- they don't have any money?", "Exactly.", "Why aren't the companies going in? Too risky?", "A lot.", "Exactly. Right. They were supporting the Clintons for all these years and hoping that, you know, they won. Obviously, you won. Biden. Biden, yes, that was a big thing.", "OK. Listen, I don't know that that -- I believe that one of the sons, Don Jr., was part -- was at this meeting. It sounds like -- I can't -- listen, I'm not sure if it was him. It sounds like him. But they're discussing javelins. They're discussing, like, foreign policy. And he doesn't know him: I take some pictures. I take pictures with a lot of people. Why is this not part of the -- why is this not part of the trial? He's talking about the Bidens. He's talking about the -- Why is this not part of it?", "Well, the reason it's not part of the trial, because it just came out. But this is the risk for those Republican senators. Who knows what recordings is out there? Who knows what could emerge in a month, or in two months, or tomorrow, or you know, in six hours that impugns Donald Trump more directly than that? I will say, though, one of the defenses that his attorneys raised today, was Donald Trump was so strong on Ukraine. He gave them this military aid, yada, yada, yada. You hear him in that recording. Donald Trump didn't know the javelins had gone to the Ukraine. He said, \"Today?\" He said, Well, I guess I just read about it.", "How are they doing?", "The first time Donald Trump hears about military aid is in a June 18 message from the Department of Defense last year. He sees it in the news. And that's the point at which he decides he's halting aid to Ukraine. There's no indication the state undercuts severely his argument that he was on board with Ukraine from the start.", "Matthew.", "I mean, look, we know from other officials, previous reporting, that they really had to really push and kind of sneak this Ukraine aid in. That this wasn't something Trump wanted to do. I think to Philip's point there, he seems totally oblivious to it. He's like, They got the missiles today?", "But aren't you flabbergasted by this? What's happening in this --", "Completely. I mean, he's going from javelin missiles. Then there's the oil --", "He's talking to guys who have no -- why are they -- why is he talking about this to these people who don't have clearance? They're just two schmoes who just showed up at the White House?", "On top of that, the way his mind is working in this situation is, like, Wait, they've had oil, coal, whatever. Why aren't there companies going in? Why aren't they rich?", "Oh, my gosh.", "This is the secret to wealth. You know, just get some oil, some coal, you're all good.", "I've got to go. This is nuts. Thank you both. Thank you. A reporter asks the secretary of state a question about Ukraine, and he screams obscenities and demands she proves she can find Ukraine on an unmarked map. 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{"id": "CNN-136887", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-4-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/10/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Homes Burn in Oklahoma; Captured American Tries to Escape", "utt": ["And good morning, everyone. It is Good Friday, April 10th. And here are the top stories for you in the CNN NEWSROOM. The South stands guard today against a possible tornado outbreak. Already, a twister slams one Arkansas town, leaving three people dead. Spectacular wildfires roll over neighborhoods around Oklahoma City, the flames fueled by hurricane-force winds. A desperate attempt to escape. An American held by pirates off Africa jumps overboard and tries to swim for it. Good morning, everyone. I'm Tony Harris. And you are in the CNN NEWSROOM. Well, it looks like a war zone. That's how one emergency official describes the damage from a deadly tornado that slammed an Arkansas town. At least three people were killed by the twister in Mena, Arkansas, near the Oklahoma border. Authorities say more than 100 homes were damaged. The tornado also hit City Hall, the courthouse, churches, and a middle school.", "Let's talk about the wildfires whipped into a fury by hurricane-force winds raging across Oklahoma and Texas. At least two people are dead, dozens of homes lost. Our Ed Lavandera joining us now from Midwest City, Oklahoma. And Ed, I mentioned just a moment ago, what a devastating set of wildfires here. We're talking about a number of homes burned and businesses lost.", "Well, Tony, it was an incredible day yesterday. Firefighters struggling to keep up in the late afternoon, into the evening, with all of these wildfires that were breaking out across Oklahoma and into north Texas. So basically a line from Dallas/Ft. Worth, all the way up past Oklahoma City. And in some neighborhoods, this is what people are finding this morning. As we've looked around this particular home, you look inside, it is nothing but ash. Impossible to even make out any of the belongings that were once in here just yesterday. So an incredible scene. We were speaking with some of the firefighters who had to come back out here to this house a few hours ago, because so many of these spots, they had to quickly douse out these flames and move on to the next one. So a lot of this stuff is still smoldering, a lot of this debris, so they had to come back out here this morning and spray water down on several of these homes, and this is what we have seen. But Tony, the interesting thing is, is that a lot of the damage you see in some of these neighborhoods in Oklahoma kind of reminds you of tornado damage, where you enter a subdivision and one home is destroyed but the next two are standing. And that's because of the wind. The wind picking up the debris, and the embers that were flying from these wildfire fields landing on top of the homes, setting them ablaze. So that's why you see in some of these neighborhoods, the one we're in here, literally, the house next door is standing perfectly intact, and so an incredible scene. But you also do see the remnants of what the battle was like. In fact, on a driveway just across the street here, the garden hose that people were fighting these fires with on their front lawns is still sitting here this morning -- Tony.", "Boy. And Ed, we just added a guest, a man you're probably familiar with from your time there covering this wildfire. Jerry Lojka is the fire marshal of Midwest City, where you are right now. We're going to talk to him in just a couple of minutes. Ed Lavandera for us. Ed, appreciate it. Thank you. Turning now to the hostage standoff on the high seas, the American ship captain held by Somali pirates tried to make a nighttime escape, but his attempt failed. Here is what we know. Captain Richard Phillips jumped off of the lifeboat where he is being held. He tried to swim to a nearby U.S. warship off the coast of Somalia, but the kidnapers jumped into the water, recaptured him, and returned him to the lifeboat. He is surrounded by four armed pirates. Meantime, two more U.S. warships are on their way to the area. They will assist the Navy destroyer crew in charges of resolving this crisis. Let's get right now to our Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr. She is in Bahrain, home of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet. And Barbara, if you would, bring us the very latest on this. As we mentioned just a moment ago, there are a lot of new developments here.", "Well, Tony, a lot is going on. What we can first tell you is U.S. officials have confirmed the basic fact that Captain Phillips apparently did try to make a break for freedom, jumping over the side of the lifeboat in which he is being held to swim possibly to the USS Bainbridge, standing a short distance away. What happened, apparently, is he was very quickly recaptured by the four pirates holding him. There was no time, we are told at this point, for the U.S. Navy to effect a rescue. No helicopter flying overhead, no swimmers in the water. And it's not as all clear that the strategy would have been to keep a helicopter overhead, because that might have unsettled the pirates unduly, it might have churned up a lot of water and made it unsafe for Captain Phillips. So they quickly recaptured him. And now, of course, the U.S. wants to ensure there's a proof of life, that there is continued proof that Captain Phillips is OK. At the same time, Tony, a number of warships moving into this area, some U.S. Navy ships, possibly other coalition ships. The strategy is to make a show of force, to ensure that other pirate ships in the area -- and they are known to be there -- are shadowed by coalition warships, that they are not able to approach the lifeboat, and to make sure that these pirates holding Captain Phillips rapidly begin to understand no help is coming for them from other pirates, from their friends, and that they have no real option, to give up. The idea here is to establish a cordon of warship capability and make sure these other pirate mother ships come nowhere near this situation and get this situation resolved -- Tony.", "A lot of interesting developments. Barbara Starr for us in Bahrain. Barbara, good to see you. Thank you. This hostage crisis is a game changer. That's how the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command sees it. He spoke exclusively with CNN's Barbara Starr in Bahrain.", "We've always thought that one of the potential game changes out there is a U.S.-flagged vessel with U.S. citizens on board. And we're there, and that's where we are right now.", "So far, the U.S. warships sent to take charge of the crisis shows no sign of confronting the pirates. Right now, President Obama is meeting with his money team. We expect to hear from him when that meeting wraps up. And how about this -- a sweet deal in tough times, recession- proof chocolate? Now, that's what I'm talking about."], "speaker": ["TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "HARRIS", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "VICE ADM. WILLIAM GORTNEY, COMMANDER, U.S. NAVY FIFTH FLEET", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-278562", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-03-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1603/09/es.04.html", "summary": "Super Tuesday Winners & Losers", "utt": ["Big breaking political news this morning. Donald Trump rules and a stunning upset for Bernie Sanders, so many people across the country casting their ballots on Super Tuesday, the sequel, and now, Wednesday, the morning after the sequel. The entire race shaken up. We'll break down the biggest winners and losers all morning long. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to EARLY START. I'm John Berman.", "And I'm Christine Romans. It is Wednesday, March 9th. It's 4:00 a.m. in the East. We welcome our viewers here in the U.S. and around the world. The breaking news overnight, a stunning upset victory in Michigan for Bernie Sanders, beating Hillary Clinton on the second of three Super Tuesdays. And it was a Super Tuesday for him. But Clinton wins overwhelmingly in Mississippi, a triumph that maintains her vast lead in the race for delegates. On the Republican side, Donald Trump -- Donald Trump picks up two strong wins in Michigan, Mississippi and then another in Hawaii, just breaking the last couple of hours. Ted Cruz wins in Idaho. It was a terrible night for Rubio with no wins on the board. The net result, Trump preserves his big lead in delegates, going into another week of big, important contests. Both Trump and Sanders already turning those -- towards those upcoming primaries.", "So, we are going to do something, I think we're going to clean the slate. I think we're going to do really well in Florida. It's my second home, I love Florida. I love Florida, a special place. I think we're going to do really well. I think we're going to do really well in Ohio, now that I have Paul O'Neill's endorsement, I know I'm going to win Ohio. But I love Ohio. I have so many friends in Ohio. It's an amazing place.", "What tonight means is that the Bernie Sanders campaign, the peoples revolution that we are talking about, the political revolution that we are talking about is strong in every part of the country. And, frankly, we believe that our strongest areas are yet to happen.", "All right. Joining us now, CNN politics reporter Jeremy Diamond live from Florida, one of the next big battlegrounds for both parties. Good morning. Break it down for us, Jeremy.", "Good morning, guys. Yes, last night, just as Hillary Clinton was going -- seeming to have her clearest path to victory so far, last night, a huge upset for her. Bernie Sanders last night taking the Michigan primary, just as Hillary Clinton had a huge polling lead in the state with just days to go. You know, she completely captured that win in Michigan, winning among working class voters -- sorry, sorry, with Bernie Sanders winning among working class voters and really completely against the tide of what was expected to happen last night. But, of course, it was Donald Trump's big night last night. The Republican front-runner winning across the board in Michigan and winning also in Mississippi. But, of course, Ted Cruz also having a great night last night. He came in a close second in several of these states. And it was truly an incredible night last night. Donald Trump, though, in his press conference sort of pivoting towards the general election. He was discussing his message and the way in which he hopes to unite the Republican Party and bring them together as he moves towards general.", "All right. Jeremy Diamond, thank you very much. So, let's look at the winners and losers. Let's break it all down, what it all means in terms of those golden delegate numbers. Joining us now is our panel of experts, CNN political analyst and columnist for \"Bloomberg View\", Josh Rogin, CNN senior reporter for media and politics, Dylan Byers, and CNN politics digital reporter, Eric Bradner, CNN politics Jeremy Diamond sticks with us. Guys, what a night. I mean, you look at the Democratic side, really, Dylan, let's go back to that victory for Sanders. Independents broke for Sanders, young people, no surprise there, broke for Sanders. People who don't like the way U.S. trade policies have felt for the middle class broke for Sanders. This has got to be disappointing -- not devastating but a disappointing morning for the Clinton campaign.", "Yes. It's an immensely disappointing morning for the Clinton campaign. Look, they still believe, I think, that this is in their favor. That Hillary Clinton is still on course to become the Democratic nominee. That doesn't change the fact that Sanders' ability to continue winning these states, these states in the Rust Belt, to continue doing very well among young voters who are, of course, the future of the Democratic Party and his ability to make inroads with African- Americans in Michigan. All of this is setting off the alarm bells about the enthusiasm gap for Hillary Clinton, which is something that has dogged her entire political career. But, of course, the key issue here, it's the one that the Clinton campaign needs to focus on the most, how do you appeal to economic insecurity, job insecurity, that is something where Bernie Sanders has had a consistent and clear message. Hillary Clinton needs to focus not so much on taking on Bernie Sanders or pivoting to the general election, and taking on a Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, she needs to think about how show she can convey a more simple, focused, and energetic message about the economy and about people's jobs if she wants to be able to stop Bernie Sanders and really focus on the general.", "That's the headline, sort of, from the Democratic race. Josh Rogin, the Republican race, Donald Trump takes three out of four. Some big delegate wins. This, just when a lot of people are saying Donald Trump, he's vulnerable.", "Right. So, more about the delegates, it's about the shifts of momentum, even from two days ago. Remember, after Super Saturday, Ted Cruz looked to be on the upswing, everything was about Ted Cruz gaining ground. And now, that's been halted in its tracks. So, Donald Trump has momentum. Ted Cruz still has an argument for being the only anti-Trump candidate who has shown real results. And Marco Rubio, who had warned in fairness that these would be tough states for him in advance of March 15th, underperformed greatly.", "Yes.", "And there's just no doubt about it, that this hurts his chances in Florida. They know it. They're trying to bail water out of a --", "He did not meet delegate thresholds in Mississippi. He did not meet delegate thresholds in Michigan, did not meet the delegate thresholds in Idaho, and he may just get one or two delegates in Hawaii. He made a trip to Idaho. He just went to Idaho to campaign. He's going to end up with no --", "I mean, Idaho is a caucus state. It's a Ted Cruz state. It's not surprising that Ted Cruz won there. Michigan, he should have done better. The bottom line is they put all of their chips on Florida. They have no other strategy. They have no plan B. They think they know how to win in Florida. They won there before, but internally they admit the projections show their numbers going in the wrong direction. And what happened last night is only going to exacerbate that. And there's really no solution that they have for that.", "Eric Bradner, for anybody that's tuning right now, I mean, it was a good night for Bernie Sanders last night, although Hillary Clinton did win Mississippi. For the Republicans, that stop Trump, that never Trump campaign just not -- that Trump train is just not chugging with enough coal in the engine to go much further. Is that an accurate assessment?", "Yes, it's not leaving the station, right? Marco Rubio was a big loser of the night, Mitt Romney was a big loser of the night. He had lone robocalls for both Rubio and John Kasich, didn't seem to give any sort of lift. So, yes, Donald Trump won three out of four and looks close to stoppable at this point. Kasich and Rubio are both betting everything on winning their home states. But after that, it's kind of like -- and then what? The race moves east at some point. And so, their theory is they could win in more moderate or left- leaning states. But right now, Ted Cruz is turning in a lot of strong second place showings, but the more establishment candidates just aren't getting any traction. Kasich bet a lot on Michigan. It looks like he came in third, couldn't get past Ted Cruz. And, yes. So, for Mitt Romney, who picked up this banner and everyone had been following him, it was a rough night.", "You're sitting in Michigan, we'll give you the home field advantage right now, with the big story coming out of Michigan, which is the Bernie Sanders upset, Eric. You know, how on earth did it happen? Because the Sanders campaign I don't think really they thought they were going to win. They hope they were, but I don't think they would have bet on it. The Clinton campaign, they thought they were going to win.", "That's right. The Clinton campaign focused a lot of effort and energy on Wayne County, that's where Detroit is. Bernie Sanders campaigned all over the state. And, you know, it turns out that Sanders' economic message is actually starting to resonate. He really hit trade hard here, which is something that is especially potent given that NAFTA has really hammered the Rust Belt, Midwestern states in terms of job losses. And he turned the entire Midwest into a battleground. We've got Ohio, Missouri and Illinois coming up next week. And now, all of a sudden, that March 15th election went from Hillary 5-0 and really put some distance between herself and Bernie Sanders to a shot for Sanders to go 2-3 or 3-2, as the race starts to move West to the states that he's poised do a lot better in.", "That debate stage, just a few nights ago, in Flint, it sound like \"I love the '90s\", you know, the political version because they were talking about trade policies. And clearly, that turned out to be important and resonated with those voters. Guys, stick with us. March madness continues -- we're calling it March madness, it continues this week on CNN. Can Bernie Sanders capitalize on that Michigan win? He gets his first big opportunity tonight at the Univision Democratic debate simulcast here on", "00 Eastern Time. That will be followed by a special post-debate edition of \"AC360\" at 11:00 p.m. Eastern. Then, tomorrow, tomorrow, CNN will carry the Republican debate at the University of Miami starting at 8:30 Eastern. So, there's a lot of chances for these candidates to try to reset the table after the last couple of days. Bernie Sanders pulling out that surprise victory over Hillary Clinton, a big night in Michigan for Bernie. How did he do it? We're going to break down who voted for Sanders and why, next."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-359622", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-01-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1901/17/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Terrorist's Response to Trump; Georgia Man Arrested In Plot To Blow Up White House; North Korea Top Envoy To Deliver New Letter To Trump", "utt": ["Welcome back to CNN Newsroom. I'm Rosemary Church with the check of the headlines this hour. British Prime Minister, Theresa May, is expected to present an alternate Brexit plan to Parliament on Monday. She survived a no- confidence vote on Wednesday, one day after MPs rejected her original deal. Mrs. May is calling on all political parties to work together on a compromise. ISIS has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack Wednesday in Manbij, Syria, which killed at least 19 people, including four Americans, two of whom was service members. Now, this comes just a few weeks after President Trump said ISIS was defeated and U.S. troops would start coming home from Syria. Al-Shabaab militants say their assault on a hotel complex in Nairobi was a response to Donald Trump's decision to recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. A warning, these next images you will see are graphic, surveillance video shows the moment one of the terrorists detonated a suicide bomb at the hotel, men armed with guns and explosives then burst into the complex, at least 21 people were killed in that attack. More now on Brexit and you might expect only uncertainty around Britain's exit from the European Union to bring economic chaos, but just hours after Prime Minister May survived a no-confidence vote, the Europe markets are now starting to react. So, let's bring in our Anna Stewart, who is live this hour in London. We got a little peak at the numbers. It looks like there's been a little bit of a negative response.", "Yes, we are seeing some negative sentiment on the European market. Today, you will see all of them there in the red. But to be honest, I think, a lot of this just follows on from Asia, which also had a lower trading day and a lot of that has to do with other elements that play an alleged investigation from the U.S. into Huawei, the continued trade tensions between the U.S. and China. But more interesting really, Rosemary, when we think about Brexit, is the British pound and how that reacts because this has been a lot more sensitive throughout the last 2.5 years. But as you'll see, it's fairly stable and it has been all week before the vote, after the vote came through last night as well. It's really interesting to see the lack of reaction there. And there are a few reasons for this. Firstly, the overwhelming crushing defeat for the Prime Minister shows several things. Firstly, no deal is looking less likely because Parliament is likely state more control of the process. From the vote we had last week in Parliament, it's quite clear that the majority of people there do not want to see a no deal Brexit and that is the biggest short-term risk for markets. So, that seems to ease those tensions a little bit. Also, there's more optimism that Article 50 will be extended that, if Theresa May has to get any deals together, if she has to get cross party support, that's going to take time. So, potentially, the risk is also just move back further into the year. So, that's the reaction with the markets, very, very different story altogether when it comes to reaction from business leaders. Now, they have really lambasted this week's developments in Parliament. They are very frustrated that Parliament couldn't come to any agreement yet. And it just means that a period of uncertainty has really been extended. There was a phone call between the U.K. finance ministers right after the big vote on Tuesday night hundreds of business leaders, also on that call, the Brexit Secretary, also in that call the Treasury Secretary. Now, we knew yesterday from speaking to some of the business leaders on that call that there was a great sense of frustration, that they didn't feel like it was the very unified message, but we're finding out a lot more about the Cord statement (ph). This is the Telegraph newspaper. Now, they say they have a leaked tape of the conversation that went on and have a transcript in state's paper and part of it is showing that the Finance Minister has essentially told business leaders, according to this, that no-deal is very likely off the table, that they can -- they don't have to worry about that, that Article 50 is likely to be extended, except the problem was we got a very different message on the same call from that Brexit minister. He says if we don't have a no deal option, it's going to be harder for the U.K. to negotiate. So, you have to fill business here. You have to make investments. You have to plan, forge ahead on all this level of uncertainty. And frankly, some of them went on this call and said we already spent a huge amount planning for no-deal Brexit. Do we have to keep planning for this? Do we have to keep spending our capital? All boards need, you know, more information. We need to know what's going to happen next. And they just didn't get any sense that the government was unified in this. So this is a big concern for businesses and will be going for it. There's huge calls from them for no-deal to be taken out -- taken out of the equation altogether, which is something that is, of course, reflected by many in Parliament, perhaps not the Prime Minister.", "Yes, so to be used politically to apply a little bit of pressure, but interesting to see what the business leaders want to see come of this. Anna Stewart, always great to chat with you, many thanks. The U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, sending a message to President Trump, this is my House. Pelosi tells the president to postpone his State of the Union Address set for January 29 or deliver it in writing as president used to do. {03:35:12] The Speaker cited security concerns due to the government shutdown, but others say the real reason is politics. CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports from the White House.", "The State of the Union, to be determined, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested President Trump postpones his scheduled address until the government reopens or deliver it in writing.", "This is in -- requires hundreds of people working on the logistic and the security of it, most of these people are either furloughed or victims of the shutdown.", "Pelosi citing security concerns in her letter to the president, adding he still welcome to make the address just not on Capitol Hill.", "He can make it from the Oval Office if he wants to.", "The Department of Homeland Security secretary pushing back on Pelosi's claims, tweeting that the department and secret service are fully prepared to support and secure the State of the Union. Canceling the State of the Union means Trump won't be able to make his case for the border wall during the primetime television address, as aides were planning on it, the shutdown was still going. But Pelosi's letter, which she said was just a suggestion, creating confusion on Capitol Hill.", "She has said as long as government shutdown, we're not going to be doing business as usual and --", "So the State of the Union is off?", "The State of the Union is off.", "Despite CNN reading the letter to Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer, the Congressman's aides are now saying, he misspoke. On day 26 of the record-breaking shutdown, Trump lunching with a group of bipartisan House members name the problem solvers caucus, though officials weren't expecting a breakthrough and the White House only issued this statement after, saying, we look forward to more conversations like this. As the shutdown starts to take a toll on the country even Republican lawmakers are getting frustrated.", "I am sympathetic to strengthening our security at the border, but shutting down government is not the way to achieve that goal.", "That frustration causing senators to circulate a letter on Capitol Hill today, calling on Trump to reopen the government for three weeks and then debate funding the border wall, but that proposal doesn't look promising. And sources tell CNN, White House officials were privately urging lawmakers not to sign it.", "Do you know what the White House strategy is to end the government shutdown?", "No, I don't think there is strategy by either President Trump or Mrs. Pelosi.", "Now Pelosi had invited President Trump to speak on January 29th, but she hadn't formally introduced the legislation that would make the time and the date official. Now, once she does that, both the House and the Senate have to pass it. But if Nancy Pelosi doesn't introduce that resolution, there will be no presidential address to Congress. It's in several hours since Pelosi publicly released her letter suggesting the president move the date of the State of the Union this morning, yet there is still been no White House response. Kaitlan Collins, CNN, the White House.", "A man in the U.S. State of Georgia is behind bars charged with plotting to blow up the White House and other federal buildings in Washington. Authorities say Hasher Jalall Taheb plan to attack the presidential residence using explosives and an antitank rocket. They executed a search warrant at his home Wednesday night. Law- enforcement had received a tip from the public suspecting to Taheb had become radicalized. He was arrested Wednesday after he tried to trade vehicles for weapons with an undercover FBI agent. Well, as the Russia Probe continues full steam ahead in the United States and despite his denials, questions linger about whether the American president possibly acted as a witting or unwitting agent for the Kremlin. As our Fred Pleitgen reports from Moscow, Russia is coming to Mr. Trump's defense.", "Russian official defending President Trump against those in the U.S., raising questions about his relationship with Moscow, a top Kremlin aide sounding a similar note to the White House and ridiculing the question about Trump possibly working for Russia and the Foreign Minister even arguing that the U.S. Congress is illegally trying to hamper the president's foreign policy agenda.", "The U.S. constitution gives the president the right to determine and execute foreign policy. We do know that this right has been coming under attack from the Congress. The issue was covered extensively. However, this does not make these attacks constitutional and it does not make them less illegal either.", "As the Trump administration grapples with the ongoing government shutdown and one of America's top allies, the United Kingdom, faces a messy exit from the European Union, which President Trump supported, on one of Russia's top political talk shows and analyst claiming President Trump is in the battle against the so- called Deep State in the West.", "Battle of the Western world is in the deep crisis, this liberal in capitalistic world is in the deep crisis. Trump and his actions is a saving grace for America because there's that deep state or the Democrats Party wanting to make the USA a global policeman and stick its nose anywhere, but Trump says the American people do not need that.", "All this as the Mueller investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign increases in tempo. A top Russian senator telling CNN he believes his country is the victim of political infighting in the U.S. and of President Trump's critics.", "Russia is a victim of this anti- Trump campaign. He is -- I think it is the first time that the interest of those who would like to bring down the American president, stand (ph) with the interest of those who would like to have a better relationship with Russia.", "And while improvement of the relations between Russia and the U.S. hardly seems insight, Moscow vowed that American pressure would never make it change its policies. Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Moscow.", "Plans for a second summit could be moving forward. Coming up, North Korea's top nuclear negotiator heads to Washington with a message. Plus, a story that's captivated a nation, a race to rescue a small child who fell down a deep well in Spain."], "speaker": ["CHURCH", "ANNA STEWART, CNN PRODUCER", "CHURCH", "KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-194440", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2012-10-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1210/18/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "1,000 U.S. Troops Begin Arriving in Israel", "utt": ["Hi, boys. I'm right here.", "The video is shocking Americans working for a top U.S. security contractor in Afghanistan inside the war zone allegedly so drugged and intoxicated they could hardly function. Brian Todd is working this story for us. He's coming into \"the SITUATION ROOM. he's got details. Brian, what are you learning?", "Wolf, this is a security firm that's received $900 million worth of security contracts from the U.S. government. One watchdog group says the behavior of its employees in this video undermines America's diplomatic mission in Afghanistan.", "Staggering around, half naked, seemingly drunk, wrestling, shouting at the man videotaping them.", "This is amateur video from earlier this year of people working for an American security contractor in Kabul, Afghanistan. This man identified as the country security manager for the contracting firm, Jorge Scientific.", "They reminded me many times I visit any of my friends going to college that were in fraternities, the parties at the frat houses, they were out of control.", "John Melson is one of two former employees of Jorge Scientific filing a seven-figure lawsuit against the firm for allegedly committing fraud on the U.S. government. They say they were harassed for trying to blow the whistle. They allege rampant drinking, drug use, the misuse of firearms at that facility in Kabul, which they say prevented the company from carrying out its assigned duties. The video was shot on a cell phone by another former employee, Kenny Smith. He tapes himself complaining that he's being awakened by the behavior. How often did you observe this behavior?", "The misbehavior actually was almost every other night, several times a week. It was just -- at any given time it could just say, hey, we're going to get together tonight and walk outside. Typically, at the end of the evening, some time late in the afternoon.", "Smith says he and Melson tried to stop the behavior taking it to the top levels of the company. He says they were told it would be addressed. In this section of the video, a man identified as the security firm's medic appears incoherent. There's a syringe on the floor.", "Yes, you are.", "The plaintiffs claim he'd injected a horse tranquilizer called ketamine. We were unable to reach the medic for comment. Danielle Brian from the group project on government oversight which monitors contractors is concerned.", "How can the medic be doing his job or the security contractors be able to actually protect those that are training the Afghan police? Then you have the fact that they're having this behavior in the middle of Kabul. So, they're blowing up ammunition in bonfires.", "That's a reference to this video of a bonfire at the Kabul facility which the suit claims led to injuries. Contacted by CNN, Jorge Scientific issued a statement saying \"it took decisive action to correct the unacceptable behavior of a limited number of employees.\" The company says it implemented a no drinking policy and dismantled the bonfire pit. But Jorge Scientific denies committing fraud. Representatives for the company say the man identified as the security manager and the other man in these scenes did not have top security roles, that they had administrative and support jobs, sometimes, driving. I asked the plaintiffs' lawyer about that. (on-camera) The people representing the company say these guys had no security detail, that they were just administrative support.", "That's a gross understatement of what these individuals did. These individuals are the security manager for the facility and the operations manager of security for the entire country of Afghanistan for the company. They were supposed to protect their own people as well as the local Afghans from attack.", "Jorge Scientific disputes that, reiterating that those men did not have a protective role for local Afghans and that they would not have been tasked with protecting that facility from attack. The company also denies the plaintiffs were harassed for blowing the whistle. The U.S. military is supposed to oversee those contractors. Contacted by CNN, officials from the NATO command, the international security assistance force, say they take these allegations very seriously and the U.S. army's criminal investigation division is looking into the allegations. We also made attempts to reach the two men in the video aside from that medic, and we were unable to reach them, Wolf.", "Has the firm cleaned house at this facility?", "They say that they have. They claim that they brought out everyone involved, including the alleged ring leader of all the partying. That's a person different from the main character you see in that video. They brought out that ring leader about the same time that these plaintiffs left Afghanistan. They say that everyone else involved has either been fired or placed on leave and they say that the company is conducting its own investigation.", "The video is shocking in a war zone.", "It is.", "Thanks very much for that, Brian. A massive show of military power between the United States and Israel underway right now. The first of a thousand American troops arriving in Israel for the largest joint missile defense exercise in the history of the U.S./Israeli alliance. It all comes amid escalating intentions with Iran and international concerns it may soon flex its nuclear muscle down the road. Our Pentagon correspondent, Chris Lawrence, is over at the Pentagon. He's got the very latest. What's going on here, Chris?", "Well, Wolf, just recently, an Iranian military commander warned that no matter which country attacks Iran, it would retaliate against both the U.S. and Israel. These exercises are designed to prove that the U.S. and Israel working together could repel an attack like that. But coming just a couple of weeks before the United States presidential election, they really carry a political message as well.", "Military commanders won't even say the word Iran when it comes to these exercises. They don't have to. The Israeli general in charge of planning said the fact we're practicing together is a strong message by itself. Iran will see how well U.S. ships and troops can work with Israeli rocket shields as they defend Israel from simulated attacks from rockets, missiles, and drones. The pentagon can also test some new technology it helped pay for, like Israel's iron dome short range missile defense system. In all, the exercise will involve 3,500 U.S. troops at a cost of $30 million. They'll be training over three weeks in parts of Israel, Europe, and the Mediterranean. The chairman of the joint chiefs wrangled Israeli leaders in August when he said the U.S. did not want to be complicit in an Israeli attack on Iran, but just six weeks later, Gen. Martin Dempsey will go to Israel to personally observe the exercise.", "I think it's a big deal. And it's meant to be a big deal.", "Republicans have accused President Obama of emboldening Iran and damaging America's alliance with Israel.", "The president said that he was going to put daylight between us and Israel.", "So, for a president preparing for his final national security debate, the timing of a thousand American troops arriving in Israel couldn't be better.", "It also, by the way, helps President Obama in his re-election to reassure people that U.S./Israeli ties are strong.", "But the fortuitous timing seems to be just coincidental in that these exercises are held every two years. They were originally scheduled for earlier back in the spring in April, but they were postponed at Israel's request, Wolf.", "Chris Lawrence with that story. Thanks very much. We'll stay on top of it. Appreciate it. In a few minutes, we're going to discuss President Obama and Governor Romney's attempt at comedy later tonight. Stand by for that. And a shuttle's final journey in a way you've never seen before.", "Hands were made to make things, that's why we have thumbs. We've gotten away from making so much. That instinctive drive to create. I like to think the tech shop helps and rekindle that and get them back to being makers. There's so many things that -- it could be little tiny things, it could be big world changing things. All the things people do here just really light me up. Really excite me.", "A huge countrywide protest in Greece turns violent. Lisa Sylvester's monitoring that and some of the other top stories in the SITUATION ROOM right now. What's going on?", "Hi there, Wolf. Well, Greek police say 30,000 people showed up to protest huge wage and pension cuts but became agitated at the police presence so they began throwing stones and bottles. the protest comes as Euro Zone leaders convene in Belgium and as Greece's government struggles to make 11 billion Euros worth of cuts to satisfy conditions of a bailout. And intense scrutiny of the Boy Scouts right now. Attorneys representing victims of alleged child molestation want Congress to investigate if the Boy Scouts of America is doing enough to prevent abuse. The attorneys released previously secret Boy Scout documents identifying more than a thousand leaders banned for alleged inappropriate conduct with boys. But the Boy Scouts of America standby its policies just releasing a statement that says, quote, \"nothing is more important than the safety of our scouts.\" And check out this super cool time lapse of the retired shuttle \"Endeavour\" making its way through the streets of Los Angeles. This is pretty amazing stuff. Look how close it got. Pretty amazing. They were able to make all those turns around street corners. You can see it came within inches of hitting some houses and trees. Look at that. Just barely making it. Fortunately, \"Endeavour\" was actually moving at a much, much slower pace. A safer speed of about two miles an hour taking two days to travel the 12 miles from L.A.X. to its final resting spot at the museum. They had to cut a few trees down to make that, but they are planning on planting some more trees to replace the ones they had to cut down. But you see that video. Some of those shots and those pictures where it literally seems to come within inches of some of those houses, but it got there all in one piece safe and sound, so all is well. We'll have to make a trip and take a look at it once it's open for the public.", "There it is. That's in the hangar. All right, good work all around. Thank you -- up next the tale of two ex-presidents and their respective roles or non-roles in the race for the White House."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TODD (voice-over)", "TODD", "JOHN MELSON, SUING SECURITY CONTRACTOR", "TODD", "KENNY SMITH, SUING SECURITY CONTRACTOR", "TODD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TODD", "DANIELLE BRIAN, PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT", "TODD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TODD", "BLITZER", "TODD", "BLITZER", "TODD", "BLITZER", "CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "LAWRENCE (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LAWRENCE", "MITT ROMNEY, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "LAWRENCE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "LAWRENCE (on-camera)", "BLITZER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLITZER", "LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-317150", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-07-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/20/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Trump and Putin's Second Meeting; Trump Meeting at Pentagon.", "utt": ["President Trump sounding off in a wide-ranging interview with \"The New York Times,\" opening up about the newly revealed second meeting he had with Vladimir Putin at the G-20, while defending once again his son, Don Jr.'s meeting with a group of Russian officials. Back with me, Ron Brownstein, Rebecca Berg, and Salena Zito. So, Rebecca, to you first. Let's listen to how the president described that meeting that a senior White House official told CNN previously lasted an hour. Listen.", "Actually, it was very interesting. We talked about adoption.", "You did?", "Russian adoption. Yes. I've always found that interesting because, you know, he ended that years ago. And I actually talked about Russian adoption with him, which is interesting, because that was a part of the conversation that Don had with this meeting that I think, as I said, most other people - you know, when they call up and they say, by the way, we have information on your opponent, I think most politicians - I was just with a lot of people and they said, who wouldn't have taken a meeting like that?", "All right, he also said to \"The New York Times\" the meeting was 15 minutes, not an hour. So two different stories from the White House on that. Rebecca Berg, what's your takeaway?", "Well, one of the things that is so problematic, Poppy, about this meeting is that we will only ever have the president's version of events here, because there was no American with the president. None of his top advisers were here for this meeting, whether it was 15 minutes or an hour. It's important that we have that record by the United States. Otherwise, we only have Russia's word and the president's word. And as we've seen, sometimes he can be sort of an unreliable narrator when it comes to these things. So it's good to hear from him some details about what was discussed. But, unfortunately, we're not going to have a Rex Tillerson or an H.R. McMaster to come out and give us more details about what was said because they weren't there.", "But the Russians have that because they had their translator there.", "Exactly.", "So Salena Zito, to you. Yet again a sort of full-throated defense of his son and his son-in- law and his former campaign chairman's meeting with that group of Russian officials. Listen.", "I didn't look at it very closely, to be honest with you.", "OK.", "I just heard there was an e-mail requesting a meeting or something - yes, requesting a meeting. That they have information on Hillary Clinton. And I said - I mean that's standard political stuff.", "P Did you know at the time that they had the meeting?", "No, I didn't know anything about the meeting.", "Abu you know -", "It must have been a very important - must have been a very unimportant meeting because I never even heard about it.", "No one told you a word, nothing? I know we talked about this on the plane a little bit, but nobody", "Nobody told - no, nobody told me. I didn't know - it's a very unimportant - sounded like a very unimportant meeting.", "Salena.", "Well, most parents are going to defend their kids, right? I - can I just say, I loved this interview because it was so amazing how they were able to not only draw some things out of - with him. But because he's comfortable with these reporters, he's also very, you know, loose with his words. He's - and he also, you know, makes sure that he gets across what he wants to get across. No, this was not a normal meeting. This is not the kind of meeting any candidate that I have ever interviewed would have considered or part of their team would have considered to go and listen to. Having said that, this was part of sort of them not being part - not part of the political establishment. You know, they're very naive in how they approach politics. They approached it like business.", "So, at the same time, he made sure to applaud himself, Ron Brownstein, about his performance on the world stage, right? He had these big two foreign trips. First, you know, to Poland and the G-20 and then to France. Here's what he said about the speech that he gave in Warsaw, which was applauded by many. Here's what he said. \"So I go to Poland and make a speech. Enemies of mine in the media, enemies of mine, are saying it was the greatest speech ever made on foreign soil by a president.\" Ever made on foreign soil by any president. What do you make of that?", "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.", "Right.", "The -", "So, you know, the big question has always been whether America first translates into America alone. And so far that is a direction in which it is trending.", "What is also surprising, guys, is that he gave this interview to \"The New York Times,\" which he has many times called a failing publication. That he gave it to them and talked about so much other than the initiative of the White House this week, which is \"Made in America Week.\" That is not the headline that his advisers -", "Or health care.", "No.", "Or health care.", "And for a White House that has said it does not want to be talking about Russia, the president talked a lot about Russia in this interview.", "Yes. That's an important point. Thank you all very much, Ron Brownstein, Rebecca Berg, Salena Zito.", "Thanks.", "Up next, you see it on the side of your screen. Well, it was right there. Could O.J. Simpson soon walk a free man? In just a few hours, a parole board will decide just that. But if he is paroled, will he even be allowed to go home? Next."], "speaker": ["POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HABERMAN (ph)", "TRUMP", "HARLOW", "REBECCA BERG, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "HARLOW", "BERG", "HARLOW", "TRUMP", "BAKER (ph)", "TRUMP", "SCHMIDT (ph)", "TRUMP", "SCHMIDT", "TRUMP", "HABERMAN", "TRUMP", "HARLOW", "SALENA ZITO, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "HARLOW", "RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "HARLOW", "HARLOW", "BROWNSTEIN", "HARLOW", "BROWNSTEIN", "BERG", "HARLOW", "BERG", "HARLOW", "BERG", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-84306", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2004-5-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0405/03/ldt.00.html", "summary": "Najaf Insurgents Launch Heavy Attack; Commander Defends Troops in Prisoner Abuse Case", "utt": ["Tonight, a new flash point in Iraq. Insurgents in Najaf have launched their heaviest attack so far on American troops. I'll talk with author and professor Rashid Khalidi about the prospects for an end to the violence. The prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq. The soldiers' commander says it's unfair to blame her troops.", "I do know with almost absolute confidence that they didn't wake up one day and decide to do this.", "Tonight, in my commentary, putting perspective un- American behavior and the greater affront to Arab and American sensibilities. A small, but growing number of American business leaders say companies that export American jobs to cheap overseas labor markets are making a big mistake.", "They are losing to others for a short-term gain and a long-term loss.", "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says exporting America is good for the American economy and good for American jobs. The Chamber's CEO, Tom Donohue is my guest. And record heat in California, wildfires burning more than 2,000 acres. Forestry officials say this summer's fire season could be the worst ever.", "This is LOU DOBBS TONIGHT for Monday, May 3. Here now for an hour of news, debate and opinion, Lou Dobbs.", "Good evening. Iraqi insurgents today launched the heaviest attacks against American troops in Najaf since the soldiers replaced Spanish troops in that city last month. American troops said they killed as many as 20 Shiite gunmen loyal to the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. No Americans were killed or wounded. Jane Arraf has the report from Najaf.", "The most intense attack by Muqtada al-Sadr's militia since U.S. forces moved into this base in Najaf three weeks ago. One mortar round hit this abandoned hospital. The only occupants were the dead, left in the morgue here after the Mahdi Army overran it last month.", "We've had about 30 mortar rounds during the attack in various locations in the city coming in at us. And then, of course, everybody's grabbed their AK and jumped up on the roof to fire at us as well.", "The problem for U.S. Army soldiers in the middle of a crowded Shia city was firing back.", "The particular position we're in right now is the central part of the city. And what you have is the holy sites essentially on either flank of us. And we've been very careful to avoid contact inside the holy sites out of respect for religion.", "The Army didn't use its artillery or its attack helicopters. These two Apaches took fire from rocket-propelled grenades. The Army says they returned safely to base. (on camera): U.S. military officials say firing has come from essentially all directions around this U.S. base. They say they've even pinpointed mortar rounds coming from the courtyard of a mosque in Kufa. They say they did not fire back. (voice-over): For hours, Salvadoran snipers working with the United States fired from the perimeter. The Army used only small-arms and tank-mounted weapons. Workers reinforced the building housing a handful of civilian coalition officials who have stayed here under daily attack since Sadr seized Najaf and Kufa in April.", "Our union is fond of saying that more American ambassadors have died in action than American generals since the end of World War II. There's more to being a modern American diplomat than conference tables and cocktail parties.", "With the constant attacks, it seems unlikely coalition officials will be sitting around a conference table discussing the withdrawal of militia forces anytime soon. Jane Arraf, CNN, Najaf.", "In Fallujah, the Iraqi general put in charge of the Fallujah Brigade has been replaced only three days after the U.S. military put him in charge. The new general in charge is Mohammed Abdul Latif, a former military intelligence officer in Saddam Hussein's army. The U.S. military replaced General Jassim Mohammed Saleh, who was a member of Hussein's Republican Guard. It turns out the victims of Saddam Hussein's regime were outraged with Saleh's appointment in the first place because they said he was too closely tied to the former dictator. No word whether the same people are equally as outraged that many members of the new Fallujah Brigade apparently fought against U.S. forces trying to free the city of insurgents. Escaped hostage Thomas Hamill today arrived in Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Hamill is receiving medical treatment for a gunshot wound in his right arm before he flies home. Hamill was found by soldiers in the 1st Infantry Division near Balad north of Baghdad. Hamill escaped when he heard an Army patrol near the farmhouse where he was being held prisoner. Hamill was captured three weeks ago when insurgents ambushed his convoy. The U.S. Army today said it has reprimanded six soldiers, admonished another for abusing Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. Six other American soldiers all military policemen face criminal charges. The White House said President Bush today called Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to make certain all of the soldiers involved in the scandal are punished. Senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre has the report -- Jamie.", "Lou, the Pentagon today insisted that it began investigating the allegations of prisoner abuse back in January immediately after some of these pictures surfaced. They were turned over, they say, by a concerned is soldier. So far, six soldiers, including some officers, have been reprimand, effectively ending their military careers. And six others, including some military police seen in the photographs, are now facing court-martial on criminal charges. But according to their lawyers and in fact one of the generals who is in charge of the prison, those military police were following orders from military interrogators or, in some cases, the civilians they hired.", "One of the most despicable aspects of those pictures, those faces on those soldiers, those soldiers who belong to one of my M.P. companies, absolutely. I don't know how they do this. I don't know how they allowed these activities to get so out of control, but I do know, with almost absolute confidence, that they didn't wake up one day and decide to do this.", "Now, in a classified Army investigation, General Karpinski, seen there, was also faulted for giving too much authority to the military intelligence officers. And today, again, the U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said whatever the investigation finds about the role of military intelligence or contractors, there's no excuse for some of the activity depicted in those photographs.", "I don't know if we should be focusing on specific organizations as much as individual conduct that we saw in those photos. I'm not sure what organization those people were from, but I can tell you that what they were doing in those photos on is absolutely wrong, deplorable, and they should be investigated and prosecuted.", "Now, unlike some of the high-profile cases we've seen recently, like for instance out of Chaplain Yee, who was charged with various offenses that eventually didn't stand up in court, the investigation of these cases has been held very close. In fact, none of the names have been officially released, nor the specific charges or the results of the investigation that led to those charges to date. In fact, so far, General Myers, the Joint Chiefs chairman and Donald Rumsfeld, defense secretary, insist they haven't read this classified report, nor been briefed on it. And, in fact, General Myers approached \"60 Minutes\" who first aired these pictures and asked them to hold them for some period of time because of his fear that these images might provoke an anti-U.S. backlash in an area where already the U.S. is dealing with a lot of violence -- Lou.", "Remarkably here, Jamie, General Karpinski is out talking to the media after reassignment, suggestions by General Kimmitt that it's not important which organization the soldiers, all of them military police at this point, were working for. At the same time, this investigation touching upon whether military intelligence as we understand it had some role in all of this. What more can you tell us about that?", "Well, interestingly, there are five separate investigations that have been going on. The most recent one was started just 10 days ago. That's the one looking at the role of military intelligence and also the role of what private contractors, mostly former intelligence or former military people employed by the U.S. government, what role they might have played. And of course, it's particularly problematic when you have American contractors doing this kind of work, because they don't fall under military justice. They don't fall under Iraqi justice. They do fall under U.S. law. But it's very murky about how they will be prosecuted and how they would be brought to justice and what role they should play. That's one of the things, the disturbing questions they're looking at now.", "Indeed. Thank you very much, Jamie -- Jamie McIntyre, our senior Pentagon correspondent. That brings us to the subject of tonight's poll. The question: Do you believe private security firms, instead of military intelligence, the FBI and the CIA should be interrogating prisoners of war, yes or no? Please cast your vote at CNN.com/Lou. We'll have the results later in the broadcast. Also later here, I've be sharing some of my thoughts about the prisoner abuse scandal and the implications for U.S. policy in the Middle East. I'll also be talking with professor and author Rashid Khalidi about the transfer of power in Iraq on June 30, the role of the United States in the Middle East, and the future of the insurgency confronting the U.S. forces in Iraq. In \"America Votes\" tonight, President Bush has launched a bus tour in the Midwest. Senator John Kerry has stepped up his advertising. We'll have the report for you on the presidential campaign. And a day of mourning for Pat Tillman, former NFL player, soldier, killed in the line of duty in combat in Afghanistan. Please stay with us."], "speaker": ["LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "BRIG. GEN. 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{"id": "NPR-14650", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2006-02-03", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5187428", "title": "Researchers Warn of Tamiflu-Resistant Flu Viruses", "summary": "Health researchers say most flu viruses circulating in America this winter are resistant to two commonly used prescription drugs. So far, the antiviral drug Tamiflu still works to fight flu viruses — but experts warn that could change if Tamiflu becomes too widely available, and viruses develop strains resistant to the drug.", "utt": ["I'm Madeline Brand and this is Day to Day. The flu virus continues to surprise scientists. A new online report in the Journal of the American Medical Association says nearly all the flu viruses infecting Americans this winter are resistant to two of the four anti-flu drugs on the market. NPR's Richard Knox reports.", "Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admit they were caught off-guard by the rapid spread of drug resistant flu.", "We've never seen resistance on this level anywhere in the world for an anti-viral drug for influenza.", "Rick Bright of the CDC has been watching the spread of flu viruses resistant to the drugs amantadine and ramantadine.", "We anticipated that the rate would continue to rise in the United States over the next few years, but when we found a 91 or 92 percent rate of resistance in the United States this year it was very shocking how quickly those viruses spread to our country.", "The resistant flu viruses probably came from China or Russia. That's because people there can buy non-prescription cold and flu remedies containing amantadine and ramantadine. They've probably been buying more of those remedies lately because of all the alarm about bird flu. The more flu viruses are exposed to these drugs the more they're going to develop the genetic mutations that make them drug resistant. Now the CDC is urging doctors to stop using the drugs. That doesn't affect most Americans with the flu, but Dr. Marci Layton of the New York City Health Department says it's a problem for people in nursing homes, for example.", "As soon as we recognize any suggestion of a flu outbreak in any long term care facility where the patients are at high risk, our recommendation to the medical director is to start anti-virals as soon as possible and to be liberal in who you target it to.", "Hospitalized children also get these drugs when flu invades pediatric wards. Now health care facilities have to switch to an anti-flu drug called Tamiflu.", "The fact that now they need to use Tamiflu which is more expensive has made it difficult, but that's what we're recommending.", "Dr. David Weinstock is an infectious disease specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He says the bigger lesson is how fast resistant flu viruses can span the planet.", "Influenza connects us to the rest of the world in ways that many other infections don't. You know, your average pneumonia is caused by a bacteria that you get from a person who is near you, but it's very distant from that same type of bacteria in China, for example. On the other hand, influenza, the organism that develops there only a few months ago could be the organism that person in America is infected with.", "Now Tamiflu is the flu drug of choice. People all over the world are clamoring for it, but if they start taking it at the first sign of a cold or fever researchers wonder if flu viruses will become resistant to Tamiflu.", "We don't know the answer to that, but we think that if that is the case it's going to be a slow evolution, as opposed to the very rapid evolution that we've seen with amantadine and ramantadine and that's because mutations in influenza that make it resistant to drugs like Tamiflu seem also to make it into a weaker organism.", "On the other hand, experts are worried about signs that the bird flu, spreading from Asia to the Middle East, can become resistant to Tamiflu. If that trend accelerates that would leave the world with virtually no treatment option against bird flu. Richard Knox, NPR News."], "speaker": ["MADELEINE BRAND, host", "RICHARD KNOX, reporting", "Mr. RICK BRIGHT (Centers for Disease Control)", "RICHARD KNOX, reporting", "Mr. RICK BRIGHT (Centers for Disease Control)", "RICHARD KNOX, reporting", "Dr. MARCI LAYTON (New York City Health Department)", "RICHARD KNOX, reporting", "Dr. MARCI LAYTON (New York City Health Department)", "RICHARD KNOX, reporting", "Dr. DAVID WEINSTOCK (Infectious Disease Specialist, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)", "RICHARD KNOX, reporting", "Dr. DAVID WEINSTOCK (Infectious Disease Specialist, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)", "RICHARD KNOX, reporting"]}
{"id": "CNN-410320", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2020-09-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/07/cg.02.html", "summary": "Russian Opposition Leader Out of Coma After Poisoning", "utt": ["In our WORLD LEAD, Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is out of a coma weeks after German doctors found that he was poisoned with a Soviet-era chemical agent. And with the Putin critic now awake, we could learn more about how and who poisoned him. CNN's Matthew Chance brings us the mystery from Moscow.", "They're calling it the mysterious poisoning of Alexey Navalny. Russian state television trying to sow doubts among its viewers that the Kremlin's loudest critic was silenced on purpose, a target. We sent Navalny to Germany with no poisons in his body, the anchor says, the suggestion if he was poisoned it was by another's hand.", "Everything looks like a special services operation in which a poisoned Navalny is needed more than a non-poisoned one. The poisoned Navalny is an excellent playing card in the hands of the Americans.", "You think the poisoning in Russia theory would be hard to deny given these disturbing images of Navalny writhing in agony as he was stretchered off a plane in Siberia last month. Even the testimony of German officials who say the nerve agent Novichok is the cause hasn't convinced everyone. Apparently not even the U.S. President.", "I don't know exactly what happened. I think it's tragic, it's terrible. It shouldn't happen. We haven't had any proof yet, but I will take a look.", "But doubts in the U.S. add credence to conspiracy theories over here. These were the scenes this weekend in Belarus where popular anti-government protests stoked fears that Russian forces could intervene according to the embattled Belorussian President who wants Moscow support. The Navalny poisoning was a distraction fabricated by foreigners to keep the Kremlin out. He even released what he said was an intercepted phone call between unidentified figures in Germany and Poland discussing the plot.", "I agree we need to discourage Putin from poking his nose in the affairs of Belarus. The most effective way is to drown him in Russia's problems.", "Russia has form when it comes to making stuff up to explain what looks like overwhelming evidence against it. Back in 2018 after another Novichok poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain, the two suspects, Russian military intelligence, according to British authorities, appeared on state television with an extraordinary tale of two men with a shared love of architecture on a short break together. Unfairly accusing the couple of close friends or silencing a Kremlin critic at home. For Russian TV, there are no lengths its enemies won't go to, to make Russia look bad.", "Well, Pam, tonight there's a bit of good news for Alexey Navalny. Apparently according to the clinic in Berlin where he's being treated, his condition has been improved. He's been woken up from his medically induced coma. He's being gradually weaned off the ventilator he's been on for some weeks now. And he's responding apparently to verbal stimuli according to the clinic. But the doctors there say they still can't assess at this stage what long-term damage may have been done by what they describe as a serious poisoning -- Pam.", "And the U.K. has summoned its Russian ambassador because of the poisoning. Is that right?", "It has. I mean the British government has been expressing its outrage to the Russians that this could have happened. Dominic Raab who's the British Foreign Secretary summoned the Russian ambassador today to register what they say is their deep concern about the poisoning of Alexey Navalny. It is completely unacceptable, the British Foreign Secretary said that a banned chemical weapon has been used and Russia must hold a full transparent investigation. That's in stark contrast, of course, to the words that we heard in that report from President Trump who still has not publicly accepted the evidence that Alexey Navalny was actually poisoned.", "All right, Matthew Chance, live for us in Moscow, thanks so much, Matthew. And coming up, a massive wildfire is burning over 7,000 acres because of a baby gender reveal party that went terribly wrong. And that is not the only fire burning out of control. We'll be back."], "speaker": ["BROWN", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED RUSSIAN TV ANCHOR (through translator)", "CHANCE", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CHANCE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "CHANCE", "CHANCE", "BROWN", "CHANCE", "BROWN"]}
{"id": "CNN-49562", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-2-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/19/ltm.10.html", "summary": "Calvin Trillin Discusses Mistaken British Invasion of Spain", "utt": ["It was short as invasions go, but memorable still. On Sunday, a group of about 20 British Royal Marines stormed a beach near the British colony of Gibraltar as part of a military training exercise. That's when they realized their mistake: It turns out they had missed their mark and actually invaded Spain. When informed by locals that they accidentally landed on Spanish soil, the heavily-armed British combat troops retreated to their landing craft without incident, but with much embarrassment. Not great timing by the British: It just so happens that Spain and Britain are currently in negotiations over the future of Gibraltar. Joining us now to offer insight and analysis, essayist and humorist Calvin Trillin. Thanks very much. Does this make sense to you?", "I think the British were basically out of practice in invading people. I don't think they've invaded anybody since the Falkland Islands, and that was 20 years ago.", "Does this sort of cast into doubt whether they even...", "It's like the Olympics: You want do luge, you do luge all year. You keep up your game. If you can't do it, it doesn't work. The other thing about it is that the people they were trying to invade were themselves. I mean, they were trying to invade Gibraltar, which they already control, which is very common thing in military exercises. One time, 10 or 15 years ago, when Castro had done something particularly naughty and we wanted to shoe him, we invaded Guantanamo Bay, and they called it an exercise. It was kind of a warning: If he kept at it, we would bomb ourselves back to the Stone Age. This is very common stuff. And the one good thing about this, I think, is the British are awfully good at apologizing. They're probably the best apologizing.", "Oh, terribly sorry. Terribly sorry.", "No, no, my fault. Please. Terribly sorry. So they probably spend most of invasion apologizing for being there.", "We'll leave the beach now. We are leaving the beach.", "Awfully sorry. Absolutely awful about this.", "It is kind of sad, though. The British used to have troops around the world.", "They used to invade people all the time. I was trying to remember this morning think they might have invaded St. Kitts or Nevis or something a few years ago, but it was the sort of thing you could forget. We definitely have invaded a lot of countries in the last 20 years. We tend to invade smaller countries. I don't think we would have ever invaded Spain. Those 20 guys who were there, believe me, in about 15 or 20 years from now are going to be sitting in pubs, and they are going to say, If they had just given us air cover, we could have taken those guys. We could have had that country.", "As we mentioned, the future of Gibraltar is being debated between Britain and Spain. Do you you think Britain is going to maintain control?", "I read a piece that the last time people on Gilbraltar voted on a change, they voted 12,138 no-44 yes. So they seem to feel pretty strongly about this situation. And then the names of some of the 44 leaked out, and people started sinking their boats. So I would say they have uphill -- maybe they could use the army's new disinformation propaganda as kind of a NATO exchange.", "All morning long, I was trying to figure out some elegant way to shift from this story to your book, which is about parking in New York.", "Anderson, I did not come here to boast, but I believe it's the first parking novel, yes, of any sort. Well, I think the big difference is if you had New York parking rules, it would have signs there. The British would have a sign right there that would say something like no invasions 8:00-11:00 a.m. Monday-Thursday or Tuesday-Friday, and they would know that those rules would be suspended for national holidays and certain religious holidays. So if it was feast of the Ascension or Shamini al-Seraf (ph), they would know to turn around and go home.", "I think a lot of people outside New York don't know that in New York, parking is an obsession. Next to real estate, it's all we talk about.", "Frank Sinatra's song about New York said, If you can park it here, you'll park it anywhere. That's absolutely true.", "Calvin Trillin, thanks very much for being with us this morning.", "Thank you.", "The book is \"Tepper Isn't Going Out.\" That refers to leaving a parking space. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "CALVIN TRILLIN, WRITER", "COOPER", "TRILLIN", "COOPER", "TRILLIN", "COOPER", "TRILLIN", "COOPER", "TRILLIN", "COOPER", "TRILLIN", "COOPER", "TRILLIN", "COOPER", "TRILLIN", "COOPER", "TRILLIN", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-57548", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-7-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/15/lt.03.html", "summary": "Pakistani Judge Convicts Militants of Pearl Death", "utt": ["In Pakistan, authorities are on guard, and much of the country is on edge. A judge there has convicted four Islamic militants of kidnapping and killing American journalist Daniel Pearl. The ringleader of the group has been sentenced to death, but responded with a threat of his own. CNNs Tom Mintier joins us via videophone from Islamabad -- Tom.", "Good morning, Carol. That threat was passed along to his attorney and then passed along to reporters outside the courtroom that we will basically see who dies first, and it was a threat thats probably being taken very seriously here. Now this case is probably going on appeal in the next seven days. The defense has seven days to file their case with the high court here in Pakistan, and then because its a death penalty case, it probably will go to the Pakistani Supreme Court, so we may be a while before theres a final decision and the execution carried out. Theres also the issue of extradition. The United States would like to have Sheikh Omar not in Pakistan but in a U.S. court. He has been indicted in the United States, not only on the Daniel Pearl case, but also kidnapping of American tourists in Kashmir. So, there is the possibility that he might face trial in the United States so theres going to be a lot of discussions going on between the Pakistani government and the U.S. government regarding whats going to happen to Sheikh Omar. But, right now, he joins 79 other inmates on death row. There are many cases ahead of his, but this one is probably going to be moved through the courts very rapidly here in Pakistan. And, as you said at the beginning, people are a bit on edge with this threat coming out. Security has been knocked up another level at embassies and different locations around Pakistan, especially here in Islamabad and Karachi, where helicopters were seen after the verdict, flying overhead in the city. So, it is a bit on edge here. People are wondering if this was an empty threat or indeed a threat that is going to be carried out by other groups that are not in prison -- Carol.", "Tom, what is his ability to actually cause trouble? How many supporters does he have out there?", "Well, its really difficult to say how many people are in his organization, how many people are still active. The Pakistani government has cracked down very hard on the militant groups since basically the president came out in early January and outlawed several groups and rounded up nearly 2,000 people in January and is still holding some of them. So, just how much this threat carries weight remains to be seen, but nobody is downplaying it, that theres not the possibility that some target might be attacked. There was an attack on German tourists, European tourists, last weekend. Someone threw a hand grenade at their bus, injured more than 12 people. So, it doesnt take but one person apparently to carry out an attack that has a very, very big impact on the situation. So, everyone is extremely on guard here right now for the potential of what might happen.", "All right, thank you very much, Tom Mintier, live from Islamabad."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "TOM MINTIER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LIN", "MINTIER", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-255953", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2015-05-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1505/26/lvab.02.html", "summary": "20-Year-Old Texas Male Charged With Conspiracy To Provide Support To ISIS", "utt": ["So, we've been bringing you a lot of breaking news today, a lot of it out of Texas because of flooding. But I have another story out of Texas and it has nothing to do with the weather. This has to do with ISIS, and an arrest that's been made by the federal government of yet another young person who's been charged with providing material support to support ISIS. This is apparently 20-year old young Texas man named Asher Abid Khan. The allegation here is that Khan and a friend made plans to travel to Syria as is. Usually, the plan is via Turkey. But here's what's fascinating. The alleged plan according to the compliant is that they wanted to fight along side ISIS. The Khan family got involved here. And somehow was able to get him some false information about the health of his mother basically set him alive that his mom was doing well and Khan allegedly, according to complaint, turn right back around and came right back to Texas into the waiting arms of the Department of Justice. And now, young Mr. Khan is facing very serious charges of conspiring to provide material support to ISIS. We're told that he's going to be appearing for U.S. magistrate today. We're going to keep you posted on that one. And if the complaint yields anymore incredible information like that, we'll let you know about it. Flipping to another story as well. Earlier, we were talking about local police under federal supervision. And Baltimore might just join that list I showed you earlier. We were talking Cleveland. But in Baltimore, in the aftermath of the Freddie Gray arrest, which led to grave death and to felony charges against six Baltimore police officers, that city, the mayor, in particular, made a request for a pattern and practice investigation of the Baltimore P.D. basically asking the Department of Justice to oblige, take a look, see if everything is on the up and up with the police department, and that's happening. In the meantime, while they look, something else is going on. It is in a very rough month. Look at the statistics on your screen. In the city of Baltimore, 35 homicides in just the month of May and that is the most for any month in that city since 1999. CNN's Suzanne Malveaux is standing by live. And I think a lot of people, right away, Suzanne, jump to a conclusion rightly or wrongly. Are the police pulling back because of the scrutiny and fear that they may be the next person to be charge with excessive force and they're just backing off and saying, \"You know what, deal with it yourself,\" I mean, that what a lot of people wonder. Is that what people are saying there?", "You know, Ashleigh, that's very -- a very good question because I've talked to a lot of people in part of that protest, and it is very measured because what they do say is they believed that they're not seeing the kind of police presence that they had before in their neighborhoods. And there have been some police officers who anonymously have actually admitted and acknowledge that they believed they don't have the support of the police commissioner and the leadership of the police, so they're doing soft policing, they're backing up, they're responding the 911 calls, but they are not making that extra effort to be present in the community. So that is something that people have definitely talked about. But they also are acknowledging, too, that there are bad apples in the community and they are taking advantage of what is happening here, which could be somewhat of a vacuum in their communities. I mean this is a place where -- just over night, there was another shooting, a male who had a bullet grazed by his head, a nine year old who was shot in the leg. So, earlier this morning I talked to these protesters, who went from corner to corner, intersection to intersection through rush hour, trying to disrupt things, to bring attention to what is happening here in the community. And I asked them what do they think is going on. Here's how they responded.", "I don't think the police are doing their jobs. But I do not think that it's all of the police. We do have some police officers that are doing their jobs, I know them personally. They are doing their jobs. But what I say is the majority of them, no, it isn't. So, it's just small amount.", "I often say that we don't protest when we hurt each other. And I saw the opportunity to come out here because I was very -- I was hurt about, you know, the shootings in my city, you know, 26 shootings in a weekend. And I live in this small -- the city is small, so it's happening close to me.", "Ashleigh, you were just listening to Chris Joseph. He's 26 years old. He has a 2-year old son. He said it was very important for him to come out and be a part of that protest because he wants people to know he really does care and he cares about the fact that there are a lot of young men allegedly who are shooting each other in his own community, and then that is also a very, very big problem. The other thing, Ashleigh, that they were protesting is the fact that the governor, Governor Hogan, supported and has approved $30 million project to build a new juvenile detention facility while they are facing cuts now, $11 million in cuts for Baltimore public schools. Now, the governor's office has responded saying that the reason why they have to build that facility is because a lot of the juveniles are in adult facilities now. They have no access to education and proper care, and they are, quite frankly, with much older people and in a dangerous situation. So they are ear marketing that money for that juvenile facility. But people in this community say that's really sends a bad sign, a bad signal here, to people who lived here, who say we need this money for school projects, for summer school. School is going to be getting out very soon. We don't need more money to be put into the penile, the criminal system, Ashleigh.", "I wish I can apply on the wall in that mayor's meeting with police commissioner on Sunday, to see what the two of them were talking which regards to this. Suzanne, thank you. It's nice to see you. Suzanne Malveaux reporting live for us in Baltimore. I am juggling a lot of breaking stories here, folks. I'm going to have updates for you in a lot of them, coming up."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "MALACKA REED, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER", "CHRIS JOSEPH, BALTIMORE RESIDENT", "MALVEAUX", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-64274", "program": "CNN SUNDAY", "date": "2002-12-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/15/sun.03.html", "summary": "Negotiators Try to Hammer Out Deal With NYC Transit Workers", "utt": ["Negotiators are working around the clock trying to hammer out a new contract with New York's transit workers union to avoid a strike. Their current contract expires at midnight. CNN's Ali Velshi is in New York with the very latest. Hi, Ali. ALI VELSHI, CNNfn", "Fredricka, good to see you. It's gotten a little cooler out here. And as you can see, we're in Times Square, which is busy at the best of times, but traffic around here is heavier than normal right now. A lot of shoppers getting concerned that if the transit workers go on strike at midnight, they are not going to get the Christmas shopping done in time. Now, Times Square, as much as it's a commercial center and a theater center and entertainment district, it's also a transportation hub. About two blocks to my east is Grand Central Station; about two blocks to my west is the Port Authority, the city's major bus terminal. And right here, about 10 subway lines run through the city. So it's going to be really important to commuters to understand what happens if there's a strike tomorrow. Now, we've got the situation of 34,000 transit workers who are ready to walk off the job. The negotiations are going on just a few blocks away. The issue at hand, the transportation workers union wants 6 percent increases over the next three years. Now, that's down from their initial request, their initial demands of 8 percent a year. The city says the Transportation Authority is strapped, cash strapped, and they can't give it to them. Now, the difficulty on Friday that the transportation union got into, is that a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge ruled that, in fact, it is illegal to strike in New York if you are a public worker. It's called the Taylor Law, and it says that they can't go out on strike. The city is trying to get fines imposed of up to $1 million a day for the union and $25,000 per worker if they go on strike on Monday morning, or at midnight tonight. Mayor Bloomberg is telling people to just sit back and relax a little bit. He went out yesterday and bought himself a $650 bicycle. He says, actually, people should just take it easy, have a sense of humor about it, get on their bikes, ride to work if they have to, or figure out some other way of getting to work. Tonight he says, however, that he's happy the parties are still at the negotiation table trying to achieve a settlement.", "The city plans to take every legal remedy action that it can to try to prevent a strike. And if there is one, we will avail ourselves of all of the ability to seek compensation and to recover moneys that have been spent and will be spent. But our intent...", "Listen, there are 1.1 million public school children who use public transport, half of them use public transportation to get to work, and there are seven million commuters in New York City. So we'll keep an eye on what's going on. And until then, back to you, Fredricka.", "All right, Ali, thanks a lot. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Workers>"], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "CORRESPONDENT", "MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (R), NEW YORK", "VELSHI", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-11940", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-7-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/14/mn.06.html", "summary": "Branch Davidian Trial: Jury to Recommend Verdict to Judge Soon", "utt": ["A verdict could come soon in a lawsuit over the government siege and raid on the Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, in 1993. CNN national correspondent Tony Clark is covering that trial for us. Tony, good morning.", "Good morning, Daryn. This is a $675 million civil lawsuit being brought by survivors from Mt. Carmel and also relatives of those killed during the 1993 raid, standoff and siege, which left the compound in rubble. It burned to the ground. Over the past four weeks we've been hearing vastly different stories of what happened. Davidians have described the February 28 raid by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Children have talked about hiding to prevent from being shot, while agents have said that they were outgunned and fighting for their lives. The standoff lasted 51 days and then it all came to a very fiery end, the Davidian compound going up in flames. The government saying that it was the Davidians that started that fire as part of a mass suicide. Davidians saying that it was not started by them, that it was in fact perhaps either accidentally started by the government or it was fueled by the government's actions. And the government's responsible for not having fire trucks there. The jury in this case will be given four questions to answer once they get the case: whether the ATF used excessive force during the initial raid; whether the FBI was negligent in handling the 51-day siege, especially the April 19 final day of that siege; whether the Davidians themselves were negligent in any way; and if so, what part of the negligence applies to the Davidians and what part to the FBI in this case? It is a five-member advisory jury. They will recommend a verdict to the judge. The judge's verdict is not expected to come until maybe sometime next month. Tony Clark, CNN, Waco, Texas.", "Tony, thank you very much."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "TONY CLARK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "NPR-7052", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2014-04-06", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/04/06/299913837/fbi-raids-indiana-mans-private-collection-of-historical-artifacts", "title": "FBI Raids Indiana Man's Private Collection Of Historical Artifacts", "summary": "The FBI has seized thousands of Native American and cultural artifacts from the home of a southern Indiana man. Among the items are arrowheads, gas masks, even a full skeleton. Investigators say the man may have violated international treaties and federal and state laws when he bought the items.", "utt": ["Again, you're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR West. I'm Kelly McEvers.", "In rural Indiana, FBI agents are working to remove thousands of cultural artifacts from one man's private collection. The items range from arrowheads to shrunken heads to a fully preserved skeleton. But investigators say the 91-year-old collector may have violated international treaties and federal laws when he bought or transported some of these artifacts. Sarah Whitmeyer of member station WFIU has the story.", "Donald Miller is fascinated by historical artifacts. It started when he was about 12, digging up arrowheads in the field surrounding his house. Nearly eight decades later, his collection includes a mummy, a Nazi helmet, a skull with an arrowhead lodged in it. Elizabeth Dykes lived in Rushville and, as a rooky reporter for the local newspaper, she examined Miller's collection for a profile story.", "If somebody could hoard archaeological and historical items, that would be Don.", "Miller opened his doors to anyone who wanted to see his vast collection. Dykes calls him the most fascinating person she's ever met. She says his job as a Navy engineer took him around the world.", "It seemed like every vacation that he took was straight out of, you know, \"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade\" because it always ended up with a dig. And he definitely would always come back with a story and treasure from those trips with his wife.", "From where I'm standing, you can see Miller's home a couple hundred yards away. Police have a blockade set up at the end of his road, so this is the closest I can get. You can see dozens of vehicles surrounding Miller's home, moving trucks, FBI SUVs, vans and tractor trailers. There are also a number of tents. Inside, they're cataloging the artifacts.", "The immense cultural value of Mr. Miller's collection warrants the size and scope of our presence at his property at this time.", "At a news conference this week, FBI Special Agent Robert Jones wouldn't say why agents are here or if someone tipped them off to illegal activity. As of now, Miller has not been charged with any crime, so at this point there really are more questions about this raid than there are answers. Numerous treaties and statutes prohibit the collection of some artifacts, but FBI agent Jones says it's not clear whether Miller knowingly or unknowingly bought illegal items.", "There are a number of statutes and laws that have been imposed in the last several decades that may not have been in effect when Mr. Miller collected some of the items.", "Jones says the ultimate goal of this raid is to return items to Native Americans and other groups that have asserted their rights of ownership. Museum studies professor Larry Zimmerman is one of the experts the FBI is relying on to help catalog these items. Zimmerman calls the process overwhelming.", "I have never seen a collection like this in my entire life except at some of the largest museums.", "Donald Miller doesn't have any children. Reporter Elizabeth Dykes says she once asked him what would happen to his collection after he died.", "And he said he didn't want it to go to the Smithsonian. He wanted to leave it, you know, in his little town.", "Members of the County Historical Museum here say years ago, Miller gave them access to his collection and offered to turn it over to them. But the museum declined, saying it's focused on preserving the history of rural Rush County, not exotic souvenirs collected by the county's most well-traveled and now most talked-about resident. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Whitmeyer."], "speaker": ["KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "KELLY MCEVERS, HOST", "SARAH WHITMEYER, BYLINE", "ELIZABETH DYKES", "SARAH WHITMEYER, BYLINE", "ELIZABETH DYKES", "SARAH WHITMEYER, BYLINE", "ROBERT JONES", "SARAH WHITMEYER, BYLINE", "ROBERT JONES", "SARAH WHITMEYER, BYLINE", "LARRY ZIMMERMAN", "SARAH WHITMEYER, BYLINE", "ELIZABETH DYKES", "SARAH WHITMEYER, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-247976", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2015-01-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/27/acd.02.html", "summary": "Blizzard Clobbering New England; Coastal Flooding Residents Evacuated; major Seawall Fails, Home Damaged; 24- Hour Deadline for 2 ISIS Hostage; First Lady Shares Handshake With the New King", "utt": ["Good evening. 9:00 p.m. here in New York. The storm that gave us a left jab is dealing Eastern New England a viscous right hook, not over there yet, not from people on the Peru (ph) islands and the Atlantic. Thousands now have got power or people in Coastal Maine, or everyone I'm sure in Massachusetts we saw the ocean rise up and take their homes. Storm surge in Southern Massachusetts, the tide five feet above normal, blizzard conditions causing flooding in the coastal cities like Scituate, which has been partially evacuated. Some seawalls collapsing in the surge before high tide.", "Here it is, this water coming up right over the seawall right now.", "Strong winds have cause flooding all along the Atlantic coast from southern New Jersey all the way up to Maine. This video shows waves hitting New York Harbor. Winds on Plum Island, Massachusetts reaching 45 miles per hour. Points during the day causing huge waves to crash over their seawalls.", "Take a look at the oceans, it is churning, it is bubbling, it is boiling. It has been like this all night long.", "More than 12,000 people on (inaudible) remain without power or phone service. The power is slowly being restored. The Island is virtually cut off from the rest of the state with fairy service suspended and flight is impossible because of whiteout conditions.", "It hasn't stopped snowing about 24 hours now.", "Massachusetts has already been hit with as much 32 inches of snow in some places. In the Eastern part of the state you could see another 10 inches by Wednesday morning. New Hampshire was hit with more than 20 inches. Residents in Portsmouth taking advantage of blizzard with a huge snowball flight.", "Obviously, missed the worst of this storm which is a blessing for New York City. And we have an old saying that we live by around here, \"Prepare for the worst and the hope for the best.\"", "New York and New Jersey missed the worst of the storm. The Long Island remains buried in snow. This time-lapse video of the statue of liberty shows the 24 hours of the storm from 8:00 a.m. Monday to 8:00 a.m. Tuesday. Both states lifting the travel ban that was put in place Monday night. Seven states declared a state of emergency for the blizzard that is so far claimed two lives. There's a lot happening at this hour which why we have correspondents out all across the air to give you an idea of exactly what things look like for millions of people. I want to go first to that spot about half hour South of Boston, where the tide came in and just did not stop. Alexandra Field is there in Scituate Massachusetts. She joins us now. I know there's a lot of flooding there earlier. How is that now?", "Yeah, Anderson, really the wind is just relentless right now. The big worry through the day here has been in water because they have high tide in the morning, high tide again later this afternoon and that's when these seawalls can be breach, which is exactly what we saw happened. It's just down the road from where I'm standing. That's the beach if you go out there which is exactly what we did, these houses are covered in ice and they're just being slammed by the salt water. We saw it come crushing up over those walls. It was enough to actually flood out most of this neighborhood next to me. People here saying they had four and five beach of salt water in their basements running under their houses which are up on (inaudible) coming across the road, powerful enough to pick up these mess and just sort of leaving here. Buoys outside of the person's fence and sign post that have been lifted up and toss down here, big pieces of woods. So really a dangerous situation if you were out here. A lot of times what they see here in Scituate is these amounts of rocks that come up over the seawall along with that sea spray and that salt water. At this point the high tide has gone out, so we're not seeing that same flooding. This road has now pretty much dried up an iced over as the snow continuous to come down. But when we got out here earlier today Anderson, this road it was completely impossible. In fact the people in this house here they to have to call for the National Guard to come and help them to evacuate. We spoke to the Fire Department here in Scituate and they say they're getting a lot of calls from people who needed help getting out of their houses. Police were also coming through there in this high axle vehicles to see who was in need of help and who needed to get out. But certainly a lot of people on this street, Anderson, who said they decided they were just going to stick out. They have seen some flooding here before but this was a lot more than what they expected to see it to day.", "I also understand the officials, they actually cut power to a lot of neighborhoods to prevent fires, right?", "Yeah, that goes back to the history of a problem here in this community. Back in 2012, March of 2012, they had a big storm, high winds carried flames through four houses right on the beach. Those houses burned to the ground because of the storm. Fire fighters were not able to get there to really salvage those places. So the step was taken yesterday. The town decided preemptively, \"Let's just cut the power to a number of the communities here to minimize the risk of no electrical fire and to minimize the risk of people needing help and fire fighters being unable to reach them because of the flood water.\" And when we are walking around up here earlier in the day you can just say these entire backyards just swapped with water, and that water covering a lot of streets. So you can see the problem that they were so concerned about.", "Right, well listen, I appreciate you're staying out there for us tonight. Alexandra Field, thank you very much. Brain Todd, he is just a couple miles south in the town Marshfield which is also have been taking a pounding. Brian, when we checked in with you an hour ago, you got a heavy winds and snows. Is it still snowing there?", "Still snowing Anderson. The winds are still an issue. A lot drift here. This is how much it's accumulated. This is a natural snow drift here, comes down, let's see, to my knees right here in this lawn but it's deeper in some places. And again the wind is a huge issue here, whiteout condition still hampering the efforts by first responders and utility workers to get out and try to see how people are doing in the town of Marshfield tonight. We know how some people are doing by that seawall in Marshfield, we got there just as high tide was hitting for the second time today and captured a very violent scene with the storm surge just pounding that seawall for the second time. A 50 plus foot section of that seawall collapsed during the morning high tide, Anderson. That flooded several homes. We have talked to people in that street -- on that street who had to leave their homes, had to be evacuated. Couple of people have lost their homes at least 11 homes suffered very significant flood damage. Several people had to be evacuated. Thankfully, no injuries to report tonight, but we did talked to people who say it was one of the most frightening things that they had ever experienced. Water just surrounding their home, they felt like their house was basically in the ocean for certain moments today. And it was just a very, very difficult situation. I heard you and Alexandra talking about the issue of fires. They did the same thing in this neighborhood of Marshfield. They did have to cut power there and that's because they're afraid of the storm surge of the flooding getting in and short circuiting some homes. They have the same problem you're talking about in Scituate where some homes here have burned when they got short circuited, when some wiring got short circuited by the flooding some years ago.", "Yeah.", "So that's still a huge danger. We're still getting high tide here, Anderson. So that's a problem. And Chad, inconvenient for people to better be safe than sorry.", "Brian, give us a feel, did people just go and stay with friends or did they open warming shelters? Did they open schools where people -- what kind of numbers were talking about?", "I think we're talking numbers, Chad, may be between a dozen and maybe 20, 25 people had to evacuate, so not a huge number. Some of them took refuge and the shelters around here in a middle school that we visited. There are people taking refuge there. One lady we just spoke to, is staying with her daughter here in this neighborhood. So some people are just, right now, accessing whether they can go back to their homes any time soon. We know that at least one lady -- some homes actually have been condemned. So those people cannot go back anytime soon on this.", "Brian, I appreciate you've been out there for us for this later hour. Timothy Mannix, he's a fisherman nearby. At times in his job he goes out, does battle with the sea. Well last night the sea came to him at home, nearly killed them. He joins me now. Timothy, can you just take us through what happened last night, because I understand you walked up at 10 to wait for the tide to come in.", "Yes sir. I worked yesterday. I got home early afternoon and crash for few hours. I got up at 9:00 or 10:00 and made a cup of coffee and turn around, waiting for the high tide. Yes sir.", "And at some point you blocked out. Was there anyone there to help you?", "No, I didn't blocked up or I got blocked once the storm started to really hit. I took the animals and put them on the other room where they'll be safe because, you know, it was getting worse and worse and worse. And the bed room slider let go, and I went (inaudible) to the living room part of the house. And I was pushing the dining room table up against to the slider and (inaudible) just like a lighting bolt. And I think the center partition on the slider what hit me. Hit me right on my face here, where I got whole bunch of stitches and my nose is broken and, you know, (inaudible) those in places. So I might have got knocked out for a couple of seconds but I was on my hands and knees and saw the amount of blood I have. I said, \"Oh boy I'm trouble here.\"", "And I understand you tried to drive yourself to the hospital but got stuck?", "Yes, at the end of my drive, it was all cobble. We had a lot of cobble here. And yeah, the truck got stuck so I got to, you know, 911.", "I mean, you were so lucky. I understand, you actually heard about yourself on the news while you were still in the emergency room, almost being kind of (inaudible).", "Yes sir. That was right yeah. It happened around 4:30 and it took another hour or so before (inaudible) have finally came and put in the bucket and took me over to the fire truck in the Humvee. The town has a Humvee down here. And they had to bring me up to the other end of town and put me on an ambulance.", "Wow.", "And then, you know, I was waiting in the emergency room and yeah it came on the T.V. that, you know, they got me and evacuated me.", "And your dog and cat, I mean, you said you put them in a safe place. They're OK?", "Yeah. As a matter of fact they called my buddy, (inaudible) and said go get the animals, you know. So him and his little girl in town get the dog and the cat then the (inaudible) went out and, you know, save them.", "Yeah. Well, it's scary night. I appreciate you're talking to us. I'm glad you're doing OK Timothy. Thank you.", "Yes, well thank you for time also.", "Wow. You're very luck indeed. As always, quick reminder, make sure you set your DVR. You can watch 360 whenever you want. Coming up next, the scene in Boston where they could break a snow record."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, AC360 HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COOPER", "BILL DE BLASIO, MAYOR, NEW YORK", "COOPER", "ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "FIELD", "COOPER", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "TODD", "CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TODD", "COOPER", "TIMOTHY MANNIX, INJURED IN STORM", "COOPER", "MANNIX", "COOPER", "MANNIX", "COOPER", "MANNIX", "COOPER", "MANNIX", "COOPER", "MANNIX", "COOPER", "MANNIX", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-258568", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-07-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/01/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Misty Copeland is the First African-American Principal Dancer", "utt": ["History has been made within the exclusive halls of the venerable American ballet theater because for the first time in the company's 75-year history, it has named an African-American woman as a principal dancer. She is 32 years of age. She is Misty Copeland who just this year made the list for \"Time\" magazine's 100 most influential people. I want you to look at her face when the news first came down.", "Misty, take a bow.", "Copeland's road to success has not been an easy one. A hint of her struggles as a buddy dancer revealed in this under armor commercial.", "Dear candidate, thank you for your application to our ballet academy. Unfortunately, you have not been accepted. You lack the right feet, Achilles tendons, turnout, torso length and bust. You have the wrong body for ballet, and at 13 you are too old to be considered.", "My goodness. Charisse Jones is with me who helped Copeland pen the autobiography entitled \"life in motion, unlikely ballerina.\" Joins us also a travel correspondent for \"USA today.\" Wonderful having you here.", "Thank you for having me.", "I'm saying just looking at her that body, those muscles.", "It's amazing.", "My goodness.", "Absolutely. She's gorgeous.", "After she became principal, you know, there was some texting between the two of you.", "Yes, a little bit.", "Can you share? What did she say?", "Basically that she was just thrilled, that the promotion had finally come. She was very emotional. Everyone that knows and loves Misty was overwhelmed, to see that this moment in history had finally arrived.", "You said finally twice now. This is something that should have happened already.", "Yes, I would think so.", "Let's be real.", "She was a soloist for about eight years which is a very long time to be at that level. And frankly in the ballet world there's been a lot of resistance to seeing a black woman at that level. They don't envision a ballerina look looking like Misty Copeland, basically flaxen hair and ivory skin and that's not Misty. So she had to fight that kind resistance for years to finally make it to this plateau.", "Her background. I mean, she comes from humble beginnings.", "Absolutely.", "I have read that she wasn't brought up listening to classical music.", "No.", "She hadn't put on ballet shoes until she was 13 which is considered pretty late.", "It is considered ancient in the world of ballet. And she was at a boys and girls club when she took her first ballet club, didn't have a leotard, didn't have Tutu. Basically was in baggy gym clothes and stood at a point within a month which is extraordinary. That just doesn't happen. One of six children raised by a single mom who lived in a hotel room for part of her childhood, bounced from home to room and moved a lot. So she was this extraordinarily gifted child that had all of these obstacles to overcome and finally was launched on this incredible path.", "Can I just ask a very simple question. Why does she love it so much?", "I think that it was a real refuge for her when she was a little girl, from what she was going through in her personal life. And, you know, she's just incredibly talented and she wants to see other girls that look like her get the opportunity to dance at the met and to embrace this incredible art form, and open the gates to this art that she loves to the world so that it reflects society at large.", "Did she ever have moments where she would have hung up her toe shoes?", "I think she had moments of self-doubt. I think she worried that this day was never going to come because it took so long. But, you know, in that commercial she talks about persistence and not letting anyone tell you what you cannot do and she triumphed in the end.", "Do you think, you know, she obviously wants to have other girls look like her, but not that, I mean, I think the audience, when you think of who typically goes to the ballet, right? Let's shake that up a little bit.", "She's brought diversity to the stage and to the audience. If you go to a Misty Copeland performance you see every e ethnicity, every age group, people who have never been to the ballet. she's made ballet hip, cool, part of pop culture so she really has, you know, made up much more inclusive. And that's something that is important for this art to continue and continue to thrive.", "Misty Copeland, I want to talk to you. Charisse Jones, thank you so much for coming on. I really appreciate it. Our congratulations to her, definitely.", "Thank you.", "Next, a man is pulled underwater during yet another shark attack what. What witnesses say they saw on this beach, another North Carolina beach? That's ahead. Also, the U.S. women's soccer team has a message.", "We go into the ship. We're going to the ship. We're going to the ship.", "That ship as in the championship. They're headed to, is the World Cup final. Next we'll talk to a woman who's been in the exact same spot and went on to win that World Cup. We'll talk to goalie Brianna Scurry, next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BALDWIN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BALDWIN", "CHARISSE JONES, CO-AUTHOR, MISTY COPELAND AUTOBIOGRAPHY", "BALDWIN", "JONES", "BALDWIN", "JONES", "BALDWIN", "JONES", "BALDWIN", "JONES", "BALDWIN", "JONES", "BALDWIN", "JONES", "BALDWIN", "JONES", "BALDWIN", "JONES", "BALDWIN", "JONES", "BALDWIN", "JONES", "BALDWIN", "JONES", "BALDWIN", "JONES", "BALDWIN", "JONES", "BALDWIN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-281005", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-04-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/09/cnr.01.html", "summary": "John Kasich Attacks Ted Cruz in New York", "utt": ["It's crunch time. The Republican National Convention three months away now, and a contested convention is on a lot of people's minds, thinking it is certainly a possibility. The candidates are fixing their gaze on New York right now with just 10 days to go before 95 delegates are up for grabs. The potential spoiler for frontrunner Donald Trump is John Kasich. The Ohio governor now going on the offensive, not against Trump, though. He is targeting Senator Ted Cruz. His new ad takes direct aim at Cruz's New York values slam.", "New Yorkers aren't stupid, Ted. After we were hit, we rallied, rebuilt, but remembered. So when you smear New York values in Iowa for votes, we remember that, too. Now you come here and conveniently say you love New York. Forget about it, Ted.", "We are going to discuss with former senator John Sununu, the New Hampshire campaign chairman for John Kasich, and Ron Nehring, the national spokesman for the Ted Cruz campaign. Gentlemen, good to have you with us. Thank you.", "Good morning.", "Good morning. John, I'd like to start with you if I could, please. What is the strategy for Governor Kasich to target Ted Cruz right now as opposed to Donald Trump?", "This is about honesty and authenticity. John Kasich has it. Ted Cruz obviously said one thing in one place and now is trying to walk back the remark. It is also about what Ron Brownstein said, winning every vote and winning every delegate, coming in with the strongest roster of delegates you can. And at that convention one question on the delegates minds, one question they are going to be asked, who is best prepared to lead the country, and who will win? What Republican will lead the party to victory in November? And in every poll John Kasich beats Hillary Clinton. Ted Cruz loses. He loses to Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump loses to Hillary Clinton, and someone like that at the top of the ticket won't just lose the presidency. They'll lose our Republican Senate seat in New Hampshire, in Ohio, in Pennsylvania. That is why John Kasich is going to come into the convention with momentum, and that is why I think he is going to be the nominee.", "We should point out, Ron, that Governor Kasich is currently ahead of your candidate in New York. Are we going to see some sort of shift or push from Ted Cruz to try to turn around some of the backlash that has been given to him?", "After about 30 losses in the states by John Kasich who continues to run even behind Marco Rubio in terms of the number of delegates that he has, it is not surprising that the Kasich campaign would continue to flail around and look for some type of strategy to gain some type of momentum. But at the end of the day John Kasich is going to arrive at the convention. We presume he will stay at the race as a spoiler all the way until the end. He will arrive at the convention with the fewest number of delegates. He'll have zero momentum and he continues to run as a spoiler. In terms of our campaign, we recognize that New York state is home state territory for Donald Trump. He has the home team advantage there. We are the visiting team. And that is completely understandable. If he doesn't win his own state then that draws up a serious question. But we recognize this is a long ballgame and we organized our campaign to go all the way to the end until June 7th. That is why I became California chairman of the campaign way back in August, recognizing this process could go all the way to the end and we're ready for that.", "And he makes a point, John, that Governor Kasich is third in the delegate count but he is still trailing not just Donald Trump and Ted Cruz but also Marco Rubio. How do you counter that at this point when he is trailing a guy who is not even in the race any longer?", "Look, Marco Rubio failed to win a critical swing state, his home state of Florida. John Kasich won his home state, not just any state, but Ohio. And if a Republican doesn't win Ohio a Republican will not get elected be president. And frankly, Ted Cruz can't win Ohio. He can't win \"News of the World\". He probably can't even win Colorado. So that's critical, someone who will come into November, beat Hillary Clinton. John Kasich is the person to do that. We are also heading into states where you have pointed out John Kasich runs stronger than Ted Cruz, in New York and Pennsylvania, in Connecticut, in Rhode Island. This is a stronger area. John Kasich beat Ted Cruz in the New England states with the exception of the caucus in Maine. So I think this is an area of strength for John Kasich. He is going to win more delegates. Marco Rubio is holding his delegates in place because he doesn't want Donald Trump to be the nominee. And I think that's really smart tactically. It will be an open convention and the Ted Cruz spokesman was claiming it wouldn't be, that he was going to get a majority two or three weeks ago. That's not going to happen. It will be an open convention and those delegates are going to listen to the candidates. They are going to say who has the experience and the vision to lead the country. John Kasich has balanced budgets, cut taxes everywhere he's gone. He's never lost an election, and every poll shows him beating Hillary Clinton not just nationally but in critical swing states. And I think that's going to weigh on those delegates, and that's why I think he is going to pick up delegates on every ballot. In 1860 there was a contested convention, Abraham Lincoln came in trailing the businessman, a flamboyant guy, Seward from New York, and Lincoln pulled it out. John Kasich isn't Abraham Lincoln, but the lesson of history is wait to see how those delegates vote on the floor. And John Kasich will be the nominee and next president of the United States.", "What is it with senators being on these shows and filibustering? That's kind of interesting. Does every senator who just gets on the programs and just filibusters ad infinitum? Look, John Kasich has zero momentum in this race going forward. He's purely running as a spoiler. He has no pathway to get to the nomination whatsoever, and that is the situation which we face right now. That is the reality going syndicated columnist George Will. John Kasich will not be the Republican nominee for president under any circumstances. That is purely a fantasy. He is flailing around looking for some type of strategy to change the dynamic here after losing in about 30 states. It is hard to say that someone is a more electable candidate when they have lost over and over and over again in about 30 states. It's hard to say you're the more electable candidate when you keep losing to either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.", "It is hard to say you are more electable if you get beaten by Hillary Clinton in every national poll.", "Gentlemen, I'm sorry, we are running out of time.", "This is about beating the Democrat.", "This is a filibuster for the senator here.", "Thank you so much.", "You had your chance.", "Thank you so much. We'll have to wait and see how all of this pans out. We know polls don't always tell the full story by the time we get to it. Sometimes they do. So we appreciate hearing you voice today. Thank you for making the time for us.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are battling over who is qualified to be president. And with the New York primary just days away that war of words is getting ugly. We'll tell you what they are saying in a moment."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PAUL", "JOHN SUNUNU, NEW HAMPSHIRE CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN FOR JOHN KASICH", "PAUL", "SUNUNU", "PAUL", "RON NEHRING, NATIONAL SPOKESMAN, TED CRUZ CAMPAIGN", "PAUL", "SUNUNU", "NEHRING", "SUNUNU", "PAUL", "SUNUNU", "NEHRING", "PAUL", "SUNUNU", "PAUL", "SUNUNU", "NEHRING", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "CNN-17136", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-10-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/04/ee.07.html", "summary": "Debate Reaction: Undecided Remain on the Fence at Allen-Edmonds Shoe Manufacturing Plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin", "utt": ["Wisconsin is another one of those Midwestern battleground states in this election, and Port Washington is a town on the Lake Michigan shore, north of Milwaukee. CNN's Jeff Flock is there this morning sampling reaction to last night's presidential debate. Jeff, how's it playing in Port Washington?", "Well, Kyra, we've got our ear to the ground here in Wisconsin, this is Port Washington, north of Milwaukee, as you point out. We are inside the Allen-Edmonds shoe manufacturing plant. This is one of the few remaining U.S. shoe manufacturing plants here in this country. This morning trying to get a sense for -- from undecided voters if they made up their mind based on what they saw yesterday. Now why do we care about Wisconsin? Because you point out it is one of those key Midwest, heartland battleground states. There are about six of them: Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio, as well as Missouri, all together 90 electoral votes. Wisconsin alone with 11 of them. This is a state it has kind of a reputation for voting both Republican and Democrat. A whole host of folks we are going to talk to this morning, first of all is Ron Newman (ph). He's the COO of Allen-Edmonds. I have got to ask you, you're on the fence. Have you made up your mind as a result of what you saw last night?", "Well, I'm still undecided. I thought the debates were really lively. I think both candidates really made a lot of punches and counterpunches and really kept things moving. So I was impressed with the points that both candidates made.", "Now you tend to the Republican and vote Republican, but at this point, you are still undecided. Al Gore could get your vote.", "Possibly, yes. I think that both candidates are wearing Allen Edmonds, so I'm a little bit undecided on that point, but certainly I'm going to listen to the next two debates, and I think not only are the issues important, but also the sincerity of the candidates. I think that's really important to the American people, to the co-workers at Allen-Edmonds, and just a lot of honesty needs to be brought back into the candidacy.", "Ron, I appreciate your comments. Thank you. We want to move on down the production line if we can. Barb Castrudi (ph) over here with a rack of shoes next to her. This, as we said, is a state that can vote either Republican or Democrat. You are undecided. Did you change your mind last night, get off the fence?", "No, I did not, I'm still in between. I just don't know who to vote for.", "Both candidates laid out very different positions last night. Despite that, no one is resonating with you yet. Why?", "It's a matter where it comes down to if you can trust what they say, that's the biggest issue right now. I don't know what they say is good, but what are they doing to stand behind what they say, that's the big issue.", "Not so much what they say, but whether or not you can believe them.", "If I can trust them.", "Barb, I appreciate it. Thanks very much. Again, farther down the line. You know, you talk about people working at companies. I'm going to be joined by one guy now who has worked here in this plant for 60 years. Willie Bitner (ph), the first man you voted for for president was Franklin D. Roosevelt.", "Right.", "Who are you going to vote for this time?", "I'm undecided yet.", "Even after last night?", "Well, I'm still waiting to see how the next ones are going to turn out.", "The next debates you mean?", "Yes.", "What is the big issue for you?", "Well, they never did mention it, but what I would like to see whatever you pickup is made in China.", "And that's one of your issues.", "Right.", "I know education, Vickie Laura (ph), is one of your issues. Who speaks more to that issue for you, education?", "I think both candidates had a very good answers on the issue of education.", "Are you leaning one way or the other based on last night?", "No, I'm undecided yet. I'm not sure.", "A lot of undecided people here this morning. We came here specifically because we had a group of undecided voters, and nobody seems to have made their mind up last night. I want to ask one more guy. Bob Stephus (ph), did you make your mind the last night? Did you change your attitude?", "Yes, I did. I was undecided before tonight, but when I heard Gore's long-term goals for the national debt and for our energy crisis, I changed my mind.", "Why was that?", "I thought Gore looked long-term, where I don't think Bush thought about the long term. He thought more about the short-term and what are going to do know, what is a quick fix. I want to see long-term solutions.", "At least one guy off the fence. And we're going to go to one more guy before we get away here. Obviously, this is one of the last U.S. manufacturing plants, shoe manufacturing plants, so this is a group of working people. For the candidates, Al Gore of course, says, I'm a working man's candidate. Does that resonate with you, and have you and have your mind up? You were undecided coming into the debate last night.", "Yes, I am, and I still am undecided. I agree with some of his points. I also agree with Gov. Bush on some of his topics and points that he has. Right now I'm still undecided on who I want to go for right now yet. There's some topics I'd like them to debate a little more, the overcrowding in schools, how they can go about that.", "So you are still listening?", "Yes, I am.", "OK, I appreciate it. We're out of time. Thank you so much. We appreciate all the comments here from Allen-Edmonds shoe manufacturing plant in Wisconsin, as we continue to listen to the undecideds as they hold the balance of power in their hand. 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{"id": "CNN-355835", "program": "HALA GORANI TONIGHT", "date": "2018-11-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/28/wrn.01.html", "summary": "CNN Investigation Revealed Startling Rise in Anti-Semitism; Russia Downplays Trump's Threat to Cancel Talks with Putin", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. Live from CNN London, I'm Hala Gorani. Tonight, shocking statistics from Germany, a CNN investigation continues showing just how big a problem anti-Semitism is there. We have the full story. Also, tonight, coming to Brexit it seems even the best-case scenario is terrible. That's the word today from the British government. And the Bank of England. We go through the numbers. We hear details of a futile tug of war with the plane's automatic systems in the minutes before Lion Air flight 610 plunged into the ocean. We begin in Germany, a country that once swore it would never forget the holocaust or the actions of its Nazi leaders. But it didn't mean like this. You're looking at pictures of far-right German demonstrators. These were taken just in month. As you can see, they're using Nazi-style symbols. Now a CNN investigation revealing that this feeling is dangerously on the rise in more ways than one. Clarissa Ward explains.", "It's a sight you don't expect to see in Germany in 2018. Hundreds of right-wing extremists, many neo-Nazis, marching through the nation's capital. Close the border, they shout. Resistance, resistance. The far right is enjoying a major comeback here, bringing with it a troubling rise in anti-Semitism. According to government figures, anti-Semitic attacks increased by 20 percent in the last 5 years, the number of violent right-wing extremists gone up by nearly a third. This man tells us a shadowy cabal of globalists controls the world.", "When you talk about the elites and finance, is that another way of saying Jewish people?", "Yes.", "Yes?", "Yes.", "It is? Let me say it this way. The banking system, for sure. Banks, finance, the economy. Mainly Jews. He says. We had more questions but our conversation was cut short by one of the march's organizers. I think we have someone following us. Making anti-Semitic statements can be punishable under German law but Christian Weissberger explains that neo- Nazis are finding new ways to express the same old hatred. And he should know. Weissberger used to be a right-wing extremism, himself.", "I would say it is a form of anti- Semitism that disguises themselves so they don't talk about the Jew anymore. They talk about the Zionists or the globalist or the bankers.", "And they are growing more brazen. One man flashes a quick but unmistakable Nazi salute right in front of us. A crime in Germany. It's important to remember this isn't any country. This is Germany. Just a few hundred yards from the march is a memorial for the millions of Jews murdered here in the second world war. More than 70 years after the holocaust, Germany is still haunted by its past. And yet, remarkably, anti-Semitism is once again a growing problem here with 50 percent of Germans agreeing that Jewish people are now at risk of racist violence. The statistic comes from a CNN poll that also found half of Germans believe Jews are at risk of hate speech. At Feinberg's Israeli restaurant, the owner says he gets threats every day.", "From murder to I'll break your knees, arms, teeth. They're very creative in everything. You know? All the options they want to break.", "He was recently accosted by a man who told him Jews will end up in the gas chamber. It's only about the money for you. You will pay, the man says to him. Nobody wants you here. He told you to go to the gas chambers or that you will go back to the gas chambers?", "Yes.", "You have heard things like that before?", "Very often.", "Germany has acknowledged it has a problem. Recently appointing its first anti-Semitism czar. Felix Klein is focused on creating a nationwide system for reporting anti-Semitic crimes and improving integration of Germany's different communities.", "Anti-Semitism has always existed in Germany, also after 1945 and now, though, it is showing its ugly face more openly. Things that people would never have dared to say in a bar, in a restaurant, in a private surrounding do it so now using social media or the net.", "Germany has seen upticks in neo-Nazi activity before. Most notably in the 1990s. While official statistics show that more than 90 percent of anti-Semitic attacks nationwide are from the far right there's a new element of concern for the Jewish community. The arrival of 1.4 million Muslim refugees in the last 3 years. Doron Ruben is the leader of Germany's small, orthodox Jewish community.", "A lot of coming -- coming of a lot of immigrants of a different history and a different background and especially obviously coming from the Middle East have also because of Islam, different attitude toward Jews.", "When we talk about Muslim originated anti-Semitism, we can only win that battle with the help of the moderate Muslims. Without them, it's -- this wouldn't be a successful fight.", "Overall, the Jewish community remains anxious.", "I think much more Jews now are think again like, can you call Germany our home and is it possible to live in this society? You can notice the question that might not have been asked five years ago is popping up again.", "It's question few in this country ever imagined would have to be asked again.", "Clarissa is here. And by the way for our viewers we'll be speaking with Felix Klein, the anti-Semitism czar of Germany. I was struck by that restaurant owner who said that on a daily basis he's harassed, threatened and insulted. How do you live every day with that type of abuse?", "And you saw the almost nonchalance with which he talks about this kind of constant tide of verbal abuse that he gets. I mean, obviously, because he owns an Israeli restaurant the public -- you know, the phone number is publicly listed, the address is publicly known. So, in a sense, it's natural that anti-Semitic activity to gravitate toward a known Israeli target or place. He has a sort of positive attitude, as well, though. He says the vast majority of Berliners are welcoming. He said it is a problem around the world. A lot of Jews feel that there's nowhere really safe for them and that's why the idea of the state of Israel is so important to them.", "Despite the fact there's a lot of criticism, of course, about how it manages the Palestinian politician and Muslims in the piece but a vast majority of the attacks from the far right?", "Yes. This is interesting because what I would ask the various Jewish communities we talked to in Germany specifically, is hold on a second. If the government is saying 90 percent of attacks from the far right, why are you so concerned about this threat or perceived threat if the Muslim population? What they would say is we know that the neo-Nazis are the enemy. The far right hates us. We have known that and understood that for many, many decades. They're used to that, comfortable with it, believe the state has enough of control over that situation. For them, in their own words, they would say that the Muslim population is much more of an unknown commodity, an unknown quantity. Coming from the Middle East. They have a different idea about Jewish people. They conflate them closely with the Israeli/Palestinian crisis and they see the new anti-Semitism from the Muslim community and the far left so critically -- so critical of the Israeli state and this is something, Hala, to be talking about more tomorrow looking at France where most Jewish people talking about the new anti-Semitism.", "That's a perfect segue. We have a clip from tomorrow's report, and we'll be continuing the special coverage all week and culminate in a special program in this hour on Friday. Take a look at a bit of Clarissa's report for tomorrow.", "Miriam and her family have considered moving from France. Joining the more than 55,000 Jews who have left since the year 2000. In the sanctuary of their home, they celebrate Shabat, a ritual ushered in every Friday night lighting candles and reciting a blessing.", "I'm scared for the future of my baby here. I hope that he will have a future here. And, you know, Jewish communities are a part of history of France, really. And so, I think France without any Jew is not France.", "Well, we will have that report tomorrow on the program. Let's turn attention now to Russia. It is turning up the pressure on Ukraine. Officials in Russian controlled Crimea announced that 24 sailors will be held for at least two months while they await trial for entering Russian territorial waters. That's the allegation of Russia. They were captured after Russia seized three Ukrainian boats in the Kerch Strait. Russia is down playing Donald Trump's warning to cancel up coming talks with Vladimir Putin over this whole thing and supposed to meet with Russia's President on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina. But yesterday suggested he's having second thoughts because of what he calls Russia's aggression. Today the Kremlin said it expects the meeting to go ahead adding that it's equally needed by both sides. Let's get the latest of Washington, joined by correspondent Elise Labott. Washington and Donald Trump saying he may cancel the meeting. What happens if, indeed, that meeting is scrapped?", "I think it's just going to escalate the rhetoric, escalate tensions and then I think you might see a little bit more of a robust U.S. policy, Hala, in terms of coordinating with the Ukrainian government, possibly talking about more military assistance. I don't think anything is in the offing but, you know, there was a lot of U.S. military assistance that was supposed to be going to the Ukrainian military. Our understanding is that is kind of a long track and maybe even being sped up. It's not any new type of assistance. Secretary of State Pompeo spoke to President Poroshenko the other day. Obviously, the U.S. taking a very tough line, leading up until this meeting. The President wants to, we understand from officials, preserve his space, not talk about it beforehand really. Before he sits down with President Putin. So as of now, that meeting is going ahead. Those briefings took place last night. And over the last couple of days, so the President has a pretty good idea at this point of what happened and now unless we hear anything else it looks like the meeting will probably go ahead.", "What I find interesting is the U.S. is telling Russia release those sailors. You know? You need to de-escalate the tension right now. We don't need another war breaking out between the sides. And instead of doing that, they essentially do the exact opinion sit an they say, well, those 24 sailors we're holding, we'll keep them two months. Not only not releasing them but jail them longer. This doesn't sound like a President Putin who cares much what the White House has to say.", "Clearly, he doesn't think that President Trump will do anything about it. I mean, I think he's maybe even testing President Trump and certainly advisers, Secretary Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mattis, National Security Adviser Bolton, may, you know, encourage him to take a tougher position. But you know, when I talked to officials they say, look. This latest escalation is illegal. It's aggressive. Unjustified. All of those things. But it's nothing that wasn't expected because it comes from something that everyone already knows. Which is, the illegal seizure of Crimea by Russia, that's finally coming home. Before it was more of a, you know, kind of a theoretical seizure because nothing was really happening on the ground. But this is really I think the first real world example of how those tensions can escalate.", "Speaking of not holding a country to account, critics of Saudi Arabia are saying it is getting away with bad behavior. Donald Trump is hoping that this whole Jamal Khashoggi thing goes away. Secretary of State Pompeo testified on capitol hill today essentially saying there's no proof it went higher than the people --", "No smoking gun. Mo smoking gun.", "But this is all basically repeating the lines from the President saying, listen. What we want is the status quo. Don't think anything's going to change.", "That's right. Look. President Trump gave an interview to \"The Washington Post\" yesterday and he said something very interesting about there was a lot of talk about this CIA assessment and how President Trump said, you know, there's no proof, there's no proof. He said I never said that the CIA didn't say he did it. So, what he's essentially saying is, yes, he saw the CIA assessment. Because there's no smoking gun he doesn't have to do anything and he's being pretty, you know, blunt and pretty, you know, clear-eyed about the fact that he thinks that the relationship is more important than going after the crown prince for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. And secretary Pompeo in this remarkable editorial, op-ed, that he put this morning about the relationship with Saudi Arabia, essentially saying, yes, this was a horrible act. We don't condone it. We're punishing those who had a physical hand in doing it. But, you know, that's pretty much it.", "All right. And but although we have top congressional Republicans including graham who are saying they want to hear from the CIA, they want more information. We'll see where that goes. Elise, thank you so much. Still to come tonight, Britain's central bank given the forecast for a worst-case scenario Brexit. It is not pretty. We'll give you details. Authorities in Indonesia release findings on the quick and terrifying Lion Air crash last month. We will have an update on what happened. What the pilots we believe desperately tried to do to right the plane before it plunged."], "speaker": ["HALA GORANI, CNN HOST", "CLARISSA WARD, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "WARD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WARD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WARD", "CHRISTIAN WEISSBERGER, FORMER NEO-NAZI", "WARD", "YORAI FEINBERG, RESTAURANT OWNER", "WARD", "FEINBERG", "WARD", "FEINBERG", "WARD", "FELIX KLEIN, ANTI-SEMITISM CZAR, GERMANY", "WARD", "DORON RUBEN, HEAD OF BERLIN'S KAHAL ADASS JISROEL CONGREGATION", "KLEIN", "WARD", "RUBEN", "WARD", "GORANI", "WARD", "GORANI", "WARD", "GORANI", "WARD", "MIRIAM", "GORANI", "ELISE LABOTT, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT", "GORANI", "LABOTT", "GORANI", "LABOTT", "GORANI", "LABOTT", "GORANI"]}
{"id": "CNN-295997", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2016-10-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/13/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Melania Trump Issues Statement, Demands Retraction and Apology", "utt": ["Breaking news. We're waiting for Donald Trump to take the stage in a rally in Cincinnati tonight. This comes as Trump's running mate Mike Pence just spoke and for the first time addressed the growing number of women who are accusing Trump of sexual assault.", "As the media spends so much time on unsubstantiated allegations against my running mate, allegations that he has categorically denied, they denied the hard evidence or any coverage of the hard evidence of nothing less than the corruption and the deceit of the Clintons and the Clinton machine.", "And tonight, despite the damning claims against Trump, his supporters are not giving up on their nominee. Ed Lavandera went to talk to them OUTFRONT.", "The Trump faithful are standing by their man.", "I'd rather have a guy in there that likes women than a cheat and a liar and a thief who's going to rob the country.", "-- with all of these issues about women. They didn't care about anything but Clinton was assaulting women and he was assaulted to a point that it went to court and Hillary was covering up for him and intimidating these women.", "In the last day at least four women have come forward claiming Donald Trump grope them or kissed them against their will. But at this Trump campaign rally in West Palm Beach Florida, his supporters question the motivations of the women making the accusations.", "If somebody touch me in the wrong way, I Rosa Castillo will stand up and speak and say what I have to say and -- happen. I would not wait twenty years when the man is running for president and use that against the man. Why you did not report it back in the day? Why? Because you being paid now? The corruption pay you good money for you come out now and say this?", "And so now, we address the slander and libels that was just last night thrown at me by the Clinton machine.", "Trump is in full attack mode, whether it's his opponent, the media or his accusers.", "These people are horrible people. They are horrible, horrible liars and interestingly, it happens to appear 26 days before our very important election. Isn't that way amazing?", "Trump accused the Hillary Clinton campaign of pushing these stories of sexual misconduct.", "These vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely false.", "Fact or fiction these supporters don't care about the allegations against Trump. They want to focus on the Clintons.", "Get rid of her. She's garbage. She's a cheat. She's a liar --", "End Erin, Donald Trump also said today in Florida that they have substantial evidence to prove that these accusers are lying and that that information would be released at the appropriate time. That wasn't done today but all of the people that we spoke with at the rally here today in Florida standing by Donald Trump unfazed by these latest accusations -- Erin.", "All right. Ed, thank you very much. OUTFRONT now, our panel Scottie Nell Hughes, a Donald Trump supporter. Lisa Bloom, the attorney for Jill Harth who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Donald Trump. Abby Phillip, a reporter for the Washington Post and Mark Preston, the executive editor for CNN Politics. I just want to start here with the breaking news. I don't know if you all had a chance because it literally is just crossing into my e-mail right now. Melania Trump has just come out with a statement, a demand for a retraction and an apology specifically related to the People Magazine reporter. She's the one who told the story of how she was interviewing Trump and Melania together. Melania left and then Donald Trump accosted her within seconds said they would have had an affair. Stuck his tongue down her throat. Later was in a massage room waiting for her when she came in there. That's part of the account. It ends with her saying that she bumped into Melania on Fifth Avenue. And this statement says that that is not true. It says, at the time in question, Mrs. Trump would not even have recognized Ms. Stoynoff, that's the People Magazine reporter if they had encountered one another on the street and saying, your publication of this false statement is actionable and gives rise to claims of damages. So they are taking issue, Mark Preston with three things. Saying the reporter never bumped into Melania Trump outside Trump Tower after the incident happened. That the little exchange was reported in the magazine between Melania and this reporter where she sort of gave the little baby baron a squeeze on the foot never happened. But what I find fascinating Mark Preston is it doesn't dispute any of the actual events that were sexual assault.", "Well because how can Melania Trump say that they occurred. They didn't occur when she wasn't there. I mean, look at, here is the problem right now for Donald Trump. This is the second time we've seen his wife have to put a statement out in less than a week defending her husband against charges of in this case sexual misconduct on Saturday afternoon on the basis that he was a good man and that he didn't mean anything by the comments that we heard on that \"Access Hollywood\" tape. When we see Donald Trump out there on the campaign having to open up all of his rallies trying to defend himself from multiple allegations, it just shows you that his whole campaign right now is in absolute tail spin. I don't know how he's going convince people that, A, he didn't do it, and that B, that he has the fortitude to be the president of the United States in this final 26 days. It's very, very difficult.", "And Scottie, what is your response to this? Because Melania Trump here is questioning one aspect of this story that she personally would have knowledge of. She doesn't question the sexual assault itself in this particular letter. And this is not a statement saying, I support my husband or I stand by my husband. It is not anything even remotely close to that.", "Well I think Mark is correct. She only addressed the issues that concerned her. Her previous statement this week did say that she believes all these allegations are false and that she's standing by her husband. And the words said were not the man that she had been able to do.", "Talking about the tapes.", "Once again --", "Talking about the tapes.", "Once again --", "Right. Nothing about any of these allegations, specific women that have come forward.", "Because she already addressed it. Listen, this is going to happen every day. You might as well go on file 26 more names probably that's going to happen. The Clinton campaign and the minions in the media are going to continue to pour out because they don't want to discuss once again the issues. We're talking about hearsay. There is no hard proof proving that any of these women allegations are true. This is complete mud-slinging and maybe if there was an ounce of truth to any of them, it looks a little bit bad when you're doing this 26 days before the allegations. You should have done this if you really were concerned about your safety and what it happened to you and about future victims not being assaulted, you should have done this with in time if it actually happening, not to --", "Now, to be clear, to be clear, I just want to say that many of these women, the one I know saw the tape of Trump saying the thing about the Tic Tacs and it was so jarring for her because it happened to her that is why she spoke. Some of the other women are coming forward because when Anderson Cooper asked Donald Trump if he ever did the things that he is talking about in the tape, he categorically said no. So, they came out, they say because he lied directly in the debate. Lisa Bloom, how many women are calling you? We talked about ten women in some capacity have come forward. Are you getting a lot of other calls?", "Yes I am. And by the way my client Jill Hart did come out around the time that it happened to her she says back in 1997 --", "Right.", "-- perhaps her claim at least could be taken seriously. Yes I am getting calls from a lot of women who are absolutely terrified. I spent hours and hours every day over the last week talking to women who are terrified because Donald Trump is out there threatening to sue people. And slamming them publicly. And they know what they are in for and frankly I have to advise them of the good and the bad. Yes it is terrifying to come out publicly when you are just an ordinary person in a situation like this. It could also be very empowering to walk through the fire and tell your truth. But it is not something that most people can do. Even with a big mouth lawyer like me by their side. This is something that is really very scary for a lot of people.", "So, Abby, how worried is Trump about this? Okay? He's slamming and saying, it is categorically untrue. These women are all saying he's liars. There is of course an irony in him saying, Bill Clinton's accusers should be heard but this women shouldn't be. Putting that aside, how worried is the campaign about this right now?", "Just the fact that he had a speech scheduled today for 12:00 in which the entirety of it was devoted to this issue, it is clear sign that they are -- worried may not be the right word but infuriated is one way.", "Infuriated. Yes.", "And consumed by it. I mean, this is consuming his campaign. And that in essence is actually the problem. I mean, Donald Trump needs to shut this down. He can't control other women come forward or not. But he has to shut it down. But he's not going to because it is personally going to him. He wants to fight back and that instinct is what is going to cause this to continue and continue.", "The cycle to continue.", "It is a cycle.", "Mark?", "You know, just very quickly, you know, to what Scottie said. I think it is important to say, we haven't seen Melania Trump out there defending her husband since all of these allegations, these physical allegations and altercations taken place. She did come up with a statement after the tape was put out saying that she was repudiated by what he said. But we haven't heard her based all of these allegations from multiple women. I think that's an important point.", "Can I ask a question to this Mark though -- what could she say? You look at other people and including Mr. Trump who has come out and every single thing he has said, from his words, from his tone, other people part of his organization and they are ripped to shreds. Never have I heard somebody give them a compliment or that is, you know, that is good that they were honest or even in his apology. So what could Melania say in her last time that she came out and spoke, she was completely ripped to shreds. What could she say that --", "This is plagiarism in a speech --", "This is not about Melania Trump. I mean, Melania Trump shouldn't be responsible for Donald Trump's actions any more than Hillary Clinton should be responsible for Bill Clinton's actions --", "Well, that's also called honesty and truth. And this is Pandora's Box because right now what we're saying is that women can come out and throw these things against anybody. Even against the people, within our own companies right now because there is no actual --", "Yes. But most of them have corroborating witnesses from ten, twenty years ago. So were they all plotting twenty years ago that they told a friend because they knew that in 2015, 2016 Donald Trump was going to run for president? This could be a very long term conspiracy.", "Nothing was ever documented. It is not documented. In fact as many people that these women --", "-- trial, a witness's testimony is evidence. What do you want? Videotapes? I mean, that is not how the real world works.", "There were witnesses. There were witnesses in these cases. Of course --", "But why --", "-- sexual assault as we all know is very complicated. I hit pause, all of you staying with me. Next, we're standing by for Donald Trump about to speak live in Cincinnati as Ivanka Trump is back on the trail today. Our Dana Bash tried to catch up with her.", "Ivanka, what was your reaction when you heard your father's tape?", "A damning video of Donald Trump talking about Mike Tyson and rape."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-101286", "program": "CNN LIVE SUNDAY", "date": "2006-1-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/01/sun.02.html", "summary": "Dog's Reunion After Hurricane Rita", "utt": ["More on this developing story of grassfire in Texas and in Oklahoma right now. Right now you're looking at new pictures coming in out of Lubbock, Texas, where we're witnessing a farm there that has been engulfed in these grassfires that are spontaneously dotting the map. Many officials say right now it's inexplicable. They don't know the cause of these grassfires but they're certainly causing a lot problems and they're kicking up and being fueled by the weather conditions. It's so dry there and in Lubbock, there are high wind warnings in effect. And that's only helping to blow some of the flames and the sparks, helping to spread the fire. Now, in our final best of story today, separation and reunion. The hurricanes that hit the Gulf Coast in 2005 left families of all kinds dealing with painful separations. It also gave some of our colleague a chance to bring loved ones together. You first saw Miles O'Brien tell the story on CNN's \"AMERICAN MORNING.\" I think there is a dog in here. We're going to go in.", "It was the morning after Hurricane Rita. We had just weathered the storm at the police station when shortly after dawn we heard a whimper amid the wreckage of a storage shed. (on camera): There we go. There he is. Oh. Don't let him go. Don't let him go. He's OK. He's just scared and wet. (voice over): It was a spontaneous moment which later provided some grist for Jon Stewart. (on camera): And we'll make sure that the dog gets back to its rightful owner.", "This story has a happy ending. Miles O'Brien was adopted by a nice family in Baton Rouge.", "The truth is, for producer Dana Garrett, it was love at first sight.", "When she came out of that crate she was so forlorn looking. And she just crawled into my lap. And honestly, if she had had arms to hug me, she would have. She just crawled up and pressed against me and was just so sweet. And I really just fell in love with her immediately.", "No tags, no phone number on the crate. And police said if the owner did not materialize soon the dog would be put to sleep.", "Especially having rescued her, I just thought, you know, I can't let that happen.", "A week passed. No one came forward. Dana and the dog left town together to Dana's home in New York. She named her Sunny. She made fast friends, canine and human alike. It was a happy ending. Or so it seemed.", "Hey, is my mom there?", "Enter Misty McCourtney, the dog's rightful owner. The 17-year-old adopted the puppy when she was only 4 weeks old, named her Nevaeh. That's heaven spelled backwards.", "We end up taking her home the first night we got her. She couldn't eat on her own, so we bottle-fed her.", "Misty had been frantically trying to track the dog down. She finally got the story from police. And six weeks after we rescued the dog, Dana got the call she feared.", "I knew at that point that I was so attached that I wasn't going to be able to just put her in a crate and put her on a plane and ship her back home.", "So Dana drove her back 1,300 miles to Misty's new home with her dad in Nebraska. Here she is.", "Nevaeh, hi there, baby. Oh my god. Oh, you're getting me all dirty, but I don't care.", "She saw Misty and she was happy. But then it kicked in, and you could see when she really realized who it was. And she got so excited and just started whimpering and scampering around. And it just made me feel so good that she recognized her and was really happy to see her.", "I just feel really, really excited that she's here. And I want to thank you so much for bringing her back. I'm really happy you brought her back.", "A bittersweet end to the tale of the pup-struck producer, the grateful owner and a well-loved pooch. Miles O'Brien, CNN, New York.", "And be sure to join Miles and Soledad O'Brien weekday mornings at 6:00 a.m. Eastern for CNN's \"AMERICAN MORNING.\" Now, new pictures coming in out of Guthrie, Oklahoma where there too, there are these grassfires taking place. And earlier when some grassfires struck in the Guthrie area it had shut down parts of the Kilpatrick Turnpike and the traffic headed north and southbound on I- 35 were also affected. And apparently, according to the Associated Press, at least two houses have been destroyed. Right now, we're not sure if the pictures that we're seeing would document that yet other homes or buildings or structures are being destroyed, as well. But you are seeing something fully engulfed. Monica McNeal is in the weather center. And Monica, we are seeing a lot of widespread destruction and serious threats taking place from Texas to Oklahoma all as a result of these very dry windy conditions.", "Right, you know what, also, is playing a big part is the lack of sufficient rainfall over recent weeks. And the low deficit of rainfall over the past couple of months. When you couple that with a very dry and dormant vegetation, these fires can spark from everything. After the ground has been so very dry from no rainfall over an extended period of time, anything can help spark a fire, fireworks, a car starting, engines, any of those things really do contribute to this problem.", "That's a terrible situation. And you know, while we talk about these fires, still officials say they're not really clear if it's a common denominator sparking all these fires or if there are different factors coming into play. It really is putting a big stress on these firefighter teams and mechanisms because we're talking about areas that are so widespread and in some cases very remote.", "Right. Exactly. And you know what? Something else I want to point out with the very dry ground, the extreme drought, that's a big problem. You've got the strong winds. Those southwest winds are really hammering and really hampering their efforts. And then when you factor in the dry air, you have humidity between 10 and 15 percent and something else very important, the dew point. You may hear us talk about the dew point a lot. The dew point right now is 21 percent. That means that there is absolutely no moisture in the air, Fredricka", "And Monica, this is really odd. We're talking about this time of year, this is the kind of scene we expect to see in the summer but not at the start of the year.", "Exactly. Exactly. And also what's factoring in as well, these temperatures. We've got unseasonably warm temperatures for this time of the year. We're talking about temperatures right now in Oklahoma City, it's 72 degrees at the beginning of January. You know, so we're in winter with these extensive warm temperatures.", "All right. Monica McNeal, thank you so much. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. We're going to continue our commitment to look into these fires in Oklahoma as well as Texas and of course, the other situation, the polar opposite of too much water, too much rain out in California. We're going to continue to look at that. 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{"id": "CNN-160701", "program": "ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL", "date": "2011-1-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/12/ijvm.01.html", "summary": "Victim Interrogated by Alleged Rapist", "utt": ["Tonight, the ultimate slap in the face in the war on women. A man accused of impersonating a cop and raping a woman is allowed to cross-examine her while she`s on the witness stand. Should rape victims be forced to endure more torture during the trial from the men they say violated them? We`ll talk to an outraged rape victim and take your calls. And a vicious mugger robs an 81-year-old woman. The female attacker trails the senior citizen, then throws her to the ground, making off with her purse and plenty of cash. Tonight, we`ll try to help track this monster down. Then fast-breaking developments in the murder of that stunning Las Vegas showgirl. A coroner rules Debbie Flores-Narvaez was strangled to death. That, as her ex-boyfriend is dragged in front of a judge. I`ll talk to the dancer`s devoted sister about her face-off in court with the accused killer. Plus is drug addiction at the heart of the Tucson shooting horror? One of Loughner`s friends says the suspect used hallucinogenics. And the Army says he admitted to being a pothead. And new details about Jared Loughner`s father, allegedly seeing him take a black bag out of a car trunk the morning of the rampage and then running off. Now cops are frantically searching for that mystery bag. ISSUES starts now.", "In the interview with Detective Levi (ph) Davis, you never mention the word \"rape.\"", "It is sex. Rape is sex.", "So you`re saying that rape is sex?", "Unwanted sex is rape.", "So your testimony here today now is that you were raped?", "I was raped by you. You forced sex upon me.", "How sick is that? Tonight, a Florida courtroom becomes a vicious battleground in the war on women. An alleged rapist acts as his own attorney, and interrogates his terrified victim, violating her over and over again as she sits on the witness stand. It was every woman`s worst nightmare, ripped straight out of a horror movie. This man, 31-year-old Luis Harris, allegedly pretended to be a cop, parking his car in the middle of a busy street and using a fake laser device to flag down a female driver. She pulls over, thinking this monster`s a real cop. Police say he then handcuffed her, telling her she was under arrest on suspicion of DUI. This frightened woman soon realized she was entering a living nightmare, that she might not make it out alive. Now, this Harris fellow was caught on surveillance video. And you`re looking at that image right now, using the victim`s ATM card. She claims right after he withdrew money from her account, he brutally raped her in the back seat of his car.", "I was pushed up against the window, and you were having sex with me from behind me.", "With your handcuffs behind your back?", "Yes.", "Was that painful?", "I don`t remember the pain.", "Were your hands in the way?", "I don`t know.", "This is getting me so darn angry. Two days later, he was caught after a dramatic police chase that ended on the roof of a building. Now this suspect, already accused of impersonating a cop, is impersonating a lawyer in the courtroom. Harris fired his court-appointed attorney and is representing himself. Is he trying to set up a mistrial? Well, he`s certainly putting his alleged victim through hell all over again, grilling her on the stand. She remains strong, looking him in the face and saying, \"I was raped by you.\" Are you outraged, too? Call me: 1-877-JVM-SAYS. Straight out to my fantastic expert panel. First to Katie Calloway Hall, who was kidnapped and raped by Phillip Garrido. And she is my hero for speaking out on this issue consistently. Katie, you`re a survivor of sexual assault. What`s your reaction to this accused rapist grilling his alleged victim on the stand?", "I don`t -- I think that would be the most difficult thing to do, Jane. I just can`t imagine. I just hope she has a tremendous support system. You know, I just can`t imagine -- that`s a law that needs to be changed. That`s -- that`s just crazy.", "Emotionally does it make you angry?", "It makes me furious. Especially listening to the -- it`s like a joke, listening to that -- that interchange between them. It`s ridiculous. If I had to face Garrido on the stand, I mean, I barely could look at him in the courtroom. I only looked at him to identify him. And then I looked at the -- the attorneys and just talked to them directly. I don`t know if I could have done it.", "Is it terrifying to be on the stand and to confront the person who -- I have to say allegedly, because this guy is obviously still in trial -- but the person who was convicted of assaulting you, who did assault you, is it scary to face them?", "It`s absolutely terrifying. And all I could do was, like I said, I looked at him only to identify him, and then I just concentrated on talking to the attorneys, in dealing with their questions. But I just can`t imagine, you know, you`re already afraid of the perpetrator who`s in the courtroom with you, you know. But being forced to talk to him, and in such a -- such a way that`s almost -- it`s almost ridiculing the victim.", "Absolutely. Here`s -- yes, here`s my big issue tonight. The ultimate power trip. They say rape isn`t really about sex; it`s about sadistic desire...", "Yes.", "... to exert power and control over another human being.", "Exactly.", "Listen to this sick courtroom exchange.", "Do you remember testifying earlier that you pulled over because you thought you may have hit something?", "I testified that you were flagging me down. I thought maybe I may have hit you, or I may have hit something on your car.", "Can you describe ME, my height, my size, my build? Just by looking at me.", "Tan, Hispanic male, short hair cut. You`re taller than me. Maybe 6 foot.", "Must have grown a foot or so.", "Don`t make any sidebar comments.", "Gloria Allred, you crusade for women`s rights. Isn`t this institutionalized sexism?", "Actually, I don`t think so, Jane. And I think the answer to situations like this is that persons who are alleged to be the victims of rape, sexual assault, need to have their own support system, and that includes having their own private attorney. And when they have their own private attorney, that attorney can help to prepare them so that, if, as and when they are sitting on the witness stand and being cross-examined by the person accused of raping them, they will be prepared. They will be able to deal with it. And many more victims are doing that. I`m currently doing that in some cases. And it is a big help to the victims, to have their own private attorney to prepare them for that moment.", "You know, I understand that you`re saying that everybody in America has a constitutional right to defend themselves. And we certainly don`t want to change the Constitution over this one issue. But my gosh, isn`t there a way to balance constitutional issues with a woman`s right to maintain her dignity after she`s already been violated and humiliated, to stop her from being humiliated again? I mean, I viscerally feel outraged over this. And the intellectual constitutional issues are -- I would think there`s got to be a way, Stacey Honowitz, Florida prosecutor, to come up with a way to preserve the Constitution and still prevent a woman from being humiliated in this fashion.", "Well, Jane, I mean, everything you`re saying is 100 percent right. And I think most people feel the same way you do. But unfortunately, in the courtroom, he has a right to either have a lawyer, or to defend himself. Now, does it make a difference, because this is his victim? Well, might -- many people might say, well, he`d be sitting there anyway next to his lawyer, telling his lawyer everything. And she`d have to look at him anyway. It`s humiliating to have to go into the courtroom to begin with to discuss rape. So yes, on top of it, the idea that your attacker is the one that`s then attacking you again in court, is despicable. But unfortunately it`s legal. And one of the protections, the protections are like Gloria said, either having a private lawyer, or having that relationship with the prosecutor that the prosecutor knows when to tell him he`s argumentative, he can`t ask that question, or to object to certain questions. But the idea of him questioning the witness, it`s legal, and it goes on.", "I`m sorry. I`ve got an issue of a call to action tonight. There has to be a better way to prevent this kind of psychological rape, is what I would call it, in the courtroom. You know, a similar scenario occurred to a woman in Seattle. She was being grilled, or was going to be grilled by her -- the person she says raped her. She was so upset she ran out of the courtroom and tried to commit suicide. She came this close to jumping a bridge. Dr. Katherine Smerling, you`re not a lawyer, but you`re a psychologist. Can`t we come up with, well, maybe she could be on videotape in another room. Maybe he could submit his questions in writing. But they -- you know, this guy actually asked the woman who did the rape exam on this woman, oh, well, couldn`t those injuries have been consistent with rough consensual sex?", "Jane, I agree with you totally. It may be one thing what the lawyers agree, but you`re not taking into account the mental state of the person who has been raped. There`s a certain amount of resilience that we all have. Some more, and some less. Those that have less resilience will have a tremendous amount of post- traumatic stress disorder, which may lead to suicide. And you don`t know, with PTSD, whether it`s going to be in five years, in two years, in ten years. This is outrageous. Outrageous. I would never counsel anyone to be subject to something like this.", "But that`s not -- I hate to say, you can`t counsel someone to say, \"Don`t testify in the courtroom.\" Jane, you`re right, there are safeguards put in. When children testify, lots of times you can have a psychologist or a psychiatrist sign off on some kind of affidavit saying what kind of emotional trauma it would be to bring the child into the courtroom and have to sit there.", "What about lawyers?", "Thank you. Hold on.", "You could be -- that`s what I`m saying. You could try to introduce that safeguard. That, if you know the attacker is going to play lawyer, that she is in a different room or that she is videotaped, or maybe some questions are submitted. But legally speaking, he has a right to cross-examine her.", "It`s not a black-and-white issue, though. Hold on a second. Hang tight. Expert panel, hold on. We`re going to come back to you in a minute. What do you think at home about this alleged rapist cross-examination? Call me: 1-877-JVM-SAYS, 586-7297. All right. Plus, an 81-year-old woman tackled to the ground and mugged by a female thug. We`re trying to find that suspect. Plus, the alleged murderer of a Las Vegas showgirl hauled in front of the judge for the very first time. I`m going to talk to the victim`s devastated sister who had an emotional day confronting this guy in court.", "Bailiff, bailiff. Get her out of here."], "speaker": ["JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HOST (voice-over)", "LUIS HARRIS, ACCUSED OF RAPE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "KATIE CALLOWAY HALL, RAPE SURVIVOR", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "HALL", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "HALL", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "HALL", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "HALL", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "HARRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "GLORIA ALLRED, VICTIM`S RIGHTS ATTORNEY", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "STACEY HONOWITZ, FLORIDA PROSECUTOR", "VELEZ-MITCHELL", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-327604", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2017-12-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1712/04/es.04.html", "summary": "Trump Slams DOJ and FBI In Tweetstorm; House And Senate To Begin Tax Bill Reconciliation; Billy Bush To Trump: Yes, You Said That.", "utt": ["President Trump aims his wrath at the FBI after Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying in the Russia probe. Now, obstruction charges could hinge on a tweet that raises questions about why the president fired James Comey.", "You tweet and comment regarding ongoing criminal investigations at your own peril. I'd be careful if I were you, Mr. President.", "And a bruising battle over taxes move on to the next phase. The House and the Senate will start to reconcile their two bills. We'll tell you where the GOP has some big gaps to close.", "And it looks like Billy Bush is ready to come out of the shadows. In a scathing op-ed, he makes clear the president said exactly what you hear on that \"ACCESS HOLLYWOOD\" tape. What will Bush say on the \"THE LATE SHOW\" tonight? Welcome back to EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans.", "We've long wondered when his voice would return to this conversation. I'm Dave Briggs. It is 31 minutes past the hour. We start, though, with the president returning to an old playbook following the news of criminal charges in the Russia probe. He's lashing out at the Intelligence Community. This comes after former National Security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his discussions with the Russian ambassador during the transition.", "In a series of tweets over the weekend, the president attacks the FBI and its former director James Comey. In one, he writes, \"I never asked Comey to stop investigating Flynn. Just more fake news covering Comey lie.\" That puts the president directly at odds with what Comey told Congress in June.", "I understood him to be saying that what he wanted me to do was drop any investigation connected to Flynn's account of his conversations with the Russians.", "President Trump's most notable tweet on Flynn turning state's evidence came Saturday. Quote, \"I had to fire Gen. Flynn because he lied to the vice president and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies.\" Critics quickly pounced, saying if he fired Comey knowing the FBI was investigating Flynn that, on its own, may constitute obstruction of justice.", "Mr. Trump's personal lawyer, John Dowd, now claims he drafted the president's tweet. But top Democrats in Congress say obstruction is very much a part of the wider investigation.", "The Judiciary Committee has an investigation going, as well, and it involves obstruction of justice. And I think what we're beginning to see is the putting together of a case of obstruction of justice.", "So, President Trump now looking to shift the focus, seizing on the news that a member of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team was removed and demoted over anti-Trump sentiments he had expressed in text messages. That agent was also in charge of the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation, most importantly.", "Yes, let's talk about this a little bit. Joining us this morning for the first time, Laura Barron-Lopez. She's a congressional reporter for the \"Washington Examiner.\" Good morning and welcome. Just a flurry of criticism over the weekend from the president to the FBI and the intelligence agencies, something that he is familiar --", "Sure.", "-- a move in his playbook. But, boy, the tweet that may or may not be from his lawyer, John Dowd, really, really raising a lot of questions this morning.", "That's right, it is. And so, you know, we still have a lot to figure out -- whether or not what the lawyer says is accurate, whether or not what Trump says is accurate. And so, it's definitely something that is adding to this pattern of did Trump obstruct justice when he fired Comey. And that's something that as Sen. Dianne Feinstein said, her side of the investigation on the Senate Judiciary Committee is looking into. That being said, that doesn't mean that Sen. Grassley, the chairman -- the Republican chairman of that committee is necessarily taking the same route. And so it remains to be seen whether or not Republicans in Congress are going to change course, given the tweets that they saw this weekend from Trump, and whether or not they are going to take a harder line looking at if the president impeded this investigation.", "Now, the FBI pushed back sternly on Twitter -- where else? This is the format of today. The FBI tweeting, \"Every day, FBI special agents put their lives on the line to protect the American people from national security and criminal threats. Agents perform these duties with unwavering integrity and professionalism, and a focus on complying with the law and the constitution.\" It goes on, as you can see -- as you can screen. Rather extraordinary to see the FBI have to defend itself on social media. But, Laura, the problem with the FBI is right now we've learned, as we just mentioned, that Bob Mueller had to fire someone from the special counsel investigation for anti-Trump sentiments. That agent was also in charge of the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation. Does that cast some legit doubt on why Hillary Clinton's e-mails weren't further investigated?", "Well look, I mean, Hillary Clinton's e-mails were investigated thoroughly, not only by the FBI but also by multiple congressional committees. And again, those multiple congressional committees came up with pretty much nothing when it came to that. And so, again, this is an attempt by Trump to deflect and distract, and that's something that Mueller is not going to allow when it comes to his investigation, and so he's stamped that out and is moving forward with it. You know, that being said, legality aside with also what Trump -- what Trump tweeted this weekend about whether or not -- kind of admitting to obstruction of justice. The president's tweets are completely abnormal. They're not -- they're not something that we are used to seeing. This isn't something that is normal at all and so it does send a signal the fact that he possibly obstructed justice and the war that he's engaging with the FBI. It sends a signal to countries abroad that the U.S. government, particularly the White House, is in a pretty volatile state.", "Laura, you cover Congress. Let me ask you quickly how bruising you think the battle's going to be for tax reform. You know, we're getting this -- the president wants a -- wants a bill by -- what, by Christmas.", "Christmas.", "How -- there's a lot of differences between the House and the Senate. What are you expecting?", "Look, I'm expecting that that bill is actually going to make it all the way to the president's desk even though it is a very unpopular bill. It's one that Republicans pushed through without any Democratic input. But it's something that is -- I would be surprised if it doesn't reach the president's desk despite all the other --", "You see -- you think it's unpopular because it's just so heavily weighted toward corporate tax relief, right?", "Yes, that's one of the reasons. I mean, there's also -- you know, it doesn't help states like California and New York, and it definitely makes it more difficult in the SALT deductions. It takes away some of that. And so, that's one of the reasons that it's highly unpopular.", "All right. Laura Barron-Lopez, nice to see you. Thank you for joining us this morning.", "Thanks for having me.", "Have a great morning. Let's talk a little bit about that. Both the House and the Senate bill promise big corporate tax cuts. There's no guarantee it will add jobs or raise wages, and it adds to the deficit. There are some big differences here. So what does all this mean for your tax return? First of all, personal tax cuts in the House version are permanent. In the Senate bill, those personal individual tax cuts expire by the year 2025. Also different, individual tax rates. The House has four tax brackets, the Senate keeps seven. It lowers most rates, including for the top earners. The Senate version also keeps some popular tax breaks that the House eliminates, like deductions for mortgages, medical expenses, and student loans. And while both increase the child tax credit, the Senate bill is more generous. One thing both versions agree on, permanent corporate tax cuts. The GOP argues that will mean higher wages for you. There is no guarantee. In fact, the current tax plan will likely raise taxes for all low- income and most middle-class Americans by the year 2027, while giving the biggest tax cuts to the top earners and eliminating the estate tax that mostly affects very, very uber-wealthy Americans.", "Yes, that wage increase will be interesting to watch because we saw in the U.K. very little, if almost no wage increase when they cut the corporate rate. We'll see. All right. It looks like Billy Bush is back, done lying low in the wake of that notorious \"ACCESS HOLLYWOOD\" tape which got him fired from NBC. The former co-host starting with a message to President Trump in the form of an op-ed in \"The New York Times\" headlined \"Yes, Donald Trump, You Said That.\" Bush says he was prompted to speak out by news reports suggesting that the president is questioning the authenticity of the tape. Bush says the reports of Trump casting doubt on the tape hit a raw nerve.", "Bush writes, \"Every single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass standup act. He was performing. Surely, we thought, none of this is real. We now know better. I can only imagine how it has reopened the wounds of the women who came forward with their stories about him and did not receive enough attention. This country is currently trying to reconcile itself to years of power abuse and sexual misconduct. Its leader is wantonly poking the bear.\" Bush is set to appear on \"THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT\" tonight.", "It's a conversation that ought to be brought back into this current environment in which it is a kind of a day of reckoning.", "That op-ed on \"The New York Times\" a good read.", "Very interesting stuff. Check it out right now. All right. The long-time head of one of the world's most famous opera companies accused of sexual misconduct. How the New York Metropolitan Opera -- the Met -- is responding to James Levine, next."], "speaker": ["CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA", "DAVE BRIGGS, CNN ANCHOR", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "JAMES COMEY, FORMER DIRECTOR, FBI", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-292827", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-08-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/31/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Donald Trump Meeting With Mexican President; Trump's Immigration Speech in Arizona Tonight.", "utt": ["Happening now in the Newsroom, the stakes could not be higher.", "Build that wall!", "Today, Donald Trump sets the record straight on his signature issue.", "When Mexico sends its people they're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. 11 million people in this country that came in illegally, they will go out.", "But first, the surprise trip South of the Border and a face-to-face meeting with Mexico's president.", "I will build a great, great wall on our southern border and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "AUDIENCE", "COSTELLO", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "COSTELLO", "TRUMP"]}
{"id": "CNN-166677", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-5-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/26/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Suspected Serbian Military Commander Arrested; Dominique Strauss-Kahn's New Digs", "utt": ["Breaking News right now out of Serbia. Police in Serbia arresting a man suspected of being former Serbian Military Commander Ratko Mladic. He is the highest ranking war crimes suspect still at large from the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. Apparently, this man has been arrested in Srebrenica, which is in Bosnia because he was the - the chief of staff of the Bosnian Serb army, thought to be responsible for really what was a genocide. They killed 7,000 men and boys, Muslim Croatian men and boys.", "And bringing this man to justice -- to face justice has taken years and years, in part because there has been suspicion that inside of Serbia, there has been those within the military perhaps --", "Hiding him.", "-- who were hiding him.", "Because they had a $10 million bounty on his head, and international manhunt. And still he's found right there, at the site where prosecutors claim it all happened. All right. Well, we'll continue to follow the latest on this as we get new details, a new information on exactly how this capture took place.", "Ratko Mladic -- someone they think is Ratko Mladic arrested in Serbia. We'll have more for you. Also, the old IMF boss waking up this morning in spectacular new digs. Dominique Strauss-Kahn spending the night in style perhaps, settling into a sprawling three-story townhouse while he waits for his sexual assault trial to begin.", "Yes. And here it is. We have a live look this morning at Strauss-Kahn's 6,800-square-foot luxury townhouse in the Tribeca section of Manhattan. If you're looking at it and you're not from New York, you're thinking, what, that's luxury?", "That looks like a garage.", "That's just unheard.", "It looks like a garage. Right. The amount it costs even to rent this room, complete with a spa and home gym.", "Deb Feyerick is with us this morning. Deb, if you're going to be under house arrest, I guess this is the house you'd like to be in.", "You know, the very rich simply live differently than the rest of us. Let me tell you about this. Yesterday., I got a text around 7:30. It said DSK on the move. Dominique Strauss-Kahn receiving the type of police security, take a look there, not unlike that given to presidential candidates. Ironic, given that he was France's leading contender up until weeks ago. Now, a black Lexus SUV took him about 30 blocks north, that's a mile and a half, to Tribeca and a 6,800-square-foot townhouse, a $50,000 a month rental. That's a rental, $50,000. That is on top of the $200,000 that he's paying for his own court ordered security, a condition of his home detention. So, he's paying a quarter million dollars altogether every month. Now, although it is near some of the best restaurants in the city including De Niro's hot spot Nobu, Strauss-Kahn's movement are largely confined to court, religious services and meetings with his lawyers. The townhouse, you can only see the outside there, three-story, got its own garage, boasts a state of the art in-home theater, with six leather recliners, a gym, spa, roof deck with a grill and wet bar in the master bedroom. So, really, who needs to leave home anyway? But in all fairness, Strauss-Kahn was turned down by one building, they didn't want him, and then was kicked out of another. A \"New York Post\" columnist calling him the Parisian pariah. The former IMF chief is out on $6 million bail. The courthouse is in easy walking distance, though he'll likely drive. It's scheduled to be there next on June 6. It appears the district attorney has added some senior prosecutors to its team. And the alleged victim has added some heavy-hitters to consider a civil suit.", "One question people were asking, do taxpayers foot anything, foot the bill in any way, shape or form? I mean, even with security?", "They do not. All the security -- that was one of the conditions of home detention. His wife is very wealthy. Her family is sort of an art family, sold Picassos, a lot of these famous paintings, before these painters were famous. So, no. She's got the money. But it's not costing taxpayers.", "Is there some --", "And because they're heavy hitters, it would cost more than it normally would have.", "But is there something other than just liking to live in luxury that's important about this place that he's chosen? Because you can't -- I mean, the rental markets actually, you know, there are places available in Manhattan that don't cost this kind of money.", "Yes, exactly. This is what they could get. Really, this is what they could get.", "Because people knew they had --", "It had to be a sort of self-contained. OK. That means it was a townhouse. It had to not have a back exit. It had to be in a controlled environment. And his security people signed off on this. And the judge OK'd it. So, he didn't just sort of move willy-nilly.", "Right.", "The judge had to sign off, saying OK, does this meet every single criteria in terms of making sure he does not get out.", "And the other question, too, as you said, he has a roof deck. I mean, technically that's outside. Is that -- I mean, can they stipulate what's off limits, alcohol. I mean, you said there's a wet bar in the bedroom. Can they make those parameters?", "Technically not. Again, he says that he will be exonerated, he's going to plead not guilty to these charges. And he's got the money. So, technically, no --", "Right. And he can live wherever he wants.", "He can live wherever he wants. He just can't move at ease anymore.", "All right. Deb Feyerick -- thanks, Deb. New testimony painting a disturbing picture of the Florida mom accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter back in 2008. Casey Anthony's former boyfriend testified yesterday that Casey seemed happy and having a grand old time the day prosecutors allege she killed her daughter Caylee. A neighbor also testified Casey asked to borrow a shovel. Meanwhile, there was a heated exchange between the Anthony's attorney and reporters. Here's a look.", "Can we ask if you plan to invite Casey to the stand there?", "Come on, guys.", "Wow.", "Get out of the way. Get out of the way.", "You guys know we're here.", "Get out of the way.", "With an outburst like that, that's kind of unacceptable, Jose, don't you think?", "Don't push us out in the street.", "Get your hand off of me.", "Jose, so you're pushing people around now. Is that what you're doing?", "Out of my way.", "You're committing an assault.", "No, I'm not. Your thug here has --", "Anthony is back in court today.", "He referred to the security guy as a thug. I guess the camera -- it appeared that the cameraman accidentally tripped him, which sort of set off the defense attorney. But this is the type of publicity --", "This is a case that is truly remarkable. By the way, we've got full coverage on HLN and --", "People are obsessed with this case right now. I mean, there have been three years of sort of conflicting stories, now a bombshell defense.", "Right, because we hadn't heard this type of --", "And now, if you weren't sucked into that case by now, a tragic end, twisted case. Now a lot of people are.", "Well, the search for the missing goes on in Joplin, Missouri, the missing an unaccounted for. There's an estimate right now from officials there that there are 150 people still unaccounted for following last Sunday's deadly tornado. Missouri's governor has dispatched additional state troopers to Joplin to help speed up the process of trying to identify remains and also assisting those still looking for missing loved ones. That storm killed 125 people in Joplin.", "All right. Check out this video showing the force of the Joplin tornado. Here's a family's backyard trampoline. Some toys can be seen. It could be a backyard anywhere. Now, look at it being ripped apart by the tornado. Trampoline picked up and shoved against the house. Just look at the wind hurling objects at the camera. Really get a sense of how cars and people were just sucked up and thrown hundreds of yards. According to the time codes on this video, the wind started picking up at around 5:39p.m. The landscape forever changed. Five minutes later at 5:44. Pretty amazing.", "Wow. Let's get a quick check of the morning's weather headlines. For that, we have Rob Marciano in the extreme weather center. And you look at every piece of debris flying around there, Rob, always says that is so dangerous, the smallest little piece of debris. This is how people get injured and killed by these ferocious storms.", "And, you know, when we talk about these storms and we talk about one town getting completely demolished or one house getting wiped down, then another one being left unscathed, it really -- a lot of it has to do with luck. I mean, case in point, last night, we had 81 reports of tornadoes. I mean, that was an outbreak that we had last night. A lot of these tornadoes were pretty big as well, and at very, very populated areas. As of right now, zero fatalities from last night's storms. So, that right there is something to be thankful for. And it gives you an idea just, you know, how hit and miss this kind of activity can be. All right. We're going to start to ratchet back now as to the severity of the storms that we're forecasting for today, and especially as we get over the weekend. Here's the storm. It's winding itself out just a little bit. Right now, there are no watches out and no warnings out. OK? That's another thing to be thankful for. I don't know if this is going to last all day. I think we've got a pretty good chance of seeing some severe weather, some storms across parts of the Tennessee Valley heading to Huntsville, and to north Georgia. These aren't severe yet. And as this moves through and the sun heats up the ground again and the actual cold front starts to push off to the east, that's when we'll see the threat for severe weather start to get a little more intense later on today. So, here you go, we're starting to elongate this system, and push it off towards the east. As it makes its way over the Appalachians, that's when it really lose a little bit of its punch. But today is going to be another day. We've got a slight risk of seeing severe thunderstorms. I have to ask for the Storms Prediction Center. We do have some delays to talk about. If you are traveling right now, 30-minute delays or 40-minute delays I believe in Chicago. It could get up to an hour there. Rain in Detroit and Cleveland, 30 to 60- minute delays there. Thunderstorms later on this afternoon in Atlanta, you can expect delays there 30 to 60-minute delays, with thunderstorms of the non-severe variety expected across parts of Dallas. Here you go. Here's our storm making its way slowly off towards the east. Very warm and humid ahead of it, that's going to be the main driver I think because the winds aren't quite set up as well for tornado. And then we're looking at another system rolling into the Pacific Northwest. The whole thing that started this event was a very cold, strong upper low system that unusually this time of year, that moved into the West Coast late last week and now traversing across the rest of the country. Sixty-one for the high in St. Louis today. It will be 81 degrees in Atlanta and 79 degrees in New York; 90 for the high temperature in D.C. Any thunderstorms that get there later on tonight and tomorrow. Well, that may feel good and hopefully won't be quite that severe. Guys, toss it back to you.", "All right. Rob, thanks so much. We're covering two pieces of international breaking news. A man thought to be Ratko Mladic, the chief of staff -- the former chief of staff of the Bosnian army when the Srebrenica massacre took place in 1995. A man thought to be Ratko Mladic is now under arrest in Serbia. Also, some violence in Yemen breaking out. Separate incidents. We're going to go to Zain Verjee after this break to find out what's going on in the rest of the world. Stay with us. 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{"id": "CNN-388976", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-12-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/28/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Democratic Representative: Need To Wait For Assurances Trial Won't Be A Sham; Source: President Trump Seeking Input On Impeachment Defense Team; Donald Trump's Frustration Grows Over Delay Of Senate Trial", "utt": ["Hey there, thank you for joining me. I'm Martin Savidge in for Fredricka Whitfield. President Trump is on his holiday vacation in Florida where he continues to vent his anger over his stalled impeachment trial. He has been lashing out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the whistleblower in a series of Twitter attacks President is clearly frustrated by the uncertainty surrounding his Senate trial. Speaker Pelosi continues to hold it off on sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate. As Democrats push for witnesses to testify and Majority Leader McConnell signals that he is really in no hurry to get the trial under way. As the President fumes over his stalled impeachment, sources tell CNN he is also asking for advice on who should be on his defense team and what the strategy ought to be. CNN's Sarah Westwood in South Florida for us and Sarah what more are you learning about the President's state of mind on his vacation?", "Martin, President Trump is increasing attitude about this extended the state of limbo surrounding his Senate trial. He is settling into something of a routine firing of almost daily messages against Speaker Pelosi as he spends his time with a rotating cast of aides here at Mar-a-Lago. And sources tell CNN that President Trump has been quizzing his advisors and his friends at his resort about what the White House strategy for the Senate trial should be? There are a lot of unanswered questions about that include who will present the closing and opening arguments and just who will be a member of that team? The only certainty at this point is that the White House Counsel Pat Cipollone is expected to present the bulk of the President's defense to the Senate, he is expected to be assisted by some of his deputies, perhaps there will be roles more limited ones for other members of the President's outside legal team. The President is also considering creating roles on that team for some of his fiercest defenders in the House. Conservatives like Congressman Jim Jordon, Congressman Mark Meadows they are expected also to play potentially a role but the President and is his team can't really make decisions about exactly what their strategy will be for the Senate trial as long as the situation remains so fluid. And now a lot of final decisions have not been made Martin and that's because Speaker Pelosi is holding on to those articles of impeachment she is refusing to transmit them to the Senate until she has a better sense that in her eyes she is going to have a fair trial. Take a listen to what a top House Democrat from CNN yesterday about just how long the standoff could last?", "I think we have to wait until we have some assurance that the trial is not going to be some sort of a sham or a joke.", "I mean I'm talking extremes here, like into February?", "Well, I mean that is certainly possible, but I'm not going to get ahead of the Speaker.", "Now Speaker Pelosi is showing no signs of budging off of her position. Democrats are mounting pressure on Republicans - some of their demands like more live witnesses, like more document collection, but even as President Trump grows more impatient for the start of his Senate trial he is eager for his symbolic day in court. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell seems to be remaining ambivalent about the start of the trial so Trump really caught in the standoff between Congressional Republican and Democrats right now Martin.", "All right, Sarah Westwood down there in Florida for us. Thank you very much. With me now is the Lynn Sweet Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times and Michael Zeldin is a Former Federal Prosecutor and CNN Legal Analyst. Welcome to you both.", "Thank you.", "Hi, Martin.", "Michael I'm going to start with you and the possibility of Speaker Pelosi with holding sending the articles of impeachment until as late as February and I'm wondering is that really a sound legal maneuver?", "Well, what is a sound league maneuver is to understand what the rules and procedure will be in any court that you walk into, and this is a court, and also what is the procedural set up? Will you have witnesses? Will there be live witnesses and will there recorded depositions? I think Pelosi is well within her rights and sound legal strategy to demand from the Senate what is that were walking into because if it is going to a sham trial, then maybe she just holds these things indefensibly. If it's going to be a real trial then I think she wants to get on with it as soon as possible.", "Okay. So there is the legal strategy. But Lynn, what is the possible political fallout for Democrats if you have an impeachment trial that drags into February or later?", "Well, for early February it is the first vote in the 2020 presidential contest with the Iowa Caucus and then followed by New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. So you have this becoming a distraction at the least as the Democrat slugging it out in these important early state primaries. Or I could argue at the other way that without the distraction of a trial the candidates they don't have to react everyday to something that might have happen on the Senate floor. So maybe doing them a favor because it would also free the candidates who are running including several in the United States Senate it will let them stay on the road and beyond and about campaigning.", "Very short term gain for those candidates because at least it gives them a shot at doing their best in those primary states. Other than that I don't think a few weeks delay has a significant political impact either for the re-election of some Senators or in further Presidential politics.", "Michael, sources are telling us that the President's seeking input on who should be on his legal team? And what the strategy ought to be? What do you make of the fact that the President has not yet settled on a legal team and a strategy?", "Well, he hasn't also know what the rules of the procedures of the court will be so like Pelosi, he is having a hard time figuring out what type of person do I need to represent me? We heard names like Allen Dershowitz who was a brilliant constitutional lawyer and he could be valuable if this thing is going to have constitutional legal implications. He has terrific lawyers in Marty Raskin who represented him in the Mueller investigation. They would terrific cross-examiners if this is a trial with real witnesses. So the President is being hamstrung, Pelosi has been hamstrung because McConnell's and Schumer haven't reached a deal. It's on McConnell's shoulders mostly because he is the one who controls the Majority in the Senate and I think really it is incumbent up on him to make this a real trial consistent with the Senate rules and consistent with previous impeachment trials.", "But Michael does it really matter on the strategy if the Senate is so stacked in the President's favor?", "Well, you know, that is the conversation. It is a fore gone conclusion, but remembers we have not seen many of the documents that the Senate wants and the House wanted. We have not heard from many of the firsthand witnesses who the House wanted and now the Senate wants. And maybe if we actually saw documents and heard from witnesses with firsthand knowledge it would have be as foregone conclusion as to the outcome. Right now we have the articles of impeachment which says obstruction of Congress; we have got a Senate Majority Leader who is facilitating that obstruction by not allowing real witnesses. If you get documents and if you get real witnesses maybe get a real outcome.", "Okay. Then Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden says he doesn't think that Senate would really move to send him a subpoena that says he would not testify in the impeachment trial if he is subpoenaed because as he says in a tweet this impeachment is about Trump's conduct not mine. But if push came to show up do you think that Biden would really defy a subpoena in the middle of a campaign?", "This is not - this does shows the problem that this whole episode has politically for Biden. No matter what he does in this one he has a risk of political fallout. His son taking that trial, Hunter Biden taken that job on the Board of Burisma created an enormous political liability with Biden now. So far that liability has not eroded Biden's standing in the polls. It remains to be seen whether or not that stays the case or if Trump makes Hunter, Joe Biden's middle name. So I don't see how there is good outcome either way if but he can say legitimately and argument for some - to see what the subpoena would actually say, they want him to testify too in which case he could go to, he would have the option of fighting it and take that course and suffer whatever political consequence. Or if what the subpoena wants is so make a partisan and out of bounds, and nothing to do with the charges that Trump is facing, and there is nothing central to that, then it will expose the flaw in the strategy of going after Biden to defend Trump.", "Lynn, do you think that the Republicans will actually subpoena and ask Biden to testify?", "I think they want to use him as a pawn, as a trade for something else, to use that as a threat to try and to threaten pulling him in order to see if the Democrats will back down, and the main people they want, Bolton and Mulvaney.", "And Michael this is probably the last question. There is some legal disagreements over whether or not the President has been truly been impeached since the House has not sent over the articles to the Senate? Where do you stand on that legal question?", "Well, I think that he has been impeached. It may be as Constitutional Law Professor Noah Feldman said, it may not that the articles of impeachment haven't been perfected that is they have to go over to the Senate to sort of seal the deal, but he has been impeached and if the case ended right now the history books 20 years from now would say we had three impeached Presidents and Trump would be one of them.", "Lynn Sweet and Michael Zeldin, great to have you both on the program, thank you.", "Thank you.", "Thank you and happy New Year.", "And to you. At least 79 people have been killed after a suicide bomb attack in Somalia.", "Dozens of others are injured following the rush hour explosion at the key security check point in the nation's Capital City of Mogadishu. CNN International Correspondent Farai Sevenzo joins me now from neighboring Nairobi, Kenya and just what are you learning about this attack?", "Well Martin, compliments of the season. It is exactly this type of time of the year that the Al-Qaeda affiliated terror group in Somalia tends to attack. Now they haven't claimed responsibility, but the attack bears all of the hallmarks of their modest operand. We know of a certain that 79 people are dead and the Ministry of House in Somalia is saying over 100 have been injured. And what's more Martin is that this attack happened there - University, so without being completely certain, but obvious that innocents have died, civilians, students have been killed in this attack and of course this happens in the background of many drone attacks by the United States forces and the presence of African Union troops in that country trying to stand back, the influence of Al- Shabaab and of course it is a very sad time indeed. This time of the year when people are on their holidays, even if Somalia is a non-Christian country, it is mainly the Somalis that are suffering the effects of this relentless bombing and suicide attacks by terror groups Al-Shabaab Martin.", "Yes. And it would appear that the victims at least most of them in this particular attack could be young people. Farai Sevenzo, thank you so much for updating us on the story. Still to come in the CNN NEWSROOM, newly obtained recording show members of SEAL Team 7 painting a disturbing picture of their Ex- Platoon Chief Eddie Gallagher's plus, the Iowa Caucuses remember them well; now just over a month away CNN is on the campaign trail."], "speaker": ["MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN HOST", "SARAH WESTHOOD, CNN WHITEHOUSE REPORTER", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-404813", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2020-07-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/07/es.03.html", "summary": "Bolsonaro Tests For Covid-19 Again After Downplaying Virus.", "utt": ["Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro telling supporters he has taken a fourth coronavirus test and undergone a lung screening after showing some symptoms of the virus. His results are expected today. The populist president sometimes known as \"Tropical Trump\" has dismissed Covid-19 since the beginning of the outbreak, calling it just a little flu. Meanwhile, cases in his country are soaring. Our Bill Weir has more.", "In the age of Covid-19, Presidents Trump and Bolsonaro are two of a kind. Both love Twitter and by all appearances, hate wearing masks. Both are openly at odds with their nation's top doctors --", "Yes, he's good. Bolsonaro, he's good.", "-- and rely, instead, on the support of fans as they dismiss the pandemic as a little flu and a lot of hype.", "So you don't believe Covid-19 exists at all? It's an -- it's a hoax?", "Yes, it's just a problem (ph).", "It could exist, this pro-Bolsonaro YouTuber tells me. But if it exists, it is weak.", "It's not that deadly?", "No.", "He sounds just like his president, who when asked about his nation passing China in fatalities said, \"So what? I mourn, but what do you want me to do? I can't work miracles.\" But the pot and pan protests that now ring out every time he goes on T.V. are just one side of a nation at odds with itself. Testing is still hard to come by. And as they dig mass graves from Amazonia to Rio, some experts believe the official 1.6 million infections reported could be 12 to 16 times higher. And yet, the big cities are opening up just as Bolsonaro uses his veto power to water down new laws to protect the public -- ones that would make mask-wearing mandatory in churches, schools, shops, and prisons.", "It's crazy, it's crazy. Science is being ignored in this government as it has never been before.", "Natalia Pasternak is a microbiologist who lobbies for more science in government policy and is among the many who were horrified when Bolsonaro fired his respected health minister for advancing quarantines. A loyal general with no health care experience is now running the nation's pandemic response.", "Are we going to be able to care for these people? I mean, will there be hospitals for everyone? Will there be ventilators for everyone? We never reached the situation that they reached in Italy where the doctor is forced to choose the person that gets the ventilator. I hope we never come to that but I'm afraid we might.", "Bill Weir, CNN, Sao Paulo, Brazil.", "All right. Thank you, Bill. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says she has tested positive for coronavirus. Bottoms is considered one of the front-runners to be Joe Biden's running mate. Last night she told CNN's Chris Cuomo her husband has also tested positive and they have no idea how they got it.", "This is scary. We've done all the things that we thought that we should do and for us to still test positive I think really speaks to how easily this virus is spread. And obviously, none of us are immune from it.", "One of the mayor's four children has also tested positive. All four of her children have asthma, an underlying condition the CDC says may worsen Covid-19 symptoms.", "Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says he will skip the Republican National Convention. At 86, Grassley is the oldest member of the Senate. He says coronavirus concerns will keep him home. Grassley is the Senate's longest-serving Republican and is president pro-tem, which makes him third in line for the presidency after the vice president and the House speaker.", "Biotech company Regeneron entering phase-three clinical trials for a drug that could potentially treat and prevent Covid-19. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen has more now.", "Laura, Christine, the pharmaceutical company Regeneron announcing phase three trials for its antibody cocktail. The antibody cocktail takes antibodies -- that's what we produce after we've been infected -- and culls out the most powerful ones and turns it into a drug. Now, these phase-three trials -- those are the large-scale clinical trials that happen right before drug approval -- they're going to be done on three different groups. The first group will be hospitalized patients -- those patients who are pretty sick. Also, patients with Covid who have not been hospitalized, so they're not as sick. Now, the third group isn't treatment, it's prevention. They're going to be giving the drug to people who live with Covid patients to see if the drug can prevent infection. All told, they'll be testing on 4,900 study subjects by the time these trials are done. Also, news that more than 200 scientists have written a letter to the World Health Organization about airborne transmission of Covid-19. They note that studies have shown that small particles of Covid-19 can float in the air and that's a way that it can spread. Now, this has been known for some time but these scientists want the WHO to talk about it. On their Web site, they talk about slightly different ways that people can get Covid. They don't really emphasize this airborne transmission. In the U.S., one of the hardest-hit states is Florida. The Florida Department of Health says that they do contact tracing on every single case. That means calling the case -- calling the person, asking who they've been in contact with over a certain period of time, and then calling those contacts to make sure they stay quarantined. But a CNN investigation calls that into question. We asked 27 Floridians who'd been diagnosed with Covid, did you get a contact tracing call from a local health authority? Only five of them had. Experts say this is a problem. Contact tracing is a pillar of how to contain an outbreak, but it's becoming more and more difficult in cases like Florida that have such high case numbers -- Laura, Christine.", "All right, Elizabeth Cohen. Thank you, Elizabeth. Let's get a check now on CNN Business this Tuesday morning. Taking a look at markets around the world, you can see a mixed close for Asian shares, and Europe has opened down. On Wall Street, futures, at the moment, are also pointing down -- a retreat after what has been a very strong run for the stock market. Stocks rallied to start the week. The Dow closed 460 points higher. The Nasdaq hit a record high, boosted by tech stocks like Amazon, which also hit a record high, above $3,000 a share -- wow. Monday's rally showed, once again, that disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street. Investors focusing on record fiscal stimulus and record support from the Fed, not on the rising number of coronavirus cases. Target has pulled merchandise for the Washington football team from its online stores as the NFL faces renewed pressure over the team's name. Last week, the team said it will review the name after 100 investment groups wrote letters to Nike, Pepsi, and FedEx asking them to end their relationship with the team if won't change its name. Walmart and Nike have also pulled the team's merchandise from their online stores. Many black Americans are planning to show their economic strength by not spending any money today in the Blackout Day 2020 campaign. Instead, people are encouraged to spend their money on black-owned businesses if they need to shop. The campaign's objective is to force the business world and politicians to end institutionally-racist policies and practices. Data shows black Americans spent more than a trillion on consumer goods in 2018, showing the power of the purse, Laura.", "Yes, all about trying to get companies to take this seriously and show that --", "yes.", "-- it's more than just a statement. All right, thanks for joining us today. I'm Laura Jarrett.", "And I'm Christine Romans. \"NEW DAY\" is next."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "BILL WEIR, CNN CHIEF CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MARIO SCHWARTZMANN, PRO-BOLSONARO ACTIVIST AND YOUTUBER", "WEIR (voice-over)", "WEIR (on camera)", "SCHWARTZMANN", "WEIR (voice-over)", "WEIR (on camera)", "SCHWARTZMANN", "WEIR (voice-over)", "NATALIA PASTERNAK, MICROBIOLOGIST AND PRESIDENT, QUESTION OF SCIENCE INSTITUTE", "WEIR (voice-over)", "PASTERNAK", "WEIR (voice-over)", "JARRETT", "MAYOR KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS (D), ATLANTA", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (on camera)", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "NPR-1355", "program": "Weekend Edition Sunday", "date": "2016-02-07", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/02/07/465901836/tv-ad-spending-bonanza-revs-up-in-new-hampshire", "title": "TV Ad-Spending Bonanza Revs Up In New Hampshire", "summary": "Presidential campaigns are spending tens of millions of dollars ahead of the New Hampshire primary. That's a windfall for the state's only network TV affiliate, where much of the money is being spent.", "utt": ["In the lead up to the New Hampshire primary, candidates and political action committees are spending millions and millions of dollars on TV ads. And much of that money goes to the state's only network TV affiliate. New Hampshire Public Radio's Brady Carlson reports on what the windfall means for the local station.", "Most of the time, in Manchester on psychopathic ABC WMUR-TV in Manchester looks and sounds like every other ABC affiliate in the country. For example, they have \"Muppets.\"", "(As characters, singing).", "But when the commercial breaks start up, well, that's when you know the New Hampshire primary is almost here.", "I'm Bernie Sanders, and I approve this message. Join the fight to take...", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Marco Rubio. Skipping major votes, all over the place on immigration...", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: It's time for a president who will stand up to runaway government and fight Washington special interests.", "When people come to visit New Hampshire leading up to the presidential primary, they can't believe how many political commercials they're seeing. Their head explodes.", "That's Scott Tranchemontagne. He's a New Hampshire political and communications consultant who's worked on primaries since 1996. WMUR and its owner, Hearst Television, are the largest beneficiaries of all that ad spending. FCC filings show ad buys of more than $27 million dollars, almost 40 percent of all primary spending for broadcast TV. Tranchemontagne isn't working with any candidate this year, but he says colleagues who are find they're buying TV ads more often and earlier than ever before.", "They start, you now, eight months ahead of time, and they buy all the availabilities or most of them. I've seen campaigns, you now, the first buy they make is the final week of the campaign.", "Eight years ago, the average cost of a WMUR campaign ad was just over $900. This year, it's over $1600, and primetime spots can be more than double that. Ken Goldstein of the University of San Francisco has analyzed TV ad spending in the primary. He says the rise in ad costs is very much related to the rise of super PACs.", "There's something called lowest unit rate, which guarantees that candidates - they don't pay a low rate (laughter) necessarily, but pay the lowest possible rate.", "As for super PACs and other independent groups?", "It is completely the Wild West when in an open market when it comes to groups. These groups, on average, are paying three times as much as candidates. And in some cases, they're paying four, five, six, ten times as much as the candidate.", "For WMUR, that's practically a license to print money. The station's management didn't respond to an interview request for this story, but it's easy to see what the revenue makes possible. The station proudly touts over 30 hours of local news and programming each week, including regular interviews with the presidential candidates. It even earned a nickname in the 2000 campaign because of a single Republican candidate and his ads.", "WMUR studios were known as the house that Steve Forbes built because of the number of ads that self-financed candidate ran there in the 1990s.", "That's political scientist Dante Scala of the University of New Hampshire.", "Well, the amount of money that WMUR is making for itself and its parent corporation probably makes Steve Forbes pale in comparison.", "As for future primary windfalls for WMUR, the media landscape is changing in New Hampshire. There's more competition from Boston TV stations, cable systems and a new independent broadcast station in southern New Hampshire, not to mention online ads that are going in prominence. But consultant Scott Tranchemontagne says for now, stations like WMUR are where most campaigns will buy first because they have what presidential hopefuls are after.", "Television is still a primary source these days, for many people, for news and information, at least older voters like me.", "Which means the ad money will keep coming in and New Hampshire voters will see more candidates on their screen along with their \"Muppets.\" For NPR News, I'm Brady Carlson in Concord."], "speaker": ["RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "BRADY CARLSON, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED ACTORS", "BRADY CARLSON, BYLINE", "BERNIE SANDERS", "BERNIE SANDERS", "BERNIE SANDERS", "SCOTT TRANCHEMONTAGNE", "BRADY CARLSON, BYLINE", "SCOTT TRANCHEMONTAGNE", "BRADY CARLSON, BYLINE", "KEN GOLDSTEIN", "BRADY CARLSON, BYLINE", "KEN GOLDSTEIN", "BRADY CARLSON, BYLINE", "DANTE SCALA", "BRADY CARLSON, BYLINE", "DANTE SCALA", "BRADY CARLSON, BYLINE", "SCOTT TRANCHEMONTAGNE", "BRADY CARLSON, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-148936", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-3-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/12/cnr.05.html", "summary": "What Led to Lehman Brothers Failing?", "utt": ["Lehman Brothers, the poster boy for the financial meltdown, and its bankruptcy filing, by the way, was the biggest Chapter 11 filing in financial history. So, now we're finally getting some answers here, some clues, if you will, about what it actually was that actually triggered that collapse. A new report actually blames Lehman executives and the company, their auditor, that was supposed to be keeping an eye on them. Let's bring in our business correspondent, Christine Romans, of course host of \"YOUR $$$$$.\" Christine, OK, so we have this 2,220-page report.", "Right.", "And in it, it's saying, \"Hey, executives of Lehman Brothers, you kind of screwed up, because you didn't really paint the whole picture as honestly as you could have.\" And, No. 2, Ernst & Young is sharing in the blame.", "Yes. Basically, it says Lehman did it to itself. That Lehman imploded because of a lot of mistakes that were made all up and down the line. This is-- a bankruptcy examiner for a year has been studying what happened at Lehman, and basically, Brooke, found out it was bad executives, professional misconduct -- I'm sorry, malpractice is the actual quote from the accountant, and asleep regulators. And the entire country, of course, paid the consequences. These are laundry lists: accounting gimmicks, withholding information, auditor failure, in particular looking at $50 billion last year of debt that was moved off into what's called the repo market so that it didn't look like Lehman was as leveraged as it really was. Also this report, Brooke, I found was very interesting. It basically blames to -- the investment banking model in this country, the way that things have just evolved, that these companies were allowed to take so much risk and have so much leverage; and also the fact that the regulators, quite frankly, didn't -- didn't even get it. This is what they finally conclude. The conduct ranged from serious but non-culpable errors of business judgment...", "Non-culpable?", "Ouch! To actionable -- non-culpable, to actionable balance sheet manipulation. So, this story doesn't end here. That's for sure.", "Now, what about, let's say, the former CEO of Lehman? Is he saying mea culpa or no?", "No. Look, a lot of people are named here, including some former finance -- finance officials of this company, as well.", "Yes.", "The auditor, Ernst & Young, is saying, \"Look, we gave them a clean bill of health in 2007. That was the last time we audited them. They fell apart in 2008 because of adverse conditions in the financial markets.\" You look at Dick Fuld, the CEO of this company. Through his attorney or through his spokesman, he has released a statement saying that he didn't know about these particular transactions that were moving the $50 billion off the balance sheets. He didn't write them. He didn't know what they were. He didn't design them and he didn't know what they were. And others are either not commenting or saying \"no comment,\" quite frankly. A couple of banks named here, as well, who were accused of calling in their collateral to help Lehman go over the edge, maybe to help their own position. They're not commenting either.", "Wow. Christine Romans. And, by the way, I want to remind, as always, our viewers, Miss Christine Romans, the star of \"YOUR $$$$$.\" We will see you this weekend, as we do every single weekend, 1 p.m. Eastern. Christine, thank you. I'm sure she'll have much more on that juicy report from Lehman.", "Yes.", "Thank you very much.", "Yes.", "All right, moving on. Let's do some top stories for you. Ground Zero workers who say they were sickened by dust and debris have finally reached a deal on their health claims. A settlement would be worth up to $657.5 million, but it must first be approved by the workers and a judge who scheduled his first hearing this afternoon. In total here, about 10,000 lawsuits have been filed by police, firefighters, construction workers over respiratory illnesses. Investigations into runaway cars, a massive recall for bad brakes, and now accusations of endangering the public. Toyota is being sued by Orange County, California. Prosecutors claim detective vehicles and deceptive business practices put people in danger. And \"in God we trust\" isn't budging from your money. And your kids will still be pledging allegiance to \"one nation under God.\" Here's the deal. The San Francisco appeals court basically now has rejected arguments that the words cross the line between church and state. The panel said the God references are historical, not religious. A pregnancy crisis. Right now, in America, an alarming number of women are dying from simply having babies. So, our question, why?"], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "BALDWIN", "ROMANS", "BALDWIN", "ROMAN", "BALDWIN", "ROMANS", "BALDWIN", "ROMANS", "BALDWIN", "ROMANS", "BALDWIN", "ROMANS", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-391273", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2020-01-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/27/es.04.html", "summary": "Kobe Bryant And Daughter Killed In Chopper Crash; Grammy Tributes To Kobe Bryant.", "utt": ["-- more than 57 million people locked down in China and unprecedented response from Xi Jinping who warns the coronavirus outbreak is accelerating. Good morning. This is Early Start. I'm Alison Kosik.", "And I'm Laura Jarrett. About 30 minutes past the hour here in New York. We begin with the death of Kobe Bryant, a heart breaking tragedy for basketball fans and all who admired excellence. Bryant, one of the games all-time greats, and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, among nine people killed when their helicopter crashed into a hillside Sunday morning in Calabasas, California. Outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles, thousands gathered numbed by the news. Kobe thrilled Lakers fans for two decades leading the iconic franchise to five championships.", "His stunning death shaking the league he elevated. Lakers superstar LeBron James distraught as he exited the team plane. High praise from Lakers legend Magic Johnson hailing Bryant as the greatest Laker of all-time. Sportscaster Bob Costas remembering an athlete wise beyond his years.", "The first time I met and spoke with him when he was 18 years old, I was struck by how broad his view of things was. But sports is one of the very few avenues in life where people peak in terms of their ability long before most of us reach any sort of emotional maturity. You're a veteran when you're 27, 28 years old. Whatever happened, it's relatively meaningless between Kobe and Shaq some kind of spat with athletic egos involved and all the rest that they've long since have reconciled. They're young guys. They're guys in their 20's but the eyes of the world are on them.", "You heard Costas mentioned Shaquille O'Neal there. Well, Bryant's Lakers teammate says this, \"Kobe was so much more than an athlete, he was a family man. That was what we had most in common.\" Friends say Kobe was so proud of his daughter's love for the game, and he was not only -- he was not the only Bryant who could lead with his shoulder. He leaves behind his wife, Vanessa, and three other daughters. The youngest just 7 months old.", "Among the other victims, local college basketball coach, John Altobelli, his wife, Keri, and daughter, Alyssa. For more on what may have caused the crash, here's CNN's Nick Watt in Calabasas, California.", "Well, Laura and Alison, this is an inaccessible crash site, we're told. And, you know, the first thing that first responders had to deal with was a brush fire ignited by the helicopter hitting that hillside. Once that was under control, they secured the scene. The FAA was quickly here putting a cordon around and an air cordon, a ceiling so that that crash site could be preserved as best it could be. Now, the coroner's office has been involved in trying to remove the remains. They will then be involved in the process of identifying all the victims and that they say could take a few days. The NTSB, the FAA, helped by local law enforcement, they will of course examine the route of that helicopter. They'll look into its maintenance record, they'll look into the record of the pilot, and they will also be looking into the weather. People around here tell us it was very, very foggy Sunday morning when this helicopter crashed. And in fact, we heard from the L.A. police department that they had in fact grounded their fleet of helicopters Sunday morning because the visibility was just not good enough. But listen, for the people here in L.A., that's down the line, that's secondary. The headline, the pain that they are feeling is that Kobe Bryant, this Lakers great, this towering figure of Los Angeles who helped kids, boys, girls, young athletes, Kobe Bryant is gone age 41, and that is what the people of Los Angeles are just trying to come to grips with. Laura, Alison, back to you.", "Nick, thank you so much for that. There were so many moving tributes to Kobe Bryant around the NBA and beyond on Sunday. Andy Scholes joins us now. And, Andy, you know, for the players, I just can't even imagine what it must have been like last night to have to go out just receiving this news.", "Yes, Laura, so many players just in tears, you know, before their game, during their game, after their game. Unfortunately, you notice it can be one of those moments, you know, that you never forget, you know, where you were, what you were doing when you heard this news about Kobe Bryant. And you know, of course, tributes just pouring in all over the country as this news spread. At NBA games, arenas around the league holding a moment of silence before the game, then the Spurs and Raptors both taking 24-second violations at the beginning of the game in Kobe's honor. Kobe, of course, wore the number 24 at the end of his career, and multiple players around the league writing on their shoes tributes to Kobe. Hawks star Trae Young meanwhile, he usually wears number 11, he wore the number 8 to start his game in honor of Kobe. Kobe wore 8 at the beginning of his Lakers career. There were many other tearful tributes. Here are Kobe's friends Dwayne Wade and Clippers Coach Doc Rivers.", "We'll forever, forever miss you, man. You're a legend, you're an icon, you're a father, you're a husband, you're a son, you're a brother, you're a friend. Thank you for being my friend. I love you, brother.", "The news is just devastating to everybody who knew him, who've known him a long time. And, you know, he just -- means a lot to me, obviously. You know, he was such a great opponent, you know. It's what you want in sports.", "Yes, and Kobe's old running mate, Shaquille O'Neal, also emotional. He posted, \"There's no words to express the pain I'm going through with this tragedy of losing my niece, Gigi, and my brother, Kobe Bryant. I love you and you will be missed.\" Michael Jordan saying, \"I am in shock over the tragic news of Kobe's and Gianna's passing. Words can't describe the pain I'm feeling. I loved Kobe, he was a little brother to me. We used to talk often, and I will miss those conversations very much.\" The Lakers returning from a road trip and LeBron James could be seen very emotional out there once he got off the plane. He had just passed Kobe for third on the all-time scoring list. And Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, meanwhile, he released a statement saying that no Mavericks players ever going to wear the number 24 again in honor of Kobe Bryant. Laura, I would expect maybe similar teams to follow suit as well.", "Yes. And I know you just did an interview with him just 12 days ago. It's just stunning. Andy, thank you so much.", "All right.", "Republicans were confident they could size-up witnesses at the Trump impeachment trial, but new revelations from John Bolton are casting serious doubt. We'll tell you why."], "speaker": ["ALISON KOSIK, CNN ANCHOR", "LAURA JARRETT, CNN ANCHOR", "KOSIK", "BOB COSTAS, AWARD-WINNING SPORTSCASTER", "JARRETT", "KOSIK", "NICK WATT, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JARRETT", "ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR", "DWAYNE WADE, FORMER NBA PLAYER", "DOC RIVERS, LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS COACH", "SCHOLES", "JARRETT", "SCHOLES", "KOSIK"]}
{"id": "NPR-27410", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2012-09-12", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/09/12/160989363/arctic-ice-at-lowest-level-in-decades", "title": "Arctic Ice At Lowest Level In Decades", "summary": "Ice covering the Arctic Ocean is at its lowest levels in decades, or quite possibly centuries. The new low has smashed the previous record, set in 2007. Scientists blame a long-term warming trend in the Arctic, and say that the change could alter weather patterns throughout North America and Europe.", "utt": ["It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.", "And I'm Renee Montagne.", "Here's some troubling news. Ice covering the Arctic Ocean has melted more dramatically this year than ever before. This year's loss of ice has exceeded the previous record by an area the size of Texas. NPR's Richard Harris reports.", "The summer melt of Arctic ice is becoming more and more pronounced over the past few decades, but this year it has proven to be extraordinary. Ted Scambos at the National Snow and Ice Data Center says it shattered the previous record set five years ago.", "I think it's an astonishing year and probably the thing that makes it most astonishing is that there was nothing particularly astonishing about the weather pattern. The arctic ice just the just gave up the ghost.", "Melting did start a few weeks early, and a storm in early August also contributed to the ice loss. But a few decades ago, when the Arctic ice was thicker, those events wouldn't have led to such a dramatic melting. These days, Scambos says the ice is so thin it's easy to trigger a dramatic loss.", "The loss of sea ice could affect weather patterns in the Northern Hemisphere, according Jennifer Francis at Rutgers University. And to her mind, the dramatic change in the Arctic drives home the point that climate change isn't just theoretical.", "Loss of the sea ice is just so conspicuous and so dramatic that it is something that, you know, even a first grader can look at in school and be able to understand that this is a tremendous change that's happening in a very short period of time.", "And given the ongoing warming trend, summer melting is likely to become more pronounced in the coming years. James Overland at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there is a little reassuring news, though.", "People for a while thought there would be a tipping point.", "They worried that once ice melted to a certain extent, the Arctic would become permanently ice-free during the summertime, an irreversible change.", "That doesn't seem to be the case.", "If we could stop global warming - a tall order, to be sure - the summer ice could eventually recover.", "Richard Harris, NPR News."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "TED SCAMBOS", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "JENNIFER FRANCIS", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "JAMES OVERLAND", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "JAMES OVERLAND", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "NPR-20684", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2015-11-23", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/11/23/457063719/how-the-u-s-resettles-refugees-is-quite-different-from-europe-s-way", "title": "U.S. Resettlement Of Refugees Varies From Europe's Model", "summary": "U.S. agencies say they'll continue to welcome refugees from all over the world, including Syria and Iraq. There are nine major resettlement agencies that work closely with the State Department.", "utt": ["Now, the attacks in Paris intensified the debate in this country over accepting refugees. Most governors have said they do not want Syrian refugees resettled in their states. President Obama and his supporters have said all refugees go through a rigorous screening process. Refugees also get help in resettling in the United States. It's a process much less chaotic than in Europe, which has been overwhelmed with refugees from the Mid-East and elsewhere. To get a picture of the American process, NPR's Joel Rose spent time with a refugee family now in New Jersey.", "By definition, refugees are coming from some of the most troubled countries on earth. They usually touch down in the U.S. in a place they have never seen before in their lives, a place like Jersey City, N. J.", "Come in. Come in.", "Tariq Zafar (ph) invites us into his new home, a first-floor apartment in a diverse working-class neighborhood. It's five miles from the Statue of Liberty and about 7,000 miles from Pakistan, where he was born. I'm here with his case manager from the resettlement agency Church World Service. She hands Zafar her business card.", "Bethany Schmidt (ph).", "Yeah, Bethany Schmidt. You can just call me Bethany.", "OK, Bethany.", "(Laughter) Yeah.", "Zafar has a wife and two young kids. He is an Ahmadiyya Muslim, a minority sect. Zafar says he was persecuted in Pakistan. He fled and spent the last five years in Hong Kong, waiting to be admitted to the U.S. as a refugee.", "This time, I am an American - don't have any other country. I don't like India and Pakistan. I salute to America because America has a very big heart for migrants.", "The U.S. is on pace to take in about 85,000 refugees from around the world this year. Like the Zafar family, they all arrived after years of vetting. First, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees identifies the most vulnerable. Then U.S. authorities, including the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, conduct their own screening, which takes another year or two. Finally, there's a weekly meeting between the State Department and the nine major resettlement groups in the U.S. to decide where the refugees will end up.", "They try to find some community compatibility. And they try and make common sense decisions.", "David Miliband is president of the International Rescue Committee in New York. He says the final destination can depend on whether the refugee has family or friends in the U.S. or if one resettlement agency has more experience with a specific language or community.", "They look to make sure that the key things are done for people, which is to get them housing, teach them English, give them a chance to get on the job market and get on the path to citizenship.", "The federal government gives local resettlement agencies grants to help get refugees on their feet and provides financial assistance for up to eight months.", "Has someone told you this is the most important document you have?", "Yeah.", "OK (laughter) good.", "But it's the resettlement agencies, like Church World Service, that help the refugees navigate their new country. Mahmoud Mahmoud runs the CWS office in Jersey City.", "We find them an apartment. We move the furniture into the apartment. We provide groceries and put it into their refrigerator for the first couple of days. We enroll their children into schools. We pick them up from the airport and bring them into the apartment.", "Mahmoud says his office has also helped resettle four Syrian families so far. His state's governor, Chris Christie, is one of 30 governors who've said they are opposed to placing Syrian refugees in their states following the attacks in Paris. Here's Christie last week on the Hugh Hewitt radio show.", "I do not trust this administration to effectively vet the people who are proposed to be coming in.", "But the State Department says that out of more than 700,000 refugees admitted to the country since September 11, 2001, only a handful have been arrested because of terrorism concerns. David Miliband at the IRC says the screening process is working.", "I hope that in the cold light of day, elected officials around the country will see that there is a process in place. It involves checks even once people are here.", "Legal experts say governors don't really have the right to block refugee resettlement because it's governed by federal law. But state and local officials can make the process harder, for example, blocking funds intended for English classes. For now, Mahmoud Mahmoud, at the Church World Service in Jersey City, says nothing has changed.", "I have these arrivals. And I'm so inundated with planning for these arrivals. It's just business as usual.", "Mahmoud says another group of Syrians is scheduled to arrive in New Jersey at the end of the month. And his office is planning to welcome them too. Joel Rose, NPR News, Jersey City."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "JOEL ROSE, BYLINE", "TARIQ ZAFAR", "JOEL ROSE, BYLINE", "TARIQ ZAFAR", "BETHANY SCHMIDT", "TARIQ ZAFAR", "BETHANY SCHMIDT", "JOEL ROSE, BYLINE", "TARIQ ZAFAR", "JOEL ROSE, BYLINE", "DAVID MILIBAND", "JOEL ROSE, BYLINE", "DAVID MILIBAND", "JOEL ROSE, BYLINE", "BETHANY SCHMIDT", "TARIQ ZAFAR", "BETHANY SCHMIDT", "JOEL ROSE, BYLINE", "MAHMOUD MAHMOUD", "JOEL ROSE, BYLINE", "CHRIS CHRISTIE", "JOEL ROSE, BYLINE", "DAVID MILIBAND", "JOEL ROSE, BYLINE", "MAHMOUD MAHMOUD", "JOEL ROSE, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "NPR-16992", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2006-12-25", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6673847", "title": "James Brown's Christmas Music", "summary": "Soul music legend James Brown has died at age 73. We'll have a remembrance of his revolutionary Christmas rhythms.", "utt": ["Sad news overnight of the death of James Brown. Through the day, you'll get the chance to hear and read tributes to one of the great musical innovators and performers of the 20th century, a man who lived long enough to be dubbed the godfather of soul, though to those of us old enough to remember, he'll always be soul brother number one.", "Here's one of the Christmas presents he left behind.", "(Singing) Santa Claus, go straight to the ghetto. Pick up your reindeer. Uh! Go straight to the ghetto. Santa Claus, go straight to the ghetto. In every stockings you buy, the kids are gonna love you. So, Uh! Leave a toy for Johnny. Leave a dog for Mary. Leave something pretty for Donnie. And don't forget about Gary. Santa Claus, go straight to the ghetto. Santa Claus, go straight to the ghetto. Tell him James Brown sent you. Ha! Go straight to the ghetto. You know that I know that you will see 'cause that was once me.", "Hit it! Hit it! You see mothers and soul brothers.", "Santa Claus, go straight to the ghetto. Santa Claus, oh lord, go straight to the ghetto. And every stocking you find, the kids are gonna love you.", "So, pick up a stocking you find. You'll know they need you. So, I'm begging you Santa Claus, go straight to the ghetto. If anyone wanna know, Tell him James Brown told you so. Santa Claus, go straight to the ghetto."], "speaker": ["NEAL CONAN, Host", "NEAL CONAN, Host", "JAMES BROWN", "JAMES BROWN", "JAMES BROWN", "JAMES BROWN"]}
{"id": "CNN-133795", "program": "HOUSE CALL WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA", "date": "2009-1-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/03/hcsg.01.html", "summary": "Fertility Problems: Could Your Diet Help?", "utt": ["You're watching HOUSE CALL. One in every eight couples experience infertility. That's a number to think about. But now a mix of new technology and back to basics advice is giving some couples new hope for having a baby.", "Maggie and Robert Wickard had a typical courtship, dating, vacations, finally marriage.", "The next step for us was to start our family.", "But Maggie was not ovulating regularly and Robert's sperm was unhealthy. They became a statistic. Experts say one in eight couples like them are trying unsuccessfully to get pregnant.", "You have the hope and then you say, I don't want to hope that much because I don't want to be let down.", "Science is changing all that.", "There's been a virtual revolution and explosion in our knowledge and certainly in our ability to help millions and millions of couples.", "Fertility experts set their sights on men, with new technology having a low, even no sperm count is no longer a problem. Doctors can extract it surgically and use one sperm to fertilize an egg. One sperm. Another in vitro fertilization method takes cells from the woman's own uterus and pairs them with the embryo before implanting it.", "We put the embryo on top of the mother's own endometrial cells. That's allowing that embryo to be in an environment that may be closer to what it sees in the body.", "The results, say fertility experts, better pregnancy success, healthier babies. Another revolution is happening outside the lab, a fertility diet based on a large study of Harvard nurses. It suggests healthy foods like beans, brown rice, nuts, vegetables, can affect ovulation positively. Unhealthy foods, that's right, they have the reverse effect. Sounds simple. There are some skeptics.", "One has to be careful that one doesn't oversimplify.", "After all, pregnancy is a complex, coordinated process in the body. The Wickards finally did get pregnant.", "It's amazing. Probably one of the most amazing days of -- in our life.", "They had twins, and are expecting another pair any day now.", "You know, there's no question that diet, nutrition and weight can have an impact on fertility. Research shows that fast acting carbs such as white bread, potatoes, sugar, and sodas, may decrease a woman's chance of getting pregnant. Here's how we think it works. Carbohydrates can bump up your blood sugar and insulin levels. When insulin levels rise too high, they disrupt the balance of hormones needed for reproduction. On the other hand, some foods can help fertility or trigger ovulation. Those include full-fat dairies, such as whole milk, ice cream, cheddar cheese, whole grains, fruits and vegetables. They all have a beneficial effect on insulin levels, which promotes healthy ovulation. Keep in mind, the fertility diet, of course, doesn't guarantee a pregnancy, but it can help. Up next, we answer your questions in our \"Ask the Doctor\" segment. That's after the break. Stay tuned."], "speaker": ["GUPTA", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "MAGGIE WICKARD, STRUGGLED TO HAVE A BABY", "GUPTA", "WICKARD", "GUPTA", "ZEV ROSENWAKS, DR., NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN", "GUPTA", "ROSENWAKS", "GUPTA", "ROSENWAKS", "GUPTA", "ROBERT WICKARD, FATHER OF TWINS", "GUPTA", "GUPTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-237181", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-08-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/22/cnr.08.html", "summary": "High Stakes For Emmy Nominees", "utt": ["We are just days away from the Emmys as your favorite TV show in the running? Here is Nischelle Turner with a preview.", "The primetime Emmy awards. It may not be the \"Game of Thrones,\" but the stakes are high for nominees hoping to turn an Emmy win into ratings gold.", "The Emmys have always been a big help to newcomers, but in terms of what they're worth to the industry now, it seems like they've become a much, much bigger deal.", "Ratings aren't a concern for HBO's show about death and dragons. It earned the most nominations of any show this year with 19, but it's facing tough competition in the best drama category. Many experts are saying \"Breaking Bad's\" final season makes it the favorite. Leading man, Bryan Cranston, is nominated for best actor in a drama, but he could lose out to the man who just won a best actor Oscar.", "I think this is the year of Matthew McConaughey. It's natural if he has a big Emmy contender we'll say he'll probably win that too like he won the Oscar.", "As the star of HBO's \"True Detective,\" McConaughey would have to beat out not just Cranston, but a star-studded list including his co-star Woody Harrelson and \"Mad Men's\" Jon Hamm, who has been nominated seven times and never won. \"Modern Family\" goes into Emmy night on a four-year winning streak in the best comedy category. The biggest obstacle to a record breaking fifth, a newcomer on Netflix.", "It looks like \"Orange is the New Black\" maybe coming up for Netflix and could upset \"Modern Family.\"", "If there was a theme this year, it might it be how the television academy has recognized so few shows from the networks that used to be in control.", "Remember the good old days of CBS, ABC, NBC, even Fox? Where are they in these Emmys? Really they've been just overwhelmed.", "Best chances for a network win in the drama and comedy categories might be in the lead actress in a drama category where the \"Good Wives\" Juliana Margolies is seen as a favorite. And all of the drama and comedy will play out Monday on television's biggest night. Nischelle Turner, CNN, Hollywood.", "There you have it, the Emmys Monday night. Hope you have a wonderful weekend, but stay right here. My colleague, Jake Tapper is live once again from Ferguson, Missouri. \"THE LEAD\" starts right now."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TURNER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TURNER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TURNER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TURNER", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-256712", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-06-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/05/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Anger After Utah Police Shooting Video Uploaded to YouTube", "utt": ["We first told you this story about Dillion Taylor back in August of last year. An officer shot and killed him in South Salt Lake, which is separate from Salt Lake City, after police responded to a call about a man with a gun. When I spoke with the aunt days after her nephew was killed, he was at this gas station and he was wearing these headphones. That might have kept him from hearing the officer's commands. That said, I want to play part of this for you. The first part is silent as the officer arrives on the scene. You see a group of people see the unit arrive. And you'll hear the officer turn on the audio on his body camera.", "Get your hands out now! Get your hands out! Get your -- get them out!", "I couldn't get my camera on. Did you get yours?", "Yeah, I pushed it. He was reaching. 166, get medical here now. 25-year-old male who's not conscious. He's not breathing. Yeah, yeah, check them out. It's clear.", "Come on. What the hell were you reaching for, man?", "Later in the video, the officer says he cannot find a weapon on Taylor. The district attorney said Officer Bron Cruz was cleared. The officer reportedly thought Taylor -- with his hands around his waistband, thought he had a weapon, thought he possibly had a gun. With me now, I have Cody Taylor, Dillion's half brother. Also with me, Dillion's aunt, who uploaded the video. I want to welcome you back. Again, my condolences.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Gina, to you. We spoke last fall. Again, this officer involved has since been cleared. The justice system has played out. You decided to upload this officer's body cam, the entire thing, just a couple days ago. Tell me why.", "There's so much controversy to it that people aren't aware of the brutality that's truly going on out there. I get choked up just even hearing it. I can't even watch it all the way through anymore. But we need to make some changes. You know, Dillion was brutalized and shot down in a parking lot as are a lot of other people in Utah. It seems to be an epidemic. The public don't know -- you know, they don't know this is happening. They believe if they don't see it, it's not happening. And even the independent review board, you know, what were they thinking? They didn't even see the headphones. They said it was inconclusive. So what did they really investigate? What was their independent investigation? So we, the people, have to take charge and try and make change. If this is what it takes to make that change, for the public to see what's really going on, then that's what I did.", "I can tell, obviously, you still have questions. I want to ask you about specific changes you have in mind in a minute. But Cody, to you. Have you in the time that's pass the since last August, have you, has your family heard from Officer Cruz at all? If so, would you mind sharing what he said to you all?", "We haven't heard anything from Cruz at all about anything to do with the case. I haven't heard about whether he's on the force again or -- I haven't heard anything.", "Because he was cleared. So if he wanted to return to his job, he could have. Do either of you know if he has? By the way, we reached out to the police department. We just haven't heard back yet.", "Right. As far as I know -- I have no idea. I haven't heard anything about Bron Cruz returning or not. I have no clue.", "OK.", "I have no idea either. I've actually gone to a couple neighborhood meetings to try and implement change, and I have met face to face with Chief Burbank and he didn't want to give me the time of day. I have not heard anything. I haven't heard any apologies, nothing from their entire department.", "I know this is incredibly sensitive, but, Gina, here's one question I have. When we spoke last August, you know, you told me it seemed like it was your nephew, he had his ear buds in, that he couldn't hear the officer talking to him because of his headphones. But I've watched the video through a few times. It appears that you do see -- I mean, very clearly the officer pointing this gun at your nephew. Then your nephew turns around. It sounds like he's saying, \"What's up, fool,\" and doesn't put his hands up.", "I'm not even seeing that. I see him turn around, and I don't think he's saying, \"What's up, fool,\" I think he's scared to death and trying to, one, pull his pants up, pull the ear buds out at the same time, and prove that he doesn't have a weapon. Dillion did nothing at that very moment to make Bron Cruz feel threatened. They did not commit a crime. The 911 caller that called in was obviously in an altered state of mind, but she clearly said there was no threat, there was no threat to her or anyone else. She called in because they looked like they could be up to no good. How did that get to Bron Cruz to be such a threat?", "When you talk about wanting change and being in the community, what specifically do you want to change?", "You know, when this happened, they held my son and my other nephew, Dillion's brother, Jarrell (ph), they held them for probably well over four hours in handcuffs. They made them write statements at the most vulnerable state they could be in. Bron Cruz was taken in and was released and given two weeks to give his statement. He was also let go for -- you know, paid leave for due process. I believe they need to make some changes and come in and remove the officers from the crime scene, place them away from one another, put gag orders on them, and have them write their statements at that moment when they're most vulnerable. Maybe we might get some accountability.", "Gina Thayne and Cody Taylor, thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "Coming up, we are learning today the Boston terror suspect who was shot and killed by police thought the FBI tried to contact him by phone nearly three years ago. Coming up, we'll speak with a former Boston police commissioner. How long was this man on their radar? I mean, lots of questions for him. Stay with me."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "OFC. 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{"id": "CNN-311372", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2017-05-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/01/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview With New York Congresswoman Kathleen Rice; Trump Praises North Korean Dictator; Administration Defends New Trump Outreach to Brutal Strongmen.", "utt": ["Preexisting confusion. Tonight, Republicans are struggling to lock up support for a new health care compromise, as the president insists that coverage for preexisting conditions is guaranteed. Is this new attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare in danger right now of falling apart? And running for reelection. His term has barely started, but the president is out with a brand-new campaign ad, as some of the biggest aides in the Democratic Party are also trying to grab the political spotlight. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We're following multiple breaking stories, including the president's new outreach to brutal leaders with blood on their hands. Mr. Trump now declaring that he would be \"honored\" to meet with Kim Jong-un under the right circumstances, even as the North Korean strongman threatens nuclear war with the United States, this just hours after the president invited the leader of the Philippines to meet with him at the White House, despite Rodrigo Duterte's horrendous human rights record and allegations of mass murder. Also breaking, Vice President Pence goes to Capitol Hill as the new GOP to repeal and replace Obamacare appears to be in serious jeopardy right now. Multiple Republicans have come out against the new health care confidence, with at least a total of 21 lawmakers now publicly opposed, that by CNN's account. House leaders now at risk of failing once again to secure enough votes to pass a health care bill. The Trump White House facing new challenges and controversy, as the president continues to tout his first 100 days as a success. In one of several head-scratching interviews, Mr. Trump insisted his unsubstantiated wiretap claim had been proven very strongly, while also saying he doesn't stand by anything. Then, chafing at the question, he cut short the interview. We are covering all of that, much more this hour, with our guests, including Congresswoman Kathleen Rice, a Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee. And our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, let's go to CNN's Brian Todd with more on the president's rather surprising remarks about Kim Jong-un and the North Korean threat. Brian, what the latest?", "Wolf, the president's comments are causing concern tonight, not only here in Washington, but also in Seoul and in Tokyo. Many observers warning tonight that just talking about meeting with the North Korean leader could undermine Mr. Trump's relationships with his South Korean and Japanese allies at a time when tensions have rarely been higher.", "Kim Jong-un's never met face-to-face with any foreign head of state since taking power. The only high-profile American he met with, former NBA star Dennis Rodman.", "Happy birthday to you.", "Kim's never even left his country since taking power. But, tonight, President Trump is opening the door to a meeting with the violent, erratic North Korean dictator. In an interview with Bloomberg News, the president says -- quote -- \"If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would, absolutely. I would be honored to do it, if it is under the -- again, under the right circumstances.\" What circumstances would be appropriate for the president to meet with Kim?", "If North Korea were ever serious about completely dismantling its nuclear capability and taking away the threat that they pose both to the region and to us, that there's always going to be a possibility of that occurring. That possibility is not there at this time.", "Tonight, analyst warn a Trump meeting with Kim Jong-un risks legitimizing a leader who has killed, imprisoned and starved his own people, while building a nuclear arsenal that threatens the region and the", "That definitely helps him consolidate his power furthermore -- further in North Korean. It strengthens him, possibly vis-a-vis China, and will damage morale, I think, in South Korea, will really treat this with dismay.", "While Mr. Trump presents the jarring possibility of a face-to- face meeting, he says in an interview with FOX News how much danger Kim Jong-un has placed American troops in the region in.", "Well, nobody's safe. I mean, who's safe? The guy's got nuclear weapons. I would like to say they are very safe. These are great, brave soldiers. These are great troops. And they know this situation. We have 28,000 troops on the line. And they are right there, and so nobody is safe. We're probably not safe over here. If he gets the long-range missiles, we're not safe either.", "In fact, several conflicting messages on North Korea have come from the president over the past few days. He said he -- quote -- \"wouldn't be happy\" with another nuclear test from the regime. He left open the possibility of military action, but in an interview with CBS, he praised Kim.", "He's dealing with obviously very tough people, in particular the generals and others. And, at a very young age, he was able to assume power. A lot of people, I'm sure, tried to take that power away, whether it was his uncle or anybody else. And he was able to do it. So, obviously, he's a pretty smart cookie.", "Tonight, another warning for the president of what could go wrong in a meeting with the young tyrant he seems to admire.", "Because, if that negotiation fails, there's nowhere else to go. And that's a very dangerous place to put any president.", "Not to mention the history involved. Analysts say President Trump in any negotiation with Kim Jong-un has to realize the North Koreans have reneged on just about every agreement they've made with the West over their nuclear program for the past 23 years -- Wolf.", "All right, Brian, thank you. Tonight, the White House says President Trump stands by his widely debunked claim that he was wiretapped by President Obama. Mr. Trump clearly getting upset, peeved, shall we say, when he was asked about this ongoing controversy. Let's bring in our senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. Jim, the president seemed to be thrown by this subject coming up in a new interview to mark his 100 days.", "That's right, Wolf. It was a puzzling exchange that President Trump had over his still unfounded claim that former President Obama wiretapped him at Trump Tower. The president appeared to defend his allegation in an interview with CBS, but almost in the same breath, he seems to say he doesn't stand by the comment. What makes the exchange even more baffling is that the president also appears to describe the accusation as his opinion. Here's what he had to say.", "Well, he was very nice to me, but after that, we have had some difficulties. So, it doesn't matter. You know, words are less important to me than deeds. And you saw what happened with surveillance. And everybody saw what happened with surveillance.", "Difficulties how?", "I thought that -- well, you saw what happened with surveillance, and I think that was inappropriate.", "What does that mean, sir?", "You can figure that out yourself.", "Well, the reason I ask is you said he -- you called him sick and bad.", "Look, you can figure it out yourself. He was very nice to me with words, but -- and when I was with him -- but after that, there has been no relationship.", "But you stand by that claim about...", "I don't stand by anything. I just -- you can take it the way you want. I think our side has been proven very strongly, and everybody is talking about it, and, frankly, it should be discussed. I think that is a very big -- surveillance of our citizens, I think it's a very big topic, and it's a topic that should be number one. And we should find out what the hell is going on.", "I just wanted to find out, though. You're the president of the United States. You said he was sick and bad because he...", "You can take any way -- you can take it any way you want.", "But I'm asking you, because you don't want it to be fake news. I want to hear it from President Trump.", "You don't have to ask me. You don't have to ask me.", "Why not?", "Because I have my own opinions. You can have your own opinions.", "But I want to know your opinions. You're the president of the United States.", "OK. OK. It's enough. Thank you. Thank you very much.", "Now, at the daily briefing, today, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked about all of this, about the president's comments. Spicer very quickly said the president continues to defend this accusation. Here is what he had to say very briefly today.", "Clearly stands by that.", "And that's it, clearly stands by that. That's what Spicer said about those comments. But, Wolf, we should point out, to date, the president and the White House have not provided any evidence whatsoever to back up the president's wiretapping allegation. They have since broadened that accusation to mean overall surveillance at Trump Tower. But even Republican leaders on Capitol Hill say there is no proof of that either -- Wolf.", "Yes, and the FBI director says there is no proof, no evidence of that either. All right, Jim Acosta, thank you very much. Let's get more on all of this from Congresswoman Kathleen Rice. She's a Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee. Congresswoman, thanks for joining us.", "Thanks for having me, Wolf.", "Do you believe that being open to a direct meeting with Kim Jong-un is a good idea?", "No. And I think most people feel the same way. It's baffling to me how the president of the United States can use the word \"honored\" in talking about meeting with a dictator who kills members of his own family to assure his power. But the international community all agree that, right now, the facts are just not there to support any kind of in-person meeting at all. In fact, until Kim Jong-un stops with the testing and shows that he ratchets down all the actions that he is taking now to show his force, until he stops doing that, I don't see how there is any way to have any kind of meeting at all. It is important to have diplomatic conversations to get conversations going. But, at this point, Kim Jong-un has shown absolutely no desire to engage in those talks at all.", "Because the argument is it potentially could help ease some of the tensions. And these tensions are enormous right now. And in the process, the U.S. would know more about this closed-off nation.", "Well, but this is the problem, Wolf. We have a president who shows a disturbing penchant for authoritarian figures, for dictators, for any world leader who will compliment him, whether that's Vladimir Putin, Duterte, Kim Jong-un. And that's really disturbing. This is the president of the United States, you know, talking about being flattered, having his ego stroked by people who engage in such violent, terrible behavior and want to do harm to us. So, I just don't understand. When is he -- when is the president going to learn that every single word he says has meaning, and it affects how our allies abroad see our commitment to them, to protecting them? And this is just a perfect example of that. How do you think people in Japan and South Korea feel when the president of the United States says he would be honored to meet with a man who wants to kill them, who wants to destroy them? So, I just -- it is so disturbing. What other word can you use to describe it?", "The White House press secretary said a meeting -- a presidential meeting with the Philippine President Duterte is in the national interest precisely because of North Korea. Do you believe that President Duterte could help when it comes to dealing with North Korea? As you know, the president in that interview over the weekend invited -- in that phone conversation he held with Duterte, invited him to come to the White House.", "It's possible that it might be able to help. I think, right now, what we need to do is reach out to allies, allies first and foremost. Duterte may be able to help, but he has a disturbing record of extrajudicial killings of drug dealers. Actually, Donald Trump has lauded the way that he is dealing with the drug problem in his country, which, again, is just a disturbing feeling of thought that the president expressed once again. But -- so, I think you would have to acknowledge that he is doing the -- Duterte is doing bad things in his country. But, look, we need a broad coalition of international people to help with this issue of Kim Jong-un, and if this particular leader might be able to do that, then I guess it might be worth it. But acknowledge him for what he is and who he is.", "I want you to react, Congresswoman, to what President Trump said about the wiretapping allegations he has leveled against President Obama, that he -- in this interview, President Trump said he doesn't stand by anything, that he thinks his side's been proven very strongly on these allegations. What more would you like to hear from him on his own claims that his campaign has been wiretapped by the Obama administration? Does an answer like that hurt U.S. credibility?", "So, here's my theory on that, Wolf. It seems that any time Donald Trump's mouth get him into trouble, he says outrageous things, he said the 100 days matter -- now it doesn't. Yes, they do. No, they don't. It seems that he likes to go to his failsafe. Right? What can I say now that might -- you know, what's the next shiny object that might be able to take people's attention away from these crazy and outrageous things that I'm saying? And he brings up a claim that every single person, every single person in the intelligence community, on both sides of the aisle here in Washington have said, it's not true. There was no wiretapping. But I think he just -- the president has a disturbing penchant for repeating things that he knows are not true, that everyone knows are not true, in the hope that maybe people will just say, OK, well, maybe it is, even though the facts show that they're not. So, I have no idea why he is bringing this up. This is a claim that has been debunked since the first time he said it. So, I just -- my -- again, my theory is that he's just trying to distract people away from some of these other outrageous things that he is saying.", "Yes, on the issue of Russia's interfering in the U.S. presidential election, now, in this last interview, the president said, it could have been Russia, could have been China, could have been others. He is apparently not convinced what the U.S. intelligence community is convinced of, what the FBI director is convinced of, the director of the National Security Agency, and the Republican leadership, as well as the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate. What do you say to that?", "Well, he happens to be the only human being on the planet who has questions about that issue. I mean, I don't even know how to explain that. This is well- documented. Everyone accepts it. This is stuff that Russia is doing all over Europe. And we're the latest victim of it. So, literally, I think he is the only person on the planet who doesn't accept that fact.", "Congresswoman, there is more to discuss. There are developments happening in the latest effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. We will continue our conversation right after a quick break."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "THE SITUATION ROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-315997", "program": "WORLD RIGHT NOW WITH HALA GORANI", "date": "2017-07-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/04/wrn.01.html", "summary": "U.S.: Missile Was \"Probable\" ICBM", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. I'm Hala Gorani. We are live at CNN London. Thanks for being with us this Tuesday. This is THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. It's a we've heard many times before, an angry North Korea launches a missile test complete with boast of its massive power and range. But here is why this test on this day could be different. Pyongyang claims that the missile reached a height of nearly 3000 kilometers and landed nearly a thousand kilometers away. If that's true, it means parts of the U.S. mainland could be within reach. Now in the last hour, U.S. military analysts say it probably was an ICBM missile, intercontinental continental ballistic missile. As Paula Hancocks explains the test has worried friends and enemies alike.", "Celebrated as an historic event in North Korea raising alarm bells among its neighbors and foes. Pyongyang says this was a successful ICBM, an intercontinental ballistic missile. An excited news anchor spoke of the shining success in a special broadcast on North Korean television. A clearly delighted Kim Jong-un surveyed the scene. A test launched the North Korean leader had promise since the start of this year. But concerned (inaudible) a national security meeting and a warning from Pres. Moon Jae-in calling on the North not to cross the bridge of no return, warning of a redline without specifying what redline was. Trying to call for restraint from all sides urging North Korea to refrain from violating U.N. Security Council resolutions.", "As always with North Korea's strategic (inaudible). I mean, here you get missile test and you get a wide audience focused on -- supposed to be on the G20 Summit, about trade and cooperation, now all these party leaders up from around the world are going to be talking about North Korea, North Korea, North Korea.", "South Korea's military says it's now working with the U.S. to analyze the data and decide whether it was in fact an ICBM. They admit the range was longer than the May 14th launch. That test described by experts as the most significant advancement in its nuclear weapons program to date. Unofficial assessments of this launch are worrying for the", "According to my calculations, they can reach all Alaska, but they cannot reach the lower 48 states or the large Hawaiian Islands. But they have the ability to reach Alaska.", "A July 4th celebration for North Korea that the United States does not want.", "Well, Paula Hancocks joins us now live from the region. She is in Seoul, South Korea. So what does this tell us the fact that it is an ICBM, an intercontinental ballistic missile, that's what it's believed that North Korea fired. What does it tell us about the country's missile capability?", "Well, Hala, it means that North Korea is making strides in developing its long-range capability. Now this is something that the North Korea has been very clear about it. It shouldn't come as any surprise to us that they have -- they are trying to carry out his ICBM test. The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un said it in his New Year's address saying he was close to test launching it. North Korea has consistently said they want to be able to hit mainland United States with a nuclear- tipped ballistic missile. This is all part of the -- of what North Korea said is it self-defense. It wants to be able to protect itself from what it sees as a hostile United States and hostile policy against it. But what it does show is that there has been significant progress just consider that Kim Jong-un has been in a massive rush to try and perfect this capability. He's tested far more missile than his father and his grandfather put together and since the beginning of 2016, there has been more intense testing than ever before in North Korea's history -- Hala.", "All right, certainly the worry is that they will go farther and farther. Right now, we about a thousand kilometer range, it's believed. Thanks very much, Paula Hancocks. She is Seoul, South Korea. Now the U.S. response to North Korea's claim to missile test was scathing predictably. President Trump took to Twitter once again to announce his reaction. He criticized the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Let's go to the White House and speak to CNN's Kaitlan Collins. So Kaitlan, I'll quickly read through the two-part tweet that Donald Trump posted on Twitter, \"Hard to believe,\" in part it reads, \"that South Korea and Japan will put up with this much longer perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea.\" What should we read into this?", "Well, that's the only response we had from the White House right now. As you recall, Press Secretary Sean Spicer said recently that the president's tweets are considered official statements from the White House. And today we've learned from there that there will be no other forthcoming statements on what happened in North Korea until we find out more. CNN has learned that top national security, military, and diplomatic officials, are having unscheduled meeting today to weigh what options the U.S. could pursue in light of what happened in North Korea last night. Now the president has long suggested that China should put pressure on North Korea to rein in its nuclear missile program. He spoke with the president of China on the phone on Sunday where he raised the threat of the growing nuclear program in North Korea. This is before the missile had launch last night and I think that in that tweet that he thinks that should do more to end this nonsense. He has a meeting with the Chinese president at the G20 Summit in Germany at the end of this week as well. So it's likely they will bring up and discuss it then.", "But is that the strategy basically asking China?", "Well, that's been Donald Trump's strategy for a long time. He's often said that he thinks that should put pressure on them, but two weeks ago, he tweeted that he appreciated their efforts and that they did their best and they tried. But that those efforts hadn't worked so it look like he is turning away from counting on China to put more pressure North Korea to solve this problem.", "All right, thanks very much, Kaitlan Collins at the White House. Mr. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin and we've learned this today are getting ready to come face-to-face, and we are learning -- we knew that they would need, but it's more than sort of sideline handshake. This is going to be their first ever meeting. It is an official sit down. It could be therefore a bigger deal than initially thought. The Kremlin said it won't be just a casual chat, but a full-fledged seated affair. Fred Pleitgen joins me now with more. So will he -- the big question is Russia having been such a topic of conversation during the campaign and now on the first few months of the administration of Donald Trump. Will he bring in Russian interference into the U.S. campaign?", "That's going to be the main thing that people are going to be looking at. And I think because this is a full-fledged meeting, it also raises the stakes I think for both Vladimir Putin and of course, especially for President Trump because he is under so much scrutiny at home as well. People are going to be looking at the actual language, but they are also going to be looking at the body language between the two. And I think of it seems as though President Trump, you know, is too friendly, if you will, with Vladimir Putin that it could hurt him among some of his critics. And the big thing they are going to be looking out for is whether he raises that interference by the Russians in the U.S. election and it really is unclear. I mean, so far it seems as though those were close to the president like for instance, H.R. McMaster, is saying there really isn't a set agenda for this meeting just yet. So it's not clear whether or not it's going to be raised and certainly hasn't been made clear by the administration, but it definitely will be raised to think of something that would be quite important to hear from --", "We are hearing from sources who told CNN that it is not expected to be high on the agenda, if it makes into the conversation at all, though -- even though people are genuinely interested in what's happening in Syria, genuinely interested in how the U.S. will talk to Russia about Ukraine. This would be really the main question that people want answered.", "Well, certainly, for U.S. audience --", "For U.S. audience.", "-- certainly will be the main question, what you're right. I mean, there are other big issues aware the U.S. and Russia are just very much at odds and there was one senior Russian official who said that right now the relations between these two countries are at a zero level. So certainly the Kremlin has been fairly disappointed so far from their vantage point by the Trump administration at the same time there are those big issues on the topic of Syria, on the topic of Ukraine, on the topic of security in Europe as well. So there are some real issues that need to be that need to be tackled by these two leaders or at least spoken about by these two leaders that I think, you know, many people are going to be looking for that. But at the same time whether or not President Trump brings it up is certainly something that's going to be the utmost scrutinized.", "Well, we get a glimpse into his character and personality on Twitter. We know a thing or two also about Vladimir Putin. He's been in a position of leadership in Russia for many, many years now. And one has to wonder what would a meeting between the two men on a personal level look like?", "Yes, I think that is going to be very interesting especially since both of them seemed to have this machismo about. You know, both of them understand what it's like to make an impression in public, and I think for both it is very important what they are perceived. They are perceived as being very strong in public so that's going to be an interesting thing to see. Of course, you're absolutely right. Vladimir Putin, you know, he has dealt with a lot of U.S. presidents in the past. He's dealt with a lot of other leaders in the past, how was Donald Trump going to match up to that, I think that something that is going to be very, very interesting to look at. And also it seems as though both of them, you know, they've spoken about their mutual admiration for one another, is that really going to translate into good relations between the two? Because it is the first that they are actually meeting face to face.", "And they've spoken on the phone, we know that, and several times. This will be the first face to face, and I do wonder the setup, it's going to be an official sit down, does that involve questions after or we do not know yet?", "That I think will be up to them whether or not they would take questions afterwards. But yes, it's going to be an official sit down, not just a handshake on the side, not just the quick photo opportunity also. So, you know, possibly there will be questions, although, it would probably be up to the two of them and their entourages on whether or not they actually would want to go through with that.", "We know journalists have been wanting to ask more questions (inaudible). We'll see. Fred Pleitgen, thanks very much joining us live here in the studio. It's already been a busy week of diplomacy for Vladimir Putin. Today, he met with the Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow. Mr. Xi called the talks fruitful. You hear that a lot in (inaudible), fruitful, candid, saying they pledged to strengthen cooperation on a number of issues including North Korea's nuclear program. The leaders called for a simultaneous freeze on Pyongyang's missile tests and joint military exercises by the U.S. and South Korea. Still to come this evening, taking the fight against ISIS to the very heart of its last remaining stronghold. We'll see how the militants are now cornered in the old cities, Raqqa and Mosul. And this --", "Mississippi secretary of state told the commission to, quote, \"Go jump in the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi is a great state to launch from.\"", "Even a Republican dominated U.S. state say President Trump is overstepping his bounds when it comes to the touch subject of voter fraud. 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{"id": "CNN-322550", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-10-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/02/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Reports of Active Shooter on Las Vegas Strip; Trump Appears to Undermine Tillerson on North Korea; Active Shorter at Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas; Witnesses Describe Shooting in Las Vegas.", "utt": ["With the US government's response to desperate needs in Puerto Rico under scrutiny, President Trump makes a symbolic move, dedicating a golf trophy to hurricane victims. Despite violent clashes with police, Catalonians claim victory in their controversial vote to become independent from Spain. And more than 100,000 are left far from home as a British airline goes bust. How the UK government plans to bring them home. Hello and welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. I'm Natalie Allen. We're live in Atlanta and this is", "This is CNN breaking news.", "Breaking news that's into CNN. Police in Las Vegas are investigating reports of an active shooter near the Mandalay Bay Casino on the Strip. Police are asking everyone to avoid this area. We're just getting to see some video of the scene. We'll bring you more updates as we get them. Right now, though, we want to join our affiliate in Las Vegas KLAS and try and get some more information from them.", "- some just holding their arms or legs or whatever it is, just trying to find that medical staff to get the assistance that they need. But for now, reporting live Darlene Melendez, \"8 News Now\".", "So, again, we won't be able to tell much from that little clip we got that news reporter, but we're going to continue to monitor the story. You can see, lot of police presence. Let's try to listen in and see if they're reporting on the scene again.", "- barricaded this area off. We've seen some of metro's units come through here. They have an entire kind of tactical team that is set up on the perimeter as well. And you can see all of the first responders, all of those firefighters, ambulances, all getting here, trying to help people who may have been hurt or possibly worse. We don't know the extent of injuries at this point. But to kind of speak to that point that you were talking about Gerard, as far as potential shooters that had high-ground advantage, I spoke with one witness who told that that's exactly what he saw. He saw someone that was several floors high and was shooting into the crowd of people. He said he heard hundreds of shots and we don't know exactly how many people might have been injured in this. But as you can tell, it's a very chaotic situation now here. And I want to show you kind of what has happened here on the south side of the Strip. All of these people - and we can turn the camera around here. All these people have been told that they cannot stay in the area that is now - we have casino workers, we have tourists here with their luggage, and we have hundreds and thousands of people all lining down. And let's just take a walk down here and you can see just kind of how many people - the scope of it - that have been affected by this. And by the way this road, Las Vegas Boulevard completely and effectively shut down at this point. A lot of people on their phones, you can see, trying to get in contact with family presumably, trying to make sure that they know that they're OK, but also trying to figure out exactly what is going on. But, again, Gerard, this is a very fluid situation. We're trying to figure out exactly what's going on here. But the main priority that police have told everybody here, and you can see some of the police officers telling people that are getting into the roads - get out of the road - safety here is priority. You can some more folks over here kind of coming into to the cordoned off, kind of safe area, the area that police are telling everybody to go to. But there's a lot of folks here in - the aftermath is that, within 5 to 10 minutes, I caught up with them and they are asking where do I go, I don't know where to go, how can I get a cab out of here, and everything kind of just enclosing on them and was trapped. And if you take a look on this side, on the west side of the Strip here, you can see it's all lined up with police cars, all units out here from different agencies here and trying to help out, and we also have air units that are kind of patrolling and getting a look at the - from the sky here as well. But, again, we are actively trying to work - trying to figure out exactly what's going on here. We're going to talk to some more folks, see what they had to say and what this experience has been like for them. But, for now, let's send it back to you, Gerard.", "All right, Nathan. Thank you once again for the update there, just outside Mandalay Bay. I want to bring people up to speed. There has been a shooting with multiple victims just outside Mandalay Bay. There was a concert taking place -", "All right. That's the station there in Las Vegas bringing us the very latest. You can see the police presence. We just heard from our affiliate reporter there that apparently there are multiple victims who were shots, hundreds of shots according to witnesses. They heard someone was several floors high, shooting into the crowd from the area of Mandalay Bay Resort there. The Las Vegas Boulevard is shut down. There's no word on - so much we don't know. How many victims? Do they have this shooter? Is the area secured? This story broke about - within the past 15, 20, 25 minutes. And what we knew was - all we knew was there is an active shooter, everyone should take cover. So, we have several affiliates in Las Vegas continuing to bring us the latest on this story. And as we continue to get more information trickling in, we will bring it to you, but you can see the scene right there in Las Vegas. It's evening in Las Vegas, on Sunday night. You can imagine the crowds. You can see the people that are standing around, not sure where to go. I guess they've been evacuated from that area, while police figure out what has happened and who has been injured and we'll continue to follow it as we get more information for you. If we see a reporter like that, we'll go back to it. But for now, we're going to bring you some other news that we're following as well. US President Donald Trump sending mixed messages about US policy towards North Korea. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Saturday he had lines of communication with North Korea, but a day later, the president tweeted that talks with Pyongyang were a waste of time. We get more now from Ryan Nobles.", "Mixed messages coming from the Trump administration as it relates to North Korea. This, after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left a meeting with the President of China where he talked about having conversations and open lines of communications with the North Koreans. The president tweeting on Sunday morning, quote, \"I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he's wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man. Save your energy Rex. We'll do what needs to be done.\" Now, this is in response to Tillerson had to say in Beijing. Tillerson saying, \"We are probing, so stay tuned. We asked, would you like to talk? We have lines of communication to Pyongyang. We're not in a dark situation or a blackout. We have a couple of channels to Pyongyang. We can talk to them. We do talk to them directly through our own channels.\" Now, the president essentially telling his secretary of state that he's wasting his time by attempting to talk to China and that seems to fly directly in the face of the long-held administration policy that diplomacy was the first option and military action would be second. And the State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert seemed to be trying to clean up this back and forth between the secretary of state and the president with a series of tweets of her own when she said, quote, \"Diplomatic channels are open for Kim Jong-Un for now. They won't be open forever.\" She went on to say that \"DPRK will not obtain nuclear capabilities. Whether through diplomacy or force is up to the regime.\" And the closest advisers to President Trump -- and that would be his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the Defense Secretary Jim Mattis - have long pushed for diplomacy being the primary option, holding out a military strike as a last possible move, if they felt there were no options left. The administration's stated goal continues to be disarming Kim Jong- Un's nuclear program and in particular preventing him from being able to put a nuclear warhead on a missile that could strike the United States or its allies. Ryan Nobles, CNN, with the president in Branchburg, New Jersey.", "Mr. Trump's dismissal of diplomacy is also likely to have an impact in South Korea. Our Paula Hancocks Hancock is tracking that. She joins me now from Seoul. And the new government though South Korea, Paula, has indicated a willingness for diplomacy. So, what's the reaction to this kind of disconnect between secretary of state and the US president?", "Well, Natalie, there's been no direct response to this. There's no direct reaction. We wouldn't really expect one. This, obviously, is something that the South Korean government would not really want to intervene in. Clearly, the government here in South Korea is more pro-dialogue, pro-engagement than the previous conservative administration. But up until now, President Moon Jae-in of South Korea has been going along with the US' more hardline approach of pressure and sanctions. But when it comes to the actual tweets from the US president, the officials here - to be honest, officials in many countries around the world are quite reticent to comment directly. I did speak to the South Korean President Moon Jae-in a couple of weeks ago and I asked him about a separate tweet from the US president when he talked about South Korea's appeasement of North Korea. And President Moon said that it's important not to take Trump's tweets too narrowly. So, I think that's really the best answer you're going to get that officials here are not wanting to be drawn on what does appear to be a disconnect between the US secretary of state and the US president. Natalie?", "Do they have any plans for meetings with Mr. Tillerson while he's in that area?", "Well, the secretary of state has gone back to the United States, but certainly it was an important meeting that he had in China. It was clearly coming off the back of renewed sanctions of the UN Security Council resolution, very important that China is fully onboard with implementing those sanctions fully. And we have heard a number of the pledges from China recently when it comes to trying to prevent revenues getting to North Korea that can be funneled into its nuclear and missile program. So, certainly, China on paper and verbally corresponding with the sanctions that have been passed. But, of course, it's what happens on the ground that is the most important thing. China shares a very large border with North Korea. And if China was able to or willing to, then it could really strengthen the restrictions financially on North Korea and really start to make North Korea feel that pinch. But, certainly, it's interesting that this is happening at this point when many people in the region are looking ahead to the US President Donald Trump visiting here next month as well. Natalie?", "Yes. Many people will be watching that for sure. Paula, thank you so much for your reporting there from Seoul, South Korea. I want to turn back to the breaking news that has just happened about, what, 20, 25 minutes ago. Police in Las Vegas investigating reports of an active shooter near the Mandalay Bay Casino on the Strip. Police are asking everyone to avoid this area. You can appreciate the police presence with the sirens. Let's go to our affiliate, the reporter there on the ground.", "We just saw that team that was moving - that tactical team that kind of moved in. But a very serious situation out here. And I want to bring in Danny (ph) here. He's visiting from Australia. You were in the Mandalay Bay. Tell me what you saw, what you heard?", "We saw first officers, about 8, running into the Lift A - the 31 Lift A. They were going up. They were coming down. They were going this way, that way. We were told to get out. We were told to get in. The shooters - one shooter is up there still, we are told by police, shooting out and one is roaming around. And we've been told to come here and we think we're safe here because there is so many bodies.", "Did you see the shooters at all?", "No, no one saw it.", "Did you hear anything?", "Yes. Lot of people heard gunshots. Yes. But the initial gunshots apparently were like machine gun fire.", "It was like a like a rapid-fire?", "Yes.", "So, when you heard that, what was your reaction when you heard all that?", "We knew it was chaos and mayhem because people were running out of everywhere. The police were really unaware of where the ground person was. They were going this way, that way. There's SWAT everywhere. We were tucked away, about 12 of us, in a little - like a carpark thing and then it's like - the SWAT came and said, hands up", "You said that - you described to me that you were running from Mandalay Bay for like the last hour? Why do you feel like you are running? I mean -", "We didn't know where the shooter is. Police were - one of them telling us to go in, they'll tell us to go that way. So, we knew they were confused like we were. And we just wanted to stay close to the", "Police said run and then we started running. Yes.", "Like, going on sprinting.", "We were running. And carrying bags and helping people. It was about 12, 14 of us that we all stuck together. A couple of big boys, bigger than - like, big boys and we thought", "What ran through your head, I mean, when you heard shooter?", "I'm from Australia. We don't cop this sort of stuff in Australia that much. But it was just try and keep as many people safe, I suppose, and you're running where people tell you.", "Are you guys staying at the Mandalay Bay?", "Yes. Yes. We had conferences there tomorrow, today and the next day.", "Did you see anybody that was injured or hurt?", "No. Apparently, all the Twitter reports is that the shooters were shooting at the concert across the hall.", "Thankfully, you guys are OK. And, hopefully, everybody can stay safe out here. OK. Looks like we have some movement here. They're kind of expanding the perimeter here. Police are telling everybody to move further south. So, we're going to do that as well. And if you can turn the camera here, you can see - it looks like - seems they're getting ready to move in. So, this is escalating here, at least in the urgency that we see. A lot of people are here with their phones trying to document it. But we can see - well, let's try to migrate with them, so we're not getting in anybody's way here. But as you can imagine, trying to get thousands and thousands of people to move all cohesively and out of the way and keep them out of harm's way, I mean, that's the priority here for Metro and all of the law enforcement agencies that are out here right now. But it's a surreal sight to see.", "All right. Nathan, whatever you do, just make sure that you're following the advice there of the officers and the commands as all the residents there are and the citizens are. We want to go ahead and show you some images as well that we've been receiving via social media. This is via Banjo. And what you're looking at here are the crowds running presumably after those -", "We're going to interrupt for a moment because CNN is just getting word that multiple people are at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas with gunshot wounds. That's according to a hospital spokeswoman. We've been hearing from the people there who have been getting out of the way, saying that they heard up to hundreds of shots from a shooter that was somewhere in the vicinity of the Mandalay Bay Casino. That's it there, in the distance, you see with the vertical gold stripes. But, again, we're just learning multiple people have been taken to the hospital, suffering from gunshots. We are also learning from the people, this reporter for our affiliate is talking with, that they were attending some sort of concert, and it seems that this shooter was aiming at them as this person move about firing a weapon that witnesses there - and, again, these are witnesses doing the best they can to explain what they experienced in a very, very scary situation, that it sounded like a very high-powered, some sort of machine gun. And you can see right there that officers are moving in. We can't tell where they're coming from and where they're headed. But our reporter there also saying it seems that some SWAT teams were staking out a new location and continue to scour this area because we do not know right now whether this area is secure, whether they have an idea of where this shooter is, whether the shooter is in custody, we just don't know. But this is a situation that has just been underway for about 25 minutes now and we're going to stay on top of it and continue to monitor it and bring you what we're learning. A quick break here. We're right back with this breaking news out of Las Vegas."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR, NEWSROOM", "CNN NEWSROOM. 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{"id": "CNN-93781", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2005-4-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/16/smn.05.html", "summary": "Accuser's Mother in Michael Jackson Trial Pleads Fifth on Fraud Charges", "utt": ["It was the accuser's mother who dominated headlines this week in the child molestation trial of singer Michael Jackson. Her testimony was at times salacious, when describing what she says happened at the Neverland ranch. The mother also claims family members were virtual prisoners at the pop star's compound. She also testified she was acting when she praised the singer in a videotape meant to offset negative publicity surrounding a BBC documentary. But is her testimony credible, the topic this morning in \"Legal Briefs.\" And the fireworks, well, they did explode Friday at the Michael Jackson trial. Very contentious exchanges in court between the mother of his accuser and the singer's lead attorney. Now, to sort it all out, let's bring in our legal experts. Civil liberty attorney Lida Rodriguez-Taseff, live from Miami, and former prosecutor Nelda Blair in Houston. We appreciate you both being here. Boy, yesterday, fireworks went off in the courtroom. Let's start with you, Lida: the mother got into many heated exchanges with Thomas Mesereau, which is Michael Jackson's defense attorney. At one point the judge even said if you don't stop it, I'm going to put this trial on hold until you cool down. Is this thing out of control?", "Absolutely not out of control, but you know, it did go a little too far. The problem was that the mother kept giving these rambling answers that had nothing to do with the questions that were asked. In fact, the judge repeatedly warned her, keep your answers to the questions that are asked. Please don't ramble on, but she kept doing it and doing it, and it finally got to Mesereau.", "Oh, yes, it did. And Nelda, I just want to read a little bit what the mother said. She repeatedly, as Lida just said, addressed the jury. She went on to say, \"Now, I know that Neverland is all about booze, pornography, and sex with boys.\" How damaging is that? Even though it was stricken from the record?", "Well, \"stricken from the record\" means it is simply not in writing in the record, but it is certainly in the minds of the jurors. Every lawyer knows that a judge striking something from the record does nothing to strike it from the juror's memory. It is damaging. This lady has obviously waited for a couple of years to tell her story and she is going to do it no matter what Mesereau does in the cross-examination. I think that she is obviously coming off a little strong. But you know what, she's been a boom to the prosecution.", "How credible has she been, Lida?", "Absolutely not credible at all. Rambling answers. Every time she is asked a question she doesn't really want to answer, she mumbles on about something else. And most importantly, she had to take the fifth on a very, very important issue of committing welfare fraud. She is being investigated right now by the L.A. D.A's office for having committed welfare fraud from 2001 to 2003. ,Now the only bad part about how that testimony came out, is that she didn't even have to tell the jury that she was pleading the fifth. The judge did it for her. So it saved her for now but it's not going to save her in closing.", "Nelda, that's a very good point, because -- by pleading the fifth, does it kind of give the jury the sense maybe she is guilty?", "Well, it may give the jury the sense of that, but the reason it doesn't come in at all and the judge is keeping that evidence out is because it is just that, what Lida said, an investigation. It is not a criminal conviction that she has. She is being charged with something that she has not been proven that she's committed. So, certainly it's not something the jury ought to hear. And the judge did tell the jury that she would be taking the fifth amendment as to that matter. And that's all that was said about it. I really don't think it damages her that much. Yes, she's not the most together witness. And, yes, she does ramble, but all the jury has to do is believe a little bit of what she says, believe a little bit of a few other witnesses and brick by brick that wall's is built.", "Well, she also said that...", "Go ahead.", "No, I just think it's absolute hooey Nelda, that you have to be wondering what it is this welfare fraud has to do with the case. The bottom line is, you're talking welfare fraud to get money from the government. You're talking fraud on J.C. Penney to get money from a department store. You are talking shaking down other TV personalities and actors. This is all about money and what Mesereau is building a very good case for the defense, that this is about money.", "OK, but if it is about money she also said she is not planning on seeking a civil suit against Jackson so she doesn't want to get money that way. Is that convincing, because when Mesereau said, all right, well do you know about the deadline to file that suit? She says, I think so.", "I don't think that's a big deal. Go ahead, Lida.", "It absolutely is a big deal. Let's face it. Who did she call before she ever called the police? She called one of the lawyers who represented one of the other kids who ended up getting a multimillion judgment from Jackson. You think this woman is not waiting until this trial is over? She is not being held to any standard. She can say whatever she wants on the stand and then turn around and sue Michael Jackson for millions of dollars which is what she intends to do.", "All the jury has to believe is that something happened. That anything that she says or maybe her son or a former accuser or the cook or the bodyguard or the maid, all the jury has to do is believe a little bit of their testimony and he's convicted.", "All right. We're going to have to leave it there. Lida Rodriguez-Taseff, Nelda Blair, boy, fireworks here this morning.", "Good stuff, good stuff.", "That was good stuff. Thank you, ladies.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Before we get to the half hour I want to check in on some of the e-mail responses to this question: do you think the U.S. should negotiate with hostage takers? And this from Bob: \"Absolutely not. To borrow one of Harrison Ford's lines from 'Air Force One,' 'if you give' -- I think this is also the title of a kid's book -- 'if you give a mouse a cookie, he will want a glass of milk.'\"", "Mary in Los Angeles says, \"If President Bush's daughters were hostages, I can guarantee that'd make negotiations before they let their daughters die. Yes. Negotiate.\" And, again, we must let you know, not many people are siding with folks like Mary who believe the U.S. should negotiate, but we do want to hear what you think about it. Send it in, wam@CNN.com. From reprimand to -- for Prince Harry to a mother with eight legs. There is news to satisfy every curiosity on CNN.com today. We will get a look at what is most popular in the 9:00 a.m. hour of CNN SATURDAY MORNING. But first, tips for beating springtime allergies. \"House Call\" with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and your top stories are straight ahead."], "speaker": ["NGUYEN", "LIDA RODRIQUEZ-TASEFF, CIVIL LIBERTY ATTORNEY", "NGUYEN", "NELDA BLAIR, FORMER PROSECUTOR", "NGUYEN", "RODRIGUEZ-TASEFF", "NGUYEN", "BLAIR", "RODRIGUEZ-TASEFF", "NGUYEN", "RODRIGUEZ-TASEFF", "NGUYEN", "BLAIR", "RODRIGUEZ-TASEFF", "BLAIR", "NGUYEN", "HARRIS", "NGUYEN", "BLAIR", "RODRIGUEZ-TASEFF", "HARRIS", "NGUYEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-256090", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-05-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1505/28/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Pregnant Woman Taken to the Ground by Police", "utt": ["Want to talk about another case of resisting arrest here. This time happening in California. An African-American mother dropping her daughter off at school didn't give the police officer her full name. However, she did reveal her condition. She's eight months pregnant. Yet, that didn't stop these two officers -- this is Barstow, California -- from putting her on her stomach as they arrested her for failing to give her identity. This happened after this other woman had complained -- a white woman -- had complained this pregnant woman had confronted her and threw something at her. The incident happened in January. But the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union, just released the officer's body cam video. Here's a piece of the clip. The whole thing runs in total like 11 minutes. Just a warning, it's tough to watch.", "I'm not giving you my name.", "Actually, I do have the right to ask you for your name.", "OK. Let me make sure. What's your name?", "How long is it going to be for you to make sure?", "Let me make sure because I'm not about to get harassed by the police.", "Well, you know what, ma'am, I have every right to ask you for your name.", "Michelle, what? What is your name?", "Ma'am, I'm going to give you two minutes.", "Don't touch me. Don't touch me.", "Ma'am.", "Do not touch me. Do not -- I'm pregnant. Do not touch me. Do not touch me! What the", "Ma'am.", "I'm pregnant!", "So why are you resisting, ma'am? Why are you resisting?", "I'm pregnant, please. Please!", "Please! I'm pregnant.", "OK. Get up, ma'am.", "I can't. I'm pregnant. I'm on my stomach.", "Why are you resisting?", "Because you guys are stupid! You all are stupid! Stop!", "And that is just a piece of it. With me now, I have Correspondent Jean Casarez; also CNN political commentator, Marc Lamont Hill; and CNN law enforcement analyst, Harry Houck. Wow. My first question, when I watched the entire 11 minutes, from start to finish -- and, Harry, my first question to you, when the officer was asking for her name, she wasn't giving it. Then she gave her first name. Then you hear him saying you're resisting. She's stepping away. In the state of California, was that arrest justified?", "Well, the police officer has to believe it is. He's got to reasonably believe that this arrest is justified. I saw this whole video. They should have let this go. There was nothing here. Some white woman complaining about a black woman, had a little argument, somebody threw something. Went over, spoke to both of them, OK, let this go. But I think what the police officer did was he tried to ascertain the name in the event there's some kind of civil litigation might go on. I think the officer thought that he'd be able to go over and ask her name and information, then give it to this woman. Then I would have got the other woman's information and given it to her. This way, they can both go to court and figure this out.", "Why -- I'm just stuck on -- listen, why put handcuffs on this woman? Why place her on her eight-month pregnant belly?", "See, what happened was -- who escalated this whole thing here though? The woman did. She escalated the situation. When you're in a situation like that, right or wrong, if a police officer comes up to me and tells me, whether he's right or wrong, if I'm under arrest, I am putting my hands behind my back. That's what you have to do.", "No, you don't.", "Yes, you do.", "You just said right or wrong.", "No, no, no. Let me finish.", "You have to submit to a police officer on the street.", "Even if they're wrong?", "Even if they're wrong, yes. Then what happens is -- because who makes the determination if the officer is wrong or right? A judge has to do that. If the officer believes he's right, he's going to make a decision to make an arrest. Now if he's wrong, we go to the courts. You sue the police department. The cop gets disciplined. That's the way it goes.", "So even though if this woman is saying, hang on a second, I dropped my kid off at school, I was just walking. Maybe there was some kind of back and forth with this initial woman we didn't play in this piece of the video. Still, still, you're saying she should have gone ahead and put her hands behind her back.", "When the officer said she was under arrest, she needs to do that. Now what she does is put her own child's life in danger by resisting.", "Did he say \"you're under arrest\"?", "Yes, I think he did.", "I didn't hear that on the tape. We're adding things that aren't there.", "Brooke, can I talk about the law?", "Please.", "Jump in.", "The law in the state of California is that an officer can ask for your name if he has reasonable suspicion that a crime took place. Now, that officer actually told the white woman -- this is a school parking lot where this took place. He told the white woman, I don't see any crime here at all.", "Right.", "You see that in the video.", "But he's talking about damage to vehicles when he said that. It appears there was a road-rage type of situation, but it wasn't a highway. It was private property. Then she refuses -- well, she actually gave her first name. She said Michelle.", "And she brings up race. The reason we're even interjecting this. The second woman does bring it up.", "But she refuses to really give her name. The officer then does have a right to arrest her. Whether it's a legal arrest of not, just as he said --", "All right.", "-- is for a judge to determine.", "Marc, jump in.", "The point I've been trying to make is this becomes emblematic of the problem if we say it's her fault for having the audacity to be upset or to resist an unlawful arrest of unfair treatment, differential treatment.", "You can't -- she doesn't know if it's an unlawful arrest.", "Just listen to what I'm saying.", "OK.", "We're not making a legal analysis. The question was who is responsible for escalating this. You're saying, if the woman had not done \"X,\" \"Y\" would not have happened.", "Right.", "I'm saying, had the police not done \"X,\" \"Y\" would not have happened. Let's choose the person that did the unlawful arrest. Let's choose the person that engaged in differential treatment. Based on what we saw, the woman didn't do anything wrong. Neither did the other woman.", "She was seven months pregnant. She knows she's got a child in her belly.", "Right.", "Why is she resisting arrest, making it hard? Because you can hear the police officer saying, don't resist arrest.", "How about --", "Hold on. Hold on. From a police perspective -- I honestly don't know the answer. Let's say it was absolutely justified, she needed to be arrested. As an officer, and she's saying over and over, I'm pregnant, why place her on her belly? I'm just asking.", "That happened as a result of the arrest. They had to put her down to get her handcuffed.", "On her stomach? On her stomach?", "How are you going to get handcuffed behind the back? You have to go on her stomach. And she's fighting. You can't specifically put her down a certain way.", "So that is police training?", "No --", "I'm just asking. I'm asking.", "The police officer had a body camera --", "And the police officer had a body cam. He thought everything he was doing was correct.", "That's what is problematic for me. I'm not saying these officers came in and said, hey, let's go to the parking lot and harass somebody. I think they actually think they're right. That's the problem. It's a structural problem. It's not --", "We don't even know if they're wrong yet.", "Hang on. Let me jump in. This is what Barstow police -- they've launched an internal review. They wouldn't comment further to CNN. Here's what they told out affiliate out of L.A., quote, \"The city of Barstow has received the video link regarding Charlena Cokes' (ph) arrest. It is apparent that she actively resisted arrest. This incident was in no way racially motivated as implied by the ACLU. We affirm our police department's commitment to protect and serve all our residents.\"", "I agree. They were correct. You have to submit to a police officer. You must. That's the law.", "No matter what?", "No matter what.", "Yeah.", "You have to submit because you -- that's going to happen. That's why. Because the officer is thinking he's within the law of doing --", "What more do we know about this woman?", "She was dropping her daughter off at school. The white woman works at the school. The African-American woman was dropping her daughter off. And --", "She said there was some kind of issue with the parking situation, tossing something at a car.", "Hitting the car. She said she was pounding on the car.", "The cop had a lot of experience.", "Don't they have to write a police report?", "Right. I'm sure they did.", "Don't they have to put a name on the police report? Do they have a right to get somebody's name?", "They would be --", "well, if there was no crime, you don't really have to do it. Even just as police officer, use the spirit of the law, as they like to call it here in New York. You say, listen --", "Everyone go home.", "Just take care, guys. That's what I would have done.", "Marc, you get the final word. We've got to go.", "This is a fundamental problem. Whether it's determined a legal arrest or not, what I'm saying is this is a culture of problematic policing. As you said, initially, this did not have to happen. The fact it does happen is troublesome to me. And, no, I don't know what's in the officer's head. Every time we have a story like that, it's usually a black person. Could it be a wild coincidence? Maybe black people are really bad in not getting arrested? But to me, something is at stake here that we need to dig more deeply on.", "Marc Lamont Hill, Harry Houck, Jean Casarez, thank you, all, so much. Next, police say this man was drunk when he tried to fly a plane with his own son inside while the air traffic controller tried desperately to stop him from taking off in the first place. Stay with me. 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{"id": "NPR-46663", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2011-12-03", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/12/03/143084768/herman-cains-big-announcement", "title": "Herman Cain's Big Announcement", "summary": "GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain has been dogged by allegations that he sexually harassed several women. This week, an Atlanta woman claimed she and Cain had a 13-year affair that ended earlier this year. Now Cain has scheduled an event Saturday afternoon, where he is expected to announce the future of his candidacy. Host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Don Gonyea.", "utt": ["This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Herman Cain has an announcement scheduled in Atlanta today. The Republican presidential candidate is expected to say whether he'll continue his run for the White House after allegations this week that he had a 13-year, extramarital affair. Now earlier, Mr. Cain's campaign had been hit by allegations that he sexually harassed several women during his tenure as head of the National Restaurant Association. Mr. Cain has denied those claims, but all of this has damaged his standing in the polls.", "NPR's national political correspondent Don Gonyea joins us in the studio. Don, thanks for being with us.", "My pleasure.", "Look, you're a seasoned correspondent. Your sources are impeccable. This kind of news always leaks out of a campaign, right? So do you know what Herman Cain's going to say?", "We do not know. There have been some reports that he's likely to suspend his campaign, giving everything that's been swirling around. But this is - you may have heard, Scott - a very unconventional presidential campaign. A lot of people think he's just always been in it to sell books, and his schedule would perhaps support that theory, but he just has a very tiny group of advisers. They don't even seem to know. The only official word we have so far is from Mr. Cain himself.", "We apologize in advance for kind of the bad quality audio of this, but this is what he said yesterday in South Carolina.", "So tomorrow, we going to be opening our headquarters in northwest Georgia, where we will also clarify - there's that word again - clarify exactly what the next steps are.", "Again, he has said he's going to talk his wife about this, see what she thinks and as of last night, we'd heard he hadn't actually made a decision.", "OK. And, of course, what mixes up the signals even a little bit more is that he's going to make the announcement at what is supposed to be the official opening of his brand-new campaign office.", "Exactly. And it is a campaign that, until it stops or until it suspends itself or is suspended, seems to be going full speed ahead. In fact, Scott, just in the past couple of days, this ad went up in Iowa, kind of acting like there's nothing wrong anywhere.", "Help us understand the cumulative effect of the allegations this week and the sexual-harassment charges before that, because it seemed as if he was kind of holding his own after those first charges.", "Exactly. In fact, he even bumped up a bit in some polls. So there seemed to be room to grow even after the first charges. There was a lot of discussion, a lot of rallying behind him as kind of the victim of what a lot of his supporters said were unsubstantiated- never mind that there were actually settlements made as part of those charges. But he has declined in the polls. We haven't seen the full measure of these latest allegations, but there is a Des Moines register poll coming out tonight.", "But even with that, a lot of his support has already shifted to Newt Gingrich so that's fueled, in part, Gingrich's rise. But it is also worth pointing out here that yes, there have been scandals, but there have also been moments where he has stumbled and fumbled and awkwardly...", "On foreign policy questions...", "...on foreign policy questions. And that, too, has raised plenty of questions about whether or not he's ready. And all that has happened since the front-runner spotlight hit him.", "Yeah. In 40 seconds we have left, what does the rise and fall of this cycle tell about the Republican presidential nomination campaign so far?", "It's a campaign like none that we have seen. And a lot of it is due to the, you know, presumptive front-runner Mitt Romney's inability to rise above a certain high-teens, low-20s threshold in polling. So then you have all of these anti-Romneys, not Romneys. And the only reason Herman Cain rose to the top was because of the implosion of the Rick Perry campaign. So it is very unsettled, to say the least. What would Gilbert and Sullivan do with such material?", "Well, they'd have a great time, and I'd like to hear the result. Don Gonyea, thanks very much for being with us."], "speaker": ["SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "HERMAN CAIN", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-320064", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-08-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/29/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Trump Says All Options are On the Table After North Korea Missile Launch; Rescue Underway in Houston", "utt": ["Most serious and grave threat. And just moments ago a new strong message from U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, who said something serious needs to happen with regards to North Korea, but what? I want to bring in CNN international correspondent Paula Hancocks. She is in Seoul in South Korea. And CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr joins me now. Paula, I want to start with you. First the international reaction.", "Well, John, there's certainly been strong condemnation in this neck of the woods. We've had fury from the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe saying that this is the most serious and grave threat ever to his country. Residents of the Hokkaido, that island in Japan, just after 6:00 in the morning local time were woken up by sirens, by alerts telling them to take cover, take shelter because of this North Korean missile. Now we've also seen a rather unusual response here in South Korea as well. We actually saw a bombing drill from the Air Force. Remember, there's a fairly liberal president in power at this point, Moon Jae- in, who wants dialogue in North Korea, but he called for a very strong response to this missile launch. So we saw four F-15 fighter jets dropping eight bombs onto a shooting range. And the dialogue that went with that was that they are showing their capability of destroying the enemies' leaderships. So a very clear message to the North Korea leader, Kim Jong-un, that South Korea can respond in kind, if need be. And we also know that U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke to the South Korean Foreign minister and Tillerson did say that he was disappointed that this has happened, considering there was an option to talk.", "Barbara Starr, the president says all options are on the table, which is of course different than his former chief strategist said a couple of weeks ago, Steve Bannon, when he said there is no military option. But realistically what new option, Barbara, is there for the U.S. to respond to this?", "Realistically no new military options. I mean, this has been going on for years, right? So the Pentagon top commanders, they have laid out all the potential military options for the president. I think the question always remains the same, and to some extent, it is what Steve Bannon was referring to. How much risk are you willing to take? Is there a realistic military option, if you attack North Korea? Very well understood that North Korea would have retaliate. Tens of millions in Seoul could die very quickly in a North Korean counter attack. If you launch a preemptive strike, are you willing to risk U.S. assets getting into North Korean air space? Do you even know where all the targets are? What would you strike? Would you strike missile launchers? Would you strike production facilities? Would you strike nuclear facilities? All of this remains the key essential problem. And I think it is fair to say, it is why you continue to see the messaging, all options on the table, at least for now, that's a message. What Paula is talking about the South Koreans doing, that's a message. It's a show of force. It's a message about the capability of the United States and the allies if it were to come to that -- John.", "All right. Barbara Starr for us in the Pentagon. Paula Hancocks in Seoul, in South Korea. Thank you very much. I want to get back to Houston right now. You're seeing what looks like a major rescue operation unfolding on -- I want to say the ground there, but it's in the water before our very eyes. Scott McLean joins us now by phone. Scott, what are we seeing? I see dozens of people now either going out or being led out of the water.", "Yes, John. It is a hive of activity around here. I'm going to get out of the way and show you what we're looking at. You can see there's a bit of a raft there, sort of a flotilla of people and volunteers all getting out of this neighborhood. And you can also hear a helicopter overhead that's hovering quite low. I'm not sure who that helicopter belongs to, though. But this is really the first major wave of people being taken out of this neighborhood in northeast Houston where the rain continues to fall. And you can see from these pictures just how far it is from where we're standing to where the houses actually begin and from my understanding, this is one of very few entry ways and exits to this neighborhood. The Coast Guard is also on scene to help the half dozen or so private boats that we've seen get into the water and actually pull people out. They say that there's actually a mobile home park that's back there that they have not been able to get to. They were hoping to get to today. We have not seen them come back just yet. And this is sort of the first wave of people that we're seeing. And I can try to talk to them, if you want. Hey, guys. We're live on CNN. You just came out of this neighborhood? What is your house look like? How are you feeling?", "Still good, but my mom, she said like a dam, something happened with the dam, so she wanted us to get out in case something -- like the water get higher.", "So you guys are sort of trapped on a bit of an island?", "Yes. Yes, sir.", "How are you feeling right now?", "I'm just overwhelmed.", "Have you been trying to get out for a few days?", "My mom, she says, she's like, I don't know how to put it, but she'd been trying to leave but I didn't want to leave honestly because it's not that bad in my opinion.", "But you just really have no way to get in or get out?", "Yes, sir.", "Gotcha. What were you able to bring with you?", "Just a bag, a backpack and like two pair of clothes. That's about it.", "And when did you make the decision that you guys were going to leave?", "My mom made us this morning.", "And there was never discussion about leaving earlier?", "Yes. Last night it was. Last night it was a discussion.", "Did you guys sleep well last night?", "Yes. Yes, sir.", "All right. Well, I am glad you guys are safe. And thanks for chatting with me. So, John, you know, this is one of many people who are just coming out of here. They are soaked because they have to jump into those boats. But what we're hearing is a lot of these people, their homes may actually be dry, the problem is there's just no way to get in to them or get out of them without getting wet. And so many people fully expect, John, that at some point that they fully expect that at some point that -- they fully expect that at some point they may actually be under water. And we'll take a look over here as well. This is some of the belongings that have come in. You can see there, there's a cat there that the people were able to rescue. I can talk to these folks there as well. Hey there. We are live on CNN. You guys were able to get -- you guys just came out of the neighborhood, is that right?", "Yes, we just got out.", "How are you feeling right now?", "Cold. I'm just cold.", "Do you have water in your house?", "It's gone. Everything is gone.", "In your house it's gone. How much water?", "Yes. We haven't checked but when we left it was like up to our knees basically. Yes. And that was like in the morning.", "Why didn't you leave?", "Well, because it wasn't -- the water didn't go there. We were fine until, I don't know, all the water just came in. And that moment, we were like, no, we've got to leave. And then yes, we went some other people that we know that stayed. Yes. They stayed there. But now we have family from San Antonio that come, said no, you should leave. So --", "So when did you guys make the decision to get out?", "Yesterday. But it was hard because there was hardly anyone, you know, to bring us here. So --", "Yes. I mean, there was a couple that -- with the boats that came in front of the house. And we're just like hey, come on, take us. And we just grab whatever we can and then a family gave us -- you know, they lost their home, food, water. We brought our own supplies so we started sharing. And yes, like my sister said, like there are some brothers from San Antonio, from the Church of the Light of the World that came. And they're -- you know, give us everything that we need.", "Yes. That's what we are doing right now. Like they're actually from church and we're rescuing like other civilians as well. So --", "I was actually talking to some folks from your church earlier. You guys were calling them for, you know, a couple hours, right?", "So you heard?", "Yes. So they told me that, you know, a lot of people from the congregation are calling, trying to get help. And that was you guys?", "Yes. There's still family over there. We're trying to convince them to leave, but they kind of don't want to. So we're like, no, it's just going to get worse. Leave while you can.", "And they have water in their homes?", "Yes, the lights just went out, though. So, you know, it's kind of hard to cook and it's hot in there and everything. So --", "Are they just hanging out on the second floor?", "No. It's not flooded there.", "The condition is fine. That's right.", "Yes.", "Take precautions and just leave, you know.", "The water is going there already. And I'm -- we told them, like just leave, but they were like no, we're good right now. I'm like it's better to leave now. It's better to be, you know, safe than sorry.", "How are you guys feeling at this moment?", "Better than how we were just a while ago. Like we're just happy that we have so much support.", "Yes.", "I can feel the love from everybody, like not only from my church, but the community itself.", "Yes .", "Like everybody is responding fast.", "Was it a private citizen that pulled you out or is it the Coast Guard?", "A private citizen.", "Yes.", "That's just somebody doing the goodness of their heart.", "Yes.", "That's what's so amazing. Like forget about the world problems, like right now we need to get things done. We've got to save ourselves.", "This is a moment of unity for the city of Houston?", "Definitely, yes. You know like a lot of -- there's a lot of division, like, you know, everybody like, color and, you know, the black here and the Hispanic, but right now, it doesn't matter. Everybody is helping one another. It's amazing to see that, honestly. You know, it kind of makes me want to cry in a way. It really does.", "Yes.", "It's amazing to see that.", "Community is amazing, Everybody just forget about the problems and everybody just come together. That's just wonderful. It's beautiful.", "That is so great, guys. And we are glad you're safe. And I know -- I see you shivering so I'll let you get warm here but thank you so much for chatting with us.", "No, thank you.", "What are your names, sorry?", "Tessa Cruz (ph).", "And?", "Naomi Cruz (ph).", "OK.", "Thank you.", "And so, John, you know, you are going to be seeing a lot more people like this that are, you know, getting pulled out of this area and just thankful to be on dry land.", "Scott McLean, stand by, if you would. And we are glad they are OK. But there is a new area of concern, some breaking news I want to tell you right now. An alert just went out from Brazoria County. It says, \"The levees at Columbia Lakes in Brazoria County has been breached. Get out now.\" Brazoria County is due south of Houston. Portions of that town have been under mandatory evacuation for a couple of days now. Hopefully most of those people in that area have left already, but, again, this notice just went out, fairly alarming. A levee at Columbia Lakes has been breached. We'll try to get more information on that as soon as we can. Meanwhile, we heard from Chad Myers a little while ago that those reservoirs on the other side of Houston, the Addicks and Barker reservoirs beginning to overflow a bit. There is new concern there. Scott McLean was just talking to people in the neighborhood he was in. I think they are hearing that news and it is causing some concern around Houston, maybe even in some areas that might not be hit directly from that reservoir. But again, there is new concern about reservoirs and levees in and around the Houston area. We are waiting for an update very shortly from the mayor of Houston, Sylvester Turner. We want to know how those reservoirs are doing. We want to know how many people might be in harm's way. We'll have much more for you right after the break. 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{"id": "CNN-33374", "program": "LOU DOBBS MONEYLINE", "date": "2001-6-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/25/mlld.00.html", "summary": "Dow Declines 100.37 to 10,504.22", "utt": ["Tonight, the Dow stands at a two-month low after tumbling for a second straight session. The Wall Street sell-off comes a day before the Fed meets to decide whether to cut interest rates for the sixth time in six months. A slowing economy cutting into business travel. Airlines and hotels are suffering as companies slash travel budgets. Tonight, I'll be talking with Mike Holland about the market. And Henry Kissinger on why the treaty he wrote decades ago should be scrapped. Good evening. We begin tonight on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones Industrials fell 100 points. The Dow today tumbled for a second straight session and is now at a two-month low. The Nasdaq managed to gain 16 points. But volume was light. Investors awaiting the Fed's decision on interest rates. The Fed begins its two-day meeting tomorrow deciding whether to slash rates for the sixth time this year. Jennifer Westhoven reports from Wall Street.", "Investors pulled out of old economy stocks, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average down again, although tech stocks managed to eke out small gains. The focus: How deeply the Fed might cut rates at their upcoming meeting.", "I think, at this point, 25 basis points would be a disappointment. I think people or the market is now beginning to look for a 50 basis point cut. That might be helpful. I think a key thing will be what the Fed indicates about their bias going forward.", "After drifting early in the session, the Dow headed south, plunging more than 130 points before paring some of the losses, to close down 100 points at 10,504. Old economy stocks that helped drag down the Dow: Caterpillar, Eastman Kodak, General Electric and Home Depot. Coca-Cola was one of the Dow's few winners after Goldman Sachs said investors have been too tough on the stock, and that firm's market strategist, Abby Joseph Cohen, said she is sticking to her targets which assume a big turnaround.", "Among the key factors we're focusing on is the idea that personal income continues to grow, and while there clearly is duress in some sectors, especially manufacturing and some areas of technology. We think the overall economy will be looking much better in 2002.", "That optimism didn't help investors today. The Nasdaq closing up 16 points at 2050. Chips stocks rallied slightly. One of the few sectors to end the day with solid gains.", "But even the small rally in some tech stocks could be in jeopardy. Applied Micro Circuits warned after the bell, another sign things are not getting any better in the bloodied tech sector. Traders say weeks of these profit bombshells mean investors may be too frazzled to commit to stocks until companies start delivering good news -- Lou?", "Thank you very much, Jennifer. Jennifer Westhoven from the New York Exchange. The Federal Reserve a year ago this week decided to leave interest rates unchanged. Policy makers noted in their statement at that time concerns about \"heightened inflationary pressures\" and the unusually tight labor market. Now a year later, Alan Greenspan is in the midst of the most aggressive campaign of his career, trying to avoid a recession. Tim O'Brien looks at the bets on what the Fed will do or won't do going into tomorrow's meeting.", "After five-straight cuts of 50 basis points each, many economists believed a cut this week would not exceed 25 basis points, reducing the target interest rate to 3.75 percent. Then, starting last week, more depressed earnings reports leading an increasing number of Fed watchers to predict yet another 50 basis-point cut, blaming the failure of past cuts to ignite the economy.", "We should be seeing something. There is virtually nothing there. What we can say is the best the Fed has done is given us protection on the downside of the economy, perhaps kept us out of a recession, although just barely.", "But some economists say once the effects of previous rate cuts kick in, another 50 basis-point cut Wednesday could ultimately overheat the economy.", "We get it moving and then we get it moving too quickly and then we really have to react to slow things down, and that could well lead us into a recession a year from now.", "Smith says he wouldn't cut interest rates at all, nor would Bank Of America's Mickey Levy, who attributes the sluggish economy to factors the Fed has little power to fix.", "The economy is being hurt by higher energy prices and the unwinding of the earlier boom in business investment in the Nasdaq, and those factors the Fed can't do anything to offset in the short run.", "Still, Levy predicts the Fed will cut rates one-quarter percentage point, or 25 basis points.", "Whatever the open market committee decides, it is expected to include the now customary advisory that members continue to regard the risk of the weakening economy is outweighing the risk of inflation. Translation: Regardless of what happens Wednesday, Lou, there could be still more rate cuts down the road.", "Tim, thank you very much. Tim O'Brien from Washington. A report out today shows continued strength in the housing sector. Sales of existing homes rose nearly 3 percent last month. That, despite a modest gain in mortgage interest rates. Economists were expecting home sales to be flat. The median price, interestingly enough, for a single family home hit $145,000 in May. That is a record high. On Wall Street today, investors focused on the economy and deal making. The biggest deal of the day: A multibillion-dollar takeover in the banking business. Washington Mutual confirmed the speculation last week, saying it will buy Dime Bancorp for $5.2 billion in cash and stock. That's an 11 percent premium over Friday's closing price for Dime. Dime will give the company a stronger position in the Northeast. Checking Wall Street's reaction: Washington Mutual down almost $2 a share. Dime Bancorp up over $1 on the day. Also, Canadian mining company, Barrick Gold, agreed to buy Homestake Mining in a $2.3 billion all-stock deal. That offer represents a 31 percent premium to Homestake's closing price Friday. The combined company would be the world's No. 2 gold producer with a market cap of $9 billion. Wall Street's reaction, Barrick Gold down 75 cents. Homestake Mining, up $1.40. The price of gold today by the way gaining more than $1. While silver and platinum edged slightly lower. The tally of corporate layoffs continues to grow, International Paper after the market closed announced it's slashing 3,000 jobs, about 10 percent of its work force. The Dow component saying the changes will help cut costs and allow it to focus its resources on its core businesses of paper, packaging and of course forest products. Ahead on MONEYLINE, one of the first expenses to go as companies rush to cut costs is business travel. We'll take a look at the impact on airlines and hotels. And it is severe. The secretary of state addresses the United Nations on the AIDS catastrophe in Africa. Also, the former secretary of state who says the antiballistic missile treaty is a relic that should be scrapped. He showed know; he wrote it."], "speaker": ["LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR", "JENNIFER WESTHOVEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "RICHARD MCCABE, MERRILL LYNCH", "WESTHOVEN", "ABBY JOSEPH COHEN, GOLDMAN SACHS", "WESTHOVEN", "WESTHOVEN", "DOBBS", "TIM O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DAVID JONES, AUBREY G. LANSTON", "O'BRIEN", "JAMES SMITH, UNC CHAPEL HILL", "O'BRIEN", "MICKEY LEVY, BANK OF AMERICA", "O'BRIEN", "O'BRIEN", "DOBBS"]}
{"id": "NPR-40670", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2005-08-16", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4801419", "title": "State Department Workers Protest Security Measures", "summary": "The State Department is under fire for suspending security clearances for minor alleged offenses. Some officers have been collecting full pay and benefits, while doing little or no work. Security clearance procedures were tightened after Sept. 11.", "utt": ["We're going to move now from security in Afghanistan to questions about      security at the US State Department.  A number of career foreign service      officers claim the security clearance process has become overly      aggressive since the September 11th attacks.  They charge that clearances      are being suspended for minor or unproven offenses.  More than three      dozen career officers say they've been left in limbo collecting full pay      and benefits but unable to do their jobs.  The State Department insists      the clearance process is working fine and NPR's Mary Louise Kelly looked      into it.", "For Bill Savich, the story begins in 2003.  He was serving in a key US      embassy overseeing security when he was accused of having an improper      relationship with a local woman.  In June 2003, his security clearance      was suspended. Savich denies he did anything wrong, but he says      investigators for the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security      have been relentless.", "BDS pursued a      investigation based on gossip, innuendo, seeking sexual details and      meanwhile, my clearance was pulled and I've been waiting and waiting and      waiting.", "Savich's story is echoed by other foreign service officers who've      contacted NPR.  Several have also been waiting more than two years after      their clearances were pulled for offenses that would seem to have little      to do with national security--misuse of a government vehicle, for      example, or alleged sexual misconduct.  There have been concerns about US      officials being subject to blackmail for such infractions.  Daniel Hirsch      has been a State Department diplomat for 20 years.  He says part of the      problem is if a clearance has been suspended but not revoked, there's no      appeals process.  Investigations into merely suspended clearances can      drag on for years.", "There has been a trend to      say that really anywhere there is smoke, there is fire, and nobody is      innocent. And if you investigate an allegation and you don't find      anything, well, then you just keep looking.", "Hirsch was recalled to Washington in February 2003 after his wife      asked for marital counseling.  Hirsch's clearance was suspended and since      then, he's been assigned what he calls a `make work' job with no chance      of promotion or overseas travel.", "And in my case, what started out as an investigation into      the question of spousal abuse and then, of course, found no evidence of      spousal abuse, they then just decided what the heck.  We'll keep      investigating him. And they've gone back roughly 25 years in my      professional career looking for any evidence of anything.", "Sharon Papp is general counsel for the American Foreign Service      Association.  She represents Hirsch, Savich and 19 other foreign service      officers in clearance cases.  Papp declined to speak on tape, but she did      provide an article she's written for the upcoming issue of the Foreign      Service Journal.  It argues that diplomatic security officials have in      several cases relied on unsubstantiated rumors in revoking clearances.      And it says their investigations take way too long.  The Bureau of      Diplomatic Security turned down NPR's repeated requests for comment, but      State Department spokesman Adam Ereli defends investigators as working as      fast as they can in difficult circumstances.", "Sometimes the      investigations are complicated.  They involve activities overseas.  They      involve talking to people that are hard to find or new information comes.      So it's not always as fast as everybody would like, but it's done the      way that I think is deliberate and careful and designed to move forward      as quickly as they can.", "As to whether the State Department has changed its ways since      September 11th and grown overly zealous in policing security clearances,      there's disagreement.  A second State Department official, speaking on      condition his name not be used, admits, `Are we more concerned about      security post-9/11?  Sure, we'll plead guilty to that.'  But he says,      `We're not breaking the rules, and the rules haven't changed since      September 11th.'  Mary Louise Kelly, NPR News, Washington.", "You're listening to MORNING EDITION from NPR News."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, host", "MARY LOUISE KELLY reporting", "Mr. BILL SAVICH (Career Foreign Service Officer)", "KELLY", "Mr. DANIEL HIRSCH (State Department Diplomat)", "KELLY", "Mr. DANIEL HIRSCH (State Department Diplomat)", "KELLY", "Mr. ADAM ERELI (State Department Spokesman)", "KELLY", "STEVE INSKEEP, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-89359", "program": "CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER", "date": "2004-10-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/31/le.01.html", "summary": "Interview With John Miller, Peter Bergen", "utt": ["Osama bin Laden's surprise videotaped message to America is raising several questions, among them his whereabouts, whether he's planning more terrorist attacks, and if he's trying to influence the U.S. presidential election. For some answers we turn to two guests who have both met with the al Qaeda leader in recent years. In Los Angeles, the former ABC News correspondent John Miller. He is now the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department's counterterrorism bureau. And in Washington, CNN's terrorism analyst, Peter Bergen. Gentlemen, thanks to both of you for joining us. Let's run a little clip first of Osama bin Laden on that videotape that Al Jazeera broadcast on Friday. Listen to this.", "I wonder about you, after even the fourth year after September 11th, Bush is confusing you and not telling you the true reason. So the motivation is still there for us to repeat what happened. I will talk to you about the reasons behind those events, and I will be honest with you about the moments the decision was taken so that you can ponder.", "I'll go to you, John, first. Do you sense in listening and watching this videotape he might be trying to send some hidden message to his cohorts out there to plot or to go forward with another strike?", "Well, if so, Wolf, I don't think the hidden message is ever hidden in the tape. I think that if the tapes have ever been used as a hidden message -- and, remember, there were two tapes released by al Qaeda this week, one of bin Laden and one of Azzam the American -- that the release of the tapes itself is the message. In other words, if they can't communicate with a cell, they say wait for word from the sheikh, i.e. bin Laden, or some other spokesperson, and that will be your signal. Actually, that gives us some concern here. Al Qaeda has always prestaged its major attacks with a statement, either from bin Laden or someone else.", "Peter, what do you say?", "I'm totally with John. You know, to my mind this whole thing of hidden messages is sort of -- sort of wrong. I mean, the message is usually very overt, kill Americans. In this particular instance, the message was actually rather unbelligerent. We didn't see -- this is the only videotape I can remember with no gun in the frame. Bin Laden presented himself as a statesman in sort of a Halloween parody of an Oval Office address. He sat at this table, speaking directly to the American people, suggesting some kind of truce, similar to a similar offer that he made back in the spring of this year in which he offered a truce to European nations who are willing to drop out of the coalition in Iraq. So the message was actually less belligerent than normal, but as John indicated, tapes have preceded attacks. But we've had now so many tapes that it's often hard to really see an exact causal relationship. This is now by my count the 27th audio or video message from either bin Laden or Ayman Al Zawahiri himself since 9/11, so we're getting an average of one every six weeks, which to me what this tape demonstrates is our intelligence gathering, in terms of following the chain of custody of these tapes, is obviously rather poor, since this is number 27, and it was not a complete surprise that bin Laden would try and insert himself into the American election process in this manner.", "I want to get to that in a moment, but John, I was also struck, A, by how good he looked, how serious he sounded -- didn't ramble, he had a very direct message there -- and the production value of this videotape. The lighting was pretty good. The audio was pretty good. All of us work in television, we know that's not always that easy, especially if someone is hunkered down in a cave someplace. Give us your thoughts on that.", "Well, I think that the production values are obvious, and as Peter pointed out, it's not the bin Laden we know, the bin Laden that Peter met. The bin Laden that I sat down with is a guy who sits cross-legged on the floor cradling an AK-47 in a camouflaged jacket. This was the presidential bin Laden. This was sitting at the desk, looking like Peter Jennings or Aaron Brown, with a backdrop and a very formal garb. He was trying to speak from a position of power, as a statesman not a military leader, and I would not rule out the possibility in either bin Laden's case or Azzam the American, if you look at that tape closely, that there were not cue cards to even TelePrompTer to keep them specifically on message, because it sounded felt and read in a very literally scripted way. I think the message was important, too.", "And that was quite different, I thought, amazingly different. Peter, let me get your thoughts on the production side of what we saw on that videotape.", "Well, similar also, we've also had another videotape back on the anniversary of 9/11 from Ayman Al Zawahiri, his number two. So we've had the Azzam statement that John mentioned, bin Laden himself, Ayman Al Zawahiri, all these guys producing these videotapes which suggest some kind of leisure and certainly a feeling of security, that they were able to do it. After all, the last time we had an on-camera videotape statement from bin Laden was back on December 26th, 2001. In that statement, he looked dreadful. I mean, the guy was 45 at the time. He looked like he was in his mid-70s. His whole left side was immobilized, probably a shoulder wound he sustained at the battle of Tora Bora. He's obviously recovered from that. He clearly is not suffering from some kind of life-threatening kidney disease as has been widely reported, judging on the present video. So unfortunately he seems to be in rather good shape.", "John, the timing of this videotape, only four days or so approximately before the U.S. presidential election. What do you make of that?", "Well, there are no accidents in timing when it comes to communications by al Qaeda. The fact that the Azzam the American tape was released in Waziristan, Pakistan to a known ABC News operative there showed a deliberate attempt on al Qaeda's part in that case to get this immediately to an American audience, through an American broadcasting source. In the case of using the usual channel with bin Laden, which was from al Qaeda's production company straight to Al Jazeera, which then goes through CNN and to the world, shows that they wanted to do some pre-election communication here. The message is interesting, Wolf. What he says is, Bush is not the source of your problems, Kerry is not the answer to your problems. So he may go neutral in the election process. The underlying message, if there's a hidden message in this tape, is that America's outlook from bin Laden's view as a colonialist power, its support of Israel, that those are the underlying problems that replacing politicians will not solve. And I think that's what he's trying to say to the American people.", "All right. We're going to ask John Miller and Peter Bergen to stand by. We're going to take a quick break. More on the Osama bin Laden videotape message when we come back."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BIN LADEN (through translator)", "BLITZER", "JOHN MILLER, FORMER ABC NEWS CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "PETER BERGEN, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST", "BLITZER", "MILLER", "BLITZER", "BERGEN", "BLITZER", "MILLER", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "NPR-43324", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2005-11-18", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5019067", "title": "House to Vote on Resolution to Withdraw U.S. Troops", "summary": "The House of Representatives is set to vote Friday night on a resolution calling for a quick withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. GOP politicians continue to criticize the proposal's sponsor, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), a former backer of the war and a Vietnam veteran considered a hawk on defense.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.  I'm Michele Norris.", "And I'm Robert Siegel.", "The House of Representatives found itself in a partisan screaming match      today. It all stemmed from remarks made yesterday by Pennsylvania      Democrat John Murtha, who proposed a withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.      Murtha is a decorated Vietnam veteran, and he's considered a hawk on      military matters. His proposal, though, was met by a hail of Republican      criticism.  Tonight the House Republicans decided to put Democrats on the      spot and offer an up-or-down resolution on whether to pull out of Iraq      immediately.  Democrats angrily said Republicans were deliberately      misrepresenting the position taken by Murtha. NPR's David Welna joins us      now to talk about what's been going on.", "And, David, what is the Republican resolution that caused all this anger?", "Well, Robert, it is one sentence long, and it reads as such:  `Resolved:      that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment      of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.'  And that is      all there is to it.", "And is that what Congressman Murtha proposed?", "Not really.  Congressman Murtha proposed that there be a      withdrawal of US forces from Iraq as quickly as possible, but he did not      suggest that they be withdrawn from the entire region, however, that they      be pulled back to areas adjacent to Iraq, because he said that the      presence of American troops in Iraq is only stirring up more trouble and      making American troops targets of attacks.  This is radically different      from what Murtha proposed.", "And in fact, it was drawn up by the Republican chairman of the Armed      Services Committee, Duncan Hunter, who said that he did so because he did      not want troops in Iraq to get the impression that Congress was losing      its will to keep this war going, and we heard him on the floor say that.", "Those 140,000 personnel presently stationed in Iraq      are obviously getting an impression about the United States Congress and      its position with respect to all of the publicity that's emanated not      just from this body in statements that have gone out from this body, but      also from the other body that happened just a couple of days ago, and the      headline stories that emanated from that.", "That's Duncan Hunter, the Republican committee chair.  It was      obviously pretty heated there.", "It was quite heated.  The Democrats said that troops in Iraq      would be quite surprised to hear that Republicans were proposing an      immediate pullout. And a Republican who was recently elected, Jean      Schmidt from the southeastern part of Ohio, then got up and she read a      letter from a soldier stationed in Iraq that caused a huge outcry on the      floor.  Let's listen to that.", "He asked me to send      Congress a message:  Stay the course.  He also asked me to send      Congressman Murtha a message:  that cowards cut and run; Marines never      do.  Danny and the rest of America and the world...", "Gentlemen...", "...want the assurance from this body...", "...the House will...", "...that we will see this through.", "That was extremely heated in that exchange...", "Yes, and it...", "...that involved Congresswoman Schmidt.", "In fact, Democrats demanded that her words be taken down and, in      fact, they were; they were stricken from the record.", "Well, what's going to happen with this resolution, and what's      really going on here, David?", "Well, I think Republicans are trying to hold Democrats' feet to      the fire.  They realize that Democrats are having a hard time finding a      common position on Iraq.  Many of them did vote for the resolution that      authorized use of force against Iraq.  They aren't of one mind about      this.  And I think Republicans saw this as a chance to show that those      division exist.  But Democrats are coming back and saying because they      proposed such an absurd resolution, in their words, they all plan to vote      against it.  And in the preliminary voting so far, that's exactly what      they've done.", "Thank you, David.", "You're welcome, Robert.", "That's NPR's David Welna, speaking to us from Capitol Hill."], "speaker": ["MICHELE NORRIS, host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "DAVID WELNA reporting", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "WELNA", "WELNA", "Representative DUNCAN HUNTER (Republican, California; Chair, Armed      Services Committee)", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "WELNA", "Representative JEAN SCHMIDT (Republican, Ohio)", "Unidentified Man", "Representative JEAN SCHMIDT (Republican, Ohio)", "Unidentified Man", "Representative JEAN SCHMIDT (Republican, Ohio)", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "WELNA", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "WELNA", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "WELNA", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "WELNA", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-145643", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2009-12-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/01/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Did They or Didn't They?; \"Crashing\" As Crime", "utt": ["No problem having thousands of brave soldiers give their lives in Iraq for corporate oil futures, spend millions an hour doing so, but how dare we want to take care of all Americans with a universal health care program?\" June writes: \"Both parties fail the purity test big time. Neither party ought to be trying to represent themselves as being free of the same moral failings many of us demonstrate. The Republicans should position themselves as the anti-Democrat Party, who will reverse course on tax and spend politics -- the course we are currently on.\" And Doyle in Canada writes: \"Hell, no. That would be like me telling somebody else to lose weight.\" If you didn't see your e-mail here, you can go to my blog at CNN.com/caffertyfile.", "Literature. We'll discuss.", "Andre Agassi and Sarah Palin...", "Literature.", "...number one on \"The New York Times\" best-seller lists.", "Good for them. Good for them.", "The problem is -- the other problem is there aren't a lot of people who can even read those books anymore. The public schools aren't doing their job...", "Jack, thank you. To our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now, a major troop increase and a time line for ending the war in Afghanistan. President Obama revealing his plan to the nation tonight. His senior adviser, David Axelrod, is here in THE SITUATION ROOM. He'll be joining us this hour. We'll discuss what's going on. Also, Washington's most notorious party crashers breaking their silence, speaking out, insisting they were, in fact, invited to the White House state dinner. We've uncovered, though, a history of some behavior that they are denying. Stand by. Brian Todd all over this story. Plus, Tiger Woods getting a ticket, but no criminal charges, as officials close on the book on his mysterious car accident. Speculation, though, is producing some new twists and turns. Stand by. We have new information. What impact will it have on his billion dollar brand? I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. One thing is certain -- and it could be the only thing certain at this point -- Tareq and Michaele Salahi were, in fact, at the White House state dinner. Were they invited or was this simply a massive failure of White House security? CNN's Brian Todd has been digging deeper into Mr. and Mrs. Salahi, what appears to be their habit of just showing up -- Brian.", "Well, Wolf, that White House state dinner apparently is not the first time they've just shown up, according to officials of one prominent group here in Washington. Those officials have given us some information. And for the first time, we've heard the Salahis themselves speak about what happened at the White House.", "They say their lives have been destroyed, that they're shocked and devastated by the negative publicity they've gotten since their appearance last week at the first state dinner thrown by the Obamas. When Tareq and Michaele Salahi were asked by NBC's \"Today Show\" to address the White House's assertion that they were not invited, that they crashed the event, they were resolute. (", "Well, we were invited, not crashers. And there isn't anyone that would have the audacity or the poor behavior to do that.", "But CNN has learned this isn't the first time the Salahis have gone to a high profile Washington event where questions were raised about whether they were invited. Officials at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation tell us the Salahis attended one of their major fundraising dinners in September, were asked to produce tickets and then were asked to leave when they couldn't. Pictures of them at the event with Congressman Charles Rangel and Patrick Kennedy are posted on the Salahis' Facebook page. President Obama was also there, but Foundation officials say he never mingled with the crowd and never interacted with the Salahis. Tareq Salahi told NBC this. (", "Yes, we were invited. This is the first time I've ever heard, you know, another false accusation against my wife and I, saying that we weren't invited there. We were invited there by the Gardner Law Group.", "Our calls and e-mail to Attorney Paul Gardner were not returned. The Salahis say they have e-mails to back up their claim that they were invited to the White House dinner. They haven't produced those e-mails or divulged their contents. A White House official tells us the e-mails are from Michele Jones, the Pentagon's liaison to the White House. Jones said in a statement: \"I did not state at any time or imply that I had tickets for any portion of the evening's events. I specifically stated that they did not have tickets, and, in fact, that I did not have the authority to authorize attendance.\" The White House official tells CNN Jones left the Salahis a voice mail saying the same thing. Tareq Salahi's estranged brother, meanwhile, spoke to a CNN affiliate about the couple. (", "They're really into the whole media thing. And they love the attention and the press. And they've been trying to stay in the public eye for a long, long time.", "Now, we've tried to get a response to that from the Salahis' media representative. We have not heard back yet. The Secret Service, meanwhile, is conducting a full investigation into the incident and the Salahis say they are fully cooperating. A Secret Service official told us this could lead to criminal charges, which could include trespassing or making false statements -- Wolf.", "Here's the question a lot of people are asking, Brian. Should the White House social secretary's office have actually had some people at those checkpoints to check names, together with the Secret Service?", "We know that's been the practice in previous administrations. The White House and Secret Service officials have told us that was not the plan this time, that it didn't need to be the plan. They say the Secret Service officers at those checkpoints had the guest lists and that the drill was to call the social secretary's office if there was any discrepancy and that the secretary's office would address that. But they say there was no call to the social secretary's office that night.", "Lots of questions still remaining to be answered. Thank you, Brian. At least one White House official seems to be in no doubt about the Salahis. We're talking about the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs. Listen to this. (", "They were not on a list here at the White House. Their name was not in a security tower in order to get into this secure complex. And they had been told on a number of occasions that they did not have tickets for that dinner. The president and the Secret Service are rightly concerned about how this happened. I think this matter is continuing to be looked into criminally.", "All right. Criminally -- you heard that word -- looked into criminally. So when things turn to possible criminal action, we always turn to our senior legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin. Is that a serious -- criminal charges could be filed against the Salahis?", "Absolutely. When you think about trespassing, there is no more important place where one might trespass than the White House. So if they went in there under false pretenses intentionally, trespassing is definitely a -- a possibility.", "What about lying to a federal official?", "Well, again, that's where you get into the bizarre mystery of this story because, you know, you worked in the White House. I've been to the White House many times. It's a complicated process to get inside. You have you to give your name, your Social Security number, your date of birth. And there's always a list. And they don't let you go in just on the promise of, well, I -- I have an appointment inside. So, yes, it is true that the usual custom is to give information. And if that information is false, that could be a crime. But it just doesn't seem like any of the normal procedures were followed here.", "But if they have some e-mail that may be a little murky from this Pentagon official saying, you know, maybe you should try it, you might not get in, but give it a shot -- I'm -- I'm just assuming that there is some sort of language in there, because they're -- they're insisting they do have some e-mail suggesting that they could go -- what would that do to all of the potential criminal charges?", "I think it would throw it out window. I think if they have some sort of official government sanction, whether it's from the Pentagon or the White House, that suggests they have a right to be inside, there's no way there could be any criminal charges. They've also said that they maybe have something from a Washington law firm. That wouldn't cut any ice. But if they had something from the Pentagon, they would -- I -- I think it wouldn't be appropriate that they was there -- they would be there, but I'm sure there would be no criminal charges.", "You know, they're getting ready to host -- the Obamas -- thousands of people coming for the holiday parties over at the White House. There will be long lists of people who were invited -- members of Congress, members of the executive branch. Journalists will be invited. I assume that someone from the social secretary's office will join the Secret Service now in reviewing those lists in case, for example, Jack Cafferty were to show up or something like that.", "Well, that's a pretty far-fetched idea that Jack Cafferty would be allowed there under any circumstances.", "You're absolutely right.", "But -- but, yes, in theory that's true, that would be -- no, but you can be sure that from now on, the rules are going to be enforced to the letter.", "This was their first state dinner, Jack. So...", "You know what they should be prosecuted for? For being annoying, because they are...", "Our...", "...to the nth degree.", "Our prisons are full enough. If that were a crime...", "No. They should...", "...imagine the...", "They should put these people in jail for being annoying because they -- they have annoyed the hell out of me for three days.", "Get ready. You're going to be hearing -- you know, they're testifying, supposedly, Thursday, before the House Homeland Security Committee.", "Are we going to carry that live?", "I don't know if we'll carry it live, but we're going to be speaking with the chairman of the committee...", "I have -- I have a guess about whether we're going to carry it live.", "Me, too.", "But these decisions are above my pay grade.", "All right. Take a look at this picture. You -- you're seeing some of those who are leaving the White House. I guess they just had their briefing from members of Congress. You see Robert Gates in the middle of your screen over there together -- I think that was Admiral Mullen walking by a long line of vehicles. They're getting ready to leave the White House. They briefed bipartisan members of Congress, the leadership of various committees in the House and the Senate. And the president will be heading over to Andrews Air Force Base to fly off to West Point and Upstate New York to deliver his big speech later tonight. So, that's a real news story we're covering.", "I have another question.", "Yes?", "How is it that John McCain is out doing reaction to a speech that hasn't been given yet?", "Because he wants to.", "Well, but I mean this is -- isn't this like...", "We know a lot of the details of what...", "...the cart leading the pony and...", "We know a lot of details of what the president is going to say.", "I mean you've got these politicians out grandstanding and give -- and holding gatherings in front of the cameras to react to a speech that the president hasn't even had a chance to give yet.", "Jack is shocked to see politicians grandstanding.", "That's annoying, too. All right. Should we -- should I do this?", "Please.", "All right. This is a terrific story -- the hypocrisy of celebrities. It knows no bounds. \"The London Times\" has a terrific piece -- you can read it online -- called \"Taking the Private Jet to Copenhagen.\" It's a reference to that upcoming international climate summit, at which probably nothing will be done. The report highlights actors, musicians, politicians and other so-called green celebrities who have fleets of jets, multiple homes and on and on and on. These people leave carbon footprints as they travel through their lives that would put a dinosaur to shame. For example, John Travolta has five private jets, including a Boeing 707. He once flew to London on one of his private airplanes to tell the British people they should fight against global warming. Harrison Ford used to own a Gulfstream jet. He now makes due with a smaller Cessna Citation Sovereign eight seat jet and four propeller airplanes and a helicopter. Oprah Winfrey, who preaches about being environmentally friendly on her TV show, traveled in a 13 seat Gulfstream jet for years -- until she replaced it with a bigger, faster Bombardier Global Express. Tom Cruise has five airplanes, including a customized Gulfstream jet. And as for the king of global warming preachers, the former vice president, Al Gore, it's estimated his Tennessee mansion uses 20 times the amount of electricity of an average American home. He spends $500 a month just heating his indoor swimming pool. Meanwhile, recent owners of gas guzzling SUVs include Gwyneth Paltrow, Barbara Streisand and Cameron Diaz. All of the above-mentioned people are active to a greater or lesser degree in urging the rest of us to fight global warming. And that's the question: Why do celebrities who travel around in private jets want to tell the rest of us how to save the environment? Go to CNN.com/caffertyfile and have some fun.", "And they will.", "And they will.", "Thank you. Private jet, commercial...", "You travel on a private jet, don't you?", "No, but I'd like to.", "Boy, I wish I could.", "I think you can get by with only three jets.", "That's enough.", "I think three is enough.", "A couple in the shop for repairs.", "Exactly. Right.", "And that leaves you one.", "That should be sufficient.", "Five seems excessive to me.", "Guys, thanks very much. We're standing by, by the way, for the first excerpts from President Obama's important speech later tonight -- a preview of what he'll tell the nation about his plan to try to win the war in Afghanistan. Stand by for that. We're also going to be talking about the plan and the risks involved. The president's senior adviser, David Axelrod, he's standing by to join us live. We have some questions for him. And Tiger Woods' endorsement deals are worth hundreds -- hundreds of millions of dollars. Is this silence on his mysterious car wreck putting those deals in jeopardy?"], "speaker": ["JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TODD:  (voice-over)", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM \"THE TODAY SHOW,\" COURTESY NBC) MICHAELE SALAHI, ALLEGED WHITE HOUSE DINNER \"CRASHER\"", "TODD", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM \"THE TODAY SHOW,\" COURTESY NBC) TAREQ SALAHI, ALLEGED WHITE HOUSE DINNER \"CRASHER\"", "TODD", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, COURTESY WJXT) ISMAIL SALAHI, TAREQ SALAHI'S BROTHER", "TODD", "BLITZER", "TODD", "BLITZER", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM \"THE TODAY SHOW,\" COURTESY NBC) ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "BLITZER", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "TOOBIN", "BLITZER", "TOOBIN", "BLITZER", "TOOBIN", "CAFFERTY", "TOOBIN", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "TOOBIN", "CAFFERTY", "TOOBIN", "CAFFERTY", "TOOBIN", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "TOOBIN", "CAFFERTY", "TOOBIN", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "TOOBIN", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "BLITZER", "CAFFERTY", "TOOBIN", "CAFFERTY", "TOOBIN", "CAFFERTY", "TOOBIN", "CAFFERTY", "CAFFERTY", "TOOBIN", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-63642", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2002-11-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/30/smn.11.html", "summary": "Weapons Inspectors Visit Industrial Complex in Iraq", "utt": ["In Iraq today, international arms inspectors went to a large industrial complex. It was south of Baghdad. CNN's Nic Robertson joins us now live from Baghdad with the latest. Hello, Nic.", "Hello, Kris. That was Um Al Marick (ph) -- a large, light industry complex there. They make large water tanks. They took us around the site after the inspectors had left and showed us some precision engineering equipment. Now the director of the plant there told us that during the inspector's three-hour inspection there -- it was a team of nuclear inspectors -- they have looked at some of that precision equipment. Some of it, he says, was tagged. Now, we noted early on in the phase of that first inspection that after an hour, one team of inspectors and one vehicle full of inspectors, at least, left that site and headed off somewhere else. Possibly going to look for other equipment that didn't -- that they didn't find at this particular site. We don't know that for sure right now. That is what's happened at previous sites in the last few days. After completing their work at Um Al Marik the nuclear team of inspectors moved on to Al Farat (ph), just a few kilometers away on the south side of Baghdad. They spent about two hours there looking around that facility. Now that facility was until the very early 1990s a research facility -- a nuclear research facility for the Iraqi government where they investigated work with the gas centrifuge method of enriching uranium. The enriched uranium, the key ingredient for making a nuclear weapon. Now the inspectors left there -- we talked again with a brigadier from the Iraqi Army who'd been authorized to talk with the media. He said that they had no weapons of mass destruction under development there now. He said neither had there been in the past. He was very clear on that issue. He said the inspectors had seen all they wanted to see. Now the second team of inspectors, the missile, chemical and biological team of inspectors went to a site -- Bilat (ph) -- about 17 kilometers north of Baghdad. They spent about three and a half hours at that site. Among the things they were looking through there, we understand, were some storages of munitions -- Kris.", "Nic Robertson, live in Baghdad, who has been along on the inspections thus far, thank you for that report. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["KRIS OSBORN, CNN ANCHOR", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "OSBORN"]}
{"id": "CNN-142255", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2009-8-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/26/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Kate`s Revenge; Michael Jackson Death Investigation", "utt": ["Now on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Kate`s revenge. Kate Gosselin`s most revealing confessions yet. Does she think Jon`s a bad father? Why police were called to her home. And is Kate ready to date?", "Don`t you want companionship?", "I`m lonely but I`m very busy.", "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT with the great Kate debate. Are Kate`s revelations bad for her kids? Chris Brown bombshells. Brand-new, explosive details about Brown`s history of domestic violence just as he`s sentenced for beating Rihanna. Did Rihanna hit Chris? And why he has to stay away from Rihanna for five years. Plus, they`re rich, they`re famous and they are over 40. It`s a \"SHOWBIZ Special Report\", Hollywood`s richest women over 40. TV`s most provocative entertainment news show starts right now.", "Hello. I`m A.J. Hammer broadcasting tonight and every night from New York City. And tonight, it`s Kate`s revenge. \"Jon & Kate\" star Kate Gosselin opens up in her most revealing interview since her dramatic split from Jon. And I`ve got to tell you, for all the talking she`s done, this is the first time the walls are really tumbling down and we are getting brand-new insight into her fury, her heartache and her hopes for the future. As if that`s not enough, she`s also firing back at Jon on all cylinders and there is no question Kate`s explosive new smackdown, it is making big news right now.", "For the sake of my children, I only speak positive.", "On \"LARRY KING LIVE,\" Kate Gosselin had not a bad word to say about her earring-wearing, globe-trotting 20-something-dating ex, Jon Gosselin.", "It`s about choosing to see the positive and working with the negative.", "But in the new issue of \"People\" magazine with the headline,\" Kate Strikes Back,\" it`s a different story. About her ex, Kate says it seems like, quote, \"Aliens have taken him away.\" She adds, \"Sometimes I feel like it`s a 15-year-old I`m getting divorced from.\"", "Now in the \"People\" interview, she`s finally let her guard down and she`s ready to say, Jon has screwed up and I`m any with Jon.", "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you in two months of headlines, talk show interviews and awkward co-parenting scenes on their TV show where they take turns being at home with the kids.", "Daddy knows everything about it.", "It`s a clover flower. He`s not here.", "The private pain of \"Jon & Kate Plus 8\" is now on full public display. In Kate`s most revealing interviews yet.", "And that`s what made her seem real in this interview is that she`s pissed and she`s showing it.", "In an interview with Larry King, Kate says her eight kids are doing OK considering.", "They`re working through it the same that Jon and I are. They`re doing remarkably well.", "And she sets the record straight about that whole flap when the cops were called to the house in a dispute over who was watching the kids.", "It actually was not this huge fight. It was just a thing where I wanted to be there with the kids and -- as opposed to a babysitter. And he wasn`t fond of that idea, and I left peaceably knowing that it`s true, it was his day to be there.", "Plus, Kate complimented Jon`s parenting kills -- sort of.", "Is he a good father?", "He is.", "Why the pause?", "His decisions right now are not ones that I would necessarily make, but down deep in his heart, I know that he is.", "Obviously in that pause, you could tell that she just wanted to shake her head and be like, oh, hell, no, he is not.", "But in \"People\" magazine, Kate doesn`t hold back. She goes after Jon`s very public carousing after their split.", "Jon really has been acting like a 15-year-old post-pubescent boy. He`s running around, hooking up with girls in their early 20s.", "About her ex`s behavior, Kate tells \"People,\" quote, \"I`m just very disappointed. It has caused so much stress. I am so emotionally spent and he is so emotionally unavailable and I worry. How in the world are my kids going to turn out.\"", "It was a really moving moment in the interview where she says, I`m worried about the relationship choices my daughters are going to make when they grow up. She just kind of showed the cracks in her armor for the first time and I think America really appreciates that.", "So the big question, when are we going to see Kate in the tabloids with a new boyfriend? Sorry, boys, she tells Larry King, she is not looking.", "Would you date?", "No, too busy, sorry.", "Don`t you want companionship?", "I`m lonely but I`m very busy. And actually I`m all right.", "She came across as woman with real issues and real pain that`s been hurt and that is just trying to put her life back together and go on living like the rest of us.", "I`ve got to tell you, Kate`s interviews have a lot of people now feeling a bit more sympathetic towards her and others -- well, they still have plenty of bones to pick with both her and Jon. Coming up on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, we`ve got \"The Great Kate Debate.\" Tonight, the Michael Jackson blame game. There is brand-new evidence in the Michael Jackson homicide investigation showing that Jackson`s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, wasn`t the only one supplying the king of pop with drugs. Tonight, at least seven doctors, including Dr. Murray and Jackson`s long- time dermatologist, Arnold Klein, are now under investigation. Are they all to blame? Also new tonight, what about Michael Jackson`s role? How much was his superstar status to blame for his rampant drug use and sudden death? We have the shocking insight into the dysfunctional relationship between celebrity patient and doctor. Joining me tonight in New York is Jami Floyd who`s an anchor for \"In Session.\" Tonight in Hollywood it`s Carlos Diaz who is a correspondent for Extra. A whopping seven doctors, guy, being investigated for meds they prescribed to Michael Jackson. And I`ve got to tell you, the list of sedatives and anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds found in Jackson`s home is really shocking. Jackson`s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, of course, we`ve been talking about him. He`s the main doc in the hot seat here. But Jami, let me start with you. What could happen to these other doctors if investigators can prove that they prescribed unnecessary meds to Jackson?", "Well, first of all, there are laws against prescribing unnecessary medications. That`s the first and most basic kind of crime that can be alleged. And there are also violations of the health code, even if you don`t get to the criminal law. And then of course, there`s the possibility of being roped in to some sort of manslaughter or possibly even -- I think it`s a long shot, but people are talking about possibly even second-degree murder charges. So it`s looking pretty bad for a whole bunch of doctors, although the real focus has been and continues to be on Murray, who everybody calls Michael Jackson`s personal physician. I think of him as the doctor who worked for AEG. But either way, yes, he`s the guy who`s really in big trouble.", "Yes. He was on AEG`s payroll, to be sure.", "Yes.", "You know, it`s really interesting, since Michael died, a lot of people, I think, particularly diehard fans, have been in denial about any kind of a drug problem that he had. It`s pretty obvious he had a real problem with prescription meds. Frankly, it seems like these doctors really did enable him. In fact, Dr. Drew Pinsky tells CNN`s Anderson Cooper that this is actually more of a problem in Hollywood than people realize. Watch this.", "This happens all the time that people have a lot of money and a lot of power. They feel the need to have special care. They don`t accept the standard of care. They find physicians that collude with them, people who like to bask in the glory of celebrity, for instance. And thereby they end up getting substandard care rather than what is the best care, which is standard care. This is a classic example that where there`s an adulteration of the patient/doctor relationship, where money and power has gotten in the way of it and affected someone`s judgment and here now the outcome is a dead patient.", "Carlos, when you hear this kind of explanation, at the bottom of all of this, is it possible that Michael Jackson is really the one to blame?", "Of course. And we`ve been saying all summer long that doctors need to start saying no to celebrities. Well, that would imply that celebrities are the ones asking. I mean, A.J., you and I know -- we both know that there are not doctors walking around Santa Monica Boulevard going, hey, I`ve got some Diprivan, you want some Diprivan? I got some Diprivan. You know what I mean? The celebrity has got to be the one who asks for it. So yes, the celebrity is the one to blame initially. And then the doctor is the one to blame for saying yes.", "Yes.", "Well, it certainly seems like an easy trap for some doctors to fall into, if not only the money, it really is this brush with fame. And then you look at somebody like Michael Jackson, the biggest star in the world, you can almost understand how somebody could slip. But CNN`s Anderson Cooper actually spoke with one anesthesiologist who turned down Jackson`s request to be his doctor. Take a look.", "A number of years back I was called to see if I would be interested in working with this gentleman`s pain problems. I had known one or more of the physicians involved in his care. And I decided that it was probably not in my best interest.", "And he went on to say that he`s seen a lot of his colleagues fall into this really slippery slope with celebrities. Jami, do you think that is part of what happened here.", "Yes.", ". with suspect number one, Dr. Murray?", "Yes. Look, I think there`s so much blame to go around here. And I think -- look, I think Murray is presumed innocent, right, until proven guilty, as are any of these other doctors who are suspects at this point or persons of interest, really. And certainly the celebrity and Michael Jackson isn`t the first. There`s Anna Nicole Smith, we could talk about Heath Ledger. We could talk about - - we could probably go back to Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, right? And we know that prescription drug abuse and overdose is the fastest growing form of drug abuse and addiction in this country. It`s not just celebrities. This is a problem across the board. But I think that we have to be honest about the problem and if anything can come out of this, A.J., maybe an honest conversation about this problem.", "Yes.", "Is the one good thing that can happen.", "Yes. I think a lot of people are being schooled in an area they never were before.", "Right.", "Jami Floyd and Carlos Diaz, thanks, guys. I appreciate it. Well, a lot of you were furious that Chris Brown didn`t get any jail time for beating Rihanna to a pulp. Tonight, brand-new outrage over details of Chris Brown`s abusive past. You have got to hear this. We`ve got details on Brown`s history of domestic violence and it involves Rihanna. Has he beaten her before? Did Rihanna actually hit Chris? Tonight, the outrageous new bombshells in the Chris Brown/Rihanna saga. And is Farrah Fawcett`s son Redmond getting his own reality show? You`re not going to believe the new TV deal Ryan O`Neal reportedly just made for his jailed son. We have got the details. And have you ever heard of reverse pick-pocketing? Well, I want you to open up your purses because the put-pocket is on the prowl.", "This guy used to be a pickpocket.", "Now I`m a put-pocket. This means I`m putting money back into people`s pockets.", "Yes, I`ve got the absolutely fascinating story behind this former pickpocket who wants to give you money. This is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT on HLN. Now the SHOWBIZ \"News Ticker,\" more stories from the SHOWBIZ TONIGHT newsroom making news right now.", "Best-selling author Dominick Dunne loses battle with cancer at 83. Georgia judge says Miley Cyrus stalker is a threat to society."], "speaker": ["A.J. 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{"id": "CNN-190658", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-8-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1208/07/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Eagle Scout Returns His Medal", "utt": ["It is the highest achievement a boy scout can earn. It's the Eagle Scout medal and badge and it's not easy to get one, earn one -- I should say. Only two percent of scouts attain Eagle Scout status. And now dozens of Eagles, as they are called, are returning their medals to the Boy Scouts; it's all to protest the organization's reaffirmation on the organization's ban on gays. Martin Cizmar is one of those Eagle Scouts. Good morning and welcome.", "Good morning. Thanks.", "Why did you decide to return your medal?", "They had a secret review and they just decided without really even allowing their board to vote on it that they were going to continue be in on gay scouts. And I just didn't want to have my Eagle badge as long as they were doing that.", "What did your Eagle Scout status mean? I mean, tell me how special this was for you as a boy scout.", "I joined scouts after I turned 11 and got my Eagle when I turned 18 and it was the biggest day of my life to that point. I mean it was something I was really proud of. I moved around the country. I always brought my badge with me everywhere I moved because it's something that I really treasured.", "I think the motto is once an Eagle, always an Eagle, though, right?", "I think that's the motto, but I'm no longer an Eagle. I turned my badge in and I have said that I'm not (inaudible) to the organization any more so long they continue a policy of discrimination.", "What did they say when you turned your medal in?", "You know, I haven't heard back. I sent a letter and I posted it to Facebook and a lot of people shared it around and a lot of other Eagles had been doing that before and have done it since. I haven't heard back yet. The spokesman just keeps kind of sending off the same press release to everybody who asks him about it so I'm not sure what they think.", "Were you really surprised that the Boy Scouts reaffirmed their policy? Religion has always entered into this organization.", "Well, religion, yes, but there are a lot of religions that don't believe it's ok to discriminate against gay people. The Episcopal Church, for example. There are a lot of troops that meet in Episcopal churches where there might be a gay priest and yet a gay boy can't be in the troop and tying knots with the other scouts. I was surprised that they did it especially in the way they did after having just a secret review and then handing this down rather than actually discussing it and allowing it to be an issue that they took seriously.", "I understand that the President of the United States is the honorary president of the Boy Scouts. That is the tradition along all of our presidents. Do you think President Obama ought to remain the honorary president of the Boy Scouts?", "I think he should to look at it after November and think about. I think that there are bigger issues for the country to address right now than that. But I think it's something that he and other politicians who accept awards from the Boy Scouts should think very seriously about.", "Do you think many Eagle Scouts are following your lead?", "I have seen about a hundred online so far. So I think that there are some. I mean Eagle Scouts tend to be great people and all of the Eagles I've met everywhere I've gone, I've met so many great people and they are principled people and I think that, yes, there will be more that will continue to do this.", "Martin Cizmar, thanks so much for joining us this morning.", "Thanks.", "What could be done about Islamophobia in American? That's what we are asking you today. Your responses next."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "MARTIN CIZMAR, EAGLE SCOUT", "COSTELLO", "CIZMAR", "COSTELLO", "CIZMAR", "COSTELLO", "CIZMAR", "COSTELLO", "CIZMAR", "COSTELLO", "CIZMAR", "COSTELLO", "CIZMAR", "COSTELLO", "CIZMAR", "COSTELLO", "CIZMAR", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-321261", "program": "CNN 10", "date": "2017-09-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/15/sn.01.html", "summary": "Equifax`s Recent Data Breach; Response of North Korea to New U.N. Sanctions; NASA is Destroying the Cassini Spacecraft", "utt": ["I`m Carl Azuz for CNN 10. And Fridays are awesome! Hope yours is going well so far. Financially speaking, your credit is your trustworthiness to pay back a loan, might be for a house or a car, or something you buy in a credit card. One major company that keeps track of people`s credit is Equifax. You don`t sign up for Equifax and you can`t get rid of it. The agency just collects credit information on hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Here`s the bad news, Equifax has been hacked and that might have exposed a massive amount of personal information to people who should not have it. This is so concerning that the U.S. government which doesn`t usually comment on ongoing investigations has confirmed that it`s gotten involved to try to find out what went wrong.", "Equifax, one of the three big credit monitoring companies, those companies that track all of your finances and everything you do, just announced that hackers have broken into the company`s databases and stolen information on 143 million Americans. For perspective, that`s more than half of American adults, and the thing is, you might be affected even if you don`t use Equifax, because Equifax tracks everybody. So, what happened exactly? Hackers, we`re not sure who, stole names, birthdays, addresses, Social Security numbers and importantly, driver`s license numbers. This is extremely sensitive information that can be used to steal your identity. According to the company, they also got access to 209,000 people`s credit card numbers. This is the kind of thing that hackers can try to sell on the black market and fraudsters can then steal your tax refund at the end of the year, open up a bank account in your name, or in a pretty worse case scenario, print out fake IDs, get in trouble and police will be looking for you, not the fraudster. You might be affected by this, even if you`ve never heard of Equifax, because this company tracks everyone who`s applied for a loan, a mortgage, or open up a bank account.", "Lawsuits are expected over this. Equifax has been accused of not doing enough to protect people`s information from potential hacks. The agency is offering free temporary credit monitoring to those who might have been affected. Experts say people should sign up for that to check their own credit reports and they consider freezing their credit, which can make it harder for someone else to use your name to open an account. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency says many people in North Korea are malnourished and live under bad conditions, and the international penalties on the country for its recent nuclear test are designed to squeeze its economy more than ever. But in the capital, where CNN`s Will Ripley was recently allowed to travel, he didn`t hear people say they were worried.", "Here in Pyongyang, government officials are strongly condemning this latest round of U.N. Security Council sanctions, using words like evil, vicious, calling it a full scale economic blockade. But when you go out on the streets and speak with regular people, they don`t seem concerned at all. (voice-over): It`s tough to find a traffic light in Pyongyang. Traffic cops direct the flow of cars, the streets noticeably busier each time I come here, busier at least for now. The U.S. says the latest U.N. sanctions threaten to cut North Korea`s oil supply by nearly a third, which could spike prices for everything from taxis to energy. A ban on textile imports and the end of foreign labor contracts could further slash the income of this cash starve country. But if you Ri Hye Hyang, she`s not worried. Her refreshment stand has a steady flow of customers. She says life is improving despite round after round of increasingly heavy sanctions. We have no problems, she says. Everything I`m selling is made local. We don`t worry. We rely on ourselves. Kim Hye Song casually shrugs off threats from the United States. (on camera): The U.S. President Donald Trump said that these sanctions are just not a big deal and that there`s much worse to come. Does that worry you at all? (voice-over): We don`t care what the U.S. president says or what the outside world thinks about us, she says. We don`t worry because we believe in the leadership of Marshall Kim Jong-un. Keep in mind this is a very thin slice of life in this closed country. (on camera): It`s good. (voice-over): Reporters like us can only see what the government allows. But all over the North Korean capital, we see plenty of new construction, an increasingly modern skyline, a mandate from North Korea`s leader Kim Jong-un, determined to prove he can grow the economy and the nuclear program, all in the face of unprecedented sanctions for his repeated violations of international law. (on camera): You see these posters all over Pyongyang and they pretty much sum up North Korea`s official response to increase pressure from the", "More missiles. North Korean propaganda is built around their nuclear program. It symbolizes strength, independence, it`s key to their national identity. (on camera): Is there anything, anything at all that could get North Korea to walk away from its nuclear program? We`ll never give them up, says Ri Chang Son. If we did, it would mean our destruction. Around town, new poster shows a pair of hands ripping up U.N. sanctions resolutions. North Korea`s defiant message: they will never give up their nukes, even if that means life is about to get a lot harder.", "Ten-second trivia: Which of these astronomers is credited with discovering a gap between Saturn`s rings? Galileo, Copernicus, Cassini, or Kepler? Giovanni Domenico Cassini is the namesake of Saturn`s Cassini division, a gap in its rings.", "Not coincidentally, he`s also the namesake of NASA`s Cassini spacecraft, which launched toward the ringed planet in October of 1997. At a cost of over $3 billion, most of which was paid for by the U.S., Cassini sent back hundreds of thousands of pictures, and carried a probe that landed on one of Saturn`s moons. But NASA has set Friday as Cassini`s last, because it wants to control where the spacecraft goes when it runs out of fuel.", "And liftoff of the Cassini spacecraft on a billion mile trek to Saturn.", "Cassini left Earth almost two decades ago, and since then has beamed back a treasure trove of images and information from Jupiter, Saturn and many of the ringed planet`s mysterious moons. Cassini was also the mother ship for a probe that would land on Saturn`s largest moon Titan, a world of clouds made of methane and hydrocarbon lakes. It was the most remote spacecraft landing yet. While Titan`s close up was groundbreaking, another of Saturn`s moons, Enceladus, sparked even more attention.", "It`s a moon that my team discovered a water vapor plumes (ph). But not only is there liquid water underneath the surface, but there`s organic material, there`s a heat source.", "Those three things, if stable, over time, are all the ingredients needed to create life and scientists akin to protect it from any microbes, stood away on Cassini.", "The spacecraft is running out of fuel and it becomes increasingly difficult to navigate it for the system and what you want to avoid is to crash on one, on the icy moon, like Enceladus, where habitability and", "To avoid that scenario, Cassini is being sent on a suicide mission. On September 15th, it will die through Saturn`s atmosphere, burning up in a process, but in those final minutes, its antennas will be pointed towards home, sending back pressure information, right up until its fiery end. Robyn Curnow, CNN.", "Hard to imagine a conductor who`s more robotic than this. Of course, that`s kind of a point. It`s called YuMi. It doesn`t seem to have the finesse of Bugs Bunny, but it was recently taught to conduct a performance at Italy`s Verdi Theater. YuMi could not improvise on its own, and it would have been thrown off altogether if the musicians had played something different. But it seemed to give a successful performance even alongside superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli. Even if they didn`t hit the concert circuit, they still hit the concert circuit, and though YuMi didn`t baton an eye of the challenge, it`s one thing to have good conduct and conductors, it`s another thing to be one. And the human conductor ain`t passing the baton just yet. I`m Carl Azuz for CNN 10. We hope you orchestrate one exceptional weekend. 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{"id": "NPR-12531", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2012-04-06", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/04/06/150123937/how-homo-sapiens-became-masters-of-the-planet", "title": "How Homo Sapiens Became 'Masters Of The Planet'", "summary": "The first Homo sapiens appeared on the planet some 200,000 years ago. But even though they looked fully human, they didn't act fully human until they began creating symbolic art, some 100,000 years later. Paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall discusses those human origins in his book Masters of the Planet.", "utt": ["This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. We're broadcasting from the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. That's the one with the big, blue whale hanging from the ceiling. And besides the oceans, one of the main themes of the museum is human origins. Where did we all come from? And it may not be what you think.", "For example, did you know that homo sapiens, you and me, first appeared on Earth about 200,000 years ago? Those early humans would have looked almost exactly like us, but they didn't act fully human at that time or think like we do, and even though we are, and we were, are the same species.", "So what happened? What is it that clicked to make us the language-speaking, artistic, world-dominating species we are today? My next guest talks our beginnings in his new book \"Masters of the Planet: The Search for our Human Origins.\" Ian Tattersall is also curator of the Spitzer Hall of Human Origins here at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Welcome back to SCIENCE FRIDAY.", "Thank you, Ira.", "Tell us, you know, tell us why - I was really shocked that we are still the same homo sapiens. Well, how does that work?", "Well, species normally have quite a substantial longevity. I mean, 200,000 years is not a long time for a species to be in existence. But the earliest evidence we have of people who look just like us comes from sites in Africa that date to about 200,000 years ago.", "And so what does it mean that they were not fully human that we would think of today?", "Interestingly enough the archeological record that goes along with these early fossils that we can recognize as homo sapiens is pretty much the same as the fossil record that was left by the - the archeological record that was left by their contemporaries. Two hundred thousand years ago, there were several different kinds of hominid in the world, and in fact there had been several different kinds of hominid living simultaneously in the world really all the way back to the very beginning of the human family, something like seven million years ago.", "The human family tree, it turns out, has been very bushy. Every couple of years, I've had to redo my family tree of the human group, and I think I'm up to 23 species now that most people would agree are recognizable. And three or four of them at least have been in simultaneous occupation in the world at any one time.", "And so why did one succeed while the other 22 did not?", "I think it has to do with the fact that, at some point in its existence, Homo sapiens became an insuperable competitor. It became very intolerant of competition and able to sort of enforce that intolerance. And that involves a major behavioral change. And I think it was a change, basically, in cognition - the change in the way in which human beings process information about the world in their minds.", "And what was that? What was the advantage that they got?", "I think...", "Was it a brain - the brain changed different, or what happened?", "It wasn't simply a matter of brain size. Thirty thousand years ago, there were Neanderthals still existing in the world, a separate species of human that came into existence about the same time as Homo sapiens, but separately. We were - we evolved in Africa. The Neanderthals evolved in Europe, and they had brains just as big as ours. But they didn't behave in the same way that we behave today, and they behaved more like the early Homo sapiens that we find in Africa and...", "How do you figure out how a human who lived 150,000 years ago thought or behaved? How do you know that?", "Well, that's the key question, of course. And all we have to judge from - if we can't judge from raw brain size, what we can judge from is the archeological leavings of these early hominids. The material evidence they left of their behavior, which is mostly in the form of stone artifacts and of campsites and so forth, which give us some idea of the complexity of what they were doing. And the Neanderthals were great stone craftsmen. No question about it.", "But they were kind of stereotyped, in a way, in which they made tools. They didn't make tools with a kind of creativity and the inventiveness that was characteristics of the human beings who came along later.", "We've heard so many times that, you know, if a Neanderthal were next to you on the subway, you wouldn't know the difference. Is that true, or is that folk - urban folklore?", "To an extent. I think I would recognize a Neanderthal...", "...if it was next to me in the subway.", "And you have every day, on the - right.", "But, you know, we have considerable experience here in making reconstructions of ancient hominids - reconstructing how they looked in life. And it's very true, that when you sculpt a face onto a skull, you layer on the underlying tissues, the muscles and so forth and then the superficial tissues, and you've got this bold creature with no hair on its head or on its face. The look is very distinctive. It looks very, very different from Homo sapiens. Then when you put the wig on, it's much harder to tell apart.", "So that, in fact, we can make this kind of reconstruction and show it in a way in which it stands out from the rest. But if it sat next to you on the subway, you might not have too much of a notion.", "I'm Ira Flatow, and this is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR. If you'd like to ask a question, you can step up to the microphones we have there. We'd be very happy to talk with Ian Tattersall whose new book is \"Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins.\" And on the cover, you show three different hands. What are you trying to illustrate with that three different hands?", "Well, the cover came as a bit of a surprise to me. As a matter of fact...", "I hate it when that happens.", "But...", "But I think it's a very dramatic cover. In fact, what it shows is the hand of, I think, a gibbon or a siamang, and a hand of a chimpanzee, and the hand of a modern human. You can see the hand proportions are very different. And what you have there is two higher primates, two apes with very long, slender hands. So they're very good for grasping branches in the trees. And you'll notice that our own hand is much, much shorter. In fact, it's much broader, The axis of the hand is across, rather than long. And that is what makes it possible for us to manipulate items in the precise way in which we can do and make those stone tools that our predecessors made.", "You write that one important factor that is totally unique to hominids and is paradoxical is the possession of complex culture, especially as it's expressed in technology. Can you explain a little bit more about that?", "Yeah. Obviously, culture is in the strictest sense is not confined to human beings. Chimpanzees, for example, in different parts of Africa pass along, from one generation to another - they pass along particular ways of doing things. But no other creature has a culture of the depth and the richness that human beings have. And human beings have taken culture to a whole new level. And we have come - biologically, we've come a very long way in a very short time.", "And I think it's culture that has allowed us to do that because having culture as a buffer against the environment that's allowed different kinds of hominid to spread out over the world and occupy some very marginal environments, which they very often have had to abandoned. There's been this history of fragmenting of the human population which is exactly the circumstances under which you'd expect a lot of evolutionary change to happen.", "You also write in your book, that one of the great modifying - or catalysts for change, has been climate change over the years. Can you tell us about that?", "Yes, indeed. The last several million years have been a time of increasingly unsettled climates. The climate has gotten cold and warm on a larger timescale, as well on smaller timescales too, changing the environment. Any hominid groups staying in the same place would successively encounter lots and lots of different environments and it's ability to accommodate to environmental change which is one of the ingredients for our success in the world. But you have this effect of climate change and fragmentation of populations - human populations couldn't remain in one place forever.", "If an ice sheet comes and covers the place where you're living, you're not going to be staying there. You're going to be moving somewhere else more congenial. It's this effect of environmental, climatic and environment change on populations that really has provided the circumstances under which evolutionary innovations could be fixed in populations.", "After the break, lots more on human origins with my guest Ian Tattersall, author of the new book \"Masters of the Planet.\" Stay with us.", "I'm Ira Flatow, and this is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR.", "Welcome back. We're here at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, talking about the new book \"Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins\" with my guest Ian Tattersall. He's also curator of the Spitzer Hall of Human Origins here at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Yes, ma'am?", "UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: You have to excuse the simplicity of my question, but it's coming from a sixth-grade student of mine who asked me once: If we evolved from primates, how come there's no evidence of that evolution in primates currently?", "Well, you know, currently, we're looking at one slice in time. So there's just a sampling of a particular time point.", "Can I just interrupt for a second?", "Yeah.", "Point of reference is everybody thinks we came from monkeys.", "UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Right.", "Could you clear that up for us? Did we come from monkeys?", "No. We are not descended from monkeys. But monkeys and we are descended from the same common ancestor.", "Thank you. I just want to get that out of the way.", "Right.", "UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: I'll let him know.", "And the reason why, I think, for example, people say, well, why aren't chimpanzees - if it's such a good idea to get a big brain and to become human-like, why aren't chimpanzees doing the same thing? And I think, quite frankly, that the chimpanzees are already too committed to a particular kind of quadrupedal locomotion on the ground to become upright. Our ancestor was a much more generalized ancestor. It seems that upright walking was the original adaptation of the hominid group - of the general hominid group.", "And I suspect that hominids didn't start walking upright on the ground at a time when the forest cover in Africa was shrinking, simply because it was a good idea to do that. I think they've probably - the hominid ancestors probably already moved around in the trees, holding their trunks upright so that when they came down to the ground they would have been most comfortable moving upright. And clearly, that's not true for a chimpanzee today. A chimpanzee, if he wants to move over the ground, effectively, drops to all fours and moves off quadrupedally.", "Let's go to a question in the audience. Yes, sir.", "Hi. I was reading an article a while ago that was talking about whether humans will no longer have to evolve because we don't need to adjust to nature anymore because we are adjusting nature ourselves. I was wondering, what's your take on that?", "Well, I think, first of all, that the human ability to accommodate to the environment culturally meant we could go to many more different areas of the world than we would otherwise have been able to do. And therefore, we're more subject to fragmentation of our population by environmental change. That's one thing. And we evolved in this kind of, sort of, unsettled environmental picture. And human beings for the - or human precursors for the - virtually all of hominid history, have been thinly spread over the landscape.", "They have lived in very small densities, in very small groups, moving over large swaths of territory, which again, gives you good circumstances for isolation and evolutionary innovation. Since 10,000 years ago when our species became sedentary, settled down, first started living in villages, then towns and now in urban settings, our population has become huge. Our population is seven billion and increasing, and we're packed, cheek by jowl, over the surface of the Earth.", "And these are circumstances in which you could not imagine that significant new genetic innovations could become fixed. Population, the size of ours, is simply - has simply too much genetic inertia to change. So I think as long as demographic circumstances remain the same as they are today, Homo sapiens is going nowhere.", "Well, what is the mechanism that's preventing that exactly? You say we're bunched together. There are too many people together. Why is the - why does that stop evolution?", "It's extremely difficult to get the fixation of any genetic novelty arising in a very, very big population. To get the fixation of genetic novelties which arise spontaneously in populations, you really need to have a small unstable gene pool that can react to this kind of circumstance.", "Thank you for that question. Yes, ma'am.", "UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: I was wondering if you could talk about how technology is being applied in your field, and maybe how you're using at the museum - to keep things modern, talking about a very old topic.", "Well, the world is constantly changing, and this is true of paleoanthropology too. The human fossil record is expanding enormously. There are new discoveries that's being announced practically every week. There are new techniques of looking at all data that are becoming available online. So this is a very exciting thing to be involved in, and the problem is more a problem of keeping up with the change rather than thinking of ways to reflect that change.", "Mm-hmm. Talking with Ian Tattersall, author of \"Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins.\" What are some of the big gaps that you think we need to fill in? Or are there gaps in our history that...", "Well, I think with every new fossil that's found, the probability decreases that anybody will come up with a new fossil, will force everybody to rewrite the textbooks. They used to be obligatory. Every time a new fossil - a human fossil was announced, that the journalist would say, oh, this is going to...", "Rewrite the textbooks.", "...rewrite the textbooks, yeah. Now, we have a really good human fossil record, and we, I think, are perceiving the general outlines as this sort of very bushy experimental tree. What's really interesting, though, is what we can do with that data we have.", "A couple of years ago, I would never have been able to imagine that people would be in a position to reconstitute the diet of the Neanderthals from the little phytoliths, the little grains of mineral material that are gained from plants that are imbedded in the calculus that forms on the Neanderthal teeth. Who would've imagine this? A dentist's nightmare has sort of become a really good source of information about what our relatives did and ate in the past. This kind of thing is happening all the time. And so I'm not seeing huge gaps to be filled, but what I'm saying is a story that is being fleshed out enormously and in ways that are really impossible to anticipate.", "Do you think - people always talk about, you know, as we get better technology, maybe we'll be able to reconstruct the DNA of something...", "Mm-hmm.", "...either, you know, the DNA of a wooly mammoth or maybe the Neanderthal.", "Mm-hmm.", "Do you think that's going to be possible some time?", "Well, hopefully, it won't be possible in my lifetime. I think it would raise too many ethical questions. Homo sapiens has had a very bad, you know, history in the way in which it has dealt with its close relatives in the fossil and the living records. I mean, Neanderthals are gone now. We're working on the chimpanzees and the orangutans and the gorillas, and after that, that was - it will be the monkeys. I...", "You mean losing them all.", "Losing them. Well...", "Losing them, yeah.", "...we really are. And my gosh, if we recreated the Neanderthal by some miracle, what would we do with it?", "You know, it would raise some really extraordinary ethical issues that we haven't even began to grapple with.", "Yeah. Question in the audience?", "UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #3: The word paleo has been a big word on book covers these years, \"The Paleo Diets,\" et cetera, where these folks discussed that the best way for humans to eat is to eat pre-agricultural, in other words no grains, no rice, go back to the meats, go back to the protein and the fruits and the vegetables and the tubers, et cetera. Are you familiar with these books and them discussing how early people ate and how, our digestive system involved and how we should eat? Have you given that any thoughts?", "Yeah. There's always, you know, there's the Neanderthal diet, \"The Caveman Diet,\" the recommendation that you should eat this and that and the other, but what is quite extraordinary about our hominid family in general is how generalist we are. It's very interesting that there are some chimpanzee groups that live in an environments that are not too different from the kind of environment that our very early bipedal relatives lived in, and they live in a very, very different way. Chimpanzees coming out of the forest into tree-savanna surroundings eat exactly the same things that their relatives in the forest did.", "Our precursors coming out of the forest started exploiting a much wider range of foodstuffs from very early on, including, apparently, animal carcasses, at least regionally. And what this tells me is that we are incredibly generalist in terms of what we eat. So I can't imagine what you would describe a natural diet as being.", "And in your book you say that tapeworms can actually tell us something about our past diets. How does that work?", "You know, the tapeworm question is a very interesting one. We - and the idea is that we had to acquire the tapeworm from somewhere, and apparently the tapeworm that infects the human beings is related to a carnivore tapeworm. And probably, the easiest way of transmitting tapeworm cysts or whatever would have been for human beings at a very early stage to be feeding on the same carcasses that had been attacked by carnivores, again pointing towards a propensity for carnivory in early stage.", "Do you find yourself still having to defend the idea of human evolution?", "I think less often than I might fear. We have had very - we've had exhibitions on human evolution looked at by millions of people every year. We have brought original human fossils in to display to the general public to give people an idea of the richness of the record that we're dealing with, and we have run into really rather little objection from the quarter that you're suggesting.", "Yeah. Yeah. I'm Ira Flatow, and this is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR. Let's go to the, yes, the mic there.", "Hi, Beth Ann Freed(ph). Back to the food, I've heard few things recently about how cooking has affected our evolution and how we - I mean, I work with teeth and I see that our teeth aren't good for much but cooked food. Talking about all of these human ancestral cousins, how many of us had fire? And talking about the generalist nature of diet, which came first, being a generalists or cooking, and how did those come together?", "You know, that's an excellent question. I think the generalist tendency probably came first because we know our ancestors of three and a half, 4 million years were, presumably now, pursuing a generalist diet. The cooking argument is a very compelling one though, but it's entirely circumstantial. We know that about 2 million years ago, human or hominid brain sizes began to expand. For the first two or 3 million, maybe 4 million years of hominid evolution, brain size relative to body size had flatlined and remained basically in the ape range. And then suddenly, about 2 million years ago, the curve turned sharply upwards, and the human brain sizes, on average, start getting bigger very fast.", "Now, there's a penalty to developing a big brain. We may think we have big brains, and so it's got to be a good idea, but, actually, a big brain is a very costly organ to have. Our brains are about 2 percent of our body weight, but they can use up to 25 percent of all the energy...", "No kidding.", "...that we consume. And so there is a cost to be paid. And there is an argument that you could not have started to increase brain size without increasing the quality of the diet, and the most obvious way to increase the quality of the diet is actually to use cooking to make the nutrients in the diet much more available than they are in the raw state, and this is a very compelling argument. The only problem is that we have no physical evidence...", "It's just a theory.", "...to support it.", "Yeah. It's a theory about how you can get more...", "Yeah. It's a theory and it's a very beguiling theory, and it could even be true, but we don't have the physical evidence that we would want to substantiate it. In fact, there are people who argue that regular cooking came in quite late. We only begin to find campfires routinely as part of human occupation sites about 400,000 years ago. There is one instance in - from Israel reported of a succession of hearths dating from about 800,000 years ago, but it's an outlier until about 400,000 years ago. So between 2 million years ago when brains started to expand and 400,000 years ago, there's not a lot of really compelling evidence that people were cooking. Inferentially, it's a great story, but we're still looking for the hard evidence.", "But in science, a theory is not good enough. You need to have the evidence for it.", "Well, you know, in science, you know, we make a big thing out of science dealing with testable hypotheses and information, and yet there's a lot that we believe in science that we can't directly test. All we ask is that it be - that what we believe is consistent with what we can't test. And in that perspective, the circumstantial argument for cooking, it still retains a certain amount of attraction.", "Yeah. Ian Tattersall, thank you very much for taking time to be with us today.", "It's been a pleasure.", "Author of \"Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins.\" You can see the - you can hear the rest of our conversation with Ian Tattersall in our podcast."], "speaker": ["IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "BETH ANN FREED", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST", "IAN TATTERSALL", "IRA FLATOW, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-150588", "program": "RICK'S LIST", "date": "2010-5-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1005/03/rlst.02.html", "summary": "Arizona Police Officer Pushing Back Against Immigration Law", "utt": ["Welcomes back. I'm Rick Sanchez. I want to bring you up to date now on a story that's really got a lot of folks scratching their heads. I mean, on both sides. If you look at this story, you look at this situation that's going on right now in Arizona, it's making a lot of police officers in particular do things that to them is uncomfortable. Take, for example, the story we're about to share with you. This is the police officer who lives in a community where most of the people who live around him are Hispanic, immigrants. He goes to church with them, lives with them, knows them. Many of them are even illegal immigrants. He says that this law is not going to make him trusted. The word he uses is bad guy, as opposed to good guy. Listen to him as he takes you through his thought process. Our reporter is Thelma Gutierrez.", "I have to do my job. I have to serve and protect.", "It's not often a police officer speaks out publicly against the laws he's sworn to uphold. But Officer Martin Escobar, a naturalized citizen and a 15- year veteran of the Tucson Police Department, says he can no longer remain silent. We met to talk about the new Arizona law that Escobar calls unconstitutional. And as a police officer, he says he doesn't want to have to enforce it. As a private citizen, he's challenging it in federal court.", "I said, OK, you know what? It's got to be done. It's the right thing for me to do. And sometimes you've got to stand up for what you believe.", "Officer Escobar took us to the area he patrols on Tucson's south side. It's where he grew up. (on camera): What is this neighborhood like?", "This is a predominantly Hispanic community, predominantly Mexican community here.", "Lots of new immigrants.", "Lots of new immigrants coming through here. A lot of people that don't know how to speak English.", "He says he and other officers work hard to gain trust in their communities. It's how crime gets solved.", "I want to stay here by myself because I have no family here.", "But now even the children are running scared he will deport them. (on camera): So they're afraid of you?", "Of course. Of course. I don't want them to be afraid of me. Officers, police officers are supposed to be the good guys. We're not the bad guys.", "Under the law, Escobar would have to investigate the immigration status of anyone he stopped, detained or arrested if he suspected they were in the country illegally. (on camera): Under this law, you can be sued if you don't investigate?", "Yes, that's correct.", "Does that worry you?", "Yes, of course it does.", "Within a week of passing the new law, Arizona lawmakers amended it, tightening provisions that critics claimed would lead to racial profiling. The state's governor says racial profiling will not be tolerated in Arizona. But Escobar knows how things work on the streets. (on camera): Are you saying that in Arizona, if you come upon a person with an Irish accent and a person with a Spanish accent, you'll investigate the person with the Spanish accent?", "It's most likely that person with the Spanish accent is going to get investigated.", "It's that assumption that bothers him most. (on camera): It sounds like you can relate to what some of the people are feeling right now.", "Well, and that's exactly what I'm saying. And if you having (ph) that's why some people are not going to understand what the feeling is unless they've been through it. I've been through it. And that's a school picture when I'm in elementary school. I didn't have one -- one word of English. I remember then, at that time, being called a wetback, you know? That used to sting so bad.", "Officer Escobar remembers being questioned by border patrol agents as a child. And he says he knows exactly what some of these children are feeling. He argues in his lawsuit that determining who is in Arizona illegally should not be his responsibility. He says under federal law, that job is reserved for trained federal immigration agents. Thelma Gutierrez, CNN, Tucson, Arizona.", "And just when things in Arizona could not get any crazier, they are not. Sheriff Joe Arpaio has just announced that he will not be running for governor of Arizona. Not be running for governor of Arizona. We have been following this for you throughout the day. That's the news, as we understand it, but I believe that he will make a statement which should be coming up in the next 25 minutes or so. When it does, whether it's on our watch, here on RICK'S LIST, or on \"THE SITUATION ROOM\" with Wolf Blitzer, you will see it live. Now to one of our premiere lists. Last hour I counted down a list of states with the most illegal immigrants, all the way from 10 to six. It came from statemaster.com. Now I want to bring you the top five. Here we go. Number five: Florida. -- 337,000 illegal immigrants said to live in Florida. Number four: Illinois -- 432,000 illegal immigrants live in Illinois. Number three: New York, with 489,000 illegal immigrants living there. Number two: Texas, 1,041,000 illegal immigrants live in Texas. But number one, as you can see right there is California, 2,209,000 illegal immigrants living in the state of California.", "When you think of a volcano, you think of, like, Hawaii and long words (ph) like that. You don't think of Iceland. You think it's too cold to have a volcano there.", "I guess that's why they're the most trusted name in news.", "Stop that, Mr. President. I was kidding. I've done segments on this. Here's the president of the United States, owned the room at White House Correspondents' Dinner, and he's making fun of me. And if that isn't bad enough, he also makes fun of my colleague, Wolf Blitzer. Nobody puts homey in a corner. OK? We'll be right back. I'm defending Wolf Blitzer? We'll be right back with RICK'S LIST."], "speaker": ["SANCHEZ", "OFC. MARTIN ESCOBAR, TUCSON POLICE", "THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ESCOBAR", "GUTIERREZ", "ESCOBAR", "GUTIERREZ", "ESCOBAR", "GUTIERREZ (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GUTIERREZ", "ESCOBAR", "GUTIERREZ (voice-over)", "ESCOBAR", "GUTIERREZ", "ESCOBAR", "GUTIERREZ (voice-over)", "ESCOBAR", "GUTIERREZ (voice-over)", "ESCOBAR", "GUTIERREZ (voice-over)", "SANCHEZ", "SANCHEZ", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SANCHEZ"]}
{"id": "CNN-291189", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-08-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/12/cnr.19.html", "summary": "U.S. Government Says No to Medical Marijuana", "utt": ["A major setback for supporters of legalized pot with the U.S. government deciding not to lift restrictions on marijuana. After a lengthy review, officials announced the drug will remain a schedule I drugs, which is defined as \"having no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse and with potentially severe psychological and physical dependence.\" That keeps marijuana in the same category as heroine, LSD and ecstasy.", "Comedian, writer and marijuana advocate, Tommy Chong, joins us right now. Tommy, good to have you with us once again.", "Thank you.", "Why do you think the DEA continues to resist calls to reclassify --", "Well, if we legalize marijuana, then we don't need the DEA. So they are really trying to hang on to their job.", "Well, they do more than worry about marijuana. There's a lot of other drugs out there, surely.", "Name them.", "There's ecstasy, cocaine, heroine.", "That sells as much as marijuana?", "Well not as much.", "You see, marijuana is the number-one cash crop this America for years and years and years. You know what that means? Number-one cash crop in the world. Billions of dollars. That's when it was illegal. Now once it becomes legal, it's going to be the biggest cash crop in the world for beating out everything. And so we won't need police to tell us that we can't use this miraculous plant. It will be legal and it will be available for everybody. And it's -- we're coming into that now.", "I mean, there was the opening today that they created allowing more marijuana growth for medical research, many seeing that as a step forward. What do you see as the implications?", "It's lame attempt that the government -- first of all, when the government grew medical marijuana, and so on, it was a mess. It's horrible. It's terrible. That's why the black market, the people that grew it, know how to grow pot. They were supplying all the medical people with it now. And now that we've got medical marijuana, we can do that legally. We don't have to hide or anything.", "That's the thing. You have the federal government essentially saying, this isn't legal but you have 25 states and D.C., District of Columbia, saying it's OK for either medical use or recreational use.", "Think about it. The DEA, first of all, they have forfeiture laws. If they catch you with a marijuana garden, they can take your house, your car, whatever cash you have in the house. If you have a weapon, a gun in the house with your pot plant, you can go to jail for five years.", "One of the things which is interesting about this decision by the DEA keeping marijuana as schedule I level, if you look at schedule II, that's drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine. It's a difficult case to make that marijuana is more dangerous than those two drugs, isn't it?", "Well, first of all, if you approach it like -- are we talking recreation here or medicine?", "Well, either or both.", "Well, recreation, like smoking, for instance, is recreational habit and it's bad for you. But yet, you know, the government allows it, even though it's proven it causes cancer. The government tells you that, but it's still legal. It's still allowed. Whereas, marijuana is the opposite. Marijuana helps people with illnesses. It's been shown. You know, Sanjay Gupta showed that young baby, that 1-year-old baby, you know? And so --- Montel Williams, he has M.S. to the point that if he didn't smoke marijuana every day, he would be in a wheelchair, he would be dead. So for the government to have the ignorant attitude about that, it's not medical, is just total -- it's another lie. It's just a big die.", "But will it be legalized anytime soon, executive order? What do you think?", "It's going to be legal, I hope --", "You said in your lifetime.", "I hope President Obama will make an executive order and legalize it.", "OK, we'll see.", "Tommy, always a pleasure.", "Thank you.", "Thank you for being so passionate about the issue.", "Thank you.", "One in a million, Tommy Chong.", "Tommy Chong, there he was.", "Well, we haven't seeing rugby in the Olympics for nearly a century, but the squad from Fiji is bringing the thunder. What makes the gold medal victory so special, next on NEWSROOM L.A."], "speaker": ["VAUSE", "SESAY", "TOMMY CHONG, COMEDIAN & WRITER & MARIJUANA ADVOCATE", "SESAY", "CHONG", "VAUSE", "CHONG", "VAUSE", "CHONG", "VAUSE", "CHONG", "SESAY", "CHONG", "VAUSE", "CHONG", "VAUSE", "CHONG", "VAUSE", "CHONG", "VAUSE", "CHONG", "SESAY", "CHONG", "VAUSE", "SESAY", "CHONG", "SESAY", "CHONG", "SESAY", "VAUSE", "SESAY"]}
{"id": "CNN-354912", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-11-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/17/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Trump Answers Written Questions from Special Counsel; \"Yellow Vests\" Demand President Macron Lower Fuel Prices; U.K. Prime Minister May Moves Quickly to Fill Vacant Cabinet Posts.", "utt": ["A key milestone in the Russia probe. President Trump said he's answered written questions from Robert Mueller. Those questions about possible collusion with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign. Mr. Trump also said that he wrote the answers, not his lawyers. Our Kaitlan Collins reports from the White House.", "After 24 hours of Twitter silence about the Russia investigation, President Trump addressing it out loud today from the Oval Office.", "There should have never been any Mueller investigation.", "Announcing he's finished the written answers to questions from special counsel Robert Mueller and even penned them himself.", "I write the answers. My lawyers don't write answers. I write answers.", "Trump met with his legal team nearly every day this week and despite his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, raising concerns about some of the questions...", "No collusion.", "-- Trump said he hasn't submitted them yet, but doesn't have any problems.", "But they're not very difficult questions.", "The president insisting he's not bothered by the Russia investigation, despite writing in all caps the day before that it is a witch hunt like no other in American history and has gone absolutely nuts.", "I like to take everything personally, because you do better that way.", "Trump suggesting investigators from the special counsel's office were setting him up to perjure himself.", "Gee, was the weather sunny or was it rainy? He said it may have been a good day. It was rainy. Therefore, he told a lie. He perjured himself.", "The back and forth with the special counsel coming as the president is weighing shaking up his own staff. Today, when Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, standing over his shoulder, he said he's not done making changes yet.", "I'm extremely happy. I'm very happy with almost all of my cabinet. And, you know, changes are made because they're always made, especially after midterms.", "Sources say Trump has decided to remove Nielsen from her post, but he hasn't picked a replacement yet and there are questions in Washington about who wants to work in a White House engulfed in chaos. Now as the president continues to search for more people to bring into his administration while he's considering getting rid of some, we have learned from sources that the Florida attorney general Pam Bondi is scheduled to meet with Trump while he's in Florida next week for his Thanksgiving vacation, someone whose name has been floated for not only the attorney general post --", "-- but also for Kirstjen Nielsen's job over at the Department of Homeland Security. While all this is going on, a senior administration official made a stunning remark to Jake Tapper earlier today, saying that there are people in this administration who are arsonists and people in this administration who are firefighters. And they said -- and I'm quoting this senior administration official now -- \"The president is looking to get rid of the firefighters. The more he does, the faster his administration is going to burn down\" -- Kaitlan Collins, CNN, the White House.", "Also in Washington, also at the White House, CNN's Jim Acosta is back in the White House press corps. On Friday a judge ruled that the Trump administration must return his press credentials pending a full legal resolution of CNN's lawsuit. CNN launched an important case after the White House revoked Acosta's pass last week following a heated exchange with the president. Mr. Trump said the ruling is not a big deal. My colleague, CNN's chief White House correspondent, welcomed the interim decision.", "I just want to say something very briefly and that is I want to thank all of my colleagues in the press who supported us this week. And I want to thank the judge for the decision he made today. And let's go back to work.", "Major roadways across France could be shut down this weekend and that's because protesters across the country are planning to block them. You can see them already. They're demanding French president Emmanuel Macron do something to lower the price of fuel. They call themselves Yellow Vests, part of the reflective gear that they're required to keep in their cars in case of emergency. CNN European affairs commentator, Dominic Thomas, is with us in the French capital. Dominic, is this only -- I know this is the official reason for the protest. Is this only about the price of fuel and fuel tax or is this also about the president, Emmanuel Macron?", "Cyril, the two are inextricably linked. Of course, people are upset about the fuel prices. This is an opportunity to -- to launch a -- a national demonstration; interestingly enough, one that has been launched through social media, not through the traditional powers of the trade unions. But, of course, it is also an opportunity to indicate profound dissatisfaction with the ways in which Emmanuel Macron's reform measures are working out, now almost two years into his presidency. This is really a kind of barometer of where things stand on the French political landscape.", "Macron had promised an economic revival for France during his campaign. Did that materialize?", "Well, the big problem is that Macron is facing -- and he's realizing this now as he is moving well into the presidency -- is that when he came to power, he came to power thanks to a movement. He does not have a political party as such with deep -- sort of position in French society and represented in local councils, departments, mayoral offices and so on. And the French system moves very slowly. The process of getting things through parliament, decrees and of change actually coming out and having demonstrable deliverables takes a very long time. Having said that, some of the measures that he has put into place that concern, tax cuts on the corporations and the super wealthy have come into place. This has further exacerbated tensions between those that are struggling in French society and the super elite that he is seen as really representing. So of course the rising cost of oil prices, of gas prices, petrol prices and so on has disproportionately impacted a section of the population that feels left behind by this presidency, a presidency that many supported, that many welcomed, the kind of change. But the change has not translated into the pocketbooks of the average French person.", "By the way, Dominic, as we speak, we see live pictures of the Yellow Vests blocking roads in France. For anybody unfamiliar with French protests, you see the car block? That's the exact point of the protest. Inflict some pain on people who use the roads and just people in general and try and block the country to make that statement. Dominic, protests in France, frequent. We've seen pictures like these before. Some are successful and they force the government to change course or change a policy. Others not. How do you predict that? How does that work?", "Emmanuel Macron certainly has been unrelenting when it has come to trying to move forward and implement his measures. In fact, many would argue he's very disconnected from the voice of the people. He's not a very good listener. He has his ideas and he wants to go about implementing them. The interesting thing here is this is a national demonstration. This is going to take place not just in the main city, capital of Paris, but in all of --", "-- the areas in what we may call the provinces, in the areas that have been so impacted by the question of rising oil prices. These are the areas in which the public infrastructure and transports and others develop when people rely on their vehicles to get around. Now of course, the French system relies on testing. The litmus test is when policies or decrees or changes are being enacted to see whether or not people will take to the street and there's a mechanism for doing this. In this particular case, the national nature of it and the amount of people that we're potentially going to see involved in this, the ways in which this is impacting so many people in French society, is likely to resonate with the French president. He'll have to take this seriously.", "Absolutely. The French president, the French presidency is only a few hundred meters away from where you are. No doubt Macron is sitting there and all of the information about everything that is going to happen today in France is going to be fed up to him. How many people are protesting? How much paralysis is there? And that's going to influence his decision-making. Dominic Thomas reporting to us live from our Paris bureau, thank you so much. British prime minister Theresa May is wasting no time rebuilding her fractured cabinet after the disastrous rollout of her Brexit plan. The terms of that agreement cost her two cabinet secretaries and five other officials. It was an embarrassing setback by any measure. CNN's Bianca Nobilo reports from London.", "A quieter, darker Westminster at the end of a tumultuous week. MPs have gone home to their constituencies to test the mood of their voters. So has the prime minister, after another round in her unusual media blitz.", "If there's no deal, I have said that E.U. citizens living here in the U.K. will continue to have their rights protected. I would expect other countries in the E.U. to do the same for U.K. citizens living in their country.", "Order.", "After a week of resignations of being mauled in the Commons, Theresa May's mood is an Elsonian (ph) England expects, resilient, brilliantly determined. She appears to have stanched the bleeding with senior ministers rallying to her side Friday.", "For people, the greatest price that could be paid would be to have no Brexit at all. I think that would be a betrayal of the British people.", "Reinforcing the ranks, the prime minister has named a new Brexit secretary, Stephen Barclay, and brought another loyalist, Amber Rudd, back into the cabinet. But the rumbling among the hardcore Brexiteers on the Conservative backbenches threatens to mutate into revolt. The ink still drying on letters calling for a vote of no confidence.", "And they cannot overlook that she doesn't have the numbers to pass her Brexit deal through the House of Commons. Dissent in the chamber has only grown louder as has the voices of protesters calling for a second referendum.", "The future of the prime minister and the complex Brexit deal unveiled this week is shrouded in uncertainty, as the clock ticks down to B-Day, March 29th, 2019 -- Bianca Nobilo, CNN, London.", "Thank you for watching. I'm Cyril Vanier. 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{"id": "CNN-405360", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-07-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/13/nday.04.html", "summary": "Judge To Decide If Trump's Niece Can Speak About New Book", "utt": ["Today, a judge in New York is expected to decide if Mary Trump, the president's niece, will be allowed to talk about her tell-all book about Donald Trump. She has been gagged, thus far, from promoting it, though the book will be released tomorrow. Joining us now is CNN chief legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin. Jeffrey, great to see you.", "Good morning.", "So, why can she publish the book but she can't talk about it?", "Because there -- well, she can -- because of this court order. But frankly, this court order is outrageous because there is a deeply-held principle in American law that there should be no prior restraints. You should not stop people from speaking, stop people from publishing under virtually any circumstances. Now, the problem that she faces, potentially, is if she violated her non-disclosure agreement -- and we don't know if she did -- she could have to pay damages, and that would be appropriate. But stopping her from speaking is something that's really counter to the First Amendment and how the courts work. So I anticipate that at this point, the judge will say well, she can speak but she may have to live with the consequences.", "Speaking of being prevented from speaking, Michael Cohen, the president's longtime fixer and personal attorney, was ferried back to federal prison this weekend. Is it because he refused to sign a document saying that he would not publish a book or that he would not speak to the media?", "Well, that's certainly what his lawyers say. And, you know, when you go to prison you give up certain rights, obviously. When you are on parole you give up certain rights. Well, the question in the Cohen case is is he being singled out for special treatment for being -- is he being told that he can't speak because it may damage President Trump? That would be wrong. That would be counter to the First Amendment. If he's being treated like everyone else, then I don't think he'd a have a ground to complain. The question is is this restriction on his speech something that everyone gets or is it just to protect the president. That's something that's very important to know.", "What's the answer?", "I don't know. I mean, I think we need to hear more from the Bureau of Prisons. We need to hear -- you know, just more facts. What are the requirements that are imposed on all citizens? I mean, this is an unusual situation because she -- he was released because of the virus. This wasn't like a normal parole release. So, I mean, it's an unusual situation but it's also an unusual restriction. I mean, remember, going -- Martin Luther King wrote \"Letter from Birmingham Jail.\" A lot of people write things in prison that ultimately get published. And there's a real question here about whether Michael Cohen is being singled out because he's critical of the president. That's something that we need to know.", "Well, I mean, as far as the reporting I've seen there's no standard probation form that includes language about not being able to speak to the press.", "And -- but if that's the case and if there is something that's being -- that is just designed to silence Michael Cohen, that would be inappropriate and probably unlawful. You know, the problem for Michael Cohen is that he has to litigate this from back in prison.", "Yes.", "And, you know, that's a -- I mean, it's just a disastrous situation for him, needless to say.", "And then if you look at the split-screen of Roger Stone -- whose sentence was commuted for seven felonies and he was commuted by the president, as you know, late on Friday -- and Michael Cohen going back to prison. At the moment, we're told he's in solitary confinement because of having to quarantine. And so, Roger Stone is free to say whatever he wants, it appears.", "Well, and not only that, while Roger Stone was out on bail he threatened the judge. He put out a social media post that had a -- like a bullet target by Judge Amy Berman Jackson. He almost had his bail revoked. So it wasn't like he was a model citizen out when he was -- when he was out on bail, and doing so publicly. So, I mean, the contrast between the two -- I mean, there's no allegation that Michael Cohen behaved inappropriately in prison. All he did, apparently, was write a book. But, you know, it's the whole story with how the president and the Justice Department have treated the president's enemies and how they've treated their friends. You know, Michael Flynn gets his conviction overturned, Roger Stone gets a commutation. You know, the whole Russia investigation is now under investigation, itself, by the Justice Department. But, Michael Cohen, who is an enemy of the president, gets locked up, apparently. And we'll see whether it's, appropriately, simply because he wrote a book.", "OK. We'll also see what the judge decides about Mary Trump and what she can talk about.", "It's an important thing. I mean, you know, people don't realize how unusual prior restraints are and how inappropriate and wrong they are. The idea of telling someone you can't talk, you can publish a book is really counter to all of American First Amendment law.", "Jeffrey Toobin, thank you very much.", "All right.", "President Trump just retweeted a tweet that claims, without any proof, that the CDC is lying about the coronavirus. Why is the president doing this? Why is this his focus? We discuss with a former Republican lawmaker, next."], "speaker": ["ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN CHIEF LEGAL ANALYST, FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR (via Cisco Webex)", "CAMEROTA", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-139949", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-7-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/01/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Body of Michael Jackson to be Taken to Neverland, Public Viewing Planned; Michael Jackson's Will to be Filed Today; Nurse Claims Michael Jackson Begged for Drugs; Fans Flock to Apollo Theater to Pay Tribute to Michael Jackson", "utt": ["We're coming to the top of the hour now, on this Wednesday, July 1st. Welcome to AMERICAN MORNING. I'm Kiran Chetry.", "And good morning to you. I'm John Roberts. Here's what's on the agenda this morning. The big stories that we'll be breaking down for you in the next 15 minutes. A nurse who claims that she treated Michael Jackson is telling her shocking story to CNN this morning. Cherilyn Lee says back in April, Jackson begged for a powerful intravenous sedative that's used in operating rooms so that he could sleep. That nurse spoke exclusively to CNN overnight.", "And details are also trickling out about Michael Jackson's will which could be made public later today. We're also learning that there may be a public viewing as well as a private memorial service at Neverland Ranch later this week. We're going to get more on that live from the Jackson family home in a moment.", "And it only took about eight months but Minnesota finally has a new junior senator and he could give Democrats the ultimate weapon in Washington. More on that coming up in just a minute.", "We begin, though, this morning with developing news on the investigation into Michael Jackson's death. And a nurse who claims she treated Jackson is speaking out, making some shocking claims that Michael Jackson was desperately seeking a very powerful sedative. It's a drug primarily used in operating rooms and have very dangerous side effects. Overnight, the nurse, Cherilyn Lee, sat down exclusively with our Drew Griffin. Their conversation is brand new this morning. It's something you'll see only here on AMERICAN MORNING.", "Michael Jackson wanted a medical attendant to give him an IV drip of Diprivan just so he could sleep.", "Yes. Yes.", "Scary.", "Very scary. This is why he started doing it. I had this medicine before. It worked for me before. And I said, well, you know -- then he says the name, and I didn't understand. I said, well, who gave it to you? My doctor. And he was so adamant, like he totally believed that his doctor said this is safe. He said this is --", "Did he say what doctor?", "He wouldn't tell me. I said who is the doctor? And if he gave it to you, where is he? I mean, why are you asking me? You know? And he said, I don't know where he is. It was a long time ago. But I know this worked for me. And he -- he actually sat there and he said, I'm telling you, when he put -- when I have that IV in my hand, when I have it in my hand, he just kind of went on -- when it drips in my body, the first drop, I'm asleep. And all I want to do is sleep. You know, I've watched my children, they're sleeping. You know, I just want to go to sleep. I want to sleep eight hours so I can be refreshed the next day.", "But don't you think it's odd he's asking for this super strong medicine?", "Super strong. Yes, that was odd.", "Without asking for a regular sleeping pill.", "Yes. Well, this is -- and I said have you taken sleeping pills? He said they don't work. He said, I don't want those things, they don't work. I want it in an IV. I don't want pills. I don't want any pills.", "You said no?", "And I -- oh, my goodness, not only did I say no, I didn't know the medication. And I went to my office to get my PDR. So I said the physician's desk reference. It's just like the bible of medicine. I said this medication is not good. He said I want to sleep. And I looked at him and that was the first time I got this chill through my body and I said, Michael, if you take that medicine, you might not wake up.", "What was his response?", "He said, I need to have somebody here to just monitor me. I said, it isn't having someone monitoring you. You just don't need to have this. He said if somebody stay here and monitor me with this IV, then I would be OK. I would be OK because they're going to be here 24 hours or 12 hours to monitor me so I could sleep eight hours.", "Wow.", "It's astounding what she's saying. And we're going to hear in just a few minutes a little bit more from Cherilyn Lee about this frantic call that she got from Jackson's security team she says last weekend and why -- why she's deciding to come forward now. She said she's not seeking fame, but she felt it was important to put it out there and try to set the record straight.", "Yes, exactly. So many people are saying so many different things.", "Yes.", "There are so many other new developments this morning as well surrounding the death of the pop icon. We could get our first look at a will that Michael Jackson apparently filed back in 2002. We're also learning more about a public viewing being planned at the Neverland Ranch and when Jackson's body will be taken there. Our Ted Rowlands is live for us outside of the Jackson family home in Encino, California. What's the latest on the will, first of all, Ted?", "Well, John, the latest is the family has it, the family attorneys have a copy of this will. We do expect that that will be filed as early as this morning in Los Angeles court. You remember two days ago when the family went to court, originally, they said in their petition that there was no will in existence. Well, now, they acknowledged they have a copy of it. And they say that they do expect that to be a major part of the probate process as it moves forward because it is the only will out there that has surfaced. It is a little -- you know, from 2002, one of the things in that will, we're told, is that the children -- Michael Jackson's wishes for his children are that his mother, Katherine, take care of them. That is a huge thing that the family, of course, has petitioned for as well. Those proceedings going on. But the bottom line is there's a will, and the Jackson family has acknowledged they've seen it and it appears to be valid.", "One of the other big developments that we're following here, Ted, its reports of a big public viewing at the Neverland Ranch. What's the latest on that?", "Well, the latest is it's getting late. It's Wednesday morning now. We've been told that on Thursday morning that Michael Jackson's body will go from Los Angeles up to the Neverland Ranch, and that there'll be some sort of public viewing into the weekend and then some sort of private memorial service tentatively scheduled for Sunday. Now, Jackson's family attorneys say that nothing has been set in stone and they are still working out the details. But it appears that Neverland Ranch is going to be in the mix here in terms of the memorial service for Michael Jackson.", "What's the thinking on the funeral? I heard potentially Sunday?", "For the private funeral?", "Right.", "Yes. That's been laid out there. But, again, the family attorney last night says that none of this had been set in stone. But it appears, though, they're ramping it up for a public ceremony of some sort, possibly a viewing, and then a private ceremony after that on Sunday after the fourth of July.", "All right. Ted Rowlands for us this morning in Encino. Ted, thanks so much for that.", "Well, thousands lined up in the spot where it all began. Fans came to the world-famous Apollo Theater in Harlem for a poignant celebration of Michael Jackson's life. The superstar was only 9 years old when he made his debut there winning Amateur Night. Jackson and his brothers once did 31 shows at the Apollo in a week. They got paid $1,000 for that at the time. Our T.J. Holmes is there for the tribute. And, you know, it's funny, Amateur Night, that's a tough crowd. If you can get them to cheer for you during Amateur Night at the Apollo, you got it made. But it was --", "They made that point yesterday. It was pointed out. They said, you know what, today you got this \"American Idol\" and all this stuff. You get to text in your vote. You know, you had a crowd, you had to get in front of them.", "Right.", "And you need to perform.", "And they either booed you off the stage or they loved you.", "And Amateur Night continues to this day. They're doing Michael Jackson tributes again tonight for Amateur Night. But yesterday, I mean, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Billie Holiday, before we knew those names, before the world knew those names, those had to play (ph) in the Apollo. The same goes for Michael Jackson. And that is why it was so important for thousands to be there yesterday. They didn't come to cry. It wasn't a solemn scene. It wasn't a sad scene. Let me show you what it was.", "Thousands of people but just 600 at a time filed through Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater on Tuesday to celebrate Michael Jackson's life and legacy. Some cried, some laid flowers. Everybody danced.", "I'm here to support Michael and just have his legacy live on because his music will never die, never die. He was a wonderful man.", "I came out, celebrate the life and legacy of Michael Jackson and to remember all the good things that he did in his life and the good music he brought to us.", "I want to pay tribute to someone whom I loved ever since he was knee high.", "ABC easy as 1-2-3.", "Jackson was only 9 years old when the Jackson Five won the Apollo's Amateur Night contest back in 1967.", "You are our Michael then. You are our Michael now. You'll be our Michael forever.", "He is our legend. Michael started here with these people, but he became world renowned.", "Fans waited hours. Some waited all night long for a chance to pay their respects to the King of Pop.", "Michael Jackson? Oh, Lord, I thank God for Michael Jackson the way he left us.", "Michael Jackson will never die. That he's going to live right here forever.", "You can still feel the love that you have and giving it out to everybody. And I'm so", "And really guys, that was kind of the thing we saw yesterday as well. Of course, Michael Jackson, world renowned. People all over the world love him. But yesterday it was almost like the community there -- the black community reclaiming this man. And there was at times even a rift, seemingly, at least, with the black community that, oh, he's going off and he's forgetting where he's from. That kind of an attitude. No. Yesterday, it was all Michael Jackson. We helped launch him. We were with him every step of that journey. We never left him. And it was really a sense of he's ours (ph).", "You know, it will also be interesting to see how many people go out there if there is indeed a public viewing of Michael Jackson at Neverland Ranch.", "Oh, wow. I can't imagine what that's going to be like. I mean, just yesterday -- and again when James Brown -- they did the same thing with James Brown at the Apollo. But James Brown, they brought his body there to the Apollo. So those lines were unbelievable down the road as well. Of course, Michael Jackson's body wasn't there at the Apollo yesterday. But still, as I was explaining earlier, 125th is where the Apollo is. The line went down to 135th. We're talking ten blocks, a hot, hot day. And then they got drenched. There was a storm. We had to shut down our live truck for a while, the Setra (ph), because the storm was so bad.", "Yes, it was bad.", "Yes.", "So they were standing on it. They stayed in it. And just about all of them got to go in yesterday.", "Some good memories there.", "Yes.", "T.J., thanks so much for that.", "Nice to see you.", "All right.", "Also new this morning, former \"Saturday Night Live\" comedian Al Franken is heading to Washington. The state's highest court ruled him the winner of Minnesota's Senate race after months of recounts and challenges. Franken's opponent, incumbent Republican Norm Coleman, conceded yesterday. This gives Democrats that magic number, a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate. The governor of South Carolina revealing more intimate details about his life. In an interview with \"The Associated Press,\" Governor Mark Sanford says he crossed the line with a handful of other women during his marriage but not to the point of actually having sexual relations. Sanford also went on to say that his mistress from Argentina is his soul mate, but he's trying to fall back in love with his wife. The state's attorney general is looking into the governor's travel records to see if any state money was used to pay for his dalliance. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he's checking with lawyers to change the way service members are discharged for violating the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. Gates says that he is especially concerned about members of the Armed Forces who are ousted by jilted lovers or other third parties. This comes just one day after President Obama reaffirmed his pledge to overturn that law.", "Well, we told you a little bit earlier when we heard from her, a nurse who claims she treated Michael Jackson back in April then he asked her for this powerful sedative that's usually only given in hospitals in operating rooms. Well, now, she talks about the warnings she gave Michael Jackson saying it could kill you. In her own words when we come back. It's 12 minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE UNIT CORRESPONDENT", "CHERILYN LEE, NURSE WHO CLAIMS SHE TREATED JACKSON", "GRIFFIN", "LEE", "GRIFFIN", "LEE", "GRIFFIN", "LEE", "GRIFFIN", "LEE", "GRIFFIN", "LEE", "GRIFFIN", "LEE", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROBERTS", "ROWLANDS", "ROBERTS", "ROWLANDS", "ROBERTS", "ROWLANDS", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "T.J. 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{"id": "CNN-127952", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2008-6-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0806/24/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Hillary Gears Up to Campaign with Obama; McCain Appears with Arnold; Dobson Takes Swipe at Obama, Dem Hopeful Hits Back", "utt": ["Happening now, the Clintons stay in the picture. She's back at her day job, talking to reporters. He's out with a new statement about Barack Obama. We're tracking their sensitive relationship with the presumptive Democratic nominee. Also, John McCain adds star power to his energy policy rollout. But Arnold Schwarzenegger and McCain don't entirely see eye to eye. This hour, conflict in California. And a new slap at Obama from the religious right, a top evangelical leader accusing the Democrat of distorting the Bible. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Well, begin with Hillary Clinton, she was welcomed back to the U.S. Senate today by open arms by Democrats eager to unite their party. She showed no outward sign of her disappointing defeat by Barack Obama, but she faced some serious questions about her future relationship with Obama and her political ambitions. Senator Clinton spoke off camera but on the record with reporters for the first time since she suspended her campaign. Listen to this audiotape of some of the Q&A.;", "What is your role?", "My role is to be the very best senator I can be and to represent the greatest state in our country.", "Last week a member of the Congressional Black Caucus said that you're not interested in becoming vice president. Is that...", "I am not seeking any other position.", "But are you not interested?", "You know, it is not -- it is not something that I think about. This is totally Senator Obama's decision and that's the way it should be.", "Senator Clinton, tell me about your event in New Hampshire that's coming up. Senator McCain has made a concerted effort to go after some of your voters. What's your message to your supporters and the party generally?", "Well, it is that anyone who voted for me has very little in common with the Republican Party. If you care about the issues I care about and the future that I outlined during my campaign, then you really have to stay with us in the Democratic Party and vote for Senator Obama to be our next president. On Friday, I will be with Senator Obama in Unity, New Hampshire, which is well-named for the occasion, and it is particularly significant because it is an area where Senator Obama and I each got exactly the same number of votes. So, this is going to be a symbolic event that I hope will rally the Democratic Party behind our nominee.", "Let's discuss all of this with our senior political correspondent, Candy Crowley. She's here in THE SITUATION ROOM. Candy, what struck you about Senator Clinton's remarks today?", "She -- the totality of those remarks which struck me is, I have learned on the campaign trail how very important it is that Democrats not only seize the White House but that we add to our numbers in the Senate. It was very much Hillary Clinton, the party player. As you know, there are some hard feelings up on Capitol Hill, both on her side, where she saw some of her longtime colleagues not endorsing her, but, in fact, going over to Barack Obama. But on the other side, where some people on Capitol Hill, lawmakers and staffers say, you know, she went too far when she was roughing him up. It was unnecessary, and at times they didn't seem like team players. It seemed to be about her getting the nomination. So, this was very much Hillary Clinton, party player, Hillary Clinton, I'm going to do the best job I can as the senator from New York.", "What kind of hurdles, other hurdles, does she face?", "Well, what's interesting here is here is a woman who won 18 million votes returning to the Senate now. And it's hard for that to translate into Senate terms. The Senate is rule-bound, it is tradition-bound, it is seniority-bound. She is 34th in seniority on the Democratic side of things, out of 51, so it's going to be hard for her to have a chairmanship, that kind of thing, yet she is still very visible. They're going to want her to help raise money, various senators. They're going to want her at their side when they're trying to push a bill. So, she has got this brand name that needs a little refurbishing up there, but it's still very strong. And they're going to find a very key way to use her in this election.", "And we heard from the former president, Bill Clinton, today. What is he saying?", "We did. In fact, his office put out a statement, let me just read it to you. As you know, there were questions yesterday when he sort of turned aside a weekend question about when he was going to endorse Barack Obama. Here's what his spokesman had to say: \"President Clinton is obviously committed to doing whatever he can and is asked to do to ensure Senator Obama is the next president of the United States.\" So clearly they are, again, sensitive to this party player idea, the idea that they would drag their feet. Both very -- not concerned, but aware of their role in the party and the Clinton name. So, the president's office coming out today and saying, listen, of course he's going to support him.", "We're going to have lots more on the Clintons coming up here in THE SITUATION ROOM. Candy Crowley reporting. Now that Hillary Clinton is back at her day job, she may move down on the list of senators with the most missed votes. Check out the top five. They're all current or former presidential candidates except for Tim Johnson, who has been recovering from brain surgery. The latest tally by The Washington Post shows John McCain has missed the most Senate votes, 61 percent. Barack Obama is third, missing over 42 percent of the votes. Clinton is fourth, missing nearly 33 percent of those votes. Let's get to John McCain right now. He's trying to put a bigger spotlight on his energy plan with help from California's larger-than- life governor. But there were some bumps in the McCain/Arnold Schwarzenegger road show today, including protests and a biting response from Barack Obama. Let's go to Dana Bash. She's watching this story for us. Dana, McCain turned to Arnold Schwarzenegger even though they do have some major disagreements on energy.", "That's right, he did. But, you know, Schwarzenegger decided to focus today on their common ground when it comes to the environment. And despite protests against some of McCain's recent proposals, for the second day in a row he pushed a new energy-related idea, to convince voters, at least try to convince them, he's looking for solutions.", "A joint appearance with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and an environmental plug from California's green Republican governor.", "Once Senator McCain is in the White House, America will get back to the game of having a sensible, consistent and forward-looking energy policy.", "John McCain tried to live up to that by arguing federal buildings and cars should lead the way in fuel efficiency.", "Well, I propose to put the purchasing power of the United States government on the side of green technology.", "Outside the event, protesters, decrying McCain's reversal last week to support offshore drilling, unpopular in California. Schwarzenegger strongly opposes offshore drilling. An adviser told CNN the governor planned to make his differences with McCain known here, but instead engaged little in the panel discussion. But McCain did get an earful on offshore drilling from another invited guest.", "It would be 12, 15, maybe 20 years before those resources came on-line and got to full production. That's not going to impact the price of gasoline anytime soon.", "Meanwhile in neighboring Nevada...", "John McCain still doesn't get it.", "... Barack Obama seized on this from McCain a day earlier on offshore drilling.", "Well, it may take some years. The fact that we are exploiting those reserves would have a psychological impact that I think is beneficial.", "A psychological impact. In case you're wondering, in Washington-speak, what that means is, it polls well.", "And he mocked McCain's idea for a $300 million cash prize for inventing an alternative car battery.", "When John F. Kennedy decided that we were going to go put a man on the Moon, he didn't put a bounty out for some rocket scientist to win. He put the full resources of the United States government behind the project and called on the ingenuity and innovation of the American people.", "McCain advisers responded that by devoting $300 million taxpayer dollars to innovation, McCain is putting the government resources behind an idea, but also trying to spur private sector competition. And the McCain camp also accused Obama of not understanding oil markets, insisting the promise of more oil from drilling should have a psychological effect, as McCain talked about, one that could potentially help lower gas prices -- Wolf.", "And, Dana, the McCain camp also has a new line that they're using against Barack Obama.", "Right, what they're trying to develop inside the McCain campaign is a theme on the idea that Obama is supportive and a part of inaction in Washington, because they think that is something that burns up the voters more than anything else. So what they have talked about on a conference call earlier today and also in a statement that they just put out, over and over, calling Barack Obama \"Dr. No.\" That is something that we heard from them and clearly are going to hear from them, expect much more often as they try to paint Barack Obama as somebody who is for inaction now. Obviously we should point out that Obama does have some proposals when it comes to the energy and the environment, like, for example, he does support a windfall profits tax on oil companies. And it's a little dicey, Wolf, for the McCain campaign to be talking about this, because McCain himself voted against several energy proposals in the Senate.", "Dana, thanks for that. Let's go right to Jack Cafferty. He has got the \"Cafferty File\" -- Jack.", "Wolf, women who supported Hillary Clinton during the primaries are suddenly the belles of the ball. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton getting ready to woo her supporters, but John McCain wants them, too. Polls suggest that Obama leads McCain when it comes to women. But what if McCain picked a woman as his vice presidential nominee? The Politico looked at McCain's options for filling out the Republican ticket, noting that any of these women would be a symbolic turn away from Dick Cheney, quote, \"the ultimate D.C. old boy's club insider,\" unquote. Although some have suggested Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, she has repeatedly said she's not interested. So that leaves McCain with these choices. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, at 44 she would add youth to the ticket. Lord knows they could use that. Palin may not be well-known nationally, but she's one of the country's most popular governors, with approval ratings as high as 90 percent. She's also stridently anti-abortion, recently giving birth to her fifth child who she knew beforehand would have Down syndrome. Former Hewlett-Packard CEO, Carly Fiorina, another option. Fiorina is in charge of preparing the party's crucial get-out-the-vote operation. She has been all over the campaign trail, on TV supporting McCain, and has become one of the campaign's top economic advisers. And there's Kay Bailey Hutchison in Texas, the longest-serving female Republican senator. Hutchison has held key posts within the party, she has been a surrogate for McCain in the race, and has proven that she can get out the Hispanic vote. Although Republican insiders point to downsides for each of these three women, they say a woman on the ticket could add some excitement to McCain's candidacy. And in case you hadn't noticed, the Republicans are a little short on excitement these days. Here's the question. Would John McCain's selection of a woman as vice president help him get some of Hillary Clinton's supporters? Go to cnn.com/caffertyfile, you can post your comment on my blog -- Wolf.", "It's an interesting question, I suspect it couldn't hurt. But let's see if it could actually help, right?", "We'll find out.", "Jack, stand by. The McCain camp is trying to protect the candidate from any fallout after an adviser suggested the Republican would benefit from a new terror attack.", "They want to be characterized by their positions on issues and John McCain's is record is somebody who knows foreign policy, knows what it takes to protect America and understands how the economy works.", "Former McCain rival turned ally, Mitt Romney, our interview coming up. Plus, a top evangelical stinging criticism of Barack Obama, James Dobson saying the Democrat has a \"fruitcake view of the Constitution.\" And Nancy Pelosi says Hillary Clinton isn't the only powerful woman who has been subject to sexism. The house speaker speaking out. Stay with us, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "QUESTION", "SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D-NY), FMR. 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{"id": "NPR-30094", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2013-01-10", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2013/01/10/169077521/bidens-gun-violence-recommendations-could-include-expanded-background-checks", "title": "Biden's Gun Violence Recommendations Could Include Expanded Background Checks", "summary": "The Obama administration says it's looking at all the possible options for preventing future acts of gun violence. The White House can do some things on its own through executive action, but other proposals will have to wait on Congress.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.", "I'm Melissa Block. And in this part of the program, what Washington can do to reduce gun violence. Vice President Biden says he'll have his recommendations to the president by Tuesday. He held a second day of meetings on the subject today, conferring with gun rights advocates.", "There's an emerging set of recommendations, not coming from me but coming from the groups we've met with. And I'm going to focus on the ones that relate primarily to gun ownership and the type of weapons that can be owned.", "Biden says he's looking at a full range of options, from new laws to executive action. It would take an act of Congress to expand background checks to all gun sales, but getting gun legislation enacted is challenging and this has the White House looking for what President Obama could do without Congress. NPR's Ari Shapiro has our first report.", "Gun rights groups are hoping that Congress will stop President Obama from imposing any big new regulations. Gun control groups are hoping the president goes rogue. They have a list of things he could do on his own.", "We're working hard to get the president to do it and we think he'll do some, at least.", "Mark Glaze is the director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. He says there are many ways President Obama can tighten the laws that already exist without seeking new ones. For example, if you try to buy a gun at a firearms store and fail the background check, that's a felony. But Glaze says those people are almost never held to account.", "A couple of years ago, 71,000 people were declined when they tried to buy a gun. They committed that felony and only somewhere around 45 were prosecuted.", "There are also big holes in the existing background check database. It's called NICS, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Winnie Stachelberg is with the Liberal Center for American Progress.", "Ten states have failed to provide any mental health records to NICS and 18 others have submitted fewer than 100 over the last year. And without a accurate background check system, guns will fall into the hands of dangerous individuals.", "At the White House today, Vice President Biden talked about the need to fix that problem. Congress wouldn't have to do a thing.", "Doesn't do a whole lot of good if in some states they have a backlog of 40, 50, 60 thousand felons that they never registered here. So we got to talk about - there's a lot to talk about how we entice or what is the impediment keeping states from relaying this information.", "The talk about executive action worries gun rights supporters. One scenario they fear is that the Environmental Protection Agency could call lead ammunition a toxic pollutant and ban it. Beyond that, David Kopel of the libertarian Cato Institute says the president could also reclassify some guns as destructive devices. Then, those guns would be covered by the same rules as grenades, rockets and bombs.", "It means if you want to continue to possess the gun, you've got to go pay the $200 tax, get permission from local law enforcement and get fingerprinted. And if you ever want to transfer the gun to someone else, that person needs to go through that same process and the $200 tax. And by the way, you can't ever take the gun out of state.", "President Obama could also limit the import of guns, but Steven Halbrook, who's brought many lawsuits on behalf of gun owners, says that might not have a huge impact.", "They're mostly manufactured here. There's a substantial number that are imported, but ordinary firearms can be manufactured here without any kind of approval, like for imports.", "There's another way the president could approach this. First Lady Michelle Obama persuaded restaurants to voluntarily reduce the amount of salt, fat and sugar in their food. Gun makers and sellers could theoretically agree to anything the White House wants to propose without an executive order or an act of Congress.", "But criminology professor Gary Kleck of Florida State University says that seems unlikely.", "I think the First Lady had a lot more influence within the fast food industry than President Obama has with the firearms industry.", "The firearms industry doesn't exactly see the president as a source of useful suggestions. Kleck says mortal enemy is more like it. Ari Shapiro, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "MARK GLAZE", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "MARK GLAZE", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "WINNIE STACHELBERG", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "DAVID KOPEL", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "STEVE HALBROOK", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE", "GARY KLECK", "ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-231417", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2014-5-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/27/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Ukrainian Troops Gain Control Of Donetsk Airport; Low Turnout For Egyptian Presidential Elections?; Egyptian Prime Minister Declares Tuesday National Holiday; One Square Meter: Varosha, Cyprus", "utt": ["A bonafide election or a foregone conclusion? Egyptians going to the polls choosing a president, but critics argue there's little choice on offer. We'll take you live to Cairo. Also ahead, deadlock in Donetsk, any hope that the weekend's election could bring unity to Ukraine are shot down in a hail of gunfire. And we break down the data that lead experts to the search zone for missing flight MH370. Stay with us as we bring you exclusive access to the nerve center.", "Live from CNN Center. This is Connect the World.", "Good evening and welcome everyone. Egyptians have just about four more hours to vote for their new president. Now the prime minister declared Tuesday a public holiday, apparently a move to try to improve the turnout. The vote has been relatively peaceful thus far. One activist was killed on Monday, but Egypt's interior ministry says that was unrelated to the election. It looks increasingly likely that the ex-army chief Abdel Fatah al- Sisi will win this vote. CNN's Reza Sayah has been following the election. He joins us now from the capital Cairo. How is the turnout today?", "Well, the story that seems to be steadily emerging here in Egypt on the second and final day of elections here in this country is low voter turnout. We should point out that we obviously haven't been able to visit every polling station. We don't know what's happening everywhere. But based on our observations in visiting about a few dozen polling stations here in downtown Cairo and nearby areas, voter turnout appears to be low and polling stations look like what they do here at this one in downtown Cairo behind us. There's no wait here, no lines, no crowds. There's literally more police officers, more soldiers than voters outside this particular polling station. And yesterday it was pretty much the same story. No lines, no crowds, no waitings. And this is why you start to get the sense that the interim government authorities and the Sisi campaign are starting to worry about low voter turnout, something that they didn't want to see. Last night, for example, the interim government came out and suddenly said today would be a national holiday. They extended voting hours another hour. These moves suggest that they're worried about voter turnout. Then you had Egyptian television hosts coming out and openly criticizing voters for not coming out, urging them to come out to polling stations. And then he had other television hosts saying that a law here in Egypt that's rarely in force that would fine people for not coming out to vote, that that would be enforced, perhaps their way of nudging people to come out to vote, Jim. Remember, Mr. Sisi doesn't just want to win, he wants to win emphatically. He wants a large voter turnout to show Egypt and the world that this is legitimate process, it's a credible process. At this point, Jim, it doesn't seem like he's going to get that huge voter turnout.", "Reza Sayah at the polls in Cairo this day giving us a live update. Thanks, Reza. All right, we've got more to come on this election a little bit later in our report. Remember that the vote is happening because of a coup in 2013, that's when al-Sisi deposed Egypt's first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsy. Mr. Morsy was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, that's an organization that is once again banned in Egypt. We're going to bring you what the Brotherhood thinks about this vote as well. Also, we'll discuss whether this is a true election or a mere formality. That's still to come here on Connect the World. After fierce fighting in eastern Ukraine, city officials say at least 40 people were killed in clashes that began after pro-Russian separatists stormed the airport. That was Monday. The Ukrainian military responded with attacks by air and on the ground. Meantime, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says it has lost contact with one of its teams in Donetsk. Nick Paton Walsh joins us now from Donetsk. He has the latest on the fighting and these missing western observers -- Nick.", "Well, Jim, we know little about what happened with this OSCE team. Remember, the OSCE monitoring organization are pretty much have been charged by everybody -- Washington, Kiev, Brussels, even Moscow, to keep tabs on what's happening here in order to try and de-escalate the situation. Four of them, monitors, not heard of since 6:00 yesterday evening when they were traveling on their routine duties east of Donetsk. Now this is particularly significant, because if you recall the last time some OSCE observers went missing, they turned up as, quote, prisoners of war of the separatists in the pro-Russian stronghold of Slavyansk, a town north of where I'm standing. No indication that's happened here. And communications are spotty across this region because of the violence that's been ongoing, but so many concerned enough to make that statement. But it comes on a day in which really the full toll of yesterday's violence, the back and forth between Ukrainian army and separatists to hold Donetsk main international airport here becomes realized. We understand that really it began to move back and forth during the night and evening, changing hands, certain parts of the territory. Separatists claim they hold bits of it. We didn't see any of that. They seemed quite far away from it down a road when we went there earlier on today. The Ukrainian army saying they control the main infrastructure itself. And even the separatists are accepting there are national guard, Ukrainian military, on the territory of that airport. But now we're getting the death toll figures, 35 dead, militants say, a spokeswoman for the separatists. The local governor here, pro-Kiev, says about 40 dead including two civilians. At a morgue, I saw a large pile undignified of certainly separatist militant bodies and one civilian female who had a substantial fateful head injury. And it's clear today that Donetsk is taking the toll, really, of this remarkable violence. Fears still in the air, Jim, because the separatists claim somehow in line they got an offer of a truce, a window of between 1:00 and 4:00 local time in which they could leave the city, after which they would face bombardment, they say. No sign of that at all being ratified by Ukrainian officials, could be misinformation here. But it's certainly being used I think to ratchet up a sense of tension here to get the local population worried -- Jim.", "The newly elected president of Ukraine says he wants to reach out to people there in eastern Ukraine. How complicated is that going to be?", "Well, who would you reach out to, first of all? Of course you could talk to Dennis Pushilon (ph), the head of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, but does he speak for everyone in Luhansk? Possibly not. He's on bad terms, as far as we understand, with the self-declared mayor of Slovyansk, the hotbed of the militancy behind the separatist movement here. So they're a fractured bunch already. And of course the violence making things more difficult as well. One little vignette that gives you an idea of how messy inter- separatist relations are getting, the kind of key commander of the militants in Slovyansk, a man called Igor Strakov (ph), according to Russian media, issued an order to have executed two of his own commanders for theft and general lawlessness, I think, are the exact terms. So there clearly are issues between their own personnel here. That makes it harder for the president-elect of Ukraine to find the right person to speak to. I think he believes talking to Moscow is more effective. The question no one can really answer, despite the incontrovertible signs we've seen here that Russia has a hand in assisting some of this activity here of the separatists. It's not clear if Moscow has complete rote over all the gunmen in this area whether or not the conversation between Moscow and Kiev can slow the violence here can put the insurgency back in its box so to speak. It's getting more violent day by day. And I have to say, Jim, you know, two or three weeks ago we were talking about this, we never talked about daily heavy weapons, artillery strikes. Now it's just hourly it seems to happen in this region now -- Jim.", "Some reality check, if you will, from the ground in Donetsk from Nick Paton Walsh. As always, Nick, thank you. Well, new hope and new frustrations for the families of more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls. A top military official says they have pinpointed the location of the girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram more than six weeks ago. But he's refusing to reveal where the schoolgirls are or how the government plans to get them back. Some Nigerians say the military needs to take action now.", "(inaudible). They are doing a good job. They are trying their best. But I must say, (inaudible) the issue of life and death. It's not -- it's beyond the issue of simply the location of the girls. With what we (inaudible) what we need now is we need action. (inaudible). There needs to apply principle of diplomacy. There needs to be (inaudible) and the military, there needs to be diplomatic in their approach to get those girls out of the activities.", "A voice from the streets. Now let's go to our senior international correspondent Arwa Damon and get more reaction. She joins us now. She's on the ground in the capital Abuja. Arwa, what is the perspective on this latest announcement by Nigeria's military?", "Well, it's being received with a certain dose of skepticism. This was a statement that was made at a protest. The defense chief saying they weren't disclosing the specific location, that is understandable given operational security; also saying that they would not be using military force, that also to a certain degree does make sense, because any sort of military operation, even if it was undertaken by the best trained military to try to rescue these girls would be near impossible. Great concerns that they could be killed if such an operation were underway. Also, according to Boko Haram informants that we spoke to, this organization will not hesitate at all to use them as human shields. A lot of conversations, too, as to whether or not there could be a negotiated solution. Well, that also is problematic, Jim, because this is not a top-down organization. These girls are believed to be divided over various different cells. And so with whom do you negotiate at the end of the day? So, while there is perhaps some hope that they could have them located, key issue how to actually rescue them alive, that is going to be the real challenge, Jim.", "You know, people there from the streets calling on the government to do something, to act, the government is pretty sensitive about that. But it has had an opportunity to show action in other areas, security in the north, schools in the north, what can you report on that front?", "And that's been the big issue here. You know, the story of the 200 plus abducted schoolgirls has thrown Boko Haram and the terror challenge Nigeria faces because of it into the spotlight, but Boko Haram is really an insurgency that this country has been dealing with for quite some time. And they've managed to control a fair amount of territory in three key northeastern states. And they are impacting people's lives, Jim, every day.", "Children still play in the yard, but the classrooms are hauntingly empty. Boko Haram wants to end western education. Here, it seems, they've succeeded. For the last six weeks, all public schools in Borno state have been ordered shut down. 64-year-old Kondidi Boka (ph) has been a guard at this school for three decades, experiencing nothing as horrifying as the day five gunmen drove through the gate. He describes how a group of teachers were sitting under a tree. The gunmen opened fire. One teacher was shot, dragging himself into a classroom. He died before help could arrive. This was one of three schools attacked by Boko Haram on the same day around a year ago. Mollam Yusuf is the principal of one of the others.", "Yeah, actually, classes were in session, students were around, teachers were teaching in the class.", "Suddenly, the gunmen arrived. This is the school's examination room. And there were four women in here at the time of the attack. The gunmen just storming in and opening fire indiscriminately. Here, we were just told, are some of the holes left by the bullets. Three of the women were killed almost instantaneously, the fourth managed to escape with some wounds. It's a sickening tactic, made worse by the frequency of attacks. The Nigerian Union of Teachers says more than 170 state educators and staff have been killed by Boko Haram in Borno State alone, punctuated by the terrorist group's kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls in the town of Chibok more than a month ago.", "As of now, we cannot say Boko Haram has won.", "Yufus is undeterred. He says with each attack it's even more important that education doesn't end.", "So as teachers, we take it upon ourselves to continue going to our schools to educate our young ones so that they should not partake in this issue of insurgents.", "Back outside, children crowd around our camera. Are you upset that school is closed? The response? A resounding yes. \"I want to read,\" one says. Another adds, \"I want to get educated and enjoy life.\" For now, a future stolen by Boko Haram.", "And Jim, for kids like the ones you just saw there to be able to go to school safely, the government really needs to begin implementing a long-term political and military strategy, one that is going to require the cooperation of its neighbors, and also a significant level of support from the international community, Jim.", "Arwa Damon live with us there from Abuja. Thank you. Well, still to come, the search for Malaysian Airlines flight 370, crucial satellite data is finally released months after the plane vanished. We're going to show you how it lead investigators to conclude Flight 370 ended up in the Indian Ocean. Also ahead, the handshake seen around the world. Leaders of India and Pakistan send a message of peace between those two nations, but will it lead to real progress?"], "speaker": ["JIM CLANCY, HOST", "ANNOUNCER", "CLANCY", "REZA SAYAH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CLANCY", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CLANCY", "WALSH", "CLANCY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CLANCY", "ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CLANCY", "DAMON", "DAMON", "MOLLAM YUSUF, PRINCIPAL", "DAMON", "YUSUF", "DAMON", "YUSUF", "DAMON", "DAMON", "CLANCY"]}
{"id": "CNN-78261", "program": "CNN LIVE SUNDAY", "date": "2003-10-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0310/19/sun.14.html", "summary": "Studys Show Seniors Would Be Happier If They Continued To Work", "utt": ["Just imagine if the fountain of youth wasn't in a bottle, pill or to be found on some island off Tahiti. Instead, it was all about staying busy and, dare I even say it, continuing to work. We're talking to America's oldest worker today, Dr. Russell Clark, a real estate developer and retired physician, is 102 years old. And Andrea Wooten is President of Experience Works, a leading non-profit company in older worker training and employment. Welcome to you both.", "Thank you.", "Dr. Clark, I'd like to begin with you first, if I may. Why do you continue working, and do you enjoy it?", "Well, I saw her on the other night at the football game.", "Is that right? Dr. Clark, let me see if I can speak loudly enough so that you can hear me. Why do you continue working now at 102 years old and what exactly are you doing?", "Right now, I'm busy in my office taking care of the business that I have in Las Vegas.", "In Las Vegas, are you a gambler?", "Pardon?", "Are you a gambler?", "I'm in auram (ph) right now.", "You know, I was reading about your biography, and I understand that you had a brother who passed away at 103 1/2.", "Yes.", "And you had an uncle and aunt that lived to about 104 and 105. So clearly, longevity runs in your family.", "It does, and my aunt was 106.", "106?", "Yes.", "So to what do you attribute your family's longevity? Is it just good genes?", "Well, the genes play a part, and she was a hard worker, optimistic, kept busy, loved people, served the community, served her nation.", "Do you think, Dr. Clark, do you recommend to other senior citizens that they continue working into their 80s and 90s, and dare I say like you, over 100?", "I think there's millions that can do that, continue on working. I think they would be happier. They'd find their objective in life, and they'd find their niche, and be happy over what they're serving and doing with other people.", "How do you think your life has been different, in other words, the fact that you've lived to be such a ripe, old age if I may say, do you think that you've been a happier person because you've continued working even after you retired from the medical profession?", "Well, I was happy in the medical profession, but there's a time, you know, turning the gavel over to someone else. I felt that was the time when I was around 80 years of age, and then I felt that there was other things to do that could help in the community, in the city, and the nation.", "I'd like, if I may, sir, to bring in Ms. Wooten, who is with Experience Works, and who helped find you as the oldest working American. Ms. Wooten, tell us about your organization, and are there a lot of candidates out there for the oldest American worker?", "Experience Works is a national nonprofit organization that puts the experience of older individuals to work by providing training and employment, and community service opportunities. We found that there are an increasing number of older people who are wanting to work. Many need to work, but many want to work because they want the social interaction, and they want the challenge and the fulfillment that comes from work that I believe Dr. Clark just mentioned. You know, this fulfillment as we go through life is something that we see very characteristic of all the people that we recognize. They really view work not as work, but as a purpose in life. It gives them meaning.", "Dr. Clark, I have to confess, you know, when folks are my age, we're all thinking about that day when we won't have to work anymore. Give us some words of wisdom as to why we should appreciate the jobs that we're doing now.", "I think, number one, is live for today, tomorrow may never come. Have goals and priorities. Reach out and find something that's worthwhile to do, rather than sit in the hammock all day long or the rocking chair and counting the cars that go by. I think that that's more or less kind of a neglect of foresight and they haven't reached their pinnacle in happiness and service to other people and to their own country.", "Wonderful advice, and Dr. Clark, I understand you have a birthday next month. When is it in November?", "19th of November.", "Well, mine is the 27th. I want to wish another Sagittarian a very happy birthday. I hope you make it to 103 and a lot longer.", "I think it will be a little bit longer.", "Well, I hope so, too. Dr. Russell Clark and Andrea Wooten, I want to thank both you for coming in tonight and hopefully giving our viewers some inspiration.", "Well, thanks. 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{"id": "CNN-333404", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-02-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/22/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Florida School Shooting; Trump White House; Middle East War; Around 80 Schoolgirls Rescued After Suspected Boko Haram School Attack", "utt": ["You're watching CNN Newsroom live from Los Angeles. Ahead this hour, guns in America. Florida gun survivors and families demand change during an emotional CNN Town Hall. After a listening session with shooting victims, the U.S. President suggests arming teachers as a way to increase school safety. A major blow to the Israeli foreign Prime Minister as a former top confidante agrees to cooperate with corruption investigators. Hello, thank you for being with us. I am John Vause and this is the second hour of Newsroom LA. Well, students who survived the mass shooting at a Florida high school are angry and they are frustrated. But on Wednesday night at a CNN Town Hall, they showed determination, demanding that politicians stop taking money from the National Rifle Association and they demanded a ban on assault style weapons like the one used to kill 17 of their teachers and classmates. At the White House, President Trump met with families also affected by school shootings, and there he suggested arming teachers. He said it might help. At the Town Hall, one parent, though, lashed out at the President and Senator Marco Rubio.", "Your comments this week and those of our President have been pathetically weak. So you and I are now eye to eye because I want to like you. Look at me and tell me guns were the factor in the hunting of our kids in this school this week. And look at me and tell me you accept it and you will work with us to do something about guns.", "Now I think what you are asking about is the assault weapons ban.", "Yes, sir.", "So let me be honest with you about that one. If I believed that that law would have prevented this from happening, I would support it. But I want to explain to you why it would not.", "Senator Rubio, my daughter, running down the hallway at Marjorie Stoneman Dowels was shot in the back with an assault weapon, the weapon of choice.", "Yes, sir.", "It's too easy to get. It's a weapon of war. The fact you can't stand with everybody in this building and say that, I'm sorry.", "Sir, I do believe what you are saying is true.", "Joining me now, Political Commentator and Talk Radio Host, Mo Kelly and Republican Digital Strategist, Austin James. OK. There was a lot of raw emotion at the Town Hall, much of it understandably anger. It was directed at the NRA and as well directed at Republican Senator, Marco Rubio. Mo, to Rubio's credit, at least he showed up. Not only did he talk about supporting the raising legal age limit from 18 to 21 to purchase a weapon like an AR15. He also said he would consider his position on large capacity magazines. In a way, it's incremental but it seems progress, right.", "It's an encouraging first step if it's not a false step. What bothered me about Senator Rubio's comments, he was saying what he would support. It puts the cart before the horse because I thought our civil servants or should be a reflection of the constituencies in which they represent. I care less about what he supports and more about what his constituents would support.", "Obviously, his constituents go way beyond the Town Hall.", "That's a great point. We have seen the recent ABC Washington Post poll, in which almost 80 percent of American polls said that mental health, if it were more effective could have done more to prevent this and other mass shootings. I think going after the guns and banning guns doesn't do more to ban evil. That's the bigger problem here.", "OK, the support even from the President to raising the legal age limit for purchasing guns like the AR15 has been used in multiple school shootings. But there is opposition from the NRA to the move -- they argue if the age limit was raised to 21, then 18 to 20-year-olds would be deprived of their constitutional rights to self protection. And, Mo, that just seems insane.", "Not only that. Why are we putting the NRA at the top of the conversation? They are not the focal point. They should be the focal point. Yes, they have money involved but they shouldn't be a part of the -- going back to your comment about banning guns, why is it we're going to continue to let the perfect be the enemy of the good? If we can do something which approximates improvement, why not do that? Part of the problem is the proliferation of the specific weapon, the AR15. If we can move at least or limit that variable in the equation, then I think we are doing better, because no one would say we shouldn't do something to stop terrorism or that not a law would stop all terrorism. We would do something because it's better than what we have.", "To your point, Mo, about the NRA, why are they taking center stage in all of this? Well, it was one of the students who survived the Florida school shooting who really put the issue to the forefront when it comes to NRA and politics. Cameron Kesskie really nailed it when he spoke with Marco Rubio.", "Senator Rubio, can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the", "So number one, the positions I hold on these issues of the Second Amendment I've held since the day I entered office in the city of West Miami as elected official. Number two, no the answer to the question is that people buy into my agenda. And I do support the Second Amendment and I also support the right of you and everyone here to be able to go to school and be safe. And I do support any law that would keep guns out of the hands of a deranged killer. That's why I support the things that I have stood for.", "In the same of 17 people, you cannot ask the NRA to keep their money out of your campaign?", "I think in the name of 17 people, I can pledge to you that I will support any law that will prevent a killer like this.", "No, but I'm talking NRA money. No.", "You know, Austin, the argument that Rubio was making is essentially the money follows the politicians. But the reality is the politicians follow the money. And Rubio is number six on the list of politicians, in terms of receiving money from the NRA over the lifetime of his political career.", "Listen, I'm going to be a little bit different. I grew in Alabama, right? So I think the idea of restricting -- I couldn't purchase a hunting rifle to go hunting with my father at the age of 18. I think that's a ridiculous thing to think about. We're giving the NRA a lot of power. We essentially are -- attacking the NRA would be equivalent to attacking an alcohol distribution trade organization because someone you knew was killed by a drunk driver. It's ludicrous, I think. My stance on this is I think that we have to go top of funnel and look at mental health, and then I think we go at the bottom of the funnel if we look at if someone slips through like they did this time, what can we do to protect the soft targets like schools, after 9/11 we locked airports down. It became common place, we took our shoes off got felt up and went through. It's going to be common place. I think we need -- you are going to have metal detectors at schools. You are going to have certain teachers who are going to be trained to carry concealed weapons. I think that's just the way this country is going.", "We'll get to the armed teachers in a moment. But Mo, there is the debate in the country about the power of the NRA. That seems to me, the bleeding obviously that the NRA wields a lot of power because they have single issue voters supporting them and they wield that power. It's not just the money.", "They have the power because, to your point, they fund a lot of politicians and the politicians stay in office and to be able to have the beautiful campaign ads, they rely on this funding, and not to be blasted, no pun intended, by the NRA if they aren't in lock step with the NRA stands for. This is rhetorical in nature. I don't understand why a single organization has so much say and so much sway over politicians.", "OK. Well, to Austin's point about arming teachers, the President held his own listening session today at the White House. He was invited to attend the Town Hall. He declined that invitation. Instead, he met with survivors from school shooting, not just in Florida but also in Sandy Hook and Columbine, and that's where he floated this idea of arming teachers.", "An attack has lasted on average about three minutes. It takes five to eight minutes for responders, for the police to come in. So t attack is over. If you had a teacher with, who was adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly.", "And Austin, this idea of arming teachers is straight out of a 2013 report by an NRA group when there was another previous gun debate held. The reason why the NRA likes this idea is because they are a gun industry lobby group. It's because it means they sell more guns.", "I think if I'm not mistaken there are 150 campuses that now allow teachers to carry firearms. I don't think Florida is one of those states. I actually tend to agree with it. Again, growing up in Alabama, I'm very familiar with the southeast. I don't want to make huge steps, but there is also a reason you're seeing a lot of the mass shootings happen at soft targets. You know Biden made these schools no gun zones. So when you walk in with an assault rifle, you know that it's you -- with almost no defense. There is a reason you don't see it at an Alabama Walmart, you know.", "Just hang on a second because here is what one teacher at our Town Hall thought about the idea. She survived the Florida school shooting. This is what she thought of the idea of going to work every day carrying a gun.", "When I had those hundreds of terrified children running at me, my question to that is, am I supposed to get extra training now to serve and protect on top educate these children on how to be these eloquent speakers that are coming up and presenting issues to you? I mean, am I supposed to have a Kevlar vest? Am I supposed to strap it to my leg or put it in my desk? How am I supposed to go on that way?", "Mo, someone should have asked the teachers.", "Well, not only that. There is a middle ground here. We look at what's going on here in Los Angeles. A lot of schools do have armed guards or police officers as a function of the city police who guard these schools. But if you're asking the English teacher, math teacher to be able to make that split second decision as far as life and death in a situation where they're not shooting at one person, there may be 35 people running in all directions and and an indiscriminant with an AR15.", "I don't think that we're talking about every teacher having a sawed off shotgun. You have air marshals that step up for training. There was a great interview on CNN where they asked a teacher would you like to have firearms, and he said he didn't know but he knew numerous teachers who wished they were able to stand and defend. Again, I think it goes down to what the people want, what the teachers want, and again I don't think we're asking every teacher to carry firearm. Actually, certainly, with all due respect to what she's been through probably would not be the right candidate to carry a firearm.", "Well, President Trump also promised very strong background checks, but again at CNN's Town Hall, there was opposition even to this from the NRA.", "This mad man passed a background check. How was he able to pass the background check? He was able to pass the background check because a system that's flawed. The Sutherland Springs murderer was able to pass the background check because the Air Force didn't report that record.", "And Politico is reporting this, the White House is signaling support for a bipartisan bill that would enhance reporting of violent criminals to the FBI Background Checks Database in order to stop them from buying firearms. But house conservatives are willing to sign on unless the measure is coupled with concealed carry legislation backed by the National Rifle Association. Combining the two ideas would have the net effect of loosening gun control. Austin, how does this happen when you have a Quinnipiac poll which says 97 percent of the people in the country support universal background checks, and 97 percent of gun owners support universal background checks.", "Listen, I agree with you on that. I'm on the board of a new organization called Generation for Freedom, and its main mission is education and the main target are adolescents, millennials, and people who are going to be that ardent voice going into the next generation. I think the bigger issue is there are gun laws today that could have solved this had they worked from top to bottom. Listen, to your point if you look at what the constituents want they want the universal background checks. But that only works if you enforce the laws. And what we have seen from this unfortunate event and others like it, they did not enforce the law and there was a breakdown of the laws we have. That's what people are saying. When it comes to kind of going and casting the vote, are not the politicians necessarily, who we do hold congress accountable, but is the justice authority and those with authority at the justice level going to enforce the laws? They are not.", "Let's not ignore the other variables if the conversation. You said there is a mental health issue, to paraphrase you.", "Correct.", "But there are mental health issues all or the world, but there are only mass shootings right here. I could go to Australia and find people suffering from mental health issues.", "We do have an inordinate amount of guns. That's a fact.", "I do want to finish with this. It seems President Trump needs a reminder that while meeting with victims of gun violence he needs to feel empathy. On his notes, there was a photograph which revealed the first bullet point was, what would you want me to know about the experience in the fifth point, I hear you. And so, Mo, think about that for a moment. Donald Trump needs a reminder to tell survivors that he hears them.", "If this wasn't about children dying, it would be funny. But it is so it isn't. If he needs to be instructed on cue when to be empathetic or how to be empathetic, and then he is incapable of being empathetic because that's not something you can be taught. It's not something that you can be directed. You just either are or you are not.", "Very quickly, a couple of words.", "I would say this. He is someone who shoots from the hip. And I don't know that he wrote that down.", "No pun intended.", "No pun intended. Good one. And I would say this. It was something that someone from the PR Communications Department wanted to make sure he said and he wanted to make sure he got that heard.", "It was unfortunate that it got out. OK, Austin and Mo, thanks so much. Good to see you. Appreciate it. And students across the United States walked out of their classrooms on Wednesday, a show of solidarity with the survivors$ of the Florida school shooting. At the state capitol in Tallahassee, they challenged lawmakers to keep them safe.", "I do not know exactly what needs to be done. I just know what we're doing now is nowhere near enough.", "The time for change wasn't now. The time for change was years ago.", "My innocence, our innocence has been taken from us.", "Never again should a student be silenced by gunshots. Politicians, if you're not with us, you're against us.", "My friend and community and I have stared down the barrel of an AR15 the way you have not. How dare you tell us we don't know what we're talking about?", "A 19-yeld who can't purchase an alcoholic beverage should not be allowed to purchase an AR15.", "Are you for taking NRA blood money. We are not letting the United States be run by that terrorist organization. $,", "Our blood, your hands.", "Knowing that you had the opportunity to ban assault weapons and you didn't, are you proud of that now.", "Are you kidding me? You think now is the time to focus on the past and not the future to prevent the death of thousands of other children? You sicken me. Your job is to protect us and our blood is on your hands. If Donald Trump wants to listen to us, he should have taken the first invitation. We're not going to come to him. He's needs to come to us.", "They say tougher gun laws do not decrease gun violence. We call BS. They say a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. We call", "We are not puppets. We are capable individuals who want change because we are the leaders of the future.", "And you can watch the replay of CNN's Special Town Hall with students, parents and others impacted by the Florida school shooting. Stand up, the students of Stoneman Douglas demand action Thursday 9:00 a.m. in London, 5:00 p.m. in Hong Kong. Well, to Mumbai now and day three of Donald Trump Jr.'s visit to India and the way he tells it it's all about business. And despite a flurry of critical headlines back home, he insists he is there as a private citizen. And the Washington Post reports the American embassy in New Delhi has assured at least one U.S. Senator, the oldest son of the President has received no special treatment beyond Secret Service protection. He arrived on Tuesday. This week-long visit to promote Trump branded luxury apartments, interested buyers can pay a $30,000 booking fee for dinner and conversation with Trump Jr. on Friday. Critics say he is selling access to the first family. And that's raising serious concerns. But the Trump organization says many deals have been passed up to avoid conflicts of interest. John Defterios is closely following developments from Mumbai. He joins us now live. So John, Donald Trump, he is out there pushing the brand in Mumbai. What sort of reaction is he getting from local buyers?", "Yeah, there is a very big divide, as you know in India particularly in Mumbai between the wealthy buyers and the poverty you still see on the streets, John. It's mid day in the financial capitol, in the heart of Mumbai with the sky scrapers. So Donald Trump Jr. selling that brand yet again. And this is a big project even by the standards of the Trump organization. You see the high rises behind me. Behind that set of high rises in a prime section of town called the Park, you have the Trump Tower, and this is big in terms of scale, 400 units selling for $1.25 million each. We're talking about a project about a half billion dollars overall for the group, the Trump organization. But Donald Trump Jr. created controversy when he talked about India's smiling poor. He said they are very humble on the streets but it didn't pose with the wealthy pitches he has been making, suggesting Trump has arrived, have you? If you are willing to buy a big ticket property, you can get exclusive access to the President's son. He didn't step away from that at all, suggesting we have decided to hold off starting any new projects, anything before 2016. Stands nothing new going forward, and he pushed back about all the controversy. Let's listen to what he had to say first.", "There is the opportunity for the deals that we are not able to do that don't get us discussed. When people talk about it these days, it's profiteering from the presidency. Wait a minute I can't do deals. I've spent over a decade creating a relationship.", "Donald Trump Jr., John referring to the 2016 voluntary agreement that the President established for him to pull out of the organization, let Donald Trump Jr. and Eric run. But you can hear the frustration in his voice there, talking to a local TV channel, saying we could do a lot more if I was given some freedom. But of course, it's already raised controversy having the five major projects throughout India today for the Trump organization.", "Very quickly, John, we're almost out of time. What do we know about this dinner, this $38,000 a head dinner and conversation with Trump Jr. Do we know who is signing up for that, what sort of people?", "He is trying to bring in a new round of buyers, John, in this fast growing economy. That's no hidden secret. This is something is doing in Delhi. But he's been courting the investors in all the different city visits that he's been doing. They are trying to tone down the external visibility of his trip. When he gets a chance in front of local cameras, he speaks his mind. But the Trump organization, for example, is limiting the photo op. We weren't allowed in just the local TV channels and even his speech where they talked about having the title of improving indo-pacific ties. We're now told that was an exaggeration. He is speaking as a businessman, but in fact, in front the Prime Minister, who has a very tight bond with Donald Trump these days in the White House.", "Just seems an odd strategy for someone to pay $38,000 and then $1.6 million for an apartment. We're out of time, John. Good to see you, thank", "Yeah, thanks.", "Next here on Newsroom LA, growing legal problems for the Israeli Prime Minister. This could be big. One of his closest former aides telling police everything he knows. 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{"id": "CNN-113477", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2007-1-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/06/smn.03.html", "summary": "YouTube Forced To Place Anti- Copyright Filters On Website", "utt": ["If we could get Betty to stop dancing, I'm going to continue now with this story. Brazil.", "You may want to stop and watch.", "Brazil is taking on Youtube. Probably about now, you know about Youtube. The popular Website where anyone can post anything at anytime, no matter how dumb, now rude, or how nude. It's the nude part we want to talk about here. That's the part that has got Brazil and one of its top models and her boyfriend mad enough to take legal action. At issue here is privacy. CNN's Tim Lister looks at one of what will certainly be many conflicts to a rise over Youtube.", "Daniela Cicarelli is one of Brazil's top model with her own show on MTV Brazil. She's also well know for have brief engagement to soccer star Ronaldo. So as a celebrity there was little surprise that when steamy videos surfaced of Cicarelli and her current boyfriend Renato Malzoni on a beach in Spain found its way on to the video sharing service Youtube and it quickly became popular. Back in September, the couple won a court order in Brazil, instructing Youtube to remove the video, it did, but --", "The thing about Youtube is the reason that it became so successful because anyone can put up anything at anytime. Youtube is forced to take things down if they've infringe on a copyright. And they've been told by the judge to take this down for privacy reasons. But people keep putting it back on.", "So a judge in Sao Paolo has now ordered Youtube to used filters to ensure the video doesn't reappear. Malzoni's lawyer said it struggles to have some level of control to avoid violations of people's fundamental rights such as privacy and intimacy. There may be more trouble ahead for Youtube. A panel of Brazilian judges will decide whether the service should be fined a sum of $100,000 for every day that the video was available. It's for cases like this that Youtube's owner, Google, set aside tens of millions of dollars to cover fines and legal bills. We're going to see this forever and forever. Bill is going to money into every little suit that comes up. They might be hit with a very big one, the most for copyright infringement. The case of Daniela Cicarelli shows that a global presence online brings it's own dilemmas.", "This is the trouble with doing business on the Internet. You're exposed in all jurisdictions. Youtube for the moment as far as I know, is limited to the USA. Anybody that has a problem to get judgment in Brazil, you've got to go to the USA to enforce that judgment.", "No comment from Youtube on this case, nor from Daniela Cicarelli, but few in the fashion industry think it will harm her career. Tim Lister, CNN, Atlanta.", "Well this may be a problem for you, and that is getting out of your holiday debt. \"Open House\" tells you the very first thing that you need to do that is coming u pin 15minutes.", "And are you looking for a new backside in the New Year?", "A new rear?", "Yes. That's Jerry Anderson. We're not going to have him turn around and show you his. He's going to help you with a plan and tell you how to get that backside you that want."], "speaker": ["HOLMES", "NGUYEN", "HOLMES", "TIM LISTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "BRUCE UPBIN, \"FORBES\" MAGAZINE", "LISTER", "ANDREW HOBSON, INTERNATIONAL PATENT ATTORNEY", "LISTER", "NGUYEN", "HOLMES", "NGUYEN", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-45069", "program": "CNN FIRST EVENING NEWS", "date": "2001-12-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/06/fen.00.html", "summary": "How Far Should Law Enforcement Go in Defending the Homeland?", "utt": ["How much does America need to spend on airport security, border patrols, homeland offense and September 11 recovery measures? And how far should law enforcement go in defending the homeland? We'll hear from Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and from White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales, tonight on \"GREENFIELD AT LARGE.\" It's comforting, familiar in a way: clashes between a White House and a Senate committee, battles between the parties over who gets what in new spending and tax breaks. And then you remember this isn't politics as usual. These battles are about how to deal with the post- September 11 America. They're about how to protect our security, our liberties, our economic well being. In a few moments, we will turn to today's Capitol Hill duel where Attorney General John Ashcroft faced some tough questions from some senators about his approach to combating terror. We'll talk with a key administration player, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales. But first, the political terrain. Earlier, I spoke with Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota.", "Well, I think we have to take these events as they come and I think the most important thing we have got to do is to find a way to our bridge differences, to try to govern in the best way possible. I actually think it's been a good thing for Democrats to be in control of the Senate because I think it's brought about the kind of balance that we have needed. I think we have got better legislation and we've responded in a way that I think is in keeping with American expectations and that period since September 11.", "And, yet, one of things I think that -- and it maybe naive on the part of a lot of Americans, was to assume that September 11 had really brought the country together. And yet, many noticed a kind of blossoming of very traditional partisan differences, at least over the economy. Are we really in a point where the stimulus bill and homeland defense is going to be at stake because of a difference of a comparatively trivial amount of money -- $15 billion or so in a $10 trillion economy?", "Well, that's a very good question. It shouldn't be, but the factor that makes a big difference in terms of ultimately our success in bringing both parties together. But the economy, I think, is what defines both Republicans and Democrats, Jeff, as you've observed on many occasions. And I think when it comes to economic issues, especially when it comes to the key questions that Democrats feel are so important, providing health care and unemployment insurance for unemployed workers, trying to address the income gap that exists today. Those kinds of things I think have to be addressed and that's really the essence of the difference between our approaches to economic stimulus.", "I can understand how it's almost like the phrase \"going to the mattresses\", how the respective parties will do that on that as an economic debate. But is there no argument -- can you understand how some folks who don't watch C-SPAN for, you know, sporting pleasure and who are not that connected to it are looking at this and saying, \"My Lord, even now, in the midst of the most serious crisis in decades in the United States, these guys still can't put aside their almost theological differences about one economic policy versus another.", "Well, I think the American people have actually drawn a distinction between the war effort and domestic policy. I think they are very supportive of what the president is doing in Afghanistan and our war on terrorism. And so are we. We are very strongly in support of most, if not all, of the what the president has done. But they do draw that distinction between what has happened in Afghanistan and what is happening in our economy. You've got seven and a half million people out of work. You've got a budget deficit now instead of a budget surplus that we had just six months ago, in large measure, because of what this president has advocated. So I don't think there's any question the American people are very concerned about the direction we're taking in economic and social policy in this country and I think they want the American people to -- they want the Congress to respond accordingly.", "And yet, you know, we're being told now that this is a really critical matter, getting this stimulus bill passed. And on the other hand, we're hearing people actually on both sides of the ideological spectrum saying, \"You know what, maybe the economy is going to be OK by next spring. Manufacturing is looking better, the markets up. Maybe if we don't have a stimulus bill at all, that's OK.\" Is it OK with you if nothing passes by the end of year?", "Well, I think that a lot of companies, a lot of economists have already factored in an assumption that some form of economic stimulus will pass. So for us not to pass it could have very negative psychological and economic ramifications, but I don't think we want to approach. So my feeling is that we have got to get it done. We would like to find a way to bridge our differences. We've said we'll be flexible. We've already demonstrated that. In fact, I would argue we're the only ones who have shown give to date. But nonetheless, I think it is important we keep trying. We're doing that and I'm reasonably optimistic we'll get a bill before the end of this session.", "Permit me an impolite political question, but it does come up. As I believe you're aware, you're coming into a midterm election year. It has probably crossed your mind now and then. If you have got a president who's leading the country...", "Yes.", "OK, if you have got a president leading the country in a time when unity on the war front is holding almost unanimously, and by next fall you've got an economy that's in full recovery, what do the Democrats run on?", "Well, there's an array of issues. We were in full recovery the last cycle and we didn't do badly with the take over of the Senate and closing the gap in the House. I don't think there's no doubt that we'll have a number of issues. I would argue we have got to work on the same things we have been working on: prescription drug benefits and health care in general. We want to work on a patients' bill of rights if it, God forbid, hasn't passed, a whole array of educational issues, issues having to do with Social Security and Medicare. Those are key Democratic issues continue to have great importance to the Democratic caucus.", "But if the country still in a sense of a national crisis, do those issues even make it into the public consciousness?", "Well, you asked if we had reached full recovery. And I think that, by and large, if we have those issues, it will have even greater resonance. If we haven't, if we're dealing with an economy crisis of some kind, then clearly the economy will be a major factor in any election, whether it's this one or 2004.", "Let me turn to something that hits, literally, close to home. We learned today that the anthrax letter mailed to Senator Leahy contained pretty much the same strain of anthrax, the one you're office received, and it was particularly potent. Do you know anything more about the progress of this investigation? Are we any closer to knowing the origin of this than we were say two weeks ago or a month ago?", "We really don't, Jeff. I think that it is clear that this is going to take a long time. Somebody reminded me the other day, it took us 17 years to find the Unabomber, and that was only after his brother turned him in. I hope it doesn't take that long for this case. But we recognize how complicated it is and how few leads we really have.", "One of things that occurs to me, because we often never talk to you folks as though you're not just political people, but human beings. You've been in Washington a long time. You've seen the Senate that is still affected by this anthrax letter. You're looking at the holiday season where the decorated White House is now -- for the first time in my memory -- closed to the public. Do you sometimes wake up or in the middle of a busy", "It really feels that way sometimes. In fact, more often than not it seems. You have to bring yourself back and recognize that all of this seems so surreal in so many ways and, obviously, so harmful to people you care so deeply about. The good news is, of course, is that we're doing well. Our staff is healthy. They have got a great attitude. We're working every day, almost as if nothing had happened. But it is very, very unusual.", "Well, to bring us back to the kind of differences we're perhaps more used to, Attorney General Ashcroft was before the Senate Judiciary Committee today and some of your colleagues had some pretty tough questions about the scope of administration power. Were you, by and large, satisfied with the answers and where the administration is going on issues like detaining noncitizens and tribunals, that whole scope of power?", "I think many of his answers actually caused me to have more questions. I think that it is very unclear just where this is all going and I think we have to be very concerned about the some of the responses provided by the attorney general. I think that was generally the reaction of most of our colleagues on the Judiciary Committee. I think we've got to take very great care, and I think perhaps additional hearings are going to be required as a result of the information provided today.", "What specifically gave you and some of your colleagues, what made you more concerned than when these hearing began?", "I think in some cases, the cavalier attitude that I would describe with regard to how long and under what circumstances we would hold these people. I think that in part is troubling. The degree to which we're willing to respect civil liberties and civil rights will continue to be a real question, and we want those questions resolved. We want to protect those rights at the same time, providing law enforcement with all the tools they need. Finding that balance is still something we're looking for and I don't think we have found it yet.", "Finally, amid reports that the last Taliban stronghold may be about to fall, there is a real question about the capture of some of al Qaeda's leaders. Do you have a feeling of what you would like to see done with them? Do you want them tried here in civilian courts in America? Are military tribunals OK with you under those circumstances, people captured in Afghanistan or other foreign lands?", "Jeff, I think it's too early to make any conclusion. I think that it is a possibility that we could look at military tribunals in those cases. But I'm very skeptical about whether or not it's in our interest at this point, before everything has been cleaned up and everything has been resolved, that we make decisions of that kind. These are going to be important questions that I don't think should be resolved unilaterally. I think they need to be resolved in the context of the overall coalition effort, and I'm sure that will happen.", "And lastly, with roughly, at this point, two-thirds of Americans supporting the whole idea of military tribunals, with at least one Democratic Senator, I believe Senator Miller of Georgia saying to Democrats, get off the attorney general's back, are you at all concerned that some of the old concerns that some voters had about Democrats being a little soft on strength abroad may come back to haunt you if members of your party begin to go up against the administration, not on the economy, but on the issues of the conduct of the war and the battle against terrorism?", "By and large, I think you have seen most Democrats generally supportive. I think the real question is how do you find the balance? And I think that's really where the American people are. They want to provide law enforcement with the tools they need, but they also are very concerned about the abrogation of civil liberties and civil rights. So, I think it is right where the American people tend to be on this question, and that's where we are going to stay.", "All right, Senator Tom Daschle, Senate majority leader, thank you very much for joining us.", "My pleasure, Jeff. Thank you.", "When we come back, Attorney General John Ashcroft went to Capitol Hill today to defend the administrations bid for sweeping new powers. We'll talk with White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales.", "We just heard Senate Majority Leader Daschle say he thinks additional hearings may be required the scrutinize the new measures that are being implemented by the Justice Department. Senator Daschle speaking after hearing Attorney General Ashcroft testify today before the Judiciary Committee. Here's a brief at some of today's proceedings.", "Terrorist operatives infiltrate our communities, plotting, planning, waiting to kill again. They enjoy the benefits of our free society even as they commit themselves to our destruction.", "Every single American has a stake in protecting our freedoms, is to make sure we keep in site at all times, a line that separates government power on the one hand, and the rights and liberties of all Americans on the other hand.", "My first question is, what you're take is on the need for the commissions? We've talked a lot about the potential needs and procedures, but why do we need them in the first place?", "When we come to those responsible for this, say in Afghanistan, are we supposed to read them their Miranda rights, hire a flamboyant defense lawyer, bring them back to the United States to create a new cable network of Osama TV or what have you, provide a worldwide platform from which propaganda can be developed?", "History has shown that the military courts have been effective, but they have also shown that they've been abused. This time we want to try and get it right. And it is of profound importance to the country that we defend our ideals and our security. President Bush's executive order is a broad proposal that has enormous potential for abuse.", "I am pleased to say that the president's order requires that there be full and fair proceedings. Those are the kinds of descriptive terms that have governed the proceeding of wartime commissions and that govern the proceedings of war crimes commissions that operate today.", "Certainly the American people are not interested in watching us quibble about whether we should provide more rights than the Constitution requires to the criminals and terrorists who are devoted to killing our people. They are interested in making sure that we protect our country against terrorist attacks", "Will you commit to this committee today, that the Department of Justice will take immediate steps to assure that every detainee is made aware of his right to be represented by counsel, and made aware of organizations or groups that will represent him without charge if he can't afford a lawyer, that counsel are able to locate and consult with their clients without difficulty, that detainees are permitted to contact their attorneys as often as they need to and receive or return all calls from their attorneys without interference?", "I do not intend to hold individuals without access to council and we will take steps to make sure that we don't.", "Some experts from to today's hearing. And joining us now, White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales. He joins us from the White House. Judge Gonzales, Senator Daschle, as I mentioned, told us just a few moments ago that he was bothered by what he called the cavalier attitude of the attorney general. Do you folks regard the Congress as a legitimate oversight body in this area or do you see them more of an obstacle in getting done what you think you have to get done?", "We certainly don't consider anything that Congress does in this area as an obstacle. Obviously we are very respectful of the role of Congress, even in a time of war, where the president has been acting under his lawful authority as the commander in chief under the Constitution. The president has taken certain actions here, the executive branch has taken certain actions and as we see in many other instances when the executive branch takes action, the Congress looks and examines those actions and I think what they are doing now is perfectly appropriate.", "And so, if they come up with something and you on sober second thought, think, you know, they have a point, you might alter or reshape what you propose?", "I think it's premature to talk about altering or reshaping or amending the military order. It's not an executive order, it is a military order from the commander in chief down to the secretary of defense. I think we need the wait and see and look at the regulations promulgated by the secretary of defense. We have had military commissions throughout the history of this country without any kind of statutory authorization or guidance by the Congress. In fact, there's even some question that Congress would have the authority to regulate the military commissions by the president. The Supreme Court in the Quearing (ph) case, the 1942 Supreme Court case, specifically reserved the question. So, that is clearly an open question as to whether or not Congress would have the authority.", "All right, let's talk about something you yourself argued in an Op/Ed piece in the \"New York Times.\" You said, that \"under the order\" -- let me just find this for a minute -- \"the president will refer to military commissions only non-citizens who are members or active supporters of al Qaeda, or other international terrorist organizations, targeting the United States.\" I have a very simple question, Judge Gonzales, how do you know? Aren't you begging the question by asserting that he's only going to refer to the military tribunals that which might be in doubt?", "That will be a personal decision made by the president of the United States who is accountable to the American people and he will make a decision based on the facts that he believes are relevant in protecting the security of this country.", "Let me cut to the chase. Clearly, the president is not going to go out personally and do investigations. We are not talking about President Columbo. He is going to rely on his intelligence services and the FBI. You remember, in 1996, one of the most intensive FBI intelligence gathering operation centered around who set off the bomb at Olympic Park in Atlanta during the Olympics. And the FBI said we got Richard Jewell. And it then turns out, they got the wrong guy. If under this system, isn't there a danger that relying on good faith but mistaken intelligence, the president or the secretary of defense will consign to the military tribunals people, who may be the victim of just bad intelligence? What is the protection here?", "Well, the protection, of course, is the president making the determination that in fact, this is a person who's a member of al Qaeda or someone who's engaged in terrorist activities or someone who's harbored a member of al Qaeda or another terrorist, plus the president will have to make a determination that it is in the best interest of this country that this person be subject to military justice, through a military commission, and then we have a trial. During that trial the person will have the opportunity to be represented by counsel, to present evidence, and that person will have the opportunity to make the case whether or not in fact the person is guilty of terrorist activities.", "In past military tribunal situations, like World War II which the White House often cites, we knew when it was time to stop it, because there was a surrender. This is a war on terrorism that the president has described, and everybody else has described as a shadowy war which may go on for years. Is there not a danger that these sweeping new powers are not going to be temporary as they were in every past war, but will be permanently embedded in our system of justice?", "I think it is wrong to presume that these powers will be exercised in the manner that people have been concerned about in the press. There is no guarantee that the president will ever use this authority. To presume that the president would every use a military commission I think is a wrong presumption. This is simply a tool that the president felt was necessary in this extraordinary time to deal with terrorists.", "Lastly, Judge Gonzales, it seems to me, from my dim memory of law school, that our whole system is based on the fact that you don't put faith in government officials. You as Jefferson said, bind them down with the chains of constitutional law. Are you in effect asking the American people to simply say, rely on the good faith of the White House in this endeavor -- we won't abuse our power?", "What we're saying here is that this authority has been exercised pursuant to the Constitution. Nothing has been done here that is outside the bounds of the Constitution.", "OK, Judge Gonzales, thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it. When we come back. Vindication for your humble servant.", "\"And Another Thing,\" you know how bad it sounds when someone says, I told you so. You know how good it feels when it is you that gets to say it? OK, nearly 20 years ago,during the holiday season, when I was writing a syndicated newspaper column. I once wrote about how dangerous it would be if people took seriously all the criticism about the orgy of shopping and buying and commercialism. Think about it, I argued, if everybody stopped buying gifts, whole sectors of the American economy would collapse: Apparel, electronics, liquor and wine, toys, the whole retail underpinnings of our economy. Abandon commercialism, I opined, it is a word you don't hear enough, by the way, and you plunge the nation into doom. I took a lot of heat for that view. And now what, now you have the president himself telling us to whip out the credit cards, hit the malls, empty the stores, armies of experts are watching the cash registers everyday to find out if citizens have been loyal enough, patriotic enough, to spend our way to economic health. Urge Americans to embrace the true meaning of the season, it seems, and you are unwittingly giving aid and comfort to our enemies. I told you so. I'm Jeff Greenfield. Thanks for watching. \"LOU DOBBS MONEYLINE\" is next."], "speaker": ["JEFF GREENFIELD, HOST", "SEN. TOM DASCHLE (D-SD), MAJORITY LEADER", "GREENFIELD", "DASCHLE", "GREENFIELD", "DASCHLE", "GREENFIELD", "DASCHLE", "GREENFIELD", "DASCHLE", "GREENFIELD", "DASCHLE", "GREENFIELD", "DASCHLE", "GREENFIELD", "DASCHLE", "GREENFIELD", "DASCHLE", "GREENFIELD", "DASCHLE", "GREENFIELD", "DASCHLE", "GREENFIELD", "DASCHLE", "GREENFIELD", "DASCHLE", "GREENFIELD", "DASCHLE", "GREENFIELD", "GREENFIELD", "JOHN ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL", "SEN. PATRICK LEAHY (D-VT), CHMN., JUDICIARY CMTE.", "SEN. JOHN KYL (R), ARIZONA", "ASHCROFT", "SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY (D), MASSACHUSETTS", "ASHCROFT", "SEN. ORRIN HATCH (R), UTAH", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-114847", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2007-2-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/25/lkl.01.html", "summary": "Encore Presentation: Interview with Anna Nicole Smith", "utt": ["Good evening. And welcome to this special encore edition of LARRY KING LIVE on Anna Nicole Smith. We've been hearing so much about her since her death. Now you'll hear from Anna Nicole herself in one of her many appearances on this program, with her attorney Howard K. Stern. It's May 2002. Watch.", "No, that's my married name, actually.", "Oh, that's right. Was Vickie Lynn your real name?", "Vickie Lynn Hogan is my birth certificate's name.", "Who changed it to Anna Nicole Smith?", "That's my other married name. That's my first married name.", "Your first husband was named Smith.", "Right.", "And your second husband was named Marshall?", "Right.", "Where did Anna Nicole come from?", "Anna Nicole came from Guess Jeans, Paul Marciano and me and one of his friends we were sitting around coming up with a stage name, and that's where that came from.", "Did Guess Jeans hire you to be their model after the playmate of the year or before?", "Before.", "So, you went to work for them before \"Playboy\" magazine caught on to you?", "Right.", "And, Howard, how long have you represented Anna?", "I've represented her for about five years, about five years.", "So, you've been with her through all of this...", "Through a lot of this.", "... all of this...", "Yes.", "... struggle so to speak?", "Yes.", "Let's go back a little? You had a tough background, didn't you? You were raised in a -- your parents divorced shortly after you were born. You never went beyond eighth grade. It was a tough childhood?", "Well, a time, tough time.", "In Texas?", "In Texas.", "How were you discovered? How did Guess Jeans find you?", "There was an ad in the paper for \"Playboys\" Playmates, and I went to the ad and took some pictures. And \"Playboy\" called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992, and that's the cover that Paul Marciano saw.", "I see. So, they saw you when you were on the cover, but not when you were Playmate of the Year?", "Right.", "That was after.", "Right.", "And they hired you off that?", "Right.", "And were you...", "It was like eight months later.", "... were you a model before applying to \"Playboy\" to take your picture?", "What?", "What made you do that to the ...?", "Because I wanted to become a model and an actress, so I thought, well, here we go. But I chickened out four times before I did that, though. It was really scary.", "You did? Were you married at the time?", "I was not married at the time.", "Were you divorced?", "Well, wait a minute. Let me think. I was not divorced at the time. I was still married, but I was separated and we were living -- my husband was living in Mexia, Texas and I was living in Houston. I had moved from Mexia to Houston.", "When they -- was it tough for you the first time to be photographed?", "Absolutely.", "The little girl from Texas, it don't happen everyday, right?", "Right.", "How'd you get through it?", "They talked to me a lot. They just kind of talked me out of my robe, for about 30 minutes. It took about 30 minutes, and then I was just like...", "What did being on the cover mean to you other than the -- I mean, did it get you a lot of attention other than the jeans thing?", "In my hometown, it did.", "Yes. I mean, you were the rage, I guess.", "Right, right.", "Did you have a child at the time?", "I had my son, Daniel.", "How old is he now?", "He's 16.", "The first time I talked with you I think he was 8 or 9 or 10?", "Yes, he was a baby back then.", "You raised him through all of these trials and tribulations that you've gone through?", "I have.", "How did you meet what would become the story of your life now, and how did you meet J. Howard Marshall?", "I met my husband in a gentlemen's bar. He had come in, and I came over and talked to him and...", "This was after the Guess Jeans and everything?", "No, this was during -- this was before everything.", "Oh, so, you knew him a long time?", "Right. Right.", "He was in the bar. You were performing?", "Right. I went over and met him, and he had asked me to go to a lunch with him the following day, and I did. And it was the last time that I ever danced.", "Why? He said don't?", "He told me -- he asked me, could I see him the following day and I told him that I had to work, and he gave me an envelope. And I was back with him the following day. And we have been together for many years.", "How much older was he?", "He was -- I was 23, I believe, and he was 86.", "All right, now, I guess the obvious question, Howard must have asked it too.", "Everybody asks this question.", "What did you see? What did a 23-year-old girl see in an 86-year-old man?", "I saw a very sick man. Someone that was just really, really sick and...", "Physically sick?", "Physically ailing. And I just wanted to just talk with him and", "You didn't feel attracted to him?", "No...", "Or did you?", "... there was no physical attraction at all.", "Ever.", "Ever.", "He was attracted to you, though.", "Yes. He was very much attracted to me.", "How long before he asked you to marry him?", "Well, within a week.", "How did you react to that?", "I was blown away. But he's a sweetie.", "You refused.", "I turned him down. I said that I had wanted to try and make something out of my life before.", "What did he think of you doing the \"Playboy\" thing?", "He supported me 100 percent.", "He was behind that?", "Right.", "And you knew how wealthy he was? Did you know how wealthy?", "No, I didn't know at all how wealthy he was.", "So, would you go on dates? I mean, what was the courtship, if that can be called that, like?", "We went to dinner every night. We went to lunch every day.", "All right. Didn't you feel, Anna, a little strange? I mean, you weren't physically attracted, but obviously he was attracted to you. He's proposing to you, and he could be your great- grandfather. He could have made great-grandfather.", "He could.", "But certainly grandfather. Why were you doing this, lunch, dinner?", "Because he took me out of a horrible place and was taking care of me and my son, and I loved him for that.", "Loved him as a person?", "Loved him as a person.", "What was the horrible place? What was life like for you before him and the \"Playboy\" and the Guess Jeans and all that? What was life like for you and Daniel? Why were you in a bar?", "Well, because I tried working at other places and I just -- I couldn't. I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it. I couldn't. So, I tried this gentlemen's club, and, you know, I worked there, and it was just awful in those placed. It was terrible. And he saved me from that.", "What did you have to do dance?", "I had to dance and...", "Topless?", "Topless. And it was really horrible for me. But, you know, the clubs are dark and -- but it was still -- it just...", "Tough for Daniel, too?", "It was -- yes.", "Our guest Anna Nicole Smith with her attorney Howard Stern. You're watching LARRY KING LIVE. Don't go away.", "It is a very big honor for me. I have always wanted this. I am just so happy and thrilled and I am so glad Mr. Hefner chose me and all my fans out there that called out there, thank you. And I am just really, really excited.", "One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.", "She was an ornery child.", "She used to be built like a boy.", "Anna Nicole Smith, married briefly at 17, had a child from that marriage, Daniel, who's now 19.", "Sixteen.", "Sixteen. What's he doing, high school?", "High school.", "Doing well?", "Honor student, straight A's. Yes.", "Was Mr. Marshall good to Daniel?", "Absolutely.", "Yes, so he was a good stepfather?", "Oh, absolutely.", "And how did Daniel handle all of this?", "My life?", "Yes, your marriage to the older man, how did he deal with it?", "He dealt with it very well. He's -- we've just always stuck together through our whole lives.", "Did he get kidded about it?", "No.", "At school, no?", "No, he was too young for that, I think.", "One would imagine he went to private school?", "Right. He's been to a lot of private schools.", "How long did this -- you worked at -- you worked at a fried chicken restaurant, right? I mean, you had a lot of...", "Yes.", "... kind of lower-end jobs?", "Right.", "Nothing menial about that, but it was -- it must have been tough?", "Well, at Crispy Fried Chicken, I worked there for four years, that was fun, that was...", "What did you do?", "I was a breakfast cook.", "That's how she met her first husband.", "Yes. That's how -- my first husband, yes.", "He came in for breakfast?", "No, he worked there.", "Oh.", "He worked there. At first I was a waitress. I -- and then I became later a breakfast cook and he worked in the back. So that's where I met my first husband.", "That marriage didn't last long, though?", "No, it didn't.", "All right. Well, how did the relationship develop with him until you -- why did you finally accept marriage?", "With my husband?", "Yes.", "Well, I made it...", "How long did he chase you, in a sense? How long did he court you?", "He courted me until I married him.", "How many -- was it years?", "It was two and a half years. And that's when...", "That was indeed part of the case, right?", "Yes, that's one of the big misconceptions...", "I want to get to that.", "... is that people always emphasize a 14-month marriage, but they had a two-and-a-half-year relationship before they actually got married.", "The assumption was that you met him, took advantage of him, married him a week.", "Yes.", "You did not?", "No.", "He asked you to marry him and was after you for two and a half years.", "Yes, he was.", "Why did you finally accept?", "Because I promised him that I would marry him after I made something of myself, and I got to where I was a name. And I promised him, and it was time to do something. And I wanted to have children.", "Because you owed it to him?", "I owed it to him. I wanted kids, and it was time to get married.", "But he couldn't have gotten kids -- given you kids, could he?", "We tried.", "You did?", "We tried, but it didn't happen.", "Was it difficult to be physical with someone that much older?", "No.", "Not at all?", "Not at all.", "Because I guess everyone imagines that, wouldn't you, Howard?", "Not really.", "No?", "Not really, now knowing my client and now knowing where Howard Marshall took her out of and knowing her now. The true love that they did have. So, to me it's not -- it's not difficult to perceive. I think maybe before I had met her...", "You would have perceived...", "Yes, I would have thought that.", "As the audience would. Yes. Did you -- would you say you loved him?", "I loved him very much.", "Now, without being in love, right?", "No.", "I mean, you weren't physically...", "I wasn't physically, oh, my God, you hot, hot body, you know, like that. It was just I loved him for so much of what he did for me and my son. I mean, I just loved him so -- I've never had love like that before. No one has ever loved me and done things for me and respected me and didn't care about what people said about me. I mean, he truly loved me and I loved him for it.", "He was kind.", "He was very, very kind to me.", "Where did you and he live?", "We lived in Houston.", "That's where his business was? He had retired, right?", "Right. Right. No, he went to work every day.", "What was his business?", "Seven a.m. to 5:00 p.m. He was in the oil business.", "Oil.", "Right.", "When he died, how old was he?", "He was 90.", "And what did he die of?", "Pneumonia.", "Did you know it was coming?", "I didn't know it was coming that quickly.", "Were you with him when he died?", "No, I was not.", "You were home?", "I was out on a job.", "What kind of work were you doing?", "I don't remember exactly what job I was on.", "I mean -- was it in modeling?", "It was a modeling job.", "So, you've always worked as a model, right?", "Right.", "How did you find out he passed away?", "By telephone.", "Were you shocked?", "I was very shocked. Yes, it was...", "Did you go right to the hospital?", "No, I had a seizure and went to another hospital.", "You had a seizure?", "Yes.", "You were that close?", "Yes.", "Where was the reading of the will, Howard?", "You know, this is something that I -- it's kind of a tough subject for her. But she -- because she was not close at all with Pierce Marshall, to say the least...", "Pierce Marshall is her -- his son?", "The son, right. She wasn't informed of...", "That there was a will reading?", "... of most of the things that went on. And, you know, wasn't able to get copies of documents and, you know, she really was kept out of the loop.", "I wasn't allowed to see my husband.", "What do you mean?", "She was...", "You weren't allowed to see the...", "... prevented from...", "Funeral?", "Well, they -- it's a -- you know, it's a morbid story and it's the kind of...", "I never heard this one.", "... thing that...", "She couldn't go to...", "... I don't know if...", "... her husband's funeral, Anna?", "They had separate funerals. They ultimately had separate funerals.", "They would only let me see my husband for...", "It was...", "Like 30 minutes per day.", "... Yes, there was limitations on the amount of time that she could see...", "There was a wake?", "No, we're talking about when Howard was alive, there was limitations on the amount of time...", "Oh, when he was in the hospital?", "... that she could...", "No, when he was at home.", "... Not -- even when he was at home.", "Well, couldn't -- didn't he have a say in it?", "Well...", "He wanted -- yes, he did. No, they -- he didn't.", "You mean they kept you out of the house?", "It was bad.", "Yes.", "How could they do that if you're his wife?", "There was a guardianship of the person imposed by...", "You mean he was deemed incapable of making his own decisions?", "... it wasn't over his finances, it was over his person. And, you know, Pierce would say that it was for health reasons that he couldn't see someone for more than 30 minutes at a time. And the restrictions got loosened up later, but...", "But when you saw him...", "... didn't he say I want to see you more?", "He held his hand out.", "And he was powerless?", "Yes.", "We'll let you get a little rest here. We'll be right back with Anna Nicole Smith and Howard Stern on this addition of LARRY KING LIVE. Don't go away.", "We thank Anna Nicole Smith for being with us and her attorney, Howard Stern, for making this possible and for cooperating. We realize this is very difficult, but this was -- were incredible times for everyone concerned. Did you realize that the public looked at this as kind of like gold-digger?", "Yes, I did.", "How did that make you feel?", "It made me feel very angry because the time that, you know, I could have already married my husband, you know, I did it just for that fact. I wanted to make a name for myself so that wouldn't happen. And it hit me in the face anyway.", "You think you got a bad deal?", "I got a big -- I did.", "Should you have come forward more and explained it more? Should you have said, and I'll ask Howard this too -- in retrospect, this all is -- should you have said hey, folks, this man has taken care of me for two and a half years. I love him. I'm going to do the best I can by him. I told him I wouldn't -- this story, why didn't you tell it publicly then?", "Well, I was going to tell it publicly in 1994 on New Year's Eve at the Playboy Mansion. It was when we were going to come out with this. And, unfortunately, that's when he got sick.", "And they got a kind of guardianship that could keep you away? Boy, oh, boy, it must of -- were you banging on the door? Were you -- did you legally fight this, Howard?", "I tried.", "Yes, there was...", "I tried. I was in court every day.", "Yes, an independent guardian was ultimately appointed by the court.", "Independent from both sides of the family?", "From both sides of the family who made his own determinations.", "How did you eventually learn of how much you were supposed to get? How did you eventually learn of the will?", "Well...", "Well...", "... see, now it was...", "Let him do the...", "OK, Howard, how did you learn?", "Yes, I mean this -- what people don't realize about this whole court fight is that all Anna Nicole is trying for is what her husband...", "Left her.", "... wanted her to have, wanted her to have. And this is -- it's not an estate battle. It's actually Howard during his life and -- this is all in David Carter's court opinion, the U.S. District Court judge out here.", "So, there was no will, per se?", "Well, you know, they...", "But, there was a trust?", "... on Pierce's side they'll say there was so many wills and so many trusts, and she wasn't in any of them. But...", "So, eventually she was awarded how much, finally?", "Well, the final judgment from the U.S. District Court judge is about $89 million. And that's a review of the bankruptcy court where the bankruptcy court judge awarded approximately 475 million.", "So, the bankruptcy court awarded 475 million, the federal judge reduced it to 89 million, and they're still appealing that?", "Well, we don't know yet for sure. But I would expect an appeal. And in court filings, they've stated their desire to appeal again. You know, sometimes when you have really wealthy litigants like E. Pierce Marshall, justice takes time. And we'll be here to the end.", "How do you live now, Anna, if you haven't seen any of the money yet?", "Well, I've lived -- I'm starting to live better, but it was really rough on me, I mean.", "How did you support yourself?", "It wasn't easy.", "Did you get work?", "I couldn't. I mean, I got really sick, really sick from everything.", "Physically sick?", "Physically really sick from everything. So, I really...", "Were you laid up?", "... didn't work. And...", "How did your son handle this? Were you able to be a full- time mother?", "Yes, but it was hard because I was always in bed or in the hospital, you know...", "Was this emotional as well as physical?", "Very much so.", "We'll be right back with more of Anna Nicole Smith and Howard Stern, her attorney. Her son is here. A good-looking kid, by the way. Tomorrow night on LARRY KING LIVE, Jack Hanna of the Columbus Zoo returns with a wild assortment of animals and I will take them on. That's tomorrow night on LARRY KING LIVE.", "What are you doing?", "I'm just contemplating my next move.", "Your bishop is exposed.", "It's these pants. I usually wear a fuller cut.", "You're all man. I like that in my men.", "You are coming on to me big time, sister. You are praying like a kitten with a fresh mouth, but we got a problem.", "You're Jewish? NIELSEN No. You're Rocco's girl, and in my book that chapter is called look but don't touch.", "I could have two lovers.", "Kinky, but I like my sex the way I play basketball -- one on one and with as little dribbling as possible.", "In a little while we'll be getting to what Anna Nicole Smith is going to be doing now. And we'll have a little bit of a news item for you here when we ask her that. And we'll get to that. How did you react to all -- all right, now he's gone. Now you're in a court fight that lasts...", "Seven years right now.", "Seven years, right?", "Right.", "You draw no money during this.", "None.", "Right.", "And you're sick and you're in bed and you're depressed and you have physical illness and emotional illness.", "Right.", "And at the same time, tabloids are having a field day with you.", "Right.", "How did you react?", "It was -- it's been, it's been hell. I mean, it's been really, really hard between the hospitals and the ulcers and the nervous breakdowns.", "Did you ever think maybe it isn't worth it? I know it's a lot of money, but maybe I should just leave it alone and say goodbye?", "I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. I'll fight until the end.", "He wanted you to have this?", "He wanted me to have it and I'll fight until the end.", "Did the trust specify an amount, or did it just keep growing as...", "Well, that's the thing, we haven't received the trust. The trust was never produced in court.", "All right. How did they come up with 88.5 million, why not 86, why not 92?", "Well, that's Judge Carter's determination, essentially.", "How much was he worth?", "He was worth a lot. He was worth a lot. There's been bitter disputes as to his exact worth. But he was -- there's no question that he was a very, very wealthy man.", "So, Pierce, the son who fought you. The other son did not fight it as much, right?", "Well, the other son actually filed a lawsuit against Pierce, and that's something that has worked its way and is working its way through the Texas court system.", "But no one is poor out of this? These two sons are going to do all right?", "Well, as of now...", "Anna Nicole is poor today.", "As of now Pierce has everything and Anna Nicole has not collected a penny from even this judgment.", "Not even a widow's allowance, spousal support, nothing.", "No, even we'll give you something-something a month?", "No.", "Not since Howard...", "Wait a minute, now no one's denying that the marriage took place, right?", "Right.", "Or that you didn't live together.", "Right.", "you know, again these are issues . that is why we are in court.", "you are saying that you will never give up.", "right", "Do you carry a locket of his?", "Yes.", "What is -- do you have it?", "Yes. You want to see?", "Yes. What do you keep in it?", "This is the day we got married and he -- we threw doves. And he laughs, and I just remember the day", "I see that, yes.", "Really cute.", "You're releasing a dove.", "And he's laughing.", "And he's getting a good laugh. Where were you married?", "We were married at a chapel.", "In?", "The Doves Chapel (ph) in Houston.", "In Houston. Where did you honeymoon?", "We honeymooned in Bali.", "Are you engaged?", "No. This is just an old ring. It -", "Was he very, very generous with you?", "Very much, very much.", "Was it hard not to take advantage of that when someone is giving you anything you want?", "No, because he always had me a present. He just -- he was so giving and he was just such a giving man. He just loved to see me smile, and...", "Now, the time that you were married.", "Yes?", "Before they got this guardianship.", "Right.", "What was life like?", "It was just wonderful.", "You continued to work.", "I worked.", "He wanted you to work. He didn't stop you from...", "He wanted me to work.", "... working.", "Yes.", "You tried to have a baby?", "Tried to have a baby.", "Where were you living, in Texas?", "Right.", "And he went to work every day?", "Every day from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m. And then we'd go to dinner, and then he'd be home in bed by 7:00. And then I'd go and take my dance classes that he paid for. And then I had -- you know, I had my night life. He knew it. He paid for it. I had my life. He had his life.", "But you didn't see other men?", "No. No. Never. As you can see, I always went to premiers by myself. I was always alone.", "Because he couldn't stay up late?", "No, because I was in California.", "Oh, you were out here and he was in Texas...", "Right.", "... and you were out here.", "I'd fly out here and go to premiers and stuff by myself. I didn't have a boyfriend.", "And never got attracted to anyone...", "No girlfriends.", "... in that time?", "No. No, I had a honey at home.", "Talk to him every day?", "Every day. I was -- he called me his sleeping pill. Every night I had to call him, and he called me his sleeping pill.", "What was -- did she have to testify in any of the court cases?", "She's testified so many times. She's testified in three different court proceedings and...", "Was she a good witness?", "... it goes on and on. She's an honest witness. So that's a good witness.", "Did you ever ask the family, the other litigants for a specific -- did you ever say look, give me 30 million, 50 million and we'll forget the whole thing and it'll go away.", "OK. That's something that, you know, I wish she could talk about. But honestly, that's something that we're really not permitted to talk about.", "But there has been no settlement?", "There has been no settlement to this date.", "We'll be right back with more of Anna Nicole Smith and Howard Stern. Don't go away.", "How you feeling emotionally?", "Well, I'm very nervous. All the facts are going to come out and I will prevail.", "She is not going to make any comments about the case.", "I am just going to get lots of sleep.", "Are you glad it's over, Anna?", "She is going to hold up great. She is going to do just fine.", "Before we talk about what you're going to be doing and what you might do if everything works out financially, being in the spotlight, dealing with people saying mean things about you. It's been tough?", "It's been tough.", "You had -- there were reports that you were addicted. That you were in rehab.", "Right.", "Were you?", "True. But they say I was in there for drugs. I was in there for painkillers.", "You took what? You got addicted to prescription painkillers?", "I got addicted to pain pills and also alcohol when my husband was dying and when he died.", "Where were you treated?", "I called and put my own self into Betty Ford and got my own self well. But, no, did I get any pity from anyone? No.", "Did Betty Ford work those 28 days?", "It worked. It got me off everything. It was hard. I hated it. I'll never go back.", "It's an amazing place.", "Oh, it's horrible.", "You didn't like it?", "They treat you terribly.", "But Betty always tells us how successful they are.", "They're horrible. .", "Being large breasted, did you have breast augmentation?", "Yes, I did.", "Up or down?", "Both.", ". Aren't there downsides to it?", "Yes, there is. There is.", "It becomes too much of an attention getter. It takes away from modeling?", "Right.", "It might have cost you jobs?", "I don't know about that. But it's definitely painful on your back.", "It hurts?", "Yes.", "You know...", "Not anymore because I've went down.", "You brought it down?", "Right. .", "Was Marilyn Monroe your idol?", "Yes, she is.", "Why?", "I don't know. I just feel a connection there with her. Just -- I don't know, I just love her.", "You feel the sadness of her life too?", "Yes, I do. I just completely feel what she went through.", "Everyone assumes that someone like you, who looks like you, is never alone.", "Are you kidding me?", "Never without.", "I have been alone since my husband died.", "Never without suitors, never without men chasing?", "I stay in my home. So, I mean, I don't go out.", "You don't date?", "I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home because nobody knows you.", "Do you go out on jobs?", "Since the trial I've just -- I've been so committed to the trial this so many years...", "You've been in court for five years now.", "I've been in court for...", "Now, what are you going to do? I understand something's coming that's going to involve you?", "Right. And they're going to do the \"Anna Nicole Show.\" Did I do that right? Anna Nicole?", "Yes, it's going to be the Anna Nicole...", "\"The Anna Nicole Show.\" Right, on channel", "On the E! channel?", "Right.", "And what kind of show is it going to be?", "All about me.", "We assume it's going to be a weekly show. It's going to be a series.", "When does it start?", "You know, I don't know if we're allowed to say, but I think it's going to be coming the end of summer.", "What? They've held the date?", "Yes. They're holding the date back right now.", "But it's coming?", "It's coming.", "And it's \"The Anna Nicole Show.\"", "Right.", "And, as I understand it, since there are a few cameras here, they follow you around?", "They won't leave me alone. Get away.", "They follow her around.", "Why did you agree to this, Howard? I mean, are you also the agent?", "No, I'm...", "He's mean. He made them come to my dentist's office.", "They're following her around?", "Yes, she actually...", "She actually wanted to do this.", "Yes, but I didn't know how bad they were going to be watching me. They watch me very closely.", "Now, wait a minute. Isn't that going to cramp -- I mean, let's say, you're OK now, right? You got your -- you don't have any drinking problem? You don't have any drug problems...", "Yes.", "... none of that?", "I'm fine.", "Well, what about you meet someone and you want to go on a date, are you going to let them go with you?", "I never get to go on a date. I told you. I've been in court.", "Well, if you're in court or in the house all day, what's going to be interesting about the series?", "Oh, she is a living soap opera.", "That's true. We got to go out to some bars and stuff.", "She's a living soap opera how?", "She really is. She just -- you know, just everything in her life, the small issues get compounded into big issues.", "It's like...", "Things happen to...", "... every single day something happens to me, it's true.", "Really? Do you think there's sort of like a cloud?", "Yes.", "That hangs over your head?", "A dark one, a very...", "A dark one?", "Yes.", "How old are you now?", "Twenty-seven.", "I've got ties older than you. Your life is just starting.. Do you want to get married again? Do you want to have children? Do you want to have a boyfriend?", "I want to have children so bad. Yes, I do.", "And E! is going to follow you around for that too. We'll take you through a pregnancy. This will go on for years. You'll find out the father will be there for the birth.", "No, no fathers. I'm just going to be one-night stands.", "That's what you're interested in now?", "Yes.", "That's easier, Anna?", "Yes.", "Less involved, don't fall in love, is that what you're saying?", "No. I'm just going go out there and...", "It's more than that too, the television show, because it's following her in her career. For the first time, she's really starting to work again and she's excited about working again.", "Yes, hey, E!, I'm going out on a date, come on.", "One of the tabloids said that -- were you ever in -- did you kiss Roseanne or something? Were you involved in...", "Maybe.", "What was that?", "Maybe.", "Did you like it? You can tell me, come on.", "Did I kiss Roseanne? Probably.", "You know, these things are...", "I'm always kissing everybody. I kiss everybody.", "So you can safely say here tonight, you have not been involved with a woman? Oh-oh.", "What do you mean?", "I mean, you haven't been physically involved? I don't want to put words in your mouth. You haven't been physically involved with someone of the same sex?", "What do you mean?", "You haven't had a relationship with someone of the same sex?", "Like what?", "Like physical?", "What do you mean? I don't know what you mean.", "She's good.", "OK. You're good. You know, or I can make my own presumption.", "About what?", "About your having a relationship with a woman.", "What kind?", "This is going to be a successful show, I mean, this is going to be good.", "I spent some moments with Philip Boesch; he was the lead counsel in the Anna Nicole Smith trials against the family of her late husband. Here's some of his thoughts.", "Were you confident from the get-go?", "You know, I didn't really know what we were dealing with at the get-go, but what I was confident about was the fact that this man loved this woman and he was the pursuer of this woman. It always struck me that people woulkd recognize that, after four yearts of courtship, that, where she says, No, no, no, while I'm just a struggling dancer, she doesn't say yes until she's Playboy's Playmate of the Year. And at that point she had all kinds of options with all kinds of wealthy people and men and so on. I felt that that sort of fundamental fact, his pursuit and his passion --", "She didn't con him or lure him into something and in two weeks get married.", "It was quite universal that he was the pursuer.", "Were you surprised at how gritty she was?", "No, I don't think so. The reason for that is that, when you're Playboy's Playmate of the Year and you have a Guess Jeans contract and you're able to appear before millions of people -- and she did have worldwide celebrity -- she knew what she was getting into to accept the love of this man, when she said yes.", "How did she handle herself in court?", "The last time -- she's been in court a lot, Larry. And I think it's been -- she delivered, in a situation in front of the judge in Orange County, testimony that the judge found was very credible. And that was the important thing. She came across telling the truth and the judge accepted that in his opinion and said so.", "And said the court is convinced of his love for her.", "That's what he said.", "Did she love him?", "I think so.", "Anna Nicole Smith has been our guest tonight. Her son, we'll leave him a little camera shy, 16 years old, let him have his peace. Is he dating yet?", "No.", "No. And this is who?", "This is Sharapa (ph).", "How long have you had her?", "Three years.", "She's cute. Now, tomorrow night, Jack Hanna and his animals are going to be here. He brings us a whole bunch of animals from the zoo and other places. Are you an animal lover?", "I'm an animal lover.", "Always had dogs?", "Yes.", "All right, what are you going to do -- all right, let's say the E! show goes and that's a big success, what else do you plan to do?", "Give you a present. I brought you a present.", "You brought me a present?", "Yes.", "While I open the present...", "She actually made you a present.", "I made it.", "You made this?", "I made it just for you.", "For your 45 years in broadcasting.", "Wow, you made this?", "Yes.", "Wow.", "Do you like it?", "Wow. Do you paint?", "Yes, I paint. I just started.", "You're very good. You got a lot -- this is a great use of colors, signed it with a little happy face.", "That's my signature.", "Well, thank you so much. I will treasure that.", "OK.", "What are you going to do if you get 88.5 million?", "Rest.", "You know, its so funny. In every type of event that she is in, that is the last question that everybody asks her.", "What are you going to do?", "You mean she comes out to dinner (ph) --", "\"What are you going to do?\" At a Guess event, \"What are you going to do?\"", "You still do events for Guess? You are still a Guess model?", "No, I am not.", "There was a Guess 20th anniversary party that we were all at.", "What are you going to do?", "Oh, my goodness, things that will make my husband proud. I'll tell you that.", "The first thing will be get a house.", "Well, I just got a house, actually.", "And take care of your son.", "Yes.", "Would you marry an older man again?", "I sure would if he was nice to me.", "What if it was an old rich man with two older sons?", "I'd make sure that I had everything on paper.", "Yes. You didn't have anything down?", "I don't -- I mean, I don't do that. I don't -- I never thought for once to ever ask for money. Anything on paper --", "In fact, if she were a grabbing person and this guy's begging, Howard, why not a pre-nup?", "Exactly. Exactly.", "I mean, why not where she gets, OK, I'll marry you and I'll do these things for you, and here's what I want.", "Well...", "I know, I was so stupid.", "You know, he's not going to say, oh, but, here, sign this. I mean, people are just so stupid.", "So, in your heart you have never felt what is commonly called a gold digger?", "No way.", "This was not for money for you?", "If it was, I would have just stashed it away. I would have got money. I would have put it away somewhere. I mean --", "That's all right. He gave you everything. You could have said, Howard --", "He gave me everything.", "-- you're getting sick, give me --", "I would had say give me some money, give me --", "-- $10 million, I'll put it in the safe deposit box.", "Right. I would have just kept getting money, or something. I mean, people are crazy. I don't have any money.", "How do you feel about it legally, Howard, all of this? Why does this get so protracted?", "Well, I think, again, when you have a litigant that that's wealthy that justice takes time. And if something can be filed, it will be filed. And it's hard. Sometimes the court systems take longer than a litigant would want.", "So, you feel you will be eventually getting this, because you're justified in getting it?", "Absolutely.", "Like this is your right?", "Yes, it is.", "You preformed every wifely duty you were supposed to perform.", "Yes, I have.", "And you deserve to be treated well for it.", "Yes, I have.", "She deserves to get what Howard wanted.", "Are you still a -- you're a devout Catholic. Still believe?", "I love the Lord.", "You still -- that has not wavered at all?", "No.", "Thank you, Howard. Thanks for making this --", "Thank you.", "-- possible.", "Thank you for having us.", "Thank you, Anna.", "Thank you.", "Anna, thank you again, for the painting, and may you finally find some peace and rest in it. Of course, we'll stay right on top of the battle over whose the father of the baby daughter. Right now, stay tuned for more news, on CNN, your most trusted name in news. 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{"id": "CNN-312834", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-05-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/23/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Intel Chief Testifies Amid New Russia Revelations; At Least 22 Killed in Terror Attack at UK Pop Concert; Former CIA Head Talks Russia Probe with House Members.", "utt": ["Well, that won't solve the problem, particularly the homegrown and inspired attacks. Clearing going to the heart of ISIS and driving a stake through that heart, we assess, will significantly improve the situation, the plotting and the planning that comes from a centralized caliphate or safe haven for ISIS. We've seen the damage that's occurred. We do asses, however, that it's ideology and methods have spread like tentacles into many places, most of them ungoverned countries and been -- and sent some foreign fighters back home that might want to carry -- carry on their mission. But clearly the strategy I believe is the right strategy and that is to go to the heart and disperse their planning and their leadership.", "The Defense Science Board told this committee, at least in the next decade, the offensive cyber capabilities of our most capable adversaries are likely to far exceed the United State's ability to defend key critical infrastructure, do you agree with that assessment?", "I do -- I do. I think cyber has risen to the top if -- close to the top of one of the most serious challenges that we face. As I mentioned in my opening statement we need to see this as a very significant challenge to our public safety as well as the public health.", "Two years in a row we have authorized the provision of defensive lethal weapons in the defense authorization bill to Ukraine, do you believe we should seriously consider that in light of continued Russian aggression in the country?", "Well, Mr. Chairman, that is a little bit outside my portfolio. It's a policy decision that perhaps General Stewart may want to discuss but we want to try to continue the intelligence that would shape and fashion that decision among our policy makers, General Mattis and others.", "Finally, on the issue of cyber, right now we have no policy, nor did we for the previous eight years of the last administration. And, so, therefore, without a policy we don't have a strategy. So, therefore, when we don't have a strategy we don't know how to act. Is there -- is -- is that a true depiction of the scenario as we see it as far as cyber is concerned?", "Well I think we're learning that we do need to take this seriously, which we do, we do need to fashion a means by which we address these cyber attack that are growing by the day. Our critical infrastructure is at risk, our personal lives are at risk, our financial community, commercial communities, military and other entities that are important to our national security are at risk. And shaping -- shaping a policy and a plan to address this I think rises to a top priority.", "I want to thank you and General Stewart for your outstanding work for our country. Senator Reed.", "Thank you very much Mr. Chairman. Thank you both gentlemen. Director Coats, apparently the -- the alleged call was prompted by the testimony of Mr. Comey that the FBI was conducting an investigation of the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian Government and whether there was any coordination within the campaign and Russia's efforts. In your capacity as director of all intelligence services including many aspects of FBI, are you aware of certain of such an investigation?", "Well I'm aware of the of the investigations that are -- that are underway both by the House, the Senate, now Special Counsel.", "And the", "And the -- yes.", "And do you have any reason to question the appropriateness of the investigations?", "No, I think these investigations have are in place to get us to the right conclusion so that we can -- we can move on with a known result.", "There are other allegations in the article, which suggests that either the president or White House personnel contacted other people in the intelligence community with a request to drop the investigation into General Flynn. Are you aware of any other contacts not just yourself personally but to others in the intelligence community to conduct an activity?", "I am not aware of that.", "Thank you. You have -- and General Stewart, have painted a very challenging picture of the threats that face us. Let me raise two specific issues. One with respect to Iraq, there has been discussions in the Kurdish community of a referendum to declare essentially their independence or their desire for independence. In your estimation, Director Coats and General Stewart, what would that do to the ability of the Iraqi government to come together after the defeat of ISIS?", "Well it certainly adds an issue that is going to need to be worked through as complicated as the situation is. It would add one more -- one more complication. I would turn to General Stewart relative to the military aspects of that. LT. GEN. VINCENT STEWART", "At -- once ISIS is defeated in Mosul, the greatest challenge to the Iraqi government is to reconcile the differences between the Shia dominated government, the Sunnis out west and the Kurds of the north. Resolving the Kirkuk oil field and the revenues associated with the oil fields, resolving the ownership of the city of Kirkuk will be significant political challenges for the Iraqi government. Failure to address those challenges coming up with a political solution will ultimately result in conflict among all of the parties.", "All right, you've been listening to this hearing inside the Senate Armed Services Committee. The Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, he would not comment. He dodged the question when asked directly.", "He didn't deny it.", "He didn't deny it but he dodged it when asked directly whether or not the president asked him to publicly deny that there was any connection between the Trump campaign and Russia.", "He was also asked by Senator McCain about leaks and he said that quote, \"Leaks jeopardize those lives.\" That was the second follow-up question from John McCain.", "All right. Joining us now, Bob Baer, CNN intelligence and security analyst, a former CIA operative, Juliette Kayyem, CNN national security analyst, former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Michael Balboni, former New York State Homeland Security director and Chris Cillizza, CNN politics reporter and editor at large. Guys, we're going to start of the politics of this because that's what we were just watching right there with this hearing, the Director of National Intelligence asked to corroborate this report that the president had asked him to publicly deny there was any investigation. Chris Cillizza, when you heard the DNI say, you know, it's not appropriate for me to characterize these discussions, what did that sound like to you?", "That he's not denying it. Look, you know, Dan Coats is someone who's been around a very long time. He was a senator from Indiana, left, came back and represented Indiana in the Senate before being named DNI. He knows how this works. If he wanted to, felt comfortable with making a full-scale denial -- no, President Trump never asked me to knock down talk of collusion in the wake of the investigation announced by James Comey. He would have done that. That's a setting in which you could do it. He knew, of course, he was going to get that question. This is a way to sort of deflect. It's a way to say not yes but not no, right? This is sort of a middle ground answer that will make some news but not as much news as if Senator Coats had said, yes, he did ask me to knock that down.", "Right, right. Guys, we're going to stay on this. We're monitoring a hearing that's about to begin with former CIA director John Brennan as well and we're waiting for House Speaker Paul Ryan. But we do also want to cover the breaking news, the tragedy that attack last night in Manchester. And we have all of you here, national security experts. So, let me just go to you, Bob Baer, on the breaking news out of Manchester. What we do know is that this is ISIS, we believe, claiming responsibility. Whether it was ISIS-inspired or ISIS-plotted and we know some of the names of the victims, how young they were, an 8-year- old girl dead, an 18-year-old girl dead. What is your read on this that authorities have arrested a 23-year-old man in addition to the apparent suicide bomber?", "Well, you know, I think it's probably a bigger sail. This was a well-planned attack. The suicide bomber didn't enter the arena. He didn't have to go through security. He was placed where he would cause the maximum damage in a suicide vest like that. 22 people is probably the maximum damage you can do. These bombs, homemade bombs, have to be very carefully delivered. If it was acetone and peroxide it has to be cooled and I could go on and on, which suggests that somebody knew what they were doing. These bombs are easy to make, but you still need supervision and I would expect an arrest and maybe more. I think we're dealing with a cell. The British police are worried about add-on attacks right now and they're doing everything they can to stop them.", "Juliette Kayyem, as we see John Brennan there, the former CIA director, beginning his opening statement. Let me stay on the Britain terror attack right now. You know, as someone who's worked in Homeland Security, but also as someone who is a mother, that this is a parent's worst nightmare, an attack like this.", "It absolutely is. You know, even sort of the Paris attack that was a bar or even Orlando, you know, I don't want to say some -- no one deserves to die from terrorism, but you know, you sort of prepare yourself for those kinds of attacks, sort of adult, Friday night situations. I have three kids. Anyone who knows Ariana Grande knows that your 9 to 13-year-olds are listening to them, they are begging to go to her concert. This is targeted against not only the most defenseless, the most innocent, but also imagine after the attack, after the bombings, you know, a child doesn't necessarily know what to do, right? So, that fear and panic even for those who have survived lasts a long time. This is a success from the perspective of", "Juliette, stay with us for one second. I'm so sorry to interrupt, but let's get to the former CIA director, John Brennan, listen in.", "First, I'm exceptionally proud of the work done by the women and men of the CIA who along with their talented colleagues from the FBI, NSA, and the office of the DNI, tracked and exposed Russian active measures against our presidential election. When it became clear to me last summer that Russia was engaged in a very aggressive and wide-ranging effort to interfere in one of the key pillars of our democracy, we pulled together experts from CIA, NSA, and FBI in late July to focus on the issue, drawing in multiple perspectives and subject matter experts with broad expertise to assess Russian attempts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. The purpose was to ensure that experts in key agencies had access to information and intelligence relevant to Russian actions so that we could have as full an appreciation as possible on the scope, nature, and intentions of this Russian activity. The experts provided regular updates and assessments through the summer and fall, which we used to inform senior U.S. officials, including President Obama. The work also was leveraged for the intelligence community assessments that was completed in early January, under the aegis of the director of national intelligence. Second, it should be clear to everyone that Russia brazenly interfered in our 2016 present election process and that they undertook these activities, despite our strong protests and expose a warning that they not do so. Along these lines on 4, August of last year, I spoke to Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia's Federal security Bureau, the FSB, Russia's internal security and intelligence service. The bulk of the schedule call focused on Syria, as Bortnikov was my principal Russian interlocutor on tourism matters. In consultation with the White House, I took the opportunity to raise two additional issues with him. I first told Mr. Bortnikov, as I had several times previously that the continued mistreatment and harassment of U.S. diplomats in Moscow was irresponsible, reckless, intolerable and needed to stop. Over the years it has been Mr. Bortnikov's FSB that has been most responsible for this outrageous behavior. I next raised the published media reports of Russian attempts to interfere in our upcoming presidential election. I told Mr. Bortnikov that if Russia had such campaign underway, it would be certain to backfire. I said that all Americans regardless of political affiliation or whom they might support in the election cherish their ability to elect their own leaders without outside interference or disruption. I said American voters would be outraged by any Russian attempt to interfere in election. Finally, I warned Mr. Bortnikov that if Russia pursued this course, it would destroy any near-term prospect for improvement in relations between Washington and Moscow and would undermine constructive engagement even on matters of mutual interest. As I expected, Mr. Bortnikov denied that Russia was doing anything to influence our presidential election, claiming that Moscow is a traditional target of blame by Washington for such activities. He said that Russia was prepared to work with whichever candidate wins the election. When I repeated my warning, he again denied the charge, but said that he would inform President Putin of my comments. I believe I was the first U.S. official to brace the Russians on this matter. Third, to the so-called Gang of Eight process, we kept Congress apprised of these issues as we identify them. Again in consultation with the White House, I personally briefed the full details of our understanding of Russian attempts to interfere in election to congressional leadership, specifically Senators Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr; and to Representatives Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, Devon Nunes and Adam Schiff between 11, August and 6, September. I provided the same briefing to each of the gang of eight members. Given the highly sensitive nature of what was an active counterintelligence case involving an ongoing Russian effort to interfere in our presidential election, the full details of what we knew at the time were shared only with those members of Congress, each of whom was accompanied by one senior staff member. The substance of those briefings was entirely consistent with the main judgments contained in the January classified and unclassified assessments, namely that Russia's goals were to undermine public faith in U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency, and to help President Trump's election chances. Let me conclude by saying that was a very special privilege to serve as a CIA officer for the first 25 years of my public service and it was the highest honor of my professional career and always will be to have served another four years as director of CIA. CIA officers of all disciplines past, present and future serve this country and their fellow citizens with tremendous dedication, talent, and courage. They recognize that this country's national security rests heavily on their continued outstanding work on the sacrifices they and their families make every day on behalf of their fellow citizens. We all owe a great debt of gratitude to all CIA officers and their families for what they have done and continue to do to protect this country. And I will now be pleased to take your questions.", "Well, again Mr. Brennan, thank you very much for your long service, distinguished and for agreeing to come this morning. I'm joined on our task force by two able prosecutors who I'd like to yield my five minutes to -- to Tom Rooney, Tom?", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Director, if you could just take a quick minute before I start with my line of questioning, with regard to what happened last night in Manchester to do whatever you can the best you can from your expert -- expert opinion to try to reassure the American people that what we do in this country and what we're trying to do would help thwart and stop any kind of similar activity here in the -- in the future. If you could help try to put American minds at ease briefly, I would appreciate any words that you might have of advice.", "Well, I would say that ISIS and Al Qaida and their terrorist -- terrorist affiliates continue to try to carry out these outrageous attacks in Europe, as well as the United States. But I can say with great confidence that this country has the absolute best counter- terrorism community that knits together the experts from intelligence, law enforcement, homeland security and does a great job of making sure that our federal structure is interoperating as best it can with state and local officials and local law enforcement. And so I have seen a tremendous, tremendous growth of capability, as well as an -- an enhanced national architecture since 9/11, in terms of the ability to share counter-terrorism information quickly, terrorist threat information so that when it's collected overseas or wherever, it gets to those individuals who have to take action on it. So I can assure the American people that I know today, my former colleagues are working even harder than they ever have before to prevent attacks.", "Thank you, sir. And to the matter at hand, we heard the ranking member speak in his opening, as well as we've heard in -- in the press numerous times with regard to and in your opening statement, the Russian investigation what -- what the Russians were trying to do with regard to our election. The Russians interfering with our election, whether it be through the RT or propaganda or whatever, we know that that has now unfortunately become the new norm and it's something that we're all going to have to deal with. And our charge on this committee isn't so much necessarily to try to seek out and root out criminal behavior, especially now in light of the new Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who would be looking into those type of things. But for us on the intelligence committees, whether it be here or in the Senate, to try to improve the intelligence community's ability to do our jobs and to make a report, a recommendation to you and the -- the new administration as to how we better defend ourselves against what Russia and/or others may be trying to do with regard to affecting our Republican, our democracy. And in doing so, if we do find any kind of criminal behavior, I think that -- that the minority would agree that those type of -- that type of information would be referred to the Justice Department, which is the -- the proper jurisdiction. But with regard to the -- the -- the main question at hand in your experience with the Russian trying to involve themselves in our election. Did you ever find any evidence as the ranking member spoke of collusion while you were the director, did you find direct evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Putin in Moscow while you were there?", "Mr. Rooney, I never was an FBI agent I never was a prosecutor so I really don't do evidence; I do intelligence throughout the course of my career. As an intelligence professional, what we try to do is to make sure that we provide all relevant information to the bureau if there is an investigation underway that they're looking into criminal activity. As I mentioned in my opening statement, I was convinced in the summer that the Russians were trying to interfere in the election. And they were very aggressive, they had -- it was a multifaceted effort and I wanted to make sure that we were able to expose as much of that as possible.", "But was there intelligence that said that the Trump campaign was colluding with Moscow during their campaign to assist...", "There was intelligence that the Russian intelligence services were actively involved in this effort and having been involved in many counterintelligence cases in the past, I know what the Russians try to do. They try to suborn individuals and they try to get individuals, including U.S. persons, to act on their behalf either wittingly or unwittingly. And I was worried by a number of the contacts that the Russians had with U.S. persons and so therefore, by the time I left office on January 20, I had unresolved questions in my mind as to whether or not the Russians had been successful in getting U.S. persons involved in the campaign or not to work on their behalf, again, either in a witting or unwitting fashion. And so therefore I felt as though the FBI investigation was certainly well-founded and needed to look into those issues.", "When you talk about -- and I'm running out of time, but hopefully I'll be able to circle back. Can you describe their capabilities beyond just propaganda and actual infiltrating whether or not there was -- you had intelligence to infiltrate the campaign with capabilities beyond just propaganda and beyond just reaching out or trying to influence the news or the campaign and how long have we known about these type of capabilities?", "There's a lot of intelligence that's been built up over the years about Russia's M.O. in terms of trying to gain influence in Western democracies. How they've been able to use individuals, they've been able to use politicians, political parties, they've been able to use elements within the media to try to make sure that their objectives are realized. And so again, knowing what the Russian M.O. is and has been including elections in Europe, I certainly was concerned that they were practicing the same types of activities here in the United States. And that's why, as I said, we set up a group in late July that included the FBI and NSA. I wanted to make sure that every information and bit of intelligence that we had was shared with the bureau so that they could take it. It was well beyond my mandate as director of CIA to follow on any of those leads that involved U.S. persons. But I made sure that anything that was involving U.S. persons, including anything involving the individuals involved in the Trump campaign was shared with the bureau.", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman.", "Gentleman's time expired. Mr. Schiff, five minutes.", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to follow up on a comment that I made in the opening statement and that is, with respect to a number of the allegations that have been made recently that the president or his aids may have sought to enlist the help of members of the IC or Director Comey himself to drop the Flynn investigation? Have any members of the IC shared with you their concerns that the president was attempting to enlist the help of people within the intelligence community to drop the Flynn investigation?", "No, sir.", "Are you aware of any efforts the president has made to enlist the support of intelligence community personnel to push back on a narrative involving the collusion issue that Mr. Rooney was asking about?", "I am unaware of it.", "I want to ask you about the allegations concerning the president's meetings in the White House, in the Oval Office with the Russians. First, what concerns you might have if the allegations are accurate about sharing information that we may have obtained from an intelligence partner. What impact you think that might have on -- not only that partner, but other intelligence partner's willingness to share intelligence with United States. But more than that, if you can also shed your insights on -- on one other thing, and that is the Russians reaction to that meeting was -- was at least twofold. One was Vladimir Putin's offer to validate what happened in the Oval Office, to provide his own transcript of that meeting, but also the Russian publication of photographs from that meeting. The Russians had to understand the publication of those photos would be harmful to the president or the president would've invited American press into that meeting. What do you think motivated the Russians to publish those photos, what you think motivated Putin to make a claim he knew would never be accepted to provide their own transcript of that meeting? Is this just further efforts to weaken the president, to disrupt our political process? How do you explain those events?", "A lot of questions there, Mr. Schiff. The first one I'd like to make is that I shared classified information with the Russians while I was director at the CIA. CIA, on a routine basis, shares classified information with Russians on tourism matters. It doesn't mean that it becomes unclassified; it means that it retains the classification, but is releasable then to Russia or to other partners, so that in itself is not unprecedented. And I don't know what was shared or said in the Oval Office, but if the reports in the press are true that Mr. Trump decided to spontaneously share some intelligence with the Russians, I think he would have basically violated two protocols. And those two protocols are one, is that such intelligence -- classified intelligence is not shared with visiting foreign ministers or local ambassadors. It's shared through intelligence channels because it needs to be handled the right way and it needs to make sure that it is not exposed. He didn't do that, again, if they get the press charges are accurate. Secondly, before sharing any classifies intelligence with foreign partners, it needs to go back to the originating agency to make sure that the language in it is not -- even just providing a substance going to reveal source of methods and compromise the future collection capability. So it appears as though, at least from the press reports, that neither did it go in the proper channels nor did the originating agency have the opportunity to clear language for it, so that is a problem. What I was very concerned about though is the subsequent releases of -- what appears to be classified information reporting to appoint to the originator of the information, liaison partners. These continue to be very, very damaging leaks and I find them appalling and they need to be tracked down. So that was where the damage came from; I think that it was released in the press. Now the Russians are watching very carefully what's going on in Washington right now and they will try to exploit it for their own purposes and to see whether not they can further, I think, seed partisan animosity here in Washington and try to roil the waters -- the political waters here. and so even though the election is over, I think Mr. Putin and Russian intelligence services are trying to actively exploit a what is going on now in Washington to their benefit and to our detriment.", "Fall, to again, on Mr. Rooney's questions, when you have these concerns raised about the Russian efforts and their potential effort to suborn U.S. persons to their cause and the hacking operation, did you take steps to set up an organizational structure to analyze the Russian campaign so that members of the of the FBI, CIA, NSA and other agencies would look at these allegations in a cohesive fashion.", "Yes and I also recognize that this was an exceptionally, exceptionally sensitive issue, an active counterintelligence case, trying to stop and uncover what the Russian intelligence activities were in the midst of a hotly debated presidential campaign. That included information that may have involved U.S. persons contacts with Russia, whether they benign or not. And so therefore, one of the key pieces of any type of counter intelligence effort is to compartment that effort so that your operators, your investigators, your collectors, can continue to uncover what the Russians were doing. We set up a group within CIA, I spoke to Jim Comey, I spoke to Mike Rogers, to make sure that they were able to send over their experts so that they could share information among them, even the most sensitive information that was not disseminated within the community. I wanted to make sure that learning the lessons of 9/11, that there were not going to be any stovepipes and -- and barriers to sharing information from the intelligence and law enforcement communities.", "Thank you Mr. Chairman, I yield back.", "Gentleman's time expired. Mr. Gowdy, five minutes.", "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Director, thank you for your service to our country. Let's go back to where we were a couple minutes ago, you mentioned or you testify that you had a conversation in August of 2016 with your Russian counterpart, you testified that you briefed at least eight members of Congress throughout dependency of your investigation. When you learned of Russian efforts -- and we'll get to that in a minute because my understanding from your unclassified report is, Russia has historically attempted to interfere with our electoral process. And they did so without coordination, collusion or conspiring with any of the candidates, so they have a history of doing it. We'll lay that aside fir a minute, 2016 electoral process. When you learned of Russian efforts, did you have evidence of a connection between the Trump campaign and Russian state actors?", "As I said Mr. Gowdy, I don't do evidence...", "Well, I...", "... and we were uncovering information intelligence about interactions and contacts between U.S. persons and the Russians. 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{"id": "CNN-97401", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2005-9-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/03/cst.07.html", "summary": "State of Emergency: The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina", "utt": ["More life-saving aid and more scenes of desperation in New Orleans. Helicopters deliver food and water to residents still trapped in the flood. But thousands of people are getting out. Hello, and welcome back to our continuing coverage of state of emergency, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I'm Fredricka Whitfield in the Atlanta headquarters.", "And I'm Tony Harris. Let's start with the latest developments in mission critical.", "The security situation is improving in New Orleans, according to some officials. Louisiana state police say there were no confirmed reports of violence overnight, and heavily armed law enforcement officers have reached the streets near the river. Still more ominous pictures of a city in crisis today. Flames engulfed rows of warehouses on the river waterfront, and a huge fire is burning at an upscale mall at the base of Canal Street. An Army Blackhawk helicopter today brought precious cargo to people still trapped in some New Orleans neighborhoods. Residents scramble to recover cases of water and meals ready to eat dropped from that chopper. And engineers continue to work around the clock to repair levees that allowed water to spill into the city. The breach in one key levee is now about a third filled in, Tony.", "And Fred, the death toll is certain to climb in Biloxi, Mississippi, as more bodies are found in the hard hit coastal community. CNN's Ted Rowlands is joining us now live from Biloxi. Hello, Ted.", "Hi, Tony. Another tough day here in Biloxi and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It is a different scenario than it is New Orleans. There isn't the degree of lawlessness, but there is some looting, and the National Guard is now here in force, trying to quell that, and local police, with this reinforcement, are now enforcing very stringent curfews. People are worried. One of the things, one of the biggest commodities now is gasoline, and we are seeing unbelievable gas lines. This morning, we saw a line that extended about a mile in the city of Gulfport, only to find out when we got to the front of it, they weren't even pumping gas there. There was a rumor that gas may be arriving at that station, and folks said they had been there for five hours on that rumor, and that they were willing to wait because they had no gas, just on fumes, and they needed to get more fuel, to get more water, to get their lives back on the road to recovery. There are also issues with the continuing body count, which continues to grow. The devastation here is just unbelievable, over such a large area, that there are still pockets where they have not been able to send search-and-rescue crews into, and they're still retrieving bodies. They expect to be doing that for some time. Because there is no electricity in much of the state, they're putting the bodies when they find them in refrigerated trailers. They have been positioned in different areas of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. And mortuaries. It is a very, very difficult job. It becomes more difficult with every day.", "Every day, things tend to get worse. But five days after, four days after, you know, things start to happen, things are getting a little worse. Without being graphic, that's about all I can give you. There is not really anything I can tell you. Just the worse it gets in 95-degree temperatures every day, and the longer someone is there, the worse it's going to be.", "As difficult as it is, there are signs of progress. There is an army of folks from around the region here, trying to restore power, working around the clock, and they're slowly but surely getting the state back online. Once that's established, they can move onto the other infrastructure problems. This is going to be weeks, months and even years before life is back to where it was before Katrina came ripping through -- Tony.", "Ted Rowlands, thank you. Quickly now to live pictures out of New Orleans. Once again of another, yet another fire in that city. Let's listen to chopper pilot J.T. Alpaugh.", "... fire burning in the middle. You can see, it's so hot, causing so much heat, it's very difficult to focus on it. Because of all the heat in there, the smoke, a very hot burning fire, and it's been burning through most of the day. Bringing you these live pictures on the western shore of the Mississippi. What we're going to do now is we're going to continue on the left orbit, and we're going to include the area of this fire in relationship to the area of downtown New Orleans, to show you how up- close it is, and how far it is to get there. Check with Allen (ph) here in air traffic, and make sure we're good to go. How are we doing, Allen (ph)? Allen's (ph) talking to aircraft right now. Over now on the northern side -- we're on the east side of the fire and now coming up on the north side of the fire -- I'm going to shoot back to the south, just come around left here. Now we've got -- the sun is starting to get a little bit lower in the Louisiana sky right now, so the haze of the smoke causing what you're seeing now, kind of a washed-out looking picture, because of the weather and the smoke, so we're going to do the best we can to give you the silhouette of the downtown New Orleans area. Barely making out the sky rise -- the skyline, I should say. So we're looking at about two miles to the northeast of the downtown Louisiana -- downtown, I'm sorry, New Orleans area, burning south now. So this is what we've got going. If this fire continues to burn the way it is, it's going to completely burn through this warehouse, continue to its exposure here, possibly even here. Now, where we do get a little bit of a break is where there's a large space right here, a fire -- a natural fire break, if you will, dividing it from the rest of the pier that actually goes into the downtown area. So we're hoping that they do control this fire before it destroys the rest of these warehouses. But, you know, this is just one little tragedy going on in a world of tragedies.", "I'll tell you, this is a fire that I believe we've been following most of the afternoon here, and I will tell you, just a small portion of that building was burning earlier. The fire is consuming that warehouse.", "It is. And we don't know what's in that warehouse, if that's making it that much more combustible, or what, but the proximity to the downtown area makes this a pretty remarkable blaze as well. As we heard from J.T. Alpaugh, it's only two miles northeast of downtown area, just a few paces away rally from the riverwalk there, which is usually teaming with tourists, and along the tracks that are shared by not just the trains that take this cargo from one point to the other, but also the trolley system there, which is of course made so famous there in New Orleans. I want to depart from that scene for a moment now, and talk about how evacuees are getting some kinds of attention in the form of medical help. They're being taken to the Louis Armstrong Airport. It's just outside New Orleans, really just a stone's throw away, and that's where we find CNN's Ed Lavandera, with the latest on the medical attention being given there -- Ed.", "Hi, Fredricka. Well, the thunderous buzz of helicopters does not ease up here at the New Orleans Airport. We're going to try to give you a little bit different vantage points of what the scene is like here at the airport. As we've been explaining, as all these helicopters come in, and we've been told by airport officials here that at its busiest moments, there are 10 helicopters landing here at this -- at this airport at any given time. Drop -- only on the ground for a few seconds, dropping off a dozen or so people at a time, and then they're escorted into the airport area through this little walkway right here. And it has become much more organized in the last 24 hours, which is good news for all these folks that are landing here. You can see a much stronger National Guard presence here at the airport now. They've set up these buckets of ice and water for people to get. But as this has become more organized, it has become more organized because there are so many people here. At the last count, officials were able to take, has people waiting here, and it stretches all the way underneath the terminal here as you might be able to see. These are all people waiting for a flight out or a bus out, whatever they can get, to get out of New Orleans, and it has become much messier inside the terminal and outside. There's thousands of people waiting. Stacks of garbage bags are starting to pile up along the outside of the airport here. A lot of that is coming from inside the airport terminal. So this is definitely a situation where they're trying to move people through as quickly as possible, but it is an endless stream of people, Fredricka.", "It is indeed. It only seems like it's going to thicken with the number of evacuees and people in need before, it seems, as though it thins out. Thanks so much, Ed Lavandera.", "Houston, Texas is serving as a major hub for hurricane survivors already; some 200,000 evacuees have arrived in the city. Many more are on their way. CNN's Sean Callebs is in Houston. And Sean, how are folks there coping?", "People are coping here relatively well. It is certainly -- to echo what Ed just said -- it is certainly calming down here. Officials are getting a handle on the size, the scope of this entire crisis. Certainly the Red Cross, FEMA, they planned to put 24,000 people in the Astrodome. They overestimated how many cots they could get in there. For a while, for about 24 hours, people were crammed together, certainly uncomfortably. Right now, thousands of people are being moved from the Astrodome to neighboring Reliant Center and Reliant Arena, trying to make conditions a lot more comfortable inside. People are still getting food, medical treatment. We've been told that 3,000 have received medical treatment. One hundred have been moved to the hospital, so certainly not a medical crisis here in Houston at this point. But to a person, the evacuees we have talked to say they cannot thank the city of Houston enough for their efforts.", "Up to the ceiling. In my house, all the way to the ceiling.", "Were you terrified you were not going to make it out?", "No, because it was four days in the attic, which is sealed good.", "You were in an attic?", "In the attic.", "How did they finally evacuate you out?", "At the top, the New Orleans Police Department.", "New Orleans police came and got you?", "That's right.", "We was stinking, smelling like the waters that we got stuck in, and half of us got viruses from the water that we had to swim in. Half of us is sun-burned. Children got ringworms from the water and stuff, but I'm glad we survived it.", "And another thing we're hearing from so many of these evacuees, every time people see us, they come out with photos, with phone numbers, with information. Almost everybody seems to be missing a relative, somehow, somewhere. Families simply displaced. A lot of people have no idea whether their loved ones are indeed alive. It was a very sobering situation, and we know hundreds of more evacuees are going to be coming here. Texas governor has mandated that Houston is basically the drop-off point for all the evacuees coming in by vehicle. Then they will be moved to Dallas, San Antonio, Lubbock, Texas, Corpus Christi, and Huntsville, Texas -- Tony.", "Sean Callebs in Houston for us. Sean, thank you.", "Now, we want to show you some live pictures taking place right now, where J.T. Alpaugh, who has been the pool photographer on board a helicopter, has been able to show us some magnificent pictures taking place throughout New Orleans. This time, we're seeing a shot of a Navy -- what appears to be a rescue helicopter, a Blackhawk. Presumably, they may be looking for people to pluck from the rooftops, as we've been seeing for the past six days out of the New Orleans area, or perhaps even looking for some other signs of life. Let's listen in.", "... bring it around the front here -- trying to get around the front of the aircraft so I can see the face of the pilot as we shoot a little bit back towards", "You're seeing how the rescue efforts are under way. You're watching it live as it happens, with this Navy Blackhawk looking for people to rescue there in the New Orleans area. They continue to comb the air -- airwaves there, looking for any signs of life, looking for people to pluck from their rooftops, or otherwise to get them to some sort of medical assistance, or simply to evacuate them from the area entirely. When we get more information on the kind of rescue mission that's taking place, and if there's any success in that, we'll be bring that to you, Tony.", "And we have a programming note for you tonight. On CNN at 8:00 Eastern, find out how you can help, as Larry King is joined by Eric Clapton, Magic Johnson, Harry Connick, Jr., Celine Dion and others, for a three-hour special, all about how you can help. That's \"LARRY KING LIVE\" tonight at 8:00.", "Coming up, President Bush making himself visible in hard-hit areas. Still, criticism he and his administration did not prepare adequately, and have been slow to respond. We'll look at the role of politics, how that may be playing into all of this. Also ahead, a newborn baby is separated from his parents as Hurricane Katrina moves ashore. We'll have the remarkable story of what happened after that.", "Some aerial pictures now of New Orleans. This is in part an encouraging scene, because J.T. Alpaugh, who has been on this chopper, showing us these remarkable bird's-eye views, is able to show us now near the Superdome, it's nearly deserted. Hardly any people there now, just a couple of folks, which appear to be military folks right now. You're only seeing the debris of what was home to thousands of people for six days. It appears now, most have been evacuated.", "Look at that picture.", "Yeah. It's a terrible sight, seeing the debris, knowing what people had to deal with over the last few days, but it's also an encouraging sight, because maybe it does mean that people have now been taken to safer ground. Better facilities, facilities period...", "Any kind of facilities.", "They had no facilities there, no working facilities.", "That's right.", "And you're seeing also the debris of the nearby Hyatt hotel, which was destroyed, along with a number of other high-rises there -- Tony.", "That's right. Well, what are the conditions in downtown New Orleans as we head toward evening? Joining me now from along Canal Street in New Orleans is CNN's Jeff Koinange. And Jeff, give us an assessment of what you are seeing as you walked around that area?", "Well, basically, Tony, this is incredible. Because Canal Street, as you well know, on any given day at any other time, would have been the busiest street in New Orleans. Right now, if we look down either street, what's behind me, streets are completely deserted. And Tony, just before I digress, right here is when those fires that you were talking about, that department store at the end of the street, Saks Fifth Avenue, one of the most expensive stores, department stores, in town, that's where one of the fires was. And there were fire trucks all over this area. They couldn't get any water in because the fire hydrants were dry. They had to commandeer a truck that was taking water to a cooling plant, bring it, and take care of that fire. As you can well know, Tony, the emergency services here are stretched to the limits. Over here to my left, Tony, typical of what's become of New Orleans now: Deserted streets. People, stragglers, literally, people looking for anything they can to take away. But for the most part, the streets are completely empty. Some of these stores have been looted. Some of these buildings have been razed to the ground by fires. This is what's become of one of the most historical cities in the United States, Tony. It's a sight that a lot of us thought we would ever see in our time, but hopefully there's a silver ling at the end of this. Most of the people who are at the Convention Center and the Superdome have been evacuated, and that will give way to a cleanup service, a massive cleanup service, and then hopefully thereafter, a rebuilding process. But as you well know, Tony, that could take years, maybe even decades.", "Wow. Well said, Jeff. Jeff Koinange. And he's so right, that is a major street, a destination site.", "Yes, and that is the street where so many tourists jump on the trolley car, and then head up St. Charles and into the Garden District, et cetera. It's where all the high-rise hotels are, and it is right there just alongside the French Quarter as well.", "Oh, my goodness. And it is essentially a ghost town right now. All right. Emergency management officials say they understand the frustration and the criticism they're facing, but they say help is getting through to those who need it. At a briefing earlier today, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the government has never had to face an emergency of this magnitude.", "This is a daunting challenge. I guess I would say this is probably the worst catastrophe or set of catastrophes certainly that I'm aware of in the history of the country. Devastating hurricane followed by a second devastating flood. I guess I would compare what I witnessed to an effort to rescue victims of a tsunami while the tsunami is still there, before it's receded.", "A quick programming note right now. FEMA Director Michael Brown will join us for a live interview next hour, right here on CNN. Today at the White House, President Bush said the government's response to Katrina is still falling short, but he vowed the situation will get better. Here's CNN White House correspondent Elaine Quijano.", "One day after he first said the results were not acceptable, President Bush began his Saturday huddled for roughly 45 minutes in the White House Situation Room, being briefed on hurricane response efforts. Later, in a rare move, he delivered his weekly radio address live from the Rose Garden, flanked by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Richard Myers, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.", "Many of our citizens simply are not get the help they need, especially in New Orleans.", "Seven thousand more active duty and 10,000 National Guard troops will be sent to the Gulf Coast region.", "Our priorities are clear -- we will complete the evacuation as quickly and safely as possible. We'll not let criminals prey on the vulnerable. And we'll not allow bureaucracy to get in the way of saving lives.", "But the president is facing blistering criticism for the federal government's response, which many say was simply too little too late.", "I think there's going to have to be a lot of soul-searching, and there will have to be a lot of calm review about what went right and what went wrong. I mean, this is five days after the hurricane, before food and supplies were being brought to the city. That's not good, that's not good for the United States of America.", "And even as the president, through a series of photo- ops in the Gulf Coast region Friday, tried to send the message that officials are turning a corner, it is these images of desperation that some say raise troubling questions.", "Why aren't we ready? Why weren't we prepared for something like this, which after all, has been foreseen by many experts for a long time?", "Administration officials argue the president did issue emergency declarations, freeing up federal money ahead of the storm. The president heads to the region again on Monday, taking another look at damage in Louisiana and Mississippi, as the administration tries to reassure people the government is getting a handle on the situation. Elaine Quijano, CNN, the White House.", "Learn more about how you can help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Join Larry King, along with Leann Rimes, Harry Connick, Jr., Terri Hatcher, Bill Cosby, John Goodman, Eric Clapton, Magic Johnson, a number of people. Maria Shriver -- all during a three-hour special, trying to give us all an idea how we can better help.", "Fred, we've got more pictures of the relief effort. Obviously, a military helicopter on a freeway. I don't know if it's 10 or not, but it's certainly one of the major freeways in New Orleans. And this is a part of the continuing effort now: The ramping up of this rescue effort in New Orleans. I don't know if that's a staging area that we're looking at right now. It may be. But it is clearly an area where a chopper has landed. I don't know if this is a point where evacuations -- and now we see aircraft.", "And it's interesting, because along the way, there had been a number of evacuees who got tired of being in the dome, got tired of being in the Convention Center. They walked, and they ended up on some of these overpasses of the highways, and they waited. And they were hoping, as they saw some of the buses, that they could climb on board. Perhaps the conglomeration of people we're seeing on that highway may be some of those residents who are looking for a way out.", "Yeah.", "And this is the best they could do, the furthest they could get in order to try to get out.", "We'll be bringing you more of these pictures obviously throughout the afternoon here on CNN. And just ahead, a remarkable story of a newborn reunited with his parents, and the latest on how the U.S. military is responding to this national disaster. We'll be right back.", "Welcome back. Tony, more live pictures now, thanks to pool photographer who is on board on of the choppers, giving us this view. J.T. Alpaugh has been explaining that this chopper right here has been looking for an year in which to make more drops of water and MREs. Let's listen in.", "... much the same thing earlier this afternoon. We believe we have some tape of that, so we're going to feed that back after this feed is over. Now, some of the -- some of what we were doing earlier. OK? We're going to make our way back towards the 17th Street Canal, which...", "It is still a remarkable scene no matter how many times you look at it, to see the spans of land that is still under water. The size of Great Britain, 90,000 square miles. We're going to continue to show you these pictures as the helicopter there gives us so many different bird's-eye view of the efforts to offer some rescue or some aid. Leaving your home in the approach of a hurricane is hard enough, but imagine what it was like for one couple who had to face the heart- wrenching decision of whether to bring along their newborn baby, or leave him with the doctors. Here's CNN's Keith Oppenheim.", "Six days before Hurricane Katrina struck, Zachary Breux was born in New Orleans. At Methodist Hospital, Zachary Breux tested positive for being susceptible to sudden infant death syndrome.", "I called him, called Tad and I said, you know, \"What do you think we should do?\"", "Suddenly, his parents, Tad and Lanie Breux, had to make tough decisions. With Hurricane Katrina approaching, they were getting ready to evacuate, but their doctors advised, without a special monitor, it would be safer to leave Zachary at the hospital.", "We've evacuated New Orleans as a couple, at least five times, and were gone for three days, and we knew this was a big storm, so, OK, maybe it's going to be a week. OK, so for a week, we'll know he's safe, and, you know, we'll just come back.", "But, of course, there was no going back. By Tuesday, Lanie and Tad, now at a hotel in Houston, started getting calls Methodist Hospital was to be evacuated. Their son was just a week old, and they had no idea where he was or where he was being taken.", "You're helpless. There's nothing that you can do. You just want to cry.", "But the Breuxs did do something.", "Breaux -- b-r-e-a-u-x.", "They got on the phone, and on the Internet, asking friends, family, anyone they could think of, to call hospitals in five states. Eventually, the network they created worked. Tad Breux received the call he was desperate to get.", "We called hospitals in Texas, in Alabama, in Mississippi, in Louisiana...", "In Arkansas.", "... in Arkansas. And it's just fantastic now that we just finally found him.", "Tad and Lanie hugged, overjoyed Zachary had been located.", "They found our baby.", "Late Thursday night, the Breuxs got on a private plane. A friend of a distant relative had called a Ft. Worth, Texas hospital, and learned Zachary was there.", "We always knew that he was fine, we just didn't know where he was, which is a horrible feeling.", "Their feelings would change. Tad and Lanie and their very tired 5-year-old son Benjamin entered Cook Children's Medical Center to set their eyes on their 9-day-old baby boy.", "He's so pink. Mom, don't touch him.", "Mom, don't touch him. You're going to mess him up.", "We would learn later, Zachary was one of many babies transported to the airport in New Orleans. After a 12-hour wait, young Zack, accompanied by nurses, was transported on a military cargo plane to Ft. Worth. (on-camera): As a hospital, you weren't able to contact them because their cell phones weren't working.", "Correct. We tried everything. And we, you know, we didn't know what to do to get a hold of them. So we just did everything we possibly could and listened to what the nurses were telling us, and then we got the phone call saying, \"Do you have baby Zachary?\"", "What's it like now that you have him in your arms?", "It's the best feeling in the world. We can all sleep well. We've got our family together, our whole family.", "The Breuxs don't know yet where they will go. Like so many from New Orleans, they're homeless. But the experience of losing and rediscovering their baby has affected them deeply.", "Thank God we found him. And he's perfect, and he's healthy, and he's robust, and the pediatricians say he's doing great.", "And reminded them of just how fortunate they really are. Keith Oppenheim, CNN, Ft. Worth, Texas.", "And live pictures now of work going on one of the levees now in New Orleans. We can tell you that this particular levee, Fred, that the Army Corps of Engineers is making some progress on this particular levee. We understand 200 feet actually of progress today; 600 more feet to go to close that levee. And wow, look at that! Trying to get from one end to the other there. So another 600 feet to close that levee. Looks like a little more than that, but OK, I'll take the word that's given me, another 600 feet to close that levee. You can see the sandbags there. I guess that's the start of the process, drop the sandbags first, and then try to close that breach as best you can, with dirt and everything else that you ?an bring in. But that's the work that's going right now by the Army Corps of Engineers, as they try to breach this one particular levee. At least two levees actually gave way, so that's where we are right now with this particular levee, with another 600 feet to go to close it; 200 feet of progress reported today, Fred.", "That's amazing, and you know, and the photographer was able to give us a tight shot a moment ago, so you could really see the kind of dirt...", "The land movers.", "... and what kind of debris, you know, it's pushing, and it looked also like just chunks of concrete from what, we don't know, if they brought that, but just kind of pushing it in. Boy, they got a big job ahead of them. All right, well, coming up, members of the U.S. military have a new mission of their own: Disaster relief. We'll get the latest from the Pentagon on what is being done.", "Tales of horror in New Orleans. People left homeless by Hurricane Katrina are telling chilling stories of their time in shelters that turned into places of violence and crime. Let's check the latest developments in mission critical. More water and food has arrived at the New Orleans Convention Center. It's some relief to the thousands of people who have been stuck there, with little or no supplies, since Hurricane Katrina hit Monday. However, many of them have moved onto buses now. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is reporting a bleak situation at the New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport. It's been turned into a field hospital. But Frist, who was there today, says more than eight to 10 people are dying a day. He reports the hallways and floors are filled with people swamping doctors and nurses. And FEMA officials say 42,000 people have now been evacuated from New Orleans as a whole. About a tenth of them left on buses from the city's squalid Convention Center today. But thousands still remain at the site, as well as at the Superdome, and many are still trapped in their homes.", "Fred, many have criticized FEMA and President Bush about delays in providing help to the hundreds of thousands of people devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Some say race played a role. Earlier, I spoke with former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun about the response to this disaster.", "Response was not only late, but at this point it's counterproductive. I just heard from my family members in Baton Rouge now -- they were able to flee New Orleans -- the place is so locked down now, they're treating the people like refugees and rioters, and not allowing the healthy to take care of the sick, not allowing people to leave their homes and get across the Mississippi bridge -- get across the bridge over the Mississippi, so they can get out of town. It is not only an adequate response, but at this point it borders on a criminal one. I am just horrified. The dead are not being identified, are not being secured, if you will. I'm told they're talking about a mass grave for people instead of even attempting to deal with the death -- the dead with some dignity. The people who are healthy are being locked in their homes, told to stay in their homes. They can't leave to get food and supplies. And frankly, you know, my family was appalled at the fact that when whites in Metairie went into stores and got food and supplies, they were seen as doing what was necessary. When blacks went to do the same thing, they were called rioters. People should not be referred to as rioters or as refugees, but rather, should be treated like American citizens, deserving support from their government, to deal with this horrendous tragedy.", "I will tell you that that whole discussion of the looting -- and -- I'm not -- I don't quite understand how that story became the story, instead of the relief efforts and what needs to be done for these people. We had an overwhelming storm, hit the city of New Orleans, Gulfport, Biloxi, Mobile, and can we imagine that the emergency personnel did what they thought was best, where, as in hindsight we might criticize, but at time, they were doing what they thought was best?", "No, we cannot imagine that. The response was inadequate, and that's just the fact. It is impossible to dress this up. It's the old, you know, put lipstick on a pig and call it Monique, it's still a pig.", "Senator Carol Moseley Braun. Learn more about how you can help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Join Larry King, along with Eric Clapton, Magic Johnson, Maria Shriver, John Goodman. A number of other celebrities for a three-hour special, how can you help. \"LARRY KING LIVE\" tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern.", "And coming up, as the U.S. struggles to cope with the impact of Hurricane Katrina, what is the reaction from around the world? We'll show it to you next.", "Day six after Hurricane Katrina's arrival on the Gulf Coast. And many are left picking up the pieces, so we've created a victims and relief desk. The goal is to connect family and friends to their lost loved ones. Carol Lin is at that desk this afternoon. Hi, Carol.", "Hi there, Tony. We've had some luck, and with each passing hour, the e-mails are asking for help and they keep pouring in. We've gotten more than 15,000, and we want to share a couple of them with you. And this one is especially scary for those of us with older parents. Ruth Biery is 71 years old and she has Alzheimer's. Now, her family believes that she actually survived the hurricane, but her family lost touch with her. And the family of Myrtle Albert is also concerned for her safety. She is 82 years old, and at last check, was driving towards Baton Rouge in a late-model GMC Envoy. And this man in a blue shirt is Joey Unangst. The 57-year-old has a few distinctive traits. He's about 325 pounds, and has a partially amputated foot. His family has not heard from him. And now this story hits really close to home for us working here at CNN. Clarence Simmons is one of our security guards here at CNN, and he has a daughter who was trapped in her dorm room at Xavier University in New Orleans. Well, over the past several days, we've had many updates on these stranded students, and Shantria Simmons, who was stranded for almost a week, about five days, is joining me right now, side by side with her father. Shantria, it must have been frightening for you. You told me that you woke up and you actually saw the water rising, and cars beginning to float outside your dorm room. What did you guys do next?", "Yes, my name is Shantria Martin (ph). We panicked when we first saw the water rising, because it was scary. We knew that we would eventually get out. It was just a matter of when. Because food was starting to run out. People's tempers and patience was running thin. People were starting to argue with each other, so that part was really scary.", "It sure was. Now, Clarence, you took the initiative here at CNN. You came into the newsroom, you asked for help. You found out when your daughter -- you found out she was still in her dorm room. You knew that was serious business, because we had been doing coverage about the flooding of Xavier University?", "Exactly. I wanted to make sure -- first of all, I was -- I was confused. I didn't know if she was all right at first, because we hadn't heard anything since Sunday morning early, or something like that. So I wanted to get as much of this as I possibly could. I knew CNN was doing live coverage there, and I knew they could give me some guidance on where to go, and some numbers to call as far as the Coast Guards go. So I did everything in my power.", "And actually, rescue finally came, what, just a few days ago, on Thursday?", "Yes, we got out Thursday.", "They came by boat!", "They came by boat.", "You sailed across your own campus.", "Yes.", "And loaded you onto buses and got you out of town. In the meantime, how did you survive in the dorm?", "We had to go into people's rooms. We didn't want to, but we had to go into people's rooms, and find what we could to eat. And we had plenty of water. And they brought snacks and stuff, but it really wasn't enough. It was going to run out eventually if we had stayed there any longer. It was hot in there, and it was just really crowded.", "At any point, did you think that you were going die?", "No, because in any situation, you have to have a will to live. And I have a four-month-old son, and I knew I had to get back to him. And there were so many things I haven't done yet. I haven't met Oprah yet, so I knew...", "Oprah, did you hear that? This young woman wants to meet you. Clarence, how did you raise this young woman to be such a brave and calm soul in the face of crisis?", "Now, I'm going to tell you, her mother deserves a lot of credit, her mother deserves a lot of credit for doing a lot of things that she has done. And her mother, Theresa Martin (ph), should be also praised about this, because she is very important in her life.", "Yeah, I understand.", "And you're going to -- we are in the midst of something that's very, very special here.", "Yeah. What a moment to be able to see the both of you together. A psychology major, I think this experience is going to serve you well.", "Yes. Thank you.", "Shantria, good luck. I know you are hunting for a university to reenroll in...", "Yes.", "... and there are opportunities out there for you, for storm victims, and a smart woman like you...", "Thank you.", "... thanks so much.", "You're welcome.", "All right, Fred.", "All right, thanks so much, Carol. And some live pictures there on the right hand side of your screen. You're seeing the efforts of fire boats being used to put out yet one more fire taking place in New Orleans, apparently right along the Mississippi River. It's a shot we showed you earlier of what appeared to be some sort of warehouse fire. And we're still waiting for some more details on that. We'll have more on this development and the continuing search- and-rescue efforts under way. Also coming up, President Bush has been praised for his handling of the 9/11 disaster. What will be the verdict on his handling of Hurricane Katrina? We'll take a look next.", "And Fred, we want to play a portion of a new interview that is into CNN. This is an interview with the mayor of New Orleans, C. Ray Nagin, and he is responding to a couple of questions, but we're going to let you hear his response to a question about his efforts to get more assistance, more resources into the city of New Orleans. And take a listen.", "I keep trying to find resources. We're making calls, we're trying to find resources all across the country. I'm screaming at the -- excuse me -- I'm screaming at the governor and the president, you know? The CIA could come in here any minute and wipe me out. So -- but I'm going to keep doing it, and I'm going to stay here until people are out of here, and this city is safe.", "Not quite sure what he means by the CIA could come in here at any minute and wipe me out, but obviously, this is a man under a great deal of stress right now. Just trying to find resources for his city and save as many people as he can. That's the mayor of New Orleans, Fred, C. Ray Nagin.", "Ordering 7,000 more troops to the Gulf Coast today, President Bush declared America does not abandon fellow citizens in their hour of need. But is it too late? Bill Schneider looks into leadership issues in the federal response to this disaster.", "We all remember the iconic images of leadership from 9/11. Mayor Giuliani leading stricken New Yorkers from the World Trade Center.", "Come with us. Come with us.", "President Bush at ground zero.", "And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.", "In the crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina, bigger and more complex than 9/11, with no convenient foreign enemy, the images have been very different. Local officials seemed overwhelmed. Federal officials seemed out of touch.", "The federal government did not even know about the Convention Center people until today.", "For days, the situation in New Orleans was out of control.", "You mean to tell me that a place where you probably have thousands of people that have died and thousands more that are dying every day, that we can't figure out a way to authorize the resources that we need?", "The images of chaos and lawlessness have been frightening, magnified by the breakdown of communication.", "Why would they not be prepared? I don't understand it. What are they doing every day in their offices?", "And miscommunication.", "How is it possible that the administration did not realize earlier what a catastrophe this is?", "In a crisis, people demand leadership, presidential leadership, says this expert.", "This is a fundamental role of the president, in times of major national crises, to take the lead and to show that he's -- this is at the top of the agenda and he's in charge.", "In this crisis, the country witnessed a vacuum of leadership, the frightening sense that no one was in control. Ultimately, the president did show up and offered reassurance.", "You know, I'm going to fly out of here in a minute, but I want you to know that I'm not going to forget what I've seen. I understand the devastation requires more than one day's attention.", "And so the memory of this catastrophe will linger, along with the troubling question -- what if this had been a terrorist attack? Bill Schneider, CNN, Washington.", "Well, this just in: Among the Bush cabinet members who are mobilizing to make their way to the hard hit areas along the Gulf Coast, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice now making announcements that she plans to head to Mobile, Alabama tomorrow. She is an Alabama native. She grew up primarily in the Birmingham, area, but it's Mobile, Alabama that she'll be heading to, apparently attending some church services scheduled for tomorrow, also taking part in relief efforts, and it's expected that she will be holding a press conference so we'll be able to hear about her observations and thoughts -- Tony.", "There is still much more ahead on CNN. Pro football stars Payton and Eli Manning do their part for the victims of their hometown, New Orleans. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "WHITFIELD", "HARRIS", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROWLANDS", "HARRIS", "J.T. 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{"id": "NPR-27450", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2012-08-31", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/08/31/160366695/gop-uses-convention-to-reach-out-to-female-voters", "title": "GOP Uses Convention To Reach Out To Female Voters", "summary": "This week's Republican National Convention has been designed to appeal to female voters, not just loyal Republicans but also independents. The effort is driven by the big deficit GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney has among women in polls with President Obama.", "utt": ["OK. So the president is focused on young voters. At the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney and his supporters were focused on women. Their effort is driven by the big deficit that Romney has had among women in poll matchups with the president. And that's why the GOP convention featured one high-profile female speaker after another. Here's NPR's Don Gonyea.", "When Mitt Romney's wife Ann took the stage at the RNC on Tuesday, her job was to help Americans get to know the Mitt Romney she knows, the man she fell in love with as a teenage girl in suburban Detroit. But with this one line - one that was not on her prepared script - she also made it clear who her audience was.", "I love you women.", "She was responding to those big cheers from women on the convention floor.  But her speech was designed to speak to a wider world of suburban women - women juggling work and family, the kind of voters who are so critical in battleground states and who helped give President Obama victory four years ago.", "It's the moms who've always had to work a little harder to make everything right. It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together.", "As for the rest of the convention lineup, it seemed just about every female high profile Republican office holder in the country got their turn on the stage - U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, and New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez.", "As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls, they often come up to me in the grocery store or in the mall. They look and they point, and when they get the courage to come up, they ask, are you Susana? And they run up and they give me a hug.", "Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also spoke, as did one of party's potential rising stars, a conservative African-American Mormon congressional candidate from Utah named Mia Love.", "President Obama's version of America is a divided one - often pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed us. We're not better off than we were four years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or Hollywood campaign ad can change that.", "There were other events outside the convention hall with the same purpose.  At one, longtime \"Entertainment Tonight\" anchor Mary Hart spoke. She noted that Democrats often talk about a Republican war on women.", "So you know what we Republican women have to say to that? We say the only ones who have declared war on women are those who would deny us the right to be independent thinkers.", "Not highlighted in these convention speeches was the GOP platform that would outlaw abortion even in cases of rape or incest, nor did the speakers mention controversial remarks made by the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat in Missouri, Congressman Todd Akin who drew criticism last week from Mitt Romney and from a long list Republicans when he said women rarely get pregnant when they are victims of, quote, \"legitimate rape.\"", "Democrats countered the GOP outreach to women in Tampa with their own event a few blocks away from the convention center.", "Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz described the GOP effort this way.", "I think we believe that women can see through that nice shiny packaging that the Republicans are putting out there through to what's inside.", "She cited GOP efforts to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. She noted that vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan opposes abortion and allows no exception for rape and incest.", "On the economy, she said the president's support of equal pay and other policies are also big factors for women voters.", "The Republicans' big play for women voters this week in Tampa probably guarantees at least an equally prominent role for women next week, when the Democrats hold their convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.", "Don Gonyea, NPR News, Tampa."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "ANN ROMNEY", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "ANN ROMNEY", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "GOVERNOR SUSANA MARTINEZ", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "MIA LOVE", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "MARY HART", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "REPRESENTATIVE DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE", "DON GONYEA, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-353833", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-11-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/03/cnr.22.html", "summary": "Khashoggi's Fiancee Opens Up in Emotional Op-Ed; Seven-Year-Old Girl Who Symbolized Yemen's Suffering Dies", "utt": ["And welcome back. The president of Turkey has issued one of his most pointed accusations yet on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Recep Tayyip Erdogan wrote this Friday in \"The Washington Post,\" Khashoggi's former employer, this. \"We know the perpetrators are --", "-- \"among the 18 suspects detained in Saudi Arabia. We know the order to kill Khashoggi came from the highest levels of the Saudi government.\"", "Mr. Erdogan accused the Saudis of stalling the investigation of the murder. Khashoggi's fiancee has also written in \"The Post,\" lamenting the lack of progress in this case. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh has this report for us.", "It's been a month since Jamal Khashoggi took his final footsteps, walking into this building, into the Saudi consulate. And still, one month on, no body, no remains, no grave, making the situation even much harder for his loved ones, for his family. A month that has felt like a lifetime, according to his fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, who wrote an opinion piece in \"The Washington Post\" to mark this one month. I met Hatice Cengiz as she was outside this consulate 24 hours after Jamal Khashoggi walked in. She was still waiting for him outside, still hoping he was going to walk out of this building and she was blaming herself for the situation. She broke down into tears, saying she felt guilty, that the only reason Khashoggi went into the consulate was to receive a piece of paper that would allow them to get married. And she's still dealing with these emotions. According to this really emotional piece she wrote and at the same time she's continuing to call for accountability, continuing to call for justice, saying the international community must put pressure on Saudi Arabia to bring those responsible for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi to justice. They must find out where his body is and says that the United States bears a responsibility here to lead this effort. But so far she says it seems that some in Washington -- and this is something we've heard from others here -- they feel that some in the Trump administration are using a stalling tactic, hoping that the world will forget about this, that the world will move on without the United States jeopardizing its ties with Saudi Arabia. But she's saying she will not give up. She'll continue calling for justice and this is something we've also heard from officials here in Turkey, saying they are going to continue with their investigation and they will get to the bottom of this, they say. And the fear here is -- and I've heard this from several human rights activists and dissidents in this region. They say unless the United States and the international community really push for accountability and justice in this case, there will be many other Jamal Khashoggis -- Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, Istanbul.", "Jomana, thank you. There are new calls from the U.S. for a ceasefire in Yemen. The years-long war between Saudi Arabia and Houthi rebels in Yemen has created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.", "Millions of Yemenis are suffering from cholera and starvation. Many of them are children. \"The New York Times\" published a shocking photo in October, bringing the world's attention back to Yemen. It was a photo very disturbing, very hard to look at. We want to warn you about it because we're going to show it to you in case you missed it. But it's so important to see.", "Here's the photo. This is Amal, the 7-year-old girl being treated for severe malnutrition. At the time, many readers were struck by her haunting stare. They wanted to know what happened to her. We understand she died just a week after the photo was published.", "Earlier here, Cyril Vanier spoke with Tyler Hicks, the photographer who took that photo. He described what it was like to meet her and be in Yemen at this time.", "Amal was responsive, she was -- she was -- but very calm. She had such little energy. And to me, it just didn't seem like she would survive. We heard after we left that in fact she had been discharged from the hospital. However that was not because she was doing better but because her family didn't have any money to take her to a better clinic and were forced to take her back to her village because new cases were coming in and there's virtually no space for her. When you drive down any street in Yemen, whether it's a big city or out in the middle of nowhere in the countryside, you are absolutely -- that there are people coming up to the vehicle begging. People are absolutely desperate, they're laying in the street. It's not just like a small amount of people. It is everywhere you look, the entire country is desperate, there's no jobs, no money. And that's leading to mass starvation.", "UNICEF says some 400,000 children just like Amal are suffering severe --", "-- malnutrition in the country.", "But Doctors without Borders warns it's impossible for humanitarian organizations working in Yemen to have an overall view of malnutrition across the country. And we're going to talk with our guest about why that is. Caroline Ducarme is the head of mission for Doctors without Borders in Yemen. She joins me now over the phone from the capital, Sanaa. We so appreciate your efforts to talk with us and the work of your group. Why is it that it's so hard in Yemen to get a sense of the scope of this disaster as far as starvation, malnutrition of so many people? And as we just saw, of the very youngest and poorest children?", "Hi, yes. So perhaps we can come back just a second on this issue of famine because I know there's a lot of misleading information regarding", "Something that we want to emphasize, though, is that it is a very dire situation for the population. In fact, we, too, are very concerned about the nutritional status of the population in Yemen. We continue to receive every day in our", "Yes and, Ms. Ducarme, I want to ask you, this is an ongoing war. What -- and the economy's in shambles, there are no jobs for people, they are truly desperate. What is preventing the situation from improving? What would help your organization work in the country? What would help you get more access to people across the country?", "Again, the various challenges that we are facing in the country. And access, as you mentioned, is one of them. So access leading to the insecurity and the war in itself. It's true that a lot of population are still living very close to active front lines and that's where they need access to health care and that's where we are. So security is one of the reasons. This is one of the", "Right, yes. The photographer in \"The New York Times\" was saying that the little girl that died, they had to leave the hospital because there was not anything they could do for her and the family didn't have money. We so appreciate your talking with us and all the work of Doctors without Borders in this terrible, terrible situation in Yemen. Caroline Ducarme, thank you so much.", "Thank you for giving me a chance to talk about Yemen.", "Absolutely, thank you.", "Thank you for being with us. 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{"id": "CNN-145689", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2009-12-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/03/acd.01.html", "summary": "Closing Statements Made in Amanda Knox Trial", "utt": ["In \"Crime & Punishment,\" Amanda Knox on trial for murder in Italy. The young American woman may know her fate as early as tomorrow. There may be a verdict. She's accused of a brutal crime: cutting the throat of her roommate in a sexually charged attack. For months, the jury was given two very different portraits of the defendant. Is -- is she a killer, however, or the victim of anti-American sentiment? Erica Hill reports.", "All eyes on Amanda Knox today as she entered the courtroom to declare her innocence one last time. Speaking in Italian, the 22-year-old American told jurors she's not what the media has dubbed her, the devil with an angel's face. \"I fear to lose myself, to have the mask of assassin forced upon me,\" Knox said. \"I fear to be defined by someone I am not.\" Earlier, her Italian ex-boyfriend also addressed the court, asking for his life back and saying he hopes the real killer confesses. Their testimony on the eve of jury deliberations, marking perhaps the most dramatic moment in this yearlong trial. It is a sensational case. And it's no mystery why.", "I do not think we'd be here today if this young woman, Amanda Knox, was not American, was not young, was not pretty.", "Are you taking movies right now?", "Knox, a foreign exchange student from Washington state, and her former lover are accused of killing her roommate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher, in 2007. Prosecutors say the British woman was the victim of a sadistic sex game, with Knox taunting her, and her ex- boyfriend and another man, Rudy Guede, sexually assaulting her. While the victim was being held down, the prosecution contends Knox cut her neck with a kitchen knife. Prosecutors say Knox hated Kercher and admitted to being in the flat when the murder took place. Knox says Kercher was her friend and she was not there when the young woman was killed.", "They called me a stupid liar.", "(speaking Italian)", "And they said that I was trying to protect someone.", "The third suspect, Guede, was tried separately, convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He is appealing. Prosecutors say there is a mountain of evidence against Knox, including a knife they say was the murder weapon and has Knox's DNA on it. Her defense attorneys have tried to tear holes into the case, arguing the evidence has been tainted and contaminated by shoddy police work. Knox's parents believe authorities made their daughter a scapegoat and are confident the jury agrees.", "She knows she had nothing to do with this. And, you know, they just can't put an innocent person behind bars.", "There's no way that, with no evidence, they could convict her of a crime she didn't commit.", "If convicted, Knox could spend the rest of her life in prison. And her fate could be decided within days.", "We have to try to do our best to put on a face that it is going to work out.", "And we keep telling her that it's taking way longer than we ever expected. But she will get out of there. And she's innocent. And they're not going to put an innocent 20-year-old in jail for 30 years. It's just not going to happen.", "Erica Hill, CNN, New York.", "Well, let's see what happens tomorrow. Let's dig deeper in the case. Joining us from Los Angeles, legal analyst Lisa Bloom. In Washington, Douglas Preston, a journalist and author of the book \"The Monster of Florence\". And on the phone from Perugia, Italy, Barbie Latza Nadeau, who's covering the Knox trial for \"Newsweek\" as well as the Daily Beast. Douglas, you think Amanda Knox has been railroaded. You've been very critical of the prosecution in Italy. In fact, the prosecutor, I think, gas threatened to arrest you for interfering in the case if you return to Italy. How are you so sure that Amanda Knox had nothing to do with this murder?", "Well, when you examine the evidence, and there is a mountain of evidence out there, you see that it's all bogus. I'm not saying some of the evidence is bogus or there's a misinterpretation of it. This evidence is manufactured. It's bogus. The science used for those DNA studies is completely pseudo science. It verges on fraudulence. There's no evidence that she was involved in this crime.", "Barbie, I know you disagree. You say the trial was justified. At the very least there was enough evidence to prosecute Amanda Knox, correct?", "Yes. No, I think there is definitely enough evidence to prosecute her. You know, the question really is, Rudy Guede is a man who's already been convicted of this crime. His conviction is based on the same scientific evidence tested in the same laboratories that Amanda Knox's evidence is being tested in. It sort of works for me today but doesn't work for Amanda Knox. And you have to judge it all basically on the same -- on the same scale. And because the trial -- trialing go on because there is a reason to believe that she may have been involved. And I think we have to wait and see tomorrow if that evidence is sound enough to convict her or if it's not.", "Lisa, do you bring the prosecution's story that some sort of sex games led to this killing? Does this add up?", "Well, they were never clear as to what these supposed sex games were until the very end of this trial. When now they come up with this whole theory of sexual taunting. There's no evidence to support that. Nobody ever said in this drill that Amanda actually did that. And when you talk about taunting, you're talking about something there's no DNA evidence, of course, to support. Look, here's how I approach this case. The prosecution's theory is preposterous. It's that this young college girl participated or even was the ringleader in the rape and murder of her peer. That's extremely unusual for a young female to do. But it's possible. So let's look at the physical evidence. There's very little physical evidence to connect Amanda Knox to this crime. There's no evidence connecting her to the crime scene itself. There is her DNA on the knife, which the prosecution experts said -- couldn't even say for certainty that that was the murder weapon. And there is her DNA in the house, because she was house mates and lived there. But the whole theory doesn't make a lot of sense to me. There isn't sufficient DNA where there would be in this brutal kind of crime.", "So...", "And the bottom line for me is what do you think: this unknown intruder came in, raped and murdered her, and he's already been convicted for it? Or this young girl was the ringleader? It just doesn't hold a lot of water to me.", "So Barbie, what do you -- what evidence do you point to as being legitimate, that at least would bring it to trial?", "Well, I think primarily the fact that she originally confessed to being at the crime seen and she accused another man of the crime. I think that alone justifies the trial. I think, you know, that Rudy Guede was convicted not as a lone assailant but as one of three people who committed the crime. I think a lot of people don't understand that. If Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are found not guilty, then Rudy Guede will almost automatically win his appeal. Because his conviction is based on a three-person crime. It's a very complicated case. You know, I think -- you know, the jury's got a really tough job ahead of them tomorrow. And it's going to be really difficult for them. And I think it's going to be difficult for the family of the victim, Meredith Kercher, all of this. It's a complicated case in a complicated legal system.", "Doug, it's interesting. I mean, the way she's being portrayed in Italy in the press and among people. I mean, is she being viewed as a spoiled, man-hungry American with no remorse who literally did cartwheels during her interrogation? What does this trial reveal about who she really is? Or has it revealed anything about who she really is?", "In the absence of any real evidence, the prosecution's been coming up with all these stories about how she's a strange person. And it's all just -- just fantasy. I mean, the chief prosecutor in this case, Giuliano Mignini, when I was a journalist working in Italy, called me in for an interrogation. And he accused me of being an accessory to murder. He accused me of being involved in satanic rights and a sect. And he charged me with perjury and obstruction of justice. And suggested I leave the country. It was absolutely fantastical. I've never been through an experience like that. And I think the same thing happened to Amanda Knox, only she was interrogated for 14 hours.", "Do you think she's going to be found guilty tomorrow?", "I believe she will be. Although I thought her lawyers did a splendid job over the last few days of completely devastating the prosecution's case.", "OK, very brief, Barbie, do you think she's going to be found guilty tomorrow?", "I think really it's a draw at this point. I think it could go either way, absolutely.", "Lisa?", "For the sake of justice, I hope that she is.", "Lisa Bloom, Barbie Latza Nadeau, Douglas Preston, I appreciate you all being here. Thank you very much. Coming up, are your kids sexting, sharing explicit photos? It's more common than a lot of folks think. The surprising new research ahead. And hand washing horrors. My personal account of one washing gone wrong. It's our \"Shot of the Day.\" It's what happened on \"Regis.\""], "speaker": ["COOPER", "HILL (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "AMANDA KNOX, MURDER SUSPECT", "HILL", "KNOX", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KNOX", "HILL", "CURT KNOX, AMANDA KNOX'S FATHER", "EDDA MELLAS, AMANDA KNOX'S MOTHER", "HILL", "KNOX", "MELLAS", "HILL", "COOPER", "DOUGLAS PRESTON, JOURNALIST/AUTHOR", "COOPER", "BARBIE LATZA NADEAU, JOURNALIST (via phone)", "COOPER", "LISA BLOOM, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "COOPER", "BLOOM", "COOPER", "NADEAU", "COOPER", "PRESTON", "COOPER", "PRESTON", "COOPER", "NADEAU", "COOPER", "BLOOM", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-34254", "program": "CNN BUSINESS UNUSUAL", "date": "2001-7-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/08/bun.00.html", "summary": "Country Singer Bankrolls Own Album", "utt": ["And finally, in the late '80s, singer, songwriter, and producer Rodney Crowell topped the country music charts with five number one records in a row. But he soon drifted from the spotlight, falling out of favor with radio big wigs after failing to repeat that success. Now Crowell is staging a comeback. And he's doing it on his own terms this time with a record he bankrolled himself. Steve Young has this story.", "Say that again.", "My daddy comes from the east side.", "Your daddy comes from the east side? Your daddy is funky.", "Rodney Crowell grew up on the low-income side of Houston's east side where he says his daddy beat up his mom. He sings about that topsy-turvy world on his latest record \"The Houston Kid.\" CROWELL (singing)", "Crowell had to bankroll the record himself, even though he made a pile of money for the national music establishment with a monster record in the '80s that yielded five number one hits in a row. He wrote, produced, and sang them all. But Nashville wasn't interested in banking a 50-year-old man writing about social problems like AIDS and alcoholism and domestic violence. Crowell hankered to follow his heart.", "What I did, I just didn't feel like I could make that record over and over and over again and fell out of grace with those who guard the door of the big commercial radio.", "The result is what Sinatra fans would call a concept album. It's a tender idea that life is full of pain, but also forgiveness, reconciliation, and redemption. CROWELL (singing)", "There were a couple of times when I came in and told my wife, \"Hey, I just emptied our bank account making this record.\" Whether I spend every penny I have making it and no one buys it, at least I can say one time in my career I made a record that I believe in wholeheartedly because sometimes that's all you get. CROWELL (singing)", "It's not cookie cutter material. It's personal. It has some soul to it, something that's really missing from country music now.", "Crowell knows he won't get the returns of the record industry's corporate own. This time around there isn't much marketing or distribution muscle. Is there a big appetite for thoughtful music? Other bands, Nashville, and Rodney Crowell's wife are waiting to find out. For BUSINESS UNUSUAL, I'm Steve Young, CNN Financial News, New York.", "That's BUSINESS UNUSUAL. If you missed any of today's program, you can catch it on the web. Just go to cnnfn.com/businessunusual. I'm Jan Hopkins. Thanks for joining us. Goodbye from New York."], "speaker": ["HOPKINS", "RODNEY CROWELL, MUSICIAN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CROWELL", "STEVE YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "YOUNG", "CROWELL", "YOUNG", "CROWELL", "MICHAEL RADLAUER, SONGWRITER", "YOUNG", "HOPKINS"]}
{"id": "CNN-230850", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2014-5-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/18/ndaysun.02.html", "summary": "Apple Getting Its Supposedly Biggest Deal with Beats", "utt": ["All righty, and we know that you want to take a look at what's coming up in your week ahead. With you Monday in the wake of a controversial firing from the newspaper, former \"New York Times\" executive editor Jill Abramson confirms that she will give the commencement speech to Wake Forest graduates. She hasn't yet spoken publicly, though, about her departure. And it's not clear whether she's going to break her silence address - and address it, you know, during the speech, but we're going to have more on that story for you a little bit later this morning with our own Brian Stelter. And let's move ahead to Wednesday because the 9/11 Museum opens to the rest of us to the public here. Built in the bed rock of tragedy the museum is dedicated to the nearly 3,000 people who perished in the September 11th terrorist attacks and the 1993 bombings. Exhibit halls are filled, we know, with oral histories and photos as well as some very personal items from those victims. And also on Wednesday in Washington, there are going to be - there's going to be a House foreign affairs committee hearing on Boko Haram and the threat to school girls in Nigeria and beyond. Saturday Pope Francis is leaving for a trip to the holy land saying his three days in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Amman are aiming to boost relations with Orthodox Christians and also expected underscore at the Vatican's longstanding call for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. And then on Sunday, oh, big days for Ukraine. The survival may be at stake here. Next Sunday, with a bloody insurgency that's raging in the East, a presidential vote could certainly help for the country at a crisis or it could plunge it into a full-fledged civil war. CNN is going to be there live and covering the story like only we can on Sunday. Victor?", "All right. Christi, thanks. You know what else is coming up this week, a big deal, it could really be the biggest deal Apple has ever pulled off. Our business correspondent Alison Kosik has that look ahead.", "This week in business news, we're keeping a close eye this week on the Apple and Beats deal. There were reports earlier this month that Apple was in talks to buy the high-end headphone company for $3 billion. Now, there is talk it could be finalized this coming week. If it goes through it would be Apple's biggest acquisition ever and a departure for a company that's known for creating its own products, not buying them from others. It's also a big week for housing. We get reports on new and existing home sales. Investors will be looking closely to see if the spring selling season is getting off to a good start. Housing had been leading the economic recovery, but lately other reports have shown a bit of a slowdown. And finally it's that time of year, when business leaders from all across the country descend on college campuses to share words of wisdom with graduates. This week, Federal Reserve Chief Janet Yellen will deliver the commencement speech to New York University graduates. Even though Yellen likely won't be giving any insights on monetary policy, the business world will be watching to see what advice or inspiration she has to share. I'm Alison Kosik in New York.", "All right, Alison, thank you so much.", "So Barbara Walters, she is not just a television personality, people. She is a broadcast news pioneer and stepped down this past week as co-host of \"The View.\" The daytime talk show, of course, that she created, we're going to take a look at more of Barbara in a moment."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-311190", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2017-04-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/28/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Pentagon Investigating Flynn; WH Blames Obama Administration For Flynn's Security Clearance; Pentagon Investigating Flynn Over Foreign Payments; Comey, Rogers To Testify In Closed-Door Hearing Tuesday.", "utt": ["We're following the breaking news. There you see air force one just moments ago landing in Atlanta. The President of the United States will head over from the Atlanta Airport over to the National Rifle Association's convention in Atlanta. It's an effort to reenergize his conservative base, no doubt about that. He's going to be speaking in Atlanta. Soon we're going to have live coverage of that once it begins. In the meantime, the White House says it's not to blame for failing to improperly vet its former National Security Adviser, Retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn. Instead, it's blaming the Obama administration saying it was the President's - former President's administration that approved Flynn's security clearances, renewed those security clearances in 2016. General Flynn was pressured to resign for lying to the Vice President about his conversations with the Russian diplomat. Now the Pentagon's Inspector General has opened an investigation into Flynn for apparently failing to disclose payments he had received from a Russian television station. Those payments were for an event that included dinner with the Russian President Vladimir Putin back in 2015. I want to get reaction to all these late-breaking developments with one of the leading investigators of the Russian interference in the U.S. Presidential election, Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff is the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. He's joining us live here in the studio. Congressman, thanks very much for joining us.", "You bet.", "So when the White House yesterday, Sean Spicer says, you know what, it's really the Obama administration's fault that Flynn got his security clearances renewed in 2016, the administration was still in office. They renewed his security clearances even though a year earlier, he went to Moscow, there was all that video of him having dinner with Putin. What do say?", "Well, this is a continuation of what we saw in the early days of the Trump Presidency, when they felt the Yemen raid hadn't gone well, they said it's Obama's fault. Obama cleared this operation. Now they're saying it's Obama's fault that we didn't vet him better. The reality is, they have the responsibility as the new administration to vet people they want to place in senior positions. The security clearance forms we have requested on a bipartisan basis in the Intelligence Committee, we haven't received them yet. I look forward to going through them. But there's a question, did Flynn report any moneys that he received? That may have impaired the vetting process in terms of the agency for security clearance. But there's really no excuse for the Trump administration here and simply blaming Obama, that argument has really a shelf life that expired a long time ago.", "If he didn't disclose the money he received from Russia and for Turkey for that matter, on those security clearances, his request to get his security clearances updated, renewed, that's a violation of the law.", "It is. So I think there are potentially three legal clouds that hang over General Flynn. One is whether his receipt of funds was unauthorized by law. Another whether he failed to properly disclose to receive these payments when he did a security clearance. And also whether he made false statements that are violate of a-of a privation of law. So, there are probably good reasons why he is now asking for immunity, but it is way premature for our Committee to be considering that kind request.", "And we learned yesterday, the Inspector General of the Department of Defense is opening formal investigation into all of this. His lawyer has suggested he's got a story to tell and he'll tell it to members of Congress if you grant him immunity, he raised the issue. Are you thinking about that?", "Well, it's I think very early for us to be considering something like that. What we ought to be doing is interviewing each and every other witness.", "Have you invited him to testify?", "We - I'm confident the point will come where we will be inviting him, but nonetheless, we have a lot of work to do before that, to bring in other witnesses that can shed light on the circumstances that led up to his firing or whether there were false statements in connection with any of these issues. We also want to discuss with the Justice Department their equities and we would want to receive a detailed proffer from either Flynn or his attorney as to what he would say before we would be able to even evaluate that kind of request.", "You have hearings coming up next week. Tell us about what we can anticipate.", "We have a hearing, closed hearing coming up with General Comey -- I'm sorry, Director Comey and Director Rogers. Of the National Security Agency.", "Yes.", "That's behind closed doors. That's on Tuesday, right?", "That is on I believe may 4th, but we also are trying to reschedule the open hearing with Director Clapper, Director Brennan, and Sally Yates.", "That was supposed to be May 2nd, right?", "You know, I can't remember what the original date, I think we asked the two Directors to come in a closed session was the 2nd. I think they were available a later date that week so that, we anticipate is going forward.", "It sounds like the schedule is changing now. Are there still problems with the republicans? Because we remember Devin Nunes, the Chairman, he has recused himself. Now, you've got a new acting Chairman at least as far as the Russian investigation. Is that cooperation back? Is it working or are there still partisan divisions?", "Actually it's been very good, very productive. I think Mike Conaway is doing his very best. We certainly are as well, to get this back on an even keel nonpartisan track. And I think we've largely accomplished that. We are inviting witnesses before the Committee. We're rescheduling hearings that were deferred or canceled. We're getting the documents that we want to get. We're working with the agencies to get the cooperation of the agencies we need. So we are now fully back on track.", "So I just want to be precise. The FBI Director James Comey, the NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers, they will testify behind closed doors later in the week, later next week -", "Yes.", "- but the other hearing with Sally Yates who is the acting Attorney General, James Clapper, John Brennan, the former CIA Director, that will be an open session, it would be earlier in the week or is there a date - is that date still open?", "That date is still open. We - I believe we're going forward with the closed hearing towards the latter part of the first week of May. The open hearing we're still in negotiation with the Senate over who will be interviewing what witnesses in open session but we expect that to go forward as soon as we can pin down the date as well as get the schedules of the witnesses. But in all of this, we're working very collaboratively, democrats and republicans together. I think we've really turned an important page in the investigation.", "Quickly on North Korea, that's a - you've been studying this very closely as all of us have. When the President of the United States says in his Reuters interview, there is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea, absolutely, what's your reaction?", "My reaction is, if this was a statement made in complete isolation, it would be one thing. When it's a statement made while we have an aircraft carrier group headed there, when we're in the process of installing missile defense there, this is going to be read very differently. I'm all in favor of putting maximum pressure on China to really clamp down on North Korea economically. It's the only thing that will I think cause North Korea to think twice about moving forward on the nuclear and missile front, but I do worry about an excess of saber-rattling because we have erratic leader in North Korea and it puts the President of the United States in one of two positions. If the North Korean leader goes forward with nuclear tests now, what has the President locked himself into doing by way of response? But also, if the North Korean leader goes further, miscalculates based on what the President is saying, then we could have terrible conflagration. So pressure China, absolutely. Be very careful about the military saber-rattling.", "One final, very quick question. Do you favor the U.S. opening a direct dialogue with North Korea?", "You know, I think in an appropriate point we should consider that. The alternative is a military confrontation. But I do think that we need to get some demonstrable show of progress by North Korea and if we ever do enter in a negotiation, the verification regime is going to have to be iron clad because they've cheated before. And if we don't have that kind of iron-clad inspection regime, they'll cheat again", "Congressman Adam Schiff of the Intelligence Committee, thanks very much for joining us.", "Thanks, Wolf.", "You're looking at live pictures over there. Air Force One just touching down at - in Atlanta. The President is aboard Air Force One. He'll be driving in a motorcade from the airport over to the National Rifle Association Convention. He'll be speaking later this hour. We're told we'll have live coverage of that coming up. In the meantime Republican Congressman Mo Brooks, he's standing by here. His reaction to the President's direct warning for North Korea, the one- week spending bill just passed in the House and Senate, and what's next for repealing and replacing ObamaCare. 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{"id": "NPR-4214", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2006-08-23", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5696247", "title": "Can Marriage Help Alleviate Poverty?", "summary": "In Baltimore, a small group of graduates completed a five-month class on how to be a couple and build a life together. None are married yet, but they all have children. And some experts believe the lives of those children might dramatically improve if their parents get married. This piece aired previously on NPR's Morning Edition.", "utt": ["I'm Ed Gordon and this is NEWS & NOTES.", "A few months ago in Baltimore, a small group of graduates held a big celebration. Couples completed a five-month class on how to be a pair and build a life together. None in this group is married yet but they all have children, and some experts believe the lives of those children might dramatically improve if their parents get married.", "NPR's Rachel Jones reports on the early stages of this social experiment.", "Unidentified Man #1: One, two, three. Cheese!", "After five months, the couples here are done with sitting in a classroom learning what a healthy relationship feels like. They're graduating with some new skills and some old challenges.", "I'm going to be calling on all of you. First of all, we're going to still be harassing y'all every 30 days to make sure y'all still together and see what's going on with you.", "These African-American couples took part in a sort of group therapy for several hours once a week. They've learned how to fight fair, tell you partner what you need, and plan for the future. A million dollar federal grant helped pay for the classes. The government is putting many more millions into programs like this across the country.", "You all are a part of history. You are history in the making.", "The people who run these classes are banking on research that suggests these couples will be better off financially if they're married. Among other reasons, married couples pool their incomes and more frequently save for their children's futures. And, the research says, married men tend to spend less time and less of the family's money outside the home.", "So let me ask this question. What is the biggest challenge when it comes to raising your child?", "I think financial.", "Relationship classes start with the basics with couples like Keisha(ph) Russell and Junior Holmes.", "Ninety percent of the class, no one even talked about marriage until we came here.", "How about you, Keisha? As a girl, did you think I want to one day grow up and get married and have kids?", "No. It ain't even cross my mind. Cause my mother, she took care of her kids by herself. All my friends was just raised by their mother.", "The couple has an 18-month-old son, Tayvon(ph). They say after taking the class, they're getting along better and thinking more about the future.", "I never thought that I would even consider marrying Keisha, cause like I said how my attitude was. But now that I'm starting to understand more, I've been thinking about it, wanting it to happen.", "I think this is the way in which social welfare policy will emerge, evolve and change over the next several years.", "Joseph Jones has earned a national reputation for supporting families in Baltimore's low-income communities. The center he runs won that million dollar grant to fund relationship classes. Jones says he used to be skeptical of federal marriage promotion programs. After all, he says, the government's track record of fostering family ties among the poor hasn't been very good.", "We still have what I consider to be a structural flaw in our welfare policy. When the young lady walks into the welfare office to apply for benefits and they ask her for information about the guy she's pregnant by, only for child support purposes.", "Somebody getting in the front? Somebody getting in the back?", "But Jones says he's program isn't just about marriage. It's about building healthy relationships, about parenting. And nobody's required to take these classes. Sure, they talk about marriage but that's not the only goal.", "What's up, pops?", "Unidentified Man #2: How you doing?", "All right. How are you, man?", "Unidentified Man #2: Always a pleasure.", "As Jones drives around East Baltimore where he himself grew up, he says he wants to create a new culture in these neighborhoods - a culture of connection.", "If I'm driving or I'm walking and I see a young man carrying a little baby, that to me says, hey man, you know, here's a caregiver. Even if he's doing something negative that's an opportunity to talk to him about, hey, what about some services or some ideas about doing something differently and help him make that transition.", "But time for exploring healthy relationships may seem almost like a luxury when there are so many other serious challenges. Few families can survive and stay whole without money, without jobs. So whenever he gets the chance, Jones walks the streets of East Baltimore to promote a job-training program that's also offered by his center.", "If you're looking to get into the workforce, it doesn't make a difference if you have a criminal record, right. You don't have a high school diploma. We'll work with you on all those issues, get you connected to the workforce, get your wages on time.", "Unidentified Man #3: I got laid off from here. I'm (unintelligible). I done rested up now.", "You got kids?", "Unidentified Man #3: Yeah I got kids.", "Right now, even Jones can't say how prominently marriage figures into the complex maze out of poverty, but in five years he'll have some data. Researchers will study the effect that that counseling and classes have had on couples here in Baltimore and in similar programs across the country.", "What time is it? Anthony.", "They'll follow with couples like Alfreda Stewart, Anthony Polk(ph). We already met at the graduation celebration earlier.", "I think that everybody that was basically really in the classes was considering marriage at one point.", "We actually told them how long we was together. They was like, y'all might, y'all already considered as a married couple ‘cause y'all been together so long.", "They say they've been together - off and on - for 17 years, and that they've learned a lot in the relationships class. But they say they're not ready for marriage. She works full time as a mail carrier, but he's unemployed.", "He keep telling me once he in a better job he's like he going to pop the question then.", "Once I get myself employed I can put a ring on layaway or propose to her, you know.", "Alfreda Stewart and Anthony Polk live in subsidized housing where their diploma from the relationships class sits on top of the TV, between pictures of their three children.", "This is for Nia(ph).", "One of them is 8-year-old Deja(ph).", "This is (unintelligible), another kind of doll, a Barbie doll.", "And it is children like Deja researchers will also pay attention to. As her parents listen, Deja describes how the two of them got along, or didn't, before the classes.", "Like scream and holler, like, get out my house, I don't want you in my house.", "So do you hear them now say things differently?", "Yes, like, Anthony walked in the house the last time and said, I'm sorry.", "Later, Deja picks up two of her favorite dolls.", "And this is my mommy and daddy.", "A tall girl doll with long brown hair and a flashy dress. A boy doll sports a buzz cut and his plastic muscles are bulging.", "And they're eating so she's on her way home. Didn't you forget something? What did I forget? Something special. And they kissed each other good night.", "Deja lives in a place where some girls can't even imagine getting married, never even thought about it. That's what Keisha said earlier. But Deja says, one day, she will get married. When I get out of college, she says, I want a man like my daddy, Anthony, to help me out with the kids.", "Rachel Jones, NPR News.", "See you, see you. 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{"id": "CNN-210079", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-7-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/06/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Boeing 777 Crash in San Francisco", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "Hello, everyone, I'm Don Lemon in New York. The pictures are incredible. The stories coming out of San Francisco incredible as well. I want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world watching CNN International and other networks. We are following breaking news and we have a team of people who are going to help us out, our Richard Quest is here, Fredricka Whitfield will stay with us as well, as well as aviation expert Jim Tilmon and also reporters Dan Simon and other folks from around the globe will be helping with the worldwide resources of CNN. Let me tell you what's happening now as you're looking at this incredible picture coming out of the airport there in San Francisco, a large commercial airliner crashed and burned just a short time ago at the San Francisco International Airport. The pictures you are looking at, the ones earlier, were live, these were pictures that were taken from passengers who were fleeing that plane as it made that crash landing. A passenger plane it is. It is a Boeing 777 from Asiana Airlines, which is a large South Korean airline. Look at the hole in the top of that plane. Unbelievable. This is what we know right now -- the plane made what the FAA is calling a crash landing. This is a technical crash landing. The tail broke off the plane. The top of the fuselage burned, as you can see it there. Witnesses say pieces of the wings and other parts were flying off the plane. We don't know how many people were on board the plane. How many of those people are hurt or possibly worse. We're getting the information in now. It's all coming in as we are talking now. I'm getting the information just as you are. We did see the emergency slides deployed from one side of the wreck. I want to bring in CNN's Richard Quest live now in London. Richard, you know a lot about this particular airplane. This is a mess, if you are looking at these live pictures, unbelievable.", "Yes. You know, I have the advantage in the sense of being able to see the pictures. But I can - I have seen sufficient of the damage to be able to say what you're looking at, first of all, the fact that the -- the roof of the aircraft, the fuselage, has burned out, we see that quite frequently whenever there is a fire particularly if it's a fuel-fed fire from one of the wing tanks. And we saw that in the British Airways years ago where the plane guts itself right the way along the aircraft. And what's interesting, is the way it is localized in the midsection, forward section and hasn't gone further back beyond the wing area. Again, look at the picture of the rear of the aircraft. You can see the pressure dome, the rear pressure dome, which is what keeps the plane pressurized, that's the green thing right at the end has been fractured as the tail has separated from the aircraft. A very large debris field. The plane not even on the runway. All of these are now leading -- it's way too soon to give any form of judgment as to obviously what has happened.", "Right.", "And but what we can, obviously, clearly say it that it was upon what was to be a normal landing that the incident took place. There was no declared emergency. There was no emergency vehicles on the runway. Air traffic control from the tape that we're now starting to hear in the transcripts basically had no warning what was about to take place. So, we're looking at an operational and executional or a mechanical failure at the point, upon which the aircraft touched the ground or was in the final seconds before touching ground, Don.", "What we do know, Richard, though, something incredible happened, something out of the ordinary did happen once that plane got close to landing. I want to get now to CNN's Rene Marsh. She's live in Washington, D.C. She has new information from the NTSB, the National Transportation Safety Board. Rene, what do you know?", "That's right, Don. Well, we're fighting at the NTSB go team, of course, as you know, in situations like this, automatically they are dispatched. So, they are en route there to start the investigation in to what went wrong here. We do know that Chairman Deborah Hersman will be going to the scene, so she will be dispatched there as well. You know, we're still waiting to get more information about injuries and so forth on board this plane from the FAA. So, all we can do now is really rely on the pictures that you're looking at there. We've reached out to a lot of our experts who help us just to kind of get a good idea as to what they think may have happened here and analyze what we're looking at. I spoke with one expert who is a former crash investigator. He tells me pretty much what you just heard Richard say there. It appears that in this situation and, again, this is just speculation until we get more, that this plane landed short of the runway. And the reason why they believe that is the case is because they're looking at where all that debris is. And, again, they're saying that debris is right around the area where the water meets the land. That is not where the plane is supposed to go down. That is not the runway. So, it just seems as if this plane did indeed come down earlier than it was supposed to. So, imagine what did those people experience when they were on board? Well, you can expect that they probably heard a loud thumping sound. They probably heard a scraping noise when the belly of the plane went up against the ground there. Perhaps injuries. We don't know. But that is very possible in a situation like this. But here's the good news. It looks like judging from this picture the fuselage for the most part is still intact. However, you do see that burning there. So, we know that although it did complete its trip from Seoul, Korea, to San Francisco, there still is going to be fuel in this plane here. But they are required to have about an extra 45 minutes to an hour worth of fuel there, so that would explain why we're seeing some of the burning that happened there. But, again, Don, we're waiting to hear from the FAA about - of the people who were on board, but as you look at those pictures, it doesn't look like anyone is moving frantically at the air at the scene. So, that's the good news there. You would expect to see some frantic movement if people were inside and injured and in danger. We're not seeing that at this point.", "But, Rene, it's still very early on. It's still very early on.", "It certainly is. So, we're still waiting to get more.", "So, let's hold on a little bit. Rene, we'll get back to you. Thank you very much, if you get any information from the NTSB, from the FAA, update us. But again, we - I just want to tell you, you are looking at this incredible pictures, they are coming out of San Francisco International Airport. I don't really need to tell you what's going on. Look at your screen. This is a large commercial aircraft. It crash landed a short time ago at the San Francisco International Airport, a Boeing 777. With no doubt at least -- scores of people on board this airplane. We don't know exactly how many people on board. These are some of the pictures you're looking at now from people who ran off this airplane, escaped -- trying to escape with their lives and now they have, at least we hope most of them have made it to a safe place. We have a team of people who are helping us out here. We have reporters stretched around the country. We have reporters stretched around the world. Even our political reporter Dana Bash on an airplane at the San Francisco International Airport affected by this. Dana reported for us just a short time ago. Dan Simon is in San Francisco as well. Jim Tilmon is an aviation expert and Richard Quest reports on aviation here and is an expert for CNN. I want to go to Jim Tilmon now. Jim, we're looking at this. The weather situation at least from a layman's point of view as I'm looking at it doesn't particularly appear to be bad. I don't know what the winds were like there. But as you look at these pictures, what do they tell you?", "After having forecast weather for many, many years, as you know, Don, I see absolutely nothing that the weather had to do with this ...", "Nothing to do with the weather at all?", "Nothing that meets the eye at least. Of course, (ph) you know, they have some swirling currents and that's they thing for wind around these airports that are right up against the water. But I don't think that had anything at all to do with it, if so, it was very negligible. We are looking at the situation here where that something - something that we don't know the details of right now, caused a very nose high attitude before the aircraft actually got to the runway and in doing so it caused that lip of the runway surface area was right on the water, you actually have kind of an embankment there and you have something that the tail of the airplane struck there and the debris field looks it may have. If that's did happen, it disintegrates at that point. Now the airplane is just -- you might as well have a paper airplane that you're throwing around because controls have no effect whatsoever. That's anything you could do. Then you end up with landing gear coming off. Parts of the airplane coming off and a cartwheeling commercial airplane down the runway surface. An absolutely unbelievably remarkable situation -- as you pointed out people were strolling off that airplane is unreal.", "Yeah, it is unreal. And, you know, Jim, of course, you said, as you know, we worked together for a very long time in Chicago, I know your expertise in weather and both aviation, so we're glad to have you here on CNN today. Jim, I want you to listen to this witness, eyewitness, Anthony Castorani and then we'll talk, OK?", "Actually, it looked like it was coming in very nicely. It was pitched nose up maybe about three degrees. And as it was coming in, it came in. It touched down the runway a little earlier than I've seen most planes coming in and touching down, but the moment it touched down, the nose was still pitched up. The nose wheel never hit the ground yet, and what you typically see smoke from the wheels coming down on that initial touchdown, there was a larger plume of white smoke. You heard a pop. And then you immediately saw a large brief fireball that came out from underneath the aircraft. At that moment you could see that the aircraft was again starting to kind of lift and it began to cartwheel. And as it started to cartwheel to its left-hand side, the wing broke off on the left-hand side. You could see the tail immediately fly off of the aircraft. And as the aircraft cartwheeled, it then landed down and the other wing had broken off. And there was no fire or fireball with the crash after the initial one. There was a large plume of whiter smoke. After they began to douse it within about 20 minutes, then you began to see more darker smoke, maybe something else ignited in the - within the aircraft. I've been sitting here watching it the entire time. Like, immediately after the initial shock where you just kind of -- gripping yourself with what just happened ...", "That was an eyewitness there Anthony Castorani reporting to CNN and Fredricka Whitfield just a short time ago what he witnessed. These are live pictures you're looking at from San Francisco International Airport. Look at that. You see debris spread across the runway there. And, again, I want to tell you that we are reporting this. We have a team of people reporting this from around the world. I want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world watching CNN including in South Korea as well. We're following some breaking news here for you on CNN. Here's what we do know, OK? A large commercial airliner crashed and burned just a short time ago at the San Francisco International Airport's where you're looking at these live pictures now. It is a passenger plane. It's a Boeing 777 from Asiana Airlines, which is a large South Korean airline. The plane made what the FAA is calling a crash landing. The tail broke off, as you can see, you don't see a tail there. The top of the fuselage in flames as you can see. It burned. Witnesses say pieces of the wings and other parts were flying off of this plane. We don't know how many people were on the plane, how many of those were hurt. Possibly worse. We're still getting information now. We did see the emergency slides deployed from the side of this wreckage. We have new information now that I need to read to you that is coming from the Coast Guard. Here's what it says. Lieutenant -- a lieutenant junior grade of the Coast Guard at San Francisco district said, we asked to confirm reports that the U.S. Coast Guard conducting a search had found a body. That's what we did. And that's what - here's what they tell to us. Or say to us. \"I cannot confirm that. I know that there has been a helicopter launched. And we are assisting the responding agencies, but other than that, nothing else has been confirmed at this time.\" So, CNN asking to confirm reports that the U.S. Coast Guard was conducting a search and has found a body. The U.S. Coast Guard saying to us and this is, quote, in full, \"I cannot confirm that, I know that there has been a helicopter launched and we are assisting the responding agencies, but other than that nothing else has been confirmed at this time.\" New information now, Rene Marsh is checking with the FAA and from the National Transportation Safety Board. What do you know, Rene?", "Well, Don, we're still waiting for more information about the folks who were on board this plane, but, again, we do know that at this point the NTSB saying that they plan on getting on a plane from here, Washington, D.C., heading with the chairman of the NTSB Deborah Hersman and she will be leading the investigation there at the airport there in San Francisco. So, of course, they're going to have to go through this piece by piece to figure out exactly what went wrong, was this something mechanical, was this pilot error. Those are all questions we do not know the answers to at this point. Of course, those NTSB investigations, they tend to be quite lengthy. It could be some time before we get any true definitive answers. But we hope that the picture will become a little clearer as the day goes on, but what we really want to know is how the folks are doing on board. Again, we just know, again, just based on the pictures here from the people that we've spoken to, from the sources that have spoken to us and they've seen the pictures themselves, they say that if you were on board this plane, you may have experienced a thump. You may have heard a screeching sound, a scratching sound of the bottom of the plane scraping up against the ground there. That all makes a lot of sense. What we see here, in which it looks clear, is that this plane did not impact the building. It did not impact a structure. So, we do know that. But as far as what else, as far as injuries, we don't know that. Perhaps some smoke inhalation is possible. Perhaps some overhead bins opened up in the process. Again, this is all speculation of what comes along with this kind of crash landing.", "Right.", "Of course, all the details will come out as we hear more from the", "And Rene, also getting from -- excuse me, from airline sources here, some of them where pilots are saying, if the plane had actually cartwheeled, it would have broke apart. It would not look like it does now. They are saying that the plane is pretty much -- the wing is intact as a matter of fact, and a cartwheel, the wings would probably not be intact. Rene, stand by, we'll get back to you again, if you get more information from federal agencies, we'd love to hear from you. I'm going to go to a witness now, Jennifer Sorgen.", "Now, Jennifer, tell us what you know. Again, we are talking - we heard from other people that they saw this plane cartwheeling. Again, the wings appear to be intact here. What do you know?", "Yeah. I wouldn't say it was actually cartwheeling. We saw it hit, the tail broke off almost immediately upon hitting what appeared to be the end of the runway. It kind of did a belly flop landing. And we thought that it was going to maybe be OK. It was going to come in for a real hard landing, and then all of a sudden it flipped completely 360. And landed back upright. And it just started -- there was a fire and lots of smoke. And -- but in terms of the wings ...", "You could see that.", "So, were you saying that the plane flipped over in flight 360 = 360 degrees ...", "Totally, Don.", "All the way around?", "Totally, Don.", "Yeah. It turned -- yeah, from what we saw, it looked like it had actually turned completely around it. It even ...", "It moved - it moved - spun around. She means spun round.", "Richard, is that Richard Quest, is that you there?", "Forgive me. I think what she's saying is that the plane spun around 360, not went round 360. The plane ...", "Right, yeah.", "Exactly right.", "Yes.", "Then it touched down and then spun round on its axis 360 degrees.", "Yes. That's exactly right. It didn't appear that the wings broke off or anything of that nature. But it did, it definitely did spin around and then came to an abrupt stop. And that's then when we saw - it wasn't necessarily a huge explosion of fire, but there was definitely fire, lots of smoke, and at that point we were just waiting to.", "I need to talk to her. Where did you see -- where did you see the tail touch the ground? How far after it crossed the runway threshold, if you can remember what you saw, where did you see the first strike of the tail?", "It seemed like the first strike of the tail was right at the end of the runway. We thought it was going -- it looked like it hit between where the end of the runway and the water meet. And that's where we saw the first impact, in what appeared that the tail had actually fallen off at that point or had broke apart and then it continued to proceed down the runway on its belly and that's when it did the 360 spin.", "So, Jennifer -- hang on, Richard, hang on Richard, and Jennifer. Just because I wanted to be completely clear here. We don't know exactly what happened. This is what - this is your assessment of what happened. When you say it's spun around, you don't mean it flipped over in the air, you mean once it hit the ground, it spun around, not a flip, correct?", "Correct. That's -- It seemed more of a spin kind of flop. Like the wings did not appear to like break off in some type of - their chart. It definitely was kind somewhat airborne when it did just spin-around flip. But, yeah, it definitely wasn't necessarily a cartwheel.", "Got you.", "It seemed like the wings were still intact.", "OK. Got you.", "Don?", "Yeah, go ahead. Who is that? Is that Jim? Hold on one second. Before we do this, I want to just read this. This is from Boeing Planes, this is a tweet from Boeing Planes, it says. \"Our thoughts are with everyone affected by today's incident at SFO, we stand ready to assist the NTSB again.\" That is Boeing. Jennifer, stand by. Richard Quest, stand by. Go ahead, Jim Tilmon.", "Well, I mean I think you should absolutely - what happens once the tail separates from the airplane, you have no control, lateral control, that is the twisting of the airplane around its axis. You do have a little bit of control, perhaps, still within the wing structure to keep the wings relatively level and that was one of the reasons, the fact that it was level, that you may have a lot of people survive this because had the airplane gone upside down or done the cartwheel like what has been described before, we would have had not only more structural damage, we may very well have had a lot more injuries on board. So, what happened was this thing was spinning like a top around ...", "Right.", "As opposed to cartwheeling like has been described before.", "Got it. It was a spin on the ground like a top, not a cartwheel, not a flip of the airplane in midair.", "That's correct. That's just ...", "That clears that up.", "Loss of lateral control. You have no control over that part of that airplane slide.", "Right. And again, I'm not the aviation expert, but the part that would control that would be the rudder, right? And once that ...", "Yes, absolutely.", "And once that rear section is gone, you have no control. OK. OK.", "That's correct, Don.", "OK, OK. Let's go. Stand by. I want to go to Diana Magnay who is in Seoul with reaction from there. Diana, what do you have for us?", "Hi, Don, very little right now. It's 5:20 in the morning and we've been trying Asiana Airlines and we've been trying the various ministries. And for now there's nothing. And I mean we're going to be monitoring the situation obviously and this plane came from Seoul on its way to San Francisco, so you can expect that that will be considerable reaction in the hours to come, but for now given the time, it is very limited what I can tell you really about this airline. Which is -- which is basically Korea's second biggest airline to Korean Air. And as we were hearing from Richard a little earlier, you know, not necessarily one that has a bad record for safety. It's one that's considered especially good for service. But for now I can't really give you more than that.", "OK. Diana, stand by. It's very early on, and we can understand the information will be coming out as well. And after all, the accident did happen here in the United States, and not in South Korea. Diana, stand by. If you get any more information, we'll get back to you as well. I'm Don Lemon live in New York. This is breaking news here on CNN. You're looking at the pictures live from our affiliate KPIX, this is San Francisco International Airport where a large commercial airline has crashed and burned just a short time ago on its approach to the airport there. You're looking at live pictures, again. It's a passenger plane. It is a Boeing 777, a Boeing 777 from Asiana Airlines, which is a large South Korean airline, which is why you heard from our Diana Magnay in South Korea there, she's getting reaction from South Korea. Worldwide resources of CNN on top of this story. I would like to welcome our viewers who are in the United States and also around the world and many of them watching us from South Korea right now and on other international networks as well. Again, we're following the breaking news here on CNN. What we know as a plane made what the FAA is calling a crash landing. According to witnesses, they say the plane spun around on the air once it crash landed, spun around like atop. Not flipped over in the air, but spun around, because the rear section had broken off, and the rudder usually controls that, so they had no control over that. The tail broke off. The plane. The top of the fuselage burned. You are looking at these I-reports from earlier as this plane was burning and then now, again, live pictures there. Witnesses say pieces of the wings and other parts were flying off of this plane. The wing section mostly intact. But we have seen other parts on the runway and scattered about the airport there on the runway. What you're looking at now is a picture taken from a passenger who was fleeing this plane shortly after it crash landed there. We don't know how many people were on board the plane, how many other people were hurt. We don't know of anything else, any fatalities, anything right now. The Coast Guard upon asking them about a report that they were conducting a search and that a body had been found, they said they cannot confirm that. They said I know that there has been a helicopter launched and we are assisting the responding agencies, but other than that, nothing else has been confirmed at this time. So, this is what we know. A horrific situation coming out of San Francisco right now, where people possibly may be injured. We don't know yet. And then again, everyone may have gotten off of this airplane safely with possibly minor injuries. Again, let's go back to Fredricka Whitfield, who is in Atlanta. Fredricka covered this story right when it broke on the air, and Tom Sater is there as well in the CNN severe weather center. Tom, we heard there from Jim Tilmon who is also a meteorologist, he said the conditions were perfect.", "Yes.", "The conditions were fine. So, what gives here?", "You know, we're going to put this to rest as Fredricka and I talked about earlier, Don, obviously they're going to put this in the reports. There will be full detail of every hourly weather observation, even the conditions at flight level on its approach. These were ideal flight conditions. I mean we're just going to put it to rest right now. Take a look behind me, these are the conditions on landing. Visibility is ten miles. Now, that's the top of the scale. It was probably better than that. So, it doesn't get any better. Ceiling is unlimited, which means with partly cloudy skies, obviously we didn't have the thunderstorm activity because the lack of cloud cover. Wind speed, eight miles per hour. Now, the fastest wind speed I could find was at 10:00 P.M. the night before and that's 13 miles per hour, even that is doable, so, again, it couldn't have been better. If we look at the satellite picture now, this is the time of the year, and even Jim Tilmon mentioned this, on the West Coast for those who are not familiar with it, from San Francisco in the bay area, all the way down to San Diego, you do get a marine layer ...", "Yeah.", "And that moves in and that creates some visibility problems, but that burns off at 10:30, you know, 11:30 in the morning. That was not a problem. The radar is clear. But Fredricka, let's take a look at this. And this comes from flight where - Don, this is quite interesting, the flight comes in, and this is the Asiana flight comes in along the coast on the northwest flight line, it comes down and then banks around to the right. In fact, you can actually see it here as it flies around into the bay. And then it comes and approaches the landing. We're going to get in a little bit closer here. In fact, you can actually see where the runway is. As it banks back and around, this is where the plane is, but what's ideal here and we all saw it here, the video, which is amazing, Fredricka -- we'll show it again.", "But it's telling the story.", "Yes. We don't have to be flight specialists to see the beginning of the runway. We're going to show it here again. The cobblestones where it meets the water. I mean Jim Tilmon even mentioned that there's a blacktop area that tells the pilot, OK, this is the, you know, the runway that is - we're starting to approach. So he actually may have just come in too low as we've been talking about. Now, there was a northwest wind. It's a proverbial northwest wind at only about seven miles per hour, so that does create for those flights that come in in this correction a little bit of a headwind so they can keep the nose up, and you can see it here.", "Well, in fact, I asked Jim Tilmon about that earlier, if this happens to be an airport that promotes a certain challenge to a lot of pilots. And he said, absolutely not, if you think of New York, you think of Washington National, and you think of San Francisco.", "Right.", "He painted the picture that these are airports that these pilots are proficient enough to understand, you know, how to read the weather, how to read the potential weather conditions ...", "Right.", "-- and how to make landings near water and he discounted that as being a potential problem here.", "It's more of a challenge for us as ...", "It really is.", "You know, passengers.", "And that's a natural question, I think, people ask when they see an accident of this caliber, they think what was the weather right away.", "Right.", "We know that San Francisco it often has, you know, overcast conditioned.", "Right.", "But you ruled it out. That wasn't the issue today.", "Yeah, they'll still put a report on it, but, you know, Don, I mean hour by hour, they couldn't have been better. Sky conditions, visibility, unlimited ceiling and light winds.", "And it seems like, Don, it also created a situation where you had eyewitnesses, you heard them earlier, who were able to get a clear view whether it was someone who was in a hotel room nearby, whether it was somebody else who we talked to who was in a plane that was on the tarmac, they were able to see the contact that took place.", "Yeah, those are the pictures.", "Right there on the edge -- on the approach to that tarmac, to that runway for landing, that the tail hit. And you could see the debris field. And Jim Tilmon, well, he speaks much more proficiently about exactly reading the debris field, he helped to explain as if you just look at that and you see how that tail was hit. Once that tail hit that tarmac or those rocks in that way, it was really all over for this flight.", "You know, Fredricka, next to the picture of the survivors, this is the story right here.", "It is a story.", "I mean it's beautiful to see the survivors walk of the flame, but this video that you're seeing there, I think that tells the whole story.", "Incredible. All right. Don Lemon, back to you.", "Thank you very, very much.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "It is the bottom of the hour. I'm Don Lemon live here in New York and I want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world watching CNN international and other networks. We are following breaking news here on CNN. Here's the information that we have for you -- just a short time ago at the San Francisco International Airport a large commercial airliner crashed and burned just a short time ago. It is a passenger plane, a Boeing 777 from Asiana Airlines, which is a large South Korean airline. We have live pictures as well as pictures from passengers who were fleeing that plane. The one you just saw was a passenger. This one is live pictures. This is a live picture. You can see the tail section of this plane is gone. You can see the top of the fuselage is burned. The wings are mostly intact. Parts of them, though, have fallen off. Parts of the plane fell off when this crash landing happened there. There you can see it spread across the runway there, what appears to be landing gear on the runway. You're looking at those pictures. The stairs were deployed. The slides were deployed for people to get off of this plane very quickly. We don't know exactly how many people were on board the plane, the extent of any injuries, if any at all -- the extent of injuries, if any at all. And we want to see one of the first videos we got in to CNN right after this crash, let's take a look. This is a video that came off of YouTube shortly after this crash, apparently from someone inside of the airport. You can see the plane burning there. And according to witnesses, the plane made a crash landing. They also said they saw the plane spin around like a top -- important to clarify. Not a flip in the air, but spun around like a top. I want to get to CNN's Richard Quest now. Richard, this airplane is located -- I mean, this airport is located about 12 miles from San Francisco, downtown San Francisco proper. One of the 30 busiest airport -- airports worldwide, 37 million people flying through this airport, obviously a very proficient airport. And for this to happen on a Saturday afternoon obviously tragic. We don't know exactly what went wrong here, but obviously something did.", "Oh, absolutely. And what we can say, of course, is -- I mean, San Francisco, like LAX, they are the major Asian-Pacific gateways for the United States. Looking at the pictures now, hearing what Jim Tilmon said, hearing what the other eyewitness has said about how this plane spun round after the tail hit the ground, we can start to -- we won't -- we will not -- let me -- let's be absolutely blunt and clear. We will not know why this tail hit the end of the runway at the early stage that it did for many weeks, if not months, until the NTSB produces its first interim and then final report. But clearly what we can now see, of course, is the chronology of events as stated by eyewitnesses. You've got to go back quite some time before you see, of course, previous incidents in the United States. The Colgan/Continental Airline incident which happened in 2009 and 49 people died in that incident. But you're talking about major passenger jets, large scale, 200, 300- seat passenger jets, you really are going back through until 2001 before you actually see -- you go back to November of 2001 where you have the American Airlines incident where 260 people died in that. So, the size of this sort of aircraft having a fatality or emergencies of this manner is very rare. And that's why the investigators will want to know exactly what was happening on that aircraft at the moment of touchdown. And also one other thing, Don, they'll want to know, because it's not just enough to know why or how this crash happened. They'll want to know about the evacuation procedures --", "Right.", "-- the safety procedures that could be improved in the future. Look at the pictures. The pictures show that the roof of the fuselage is burned out from the back of the cockpit pretty much to the aft of the wings. But the rear of the aircraft is untouched. So, they're going to want to know about all the dynamics of a fire that took place, what happened in that fire which could have, of course, impede passengers from leaving the aircraft and that will be part of the final investigation. Not only why or what the pilots or whatever happened in the cockpit in terms of the landing itself.", "And, Richard, looking at this particular plane, it hasn't spun around yet, but I am able to see only if you're looking, if you're sitting on the plane looking forward as you would flying --", "Yes.", "-- I only see the engine on the right wing --", "The left engine has disengaged from the aircraft. The tail, all the rear has disengaged from the aircraft. You can see the rear pressure bulkhead, that's the green bit at the back of the aircraft. We have slides primarily on the right of the aircraft. This is a 777-200ER aircraft, I was saying \"LR\" but it's an ER, extended range aircraft, that's what Asiana uses across the Pacific. It was delivered -- the delivery date was 2006, so it's a young plane by any definition for this sort of route. We can see the forward ladder extended. We can see it's in landing configuration. Something happened which caused the aircraft to tail strike or to come down heavy, which then has left the landing gear collapsing which has caused the aircraft to spin round and multiple times before leaving the runway. And what the investigators will focus on is the -- is those final moments of flight and then focus on the evacuation, the fire, which looks to have been fierce at the top of the fuselage.", "OK. Just getting new information in, Richard, from the FAA -- flights into and out of San Francisco airport has been canceled following the crash of Asiana Flight 214 from Seoul, South Korea. That's again according to the FAA, all flights have been canceled in and out of San Francisco International Airport. Some of those flights are being diverted to LAX. So if you are concerned about someone there, please contact the airline for details. But, again, flights canceled in and out of San Francisco International Airport. Some of the flights are being sent to LAX, diverted to LAX, because of this. I want to go to CNN's Dana Bash now. Dana, you were near the airport and you were trying to make your way I would assume from San Francisco back to D.C.? Dana?", "Sorry, Don, can you hear me now?", "Yes, I can hear you now.", "Sorry about that.", "Yes, go ahead. Tell us where you were and what you saw.", "That's exactly right. I was with family here, I am with family here in San Francisco and I was heading to the airport to make my way back to Washington where I live. And we were turning the corner coming off the Hawaii and suddenly everybody slammed on their brakes. And as we got closer, we realized the reason and it was because we could see the smoke sort of billowing up from the runway where this plane had clearly crashed. And obviously we -- I'm sure everybody around us did the same thing, turned on the radio and we heard the news pretty fast. Then a police car came up and told us and everybody else that was trying to get into the airport, you know, sorry, the airport's closed, you got to move and so they diverted traffic, you know, from pretty much the moment we saw that smoke on, we didn't see any planes take off. We didn't see any planes land. And, you know, I think what is noteworthy, I saw somebody talking about the weather not being a factor. There's not a cloud in the sky here in the San Francisco area, at least over SFO. So, certainly doesn't seem like that was the issue at least on the landing portion of the flight.", "OK. And so, Dana, immediately you saw -- one person said they didn't see a fireball, they just saw smoke.", "That's exactly right. Now, I didn't see the actual crash happened. We kind of came around the bend on the highway probably minutes, maybe even seconds after it happened, but that's exactly what we saw. We just saw a plume of smoke going up. And then in the distance we didn't know it for sure but it certainly looked like it was the plane that had just crashed on the runway. Certainly -- as you can imagine extremely eerie, and obviously we are not alone in that we are holiday travelers and we were coming up to a major, major airport trying to get on a plane at the end of a holiday week and we were diverted and I'm probably like many people right now making phone calls trying to get alternative transportation, alternative flights home, you know, thank goodness it doesn't -- we're still waiting to hear specifics about what happened to the people on the plane, but, you know, thank goodness that is, you know, a concern right now more or as much as the fact that people were on this plane and are certainly very scared.", "All right. Dana Bash, stand by. We're going to need you throughout the evening here on CNN. Again, breaking news here on", "A large commercial airliner crashed and burned just a short time ago at the San Francisco International Airport. You're looking at pictures from the scene now. You can see the top of the fuselage burned out here. You can also see on a wider shot that there is no rudder. The tail section is completely off of this plane. This is a Boeing 777 from Asiana Airlines which is a large South Korean airline. This is what we know right now. The FAA is calling this a crash landing. The tail broke off the plane as we had been saying. You're looking at it there. The top of the fuselage burned, pieces of the tail and other parts of the plane were flying everywhere we're told. We're not sure how many people were on board of this plane. We're not sure of the extent of the injuries if any at all. We did see emergency slides deployed. Emergency slide on both sides of the plane deployed here so that passengers could get off of this plane very quickly. We have a team of reporters around the country also in south Korea as well, and our Richard Quest is in London and several aviation experts to help guide us through this story until we figure out exactly what happened to those passengers, if those passengers are OK. And if there's any early information we can find out about what might have caused this crash. We do know in the moments since this happened, planes were stopped on the runway here. They were diverted in the air. And just in the last few minutes, we have been told confirmed the FAA has confirmed that all flights in and out of San Francisco International Airport canceled. Some of them being diverted to other airports. One large airport in the area or close would be LAX in Los Angeles, and that's where some of the flights are going now. If you need information we are told that you can check with particular carriers; 5:30 -- 5:30 Eastern Time, I'm just getting information from my producer in my ear now, 5:30 Eastern Time, the National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, holding a press conference and we will carry that for you live. They will be live in Washington with that, and we will carry it for you live. Also as I get more information here, I want to tell you, this is also reportable in to CNN, a national security official tells CNN there are no signs of terrorism from the crash. OK? Also other details that we are getting in from here is that -- again, the airport has been closed. There were reports that the Coast Guard were looking for someone in the water. We asked that question to the Coast Guard. They said they would confirm that a team had been sent out but no other information about that and, again, 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time a press conference with the NTSB will be held live and we'll carry for you on CNN. Let's look at some of the iReports that we're getting in now from people who were very close to the situation. This is someone from -- this is Christie Miller -- Christine miller, who is a CNN iReporter who took this picture shortly after that crash happened. Another iReport, and I can't read the name from that one as well, but it's a CNN iReporter, taking a picture from a little bit further out. Sven Duenwald (ph), thank you for your pictures here. You can send them to ireport.com if you have them. This is Val Barden (ph) who also sent a picture in. Now, live pictures now. This is from our affiliate KGO in San Francisco. And you can see the emergency apparatus going onto the tarmac now to try to help with the situation here. These are ground shots from San Francisco International Airport. And you are getting this -- you are seeing this just as I am seeing it. The crash happened just a little bit over an hour ago, but still much to clean up, tons of investigating to do. And probably some people to tend to, the people who were on board that plane. And you can see, again, the ambulance is going out towards the tarmac there. Emergency vehicles going out towards the tarmac, and you heard from Mary Schiavo who is formerly with the FAA saying, again, that they're going to have recordings that will help them out with this particular situation. I am counting ten emergency vehicles so far at least going out there, ten ambulances, plus other vehicles including fire trucks, hook and ladder and I'm sure all of the resources there in San Francisco are available and they are on top of it. This is their number one priority. Again, this is a big story happening here in the United States, but this flight originated in Seoul, South Korea. As we look at the burnt-out wreckage of this airplane we want to tell you, again, we don't know how many people were on board this plane and if there are any injuries. We are working to get that information for you. But they are sending emergency vehicles onto the runway here and we're not exactly sure what is going on at this, you know, moments after this crash happened when it appears everyone is off this plane, at least we hope everyone is off the plane. We're waiting for official word on that. More information -- this is from a source here at CNN. It says Asiana Airlines is currently investigating what caused flight 214 to crash land at San Francisco airport. That's a spokesman from Asiana airlines told CNN. It's currently 5:43 in the morning in Seoul, South Korea. So, they are -- it's really early there and they're just getting news of this information as well. Let's go to Rene Marsh who is following the developments for us from Washington, D.C., where that NTSB press conference will be held in Washington just over an hour, an hour and about 15 minutes we'll hear from the NTSB. What new information, if any, are you getting, Rene?", "Well, Don, what we want to do now is kind of flesh out where they go from here. We are going to get some initial information from the NTSB, of course, they're en route, they'll be making their way there to the crash scene. But how this will all work is the first thing they're going to do when they get on the ground is they're going to want to talk to those local officials, find out what kind of information they have and know about the people who were on board as well as the debris field, things of that sort. Also, as you would imagine, they'd want to inspect the damage, and it will be broken up, the NTSB team, will be broken up into different groups that specialize in different things, so you'll have your weather group that will look at weather conditions. We just heard earlier that it was a perfect day for flying, but they'll want to prove that for themselves. So, they'll have a group focusing specifically on that. Then you'll have a group looking at air traffic control and the communications between the tower and the pilot. So, they'll be looking at that aspect. And then they'll be looking really closely at the pilots, the pilot's training, how did this pilot sleep the night before, what did he eat the night before. Of course, they'll be drug and alcohol testing as well on people on board as far as the crew members go. And then last but certainly not least is they're going to want to look at the landing gear, the mechanics of this plane. These are all the pieces that are going to go into this investigation. And we can expect a number of briefings in the upcoming days from the NTSB. Simply revealing exactly what they've been finding out as the day goes on. Of course, we know these investigations take quite some time. The key here, of course, is going to be those black boxes. There are two black boxes typically on board these planes. You have the flight data recorder. You also have the cockpit voice recorder. And on that cockpit voice recorder, you can hear things like the voices. You can hear background noises. You can hear if there was a warning signal that may have gone off. The key here, though, is those boxes are usually in the tail of the plane and we can see from those pictures what happened to the tail of the plane. But the good news, though, Don, usually those devices are packed in pretty sturdy, so we can bet that they will be pulling out those black boxes, bringing them back here to Washington, D.C., so they can analyze the data there and piece together exactly what went terribly wrong there in San Francisco -- Don.", "And, Rene, we will be getting back to you as well when this NTSB press conference happens at 5:30 Eastern Time, Rene Marsh, in Washington, thank you very much. I want to go to Jim Tilmon, who is an aviation expert. Let's talk more about what happens here. The black boxes, the information, and probably eyewitnesses from the control tower as well will help with this, Jim?", "Well, this is -- we're very fortunate in many ways to have so many elements of investigation there intact like the boxes, which incidentally are not black as you know. They are really orange. But they will be able to discover so much about every aspect; the most modern and sophisticated recording devices on any commercial airplane are on that 777. So they're going to know every single thing that -- that you can learn to what the airplane was doing and listening to the cockpit voice recorder we cannot only hear what the crew was saying, we can also as someone mentioned earlier hear all the warnings, the warning sounds, the bells, the horns, whatever is going off in the cockpit at that time. One other little thing that I noticed in looking at some of your shots there, Don, this aircraft was approaching just slightly right of the center line. As you look at the debris field on the end of the runway, you'll find that the debris starts and continues right of the center line. I got to tell you something, the crews that fly these aircraft try to nail that center line right underneath the cockpit. They want to make sure that they're right on the best part of the landing surface. So, I don't know what happened at that point. And that would be real speculation. But if you look at the debris field, it was all lined up pretty nicely on the right of the center line of that -- of what was the runway. And so, those who are not familiar with the picture, if you look at the picture and you see anything but black surface, you're not looking at the runway. You are looking at the approach to the runway, to give the crew a guide as to where you want to be when the runway starts. You don't want your gear to touch down until you are well beyond that, something on the neighborhood of maybe 1,000 feet down the runway before you really want to see the main gear touch the ground. So, yes, they did touch down very, very early and that led to disaster.", "All right, Jim Tilmon, I want you to stand by, because I want to reset what happened, what's going on for our viewers in case you are just tuning in here on CNN. We are following breaking news at San Francisco's International Airport. A large commercial airliner, a Boeing 777, from Asiana Airlines, crash landed just a short time ago. A number of passengers on board, we're not exactly sure how many passengers were on board. We're not sure of any injuries. We do know that many passengers ran off this plane, some of them taking pictures as the ones you are seeing now, as they were fleeing the plane and trying to get to safety here. Again, we're being told by the FAA that this was a crash landing. What they call a textbook crash landing. The tail broke off the plane. The fuselage at the top, you can see partially burned, most of it is gone. And as you look at this picture right now, you can see there is no tail section, there is no rudder on this plane. We did see the emergency slides deploy as well. And we're getting all sorts of new information here as well. I'm being told just at the top of the hour in just a few minutes there's going to be a press conference in San Francisco. There's going to be another press conference at the bottom of the hour at 5:30 Eastern Time from Washington and the FAA. We can also tell you this, a national security officials tells CNN there are no signs of terrorism from this crash. That flights have been canceled in and out of San Francisco's International Airport. Many of them because it's a large airport have been diverted to LAX, I know there are other airports that are closer, but LAX is a much bigger airport and can absorb some of the plane -- some of the planes and flights that are coming in more readily and more easily than some of the smaller airports that may be closer. Diana Magnay is in Seoul now. Diana, it is what, 5:30 in the morning there. Any information that you're getting?", "Yes, 5:50. We know that this plane took off at 4:53 yesterday afternoon, Don. It's a little over ten hours that it takes to reach San Francisco from Seoul's international airport which is Asiana Airlines international hub. And we know that Asiana which is basically Korea's second largest airline next to Korean Air, is well known for its good customer service as well as this airport which has consistently won awards for being one of the best airports that you can fly from. It's obviously incredibly early in the morning here, and we're waiting to hear any kind of reaction from anyone who was on board that plane. Apparently the capacity for 777 aircraft which this is between 260 and 310 passengers. I'll just tell you a little bit more about Asiana's fleet. It has 79 aircraft, and this 777 is a young plane, delivered in 2006. As I said, its international hub is Incheon, and it serves 21 countries internationally, 71 cities. And Asiana has responded to our calls and they're basically just waking up saying that they are investigating what happened. We'll keep in regular contact with them and, of course, with the ministries to get you reaction from Seoul which is obviously where this flight originated from, mid-afternoon yesterday -- Don.", "All right, Diana Magnay, stand by. We'll be needing you throughout the evening here on CNN. Again, 5:54 in the morning in Seoul, South Korea. They're just waking up to get news about this. I want to say that Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg was supposed to be on this Asiana flight. She just posted this on Facebook. Sandberg -- can we roll that back? Thank you very much. She has 1.204 million passengers. She did this 16 minutes ago. She says, \"Taking a minute to be thankful and explain what happened. My family, colleagues, Debbie Frost, Charlton Gholson and Kelly Hoffman and I were originally going to take the Asiana flight that just crash landed. We switched to United so we could use miles for my family's tickets, our flight was scheduled to come in at the same time, but we were early and landed 20 minutes before the crash.\" \"Our friend David Eun,\" who had you been seeing, you've been seeing photos, \"he was on that Asiana flight. He is fine.\" And she says, \"Thank you to everyone who is reaching out and sorry if we worried anyone. Serious moment to give thanks.' Again, that's from Sheryl Sandberg from Facebook. So she was supposed to be on that flight, she and other workers and colleagues and friends. They didn't take it except for David Eun who you have been seeing his pictures here live on CNN. He tweeted that picture out moments after he got free of that airplane. We're waiting for a press conference from San Francisco at the top of the hour just moments from now here on CNN so they can update us on exactly what happened here. Horrific situation as you can see. No doubt the pictures tell most of the story here and I'm sure we'll be hearing from passengers very soon here on CNN as they get their bearings, as they get out of the airport, and they begin to tell us their stories. I'm sure harrowing about what happened on this flight as it crash landed at San Francisco International Airport. Again, a press conference from San Francisco expected any moment now at the top of the hour and one at the bottom of the hour 5:30 Eastern from the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, D.C. My colleague, Richard Quest, who covers the airline industry and has been covering aviation successes and failures and disasters for many years now. Richard, as you look at this and the pictures and you hear what's going on here, what's your assessment?", "Well, I want to refer you to something that is now on Twitter, where somebody has posted pictures in which they have modeled the descent profile for this particular flight, both yesterday and today. Now, planes normally descend at an average of three degrees. That's known as the glide slope that will take them and a continuing glide slope of three degrees that will take them all the way down to the runway. We don't know, of course, whether they were using auto land here. I guess we don't know. We don't know also what other form of landing aids they were using in terms of that. But the general rule is three degrees generally will take you all the way down to the runway once you're on the glide slope. Now, here's the point. Somebody has posted on Twitter, and I can't confirm it, but it is an interesting point worth pointing out that if you look at FlightAware which is one of the models and one of the places where we find out where planes, the descent of this flight today is appreciably steeper than it was yesterday. In other words, this plane did have a steeper descent as it came into its final approach to SFO. There could be a thousand and one reasons for that, there's no doubt question about it. It's not -- you know, the pilot may have decided that, air traffic control may have required it, whatever it might have been. But I'm just putting it out there, that if you look at the descent of yesterday versus today, the plane did come in for a much steeper approach than it did yesterday.", "Interesting to ponder there, Richard. Hey, Richard, stick with me. Because I want to read something that I just got in here. Listen, when you see these pictures and you hear from the people who were at least near the scene, it's quite surprising that we're not talking about more casualties or in darker tones right now.", "No question.", "But we don't know. We don't know. But this is what I want to tell you, Richard, the U.S. Coast Guard has transported one person linked to Saturday's plane crash to Stanford Hospital, OK? Stanford Hospital. That's according to the coast guard. They're not sure of the patient's status. We may be hearing different -- you know, more stories to come out, but at this point it seems that we, you know, that we're not speaking in those darker tones now and that may not be as horrific as it could have been -- Richard.", "Have crash landed or had fires on the runway, British Airtours in the 1980s, Air France in Toronto. Now, Air France, of course, and miraculous one in fact, the A-340 landed and everybody got off. There were multiple deaths in the British Airtours fire. Once fire starts, if you survive the impact, fire becomes your worst enemy -- fire, smoke, and fume becomes your worst enemy by far in any form of aviation accident.", "And, Richard Quest, I'm going to need you. I'm going to need the rest of our experts in the field as well. Don't go anywhere."], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "LEMON", "RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "QUEST", "LEMON", "RENE MARSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "MARSH", "LEMON", "JIM TILMON, AVIATION EXPERT", "LEMON", "TILMON", "LEMON", "ANTHONY CASTORANI, WITNESS", "LEMON", "MARSH", "LEMON", "MARSH", "FAA. 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{"id": "CNN-43929", "program": "CNN SATURDAY", "date": "2001-11-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/17/cst.05.html", "summary": "Taliban Diplomat Claims bin Laden Fled Afghanistan", "utt": ["More now on that mystery surrounding Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. A Taliban diplomat claimed today the world's most wanted man had fled Afghanistan, destination unknown, but hours later, that envoy changing his story. To the Pentagon and CNN's Jonathan Aiken, to find out what we're happening -- what we're seeing, anyway, to try and sort out through this confusion. Jonathan, good afternoon.", "Good afternoon to you, Bill. And some confusion, indeed. This all began earlier in the day, when Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, the Taliban's envoy to Pakistan, was quoted by the Associated Press in this country, announcers here on television, as saying that Osama bin Laden, his wives and his children had left Afghanistan. Several hours later, the envoy ended up backtracking on some of those comments, saying what he meant to say was that bin Laden was out of an area controlled by the Taliban. The Pentagon officials here quick to react to the comment, the backtracking notwithstanding, Glenn Flood (ph) said that \"our search continues, and you should consider the source,\" making the note that the Taliban has issued misleading or false statements in the past on Mr. bin Laden's whereabouts, possibly to redirect the search for bin Laden. And we have a map to show you to indicate where that search may be, should bin Laden leave the country. If you take a look at the region, the question, of course, is where he would go. The obvious answer is Pakistan, with the porous, rugged border and not much in the way of barriers there to keep him from leaving. Same true with Iran, though Iran politically less likely to be a destination. They don't care for bin Laden, nor do they care for the Taliban's form of Islam. Then there are the Stans -- Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. All of them have reasons to reject bin Laden. There are some people in those countries who would welcome him. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has spoken on this point, too. Friday, when he was at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois, he talked about the possibility that bin Laden may actually be out of the country and where he might go.", "There are lots of places bin Laden could go. I mean, he used to be in Sudan -- was his headquarters. He used to be in Somalia. He could go across into Iran or Pakistan. There are countries that have harbored terrorists, like Syria, Iraq, and Lybia, Cuba, North Korea. They're all on the terrorist list. We know who they are, so he could -- he could -- he could do something like that, but I think it's chasing the wrong rabbit to assume he's fled yet.", "Rumsfeld said that U.S. greyhounds are still going after bin Laden, especially in the southern part of Afghanistan, and while he noted that it was possible that there may be some equipment stashed away by the Taliban, so that bin Laden could make an exit -- maybe a helicopter, with the ability to fly low in a ravine, to avoid U.S. radar -- bin Laden could even take a mule across the border to Pakistan, but, Bill, no indication, from any Pentagon officials of any evidence, they say, to indicate that bin Laden has actually left the country.", "Got it. Jonathan, thanks. Jonathan Akin, at the Pentagon. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "JONATHAN AIKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "AIKEN", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-371233", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-06-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/02/cnr.22.html", "summary": "Liverpool Dominate Tottenham in Final 2-0", "utt": ["Can you imagine what that moment was like? Wild celebrations there as Liverpool recaptures the coveted title. The Reds are about to take a victory lap through Liverpool after they notched a 2-0 victory over Tottenham in Saturday's Champions League final in Madrid. Up next for the team, a victory parade set for Sunday afternoon. Of course, fans are overjoyed.", "How does it feel to be six-time champions?", "Biggest club in the world.", "This means everything to me.", "All right. Here's how it all came together. With Liverpool's first goal from Mohamed Salah, who scored an early penalty, then this. Divock Origi scored in the final few minutes of the game to seal the victory. It seems Origi had something to prove after a heartbreaking defeat last year. Amanda Davies is live in Madrid following it all. What was that like for Liverpool fans?", "George, the players in the run-up to this game had been talking about how much they wanted to repay the faith and the dedication of the tens of thousands of Liverpool fans who had made their way from the U.K. here to Madrid, so many of them without a ticket. And, boy, did they do that, as you said, making amends for that heartbreaking defeat to Real Madrid 12 months ago, winning their first European crown since 2005. The celebrations went on long into the night, into this morning here in Madrid, fans in the city center, in the bars spilling out onto the streets. The players also stayed in Madrid overnight. But they are now on a plane on their way back to Liverpool as you said for that victory parade. The Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, called it afterwards the greatest night of his footballing life after That well-documented run of six defeats in six major finals. He's finally, at the third time of asking, managed to get his hands on that Champions League trophy and give Liverpool their first piece of silverware in his time there since he joined in 2015. The players were rightly delighted as well. Have a listen.", "I could not believe until now. So for me, it's just like I'm still dreaming. But, yes, I think I'm here now.", "What is the next dream? What is the next dream for you?", "More focus to win.", "It's amazing. It's amazing we won the", "And, George, Sadio Mane there said what is next, more, more trophies. And it is ominous for fans of rival teams. This has been a steady progression, a building process for Liverpool. You really do suspect now they're back at European football's top table. There is plenty more to come.", "And they have a lot to be excited about. Thank you. Search teams are headed up one of India's highest mountains, hoping to find eight climbers missing in the Himalayas. An Indian guide, four from the United Kingdom, two Americans and an Australian failed to return to base camp one week ago. Officials are now hoping to use aircraft in the search if the weather allows for it. Let's bring in CNN's Nikhil Kumar following the story live to New Delhi. Tell us more about this search and the use of aircraft.", "Well, George, two helicopters were, in fact, sent up earlier today, early Sunday morning local time in India. They've now very recently returned back. They were unsuccessful. They conducted aerial surveys around this mountain in the Eastern Himalayas. It is about 24,000 feet. That's about 7,400 meters tall. So the choppers were sent up to try to locate the climbers. They didn't have much luck. Three search teams are at the base campground. The fourth is going to dispatch up there and officials told us they're hoping to send up the choppers once again to do further aerial surveys if the weather allows, either today or tomorrow, as they try and locate these climbers. As you say, they've been missing since the 25th of May. They were part of a larger group of 12 climbers who all left together. The other four returned to base camp but these eight did not. Officials don't yet know exactly what happened, whether these climbers were lost on the way up or down the mountain and what exactly caused their disappearance. They're trying to determine all of that as the search still continues. An official we spoke to recently shortly before I came on air told us they're still hopeful of finding them alive, even though they've been missing now since the 25th of May.", "All right. You'll stay in touch with your sources as the search continues during what has been a notably treacherous climbing season there in the Himalayas. Thank you again for the reporting. Floodwaters are still rising in parts of America's Midwest. And some are warned of the possibility of a levee breach. We'll have those details ahead.", "Hey, hey. Hey.", "On-stage drama in the race for the White House. How Democrats dealt with protesters in California."], "speaker": ["HOWELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HOWELL", "DAVIES", "SADIO MANE, LIVERPOOL FORWARD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MANE", "XHERDAN SHAQIRI, LIVERPOOL MIDFIELDER", "DAVIES", "HOWELL", "NIKHIL KUMAR, CNN NEW DELHI BUREAU CHIEF", "HOWELL", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-206944", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2013-5-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/16/cg.02.html", "summary": "Who's Really in Witness Protection?; Shonda Rhimes: Hollywood's \"Fixer\"; NYC Sandy Victims Get Hotel Extension", "utt": ["Back to \"The National Lead\" and that story we first broke on CNN earlier today, two individuals identified as known or suspected terrorists entered the Justice Department's Witness Protection Program. According to the Justice Department inspector general, the U.S. Marshals for some time could not find them after they left the program. Now if you're like a lot of us, you learned everything you know about the witness protection program from movies and TV. But there's a lot the public doesn't know about the actual program because the actual program is really quite mysterious by nature.", "\"Good fellas\" and the occasional good guy who happened to see a bad thing.", "I'm all right now. I'm trusted. I'm clean. On my kids, I'm clean.", "The Witness Protection Program has always loomed large in the public imagination.", "Hi, Jimmy. How are you?", "Usually depicted as a haven for turn coat mobsters. But who really lives within the protected realm of the Witness Protection Program? Well, the public doesn't know for sure. That's sort of the point. Here is what we do know, according to the U.S. Marshals, the agency that runs the program, more than 18,000 men, women and children have been in witness protection. The marshals like to brag that not one of them has ever been harmed. The marshals also say the protection program provides 24-hour protection to all witnesses while they're in a high-threat environment. Witnesses receive financial assistance for housing, basic living expenses and medical care. The program provides for job training and employment assistance.", "The subsistence may be minimal. It still adds up to millions of dollars a year.", "Gerald Shur now retired founded the Witness Protection Program.", "We may have to support them a little longer because their language will prevent them from getting jobs as quick as necessary. We may have to furnish translators when they go to see a doctor, but it can be done.", "Deputy Marshals decide on a new location for the witnesses and their families and move them.", "This is a large country. Border to border we can find plenty of place to hide people.", "They didn't tell us we were going until we got to the airport.", "Henry Hill, the late mob informant who was the inspiration for 1990 film \"Good Fellas\" was also once a part of the Witness Protection Program. Henry Hill was reportedly convicted of other crimes while still in the Witness Protection Program and kicked out of it, a reminder perhaps that even if you're given a whole new identity, it's still you.", "Of course, it's no doubt a surprise to many Americans to learn that known or suspected terrorists are in the program, but terror prosecutions are in the criminal justice system. Now it's time for the \"Pop Culture Lead,\" after a rough week of White House controversies, don't be surprised if President Obama found himself asking what would Olivia Pope do? Of course, Pope is the fictional fixer from the hit TV show \"Scandal\" who proves week after week that no Washington problem is too hot to handle including her own taboo romance with the commander in chief. The primetime drama is a ratings powerhouse and it could draw its biggest audience yet tonight when the season finale airs proving why creator Shonda Rhimes was recently dubbed by \"Forbes\" magazine to be the hottest woman in American television.", "Need I remind you, you stole this ride.", "Election rigging, waterboarding, backstabbing.", "You should not have tried to screw me!", "And bed hopping in the White House. Also known as just another day at the office for the characters on the hit TV show \"Scandal.\" The series stars Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, the head of a D.C. crisis management firm.", "You know what I always say, if it's serious, get Olivia on it.", "In just two seasons \"Scandal\" has gained a loyal and huge following of fans. Last week Pope's forbidden love affair with the president helped reel in almost 9 million viewers.", "The republic will burn --", "Yes, if you're wondering who to thank for your insatiable appetite for all things Olivia Pope, look no further than Executive Producer Shonda Rhimes. I recently got a chance to sit down with the creative force behind ABC's smash hit. (on camera): So \"Scandal\" is based on legendary Washington, D.C. crisis management expert, Judy Smith, whose handled Monica Lewinsky.", "Yes.", "What is it about Judy Smith story that intrigued you, that sold you?", "You know, what's fascinating to me wasn't just who she handled. But when she talks about her process and why she does what she does and how she handles these problems, there's something about it that sucks you in.", "\"Scandal\" viewers aren't just sucked in, they are clicked in. Episodes of \"Scandal\" often dominate social media chatter with fans tweeting and Facebooking every second of the jaw dropping action. (on camera): I read somewhere that you have the most engaged Twitter audience of any show.", "I feel real excited how we managed to get this Twitter audience is crazy. Every Thursday night their goal is to break Twitter tweeting about the show.", "She's not kidding. On average \"Scandal\" generates 2,200 tweets a minute, proof perhaps that Rhimes has found a winning formula for primetime success.", "No, no, no. You need another surgeon for when we pull the rod out of his abdomen.", "Rhimes also created the critically acclaimed medical drama \"Grey's Anatomy\" and its popular spin-off, which just ended its run, \"Private Practice.\" (on camera): \"Private Practice,\" \"Scandal,\" what are you doing right that other people on television are struggling with?", "If I knew what I was doing right then I probably wouldn't be able to do it. I don't know. I think it's fun.", "Unlike her first two shows, which tell the stories of dedicated physicians, \"Scandal\" gives Rhimes an opportunity to delve into her dark side.", "I will bring it upon you in a hail of fire and brimstone.", "I was definitely interested in getting my hands dirty a little bit. It feels like you can get away with a lot more on television these days.", "Do you ever feel like, well, I wish we were on AMC or Stars or HBO because then I could do such and such that you're not able to do on network.", "You're going to get me in trouble but yes. I mean, I think there are times when I definitely feel like, God, they can do stuff on cable that we can't possibly do. What's interesting about doing it on network though is that I feel like I have to be more creative in a way. We have to have incredibly sexy sex scenes where we don't show anything. In a weird way, it forces you to find another way to go at it. That's been really fun for me.", "Rhimes said she did not watch a lot of TV growing up. The daughter of academics in Chicago, showbiz was not on her mind. But her creative along the edgy story lines have made \"Scandal\" a ratings champ. That's not all that sets it apart from its primitive competition. \"Scandal\" is the first network drama in nearly 40 years to star an African-American leading lady.", "You having me killed by one of your boys isn't going to help with you and me. You get that, right?", "Do you think that part of the success of the show is because you cast Kerry Washington, or do you think it doesn't matter, she's a beautiful, wonderful actress and the show succeeds on its own?", "No, I think it's part of the success of the show. Part of the audience came for that fact and they've stayed because they like the show.", "Working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood may sound like a pretty decent day at the office for most of us, but for Rhimes, a major perk of working on a show like \"Scandal\" is getting to experience the life of an American president without actually having to deal with members of Congress.", "It's very fun going into the oval office. There have been days when I waited until everyone has left and sat down a little bit.", "Can I sit down a little bit?", "Please.", "If I were you, this is where I would do all my work.", "They worked really hard to get it exactly right.", "Right now I'm feeling this overwhelming of deja vu and waiting for President Obama to tell me to leave. (voice-over): Before the fake Secret Service came in to escort me away, I figured I'd ask for a spoiler alert about what lies ahead for the TV president and secret love of his life. (on camera): So you know whether or not the president and Olivia Pope end up together.", "No.", "You don't?", "No. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. Now we're at a place where I'm just watching where they're going. I know what I'd like to happen, but we're following the story right now.", "Again, the season finale of \"Scandal\" airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. on ABC. We wish our friend Shonda Rhimes the best of luck. Coming up, he's never held back before. We'll hear what he has to say now. Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum joins us. Later, after decades under an iron-fisted dictator, what does democracy taste like in Libya? Anthony Bourdain will tell us why transfats are feeling the birth of a new nation. 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{"id": "CNN-61549", "program": "CNN WOLF BLITZER REPORTS", "date": "2002-10-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0210/10/wbr.00.html", "summary": "House Endorses Resolution Allowing Bush to Use Force Against Iraq", "utt": ["Welcome back. President Bush got some good news from Capitol Hill today. The House overwhelmingly passed a strong measure of support for the president's Iraq policy and the Senate is getting ready to follow suit. Our Congressional Correspondent, Kate Snow, is standing by with details -- Kate.", "Well, Wolf, a vote of support for the president to be sure. All but six Republicans in the House, along with 81 of the Democrats, voted to endorse this resolution authorizing the president to use force against Iraq. Throughout the day, members went to the floor of the House, many of them, most of them supportive of this resolution, railing against Saddam Hussein. As one Republican leader put it at one point, he said he has a wicked litany of crimes. One key endorsement, of course, coming from the Democratic Leader in the House Dick Gephardt who stood, you will remember, last week shoulder-to-shoulder with the president at the White House. He told members they should vote their consciences but he was very clear about how he would vote.", "September 11 was the ultimate wakeup call. We must now do everything in our power to prevent further terrorist attacks and ensure that an attack with a weapon of mass destruction can not happen.", "Obviously, Dick Gephardt voting for this resolution but other Democrats parting company with him including his own number two, the number two Democrat in the House. She argued that actually if you force against Iraq it could detract from the war on terrorism.", "I rise in opposition to the resolution on national security grounds. The clear and present danger that our country faces is terrorism. I say flat out that unilateral use of force without first exhausting every diplomatic remedy and other remedies and making a case to the American people will be harmful to our war on terrorism.", "In the end the final tally 296 votes for the resolution, 133 against. Within that vote, though, 120 plus Democrats voting against this resolution, Wolf, so quite a few members expressing their discontent with the resolution but overwhelmingly it did pass and we do expect that to happen in the Senate as well -- Wolf.", "Especially now, Kate, that Tom Daschle, the Democratic Leader, the Majority Leader in the Senate jumped on the president's bandwagon, but the head counting that I can tell in the Senate looks it's pretty much 50/50 among the Democrats. Half will go along with the president, half won't.", "Yes, there was a telling vote earlier today, Wolf, as you know, a procedural vote but it broke out 75 for and 25 against and we expect that that will be very close to what happens in the end in the Senate, but about 75 or roughly most of the Republicans, all but one probably, and about half of the Democrats will go along with the president in the U.S. Senate.", "Kate Snow doing our work on Capitol Hill thanks for that report. It didn't take very long for the president to come out and express satisfaction on what's going on. He went over and spoke to reporters. Our John King is over at the White House and he'll tell us all about it -- John.", "And, Wolf, the president spoke to reporters briefly after placing a telephone call to the House Speaker Dennis Hastert and the House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt, the president thanking them for their work. Yes, the White House would have liked it if a majority of Democrats in the House had supported this resolution, but the president coming into the Roosevelt Room to declare victory here, thanking the House of Representatives for standing with him and sending a message.", "The House of Representatives has spoken clearly to the world and to the United Nations Security Council. The gathering threat of Iraq must be confronted fully and finally. Today's vote also sends a clear message to the Iraqi regime. It must disarm and comply with all existing U.N. resolutions or it will be forced to comply.", "A more than two-to-one margin for the president in the House, the White House expecting perhaps close to a three-to-one margin in the Senate vote that comes. By this time tomorrow, the president should have both chambers of Congress on record, authorizing him to use force against Iraq, look Wolf to see the president at this time tomorrow asking the United Nations to act as well, saying America is speaking with one voice. It is time for the Security Council to pass a tough new resolution or the president will lead a coalition outside of the United Nations but privately U.S. officials continue to tell us the diplomacy at the United Nations going well. The president hopes for U.N. action perhaps, and they say they might be a bit optimistic here, but perhaps by the end of next week.", "So, John, are they thinking that these strong votes in the Senate and the House will convince the French and the Russians, for example, to go along with the U.S. version of a new Security Council resolution?", "They certainly think it helps in the diplomacy with the French and the Russians to make clear that the president is on very firm political footing here in the United States, domestic political footing. The concerns of the Russians and the French are outside of the issues being debated on the floor of the House of Representatives and on the floor of the Senate. But they do think it helps the president when he can go to the United Nations, and especially those key members of the Security Council, France and Russia, and say I have the support of the Congress. I will do this with the United Nations support or without the United Nations support. If you want to have any influence in the outcome, you should join us now.", "John King at the White House thanks very much. And here's your chance to weigh in on this story. Our web question of the day is this: Do you agree with the House of Representatives vote authorizing President Bush to go to war against Iraq if necessary? We'll have the results later in this program. Go to my web page cnn.com/wolf. That's where you can vote. While you're there, send me your comments. I'll try to read some of them on the air each day at the end of this program. That's also, of course, where you can read my daily online column, cnn.com/wolf. Stepped up security in New York City and now evidence that top al Qaeda leaders are still alive and that sparks concern for many Americans worldwide, a closer look at some unfinished business in the war on terror. And, a super smallpox virus that could wipe out thousands is it really possible to protect the nation? We'll talk to one expert who has some serious doubts, but first today's news quiz. Smallpox was first used as a weapon during what war; Civil War, French and Indian Wars, World War I, Vietnam, the answer coming up."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "KATE SNOW, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "REP. DICK GEPHARDT (D-MO), MINORITY LEADER", "SNOW", "REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), MINORITY WHIP", "SNOW", "BLITZER", "SNOW", "BLITZER", "JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KING", "BLITZER", "KING", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-31544", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2001-5-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/30/tonight.01.html", "summary": "First Seeing Eye Horse in New York City", "utt": ["She'll never capture the Triple Crown. But \"Cuddles,\" the miniature horse, has her own claim to fame. She's the first guide horse, and she galloped through New York City, where our own Jeanne Moos saddles up to make the most of it for us tonight.", "Everyone's heard of seeing eye dogs, but this is a horse of a different color, or at least a different size.", "It's a seeing eye horse?", "He is handsome!", "Actually, \"he\" is a she, named Cuddles.", "Cuddles? That's like a pillow name.", "Cuddles cushions the life of his new owner, Dan Shaw. He's got her tattooed on his hand.", "I feel blessed. That's how happy I am with it.", "Dan may have lost his sight, but he's been touring sights with Cuddles, from the White House to the Empire State Building, where she licked the limestone. At the Statue Of Liberty, Cuddles picnicked on the grass. No wonder she mistook the carpet for pasture at the Travel Inn.", "Easy. Good girl.", "Dan just finished a month of training with Cuddles, and he's now taking her home to Maine. Dan's got a wife, but at the moment, he only has eyes for Cuddles.", "With a guide horse, she'll live 25 to 35 years. We'll grow old together.", "They live longer than dogs and they have great vision.", "She sees 350 degrees around her, everything but her tail, while she's walking.", "Cuddles is the first guide horse to be placed by the nonprofit Guide Horse Foundation. Trainer Janet Burleson says Cuddles responds to 23 commands.", "Find the escalator. Find the elevator. Find the van. It's great when you go to the mall, because you don't have to remember where you parked, because the horse remembers.", "Does she respond to giddyap?", "No.", "In New York, Cuddles negotiated turnstiles, steps.", "Good girl.", "Escalators.", "Easy, easy, easy.", "And revolving doors. She even mastered the subway. The miniature horse ended up next to a headless human. Imagine waking up to a 23-inch-tall horse.", "I hope it ain't real.", "And she's got shoes!", "Yes, that's so she doesn't slip and fall.", "The easiest way to put on these cut-down baby shoes is to have Cuddles lie down. She sleeps standing up, napping while everyone else was dining at the Carnegie Deli and the Oriental Pearl. Cuddles is housebroken, though they had to clean up after her like a dog in the subway. She lets Dan know when she needs out.", "She'll tap her foot, neigh, and cross her back legs and keep neighing.", "She loves TV, we kid you not, especially westerns.", "We took her to the movie \"A Knight's Tale\" and she was very interested in the horse scenes.", "She loved the jousting scenes.", "Cuddle's only encounter with New York horseflesh was friendly. How many horses get to go on a ride through Central Park? Apparently, even a horse is drawn to a carriage. Our last stop was at the toy store, F.A.O. Schwarz. (on camera): Dan, look what I found.", "What?", "A horse, a huge one. Check this out, Cuddles. Look at this. (voice-over): She seemed ready to cuddle with this stuffed donkey. Suddenly, that old cliche about love being blind seems to make horse sense.", "She wants her tummy rubbed.", "Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "DAN SHAW, CUDDLES' OWNER", "MOOS", "SHAW", "MOOS", "SHAW", "MOOS", "SHAW", "MOOS", "JANET BURLESON, GUIDE HORSE FOUNDATION", "MOOS (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS (voice-over)", "SHAW", "MOOS", "SHAW", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MOOS", "SHAW", "MOOS", "DON BURLESON, GUIDE HORSE FOUNDATION", "J. BURLESON", "MOOS", "SHAW", "MOOS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MOOS"]}
{"id": "CNN-36368", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-8-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/03/lt.11.html", "summary": "Showbiz Today Reports: Madonna Cancels New Jersey Show; Rumors, Perhaps Fists Fly Around Mariah Carey's Mental State", "utt": ["There is disappointment in the Garden state, in Montclair, West Orange, and Sparta and all those other cities. Those fans of Madonna know that the \"Material Girl\" won't be doing her material tonight; Madonna has canceled her show in New Jersey because of a severe case of laryngitis. Her publicist says doctors have recommended complete vocal rest. The 20,000-seat Meadowlands venue was sold out. The show isn't being rescheduled, so fans will get a refund instead. The next date on Madonna's Drowned World Tour is Tuesday, in Boston. Whitney Houston's new $100 million record deal is the talk of the industry, but another pop diva is the talk of the tabloids. Mariah Carey's condition has been the subject of intense speculation, with reports of erratic behavior and an alleged catfights. Jodi Ross breaks it all down for us.", "Life is less than sublime for 32-year-old Mariah Carey. Just over a week ago, the pop singer into an East Coast hospital. Her spokeswoman says she's suffering from an emotional and physical breakdown.", "It seems to be a combination of things. She had been -- she just made two movies and a soundtrack album, came off a two-week European promotional tour that was very stressful working all day and all night basically. She's also had what you might call a career setback in that her latest single went as far down as number 60 on the chart.", "The trouble allegedly began back in May on the set of Carey's movie \"Wise Girls.\" Co-producer Billy Blake told \"People\" magazine Carey had a physical altercation with co-star Mira Sorvino. But Anthony Esposito, another producer on the film, says that story is an exaggeration.", "Mira was on the set, and the lighting was taking a little time, unbeknownst to her. When Mariah walked on the set, she said, Where were you? She just grabbed her by her elbow, pulling her close. Mariah pulled back the elbow and walked off the set. This rolling around and all of that didn't exist. None of that existed. I was right there.", "Now producer Blake now tells CNN he was not on the set that day, and Sorvino's spokesperson has released a statement saying, \"Mira enjoyed working with Mariah and wishes her all the best.\" The controversy continues regarding the state of Carey's three- year romance with Latin singer Luis Miguel. And on a recent trip to New York, she had a temper tantrum in her hotel room.", "Her representative admits that there was blood but says that Mariah was throwing glasses and plates and cut herself and stepped on it, apparently.", "Carey's new film and soundtrack album, \"Glitter,\" are both scheduled to be released at the end of this month. But the press junket for the movie has been canceled.", "Her first priority has to be to get better. Her record company says that they'd stand behind whatever she wants to do. They say they support her strongly, but they've got to be very worried. She's the meal ticket for a lot of people.", "Now we wait and see when Carey gets back on the gravy train. Jodi Ross, CNN, New York.", "Sounds like \"As the World Turns.\" TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JODI ROSS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "KEN MILLER, SENIOR EDITOR, \"PEOPLE\"", "ROSS", "ANTHONY ESPOSITO, CO-PRODUCER, \"WISE GIRLS\"", "ROSS", "MILLER", "ROSS", "MILLER", "ROSS", "VERCAMMEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-330839", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-01-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/19/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Olympic Torch Near Korean Demilitarized Zone; North Korea Defines Relationship Between Trump And Xi", "utt": ["Welcome back to our viewers around the world. You're waiting \"CNN newsroom.\" it is good to have you with us. I am George Howell.", "I am Natalie Allen. We're live in Atlanta. Thank you for watching. Here are our top stories. A U.S. Government shutdown is now less than 21 hours away. The house of representative adopted a stop-gap funding measure on Thursday. It is now before the senate, which may vote on it on Friday ahead of a midnight deadline, but passage is far from certain. The White House says it is confident congress will approve it and accept President Trump to sign the bill before he leaves for a weekend this Florida resort.", "The parents of 13 children in the U.S. State of California, they pleaded not guilty to torturing and starving 12 of those children. Bail was set for David and Louise Turpin at $12 million each. The prosecutor says the children were harshly punished for years with beatings and strangulations and near starvation.", "The Olympic plane has crossed the unification bridge in South Korean near the demilitarized zone. The two Koreas have agreed the North will send athletes to the games and March together under a unified flag at the opening ceremony. Officials say nearly 70 percent of the tickets for the games have been sold.", "The U.S. President and his Chinese counterpart are enjoying a relatively cozy working relationship, though it hinges on one volatile problem, reining in a nuclear North Korea. Let's go live to Matt Rivers who's following his story in Dandong. There on the border between North Korean and China, is there a difference now in trade, the trucks going back and forth?", "Yes, I mean compared to the last couple of times we've been here, George absolutely. Really the first year of the Trump presidency, when it comes to the U.S. relationship with China, has centered on North Korea. Talk about trade, talk about environmental policy. Really North Korea has pushed all of those aside and the battle over how far to go with sanctions against North Korea has really played out locally here in Dandong. That is North Korea across the river behind me. With a combination of American pressure towards putting more sanctions on and the Chinese government increasingly becoming wary of what the North Koreans are doing on that side of the border, there has been absolutely an effect on the amount of trade between both countries.", "There are fewer trucks these days. The bridge quieter than months and years past. If bridge traffic is this light, it means trade between China and North Korea is slowing down. That is the word on the ground in Dandong, a key trading hub on the Chinese/North Korean border. The main reason comes from 7,000 miles away in New York City.", "The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously --", "A series of increasingly tough sanctions approved by the U.N. Security Council in 2017 has put the squeeze on North Korea. And as a result its largest trading partner, China. These sanctions more than anything else have come to define U.S./China cooperation under President Donald Trump. And yet few expected both sides to work together after Trump's divisive 2016 campaign.", "Whether it's China with our agreements, no matter what it is, it seems that we don't seem to have it.", "China was a favorite target of the Republican candidate who accused China of \"raping\" the U.S. economically and for failing to solve the North Korea problem. But in an April meeting at Mar-a-Lago in Florida change the President's tune. He got on well with Chinese President Xi Jinping and a calculation was made. The administration would back off on trade issues in the hopes of Chinese help on pressuring the Kim Jong-un regime to stop developing nuclear weapons. The result, three rounds of sanctions, all approved by the Chinese after different North Korean nuclear and missile tests. They targeted everything from oil shipments to joint business ventures with North Korean companies. And Dandong is one of the places where you come to see if they're being enforced. Popular businesses here like these restaurants, staffed and run by North Koreans, have recently shuttered. We've been to Dandong four times in the last two years. And I can tell you that these streets used to be filled with North Koreans buying items in these stores to sell back home. But today it's basically empty. We spoke to six different business owners in this area who told us that since the sanctions went into effect, business has plummeted. Though none would talk on camera for fear of wading into a sensitive issue. To be clear, trade is still happening. We still see trucks loaded down with goods arriving from North Korea. The President recently told Reuters China could still be doing more to curve Pyongyang's ambitions. One example, tackle smuggling, still rampant all along the border. Back in September, we saw illegal North Korean seafood being sold openly on Chinese streets. But back at the bridge, the effects of American lobbying for tougher sanctions is clear. According to Chinese customs data, total trade between China and North Korea fell by 50 percent in December 2017.", "So now as we move into 2018, the North Korean issue isn't going to go anywhere. So the question is if the United States wants China to keep doing more, put more sanctions against North Korea in place, assuming Pyongyang continues with missile and nuclear tests as we move through this year, how far is China willing to go? Are they willing to go further with sanctions? Every time we pose that question to the Chinese government we get the same response, which is, we do not answer hypothetical questions.", "Matt Rivers following the story live there at the border between China and North Korea, thank you for the report. Stay in touch.", "In the United States, Democrats are trying to move ahead with the resolution to censure President Trump for using a vulgar slur to describe African nation.", "With Republicans in control of congress that measure has very little chance of being brought up for a vote. Still, the chairman of the congressional black caucus wants the President to admit that he was wrong for using the word he had used.", "The last part of the resolution is to ask that the president retract his words and issue an apology. We are all adult. We've all made mistakes before in our life. But the real test of leadership is to acknowledge when you make a mistake.", "The President has said that he didn't say the word. A Republican Senator, Lindsey Graham, was one of the lawmakers in the room when the President allegedly used that word to describe African nations. Graham said that he expressed his displeasure with Mr. Trump at that time.", "But on the larger issue of whether President Trump is a racist, listen to what the Senator told our Dana Bash.", "Can you tell me what happened in that meeting? In your own words.", "No. I can tell you this --", "Why not? Why can't you?", "Because I want to make sure that I can keep talking to the President. I told him what I thought. And that is more important to me than anything else.", "But he did call those countries shithole countries?", "You can keep asking me all day long and I'm going to tell you the same thing. Why don't you ask me, is he a racist?", "That was my next question.", "Why don't you ask me?", "Do you think he is a racist?", "Absolutely not. Let me tell you why. You could be dark as charcoal and lily white, it doesn't matter, as long as you're nice to him. You could be the pope and criticize him, it doesn't matter, and he'd go after the pope. You could be Putin and say nice things and he'll like you. Here's what I found. He is a street fighter. It's not the color of our skin that matters, it's not the content of your character. It's whether or not you show him respect and like him. And if he feels like you're all script, you don't like him, he punches back. And as President of the United States, the only advice I can have you is that the street fight's over. We need a leader. And you got here by being a street fighter, you beat me, you beat everybody else. Mr. President, you have the ability to bring this country together.", "Lindsey Graham being outspoken there. Of course across the U.S. in big cities, small towns, the debate over President Trump goes on. We visit a town in Monticello, Iowa.", "And there you'll find die-hard followers of the President and die-hard opponents, and some with a growing sense of buyers' remorse as Bill Weir reports for us.", "In Monticello they still wind the clock tower by hand. And still mix politics into their coffee. Down at Darrel's. It is so great to sit at the table of knowledge in Monticello, Iowa. It's a tradition that goes back to Truman. But no President has ever tested the limits of Midwestern politeness like number 45. This county went for Obama, then swung over to Trump. Why?", "Trump pulled the wool over their eyes. And they have most -- and his base has not recognized it yet.", "You think Virgil's been coned? You think Jerry's has been bamboozled?", "They're so ingrained with the crotch-grabbing liar.", "Trump wasn't my first choice either. However, he is doing a hell of a good job. And he is playing three-level chess versus everybody else playing checkers.", "The ones that support him are either greedy or bigots or they just don't see it yet. If the vote were taken today, I think it would be different.", "If it wouldn't be for the Electoral College, he wouldn't have won.", "Right. La, la, la, la, la, la.", "Can you sing too?", "We run 800 acres of corn and beans. Then we do bale some hay. Our kids actually buy their own 4H animals. They do the chores for them.", "That will teach you, right?", "That teaches you, yeah.", "At the Adams farm, did you all vote for President Trump?", "Yes.", "Yes.", "The family Republican shows little voters remorse.", "I think he is doing a decent job. I think we need to give him a chance.", "He went to the American farm bureau federation meeting. I haven't seen that from other Presidents.", "Throughout our history, farmers have always, always, always led the way.", "Those words played really well around here. But his actions could end up hurting these folks. His nominee for chief scientist at the department of agriculture wasn't a scientist. And then got tangled in the Mueller investigation. He scrapped an Obama rule that would have protected small family farms against big corporate meat packers. He is threatening to tear up the trade agreement that keeps a lot of these farms alive.", "It's NAFTA that is another story. That does scare us. Pretty bad.", "You guys would go bankrupt?", "We would go bankrupt, yes.", "I am sure he has a plan. If he does pull out. I don't know what that plan is.", "Somebody has telling me this town used to be called the Pittsburgh of the prairie, because there are so many factories.", "Yes.", "And there are worries that oak street manufacturing, a mom and pop make of restaurant furnishings.", "We're hopeful as far as the tax reform. We're positive about that. We have grave concerns about his actions verbally.", "Like what?", "Some of the -- some of the statements that he makes. There's just -- there's just a lot of disrespect for a large number of people.", "As a Republican, he was worried about his grandchildren paying the national debt. It doesn't seem to make a damn bit of difference anymore.", "We'll have to have another Obama come and clean it up.", "Then we can double our debt again.", "He got you into the prosperity you're having now.", "Yes, give him all the credit for the stock market going up, yeah, you bet yah. Out of your butt, man.", "Whoops!", "Is there a safe word when things get too heated?", "What's a good time to cut your rose bushes?", "That is the safe word?", "You've got to do it one day real hard. I was worried.", "One year into Trump, a state he won by almost 10 points, is producing a bumper crop of worry. Even among those who love him most. Bill Weir, CNN, Monticello, Iowa.", "The U.S. President says that he called Apple' CEO, Tim Cook, to thank him for promising to bring home hundreds of billions of dollars from overseas and to build new U.S. Facilities creating some 20,000 U.S. Jobs.", "Cook says Apple would have done some of that even without the recent U.S. Tax cut. He has been outspoken critic of the Trump administration.", "Still ahead, water everywhere but not a drop to drink. Why the taps in Cape Town, South Africa, could soon run dry."], "speaker": ["HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "RIVERS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "RIVERS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "RIVERS", "RIVERS", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "CEDRIC RICHMOND, LOUISIANA CONGRESSMAN", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "DANA BASH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SEN LINDSEY GRAHAM, (R) SOUTH CAROLINA", "BASH", "GRAHAM", "BASH", "GRAHAM", "BASH", "GRAHAM", "BASH", "GRAHAM", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "BILL WEIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEIR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEIR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WEIR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WEIR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEIR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "WEIR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WEIR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEIR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WEIR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "WEIR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEIR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEIR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WEIR", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-401136", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2020-05-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/25/cg.01.html", "summary": "Trump Threatens to Move Republican National Convention; President Trump Tweets Insults Ahead of Memorial Day Events.", "utt": ["Before heading out to honor the nation's fallen heroes, the president blasted out a series of tweets, lashing out after critics attacked him for playing golf on one of the most somber holiday weekend in the year, in the middle of a pandemic, a pandemic that has killed more Americans than Vietnam and the Korean wars combined, as CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports.", "On this Memorial Day, President Trump laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery to honor those who have sacrificed their lives and addressed coronavirus as he remembered fallen soldiers in a speech at Ft. McHenry in Baltimore.", "In recent months, our nation and the world have been engaged in a new form of battle against an invisible enemy.", "Earlier today, President Trump threatened to move the Republican National Convention from North Carolina if the state's governor doesn't commit to allowing a full attendance. The convention has been planned for months and is scheduled for late August. But the coronavirus pandemic has threatened to upend both it and the Democratic National Convention the week before. On Twitter, Trump complained that North Carolina's Democratic Governor Roy Cooper is still in \"shut down mood\" and unable to guarantee that by August, we will be allowed to hold a full convention. Vice President Mike Pence said they may move it to a state that's further along in reopening.", "We all want to be in Charlotte. We love North Carolina. But having a sense now is absolutely essential because of the immense preparations that are involved.", "Last week, Governor Cooper told CNN it wasn't a political decision.", "This is not political. This is not emotional. This is based on health experts.", "Trump spent the weekend dedicated to fallen troops on Twitter where he aired his grievances, posted insults, promoted a baseless murder claim, and amplified disparaging remarks. For his 80 million followers, the president retweeted his supporter John Stahl who accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of drinking booze on the job, mocked former Georgia governor candidate Stacey Abrams by claiming she visited every buffet in the state, and referred to Joe Biden as a racist. The president also pushed a debunked theory that MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough played a role in the death of a staffer in 2001 who hit her head and died. The woman's death was ruled an accident and police never suspected foul play though the president implied that he's under investigation. As the death toll from coronavirus nears six digits, Trump complained about the media's coverage about him playing golf twice at his club this weekend. Though he often criticized Barack Obama for golfing while in office, Trump said he was only exercising and accused the press of portraying it as a mortal sin, though he once predicted the death toll in the U.S. would never come close to 100,000, Dr. Deborah Birx said the White House is still operating under the idea that it could range from there to 240,000 people. On Sunday, the U.S. added Brazil to the list of countries from which travel is banned because cases there have skyrocketed.", "Now, Dana, back to what's going to happen with the Republican convention, we are told by the city of Charlotte, that they want to put out some guidance as soon as next month on what to do for these events. They say they have a meeting with stakeholders for large gatherings like the RNC and they are hoping to put out guidance on exactly what everyone can expect in the coming days.", "Yes, and, Kaitlan, I'm told by source familiar with the president's thinking that this tweet storm about the RNC and threatening to pull out of North Carolina wasn't meant to really say he was going to pull out of North Carolina. It's more about forcing the governor and local officials there to set the rules of the road, to, you know, this is something that he does when he's negotiating. He does the most extreme, he takes the most extreme position in order to try to get people to where he wants them. What are you hearing there?", "Yes, and we know that the RNC and these state officials have been talking about this.", "Exactly.", "Are they going to have to test all the delegates? Are they going to -- I mean, it's thousands of people that come to a convention like this, temperature checks, all of these things are under discussion right now, we're told, but it's not clear what agreement they're going to come to and it's not clear what the state of the country is going to look like in late August. Though we should note that these conventions bring a lot of money to the states where they're held. So it's hard to see why the governor would not want to hold the convention given just how much of a financial boost they can be. But as he told our Jeff Zeleny, he said that safety is their concern at this moment.", "A lot of bluster going on, not surprisingly in politics. Kaitlan, thank you so much for that report. And many Americans are marking this holiday weekend with trips to the beach. But in some communities, there is a new battle brewing. I'll talk to one official who is trying to stop out of towners from visiting."], "speaker": ["BASH", "KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "COLLINS", "MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "COLLINS", "GOV. ROY COOPER (D-NC)", "COLLINS", "COLLINS", "BASH", "COLLINS", "BASH", "COLLINS", "BASH"]}
{"id": "CNN-247373", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-01-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/18/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Officials On High Alert Across Europe", "utt": ["After 90-minute mass of reverence and reflection, the crowd erupted again with Pope mania. As he said his final farewells, blessing the adoring public, the pontiff stopped the Pope mobile several times to kiss children. A demonstration of his love for the people whose unwavering devote they give in return. Anna Cohen, CNN, Manila.", "What an incredible site. Thanks so much for joining me and spending part of the day with me. I'm Fredricka Whitefield. The next hour of the NEWSROOM begins right now with Poppy Harlow in New York.", "Hi, everyone. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Poppy Harlow joining us live from New York this Sunday evening. Across Europe today, officials are on high alert. And this question hangs where and when might terrorists strike next. Here is where the investigation stands right now. Five Belgians citizens are charged with links to a terrorist organization, three of them remain in jail, two were released under what is being called strict conditions. This goes back to the police raid and shootout on Thursday, in which two suspects were killed. Officials in Greece have arrested some suspects and they're still looking for potentially others. The Belgian government has requested the extradition of one person arrested in Greece. More on those in just a few moments in a live report. One of the biggest fears in Europe right now is what nobody can see, those so-called sleeper cells, quiet terror groups who suddenly become operational. Western intelligent sources tell CNN there could be as many as 20 sleeper cells planning attacked. A pair of U.S. senators also tell CNN today that it is time for America's allies outside of Europe to step up.", "But are our allies doing enough as well? A country like Saudi Arabia has enormous influence, Pakistan as well against this sort of extremism. Are they doing their part or in fact are they making the problem worse?", "Well, Jim, as you know, they've been a contributor to the funding since Al-Qaeda was created. A lot of the Middle Eastern countries have.", "As we've let it go on for far too long. And now that we realize the reality, the dangers, the immediacy of this threat to the United States and in to our allies, I think Republicans and Democrats can come together and say, listen, time is up. We need to see some progress, or especially with a country like Pakistan, as recipient of major dollars from the United States, there's going to be some consequences.", "All right. Let me bring in CNN international correspondent Arwa Damon who joins us on the phone from southeastern Turkey. Arwa, let me ask you this. We just heard from the two senators saying the U.S. needs to crack down on allies funding terrorism, essentially, saying look, the money is going through these conditions too easily. People are getting through these counties into Syria too easily. When you talk about Turkey specifically, I know that Turkish officials are saying we're doing everything we can. We have a huge border with Syria that we have to deal with, but -- what is your sense from the officials in Turkey? Can they step it up at all?", "Well, Turkey is finding itself in a very tenuous situation at this junction, because if we go back to the era of at the revelation pre the emergence of ISIS, yes, Turkey was coming under a lot of scrutiny and a lot of accusations that it was being too lax with the borders that would then allowing some of these more fundamentalist Islamist individuals easy access into the Syrian battlefields. But fast forward to the situation that Turkey is finding itself in today. It has a massive border with Syria, and do whatever it may, it quite simply cannot physically control this entire boarder. Those smugglers who are assisting individuals in going across, whether those individuals are fighting with ISIS or others. They know how to wait. They know how to make that careful calculation, look for an opening, and then allow people across. Turkish authorities are also saying they're growing increasingly frustrated. While on the one hand they say they're doing everything they can. They do feel, and said this to CNN on a number of occasions, that at times when they're pacing on intelligence to western nations about individuals who are transiting through Turkey to the west to Europe, they don't feel as if that is being taken or acted on seriously enough. They feel as if they are doing all that these can, that the onus is also on these Europeans nations on the United States to try to act on the intelligence that Turkey says it's passing along, but also to prevent these individuals from even leaving their respective countries.", "So Arwa, to that point, saying we're giving all this intelligence to the Europe, to the United States, they're not doing enough, I'm wondering what those European leaders are saying on that front? Are they agreeing and saying they're getting what they need from Turkey?", "Well, and this get into this very complex situation that Turkey is finding itself in. You know, all sides are saying that they're doing everything they can, but we have a magnitude of a problem that no nation is capable of dealing with. And arguably, even in all nations come together, because of the sheer volume of individuals who have that intent on traveling to Syrian or now have that intent of carrying out attacks in Europe and around the world, intelligence agencies are finding themselves stretched incredibly. And let's just take the example of Hayat Boumeddiene, the girlfriend or wife of Amery Coulibaly, the third gunman in the Paris attacks. She came to Turkey on January 2nd. Turkish intelligence actually flagged her at the airport, for whatever reason, they're not disclosing, but they felt she was suspicious. They followed her for a few days. She stayed at a hotel in east Istanbul. Then they stop following her because they say she was just engaging in tourist activity. Then after her name came out in this investigation with the current attacks, they have been shared that intelligence, that they have all doubted on her with the French. The French provided them with the phone number. They were able to track her to her last location which is", "Right. And Turkey being so critical to the United States, to the west in this fight against terror. Arwa Damon joining us on the phone from southeastern Turkey. Arwa, thank you for that this evening. And during this time of heightened alert for terrorist activity, the U.S. has quietly released this man, you are looking at the images right there, charged and jailed in the U.S. as an enemy combatant. They have returned him to Qatar. In 2009, he was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for providing material support to Al-Qaeda. Let's talk about this case with our panel. Joining me now CNN global affairs analyst Bobby Ghosh, also CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, also author of \"Manhunt, the ten year search for bin Laden.\" Guys, when we talk about, this is just one example, but it brings up this issue and we've been seeing the United States especially over the last month releasing more of these people to other nations in south America, to Qatar, for example, when you talk about enemy combatants who are released, Peter Bergen, to you first, there is a lot of concern over whether the countries they are released into are able to effectively monitor them.", "Well, we're a nation of laws, and this person who has been released al-Mari, has served his sentence. It was -- the 15 years sentenced was reduced because of the time he spent in the Navy brig, five years, where he was abused somewhat significantly. So, you know, we are a nation of laws. We have send it back. Now Qatar is an enormously rich, very small country, where by the way we sent back five leaders of the Taliban in exchange for private Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. army's private who was taken by the Taliban. Those five Taliban leaders have been there for about a year. They have done nothing. So it seems the Qataris are able to monitor people and basically it's a relatively safe place to send people back to.", "Bobby Ghosh, I want you to weigh in on that, as well as some comments from David Cameron this morning, but first weigh in on what Peter said.", "Well, Qatar does have an extensive security network within the country. But it is worth remembering that this man, Ali al-Mari, a relative of his, we're not sure if it was a brother or cousin, was a prisoner at Guantanamo.", "So let me get your take on David Cameron's comment this morning. He was on CBS' \"FACE THE NATION,\" And he said -- he explained why he wouldn't use the word \"war\" as French president Hollande has in terms of fighting terror saying quote \"we don't want to help them in their narrative by saying it is a war of us against them.\" You say that's irrelevant.", "Well, that's a conversation we're having among ourselves. To these people, the people who are conducting these terror attacks, it doesn't matter a whole heck of a lot. It maybe a small -- If David Cameron were to use the word \"war,\" that may yet be in their minds one more explanation. But as far as they're concerned, they're already at war with us, one way or the other. And at some level, they're at war with us, because they even exist. Never mind what we say or do. And they're starting from that, there are any number of other reasons and rationales that include America's role, the west's role in the gulf, in Iraq more recently, drawn strikes, and places like Yemen and Pakistan. There are any number of excuses, real, imagined, made up. And so David Cameron using the word \"war\" one way or another I don't think moves the needle.", "Peter Bergen, I would like you to weigh in on this discussion that we've been having and that has got a lot more attention lately about ISIS and Al-Qaeda, and whether or not we're seeing a convergence of the two groups more working together rather than battling one another. A, do you think we are seeing that? B, do you think that it matters, frankly?", "Well, if either group kills your brother, it doesn't really matter, does it? So, I mean, you know,", "And Bobby, very quickly, you've said that they don't care who they're pledging allegiance to, so when you look at the Kouachi brothers, for example, in Paris?", "The foot soldiers don't care that much. They're responding to opportunities that come up in their immediate surroundings. What the leadership level right at the top says, that's an important rivalry, because they're competing for recruits. They are competing for resources for money. That's important. But as we have learned in Paris, at the foot soldier level, not so much.", "Bobby Ghosh, Peter Bergen, thank you both. We appreciate it. Coming up after a quick break, another growing threat back in the headlines, Ukraine. Hear why one senator says it is time for the U.S. to do a lot more on the ground."], "speaker": ["ANNA COREN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN HOST", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. RICHARD BURR (R), NORTH CAROLINA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HARLOW", "ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (via phone)", "HARLOW", "DAMON", "HARLOW", "PETER BERGEN, CNN SECURITY ANALYST", "HARLOW", "BOBBY GHOSH, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST", "HARLOW", "GHOSH", "HARLOW", "BERGEN", "HARLOW", "GHOSH", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-51028", "program": "CNN SUNDAY NIGHT", "date": "2002-3-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/17/snn.02.html", "summary": "London Hosts First Ever St. Patrick's Day Parade", "utt": ["From the country where it all began, about 3,000 tons of fireworks lit up the sky over Dublin's river Liffey last night, part of the celebration drawing an estimated half- a-million people. And Londoners", "Emerald England, a St. Patrick's day celebration to rival Dublin or New York. With a jig and more than a sprig of shamrock, Ireland invaded Britain, if only for a day.", "Most English people have quite a little Irish in them somewhere too.", "The Irish are London's largest ethnic group, and thousands of them turned out, their British cousins cheering them on. But it's the first time the two nations have shared a day quite like this. Not that long ago, the neighbors were divided by conflict. The Irish ambassador to Britain says the locals have now come around.", "They think a great deal more of us now than they might have done 20 years ago. And I should also say to you than we think a great deal more of them than we did 20 years ago.", "With both countries embarking on a political path toward peace, in divided Northern Ireland, everything changed. (on camera): Twenty, 10, even five years ago, an Irish celebration of this scale in London would have been unthinkable. But the Northern Ireland peace process has not only quelled the conflict, it has created an unprecedented bond between Britain and Ireland. (voice-over): In Dublin, too, sentiment is shifting.", "English people are always very welcome here. And we get on very, very well with them. But I think relations have improved somewhat, particularly over the last year.", "I get on very well with English people, and I find sometimes that they have more respect for the Irish than the Irish do necessarily for the English.", "Hard-fought Irish prosperity and confidence also building a bridge.", "That sort of chip on the shoulder that used to be there is gone. People don't feel the same sort of resentment. And maybe they're able to look at each other much more as European neighbors rather than as the old relationship of big brother, little brother.", "That this has never happened before is surprising, but both nations saying with a little Irish luck, it always will from here on. Gavin Morris, CNN, London."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "GAVIN MORRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MORRIS", "DAITHI O'CEALLAIGH, IRISH AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN", "MORRIS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MORRIS", "FINTAN O'TOOLE, \"IRISH TIMES\"", "MORRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-153307", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2010-7-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1007/18/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Deadly Flash Floods in Kentucky", "utt": ["Tragedy in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, at least two people were swept to their deaths in flash flooding in Pike County. Roads and bridges were simply washed away and people had to be plucked from their rooftops. As many as 5,000 people are affected by this disaster. Bonnie Schneider in the Weather Center now. These flash floods have to be taken seriously all the time.", "Absolutely. And what's interesting to note is there's no more advisories for Kentucky in terms of flash flooding. That particular part of Kentucky only received less than three-quarters of an inch of rain, whereas others saw more, so it doesn't take a lot of water to cause substantial damage and destruction. Our other huge story today of course is the heat. I want to show you, let's take a look at the current temperature in New York City, its 92 degrees, wow. It feels like its 98 degrees because of the heat index. We can show you a live picture of New York. Let's go outside and check out the Statue of Liberty, a hazy, hot and humid day. The heat advisories in New York City will actually stick around straight through tomorrow. So it's not even going to cool down to start off your work week. It's also super-hot, scorching through areas of the plains states, like Oklahoma into Arkansas, Kansas, all of these places have heat advisories. So many states at least 12 across the country, yesterday we had 17, so the heat index in some of these areas like Tulsa into Oklahoma. Well it will feel like its 115 degrees it is just unimaginable. Because you're not talking about the dry heat and speaking of the dry heat. Some people will say that it's more comfortable in places like Las Vegas or Phoenix, because you have the dry heat. What happens when the humidity creeps up a little bit higher than normal? Well then you have a serious situation much more serious than typical temperatures about 100 degrees. Like 105 in Phoenix. The current number in Las Vegas is 109. It could get up to 115 before the day is over. And remember, the heat index today will also be in the triple digits, so if you don't have to be outside for any long period of time, I would recommend finding a nice air-conditioned spot across areas into the desert southwest because of the heat. Now looking at the country as a whole, we're seeing this front that's kind of blocking all the heat across the country. It will bring about severe weather and we're watching for that through the Great Lakes, some storms rolled through Chicago earlier, they are working eastward right now. We'll talk more about that later on.", "Thank you so much, Bonnie. Appreciate that. Meantime, he's 92 and he continues to be a global inspiration. We'll tell you why."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "BONNIE SCHNEIDER, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-406514", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-07-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/26/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Remembering Regis Philbin, Legendary TV Personality.", "utt": ["U.S. television may never be quite the same now that Regis Philbin is gone. He died Friday at the age of 88. He left a hilarious legacy as a talk show and game show host and as a comic sidekick. Philbin had a razor sharp wit and was quick with one-liners. Long-time co-host Kathie Lee Gifford posted this poignant message on Instagram, saying, \"There are no words to fully express the love I have for my precious friend, Regis. I simply adored him and every day with him was a gift. We spent 15 years together, bantering and bickering and laughing ourselves silly.\" Before Kathie Lee, there was former co-host Sarah Purcell.", "He was a warm, loving guy. He just really was. He was generous to people that he saw that were trying to make their way in show business. He was generous to me in so many ways where -- we've lost a good one, we really have.", "Philbin's family says he died of natural causes a month shy of his 89th birthday. Thank you for watching this hour, I'm Natalie Allen. Kim Brunhuber will be here in just a moment with more news for you. See you soon."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "SARAH PURCELL, FORMER PHILBIN CO-HOST", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-242349", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-11-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/03/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Midterm Elections Could Change Washington", "utt": ["Just about the bottom of the hour. You're watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Tomorrow, big day, midterm elections could change the way Washington does business and force President Obama to deal with a Capitol Hill controlled by Republicans. Perhaps. Perhaps. The president has been mostly out of sight during the midterm election cycle, which means he has spent his last campaign attending party fundraisers and visiting blue states where his popularity remains relatively high. So, to the White House we go, to our correspondent there, Michelle Kosinski, who joins me. And so really the question now, do we know about any last-minute campaign trips, Michelle, planned by the president or will he remain out of sight?", "Hey, Brooke. Right, we want to know the same thing. We asked that question of the White House today and they said that there are things planned but they will mainly be robo calls that have been prerecorded, possibly some radio interviews. Unclear if those are live or prerecorded as well. But the president is certainly out of sight. In fact, we saw the first lady today traveling to Maryland. She has an event this afternoon. The president is having a very quiet day tomorrow as well leading up to the election. The White House says he's continuing to help support Democrats but no public events planned -- Brooke?", "When you follow-up and ask them why, what is their response?", "That was interesting. We asked what do you think has been most effective and we have seen the president doing? We have seen him out and about. He had a very busy weekend and he made a number of stops, Detroit, Philadelphia, Connecticut. Like you mentioned, these are not those tight nail-biter races that the nation is looking at. And why is that? A lot of those vulnerable Democrats have not wanted to campaign with the president. In fact, they've been trying to distance themselves. So the White House doesn't really want to talk about that. When these questions are asked, they say, look, it's up to each race, each state, you really have to ask them those questions. What was effective and what has the president done? They did mention the president is always effective at getting out the vote and fundraising, and he's been at a number of fundraisers. But they say when you talk about the Democratic campaign committees, the president has done everything that they asked him to do -- Brooke?", "OK. Michelle Kosinski, for me at the White House, thank you so much. And coming up next, we'll talk to CNN senior political analyst, David Gergen, on 2014 midterms after the break. Plus, I travel to a neighborhood in New York known as Little Liberia. Talk to people who are from there originally. One woman says she still feels like she's there. She says this is worse than the civil war because at least she knew where the enemy was and where she could flee. With Ebola, she doesn't know. We talk about stigma. Stay here."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "KOSINSKI", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-283399", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-05-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/06/es.01.html", "summary": "Wildfire Raging Out of Control in Alberta, Canada", "utt": ["A devastating wildfire is now burning some 300 square miles of Alberta, Canada. And hot dry conditions this weekend could make a widening crisis even worse. A state of emergency in place for Fort McMurray or what's left of it with more than 85,000 people evacuated and hundreds of structures destroyed. Reception centers for a growing number of evacuees is now being set up in Edmonton. That's where we find CNN's Dan Simon.", "Christine and Miguel, we are in the town of Conklin. This is one of the areas that has taken in evacuees. People who, right now, are in an indefinite holding pattern because the fire seems to be showing no signs of abating. The weather on the fire line remains terrible. We're talking about windy, dry conditions, so firefighters are going to have their hands full for quite some time. In terms of the numbers, they remain staggering. Canada has never seen anything like this before. Eighty- eight thousand people evacuated, 1600 homes and businesses destroyed, and 200,000 acres charred. In terms of how this fire started, right now we don't know that, of course, but there's a lot of curiosity. But the operating theory is that it was in a forested area and that it was caused by a lightning strike, but authorities still have to investigate. In terms of where people are now, a lot of people have gone to shelters, they've gone to high school gymnasiums, things of that nature. The Red Cross is here. They're providing food and water to these folks. But so much agony because this fire continues to rage and nobody knows when they'll be able to go home, and people are still waiting to find out if they'll have a home to go back to -- Christine and Miguel.", "Just unbelievable. All right, thanks so much for. You know, the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno knew about sex abuse allegations against assistant coach Jerry Sandusky as far back as 1976. That's according to the university's insurance company. That claim emerged from a dispute between school and the insurer over who should pay $60 million in settlements with 26 men who claimed Sandusky abused them when they were children. Paterno's family called the insurance company's claim an unsubstantiated smear.", "And the medical examiner's office in Minneapolis is furious about some media reports claiming the powerful pain killer Percocet was found in Prince's bloodstream after his death. They say the chief medical examiner is the only person who has seen the preliminary test results and she has not shared them with anyone.", "Another victory in court for the Sandy Hook families as it appeared a court judge in Connecticut ruling they can gain access to internal documents and depose employees at the gun manufacture Remington. The families claimed in a lawsuit that Remington's marketing strategy deliberately targeted young men like Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza. The gun maker has filed a motion to stop the discovery phase and is asking the judge to throw out the case.", "And a terrifying ordeal for passengers and crew members on a Pittsburgh bound flight from the Dominican Republic. Severe turbulence forcing the plane to make emergency land in Ft. Lauderdale yesterday afternoon. Four flight attendants and three passengers on the Allegiant air flight hospitalized for injuries that are being described this morning as non-life threatening but everyone on that plane said it sure felt like a near-death experience.", "I'm telling you, I thought it was over. I thought we were all going down. The plane just dropped. It was like it nosedived and just dropped out from underneath of us.", "It was like in the movies. Like when you see in the movies when it crashed and everyone just slides up. It was like.", "It just dropped. And everybody flew in the air that wasn't in a seatbelt. So, I mean, people, the flight attendant in the front of the plane, I saw her go up and hit the top of the plane.", "Two attendants in the back really got -- their faces were smashed. One got a really cut nose, a big forehead. And the other one got -- had blood coming down her face.", "Gosh. Nothing like having that feeling of not having any control whatsoever.", "Terrifying.", "Two nurses were among the 137 passengers on board. They were able to start treating the injured flight attendants while the pilot was landing in Florida. Amazing.", "All right. Severe weather ahead for the weekend. Meteorologist Derek Van Dam has more for us.", "Happy weekend, Miguel and Christine.", "Back to you.", "All right, Derek. Thank you for that. North Korea with a once in a generation political event. CNN takes you there next."], "speaker": ["MARQUEZ", "DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "MARQUEZ", "ROMANS", "MARQUEZ", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARQUEZ", "ROMANS", "MARQUEZ", "ROMANS", "DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "VAN DAM", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-14107", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2000-8-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/17/mn.20.html", "summary": "87 Major Wildfires Continue to Burn Across Western U.S.", "utt": ["Shifting our focus to the American West, where the wildfire situation there just keeps getting worse by the day. The fires that are burning in 13 states have now scorched more than a million acres, bringing the total to 5 million thus far in the current fire season. Live to Darby, Montana, CNN's Charles Zewe once again with us from there -- Charles.", "Bill, 87 wildfires, major wildfires now burning in the West. And firefighters here in Southwestern Montana say they have made a good deal of progress overnight in battling the fires in the Bitterroot Valley that have consumed already about 242,000 acres of wilderness in this part of the state. But they say there's still a lot of work to be done. There is some concern about a number of houses and what's called a West Fork region of the Bitterroot Valley. The firefighters in there right now, trying to protect those structures. Around the rest of the region, there is concern about two fires making their way toward the Yellowstone National Park. The southern end of the park has been closed now. A dude ranch along the John D. Rockefellar Parkway has been closed, and 400 people evacuated there. as firefighters try to protect cabins and structures at that dude ranch. Fires all across Montana are burning so fiercely and so wildly that the state's adjutant general -- he is the commander of the National Guard here -- Major General John Pedegrass (ph) has asked the federal government to send in 1,000 more federal troops, along with a big AWACS radar control play, to control all the air traffic moving in and around Montana in trying to battle these wildfires. Officials say they are getting help from the weather somewhat today. Winds are calm. Temperatures. however, will be back up in the 80-degree range. They say they are also getting some help from a big smoke plume from those continuing fires in Idaho right next door. They say, though, a plume of smoke from the fires in Idaho holds down temperatures by as much as 10 degrees here in Montana. It also keeps relative humidities up. That means that that too, the increased moisture, helps in firefighters in battling those flames. So the situation continues to be anything but controlled all across the West. New fires continue to breakout. One in particular, Bill, near Helena yesterday, grain farmer out there harvesting his grain touched off a fire with a spark. In a day, it grew to 20,000 acres. So this is still a very volatile, a very dangerous situation -- Bill.", "Takes just about anything to get it going right now. It is so dry. Charles, thanks. Charles Zewe, again, in Darby."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "CHARLES ZEWE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "CNN-31719", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2001-6-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/02/se.01.html", "summary": "Idaho Sheriff's Department Updates Standoff Situation", "utt": ["We apologize for interrupting \"YOUR HEALTH\" but we want take you for live coverage now to Idaho where those five children have been holed up for five days. This is the sergeant with the Bonner County Sheriff's Department.", "... effort to contact the children through known people the children trust. After a period of time contact was made and at that time the children received food and water. Sheriff's office primary concern is for the welfare of these children and every effort is being made to ensure their safety. More information will be provided if available at 3:30 p.m. with another press update. And that is our statement, OK. One question at a time, please.", "Sergeant, would you just tell me, one: who were the people that went into the house, and secondly: will you try to make contact again today?", "OK, every effort, and we're continuing efforts as we speak, today and we are not going to divulge who the people are of how many there are.", "What was the character of the conversation with the children? I know that you didn't see them face-to-face, but what was the characterization of the conversation? Were the children still distrustful, angry, were they willing to cooperate?", "OK, I am not divulging any of that information at this time: What was said or how it was being said.", "So there has been a lot of speculation about Benjamin, the 15 year old being used as a potential intermediary. Can you say yes or no whether that's happening?", "Well, what I will say on that is there is a lot of speculation on who we're using, but a lot of what you're hearing is incorrect and we are not divulging on who those people may be.", "Sir, can you characterize first of all, are you more encouraged with the actions of the last 24 hours? Is there reason to be encouraged? And secondly, I know you don't want to talk about whether Ben has been up there or has been the intermediary, but can you characterize if he is cooperating with your department?", "OK, several family members and trusted friends are cooperating. And, as far as -- what was other question, sir?", "Are you more encouraged now than you were 24 hours ago? Is there a reason for optimism in your mind?", "We believe and we try to remain optimistic.", "Is there more optimism today than 24 hours ago?", "Well I can't answer that, sir.", "Have you made contact with them today?", "We are proceeding to have that done today, but I cannot confirm whether we have made contact with them today or not.", "Are you using a telephone or face-to-face approaches?", "We are not using telephones at this time.", "Is there something you can tell us about the condition or the leader of the children at the house right now?", "No, I don't have any information on that.", "Sargent, given that hindsight is 20/20, would you do you anything differently if you were starting this process today than you have last Tuesday?", "Well I am not running this operation but I don't believe that we would do anything different. Our main concern is for the safety of the children and patience and restraint, I think is utmost in this.", "Will you allow Mrs. McGuckin to go and see them? One of the concerns that has been said is that the children were not sure that she was alive or OK. Would you allow her to go and personally see them?", "I can't answer that for you, ma'am.", "You know there are guns in the house. Would you characterize the children as armed?", "All we know is there are guns in the house. That's all I will say on that.", "Have you seen the guns in the house?", "I have not seen anything.", "OK, I'm not going answer that, OK.", "Was the communication inside the home or outside the home?", "We have made contact at the residence.", "Is that through megaphone, sir, or how are you making that contact?", "We are making personal contact at the residence.", "Face-to-face contact, or person to person?", "We have made contact at the residence, sir.", "You were talking about some type of contact today. Is it your understanding there will be another contact today?", "We are making every effort to continue this today as we speak.", "Will the contact be similar to what happened yesterday?", "I am not going to respond on that, OK.", "Has the sheriff's department had any contact with any federal agencies?", "We have had lots of contact with federal agencies but we are not utilizing any at this time.", "Any reason to think that they may become involved?", "I cannot answer that, ma'am.", "Are anyone of the children acting as a spokesperson for the children? Are you in contact with just one child or are you talking to different children?", "I don't have that information.", "(OFF-MIKE) by militia groups on the Internet and by people like Mr. Steele.", "I am not going to comment on that right now, ma'am.", "Are there a number of families members in this area that are directly related to family?", "I don't have information on numbers.", "Is she a local person, the mother?", "The mother is local, that's correct.", "Did she grow up here?", "I do not have that information.", "Does have family have electrical power up in their house at this time?", "I do want to say that on Tuesday morning I confirmed with the power company there is electrical power at the residence.", "Sir, there are some local people who are saying that they are offering to take the children in so that the children can be kept as a unit -- as a family during this time. Are you talking to those people? Or are you talking to others who may take the children in? Is that part of all of this?", "I am not personally doing that. I know that is being checked into, but I can't comment on anything further.", "Are you or the animal shelter people doing anything about the dogs?", "We are not doing anything about the dogs right now. The dogs are not our main concern. I have offers from numerous agencies locally and nationally that will assist us in that. We may explore that when the time comes.", "Do you know if you're feeding the dogs as well as the children?", "I'm sorry.", "Do you know if the dogs are being fed?", "I don't have that information.", "Sir, do you know of the condition of the children at all? Can you speak at all to their physical condition?", "I have no information on that points.", "Has foods been given to them and what kind of food is it?", "OK, food has been given to them. I don't have exact details on what food was given to them.", "I can't give how many times. I know it was a prolonged period yesterday that they have had contact with the children.", "(OFF-MIKE) on the property right now?", "You will have to clarify.", "Are there any sheriffs deputies, any family members outside of those five children that are on the property right now?", "I don't have that information right now.", "Sargent, would you characterize this as a one-sided conversation with the kids or are they -- is there (", "I really can't comment on that. We are not divulging what we're doing on this side.", "Then how can you tell if you've actually made contact?", "I can confirm that we have made contact with the children.", "Sargent, prior to can you talk about what kind of dealings your department has had this with this family in the past?", "I don't have an updated list and an exact list so I am not going to comment on it right now.", "Sargent Rahn, we were told by attorney for the Mrs. McGuckin, that in fact, these two individuals went into the house and were separated by the dogs in another room, but that they talked to the children for several hours and there was a message delivered from the mother that they didn't personally hand over, but that they left the food and water. Can you at least confirm that account?", "Who went up?", "Sorry? That there were two individuals who the children trusted who actually got into house yesterday and the contact lasted for several hours. They handed off a message from the mother saying that she loved them and they should cooperate with the attorney Mr. Powell and that that was left with the food and water. Can you at least confirm that account.", "OK, I don't have the details on what exactly happened at the contact.", "Can you confirm that notes from the mother were passed to the children? Or at least were left there for them to read?", "Like I said I don't have any details on what type of stuff was left.", "Can you give us a sense of why you're being so careful with what you are releasing to us at this point?", "Well, we don't want to divulge a lot of stuff or anything that would jeopardize what we are trying to do and that's get these children out as safely as we can. OK?", "(OFF-MIKE) what message would you send to them if they are listening to you right now?", "If they were listening to me right now, is that their safety and well being is our only concern at this point.", "Do they have any electronic communication with the outside world? A radio, a television, anything -- a little black and white TV?", "I really don't know if they do or not.", "Do you anticipate that this whole issue of are you going meet with them today, are you telling us nothing has been established yet? Do you anticipate contact today?", "Like I said, we are attempting to continue what we have been doing.", "Sargent, what is the mother's situation on this? Does mother -- can you confirm the mother does want the children to bring this to a close?", "I can't confirm that yes or no.", "Is the mother helping at all?", "I don't have that information, sir?", "(OFF-MIKE) the Aryan Nation may be up hear to rally in protest today. Have you guys gotten wind of that and if so have you prepared yourself for if it does happen?", "We have had that information. Yes.", "How have you planned to prepare for that?", "I am not going to divulge that.", "Sargent, the fact that (OFF-MIKE) everybody up here has guns in their homes is not an uncommon thing. Could you go into a house in a situation like this, (OFF-MIKE) standard procedure, if guns are in the house would (OFF-MIKE) for your departments to react in a certain way?", "Sir, I am not going to comment on that right now, OK. Police procedures in normal circumstance is a whole different issue and the issue is the children and the children's safety right now.", "How long are you prepared to wait?", "The sheriff's office is prepared to do whatever it takes in however long it takes to ensure these children's safety.", "Sargent, have the dogs interfered with any of the negotiation?", "I have not had any reports of that, no.", "So, do you ever foresee the sheriff's department ever going in there, I mean if this thing stretches on for two-three months?", "You'll have to clarify your question, sir.", "Do you ever foresee the sheriff's department ever going in to get these kids out of the home if this thing continues? (OFF-MIKE) indicated yesterday that that was a possibility?", "Well, that would be something would you have to ask the prosecutor. I am not sure on your question, so I am not going to comment, sir.", "Any plans to narrow the perimeter at all. Obviously the procedure (OFF-MIKE) was to get past it keep them out but it seems that welfare (OFF-MIKE) got five minors inside a house. Are there any special efforts being made in that regard?", "No, ma'am, not at this time.", "Sargent, one other point maybe you can rephrase. How patient is you department? Would you wait here until next Christmas, wait until Thanksgiving, wait until the end of September? Is there some sort of date where you can (OFF-MIKE) back for a week maybe, or three days?", "Well, my sheriff comment on that question, sir, is he was just recently elected and he has four years.", "Do you want to end on that?", "That's all I'm going to say on that, sir. Well another release will be tentatively set for 3:30 this afternoon. If that changes, you will be notified. Thank you very much for your patience. I really appreciate it.", "And so they wrap up this news conference here. That is Sargent Robert Rahn who's with the Bonner County Sheriff Department. Of the five children who have been holed up for five days there in Idaho. Their father had passed away a couple of weeks ago and then the mother was arrested allegedly for child neglect. She spent three hours talking -- a lawyer representing the mother -- spent three hours talking to the children who are said to be armed and malnourished. Now the Sargent was saying that they had people who the children trusted and they had been in contact for a long time yesterday with those five children who are still in the house, they wouldn't say if that included or was Benjamin, who's one of the children who left the house earlier this week and went to a neighbor's and could perhaps have been talking to the kids. Sergeant said the primary concern is the welfare of the children. They do have food and water now. They are trying to make contact with the children again. And he could confirm that they did have electric power and he said that they are trying to do the best that they can and show utmost restraint. He also said that they had heard that the Aryan Nation, which is a white supremacist group in that area might rally in protest. He said they had heard that and they were prepared for it. Now an attorney is going to be speaking.", "Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Edgar Steele. You know it has been represented to me by members of this press that Bonner County's prosecuting attorney, Phil Robinson, is reporting that I was fired last night my Mrs. McGuckin. That is not true. And it is merely another of many false statements made in this matter by local government officials. What's true is, that early yesterday afternoon I served written notice that I was voluntarily withdrawing for the time being because I have been cut off from all access to Mrs. McGuckin and her children by the local government. This is forced upon me by the strictures of my profession's rules of ethics and applicable law. Now however, I may continue to speak out publicly about the outrageous conduct of local government officials in this matter. I have not abandoned the McGuckins. I will return to actively represent and support any member of this family and for any purpose immediately upon being asked to do so in person. I continue to offer my support and counsel pro bono, meaning for free, of course. My concern at the moment first and foremost is for the welfare of the children still terrified and isolated in the family home just up the road, which is also just up the road from my personal residence here in Sagle, Idaho. Now their interests will not best be served by stirring up additional controversy right now that can await resolution at a later time. Let's get the kids out and to safety first then we can discuss how best to reunite this family and begin the process of the healing the damage that they have already suffered. The Bonner County sheriff has now totally cutoff my access to JoAnn McGuckin, though I have been representing her and her children strictly for civil issues related to the pending criminal charge and for which she has been provided a tax payer paid public defender, Bryce Powell. The Sheriff's rejoinder has been that I cannot see her since Mr. Powell is her attorney. Sheriff Jarvis steadfastly refuses to recognize my status as her personal civil attorney. I have been told by the sheriff deputies that Mrs. McGuckin desires that I communicate with her henceforth only in writing. And only through Mr. Powell. I have been unable to confirm that with her in person. Mr. Powell seems intent upon enforcing that arrangement as well. Even if true, I find this intolerable and unworkable. Since I pledged that I would serve only her interests, and that of her children. I cannot do that if others are claiming to speak to me for her. The duties of a personal lawyer are just that -- personal. I originally met with Mrs. McGuckin for nearly two hours shortly after her arrest. During which she request my assistance for herself and her children. Since then, my firm, both locally and in California, has been working nonstop to develop a number of civil issues for her family, such as our inquiry into sale of their property for slightly more than 8,000 dollars in back taxes.", "And so this is Edgar Steele an attorney who apparently was representing JoAnn McGuckin, the mother of the six children who was arrested earlier this week saying that he was not fired, that he actually has voluntarily withdrawn. And he done so because he says his access has been cut off to the children and to the mother. And the authorities apparently have said that's because she has another attorney and this attorney saying that that attorney goes along with the local officials who are insisting that she has new attorney and so they have cut off his access in this case. The five children are still holed up in that house and so we will keep you posted if any new development happen there."], "speaker": ["DONNA KELLEY, CNN ANCHOR", "SARGENT ROBERT RAHN, BONNER COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION:  (OFF-MIKE) RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION:  (OFF-MIKE) RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "OFF-MIKE) RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "QUESTION", "RAHN", "KELLEY", "EDGAR STEELE, ATTORNEY", "KELLEY"]}
{"id": "CNN-1449", "program": "", "date": "2000-1-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/25/aotc.07.html", "summary": "Volatile Nasdaq Expected as Earnings Continue to Gush Forth", "utt": ["After yesterday's drubbing on the Street, we have some relief in the futures market if this equation holds. S&P; futures are up seven, Nasdaq futures are stronger and the bond is quiet, yield at 6.65 in London.", "Well, they saw some heavy selling, yesterday, in the Nasdaq market in particular. Let's see if things are looking up a little bit today. Sasha Salama standing by at the Nasdaq marketsite now. Sasha, what have you got?", "Good morning, Deborah and John. We had some very heavy selling, yesterday, on the heaviest volume we've ever seen, nearly two billion shares changing hands. Analysts tell me that's a sure sign of more volatility to come, and we certainly saw volatility, yesterday. Today, Nasdaq 100 futures are up 35 points; that bodes for a nice advance when trading gets under way. But because of the volatility, really anything could happen between now and then. There are some cross currents in the market, here. First of all, analysts telling me that big institutions have been shifting money out of stocks and into bonds with bonds relatively inexpensive in price, here. This comes amid signs most recently from two voting members of the FOMC that the Fed does plan to keep raising interest rates, this year. How far? We don't know, but the bias is definitely toward raising rates. Also, we've got earnings season right in the middle of the heaviest part of the earnings season. Better-than-expected results normally bodes well for a stock. We got better-than-expected results after the bell, yesterday, from About.com, BOUT; Concentric Networks, CNCX; Digital Island, ISLD; and Drugstore.com, DSCM. Whether or not that would translate to strong stock advances today remains to be seen. We've also got results out today from a slew of key Nasdaq companies, including eBay; two cents expected there, an actual profit from the online auctioneer expected. Amgen, the big biotech giant: 25 cents expected after the bell. RealNetworks is expecting an earnings of five cents a share compared to a loss in the year-ago-period; that's RNWK. Qualcomm, the darling of the Nasdaq last year, really got hammered, yesterday. It's expected to report 24 cents after the bell. And BMC Software expected with 42 cents after the bell -- John and Deborah.", "So far the earnings look good, but that doesn't seem to be helping anybody out. Thanks a lot, Sasha, down at the Nasdaq/Amex marketsite."], "speaker": ["JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN ANCHOR", "DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "SASHA SALAMA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DEFTERIOS"]}
{"id": "CNN-3818", "program": "WorldView", "date": "2000-3-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0003/05/wv.10.html", "summary": "Bush Concentrates Efforts in California", "utt": ["Republican Senator John McCain won the endorsement of \"The New York Times\" today, but that wasn't the first thing on his mind. On a campaign swing through Ohio Sunday, McCain lashed out at negative campaign ads paid for by supporters of his rival, Texas Governor George W. Bush.", "You've got to accepted a message on Tuesday. Say, Governor Bush, get your cronies out of this, get your money out of this, go back to Texas, and let us make up our own minds.", "Asked if he would work to have those campaign ads pulled, Bush responded, why should I? In the race to Super Tuesday, the Texas Governor is concentrating his efforts on California. With 162 delegates for the winner, there's a lot at stake. CNN's Pat Neal explains.", "George Bush feels confident California voters will crush John McCain's insurgent campaign.", "Feels like victory in the state of California.", "Bush will work up and down this state until Tuesday. The latest polls here show he leads McCain by almost 30 percentage points among Republicans who can deliver the delegates needed to secure the nomination. But California also has a non-binding popular vote Tuesday, and McCain hopes he can win that, providing momentum so he can push on.", "Well first it's important to get the delegates. The delegates are the who determines who becomes the nominee. Secondly, I believe I have a good chance of winning the overall vote as well.", "So Bush focused his California pitch on education.", "Every child ought to have a first-rate education. There are no second-rate children and there are no second-rate dreams in America.", "The governor knows education is a top issue among moderates and women. Their votes are critical for him to take the popular vote. But some in this crowd had other issues on their minds.", "Stop the execution -- moratorium now.", "Bush went on to tell Californians he's good for them, because his state, Texas, has a lot of similarities.", "This state reminds me of campaigning in Texas in so many ways. It's rich in its diversity, it's rich in its natural resources, it's rich in its value for the American values.", "Even with the wide lead among California Republicans, Bush wants to win that popular vote, too. But about 40 percent of all California voters have an unfavorable opinion of him, so Bush wants to make sure those who are with him actually vote. Pat Neal, CNN, Oakland, California."], "speaker": ["ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "HALL", "PAT NEAL, CNN CORRESPPODENT (voice-over)", "GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "NEAL", "BUSH", "NEAL", "BUSH", "NEAL", "PROTESTERS", "NEAL", "BUSH", "NEAL"]}
{"id": "CNN-10148", "program": "Special Event", "date": "2000-6-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/15/se.01.html", "summary": "Attorneys for Elian Gonzalez's Miami Family Hold News Conference on New Appeal for Asylum Hearing", "utt": ["We want to take you live to Miami now where a press conference has just started from the attorneys of Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives, discussing the appeal they are filing in federal court. Let's listen in.", "That means that we're asking all 12 judges of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to examined two critical issues. The first of these issues is the effect of a brand new United States Supreme Court decision in the Christensen case which really takes a very strong position against the kind of agency deference that was undertaken by the 11th Circuit in this case. When the 11th Circuit reached its opinion two weeks ago, it based a tremendous amount of agency discretion on what you'd consider to be agency opinion letters and informal documents that the agency made. The Christensen case, decided just last month, says that you do not give Chevron-style deference to those sort of opinion letters. And that's critical because I think, as all of us recognize, the court itself indicated that it was not stamping its approval on the actions of the INS. What it was instead saying is that that was a action that was within the outside borders of reasonable choices, and that it was deferring to the agency action based on the Chevron Case. With this new Supreme Court decision, we think it's important to give the entire 11th Circuit the opportunity to consider its very, very serious ramifications. The second issue that we presented to the entire 12-judge court is the question of whether there is a constitutional right of an alien in this country to seek due process. And that's also critical and also has to be presented to the court en banc because the three-judge panel was not authorized to reconsider the older case by the 11th Circuit that found no due process right to seek asylum, based upon the fact that 16 years have passed, that Congress itself in 1996 eliminated the old distinctions between affordable and removable. And, indeed, based upon the direction of other courts in this country, we think there is a very compelling case for the entire 11th Circuit to reconsider its past views and to find that there is, indeed, a due process right of aliens to seek asylum. One of the cases that we cite in these papers is the 1999 decision by the conservative 4th Circuit, which did, indeed, find a due process right to seek asylum. There are other cases that we cited, including the 2nd Circuit in New York, the 5th Circuit based in New Orleans, the D.C. Circuit. Indeed, there is a wide range of contrary authority around the country that very clearly finds a due process right. In the 11th Circuit, there was no due process right for Elian to have a hearing, and that is a huge issue. The other fact I want to mention this morning -- and then I'm going to ask each of my colleagues to add any comments that they might want to make before we open the floor for questions -- is that our effort is being joined by two lawyers with the Washington office of Kirkland & Ellis. As some of you may know, it's a major firm, over 700 lawyers, and we're obviously grateful to have the additional assistance by some attorneys with tremendous amount of federal appellate experience. And I think on behalf of all us who have work these many months -- and, collectively, you're looking at thousands and thousands of volunteer hours to date -- I think all of us are grateful to have the additional help, the additional support, and we think it's a strong signal about the strength of Elian's legal position, that the effort is attracting very, very formidable and serious legal help. And so while things are obviously uphill, we lost the decision two weeks ago, I have to tell you that, as is reflected in these papers, there are significant, new developments that I think give cause for possible hope in the future legal proceedings on behalf of Elian. I want to ask anyone else here among my colleagues to add...", "You've been listening to a live press conference out of Miami, Florida. Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives faced a deadline today to appeal to the federal court as they try to keep the child in the U.S. The relatives' attorney, Kendall Coffey, says they are indeed filing an appeal. They would like the full federal appeals court in Atlanta to hear their case. Of course, they want the Cuban child to have a chance to stay in the U.S."], "speaker": ["LINDA STOUFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "KENDALL COFFEY, ATTORNEY FOR MIAMI FAMILY", "STOUFFER"]}
{"id": "CNN-227263", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-3-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/26/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Malaysia Airlines May Need Government Rescue", "utt": ["The search for missing Flight 370 isn't Malaysia Airlines' only problem, the company is also in deep financial trouble and maybe in need of a government bailout. Alison Kosik is in New York with more on this. Good morning.", "Good morning -- Carol. Here's the thing with this though you can't blame the carrier's financial troubles just on Flight 370 at this point. Malaysia Airlines is actually in a lot of trouble before the plane disappeared. It was losing a lot of money, struggling with competition from low- cost carriers. And what it tried to do is cut costs. But it really wasn't enough. So now, clearly, things could get worse for the airline financially. And here's why. Because of Flight 370, Malaysia Air could get hit not just with a slew of lawsuits but it could get hit by a crisis of confidence meaning fewer people may not want to fly the airlines. One analyst says, yes, this is an airline that may need a government bailout. In fact, the Malaysian transport minister was asked about that today. He dodged the question so at this point they are not saying yes, they're not saying no. But you look at how investors are nervous. Shares of Malaysia Airlines have dropped since the plane disappeared -- Carol?", "All perfectly understandable. How big a bailout are we talking about?", "That's really a good question. You look at how the company has been doing. It has lost more than $1 billion over the past three years. That doesn't even factor in the impact of Flight 370. Clearly, there could be a sizable amount this airline needs. One analyst says though Malaysia airlines won't shut down. Here is a bit of proof for you because, you know, we have seen airlines here in the U.S. get bailouts. They go bankrupt multiple times, they merge and they still operate through it all. So Malaysia Airlines could still have options.", "I'm just thinking back to that CEO and they are calling for the CEO. The families, of course, are calling for the CEO to resign. And you have to think, he probably will resign after this is all said and done, whenever that may be.", "Wouldn't be a surprise. But I think that is just tip of the iceberg.", "All right. Alison Kosik reporting live from New York -- thanks so much. And thank you for joining me today. I'm Carol Costello. \"@ THIS HOUR\" with Berman and Michaela after a break."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "KOSIK", "COSTELLO", "KOSIK", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-267852", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-10-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/29/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Prince Harry in U.S. to Promote Invictus Games; Man Saves Half Million Pennies.", "utt": ["Word just coming in of the stabbing of an Israeli soldier. The Israel Defense Forces says a Palestinian stabbed a soldier in Hebron near the Tomb of the Patriarch. The attacker was shot. A police spokesman said the area has been closed off and the soldier is receiving medical treatment. Britain's Prince Harry spent the day in Washington meeting with President Barack Obama and promoting the Invictus Games. The prince started the games for injured and sick military personnel last year in London. And he joined First Lady Michelle Obama at a wheelchair basketball game to underscore the need for programs to help soldiers' recovery. Diane Sherp (ph) has more.", "It's not often you have the first lady, Prince Harry and Dr. Jill Biden cheering on your team. But today, wounded servicemembers had a chance to show off their skills on the court in wheelchairs.", "It is really good and it helps with recovery and rehabilitation.", "It's in an effort to promote the Invictus Games next year here in the U.S. He started the games after seeing a similar event in Colorado two years ago and wanted to make it an international competition.", "The Invictus Games seek to change perceptions of physical and mental injury.", "Specialist Stephanie Morris was injured in 2013 in Afghanistan.", "We got indirect fire. Two rocket- propelled grenades came in back to back, so I had a left femur fracture and right foot fracture.", "She says that out of the five people she was with, she was the only one who survived.", "I had a hard time dealing with it.", "Morris says being around others helped her in the road to recovery. She said it took nearly a year before she gave sports a chance.", "It was hard to cope are finding a new normal and I played sports before injury and I'm like, well, how do you do this?", "But since she gave it a shot, she hasn't looked back, helping her turn her life around and building lifelong relationships through the love of the game.", "And the Invictus Games will be held in Orlando, Florida, next year. You've probably heard \"a penny saved, a penny earned,\" and one man saved more than a half million pennies, which comes out to a little bit more than $5,000. 73 year old Otha Anders, from Louisiana, cashed in his penny savings to help pay a dental bill after saving up for more than 40 years.", "I started this probably in the late 60s, early 70s. Started putting them in these jugs to the point that now I have acquired 15 water jugs. It just seemed like it was initiated by the fact that if I would see a penny on the ground or the hall way or anywhere, I would say a prayer of thanks and say this is got a way of reminding me that I should always be thankful and I fail to pray, I would see a penny and it would remind me to pray. I became fascinated with the pennies. The children who knew I was saving pennies would bring their pennies to me. I would never let anyone give me a penny. Not even my children or my wife. I wanted the satisfaction deep inside that God and I together did this. I have not spent a penny in 40-plus years. I would break a dollar before I would spend a penny. Back in the late 60s or early 70s, the government was giving $25 extra for every $100 of pennies you would turn in. Even then, I refused to turn them in to earn the extra $25 per 100.", "It shows you every penny does count. Thanks to Christa Bordeaux (ph) from CNN's affiliate, KTEV, for that report. I'm Rosemary Church. Remember to keep in touch on Twitter. I'll be back with another hour of CNN NEWSROOM after this very short break. Don't go anywhere."], "speaker": ["CHURCH", "CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SHERP (ph)", "PRINCE HARRY", "SHERP (ph)", "STEPHANIE MORRIS, WOUNDED VETERAN", "SHERP (ph)", "MORRIS", "SHERP (ph)", "MORRIS", "SHERP (ph)", "CHURCH", "ANDERS", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-133242", "program": "CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER", "date": "2008-12-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0812/14/le.01.html", "summary": "Interview With Senators Ensign, Casey", "utt": ["This is LATE EDITION, the last word in Sunday talk.", "We cannot simply stand by and watch this industry collapse.", "The Senate refuses to rescue U.S. automakers. We'll discuss why and what's next for the big three with Democratic Senator Bob Casey and Republican Senator John Ensign. What's at stake for the industry's frontline workers? United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger joins us for an interview.", "Governor Blagojevich has been arrested in the middle of what we can only describe as a political corruption crime spree.", "Illinois's governor accused of putting Barack Obama's Senate seat up for sale. Will the scandal tarnish the president-elect and his close allies? Insight from three of the best political team on television. LATE EDITION's second hour begins right now.", "The Bush administration appears to be the sole life line right now for the big U.S. automakers with a plan to try to rescue Detroit. That plan fell apart in the U.S. Senate late in the week. But what is happening right now? Where do we go from here? Here to talk about what went wrong, what's next, two key members in the United States Senate. Joining us from New York, the Pennsylvania Democratic Senator Bob Casey. He supported the automakers' loan bill. And joining us in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Republican Senator John Ensign. He opposed the measure. Senators, thanks very much for coming in. Senator Ensign, let me start with you. Were you at that luncheon where the vice president, Dick Cheney, came up, met with Republican senators and appealed to them to vote for this rescue plan and warn that if you don't it would be, quote, \"Herbert Hoover time again?\" Were you there?", "I was there. And actually, Josh Bolten, the president's chief of staff, is the one who made the presentation. And frankly, the more that they seemed to talk, the less support there was for the bailout bill. At the end of day, I think that a lot of us were very, very concerned about the jobs in the United States and the economy in the United States. We just had a different way of helping the auto companies. I believe strongly that the auto companies need to be helped in a way where they'll come out stronger on the other end, more vibrant and be able to compete with the Japanese and the German auto manufacturers in the United States. And the bill that was before the Congress, I do not believe that that bill would have made sure that the auto companies came out stronger on the other end.", "Josh Bolten may have made that presentation, but did the vice president use that phrase \"Herbert Hoover time\" based on your recollection, Senator Ensign?", "I don't remember exactly what the vice president said. He comes to our lunches every Tuesday. Very rarely ever speaks. But this last Tuesday, he did speak, and it -- you know, he was appealing for the plan that the president and the Democrats had put together. But it was frankly just -- it wasn't something that most of us believed would help the automakers come out successful on the other end. And that's really the bottom line, is how are we going to help the U.S. auto manufacturers come out and be more competitive when they come out of this economic crisis that we're in today?", "And we did hear from Senator Bob Corker, Senator Casey. He's a Republican from Tennessee. He was negotiating, trying to come up with some sort of compromise. He said this on Friday at a press conference, explaining why it collapsed in the end. Listen to this.", "My prediction is that, had we agreed on a date, any date that's reasonable, I think last night it would have passed the Senate by 90 votes.", "He's referring to a date certain when the UAW, the United Auto Workers, should have agreed to bring their wages in line with the so-called foreign transplants -- Toyota, Nissan, Honda -- that have plants in the United States, mostly in the south. Because they refused to do that, to move up their concessions from 2011, the deal collapsed. You want to respond to that, Senator Casey?", "Well, Wolf, I think to a large extent there's been a lot of scapegoating here. In other words, the line from the other side has been that, because -- because we didn't get 60 votes from the Senate, that was the fault of working men and women. That's ridiculous. They've provided all kinds of concessions the last couple of years, cut their retiree health care costs by 50 percent in the last few years, made concessions on wages, and were ready to do more. The problem here was, in my judgment, was the other side was determined to stop this for whatever reason and it's really a question of whether or not we're going to continue an industry in America which is the backbone of manufacturing and keep the jobs. In Pennsylvania, for example, we have 120,000 jobs in dealerships and in suppliers. This is a major hit to our economy if the Treasury Department doesn't take the right steps, take executive action for December and January, get us to the end of January, and then we can begin to implement a long-term strategy. And remember, the statute that we would have passed focused on efficiency, focused on competitiveness, and also focused on providing opportunities to keep this industry viable to protect jobs especially at a time when we've just lost over 500,000 jobs in November.", "Would you have supported it, Senator Ensign, if it would have had a date certain to bring the wages for UAW workers in line with the non-union workers?", "I'm not sure that I would have supported that simply because I don't think there were experts in the U.S. Senate to determine what wages should be paid. I don't think that we're experts to determine what the level of debt that the companies should have. I actually had a plan, Richard Shelby and I drafted a plan that would have provided what's called debtor-in-possession financing, this financing for chapter 11 reorganization, because I believe that if the auto companies, for instance, General Motors, if it would have gone into chapter 11 to reorganize, it could have come out in a much stronger way. And in chapter 11 bankruptcy, you have the experts to know what kind of wage concessions should be made by labor, what kind of concessions should be made by the people who hold the debt, whether it's the bondholders or the bank debt or where ever the other creditors are. It could have brought everybody to the table outside of politics. The whole process of bringing it into politics I think is very, very dangerous. It sets dangerous precedents for other industries. And now that the president is going to open up what's called the TARP funds, I think that's another dangerous precedent because we're going to have every other industry in America lining up and saying, hey, we need a bailout. You bailed out the auto industry. Why don't you bail us out?", "Let's talk about that. Senator Casey, I want you to respond, but I want to explain to our viewers what the TARP funds are. Those are the $700 billion that Congress approved to help the financial sector, the ailing banks and the investment houses get through -- the first $350 billion is about to be used. There may be $15 billion left without additional congressional authorization. It's now up to the White House to go ahead and make that money available. What do you think the president of the United States is going to do?", "Well, I'm confident, Wolf, that the administration will come forward with support here. And, look, I was in favor of using the troubled asset relief program, so-called TARP funds, directly. I think it makes an awful lot of sense. The statute is very broad in terms of institutions being helped. And one of the reasons we passed that legislation against all kinds of public opposition was to make sure that in certain circumstances like this when you have an industry like the auto industry, which is the backbone of our economy, this isn't like the airlines where people -- where they can go into bankruptcy and people will still buy a ticket. This is the second largest purchase most people will make. Ninety percent of Americans get credit -- have to obtain credit when they go to buy a car. There's no way in my judgment that you could keep this industry viable and competitive if you went into a bankruptcy situation. But just to respond also to what John said, I think we have a basic disagreement on what the statute would have resulted in. The statute had the president appointing a person, a designee, who could have access to all kinds of expertise within and outside of the federal government. It could have worked. That designee had a lot of power to say to the auto companies if you don't have a plan in place by March 31st, you're not getting any more help, even if you're not implementing the changes you wouldn't get more help. So it had a lot of accountability, a lot of taxpayer protection. And if we had passed this and given help for December and January, we could get back to some other fundamental problems like foreclosures, which are a big problem in Pennsylvania as well as in John's home state of Nevada.", "Huge problem. But what about the argument that if the U.S. Treasury can spend billions, hundreds of billions of dollars bailing out whether it's Citigroup or Bear Stearns or Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, AIG, the huge insurance company, why not spend $14 billion or $15 billion right now to bail out at least two of the big three automakers?", "I agree. Wolf, I agree with that.", "No, I want to ask Senator Ensign.", "OK.", "Well the TARP funds, that $700 billion, was for the financial industry of the United States because everybody uses the financial industries, whether you're doing auto loans, whether you're doing student loans, home loans or whatever. It is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure that we basically have a stable financial system, a money supply, because the money is the medium of exchange that we do commerce in the United States.", "So that's a constitutional responsibility that we have.", "All right, but listen to this, Senator.", "But when we start getting... Senator Ensign -- Senator Ensign, listen to what Carlos Gutierrez -- he's the Republican commerce secretary; he works for President Bush -- this is what he told me, on Wednesday, when he was in \"The Situation Room.\" Listen to Carlos Gutierrez.", "If they run out of money, it becomes a collapse. It becomes a total disaster, hundreds of thousands of jobs. That's very different than saying, let's go through March 31st, give them time; if we're not pleased with their restructuring plan, then they can do a planned Chapter 11. This is not a planned Chapter 11. This would be a disaster.", "All right. He's warning of a disaster if you don't come up with some sort of short-term bridge loan, as they call it, to help Chrysler and", "Listen...", "Those are strong words.", "Yes, I actually -- I actually agree that the federal government could do that bridge loan, but that bridge loan could be done in Chapter 11 reorganization. That's the difference. And in Chapter 11 reorganizations, you have the experts; you can make sure that it's taken outside of politics. We could guarantee the warranties, which the auto industry has said, nobody will buy our cars if we're in Chapter 11. The federal government could guarantee the warranties to make sure that people felt secure, if they bought a car, that the warranties would be backed up. That's where you would take it outside of politics. To keep it -- to have some kind of auto czar, it's still going to be a puppet of the president. There are still going to be influences on politics. And we need to take these types of things out of politics, outside of Republican needs or Democrat needs or Democrat wants -- whatever it is, we need to take it outside of politics and get back to the fundamentals of business in the United States.", "Let me let Senator Casey respond. Go ahead.", "Well, Wolf, look, I believe we needed to take action here, and I think the Senate missed an opportunity. And I hope that the administration -- and I'm confident they will -- but I think they must come through now and provide help from here to there, meaning get GM, especially GM, through December and January. And then, with the new administration, we can put in a longer strategic approach to this. But the problem, right now, is that, if GM bails this month, there's no way to untangle that; there's no way to recover from that. So I think we -- the Treasury Department should take action, invest a little bit now, to save an industry and to save jobs. Because our economy, right now, is in a tailspin. We can't afford to lose hundreds of thousands of jobs in the next several weeks, which is what would happen if one of these goes down.", "Senator Casey, Senator Ensign, we've got to leave it right there. Senators, thanks very much for coming in.", "Thank you.", "Thank you, Wolf.", "And up next, we'll get the response from organized labor. The United Auto Workers president, Ron Gettelfinger -- he's standing by, live. He'll respond to Republican charges that his union is to blame for much of the auto industry's problems. Ron Gettelfinger, from Detroit, right after this."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "OBAMA", "BLITZER", "PATRICK FITZGERALD, U.S. ATTORNEY", "BLITZER", "BLITZER", "ENSIGN", "BLITZER", "ENSIGN", "BLITZER", "CORKER", "BLITZER", "CASEY", "BLITZER", "ENSIGN", "BLITZER", "CASEY", "BLITZER", "CASEY", "BLITZER", "CASEY", "ENSIGN", "ENSIGN", "BLITZER", "ENSIGN", "SECRETARY OF COMMERCE CARLOS GUTIERREZ", "BLITZER", "GM. ENSIGN", "BLITZER", "ENSIGN", "BLITZER", "CASEY", "BLITZER", "ENSIGN", "CASEY", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-406408", "program": "FIRST MOVE WITH JULIA CHATTERLEY", "date": "2020-07-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/24/fmjc.01.html", "summary": "New Problems For Existing 737 Planes That Have Been In Storage.", "utt": ["And we are off to the races. Today, the trading day has begun in New York. A warm welcome to FIRST MOVE. U.S. stocks are up and running and exactly as predicted, they are down. Well now, as you can see, the Dow is off over half a percent. We will expect the NASDAQ to be down even more. The NASDAQ was lower by one percent in futures trading, and so that's how we are at the beginning. Now, let's see 1.5 percent for the NASDAQ. Now, let's see how it moves further as it goes on. Intel is tumbling on weak outlook. They may have to outsource its next generation of chips, which will be fairly dramatic for a chip making company. And the big challenges for investors next week, four FAANG stocks are reporting. You've got Apple, Amazon, Facebook Alphabet. The Federal Reserve holds a policy meeting, and of course, it's all the question of stimulus. Today though, is the F.A.A. has ordered emergency inspections on Boeing 737 NG -- next generation -- and classic models. They're the ones, the majority of them that are flying. The MAX of course, is grounded. They've been in storage as many airlines have decided to stop or have been forced to store planes because there's simply not demand. But apparently these inactive planes have had problems in the engines. Pete Muntean is with me from Washington. It's all to do with the fifth stage bleed air check which apparently, because the planes have been stalled for more than seven days. Well, what happens? What's the risk with the fifth stage bleed air check?", "Well, it's a tiny valve within the jet engines, Richard, that are supposed to automatically close eventually. But what's happening is, these planes have been sitting for so long, the valves have corroded. They've rusted. And that could cause jet engines to fail in flight, essentially turning a 737, a hundred and fifty- thousand-pound airplane into a glider, possibly one of the worst possible scenarios for a flight crew to experience. You know, this emergency action by the F.A.A. is huge in scope. It affects more than two thousand 737s registered here in the United States, and what's so interesting is the F.A.A. says, this is an unintended side effect of the pandemic, just like an old car that's been sitting, problems start to creep in. That is exactly what's happening in this case. I want to read you part of this emergency action by the F.A.A., which says these problems can cause compressor stalls in the jet engine, dual engine power loss without the ability to restart in the air, which could result in a forced off airport landing, a very serious situation for any flight crew. The F.A.A. is ordering the airlines who fly 737s to go and inspect airplanes that have been sitting for longer than a week and that has a lot of them. Airlines have parked planes in every nook and cranny, closed runways and taxiways at airports across the country. You know, people were looking for reasons to not fly because of the pandemic, and now they just found one more reason to skip commercial air travel -- Richard.", "So they obviously just -- I mean, one wonders how they even thought to look at the particular thing to check it. It's such a small piece of the aircraft, but they did and by all accounts, it is relatively straightforward, repair or at least maintenance to do.", "Yes, relatively straightforward. Although, the incidents were relatively large, at least large enough for the F.A.A. to issue this order. They said that there were four incidents in a row, which ended up leading to this emergency action, which is very rare for the F.A.A. And the scope of this is so rare as well. It will be a straightforward fix for the airlines. They've been staying on top of this. I have seen United's long term storage facility at Dulles where they've been looking at airplanes trying to keep them safe and ready to go. Now, they just have one more thing to do.", "And I have to -- I do love that phrase off airport landing. I mean, talk about the masters of the understatement at the F.A.A. It is a serious matter, Pete Muntean. Finally, should we expect other issues and problems as aircraft are brought back into service?", "Well, there's so many airplanes that have been parked and airlines were sort of banking on this recovery to come that they have not quite seen. They've not seen the V-recovery that they had hoped, but it's not just 737s that are parked. There are 757s, 767s, 777s that I saw in just my visit at Dulles, where there were only a few dozen airplanes parked.", "But we know that situation is repeated at airports across the country. So no doubt that this could creep in as a problem in other airplanes. You know, when airplanes sit, it's a problem, especially in moist environments where things can rust and cause corrosion, and that can be really serious. That's why we see airplanes parked more often in desert, dry environments, big boneyards like in Mojave, California and in Tucson. So this is an issue because the airlines have had to find space to put these airplanes away, sometimes not ideal places.", "Pete Muntean, thank you. Pete is reporting from Washington, D.C. The announcement on the 737 came before my interview with Gary Kelly, which I did last night, the CEO of Southwest, which is somewhat unfortunate, because Southwest has an all 737 fleet. So obviously I would have asked him about it, but it happened. That interview was last night, so that's why he doesn't answer in this particular interview. We did talk about the recovery that was taking place that has now stalled, and I asked him what this meant for Southwest.", "Certainly not welcome news. We were on a really improving, a very nice trajectory, really a line of sight to the end of the year if things kept continuing to getting back to breakeven cash flow. And, yes, we've lost hundreds of millions of dollars of momentum here in the third quarter. So I don't think we've taken a step backwards, we've just lost momentum. And I think it's, you know, directly correlated with the spike in COVID-19 cases here in the United States. That's very disappointing to see that. And, you know, you can see the direct correlation with travel and future bookings.", "The issue of air travel, passengers still don't believe, no matter how many times you tell them about HEPA filters, and the like, and passengers are still worried about flying the middle seat, and so forth, aren't they?", "I think there's some degree of anxiety there. But I think more important than that is people who travel for a purpose, they want to go places. They want to be able to do things when they get there. And you look around the world and there are no sporting events. Businesses aren't having meetings. There aren't conventions. And a lot of entertainment venues are either closed or very limited. There are quarantines in place in certain states. So all of that, you know very much provides a deterrent. That's on the more consumer side of travel. Then on the business side of travel, large corporations, in particular have travel bans in place. So, I think we need to have very modest expectations in the near term here about travel until we get to the point where there's a vaccine or therapeutics.", "Finally, Gary, what's your gut telling you about the situation? When all of the numbers have been put in front of you by the CFO, and the COO has given you the operating numbers, and you've seen the revenue forecast, and you've digested it all, what's your gut telling you?", "Well, I think in the end, I feel like there's every reason to be hopeful with Southwest Airlines. We are the strongest in the industry. We came into this crisis with the least amount of balance sheet leverage we've had in our history. We have plentiful levels of cash to see our way through. We're still in investment grade credit. We have outstanding service that our people offer every single day. We have very high brand rankings from our customers and we have low cost on an operating basis in what is a very low fare environment. And I think it's going to be this way for a long time. So we're very well prepared for the crisis. I'm confident, I'm encouraged, and I'm hopeful what is -- what we also know is that this too shall pass. There will be a vaccine. We will defeat this virus. We can put a man on the moon 50 years ago, we can beat this coronavirus. So we just need to be smart and manage our way through this.", "We needed some optimism on a Friday as we go into the weekend. In a moment, after the break, more optimism from the former head and CEO of Honeywell who has written a new book that is rapidly becoming the go-to and well, the definitive word on short termism versus long termism, and how the CEO needs to negotiate both. After the break there. We'll discuss \"Winning Now, Winning Later\" in a COVID-19 environment. David Cote is with me after."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "PETE MUNTEAN, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT", "QUEST", "MUNTEAN", "QUEST", "MUNTEAN", "MUNTEAN", "QUEST", "GARY KELLY, CEO, SOUTHWEST AIRLINES", "QUEST", "KELLY", "QUEST", "KELLY", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-387303", "program": "HALA GORANI TONIGHT", "date": "2019-12-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/06/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Sixth Child Dies in Border Patrol Custody", "utt": ["Well, let's get the very latest on the Florida shooting. Natasha Chen joins me live now from Pensacola. And, Natasha, I understand you have more information on the weapon that the suspected shooter used?", "Well, we just heard from several officials here at a press conference at the base of this bridge. We heard from the governor, from the mayor, from the sheriff. And one thing that the sheriff wanted to emphasize is that because of the nature of this investigation involving a foreign national, that there are going to be a lot of questions that they cannot answer for us. So the information, he says, is going to be more limited than usual, and to trust them to go through this process involving federal agencies investigating and figuring out exactly what happened here. The sheriff also talked about the heroics of their deputies, people in uniform both with the Navy and with the Sheriff's Office, really helping others who were injured, even when they were wounded themselves. They talked about visiting some of the victims and families, still in hospitals; some of them are still going through surgery. Hala, I also want to mention that Governor DeSantis mentioned that he spoke with the president about this foreign national and the fact that there was training going on for him and other foreign nationals here in Pensacola. And he said that, you know, there will be a time, down the road, when it is appropriate for this, but he feels that the government of Saudi Arabia should make things right for the victims here. So he also talked about this being a dark day for this great place, and that's sort of the sentiment that a lot of them had. They're really just thankful for the heroics of their people on the ground here today, and thinking of those victims, Hala, right now, who are recovering.", "All right. Natasha Chen in Pensacola, thanks very much. I'm just checking my Twitter here. The U.S. president, Donald Trump, just tweeted regarding this shooting in Pensacola. \"King Salman of Saudi Arabia just called to express his sincere condolences and give his sympathies to the families and friends of the warriors who were killed and wounded in the attack that took place in Pensacola, Florida.\" Donald Trump, in a second tweet, writes, \"The king said that the Saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter, and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people who love the American people.\" So this tweet, just a couple minutes ago from the U.S. president, you see it on your screen there. We'll have more on this story when we have more details on it. Now, U.S. immigration officials are once again facing questions over how they treat migrant children who are supposed to be in their care. Those questions are louder than ever after a newly released video shows the agonizing final moments of a Guatemalan teen who died in custody without receiving any help or attention. A warning, it's shocking video and very disturbing. Nick Valencia walks us through this story.", "These are the final moments of life for 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant Carlos Hernandez Vasquez. The video is not only disturbing to watch, it calls into question the official narrative released by Border Patrol after the teen's death in May. The security footage was first obtained but the investigative team at ProPublica. In the surveillance video from the early morning hours of May 20th, the Guatemalan teen, who was diagnosed with the flu and a 103-degree fever, can be seen inside his cell at a Border Patrol station in Weslaco, Texas. Time stamps have been added by ProPublica. At 1:20 a.m., Vasquez is seen laying on a concrete bench, appearing to be in pain. Four minutes later, he collapses on the floor, face down, clutching a mylar blanket. After more than 10 minutes and with seemingly no one responding, the teen picks himself up and appears to prop himself against a toilet inside the cell. His feet can be seen flailing for minutes before the video abruptly ends at 1:47 a.m. According to Welfare Check records obtained by ProPublica, Border Patrol says an agent checked on Vasquez three times over the next four and a half hours. The log does not indicate how those checks were done. At 5:48 a.m., the video begins again. Officials did not provide an explanation for the gap. Vasquez still hasn't moved. In an official press release by Border Patrol, the agency says Vasquez was found unresponsive during a welfare check. But video shows it isn't until Vasquez' cell mate wakes up that anyone realizes something is wrong. Several agents are then seen tending to Vasquez, but it's already too late.", "And thanks to Nick Valencia for that report. As Nick said, ProPublica is the nonprofit news organization that first obtained the video of the teenager's death. Eric Umansky is ProPublica's deputy managing editor, and he joins me now. Eric, who is this young man? A Guatemalan teen, 16 years old, he was diagnosed with the flu. He was, in fact, in a holding facility for sick migrants. Why did he die?", "Thanks for having me. So Carlos Hernandez Vasquez, as you've said, a 16-year-old boy. He made his way up from Guatemala, he came with his sister, actually, who's an adult. And they crossed the border, they presented themselves to authorities, and then they were detained. What's supposed to happen is they're supposed to be quickly -- the minors are supposed to be quickly transferred to shelters or family. And that didn't happen here. He wasn't given the appropriate treatment, and he died as a result.", "But the official account contradicts what the video shows, right? Because the video, I understand ProPublica acquired from law enforcement, from police. Border Patrol initially said they conducted welfare checks, but that's not what the video shows.", "Yes. So the video actually shows that the facts seem to contradict the government's account in two different ways. One is that in the -- the government said that they were, as you've noted, were doing repeated wellness checks, is what they call them. And then during one of those wellness checks, the boy was found. In fact, what we see from the video is, though a log shows that somebody, you know, noted welfare checks had been done, the boy, Carlos collapsed and his body stopped moving hours before he was discovered, so that's one thing. If they were conducting wellness checks, they weren't very good wellness checks because they didn't notice that he had stopped moving and was splayed on the ground. And then, second of all, he was not discovered by border agents or government officials. He was discovered -- and the video shows this quite clearly -- by his cell mate, who was actually another sick boy who found him on the ground. You can see him, though, then going to the door, alerting government agents and then coming in. So that's two ways in which this -- in which it contradicts the government story.", "But I guess my question is, why are sick children being held in this way? The cell looks -- it's very bare and basic, they don't even have a bed. If these boys are ill, and so severely ill that they might even die from some sort of respiratory infection of pneumonia, or I'm not sure exactly what killed this young man, but something severe enough that he lost his life, why are they held in such conditions? What do Border Patrol officials say about that?", "Well, border officials have a few specific answers. For this, they say, for example, that they were mistaken about his age, and that that delayed his transfer. They also are not getting into details about this case because they say it's under investigation. The broader reality of this is that Border Patrol was never designed to -- and doesn't really have capacity to hold people for any length of time, right? And they should be transferred. But what has happened because of the stricter policies of the Trump administration is, they've now been stuck with this new role that they simply don't have the capacity and expertise for. One of the things we noted is that last year, there were 20 medical staff working for Border Patrol across about 2,000 miles. And you can do the math, that's not a lot of staff. So --", "Yes.", "-- you end up having some real failures here. And in this case, you know, a nurse had said he should have been checked on, it was written down in her orders. He was not apparently checked on. They said if he got worse or even remained the same, he should go to the hospital. He did not go to the hospital. He was instead transferred to another facility that was a quarantine for other kids with the flu.", "Right. And you tweeted that there's more to come in this investigation? What is ProPublica working on in terms of how some of these kids are held in border facilities?", "Well, broadly speaking, we are -- we have been doing a lot of reporting about Border Patrol and related agencies. And we're going to continue doing that. We have interest both in these specific cases, the treatment of children, and more broadly, how the system is working overall. And I would just say quickly, if people have information, we are very interested in hearing it.", "All right. And they can actually find that link on -- I know you tweeted it out. And this would be the sixth minor migrant death in U.S. custody, I understand?", "That's correct. And that's a little bit of critical context to understand. This was the sixth death of a child who had been detained by Border Patrol in less than a year. In the 10 years prior to that, there had not been one death of a minor.", "Eric Umansky, thanks very much, the deputy managing editor at ProPublica. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["GORANI", "NATASHA CHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GORANI", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GORANI", "ERIC UMANSKY, DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR, PROPUBLICA", "GORANI", "UMANSKY", "GORANI", "UMANSKY", "GORANI", "UMANSKY", "GORANI", "UMANSKY", "GORANI", "UMANSKY", "GORANI"]}
{"id": "CNN-59942", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2002-8-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0208/31/smn.03.html", "summary": "Last-Minute Labor Deal Averts Baseball Strike", "utt": ["Last-minute labor deals keeping the boys of summer playing through the fall. CNN's Larry Smith gives us the nuts and bolts of the deal.", "With the dark clouds from the disastrous 1994 strike still hanging over the game, baseball's antagonists did what Commissioner Bud Selig quips that some thought they'd never live to see. For the first time since 1969, a baseball labor dispute didn't end with a work stoppage. Instead, players and owners agreed to a four-year deal that ensures the completion of this season without interruption, and gives both sides some breathing room to deal with financial issues that continue to bedevil the game.", "It's been a very long time since a collective bargaining agreement in baseball has been negotiated without a work stoppage. And what we can now hope for is that it will be a very long time before a collectively bargaining is agreement is negotiated after a work stoppage.", "This has been a long, very difficult, and winding road, spanning over three-plus decades. But at least today, we were able to do what hasn't been done before.", "Both sides in this acrimonious dispute made concessions. The players received a guarantee that no teams will be eliminated during the term of the new contract, but the owners were able to impose a tax on skyrocketing payrolls that will be phased in starting next year. Minimum salaries go up by 50 percent to $300,000, but players will be tested for steroids, finally joining their counterparts in most of the other major sports.", "You have to compromise sometimes. And I think both sides compromised, and they got into a structure that they felt like we could get a deal done, and there was some compromise made, and the deal was reached.", "But I think players have been sensitive from day one about what it means to the fans and what it means to the game of baseball, and we certainly thought about that. And, you know, it certainly was a part of the process, you know, and I think ultimately it had a part in keeping the two sides together and talking until we got something done.", "Still to be determined is whether Friday's agreement will result in greater competitive balance among the 30 teams, and whether that hoped-for parity will draw disaffected fans back to the game. Under the new contract, the Yankees, winners of four World Series, under the current labor rules could write a check to lesser teams for more than $50 million next year. But it's not clear what mechanism exists to ensure that those extra dollars will be spent on talented players who will bring some wins and fans to small market ball parks. I'm Larry Smith."], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "LARRY SMITH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED OFFICIAL", "UNIDENTIFIED OFFICIAL", "SMITH", "UNIDENTIFIED PLAYER", "UNIDENTIFIED PLAYER", "SMITH"]}
{"id": "CNN-347181", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2018-08-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/09/acd.01.html", "summary": "Judge in Manafort Trial Tells Jurors He Was Wrong in Criticizing Prosecutors; First Lady's Parents Now U.S. Citizens, Use \"Chain Migration\" President Hates.", "utt": ["The judge in the Paul Manafort tax fraud case has made plenty of headlines so far today. He made headlines for admitting he was wrong. But that wasn't the only the piece of news from the courtroom. The other big item about the government's star witness Rick Gates could signal just how important Mueller still believes he is. Our Jim Sciutto has more in that and joins us now from the courthouse. So, what are you learning about a discussion that lawyers had with the judge about Gates?", "Well, Anderson, as the president continues to attack the whole Mueller investigation as a witch hunt, that's run its course, we learned more evidence that in fact, the focus of this investigation, beyond the Manafort trial, the question of Russian interference and the question of whether the Trump campaign cooperated with that Russian interference is still an open investigation. There was some testimony on Tuesday, where Rick Gates, of course, the former deputy campaign chairman for the Trump campaign, was questioned about his interviews, more than 20 interviews with the special counsel. The prosecutor here said he wanted that testimony kept secret, because as the prosecutor described in papers presented to the judge, that relates to an ongoing criminal investigation in his words. What are the two lines of investigation special counsel are looking at? Manafort's financial crimes as we've been following these last few days at court, but also Russian interference and was there any cooperation from the Trump campaign? By the prosecutors saying there that that is part of an ongoing criminal investigation, you get an indication that that line of inquiry is still not closed, Anderson.", "That's fascinating. There have also been clashes between the prosecutors and the judge in the case. The judge at one point admitting he was wrong. What else did he say?", "Right. You know, that's been one of the interesting qualities of this trial here. Judge Ellis is a very vocal judge. I've been inside that courtroom, as he is at times chastised the prosecutor almost like a schoolteacher, telling him to look him in the eye and give a yes answer instead of a yeah answer. But there was a moment yesterday where the judge disputed the prosecution's ability to keep an expert witness inside the courtroom, in this case, a former IRS agent and expert tax witness. Of course, the crimes alleged here involved tax evasion. The prosecutor said, wait a second, judge, you approved of this decision earlier, just look at the transcript. So, lo and behold, they looked at the transcript and the judge did in fact approve that. So, today, a bit of mea culpa from the judge saying, you're right, I did say that was OK, you know, my fault, my bad.", "All right. Jim Sciutto, thanks very much. Coming up now, a happy moment for First Lady Melania Trump. Viktor and Amalija Knavs were granted citizenship today. They're the parents of Melania Trump. However, what's obviously a big day for her and her parents is also drawing attention to the president's controversial calls to end the immigration policy that brought them here. You see, according to a source with direct knowledge, Melania Trump did what so many children do, she sponsored her parents' green cards. This type of family visa is exactly the type that President Trump is trying to eliminate. He calls it chain migration.", "Under the current broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives. We want to get rid of chain migration. Ending chain migration. Ending chain migration. You have chain migration. This was a Schumer deal. Schumer wanted this. We have to get rid of chain migration, all of these things we're talking about. A guy comes in and then you have to bring his aunt, his uncle, his father, his grandfather, his grandson. A total disaster which threatens our security and our economy. His third niece by a different marriage -- And provides a gateway for terrorism. They think it's good politically. I'll tell you what? I think it's horrible politically. What do I know? But I did become president in like a year and a half.", "Well, the first in-law's attorney calls it family reunification, not immigration and bedrock policy. The first lady's office declined to comment. More on this now from MJ Lee, who joins us now. So, what else can you tell us about the process the first lady's parents went through to become citizens today?", "Well, Anderson, we're really learning for the first time today how Melania Trump's parents came to this country and became American citizens earlier today. A source with knowledge tells me that it was in fact the first lady who sponsored her parents, Victor and Amalija Knavs, for their green card. And to be clear, and as you made clear, this is not out of the ordinary. This is a way that many Americans bring their family members to this country. The first lady's parents, as you know, are from Slovenia. We've seen them around Washington, D.C., and sometimes travel with the president and first lady. But up until today, we didn't have clarity on how it was that they had gotten their green cards. Well, it turns out the first lady took advantage of the family migration card like so many others do in this country, so that her parents could settle down here.", "And this is obviously all in contrast from the president's own position. Has the White House had anything to say about the disconnect?", "Yes, you know, I think it's incredibly noteworthy that Melania did this for her parents and this is a practice that her husband, the president, does not like. In fact, we've heard President Trump, you just played a great clip there, rail against the family migration policy many, many times. He refers to it as chain migration. And that particular part of family visa is a category that Trump wants to get rid of all together because he says they are harmful to this country. Now, the first lady's office is not commenting on any of this. However, we do have a statement from Viktor and Amalija Knavs' immigration lawyer, Michael Wilde (ph). He told me earlier today. He said, I can't comment on the president's politics when it comes to my clients, but I have stood up against the president's immigration policies personally. So, you're seeing a real disconnect here between the president's policy views on this and the fact that his wife has taken advantage of that policy for her parents -- Anderson.", "All right. MJ Lee, appreciate it. A source close to the White House tells CNN that President Trump is scheduled to have dinner tonight with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. This in the middle of the ongoing back and forth about whether, in fact, the president will agree to be interviewed by the special counsel. Pros and cons of that, ahead."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "SCIUTTO", "COOPER", "TRUMP", "COOPER", "MJ LEE, CNN NATIONAL POLITICS REPORTER", "COOPER", "LEE", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-143510", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-10-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/01/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Higher Charges on Checking Accounts", "utt": ["A quick check now of our top stories. The H1N1 vaccine should be available in some areas beginning next week. But will Americans line up for the shot? A new poll from Consumer Reports suggests the majority of adults are now either reluctant or simply not sure if they or their children will get vaccinated. GM is pulling the plug on Saturn. Penske Automotive has backed out of a deal to buy the brand. It says it can't find a manufacturer to make the car. Three hundred fifty Saturn dealerships will close. GM hopes to save many factory jobs by increasing production on other models. Consumer spending rises, but so does the number of first-time jobless clamss. Here's a look at some key economic reports out today. The Labor Department says first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose to 551,000 last week. That's up 17,000 from the previous week. The Commerce Department says personal income inched up jus just .2 percent in August. On a positive note here, consumer spending jumped 1.3 percent, fueled by the popular Cash for Clunkers program. Higher charges on your checking account, you can bank on that. A new study finds bank fees have reached an all-time high. Christine Romans of our CNN Money team live from New York with details. I'm going to bite my tongue just a bit here. I'm going to allow you to explain what's going on. Now, Christine, some of the big banks last week announced they were doing something about overdraft fees.", "That's right.", "Are we talking about those fees and others?", "We're talking about those fees and others. And, you know, consumers and, frankly, people in Congress have been howling, howling about this. BankRate.com doing a survey of the banks, finding that, big surprise, record amounts of these fees -- let's look at what they are. For bounced checks, you're going to pay on average a fee of $29.58. Overdraft fee, it's up to $36. And Tony, if you are a repeat offender, if you have more than five or six overdrafts in one billing cycle, in a month, for example, you could see an even higher rate than that. I mean, they charge you more, the more you do this. ATM surcharge, $2.22. I'll tell you right now what I think of those ATM surcharges. You are giving your money away. Do not go to an ATM machine of a bank that is not your bank, period. You're just giving money away when you do that. Service fees, about $12.55. How to avoid them? Greg McBride at Bank Rate says, look, you've got to take back control. You have got to take back control. You cannot be bouncing checks. You've got to check out the differences between your accounts and realize that there are fees attached to some of these accounts. You've got to read the fine print and start looking around. You've got to set up overdraft protection so that, for example, they take some money out of a savings account if you're overdrawn on your bank account. But remember, they could still charge you a fee for that, but it's likely less of a fee. And use your bank's ATM. You can also just call your bank and say, look, if I don't have money in my act, don't let me keep charging. It's almost like you're set up to fail here. Like, they can charge you numerous times in a single day. They can also reorder your charges so that you can get hit with an overdraft charge four or five or six times right in a row. That being said, this is an interesting statistic. According to the FDIC, 75 percent of people with bank accounts do not pay these fees, Tony. Seventy-five percent of us are not paying these fees because we're not overcharging. It's a quarter of the people are racking up tens of billions of dollars of these charges, either because they're living so close to the edge because they have to, or because for 15 or 20 years, credit was so cheap and easy, people just always thought there was going to be money there at the other end, even if it wasn't their money, it was borrowed money. Remember, when you're overdrawn on your account, you're getting an emergency loan to help you pay, and then the bank is charging you a fortune. I mean, the interest on a $20 overcharge, Tony, $20 overcharge, you pay it two weeks later. You've got a $27 fine on it. That interest is about 3,500 percent.", "Force me, Christine, to opt in for overdraft protection. Don't force me to opt out. I don't even know that I have it.", "Yes. Almost everybody has it. That's why I say call your bank and say, look, I don't want you to help me out if I'm overdrawn. I want that card to be -- I want it to be rejected right there. And you can do that. You can call and say, I don't want you to give me that emergency loan at 3,500 percent interest. And I think that people in Congress are going to make sure that that's -- I honestly think that that's going to end up happening over the next weeks and months.", "You just described the opting out scenario. I want to start a new account at a new bank, and I want to be forced to ask for it.", "Yes. And I think that's what Congress is going to make them do. But there's two ways to look at this. You're either being robbed, or you're giving your money away. Think about that.", "Yes. All right, Christine. Appreciate it. Thank you.", "Right.", "The rich are getting poorer. Forbes' new list of the 400 wealthiest Americans is out, and even the people with the fattest wallets are taking a hit in this recession.", "Are you tired of paying Uncle Sam? Well, listen to this. Forty-seven percent of Americans may not have to pay federal taxes. Find out why simply by logging on to CNNMoney.com. The president leaves this afternoon for Denmark in hopes of bringing the Olympics back to the United States."], "speaker": ["HARRIS", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "ROMANS", "HARRIS", "ROMANS", "HARRIS", "ROMANS", "HARRIS", "ROMANS", "HARRIS", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-141205", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-8-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/02/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Interview with Warren Ballentine and Martha Zoller; Wild Fire in La Palm", "utt": ["OK. The White House beer summit may have done some good. May have. Professor -- Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates extended an olive branch to Cambridge, Massachusetts police officer -- police sergeant, I should say, James Crowley without the president even being there. I want you to listen to what Professor Gates said earlier at his book signing in Cape Cod.", "You know what, I like Crowley. I thought that we would like each other, and, yes, I don't know what we'll talk about. I asked him if he would have lunch with me one-on-one. I asked him maybe we could go to a Red Sox game together, maybe go to a Celtics game together. Maybe we could have dinner with our families, you know. Why not? You know, I offered to get his kids into Harvard.", "All right. So no word on when that game or the dinner summit might happen, and they probably won't tell us because they don't want all the cameras. Martha Zoller, Warren Ballentine, our radio hosts are here tonight. Well, guys, you know, the beer summit, we've been hearing a lot about it. And you know, I know from Sergeant Crowley, speaking to his friends and his family, and then him, as well. He can't speak to the media anymore. He says, you know, I can't talk to me anymore. He wants to move beyond this, he said. And he really wants to figure out a way to work with Professor Gates to try to get the country and people to listen and have a different understanding about race and racial profiling, and they seem, both men, seem very sincere about this. And by the way, I contacted Professor Gates, and he said, I'm all talked out, man so...", "Well, I think that really...", "And then we'll move on.", "We saw that Sergeant Crowley had a great record. He seems like a guy that's together. But I think in this case the president and Henry Louis Gates jumped to conclusions about policemen -- before they knew all the facts.", "Warren? Warren?", "Well, you know, I'm going to say this. I'm glad that they were able to come together and come together as human beings and see who they are as humans, but the bigger issue isn't even about race here for me. The big issue is that the cop misquoted things or falsified things on the police report. That could have been anybody. They could have ended up in jail because of something that he put down on that police report. That's the big concern here.", "Well...", "As Americans we all should be concerned about that.", "But the bigger issue is how will this affect President Obama's working class, public safety type folks? I mean you saw in the interview, Don, that you did this week.", "Yes.", "You got a surprise answer.", "So here you go. This is what -- you know, Warren, people are saying about the falsifying of the police report, that is an accusation. We're not sure, you know, if that is a falsification or if that is what he remembered. So, you know.", "He wrote it down, Don. That's factual. That's factual.", "Still to be determined. Still to be determined. But let's move on and say this. I think Martha brings up a very good point when she talks about the president because a lot of people are saying they're hoping that this is not just a photo-op, and it appears that the two men involved in this don't want it to be a photo-op and are working towards that end. But where does the White House go from here? They sort of put themselves in the middle of this mess.", "Yes, they want to end it here, I think.", "OK.", "And I think the president will not comment on local police matters anymore.", "OK. We want to end it right here, too. That is the end of it. OK, moving on, an issue that everyone that cares about really is the economy. So, Martha, a top adviser to President Obama is drawing some extra attention for refusing to rule out, you know, a middle class tax hike, you know, to help with the deficit, and your listeners all along were concerned about this.", "Absolutely. And I think Geithner is kind of seeing what the response is going to be, Secretary Geithner, but I think that President Obama is smart enough to know that that is not going to work, and it's not going to work unless there is spending retraction that goes along with that. I'll use a pretty word about it since we called the economy retracting or contracting. The spending has to get smaller, too. And that's what's got to happen. It's not just on taxes alone.", "OK. You know what's really helping out, though, a lot of people in the middle class, Warren, is the Cash for Clunkers program? But there's a lot of confusion. And you know, it may be over before -- almost before it got started.", "Yes, but we got to be truthful about this, too. I support the administration, but let's call a spade a spade. They put this in place because they're tied in GM. Of course, they want people to buy cars. They want to get economy moving through the car dealership because they have a principle ownership in it. And honestly, Don, so many other things they could have been doing with this money. They could have been putting it into education. They could have been putting it into jobs. I mean if they're going to really use this money, forget clunkers. Give me some books in these schools so these kids can get educated and keep up with the rest of the world.", "Martha?", "Well, and I think when you look at what the dealers get out of this, they are going to sell cars and get service, but that cost them to -- what do they have to do to these clunkers before they actually get the money, they net about 50 bucks. That's all. And so it's a real problem, but I got to tell you, I want to see the money given back to the people, not saying you just have to buy certain cars. You know there was one family-sized car that was in that group of cars you could buy. And I'm sure a lot of families need a new car.", "Let's talk about trying to get money into coffers or what have you . When you start talking about the possibility of legalizing marijuana, that is really catching fire in California, and it's a real possibility in California. And where does that take us? What if it happens? Where does that take the rest of the country?", "Well, Don, I have to say this. I'm syndicated across the country. Over 3 million listeners in 25 states and on satellite. I did a show nothing but, do we want to legalize marijuana? Overwhelmingly yes. Legalize it, tax it, let's clean up the debt that we owe so we can go back to being America. I know a lot of moms and a lot of people who'll say well, we don't want to legalize it. Guess what? The kids are getting it anyway. Why not put a tax on it?", "Here's what surprised me the last time we talked about this -- we had this conversation. It wasn't quite about California. But...", "Right.", "Martha said hey, you know, I'm reconsidering it. A conservative Martha Republican -- I mean, come on.", "Yes, I mean -- I get torn because if we say, oh, they're just going to do it anyway, then what are we going to do, tax condoms? We're going to tax this and that and the other thing, but I have been thinking about it, haven't made my mind up because it's a tough issue. It's a touch issue to say legalize marijuana when we know where that leads.", "Do you know there are a number of conservatives who may feel the same way that you do, Martha.", "I think a lot of people are looking about it, thinking about it. I mean heck we can't keep taxing cigarettes and liquors.", "The governor of California hasn't come out and said he completely supports it but you know I think that he's on board somewhere there.", "Well, California is like a small country that's about to go off...", "And so all the conservatives out there, I would tell you just look at the data between marijuana and alcohol as far as what it does to your body. That's what turned me because I have never been a weed smoker, I don't advocate it but when I looked at what was happening to people who are alcoholics and so what they were doing to their bodies compared to weed smokers, it was alarming. The difference, how much alcohol is killing us and it's legal.", "OK. But I've got to say this, Dr. Ballentine, which you're not, we know you're an attorney.", "That is true. That is true.", "Liver and some cirrhosis and psoriasis there. OK, so thank you guys.", "Thanks, guys.", "This conversation went somewhere I didn't expected to go but I enjoyed it. I hope you did.", "We did. Thank you.", "A concert stage collapses as a major movie star was about to go on. Who was it? Plus homes wrecked and planes flipped as storm whipped across the northeast. Our Jacqui Jeras will show us more on this."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., PROFESSOR, HARVARD UNIVERSITY", "LEMON", "MARTHA ZOLLER, HOST, \"THE MARTHA ZOLLER SHOW\"", "LEMON", "ZOLLER", "LEMON", "WARREN BALLENTINE, HOST, \"THE WARREN BALLENTINE SHOW\"", "ZOLLER", "BALLENTINE", "ZOLLER", "LEMON", "ZOLLER", "LEMON", "BALLENTINE", "LEMON", "ZOLLER", "LEMON", "ZOLLER", "LEMON", "ZOLLER", "LEMON", "BALLENTINE", "LEMON", "ZOLLER", "LEMON", "BALLENTINE", "LEMON", "ZOLLER", "LEMON", "ZOLLER", "LEMON", "ZOLLER", "LEMON", "ZOLLER", "BALLENTINE", "LEMON", "BALLENTINE", "LEMON", "ZOLLER", "LEMON", "ZOLLER", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-381809", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-10-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/01/nday.04.html", "summary": "Researchers Race To Find Cause Of Vaping-Related Illnesses.", "utt": ["All right. This morning, we're learning a Nebraska man is the 14th person to die in the U.S. from vaping. The CDC now reports more than 800 documented cases of vaping-related illnesses. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta talked to researchers working to pinpoint the cause of these illnesses. Dr. Gupta joins us now with the very latest on that -- Sanjay.", "Yes, John, and there's been 46 states now where people have gotten ill as well, so that gives you an idea of the scope of this. John, you know, we talk about the fact that there are sort of two separate issues really at play here with regard to vaping. One we talked about yesterday, which is the concern about youth nicotine addiction. But today, we want to talk about, as you say, this sort of -- what's been called the mystery illness. What exactly is making people sick or even dying. It's an ongoing investigation but here's what we've learned so far.", "I had the shivers and I couldn't control it, so I would just randomly convulse.", "His is a story now repeated hundreds of times around the country.", "I couldn't control myself.", "Young, healthy, and then suddenly struggling for his life.", "To be laying in a bed and not being able to breathe, it's every parents' nightmare.", "It is cases like Adam Hergenreder's that have prompted the Centers for Disease Control to now open their emergency operations center.", "I'm used to it being activated around things like Ebola or hurricanes and things like that. Why vaping?", "The outbreak of pulmonary injury associated with vaping or e-cigarettes is an emergency. We're seeing young people become critically ill and die.", "Most frightening, eight weeks into the investigation no one knows exactly why.", "It's important to say that no single product, substance, brand or additive is linked to all the cases right now. And what is on a label may not actually be what the product is.", "Our guidance is quite simple -- don't do it. Don't do it because we don't know that it is safe.", "Why did you do it?", "I didn't think there was any risk in trying it. I'd never heard about anybody having any negative effects from it, so I thought that I had nothing to lose.", "Last year, Jay Jenkins and a friend drove to a convenience store and bought a product labeled CBD, called Yolo -- Yolo, meaning you only live once -- and they vaped it.", "I took two puffs off of it. The next thing I know I'm feeling crazy, not thinking straight, and not being able to move.", "Within seconds, Jay lost consciousness and started to have frightening hallucinations. His friend drove him to Lexington Medical Center where he started having seizures and breathing difficulties.", "I thought that I was in hell and that I was already dead.", "So what did cause Jay to react so violently? It's what Professor Michelle Peace has been trying to answer.", "They call it the vape lab? Is that what happens?", "Well, originally, we called it the vape lab.", "What her lab and others have shown is that two- thirds of these products are not what they seem. Some have THC, some have other things. Jay Jenkins, he had vaped a totally synthetic substance. It had no CBD whatsoever and no way to know who manufactured it.", "Is the CBD supply chain safe?", "There are pockets or lanes in the supply chain that, right now, probably cannot be trusted. Identifying those lanes, good luck.", "I think that for the consumer, you really need to be aware right now. Something is leading to death in a number of people and leaving otherwise healthy young people to be hospitalized in intensive care on mechanical ventilators.", "We just don't know what it is. But a possible hint, according to the CDC, nearly 80 percent of people reported using vape products containing THC, whereas just 16 percent reported using nicotine-only vape products. And keep in mind, because THC is illegal in many states, there might be many more people who used it but won't admit it.", "And science says that what's in that liquid isn't necessarily the same composition that's in the vaper.", "Julie Zimmerman is part of the team of Yale researchers focused on the chemical and physical reactions when people vape.", "There are chemical reactions happening in that solution after the manufacturer mixes the chemicals, even without any heating. The FDA actually regulates them and calls them generally regarded as safe, but that designation is for eating ingestion, not for inhalation -- breathing them into your lungs.", "You sort of super-heat these chemicals with these heavy metal coils. You sort of atomize these molecules. They get back into your lungs, they reaccumulate or re-congeal. I mean, I don't know what that does to the body, just like they didn't know what cigarettes did to the body when they first came out. Does that part of it worry you?", "So, it worries me, for sure, because we don't know the long-term effects. But it doesn't worry me for smokers.", "Dr. Michael Siegel is a professor of public health at Boston University.", "It doesn't worry me for smokers because I know that one out of every two of them is going to die from smoking if they continue to smoke.", "If you can't be certain that something is safe right now, would the CDC recommend, at least for the time being, that people just not do it?", "What we're recommending is if you're concerned about your health risks in light of this investigation that you consider not using e-cigarettes or vaping products until we know more.", "It's a warning Jay Jenkins has heard.", "I certainly won't do it again.", "You won't?", "I will not. I took a chance and lost once but luckily, they were able to safe my life.", "One of the -- one of the concerns we've heard many times come up is where has the FDA been in all of this. I think it's safe to say that there is now a lot of traction -- a lot of movement. FDA is looking on several fronts at regulation, including the type of product that Jay Jenkins took -- a CBD product -- which is legal federally because it's CBD hemp, but not well-regulated. So he bought a -- he bought a product from a -- from a convenience store and paid with a credit card. And yet, the product that was labeled CBD was not CBD at all. That's one of the problems the FDA is going to have to address, John.", "Again, Sanjay, we're so glad you're on this story. Thank you for all of your reporting on this. There is another major medical story we're reporting on this morning. We're learning that major drugstores here in the United States are pulling both the brand name Zantac and its generic forms from the shelves. Why? What do consumers need to know here?", "Well, this is interesting and this is a problem that we've heard before regarding this impurity called NDMA. It's actually shown up in other medications in the past at low levels and now seems to show up in the -- in the Zantac or ranitidine, which is the actual name for it. It's a -- it's an impurity that in large amounts has been associated with cancer in animals. In low amounts in humans, we don't know. But these drugstores chains, including CVS, are being pretty cautious here. I will say that the FDA is being a little less concerned. They're basically saying look, these levels are such low amounts that the same amounts that are found in many common foods. So they say look, you can consider switching from Zantac to another over-the-counter medication if you're concerned. But the FDA seems less concerned. My guess is that this is going to be off the market for a while. Hopefully, they'll figure out this impurity. And if this is a medication you're reliant on, I think it will probably come back at some point.", "OK, Sanjay, thank you very much. Oh, I'm talking now -- hi.", "Well, this is just like the puppet.", "Thank you. Thanks for all the information. OK, now to this. This afternoon, New York Congressman Chris Collins, who you'll remember as the first congressman to endorse President Trump -- well, he's expected to plead guilty to insider trading charges. CNN's Brynn Gingras joins us with more. What have you learned, Brynn?", "Yes, Alisyn, pleading guilty and resigning from Congress. Chris Collins' resignation from Congress is actually going to be effective this morning when it's addressed on the House floor. And it's really a turn of events for a man who adamantly denied any wrongdoing multiple times, even as he battled to get reelected to his House seat last year. The congressman from Upstate New York will plead guilty, as Alisyn said, this afternoon. To what charges is unclear. But last August, federal prosecutors accused him of giving inside trading information about an Australian biopharmaceutical company. Now, Collins served on the board of that company and he essentially gave a heads-up to his son and an associate when the drug failed an important drug trial, allowing them to dump stock, according to prosecutors. Now, prior to his change of heart, Collins pleaded not guilty to the original indictment and again when the charges were revised. And he won reelection in 2018 even with this hanging over his head. Collins represents a historically red state district. Of course, as Alisyn said, he was the first congressman to endorse Donald Trump for president. And, Collins' son and an associate who were charged with the congressman, are also expected to change their pleas later this week. So we should learn more about this, this afternoon, Alisyn.", "Yes, Brynn. I remember he would -- he's been on our program many times.", "Yes.", "We've asked him, I think, specifically about this. It's interesting to see how this is all played out. Thank you very much. And thanks to our international viewers for watching. For you, \"CNN NEWSROOM\" with Christina McFarlane is next. And for our U.S. viewers, a member of the House Intelligence Committee joins us next on their impeachment push. NEW DAY continues right now.", "We're trying to find out about a whistleblower.", "Any rational person would be concerned about the whistleblower's safety after the president's comments.", "The president now has to worry about conversations that he's having with world leaders being leaked to the press. That is not good.", "The fact that Mike Pompeo - END"], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "ADAM HERGENREDER, VAPER", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "HERGENREDER", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "POLLY HERGENREDER, ADAM'S MOTHER", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "GUPTO (on camera)", "DR. ANNE SCHUCHAT, PRINCIPAL DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION", "GUPTA (voice-over)", "SCHUCHAT", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-26078", "program": "Breaking News", "date": "2001-2-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/20/bn.19.html", "summary": "Break-in Reported at Home of John and Patsy Ramsey", "utt": ["Let me bring you up to date on the JonBenet Ramsey story. Apparently, there was a call to 911 at 11:12 a.m. from someone who is identified as saying that he was Mr. Ramsey, and claiming that a man had broken into his home and that he had been tied up by a tall -- I quote -- \"black man.\" There is nothing further. The man said that the man who broke in fled the scene in a gray Chevy Cavalier. I repeat, John Ramsey allegedly has called 911 and said that his home was broken into and that he was tied up by a tall black man who fled the scene in a gray Chevy Cavalier."], "speaker": ["ROGER COSSACK, LEGAL CNN ANALYST"]}
{"id": "CNN-303610", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2017-01-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/21/ndaysat.02.html", "summary": "Women's March To Begin Soon In Washington; Interview with Rep. Debbie Dingell", "utt": ["Americans are descending on Washington DC at this hour for what is expected to be a large women's march to the backyard of the White House. CNN's Kyung Lah is live in the National Mall where the marchers are already assembling. What are you seeing, Kyung?", "Well, Alisyn, we are two-and- a-half hours before speakers begin to take the stage here and we have a pretty sizable crowd. There is no way I could count exactly how many people there are, but you can see that we are surrounded by people right here. And then, just over their heads, if you look that way, that's the main stage. In about two-and-and-half hours, we're anticipating a large number speakers to speak for about three to four hours. There are various celebrities from Scarlett Johansson to Julianne Moore to women's leaders like Cecile Richards and Gloria Steinem. But I kind of want to give you a sense of what this crowd is. You can see that -- a good number of faces here. We've got some of these women here from -- where are you from?", "I'm from Atlanta.", "We've heard women from South Carolina as well as from California. And then if you can look at those signs here, the thing that strikes me is that there aren't a ton of anti-Trump signs. It's a lot of very positive, women-forward signs, a lot of issues like Black Lives Matter. And what you're also seeing here are a large number of hats. This has been a viral movement. And if you just scan the crowd here, you can see a number of these ladies are wearing hats. You'll also see men. You can see this gentleman here. He's wearing a Planned Parenthood scarf. So, a variety of people. And a jovial crowd. If I had to describe, Chris, what this crowd is like, it's almost like before a concert or a peaceful event. Two hundred and fifty thousand women and men are expected to take part according to the organizers. Six hundred sister marches expected to take place across the country. Alisyn, Chris?", "All right. Kyung, thank you very much. Keep us updated. Joining us now Democratic Congresswoman from Michigan, Debbie Dingell. Good to see you --", "Good morning.", "-- as always.", "Good to see you. Nice to be in the studio.", "So, the word is that this isn't just about DC. These marches will be across the country, maybe as many as 600, about 1.5 million signed up online. We'll see how many actually show. Internationally, there is some echo effect of this as well. What do you believe it speaks to?", "You know, I think it's a coming together of community today. I was real pleased to hear the report that you see that women are trying to be positive. They care about the future of this country. They are coming together for democracy. We're going to see a lot of people here. But I'm leaving. I'm going to gather in Hancock Park. We've got 100 buses. We've got 7,500 women coming just from Michigan. And then I'm racing to the airport and I'm going to do a march in Ypsilanti, Michigan and a march in Ann Arbor, Michigan at the end of the day. We pull ourselves together across the country.", "Protest, dissent, uniquely American.", "Freedom of speech.", "Freedom of speech.", "Let's not even be negative in how we frame it. CUOMO, Well, look: I'm suggesting that you will see plenty of negativity because there's a lot of reaction formation to our new president. And part of the criticism to that reaction is \"You lost, move on with it, don't delay these confirmation hearings, you know, don't speak out against the president, give him a chance.\" What do you make of that criticism?", "So, I'm going to say a couple of different things. One, even in the pre-program hearing, you saw that she was talking about positivity. And I think the women today are trying to be positive. I think yesterday, you saw a lot of different people here. I think you saw some of the professional demonstrators we see at the World Bank. We saw people just come from home scared. And they wanted to make sure that their voices were heard, and that that's why they were here. And I think yesterday was a day of democracy. The symbol of a peaceful transfer of government is one of the most important symbols we have, but freedom of speech is a fundamental pillar.", "Those protesters have to try to weed the malefactors out of their ranks. When guys break windows, when they fire --", "Let me be really clear, I got caught in it.", "It was a riot.", "It scared me and I ended up not going. Two things, because I didn't want to -- you know me, I go by myself. And I didn't want to walk by myself.", "So, the next layer of it is how do you react to the president, President Trump, the confirmation hearings? We've got Mattis, we've got Kelly. Pompeo is being held up. That's not unusual in the tradition of these confirmation hearings. But with the rest of them, you don't have the votes to stop these confirmations in the senate unless you get GOP defections. What is the strategy at play for the democrats?", "I think that -- well, first of all, I was very happy to hear him to say yesterday, last night, he's going to reopen NAFTA. You know, I've said to you for two years he's just tapping in on trade, and I've said this from the beginning, if he's going to do things that like help the working men and people of my district in this country, I'm going to be right there with him. We need to reopen NAFTA. We have bad trade deals, and we're not playing on a level playing field. But if he tries to privatize social security and Medicare, if he tries to create a Muslim data registry, he's going to meet a buzz saw like none that he has ever seen. And I do think that we cannot rush things through in confirmation hearings. There are serious ethics issues that we've got to make sure that people are looking in and understanding potential conflicts of interest. That's responsible government.", "What did you take from the address yesterday? What did American carnage mean to you?", "I'd have to say to that, I was disheartened yesterday. I always felt that I should be there, because it is a fundamental transfer of government. And I think everybody needed to make their own decision, but I'm -- I believe in democracy, I believe in working with everybody --", "60 members of your rank in the house didn't go.", "And they chose not to -- and that's their right to choose. But I -- but I think I was the most disheartened back then because I'd hope he would do something to pull us all together. He didn't acknowledge any of the sitting presidents that were sitting there. So, I have to say that, you know, there -- we got to pull together. If this country is going to succeed, we've got to pull together, and --", "Except -- look, everybody always wants unity, right? But there --", "Unity doesn't mean you got to get along. Unity means you respect each other.", "Well, that's fine. Some civil discourse would be nice, but I think that the defense of the message yesterday from Donald Trump's perspective would be, \"There are people who feel ignored and forgotten by your party, and I speak for them. And they don't like what happens here. And they don't like how you guys do your job, and I'm not going to forget that.\"", "So, you know, I've been saying that for two years. And if that's what we were connecting with, and that that's a problem out there. But when I talk about it, I'm also respectful. And I talk about -- I want to reach across the aisle. I want to talk with all -- we've got to be about change. So, I'm going to do it. I've said to you I'm going to -- if he -- I cannot wait to reopen NAFTA with him. And I want to take the time to understand what both the auto companies and the UAW think matters, as we reopen that. We got to do our homework, too. It can't be rhetoric. It can't just be words. OK. How do we create that level playing field? I'm going to do the homework, too.", "You got to separate foreign and domestic. We'll talk about foreign in a different date, because it wasn't a big emphasis for the president yesterday, and we'll see what he does going forward. But domestically, it really seems like Donald Trump and this emerging part of the Republican Party has eaten your lunch, as democrats. You were the lunch pail party; you were the blue collar party -- no more. Now, you're seen as culture warriors and elitists. What do you do about that?", "It is a real challenge for this party and I have been saying this for a while. So, I'm going to try to be a voice for the middleclass economic issues, because that's what our party has to start talking about. And we've got a challenge. We have a very real challenge, which is how do we continue to be a voice for those that have no voice. How are we -- but how are we going to have identity politics and also be an inclusive party that working men and women in this country. And I don't care what race they are or -- that we're going to be a voice for everybody. And they need to know we're fighting for them.", "The great equalizer is the paycheck. Congressman Dingell, as we know, we'll be covering the actions that follow up the words on both sides. Thanks for being with us.", "You know I'm going to be there, thank you.", "Americans still very much divided about a Trump presidency. You don't need me to tell you that. Up next, Alisyn is going to sit down with a group of voters who have some civil disagreement. Can you believe that? Hopefully, it's the way forward. More of our special coverage live from Washington, next."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "KYUNG LAH, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "LAH", "CUOMO", "REP. DEBBIE DINGELL (D), MICHIGAN", "CUOMO", "DINGELL", "CUOMO", "DINGELL", "CUOMO", "DINGELL", "CUOMO", "DINGELL", "DINGELL", "CUOMO", "DINGELL", "CUOMO", "DINGELL", "CUOMO", "DINGELL", "CUOMO", "DINGELL", "CUOMO", "DINGELL", "CUOMO", "DINGELL", "CUOMO", "DINGELL", "CUOMO", "DINGELL", "CUOMO", "DINGELL", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "NPR-12327", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2013-05-25", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2013/05/25/186560428/chasing-okla-storms-technology-can-only-go-so-far", "title": "Chasing Okla. Storms: 'Technology Can Only Go So Far'", "summary": "Host Scott Simon speaks with Val Castor, the senior \"StormTracker\" for News 9 in Oklahoma City, about what it's like to do the job in one of the most climatically volatile regions of the country.", "utt": ["When huge tornadoes, like the one that hit Moore, churn, swirl and scream, most people run for cover. Then there are people like Val Castor, who jumps into his truck and heads straight towards it. Mr. Castor is the senior storm tracker for Channel 9 News in Oklahoma City. He's been covering Oklahoma's temperamental and often treacherous weather for the last 22 years. Val Castor, we had the honor of spending a little time with you in your truck a couple of years ago. Thank you for being with us today.", "Well, it's good to be here, Scott.", "Well, what can you tell by looking at a tornado that all the machines and software they have nowadays might miss?", "People ask why do you have storm chasers when you have all this technology? But Doppler radar and technology can only go so far. And you need the eyes and ears in the field to see if there really is a tornado on the ground, because radar will not tell you. Radar will tell you if there's rotation in the clouds and it will tell you how strong the rotation at that level, but it will not tell you if there's a tornado on the ground and that's what the storm chasers are for.", "Could you give us an estimate how many tornadoes you'll see in a spring season?", "Well, you know, generally, on any average year, we see anywhere between, I would say, 10 and 20 tornadoes per year. Last year, for an example, was a pretty high-frequency year for tornadoes in parts of our state. And we saw 28 tornadoes last year. This year has been a very slow start to the year early. In March, in April and about the first half of May, there was almost nothing. And then all of the sudden just this last week everything hit all at once. And we've seen 11 tornadoes in the past week.", "I wonder: when you see tornado after tornado and they don't have the kind of devastating effect that this EF5 one did, does it begin to make people who grow up in that area take their safety for granted?", "Well, you know, the people of Oklahoma are very tornado savvy. And so you sometimes get, I think, so accustomed to seeing tornadoes that it becomes less and less of a big deal to us and a lot of people will go out just to see it and maybe to take video of it. And that's why when we get on the air and this tornado, just like the May 3rd of 1999 tornado - I know our chief meteorologist, Gary England, at the station probably made a statement that saved a lot of lives. He said if you're not underground you're not going to survive this tornado. And at that point, people took it seriously. And I know that the storm trackers in the field, including myself, were describing the tornado as strongly as we could.", "Your wife is also a storm chaser, and you've got six children.", "Right.", "Do you ever think about moving to Maine and opening a quilting shop?", "Well, first of all, I don't know how to quilt. Second of all...", "You can learn, you can learn.", "You know, it's not that exciting, and third of all, you know, I storm chase because I feel that God has called me to do that. I feel it is a calling that I have to be a benefit to the public out here to help keep people safe.", "Do you learn something about life or something by seeing so many tornadoes straight in the face?", "Yeah. And, you know, when we go out there and we chase, I mean, you know, we try to keep personal feelings out of it as much as possible because we're trying to do our job. When we see something this big and this strong, immediately we know that there's going to be injuries and there's probably going to be people killed. We don't want to see that. We hate to see that. You know, it really hits closet to the heart 'cause I do have six kids. You know, when I hear stories about kids at elementary schools, that's where it really hits home. You know, I was telling someone else just a while ago that after that long day - I think I got home about 12:30 at night - I woke up every one of my six kids and hugged them.", "Well, we're glad you're together and grateful that you found some time for us in obviously a very busy and important week. Val Castor, who's the senior storm tracker for News 9 in Oklahoma City. Thanks so much.", "You're welcome. Thank you, Scott."], "speaker": ["SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "VAL CASTOR", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "VAL CASTOR", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "VAL CASTOR", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "VAL CASTOR", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "VAL CASTOR", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "VAL CASTOR", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "VAL CASTOR", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "VAL CASTOR", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "VAL CASTOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-409763", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2020-09-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/01/cnnt.02.html", "summary": "President Trump Relying On Dr. Atlas Over Dr. Fauci As COVID-19 Continues To Spread Throughout U.S.", "utt": ["The coronavirus death toll in this country now passing 184,000 people. More than 6 million Americans have been infected. But instead of listening to Dr. Fauci, sources tell CNN that the president is relying on Dr. Scott Atlas, a former Fox News guest known for pushing strategies that are at odds with the medical community. Let's discuss now. Dr. Leana Wen is here. She is an Emergency Room Physician and former Baltimore city health commissioner. Doctor, good to see you. Thanks so much for doing this. Doctor, Dr. Fauci is getting sidelined by Dr. Atlas who now has the president's ear and the White House seemed resigned to what they see as inevitable, the virus is spreading. Are you worried that the president hired someone who only tells him what he wants to hear?", "Absolutely, I am first of all very concerned that Dr. Fauci may be getting sidelined. He is the top infectious disease doctor in our country, one of the foremost public health expert in the world. He's also consistently spoken the truth about this pandemic and has been really humble all the way explaining what it is that we know, what it is that we don't know, and as a result has gained the public's trust. Now to hear that President Trump may be listening to this other doctor whom has talked about theories like the herd immunity theory, this very dangerous concept that would result in us infecting potentially hundreds of millions of people and having 1 million to 2 million Americans die in order to get there, I mean, to know that that's who the president is listening to in the middle of this pandemic is really concerning, because we should be letting public health lead and not trying to silence the voice of science.", "I should tell that Dr. Atlas is denying that he is pushing a herd community strategy. This is what he said about that. This was March. Here it is.", "It's important for people to understand medical science to know that natural human immunity of populations that is sometimes called herd immunity, it's very important that that develops. That's how viruses are eradicated.", "So Dr. Atlas supported herd immunity recently and now the administration officials say that the policies he's pushing could achieve the same result. Explain why officials are so concerned with this approach, Dr. Wen.", "Well, it's unclear exactly, what is the strategy of the Trump administration at this point. Basically they're saying we should re- open no matter what. We should have kids come back to school no matter what. We should re-open businesses, no matter what. We should have bars open, even though we know that indoor bars are very high risk for transmitting the infection. In essence it seems like what they're doing is to say, we hope that there will be a vaccine soon, but in the meantime let's just -- let it rip. Let everybody go about doing their normal activities and see what happens. But we see the impact of this. We see skyrocketing numbers of infections in certain areas. We're seeing that just as other places are able to control their infection with mitigations measures like mask wearing and restricting indoor gatherings that other places are surging. And what this results in, Don, is preventable deaths. And we should not let that happen on our watch.", "So Dr. Wen, Admiral Brett Giroir, the administration's coronavirus testing czar, he says that he doesn't live in a utopian world where everybody can get a test every day. He says he lives in the real world. He might be annoyed that he is still being asked about the testing but the reality is, the country still needs more testing and faster testing.", "That's exactly right. I think that Admiral Giroir also has things backwards. We should stop justifying why it is that we don't need more tests. We all know that we need more tests. So, why don't we figure out, what is the number that we need? And then figure out a strategy to get there. And actually, Admiral Giroir does live in this utopia world, because he's around the White House. And in the White House, they do have daily test for everyone who needs one, who wants one, who was there. We have major league sports that have these daily test. We have universities that now are having twice weekly or three times weekly test. So, this is something that is possible. And I can tell you as a parent, I would feel so much better about sending my toddler back to preschool if I knew that all the students and staff and teachers were getting tested all the time. So, if that's possible, why don't we aim to get there?", "I wonder if that's too much to expect. I mean, should we have testing like you just mentioned this utopian society because he lives in -- he's around the White House. Should we have it for frontline workers and teachers and essential workers?", "We absolutely should. We should have it for individuals who are higher risk as a start. If there are relatively scarce resources we need to allocate the resources to those who needed the most, but then we also need this level of widespread screening testing. At least 50 percent of all the spread of COVID-19 is from people who don't have any symptoms. Who don't know that they are infected and their unknown spreading it. So there's no way for us to contain the infection unless we can implement that kind of widespread surveillance testing, which is something that we just don't have yet.", "Dr. Wen, thank you, be safe. I appreciate it, I'll see you soon.", "Thank you.", "Now, I want to get to Dianne Gallagher now with the very latest on the setback for a potential coronavirus therapy pushed by President Trump.", "A National Institutes of Health panel says doctors should not use convalescent plasma as a standard of care for COVID-19 until more study has been done. This is a little more than a week after the FDA issued an emergency use authorization and President Trump praised it as a historic breakthrough.", "It's an incredible rate of success. Today's action will dramatically expand access to this treatment.", "But the National Institutes of Health saying in a statement today, quote, there were insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19. There are now three potential coronavirus vaccines in phase three human trials here in the United States, but Dr. Anthony Fauci is cautioning that proven safety is far more important than speed when it comes to a vaccine.", "You don't want a vaccine to be available widely to the American public unless it's been shown to be safe and effective.", "After saying that a vaccine could be authorized for emergency use or even approved before human trials are completed, FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn now says he consider resigning if he was pushed to authorize a vaccine before it was ready.", "I think all options are on the table. With respect, I hope we won't be in that position.", "If one is approved it's expected to be initially be in short supply.", "A lot of the companies that are in phase three trials are also saying that they'll have to do vaccines that are not single dose, but double dose vaccines.", "So, who gets it? Well, today an independent committee appointed to help advice the federal government released a four-phase proposal that starts with health-care workers, first responder and people with conditions that make them especially vulnerable to COVID- 19. As testing totals decline, Admiral Brett Giroir, who leads U.S. testing efforts announced $5 antigen tests will be sent out to states starting in a few weeks but also said he was tired of being asked about cheap quick tests for every American.", "I don't live in a utopian world. I live in the real world. And the real world had no test for this new disease when this first started.", "Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, responded on Twitter, saying that's what White House staff and major league sports get now. Sure, let's call it utopia when it's for the less privileged. The average number of daily cases and deaths have declined over the past seven days. As a coronavirus surge now appears to be moving from the south to the Midwest. But officials are concerned about what Labor Day weekend might bring, since cases spiked in many areas in the week after Memorial Day weekend and the Fourth of July.", "As we approach Labor Day, let me encourage people to be mindful. The virus is still looking for you. And so, if you come together, then you will give it a home.", "Dianne Gallagher, CNN, Atlanta.", "Dianne, thank you so much. New questions about President Trump's health after a book says Vice President Pence was put on standby to assume the president's power while he made an unplanned trip to Walter Reed Medical Center. The president denying again tonight that he had a stroke. Plus, a Democratic group is warning Election Day could look like a Trump landslide, but those results won't be what they seem."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "LEANA WEN, FORMER HEALTH COMMISSIONER, BALTIMORE", "LEMON", "SCOTT ATLAS, PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER", "LEMON", "WEN", "LEMON", "WEN", "LEMON", "WEN", "LEMON", "WEN", "LEMON", "DIANNE GALLAGHER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "TRUMP", "GALLAGHER", "ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALERGY AND INFECTOUS DISEASE", "GALLAGHER", "STEPHEN HAHN, FDA COMMISIONER", "GALLAGHER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "GALLAGHER", "ADM. BRETT GIROIR, HHS ASSISTANT SECRETARY", "GALLAGHER", "MAYOR SYLVESTER TURNER (D), HOUSTON, TX", "GALLAGHER", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-125520", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2008-4-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/12/acd.01.html", "summary": "'Bitter' Campaign Trail Debate Heats Up", "utt": ["And, tonight, we begin with breaking news. Barack Obama fighting back hard against charges he slammed the voters of Pennsylvania by calling them bitter. We will play you what he said, what Hillary Clinton said about what he said, the McCain reaction, along with the late and loud reaction from Senator Obama himself. Also, Bill Clinton opening his mouth and reopening the whole Hillary dodging sniper fire story. We have got the latest on that for you, too. Later, more secrets of polygamy revealed and some new details surfacing about another possible accuser. CNN's David Mattingly with all the new developments from Warren Jeffs' polygamist kingdom. Perspective as well from correspondent Michael Watkiss, as well as Carolyn Jessop, a survivor of the Jeffs' FLDS church -- all that and more. First, though, Barack Obama on the offensive tonight, after his recent marks about Pennsylvania voters came to light today, touching off a political storm. He made those remarks last Sunday at a fund- raiser in California. They came in a larger context, Senator Obama talking about how people in Pennsylvania and Ohio have been let down by their government for years. But that's not what sparked the controversy. This is.", "But the truth is, is that our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are going to regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.\"", "Both the Clinton and the McCain camps were quick to pounce.", "It's being reported that my opponent said that the people of Pennsylvania who faced hard times are bitter. Well, that's not my experience. As I travel around Pennsylvania, I meet people who are resilient, who are optimistic, who are positive, who are rolling up their sleeves.", "And then this from a senior McCain adviser: \"It shows an elitism and condescension toward hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking.\" The adviser goes on to say, \"It's hard to imagine someone running for president who is more out of touch with average Americans.\" And then, just moments ago tonight, Barack Obama, wrapping up a rally in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he hit back hard at both the Clinton and McCain allegations. CNN's Candy Crowley was there. She joins us live now. He jumped right into this, Candy. What did he have to say specifically?", "Well, first of all, his explanation for his words. He said listen: What I said was that, for 25 years, working- class Americans have essentially gotten the shaft, that they -- through the Bush administration, through the Clinton administration, everyone kept telling them, help is on the way. Nothing has happened. So, they have grown cynical and they have grown bitter. He said: What I have -- what I said was, then they turn to their religion for help, or they -- they vote on the gun issue, that kind of thing. And then, as you know, Erica, even in politics, the best defense is a really good offense. And that's where he went.", "So, he went with the good offense. The Pennsylvania primary, of course, less than two weeks away -- this is what everybody is focused on. How are these comments and the reactions from the other candidates going to come into play?", "Well, we will see. You know, you never really know what's going to happen with these things. Like, I have seen many things come up that kind of bubble up to the surface, whether they go through the Internet or sometimes through the press corps, and people talk about, oh, she said this. What does this mean? And they have turned into nothing. I have seen other things that have turned into great, big things. So, right now, obviously, the Clinton and the McCain camps see this as huge. They believe -- they have -- some of their surrogates are out there saying, you know, Obama has lost the campaign. The Clinton campaign is hitting it very hard. But you don't really know how -- we're -- we're kind of in a bubble here, between the politicians and the media. We're not really sure how this is playing in rural communities, how they're taking this. So, it's one of those things you -- you have to wait and see. But, right now, what it really is, between these campaigns, is a political football.", "A little bit of tit for tat, it sounds like. I think we actually do have some of that sound available now from the event where Senator Obama spoke earlier. Let's take a quick listen.", "Out of touch?", "Out of touch? I mean, John McCain, it took him three tries to finally figure out that the home foreclosure crisis was a problem, and to come up with a plan for it, and he's saying, I'm out of touch?", "Senator -- Senator Clinton voted for a credit card- sponsored bankruptcy bill that made it harder for people to get out of debt, after taking money from the financial services company, and she says I'm out of touch? No, I'm in touch. I know exactly what's going on.", "So, there's the offense that you mentioned, Candy. Broadening this out -- I'm going to make you get your crystal ball out again once more here -- is this something that you imagine could come back even in the general election, come back into play?", "Oh, sure. Anything that hurts either of these candidates, either Clinton or Obama, or, for that matter, John McCain, anything that hurts them now is going to come back double when they get to the general election campaign, because then it is one party against another. The stakes are the White House, and it really ratchets these things up. And you can't imagine the things that come back to haunt these candidates from the primary season.", "That's when we could really see some bitterness, I think.", "Candy Crowley, always -- always good to have you with us. We want to get some perspective now from CNN contributors Roland Martin and CNN senior political analyst Gloria Borger. Good to have you both here. We start off with this. Looking at, Gloria, the gap -- we were hearing about the gap narrowing in Pennsylvania, that Hillary Clinton was closing in a little bit. What's going to happen now in Pennsylvania, two weeks away? How much of an impact?", "Well, I think anything happen -- can happen in the last days of a political campaign. And, as you were saying, the polls are narrowing. Obama is closing in on a little bit on Hillary Clinton. And, so, every word is parsed. I think what you played earlier that Obama said was inartfully stated. He clearly came out fighting this evening. He now knows what it's like to fight against two opponents, instead of just one, because he's also battling John McCain. And, in his original statement, he managed to lump together every hot point in American politics. You talk about the economy. You talk about immigration. You talked about religion. He talked about guns. He talked about everything in there that gave folks the opportunity to pounce on him, which is exactly what you would expect at this point in a political campaign. And I would guess that those folks who don't like Barack Obama might see something sinister in this and say that, in fact, he's an elitist and was talking down to rural America or talking down to blue- color voters. And those folks who like Barack Obama are going to see something else.", "So, Roland Martin, when you look at this, is this going to help or hurt overall?", "The only way we're going to know if this is going to help overall is what happens with folks like me and Gloria on this network and others, who are columnists...", "So, it's all up to the two of you? You two are now deciding Pennsylvania?", "No. No. Really, what it points to, because what happens is, you can look at his statement and look at it in many different ways. For instance, when he made the comment about religion, in terms of people who cling to religion, I called several pastors between when I was on \"LOU DOBBS\" earlier tonight and A.C. 360, and the pastors said, look, when the economy is tough, guess what? We have got more people at the altar call or are calling me for prayer. When the economy is good, you might see them at Bible study on Wednesday. Then you might not. People are going to see it in different ways. But you what? Something that is very interesting, earlier on \"LOU DOBBS,\" Robert Zimmerman was asked by Kitty Pilgrim, on a scale of one to 10, what is this? He said, it's an 11. No, Eliot Spitzer with a prostitute, that is an 11.", "This is not an 11. But, again, you see what happens when an issue gets framed by various pundits. And then the people begin to pick up on that. We will see probably in 48 hours how that all plays out.", "Right. Yes, the way issues get framed, I believe we call that politics.", "Yes.", "But looking a little bit closer, let's broaden this out to the responses that were given. Gloria, were they appropriate? Were they what you expected? I mean, they were quick this time around.", "Well, you have to be quick. I mean, you're heading into a -- into Pennsylvania on April 22.", "But it is admittedly getting -- getting -- getting much faster...", "Yes, absolutely.", "Oh, absolutely.", "And, you know, the Clinton campaign -- the funny thing about this was, the Clinton campaign pounced on this right away, obviously. The McCain campaign pounced on it. Tonight, my BlackBerry was buzzing with an e-mail from a Clinton campaign spokesman quoting Republicans saying that this is over.", "Now, that was fun.", "I saw that same e-mail.", "They're sending out those talking points.", "So, you know, they will take the support wherever they can get it. Obama came out fighting, but there is going to be a fight over this, because his original words are not exactly what he said tonight in explaining them. He's going to have a little bit more explaining to do, I think.", "A little more explaining, too. I want to make sure we get this in tonight. There's been a lot of talk today about the Clinton camp, because former President Bill Clinton speaking out recently and talking about that mistake that had got so much attention that Hillary Clinton was talking about what actually happened when that plane landed in Bosnia. I'm not sure that we have the sound, so I'm just going to -- so I'm just going to read for you what he said yesterday: \"A lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me. But there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time, late at night, misstated -- and immediately apologized for it -- what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995.\" Critics pouncing on that, of course, because it didn't happen one time. It happened several times. It happened in the morning, not late at night. Roland Martin, how damaging is this to the Clinton campaign? Because Senator Clinton really came out, it sounded like, and chastised her husband again.", "How about this, Bill Clinton; he was tired and was exhausted when he made that comment saying she was tired and exhausted? I know -- Hillary Clinton is probably saying, Bill, do me a favor. Shut up. Please. just be quiet.", "I mean, she successfully got away from this. It died down. Then, all of a sudden, he brings it back up. I mean, I think what she probably is going to do is, she's probably going to send him a BlackBerry e-mail every day: Here are the three things you're talking about. And if you get off that, you will get spanked. That's what needs to happen to Bill Clinton.", "Are you saying that the former president of the United States needs talking points, Roland?", "Yes. He needs...", "Yes.", "He needs a David Letterman-like placard: Only say these three things, Bill. That's it.", "You know, the thing that surprises me, honestly, is how rusty Bill Clinton is at campaigning. He -- when I covered him, he was the best campaigner I had ever seen and probably will ever see. But he has gotten a little rusty, and he gets off the talking points once in a while.", "We will see if he can stick to them.", "When you got all that money, you get rusty.", "We're going to have to leave it there, guys. We're out of time.", "Roland, Gloria, thank you both.", "Thanks, Erica.", "We do want to mention a quick programming note, too. Sunday night, here on CNN, Senators Clinton and Obama will face the hard questions on faith and politics. Campbell Brown leads the Compassion Forum Sunday at 8:00 p.m. Eastern only on CNN. And also a reminder for you: I am blogging tonight. I swear, I'm going to get there. To join the conversation, log on to CNN.com/360. Just ahead: new developments out of the Warren Jeffs' polygamist sect, reports of another young women coming forward. We are going to update you on that developing story. And then later, a closer look at the practice of polygamy beyond the headlines, outside Jeffs' FLDS sect. Gary Tuchman has that.", "And the kids, the range, how many kids?", "More than 30. All my kids are sweethearts."], "speaker": ["ERICA HILL, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "HILL", "SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D-NY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "HILL", "CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "HILL", "CROWLEY", "HILL", "SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "HILL", "CROWLEY", "HILL", "HILL", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST", "HILL", "ROLAND MARTIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR", "HILL", "MARTIN", "MARTIN", "HILL", "BORGER", "HILL", "BORGER", "HILL", "BORGER", "MARTIN", "BORGER", "MARTIN", "HILL", "HILL", "BORGER", "HILL", "MARTIN", "MARTIN", "BORGER", "MARTIN", "BORGER", "MARTIN", "BORGER", "HILL", "MARTIN", "HILL", "HILL", "MARTIN", "HILL", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE"]}
{"id": "CNN-38335", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-8-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/30/ltm.01.html", "summary": "The Search for Chandra: D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey is Interviewed on WUSA", "utt": ["We're going to skip across town and stay in Washington to go over to the studios of WUSA, our affiliate there. You see there Washington, D.C. police chief, Chief Ramsey, now talking about the Chandra Levy investigation this morning.", "... and that Gary Condit, some say, even avoided so many of the questions. In saying that the interview that we saw with Condit and Connie Chung was like yours, can we assume the same: that he was evasive and didn't offer anything more than what you asked?", "Well, he will tell you what you want to hear if you ask it properly. So it's kind of strange to describe. He does answer all your questions. But if you don't ask the exact question in the right way, then perhaps you need to go back and interview again. But, you know, we've been interviewing a lot of people -- more than 100 people that we've interviewed. The congressman is just one of many. But the fact that we've had to interview him four times is really the result of the fact that it's been quite difficult to get information in a timely fashion that would really be helpful.", "And, again, still no suspects, including Condit is not a suspect.", "Right. Exactly. There are no suspects. We've made some progress in the case, but then again, nothing that is leading us any closer to finding Ms. Levy.", "So where are we? How many police officers are spending time, and how much time each day, on the Chandra Levy investigation?", "Well, I've got two detectives full time that are assigned to this case, same as we started off with. Durant and Kennedy are the two detectives. They're working along with the FBI and the U.S. attorney. And we are going through all the material that we have.", "I'm interested to know, Gary Condit said the media owes him an apology. In your opinion, do you think the coverage is fair and has been accurate to this point?", "Well, I mean, obviously this is a high-profile case. There have been a lot of things said in some of the -- especially all- news networks that get a little out there at times from people that are just speculating, that have no information at all about the case and where we are at in the investigation, and so forth. So I guess that's just the nature of the way things are covered nowadays. As far as apologies, that's something that perhaps he feels. I don't have any ill feelings toward the media as far as any of the coverage that we've had as a department, even though some of it hasn't been very positive.", "It hasn't necessarily been positive, but you're not saying it was inaccurate. You haven't heard any inaccuracies?", "Oh, there have been some inaccuracies; there's no question about it. But the bottom line is, we have need to move forward in trying to find a missing person. This isn't about spin and P.R., as far as we're concerned. We've got a case that we're very troubled by. We're trying to get to the bottom of it. And we just have to continue to press forward, because until we find out what happened to Chandra Levy, then all the rest of this is really almost fair game because there is going to be a lot of speculation.", "Specifically, can you talk about any inaccuracies in the case, anything that was glaring, in your opinion?", "Well, I don't want to get into too much of that because that kinds of opens the door for the other types of things. It's mostly just speculation, some of it -- so-called experts that get put on. And I don't know how you go about become classified as an expert. That's always been a little puzzling to me as to how these folks all of the sudden become experts. But, again, everybody is entitled to their opinion. The only difficulty is that sometimes the more information you have out there that's not accurate, the more difficult it becomes, then, to really get through, to get to the meat of what's real in terms of information that you have that you can do something with.", "Four interviews so far with Gary Condit -- can we anticipate a fifth? Are there any plans there?", "We don't have any immediate plans for a fifth interview right now. If we need one, we will ask for one.", "Does that mean you're looking for more information or something else in the case to crop up?", "Well, if there's more information, that could be helpful. But, again, he's just one of 100 people. And I think that's been lost. It looks as if we've got a very narrow investigation focused on Mr. Condit. And that's not the case. It never has been the case. He is a very high-profile individual by the nature of his job. But aside from that, he's no different than anyone else that we've talked to.", "The issue of a lie detector test got a lot of coverage. Are you still pushing for your own lie detector test, in conjunction with the FBI?", "Well, we had been. But we were told that that is not going to happen. So we've moved on. I mean, it's not a valid test as far as we're concerned. But we are not going to waste time trying to get someone to do a test that they don't want to do. So we are just going to move on and continue with the investigation like we have and see what happens.", "At one point, you said you felt there was a 50 percent chance of solving the Chandra Levy case. Do you feel like that today?", "Well, you know, I'm optimistic. I would like to think that eventually we will find out what happened to her. Obviously, the more time that passes, the more troubled we become because, you know, there are two possibilities. One is that she left on her own. The other is, she met with foul play. It's difficult to think that she could be out there knowing all the publicity, knowing the harm it's doing to her family, and not come forward. So we're very, very concerned. But we have no evidence that would cause us to reclassify this case at this time.", "Well, you have no body; therefore, you have no evidence. And you don't have any secure leads in the case saying that somebody knows exactly what happened.", "Even if we didn't have a body, if we had a statement, a witness, if we had something that showed that she came in contact with an individual that might have done her some harm, that would be different. But right now, we don't have any of that either.", "Frustrated?", "Not frustrated. It's just unusual. But we have to keep pressing on. We can't afford to get frustrated. We have to remain professional and just continue to go through all the evidence and hope we get that one lead, that one break that will make a difference.", "OK. Let's move on now, switching gears. In a month, we're dealing with IMF/World Bank protests. I know...", "And we've been listening on an interview being conducted by WUSA in Washington, D.C. with Washington, D.C. police Chief Ramsey, who said much of what we have heard before about this investigation into the disappearance of Chandra Levy, saying that he's remaining optimistic. But as more time passes, they become more and more troubled about what may have actually happened to her. Let's go now to our Bob Franken, who is standing by in Modesto, California. He's been listening in as well -- Bob, good morning.", "Good morning, Leon. And what is so interesting about what the chief had to say to Jennifer Ryan, who was the reporter from WUSA TV in Washington -- so interesting was, his really nasty remarks, quite frankly, about how Congressman Condit has so-called \"cooperated\" with the police, as the congressman has so often claimed. The chief said that he would answer the questions only if the proper question was asked, that he was always very evasive, the chief would say. It was almost like covering a State Department briefing. At the State Department, if you don't ask the question that they want to answer, there will be some sort of distraction. And that's the description that the chief seemed to be giving of that. That is why he said it's become frustrating to discuss things with Congressman Condit as the investigation has gone on. He said at the moment, however, there is no plan for a fifth interview with Congressman Condit. He went on to say -- and this is something that will hearten the Condit side -- that he is only one of 100 who has been questioned, that there has been an undue emphasis on the congressman as this investigation goes on. Now, here in California, of course, we're looking for the congressman to get quite a bit of an idea of what his political future is when the legislature comes out with a redistricting plan either today or tomorrow, which could change his district. There have been a lot of associates who say the congressman has gone back into seclusion, no more public comments as he decides his political future -- Leon.", "All right, it sounds like rush hour is about to pick up out there, Bob. We'll get back to you a little bit later on this morning -- Bob Franken in Modesto.", "One vehicle.", "Hey, well, you know, it's not that big a town.", "We'll see you later on, Bob."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "JENNIFER RYAN, WUSA ANCHOR", "CHARLES RAMSEY, D.C. 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{"id": "CNN-163067", "program": "JOY BEHAR SHOW", "date": "2011-3-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1103/08/joy.01.html", "summary": "Charlie Sheen, on the Edge?; The Reality of Joan and Melissa", "utt": ["Today is International Women`s Day. And in honor of that occasion, I want to invite all the hard working women on my crew to join me on camera for a little face time. Come on, ladies, it`s your moment. Yes. Bobby, actual women. Not you. You look like Linda Tripp. Stop it. Some people will do anything to get on television. Get, get.", "Coming up on THE JOY BEHAR SHOW, Charlie Sheen`s crazy reaction after being fired by Warner brothers. The troubled star takes to the roof of an office building with a machete and a bottle of something he calls tiger`s blood. Then Hollywood icon, Joan Rivers joins Joy to talk about designer John Galliano`s anti-Semitic meltdown and her own reality show with daughter, Melissa. And one man, four wives and 16 children. The stars of the show, \"The Sister Wives\", tell Joy about their unique lifestyle and their struggle to protect it. That and more starting right now.", "After getting fired from his job yesterday, Charlie Sheen celebrated by climbing a rooftop in Los Angeles with a machete in one hand and a bottle of so-called tiger blood in the other. Watch the video from TMZ.", "Are you excited about the prospects now that you`re done with \"Two and a Half Men\"?", "I`ve been saying free at last.", "Ok. He then went on to broadcast an eerie Internet video on Ustream. Here now with his take on all of this is Dr. Drew Pinsky, addiction specialist and the host of the Nightly HLN show, \"Dr. Drew\" premiering right here on HLN, April 4th. Welcome back to my show, Dr. Drew. I`m happy to see you and you`re part of the family now. It`s great. Do you love it?", "Thank you Joy. I appreciate it. That`s very kind of you.", "Ok.", "I do love it actually. Thank you.", "So, you saw some of this. And there`s this crazy stream that he did where he`s basically, his hair is wild. I mean is this Sheen going over the edge? Is that what we`re watching?", "Well, yes, it`s funny to me that people somehow believe that you have to know a patient intimately to understand they have a medical condition. It`s really for me, no different than looking at a rash. If somebody who uncharacteristically has a grandiose belief that they have special powers, there`s a torrent of speech, there`s distractibility, flight of ideas, seemingly endless energy, hyper-sexuality -- those are all criteria for a condition called hypomania. It simply defines what hypomania is. The other thing is for my patients that are similar to that that get into a hypomanic state, they typically don`t do drugs then. That`s when they don`t want to do drugs because they feel high all the time. So all this consternation about is Charlie on drugs, isn`t he, is completely meaningless. All we can see here is that he`s in a hypomanic. He`s known to be a drug addict, I mean there`s no doubt that. He`s been treated multiple times. But the issue that`s driving him right now is a psychiatric condition called hypomania that can be induced by drugs and alcohol.", "I see. So it`s even worse than", "No, it`s hypo meaning just under mania is when they get to mania is when they lose touch with reality completely. And hypomania typically don`t stay the same. They flip over into a mania or they start coming down on the other side and that`s when they start using drugs and alcohol again.", "I see. That`s interesting. What do you make of the fact that he`s carrying a machete? I mean he`s always saying he wants to love violently. He uses the word \"violent\", a lot. Love violently, first of all, is an oxymoron. So, what is that about?", "Yes. Well, there`s a lot of aggression and irritability oftentimes when they`re in a hypomanic state. What`s different about hypomanics is their view of the world begs no alternative. They believe they have a special understanding and special powers. And they don`t believe they need treatment. None of them -- it`s rare that a hypomanic comes in and says, \"Hey, I want help with this.\" It`s their employer that brings them in, their family brings them in because they become aggressive, and violent, erratic, and unpredictable.", "You know a lot of people are finding fault with the media and the public for egging him on, but it`s really very difficult to turn away from a guy who`s acting like this. Who do you think should bear some of the blame for the media attention that he`s getting? Is it really the media?", "Well, it`s disturbing to me to see his story juxtaposed with the story of Libya, say. I mean it`s problematic, let`s face. But the fact is, it is infectious. It is interesting. It`s natural to be curious about this stuff. What`s disturbing for me when I watch it is the people that are actually are around him. The sycophants around him who are co-signing and accelerating and actually egging him on rather than containing him and getting him to proper care. These are the people that when things go bad, should be held accountable because it`s not going to go well. It`s not going to go well.", "No. So what do you think -- what`s going to be the end for this guy? Is this going to continue on television do you think, or no?", "He looks like he`s heading a little towards more -- towards mania right now. And boy, if he does, you`re going to hear about the police coming out frequently. You`re going to hear about violent behaviors. You`re going to hear about drug arrests. That`s just where this kind of goes. It tends not to get better by itself.", "Ok. All right. Thanks very much, Drew.", "It`s very sad. It`s very difficult.", "It is a little.", "Thank you Joy.", "Thank you very much. And remember, Dr. Drew`s nightly show premieres April 4th on HLN. Now, I want to bring in my friends, Joan and Melissa Rivers, co-stars of \"Joan and Melissa, Joan Knows Best?\" -- with a question mark. The season finale airs March 15th at 9:00 p.m. on WE. Welcome to the show , my dears.", "Glad to see you again.", "So nice to see you both. Now, we were just talking to Charlie, as you know. He`s on the roof with a machete. What do you make of this?", "What do I make of this.", "Is he crazy? Is he bipolar? Is he going to jump? What?", "I`m actually just happen to be reading a book, where they talk about hypomania today and I love Dr. Drew. I`ve known him forever. Whatever he says is right. As far as I`m concerned, yes, that would be a good diagnosis. But I have to tell you, Charlie`s very smart, very funny and I think at this point, he`s amusing himself. And if the guy thinks -- he used the word umbrage on TV and correctly. Who uses umbrage anymore and what`s that?", "I think he`s very", "He`s a ratings magnet. Let him move in with you and Melissa.", "Is that the movie, \"Inception\", you don`t know what the hell is going on, but you`re waiting for the end.", "This is the best entertainment and he`s smarter than all of us combined or it`s the biggest meltdown since Chernobyl. It`s one of the two.", "But I mean is he going to kill -- is Chuck Lorre going to kill him? That`s what I want to know. That`s an interesting dynamic.", "That`s a very volatile dynamic. And the more that comes out, you realize there was so much tension behind the scenes.", "Why would that guy go on television with those vanity cards and talk about his show? He`s a producer, get it off the screen", "Oh, everybody wants to be on the screen. Come on.", "I know that but to do that? I thought it was ridiculous.", "Just when you think it didn`t get any better, this story, it always does. With Access: Hollywood live, which is actually the day I do Fashion Fridays, that was the day that he announced that he was Jewish. What is that?", "And he was wearing a Galliano jacket.", "But I mean is he really half Jewish?", "Apparently so. On the mother`s side.", "And his father`s side is from Spain?", "Yes. Or Puerto Rican.", "Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen are Puerto Rican.", "I`ve seen them in the", "But I mean, do you think he made an anti-Semitic comment when he said Haim Levine or whatever he said? I don`t think so.", "No.", "I do.", "You do?", "I`m sorry.", "I mean compared to Mel Gibson and Galliano, with their real anti-Semitism.", "It depends. And he said and my producer, Haim Levine, he was \"Haim\". He did.", "Honestly, I didn`t read it as anti-Semitic and I`m very sensitive to those kind of things because in context I thought it was -- it was actually kind of funny and his reply was, you can also call me Carlos Estevez, which is my real name. And my publicist is Jewish, and my", "Some of my best friends are Jewish.", "And my ex-wife is Jewish. And my soon-to-be ex-wife is Jewish.", "The one he held a knife to the throat?", "Yes, her.", "That`s why.", "They say Jewish girls are smart. Not that smart.", "Smart enough to get a check.", "And she`s not on a reality show.", "Not smart.", "She doesn`t have a Paris Hilton reality show.", "You wouldn`t sleep with a whack-a-doodle for a year and be taking care of the rest of your life, Charlie -- absolutely.", "But there seems to be a little bit of an uprising in the anti- Semitism. You noticed that?", "Yes.", "Around the world -- some is in the states, like in the Arab states where they teach you to hate the Jews. But some of them is just like individuals --", "Yes, me and my relatives.", "Yes, what`s going on.", "I found John Galliano thing very disturbing. Because that was someone who was being dead serious.", "Well, he was drunk. Oh, in vino veritas.", "Exactly. When they`re drunk is when the truth comes out.", "So, it is no excuse for it.", "What`s his name, Mel Gibson? When he`s drunk -- that`s when your guard is down.", "Exactly. Most people when they`re drunk, just act drunk. The say silly things. They don`t start screaming, \"I hate Jews\" and \"I love Hitler\". What kind of behavior is that.", "Hitler was a great dancer.", "Yes. That`s true. A snappy dancer.", "I know.", "Snappy. But you know maybe you could do a reality show with Mel Gibson and John Galliano, Charlie Sheen the three of them.", "That would be brilliant.", "That would be brilliant.", "You know Dr. Drew right now is dialing and going \"Celebrity Rehab 12\".", "I love it.", "That you know.", "Ok, next. Will the Donald run for president and wouldn`t it be great to hear him tell Gadhafi, you`re fired? We`ll be right back.", "Coming up later, one man, four wives. 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{"id": "CNN-387927", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-12-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/14/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Family Says Hacker Accessed Camera, Harassed Eight-Year-Old; 13-Year-Old Boy Arrested in Fatal Stabbing of College Student.", "utt": ["A 13-year-old youth is under arrest in New York City in connection with the stabbing death of the Barnard College freshman. Police have questioned a second team in the brutal -- teen that is, in the brutal murder of Tessa Rane Majors. She was a talented musician, songwriter, and aspiring journalist. The 18-year-old was walking in New York City's Morningside Park, Wednesday evening, just blocks from the Barnard campus when she was attacked and stabbed. CNN's Polo Sandoval is following developments for us. And Polo, what are you learning about the 13-year-old suspect and any other possible suspects?", "Well, Martin, here's what we know. Police say that the teen was found with a knife and has admitted to being involved in Wednesday's attempted robbery and deadly stabbing but the question here for prosecutors, Martin, becomes to what extent. Because that's -- according to the New York Times, a 13-year-old faces a felony murder charge and that basically means that he is not accused of stabbing Tessa Majors but taking part in the actual robbery. Now, the Times also reports that NYPD detectives testified during the 13- year-old's suspect hearing yesterday. He reportedly told the court that the teen and two other teenage accomplices actually walked into that park in Manhattan on Wednesday specifically to rob people. The boy also telling detectives that he watched his two friends grab the 18-year-old Barnard College freshman then put her into a chokehold. So, more chilling details that surfaced at court yesterday. The boy also claims that he watched his friends remove items from her pocket and then eventually slashed her repeatedly with a knife. A source saying that a second person is in custody this afternoon but has not been charged. The boy's attorney telling the New York Times that was no allegations so far against her client claiming that he actually touched the victim. According to this attorney he was merely present when this attack took place according to what she told the newspaper. We reached out to the attorney for the 13-year-old, also to prosecutors who ultimately decide if he will be charged as an adult, we're waiting to hear back. But in the meantime, as you can imagine, Majors' murder shocking this close knit community at Barnard College, it's a Manhattan campus that was shared with Columbia University. In a statement yesterday, her family writing, we lost a very special, very talented, a very well loved young woman. Tessa shone brightly in this world and our hearts will never be the same. Martin?", "Such a sad case. Please keep us updated on it, Polo Sandoval. Thank you.", "Thanks, Martin.", "Coming up, Senator Lindsey Graham standing up for President Trump even though he is considered a juror in the upcoming Senate trial. We'll ask him if that's appropriate."], "speaker": ["SAVIDGE", "POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SAVIDGE", "SANDOVAL", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "NPR-4791", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2006-06-30", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5524034", "title": "Bill Cosby vs. Cliff Huxtable", "summary": "Bill Cosby built his career poking fun at personal experience. And he's still talking about the personal, but now, he's gone from humor to issues of personal and social responsibility. Maybe he should take some cues from his gentle on-camera persona.", "utt": ["Bill Cosby built his career poking fun at personal experience.", "If you know you're not supposed to do something and you do it, and then people say why did you do it, you say, I don't know. Brain damage. My parents never smiled, because I had brain damage.", "And he's still talking about issues close to home. But now he's gone from humor to personal and social responsibility.", "Commentator Deborah Mathis thinks that when delivering his message, Cosby should take some cues from his gentle, on-camera persona.", "Whatever happened to Dr. Cliff Huxtable, that all-American dad who attacked problems and failures with humor, patience, wisdom, and most of all, every indication that what he felt for you first and foremost was love.", "Now, I know that was a television role for Bill Cosby - a very successful and popular television role for him - but I think I speak for more than a few people when I say we were led to believe that Bill Cosby was actually kind of like that in real life. I can't say who led us to believe that, but I know that was a common impression. I'm sure Cosby and his managers knew that was a common impression, and I'm certain nothing was done to disabuse us of that notion, accurate or not. Well, until now.", "Lately I've come to believe that Bill Cosby, the beloved comedian, actor, and philosopher, has a temperament that is either very opposite Cliff Huxtable's, or he's going through some kind of stage, because the guy I've seen lately is anything but humorous, patient and wise. Cranky, judgmental, and combative is more like it.", "Cosby has embarked upon something he refers to as a call-out tour, appearing in major cities around the country and dressing down black people for all sorts of failures, social and educational primarily. He got on this kick a couple of years ago when he laid into poor black people as the greatest scourge of all.", "It's not that Cosby doesn't have anything worth saying, it's how he says it and where. It's also what he leaves out. Like the way the entire society is predisposed to see black wrong as wronger and wider and just all-together worse than anyone else's. And how the culture sets such low expectations and then limits or denies opportunity because it's already decided black people can't accomplish much, and then punishes them when they falter. And how, yes, some folk don't even try to do better, but that millions do and succeed, despite all the landmines along the way.", "But even if he's only going to expose one side of this sordid contract, why so hostile, sir? Why so much contempt in your tone? What gives with the humiliation tour?", "I'll bet you anything Cliff Huxtable wouldn't have handled it this way. Week after week in the glory years, we saw his family messing up or tangled up, and yet, wise, tender, caring Dr. Huxtable would invariably help his errant crew find the right path and take it. And we knew they would stay that course, because they were persuaded, not browbeaten, into change.", "Oh, we do get weary, Mr. Cosby. So I ask you, what would Cliff do? Maybe try a little tenderness?", "Deborah Mathis is a syndicated columnist. She's also a professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.", "This is NPR News."], "speaker": ["FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Mr. BILL COSBY (Comedian)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Professor DEBORAH MATHIS (Syndicated Columnist; Professor of Journalism, Northwestern University)", "Professor DEBORAH MATHIS (Syndicated Columnist; Professor of Journalism, Northwestern University)", "Professor DEBORAH MATHIS (Syndicated Columnist; Professor of Journalism, Northwestern University)", "Professor DEBORAH MATHIS (Syndicated Columnist; Professor of Journalism, Northwestern University)", "Professor DEBORAH MATHIS (Syndicated Columnist; Professor of Journalism, Northwestern University)", "Professor DEBORAH MATHIS (Syndicated Columnist; Professor of Journalism, Northwestern University)", "Professor DEBORAH MATHIS (Syndicated Columnist; Professor of Journalism, Northwestern University)", "Professor DEBORAH MATHIS (Syndicated Columnist; Professor of Journalism, Northwestern University)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-9626", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-6-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/07/ee.10.html", "summary": "Tipper Gore, MTV VJ Ananda Lewis Discuss Mental Health Awareness Campaign", "utt": ["There is a new effort this morning to upgrade the image of mental health and eradicate the stigma usually associated with it. The newly-formed National Mental Health Awareness Campaign is a combination of public and private efforts, like this upbeat public service announcement you will see now on MTV.", "There's no way to explain what it feels like.", "People want to believe you are OK, so it's easy to present you're OK.", "It's not because you're weak, its because you're sick.", "Everybody thinks I am happy.", "It is not your fault.", "The thing is, it does get better.", "If you're having a hard time or know someone who is, call or log on for more information: 1-877-495-0009, or visit or www.nostigma.org.", "Tipper Gore serves as the nation's mental health adviser to the president and she helps kick off this new awareness campaign. And she joins us now from the White House lawn, as you see there. And she has got company, she is with MTV's Ananda Lewis, who is widely recognized for her concern for the nation's youth. We thank both of you ladies for talking to us this morning about this issue. Let's begin with you, Mrs. Gore. Why is it that you picked this particular issue?", "Well, I've long been an advocate for mental health. And kids, in particular, need to know that there's no shame, there is no stigma that should be attached if they have a mental health issue. If you had a broken arm or a broken leg, you get to a doctor. If you have a mental health issue or you have a friend with one, you need to make sure that you get to a mental health professional and get help. These illnesses are diagnosable and treatable, as well as physical illnesses. And that's the message that MTV and Ananda here are willing to give to young people. We want to reach young people because one in five young people are affected by a mental health issue. Two-thirds of them don't get any help, and the reason is because of the shame and the stigma that is unfairly attached to mental health issues.", "Now, that's a statistic I don't think I've ever heard before, you say one in five of all children are affected somehow, some way by some mental illness?", "That's right. And that should be shocking and that should be a wake-up call. And that's one reason we're doing what we're doing. Also suicide is the third leading cause of death for kids...", "Fifteen to 24.", "... 15 to 24, and that's one reason we're very happy to -- that MTV is making sure that the message gets to young people.", "Well, let's talk to some of these young people, at least one of them right now, Ananda, let me ask you something about this campaign because I can't think of anything that would be less cool than talking about mental illness or mental health. How is it that this campaign is actually going to reach the youth that it needs to get through to?", "Hopefully by showing them they're not alone in the problems they are dealing. There are young people all over this country that have felt exactly like they feel. And as long as we give them constructive ways to deal with those energies, they can live through it, and grow beyond it into healthy adults, who can then deal with their issues effectively. I also think that it is important for people in positions of being, quote, unquote, \"role models\" because I think kids should be their own role models, but if you give them role models to look at, I think they should be realistic role models. I have dealt with depression and all of that from the time I was about 12. So it is important for me to let people who look at me like a role model to see that role models are normal people and deal with normal issues, and are just as messed up sometimes and can get just as much help. I went to counseling when I was 15, and was kind of ashamed about it then. But grew to understand that that is really normal. And if I hadn't gotten some sort of help that, you know, I never know what could have happened to me. And look, with help, what did happen to me. So there is success stories that can be shared with young people so they can be inspired to know that there is hope; that it does seem like the darkest day of your life, but your life isn't over.", "Well, here is one person wishing you all succeed with that. Good luck.", "Thank you so much.", "Thank you this morning to Ananda Lewis and to Tipper Gore. Thank you very much for your time this morning. 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{"id": "NPR-8228", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2009-03-20", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102163091", "title": "Goodbyes From Listeners: Amy Ignatow", "summary": "Amy Ignatow has had her share of economic woes this year, but she's coming out on top. This week, she gets to say goodbye to her crummy old apartment and hello to a new life.", "utt": ["So Madeleine, that is what is perhaps off a little bit in the distant future. But let's talk about the immediate future. You've got some exciting new plans. Where will we find you?", "Where will you find me? You're going to find me dealing with this new technology, the technology that is actually here now. I have started a podcast. It's called \"Parenting on the Edge.\" It's about parenting. And a blog, of course. And it's at madeleinebrand.com. So you can find me there and at Facebook.", "And if you're looking for me out there, don't confuse me with the Israeli DJ or the Internet marketer., both of whom are also named Alex Cohen. You can find me at alexcoheninla.blogspot.com.", "And one of our listeners is also excited about her future. Amy Ignatow wrote in to the show in response to our request for essays about memorable goodbyes. We've chosen a few of those to air throughout the program today. Here's Amy with her goodbye, which is happening right now.", "Back in August, I lost my job teaching art, and I became a full-time, freelance illustrator. And the work dried up very quickly because none of the nonprofits that usually hire me could afford to put out publications. And so I downsized and (unintelligible) said, just work on your book and when you sell it for a million-gazillion dollars, I will be a wonderful house husband. Well, it didn't go for a million-gazillion dollars but in November, I did sell it as part of a two-book deal. And in a few weeks, we're going to be moving out of our apartment. My fiance cannot be a house husband just yet, but we do have a house, so it's a start. So goodbye, crumbly apartment and goodbye, crazy neighbor who screams at people who park too near to her spot. Goodbye, terrible, weird noise that comes from the back of the nearby restaurant, and goodbye to horrible feelings that getting an art degree was a stupid, selfish thing to do. And hello to my new life as a published author.", "Amy Ignatow and her fiance closed on their house and mailed their wedding invitations yesterday.", "(Singing) Non, rien de rien, Non, je ne regrette rien...", "Though our show goes away today, we will always survive online. Go to npr.org/daydreaming. Stay with us. Day to Day continues."], "speaker": ["ALEX COHEN, host", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "ALEX COHEN, host", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Ms. AMY IGNATOW (Listener)", "ALEX COHEN, host", "Ms. EDITH PIAF", "ALEX COHEN, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-124481", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2008-3-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0803/10/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Paris` Pathetic Prank; Lisa Marie Forced to Reveal Her Pregnancy", "utt": ["Will there be a \"Sopranos\" movie or should we just say, \"Hey, forget about it?\" And what about a new Seinfeld sitcom? We are setting the record straight. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York.", "And big developments in two of the nastiest divorce battles in Hollywood, including Britney Spears. And shocking news about Britney on a sitcom. I`m Brooke Anderson in Hollywood. TV`s most provocative entertainment news show starts right now. On SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Paris` pathetic prank. Paris Hilton gloating that she punked the paparazzi with a fake guru. But wait just a spiritual minute. Tonight, why Paris` shaman sham was not that hard to buy after her sex tape, her jail time, her burlesque act and all those empty promises to work for charity and stop going out. Would you put anything past Paris?", "It turns out that she`s having to resort to even more wild stunts to keep herself in the public eye.", "Tonight, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT calls", "Hi there. I`m Brooke Anderson coming you from Hollywood. And big news breaking today about two of Hollywood`s nastiest splits. Britney Spears and Kevin Federline and Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards. The late-breaking details coming up.", "But first, Paris Hilton`s pathetic prank. Yes, leave it to Paris to hook up with a long bearded so-called spiritual guru and try to make us all believe she was finally getting in touch with her inner self. Well, it turns out that this was all for a TV show trying to punk the paparazzi. But here`s the thing. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you that the sad part is this, the way Paris normally behaves, not even this seemed out of the ordinary.", "That`s hot.", "Is that learning that revenge is a dish best served cold and on", "I feel like they make up so many stories on their own. I think it is a funny idea to actually spoof them into believing all the silly things.", "On a news show, \"Pop Fiction,\" executive produced by former \"Punked\" star, Ashton Kutcher, we see how Paris punked the paparazzi by parading in front of cameras with a fake spiritual guru.", "Who`s the guy you`re with, Paris?", "You`re a little embarrassed. What`s going on?", "He was complete with the long, flowing gray beard. He had a saffron robe. He was even holding a spiritual book.", "People were kind of talking about this, wondering what is Paris up to. Is this a new spiritual awakening for her? Turns out the guru is not actually a guru. He was an actor. They were putting on a show to see how far they could get the story to go. It seems like the story kind of got around.", "Yes. Paris and her new friend even ended up on this show.", "First, Paris and the yogi.", "And after turning the tables on the media, Paris couldn`t have been happier.", "Next time you read the tabloids, you have to wonder, is it real or is it \"Pop Fiction?\"", "OK, Paris. Maybe you got us, but we must take exception to something you said on the show.", "I`ve been linked to people I`ve never met, places I`ve never been, things I`ve never done. So I`d tell you, 90 percent of the time, they`re just making stories up.", "Paris, this story may have been bogus but by our count most, if not 90 percent of the most outlandish stories told about you, actually did turn out to be true. The one about the sex tape.", "You`re so", "That one was true. And Paris, the one about you being caught on tape hurling racial slurs.", "We`re like two", "True, too. Or doing a strip show in Vegas for her own birthday party, that one was true, too, unfortunately.", "Paris Hilton seems to be doing something crazy every week.", "The greatest gift is to give. And when you think about it, at least Paris being friends with a spiritual guru seemed a bit plausible. After all, on \"LARRY KING LIVE,\" she talked about how her jail experience made her more spiritual.", "Did you read the Bible in jail?", "Yes.", "Just don`t ask her to name any verses.", "What is your favorite Bible passage?", "Hmm. I don`t have a favorite.", "Hmm. And avid Bible reader who can`t name a single verse. Paris must have been punking us then, too. On \"Pop Fiction,\" after their hoax caused a paparazzi panic, we see Paris confiding in her yogi about how hard her life is.", "Welcome to my world. Would you take this every day?", "No.", "Not to interrupt the Paris pity party but the same hyperactive media that Paris is punking is also the media that made her a household name.", "Without the paparazzi, it`s harder for her to have a career. I mean they really are the ones that made her who she is.", "So, in a way, Paris is biting the hand that created her. And that is the funniest joke of all.", "Tonight, Lisa Marie Presley is livid and on a tirade and for good reason. Elvis` daughter was forced to reveal her pregnancy to the world after tabloids published pictures of her saying she had gotten fat. Joining me now from Hollywood, Ashlan Gorse, host of \"E! News Now.\" Also in Hollywood, Jessica Weiner, self esteem expert and author of this book, \"Do I Look Fat in This?\" OK. Ashlan, Jessica, great to see you both.", "Hi.", "I want to read to you some of what Lisa Marie Presley wrote on blog and she titled it \"Confirmation Under The Gun.\" Here it is, quote, \"After being the target all week of slanderous and degrading stories, horribly manipulated pictures and articles in the media, I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am, in fact, pregnant. Once they got a glimpse of my expanding physique a few days ago, they have been like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily howling with delight.\" Ashlan, can you blame her for being so furious?", "Not at all. When you think of celebrities, you have to realize a lot of celebrities make money off of their bodies. And so, then if they`re held to a higher esteem than the rest of us, mere mortals, that`s fine. Lisa Marie Presley, on the other hand, she doesn`t make money off of her body. So when they`re kind of making fun of her body and they`re stalking what size she is, that`s bad and I feel like that`s something she shouldn`t be held up to par for.", "You know, I can imagine I would want to react this strongly or even stronger if I were in the same situation. Jessica, what do you think of her response?", "Well, I think there are two things going on here. I think, once again, we`re seeing this deliberate attack on women in Hollywood who happen to gain some amount of weight. It`s like being fat in Hollywood is like a mortal sin. You can go to jail or you can go to rehab but god forbid you`re a woman with an expanding waistline. And I think that`s sending a really incredulous story. But I think what Lisa Marie is responding to is that her pregnancy is her business. It is her private business with her husband and I think, right now, this is a big invasion of privacy. And I don`t care whether she is celebrity or not. She was born into a famous family. I think these are things - illness, pregnancy - those are things that should be kept private and really are none of our business until they choose to announce them.", "Exactly. A line that should not be crossed and it didn`t stop with what I just read. Listen to what else she wrote, quote, \"They couldn`t wait to find out if my weight gain was because I was just overeating, in which case it would be open season and they can do the old following in her father`s sad and unfortunate demise story again, or less interesting for them and probably much to their dismay, I could just be pregnant, and therefore have a legitimate reason for weight gain at which point they should probably wipe the saliva off their fangs and put them back in their mouths or they may expose the black little souls that they are.\"", "Jessica -", "You have to give her credit. She is creative in how she is responding. You`ve got to give her that.", "She certainly is. And Ashlan, you know, as angry as she is and as horrible as the tabloid criticism has been, some do say, \"Hey, this comes with the territory. She is a celebrity.\" Others say, \"Nothing can justify this.\"", "Well, it`s really hard. When you look at some of the tabloid headlines, they called her unhealthy, bloated, twice the side of her dad Elvis at his heaviest. I mean these were not nice tabloids. They took a big, hard hit to her. And yes, she is a celebrity and when you are a celebrity, you do kind of give up some sort of yourself, when you put yourself out there. But in this case with her pregnancy, you know, it was really just a shame for her personally to not be able to enjoy her announcement and to be able to enjoy being pregnant. She felt like she was under the gun and she had to forced to come out with her pregnancy and that is a shame.", "It certainly is. There are reports the pictures are extremely unflattering, very unkind. And Jessica, she is not, of course, the first celebrity to have come under fire, her response, almost unheard of. Why do you think she took it so personally and felt compelled to strike back in this way?", "Well, I think it is personal and I personally applaud her for striking back in that way. This reminds me of Jennifer Love Hewitt, remember?", "Right.", "She was on the beach enjoying, just getting engaged. And here we are having to pick apart her cellulite or what the photographers thought was cellulite. And I think her response also is indicative of the outrage. I mean, listen. We are definitely blurring the line between truth and fiction, reality and paparazzi here. And I think this is something - again, it`s private. And I`m more concerned as a self esteem expert with the message that it sends that we have to be monitoring all of our celebrities` weight as though their lives depend upon it. I think Ashlan referred to the fact that Lisa Marie`s big meal ticket is not her weight or her body and if this is about her performing and her appearance on stage and in events, maybe that`s one thing. But this is her personal life and we need to butt out.", "Yes. She is irate, understandably so. I applaud her, as well, for speaking out. Ashlan Gorse, Jessica Weiner, thank you both for joining us. And we want you to know that you can now watch video reports from SHOWBIZ TONIGHT any time on our Web site. You`ll find it at CNN.com/ShowbizTonight. All right. Is the world ready for another show about nothing? You probably heard the rumors that Jerry Seinfeld is thinking about doing a new sitcom. I know; I`d watch it. But is it true? That`s coming up. Also this -", "Tom Cruise picked very attractive, very strong women. And Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes have similar kinds of personalities.", "I want you to think about this. There`s one thing both Nicole and Katie got when they married Tom Cruise - a free pass to the top of the A-list. That`s right. But, you know, there`s so much more to say about Katie`s massive journey from \"Dawson`s Creek\" cutie to A-list wife and mom. That`s ahead in the showbiz special report, \"The Transformation of Katie Holmes.\"", "And remember Sanjaya? I know you do. He`s the \"American Idol\" finalist with the hair. Well, he`s still making the 13-year-old girls swoon but now instead of on TV, he is on the bat mitzvah circuit. Are you kidding me? That`s coming up. You don`t want to miss it."], "speaker": ["A.J. HAMMER, CO-HOST", "BROOKE ANDERSON, CO-HOST", "BEN WIDDECOMBE, \"NEW YORK DAILY NEWS\"", "HAMMER", "ANDERSON", "HAMMER", "PARIS HILTON, ACTRESS", "HAMMER", "TV. 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{"id": "NPR-10368", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2019-05-16", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/05/16/724089919/smartphone-app-and-paper-funnel-could-help-diagnose-ear-infections", "title": "Smartphone App And Paper Funnel Could Help Diagnose Ear Infections", "summary": "Researchers have developed a smartphone app that can help diagnose an ear infection. Parents will be able to use it at home, pending further tests and Food and Drug Administration approval.", "utt": ["Most parents have been there at one time or another - a crying, feverish kid, usually at 3 a.m., no clue as to what the problem is. Researchers in Seattle may have a solution to that. They're developing a smartphone app that parents might be able to use to detect fluid in a child's ear. And that could help diagnose that vexing and common childhood ailment - the ear infection. NPR science correspondent Richard Harris reports on a clever use of phone technology in the crowded world of health apps.", "Justin Chan, who is working toward his computer science Ph.D. at the University of Washington, noticed that his nephews and nieces were always getting earaches that sent them to the pediatrician to see if they had ear infections.", "So I was just thinking - you know, wouldn't it be good if we could design the technology that a parent could just use in their home that is super accurate and also accessible to be used without, you know, years of clinical training?", "Chan realized that smartphones actually have what's needed to look for one prominent symptom of ear infections - fluid behind the eardrum.", "J. CHAN: All you really need to do to detect ear fluid is using sound.", "He and his collaborators designed a simple paper funnel that gets taped to the bottom of the smartphone so both the speaker and the microphone can focus on the ear canal. The end of the funnel is positioned on the ear.", "J. CHAN: And then the speaker can play a few soft chirps, kind of like a bird chirping.", "J. CHAN: Once you place it in the ear, it takes about three seconds to transmit the chirps and only takes, like, less than a second for the data to be processed and to give you a result. So it can be easily done locally on the phone. You don't even need a Wi-Fi connection.", "The algorithm on the phone can tell if there's fluid behind the eardrum by analyzing the sound that bounces back up the funnel and into the microphone, Chan explains.", "J. CHAN: Just kind of like a wine glass - if a wine glass is empty or half full, tapping on it is going to produce a different sound. And that's exactly what we do with our tool.", "They tested it on about 50 children, and it was right about 85 percent of the time, he says. That's about as good as the high-priced professional instruments that hearing clinics use.", "I think the thing seemed really awesome.", "Pamela Mudd, an ear, nose and throat doctor at Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C., was impressed by the technology as described in a paper published by the journal Science Translational Medicine. She's not quite sure how it would work out in practice.", "Not all fluid is an infection.", "So if a parent finds fluid in a child's ear, that doesn't mean it's time for antibiotics. Their first impulse will probably be to call the pediatrician and bring the child in for a more thorough exam.", "Is the child having a fever? Has the child had a cold recently? There's other things to take into consideration.", "Mudd says this could be a useful tool for children who have ongoing problems with fluid in the ear.", "But I think it's really important that parents who are picking up this application have talked to their pediatrician about it - maybe their ENT provider if they have one - before they go and use it because they may be confused rather than helped by the results.", "Though the app developers are hopeful that it will relieve parents of needless trips to the pediatrician, it could do just the opposite, says Dr. Kenny Chan, chief of pediatric otolaryngology at Children's Hospital Colorado.", "To speculate that this may replace the need for a physician's visit, I think that's a little far-fetched.", "He's also waiting for the results of bigger studies to see whether the app really would work as well as the developers hope. Justin Chan, in Seattle, says he and his team have formed a company and are seeking Food and Drug Administration clearance for their software once they gather more needed data.", "J. CHAN: This is a project that is personally very meaningful to me because this is something that I know can touch millions of lives. Like, that's very gratifying.", "Richard Harris, NPR News."], "speaker": ["AUDIE CORNISH, HOST", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "JUSTIN CHAN", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "PAMELA MUDD", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "PAMELA MUDD", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "PAMELA MUDD", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "PAMELA MUDD", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "JUSTIN CHAN", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE", "RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "NPR-4833", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2006-06-29", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5520692", "title": "Roundtable: Obama on Faith, Texas Redistricting", "summary": "Topics: Barak Obama calls on fellow Democrats to court Christian evangelicals and embrace faith; a U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholds much of a Texas redistricting plan; and a lawsuit over public housing in New Orleans. Guests: economist and author Julianne Malveaux; Bob Meadows, writer for People magazine; and Pedro Noguera, professor in the Steinhart School of Education at New York University.", "utt": ["This is NEWS AND NOTES. I'm Farai Chideya.", "On today's Roundtable, Illinois Senator Barack Obama says Democrats need to court evangelicals and the fight for fair housing continues in New Orleans. Joining us today to discuss these topics at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., economist and author Julianne Malveaux, President and CEO of Last Word Productions. And, in our New York Bureau, Bob Meadows of People magazine, along with Pedro Noguera, professor of education at New York University.", "Welcome and let's get right to it. So yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision about the Texas Congressional map engineered by former House majority leader Tom DeLay. The court ruled that most of the map will remain as is, but a section was thrown out because new boundaries didn't protect minority voting rights. Bob, what are the implications of this decision?", "That remains to be seen. I think one of the things that the Supreme Court did, of course, by upholding this matter, is that it could open the door to the majorities - party majorities from different states from just redrawing districts any time they want. This is something that, obviously, people are very concerned about, especially the minorities in the various states.", "Georgia Republicans have already done it. Colorado Republicans are trying to do it. Perhaps Democrats in New York, Illinois, wherever, will try to do the same thing. So, obviously, like I say, this is something that the repercussions of it, immediately, in Texas, is that what they redrew two years ago after what they have redrawn six years ago is going to sort of stay the same, but it might be changed a little bit, but it may have huge repercussions down the line.", "Well, actually, the ruling says you can redraw the lines whenever you want, you just can't do it this certain way. And what I found interesting, among many other points, is that the kind of opposition among the justices was on the basis of civil rights of Hispanics. It says, you know, Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority, says Hispanics do not have a chance to elect a candidate of their choosing.", "So this voting rights law that really started out in the African-American interest has now been used for Latinos. Pedro, what are your thoughts on that?", "Oh, I think that's a wise decision, given that, you know, the Hispanic population is growing not only in Texas but elsewhere, important that there be representation - adequate representation in the Congress and in the state legislature.", "I think the real question, though, with respect to the Supreme Court decision is the fact that it opens the door for this kind of manipulation of elections at every state. And I don't think that's a good thing for voters and I don't think it's a good thing for the overall health of democracy in this country.", "Julianne?", "Farai, you know the Voting Rights Act was extended to include Hispanics, actually, when it included the states of New Mexico and Texas back in - I think the first amendment - so the first amendment of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. So the Voting Rights Act has been cognizant of the interests of other minorities all the while. It did start out, clearly, with the African-American push for equal rights, but it did include others very early on. So I think that's important to note.", "This decision is horrible, and we need to look at it in light of what's happened now with the Voting Rights Act. In fact, the very authorization of the Voting Rights Act has been tabled for now, because Congress people in Texas and Georgia do not like the fact that their states are held out as special. But you see that this case, in terms of the Hispanic voting rights issue, makes it clear that Texas should still be held out as special.", "So when you look at the Supreme Court, combined with what's going on in Congress, I say that people of color have a lot of work to do to ensure that our voting rights are maintained. If, any time, one party gets a majority they get to go in and draw lines, we will have utter confusion at the Congressional level. And the inability, especially of Representatives of color, perhaps, to maintain seniority.", "And in this case, Tom DeLay, of course, who's given up - or giving up the political life - he had such a profound impact on Texas politics. And basically, what he engineered is going to remain. Pedro, what do you think of the implications of Texas going from 17 to 15 Democratic majority in the legislature - now it's overwhelmingly Republican?", "Well, that, I think, is a real issue. If you look at the history of Texas, Texas was always a state that produced several very significant Democratic Congressmen and Senators. And that's going to be increasingly less likely to be the case not simply because the politics of the state have shifted, but because the lines have shifted.", "And Texas is becoming increasingly diverse. You look at cities like Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, these are majority minority cities. To not have African Americans, Latinos, represented there, I think represents a grave miscarriage of justice and a real sign that the Democratic rights of those citizens are being violated.", "But...", "Farai...", "Julianne.", "...the word gerrymandering is one that we need to never forget. Gerrymandering was what was used, essentially - and one of the reasons why we had the Voting Rights Act - to divide people. What I think is going to end up happening here - and I'm very, very apprehensive about the fact that, as Pedro said, you have these majority-minority cities, but you have these majority white suburbs. And you basically see lines being drawn in ways that will pit African-Americans and Latinos against each other in some elections but preserve the suburbs for white Republicans.", "You know, I want to turn to Bob with another topic. It's time that the political parties are starting to go head-to-head around the 2006 midterm elections, precisely the Congressional districts we're talking about. Senator Barack Obama criticized his fellow Democrats yesterday. He said his party did not \"acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people.\" Now he's urging Democrats to woo evangelicals and other churchgoing folk so his party has a fighting chance in 2006. What do you think of that?", "I thought it was - I remember about a year ago, Republicans were saying that they need to target blacks through religion. And, obviously, TD Jakes helped out George Bush by supporting him. This is something that, yes, the Democrats do need to do.", "And it - Barack's speech the other day was very impassioned. This is something that he said has been bothering him since he was debating against Alan Keyes back in the 2004 campaign. Alan Keyes accused him of not being a Christian because Barack supports gay rights, because he supports abortion. And Barack was saying that, listen, the conservatives have taken over this by pretending that white evangelicals only care about gay rights, abortion, prayer in schools, things like that.", "But what he's saying is the Democrats have to tailor their message. They have to - to these people, and that they can't just avoid or dismiss this issue. They have to attack it head on. I think it's brilliant.", "Pedro, you know, Bob was just saying that this is something that was very passionate, this speech. And, in fact, during the speech, Obama says, kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side of Chicago, I felt I heard God's spirit beckoning me. I submitted myself to his will and dedicated myself to discovering his truth. He has not spoken in those terms before. And in some other nations, like Europe - many European nations, religion is kind of a non-topic in most of politics. But is this a case of sincere emotion or a case of if you can't beat 'em, join 'em?", "You know, I'm really concerned about it. I think that matters of faith should really be left up to an individual. We don't elect politicians to run for religious office. We're electing them to represent us. It's one thing to appeal to people of faith and to appeal to the humanitarian interests and concerns. It's another thing to say you're going to appeal to evangelicals, many of whom are very committed to very conservative causes, and which would alienate another part of the base.", "I'm concerned that Obama is pandering to a segment of the country that has no interest in support of the Democratic Party at all. And it really concerns me because I see this kind of approach from Obama in a number of areas - around the war, the fact that Lieberman is now his mentor - I see it as a very bad sign.", "Julianne?", "I agree with Pedro up to a point. I do think that Obama is basically straddling a middle ground very, very carefully. And I think that that's problematic when, clearly, he has other views. I think with this faith thing there is something for Democrats, especially African-American Democrats, to begin to deal with here, which is how you spin the message of economic justice in the context of faith. And that's what we need to do.", "Faith is not just about gay rights and abortion. It's also about that which you do to the least of these, you also do for me. So if you really want to talk about faith, how do we have so much hunger in this country? How do we have so many people who are still earning the minimum wage?", "You know, I would have had more respect for Brother Obama if he had brought some of the social justice issues in to segue them with faith. Because I think what you've seen is this wedge and it hasn't impacted African-American voters. You look at Ohio, when you just start talking about abortion and gay rights.", "But there's so many other things that are said, that are spoken to in the Bible, including the issue of fair wages. That is biblical, I mean, if you want to play faith. So, you know, if you want to play the faith card, play it in a way that works and that really is humanitarian.", "Julianne, Bob, whoever wants to jump in, what about this whole issue of whether or not this is a lost cause. You know, the president's poll numbers have been dropping. His evangelical support isn't even as high as it was. Does this mean that the Democrats have a perfect opportunity, or that, you know, they shouldn't waste the - the Democrats shouldn't waste their energy?", "Oh, Farai. Don't say perfect opportunity and Democrats in the same sentence, because you know they're going to mess it up.", "You know if they had a perfect opportunity they'd mess it up. The issue is not Mr. Bush. The issue is his party. I mean, the reason why Barack Obama is speaking up is because about a quarter of the Republican Party are hard-line Christian conservatives. You cannot even talk moderate Republican unless you acknowledge that fact.", "So take Mr. Bush off the table and look at the future of this party, and you can see why it's appealing for a politician who's straddling the fence to try to talk there.", "Bob, do you think that - I mean, Barack Obama gained prominence for being, I guess, only the second or third black Senator since Reconstruction...", "Right.", "...and it's tough out there. It's tough out there for all politicians, but when you have that broad of a constituency, does he have any choice in this whole straddling the line thing?", "Well, certainly he has a choice. He has a choice but he - well, okay. He has a choice, but I guess, perhaps maybe not if he wants to be reelected.", "He does have to appeal to this wide range of people. He's a Senator, he's not a Congressman. He's got to appeal to a lot of people to get reelected. He has to - he's a black man and I imagine next time his candidate - the candidate the Republicans run against him is not going to go down because of sexual charges or whatever it was. So he really has to appeal to this group. He's got to try to at least.", "That's why I think it's a brilliant strategy. That's why I call it brilliant. I'm thinking in the context of him winning, not so much how it's going to help the greater masses. But if he just wants to win, if the Democrats want to win, yeah, they've got to go after this base.", "All right. Well, I'm going to turn, reluctantly, because I think there's a lot more there, to another topic.", "A coalition of advocates says a federal plan to demolish four public housing complexes in New Orleans is discriminatory. A lawsuit filed this week alleges the demolition plan violates international laws that protect people displaced by natural disasters. In this case, that means mostly poor African-Americans.", "And, Julianne, I know you have been aware of this case. Can you give us a little more sense of what's going on?", "Well, half of New Orleanians have returned already. But of the people who lived in public housing, only 20 percent have returned. That 30 percent gap represents a gap in public policy. Those who have the means can come back, but those who don't can't come back.", "HUD is literally playing games here when they say they're building for a more prosperous time. Well, what does a more prosperous time mean for poor people? In other words, you're not planning to provide public housing, subsidized housing, for poor people. You're writing them out of the future of New Orleans.", "The lawsuit, I think, is actually quite brilliant, to use Bob's word, because I think it does put it in the context of international law and the right of return. And those are the key words that many New Orleans activists have been using to talk about future plans.", "Now, Nagin's back in, but he still hasn't come up with the plan as to how to get people who've been dispersed, you know, this New Orleans diaspora, how to get them back to the city if they want to come. Some don't - but many do as you talk to them, and the issue is there's nowhere for them to come. This really does speak to the politics of income, because those who have are able to move and those who don't aren't.", "Renters, apparently, have no rights. Public housing tenants apparently have no rights, and this is what...", "Let me, yeah...", "...is being pushed to the court.", "...let me just get Pedro in here. Do you think that using international law in this context is really going to make a difference, because the U.S. has a kind of tense relationship with international law?", "Well, it may not make a difference in the U.S. courts. It does, I think, resonate politically within the United States and beyond, because the world saw what happened in New Orleans, saw that - how the greatest, you know, power in the world turned its back on very poor people during a time of crisis. So I think there is an embarrassment factor to be weighed here.", "But the other side about the public housing, that we all have to keep in mind, is New Orleans was a city that was in terrible shape before the flood. It had such intense poverty, and we should not be seeking to recreate New Orleans as it was. The real question - and HUD actually has some fairly innovative programs, there's a program called Hope Six, which is a program designed to bring mixed-use housing - the real question is, can you bring those who were there back, but under better conditions, with better housing, in cleaner, healthier communities? That's the challenge the mayor faces.", "And you know that Hope Six was on the chopping block, in terms of federal funding...", "I know.", "...but it was saved, for the moment. Bob, let me ask you.", "Sure.", "How could America make a promise to New Orleanians that we will get you back home, and will this country make that promise?", "Well, you know, America is so good at, you know, keeping its promises to minorities. I mean, just look at all those treaties with the Native Americans.", "It's very easy, you know. Who - there was a Congressman, Richard Baker, I think he was quoted as saying something along the lines of, you know, we, God did what we couldn't do, finally cleaned up public housing after Katrina. I honestly think that's the mindset that is here.", "Wow.", "I have to say that. They don't - as Pedro said, as Julianne - you know, they don't want these people back. They don't want it the way it was. You have a power structure in place, and a lot of these people are black, who, sure, sure, you're going to build it in the future, you're going to build it down the line. It's not coming now. People are desperate. They're living in abandoned homes. They don't have - because people are there, as Julianne implied, but they don't have anyplace to go so they're living in abandoned places. There's no electricity. There's no running water. This is - it's a complete travesty, as far as I'm concerned.", "Well, you know, we at NEWS AND NOTES went down right after Katrina. We went back six months later, and what astounded me was just seeing the Ninth Ward and other areas just block upon block upon block of homes that were just molding. You know, and could be - I mean, it is just mind-boggling.", "Julianne, I guess the last word to you. Should America make a promise? And what would make that promise real?", "Well, America, as Bob has said, has made lots of promises. I think that it is unconscionable that Americans have not risen up, and especially our organizations like the NAACP, risen up and demanded that these people are replaced.", "Pedro, with all due respect, these so-called innovative plans that HUD has have to be balanced again HUD's inability to execute. They have been unable to execute for the past eight months, and I basically do not believe they're going to be able to execute in the future. The AFL-CIO's work offers us some hope, but the fact is Americans of good conscience must rise up and say this is unacceptable.", "What if it happened in Washington, D.C., Farai, or in Los Angeles, or in San Francisco post-earthquake, or somewhere else? Why is it acceptable in New Orleans for poor people where most of them are black?", "All right, we're going to have to leave it there. In Washington, D.C., economist and author Julianne Malveaux, President and CEO of Last Word Productions. And, in our New York bureau, Bob Meadows, of People Magazine, along with Pedro Noguera, professor of education at New York University.", "Thank you all.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "And, as always, if you'd like to comment on any of the topics you've heard on our Roundtable, you can just call us: 202-408-3330, or you can send us an e-mail. Just log in to npr.org and click on Contact Us. Be sure to tell us where you're writing from and how to pronounce your name.", "Next on NEWS AND NOTES, NPR Senior Correspondent Juan Williams follows up on FEMA spending on this week's Political Corner, and the inspiring story of an immigrant who worked as a janitor before becoming a U.S. college president."], "speaker": ["FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Mr. BOB MEADOWS (Writer, People Magazine)", "Mr. BOB MEADOWS (Writer, People Magazine)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Professor PEDRO NOGUERA (Professor of Education, New York University)", "Professor PEDRO NOGUERA (Professor of Education, New York University)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Professor PEDRO NOGUERA (Professor of Education, New York University)", "Professor PEDRO NOGUERA (Professor of Education, New York University)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Mr. BOB MEADOWS (Writer, People Magazine)", "Mr. BOB MEADOWS (Writer, People Magazine)", "Mr. BOB MEADOWS (Writer, People Magazine)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Professor PEDRO NOGUERA (Professor of Education, New York University)", "Professor PEDRO NOGUERA (Professor of Education, New York University)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Mr. BOB MEADOWS (Writer, People Magazine)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Mr. BOB MEADOWS (Writer, People Magazine)", "Mr. BOB MEADOWS (Writer, People Magazine)", "Mr. BOB MEADOWS (Writer, People Magazine)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Professor PEDRO NOGUERA (Professor of Education, New York University)", "Professor PEDRO NOGUERA (Professor of Education, New York University)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Professor PEDRO NOGUERA (Professor of Education, New York University)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Mr. BOB MEADOWS (Writer, People Magazine)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Mr. BOB MEADOWS (Writer, People Magazine)", "Mr. BOB MEADOWS (Writer, People Magazine)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Mr. BOB MEADOWS (Writer, People Magazine)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "Ms. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (Author; President and CEO, Last Word Productions)", "Mr. BOB MEADOWS (Writer, People Magazine)", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host", "FARAI CHIDEYA, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-263267", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-08-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/29/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Race for 2016: \"Arrogant\", \"Liar\" and \"Weak\".", "utt": ["When you see or hear Donald Trump, what is the first word that pops into your head? Or what about Hillary Clinton? Or Jeb Bush? Well, Quinnipiac University posed that question to registered voters in their latest poll. Ryan Lizza back with me to discuss the results. He's the Washington correspondent for \"The New Yorker.\" Ryan, let's stick through this, let's start with Donald Trump. Here are the top five responses when people asked about him -- arrogant, blowhard, idiot, businessman, clown. Does this match up with someone who is leading so broadly in the polls?", "I love these polls. They are so revealing when they do these. I'm curious about what the blurred-out one is there, Poppy.", "Yes, me too.", "I -- you know, this is early in the race and I would say that there's a chance for Donald Trump to overcome some of this, perhaps. One of the things that he has changed in this race over the last couple months that surprised me at least is the number of Republicans who say they would never support him has dropped from like 50 percent down to 25 percent.", "Yes.", "That suggests that he has a negative opinion, no doubt, and as this poll shows, but if he wanted to work on image rehabilitation, it's possible. So, I wouldn't -- I wouldn't totally read the clown and all the rest as that's it, his image in the American public's mind is completely set in stone. Voters do change their mind. But having said all that, I think his bigger problem is the groups, the segments of American electorate he has almost gone out of his way to alienate and offend. And most Republican strategists frankly believe that a strategy of running hardcore anti-immigration campaign is not going to help you win the president as a general election nominee.", "Well, it's interesting, Ryan. I was listening to a pollster this morning on \"SMERCONISH\" show, saying you need like 64 percent of the white vote if Donald Trump wants to win a general election. That's sort of unattainable right now for any candidate so you need to broaden the tent and that tent needs to encompass minority voters. Let me ask you this.", "That's right.", "I want to turn to Hillary Clinton. The top five words people use to describe her. Liar, dishonest, untrustworthy, experienced and strong. The top three words, troubling. The latter two, helpful.", "Yes, it's interesting, two sides of the coin there. Look, I think with Hillary Clinton, she has had this problem, this perception of her going back to her years frankly in Arkansas, in the White House, when she ran her two Senate campaigns and when she ran her last presidential campaign, it's always been the number one issue she's had to deal with as a public figure. When you have been in the public eye as long as Hillary Clinton is, it's a little bit harder to change voters' views of you. People have really made up their mind about her. She has a very low -- excuse me, very high floor and low ceiling. People that love her, love her. People that hate her really hate her. And I think if you go back to 2008, you will remember Barack Obama, the issue that he really used to go after her was character. He subtly brought up these issues of trustworthiness. I don't see anyone in the Democratic primaries bringing that up against her yet. Bernie Sanders has all but promised not to do that. I think it would be tough for Joe Biden to go after her character. But in a general election, whether it's Donald Trump or Jeb Bush, whoever, that is what the Republican attack against her will be. She will have to deal with that.", "I got 30 seconds for Jeb Bush. All right. Here are the words -- Bush, family, honest, weak and brother. Seemingly better than the other two.", "Yes, depending on what people mean when they say Bush, right? It is fascinating. What's the first word coming to your mind about Jeb Bush, Bush, right? That may be positive to some people, may be negative to other people. So I think he has a little bit of an opportunity to tell his own story, to explain how he's not like his father's administration or how he won't govern like his father or his brother, how he will be his own man. Unfortunately for him, he hasn't been able to do that because Donald Trump has been the focus of so much coverage.", "Right. Sucking up all the oxygen. Ryan Lizza, thank you, my friend. Fascinating story by Ryan --", "Thank you, Poppy.", "-- on Joe Biden and the potential run in \"New Yorker\" this week. Check it out. Coming up next, Detroit, the biggest American city ever to go bankrupt. Next, I'm going to tell you about a Motor City comeback.", "We're not dead. We are alive and we're coming back stronger than before. Sometimes you have to be at the bottom in order to climb your way to the top.", "Is this Detroit 2.0? Our American opportunity, next."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "RYAN LIZZA, THE NEW YORKER", "HARLOW", "LIZZA", "HARLOW", "LIZZA", "HARLOW", "LIZZA", "HARLOW", "LIZZA", "HARLOW", "LIZZA", "HARLOW", "LIZZA", "HARLOW", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-47973", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-1-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/25/ltm.17.html", "summary": "Sen. Max Cleland Discusses War Detainees", "utt": ["Joining us now with his perspective on al of this, the detainees and the case against John Walker Lindh is Georgia Senator Max Cleland who is a member of the Armed Services Committee and a veteran of the Vietnam War. Senator, it's a pleasure to have you on the program this morning.", "Good morning.", "Your thoughts on the -- on two subjects actually. I think one if the treatment of detainees. And the other is the criticism of the treatment of the detainees.", "Well, first of all, the secretary of defense is absolutely right on every point. These are people who will kill you in a heartbeat. These are people who will be glad to die themselves, and take you with them, and that is exactly what you're dealing with here. They must be secure, in transit, and in the compound in which they find themselves. I think they're being well treated from what I can tell. I'm sure the Defense Department will treat them humanely. The truth of the matter is, they have a very volatile situation in there, in every one of these prisoners, and these people are people who are really are out to kill somebody. They were out to kill Americans in Afghanistan, and I'm sure they'll -- if given the chance, they will do it here.", "And they even -- some of them even said, reportedly, that they fully intended to kill an American before they left Cuba. Those were some of the statements made, as I understand it, early on. Did the administration make a mistake, hindsight being 20/20, in releasing the photographs of the detainees in the chains, with the hoods on. I mean, did that perhaps inflame unnecessarily the people who are concerned about human right and create a situation that might have been avoided if hadn't released the pictures?", "Well, you know, it's not the way the prisoners are treated 24 hours a day. That was in a special situation which being moved. You have to maximize your security with these kinds of prisoners, so they don't kill themselves and they don't kill you. Thank God there's not loss of life, on the prisoners or American servicemen and women guarding them. And that's what we want, we want a totally secure situation. When you transport people, you have to do some of those things.", "Let me ask you about John Walker Lindh, who is the exception to the captives from the war in Afghanistan. And as much as he is an American citizen, and now in custody down in Virginia, facing trial on charges of conspiracy to kill Americans. Do you find it ironic that his lawyers, first rattle out of the box, are suggesting they will try to get the case against him thrown out based on the fact that no lawyers were present during the time that he apparently in writing renounced the wish to have legal representation, read him his Miranda rights, and apparently signed off and agreed to talk to FBI investigators.", "That's ridiculous. I don't think the young Marines risking their lives in Afghanistan and Kandahar and 60 miles up in the mountains have the lawyers traveling with them. I think the young man made a terrible mistake in his life and will pay for the rest of his life, and he should.", "Should he have been sent to Guantanamo Bay with the rest of the battlefield captives?", "I think he is being handled by American jurisprudence, being handled properly in American courts, and he has certain rights, but the prosecution has certain rights to, and this young man made a terrible mistake in his life. He chose the wrong side, and young Americans were at risk of losing their lives because of him, and he will spend the rest of life in prison. I'm confident in thinking about that.", "You're convinced that he's going to be convicted on the charges?", "I am. And why not? Because he was found, in effect, right there in the presence of the bad guys, the enemy, and there was also a CIA agent who lost his life right there in his presence. I mean, this is very serious business here, and it ought to be treated as such.", "What about -- and I need a short answer, if we can -- What about his lawyer's contention which is, in effect, that the prosecutor's statements is based totally on voluntary statements that Mr. Walker Lindh made to investigators, and if they can create any sort of suspicion that these were not entirely voluntarily, that these were somehow made because stress, that they were coerced out of him, that he was denied his right to legal representation, that he was denied the right to contact with family, that there was a chance he might get off.", "Well, he has a right to a lawyer, but we don't have to believe him.", "All right. Fair enough. Senator Cleland, it's a pleasure talking with you again. I interviewed you a number of years ago. There is no reason you should remember that, but I did. It's nice to have you on the program. Thank you.", "Thank you very much.", "Senator Max Cleland, Democrat from the state of Georgia. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. MAX CLELAND (D), GEORGIA", "CAFFERTY", "CLELAND", "CAFFERTY", "CLELAND", "CAFFERTY", "CLELAND", "CAFFERTY", "CLELAND", "CAFFERTY", "CLELAND", "CAFFERTY", "CLELAND", "CAFFERTY", "CLELAND", "CAFFERTY"]}
{"id": "NPR-8606", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2019-09-16", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/09/16/761126857/man-tells-bernie-sanders-he-will-kill-himself-because-of-medical-debt", "title": "Man Tells Bernie Sanders He Will Kill Himself Because Of Medical Debt", "summary": "The presidential candidate, in a Nevada campaign stop, pushed back on criticism of his \"Medicare for All\" plan. Instead of asking Sanders questions, people have vented about health insurance problems.", "utt": ["Senator Bernie Sanders took a lot of criticism from his fellow candidates in last week's presidential debate over his health care plan. So Sanders used a recent campaign trip to Nevada to defend his \"Medicare for All\" proposal. NPR's Scott Detrow was there. And just a quick note, this story has an exchange that some listeners might find disturbing.", "The day after the debate, Sanders was in Carson City. His voice was still hoarse. And he was clearly still thinking about the night before, when several other candidates criticized his plan to entirely do away with private health insurance.", "But I was not pleased that Vice President Biden distorted what Medicare for All is and, in fact, simply parroted the line coming from the health care industry.", "Biden says building on Obamacare and creating an optional Medicare-type national plan is the better approach. But for Sanders, private companies and their profit motives are the root of the problem. He blasted the insurance industry in Nevada, along with the big pharmaceutical companies he blames for spreading opioid addiction.", "Oh, somebody here says lock them up. No, we don't do that. They are rich and powerful. I'm sorry. Clearly, you do not understand the criminal justice system in America.", "Lately, Sanders has been turning rallies into town halls where, instead of asking him questions, people vent about their health insurance problems. In Carson City, a man named John Weigel told Sanders how his bills keep piling up to over $100,000. And this exchange may be disturbing for some listeners.", "I can barely take care of myself. And I do not have the energy to fight these people...", "Weigel was angry and desperate.", "How are you going to pay off a hundred...", "I can't. I can't. I'm going to kill myself...", "Hold it, John. Stop it. You're not going to kill yourself. All right. Stop it...", "I can't deal with this. I have Huntington's disease.", "Sanders and his wife, Jane, spoke with Weigel after the event. And Sanders supporters have since set up an online fundraising effort to help him with those bills. After Carson City, it was on to Reno in Las Vegas. Nevada is the third state up in the presidential contest. That's due largely to the influence of one man, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Reid's retired now and battling cancer. But he's still paying close attention, and he's still in touch with the 2020 candidates. So I drove to his house in the Las Vegas suburbs.", "Fifteen. We're looking for 17.", "Reid was wearing a straw fedora sitting in his sunny living room.", "It's my house. I can put my hat on if I want, right?", "Nevada's often the overlooked early state. It isn't in the national campaign narratives much.", "People go to New Hampshire. It's easy. Iowa's easy. South Carolina's easy. Coming to Nevada's harder. But they're making a mistake not coming here more often.", "Reid points out Nevada is the first early state with a significant minority population. Latinos, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders make up a big chunk of caucus goers.", "We're a state that looks like the rest of the country, and you don't have that other places.", "Several of the campaigns say immigration, climate change and affordable housing are key issues in Nevada. In Las Vegas, Sanders rolled out a $2.5 trillion plan to expand affordable housing and address homelessness.", "If you're spending 50% of your limited incomes on housing, how do you pay for food? How do you pay for transportation?", "In a crowded primary field, Sanders is relying on the electorate buying into the policies he's embraced for decades. Still, here and there, he's showing some adaptation to modern campaigning.", "What I'd like to do now, if it's OK with you - if anybody would like to come up and do a selfie, we'd love to do it. Anybody want to do that?", "Scott Detrow, NPR News, Carson City, Nev."], "speaker": ["NOEL KING, HOST", "SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE", "BERNIE SANDERS", "SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE", "BERNIE SANDERS", "SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE", "JOHN WEIGEL", "SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE", "BERNIE SANDERS", "JOHN WEIGEL", "BERNIE SANDERS", "JOHN WEIGEL", "SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE", "SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE", "SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE", "HARRY REID", "SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE", "HARRY REID", "SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE", "HARRY REID", "SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE", "BERNIE SANDERS", "SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE", "BERNIE SANDERS", "SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-410550", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-09-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/10/cnr.22.html", "summary": "Seniors in Retirement Community Become Online Tutors.", "utt": ["After months and months of being cooped up during the pandemic, some seniors and pensioners in the U.S. have now found a way to engage with the outside world. The retirement community in Virginia has actually started a program that lets qualified seniors tutor students online. Kim Brunhuber reports now.", "Hi, Lily. I'm Neola Waller.", "A former high school math teacher for more than 30 years, Neola Waller now has a new pupil for the first time in a long time.", "I love to teach. So, having a student will be a nice change for me, and if I can help her, then I'll feel I was a success.", "During months of lockdown in the coronavirus pandemic, Mrs. Waller is one of the seniors at her retirement community in Virginia Beach who's become a virtual tutor. She'll be helping eighth grader Lily Yale with geometry as Lily begins the semester, like many students across the U.S., going to school online.", "I was concerned, because at the end of last year, Lily did have some trouble, like, getting used to the virtual learning program. It just eases my mind and know that she has the support and guidance from Ms. Waller.", "Instead of me having to raise my hand while being in a room with, like, over 30 other classmates, I can, like, actually ask my questions.", "Lily and Mrs. Waller were paired as part of an initiative developed by the Westminster Canterbury Retirement Community. It's the first to offer residents a specialized tablet named the Birdsong with content aimed at improving cognitive health and keeping seniors connected.", "This looked like a wonderful opportunity to engage with a student to have fun and to get me something to do.", "Still in its trial stages, the program focuses on retired former educators leveraging decades of experience in topics ranging from math to history, like Robert Felty. He'll be tutoring his grandson, who's a freshman in high school a few states away.", "I will help him via the tablet, Birdsong tablet, to -- to do history and tell a little bit about where I've been and my father being in World War II, in the Army Air Force. I look forward to it. And I get to see him. It's nice to be involved. What classes are you going to be taking?", "After years working in military intelligence, Mr. Felty says he trained more than 10,000 Navy police, teaching up to three classes a day before he retired. Like Mrs. Waller, he's been on lockdown since March.", "Westminster gave me a chance to reach out and do something for the community. And I like young people. God bless them. We need them.", "Mr. Felty plans to tutor his grandson at least once a week to start, and Mrs. Waller intends to meet with Lily two or three times weekly, for now.", "I might even get better at it as it goes along. What an opportunity, a big chance to maybe feel relevant and needed.", "It would be nice if they would do this across the nation. It would be good for the tutors and the tutorees or whatever you call them.", "Kim Brunhuber, CNN, Atlanta.", "Beautiful connections all the way around. Thanks so much to Kim for that story. Stay with us for the latest on the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. and around the world. Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta host the \"CNN GLOBAL TOWN HALL, CORONAVIRUS, FACTS AND FEARS.\" See it at eight on Thursday morning in New York. That's eight Friday morning in Hong Kong. Wherever you are, you can find it here on CNN. So, thanks so much for joining me. I'm Robyn Curnow live in Atlanta. \"EARLY START\" is up next."], "speaker": ["CURNOW", "NEOLA WALLER, TUTOR", "KIM BRUNHUBER, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "WALLER", "BRUNHUBER", "ALEXANDRA YALE, MOTHER OF STUDENT", "LILY YALE, STUDENT", "BRUNHUBER", "WALLER", "BRUNHUBER", "ROBERT FELTY, VIRTUAL TUTOR", "BRUNHUBER", "FELTY", "BRUNHUBER", "FELTY", "WALLER", "BRUNHUBER", "CURNOW"]}
{"id": "NPR-130", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2019-02-12", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/693799087/news-brief-border-funding-talks-parkland-shooting-anniversary", "title": "News Brief: Border Funding Talks, Parkland Shooting Anniversary", "summary": "Negotiators reach \"an agreement in principle\" on a border security spending agreement. Nearly a year since the Florida school shooting, Dick's Sporting Goods is the corporate face of gun control.", "utt": ["They were under a whole lot of pressure to make it happen, and now Congress says they have a deal to prevent another government shutdown.", "Key lawmakers agreed on a range of border security measures, and those measures include President Trump's demand to fund a border wall, which led to a partial government shutdown. Before the shutdown, Democrats offered the president $1.3 billion for that wall. After the shutdown, Republicans have apparently agreed to roughly the same amount that they could have had before. At least according to early descriptions of the bill, it falls a billion short of what the president demanded. As the deal came together, the president was holding a campaign-style rally near the border in El Paso, Texas.", "Just so you know, we're building the wall anyway. They say that progress has been made...", "Just now - just now - I said, wait a minute. I got to take care of my people from Texas. I got to go. I don't even want to hear about it.", "NPR White House correspondent Scott Horsley was traveling with the president to Texas, and he is on the line, along with NPR congressional reporter Kelsey Snell. Good morning to you both.", "Good morning.", "Good morning.", "Kelsey, I want to start with you because you are covering the ins and outs of what this compromise is actually about. So what can you tell us in terms of the details here?", "Well, the details that we have are kind of early information from congressional aides who have reviewed the agreement. We have not actually seen the physical bill yet because they were working on it all through the night. From what we understand, negotiators agreed to $1.375 billion for physical barriers at the border. And I'm told that's fencing, including some new fencing in restricted areas. Now, that level is about the same as what was agreed to in last year's Department of Homeland Security funding bill.", "Right.", "Now, that would fund about 55 miles of fencing. And Trump has been demanding $5.7 billion for a really much larger wall structure. So this is considerably less than what they were asking for. They also agreed to more resources for non-barrier border security and a reduction in the overall number of detention beds at Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities this year. We're talking about...", "So that's a win for Democrats 'cause they had been pushing that.", "Yeah, definitely. It's on the order of 40,000 beds, and that's, like, a 17 percent drop.", "Do we know if there's any other money allocated to border security other than that $1.3 billion? Because that had been in the opting (ph) - right? - additional resources for, like, humanitarian aid or something.", "Right. And like you said, that - the number of ICE detention beds is a big victory for Democrats or that they're framing it that way. But there would be an additional $1.7 billion for border security, things like technology at ports of entry, more officers at the border and a lot of other things that ICE and the Department of Homeland Security have said that they needed. Now, that is a boost, and that's something that Republicans are likely to be celebrating quite a bit.", "Right. That was something that both parties at least said in theory that they wanted all those things. So what is not in the deal that stands out?", "I think the thing that stands out most to me is that the negotiators told us as they were coming out of the meeting they weren't able to include any money for disaster aid. And Congress will still have to handle that. It's something they had hoped to have as a part of this broader package because there are states like California that dealt with a lot of wildfires and other natural disasters last year, and they're still hoping for federal funds to help them make up the difference.", "OK. So at this point, the big question is - and remains - will President Trump support this? Because, as we have pointed out, this is basically what was put on the table for him before the shutdown even happened. Scott, you were with the president at this rally in El Paso. We played a clip of him earlier. What more did he say about this deal? Because he knew, right? As the rally was starting, he knew about at least the contours of this compromise.", "He was just getting word. I mean, it's an awkward position for the president. He goes to El Paso to make the case for his border wall, and just as he's landing, he gets word that lawmakers had really cut the legs out from under him because they're only OK'ing about a quarter of the money he'd been asking for. As you heard, he just kind of ignored what was happening in Washington, plowed ahead and addressed the desires of the fervent supporters who were in that coliseum.", "During the rally, we should just point out, he brought up a new chant, a new call and response. Usually, it's build the wall. But there was a lot of, quote, \"finish the wall\" banner and signs. And this is how the president responded when people start saying build the wall. Let's listen.", "You really mean finish that wall because we've built a lot of them. It's finish that wall.", "That makes it sound like the wall is well underway. Can you give us some ground truth on that?", "Well, you want real reality or Trump reality...", "Real reality.", "...Because, remember, this is a president who, as a developer, had no problem inflating the height of its buildings - his buildings if that's what it took to, you know, improve the marketing picture. Even if Trump had gotten all the money he wanted, we would've been talking about walling off maybe 10 percent of the 2,000-mile border. As it is, as Kelsey said, he's going to get 55 miles of border wall. The president's a pretty effective salesman. Maybe he can sell this to the wall's most ardent supporters. And, remember; most of them don't live anywhere near the U.S. border with Mexico.", "It's striking to hear the difference, Scott and Kelsey, between what you're hearing in Washington and what you're hearing in El Paso. The president is going on with symbolic politics and symbolic gestures and discussions of a wall that really, for a lot of people, was a symbol. But, Kelsey, when I hear you describe the legislation as far as it's known now, it sounds like just ordinary legislation, lawmakers going through a variety of measures that may have effect on people's lives and they're - they differ on the exact amount of funding, so they worked that out and went on.", "Yeah. I mean, this is, at the end of the day, an agreement on a spending package on a spending bill that they had to pass anyway. And the people who worked it out are the people who write spending bills. This is not - this is a bipartisan group of the biggest experts in Congress in writing spending bills. And to them, that's what this is.", "What happens now, Kelsey? I mean - because this isn't just all of a sudden done, I mean, even if they have this compromise.", "Right. Congress has to approve the legislation and send it to President Trump for his signature before the Friday midnight deadline. And Trump would presumably need time to sign it. Senator Richard Shelby, who is the chairman of the Appropriations Committee in the Senate, seemed pretty optimistic that the White House is onboard. Here's what he said.", "We haven't put all the particulars together yet, but we believe from our dealings with him and the latitude they've given us, they will support it. We certainly hope so.", "So he says that the...", "Hope springs eternal, Kelsey, doesn't it?", "(Laughter) It does, and they say that they'll have the bill probably ready sometime today. And Congress can move pretty quickly once they have bill text in hand.", "And, of course, they had a lot of hopes the last time when the president decided at the last minute not to sign it. NPR's Kelsey Snell and NPR's Scott Horsley for us this morning. Thanks, you guys.", "Thank you.", "You're welcome.", "This week marks one year since the Parkland massacre, a year that turned many of the survivors of that shooting into political activists calling for tighter gun control.", "They have an unlikely partner in Ed Stack. He is CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods, a company that sells firearms, among many other things. After the tragedy in Parkland, he said Dick's would no longer sell firearms to anyone under 21. Here he is on CNN.", "Everybody talks about thoughts and prayers going out to them, and that's great, but that doesn't really do anything. And we felt that we needed to take a stand and do this.", "The sporting goods store also stopped selling assault-style firearms at all in all of its stores. Our Alina Selyukh has been reporting on the aftermath of Stack's decision.", "And she's in our studios this morning. Good morning, Alina.", "Good morning.", "What has Ed Stack said about how he came to this decision these many months ago?", "He talks about the profound impact that Parkland had on him and his company. In one of the most personal interviews in November, he mentions that he watched the coverage that weekend and actually cried. He says that, you know, if the kids and the families of the victims were brave enough to take a stand on this, we as a company should also be brave enough to take a stand on this. And also Dick's had discovered that months earlier they had sold a gun to the Parkland shooter. Now, this wasn't a gun that was used in the shooting. It was a different type of gun. But to Ed Stack, this illustrated this broken system that he now wanted Congress to change.", "And, you know, Dick's Sporting Goods, the reason we've been following this story is it's not a company that's known to go out on a limb. An example I like to offer is their dress code didn't allow jeans officially until two years ago, right? And so suddenly for many Americans, this was now the staid, dependable, athletic store essentially plunging into activism. And they made those changes that you just mentioned. And most controversially, they also hired a lobbying firm to actually lobby Congress for gun laws, for new gun laws, that would echo Dick's policy.", "I have to say that the latest records show that the company spent barely any money on that effort. I asked them about it, and they essentially said faced with gridlock in Washington, they - Stack himself felt like there was no progress out of that. And he instead shifted to talking about gun laws and the changes he made on his company at events and things like that.", "Yeah. How did Dick's customers respond to this decision?", "Right. There was a big boycott that played out in the first months. And I actually traveled to Pittsburgh, which is where our Dick's Sporting Goods is based, to talk to folks there. And a lot of gun owners, especially in the suburbs in sort of western Pennsylvania where hunting and gun sports are really popular, they did say that they stopped shopping at the company. Others in the more liberal parts of the city felt really proud of the company. But there was this one big perception that this whole thing was a knee-jerk reaction to Parkland.", "And it was a profound change, but it's important to point out that after the shooting at Sandy Hook in 2012, Dick's did make a similar change. They took off assault-style rifles from the shelves and later brought them back only in the hunting-oriented stores of - called Field & Stream, which now are also - they're not being sold there anymore. So this has been kind of percolating for quite some time.", "So does that mean that he - that Stack was acting against his own financial interests when he made this decision? I mean, what has been the financial fallout for the company?", "So this has been the interesting question. Wall Street was actually really not that moved by this whole story. In November, the company did report a dip in sales - 3.9 percent - especially dragged down by hunting. But profit margin improved because what Wall Street knows is that guns and ammo were actually not as profitable for Dick's Sporting Goods as pretty much everything else that they sell. And hunting has been a drag on the company for quite some time. Fewer people are hunting these days. They're actually running a test taking out hunting goods from 10 stores completely to see what happens. And in March, they will report full-year results, and we'll be watching.", "All right. NPR's Alina Selyukh for us. Thank you so much for that, Alina. We appreciate it.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP", "PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RICHARD SHELBY", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE", "SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "ED STACK", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ALINA SELYUKH, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ALINA SELYUKH, BYLINE", "ALINA SELYUKH, BYLINE", "ALINA SELYUKH, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ALINA SELYUKH, BYLINE", "ALINA SELYUKH, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ALINA SELYUKH, BYLINE", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "ALINA SELYUKH, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-102949", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2006-2-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/16/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Jackie Collins Dishes on Famous Inspirations for New Book", "utt": ["Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. This is TV`s only live entertainment news show. I`m Brooke Anderson live in Hollywood. Tonight -- tonight, late-breaking news about Elvis Presley`s daughter Lisa Marie, and SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is the first to break it to you. Just a short time ago, her publicist says Lisa married guitarist and music producer Michael Lockwood. The ceremony took place in Japan on January 22. Its Presley`s fourth marriage. Her previous husbands included Nicolas Cage and Michael Jackson. Lisa`s mom, Priscilla, walks her down the aisle and, actually, one of her other ex-husbands was the best man.", "It is time now for a \"SHOWBIZ Sitdown\" with Jackie Collins. She is the ultimate Hollywood insider. She dishes dirt on all the biggest stars, but the catch is she never names in her books. Well, I had a chance to sit down with the best selling novelist to talk about some familiar characters in her latest book called \"Lovers and Players.\" And I wanted to get her take on the truths and lies of fellow author James Frey.", "I need you to straighten out something for us, set the record straight on something about \"Lovers and Players\" right off the top.", "OK.", "Is it a novel? Is it a memoir? It`s a work of fiction, right, Jackie?", "A thousand little lies, that`s what it is. It`s a work of fiction.", "OK.", "But you know, the late, great Frank Sinatra had a biography written about him. And at the time I had a book out called \"Hollywood Husbands.\" And Frank sent me a note. He said, \"You`re writing fact, and this woman is writing fiction about me.\" And I thought that was great. He signed it \"Francis Albert.\" I love that. So cool.", "You have to be very careful about these things, because of...", "Very clear. Very clear.", "So we know it`s a work of fiction. What do you make about that whole thing with \"A Million Little Pieces\"? That`s, of course, what I`m referring to, James Frey and the controversy. Who -- who bears the responsibility there? Is it the author? Is it the publisher? A little bit of both?", "I think it`s a little bit of both. Because they must have known. And they must have asked him. I mean, you don`t say you`re in jail for three months, when you`re been three hours just sitting there. You don`t say you`re spitting at policemen when you haven`t. It would make a great novel, fantastic, but make it fiction. Don`t say it`s true. Because every woman in Hollywood can now say they`ve slept with every man in Hollywood. Because who`s going to argue? You know, they can make it up. Why not?", "And certainly, and Oprah brought this point home when she kept challenging...", "Yes.", "... the publishers, saying didn`t this raise a red flag? Didn`t that raise a red flag? She kept saying no. But come on.", "Yes. Exactly. But you know, I like writing fiction, because I can do whatever I want. And I can write about whoever I want and I can change the names to protect the not so innocent.", "Let`s talk about a couple of those specific characters for just a moment.", "Yes.", "And also famously, you don`t usually reveal, as you said, who the character is based on.", "No.", "But let me take a whirl at a couple.", "OK.", "Or at least a few people that came to mind. Tell me -- describe the character Birdy for me.", "Birdy Marvel is this little pop diva. She`s very cute. She`s very blond. She`s emancipated from her parents, and she`s engaged to this biker with -- covered in tattoos, and he kind of wants to take all her money, and she kind of doesn`t want him to. She could be anybody.", "Let me throw up a picture of a particular blond whose name begins with a \"B,\" ends with a \"Y.\" This comes to mind, you know, some of the things you mentioned.", "It`s Britney. I love Britney. I think she`s great.", "So this is Britney?", "No, it`s not Britney. That`s Britney, yes.", "But does Birdy at any time get caught driving with the baby in her lap?", "Read my book. No. No, Birdy doesn`t have a baby. See, so it can`t be Britney, can it? Because Birdy doesn`t have a baby. It could be Jessica. It could be Ashlee. It could be Paris. It could be Nicole.", "Little bits of all of them.", "Little bits of all of them.", "Tell me who...", "That`s what makes the character fun.", "Tell me who Damon is.", "Well, Damon...", "Is it Donnell or Donnell?", "Donnell.", "Because I read a whole book and I want to make sure.", "Yes, exactly, he`s a hip-hop model. He`s great looking. He wears, you know, a lot of bling, but he`s just like big and has a great body. And who are you looking at there? Who are you bringing up now?", "You say Damon and bling and, of course, we think of Damon Dash.", "Well, that`s because the name is the same. But it`s not Damon Dash. I mean, it could be a little bit of -- I don`t know, Diddy -- a little bit of Jay-", "Well, let`s through the next picture up here. It certainly appeared that maybe any of these guys, Russell Simmons.", "It could be any -- it could be a little bit of all of them or it could be none of them at all.", "So what is the deal with the fact that people are so obsessed with vicariously, perhaps, living through, you know, the rich and famous? Your books, it`s always said, when people start reading them, no matter who they are, it could be the biggest person on the Forbes list.", "Yes.", "Or it could just be the supermarket checkout woman, but people start reading your books and they don`t put them down. Why are we so obsessed with all of this?", "I think because I tell a good story. And you know you`re not getting the front page of one of the tabloids. You`re getting the real truth, because I`m there. And you know, I`m not outside pressing my nose up against the glass, saying, \"What`s going on? Can I write about that?\" I`m in there, and I`m writing about the real truth. So you are getting the real truth. I do change the names.", "When you look at what is in the newspapers these days, particularly with all of the breakups.", "Yes.", "And Nick and Jessica, the newlywed show, and of course, they end up splitting up. And look at -- look at marriages that have broken up in Hollywood recently, from Heather Locklear and Richie Sambora to Chad Lowe and Hilary Swank.", "Yes.", "You can`t -- I say you can`t write this stuff. You do write this stuff.", "I do write.", "Is it amazing to you that the stuff that you write about fictionally...", "It`s amazing to me that everybody is always looking for something better. They always think there`s something better around the corner. And I always say to people, I always say to girls, you know, young girls, I say go out and have a fantastic time before you get married. Do everything you want to do, and then you`re not sitting in a marriage saying, \"Oh, I wish I`d done that.\" Because you`ve done it; you`ve been there, done that.", "Is that the key? I mean, do you think that`s a lot of the reason why these Hollywood marriages are always breaking up, it seems?", "Well, separation is not good for any relationship. I mean, you know, when your husband goes off on location with Angelina Jolie, go with him. Don`t leave him alone. You know, I mean, that`s kind of foolish.", "So did you write that scenario out in your head when you saw what was going on there?", "Absolutely. I mean, you knew the moment that she wasn`t there, you knew it had to happen. Because it`s just human nature, especially when a woman is there by herself. She has to kind of -- you know, she wants her sexuality to be noticed. If she can`t get the director or the co-star or whoever it is. I`m not talking about Angelina, because she`s so fantastic. I`m a huge fan. But you know, most locations, it`s very, very sexual. Because you`re treated like a queen, and he`s treated like the prince. And you`re together, and you`re probably doing love scenes. I mean, if your wife or significant other isn`t there, you know, it ain`t going to be good.", "Problems could be around the corner.", "Oh, yes.", "Don`t think that Jackie Collins spends all of her time watching celebrities. She also happens to watch her TiVo an awful lot. She`s afraid of the list that builds up while she`s out traveling and promoting her book, but she`s a self-proclaimed TiVo addict. On her list, shows like \"Nip/Tuck,\" \"Prison Break,\" and of course, as you would expect, she loves the \"Desperate Housewives.\" Her new book is called \"Lovers and Players,\" and it`s in stores now.", "OK. Coming up, you can relax with the rich and famous. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT takes you to the hottest spas. Unwind with \"Thursday InStyle,\" next.", "Plus a big newspaper says \"I`m sorry\" to Elton John. They also had to fork over some cash. Find out why in tonight`s \"Legal Lowdown.\" Plus, we`ll have this.", "The result of the CSI effect is that jurors want more evidence. When they don`t get it, they become very suspicious.", "Question. Is real life imitating fake TV with deadly consequences? Tonight, why some say \"CSI\" is teaching criminals how to get away with murder? It`s a shocking story. 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{"id": "CNN-270541", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-12-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/04/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Motive for San Bernardino Shootings Sought; Male Shooter Apparently Hed Been Radicalized", "utt": ["Investigators searching for a motive as they reveal new details about the couple behind the mass shooting and their arsenal.", "And we are learning more about the victims and those they left behind. You're watching special coverage of the mass shooting in California. Hello, everyone. I am Natalie Allen at CNN Center, Atlanta.", "I like to welcome everybody in the United States and all around the world. I am John Vause in San Bernardino, and we begin with new details about the man and woman who carried out that deadly shooting. Sources say Syed Rizwan Farook was apparently radicalized. He'd been in touch with a number of people under investigation by the FBI for international terrorism. Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, had a dozen of pipe bombs and a stockpile of ammunition at their home. Investigators say the heavily armed couple fired between 65 and 75 rounds at a holiday party on Wednesday, killing 14 people, wounding 21 others. Investigators say they have found two smashed cell phones in a trash can near one crime scene, and they have recovered a computer from the couple's home but someone had removed the hard drive.", "This may be a sign, investigators believe, that the two shooters were trying to hide their tracks and make it difficult for investigators to figure out who they were communicating with in the days leading up to Wednesday's massacre. The two cell phones were recovered from a garbage can near one of the three crime scenes. Now the work for FBI technicians is to try to recover information from the cell phones, as well as from computers that were found at the home of the two shooters.", "Justice Correspondent Evan Perez there. Anderson Cooper takes a closer look at some of the other details we've been learning about the shooters and the investigation, including those possible ties to terrorism.", "You're watching the last images of the killers in their SUV before they're shot to death in a hail of gunfire.", "Oh my gosh.", "Recorded by a resident just down the street from where Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik made their last stand with law enforcement.", "They opened fire first. Rounds came out of the back of the car from the female that was in the back firing through the back of the SUV at the police vehicles, and then the male suspect who was the driver, got out and fired at officers from the street as well.", "The shootout in real time heard over police radio.", "One guy down. There's one guy in the back of a car.", "We now know Farook and his wife fired close to 80 rounds, 23 officers returned fire killing the couple on the scene, and today we learned they had an arsenal in that", "They had over 1400, .223 caliber rounds that were available to them, and they had over 200 .9 millimeter rounds. They had the .223 assault style rifles with them.", "And authorities would find an even bigger arsenal at the couple's home. Thousands of rifle rounds, pistol rounds, 12 pipe bombs and tools used to make IEDs. Jason Simmons says his mother is one of Farook neighbor. How did they seem to you?", "They seemed like a normal family.", "Law enforcement sources tell CNN it appears Farook, a U.S. citizen was radicalized, and he was in touch with more than one terrorism suspect that the FBI was already investigating. It's unclear if those suspects were overseas or lived in the United States. As of now, law enforcement is still unwilling to state a definitive motive for this mass killing. We do know that a holiday party was underway at the Inland Regional Center yesterday when Farook left under duress. According to law enforcement, when he returned, he and his wife dressed in tactical gear, sprayed the room with bullets and left behind a homemade bomb.", "The suspects when they entered fired somewhere between 65 and 75 rounds from their rifles at the scene. We did locate the one pipe bomb, there was actually three pipe bombs combined into one that had a remote car type remote control device that appears not to have worked in this case.", "They fled the scene in that black SUV, and authorities say a witness to the massacre identified Farook which led them to his home. While police were there, the SUV passed by the house and then sped off. It led to this, the end of the chase and the beginning of the larger investigation, Anderson Cooper, CNN, San Bernardino.", "And the coroner here has released the names of the 14 people killed on Wednesday. Among them is 52-year-old Nicholas Thalasinos, he was an employee of the County Environmental Health Department. Forty year old Robert Adams was a husband and a father of a 20-month- old daughter, his family says they're planning their first trip to Disneyland together, 37-year-old Michael Wetzel also worked at the Environmental Health Department. He leaves behind a wife and six children. Police say the 14 people killed, 12 were county employees. There were about 80 people attending the party when the shooting happened.", "Just that picture of those six children and the mom who are left behind, so sad. Loved ones of those who died are sharing some stories of their husbands, wives, partners, sisters, and brothers, 42-year-old Daniel Kaufman is among them. He helped people learn job skills at the Inland Regional Center. Kaufman's boyfriend, Ryan Reyes, shared what he wants the world to know about Daniel."], "speaker": ["JOHN VAUSE, CNN INTERNATIONAL NEWSROOM HOST", "NATALIE ALLEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL NEWSROOM HOST", "VAUSE", "VAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "VAUSE", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COOPER", "JARROD BURGUAN, SAN BERNARDINO POLICE", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COOPER", "SUV. BURGUAN", "COOPER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COOPER", "BURGUAN", "COOPER", "VAUSE", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-109021", "program": "CNN LIVE SATURDAY", "date": "2006-8-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/05/cst.03.html", "summary": "Poll Reveals American Opinions on Current Events", "utt": ["And now back to the Middle East crisis. Here's what we know. The U.N. Security Council is set to meet in less than 30 minutes to discuss a draft resolution aimed at ending the violence. The Associated Press reports that an Israeli cabinet minister has endorsed the plan, worked out by the United States and France. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Crawford, Texas to discuss the peace plan with President Bush. White House spokesman Tony Snow says that the president is happy about the agreement. Meantime, there was more ground fighting along the Israeli- Palestinian border -- or the Israeli-Lebanese border, that is. Military officials say Hezbollah mortar shelling killed one Israeli soldier. Some new poll numbers are out. How is the Middle East crisis affecting President Bush's popularity? CNN's senior political analyst Bill Schneider has that and other results in a report first seen on \"ANDERSON COOPER 360.\"", "At times of international tension, the American public usually rallies behind the president. Is that happening now? The president's latest job approval rating in a CNN poll taken by the Opinion Research Corporation is 40 percent. Fifty-nine percent disapprove. Not much of a rally, but one administration figure is getting high marks.", "If you're going to do this job, it's great to be doing it at a time of consequence.", "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's job rating is 62 percent, much higher than her boss. More than two-thirds of Americans say they sympathize with Israel in this conflict. Sympathy with Israel has been growing since the conflict began. No division there. But there is division over what Israel should do now. Americans are split over whether Israel should continue military action until Hezbollah can no longer launch attacks, or agree to an immediate cease-fire. The cease-fire issue draws a partisan response.", "If you declare an immediate cease-fire and you do not have the conditions for real peace, it is simply going to be a hollow declaration.", "Most Republicans agree with that. Most Democrats want a cease-fire as soon as possible. Here is something else the public is divided about. A narrow majority support sending U.S. ground troops to the Lebanese border, along with troops from other countries, for a peacekeeping force. But there's no big party split over an international force and a peacekeeping force. What about Cuba? By better than two to one, the public favors reestablishing diplomatic relations with Cuba. If Fidel Castro dies and his brother Raul takes over, that number goes even higher. No partisan split here either. Republicans and Democrats alike favor diplomatic relations with Cuba.", "In another issue that's making news, do Americans believe actor Mel Gibson is anti-Semitic, that is, prejudiced against Jews? Only twenty-three percent of Americans say yes, 52 percent say no. After the recent incident, Mr. Gibson put out a statement saying that he is not an anti-Semite. The evidence suggests most Americans believe him. Bill Schneider, CNN, Boston.", "And Bill Schneider is part of the best political team on television, a team you will only see on CNN. And straight ahead, we'll talk more about Mel Gibson in our legal briefs as well as look at how a Congressman -- this Congressman -- became the subject of a lawsuit related to a tragedy in Iraq. And, of course, this man, as I mentioned, Mel Gibson, we'll be talking about him, his case. You don't want to miss that."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SR. POLITICAL ANALYST (voice-over)", "CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE", "SCHNEIDER", "TONY SNOW, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "SCHNEIDER", "SCHNEIDER (on camera)", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-159579", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-12-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1012/16/ltm.03.html", "summary": "British Court: Assange Can Be Freed on Bail", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "Fourteen minutes past the hour right now. And we have some breaking news this morning. New developments in the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. London's high court has upheld the decision to grant bail to the WikiLeaks founder. He's been fighting extradition to Sweden over allegations of sex crimes. A lower court ruled earlier this week that Assange could be freed on bail under strict conditions. Swedish authorities then appealed that decision, which is why he remained in jail. He is, of course, at the center of the controversy in this country over posting U.S. secret documents online. But again, Julian Assange freed this morning on bail.", "New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson on a mission to North Korea and CNN's Wolf Blitzer is along with him. Richardson says he hopes that his visit will, quote, \"bring down the temperature on the Korean Peninsula.\" The governor has dealt extensively with North Korea. Now, Richardson won't be officially representing the United States but he does expect that Pyongyang will use him to deliver some sort of message to the Obama administration.", "Check out the video. It's been just released by NASA, the massive explosion that rocked the sun back in August. Scientists dubbed it at the time the \"Great Eruption.\" And they have now been studying this solar event for the past few months. They say that this explosion ended up covering half of the sun's surface, that it lasted for 28 hours. NASA hopes that the data can be used to help forecast future solar disturbances.", "So, there you go. You're wondering why it's so cold? It's because the sun blew up. There you go.", "Exactly.", "\"People\" magazine looking back at the biggest pop culture moments of the year. Can you guess who they picked as their Woman of the Year?"], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-399693", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-05-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/09/cnr.03.html", "summary": "More Arrests In Fatal Shooting Over Face Mask.", "utt": ["Two fugitives are now in custody after being sought in connection with the shooting death of a Michigan security guard after dispute over a security -- wearing a face mask. Calvin Munerlyn, was doing his job at a dollar store in Flint, Michigan when he was shot and killed after telling a customer to where a state mandated facemask. Video footage shows the customer leaving the store after a verbal altercation with the guard and then later two men arrived. And police say one of them yelled at Munerlyn about disrespecting his wife, the second man that allegedly shot the security guard in the back of the head. Munerlyn's widow spoke with our Don Lemon about her husband's murder.", "That was senseless and stupid and now my babies without a father for the rest of their life. One thing they can't to take away was my baby was the legendary king and his legacy going to live on and they can't take that away, never.", "I want to bring in now David Leyton. He is the Genesee County prosecutor and he joins us now from Flint. Good to see you. Boy, this is terribly sad. What is your reaction to a murder like this in your community?", "It's senseless and tragic and totally unanticipated. Here's a man just doing his job trying to tell someone you got to come into the store with a face mask on. And the man loses his life over it. It's just so tragic. And I think that the community, actually the whole world has looked at this because if you see their GoFundMe page, it's almost $400,000 for the widow and the eight children that Duper was his nickname left behind, very, very sad case.", "Oh, it's terrible. So then tell me about the circumstances of, you know, why the suspects, I guess were considered, you know, fugitives then arrested. And the two arrested. Does that indeed involve the first person who allegedly had the initial encounter with the security guard?", "Yes. She was the wife of one of the alleged folks who came back and the mother of the shooter. In fact, we believe that after the altercation, she called back to her husband and son and told them what happened. And we believe she encouraged them to come back and retaliate for the alleged disrespect that she felt Mr. Munerlyn showed her and not letting her daughter come in with the mask. In all we have six people in custody now, three in this and the rest here in Michigan.", "Oh my goodness. And, you know what -- how do you assess all of this? Because this comes what -- and so a week after you saw people, you know, they're in Michigan, go into the statehouse, some wearing, you know, weapons threatening that you know, they want their freedom back and then you have something like this associated with the wearing of mask, which are the kinds of protections that many of the demonstrators are have been resenting? Do you make a correlation between, you know, all of these sentiments and, you know, short fuses or people being agitated?", "You know, Fredricka, that's a very, very good question. And I thought a lot about it. And I really believe that the hostile tone that we've seen in various state capitals that we've seen on social media can permeate our society in a way that we never really anticipate. You know, decisions like staying home or wearing a mask when going to the store or staying a safe distance from those around us, to me, those aren't political arguments, those should not necessitate acts of defiance or violence in this case. And it was something so unanticipated. But I think this whole belief that you can't tell me what to do kind of gets into some people's psyche, and can have a reaction that none of us can really understand or anticipate. So I've asked my community to let's ratchet down the tone here. Let's ratchet down the hostile tone that we've seen. We've really all got to come together to get back to our way of life sooner rather than later.", "All right, David Leyton, thank you so much for this.", "Thank you very much.", "Be well. Roy Horn of the legendary Las Vegas magic duo Siegfried and Roy has died of complications from coronavirus. His partner Siegfried Fischbacher wrote, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend. The two were known for their performances with white lions, white tigers. They started their show in Europe in the late 1950s before bringing their show to Las Vegas for the next four decades. It ended after Horn was attacked on stage by a tiger back in 2003. Roy Horn was 75 years old. Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. All right, we began with a staggering new coronavirus death toll here in the U.S., the number now surpassing 77,000, with more than 1.2 million confirmed infections."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "LATRYNA MUNERLYN, WIDOW OF SECURITY GUARD CALVIN MUNERLYN", "WHITFIELD", "DAVID LEYTON, GENESEE COUNTY PROSECUTOR", "WHITFIELD", "LEYTON", "WHITFIELD", "LEYTON", "WHITFIELD", "LEYTON", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-148651", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2010-3-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/05/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Shooting at the Pentagon: Gunman Identified as John Patrick Bedell; News Conference at the Pentagon on Shooting Incident; Security at the Pentagon: New Screening Procedures in Place after 9/11; Deadly Shootout at Pentagon", "utt": ["Good morning. Glad you're with us on this AMERICAN MORNING. It is Friday, March 5th. We have some breaking news we're going to be covering for you throughout the morning. I'm Kiran Chetry.", "And I'm Jim Acosta. Let's go to the news conference now at the Pentagon on the Pentagon shooting that happened last night.", "A lone individual approached the Pentagon metro prescreen area. Almost immediately reached into his pocket, took out a weapon and engaged the Pentagon Police Department, two officers that were on duty at the entrance to the facility. Shots were fired between both. Both of our officers sustained injuries. They were minor, not life threatening. The suspect was struck in the head. His injuries were a lot more severe. All the subjects were transported to George Washington Hospital. Later in the evening, the suspect, Mr. Bedell, passed away. The officers are OK. They are on administrative leave right now pending the outcome of our investigation and healing from their injuries. At this time, I'm going to introduce the folks who are helping us with this investigation. My name is Richard Keevill, k-e-e-v like victor, i-l-l. On this side, I have Mr. Shawn Henry, who's the assistant director of the FBI, Isaac (ph) John Perry, and the incident commander is Carl Datts (ph). We'll answer any questions that you have. This investigation is actually being shared by three jurisdictions. The Pentagon Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Arlington County Police. Yes.", "Chief Keevill, can you confirm the existence of a surveillance video that shows this suspect?", "I can. It does.", "Tell us about it. Tell us about it.", "We got it.", "What's on it? What does it show?", "It pretty much confirms what we've been saying that he acted alone. Something that I didn't know about until late last night is he was very well dressed in a suit. There was no indication based on the way he was dressed that he had possible intent. I believe I told you all last night that he was very calm. There was no distress in his appearance. He walked very directly to the officers and engaged. He was very well armed. I will tell you he had two 9 millimeter semiautomatic weapons and many magazines.", "Chief, what can you tell us about, a little more about the suspect? He was from California. And also, did he act alone? Who else was part of this? Are you still investigating a second suspect?", "At this time, and I emphasize at this time, there doesn't appear to be anyone else acting in concert with Mr. Bedell. He came here from California. We were able to identify certain locations that he spent the last several weeks making his way from the West Coast to the East Coast. But a lot of this is still preliminary. One of the questions that came up last night was how did he get here. We were able to determine that he drove here. He parked his vehicle in a local parking garage, and we have located that vehicle. It has been impounded. It will be processed as another piece of evidence.", "Anything found in the vehicle? Any further evidence", "More ammunition.", "What about a motive?", "Right now, we don't really have one, ma'am. It appears he's had some issues in the past. He has had a couple of contacts with the law. He's a very well-educated individual. Right now, we don't know if we have a motive yet.", "What about his Internet postings", "I'm sorry, I only heard part of that.", "What about the Internet postings? We learned from a", "OK.", "Have you guys investigated that?", "That's one of many things that we're looking into.", "Is that the same guy?", "We really haven't made a final determination.", "We haven't made a final determination. Not yet, ma'am.", "Do you think your security procedures need to be reviewed?", "I am very pleased. The Pentagon Police Department in the post-9/11 environment has done considerable training. All of you know that the active shooter issues we've had in the country over the last several months have brought a lot of focus on this in every police department, local, state and federal. We're no exception. We serve a very large population. The Fort Hood incident put us on notice that it can happen even in a military reservation. We took the appropriate actions. We trained our officers and it worked. No, sir, I'm not going to change the way we're doing business.", "If you returned to the investigation, what can the FBI add to this? Is this primarily focused on a domestic issue, or domestic situation, or international situation at this point?", "There is no indication at this point that there are any domestic or international terrorism nexus to this at all. It's probably at this time -- or at this time it appears to be a single individual that had issues.", "Have the officers been treated or released or are they still in the hospital? Can you elaborate on the wounds of the officers?", "The question was, can I elaborate on the wounds of the officers? One of the officers was hit in the thigh. The other was hit in the top of his shoulder. Both were superficial. Both have been released from the hospital and I said a few moments ago are on admin leave, which is routine when the officers are involved in a shooting until they heal and our investigation is complete.", "Did the suspect have any body armor on?", "He did not.", "He was well dressed?", "No, he was not wearing any body armor.", "What type of weapons?", "It's not appropriate to say at this time.", "Can you say anything at all prior to opening fire?", "I was told last night at the scene that there was no exchange but I understand there may have been an utterance. I can't confirm what that utterance is because the person who knows that is now home resting from a gunshot, so I need to wait until I can get one-on-one with him on that. But I was told last night he didn't talk. He just drew the weapon and started shooting.", "Any idea when the Pentagon metro station will reopen?", "Ma'am, it's a complicated crime scene. There were a lot of bullets fired by both persons, our officers and the suspect. It's a crime scene and as such it's going to have to stay closed until we're complete. I know that's a big hassle for a lot of folks, but we'll do the best we can to get it open as soon as possible.", "I know he lives in California. Anything about the city and how the investigation is going out there, probably interviewed", "The FBI has been wonderful through this investigation supporting us because they have national assets. We are checking leads anywhere this man has ever been, which includes obviously California. And that's still very preliminary.", "Will you say what city in California?", "No, not right now.", "Chief, were you able to characterize the style of his shooting? Apparently, he almost missed your two officers entirely despite the fact he was in close range. Did he seem to have any", "I can't answer that right now.", "Did it appear he was trying to make entrance into the Pentagon and what his intentions were?", "Ma'am, I have no idea what his intentions were. We can speculate about that I guess a lot. But he was immediately adjacent to the entrance to the Pentagon. He didn't make it. He was at a prescreen facility and he was stopped at the prescreen facility.", "Any idea how many shots roughly were fired?", "No. And that's a truthful answer. I really don't know because they're still counting. It was a real significant number of rounds but I don't know how many.", "Was the suspect shot by one of the two officers who were hit?", "Until we get the ballistics back there were three officers engaged him with weapons. The two officers that you know about and one of our officers that came to assist, all three fired at him. I don't know yet and I don't think we'll know for a couple weeks until the ballistics are back which one actually hit him.", "What a timely question? How long did it take to take him out and neutralize him?", "It was less than a minute.", "Can the FBI just make any comment about how concerned the attorney general is about this and how you all see this whole investigation?", "I think I defer to the chief and his comments. This is just still an ongoing investigation. We're continuing to investigate all leads and I think the chief has done a terrific job really articulating that.", "Two more questions.", "Anymore questions? Two.", "Will you release that tape?", "Not for a while. Not for a while. A lot of people are interested in seeing it including these gentlemen here.", "In terms of civilians, who was in that immediate area in addition to the officers? The gunman and the officers involved, were there people right up close to the incident scene?", "If you didn't hear the question is, where are the -- are there a majority of the public that use that part of the building? Yes. The metro entrance facility is one of the biggest entrances into the building because obviously the metro station and the train station, I say metro, the buses and train stations are right there. We're lucky.", "That's the latest from the chief of the Pentagon police. They're at the Pentagon wrapping up the latest details on this ongoing investigation into that shooting that happened last night. The chief there confirming that the suspect was killed. John Patrick Bedell, 36 year old, from what we understand, from California. And we've got a team of reporters working on this story right now. Barbara Starr is with us here in New York. But we first want to go to our Chris Lawrence who is down at the scene of the shooting that occurred last night. Chris was just listening in on the press conference. And, Chris, what was your impression of what you just heard?", "Well, I think -- I think, Jim, in some ways he confirmed what a defense official told me a short while ago, that the two officers were out of the hospital, that they were OK. That this second man that they have talked to or questioned had nothing to do with the actual shooting. He was simply seen near the shooter before the shooting took place. And he confirmed from the medical examiner that the shooter was dead. I think some of the new details that we learned was that he was very well educated. He was very well dressed, and that he had come from California. He had driven his car out and that when they searched that car, they did find more ammunition inside -- Jim.", "All right. You know, Chris, another thing that was interesting that was asked at this press conference that took place is whether or not this is the same person who was linked to some Internet postings, resentment over the U.S. government, perhaps suspicions about 9/11. They answered that that's something they're looking into right now, and they also did say that they don't believe this is part of any terrorism nexus. But what more do we know possibly about the gunman at this point?", "Based on what we know, Kiran, you know, he has been in contact with law enforcement before as we heard him sort of allude to. We're talking about 2006. There was a court case involving cultivating marijuana, resisting police. And the marijuana angle comes up in some of these audio recordings that we've obtained that we believe were made by the same, you know, John Patrick Bedell. In it, he rails against the government. He talks about government control of the monetary system, about government control of the schools, and he also talks about some conspiracy ideas that he has. Take a listen to what some of the audio recordings are.", "To prevent themselves from being enslaved, the powerful masters of our existing government use every means at their disposal, including bribery, theft and murder, to control those governments which are imperfect institutions operated by imperfect individuals. In order to properly address these very serious matters, it is necessary to recognize the importance of enduring principles for setting a positive direction that we can pursue, mindful of the real threats that we must overcome.\"", "Again, he rails against the government. He talks about a case of a Marine colonel from back in 1991 where it was ruled a suicide, but there was always some suspicion that perhaps the colonel may have been killed to cover up some information that he had about the government. So what you get out of all this is a very anti- government leanings. I can also tell you as he came up to this area of the Pentagon, a lot of people would say how do you get a gun that close to the Pentagon? Well, the thing is the metro station, as you just heard, is used by thousands of people every day. Buses come through there. The underground train system comes through there. And as you come up the escalator, after 9/11 they changed the system where now you come up, there is another layer of security. So, as you come out of the escalator and come out of the metro station, there are these Pentagon police officers standing right there. And every day, you know, I come in with a code. I walk up. I pull out my pass just like thousands of other people do. So, what he did was probably something that these officers see day in and day out every minute of the day. It is incredibly busy. And so when he went to what they thought pull out a pass to get into the Pentagon, and he pulled out a gun, obviously that would have caught them very much by surprise.", "Absolutely.", "Yes.", "Jim, Kiran.", "Chris, thanks so much for that perspective at the Pentagon this morning. We'll get back to you as soon as we can. But first --", "That's one of the questions that they were asking about as well, is the fact that the two officers, thank goodness, had superficial wounds. One grazed in the thigh and one grazed in the shoulder.", "Right.", "But as it appears, I mean, they were shot almost at pointblank range.", "That's right.", "So it's lucky that they have minor injuries.", "And that is essentially because of the security setup at the Pentagon. The metro station, the D.C. subway system that lets off right there at the Pentagon allows people some pretty good access to that building. And joining us now is our Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr. And, Barbara, you know that building well. But one of the tidbits that came out of that press conference that struck me is that the chief said that the suspect had two 9 millimeter semiautomatic weapons and as he put it many magazines.", "Well, this is what's really so astounding that someone could get so close. That you know, this is the post- 9/11 era, isn't it? And these public spaces we saw it at Fort Hood, we see it here, they try and control access as best they can. What they have done at the Pentagon since 9/11 is move the security checkpoint out, further away from the building. So, if anybody does have ill intent, they will be caught away. They won't get inside the building. It's the kind of thing that we're seeing in so many places but in these large areas where thousands of people move through, which essentially is a public space at the metro, it's so tough to catch these people.", "And as you pointed out just before we went on the air, this is the first major security incident at the Pentagon since September 11th.", "Sure, it really is. You know, like any other place, there are minor incidents along the way that don't really get reported but this is really the most serious incident since 9/11, and obviously something for the people who work in the Pentagon as we do who were there on 9/11 brings back a lot of memories. But the Pentagon police got on it really fast obviously. They say they neutralized this man within a minute. And that's the kind of 9/11 security that they've really instituted there.", "A lot of questions and a lot more to be discussed as we find out more details about this case and we're going to continue that. We're just going to take a quick break. And when we come back, the latest now that we just heard some new information this morning about that shooting right outside of the Pentagon. We're going to take a quick break. 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{"id": "CNN-188536", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-6-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1206/28/cnr.06.html", "summary": "\"Obamacare Is Bad Policy\"; Stinging Loss For Republicans", "utt": ["All right, make no mistake about it. Today's Supreme Court decision is a major victory for the president that many political watchers say will help his chances for another victory re-election come November. But the president's first response to his win today in the nation's highest court wasn't about the politics, but the people.", "In doing so, they've reaffirmed a fundamental principle. That here in America, in the wealthiest nation on earth, no illness or accident should lead to any family's financial ruin. I know there will be a lot of discussion today about the politics of all this, about who won and who lost. That's how these things tend to be viewed here in Washington. But that discussion completely misses the point. Whatever the politics, today's decision was a victory for people all over this country.", "Well, now to the president's rival in November, Mitt Romney, emphasized that the one thing that came out of today's ruling, the justices have interpreted one part of the president's health care reform, the individual mandate, as a tax.", "Let's make clear that we understand what the course did and did not do. What the court did today was say that Obama care does not violate the constitution. What they did not do was say that Obama care is good law or that it's good policy. Obama care was bad policy yesterday. It's bad policy today. Obama care was bad law yesterday. It's bad law today. Let me tell you why I say that. Obama care raises taxes on the American people by approximately $500 billion.", "Let's go to national political correspondent Jim Acosta, following Mitt Romney today. And really, his reaction is repeal, repeal, repeal.", "That's right, Brooke. And it's funny that you played that quote, because I went back and looked at Mitt Romney's speech and what he said there just outside the capital. He used the term \"Obama care\" 18 times during those remarks. And those remarks only lasted about 5 minutes. So I think what the Romney campaign has decided to do here is realize while, yes, this is a legal victory for the president and history does remember the winners. They do know that the polling shows that the president's law is still unpopular. And the president acknowledged that in his remarks just after Mitt Romney spoke. So the Romney campaign is just going to continue to go after how they feel that this law is unpopular. One thing we heard from Mitt Romney today, he basically said, look, I am the last exit on the Obama care highway. What the Supreme Court did not do today, I will do in my first day of office. So what he's saying to voters right now is, look, if you want this law gone, I'm your last chance.", "And couldn't this, Jim, be perceived as a victory for team Romney because it could galvanize conservatives to get them out of November. You know --", "It does.", "-- get Obama out of office.", "That's right. I mean, one of the things that the Romney campaign was doing all morning long. And by the way, they were very hush/hush about this event they had right outside the capital. But once they confirmed and once they got their messaging going, they were starting to put out on Twitter the hash tag fullrepeal. Not just the people inside the Romney campaign, but the RNC. They were both sort of coordinated in that messaging response. The other thing they were tweeting out to everybody, Brooke, and it was hard not to catch this, is the fact that they were fundraising. Basically, they were seeing a bounce in the fundraising after the ruling came down. Andrea Sol, the spokeswoman for the Romney campaign has been tweeting that out all day long, and I think the last time she tweeted this out, she said that they were over $1 million, that they had raised today just since the ruling came down. So, yes, this is galvanizing Republicans. This is uniting Republicans behind Mitt Romney, and it's sort of the ultimate irony because the Democrats were going out and even some Republicans pointed this out during the campaign. Mitt Romney is the father, many of them say, of Obamacare, and now he's the last guy that can stop it, according to the Romney campaign -- Brooke.", "Jim Acosta, thank you. Big day in Washington because, also, let me tell you, at this hour, a huge debate over the \"Fast and Furious\" scandal. Lawmakers are speaking out as to whether or not Attorney General Eric Holder should be held in contempt of Congress, which would be the very first time in history for an attorney general. A vote is expected live during this show. 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{"id": "CNN-351854", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2018-10-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/09/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Cat 3 Hurricane Michael Just Hours Away From Impact; Forecast Cone Stretches From Florida To New Jersey; Hurricane Hunter Flying Over Michael: \"This Is Not The Storm That You Want To Ride Out", "utt": ["I mean, this is an important person. She is not the only woman, only person speaking for the Democratic Party, but there you go.", "We got to leave there it, guys. Thanks very much. \"Erin Burnett OutFront\" starts right now.", "And \"OutFront\" next, we have breaking news. Hurricane Michael now a major Category 3 storm, gaining strength as it closes in on the Florida Panhandle. I'll speak to a pilot flying over the storm who says no one should ride this one out. Plus, Nikki Haley suddenly quits as U.N. ambassador. Why now? And who are the five people on President Trump's short list to replace her? And Mitch McConnell is not done fighting after the Kavanaugh battle. Who is his new target? Let's go \"OutFront.\" Good evening, everyone. I'm Kate Bolduan in for Erin Burnett. \"OutFront\" tonight breaking news, a Cat 3 massive storm that is gaining strength. Hurricane Michael now called a historic life- threatening storm with sustained winds of 120 miles per hour. At this hour, the storm is intensifying as it heads towards the Florida Panhandle. Michael is expected to make landfall tomorrow. President Trump already declaring a state of emergency in Florida and ordering Homeland Security and FEMA to coordinate all relief operations. This is Michael, we're going to show you, as seen from space. Terrifying. The fast-moving storm is heading north over the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. More than 20 million people across five states are under hurricane watches or warnings tonight. Michael is forecast to be the strongest storm to hit the U.S. this year. In all, some 300 miles of coastline are threatened with devastating winds, with storm surge up to 13 feet, and up to a foot of rain in parts of the state, bringing, of course, life-threatening flooding. Perhaps most in danger are those living on islands off the coast. The bridges connecting them to the mainland may soon be closed, leaving people nowhere to go. Residents are being urged to get out by tonight, or it may be too late. Evacuation orders have been issued for 22 Florida counties. Florida's Governor Rick Scott, he made his warning crystal clear today.", "We're going to do everything we can to help you, but do not wait. If there's an evacuation order, go to safety. If you're on the fence, don't think about it. Do it. This storm can kill you.", "We are covering this dangerous storm with reporters spread out across Florida's Panhandle. Let's begin with Meteorologist Allison Chinchar. She's at the CNN weather center for us. Allison, what is the latest on the path for Hurricane Michael?", "Right. So we still expect landfall with Hurricane Michael to impact somewhere along the Florida Panhandle likely late tomorrow afternoon. So, again, we're now down to less than 12 hours. Right now winds are 120 miles per hour moving north at about 12 miles per hour. But it is still possible that this storm could intensify a little bit more before it makes landfall. Now keep in mind a little bit more, well, let's say we jump up 10 miles per hour up to 130, that actually makes it a Category 4. So, we're close enough that it's something we have to keep a close eye on even though the official hurricane center forecast keeps it only at a 3. Here is a look at that track again. Some time Wednesday afternoon is when we expect it to make landfall over the Panhandle of Florida. From there, it pushes up towards states like Georgia, South and North Carolina, and eventually bringing some of the heavy rain bands up towards Virginia as well. Storm surge is going to be one of the biggest concerns with this, especially along the coastline. This purple region here, including the city of Apalachicola, we're now talking storm surge of 9 feet to 13 feet. The red areas you see here, including Panama City, now you're talking 6 feet to 9 feet. But even a city like Tampa that seems very far away still likely to get storm surge of upwards of about 2 feet to 4 feet. Wind is also going to be a concern. Wind was not really the key component to Hurricane Florence, but this is a different storm. We are still expecting those forecast winds to be upwards of 100 miles per hour, and that's going to be widespread. The unfortunate thing there, Kate, is that that can then lead to power outages, not just along the coastline, but even cities far inland, like Columbia or even Atlanta could end up dealing with widespread power outages.", "Wow. All right, Allison, thank you so much. I'm joined on the phone now by Richard Henning, a flight director with NOAA's hurricane hunters. He's on board a plane that just flew over Hurricane Michael. Richard, can you hear me?", "Yes, Kate, I can hear you just fine.", "Thank you so much. You have the very latest information on this storm. What are you seeing?", "Well, right now we have three aircraft actually in the storm. We have the NOAA high altitude Gulfstream IV Jet. We're at 45,000 feet flying across the top of the storm. We also have", "So this is a major storm. And there is going to be another update, another national update at the top of the hour. Do you think that it's going to be gaining strength by then?", "I'm not sure they're going to bump up the intensity any in the next advisory or not. It all depends on what the aircraft finds down lower in the eye wall. However, the forecast with the hurricane center is for the storm to continue to intensify this evening up through the upper end of a Category 3, close to Category 4 intensity. So people need to be ready for that. And when you get right down to it, if you live along the shoreline, it doesn't really make much of a difference if it's a strong Category 3 or a low-end Category 4. For the destructive power, it's not very -- there is not much difference.", "So from your perspective, flying through this with the latest data, when the governor says that this could be -- this is a monstrous storm and it could be the worst destruction in a decade for the Panhandle, you don't think he is overstating it?", "Oh, not at all. I think you actually have to go all the way back to 1975 for the old-timers. There was a storm, Hurricane Eloise that followed a similar track and was very destructive. But there weren't nearly as many people living along the coastline in the Panhandle back then. Since then we had Hurricane Opal in 1995, Hurricane Ivan in 2004. They were both very, very destructive. And I think that unfortunately, Michael is following right along with those types of storms, that type of devastation.", "That is terrifying. You -- for perspective, you also flew over Hurricane Florence several times. How does Hurricane Michael compare to Florence? Do they look different?", "They are different storms. Hurricane Florence was much larger in terms of diameter. Hurricane Michael is more compact and intense. Hurricane Florence was weakening as it approached the coast. Hurricane Michael is intensifying as it's approaching the coast. So they're actually very different storms.", "I hope we still have you. I hope we still have you, Richard. What worries you most as you're flying over this storm and this storm is getting closer and closer to land?", "Well, again, the risk of storm surge and very, very powerful wind is increasing, so everyone needs to heed the warnings of the local emergency management folks with this storm. This is not the storm that you want to ride out.", "Richard Henning, thank you so much. I really appreciate your time.", "Yes, ma'am. And again, for all your audience listening on the Florida Panhandle, I would strongly urge everyone to have a plan and execute that plan right away for getting out.", "This coming from the man flying over this storm right now. That's an important warning. Thank you again.", "Thank you, ma'am.", "All right. \"OutFront\" with me now, AccuWeather Storm Chaser Reed Timmer. He's on his way to Panama City Beach, Florida to ride the storm out this hurricane. Reed, you just heard what the NOAA hurricane hunter said. I mean he called this a very dangerous situation and that the storm is likely to gain strength still. What are you anticipating?", "Well, I can certainly reiterate just how dangerous this storm is going to be. It's intensifying. That's very different than Hurricane Florence that was weakening as it came in. Hurricane Harvey if you may remember last year was an intensifying storm rapidly as it came in as a Category 4 down near Rockport, Texas, and the wind damage was absolutely catastrophic from that. Any weak structure would be completely knocked down by winds of that. And with 125 miles per hour sustained winds you have gusts much stronger than that. That's basically like a widespread EF-2 or EF-3 tornado in terms of the damage. And then you have that catastrophic storm surge as well. Anywhere near and just to the right of the center, and that's going to extend all the way down to even north of the Tampa Bay area. You have all different kinds of inlet there's and con cavity along the Florida Panhandle shoreline which is very storm surge-prone. So we have those onshore winds just hammering, battering the coast. And it's just not survivable on those barrier islands.", "I mean, the winds, just even the thought of 120 sustained winds-mile-per-hour winds is a terrifying thought. I want to show our viewers, Reed, video of Hurricane Dennis from 2005. It's the last time that a major hurricane hit the Florida Panhandle. When you see the destruction that was done back then, just how vulnerable is the area where you're going to be?", "It is incredibly vulnerable. And looking back through the AccuWeather archives, all the way back to 1975 I could find a hurricane that was similar, that took a similar track at least that landfall that was Hurricane Eloise there that came in as a Category 3 with maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour. This one could even be stronger than that. It's a very compact storm. Who knows how strong this could intensify. As the hurricane hunter pilot said, there is not much of a difference between a strong Category 3 and a weak Category 4. Either one of those are going to be deadly, especially along those barrier islands near and just to the right of center. Another hurricane that took a similar track was Hurricane Opal in 1995. That came in further west near the Pensacola area and brought a 15-foot storm surge there in Pensacola. There are dozens of fatalities from both of those storms. So a storm like this, it's fast-moving. It's strengthening as it comes in. It's going to have a quick devastating storm surge. It's going to come in fast along with those winds, and it's just something you don't want to be a part of.", "Reed, what do folks need to be prepared for if they decide to stick this out? Do you think its worse that we're talking about these winds that are going to be coming ashore or the storm surge?", "Well, I think its both right near the shoreline. You have those winds and you have the storm surge. And eventually it's going to be too dangerous to leave. And the surge in the water will come up well in advance of the storm system. So now is the time to leave and get out of the path of this. But it's certainly a one-two punch with both that wind and the storm surge, very different from Hurricane Florence.", "And very different from Hurricane Florence, and just as dangerous, if not more. We're going to check in with you throughout the week. Reed, we know you take many precautions to be safe as this is your job, my friend. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it, Reed. Thank you. We'll talk to you soon.", "Thank you.", "\"OutFront\" for us next, massive evacuation orders as Hurricane Michael strengthens. I'm going to talk to a mayor whose city could be right in the path of the storm tonight. Plus, the President tonight says there are five people on his short list to replace U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. Who are they? Lindsey Graham says Trump jokingly asked if he wanted to be attorney general. Was it really a joke?"], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "GOV. RICK SCOTT (R), FLORIDA", "BOLDUAN", "ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "BOLDUAN", "RICHARD HENNING, NOAA METEOROLOGIST AND FLIGHT DIRECTOR (on the phone)", "BOLDUAN", "HENNING", "BOLDUAN", "HENNING", "BOLDUAN", "HENNING", "BOLDUAN", "HENNING", "BOLDUAN", "HENNING", "BOLDUAN", "HENNING", "BOLDUAN", "HENNING", "BOLDUAN", "REED TIMMER, ACCUWEATHER STORM CHASER", "BOLDUAN", "TIMMER", "BOLDUAN", "TIMMER", "BOLDUAN", "TIMMER", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-310287", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2017-04-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1704/18/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Trump Praises Turkish Power Grab?", "utt": ["We're back with House Armed Services Committee member John Garamendi. Congressman, I want you to stand by for a moment. We are learning more right now about President Trumps' outreach to the leader of Turkey, who dramatically expanded his authoritarian power in a vote tainted by allegations of serious fraud. Let's go to our senior diplomatic correspondent, Michelle Kosinski. Michelle, the White House says Mr. Trump has no regrets about his congratulatory phone call to President Erdogan. What is the latest?", "Right. And this is a complicated relationship. The U.S. needs Turkey's continued help in the fight against ISIS, but it also wants to see a strong democracy there. So, what we are seeing from the administration right now is this odd almost good cop/bad cop dynamic, with President Trump being the only Western leader to call Turkish President Erdogan and congratulate him. But at the same time, the State Department is saying there are some problems here.", "Turkish President Recep Erdogan's divisive, razor-thin national referendum win now means he has sweeping powers, but he tells CNN in an exclusive interview he is not a dictator.", "For a dictatorship to exist, you don't necessarily have to have a presidential system.", "Outside observers, though, suspect a rigged election and that this was more about Erdogan gaining power than improving Turkey's political system. The only Western leader to call Erdogan and congratulate him? Donald Trump. No mention of concerns observers have that ballots were manipulated or illegally counted, that there was intimidation, that the election happened during a state of emergency after last year's coup attempt, during which Erdogan's government fired or suspended more than 100,000 people, including teachers and journalists, and jailed tens of thousands of others. Today, a Trump administration official tells", "\"The president is aware of all of that. On the other hand, Turkey is a vital NATO ally in the counterterrorism field. If your policy is America first and protecting America, there are times when you're going to be picking from some imperfect options.\" Still, zero European leaders joined Trump in contacting Erdogan. Others who did congratulate include Hamas, Qatar and Bahrain.", "There are political consequences of this, but I think the president obviously made a decision to continue to reinforce our relationship with Turkey, given the circumstances of facing ISIS on the ground.", "It was the president's own State Department that sounded the alarm about democracy in a statement. \"Concerns include observed irregularities on voting day and an uneven playing field. We look to the government of Turkey to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all its citizens, commitment to the rule of law and a diverse and free media.\" Trump, though, has praised strongman leaders like Vladimir Putin. Critics question whether Trump's own business interests in Turkey prevent him pushing back against Erdogan's tactics. Trump admitted in the 2015 interview with Steve Bannon at Breitbart News:", "I have a little conflict of interest because I have a major, major building in Istanbul that it is a tremendously successful job. It is called Trump Towers. They are incredible people. They have a strong leader.", "The message that he congratulated President Erdogan of course will not sit well with the millions of Turks who did not vote for President Erdogan and were very upset that an election that looks like rigged will get a seal of approval from the United States.", "Tonight, the White House continues to defend the phone call, saying that President Trump supports democracy, but he was protecting American interests in this call by focusing on working together. And it should be said that the Obama administration also at times struggled with its relationship. Remember, after the coup attempt, as Erdogan was cracking down with tens of thousands of people affected, the White House at first refused to say they had any problem with it. It was only after constant questioning by reporters that they finally admitted, OK, we have some concerns -- Wolf.", "All right, Michelle, thank you, Michelle Kosinski at the State Department. Let's get back to Congressman Garamendi. So, Congressman, the Trump administration seems to be implying that speaking out on this shift towards authoritarianism in Turkey would hurt the overall fight against ISIS. Do you believe this is an either/or situation?", "No, not at all. I do think that the White House is quite correct that Trump is protecting an American interest in Istanbul. Clearly, President Trump has a serious conflict of interest in everything that goes on in Turkey. And this isn't the first example of where he has weighed into Turkish issues that ultimately come to his benefit, and the interview with Bannon is a pretty good example, where he admits his own conflict. This speaks to the larger issue of just who and what is Trump protecting. Now, in the larger sense, Turkey is an extremely important part of the American-NATO system, also extremely important of the fight against ISIS, not without some serious difficulties as to what to do with the Kurds who we support, that is, the Syrian Kurds, in their effort to go after ISIS. The Turks clearly oppose that. And so this conflict has yet to be worked out. And one of the reasons that things seemed to stall in the attack on Raqqa is that this issue between Turkey, the Kurds, the Syrian Kurds and the United States has not yet been worked out.", "Certainly hasn't. So what message, do you believe, Congressman, President Trump's reaction to this referendum sends to other foreign leaders?", "Well, it sends, don't worry about democracy. You are not going to get anything from the White House about human rights, about democracy, civil liberties, and the rest. Take the Philippines, for example. The president has been very, very quiet about what is gone on in the Philippines with Duterte, and at the same time, Duterte has sent as his personal emissary to the White House Mr. Trump's business partner. These connections are very, very troublesome, because it leads all of us to wonder, just what is the priority? Is it personal business or is it the American business? It's not clear in my mind. These questions are raised multiple times across the entire world. And then the Ivanka Trump issue, receiving two additional trademarks after meeting with Xi at Mar-a-Lago, what is that all about? This woman at the time was a White House aide. She was an employee of the U.S. government, of the American people. Meeting personally with the president of China, and then getting a little goody on the hands like a trademark? These are real serious questions about conflict of interest at the highest level of the American government and, by the way, happens to be the way in which business is conducted in China, or at least was conducted in China, favoritism to the powerful. We can't have that in America. But we're beginning to see that in many, many ways with this White House. And, by the way, we really ought to have the tax returns, so we can know exactly what the conflicts are.", "John Garamendi, the congressman from California, thanks for joining us.", "Thank you.", "Just ahead: the armada mixup. How did U.S. officials get the location of U.S. warships wrong? And did President Trump oversell it as a show of force aimed at Kim Jong-un? And the president's buy American message, is it resonating at a time when many Americans don't think he is keeping his promises?"], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "MICHELLE KOSINSKI, CNN SENIOR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT", "KOSINSKI (voice-over)", "RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, TURKISH PRESIDENT (through translator)", "KOSINSKI", "CNN", "WILLIAM COHEN, FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE", "KOSINSKI", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SONER CAGAPTAY, DIRECTOR, TURKISH RESEARCH PROGRAM, WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY", "KOSINSKI", "BLITZER", "GARAMENDI", "BLITZER", "GARAMENDI", "BLITZER", "GARAMENDI", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-333832", "program": "HALA GORANI TONIGHT", "date": "2018-02-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/27/wrn.01.html", "summary": "Search Ramped Up For 100 Schoolgirls Kidnapped In Nigeria; Court Rules Cities Can Ban Diesel Cars", "utt": ["Well, it`s a nightmare in Nigeria hoped it would never see again. The country is desperately searching for dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls. They were taken last week when armed men stormed their school in the northern village of Dapchi. You`ll remember almost 300 girls were abducted in Chibok back in 2014 kidnapped right from there dormitories by Boko Haram. Armed militants from that terrorist group also are suspected to be behind this adduction. Nigeria`s president has promised the girls` families they`ll be found, but keep in mind, the government still doesn`t know where more than one third of the Chibok girls are four years after the fact. CNN`s David McKenzie is covering the story and he`s live in Cano, Northern Nigeria. Any leads as to where the girls might be? This is happening again, and people must be, you know, justifiably angry that these girls are still vulnerable four years after the Chibok abductions?", "Well, that`s right. It`s not just being the Chibok girls or these girls, Hala. There have been many thousands of young women and girls that have been abducted over the years, but this case is really shocking to many Nigerians and should be shocking to the world. More than a hundred, a 110 to be exact girls ranging from age of 11 to 19 taken almost exactly a week ago from this village of Northeast Nigeria and as you said that the nightmares happening all over. To answer your question, they don`t know where these girls are. The president of Nigeria saying that they will find them and get them out of the abduction, but, you know, the parents are certainly extremely worried this will just be happening again. And we`ve spoken a young survivor, 13-year-old (inaudible), she was with her 11-year-old sister, who are both school. They got separated in the melee as these Boko Haram affiliated attackers we believe descended on that school and took all of these girls into captivity. Days of confusion from the government and just from ordinary citizens exactly what happened now it`s appearing they are all missing and it`s a terrible scenario for this part of Nigeria.", "And of course, I imagine that many parents now are just reluctant to send their daughters to school, which is probably one of the effects that Boko Haram wants. How much is that hurting girls` education in that part of Nigeria?", "Well, many millions of people in fact have been affected by Boko Haram and there are, you know, more than a million (inaudible) people in places like Cano, and other major centers in the Northeast. At that school where they were attacked by these militants, they are too afraid, of course, to go back to school. Girls` education has suffered through years of conflict in this part of Nigeria and though the Nigerian government had said it had technically defeated Boko Haram some years ago, Hala, it really appears that since November there`s been an upsurge of violent attacks in the region. And now this devastating kidnapping or abduction at the school that is rattling this nation all over again -- Hala.", "But back to the government response here, it does appear from the outside looking in that they are just not able to protect these girls. This keeps getting over and over. You mentioned it`s not just Chibok, it`s not just now. This is just that it`s a bigger number so it`s attracting more attention. What is going on there?", "Well, there is a huge issue with security in this region, but it`s also the case that there appeared to be military in that village, Hala, and then at some points pretty soon before that attack, the military left that town and left it undefended as it were. So. there`s a lot of questions right now about why is that and if there had been a sense that it could be attack as they often are in these regions, why remove that security? So, the parents are angry. Nigerians asking questions of what exactly happened and again, it`s so eerily similar to the Chibok situation some four years ago where the initial reaction appeared confused and clear, and in that lag-time makes it that much more difficult to try and recover these girls in any form of safety given the porous nature of the border and the insecurity in the scrubland surrounding cities like where I`m standing now.", "David McKenzie, thanks very much. He is in Cano in Northern Nigeria. By the way, quick note, March 14th is \"My Freedom Day,\" a daylong global event to raise awareness of modern-day slavery. We asked the Moroccan musician, RedOne, what freedom means to him.", "Freedom is life and it`s very individual to different people, you know, and if we can help people to be free and feel freedom, we should. I mean, it`s not (inaudible), it`s everybody`s effort to meet someone that you love and is in jail within himself doesn`t have freedom.", "So, the question we can turn back to you, what is freedom means you, post a photo or video using the #myfreedomday. Now for a completely different story, many of you own and drive diesel cars, but imagine if you were banned from driving into certain cities for that very reason. Across Europe that could become a reality. Some people will welcome it saying finally we can breathe some fresh air. Germany`s top court has ruled that Stuttgart and Dusseldorf, which have some of the most polluted air in Europe can implement limited bans to keep diesel cars off their streets, and that ruling may start a domino effect across the continent. The European Commission believes that more than 400,000 people die each year in the E.U. because of air pollution and obviously diesel fumes are terrible for that. Atika Shubert is in Hamburg, Germany with more. So, potentially what are we talking here in terms of millions of people or vehicles impacted here?", "Absolutely. I mean, almost every other car here is a diesel car. So, if you have city Stuttgart to Dusseldorf banning cars from their city center, what you have is drivers not being able to drive through there, but perhaps being able to go into other cities. And this is why local mayors have been so reluctant to impose a diesel ban. Not to mention the fact, of course, it is a huge part of the economy, 15 percent of the GDP is the automobile industry here. So, cities have been very reluctant to impose this ban, but the E.U. has said, listen, you`ve got at least 26 different cities and towns that are clearly in violation of diesel exhaust laws, limits. You know, specifically nitrous oxides and fine particles are responsible for those hundreds of thousands of premature deaths as you pointed out. So, as a as a result, the court has now said at least for Stuttgart and Dusseldorf that it is the city`s responsibility. And this could very well set as a precedent for Munich, Hamburg and any other city that in violation of E.U. limits.", "But you talk about what percentage of GDP diesel cars and the diesel car industry represent, and no European country has jobs to spare. I wonder the way the economic impact versus the environmental benefits of doing this.", "This is the position that mayors and city governments really do not want to be in because they realize that not only is it the economic factor 800,000 people employed in the automobile industry alone, but the knock-on effects from that. I mean, when we were in Stuttgart last week, you know, almost everyone we met had some connection to the automobile industry because that`s the headquarters of Dimler (ph), which makes Mercedes-Benz. So, it would have a tremendous impact not just that, but of course, people who drive cars here, about 50 percent of the cars here are diesel cars. So, it would have a dramatic impact and that`s what we are not likely to see diesel cars being pulled off the roads tomorrow. But if we don`t see some sort of a solution then it could mean, you know, congestion charges increasing, and in some cities, yes, a ban on older diesel cars from approaching the city center.", "All right. Atika Shubert, thanks very much live in Hamburg. Still to come tonight, the fate of change could be very, very young indeed. Teenagers are hoping to succeed where adults have failed so miserably and get tougher gun laws passed. That`s just ahead. I`ll be speaking to the executive editor of \"Teen Vogue.\" And we have been freezing. Out here Europe freezing over freakishly warm weather in the artic is sending freezing conditions south and we are all bundled up. We`ll be right back."], "speaker": ["GORANI", "DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "GORANI", "MCKENZIE", "GORANI", "MCKENZIE", "GORANI", "REDONE, MUSICIAN", "GORANI", "ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "GORANI", "SHUBERT", "GORANI"]}
{"id": "CNN-330007", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-01-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/08/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Who Is Recy Taylor, Named in Oprah's Golden Globes Speech", "utt": ["We are back. You're watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Oprah Winfrey's Golden Globe speech, for all its passion and inspiration, was also filled with hard truths about the racist brutality committed against black women during Jim Crow. She told this story of a black woman by the name of Recy Taylor.", "A name I know, and I think you should know, too. In 1944, Recy Taylor was a young wife and a mother. She was just walking home from her church service she'd attended in Abbeville, Alabama, when she was abducted by six armed white men, raped and left blindfolded by the side of the road, coming home from church. They threatened to kill her if she ever told anyone. The men who tried to destroy her were never persecuted. Recy Taylor died 10 days ago.", "With me now Nancy Buirski, the documentary filmmaker and producer who brought Taylor's story to life in the film, \"The Rape of Recy Taylor.\" Also nominated for an NAACP Image award for a featured documentary. Congratulations for that.", "Thank you.", "It is such a pleasure to meet you. In commercial break, did you even know that Oprah was going to mention Recy Taylor's name? And you said no. And what did you do?", "I stood up and screamed.", "You were screaming.", "Yes. And I was sure people would knock on my door and my apartment because I was screaming like crazy and the phones started ringing and the texting came in.", "We were all so excited. We really -- we truly believe that more people should know about Recy Taylor. That's why we made this movie. \"Time\" magazine came out with the cover of the women that were part of the Me Too movement, and the person that wasn't on the cover was Recy Taylor.", "Recy Taylor.", "Oprah Winfrey corrected that, and we are so grateful to her.", "The second I heard her name come out of Oprah's mouth, I was Googling away and wanted to have this conversation on TV. We heard a bit of her story, 24, leaving church in Alabama and she's raped. What happened?", "She was walking home from church with a friend and her friend's son, and this car comes up behind her and it circles around, and then it comes up again and circles around. And these guys get out with a shotgun and they tell her, if you don't get in the car, we'll kill you and we'll kill your friends. So they take her to this pecan grove, and the rest, obviously, you know that they kept her there for four hours and they raped her, and they pretended that they had given her money. They left her on the side of the road. Her father found her. And instead of going home and not saying anything, which is what most women did in those days, that night she spoke up. That night, she went to the sheriff and she said, I've just got to tell you what happened to me. That's what's so incredible about her. She was so brave when her life was at risk. So you know, she's the start of this movement. She's really the foundation for what we're celebrating today.", "Say her name, Recy Taylor.", "Correct.", "I was trying to read if she ever saw any sort of justice, and it sounds like with the juries all white, all male.", "The grand juries never indicted any of those men. And some of them confessed to the killing and we have their testimony in our film.", "Incredible.", "But she was given an apology by the state.", "Not by the men.", "Not by the men, of course, not.", "But by the state. But that wasn't really enough and her brother, Robert Taylor, who plays a big role in our film, was committed to having her story told. He's -- he's courageous himself, as is this whole family. The strength of the family is amazing.", "Just last quick question, what do you think I don't know -- she passed away 11 days ago now. I don't know when you were last in touch with her or anyone in her family. What would she have thought watching that last night?", "You know, I'm sure, on some level, she would be so gratified, and understand that her story is the story of so many women. There are so many Recy Taylors.", "And so many we don't know.", "That's right. And so she's not only courageous on her own, but she is a symbol and a metaphor for so many women who didn't have the chance to speak out. I'm sure she's proud, and I know her family is.", "Nancy Buirski, thank you so much. Thank you for bringing to light the story. \"The Rape of Recy Taylor\" is the film. Good luck this weekend.", "Thank you so much.", "Winner of the NAACP Image award. Thank you so much. Continuing on, as the president defends himself against concerns of his mental fitness, CNN is learning he is still fuming behind the scenes, and it involves his former chief strategist. We have detail ahead. Also depression, insomnia, even suicide. Some Apple investors say these are all very real dangers of iPhone addiction, especially in young people. And they actually want the company to do something about that. Their concerns, next."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "OPRAH WINFREY, FORMER TALK SHOW HOST", "BALDWIN", "NANCY BUIRSKI, DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER & PRODUCER", "BALDWIN", "BUIRSKI", "BALDWIN", "BUIRSKI", "BUIRSKI", "BALDWIN", "BUIRSKI", "BALDWIN", "BUIRSKI", "BALDWIN", "BUIRSKI", "BALDWIN", "BUIRSKI", "BALDWIN", "BUIRSKI", "BALDWIN", "BUIRSKI", "BUIRSKI", "BALDWIN", "BUIRSKI", "BALDWIN", "BUIRSKI", "BALDWIN", "BUIRSKI", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-246349", "program": "@THISHOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2015-01-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/02/ath.01.html", "summary": "Remembering Mario Cuomo; Rubio Says He May Still Run", "utt": ["Mario Cuomo was a giant. He really personified the American mosaic, certainly the New York mosaic.", "That was Congressman Peter King, a Republican, paying tribute to liberal icon Mario Cuomo who passed away yesterday at the age of 82.", "A three-term governor, Cuomo was indeed a giant of New York politics, but he never ever forgot his humble roots. In a statement, President Obama said Cuomo's, quote, \"own story taught him that as Americans, we are bound together as one people, and our country's success rests on the success of all of us, not just a fortunate few.\"", "Mario Cuomo liked to say, \"You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.\" He did both.", "Simply it was the American dream. The son of Italian immigrants, Mario Cuomo, rose from the basement of this grocery store in South Jamaica Queens where he slept on the floor and spoke no English to the highest office in New York State. Along the way, creating a political legacy and dynasty that spanned generations. His life driven by a passion for learning, his Catholic faith, and a determination to simply work harder than the other guy.", "One of the simple things I wanted to achieve is I want to be governor, I want to be the hardest working there ever was.", "After more than a decade of the full-contact politics of New York, Cuomo catapulted to national prominence with the keynote address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention.", "Let me thank you for the great privilege of being able to address this convention.", "He challenged head-on Ronald Reagan's notion of a shining city on a hill, instead calling America a tale of two cities.", "We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship to the reality, the hard substance of things, and we'll do it not so much with speeches that sound good, as with speeches that are good and sound.", "It cemented him as one of his generation's greatest orators. A defender of the have-nots and the little guys. It also made him the choice of many Democratic leaders to run for president.", "He said will you think about it? I said I have been thinking about.", "But are you going to think about it anymore?", "He was considered a favorite for the Democratic nomination in both 1988 and 1992, but in both cases he demurred. His seeming inability to decide on higher office frustrated Democratic party faithful and became something of a punch line in itself.", "And Mario Cuomo, and no one knows what he's going to do. I don't know if you've seen his new public service commercial for New York City, it says, \"A mind is a terrible thing to make up.\"", "He said it wasn't indecisiveness that kept him in New York instead of Washington, it was his commitment to the state.", "It has nothing to do with my chances. It has everything to do with my job as governor and I don't see that I can do both, therefore I will not pursue the presidency.", "He said it was that same commitment that led them to pass on a nomination to the Supreme Court, deciding instead to run for a fourth term as governor. But 12 years was enough for New York. He was defeated by George Pataki in the Republican revolution of 1994. Cuomo returned to the private sector to restart his law practice, host a radio show, and become a prolific author and public speaker. And in 2010, came a brand new title, former or first Governor Cuomo, a word he would be forced to use because he was suddenly no longer the only one. In a bittersweet irony, his eldest son, Andrew, the current governor of New York, was sworn in to a second term just hours before his father's death.", "He couldn't be here physically today, my father, but my father is in this room. He's in the heart and mind of every person who is here. He's here and he's here. And his inspiration and his legacy and his experience is what has brought this state to this point. So let's give him a round of applause", "Governor Mario Cuomo, a true American giant, was 82. He is survived by his wife of more than 60 years, Matilda Cuomo, his five children, including our CNN \"NEW DAY\" anchor, Chris, and 14 grandchildren. The constants of his life, \"Always faith and family.\"", "You saw a much younger Chris Cuomo in that family image right there. And obviously, you know, our condolences go out to the entire family and our friend who loved his pop.", "I love, though, that he called his dad his, \"Pop.\" I had a chance to spend time with his dad and his mom and Chris a few months ago and it was really amazing how even at this advanced age and in struggling health, he was still that orator. He and Chris talked about a number of world issues. They talked baseball, they talked football. And he still just loved conversation and thought and words. It was really, really tremendous.", "And the one thing I do want to say is, you know that Mario Cuomo was proud of his son. Chris, also.", "Absolutely. Absolutely.", "All right. Let's move on and check some other news now.", "Here's a look at our other headlines. Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spending the new year in the hospital. His office says that he broke a number of ribs and bones in his face. Apparently he was exercising at his home with a resistance band, it snapped and caused him to fall. Doctors do expect him to make a full recovery, though, and he'll be back in D.C. next week when the Senate reconvenes.", "I think as a former boxer, he'll bounce back. Former -- I mean Florida Senator Marco Rubio says he could decide to run for president even if former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is in the race. The two men were closely together when Bush was the governor of Florida and Rubio was a rising star in state politics.", "If I decide to run for president, then that's what I'm going to do irrespective of who else might be running.", "Rubio is a favorite of the party's conservative wing.", "In a new video, two young women in Islamic garb are seen begging their government to rescue them saying, quote, \"We are in big danger and we could be killed.\" The father of one of the two Italian girls who disappeared in Syria in July says it is indeed them. One of the girls is seen holding a paper suggesting the video was shot in December. Some online postings say the video was from an al Qaeda affiliate.", "The new year not starting off well for General Motors. The company has announced yet another recall. This one is affecting more than 92,000 trucks and SUVs. Once again, ignition defects are the problem, although a different problem, apparently, in earlier recalls. It could affect braking, steering, power, and airbag deployment. GM says no injuries or deaths have been caused by the defect and it expects fewer than 500 vehicles to actually have the condition.", "President Obama is enjoying some time with his family this new year in Hawaii. His first outing of 2015 found him enjoying a colorful shaved ice with daughters Malia and Sasha. Apparently the president ordered a yellow, green, and red concoction. No word on what that flavor is. The president apparently told a couple dozen people that he hopes that they are having a good time and wished them happy new year. Even asked a toddler for a little fistbump. When he received the fistbump, he said, \"Boom.\"", "Because that is what you say.", "It is. Only actual response you can give a fistbump.", "All right, 30 minutes after the hour. Thirteen-foot waves and monsoon conditions, the search has stalled day after day. Ahead, how weather right now is really the biggest obstacle in recovering Flight 8501."], "speaker": ["REP. PETER KING, (R) NEW YORK", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "BERMAN (voiceover)", "MARIO CUOMO, THREE-TERM GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK", "BERMAN", "CUOMO", "BERMAN", "CUOMO", "BERMAN", "CUOMO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BERMAN", "JAY LENO, LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST", "BERMAN", "CUOMO", "BERMAN", "ANDREW CUOMO, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK", "BERMAN", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "SEN. MARCO RUBIO, (R) FLORIDA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-81358", "program": "CNN WOLF BLITZER REPORTS", "date": "2004-1-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/23/wbr.00.html", "summary": "Helicopter Crash Kills 2 U.S. Pilots in Iraq", "utt": ["Much more coverage of the New Hampshire primary. That's coming up in just a moment, but there's other news we need to report right now. In fact, news tonight of a major arrest by U.S. forces in Iraq. Let's go live to CNN justice correspondent Kelli Arena -- Kelli.", "Wolf, the suspect is being identified as Husam al-Yemeni. U.S. officials say that he was captured during a raid near Fallujah last week, along with several other individuals. Now Yemeni is described as a top lieutenant to Abu Mus'ab al- Zarqawi. Zarqawi is active with the terror organization Ansar al Islam which is connected to al Qaeda. Officials call the capture significant. And say that it suggests they may be getting closer to finding Zarqawi himself. Now, Zarqawi has been connected to several important al Qaeda related attacks, including the assassination of U.S. diplomat Lawrence Foley in Jordan and the finding of Ricin in Britain. And officials are keeping their focus on the area in an around Fallujah, they describe it, Wolf, as a hot bed of anti-U.S. sentiment and several attacks on U.S. military personnel have been carried out there. Back to you.", "Thank you very much, Kelli Arena, with that. Two more deaths in Iraq today when a helicopter crashed in the north. Our senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre has those details -- Jamie.", "That's right, Wolf. Another deadly helicopter crash in Iraq, this one in the north. Two U.S. army pilots assigned to the 101st airborne division were killed when the Kiowa warrior helicopter crashed south of the city of Mosul at 8:30 at night. According to reports coming back from the helicopter that was with it, there's no mention of any hostile activity so they're not sure there was any hostile fire, but it's the second time this month that an OH-58 Kiowa has crashed in Iraq. Earlier this month, one of the scout helicopters was shot down near Fallujah killing a female pilot. Altogether some 16 helicopters have been -- have crashed or been shot down in Iraq since the end of major combat claiming some 60 lives -- Wolf.", "Jamie McIntyre, thank you very much. Meanwhile, four U.S. Marines are dead following the crash of their helicopter in California. The Huey went down last night at Camp Pendleton just north of San Diego. Officials say three crew members were killed in the crash, the fourth died at a hospital. Investigators are looking into the cause. In Baghdad, an explosion ripped through an office of the Iraqi Communist Party killing two employees and injuring a third. The Communists have a representative on the Iraqi governing council. Nine people, including two U.S. soldiers, were killed in attacks yesterday. Meantime, the commander of the coalition ground forces says the insurgents are taking a page from al Qaeda's book and may be getting training from the terror network.", "We're seeing al Qaeda-like tactics. We believe there's training that's been conducted.", "In Iraq?", "No, not conducted in Iraq, but training provided to those elements that are operating in here. And we think that there's also financing that has been taking place. And so, you put all those things together, and you say, well, it's al Qaeda-like tactics, techniques and procedures being used, and you can ask yourself the question, is this al Qaeda or not al Qaeda? I think the fingerprints are present.", "Now to Pakistan, and an interview with our Christiane Amanpour, Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf has his eye on al Qaeda as well, saying he has a good idea who's responsible for the recent attempts on his life, including last month's ambush of his motorcade.", "We have rounded up all the people that were involved. But the people who are behind, that yes, we are reasonably sure that it is al Qaeda, some operatives. We haven't got to the top of the -- identified the person who may have issued the orders, but we know there are linkages that the idea came from the al Qaeda.", "President Pervez Musharraf speaking with our Christiane Amanpour earlier today. No longer in the shadows. My interview with Senator John Edwards coming up. And this.", "I think every wife has to do exactly what they're comfortable doing?", "Unwavering support, hear from Elizabeth Edwards on her role as a candidate's wife on the campaign trail and more. Media blitz: for better or worse, does overexposure help or hurt a campaign? And confidential information, or crucial evidence in the Kobe Bryant case. Today, arguments over what should be revealed about the accuser. We'll be live from Eagle, Colorado."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "KELLI ARENA, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN SENIOR PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "LT. GEN. RICARDO SANCHEZ, U.S. ARMY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "SANCHEZ", "BLITZER", "PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN", "BLITZER", "ELIZABETH EDWARDS, JOHN EDWARDS WIFE", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-243095", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2014-11-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/12/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "ISIS Sleeper Cells?; ISIS Smuggling Fighters Into Europe", "utt": ["We're learning new details about ISIS recruitment tactics and how they're being used to lure Westerners to join the terrorist forces, including three teenage American girls. Our justice correspondent, Pamela Brown, is working the story for us and is getting new information. Pamela, what are you finding out?", "Wolf, U.S. counterterrorism officials I have been speaking with today say this case in particular is alarming. We're now learning these Denver teens were interacting online with other Westerners who had already made it to Syria and were trying to convince the girls to do the same. Officials say this case yielded a wealth of information that shows just how ISIS is using Westerners already in its rank to recruit others through social media.", "CNN has learned hardened jihadists currently fighting with ISIS overseas had direct contact with three Denver teens, 15- and 17-year-old sisters and their 16-year-old friend, using social media to lure them to jihad.", "These were role models to them and people they could be in contact with. And social media, which is both more immediate and allows you to immerse yourself in an extremist environment being used as a recruiting platform.", "A law enforcement official says some of the jihadist recruiters were Westerners fighting in Syria. They were encouraging the girls to join ISIS, even giving them a road map of how to go from Denver all the way to Syria and eventually link up with the brutal terrorist group.", "If they're interested in extremism, rather than simply reading an article or reading posts on a message board, they can interact in real time with other people through tweets. And this is very immersive to them.", "In October, the teens made it halfway to Syria before they were stopped by authorities in Frankfurt, Germany. After the teens didn't show up for school, their parents alerted authorities, who found a treasure trove of information on the teens' social media profiles.", "It's literally a case study of recruiting through the Internet.", "The SITE intelligence group tracks international terrorists and analyzed the teen's online activity.", "The same girl that was asked one day how many hours of music do you listen to on a daily basis and she used to say, I don't know, I can't count, but I would dance and I listen to music hours and hours, then a few months later she was asked how many hours of music do you listen to, she said music is forbidden.", "U.S. officials say this case is a unique opportunity to track efforts by terrorist groups to recruit Westerners. ISIS members have successfully played a role recruiting several Americans online, including Minnesota native Douglas McCain, who was killed in Syria in August.", "And this most recent case reflects a relatively new phenomenon of American teens being lured through social media to fight in Syria. Sources say there are other cases involving radicalized American teens that we don't even know about because it's difficult to bring federal charges against juveniles. The teens in this case, Wolf, have not been charged.", "Pamela, thanks very much. Let's get some more now. Joining us, our terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank, BuzzFeed Middle East correspondent Michael Giglio. He's reported extensive on ISIS recruiting. And CNN counterterrorism analyst, the former CIA operative Phil Mudd. Phil, how difficult it is it for intelligence, law enforcement officials to monitor this type of social media recruitment, if you will?", "Look, you can't monitor this -- 330 million Americans, you want to sort through the haystack of Twitter, Facebook, their e-mail accounts? You have got sort of social issues related to that, legal issues related to that. Do you want to follow people in America like that? You have also got the volume problem. The easier way to do this and the way that might have worked in this case is you don't want to look at 330 million Americans. You want to look at the recruiter and see who is being filtered through the recruiting process so you don't have to sort of through that haystack. You can only focus on a few people overseas who are pulling people from Denver in.", "Why, Paul, is this social media recruitment so effective?", "Well, Wolf, it's the interactivity which is key. These youngsters aren't just passively soaking up jihadist propaganda, but they're interacting in real time with ISIS fighters from the West here in Syria and Iraq, in some cases people they know and they constantly encourage them to go and travel to Syria, constantly trying to reinforce this ideology. It's like this virtual radical echo chamber, Wolf.", "Mike Giglio, you recently interviewed an individual who claims, claims that he alone smuggled more than 10 ISIS fighters into Europe, I assume from Syria. This is one of the scenarios intelligence and law enforcement communities have been deeply concerned about, as you well know. Tell us what you're learning about the various smuggling operations of these ISIS fighters from Turkey or Syria into mainland Europe.", "Thanks, Wolf. Yes, so this is a human trafficker based in Turkey, who, for the last four years, has been sending refugees from Turkey by boat to Greece. He told me that over the summer he struck up a friendship with someone in ISIS who was posing as a refugee in one of his boats. The guy admitted that he was an ISIS fighter and told him that he was going over to Europe to wait for orders. And the man, the smuggler himself is an ISIS supporter and he sent the guy, later received a phone call from him and said, send our brothers too. He said over the next three months he sent about 10 ISIS fighters who were clients directed to him by this original fighter into Greece.", "Do you know where these 10 fighters may have wound up?", "The smuggler told me that after Greece, he believes they're moving deeper into Europe, but that he doesn't know for sure. He just knows he sent them to Greece with the other refugees.", "Did they have like a plot in their briefcase, if you will, ready to go?", "I don't think so. He was only telling me what he knew. I think the details he got were pretty sparing. His opinion -- and I want to just say this is just his opinion -- was that they were waiting for orders for an attack. But he said he didn't know for sure. And I think it's pretty important that I say I don't know for sure either.", "Yes, because, Phil, this sounds like sleepers potentially being smuggled into Europe waiting for that order to do something.", "Yes. I didn't see many sleeper cells. What I saw were circumstances like this, which is more worrisome. Sleeper cells might have connectivity to a center of operations for al Qaeda that you can follow. When you've got a kid who's 15 years old, who decides over the course of months, that's your time frame to collect intelligence in a country of several hundred million people.", "That's the problem. Paul, what do you make of this report that Mike just told us about, that maybe this one smuggler claiming ten ISIS fighters were smuggled into Greece and maybe elsewhere in Europe right now.", "Well, Wolf, it's certainly a concern that ISIS could take advantage of the fact there's so many refugees going from Syria and Iraq to Europe right now to take advantage of those trouble (ph), to try and get operatives into Europe to try to launch attacks. ISIS have signaled that they will attack the west at some point. Their spokesman, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, has made this abundantly clear. So this could be one way they could do it. The biggest concern, though, is about operatives with European passports. It's estimated about 1,000 Europeans are fighting with ISIS right now, Wolf.", "Did this smuggler, Mike, suggest that any of these ISIS terrorists may have not necessarily have Europe as their final destination but maybe the United States?", "No, he didn't. They were Syrian or Iraqi nationals, and they were all posing as Syrian refugees, planning on either blending in with Syrian refugee populations in European countries or applying for asylum there. He didn't say anything about the United States.", "All right. Phil, let's talk about Elise Labott's report you heard here in THE SITUATION ROOM, that the president now considering a new strategy: Don't only go after ISIS, but simultaneously go after the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, as well. It sounds complicated.", "You know, in the era of complexity, which is what we're dealing with, my experience in The Situation Room at the White House is that you've got to boil it down to simplicity. Put yourself in the shoes of a Syrian oppositionist. The Americans are -- from their perspective, several years behind the curve. We're saying go after ISIS. Their objective is Assad. We're saying, \"Assad is in our sights. Yet, please only focus on the ISIS objective.\" You've got to be stepping back if you're in opposition, as saying, \"What are we up to here with our partners, the Americans? They don't share an objective, and they're three years behind the curve.\" I think in the White House, you've got to step back and say, \"Where are we going here?\" Because over the long-term, this position is not tenable.", "As you know, Paul, there's a report out there that ISIS may be discovering some sort of merger with another terrorist group, the al-Nusra Front, and that the Khorasan group, another al Qaeda splinter group, if you will, they may be brokering this kind of merger deal. What do you make of this?", "Wolf, what we do know is that the Khorasan group tried to do this before when they were dispatched from Pakistan by Ayman al- Zawahiri to Syria. One of their tasks was to try and mend fences between ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra. So it's possible that they're trying to do this again. And the fact that Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS have both been hit by U.S. air strikes means that the atmosphere might be right for some kind of reconciliation. But I think it's premature to talk about a merger. There's a lot of bad blood between these groups. They have been fighting each other for the last year. And Al Qaeda threw ISIS out of the global al Qaeda network in February. So there may be some cooperation at the local level. But I think premature to talk about a merger. But in fact, there was greater cooperation between these two groups. That would be very worrying for all our security, Wolf.", "It certainly would be. Mike, let me ask you about another story we reported earlier here in THE SITUATION ROOM. You're joining us from Istanbul, Turkey, right now. Earlier, three American sailors from the USS Ross -- that's a warship -- and dock in the NATO ally of Turkey. They were assaulted. We're showing our viewers the really awful pictures. They were taunted. They got bags thrown over their heads. This group called the Turkish Youth Union later claimed responsibility for it. Tell us what you know about this, because to Americans, you see three American sailors on shore leave in civilian clothes, not wearing any uniforms, and they're getting these bags thrown over their head. They're being hit. They wound up OK. They're back on their ship, but what do you make of this?", "You know, if America is watching that, and I saw the video, I would say that's not something to worry about. This is a very fringe group. This is a very rare instance. Walking around the streets of Turkey, I mean, this is not something that's common at all. Any kind of aggression towards Americans like this. I mean, you have groups in every country. I really don't think this is something to be alarmed about.", "There are some people who suspect -- who worry that maybe there were some elements in Turkey who may actually welcome this kind of assault on three U.S. sailors.", "I mean, like I said, there might be. But I think the majority of Turks would be disgusted by this. And it's really not something that's common here at all. And again, this is a real fringe group. I think it's -- it's almost a shame they get so much attention for this video.", "Phil, what do you think about it?", "Look, if you're in an American decision-making position, you can analytically -- I agree with this, analytically say this is a fringe group. In the wake of Benghazi, when there's so much political pressure on the administration to respond to allegations they did not protect Americans, you're going to look at this and say, with all the violence, insecurity in the Middle East, are we sure -- are we sure we don't have a problem in Turkey? And I'm not sure what the answer is.", "It's a NATO ally. And already, they had been told earlier U.S. military personnel, even though Turkey is a NATO ally, don't wear a uniform. If you go on shore leave, just wear civilian clothes. And obviously, this is going to escalate those kinds of fears. We'll see what happens. Hopefully, the Turkish government will take action against those who acted against these three American sailors. Mike, thanks very much. Always good to have you with us. Phil Mudd, thanks to you, as well. Paul Cruickshank, appreciate it. Just ahead, a private pathologist now set to appear before the grand jury looking into the death of Michael Brown. Could his testimony lead to the indictment of a police officer who shot the teen in Ferguson, Missouri? I'll talk about that and more with the Brown family attorney, along with our panel of experts."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "BROWN (voice-over)", "DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS, FOUNDATION FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES", "BROWN", "GARTENSTEIN-ROSS", "BROWN", "RITA KATZ, DIRECTOR, SEARCH FOR INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ENTITIES", "BROWN", "KATZ", "BROWN", "BROWN", "BLITZER", "PAUL CRUICKSHANK, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST", "BLITZER", "CRUICKSHANK", "BLITZER", "MICHAEL GIGLIO, BUZZFEED", "BLITZER", "GIGLIO", "BLITZER", "GIGLIO", "BLITZER", "PHILIP MUDD, CNN COUNTERTERRORISM ANALYST", "BLITZER", "CRUICKSHANK", "BLITZER", "GIGLIO", "BLITZER", "MUDD", "BLITZER", "CRUICKSHANK", "BLITZER", "GIGLIO", "BLITZER", "GIGLIO", "BLITZER", "MUDD", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-324722", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2017-10-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/27/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Trump: We Can End The Opioid Epidemic; America's Opioid Crisis; Trump Releases Some, But Not All, JFK Assassination Records; Harassment Scandal", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Robyn Curnow at the CNN Center, you are watching News Stream and these are your world headlines.", "A Senate is getting ready to vote on plans to take direct control of Catalonia while in Barcelona, independence protest says they are enforce. And the Catalan parliament is debating a draft motion to declare an independent state. Australia's deputy prime minister has been removed from parliament. Barnaby Joyce is one of five politicians ruled ineligible because of a law barring citizens from foreign countries from serving. Joyce says he didn't know. He held New Zealand citizenship and a sense renounced it. And U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis says Washington does not want war with North Korea and is committed to a diplomatic solution. He made the comments during a visit to the Koreans demilitarized zone, he says what the U.S. is a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons. And Myanmar has given the United Nations the go-ahead to resume flood operations in northern Rakhine state. That's according to Reuters news agency. Aid distribution to the Rohingya has been suspended for the two months. The U.N. has accused Myanmar's military of ethnic cleansing in the area.", "U.S. President Donald Trump has declared a public health emergency to deal with America's opioid epidemic. But Democrats say the announcement like substance because it doesn't resolute and more money to combat the crisis. Republican lawmakers countered saying it redirects federal resources and nuisance regulations.", "As Americans, we cannot allow this to continue. This is a time to liberate our communities from this scourge of drug addiction, never been this way. We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic. We can do it.", "And President Trump also said he'll address another drug problem when he travels to Asia next week. Fentanyl is a drug traffic in the U.S. and most of it comes from China as Matt Rivers now reports.", "Well, when Donald Trump makes his first visit here to China starting on November 8th, one of the topics that he says will be on the agenda is Fentanyl. At an event in Washington D.C. on Thursday, the president said that China supplies the deadly drug to the United States that he wants Chinese President Xi Jinping to do something about it. For those of you who don't know Fentanyl, it's an incredibly potent opioid. It's some 25 to 50 times more powerful than heroin. If someone hundred times more powerful than morphine and because of that, it is led to many in overdose death in the United States during this ongoing opioid epidemic. And the present is right when he says that China supplies the drug to the U.S. The U.S. government believes that China is the number one supplier of Fentanyl to the United States and the reason for that is because China historically has had very lax regulations and its chemical industry. You have underground labs across the country with people cheaply producing these synthetic drugs, advertising them online and then shipping them to buyers across the world including the United States. And for its part, the Chinese government says it knows it has a problem. At a regularly scheduled Ministry of Foreign Affairs press briefing, a spokesperson responded to the president by saying that China is willing to increase bilateral cooperation on the issue through things like joint investigations and pointed to more tangible steps that the government has taken like back in March of this year, they actually banned four different kinds of fentanyl that up until that point had been legal to both produce and sell. They are now banned. And so that's what China says it's doing. But experts that we spoken do say despite all of that, it is really difficult to enforce these new laws and that large quantities of fentanyl are still being produced in China and shipped to the United States. For our own research earlier today, I went online to some of those drug market places where these drugs had traditionally been bought and sold. And I saw many in advertisement with Chinese labs advertising that they can ship fentanyl quickly and cheaply right now to the United States. Matt Rivers, CNN, Beijing.", "Thanks, Matt. Drug deaths in America are rising faster than ever. There were more than 59,000 drug overdose deaths in the last in the U.S., according to the centers for disease control and The New York Times. That's up nearly 20 percent over after 2015 and indications are the problem continues to get worse this year. Just a reminder that we do have extensive coverage on America's opioid crisis on our website. Find out more on cnn.com/health. In 1963, America and the world watched in disbelief as President John F. Kennedy, the world's most powerful and protected man was killed. There have been so much speculations since it can be hard to tell where the facts end and the conspiracy theories begin. And that may have to remain the case for now. Thousands of documents have at last been made public, but President Trump is keeping some of those files private. Brianna Keilar is in Washington. Brianna, hi there. There was a lot of publicity coming from the president. He said it was going to be a big reveal. Was it as big as he has promoted?", "No, because there were at this point in time thousands of records that are still to be re- reviewed. That's the word coming from senior administration officials and maybe will get them at a later time. But the president did just tweet trying to explain all of this especially after he as you mentioned really publicized that these documents would be coming out. He said, \"JFK files are being carefully released. In the end, there will be great transparency. It is my hope to get just about everything to the public.\" So, what we have so far, there is a lot, and it's very interesting, even if it is disappointingly incomplete.", "For decades, conspiracy theories have questioned whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy in Dallas nearly 54 years ago. In a newly released memo, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover expressed concern that Americans wouldn't believe he was the lone gunman. \"The thing I am concerned about and so is Deputy Attorney Mr. Katzenbach, is something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin.\" The declassified document shedding new light on Oswald's contacts with Russian and Cuba. One document reveals that CIA intercepted a call Oswald made to KGB officer at the Russian Embassy in Mexico, less than two months before Oswald shot Kennedy. The memo's author says Oswald spoke in broken Russian. The FBI documenting a separate conversation about Oswald between two Cubans. One man saying, \"Oswald must have been a good shot.\" A Cuban intelligence officer replying, \"oh, he was quite good.\" As why he said that, the officer replied, \"I knew him.\"", "The CIA and the FBI in particular had a lot of information before the assassination to suggest that this man, Lee Harvey Oswald, was a danger.", "Another suspenseful cliffhanger, whether Oswald worked for the CIA. In a 1975 deposition, Richard Helms, the deputy CIA director under Kennedy, was asked if Lee Harvey Oswald was in some way a CIA agent or an agent before the documents suddenly ends without an answer. Even Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, is said to have entertained another theory to explain the assassination. According to Helms, Johnson claimed that Kennedy was killed as payback to the assassination of Vietnam's president and this was just justice, even though Helms said there was no evidence of this claim in agency records. But a memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to the White House three years after Kennedy was killed details reaction inside the Soviet Union including conspiracy theories of their own, namely that Johnson himself was behind Kennedy's death. The source say the USSR believe there was some well organized conspiracy on the part of the ultraright in the United States to affect the coup. The documents also reveal the FBI received a direct warning, before Oswald's own murder during a jail transfer just days after Kennedy's assassination. A day before Oswald was killed, Hoover says the FBI office in Dallas received a phone call from a man talking in a calm voice and saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill Oswald, and share that information with the Dallas police chief, who \"assured us adequate protection would be given.\" However, this was not done. Oswald's killer, Dallas nightclub owner, Jack Ruby, maintained he acted alone and denied making the call. And more may be coming, a White House official telling CNN the president was unhappy with the level of redactions requested by intelligence agencies, saying they not meeting the spirit of the law. Trump writing in a memo, \"I have no choice today but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our nation's security.", "But here is what is head scratching about this, Robyn. Intelligence agencies had 25 years to comply with the 1992 law that governs the release of these documents and yet they missed the deadline and they were sending request for redactions even late yesterday, so really at the 11th hour, and President Trump has now given them 180 more days to about six months to go back, look at the reasons for requesting information be withheld so that more documents may yet see the light. It does seem that is going to happen based on what the president has tweeted, Robyn.", "This one is not over, is it? Will it ever be over?", "No, it will never be over.", "Brianna Keilar, thank you very much for joining us. One of the first woman to publicly accused movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment isn't finished speaking out. In her first television interview since she went public, actress Ashley Judd says it has been a tremendously moving couple of weeks. She told ABC's Diane Sawyer how she tricked Weinstein into letting her go when he confronted her years ago, but that the experience still haunts her.", "And finally, I just said, when I win an Oscar in one of your movies, OK? And he like, yes, when you get nominated. I said no, when I win an Oscar. And I just fled, which I think, you know, am I proud of that? I'm of two minds. The part that shames myself says no. The part of me that understands the way shame works says that was absolutely brilliant. Good job, kid, you got out of there. Well done.", "Well done indeed. Meanwhile, Harvey Weinstein has filed a lawsuit against the company he co-founded which has already fired him. He's asking the studio to turn over all of his company e-mail and his personnel file, saying he will be able to help the company defend itself against harassment claims. Well, the Weinstein Company has allowed him to access to its code of conduct. Donald Trump and Melania Trump are known for their public displays of affection. It is absolute claims but at least quite the opposite. On Thursday, they seem to be warming up to each other."], "speaker": ["CURNOW", "CURNOW", "CURNOW", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "CURNOW", "MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROBYN CURNOW, CNN HOST AND CORRESPONDENT", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR (voice-over)", "PHILIP SHENON, AUTHOR", "KEILAR (voice-over)", "KEILAR", "CURNOW", "KEILAR", "CURNOW", "ASHLEY JUDD, ACTRESS", "CURNOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-285960", "program": "IDESK", "date": "2016-06-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/06/id.01.html", "summary": "Muhammad Ali's Memorial Set for Friday", "utt": ["Welcome back. Just 29 delegates now stand between Hillary Clinton and the Democratic presidential nomination and she can thank Puerto Rico for the latest bump. She won that primary on Sunday. But the race chugs on and a split in her party appears to be widening. Our Chris Frates reports.", "Hillary Clinton's win in Puerto Rico over the weekend but puts her on the cusp of an historic nomination.", "I want to finish strong here in California. It means the world to me.", "Now just a few delegates shy of hitting that magic number and becoming the first-ever female presidential nominee, Clinton's looking to Tuesday's final round of Democratic primaries to seal the deal.", "On Tuesday, I will have decisively won the popular vote and I will have decisively won the pledged delegate majority. You can't get much more than that out of a primary season.", "Clinton telling CNN's Jake Tapper that, after Tuesday's contest, she's pushing for party unity.", "I expect Senator Sanders to do the same and that we will come together and be prepared to go to the convention in a unified way.", "But Clinton's rival, Bernie Sanders, argues that Clinton's super delegates shouldn't be counted just yet.", "Hillary Clinton will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to win the Democratic nomination at the end of the nominating process. The Democratic National Convention will be a contested convention.", "Vowing to take his campaign all the way to the convention, he's banking on delegate-rich California to give him momentum, Sanders even elevating his attacks on Clinton Sunday, saying the foreign government donations to The Clinton Foundation are a conflict of interest.", "If you ask me about The Clinton Foundation, do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects many millions of dollars from foreign governments, governments which are dictatorships, do I have a problem with that? Yes, I do.", "You think it creates an appearance of conflict of interest?", "I do. I do.", "Well, on the Republican side, Donald Trump is not backing away from statements he made about the effect a judge's ethnicity has on his ability to do his job. Trump's comments are again angering those within his own party. Our Phil Mattingly explains.", "Donald Trump now musing that a hypothetical Muslim judge might not remain neutral if presiding over the case against Trump University.", "Before a Muslim judge, would you also feel like -- -- they wouldn't be able to treat you fairly because of that policy of yours?", "It's possible, yes. Yes, that would be possible.", "And doubling down on his attacks against the Mexican American federal judge he said should be disqualified from the trial.", "If you are saying he can't do his job because of his race, is that not the definition of racism?", "He's proud of his heritage, OK. I'm building a wall. He's a Mexican.", "You're invoking his race when talking about whether or not he can do his job.", "Jake, I'm building a wall, OK. I'm building a wall.", "Trump's comments increasingly raising sharp concerns inside the Republican Party.", "This is one of the worst mistakes Trump has made and I think it's inexcusable. This judge is not Mexican. This judge is an American citizen.", "Interviews with a series of top GOP officials, donors, fund-raisers and congressional aides making clear Trump has crossed a major line.", "I completely disagree with the thinking behind that.", "I don't condone the comments and we can press on to another topic.", "Do you think it's a racist statement to say?", "I don't agree with what he had to say. This is a man who is born in Indiana.", "It's a line of attack the Republicans fear could endanger their majority in the Senate, with the GOP defending 24 seats this cycle and threaten the future of the party, something Senator McConnell hinted at in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper last week.", "Do you worry at all that your nominee now, Donald Trump, will do to Latino voters what Barry Goldwater did to African American voters?", "I do. I do.", "That was Phil Mattingly reporting there. There's a familiar face by Donald Trump's side at many of these rallies and it's not his wife but his daughter. As our Maggie Lake reports, Ivanka Trump might just be her father's secret weapon.", "She's an unwavering champion for her father on the campaign trail.", "My father is the opposite of politically correct. He says what he means and he means what he says.", "Her poise and professionalism a counter to Donald Trump's unscripted insults.", "People have been saying Donald Trump's secret weapon is his daughter. She's everything he is not. She's not off the cuff. She's choreographed, she's also picture perfect. She is very, very careful about how she looks and what she says.", "Only 34 years old, Ivanka Trump has literally grown up in the spotlight, starring with her father on reality shows, \"The Apprentice\" and \"Celebrity Apprentice.\"", "James, do you think it shows fundamental lack of judgment?", "Ivanka got the real-life power to hire and fire when she joined the Trump organization as executive vice president. In 2007, she began expanding her own portfolio, establishing jewelry collections and clothing lines.", "There's nothing more compelling and powerful.", "And she's the force behind the hashtag #WomenWhoWork, which gives career advice to women. Forbes Media's executive vice president, Moira Forbes, has known Ivanka for years and says she's blossomed into a potent female role model.", "She's someone who could have taken her privilege and taken a step back on the sidelines and not done anything. But instead, she's done just the opposite. She entered the family business with a really strong work ethic. She decided to build this incredible lifestyle brand to reflect her personality, to reflect the needs and wants of a young Millennial woman and has been really successful with that. And people gravitate toward that.", "She may be a rising star in the business world but boardroom etiquette may not be enough in what will surely be a brutal election.", "Over the last several months --", "Ivanka has already been forced to defend her father's treatment of women.", "He believes in inspiring women and empowering women.", "The power of Ivanka's message may be critical if Trump wants to reverse his negative standing with women.", "When I have been at Trump rallies, people say look, his daughter works with him. I mean, he can't be that bad if he turned out a daughter like her.", "It's conceivable if and when he does move to Washington, that she will have an even greater role. You have to have a very close inner circle and with Ivanka having proven herself so capable in business, she is someone that no doubt he will continue to lean on in a more meaningful way.", "In an election year that's been marked by the unexpected, a Trump White House could turn convention on its head with the first daughter, not the first lady, taking a pivotal role as Oval Office confidante.", "CNN will bring you extensive coverage of Tuesday's primaries with five states up for grabs, including California. We'll have the results, speeches and an in-depth analysis. That's all day Tuesday, right here on CNN. Well, we are finding out more details this week about the funeral for -- and memorial service for boxing legend Mohammad Ali. Ali died on Friday at the age of 74 and Ryan Young, who's following the story, is outside --", "-- Ali's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Ryan, the family of Muhammad Ali did have time to think about what they wanted before he passed away. What details have you found out?", "Absolutely. They did have time to think about it and they said the champ himself had input on how his funeral would happen. There is a big part of this that's all about inclusion. They wanted to make sure that all faiths were represented. And you can see that throughout the memorial services planned. But there's going to be something here pretty much every single day leading up to Friday. We know on Wednesday they're going to have service for kids. On Thursday they're going to have an interfaith memorial service. On Friday they will bring Muhammad Ali's body through the city before the open ceremony they will have at the arena. But we wanted to show you this behind us. This is the growing memorial where so many people from this area have been showing up to. Muhammad Ali was a beloved man in this area. This was his home and people really like that because this is small town America. The idea that he fought his way not only out of this city but to become a worldwide figure is something they keep close to their heart. And in fact, when you talk to people in this area, they talk about the greater impact of Muhammad Ali and what he wants his funeral to be for everybody to know how he thought about inclusion.", "Everything that we're doing here was blessed by Muhammad Ali and was requested. So you know, he wanted a memorial service to reflect his life and how he lived and the fact that, you know, he wanted everyone to be able to attend. He wanted -- he was the people's champ. And so he wanted that memorial service to reflect that.", "Definitely the people's champ. We know that the Turkish president will be here, the king of Jordan will be here. Bill Clinton will be doing a eulogy. So will Billy Crystal, the comedian as well as Bryant Gumbel, the journalist, will also be doing a eulogy and we've been told to maybe expect more surprises from this. But as you can see, people are really coming out here, taking pictures. We're outside his museum. And when you walk on the inside, you see some of the relics from his past and those things are that -- where people are gravitating toward. In fact, the condolence line was out the door yesterday as people were signing their name to show their respects to Muhammad Ali. His body was brought home just yesterday. And I can tell you we've seen a lot of people shedding tears. One man drove all night from Toronto to be here, said Muhammad Ali inspired him to become a boxer first and then a martial artist and now he teaches kids and he's hoping the legacy of Muhammad Ali lives on.", "No doubt it will live on. And a few big days coming up there in Louisville, Kentucky. Ryan Young, great to have you with us. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Still to come, the uncertain future of babies with birth defects linked to the Zika virus. We'll take you to ground zero for the mosquito- borne virus."], "speaker": ["KINKADE", "CHRIS FRATES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "FRATES (voice-over)", "CLINTON", "FRATES (voice-over)", "CLINTON", "FRATES (voice-over)", "SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I), VT., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "FRATES (voice-over)", "SANDERS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SANDERS", "KINKADE", "PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JOHN DICKERSON, CBS NEWS HOST", "DONALD TRUMP, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MATTINGLY (voice-over)", "JAKE TAPPER, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "DONALD TRUMP", "TAPPER", "DONALD TRUMP", "MATTINGLY (voice-over)", "NEWT GINGRICH, FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER", "MATTINGLY (voice-over)", "REP. PAUL RYAN (R), HOUSE SPEAKER", "SEN. BOB CORKER (R), TENN.", "CHUCK TODD, MSNBC HOST", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-258867", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-07-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/05/cnr.10.html", "summary": "S.C. Lawmakers Begin Considering Confederate Flag's Removal; Shooting Exposes Problems with U.S. Deportation Process", "utt": ["Today, lawmakers in South Carolina will begin debating whether to remove the Confederate flag from capitol grounds. This comes after calls from the governor and others to take the flag down after a racially motivated shooting at a predominately African- American church. A two-thirds majority vote in both chambers of the general assembly is necessary to remove it. Some South Carolina residents see the flag as symbol of pride and others as a symbol of hate.", "I said, how are you doing, and when I did, another fellow jumped on me. I got jumped. That was last Monday. You try to take down the Confederate memorial and take down the Ten Commandments in Oklahoma, you are starting all this stuff you can't handle.", "All it takes is sometimes one person saying, think, think, it's just a symbol. Whether it's up there or in a museum, it's just a symbol. It's what we do with that symbol that is going to determine whether South Carolina is in the news for the wrong reasons or whether we are stepping off the grand stand and shaking hands and saying this is us.", "And South Carolina is actually the only state that still flies the Confederate flag on capitol rounds. But references to the Confederacy are still displayed on other flags. The seven flags you see here incorporate elements of Confederate imagery or allude to the Confederate past. South Carolina's flag was the battle flag for the Confederate States of America, which fought against the North during the American Civil War, which ended in 1865. Now one reason the state seceded was to preserve their right to keep slaves.", "Now, the shooting death of a woman in San Francisco is exposing major problems with America's deportation process.", "CNN's Boris Sanchez has more on the story, including emotional comments from the woman's father, who watched her die.", "Walking with his daughter, Kate, on a busy San Francisco pier Wednesday night, Jim Steinle heard a loud pop ring out.", "This was evil, evil personified.", "Kate fell to the ground, hit by a bullet, the shooter running off without saying a word.", "There does not appear to be a connection between the victim and the suspect. At this point, it appears to be a random shooting incident.", "The suspect? 45-year-old Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, an undocumented immigrant and repeat felon. According to immigration officials, Lopez Sanchez has been deported five times to Mexico. In March, he was released from federal prison after serving time for sneaking back into the U.S. Federal law enforcement sources tell CNN it would have been six deportations except authorities in San Francisco wanted him on a drug related warrant so U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement turned him over to deputies. ICE officials say they requested an immigration detainer that would give them a head's up before he was released. But the sheriff's department denied the request, according to policy, before letting him go. The chief attorney telling CNN there was no legal cause to detain him. Lopez Sanchez now faces homicide charges.", "It's not going to bring Kate back, again, them finding the guy and the justice will work its way through the system, but our focus is on Kate.", "Boris Sanchez with that report. The suspect reportedly told CNN affiliate, KGO, he found the weapon on the ground and it accidentally fired when he picked it up.", "And more upbeat news. The United Nations has released its newest picks for the coveted World Heritage List. We'll tell you which places made the cut. That's coming up."], "speaker": ["FOSTER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ASHER", "FOSTER", "ASHER", "BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JIM STEINLE, FATHER OF KATE", "SANCHEZ", "UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER", "SANCHEZ", "STEINLE", "FOSTER", "ASHER"]}
{"id": "CNN-217973", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2013-11-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/02/ndaysat.03.html", "summary": "Boston Celebrates World Series Wi; Red Sox Victory Parade in Boston", "utt": ["Live look at Boston this morning. Boston Strong as crowds come out to celebrate the Red Sox World Series title. This parade starts at 10:00. It's going to start at Fenway Park and finish in by the Charles River, two dozen duck boats as part of this celebration today. Again, I've said it several times this morning, not just the city of Boston, but people across the country celebrating for a city that's still healing after that April bombing at the marathon.", "A much needed celebration.", "Absolutely.", "From worst to first and from tragedy to Boston Strong.", "In just under two hours as we said the Red Sox fans getting ready to show the home team just how much they appreciate Wednesday's big World Series victory.", "CNN's Alexandra Fields is live in Boston with more. Alexandra, good morning.", "Alison, it's a morning filled with emotion here in Boston, much of it good emotion, of course. Right behind me the crowds are gathering by the thousands in the same spot where they stood six months ago to watch the Boston marathon. They now have a reason to celebrate and to cheer. They will be out here applauding and paying tribute to the Red Sox World Series champs. But we are told the team will also stop along the parade route. They will pause at the marathon finish line to pay tribute to the marathon survivors. Here is what one of those survivors is saying about that honor this morning.", "It felt like we were a city that had such a tragedy happen and we were able to be resilient and heal over the course of the baseball season coincidentally.", "Today's parade taking on special meaning, but this is a town that loves baseball and this is a town that loves the Red Sox. So these parades have always drawn huge crowds. Back in 2004, it's estimated that more than 3 million people lined the parade route. And back in 2004, it's estimated there were about a million people cheering on the World Series champs -- Alison, Victor.", "Alexandra, let's talk about security. Obviously it's going to be pretty tight. What extra measures are you seeing at this point?", "Well, Alison, this is the largest public gathering, of course, since the marathon and of course, this parade follows part of the marathon route. So security is top of mind this morning. We are seeing uniformed police officers all over the city. Boston police say that they have added, of course, extra uniformed and non-uniformed officers. Their presence is important to the crowds who want to be here today. We are also told that anyone who brings a backpack out here to the parade could have that backpack randomly searched. So again, security is the most important matter this morning -- Alison, Victor.", "All right, Alexandra Field in Boston this morning. Thanks for that. Stay with us throughout the morning. We'll be covering the parade live when it kicks off in less than two hours. Again, at 10:00, you can check out the parade on cnn.com/live. And we have a big get this morning. We've got Boston famed Red Sox announcer, the announcer for the Boston Red Sox, Joe Castiglione who is on the phone with us right now. He is at the parade route. First, I want to ask you about the energy there and the feeling because this is no ordinary parade for a team that just brought home the pennant.", "People are so fired up because the Red Sox went from worst to first. They lost 93 games last year and won 118 this year. And it was a big surprise and we're very excited.", "Give us an idea of the level of responsibility that the players took on. I mean, we remember that moment when David Ortiz walked out and said this is our city after the bombings. Talk about what changed for the players.", "Well, that night after the marathon bombings, we went to Cleveland and every player went out to dinner together, which doesn't happen very often in baseball. It sort of brought them tight together and they really understood the responsibility. But they really understood what was -- what they could do to help. They went in groups of five to visit the victims in the hospitals and I think it really helped unify this team.", "This is Alison Kosik here as well with Victor. Tell me about the parade. Who is going to be involved in it? Who could we see?", "Now all the players will be on duck boats, which, of course, is a Boston tradition and they'll go down Boston streets and go by the bombing site. After that they go into the Charles River and have some fun there.", "Any baseballs in the river?", "There may be. There may be people throwing baseballs.", "Joe, after that long drought, many called it the curse, there was the '04 win, there was the '07 win, but those were on the road. This is the first World Series win since 1918. What does it mean? Put it in perspective for us at Fenway Park since 1918?", "The first two were tremendous. So I don't think it was -- it was different, the one at home, because the fans and -- the fans are very well behaved. People stay in their seats for an hour and a half and two hours after the game was amazing.", "Just an amazing comeback from last year?", "Yes, it was night and day from 93 losses to 108 wins, really sensational. So many people involved, the players, general manager, the manager, they all did such a wonderful job.", "What's the role of this team in the city? We all know people from Boston, but especially now as the healing continues just a few months after the bombing? What is their new role if it has changed or intensified in this city?", "Well, I think the Red Sox has always been number one, so I don't know if the role has changed. But I think the players are more civically aware of what's going on and what their responsibility has been. They really got -- took this thing to heart and I think this was part of the thing that drove them, and they really were the instigators of Boston Strong.", "Did you happen to cover the marathon, the bombing, were you there?", "No. We were out in the box getting ready to go to Cleveland about 45 minutes after the game ended.", "But you certainly felt the effects, didn't you?", "Yes, we did. In fact my family was heading over there and I called to stop them because they had gone to the game, which, of course, is always a big sell-out. And it was certainly a very, very scary time. And many times our players' wives run in the marathon. There were none this year, but it happened about 50 minutes after the game ended.", "And give us an idea of the energy and the feeling. We talked about today, but that night when it was clear and everybody watched it on television, the Boston Red Sox, World Series champions. Take us in Fenway Park that night.", "It was a 6-1 game. So after we ended the curse in '84 after 86 years without a win, I think people expected us to win. There was great anticipation. But a lot of joyous people, I think, and they celebrated in the right way. You know, they still are sort of pinching themselves that this happened because of the worst to first.", "All right, Joe Castiglione, the announcer on radio for the Boston Red Sox. It is a pleasure to talk to you this morning. Enjoy the parade. Of course, sir, we celebrate with the city of Boston and the team.", "Well, thank you so much.", "Thank you for speaking with us. And we'll continue or coverage throughout the morning with the big celebration in Boston and the parade that starts at 10:00. We'll have it her on air, but you can watch it online at cnn.com/live.", "OK, but first it's been a decade since an American male won a tennis grand slam event, but John Isner would like to break that dubious streak in 2014. 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{"id": "CNN-295979", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-10-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/13/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Several Women Accuse Trump of Unwanted Advances; Trump Campaign Calls NYT Article \"Fiction\"; NY Times: 2 Women Claim Trump Accosted Them; Boehner Voting for Trump Despite \"Dynamite\" Video.", "utt": ["And good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. Damning new accusations in Donald Trump's presidential campaign is reeling. Several women coming forward, saying Trump was lying when he dismissed his sexually aggressive comments caught on tape as just locker room talk. They say he made unwanted physical advances on them, an attorney for Mr. Trump, denying the claims, demanding retractions and threatening lawsuits. CNN's working to confirm the reports in the \"New York Times\" and in \"People\" magazine. Trump, lashing out on Twitter just in the last hour, saying, \"The phony story in the failing \"New York Times\" is a total fabrication written by same people as last discredited story on women.\" OK. So watch this. Here's one accuser in the latest \"New York Times\" story. She shared her story on video.", "I was hired by a newsprint company. I was a sales rep. I was traveling in the Middle West. I was coming back into New York City. And it was on that flight that the stewardess asked me to - would I like to move up to first class. I didn't need to be asked twice. And I sat down next to a young man, blonde, tall and he introduced himself as Donald Trump. I was not really aware of the real estate world of Trump. We just chatted back and forth, nothing particular. It wasn't until they cleared the meal that somehow or another, the arm rest in the seat disappeared and it was a real shock when all of a sudden, his hands were all over me. He started encroaching on my space and I hesitate to use this expression, but I'm going to, and that is he was like an octopus. It was like he had six arms. He was all over the place. If he had stuck with the upper part of the body, I might not have gotten -- I might not have gotten that upset but it's when he started putting his hand up my skirt and that was it.", "All right. That was Jessica Leeds. She and several other women came forward after hearing Trump denying mistreatment of women during Sunday night's debate, in this exchange, with Anderson Cooper.", "Are you saying that what you said on that bus 11 years ago that you did not actually kiss women without consent or grope women without consent?", "I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than I do.", "So for the record, you're saying you never did that?", "I said things -- I frankly, you hear these things. They're said. And I was embarrassed by it, but I have tremendous respect for women.", "Have you ever done those things?", "-- And women have respect for me and I will tell you, no, I have not.", "OK. So we have a lot to cover this morning. Let's begin though in Florida with Jason Carroll. Good morning.", "And good morning to you, Carol. As you know, Donald Trump's attorney is denying that report out of the \"Times\" calling it reckless. Donald Trump also denying allegations that are being made by \"People\" magazine writer, her name is Natasha Stoynoff. She says back in 2005, Carol, she was doing a profile piece on Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, and she was at his property at here Mar-a-Lago in Florida, down in south Florida, and she basically said once the two of them got alone, once she got alone with Donald Trump, she alleges the following happened. She said, \"We walked into that room alone and Trump shut the door behind us. I turned around and within seconds, he was pushing me against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat. I was stunned.\" Donald Trump, Carol, as you know, likes to tweet, tweeted about that just within the past hour or so, saying the following. \"Why didn't the writer of the twelve year old article in People Magazine mention the \"incident\" in her story. Because it did not happen!\" Stoynoff actually did mention the alleged incident to one of her editors at the time and went on to say that the reason why she didn't go public with it in part was because she was worried about and concerned about her career. Now, Carol, as you know, we have heard Donald Trump criticize what he calls the liberal media. He's done it at many of his rallies. In fact he did it at a rally just yesterday here in Florida. So what we expect at this point going forward, he is expected to have another rally here in Florida later today, expect him once again to go after what he calls the liberal media. That feeds into this whole narrative that he's been painting that the decks are really stacked against him as he says. This really plays well to his base. Does it play beyond that? That pretty much remains to be seen. Carol?", "All right, Jason Carroll reporting live from Florida this morning. The former House Speaker John Boehner, now reacting to that 2005 video where Trump brags about forcing himself on to women. In an interview on Fox News, Boehner describes the video as dynamite but says he's still standing by Trump.", "I was disgusted by it. I thought most Americans would be disgusted by it. And frankly, I'm a little surprised that more people aren't disgusted by it.", "So your view was this is dynamite?", "I thought it was dynamite. I thought it was real bad. And you know, you can't defend it and frankly, Donald Trump isn't even trying to defend it. Listen, in my view, the election is pretty simple. But the legislative process, the political process in Washington is at a stand-still and will be regardless of who wins. And the only thing that really matters over the next four years or eight years is who is going to appoint of the next Supreme Court nominees. I just believe that the next president's going to appoint two, three, maybe four justices to the Supreme Court and all throughout the federal court system because more and more issues, because they can't be dealt with legislatively are going to end up in the court system. And so I believe that Donald Trump's view of who these judges should be, much closer to where I am than the judges that Hillary Clinton would appoint.", "So you plan to vote for Trump?", "I am going to vote for him.", "All right. So let's talk. With me now, Ryan Lizza, he is CNN political commentator and the Washington correspondent for \"The New Yorker,\" Heidi Przybyla is the senior politics reporter for \"USA Today\" and CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Laura Coates is here, a full disclosure about you Laura. Laura used to be an associate for a law firm that represents Mr. Trump. However, she did not personally litigate any matters at all related to Trump. So, just full disclosure here because we are into transparency here at", "Thank you.", "So welcome to all of you. Heidi, you heard what former Speaker Boehner said. He said the Trump controversy is dynamite, it's indefensible but he says Trump is still fit for office. Thoughts?", "Well, I think this is the only rationalization that Republicans have left in terms of supporting this man considering how hard they went after Bill Clinton for offenses that seem pretty much very, very similar which is that it comes down to the courts. I just don't think that's going to be enough for a lot of Republicans. And I think it's not going to be just limited to women at this point. I think it's going to be men as well, men with daughters, men with wives and I think the really damaging counter -- punch to all of this is that he's no longer just going after the media in his response. We are now seeing widespread victim blaming both by Donald Trump but also his surrogates, Katrina Pierson, was on earlier saying that these women are seeking 15 minutes of fame. Well, Carol, the next wave of news is going to have experts on sexual assault who will testify to the well-known phenomenon of women not reporting this, how underreported this is in our society, these types of sexual assault, and that is just not going to go over well with a lot of women and men voters, frankly.", "Yes. Ryan, how does Trump marry that? Because if he's attacking these women, isn't that the very thing he's accusing Hillary Clinton of doing to the women who supposedly had sexual contact with Bill Clinton. And some of them did. I don't want to make it sound like none of them did.", "Yes. Not to just get into the crass politics of this because obviously the allegations are very serious. But if you are going to base the final month of your campaign on Bill Clinton's sex life and the fact that Bill Clinton and allegedly, according to the Trump folks, Hillary Clinton attacked the accusers. You probably want to sit down with your advisors and make sure that those same allegations can't be credibly thrown back at you. So, I mean, that is sort of the astonishing part of this, is that the last month, they decided they are going to go all in on the allegations against Clinton and seem not to have known or been prepared for - you know, it's been 24 hours since the Anderson Cooper got Trump to say that he never assaulted anyone, and that is what opened the flood gates of these accusations. And you know, we are getting close to - you know, we have what, half a dozen accusers already in that short period of time. So, I think that to me is what was so shocking from, you know, why did they go down this road when they must have known or at the very least, Donald Trump must have known that he was opening himself up to lots of investigative journalism, lots of people stepping forward if indeed he's had this history. And I don't think we have seen -- it's only been one day. I don't think we have seen the last word on this at all.", "No. Because Lara Trump is now threatening a lawsuit against the \"New York Times,\" saying they fabricated the story and what these women are saying are not true. CBS had one of those reporters who wrote that \"New York Times\" story on this morning. This is how she said she went after the story.", "We talked to these two women who went on the record and used their names. We talked to the people around them who went on the record and used their names. There are no anonymous quotations in the story. These are people who are putting their names and their reputations by the claims that were described in these stories. I think that's important.", "At the time that they alleged these assaults they had told close friends and family who recall similar stories.", "In the case of Rachel Crooks that's absolutely correct. In the case of Jessica Leeds, she began about a year and a half ago, she said, to tell a widening circle of people including her son, her nephew and more than two friends. But we talked to two friends as well as the nephew and son who recall the details of what she told them which lined up with what she told us.", "Megan, you talked to Donald Trump, you said?", "Right, absolutely. So, we would never just go ahead and publish these accounts without talking to the presidential candidate himself and so on Tuesday night, he got on the phone with me and I spelled out the allegations and you know, gave him a chance to respond.", "What did he say? Don't leave that hanging.", "So, you know, he insisted that all of the allegations were a fabrication and that the \"New York Times\" was making them up and he got increasingly agitated as I continued my questions, and you know, started to yell at me and told me that I was a disgusting human being.", "OK. So, two reporters wrote that story. Those were the two reporters responsible for the story in the \"New York Times,\" Laura. So, Mr. Trump says he's now going to file a lawsuit. Because he said everything in that article is untrue. Does he have a prayer?", "Well, you know, in the court of public opinion that will weigh very heavily in the election perhaps, but the legal ramifications are very different. And the reason these reporters came on air to talk about their investigative journalistic practices is because the court wants to know whether you really had actual malice towards your publication of this actual article. An actual malice is not what you think of in a semantic world of do I like Donald Trump. No. It's about whether or not you took caution, the necessary caution to figure out was the story true. Were there any loops that are black holes in the story you need to actually fill in in some way. Did you have to go back and actually check different sources? And that's why the language of the attorneys who are writing on behalf of Donald Trump were very careful to talk about whether it was reckless, whether they actually have done all of their investigative journalistic duties in this case. So, -- if it turns out that the court finds -- if he does file a lawsuit and the court finds that the practices followed by those particular journalists are not on par with what they normally would do, or that it's so blatantly obvious based on the credibility of the witnesses or the credibility of the accusers or their trustworthiness, there may be a chance for a civil lawsuit that may be successful, but right now, we don't know that. All we have is the beginning of what looks like an iceberg of accusations that may take place and what we need to find out is whether or not there were other things the journalists could have done or should have done to show this story was false or that it was overwhelmingly true.", "So, Heidi, perhaps one of the things that Donald Trump is trying to accomplish is he's trying to scare other reporters off from writing similar stories.", "I think that might be part of it. But \"USA Today\" actually did some good investigating this morning and found that Mr. Trump has threatened many journalists over the years and has actually not followed through on a lot of those. Of course, the stakes this time are much higher for him. And so it's possible that this could be a warning shot to other journalists. But I don't think that is going to stop this dam from breaking, Carol. We know that there's a lot of other information out there, specifically these \"apprentice\" tapes where there seems to be a bit of a tussle now to make those public, that there is information on that, that is much more damning than the stuff that's come forward in terms of that videotape on the bus. And it just paints a broader narrative. It's not about any one of these single incidents alone. It's about the totality of all of this information that is now coming out about the comments on the 10-year- olds, the things that just look unsavory and distasteful.", "So Ryan, can Mr. Trump recover?", "I mean, I don't want to drain the drama from this election given we have almost a month to go. But you know, a candidate polling where he's polling and struggling with the groups and in the states where he's struggling has never come back this late in the game. It would take an extraordinary collapse by Hillary Clinton for Donald Trump to win at this point. So never say never. Lot of people counted this guy out in the primaries. But you are very happy just from a strict political sense if you are Hillary Clinton right now.", "All right. I have to end it there. Thanks to Ryan, Heidi and Laura for joining me this morning. Still to come in the \"Newsroom,\" Trump brags about peeking into pageant dressing rooms. As a beauty queen says his behavior made her uncomfortable. We'll hear from her, next."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "JESSICA LEEDS, ACCUSED DONALD TRUMP OF INAPPROPRIATE TOUCHING", "COSTELLO", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "COOPER", "TRUMP", "COOPER", "TRUMP", "COSTELLO", "JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "JOHN BOEHNER, FORMER SPEAKER OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES", "BRIT HUME, HOST \"ON THE RECORD\"", "BOEHNER", "HUME", "BOEHNER", "COSTELLO", "CNN. 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{"id": "CNN-54711", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-5-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/24/ltm.01.html", "summary": "Former Investigator Discusses Search for Clues in Levy Death", "utt": ["We turn now to the Chandra Levy investigation. Police in Washington say they still don't know how Chandra Levy died. Her remains, of course, were found on Wednesday in a Washington, D.C., park buried under a lot of grass and brush. And the D.C. chief of police, appearing on our show yesterday, described the area where Levy's remains actually eventually turned up.", "We can tell from the state of the remains and also the clothing that it had been exposed to the elements for quite some time. There was about a foot of underbrush that the body was underneath and very, very difficult and very well concealed.", "Levy, as you know, had been missing for more than a year, and forensic experts are now searching for clues that can tell them just exactly, they hope, how she died. Joining us now from Los Angeles to talk more about that is Elizabeth Devine, a former crime scene investigator with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. And she is now a story editor for the very popular TV series drama \"CSI.\" Thank you for getting up so early for us this morning. Good morning.", "Good morning, Paula.", "So Elizabeth, based on what you have heard about the amount of exposure that Chandra Levy's remains had to the elements, how successful do you think investigators will be in trying to figure out what happened to her?", "Well, it really depends on the injuries that they're able to determine from looking at her remains. Bones actually can demonstrate quite a bit of information when looked at by experts. So I know they will be doing that. The more, obviously, the more of the remains they recover, the better chance they are, or they have, to find out what actually happened to Ms. Levy.", "What would they be looking for, you know, once they found these bones? Is it sort of the neck area that you would look to first to see if there was a potential strangulation involved?", "Well, they're going to be looking at all the bones. Obviously, they have the skull, I understand. They would look for blows to the skull, any kind of injuries to the skull and the remaining bones. You would look at the neck. One bone that's very strong and very difficult to find in remains is called the hyoid bone, which, if broken, would indicate strangulation. So something that they would be looking for would be that particular bone of the neck to determine if strangulation had occurred. But they can also from the bone look for sharp force injuries, blunt force injuries, obviously gunshot injuries. So that's the kind of thing they will be doing.", "The police chief yesterday confirmed to me they also found a jogging bra and tennis shoes. What kind of clues can they glean from those items?", "Well, they're going to examine them for any kind of trace evidence, any kind of biologicals. But again, they've been out in the elements for a year approximately, and it's going to be very difficult. What the experts at the crime scene are going to be looking for is anything that will indicate a suspect, an area that she may have been taken to, any kind of evidence that's not pertaining to the victim. What they have now are evidence, is evidence that's directly pertaining to the victim. So it may have a limited probative value.", "And Elizabeth, the police chief yesterday couldn't answer the question whether he believed the body has always been there or whether it was transported there. Will they be able to conclusively decide that?", "That is a really difficult question. If she had been moved after, if she had been moved after a long period of time, there may be some tests that they can do to the soil underneath the grave site. But given the terrain and the elements, to find out that conclusively would be extremely difficult.", "Elizabeth, we're going to go back to that picture of the crime scene for you to give us a better understanding of this pretty wide area they now have marked off. Walk us through the steps we'll see them take in the days to come.", "Well, this kind of a crime scene, at least now they have an area to focus on. You always want to make your crime scene very, very large, and they are going to comb that area with very careful, methodical efforts. They're going to get as many people out there to look, and they are going to be looking for anything, anything that's not, pretty much not, vegetation, that they can take back to their laboratory and examine in hopes that it has some relevance to the case.", "D.C. police now saying there is a man already in jail for assaulting other two D.C. area women. He could be a potential suspect in this case. John Walsh yesterday on our show says he believes Chandra Levy was the victim of a serial killer. Based on the information you've seen so far, do you have any theory at all as to what happened to Chandra Levy?", "Well, I think based on just the limited information that I have, she appeared to have left the house. She appeared to have been wearing a Walkman. I don't know why anyone goes in a remote area with a Walkman on. I think it takes you out of the equation. And someone who is a predator, someone who preys on young people or people at a disadvantage, is certainly going to take a look at someone using a Walkman and think I can get up close to them and, you know, perhaps do whatever it is that they plan to do. So I've always thought that it was some really tragic predator that had actually taken her as opposed to the other theories that were bandied about.", "And including the theory of Gary Condit maybe having been involved in any aspect of this?", "Yes.", "You never even considered him a suspect from the get-go?", "Not really. I don't think you can attribute great skill in crime scenes and great and very poor skill in thinking of an alibi to the same person. I mean he handled things poorly, but he behaved like a man that was covering up some activities outside the marriage that I think he didn't want revealed. But as far as taking that to a larger step to be involved in this sort of thing, it was a big jump, I thought.", "All right, Elizabeth Devine, good to have you on the air with us this morning again.", "Thank you.", "Thanks for setting that alarm so early for us this morning.", "Yes.", "You go off and have a great Memorial Day weekend. Appreciate your insights. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com Death>"], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "CHIEF CHARLES RAMSEY, D.C. CHIEF OF POLICE", "ZAHN", "ELIZABETH DEVINE, FORMER CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATOR", "ZAHN", "DEVINE", "ZAHN", "DEVINE", "ZAHN", "DEVINE", "ZAHN", "DEVINE", "ZAHN", "DEVINE", "ZAHN", "DEVINE", "ZAHN", "DEVINE", "ZAHN", "DEVINE", "ZAHN", "DEVINE", "ZAHN", "DEVINE", "ZAHN"]}
{"id": "CNN-277078", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2016-02-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/20/se.12.html", "summary": "Hillary Clinton Big Winner of Democratic Presidential Caucuses in Nevada.", "utt": ["Two presidential contests tonight, two big winners, Donald Trump the big winner in South Carolina, Hillary Clinton the big winner in Nevada. She spoke emotionally after her win.", "Americans are right to be angry but we're also hungry for real solutions. In the campaign, we've heard a lot about Washington and Wall Street, we all want to get secret, an accountable money out of politics that starts with appointing a new justice to the Supreme Court who will protect the right of every citizens who vote, not every corporation to buy elections.", "Bernie Sanders may have come in second, but he reminded his supporters where he was in the polls only a few months ago.", "We began in Iowa. We were 50 points behind. When we began in New Hampshire, we were 30 points behind. And we were way behind here in Nevada. But what I think is happening is that as people hear our message -- and it's a tough message because it speaks to the truth of an American society today that a lot of people just don't want to address.", "Ron Brownstein, the next big Democratic contest is next Saturday in South Carolina primary. Iowa causes doing well there?", "Yes, absolutely when you'll see for a further see the biggest participation by African Americans where she won about three- quarters of them tonight in Nevada as well. There was one bit of I think very good news for Bernie Sanders tonight, which is, as I said before, his advantage among younger voters extended into the minority community, always according to the exit poll. There is some question whether his Latino support was as strong as the exit poll said based on the actual voting. But he still -- I think he has two big problems that come out of here. One, is that Hillary Clinton's advantage among older minority voters tonight was even bigger than her advantage among older white voters was in Iowa and New Hampshire, and that is definitely an issue moving forward. The other is he's still not winning Democrats in most places. He didn't won a majority of Democrats in New Hampshire, but tonight he only won 40 percent of Democrats, based on the same number as Iowa. And as John McCain learned in 2000, ultimately, you have to get people in the party whose nomination you want to vote for you because you're going to be the nominee.", "But to me, he does really well with young people ....", "Yes.", "Although the young people don't vote as big a percentage as older people.", "That's right which is a problem. It will be a problem in South Carolina. He's also isn't changing the electorate as much as Obama did in 2008 not bringing in enough new voters. I think it was something like 80,000 voters ...", "As opposed to 120,000 in 2008.", "Yes, it supposed to that in 120,000. So that's something. I think tonight we also saw a significant shift in terms of Hillary Clinton.", "Yes.", "She is often the narrator of the Hillary Clinton experience in some of these speeches she gives. Tonight she was the narrator of the Democratic coalition's experience. She immediately pivoted from sort of beating up on Wall Street to voting rights. She said, we, we, we, a lot more in this speech than she has before so I think that's critical to what her message will be moving forward.", "And very few barbs aimed at Bernie Sanders, that sort of edgy, kind of attack language was not there tonight. And she -- this was a good night for her ...", "... by her performance.", "Did you say barbs or barks?", "Barbs.", "She sounded to me tonight much more like a general election candidate. I mean, I think she really pivoted away from Bernie Sanders, as you were saying, didn't attack Wall Street as frontally as she has. And you know, I think it was her way of saying, OK, I'm going to get another one under my belt next week, and then I'm moving on from this. And so ...", "And there was a nice gesture when Bernie Sanders actually called Hillary Clinton to congratulate her to concede. I don't know if that happened on the Republican side ...", "He did call ...", "Let's go quickly to John King, he's over the magic wall. He's getting more information over there, John?", "So Wolf, let's look at today's races and try to project what we learn today as we go forward and let's start with the Democrats. First, just the score, Hillary Clinton wins narrowly in Iowa. Bernie Sanders wins big in New Hampshire. Hillary Clinton wins in Nevada by a decent margin. If you look at the map, you think it's pretty evenly divided, right? The dark blue is Secretary Clinton, the light blue is Senator Sanders but more than seven in 10 Nevada live in poor economy. Las Vegas and the suburbs predominantly she wins by 10 points there just as she did in 2008 took care of the state of Nevada. Now, let's move on to the Republican race, they come to Nevada next. They were in South Carolina tonight. The map speaks for itself. The dark red is Donald Trump. The lighter red is Marco Rubio. He wins two counties. Donald Trump sweeps the state, dumping Ted Cruz up here in the evangelical heartland of the state, winning here in most of the areas where Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich won. Rubio getting a little bit and looks like this will hold by a narrow marginal, just looking at the two counties with outstanding votes. Ted Cruz about 1000 votes away there are -- about 1000 votes away there. But it looks like that will hold for Marco Rubio, who will get the more victory of that. So what's happens next? Now let's stay with the Republicans. One of the reasons this has to be disappointing to Ted Cruz is that this is a state, the deeper the area, the higher percentage of evangelicals. If you bring out the map, Super Tuesday, which comes after Nevada for the Republicans, they go to Nevada. Then, March 1st is Super Tuesday. Not all of Super Tuesday but most of Super Tuesday is fought out down here. If you look at this evangelical vote, this is what Ted Cruz thought would be his wheelhouse and he wanted more momentum than a third-place South Carolina finish to get into here. The question for Ted Cruz is can he regroup in a place where you have a high percentage of evangelicals and also a lot of Tea Party voters, a big challenge for the Cruz campaign going forward. I want to leave up the same map up a switch. The Democrats now come to South Carolina., the deeper the color, the higher the percentage of African-Americans. Hillary Clinton did very well with African-Americans in Nevada tonight. She's going to come into South Carolina where you have a high percentage. Let me just take this up a little bit. High percentage of African Americans, will without a doubt be the majority of the Democratic electorate in South Carolina.", "That's next Saturday.", "Next Saturday. And they will be a majority or plurality in many of the Super Tuesday states together. There are a couple Super Tuesday States North of this but in most of the Super Tuesday States down here, you just look. You have a huge percentage of African- Americans. So, some people will question the margin of the Clinton win today, but she's now moving into what should be more favorable territory. And so, opportunity for Hillary Clinton, once South Carolina and then beyond, and questions for the Republicans as they move into that map as well, Wolf, where you have more states on the calendar every Tuesday, bigger challenge, but also bigger opportunity.", "But both of these remaining two democratic presidential candidates. They are well funded and they have strong organizations right now, presumably suggesting this contest could go on well after Super Tuesday.", "It could. Let me give you an example of that. If you come back to the race to the nomination chart here on the delegates now we're talking about, we've given this is a projection, a hypothetical that gives Hillary Clinton South Carolina. This is based on 55/45 going forward. As you look if you go through just to Super Tuesday, if Hillary Clinton won them all but only by 55/45, Senator Sanders stays in play, and he's got a lot of money. He raised a lot of money after New Hampshire but his campaign is trying to raise more tonight. There is no question, the Sanders campaign, at least through Super Tuesday, and they say beyond, is staying in, which means we've got a lot of fun.", "This could go on and on and on. And remember, eight years ago it went on until June before Hillary Clinton conceded to then Senator Barack Obama. Let me go back to Dana, David Chalian and Mark Preston, who are also picking crunching some of this numbers this inside numbers. Dana, it's really fascinating how well they did. But Marco Rubio right now, if he comes in second place in South Carolina, that's going to be nice for him because he could have come in third or maybe fourth. But after that setback in New Hampshire, he's done relatively well.", "He has done relatively well, but he hasn't won. He hasn't won in Iowa. He hasn't won in New Hampshire. And he hasn't won in South Carolina, which was the place that his campaign aides really thought was his best bet for lots of reasons. So, the question moving forward, even a Rubio adviser said to me a couple days ago, admitted to me, the question tonight would be for them from their donors, where are you going to win? I just texted another top Rubio aide asking that very question, and I said, where are you going to win next? And the answer was, \"Oh, well, the place we get most votes.\", which is sort of a clever way of not answering my question. So, what do you guys think?", "I don't know where they're going to win next. First let's look at where they're going next. Getting on a plane tonight to Tennessee, then going to Arkansas, all before they go to Nevada. And so, Nevada's Tuesday, but as you know, Tennessee and Arkansas are two of the states on March 1st. So, Marco Rubio going there first, and then you know, I look at this list of states on March 1st. If Marco Rubio really does, now that Jeb Bush is out of the race, consolidate the establishment lane support, you have to remember, in many of these states, establishment, Republicans will make up a big chunk of the electorate. And so, he's going to be able to play in ...", "In Massachusetts, Minnesota.", "... is going to be potentially get some of that establishment vote as well.", "He is, indeed. That the Rubio-Kasich face-off now that we're going to see, I'm sure we'll see it on our debate stage in Houston, is going to be a key race to watch in that way.", "I also think that once we look past Super Tuesday, past the first, is that we're going to head into March 15th, and we're going to head into Rubio country in many ways in Florida. Jeb Bush is out of the race now. He's gone. Question is what is Donald Trump's lay to claim in Florida? He seriously has done a good job of connecting to a very angry electorate, and I'm sure there are very many angry people in Florida right now whose economy has been racked as well. And as somebody said to me tonight, it's not the employment number, it's the underemployment number that is really the big problem. Now, Donald Trump's second home is down in South Florida. But Marco Rubio went in Florida.", "And he employs a lot of people in Florida.", "And he employs, he does simply, he will tell you that many times over.", "And some of his largest rallies that he's had just campaign ...", "But if Marco Rubio can win Florida on the 15th, new game. Just like John Kasich. If he can win Ohio, it would be an interesting game.", "Yeah. A lot of people from the North, the Midwest, they've moved on to Florida. They may be open to Donald Trump as well. As we point out, he has a second home in Palm Beach, a modest place called Mar-a-Lago (ph). That's Donald Trump. All right, let's go back to you, Jake.", "Thanks, Wolf. You know, we had -- the Republicans had record, a turnouts in Iowa. They had record turnout in the New Hampshire primary. And just a few minutes ago, we learned from a state election commissioner in South Carolina that there was record turnout for the South Carolina Republican Primary, more than 700,000 ballots cast. And Van Jones, this is kind of a canary in a coal mine for democrats, because the Republican turnout has been huge and the Democratic turnout has not.", "Yeah. That's true. And there are two ways to look at it. If you want to ...", "Give us the honest way to look at it.", "OK. If you want to sleep well tonight and you're a Democrat, you say it's because they have many, many candidates, and so, many, many candidates are going to give you many, many more people, dragging people out.", "OK, you did your due diligence as a democrat.", "Yes, yes. Now, what's actual effect?", "He's terrified.", "We're terrified! Because it looks like the hunger on the part of republicans to get that White House back, to get it away from the Obamas, get it away from Clintons, is very, very palpable. And yet, on the other side, as much as there is this Sanders surge, as much as there is this Clinton machine, it just does not seem to be that same level of passion.", "The passion vote.", "Not yet.", "Not yet. I keep talking about this, passion vote. When you talk to these Trump people, they are passionate. I'll give you an example. When I came home from CNN the other day, at my doorstep in Pennsylvania, it was a young woman with a petition to sign to put her brother on the ballot for Donald Trump. It was 19 degrees out there. They were going door to door. They didn't know who I was. They were canvassing the neighborhood, and there they were all revved up to go at 19 degrees. I mean, that's passion, and that's what we're seeing.", "In Chicago, we'd call that balmy.", "Yeah, yeah.", "But I think Trump, look, there's no doubt that he has infused some energy all by himself in this process, and he is bringing new voters into this Republican process.", "But I think Hillary ...", "But there is a solution to the problem. Trump is both, you know, sort of the cause and the effect, because it's clear that there's not going to be the positive energy on the Democratic side that there was in 2008. I mean, that is a clear message. If there is an opportunity for big Democratic turnout, it's going to be that as popular as Trump is among Republican constituencies; he is equally unpopular among the core Democratic if that he is and then coming out, yeah.", "Two more polarizing candidates ...", "Yeah, that would be it ...", "... then Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump. Each would motivate their base, right.?", "The other base.", "And the other base, I mean.", "Yeah, right.", "And you might have, look at it this way, you might have great turnout.", "You would.", "And also by the way, two of the most, you know, two years ago, two of the most famous Americans in the world, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.", "Right.", "Who right now are on track to be the nominees of their ....", "And a couple of New Yorkers, which is what America wants.", "They love New Yorkers.", "The last time two New Yorkers (inaudible) against -- Dewy and Roosevelt?", "1940. Well, Dewy-Roosevelt?", "1904, also.", "Supreme Court", "And he wins.", "I want to say one thing about Hillary Clinton, because I've been strong sticking out for the Bernie Sanders crew, and I think it's important. I was impressed and really moved by her today because she seems to be listening. She seems to be learning. It was a very different speech tonight. She was about the \"we.\" Now she had this phrase about, imagine a tomorrow. Like, at the end of the speech, is going to pair ratio imagine a tomorrow where. And you could see that she is listening, that this is a party that needs to be inspired. Fine, we can be impressed by a good resume, but we need to be inspired. So, I want to say, tonight I think that Hillary Clinton and the Hillary Clinton you saw tonight, the Hillary Clinton I think that can win a general election but also can win over this party.", "Yeah I think Van is right, Hillary Clinton has learned from Bernie Sanders. And I do think one of the lessons from South Carolina is that both Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz do need to learn a little bit from Donald Trump. I think there's a reason Donald Trump congratulated both Cruz and Rubio, because he's going to turn both of them into Washington. Think about a three-person race. It's going to be Donald Trump against two senators. Those two senators need to stop talking like senators, got to drop this vague talk about the new 21st century, got to stop lawyerly arguing your case like you're going to be a Supreme Court Justice. They have to talk they are talking like a real person and pocketbook (ph) issues to take on Donald Trump.", "Because it is true when Van Jones, after the Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire speech, we did a count of what the pronouns were we and us versus me and I. And Bernie and Hillary have the exact opposite result, 2-1. And tonight, we haven't done the pronoun count, but she did sound -- they seem to be sounding a lot of we and us.", "And I think it's very, very important, because when you have young people who want to be a part of something -- and young people around the world want to be a part of stuff. If you say, \"Look, I'm the smart person. I can fix it for you.\" that's deflating. If you say I need you, we can do this together. That yes, we can. I think that work a little bit.", "Yes. What's interesting, though, is Trump has the opposite appeal. He's saying, \"Yes, I can.\" Let me take care of it.\"", "It's interesting.", "\"I'll deal with it.\"", "But its interesting Amanda said that, Ron, because she's saying that Cruz and Rubio need to take some lessons from Donald Trump as somebody who's been studying the appeal or surface of appeal in some cases of these two. What would you advise Cruz and Rubio?", "Well, first of all, they've already moved toward him on policy, on trade and on immigration. They've each ended up much closer to him than where they wanted to started. And both, you know, it was striking. I remembered in 1996 when Bob Dole went to South Carolina immediately after Pat Buchanan won New Hampshire, he went to the BMW plant outside of Greenville to make the case for free trade. Even with Nikki Haley there, no one did that this week, so they're not differentiating that way. Look, I think that ultimately, Donald Trump is strong, he is showing strength in all corners of the party but there are two areas that have been less attractive. One or evangelicals but the other one that's bigger are the white-collar, center-right, college-educated Republicans who had 25 roughly 25 percent among them tonight. Unless, someone can consolidate a big chunk of those voters against them and they are the voters who powered Romney and McCain, this is going to be -- the numbers just don't add up.", "One big problem Hillary Clinton is going to have -- we've got it written off, she won in Nevada, a good speech, she is now the President of the United States. There's a big gap in there.", "Yeah.", "And one of that is ...", "I don't think we did that.", "Certainly not on the demand.", "If you're listening to Van ...", "But the biggest problem she has is honest and trustworthy. That translates into a general election. She is going to have to fix that problem and it's really hard to do because it's so baked in. It's really baked in.", "She's got to dig very, very badly on that man measure.", "Can I get back to your question about Cruz and Rubio, which is the more they fight each other, the smaller they become and the larger Trump becomes?", "We're going to take a very quick break. 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{"id": "NPR-20484", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2016-10-19", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/10/19/498582203/frazzled-takes-hilarious-look-at-the-ups-and-downs-of-middle-school", "title": "'Frazzled' Takes Hilarious Look At The Ups and Downs Of Middle School", "summary": "Author Booki Vivat takes a hilarious look at middle school in her debut novel, Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom. The book is full of Vivat's incredible doodles of Abbie Wu who thinks, \"Nothing good happens in the Middles.\" We'll find out if she's doomed.", "utt": ["If you want to scare a kid - like, see them actually shiver - just say these two words - middle school. There is something about those years - the changes, the betweenness, not a child, not a teenager - that makes middle school pretty dreadful for a lot of kids. That's what Booki Vivat has tapped into for her first book. It's a graphic novel for kids. It's called \"Frazzled: Everyday Disasters And Impending Doom.\" And she is with us now from our New York bureau. Welcome to the show.", "Thank you so much for having me.", "So tell us a little bit about the main character in this book. Her name is Abbie Wu. What's going on with her when we first meet her at the beginning of the book?", "Well, Abbie Wu is naturally and forever has been a kid who is just always freaking out. And especially now she's freaking out because she's heading into middle school, and she doesn't really know what to expect. And she's dealing with a lot of new, scary emotions.", "And this is a graphic novel, and so I wonder how that came to be. I mean did you draw it first and write it later?", "It actually was an idea that came out of these illustrated planners that I keep. And I started keeping these planers as a way to kind of keep my life organized. And eventually doodles of my feelings and emotions and the things that I was doing - they ended up taking over my whole planner.", "And one - like, through a series of very fortunate events, it got into the hands of an editor at HarperCollins. And this editor was flipping through these pages of my, like, private life, and she came across this one illustration that I had done in a moment of extreme crisis and very dramatic emotion that read, I live my life in a constant state of impending doom. And she pointed to the girl in that picture and said, there's a story here; that's our girl.", "Wow.", "And so...", "And you - I mean that's where you work. You work...", "Yes, I do.", "Could you just describe Abbie Wu for us, you know, kind of what she looks like and the visual world that she's moving through?", "Yeah. So Abby Wu is an Asian-American girl. She's just kind of wild and wacky. And I think that she has a lot of emotions. And the book definitely shows her as having those emotions.", "Right, and she's sort of talking about the curse of the middles. You know, not only she going into middle school, but she's the middle child. She's got this, like - these two siblings on either side of her who are kind of, like, these wonder kids who everybody loves. And she's just not really feeling like she's as great as they are.", "Exactly. And I think the worst part about middle school for her is that everyone else seems to have it figured out, and she doesn't have anything figured out. I think that for her, the biggest, scariest part about middle school is the fact that she feels like she has to have her thing figured out, you know...", "Yeah.", "...The thing that makes her who she is, the thing that everyone knows her for, her capital-T thing.", "Right.", "And she hasn't found that yet.", "And I love that everything kind of goes OK for her for a while. You know, she kind of starts to figure things out. But then it takes another bad turn.", "It does. It does. So really the thing that is getting to her on top of all the existential stuff is the concrete details of the fact that in middle school, the cafeteria ladies are just a little bit corrupt. And they don't let the sixth graders have any of the good food.", "So Abbie thinks that this is just a huge injustice, so she starts this kind of underground lunch revolution. She actually kind of falls into starting it. And I think at first she doesn't really know what she's doing, but the more that she gets pulled into this world, the more she kind of starts to take on more of a leadership role.", "As I was reading it, I thought to myself, this was written by an adult, but it's really, like, inside the head of a kid. How did you do it?", "I think a lot of adults don't want to admit it, but I think we're all still kind of stuck in middle school. At least that's how I feel. But I think ultimately the questions that come up in middle school are kind of questions that I think continue on through adulthood, these ideas of, who am I? Where do I belong?", "I feel like that's something that I'm still struggling with and still kind of working through. And it's something that we don't really tell kids. I think that becoming an adult and growing up - it's all a process, and it's not necessarily something you grow out of.", "The book ends on kind of a cliffhanger. I mean does that mean there's going to be \"Frazzled\" two?", "There will be a \"Frazzled\" two, and I kind of wanted it to end on a cliffhanger. I threw around the idea of giving her thing, but it just didn't feel right because I think the whole book was about her kind of coming to the realization that figuring out who you are and where you belong in life is a process.", "That's Booki Vivat. 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{"id": "CNN-236689", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2014-08-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/14/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Al-Maliki Out as ISIS Advances; New U.S. Airstrikes on ISIS Targets; Interview with Rear Admiral John Kirby; First Look at U.S. Air Flight to Mount Sinjar", "utt": ["We'll continue to follow the events near St. Louis. But there's other important breaking news we're following in Iraq. Where the embattled prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has just announced he is stepping down. Our senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh is joining us now live from Baghdad. Update our viewers, Nick, what happened.", "People have been waiting for this announcement from Nouri al-Maliki for days, possibly even weeks. Iran, again, and Saudis saying step down. Washington, Paris, the Shiites, his allies are saying same thing. Finally he took to the stage surrounded by Shiite politicians and said he was stepping down. Said he couldn't in self-pitying tones endure another wound on his body, talked about his achievements as prime minister and said really he was stepping down to make sure there was no innocent blood spilt. Trying to look really like here the unifying figure when really many view him as a sectarian who's fostered division in his time here. But now his one side potentially Haider al-Abadi, the prime minister designate, has a chance to form a cabinet, already getting strong support from Washington. But he does have to show some sense of unity between the Sunnis and the Shia that's been key to allowing ISIS to sweep through territory in the north, worrying signs that they", "All right. Thanks very much. Nick Paton Walsh in Baghdad. President Obama says the United States will continue airstrikes to protect U.S. facilities and personnel in Iraq and we're just getting word of new strikes. Let's go to our Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr. Barbara, what have you learned?", "Wolf, a new series of strikes nearer Irbil in northern Iraq. Pretty interesting. One of them was to destroy an MRAP vehicle, those are the vehicles the U.S. sold to Iraq that are the ones that U.S. troops had been using to avoid Iraqi IEDs during the war. So kind of it all comes full circle. But I want to show you a really amazing photo. This is a first look at the U.S. Special Forces team that went to Mount Sinjar to talk to the people there and find out what was going on. The very first look at American personnel on Mount Sinjar. President Obama having to approve this mission because it was so risky and uncertain. But when the team came back, they came back with information no one expected.", "U.S. fighter jets are still patrolling the skies over Iraq looking for signs of ISIS on the move. But on Mount Sinjar, a stunning turn of events. Just a few days ago, concerns about genocide and an urgent need for action.", "We're working with international partners to develop options to bring them to safety.", "But within hours of a U.S. Special Forces team returning from the mountain, their assess the was accepted by the White House. The U.S. says now it does not need to mount a massive rescue effort for what was said to be tens of thousands of Yazidis trapped there.", "We broke the ISIL siege of Mount Sinjar. We helped vulnerable people reach safety. And we helped save many innocent lives.", "The Pentagon says airstrikes will continue if the U.S. sees ISIS begin to attack. U.S. officials say they were prepared for the worst-case scenario, a massive rescue effort based on seeing news reports including CNN footage of desperation on the mountain as well as their own drone footage. But now that U.S. troops have seen for themselves the conclusion is only a few thousand people are left and the airstrikes have kept ISIS at bay. The initial intelligence about the mountain was wrong. But this time, they say, that's good news.", "In a situation like this, if you're going to have an estimate, where it comes down to saving people's lives or helping save their lives I'd rather be high and frankly I'd rather be wrong in the end.", "The few thousand Yazidis left received another humanitarian air drop of food and water but the Pentagon also says this may be the last one. The military team says it found several pallets still unopened and apparently unneeded.", "But the reality in Iraq right now is ISIS is far from down and out. They are still on the march, of course. And many Iraqis, tens of thousands of Iraqis still suffering, still trying to make their way to safety -- Wolf.", "I would say hundreds of thousands, not just tens of thousands. Barbara, thanks very much. Joining us now rear, Admiral John Kirby, he's the spokesman for the Department of Defense. Admiral, thanks very much for coming in.", "Thanks, Wolf.", "We heard from Marie Harf, the deputy spokeswoman at the State Department, today. There is -- in her own words there is still a potential here for genocide. Is that true?", "We believe so. Absolutely. I mean, look, just because things are better on Mount Sinjar and we're glad for that doesn't mean that we are forgetting that there's still humanitarian issues inside Iraq. And there's still great suffering. And ISIL remains brutal and barbaric and absolutely we're still concerned about genocidal type deaths.", "So genocide against this small religious community, the Yazidis, Christians, Shiites? Who should fear genocide?", "I think everybody should fear ISIL inside Iraq. And I think that's why everybody's taking this threat so seriously.", "So -- because the president in his remarks today, he said the U.S. is going to try to help as many people as possible.", "Right.", "Does that open the door now that Mount Sinjar apparently is resolved? Fortunately it's not as bad as we thought it was going to be and people are escaping, they're leaving down this corridor through the mountain and that's all good and they've got food and water. But what about all these other places? Because the president himself said it was a dire situation.", "Absolutely. And I think we would agree with that. Of course. We're going to continue to monitor and assess the situation on the ground with respect to humanitarian issues. And if there's a -- if there's military assistance that can be provided we're certainly going to be prepared and postured to do that. I would also add that we're working with international partners because this can't just be an American response or even just an American military response. You know, we're looking for international partners here. And there have been some. But this is really something that the entire national community should be concerned about.", "Because there are limits as to what photo reconnaissance, satellite imagery can do. You had to send people, U.S. military personnel, Special Operations forces on top of the mountain to get a clear assessment of what's going on. I assume you're going to have to do that in a lot of places throughout Iraq right now if there's such great fear of genocide.", "Well, it would depend. I mean, you can have a better picture in some places than others. But overhead ISR has its limits. It's a terrific asset but it's not going to tell you everything.", "You've got to really check on the ground to see what's going on. So there's a new prime minister now. Nouri al-Maliki is -- he said just a little while ago, he's gone. So does this open the door for new U.S. military-to-military cooperation with the Iraqis?", "We've had terrific military-to-military cooperation with the Iraqis since we left in 2011. You know, we have a small team there at the embassy that maintained a good relationship with them. And we look for that to continue. Seeing the reports about Prime Minister Maliki's comments and certainly if true we welcome that. It's now time to form a cabinet, form a unity government and try to be more responsive to the Iraqi people.", "Why did they collapse? The Iraqi military when these ISIS forces were coming in towards Mosul, they have a -- this is a big army, the Iraqi army. They have several hundred thousand troops that the U.S. trained, the U.S. armed, the U.S. financed. In the face of a few thousand ISIS guys coming in, they leave their bases, they run away. They leave a lot of sophisticated U.S. military hardware there for the ISIS troops now to use to kill a lot of people. What happened to them?", "When we left in 2011, we believe and we said and we reported to Congress that we were leaving an Iraqi Security Force that was credible and capable for the threat that they were facing at the time.", "Now the threat --", "That turned out not to be true.", "The threat has changed, though, since 2011. But also what happened was that the Iraqi government squandered the opportunity that American troops gave them. We left them with a competent Iraqi Security Force but they didn't manage it, equip it, train it, man it as well as it should have, administer it, and lead it as well as it should have. So what happened up in the north we think was a lack of will and a lack of leadership.", "Do you have a number how many active duty U.S. military personnel are in Iraq right now?", "Right now in total just over 900. A hundred of those were already there at the embassy in this office of security cooperation. And then we've added just a little bit more than 800 --", "Is that number going to go up, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000? Because, you know, the word mission -- words mission creep, they keep coming up.", "There's not going to be mission creep here. The president has been very clear what our goals and objectives are. Mission creep is when the goals and objectives change. They've not changed and we've been working at them efficiently.", "Because the two goals remain the same. One?", "One is to continue to continue to look at the humanitarian situation, work with international partners to try to alleviate that. The other is to protect U.S. personnel and facilities. And we're doing that through airstrikes.", "John Kirby is the spokesman for the U.S. Department of Defense. Real Admiral, thanks for coming in.", "Thanks for having me.", "Up next, compelling new video on a story you will see first here in THE SITUATION ROOM. CNN's Gary Tuchman rides along with a U.S. military crew taking the long way to bring some humanitarian aid to Iraqis on Mount Sinjar. You're going to see it for the first time, that's coming up. And right at the top of the hour, we're going to go live to the St. Louis suburb where the Missouri Highway Patrol is now getting ready to take the lead security role hoping to head off another night of trouble."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "STARR (voice-over)", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "STARR", "OBAMA", "STARR", "REAR ADM. 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{"id": "CNN-13134", "program": "Special Event", "date": "2000-8-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/02/se.01.html", "summary": "George W. Bush Arrives in Philadelphia", "utt": ["I just mentioned to Leon Harris, Daryn, that the momentum continues to build here and for a pretty good reason for the delegates in Philadelphia. George W. Bush closing in on his scheduled arrival here in Philadelphia. Should happen any minute now. Let's head out to the airport now, northeast of town, and CNN's Patty Davis quick preview of what we can expect shortly. Patty, good morning to you.", "Good morning, Bill. That is right, George W. Bush is expected here very shortly and we're told that his plane is running on time. Greeting him here, hundreds of supporters, including the state's Republican senators from Washington, as well as a group of YMCA kids that Republicans have given tri-cornered hats. Also, historical figures, you can see behind me Betsy Ross, Thomas Jefferson, the Liberty Bell. Also, he will go up on that podium after he shakes the hands of the hundreds in this crowd, he will ring that Liberty Bell three times. Now, George W. Bush hoping, of course, to make some history here in Philadelphia and, again, of his own this fall when he wins the election. He's opening. Now, Bush will be very busy today. His first event after he arrives here at the airport is a Hispanic rally in Center City. Philadelphia. Also has this afternoon several RNC events: one a reception where he will meet with VIPs of the Republican Party; also a gala this afternoon. Then, very importantly for George W. Bush, a technical walk through at the First Union Center, where he will be giving his speech on Thursday evening. He needs to know what to do, where to go. And then he goes back to his hotel in the evening to watch his running mate, Dick Cheney, give his speech. Last night, we saw him via satellite speaking to convention delegates introducing his foreign policy adviser. He was speaking from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Flew in this morning. Thousands yesterday turned out for a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, that was his stop before he gave that convention address. He told the crowd that he is vowing to take Pennsylvania back for the Republicans. That state has gone Democratic in the last two elections. Pennsylvania is the last stop on a five-day -- six-day tour by Bush. He started his tour of key battleground states in Arkansas, then went to Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, and then Pennsylvania. The main event, though, of course, Thursday evening, when he gives his acceptance speech to the Republican National Convention here in Philadelphia -- Bill.", "All right, Patty, stand by there at the airport, again, north of town. We will check in shortly when George W. Bush does indeed arrive. While the delegates and media await George W. Bush's arrival here, tonight is night number three, at the RNC. And with a look at what to expect, here now is Bernie Shaw with a look at that.", "Here's a look at Wednesday, August 2nd, the third day of the Republican National Convention. Minutes after the start, 7:30 local time, recently retired NFL quarterback Steve Young takes the snap and delivers the invocation. In the 8:00 hour, the spotlight shifts from the famous to the mainstream. Kim Jennings becomes the latest to lend her story to underscore a GOP theme. As a single mother juggling work and college, she'll discuss the need for tax relief. That's one of the topics under the night's theme: \"Prosperity with a Purpose: Keeping America Prosperous and Protecting Retirement Security.\" In the 9:00 hour, the rolling roll call, which began Monday, is expected to nudge the Bush ticket over the top. In the following hour, 10:00, the focus tightens to the second half of the Bush-Cheney ticket. Vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney will receive his official nomination, then deliver his acceptance speech. That will come in the final minutes of the convention's third night, Wednesday, August 2nd.", "Thank you. Welcome back to Philadelphia. Live once again, here is Bill Schneider to shake things down last night. John McCain came out, supporters a bit apprehensive before he actually took the stage, weren't quite sure what he was he was going to say. A quick sample from his word last night. We will examine it here.", "He wants nothing to divide us into separate nations, not our color, not our race, not our wealth, not our religion, not our politics. He wants us to live for America as one nation and together profess the American creed of self-evident truths. I support him, I am grateful to him, and I am proud of him.", "John McCain, last evening, strong words. Where they convinced?", "I think they were convinced. That was an unusual speech because it wasn't a rousing speech. There was no shouting, there was no loud declamatory rhetoric. It was an intensely personal speech where he endorsed because of the part of agenda the two men share. It was very wistful and personal, almost like a farewell speech of an old soldier. Because he knows that if Bush elected, which he wants, that his crusade will end, John McCain's crusade will end.", "Soft spoken tone that many times last night and quite evident. Also last night, prior to John McCain, a rather unscripted moment, as you would it call is. Jim Kolbe, openly gay Republican from Arizona.", "He didn't speak about any issue relating to gay rights, he talked about international trade, but he is an openly -- the only openly gay Republican member of Congress. And what happened was that a group of Texas delegates, who were threatening to walk out during his remarks, instead staged a protest, where we can see it here, with that sign: \"There's a way out.\" They disapprove of homosexuality, and they were praying. It was a silent protest. But it was an unscripted moment. It's not the message this convention wants to send, because they wanted to make it clear that they are inclusive and that gays are welcome in the Republican Party, but you can't entirely script these events, they have an unpredictable quality.", "And today, we're talking nothing about his message last night of trade, everything is about the attention for the muted protest from last night. Rick Lazio is here, expected to leave tomorrow. He has got a tough Senate race. We all know about that. There was a moment last night too stuck out with you regarding him.", "Exactly right because that was a moment, again it was kind of unscripted, where he got a rousing reception from these delegates. There delegates want red meat. I mean, they are very frustrated. Nobody is mentioning the name of Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton or Al Gore. Impeachment is a non-issue at this convention. They are just waiting for someone to get them on their feet with a call to fight. Well, the minute they saw Rick Lazio, the opponent of Hillary Clinton, my god, this was a close as they are going to get. This is a vegetarian convention.", "Cue up the steak knives too. let's talk about Dick Cheney. Is he the guy to get that red meat a little more heated up?", "That's what a vice presidential candidate is supposed to do, vice presidential candidate is supposed to be an attack dog. But Cheney hasn't sounded like that recently. When he was named, he didn't attack, he said that his message would be one of civility, not ideology. He is very conservative. He is not supposed to reach out to swing voters. And people are wondering, why did Bush name another conservative? Well, the message is civility. We are going to be a different kind of ticket, a different kind of team, just like this was a different kind of convention without any attack politics. I would be surprised if Cheney goes for the jugular, as vice presidents traditionally do.", "Yesterday, we talked about red meat, you just mentioned it. What's the temperature of the steak today? Are we getting closer to medium-rare or not?", "We may hear the names of Clinton and Gore cross people's lips. I think when the president criticized George Bush and belittled his credentials, that really got these delegates, including former President Bush, a little riled up.", "We shall follow that. You stand by here. We will talk again when George W. Bush's plane does touchdown. Another note about last night, former President Gerald Ford, in Philadelphia here for the convention, had a bit of a scare last night. Mr. Ford, 87 years old now, was treated and released from a city hospital after complaining of discomfort during last night's session. Aides say he was treated as a precaution for a sinus problem. His treatment took less than an hour's time last evening. Also, police and demonstrators on the move again yesterday, especially at rush hour. Several demonstrations occurred across downtown streets north of the convention site here. Some scuffling did occur during some of those scattered protests. Police say they picked up more than 280 people on arrest charges there. Twenty-five patrol cars were damaged in total, and six police officers slightly hurt, including the city's police commissioner, who has been riding throughout the week on his mountain bike, along with his fellow officers. The demonstrations tied up afternoon traffic for about 30 minutes or more in some places. They were protesting a variety of issues too, from the death penalty, to corporate greed, and global capitalism. CNN's Kate Snow has been watching all the activities here at the Comcast First Union Center. She's just outside with us now. Let's check in now and get a take on the pulse thus far today. Kate, good morning to you.", "Well, good morning, Bill. Last night, the theme of the convention inside the build behind me, \"Security and Strength with a Purpose.\" And on that theme, they brought out war heroes, three of them. General Norman Schwarzkopf was here, also Senator John McCain, as you heard earlier, and also Senator Bob Dole, the Republican convention's nominee back in 1996. Dole showing that he still had a sense of humor. He got up on stage and said, maybe there should be a recount of the vote, making sort of a joke about his effort back in 1996. He went on to talk about the \"great generation,\" a tribute to the veterans of that generation, and talked about the future and his support for Bush and for Cheney. It was a very patriotic program, one of the highlights a tribute to several Republican presidents of the past: Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George Bush. Reagan's wife Nancy Reagan on hand for that moment. She stood up as the crowd cheered and applauded her. Also in the crowd, the Bushes -- the senior Bushes. Barbara Bush, the first lady, made a surprise appearance of sorts. She got up on stage last night to a great round of applause, and she shushed the crowd, told everyone to be quiet, and then introduced her son, George W. Bush, who then spoke via satellite on video from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, near here. It was a surprise moment in what was an otherwise very scripted program last night, Bill. This convention, following the program of tonight, Dick Cheney's speech on the agenda. We're also expecting George W. Bush here in Philadelphia. As you've mentioned, we expect him to the come to the convention a little later this afternoon just to scope things out and plan for his speech on Thursday night. Bill, back to you.", "All right, Kate. Kate Snow, an update from outside the First Union Center here in Philadelphia. Going right on Kate's them about last night's theme about security and defense, a local paper today, \"The Inquirer,\" splits the page on the headline today: \"High-Powered Troops Rally Around Bush\" -- you see that to the right -- also splitting time with the protest that disrupted the city that we talked about. More on that throughout the morning as well. Again, we're still waiting for Governor George W. Bush to touch down here in Philadelphia. We're going to continue to monitor that. The word we're getting right now, three minutes away north of town he'll land here. Also we want to let you know: We talked about Jim Kolbe a short time ago. He's going to join us at about half past the hour. We'll talk with more him. But as we look at a live picture again outside of Philadelphia with the Bush arrival there, Patty Davis is there, Bill Schneider is here with me. And, Patty, I don't know if you can hear me just yet or not, but earlier, about 45 minutes ago, you said there were roughly about 100 people out there, security was indeed tight. Have the numbers increased since then?", "They have increased. They're over to your right over there, the crowd. I'm told now several hundred people, including -- oh, George W. Bush's plane has just arrive on the tarmac there, down the runway. We're told that several hundred people are here, including dignitaries Senator Rick Santorum, Senator Arlen Specter, both Republicans senators from the state of Pennsylvania, as well as a YMCA group, as well as other local dignitaries here in Philadelphia awaiting George W. Bush's arrival.", "All right, Patty. Patty, hang right there with us. Back in our studio here with Bill Schneider. And the word we're getting from the stump is that the crowds have been huge and very, very loud, starting in Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky before that, and then on into West Virginia and Pennsylvania. I would assume, as a candidate who's building momentum toward tomorrow night, that's a really good sign for George Bush.", "It is a good sign. I think it was very carefully planned. But, you know, this tour is a tour through the battleground belt of American politics. These are all closely fought states, Ohio, Pennsylvania -- no accident that the convention is here -- from Missouri, even Kentucky. That was one of the closest-fought states in 1996. I think Clinton carried it by the narrowest margin of any state in the union. So he's picked this tour very carefully.", "Patty, also curious to know about the themes that have been discussed throughout this campaign swing here. How much do we have an idea of what Governor Bush has said on the stump that indeed we'll hear again tomorrow night here in Philly?", "We have a pretty good idea that much of what he has said on the stump he is going to say here. He's talked about military, the morale, beefing up the military. His spokesperson says that's one issue that he's going to hit hard. Also, what to do with this huge surplus that the United States now has. He has a $1.3 trillion tax cut over 10 years. They say that that is going to be part of his speech also tomorrow night -- Bill.", "All right, Patty. As you continue to talk, we look at a live picture now. That 737 is now on the ground. I believe it says \"Bush and Cheney\" across the top. Patty, am I wrong?", "That is his brand new painted plane. That's the same plane he's been using all throughout the campaign, newly painted for this particular trip with \"Bush and Cheney,\" red, white and blue colors. It's his 737. Been flying all over the country with that. He has been mostly on a bus tour throughout this five-day tour that he's taken through six states coming into Philadelphia. But the last few legs have been aboard this plane.", "As the delegates await the arrival of George W. Bush, certainly this is the highlight for them.", "Yes.", "Bill Schneider, on the stump just in the past few days, the tiff has enlarged itself. President Clinton, about a week ago, started talking publicly about George W. Bush, his background, his intent as president, some remarks that apparently were not taken too favorably by the Bush folks. They held their tongue for about five days, but yesterday it all changed. What's happening on that?", "What happened I think is a very carefully planned campaign by the president of the United States, who is a brilliant politician, to provoke Bush and Cheney.", "You think he was just trying to get a comment out of them, to get under his skin?", "He was trying to get under his skin because he knows what they're doing at this convention. What they're doing is trying to present a happy face, no harsh rhetoric, no confrontational language, no division. We're all happy warriors here. Well, Clinton made those remarks, belittling Bush's credentials to be president because he was trying to provoke Bush and his father, which he succeeded in doing, into some very sharp rebuttals.", "And President George Bush said last night he's going to hold his tongue for now. But I think he said to one reporter, check back in in a month's time and I'll let you know how I really feel about the man at that point. Wondering here if there's a possible chance of backfire? And I say that and suggest that just because President Bush may at some point come out and defend his son, father, son out there in the public. A lot of families can relate to that across the country. Is there possibilities that it could backlash against President Clinton, the White House and Al Gore on this.", "It could because these were very personal comments that were made during the middle of the Republican convention where the other side usually lies very low. Al Gore's, of course, been on vacation. He hasn't said very much. Yes, it could if it gets very personal. What he clearly wants to do is provoke the Republicans into saying harsh, divisive things, and then the Democrats can say, well, this isn't a new Republican Party, this is the same old back-stabbing, slash-and-burn Republican Party, harsh, divisive mean-spirited, that we've seen in the past.", "And for Clinton to speak now, it's a bit of a break from tradition. I mean, normally, presidents either do not speak or they hold their tongue during conventions, anyway, of the opposition.", "Number one, he's in the other party. Number two, he's the president of the United States. He's supposed to be above all that. And number three, if anybody's supposed to say it, it's supposed to be Al Gore. So it was a bit unusual. But I can't believe that it wasn't carefully planned.", "Back to Patty Davis at the airport now as that plane comes further into view here. Patty, going back to my previous point here on the stump and right into what Bill Schneider and I were just talking about, several times on the campaign trail George W. Bush has said, I chose Dick Cheney because here is a man who knows what the meaning of \"is\" is, a clear reference to President Clinton, the problems he had in Washington two years ago. The other point I wanted to make is that sometimes we have seen this videotape of George W. Bush on the stump raising his right hand, almost as if he is taking an oath, and what he says, an oath to uphold, you know, the laws of the country, et cetera. Patty, how much is that played on the stump itself?", "Well, you know, it's interesting, most of George W. Bush's references to Bill Clinton have been pretty veiled, as you said, holding his hand on the Bible saying, I will uphold the dignity of the White House should I get that office. But yesterday, he kind of switched from that and came out and took a real shot at Bill Clinton, saying that, indeed, he was a desperate politician wanting to create a legacy for himself and get Al Gore elected. Of course, Bill Clinton had chided George W. Bush and said he was a daddy's boy, said his fraternity -- said George W. Bush wanted his fraternity to take over the White House now after the Democratic fraternity had had it for the previous eight years.", "Bit of a side show outside of Philadelphia, but, nonetheless, it's drawing a lot of attention. Patty, any reaction from the Bush camp about McCain's speech last night?", "At this point, I've been here at the airport this morning and haven't talked directly to the Bush campaign about that.", "All right. Back here with Bill Schneider, then. They talked about a Rose Garden strategy.", "Well, that's the...", "What do they mean when they talk about this?", "That's the idea that, you know, George W. Bush seems to be ahead, he is ahead in all the polls; not by a huge margin, but by a small margin. He's trying to protect his lead, it looks like. You know, the idea is he won't get out there and fight. He's hiding behind the rose bushes. That's a strategy a lot of incumbent presidents have followed in the past: I'm not going to demean myself by actually campaigning, I'm going to do my job. Well, of course, he's not -- George W. Bush is not president of the United States. He's ahead, though, and he's trying to appear presidential. But most of all, he doesn't want to get too mean and tough because that's not the image of the Republican party he wants to project. We're happy Republicans, happy conservatives. He want's to de-Gingrich the Republican Party, make it appear to be optimistic, open, tolerant, inclusive, and in his word, \"compassionate.\"", "Last night, his mother, Barbara Bush, the former first lady, got up there in front of the stage. A bit of a surprise appearance, it was not scheduled or planned. Some people knew about it, most of the people did not. But she said I want to welcome to the city of motherly love.", "Yes.", "I wondering, is there a possibility that George W. Bush may surprise tonight as well and show up inside, because he's been by way of satellite. It was my understanding that he was only going to appear on Thursday, am I wrong?", "Well, I don't know myself what's planned, but, you know, they like to put some surprise into these things. Because, look, there's not a whole lot of news. But I think they might try to build it in, because if George W. Bush makes appearance, as other nominees have done unexpectedly, the convention hall can be expected to go wild. It'll be a spontaneous moment, a scripted spontaneous moment by the convention managers. But nevertheless, the minute they set eyes on him, the place will go nuts. And that will be a great moment point for the show they are trying to produce.", "Scripted spontaneous, not spontaneity, I guess. That scripted to the point -- that's it. But they know what'll happen if he sets foot in this hall.", "Patty, the door is open on that plane right there. We expect any moment now, George W. Bush will come out and we would assume that the crowd there will greet him quite warmly. Later today, about 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, about an hour and 10 minutes from now, he has a rather large event appealing to Hispanics at the Philadelphia art museum. Talk more about that if you could, Patty.", "Well, Hispanics are a group that George W. Bush is going after in a big way. He got a large portion, 50 percent of the Hispanic vote in Texas, he says, when he ran for governor. It's a group that he is -- that he needs to win this election, as well as minorities, as well as women. And he is going after all three of those groups with much gusto. And he will be going to that event today, you know, in the hopes of gaining favor with Hispanics.", "All right, as the band plays on, George W. Bush, again, expected shortly here. Dick Cheney arrived earlier this week. And he's been treated rather well here, as expected in Philadelphia. As we wait for George W. Bush, Bill Schneider, let's talk more about his role after the this convention. There is word that he's going to take off for the golden state, California, your home state.", "Right.", "Pretty intended strategy, there. Republicans think California is indeed in play.", "That's right, there's no evidence that I can produce that California is in play, but there might be something else going on. What they might be trying to do is scare Gore a little bit, and say: We're going to compete for California even though the polls don't show we have a chance there. They do say, the polls do show that Ralph Nader does very well in California, and most of his votes come from Al Gore. So if Nader becomes a serious factor, it could threaten Al Gore in California. What he's trying to do is get Gore to spend time and money in California instead of in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Pennsylvania, the states that are truly being contested.", "And what we do know in Ohio, Michigan and Illinois, in the imminent future, anyway, Dick Cheney and George Bush are going to go through that area on a train. And certainly, as you mentioned, battleground states that are absolutely key to anyone who wants a chance at the White House.", "That's right, we've had a regionalization of politics in the United States, where the Republicans really have great -- a strong base in the south and the Rockies, and the Democratic base is the two coasts: the West Coast and the northeast of the country. Which leaves those battlegrounds in between, here we are.", "There's the governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Ridge, first one off the plane there.", "He was considered for the ticket, but apparently his problems with the Catholic Church, he is a Catholic who is a supporter of abortion rights, made him a very risky, dangerous choice.", "We saw him last night, by way of satellite, too, just outside of town, near Gettysburg, with Laura and George W. Bush sitting there. And there's the couple, just arriving now in Philadelphia. Kate Snow is with us too, outside the First Union Center. Kate, quickly, let's go out to you and just talk more about the day that's planned for the Texas Governor.", "Right, Bill, you mentioned the choreographed schedule of events here, well, his day is well-planned out as you might imagine. Bush will spend the day hopping from one welcoming event to the next. First on his agenda, a rally this morning with a Latino focus. George W. Bush will be joined there by George P. Bush, the candidate's Mexican-American nephew. They will spend some time there this morning, along with entertainers. It's in front of Philadelphia Museum of Art. They've spruced the museum for his arrival. They've even painted some of the grass green out in front of the museum there. That museum famous, you might remember, from the \"Rocky\" movie. After that he heads to a VIP reception with the Republican National Committee. And they also are throwing a gala for him midday. Late in the afternoon today, George W. Bush, visiting the convention site here at the First Union Center, where he will give his speech on Thursday. An important walk-through for him, to know his -- get his bearings, know the area. And then tonight he will stay back at the hotel, or at least we expect him to stay at the hotel and watch the speech by his running mate, Dick Cheney.", "All right, Kate, as you talk, the reception line continues. John Street, the mayor, Democratic mayor here in Philadelphia was in that line, Arlen Specter, the entire delegation virtually, Christine Todd Whitman, the governor from the state next door, New Jersey. One must remember the geography here, with Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, just about everybody has room.", "Interesting point about Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania is really a battleground state because it voted for Clinton and 1992 and 1996, but it's got a Republican governor, very popular, Tom Ridge, we just saw. It's got two Republican senators, Arlen Specter, and Rick Santorum, who's running for reelection. And the Republicans control the state legislature. So talk about a battleground, the Republicans seem to control everything in this state except, of course, the city of Philadelphia, which narrowly elected a Democratic mayor. But yet, Bill Clinton has carried it twice.", "Patty Davis, back to you, what are you seeing?", "We are watching George W. Bush walking down his red carpet. Now he is working his way, along with his wife, Laura Bush, into the crowd. Hundreds of supporters waving flags. He is going to shake as many hands as he possibly can. You can see flags over head of him, there's bunting. This place is totally decked out. He will spend some time working the crowd and then he will work his way up to the podium, where he will -- you'll see some historical figures and he will -- Ben Franklin, Betsy Ross, Thomas Jefferson, George -- another George W., but that's George Washington. And then he will ring the Liberty Bell up there, perhaps give a speech. You can see, also, coming out behind him there are -- that is the -- that is the Third Pennsylvania light infantry, a historic Revolutionary War group reenacting the revolutionary times now. They told me earlier that they were the ones that took the heavy fire in the Revolutionary War. You can expect George W. Bush to take some heavy fire as the general election gets under way as well.", "All right, Patty, stand by once again. I want to talk with Bill Schneider once again only about tomorrow night. It is quite clear at this point in George W. Bush's career, this is going to be his biggest moment to date. And I remember 20 years ago, in Detroit, Ronald Reagan, who came to the Republican convention. And a lot of people viewed him at the time as just a Hollywood actor. They weren't convinced of his credibility at that point. From what I remember, he delivered a pretty darn good speech.", "He did.", "And convinced a lot of people to follow him. And I'm assuming, absolutely, not only the aides for George W. Bush, but the delegates and he himself feel this speech is very critical in lining folks up in support behind him.", "You ever hear the saying first impressions count most? well, for most Americans, their first impression of Governor Bush, the first time he really has addressed a nationwide audience, not just the Republicans in this hall, but a national television audience is tonight. His father gave a crucial speech in 1988, when he had been vice president for eight years. But, like Al Gore, Americans didn't know him very well. And he gave a speech that defined himself as his own man. Well, George Bush -- George W. Bush, his son, has to do the same thing.", "On the stump, also as we mentioned earlier, a lot of choreography gone into the appearances for George W. Bush and where he's gone in the various states leading up to Pennsylvania. It's also quite clear that aides are keeping him away intentionally from reporters. Occasionally an interview on the plane, et cetera, but normally they're kept at arm's length or even further, to stay away from any possibility of a slip up or a question that may come out of left field, that's going to end at some point.", "Yes, well, I mean, look, the reporters are there, and they have to be fed or otherwise they get unhappy, and who knows what they'll do. But you know, the reviews are generally that Al Gore is the one who's hard to see. George Bush is pretty accessible for a presidential candidate. Reporters think they have a pretty good relationship with him. And they know that favorable press coverage -- look how McCain turned that into virtually the basis of campaign. His schmoozing with the press, that became one of his campaign tactics.", "Another point to pick up on, when George W. Bush comes to the podium tomorrow night, he's going to be introduced by the widow of a former Democratic lieutenant governor back in the state of Texas. There is some history there between the Democratic lieutenant governor who supported George W. Bush as a Democrat. And Bush will tell you that look, this is a sign of my bipartisan ability to bring people together, to unify and we're going to see an example of that tomorrow night, also.", "One of the points he wants to make is that he'll bring a different tone to Washington. A tone that's bipartisan, that's dedicated to problem-solving, not bickering, that was Cheney's message when he said that they'll be a new mood civility. That's how they hope, with a solidly conservative ticket -- how are they going to reach moderates, swing voters, independents? the answer is with that new tone of civility. Because those swing voters don't like the bickering. So he wants to make that quite visual tonight by putting a Democrat on the platform, and saying George W. Bush is a president that Democrats can work with. But I remind you, those are Texas Democrats. And Texas Democrats are not nearly as liberal as the kind of Democrats he's going to come across in Congress.", "Kate Snow, are you still with us? OK, apparently, she's gone away. Maybe we can kick back on that, because she's been on the stump from time to time, maybe she has more to add on that. Again, George W. Bush, his wife Laura, have touched down here in Philadelphia, in case you're just joining us now, about 9:29 a.m. Eastern time here in the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia. He -- we expect comments shortly here, and we're going to try and stay with this picture here until Bush does make his way to a microphone. We're also told that he is going to ring the Liberty Bell, or a mock-up of it anyway.", "I hope so because the Liberty Bell has damage. I don't think they want to move that around.", "You are right. Patty Davis, I understand he is going to ring it three times; is that correct? and also, what's the symbolism behind that, if anything?", "That's a really good question. I asked the Bush campaign that same question and they didn't have an answer for that. But he will -- he will go up to it, and ring it three times, and then we are told that he may or he may not give a speech. But the Light Infantry lining up right now. There is also the Second Pennsylvania Infantry lining up behind the podium where he will be -- they are trying to create a really presidential look for George W. Bush. And here is he is headed up to that podium right now. The -- a beautiful background, flags, his newly painted red, white, and blue plane.", "Ben Franklin, Ben Franklin is right there.", "All right. Patty, clearly George W. Bush in front of the microphones right now, and there was some talk that he would not speak, but others say...", "There he is shaking hands with Ben Franklin.", "Getting a little bit of advice from Ben Franklin here,", "And you heard what Bob Dole said last night. He said Strom Thurmond took him over to Carpenter's Hall yesterday and showed him where he met Ben Franklin.", "That is right. I think this crowd would be very disappointed if he had nothing to say.", "All right, what we will get here, probably not a 20- minute stump speech, but we will listen.", "Laura and I want to thank you all very much for coming out this morning.", "There you have it from northern Philadelphia here. Northeast Philadelphia airport, George W. Bush and his wife, Laura. He mentioned the word, \"positive,\" and Bill Schneider that is exactly the image that he is trying to create here. He mentioned positive and hopeful, and apparently thus far, he believes that is resonating with voters out there who are listening to his message.", "absolutely, that is the whole point of this campaign. It's a different kind of Republican Party. Not the one we saw in the 1990s, the one that renominated his father in Houston that was tough, sharp, divisive. They kept careful control over this agenda, and I would still say it is amazing that the names Clinton and Gore just don't seem to come up, only by a kind of veiled reference, as Kate Snow said a few moments ago. They don't even talk about impeachment. I mean, this is supposed to be partisan. They are supposed to show fight. Well, he shows a determination to win, but also a determination to remain positive and upbeat.", "Even in the convention hall, you don't see signs, T- shirts, buttons, hats, nothing like that that would be negative toward Clinton-Gore.", "That's right, you see it in little tiny pieces, like the reception for Rick Lazio, like Condoleezza Rice, who said it all begins with integrity in Oval Office. John McCain says public officials have failed to set an example of public trust, and the convention hall goes wild when they say that. But they don't mention the name Clinton and they don't mention the name Gore.", "Patty Davis, he gave the folks there something to nibble on, it wasn't much but a few words anyway.", "That is right. A very confidence George W. Bush, coming off his 6-state, five-day campaign swing. He has had huge response from the crowds here. He is expecting that here in Philadelphia, as he heads to the Republican National Convention for his big address on Thursday night. He's got a full schedule today, however, before that, which culminates tonight in his running mate Dick Cheney giving his address. But, before that, George W. Bush will attend a Hispanic rally down at the Philadelphia Art Museum. Then he will had to an RNC-VIP reception in the early afternoon. After that, a gala event thrown by the RNC, and then, importantly, a technical walk through. He needs to know exactly where he is going and exactly -- this is a very scripted event. He needs to know where to go, and when to walk to the podium, where to look, where not to; where the Teleprompters will be. And He will learn all of that this afternoon, when he has a private, technical walk through of the First Union Center -- Bill.", "All right, Patty, thank you. Again, George W. Bush inside the arena later today. As you mentioned, a busy schedule. And we have seen every speaker virtually come here during the afternoon and just check things out. And certainly, it's good to familiarize yourself with surroundings, the Teleprompter, the camera positions, your stage height relative to the delegates in front of you. Bill Schneider, what is happening here? George W. Bush getting out of that limo. Apparently, we don't have our microphones too close there. I am not sure if that is the mayor, John Street, his back to us, or not. Apparently it is, thank you. George W. Bush, a few quick words here before getting back into that limousine and taking off for various events today. Bill Schneider, am I going off on a limb here? is it premature to compare Bush and his campaign style, his character, his personality? He is in his low 50s right now, I believe 52, with a Bill Clinton eight years ago in 1992.", "Well, certainly there is a real effort to imitate the kind of convention that Bill Clinton had when he was first nominated in 1992. When Clinton tried to grab the issue of change. He wanted to change from President Bush. George Bush is offering change from eight years of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. That is the theme. Remember that convention it was upbeat. Don't stop think about tomorrow. The man from Hope. The walk into the convention center from Macy's down the street in New York City. Well, Bush is trying to have that sense of bringing a breath of fresh air, a new breeze is blowing, his father said at one point. He is trying to embody the change issue in this country, just as much as Bill Clinton once did.", "About 30 minutes ago, here on CNN's \"MORNING NEWS,\" we did report to you that former President Gerald Ford, who is in here in Pennsylvania, apparently is back in a local hospital this morning. It was late last night, about midnight Eastern time, when President Ford was taken to a hospital and treated for about 60 minutes. Aides say that it was just a sinus infection, and also maybe some inner ear difficulties. But the word we are getting now, President Ford back in the hospital this morning. Very few details on this. But again, at the age of 87, he is getting up there in years. Although he showed quite a bit of energy again last night here with his wife, Betty.", "Yes, he was interviewed by Larry King. He was very sharp and penetrating in his interviewed. Of course, he had a very disappointing career. He ran for president in 1976, and he was beaten by Jimmy Carter in what was expected to be a big blow out after Watergate, and it was a lot closer than anyone expects. It's hard to predict these things.", "We will talk President Ford's condition throughout the day. As soon as we get more information we will certainly pass that along to our viewers. As Bush gets back into the limousine, let's make a point about President Ford. I was at a seminar about six months ago, and he said: If Republicans are ever going to capture the White House again, they must take a more moderate position. He felt Democrats, headed up by Bill Clinton, have done that, they learned that, and that was why they were successful for the past eight years. a decade for the matter. Are his words about moderation hitting home anywhere in this party?", "Exactly right, they are hitting home because what George Bush is trying to do is do for the Republicans what Bill Clinton really did for the Democrats. He is simply making them competitive, bringing them back to the mainstream again, after they ventured too far out in the 1990, you know. They want to get rid of, I'd say, several defining events that Republicans had in the '90s: at the Houston convention of 1992 where the party seemed to turn itself over to the right wing, the Gingrich revolution which went too far with the government shutdown, and finally the impeachment episode which didn't destroy Bill Clinton, it ended up ending the career of Newt Gingrich. There's no talk of any of that. Bush, Cheney not connected to any of those events. In a way, it's back to the future, back to the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan, of President Bush, kinder and gentler, and even of Gerald Ford, who was very famously moderate. I mean, he certainly would call himself a conservative, but the spirit of Gerald Ford was certainly open and generous.", "And just to add to that thought: It has been mentioned this past week, it should be mentioned once again, how few Republican House members have come to this stage. A lot of time, they're -- if they are indeed here, it's at off hours not in primetime. And if so, it's less than three minutes, two minutes, or even one minute up on the stage there. It's quite clear, going to your point again, they're trying to extract themselves from the reputation of the more hard line within their party.", "That's right. George Bush makes it very clear to the country that he's not part of the Republican Congress. The Republican Congress has a very negative image. People got very angry with them after the government shut down, and that's represented by, of course, the former speaker, Newt Gingrich, the majority leader, Dick Armey, the majority whip, Tom DeLay. They just haven't been around. Someone asked Dick Armey yesterday on the floor, why aren't you speaking? You're the House majority leader. And he said, they don't need me. What he might have said is, they don't want me, because they don't want to project the image of Congress. Bush is from Texas, he's never worked as a politician in Washington, and he wants to make it clear he's not part of that Republican Congress.", "And we're about to see George Bush embark on what will be the toughest campaign of his life. Anne Richards, a Democratic governor in Texas, the incumbent governor at the time back in 1994 that he defeated in a pretty tough race down there, she mentioned one time during an interview -- and, again, this goes back a couple months -- how tough of a campaigner she believes George Bush is. And it was her opinion at the time that he's been underscored with that regard, that people don't believe he can be as good or as effective or as tough or aggressive as...", "People underestimate him all the time and he always comes across a lot stronger than anyone expects. And now the Democrats are saying, well, you know, he's not up to the job, he's not capable of it. Don't underestimate this man because he is -- he can be a very impressive campaigner.", "All right, Bill Schneider, appreciate the time, your insights. Good to chat with you.", "My pleasure to be here.", "And George W. Bush, again, on the ground here with his wife Laura, going to be working his way to an event later today, just about 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, a Latino event, and we'll track that for you. A number of other events -- there it is right there: 10:30 a.m. Eastern time, 7:30 on the West Coast. And a bit later at the RNC gala, 12:40 p.m. Eastern time. That is also here in Philadelphia. We'll have coverage and let you know what's happening on that front. And our primetime coverage, once again, starts tonight, 7:00 Eastern, 4:00 on the West Coast: Bernie, Judy, Bill Schneider will be here, and also Jeff Greenfield again tonight for complete coverage here of the Republican National Convention. Also, before we go to break, want to make one more mention again: President Gerald Ford admitted to a local hospital last night, treated for a sinus infection at the time, according to his aides, treated and released after about 60 minutes in the hospital last evening. This, again, the videotape with his wife Betty, taking his introduction and a rousing welcome here in the city of Philadelphia. Ford, the former president. It was a theme night to reflect not only on security in the country last night, but also a reflection of how effective previous Republican presidents have been and have served in the White House. The word we have, President Ford back in a local hospital this morning. Very few details about his condition, as to why he went back in or his condition at this time, but that is something we will certainly watch for you throughout the morning."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HEMMER", "BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR", "HEMMER", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA", "HEMMER", "WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SR. 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{"id": "CNN-300373", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-12-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/11/cnr.21.html", "summary": "Trump Risks Adversarial Relationship with Intel Agencies; ExxonMobil CEO Brings No Diplomatic Experience to White House", "utt": ["Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM, I'm George Howell. Donald Trump and the U.S. intelligence community are off to a rough start. The president-elect's team has mocked a CIA report, claiming that Russia tried to steer the election toward Donald Trump --", "-- comparing that report to the agency's misjudgments over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq years ago. Former CIA operative Robert Baer says if the agency can prove that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, then the U.S. should vote again. Russia, for its part, though, has demanded evidence of any involvement. A source says that the review of foreign hacking ordered by President Obama will not look at whether Russian interference affected the outcome of the election; rather, the source says it is solely about lessons learned. We have more now from our global affairs correspondent Elise Labott.", "President-Elect Donald Trump's comments, questioning the quality of the intel provided by the intelligence community about Russian hacking, could set up an adversarial relationship with a commander in chief, who's going to rely on the intelligence community to make monumental decisions about U.S. national security. If it's an isolated incident, it could be worked out. It seems as if President-Elect Trump is very sensitive to any charges that he didn't win the election fair and square when, in fact, the intelligence community is really only looking at whether Russia did try to interfere in the U.S. election. And about 17 intelligence agencies did conclude that they did with high confidence. If there's a larger question about whether Donald Trump does not have confidence in the intelligence community, in the intel that he's getting in his daily briefing, that could set up a much larger issue. Now the investigation that the Obama administration is engaged in is not about whether Russia affected the outcome of this election. Administration officials tell me it would be impossible to know what swayed a voter. The investigation is really about looking at past practices of all foreign states, not just Russia, but other foreign actors, perhaps in 2008, 2012 and in the 2016 election, to see what kinds of techniques they used in their hacking, in cyber attacks, to use that as a lessons learned for the next administration. But it would also give credence to any measures that the Obama administration could take on its way out the door. Officials tell me that there are a wide range of measures being considered against Russia, such as sanctions, other types of cyber measures that we probably wouldn't know about. But if this incontrovertible proof is made public, it would be very difficult for President-Elect Trump, once taking office, to question that. And if President Obama does impose measures and Donald Trump overturns them, that could -- he could face a lot of heat from members of Congress, not just Democrats but Republicans, who are very skeptical about Russia and say they're going to lead investigations. As one senior administration official said, there would be a real price to pay once the president-elect takes office -- Elise Labott, CNN, Washington.", "Elise, thank you. Now let's bring in our senior international correspondent, Matthew Chance, live for us in Moscow this hour. Matthew, Russian officials seem interested to see the findings of this investigation, saying, if there is evidence, prove it.", "Yes, this has been the response of the Russian government since these allegations were first floated several months ago at the height of the U.S. presidential election campaign, that Russia engaged in hacking and the releasing of those Democratic National Convention e-mails, which sort of damaged potentially the standing of Hillary Clinton. And, you know, they have a point in the sense that, look, these are very serious allegations, that Russia may have been involved in trying to tip the balance in the U.S. presidential polls. But what we've not seen at the moment is anything other than anonymous sources, people who are speaking off the record in the sort of dark passageways of the U.S. security services. We haven't seen any concrete evidence. And that's something that the Russians are looking for and, of course, many other people are looking for as well, that want to see these very serious allegations backed up by some kind of concrete proof. Now whether or not the Russians are involved in it, though -- and, of course, they've denied that they have any involvement in this hacking -- certainly the Kremlin will be extremely happy with the outcome. For months, now we've been reporting that Donald Trump is the favored candidate of the Kremlin, not least because he wasn't Hillary Clinton, a figure who is seen as being very anti-Russian here in Moscow. And, of course, now Donald Trump is picking his team and that team looks like it will have a lot of experience, shall we say, and a lot of high-level contacts with Russia as well.", "And so from a Kremlin point of view, this is looking like a very positive election outcome in the United States.", "And the Kremlin in this case, deferring to Donald Trump, who, again, has slammed U.S. intelligence, pointing back to misjudgments with weapons of mass destruction. So seemingly the Kremlin having an ally with the president-elect in this particular investigation.", "Yes. Look, one of the reasons the Russians, you know, like Donald Trump is that he voices opinions which are very similar to the Russian official position on issues like NATO. He's expressed doubts about the alliance. On issues like Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, Trump during the campaign said, look, he'd look again at recognizing that and he made a priority in his campaign, the idea of building a bond, yet re-establishing good relations with Moscow. So, obviously, the Kremlin is very supportive of that and is very satisfied that Donald Trump has come to power. It's really interesting now to look at the choice of secretary of state, because Rex Tillerson has emerged as the latest possibility to become Donald Trump's secretary of state. He's, of course, the CEO of Exxon and he himself has very, very close ties with the Kremlin. He's done a lot of business in Russia over the years. He's actually been ordered, given one of Russia's most -- highest civilian honors, the Order of Friendship by the Kremlin, because of the business dealings he's had in his country. So it could be a very pro-Russian administration about to take office in the United States.", "We want to talk more on that here just in a moment. Matthew Chance, live for us in Moscow. Matthew, thank you so much. Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state, he's narrowing it down. It seems to be that he's reaching a conclusion for Rex Tillerson at the top of the list. He's a major name in the oil industry, who may be America's next top diplomat.", "It's looking more and more like President-Elect Donald Trump is leaning toward ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state. CNN's John King reporting that Tillerson left a meeting on Saturday at Trump Tower, feeling confident that he would be named to the post; Trump telling Chris Wallace from FOX that Tillerson's global business interests and his ties with countries around the world make him a very strong candidate.", "Let me ask you about Rex Tillerson.", "OK.", "Out of ExxonMobil. Why does a business executive make sense as the chief diplomat?", "Well, in his case, he's much more than a business executive. I mean, he's a world-class player. He's in charge of, I guess, the largest company in the world. He's in charge of an oil company that's pretty much double the size of his next nearest competitor. It's been a company that's been unbelievably managed. And to me, a great advantage is he knows many of the players and he knows them well. He does massive deals in Russia. He does massive deals for the company, not for himself, for the company.", "Now some of those same attributes that Trump views as positives have some concerned, including Republicans like Senator John McCain. McCain told me that he would want answers from Tillerson about his ties to Russia and his view of the world as it relates to the country before he gives him his vote in a confirmation process. Republicans hold only a four-seat majority in the U.S. Senate. So Donald Trump will likely need almost all those votes if he is to get Tillerson confirmed -- Ryan Nobles, CNN, Baltimore.", "Ryan Nobles, thank you. We are now live in England, where Scott Lucas is a professor of international politics at the University of Birmingham, live via Skype with us, to talk about the latest in the Trump transition. Let's talk about this likely pick for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. We've heard there Senator John McCain expressing some concerns with Tillerson's ties to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.", "Oh, I think that's just the start of the concerns. Tillerson, as your correspondent noted earlier, received the Order of Friendship from Putin in 2013, one of the highest Russian awards. ExxonMobil is deeply entrenched in relationships with Russian companies, including the large energy giant, Rosneft. Its attempt to develop those relations have stymied by U.S. sanctions with Russia. So expect that if Tillerson becomes secretary of state, that he and Trump will try to lift the American sanctions that were imposed, for example, over Russian support of the breakup of Ukraine in recent years. So like I said, the -- concern is a mild word for what might happen but there's a bigger concern here. And simply put, Rex Tillerson is a businessman. He is not more than a business man; he's a business executive. He runs a very large company but he has never been involved with U.S. foreign policy, he's never been involved with U.S. diplomacy.", "I cannot recall in recent history a business man heading up the State Department. Whether there will be a conflict of interest between Tillerson's companies and between U.S. diplomacy, I wouldn't venture to say. But I would say it's extraordinary to put diplomacy in the hands of someone like a Tillerson rather than a career diplomat or a politician who has experience in foreign policy.", "We heard Trump just a moment ago, though, pointing out that that business background is the key reason that right now he's at the top of the list, that that would be considered a pro and a fresh approach to the job. Your thoughts on that?", "Well, that's Mr. Trump's approach but that approach is troubling in itself. Look, American diplomacy is not just dollars and cents and getting the best deal for a private company. American diplomacy is trying to deal with conflicts, such as the Syrian conflict, where Russia is involved; such as the Ukraine conflict, where Russia is involved. It's dealing, for example, with a changing European Union, which Mr. Trump has actually welcomed with the British departure. It's dealing with Americans' relations with Latin America, an area where Mr. Tillerson has no experience. So, no, I find no reassurance in the president-elect's statement.", "Soon to be president, though, January 20th. Scott Lucas, live for us in England, Scott, thank you so much for your insight. We'll stay in touch with you. This is CNN NEWSROOM. Still ahead, ISIS may have just been dealt a setback to Syria's military. We'll have the very latest on new fighting in Palmyra coming up. Plus, rare footage from inside Eastern Mosul. The battle to take the city from ISIS has raged for almost two months. We'll show you the toll on civilians and on soldiers -- still ahead here."], "speaker": ["HOWELL", "HOWELL", "ELISE LABOTT, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT", "HOWELL", "MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHANCE", "HOWELL", "CHANCE", "HOWELL", "RYAN NOBLES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TRUMP", "NOBLES", "HOWELL", "SCOTT LUCAS, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM", "LUCAS", "HOWELL", "LUCAS", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-377287", "program": "CNN RIGHT NOW", "date": "2019-08-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/12/crn.02.html", "summary": "Official: Friend Who Gave Dayton Shooter Body Armor Faces Charges", "utt": ["We have some breaking news into CNN. An official tells CNN that a friend who provided body armor to the Dayton, Ohio, shooter is facing federal charges. Let's go to Miguel Marquez. He is live, following this story. What exactly is this friend being charged with?", "He's being charged because he did not fill out federal forms correctly in purchasing his own weapons. To be very clear this is the friend who provided body armor to the shooter there in Dayton. But it is not clear whether this is the individual who was in the vehicle when the shooter first showed up to the Oregon District there in Dayton. There were three different firearms, two pistols, and a modified rifle with a shortened barrel, sort of a pistol/rifle configuration. Three different forms that federal officials say that this individual was not truthful on. He's being charged with that. We should know more exactly about what the specific charges are, who this person is, what his relationship is to the shooter. To be clear, none of these guns were used in the shooting in Dayton either. In about 30 minutes, we'll hear more from federal officials on the specific charges related to this individual -- Brianna?", "OK, Miguel, we'll wait for that along with you as you follow this. Former Vice President Joe Biden has called himself a gaffe machine in the past, but is it becoming more of a problem as the candidates flood Iowa? His campaign will respond live, next."], "speaker": ["BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN HOST", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-354058", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2018-11-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/06/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Dem Takeover of House Could Stall Trump's Agenda & More Oversight, Investigations; Trump Regrets Not Having Softer Tone as President.", "utt": ["President Trump's agenda in Congress could hit a roadblock if Democrats do win the House today. And a Democratic takeover of the House is likely to mean more oversight, more investigation. Doris Kearns Goodwin is a presidential historian, author of the new book, \"Leadership in Turbulent Times.\" These are turbulent times so I'm happy she's joining us today. Frist question, results are not baked in. We do not know how people are going to vote today. From a historical perspective, how have presidents fared after losing midterm elections? It happened to Obama. It happened to Clinton. How have they recovered from that?", "Clinton recovered by moving to the center, talking about crime and welfare reform and a balanced budget but still keeping the traditional pocketbook Democrats. But most importantly, when the general election comes, usually, the midterms are a much smaller number of people, so you've got that regular base out there in the general election. Same thing with President Obama. He did so badly in the midterms. By the time the general election came, African-Americans came back in much more numbers. Hispanics voted in greater numbers, and women, his traditional constituency, that hadn't been there in the midterms. The only difference in this one is, because there's so many people voting now, whatever patterns may be showing up here may be more longstanding than they would normally be in a midterm when it's mostly people voting discontents against the administration in power.", "I love having you on because you bring such a historical perspective. You made a good point about how these midterms -- keep in mind, there are hundreds of candidates running in states and in the Congress and the Senate, governorships, et cetera. You might have an unexpected star emerge or victor. Tell us about that.", "Yes. That's what is so interesting about history. Think about 1858, a midterm, and Abraham Lincoln, not well much in the nation at large, and indulges in debates with Stephen Douglas, it becomes nationally known and he then becomes the first runner, becomes Abraham Lincoln, the historic candidate, even though he loses that Senate race to Stephen Douglas. Or think about Teddy Roosevelt. He runs in a midterm, 1898, as governor, becomes Theodore Roosevelt, a president. And FDR in the 1930, in the midterms, wins a landslide governor's race, and becomes FDR, one of the historic presidents. So there's someone out there who may emerge and that history will regard that as the most important part of the midterms. Maybe we don't know it yet.", "I want to ask you to apply your historical perspective on more recent history, the last two years of the Trump presidency. You may have heard President Trump telling Sinclair Broadcasting Group about one of his regrets so far in his administration. Listen.", "Is there anything, as you look back on your first almost two years that regret, that you wish, on you, that you could just take back in you review?", "Well, there would be certain things. I'm not sure I want to reveal all of them. But I would say tone. I would like to have a much softer tone. I feel, to a certain extent, I have no choice. But maybe I do. And maybe I could have been softer from that standpoint?", "Do you believe the president when you hear that?", "There's been glimmers now and then of presumably that softer tone but it never lasts. Even at the hundred days, he was self-reflective, and saying, I didn't know health care was going to be so difficult, I didn't realize the job would be so hard. But then he goes right in and not bring enough people around him who had experience who could have helped him. At the time of the Kavanaugh hearings, at first, he said Christine Basey Ford was credible and then he was mocking her. At the time of bombing plot, there seemed to be talk about unity, and then he even said, I'm doing this just so I can appear good. The next thing you know, he's blaming the press.", "Yes.", "And the same with the two synagogues. That desire for a softer term is contraindicated by the words and actions that he uses. It's hard to imagine. You keep hoping, but it's hard to imagine that something is going to change that.", "Yes. Let me ask you this finally, because a lot of folks will say they've never seen the country more divided than it is today. But, you know, I imagine you would say, listen, the country's been divided at various points before in time. In your experience, and with your knowledge of history, how unusual is the division we see today?", "Well, it's certainly unusual in my lifetime. Maybe it was worse in the 1850s, but that ends up in the Civil War. We don't want to think about that as a model. But something's happened to our culture and our partisanship. Teddy Roosevelt warned that democracy would founder when people from different regions or parties or religions see each other as the other. I think that's happened in our country, it's happening in our political systems. It wasn't so long ago, when I was not so old, that people in Washington saw each other as human beings. They played poker together and had cocktails together. And partisanship wasn't as hyper as it is today. Right now, it's become tribal. And we haven't seen that, I think, since the 19th century. And it's really troubling because it's then an example that it sets to the country, and then the country reflects that back to the party. And how we're going to get out of it is very unclear, except it's going to take leaders to get us out of it and an awakened citizenry. That's what's always changed things. When things get bad, the citizenry gets involved, in slavery, in equal rights, in the women's movement, the gay rights movement. It's now up to the citizens to take charge and say we can't deal with this anymore and we're going to change the toxic culture. We can do it if we need to.", "And one way the citizens have the power to do that, is voting. Doris Kearns Goodwin --", "Absolutely.", "-- thanks so much. I should mention that Wolf Blitzer, who normally anchors this hour, he will lead CNN's special coverage starting at 5:00 Eastern time, well into the night and the morning hours right here on CNN. As we get into the final hours of voting on the east coast, we'll walk you through the history that could be made tonight across America. And what you're seeing there, as we await history, is live pictures from Texas, one of the many contested races. Beto O'Rourke versus Ted Cruz. Just one of the many we'll be following tonight. Stay with us. We're going to be here all night."], "speaker": ["SCIUTTO", "DORIS KEARNS GOODSIN, HISTORIAN & AUTHOR", "SCIUTTO", "KEARNS GOODWIN", "SCIUTTO", "UNIDENTIFIED SINCLAIR BROADCASTING GROUP HOST", "TRUMP", "SCIUTTO", "KEARNS GOODWIN", "SCIUTTO", "KEARNS GOODWIN", "SCIUTTO", "KEARNS GOODWIN", "SCIUTTO", "KEARNS GOODWIN", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "CNN-229211", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2014-4-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/25/cg.01.html", "summary": "Interview with State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki; Crisis in Ukraine", "utt": ["Ukraine's prime minister said today that Russia wants to start World War III. I'm Jake Tapper. This is THE LEAD. The world lead, split focus, President Obama managing or trying to the U.S. response to the crisis in Ukraine, while also on a trip to Asia. He says targeted sanctions against the Russians are -- quote -- \"ready to go.\" But even he doesn't seem sure about the steps taken thus far. Does anyone know what to do next? Also in world, remember when we were this close to finding Flight 370? Well, those hopes have faded faster than the black box pings. There's still nothing to show for all the searching. So what now? And the politics lead.", "Oh, don't make me do this.", "That's House Speaker John Boehner. And, yes, he's been teased for shedding more tears than Claire Danes, but this time Speaker Boehner is doing the mocking, comparing his own party to cry babies, saying they are too afraid to tackle a vital issue. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Jake Tapper. Welcome to THE LEAD. We will begin with the world lead. A busload of 13 people, most of them military observers from Europe, have been taken hostage by pro-Russian militants in an Eastern Ukraine city held by separatists, according to Ukraine's Interior Ministry. It's an ominous sign, and we have already seen plenty of those, that the situation inside that country is spinning out of control. President Obama again today warned Russia of imminent consequences, but did so at a time when much of his attention has been taken up by his trip through Asia.", "This afternoon, Ukraine is ablaze in conflict, literally ablaze. Smoke from roadblocks and a destroyed Ukrainian military helicopter are darkening the sky. The Ukraine prime minister today accused Russia of wanting to start the third world war. This issue is preoccupying the president, even as he tours through Asia. He took time to talk to the leaders of Europe today to discuss what is next for Ukraine, not that the president's trip to Asia is behind the scenes so picture-perfect, in addition to whatever awkwardness was apparent when he offered for Japan in its bitter land dispute rivalry with China.", "So, obviously, this isn't a red line that I'm drawing. It is the standard interpretation over multiple administrations of the terms of the alliance.", "The president's failure to reach a Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, trade deal that would part of his much ballyhooed pivot to Asia, was a disappointment and led critics to deem the trip all sushi, no success. Today, the president landed in South Korea, just in time for those neighbors to the north in Pyongyang to begin what looked like preparations for a fourth nuclear weapons test.", "The United States and South Korea stand shoulder to shoulder, both in the fact Pyongyang's provocations and in our refusal to accept a nuclear Korea -- North Korea.", "Meanwhile, the Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that Secretary of State John Kerry has been pushing has scattered to the winds like a handful of sand.", "This is a problem that's been going on for 60, 70, 80 years. We didn't anticipate that we were going to solve it during the course of a six- or nine-month negotiation.", "There are limited successes here and there, but behind the smiles, the administration's ability to solve international problems seems faltering.", "There are no guarantees in life generally, and certainly no guarantees in foreign policy.", "No guarantees paired with little room for error leaves the administration on precipitous footing. And as Ukraine threatens to erupt, the president assures the nation that he's prepared.", "We will continue to keep some arrows in our quiver, in the event that we see a further deterioration of the situation over the next several days or weeks.", "One of those arrows in his quiver is sanctions, further sanctions on Russia. Senior U.S. officials tell CNN that those sanctions the president is talking about won't come this weekend. They are actually expected to come down next some time next week, but Ukraine, of course, is on the brink now, the country bracing itself for the very real possibility for war. Let's bring in our chief national correspondent, Jim Sciutto. Jim, I want to start with this hostage situation in Eastern Ukraine. What do we know?", "These are observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the OSCE. They were entering or attempting to enter the town of Slavyansk. And some of these pro-Russian militants that we have been talking about and reporting about recently took them and they accused one of their members of being a spy for the Kiev government. This is a group of international nations, half a dozen nations. They had some Ukrainian security guards and in effect they're accusing of trying to bring a spy in. U.S. official says this kind of abduction, these kinds of abductions have been happening more often. And they leave no doubt as to who they hold responsible to say Russia very much has the ability to control these groups, and they are not doing that.", "The OSCE is supposed to be brought in to help keep the peace, not be held hostage.", "No question. That's exactly their role. And they have had issues like this before. Early on in the crisis, they were trying to get into Crimea when things were messy there. They were blocked by pro-Russian separatists, this kind of thing. And this has been part of the discussions between the U.S. and Russian officials and Ukrainian officials to get observers on the ground there, one, to monitor to kind of keep the peace, not as peacekeepers, but to monitor the situation, and back up Russian claims that Russians, if they are indeed under threat there, are actually under threat.", "I want to turn to the sanctions that are being proposed by President Obama. You have spoke to some Ukrainian officials. Are they happy?", "They are not happy. Of course, whenever they comment, they will always preface those comments by saying we are thankful for all the support that the U.S. and the West have offered to this point. But when you talk about this next round of sanctions being much like the first, targeting individuals, perhaps some institutions, they say that's not what we need now. That's not enough. They have asked explicitly for weaponry. I went to U.S. officials and they said, listen, we're open to additional requests from the Ukrainians. We are not open to weaponry.", "All right, Jim Sciutto, thank you so much. Russian President Vladimir Putin has totally brushed off the effectiveness of sanctions. Now Josh Rogin over at the Daily Beast is reporting that Putin has decided to cut off all high-level communications between the U.S. and Russia, at least in the short- term. Let's bring in Jen Psaki. She's the spokeswoman for the State Department. Jen, thanks for being here.", "My pleasure.", "The Daily Beast reporting about Putin cutting off contact, high-level contact, at least in the short-term, can you elaborate on any of that?", "Well, Jake, what I will say is, we still continue to work with Russian on a range of global issues, whether that's the removal of chemical weapons from Syria -- we're up over 90 percent -- or on the P5-plus-one talks to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapon. I have seen the story and certainly the comments. But, in practice, we have continued to work with Russia, even while we have had strong disagreements about the steps they have taken in Ukraine.", "Ukraine's prime minister says the Russia want to start World War III. If that is true, what is the U.S. prepared to do about it?", "Well, we certainly hope that's not the case. We continue to believe there's no military solution to what is happening on the ground in Ukraine. We're watching issues like troop movements very closely. We're working closely with the Ukrainian government, but out effort remains on a political issue here. And that's what we continue to works toward.", "I will be frank. It doesn't look like whatever the administration is trying to do in Ukraine is working. Can you point to an example of success with the president's Ukraine policy?", "Well, Jake, we have put in place several rounds of sanctions. Obviously, we're not just...", "But they are not working, Jen.", "Well, they are working. Regardless of what the Russians say, the facts on the ground, the impacts on their economy, is a striking difference from what they are saying.", "Right. But, by the administration's own words, the Russians have agents in Eastern Ukraine. They have expanded beyond Crimea. So whether or not the sanctions are taking effect, they don't appear to be having any sort of deterrent effect.", "Well, Jake, what is happening in Eastern Ukraine right now, beyond Crimea, is really focused around Slavyansk. That's the area where we have seen the OSCE monitors be captured. That's the area where we have seen a lot of activity by the separatists. But, again, this does not mean that we should not still continue to take actions, including additional sanctions, putting additional consequences in place. We are seeing an impact. We have seen even President Putin admit this week that there's an impact on the Russian economy from the steps we have taken.", "Why not consider what several Republicans and even some Democrats are calling for, which is military aid to the Ukrainian military so they can defend themselves? Of course, they will never be able to match Russia, but they might be more of a deterrent if they have weapons in their possession that the U.S. has provided.", "What we don't want to get into here is a proxy war with Russia. And you're right. You touched on it. We're never going to get to the point where the Ukrainian military can match what the Russian military is capable of. But our hope here is to de-escalate, prevent military action, address what is happening with Russian separatists. And we're continuing to work on that.", "I want to shift to North Korea, because today North Korea said that it detained a 24-year-old American they described Miller Matthew Todd. Probably, his name is Matthew Todd Miller. As he was seeking asylum, they say -- it apparently happened on April 10, more than two weeks ago. They announced it while President Obama was in South Korea, not surprisingly. How long has the U.S. government known about Matthew Miller being in North Korea?", "Well, Jake, there are a range of reports out there about a U.S. citizen. Because of privacy concerns, I can't discuss them. I can tell you that, as in any case, we are in touch with our protecting power, which is Sweden, to look into more details about these reports.", "All right. Jen Psaki, State Department spokesperson, we appreciate it. Thanks for coming on.", "Thank you, Jake.", "Coming up next, the unexplored area is rapidly shrinking in the patch of ocean where that robo-sub is searching for Flight 370 still coming up snake eyes, so what is the next move? And, as more bodies are pulled from that doomed ferry off South Korea, rescuers are now painting a very grim and tragic portrait of its final hours. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR", "REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "TAPPER", "TAPPER (voice-over)", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "TAPPER", "OBAMA", "TAPPER", "OBAMA", "TAPPER", "OBAMA", "TAPPER", "OBAMA", "TAPPER", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "SCIUTTO", "TAPPER", "SCIUTTO", "TAPPER", "JEN PSAKI, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESWOMAN", "TAPPER", "PSAKI", "TAPPER", "PSAKI", "TAPPER", "PSAKI", "TAPPER", "PSAKI", "TAPPER", "PSAKI", "TAPPER", "PSAKI", "TAPPER", "PSAKI", "TAPPER", "PSAKI", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-228684", "program": "@THISHOUR WITH BERMAN AND MICHAELA", "date": "2014-4-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/18/ath.01.html", "summary": "Divers Race to Find Ferry Survivors; Bluefin Makes Fifth Dive for Flight 370; Earthquake in Southern Mexico; Anti-Semitic Leaflets in Eastern Ukraine; Avalanche Kills 12 on Everest; Police Make Arrest in KC Highway Shootings; Texas Seizes Jeffs Polygamist Ranch", "utt": ["Thank you so much for joining me today. I'm Carol Costello. I hope you have a wonderful Easter holiday. @ THIS HOUR with Berman and Michaela starts now.", "It is a race against time in frigid waters, the capsized ferry now completely submerged, hundreds of children still missing and the captain who fled and survived is facing arrest.", "Another day, another dive, could the fifth mission into the deep bring back a sign of Flight 370?", "In east Ukraine, masked men hand out anti-Semitic flyers outside a synagogue. U.S. officials describe the contents as grotesque and chilling. Who is behind them? And why? Hello, everyone. Great to see you. I'm John Berman.", "And I'm Michaela Pereira. I thought you were going to start singing \"Together Again\" or something.", "It's been a long time.", "It's been a long time. It's 11:00 a.m. in the East, 8:00 a.m. out West. Those stories and much more, right now, @", "We begin with divers racing to force their way into that sunken ferry. Its blue and white hull has slipped beneath the ocean's surface. About 270 passengers, most of them teenagers, still missing.", "CNN now has a transcript of the conversation between the ferry and the vessel traffic center. It begins at 8:55 a.m. Wednesday with the ferry's distress call.", "This is the ferry. \"Please notify the coast guard, our ship is in danger. The ship is rolling right now.\"", "There's more back and forth, and a full five minutes later at 9:00 a.m., the ferry reports this.", "Again, this is the ferry. \"Currently the body of the ship is tilted to the left. Containers fell over, too.\"", "The dispatcher then replies, \"OK, there are no damages to people?\"", "And the ferry, \"Currently it's impossible to confirm. It is impossible to move as the body of the ship is tilted.\"", "Then the traffic center replies, \"Yes, OK, please put on the life vests and get ready as people may have to abandon ship.\" Then, another five minutes later, the dispatcher reports, \"Yes, we just notified the coast guard.\"", "So that is a full 10 minutes before the traffic center confirms it notified the coast guard. That seems like an awfully long time. We'll talk about that coming up. In the meantime, arrest warrants have been issued for the ferry's captain and two other crew members after a prosecutor reveals it was a third mate at the helm when the ship started to sink. The captain was not in the steering room.", "Now, as grief and anger deepen for passenger families, a fresh tragedy, the vice principal whose 300 students were on board the ferry was found hanging from a tree, just days after he was pulled from the wreckage. Our Paula Hancocks is in Jindo, South Korea. She joins us now. Paula, can you give us the latest on the search efforts right now?", "Well, John and Michaela, we know they are continuing throughout the night. This, for the first time on Friday, we saw that divers did manage to get inside the submerged ship. Now, we know they managed to get into the second floor, at least part of it, but they were not able to get any further. But up until that point, they didn't find any survivors and they didn't find any bodies. But officials do say that they managed to pump some oxygen into the ship. Now the reasoning behind this is because they are working under the assumption that there are still survivors. At least that is what they said on Thursday. And they're saying that if there are any air pockets within the ship, they want to make sure they are continuing to put oxygen into that area. But of course it is a very, very difficult situation. The weather conditions are not conducive to an easy search. We understand that the underwater currents are still strong. The winds are still high out at sea. It's about 12 miles away from where we are now. John and Michaela?", "Paula, any sense of what caused this boat to go down? We've heard about a rapid right turn. We've heard about cargo shifting. Are they getting any closer to pinpointing a cause?", "Well, the latest we heard this Friday on -- from officials was that they almost downplayed the fact that there could have been a deviation from the intended route of this ferry, one official saying that they believe that this may not have been the sole cause, but of course we did hear on Thursday from maritime police they believe it could have contributed to this. So, at this point, it's not clear what exactly did cause this. We do know, though, of course, the third officer was at the helm. The captain wasn't at the helm. And the families here at the harbor are desperately trying to find out more information. This is the third night that they have been sitting at the water's edge, looking out, wondering what has happened to their children. We are hearing one woman over and over, screaming at the top of her voice. We have heard her say, Just tell us, are they alive or dead? Are they alive or dead? And that is the basic question that officials cannot answer at this point.", "An agonizing wait for those family members that are waiting onshore for any sign of their loved ones. Paula Hancocks, thank you very much for the very latest. We'll continue to cover this story today.", "And, of course, talk about the apparent arrest warrant for the captain. Much more to come on this. But first, almost six weeks after Malaysian Flight 370 disappeared, this is what we know @ THIS HOUR. The Bluefin-21 is back in the deep, looking for clues on the ocean's floor. This is its fifth dive. The first four have turned up nothing.", "So far, this sub has gone it alone, but a Malaysian official says more unmanned subs could join the search later, this as frustrated relatives of the 239 people on board are turning up the heat on Malaysian officials. They've come up with a list, a list of 26 questions that they want answered at a meeting that is scheduled for next week in Beijing.", "We've been talking about the search under the sea. The search on the surface has not let up either. Almost two dozen ships and planes are eyeballing more than 20,000 square miles for any sign of debris. Let's check in now with our Erin McLaughlin. She is in Perth in Australia, where this whole search is based. Good morning, Erin. What's the latest?", "Good morning, John. We know as of 9:00 a.m. local time, the Bluefin was in the water, some over 12 hours later, not clear if it has yet completed that fifth mission. Missions can take some 24 hours. We are learning more details about that fourth dive, which it completed last night. It was able to travel some 4.7 kilometers beneath the ocean's surface, which is significant because it was previously thought that 4.5 kilometers was its depth capacity. And it's important that it be able to travel deeper. It had to cut its first mission short, its very first mission short earlier due to depth concerns. But engineers analyzing the Bluefin-21 now say they believe it can go up to 5 kilometers deeper. So, it is significant that in practice now, it's traveling those deeper depths, and it's really important that it be able to really survey this entire area, because this is the search area that officials have identified as the most probable place that they will locate that black box based on ping analysis. As you mentioned, the first four dives so far turning up no clues as to the whereabouts of missing Malaysian Flight 370. We are waiting on the results from this fifth mission.", "Actually, Erin, one of the things we've been hearing is there's a lot of call for some extra assistance. We've heard that the Bluefin-21 might get help some more help with some other AUVs aiding in the search. Have you heard any further word on that?", "That's something we're hearing from Malaysian officials, the acting transportation minister tweeting this morning that they're exploring the possibility of introducing more submersibles to the search. But it's not something at the moment we're hearing from Australians. All along, they've said that they believe that the Bluefin-21 is capable of completing this phase of this search. Now, that being said, officials here in Australia saying that in the coming days they may wrap up this area that it's currently looking at, which has been identified again as the most probable place based on those pings. Then they have to consider the next phases or next steps of this search. They may have to broaden it out a bit. And at that point it's possible, one would imagine, that they would then introduce perhaps more submersibles to be able to cover more area. Michaela?", "All right, Erin McLaughlin with the latest on that, thank you so very much.", "Let's take a look at some of the other headlines @ THIS HOUR. This just in, a strong earthquake shook southern Mexico. This happened about a half an hour ago. The 7.5-magnitude quake, that's big, struck along Mexico's Pacific coast about 19 miles from the city of Tecpan. We have no word yet of damage or injuries. Stay with CNN. We'll keep you updated as we get more details.", "Some other headlines @ THIS HOUR, world leaders are denouncing shocking anti-Semitic leaflets that were handed out in eastern Ukraine, those leaflets ordering Jewish people in the area to register with the government office. They supposedly came from a man who calls himself the head of the \"People's Republic of Donetsk,\" but he said he had nothing to do with them. We'll have more details from the Ukraine later this hour.", "The deadliest accident ever on the world's tallest mountain, an avalanche on Mount Everest has killed at least 12 Sherpa guides. Four others are missing and a high-altitude rescue operation under way right now. Officials in Nepal say this happened just above the base camp. That's more than 20,000 feet up. The guides were preparing the path to the summit for climbers when the mountain of snow came crashing down.", "People in Kansas City breathing quite a sigh of relief today, police took a man into custody in connection with as many as 20 highway shootings. Three people have been shot since early March. None of them suffered life-threatening wounds. A $10,000 reward was offered for information leading to an arrest, and now a man is in custody.", "Texas authorities have seized the ranch that was home to Warren Jeffs and his polygamist sect. The Yearning for Zion Ranch was big news in 2008 when police raided it and removed more than 400 children. Prosecutors and others it's where Jeffs and other leaders sexually abused young girls by forcing them to marry older men. Jeffs is serving a life sentence for sexually assaulting two girls. One was just 12 years old. Just a handful of adults were still living at the 16,000-acre compound.", "Ahead @ THIS HOUR, the last section of the South Korean ferry sinks underwater, could anyone still be alive down there? Our next guest says it's possible if survivors have managed to find the voids."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN CO-ANCHOR", "MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN CO-ANCHOR", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "BERMAN", "PEREIRA", "THIS HOUR. 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{"id": "CNN-67303", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2003-2-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0302/26/lt.05.html", "summary": "Why Is There So Much Interest on Hamid Karzai and Afghanistan?", "utt": ["Why there is so much interest on Hamid Karzai and Afghanistan, considering a prerun of what might be taking place in Iraq if indeed Saddam Hussein is removed from power and the United States does go to war with that country. On that topic, we want to bring in retired Brigadier General David Grange, joining us this hour from Chicago. General, good morning. Thanks for being with us. It looks like the U.S. government trying to learn some lessons of some stuff that has gone right in Afghanistan, and some that has not gone as planned. Hamid Karzai does not control Afghanistan. He -- with the help of some international forces just in control of a very small portion, while warlords control the rest of the country.", "Exactly. The different factions, in this case warlords, definitely control. They're the voice of authority in certain areas in Afghanistan, and President Karzai has the minimal control. I think he's a terrific leader, with U.S. backing and other international backing, but there's a long way to go to go through the reconstruction of Afghanistan with the Democratic governance, a good market economy and the rule of law. It's a tall order.", "Let's move and look at Iraq. We're maybe perhaps not talking warlords, but we are talking some very different groups that have different visions of who should be controlling Iraq. The U.S. is going to do it different and not perhaps -- at this point back up a specific leader, instead wait and see what happens first?", "Your last course of action. The United States, I believe, will wait. There will be -- U.S. will be definitely, I think, in charge early of some kind of international body early on, and won't transition to Iraqi governance, maybe one, two years after the post-war forces do the MiGs they have to do. The problem you have, is you have the internal factions very similar to Afghanistan, in this case, Kurds, Shiites, Sunnis, and then you have, of course, outside influences like Turkey and Iran, and Saudi Arabia. That will influence Iraq to some part for their own individual interest. So this reconstruction force that's in Iraq has a tall order. It's going to take thousands of troops to maintain a secure environment to go through what some people say de-Baath-ification, from the part the way things used to be run in Iraq, to something better for the people of that country. So that's going go take a while to transition to that.", "In fact, some of the numbers that we're seeing, they just continue to go up and up and up. And now we're hearing from the head of the Army that it could be several hundred thousand U.S. troops that would have to be inside of Iraq for a couple of years at least. That's not necessarily what the American people had been hearing up to this point.", "Well, I would think that it's going to be over 100, 000. It may not be all U.S. Hopefully, international support will come in. After the war, if in fact, there is a war, I think other countries that are not -- don't want to be involved in the fighting part, will definitely jump on this thing. Ideally, you would have country support from around the region that would participate in this. But you have to do that to secure environments so the transition can take place. Otherwise it will fall apart.", "Before we let you go, I want to bring up a couple names that Americans might not have heard so far, but might hear in the weeks and months. Ahmed Chalabi (ph), who is he, and what kind of role might he play?", "Well, he's one of the leading candidates of the future of Iraq. I'm not sure that the United States would endorse him up front, but he's definitely a candidate and a leader. All these people are going to be involved somehow, but not right away.", "And what about an Arab-American rising through the ranks of the U.S. Army, General John Abizaid (ph). And if I said his name incorrectly, I apologize.", "Yes, John Abizaid (ph). He -- I think that you may see John as the governor, the military governor of Iraq, for lack of a better term, during his transition period to ensure things are secure until you can get things going with a new Iraqi Democratic governance. It's going to take a while. So he may have that roll. He speaks Arabic; he knows the area very well.", "President Karzai, Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, going to bring General Grange back here. Fascinating to hear the president of Afghanistan talk about the work before him, and again, perhaps a foreshadowing of what will be taking place in Iraq. We take so much for granted in this country of what we have in terms of the infrastructure that they're making these efforts in Afghanistan. But when you hear things like they have no census, they have no census for their population. There's no registered voters. So much work to do in Afghanistan, and if, indeed, the opportunity comes up, in Iraq as well.", "That's right, I think, you know, looking ahead to what may happen in Iraq, looking at Afghanistan is a good example on how long these things take. How I put it in perspective myself is I just look back at our own history, when we had our constitution, the 13 original states and how long we struggled to try to get that right, and we're still working on it. So it takes some time and commitment, and sometimes Americans were focused on a 100-meter dash, and these are marathons. I that's just a good perspective to take.", "Work in progress right here in this country, and this was a culture that came from a different Democratic tradition and culture. So perhaps even easier for the U.S. General Grange, thank you for your insight this morning. Good to have you with us in Chicago.", "My pleasure. Afghanistan?>"], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIG. GEN. DAVID GRANGE (RET.), CNN MILITARY ANALYST", "KAGAN", "GRANGE", "KAGAN", "GRANGE", "KAGAN", "GRANGE", "KAGAN", "GRANGE", "KAGAN", "GRANGE", "KAGAN", "GRANGE"]}
{"id": "NPR-44874", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2018-05-28", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2018/05/28/614935543/why-home-prices-and-mortgage-interest-rates-are-rising", "title": "Why Home Prices And Mortgage Interest Rates Are Rising", "summary": "The housing market continues to show signs of recovery, 10 years after its devastating crash. Rachel Martin talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution.", "utt": ["Mortgage rates have been creeping up. The average 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage is now more than 4.5 percent. Home prices are also rising. And the combination is putting home ownership out of reach for many Americans. We're joined now by David Wessel. He's director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution, and a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and, of course, a frequent guest on this very program.", "Hey, David.", "Good morning.", "So this is bad news for a lot of people hoping to get their piece of the American dream. What's happening?", "Well, basically, home prices are climbing above the levels they were before the housing bubble burst back around 2006. Now, that's good news for people who own houses. Nearly two-thirds of Americans own houses. There are fewer people, for instance, who have mortgages that are bigger than the value of their house. But there are some big differences, and one striking one is looking at young people. If you look at people under 45, the share of them that own houses has fallen quite a bit. In fact, the share of the nation's housing wealth - the whole housing pie held by people under 45 - has fallen from 24 percent in 2006 to only 14 percent today. And that has consequences. Americans who were born in the 1980s really are at a substantial risk of accumulating less wealth over their lifespans than previous generations because housing is the way a lot of people save.", "Right. So why not? Do they just not see it as having the same cachet as it used to - owning a home? Why aren't they buying?", "No, it's not that. The surveys show us that young people still see housing as a good investment. At least, that's what they tell pollsters. We know that some of them are having trouble getting decent jobs, getting on the career ladder. There is evidence that heavy student loan burdens are associated with people having trouble getting a mortgage and taking a house.", "Yeah.", "But there's also something going on on the supply side. Home building has not recovered from the Great Recession. And to the extent that builders are building, they tend to prefer building high-end houses because they make more money there, not the starter homes that increase the supply of houses that are affordable.", "Wow. So what about people's ability to just get a loan? The crash was blamed, in part, on lending terms that were way too lax, right? But then I thought lending practices tightened up after the crash.", "They did. And that's part of what's going on here. I think some people worry because you see a chart of housing prices going up, and you say, oh, there's another bubble blowing here. And that's not the case. Lenders are, as you say, still pickier than they used to be. You have to have a better credit score to get a mortgage today than you did, say, 15 years ago. People - there is more mortgages debt out there, and many people are taking on bigger mortgages relative to their income than they used to because houses are more expensive. But it's not yet at the kind of worrisome levels. And then the other thing that's interesting is that Americans as a group have a lot more equity in their home than they did five years ago, but people aren't using their houses as ATMs with home equity loans and stuff as they did in the bad old days.", "Right.", "And then there's simply a supply-and-demand thing going on here. Housing - building is not keeping up with growth of population in many hot markets. So that's not a bubble. That's, like, the fundamentals of supply and demand.", "Right. And we are hearing about these places where housing is notoriously so expensive now, right? Like, in Seattle, they just passed this tax. The city council passed this tax on companies to try to get more money to provide affordable housing. Do you see that kind of thing happening in other places?", "I do. I do think that there's a building political pressure here. In California, for instance, there's a ballot initiative that would make it easier for cities and towns to have rent control. And so I think we're going to see more of that, and politicians will respond.", "David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution. Thanks so much, David.", "You're welcome."], "speaker": ["RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL", "RACHEL MARTIN, HOST", "DAVID WESSEL"]}
{"id": "CNN-110029", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2006-9-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/04/ltm.06.html", "summary": "Crocodile Hunter Dies in Accident; Al Qaeda Leader Behind Bars", "utt": ["The crocodile hunter is dead. Steve Irwin, who made a career tempting fate, is killed diving on the Great Barrier Reef.", "In Iraq, a key al Qaeda leader is behind bars. Some say he is at the heart of what's stirring sectarian unrest. And Iraqis say it's a big victory. Is he betraying now his fellow al Qaeda terrorists?", "The Labor Day kickoff to the election season. Will the political wind shift on Capitol Hill?", "And we're going to show you this morning how to truly master your food bill. You can save big money at the supermarket. Tips from \"Consumer Reports\" ahead, and much more, on this AMERICAN MORNING. Welcome back, everybody. I'm Soledad O'Brien.", "And I'm Miles O'Brien. Happy Labor Day to you.", "And a very sad story to begin with this morning. It comes to us out of Australia. Steve Irwin, better known, of course, to the world as the crocodile hunter, is dead. He was killed by a stingray while he was diving along the Great Barrier Reef. The stingray's tail apparently punctured his chest and they believe it may have even hit his heart. Steve Irwin was just 44 years old. We get more on the career of Steve Irwin from Alex Smith of Australia's Channel Nine.", "Steve Irwin was more than extraordinary. He was an international phenomenon.", "I can't stop, mate. I'm just -- I'm on fire. I wake up in the morning and I'm on fire. I just can't do enough.", "And the world couldn't get enough. Long before he was a household name at home, he was star of the week on U.S. television.", "The Irwins are the real crocodile Dundees of Queensland in Australia.", "It all started at his parents' Australia zoo on the Sunshine Coast. That grounding and his boots and all approach...", "Full force. Full force. Go, go, go!", "And that trademark style...", "Crikey! That's the biggest crocodile upheaval in Australia Zoo's history.", "... made Steve Irwin one of Australia's most successful exports.", "I want you in there with me, Charlie. Mate, all right, you're coming in with me.", "Even Hollywood beckoned.", "There you go, mate.", "But along with wife Terri and their two children, Steve's heart was never far from the Aussie bush and his beloved Australia Zoo. There were controversies along the way.", "But no controversy could shake his self-belief.", "He leaves behind a massive nature conservation project funded by his multi-million dollar empire. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be to encourage others to follow their dreams.", "I am the proudest Australian bloke on the face of the Earth.", "That reports comes to us from Alex Smith from Australia's Channel Nine. Apparently Irwin went into cardiac arrest when he stung by the ray. He was swimming over it at the time. The crew called for a MediVac, but by the time they got there, it was too late. In just a few minutes, we're going to talk to animal lover Jack Hanna about his late friend, Steve Irwin -- Miles.", "Tourists visiting Amman, Jordan became targets today when two gunmen opened fire. Jordanian officials say one British tourist is dead. CNN has confirmed among the wounded two British citizens, one Australian and one New Zealander and one Dutch citizen; also, a tour guide of unknown nationality is also apparently injured. A key al Qaeda operative in Iraq behind bars this morning. Hamed Jumaa Al Saeedi, who also goes by a few other aliases, is apparently the number two man in that organization. CNN's Michael Holmes joining us from Baghdad with more -- Michael, tell us about him.", "Hi to you, Miles. And good morning, everyone. Well, the national security adviser here, Mowaffak Al-Rubaie, announced this arrest at a news conference on Sunday. Now, the man in question, according to Al-Rubaie, was the number two man. He was second in command to Abu Ayyub Al-Masri, who himself took over al Qaeda in Iraq after U.S. troops, you'll remember, killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. That happened back in June. Now, according to officials, he has admitted receiving money from other groups who had been kidnapping Iraqis and getting ransoms for their release. He was apparently caught with three other Al Qaeda members. But why is he significant in particular? Here's part of the news conference.", "Now, Miles, of course, the bombing of that Samarra shrine in February -- it can't be understated the importance of that. That was a very holy place for Shias. It didn't kill many people, the explosion itself. But I'll tell you what, it is what really sparked the major sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni that we've seen in Iraq, and in particular here in Baghdad, in recent months -- Miles.", "You mentioned Zarqawi. Zarqawi was killed in June. What's the best sense as to how much that hobbled Al Qaeda in Iraq and how much will this arrest help?", "You know, that's a very important question, and it's -- it puts things in perspective. You and I know there have been a lot of al Qaeda number twos arrested over the last few years. And when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed by those U.S. troops, it really was a speed bump in terms of al Qaeda's ability to operate in Iraq. Now, the arrest of this man, well, the Iraqis say it's putting a major dent in Al Qaeda in Iraq. But that remains to be seen. Al Qaeda, as you know, is very much a cellular organization. It doesn't have an H.Q. or anything like that. And these cells operate, often, very independently of each other. And we're even told that this man, Al Saeedi, he was controlling a number of cells in and around Baquba. Now, elsewhere around the country, those cells are operating pretty independently. So, I think over the long-term, it probably won't have much effect. Maybe the short-term, a little -- Miles.", "Michael Holmes in Baghdad, thank you. Another al Qaeda tape is out and once again we're hearing from an American member of that terror group. Adam Gadahn, a 29-year-old -- 28-year-old Californian wanted by the FBI is asking Americans to convert to Islam.", "And the leaders of the West also find it convenient to point the finger of accusation at the other because it helps them to avoid having to face difficult questions about the West's dark and bloody past, and equally dark and bloody present.", "A counter-terrorism expert tells CNN the American's comments may be the warning of an imminent attack. Still other experts in the region say it may be a bid to soften the group's image -- Soledad.", "Are you feeling confident about your job, your investments, the value of your home? On this Labor Day, President Bush is going to try to convince Americans that all is well with the economy. CNN's Kathleen Koch at the White House with a preview of the president's speech this morning -- hey, Kathleen, good morning.", "Good morning, Soledad. And it is a sales job with a lot at stake. You know, the mid- term elections are just two months away. Democrats need just six seats to take control of the Senate, some 15 to take control of the House. And both parties are very aware that the economy is a very important issue for voters this election year, right up there with Iraq, with the war on terrorism. And so the president is going to a maritime academy in Piney Point, Maryland to make the pitch to Americans that his economic policies are working. He is expected to cite unemployment figures that came out recently showing that unemployment dropped slightly in August, to 4.7 percent, and that the president -- that the economy has generated -- had this job growth for some 36 straight months during Mr. Bush's presidency. But Democrats insist the president, rather, is out of touch with those many Americans who are still out there not enjoying and reaping the benefits of the economy and living paycheck to paycheck. They point to figures that show that between 2001 and 2005, that median household income dropped half a percent, that during that same time period, the poverty rate nationwide rose from 11.7 to 12.6 percent. So certainly both parties out there pitching hard to reach voters with their spin on the economy -- Soledad.", "No surprise there. Kathleen Koch at the White House for us. Thanks, Kathleen.", "You bet.", "CNN's is going to have live coverage of the president's comments about the economy. That's later this morning, at 11:50 a.m. Eastern time.", "Well, while you are focused on getting the kids settled into school, Democratic political operatives are focused on unsettling the political status quo. The mid-term election is set to move into overdrive. Nine weeks of campaigning lie ahead. When it's over, who will control Congress? AMERICAN MORNING'S Bob Franken with more.", "The -- it kind of makes you choke up, doesn't it?", "Yes, it does, apparently.", "A very interesting, very, very high stakes election. At issue, control of Congress. Most of the experts saying that the House of Representatives is certainly in play, perhaps the Senate. Both sides, the Democrats and the Republicans, say they are going to focus on national security, the war in Iraq, the war on terrorism. And as we see in the all important Pennsylvania Senate race, both sides are going to do their level best to finesse the issues. (", "We need new leadership. We don't need a deadline, a time line, we need new leadership. And part of that leadership, I think, involves a couple of things. Let me just go through four of five of them. One of them is the question of accountability. Our troops have been accountable with their lives and yet a lot of politicians in Washington haven't been held accountable.", "I think we'll win or lose this war right here in America. I think we'll win or lose this war because the American pe...", "Let's have a...", "Please let me finish. Because the American people are not going to stand -- are losing their resolve because of the tactics the terrorists are using.", "As I said, it's going to be a political war here in the United States until November. The Republicans, if they lose control of the House, are going to see Democrats who are very willing to just stop the Bush administration in its tracks in the final two years. And Democrats say they are going to, in fact, make an issue in this election of President Bush, even though he isn't running -- Miles.", "Well, you know, the late Tip O'Neill said all politics is local. These are congressional districts. There's a lot of local issues which will come into play. But it seems like there's an unifying national issue at stake here.", "Well, it's an interesting point. Yes, it's true that all politics is local. I never knew if it was is or are. But, in any case, the truth is, is that terrorism is viewed as a local issue and the Republicans are hoping they can make that case, as well as the Democrats saying it. So there's going to be a fight that both sides are anxious to have.", "Bob Franken in Washington, thank you -- Soledad.", "Ten minutes past the hour. Let's get right to the forecast with Chad, who's at the CNN Center this morning -- hey, Chad.", "Good morning, Soledad.", "Still to come on the program, animal lover Jack Hanna will join us to talk about his late friend, crocodile hunter Steve Irwin. And al Qaeda and the president's war on terror. Are we safer today? We'll get an inside perspective.", "Plus, it's Labor Day. You're home, maybe avoiding work. We'll bring work to you. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao is going to join us. We'll talk to her about wages, the economy and why we -- some of us don't seem to feel like we have any money left in our wallets. That's all ahead. We're back in a moment."], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "ALEX SMITH, CHANNEL NINE, AUSTRALIA (voice-over)", "STEVE IRWIN, CROCODILE HUNTER", "SMITH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SMITH", "IRWIN", "SMITH", "IRWIN", "SMITH", "IRWIN", "SMITH", "IRWIN", "SMITH", "SMITH", "SMITH", "IRWIN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HOLMES", "M. O'BRIEN", "HOLMES", "M. O'BRIEN", "ADAM YEHIYE GADAHN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "S. O'BRIEN", "KOCH", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "M. O'BRIEN", "FRANKEN", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM \"MEET THE PRESS, \" COURTESY NBC) BOB CASEY, U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM \"MEET THE PRESS, \" COURTESY NBC) SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-126126", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2008-5-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/01/acd.02.html", "summary": "Crunch Time for Senators Clinton and Obama", "utt": ["Tonight, crunch time for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama just days before a pair of make-or-break primaries. We have got new evidence that Democrats know who the winner will be, but aren't sure if they like the answer. Also, a shocker -- a high-powered superdelegate switching sides from Clinton to Obama. He now equates support for Hillary Clinton with support for John McCain. We will talk about that. And, later, we will look at, where is Bill Clinton, the most gifted campaigner of his time? So, why isn't he front and center? Why is he standing in the back of a pickup truck talking to a tiny crowd? Tonight, we track down the president on the campaign trail, but far away from the national media spotlight. And, also, a smiley face on a wall, is that the calling card of a team of serial killers? A pair of retired cops say they have got the evidence to prove it and connect it to dozens of murders -- \"Crime and Punishment\" tonight. We begin, though, with new signs the Democratic Party is split right down the middle over who should be their nominee, with new signs as well that the race could be at a tipping point, and a new call to end it now, before the party tears itself to pieces. First, take a look at this. Democrats, by a 20-point margin, say they believe Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee, that according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll. Yet, ask registered Democrats who they want to get the nomination, and it's 46- 45 Obama, a statistical tie, and serious erosion from his earlier numbers -- a dead heat, with Indiana and perhaps even North Carolina now growing tighter. Yet, somehow, he keeps racking up more superdelegates, even taking today one away from her. Why is that? And where do the candidates stand just days away from two more crucial primaries? CNN's Candy Crowley has the \"Raw Politics.\"", "A psychological boost and a superdelegate for a beleaguered campaign.", "I'm changing my support from Senator Clinton to Senator Obama.", "Joe Andrew is not just another switch-hitter. He's an Indiana native who Bill Clinton once picked to lead the Democratic National Committee. Andrew says Obama's opposition to temporarily lifting the federal tax on gas is emblematic of a guy who really could change Washington.", "Barack Obama took on the heavy and difficult political task of doing what is right on an energy policy and an environmental policy, and not what is politically expedient in order to give a quick pander to Hoosier voters.", "Not that anyone needs a road map, but he was talking about Hillary Clinton, who does support a summer holiday from the gas tax.", "Senator Obama says we shouldn't do it, and it's a gimmick. And Senator McCain says we should do it, but we shouldn't pay for it. I sometimes feel like the Goldilocks of this campaign. Not too much, not too little, just right.", "The gas price debate has emerged as part of the competition for the working-class vote. Obama argues, lifting taxes, even for a short period of time, would drain an enormous amount of money from the fund that fixes roads and bridges, while the average consumer would save just $30 over the summer. A number of leading economists agree with Obama, adding that the tax holiday could encourage Americans to drive more, increasing demand, decreasing supply, driving up prices. On the politics of it, he's trying to use the issue to paint her as just another politician, say anything, do anything to get elected.", "After John McCain made the proposal, I guess, Senator Clinton thought it was going to poll well, so she said, me too. I will do the same thing. And, so, now it's the McCain/Clinton proposal.", "Clinton says her program doesn't touch the money set aside for Highway repairs and any relief is better than no relief. Politically, she sees this as a way to frame him as an out-of-touch elitist.", "But I find it frankly a little offensive that people who don't have to worry about filling up their gas tank or what they buy when they go to the supermarket think that it's somehow illegitimate to provide relief for the millions and millions of Americans who are on the brink of losing their jobs, unable to keep up with their daily expenses.", "The only problem is, neither one of them is going to be president this summer. This is not about reality. It's about politics.", "Well, imagine that, all about politics. How big of a deal is this, Joe Andrew changing sides?", "Listen, he's one superdelegate. His vote matters as much as anyone else's, but no more so. But, listen -- look at the poll numbers today, where you see that Barack Obama is slipping. We have gone with Reverend Wright for the last six days. This is a good kind of, you know, tearing up the headline and having one of your own. Obviously, this is someone who was with Clinton, someone who knows the Clintons, someone who was appointed by a Clinton or selected, at least, to head the Democratic Party. So, there is a real boost here in terms of perception. And, as you know, as we have talked about before, there's a lot of perception in politics.", "There sure is. Candy, stick around. We're going to talk to you more with our panel later. In addition to Joe Andrew, at least 11 superdelegates have pledged allegiance to one candidate or the other this week. They are picking up the pace. And, as CNN's Tom Foreman reports, they are being courted like never before. Take a look.", "Anderson, the superdelegates who have declared a choice have not been moving much lately, a little bit, but not much. They started out this year favoring Hillary Clinton massively. Now, however, her lead is down to about 20 people and sticking pretty much around there. So, the number that really matters is this one, the undeclared. And this group actually contains two subgroups with different motivations guiding their decision. The first is all the Democratic governors, representatives and senators. Eighty of those folks are undeclared. We don't know which way they are going to go. So far, members of this group have favored Obama, just barely. Look at the numbers right there. The rest are expected to follow this trend, because many serve in states that Obama has won, and they don't want to go against the will of the voters, because, frankly, those are the voters that they will need for their own reelections. So, Clinton's main target is the other group, superdelegates who have a vote because the party considers them important Democratic activists at the state or national level. About 200 of these people are undeclared at this point. And when you look at those who have declared, you can see that she was winning that group quite handily. They are more likely to be concerned about this question of electability, which candidate can beat John McCain in November. And this is the group Clinton is pounding on over Obama's preacher problems. Now, all of that said, however, you have to know that, undeniably, this remains an uphill battle for Clinton. Remember, Obama is ahead in the popular vote, the delegate count, and states won. So, many experienced political analysts and reporters believe the bulk of the undeclared superdelegates are leaning his way, and they are just waiting for him to win a couple more states, so they can say the voters have spoken, and now we will, too -- Anderson.", "All right, Tom Foreman watching the superdelegates -- thanks, Tom. A lot more politics ahead. As always, we're blogging throughout the hour, Erica and I. To join the conversation, go to cnn/360. Up next: new numbers on what voters think of Bill Clinton. That may explain why he's not exactly front and center in this campaign. We're up close on the stump with him. And we're digging deeper with our panel as well, Candy Crowley, John King, and David Gergen. Later tonight, 40 people dead in 11 states, police want to know if they are all linked to a serial killing spree where the murderer leaves behind a very bizarre sign, a smiley face. That's the theory. We will check the facts -- \"Crime and Punishment\" tonight on 360."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "JOE ANDREW, FORMER DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN", "CROWLEY", "ANDREW", "CROWLEY", "SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D-NY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CROWLEY", "SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "CROWLEY", "H. CLINTON", "CROWLEY", "COOPER", "CROWLEY", "COOPER", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-229488", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2014-4-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/29/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Possible Debris Found Outside Search Area; Families Hear Cockpit-to-Tower Recording", "utt": ["In the hunt for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, today brought an important milestone for the aerial search, plus a surprise nobody expected. Let's go live to CNN's Miguel Marquez. He's outside the search headquarters in Perth, Australia. He's got the very latest. What are you learning over there, Miguel?", "The search has come to an end, Wolf, which is bittersweet for the folks who are doing it. It was a lot of work for them, but -- and they were frustrated they weren't able to find anything from the missing airliner. This as we're learning from a company that says that they may have found it a very long way away, but those who know something about spectral analysis say their claims don't just add up.", "As the underwater search off Australia enters a new phase, a private company is raising the possibility that Flight 370 may actually have crashed several thousand miles away in the Bay of Bengal. The Australian firm called Geo Resonance says it detected metals consistent with a large aircraft that could be from the missing plane.", "I'm not saying that it definitely is, however, we believe it should be followed up.", "Geo Resonance says the metals appeared in the Bay of Bengal sometime between March 5 and 10. Flight 370 went missing on the 8th. The company launched its own search for the lane, using technology originally created to find nuclear warheads and submarines. The Australian-led search team is dismissing the company's claims, saying it's satisfied the jet went down in the southern Indian Ocean, based on its analysis of satellite and other data. Flight 370 families are urging investigators to explore every possible lead.", "We would like to see the government follow up on this. It seems valid.", "Many relatives of the missing passengers attended a briefing today in China and heard new details about the investigation. For the first time they were allowed to hear the actual recording of the final words between the tower and the cockpit before the radio contact was lost.", "Malaysian 370 contact Ho Chi Minh 120 decimal 9, good night.", "Good night, Malaysian 370.", "Finally, they have given to us. I think it is a good beginning and we want them to keep on giving some more scenes. More acquired.", "Back here in Australia, more than 600 military personnel marked the end of the air search, posing in front of the planes they used to scan the social surface for six weeks. Without finding any trace of Flight 370.", "Now a couple of things about the GeoResonance information there, Wolf. One, the JACC center here in Australia says that the place where they put that plane is not even on that northern arc. The Malaysian government says they will look into it. But the folks that we've talked who know about spectral analysis said it's just impossible to see any of the things that they said they saw under the ocean, under any sort of water much less 1,000 meters down -- Wolf.", "Miguel Marquez in Perth, Australia with the very latest. Thank you, Miguel. There's lots to discuss with our panel. Let's bring in our CNN aviation analyst, the former NTSB managing director Peter Goelz, our law enforcement analyst, the former FBI assistant director Tom Fuentes, and in Denver, CNN safety analyst, David Soucie, the author of the important book, \"Why Planes Crash.\" David, you knew -- you're familiar with this Australian company, GeoResonance, and you've suggested it has a pretty good track record. Do you think it's worthwhile actually going into the Bay of Bengal and looking for wreckage?", "Well, you know, the experience I have with this technology is on land, it's not in water. So I really can't speak to whether or not the -- it can reach into the water. But it is something that we've used before in our mining company and to locate metals within the earth. So that's not new. What is new that it's in water. So there's that. So, with that, I think that it is -- it does have credibility, but why it's coming out at this point, why it hasn't been vetted properly before this, that's why I still hold in question.", "And that's a good question, Peter, because apparently this Australian company said they notified Australian authorities, Malaysian authorities four weeks, once again two weeks ago. They got no response. As a result they decided to go public with this information. Is it time to go look in the Bay of Bengal?", "Well, the investigators are in a terrible bind. I think they probably responded to the company or should have responded to the company, and say, listen we don't think there's anything here. We don't think the technology is applicable and as they announced today it's not even on the arc. But at this point, since there's not a shred of evidence, they have to track down every suggestion.", "Even if it's -- goes against the grain, do you think they should go in the Bay of Bengal, Tom, and take a look over there?", "I think they're stuck. I think having this come up now, as Peter mentioned, not having any other evidence except the satellite information, they're almost going to have to do something or stall long enough to hope that the current searches come up with something first and they don't have to go up there.", "Because, David, everybody seems to think that satellite information from the Inmarsat satellite, those so-called handshakes, the arc going into the southern ocean, coupled with those four pings that were detected from what they thought were one of the two black boxes, that was it, but they found nothing. So here's the question to you, how reliable is Inmarsat data and those four pings?", "Well, I'm still confident, Wolf, that those are coming from that aircraft. I've stayed firm with that. I think that the pings are undeniable in my mind. I think that the search has to continue. They went to the most probably ping but now they need to expand that search up to the north, to the south. And the reason I feel so strongly about that, Wolf, is because no one has given me any evidence to the contrary. No one has said, well, then, it's this, or then it's that, or maybe they did something wrong. No one has been able to prove to me or show me that there's anything else in the ocean that would have produced those signals. So until that's shown to me, I'm going to stick with that and say that I'm still very confident that the aircraft will be found down there. They just need to continue searching.", "Yes. They've given up the surface search but they're going to expand the search underwater, at the bottom of the Indian Ocean over there. You heard the audio now, Peter. We heard -- we got the transcripts earlier today. They released the audio. It sounded relatively routine. Here's the question. What took them so long? Why couldn't they have released that audio several weeks ago and dealt with the anguish of those passengers' families?", "It's inexplicable. This was clearly a routine communication. It should have been released weeks ago. It would have calmed the families at a critical point. I have no idea why they didn't release it.", "Do you have any idea, Tom? You're a former FBI assistant director.", "No. No, this is just their policy to hold everything close like that, whether they need to or not. Even when it's against their best interest to do it. They should have released it earlier. It would have been much better for them with the families, with the public, with all the criticism they were getting. With everybody assuming they're hiding something, we now see they weren't hiding anything. Just, you know, they do things that hurt themselves and that was one of them.", "David, did you hear anything unusual in that audio, the -- between the cockpit and ground control?", "No, I sure didn't, Wolf. Nothing new, nothing unusual. Now there is some information that can be gained from the recording itself by, you know, assessing the engine speeds. The volume of the -- the noises in the cockpit can give you clues as to how fast the aircraft is going, but at that point during the transmission we already knew that, we knew that information. So there's really nothing to be gained there. But the fact that they hung on to it this long and didn't release it, again that's inexplicable.", "Peter, the prime minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, he says they're ending the surface search now. It's a waste of time. Do you agree?", "Absolutely. I think it should have ended a few days earlier. These crews have worked hard. They didn't find anything. It's now time to expand the underwater search, bring in some new equipment, retest the theories to see if they're in the right place and get ready for the long haul.", "What new equipment should they bring in?", "Well, either the REMUS 6000, which an automated underwater vehicle or a towed array. Let them make the decision on what the task is. Are they going to be looking in the three remaining pinger areas or are they going for the extended search?", "Very quickly, David. If they go to the Bay of Bengal and do a quick search where this Australian company says they've seen some wreckage, it looks like a plane, how long will it take to either confirm or deny that it's something valuable?", "It will take very little time. We have an Orion aircraft sitting there. Fly them up there, find out what happened or call Bangladesh, have them check in. It won't take long to check. Go check it, the families will know that it is or isn't that aircraft.", "David Soucie, Peter Goelz, Tom Fuentes, guys, thanks very much. We're watching dangerous storms developing across the deep south right now. Our reporters are in the field. They're responding to the latest threat. Stand by for a live updates. Also ahead, disturbing new evidence, the violence in Ukraine is now getting even more deadly."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MARQUEZ (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARQUEZ", "SARAH BAJC, PARTNER OF FLIGHT 370 PASSENGER", "MARQUEZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "STEVE WANG, SON OF FLIGHT 370 PASSENGER", "MARQUEZ", "MARQUEZ", "BLITZER", "DAVID SOUCIE, CNN SAFETY ANALYST", "BLITZER", "PETER GOELZ, CNN AVIATION ANALYST", "BLITZER", "TOM FUENTES, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "BLITZER", "SOUCIE", "BLITZER", "GOELZ", "BLITZER", "FUENTES", "BLITZER", "SOUCIE", "BLITZER", "GOELZ", "BLITZER", "GOELZ", "BLITZER", "SOUCIE", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-127483", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-6-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0806/11/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Austrian Girl is Out of Coma After Being Rescued From her Grandfather's Captivity", "utt": ["Just into the CNN NEWSROOM, Jim Johnson, former CEO of Fannie Mae, we've just learned from the Barack Obama campaign that he will no longer be helping the senator and Democratic presidential nominee, will not be helping him find a vice presidential running mate. He, along with Eric Holder and Caroline Kennedy, were supposed to be part of that team. But we're just getting word from the Barack Obama campaign, Jim Johnson will no longer be a part of that. The best political team on television working that story for you. Updates here in the CNN NEWSROOM. Meantime, we're working on a couple of other stories for you here in the NEWSROOM. Rivers are rising in many parts of the Midwest and evacuations are underway in Iowa and Indiana. New storms are moving across the region today. Police now believe two killers were involved in the murder of two young Oklahoma girls. The girls, ages 13 and 11, they were shot to death while taking a walk on a country road near Wauteka (ph). Two different caliber guns were used, leading police to believe there are two killers in this case. Remember Austria's monster dad case? Well, a 19-year-old woman, allegedly fathered by her grandfather and held captive in a cellar her entire life, has emerged from her medically-induced coma. Her hospitalization in April, led to the investigation of her grandfather, Josef Fritzl.", "Five years into the Iraq war, you've never seen the inner workings of al-Qaeda like you will tonight on \"AC 360.\" This is a story from CNN's Michael Ware. We're going to chat with him in just a second. But first, let's get a sneak peak at his exclusive snapshot.", "Al-Qaeda gunmen brought this man here to die. Staged for maximum impact, he's to be executed on this busy market street. We don't know why. The al-Qaeda members who recorded this tape offer no explanation. But the anticipation is agonizing, leading to a moment we cannot show you. A punishment for betraying al-Qaeda or for breaking their strict version of Islamic law. Either way, it was public executions like this that would help lead to the unraveling of al-Qaeda in Iraq.", "Michael Ware is live in Baghdad, with more on the story that you're only going to see on CNN. Michael, this is the kind of -- you see these pictures and it makes your heart pound.", "Oh, absolutely. I mean, those moments truly are as we say in the story, agonizing. And now, what you saw in that brief snapshot from inside al-Qaeda in Iraq, is what was happening across much of this country over the past few years. Now, al-Qaeda in Iraq today is under more pressure than it ever was before. This is a snapshot of al-Qaeda at its peak here in this country. The war in Iraq is now about a competition between Washington and Tehran, for influence. But al-Qaeda is still out there. And in these hard drives, that had thousands upon thousands of documents from al-Qaeda's internal correspondents, hours upon hours of videos, uncut and shot by al-Qaeda. We learned about how al-Qaeda operates today. It's far more sophisticated, far more bureaucratic, far more organized and far more led by Iraqis than foreigners, despite what the White House says, than many had ever feared before -- Brianna.", "Why is it so important that people get this sort of unfiltered look, Michael?", "This gives you a window into not just one of America's enemies here in Iraq, who, like I said, whilst under intense pressure -- because America now has 100,000 former insurgents and former members of al-Qaeda itself, on the U.S. government pay roll. And these men have been conducting an assassination program against al- Qaeda. This is but one of the enemies here in Iraq. But through the prism of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the way you see that they work, in a sense that the public has never experienced before. Only members of al-Qaeda or members of the intelligence services have ever seen anything like this, you get a window of the broader al-Qaeda. This is how Osama bin Laden's most sophisticated elements of his network operate and we see that best here in Iraq -- Brianna", "Michael Ware, In Baghdad. Thank you for the preview. And you can check out the entirety tonight at 10:00 Eastern. The entirety of this report. CNN unveils what the U.S. military believes to be one of the largest collections of these internal al-Qaeda in Iraq documents ever discovered. Both the videos and the documents giving fascinating insight into the terror groups inner workings. \"AC 360,\" deciphers what it all means for the future of al-Qaeda in Iraq. And again, that's on \"AC 360,\" tonight at 10 Eastern, right here on", "Well, it's not easy being green. John McCain overshadowed by this backdrop. We'll find out what everyone's saying about the big green."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "KEILAR", "MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "KEILAR", "WARE", "KEILAR", "WARE", "KEILAR", "CNN. LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-366124", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-04-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/02/nday.05.html", "summary": "White House Whistleblower Reveals 25 People Received Security Clearances Despite Objections from Security Professionals; President Trump Announces Republican Health Care Plan Will Be Ready after 2020 Elections; Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R) Illinois is Interviewed About Trump's Immigration Policies and Health Care", "utt": ["Now he says the Republican plan to replace Obamacare will not be announced until after the 2020 election. Just last week the administration agreed with the judge's ruling that called for the entire Affordable Care Act to be struck down. The White House and congressional supporters have been scrambling to try to figure out what they could replace it with, but overnight the president tweeted that a vote will be taken right after the 2020 election when he believes the GOP will win back the House.", "Not so fast on healthcare reform. Also new this morning, White House whistleblower, a rare and threatening occurrence for this administration. A current official on the record raising new concerns about security clearances. Initially some 25 people had their clearances denied because of a range of fears and disqualifying issues, but these concerns were overruled. This morning House Democrats will vote on at least one subpoena to dig deeper, including on the top secret clearances for the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and daughter Ivanka Trump. Now, the chair of the Oversight Committee calls this issue here a million times more serious than questions about Hillary Clinton's emails. Joining us now is Jeffrey Toobin, CNN chief legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, Abby Phillip, CNN White House correspondent, and Van Jones, CNN political commentator and host of \"The Van Jones Show.\" Abby, I want to start with you. You cover the White House. The president has been telling us he wanted Republicans to be the part of healthcare. Marc Short, who works in the administration, told us there would be a healthcare plan this year, and then overnight the president with an announcement that cuts Marc Short's legs out from under him, said that there not be a plan that will be voted on until after the 2020 election. Explain.", "Well, he's being maybe brutally honest here about what this is all about, which is that the president and some people close to him believe that having healthcare as an issue, basically promising voters that they are going to solve this issue the day after the election, is something that is advantageous to him. There is no intention on the part of the White House to deal with healthcare before that point, to deal with healthcare anytime this year or really anytime next year, as long as there is an election being fought. So the president is trying to signal here, but he's also making it very clear that they are not actually going to put forward a plan, that there is, according to our reporting, no working group. He named a handful of senators last week that he said were going to be working on this issue. None of those senators knew what he was talking about because there is no plan, there never was a plan. And that's why there was so much disagreement within the White House, because a lot of officials were essentially saying we're playing with fire here. If we successfully invalidate this law, people will be left with absolutely nothing. And President Trump is saying, well, that's fine, as long as we do it or deal with this issue after November, 2020. The problem for him is that I think Democrats are going to take that and they are going to say, game on. This is a good way for them to fight over the issue of healthcare. They think that that is -- that is high ground for them and that they can make a better argument to the voters. I think we'll see, but I think Trump is coming to this fight holding literally nothing in his hands. And Democrats are saying here are all these various things that we want to do instead to make healthcare better. And I think that's why Republicans are so worried on the Hill.", "Abby, very quickly, before I get to the guys, do you know who waved him off this idea? Because just a few days ago -- this is such a stark reversal from a few days ago when Mick Mulvaney, his acting chief of staff, really wanted to announce it before the end of the year, and now it's so different. Who got to the president?", "I think, Alisyn, this is just the reality, that Mick Mulvaney and Marc Short were saying that there was going to be a plan by the end of this year, and that was never really true. There was never any infrastructure there for them to come up with something by the end of this year. So what the president is basically saying is we don't have a plan and we are not going to for a long time, and that's honestly the truth. And I think that it's just a case of the president's advisers trying to put a positive face on this kind of bad situation, and the president just saying, well, I'm going to make the best out of it and say we're just going to deal with it after the election, kicking the can down the road to a future point. So I don't think that there was ever really a plan to do something by the end of the year, despite what Mulvaney and what Marc Short said.", "Imagine that.", "Sometimes it's stunning when you hear the truth. It's disorienting.", "So when they said there was a plan, there wasn't a plan.", "I guess not.", "OK. Jeffrey Toobin --", "Can we just wait one second. Healthcare is not just like this political issue. There are people who die because they don't have health insurance, there are people who declare bankruptcy all the time because they don't have health insurance. If this lawsuit succeeds, as the administration wants it to succeed, insurers will no longer have to cover people with preexisting conditions, young people will not be able to stay on their parents' healthcare until they're 26 years old. This has real impacts on people's lives. And Donald Trump can say, well, pay no attention until 2020. We will deal with that like at some point. This is like people's lives, healthcare. And the idea that you can somehow say, well, just never mind for two plus years, how stupid do they think people are?", "And the court could decide this, it's not going to happen tomorrow, but the timeframe is before 2020.", "Well, before 2020. You know, this is like -- this is people's lives. That's the thing that -- this is not Russia and collusion. This is people's immediate concerns. And I just don't understand how you can even pretend that you can put it off for two years.", "Van, people will be able to make their voices heard at the ballot box, I suppose.", "This is one of those things that's baffling. In some ways, Trump kind of stepped on his own victory lap. He was doing a victory lap about the Mueller report, et cetera, and then in the middle of it he throws this gauntlet down around healthcare. In a way at least right now it seems like a gift to Democrats. I don't know if he thinks that because Democrats have gone so far left on Medicare for all or Medicare for all who want it, that that creates some opportunities for him. I'm not quite sure what the rationale here is. But I do know that for the 20 million people who have the ability to see a doctor or take their kid to see a doctor because of Obamacare, who did not have that ability before, it's a gun to their head to say we're going to do something, but we don't know what. And I think we saw in the 2016 election. We were talking about everything from the Mueller report, we were talking about North Korea, we were talking about everything in the world. When people went to pull the lever in those voting booths across the country, healthcare was the number one issue on their mind. And so this is an issue -- and they elected Democrats. So I'm not quite sure why Republicans want to talk about it, but I'm glad they do.", "We had Senator Tim Kaine from Virginia on last hour. He was eager to talk about it as much as he possibly could.", "And he spelled out his plan, I thought, in layman's terms so that people could understand that he does not want Medicare for all. Many candidates do. But he spelled out what his alternative would be.", "It was the public option from Obamacare that was discussed years ago and was considered too liberal at the time. It's fascinating now that the public option, which was so threatening to so many people, is now seen as the middle ground.", "That's the moderate point of view. I think when they say Medicare for all who want it is another way of saying a public objection but still sounding cool.", "Jeffrey Toobin, I want to talk about security clearances, because this was interesting yesterday. Twenty-five people initially had security clearances designed but were overruled, and that's according to a whistleblower, a named on the record human being, Tricia Newbold, who works in the office that does oversee them. They were overturned for a number of issues. Sorry, they were denied initially for a range of issues, including financial issues, possible foreign influence, a number of things, but overruled by someone else in the administration. How do you see this issue?", "Well, it's important to say that the president of the United States does have the legal authority to overrule the recommendations of the people who do the screening. That is legal. It is customarily not done. It is a norm that the president does not do this because these are serious issues. This just underlines, again, the problems with nepotism, that the reason people don't have their close relatives, their son-in-law, their daughters in close business relationships, especially in the White House, is that you don't know that decisions are being made on the merits, as opposed to because of family considerations. Why does Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have security clearances if they are said not to be deserving of them? This is why we have congressional investigations. I guess we will find out, perhaps.", "Abby, thanks to this whistleblower it's beyond Jared and Ivanka. We have heard -- we've heard them deny, and we've heard the president deny that this happened, but we know this to be true, that they did get security clearances over the objections of the professionals. But there's 25 people, and Congressman Elijah Cummings says that all of this -- the amount of people that have access to secrets and to classified information he says is a million times worse than anything Hillary Clinton ever talked about on her emails.", "Well, it's interesting to see this come out and confirm a lot of the reporting that had happened at the time where about a year -- a year and plus into this administration there were dozens of White House staffers operating with interim security clearances, meaning they hadn't actually gotten their security clearance but were gaining access to classified information on an interim basis. And the White House could never really explain why that was the case. Why were so many people unable to finish the process of getting their security clearances, and why were -- why was that process being held up for so many people? And it seems that this is the missing piece of this, which is that the career officials were raising red flags about a lot of these people. It was slowing down the process. And then at some point they were waved through despite the objections of those career officials. And I think that's the underlying problem for this White House, they never had a great system to deal with this. There were a lot of people who weren't vetted before they were offered jobs to come into this administration. There were a lot of people who had problems in their backgrounds, who had potential conflicts, who had potential ties to -- or connections with foreign governments that maybe they didn't disclose in their forms, which would have been disqualifying to people in previous administrations who were just allowed to come in because there was such a desperate need for people to work in this administration at the beginning. And I think that that's a really serious question for this administration about access to classified information. In the case of Hillary Clinton's emails, there was a suspicion that maybe she had left it open to foreign governments. In this case it's known that there were people who career national security officials and career clearance officials believed should not have access to this information, were given access anyway, in some cases on an interim basis. Some of these people didn't get clearances, but some of them eventually did over those people's objections.", "Van, you are a guy who wants to focus on policy, would like to see Democrats really laser-focused on policy like healthcare, like criminal justice reform. What's the right amount of oversight on this? House Oversight Chair Elijah Cummings is going to issue a subpoena, they are going to vote on it today, but he wants to get people to come and testify. How much focus should there be on the security clearance issue?", "Democrats have to walk and chew gum at the same time in that on the one hand they have got to be focused on 2020 and issues that voters care about, which I don't think is going to be a big voting issue. It may add to intensity for Democrats who are already committed, I don't think it's going to be a big voting issue. That said, there is a Constitutional responsibility for oversight. And I think in the administration behaving in this way would get oversight from the opposing party. I think that's appropriate. I do think we have to always remember how disruptive the entire political system both the Trump rebellion on the right and the Sanders rebellion on the left were in 2016. And so you literally had norms being upset throughout the entire process, and the Trump administration arrives in Washington, D.C., frankly without the full support of the Republican establishment. Many of them had been running for the hills even weeks before the election. And so there was a kind of a catch as catch can feel about how the transition team was put together. They threw out Chris Christie and started over from scratch. And so we are still kind of in the aftershocks I think of the 2016 election and the disruption of Donald Trump in ways that we sometimes forget. And so now I think Congress can catch up to some of this stuff, figure out what was going on. That 25 number seems like a very large number, but we don't know what it's compared to because in the past there really has not been as much focus I think on this particular issue. I think having family members in the White House brings more attention than it might otherwise.", "Van, Abby, Jeffrey, thank you very much. At this hour it is unclear if President Trump will follow through on his threat to shut down the southern border with Mexico. What do his fellow Republicans want him to do? We will ask next.", "And a manhunt is under way for a hit and run driver who slammed into this nine-year-old girl who was just playing in her yard. The video is incredible. We can tell you the girl survived, incredibly. We're going to speak with her mother ahead."], "speaker": ["ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "CAMEROTA", "PHILLIP", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN CHIEF LEGAL ANALYST", "BERMAN", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "VAN JONES, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "JONES", "BERMAN", "TOOBIN", "CAMEROTA", "PHILLIP", "BERMAN", "JONES", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-223538", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-1-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1401/23/cnr.09.html", "summary": "Can Edward Snowden Come Home?", "utt": ["This is CNN breaking news.", "Top of the hour. I'm Brooke Baldwin, two big breaking news stories at this hour. First, Justice Department official telling CNN that Attorney General Eric Holder says if NSA leaker Edward Snowden is prepared to plead guilty, that's a big if, the Justice Department is prepared to discuss with Snowden's lawyers how Snowden may come home, how he may return to the country. I want to bring in our justice reporter, Evan Perez, and also we have CNN legal analyst Paul Callan on the phone. But, Evan Perez, you broke the story. Tell me what you know.", "Well, at this point, this is probably just an opening for Snowden's lawyers to get in touch with the Justice Department and decide whether or not he is indeed prepared to plead guilty. The attorney general is opening the door to that. This is not an indication that they are open to a reduced sentence or anything like that, I'm told. This is simply a way for the attorney general to perhaps put the onus back on Edward Snowden. As you know, \"The New York Times\" and \"The Guardian,\" and many people in Congress in recent weeks have been calling for the Justice Department to try to come to an agreement, perhaps some lesser charges or something like that that would bring Snowden back and stop some of these leaks. I'm not sure whether or not those leaks can be stopped in any case, but at least getting him out of the hands of the Russians and back to the United States to face some justice is what Justice Department is very interested in. We don't know whether or not again there is any ability to do some lesser charges and to make some kind of plea agreement. This is simply a way for the attorney general to address these questions of whether or not they are open to clemency or some kind of deal with Edward Snowden.", "OK. Evan, thank you. Paul, we hear Evan talking about this is probably the opening offer. My question to you would be, what kind of precedent would this set if the government enters into plea negotiations with Edward Snowden?", "Brooke, those within the intelligence community who are opposed to making a deal with Snowden have said that this would encourage others to leak information knowing that they could negotiate their way into a deal or slap on the wrist kind of deal, because normally the penalties for what Snowden is accused of having done, which essentially is espionage, they can be as high as death. It's one of the few federal statutes that calls for the death penalty. Eric Holder in a July 23 letter to the Russians said that they are not going to seek death with respect to Snowden, but I'm just saying to explain the severity of the penalties involved here. This sends a message obviously that under certain circumstances Justice will offer a lenient deal, a more lenient deal, and they're doing it in the Snowden case.", "Paul, what are the odds Snowden actually says, yes, I will plead guilty?", "The one thing I find to be interesting about this -- and now Evan would know more about this being close to the scene and reporting, but normally prosecutors don't float this kind of an offer unless they have had some backdoor indication that there might be acceptance. I'm betting that signals have been sent from the Snowden camp back to justice that he would be willing to negotiate and that we may find out later on that there have been some behind-the-scenes negotiations going on. I can't see why Justice would go so very public with this unless they had an indication from the Snowden camp that something maybe could be worked out.", "Since I have you, let me tap into your legal mind on a different subject, Paul Callan. This pertains to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, because we are hearing his reelection campaign has been subpoenaed for documents by federal prosecutors investigating that the who so-called Bridgegate, the debacle on the George Washington Bridge back in September. Also, the New Jersey Republican state committee has been subpoenaed. What does all of that mean for the investigation, do you think?", "It's very interesting because there was a hint that was out there recently that this might happen. And the hint was there is a lawyer named Timpone who was representing Bridget Kelly, his chief of staff. He said he had to step down on conflict of interest grounds from representing her. He holds the position, by the way, of a commission in New Jersey that investigates finance campaign problems on the part of politicians. Obviously, he knew that the Justice Department was going to subpoena records relevant to campaign and campaign contributions. I'm not surprised by this. Once a federal investigation has been opened, there are a wide varieties of subjects that a prosecutor can look into. And certainly all kinds of things are going to be subject to public scrutiny and scrutiny by the Justice Department now that there is an open investigation. Now, we have to say in the end just because subpoenas have been issued, that's no indication that the governor is guilty of anything. It's just an indication that you are going to have a very thorough investigation done by a very thorough prosecutor, Mr. Fishman.", "Just an indication that people still have a lot of questions for what's happened. Paul Callan, thank you so much on both of these breaking news stories this afternoon. Thank you. And now to Justin Bieber. He is one of the hottest pop singers in the world. Check his Twitter page. This guy has some 49 million Twitter followers, a movie, hit songs, a following that might make Elvis jealous if he were alive today. But this 19-year-old multi-platinum- selling recording artist was arrested for DUI and resisting arrest. Here's the mug shot. Miami Beach police pulled him over early this morning. They say he was drag racing and looked high. Bieber left jail just about an hour ago, free on a $2,500 bond. Our camera was there. Is he waving? Look at that. First time I am seeing this video right here with you. The singer is a teen music sensation, but the headlines as of late are of a very adult nature. Earlier, I talked to former child actor, \"Partridge Family,\" anyone, Danny Bonaduce, who said all this negative attention has to be sinking in for the star.", "It's quite literally sobering. He's realizing at this point -- because I don't think this kid is an idiot, no matter what he has done. He has got to understand what is happening to his career. Every minute, there's another picture of him in an orange jumpsuit. I saw him at court, totally different attitude than in jail with a smiling mug shot. He was there. You could tell he was getting bummed out and he was getting an idea of what it's like to be there.", "Also arrested was Bieber's friend, R&B; singer Khalil Amir Sharieff. That is who police say Bieber was allegedly drag racing with in this residential neighborhood going double the speed limit. Nancy Grace, HLN host Nancy Grace, I wanted to begin with that smiling mug shot, but I have changed my mind on the fly now that I have seen the picture. Did you see just the video of Justin Bieber leaving the Miami-Dade County jail? Let's play it again, guys, waving to his fans. When you see this, what do you think?", "It immediately reminds me of when Michael Jackson, in the middle of the child molestation trial, got up on top of the black SUV and danced and waved to all of his fans. Of course, this is a car cry. Bieber is still a kid. He is. Imagine this, a 19-year-old with an alcohol problem and a dope problem, because when he was arrested he was bragging to the officer, man, I have been smoking weed all day. That will go over well in court. The bigger concern for me though is a lot of people in America, or they want to, live in quiet neighborhoods with their children. You know what? I would not appreciate somebody in my quiet residential neighborhood with my children and other children playing speeding up to 60 miles an hour. You don't want to live on the interstate for a reason. Justin Bieber can't fly by at 60 miles an hour. They had cordoned it off, blocked it off, Brooke, with black SUVs so he and crazy Khalil could drag race at 4:00 in the morning. Yes, he needs to go to jail.", "That's exactly what I was about to point out. I have read all three pages of this, as I'm sure you have as well. When he says -- and I'm just going to have to bleep myself -- this is what Justin Bieber, according to police, said.", "The F-bomb on the cop.", "\"Why the 'bleep' are you doing this?\" This is Bieber to the cop after 4:00 a.m. \"What the 'beep' did I do? Why did you stop me? I ain't got no 'bleeping' weapons. Why do you have to search me? What the 'bleep' is this about.\" A couple of other things on the screen that you see. And then I guess I have a lot of questions about this one. Let me just say, when you see his language toward an officer, how do you get to this point?", "You know what? I think, again, he's only 19. And I usually reserve my resentment for full-grown adults that do things like this, but if they had run over a kid, it wouldn't have mattered if he were 19 or 29. It wouldn't matter. But another thing, when I first started prosecuting, I had a very dear friend, a brand-new rookie cop, Randy Shapani (ph). He pulled over a kid about this age, told him to take his hands away from his pants. He didn't arrest the kid. The kid shot him in the head and killed him. That's what I remember. Bieber would not keep his hands out of his pants and the cop put him against the car. And he kept turning around to confront the cop. You know what? I'm surprised they didn't throw him down on the ground and arrest him right there. I'm stunned, and he F-bombed the cop over and over. If a cop stops me, I am not going to curse at the cop.", "There has to be this sense of celebrity invincibility, this sense of celebrity narcissism. I'm just curious in just watching him with that judge today, do you think he thinks this is real?", "No. I don't. I don't think it sunk in. He did a couple of hours in the can, in the jail. He got out on -- he is not being treated any differently. He got out on $2,500 bond, which is typical for that. He failed a field sobriety test. He took a Breathalyzer and I don't know the results yet, although there are rumors swirling what it is. I don't know the answer to that yet. But he was totally drinking. He had been having a weed party all day long. Don't even get me started on that. And to top it all off, out driving 60 miles an hour in a residential area. No, I think he has gotten away with too much bad behavior and has never been called on it. He had a rough time growing up with, single mom. He has got over a lot. I hate to see his career end like this, but what I really don't want is for him to run over someone and kill them when he is high on weed and drunk.", "We all agree with you. He could have killed someone this morning. He could have. Nancy Grace, thank you. In about 20 minutes, we will take a look at the business of Justin Bieber, his money and his music and his endorsements. That's coming up in a few minutes. Coming up next, though, a shocking case that could impact hundreds of people, a sperm switch at a Utah clinic. Already happened one time. This man worked there and turned out to be the biological father of a patient's child. Now the clinic said up to 1,000 other people could be impacted. They are offering genetic testing to see who else could be affected. Stay here."], "speaker": ["ANNOUNCER", "BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR", "EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR", "BALDWIN", "CALLAN", "BALDWIN", "CALLAN", "BALDWIN", "DANNY BONADUCE, ACTOR", "BALDWIN", "NANCY GRACE, HOST, \"NANCY GRACE\"", "BALDWIN", "GRACE", "BALDWIN", "GRACE", "BALDWIN", "GRACE", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-16022", "program": "Your Money", "date": "2000-9-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/16/ym.00.html", "summary": "Turning Frequent Flyer Miles into Cash", "utt": ["You may have money lying around and not even know it. That is, money from frequent flyer miles. A new company is getting set to let you trade in your unredeemed miles for cybercash. Bill Tucker explains.", "Traveling by air has its rewards. If you do it enough, the airlines begin to treat you like royalty. But for those who aren't air warriors, those frequent flyer miles frequently just sit there. Not any more. Enter MilePoint.com.", "What we are doing is allowing frequent flyers to literally turn their miles into money, and use that -- those miles for the partial purchase of goods and services at participating Mile Point merchants.", "Under the plan, each mile converts into 2 cents of Mile Point money. That, in turn, can be used to get a discount of up to 25 percent on purchases. These airlines are booked with Mile Point right now, America West, Continental, Delta, Northwest, TWA, and US Airways. Even frequent guests at Hilton Hotels can redeem points. Right now, Amazon.com and SkyMall will take your Mile Point money. SkyMall has over 100 retailers, such as The Sharper Image and Hammacher Schlemmer.", "I think it's a win-win situation. I think it gives the consumer, of which there are 45 million with mileage points or mileage accruals, a chance to convert and use their orphaned miles. You know, miles may be too low to get an airline ticket or two, and they can use these miles into -- convert them into gift certificates and then get discounts, in effect.", "The site rolls out next month. In about a year, MilePoint.com plans to make deals with local merchants so you could shop in your own neighborhood, right in time for the holidays. That's YOUR MONEY. I'm Bill Tucker, CNN Financial News, New York.", "And that's YOUR MONEY for this week. Once again, don't forget to send us your personal finance questions and comments via e-mail at yourmoney@cnn.com, or write us at YOUR MONEY Viewer Mail, Five Penn Plaza, New York, New York 10001. Your question could be featured on an upcoming program and be answered by an expert. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Metaxas. Goodbye from New York."], "speaker": ["METAXAS", "BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MARK LACEK, PRESIDENT AND CEO, MILEPOINT.COM", "TUCKER", "MARTIN DEUTSCH, EDITOR AT LARGE, \"TRAVEL AGENT\" MAGAZINE", "TUCKER", "METAXAS"]}
{"id": "CNN-266398", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2015-10-09", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1510/09/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Hillary Clinton Meets with Black Lives Matter Representatives", "utt": ["Hillary Clinton met with representatives of the Black Lives Matter movement and other activists, and we have a video of her leaving the meeting. And aides described it as important and part of an ongoing conversation. She is trying to shore up the African-American and Latino voters. And Congressman Xavier Becerra, of California, is a Clinton supporter. Congressman, thanks very much for joining us. Let's talk about what is going on. She has had tough encounters with the Black Lives Matter spokesmen, shall we say, and how would you describe her relationship with that movement?", "At the end of the day, you will find within the African-American and Latino community, she will have strong support and overwhelming support as she becomes the next president of the United States. She has the experience and the record to verify that she is doing to do what most Americans want us to do including those of color.", "Also at a congressional national caucus last night, she was heckled by a protester who said that Clinton, on various issues, was wrong on the various sensitive subjects, including incarcerations, prisons involving Hispanics, and listen to this.", "Tonight, I am introducing somebody who is just like that --", "-- a wonderful man that I have had the privilege of knowing, Chef Jose Andres.", "I have known Jose --", "And she was obviously introducing Chef Andres, but at the same time, this heckler or protester kept shouting out. You were there and how did it go?", "I was a table away from him, and the operative word in what you said, Wolf, is a protester, and one. This is a hall of several thousand people, and most of them cheering for Secretary Clinton and one protester. The great thing about the country, the free speech is allowed around the country, and while I disagree with what the young man was saying, he had a right to say it, and he was asked to leave in a peaceful way. It was a great show to see so many people talk and the issues so important, and great to have Secretary Clinton with us, and hitting the right chords when it came to what Latinos were hoping to see.", "You just heard a Bernie Sanders supporter say that if Vice President Biden jumps into the race he'll take more votes away from Hillary Clinton than Senator Sanders. How do you deal with the vice president if he announces he is in the contest?", "The vice president is one of the best we've got out there, and he deserves to make a decision, and whatever he decides I think a lot of folks feel like he has earned to do whatever he wishes to do. But I decided to support Hillary Clinton because I believe she is going to be the best person in America to be our next president, and I fully believe that she will become the next president, regardless of who her competition is. I think she'll go at it. She is not someone who backs down from any kind of fight. I think she's proven that over the years. She always comes out on top. She is as tested as you get. I find there is no one who is better tested whether in foreign hot spots or here in tough races at home. She'll come out on top. I'm going to do everything I can. In fact, next week, I'll be in New Hampshire trying to make sure that we pull out as many people to be there for Secretary Clinton, not just early, but often.", "Why is she increasingly distancing herself from President Obama on several sensitive issues?", "I wouldn't classify it as distancing herself, Wolf. I think she is telling you who she would be as president, which is what everyone expects, right? We want to know who you will be he when you become the next president of the United States. Tell us where you stand, whether it's on trade, whether it's on war, whether it's on education or health care. Tell us where you are, not where you were when you were working for someone who is very important, not where you were when you were in the White House as first lady. Tell us where you would be as president. And I believe Hillary Clinton is doing a marvelous job of telling America, this is who I am and this is where I'll be.", "Xavier Beccera is a Hillary Clinton supporter. As I said to Ben Cohen, a Bernie Sanders supporter, Hillary Clinton is lucky to have you on her team. Thanks very much for joining us.", "Thanks, Wolf.", "Only four days away from the first Democratic presidential debate Tuesday night. You'll have a chance to see all the Democratic candidates debate the issues. CNN, Facebook. The Democratic presidential debate only here on CNN. We'll take a quick break and be right back."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "REP. XAVIER BECERRA, (D), CALIFORNIA", "BLITZER", "HILARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER SECRETARY OF SATE", "CLINTON", "CLINTON", "BLITZER", "BECERRA", "BLITZER", "BECERRA", "BLITZER", "BECERRA", "BLITZER", "BECERRA", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-105773", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2006-5-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/09/ltm.06.html", "summary": "Florida Fires; Miracle Down Under; Police Ambush", "utt": ["A state of emergency right now in Florida. Wild fires closing down a major interstate. The National Guard is called in. Three police officers shot in an ambush outside of their own station. A search for answers why.", "Dieters everywhere, take note. The FDA is going to court to get the supplement Ephedra banned again. And if your computer is on the fritz, if you're frustrated with tech support, you are not alone. Believe it or not, there's a better way. We'll explain.", "And making sure your summer vacation isn't a nightmare. Our summer travel series looks at how you can stay safe away from home. That's ahead on AMERICAN MORNING. Good morning to you. I'm Miles O'Brien.", "And I'm Soledad O'Brien. A state of emergency to tell you about. It's happening right now in east central Florida. Fifty wild fires there have destroyed thousands of acres. The National Guard is rushing in to help. Governor Jeb Bush says most of the fires were probably caused by people. The thick smoke is also causing a traffic nightmare this morning. A 12-mile stretch of the heavily traveled Interstate I-95 is closed from Edgewater, Florida, north to Port Orange. A Florida Highway Patrol says the road could reopen in the next hour. Let's get right to Chad Myers. He's in the weather center checking on the conditions. How's it looking for the folks there, Chad?", "You know, I got really good news and I have some fairly bad news. It really depends on where you are and how much rain you get. The entire area here in this big red box, 820 lightning strikes. Now that means there's some significant rain coming down. But if lightning sparks in a place that didn't get a lot of rain, let's say up here near Ormond Beach or maybe a little bit farther close to New Port Richey or all the way back up here into New Smyrna Beach, now you may have a problem with some of those lightning sparks making some in the way of more fires. But the good news is -- at least we'll get to a couple of good spots here. Around Hillsborough County, right here, not that far from Tampa. Here's some video from Hillsborough County, what was going on yesterday. Now, this is not all that far east of Tampa. If you get just to the east and southeast of Tampa Bay, Hillsborough County is right there. That's the area that picked up some wind gusts yesterday to 15 to 20 miles per hour. That's just enough wind -- you see kind of the smoke going in a direction. When the smoke goes straight up, there's not much wind. But when the wind comes in and fans the flames, there's enough oxygen to keep those flames going. Now, the ground fire there in Hillsborough County, getting up to the tree tops in a couple of spots. We'll get back to the map and we'll zoom in on what's going on in Hillsborough County right now. That's Hillsborough County. And that's a lot of rain. That's some great news there. Firefighters can use an inch and a half of rain that's going to come out of this storm so quickly. They can't put an inch and a half of rain on an entire forest in a couple of days. Mother Nature can do it in 15 minutes. There's rain in Orlando. Very heavy rain across the Beeline, and it does exist almost all the way up to about St. Augustine. Great news for firefighters in Florida -- Miles.", "Thank you, Chad. Happening in America this morning, evacuations in southern California after a landslide. Appears an irrigation pipe broke, loosening the ground near three homes in Laguna Beach. The city says it's safe for the families to go back home, though. The site is just five miles from those massive landslides we told you about last June. Out with the old. The Boardwalk Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, down in a bunch of ashes now. Cloud of smoke. The implosion, making way for the MGM $7 billion city center project. A new report says Duke University too slow to respond to rape allegations against some LaCrosse players. The internal report lays some of the blame on Durham police, who doubted the accuser's story. A vote of confidence for Congressman Patrick Kennedy. The Rhode Island Democratic Party, endorsing him for reelection, even though he's in rehab for addiction to prescription medication. Kennedy crashed into a Capitol Hill police barricade last week, after he says he mixed a prescription with a sleeping pill. The Food and Drug Administration wants to bring back the ban on Ephedra. That's after a Colorado court said it's OK to sell supplements with low doses of the weight loss aid. Ephedra has been linked to several deaths -- Soledad.", "Well, they are calling it the miracle down under. The two trapped miners are alive and they're well and they're back above ground this morning after a quite dramatic end to that dangerous rescue operation. Everybody in the whole world practically was watching.", "If I wasn't here, I wouldn't believe it.", "The two Australian miners, buried underground for two weeks, walked out of Tasmania's Beaconsfield's Gold Mine unassisted. 35-year-old Todd Russell and 37-year-old Brent Webb had been trapped in a small, steel cage the size of a dog kennel, more than a half mile beneath the surface. After emerging, they acknowledged the cheering crowds who had been praying for their survival.", "After two weeks, it's just fabulous to see them out. And it's just fabulous to have those families all come out together. It was just so exciting. I can't believe how exciting it was.", "Their incredible rescue ended a drama that practically everyone in the world was watching. It began on April 25th when a minor earthquake triggered a rockslide inside the mine, and trapped the two men. A huge stone slab landed on their 16-square foot cage and formed a kind of roof that kept them from being crushed. A third miner, who was working outside the cage was killed. It was several days before anyone realized that Russell and Webb were alive. Rescuers carefully drilled through the rock and set up a 52-foot long narrow pipe to get oxygen, food, water and supplies, including iPods, to the miners. But a deeper tunnel had to be drilled to get them out. Fellow miners worked around the clock in an intricate and often frustrating operation.", "They had to be totally honest with them and keep them informed every step of the way. So that -- they're miners, they're experienced guys. If you lie to them, they'll know. So, and they had to have absolute faith that everything that was being said was right.", "Rescuers hit rock five times harder than concrete while cutting the final sections of the escape tunnel. They used hand tools to avoid triggering another cave-in. When Todd Russell and Brent Webb finally reached the surface, crowds of mine workers and bystanders applauded and thanked the remarkable efforts of those who brought them to safety.", "This is a day for the rescuers, the rescuers have been fantastic. We have the best mines rescue people in the world, in my opinion. We have the best in the world and they have demonstrated that.", "The trapped miners, finally out and happy to be reunited with their loved ones.", "These men are lucky to have families like these and these families are lucky to have men like the ones who have been rescued. It's -- actually feels sort of -- I'm just glad it's over. I'm so glad it's over.", "Both Todd Russell and Brent Webb are said to be doing remarkably well. Webb, in fact, already signed himself out of the hospital; and the third miner, Larry Knight, who died underground, was laid to rest today in Australia -- Miles.", "A wild shootout outside a Fairfax County, Virginia police station. Police say a teenage gunman ambushed officers during a shift change yesterday. A veteran officer is now dead. Two others are injured. The gunman, killed at the scene. Carol Costello, live in the newsroom with more. Carol, good morning.", "Good morning, Miles. Good morning to all of you. Fairfax County police say this was the work of one gunman, 18-year-old Michael Kennedy. They say the teenager planned this. He crouched between two cars and simply waited for police to come out.", "A police station in Fairfax, Virginia, the unlikely scene of a deadly shootout between cops and a lone gunman. Police say the suspect pulled into the station's parking lot at about 3:30 Monday afternoon and immediately opened fire on police. Three officers hit, one a female detective, a nine-year veteran of the force was killed in the crossfire.", "This is the first officer that we have lost to an assailant.", "One of the two wounded officers is in critical condition following surgery. The other officer suffered only minor wounds. The gunman, who police have not identified, died at the scene. He was said to be heavily armed, carrying a rifle and two handguns. Officials say the suspect tried unsuccessfully to steal a pickup truck from one civilian before confronting another.", "He was able to hijack at gunpoint a van. That van was driven onto the parking lot at the Sully Station, and it's my understanding that he was outside the van at least part of the time when he was shooting.", "In a tragic irony, the shooting occurred on the same day the department was honoring officers who died in the line of duty. Now, as Fairfax police begin their investigation, they're mourning the loss of one of their own.", "The Fairfax County Police Department, I'm very proud of, that we have a family, obviously of ourselves, my 1,320 officers, plus our civilian employees and all of our volunteers are grieving now, as well.", "And they're just trying to figure out why. Apparently they arrested this kid on a carjacking charge. He'd been released on $33,000 bond. Maybe that was what triggered him. Who knows at this point? As for Chantilly, it's a very peaceful community in Fairfax County. In fact, nothing ever happens. It took police hours to calm the neighbors down, trying to convince them that this was a single incident, and not the work of terrorists.", "Carol Costello, in the newsroom, thank you very much. The latest approval ratings are in for President Bush. He remains mired in the mid 30s. We'll go live to the White House for a look at what's dragging him down.", "Also ahead this morning, our special series on surviving summer travel. Today, we are looking at tips to make sure that the summer trip is a safe trip. Plus, Illusionist David Blaine finally pulled out of his man bowl after a week under water. The question is, did he break the record he was gunning for? Doesn't look so good there. That's for sure. That's ahead on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN CO-ANCHOR", "SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN CO-ANCHOR", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "S. O'BRIEN (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "S. 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{"id": "CNN-191058", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-8-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1208/15/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Firefighter Says Airline Profiled Him; Romney Blasts Biden Blunder", "utt": ["An airline is coming under fire for a controversial policy banning men from sitting next to unaccompanied children. The airline says it's about safety. Others say it's discrimination. Here is Sandra Endo with more.", "On board a virgin Australia flight, Sydney firefighter Johnny McGirr says he was profiled simply because he is a man.", "As soon as I boarded I was a potential pedophile.", "Since he was sitting next to two young boys who were unaccompanied by adults, he was asked by the airlines to switch seats with a female passenger. It is Virgin's policy to make sure there are no male passengers or empty seats next to children flying alone. McGirr complained to the airline and explained how he felt.", "It was interesting, really ashamed, like I had done something wrong and embarrassed.", "In a statement, Virgin says, \"This has been a long- standing policy that was based on customer feedback, and in light of recent feedback, we are now reviewing the policy. Our intention is certainly not to discriminate in any way.\" It's a controversial policy. In 2010, a man sued British Airways for sex discrimination and won after being forced to move away from unaccompanied minors sitting next to him. Right now, there's no major U.S. carrier that specifically prohibits men from sitting next to unaccompanied children. And since there's no nationwide Department of Transportation policy for airlines, carriers are left to figure out what's best. Children safety advocates support what some international airlines are doing.", "We're trying to prevent child victimization. We know that these -- that the overwhelming majority of sex offenders are male, so by removing that situation, you're lowering the risk.", "Travelers we spoke with have mixed views about the policy.", "I would be fine as long as the airline has a watch on what he is doing and he's monitored. I don't -- I think that is discriminatory.", "Because my kids, you know, I feel you know unless I am not there with them or another parent, I would feel more comfortable if the policy was in effect.", "Many domestic travelers we spoke with also didn't even know this policy existed on some airlines. We also reached out to the American Civil Liberties Union. They did not want to comment on this story. Sandra Endo, CNN, Washington.", "All right. Other stories right now in THE NEWSROOM. The opening bell rings in about one minute and expect stocks to be lower today. Investors are reacting to disappointing economic report. Gold medalists with the U.S. women's rowing team are ringing the opening bell this morning. And they have got their gold and bling with them right around their necks. And a deadly outbreak of the West Nile virus kills 28 people in the U.S. Sixteen deaths are in Texas. We'll take a look at this map of the lower 48. The states in red show West Nile activity. Mosquitoes carry the disease, which can be as mild as flu-like symptoms or can cause a fatal swelling of the brain. Well, the jackpot of $320 million has Powerball fever in the air and it's growing, 42 states plus D.C. participate in the lottery. The drawing is tonight. For his part, Vice President Joe Biden is probably hoping today's trip on the campaign trail will be a bit smoother after creating quite the firestorm with these comments.", "He said in the first 100 days, he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules. Unchain Wall Street. They're going to put y'all back in chains.", "Biden was speaking before an audience in Virginia that included African-Americans. And that prompted outrage from some conservatives who say the vice president's remarks were a reference to slavery. But Biden pushed back, saying he was merely echoing a line used by top Republicans, including newly announced vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan.", "Here is what Congressman Ryan said. He said -- we believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy. The speaker of the House said -- used the word \"unshackle\" as well referring to their proposals. The last time these guys unshackled the economy, to use their term, they put the middle class in shackles. That's how we got where we are.", "And this latest war of words may suggest the race for the White House is quickly becoming a race to the political bottom. Joining us right now, CNN political director Mark Preston. So, Mark, as I mentioned, Republicans are seizing on Biden's remarks, with Mitt Romney tying those remarks to these opponent's overall campaign.", "Yes. And, you know, Mitt Romney just did this just a short time ago in an interview on CBS. He was asked specifically about what was going on, Fredricka, here, and about this campaign, and he said that President Obama is running a campaign of division and hatred. I mean, those are very, very strong words. And it's not something we'd expect to see, Fred, now. Perhaps we would see this in the last couple of weeks leading into November. But to see it this early is certainly a red light that this is getting to become very nasty.", "In fact, Romney's words, quote, \"that it was angry and desperate -- an angry and desperate campaign.\" Let's listen to what Mitt Romney had to say.", "Another outrageous charge just came a few hours ago in Virginia, and the White House sinks a little bit lower. His campaign and his surrogates have made wild and reckless allegations that disgrace the office of the presidency.", "So when Paul Ryan came onboard this past weekend, everyone was saying this is now a campaign about issues. It seems like it will have clear focus. Instead, the Romney team accusing the Obama camp of hate, while the Obama team not only backs up what Biden had to say but calls Romney, quote, \"unhinged\". So is it starting to alienate voters on both sides? Are people, you know, who were already frustrated with the system feeling even much more so frustrated and turned off?", "You know, Fred, I think a lot of people are still in the summer mode at this point, and they are focusing their time with their kids and at the beach or what-have-you. The ones that are zeroing in on it, though, I think are going to be disgusted. The fact of the matter is, the economy is in shambles at this point. And this campaign is supposed to be about big ideas, whether you agree with Mitt Romney or whether you agree with President Obama. But when it starts to get this nasty, and really this acidic this early, and they are not talking about how to fix America, how to fix the economy, I think you'll see a huge backlash from voters especially heading into the fall.", "You have to wonder if they are testing the grounds. I mean, this is what President Obama had to say about Romney's dog. The dog keeps coming back on the rooftop, but in this way.", "Governor Romney explained his energy policy this way. You can't drive a car with a windmill on it. That's what he said about wind power. Now I know he's tried some other things on top of a car. I didn't know he had tried windmills on top of the car.", "So he talks about trying things on top of the car. You know, is this, you know, White House or is the Romney campaign kind of trying to see how far they can push the envelope?", "You know, I think that's an interesting point to make right now, Fred, because we might be seeing some trial balloons being floated certainly by the Romney campaign to really take the attack directly at Obama by saying that his campaign is about hatred, a very explosive word to use. The question is, if they think it will stick right now, will they continue that theme heading into November? The fact is that while Obama's approval rating is below 50 percent for his job, he is still well liked. If the Romney campaign can chip away at him personally that can only help them in November. Same thing with President Obama right there, trying to chip away at Mitt Romney.", "All right. Mark Preston, thank you so much from Washington. On this week's \"NEXT LIST\", meet a guy whose enthusiasm for ukulele is infectious. He has redesigned the instrument and made it more popular than ever.", "The ukulele, you don't feel like you need hours and hours of practice. You can just pick it up for the first time take your finger and do this. And just have fun with it. It just feels good. Everything feels right."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "SANDRA ENDO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "JOHNNY MCGIRR, PASSENGER", "ENDO", "MCGIRR", "ENDO", "JOHN SHEHAN, NATL. CENTER FOR MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN", "ENDO", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ENDO (on camera)", "WHITFIELD", "JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "WHITFIELD", "BIDEN", "WHITFIELD", "MARK PRESTON, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR", "WHITFIELD", "MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "WHITFIELD", "PRESTON", "WHITFIELD", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "WHITFIELD", "PRESTON", "WHITFIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE"]}
{"id": "NPR-22555", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2015-02-12", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/02/12/385646923/how-removing-checkpoints-could-actually-make-israelis-more-secure", "title": "How Removing Checkpoints Could Make Israelis More Secure", "summary": "Social scientists recently analyzed the effects of removing Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank. They found it markedly reduced anti-Israel sentiment, and actual acts of violence against Israel.", "utt": ["Fact is social science is not going to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But we've come across a way that seems to reduce hard feelings and even violence in the Middle East. This comes to us from NPR's social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam. He joins us regularly here on MORNING EDITION. He sat down with our colleague, Steve Inskeep.", "Hi, Shankar.", "Hi, Steve.", "So this comes out of a study I gather. What was the study?", "Well, the study was based on what social scientists call a natural experiment. Daphna Canetti at the University of Haifa in Israel and Matthew Longer (ph) who was then at Yale University and Nancy Hydruben (ph) at Tufts heard about an initiative by Tony Blair. Blair has played a very active role in Middle East peace negotiations.", "Oh, the former British prime minister.", "Exactly. Now, under this plan, Israel was to voluntarily dismantle some checkpoints that curtail the movement to Palestinians in the West Bank.", "OK. So this is an Israeli checkpoint in between, say, a couple of Palestinian neighborhoods or towns.", "That's exactly right. Now, before the checkpoint dismantling initiative was made public, Canetti and her colleagues quickly conducted detailed surveys in 17 villages. Some of them were located in areas where checkpoints were going to be removed. Others were in areas where the checkpoints were not going to be removed. And once the checkpoints were actually removed, Canetti and her colleagues went back in, and they surveyed people in these areas once again.", "And the question is, are people feeling differently after the checkpoints were removed?", "Precisely. I reached Daphna Canetti on the phone in Israel, and she told me she was stunned at the difference removing the checkpoints made on the desire among Palestinians to make peace with Israel.", "In the places where checkpoints were removed, the local Palestinians expressed more support for negotiations for peace with Israel, way less support for violence, way less intention to participate in violent acts.", "Very different attitudes even though the overall Israeli-Palestinian situation has not changed. But let me ask you - she says people say they had less intent to commit violent acts. Did they actually commit fewer violent acts?", "Well, Canetti actually went back and she tracked all incidents of anti-Israel violence in the areas before and after the checkpoints were dismantled. And she says she found measureable changes in actual behavior.", "We saw a decrease in the number of instances of Palestinian violence against Israelis in the places where checkpoints were removed.", "So checkpoints are troublesome for people. They don't like going through them. They don't like having them around. And this study finds that when the checkpoints are removed, Palestinians are a little bit happier. Isn't there some level on which that's kind of obvious?", "On one level, it is obvious, Steve. But it's important to remember, of course, that Israel placed the checkpoints in place. So in other words, Israel thought the checkpoints actually increased security. Canetti told me the checkpoints were tricky things because while they might make Israelis feel safer, they might actually be decreasing security. Here she is again.", "The message that we were trying to deliver was, hey, Israel, you have to take the risk. Give it a chance. And in the long run, you'll have more security, and not just the sense of security but real security.", "Wait a minute. So she's saying that at least in this instance having less security made Israelis more safe.", "It sounds paradoxical, Steve. But that's exactly what Canetti is finding. She also says that she's had conversations with the Israeli defense forces where they're really interested in this kind of research because Canetti thinks she's found not just the empirical finding that there's less violence, but the reason that there is less violence. The survey research tends to suggest that Palestinians respond with anger and violence not just because of the inconveniences of the checkpoint but because the checkpoints produce humiliation, and there's been a large body of scholarly work, Steve, that suggests that humiliation is often a big driver for anger and violence.", "Shankar, thanks very much.", "Thanks, Steve.", "And that's Steve Inskeep speaking with NPR's Shankar Vedantam."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE", "SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE", "SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE", "SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE", "SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE", "SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE", "DAPHNA CANETTI", "STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE", "SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE", "DAPHNA CANETTI", "STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE", "SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE", "DAPHNA CANETTI", "STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE", "SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE", "STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE", "SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-337150", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2018-04-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/08/ndaysun.01.html", "summary": "15 Dead After Bus Carrying Junior Hockey Team Crashes In Canada; Severe Weather In Northern California; \"Pope The Most Powerful Man In History\"", "utt": ["Good morning. Fifty minutes past the hour right now. And a Canadian community is just trying to understand this morning how this bus crash carrying a junior hockey team happened. Fifteen people were killed. At least 14 others were injured. It collided with a tractor-trailer in Canada's Saskatchewan province. Coaches and players for the Humboldt Broncos team were on board and they were on their way to a junior league playoff game.", "Some of the victims posted on social media from their hospital beds. We've got a photo here showing three survivors on gurneys holding each other's hands when this went viral. It was captioned bonding and healing. Authorities have not yet identified the victims and have not confirmed whether they were the players or the coaches and the cause of this crash still unknown.", "Well, rivers are flooding, roads are closed, more rain is on the way. We are talking about northern California this morning.", "CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar has the forecast for us. A lot coming to Yosemite.", "That's right. Yes. And I would like to point out with regarding Yosemite, they have made a note that if conditions warrant they may open the park back up at noon today but they are not going to make that decision until they can get out and take a look at the park. So here is what we have. This was that atmospheric river, that plume of moisture that came in over the last 24 to 48 hours. Now the good news is this is going to start to push a little bit farther interior and as it does so, you're going to start to see an end to that rain. This morning, that's not the case. We have still got rain expected for Washington, Oregon, and into California. But it will start to come to an end by this afternoon and the evening. This is a good thing. Especially when you consider how much rain has already fallen across these areas. These numbers are just from California. Take a look at this 8.3, 8, 7.93. You've got a lot of rain that's already out there for a lot of these locations. Now the other thing you have to keep in mind is that we have been talking about this. There is more rain on the way. This system that we have today begins to exit but notice this other one out over the pacific. They are only going to get about one day- break before the next system moves in on Tuesday and into Wednesday of the upcoming week. This creates more problems because does it really give those roadways that are covered with debris and mud flows and water, does it give them enough time to clean those up before the next round of rain begins to come back in? Widespread amounts for this next rain are still likely to be about two to four inches. Now you could have some amounts even higher than that. Although those are expected to be a little bit farther north, Victor and Christi, up say towards Washington state.", "All right. We will be ready. Allison Chinchar, thank you.", "Thanks.", "You know, he faced an impossible decision but in a war against religion, could the Pope have done more?", "As fascism explodes over Europe Catholics become enemies of the state.", "The thing about Catholics in particular, Catholics had a relationship, a devotion to something outside of government.", "There is going to be conflict over the status of Catholic youth groups and whether these youth groups ought to be brought under the umbrella fascist organization.", "There are some Catholic bishops who were beaten, who had their homes and their offices ransacked.", "The church, of course, to be able to operate has to be physically secure.", "The Vatican is faced with an extraordinary dilemma. Because of his experience as a papal diplomat, Pope Pius XI enlists Pacelli's help to negotiate with the fascia's Italian (ph) government. The result is a Lateran Treaty.", "You can watch \"Pope The Most Powerful Man In History\" tonight at 10:00 p.m. Eastern.", "All right. One hour of NEW DAY down and one to go.", "At the top of the hour the state department called a suspected chemical attack in Syria horrifying. Saying, if true an immediate response is necessary.", "What could that response look like and will this change the president's plan to pull United States troops out of Syria?", "We will be right back. Stay close."], "speaker": ["PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "BLACKWELL", "CHINCHAR", "PAUL", "LIAM NEESON, NARRATOR (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NEESON", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-387839", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-12-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/13/es.02.html", "summary": "Democrats Did Not Push Through with Late-Night Vote on Impeachment; Boris Johnson Pledges to Make Brexit Happen After Decisive Victory; Trump Signs Off on Tentative U.S.-China Trade Deal.", "utt": ["The committee will now stand in recess until tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m.", "History on hold. The House Judiciary vote on impeachment delayed until this morning. A late-night curveball after a day of GOP delays.", "This one nation conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate.", "A defining win for Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party in the U.K. Is Brexit now on the fast track?", "The president finally signs off on a phase one trade deal with China. What both sides get and the lasting damage the talks may have created. Welcome back to EARLY START, everybody, and happy Friday. I'm Dave Briggs.", "Happy Friday. I'm Amara Walker. Half past 4:00 in the morning here in New York.", "Breaking overnight, a late-night surprise from the House Judiciary Committee.", "It has been a long two days of consideration of these articles and it is now very late at night. The committee will now stand in recess until tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. at which point --", "Whoa.", "-- I will move to divide the question so that each of us may have the opportunity to cast up-or-down votes on each of the articles of impeachment and to let history be our judge. The committee is in recess.", "Mr. Chairman, you chose not to consult the ranking member on a schedule issue of this magnitude? So typical. This is the -- this is the kangaroo court that we're talking about. This is outrageous --", "Not even consult --", "It's Stalinesque. Let's have a dictator. It's good to hear about that.", "00 a.m. tomorrow --", "Unbelievable.", "The Stalin comment from Texas Congressman Louis Gohmert you heard there. The vote on articles to impeach and remove President trump put on hold until this morning. Virtually everyone expected a late-night vote last night. So why the delay? Democrats were furious at Republicans for what they considered a blatant effort to drag out debate forcing a final vote in the dead of night.", "Democrats decided not to play ball, putting off the final two votes so more Americans can witness history in the making. Bottom line, the committee is still expected to pass articles of impeachment -- the president today with the full House to follow next week, likely on Wednesday. So how is the White House preparing for this historic moment? Here's Kaitlan Collins with that.", "Yes. Dave and Amara, the president was paying close attention as these Republicans and Democrats were going back and forth on the House Judiciary Committee. Now, all this comes as the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, says he is going to be coordinating with the White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, closely, on what that Senate trial is going to look like. We know that's something the president has been turning his attention on because he wants to essentially be vindicated when it comes to the time to have that Senate trial, which McConnell says will be in the early year. But one interesting thing that did happen yesterday is as the president behind the scenes has been privately complaining still about impeachment, his campaign manager Brad Parscale was touting what they see as the political benefits of what's happening in Washington right now. They say they're able to fund raise faster, get more volunteers and essentially ignite this flame behind their supporters because of impeachment because essentially they argue that these supporters see the president, they think he's being attacked, they think his presidency is being attacked. And they think in the long run that's going to help them.", "All right. Kaitlan Collins, thanks. Breaking overnight, a decisive, historic outcome in the U.K. election.", "It does look as though this one nation conservative government has been given a powerful, new mandate.", "To get Brexit done.", "Boris Johnson's Conservative Party capturing an absolute majority, winning at least 355 seats. That's the best result for the Conservatives since Margaret Thatcher's landslide win in 1987. Already there are plans for leadership changes in the Labour Party. Max Foster live from London with the latest. Max, good morning.", "So a huge night today it has to be said for Boris Johnson. He wasn't taken seriously for years in politics. Looked like he was on his way out at one point. And now gets this victory. The type of victory the Conservatives haven't had since Margaret Thatcher's day back in 1987. So extraordinary, he is now able to push his agenda through. His big campaign message we spoke about on the program was get Brexit done. He now has a mandate to do that. This debate, though, of Brexit is over. We are leaving. It's going to be a managed withdrawal with a deal at the end of January. That's what he promised and that's what people voted on. So we're expecting that now to happen. There'll then be a negotiation process with the E.U. to get a trade deal. But already Donald Trump has stepped in this morning saying the U.S. could give the U.K. an even bigger trade deal than the E.U. So this has national repercussions, European repercussions and also international repercussions when you consider this may also affect the United States. One slight splatter in the works might be the very strong showing from the Scottish Nationalists. They now dominate Scottish politics and they campaigned on a referendum on Scottish independence, something Boris Johnson has ruled out and he's got a problem there.", "Yes. Still a very rocky road ahead. Max Foster live for us in London this morning. You saw Boris Johnson with his dog. He went to the polling station with it. And 50,000 people tweeted about dogs at polling stations. Then this guy showed up. Reindeer were at the polling station, a consequence of the timing, just before Christmas. Let's just say it was a very interesting and colorful day in the", "Aren't these supposed to be apolitical, the reindeers?", "We don't know who they voted for.", "OK.", "OK?", "But still.", "Yes.", "After months of negotiations, President Trump has signed off on a phase one trade deal with China. The two sides have been haggling over specifics since a broad outline was announced in October. CNN's David Culver is live in Beijing with the latest. Hi, David.", "Hey there, Amara. Well, let's look at this agreement. OK? So this includes a delay in tariffs on Chinese gods that were scheduled to kick in on Sunday. These are those consumer goods. $156 billion worth. Now a source says that the deal also includes reducing some of the existing tariffs. That's important because that's why the October deal that was very similar to where we are now essentially fell apart. The Chinese insisted they wanted a bigger rollback on tariffs. It seems like the U.S. will go forward with that. China in return has promised to make those big agricultural purchases of products. That's big for President Trump's base, in particular. And they've also made those same agreements in the past. But the thing is, they have really failed to follow through on those. The question is, if they go forward with this, will they agree to that? As of now they're saying yes. Now all of this does not address the major structural changes to China's economy that Trump has been calling for. So assuming this phase one goes through, it may get held up before we're even talking about a phase two or a phase three. Especially when we point to what we're hearing today here out of Beijing. The rhetoric in particular. China's foreign minister, lashing out at the U.S. I want you to listen to what he had to say. He said, quote, \"This almost paranoid behavior seriously damaging the hard-won foundation of mutual trust between China and the United States, and seriously weakening the United States' own international credibility.\" Coming down hard on the U.S. notably they don't mention President Donald Trump by name. But this is not speaking positively to this relationship going forward. One positive note we can say, U.S. futures looking upwards and Asian markets closed with gains -- Amara.", "David Culver, appreciate your reporting live for us there in Beijing.", "2020 Democratic hopeful, Elizabeth Warren, sharpening her attacks. She is now directly calling out fellow candidate Pete Buttigieg as well former Vice President Joe Biden and billionaires like fellow candidate Michael Bloomberg. Warren shifting strategies as her campaign stalls in national polls. Speaking in New Hampshire, Warren took a series of unmistakable shots. The common theme, her rivals' reliance on campaign cash from rich donors, which she says makes them untrustworthy and not out to help the working class.", "Now, unlike some candidates for the Democratic nomination, I am not counting on Republican politicians having an epiphany and suddenly supporting the kind of tax increases on the rich or big business accountability that they've opposed under Democratic presidents for a generation. Unlike some candidates for the Democratic nomination, I'm not betting my agenda on the naive hope that if Democrats adopt Republican critiques of progressive policies or make vague calls or unity, that somehow the wealthy and well-connected will stand down.", "The debate calendar for early 2020 now taking shape. CNN and the \"Des Moines Register\" will host the Iowa debate January 14th from the campus of Drake University. The last debate before the Iowa caucuses.", "Facebook putting big money into a board to oversee its content. But it won't be up and running as soon as the company hoped."], "speaker": ["REP. JERRY NADLER (D-NY)", "DAVE BRIGGS, CNN ANCHOR", "BORIS JOHNSON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER", "AMARA WALKER, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIGGS", "WALKER", "BRIGGS", "NADLER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "NADLER", "REP. DOUG COLLINS (R-GA)", "COLLINS", "REP. LOUIE GOHMERT (R-TX)", "COLLINS:  10", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BRIGGS", "WALKER", "KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "JOHNSON", "JOHNSON", "BRIGGS", "MAX FOSTER, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT", "BRIGGS", "U.K. WALKER", "BRIGGS", "WALKER", "BRIGGS", "WALKER", "BRIGGS", "WALKER", "DAVID CULVER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "WALKER", "BRIGGS", "SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "BRIGGS", "WALKER"]}
{"id": "NPR-8194", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2009-03-18", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102051032", "title": "Remembering A Vivid Description Of Food Addiction", "summary": "News & Notes producer Sonata Lee Narcisse talks with Tony Cox about a memorable segment she produced on food addiction.", "utt": ["All this week, we've been talking to the people who work behind the scenes here at News & Notes. And today, we turn to Sonata Lee Narcisse, a producer here at News & Notes, about her time on this show. Hello, Sonata.", "Hi, Tony.", "You know, you are the youngest person on the staff here at News & Notes, and you started off as an intern back in 2006. And then, you came back as a producer and now, as a director.", "That's right. I was still in graduate school when I started here. I really loved the show. I was really excited to start working here after I graduated, so I'm really happy to be here.", "And we were glad to have you here.", "Thank you.", "So what has been one of the most memorable stories that you have produced?", "One of my very first assignments on News & Notes was for a month-long series on addiction. It looked at things like gambling, shopping, substance abuse. And I was assigned the segment on food addiction. So at first, I wasn't sure what route to take with this segment. In our editorial meeting, we discussed possible guests for this show, like nationally syndicated radio host Big Boy, or American Idol's Randy Jackson. They've both had weight-loss surgery. So I thought that they wouldbe great for the show because I knew people would be able to relate to them, but I didn't know if their stories really represented food addiction. And that was something we really tried to define in this segment - what is food addiction? Is there a difference between someone who overeats, and someone who is literally addicted to food? So for the answer to that question, we turned to addiction specialist Marty Lerner. He directs the Milestones in Recovery eating disorders program. News & Notes' former host, Farai Chideya, asked Marty Lerner to explain when someone crosses the line between overeating and food addiction.", "It's very similar to other addictions. For instance, if I can borrow an analogy between a heavy social drinker and an alcoholic, there comes a time when someone wakes up in the morning and they look back and they realize, instead of them controlling their consumption of alcohol, now the alcohol is controlling themselves. So one of the earmarks of food addiction - or any addiction - is to find yourself in the quagmire of wanting to not engage in a behavior or consume a substance, and finding yourself compelled to do that despite the consequences. So a loss of control is one earmark that delineates someone with a bad habit versus someone who has an addictive process they're involved with.", "So who did you end up finding for the piece?", "I turned to Overeaters Anonymous for our guest, Vic(ph), who is a recovering food addict. And Farai started off the interview by asking Vic to give an example of a day when she completely lost control of her eating.", "It wasn't a day. It was the day before, and that day, and the next day. But anyway, OK, so I wake up in the morning, totally hung over. Dr. Lerner, Marty, described very well, you know, having lost control. So I wake up. I feel terrible, and the last thing I want to do, I think, is - in my rational brain - is eat because I feel so bad. And yet, I know that if I take one bite of anything, I'll be off and running. And I'm scared. I'm really scared. I'm living a totally isolated life and I'm - because of this food addiction. And I'm scared because I'll do it to myself again but...", "Let me - let me just ask one thing. When you say hung over, do you mean hung over from overeating or hung over…", "Oh, yes, purely overeating.", "But what's an overeating hangover feel like?", "Well, OK. I've just woken up from a night of terrible sweat, tossing and turning because of the excesses in my gut. I - my head feels like it's stuffed with concrete cotton. Every nerve in my body feels like its got acid on it. I feel completely demoralized, ugly. I'm also physically bloated. It's just like - stuffed. OK. I don't - it's hard for me…", "I think that you've given us a lot of descriptions, you know.", "OK, great. All right. So now you want to know what happens next?", "Yeah, what did - yeah, you were saying that you were afraid to start eating but I'm...", "OK. But then - OK, I would be afraid to start eating but there was nothing else to do because I was dirty, I was - I couldn't fit in my clothes. I had no friends left because I was so isolated with the food. So there was nothing left to do but eat, and if I stopped eating for one second, I might remember something. Oh, and by the way, all the time that I would be eating, I - well, not all the time but at the beginning, when I would start out eating, it would like the - a break for my imagination and I'd sit there stuffing my face and thinking of all the great things I was going to do when I got through eating, what a success I would be. But soon those thoughts would be supplanted because I was just terrorized by what I was doing to myself.   ..TEXT: Ms. NARCISSE: We also spoke to Libby Bier, a food-addiction counselor at the Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery.", "It sounds to me, and maybe I'm wrong, that what Vic has been going through was an extreme case. How extreme was it and what, you know, and you hinted at this, what make someone an addict as opposed to a social overeater?", "Sure, and to be honest with you, I don't really think that Vic's case is too far from most of the cases that we work with here at our center. I don't know if maybe Vic, if she's been in treatment, if she could speak to maybe some of the other people that she knows but her case really does just seem like one of the - just - if I can use the word, normal cases, that we see here quite often with someone who truly has food addiction; it is this severe.", "So Sonata, what was it about this piece that stood out for you?", "Well, Vic described her struggle with food addiction so vividly. I think we hear people depict their struggles with drug addiction in movies and on television, but I don't think we've ever really heard of food addicts speak so candidly and descriptively about their addiction. I also thought Libby Bier was an important component to this segment because she explained that although Vic's story seemed to be an extreme case of food addiction, her struggle really is not that unique.", "Let's talk about you for a minute, OK? We said in the beginning that you came here as an intern, and I know that you have worked - you worked at a newspaper for a while and I know you worked at CBS. But in terms of on-air or working in a television - I mean, in a radio talk show, news opinion setting, this is the first time you've really done that.", "That's right.", "So, how would you describe that experience for people who are trying to do what you've already done?", "Oh, my goodness. A huge adrenalin rush would be a description I would give. You know, we're a live show so we've got a certain amount of time to get it done and get it on air. So, you're operating off of instincts, a lot of times.", "So, do you feel that you are - this show maybe helped prepare for your next spot?", "Oh, definitely, I've learned so much here. It's just been incredible.", "So, we're proud of you. We feel like we - you grew up with us.", "And I feel like I did.", "That was Sonata Lee Narcisse, a producer and director here at News & Notes, taking - talking about a segment she produced on food addiction.", "That's our show for today. Glad you could join us. To listen to the show, visit our Web site, nprnewsandnotes.org. News & Notes was created by NPR News and the African-American Public Radio Consortium. Tomorrow, March Madness is sweeping the nation. Let the bracket-busting begin. New York Times sports columnist Bill Roden gives us his picks.", "I'm Tony Cox. 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{"id": "NPR-24159", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2015-08-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/08/13/432122581/at-least-50-dead-after-massive-twin-explosions-in-northeast-china", "title": "At Least 50 Dead After Massive Twin Explosions In Northeast China", "summary": "Massive twin explosions in Tianjin, China, Wednesday night left at least 50 dead and hundreds wounded.", "utt": ["Chinese state media says that yesterday's massive explosions happened at a warehouse that stored gas and flammable chemicals. The blasts were so powerful, they were felt for miles. At least 50 people have died, including 17 firefighters. More than 700 were injured. NPR's Frank Langfitt has more from the northern port city of Tianjin.", "Thousands of people had to flee their homes, and many of them ended up in places like this. It's a middle school. What they've done is they've taken most of the desks and chairs out, and people are sleeping on the floor of the classroom on quilts and straw mats. There's even Chinese characters left on the blackboard since school got out back in June. Among the refugees is a man named Jiang, who's a construction worker.", "(Through interpreter) As we were sleeping, there was a noise, and then suddenly, our roof was gone. We immediately ran out. The second we ran out of the door, the second noise came. The entire dormitory collapsed. When we ran, we took nothing with us. No one dared to grab anything.", "Like many affected by the blast, Jiang is a migrant worker and came here to build apartment buildings and lived in a flimsy mobile dormitory that are common in worksite across China. Sitting across from Jiang school hall is a fellow construction worker named Wang. Neither wanted their full names used because the government views industrial disasters like this as politically sensitive. Wang says he'd been in another dorm about 500 yards from the blast.", "(Through interpreter) After the first explosion, the ceiling of our dorm started falling all over the place. When I got to the door, the shockwave made me unable to exhale for six to seven seconds, and I couldn't scream.", "(Speaking Mandarin).", "Government officials held a press conference today but gave no hint of what set off the explosion and ducked most questions. When disasters like this strike, the Communist Party often strictly controls information and crafts a narrative that focuses less on responsibility and more on what officials are doing to help victims. The blasts were enormous. The first one was equivalent to three tons of TNT, according to Chinese media - the second, 21 tons. Photos from the scene resemble the aftermath of a carpet-bombing campaign, with gutted buildings, burned out cars and scorched land.", "When we escape from the building, we all think it's earthquake.", "Yang Limei is a 50-year-old chemistry professor. She's also camped out at the school, wearing a colorful house dress she ran out of her apartment in. Yang says her husband was watching TV when the first blast struck.", "In the living room, the window - all broken.", "Yang gave her shoes to her 19-year-old son. They raced down 24 flights and ran through the streets where Yang cut her feet on broken glass that rained down from the sky. She said she had no idea the plants nearby stored so many potentially dangerous chemicals.", "We don't know. If we know it, we don't want to live here (laughter). We only come here for one month. Because yesterday, we really have a very horrible experience.", "A horrible experience in what is one of the worst industrial accidents in China in recent years and remains, for the moment, mostly a mystery. Frank Langfitt, NPR News, Tianjin."], "speaker": ["ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST", "FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE", "JIANG", "FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE", "WANG", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE", "YANG LIMEI", "FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE", "YANG LIMEI", "FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE", "YANG LIMEI", "FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-37020", "program": "CNN LIVE THIS MORNING", "date": "2001-8-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/13/ltm.20.html", "summary": "President Bush Remains Under the Microscope", "utt": ["President Bush is out of the Beltway, but he's still under the microscope for last week's announcement that he supports partial funding for embryonic stem cell research. As a new week gets under way, both liberals and conservatives are looking for clarification and administration officials say that they will get it. For more on that, let's check in with our White House correspondent Kelly Wallace, who's standing by in Crawford, Texas. That happens to be where the president is vacationing -- hi, Kelly.", "Hi, there, Leon. Well, you could say President Bush and his top advisers tried to clear up any questions over the weekend about what the president will and what he won't support. Now, Mr. Bush is actually at this very hour on the golf course. He was joking with reporters a bit earlier today about his golf swing and at that time reporters weren't able to get close enough to ask him about criticism of his stem cell decision. But Mr. Bush seemed to be responding to some criticism, particularly coming from some anti-abortion rights activists in this op-ed, which he wrote and which appeared in yesterday's \"New York Times\" when he said, \"We do not end some lives for the medical benefit of others. For me, this is a matter of conviction, a belief that life, including early life, is biologically human, genetically distinct and valuable.\" The president, and again, his top aides making clear over the weekend that the president will only support research or federal funding of research using those stem cells that have already been extracted from human embryos despite any developments that scientists might come across. Well, some Democrats and even some Republicans question whether the president's plan is too limited. They also question whether the 60 existing stem cell lines the administration claims exist will give scientists enough information to find cures to various diseases.", "Well, I'm very skeptical that the cell lines would be sufficient. This is something that our appropriations subcommittee has already gone into in great depth. But I think in light of what the president has had to say, we ought to go further and look at it even more closely.", "And, in fact, Senator Specter plans to look at this more closely and push a bipartisanship bill this fall that would call for federal funding of research using the 100,000 human embryos that are left over at fertility clinics and that would otherwise be discarded. So, Leon, you could definitely say that the president's decision not the last word on this issue -- Leon.", "Kelly, are you hearing whether or not there's some concern there or surprise at least on behalf of the president on the outcry that we've seen and heard so far? This has actually stirred up quite a bit.", "Yes, although they seem pretty pleased, though, Leon, I might add. One senior administration official using the words, \"We may have sort of threaded the needle here.\" They knew that they could not please all sides, that there would be those who think that the administration is going too far, those thinking the White House not going far enough. But for the most part they are pleased. They look at some conservatives, some anti-abortion rights groups such as the National Right To Life Committee, saying they delighted. Reverend Jerry Falwell, praising the president's decision, and even some Democrats offering the president some praise, even while they still want to push for broader embryonic stem cell research. So overall they feel quite pleased and think that the president is getting credit for thinking this through and for doing what he believed was the right thing to do in the end.", "Kelly Wallace in Crawford, Texas, thanks much. We'll talk with you later on."], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. ARLEN SPECTER (R), PENNSYLVANIA", "WALLACE", "HARRIS", "WALLACE", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-289378", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-07-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/21/cnr.19.html", "summary": "British P.M. Theresa May Meets with Hollande, Merkel on Brexit", "utt": ["British Prime Minister Theresa May is meeting with French President Francois Hollande on Thursday in Paris. They're expected to talk about terrorism and the U.K.'s departure from the European Union. On Wednesday, Mrs. May met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The two leaders want their countries to remain close even after the Brexit.", "Obviously, this is the first visit to Germany of a British prime minister since the British people took the decision to leave the European Union. I've been clear that Brexit means Brexit. But I want to be clear here today and across Europe in the weeks ahead that we are not walking away from our European friends.", "Our bilateral relationships, trade, et cetera, will be continued because this is our common interest. Great Britain and Germany have always worked together well within the European Union and I want this to be the same spirit in the coming years.", "CNN political contributor, Robin Oakley. joins us now from London. Robin, good to have you with us. And the public statements made by Theresa May and Angela Merkel, they seem very much on the same page. But those private talks, what's your sense of the tone of those talks behind closed doors?", "Well, it has to be said that British officials are very pleased with the outcome of the meeting. They say that communication channels have now been opened, and that's what the meeting was really all about. They weren't going to get down to any detailed discussion of Brexit at this stage. It was a matter of forging a working relationship and that seems to have been done. Angela Merkel very much doesn't want the European boat rocks. And she was prepared to give Theresa May time to prepare Britain's case, she said. A rather more understanding attitude than there's been from other leaders across the E.U. And of course, Theresa May was very much stressing this message that although Britain is going to detach from the institutions of the European Union, it's not going to be detaching from Europe, and still cooperating on defense, on terrorism, on a whole range of bilateral issues. So it's been a successful meeting. But, really, Angela Merkel was saying, OK, what we need is a carefully defined British position. What she was really saying was, for god's sake, tell us what exactly it is you want and then we'll see if there's any chance of meeting you -- Isha?", "Yeah, indeed. And should we take it to be that because they seem publicly on the same page when it comes to those negotiations when they get down to them, that Germany will take a softer position than we previously anticipated or is Germany's position unchanged when it comes to actual negotiating?", "Angela Merkel has said all along there's going to be no cherry picking. But you have to set against that the fact that Germany sells 62 billion pounds worth more goods to Britain than Britain sells to Germany. 800,000 German cars come to Britain every year. So Germany has an interest in maintaining trade links with Britain and not having tariff wars and things like that. So there's some compulsion on Angela Merkel to be cooperative. It's a question, really, of how much she can take along other European leaders who want to see Britain punished for leaving the E.U. because they want it as a warning to other countries who might be thinking about exiting if they've got particular pressure groups in their countries -- Isha?", "Let's look ahead to the meeting with French President Francois Hollande. What are the expectations for that meeting given France's response to Brexit to date?", "That's not going be quite so comfortable at all. And Francois Hollande and his ministers have been making every effort to start detaching businesses from the city of London, banks and others, and say they'll be welcome in France and, look, you can count on doing business in France. And he is very much one of those leaders who want to see Britain punished for the Brexit because he's got Marine Le Pen, head of the Front National, the right wing group in France, who are pressing for Frexit, as it were. And he doesn't want any encouragement. He doesn't want Britain to get anything out of exiting Europe. He wants to show the French people that coming out of Europe is a really bad idea. So he's going to be less cooperative altogether when he meets Theresa May. On the other hand, Britain and France have strong cooperation on defense, and with the current wave of terrorism and so on, they have much in common on that issue, too -- Isha?", "We'll be watching it closely. Robin Oakley, there in London for us, much appreciated. Thank you. Later this hour, on NEWSROOM L.A., this actress says hate drove her off Twitter. Find out who is being blamed and how Twitter is handling the issue."], "speaker": ["SESAY", "THERESA MAY, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER", "ANGELA MERKEL, GERMAN CHANCELLOR (through translation)", "SESAY", "ROBIN OAKLEY, CNN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR", "SESAY", "OAKLEY", "SESAY", "OAKLEY", "SESAY"]}
{"id": "CNN-291543", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-08-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/16/nday.01.html", "summary": "Trump Calls for 'Extreme Vetting' of Immigrants; Finish Line Drama for Allyson Felix; Trump Campaign Chairman Named in Ukraine Probe.", "utt": ["We cannot let this evil continue. ISIS is on the loose.", "Donald has been all over the place on", "Trump has the intellect and the strength to confront our enemies.", "He is not qualified to know the codes.", "Hillary Clinton lacks the judgment to lead our nation.", "I'm going to go out there and run with heart.", "Allyson Felix came up just short of a fifth Olympic gold medal.", "Breakout star Simone Biles takes bronze on the beam.", "I'm definitely very happy I came back for one more.", "As high as I've ever seen it.", "Historic, deadly flooding in Louisiana.", "This car is under the water.", "It is still very, very dangerous. We still have waters rising.", "This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.", "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your NEW DAY. It's Tuesday, August 16, 6 a.m. in the east. Up first, Donald Trump calling for extreme vetting of immigrants trying to come to the U.S. He talked about making them pass an ideological test.", "Trump also trying to clean up his case against the president and Hillary Clinton for the rise of ISIS. No more talk about founding. Now it is about policy choices. Vice President Joe Biden taking on that accusation. He and Clinton made their own new case for what Trump could mean for national security. We have every angle covered for you. Let's begin with Athena Jones live in Washington with more. Good morning, Athena.", "Good morning, Chris. The often unscripted Donald Trump was on message yesterday, talking about what he would do to defeat terrorism. And he made a turn in the speech. After repeatedly questioning the value of the NATO alliance, he is now vowing to work with the U.S.'s NATO partners in this fight against terrorism. And with Clinton and her allies raising questions about his temperament, he is now trying to raise doubts about her judgment and fitness for office.", "I call it is extreme, extreme vetting.", "Donald Trump delivering a fiery speech on his ideas for fighting radical Islamic terrorism, proposing a different kind of admission test for people entering the United States.", "In addition to screening out all members of the sympathizers of terrorist groups, we must also screen out any who have hostile attitudes toward our country or its principles, or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law. Those who do not believe in our Constitution or who support bigotry and hatred will not be admitted for immigration into our country.", "Trump calling for bans on immigration from countries with ties to terror...", "We will have to temporarily suspend immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism.", "... and simultaneously trashing Hillary Clinton's capabilities.", "With one episode of bad judgment after another, Hillary Clinton's policies launched ISIS onto the world stage. She also lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on", "The Democratic trifecta -- President Obama, Vice President Biden and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton -- hitting Trump on all fronts. At a DNC fundraising event Monday night, President Obama refusing to mention Trump by name but quipping, \"I don't have to make the case against her opponent, because every time he talks he makes the case against his own candidacy.\" Clinton and Biden together in Biden's hometown of Scranton, launching their preemptive attack.", "Friends should not let friends vote for Trump.", "This guy doesn't care about the middle class, and I don't even blame him in a sense, because he doesn't understand it. He doesn't have a clue. This man is totally thoroughly unqualified to be president of the United States of America.", "Biden slamming Trump as a threat to national security.", "There's a guy that follows me right back here, has the nuclear codes. So God forbid anything happen to the president and I had to make a decision, the codes are with me. He is not qualified to know the code. He can't be trusted.", "Trump holds a rally in a town hall in Wisconsin today while Clinton spends another day in Pennsylvania attending a voter registration event in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, in a sign of confidence, Priorities USA, the super PAC supporting Clinton, now says it's not going to air any local ads in Virginia, Colorado or Pennsylvania through most of September, the 2nd through the 20th, saying in a statement, \"We know at the moment these are tough states for Donald Trump, and there isn't as much of a need for us to air ads there\" -- Chris, Alisyn.", "All right, Athena. Thank you very much. A lot to discuss. Let's do it. CNN political analyst and Washington bureau chief for \"The Daily Beast,\" Jackie Kucinich; CNN senior political reporter Manu Raju; and CNN senior international correspondent Clarissa Ward. Jackie, let's start with you. In terms of what Trump needed to do here, the test was obvious: meat on the bones. Do you think he did enough to distinguish himself from just one liners into policy?", "This definitely was a more policy-laden speech than other Trump speeches, but again, than other Trump speeches. I don't know that he -- there was a lot of meat on the bones. There was a lot of sort of ideas, but he didn't really fill them out at all. To me, this seems like another speech to Trump supporters. I don't know that this expanded his reach with other -- with other voters, particularly that line about the extreme test for immigrants. That isn't targeted to broadening the Republican base. That's directed solely to the folks that already support Donald Trump.", "So Clarissa, help us understand what the process is. Is Donald Trump right that there could be better vetting of refugees, or as the Department of Homeland Security says, do they already have what they consider extreme vetting in terms of a painstaking process? How does it work?", "Well, I think the U.S. Is very well known for having one of the most stringent vetting processes that there is. As a result, the U.S. has only taken 8,000 Syrian refugees, as compared to the more than 800,000 that Germany alone has taken. So the idea that you would have some kind of a questionnaire really just beggars belief, to me, Alisyn, if I'm an ISIS operative, I'm not going to fill in a questionnaire saying, \"I hate America. I want to hurt Americans and implement Sharia law.\" So I'm not exactly sure how this questionnaire or this vetting process would work, but suffice it to say that ISIS operatives are at least sophisticated enough, I would think, to be able to handle that kind of questioning fairly adeptly. And that is the entire problem. He talked very broadly about we must just ban recruitment, stop recruitment. Well, that sounds like a great idea. How do we do it? His suggestion was to shut down the Internet in certain parts of the world, which first of all, I don't think it's logistically feasible. But beyond that, I would venture to say that our security services glean a lot of their intelligence from information that they gather online. So, as you just heard from Jackie, a kind of mishmash of ideas coming through, but none of them really seeming clearly to me to make the case for better security.", "And Clarissa, as you've reported to us many times, the irony here is that the vetting for refugees from places like Syria is the most exhaustive. Because as another layer of U.N. vetting as well than typically entry into the U.S. Manu, how about the political score here? It was clear intention by Donald Trump to put a lot of blame for the current status of what's going on in Iran and Iraq, specifically with ISIS, on Obama. How effective?", "Well, I think that's an open question. I mean, clearly part of this, too, Chris, was a design to show that Donald Trump has the experience and temperament to lead this country. Remember, I mean, not only are polls showing that -- that Hillary Clinton is viewed as someone who could be a commander in chief, not Donald Trump. Increasingly so, Donald Trump is questioned, and his approval rating is slipping on that specific issue. But -- and also the foreign policy establishment, 50 Republican national security officials coming out last week saying that Donald Trump cannot lead this country in a time of a perilous world, a time of so many national security trials (ph). Donald Trump trying to reverse that. That is really the open question here. How much did he bring on, not just reach out to those independents, convince folks that, well, Obama and Clinton are to blame here, but also to convince his own party whether or not they could get behind him. Yesterday it was interesting, Chris and Alisyn. We did not really hear a lot from the Republican foreign policy establishment, from members of Congress. There was a deafening silence from a lot of members of his own party. It really just shows the challenge that Donald Trump has in selling folks on a lot of those ideas, particularly on that issue of vetting, the extreme vetting of immigrants coming to this country. It does not sound like the Muslim travel ban, but in a lot of ways it's a lot broader than the Muslim travel ban. That's what gives a lot of those folks in the Republican foreign policy establishment and members of Congress a lot of pause. So lot of questions about whether or not he was able to bring on his own party and reach out to some of those independents.", "Well, we heard from Joe Biden yesterday. He made the case again, as Hillary Clinton has, that Donald Trump should not have his sort of finger on the button. And Joe Biden also talked about a guy who follows him around. So let's listen one more time to what Joe Biden said.", "There's a guy that follows me, right back here, has the nuclear codes. So God forbid anything happened to the president and I had to make a decision, the codes are with me. He is not qualified to know the codes. He can't be trusted. I was proud my son Beau served for a year in Iraq, came back a highly decorated soldier. I must tell you -- I must tell you, had Donald Trump been president, I would have thrown my body in front of him.", "What did you think of the effectiveness of Biden's speech?", "Not only is Joe Biden sort of not-so-secret weapon for Hillary Clinton when it comes to blue-collar workers, he also has a wealth of foreign policy experience because of his work in the Senate, and as well as being vice president for, you know, almost eight years. So I think he was very effective, particularly to the audience that he was speaking to. I would not be surprised to see Joe Biden on the campaign trail in several Midwestern and Rust Belt states. Because, I mean, remember at the convention, he was one of the only speakers throughout that entire convention that was solely dedicated to speaking to that blue-collar vote that has so far been kind of resistant to Hillary Clinton.", "So we have Clinton now with Biden, making the case that Trump cannot keep you safe. Trump and his supporters' case is that Clinton and Obama have not kept you safe. Rudy Giuliani came out very strong on this, drawing controversy because of some context that he provided in his statement. Here it is.", "Remember, we didn't start this war. They did. We don't want this war. They do. Under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States. They all started when Clinton and Obama got into office.", "Now, Clarissa, the obvious problem there is that Rudy Giuliani knows better than most the question about 9/11. The question is why doesn't he include that in his analysis of all of this and the idea in general of this all started under Obama's watch? What do you make of it?", "Well, first of all, let's be clear. ISIS actually began in a military prison camp run by the U.S. in Iraq called Camp Bucca. That is where the al Qaeda zealots for the first time were being held in the same corridors as the Ba'athists, and you had this toxic brew that was made between ideological zealots and people who actually knew something about state running. So it happened in Camp Bucca, before President Obama and Secretary Clinton entered on the scene. Beyond that, you heard in Trump's speech yesterday that he is essentially trying to lay blame for the entire Arab Spring at the feet of the Obama administration, which is just absurd, frankly, Chris, because the Arab Spring was a result of decades and decades of political repression in that region. This is not something that America singlehandedly somehow cultivated. And the other thing that we heard coming from Trump was that we should be, in fact, cooperating more with these brutal dictators. In fact, he seemed nostalgic to the heyday of the Middle Eastern dictators. So I think he also upheld Syria and Libya. These are the classic examples, he said, of the failure of the Obama administration's policies. But they're very different. In Libya, you had an intervention and disastrous consequences. In Syria, you had no intervention with even more disastrous consequences. And Syria, by the way, is where ISIS has really taken on a whole new life.", "Panel, stick around. We have much more to talk to you about. But first, we want to get to some good news, because the Olympic games, there's been many dramatic finishes and here's another one. This was the women's 400-meter sprint. And the Bahamian, Shaunae Miller, dove for the gold at the finish line, edging out star Allyson Felix. And gymnastics superstar Simone Biles picks up another medal. CNN sports anchor Coy Wire is live in Rio with more. Tell us all the highlights, Coy.", "Good morning, Alisyn. So Simone Biles takes the bronze. And the positive in Simon Biles not taking a fourth straight gold is that we now know she is human. It just wouldn't be fun or fair if she were. So bronze in the beam competition, and that adds to the U.S.'s tally. Let's get you your medal count here on NEW DAY. USA leads the way with 75. China is in second with 46. Great Britain in third with 41. But the thing everyone is talking about out of Rio this morning, 400- meter final with American Allyson Felix and Shaunae Miller, the Bahama mama with the finish line drama.", "Running sensation Allyson Felix setting out for gold, the favorite to win in the 400-meter final. But in the home stretch, the Bahamas' Shaunae Miller diving across the finish line in a photo finish, Felix denied gold by seven one-hundredths of a second, taking home the silver. Allyson Felix becomes the most decorated woman in U.S. Olympic track and field history.", "God has been so good to get me this far. It's been a fight all season. I just gave it all I had tonight. It's going to be tough, you know. Just try to pick myself up.", "All eyes were on Simone Biles in the beam finals. And in a crowd-shocking moment she loses her balance, touching the beam, a deduction that cost her the gold. Laurie Hernandez delivering a nearly perfect routine, outscoring Biles and landing the silver. The Netherlands, unexpectedly taking home the gold. Meanwhile, Michael Phelps soaking in the rest of his time here in Rio, reflecting on what he has said are his fifth and final Olympic games. (on camera): What's been the most impactful memory from these games thus far?", "Having my son here is the best. Being able to share this moment with him in my last Olympics. And I'm looking forward to sharing these memories when he gets old enough. In a couple years, hopefully, I'll get a chance to take him to Tokyo and watch some events over there.", "Greatest Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps, set to retire again after his fifth and final Olympic games. Let's show you what we have to look forward to today. Twenty-five gold medals up for grabs. This will be the last time we see Simone Biles compete in Rio. She'll be in the floor exercise with fellow American and reigning Olympic champ Aly Raisman. We'll also see the men's 110 meter hurdles. Devon Allen is one of the favorites there. And the huge beach volleyball semis final match of Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross of the USA taking on the team from Brazil. And let me tell you guys: it is going to be rocking here in Copacabana.", "Wow. You're also going to get to see Usain Bolt run in his heat for the 200, right, Coy?", "That's exactly right. He'll be in a heat. I think he might break 19 seconds. We'll see, man.", "That's the drama. I forgot how much I love track, because I got so distracted by the gymnastics and the pool. CAMEROTA; Right.", "You have to see the fastest people in the whole world whipping around that oval. Boy, it's amazing.", "The Olympics are great, but Coy's wrap-ups are just as great.", "Coy is the rhymin' diamond.", "I know.", "He really is.", "I love that about him.", "All right. So we want to talk about the policy; also have to talk about the politics at play in the election right now. Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, is under investigation in the Ukraine. Did Paul Manafort receive secret cash payments from that country's former pro-Russian regime? He says no. But that is only the beginning of what is going to be investigated about him. Also, on the Clinton side of the ball, new more e-mails from Clinton's private server. What do they tell us? A closer look next."], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "ISIS. RUDY GIULIANI (R), FORMER MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY", "JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "TRUMP", "ALLYSON FELIX, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MICHAEL PHELPS, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ANNOUNCER", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TRUMP", "JONES (voice-over)", "TRUMP", "JONES", "TRUMP", "JONES", "TRUMP", "ISIS. 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{"id": "NPR-29740", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2011-04-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/04/05/135135528/budget-knife-is-aimed-at-prison-system-in-n-y", "title": "Budget Knife Is Aimed At Prison System In N.Y.", "summary": "In New York state, prison towns and state corrections officers are bracing for another big cut as Gov. Andrew Cuomo takes aim at what he has described as a bloated prison system.", "utt": ["This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne.", "We begin with Brian Mann in Ogdensburg in Upstate New York.", "This is a prison town. For 30 years two state correctional facilities have anchored the local economy. Hundreds of people work behind the bars. But now Governor Andrew Cuomo, as part of a budget cutting effort, is talking about closing five prisons statewide, and people here are worried.", "For Ogdensburg to lose either prison, Riverview or Ogdensburg Correctional, would be economically devastating.", "Here he is speaking earlier this year in his State of the State address.", "An incarceration program is not an employment program. If people need jobs, let's get people jobs. Don't put other people in prison to give some people jobs.", "Prison guard Chad Stickney says his industry is collapsing and those officers who can afford to retire or find other work are getting out.", "Right now we're losing a rate of 70 to 80 officers a month. And with no academy running, they have to close prisons, just to keep up with retirements.", "Katie Morgan runs the Busy Corner Cafe. She says even without a prison closure, things here are hard.", "Taking money away from them(ph) would make it a lot worse. They're one of these people going out and buying food and tipping the waitress, just going somewhere else, and Wal-Mart, whatever.", "For NPR News, I'm Brian Mann in Upstate New York."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, Host", "STEVE INSKEEP, Host", "BRIAN MANN", "CHAD STICKNEY", "BRIAN MANN", "ANDREW CUOMO", "BRIAN MANN", "CHAD STICKNEY", "BRIAN MANN", "KATIE MORGAN", "BRIAN MANN"]}
{"id": "NPR-32590", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2011-08-07", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/08/07/139069200/navy-seal-community-handles-grief-quietly", "title": "Navy SEAL Community Handles Grief Quietly", "summary": "Norfolk, Va., is in mourning Sunday, following the helicopter crash in Afghanistan that killed 30 U.S. troops — including almost two dozen Navy SEALs. Norfolk is home to many SEALs and their families. Guest host David Greene speaks with NPR's Daniel Zwerdling, who says this is a city that keeps grief close to the vest.", "utt": ["Back in the U.S., this was the scene before the first pitch of a minor league baseball game yesterday in Norfolk, Virginia.", "Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, we ask you all to rise and join us in a moment of silence for all of our service men and women who answered our nation's call to arms and made the ultimate sacrifice defending our freedom, including those U.S. Special Operations troops that tragically lost their lives in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.", "Norfolk is home to many Navy SEALS and their families. And that community is in mourning after Saturday's helicopter crash that killed 30 U.S. troops, many of them SEALS. NPR's Daniel Zwerdling has been spending time in Norfolk today as well as Virginia Beach. He joins us now from Norfolk. Hi, Danny.", "Hi, David.", "You spent the day talking to a lot of people there. What is the mood, and what are people saying about this tragedy?", "Well, here's the odd thing. There is no mood that I've been able to sense. You know, I was expecting that we would find trees with ribbons around them as we drove up to the main base where the SEALs are, or that we would find an impromptu memorial along the side of the road with flowers and photographs. And there's been none of that.", "And we've talked to a number of people who know SEALs, people who have service people in their families, and everybody we talked to said this is really the SEAL way. They are very private. They're secretive, of course, and they want to mourn in private.", "I talked to one woman who said that here and there in the neighborhoods you can see a few cars parked outside a SEAL's house, a sign perhaps that the SEAL who lived there was one of the people killed. A couple of folks we talked to said, you know, you have to remember that this is business as usual. They fight, they work on very secretive missions, very dangerous missions, and people die. And everybody in their families and in their community accepts that. Sadly accepts it, but accepts it.", "Wow. Sounds like that baseball game, the announcement, was one of the only sort of outward signs of grief. It sounds like there's this unbelievable show of stoicism. I mean, people just really aren't talking about what happened on the battlefield at all.", "People didn't seem to want to talk about it. I prompted them. I don't know if you can hear in the background, there's the sound of murmur, people milling about.", "Yeah. A little bit.", "At the moment, I'm at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum. Now, the USS Battleship Wisconsin, this huge battleship from World War II with giant guns, is docked right alongside us. And a woman who works with the SEALs and others said, if you want to talk to people who are passionate about the military, go to that museum.", "So we've been talking to people in this museum, and here's the astonishing thing. Out of the 10 people I've talked to in the past hour, every single one of them said those men in Afghanistan are heroes, and it is time to bring all the troops home. One person after another, the elderly, young people, men, women, they all said this is not a war the U.S. is winning. We have not accomplished our goals, and it's time to get out. Now, we just talked to one woman whose husband is in the service, and she said, we are just simply losing too many wonderful young men and women who are wasting their lives over there.", "And are there memorials planned at some point there in Norfolk, and any public services at all?", "I've heard of nothing. We drove past some churches, and I was expecting, okay, on the church signs they would show a sermon about this tragedy. You know, nothing. It was just the usual every Sunday sermon. I asked a PAO, a Public Affairs Officer at the naval base, is there any sort of memorial planned, and she said, we haven't heard a thing.", "Again, we've been listening to NPR's Daniel Zwerdling who's talking to us from Norfolk, Virginia. Danny, thank you.", "David, thanks so much."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, Host", "UNIDENTIFIED MAN", "DAVID GREENE, Host", "DANIEL ZWERDLING", "DAVID GREENE, Host", "DANIEL ZWERDLING", "DANIEL ZWERDLING", "DANIEL ZWERDLING", "DAVID GREENE, Host", "DANIEL ZWERDLING", "DAVID GREENE, Host", "DANIEL ZWERDLING", "DANIEL ZWERDLING", "DAVID GREENE, Host", "DANIEL ZWERDLING", "DAVID GREENE, Host", "DANIEL ZWERDLING"]}
{"id": "CNN-33409", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-6-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/26/lad.13.html", "summary": "President Bush to Meet With Ariel Sharon; Secretary Powell Set to Depart for Mideast", "utt": ["President Bush meets later today with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. It is the second meeting in three months for the two leaders. Senior White House correspondent John King joins us this morning with a preview. Good morning, John.", "Good morning, to you, Carol. The second meeting between President Bush and the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, and the beginning of a week of what U.S. officials describe as intense U.S. diplomacy -- the goal: trying to keep in place what all parties would agree is a very fragile cease- fire right now between the Israelis and the Palestinians. There has been continued violence in the region despite that cease-fire agreement -- each side accusing the other of violating the agreement to bring calm to the region, to have at least a fragile cease-fire. The goal of the talks today here at the White House between Mr. Bush and Mr. Sharon, we're told, Mr. Bush will appeal to Mr. Sharon for Israel to do all it can to keep the cease-fire in place. But U.S. officials also say the much more important meetings will be on a trip by Secretary of State Colin Powell to the region later this week. Mr. Powell leaves tonight. He will meet with Mr. Sharon in the region. He will meet with the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as well, as well as the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak. Mr. Powell's goal, we are told, is to try to take this to the next step. The Mitchell Commission -- the recent commission report on the violence in the region -- suggests first a cease-fire, then a formal cooling-off period, during which both sides would have to show their commitment to keeping calm in the region -- Secretary Powell, we're told, seeking an agreement on a cooling-off period of about five to six weeks. During that period, additional steps could be discussed, what the diplomats call confidence-building measures: more security cooperation, perhaps more economic cooperation. But given the obvious tensions in the regions in recent days -- evidenced by the interviews you had just a few minutes ago with Israeli and Palestinian representatives -- not a great deal of optimism, not as Mr. Bush prepares to meet with Prime Minister Sharon here at the White House, nor as Secretary Powell prepares to travel to the region himself -- Carol.", "That's right, John. Of course, there could be a big difference between what's said in public and what's said in private, indeed. It is a busy day at the White House for the president. He is also hosting another world leader. What's up with that?", "He is, indeed -- the South African president, Thabo Mbeki, coming in this morning to see Mr. Bush as well -- Mr. Mbeki in the United States for that United Nations conference on AIDS yesterday. That will be one of the major topics of discussion in this meeting here at the White House. Mr. Bush will promise continued U.S. support for South Africa's effort and the effort on -- the continent- wide effort in Africa to combat the AIDS dispute -- also a chance for the two leaders to get to know each other, a White House official says, and for Mr. Bush to put in a plug for Mr. Mbeki to continue South Africa's democratic reforms -- Carol.", "All right. Thank you very much. Good to see you -- John King, at the White House. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KING, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "LIN", "KING", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-215976", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-10-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1310/06/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Cruz Ties Obamacare to Debt Vote", "utt": ["Republican Senator Ted Cruz says raising the country's borrowing limit should be tied to defunding Obamacare. On October 17th, the government could default on loans if Congress does not increase its credit limit to pay for bills already racked up. Even as some Republicans are backing away from defunding the health care law, on the \"STATE OF THE UNION\" today, Cruz was standing firm on the issue.", "The debt ceiling historically has been among the best leverage that Congress has to reign in the executives.", "So yes?", "Yes. Yes.", "And what else?", "But my point is -- my point is there is great historical precedence. Since 1978 we have raised the debt ceiling 55 times. A majority of those times, 28 times, Congress has attached very specific and stringent requirements, many of the most significant spending restraints, things like Gramm-Rudman, things like sequestration came through the debt ceiling. And so the president's demand jack up the nation's credit card with no limits, no constraints, it's not a reasonable demand.", "The government has attempted to explain exactly what the president's health care law is and how it works. Here now is Tom Foreman.", "Despite all these monumental changes to health care, most of us who have insurance probably won't see much change, maybe some modifications. But this is really about the 48 million people who are uninsured, about half of whom are now expected to buy insurance through these health care marketplaces. And let me point out, about 7 million are expected to do so by the end of the year. That's how fast this is happening. So, how do we imagine these marketplaces? Think about a store where you can buy one of four different insurance plans, bronze, silver, gold or platinum. Here's the difference between them. Look at the bronze plan over here. If you buy this, you're going to have a lower monthly premium, but when you go to the doctor, your co-pay, your deductibles, your other fees will be higher. At the other end of the spectrum, if you buy the platinum plan, you're going to spend more on your monthly premium, but when you go to the doctor, you'll pay less money. This won't be exactly the same state to state to state because local companies are involved, so you can't call a family member living up in New Hampshire, for example, and say, what are you doing, because it may be different in Mississippi. But this should be the same no matter where you live, there should be no higher premiums if you get sick. There should be no denial of coverage if you have a preexisting condition. And you should have no fees for preventive care. If you get inoculations for your kids, if you get a mammogram, if you get a routine physical, you shouldn't be paying for that under this new plan. Still, there is money to be paid. And for a lot of people who don't make much money, this may seem very expensive; that's why the government is going to help out. If you make $46,000 a year as an individual or $94,000 a year as a family of four or less, the government is going to give you a refund to help pay for your insurance under this new plan. But no matter what happens, you're going to have to get involved. Even if you live in one of the dozens of states that have said they want nothing to do with Obamacare, you're still going to be involved. All that means is your state government will not be involved in organizing this health care marketplace. The federal government will do it there, instead of your state government. You'll go to a federal website to sign up. But you will have to do something, otherwise the federal government is going to fine you for not having insurance. That's what this is all about. And that's why it really is decision time coast to coast."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "SEN. TED CRUZ (R), TEXAS", "CANDY CROWLEY, CNN HOST", "CRUZ", "CROWLEY", "CRUZ", "WHITFIELD", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-178691", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2012-1-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/02/sp.02.html", "summary": "Interview with Jon Huntsman; Courting The Evangelicals; Political Analysts Examine Iowa Caucuses Race; Iowa Voters Wants Cuts; Finishing 3rd in Iowa -- What Does it Get You?", "utt": ["Good morning. Welcome, everybody. We're coming to you live from the Waveland Cafe. I'm Soledad O'Brien. And you're watching the first edition of our new show, which is called STARTING POINT. We're in Des Moines, Iowa. The Waveland Cafe is where we have decided to launch our show, and a place where political folks who are interested of talking about the issues come to talk. Here, we're going to be looking at the big stories, give you some details, inside information you can't get anywhere else -- only a worldwide news organization like CNN can bring to you. We're also going to be talking to the leaders, and the news makers, and also real folks, challenging some of the conventional takes of the issues of the day. Nice to have you with us. Our STARTING POINT this morning, though, one Republican who is missing -- what is happening here in Iowa, Jon Huntsman. He is spending his time in New Hampshire this morning, while his rivals are stumping in the Hawkeye State. He says Iowa is for picking corn, and New Hampshire picks presidents. That's a little bit snarky. Jon Huntsman is going to join us live on STARTING POINT. That's ahead. First, though, let's take a look at some of the headlines. There's one day left and one word could hold the key to outcome of the Iowa GOP caucuses. And that word is \"uncertain.\" Lots of people here at the Hawkeye State still are not sold on a particular candidate. We're going to ask the question why. According to evangelicals, their vote was crucial in 2008 Republican race. But could courting them in Iowa actually, eventually end up costing the candidates nationally? We'll take a look at that as well. And Iowa voters agreed this election is about the economy and cutting spending. One place they're looking to cut if Iowans have their way would be the Department of Education. It could be history. We'll take a look at what that really could mean.", "Good morning. Welcome, everybody. From the Waveland Cafe -- it is a local hot spot in Des Moines, a diner known for being a top political pit stop. And, of course, they have a specialty here, called the \"everything's hash brown,\" which literally is everything you can think of in a hash brown, including two kinds of cheese. So, not very healthy, only 10 million calories, but it's a great place to eat. Every other candidate is in Iowa this morning, but there's one who's missing from the Hawkeye State. It's Governor Jon Huntsman, who is about 1,200 miles away this morning. He's campaigning in New Hampshire. Why? Listen to what he told CBS News.", "They pick corn in Iowa. They actually pick presidents here in New Hampshire.", "A little snarky, huh? Well, has that strategy ever paid off? It kind of reminds us of Rudy Giuliani back in 2008, who put all his eggs in the basket that was Florida. He spent his time and over $3 million in advertising in the Sunshine State, a state that was supposed to be Rudy country. But by the time the primary actually got around to January 29th in Florida, John McCain and Mitt Romney were riding the wave of headlines from the earlier primary states and crushed Giuliani, who then placed third with just 15 percent of the vote. So, joining us this morning to talk about all of that, we're going to ask the question, is Huntsman missing momentum building opportunity by skipping Iowa? Or could he pull off a shocker in New Hampshire? The governor of the Hawkeye State says the former Utah's governor's strategy is misguided. Take a listen.", "He messed up big time. He skipped Iowa. And the result is, he is going to be -- he is an asterisk and he's never going to get beyond that.", "Candy Crowley talking to him. So let's speak right now with Jon Huntsman, who's joining us live from Manchester, New Hampshire. Good morning. Nice to see you, sir. Thanks for being with us.", "Hey, Soledad.", "Have there been a moment -- hey -- have you regretted the decision you have made to skip this state and just go straight to New Hampshire, sir?", "No regrets, Soledad. You got -- you got to lay out your assets and your resources and states where you think you can do best. And listen, the rap on me is that Huntsman guy, he can go on and he can win the general election. Can he do well in some of the early primary states? This is a state to be sure that likes to reward underdogs. I'm an underdog in this race. And if you get out and work hard, this is a level playing field where you got Republicans, you got independents, and maybe a few Democrats turn out in the primary. And it is a primary. And I think if you work it hard and if you have a message as I do, and if you are willing to do 140, 150 public events and town hall meetings as I have done in this state, then I think you're rewarded for that. So, we're going to let the people turn out and vote in about a week and see what it all means. But I feel pretty good about having come from the margin of error. We came into this state as a complete asterisk, at zero, and now we are bumping into the teens. And I have to tell you, with the topsy-turvy and unpredictable nature of the race so far, I think we are positioned pretty well, Soledad.", "But, you know, talking about an asterisk, you just heard what the governor said, the Iowa governor said about you. No one here is talking about you. I mean, literally, it might just be me this morning. Doesn't that hurt you ultimately?", "Well, that's about to change in about 48 hours. And then the big bright light will be here on New Hampshire. And in true fashion, New Hampshire always tends to upend conventional wisdom. The pundit class, they always come into New Hampshire, always predicting who's going to be up and who's down. This is a state that does not like to be told for whom to vote. They don't want the establishment coronating or teeing up somebody that they feel they have to vote for. They want the candidates to earn it. So we're proving the point I think in real time here that politics and successful politics must be earned on the ground. You've got to have a message. And I am passionate about my message. And I think that is what's going to drive us to success here. We've got two deficits we have to deal with in this country for the most important election of my generation. We have an economic deficit that is a cancer that is eating this country alive. And we have a trust deficit in this country. Our people no longer trust our institutions of power, and no longer trust our politicians. And I say, if we can't get our arms around both of these deficits and do it fast, this country is in real trouble.", "You have offered to match any donation that comes into your campaign between now and Wednesday. Do you ever think about all the air time that you would be getting with that kind of a proposal, if you were here?", "Listen, we have been getting pretty good air time here in New Hampshire. And again, I think a day or two following Iowa, all eyes are going to be on New Hampshire. And all next week, the work that we have done here in New Hampshire I think is going to pay off. And then the people of New Hampshire are going to cast a vote. And an interesting thing is going to happen when they cast a vote in a week. They're going to look at that ballot box. And all the drama and all the theater of the preseason is going to be behind them. And they're going to look at that ballot box and they're going to say, I actually have to cast a vote for somebody who can be president of the United States of America. There aren't a whole lot of people remaining who can actually be president of the United States of America. They're going to look at that ballot box and say -- who has the temperament, the background as a real job creator with real international experience, who's able to bring people together during a deeply divided time in our nation's history, who has a vision that can actually strike out and deal with the economic deficit and the trust deficit that are so real in this country. And that's when I believe that the people here in New Hampshire are going to render a very sensible judgment, which will likely transform the landscape of this race as we have seen in years past.", "All right. Governor Huntsman, nice to chat with you this morning. I'm sure we'll be talking again in New Hampshire, when we all move there.", "Thanks, Soledad.", "Appreciate your time.", "Happy New Year to you. And congratulations on your new program.", "Thank you. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that, sir. We'll talk more about New Hampshire, the strategy, and the wisdom of ignoring Iowa. We've got our CNN's chief national correspondent -- I guess John King isn't here. He'll be live for us in remote, we'll check in with him. Oh, there you are, John. I can see you there. He is in Atlanta for us. Here in Des Moines, our CNN chief political correspondent, also, of course, of \"STATE OF THE UNION,\" it's Candy Crowley. Republican strategist Alex Castellanos is with us. Iowa radio Simon Conway is back. He's interviewed everybody but had not interviewed Huntsman. So when you hear what he says, which is, listen, I got to figure out where to put my money, makes sense to me to be there. You know, they love an underdog but it probably wouldn't be me. That sounds very reasonable.", "I was itching to ask him a question, because now he has insulted our state twice, not just once. He called us a pre-season. And I really just wanted to know how many other states he didn't want to be president of. Clearly, he doesn't want to be president here in Iowa.", "But isn't he being strategically intelligent about where to put his money and time where with his position on ethanol subsidies, with his position on other issues, he just would not do well?", "I completely understand that. And that's one thing. That's strategy. That's fine. There's no need to go the extra mile and issue insults to the statement of the state of Iowa and the people who live here. I think it's actually -- if the man was to be president, that was about as unpresidential as it gets.", "You know, the problem with the strategy too -- look, it's only a week. It's not Florida that's a month later, what Rudy Giuliani did, which he faded from the scene completely from the debate. It's only a week. But imagine what happens after Tuesday night. Romney gets a bump coming out of here because he's going to finish in the top one or two. Santorum is going to get a bump and a ride momentum because he's going to over-perform here. For the next two or three days, what's the story going to be in the national media? It's not going to be Huntsman. So, he's really cut his campaign down to two or three days next week.", "Sometimes the candidate sets the strategy, and sometimes, you know, the strategy drives the candidate. And this -- this is a guy who looked at the playing field. He wasn't -- the only thing worse than him not playing in Iowa was for him to play in Iowa and come in dead last. So, you know, he said, look, he started out in Florida and said, I'm not doing that well. It's like", "So, let me ask John King a question. What does it say that a guy whose economic plan has been praised by the \"Wall Street Journal,\" they said like it's as impressive as any to date, better than what we have seen from the other front-runner -- which is pretty much a big old kiss from the \"Wall Street Journal,\" is not here because he literally thinks he cannot do well in this state.", "Candy just made an important point. Sometimes the strategy picks the candidate. Sometimes the candidate picks the strategy. Sometimes the campaign team has a lot of influence on the candidate. And if you look at the top tier of the Huntsman campaign, it's the old McCain campaign, and they don't like Iowa. They don't trust Iowa. They didn't want him to get caught in the evangelical trap that they view as Iowa. So, they put him in New Hampshire. But, Soledad, they may have miscalculation. Their calculation was that Romney would stumble in Iowa again, that Iowa would again hurt Mitt Romney going into the state where he would have the most strength in New Hampshire. If Alex is right and the polls are right and Romney comes out of Iowa solid with a bounce, you may have a giant, galactically miscalculation on the part of the Huntsman people. However, their calculation is this: the conservative base of the party will still look for an alternative to Mitt Romney after Iowa, even if Iowa embraces Mitt Romney, even if New Hampshire begins to embrace Mitt Romney, that some conservative challenger must emerge and that he is not knicked up like the Newt Gingriches, like the Rick Perrys. That's their calculation. It is a longer than long shot, but that's their hope.", "And that's one of the problems for Huntsman, John. I think you're right about that Huntsman also had a strategic problem in that he -- we never quite figured out which playoff game he wanted to play in. Is he competing for the anti-Romney conservatives? He is a conservative governor from Utah. Is he competing to be the Romney space in New Hampshire? Sometimes being everything to everyone is the same thing as being nothing to everyone.", "Well, and his primary presentation was I'm a guy, I'm a moderate that can get along with people. Yes, I was the president's pick for ambassador to China. That means I can get along with people -- in a primary where they really don't want to get along with Democrats. So, he was -- you know, wrong guy, wrong time, certainly in Iowa. Not looking that great in New Hampshire. But I just don't think there was any other place for him to go. This has to be his -- where he rolls the dice.", "I'm going to ask to you stick around, and we'll bring in a conversation about these folks who are these last-minute deciders really connected to the volatility I think of the race. Look at that sign, sign, sign, everywhere a signs. That certainly has been the case four years ago in Iowa during the run-up to the 2008 caucus, where people were showing their support for a candidate with the front yard sign -- as you can see here in this shot. We got John Edwards, Hillary Clinton. This caucus season, though, the landscape looks a lot different. The \"Des Moines Register\" poll, at least this poll on Sunday -- Saturday, rather, shows 41 percent of likely caucusgoers might still change their mind, which could explain maybe the lack of signs. Take a look at this neighborhood in West Des Moines. Three weeks ago, the only thing on display in this neighborhood is a wreath. No signs. We thought for sure we'd see a couple of signs, campaign signs at least somewhere. But look at this. Nothing. Nothing, nothing. And it actually is something that lots of locals in Iowa will talk about. Just days before the caucus, there are not that many signs, which is not unusual from what we've seen in our travels around Iowa. Which is why when we spotted this sign, 21 signs for Rick Santorum, we thought we had to stop. The homeowner is a guy named Pete Quinn. He says he was the first in his West Des Moines neighborhood to throw support behind a candidate. That was two months ago. And he expected his neighbors to follow suit. Listen.", "It really surprised me, because, you know, I know that Iowans take their caucus process very seriously. And it's great. It's, you know, civil responsibility and it's the American exceptionalism and all of that. So I was really looking forward to it. I'm kind of like, hmm, I guess I seem to be an island in the drift.", "Island in the drift. That's such a bad, bad thing when you're talking about the day before an election potentially. Why is he, Candy Crowley, the island in the drift?", "Ordinarily, if I saw a poll with this high a number of undecideds close to a normal election, is what we say, not a caucus, I would say this is baloney. These are people saying, oh, I'm keeping my mind open, but really they've already decided. Here is the deal about these caucuses. People are with their neighbors basically. They know the people inside these caucuses, many of them. So, when your neighbor gets up and says, I have 21 Rick Santorum signs and I want to talk to you about Rick Santorum, you're listening to him. So, maybe you went in thinking, but Mitt Romney is the only one you can win. And the neighbor says just that right sentence. You know him. He is an honest guy. You really can persuade people inside caucuses in a way the undecided vote doesn't mean that much in an untraditional election. I think in a caucus, it really does mean they are persuadable.", "One of the things, when you're in a campaign as a political professional and you see numbers like this, 41 percent of the people undecided this late, sometimes, people telling you they're undecided doesn't mean they're undecided. It means they are passionless. They haven't fallen in love with anyone. It means low turnout. It means they may not show up to vote. So --", "And yet all the expectations that we're hearing are that this is actually going to be a high turnout caucus. I mean, we're we looking at 118,000, I think, four years ago. And now, some predictions I've seen have gone high as 150. So, if it's a lack of passion, why with those numbers?", "My question will be, what's changed since the straw poll? I mean, the straw poll was huge. A massive turnout. People were actually turning up at the gates of the straw poll and paying money to get in. This is unheard of.", "I'm going to tell you what I think is happening. I think when you look at -- when you look at the personal attributes that people apply to these candidates, where does Mitt Romney sell, electability? And Iowans are, by nature, they want to vote their heart. \"I really like that Rick Santorum. He believes what I believe. I want him to be president.\" On the other hand, this is a party that's been out of office for four years. And more than their head says to them we need the guy that can actually beat President Obama. So, I think there's a struggle going on between my heart is with this guy, but my head tells me Mitt Romney.", "I think so too. And you know, you can have great passion but not a lot of bread. Campaigns like George McGovern's campaign and Barry Goldwater's had a lot of intensity. People showed up at straw polls, but turnout was low. They're small but powerful. We may see that here.", "It will depend on the evangelical, I think, as well, which is what we're coding (ph) next. According to evangelical vote in Iowa was huge as you remember back in 2008. This year's GOP field is working very hard for the evangelical vote again, and some people say maybe even too hard. We'll take look at that. Back in just a moment."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "O'BRIEN", "JON HUNTSMAN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "O'BRIEN", "GOV. TERRY BRANSTAD (R), IOWA", "O'BRIEN", "HUNTSMAN", "O'BRIEN", "HUNTSMAN", "O'BRIEN", "HUNTSMAN", "O'BRIEN", "HUNTSMAN", "O'BRIEN", "HUNTSMAN", "O'BRIEN", "HUNTSMAN", "O'BRIEN", "SIMON CONWAY, INTERVIEWEED ALL CANDIDATES EXCEPT FOR JON HUNTSMAN", "O'BRIEN", "CONWAY", "ALEX CASTELLANOS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST", "CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "O'BRIEN", "JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CASTELLANOS", "CROWLEY", "O'BRIEN", "PETE QUINN, SANTORUM SUPPORTER", "O'BRIEN", "CROWLEY", "CASTELLANOS", "O'BRIEN", "SIMON CONWAY, TALK RADIO CONSERVATIVE", "CROWLEY", "CASTELLANOS", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-363826", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-03-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/07/nday.02.html", "summary": "Zuckerberg's New Vision for FaceBook.", "utt": ["Mark Zuckerberg has plans to transform FaceBook. He says his number one priority is privacy. The social network's founder and CEO vows to make it more secure somehow. And CNN's senior media reporter Oliver Darcy joins us now to explain. What's he doing?", "It sounds like something out of the onion, right, that Zuckerberg says this privacy -- or this company that's been having so much trouble with privacy in the past couple years is going to focus now solely on privacy and private communications. But that's basically what Zuckerberg said in his blog post yesterday announcing these sweeping changes on FaceBook. He says effectively that he realizes that the old era of social media might be coming to an end, or at least it might be transitioning, in that by -- I mean that people are no longer as likely or wanting to share things with anyone and everyone on FaceBook and they're moving to what he calls the digital living room. Meaning, they want to share things with family and friends and private messages and private group chats. And so Zuckerberg wants to position FaceBook in a way that they're not left behind with these changes. And so one of the things he quickly off the bat says is they can do is they own all these messaging platforms. They own Instagram. They own WhatsApp. They own Messenger. And so what they can do is make it so if you have Instagram, you can message someone who's on FaceBook. Or if you have FaceBook, you can message someone who's on WhatsApp. Really making a seamless transition, allowing users of all the apps to access the entire database of FaceBook user. He also talks about disappearing messages and making intent inscription, import it in FaceBook's product. And so users can communicate securely. That's an important thing for FaceBook to do, he says, so that users have trust that FaceBook is going to make sure that they are able to communicate privately on the platform. This does come with some drawbacks. One is, FaceBook's policy or their business model is that they collect data on users. And so without being able to read the messages because it's encrypted, FaceBook's no longer going to be able to collect as much data. And that's a drawback possibly for FaceBook's investors. And Zuckerberg acknowledges that people might not trust FaceBook when they say that they want to double down on privacy. He says in a statement or on his blog post, I understand that many people don't think FaceBook can or would even want to build this kind of privacy- focused platform because, frankly, we don't currently have a strong reputation for building privacy-productive services. But we've repeatedly shown that we can evolve. And I think that is what we remain to see is whether FaceBook can evolve.", "All right, Oliver Darcy, thank you very much. It will be I heavy lift to make FaceBook synonymous with privacy. END"], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "OLIVER DARCY, CNN SENIOR MEDIA REPORTER", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-69775", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2003-4-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0304/22/lol.03.html", "summary": "Admissibility of Malvo Confession to Be Decided Monday", "utt": ["Last fall's sniper shootings terrorized the Washington, D.C. area, but Virginia prosecutors say they were a laughing matter to suspect Lee Boyd Malvo. Details of his confession are now surfacing. It is information, prosecutors say, is key to their case. Joining me now with details, CNN's Kathleen Koch -- Kathleen.", "Kyra, prosecutors in a new court filing paint a picture of a young man who was calm, jovial, and not the least bit intimidated by police as he told them in early November about the sniper shootings he was accused of. Virginia prosecutors contend that the confession of then 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo was made willingly, and is admissible in court. They insist that Fairfax County police detective June Boyle (ph) asked Malvo four times whether he wanted to speak without a lawyer. Prosecutors admit that Malvo responded -- quote -- \"do I get to see my attorneys?\" -- and quote -- \"my attorneys told me not to say anything to the cops until they got here.\" But prosecutors argue that neither constituted a direct request for an attorney, and they point out that Malvo also signed with an \"X\" a form waiving his right to an attorney before questioning. Now, of course, Malvo's defense attorneys have quite a different opinion on all this. They filed a motion earlier this month to have a judge throw out the statement. The defense argues that Malvo, as a Jamaican citizen, had a right to consular officials when he was detained, and they insist that he not only asked for an attorney, but he asserted constitutional right to remain silent a number of times. However, this new prosecution filing says that Malvo did anything but, that he was laughing as he described shooting FBI employee Linda Franklin in the head outside a Virginia Home Depot store. The filing also says that Malvo told detectives about taking a shot at a young boy but missing. The prosecution filing reads -- quote -- \"Malvo actually smiled and chortled as he recounted this event. Evidently, Malvo found it amusing that as the errant bullet flew past the boy's head, he swatted at the air as if a bee had buzzed to close.\" Now, there were no details given in this filing on when or where that alleged shooting occurred. A Virginia circuit judge is scheduled to hear the arguments on the admissionability (ph) of Malvo's alleged confession on Monday -- Kyra.", "Well, do you think attorneys can keep that confession out of court? And if so, how can that affect the case, Kathleen?", "It's going to be very tough because despite the fact, again, that he did make -- Malvo apparently made these statements saying he asked about his attorney, he said that they had said not to talk to police until they got there, there is a lot of precedent, apparently -- if you don't make a direct request -- if you don't say, I want my attorney, or I will not speak -- or say, answer any further questions until I have my attorney present, that that sort of thing is admissible. So it will be very tough. The prosecution, at the same time, still believes it has got a lot of very good, very solid evidence. Though the alleged confession would help them immensely, without it they believe they do still have a case.", "All right. Our Kathleen Koch. Thank you so much."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "KOCH", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-198610", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2013-1-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/03/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Rape Suspects In India Possibly Face Death Penalty", "utt": ["Tonight on Connect the World, with their fate fast tracked through the courts, five men are charged with a brutal murder that has left India demanding justice.", "Live from CNN London this is Connect the world.", "The shocking gang rape of a 23 year old woman has caused the global outcry. Tonight, why many victims across the world are still too afraid to speak out. Also this hour, a green card from Russia with love for the French actor who saw red over his taxes. And...", "...variable to be needed.", "How a form of autism is helping these job seekers find work. Well, it's a case that has horrified and angered many not just in India, but around the world. Indian police have now formally charged five men over the gang rape of a young woman who later died. Sumnima Udas joins us from New Delhi with the very latest -- Sumnima.", "Max, that's right. The -- the Delhi police has basically submitted its charge sheet and they've charged five of the six suspects, charges of murder, rape and abduction among other things. And the sixth suspect is actually supposedly a juvenile, about 17 years old, that he will be tried at a separate court. Now those five suspects, if convicted, face a maximum charge of the death penalty -- or maximum punishment the death penalty. And as you know, this is exactly what a lot of these protesters have been protesting for the past two weeks, braving the cold, have been demanding. It's also exactly what the father of the victim has been demanding. Rape, as you know, is very common in India. It's reported that there is a rape every 20 minutes in this country, but sometimes it does take one incident to galvanize a society and inspire change. And this certainly seems to be that watershed moment.", "They called it the black day to remember the 22 year old victim of last month's gang rape and to demand protection for women in a country where rape is so common it frequently goes unreported. Students marching through New Delhi, vowing that the brutal death of one of their own will not be forgotten. A separate protest by a group of lawyers who say that neither the police nor the courts take violence against women seriously. They say they won't defend the five men who now stand accused of both gang rape and murder. Protesters and the victim's father are demanding the death penalty for alleged attackers. Confronted by public outrage, India's chief justice has set up a fast track court to deal with a back log of sexual offenses, but legal experts say a massive overhaul of India's old laws is needed.", "Look at the archaic language that is used in our penal code. It was made in 1861. And we still haven't changed it.", "Campaigners here sense a change in the national mood, so does the U.S. activist, Eve Ensler who is in India/", "I really believe this is going to be the catalyst not only for India, but for an entire world where sexual violence is rampant.", "There's also a fierce debate about whether rape itself should carry the death penalty with some officials saying it should.", "We don't even have a (inaudible) in this country. Our laws as yet don't define, you know, sexual assault adequately.", "But human rights groups and some lawyers oppose making rape a capital crime. They say, instead, the focus needs to be on how doctors, prosecutors, judges, and the police treat sexual violence in India. That will demand massive reform to a legal system that is one of the slowest and most inefficient in the world.", "Now there were some questions as to whether those five suspects will be given a fair trial, especially after some of those lawyers refused to defend them or act in their defense, but the court has said that they will be appointing another lawyer and that the trial will begin this weekend -- Max.", "Sumnima, thank you very much indeed. Well, this case has lead to some deep soul searching in India with protests and vigils held almost daily since the horrific attack. Thousands of miles away in London, an Indian community is also holding prayers to remember the victim and call for change.", "They don't know her real name and they had never seen her face, but people in this Indian community in London are deeply grieving her death. To them, she's known as Domini (ph), or lightning in Hindi.", "What shall I say? It's just like a daughter? We lost our own daughter and not (inaudible) is very bad.", "It's not about being a sister or family, is it? It's about being a woman at the end of the day and you just -- it's not acceptable what's happened to her?", "We are the same community. You know, it's not - - you know, we live in a global community right now. And if we just -- if we didn't -- India is in a bubble and it doesn't affect us, that's really stupid thinking. We are affected by this case just as much as the people in India.", "Come on guys get up and take a stand. Simple as that. Because it's us, should have taken a stand a long time back.", "Well, rape is of course a global horror. It can happen anywhere within any society, but it's not easy to compare the rapes. Most stats are based on reported rape, the actual figures are usually a lot higher. What that means is that conviction rates can be misleading too. One of the reasons why many women don't report rape is so short stigma. Many feel constrained by ingrained cultural attitudes holding that women who are raped are not victims, but somehow guilty of inciting the attack. And often they can become completely ostracized from society. In extreme cases, some women feel forced to marry their attacker to restore their so- called honor. You may remember the case of Gulnaz (ph) in Afghanistan who was jailed for adultery after a married relative raped her after an international outcry, Gulnaz (ph) was freed after serving two years, though, of her sentence. For more on the social stigma of rape, which is also a problem in the west to a certain degree, I'm joined now from New York by Zainab Salbi, founder of Women for Women International. You may remember that last year Zainab traveled with CNN's Freedom Project to investigate sex trafficking in India. Do you manage to work out as best you can what this stigma is if we can generalize across the globe?", "Well, of course. Well, the most important thing to understand it's -- this is a very personal, intimate act of violence. So to start with it's actually not easy for any women, nor any man to speak about rape. It's such an intimate, very private thing that takes something that as sacred as sexual acts and make it in a very violent way. So to start with it's really not easy. The second part is as you mentioned earlier that women are often the ones who are blamed for the rape. In the case of the Indian woman, the first statement the police commander said the next day is that women should avoid being out at night or taking public buses at night. The women are often the ones who are blamed rather than actually putting the blame that men should stop raping. So that's the second part is you -- and the third part of it is that people are actually confused what to do with it. In the case of Tunisian woman who was recently raped by three police - - three police forces, or three policemen in Tunisia a few months ago, she did not know how to say to her family because of their own confusion. She did not know how to speak with them about it. And they were very confused when they eventually learned about it. Most importantly -- and most importantly it is the fact that is her who is blamed. So she carries the honor, she carries the blame. And so it's very confusing. There is not much support system for the women to speak about her rape.", "So has India been exposed as a country where this is a particular problem? Obviously there's a stigma in all countries, but in India you have the situation where they're not necessarily seen as victims these victims.", "Well, in India -- India is no different in my opinion than any other country. In Brazil, one every -- one woman is raped every 21 seconds. In America, about 18 million women are raped every year. So India is no special exception. India have a lot of cases of not only rape in this case, it's a college student, but they actually have a lot of cases of trafficking against women. 80 percent of the 800,000 people who are trafficked every year are women. And most of them are trafficked for sexual exploitation.", "I was just going to...", "So India is no different in that.", "I want to put one of our iReporters in the comments from an iReporter to you, because interesting comments. Meera Vijayann is a young woman living in Bangalore and felt compelled to speak.", "Sexual violence is something women here face every single day. Chauvinism is inherent in (inaudible) society. And it's bound to have such consequences. It's not just men alone who perpetrate these biases, it's women as well. This girl could have been me, it could have been any of my friends. And no one would have taken us seriously. Most politicians in India have rape charges against them. Most policemen view rape victims as perpetrators. So what change do millions of girls like me have when it comes to finding justice?", "She's basically saying, isn't she, that chauvinism is inherent in a deeply patriarchal society. It's not a male-female issue for her.", "It's not a male-female issue, there are lots of actually men who are also getting raped, but men are the number one violators of sexual violence whether it is marital rape as in my case in my 20s or whether it is family rape as in the cases of many children who are raped in the world by either their fathers or family members, or it is in a stranger's rape as in the case of the college student who recently died in India. Men are in the number one reasons why rape occurs, though men are also victims of rape in smaller quantities, but still in a very serious numbers in here. Now we need to change the discussions about rape. Instead of blaming the women for it -- don't dress up like this, don't go at night, carry pepper spray with you, we need to actually really rise up in a serious way and have a discussion with men. Real men don't rape. Good men don't rape. And we need more and more men to speak up against violence against women as men, not only to protect women, but to actually protect the meaning of a real man, which is a good man is not a rapist. And that's a transformation we need to change actually across cultures from the Middle East to Africa to Asia to Latin America and the U.S. and Western Europe as well. That phenomena of the women being blamed is still a global phenomena and we need to switch that discussion to have men be more responsible for committing such acts.", "Zainab Salbi of Women for Women International. Thank you very much indeed for joining us on the program. Still to come, an emotional return for survivors of an elementary school massacre. Hundreds of children had to face their fears and head back to class. We'll have a live report for you from Connecticut. Also, Pakistani officials say U.S. drone strikes have killed a Taliban commander who have made peace with the government in Islamabad. And a German company's innovative program employing adults with Asperger's. All that and much more when Connect the World continues."], "speaker": ["MAX FOSTER, HOST", "ANNOUNCER", "FOSTER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FOSTER", "SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UDAS", "KIRTI SINGH, SUPREME COURT LAWYER", "UDAS", "EVE ENSLER, ACTIVIST", "UDAS", "SINGH", "UDAS", "UDAS", "FOSTER", "ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FOSTER", "ZAINAB SALBI, WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL", "FOSTER", "SALBI", "FOSTER", "SALBI", "FOSTER", "MEERA VIJAYANN, IREPORTER", "FOSTER", "SALBI", "FOSTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-190025", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-7-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/26/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Wall Street Flip Flop On Big Banks", "utt": ["Here is some good news if you are looking to buy a home. Mortgage rates are now at record lows. Take a look at this, 3.49 percent. That is the average for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage. And the average for a 15-year is down to 2.8 percent. A sign today that the big, make that mega-banks are losing friends. A guy who credited -- who really is credited with supersizing the banks, is now in the first place now calling for breaking them up. CNN business correspondent Christine Roman reports this flip-flop is coming from the former CEO of, drum roll, Citigroup.", "Brooke, the godfather of big, huge banks now says maybe they are too big. It's the ultimate Wall Street flip-flop. Sandy Weill, former chairman of Citigroup, spent years and millions of lobbying dollars pushing Congress to let banks get bigger. Congress and President Clinton agreed and they tore down Depression-era banking protections. Critics say deposit-taking banks were then allowed to make risky bets and chase trading profits and that led to the financial", "I think what we should probably do is go and split up investment banking from banking and have banks do something that's not going to risk the taxpayer dollars, that's not going to be too big to fail.", "Not only are they too big to fail, some say they're too big to make money for their shareholders. Banking stocks are down nearly 60 percent over the past five years, compared to the S&P; 500, which is down about 9 percent over the same period. Former Morgan Stanley Chairman and CEO Phil Purcell wrote an op-ed published in \"The Wall Street Journal\" last month saying, quote, \"there is one benefit of breakups that hasn't gotten much publicity. Shareholders would get greater value from their investments. Breaking these companies into separate businesses would double to triple the shareholder value of each institution.\" Maybe if public outcry doesn't slim down the banks, shareholder outcry will. Brooke.", "Christine Romans. Thanks, Christine. And, oh, my goodness, the Jackson family feud is -- it's just outrageous. Matriarch and guardian Katherine Jackson travels nine hours by car to go home where someone has told the cook, the nanny, the housekeepers to go. I'm about to speak with someone who knows this family very, very well."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "SANFORD \"SANDY\" WEILL, FORMER CEO, CITIGROUP", "ROMANS", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-332308", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2018-02-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1802/07/nday.02.html", "summary": "Storm Impacts Travel; McDaniels Backs out of Colts Job", "utt": ["OK, snow and ice storm hitting the Midwest and the Northeast today. The federal government and many school districts are already opening on a delay. Some have shut down. There could be major travel issues. Let's bring in CNN meteorologist Chad Myers, who has our forecast. I'm kind of tired of this, Chad.", "Yes, and so is everybody else across the eastern half of the country, Alisyn, too. Absolutely. Seven hundred flights already canceled this morning. That's about 10,000 flyers without an airplane right now. And it's just building. The snow is moving into the Northeast, moving into Ohio, Pennsylvania, upstate New York and New England. This weather is brought to you by Jared, the galleria of jewelry. Valentine's Day, only seven days away. Here you go. Get out there in the snow and get something. Here's the snow for upstate New York for later on today. The snow in New York does change back over to rain, but there will be some ice around as well. Slick conditions this morning. A foot of snow upstate. Great in the ski resorts where you would have been, Alisyn, with this ski resort, but the temperatures aren't as bad as they were when you were there for Christmas. I know you were below zero. The temperature's not going to be bad this time. A lot of rain across the Southeast and that's what we're going to see. Even New York City warming up with rain on Saturday all the way to 50. Chris.", "I like the rain. It washes away that ugly, depressing, sloppy snow that sticks around.", "Yes.", "Chad, thank you very much. Keep us in the loop with what actually matters to people out there. Safety first. All right, so investors are going to brace for another wild ride on Wall Street and you better get used to this because all the global markets are showing mixed signs. It's going to be more consistent. There's going to be more volatility. Why? Because we are getting into a cycle. You look at the Asian markets. You see them falling. You see Europe pointing slightly higher. The U.S. markets obviously bounced back after, you know, the biggest point drop of intraday trading that we've ever seen, yesterday up 500. The futures remained jittery. Why? Well, there's 100 reasons and you're going to be hearing more and more from people. Right now the futures are down over 100 points. The markets are going to open in less than three hours. A lot can change between now and then.", "All right, listen to this. In a shocking turn of events, Josh McDaniels spurning the Colts to stay with the Patriots just hours before he was to be introduced as the team's next head coach. Andy Scholes, you have my attention in the \"Bleacher Report.\" What's this about?", "Yes, drama, drama, drama. And, you know, what, Alisyn, the Colts had actually tweeted out welcoming Josh McDaniels as their next head coach yesterday and announced a press conference for later today. This \"Bleacher Report\" brought to you by the new 2018 Ford F-150. But after Robert Kraft and the Patriots made a late push to keep him, McDaniels, well, he had a change of heart and decided he's going to remain as the Patriots' offensive coordinator. In a press release, the Colts announcing McDaniels had agreed to a contract but then told them he changed his mind. And the Colts added they were surprised and disappointed by his decision. All right, just devastating news for the New York Knicks last night. Second quarter against the Bucks. Knicks star Kristaps Porzingis going to the basket, throws down the slam, but comes down awkwardly. Kristaps immediately grabbing his knee. The team announcing he tore his ACL. He's going to need season-ending surgery. Kristaps was going to be play in his first all-star game next week. Now he's going to be out for at least 10 months. And, Chris, I can just see New York fans everywhere just looking, well, I guess spring training's two weeks away.", "Look, that sucks. I've had the same injury. The good news is, guys his age, with all the stuff they have around him, he will be back and better forever and they're not missing much this season. Did you see that map that shows who likes what football team on the country and the Jets isn't on it? Did you see that map going around?", "Shock. I haven't seen it yet but I'll take a look.", "Nobody likes the Jets. Fakes news. Anyway, look it up, Andy. I'll send -- I'll send it to you.", "Be well.", "The president called him a liar and a leaker. OK. We're talking about James Clapper. And now he is getting to respond. The former director of National Intelligence joins us live, next."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "CUOMO", "MYERS", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT", "CUOMO", "SCHOLES", "CUOMO", "SCHOLES", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-16363", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-9-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/22/tod.08.html", "summary": "British Court Rules Doctors May Separate Conjoined Twins Over Parental Objections", "utt": ["In Great Britain, a court ruled today that doctors may separate conjoined twins over the objections of the parents, though the operation means one of the little girls will certainly die. ITN's Lawrence McGinty reports.", "Lawyers representing the parents left the court of appeal disappointed that they'd lost and that the operation to separate the twins can now go ahead. They had wanted nature to take its course and God's will to prevail.", "They must now consider whether to take the case to the House of Lords or to the European Court of Human Rights. No decision has yet been made.", "The officials solicitor, who's acting for the weaker twin, Mary, said he, too, is considering an appeal.", "This has no happy solution so far as she is concerned. And as I said, I have wanted to make sure that all the arguments that could be advanced on her behalf are considered by the court.", "This drawing of court photographs shows how Jody and Mary are joined at the lower abdomen. Facing each other they may look similar, but they're not. Mary, the weaker twin, has an enlarged heart that doesn't beat properly. Her lungs are rudimentary and cannot inflate to breathe. Jody has a healthy heart and lungs. Indeed, it's her circulation that's supplying Mary with oxygen, keeping her alive. In court, Lord Justice Ward, the senior judge, says separating the twins would inevitable result in Mary's death. But he was wholly satisfied that was the least detrimental choice. (on camera): The operation would be doctors coming to Jody's defense and removing the threat of fatal harm to Jody caused by Mary's draining her lifeblood. It would be a killing, but a killing in self- defense. (voice-over): But to the archbishop of Westminster, who made a submission to the court, today's decision could be a dangerous precedent.", "A precedent might be set in English law that might allow an innocent person to be killed or lethally assaulted even in order to save the life of another. If such a precedent has been set, then I would have grave misgivings about this judgment.", "But leaving the court this evening, Lord Justice Ward told ITN that today's ruling would not be a precedent.", "This is such a unique case, the circumstances are probably never likely to be repeated again.", "It was, in his own words, an impossible decision to make, but he and two fellow judges had to make it. Lawrence McGinty, ITN, at the Court of Appeal."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "LAWRENCE MCGINTY, ITN REPORTER (voice-over)", "JOHN KITCHINGMAN, FAMILY'S LAWYER", "MCGINTY", "LAURENCE DATES, LAWYER FOR \"MARY\"", "MCGINTY", "CORMAC MURPHY O'CONNOR, ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER", "MCGINTY", "LORD JUSTICE WARD, APPEAL COURT JUDGE", "MCGINTY"]}
{"id": "CNN-33707", "program": "LOU DOBBS MONEYLINE", "date": "2001-6-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/29/mlld.00.html", "summary": "Dow Falls 63.81 to 10,502.40; Nasdaq Climbs 35.08 to 2,160.54; GDP Growth in First Quarter Revised Down to 1.6 Percent", "utt": ["Tonight, the Nasdaq stays open an hour late, after suffering a technical breakdown. An extraordinary rift between GE and Honeywell: Bonsignore and Welch in a public spat over how to salvage their deal. A \"CEO on the Edge\" tonight: Linda Wachner of Warnaco, once praised for her hard-charging style, now blamed for driving the company into bankruptcy. And \"A.I.\" fiction. (", "I'm a boy.", "Versus fact. A reality check on the business of artificial intelligence.", "Live from the heart of New York City, this is Lou Dobbs' MONEYLINE. Here now, Lou Dobbs.", "Good evening. We begin tonight with an economy that continues to surprise and defy economists. The government today reported that gross domestic product grew 1.2 percent during the first three months of 2001. The original report was 2 percent. White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey today forecast second-quarter growth of just 0.6 percent. He said the chances of recession are very small. Today's GDP report illustrates the push and pull in the economy: corporate profits taking the biggest plunge in three years, but consumer spending strong, and consumer sentiment continues to improve. The University of Michigan index rose in month of June, the second- straight month in which it has done so. On Wall Street today, traders were hit, by the way, with their second big technical breakdown in three weeks. The Nasdaq took an extraordinary move, extending trading until 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, that after computer problems halted regular trading for hours, and those problems continued into the extra hour. On June 8, a software glitch shut down the New York Stock Exchange for 80 minutes. Greg Clarkin joins us now from the Nasdaq marketsite, and he tells us just what's going on there -- Greg.", "Well, Lou, we saw a very messy end to the trading day today. In essence, what happened here, was about 2:30 this afternoon the Nasdaq became aware of some technical difficulties -- they termed it a network problem -- and what they did was suspend trading in two of their electronic trading systems. Now, one is designed for small retail investors, the other is for much larger orders. They suspended both of those, again, at 2:30, and they expected to bring them back online at about 4:00. Well, at 4:00 all things didn't go well, and the Nasdaq was not able to bring back on those systems, and now being at that time was only the larger system, at about 4:30. So by 4:30, you had the big system up and running, but what we saw for much of the afternoon was a composite that was virtually at a standstill. Now, about two-thirds of the trading was under way, but still it was sporadic and light, and we didn't see the composite really budge for much of the afternoon hours. So, the Nasdaq expended trading until 5:00, and they say that they hope to have everything lined up and in order by Monday morning. And by the way, Lou, this problem was traced to a technician at Worldcom, which services the communications backbone of the Nasdaq. He or she was running a diagnostic test which basically shut down the network and those electronic trading systems -- Lou.", "Now, was that problem related to the one as well yesterday, which shut down the system for about 20 minutes?", "No, Lou, Wick Simmons, the CEO of the Nasdaq, tells us that these are two separate problems, actually yesterday with Microsoft coming back on trading at about 3:00, they were hit with a tremendous surge in volume. That was a separate issue. Today what they had was an entirely another issue with the network, but he assures us that these things -- that all systems should be go by Monday morning at least.", "Well, it's what they say, everybody can make a mistake, just don't make the same one twice. The Nasdaq found a way not to. All right, Greg Clarkin, thanks. When trading did conclude at 5:00, the Nasdaq composite had gained more than 1.5 percent on the day, the eighth winning session of the past nine. The Dow higher for most of the session as well, but it slipped in the final half-hour of trading. Jennifer Westhoven brings us up to date from Wall Street.", "The last hour of trading turned into two hours of mayhem after Nasdaq shut down its trading systems. The disruption didn't stop tech-stock buying, with the Nasdaq rallying 34 points, to 2,159. It gained every day this week, rising more than 6 percent. Stock analysts said they were worried techs may be jumping too early. Chips rallied, including PMC-Sierra, even after it warned of disappointing results.", "Right now, we feel very good about tech stocks, because tech stocks have led in the second quarter. Microsoft's up, the Nasdaq's been up the last couple of days, and I think it's kind of a false sense of reality.", "The Dow had a tamer day. It stayed in a tight range before heading near a session low at the closing bell. The average closed down 63, at 10,502. With Friday's losses, that made it sixth straight week of losses. The selling has come despite some positive recent signals for U.S. economic growth. But it was really the final two hours of trading that had Wall Street talking. Even early in the day, traders said rumors were flying that volume at the closing bell could be Homeric.", "End of the quarter, end of the month. I mean, this wasn't a good timing for this one at all before the 4th of July weekend. The implications are that if they didn't get all the trades off, there are a lot of mutual funds out there that will be very upset that transactions didn't take place. It would really goof up the pricing of the mutual funds.", "Keep in mind, it was also the last trading session before big changes are made to the index of 2,000 small-cap stocks, the Russell 2000. That sounds harmless, but investors have been quietly building up massive bets on which stocks will join and be bumped out of that index. And keep in mind too, the Russell has beaten the Dow, the Nasdaq and the S&P; 500 so far this year. It's gained more than 5 percent -- Lou.", "Pretty good. Now, volume was Homeric, did you say, Jennifer?", "Those are the words of Arthur Cashin, the PaineWebber floor trader, and really he said that this morning even before the opening bell.", "I love it when the humanities come into play on Wall Street. Thanks. Well, aside from the technical breakdown at the Nasdaq today, investors watched a very different drama unfold. The chief executive officers of General Electric and Honeywell engaging in a public spat over how to save their deal. Once they were fighting European regulators, now they seem to be fighting one another. It's a development few would have expected or predicted eight months ago when Jack Welch and Michael Bonsignore announced their deal with smiles and big handshakes. Allan Chernoff has the story.", "In an unusual exchange of public letters between merger partners, General Electric's Jack Welch on left, and Honeywell's Michael Bonsignore, leading to a split.", "This one of the strangest merger stories I have ever seen.", "In a \"Dear Jack\" letter this morning, Bonsignore wrote: \"We owe it to each other and to our respective shareholders and other constituencies to make a last-minute best effort to ensure approval and consummation of this important transaction.\" The plan: cut Honeywell's price tag by about $1.8 billion, to just under 40 billion, in return for GE agreeing to spin off nearly 20 percent of GE Capital Aviation Services, which leases aircraft to airlines, as well as divest more than $2 billion of assets from the combined company -- terms that Honeywell believed would be acceptable to the European Commission. GE's Jack Welch shot back in a \"Dear Michael\" letter: \"What the commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal. The new deal you propose in response to the commission makes no sense for our share owners, for the same strategic reasons.\" Honeywell said it was disappointed.", "Honeywell may very well have been looking at making a record for itself, that it expected GE to do everything that it was required to do under the merger agreement.", "In fact, Honeywell executives have been under tremendous pressure to push the deal through from shareholders who have been counting on a buyout.", "It may be a case where they are looking to -- you know, to cover themselves from a legal standpoint, and prove that they have done everything they can.", "The European Commission still has to formally vote on the merger plans, scheduled for next Tuesday. But at this point, with the partners disagreeing on concessions, it does appear that this deal is truly finished -- Lou.", "Allan, I can't remember of a time in which we've ever seen this kind of development in this stage of a negotiation.", "Exactly, and no one on Wall Street could today as well.", "No one has an explanation for this? Because, I mean, the Welch -- the Jack Welch letter is about as strong as one CEO would write a letter to another, especially who is going to be partner.", "And Lou, what makes it even stranger is that the two CEOs did talk yesterday, and they bid -- they both talked together with the EU commissioner, Mr. Monti, as well, so they knew what the other was thinking.", "Well, they certainly understand one another better today. Thank you, Allan. General Electric's stock today up fractionally, Honeywell down strongly, down $3 a share. And the maneuvering continued today as well in a different corporate battle, this one for control of Computer Associates. Texas billionaire Sam Wyly added two candidates to a slate he has proposed as an alternative to the company's current board. Wyly also said today that Computer Associates officials filed suit Monday to try to stop him from installing that board. Today marked the end of the second quarter, and the picture is considerably brighter on Wall Street than at the close of the first quarter, the worst in more than a decade, by the way. The Dow gained more than 6 percent over this quarter, and the Nasdaq surged nearly 18 percent, the first quarterly gain since the beginning of last year. Peter Viles has the good news.", "They had too wait an extra hour to say it, but tonight, for the first time in 15 months, investors can say that the Nasdaq just finished a solid quarter. The composite gaining 17 1/2 percent, after suffering four straight quarterly declines, including losses of 32 percent in the fourth quarter of 2000 and 25 percent in the first asking of this year. The quarter was full of disastrous corporate news, Lucent and Nortel come to mind, but investors also heard hints of a recovery, even in technology.", "If you had to pick any date pick, pick Intel or Cisco or Oracle coming out, and saying, yeah, we're going to miss our numbers, but we've built down -- we've got our inventory levels down to normal levels, our capacity is back to normal, and our customer base is re-engaging us, we're seeing new demand.", "Other positive turns in the quarter, three more interest rate cuts from the Fed, a huge tax cut now on the way, a market- friendly ruling in the Microsoft case, and a decline in energy prices.", "When you combine all of those things together, they were all negative for the market last year. Now they've all turned positive, and that's why I would say that the tone is really changed in just the last couple of days.", "Among the best-performing industries: computer software, helped by Microsoft, up 31 percent in the quarter; trash haulers; specialty retail, because consumers have held their ground; and money center banks, boosted by those interest rate cuts. Communications equipment continued to suffer, down 19 percent, and energy stocks pulled back sharply. Power producers, natural gas companies, and oil and gas drilling and equipment companies all posting double-digit losses.", "Economists say it is very likely this market will be tested in the coming weeks and months by continued evidence, however sporadic, of economic weakness: the consensus forming in the market, however, is that the economy and corporate profits will be recovering, if not in the third quarter than by the fourth quarter -- Lou.", "Peter, I don't know that we should ignore the fact that these same economists are the ones who said that this revision that came this morning would probably see us well below 1 percent or even flat. This has been...", "The first-quarter performance is much better than the economists predicted. Now you're hearing predictions that the second- quarter performance will be weaker, that from the White House today, and it could be the economy will surprise us all and not go into the weakness that is already priced in, in the second and third quarters.", "This economy -- I don't know how you feel about it, Allan -- but this economy, it seems to me, continues to defy all of the projections of nearly every economist.", "Certainly have been a lot of worries about the possibility of recession, and sectors of the economy, like manufacturing and tech, are in recession. But other portions have held up.", "The consumer, the American consumer has not done what the economists kept saying he and she would do, which is pull back a bit. The consumer has really held in there.", "Go, consumers, all right. Thanks, Pete. Thank you, Allan. Coming up next, \"A.I.\" on the big screen, and in reality: the actual business of artificial intelligence. Microsoft savoring victory in one court, but the legal saga appears to be far from ended. I'll be talking with one man who played a key role in that saga, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen."], "speaker": ["LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR", "BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, \"A.I.\") HALEY JOEL OSMENT, ACTOR", "DOBBS", "ANNOUNCER", "DOBBS", "GREG CLARKIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DOBBS", "CLARKIN", "DOBBS", "JENNIFER WESTHOVEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BRIAN BELSKI, U.S. BANCORP PIPER JAFFRAY", "WESTHOVEN", "NED RILEY, STATE STREET GLOBAL ADVISORS", "WESTHOVEN", "DOBBS", "WESTHOVEN", "DOBBS", "ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BILL FIALA, EDWARD JONES", "CHERNOFF", "STEVEN COHEN, KELLNER, DILEO & CO", "CHERNOFF", "KENT NEWCOMB, AG EDWARDS", "CHERNOFF", "DOBBS", "CHERNOFF", "DOBBS", "CHERNOFF", "DOBBS", "PETER VILES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ART HOGAN, JEFFERIES & COMPANY", "VILES", "BRIAN WESBURY, GRIFFEY, KUBICK, STEPHENS & THOMPSON", "VILES", "VILES", "DOBBS", "VILES", "DOBBS", "CHERNOFF", "VILES", "DOBBS"]}
{"id": "CNN-270508", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2015-12-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/03/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Sources: Evidence Shooter May Have Been Radicalized", "utt": ["Good evening. I'm Erin Burnett. OUTFRONT tonight, the breaking news. Increasing evidence this evening that at least one of the San Bernardino shooters may have been radicalized. Law enforcement officials telling CNN tonight that Syed Rizwan Farook who along with his wife shot and killed 14 people at an office holiday party had travelled to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. We are also learning tonight that Farook was in touch with people being investigated by the FBI for terrorism, communicating with them by phone and via social media. Now, this comes as police say Farook and his wife apparently were going to launch more attacks. They found at their home what police are now calling a bomb lab. CBS News just obtaining these photos of some of the homemade bombs found there, including this one that would have been detonated with a remote control car. This, a bag full of possible pipe bombs. In this hour, we're going to take a closer look at the shooters. We're going to talk to their next door neighbor. She says they were a happy, seemingly normal pair. She had no idea that they were making bombs in the garage next door to her. And we're going to speak to a co-worker who sat next to Farook every day. He was in that office complex when Farook and his wife opened fire. So much breaking developments tonight. We begin with Kyung Lah who is OUTFRONT in San Bernardino. And Kyung, you've been talking to Farook's co-workers and you were saying they even threw a baby shower not that long ago. Did they see any sign of a change?", "No signs. And that baby shower is an occasion that they were so friendly with one another that they wanted to celebrate the birth of his baby daughter. He was someone who they described, as being mild mannered, someone who didn't show any outward signs, not a man that they ever imagined at their holiday party would hatch a plan and try to kill them.", "Just minutes before the killers opened fire on the holiday party, Patrick Baccari left to use the bathroom when the attacks started.", "I thought somebody booby-trapped the towel dispenser because I was being pummeled as I was pulling the towel out of the dispenser. And so, I looked back at the mirror and I could see I was bleeding -- my nose.", "Baccari hid in the Bathroom while Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife fired off 76 rounds killing 14 people. Farook and Baccari shared a cubicle for three years at the San Bernardino County Health Department. They talked about cars, Farook's six month old daughter, regular chat between two co-workers.", "Why do you think he did this?", "Well, I think his beliefs were contrary to our American dreams. You would think that somebody that's working to the capacity and education level that you are has similar respect, values.", "Law enforcement sources tells CNN that Farook apparently was radicalized and in touch with people being investigated by the FBI, talking by phone and on social media with more than one person being investigated for terrorism. But a law enforcement source says those talks were infrequent. The last one had been a few months ago, not raising any alarms. No red flags either, say U.S. and Saudi government officials when Farook went to Saudi Arabia. The FBI says, the 28-year-old had also traveled to Pakistan. The couple's landlord who rented the apartment they would later fill with weapons and bomb- making materials saw no sign this was coming.", "It's beyond my comprehension. Because they seemed like such a gentle, mild person. So I don't know. You just can't tell a book by its cover.", "Farook's brother-in-law didn't know.", "I have no idea. Why would he do that? Why would he do something like this? I have absolutely no idea. I am in shock myself.", "A sentiment echoed by Patrick Baccari.", "Who wants to call their 16-year-old kid to tell them, they just survived the attack. There's many people that didn't.", "Baccari says, the multiple bullet fragments in his body will stay, too risky to remove. What also remains, confusion, the man he so closely knew did this, now turning to anger and fear.", "I believe every citizen here should be armed to defend themselves in case of this happening but that's not everybody else's belief. I couldn't have defended anybody from the position I was in, even if I was armed. But at least if they tried to come in and get us in that restroom, I would have had some way of protecting the rest of us.", "Now, if there's any clue to violence in Farook's past, it is only seen in his parents' divorce records that filed with the court in 2008. And in those records, his mother says that her husband -- her ex-husband now that he was extremely violent, abusive, that he pushed her against the car, this is something that all the children witnessed, that he would threaten suicide, he even threw a television on her. She even filed a temporary restraining order, violence that seemed to elude Farook's life but as an adult, Erin, when he came to the IRC, the building behind me as police continue to comb through this, they still have so many questions about how someone who was so mild-mannered on the outside could have executed such a violent, violent act.", "Kyung Lah, thank you very much. And we are learning much more about his family. We're going to be talking about that in a moment. But I want to go now to Pamela Brown also in San Bernardino. And Pam, you've been looking at the relationship between the shooters, between Farook and his wife. This is one of the most bizarre and important parts of the story. What have you learned?", "That's right. We've learned, according to officials we've been speaking with that it's believed that Syed Farook met his wife in Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2014. Officials say, the last recorded trip he had there was during that summer. He was there for nine days. That is when they believe he met his wife. She then came back to the United States on a fiancee visa and obtained a green card and became a legal permanent resident from there. And frankly, that's all we've been able to learn about their relationship because investigators say these were two people who were not on their radar. These were people who weren't on watch lists, that they didn't have adduce (ph) on them. And so, they are trying to learn more about this relationship and how this was missed. We've learned that officials have been, the FBI has been interviewing their family members and we're told that they have been cooperating but in terms of a motive, that's still unclear at this hour -- Erin.", "And Pamela, you know, not only are there so many questions about them, it's so unusual that they could have been so off the radar. We also know that it looks likely that they were actually preparing additional attacks. Is that right?", "That's right. In fact, we've learned that they had what appeared to be an ad hoc bomb lamb in the home. Farook's mother, there apparently were 12 explosive devices that were there inside that home, including 4500 rounds of ammunition and remote control cars that they believe they may have intended to use for the explosives. So, really a cache of weapons there and that's part of the reason Erin, that in addition to the fact that Syed Farook appeared to be in touch with FBI terrorism subjects, so they were not high-priority subjects. But all of these combined is leading authorities to investigate whether or not he could have been radicalized. But they're also looking at the possibility this could have just been a workplace dispute or perhaps a blend of both -- Erin.", "All right. Thank you very much. Annie Larson lives next door to the shooters. Her home shares a back wall with theirs. Annie, you lived next door to them for about six months. What were they like?", "They just seemed like just regular neighbors, kind of kept to themselves, cordial and I would see a gentleman come home from work and we'd greet each other and say hi, smile, met his mother, I believe, and the woman that lived there. I didn't know their names.", "You didn't know their names.", "At the time. But --", "Yes. I know that, you know, obviously now, you know, you're thinking, gosh, you lived so close to them. Police found pipe bombs in the house.", "Right.", "Thousands of rounds of ammunition. I mean, looking back now, Annie, do you see any clues of what was actually happening?", "In retrospect, there's always things that you can see. Of note lately, they just kept receiving multiple packages but it's Christmastime and that seemed pretty normal. I know he did work in his garage pretty regularly, sometimes the door opened, sometimes it was closed. So I didn't really think of any -- I didn't notice anything particularly out of the ordinary for the area in which I live.", "What were they like as a couple? Did you notice anything there? Or just, you know, seeming to be very normal American couple?", "Yes. Normal. He was happy. I would see him smile. Kind of entering the house and -- we share backyard fences and can hear -- you can hear each other if you're in the back and could hear the baby that they have there making baby sounds and seemed happy and just normal, a normal life like you do with a little baby.", "You have a baby yourself. I have a baby myself.", "Yes.", "The fact that they had a baby here is one of the most impossible things to understand. I mean, you saw them. Did they seem excited about this new baby? Did you have any feelings or see Tashfeen interact with her child? What did you see?", "Just seemed like they were regular moms and dads doing normal life. Nothing really stood out. Seemed happy to be together. So --", "How do you now feel, Annie, that knowing that this was happening right next door to you? As you say, I mean, this was -- this was adjacent to your home. This was touching your home.", "I think the biggest feeling that as apparent probably in my face is sadness. Sadness for our community, sadness for the lives that have been lost. Sadness that glimmers of hope seems to keep dissipating in all the madness of the world. But there's always hope and hope will always prevail.", "Annie, when was the last time you saw them?", "I think it was Sunday afternoon. I could see them through the fence. They just seemed happy. They were both kind of in and out of the house there on the patio.", "They seemed totally normal.", "Totally normal. No idea.", "Well, Annie, thank you very much for being with me.", "You're welcome. Best to you.", "Art Roderick is a former assistant director for Investigations for the U.S. Marshals. And Art, you just heard Annie, she lived next door. I mean, literally their house is touched, she said she had no idea they had a bomb lab or an arsenal. I mean, it's frightening you know someone could do that. Could be building what they built. And their neighbors would have no idea. I mean, how easy it is to do this undetected?", "Well, I mean, I think we've heard this description of individuals before that have gone out and committed heinous crimes. Oh, they were a normal person. They were nice to me. They waved to me. I think you hit on it, Erin, the key part here is that six-month- old baby. I mean, how could they leave that six-month-old baby and commit a crime like this? And whether it's, you know, it hasn't been totally pinned down yet whether these was radicalized individual, whether they were directed by someone, whether this was workplace violence. But I can't see this being workplace violence when you have the tactics that they used, which we have seen used in other terrorist attacks around the world. And to leave that six-month-old child without any parents to, me, again, points another finger in the direction of being radicalized.", "Yes. I mean, we just heard Annie say how normal they seemed, happy, normal, and normal with their baby. You know, how is that possible? The co-worker said that, too. Everybody has said that. No one has said there was any sign of radicalization.", "Yes. I mean, they don't want to -- none of these people that become radicalized actually want to attract a lot of attention. Once you start attracting attention, you start attracting law enforcement or neighbors are going to start talking and the word will eventually get back to law enforcement. So, it just -- this is a bizarre set of circumstances from A to Z. This whole scenario, whether it's a hybrid, radicalization or workplace violence, this whole scenario is very bizarre and I think we're seeing something brand new here.", "Certainly something brand new. Art is going to stay with me. Next, the male shooter traveled to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, communicated with terror suspects. Did U.S. intelligence missed multiple red flags? Plus, the shooters, their home loaded with guns, ammo, bomb- making materials. What do we know about another imminent attack? And new details on the massive manhunt that ended with a ferocious gun battle and two dead suspects?"], "speaker": ["ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR", "KYUNG LAH, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "LAH (voice-over)", "PATRICK BACCARI, WORKED WITH SYED RIZWAN FAROOK", "LAH", "LAH (on camera)", "BACCARI", "LAH (voice-over)", "DOYLE MILLER, SYED RIZWAN FAROOK'S LANDLORD", "LAH", "FARHAN KHAN, BROTHER-IN-LAW OF SYED RIZWAN FAROOK", "LAH", "BACCARI", "LAH", "BACCARI", "LAH", "BURNETT", "PAMELA BROWN, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "BURNETT", "BROWN", "BURNETT", "ANNIE LARSON, SHOOTER'S NEIGHBORS", "BURNETT", "LARSON", "BURNETT", "LARSON", "BURNETT", "LARSON", "BURNETT", "LARSON", "BURNETT", "LARSON", "BURNETT", "LARSON", "BURNETT", "LARSON", "BURNETT", "LARSON", "BURNETT", "LARSON", "BURNETT", "LARSON", "BURNETT", "ART RODERICK, FORMER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR INVESTIGATIONS, U.S. MARSHALS", "BURNETT", "RODERICK", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "NPR-39788", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2008-06-14", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91518981", "title": "Rare Manuscripts Saved From Rising Floodwater", "summary": "A brigade of rescuers formed a human chain to protect a cache of rare manuscripts from rising waters at the University of Iowa. Film material used for cinema classes were also saved by the group. NPR's Andrea Seabrook talked with Nancy Baker, the university's director of libraries, who organized the rescue. According to Baker, hundreds of community volunteers showed up to help with the three-day effort.", "utt": ["Now to the story of one daring rescue that came out of Iowa. Nancy Baker orchestrated it, chief Director of Libraries at the University of Iowa, and she's on the phone now standing behind the sandbags that are protecting the University Library in Iowa City.", "Thanks for joining us, Nancy Baker.", "Oh, thank you for having me.", "So the rescue took three days. Nancy Baker, what did you save?", "Well, just a wide assortments of manuscript collections. You know, these are papers of individuals, of organizations, I can't tell you the exact names of everything that came up. We have a whole floor on the third floor of our library now that looks like a bunker, 'cause we've moved everything up there. There's just boxes and boxes of manuscripts and archived papers. We also saved the rich, you know, film material that we use for cinema classes because these are the most easily destroyed in moldy, steamy conditions that you often will have after a flood.", "So you saved the library.", "Well, I hope so. I mean, you know, we moved as much material as we could possibly save.", "Now, I assume there are just thousands - tens of thousands - hundreds of thousands of books and manuscripts there. How did you do it?", "Well, what we did was, we put out a call on campus for volunteers and if you could see right now what I see on this campus, well, people are sandbagging and there are literally thousands of people down here from all over the community. They're working really hard to save parts of this campus. And the first couple days we were moving manuscript boxes with our own staff. We could only use about 20 people at a time because they had to come up elevators. They were too heavy to really be lifting and we needed to use book trucks to get them up. So we had - we were using our own library staff and had plenty of people for that. But when we decided we needed to move some more of these materials out of the basement and up to upper floors, we put out a call on campus, and I can't tell you, hundreds of people showed up hour after hour - for the most part over the course of yesterday, through 9:00 o'clock last night to help us move the materials we had identified as being most at risk. And it just was unbelievable. There were literally rows and rows of human assembly lines passing books of staircases to get them up to higher ground up on the upper floors.", "So you did a fire line. You lined people up...", "We did a fire line.", "Wow.", "And we just had - and there were children, there were students from the university, there were faculty members, you know, deans, administrators, all kinds of people from the community who showed up and just worked like that, some of them for hours. Others would show up and we'd relieve one crew and do another. I think there were three or four lines going up the staircases at any one time. It was really just a very moving kind of sight. And actually I'm down here today, even though we have closed off the building, because people are still showing up to see if they can help and we wanted to make sure that we could tell them, you know, how much we appreciate them being there even though we're - we've done what we feel we can do at this point.", "Nancy Baker is the Director of Libraries at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. The rare manuscripts in the University Library there are now out of harm's way, we think.", "Nancy Baker, thank you so much.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["ANDREA SEABROOK, host", "ANDREA SEABROOK, host", "Ms. NANCY BAKER (Chief Director of Libraries, University of Iowa)", "ANDREA SEABROOK, host", "Ms. NANCY BAKER (Chief Director of Libraries, University of Iowa)", "ANDREA SEABROOK, host", "Ms. NANCY BAKER (Chief Director of Libraries, University of Iowa)", "ANDREA SEABROOK, host", "Ms. NANCY BAKER (Chief Director of Libraries, University of Iowa)", "ANDREA SEABROOK, host", "Ms. NANCY BAKER (Chief Director of Libraries, University of Iowa)", "ANDREA SEABROOK, host", "Ms. NANCY BAKER (Chief Director of Libraries, University of Iowa)", "ANDREA SEABROOK, host", "ANDREA SEABROOK, host", "Ms. NANCY BAKER (Chief Director of Libraries, University of Iowa)"]}
{"id": "CNN-65104", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-1-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/06/lad.05.html", "summary": "Hussein Has Been Addressing Nation", "utt": ["Now to Iraq, where today is Army Day, and Saddam Hussein has been addressing his nation. CNN's Rym Brahimi joins us now live from Baghdad with the latest -- good morning, Rym.", "Good morning, John. As you said, Army Day. This is the 82nd anniversary of the Iraqi armed forces. President Saddam Hussein addressed the nation, making a certain number of points, of course, addressing the huge military buildup in the region, saying that the U.S. threatened not only Iraq, but also the entire region. Let's listen to how he put it.", "Instead of looking for the so-called weapons of mass destruction in order to expose the distortion and lies propagated by those who endeavor in vain to deceive public opinion, the inspection teams are interested in collecting names and making lists of Iraqi scientists, addressing employees with questions that carry hidden agendas.", "Now, he also addressed the question of the inspections, accusing the U.N. weapons inspectors of spying in their methods of work, saying that they were not doing work to disarm Iraq, but actually to gather intelligence here. Another couple of points he made, John, one of them saying that the United States, by threatening the region, was actually trying to divert the American public opinion from the problems it has at home from the fact that, in his view, the American agencies had failed to prevent the September 11 attacks, saying he's also trying to divert the American public opinion from what he said was a collapsed economy in the United States. And he also pointed out maybe a response to what many people are speculating about, the big question being what will the army do if there is an attack against Iraq. Well, President Saddam Hussein said he was confident the army would stand firm and stand by the country -- John.", "Rym, in his speech we heard a lot of references, a lot of religious references. Now, Iraq traditionally is a secular country. What can we read into that?", "Well, that's been a trend in recent years, John. Iraq is, as you said, a secular country, mainly because the ruling Baath Party's policies are strictly secular. But in the past few years, there has been a tendency on the part of a lot of leaders to maybe lean towards more religious references. That's been the case certainly in many of the president's speeches. He's been seen quite often going to mosques. He's been filmed attending mosques. He also apparently was, sent someone to the pilgrimage. He wants to be giving, he wants to give this image also of someone that plays also to that side of the Arab public opinion, not just the secular, but following maybe the trend of many countries in the Arab world, following that more religious trend recently. So playing on as much, as many boards as he can, if you will -- John.", "OK, CNN's Rym Brahimi on duty for us again in Baghdad. Thank you, Rym."], "speaker": ["JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PRES. SADDAM HUSSEIN, IRAQ", "BRAHIMI", "VAUSE", "BRAHIMI", "VAUSE"]}
{"id": "CNN-143926", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-10-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/13/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Florida Teen Set on Fire", "utt": ["And good morning, everyone. It is Tuesday, October 13th. And here are the top stories for you in the CNN NEWSROOM. Health care insurance reform at a make-or-break moment. The Senate Finance Committee votes today on its middle-of-the-road blueprint. Limits on medical malpractice lawsuits and new analysis shows the savings would add up to billions. And this...", "The next day they straightened out my nose. And I had a rodeo that night, so I didn't want them putting me under anesthesia, or however you say that word. And when they straightened out -- so I told them to do without it.", "And an off-Broadway play exposes the flaws in health care. I will speak with the playwright and star of this provocative one-woman show. Good morning, everyone. I'm Tony Harris. And you are in the CNN NEWSROOM. The push to overhaul the nation's health care system on the verge of taking a major step forward. The Senate Finance Committee is meeting right now and is said to vote today on its reform plan. Some Republicans on the committee say the legislation is a missed opportunity, but Chairman Max Baucus says it is time to get the job done.", "Americans are looking for commonsense solutions. Americans want a balanced plan that takes the best ideas from both sides. And Americans want us to craft a package that will get the 60 votes that it needs to pass.", "What could have been a strong bipartisan vote reflecting our collective and genuine desire for responsible reform is now ending as another divided vote as we take another step towards the flawed solution of reforming one-sixth of our economy with more spending, more government and more taxes.", "Congressional Correspondent Brianna Keilar is following developments on Capitol Hill. And Brianna, tell us what we're likely to see today.", "We'll we're likely to see and we've already begun to see this, Tony, is some debate and some key questions that are being asked of basically health care experts and budget experts about this bill that the Senate Finance Committee is expected to pass today. So, everyone on this committee saying their final peace before they get a vote. And this is such a key hurdle for health care, Tony, because not only is this the fifth and final committee bill that will move on, but it's also the only one that doesn't include that government-run insurance plan. And because of that, some sort of form of what we're seeing today is seen as more likely to be able to pass Congress.", "And Brianna, who are the key senators we're watching today?", "We're watching a few. And not just Republicans. We're watching Ron Wyden of Oregon. We're watching Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia. Two Democrats who have not said they are going to vote yes on this. So, we want to see what they'll do. And also, of course, Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, a moderate Republican, the only chance the Democrats have of getting some bipartisan support here today.", "Got another quick one for you. This vote comes a day after the insurance industry report that says this bill will cost Americans thousands more dollars for insurance. One of those key senators, Republican Olympia Snowe, weighed in before the hearing. What does she have to say?", "In short, Tony, she railed on this report, saying that she was questioning the methodology, she was questioning the timing of it. And also, we caught her as she went in the back door of this hearing room and tried to pin her down on whether she's going to vote yes or not today. Here's what she said.", "Sorting through all the issues. Certainly have not declared my intentions. I want to be able to make sure that we get all of the facts before a complete final vote. But I'm sorting through those issues.", "So, she would not be pinned down. And that's why we are keeping an eagle eye on her today.", "Absolutely. All right. Brianna Keilar on Capitol Hill for us. Brianna, thank you. A congressman who made headlines with an explosive comment in the health care debate faces his constituents. Florida Democrat Alan Grayson quickly shifted focus away from his comment that Republicans want sick people to \"die quickly.\" He said last night's town hall meeting was not for political debate, but for answering people's questions. And his constituents had plenty of those.", "Why do senators and congressmen have another plan that -- what we are getting forced on us?", "I have the same coverage as every other federal employee, no different from everyone else. Secondly, you will not be forced to get any kind of coverage. You can keep the coverage that you have. The president has said over and over and over again, if you like your insurance, you can keep it.", "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is wrapping up a meeting this hour with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. It is taking place at his home outside Moscow. Clinton met earlier with her Russian counterpart. Key issues: arms control, missile defense and Iran's nuclear ambitions.", "Iran's nuclear program remains a matter of serious concern, and we're working closely with Russia, through the P5 plus 1 process. We had a constructive meeting in Geneva on October 1st, and we are working to ensure that Iran moves forward with us on this engagement track.", "And another disturbing case of teen violence. This one out of Florida. Three minors in custody after a 15-year-old was reportedly doused with a flammable liquid and start on fire. We're told that Michael Brewer has burns over about 75 percent of his body. No charges yet in this case. And the motive isn't clear, but Brewer's family believes this is retaliation after he apparently got another kid arrested for stealing a bike.", "This is the worst thing you could possibly do to a 15-year-old kid.", "To anybody. To even an animal. You don't do this. You cannot put fire -- I mean, you feel every single bit of pain.", "Jim Leljedal is on the phone with us. He is the spokesman from the sheriff's office investigating this case. And Jim, thanks for your time. My understanding is three suspects in custody. Do you have everyone in your mind who participated in this attack?", "We're not sure, Tony. In fact, right now, we have detectives that are still out in the field. They've been working all night. And they are, as we speak, pulling kids out of class and taking statements and talking to other teenagers to determine whether we have everyone that is responsible for this, because we are determined that anybody and everybody that is responsible is going to answer for this crime.", "I am so glad to hear that. Jim, the young people who are under arrest, in custody -- well, I shouldn't say -- well, in custody right now -- have they told you anything that helps you move forward with your investigation? Have they confessed to the crime?", "They haven't been terribly cooperative, but the indication at this point is that it's probably related to the bicycle theft on Sunday night. That's the best information we have at this point. We can't release all of the details. I expect that we will release details today, but we want to make sure first that we have everybody in custody.", "OK. The suspects that you have in custody right now, are they Brewer's classmates, schoolmates?", "A couple of them are classmates. Two of the boys are the same age as he is, 15. One is 13. He skipped school on Monday because he said that he was afraid of running into these boys at school. He thought that they might retaliate. But, in fact, he went to this apartment complex where a friend lives and he was attacked there.", "OK. Have you seen teen bullying taken to this extent before? I'm trying to understand if this is a bad neighborhood.", "No.", "You haven't?", "No. This is the extreme. You know, when you think you've seen it all and it couldn't get any worse, then you have teenagers setting someone on fire. This is about as cruel and heinous as it gets.", "And how is Michael Brewer doing?", "I don't have a recent condition update, but I understand that he is in the hospital. He was transported by our helicopter to a hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, and from there was flown to Miami, to a special burn unit. He's being treated there.", "Jim Leljedal is with us. He's a spokesman for the sheriff's office investigating this case. Jim, appreciate it. Thanks for your time. Thanks for the information.", "Thank you, Tony.", "The health insurance industry has some new criticism of health care reform. Our senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, breaks down the complaints. And let's take a look now at the latest numbers on Wall Street, the Big Board. As you can see, the Dow down. We've got a selling morning so far. The Dow down 45 points. We will follow these numbers throughout the morning with Susan Lisovicz, right here in the CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "HARRIS", "SEN. MAX BAUCUS (D), FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN", "SEN. ORRIN HATCH (R), UTAH", "HARRIS", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HARRIS", "KEILAR", "HARRIS", "KEILAR", "SEN. 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{"id": "NPR-12103", "program": "Weekend Edition Saturday", "date": "2014-06-21", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/06/21/324222784/redeeming-a-college-defeat-25-years-later", "title": "Redeeming A College Defeat, 25 Years Later", "summary": "Jeffrey Mann finished dead last in a college hurdle race. Now, 25 years later, he tells NPR's Scott Simon that he was determined to exorcise that demon by racing again.", "utt": ["Jeffrey Mann was once a hard driving college athlete. But his dreams were dashed when he suffered a series of injuries. He managed to make it to the conference finals in the 400-meter hurdle race, but came in dead last. Twenty-five years later, he decided that failure was not an option. Jeffrey Mann is a religion professor at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. And when we spoke with him, post-race, he told us his return to the track wasn't exactly by design.", "It wasn't really planned. I had been exercising and working out and doing a little bit of running on my own. And I ended up in a conversation with the head coach, here, of the track team. And as we were talking, he found out a little bit about my history and where I was at and told me that there was a possibility for me to compete in a Division III intercollegiate competition.", "But that sounds theoretical. You took it seriously.", "I think I was a little bit overly optimistic when I first accepted the challenge. But I thought how much could I possibly have slowed down in 25 years? And so I decided to take on the challenge and compete as a - what they call an unattached runner at a college meet.", "A lot of training, yes?", "Yes. Actually what happened was, originally I was going to try to do it in 2013. But I had to work a little too quickly, and I ended up pulling a hamstring and so decided to delay it one year. And so I spent the better part of this last year in training, preparing for the race this spring, 2014.", "Professor Mann, when people are in their 40's, they can pull a hamstring reaching for the toothbrush.", "Yes, and so I had to be very careful. That was my one big fear. And so I had to be very careful in my training and warming up and preparation to make sure I could minimize the chances of that happening.", "Professor Mann, with respect, but was deciding to run in a, you know, what after all is a college conference event, your equivalent of getting a little red convertible?", "(Laughing) I suppose it probably is, just a lot cheaper and better for my health.", "That's a great answer. So day of the race, you show up. What happened?", "I got in the blocks, and when we were told to move into the set position, that seemed to last longer than I had remembered from 25 years ago.", "I was actually wavering in the blocks. And I saw on the video that some sort of bad form. But they fired the gun and I took off and things were going OK. They weren't going great, my strides were a little bit off. But I never hit an off-leg on a hurdle. As I went around the second turn and came into the final 100 meters, I looked to my left and realized that I was right in the middle of the pack. And that really surprised me. And at that point, I figured as long as I finish, this is a success. And as I got to the very end, right before the finish line, I glanced up at the scoreboard which showed the clock running. And realized that I ended up with a pretty good time. And so I crossed the finish line.  I beat my personal goal by two seconds and managed to beat one other runner in the race.", "Well, that raises this question professor. You're - I mean, you're a teacher right?", "Correct.", "You have devoted your professional life to helping, encouraging, enriching the lives of youngsters, right?", "I would like to think so.", "Well, what about that poor kid that, you know, couldn't run as fast (laughing) as his religion professor?", "I feel for him. But now he's got a chance to live down his demons in the years ahead. I mean, that's the nature of competition. There's going to be a winner and there's going to be a loser. And that's always something that we have to figure out how to deal with in our own journeys, in our own efforts to cultivate who we are.", "Jeffrey Mann, professor of religion and a runner at Susquehanna University. Thanks very much for joining us.", "Thank you very much."], "speaker": ["SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "JEFFREY MANN", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "JEFFREY MANN", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "JEFFREY MANN", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "JEFFREY MANN", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "JEFFREY MANN", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "JEFFREY MANN", "JEFFREY MANN", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "JEFFREY MANN", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "JEFFREY MANN", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "JEFFREY MANN", "SCOTT SIMON, HOST", "JEFFREY MANN"]}
{"id": "CNN-286352", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-06-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/11/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Donald Trump to Hold Rally in Tampa, Florida; Mitt Romney Criticizes Donald Trump's Rhetoric", "utt": ["That's it. Follow me on Twitter @Smerconish. I'll see you next week.", "Donald Trump is a loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud. You shame yourself and you shame this great country.", "And Pocahontas is not happy. She's not happy. Elizabeth Warren, she's one of the worst senators.", "We are not going to let Donald Trump or anyone else turn back the clock.", "Trickledown racism, trickledown bigotry, and trickledown misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart a character of America.", "The searing words of a sexual assault victim managing to stir a nation and spot light an issue so often kept in the dark.", "They were selling merchandise and signing autographs. The suspect walked up and shot Christina.", "This is horrible. Honestly it's probably one of the worst things that could literally happen right now.", "Just a glimpse of all the things we're talking about. Good morning to you. We're grateful for your company as always. I'm Christi Paul.", "I'm Victor Blackwell. Good to be with you this morning in the CNN Newsroom. So new this morning, Mitt Romney's revolt is not going unanswered, let's say. Donald Trump now says the last Republican presidential nominee, \"choked like a dog.\" Those are his words.", "And that's not all. Donald Trump firing off on Twitter this morning responding to CNN's exclusive interview with Mitt Romney. Romney vowing that he will not vote for Trump, calling the presumptive nominee's message, \"racist, vulgar, and dangerous.\" Watch.", "Presidents have an impact on the nature of our nation, and trickledown racism, trickledown bigotry, and trickledown misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America.", "Now, here's what Donald Trump had to say a short time ago. Quote, \"Mitt Romney had his chance to be a failed president but he choked like a dog. Now he calls me racist. But I am the least racist person there is.\" Obviously that coming to us from Twitter. CNN politics reporter Jeremy Diamond is live from Tampa, Florida, where that Trump rally is set to start about an hour from now. Jeremy, Trump's event last night drew a surprisingly, as I understand it, small crowd. What can you tell us about the attendance there this morning?", "Yes, well, certainly, you know, by Donald Trump standards today's crowd is also a little bit smaller than he's used to. You got a couple thousand people here, but no line to speak of outside. I just went outside to check it out and there is no line of people waiting to get into this event. That's often something that Donald Trump says is there's thousands of people waiting outside in line to get in. Today that is not the case. This place is less than half full, which is certainly interesting given that Donald Trump is kicking off his general election campaign, so to speak, with Hillary Clinton now the presumptive Democratic nominee. And this is a key state that he's going to have to try to win if he wants to win in the general election. Florida of course a battleground state consistently in multiple presidential elections. But this comes as Donald Trump is trying to unite the Republican Party as well, not just looking towards the general election but try to actually unite his own party around him specifically after he had all of this controversy around the judge overseeing his Trump University case. Donald Trump is pushing back on accusations that he is a racist, saying that he is the least racist person last night in his rally and today this morning in a tweet.", "All right, Jeremy Diamond, we appreciate it, thank you.", "A lot to talk about here. So here with me we have Amy Kremer, co-founder of the group Women Vote Trump, also Tharon Johnson, former south regional director for Obama's 2012 campaign. Good to have both of you back.", "Good to be here.", "Let's start with you, Amy, and Trump's defense last night against these claims, these accusations that he is a racist. Watch.", "I am the least, just so you know, I am the least racist person, the least racist person that you've ever seen, the least. I mean, give me a break.", "All right, so, those claims that he's fighting off they come after a year of this. Let's watch --", "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. I've been treated very unfairly. Now, this judge is of Mexican heritage. I'm building a wall.", "If you are saying he can't do his job because of his race, is that not the definition of racism?", "I don't think so at all.", "So, Amy, what do you say to those people who say that the history, the record here, is clear, the rhetoric, the words are racist?", "Look, I mean I think -", "Amy, let me cut you off because we're having an audio issue. We're going to come right back to you. We just need to fix the technical element. Tharon, let me come to you. You heard there. Hopefully your audio is good. Your response to Donald Trump saying he's not a racist after what some say is clear rhetoric?", "Victor, if you listen to the clips that you just played, there's no way that anyone who has been paying attention to this race cannot say that Donald Trump has been making some very racist comments. When you have the speaker of the House, the highest-ranking Republican says, and I quote, that Donald Trump's comment about the judge being of Mexican heritage is the textbook definition of a racist comment, I mean, this is just crazy to me. And the thing about Donald Trump is that he says, well, I'm not racist, just listen to me, let me tell you that I'm not. But he has done nothing -- and I mean doing -- to show us through his actions and through his campaign message that he is not a racist. So, I think this is a very, very bad week for Donald Trump. He is constantly redefining rock bottom and basically, you know, dividing this country. And I think that he's got to regroup. But it was a very, very bad week for him and a very good week for Hillary Clinton.", "All right, I think we fixed the audio issue. Amy, pick up on your point here.", "No, because you want to build a wall so we can stop the illegal immigration problem, that doesn't mean you're racist. You have Stacey Dash and Silk and Diamond, two Internet stars, who were at our press conference this week when we announced. There are all three African-Americans. They love Donald Trump. There are plenty of African-Americans out there that love Donald Trump, and I think if he were racist they wouldn't be supporting him like that. That word has become a taboo. That word is thrown at you if somebody wants to stop you. And not only is it coming from the left but it's coming from the right now. And what I say to it is if Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and all these people in the Republican Party had worked so hard to defeat Barack Obama in 2012 we might have Mitt Romney as president right now. But the problem is they cannot stand that they're losing control. And, Victor, quite honestly, there's a bigger picture here. They -- if they keep doing this, they're going to lose all the support they have. The American people are fed up with it. And I will say this. Bernie, you know, it's not like the Democrats are united either because Bernie, his supporters are not getting on board with Hillary Clinton. There are a lot that are not getting on board with Hillary Clinton, and I think it's a message to Washington overall.", "Let me come to you, Tharon. CNN learned that a major Clinton Foundation donor, donated between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, was appointed to a sensitive intelligence board when Clinton was secretary of state. The focus was arms control, disarmament, nonproliferation, but the donor, Rajiv Fernando, was a securities trader, a financial guy with no national security experience, donating seven figures. The response from the Clinton campaign, let's put that up, because there are questions about if this was an exchange, this appointment was an exchange for that donation. \"This was an unpaid, volunteer advisory board and one of several foreign policy-focused organizations that he was involved with. As the State Department itself has said, the ISAB, the International Security Advisory's Board charter calls for a diverse set of experiences for its members. That's all there is to it.\" But when the State Department was asked about why this man, Rajiv Fernando, was qualified, how he was qualified, there was no response given. There were e-mails that showed that they were told to stall, and then the next day he resigned from the board. Your concerns about how damaging this can be for Secretary Clinton?", "You know, I'm not that aware of the situation, Victor, and I can't speak on behalf of the foundation or the campaign in regards to this. But my short answer would be this -- I think that Hillary Clinton and her campaign and other staff members have got to continue to do what they've been doing, and that is being transparent and make sure they answer all questions. There's no secret that there's been this very politically motivated investigation against Hillary Clinton while she was the secretary of state and even while she was first lady and even while she was a senator. And so I think what you've got to do is continue to just be transparent and answer the questions. But I want to respond really quickly --", "A criminal FBI investigation is not political. It is more serious.", "Let -- I need you to wrap this up, Tharon. Last thought.", "Amy, you are my friend and we come on this show a lot and we debate civilly. And so I think we need to continue to do that. I think the problem with the Republicans right now they've created this guy in Donald Trump, and as a woman, Amy, you should be very concerned that this guy you support has consistently disrespected women and he continues to do so. And so there's no division --", "That's not the case at all, Tharon. I'll be happy to debate it with you at any time, but that's not the case.", "And unfortunately we've run out of time to have that debate at this moment. But Tharon Johnson, Amy Kremer, thank you both. Unfortunately audio problem took up a little more time than we had hoped.", "Thanks for having me.", "Thank you. Thank you.", "A concert for an up-and-coming pop star turns deadly. Christina Grimmie, a finalist on the hit show \"The Voice,\" shot and killed as she signs autographs with fans. A former cast mate is sharing his memories of her."], "speaker": ["MICHAEL SMERCONISH, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-257551", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-06-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1506/17/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Hong Kong Lawmakers Reject Electoral Reform Backed By Beijing", "utt": ["Welcome back to CNN NEWSROOM. We are following a deadly mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, where there has been a deadly mass shooting at a church.", "Here's the details and the newest information we have for you right now. Nine people are dead at a historic African-American Church the city of Charleston. Federal and local officers are fanning out across the city searching for the white male suspect who is believed to be behind this incident. The mayor and police chief both say they believe this was a hate crime.", "Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church is said to be the oldest black church of its kind in the southern United States. During the times of slavery in the U.S., it was an important point on the so- called Underground Railroad, helping slaves find their way to freedom. It's located in downtown Charleston, where thousands of tourists visit during this time of the year.", "We will continue to follow that breaking story throughout the night. We want to turn to another breaking development taking place right now. This one out of Hong Kong. Lawmakers there have rejected electoral reform backed by Beijing.", "It is a victory for pro democracy supporters. If the measure passed, it would have let people cast votes for Hong Kong's next leader in 2017, but only if China approved the candidates first.", "Let's turn to our senior international correspondent, Ivan Watson, for more on this. There was fear ahead of this vote it wouldn't have enough of a majority, two-thirds majority to pass. It did fail in the end. Why?", "It needed a two- thirds majority to support it. There's roughly some 27, 28 members of the legislative body, comprised of 70 people, who all announced they would oppose it. The second-highest official here in the administration in Hong Kong, in her comments moments before the vote took place, which was less than an hour ago, she predicted that all the hard work she put in to this would be in vain. Listen to what Carrie Lam had to say.", "At the moment, the reform proposal will be voted down. I said I'm disappointed. I don't know when democratization can be taken forward.", "There was drama in the assembly room as the votes were cast. After the head of the council announced the vote would be underway, seconds later, a large chunk of the lawmakers staged a walk out. They were, for the most, part from the pro Beijing, pro government faction that was supporting the bill, Errol. Out of 70 voters, there were only 37, just half of the people in the council. Eight voted down the election proposal -- I'm sorry, 28 voted down the election proposal and eight voted in favor of this. From the camp that supported the motion, there was some long faces, some glum faces. From those who voted it down, there were moments of celebration. One lawmaker holding up a yellow umbrella out here in the hallway that's a symbol of the Umbrella Revolution, the so-called Umbrella Revolution from last autumn. What does this say? Well, the proposed system for electing Hong Kong's top executive in 2017, that has just been thrown out the window. This is also a slap in the face of the ruling Communist Party, the central government in Beijing. Basically, Hong Kong, a former British colony, has once again said no to Beijing's plans for this port city, this island city. It is a setback, again, for the central government, which really isn't accustomed to citizens of China saying no to it and getting away with it -- Errol?", "So if it is a setback for the status quo and the local government and Beijing, certainly this is a bit of a success story for those young people who turned out and clogged the streets as part of the Umbrella Movement for the young teenager who for sometime put himself through a hunger strike, all so they could vote without Beijing's interference. So for those local politicians who voted this down, those demonstrations and that resistance to China's influence must have been what was in their minds.", "Absolutely. Some of these lawmakers -- one woman who I interviewed, she had homemade earrings made out of umbrellas, out of that same symbol that emerged on the streets last autumn. So some of these lawmakers were shouting victory as they came out of the council chambers. It's important to note that Hong Kong society, according to polls, is quite split on this issue. In fact, in a whole succession of surveys there were a few more percentage points of those surveyed supporting this law than those opposing it. That's an important point to keep in mind, that you do have polarization in society, that a significant portion of Hong Kong society was supporting the proposal that the Hong Kong administrators had put forward that were endorsed by the central government in Beijing. You also had roughly 40 percent of those surveyed who opposed this. And I think everybody agreed that there's still a big challenge, how do you get Hong Kong society to unite? One of the supporters of this bill, which just failed, said, I don't predict this will be good for governance of the city in the years ahead. That's saying something because I think Hong Kong prides itself on its efficiency -- Errol?", "Ivan Watson, live for us in Hong Kong on a successful day for those there that want less interference from Beijing. Appreciate the live update. Thank you. We are still following the breaking news out of Charleston, South Carolina. A church shooting in which nine people are dead. The suspect still on the loose. We will have more here on CNN for you after this short break."], "speaker": ["ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR", "BARNETT", "CHURCH", "BARNETT", "CHURCH", "BARNETT", "IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CARRIE LAM, HONG KONG LEGISLATOR", "WATSON", "BARNETT", "WATSON", "CHURCH"]}
{"id": "CNN-363600", "program": "CNN RIGHT NOW", "date": "2019-03-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1903/05/crn.01.html", "summary": "White House Prepares for Push Back; Rep. Ted Lieu (D) California is Interviewed about the Request for Documents; Ivanka Trump Not on Document Request List; Schiff Hires Ex-Prosecutor for Investigation; Trump's 2020 Strategy.", "utt": ["More rallying, maybe that will be how people perceive this.", "You want to be pure or do you want to have some money?", "There you go.", "That's -- that's the question.", "Thanks for joining us on INSIDE POLITICS. See you back here this time tomorrow. Don't go anywhere. Brianna Keilar starts right now. Have a great day.", "I'm Brianna Keilar, live from CNN's Washington headquarters. Underway right now, the war begins. New hints the president may invoke executive privilege after Democrats target the people closest to him. Plus, I'll speak with one Democrat on the Judiciary Committee who just referred Jared Kushner's actions for a criminal investigation. Is President Trump's response to bigoted remarks swayed by politics? Why he's condemning a Democrat but staying silent on a Republican. And a chilling new warning. A U.S. general says America's military's advantage against Russia is shrinking fast. Up first, the White House plans its strategy as Democrats step up their investigation of President Trump. The administration is promising to cooperate, but behind closed doors officials are planning to push back. And that includes the possible use of executive privilege. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders blasting Democrats and House Judiciary Congressman Jerry Nadler. Sanders says, quote, Chairman Nadler and his fellow Democrats have embarked on this fishing expedition because they are terrified that their two-year false narrative of Russian collusion is crumbling. Democrats are not after the truth, they are after the president. Democrats, for their part, are not backing down. House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff has hired a veteran ex-prosecutor with experience fighting Russian organized crime to lead his investigation. White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins is following all of this for us. What are you hearing about the possibility of the president asserting executive privilege?", "Well, it's certainly something that's on the table, as well as maybe slow walking some of this document production, possibly defying subpoenas -- subpoenas if it does come down to that. But right now we know that even though the White House is saying publicly we're going to cooperate behind the scenes, they're getting ready to push back because they believe this is an expansive document request and Democrats have overstepped their boundaries here by going after such a broad scope of documents, instead of focusing on targeted lines of inquiry. And, Brianna, part of that pushback could include the White House refusing to produce some documents that have been requested, including some of the ones that are related to the president's time here in office and maybe some dealing with his communications with the former White House Counsel Don McGahn, things of that nature. They're getting ready to push back on. Now, they have been preparing for an onslaught of investigations ever since the Democrats won the House back during the midterm elections, but they were caught off guard by just how broad and expansive Chairman Nadler's request yesterday was. Over 80 people requesting documents from 80 people or entities. They were surprised by that. But, Brianna, now they say that they are preparing for more of that to come and they believe a request to go after the president's tax returns could be next.", "Yes, that may be a safe bet. Kaitlan Collins at the White House, thank you so much for that. Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu of California is a member of the House Judiciary Committee carrying out this sweeping investigation of the president. He's with us now from Capitol Hill. Sir, thank you so much for being with us.", "Thank you, Brianna.", "So you've heard some -- you heard some of Kaitlan's reporting there. Our White House team is reporting that the Trump administration was pretty surprised by just how expansive this list was and they're planning to limit the number of documents that they have to produce, including those from Trump's time in office, like his communications with the former White House Counsel Don McGahn. What recourse do Democrats have here?", "I thank you for your question. Let me first say, a number of these individuals and organizations cannot claim executive privilege because they did not work in a senior capacity at the White House. So we expect to get all of those documents. And then for people who work in a senior capacity at the White House, they cannot use executive privilege to cover up evidence of crimes or other misconduct. If they try to do that, we will negotiate with them. And if we still don't get those documents, then we'll look at issuing subpoenas.", "They -- and what do you do because you heard Kaitlan reporting there that part -- they're talking about pushing back on subpoenas if it comes to that?", "They -- well, they certainly can do that, and then it will be left up to the judicial branch to decide how to proceed. But if you look at what happened in past standoffs between Congress and the executive branch, we did see that the judiciary did side with Congress in ordering the executive branch to basically produce tapes during their Nixon impeachment hearings. We believe that were on solid, legal footing. And why would the White House want to hide this information? If they want to clear Donald Trump's name, they would simply provide the documents and have it clear his name.", "You tweeted today that you and Congressman Don Beyer have made a criminal referral of Jared Kushner to the Justice Department for reportedly intentionally omitting information multiple times on his security clearance application. Do you think that having Jared Kushner have that clearance is a threat to national security?", "Absolutely. I've had to fill out these SF-86 security clearance forms. I had a security clearance before entering Congress. And right on the form it says, if you make false statements or omit material acts, you can be punished up to five years in prison. Jared Kushner had to submit two forms because -- actually he had to submit three forms. The first two were false and misleading, so he should absolutely be investigated. And the fact that the CIA, the FBI and the White House Counsel and former Chief of Staff John Kelly all told the president, do not do this, do not grant him a security clearance, raises all sorts of red flags and we need to find out why they believe that he should not have gotten his security clearance.", "You -- as you're aware, the White House is saying that this investigation is a fishing expedition. I know that when they make that point, you say, yes, this is a wide-ranging investigation, but it's what the committee has the mandate to do, to look into areas that Robert Mueller cannot. Now that said, when you look at this list, it's interesting because you see Donald Junior, Donald Trump Junior, you see Eric Trump. Ivanka Trump is conspicuously absent from your list. And privately one of your colleagues actually told me there's concern that involving her will backfire politically against Democrats. How much is politics playing into this, in addition to trying to discover what the truth is.", "Donald Trump and his family and associates have engaged in a wide-ranging array of what looks like criminal activity or abusive behavior or ethical misconduct. The fact that our investigation is wide-ranging is because we're not going to let any of that behavior go unnoticed. We're going to leave no stone unturned. If there are dots to be connected, we're going to connect them. This is just the first wave of document requests. If this information leads to information as to why we need to have Ivanka Trump produce documents, we will ask those questions as well.", "But knowing that she is certainly aware of certain things, the security clearance -- I mean you just said Jared Kushner having a security clearance is an issue of national security. She spoke not even a month ago and if the report about the president intervening is true, then she lied about that. She's also aware of certain things according -- Michael Cohen testified that he briefed family members, including Ivanka Trump, repeatedly on Trump Tower Moscow. Why is she not on a list now to produce documents?", "I wouldn't read too much into the fact that she's not on the list. She certainly could be asked at a later point in time. We just want to get an initial set of documents. It's already pretty wide- ranging, 81 individuals or organizations. We could certainly ask her additional information in the future. But, you're right, she did lie in a very graceful and seamless manner about the fact that her father had nothing to do with these security clearances, when, in fact, it turns out, he ordered that Jared Kushner be given one and maybe he ordered that she be given one as well.", "\"The Wall Street Journal\" is reporting that Michael Cohen's attorney discussed the possibility of a pardon with President Trump's lawyers after the FBI raided Cohen's properties. So in his public testimony last week, you'll recall that he said he had not requested, nor would he accept a pardon from President Trump. Do you have any concerns that he may have, again, lied under oath?", "It's not clear whether the attorneys for Michael Cohen are simply making this out of what attorneys would do, which is trying to zealously represent their client. We don't know what the communication were between Michael Cohen and his attorneys. What I do know is that after Michael Cohen's testimony before Congress, there's no way he's going to get a pardon from Donald Trump.", "Certainly that -- I think that is a safe bet. We'll, I mean, we'll never know, to be honest. You -- never say never. But I wonder if you think it's plausible that Cohen's lawyer talked to Trump's lawyer and this outside lawyer for the Trump Organization about this idea of a pardon without Cohen knowing. Is that plausible to you or not really?", "That's certainly possible. If you're a lawyer representing a client, you would look at all avenues to help your client. I wouldn't surprise me that multiple lawyers have asked White House lawyers about the issue of pardons. I simply think that if the White House were to grant any, that that would be obstruction of justice if the intent was to keep the person from testifying.", "All right, Congressman Ted Lieu, thank you so much.", "Thank you, Brianna.", "So Democrats say that Ivanka Trump is not on their list right now. That could change, though. You just heard Congressman Lieu say that. Our chief political correspondent Dana Bash is here to discuss this with us. Why could -- what all could Ivanka shed light on and why isn't she on the list?", "Well, why isn't she on the list is really interesting, because you could look at it and say, well, perhaps she isn't on the list because the focus is on things that they know -- the, the House Democrats, know that other family members, Don Junior and Jared Kushner, for example, were involved in, the Trump Tower meeting. They were both there in 2016. But what kind of defies that potential line of thinking is that Eric Trump, the -- her brother, the Trump son who was also not at that meeting, and not involved directly, who -- I mean they were all involved in the campaign, but not involved directly that we know of, of anything except for the Trump Organization, he is on the list. So it is kind of questionable why she's not on the list. And the fact that you just said that you heard that it was politically more dangerous for Democrats to put her on the list gives you a sense of the way that Republicans are already going to come back at this, that it is politics just by the nature of who they chose in this first round. But it sounds like, from what you just got from Ted Lieu, and from what Jerry Nadler was telling CNN yesterday, he's the chairman of course, she may be close to being added.", "Interesting. OK. So, let's keep in mind, this is what Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's attorney, said last year about why Democrats are unlikely to investigate Ivanka.", "If they do do Ivanka -- which I doubt they will -- the whole country will turn on them. They're going after his daughter.", "What about his son-in-law. They've talked about him. I guess -- I -- Jared is a fine man. You know that. But men are, you know, disposable. But a fine woman like Ivanka, come on.", "Is that how the president sees it?", "Oh, of course. I mean, absolutely, that's how the president --", "That's a nerve for him compared to Jared Kushner or even one of his sons?", "Well, to be fair, I think all of his -- not I think, I am told by people close to him, when you get to his children, any of his children, it is a raw nerve, which I -- for any parent you would understand that. But when you kind of take a step back, it's not just picking on his children. The question is, what do House Judiciary investigators see as a potential avenue of inquiry that she could help with. Is it what they're looking at with regard to the Trump Organization? Is it what they're looking at with regard to the inaugural committee, which there have been reports that she somehow could have been involved in that. If there isn't anything that she can shed light on, they shouldn't ask her a question. If -- if there is even the potential then -- in any of these -- and, again, these are non-Russian related issues that they are looking into as part of this broad subpoena that they sent yesterday, then -- then that's it. It's just because she's the daughter, it's because of what she could be involved in, in all of these potential avenues of inquiry.", "All right, Dana Bash, thank you so much.", "Thanks, Bri.", "Also, just in, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee hiring a former prosecutor who fought Russian organized crime. Plus, is Roger Stone flirting with jail even before he goes to trial. Why he just played with fire with an Instagram post. And, breaking news, three explosive devices found near London transport hubs near two airports and a train station. 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{"id": "CNN-394071", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-02-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/29/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Four Reported Cases in U.S. of Coronavirus Not Related to Travel; U.S. Health Facilities Prepare for Possible Coronavirus Pandemic; World Stock Markets Falter over Fears of Coronavirus Spread", "utt": ["Welcome to Saturday. Good morning to you. It's February 29th. I'm Christi Paul.", "I'm Victor Blackwell. You are in the CNN Newsroom.", "We want to get to our top stories for you this hour. First of all, we know there are now at least four coronavirus cases in the U.S. that are not travel related. These are new cases.", "Also, voting happening right now in South Carolina, the Democratic primary, 54 delegates up for grabs.", "And the U.S. has just signed an historic agreement with the Taliban that could eventually lead to thousands of U.S. troops coming home.", "For the latest on the new coronavirus cases we're joined by CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen. Elizabeth, we now have these four cases that are not travel related. I wonder -- we also know they've not been in contact with anyone who has the virus. Is this now just kind of freely spreading through communities?", "Right. It's actually called \"community spread,\" and that's exactly what's going on here. Once you're finding patients who are getting coronavirus and they didn't travel to China or any other coronavirus hot spot, and they don't know anyone who did, they just got it from somewhere. Infectious disease experts have told me, look, we need to start thinking about this kind of like the flu. When you get the flu, you don't necessarily know who gave it to you. Sometimes you do -- oh, my husband got the flu and then I got it. But sometimes you just get it because it's just out there. And now that we have more tests available, which was not the case even days ago, we're going to see more of this.", "So when we think of the flu in your perspective here, we think of kids being most vulnerable. It's kind of the opposite with this case, is it not?", "Yes. With flu we often think of the very old and the very young. And this, you're absolutely right. For this virus and this could change because things are always changing with this virus, but even looking at the experience in China, it seems much more to be something that is devastating for the very old. For example, there was a study that looked at a cluster in a Chinese family, and the two children had no symptoms whatsoever. They were infected but had no symptoms whatsoever. But the grandfather passed away. So it's interesting to see that, that it's not the very old and the very young from what we can tell.", "So we know that the World Health Organization, the head of the WHO says that this could become a pandemic. What are the preparations now for that potential?", "Right. So the preparations are, as far as you and me and individuals, what we should be doing, it doesn't really matter what you call it. It really is common sense. Washing your hands, staying home if you're sick, and don't get near someone -- I know this sounds obvious -- but if someone walks toward you and says, give me a hug, how are you, and they are sneezing, have a fever, do not hug them, do not shake their hands. Really, this is common sense stuff. It doesn't matter that it's not being call a pandemic just yet.", "But we know California is monitoring these, I think with 8,000 people who flew in from overseas on regularly scheduled flights. If they -- so does that mean that if they come into contact with somebody they are automatically at risk? What is the incubation period here?", "So the incubation period is believed to be about five days, but the range is pretty high. That's sort of what they believe it is approximately. So it's really important. So those people should be quarantined. And so hopefully they are not coming into contact with other people. But it's important to say that these 8,400 people, these are contacts of people who flew in, and the chances are they are going to be fine. When folks have been tracked all over the country who are contacts of travelers, they have turned out to be fine. In fact, the only two contacts that turned out to have coronavirus were spouses of people who had coronavirus. When they tracked their -- traced their friends or the people close to them, those folks did not turn out to have it.", "Good to know. Elizabeth Cohen, thank you so much. Good to see you.", "Thanks.", "As we mentioned, the World Health Organization says coronavirus has, quote, pandemic potential.", "And U.S. health providers this week raised their level of readiness for a possible pandemic. Hospitals and clinics have been taking a look at their supplies. They're wondering if they're going to have enough for a worst-case scenario. CNN's Natasha Chen is with us now. Help us understand what is happening in terms of preparation, because I know that they are running drills now as well.", "Yes, Christi and Victor, we are talking to some metro Atlanta area hospitals who tell me they're running live actor mock scenarios. And we visited one clinic yesterday that ran mock patient drill with one of their staff members.", "I recently traveled outside of the country, and I'm thinking I possibly was exposed to the coronavirus.", "This is a drill, and this woman does not have the coronavirus.", "Could you put one of these masks on? Just wait right there and I'm going to come around and get you.", "She's actually a medical assistant at an American family care clinic in Marietta, Georgia. Like many hospitals and health care providers across the U.S., this network of clinics is running drills with mock patients to practice responding to a coronavirus outbreak. Were you surprised when you heard that American family care clinics were doing drills this week?", "No. I was anticipating this was going to happen eventually.", "That moment came when their chief medical officer, Dr. Benjamin Barlow, heard this phrase from the CDC on Tuesday.", "It's not so much a question of if this will happen anymore, but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illness.", "That actually is what sparked this for me, because I've been thinking about it. We've been preparing in the background. But as soon as they said that, it was when we decided, all right, let's roll it out, and let's get moving.", "They are drilling everything, taking the patient to a designated room by the exit, testing a swab to rule out the regular flu, bringing in a doctor for further screening, and everyone putting on and removing gear at the right times.", "It really doesn't allow anything to kind of go through. It's a little bit better than some of the standard masks that you would use.", "But will there be enough of them during a pandemic? The Food and Drug Administration said it is currently not aware of specific widespread shortages, but it has heard reports of increased market demand and supply challenges for some protective gear. While this clinic said they have enough, doctors and health officials across the country say they have received notices about current or anticipated shortages, especially N95 Respirators. In the meantime, drills with mock patients --", "From here you would immediately go home. We would give your information to the health departments.", "-- are being done at some hospitals around the metro Atlanta area. Others say they regularly practice for general pandemics, which can apply to a coronavirus outbreak.", "I don't think we should be overly excited about it, but being prepared is the best way to go when you are facing possibilities like these.", "The National Nurses United Union said yesterday that 124 nurses and health care workers at U.C. Davis are now self-quarantined after they were exposed to one patient there, and they stress the importance of facilities being prepared with plans and resources like we just saw. Christi and Victor, back to you.", "Natasha Chen for us. Natasha, thank you.", "Let's talk about global markets, too, because they are rattled by all the uncertainty around this outbreak. This was the worst week for stocks since the financial crisis in 2008.", "It's also putting pressure on supply chains, especially in China. Joining us now, CNN global economic analyst Rana Foroohar. She's also a global business columnist and associate editor for \"The Financial Times.\"", "Rana, thank you so much for being with us. I want to take a look at some of the things that we use on an everyday basis that people may not realize we depend so highly and heavily on China to receive. Medical devices and drug ingredients, but they are the first in exporting medical devices, the second in exporting drug and biologics to us. The Commerce Department in 2018 said China accounts for 95 percent of U.S. imports of ibuprofen, which is Advil, and 70 percent of acetaminophen, which is Tylenol. What would the disruption of these imports look like here if that does happen?", "We know it's already happening, and it's happening in ways that you can see and in some that you can't, sort of like the virus itself. Sixty percent of companies that are doing business in China say that they have had severe disruptions to their supply chains. You've already seen a lot of them trying to move production to places like Vietnam or Mexico. But those countries can't pick up all the slack. And that's one reason the investment bank, Goldman Sachs, has now predicted that they're not going to see any profit growth in major American firms this year. Before the coronavirus, just to compare, they were expecting six percent profit growth for U.S. companies. That's one of the key reasons why you saw this huge decline in the stock market this week.", "Goldman Sachs warning even of a recession at one point, saying worst case scenario. When you throw that word out there, that really hits a lot of nerves. How realistic is it?", "Well, at this point, it depends on how quickly the virus spreads in the U.S. and how businesses and the government responds to it. So if we get to a situation where people are being asked to stay home, where workplaces are shuttered, where kids are out of school, and parents have to stay home in order to care for them, that means that people can't be working. They can't be spending. And in an economy like ours that has made up 70 percent of consumer spending, when people can't get out to the stores, that's a big deal. That's when you could really start to see a risk of recession being quite real.", "When you talk about the response from the U.S., we know that the next Fed meeting is in about three weeks, and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said if the coronavirus seriously damages the economy, he could move to perhaps implement some stimulus measures. This is exactly what he said. \"The coronavirus poses evolving risks to economic activity. The Federal reserve is closely monitoring developments. There are implications for the economic outlook. We'll use our tools and act as appropriate to support the economy.\" Now, if it does cut the interest rate by half a percent, which is what is expected, that would be the first emergency rate cut since 2008. What kind of impact would that have, and how long might it take to feel some effects of it?", "Yes, that's a great question. Well, for starters, we are really back at the worst week in the stock market since 2008. Unfortunately, over the last decade, the Fed has already used a lot of their firepower. We've had a decade of relatively low rates and easy money being pumped into the markets by the Fed. So my expectation is, and the markets are expecting this, too, that if you see a rate cut, you might see a slight rally. But I think the underlying story doesn't change. If we are still worried about those factors that I mentioned before, work places being closed, consumers not being able to shop, supply chains disrupted, I think that we're going to see the markets quickly dip again. And I think at best you're going to get a double \"w\" shape where they're up and down, at worse you might see more of an \"l\" shape where they're down. And then what's interesting, and what I'm thinking a lot about, is where does that leave us for the presidential elections in November.", "Yes, we'll see what the political implications of that could be certainly. Rana Foroohar, always so good to have you with us. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Still to come, the South Carolina Democratic primary. Polls have been open for a little more than three hours now. The state party chair says there are signs of stronger turnout than 2016. So who has the edge? We're live in Charleston, next.", "Also, it is one historic handshake. Take a look at it here. Representatives of the U.S. and the Taliban agreeing to work toward peace in Afghanistan. You hear the cheers there. What this new agreement, though, says about U.S. troops coming home and conditions being met."], "speaker": ["CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "PAUL", "COHEN", "BLACKWELL", "COHEN", "PAUL", "COHEN", "PAUL", "COHEN", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "NATASHA CHEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "CHEN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CHEN", "DR. ADIL ANSARI, CLINIC PHYSICIAN", "CHEN", "DR. NANCY MESSONNIER, DIRECTOR OF CDC'S NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-175358", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-11-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1111/05/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Crackdown in Syria; Italy Protests; FARC Leader Killed", "utt": ["Activists say despite Syria's pledge to end the crackdown on protesters there, the violence continues. You're looking at a nighttime protests in the city of Daraa. At least 13 civilians were killed in violence across Syria Saturday. The Arab League has condemned the violence and warned the government to comply with its agreement to stop all violence and let outside observers into the country. At least 10 of the casualties were from the city of Holmes where the opposition reported explosion, shelling and heavy machine-gun fire. CNN's movement is restricted in Syria so we can't independently verify those accounts for you. Tens of thousands of people are also protesting in Italy, calling for the prime minister there to step down. Protesters filled a central square in Rome voicing their opposition to Silvio Berlusconi and his budget reform measures. Berlusconi faces a vote of confidence in Italy's Parliament as soon as next week. On Tuesday, lawmakers will vote on those reform measures aimed at easing Italy's large debt problems. A Columbian military operation has taken out the leader of the rebel group known as \"the FARC.\" This man, his name is Alfonso Cano, has led the group since 2008. Colombia's president said the army killed or captured several other key leaders as well. The FARC has been at war with the government since the 1960s. The U.S. State Department called Cano's death an important victory. We're learning that boxing legend Joe Frazier is very sick. An update on his condition and more of your headlines, next."], "speaker": ["LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-100315", "program": "CNN LIVE SUNDAY", "date": "2005-12-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/04/sun.02.html", "summary": "Saddam Hussein's Lawyers seek Trial Delay; Meltdown of Glaciers could cause Water Shortage and Flooding", "utt": ["A look now at top stories and a live look of the entrance of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., ahead of tonight's annual gala for the arts. President Bush will be there as awards for lifetime achievement are given to actor Robert Redford, singers Tina Turner and Tony Bennett. A man who scaled the White House fence faces a charge of unlawful entry. The Secret Service identifies the man as 29-year-old Shawn Cox of Arkansas. He penetrated White House property after 12:00 noon today at a time when President Bush was on premises. Gasoline prices have taken another dip but that may be it for now. A new survey released today showed the nationwide cost of a gallon of gas dropped 11 cents over the past two weeks. But the survey's author says higher crude prices and higher consumer demand are likely to start to send prices back up. And chaos erupts at a political event in Iraq. Former interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi was chased by a mob from a Shiite mosque in Najaf. Allawi says shots were fired from the crowd. He sped away in a convoy with overhead protection from the U.S. military helicopters, as well. After two delays, the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co- defendants is to resume tomorrow in Baghdad. Perhaps unaccustomed to western style justice, many Iraqis are expressing impatience. Some believe Hussein should have been punished already for the alleged killings of 140 Shiite Muslims, among other alleged crimes. But as CNN's Aneesh Raman reports, the former leader has learned to work the system.", "The case against Saddam Hussein, many here see it as open and shut.", "The Iraqi people wish to see a short tribunal to a big turn around, shorter turn around for Saddam Hussein to be executed sooner than later.", "But for the court trying Hussein, the legal process getting more complicated by the day. And as they reconvene, there is little doubt another showdown will ensue between the Iraqi High Tribunal and Hussein's defense team. At the first session, defense lawyers asked for a three-month delay citing insufficient access to evidence and a lack of training. They were granted 41 days and Hussein got a chance to question the legitimacy of the court.", "I don't acknowledge neither the entity that authorized you nor the aggression because everything that's based on falsehood is falsehood.", "At the second session last week, the defense asked again for a delay, citing the assassinations of two defense lawyers. They were granted one week, but the issue is far from resolved. Likely to work its way back to court on Monday with former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, officially part of the defense team, planning to make a statement centered on security.", "It's dangerous for them every day. It's more dangerous every day that they appear in court. So we want the protection in place.", "The government says it's offered the defense lawyers special security but the lawyers have concerns, saying it's insufficient, creating an impasse and testing the patience of the Iraqi people.", "Security will be a key concern Monday, not just inside the trial, but outside as well. Iraqi security forces on Sunday said they uncovered a plot to attack the courtroom with mortars and delay proceedings indefinitely. Aneesh Raman, CNN, Baghdad.", "Members of the former September 11 Commission are saying America is not well prepared for another terrorist attack, and they believe another one will happen. The members are releasing a report tomorrow to evaluate how well the government followed their recommendations.", "We're going to grade everybody. We're not going to grade the President. But what we've said is that we have not moved forward to the extent we should. We've made some progress, very little progress in some areas. It's not a priority for the government right now. You don't see the Congress or the president talking about the public safety as number one, as we think it should be. And a lot of the things we need to do really to prevent another 9/11 just aren't being done by the president or by the Congress.", "National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley says President Bush is committed to enacting most of the commission's recommendations. And icy roads cause a number of accidents across Idaho in recent hours. Several miles of Interstate 84 had to be shut down after an SUV flipped a semi truck. Police were able to reopen the road after several hours of cleanup. And some treacherous weather from Syracuse, New York and further south. We're looking at a few different pictures from Syracuse, New York where they've been experiencing a lot of snow to icy road conditions, across parts of New Jersey where three deaths are blamed on icy road-related traffic accidents. Meanwhile, the season's first major snowstorm in Illinois has dumped two to four inches in Chicago. And Monica McNeal has much more detail on all of these conditions across the board. Boy, it's a mess out there.", "Wow, treacherous weather all over the map. Thanks so much, Monica. While delegates meet in Canada at an international conference on climate change, protesters are trying to dramatize what's at stake. About 7,000 marchers hit the streets of Montreal yesterday. Similar marches were planned in dozens of other countries. In Germany, in the meantime, hikers along the Austrian border say the effects of global warming are already very real. Here's CNN's Chris Burns.", "At the Zugspitze Glacier on the German Austrian border, retired truck driver, Erhardt Otto takes one more hike before the winter snows. Having spent holidays here for the past 20 years, he doesn't need a scientist to tell him what he sees, that the glaciers here are melting away.", "It is sad because something is missing. Nature is going away.", "In Switzerland, works crews have tried with some success to protect some slopes with fabric. Across the Alps and mountain ranges around the globe, the story is similar. Some call glaciers the canary in a coal mine. Scientists suggest the canary is dying, signaling more trouble ahead.", "Almost everywhere on every continent the glaciers are shrinking. And in the Alps, for example, they have lost half of their mass and one-third of their area.", "The World Wildlife Federation says its just one example of how Europe is being hit by global warming. While not all researchers agree, many do.", "Glaciers have receded worldwide because the global mean temperature has increased by about .7 degrees centigrade in the last century. This arises predominantly due to our emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide.", "Other examples of global warming, in Argentina, the country's most popular glacier has collapsed. (on camera): Since the mid-19th Century, researchers say glaciers, like this one, have shrunk by up to 90 percent and could likely disappear over the next few short decades. Whether or not it's because of global warming, the potential repercussions are not only environmental, but human. (voice-over): The primary reason, glaciers are a vital water supply for many people around the world like those living around Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, whose snowcap is steadily melting.", "If the glaciers disappear or shrink to a extreme degree, they will get very strong shortage of water for irrigation.", "In a recent edition of the scientific journal, \"Nature,\" researchers at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and the University of Washington have also documented concerns about a potential water shortage. The fight over water sources, or the quest to control glaciers, could also become sources of international tension.", "This was completely on the territory of Kurdistan, but now China has moved its border to the west so that the upper part of this catchments (ph) belongs to China now.", "Glacial meltdowns could also cause flash floods. Lakes, like this one in Tibet, threaten to flood areas below them. How to stop the meltdown? Some scientists say there are no immediate answers, but reducing emissions now and getting more countries to reduce emissions even further could, in the long run, save the canary in a coal mine. Chris Burns, CNN on the Zugspitze Glacier, Germany.", "In our world wrap tonight, a new law takes effect in Britain tomorrow. It allows civil partnerships. The law gives gay and lesbian couples the same legal rights as heterosexual couples. Twenty-year-old heiress, Athina Onassis, has married a Brazilian Olympic equestrian. Onassis married Alvaro Afonso de Miranda, yesterday on a Sao Paulo estate. Reports say they celebrated with friends, family and 1,000 bottles of champagne. Can't find a date for the big gala? Well, Japanese engineers to the rescue, called the PBDR, partner ballroom dance robot. Yeah. They're serious about it. The sophisticated robot is designed to waltz with a human partner. And from the desert nation of Dubai, the Middle East's first indoor ski slope. The new park includes areas for snowboarding, bobsledding, even a snowball target range. Plus special machinery to create 6,000 tons of real snow for something that at least looks and fees like it. Well, he was once a notorious gang leader, and now he's the author of children's books, and on death row. But does this killer deserve to live? You've been reading up on Tookie Williams. Ahead, the most popular stories on CNN.com And later, it's pandemonium. Oh, aren't they cute? A lot of cubs all in one place. But guess what, they're not cheap. Not cheap to get and not cheap to house. We'll explore the costs."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "ANEESH RAMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "BAMAS RIDHA, ADVISER TO IRAQI PRIME MINISTER", "RAMAN", "SADDAM HUSSEIN, FORMER IRAQI DICTATOR (through translator)", "RAMAN", "RAMSEY CLARK, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL", "RAMAN", "RAMAN (on camera)", "WHITFIELD", "THOMAS KEAN, CHAIRMAN, FORMER 9/11 COMMISSION", "WHITFIELD", "WHITFIELD", "CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (off-camera)", "ERHARDT OTTO, TRUCK DRIVER (through translator)", "BURNS", "WILFRED HAGG, UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH", "BURNS", "STEFAN RAHMSTORF, POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT", "BURNS", "RAGG", "BURNS", "HAGG", "BURNS", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-340716", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2018-05-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/21/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Did Trump Blink in His Trade Standoff with China; Trump; Interview with Rep. Francis Rooney: U.S. to Help ZTE to Keep China from Losing Jobs; Trump Grappling with Political Risks of Kim Meeting", "utt": ["U.S. stocks are moving higher today on news that the Trump administration has a new agreement with China, which includes a promise from Beijing to buy more U.S. goods, averting a potential trade war, at least for now. President Trump has been celebrating the deal on Twitter all morning. But earlier, the Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin admitted that the agreement is still short on specifics.", "It is a framework agreement. It is an agreement Secretary Ross has to go over and turn that in to a signed piece of paper with the company. As I described, this is not a government-to-government purchase order, but we have an agreement with them as to what will be executed. And Secretary Ross is going over there, I believe, next week on the --", "President Trump said China had agreed to spend more on U.S. agricultural products, a sector where Beijing was preparing to slap new tariffs on U.S. products. Joining us now, Republican Congressman Francis Rooney. He's a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He's a Republican from Florida. Congressman, thank you for coming in.", "Thank you for having me on.", "What do you think about this tentative deal with China?", "If it offers a way out of all the talk that's been had about with tariffs and things, I'm all for it, because the discussion that's been launched about tariffs around the world is not a particularly good one. We've seen some real positive results from globalization and expanding of trade networks. It's good for our country and good for the rest of the world.", "What about this huge trade imbalance that the U.S. has with China? The president threatened all sorts of tariffs to try to narrow that trade imbalance.", "There are areas where China doesn't compete fairly, like in the I.T. area and technology area, and I think we should focus on those rather than things like steel and aluminum.", "What do you think of his tweets last week about this Chinese telecom company, ZTE, which the U.S. intelligence Community is deeply concerned about, a national security threat. But the president was saying, the leader of China, President Xi, want us to help ZTE because the sanctions against ZTE are losing a lot of jobs in China.", "The only thing I could think of that offers any positive result of that would be that if it's under the table helping with the North Korea situation. But it seems a little dangerous to me to help a company that our military and intel people say, we won't use those phones.", "So you were a pretty surprised when you saw the president tweeting about let's help ZTE get some new jobs?", "Yes, since the focus has been on our jobs.", "Right. The focus is on U.S. jobs. All of a sudden, he's worried about Chinese jobs. A lot of us were pretty surprised when we saw that. But you're suggesting maybe he did that to convince the Chinese, who have a lot of influence in North Korea, to get involved in this denuclearization of the Korean peninsula? Is that what you're saying?", "It's possible. He's got China in a better place than anybody else has gotten them as far as sanctions in North Korea, cutting off supplies of things exported to North Kora. So maybe this is a continuation of that.", "Having said that, the president tweeted this about China this morning. Let me read his tweet: \"China must continue to be strong and tight on the border of North Korea until a deal is made. The word is that recently the border has become much more porous and more has been filtering in. I want this to happen, North Korea to be successful, but only after signing.\" I think he's referring to signing a denuclearization deal. What is he talking about?", "I think he's saying we want to keep the North Koreans pinned down as hard as we can in the hope of having more negotiating leverage when he goes to Singapore.", "He doesn't want to make any concessions to North Korea, until North Korea signs an agreement completely ending its nuclear program, is that what you're hear something.", "That's what Secretary Bolton and the president have said. I'm sure they, deep down inside, know this is going to be more of an evolving cut back nuclearization for other positive attributes given by us. It's not going to be all or nothing.", "You're talking about the new national security advisor, John Bolton, who, in the past, as a private citizen, was talking about regime change. The president is saying if the North Korean regime of Kim Jong-Un agrees to these U.S. demands, he will protect the North Koreans and there won't be regime change.", "Right. Rex Tillerson said that last year, too. We are not interested in regime change, we are not interested in anything but making Korea join the community of nations and stop nuclearizing.", "You think there's going to be a meeting on June 12th between President Trump and Kim Jong-Un.", "So far, I do. It may be a little unfortunate that each side has staked out in positions that are so absolute at this point in the negotiations. I think they'll go ahead and do it.", "You saw the reports over the weekend, the president is perhaps getting cold feet.", "I did see that, but there's a lot to gain by making a -- by at least meeting with North Korea. If you can't make a deal and it's going to be another deal like President Obama, President Bush and President Clinton made, it didn't out for us, OK, leave.", "But is it really realistic to assume that the North Korean regime is going to give up its nuclear program?", "I don't think they're going to give it up. I don't think anybody really believes that.", "That's what the president says. He's not going to ease any sanctions until they do.", "I think that's probably a negotiating ploy. There was an article in the paper today that the State Department and CIA never felt he would give up his nuclear weapons. But he might, in the spirit of the Iran agreement, stop testing, stop expanding them, and allow verification of what he's got, maybe get rid of some fuel in exchange for joining the community of nations and having trade.", "Congressman Rooney, thanks for coming in.", "Thanks for having me on.", "Francis Rooney, of Florida. Just in, we're getting word that the FBI Chief Christopher Wray and the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will be heading over to the White House is in the next hour as President Trump demands that the Department of Justice investigate whether the FBI spied on his campaign. New details just ahead."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "STEVE MNUCHIN, TREASURY SECRETARY", "BLITZER", "REP. 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{"id": "NPR-829", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2019-01-30", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/01/30/690102182/fed-changes-course-holds-off-on-raising-interest-rates", "title": "Fed Changes Course, Holds Off On Raising Interest Rates", "summary": "The Federal Reserve is holding off on additional rate hikes for now. This new more patient approach follows months of volatility in financial markets and signs of slowing economic growth in the U.S.", "utt": ["Today the Federal Reserve sent a strong signal that it will stop raising interest rates for a while. Interest rates have steadily gone up over the past four years, one reason why mortgages have gotten more expensive. The Fed's apparent turnaround comes as economic growth is slowing in the U.S. and overseas. This news sent stock prices sharply higher. We're joined by NPR's Jim Zarroli now. Hi, Jim.", "Hi.", "Explain what the Fed did today.", "Well, the first thing it did was it decided not to raise interest rates. Now, that was totally expected. That's no surprise. But what was a surprise, what really jolted the financial markets was not what the Fed did but what Fed officials said both in the statement they released after the meeting and in Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's press conference which took place shortly afterward. And that indicated a much softer tone on interest rates.", "Last year, the Fed raised interest rates four times, and this is something that has an effect on borrowing interest rates or interest rates for borrowing, whether you're talking about mortgage rates or auto loans. And in fact, this has had some effect on the housing market and on the auto market because consumers end up paying more. So what the Fed said today is just a sea change from what it was saying even just six weeks ago.", "Well, can you explain what it is they said that indicates this is not just a one-off decision not to raise interest rates but actually a shift in approach?", "Well, it was partly what they didn't say. I mean, a month ago, the Fed was talking about gradual rate increases, which is something it does when the economy is going strong and there's a worry about inflation rising and the Fed wants to sort of nip it in the bud. This time around, they took out any reference to further rate increases and said it would exercise patience. That was the word that everyone sort of seized on, patience. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said there's a lot of evidence that economic growth is solid, but he said the case for raising interest rates is weakening. So it appears this current round of interest rate increases is over for now. Powell made clear he can reverse course again, but rate hikes appear to be over.", "What's happening in the economy right now that would make the Fed decide to change course like this?", "Well, you know, the case for higher rates is sort of not as strong as it was. That's really at the bottom of it. The U.S. economy has been growing at a good clip, especially last year. Unemployment rate is way down. The Fed has been worried about this, worried that it will lead to inflation, but now conditions have changed somewhat on this. The statement today issued by the Fed referred to muted inflation pressures and also readings on financial and international developments. In other words, the global economy is slowing. That's clear. And that has a way of affecting growth in the United States. So just in general, the economy is in a different place now, and the Fed believes it can sort of just stand back and watch for a while.", "President Trump often attacks the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Do those attacks have anything to do with the decision that he made today?", "Yeah. Trump has - you know, all presidents like to keep - like the Fed to keep rates low. Trump is unusual in that he talks about it publicly. He's - you know, he's sometimes even suggested that he would like to dismiss Fed Chairman Powell. He's used words like loco to describe Fed policy. You know, the Fed is supposed to be insulated from political pressure. It's not supposed to - it's not used to dealing with direct criticism this way, and Powell was asked today at the press conference whether Trump's comments have had an impact on the Fed, whether it's affected the turnaround. What he said was - he sort of dodged the question. He said, my only motivation is to do the right thing for the American people. Whatever the reasons, it sent the stock market way up.", "NPR's Jim Zarroli, thank you.", "You're welcome."], "speaker": ["ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JIM ZARROLI, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "NPR-40188", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2005-10-20", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4966581", "title": "Arab Media Coverage of Saddam's Trial", "summary": "Steve Inskeep talks to Ramez Maluf, journalism professor at the Lebanese American University, about how the Arab media is covering the trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Maluf says Arab television featured longer excerpts of the trial, which may have left viewers with a different impression of the proceedings.", "utt": ["Many people across the Middle East watched the trial of Saddam Hussein as      it began yesterday.  Despite technical difficulties and poor sound      quality, television viewers caught a rare glimpse of the former Iraqi      dictator and seven other members of his regime.  They were seated within      white metal barriers in the courtroom.  Now from time to time, we      listened in on the Arab media with the help of Ramez Maluf.  He is a      professor of journalism at the Lebanese American University.", "Welcome to the program.", "Well, my pleasure.", "Give us a sense, if you can, of how the Arab language media in      general covered this trial in ways that was different from the American      media.", "One thing that struck me, yesterday in particular, was that      I had read earlier that Saddam Hussein had appeared in court and was very      defiant and questioned the legality of the court.  And if you just read      that, you would get the impression that Saddam had the upper hand in      these proceedings.  But those of us on Arab television saw longer      excerpts from the court trial, saw a very quiet Saddam Hussein listening      to the prosecutor going on and on about the crimes he had committed.  And      I think this left us with a very different impression of how the trial,      that first day went.", "And across the Arab world, you could get full coverage?", "Well, long excerpts from the trial were aired on a number      of television stations.  One of them, for example, was Saudi satellite      television which very rarely does that sort of thing.  I think a lot of      stations owned by governments that have traditionally been unkind to      Saddam Hussein made a point of running these long excerpts from the      trial.", "What's some of the commentary that you've heard or read about      the trial, either in Arabic language newspapers or on Arab television?", "Well, there's a very strong undercurrent of cynicism      towards the trial.  Remember that this is happening against a background      of people in the region being suspicious of court trials, of political      court trials as a rule.  The separation of the judiciary from the      executive power in most of the countries in the Arab world is not very      clear.  People tend to look at any trial that has political implications      with a lot of skepticism.  Al-Hayat newspaper yesterday had a cartoon      showing Saddam sitting at the trial but the chair that he was sitting on      was actually an electric chair with a wire connecting him to the judge      where he could just press the button and have him electrocuted.  And the      chair had a sign on it saying `Gift from George Bush.' So I think even      Al-Hayat, which is a rather moderate newspaper showed that skepticism.  A      vote on aljazeera.net in Arabic asking people to vote whether Saddam      would receive a fair trial or not.  This morning, out of about 32,000      people who voted, 81 percent said he would not get a fair trial.", "That's not a scientific result, we should say, but it is the      result of thousands of people...", "Right.", "...writing in.", "My guess is that it pretty much reflects, you know, popular      opinion.  Now this was not to say that people do not think that Saddam is      guilty of his crimes.  I think there was a lot of footage yesterday on      Kuwait TV, for example, about the crimes he had committed against Kuwaiti      citizens during his invasion in 1990, '91.  There was a lot of footage      about mass graves, so there's no love lost between Arab public opinion of      Saddam Hussein, but the legality of the trial, the fact that it's      happening under a regime that not yet has a constitution, this is not      lost on people, that this was a trial that's happening by a government      that was put in place by an occupation.", "Is there any sense of, well, appreciation for the fact that a      man is being put on trial who is believed to be responsible for the      deaths of thousands and thousands of Muslims?", "I think this is the key issue here.  Will this be a      learning experience for the Arab world?  I think it will all depend on      how this trial is actually perceived, how it's played, how public it is      and so forth.  There was a piece in Al-Hayat to that regard that this was      an opportunity that should not be lost, to make a point that criminals      can be brought to justice in the Arab world.", "We've been speaking once again with Ramez Maluf.  He's a      professor of journalism at Lebanese American University in Beirut.      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{"id": "NPR-1150", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2008-04-02", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89307923", "title": "Thousands of Unclaimed Bags Sit at Heathrow", "summary": "British Airways continues to cancel flights from the airport's new terminal. Traveler Rebecca Murray and Aviation Minister Jim Fitzpatrick offer their take on the chaos.", "utt": ["This is Day to Day.  I'm Alex Chadwick.", "And I'm Madeleine Brand.  When British Airways bragged about its new eight and a half billion dollar terminal at Heathrow Airport in London, the airline said it would be, quote, \"a once in a lifetime opportunity for us to redefine air travel.\"  Well, that's happened, but not in the way BA intended.", "Problems began as soon as the terminal opened last Thursday.  First, workers had parking problems, then when they could get to their jobs at the airport they couldn't log on to the fancy new baggage system.  But the bags kept coming, flights were delayed for hours, 50 of them had to be cancelled.", "And now thousands of pieces of luggage are missing.  Members of the British parliament are calling it a disaster.  Aviation Minister Jim Fitzpatrick addressed the House of Commons.", "By the end of the weekend, Mr. Speaker, some 28,000 bags had been placed in temporary storage.  BA drafted in 400 volunteers over the weekend to help sort these bags and estimates that it will take up to a week to get them back to their owners.", "No more volunteers.  British Airways has now hired FedEx to help reunite passengers and their misplaced bags.", "Joining us now is one of those passengers who travelled through Heathrow's terminal five.  Rebecca Murray flew from London to Aberdeen, Scotland, with her newborn baby to visit her parents.  That was last Thursday; opening day of terminal five, and Rebecca Murray joins me now.  Do you have your luggage?", "I'm afraid I don't, no, and I don't know when I'm going to be receiving it, either.", "You don't have your luggage and it's almost a week later?", "Yeah.  Yeah.  And no word on when I can expect it.", "What was in your luggage?", "I had two cases, one for myself and one for my baby.  In the baby's case was pretty much her entire wardrobe at the moment.  She's eight weeks old.  My sling for her, I have a BabyBjorn, which is obviously very handy for moving around with her.  A lot of stuff missing, really.  Apart from my clothes, my minimalist sort of post-natal wardrobe is there and pretty much everything because I'm here for a month, so I packed a lot.", "So you packed your baby's entire wardrobe.  She may outgrow that wardrobe by the time you get your luggage!", "Exactly, exactly, and it's really sad because, you know, people were very kind, and we got some really sweet outfits for her.  I had this really beautiful little dress and hat and cardigan set that I wanted to take her to church in and that's in the suitcase, and you know, hopefully it will come back at some point.", "Can you describe what it was like at Heathrow that day?", "Yeah, it was kind of eerie.  When you go in it's this really large space.  It's very lovely, and light, and airy, but it had a bit of a stressed atmosphere, like people knew things weren't quite right.  Once I got through security, which in itself was a nightmare because I was on my own with the baby and the staff of security after telling me that I was insane for travelling alone then kind of did a shout-out to the passengers for someone to help me.  None of them helped me, and then when I got through you could see a lot of people who were very upset because they had been stuck for a long time without their luggage.  But, apart from that, it is a really nice building, really great shops, lovely restaurants.", "Has the airline, has British Airways said anything to you?", "Directly and personally, no.  I didn't do anything initially.  I mean, I filled out a form when I arrived in Aberdeen, and then I left it for the weekend because I could on the news what was going on, and I knew it wasn't going to be quick.  But by Monday when I hadn't heard anything I started chasing them, and I found out that my reference number wasn't valid according to their - sorry, the baby is...", "Having a little cough.  Yeah, they lost my number, they didn't have a note of my claim, and I had to spend hours and hours on the phone on Monday trying to get through to them.  All I was told was not to hold my breath - that it would probably take a long time, and if I needed to buy anything to hold onto receipts so I can claim it back.", "So, I guess you've had to go out and buy some outfits for the baby.", "Yeah, of course.  We've had to buy a fair amount of stuff for Lottie (ph), and I've tried to hold out for myself hoping that things would show up, but when they didn't I had to go out yesterday and buy some clothes for myself as well.", "Wow, so what is your takeaway from this?", "I just have low expectations now about what to expect from them.  It used to be because where we lived Heathrow would be better for travelling than Gatwick, but I guess now it's probably worth travelling all the way just to know that you're going to get there all right.  My sister pointed out that all the time I was waiting in Heathrow to get out to Aberdeen I could have taken a train.", "Rebecca Murray, good luck, and I hope you get your luggage sometime soon.", "Thank you very much.", "That's Rebecca Murray speaking to us from Aberdeen, Scotland."], "speaker": ["ALEX CHADWICK, host", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Minister JIM FITZPATRICK (British Aviation Ministry)", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Ms. REBECCA MURRAY (British Airways Passenger)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Ms. REBECCA MURRAY (British Airways Passenger)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Ms. REBECCA MURRAY (British Airways Passenger)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Ms. REBECCA MURRAY (British Airways Passenger)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Ms. REBECCA MURRAY (British Airways Passenger)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Ms. REBECCA MURRAY (British Airways Passenger)", "Ms. REBECCA MURRAY (British Airways Passenger)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Ms. REBECCA MURRAY (British Airways Passenger)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Ms. REBECCA MURRAY (British Airways Passenger)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "Ms. REBECCA MURRAY (British Airways Passenger)", "MADELEINE BRAND, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-194811", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2012-10-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1210/25/sp.02.html", "summary": "Interview with James Van Der Beek", "utt": ["Oh, Michelle Williams.", "Are they going to play the whole intro?", "We're waiting for James Van Der Beek to come out.", "Maybe we could all talk about what our favorite \"Dawson's Creek\" episodes were. Really?", "If you look at that show and why he has done so well in his new show called \"The B in Apartment 23,\" in that new show he makes fun of himself from \"Dawson's Creek.\" He plays himself. When you look at those people who were all elevated to stardom from that show, who did we see there, Michelle Williams, who won a Golden Globe, Katie Holmes, of course. Sometimes she's on the front page for tough things.", "She's been in the news.", "I think his strategy of -- he doesn't really mock himself, but plays himself in a way.", "It's a daring thing to play yourself as an aging sort of fading star. That's a great daring thing for him to be doing.", "It's a hard part to play. It would be harder to cast someone else in the role of James Van Der Beek in this show.", "And he's joining us this morning, let's bring him in. Come on over, James. We've been showing clips. That's okay. We'll give you a mike.", "Quite an entrance.", "Nice to have you with us. I'm well. We got news you were in our elevator.", "Yes.", "We were playing an entire episode of\" Dawson's Creek.\"", "I heard this song in the elevator that's been haunting me since I was 20 years old.", "Have a seat right there, next to John, nice to have you. We were talking about what it's like to play yourself on your new show. Is it fun? Was it weird to get that kind of pitch to do that?", "Yes. Honestly, it's the most liberating, healthiest thing in the world.", "Why liberating?", "Everyone, especially actors, can afford to take themselves a little less seriously from time to time. And so it's really therapeutic to just kind of destroy the ego a little bit every single day.", "You had a funeral for your character.", "We did, a Viking funeral. We set a bunch of memorabilia on fire in Central Park, as one does.", "Was it liberating to see the character go up in smoke?", "You know, it's really -- I've had an interesting relationship with the whole phenomenon. \"Dawson's Creek\" is something that happened to me when I was 20. I started out doing theater here in New York when I was 16. And a couple years later I got this pilot on this show on a network I never heard of. And then six years later, I had this thing kind of following me. And, you know, now at 35, it's fun to appreciate just the fact that anybody remembers anything that I did ten years ago.", "Is it true that the shot of you crying, which everybody knows, is the most -- what did you say, downloaded meme?", "Is that true?", "The research says that, sir.", "It's so funny.", "For you personally, it was almost like too much of a good thing, right? Then you had to redefine your brand, right? I read that you did a lot of parts against type in order to get people to think of you differently.", "You know, I've always enjoyed shaking it up. For me, doing the same thing for too long makes me crazy. So, I don't know. I always felt like I had some tricks in my bag. It's been fun at times to -- it's a lot harder to get famous than it is to change an image, I think. When you have something going for you that people are expecting and then you're able to pull something out that they don't, that's fun.", "Which brings us to our new show. Talk about playing yourself but at the same time, going against -- let's play that.", "I love ice cream.", "This is the invite for your Halloween Party?", "James is terrified of Halloween.", "I hate being scared. Hate it. Hate it worse than I hate applause for other people.", "Every year James throws a positivity party where we celebrate life and happiness.", "Absolutely no scary costumes, just happy ones. It started when I was a kid when my dad played a VHS tape of Halloween on Christmas, ruined two holidays at once.", "Tell me a little bit about this new show and the chemistry, because what they've done is kind of make a really edgy show -- it's getting great critical reviews.", "Thank you. yes. It's been -- it's the most fun I've ever had on any job.", "Every actor says that, it's the most fun, I'm working with the best people.", "If they're on another job, they're lying.", "We work pretty short hours. And the writing is just really consistently funny. It's edgy. It's all of the brain child, of Nahnatchka Khan, who worked on \"American Dad.\" So it's that vein of comedy. It's centered around the two girls, Krysten Ritter and Dreama Walker, and I'm for all intents and purposes I'm the wacky friend who lives down the street.", "Some of the jokes are fairly shocking. I watched last season, and my wife and I were like, wow! Is there ever anything that you find too shocking? Is there anything that gets left on the cutting room floor?", "Yes. Every once in a while they tell us we've gone a little to far.", "This is cable. You can say it now.", "Huh?", "This is cable. You can say some of those jokes, right?", "Oh, really? Well -- so you know our challenge then becomes when they tell us you can't say that, to come up with something potentially worse that they can't argue with.", "James Van Der Beek, it's so nice to have you with us this morning, thank you for joining us. We have to take a short break. Thanks. 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{"id": "CNN-312896", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2017-05-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/23/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Coats Testifies about Russia Conversation with Trump; Flynn Takes Fifth.", "utt": ["We're watching important developments from two key figures at the center of the investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election. The new director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, and the former CIA director, John Brennen, both testifies at separate hearings up on Capitol Hill today. A lot to unpack right now. Let's bring in our panel. Our CNN legal analyst, Paul Callan is here, our chief political correspondent Dana Bash, and our CNN politics reporter and editor at large, Chris Cillizza. Dana, the former CIA director, Brennan, he said that Russia, quote, brazenly interfered in the U.S. presidential elections and that the Trump campaign had contacts with Russia, but he stopped short of calling it collusion. Your reaction?", "He stopped short of calling it collusion, but he made extremely clear that that was the hope and goal of the Russians and that that is what he saw while he was still in his position as CIA director in and around the -- the presidential campaign. This is just added to the growing and lengthy list of things that the Trump administration doesn't want to hear and that the president himself clearly doesn't want to hear. The fact that we have somebody of this stature who had the kind of role that he did, the CIA director, during the 2016 election, saying -- basically going further than any official has to date who was in -- in a position to know at the time, is really bad news for the Trump campaign -- excuse me, for the former Trump campaign, for the Trump White House and is a perfect example of why the Justice Department and Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, decided that it was appropriate to have a special counsel and will give more fuel to Democrats and some Republicans, very few but mostly Democrats in Congress who say -- to complement that federal investigation, they would like to have an independent commission, a 9/11 style commission. It's only going to add some meat to the bone of that argument.", "You know, Paul, a lot of Democrats are saying now that these new revelations are moving this case closer and closer towards obstruction of justice. Are they right?", "Maybe in a very, very small way. But, remember, this is a complicated process. You have to link collusion with the Russians to the Trump campaign and then you have to link it to the president. And you also have to have collusion with respect to criminality. Remember, it's not a crime to influence an election. Everybody hires consultants to try to influence an election. You have to engage in criminal activity. In other words, you'd have to show that people on the Trump campaign were actually assisting the Russians in getting into the computer system to get the e-mails or doing other criminal acts that the president was aware of. That's a very steep hill to climb and I don't see it being climbed effectively in what I've heard so far today.", "Key word, so far.", "Yes.", "At least as of today. Chris, the director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, he's a former U.S. congressman from Indiana, he was asked about the Trump administration's sharing Israel's intelligence with the Russians. Listen to this.", "We worked through a process. I can't specifically describe that process here today. I'm new to the job. Weeks in. But there are procedures and processes in place I'd be happy to get those back to you.", "Did the Trump administration undergo that interagency clearance process prior to the president's May 10th meeting with the Russian government?", "I have no awareness of that.", "All right, Chris, what's your reaction?", "Well, again, a lot of times with these testimonies, listen to what's not said as much as what is said. If Dan Coats could have said, yes, they did, in regards to that question, did they follow the procedures related to declassifying information, he would have. There are two reasons why he might not. One, because he knows they didn't, or, two, because he simply doesn't know. It is possible certainly he may not know. As he noted, he's relatively new to the job. But two times, that time, Wolf, and when Dan Coats was talking about -- was asked directly, did Donald Trump ask you to knock down the collusion argument in this federal investigation, both times he didn't answer. Now, he said he didn't feel comfortable discussing his conversations with the president of the United States in an open hearing, which is fine. And, again, two options, either Trump did ask him to do it or he didn't and he just doesn't want to talk about it in public. But there are -- there are clearer answers he could have given that he didn't give. So, you know, neither of those are the exact great answer if you're Donald Trump trying to beat back what is a growing controversy here, certainly politically if not also legally.", "Dana, you spoke with Senator John McCain and Senator Mark Warner about President Trump asking the director of National Intelligence and the director of the National Security Agency to deny any evidence of collusion during the 2016 election. Listen to their responses.", "I don't think that it's logical to assume that the president of United States would ask the director of National Intelligence not to investigate the Russia issue. I just -- if you'd have said that's going to happen, I'd say, yes, it's a lousy movie.", "We have not been briefed on that. We are still pursuing vigorously and we'll have more to announce later today our next steps.", "Well, what else did they tell you, Dana? Did Senator Warner, who's the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, tell you what he's planning to do as far as Michael Flynn, the fired national security adviser, for example?", "Well, two things. One is, you heard him say we -- I have not been briefed on that. That was a question that I asked about something in \"The Washington Post\" report yesterday that was kind of varied, lower down under the big glaring headline about allegations that the president called the DNI and the head of the NSA to say, please, say publicly there was no collusion. Down below was also a line or two about the idea that senior White House officials also called the FBI and others to say, please, don't, you know, to try to basically get answers and get information, which is inappropriate. So that's the question I asked and he said he wasn't briefed on that. But probably more importantly is what we may or may not learn today about the actions that the Senate Intelligence chair, Richard Burr and Mark Warner, the top Democrat you just saw there, will take to respond to the fact that Michael Flynn invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not testify before the Intelligence Committee, but also is refusing to give over documents. The question I asked is, will you find him in contempt of Congress, and that is probably what we're going to hear today. Now, he strongly hinted but was very careful to say, hold on, we'll talk about next steps later. Strongly hinted at the notion that withholding documents is a bridge too far. Going -- saying that I don't want to testify, that's everybody's right. But withholding documents when others have given over documents might be something that they are going to try to punish him on. We'll see what they say later today.", "Well, Paul, what kind of punishment are we talking about? Contempt if -- if he continues to refuse to provide Congress with those documents?", "Contempt can be punished by up to one year in prison if you're found guilty of it. And you can be -- you can be convicted by the House of Representatives by a full vote or it can be referred to a U.S. attorney's office for an actual prosecution in court. But there is a one-year penalty for the crime.", "And there doesn't seem to be any desire to offer Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser, immunity in exchange for his testimony.", "No. And I think, in the end, that's going to make the case against him very difficult. Any American citizen has the right to assert the Fifth Amendment. However, he's asserting it with respect to document production. That's a harder road to prevent production of documents. But there is a -- there's an obscure legal principle that's in some limited cases allow you to assert the fifth with respect to documents as well.", "And, Chris Cillizza, you wrote an important piece, just posted it at cnnpolitics.com, getting back to what the former CIA director testified today about the entire issue involving how concerned he was about Russia's interference. And you had one quote from John Brennan you thought was very significant.", "Yes, and it's -- Dana was mentioning this earlier. Essentially John Brennan, I'll paraphrase him here, but John Brennan essentially said, look, you know, from what I knew at the time when I was CIA director, it gave me pause."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "CALLAN", "BLITZER", "DAN COATS, DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COATS", "BLITZER", "CHRIS CILLIZZA, CNN POLITICS REPORTER", "BLITZER", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-73228", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2003-7-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/04/lt.01.html", "summary": "Fallujah Still Site Of Violence Against U.S. Soldiers", "utt": ["Now, we want to take you to Fallujah which has become a hot bed of activity, violence particularly between coalition forces and Iraqi resistance fighters. Our Nic Robertson is there and perhaps, Nic, you can shed a little bit of light on these two reported tapes that have come into Al Jazeera claiming that to be of the voice of ousted Saddam Hussein saying that he is very much alive. What are people there in Fallujah saying?", "Well, there's certainly a concern of the U.S. troops here. There's certainly been a concern of theirs that the fact that Saddam Hussein is around has an impact on people. It has an impact in that they perhaps won't come forward and give information about Ba'athist elements, people who were associated with Saddam Hussein and his former regime. It has an impact because it doesn't allow people to sort of close off, if you will, on the past regime. And that's one of the things U.S. troops here find that they all right fighting against, that perception that Saddam Hussein could still be around. And particularly in Fallujah where there has been particularly high tension at times between the townspeople and the U.S. troops. We watched officers yesterday talking with senior religious leaders, talking with senior tribal leaders, talking with the mayor of the town to explain some of the recent developments, explain how they're involvement, how they haven't been responsible for the explosion at a mosque. So getting the message out to the local population has been a very important part of what the troops do here. The events of today, however, like so many days recently attack on U.S. troops about three hours drive north of Baghdad near Balat (ph) engaged by small arms fire, Rocket Propelled Grenade fire, the troops there returned fire and killed all 11 Iraqi assailants. But earlier in the morning, there had been a mortar attack on the base at Balat. Ten U.S. soldier injured there. Earlier in the day in Baghdad, a soldier shot by apparently, possibly by a sniper but by a loan gunman while he was standing guard in his Bradley fighting vehicle. He was in the gun turret and he was killed in that incident. So what we've seen today and seen over recent days is attacks coming in the form of lone gunmen, Rocket Propelled Grenade attacks, mortar attacks, the attacks becoming", "Yes, sir. We are on the outskirts of Fallujah. We control basically about, approximately 30 kilometers to the east between Baghdad and Fallujah. And on a daily basis, we conduct meetings with town councils and two communities, one being Nasser Wasalam (ph) and Al Gorma (ph). And during those council meetings, we're doing the same things that our sister units are doing inside Fallujah proper, and that is we're working to rebuild infrastructure. We're providing humanitarian assistance and meals. We deliver water daily. We are trying to help the city council and the communities take control of their particular destiny with this new freedom and liberation.", "Saddam Hussein has released an audiotape, or apparently released an audiotape today. How do you think that his statements on that tape says that he is still around in Iraq, that he is responsible for some of the recent attacks on U.S. troops? How do you think him putting himself back on the map if you would with the Iraqi people, how is that going to affect your work?", "I don't believe it's going to have any effect at all. The people are continuing to rejoice in the fact they have this liberation, No. 1. And No. 2, they're taking hold of this independence with our assistance and that of the international community. So the only thing that I would believe that this tape has done is probably just another futile attempt to prolong the fact that these people are going to take care of themselves without him.", "Thank you very much, sir. So the tape likely, therefore to perhaps prolong and fuel -- and that is the fear that it will prolong and fuel the work of the U.S. troops here to bring stability -- Fredricka.", "All right, Nic Robertson, thanks very much from Fallujah."], "speaker": ["FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROBERTSON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROBERTSON", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-411331", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-09-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/19/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Congress Gearing Up for Fight for Supreme Court Replacement", "utt": ["Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away the age of 87. Flags, at the White House and at the Capitol, flying half staff. Ginsburg, known especially for her work on gender equality, her death, now could change the balance of power on the highest court in the land. She was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton and sworn in August 10th, 1993. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, died, surrounded by her family, at her, home in Washington. Joining me now, with more, CNN legal analyst, Joan Biskupic. She's covered this for 25 years. And it is fantastic to have you on. You know so much just about Justice Ginsburg. Speak to your Justice Ginsburg the woman, first.", "Thanks Michael. Good to be with you. She has been on the court for 27 degrees now. But she had quite a career before she became a justice. She is a pioneer in women's rights litigation here in America. Back in the '70s when the women's movement was gaining traction politically, she was at the Supreme Court, arguing six cases to expand women's legal rights, winning five of those. Then, after she became a justice, she started out as a centrist. Not the liberal we see today. She had quite a transformation that means so much to Americans right now, because of what an iconic figure she became, the voice of women's rights on the Supreme Court as well as civil rights on the Supreme Court. You can probably tell from her pictures, she was a small woman. I used to kid she was probably the only person living who would lie about her weight in the opposite direction. She was smaller than 5 feet, barely 100 pounds. But when you spoke to her, she had such a clear, deliberate, steady way. She would leave a lot of pauses between her words. She was quite serious although she had a fabulous wry sense on the side. She was many things including being a mother of two and a loving wife to Martin Ginsburg who helped her get on the Supreme Court in 1993. So a lot I can say about the human being and the personal side of Ruth Bader Ginsburg but to American law, she was so monumental. And her death will set off a momentous fight for the future of the Supreme Court.", "I was going to ask you that but I also want to ask you, she was the second woman appointed to the court. How did she change the Supreme Court?", "Ruth Bader Ginsburg came on in 1993. More than a decade after Sandra Day O'Connor and they were two completely different women. She was a Republican from Arizona, Ginsburg a Democrat from Brooklyn. She broadened the idea of the kinds of women who would be on the Supreme Court and, famously, she used to answer, when people asked how many women should be on the Supreme Court, she would say, nine. as in, 9 seats. She gave the court a new perspective, since the first woman on it, was, as I said before, was a conservative Republican. She then, as we, know paved the way for 2 more women to be named in 2009, Sonia Sotomayor, and 2010, Elena Kagan, and she was quite close to Elena Kagan.", "In some ways she had already passed the baton to her, some of the legal negotiations on the court.", "You touched on this earlier and let's revisit before we go. That is, what this sets up. In a political sense, certainly for the Democrats, the timing of her passing could not be worse; for the Republicans, could not be better. The Republicans, back when Merrin Garlick (sic) was Barack Obama's, Mitch McConnell said you cannot do this in an election near. So on, so forth. They will do it this time. How do you see that fight unfolding? There is a lot at stake.", "There is Michael, I can't overstate what's at stake. I remember so vividly that February 13th, 2016, evening, when we all found out that Justice Scalia had passed away and Mitch McConnell put out a statement, then, saying it will be the next POTUS who chooses the successor to Antonin Scalia. As you say ,Mitch McConnell made sure the Senate, locked the nomination of Merrick Garland. The reverse could happen right now. He has already vowed to have a vote on an appointee, of President Trump. This year, He is one fierce presence and he's going to try everything possible to push through a third Trump appointee, which would so, tip the, balance on the Supreme Court for the right wing. So his message, back in 2016, is the opposite of today. He wants to have a nominee confirmed. We're on the eve of an election, this might energize more Republicans toward Donald Trump and then not only change the makeup of the Supreme Court but ensure a second term for Trump. The stakes could not be higher for two branches of government, the judiciary and the executive.", "Thank you so much, Joan Biskupic, joining us.", "Thank you, Michael.", "People began gathering at the Supreme Court when the news broke that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away. Many said they considered her a hero and wanted to pay tribute to her life, some lighting candles, many left flowers. But emotions are running high over the political divide in this country. There were moments of tension, with a few Trump supporters yelling at the mourners. Joining me now, CNN presidential historian, Doug Brinkley. Good to see you, speak to the historic nature of not just Justice Ginsburg's time on the Supreme Court but her career as a female jurist in the historical sense.", "She's an A-lister for the history books. So you won't be able to talk about feminism or the women's movement in 20th and 21st centuries without Ruth Bader Ginsburg being one of the first things uttered. She was beloved by Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton is who chose her for the Supreme Court. She has a special place in the hearts of Jewish Americans, for a woman growing up in Brooklyn in the middle of the Great Depression in a hardscrabble situation, working all the way up to the Supreme Court. People don't realize that it's really Ginsburg who put the word \"gender\" into our lives. She thought that you did not have to talk about the word, sex. Instead of checking off sex she talked about gender. There is so much she did that we're living with right now. Her dissents, her writings, her Supreme Court, cases, she won 5 of the 6 Supreme Court cases in the 1970s. She was a young woman. So she was a phenom when it came to the", "And when you put in the context of the, time it makes it that much more extraordinary. It didn't take long for remembrance to turn to politics and to that end, Mitch McConnell argued at the end of Barack Obama's term that it was wrong to appointment a justice in an election year. His words wee the American people will choose the next president,, who in turn will nominate the next Supreme Court justice. Now he says the opposite. I'm curious, in historical terms, are there precedents for what should be done in these situations?", "The Democrats do not play hardball enough. And it has happened a couple of times.", "Back in 1968, Lyndon Johnson was president and he chose Abe Fortas to be on the Supreme Court and the Republicans screwed around with it and waited until after the election. Nixon Republican won and it was absolutely no role at that point. After that occurred, for a Democrat to get on the court. We saw with Merrick Garland again. Mitch McConnell is the ultimate powerbroker of the Senate. People used to call Lyndon Johnson that. Mitch will move fast on this, so it is, now, front and center of the 2020 presidential election and it's about the economy, the novel coronavirus and perhaps the future the future of the Supreme Court. The battle for the soul of America really is upon us right now.", "One thing, already being discussed, by Democrats is if a nominee is rammed through, and Republicans lose the White House and the, Senate Democrats can move to increase the number of justices, payback if you like. Is there history of that happening before? It's not a number set in stone.", "It is not set in stone. It is not part of the U.S. Constitution. but Roosevelt, after he won a big election in 1936 didn't like the fact that the Supreme Court was holding up some of his New Deal measures, tried to so-called pack the court, went to name an additional six justices. FDR tried that stunt and he got burned trying it because members of his own party said the public can't stomach that. So it is a threat that Senator Schumer, probably, will make right now. But I think Biden, from a debate stage on September 29th, has to be careful saying if I don't get my way, add justices willy-nilly to the Supreme Court.", "We are running out of time but I wanted to squeeze this in. If Donald Trump wins, as a potential, at the end of a second term, he may have appointed 5 or even 6 of the 9 justices. Is anything like that ever happening before?", "You are getting into Franklin D. Roosevelt territory. FDR was a four-term president. Already, I tell people, the greatest accomplishment of Trump is getting Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on the court. If he gets a third, a fourth, a fifth we'll be living in the age of Trump for decades to come.", "Wow. Doug Brinkley, always great to get you on. Thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "The former first lady, Hillary Clinton, played a pivotal role in getting her husband to nominate Justice Ginsburg to the U.S. Supreme Court, back in 1993. Here is what she tweeted, a few hours ago. Quote, \"Justice Ginsburg paved the way for so many women, including me. There will never be another like her. Thank you, RBG.\" Thanks for watching everyone, I am Michael Holmes, appreciate your company, stay tuned for \"MARKETPLACE AFRICA.\" I will see you again in 20 minutes or so."], "speaker": ["HOLMES", "JOAN BISKUPIC, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "HOLMES", "BISKUPIC", "BISKUPIC", "HOLMES", "BISKUPIC", "HOLMES", "BISKUPIC", "HOLMES", "DOUG BRINKLEY, CNN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN", "HOLMES", "BRINKLEY", "BRINKLEY", "HOLMES", "BRINKLEY", "HOLMES", "BRINKLEY", "HOLMES", "BRINKLEY", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-49905", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-2-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/25/lt.06.html", "summary": "Interview of Gary Parker, Bruce Fein", "utt": ["The Georgia Parole Board is considering today the case of Alexander Williams. If it doesn't grant his request, Williams could be executed as early as tonight, even though he is mentally ill. Williams was 17 when he kidnapped and killed a teenage girl back in 1986. He has since been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Williams' lawyer is Gary Parker. He joins us from Columbus, Georgia this morning. And in Washington, constitutional scholar Bruce Fein. Gentlemen, good morning, thanks for joining us.", "Thank you.", "Good to have Bruce along. I was to start with Gary, with Alexander Williams' attorney, because it is a constitutional argument that you are making, saying that it would be unconstitutional to execute your client in this way, basically to be giving him so much medication so that he would be sane enough to understand what is happening. You're saying that this would be cruel and unusual punishment to medicate him in this way.", "We believe that it will, and we also believe the fact that he was under the age of 18 at the time that he committed this horrible crime are matters that the board and the state of Georgia should be considering. He also did not receive a fair trial. He was represented by a lawyer that was grossly incompetent, or unconcerned about his well-being. Alex had been hospitalized for mental illness prior to this crime. He's been mentally ill throughout his incarceration, and he is mentally ill today.", "Gary, because he was so close -- because Alex Williams was so close in age to 18, wouldn't you say your stronger argument is going after the mentally ill and medication issue? He was within weeks of turning 18.", "We think that both -- we think both arguments are very strong. There has been a world outcry, the European Union, Pope John Paul, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, the American Bar Association, the national PTA Association, the National Mental Health Association, and scores of churches and individuals and child advocacy groups have all come out challenging this, and pleading for mercy for Mr. Williams.", "Bruce, let's go ahead and bring you in here. The Supreme Court has touched on this, not this exact issue, but has ruled on death penalty cases, at least when it includes mentally ill defendants.", "Well, I think your statement, and Mr. Parker's statement, are forceful, but in fact, the U.S. Supreme Court has expressly addressed the issue of whether someone who was 17 years at the time of the capital crime can be executed...", "The age issue, Bruce, but what about the mentally ill, having to be medicated (ph)...", "I'll address that one, right, but the fact...", "Okay.", "...is the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of executing individuals who are as young as 17 or 16, they have set a limit at 15, but not 16 or 17 for capital punishment. Now in the mental illness case, I don't think that this really a novel question. The courts have uniformly held, for instance, that an individual who is accused of a crime, for purposes of trial, can be forcibly given drugs to ensure that's he's mentally competent to aid counsel. This is the same kind of argument, but different translated (ph)...", "But isn't that different, Bruce? Isn't counsel different than actually being executed? There is a big gap in between those two things.", "Well, of course, because the -- I -- not want to understate, you know, the -- the gravity of a death penalty, but the purpose of prohibiting mental illness at the time of death is because, in the end, it is thought cruel and unusual that the individual would not really appreciate or know what the reason for the execution was. If giving drugs will dispel that lack of understanding or mystery, cures the problem, then there should not be any Eighth Amendment issue involved, the same way at trial. If giving drugs enables the defendant to appreciate what's going on, it cures any problem of mental illness as being inhibiting the inadequate defense.", "Gary, speaking of cruel and unusual, let's not forget the victim in this case, and that was a 16-year-old girl from here in Georgia, 16-year-old Aleta Bunch. This happened back in 1986. She was raped and she was murdered. You are not contesting that your client did this, are you?", "Oh, no. We're not contesting that he did it. We are not saying that he should get out of prison. We are basically saying that he should stay in prison for the rest of his life. You know, that these kinds of tragedies, often times, are avoidable. I think that there's a direct relation between the fact that Georgia has almost abandoned the chronically ill, they provide totally inadequate resources to stop child abuse, and that's another factor in this case. William -- Alex was exposed to some very, very violent and chilling child abuse as a child. His parents, on one occasion, beat -- his mother, at least, beat him on the foot with a hammer and drove a screwdriver in his foot.", "You know, Gary, understandably, the family of Aleta Bunch is not very sympathetic to your client's cause, and in fact believes -- in fact, believes that your client is faking. Give us an idea of how you believe how mentally ill Alexander Williams is.", "Alexander Williams was mentally ill before. Prison records established that his behavior has been bizarre and psychotic. He often times has crawled on the floor thinking he's a snake talking to green frogs. He attacked one lawyer saying that a red man was in his eye, and thinks Sigourney Weaver is God. And this is the kind of behavior that -- these are state records, though, these are not psychiatrists that we brought in to say these things were happening, this is all documented by the state psychiatrist. It is confirmed by them, and verified by them. So this is not something that was recently fabricated, and I doubt very seriously anyone could have a pattern of this kind of bizarre and psychotic conduct for 13, 14 years.", "Well -- go ahead, Bruce.", "The facts suggest that with the drugs that are being administered, that kind of bizarre behavior is largely, if not completely, eliminated, and that's the constitutional issue, or the legal issue that would be confronting the courts. Now, what Mr. Parker has elucidated is a whole host of reasons that might be pled to the Georgia Board of Parole and Pardons...", "Well, that's where we are in this case. I'm sorry, Bruce. That's where we are in this case.", "and asking that the... and asking that the death penalty be released, the citizens of Georgia should decide.", "I'm sorry, Bruce, I have to cut you off there. Gary, just right now, where we are, the state board has now sent an independent psychiatrist. They need to make a decision. The stay ends tonight at midnight. If you don't get any relief from the state board, where do you go from here?", "Well, I mean -- I think the last resort we would have is to the U.S. Supreme Court. We believe that the Supreme Court has shown some interest, at least, in this whole notion of forcibly injecting someone with medication to make them lucid enough to understand that they are killing them when they kill them.", "We will be following the case. Gary Parker, Bruce Fein. Gentlemen, thank you for joining our discussion today.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Fascinating case from right here in Georgia. 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{"id": "CNN-102284", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2006-1-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/30/acd.02.html", "summary": "A Bold New Tape From Al Qaeda's Number Two Man", "utt": ["This tunnel is very sophisticated. They've actually poured concrete as the tunnel rises up and sort of built in steps to make it easier to walk on. And it's likely workers used these ropes, which you'll find all throughout the tunnels still to hold onto bales of marijuana as they walked up the steep incline.", "The longest tunnel ever built by a drug cartel, discovered just last week, close to where I'm standing right here on the U.S.-Mexican border. We'll take you inside that tunnel shortly. As you might have heard, though, earlier in the program, Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's number two, is thumbing his nose at President Bush. Al-Zawahiri was a target earlier this month of a U.S. air strike in Pakistan. But as he told viewers of the Arabic network, Al- Jazeera, he is still very much alive and would die when God wished it. That's what he said. Joining us from Atlanta to discuss the significance of the new tape message, CNN's Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson. Nic, thanks for being with us. Why would he offer President Bush the chance to convert to Islam? That's just -- I mean, is that just a rhetorical?", "You know, what I think he's trying to do here, Anderson, is appeal to two communities. And one, this is part of this is part of his appeal to the Muslim community in the world, which is essentially to try and set up the fact that the United States is trying to chase him and Osama bin Laden down, not as an attack on al Qaeda, that it is, but he's trying to cast it in the light of this is an attack on Muslims here. President Bush comes across to our side, he's one of us. We can forgive him. So, he's trying to cast it in that kind of light. He's trying to say to the people of the United States that President Bush is lying to you, that you're losing the war in Iraq, you're losing the war in Afghanistan. Indeed, he had some really almost outlandish and very blatant taunts for President Bush.", "Bush, do you know where I am? I am among the Muslim masses enjoying their care with God's blessing and sharing with them their Holy War against you, until we defeat you, God willing.", "And one of the other things about this tape, Anderson, the fastest turnaround we've seen of an al Qaeda videotape yet. Eleven days ago was probably when it was recorded, about then. It's out very, very quickly.", "Well, I'm also amazed by the production values of the thing. I mean, he's got this black screen behind him. There are even English subtitles on the tape.", "It's incredible. I mean, this is part of the process of this very short 11 days, getting it out to Al-Jazeera. They have to get it across the sea to Al-Jazeera from Pakistan or Afghanistan, wherever they're recording it. And it seems as Zawahiri is not bothered or worried about being caught, that he might be traced by this videotape. He seems very confident that he's gone ahead and released it so quickly. You know, one of the great clues these days for intelligence officials is on computers, quite possibly the titling put on, on a computer. If that computer were found, computers involved in this process, be a great lead maybe to where he is. Big risks.", "All right, Nic Robertson, thanks. CNN Terrorism Analyst Peter Bergen is very familiar with the way al Qaeda operates; and before 9/11, he even interviewed Osama bin Laden himself. Bin Laden is the subject of his latest book, a fascinating account, The Osama bin Laden I know, an oral history of al Qaeda's leader. Peter Bergen joins me now, live from New York. Peter, what surprised you about this tape?", "Nothing very much, to be honest. I mean, it's a proof of life and I think it would have been kind of very weird if we didn't have a proof of life for Ayman al- Zawahiri, you know, around this time. Obviously they wanted to get the message out as soon as possible that Ayman al-Zawahiri was alive and well. We have the audiotape from bin Laden, a couple of weeks back also. He's alive and well. The al Qaeda leadership needs to show that they're in the game, that they remain a viable force.", "He also describes in great detail the attack 17 days ago, very specifically. Let's listen.", "The American airplanes, in collaboration with their agent of the Jews and crusaders Musharraf, launched an air strike on Damadola, near Pashara (ph), around the Eid (ph) holiday, during which 18 Muslims, men, women and children, were killed in this fight against Islam, which they call terrorism.", "I mean, I got to tell you, he looks, you know, he looks healthy. The tape has a high quality to it. They even have these English subtitles on it. What does it tell you about al Qaeda's operations that they can release this thing so quickly?", "Well, they have long had a video arm, it's called As- Sahab, which means the clouds in Arabic; and they have this -- this video arm started functioning just before 9/11. They've released a lot of these tapes and the production values tend to be pretty good and they've used English subtitles before. In the byte we just heard from, there is an extra element to it, which Ayman al-Zawahiri concedes that four of his quote, unquote \"brothers,\" were also killed in the strike two weeks back. I think that's kind of interesting. There's very few things the U.S. government and the al Qaeda agree upon, but they both agree that Ayman al-Zawahiri appeared to been at the place where the strike happened and that some senior members of al Qaeda were in fact killed in the strike.", "He also references Osama bin Laden in the tape. Let's play that.", "Osama bin Laden offered you a decent exit from your dilemma, but your leaders who are keen to accumulate wealth insist on throwing you in battles and killing your souls in Iraq and Afghanistan, and God-willing, on your own land.", "Again, it's raising this idea of a truce. Why do they keep doing that?", "Well they did it on the spring of 2004. Osama bin Laden offered a truce to European countries that might pull out of Iraq. That truce expired. And a year later there was the attack in London. From an Islamic sort of jurisprudence point of view, it's important to offer people truces before you attack them. And we've seen a truce expire and an attack happen in London. I don't think that necessarily that the truce will expire and there'll be an attack in the United States, but certainly al Qaeda and people motivated by that ideology will follow this truce idea and if it's not taken up, will be, you know, tempted to try and attack the United States. Of course, wanting to attack the United States and actually being able to execute such an attack are two very different things. And their ability to attack the United States, has been, I think, severely damaged, compared to their ability to man operations in Europe.", "Do you think Zawahiri and bin Laden have contact with one another?", "I think they do. They've been friends since 1986 when they first met in Pashara (ph), Pakistan. They've had a sort of symbiotic relationship. Ayman al-Zawahiri is bin Laden's doctor and close friend. I think they are in communication, maybe not together, but certainly in communication.", "It is fascinating, and fascinating to see that tape today. Peter Bergen, thanks very much. Eric Hill, from \"HEADLINE NEWS,\" joins us with some of the other stories that we are following tonight. Erica, good evening.", "Hey, Anderson. A second videotape, showing kidnapped American Journalist Jill Carroll, aired on Al-Jazeera today. Carroll's voice was not heard on the tape, but she was in tears and wearing a head scarf. Her kidnappers say they will kill her unless all Iraqi women prisoners are released. Now the tape was dated January 28. There's been no independent verification, however, of Carroll's fate since her captors issued the first video and a 72-hour deadline nearly two weeks ago. In the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, two supermarket chains report several incidents of food tampering in the past two weeks. Giant and King supermarkets say pins and rusted needles have turned up in vegetables and meat, even in a can of soup. Local and state authorities are investigating. In Washington, Judge Samuel Alito, facing an almost certain lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Democrats failed to rally support for a filibuster today. Alito's nomination is expected to be confirmed tomorrow. And from Brazil, a baby girl is out of the hospital after being found in a plastic bag, floating in a lake this weekend. her dramatic rescue was broadcast worldwide. Scores of Brazilians mobbed the hospital, some of them hoping to adopt the little girl. Her mother is now charged with attempted murder. The mother denies setting the baby adrift. The baby was born prematurely two months ago at the very same hospital. A spokesman, by the way, says she is doing great. Lucky little girl.", "Man, unbelievable story. Thanks, Erica. U.S. authorities have never seen anything quite like it, a highly sophisticated tunnel, the size of eight football fields, opening the U.S. to drug smugglers. We'll take you deep inside the tunnel. Plus, Mexico's ruthless drug cartels, suspected of building this tunnel. Cross them, you could end up in the desert with a bullet in your head. They're even becoming more powerful. That and more when 360 continues."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "COOPER", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI (through translator)", "ROBERTSON", "COOPER", "ROBERTSON", "COOPER", "PETER BERGEN, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST", "COOPER", "AL-ZAWAHIRI (through translator)", "COOPER", "BERGEN", "COOPER", "AL-ZAWAHIRI (through translator)", "COOPER", "BERGEN", "COOPER", "BERGEN", "COOPER", "ERICA HILL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "NPR-29427", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2011-06-02", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2011/06/02/136879267/subcontractors-abuse-foreigners-who-staff-u-s-wars", "title": "Contractors Abuse Foreigners Who Staff U.S. Wars", "summary": "An article in the latest issue of The New Yorker focuses on the mistreatment of foreign workers on U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. Reporter Sarah Stillman tells Mary Louise Kelly that workers are enticed overseas by shady contractors, and when the U.S. draws down operations, they're laid off but given no return ticket home.", "utt": ["This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.", "And I'm Mary Louise Kelly.", "Now to a story about an invisible army - the foreign workers who staff American wars. More than 70,000 cooks, cleaners, beauticians, fast food clerks, and others, service U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. They come from some of the world's poorest countries.", "And as reporter Sarah Stillman writes, quote, \"They're employed by fly-by-night subcontractors who are financed by the American taxpayer but who often operate outside the law.\" Stillman spent a year investigating the story for The New Yorker magazine.", "Sarah Stillman, welcome.", "Thanks.", "Let me start by asking about the women that you open your story with. You tell the story of 10 women - they are all beauticians from Fiji - who were recruited for jobs in Dubai. Or so they thought. What happened?", "Well, I met the women on a military base in northwest Iraq in 2008. And I'd noticed there was a beauty salon on the base where these women were giving manicures and pedicures and facials to U.S. soldiers.", "And I started chatting with them about, you know, how they wound up in Iraq. And it turns out they'd been approached by recruiters who promised them great jobs in Dubai at a nice - in a hotel salon. And instead when they got there they were told, actually it turns out there is no job for you in Dubai; instead you're heading to a U.S. military base in Iraq.", "And so the women were terrified, but they didn't know quite what else to do. And they found themselves scattered to three or four different military bases across the country.", "Did they have any choice about that final leg once they found out actually you're headed for Iraq?", "Yeah, their predicament was complicated. I mean, it wasn't the classic human trafficking story where they were, you know, taken in chains and - or had, you know, no idea entirely where they were going.", "Instead, you know, many of the women had paid recruiting fees in order to get the jobs to begin with. Several of them were threatened with more than $1,000 in fines if they, you know, were going to try to head back to Fiji.", "One of the women who you interviewed, a woman named Lydia, says she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a supervisor on the base. Now, the Army claims that it investigated her situation and that her claims were not substantiated. What exactly were you able to find out?", "Well, what's troubling is that I was there on the base at the time, and when I found out what they women were alleging - and you know, Lydia was in tears when she conveyed it - I called the U.S. military sexual assault hotline, and the phone rang and rang and rang and no one picked up.", "And so I tried again with the help of a U.S. Army captain over a period of several days and never got through. And when we contacted the military about the case, they said that the company had actually investigated. But according to the women, you know, no one ever asked them about the claims of sexual assault.", "Many of the workers live in what you describe as labor camps. Describe the conditions.", "Well, they vary drastically from camp to camp. But one of the main camps I write about in the piece - the Prime Projects International Camp on the largest U.S. military base in Baghdad, Camp Victory - was quite a dismal place.", "And in this particular camp the workers repeatedly told me that they hadn't been getting enough food for almost a year. And eventually the military confirmed that they did riot. And you know, 1,200 workers were actually throwing stones at their supervisor, were smashing windows, were basically destroying the entire camp, which holds 4,000 of these workers.", "And when you put concerns like this to Pentagon officials, what is the response? I mean, there are Pentagon guidelines for the humane treatment of workers on U.S. bases.", "Yeah. And I think what's really important to acknowledge is that the Pentagon tried to take steps in 2006 to curb some of these abuses. The issue is that many of the reforms were quite toothless.", "There is a lot of headway that could be made. I just think the trouble is certainly within the U.S. government these workers don't really have a constituency or a voice. So the Pentagon, they say that they promise to look into any, you know, allegations of mistreatment and abuse. That's their policy. I think the question is just whether the resources and the will are there for enforcement.", "As a result of your reporting, some of the women from Fiji were able to come to Washington. Human rights investigators heard about their cases and they actually met with State Department officials. What is the end to their story?", "Sadly, it's not a very - it's not a very happy one. Essentially, you know, they shared their story. The government listened and promised to look into it. And I don't think they ever heard much more after that.", "And they went back to Fiji, where they found that the man who ran the company that recruited them on false terms is not only still recruiting, he's actually just started this new company that is basically promising workers in Fiji great jobs in Dubai, paying them up to $10,000 U.S. a month, which, you know, seems a little implausible. But workers are still lining up outside his door.", "The reporter is Sarah Stillman. 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{"id": "NPR-21817", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2016-06-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/06/05/480861401/ethiopian-runners-say-they-face-discrimination", "title": "Ethiopian Runners Say They Face Discrimination", "summary": "When Ethiopia barred its best distance runner from competing in the 2016 Olympics, many saw it as an act of ethnic discrimination. Another runner from the same ethnic group says he was exiled.", "utt": ["If you are a betting person - and we're not endorsing this - but if you are, it's a safe bet that the gold in middle-distance running in this summer's Olympics will go to Ethiopia or Kenya. That's because those two countries dominate the 5K and the 10K. So it was a shock to the running world when Ethiopia announced its main national team will not include the world record holder in both those races. That's three-time Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele. Bekele says he is being discriminated against because of his ethnicity. Bekele is Oromo. NPR's Gregory Warner tells us more about why other runners say ethnic discrimination casts a shadow over Ethiopian track.", "The 23-year-old refugee I meet in Nairobi talks quietly as if to conserve energy. He's thin and nervous. But there's one name that can put a burst of joy on his face. That name - Kenenisa Bekele.", "(Speaking Oromo).", "In fact, you smile when I even say his name.", "(Speaking Oromo).", "This is Mohamed Kemal (ph). He's also a runner. And he was 16 years old in 2008 when Bekele won gold medals in the 5K and the 10K races in Beijing.", "And the awesome strength - the awesome, awesome speed. He's untouchable once again. It's a new Olympic record.", "(Through interpreter) (unintelligible) Kenenisa is my role model. So always I'm thinking to be wise like Kenenisa.", "Kemal pulls out papers. They're the finishing times for an Ethiopian half marathon in 2014.", "So 1 hour 6 minutes 8 seconds - 86th.", "Kemal's time put him in the country's top 100 that year. But before the race, he says, the coach of his running club had pulled him aside and told him to throw the race for another runner.", "(Through interpreter) We have been told to make others too tired, but, at the finishing, to give the chance for the Tigrinya.", "Give the chance to the Tigrean, he says. Kemal is not of the Tigrean ethnicity. He's Oromo.", "(Through interpreter) I was discriminated because of I'm Oromo.", "Kemal refused to throw the race. He was tired, he says, of being passed over for international sponsors or forced to pay bribes for the chance to run just because of his ethnic background. But after he finished so well in the race, the furious coach told him he'd be barred from future competitions.", "(Through interpreter) After this, things become serious.", "In November of last year, Ethiopia erupted in massive civil protest by Oromo, the country's largest ethnic group. And their complaints were various - that their ancestral land was being taken, that their children were discriminated against in education and employment. They said that Oromo who didn't adhere to the ruling party ideology were targeted. Thousands of Oromo were arrested, including Kemal. And when he was released, he snuck over the border to Kenya. At 23 he had chosen impoverished freedom over a running career.", "So let me ask you - with everything that's happened to you, will you watch the Olympics? And if you watch it, will you be rooting for Ethiopia?", "(Speaking Oromo).", "Kemal's answer is complicated. A win for Ethiopia in Rio would reflect positively on a national athletics program that Kemal feels is rotten. And his role model, Kenenisa Bekele, won't be running. But the other Ethiopian runners are men and women that he knows and admires. How can he not cheer if they win?", "(Through interpreter) When my colleagues won that's - that race, I become excited.", "So you focus on the face and not on the flag?", "(Through interpreter) Yes.", "But of course the headline, if that happens, will be Ethiopia clinches another gold. Gregory Warner, NPR News, Nairobi."], "speaker": ["MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE", "MOHAMED KEMAL", "GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE", "MOHAMED KEMAL", "GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE", "UNIDENTIFIED ANNOUNCER", "MOHAMED KEMAL", "GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE", "GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE", "GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE", "MOHAMED KEMAL", "GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE", "MOHAMED KEMAL", "GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE", "MOHAMED KEMAL", "GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE", "GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE", "MOHAMED KEMAL", "GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE", "MOHAMED KEMAL", "GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE", "MOHAMED KEMAL", "GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-346953", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2018-08-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1808/06/ip.02.html", "summary": "Republicans Face Critical Test In Ohio Ahead Of Midterms", "utt": ["Millennials, you have it very close. I asked them the other day, why are you bringing Trump in? He said, well, I don't have anything to do with it. So, look, I think he's trying to thread this needle.", "If Republicans lose a district that is considered by most analysts plus seven, plus eight Republic -- you know, for Republicans, the last Republican won it by 30-plus points. If it's even close, what does that tell us about the mood from now through November and the likelihood of a Democratic takeover of the House?", "It's just another data point potentially in the democratic enthusiasm that has shown up in numerous other special elections. And from what we can see in fundraising from Democratic candidates, there's real enthusiasm out there. It's been consistent. It seems like even if you just look at the early voting in this particular district, there is some evidence that Democrats are casting votes early in ways they hadn't previously. So, I think it's going to be a really interesting data point in sort of the overall special election and trending towards November as well.", "And so, the President goes out in the final days, and he makes the case -- he doesn't acknowledge that some people don't like him. But when he does make the case is that never mind me. If you elect this Democrat, then the Democrats might take the House back and then you'll get Nancy Pelosi. And then, you get higher taxes.", "Pelosi, who by the way again controls Danny O'Connor, whoever the hell that is but you know. Danny O'Connor, that's a beauty. He's another beauty. This is what we're fighting. They will take away your taxes. They will destroy so many things that we've given.", "Danny O'Connor would be the Democratic candidate against Troy Balderson.", "Probably did some good for his name recognition there.", "Yes, yes.", "Yes. It's decent for Democrats if they come closer here, but it's a five-alarm fire for Republicans if they end up losing this district. The Republican incumbent here, Pat Tiberi, has won this district by an average of 35 points since it was redrawn after 2010. The bigger implications are what's fascinating here. This is a very college educated district, one of the most in Ohio. I think the most in Ohio. And if Republicans cannot hold on to this, what does it mean for someone like Peter Roskam in Illinois, someone like Dana Rohrabacher in Orange County who are also in these upper income, suburban college educated districts where a lot of voters especially women are turned off by Trump .", "And if you look just in the last days, there's been all the Republicans have gone out. Again, this tells you all you need to know. You could say, gee, these are just being good loyal Republicans, or you could say, wait a minute, why are they going to -- why do you have to send the President, the vice president, the house speaker, the Republican government of the state, the senior senator from the state, Rob Portman, and the President's son, Donald Trump Jr. Why do you need to send all this and more essentially? Why do you have to send the fire department into a district that should be a cakewalk?", "Well, every time we have these special elections, we always caution that it is true. You don't want to read too much into one special election. But Julie's point, we have now had enough of these special elections and enough of these primaries over this year that you do start to see a trend. And Republicans are worried. They know that Trump has 80%, let's say, approval rating with among GOP voters, but there is this soft 20%. And they tend to be college- educated younger voters. If that 20% starts to fall apart, it is a really difficult midterm landscape for the", "Right. Especially, if all the Dem -- if Democrats coming out of the woodwork too. Democrats --", "Exactly.", "-- come out. The Republicans either aren't voting or may be going to steps. Look at the especially the money, the resources here. Again, tells you all you need to know. This is a safe Republican district. Look at all the money the Republican parties and Republican groups are pouring into this district. You just look at that and say, I know they got a problem.", "Well, and I think, in addition to everything else that folks have said here. I think there's implications for Trump's mood. You know, when he loses these -- if he loses, right? Like if they lose here, despite him going in there. I was with him for the 78 minutes or whatever that he spoke in Ohio on Saturday night, you know, it has the potential to just really make him angry. And his anger tends to build and then, you sort of -- he gets less disciplined, and you can imagine the kinds of things that he tweets and the things he says, and statements and the like. So, I think, you know, it's sort of in addition to the politics on the ground, kind of getting into his head. It's not going to be a good place.", "Maybe he'll rethink the strategy that they've been talking about of getting him out there so much during midterms as we get closer and closer to the election. They were talking about plans to have him traveling all over the place and talking all the time.", "And this would be a place that you'd want to put him. But if that doesn't work then --", "But it's a bifurcated strategy. On one hand, they are trying to appeal to the Trump voter. That is the majority of the Republican voters trying to supercharge with that vote. But also appeal to what they call the Kasich Republican, the moderate Republican. He talked a little bit about that in the clip you played. So my question is, can you bifurcate that? Can you bring Trump in? Can you bring Pence in? Do this, you know, this very red meat crime open boarder, (inaudible) resisting message, while also not turning off those exact voters that you're also trying to appeal to because they hold the balance.", "The soft 20. But also -- but then energizing Democrats.", "Right.", "I mean, Trump comes in and you can energize Democrats as well. Who say, hey, like this is our chance to stop him. Look, not just -- what it would do for the agenda, but impeachment obviously is something that gone by the minds and the lips of a lot of Democrats right now.", "Yes. And I think a lot of House Republican incumbents are going to say, go play in the Senate races, with Mr. President.", "Yes.", "If this one goes down just like please stay away from me. Up next for us here, new, this just in, Rudy Giuliani just gave CNN an update on when the President Trump's legal team will get back to Robert Mueller. 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{"id": "CNN-68674", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2003-3-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/29/se.11.html", "summary": "U.S. Bombs Possible Militia Meeting", "utt": ["Explosions rocked Baghdad again today. Iraq's Information Ministry was among the targets of the latest round of bombing. Arab media are reporting another explosion in the marketplace had killed 52 people. Iraqi officials blame coalition air strikes, but U.S. officials cannot confirm exactly what hit the area. U.S. war planes bombed a building in Basra where U.S. Central Command says about 200 members of the Iraqi militia were meeting. Central Command says the F-15E fighter planes destroyed their target. Coalition strikes targeted a hospital it Rutbah in western Iraq. Intelligence indicated that the hospital had been taken over by Baath Party officials. Coalition sources say that Saddam Hussein loyalists have been hiding in hospitals and in schools. Saddam Hussein's control over Iraq is eroding, that is according to U.S. officials. General Richard Meyer, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said 35 to 40 percent of Iraq is no longer under the control of the Iraqi leader. The State Department issued a health warning to Americans planning to travel to Asia. China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Hanoi were on the list of danger zones for a mystery illness that has killed more than 50 people worldwide. The cause of the illness, which is called SARS, is still unknown. Anderson, you take it from here.", "All right, Daryn, thanks very much. It's always odd -- it's sort of jarring to hear non-war-related news at a time like this, but it was good for the update. Thanks very much, Daryn. We're going to go check in with our Brent Sadler, who is in northern Iraqi town of Kalak. There has been a lot of activity there, and Brent was at that Harir Air Base when the airborne troops actually dropped in. He was there to greet them. Let's check in and see what's happening now -- Brent.", "Thanks, Anderson. Good morning. You join me in a lull in what has been many, many hours of intense bombing along the northern front. I can just see, right now, if I peer into the sky, some very, very high altitude vapor trails of coalition aircraft, very, very high indeed. Could well be reconnaissance runs assessing bomb damage after really very heavy overnight air strikes by coalition aircraft in and around the city of Mosul. We have some night scope video of what was happening here last night. There were air raids about every hour or so, from soon after sunset. Huge explosions really shaking this area, even though the point of impact was many miles from our position. And this was really going on through the night. Attempts by the coalition to degrade Saddam Hussein's defenses around the oil city of Mosul. Now, if you come back to me live from my position here, I can tell you what's been happening, what we've seen this morning, and if we go past my shoulder here, a look to the front line, the ridge line there, beyond that ridge line is a high", "All right, Brent. Thanks very much, Brent Sadler. And I think Kevin Sites was reporting that not only were there incoming rounds, but they occurred Thursday -- yes, they occurred right at the time that the Iraqi Kurds were celebrating the retreat of those Iraqi forces. Perhaps some sort of warning to those celebrating, becoming too confident. Don't know. Brent Sadler, thanks very much, from northern Iraq. We're going to take a short break. We'll be right back with more.", "Throughout this conflict, you haven't heard a lot about Iraqi's Navy. It does have a small one, and British troops near Basra moved in to do battle with what was left of Iraq's Navy. Bill Neely is a British reporter who is embedded with the Royal Marines, and he has more on that effort.", "They gathered in the dead of night for the first naval commando mission of the war. They had invaded across the desert. Now marines and munitions were packed into 10 speed boats. Their target: Iraqis fleeing Basra and the remnants of Iraq's Navy. By sunrise, with four hovercraft leading them in, they reached Iraq's main naval base. Heavily armed, they boarded gunboats long abandoned by their crews. And with a single hammer, began dismantling the Iraqi Navy. These boats helped Saddam fight three wars. This will be their last. Pushing north, the marines check for sea mines and the Iraqis who might have laid them, but the bunkers are empty. Not so the hidden creeks of this polluted waterway. More gunboats, dealt with in the same way. Saddam never had much of a Navy. He's got even less of one tonight. (on camera): The marines are now clearing this waterway all the way to the Basra line. Inside the besieged city, which is smoldering on the horizon, Iraqi troops are trapped by land and now by sea. (voice-over): On the sand banks, more smoking gunboats and more explosions. The arms and ammunition that kept Saddam's grip tight here is disappearing fast. The Royal Marines are destroying his power by land and by sea. Bill Neely, with the Royal Marines, on the Shat at Basra in southern Iraq.", "And speaking of the British, we're standing by. Within the next 15 or 20 minutes, we expect for them to have a military briefing from right here in Kuwait City. Anderson, we will have that for our viewers so they can watch it live, whether in the states or with us here in Kuwait. For now, back to you.", "All right, great. That should be about 4:00 A.M. Eastern time, so we'll look forward to that, Daryn. Joining us on the phone, I'm told we have Alex Perry, \"TIME\" magazine's Alex Perry. He's somewhere in southern Iraq with the army's 3rd Infantry Division. Alex, what can you tell us? What's happening around you?", "Well, just about half-an-hour ago, the unit I'm with, Charlie Rock (ph) company of the 3rd Bridge of the 3rd", "Alex, you were saying these irregulars came from the town -- has the army been in that town at all?", "No. We're on a sort of blocking position outside of town, holding a bridge, and this position has been held for four or five days now. Interestingly enough, when we advanced toward the town, just on this reconnaissance mission, the soldiers -- we could see white flags being waved from the town, and from those exact same positions is where we came under fire from a few moments later.", "Alex, I'm interested to hear, just from your personal perspective, when you are in that situation, and you're with soldiers, and they see the white flag, what are the soldiers, the American soldiers you are with, what is their reaction? Do they -- I mean, it must be -- it's obviously a very difficult situation. How do they react to it?", "It's a very difficult situation. I mean, their orders are really not to engage unless engaged. Before the Iraqis opened fire on us, we could see trucks, you know, full of personnel, circling around, trying to flank us. But until they open fire, because they're dressed in civilian clothes, you can't really tell whether they're enemy or simply a farmer going around their business. But at the point they open fire, then they become enemy. The sort of instructions to the soldiers here is to treat every civilian as a possible enemy, you know, and to be wary.", "And yet there's that fine line, treat every civilian as a possible enemy, and yet don't -- I mean, on the one hand, it's treat them as an enemy, on the other hand it's don't treat them as an enemy, I suppose.", "Well, that's it. You know, they're fully aware that the Iraqis are dressing in civilian clothes so that the Americans make mistakes. This is the propaganda war that's being fought by the Iraqi side. If Americans make mistakes and kill genuine civilians, then obviously that's a huge blow to the American drive. So it is a very, very difficult situation, and, you know, a very frustrating one for the soldiers here.", "Yes, it's got to be. Alex Perry, \"Time\" magazine, appreciate you joining us. Thank you very much. Stay safe. We'll be right back.", "Operation Iraqi Freedom is just some 9 days old now, but among some people, plans for a post-war Iraq are already a priority. Saad Al-Saraf is an Iraqi native who's lived in London for 25 years. He's the founding member of the Iraqi Reconstruction Group. He's given a lot of thought to an Iraq without Saddam Hussein, and we are pleased he joins us this morning. Thanks for being with us, Mr. Saraf. Let me ask you -- just the other day, we heard from some of the opposition groups who have been meeting in northern Iraq, talking about forming a provisional government. Do you think that is a positive step in terms of the reconstruction, the eventual reconstruction of Iraq?", "I think it is a positive step. I think it ties in with the main aim and objective of the coalition, which is to encourage Iraqis to basically takeover, I would be in favor of this rather than a military administration. We are Iraqis who are brought up in Iraq and lived in the West as well, and together with Iraqis inside, we can help redevelop and reconstruct Iraq based on democratic principle, and have real civil society.", "And that is the question, I suppose. How much involvement will Iraqis who are still in the country, who are still in Baghdad and elsewhere throughout the country, and perhaps who are still, who are part of this regime. I mean, we've heard a lot from U.S. administration officials saying that, you know, there is an Iraqi civil bureaucracy that could perhaps be utilized in a post-Saddam Hussein regime. Is that going to be a difficult dance, figuring out who is compromised by the past regime and who has not been?", "It is not difficult. Obviously, we are not here to throw everything away and restart all over again. We have to work with the existing network. What we need to do is, we need to train and we need to develop people, and we need to raise the awareness of what a new civil society means and what democratic freedoms have to be there. So, obviously, there is going to be a lot of work with the existing network with civil servants and the second and third tier, and that's where the Iraqi Reconstruction Group is working. It's not working only on the ministerial level, but it's on the second and third tier, which are vital in getting things to run smoothly. What we have is, we put the best of both worlds. We are Iraqis who were born and brought up in Iraq for part of our life, and we spent a considerable amount in the West. So we are there to encourage and establish links between Iraqi government and industry with the West as well as encourage companies in the West to help in the reconstruction and rebuilding effort in Iraq.", "I wanted to get to the roll that you think the U.N. should play in all of this, but before we do, I just want to ask one more question about this bureaucracy, this civil bureaucracy, as you said, the second and third tier. To what degree is it infused, or fused together, with Baath Party? I mean, are -- and I simply do not know the answer to this, which is why I'm asking -- are Baath Party officials part and parcel of this civil bureaucracy?", "Well, that varies, because, I mean, there was a period of time when everybody was forced to join the Baath Party to gain entry into university. So there are people who have been forced to enter the Baath Party. And there are strong sort of followers of the Baath regime. So we have to distinguish. The majority of people have been forced to join the Baath Party, and they're OK, but there are a handful who sort of see their interests and future lies with Saddam Hussein, and they would go down with a drowning man, basically. So I think it's -- they are there, but because the fear and atrocities committed, you know, that sort of -- does not encourage them to come forward. But once there is change, you will see different Iraqis in those positions.", "Very, very briefly, what sort of a role do you see for the United Nations? Do you think the United Nations should run Iraq, basically, in the short term?", "The United Nations can be a bureaucracy and a co-angle (ph), but, I mean, what we can do, and I think what we ought to do, the Iraqis have got to have a leading role right now. We can act as -- can manage the process. And we can work with the United Nations and with the coalition and with our allies and friends. But not sort of superimposed, you know. You can't superimpose something on the will of the people.", "And as you say, it may not be necessary because of this civil bureaucracy which is in place and perhaps the infrastructure which will remain after this war. Saad Al-Saraf, appreciate you joining us very much. It was interesting to hear your perspective. Saad Al-Saraf -- Daryn. I'm sorry, I thought Daryn was available. We're actually going to go to break. We'll be back in a moment.", "Welcome back. In about six minutes or so we are anticipating a briefing from the Hilton Hotel in Kuwait City, Colonel Chris Vernon, the British military spokesman, is supposed to give that briefing. That's going to be around 4:00 A.M. Eastern time. Significant because there is a lot that we would like to know about what is going on in Basra right now, which is where the British have basically ringed the city. There was a report from CENT COM early on Saturday that U.S. aircraft attacked and destroyed a building. It was a two-story building, where it's believed some 200 of these Iraqi irregular fighters were inside meeting. Precision-guided missiles went inside the building on a delayed fuse. They actually entered the building and then exploded from the inside, so according to CENT COM very little damage to surrounding buildings, to a nearby Catholic Church. But apparently that building was destroyed. We are hoping to hear something about that from this briefing that should take place, as we said, in about 5 minutes from now. Before we get to that, though, we just want to move on to this story by Candy Crowley. Don't know if you saw it earlier in the day, but it is a very moving piece of work. In the heat of battle, time can literally stand still. We have heard that from so many marines and soldiers in this conflict. Or, some say, the time passes in a flash. Our Candy Crowley says for combat veterans, the aftermath of war often lasts a lifetime.", "They are, we are told, well-trained.", "This is a messy business. There's nothing very pretty about the training that you take to prepare you for combat, because it is to kill people.", "In the spring of 1970, a squad of U.S. soldiers spotted a small unit of Vietcong it had been circling for days. Staff Sgt. Tom Ridge opened fire. A Vietcong soldier dropped dead. (on camera): Did you at the time, or have you since, looked back and pondered on killing someone.", "Yes.", "And what's that like?", "It's one of those introspective times, where it's just -- it's just an introspective time, not a public time.", "Duke Cunningham was a Vietnam fighter ace, shooting down five enemy planes. After his first, he returned to a ship deck full of sailors and crew cheering, shaking his hand, pushing in to slap his back.", "And one of the guys looks at me and says, Duke, what's it like to kill somebody and all of the sudden, bang, it just hit me. You don't think about those things. It's removed, it's far off, it's not in close. And I went to the priest, because it bothered me. I knew I could do it again, but it -- I didn't know it was going to bother me as much as it did. And it still does.", "Of all the wounds time does not heal, the ones that fester deep in the soul are the ones you inflict.", "It's not something civilized people do. You don't -- it's just not -- it's not a matter of being tormented, but troubled in the sense that that's not what we do unless we're called upon to do it under the most extreme set of circumstances.", "War may sometimes be a necessary thing, but it can never be a natural thing. Training bridges that gap. Sgt. Chuck Hagel was seriously wounded twice in Vietnam.", "You were trained to kill people, because the alternative is, if you are in combat, you will be killed. So your choices are not varied. It's very simple. And so you do what you're trained to do. You do what you're there to do. And in Vietnam, it was body count.", "Training is what keeps you running toward the front while trucks loaded with dead bodies pass you going the other way.", "It's hard to explain what training can do. Training sets you mind to respond, not to common sense and judgment but to training. You really don't have time to think, I'm going the wrong way. I should be going the other way.", "Later, when he was wounded and trapped behind enemy lines in Korea, Staff Sgt. Charlie Rangel led 40 men fighting their way to safety. He won a Bronze Star.", "If you're killing people, it's out of fear, not really, in my opinion, out of bravery. Nobody's looking for medals. Everyone wants to live another day.", "Do not misunderstand. Rangel, Cunningham, Ridge and Hagel are all proud, decorated combat veterans. It's just that decades later, killing still troubles the soul. Maybe that's a good thing. (on camera): Did you do it again?", "I did. I shot down four more MiGs. And I often told myself, I said that if I ever get used to this, I shouldn't be here.", "Candy Crowley, CNN, Washington."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "KAGAN", "BILL NEELY, JOURNALIST (voice-over)", "KAGAN", "COOPER", "ALEX PERRY, \"TIME\"", "COOPER", "PERRY", "COOPER", "PERRY", "COOPER", "PERRY", "COOPER", "COOPER", "SAAD AL-SARAF, IRAQI RECONSTRUCTION GROUP", "COOPER", "AL-SARAF", "COOPER", "AL-SARAF", "COOPER", "AL-SARAF", "COOPER", "COOPER", "CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SEN. CHUCK HAGEL, VIETNAM WAR VETERAN", "CROWLEY", "SECY. 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{"id": "CNN-323671", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-10-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/15/cnr.22.html", "summary": "Movie Academy Ousts Harvey Weinstein; Wildfires Force More Evacuations in California", "utt": ["Hollywood elites have their say about Harvey Weinstein. He's been expelled from the powerful group that presents the Academy Awards.", "Plus, the rising death toll and more evacuations. Is there any relief in sight for the thousands dealing with the wildfires in northern California?", "And in the battle for Raqqa, U.S.-led coalition forces say they are eroding the ISIS stronghold in Syria.", "Thanks for joining us, everyone. Pleasure to have you with us. I'm Cyril Vanier.", "And I'm Natalie Allen. It's 5:00 a.m. here on the U.S. East Coast. And as we'd like to say, it's primetime somewhere in the world. From CNN Word Headquarters, NEWSROOM starts right now.", "Harvey Weinstein's fall from grace continues. The movie mogul has now been kicked out of the film industry's most elite group. That's the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, best known for hosting the Oscars. The Academy says the allegations against Weinstein caused him to lose the respect of his colleagues.", "Weinstein has already been fired from his namesake company amid dozens of allegations of sexual misconduct for decades. He was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood and now, increasingly a pariah. Our Brian Stelter takes a look at the Motion Picture Academy's decision and what it means to the industry as a whole.", "The Harvey Weinstein scandal has been profoundly embarrassing, not just for the Weinstein Company, but also for Hollywood writ large. So, on Saturday, we saw the representatives of the Hollywood elite make a bold statement, expelling Harvey Weinstein. Now, the Academy is made up of thousands of Hollywood workers, both stars, but also behind the scenes workers, producers, et cetera, et cetera. And the board of governors, a group of 54 representatives of all of those different parts of the industry, met on Saturday to make this decision. The board includes huge household names like Steven Spielberg, Whoopi Goldberg, but also a lot of behind the scenes people, representing makeup artists, casting directors, producers, executives, et cetera. The Academy's rules require a two-third vote of the board in order to expel Harvey Weinstein, something that's never done in association with a scandal like this before. And according to the Academy, there was well in excess of the two-thirds needed to make the decision. Here is a portion of what the Academy said in a statement. It explained the decision by saying that this was meant to send a message that the era of willful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior and workplace harassment in our industry is over. That was striking to me because it essentially acknowledges there are very embarrassing episodes in Hollywood's past. The sexually predatory behavior that's alleged by Harvey Weinstein has also been something known in the history of Hollywood, this is something that dates back to the dawn of the movie age. But you can feel that the culture is changing in the United States, that sexual harassment and assault, that these kinds of allegations are being taken more seriously and the women who come forward to make them are being respected, being supported, in a way that wasn't even true 10 years ago. So, the Academy trying to be on the right side of history at this point, and after this decision, hours later, we still haven't heard a word from Harvey Weinstein. Brian Stelter, CNN, New York.", "Let's get an insider's perspective on this. With us now is Sandro Monetti. He's a journalist and a committee chair of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He's based in Los Angeles. Is there any hypocrisy in today's decision, based just -- I ask the question based on the argument we've heard a lot over the last few days, that this was -- his behavior was an open secret in Hollywood, within the industry, and there must have been people not just within his company, but throughout the industry, that must have known about his behavior?", "Yes, of course. It was an open secret, but what other decision could they take? Imagine if they decided not to suspend Harvey Weinstein. I'm sure they would have been mass resignations from memberships, condemnation from women's rights groups, and they decided that the time was right. Yes, Hollywood has put up with this long enough. And the Academy, they sit in judgment of professional excellence. They never sat before in judgment of professional behavior. But someone has got to take a stand. And it might as well be them who does it, because the casting coach has been around since the days of silent movies. It's time to throw it in the garbage and hopefully, this decision is the first step towards that long overdue step.", "It's interesting. I want to seize on something you just said. You said they never sat in judgment of behavior outside of the actual field -- professional field of cinema. But they have been faced with scandals before, if you think of Mel Gibson, think perhaps most famously, most notoriously of Roman Polanski in the '70s, who fled the U.S. to avoid legal consequences of a sex case involving a 13-year-old. Is this a sign of changing times?", "Well, yes, Bill Cosby is also a member of the Academy. But until this decision, the only person ever publicly expelled by the Academy was actor Carmine Caridi in 2004 for the offense of piracy of his \"for your consideration\" screener DVDs. So, it's not only been about breaking --", "Not the same league.", "Not the same league. Before, it's about breaking the rules of the Academy. And it's actually very difficult when you look at the bylaws to get expelled from the Academy. You need over two-thirds of the board of governors to make that decision. There's 54 members of the board of governors. They met on the seventh floor of the Academy office in Beverly Hills. And my understanding is far more than two- thirds were in favor of kicking out Harvey Weinstein. And so, yes, finally, they have decided to take a moral stand rather than just a professional one and draw a line in the sand and I think all of this -- that knew this was an open secret are saying about time. Harvey wants a second chance. No, they told him, go away, and don't come back.", "Sandro, thank you for coming on the show.", "Thank you.", "Kim Masters is editor at large for \"The Hollywood Reporter\". She says even with the academy's groundbreaking decision to kick Weinstein out, it will take more work than that to change things in Hollywood.", "I think we're in a moment now where things will change to a degree for a while. I'm not sure we're looking at permanent change. The problem we have is that Hollywood power is still concentrated very much in the hands of white men. And the statistics barely budge. There are very few women who get great roles from the studios in front of the camera, few behind the camera, few in the executive suites. I think there is one studio now, FOX, that's headed by a woman and even she has a male boss. So, women are underrepresented. The power is completely out of balance. I -- we just saw the head of Amazon studios suspended late last week because a woman came forward and talked about some harassment, but if somebody is truly on their game, this has always been true in Hollywood, it's very hard to take them down. Harvey had been a bit off his game in recent years, his company had struggled a bit. He hadn't quite had the same golden touch. He was vulnerable and I don't think that's an accident that this happened now.", "Weinstein for his part has denied through his representative that any nonconsensual sex took place, but he is in rehab.", "Let's talk about the wildfires now raging through Northern California. California's governor is calling those blazes, one of the worst tragedies his state has ever faced. Thirty-nine people have died since the flames erupted last week near California's famed wine country. And on Saturday, several thousand more people had to leave their homes because of a new inferno.", "Well, firefighters continue to work around the clock and the weather might finally be shifting in their favor. CNN's Miguel Marquez has more about what they have been up against.", "After a very long hard week of trying to get ahold of this fire, this may be the last of it. The winds have really come down and three fires here in Sonoma have come together. And you can see fire crews from the air and the ground are working this thing very hard. They have been doing it for the last eight or 10 hours, just pouring bucket after bucket of water on these fires. This is up over Ledson Winery on Highway 12 in Sonoma, just right down in the middle of the valley. And this is the sort of stuff they have been doing all day, moving into the hot spots, like you have here, and then dumping those 300 gallon buckets of water on the fire, trying to keep it from spreading anymore. If the wind cooperates, which they think it may from now forward, they believe they can get a hold of these fires. And there goes that helicopter dumping that 300 gallons of water. If you look further south, you see can there's yet another fire down there, that's close to the town of Sonoma. This is what firefighters are dealing with, these very big plumes, these very big fires, dotted throughout this absolutely gorgeous area of California. But now, the weather seems to be cooperating. The winds have come down. It is still warm, but it's not hot, that humidity is also very, very low. But there is rain in the forecast. Miguel Marquez, CNN, Sonoma County, California.", "And first responders have been working nonstop for almost a week and they're just exhausted by now. When they need to rest, they can nap in tents right here at the Sonoma County fair grounds. The volunteers are also giving them free massages and chiropractic treatments.", "Yes, people have been pitching in to help neighbor and help firefighters and just a disaster.", "Well-deserved.", "Absolutely, Derek. And as you were saying, even though they're going to get rain, it's not going to be that soon.", "We have to be patient. We have to wait until Thursday to Friday to see any real rainfall across northern and central California. But we'll take what we can get, right? Hey, listen, there's still 16 million residents that are under a red flag warning. Remember, that's the National Weather Service's distinction for a high fire danger. But we're starting to shed those away as Sunday morning progresses here locally. Across northern and central portions, Sierra Nevada mountain range, the coastal range, just outside of San Francisco, that expires at 8:00 a.m. this morning. Let's go south, near Los Angeles. This is Ventura, Santa Monica, and the greater L.A. region. This coastal area does have a red flag warning that's going to persist through the course of the day on Sunday. That's because winds continue to remain offshore, and that down sloping component to the wind dries out the air and also allows for temperatures to skyrocket as well. That's why we have our critical fire danger for the day today. But notice across northern and central California, that has been removed. Thank goodness, right? What's at play here? Well, we got the high pressure that's in control of the weather. So, that's allowing for a calming of the winds across California, at least in the northern and central parts. But also the relative humidity started to nudge back up, ever so slightly. The chance of rain, however, not until Thursday and Friday as I mentioned before. But this is also what we like to see. Check that out -- no real wind concerns going forward, there simply aren't any weather systems in the vicinity. Let's switch gears, talk about the tropics because this is our other big story in the CNN Weather Center. Hurricane Ophelia. The latest 5:00 a.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center has notched this down, just a few kilometers per hour, weakening it somewhat to a category 2, but still a powerful storm system. It's finalizing this transition to extra tropical or post-tropical cyclone. But that's some of the minutia details that meteorologists use, some of the wording we use to say it is moving over colder waters, losing its characteristics of a tropical storm. And but it's still going to pack quite a punch as it reaches Ireland, as well as the United Kingdom. Let's time this out. We can't forget about the Iberian Peninsula. Over the next hours, the coast of Portugal, extreme northwestern sections of Spain, you will have tropical storm force winds as we head into the overnight period and early Monday morning. That's where we look towards the southern coastal areas of Ireland, southwestern Wales and into England for tropical storm force winds. But then that picks up. Conditions deteriorate and hurricane force sustained winds expected across the coastal areas of Ireland, look at Scotland, as well as basically all of the United Kingdom before the system exits by Tuesday morning. And this is such a fast-moving storm system that flooding isn't really a major concern, the rainfall will really be confined to the offshore areas, maybe 75 millimeters across coastal areas of Ireland, but that's about it. The threats here though, disruptions in travel, some structural damage, and power outages as well, as downed power lines certainly a possibility.", "Something to watch. All right. Derek, thank you.", "All right.", "Coming up here, ISIS may be close to losing its de facto capital. We'll have the latest on the fight for Raqqah in a live report ahead.", "Plus, U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico struggling three weeks after Hurricane Maria. 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{"id": "CNN-90180", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2004-12-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0412/01/ltm.04.html", "summary": "Scott Peterson's Lawyers Will Have a Chance Today to Argue for Life in Prison for Their Client; How Can a Trip to the Dentist Help Fight Off Bone Disease?", "utt": ["And it is exactly half past the hour on this AMERICAN MORNING. Scott Peterson's lawyers will have a chance today to argue for life in prison for their client. This comes after a very emotional day yesterday in which Laci Peterson's family had a chance to speak. We're going talk to this morning, to former prosecutor Dean Johnson. He was there, and he talked about the impact of his family's testimony.", "Also Sanjay back with us, and an amazing story of how doctors are spotting osteoporosis, in your mouth. We'll explain, coming up. And we'll check the headlines, of course. Heidi Collins with that. Good morning, Heidi.", "I can't get past the osteoporosis in the mouth.", "Something to do with your breath. No, I don't know.", "Broccoli breath. All right, we are going to get straight to the news this morning. President Bush is heading to Nova Scotia this hour, wrapping up a two- day visit to Canada. The president left Ottawa just a short time ago. He is expected to give a major foreign policy address in Halifax later today, and to thank Canadians also for their hospitality to stranded Americans following the September 11 attacks. New developments in Ukraine. The parliament there has voted to sack the newly elected government and to form an interim government. The opposition cheering the no-confidence vote. The measure must still be approved, though, by the outgoing president, who has voiced his support for new elections. U.S. Army Private Lynndie England returns to a military court today. England's preparing for her court-martial on charges stemming from the abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison. That is set for January. The preliminary proceedings are expected to last until the end of the week. Well, first, the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich. Now E.T. the Extraterrestrial apparently has been spotted in a grain of cereal. Can you see it? The out-of-this-world nugget was auctioned off on eBay this week. Not quite worth the $28,000 the sandwich racked up, but somebody did pay $800 for it.", "That's still pretty good.", "Who are these people?", "Watt a minute, wait a minute. Where is the E.T. in there? Have you figured it out?", "I have no idea.", "Oh, I see the little eye thing there. Yes, yes, that's it, kind of. OK.", "I definitely do not see it.", "I've got some belly button lint I'll try to get going on there.", "That is so appetizing.", "It looks like lint, yes. Anyway...", "Moving on, shall we?", "Sorry.", "Another member of the president's cabinet is resigning. America's first ever Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge says he is leaving his department in good shape to keep the country safe.", "If you take a look at many of the innovations, the improvements to security, the enhancements to safety at ports of entry, the partnerships that we've developed with the state and locals and the private sector, just all in all, I think it's a reflection of the commitment, and the dedication, and the energy and the professionalism, really the combined power of about 180,000 people strong.", "Former Virginia Governor James Gilmore has become an expert on domestic defense. He joins us from Washington. Nice to see you, sir. Thanks for being with us.", "Thank you, Soledad.", "In the statement released last night, here's what President Bush had to say about Tom Ridge. \"He said America is safer, our government is better able to protect our people because of his hard work.\" Yet, many say, borders are still porous, the alert system, frankly, is confusing, the nuclear power plants, for example, still not protected. Is the president right there?", "Well, I think there's a lot more to be done. First of all, let me say that I think Tom Ridge has provided terrific leadership and is the first secretary of homeland security. I think he'd be the first to say, that while we made great progress, there's still a lot more to do. And I think that involves sharpening up our national strategy, giving a real sense for the states and locals as to how they should be spending money, not to mention private enterprise that would like to do that. I think we've got to talk about a better communication with the intelligence community, because the secretary of homeland security has to understand exactly what the threat is and how you can best respond to it, so the intelligence communication is important. And then finally, I think we have to have a real straight dialogue with the American people about what the real risk is. There's always a danger that something could occur, but it's not going to bring down the republic, and we need to understand that we have always faced challenges in this country, and we will again.", "The duct tape thing was laughable. The alerts, at times, are extremely phone fusing. Were those initiatives mistakes?", "I would say they're not mistakes, but I think that we can always find ways to better improve communication with the American people. I think at that time of high tension, they were trying to find a way to simplify communication and to make some sort of statement to the American people, and we've done that. But now, I think there's also an opportunity to even have a more sophisticated discussion with the American people about what the real risks really are, and to understand that while the enemy might very well do something to us, we've always confronted difficulties inside the homeland, and we will again, and it isn't going to bring the world as we know it to an end, even though we have to work very hard to make sure that we prevent this kind of attack if we possibly can.", "Would you want to be homeland security secretary if the position was offered to you?", "I think the reason my name was thrown into the mix was because I chaired the national commission for the Congress for all those years, for five years. And I think our commission did really good work over that five-year period, three years before the 9/11 attack and two years afterward, but I would never comment on any decision or process that the president was going to make.", "All right, hypothetically, let's say you were the guy to do it, what would be your first priority be in focusing the attention on the homeland security office?", "As I said, I think that strategic thinking and continuing this strategic thinking that Tom Ridge has been doing about making sure that we have a national strategy that actually gives strong guidance to the states and locals, shows them how to spend money, what the priorities ought to be, make some decisions about spending and what is the correct way to do that and the correct way to prepare. But I also think that, you know, having a real communication and dialogue with the American people about the nature of the threat and what it really is, and how it fits into the context of the life of America is important. I think that will be going on within the future. I think it will be.", "You talked about money just a moment ago and getting the private sector involved. How exactly do you make it so that the private sector is interested in being involved, and footing the bill, frankly?", "You know, that is a real challenge, because private companies are responsible. I serve as director for several corporations. They're responsible to the bottom line for the shareholders. But I believe that people want to do the right thing in protecting critical infrastructure, but they're concerned because they don't know exactly what the best way is to protect. And I think the way to do that is to have a sophisticated approach in private-sector security where you look ahead and try to do some things to prevent those kinds of attacks. You can do that in the private sector, but also have a good partnership, particularly with localities, people who would have to do a response, to make sure that there's instantaneous communication back and forth. Communication, I think, is everything in homeland security.", "Governor Gilmore, nice to see you as always. Thanks -- Miles.", "Thank you.", "The president of the United States comings and goings. We're watching very closely this morning. He has left Ottawa, Air Force One on short final there for Halifax, Nova Scotia. On September 11th, the scene there was not unlike that. Many 747s and 767s and so landing there, diverted as a result of that unprecedented, historic aviation standstill in the wake of those 9/11 attacks, and that is what, in part, brings the president to Halifax, Nova Scotia today, to thank the people there, who literally let thousands of stranded airline passengers into their homes for several days until aviation resumed in the United States following the 9/11 attacks. The president will touch down, spend some time there, and then after that, will return to Washington after his historic trip to Canada, and we're tracking it every step of the way, of course -- Soledad.", "Today, attorney Mark Geragos begins his final appeal to the jury that's going to decide whether Scott Peterson lives or dies. There was emotional testimony yesterday from Laci Peterson's family on the first day of the trial's penalty phase. Former San Mateo County prosecutor Dean Johnson was in that courtroom. He joins us from Redwood City this morning. Nice to see you again, Dean. Thanks for being with us. Why the delay? Why did it take so long for everything to get going?", "Well, there was sort of a bizarre incident at the beginning of the courtroom proceedings yesterday. Gino the bartender, somebody who apparently tends bar at a local watering hole, had struck up a conversation with Mark Geragos. And...", "Well, obviously, it looks like we've lost Dean Johnson. Let's give him a moment to see if we can get that satellite back to us. Dean, if you can hear me, you -- just started talking about. Where we lost you is where you talked about the bartender striking up a conversation with Mark Geragos, then dumped out -- what were you saying?", "Apparently, this bartender claims that one of the jurors had come into the bar and was wagering on the outcome of the Scott Peterson case. The presiding judge in a San Mateo County court examined this witness, apparently, in chambers. It's concluded that there was nothing material that the bartender had to say, and the penalty phase of this trial then proceeded.", "And it proceeded with some heart-wrenching testimony by Laci's family. Sharon Rocha took the stand. We had predicted, obviously, it was going to be emotional. I want to read a little bit of what she had to say about her daughter, Laci. \"I miss her. I want to know my grandson. I want Laci to be a mother. I want to hear her called mom. She also said, on the first Mother's Day after she was killed, I laid on the floor and cried most of the day, because she should be there, and should have been a mother also. That was taken away from her.\" Any surprise that they focused on Laci and not on calling Scott Peterson names and things like that in their testimony?", "No, none whatsoever. This was about the impact that this murder had on the Rocha family. I think everybody appreciates now that Laci Peterson is not just a lady with a beautiful smile, but behind that beautiful smile was the heart and soul of this family, which was torn out by this horrendous crime. Sharon Rocha was very articulate in talking about how Christmas, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Easter will never be the same because of what this man did.", "What was the jury's reaction?", "The jurors wept openly. Every one of the female jurors, as far as I could tell, had a wet tissue in their hands that they were using to try to wipe back the tears. Some of the men tried to hold it back. But eventually, they had tears in their eyes, too. I remember one of the male jurors repeatedly taking off his glasses, wiping away the tears. In the quiet moments, you could hear people in the courtroom and in the jury box sobbing openly. Today, Mark Geragos will try to defend his client's life. Nice to see you, Dean, always. Thanks. We'll continue to check in with you -- Miles.", "Thank you, Soledad.", "\"Jeopardy\" uber-champ Ken Jennings is no blockhead, that's for sure, but he did finally have a mental block, shall we say, last night. But who is Nancy Zerg? That's the answer. The question, contestant to unseat the all-time game show champion. Here is how the longest and richest and winningest winning streak in game show history ended.", "The category is business and industry, and here is the clue, ladies and gentlemen: \"Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year.\" 30 seconds, good luck.", "All right, you can hum along with me if you like. While we wait, here's the numbers. Jennings had 74 consecutive wins, totaling more than $2.5 million. That's an average detail haul of $34,000, not bad at all. And during his run, Jennings came up with the correct question more than 2,700 times. Not this time. Back to you, Alex.", "I hope so, too.", "\"What is H&R; Block,\" right. Your wager 4,401, taking you up to $14,401. You have a 1 dollar lead over Ken Jennings right now. And his final response was? FedEx. His wager was 5,601.", "A gasp in the crowd. Jennings will be our guest tomorrow here on AMERICAN MORNING, and Soledad is set to grill him over what she says was an easy, easy question.", "I just want to say, Ken, I could have gotten that question.", "Easy for you to say, girl.", "He got 2,700 consecutive answers right, 2,700, and he messes up on the FedEx, H&R; Block question? Come on?", "Maybe it was time for him to start working on his book or something.", "You know what, maybe it was.", "It's a reverse game show scandal.", "He had enough -- 2.5 mil was enough.", "Yes, I'd quit.", "How can a trip to the dentist help you as you're trying to fight off bone disease? These are some of the many questions we have on our mind this morning, so we turn to Dr. Sanjay Gupta when we're stumped, and he always has good answers for us. Hello, Sanjay.", "Hey, thank you, Miles, for turning to me with these questions, this one about osteoporosis as it turns out. Listen, interesting study actually coming out. You know, you go to the dentist office, you always get these dental X-rays. They're looking for something very specific. They're looking for problems with your teeth, for the most part. Now, sometimes there's more information in those X-rays that might give doctors, or scientists in this case, a clue as to whether a woman is likely to develop osteoporosis, and that was exactly the point of a study now done; 316 women were looked at, post-menopausal women, looked at these panoramic X-rays, and what they found was the dental X-rays were comparably effective to other screening methods for those women at high risk for osteoporosis, and this is women who are post-menopausal. This is an important issue, because the way to really diagnose osteoporosis is with a bone scan, but here's the problem, not all women are eligible for a bone scan. You can get it by Medicaid if you're over the age of 65, but if you're younger than that, and a lot who have osteoporosis are younger than that, can't get it unless the doctor specifically recommends it. Osteoporosis can have its peak sometimes, 51, 52 years of age, so it's really important to get this diagnosed early. Again, these dental X-rays, with the help of dentists, may be an early clue as to which women are going to develop it later in life -- Miles.", "All right, so what are the doctors on the lookout for? What is the screening process?", "Well, you know, right now, the current screening process, besides the bone-scanner test which actually diagnoses osteoporosis, is just a simple questionnaire. These are the questions: have you had a what's called a fragility fracture, sort of a fracture that you didn't expect, family history of osteoporosis, significant height loss that's been over the past several years, or if you're taking steroid medications. Those are some of the things that they'll ask you to try to reason out whether or not you're at risk for osteoporosis -- Miles.", "And of course calcium is part of the equation here, right?", "Calcium is part of the equation. And you and I talked a lot about hormones, women taking hormones to try to ward off osteoporosis. Obviously, that's not recommended anymore. So, besides calcium, Vitamin D as well, quit smoking, weight-bearing exercises really important. The more you weight-bear, the more likely your bone is to hold together, and also resistance training. That's always good advice. But again, these dental X-rays may be an early clue as to who's going to develop osteoporosis later in life.", "Sanjay Gupta, a man of many answers. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.", "Thanks, Miles. Take care.", "Still to come this morning, the sugar industry not sweet on one of the president's new cabinet picks. Andy Serwer's got that ahead on AMERICAN MORNING. Stay with us. ["], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "M. O'BRIEN", "COLLINS", "S. O'BRIEN", "COLLINS", "M. O'BRIEN", "COLLINS", "M. O'BRIEN", "COLLINS", "M. O'BRIEN", "COLLINS", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "TOM RIDGE, SECY. OF HOMELAND SECURITY", "S. 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{"id": "CNN-215014", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2013-9-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/20/sitroom.01.html", "summary": "Dangerous Escape from Navy Yard", "utt": ["It was one of the first images captured in the chaos after Monday's horrific Navy Yard massacre right here in Washington -- a woman on the ground desperately trying to save her colleague's life. But no one was entirely sure if it was directly related to the shooting, until now. Our own Brian Todd has had a chance to speak with this woman and she's got some really unimaginable details to share. What did you learn -- Brian?", "All right, Wolf, this woman,, says when she first heard the shots, she thought someone had dropped a table. Before she knew it, she was taking cover and her good friend was gravely injured.", "Vividly recalls her friend's face, remembers how moments after he got hit in the temple by a gunshot inside their office at the Navy Yard, she thought she could save him.", "I felt him breathe.", "Lavern says she was just a few feet away from her friend and co-worker, Vishnu Pandit, when gunshots slammed all around their office. She never saw the shooter. (on camera): You almost got hit yourself, right?", "Yes. The bullet missed me because we were already -- I was already moving. And so the bullet missed me and it shattered the glass right next to where my head was.", "Pandit was down. But Lavern says when she checked his pulse, it was strong. She and her co-workers ignored their own safety. And what happened next, while the shooter was still on his rampage, is right out of a movie.", "The security guard showed up. And, they helped me get him to a chair to wheel him to the stairs. We put him in the emergency evacuation chair and I was talking to him and praying the whole entire time.", "What were you saying to him?", "I prayed that God would protect him and that we need him here, and that his friends loved him.", "Lavern, a former navy medical specialist, says at that point, Pandit's pulse was still strong, but there was another problem trying to get her friend, who had the nickname Keesan, out of the building. Did you know where the shooter was at this time?", "No. And I really didn't care. We had to get Keesan out. That was the important thing.", "As they were descending the stairs, they heard over a guard's radio that the shooter was right in the direction they were heading. (on-camera) Bertillia Lavern says they managed to sneak out a side door, got Pandit to a law enforcement vehicle which then sped outside the base to this corner. (voice-over) That's where these images were captured. Bertillia Lavern, the woman in pink, administering CPR, desperately trying to save her friend.", "And then the ambulance showed up. They strapped him in. All of this happened within a few minutes of time, but it felt like a lifetime.", "Vishnu Pandit (ph) died on the way to the hospital. A doctor later said his injuries were not survivable. Lavern now describes her feelings for the man she used to joke with every morning.", "That I miss him and that I won't be able to say good morning to him, that I will not be able to say good morning to him. But, I know that he's in my heart and I know that his family loves him so much.", "Bertillia Lavern says Vishnu Pandit (ph) had recently welcomed a grandchild who she described as the light of his life. He was buried yesterday.", "And I know she also describes the heroism of others during those truly terrifying moments.", "She does. She says that her supervisor, a man named Andy Kelley (ph), was fearless risks his life to go get help. She also says the security guards who helped her carry Vishnu Pandit out of the building actually formed a human cordon around her as they were making their way down the stairs. By the way, at certain points toward the shooter, so that in any event the shooter came toward them, they would protect her. I mean, incredible acts of heroism there.", "Incredible, indeed. A wonderful woman. I'm glad you did that report. Brian, thanks very much. Still ahead, mixed reports on whether Bashar al-Assad is following through on the deal to give up his chemical weapons. Could the best chance for peace still mean war? We're going to talk about that. And a disturbing video of a pedestrian hit by an SUV. Wait until you hear and see who is behind the wheel."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TODD (voice-over)", "BERTILLA LAVERN, TRIED TO SAVE FRIEND FROM SHOOTING:  LAVERN", "TODD", "LAVERN", "TODD (voice-over)", "LAVERN", "TODD", "LAVERN", "TODD", "LAVERN", "TODD", "LAVERN", "TODD", "LAVERN", "TODD (on-camera)", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "TODD", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-178317", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-12-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/27/ltm.02.html", "summary": "Prince Philip Leaves Hospital; A Saint In Sin City; Alexander Graham Bell's Audio Recordings Recovered, Restored", "utt": ["It's 39 minutes after the hour. We have a developing story we want to tell you about involving substandard breast implants sold to nearly 1,000 women in the Netherlands. Officials say these dangerous implants were made by a now defunct French company and sold in the Netherlands under a different name. That's what fooled some people. Now health officials fearing it could actually affect 300,000 women worldwide. The implants are apparently filled with an industrial grade silicone instead of a surgical silicone and that means those implants are more likely to rupture or leak.", "Britain's Prince Philip is out of hospital this morning. He'll be joining his wife, Queen Elizabeth, and the rest of the royal family at Sandraham, which is where they usually spend Christmas. The duke underwent a heart operation. They put a stent in to treat a blocked artery on Friday. Let's go right to Erin McLaughlin who's live in London with the latest. Good morning, Erin.", "Good morning, Ali. We understand that Prince Philip waved to onlookers as he left the hospital this morning. He thanked hospital staff before he departed for the care he received. As you mentioned, on Friday night, he was admitted to the hospital complaining of chest pains. He underwent tests later showed a blocked artery for which he underwent a minimally invasive coronary stent procedure. The Buckingham Palace officials say was successful. Now as a precaution, he was kept under observation at the hospital for the Christmas period. He wasn't without visitors though, Ali. The queen visited him on Saturday. She flew in by helicopter. She was joined by their children, including Prince Andrew and Prince Charles. That visit was followed up by a Christmas Day visit from his grandchildren, Prince William and Prince Harry. They drove to the hospital. They drove some of the other grandchildren as well. We understand the duke was very eager to get back to Sandraham and is very happy to be home -- Ali.", "He's down right cheerful. So hope they get to pick up where they left off. I know they went ahead without him and had to start celebrating. I guess they're going to repeat Christmas for him. That's what you get when you're the duke. All right, Erin, good to see you. All right, a man finds a couple of envelopes at the Las Vegas Airport. Now what would you think would be inside envelopes at the Las Vegas Airport?", "Well, I'm guessing in this case, it was a lot of cash.", "It's $10,000. Jackpot. It turns out that Mitch Gilbert is a real saint in sin city. Gilbert tracked down the money's owner, who was all the way in Texas. He won the money gambling, but dropped it on the way back home. He reported it missing, but never actually believed someone would return it. Gilbert says giving it back was the right thing to do.", "I wanted to show my kids the right thing to do. If it happened to me, I sure would want that back. You think about all the bills you could pay. It felt go to be able to give it back to the guy.", "Good for him. Now, did the guy -- I guess, I wonder how that process went --", "Well, exactly --", "Someone found an envelope --", "Name on the envelope? Anyway --", "It's always fascinating. People carry that kind of cash around. I know it's exciting when you win, have that wad of cash. Good on that guy for giving it back.", "No kidding, $10,000. He's right. He'll be able to pay a lot of bills with that money. Meanwhile, Alexander Graham Bell on the cutting edge of technology way back in the 1800s. Well, now, his audio recording experiments have been recovered and restored nearly 130 years later. The Smithsonian Institution has the early recordings packed away in their archives and now they're being revealed. Our Brian Todd reports.", "The audio clips among the earliest ever recorded have been virtually unplayable for over a century. In the past year, scientists have found a way to listen to them. After Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, there was a rush of competition among scientists to make sound recording commercially viable.", "Edison and the Bells had settled on the cylinder as the format.", "Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was part of the competition. He sent several sealed tin boxes to the Smithsonian Institution with early prototypes of recordings to protect himself in case of a future patent challenge. The recordings have been stored in the Smithsonian since the 1880s, but with no device to play them, they sat on the shelf. Enter Carl Haber of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.", "We can use this camera to take a large number of pictures of the item and create a very, very detailed digital representation of the structure of the surface. I'm going to rotate the record now and you'll see this starting to move up and down, as if a needle was riding up and down in it.", "Around 18,000 optical images are taken for each rotation of the disc then the computer does its work to play back sounds from the images.", "This kind of bowl is the groove that the stylist would sit in.", "There's a reading from Shakespeare \"Hamlet.\"", "To be or not to be.", "And \"Mary Had A Little Lamb.\"", "Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white at snow.", "At that point, the first part of the record ends. Something apparently went wrong. It's probably the first recorded example of somebody being disappointed.", "The digital imaging system is ideal for archivists trying to protect the historically valuable disc because there is no physical contact needed to hear the audio recordings. (on camera): The Smithsonian has about 200 early audio recorders from Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory. So far, they have used optical imaging technology to decipher six of those recordings. You can listen to them by logging on to Americanhistory.si.edu. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "Good morning. Headlines are next. Plus, could 2012 be the year we find life out there on one of earth's twins? Ali's going to speak with a top physicist, and one of the greatest minds of our time. Wow. How about that?", "Yes.", "To hear his predictions for the New Year. 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{"id": "CNN-181185", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2012-2-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1202/16/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Fight Over Child Killer's Burial Site; Underwear Bomber Being Sentenced", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. I'm Brooke Baldwin, at the top of the hour here. Let's get you caught up on everything making news. As always, we begin with \"Rapid Fire.\" Let's go. Video and pictures of Whitney Houston's final days coming under scrutiny as investigators piece together what caused the singer's death. We are learning much more today about her final hours. They included boozing, mismatched clothing, and erratic behavior. This is all according to a source briefed on Houston's activities. And another source tells us that Houston's co-star in \"The Bodyguard,\" actor Kevin Costner, will be speaking at her funeral this coming Saturday. The crisis in Syria now hitting the northern part of the country. Opposition groups are rising up against the government. In fact, much of the north has been out of government control for months. CNN's Ivan Watson and his crew are now in the region. Take a look.", "The countryside here in northern Syria is in open revolt. And this is a rebellion of farmers, of carpenters, of high school teachers, entire communities, villages and towns and stretches of northern Syria that tell us they have not seen presence of central Syrian government authority in months.", "Ivan Watson there in country. Today alone, at least 65 people were killed in Syria. That is according to an activist group. And a fight -- you heard about this? -- really developing here in Washington State over where one man who murdered his two young sons should be buried. I'm talking about Josh Powell. His family wants to bury him beside the sons who were killed when he blew up their home with them inside two Sundays ago. But a Crime Stoppers group has now bought the burial plots on either side of the sons to stop the Powell family from doing so. The boys were buried Saturday in the town of Puyallup.", "I can't see this happening. And I just hope that, you know, it goes away quickly.", "And it's unacceptable to have him anywhere near these boys and their mother.", "I feel it's in the best interests of the city and both parties to let -- if they file that, let the judge decide, and we will abide by that decision.", "Talking to a member of that Crime Stoppers unit in this show. Stay tuned for that. Also, we should tell you Josh Powell was also a suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Susan. That dates back to 2009. And new numbers show President Obama's job approval rating on the rise. Take a look. You can compare month to month here. A new CNN poll has the president at 50 percent for the first time in eight months. That is up three points from last month, six points from November. The poll also shows the president beating the Republican leaders, topping Mitt Romney 51 percent to 46, and leading Rick Santorum 52 percent to 45 percent. Here's some good news. A California couple missing since Sunday found alive back home today. Mark Schroeder and his girlfriend Janette DeGrace were just out taking an afternoon drive just west of Lake Tahoe when their car got stuck in the snow. And according to reports, Schroeder eventually hiked nearly six miles through two feet of snow until he could finally get a cell phone signal and could call 911. Obviously, the couple's family and friends relieved.", "Relieved.", "Relieved. Much relief.", "John and Jean (ph) Schroeder can finally breathe again after a tense three days of not knowing where their son Mark and his girlfriend Janette DeGrace have been.", "He said, \"Hi dad. I did a stupid thing.\"", "John says his son --", "The pair was treated and released from the hospital just this morning. And America's leading fake news pundit abruptly suspends his show, and it's not clear why. Comedy Central confirms \"The Colbert Report\" shut down production due to imploding unforeseen circumstances. A rerun aired last night, another one now scheduled for tonight. \"The Wall Street Journal\" is reporting an emergency in Colbert's family, citing people familiar with the show. And sentencing under way right now for the so-called \"Underwear Bomber\" in Detroit. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane back on Christmas Day of '09. Remember, with a bomb hidden in his underwear? The now 25-year-old Nigerian is facing a life sentence. And CNN's Deborah Feyerick is in the courtroom. We're going to bring you the sentence, obviously, that news, as soon as it's announced live here on CNN. And got a lot more to cover for you in the next two hours including this --", "A serial killer draws a map that leads to hundreds of bones, jewelry, even a purse. And I'll speak live with a father who believes some of those remains belong to his missing daughter. I'm Brooke Baldwin. The news is now. (voice-over): New revelations about Whitney Houston's final days, including her erratic behavior by the pool, plus what she was like behind the scenes of her last movie.", "If we seek the light, we often have to be prepared for --", "Have you ever heard of the lunchbox police? A firestorm is brewing after a school confiscates a preschooler's homemade lunch. Plus, beneath those flames. More than 300 inmates tried to escape before dying, and some of them may have been locked up without a single charge. And Adele is everywhere -- top of the charts, the radio, even the cover of \"Vogue.\" But many accuse the magazine of airbrushing her figure and changing her curves. 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{"id": "CNN-233475", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-06-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/27/nday.04.html", "summary": "Big Shakeup On \"The View\"", "utt": ["That's one way to put it, another one bites the dust. Huge shakeup on the ABC daytime talk show \"The View.\" A string of host departures could leave Whoopi Goldberg the only current cast member on the couch in July. Sherri Shepherd and Jennie McCarthy announced their departure of the show. Earlier this year, Barbara Walters retired. She is going to stay on as executive producer for the show. Meanwhile, moving on, Sherri Shepherd joined the cast permanently in 2007. She tweeted this out \"The number seven is God's number of completion and after seven seasons my time at The View is now complete. So grateful to everyone for their love and support.\" Not to be outdone, apparently, Jennie McCarthy whose year-long stint at the show hasn't been without controversy followed out saying \"If Sherri goes, I go, #sisters.\" She followed up \"My View will be changing, too. Thanks to your dedication and an amazing year.\" So Kate, Chris, big shakeup on daytime TV with a big change at the desk. The ladies changing a little bit.", "Huge surprise. Thanks.", "The McCarthy one is, throws you a curveball. The question is why? I'm sure there will be another chapter. Good folks over there at \"The View.\" I can attest to that.", "Yes, you can. Coming up next on NEW DAY, the bizarre story of the missing boy found alive and well in his family's basement. We're going to talk with Nancy Grace who broke the story to the boy's father on her show.", "Plus he's being called the Berlin Wall. Team USA goalkeeper, Tim Howard, feel like we talked to him already, but stay with us and we'll tell you about the conversation."], "speaker": ["PEREIRA", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO", "BOLDUAN", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-327848", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-12-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1712/07/cnr.02.html", "summary": "World Leaders Condemn Jerusalem Decision; West Bank Protests", "utt": ["You're looking at images out of Ramallah in the West Bank. Today, 49 people have been injured so far, just one day after President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital.", "Let's get right to the ground right now. CNN's Ian Lee live from Ramallah. Ian, give us a sense of what's happening.", "Well, right now, John, you can see behind me that you have these fires. These are tire fires that people have set in the middle of the road. You know, these are made to stop the Israeli army from advancing. They push them and then they set these fires, hoping that the army doesn't move forward. You can actually see the Israeli army -- you can probably see their lights in the distance. That's where they're positioned right now. And we've had these pitched battles for quite a few hours now. You know, you can see just the debris that's been strewn out on the ground, different rocks. They're breaking these rocks, creating them to put them in the sling shots, to toss them. You know, Israeli forces have responded with tear-gas, with rubber bullets. And this kind of ongoing back and forth between the two has been happening for hours. And we've seen a number of people injured. You can see the ambulances, you can probably hear them, fairing people away, people with injuries we've seen to the face, to the arms. You know, this has been a cross section of Palestinian society. You know, it's not just young men out here. We've seen old, young. We've seen men, women, out here voicing their frustrations, their anger at President Trump moving the -- or declaring he's going to move the embassy, also declaring that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. You know, and this is a typical flash point area, but we've just seen an intensity that hasn't happened really in years with the number of people coming out here. And, John, this is a Thursday. In the Middle East, in the Arab world, typically Fridays are days of protest, of rage when they have a cause. So if this is happening on a Thursday, we're expecting more of this kind of protest, clashes to happen tomorrow.", "Ian Lee joining us from Ramallah in the West Bank. Thank you for the reporting as this is unfolding live, as everybody can see on your screen. Joining us now is Republican Congressman Francis Rooney of Florida. He sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Congressman, thank you very much for being here. Given the president's move, officially recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, planning to move the U.S. embassy there, something no other country has right now, is the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians better off today than it was yesterday before the president's announcement?", "Well, you're asking me?", "I am.", "Yes. I'm not sure. I think that ultimately this responding to what makes radical Islamists mad is an appeasement that's not going to work. Maybe the silver lining here will show the world one more time how important it is that we get these people to come to terms with the modern world. They can't throw a temper tantrum just because Israel's doing something on its sovereign territory, just like Pakistan can't throw a temper tantrum over the blasphemy law.", "You're saying it's a silver lining that violence has begun to erupt? Is that what you're saying?", "Well, I think that it's very sad. You hate to see people hurt. But I think it's unreasonable to cower and make a decision based upon what other people are going to do like that. I think you can have a substantive discussion about cost, proximity to airport, whether it's worth having the embassy move or not, but just to say, oh, we don't want to do it because the radical Islamists are going to riot is not something I'm for.", "Well, OK, to be fair here, they're not protesting -- they're protesting because the belief among many Palestinians is that this is not a way to lead to a true two-state solution. You have President Mahmoud Abbas, his chief negotiator, both saying that what the president did by making this declaration and this move disqualifies the United States from mediating the peace process, from reaching what the president calls the ultimate deal. This is about a lot more than proximity to the airport or costs.", "Well, I think -- yes, I think that's distractive nonsense. President Trump did reaffirm his interest in a two-state solution and I think it's incumbent on the Palestinians to be ready to come to the table.", "Well, to be fair, what the president said is he said he supports a two-state solution if the Palestinians and Israelis both do, which is actually a subtle shift from past administrations where he said the position of the United States is to support a two-state solution there. And, again, and we want to move on to other subjects here, but do you think this helps get to the ultimate goal here, which is peace in the region?", "Well, let me give you an analogy. When I was serving in Rome, was the first of the \"Charlie Hebdo\" cartoons and we had a whole lot of riots all over Europe because of the cartoon of the rockets coming out of Mohammad's head and everybody coward and said, oh, my, they're throwing a temper tantrum. We have to talk about appeasement. And lo and behold, we've had three more instances of that which culminated with killing a lot of people in Paris. So I would say, let the world take note of these people that refuse to live in the modern world, if you will.", "It sounds like you're saying all Palestinians right now that are reacting in this way, not all of them violently but protesting --", "Right.", "There's this three days of rage. It sounds like you're saying they are all radical extremists? Is that what you're saying?", "No. I'm saying the people that are reacting violently, committing crimes, hurting people over this are exhibiting an extreme behavior.", "OK.", "Congressman, I want to ask you about Russia right now. Look, you've called Russia one of America's greatest geo political threats. There is reporting that a whistleblower came forward and said that during the inauguration Michael Flynn was texting people saying, you know what, we are going to drop -- the U.S. is going to drop the sanctions against Russia immediately. I wonder if I can get your response to that?", "Well, look, the news about General Flynn continues to get worse. I mean we hear it -- we haven't heard anything good about him, and he's a problem. And I think that the reporting on all the different activities that he did or did not do, signing up under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, et cetera, has added a lot of light to this. The difference is that the investigation into whether Russia manipulated the election is a totally separate matter.", "Don Jr., as you know, the president's son, testified yesterday in front of your colleagues who sit on the House Intelligence Committee and he apparently refused to answer their questions about the conversation he had with his father, the president, after that news report surfaced about the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with the Russian lawyer. Now, you do have the Republican leader of that -- the Russia investigation, Mike Conaway, saying he answered all our questions. But Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat, feels very differently. The president's son is asserting attorney-client privilege because there was a lawyer in the room as to why he wouldn't answer those questions. Are you comfortable with that?", "I really don't know all the details of what happened there. I would rather have time to find out why he did that and what would be the circumstances of why he took the fifth.", "But those are the details. He said, I can't answer your questions about the conversation with my father because there was a lawyer in the room. Is that correct use do, you believe, of attorney-client privilege?", "Well, it might be technically correct. I assume that they've done their legal work. But I think the most important thing here is that we conduct a -- Mueller continues to show the integrity that he's generally shown in the past, he has a great reputation, and keep the investigation focused on what it was hired to do. What I fear is a lot of his subordinates that have been in the papers lately and on the media in the FBI are kind of taking sides.", "Well, in that we can talk about another time. Just to be clear, what he was charged to do was to look into the Russia matter and any other things that may arise in the investigation. It's right there in the actual letters from Rod Rosenstein, you know, to -- appointing Bob Mueller. So he -- most people believe is well within the bounds of his initial charge. But, again, thank you for being with us. We are waiting for hearings with Christopher Wray, the current FBI director, on Capitol Hill. It may be another cause to discuss this going forward. Congressman Francis Rooney, thanks so much.", "Thank you.", "Thanks for having me on.", "All right, this morning, big news coming out of the Senate. We are waiting to hear from Senator Al Franken. He will speak in just a short while and announce his plans for his future. Will he step down after so many Democrats have come forward calling for him to resign after more allegations of sexual misconduct?"], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "BERMAN", "IAN LEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-1908", "program": "WorldView", "date": "2000-2-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/02/wv.07.html", "summary": "Clinton Promises to Veto Bill That Threatens China Relationship", "utt": ["Here in the U.S. also, the White House is assuring China that President Clinton will veto a new bill making its way through Congress which would enhance U.S. military ties to Taiwan. CNN's Kelly Wallace has more.", "President Clinton's national security adviser said any bill to expand military relations between the United States and Taiwan is a mistake.", "It would upset the very delicate and successful balance that has existed for 25 years across the Taiwan Straits.", "Supporters of the bill, which overwhelmingly passed the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday, say it's needed to counter a reported military build-up by the Chinese near Taiwan.", "We don't expect them to make the type of threats they've been making, and we expect to be able to exercise our rights as well.", "China conducted missile exercises in 1996 prior to presidential elections in Taiwan. The CIA director said it could happen again.", "We see a high potential for yet another military flare-up across the Taiwan Strait this year. The catalyst for these tensions is the Taiwan election on the 18th of March.", "Even so, the White House says it has enough authority under current laws to provide defenses to Taiwan so that another bill is not needed. Beijing, which considers Taiwan a province, called in the U.S. ambassador to complain. The House vote comes at a time when the U.S. is trying to improve badly strained relations with China after NATO's accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. It also comes as the Clinton administration tries to get Congress to approve permanent trade relations with China, leading to that country's entry into the World Trade Organization.", "People who have concerns about China in the Congress have expressed their concerns through their vote on this bill. Now it's time for them to move on and get WTO for China.", "The White House says the House vote on Taiwan won't affect its push for permanent trade relations with China. And senior administration officials say it's possible the Taiwan bill won't even make it out of the Senate and therefore to the president's desk. Kelly Wallace, CNN, the White House."], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SAMUEL BERGER, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER", "WALLACE", "REP. DANA ROHRABCHER (R), CALIFORNIA", "WALLACE", "GEORGE TENET, CIA DIRECTOR", "WALLACE", "JAMES LILLEY, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CHINA", "WALLACE (on camera)"]}
{"id": "CNN-371334", "program": "CUOMO PRIME TIME", "date": "2019-06-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/03/CPT.01.html", "summary": "Queen Elizabeth Stresses International Alliances In Toast.", "utt": ["LET'S GET AFTER IT.", "The President's State Visit in the U.K. is all about pomp and pageantry today, Royal Treatment from the Royal Family, culminated in a lavish State Banquet in Buckingham Palace this evening. The President, of course, was not alone. He was with his family and close friends, like Chris Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax. So, we got an inside scoop from Sir Ruddy.", "ONE ON ONE.", "Sir Christopher of Ruddy, thank you for joining us on PRIME TIME tonight.", "Well, Chris, I usually dress up this way just for your show, as you know, but it just so happens I'm here at -- I'm in London, and was at Buckingham Palace. But I -- I do -- in the future, I'll wear this uniform for your show.", "Thank you. It's very distinctive. Turns out, if you wear the same thing every night, people like it. So, what was it like at dinner? Come on, dish for us. What did you eat? What went on? Come on, give us a flavor.", "Well I can just tell you, the high point of the night was I walk in, and say hello to Her Majesty, and then the President's right there with Melania, and I -- he said to Melania how much he enjoyed me on your show, Chris, the other night. Melania said she loved it. And I said, \"Well Chris just asked me to go on his show tonight.\" And the President said, \"I want you on that show. Go on that show. It would be great if you go on.\"", "Wow.", "So, but I was planning to come on, but he -- he endorsed me going on the show. I wouldn't say that's necessarily an endorsement of your show.", "Let me play you a little bit of what Queen Elizabeth said. I want your take on it.", "After the shared sacrifices of the Second World War, Britain and the United States worked with other allies to build an assembly of international institutions. While the world has changed, we are forever mindful of the original purpose of these structures, nations working together to safeguard a hard-won peace.", "You hear a message to our President in that statement?", "I believe Donald Trump agrees totally with that. You know, he went in, and he said, \"I don't want to disband NATO.\" That's one of the structures she's talking about that came out of World War", "Yes, I know.", "But Donald said -- the President said why is it that America pays 4 percent of GDP, and Germany pays a half a percent of GDP, Britain is at actually close to 2 percent, they're fulfilling their requirements, so he has no problem with British Military spending. Do you know Chris that every American family would be able to send their kids to college basically for free if we didn't have the defense burden that we did? If we have the same defense burden that Germany has, we wouldn't have a student loan crisis. And I think the President looks at that and says, \"We have troops, and we're defending Germany, but they don't want to spend just 2 percent of their national GDP?\"", "But, Chris, you know, what the Queen was trying to point out there is that--", "So, I don't think he's against the structures.", "Yes. But he -- look, he attacked the structure. We both know he did. And he did it in a way that he thought would be relatable to the American people by saying they don't pay in enough, when we both know that that's not how NATO works. It's about commitment to your own defense.", "No. It's exactly how it works.", "We also know that the historical reason that Germany does not have the role that the United States has in keeping the world safe is rooted in history, and rightly so. This country depends on America to lead. He has questioned that. He likes being a leader. He likes America being the biggest. But he doesn't want to pay what comes with being the biggest. And you know they go hand in hand.", "So, the President is not against NATO. He's not against international structures. I think -- I think he's making a very reasonable argument. He's really sending a wake-up call. I like what the Queen says. I think the President agrees with what she says.", "Good.", "I don't think there's discrepancy there.", "Good. I mean because I think that, you know, she picks her words. You know, unlike what we're used to here, she's very careful about what she says. They think about message. They think about their words. They weigh the importance. Maybe that's one of the advantages of not being what you call a--", "Well I thought--", "--Citizen President.", "I think the President could improve on -- I think he is a great communicator. He's the best. I mean he even outs -- excels past where Reagan was, and he was called the Great Communicator. But I do think the White House itself--", "Hold on a second.", "--has a communications issue that they're behind on the messaging.", "You think Donald Trump is a better communicator to the American people than Ronald Reagan was?", "There's no question this man has been single-handedly -- look what he's done on all the legislation he's passed. He doesn't even have half--", "What legislation?", "--of his government at least in the first two years appointed. It's all him. He's been doing it internationally.", "It's definitely all him.", "He's been moving the ball--", "You're a 100 percent right.", "But it's him communicating, and he's doing in a very powerful way. I -- you know, I don't -- I think the tweets should be reviewed before they go out. I don't agree that they should just be. But that's his decision to make. It's not my decision. The American people knew going into this that he like to just speak his mind. I think they accept that. I think the polling data shows they accept it.", "Why do you keep pointing the polling data, Chris?", "I would like to see--", "What poll have you seen that makes you believe that this President is somewhere beyond where he's always been, low-40s, sometimes mid-40s, never a spike above 50 percent in any respected polls since he's been President, makes him the only President in modern history not to have a spike above 50, at this point.", "Chris, there's -- I can cite you, just go to RealClearPolitics, you go to newsmax.com, you will find three or four polls that have him at 45 to over 50, the Rasmussen is typically a 50, just--", "We do but people--", "--in the past week or two.", "Yes, those are Republican-leaning polls though.", "There's one at 48.", "That's what you didn't -- you know no respectable--", "Well--", "--organization looks at those.", "Look, those same polls had the President losing the last election in '16, and he won.", "No, he lost.", "So, I think that I've also seen data that he's actually--", "They had him losing the popular vote, and he lost it. There was some state-by-state polls that got it wrong in states that he won and turned.", "Chris?", "But the popular vote came out right--", "Chris, this--", "--in the poll of polls. He lost by over 2 million votes.", "Look at the -- look at the poll data on Barack Obama in 2011. Donald Trump is outpacing where he was a year before his election.", "But he doesn't have the spikes above 50.", "You guys have a--", "And I -- I think it's a meaningful distinction. You are right. This President has shown unbelievable resilience in his base. I have never seen anything like it. Kudos to him. However, he never galvanizes these people behind him over 50 percent. He does not get the country behind him over 50 percent.", "Well, I've--", "Not a single spike.", "--I -- I said to him, I've always been an advocate of compromising where there's shared ground with the Democrats, infrastructure, on student loans, this is a crisis that's incredible--", "A 100 percent.", "--problem for many millions of people. Education, we need to improve the salaries of teachers.", "It'd be amazing.", "There's so many things that we need to do in this country.", "Yes.", "And the President said to me that he's planning on doing some of those things. He would like to do it. He said he still wants to do infrastructure. I believe him. I think that will eventually put him over 50 for the re-elect. But look, you know, when I look at the constant drumbeat, and the press, everything he does, look, he had this incredible day today in England. He was super well-received by the British people, and the government, and the Queen, and we're trying to find one little quote the Queen said to suggest there was some sort of controversy at the Buckingham Palace Dinner. I mean it's sort of amazing--", "No. I just -- I'm not using it as controversy.", "--how we--", "I had you on because I -- I wanted to get a feel for the mood, which is cool.", "I don't know.", "And I hope that -- I hope that it rubs off on him--", "You chose that quote over a lot of other--", "--a little bit. I'm not a fan of the Royals, OK?", "You chose that--", "I'm not a fan of a Monarchy.", "Chris, you chose--", "I'm an American. We were formed in opposition--", "Hey, Chris?", "--to Monarchy. But I do hope that the gentility and the thought of responsibility as a leader that they inculcate as an entity, hopefully it rubs off on him. And I appreciate you telling us how well he was received, how much it means to him to be there, and that it was another august occasion. This is getting to be a tradition, having Ruddy from England come to us at these State Dinners, and we appreciate it very much.", "Well I'm glad to be on your show, and I know the President indicated to me he was glad I was coming on your show.", "Always welcome. Enjoy yourself there. Be safe. I'll see you at home.", "Thank you, Sir.", "All right, so the President is receiving the Red Carpet. There's no question about it. He's loving it over there in the U.K. for that reason. A former U.S. President may have gotten an even bigger, however, reception, and it was on foreign soil. It's not a competition. But it is an interesting demonstration. We're going to have D. 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{"id": "CNN-402339", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-06-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/10/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Minneapolis Police Chief Holds News Conference; Mayor Jane Castor (D), Tampa, FL Discusses Chief Arradondo's Press Conference On Reforming Police.", "utt": ["So our communities are absolutely concerned about how those contracts are designed and the impacts that they have on them. As a chief, as I mentioned earlier, it's important for me to make sure that everyone is adhering to the policies. There's a character about this department that we should be aligning ourselves to. If there are impediments in the way of union contracts, that absolutely makes it difficult. When I have to go before community members and explain why an employee who I think should not be wearing this badge is working back in their communities, that is problematic for me. That can also erode trust. So we need to -- I need to, as chief, step away from the table with the Minneapolis Police Federation and take a deep dive in terms of how we can do something that has historically been in the way of progress, that I've been hearing from many in our city. And that is my intention moving forward.", "Would you say, chief, it's that union contract that's preventing you from managing your department, that that contract is standing in the way of you making sure that all of the officers are on the up and up, and we don't have an incident like we had a couple of weeks ago?", "I think it is very clear that we have to evolve. I think that the traditional process in terms of the union contract are probably antiquated and are not meeting the needs of all vested stakeholders. And as chief, now is the time to step away from that and start anew. Yes.", "One other question about what started all of this. And I think, again, this is to clear up what has become a national conversation about that $20 bill. What can you tell us now about Cup Foods, what Mr. Floyd was doing, and the call that brought your officers to him and then we saw the rest? Is there anything new or anything that you could go over detail- wise from your perspective that would shed more light on that so that people have facts and can start with their personal opinions, which may not be true?", "So I will just say this here. I haven't dealt so much interest the call specifics with the counterfeit bill and the original reason why our police responded. I do know there was a relationship to a counterfeit bill. But I want to be very clear. There's nothing -- there's nothing within that call that should have resulted in the outcome that resulted with Mr. Floyd. I want to be very clear. There's nothing in that call that should have resulted in the outcome of Mr. Floyd's death. But we will be looking at all of these things during after-action reports and what have you. But I appreciate the question.", "Oh, sure. That's all right.", "You have said being silent is complicit.", "Yes.", "In the short time that I've been back here, I've heard a lot of people who said that the Third Precinct is a bad precinct and a lot of bullies and a lot of bad cops. Chauvin was one of the good ones, someone told us.", "Uh-huh.", "So if being silent is being complicit, if you knew there were problems there, why didn't you fix them?", "So -- that's a good question. So I've only worked the Third Precinct for a couple of months in my 31-year career and so I've been throughout the organization.", "But it's not that big a department.", "Yes. And so culture is one in which it can be very unwielding, but you have to continue to stay on it. I -- I don't believe that every single officer that wears this uniform would have done things that occurred that evening two weeks ago. I have to continue to look at the different parts of this organization that could foster negative culture, that could foster negative reactions or relationships with our community, and I will continue to do that. But I will say more than that. It is imperative for me to make sure that I have leadership within this organization. I can dole out policies to live long day. But that supervisor at night, who is standing before that roll call with those officers, that's who they're going to take their orders from. And I have to make sure there's the leadership that is entrusted to me as chief but, most importantly, entrusted by the community that they'll be given the right messages each and every day so that we can break away from these subcultures of different things. And culture is not obviously -- types of subculture not different to the Minneapolis Police Department. Yes.", "Do you trust the commander of the Third Precinct?", "I have no reason not to trust the commander or the inspector of the Third Precinct. Yes.", "Can you talk right now about the body camera release just for the public outcry just to see the entire episode from the body cameras of your officers who were laying Floyd to rest?", "Right now, in the Minneapolis Police Department, this is being investigated by two separate agencies so we do not have the purview of being able to do that. It would have to be a decision by those two different agencies.", "That's correct. That's correct.", "Just on the bigger picture here, can this department be reformed and are you able personally to reform it?", "Absolutely. And I think that we're going to have to have the community support in this our police department is going to be here. And we have to do better. And until the day that that is not the case, we have to be committed each and every day. But as I said before, this is going to take time. It is going to take time and it is going to be heavy lifting and it will be hard work. And I do believe that we have the people and the men and women within this organization who are not going to let Mr. Floyd's death be in vain, who are not going let the actions of a few tarnish what they've worked so hard for and continue to work so hard for. So I do believe in that.", "What role do you think the department community has to play in holding police accountable for their actions? For example, this press release went out after his death that he had died of a medical issue or what have you. And had their -- I don't know, your thoughts -- had there not been the video that was posted by a citizen showing it, would we have known about this? Would this have been something that would have gotten on our radar?", "And that is truly what not only people here in Minneapolis have been questioning and talking about for a long time, but across this country. Are we acting truly in the best interest of our communities absent video? And we should never have to rely upon that. And so I'm thankful, absolutely that this was captured in the manner that it was. No excuse for the actions. So, yes?", "Yes?", "So if you're coming across something that looks not to be right and I have a camera, do I go out as a citizen --", "Record.", "-- and record it --", "Absolutely. Record. Call. Call a friend. Yell out. Call 911. We need a supervisor to the scene. Absolutely. I need to know that. We need to know that. So the community plays a vital role and did two weeks ago. Absolutely. Yes?", "Chief, you said earlier in the press conference that what you've observed on that videotape was not training you had ever seen. So if that's true, where did the behavior that you did see come from?", "I've struggled when I watched that video that I did not see humanity. I did not see humanity. And so -- that's the only answer I can give you. I did not see humanity that day.", "Again -- and I've said this before, that's a good question -- we do not shape our policies based on your years of service. We expect you to be professional. We expect you to have a duty and care for life. And if you come into conflict with policy ore subculture, I expect your humanity to rise above that, and our communities expect that.", "Chief, earlier, you described your decision in detail to let the Third Precinct burn and you describe the events leading up to it that there was already looting and fires happening and that it was a public safety threat for those people inside. But I guess, to back up even more, how was that situation allowed to get to that point, to get to the point where the looting was happening? In other words, did you let it get too out of control too soon and were you caught flatfooted?", "It was obvious -- and I believe there's been public statements since then that resources -- this again, this was the number of civil unrest, significant high-risk, events were nothing that we ever experienced in the Minneapolis Police Department and did not have adequate resources. But I will say, too, that, to me, being on the ground to your point, that did not appear to be organic in terms of just based on emotion and reaction. There were strategic things that appeared to be going on at once in key locations had not experienced that before. So again, I think it was a combination of things. But it was certainly something that I don't believe there was ever a playbook designed to address major civil unrest, looting, riots, fires, shots fired and overrunning a police department, police precinct. Yes?", "What type of orders and instructions were officers given because we witnessed what appears to be a lot of looters and rioters having free will to do whatever they wanted in many areas of the city?", "Yes. During that - certainly, during that evening, we really -- again, because of the coordinated, vents that appeared to be occurring throughout preservation of life became the number-one priority. You will hear it but, obviously, there were many complaints from the community members that talked about lack of 911 response call. We had to have fire assisted with police personnel so that they could be protected to go in. At some point in time and at some point, preservation of life and property, it became preservation of life. And it was very sad for me to see Target, AutoZone, houses, and all of these other, but preservation of life became the primary function. And so, again, these are aren't done with the luxury of time, but preservation of life will always be the priority that we have to focus on at the time.", "Chief, a lot of us local reporters know the kind of work that you've done kind of to repair the message to the black community. Your answer to the decades of killing our sons, killing our fathers. This community has formed coalitions to kind of protect themselves because of fear now because of watching that video of George Floyd over and over again. Your message to the black community, how they begin to trust again, how they begin to call on you again to help? What do you say now to the community that looks up to you, a community you are a part of, that is hurting now and dealing with a lot of trauma?", "Yes. I'm not walking away from them. Many of the conversations that I've been having and will continue to have is with our community elders from the African-American community. I am leaning on them, those who have experienced trials and tribulations during the '60s when Plymouth Avenue burned during the civil rights movement, and those who were here to fight down barriers so that I could be in the position that I'm in today. There's much that I will continue to learn from them. We have -- I believe we have the will and the experience to heal from this here. We do. They also know that organizational reform is a process. This is not a sprint. But we have to do it right. I have to do it right. So those conversations will continue. But rest assured, again, they're also tired. They're tired of chiefs and politicians standing before them and giving them words, hollow words and rhetoric. They want action. And I've been listening to them and they're demanding action. And it is needed. And that is my frame and that is my goal and my north star compass as we move forward. This, people are tired. They want action.", "Eric, last one.", "Chief, you talked about how there was no playbook for what played out when those riots started that night. How would you rate how your department handled those riots?", "I will go back to preservation of life. Fortunately, I should say, sadly, I should say, there one homicide that occurred during the course of those evenings. There was a gentleman who was shot and killed outside of a pawn shop. And so that's being investigated. Our officers were not fatally wounded and our community members were not fatally wounded. So as I stand before you today, that -- that is crucial. That is the most important thing for me. But now I have to go backwards and say, how do we -- how do we avoid even that coming to be? We should never have to, ever have to experience that again as the city. And certainly, Mr. Floyd's death was a catalyst to that. His death cannot be in vein. And so that also will be driving me. But, again, preservation of life and that was key to me when you look at the events that unfolded that night in real time, is making sure I could do everything I could to save lives. Thank you.", "-- take one more question.", "Chief?", "Yes, sir.", "Where did this energy against the media occur, where did it come from because of the way the media was treated by this police department?", "The -- sir, just for reference, where did the energy against the media, where did that occur?", "Where did -- why were the police departments so bad toward the media in this riot?", "To your question, sir, and I know there have been complaints and there's certainly been video of journalists whether it was rubber bullets and tear gassing. And I, for one, respect the immense importance that our media plays in not only Minneapolis, but our society and our democracy. Our media must be protected. They have to be. I am so fortunate that all of you are here. This story has to be told. We talked about silence is complicit. All of you are making sure that this story is not silenced. And so one of the things, sir, that we will be looking at and I will be looking at during this after-action report is, why were media, journalists and representatives fired upon and tear gassed and what have you. That can't happen. That can't happen. And to our journalists here, my apologies to you and your colleagues who fell under some of that, so -- yes?", "Chief. Thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "So we've been listening to the Minneapolis police Chief Arradondo. And it has been fascinating listening to the man who has been a central figure and a vocal presence throughout the crisis that has engulfed the city of Minneapolis and his police department. The crisis in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. Making powerful statements and also making a deck declaration of immediate changes that he will be putting place, as he said, because he's committed to making sure moving forward we will get better. A lot to discuss here. Joining me right now is the Mayor of Tampa, Florida, Jane Castor, who is a former police chief. Mayor, thank you very much for sticking around. You were listening to the police chief along with all of us as we were listening to it live. As a mayor and former police chief, what is your reaction to what you just heard from Chief Arradondo?", "Well, I think that Chief Arradondo is willing to coming forward indicating that he's listening to the community and he is willing to reform his police department, those individuals that were involved in the murder of George Floyd. He's addressing that. He's open to having the community come in and take a look at that police department and take a look at the policies and procedures and look at the training and look at the ways they can improve the way that they are policing the city of Minneapolis.", "One of the things that he said, the immediate changes that he's making, he said that he is immediately withdrawing from negotiating with the police union there. How significant is that?", "Well, you know, the relationship between the police department and union representation is different in every city. So I'm not sure where he is at with that. Here in the city of Tampa, we work very closely with our union to ensure that the thousand-member Tampa Police Department has the best law enforcement officers that we possibly can, and to weed out those few individuals that make their way into the force.", "He also -- I was fascinated by you don't often hear a police chief speak, and you know this as a former chief, in such personal and emotional terms. But this is a very different moment, that that city is experiencing and, quite frankly, the country is experiencing. You have seen very big protests in Tampa as well. For a chief to really take this on his shoulders, he says, specifically, and it caught my ear when he said, I must do it, meaning reforms. I must do it right. What is the impact of that?", "Well, I can tell you that the stars he's wearing right now are incredibly heavy, and I commend him for taking the responsibility, and also ensuring that they'll move forward in a very transparent way. And one of the things about law enforcement, a lot of people aren't aware, it's judged as a whole nationwide. In other professions, someone can do something inappropriate, doctor kills a patient, and everyone still holds him in high esteem. There isn't a police officer who hasn't paid for the actions of that officer in Minneapolis. It's important that we have federal best practices on a national level, and not just from department to department that they differ. For example, with the carotid restraint. We did away with that in the city of Tampa back in the '90s.", "And, this gets to those --", "Yes.", "-- actional measures that he was talking about, that you are talking about. You are also now part of the task force with the U.S. Conference of Mayors for police departments looking at this. And you're getting at something I've actually -- I'm very interested in and is a conversation that needs to be had, which is, where does the change need to come from. We have nearly 18,000 police departments across the country.", "Right.", "Is it on the local level or the federal level as we're seeing Congress discuss this today?", "I think the change has to come on the local level. We have to wait to have mayors and police chiefs weigh in before Congress decides the best approach. But one of the things, too, that in the discussion, I'm on that task force, and in the discussion, I said, we have to communicate nationally we're asking police officers to do too much. You know, though systemic failures in our nation, in education, in health care, in mental health, you know, the police officers are asked to be the teachers, to be the mental health experts, to be the counselors, and it's just too much. We can't, you know, take funding away from those other areas and then put those tasks on the police department.", "And, Mayor, I absolutely hear you on that, and I've heard from activists to politicians to police chiefs themselves across the board. That is something that seems to be in agreement, which is police officers, they shouldn't be responding to mental health calls. They shouldn't be social workers. There should be funding in that. But I will say as I hear that, reforms in place there would not have saved George Floyd, or Eric Garner, or Michael Brown, because those were not mental health calls. Those were not social worker calls. Doesn't this come down to every individual who carry as badge?", "Yes, it does. That goes back to, as the chief alluded to, those programs that the early intervention programs we have in effect here in the city of Tampa, our quality assurance programs, our officer wellness programs. Those types of things. I always tell people being a police officer you get to see and do things others don't get to see and do, but you have to see and do things that nobody should have to see or do. So we need to pay attention to law enforcement, and to the wellness on the level of officers. Also, I want to point something out, is that we have a lot of great recommendations for reforming in law enforcement. The 21st Century Task Force on Policing has excellent recommendations. But that's just a portion of the equation. It's in the implementation of those recommendations that we will find success in law enforcement. And that hearkens back to having the standards on a national level.", "And on who really needs to take the lead. Mayor, thank you so much for your time. Thank you for sticking around. I really appreciate it. And getting your perspective, a very unique perspective, and it's very much appreciated. Mayor of Tampa, Florida, Jane Castor.", "Thank you. Appreciate it.", "Thank you very much. Coming up for us, George Floyd's brother on Capitol Hill today testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. A very powerful statement he is making. 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{"id": "CNN-352617", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2018-10-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/18/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Autonomous Cars Hit The Road In Paris; Dow Ends With Triple-Digit Losses.", "utt": ["Autonomous vehicles are hitting the roads in Paris, Melissa Bell find out why the technology is here to stay but pleasing.", "Autonomous driving we're told is the way of the future. Autonomous cars featured heavily at this year's Paris Motor Show. But how can a computer deal with the random, the chaos of Parisian traffic. We decided to put that to the test. Our co-pilots today are our engineers developing the technology that's already been sold to car makers, and where better to start than at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. So the car is now driving itself?", "Yes --", "You're not involved at all?", "No --", "No pebble, no wheel, no nothing --", "No, I got my hands in my", "Which should be a dangerous thing, given that cyclist, scooters and pedestrians, not to mention the bad drivers who do have their hands on the wheel. But Benois(ph) says the car sensors are more efficient than the human brain.", "And as you can see, there's a pedestrian here, now, you're going to slow because it's detected and then when the pedestrian moves off the crossing, and we have -- oh, yes --", "If you pass the pedestrian, it'll go much faster --", "Yes --", "To fire(ph) from there --", "Yes --", "It's programmed to stop.", "Yes.", "The technology is part programmed, part learned through its many cameras, sensors, computers and radars, the car's artificial intelligence allows it to learn at it goes.", "It's just always focused on its dash(ph) which is driving me safely from point A to point", "Shows that car is just bending very rude --", "Yes --", "It just cut across you --", "Yes --", "And the car felt it.", "Yes --", "And it didn't even complain.", "No --", "There were no two T(ph) remorse?", "No --", "There will always be an element of risk, right, there, even for computers?", "The zero folk doesn't exist. What we want to show is that we are going to drive during 1 billion towers without any problem.", "And that's more better than a human being.", "Yes, of course.", "Perhaps, the best surprising thing about all this is that this is likely to be an evolution rather than a revolution already. All of the sensors that exist on this car and allow it to drive autonomously exists on the sorts of cars that you would buy today, ordinary cars. And so, what's likely to happen is that little by little, we will get in the habit of letting go of the steering wheel until one day, all cars, even here in the French capital drive themselves. Melissa Bell, Cnn, Paris.", "Before we go, an update on the Dow and the markets. Now, the Dow is off the lows of today, but which will stand here, down some 400 and something, 20-odd points down here. But it is off the lows of the day. And if we get underneath the skin of that, you start to see, really, it is those stocks that are positive are the defensive, Exxon Mobil, Merck, Verizon all with steady streams of revenues. Chevron, J&J, consumer staples. And when you look at the losses, even those companies with the least losses, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, Coca-Cola, they are your classic defensive stocks -- pharma and consumer products. The techs are being routed, you saw that with the FANGs, but even the more established IBM down two and three quarters, Intel is off 2 percent, Apple down 2 and a third, Microsoft. So that is the absolute tone of the day as being this rotation continues from FANG and tech into defensive -- the object of course, to try and shore up in the event of slower growth and CAT down now 4 percent, down 4 percent, just simply because industrial earnings are expected to be weaker than expected. We'll have our profitable moment after the break."], "speaker": ["QUEST", "MELISSA BELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BELL (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "B. BELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BELL (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BELL", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-369542", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2019-05-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/14/ath.02.html", "summary": "\"CHAMPIONS OF CHANGE,\" Kids Off the Block Works for Chicago's Youth", "utt": ["It's a story you have heard way too many times. A young person's life cut short because of gun violence on the streets of Chicago. So far this year, there have been 148 people killed in the city. The majority of those deaths are the result of gun violence, and a majority of the victims are young, black, and male. That's exactly who Diane Latiker is trying to save. I met her a decade ago, an encounter that has always stayed with me. You'll see yourself, quickly why she is what we're calling a \"CHAMPION FOR CHANGE,\" a part of CNN's week-long series revisiting some of the people making a real impact. Take a look.", "When I first met Diane, the Supreme Court was about to hear a case, a landmark case having to do with Chicago's handgun ban.", "If you would stay here two days, you realize our young people are looking backwards at every car because of drive-bys.", "When Diane opened up her own home to start the nonprofit Kids Off the Block, she was fighting to stem the tide of gang activity in her neighborhood. (on camera): I came here to Chicago to talk to some of the people who are most affected by gun violence. I know how much my life has changed in the almost 10 years since we first met. I'm interested to see what's changed for Diane. There she is. How are you? I mean, you haven't aged a day.", "So good to see you.", "So good to see you.", "I'm surprised you're able to remember me.", "Are you kidding? As I was saying, you leave a mark.", "Want to go in?", "I would love to. Diane, Diane, Diane, Diane. Tell me again, why did you first open your doors?", "I realized that they were failing in school and needed help. The gangs were trying to recruit the boys and stuff. And I'm like, me, what am I going to do? You know.", "What do you do?", "What do I do? But I sold the tv and bought some computers and started helping with homework. It's about a program like tutoring and mentoring, conventional stuff, but it's not about a program. I want to know each kid.", "Have there been moments when you thought, that's it. I can't.", "Every day, every day, I will wake up, I quit. I'm not doing this, then somebody would call me, a kid or a young person walked in the door. And said this door wasn't open, I would be dead or in jail.", "Since 2003, thousands of kids have walked through this front door. Including Treviance Orr --", "Hey, Tre.", "-- who has been getting this same hug for almost that long. (on camera): What has she meant to you?", "A mother figure, definitely. Heart of gold, man.", "What are you doing these days?", "I graphic design.", "Went to college?", "Yes.", "Got a job?", "Yes.", "You can see the pride on Diane's face, but that disappears quickly when we drive through the neighborhood.", "This is where four shootings happened in four days last week. And I knew the young people. Who did it and the young people who were shot.", "Oh, my god.", "Friday, one of the -- there's Tyrese. His brother was just killed. He was in my program.", "I can see how another kid that age could so easily think, I have no future.", "That's what they think. No hope. Can you blame them?", "Returning to the memorial Diane started, it does feel impossible to blame them. Each brick represents a young life lost to gun violence. (on camera): How many are in there now?", "Two-hundred and one.", "So there are 201 when I came.", "How many are in there now, 800?", "Seven something.", "I never imagined it would be this big. I know that's naive to think.", "I didn't either.", "That makes me sad. Sorry. (voice-over): Diane isn't alone in her fight to save this community.", "I'm from Roseland. I happened to get my bachelor's degree, where went on to get my master's degree, and I'm working right inside the community that I'm coming from.", "What is Diane's influence been on your life?", "She has impacted my life tremendously. She has been a person to go to, a mentor. The most supportive person you could ever be around and be with.", "You're in a doctoral program right now.", "Yes.", "How long have you been volunteering with Diane with Kids Off the Block?", "It will be nine years in September.", "Eleven years. I started in 2008.", "What are you teaching them?", "Making up songs about long division, doing crazy dances. Anything to get them involved, relating science to everything.", "And soon, they'll have a lot more room to help a lot more kids.", "First, it was a liquor store and then it was a restaurant. This is going to be the computer lab.", "Diane is now turning this empty building next door to her home into a technology and entrepreneurial center.", "I'm hoping it's open by when school starts in September.", "This is the future.", "The future.", "What does the future look like?", "The future looks like young people thriving, getting new skills and coming back with success stories. Oh, my god, I could see the possibilities in here.", "Got it all figured out. Now we have to swing some hammers.", "What I loved seeing is that Diane is finally getting the recognition that she deserves. She has a wall full of awards now in her home right now. So I'm excited to see now what she can do next with this kind of recognition. Of course, she says, for her, the only thing that matters are the people you met in the piece and also the hundreds of other lives she's touched. But, Diane, thank you so much for never giving up. All this week, we'll continue to share inspiring stories like this. And you can tune in this Saturday, 8:00 p.m. Eastern, for an hour-long special called \"CHAMPIONS FOR CHANGE.\" Still ahead for us, as the trade war heats up, President Trump says the U.S. is in a, quote/unquote, \"fantastic position\" with China. Do American businesses who are on the front lines of the trade war feel the same? 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{"id": "CNN-13318", "program": "Moneyweek", "date": "2000-8-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/05/mw.00.html", "summary": "Tech Stocks Struggle to Recover from Severe Two-Week Sell-Off", "utt": ["From the world headquarters of CNNfn, the Financial News network of CNN, this is MONEYWEEK with Terry Keenan.", "Welcome to MONEYWEEK, where aim to keep you ahead of curve for the week ahead on Wall Street. We have a top-notch team of Wall Street experts on board with their predictions for the this volatile market. But first, the tech stocks struggled to rebound after some severe losses. We will have an outlook for the sector and for the rest of the market. And the election and stocks. Find out which candidate might be better for your portfolio. And one well- known Wall Streeter will soon be behind bars. Jim McDermott sentenced for the passing stock tips to a porn star. And always, we have stock picks -- legal ones -- for the coming days and ones ahead on Wall Street. And we begin on Wall Street, where tech stocks struggle to recover from a severe two-week sell-off. The Nasdaq gained more than 100 points on Thursday, managing to finish the week higher. The coming week will be one to watch. Two of biggest names in tech come out with their quarterly results. On Tuesday, we get the numbers from Cisco Systems. They report after the bell. Come Thursday, Dell Computer will report its numbers. On Wednesday, look for earnings from Dow component Wal-Mart. Among the stocks making moves this past week, Cisco did gain ahead of its earnings numbers, and Dell moved lower following some bearish comments from Bancorp U.S. Piper Jaffray. And many of the chip stocks sold off again, including Novellus. But Disney, a Dow component, rallied on better-than-expected profit. Time now to bring in our team of experts, joining us this week David Alger of Fred Alger Management. John Manley, the strategist with Citibank Salomon Smith Barney, and Gregg Hymowitz, money manager at Entrust Capital. And, gentlemen, welcome. David, let me start with you, because we had a terrible week last week for the Nasdaq, I think the third worst ever. Were you convinced by the rebound this week?", "Yes, I think rebound was pretty convincing. I mean, last week was just obviously a, you know, a confluence of a number of factors. You know, first of all, we had some, you know, poor earnings. Secondly, we had this sort of this, you know, semiconductor malaise that has been going around. And I think those things really impacted at the same time. I think what's happened this week, of course, is that, you know, people realize that things are greatly overdone, there are a lot of good earnings coming out, and more good earnings than bad earnings in the tech sector, and I think that fear of the Fed, this week anyway, has dissipated somewhat as well.", "Yes, the employment numbers seemed to cheer everybody on Friday.", "And retail sales as well, I think.", "John, you know, still, though, we've been really stuck in a trading pattern. I hate to use that term, but the trading range is really what we've been stuck in for the last three or four months, and the Nasdaq in particular can't seem to get past that 4,100 level. What's it going to take to move us past that?", "I think it's a race. I mean, I think the economy is decelerating. It's question of when it gets to technology, because the slower economy should favor growth stocks. And I think tech stocks are growth stocks most of the time. There's a cyclical component to them, but they're growth stocks. I think some sign if the Fed is through or just about through along some signs that tech earnings are going to be OK, at least through the third quarter or fourth quarter, is going to be something that's going to get us going.", "Gregg?", "I agree. Look, if you look at where the strength in the economy is. You know, second quarter, the real strength in earnings per share from companies were mainly from technology and energy. If you sort of look at the other parts of what really make the up the S&P;, really growth was fairly anemic. So I agree with both John and David, you have to stick with technology, because that's really where the strength in the economy is. And the only risk -- and David and I have talked about this before -- is valuation. Some of these stocks, particularly some of the Internet stocks, are extremely overvalued. And then it becomes a battle between fundamental -- strong fundamentals on one side, and potentially excessive valuations on the other, and that's why I think we've been stuck in this relatively tight range for a while.", "And you know, David, there's some more controversy this week in the chip sector, but particularly when it came to Motorola. What was that all about? And is their clearly slowing demand?", "Well, what it was about was that most Motorola had a meeting several days ago, and they announced that they were pulling back their unit shipments from 100 million this year to 80 million. Well, I think they did something like 33 million in the first half. So, in fact, 80 million is really a good number. And everybody wants Motorola to be more profitable, not make more handsets, but be more profitable. So this is not new news; this is old news. And the fact that they've informed their suppliers, since several suppliers have come out and said it, is we knew this. This is -- you know, but somehow, some Wall Street analyst got a how hold of it and brooded it around, and everybody misinterpreted it. I think this is actually good news for Motorola. I think Motorola goes up on this, not down. And you know, after all, this has been a very fast-growing sector and continues to be.", "Isn't there a risk, though, David, that at least we're looking at Nokia, we're looking at Motorola, but you always hear the risk that it's becoming a commodity. I mean, cell phones, as they continue to increase their penetration, at some point becomes a commodity and prices go down, and now I think one of things that overhang Motorola and Nokia, you saw it in both stocks.", "But there is a next generation.", "There is always a next generation.", "That's the point the technology. That's why it's different from energy, there is a next generation, like they have cell phones -- or they will have cell phones that do more things for you, because it does tend to become a commodity. That's how they make their money. They go down the learning curve. They learn the business from TI. It seems to me, though, unless it's anything more than a product cycle, I think Wednesday taught us -- Thursday I think it was, taught us that's it's real tough, because can you miss the bus. It does tends it pull out very quickly.", "All right, that's the bullish argument.", "And, John, I think you're probably most caution on the tech sector here. How would you play if?", "Actually, I overweight. I think tech sector is a pretty good place to be. We do have to worry about the semiconductor side. Our analyst was one who probably started this whole anything off, John Joseph, and I thought a very well-reasoned logical call about the problems that could hit his group next year. I still think Intel doesn't really hit that. Part of that is a function with telecommunications. I think the PC sector should be getting a little bit better. I think you can play it there. I think Hewlett is still a very cheap company. I think IBM, if you want to buy cheap company, there is some question about deceleration there, but again, you're not paying much more than a market multiple. I don't think those are bad ways to play it. You can still play it and be very conservative.", "Couple of your favorites.", "You know, I don't know that's necessarily true. I mean, obviously, all semiconductor stocks have a cycle, and we all know that they end sometime. And so it's obviously logical that, you know, you want to jump off at some point after it's been good, because eventually it's going to get bad. But I don't think we're anywhere near the ends of cycle. And in fact, I think the semiconductor equipment problems that have been brooded around this week have been greatly misinterpreted. That has to do with the fact that there are shortages of some components, which are kind of backing up the whole cycle. It is not lack of demand; it's lack of components. And that stuff just being pushed out, and I think we'll continue for many years to go.", "OK, we're going take a quick break. But when we return, a record number of Americans now own stocks. We'll take a look at which candidate could better for your investment portfolio. And a bit later, top banker Jim McDermott is sentenced for passing stock tips on to a porn star.", "Texas Gov. George W. Bush getting a nice boost in the polls following the Republican National Convention, but unlike eight years ago, the main focus was not on the economy, but rather on moral values and integrity. So who would be more market-friendly? And will plans overhaul Social Security be good for stocks? And, Gregg, we had the first round in this. We get the Democratic convention in two weeks. Does it make a difference for investors who is in White House this time around?", "Well, I think it's a little different now. I think it makes a difference who controls the entire government, and I think the best thing for this market would be a continued split in the government. Therefore, you keep the Democrats on check and they don't spent surplus; on the same hand, you get the Republicans on check that they don't, effectively, give out tax break to everybody, which potentially will cause more spending, potentially lead to inflation. So I think the Wall Street would really like to see a continued stifling of government, continued no action, and that, ultimately, will be best for the market. That's a federal role we've had for last eight years, and can you leave credence to the thought that that is what has been one beneficiary of the bull market.", "David.", "No, I kinds of disagree with that. My theory is that the economy is decelerating. By the time, George is inaugurated, which I'm hoping will happen, I think what you're going to have is a much slower growing economy, and one that in fact may be in jeopardy of going into recession or at least a very, very slow growing period. And I think at that point, relaxation of this very tight, you know, fiscal policy which we have had in the Democratic administration, bizarrely, would be a very good thing. I think tax cuts, especially capital gains tax cuts, would be tremendous boost for the market.", "John, I know David already has the shuttle tickets. But I want to ask you, how do you run against the longest peacetime expansion in history?", "Well, which one is running against it, because Mr. Gore distanced himself from Mr. Clinton on certain issues not really related to politics. I think it does matter a bit more than usual this time, because number one, you have a fairly aggressive Justice Department going after Microsoft. I think that has some morays there. The drugs side, they're certainly worried. They really do care who wins this time. I think it means a bit more than usual. I think there's a slight different philosophy in government, so I think without -- I'm not going to give away who I am going to vote, but I would tend to think that a lot of sectors would prefer to have a Republican in the White House come next year.", "OK, well so far, the polls look like that's what we're going to get.", "Well, that may be true. I am actually very interested in this, because it seems to me that if you look at it, Bill Clinton started his administration very, very much as a liberal. And by the time he was -- by two years, he was really a moderate, and I think the economy prospered as a result. I think, interestingly, Gore is way to the left of Clinton, and I think that he will end up being quite scary to business, if indeed he's elected.", "Clinton, of course, discovered the bond market early in his administration. And along with Bob Ruben, really crafted a different economic policy going forward. What about the Social Security plan?", "Well I mean, think that, you know, what they laid out, what the Republicans laid out, is interesting. Obviously, the equity markets will take that favorably. Then all of a sudden, 5 percent of everyone's Social Security may go into the equity markets. I don't necessarily know what's the wisest thing, quite frankly, because we know if that 5 percent gets lost, you know they're going to be going come back to government for it. I think the fact is, you asked this John this question, how do you run against this expansion? How do you run against this economic boomtime? And obviously, the answer is, you don't run against it. You run against it on other issues -- values, integrity, but I still believe that the best thing is a limited government. But the way you get limited government here is by allowing the checks and balances of the two parties to work against each other.", "All right. Just ahead, the financials rallied late in the week, but will the gains continue? Our next quest says yes. Get his picks when MONEYWEEK returns.", "Many financial stocks rallied this past week, some consumer finance and insurance issues hitting new 52-week highs, including Providian and Chubb. Brokerage and big banks also getting a nice lift and our solidly higher on the year. Merrill Lynch up more than 50 percent year to date, hitting a new all-time high on Friday. Citigroup also beating the overall market. But regionals, such as National City, KeyCorp and U.S. Bancorp all lower -- sharply lower -- on the year. Joining us now with the outlook for this sector is Fred Price. He is the co-head of research at Sandler O'Neill, a company that specializes in the financial sector. And, Fred, welcome. Good to have you with us.", "Thank you. Thank you.", "Financial stocks had a nice performance at the end of the week. Is it a reflection of the thinking the Fed is finally done raising rates?", "I don't think it's a reflection that the Fed's done, but I think the reflection of is there's less to go up than there is go down from this point forward at some point, not saying that rates are going to go down immediately. Certainly the next dramatic move is probably lower rather than higher.", "Do you think we're going to see an uptick in consolidation now? We saw the pace has slowed somewhat. Do you think you're going to see an uptick once again?", "I think there are some companies out there that would like to see that. If some of these currencies can get a little bit better -- there actually has been a lot consolidation going on at a much lower level. The Wells Fargo has made a lot of acquisitions of very small banks, very quiet ones, and a lot of different markets. So there has been a lot of small acquisition. BBT, a regional in the Carolinas made a lot acquisition. Still during all of this, you haven't seen the big mega national news kind of deal, and I think that's out there to do, if a couple of these currencies get a little stronger.", "It seems to me that the consolidation that has occurred among big institutions has worked very favorably. I mean, you know, Chase Chemical seems to be working. You know Citigroup seems to be working very effectively. It's our second largest holding actually. You would some expect technology and dot.coms, but in fact Citigroup is our second-largest holding. And you know, there is a tremendous amount of synergy that could be achieved by rolling together these banks, so I'm surprised that, you know --", "No, I don't think -- that issue is not missed, and those that have consolidated and done it well, have done very well out of it. The market hasn't necessarily rewarded it at the middle to lower levels yet. Certainly we rewarded it at the higher level. I think financial stocks are very attractive.", "I've got do ask, I mean, would anyone recreate the regional bank system that most -- exists now, if they were to do it all over starting now, given the Internet, given the worldwide reach, given the need for size and technology, do regional banks really have a future?", "I think they have future. There is going to fewer of them, and I think that's your point, is you're going to have this consolidation, you're going to have fewer providers of deeper and deeper services, and so you won't have this large mass of regional services.", "Which side do you play, the acquirers or the acquirerees?", "Well, the market right now punishes the acquirers percent and rewards the acquirerees, but at some point, I think the acquirers are going to produce on what they said they're going to produce, and the earnings enhancements are going to be significant.", "Greg, do you have a question?", "I was just going to say credit quality. That's obviously been another concern people have. What are you seeing out there. I think it's really overblown. There are some small credit issues that are developing, no question about that, but I always find it a little bit interesting that the overall market is generally talked about fairly in good sense, that we have a good future out there, and even if the economy slows, everything is going to be OK. and yet we keep saying, well, banks are going to have big credit problems. Well, from where? If that's really going on, then where are banks going to have big credit problems from? So I think it's quite overblown, this credit issue. Banks did -- I think they are properly being recognized. For several years after the '90s when banks boosted reserves quite a bit, they backed off of that, because credit quality good so good that they made very few provisions, and so a lot of bank earnings growth were fueled by lower credit cost, and that's catching up now, and credit costs are now coming back to kind of normalized levels, and people are just getting used to seeing credit costs built into earnings statements.", "And, Fred, just quickly, before we go break, what's your favorite baking stock right now?", "Can I give you three? Mellon, BB&T; and National City are three companies we like a lot.", "Sorry, Gregg.", "Well, Citigroup is my second largest holding, too. I just wanted John to know that.", "We know. You've been a bull on that as well. OK, coming up next, we will be back with predictions. So don't go away.", "OK, time now for predictions. And John Manley, let me start with you.", "I think the financial stocks do pretty well through the rest of the year. I think we've probably seen the worst we're going see from the Fed. It's a very, very cheap sector. I like things like Chase. I think some of the insurance stocks like Chubb, on a cyclical basis, or Lincoln National on a longer term basis, very attractive.", "David.", "I think that by the end of the year, you're going to see the bond market rallying 50 basis points. In the long end, the economy is really going to slow. There is going to be much less inflation. And the stock market is really going to take off.", "Already been a good year for the bonds.", "Yes, it's going to be better.", "OK.", "I'm going to give a slight permutation on David's. It's very interesting that the three of us all agree that the economy is decelerating, which is very different than most of us would have thought a few months ago, and therefore, I think no Fed rate increases throughout the balance of the year. Maybe next -- earlier year, you see the stock coming down again, but I think people are surprised that the equity markets don't rally as much, because the fear of slowing growth is going to start seeping into those equity markets.", "Fred, you have the last word.", "I agree with the financials. I think now is the time to really to begin to look down not to those that have done great, but to those who have been held back a little bit, where the multiples are seven and eight, and the returns are really strong. Those are the next ones that are going to move.", "And you like the insurers as well.", "I like the insurers as well. The whole group, the brokers group has done phenomenally. If rates come, the life group is going to do great. I think that sector is going to be one we'll talk about again in a few months.", "OK, we'll have to leave it there. Thanks, gentlemen. And coming up next, we'll have a complete look at what you need to know for the coming days and weeks ahead on Wall Street.", "Former Wall Street power broker Jim McDermott, the former chairman of Keith, Bruyette & Woods, was sentenced to eight months in prison on Thursday. He was also fined $25,000 and community service. The crime: passing on tips about bank mergers to his girlfriend, adult film star Katherine Gannon. Gannon is currently fighting extradition from Canada. Time now to take one last look at what is in store for next week on Wall Street. And for that, we are joined by CNNfn's Allan Chernoff -- Allan.", "Thank you, Terry. Well, as you mentioned, two of the biggest names in technology are due to report their earnings next week. Cisco expected report on Tuesday. That stock has been trading in the 60s for the past two months, a tight range for Cisco. On Thursday, we'll hear from Dell Computer. And as for the economy, productivity numbers due on Tuesday and the Producer Price Index on Friday for a look at the wholesale price trends. And one IPO worth watching, Internet service provider Equinix. It's an offering from Goldman Sachs and Salomon Smith Barney. Cisco and Microsoft both have stakes in the company -- Terry.", "Interesting. Thanks, Allan . Allan Chernoff. And that's going to do it for this week. 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{"id": "CNN-215558", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2013-9-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/29/ndaysun.02.html", "summary": "House Votes to Delay Obamacare; U.N. to Syria: Get Rid of Chemical Weapons", "utt": ["The truth -- you can't handle the truth.", "You have been hijacked by a small group of extreme folks who simply hate this president.", "Overnight while you were sleeping, lawmakers were fighting, but for all they've accomplished, the House may as well have stayed home.", "The phone call between President Obama and Iranian President Rouhani was historic for the two nations. But it could be life-changing for one American pastor in prison in Iran. We'll talk to his wife and attorney about their renewed hope.", "And we've all heard about blind justice in the law. But what about in football? We'll introduce a judge who may not be able to see but that does not stop him from calling games.", "Good morning, everyone. I am Deborah Feyerick.", "Good to have you with us. I'm Victor Blackwell. Now, 8:00 here on East Coast. This is NEW DAY SUNDAY. We've got a lot coming up this morning. The premier of \"Saturday Night Live\". Did you watch it? I mean, there's a good chance if you were up this early, you didn't see this late last night. But it was hilarious. Tina Fey hosted 39th season open.", "And, of course, they gave a nod to the drama in Washington because there is so much political theater. How can you not at least try to take a --", "You can't ignore it. You can't.", "That's right. Plus, the new film \"Gravity\", that's premiering next week. It is starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. And if you've seen the trailer, it is pretty incredible. Bullock plays a medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, and then all goes well until the shuttle is destroyed. All you see is her drifting off there into space.", "Yes, there's that moment where she says, can you hear me? Can anybody hear me? I'm really, really looking forward to this one. I don't go see a lot of movies. This one I will see. So, this hour we're going to actually take you to the science behind simulating that concept of being stranded in space and how they do it. It's really fascinating stuff. That, of course, is coming up. But we're going to start with the big deadline in Washington.", "Yes, a couple of deadlines, actually, with the clock ticking toward a Tuesday shutdown. Much of the government is getting ready to close up shop.", "Yes, that's because the House did something early today that makes a shutdown more likely than not. Republicans pushed through a bill that pays the government's bills beyond Monday. But -- and there's a big but.", "There is always a big but.", "Yes.", "The bill delays Obamacare for about year. It delays it. And it repeals a tax that would help to pay for Obamacare that is the medical tax bill. The bill goes to the Senate where the Democratic leadership has basically said, no, dead on arrival.", "Yes, two Democrats, Mike McIntyre, rather, of North Carolina, Jim Matheson of Utah, they voted with Republicans on the Obamacare delay.", "Conversely, two New York Republicans, Richard Hanna and Chris Gibson voted against their party's bill.", "All right. So, let's get reaction to the vote now. We're joined by CNN's senior White House correspondent Brianna Keilar, and \"STATE OF THE UNION\" host, Candy Crowley. Brianna, I want to start with you. This latest turn makes a shutdown very likely. And we heard any response from the administration, from the Obama administration?", "We have -- we've got a reaction, actually, from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney yesterday as this was going through, as this process was happening. He said Republicans have tried and failed to defund or delay the health care law more than 40 times and they know this demand is reckless and irresponsible. The president has shown that he is willing to improve the health care law and meet Republicans more than half way to deal with our fiscal challenges but he will not do so under threats of a government shutdown that will hurt our economy. Any member of the Republican Party who votes for this bill is voting for a shutdown. And, Victor and Deb, the White House has issued a veto threat over what House Republicans passed last night. Officials here, we heard this just from President Obama, he doesn't want to negotiate on anything that will delay Obamacare or that will defund Obamacare. He has said this is a legitimate law. It was passed by Congress. The Supreme Court upheld it. And to talk to officials here, they just think that what Republicans are doing is quite ridiculous at this point. Obviously, a lot of the action still on Capitol Hill to see what the Senate is going to do in response to this House bill passing late last night -- Deb and Victor.", "All right. Brianna Keilar, thanks so much. Now, let's bring in CNN's Candy Crowley. With a government shutdown seeming almost certain, candy, the president -- there's a feeling why aren't both sides coming to the table to negotiate? Are they afraid it's going to fail or are they afraid it's going to succeed this whole Affordable Healthcare Act?", "Well, if you mean -- listen. A lot of folks on the Republican side say it's already a monumental failure. They say businesses aren't hiring because they're worried about what Obamacare means, that in some cases, they're making full time workers part time workers. So their argument has been all along we already know this is a disaster. Here are the things that aren't working, et cetera, et cetera. Obviously, the White House takes a totally different view and says let's put this up there which an online signup is going to start on Tuesday. So, we're going to put it out there. There are going to be glitches. We will fix the glitches. But it's going to go forward. So, now, I think what you saw in some of those clips is they're setting up that kind of who's responsible for this. Now you're hearing less about the substance of this and a lot more about who's closing down the government. I suspect that's what you're going to hear over the next couple of days.", "Yes, absolutely. We haven't heard anything but. You've got an interview coming up in the next hour with Senator John Barrasso and former Governor Howard Dean. Both of them are doctors. Do you think in terms of whether this will work, people are going to have to start signing up for these various marketplace plans come Tuesday -- at least they'll have an opportunity to do that. Do you think it will capture the public imagination? Do you think once it gets going that in fact there will be enough momentum? Or could it get held up if they want to delay it or decide to take away the tax that's supposed to pay for it?", "All things are possible. I think that the medical device tax has a good chance of passing, but probably not on this bill. We'll see. But there is a lot of resistance to the medical device tax on wheelchairs, et cetera. So that may be one of those things the White House is willing to look at and Democrats are willing to look at. But the White House has made it pretty clear that it's not going to negotiate on either the debt ceiling or the spending resolution about Obamacare because -- it's, you know, obviously going to start up on Tuesday. They're intent on doing that. As to whether folks will sign up, that's key. I mean, the next six months will certainly tell us a lot about what will work and what won't work because the signup needs to really bring in a lot of what they call the invincibles -- those young people who don't think they need health care, who can't afford health care. They say yes, but I don't get sick anyway. They need a lot of those folks. That's where the key is. That is the demographic you want to watch the next couple of months.", "Yes, because if they don't sign up, then, obviously, the premiums for the older folks are going to go up. All right. Candy, thank you so much. Going to be interesting to watch, perfect storm.", "And, of course, stay here for \"STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY\" coming up next hour, 9:00 a.m. Eastern, right here on", "Now, to the civil war engulfing Syria. Damascus could make its case before the United Nations Monday.", "And the U.N. Security Council is ordering Syria to get rid of those chemical weapons. CNN foreign affairs reporter Elise Labott joins us now from New York. Elise, tell us more about what's happening on Monday.", "Victor, well, the Syrian foreign minister is going to be addressing the U.N. General Assembly even as inspectors from the United Nations are in Syria finishing up investigating even more possible incidents of chemical weapons. So it's kind of interesting dichotomy there. And the Syrian foreign minister even after the U.N. Security Council passed this resolution calling on Syria to give up the chemical weapons, they're saying Assad is not leaving power. He's if power until mid-2014 at least when there's his term ends and there will be another election. So I think even after everything that's gone on over the past few weeks with the United Nations Security Council, now that Syria has agreed to give up chemical weapons, the Syrian regime feels embolden and that it's even has job security. So they're saying they're willing to go to a peace conference. That the U.S. and Russia are trying to set up in Geneva in the next couple of months, but President Assad is not going anywhere, Victor. That's what they're saying.", "Interesting turn, because two years ago, President Obama said Assad must go. And now, the president believes he has job security based on something that was spearheaded by the folks in Washington. Elise Labott there in New York for us -- thank you. All right. So, rough weather made the way to Oregon this weekend.", "That's right. Just can't hold back winter. Well, heavy rains and winds downed power lines and trees near the Portland area, leaving thousands of residents without power. More rain expected today. Let's bring in our meteorologist Pedram Javaheri in the CNN severe weather center -- Pedram.", "Hi, Deb. Yes, you know, this storm system looking like a textbook winter storm system here. Clouds well over 1,000 miles end to end and parked out there in the Gulf of Alaska. We know gusty winds upwards of 75 miles per hour already recorded. Look at Seattle. You know, it's got a dubious distinction for rainfall. The dry season transition into September and October. We go to 1 1/2 inches rainfall in September to about 6 1/2 inches in November. Look at what occurred so far this September as you round out towards the latter portion of the month. Nearly five inches have already come down. An additional one to three inches could come down, making this the wettest, one of the wettest Septembers on record across Seattle. And that pattern, again, continues down to Portland where we know travel delay is going to be abundant, one to three inches for the metro areas. While four to six could come down in the southwest facing slopes of the Cascades and also the Olympic mountains of Washington and into Oregon. You take a look, certainly going to be rain cooled, about 57 degrees across the Northwest, while gorgeous conditions in the heart of the country, about 75 in Kansas City. And you cannot beat weather like this northeast fall weather about 75 to 76 degrees for millions of people across the northeast, guys.", "Delicious. Absolutely delicious.", "Sweet spot right there,", "Absolutely. Pedram, thanks so much.", "You bet.", "The owner of a bunch of Applebee's franchises caused a big stir when he said Obamacare would make him stop hiring. Is he changing his tune now? Plus, a small act of kindness spreads around the world. We'll tell you how pumpkin spice latte, and a lot of people love pumpkin spice latte, how it inspired thousands to pay forward."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "BLACKWELL", "FEYERICK", "BLACKWELL", "FEYERICK", "BLACKWELL", "FEYERICK", "BLACKWELL", "FEYERICK", "BLACKWELL", "FEYERICK", "BLACKWELL", "FEYERICK", "BLACKWELL", "FEYERICK", "BLACKWELL", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "FEYERICK", "CANDY CROWLEY, ANCHOR, CNN'S STATE OF THE UNION", "FEYERICK", "CROWLEY", "FEYERICK", "BLACKWELL", "CNN. 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{"id": "CNN-148573", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2010-3-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1003/03/acd.02.html", "summary": "Do Rich Candidates Win More?", "utt": ["Well, Washington may be broken, the government, but the folks we elected to run it are certainly far from broke. The Center for Responsive Politics says 237 members of Congress are millionaires, according to their most recent reported assets. So, do you know who the richest five are, the top five? We are going to show you right now. First, from the state of Massachusetts, we have Senator John Kerry. The Democrat has an average net worth of nearly $209 million. All right, let's go to the number fourth richest member of Congress. For that, we have to go to the state of Virginia, Senator Mark Warner. The Democrat has reported assets of about $209 million. So, let's go to the next name on the list. The next is in Wisconsin, Senator Herb Cole. The Democrat's estimated worth is roughly $214 million. Now, the second richest member of Congress, actually, for the top two, we go to the state of California. Second on the list, Representative Jane Harman, estimated net worth $244 million. All right. Let's look at the richest member of Congress, also from California, Republican Representative Darryl Issa; estimated net worth, $251 million. So clearly, to get power, you need to have money, yours or other people's. That's the cost of entering Washington. And it's a series that we're launching tonight. These days when it comes to spending, the sky is the limit. In Connecticut, Linda McMahon, wife of pro-wrestling honcho Vince McMahon, says she is going to shell up to $50 million to be that state's next senator. Randi Kaye reports.", "Take a look at this. That woman, in wrestling jargon, she's getting tombstoned. Two things you need to know about her. First, she hates to lose and will do anything to win. Second, she's worth hundreds of millions of dollars and plans to spend tens of millions of her own to become the next U.S. senator from Connecticut. Her name is Linda McMahon. She and her husband, Vince McMahon, co-founded World Wrestling Entertainment, a billion-dollar business. They brought us Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant. So Linda McMahon isn't just rich; she's really rich. Dave Leventhal at the Center for Responsive Politics tracks campaign spending. He says there is no recession in politics. (on camera): Do you have to be rich to get elected these days?", "You don't have to be rich, but it sure helps to be rich.", "In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg poured at least $90 million of his own into his re-election campaign and won. New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine: more than $40 million to win in 2005. Back in the Connecticut smack-down, McMahon's opponents in the Republican primary are millionaires, too, but small-time compared to McMahon. Former congressman, Rob Simmons, is worth about $2.5 million.", "You know, we don't have $40 million or $50 million. We don't need $40 million or $50 million. We need people. We need people. And tonight, we got people.", "Do you believe that you have to be rich to win?", "No, I do not. And I'm not rich, and I've won.", "McMahon has never held political office but says she's willing to spend $50 million of her own money on this campaign and finance it herself because she is refusing to accept money from special interest groups. (voice-over): Personal financial disclosure forms show McMahon has so much cash, she keeps $1 million in a bank account and has more than $15,000 in uncashed checks. At the Republican primary debate in Hartford this week, McMahon was asked if she's trying to buy the election. Her opponent, Simmons, says it's a valid question. (on camera): You've raised about $3 million?", "Yes.", "Your opponent, Linda McMahon, has said that she's willing to spend $50 million that she has, her own money, on her campaign. How do you compete with that?", "It's hard in some respects to compete with somebody who has just a ton of money.", "Being independently wealthy allows McMahon to spend more time with voters, less time fund-raising. She can blanket the state with advertising and pay top dollar for staffers. Her chief of staff earns nearly $300,000 a year. (on camera): So money talks?", "Money does talk.", "But for candidates like Linda McMahon, who pay for their own campaigns, talk may not be enough. The Center for Responsive Politics says 40 out of 51 congressional candidates who spent half a million dollars or more on their 2008 campaigns lost or quit. Proof, perhaps, that even the richest person in the world needs a message voters believe, not just a good act. Randi Kaye, CNN, Hartford, Connecticut.", "Ouch. Our series continues tomorrow. We're also following several other important stories tonight. Brianna Keilar has the \"360 News & Bulletin\" -- Brianna.", "Anderson, we begin with a developing story: a powerful earthquake in Taiwan. The magnitude 6.4 quake struck the southern part of the country. As of now, no reports of injuries or damage, but we will continue to monitor that situation. Now also tonight, new troubles for New York's embattled governor. Te State Commission on Public Integrity says David Paterson broke ethics rules when accepting free World Series tickets last year. This comes as Paterson stands accused of intervening in a domestic violence incident involving one of his advisers. The government expecting to turn a tidy $2 billion profit on part of its loan to Bank of America when it puts the bank's stock warrants up for auction tomorrow. The government will now likely break even on the bank bailout, according to the Congressional Budget Office. And Anderson, a Virginia congressman is pushing to have Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill, replacing Ulysses S. Grant.", "Interesting. We'll see if that happens. Brianna thanks very much. In Chile tonight, the death toll will -- is actually about 802 right now. We're going to have a report from Karl Penhaul. There was a scare about a tsunami. A lot of people have been running, thinking they were running for their lives. We'll have that ahead and a lot more. Stay tuned."], "speaker": ["COOPER", "RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DAVE LEVENTHAL, CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICS", "KAYE (voice-over)", "ROB SIMMONS, CONNECTICUT SENATORIAL CANDIDATE", "KAYE (on camera)", "SIMMONS", "KAYE", "SIMMONS", "KAYE", "SIMMONS", "KAYE (voice-over)", "LEVENTHAL", "KAYE (voice-over)", "COOPER", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-106510", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2006-5-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/30/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Reckless Justice; Supply Shortage After Indonesia Quake", "utt": ["Happening this morning, a bombing in Athens, Greece. The bomb exploded near the home of the Greek cultural minister. Nobody was hurt. Mt. St. Helens is rumbling. The volcano shot up steam and ash on Monday following a large rock fall in its crater. Scientists say there is no evidence of an explosion. And The Associated Press is reporting that Democratic Senator Harry Reid accepted free fight tickets from Nevada boxing officials between 2003 and 2005. On the left of your screen there, left edge, you can see him right there sitting with Republican Senator John McCain. Senator McCain apparently paid for his own ticket. Reid was pushing for more federal regulation of the sport at the time. Good morning. Welcome, everybody. I'm Soledad O'Brien.", "And I'm Miles O'Brien. Thanks for being with us. On Capitol Hill, they're calling it reckless justice. We're talking about that FBI raid on Congressman William Jefferson's office. A House panel holds a hearing today to see if the FBI crossed a constitutional line. Dana Bash with more.", "Congress is not in session this week. Most lawmakers are back in their home states for Memorial Day recess. But that's not stopping the House Judiciary Committee from holding a hearing later this morning to look into the constitutional questions raised in the unprecedented FBI raid on a lawmaker's congressional office more than a week ago. Chairman James Sensenbrenner called constitutional experts to testify, not anyone from the Bush administration. Yet, his position is clear. The hearing is entitled \"Reckless Justice.\" Did the Saturday night raid of Congress trample the Constitution? And the fact that he is even holding this hearing is fodder for Democrats, who see hypocrisy in the GOP outcry over the raid on its turf after years of the president's broad use of executive powers without much, if any, opposition from Republican congressional leaders. Dana Bash, CNN, Washington.", "CBS reporter Kimberly Dozier is in critical condition, wounded by a car bomb in Iraq. She's been flown to the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, this morning. She's got some serious injuries to her lower body. Shrapnel has been removed from her head. Her cameraman, Paul Douglas, was killed in the explosion. He was 48 years old. Her soundman, James Brolan, also died. He was 42 years old. Between 1994 and 2005, 100 journalists and staff have been killed in the Iraq war. A growing shortage of medical supplies for victims of Saturday's big earthquake in Indonesia. The death toll stands at more than 5,400, with thousands more injured and tens of thousands left homeless. CNN's Dan Rivers in Yogyakarta now.", "Well, this is day four after this disaster now, four days of the survivors having to be camped out in the ruins of their homes. The big aid effort is now beginning to get under way. The airport has reopened in Yogyakarta, meaning that a lot of the supplies can be flown directly into the disaster zone, which will no doubt help the aid agencies and the Indonesian government get food and supplies out to the people that need it most. The World Food Program tell us that they are setting up a two- month feeding program. They estimate that there is a hard core of about 20,000 people who really desperately need help immediately. And then they are hoping to feed up to 80,000 people in the first month, and scaling that back to 50,000 people in the second month. And they're hoping that after two months, they will have been able to get most people in this area back on their feet and back able to fend for themselves. One other big area of concern is the hospitals. They have been completely unable to cope with the number of people coming in for treatment. We'd been up there yesterday, and there are people who have been waiting for days for treatment. There are no basic medical supplies, a shortage of basic painkillers, of antibiotics and bandages and stretchers. So they are appealing for more medical aid. They're appealing for any doctors in the region that can come in and help them to come here and help treat the thousands of injured that are now pouring into the hospitals. Dan Rivers, CNN, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.", "Happening \"In America\" right now, in Richmond, Virginia, a deadly fire at a nursing home. Two elderly women died yesterday. Witnesses heard a loud boom before the fire broke out. An investigation under way. It's the third fatal fire at that nursing home in the past 28 years. The bills are piling up like the dirt as the FBI keeps digging for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa at that horse farm in Michigan. The second week of digging begins today. The FBI won't say how much they're spending, but more than 40 FBI personnel, plus demolition experts, archaeologists, anthropologists are on the scene. And they'll have to pay for a new barn to replace the one they tore down. Florida firefighters trying to control a 2,000-acre brushfire in Brevard County. Fog and smoke expected to slow down the morning commute, but the flames are far enough from the road to reopen parts of Interstate 95. Thousands of people in Orange County, Florida, meanwhile, got an automated phone call on Memorial Day at 5:12 in the morning.", "Ouch.", "Late by our standards. The message was about an attempted break-in at one of the elementary schools. It was supposed to go out to the school administrator only. The district blames human error. And whatever happened to just getting a certificate for perfect attendance? Oh, those were the days. In Albuquerque, the public school district there held a drawing for a free car. Thirteen students took part. Mica Livingston (ph) walked away with the car keys. She says, \"Forget senior ditch day. This was well worth it.\"", "What did she win?", "She got a new car.", "I know. What kind of car. Do you know? Can you tell?", "I don't know. It's a new car. It's a new car.", "And she calls her mom.", "Oh, mom, you're not going to believe it. I'm in a new car. And she's like...", "Good for her.", "... you're grounded. No. Anyway, fantastic. Perfect attendance. We're glad. But jeez, a car? I remember the day, Chad, when we walked to school barefoot in the snow. We didn't get new cars for showing up, did we?", "Uphill -- uphill both ways.", "Yes, all that stuff.", "Yes. Good morning, everybody.", "Chad, thanks.", "You're welcome.", "Still to come this morning, much more on CBS reporter Kimberly Dozier's condition. We'll bring you the very latest from Landstuhl Medical Center, as well as some new details about that ambush that killed two of her colleagues at CBS -- Miles.", "Then, is New Orleans really ready? The Homeland Security chief, Michael Chertoff, will be checking out hurricane -- hurricane plans there firsthand today.", "And we're going to show you how hip-hop superstars the Black Eyed Peas are inspiring youth in Africa. First, though, a look at what other stories are making news on this Tuesday morning."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "DANA BASH, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "S. O'BRIEN", "DAN RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. 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{"id": "CNN-273509", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-01-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/11/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Latest Poll Data for Iowa and New Hampshire", "utt": ["But I think there may be something to what Bernie Sanders said. I don't think they thought it would be this close at this point - Pamela.", "Yes. As you said earlier, perhaps a little too close for comfort. Brianna Keilar, thank you so much. And the new polls show the Republican race is getting tighter in Iowa, but getting wider in New Hampshire. Just moments ago Quinnipiac University released its poll of likely Iowa caucus goers and Donald Trump, take a look, leads Ted Cruz 31 to 29 percent, well within the margin of error with the rest of the field far behind. Also today, Monmouth University came out with its result for New Hampshire. And it is now the third poll in a row that shows Donald Trump with at least a third of the GOP vote in New Hampshire. The real race is for a distant second place among Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Marco Rubio. With me now is Democratic strategist Harlan Hill and Republican political consultant Mindy Finn. Thank you both for coming on. Mindy, I'm going to start with you here because in Iowa, Quinnipiac found that while Trump is slightly ahead, his negative rating is much stronger with 26 percent saying they would definitely definitively support Trump. But for Cruz that number was just seven percent. Is that a sign to you that Cruz will ultimately prevail?", "Yes. There are some troubling signs for Donald Trump in Iowa. I mean, that race according to poll is essentially tied right now. But as you mentioned, more than a quarter of Iowa caucus goers say they would never vote for Donald Trump. In terms of the matchup between Donald Trump and say Hillary Clinton, he does not do as well as in Marco Rubio or a Ted Cruz. And as we get close to the final votes here, what we are seeing is that this rate starts to really take shape and there can be shifts even in this last few weeks. I think when voters make that final decision, it's really important for them to consider, you know, who can do best in a general election, who has the longevity here in the race.", "Yes. A lot can happen between now and then a few weeks and half of the voters apparently have not made up their minds according to this poll. Harlan, to you now. I want to ask you about this birther debate now that is sort of ramping up against Ted Cruz. We have Rand Paul now jumping into this voicing his concerns about Cruz's eligibility. Would Democrats challenge this if Cruz does advance?", "Well, if Cruz does advance, there's no question this is going to be on the table. So if I'm a Republican strategist, if I am Republican candidate, I think I want to get this out of the way now, you know. If your primary concern is, you know, is winning back the White House in 2016, we need to establish that Cruz is actually eligible to be the next president of the United States. So I think it is perfectly fair game for Donald Trump and for everyone else in the field to take a shot at him on this because frankly Cruz needs to answer it.", "Well, and Cruz has answered it and said he believes that he is a U.S. citizen. But Mindy, what do you believe -- what is your take on this about Rand Paul sort of jumping into this debate? He is at two percent in the latest polls, of latest poll. Why do you think he's jumping into this?", "Yes. It's hard to see how this helps Rand Paul. I think other than getting his name in the headlines, we are talking about him today. It's been hard for him to get traction in a crowded field, but it could potentially hurt Ted Cruz. The more people pile on and cast doubt on his candidacy.", "And Harlan, turning to Sanders now closing in on Hillary Clinton as we just talked about with Iowa - I mean, with Iowa, with Brianna. Should we win in Iowa and New Hampshire, should that mean that the party should see him as the candidate as he suggests or a small setback for Clinton?", "I'm losing her.", "OK. You are having some issue. That's OK. Mindy, I'll go to you on that question then. What do you think? I mean, if Bernie Sanders wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, how much of a setback would that be for the Hillary camp?", "I think that would be a major setback. I mean, going back to 2008 when she entered that race as the presumptive nominee and didn't take Barack Obama seriously and look where we are today. And that's with her doing better in New Hampshire. Obviously, Barack Obama doing well in Iowa. If Sanders were to win Iowa and New Hampshire, I think that casts her candidacy into doubt and really puts him in a position of a front runner. There's no way to look at that differently.", "Mindy Finn and Harlan Hill that we just lost there due to technical issue. There he is back again. Thank you so much to both of you for coming on. Great discussion there.", "Thank you.", "And up next in the NEWSROOM, a warning for cops in Philly after the ambush of an officer on duty. A tipster now tells police, the suspect had ties to a radical group. Plus, saying good-bye to music legend David Bowie, an artist who had the rare opportunity to draw the singer's portrait shares his perspective on Bowie's legacy."], "speaker": ["BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "PAMELA BROWN, CNN HOST", "MINDY FINN, REPUBLICAN POLITICAL CONSULTANT", "BROWN", "HARLAN HILL, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST/POLITICAL CONSULTANT", "BROWN", "FINN", "BROWN", "HILL", "BROWN", "FINN", "BROWN", "HILL", "BROWN"]}
{"id": "CNN-103970", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2006-3-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/17/lt.03.html", "summary": "President Bush, Irish Prime Minister Mark St. Patrick's Day; Sneaky Accountant Tricks Tips", "utt": ["The markets have been open just about an hour. The Dow moving just a little bit. You can see it's up 20 points. The Nasdaq almost flat. Up just over a single point. There are few people in your life who you put more trust in than your accountant. After all, they have the keys to your kingdom, so to speak. So today's \"Top Five Tips\" warn you of common and costly tricks by less than trustworthy accountants. Our Personal Finance Editor Gerri Willis here with more on that. Gerri, before my accountant calls in, he has done a fine job for me for many years.", "I am pleased to hear that. And there are plenty of accountants who are really great. But let me tell you, this is the time of year that the scam artists come out and they hang out a shingle and you don't know if they're legit or not. To check them out, you want to make sure that they know what they're doing. You want to make sure that they're either a CPA or they're an enrolled agent. They're someone who has the education and the training to do what they do. But a couple of facts here. Understand that not all CPA's do individual taxes. There are some 640,000 of them, but many of them don't do the kind of work you need. One good idea to try, an enrolled agent. These are folk who either worked for the IRS or they also absolutely have to take a very complicated test the IRS gives. They know what they're doing. Go to enrolledagent.org. That's NAEA.org to find out more. Daryn.", "So how do you pick out the bad apples, Gerri?", "Well, there are some red flags out there. If somebody, for example, tells you, hey, I can get you a bigger refund than anybody else, that is a bad sign. Some other bad signs, preparers who base their fees on how much they're getting you in a refund. Or if they ask you to sign a blank tax form, don't do that. That's always a bad idea. And if you get one of these fraud artists, call 1-800-829- 0433. That's the IRS. They're going to help you out if you are on the hook with a scam artist.", "How about those ads for rapid refund? Those can sound kind of enticing.", "You know, they are enticing and a lot of people do them. Look, you are taking out a loan for your own money and you're probably paying 40 percent to 200 percent in interest for the privilege. Don't go there. It's a bad thing. You are borrowing your own money. Why not just wait a few weeks for the refund? You pay no interest at all on it. Your money is back to you whole. That's the best way to go.", "Go for that direct deposit into your checking account.", "yes. Love that. I love the -- you know, file electronically. You can do it free at IRS.gov right now.", "Better there. Now, when you hire an accountant are they loyal to you?", "Well, you know, they don't have a fiduciary responsibility to find the absolute best tax deal for you. So it's up to you. And the thing you need to understand right now, because so many people are filing electronically, the folks who do this all the time, they are having to -- they are having to get -- sell other products, like Jackson Hewitt and H&R; Block. So understand that they're out there trying to sell IRAs, other things. You want to make sure that you pay for what you get -- Daryn.", "And finally, really quickly, watch what you sign, Gerri?", "Watch what you sign. You know, the IRS is thinking about allowing some of these accountants to sell your information to third party marketers. It could happen in a few weeks. So when you're sitting down to sign your tax forms, watch what you sign. You could be signing one of these forms to give away your information, Social Security data, other things, to other people. Don't want to go there.", "Gerri, thank you very much. Like the green. It is St. Patrick's Day.", "Really.", "And on that note let's head to the White House. Annual tradition, President Bush welcoming the Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern. Let's listen in.", "... the history of Irish immigration to this country is as old as America itself. This week, across this great land, millions of Irish-Americans are proudly celebrating their heritage. Remember on this day that the strength of today's relationship is made possible by the hard sacrifices of generations of Irish immigrants. From the sad and difficult past has emerged a successful and a proud people: proud of Ireland, proud of the United States, and proud of being Irish-American. We salute our many achievements and we celebrate our many successes. Mr. President, you have shown real leadership and understanding and the complex challenge of comprehensive immigration reform. On this St. Patrick's Day, mindful of the resonance that this great issue commands for people and Irish people. And I would like to express the hope that a path may be found to encourage current Irish immigrants to legalize their status in the United States on a permanent basis. I hope that they can realize their dream of stable and secure lives for themselves and their families in this great country. Mr. President, the greatest historic issue that has faced the Irish issue from all traditions and creeds has been the challenge to live together in peace on our small island. Since we met last year, we've made further real progress. After decades of denying the will of the Irish people, the IRA announced the end of its campaign and the decommissioning of its weapons. These were long awaited, landmark historic developments. Both Prime Minister Blair and I are determined that 2006 will be a decisive year and complete a journey of peace that we've embarked on. We are one in our objective and in our strategy. We want to see the Good Friday agreement implemented and its full potential realized. We will not be deterred from this challenge. And when we look back on such a dark past we're all the more determined to deliver on the promise and hope of that sensible (ph) agreement. The path to a permanent peace has not been easy, but I believe that step by step we're steadily building that peace and setting Northern Ireland on course for the future. The United States has been a great friend in this quest. And as we seek to conclude the last elements in our peace process, your continuing support, Mr. President, will be an enormous importance and greatly appreciated. I welcome your invitation to the Northern Ireland political parties to be here today and the fact that you've also extended an invitation to many others tragically affected by violence or working for a better future for everyone in Ireland. I warmly applaud the work of your special envoy, Ambassador Mitchell Reese (ph), as well as ambassador James Kenny. They do a great job serving their country, and their tireless efforts and commitment in advancing the peace process in Ireland are widely recognized. President John Quincy Adams once said that patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. We have found, Mr. President, the patience and perseverance that produced great results. With a little more in everybody's part and with your help and that of all our friends in the United States, we will complete our historic journey. I'm very pleased, Mr. President, to present you once again on this St. Patrick's Day of 2006 the shamrock as a token of our esteem and the warmth of our friendship. Thank you, Mr. President.", "Thank you very much. Welcome back. Laura and I are delighted to welcome you for the White House. I'm proud to accept the bowl of shamrocks as a symbol of our friendship. The friendship between Ireland and the United States has deep roots. Few people fought as hard for American independence as the sons of Erin. At the end of the Revolutionary War, Lord Mountjoy told the House of Commons that \"we've lost America through the Irish.\" The Irish played a key role in Washington's army, and in the two centuries since, the ties between Ireland and America have only strengthened. The ties between Ireland and America reflected in this great house. This house was designed by an Irish architect, and he used as his model the grandest building he knew, Leinster House in Ireland. The affinities between the two buildings are more than just architectural. The White House built, by James Hoban, has been home to every American president since John Q. Adams' father, John. The Dublin building that inspired him now serves as a free parliament in a free and independent Ireland. The ties between Ireland and America are also reflected in our people. Ireland has one of the fastest growing economies in Europe, and its growth is attracting immigrants. For more than a century that was a different story. Millions of Irish came to our shores because of war and poverty and famine. Often they arrived with nothing but the faith of their fathers and a willingness to work. These men and women, who built our cities, were also the soldiers who defended our freedom in every one of our wars. They're the priests and they're the nuns whose built a system of parochial schools that provided a decent education for millions of poor immigrants. And they're now doing the same thing for a new generation of African-Americans and Latino Americans in our inner cities. Like St. Patrick, the Irish and America began their life in their new land as exiles but came to love it as home. Finally, the ties between Ireland and America are reflected in our common commitment to bring the blessings of liberty to every man and woman and child on this earth. In the 20th Century, Ireland won its independence and raised up a democracy that offered its people a just and better life. In the 21st century Ireland is now helping other nations who share the same aspirations for peace and prosperity by fighting hunger and the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa; by supporting relief efforts for victims of the tsunami in Asia; and by helping the Afghan people rebuild their lives in their country. Ireland is independent when it comes to foreign policy. But Ireland is not neutral when it comes to the global challenges like hunger and disease and human rights. Taoiseach, you're making a big contribution to our world. And we appreciate it. The United States appreciates all of Ireland's efforts for peace and freedom. Americans are grateful to our Irish friends, and we are proud of our Irish heritage. The Census Bureau tells us there are more than 34 million Americans that claim Irish ancestry. St. Patrick's Day I suspect that number jumps a little bit. On this special day we honor the saint who brought the gospel of peace to the green isle. And we count ourselves blessed by the warm friendship between his adopted land and our own. Thanks for coming. Appreciate it.", "It's the annual ceremony, the presentation of the shamrock. The Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern, and President Bush, and it's at the White House. In case you're wondering why would the Irish prime minister be here instead of Ireland on St. Patrick's Day? Well, four million Irish living in Ireland and, as you heard President Bush mention, 34 million of Irish decent here in the United States. And still ahead on CNN LIVE TODAY, starry-eyed players take the court, eagle-eyed employers, they are on the offensive. You're not going to believe how far March Madness has gone to your workplace computer. Coming up in just a bit."], "speaker": ["KAGAN", "WILLIS", "KAGAN", "WILLIS", "KAGAN", "WILLIS", "KAGAN", "WILLIS", "KAGAN", "WILLIS", "KAGAN", "WILLIS", "KAGAN", "WILLIS", "KAGAN", "BERTIE AHERN, IRISH PRIME MINISTER", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-339733", "program": "CRIME AND JUSTICE WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2018-05-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/10/ptab.01.html", "summary": "Female Serial Killer, Woman Kills Both Her Hubby And Secret Lover", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone, I`m Ashleigh Banfield. Welcome to \"Crime and Justice\". Boyfriends, lovers and a husband who is dead. Is Kelly Cochran the newest installment of a twisted black widow with a dash of Hannibal Lecter on the side? She is accusable being, her husband with heroine dismembering a lover before that. But that may not even be the sickest of her crimes. Bernice Man, is covering the story, what else is she thought to have done?", "Well, her family reportedly believes that she has killed even more victims. But did she set one of her victims at a neighborhood barbecue? We`ll tell you what we know.", "Honestly. All right, we will get to those details shortly. Also, here`s another tale of a woman whose love affairs could land her in prison. An Arizona woman who went on one date, one date, and ended up stalking and breaking in, and threatening to bathe that date in his blood. Honest to god, these are the accusations, Michael Christian, careful who you meet online. What are you finding out about this woman?", "Ashleigh, this woman pulled out all the stops of her pursuit of this guy, she apparently sent him 65,000 texts, up to 500 a day. She was caught on home surveillance breaking into his house, and police found her there taking a bath in his bathtub. And we`ll tell you what cops found she had with her that day she broke into the house and also what she told his coworkers when she showed up in hi work place.", "I think I`ve seen this story on orange is the new black if I`m not mistaken. I can`t wait to get into details in this if you, Michael, standby. We also have the hunt for a killer, after a young single mother who went missing on her way to work is found dead in her car, five months later. And there was a very strange and curious clue that was left behind. I am going to tell you what it was, but who did this to her? Justin Freiman has been working on this story. What kind of clue was left behind and what is the story all about?", "Well, Ashleigh, the actual car, her car, she is found in that car months after she disappeared, but of course it was a very cold winter. So what kind of evidence could be in that car, or even on her body? We`ll look into it.", "Five months, sitting there apparently seeing a guy parking beside her every day, imagine what he is going through. Also, tonight, red bull gives you wings, but not until you drink it. So we`re going to tell you about a guy, this guy, look at him, think he might need a red bull? Look at him yawning with all that red bull in his cart. He stole $250 worth of this energy drink, looking like he desperately needed it. We are going to fill you in on that story. Also later, new suspicions about the South Carolina surgeon whose wife was just found dead. The doctor is now accused of lying to the police about killing somebody else. Back in October. A surgeon. All those stories coming up. First though that Michigan black widow who killed her lover and her husband and who may just have more victims buried across the Midwest. Kelly Cochran is already spending the rest of her life behind bars after the co- worker, she was seeing on the side mysteriously disappeared back in 2014. She got that victim, Chris Reagan to come over just for one last hookup. That is where her husband was lying in wait, all part of the plan with her, then that husband shot him during the sexual encounter with his wife. And if that sounds weird, it is. Because the husband Jason and the wife Kelly had apparently made a little pact on their wedding night that they would have to kill any lover with whom they cheated. Pretty romantic. Right? Well, how about this next part? When Kelly told police that she watched her husband dismember her lover`s body with an electric hand saw, and then dump the pieces in the woods. And then Kelly would later admit that she hated her husband for doing what they did. Which is how that husband also now ended up dead, a year and a half later, a year and a half after the lover, the black widow takes another. She admitted it all to the police, that she gave her husband a massive dose of heroin, and then straddled his body and choked him out. Though her initial call to 911 sure didn`t sound like that.", "My husband`s his face is like blue. He is breathing, barely. I don`t know what`s wrong. He is throwing up, he is sweating. I need an ambulance right away.", "OK. Are you in a hotel? Is that a hotel?", "No, I`m at home.", "OK. And how old is the person?", "37, just get an ambulance here, right now.", "OK, stay on the line with me.", "OK. You said he is breathing, difficulty breathing?", "Barely. Jason.", "OK, I can`t understand what you`re saying. Difficulty breathing, sweating.", "He is still breathing. I`m on the phone with them right now. OK, I need an ambulance here right away.", "OK, they`ve been dispatched.", "I`ve got to tend to him.", "OK. They have been dispatched, but I need you to stay on the line.", "Well, calls like that make you wonder how easy it is to lie, because if you believe what Kelly`s family tells us, she is been doing a lot of lying. They say that lover Chris and that husband Jason just might not be her only victims, and they do use the word serial killer. Joining me now, Crime and Justice Producer, Bernice Man, also Dr. Daniel Bober is with us, a forensic psychiatrist. Tim Gallagher is also with me, a medical examiner and forensic pathologist and Parag Shah, defense attorney and author of \"The Code.\" All right. First things first, Bernice Man, honestly, she just coughed up all of this information. She just told the police I did it, once, I did it twice, and she suggested she may have done it again. How did that happen?", "That is right, Ashleigh. Well, she had a little bit of a thing for one of those detectives. I think that is kind of how she was able to tell everything to that detective. But one of the police chiefs that was investigating this missing lover did say that Kelly admitted herself that there might be other victims.", "She just said -- first of all, let me get this straight. She is getting cozy, because she thinks the detective is cute or things maybe they might have something together, she is been hauled in for despicable murdered, for dismemberment, and she is getting cozy with the detective.", "Yes. She, you know the former police chief thinks that she had a little bit of an attraction, a connection. And that is how this detective was able to pull everything out of Kelly. Bana Well, you know what, use what you got. Hats off to the detective. Is this him in the picture here with the grey hair? We know -- I know she was interviewed by a lot of different people, but is this him?", "We do believe so.", "And he held her hand a bunch of times, too, didn`t he? He really reached out to her and made her feel comfortable, didn`t he?", "Yes, he held her hand, and would -- he said that he talked to her almost 40 interviews, 70 hours of -- and 70 hours of conversations building that connection with her.", "OK. So before they actually get to the death of the husband, the police kind of suspected this woman all along of the murder of the boyfriend. At least they sure had her in their sights as well. Listen, this is from \"Crime Watch Daily,\" I want you to hear the former Iron River Police Chief, Laura Frizzo, on her theory of all this.", "My theory was that these two people were responsible for Chris Reagan`s disappearance, definitely believed that they murdered him and that they were going to try to get away with it.", "They murdered him, they thought they would get away with it. And you remember that weird thing I told you right off the top, about the pact they made, I don`t know what vows you gave when you got married or what vows you plan to give, if you`re going to get married, but I`ll bet it`s not a vow like the one the Iron County Prosecuting Attorney, Melissa Powell is talking about. Again, \"Crime Watch Daily\" gave us this amazing clip. Have a look.", "When they got married they made this pact that if one of them were to have an affair that they had to kill the person that they had the affair with.", "And again, it is so difficult to get this information out of killers. They usually don`t just cough it all up, unless, of course, you`re sitting next to Detective Ogden? And apparently he has got some special spell over Kelly. Have a look at again what the police interrogation yielded. And you can hear Detective Ogden at work. Well, he is getting her to admit all this to the police. Have a look.", "I know that. So he completely dismembered Chris in the basement?", "So that is a really weird -- that is a really weird thing, you just dismembered Chris in the basement? Bernice, she actually just -- she told them everything, she took them to the basement, she pointed out line by line and hack by hack and bone by bone, didn`t she?", "She did. You know, she said that her husband was lying in wait when they were in the bedroom together and that he shot her in the head and that he brought her -- he brought Chris`s body to the basement with an electric hand saw, dismembered her -- dismembered him and then dumped the body in the woods.", "OK. So I want to make sure we get the right moment here, this whole notion where she talks about two men dying in her arms. I mean, she is literally admitting, I`m a black widow to this police detective. Again, hats off to Detective Ogden for being able to get all this out of her. But I want to ask the control man if we can roll that soundbite three. I think this is where she truly just admits both of these murders, just coughs it right up. Have a look.", "I had two men die in my arms.", "I know that. So he completely dismembered Chris in the basement?", "-- to hear, somewhat you were telling me, right around in this area, and that is where he cut him up. What was the biggest piece of bone be that you --", "The torso.", "The torso, that was here.", "Yes.", "Then we should find ribs. And I think that generally --", "The skull should be the biggest though.", "Dr. Daniel Bober, listen, usually I get you on the show to explain, well, how do you find the person who did these horrible things? I don`t typically have you on the show to say what kind of woman just sort of says it all, because she thinks the detective is cute and likes him holding her hands?", "Ashleigh, this woman is cold, cunning and calculated. This was quite a way to start off a marriage unless you`re having your wedding at San Quentin. This is a woman who participated in the crime with her husband, and it actually reminds me very much of a case in Canada, the Paul Bernardo case, where the husband and wife actually participated in the crime, and you know, did it to basically get rid of the victim, so that no one would know about it. So, I think that this is obviously, we know at least that she did it two times, and probably before, I don`t know if it meets the classic definition of a serial killer. For example, the FBI defines a serial killer as three or more murders with over a 30-day period, with an emotional cooling off period, but she certainly has some very deviant, psychological motives for these killings.", "I can`t believe you reached that far back into -- honestly when I was a reporter, Dr. Bober, that was one of the first time I ever covered, Paul Bernardo and his wife Karla Teale. Karla Homolka.", "Homolka, right.", "You don`t make that, oh god, if you don`t know this crime. I`m not going to cover it right now. I have too much to do on this segment. You got to google that one. Paul Bernardo, he is in prison for life in Canada for raping and murdering school girls with his wife, and guess who else? Her sister. It was the most hideous crime. And she is out. She got 12 years and a deal before they found the tapes. They didn`t need her testimony, because they found the tapes after they made the deal with Karla Homolka. So, she is out and the word is she is somewhere -- in South America.", "It is very disturbing.", "It is so disturbing -- you nailed it. It is very disturbing and very similar, when a husband and a wife participate. Do you ever expect that the wife is then going to off the husband later on?", "Well, that is something I`ve never seen before. But you know, we see crimes like this before where you have two personality types where maybe one of them as individuals would not commit a crime. But you take the two of them together and they manage to push themselves over the edge to commit murder.", "OK. So real quickly, let me just play the sentencing, the prosecutor and the judge in the courtroom at her sentencing. And this is for the -- I have to tell you, it`s for the first one, for the lover. Because, you know, there`s a couple of murders and deaths and sentences we`re dealing with here. But here`s the sentencing and what the prosecutor and the judge had to say to this black widow, ala monster in court. Take a look.", "It recognizes the atrocities committed by Kelly Cochran and her husband when they butchered Chris Reagan and threw him in the woods like a common sack of garbage. They finally, finally laid to rest Chris Reagan`s soul and give solace and comfort to his family.", "You are sentenced to the Michigan Department of Corrections for a period of life without the possibility of parole.", "Life without the possibility of parole, thank you, Jesus, toe tag parole, she is not going out until she has a tag on her toe. Parag Shah, that is great. I`m glad to hear that. But this is weird, apparently to get her plea agreement in the second murder of her husband, the state of Indiana cannot charge Kelly for any other potential murders even though she is suggested there`s many more victims and her brother says, she is a serial killer. Is that shocking to you?", "It`s not shocking, because the sentence would possibly all run concurrently. She`d still get life without parole. But if she is charged -- or if she is committed murders in other states, this does not preclude other states from bringing charges against her, for those googling the other crime, they should google this word, dual sovereignty doctrine, which is an acceptance exception to double jeopardy which says that --", "Wow.", "-- another state can charge you for the same murder if it was committed in two separate states.", "It is a nice insurance policy in case there`s some weird appeal. OK, I can`t go before I just get Bernice to do a 10 seconds on this whole barbecue business. The neighbors, they suspected Bernice, that she served body parts to the men as barbecue. Is this true? Is this ruler, is it lore?", "You know, this has been reported that neighbors say that they do think that Kelly served the lover`s remains to them.", "And yet we think as well that the lover`s remains were in the woods. It`s all disgusting and she is exactly where she needs to be. Thank you to all my guests. I have a question. I`m sure that you do a lot on your phone, right? You probably do dating on your phone. But have you ever had a dating experience like this? A woman accused of stalking, and sending 65,000 text messages to the guy she had one date with who really wasn`t interested, and that is just the tip of the iceberg."], "speaker": ["ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, HOST, HLN CRIME AND JUSTICE", "BERNICE MAN, CRIME AND JUSTICE PRODUCER", "BANFIELD", "MICHAEL CHRISTIAN, SENIOR FIELD PRODUCER, HLN", "BANFIELD", "JUSTIN FREIMAN, SR. 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{"id": "CNN-305600", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-02-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/17/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Trump: My Admin running like \"Fine-Tuned Machine\"", "utt": ["This morning, we are hearing from some lawmakers saying they are stunned after the president's press conference. A Republican Senator told CNN \"He should do that with therapist, not on live television.\"", "Another Republican lawmaker called it \"the new normal,\" adding, \"We're just trying to manage this s***.\" CNN congressional correspondent Sunlen Serfaty joins us now live from Capitol Hill with more on the response. Those aren't the only two Republicans reacting that way.", "That's right, Poppy. The Republicans were responding fast and furiously to the president's press conference yesterday. You know sources describe the Republican lawmakers watching this rather remarkable press conference unfold with varying levels of shock and dismay. But it was really that one bombshell statement from that one Republican lawmaker that really stood out, where they said, quote, \"We're just trying to manage this s***. The people that love him will love him more. The people that hate him will hate him more and the people in the middle probably will look at it the way we look at it here in Congress, which is, that's just the new normal. That's just the s*** that happens. I don't know how else to manage it.\" And Senator Marco Rubio perhaps with a little less colorful language basically spoke to the heart of what many people up on Capitol Hill are feeling. He told CNN, quote, \"It's been four weeks so it's not like we're talking about four months -- I know it might feel like four months -- but it has been just four weeks.\" And that's really getting to the heart of some of the frustration up here. That they are now a month in to this new administration and it does feel like they have a lot of distractions going on right now. You have this very ambitious agenda that Republicans has set tax reform, repealing and replacing Obamacare, and there is this concern and frustration and worry that these -- sort of daily distractions coming from a White House still in its infancy potentially could take the eye off the ball - on many of these big-ticket items that they want to get through. John and Poppy?", "Sunlen Serfaty for us on Capitol Hill. You're hearing from one Republican Congressman there, clearly has a potty mouth. We won't repeat that word again. But different words you are hearing this morning are chaos, turmoil surrounding this administration. This is what the president had to say about that.", "I turn on the T.V., open the newspapers and I see stories of chaos. Chaos. Yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running like a fine- tuned machine, despite the fact that I can't get my cabinet approved.", "Our next guest spent years working inside and behind the scenes at the White House. Joining us now is Craig Fuller. He's the former co-chair of President Bush's transition team. He served as Chief of Staff for Vice President George H.W. Bush. Welcome sir, nice to have you.", "Thank you, Poppy. Good to be here.", "Let's begin with the big headline this morning which is the fact that Admiral Harward has said no to the president, something that our Barbara Starr reports almost never happens. Sources close to him, telling CNN, this is because he basically saw chaos, a \"s*** sandwich\" inside of the White House. What message does this send to the president's team, is this a - a note they should take to heart?", "I think they have to take it to heart. You know people in the military tend to salute, and jump into any situation. And the fact that authorities are still in question, this having gone through the entire transition and now three weeks into the administration. I think does give people pause, trying to understand where the power centers are is not at all clear. And for a position as sensitive and as important as national security adviser, you don't want to take a position like that when there's doubt. It appears to me there's still a good deal of doubt over what the authority would have been had he taken the position.", "So the president says it's a fine-tuned machine. Is it?", "I heard that line. I thought, well, that's only true if we're talking about some kind of a carnival ride. This is like a roller coaster. Here's the challenge. There were 73 days from Election Day to the swearing-in. There's a lot to be done during that transition. But they had that time to get ready for the months ahead for sure. This doesn't get easier. More things come at the White House. The president has an address to the joint session of Congress. He has a budget. Pretty soon he'll have a summit of the developing countries - developed countries. Lots of challenges come into that White House. And they're stressed over the very things that they should have prepared for during this transition period.", "Also at the press conference yesterday, it was certainly history making, I think. Do you see any strategic value in what the president did up there? Did he gain any new supporters?", "You know, Poppy, you're asking I think one of the most important questions, and I heard you raise it earlier with regard to the rally in Florida, the same can be said of yesterday. What was the strategic intent? It seems to me that to have the kind of governing majority he needs, he has to build well beyond his base. 30 percent of eligible voters voted for him. 40 percent in polls approve his performance. Those are not numbers that are going to help him drive a very comprehensive, complex agenda through Congress, neither yesterday nor today with a rally makes a whole lot of sense in terms of trying to broaden that base. And I think that's something the White House is going to have to contend with going forward.", "You know, he will point to the -- the White House will point to the enormous support he has among Republican voters. -", "84 percent.", "84 percent. On Capitol Hill, you sort of see a little bit of that as well. There are Republicans that say, hey, this president is popular with our base so we want to be careful here. But you've got to add to that if you want to get things done.", "You have to add if you want to get things done and you also have to ask whether this continued kind of theater, let's call it, is going to really serve his purposes. Or is it going to put in question elections around the country. Pretty soon as it gets into this year, -- if the initiatives that he promised the electorate he would pursue aren't in fact being enacted, members of Congress are going to get very nervous about their - on reelection. And in this town, job security tends to get their attention in a pretty dramatic way.", "You know, generally, press conferences with the president don't get called an hour before they happen, right? So the White House had to scramble to make this happen, but all right, so maybe that's the style of this White House. That aside, do you see this as a president who actually - he took a lot of questions, which is great. Do you see him as answering any of them?", "You know, the press conferences that I was involved in, and there were a number of them, were carefully thought through, both with respect to timing, with respect to the messaging they wanted to come out, with respect to the opening statement, rehearsing and reviewing questions that were likely to be answered. They're very important events. It is important for a president to stand in front of the press and take questions and be able to be heard by the American people directly. But a president has a great deal of power. However, just saying something doesn't make it true. And when things are said that are in such conflict with what the facts seem to be, I think that hurts credibility. And when it comes to statements people have made, eventually, you know, Congress is going to be investigating probably General Flynn. Some of the questions will have to be answered under oath. And so when you get into a discussion about those kinds of complexities, which he did yesterday over the firing of an individual, you're opening a whole new ground for investigation. And that just keeps that story going, again, to your good question. I don't see how he benefits by doing that.", "Last question, about leaks, you've been inside a White House before, you know that they happen. Are they happening in your view at a different or more dangerous level now?", "They're happening, in my view, in a dramatic way. But here is the thing. The president doesn't have to tell people leaking classified confidential information is illegal. They know that. The fact is they're so concerned about the circumstances they see. They're willing to break the law to release the information. It's also not just one person. There are many, many people throughout Washington that have access to some of this information. And good reporters are sharing it. I always thought that there needed to be a very constructive relationship between those of us serving on the White House staff and those in the White House press corps. Most Americans learn what they know about what happens inside that White House through the media. And to have this combative relationship, I really think does not serve the White House well. I don't think it serves the public well either.", "Craig Fuller, thanks to have you on, have a good weekend. Still to come for us, Republican Congressman Peter King on his warning for lawmakers who are demanding that transcript -- of the call between the former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russia. Why he says that's a \"dangerous precedent.\" Obviously, also his reaction to the press conference and this news that Admiral Harward has said no thank you to the job, that's next."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "HARLOW", "SUNLEN SERFATY, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BERMAN", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "HARLOW", "CRAIG FULLER, FORMER CO-CHAIR PRESIDENT BUSH TRANSITION TEAM", "HARLOW", "FULLER", "BERMAN", "FULLER", "HARLOW", "FULLER", "BERMAN", "HARLOW", "BERMAN", "FULLER", "HARLOW", "FULLER", "BERMAN", "FULLER", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-56606", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-6-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/27/lt.01.html", "summary": "Fire Season Has Already Caused Enormous Damage in Arizona and Colorado", "utt": ["The summer is only a few days old, but you don't have to tell that to the thousands of people who are out there fighting fires, and those who have been forced from their homes because of them. The fire season has already caused enormous damage in Arizona and Colorado. Boise, Idaho, though, is where officials are standing by, and that's where they keep an eye of this fast-moving developing across the western U.S. Our Jeff Flock is standing by now. He's in Boise, and he has an with update on a bit of tour for us this morning -- Jeff.", "Indeed, Leon. Good morning to you. From the Pentagon of the war on fires, in some sense, this is the war room over my shoulder. Perhaps you see the latest fire they're looking at. This is a satellite imagery. And I think if I put laser pointer on it down there, maybe you see a little puff of smoke and that arrow. That is that new fire in Southern California called the Louisiana Fire. Now I'm with Kim Christensen who runs the war room. You're watching that one closely, because that's the newest one, right?", "Yes, it is. It started about 4:00 yesterday afternoon. It's up to 6,000 acres right now. It did calm down a little bit overnight. They do have suppression forces on that fire. So we're optimistic that they can get the upper hand on that.", "You have the latest numbers and the latest intelligence. How many crews are on that fire?", "Currently 16 crews.", "And that's 20-person crews.", "That's correct.", "OK, so a lot of people on that already. Give me a buzz through this if you can, Kim. I know you have a lot of desks here, working at various issues, in terms of putting these crews together and sending people. What are these people doing here, this young lady here?", "These people are going to be mobilizing engines, and caders (ph) and showers, as well as communications equipment to new fires.", "So if I can look just right over shoulder, I'm looking at a resource order here. And, Rick, if you're able to see, and on that I see \"resource order.\" What are they looking for there, if you can tell?", "What they do right there is they're keeping track of resources that are going right now. This, for instance, is going to the Pike San-Isabel Forest (ph) in Colorado.", "That's the thing, you've got so many different fires. We're focusing on the Arizona fire, the ones in Colorado, and now this California fire. But you have got them everywhere.", "Right now, we are continuing to support fires, even in Nevada and Utah at this time.", "And looking here, this young lady here, what are these people at these desks doing?", "They're mobilizing individual single resources such as dispatchers, crew bosses and helicopter managers to support the fires out in the field right now.", "Like if you're able to -- come over my shoulder here, and maybe you can see over this lady's shoulder. These are individual people she's looking at here in this book, is that correct? So you're moving these people around on the chess board.", "Moving these people around on the chess board from various locations throughout the United States.", "You call them overhead, but those are people.", "Single resource overhead.", "Got you. Back behind me here, I see people looking like national maps, and what is this, aircraft?", "This is the Aircraft desk, and they are going to be dispatching helicopters, air tankers and lead planes, as well as scheduling our contract jets to move crews around the country.", "What does this man that I'm look at right now, this guy, he's got a map of U.S. there -- what he is planning right now?", "Right now, we've got the fires plotted there, and it will also show the locations of helicopters so that we can mobilize the closest helicopter to the fire.", "And that's the whole dance of it, it's almost a ballet, putting these resources all together. Before we get away, I want to ask you in terms of what the intensity has been like so far this year? You've got couple of major fires at the same time. How have you been doing with resources?", "We're doing just fine. What we need right now is really a break from Mother Nature. But here, over the last couple of weeks, we've been supporting fires in the southwest and in Colorado, and then we'll get an occasional fire starting elsewhere, like in California. So what we really do here is we just choreograph the movement of this whole thing.", "I feel the intensity here. I listen to people as we walk through. We're hearing people on the phone. It's sort of a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look. We appreciate it very much. Kim, I'll let you get back to what you got to do. Thanks for the time. And we thank the folks at the National Interagency Fire Center for this behind-the-scenes look to see how they orchestrate this real war against wildfires in this very tough season. Leon, that's latest. Back to you.", "Thanks, Jeff, that's fascinating, absolutely fascinating. Thanks, buddy. 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{"id": "NPR-13633", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2017-08-21", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/08/21/544952961/morning-news-brief-trumps-afghan-strategy-total-solar-eclipse", "title": "Morning News Brief: Trump's Afghan Strategy, Total Solar Eclipse", "summary": "In a televised address Monday night, President Trump will lay out his strategy for Afghanistan. And for the first time in nearly a century, the moon will completely block the sun in parts of the U.S.", "utt": ["In a televised address tonight, President Trump plans to lay out his strategy for Afghanistan.", "It's been nearly 16 years since the U.S. invaded the country, making it the longest war in U.S. history. It's a war that's bedeviled generals, diplomats and now three presidents. For President Trump, it's been a months-long decision in the making. Here's Defense Secretary James Mattis on Sunday.", "The strategic process was sufficiently rigorous and did not go in with a preset condition in terms of what questions could be asked or what decisions would be made.", "Whatever the president decides, the U.S. faces a stalemate in Afghanistan. The Afghan government controls just over half of its territory, with the Taliban and the Islamic State taking parts of the country that the U.S. and coalition forces had once secured.", "And, Ailsa, let's bring in NPR White House correspondent Scott Horsley and also NPR national security correspondent Mary Louise Kelly. Good morning to you both.", "Morning.", "Good morning.", "Scott, before we get to the substance and policy, just - let's set the stage here. This television address tonight comes after what was a really tough week for President Trump. I mean, is this a way to turn to a new subject and turn the page and move past all that chaos?", "Well, you're right, David. This was certainly not a restful working vacation...", "No.", "...That the president is coming off of. You had not only another staff shake-up but all the controversy surrounding the president's comments on Charlottesville, the ensuing defections of business leaders from some White House advisory councils and very vocal criticism from members of Congress. None of that is necessarily driving this decision on Afghanistan and the decision to hold the prime-time speech tonight. But certainly, the president and his team would be happy if this televised address were to eclipse some of the negative coverage the president's been...", "I see what you did there.", "(Laughter) Nice, nice.", "(Laughter) I see what you did there.", "And then there was, of course, the firing of his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who felt pretty strongly about winding down our troop levels in Afghanistan - right, Scott?", "You're right, Ailsa. Steve Bannon described himself as an economic nationalist, and so he was averse to any really big and costly troop buildup in Afghanistan. He also advocated outsourcing some of the Afghan operation to private contractors, although it's not clear that would have saved the U.S. government a whole lot of money.", "It's also not clear just how much influence Bannon had in his final days at the White House. It was widely noted that he was left off the list of advisers who took part in that big powwow on Friday at Camp David, where this strategy was discussed. And, of course, we now know that when that meeting at Camp David was held, Bannon was already on his way out the door.", "OK, so we have all this secrecy about what the strategy is actually going to be. I mean, Scott, you mentioned that Steve Bannon was against a troop buildup. Mary Louise, what are the options? I mean, is a troop buildup one of the options? What exactly is the president considering here, mulling over?", "Absolutely, I mean, the president was presented with the whole smorgasbord of options, all of which have their risks, none of which are easy. And they ranged from radical options, like going all in - a really significant troop increase - to the opposite of that, saying 16 years is enough. We're cutting bait. We're pulling out.", "Where it appears the president has landed is in the middle of those - some sort of modest troop increase. We're talking maybe 4,000, maybe 5,000 additional troops. Now, nobody thinks you're going to win the war by sending in 4,000 additional troops. But the hope is that that makes you - it puts you in a position to buy some time, maybe make a little bit of progress, create a space where a political settlement could happen down the road.", "But hasn't the U.S. already tried that option - to ramp up at least slightly in Afghanistan?", "They have. It's remarkable how much this sounds like a continuation of what the Obama administration was trying in their final years. I think that means what to watch for tonight is how President Trump frames the strategy. I mean, sending 4,000 troops isn't a strategy. It's not your instate. So what's the instate? How does he describe U.S. interests - what the U.S. goal is in Afghanistan? That's where to look to get a sense of when - as we just said, it's the longest war in U.S. history - when this might actually wind its way toward a close.", "Scott, what about what the country wants - and particularly, what President Trump's supporters want? I mean, he is - you know, with his poll numbers, he has been clinging to this base of support. Could this do something and impact that?", "Well, obviously, it depends on what the decision is. I think there would be maybe some pushback from the base if there were some really large-scale troop escalation of the kind we saw when President Obama addressed this back in 2009. There might be also resistance if there was a whole lot of dedication of additional U.S. funding for Afghanistan.", "But a more modest increase, of the sort that Mary Louise is talking about, I'm not sure that's going to lead to any real resistance from the president's base - even if it does generate some some negative headlines from Steve Bannon, who's now back at Breitbart News. The president tweeted - perhaps optimistically - over the weekend that Bannon would be a tough, smart, new voice at Breitbart. And he added, fake news needs the competition.", "Mary Louise, I mean, Steve Bannon is out now. Are we going to learn anything tonight about who actually has the president's ear right now?", "Well, it's perhaps not a coincidence - if, as expected, the president comes out and announces some kind of modest troop increase - that he does that a few days after Steve Bannon exited the White House. I mean...", "Might tell us something.", "It may tell us that the generals, who Trump clearly respects - so we now have John Kelly as his chief of staff. We now have H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser. We have Jim Mattis over at the Pentagon - all people with significant combat experience. All of whom, we are told, it appears have lined up behind this strategy of a modest troop increase. And that may mean that, in this one aspect of national security policy, their voices are - for the moment - the ones being heard.", "And since you cover national security, before we let you go, I just want to ask you about a story we're going to be surely following all day. There have been these reports of a U.S. Navy ship and an oil tanker colliding off the coast of Singapore. What do we know at this point?", "Yeah, that's right. This is a U.S. destroyer, which did collide with an oil tanker about three times its size. This is off the coast of Singapore. The ship was out on patrol in the South China Sea, and it was headed toward port in Singapore when this happened. Two things worth noting, one is 10 Navy sailors are missing. Five are injured. So there is a search underway right now for survivors - trying to see what they can do. The second time - the second thing worth mentioning is this is the second time that a Navy ship has collided...", "Yeah.", "...In this part of the world just in the past few months. This happened a couple of months ago. Seven people died. So this will raise questions for the Navy overall and the 7th Fleet in particular.", "The voice there of NPR national security correspondent Mary Louise Kelly and also White House correspondent Scott Horsley. Hey, thank you both.", "You're welcome.", "All right, so finally it is time to break out those solar eclipse glasses if you managed to get a pair. Did you get a pair, Ailsa?", "I did not, but sitting across from me is someone who did, Joe Palca. Today is the great American eclipse, guys.", "That's right.", "UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Is everybody excited about the solar eclipse? It's a week away.", "UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: A total solar eclipse is a must-see phenomenon.", "The moon completely blocking the sun, turning day to night.", "So much drama, drama.", "Day to night, pretty cool. Of course, this one is extra special today. The total eclipse will crawl across the continental U.S., from one coast to the other, for the first time in nearly a century. It starts in Oregon, and then it creeps diagonally across to South Carolina, all over the course of a couple hours.", "Yeah, and we're all going to be watching this. And so NPR's science correspondent Joe Palca is in the studio in Washington with Ailsa. I am out here in Southern California at NPR West. Joe, what is your - what do you wear on solar eclipse day?", "(Laughter).", "(Laughter) What do I wear?", "A special T-shirt or something?", "No, no, for me, it's the usual garb. But I do - I am equipped with a pair of glasses that are - as you said, they're special glasses for looking at the sun. This is a very important thing for people to understand. Don't look at the sun. There is only one tiny - it lasts about two minutes during this eclipse where you're safe to look at the sun. And that is if you're in the path of totality, and the sun is completely obscured by the moon - you can look. And that way - then you'll see the corona, which is this wispy atmosphere of the sun. That's the only time it's safe to look at the sun.", "That is very specific. The rule should be don't look at the sun, by default.", "Don't look at the sun.", "Don't look at the sun.", "(Laughter).", "That's right. And if you have a pair of dark glasses you have at home, and you think, oh, these will be good enough - no. I have this - Ailsa can see now.", "Yeah.", "I am wearing these glasses, which are officially eclipse glasses. And, Ailsa, wave at me.", "I'm waving at you.", "I can't see anything.", "He can't.", "(Laughter).", "He has them propped up over his eyeglasses just so he can read.", "That's right. You can wear them over your eyeglasses, but you cannot wear anything that isn't certified as specifically for an eclipse. They are special glasses. They cut out most of the light. And the good news is that most of - the entire country will be able to see a partial eclipse. So if you have these glasses, and you want to look, good for you. This...", "But only some people will be in the totality belt...", "That's right.", "...Right? Only a few people will get - or a small number of people will actually get to see the actual totality.", "Well, small number, maybe - I mean, there's actually 12 million people that live in the path of the totality.", "OK, few people, yeah.", "Few people, but unfortunately a lot of them will be in cloudy weather, which is going to obscure the sun.", "That's unfortunate. That it is not convenient.", "The good news is that the West Coast - Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming - looking pretty clear.", "Well, that's good.", "Parts of Tennessee and Kentucky look good, but the rest of the country a little dicey for the totality.", "I love when you sound like a weatherman, Joe Palca.", "(Laughter).", "Is this going to - will we get anything like this anytime soon? I mean, is there another one soon if we miss this?", "2024 in the U.S. and 2019, if you can't wait, you can go to South America.", "Well, I'll go there with you on a reporting trip.", "Absolutely.", "OK, it's a date.", "All right.", "That is NPR's science correspondent Joe Palca. Thanks, Joe.", "You bet.", "And you can follow live coverage of the eclipse on your local member station and also at npr.org. 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{"id": "CNN-304202", "program": "CNN TONIGHT", "date": "2017-01-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/30/cnnt.01.html", "summary": "Washington, a Tough Place for Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.", "utt": ["President Trump fires the acting attorney general for refusing to enforce his travel ban. And then he appoints another acting attorney general. And it's not even midnight here yet. So, everybody is back with me. Also joining us now, CNN contributor Emily Jane Fox, a staff writer for Vanity Fair. Thank you for joining the panel now. So, talk to us about where has -- we've heard so much about Jared Kushner being, you know, this important part of the administration, where has he been in all this?", "He is an important part of the administration. He's been there in the West Wing. I think a lot of the trouble that Donald tends to get in. A source pointed out to me last weekend and other pointed out to me again this week, it tends to happen between sundown on Friday and sundown on Saturday. We've seen that now for both weekends where President Trump has been in office.", "Is that Alan Dershowitz?", "He's celebrating the Jewish holiday.", "Is that -- yes.", "Well, he's an observant Jew, he's an orthodox Jew who celebrates Shabbat with his sundown Friday to Sunday.", "Come on.", "Sundown Saturday, it happened two weeks in a row, and sources who are close to Jared and the Trump administration have noted this fact to me. And then quickly, the administration tends to walk things back or nullify things on Sundays.", "Yes. Who's that, is that David or Alan?", "What's that -- this is David.", "Yes. Yes, because...", "I just -- it's an interest -- it's an interesting theory about the Shabbat, celebrating the Shabbat as an observant, too. But didn't Donald Trump sign this before sundown on Friday?", "He was on -- it was at 4.42 on Friday, sundown was at 5.08. So, all of the fallout happened during Shabbat. I think this, you know...", "But the executive order was signed before Shabbat. He was there.", "For sure. It's the mess that tends to happen from the big decisions...", "And this week an all of that in between.", "Exactly, yes.", "As the only one on this panel who has ever celebrated Shabbat with Jared Kushner. He was the -- he was the president with Chabad society in Harvard when I was -- when I was the faculty adviser, I can tell you, he is a source of wisdom, and I think of trying to influence Donald Trump in the right direction. I don't know whether the timing in the chronology works out exactly that way. But I do think that he will be a source of trying to be a check on Donald Trump.", "Yes.", "Look, the real checks and balances are going to be the good republicans. I think we have to count more and more on Senator McCain and Senator Graham, and Congressman Paul Ryan. And they have the most important job in this administration. Because as somebody said previously, President Trump is determined to eliminate the formal structure of checks and balances. And if he gets two or three nominees to the Supreme Court, we really have all the branches on the republican side. And so, good republicans are really going to have to read President Kennedy's \"Profiles in Courage,\" and stand up and be counted. So far, I think the senators have done a pretty good job. Paul Ryan's been a little disappointing.", "Well, I have to say I'm going to get Fareed in here, but I have to say Emily Jane Fox is reporting on the Kushner family, and Ivanka Trump has been spot on because that's your (Inaudible). So, if she says her sources are telling her that, she has some really good sources. But go on, you want to respond to what she said?", "No. I just think it's important to remember that you know, Madison said...", "Of what she said, sorry.", "Yes. Madison said, if men were angels no government would be necessary. The whole point of American government is you have institutional checks and balances, you don't hope that your son in law will be a, you know, a smart moderate guy who will -- who will moderate you. What you are looking for the institutional checks and balances, and to me, it's odd. Alan Dershowitz is right, that a few republican senators, a few republican senators have stood out, a number of them, as we all know, privately say, you know, are aghast by many of the things that are happening, but are not willing to publicly say it, and certainly the leadership, McConnell and Ryan have not done so. And you have an administration that continues to act as though it is a small, lonely minority battling the world. You know, a raid against the forces of -- the powerful forces of Iran. But let's remember, the Republican Party currently controls the presidency, the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court, the vast majority of state houses, and state governorships. To act like it is this, you know, embattled institution because the New York Times is reporting against it, I mean, come on, you know, they're running the country?", "Yes. Go ahead.", "I was just going to say that, you know, John Kennedy -- John F. Kennedy and Ted Sorenson write \"Profiles in Courage\" because they were not courageous against McCarthy, Joseph McCarthy. In a sense it was a way of saying trying to find in history, people who stood up to demagogues, we didn't have a good -- the United States went through a tough time in the 1950s, because people didn't stand up to hyper nationalists. The good news is that in the Nixon period, some great republican heroes like George Shultz and others said no to the president.", "Yes.", "And that's what -- that's the history people should be looking to now.", "Right.", "Great Americans who said no, I will not audit these people. No, I'm not going to use the FBI illegally. No, I'm not going to prevent money from going to places that where there are demonstrations. That's the kind of leadership we need from republicans. They've got to remember that in the '70s, the best of them saved this country.", "Thank you, everyone. I appreciate it. Thank you. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "EMILY JANE FOX, VANITY FAIR STAFF WRITER", "LEMON", "GERGEN", "LEMON", "FOX", "GERGEN", "FOX", "LEMON", "GERGEN", "LEMON", "GERGEN", "FOX", "GERGEN", "FOX", "LEMON", "FOX", "DERSHOWITZ", "LEMON", "DERSHOWITZ", "LEMON", "ZAKARIA", "LEMON", "ZAKARIA", "LEMON", "NAFTALI", "LEMON", "NAFTALI", "ZAKARIA", "NAFTALI", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-175325", "program": "ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL", "date": "2011-11-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1111/04/ijvm.01.html", "summary": "Jury Deliberates Fate of Conrad Murray", "utt": ["Next, we watch the drama inside and outside of court in the Michael Jackson death trial. Shocking details about the King of Pop`s personal life. Fans screaming for justice. Disturbing audio of a drugged Michael Jackson slurring his words. Dr. Murray`s play-by-play of the moment Jackson died. But it all comes down to one question: was Dr. Murray responsible for the death of Michael Jackson?", "Dr. Murray did not kill Michael Jackson.", "It is gross negligence, and it`s a direct cause of Michael Jackson`s death.", "I`ll talk to a team of experts, and we`ll take your calls. ISSUES starts now.", "On verdict watch at HLN. The jury has the case in the death of the King of Pop.", "Dr. Murray! Dr. Murray! Dr. Murray!", "What Conrad Murray was doing was a pharmaceutical experiment on Michael Jackson.", "They want you to convict Dr. Murray for the actions of Michael Jackson.", "I`ve come to give Dr. Murray support. He saved my life.", "I`m here for justice, not only for Michael Jackson; for the last person that has to go through the same thing and the family has to suffer.", "We`re here for Michael. And that", "Will there be justice for Michael Jackson? It`s all in the hands of the jury right now. We are in verdict watch as we speak. Good evening, everyone. Jane Velez-Mitchell coming to you live from Los Angeles, right next to the L.A. Superior Court building, where you can cut the tension with a knife. I`ve been out there all day. Now, look at the jury clock. OK? It`s going to come up in a second. It`s there, OK? They`ve been deliberating for more than seven hours. OK, 7 1/2 hours, approximately. And they`re studying testimony that has been going on for six weeks. That`s nothing compared to the white-hot battles happening right outside court. I was right in the thick of it and, wow, has it gotten heated out there. Watch this.", "he murdered him.", "They said he murdered him. He did not murder him. Somebody else did.", "The charges are manslaughter, and he should get more than four years.", "This young lady called me the \"B\" word.", "He didn`t kill him.", "He was negligent. He was negligent.", "He didn`t murder him, though. He didn`t murder him.", "A doctor is supposed to help, not kill.", "Stop all of this \"B\" word, \"M.F.,\" calling people this. This is not what -- this is not the place for this.", "Yes, and I agree with that, lady. We got to know each other today, and I agree. Things have to stay civil. Back inside the deliberation room, the jury is nearly done for the weekend. But so far, they have not reached a verdict. They are still talking, last we heard. If they don`t announce one soon, guess what? We`re back here on Monday continuing with the deliberations. Now that`s why tensions, I think, are heated. They`re really hitting a fever pitch out there. Even the Jackson family is on pins and needles. On Twitter, La Toya wrote, just a little while ago, \"I`m so shaky right now waiting for a verdict. Every little noise has me jumping out of my skin.\" She said it well. Late this afternoon, Michael`s parents, Katherine and Joe Jackson, checked into a hotel right near the courthouse so they can be close whenever a verdict comes in. We are all at the edge of our seats. When do you think we`re going to get a verdict? And what do you think that verdict will be? Give me a call: 1-877-JVM-SAYS, 1-877-586-7297. I want to hear from you. First, straight out to Michael Christian, \"In Session\" reporter, producer, right at court. He is like -- almost got his ear on the -- on the wall of the courtroom. What is going on, Michael, right this second?", "You know, Jane, obviously the day is winding down. Spectators here in the hallway on the ninth floor ([h) seem resigned to the fact that there`s not going to be a verdict today, and yet, the jurors are still deliberating. They basically can set their own hours for coming in in the morning, but really there`s no way they`re going to deliberate past about 4:15 local time. That would be 15 minutes from now. So clearly they`ve got to be winding down in that jury room, but they are still at it at this point.", "All right. protesters outside are nothing, if not passionate. Check this out. This is what I was in the middle of all day long today.", "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!", "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!", "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!", "Justice for Michael!", "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!", "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!", "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!", "Richard Herman, criminal defense attorney, the fans are mad. They want justice. They were hoping for a verdict today. But the fact that the deliberations have gone on even this long, does that show that this may not be the open-and-shut case that many say it was?", "Well, whoever said it was an open-and-shut case doesn`t know what we`re talking about, Jane. I fear for your safety with this crowd. Because, you know, no Propofol drip, you must acquit. This guy`s going to walk out of this courthouse like O.J. did. Jane, it`s going to be mayhem out there. Yes, the longer it goes, the better it is for the defense here. I believe the sides -- the jury is polarized. There`s one side pulling for Michael Jackson, one for Murray. They`re just not going to give up their positions. That`s why there`s no flash verdict here like we saw in the Casey Anthony case. We`re going to be into next week with this, Jane.", "All right. Well, you`re in one ring. On the other side of the ring, Hamid Towfigh. And you are a former deputy D.A. in Los Angeles. So you represent the prosecution here. You heard a defense attorney saying he`s going to walk.", "Well, I doubt that. In any side is disappointed that it`s taking so long, it`s certainly the prosecution. But two really good things for the prosecution happened today. One is that the jurors asked for highlighters and writing utensils, and then two, second is they still haven`t asked for any read-back of testimony. The reason the highlighters are actually significant is a Los Angeles County jury room is where they`re deliberating. There`s only a chalk board, a dry erase board and you`ve got the evidence with the jury instructions, and you`re not allowed to write on anything other than on the evidence. So the only thing you can write on is the jury instructions. So I think the reason they wanted that is the jury is going straight to the jury instructions. They`re going to the law. And that`s always good for the prosecution.", "Well, guess what? I went straight to the jury instructions. And I kind of call myself the 13th juror. Look what I did with the instructions. Take a look at that. I`m trying to make sense of it, OK? They`re very complicated. When we tell you about it here on HLN, we boil it down and make it very simple for the viewers, very simple graphics. But this -- this stuff, page after page after page is extremely complicated. And I`ve got to say, if you take that and you add the medical mumbo jumbo that has been spewed in this trial, the jurors are going to have to sort through a whole lot. Because some of the stuff that was said by, particularly by the defense, I think, was really confusing. Listen to this from closing statement.", "What did the prosecution tell you over and over again? Well, it`s just 126 of a pill. It`s just 1-300th of a pill. This is just math. You could keep going: 125 down to -- 075. Something like that. Keep going, ever 22 minutes, so finally you can get down to .08.", "All right. You know what? Everybody, you can say, I knew that. I know what he`s talking about. I go around and I ask people, what -- using some of the phrases that have come up in this trial, what`s first-pass (ph) metabolism? What`s bio-availability? Nobody knows. I want to go to Ian Halperin, author of \"Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson.\" And actually, we`re going to -- he`s going to join us in a second. But Susan Constantine, jury consultant, you`ve been studying these jurors. I -- my hat`s off to them. They have endured 22 days of often mind-numbing testimony. Do you think they are in quicksand tonight?", "Really, right now, they`re exhausted. They`ve had several days that they`ve been in court. Now they`re in deliberation. This is a very savvy jury. You know, we`ve got most all of them, they`ve served on juries before. So they know how exactly how to sift through the evidence. The thing is, I don`t think that -- where we`re missing this mark here is we cannot look at this like attorneys. These are the general public. They`ve got to go through line item by line item by line item and understand and make sense of all of the legal mumbo jumbo. So that`s what took up part of the time. Now what they`ve got to do now is the reason why they`re asking for all of this information, because this is an evidence-based jury pool. They want to cross every \"I\" and cross -- dot every \"I\" and cross every \"t\" before they come up with the verdict.", "Let`s take a look at this jury by the numbers. Seven men, five women. Eight of them at least have served on a jury before. So they`re not novices here. They know what it entails. Five of them have personal experience with addiction, and three of them watched the Casey Anthony trial. Now, I understand we just got two buzzes. Two buzzes. That -- that is a question or a break, Hamid. That is not a verdict. It is -- we only have a couple of more minutes of deliberation for the day, because he said we`re going to follow a regular schedule, and it usually goes to 7:15. So what do you think two buzzes means?", "It`s probably a question. I think their question could be, \"Could we stay longer and deliberate?\" That`s possible. We saw in the Casey Anthony trial, they actually went into the weekend. In Los Angeles, that doesn`t happen, because the sheriffs don`t -- can`t be paid overtime. There`s budget issues. They may want to stay longer in this case. That`s definitely a possibility.", "Wow. So you`re saying to me, if they want to stay longer, the judge can only allow them to stay a little bit longer because of overtime, because of financial constraints?", "The judge -- absolutely. The judge can allow them to stay longer if he wants but probably because of financial and budget issues, he will not.", "Wow. This is fascinating. The jury is going home. We just heard that the jury is going home. OK. Day one. You heard it here. Day one of deliberations done, and there is no verdict. Michael Christian, you`re right outside -- the building we`re looking at, you`re right there at the action. What do you know?", "Approximately one minute ago, Jane, the jury buzzed twice. That is a signal for a request, and their request was to leave for the day. So deliberations have finished for the day. They will be continuing Monday morning, we believe, at 8:30 local time, again, 11:30 Eastern. But again, the jurors are finished deliberating for today, so deliberations in this trial will continue on Monday morning.", "All right. Well, you heard it here. We are here for the duration. The jury going home. But we`re going to be back on Monday. But don`t go anywhere, because we have analysis of all of the drama, inside the court, outside court, the trial highlights, the low lights, the confrontation, of course. Hang in there. We have everything you need to know here. And also go to HLNTV.com, HLNTV.com. It`s your crib note for this trial. Everything you need to know. We`ll be right back.", "You see that? That`s why I love Michael Jackson. I love Michael Jackson.", "Right is right, wrong is wrong. That`s why we`re here.", "When I had you to myself I didn`t want you around. The familiar faces always make you stand out in the crowd.", "This will be it. This is it. When I say this is it, it really means this is it.", "He entered into rehearsal full of energy.", "The legendary King of Pop, Michael Jackson, passed away on Thursday, June 25.", "This is it.", "He complained that he couldn`t perform. He would have to cancel rehearsals again.", "Did Michael Jackson yell out for help? Did he gasp?", "He was negligent. A doctor is...", "He didn`t murder him, though. He didn`t murder him.", "A doctor is supposed to help, not kill.", "Would it still be your opinion that Conrad Murray is directly responsible for the death of Michael Jackson?", "Absolutely.", "So what if he`s the junkie or he was a drug addict? He did not deserve to die.", "Did he choke? Were there sounds? We don`t know.", "And he said he was very happy, because he felt like we were accomplishing the dream.", "This is it. And see you in July.", "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!", "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!", "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!", "Justice for Michael! Justice for Michael!", "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!", "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!", "Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!", "This one gal here, I found parking. I could have very well stayed at home in my peaceful environment.", "You told me that you were red-hot mad.", "Red hot. Meaning whatever pepper is the hottest, whatever chili is the hottest. I was hot when I got down here.", "That lady came down to court because she heard that Katherine Jackson was headed to downtown L.A. It was a game of telephone. Her relatives told her there`s going to be a verdict. She got down there and found out, no, no. Just because Katherine Jackson came to a hotel in downtown Los Angeles, that does not mean we`ve already reached a verdict. We did not. The jury just finished their first day of deliberations moments ago. They deliberated for seven hours, 40 minutes and 42 seconds before going home moments ago. Richard Herman, you see the passion out there. You see how worked up people have gotten. Was there sort of this false expectation of, \"Oh, we`re going to decide this lickety-split, and we`re not going to go into that quicksand of the medical evidence again?\" Because my personal feeling is, once they go into that medical evidence, who knows how long it will take?", "No, Jane. You`re right. I mean, and you`re an attorney. If you were confused with those jury instructions...", "I`m not an attorney.", "You were?", "I`m the 13th juror.", "OK. I`m sorry. Madam Juror, Madam Juror, you read those instructions. You were confused. These jurors have no legal training. They`re absolutely confused. They`re confused with the evidence; they`re confused with the medical evidence. What happened in that room when Conrad Murray walked out? How did it happen? How -- who caused it? I mean, there`s so many questions, unanswered questions. Passion is one thing. You have to look at the evidence. Did the state prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Conrad Murray`s actions caused the death of Michael Jackson? You know, Michael Jackson was doing drugs for a long time. He was an addict. These jurors remember him dangling a baby out of a window. They remember his criminal trials. Look, they`re going to take it into consideration. You may not want that to happen, but they are. This is rife for a jury nullification. This is rife for some jurors to say, \"No, we`re not going to blame Murray. Michael has to take responsibility for himself, and we`re not going to put it all on Conrad Murray.\"", "All right, OK. Now, we`ve boiled it down to pretty simple terms, saying there`s two theories that the jury has to consider. One is, did Conrad Murray commit a lawful act, giving Michael Jackson Propofol, but doing it was criminal negligence, doing it in his room? The second one is did he fail, as his doctor, to perform his legal duty? For example, abandoning the patient, not calling 911, lying to the paramedics, lying to the E.R. doctors, failing to tell them that he gave him Propofol. Now let me say this, we`re delighted to have Dr. Nat Strand, an anesthesiologist who has educated us here on set over the last many weeks about Propofol and the administration of Propofol, how hard is it going to be for them to deliberate the medical evidence?", "You know, I really don`t think it`s going to be too hard. It`s a pretty cut-and-dry case. Of course, if they get into the details of blood levels and urine levels and how this is going, I think that they can get lost in it. But let`s remember, we don`t need the drip to acquire that, saying no drip, you must acquit. That`s an over-simplification. Look at what we do have. He wasn`t in the room. He wasn`t monitoring. He`s not...", "More on the other side.", "Michael Jackson trusted Conrad Murray.", "Ladies and gentlemen, the evidence in this case is overwhelming. The evidence in this case is abundantly clear that Conrad Murray acted with criminal negligence. (", "\"Man in the Mirror\")", "The last phase of the trial.", "We have a gentleman here that needs help, and he`s not breathing.", "The man murdered Michael, straight up he murdered him. And we are here to see justice served.", "What goes on during the hours and hours jurors are finally allowed to talk about the case amongst themselves? Check out HLNTV.com. We`ve got all of it, the total scoop behind the curtain of the deliberations. We have the breakdown of all of the scenarios. We`ve got all the action leading up to the verdict. You`ve got to check this out: HLNTV.com. Now I want to take a look at some of the other famous trials and how long juries deliberated in those cases. O.J. Simpson, this is infamous. Less than four hours. Casey Anthony, ten hours, 40 minutes. Phil Specter, you know, the music mogul, murdered Lana Clarkson, 30 hours. Scott Peterson, seven days. OK. So we have already hit seven hours, 42 minutes and 42 seconds. Ian Halperin, author, \"Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson,\" what do you make of day one of deliberations coming and going with no verdict?", "Well, first off, Jane, congratulations to you. Big kudos for doing an outstanding job during this trial. You made it very exciting. You were very fair to both sides.", "Thank you.", "And it was an extremely compelling television. So again, congrats. Look, the bottom line here, I really sincerely hope they deliver a guilty verdict. And this scares the willies out of every doctor in North America who have done malpractice in the past. This could be a strong precedent for what`s obviously going on in the room right now. They`re having problems. You know, it`s just going to take one person in that jury room to destroy a guilty verdict, and I think that`s what might be happening now. I hope I`m wrong.", "Well, there is one woman with a biochemistry degree. It`s been a long day. A biochemistry degree. She is one of the most avid note-takers. And you know what they say, Dr. Nat Strand. You`re an anesthesiologist. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. It could be that she or one of the other jurors is like, \"You know what? I know the skinny on this complex medical testimony, and you`re going to need to agree with me.\" And all you need is that one person to set themselves up as an expert or one person to say, \"I don`t understand it,\" and in confusion there is reasonable doubt. And if you have confrontation over the medical testimony, it`s so complicated. It can go on for a long time.", "I`m sure you`re right. If you`re one person that`s kind of rallying to everybody else to see what she sees, but even as a biochemistry major, or whatever degree she had in biochemistry, she`s still not really going to be familiar with Propofol. Let me just remind everybody that anesthesiology is four years of working about 80 hours a week before you`re certified to administer Propofol. So an anesthesiologist takes that long to really know the nitty-gritty about this drug.", "Well, I think you`ve proven my point. Years to learn about Propofol. So how are they supposed to come up with a verdict in a couple of hours? Seven hours, 40 minutes, 42 seconds. What does next week hold? We`ll debate.", "I am an innocent man.", "Most people who have ever tried to get inside the courtroom are here today.", "He`s not here to speak for himself and that`s why we`re here.", "The most basic, the most commonsense thing that we all learn as young children, that you call 91 immediately.", "I`m here to get justice for Michael Jackson.", "We`re ready to see justice done.", "What Conrad Murray was doing was a pharmaceutical experiment on Michael Jackson.", "I`ve come to give Dr. Murray support. He saved my life.", "Conrad Murray left Prince, Paris, and Blanket without a father.", "I`m feeling like Conrad Murray is going down.", "We`re here standing up for Dr. Conrad Murray. He`s an innocent man and we stand up for him.", "Conrad Murray has been accused of infusing a dose of Propofol and leaving this patient.", "I think he should have called 911 sooner. I do not, however, think it would have made any difference in the outcome of this case.", "Justice. Justice. That`s what I want.", "I told the truth and I have faith the truth will prevail.", "All right. We have just concluded our first full day of jury deliberations in the Michael Jackson death trial. The jurors deliberated seven hours, 40 minutes and 42 seconds. They went home just a couple of minutes ago. Outside, Michael Jackson supporters were hopeful that there would be a verdict today and as the minutes and hours passed, tensions rose. Check this out.", "Justice for Michael. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.", "Justice for Michael.", "Susan Constantine, you`re a jury consultant. You read the jurors. Now, seven men, five women; about half of them Michael Jackson fans; but then, by the same token, about half of them have had experience with addiction in their families. So is that going to play off each other?", "You know all of this is going to play. But what I`m looking at Jane, here is we`ve got again, seven men, five females. Females are generally harder on crime. So I think that the seven males is actually an advantage for Conrad Murray. But let me tell you something, here we have juror number ten, and you mentioned this briefly; exactly what I wrote down. This person is going to have a tremendous amount of influence in that deliberation room even though this person does not have a medical background. The jury pool in itself will look to this person because they`ve got chemistry background. Number two is head of business. This person could rally up the team. This is the one that is used to taking charge and has medical background -- or chemistry background. When I`m looking at the jury pool as whole, we`ve got a jury that -- again, what I`m going to mention is they are evidence- based, not emotion-based. I did not see any caretakers in this group here. They are going to make sure they`re going to get the exact right verdict. And that`s what I want to emphasize. That`s the reason why it`s taking so long.", "Listen, Marcia Clark said that she thinks that they are going to wait until Monday to make it look good. That they could wait until Monday to make it look good. In other words, if they come in too quickly, a lot of times people are going to say, oh, they didn`t really ponder the evidence. So that`s what a lot of people said, for example, about the Casey Anthony case, that they just didn`t spend enough time. So if they come back on Monday and spend a good few hours studying it and then come with a verdict that might be respected a little bit more. We`re going to go out to the phone lines. Cleveland, North Carolina; your question or thought, Cleveland?", "Hello, Jane.", "Hi. How are you doing?", "I love your show.", "Thank you.", "I just want to speak really quickly about planting seeds in the jurors` minds and I don`t want anyone to get me wrong. Mr. Walgren and Ms. Brazil, did a stellar job, a laser job -- they were laser-focused. But on their closing rebuttal argument, right near at the end I just wish Mr. Walgren had not said at all what he said about, we may never know -- I can`t quote him verbatim -- but he said something like we may never know what exactly happens in the bedroom. I wish the jurors hadn`t heard that because right at the end, after the 22-day trial, that plants seeds in the jurors` minds.", "A very good point, Cleveland. Let`s go back to Hamid Towfigh. You`re a former deputy DA. He may have a point there. I mean why emphasize that nobody really knows what happened?", "Well, as a prosecutor, you never want to say, \"You never know\". Because a jury looks to you to explain to them what happened. You have to be confident. You have to have a firm theory of the case. Walgren did have a firm theory of the case. But sometimes when he made that statement, I kind of questioned how the jury is going to look at that. They might glance over it. One problem I had with this case all along is that the statement of Dr. Murray, which was integral to the case, Dave Walgren on the one hand is telling his experts, let`s take this as true and on the other hand he`s explaining to the jury that, well, this is was self-serving and he was trying to stay ahead of the game so maybe some of the stuff that he said wasn`t true. So the question that the jury might have at some point is, which one is it? Are we to take the whole statement as true or not?", "You`re talking about when he talked to the cops.", "Yes.", "When Dr. Conrad Murray talked to the cops --", "Two days after the death.", "-- at the Ritz Carlton Marina del Ray two days after the death, before they knew that it was a homicide.", "Right.", "And I thought that the prosecution did a very good job in explaining that one of the reasons they didn`t do everything right is that they didn`t know it was a homicide, originally. And they`re not psychic. So they didn`t know there was evidence to pick up because they weren`t regarding this as a homicide. Now, one thing that certainly strikes me as very bizarre is all the time, more than 20 minutes that Dr. Conrad Murray took to call 911 or order that 911 be called. Listen to this.", "He left a voice mail message and he could have used that time to call 911. He should have used the time much earlier to call 911 but we know for a fact that at 12:12 he made this phone call to Michael Williams and made no mention of 911 whatsoever because Conrad Murray knew what he had done.", "Richard Herman, criminal defense attorney, there are a lot of people who say hey, he exhibited 17 extreme deviations from standard medical care. Any one of them could get him convicted on this. So that raises the question of why it`s taking so long. Any one of those numerous deviations from standard medical care, like not calling 911, could get him convicted.", "Well, that`s what Dr. Shafer said, and I don`t buy it Jane. Dr. White when Dr. Murray when back in the room, Michael Jackson was dead; so it didn`t matter if he had called 911, that had nothing to do with the causation of Michael`s death. You made a great point, a caller did. If the prosecution doesn`t know what happened in that room and one of more jurors believe that Conrad Murray only gave him a 25-milligram shot of Propofol, waited there for 20 minutes to a half hour when within seven minutes the Propofol was out of his system, he had every right to walk out of that room, he didn`t have to monitor him. And if there is a superseding factor, intervening factor i.e., Michael Jackson drawing down some Lorazepam which was found in his stomach and/or injecting a lethal dose of Propofol, it`s over. Conrad Murray is going to walk out.", "Well, I have Dr. Nat Strand here who is an anesthesiologist and who has emphasized over the course of this trial, how many times Dr. Murray did extreme deviations from medical care. So what do you make of Richard Herman`s argument?", "Well, I have to say that one thing to remember is that Propofol was not the only drug in Michael`s system at the time. There were several different benzodiazepines as well as, we`ve talked about narcotics possibly playing a role. That is why monitoring is the key. Even the defense expert from the anesthesiologist`s side said that Propofol was a great agent for monitored anesthesia care. Monitored is integral here. We don`t know because there are no medical records. What was Michael`s respiratory rate? What was his heart rate? What was his oxygen medical saturation? If they have 20 or 30 minutes, maybe they would have a better case there but we don`t. We have no idea.", "Yes. But the very fact that he didn`t keep records is one of the extreme deviations from standard medical care. I could see this debate and this argument going on in the jury room today with some people saying like me, hey, any one of these, not keeping the right equipment, that`s a standard deviation, an extreme deviation, let`s convict him. With someone else saying, wait, hold on. We don`t know the cause of death. Let`s go over the medical evidence again. And that could be the tug-of-war. Ten seconds.", "It could be. That`s why I don`t think they should have kept on the biochemist on the jury. You don`t want people with so-called specific education on these issues. You need to keep it simple and when you have a biochemist in the jury room, they could make things complicated.", "Right. Yes, it is complicated. But we`ve got our handle on as the jury have very specific rules they`ve got to follow. As a matter of fact, it`s wild. And we`ve got 12 pages of jury instructions. The very thing that the jurors looked at today, you can look on at hlntv.com. Check out the jury instructions. See if you understand them. Or see if they seem very, very, very convoluted. Because one fan told me she thinks that Conrad Murray could walk because nobody could understand these jury instructions. Check it out, hlntv.com. We`ll be right back.", "These high school students are waiting to take a test that could change their lives. Not an SAT, but an EKG provided free through Screens for Teens. The tests can detect hidden heart conditions. Mary Beth Schewitz started a program in 2007 after her son died from sudden cardiac arrest.", "Max was a 20-year-old perfectly healthy adventurous boy who loved dealing with dangerous, venomous reptiles. But we never knew that the greatest risk to him was inside his own body.", "With donations, Mary Beth sets up screenings in High Schools north of Chicago. Trained parent volunteers perform the EKG tests and cardiologists review the results.", "Every cardiac problem has a remedy if you find it in time.", "Screens for Teens helped Caitlin Flery (ph) find out that she has a heart disorder.", "Without the testing -- the testings I had, I would just think they`re normal.", "Once you know, knowledge is power.", "We all have that sense of anticipation, what is going to happen? What is the jury going to decide?", "If the people here for Michael Jackson stand for what Michael Jackson lived and stood for, it would be about peace. It would be about love.", "More and more people gathering here behind me.", "We`re here for Michael. And they`re carrying those signs out there, you know, for Conrad Murray and it`s wrong.", "A doctor is supposed to help heal, not kill. We are", "He had his own.", "The tempers are flaring.", "All right. Wild scene all day at the L.A. Courthouse, Day one of deliberations just concluded moments ago. They deliberated seven hours, 40 minutes, 42 seconds over the fate of Michael Jackson`s doctor, Conrad Murray. Yes, it`s in the hands of the jury but, boy, outside one of the most intense days, the fans of Michael Jackson facing off against the passionate supporters of Dr. Conrad Murray. We`ve got folks on both sides of the issue here with us tonight. We begin with Erin Jacobs, Michael Jackson fan, co-founder of JusticeforMichaelJackson.com. Why do you think it got so heated outside court today and what would you say to that gentleman who you had been arguing with?", "I think it`s gotten heated because everybody is anxious, waiting for this verdict. We`ve been two years in the making here, waiting for Michael to have justice. And I think that that man that stands out on the curb every day, holding signs for an alleged killer is an idiot. And it`s a disgrace that he would speak negatively to the Jackson family when they walk into the courtroom. It`s just inappropriate. They have a right to stand out there and look like fools if they want to. But absolutely to be disrespectful to the victim`s family is beyond comprehension.", "Willie Hampton, a friend of Dr. Conrad Murray, what do you say to that criticism?", "First of all, she`s not talking about me. I have been very respectful to the Jackson`s family. I have tried to control my co-workers and asked them not to say things disrespectful to Michael`s mother, Mrs. Jackson. That`s the only person I`m concerned about.", "All right. So you`re saying, you did absolutely nothing inappropriate but why do you Willie think it got so heated outside court? Several times today there were verbal confrontations between the Michael Jackson fans and the Dr. Conrad Murray supporters and sometimes it was almost like a duel with the signs.", "Yes, we`re dealing with people who are emotionally disturbed and emotionally imbalanced. They don`t want to deal with the fact that the doctor is innocent. He did not kill his friend, his patient, Mr. Michael Jackson. Mr. Michael Jackson was a superstar and hard-headed. Conrad Murray tried to help Michael. Conrad did everything he could. Michael was a hard case. Dr. Murray got in over his head with his patient, Michael Jackson. He was difficult to deal with. But either way, somebody else was in that house and somebody else killed Michael Jackson. And the facts do indicate that something else happened and it was not brought out sufficiently by the defense attorneys, by the LAPD or the prosecutor or the defense team. Nobody dealt with all the other information that was available.", "Erin, there is a sentiment among a lot of people that maybe we don`t have the whole story. Maybe there are other people who bear the responsibility. What do you say to that?", "I completely disagree. I don`t agree with the conspiracy theory. We have no proof, substantial proof that there is anything involved other than what we`re dealing with in this courtroom. And I wanted to point out something that Willie said. His co-workers, we all know that they are being paid to stand out there every single day with their professionally-made signs and for him to say that Conrad Murray is not guilty when we had doctor after doctor get on the stand and show how he broke the standard of care 16 different times is ludicrous.", "Now, I asked Beatrice who is there, she is right there. She`s walking around. That`s Beatrice; we`ve all gotten to know her. I`ve gotten to know all the fans who are marching. That`s the lady walking right there with the hat and she has those signs that you say look professionally-made up. She told me, Willie, that she`s not being paid. Is she being paid or is she not, in your opinion?", "No, nobody is being paid. No, ma`am, absolutely not.", "Why did you say your co-worker? You`re a liar.", "We`re here on a mission to help Dr. Murray and to project his image correctly. Nobody is getting paid. Those signs -- I`m responsible for those signs. I have a law degree. I know Dr. Murray from Texas. He`s my friend. We have the same best friends. My friends in Texas and in Atlanta are relying on me to help Dr. Murray. I`m responsible for this. I am the team organizer. I am responsible. I did this.", "I got you. Ten seconds, Erin respond.", "I don`t believe you. I think you`re a liar and a fraud.", "Uh-oh. All right. Well, listen Beatrice told me that she`s not being paid and I take her word for it. A wild day and we`re going to keep you abreast right her on HLN. Up next, more analysis from Nancy Grace.", "The jury will have to decide whether he`s guilty or not guilty based on the he presented in court.", "The defendant is charged in count 1 with involuntary manslaughter.", "We are here in Los Angeles on verdict watch. What is the jury going to decide? Who better than Nancy Grace to weigh in, former prosecutor extraordinaire? Nancy Grace I`m going to put you on the spot, a prediction -- guilty or not guilty.", "Well, you have to consider the source, Jane Velez-Mitchell because I was the one that said Simpson would go down on double murder and Tot Mom would get convicted. But I don`t think that there`s no way the jury can let Conrad Murray off the hook. Because that would mean that in this country, America, you can walk into a superstar`s mansion, dope him up with Propofol, let him die and then walk free.", "Now, there are Conrad Murray supporters outside with signs that say \"If there`s no drip, you must acquit\", obviously a takeoff on the O.J. Simpson case. If you can listen for a second to Ed Chernoff, the defense attorney making this point --", "They spent six weeks trying to prove a drip because without a drip then what Dr. Murray gave Michael Jackson absolutely would not have harmed him without an unusual and intervening circumstance.", "Ok. So, there`s Ed Chernoff talking about the prosecution saying that there has to be a drip when he`s saying there is no evidence of said drip.", "Well, there is evidence of a drip, number one. And I appreciate that Chernoff after all of these weeks of testimony he can boil down the whole case to a rhyme or one of the protesters can. You know what; that`s better suited to a rap musician not a homicide trial. There is evidence of a drip. Number one, Alyssa Sleek (ph) the crime scene technician that saw it and testified to it; and number two, bodyguard Alberto Alvarez who stated that Conrad Murray asked him to dismantle the drip and put it away into a bag where it was later found.", "Chernoff also spoke about a conspiracy theory. Listen to this.", "Alberto Alvarez has been offered $500,000 for his story. Now, how did Alberto Alvarez go from a story that`s worth $9,000 to a story that`s worth half a million dollars?", "So, Nancy, what do you make of the conspiracy theory?", "The same thing I made of practically every conspiracy theory that`s ever been advanced. They really don`t exist. Come on. Do you really think that many people can stick together with a big fat lie and endure cross-examination? No. No, no, no, Jane. FYI -- if you`re ever going to commit a homicide just do it yourself. Don`t involve anybody else. As soon as you do they start blabbing. No way can this conspiracy theory hold up. It`s another loony theory advanced by Chernoff.", "Nancy Grace, thank you so much for weighing in. We appreciate your time. And we`ll remain on verdict watch. This is it.", "Nancy, what`s next on \"Dancing with the Stars\"?", "Well, we`re in week eight. There are five couples left. We`re going to do the tango and the jive. And I`m not really sure exactly what the tango is all about? What is it Tristan.", "The tango, I mean we got a preview of the tango last week. We`ve done it with the group dance. This week we have our own dance. So I guess it`s pretty intense one. It`s going to be a fun one. This week we have an instant jive as well. And the difference with the instant dance is that you only get your music maybe 20 minutes or so before you do that.", "Did you hear that, Jane? We`re going to have two dances one of them is a secret dance and we find out right before we go on the dance floor.", "Well, I think that any secret that you unveil is going to be spectacular. I`ve said it before, I`ll say it again. Nancy, you rock. Tristan you rock. You can win this thing. I know you can. 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{"id": "CNN-226221", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2014-3-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1403/07/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Crisis In Ukraine; Interview with Anders Fogh Rasmussen", "utt": ["And tonight, turned away for a second time -- armed gunmen stop European officials from entering Crimea once again. We reflect tonight on what has been a dramatic escalation of events in Ukraine with reverberations around the globe. Plus...", "It's important for us to send that very clear message to Russia...", "NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen tells me just what NATO's role might be in ending this crisis. Also this hour, allegations from Oscar Pistorius's ex-girlfriend. We will be live in Pretoria with how that testimony went over in court. And meet the Belgian designer who got heads turning at Paris Fashion Week.", "Live from CNN London, this is Connect the World with Becky Anderson.", "Very good evening to you from London. Kiev may soon get a whole lot colder. The Russian gas provider Gazprom says Ukraine hasn't paid its bills for February. And it won't deliver the country's gas for free. Meantime, Russia is warning the U.S. against hasty action. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says any U.S. actions against Russia will, quote, \"inevitably boomerang on the United States.\" Well, earlier Russia's parliament backed Crimean lawmakers who want to see the region split from Ukraine and join Russia. And in Crimea itself, there are signs that pro-Moscow authorities in Crimea are clamping down on opposition. At least two Ukrainian TV channels have been blocked in the area. These are fast moving events. Apologies for the sort of machinations, as it were, of the sort of minute by minute movements here, but they are important and they do have global reverberations, as it were. Let's get you to Kiev. Michael Holmes watching developments from there. And Michael, the lights are still on in Kiev, I can see behind you there, but there is no denying the issue of Ukraine and its relationship as an energy customer, as it were, of Russia. And that is a pressing one. I mean, you know, it can't pay its bills. Another string to what is an increasingly complicated relationship. What is the mood where you are?", "Well, I can tell you right now -- you can probably hear, I imagine behind me -- the mood is patriotic. The national anthem being sung yet again. It's sung every hour on the hour from a stage there on Independence Sqaure. People here are worried about what's happening in Crimea. Obviously they don't agree with it. They're fervently against it. One man told me today down there that it's a joke, he said. It's a joke, he said. How can you have a referendum looking down the barrel of a Russian gun. That's the sort of attitude you're hearing around here. People don't want to lose Crimea from Ukraine. And they feel that what's happening there is Russian interference. They say it very openly. And they fear that any referendum that would take place would not be free, nor fair. Now then there's a whole other political argument about it. The Ukrainian government, the interim government, they say that such a vote would not only be a joke it would be illegal under the Ukrainian constitution and wouldn't matter. Let's get to the point of the talks. We know that the U.S. President Barack Obama spoke with the Russian President Vladimir Putin last night. Don't know what came of that, but possibly nothing. They're talking past each other pretty much. There are also those talks we saw going on in Brussels. Well, interestingly this afternoon I managed to speak with the Ukrainian foreign minister Andriy Deschytsia, he just got back from Paris where the diplomats were scrambling to get consensus on what to do about the Ukrainian crisis. Despite being in the same city at the same time, Becky. Deschytsia says efforts to speak with the Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov came to nothing. And he says not talking at the moment helps no one. Have a listen.", "We do believe that the only way for us to talk with Russians is a dialogue. We want to continue this dialogue that used to be between Ukraine and Russia from previous years and previous governments. If we are not talking, then there is a lot of suspicions and tension arise. And it's not good for people, also, if the officials are not talking. So -- and of course it's not for the benefit of all -- of all countries in the region.", "And interestingly, Becky, a little sidebar. While we were there at the foreign ministry, which is a rather grand building about a mile from here, we saw a giant -- and I mean, giant, European Union flag being erected on the facade of that building, perhaps a message in that, Becky.", "Fascinating stuff. This story is never ending at this point. Michael, thank you for that. Some news just into CNN. Crimea TV reporting that Russians have stormed a Ukrainian air force base in Crimea. They were said to be ramming the gates with a truck. Anna Coren is there in the regional capital this evening. Anna, what do you know of the details of this attack?", "Yeah, a few details, Becky. But it would appear that this confrontation is ongoing. We have confirmation from the Ukrainian defense military, I should say, saying that these Russian Cossack soldiers have been surrounding this army base -- I beg your pardon, air force base down in Sevastopol, which is about an hour- and-a-half from where we are. That of course is where the Russia's Black Sea naval base is. And these Cossack soldiers rammed the gate with a Russian military truck. There are about 40 of them now on the base. There are 100 Ukrainian soldiers who have barricaded themselves inside apparently negotiations are ongoing. But that is the information that we have received today. We're trying to get more details, Becky.", "As you do, we'll come back to you. Anna, for the time being, thank you for that. Well, for a second day international monitors trying to get into Crimea were stopped. Masked men carrying rifles blocked the group of unarmed Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe observers at a checkpoint. Matthew Chance was with them as they were turned away. This is his report.", "All right, well, we're here at this checkpoint near the Crimean peninsula. I can tell you, the monitors, they're from the OSCE, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. They have just been turned back again from this checkpoint after trying to negotiate with those pro- Russian gunmen over there, who are stopping this mission of the OSCE from entering Crimea. Trying to negotiate with them to let them through, at least a portion of them through. That's not been permitted. And, of course, that's caused a great deal of anger amongst the crowds that have gathered here. Many of them ethnic Tartar, some of the ethnic Ukrainians, as well. But they're obviously extremely angry that the mission has not been permitted through and the mission members themselves very frustrated as well. But again, it's underlying that situation that exists in Crimea, that it's the pro-Russian gunmen there, armed with (inaudible) assault rifles, their faces covered, that are in essentially operational control certainly at this check point, and they're not permitting these international monitors, as I say, to go through.", "Matthew Chance. Well, NATO has been absolutely clear in its stance that Russia has breached international law in Ukraine. Russia has hit back saying NATO's involvement is only escalating tensions further. Well, earlier I spoke to the secretary-general of the organization Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He told me about NATO's view on the crisis and what we can expect to see on the ground.", "You won't see NATO forces on the ground in Ukraine. And let me stress there's no military solution to the crisis in Ukraine. And we all agree that. I had a meeting with the Ukrainian prime minister, he also agreed. And NATO as an alliance can help Ukraine modernize and strengthen their armed forces through partnership activity. It's important for us to send that very clear message to Russia and on the line that Russia must withdraw troops to barracks and bases. We need international observers in Ukraine and we need a direct dialogue between Moscow and Kiev.", "Russia, sir, has said that you have shown a biased and a prejudiced approach that is adding additional tension in the crisis over Ukraine. Your response.", "This intervention is a clear breach of international law. It's also a clear breach of the fundamental principles upon which we have built the NATO-Russia relationship and that's why we have responded and now suspended practical -- or planning practical cooperation with Russia until our foreign ministers meet in April.", "This decision to suspend combined operations with the Russians on removing Syria's chemical weapons has created real concern, concern that you are encouraging more of a security threat to the region. How do you respond to that?", "First of all, let me stress that the decision to suspend planning for a joint NATO-Russia escort mission does not affect the destruction of chemical weapons, that destruction will take place anyway, but Russia will not participate in the escort, the maritime escort of the U.S. vessel.", "But this -- this is a key message, and a provocative one. The very notion that this message from NATO to Russia could create further security concerns across the region surely is one that you are concerned about.", "It's absolutely not a provocative answer. The provocation action is taken by Russia, by intervention in Ukraine in Crimea and this is a breach of international law and that's why we are participating as NATO in building an increased international pressure on Russia.", "The further you push Russia away from the sort of cooperation that we are -- what we have seen in the past few months, the less likely it is that they will help provide a solution in Syria. And our viewers will be well aware that their relationship with the Syrian government is a crucial one in providing any kind of solution going forward.", "We are not pushing away Russia, but Russia is distancing itself from the international community. The Russian intervention in Ukraine is in contradiction with its international obligations and obviously that intervention cannot be unanswered.", "That's the NATO chief talking to me just before the show. And we've got plenty more on Ukraine coming up tonight, including a closer look at the Crimea facts. I'm going to speak to the director of the Eurasia group Alexander Clement. He visited both Ukraine and Russia last week. Let me get more perspective about why Crimea is so important to both sides. So why do we care, I guess. And much more on the media battle that's unfolding in the region, how Crimean officials are apparently trying to silence the opposition. Still to come tonight, silencing their critics, how Crimea's separatist leaders are clamping down on press freedom. Plus, South Africans riveted as a celebrity murder trial continues. 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{"id": "NPR-3962", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2006-09-05", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5768519", "title": "A Look at the Fall TV Season", "summary": "Tired of seeing the same familiar faces on your TV? We'll explore the networks' latest tricks to keep you tied to the tube this fall.", "utt": ["From NPR News, this is NEWS AND NOTES. I'm Tony Cox, in for Ed Gordon.", "A new group of superheroes, an ugly duckling navigating the fashion industry, and Spanish telenovelas in English - not to mention a new broadcast network. This fall promises to be an interesting and perhaps exciting season for television.", "And joining us now from NPR's arts desk is Nova Safo who - if I can put it this way - watches television for us. Nova, nice to have you.", "Indeed. It's a tough job. Somebody's got to do the time.", "Somebody's got to do it.", "Listen, so what's the big deal about this new season? If the television promos are to be believed, there's a lot.", "TV this fall is at a crossroads. It has never faced the amount of competition that there is right now out there - not just from all the channels that are on TV and that are producing original programming, but also from the Internet, from DVD-Rs that are taking away commercial viewing audiences. The Video-on-Demand, streaming online - there's just so many avenues - the audience is so fractured that everything that is happening on television now, all the shows that are coming up, they all exist in that context.", "For example, the idea of appointment television is a big buzzword right now in broadcast television, especially - and the idea is provide shows that are so compelling that draw an audience in such a way that you can't afford to miss an episode, that you want to make time to sit down and see the episode live along with the commercials. You don't want to tape it on your DVR to watch it later and skip the commercials. So everything that they're putting on right now is focused towards getting the audience, getting them hooked, getting them talking about their shows.", "So what's an example of a show that is expected or hoped to do that?", "Well, they're all trying to copy Lost and Desperate Housewives, because they've done it in a way that nobody else has been able to do so far.", "All right.", "And Gray's Anatomy as well. You have Heroes on - that's coming up on NBC, an NBC Network that has nowhere to go but up. They're building themselves back up from the ruins, really. And here's a show that's kind of very much in the serialized series vein, the same way that Lost is, Desperate Housewives is. They're all kind of have this over-arching stories that can last a season, that can last the entire run of the show. With Lost, it's the mystery of where they are. Desperate Housewives, it's various intrigues. And with Heroes, it's - you have a bunch of characters. They're somehow interconnected in mysterious ways, and they're also discovering that they have these strange, mysterious powers. And we have a clip from Heroes, and we can listen to…", "Yeah, let's listen to it.", "…one of the characters talking about finding out his powers.", "Unidentified Man #1: (as Nathan) I'm late. I've got a fundraiser and a drinks (unintelligible)", "Unidentified Man #2: Two more times. Sometimes I'm falling, sometimes I'm flying. But sometimes you're in them.", "Unidentified Man #1: (as Nathan) I don't have time for this now.", "Unidentified Man #2: They're not just dreams, Nathan.", "Unidentified Man #1: (as Nathan) Hold this.", "Unidentified Man #2: I thought they'd go away, but they're not.", "Unidentified Man #1: (as Nathan) Jim, I need this back by six. Just (unintelligible).", "Unidentified Man #2: This morning, when I got out of bed, my foot hovered before it hit the ground. Hovered for a split second, like I was - like I was floating. I'm telling you, I think I can fly.", "High concept, Tony. Really high concept.", "Yeah, I think I can fly.", "That's the idea.", "I heard of that before.", "Now, I understood that these telenovelas, they're serialized, aren't they, as well? And isn't there a new one - and one or two of those coming out?", "Ah, indeed. And this is again the idea: appointment television. Get people hooked. And the - how this has come about is very interesting. It's kind of sprung up from the ashes of two other networks. You had WB, UPN - both under-performing networks for the past decade. They've lost about a billion dollars each for their parent companies. They went out of business. They've joined forces to create a new network called CW.", "Right.", "Which we'll talk about.", "Right.", "But there were a bunch of stations that were left out. They didn't join the CW and they were left out. And News Corp, which runs Fox, in its wisdom -and they are whiz kids over there in making money. They've realized that they watch Univision and they've seen it get incredible ratings with Spanish-language telenovelas.", "So they basically said can we get that kind of excitement for English language telenovelas? So they've been already developing that. They had already been doing that. So they said here's an opportunity - of all these stations that need a network - we'll create one. So…", "All right.", "In a matter of a few months, they came out with MyNetwork TV, and now they're running two telenovelas in primetime. They start tonight. They will be Desire and Fashion House. And they're very kind of over the top. And we do have a clip from Fashion House.", "All right.", "We're going to give you an example of how over the top they are.", "All right let's listen.", "Unidentified Woman #1: I made it clear you were not to see my son.", "Unidentified Woman #2: Paul pursued me.", "Unidentified Woman #1: Which conveniently started the instant you were hired at Zioni(ph).", "Unidentified Woman #2: What is that supposed to mean?", "Unidentified Woman #1: Well, let's face facts. You have a modicum of talent and even less of an education.", "Unidentified Woman #2: How dare you.", "Unidentified Woman #1: You're a gold digger.", "Okay.", "You know, it sounds - it sounds really lame, but I have to tell you, Tony.", "It does sound lame.", "It's more sophisticated than Slick than your typical daytime soap opera. It's - the production values are much higher. They've discovered how to tape these all at once. It's a limited run - 13 weeks. And I think they're going to do pretty well. They're target audience is 18 to 49 women. And that's a pretty coveted audience. So I think they're going to do well.", "All right, who's targeting, you know, the black folks?", "Well…", "Where are we on the fall TV schedule?", "Tony, I have to tell you - no one, really.", "You have BET with…", "Well, what a surprise that is.", "Right, exactly. Well, you know, it's funny. I talked to Dawn Ostroff, who had been running UPN. She's now the new president of CW. That's the other network.", "Right.", "They're combining a bunch of programs from UPN and WB. Now, these UPN shows that survived, only a few of those, you know, kind of black sitcoms that were on UPN survived…", "Girlfriends.", "Girlfriends survived.", "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.", "All of Us survived. And the single-camera comedy, Everybody Hates Chris -which everyone loves, actually - survived. But here's the interesting thing, right? They put all these comedies Sunday night, all in a block. And when - in the original press release when they sent out touting their new schedule - guess what they called their Sunday night block?", "They'll say Black Sunday.", "No, no, no.", "Okay, good.", "They called it, euphemistically, the urban comedies on Sunday night.", "Oh, it's the same thing.", "Okay.", "And when I talked to Dawn Ostroff, I said why kind of - if you pardon or ghetto-ise that, you know, the block of shows. And she basically told me it made business sense. And we have a little bit of which she told me.", "So we literally take in our Monday night block and move it onto Sunday night. It's going to have the same competition now that Monday Night Football has moved to Sunday night. And we will be a great alternative. It's also a great night for family viewing. And when you look at our 7 to 8 hour and you look at Everybody Hates Chris and All of Us, it's fantastic shows to sit down with the whole family and laugh and have a good time. And it's very hard to find that kind of programming on the air right now. So I think it's going to be a successful night for us.", "All right, we'll see.", "Well, indeed we will. But, you know, I did ask her - I said, you know, it's okay. It makes business sense, but you have the most representation of minorities of anybody. At least you did when you were UPN. Don't you have some kind of social responsibility here as well, not just a business responsibility?", "And she kind of stuttered with that answer. I mean, she basically said, you know, we haven't had any real complaints. Whether that's true or not, I do not know. But she said, you know, we a lot more coming up. We promise we'll have a commitment to diversity, where part of the shows that are coming - and one of them we'll be a project they're developing with Alicia Keys. Where - talking about creating a show about what it's like to be a mixed - a person of mixed background. And she said that's going to be very relevant, especially for our younger audience. And the CW does kind of target the younger crowd.", "Seems to me one of the things - several things have changed. for one, you don't really have all these shows ruling out in September as you used to, and that they're sort of staggered over the year. Talk about that briefly. But also it seems as if places like YouTube have been - have had an influence on how these new shows are rolled out. Is that right?", "Oh, Tony, you just hit upon two things that are just earthquakes, both for the TV industry. I mean, first of all, this - the reason you're seeing shows rolling out the entire year is because there's a glut of competition. There are more shows, more new programs coming up this year and being rolled out throughout the year than ever before on TV, just flat out. And that is a concern for some network executives because they're saying how is the audience ever going to be able to decipher what's good? What's bad? What they should watch? What they shouldn't watch? How will we get our message out?", "And some of the networks have realized you can do it with inventive marketing such as YouTube. NBC made a deal to join up with YouTube to market its programs. And in fact, there was a show called Nobody's Watching, a sitcom pilot that was produced in 2005…", "What an appropriate name, huh?", "And nobody did in terms of - none of the networks were interested. It died a horrible death. And guess what? The pilot made it somehow onto YouTube, and it was huge. That first segment, the first nine-minute segment of the pilot got some half million hits this June. And then all of the sudden, NBC said wait a minute, everybody is watching. Let's do something with this. So they optioned the pilot that was dead because of YouTube.", "And in fact, somebody asked Kevin Reilly during the Television Critics Association conference over the summer…", "And he is?", "Kevin Reilly is the president of NBC.", "Okay.", "And they asked him, did you have something to do with this? Were you the brilliant mind that said let's put this on YouTube and see if it'll work? And he said, no. We were completely surprised with this. Let's hear what he had to say to one of the critics.", "Initially, we attempted to clamp down on YouTube. We now, in fact, have gone into business with them for promotional efforts for our fall. That video, like everything else on YouTube at this point, none of it has official clearance. But we allowed it to happen.", "Unidentified Man: So NBC Universal had nothing to do with putting it there or allowing it to be there in the first place?", "Absolutely not. I didn't even know about it until I started getting e-mails while I was operating a sailboat in Mexico.", "Isn't that the best image?", "Well, that tells you everything you need to know, doesn't it?", "You know?", "Let's bring this to a close with this, because there's so much to consider all of these new shows. Just very briefly, Nova, how long does a show have to survive? Do you now have to do it on your debut night or else?", "Well, you know, in fact, the opening night of a show is becoming a lot like the opening weekend for a movie. Because there is so much competition out there, audiences are getting bombarded with messages - that the feeling and the thought is that pretty much if on the opening night you can't get those ratings, a high enough audience has given your show a chance, then they're less likely to come back. And there's less likely to be word of mouth, there's less likely to be buzz to give that show legs, to give that show room to grow.", "So broadcast networks, especially are finding it - finding themselves under a lot of pressure to get that show out on its opening night with a big bang. And if they don't get that, expect a bloodbath, as one of the executives from one of the networks - FX, John Landgraf at FX told me - he said expect a bloodbath because there will be a lot of shows that will not make it, good or bad. Because there's so much competition, they're just not going to get the audience.", "There are going to be an awful lot of nervous people in Hollywood during the month of September…", "Mm hmm. Much more than usual.", "That's for sure. Nova Safo covers the arts and television for NPR. Nova, thanks.", "You're welcome.", "Coming up, the official start of the fall campaign season, but is the president and asset or a liability for Republican candidates? 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{"id": "CNN-89695", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2004-11-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/12/bn.04.html", "summary": "Scott Peterson Found Guilty of Killing Wife & Unborn Son", "utt": ["We are just 15 minutes on the head, 15 minutes from the verdict, the jury decision, the verdict in the Scott Peterson murder trial. We obviously are following this very closely as we take you right up to the top of the hour. And we are -- let's go to Jeffrey Toobin right now, who has been with us throughout the afternoon. As you take a look at the pictures on your screen right now, these are members of the Peterson family heading into the Redwood City courtroom right now to hear this verdict in 15 minutes. And Jeffrey Toobin, as you have been listening over the last hour or so, what are some of the thoughts that you have as we are really just 14 minutes away from this verdict?", "Well, my predominant thought is that it takes a braver man than I to predict what this verdict is going to be. I can make the argument either way. This has been such an unusual jury deliberation and such a short jury deliberation for such a long trial. Remember, this is a trial that went for about five months, and this jury has been instructed to restart its -- to start its deliberations three different times. The last time just Wednesday, and they didn't sit yesterday because yesterday was Veterans Day. So this jury will have deliberated formally as a group for less than a single day before they reached a verdict. That's extremely unusual for a length -- trial of this length, even though the O.J. Simpson case deliberated for about the same time. It's still very unusual. Whether that's good for the defense, good for the prosecution, I have no idea.", "OK. Well, let's get into your thinking a little bit more as we look at these pictures from outside of the courthouse as the crowd continues to gather there. What is the case for Scott Peterson's conviction in your mind based on all the time you've spent looking at this case?", "Well, you have to start with -- you can't forget the obvious facts. He's the husband. He's having an affair. He's the only person in the world that we know of that has a motive to want Laci Peterson dead.", "And what is that motive? What is that motive again?", "The motive is to -- he's an unhappy husband, wants to get her out of his life, period. I mean, you know, the sad fact is spouses kill each other a lot. Most people who are killed are killed by someone they know. And spousal murder, particularly husbands killing wives, is a common motive for murder. And that is what the prosecution suggests was the motive here. So you start with that.", "Yes.", "The second key fact that argues for his guilt is Scott Peterson said he was at this remote cove 80 miles away from their home in Modesto, California. You know, for people who don't live in California, they don't -- I mean, they might not realize that Modesto is a central city in the central part of the state, and San Francisco Bay is way west, 80 miles away.", "I see.", "Out of all the places in the world that Laci Peterson is found dead, she is found dead at precisely the location where Scott Peterson says he was fishing on December 24. That is an extremely incriminating fact. There are some jurors, I suspect, who would convict him on that fact alone. And after that, the evidence, I think, starts to get a lot weaker. There is no eyewitness. There is no murder weapon. There is no cause of death. That's where the defense arguments come from.", "OK. OK. Then I want you to make that argument for us. Make the argument if he is -- if he is acquitted, why will he have been acquitted?", "He will be acquitted on a pure reasonable doubt defense. One of the curious things that Mark Geragos did here is that when he began his defense, he didn't use a reasonable doubt defense. He said we're going to prove the crime to you. We're going to prove he was stone-cold innocent, and we're going to show you in our defense case why he was stone-cold innocent. That defense case evolved to a completely different defense by the time Geragos did his defense case, which was a pure reasonable doubt defense. And by the way, there's nothing wrong with that kind of defense, which simply says you cannot convict a man of murder when you don't have a murder weapon, when you don't have a cause of death, when you don't have an eyewitness, when there are so many unanswered questions about how and where Laci Peterson died. That's the core of the defense, and it's a real defense.", "And we're 10 minutes away now from this verdict. And Jeffrey, let me ask you, in your assessment, how did the judge handle this case and navigating it through some very difficult times?", "I have some real questions about how the judge and the prosecution handled this case for one specific reason. They called 170 witnesses. The judge allowed these prosecutors to let this case drag on for, you know, four-plus months of a prosecution case. And I think that was both a strategically wrong decision for the prosecution and simply not good trial practice on the part of the judge. Judges in other parts of the country regularly limit prosecutors on how long they can go on. California is notorious for having trials that go too long and are too expensive and simply are wasteful. If this trial was in Virginia, which is at the opposite extreme, where the cases are known as running by the rocket docket, this trial would be long over and an appeal, if there was one, would be well under way. I think the way California tries cases, murder cases, any kinds of criminal cases is long and wasteful, and I think is not -- does not do a service to the taxpayers of California, to the citizens of California, to the victims, to anyone involved in the system.", "OK. Jeffrey Toobin, stand by. As we get closer here, we're just nine minutes away from the verdict -- Kyra.", "Just outside the courtroom there you see the live pictures. Also outside the courtroom is our CNN correspondent, Ted Rowlands. And by his side, our legal analyst, Chuck Smith. And Ted, I know we're getting close here. About nine minutes until we get a verdict. And I'm told we can't listen to the actual interview, but you were one of the reporters back when you were working for that local affiliate, one of the first reporters to talk to Scott Peterson. Kind of take us back. Tell us what he said. Tell us about the questions you asked him and what you are remembering, as we haven't had a chance to hear from this man in a very long time.", "Well, the interview itself was a bit anticlimactic for me because he was basically -- well, he had already done the Diane Sawyer interview. He had lied to her point blank. He realized he had been caught in a lie, and he then came up with a new lie with me, saying that he couldn't talk about certain subjects because the police had told him not to. Of course that was completely a lie. The police wanted him to keep talking and talk about every subject. But the interview itself to me, I didn't get much out of it. However, I started talking to Peterson right away after his wife was missing, and I had daily phone calls with him, multiple phone calls with him every day. And I was trying to get him to do more interviews. He wouldn't do it. He said he didn't want to. He wanted to push all of the focus on Laci, his missing wife. And I got to tell you, honestly, the first couple of days that I met him, I thought, boy, this guy is hiding something. I didn't know what it was. And then when Amber Frey emerged, unlike other people, I sort of thought, well, maybe that's what he was hiding, maybe it was his girlfriend and that's why he's been acting so strange. And since then, I'm not going to tell you what I think, but it's gone back and forth, and it's difficult. It has to be difficult for this jury. The Amber Frey situation did not prove a thing. However, it did showcase an individual talking to someone -- a girlfriend in a manner that the average person can't fathom when his wife was missing, saying he's in Paris, saying he's in Belgium, and meanwhile he's at a memorial or a vigil for his missing wife. That in itself I think was very powerful for jurors to separate themselves from Scott Peterson. He's not just the cheating fertilizer salesman. He is different. He's a liar, and it is to the core. And I tell you, that is what will be his downfall. And that was his downfall in the beginning. Because police picked up on it. He wasn't being truthful. And they focused this investigation on him, that is the reason he's here. It's not because of the evidence. It's because of Scott Peterson and the way he conducted himself.", "I agree with you, Ted. You know -- I'm sorry.", "No, that's OK. I just wanted to say real quickly, Chuck -- and I have a question for you, too. We want to look at some tape that we just want to turn around quickly. In the past half an hour we saw the Peterson family arriving and also Laci -- Laci's -- or rather Laci Peterson's family arriving, I'm told. This is actually a different video from what -- from what I've seen. This is the Rocha family, I believe. Is that -- that came -- OK. The Rocha family that was arriving there. We also saw Laci's family arriving not long ago. Sorry about that. A quick tape turnaround there. But Chuck, from the interview that Ted did, and the other interviews that took place, Justin Falconer, the juror that was on this case, then he was kicked off, you know, talked about, you know, this is a guy that he feels just is not smart enough to commit murder. This is a guy that's just not capable of committing murder. When you interviewed him, Ted, and then Chuck, as you've seen all these interviews and how he talks and how he portrays himself, and then you saw these number of lies that came out, I mean, is this someone that struck you as somebody that was smart enough to carry out a murder like this and get by with it?", "Oh, absolutely, Kyra. And I agree with Ted. What was so striking to me about the Amber tapes, you know, a lot of men have affairs and don't kill their wives. But in that time period, in the week or so after the disappearance, when Scott Peterson is talking to Amber Frey but Amber Frey does not let on that she knows he's the guy involved with the missing wife, during that period of time he's having hour-long conversations with her, chit-chatting about \"What's your favorite movie,\" you know, \"I'm in Paris.\" And I was so struck by the heartlessness of this individual, and just there was something wrong with him. And that's when I began to believe, you know, if this guy, when everybody else in Modesto -- I mean the entire town and a lot of the world is desperately seeking, where is Laci, he is spending his time chit-chatting in the most inane way. I said to myself, \"Is this a sociopath? Is this someone who is just so incredibly narcissistic that he could do this?\" And I've got to tell you, that's when it kind of started to turn for me.", "I think that we know one thing. The jury is on the same wavelength. It took them less than six hours with this new panel to come to a verdict. It's one of two scenarios. Either They all came in and said the state didn't prove their case. I think he might have done it, but the state didn't prove their case, which is a possible result. Or they all walked in and said, \"Who else did it? Of course he did it.\" And they're going to find him guilty, and we'll find out soon.", "But Ted, let me tell you, you know, as a former prosecutor, and knowing a lot of current prosecutors, what drives them crazy is what you just articulated. A juror who can say, \"You know, I think he did it but they just didn't prove it,\" a prosecutor would say to you, \"Hey, if you think he did it, that's because he did do it. And have the courage to find him guilty.\" Don't cop out by saying, \"I think he did it but they didn't proved it.\" If you think he did it, that's because he did do it. That's what a prosecutor would react with that remark. But can I make this point also, because I listened carefully to Jeff Toobin and I've always admired his work. He should not blame the judge for the length of the trial. He should blame the prosecution. And I think it's a correct criticism. And putting that together with what Justin Falconer told us, if they lose this case it's because early on they wasted a lot of time. It's like a prize fighter who loses the first five or six rounds because he can't get his act together. Now, can he win the fight? Yes. But, you know, how he wins the fight, knocks his opponent out. Did the prosecution knock the opponent out? Maybe not. They've got so far behind that maybe they can't recover.", "Gentlemen, two minutes ark way from an audio verdict. We are assuming it's going to start right on time. Maybe as we lead up to that point let's go over the possibilities here: acquittal, first-degree murder, second-degree murder. Why don't we address what each one of those means. Chuck, you want to do that?", "Yes, Kyra. First of all, the jury has six pieces of paper, six verdict forms. One verdict form is not guilty of the murder of Laci. One verdict form is not guilty of the murder of Conner. The next verdict form is guilty of the murder of Laci, and the jury fills in either first-degree or second-degree. The fourth form is guilty of the murder of Conner, and the jury fills in first-degree or second-degree. The last two forms are, is the special allegation that in this case he murdered more than one person, one of which was a first-degree murder true? And the last one is, is that special allegation false? Obviously, there's no way to get there. Six pieces of paper. And just to tell you a little bit of inside baseball, the forms are with the foreperson when they come into the jury box. The judge says, \"Does the jury have a verdict?\" \"Yes we do.\" And, \"Have you dated and signed the verdict?\" \"Yes.\" \"Hand them to the bailiff.\" The bailiff walks them from the foreperson to the judge. The judge looks at them to make sure that they're properly filled out. He then hands the ones that are filled out and the actual verdicts to the clerk to read. If there are three forms, he's guilty of everything. The only way you can do it. Guilty of first of Laci, guilty of first of Conner, true special circumstance multiple murder. If there are two forms handed, it is either two not guilty or two second-degree murders. We've talked about this and we've figured this out. That's the way it works.", "OK. Chuck...", "The other telling thing -- I'm sorry.", "Yes, go ahead. Go ahead.", "The other telling thing which is fascinating to watch, the jury will file in, and in this courtroom they walk directly in front of Scott Peterson and the defense table as the file their way to the jury box. People should watch carefully. If as they file in they look at Scott Peterson, that might mean because they acquitted him.", "All right. Chuck Smith, Ted Rowlands, hold on. We have now hit the top of the hour. It is exactly 4:00. If you're just tuning in we're waiting for the verdict in the Scott Peterson trial. We were told we would have the verdict via audio from inside the courtroom there right now at the top of the hour. We're waiting for that. As you were hearing our legal analyst, Chuck Smith, say and also our Ted Rowlands, our correspondent that's been covering this story since December of 2002, there are three options here. There could be an acquittal. Scott Peterson could go home. Number two, he could face first-degree murder charges. He could face a life sentence. And number three, second-degree murder, the lesser charge. He could spend 15 years to life in prison. Right now we're being told that hundreds of people have gathered outside that courtroom. People that are just curious, they want to hear what this verdict is. People have come from all parts of California to gather around and see what happens here at this courtroom in Redwood City, California. You remember it was back in 2002, December 24, Christmas Eve, that the story broke that Laci Peterson, a pregnant woman carrying what was soon to be a boy, they planned to name him Conner. She was missing. Once again the investigation unfolded from there. Scott Peterson, the husband of Laci Peterson, questioned continuously by law enforcement as Mike Brooks, our law enforcement analyst said. The focus there was to eliminate Scott Peterson as the possible main suspect in that murder. That wasn't able to happen as the investigation continued. And evidence surfaced in this case, unraveled as Scott Peterson soon became the prime suspect in the murder of his wife, Laci Peterson. It wasn't long after that, after months of this investigation continued that investigators found Laci Peterson's body and the fetus of their unborn son Conner in the San Francisco Bay where Scott Peterson said he had been fishing that Christmas break. Now, once again, if you're tuning in, we're awaiting the verdict in the Scott Peterson trial. It was supposed to happen at the top of the hour, 4:00. It is now 4:02. We're waiting for that audio feed. A number of options laid out for the future of Scott Peterson. You remember what took place within that jury deliberations taking place for five months. A number of things happened. There were questions that took place among that jury pool. Two of those jurors had to be replaced. A new foreman had to take place in that jury. And what was pretty surprising to a number of people was that that verdict came about in six hours. Some comparisons made to the O.J. Simpson case. You remember a verdict happened quite quickly in that case after months of deliberations and everybody remembers. The nation, the world remembers what happens in that case. Not necessarily rolling over into this one meaning that a not guilty verdict will come forward because of a quick decision that was made by the new jury pool. However, questions do remain. Even our analysts saying they're not sure. Their guess is as good as anyone's what could happen in this case. An acquittal has been brought up. Of course we have been talking about that and how that could just stir the nation as they watch this case for almost two years.", "And Kyra, as we've watched this whole story unfold this afternoon, what has been so interesting is that when we initially received word that the jury had reached a verdict, we know that the courtroom was cleared. Then we saw very little activity outside of the courthouse and as the hours have moved on here, we have seen more and more activity. We know this is a small community in Redwood City, California. We also know we have watched over the last couple of hours as more and more people have gathered outside of that courthouse anticipating this decision. It has been so long in the making to get to this point. Just about two years as you mentioned. And all that has gone into this -- when you think about all of the time that's been spent by the jury on this, the attorneys who have been preparing this case, Mark Geragos who we know from his time on the \"LARRY KING SHOW\" has first taken Scott Peterson apart at some points and now that he would be the defense attorney walking him through this trial into this ultimate decision, it has been a story of twists and turns and we look at this woman, this beautiful woman about to have her first child with her husband, Laci Peterson, and to think that she came to this kind of end. We were talking earlier with one of our analysts who is Chuck Smith who was talking about pictures, the autopsy pictures and how difficult those pictures were to watch. When you think about this family, the Rocha family, what they have gone through and the fact that on this day there's the possibility they know they have lost their daughter, they know they have lost a grandchild but they could also lose a son-in-law. Now, that might not mean much at this moment. But there was a time when this family was working through this process when that notion had to be very difficult. That moment when they crossed the line from supporting Scott Peterson to no longer being able to support him. So here we are at five minutes after the hour of 4:00. We're awaiting this audio feed of this verdict and it is just a very difficult tense moment outside of that courthouse for everyone involved. And Ted Rowlands as we get closer to this decision, I'm just curious as to what your thoughts are two years virtually into this process.", "Well, you mentioned the families. And Rusty Dornin, a CNN correspondent is in the courtroom right now. She's messaging us the scene in there. She says for the first time she has seen Dennis Rocha, that is Laci's father sitting with Laci's stepfather Ron Grantski and Sharon Rocha. She says Laci's friends are behind them. Some are crying nervously, waiting. We were told it was at the top of the hour. It is now five minutes in. Lee Peterson, Scott Peterson's father is not in the courtroom as of yet. Curiously he's missing. He has sat through this entire trial. Whether or not they are waiting for him because of a logistical reason or whether or not he doesn't think he can handle the emotion, we're not clear. That may be the delay. Lee Peterson is not in the courtroom. However it seems as though all of the other family members are set and according to Rusty's message here which really does translate it, it is very very emotional in that courtroom. We can only imagine outside here. There are hundreds of people that have gathered. And you can feel the motion out here, as well.", "And Chuck, I have to ask you you made the point in Rusty's piece that this prosecution team has given this jury enough in your mind to come back with a guilty verdict.", "Sure. This jury could do one of two things obviously. It is very difficult to tell which way they're thinking. The one thing we know is", "OK, Ted. Just another question. We have been talking about it all afternoon long but the crowd has been building in anticipation of this verdict and just sort of take a look around you, sort of a 360 view if you could. All right, 180. And give us a sense of what that scene is like outside of that courthouse right now.", "There are a number of people on their cell phones, people just standing and milling around waiting for word on which way this jury is going to go. Word came out about 11:30 Pacific Time that the jury had reached a verdict. And from that point on we have seen a steady stream of people making their way outside the courthouse and just gathering. Throughout this trial hundreds of people have come and tried to get public seats. The curiosity factor has been enormous. People have been following this case on a daily basis not only here but across the country and the ones here are here to see firsthand and hear firsthand what this jury has come up with. We are not going to hear the audio feed out here. These people will have to rely on getting it second-hand from the media. But they're here anyway. They just want to be a part of it.", "In looking at the crowd, I think you sense the same thing that I do. Which is most of them are here wanting to see him convicted. It has just been an unbelievable outpouring in this community in support of Laci and Conner. You hear it all of the time. All the time. All the time. And quite frankly it makes me proud of our community that we have handled it that way.", "Chuck, I have to ask you, so you're saying that in this sort of court of public opinion, there is no doubt that Scott Peterson is guilty?", "I think that is accurate to say. That's what most of the people around here are saying.", "People have been following the case from the outside, they say he's the husband, the body is washed up in the bay, he had the affair. He is a liar. He did it. It is a much different situation in the courtroom. It is not that clear having sat through the testimony, I think you'll agree that it isn't that clear. It's not as though we know that this jury is coming back with a guilty verdict because we don't. It could very well be a not guilty verdict.", "Ted, let me ask you that. So if folks believe that in this so-called court of public opinion, and they get, for example, a not guilty verdict in this case... OK, I'm understanding that the jury is entering the courtroom right now so -- Chuck, let me change the question. Let me ask you who will we hear from first?", "Let's go to the audio.", "Let's go to the audio? OK.", "In the case of People vs. Scott Peterson. Let the record reflect that the defendant is present with counsel. The jury is in the jury box", "We have, your Honor.", "Would you hand the verdicts", "State of California vs. Scott Peterson. We the jury in the above entitled cause find the defendant Scott Lee Peterson guilty of the crime of murder of Laci Peterson in violation of Penal Code Section 187A", "It is, your Honor.", "Read the grievance.", "We the jury for the final (ph) degree of the murder to be that of the first degree debated November 12, 2004, foreperson number 6.", "And juror number 6, is that the unanimous verdict of the jury with respect to the degree?", "It is, your Honor.", "Read count two.", "We the jury in the above entitled cause find the defendant Scott Lee Peterson guilty of the crime of murder of baby Conner Peterson in violation of Penal Code Section 187A as alleged in count two of the information filed herein dated November 12, 2004, foreperson number 6.", "Is that the unanimous verdict of the jury with respect to count two of the information?", "It is, your Honor.", "Read the degree, please.", "We the jury further find the degree of murder to be that of the second degree dated November 12, 2004, foreperson number 6.", "Mr. Foreperson, is that the unanimous verdict of the jury with respect to the degree?", "It is your honor.", "Read the special circumstances.", "We the jury in the above entitled cause find it to be true the special circumstance pursuant to Penal Code Section 190.2 subsections A-3 that the said defendant Scott Lee Peterson has in this case been convicted of at least one crime of murder of the first degree and of one or more crimes of murder of the first or second degree. Dated November 12, 2004. Foreperson number 6.", "Is that the unanimous verdict of the jury with respect to the special circumstances?", "It is, your honor.", "Mr. Harris (ph), do you want the jury polled as to each count in regards (ph) to this special circumstance?", "Yes, we do, your honor.", "Will you poll the jury as to count one, please?", "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury please answer yes or no as I call your jury number as seated and ask the following question. Was the verdict as just read as to count one your true and individual verdict, juror No. 1?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 2?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 3?", "Juror No. 4?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 5?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 6?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 7?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 8?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 9?", "Juror No. 10?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 11?", "Yes.", "And juror No. 12?", "Yes.", "Was the verdict as just read as to the degree of the said murder to be that of the first degree your true and individual verdict, juror No. 1?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 2?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 3?", "Juror No. 4?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 5?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 6?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 7?", "Juror No. 8?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 9?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 10?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 11?", "Yes.", "And juror No. 12?", "Yes.", "You want to poll the jury as to count two, please.", "Was the verdict as just read as to count two your true and individual verdict, juror No. 1?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 2?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 3?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 4?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 5?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 6?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 7?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 8?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 9?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 10?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 11?", "Yes.", "And juror No. 12?", "Yes.", "And would you poll the jury as to the degree?", "Was the verdict as just read to the degree of said murder to be that of the second degree your true and individual verdict, juror No. 1?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 2?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 3?", "Juror No. 4?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 5?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 6?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 7?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 8?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 9?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 10?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 11?", "Yes.", "And juror No. 12?", "Yes.", "Would you poll the jury as to the special circumstances, please.", "Was the verdict as just read as to the special circumstances your true and individual verdict, juror No. 1?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 2?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 3?", "Juror No. 4?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 5?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 6?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 7?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 8?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 9?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 10?", "Yes.", "Juror No. 11?", "Yes.", "And juror No. 12?", "Yes.", "Your Honor, the jury has been polled and the verdicts as to count one and count two and the special circumstance allegation are unanimously affirmed.", "You may enter the verdicts. Have the verdicts been entered?", "Yes, they have.", "The verdicts have been duly entered. All right. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, as a result of your findings that means we're going to have to have a penalty phase of this trial. I can tell you some information now. The penalty phase of this trial will take less than a week. OK. I'm going give you next week off because the attorneys have to get their witnesses lined up. So we're going to start the testimony in the penalty phase of this case on November 22. You'll be here the 22, 23, and 24. You'll be home on the 25, 26, 27, and 28. We should finish the testimony by the 29th and hopefully I'll get it to you on the 30th. OK. And to start your deliberations in the penalty phase. Obviously because of this verdict you're going to be the subject of much scrutiny from the media. So I want to remind you again, you have got to adhere to this strictly, that you are not to discuss this case among yourselves or with any other person or form or express any opinions about this case. You're not to listen to, read or watch any media reports of this trial or discuss it with any representatives of the media or their agents. So you can go home now. This part of the trial is over. The penalty phase will start on, like I said, November 22. It shouldn't take more than four days, I've been advised by counsel, so I should get this case to you hopefully by November 30. You will be sequestered during those deliberations in the penalty phase for the obvious reasons. I want to thank you all for your diligence. You have been a good jury. You were here on time every day although we're not on time all the time but you have been so I really appreciate that. We'll be in recess now until 9:00 in the morning on November 22. I want to remind you again, don't discuss this case with anybody in the penalty phase", "After almost two years, the verdict has been read. And Scott Peterson has been found guilty of first-degree murder. Here is how it lays out. State of California vs. Scott Peterson, guilty of first-degree murder against his wife, Laci Peterson. That comes with death penalty or life without parole. That special circumstance second charge guilty of second degree murder with regard to his baby, his unborn child, baby Conner Peterson. Second degree murder, 15 years to life. The penalty phase, according to the judge, will start in less than a week, testimony will begin. The judge hoping that will be over by the twenty-ninth of November. Once again the judge reminding the jurors the gag order still in place. They are not to talk to the media or anyone else about this case. If you're just tuning in, the verdict has been read. Scott Peterson found guilty of murder, first degree murder of his wife, Laci Peterson, with special circumstance and also found guilty of second degree murder of his baby boy Conner. As you know both her body and the fetus found in San Francisco Bay not long after this story broke. Ted Rowlands, our correspondent just outside of the courtroom, I guess a number of questions, Ted. First of all, what is going through your mind as you were one of the first correspondents on this story when it all began, and then the reaction there outside of the courtroom as everybody heard the two verdicts?", "Well, the reaction outside the courtroom was cheering. People out here, as we discussed leading up to the verdict, most folks in the court of public opinion think that Scott Peterson is guilty of killing his wife. When the jury verdict was read, they outwardly cheered. And it was very loud. And they continued to cheer for some time here. It is just starting so settle down. Obviously very emotional. Rusty Dornin, our correspondent, is inside the courtroom. She has been e-mailing us a very vivid description of what has been going on. She says that the Rocha family embraced and started to cry. She said that Scott Peterson showed absolutely no emotion as the verdict was read and after the verdict was read. Her last update still no emotion from Scott Peterson. She will be coming down out of the courtroom and will be joining us momentarily with more firsthand knowledge. But interesting that Scott Peterson would have absolutely no emotion to the verdict that this jury feels as though he is responsible for killing his wife. It will now be up to this jury to decide whether or not he will face the death penalty. We do know this, he will spend the rest of his life in jail guilty of first degree murder without parole. Now outside the courthouse...", "Ted, what's happening behind you? Can you tell us what's happening behind you, maybe your photographer can pull into -- there we go.", "You know what it is, it's members of the media coming out of the courtroom that were inside. I think a lot of the folks out here thought it may have been one of the Rocha family members.", "Jackie Peterson leaving.", "Jackie Peterson has just left.", "That's Jackie Peterson and people were cheering.", "And I guess folks were cheering when Jackie Peterson left. Something obviously that family doesn't need that at this time.", "Now that has got to be hard to swallow there. That's not he's easy at all. Ted Rowlands there, just outside the courtroom. Thank you so much. If you're just tuning in again, once again, the verdict has been read in the Scott Peterson case. He has been found guilty of first degree murder of his wife, Laci Peterson, with special circumstance. What does that mean? It means the death penalty or life in prison without parole. Also found guilty of second-degree murder of his baby boy Conner, as you know, their unborn son. Second degree murder, 15 years to life in prison with a chance of parole.", "Now let's bring in Jeffrey Toobin, our legal analyst in New York. And Jeffrey, your thoughts on the verdict?", "Well, everything is obvious in retrospect. It now seems clear that Scott Peterson was the only suspect in this case, the only suspect there has ever been in this case. He's the only person against whom there was any evidence. He's the only person that there could possibly have been who killed Laci Peterson and their unborn son. The problem for the prosecution was that there wasn't that much evidence against him even though there was no evidence against anyone else. Obviously the jury felt that the absence of a cause of death, the absence of an eyewitness, the absence of all of that evidence that we have been talking about, wasn't that big of deal. And the thing that it is just so extraordinary now is that this trial is not over. That on November 22, a week from Monday, there is going to be a penalty phase. And penalty phases tend to be very short even in California where things tend to be longer than elsewhere. So I think there could well be a verdict in this whole case before Thanksgiving.", "Well, I want to remind everyone that we're waiting for Rusty Dornin to come out of that courthouse. And when she does we will certainly go to her for her thoughts and reactions and her firsthand account of what was going on inside the courthouse as the verdict was being read. Jeffrey, were you as struck as I was during the portion of this proceeding when the jury was polled at how assured and affirmative they were in this verdict?", "You know, it is funny that you say that. I was very struck by that. I happen to be researching a different case right now where a death penalty was overturned because during the polling of the jury, one juror hedged. It seems like a routine practice but in fact it is a very significant part of the trial. And not only did the jurors all ratify their group verdict, but they did in a clear, loud and I thought rather calm voice. That is often a very emotional moment for jurors when they have -- when they are polled, when they have to... Jeffrey, stand by for just a moment. Let's go back out to Ted Rowlands who is with Rusty Dornin. Ted, take it away.", "Well, Rusty Dornin was inside the courtroom and we were getting your text messages which were very emotional. Just talk us through it.", "Yes. It was so amazing, Ted. I think we have been through this really for the last two years. And a lot of reporters even in the room, the tension before that jury came into the room in itself, you could have cut it with a knife. The family, Laci Peterson's friends were there, three or four of her friends. Of course, her father, her mother, her stepfather, her brother, her sister all sitting in the front row. The Petersons were there. But Lee Peterson was noticeably missing, Scott Peterson's father. Also defense attorney Mark Geragos was not number in the room. Apparently he is down in Southern California on -- attending to some kind of business or on some other cases. But when they came into the room and announced that verdict, immediately the side of the room with the Rocha family, Laci Peterson's family and friends, erupted in tears and just cries of relief. The Petersons very somber, very stoic. Scott Peterson had been smiling and laughing and that sort of thing, seeming very confident before the verdict came in. Once that verdict was in he was straight ahead, he didn't look to either side. I think what you're hearing now are some of the...", "Gloria Allred is walking out of the courthouse.", "Some of the prosecutors or people who are well-known for being for the prosecution, many of the folks here as we know have been really pro-prosecution in this case. Very supportive of the pundits. But anyway, Scott Peterson looking straight ahead, not making any kind of a face after that verdict was announced. Of course, the jury all polled. Peterson family and Scott just not saying anything.", "Did Peterson acknowledge his family at all or vice- versa?", "No. And by the time -- they kicked us out of the courtroom while the family was still there. But the Peterson family staring straight ahead. He was staring straight ahead. We all had to leave the courtroom before we could see anything. But the Rocha family, during the reading of all the different verdicts, Brent Rocha, Laci Peterson's brother, and her mother kept sobbing and hugging each other throughout the entire reading of all of these verdicts. And I think it just -- the kind of emotion when you have that many people in a room and this has been going on for nearly two years, it was incredible.", "What about jury, what was their demeanor as they walked in?", "Very somber, very somber as they came in. Of course, you don't have any indication from that. But the interesting thing was as they left I was on the side of the courtroom with the jury. The African-American juror, as she went out she did nod once to the Rocha family before she left. She was the only one that I really saw that looked at the family as they left, and just made some kind of acknowledgement like, yes, we did this.", "We have been reporting and covering this entire trial and we weren't quite sure what to expect. Obviously this jury had made up their mind early on. It took less than six hours for this panel to come to this decision. Were you surprised?", "Well, you know, the funny thing is you and I have talked many times what we thought would happen. And we have come up with many different scenarios. I think towards the end I don't think either one of us thought perhaps it would be this scenario. The other interesting thing was when the foreman was elected, this last foreman, juror No. 6, I think many of us in the courtroom, I think including yourself, we thought perhaps he was pro-defense because he didn't take notes. He didn't seem like he was paying attention. And we thought from, I think, the juror that was dismissed, Justin Falconer, that we thought he was perhaps more pro- defense. So I didn't know what was going happen with him being a foreman. I had no idea that he would vote guilty in this case. And tell me how you feel about that.", "Yes. I think we both felt the same thing, that it was a circumstantial case and after juror No. 5, the first juror No. 5, Falconer, was dismissed, we were floored at the -- really, the one- sidedness that he had. And he was obviously close to this foreman and we just weren't quite sure what to think. I think that the fact that this jury took less than six hours is the most surprising thing given the amount of testimony and really the judge's orders to go through the evidence. Obviously they just took a vote and they were all in agreement.", "Well, we did hear there was a big battle going on once those deliberations started. And it became very clear that because the first foreman, this doctor, this lawyer, the one that we talked about with the notebooks, taking copious notes that he was so methodical, that there was a battle going on apparently with him over whether perhaps we had hear heard -- whether he would not allow them to take a vote until they had gone through all the evidence of whatever it was. When he left, boy, there just seemed to be absolutely no problem in them moving forward into some place. And, as we know, the judge did interview each juror when the first juror this week was dismissed, right, Ted, and I think he learned some things then, right?", "Learned that it was a rancorous atmosphere inside the jury room. And most likely, now that we know what happened, it was that this juror No. 5, the original foreman, was going through all of this evidence and this jury felt as though they were maybe on the same page, that they didn't need to do that. They had their mind made up, obviously. And they had their mind made up that Scott Peterson killed his pregnant wife. And looking back at the trial, one would have to think that, although a lot of folks said that the Amber Frey tapes proved nothing, I think that those of us that sat through that, it did prove one thing. And that is that Scott Peterson was a little bit different and was lying about everything and in a time when most folks probably wouldn't react that way.", "And the other thing is, I think, too, by the time Justin Falconer, the first juror, had quit, it was only four weeks into the trial. A lot of people criticizing the prosecution's case, people thinking it was weak, that the jury was lost. But when they came together in those closing arguments, I think you'll agree with me on this, they connected all of those dots and those doubts and perhaps they did in the minds of these jurors. Obviously, we are not going to be able to hear anything about what the jury thinks until the penalty phase of this has been concluded, so perhaps not sometime in mid- December.", "Outside of the courtroom of the courthouse, the court of public opinion erupted in elation when the guilty verdict came down. Undoubtedly, the jury had that pressure going in as well, because the question was, who had killed Laci Peterson? And they were listening into it. This is the reaction outside the courthouse. Undoubtedly, this jury knew what their friends and family and the rest of the folks watching this trial thought happened. And that, do you think, had something to do with this?", "Well, the other thing is, we were talking about this being a circumstantial case and we kept hearing, oh, there's no murder weapon. There's no crime scene. There's no cause of death. There's no eyewitnesses. How can they possibly convict this man? But I think the strongest thing was he went fishing where his wife and his unborn son's body washed ashore. And that fact alone I think probably had a very strong impact on this jury. And that was the one thing you couldn't get away from. Whether he was just a cheating husband, you know, the idea that he went fishing where they washed up I think really impressed the jury in this case.", "Justin Falconer, Juror No. 5, the first to be dismissed is on the phone with us. Justin, your reaction here. I know that you were leaning towards not guilty. Are you surprised?", "You know what? I'm not really surprised. I'm a little bit surprised. But you know what? Juror No. 6, he is a smart guy. And I'm going to say that everybody in that courtroom saw a whole lot more than I did. And whatever they saw obviously made them believe that he was guilty. So I'm sure they made the right choice. I'm sure there's vindication for the Rocha family. I'm happy for them. And, you know, I think this is just -- it is going to be interesting to hear from the other two jurors that were dismissed to see if maybe they were holdouts and if maybe that's why they were dismissed. But, you know, like I said -- I said it before, juror No. 6 is going to pull these people together and they're going to take a shot at a verdict. And whether it be guilty, whether it be innocent -- and although I did lean towards the innocent, there were still a lot of questions in my head. Clearly, these questions weren't in their heads. And whatever the prosecution brought forward after I left was convincing to them, enough so that this was a unanimous verdict. And I'm happy for them. And I guess now they can start moving on.", "In the time leading up to this verdict, you said that you might have been the one holdout. Do you think now looking back you would have gone along with this verdict having heard all the evidence?", "You know, it is possible that I would have. I'm not going to go back on what I said or try to make excuses. I can say honestly that it is possible that I would hung the jury if in fact I was so convinced he was -- or not convinced he was guilty. But like I said, something in that courtroom, something that we didn't see out here, or, I'm sorry, that I didn't see out here, convinced them and I think that says a lot. And that's why they're in there. That's why I'm out here. So...", "OK, thanks, Justin Falconer, juror No. 5, the first juror No. 5. There were two of them before -- three of them before it was all said and done. Of course, a lot of problems with the deliberation process for the first five days, and then a new foreman. And they came to a verdict within just six hours of deliberation. Right now, more people are coming out of the courthouse and the people standing outside here are cheering. And we're told that portions of the Peterson family are coming out and people cheering them, obviously, a very difficult time for that family. Rusty Dornin in the courtroom when this verdict was read, and you said the Peterson family showed absolutely no emotion. Are you surprised at that? Because we have heard from them consistently that they felt as though Scott was innocent. In fact, they, beyond any -- on the outside, at least -- of course, they're talking to the media. They say they were stone-cold convinced of it. Do you think down deep they were prepared for this?", "I don't think they can ever be prepared for it, but I think, once it happens, I think they were really in shock, you know, because they didn't look side to side. I couldn't see that they were hugging each other or anything like that. There were also about seven or eight bailiffs standing that moved in to place, moved right in to place and stayed right around the Peterson family. So, Tony, it just really -- it was amazing to watch. And, also, Scott Peterson never turned around and looked at his family and didn't even talk to his attorneys until after the jury was leaving.", "OK, Scott Peterson, who was possibly going to go home today, is going to spend the rest of his life in jail. The jury has decided that, convicting him of first-degree murder. The penalty phase is next up. Tony, outside the courtroom, things have dissipated a little bit in terms of numbers, but the emotion still here.", "Absolutely.", "A lot of folks following this. And the Rocha family still inside the courthouse. They'll have an opportunity to address the media. Whether or not they will take advantage of that or not, we'll have to see. They have been very, very quiet throughout this trial and they have not made any public comment. We'll see if that changes in the next few minutes.", "OK, just give us a heads up, Ted. We appreciate it. Let's bring Jeffrey Toobin back in here for just a second. And, Jeffrey, I have got a question for you. It is something that is raised by Mr. Falconer. He's asking the question. He's curious to know whether or not the two jurors that were dismissed perhaps -- and I know this is a lot of speculation -- were acquittal jurors. If that's the case, we have got a whole another sort of hornet's nest here, don't we?", "Well, I think you can be certain that, as Scott Peterson's lawyers start to think about an appeal, the first thing they will look at will be the process of dismissing these two jurors, because if they were dismissed simply because they disagreed with the other jurors, that they were holdouts for an opposing view of the evidence, that is reversible error. If, however, they engaged in misconduct, they visited the sites themselves, they read newspaper articles, they surfed the Web, they did their own research, then that's an appropriate reason to dismiss them. But the behind-closed-doors hearings that led to the dismissal of these two jurors will be scrutinized very carefully by an appeals court. And whether it was an appropriate decision or inappropriate decision to discharge them is something that they'll -- that the appeals courts will look at.", "Jeffrey, hold on just a second. We're just looking at a quick tape turnaround here. We're watching Scott Peterson's family actually leaving the courtroom after the verdict was read. We're seeing the closeup pictures now. We had heard the sounds when they first walked out of the courtroom. We had heard a lot of people cheering as they walked out, as Ted Rowlands said, obviously -- well, let's listen for a minute. Let's listen. OK, there wasn't very much sound there at the end. But you could hear people cheering, obviously not making the family feel too good there as they were leaving the courtroom.", "Yes.", "No doubt, this is a tremendously difficult time for them as they leave the courtroom. Go ahead, Tony.", "Well, I was just -- I was just -- let's bring Christopher Darden in. Do we have him now, Christopher Darden from Los Angeles? OK, Christopher, give me your thoughts, your reaction on this verdict. You have been involved in certainly a high-profile case like this. What are your thoughts today?", "Well, you know, I was very, very surprised that this jury came to a verdict as quickly as it did. My belief has always been, No. 1, that they would probably hang and that, if they did not hang, they would certainly find him guilty. So I'm surprised, like most people, that it came so quickly.", "Chris, Kyra here, too. I've been dying to ask you this question, because I chased for you months and months when I had to cover the O.J. Simpson trial there in Los Angeles. And I've been wanting to ask you this, because we remember when we were waiting for the verdict in the O.J. Simpson case, how quickly that decision was made. Jeffrey and I talked a little bit about this, too. So I think probably this nation was sort of sitting on pins and needles thinking, oh, my gosh. It was a quick verdict. He's either going to be acquitted or found not guilty. I'm just curious if you were having flashbacks and if you were sitting there thinking, oh, wow, it's a quick verdict; I wonder if this is going to turn out like the O.J. Simpson case?", "You know, no. I'm sure that there will be a lot of second-guessing of this jury just because the jury came back so quickly after the last juror was replaced. But it can only be a guilty verdict if in fact the jury reached a verdict. And there are plenty of reasons not to reach a verdict in this case and there are plenty of reasons to hang. But, you know, you take a jury. You sequester that jury after a five-month trial and you put them in a hotel and tell them, we're going to keep you there until you come to a decision, jurors are going try and come to a decision.", "All right, and I want to ask you this, too, sort of taking it in a different angle. Then we'll bring it back in. But, after what happened in the O.J. Simpson case, all the discussions about women's rights and women that deal with domestic abuse and all the evidence that was laid out -- and, obviously, the case rocked the nation. Do you think that this case was under even more scrutiny by analysts or by women's rights groups or people in the state of California with regard to a verdict?", "Well, you haven't heard a lot from domestic violence advocates or those who are against domestic abuse. This is certainly a domestic homicide. It is reminiscent of the O.J. Simpson case because we do have this relationship between Laci and Scott Peterson. But this goes even farther and even deeper, because we also have the issue of a dead child.", "Well, Jeffrey, let me ask you a question. Do you feel, as you look back on this -- and I understand Chris might have a different opinion of this -- do you feel that by and large for the most part as you review this case, this jury got it right? Jeffrey, are you there?", "Yes, I am.", "OK. Do you feel that by and large this jury as you look back over it over the five months of testimony, do you believe now that the jury essentially got this right?", "Well, let me put it this way, OK? If you take a case like the sniper shootings in Virginia and Maryland, Muhammad and Malvo, that was a case where I thought the jury could do nothing but convict. That was an absolutely overwhelming case. This was not that case. This was a case where I think reasonable jurors could have had different views about the evidence. But I do think reasonable jurors could have convicted. I don't think that this was some sort of irrational jury by any means. They studied the evidence. They worked long and hard. And so I do think it is a verdict supported by the evidence. If I had been a juror, would I have reached the same verdict? I can't answer that question. But I certainly think it was a rational verdict by this jury.", "And, Chris, let me ask you sort of the same question. As you look at this case and you look at the hand that the prosecution was dealt, so to speak, is this a case that you liked going in and as it has played out, do you believe essentially that the jury got it right?", "Well, yes. I do believe the jury got it right based on what they heard and saw in the courtroom, though I can't help but wonder how this case might have turned out had some of the court's or the judge's evidentiary rulings been different. For instance, this issue of Amber Frey being the motive for these murders, well, I don't believe that the prosecution established that at all. However, they were able to introduce this evidence and essentially attack Scott Peterson's character and portray him as an adulterer, a liar and a bad person overall. I can't help but wonder how the case might have turned out had that evidence not been allowed. However, I think they got it right.", "I certainly think they got it right.", "Chris, did you hear the verdict as it was being read?", "I did, yes.", "Well, let me ask you this question. I asked it of Jeffrey a little while ago. I was struck by how affirmed, how strong this jury sounded when it was polled about its decision. Were you struck as well by that?", "Yes. Yes, I was. And when we talk about reasonable doubt and whether or not guilt has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, we always tell jurors that there is no reasonable doubt if they have an abiding conviction in the truth of the charges, which means an enduring belief that the defendant is actually guilty. And I think that these jurors have that belief, that enduring belief, that abiding conviction, a strong belief that Scott Peterson is the murderer in this case.", "All right, let's bring Chris Darden and Jeff Toobin up together here, side by side, and take the two brilliant lawyers here that work for CNN. And I want you two to sort of -- I want to see if you guys agree to disagree or if you're on the same page. I kind of want to feel you out about how the defense did and how the prosecution did, taking a look at both attorneys, drawing from your experience, Chris, especially with regard to O.J. Simpson and what you learned during that case, looking at Rick Distaso and Mark Geragos. Jeffrey, let's start with you. Who was the winner when it came down to this case? The drama, the testimony, the one-liners, what do you think?", "When trials -- trials are a little like political campaigns. If you win, every decision you made was right. If you lose, every decision you made was wrong. Now, as we know in the real world, it can't really be that way. I have been critical of the prosecution in this case simply for going on too long. I think they called too many witnesses. I think they wasted a lot of time. They got the verdict they wanted. So they can always point to that. I think one thing that really will be criticized fairly on Mark Geragos's part is his opening statement and the way he really overpromised, the way he said, we're going to prove that Scott Peterson is stone-cold innocent. He didn't have to make that promise. He could have simply said to the jury, look, this is a reasonable doubt case. You are not going to find proof beyond a reasonable doubt. There may have been jurors who said in the jury room, boy, where was that evidence of stone-cold innocence? That I think is a legitimate criticism of Mark Geragos's performance.", "Chris, what do you think? Was Mark a little too cocky in the courtroom?", "He was absolutely a little too cocky. And I think Jeffrey hit the nail on the head, because when I heard him say that and promise to prove that Conner was born alive, I said, OK, we're going to hear that evidence. The defense is going to prove that this baby was actually born several weeks or several days after Laci disappeared. And that didn't happen. When Mark Peterson (sic) made that promise to that jury, Mark Peterson (sic) helped to shift the burden of proof from the prosecution to the defense. Well, the defense failed to prove him innocent.", "Let me just follow up on something Chris just said, because I think it is really an excellent point. The emphasis on the fact that Conner was born alive, that was a big part of the opening statement. The expert that Mark Geragos called to prove that was a disaster. That was a real low point of a not very effective defense case. He based his entire theory of the time of birth of Conner Peterson on a casual comment that Laci has made about when she was pregnant. That's not scientific. That was just a joke, frankly. And that was really preposterous, bad evidence. And I think knowing that that was your expert and making that kind of promise, that's a real error by Mark Geragos in how he tried the case.", "All right, I'm going to bring up the word that a lot of people have been asking, appeal -- Chris.", "Oh, absolutely. If the jury comes back with a death verdict, Peterson will have an automatic right to appeal his conviction and the death penalty on the one hand. But, of course, the issues with these jurors and how they were dismissed -- were they dismissed because they refused to deliberate or were they dismissed because they concluded that Peterson was not guilty? So that's a huge issue on appeal. But there will certainly be an appeal. There is always an appeal in a criminal conviction in California.", "I am assuming you are going to agree, Jeffrey.", "Absolutely. An appeal is automatic. I think it is worth noting, when we get to the penalty stage here, that we're going to have a trial over whether Scott Peterson gets the death penalty. In fact, based on how California is now trying its cases, in fact, the overwhelming likelihood, regardless of what the verdict is in the penalty phase, is, he will not be executed. There are more than 600 people on California's death row. California is executing people at a rate of less than one person a year. And there's no sign that that pace is going to increase. So, even if Scott Peterson is sentenced to death, the overwhelming likelihood is that he'll die in prison of natural causes.", "I'm still amazed, as I think back on all of this, that this jury was able -- and, Chris, let me just toss it to you -- that this jury was able to come back after a week where two of its own were dismissed, two new jurors on the panel, where they are supposed to -- in essence, they are instructed by the judge to start over and review it all again, that here we are, less than a day later, hours later, in fact, after a break yesterday for Veterans Day, that we're here talking about a decision. Aren't you?", "Yes. Well, as I say, I'm surprised they came to a verdict at all. But you have to remember, they have been sitting there for five months. They have seen it all. And at some point during that five- month process, most or all of these jurors came to a conclusion regarding his guilt or innocence. And I'm sure that, by the time they got into the jury room, most if not all jurors had a pretty definite view about his guilt or innocence.", "OK, let's send it back out to Redwood City, California, and Rusty Dornin. And, Rusty, sort of recap those moments again when the jury files in, the judge asks if they have reached a verdict and then we hear very dramatically this verdict.", "Well, you could have cut the air with a knife. It was just -- there was so much tension in that room. And, like I said, it's not -- it wasn't just the families. On the part of many of the reporters even like myself who have been doing this case for two years and have been listening to the trial for five months, it was -- we were all so nervous. Several of Laci Peterson's friends had just been crying before the jury even came into the room. When the clerk read that verdict, it was this sigh of relief and a tear -- burst outing -- out of tears on the part of Sharon Rocha and Laci Peterson's brother in part and by Laci Peterson's friends. Scott Peterson had come into the courtroom seeming very confident, smiling, talking with his attorneys, that sort of thing. And when that verdict was announced, his face became like stone. And he just stared ahead, didn't say a word to anyone, didn't make any kind of face, didn't grimace, didn't do anything. His family, the same thing. His father was not here. We do not know why Lee Peterson, Scott Peterson's father, was not in the courtroom. But he was not there. His own attorney was not there. Also, Mark Geragos apparently went to Southern California on some other cases. He was not here. But the other members of the Peterson family, his brother, sister-in-law, his mother, they did not express any emotion in the courtroom. And by the time most of the courtroom had been cleared, David Mattingly, another one of our reporters, was in the courtroom still and said that the Peterson family had just not reacted at all. The jury very somber when they filed in, and of course -- and then when they were polled, strongly each of them answering yes to the question, did they vote for this verdict? And when they were filing out, one of the jurors did nod -- I was about six or seven feet away -- did nod directly to the Rocha family as she left. So it was -- no one knew the way this was going go. I think we have all been going -- Ted and I have been going back and forth on this for months which way this was going to go.", "Yes.", "And I think it still was a surprise to everyone.", "How do you -- I'm struck by something you said just a moment ago. Scott Peterson has just been found guilty of murdering his wife and his unborn son, and you're here to tell us, having been in the courtroom, there's no reaction at all from this guy.", "None at all. But that was -- I think Ted can attest to this, too.", "That's Scott Peterson, though, yes.", "That's Scott Peterson.", "There was no reaction in this guy when his wife was missing. There was no reaction when he was caught in different lies. He did not show a lot of reaction, except for, at certain times, he would break down. So, a couple times during interviews, he broke down. But 90 percent of the time, this guy was just stone-faced. And even in the interview that he did, within hours of his wife being reported missing with police, which was captured on tape and shown as part of the evidence here, he was going through his day. He was going through what he thought Laci might be wearing with the investigating officer that night, when his wife was first reported missing, absolutely no emotion. A lot of people read a lot into that, saying, how could this man who was searching for his wife be sitting for an hour in a police interview with no emotion?", "And I think that sparked a lot of the media attention to begin with, because police kept saying, he's a suspect. You know, he's not a suspect, but he's not a suspect. And then he just -- he never showed any emotion. He wouldn't talk about it. He wouldn't say, look, please help find my wife. He just never did anything.", "You know what? And talk about this -- Rusty, talk about this sense of nervousness that even you felt. I think we have been there as reporters where you're awaiting a big decision. We certainly felt that with the whole O.J. Simpson trial, where you're waiting for a verdict in what you know is a big case and that this verdict will have ripples throughout a community and certainly for these families involved. Give me a sense of what that feels like for you and what you could sense from all of the courtroom observers as this jury came back?", "Well, the interesting thing is, you know, like I said, Ted and I have been covering it for two years. We do know the family members. We have interviewed them. We have talked to them. You can't help become somewhat involved, personally involved, in a case like this. And any reporter who says they don't is lying, because you do become involved. You care about what happens. And there was just a sense of nervousness. I was talking to some of the \"Chronicle\" reporters. And they were almost breathless before this was going to happen about what was going to happen.", "Yes.", "My goodness. I can't believe this is really finally happening. So it is something that just -- because we were involved in this every single day, hearing this testimony.", "Right.", "And, as I said, involved with the members of the family as well, don't you think?", "Yes. And I think that the public also was nervous. Outside the courtroom here, you could hear a pin drop. There were literally hundreds of peopling wait to listen in on this verdict. And they did end up broadcasting it out here, so that people could hear it. And it was dead silence until the verdict was read.", "But I think the interesting thing is, most of the court observers here and the people that we know that go to that court every day, they were definitely pro-prosecution. And they believed that Scott Peterson was -- oh, I think Chuck Smith has new some information. Or is that what we're hearing?", "Yes, that's it.", "Let's bring in Chuck Smith. Chuck, are you there?", "I'm here.", "OK, Chuck, we haven't gotten your reaction to all of this. But, actually, you have a little bit of reporting to do for us.", "Sure. On Wednesday, Bill Cody, the chief investigator from the San Mateo County DA's office, was brought in by Judge Delucchi to investigate something. I found out just a few moments ago what it was. An anonymous fax was sent to Judge Delucchi at the courthouse which indicated that juror No. 6, the firefighter who turned out to be the foreperson, several months ago, allegedly made statements to friends and colleagues that he thought the evidence was garbage, he would never vote to convict Scott Peterson.", "Oh, my.", "That he would do anything to hang up the jury.", "Oh, my.", "Now, interesting that interesting that he's the guy that ends up as the foreperson and they convict?", "All right. So he's the guy that is the foreperson who you're telling us made some statements to friends saying that he would never convict, because the evidence was garbage.", "Right.", "And now he takes over the role as foreperson of the jury and we get a unanimous verdict.", "He allegedly made those statements. This was an anonymous fax. Inspector Cody was asked to go out and investigate it, try to find out its source, never could. So we don't know that the foreperson in fact made these statements.", "I see. I see.", "It might be someone who was trying to get him booted off.", "Oh, my. OK, a little more intrigue. All right, Ted, let's go back to you. And this is additional information. I'm sure we're going to sort it out over the next few days and weeks and months. But give me a sense now of what happens here in terms of the penalty phase of this trial. Where do we go from here?", "The judge told the jury they're going to have a week off. Next week, we'll be off, so that the attorneys can gather their witnesses for the penalty phase and then that will begin the following Monday. That, of course, is the week of Thanksgiving. So they'll work three days, take Thursday, Friday off, and finish it up the following week of the 30th. And what the penalty phase is going to entail is basically an introduction of Peterson's criminal record, if he has one, which he doesn't, and testimony from friends and families. And I think that both sides will agree that, in the penalty phase, Peterson is going to come off looking pretty good, because this is a -- really had a -- a guy with a Boy Scout history. Even his in-laws, who later thought that he killed his wife, had absolutely no reason to suspect him. And it is going to be difficult for the prosecution to come up with character witnesses against Peterson. However, because the crime is as heinous as it is, the jury has every right to sentence him to death for that crime and disregard all of the mitigating circumstances that will be introduced by the defense.", "OK.", "This is a guy who used to help his next door neighbor, would go over and fix something, would help somebody with a flat tire. They could call him up and say, Scott, can you help me with this? All of those things, we can expect to hear, I think, in the penalty phase. They talk about him being as just being a really upstanding citizen willing to help people, willing to go the extra mile to do something for someone else.", "Or to, if you talk to investigators, go the extra mile to have people believe that he's the perfect person and will do anything.", "Yes.", "And you talk to investigators, they believe that is the motive, not necessarily Amber Frey. But the motive was that he wanted out of his relationship.", "Right.", "He wanted out of the life that he had created. And rather than get a divorce, to him, it was more important to keep his standing the way it was and kill his wife.", "My goodness. OK.", "And that's what investigators believed from the very beginning and told us off the record. And I guess the jury agreed.", "Ted and Rusty, let me have you stand by as we continue to follow this story and report post-verdict -- Kyra.", "Really quickly, right before we get to \"WOLF BLITZER REPORTS,\" we want to bring Chris Darden and Jeffrey Toobin back in. I asked you both sort of gut reaction with regard to a verdict. Now I'm going to ask you with regard to the sentencing, both of you, what do you think? What do you think is going to happen to Scott Peterson in the next phase? Chris.", "Well, I think it is very much up in the air. I can imagine prosecutors arguing to the jury, hey, if he wanted to kill his wife to get out of a marriage, why couldn't he wait until she at least gave birth to this child, and that this child is an innocent victim who did nothing to no one and certainly didn't deserve to die this way.", "Jeffrey?", "Well, I have been extremely cowardly in making any predictions in this case.", "Be brave, Jeffrey. Be brave.", "But I actually do think that he will get life in prison. He will not get the death penalty. I think, given how anomalous this act, horrible as it is, from the rest of his life, given the peculiarity of the circumstances, given the fact that there may be some jurors on that jury who think, well, he -- I'm not 100 percent guilty -- he did it. I have proof beyond a reasonable doubt, but I don't have proof beyond any doubt. I think, if you combine all those things together, I think he will not get the death penalty.", "Jeffrey Toobin, Chris Darden, thanks, gentlemen. I know you're sticking around for \"WOLF BLITZER REPORTS.\" And, as we hit the top of the hour, that's exactly where we're going. Wolf is going to take the breaking news from here. If you're just tuning in, once again, the verdict is guilty in the Scott Peterson case.", "Absolutely, guilty of murder in the case of Laci and guilty of murder in the case of baby Conner. Let's go live now to Wolf Blitzer in Washington, D.C. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SR. 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{"id": "CNN-45192", "program": "Q&A; WITH JIM CLANCY", "date": "2001-12-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/07/qa.01.html", "summary": "Can Yasser Arafat Stop Terrorist Violence?", "utt": ["Public anger here is intense, not just at the Israelis, but at the Palestinian Authority itself. And as their crackdown continues on groups like Hamas, more frustration and more bitterness is spilling out on the Palestinian streets.", "And these are the streets that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat must control. The unrest comes after international pressure on the Palestinians to take action against the militants. But in the West Bank, disagreements and challenges to Yasser Arafat's authority.", "Arafat doesn't control each and every Palestinian in this territory. The Israelis have been in this place for more than 35 years now, and they have never been able to control the situation.", "It's out of his hand. If I want to carry out a suicide attack, will I consult with Yasser Arafat? No, Arafat can't stop me.", "They want him to put half of Palestinian in prison and kill the other half.", "Challenges, as well, from Israel, this time with weapons. On this edition of", "Can Yasser Arafat weather this latest storm?", "Welcome to Q&A.; I am Zain Verjee. Jim Clancy is on assignment in Kabul. Tonight, a look at the position Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat finds himself. U.S. Envoy Anthony Zinni convened a three-way security meeting on Friday. It included top Israeli and Palestinian officials in an effort to quell the latest violence. But as CNN's Matthew Chance reports, there is an uneasy backdrop to those talks.", "Hamas is burying its latest dead, but this is no suicide martyr. Mohammad Silmi (ph), just 20, was shot in a clash with Palestinian Authority security forces who've been protesting against the house arrest of the Hamas leader. Now, grief here is turning to anger. The stones are being thrown at the institutions Hamas and their sympathizers hold responsible. The Palestinian Authority, they say, should keep its bullets for Israel. The Hamas members, their identities concealed, are calling on Yasser Arafat to set free the hundred or so militants he's already detained. \"Our people cannot move,\" he told me. \"We call on all our brothers to end the arrests. We should all be united as Palestinians,\" he says. And Israeli air strikes. These blasts in Gaza early Friday morning are raising tensions even further. Israel says the police buildings it razed here were used to make bombs. Seventeen people were injured. But officers I spoke to at the scene told me only their kitchen and dormitory had been reduced to rubble. \"We asked God, let the world feel what is happening to us,\" he says. \"We will never leave our land. We will fight until our bones are old.\" Back at the funeral, Mohammed Silmi (ph) is kissed for the last time by his friends. But after this day the Palestinians he leaves behind may be more bitterly divided than when he lived. Matthew Chance, CNN, Gaza.", "Joining us now from Washington, Robert Satloff with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Mark Perry of \"Palestine Report\". But first, joining us on the line from Jerusalem, Raanan Gissin, a senior spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Mr. Gissin, how are you seeing what's going on in the Palestinian territories?", "You know, it seems quite ludicrous right now that there is this sequel to save willy (sic). This is like a campaign to save Arafat. You know, the real problem there is that Arafat needs to be saved for himself. Otherwise, I can't understand why some of the senior officials and senior security members of his forces were phoning and urging Secretary of State Powell to put pressure on Arafat to force him to take action, because this is a moment of truth, and he is losing that moment.", "What do you think of Arafat's leadership?", "Well, you know, the fate of the Palestinian people and the fate of Arafat is in his hands. You know, the prime minister of Israel, Mr. Ariel Sharon, said it very clearly that, you know, we don't intent to hurt Mr. Arafat. We are not after his hide. But Arafat is doing himself in. It's as simple as that. This is his opportunity to really lead his people on the freedom train, on the peace train. But if he doesn't lead them in that direction, he's going to find himself under the wheels of that train.", "You say that you don't want to hurt Arafat's position, but everything that you are doing is actually undermining his position, isn't it?", "Well, look, he has to make a decision. He has to make a decision to drop the strategy of terror that he adopted 14 months ago in which -- this strategy has claimed the life of over 230 Israelis, and there have been over 10,000 terrorist attacks. He created the largest terrorist coalition from the Middle East to Kabul. And he harbors those terrorist groups, which, just to remind you, President Bush has just reiterated in his speech...", "Mr. Gissin, you are not answering my question. What Israel is doing is weakening and undermining Yasser Arafat's authority, so he can't crackdown on terrorist groups, as you call them. Isn't that what's going on?", "No. You see -- again, you are making the same error of trying to find excuses and to find justification for his action. Terrorism is terrorism. He has to understand. After September 9 (sic), the line has been drawn. Either you're against terrorism, and then you take all the measures against it and you are with the people who fight against terrorism, or you're for it. These people that we stopped today in the village of Adik were not militants. They were terrorists, out there with suicide bombs to kill innocent children, men, women in Israel. They have a suicide factory bombed in Janin that he can stop, he can dismantle. He hasn't done anything. He has to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure, which he promised to do. He doesn't do it. He promised peace of the brave to late Prime Minister Rabin and signed a letter in which he says he will renounce, forever, terrorism and take care of all the terrorist groups. And he hasn't done that. He has not...", "But he is cracking down on militants, more than a hundred of them have been arrested.", "You see, these are televised arrests. He doesn't arrest the people who are perpetrating the actions. He got the names and addresses of people. He said he arrested 10 people out of the list of 33. But as long as we continue to have those high alerts and ticking bombs moving into our towns and villages, and luckily, we were able to stop them ourselves. But if he doesn't take the necessary action to really dismantle the terrorist infrastructure, not just arrest -- these arrests are not to satisfy CNN or to satisfy the United States government. He has to satisfy the Israeli mothers and fathers who are now mourning their children. He promised peace of the brave in 1993. And in 2001, he gave us peace of the grave.", "Mr. Gissin, let's have a listen to what Yasser Arafat actually had to say today.", "I didn't get any list -- only the list from General Anthony Zinni that contained 33 names. I arrested seven. By chance, we found we had already arrested seven people. But until now, we have arrested half of the people on the list, which means we have arrested 10 more, which means we have arrested 17 of the 33 people named. If you want to see them, I will take you to see 13 of them now, here.", "Mr. Gissin, you keep complaining Yasser Arafat has not arrested the right people. But he received a list from Anthony Zinni saying, \"Here, arrest these people.\" And Arafat says, \"I have already got most of them here with me.\" I mean, isn't he doing something the Israelis want?", "Yes, he is doing something, but he is not doing the right thing. He is not doing what he's supposed to do. And he didn't get just one list from Zinni. He got several lists from our security people. He got a list from Omri Sharon, the son of Ariel Sharon. He handed it to him personally. And he knows exactly who he has to arrest. He tries to refrain from doing what he's supposed to do...", "But Mr. Gissin...", "... hoping to hold the stick from both sides.", "Mr. Gissin, can you appreciate the fact that the attacks on Yasser Arafat's symbols of authority, the attacks in Palestinian territories by Israel, has made Yasser Arafat's position more difficult to crack down on the very militants and deal with the other issues you want dealt with? Can you appreciate the position you've put him in?", "On the contrary, for 30 years of history, Mr. Arafat -- it was only when he was under pressure -- now he is under pressure from the United States and from Israeli military action -- that he took action. Why didn't he take action two months ago, three months ago? Why didn't he take action 10 days ago and avoid the death of 33 innocent children, men and women and 230 other wounded in the suicide bombing? Why? Why does he take action only after the fact? I mean, either you fight against terrorism or you are with the terrorist groups. Either you bring them to justice or you force us to bring justice to them, and that's what we are engaged right now. We are defending our citizens. We are doing the same thing that the United States is doing in Afghanistan. We're defending our citizens against this unmitigated wave of terrorism launched from the Palestinian Authority, which is harboring terrorists. And those who harbor terrorists, you know, President Bush said it quite clearly, the day of reckoning will come to them. So he has to make a choice now. There is no more time to play around, to fool around. You can't fool the world today. It's a different world out there. That's what Mr. Arafat must understand and so must his people. He has to be brave enough to face his people and tell them, \"Look, the age of using terrorism has ended. Now, we can only use what I promised, and that is face-to-face negotiations. Sit down with the Israelis and try to work out the difficult decision.\" We're ready for that but he has to...", "Raanan Gissin, we're going to have to leave it there. Thank you for your time, appreciate that. Let's bring in Robert Satloff and Mark Perry with us right now. You both heard what Raanan Gissin had to say, saying that Arafat has to make a choice. He can't fool around any more. Robert, has Arafat been fooling around?", "Well, I think there is no doubt, a prima facie, if he is only now arresting people that are bombers, then we know that for the previous period of time, he hasn't been exerting 100 percent effort. I think there is no debate that he hasn't been using the full resources of the Palestinian Authority to fight terrorism wherever they can find it. It is absolutely true that only under pressure, when he is given no other recourse, does Arafat begin to use the resources of the state against him. And I think right now, we are seeing, perhaps, an unprecedented amount of pressure on him, and it is beginning to show some results. But I think that as far as the U.S. government is concerned, to the best of my understanding, it is still wholly insufficient in terms of his effort against terrorism.", "Mark Perry, Yasser Arafat has a dilemma here though, doesn't he? I mean, he is sort of caught between a rock and a hard place. What does he do to appease the Palestinian people or the international community, the U.S. and Israel?", "Well, if you are the leader of Hamas here, you are here in a pretty good spot because you know that if you bomb Israelis and you kill Israelis, that the Israel government will respond against Arafat, your enemy, and the only person who can legitimately keep you from setting off bombs. This policy of Ariel Sharon has been very counterproductive. It's been in place for the last year. It's placed unprecedented amounts of pressure on the Palestinian people and they are responding. Mr. Arafat is walking a very delicate line. I think he's made decisive moves against terrorists. He has made decisive moves against Hamas. But he needs time. He needs some understanding and he needs to be able to provide his people with some incentives to give them hope for the future, that their land will stop being occupied, their houses demolished, their orchards uprooted. And right now, there is no light at the end of that tunnel.", "Mark Perry, Robert Satloff, we will come back and continue our conversation with you in a moment. When we return, other pressures on the Palestinian leadership.", "I have noticed in the last 24 hours that there have been more arrests, there have been other activities on his part. That's promising, but I think more is required. I recognize that he is having some difficulties with those organizations who resist his authority. The very fact that they are resisting in his authority makes it that much more important for him to apply that authority.", "Welcome back. With us to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East and where they leave Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is Robert Satloff, with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy; and Mark Perry of \"Palestine Report\". But first, on the phone from the West Bank, Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi. Hanan Ashrawi, the leader of Hamas was put under house arrest. There were protests. Palestinian security fired at Hamas supporters. One person was also killed. Is that a precursor of what could happen?", "I certainly hope not, because I think if this situation escalates, then we will end up degenerating into a civil war. But I think the Palestinians are aware of the gravity of the situation. We have always had a pluralistic political system. We have always had opposition, and it would be tragic if we end up with internal strife and civil wars. And I think that there are limits beyond which you cannot push any leader in facing his own people. Right now, the Palestinian police is being shelled. Their headquarters are being shelled. Many have been assassinated. They are all in a state of siege. They cannot move from one place to the other. And yet, they are asked to turn against their own people and to arrest those Palestinians who themselves are besieged and shelled.", "Where does this leave Yasser Arafat?", "It leaves him in a very, very difficult situation. It is not only ironic, but it is tragic and painful that at one point, the measure, right now, of Arafat's effectiveness -- as I've been listening to this discourse -- has been based on the Israeli framework, the Israeli definitions of legitimacy, and not just any Israeli definition, but the extreme right wing, anti-peace government in Israel that wants to destroy every chance of peace. And that has focused on Arafat, on the Palestinian Authority and on the Palestinian people. In a way, that would make it impossible for Arafat to move. I mean he has both hands tied behind his back and he is being arrogantly asked to deliver security to the Israelis when his own people under occupation, besieged and assassinated and killed and so on are being dehumanized, have no security whatsoever and he is incapable of protecting them in any way, shape or form.", "But, Ms. Ashrawi, the Israelis are saying that Yasser Arafat is arresting militants but he is not arresting the right ones. He should have done all of this a long time ago and shouldn't have waited until now, because he is part responsible for creating this situation.", "I think those who've created this situation are the Israelis themselves, their army, the government, the people who end up driving Palestinians to desperation. But, anyway, they've encouraged extremism because, as you know, extremism on one side and ideological absolutism on one side encourages that on the other as the proper response. However, to get out of this, I think -- yes, there have been mistakes among the Palestinians. We should have had a more democratic system. We should have been able to deal with the challenges presented by Israel in a better way. But at the same time, you cannot find a convenient scapegoat and say Arafat has to arrest everybody, arrest the opposition, comply with Israeli wishes, wills and demands, and then he will prove that he is legitimate. They don't understand his legitimacy comes from his people, not from the Israelis.", "Has Yasser Arafat actually delivered anything to the Palestinian people?", "Well, right now at this point, I think he is caught in a historical and tragic trap. Of course, he has delivered. Historically, he has been a leader. He is a national symbol and so on. But right now, he is in a very difficult position. I would like to see the Israelis do the same thing. If there is accountability, then why don't the Israelis arrest the settlers who've been killing Palestinians in cold blood? Why don't they arrest the people who have been assassinating Palestinians including the army? Why don't they arrest the soldiers who are snipers and who are sniping at unarmed men, women and children under siege and under occupation? If there is to be accountability, if terrorism is targeting innocent civilians, then I think it cuts both ways. But I think it's the occupying power that is more to blame than the people who are reacting to an intolerable situation, and who's leadership is being held accountable for what the opposition does to Israel when they are driven beyond endurance.", "Hanan Ashrawi, thanks for speaking to us on Q&A;, appreciate that. Robert Satloff, let me ask you this: Is it just a matter of time before Arafat falls and Hamas takes power?", "No. I think that the idea that Hamas is waiting in the wings to take power when Arafat leaves the scene is a canard and it's absolutely not the case. The reality is that there are 40,000 or so armed forces under the control of the Palestinian Authority. At most, estimates are that there was one or two thousand armed men of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The overwhelming power is in the hands of Arafat's Palestinian Authority. Should he decide to use it, this would be over very quickly. And if he were to leave the scene tomorrow, then his political and military heirs would inherit, not Hamas. They don't have the power. And in the end in the Middle East it's who has the gun...", "But they have the support. They reportedly have more support than Arafat does.", "No, this is -- the key variable is what Arafat does. If Arafat decides to lead, he will receive political compensation, he will receive gains for it. What has happened in the last year is that Arafat has seeded the field to the radicals, and therefore, his popularity has decreased. If Arafat leads, he will receive political gains, and his popularity will increase. Hamas is a constant. The variable is what Arafat does and doesn't do with the authority that he has in his hands.", "Mark Perry, you agree?", "Not at all. It's very clear to me that what has seeded the ground here for the growth of terrorism is the continued occupation of the Palestinian territories. We are in an unprecedented situation here. We have a democracy, which is what Palestine is. Mr. Arafat is the duly elected leader of the Palestinian people. There is a legislature in place. We can't have incendiary and inflammatory talk about removing him at the drop of a hat just because somebody doesn't agree with his leadership. He is the duly elected leader. He should be given a chance to work for peace, and his people should be given hope. The ground that is seeded here with terrorists has been seeded by Israel's continued occupation of the occupied territory and the loss of their homes, and it's as simple as that. We want peace in the Middle East, we have to return to the peace process.", "Mark, could there be a civil war in the Palestinian territories?", "I think it's unlikely. Clearly, there are real troubles there. Mr. Arafat has to take some decisive moves. But I talked to the Palestinian leadership less than an hour ago, and they called Mr. Arafat the indispensable man, and I think most Palestinians agree with that.", "Robert, has Israel given up on Yasser Arafat?", "It's not a question of Israel giving up on Yasser Arafat. It's a question of whether Yasser Arafat is going to play a leadership role in the pursuit of peace? The idea that he is indispensable is really quite remarkable. We've had five Israeli prime ministers since 1993. We've had one Yasser Arafat. No person is indispensable if they are to this process, that's absurd. Peace needs to be between people, between institutions. Yasser Arafat can come and go, and the pursuit of peace will exist if indeed, there are large majorities on either side that pursue it. We need to try to build institutions. The idea that the Palestinian Authority is a democracy, I am sure, would be a huge surprise to the large majority of Palestinians. It is an authoritarian regime just like many of the authoritarian regimes in the Arab world. And if Arafat goes, there will be a successor that will come and emerge in his place. It will not be Hamas. It will be people from within Arafat's own mix.", "Yitzhak Rabin disagreed with this. Yitzhak Rabin believed that Mr. Arafat was an indispensable leader and a person who could deliver peace. What we've had, that's changed in the Middle East, is a shift over the last year in Israeli tactics towards the Palestinians. Israel is less secure now than ever before. And we've had one year of Ariel Sharon's prime ministry and it's not working. There has to be a shift. Mr. Sharon has to approach Mr. Arafat, make him a partner for peace against the extremists, just like Yitzhak Rabin did. If he does that, then there is some hope we could have a more stable future.", "Gentlemen, thank you so much for being with us. It's good to have a chat with you on Q&A;, thanks. Just before we go, here's another look at this week's quick vote. We asked who you thought was the stumbling block to peace in the Middle East, and you told us it was Ariel Sharon. That's all for this edition of Q&A.; The news is next here on CNN. 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{"id": "CNN-409966", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-09-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/03/cnr.10.html", "summary": "FOX Host Will Moderate Debate as Network Hosts Advise Trump; Drudge's Turn Against Trump on Display", "utt": ["The presidential debates are set and FOX News's Chris Wallace will monitor the first between President Trump and Joe Biden. The debate commission giving the September 29th face-off to FOX despite propaganda, dishonesty, and the fact that some FOX hosts advise President Trump. C-Span's Steve Scully and NBC's Kristen Welker will moderate debates two and three. CNN senior media reporter, Oliver Darcy, is joining me. Oliver, you have a lot of FOX News hosts accused of and, on the other hand, you have Chris Wallace, who has certainly challenged the president on a number of issues. I know those are interviews I have appreciated as he's done them. What do you make of the selection?", "Chris Wallace is a talented journalist and has asked the president trough questions. He's done a really good job in the past moderating debates. But this is a lot bigger than Chris Wallace. You have to keep in mind they have trafficked in lies. They've made discrediting other news organizations and journalists a core tenant of their programs. You have hosts on the network, who are literally advising the president. So, when Chris Wallace is awarded the first debate by the commission on presidential debates, a nonpartisan group that selects the groups and operates them. It's a slap in the face to the 92 other news organizations and other journalists who have endured venomous attacks because of their insistence on telling the truth no matter how costly it is. Chris Wallace is a great journalist. But when he gets awarded this spot and when FOX News is effectively bolstered by this commission on presidential debates by giving them the first debates, it really -- it doesn't sit well. I think with a lot of people wondering why they're being rewarded when they've caved and pedaled the president's lies on so many occasions.", "We've seen another influential conservative figure, Matt Drudge, turn against President Trump, even though he supported Trump in 2016. Let's look at some of the headlines from the \"Drudge Report.\" And President Trump took particular exception about one involving his particular visit to Walter Reed last fall. He called it fake news. What does it say when someone like Mike Drudge coming out like this?", "This is a total opposite of what his Web site, Brianna, was doing when he was questioning the Hillary Clinton and needling her. Now, he's needling Trump. Drudge was one of Trump's top supporters in 2016. He navigated him through the he navigated him through the primaries, to the extent Ted Cruz was saying it's a mouthpiece for the Trump campaign. So, to see Drudge now turning on the president is remarkable. Whether it has any effect, I'm not sure. I think it might have a few years ago when they were able to turn news sites towards their preferred narrative. But he's been critical of the president now for over a year. And you haven't really seen other conservative talk show hosts, Web sites really follow the narrative that he's been setting on his own Web site.", "All right. Oliver, thank you so much for bringing this report to us. We appreciate it. Breaking news. The Dow falling more than 800 points after hitting record highs. Is this a warning sign of what's to come? Plus, a warning from Dr. Anthony Fauci about the coming holiday weekend."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "OLIVER DARCY, CNN SENIOR MEDIA REPORTER", "KEILAR", "DARCY", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "NPR-17496", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2016-12-15", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/12/15/505658462/putin-personally-involved-in-u-s-election-hack-nbc-news-reports", "title": "Putin Personally Involved In U.S. Election Hack, NBC News Reports", "summary": "NBC News reports Russian President Vladimir Putin was directly involved in the distribution of DNC emails hacked by Russia. David Greene talks to NBC National Security Expert William Arkin.", "utt": ["Let's listen to what NBC News reported last night, and I'm going to quote here. \"U.S. intelligence officials now believe with a high level of confidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election.\"", "NBC News is alone on this story, at this point. Let's hear from one person involved in the reporting. Journalist William Arkin is on the line. Good morning.", "Good morning.", "So what exactly are your sources telling you? How was Putin involved here?", "Well, we've been reporting on this story since before October when the director of national intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security officially made an announcement that they believe that senior-level Russian officials had been involved in the hack of the Democratic National Campaign Committee and the Democratic National Committee.", "This is pretty senior, it sounds like you're saying now (laughter).", "(Laughter) Well, we have been trying to understand what the Russians did. And - and here's how I would break it down. We went from understanding that Russians were involved in the hacking of the U.S. political system at - on many fronts to the Russians were involved in the hacking, meaning somebody associated with the government...", "Right.", "...To the Kremlin was involved in the hacking to now that Putin himself, once the material had been hacked, directed the overall campaign to interfere in the American election.", "Actually directed it himself - and, I mean, I know - and the intelligence community is so careful with language. They're saying high-level of confidence. What does that mean?", "Well, it generally means that they - well, as they say, we would take it to the bank. But since we've been reporting on this for quite some time now, we have developed sources from throughout the intelligence community and from within the military and the diplomatic world as well. So we're not just relying upon the CIA, who I would remind the - the listeners have been playing a bit of a game since Friday, which I think is more associated with undermining Trump than it is to necessarily reveal the truth to the American people.", "Right, and sadly we don't have time to get into a back and forth over the motives of the CIA. But let me just ask you, I mean, it's - if you're talking about Vladimir Putin himself, you would imagine that Western spy agencies would have had to literally break into his inner circle. If they've achieved that, why on Earth would they want to show their hand and reveal this to you?", "Well, I can also say that the intelligence community asked us not to name how we knew this or what our sources were. So they're not happy with the fact that we did this report last night on NBC. But I think that the line of reasoning, of understanding what happened here - information was stolen first. Then, the Russians decide to, if you will, weaponize that information against the United States to undermine the United States.", "The fact that Donald Trump was elected, I think, was probably something that surpassed their wildest dreams. But still, we need to separate out those pieces of it. What did the Russians do? What did they actually get involved in? And what were their actual objectives? And now that we know that Putin was involved, I think we get closer to understanding what the Russians were trying to achieve.", "OK, we just have a couple of seconds left here. Do you worry about putting people at risk? Did you talk about whether you might be putting some of, you know, spies at risk here?", "We did have that deliberation inside NBC. And I'm a longtime reporter in this field. And we did take the U.S. government's concerns seriously. But we thought that it was important to try to substantiate why it was that the United States felt with high confidence that Putin...", "All right.", "...Was personally involved.", "OK, William Arkin's a journalist with NBC. Thanks so much for joining us this morning.", "Thank you for having me on."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WILLIAM ARKIN", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WILLIAM ARKIN", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WILLIAM ARKIN", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WILLIAM ARKIN", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WILLIAM ARKIN", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WILLIAM ARKIN", "WILLIAM ARKIN", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WILLIAM ARKIN", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WILLIAM ARKIN", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "WILLIAM ARKIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-403951", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-06-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/28/cnr.19.html", "summary": "Some U.S. states Pause or Roll Back Reopening; Miami Mayor Hopes Masks, Beach Closings Will Slow Virus; Russian Intel Offered Taliban Cash to Kill U.S. troops", "utt": ["Surging numbers: coronavirus cases reach staggering levels. Dozens of U.S. states pump the brakes on their drive to reopen. New developments on whether President Trump was told Russian intelligence offered cash rewards to the Taliban to kill American troops. Also, sports in the time of COVID-19. The NBA just announced its plan to play safely. Will other leagues follow suit? We'll let you know what to expect. Hello and welcome to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Michael Holmes.", "The experiment by many U.S. states in reopening amid the coronavirus may have backfired. Now for millions of Americans, life may be going back on hold. New cases in more than half the country. They're starting to pile up. Several states hit new highs this weekend. It is hard to find a patch of green on that map there, where cases are actually going down. This deals a blow for people hoping to get back on with their lives as now, some of these states are hitting the pause button on reopening or starting to close portions of the economy again entirely. The U.S. accounts for about a quarter of the nearly 10 million cases worldwide and the almost 500,000 deaths. And the situation could be even worse than we know. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, based on antibodies found in blood samples, the real number of people infected may be at least 6 and up to 24 times higher than what is being counted at the moment. Florida is one of the states where cases continue to go up. The Sunshine State hit another record on Saturday, almost 10,000 positive results in one single day. Compare the seven-day averages with Italy, which, as you might remember, was at epicenter early on in the pandemic. Italy way down now. Florida, way up. The governor now is taking action. CNN's Randi Kaye with more from Palm Beach.", "Here in Florida, yet another record day, spiking cases, 9,585, that is the highest number of cases in a single day. The governor still saying that that is because of increased testing. Increased testing from about 24,000 tests a day to 45,000 tests a day. We are seeing higher positivity rates here in the state of Florida, mostly among young people, ages 33 to 35 years old, mostly asymptomatic. But they do hang out a lot in bars and the governor has decided that that was a reason to close all of the state bars which he has done. But the governor has decided not to issue a mandatory order that everybody in the state of Florida wear masks. So he's leaving that up to the local government and local municipalities, saying he will trust people to make good decisions. But we see people out and about here in West Palm Beach, not wearing their masks. So it is unclear if everybody really is making good decisions. In Miami, they've decided to close the beaches in Miami- Dade County, despite the spiking cases coming over the very popular, busy July 4th weekend. The mayor there says he does not want to see a spike on top of a spike -- Randi Kaye, CNN, West Palm Beach, Florida.", "The mayor of Miami says he believes a spike in cases in Florida come from people gathering in large groups and refusing to wear masks. His city is taking steps to stop more from spreading.", "The numbers we've seen, for example, 2 days ago, we hit the high water mark of 1,500 cases. That's 3 times higher than what we had in late March, early April, at 500 cases. The state of Florida hit 9,600 cases which is 7 times greater than their high water mark of 1,300. So I think Florida, as a state, open bars, we never opened bars in the city of Miami. And the fact that we are closing our beaches now and we are requiring masks and we are now considering stiffer penalties for businesses that do not comply with the rules. These are things we are hoping are going to help us reverse this horrible trend that we are seeing over the last couple weeks.", "That was Francis Suarez, the mayor of Miami, Florida.", "Joining me now is Dr. Jonathan Reiner.", "He is a co-director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at George Washington University Hospital. Also the cardiologist who cares for former U.S. vice president, Dick Cheney. Doctor, great to have you back on again. Numbers soaring in many states; even the European Union does not want Americans traveling there, despite the vice president speaking of, quote, \"remarkable progress.\" What needs to be done, like yesterday? What would it take, in a perfect world with actual leadership, to bring this back under control?", "Reaching out to the public and getting everyone in this country to wear a face mask when they go out into public, number one. Testing many more patients then we are testing now. Number three, probably in select areas, probably shutting some places down, because the health care systems are really at the breaking point, in places like Texas. So I think we have to have the political will to do all that. We did it before, in the earlier part of this first wave, in places like New York and Massachusetts, New Jersey. And we can do it now. We have to have the political will. We have seen some rumblings of that in Texas and I hope that kind of strong leadership continues.", "With those case numbers soaring, the hospitalizations, of course, lagged behind diagnosis and deaths lagged behind hospitalizations, are you expecting an uptick in deaths at the moment? A lot of the new cases are young people but they are the carriers for the more vulnerable, right?", "That is right. And it sort of depends on the case mix going forward. So we've sort of plateaued with the death rate sort of fluctuating between 600 and 800 deaths per day. Our daily case -- new infection rate is really skyrocketing to over 40,000. So if there is a large proportion of new infections in younger people, the mortality rate may stay where it is now. But as those young people infect older people, the worry is that the death rate will go up. So it's a little hard to tell now. We'll have a better sense in about a week. It takes about a week after someone becomes infected until they get sick enough to be hospitalized. Then often about another week after that until you start seeing deaths. So it is a lagging indicator and obviously is concerned about the death rates starting to take off again.", "What are your concerns? What is the risk of hospitals being overwhelmed again? And what is the state of readiness in terms of PPE, ICU beds and so on? Is that a big concern for you at the moment?", "It certainly is. Let's look at Texas. So Houston, which is now the new epicenter of this pandemic in the United States. They have the largest medical center in the world. Texas Medical Center, which has about 60 hospitals. When I checked yesterday, it looked like about 98 percent of their ICU beds were filled. Now we have the ability in the United States and we learned this over the last few months, to create innovative spaces to treat patients in an ICU setting that is not really an ICU setting, like turning ORs into ICUs and all kinds -- and recovery rooms into ICUs. But it is an enormous strain on a hospital. It strains the staff, places the staff at great risk. And hospitals can get to a breaking point. This was the whole point of flattening the curve, spreading out the cases so that our medical system did not get overwhelmed. We barely missed that in places like in New York and New Jersey six weeks ago. And I'm worried about Texas. The difference is that when New York was at its breaking point, New York shut down. New York was shut down. Texas has not shut down. We did hear from the Harris County executive, a request for nonessential people to stay home but it is not an order yet. But we have to see the political will to do that in places.", "I was just going to ask you about that, leadership, national coordination. You would think it's pretty important in times like these. We have seen that coordination in countries that brought their cases down. In the U.S., testing was lacking from the start. It still is. The shutdown was slow. The restart was fast in many places. There's been pretty much zero federal coordination of anything. It's literally just scrolling through the president's Twitter feed. It's on everything but this. Are you worried about the lack of a coordinated federal response?", "Absolutely. When we started talking about opening two months ago, the federal government had a reasonable plan. And it called for states to have 14 consecutive days of downward trend in new cases and declining positivity rates and increasing testing rates and hospital capacity. But look at Texas. When Texas opened, they only had two consecutive days. They barely had two consecutive days of a downward trend. So many of the places that opened were not ready to open and certainly not ready to move towards phase 3. We are paying the price for that now. The problem is that there is an essential conflict of interest between treating this pandemic the way it needs to be treated and running for reelection. And the president is facing this now. In order for him to succeed in reelection, he has to make this go away. He has to pretend that it does not exist. That is why the vice president started his briefing yesterday by saying, oh, everyone has heard now the encouraging news. I have no idea what he was talking about. He is not living in the same world that I am living in. But in order for them to succeed in reelection, they really have to try and get the people of this country to believe that the pandemic is gone, that we are moving on, that it's business as usual. So until we have leadership that is willing to do the difficult things, it's going to be very difficult to put this down.", "Yes, that is the funny thing about pandemics. It is hard to pretend they have gone away when hospitals are filled with people who are dying. Doctor, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, co-director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at George Washington University Hospital. As always, a pleasure. Thank you for your expertise, sir.", "My pleasure. Have a great night.", "New developments in the growing controversy over claims that Russian intelligence offered cash to Taliban militants as a reward for killing U.S. and U.K. troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. Director of National Intelligence says he has confirmed that neither the president nor the vice president were briefed on the matter. That statement from John Radcliffe contradicting what \"The New York Times\" originally reported. Our Nick Paton Walsh has been looking into the story.", "A European intelligence official is telling me that Russian military intelligence officers made offers of cash rewards to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan if they would kill or attack U.S. or other coalition soldiers. Now it's not clear to this European intelligence official quite what the motivation behind this Russian offer was. But they do believe that these cash incentives resulted in coalition casualties. They're not clear on the date of these casualties, the nature of the casualties or the nationality indeed or their location. But these are startling direct allegations, initially first reported by \"The New York Times,\" citing U.S. officials. I should point out the Taliban have denied any involvement in this", "And also precisely where this leaves U.S. policy in Afghanistan, also too why the president and vice president would not have been briefed as the White House says they weren't, if they received intelligence reports of this nature. Startling revelations about the U.S.' continued presence in Afghanistan and Russia's meddling therein -- Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, London.", "This just in: one person is dead and another injured after a shooting in Louisville, Kentucky. It happened during a protest in Jefferson Square Park on Saturday evening. Officials say law enforcement performed lifesaving measures on one of the victims but he later died. A short time later, the police received word of a second shooting victim at the nearby Hall of Justice. He was transported to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Still ahead on CNN, E.U. countries have not decided yet whether to keep U.S. travelers from coming in. COVID-19 infections mostly to blame. But there is another reason why most Americans are likely to be left out. Plus more outrage over police violence in the U.S. Thousands in Colorado protesting the death of yet another young black man. This one, nearly a year after it happened. We will discuss."], "speaker": ["MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "HOLMES", "RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HOLMES", "MAYOR FRANCIS SUAREZ (D-FL), MIAMI", "HOLMES", "HOLMES", "HOLMES", "DR. JONATHAN REINER, CNN MEDICAL ANALYST", "HOLMES", "REINER", "HOLMES", "REINER", "HOLMES", "REINER", "HOLMES", "REINER", "HOLMES", "NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY EDITOR", "WALSH", "HOLMES"]}
{"id": "CNN-277205", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2016-02-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1602/22/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Fight Over Britain's Relationship with EU", "utt": ["Right, you have been listening to the British prime minister's address to the House of Commons making the case for why the UK should stay in the European Union. British voters will be polled on whether they want in or out of the European Union on June 23rd. Cameron made a point of saying he has no other agenda than what is right for the UK. And said Britain should stay in the EU so that it can influence it from the inside. And in his payoff he accused Boris Johnson, the current mayor of London who has officially endorsed the out campaign over weekend, of leadership maneuvering. A stinger, then, from the current prime minister against one of his former friends and colleagues. CNN's Max Foster following developments and joining us now from London. Max, what did you make of the speech by the British prime minister and indeed the leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn?", "Well, it's interesting. He spent a lot of time talking about Boris Johnson without actually mentioning his name, because Boris Johnson is completely changed the dynamic of this whole campaign, really. So Jeremy Corbyn is actually on the same side as David Cameron on this one, which is one of those unusual situations you end up in sometimes. But hey both want to stay within the European Union. What Boris Johnson is saying is that he doesn't feel that the deal that David Cameron brokered in Brussels was enough. It was watered down. What Boris Johnson has suggested is a second set of negotiations and a second referendum so what David Cameron kept on doing was referring back to that and making jokes of it saying you don't begin divorce proceedings through renewing your marriage vows and also says I won't dwell on the irony of a leave vote to remain. And he made it very clear that this referendum is the final say in all of this process. So there won't be a second round to try to undermine Boris Johnson's argument.", "I think we got Sebastian Payne standing by. Have we? Yes, we do. Sebastian Payne of the FT standing by. So, Max, back to you shortly. Sebastian, what do you you make of what we have just heard in the house of commons?", "We heard a very powerful statement from the prime minister. We have seen David Cameron at his best over the last few days. And -- but what we have also seen there was that attack on Boris Johnson you just mentioned. There's a lot of blood that's been let between the prime minister and the mayor of London. And I think it's going to get really personal now. The last time the prime minister attacked Boris Johnson, whose -- went to school at with university with the prime minister, it didn't end very well. And it's clearly a lot of upsetting Downing Street that the mayor is backing out now. So, I think it was a very powerful statement, the prime minister is really going to push for his deal. The other notable thing was Jeremy Corbyn's statement, which was really quite bad. There was nothing there. He rattled through it. And I'm not even sure he really believed what he was saying.", "Boris Johnson wrote an open letter in The Daily Telegraph explaining why he wants the UK to leave the EU. And I want to talk to you about what this means not just for Britain and the EU but its global ramifications. Let's just have a look at what Boris Johnson said. In it, he wrote, \"this is the only opportunity we will ever have to show that we care about self-rule. A vote to remain will be taken in Brussels as a green light for the erosion of democracy.\" If the UK does vote to take back control from Brussels, Sebastian, how significant would that be and could other countries follow suit? Are we looking at the decimation of this EU project as it were when set up with the single European act back in 1992?", "I think that the EU has a lot of problems at the moment, whether it's the Greek crisis, whether it's the migration crisis, whether it is the global economy currently faltering. And I think if Britain did vote to leave and a break would then happen, as David Cameron has just suggested, then it would be a really big problem for the European project. There's already a problem that other countries are going to be asking for their own deals. You know, Britain has now not going to bespoke membership as David Cameron has just said. So, there is a question about what is Poland going to ask for, what's France going to ask for, what's Germany going to ask for? So, there are a lot of questions here. And I think this is why David Cameron is keen to say Britain has got a good deal, because he wanted to be seen that we are special here, whereas in fact there is a great demand across Europe to keep Britain in the EU. And there's a great demand in the Tory Party for it to leave.", "OK. We will hear a lot of talk from David Cameron and his backers about this special status that he was able to negotiate, he says, with Brussels late last week. What does he mean by that? Going forward if Britain say stays in the European Union with special status, what does that mean?", "Well, this is a very good question and something that is going to be tested out. But certainly we are opting out of this ever closer union which was a key clause of the Lisbon treaty a few years ago that simply means Europeans want to move to a sort of closer political, economic and fiscal system. Where this is not something I think many Britons want, that Britons they feel they have a very different relationship with Europe than I think in France and Germany. The EU is thought as prosperity and freedom and cooperation. In Britain, it's seen as coming Johnny Foreigners coming over here and imposing laws on us. I think that's where the nerve came from this referendum came from are the people who believed that often voted for the UK Independence Party led by the right wing and Nigel Farage. So I think what David Cameron is trying to say is that I have got enough back that Britain isn't going to be a part of this ever closer union. We will have opt out. We will be able to make more of our own decisions and most importantly Britain is going to be sovereign once again. He's also bringing up this idea of what is sovereignty. Now, the other thing that was alluded to in that speech we've just heard is this sovereignty bill. And we don't really know what this is yet. And the prime minister said it was going to in the next few days. We still don't have any sign of it. So I think that one has been a little bit that will be a little delayed. But when that comes, there's going to be some grand statement that essentially says, Brussels, you can't keep enforcing new laws and new ideas on us, which again gives us an idea that the EU isn't ruling over Britain.", "Got it. All right, let's follow the money, then, because ofttimes that's what this is all about. The numbers, then, behind the UK's place in Europe are as follows, Sebastian. I want you to react to these. EU countries invested more than$700 billion in the United Kingdom in 2014, that's almost half of the total investment according to official figures. Trade supports 3.4 million jobs, according to the LSE, that's the London School of Economic's European Iinstitute. 45 percent of the UK's exports go to other EU states while 53 percent of the UK imports come from within the European Union. Look, if the UK were to pull out, these figures wouldn't fall apart, but they would certainly be very different and they look pretty conclusive, it has to be said. Can the UK be as economically competitive outside of the European Union?", "Well, I think this is the big question that's going to be tested over the next few weeks in the referendum. As we have just heard from the prime minister, his argument is about security and jobs, that the Brit's economy is doing okay. It could be doing worse. It could be doing better. But the recovery is a little bit shaky. And if we had a Brexit, if we voted to leave and all that would be thrown up in the air. And the FT, the paper I work for, has done a lot of analysis of this and what the case would be. And I think for Britain's economy to prosper if we left the EU, we'd have to have a strong pound, we've have to remove a lot of red tape regulation and it would also require a lot of free trade deals with other parts of the EU. And that's what you have heard the prime minister alluding to there. He's going to try and convince voters that these free trade deals will take years and it will not be simple. And in that time, we will lose out over business. And all those numbers you have just alluded will simply fly in the face of those Brexiteers who say that we can leave and we can make deals with whoever we want and we can be like Norway. So there's a lot of debate over this. On the other hand, there's the argument that the EU is actually limiting British business, that all the red tape and the rules of being in the EU at the moment are holding back British business and we can have a great repeal and we can simply go it alone and do things our own way. But as you said, the numbers very much do suggest that leaving the EU would cause at least in the short-term some bumps in the British economy.", "Let's bring back Max, who is outside Number 10. Thank you, Sebastian. Then, the June 23 referendum, Max, will have wide reaching implications were the British voters to vote out of Europe. It would have far reaching global repercussions. How and why?", "Well, I think this is one of the debates that they are struggling with on the Boris Johnson side, if I can call it that now, the campaign to leave the European Union, because it's very hard to campaign on a political message on taking someone into the unknown. Actually, David Cameron is on easier ground here saying that actually what we've got now in a new renegotiated form within Europe is the best way to represent Britain's interests on the global stage. So to have a role, leading role, in the driving seat of the European Union, but only allowing the European Union to get involved in British issues when they are relevant to Britain and having Britain's best interests at heart. So, this is really how he couched it today in this debate in parliament. he started off saying I've renegotiated the deal and this is the best deal on which to vote, yes, for Britain to stay within the European Union.", "Max Foster is outside Number 10 for you. Sebastian Payne is at the bureau in London. To both of you, thank you very much indeed for joining us. We're going to take a very short break. Back after this."], "speaker": ["BECKY ANDERSON, HOST", "MAX FOSTER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ANDERSON", "SEBASTIAN PAYNE, FIANCIAL TIMES", "ANDERSON", "PAYNE", "ANDERSON", "PAYNE", "ANDRESON", "PAYNE", "ANDERSON", "FOSTER", "ANDERSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-164841", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-4-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1104/15/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Extra Security at Dodger Stadium", "utt": ["Time now for stories you may have missed. Thousands of teachers in Detroit got word today that they could be out of a job soon. Five thousand four hundred sixty-six teachers were slapped with layoff notices. We don't know how many of these teachers will actually lose their jobs, but we do know that the potential job losses here are staggering with many school closings expected. This is not the first time Detroit Public Schools has issued massive layoff notices, but it is the first time all teachers who are members of the Detroit Federation of Teachers have been notified they could lose their jobs. We're learning more gut-wrenching details of the last moments before a mother drove her van with her children inside into the Hudson River. Ten-year-old Lashaun Armstrong, the lone survivor, visited the dock with family members yesterday. A passing driver, Meave Ryan, who picked up Lashaun and took him to a fire station after he swam to safety, says the little boy was terrified and courageous but blames himself.", "He was talking about how he regrets not teaching his two brothers how to swim, because he just learned how to swim last summer.", "As the van sank into the Hudson, the mom cradled her children and told them, you're all going to die with me. Not long before, the mother posted a Facebook message saying, \"forgive me, please, this is it.\" Police divers eventually found the body of 25- year-old Armstrong, along with her 11-month-old baby girl and her sons, a two-year-old and five-year-old. We've now learned police have ruled out potential criminal charges against the father. The governor of Virginia is officially declaring April 16th as Virginia Tech Remembrance Day. Tomorrow marks the four-year anniversary of a mentally ill student gunning down 32 people at Virginia Tech. Flags will be flown at half-staff across the state and there will be several events to honor those who died, including a moment of silence and a ceremony in front of the state capital. On campus, in honor of the 32 who died, students planned 32 hours of community service. Police have beefed up security around the Los Angeles Dodgers stadium. The extra security comes after Bryan Stow, a San Francisco Giants fan, was brutally attack last month. At least 200 officers fanned out in and around the stadium during Thursday's game. Stow is still hospitalized and is in a medically induced coma. Investigators say about 100 people saw two suspects beat Stow as he left the Dodgers stadium parking lot. Family members say doctors are taking steps to bring Stow out of that coma. A former NFL great now saying he is suffering effects of concussions. Our own neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains what this is all about in a couple of minutes."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "MEAVE RYAN, DROVE BOY TO FIRE STATION", "KAYE"]}
{"id": "CNN-380361", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-09-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/14/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Actress Felicity Huffman Sentenced to 14 Days in Jail for Part in Admissions Scandal", "utt": ["Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Huffman is heading to prison next month. After a tearful apology, a Boston judge handed her a 14-day sentence for taking part of the college admissions scandal.", "It is the largest prosecuted scheme of its kind in U.S. history, with $25 million allegedly paid by parents to get their kids into college. Huffman pleaded guilty to paying the scheme's ringleader to boost her daughter's SAT scores. CNN's Brynn Gingras has more.", "Felicity Huffman remained stoic when the judge handed down her decision, essentially the judge saying this wasn't about college reputations being tarnished or the test-taking process being compromised. This was about privileged kids having a leg up on other college applicants, and that's partly why she handed down the punishment she did.", "Actress Felicity Huffman sentenced to 14 days in federal prison, ordered to pay a $30,000 fine and serve 250 hours of community service. Huffman telling the court \"At the end of the day I had a choice to make. I could have said no. I take full responsibility. I will accept whatever punishment you give me.\" In a statement released shortly after the hearing she added, quote, \"I broke the law. There are no excuses or justifications for my actions, period.\" Prosecutors urged the judge to impose the harshest penalty, saying \"Most parents have the moral compass and integrity not to step over the line. The defendant did not.\" Prior to today's sentencing, Huffman wrote a letter explaining how she legitimately worked with scheme's ringleader Rick Singer for a year before she agreed to cheat. Huffman allowing Singer to hire a proctor who changed answers on her oldest daughter's SAT, boosting her score. She says she considered using the services for her youngest daughter, but backed out. Huffman explaining in the letter how her poor decision damaged her relationship with her daughter. \"When my daughter looked at me and asked with tears streaming down her face, why didn't you believe in me? I had no adequate answer for her. I could only say, I am was sorry. I was frightened and I was stupid.\" In the courtroom Huffman was joined by her husband, actor William H. Macy. He is one of 27 people who sent letters to the judge supporting the actress. Macy wrote \"Huffman rarely goes outside, usually bombarded by the paparazzi.\" But their oldest daughter, quote, \"paid the dearest price when her first-choice school denied her appropriate two days after the scandal broke. Do something. Please, please do something,\" Macy says she begged her parents. Huffman is the second to be sentenced but the first to get prison time in the country's largest college admissions scandal which ensnared from than 50 college coaches, administrators, and wealthy parents. Nineteen parents are still fighting the federal charges, including actress Lori Loughlin and her husband fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli. The couple are accused of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their two daughters into USC as crew recruits even though neither rowed. Both turned down a plea from the state earlier this year and are scheduled to go to trial.", "And remember, those who didn't take a plea deal were handed down another charge in the case. So it will be interesting to see how the sentencing possibly could affect them in the future. Felicity Huffman, her attorneys asked that she serve her 14 days in a prison near her home in California. Of course, that will be up to the Bureau of Prisons. But she reports to that sentencing on October 25th. Brynn Gingras, CNN, in Boston.", "There is a new threat to the Bahamas. A live report from the islands as residents still reeling from Dorian brace for a new tropical storm.", "Also we could be nearing a major breakthrough for children living with a peanuts allergy. What the FDA is recommending, ahead."], "speaker": ["BLACKWELL", "WALKER", "BRYNN GINGRAS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "GINGRAS", "GINGRAS", "BLACKWELL", "WALKER"]}
{"id": "CNN-264483", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2015-09-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/13/ndaysun.04.html", "summary": "Candidates Prepare for 2nd Republican Debate", "utt": ["Tod, what are your seeing now? Is it getting any better as we start to approach a new day?", "Good morning. I'm a little bit south of the fire now. But I left there not long ago, and when I left, there were still multiple dwellings, multiple structures that were burning. However, most of the peak burning appears to be over. There are a few structures that are burning pretty actively, but a lot of it already gone to the ground. There are several fire engines that are there continuing to arrive. They're getting more reinforcements. They're getting some of these fires knocked down. They're also doing a better job because there's more of them preventing new fires from taking off or getting large.", "How likely will the effort to control or subdue these flames change with daylight? Can they bring in air assets or other things maybe they can't use at night?", "Well, air assets are definitely something that are not commonly used at night. The biggest thing is they're be able to be a little bit more aware of their surroundings, be able to see what's going on. As time ticks by, more resources will arrive. That's really what they need is just more help right now.", "And you mentioned that the neighborhoods in which we're looking at this incredible imagery that you took earlier, most of those people had already fled, correct?", "Yes. I did not see pretty much from the time I arrived in Middletown I did not really see a mass exodus of people living. They must have been gone by the time I got there. I never really saw a lot of people leaving or leaving in a hurry. I think that had already taken place.", "Where are you going to be focused today?", "I'll be back in Middletown shortly. I had some cell service issue there is there, but I'll try to get back there and get a little bit more video. And I'd like to try and check and see where the main fire front is. I've been unable to locate that. The fire is so large. It's not possible to see everything from one location.", "All right. Tod Sudmeier, we appreciate it. Please be careful of your efforts. Of course, anything that you learn and see, we would want to see as well. Thanks very much.", "Thank you.", "And then the other breaking news is the story that's happening as dozens have been injured in violent crashes in Israel. Fighting erupted after Israeli police stormed the holy Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Protesters reportedly had barricaded themselves inside. They threw rocks and fire bombs at those who approached. This all comes just hours, of course, before the Jewish New Year that begins late they are evening.", "So we have 11 Republican hopefuls taking the stage at the Reagan Presidential Library for the second GOP debate. The line-up will include Carly Fiorina. During the first debate last month, you know there were fireworks. Take a look.", "The Republican Party has been fighting against a single-payer system for a decade. I think you're on the wrong side of this if you're still arguing for a single- payer system.", "I'm not -- I don't think you heard me. You're having a hard time tonight. Most of the people on this stage I've given to, just so you understand, a lot of money.", "Not me, not me.", "Let's break this down with CNN political commentator and conservative radio talk show host Ben Ferguson and Maria Cardona, Democratic strategist and advising Democrats and the party. Thank you both for being here. It's good to see you.", "Good morning.", "Good morning, Christi.", "Good morning. Ben, I want to start with you. You know, the stage is Trump's comfort zone. Who do you think -- give me one or two names that you think of candidates who just might be able to out-shine him this time around.", "I think Ben Carson. There's a very good chance that we can have a great night. I also think, you look at Carly Fiorina. She did incredibly well in that early debate last time. She's now on the big stage and a lot of people are going to be paying attention to her, especially after the last feud that they just had at Donald Trump attacking her, really her looks. I think there's probably one or two one-liners she's prepared to go after him at this debate. So, I think both of those could have a really good night if they play it right.", "Maria, I wanted to ask you about Fiorina. Obviously, she's going to use this to say he's got a problem with woman. How do you expect he's going to respond? Certainly, we know they most likely will not be an apology.", "No, I don't think there will be an apology. I'm sure he will respond by attacking her on her record. It's been so interesting, because once it came out that he was actually criticizing her because of her looks, he seemed like a schoolboy who had been caught without having done his homework. He tried excuse after excuse to say, and to try to convince people that he wasn't talking about her looks. First he said, oh, no, it wasn't talking about her looks. It was about her persona. Then he said, oh, look, I said it because it's entertainment. You know, so which is it? So, I do -- I agree with Ben, I think Carly Fiorina is in a very good place to call him out on his hate speech, his divisiveness, the fact that leadership, I love her line earlier today, it's not about everything that you are showing helicopters and boardrooms, and, you know, gold plated stairs. You know, whatever it is. But I also think --", "Reality", "Exactly, reality TV. I also think the other candidates need to start calling him out on his lack of policy positions.", "Well, that may happen. I wanted to say this because I want to get this sound bite in of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. He may be, indicated to CNN yesterday, ready to show a sharper edge at this debate. Listen to what he said.", "You know CNN has this little debate coming up. What's your strategy going into that debate to make sure you have a moment that people remember?", "Well, the biggest thing is just presence. Have some -- you know, I'm a Midwesterner, we're pretty polite. Last time, around I waited until questions came to us, I think we're going to step it up and be more aggressive this time, not rude, but be aggressive and make the case we're ready to wreak havoc on Washington.", "OK. So, here's the thing, Ben, I'm just wondering. Walker saying he's going to step it up. Chris Christie is indicating he's not necessarily going to wait for a question, so to speak, every time. Is there a chance that any aggression anybody else shows could be a risk because we have seen it before and it might seem disingenuous?", "Well, I don't know that it will be seen as disingenuous, as much as you run the risk of Donald Trump fighting back. And he's very good at off the cuff remarks, attacking someone that just attacks him. I mean, that's where he really does steal the scene. He's the master of the one-liner and that's where you have the biggest risk of overreaching or trying to do too much. At the same time, I think you look at two different people that I think you'll see come after him, not with just a war of words, but with policy. I think you're going to see Scott Walker do that. I also think you're going to see Ted Cruz do that. Ted Cruz over the couple of weeks has really been focusing on policy. And I think even when he took the stage with him talking about earlier Iran in Washington, D.C., several days ago, one of the things I noticed about Cruz -- and I think you'll see this Wednesday night is he's going to come out and say I'm the guy that you might want to look at the you like Donald Trump who actually has policy ideas. I think that could play very well for him. But you always run that risk of Donald Trump being able to smack you around verbally because he is a great trash talker in politics.", "Yes, he is. This is something that I found interesting. When you look at the two guys who are on top, you got Trump at 32 percent, I believe it is, and Ben Carson at 19 percent. These are two very different individuals.", "One eighty.", "Yes --", "Completely different styles.", "-- one is bombastic. Yes. And then you've got Ben Carson who who's a little more soft spoken but making his points. What does that tell you, Maria, about the divide of the GOP right now?", "I think that's exactly right, that GOP voters are divided. That is a great opportunity for all of these other candidates to come in and really differentiate themselves with real leadership positions, real policy positions. Let's remember that Trump at, let's say, 32 percent, which is the highest that he's gotten in any polls, that still means that 68 percent of Republican voters don't want him as their commander in chief. But the challenge for all these other Republican candidates is to then say, here's what I'm offering instead of what Donald Trump is offering and do something that really elevates voters, that puts them into a position of optimism, of thinking that the future can actually be better. And the big difference that Donald Trump is using, he's using very negative language, rhetoric, focusing on fear.", "But it's working for him. It's working for him so far.", "You're right it is. But it's early.", "Look at Ben Carson. His style like we've just said, completely different. Ben Carson, his style is also working for him. Look at how much he's been able to get a solid grass roots effort behind him. If I was advising Ben Carson, I would say, you know what, go out there and be you. Don't be anybody else. Don't try to be different than what you are. Because obviously when you speak about political policy, people are listening and they're liking it. I would stay true to form if I'm Carson and I would not try to get into some back and forth match with Donald Trump on who is more entertaining on Wednesday night.", "Yes, I'm sorry. We're out of time. I didn't even get, Maria, to this new ad from Hillary Clinton where we're going to see her as grandma, which nobody as seen yet, and the whole thing. Next time, next time, guys. Thank you so much.", "Sounds great, Christi. Thanks.", "Thanks.", "Sure. All righty. And today, by the way, just a reminder here, we're starting a full day of coverage from the Reagan Presidential Library, home to the next GOP debate. Of course, Jake Tapper, kicking it off with the \"STATE OF THE UNION\" at 9:00 a.m. Eastern today. Be sure to tune in for the next Republican presidential debate hosted by CNN this Wednesday starting at 6:00 p.m. Eastern.", "This weekend's massive wave of migrants and refugees has pushed Munich, Germany, to its tipping point. We're going to get a live report of the crisis, just ahead. And now that the New York Police Department has apologized to James Blake about this controversial takedown, the former tennis star says he's considering a lawsuit. Why he might do it, ahead."], "speaker": ["MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR", "TOD SUDMEIER, FIRE PHOTOGRAPHER (via telephone)", "SAVIDGE", "SUDMEIER", "SAVIDGE", "SUDMEIER", "SAVIDGE", "SUDMEIER", "SAVIDGE", "SUDMEIER", "SAVIDGE", "CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-217188", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-10-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1310/23/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Hard Times for Grambling Football", "utt": ["Grambling State football has been a prestige program among historically black colleges and universities. Under legendary head coach, Eddie Robinson, the Tigers won more than 400 games and sent more than 200 players into pro football, including Super Bowl MVP quarterback Doug Williams. But this is not Eddie Robinson's school right now. Nor was it Doug Williams who was fired as head coach this season. CNN's Alina Machado has more for you.", "They boycotted a game and made national headlines. But members of the Grambling State football team say they have no regrets.", "There are many problems that exist. And if no one says anything, nothing will become of our institution.", "On Monday Naquan Smith, surrounded by his teammates, said the team will take the field this Saturday against Texas Southern, a week after refusing to play Jackson State.", "We did not quit on our university.", "This Twitter account belonging to the Tigers safety shows several pictures of moldy walls and ceilings, broken equipment and flooring -- their caption, \"See Our Struggle\". The tweets seem to highlight some of the problems detailed in this grievance letter sent to university administrators by the players. The letter lists a series of concerns about the state of the university's football program. It also cites the firing of head coach, Doug Williams after just two games this season.", "The conditions within the Grambling State University athletic department specifically football are pretty dire.", "Emmett Gill says he toured the university's weight room Tuesday afternoon and saw first hand some of the problems noted by the student athletes.", "The gap between the haves and the have-nots is certainly exacerbated by a lot of the budget cuts that we're facing and higher education.", "According to university spokesperson, Will Sutton, Grambling State has seen a 57 percent drop in state funding in recent years. The school has millions of dollars in deferred maintenance. So many buildings and facilities are either closed or in dire need of repairs. Sutton says this is the first time they've asked athletics to contribute to the bottom line including a $75,000 cut in the football program. The university meanwhile could face tens of thousands of dollars in fines for forfeiting last Saturday's game. It's unclear if the football players will be punished but Gill says players from the bigger programs should take note.", "I think that student athletes in the SEC, the ACC, the PAC-12 should take notice that when it comes to standing up for student athletes right, Grambling State University is ranked number one.", "In a new development this morning, Jackson State University posted on its Web site -- that's the school that was suppose to play Grambling last week. They're saying they're going to be pursuing legal action to recover some the losses. Carol, they say the losses to the university and the city could be in the millions for that forfeited game.", "It's just so unusual because usually universities football programs bring in all this money or that's what we always hear, right? But in this case, no.", "That is correct. And Jackson State in their statement said that these issues are not unusual or not something that are new to the program that they've heard about. That they're well documented. We'll just have to wait to see what happens.", "Not every school is Ohio State, right.", "Correct.", "Right. Alina Machado, thanks so much. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, Poppy Harlow sits down with billionaire Warren Buffett and his family. Taking on quite a challenge too -- we'll tell you what it is when we come back."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "ALINA MACHADO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "NAQUAN SMITH, GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY PLAYER", "MACHADO", "SMITH", "MACADO", "EMMETT GILL, STUDENT ATHLETES HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT", "MACHADO", "GILL", "MACHADO", "GILL", "MACHADO", "COSTELLO", "MACHADO", "COSTELLO", "MACHADO", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-28769", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-4-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/19/lad.14.html", "summary": "Summit of the Americas: Hundreds Drawn From Around the World", "utt": ["In Canada, half a dozen people arrested, weapons and bomb material seized just prior to the start of the Summit of the Americas this weekend -- President Bush and his top administration officials will attend the trade summit along with other Western Hemisphere leaders. It has drawn hundreds from around the world. Authorities fear violence that disrupted trade meetings in the U.S. -- so that they have walled off part of Quebec City. CNN's John Vause is there -- hi, John.", "Good morning. Well, yes, that wall within a walled city, it's an incredible structure. It stretches for about 2 1/2 miles. It's made of concrete and cement. Protesters call it a \"wall of shame.\" There's graffiti on it likening it to the Berlin Wall. In fact, security here is so tight that local residents need passes just to move around the downtown area. The wall is designed to protect the 34 heads of state who will be here and to try and keep the protesters as far away from the summit as possible, just part of the incredible security operation here, which will go -- which will go on for the next couple of days: six thousand police officers, all specially trained. The local jails have been cleared in anticipation of mass arrests. And shops have been boarded up -- in particular, American shops. We've seen stores like the Gap have been boarded up, as well as other local businesses, all trying to protect themselves in anticipation of those Seattle-style riots that we saw in December 1999.", "John Vause for us in Quebec City, thanks. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MCEDWARDS"]}
{"id": "CNN-21217", "program": "", "date": "2000-12-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/06/aotc.07.html", "summary": "'Fortune': British Airways Cuts 1,000 Jobs, Reduces Operations at Gatwick", "utt": ["Well, the world's biggest airline is making steps to cut losses.", "British Airways cutting 1000 jobs as a major revamp -- as part of a major revamp of its operations. Janet Guyon has more now from a London. And Janet, is this going to help the airline get into the black?", "Well, we certainly hope so, or certainly BA hopes so. I think Rod Eddington said this morning it would be a couple of years before these changes brought the airline into the black, particularly at Gatwick. But what they're doing today makes a lot of sense, there transferring a lot of long-haul flight destinations from Gatwick to Heathrow, and making Gatwick basically a place where if you're only going a short distance, into Europe for example, you go to Gatwick. If you're going on a long trip, you go to Heathrow. This makes a lot of sense. It means that, if you've missed one flight at Heathrow, you don't have to go over to Gatwick to get the next flight, which is quite a long journey, it's at least about the equivalent distance between New York's LaGuardia and Newark airport in New York. So it's really a way to rationalize their flight structure.", "Does the increased emphasis on Gatwick for long-haul flights, make it even less of a prospect that American Airlines will get more landing slots at Gatwick soon?", "I'm not sure that this really affects that. I mean, with Gatwick being an area for short-haul flights and Heathrow being a place for long-haul flights, I'm not really sure this will have a great deal of fact on that relationship with American Airlines. You know, a lot of British Airways' problems has been deregulation and competition from the airlines on the continent. And if they go back into negotiations with the government on their American Airlines alliance, and emphasize that they're really -- that Heathrow is just not the monopoly on long-haul traffic as it once was, you know, they may have better prospects of getting that American Airlines alliance strengthened. So I'm not sure that these moves necessarily affect that, but it does reflect the overall level of increased competition in Europe.", "All right, Janet Guyon, \"Fortune\" magazine, thank you."], "speaker": ["DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR", "JANET GUYON, LONDON BUREAU CHIEF, \"FORTUNE\"", "MARCHINI", "GUYON", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "CNN-272218", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-12-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/26/cnr.03.html", "summary": "15 Million People Facing Severe Weather Threats", "utt": ["Congratulations to that whole family again, and thank you so much for sharing your morning with us to make some good memories today.", "That's right, I'll be back with Christi tomorrow. Deb Feyerick picks things up in New York.", "It is so incredible to watch that mom with that little baby. It's like she's been holding -- that grandmother, it's like she's been holding that baby for her entire life. That's what was so heartwarming about the whole thing. Thanks so much, you guys. Really appreciate it. We'll take it from here. It is now 11.00 on the East Coast. I'm Deborah Feyerick, in for Fredricka Whitfield. Newsroom starts now. Fifteen million people are facing severe weather threats across the nation today. The South still reeling from tornadoes and widespread flooding. The death toll now rising to at least 15 people across three states. In Alabama, a day the epic rainfall has residents bracing for the worst as a river swells just inches away from topping a levy protecting the town of Elba. In western U.S., fire and ice with blizzard conditions bearing down on the southern Rockies and Plain states. This fresh blanket of snow that you're seeing right there covering parts of northern California. And in the southern part of the states, a raging wildfire fueled by fierce winds. That fire is forcing mandatory evacuations and scorching roughly 8,000 acres so far. Look at the intensity there. Officials shutting down parts of two major highways, the 101 and the Pacific Coast highway. More than 500 firefighters are battling the flames, and joining me now on the phone is Captain Mike Lindbery, with the Ventura County Fire Department. Look, a lot of people travel on the roads. When do you think they are going to open and how do you think this fire is going to be contained?", "Well I think we're going to be working on this fire for at least the next few days. I think that's what it's going to take. It's grown significantly large in a very short amount of time. And that's just indicative of the conditions what we've been seeing here in California for the last several years with this drought. So it's going to be a while. We have a lot of back country area that we need to get into and assess, and make sure that we can safely get the lines in there. And then we need to bring our resources in that were ordered last night. So even if this fire ignited last night, we were ordering resources from other agencies. And they're en route and have arrived, many of them have arrived, and we're going to be getting on the site, get out there, and get as much work done as we can today.", "And Captain, as we look at those fires burning, what about people? They're having evacuations. How many homes are in that area? Who is at risk?", "Well there's some that are beach area that is the primary evacuation area. That's a mandatory evacuation, it's an area of 30-35 homes. We also have a second area called Faria beach that is under a voluntary evacuation. Now oddly enough, these homes are right along the seashore. I mean if you step out the backyard, your feet are wet. But this fire just happened to blow down right at the Solimar area, you know, it's an alignment with the wind. There was a fuel bed long enough to carry it toward those homes. We were fortunate, we recognized the threat immediately and deployed engines into that area, successfully defended those structures. But we now have to turn to the task of getting a line around this fire, and that's going to be a pretty significant task, and I -- like I said, I see it taking over the next couple of days.", "Yes, and we saw that parts of the -- certain parts of the highways are closed. Are there ways for people to make their way home without using these main highways or is that sort of equally dangerous given the nature of this fire?", "There are ways and they vary depending on how far out the traveler is once they find out about this closure on 101. I-5 is a major highway that runs north and south here in California, and so does the 101. So if they're far enough where they can catch i-5 and take that up, I would highly recommend that. If they live along the coast where they need to take highway 101, there is a two-lane, windy mountain road, highway 150, that will take them around this fire. But unfortunately, that road, I drove it early this morning, had a lot of traffic, including 18-wheeler traffic on it, and I expect it to get busier as the day goes on, and the holiday travel increases.", "And Captain, you are there on the ground. You are seeing all of this. Can you describe just physically the conditions, and what your men and women are up against in terms of trying to contain this?", "You know, our firefighters have their work cut out for them, and we've known that all season. We have known that, you know, until we get at least two to three inches of rain this year, we will not have an end or at least a lessening of our brush season. These fields that you're watching burn on your feed here are incredibly dry. The wind was 40 to 50 mile an hour gusts. You put those two things together along with some pretty steep topography, and you end up with the fire like we had had last night that grows to 1,000 acres within a few hours.", "Incredible, and just the way you described it, saying that the beach is really out the back door, it's just sort of a fluke of nature. Captain Mike Lindbery, we really thank you. We will let you get back to the job at hand. We know it is going to be a big one and we thank you.", "Thank you.", "And now -- thank you. And now to the severe weather that's refusing to let up in the South. The region there has a different problem, soaked with heavy rain, causing terrible flooding in some spots. Today 15 million people are facing new severe weather threats. More than 22 million could be facing those threats tomorrow. Overnight the death toll from this week's tornado disaster did go up, at least 15 people now sadly confirmed dead. CNN's Nick Valencia is following this latest weather system, and all the damage that it's done, and Nick, in those images, very hard to watch.", "They are. It looks more like something you would see during the springtime, that kind of damage from tornadoes, but this is what we are getting in December. A quick note, we have been reporting all morning long, in Alabama according to the National Weather Service, that there was double-digit inches of rain. Well now they are making a correction, they attribute that to a malfunction in their machine, in their reporting system, it's more like three inches of rain, so not as bad as we initially thought in portions of Alabama. Nevertheless that state is still under a state of emergency, and the concern across the South is that more severe weather is still to come.", "Severe weather batters several southern states. Heavy rains hammer parts of Alabama. The water made some roads impassable. Rescue crews helping residents trapped in their homes. The National Weather Service said a potential tornado touched down in Birmingham, causing damage to several blocks.", "The damage was done that was confined to approximately one square mile. We have three structures, three houses that collapsed. We transported one patient from the scene. There were two others that was removed from the structure, but we reported no injuries.", "Alabama's governor declared a state of emergency because of widespread flooding. At least 117 homes overcome by water. In Georgia, the rain damaged roads, and made driving treacherous. And in Mississippi, flood warnings and relentless rain add more misery to areas already devastated by tornadoes. They killed at least eight people in the state. Many roads are flooded and some people are dealing with rising water in their homes. In Wren, Mississippi, Victor and Tamika Hail (ph) watched as their home of 10 years was overtaken by water.", "He's right (ph), the lawnmower, the trailer, it just floated away, the garbage can, everything gone.", "It happened so fast, we had to get up and get out of there. The rain was coming so fast.", "The couple and their 9-year-old son now homeless, and staying with relatives.", "It's discouraging, we lost everything, my child he didn't get nothing for Christmas, items.", "That's difficult to think about, there was children there that were waiting for gifts from Santa Claus, I'm sure had a tough Christmas. A lot of people are going to remember this Christmas most definitely for all the wrong reasons in those states affected by this severe weather system. Deb, 15 lives taken, the youngest victim just 7 years old, the 7-year- old boy in Mississippi. And worse news for the states in the south, further south, bracing for heavy snow and blizzard-like conditions. Deb?", "All right. Nick Valencia, thank you. And Mother Nature is not done yet. The central plains could see more severe weather, and there could be snow and ice causing a travel nightmare in another part of the country. CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar joins us, and Allison, what are we looking at both today and tomorrow?", "Well we are going to be getting a bunch of different things. We've got blizzard warnings on one end of the scale, severe storms on the other, and massive flooding on one section. So here is an outlook of the entire map, again the eastern half of the country going to be dealing with rain and the potential for flooding. The central U.S., again, dealing with the potential for some severe weather, including tornadoes. And just behind that system, we have our blizzard watches and warnings as we prepare for heavy snow and also very heavy ice coming down as well. Here is a look at what we deal with in terms of the threat. This is the winter, so you see the winter storm watches and warnings in states like Minnesota, South Dakota, also into Nebraska. But we also have blizzard watches and warnings for Kansas, Oklahoma, also into Texas and New Mexico. Here is the system as a whole. Notice as it begins to push its way east it brings even more rain to areas that certainly don't need to see it, like Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. And then we have the snow and ice out behind it, stretching from Texas all the way up towards Chicago by the time we get to Monday. But the big threat for today is going to be the severe weather. We have an enhanced threat from tornadoes in cities like Dallas, Texas. So anybody traveling to, from, or around Dallas needs to be prepared, and be a little bit patient when it comes to some travel delays. But the threat as a whole stretches from San Antonio all the way up towards Cincinnati. Tomorrow, the system pushes a little farther east, now incorporating Memphis, Little Rock, and also into New Orleans. Same threats though, isolated tornadoes, also the threat for some damaging winds. But again, the flooding is also going to be on the minds of many. Look at this, rainfall estimates about 8 to 10 inches for states like Oklahoma, and then for Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, an additional 4 to 6 inches, Deb. Again, they don't need to see it. A lot of those areas have already had 8 to 10 inches and now they are going to get even more.", "It's just amazing to see what the weather is doing this December, this winter. All right, Allison Chinchar, we thank you so much. Appreciate it. And coming up, Iraqi soldiers are trying to take back the city of Ramadi from ISIS militants. We'll hear why this site is so important and how U.S. forces are involved, coming up next."], "speaker": ["CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR", "ERROL BARNETT, CNN ANCHOR", "DEB FEYERICK, CNN ANCHOR", "MIKE LINDBERY, VENTURA COUNTY FIRE DPT CAPTAIN (via telephone)", "FEYERICK", "LINDBERY", "FEYERICK", "LINDBERY", "FEYERICK", "LINDBERY", "FEYERICK", "LINDBERY", "FEYERICK", "NICK VALENCIA, CNN REPORTER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TAMIKA HAIL (ph)", "VICTOR HAIL (ph)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TAMIKA HAIL (ph)", "VALENCIA", "FEYERICK", "ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLGIST", "FEYERICK"]}
{"id": "CNN-170425", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-8-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1108/11/cnr.03.html", "summary": "What's Happening on Wall Street; Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West Discuss Their Poverty Tour", "utt": ["We asked based on the income of family of four, what is the poverty guideline set by the government: $22,000 a year, $32,000, or $42,000? The answer, $22,000. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, a family making below that amount means it meets the definition of poverty. Well, here is a rundown on some of the stories that we are working on. Next, two men who think President Obama is not doing enough to get millions of Americans out of poverty. My conversation with Cornel West and Tavis Smiley. Then, a Texas town that is bone dry from drought turns its desperate eye to what some call a disgusting water source. And later, your answer to today's \"Talk Back\" question. Is Congressman Peter King right to call for an investigation into a movie on the hunt for Osama bin Laden? Well, these are tough financial times for many of us, but especially for the millions of Americans who are living in poverty. Almost 44 million people were living below the poverty line in 2009. That's according to the most recent figures from the Census Bureau. Talk show host Tavis Smiley and Princeton University Professor Cornel West are on a multi-city bus tour to draw attention to poverty in the United States. They have also been critical of President Obama, accusing him of neglecting the poor. And they're with us here in the studio this morning. Thank you very much for joining us.", "We're very blessed to be here.", "Good to be here.", "Appreciate it.", "Blessed to be here.", "I'm going to start with you, Tavis. What have you seen on the road when you talk to people and talk to families, what are they dealing with? What's poverty look like?", "The new poor in this country, Suzanne, are the former middle class. The new poor are the former middle class. It's been so easy politically speaking, as you know, as you well know covering the White House for so many years, talking about the middle class. But the middle class is now falling quickly into the poor. The Children's Defense Fund put a report out there today that from year 2008 to 2009, more American children fell into poverty during that one year during any other time during recorded history. The poor are growing exponentially in this country, but at the same time being rendered invisible. Poverty is at the periphery of our political conversation and it ought to be at the epicenter.", "And, Professor, what does it look like? Are we talking about people who don't have running water? Are we talking about people that don't have televisions? What's poverty look like in this country?", "There's a number of different forums. We slept on the street, homeless in Washington, D.C., or it's going to be with a white poor family in Mississippi -- takes a number of different forums. But for the most part, it has to do with not acknowledging for dignity and the precious humanity of poor people of all colors. Not enough food. Not enough jobs with a living wage. Not enough housing that are decent. And, of course, we began with our indigenous people which is to say our brothers and sisters in Wisconsin.", "Both of you have been critical of the president. But the president has put forward ideas and plans. He is talking about trying to extend unemployment benefits, provide more food stamps and stacks breaks for families. Why the criticism? Why do you say he needs to do more?", "Well, I think the president ought to do more. And I hate when people try to get -- because if we are only talking about the president, I don't care how many times we call the Republicans obstructionists, how many times they got to stop say no, and how many times do we say they are so much worse than the president. People want to focus for ratings and for sensationalism on our comments about the president. Having said that, the president ought to do more. The poor ought to be a priority. He ought not to have signed that debt ceiling legislation, that raised the ceiling, but put a hole in the floor that poor people are falling through with no extension of unemployment benefits. When you say the president wants to extend unemployment benefits, why sign legislation that did not extend unemployment benefits? That's the question.", "Well, you understand that he has to work the Republicans. He has to work with Congress. He can't unilaterally act on his own. But, Professor West, you have said before specifically to the president that you don't believe he has the backbone here to push this forward. Why see this as some sort of character flaw as opposed to just a different approach to poverty?", "Well, it's the intensity of the fight. We just laid a wreath for Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, these are folks that fought intensely and for -- important to keep in mind, it's not really just president. We are talking about greedy people on Wall Street. We are talking about avaricious corporate elite who have a disproportionate amount of wealth -- 400 Americans have more wealth than 150 million Americans. That level of wealth and equality is morally obscene. There is no justification for that. So, the president has to make a stand. Are you on the side of the oligarchs and the wealthy? Are you on the side of poor and working people? And that class war, and that's ugly -- that's why King is so important, we don't want revenge. We don't hatred. We want love. We want justice. But that class war has been going on for a while and was getting worse and worse.", "Talk about the class war. There's been a lot of attention about your criticism of the president and you have said before you called him black mascot of Wall Street, black puppet who has certain fear of free black men. Why go there? Why inject race into this?", "It's not a matter of injecting race. It's a matter of trying to tell the truth. One, if you have Tim Geithner and early on, Larry Summers, they come right out of Wall Street -- that's why Wall Street is doing well. Main Street is not. They tilt toward oligarchs and not to what every day people. That's an objective fact.", "But you say black mascot. You say black puppet. Why that?", "Well, because he's a black man. He's a black man. Should I just say mascot?", "Why not?", "Well, because as a president who is historically unprecedented and being a black president, there is some expectation that he would have deep care for Latisha and Jamal on the corner. Maybe I was wrong about that. But he is a black man. He's also a black brilliant man. He's a black charismatic man. His wife is a brilliant black woman. She's a beautiful black woman. I have nothing wrong with saying black. If I talk about Jewish genius Stephen Sondheim. Jewish gangsters, Madoff. That's not wrong with saying -- these are objective facts.", "Do you think it's been unfair the criticism that both of you gotten from the black community you spoke out and been so critical of this president?", "I think when you talk about the poor, as Dr. West is saying all the time, and when you talk about the poor, the closer you end up on a cross. People are trying to crucify you when you try to -- there is a reason about there's not a poor people's campaign or movement in this country. Because they are disposable, they are throwaway, they are the forgotten community. When you do this kind of work, you are going to be a challenge, sometimes with merit and sometimes without merit. But it's about keeping the focus on the poor people. We don't waste our time -- I don't, Dr. West doesn't -- responding to a bunch of senseless, you know, criticism.", "Any time in America no matter what color you are, when you talk about poor people's dignity, you better put your cemetery clothes on and be coffin-ready because you could die in a minute. That's how much you love the poor people. So, we're not in it to be popular. We want to serve. And we are Christians, so we're just bearing witness.", "All right. Well, you guys are very popular.", "Some sort.", "But you are very popular now. We appreciate you bringing attention to this issue of poverty very much so.", "Congratulations on your show.", "Thank you.", "Salute to the work you do.", "Thank you very much.", "Absolutely.", "Appreciate it. A reminder to vote for today's \"Choose the News\" winner. Text to \"22360\" to vote for the story that you'd like to see. Text \"1\" for shoring up Navy SEALs. Military experts detail the process to replace 17 SEALs that were killed in this weekend's tragic helicopter crash. Text \"2\" for Libya's street artist. Libyan using his paint brush in the fight for freedom. And text \"3\" for U.S. agents in Mexico. Secret American agents heading south and helping fight the drug war in Mexico. Winning story will air in the next hour. Well, the desperation now for water in Texas.", "When you hear people say, oh, my God, these people are going to be drinking their own urine.", "There was a fellow over in Midland that I heard made a comment that said at least he gets to drink his beer twice."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "DR. CORNEL WEST, PRINCETON", "TAVIS SMILEY, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST", "MALVEAUX", "WEST", "MALVEAUX", "SMILEY", "MALVEAUX", "WEST", "MALVEAUX", "SMILEY", "MALVEAUX", "WEST", "MALVEAUX", "WEST", "MALVEAUX", "WEST", "MALVEAUX", "WEST", "MALVEAUX", "SMILEY", "WEST", "MALVEAUX", "SMILEY", "MALVEAUX", "SMILEY", "MALVEAUX", "WEST", "MALVEAUX", "SMILEY", "MALVEAUX", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JOHN GRANT, COLORADO RIVER MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT"]}
{"id": "CNN-287366", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-06-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/23/nday.02.html", "summary": "Libertarians Look to Attract Unhappy Voters", "utt": ["It's certainly not news that people are not completely satisfied with the current choices for president and more and more people are saying, boy, I'm open to an alternative, I'm open to a third party. Well, the libertarian ticket believes that's what they represent, a third way. Their nominees, they already have their convention are two former governors. New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and his running mate, foreign Massachusetts Governor William Weld. We had a town hall with them last night. They covered over a dozen major issues. Here's some of the highlights.", "Most Americans are libertarian. It's just that they don't know it.", "Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson flanked by his running mate, William Weld, looking to connect with voters who are looking for an alternative to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Johnson is equally reluctant to choose. (on camera): If you had to say that one of these is more qualified than the other --", "Bring back waterboarding or worse it's not going to --", "You're not going to give an answer?", "No, I'm not going to give in to voting for one or the other.", "I would.", "Thank you. (on camera): Weld favoring Clinton.", "I think Mrs. Clinton, no matter what you think about economic policies, is very well qualified to be president of the United States. I would not say the same of Mr. Trump, with all respect.", "Johnson shared his running mate's negative assessment of Trump.", "The issues that I have with Trump starting with immigration, starting with free trade, going on and on and on, killing the families of Muslim terrorists, really it's what's coming out of his mouth that I have issues with.", "Johnson, a vocal supporter of legalizing marijuana, was forced to face questions about his position on drugs. Her family is struggling to care for her son, left disabled by first time drug abuse and overdose.", "This is heart breaking, but what you're pointing out is that prohibition really is what -- is what your son succumbed to.", "Johnson pivoted to a series of harm prevention programs including needle exchanges and safe injection zones. His response to the emotional question challenged.", "When they go to your pretty little places with the pretty little needles, we're still going to have street people out selling heroin --", "Exactly.", "-- because they're going to get their one dose and it's not enough, so you're keeping people addicted.", "And in the wake of the Orlando massacre, a survivor bringing the gun control debate center stage.", "You said America would be safer if it was easier to buy guns and if more people carried them especially out in public, but last week when I went out dancing with my friends, unfortunately, I ended up in the middle of the worst mass shootings in our nation's history.", "Johnson explaining that he doesn't advocate rolling back existing gun laws, instead that he would look for law enforcement solutions.", "The FBI came in contact with this guy three times. What transpired? Why wasn't this guy deprived of his guns?", "The optimistic duo hoping to gain momentum as a viable alternative to Republicans and Democrats.", "The two-party system is a two party dinosaur and they're about to come in contact with the comet here.", "I'll tell you, what a shock to hear a political discussion in this election where it wasn't, what's my answer? Well, the other person stinks. That's my answer. So, people got a lot of information. Let's weigh in on where these potions will stack up in terms of the state of play. Let's bring back the panel, Mark Preston, David Gregory, Nia-Malika Henderson. Your take, Mr. Executive Editor?", "Listen, I think that what's interesting is these are two governors, two former Republican governors, OK, who are now the Libertarian Party's flag bearers heading into November. However, last night they seemed to try to be appealing to Democrats in many ways in some of their positions. We saw William Weld go out there and say he would support Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Now, a lot of people do not like Donald Trump and a lot of Republicans don't like Donald Trump, but I do think it was interesting, to your point, they offered a different vision and certainly a toned down rhetoric than what we've seen over the last 48 hours between the two major candidates.", "And, David, given that so many people say they want an alternative this year, they don't want to vote for either of the two leading candidates, why aren't these guys getting more traction?", "Well, it's very difficult, because there's a sense of who can win whether the third party is a viable alternative and where they fit in an increasingly ideologically polarized political world that we're in. They don't fit neatly on either way. I mean, I agree with Mark that in this year when you've had such a support for Bernie Sanders, there may be opportunity for Democrats to appeal to and on some social issues they might, but they're more natural I think inclined to be a safe harbor for Republicans who don't like Donald Trump given some of their views on fiscal matters, taxes and all the rest. I think the traction question is the important one though, because they've had an initial burst of some good polling that they need to get to 15 percent in order to be considered for the debate stage in the fall. And that becomes very important if you're going to get a large enough share of the vote to have a real impact. Hard to s them being anything other than a spoiler impact.", "They see that as well. They see their challenges. They have exposure problems, a little bit of a circular issue there. They can't get to 15 percent because they don't get exposure media because they don't get to 15 percent. That was one of the motivations last night. People say they want a third way, so we show it to them and let's see how they feel about it. But what do you make of that, Nia-Malika Henderson, that they were okay, certainly Gary Johnson was okay with being a spoiler in this election? I said if it turns out that what you really do is help Trump or help Clinton, but not really help yourself to win are you okay with that, he said absolutely.", "Yes, and that was pretty fascinating. I mean, they're fine with being essentially a Ross Perot figure. If you look back in 2012, Gary Johnson was able to get on the bath ballot in 48 states. He got about 1.2 million votes. In New Mexico, which is where he was the former governor, he got about 5 percent of the votes. In states like that and this is going to be a really close election, will they really have some traction even if it amounts to 5 or 6 or 7 percent and could end up being that spoiler role? But you know, I felt last night it was refreshing to see this third party option. You sort of -- every election cycle you hear this idea that Americans are ready for a third party, but to see these two folks out there really trying to gain some traction and get their message out there I think it's a good thing that they did and a good thing you did in interviewing them.", "Yes, and it was refreshing because clearly they were taking positions that were not poll tested.", "Thirteen issues. I've done these town halls before. The idea of getting through this many issues and deeply getting into it, at one point Johnson told me I was getting too into the weeds on taxes, because we have gotten into like his structuring of a fair tax and a consumption and what's the right percentage and what does it mean, and how do you do with the upset on revenues. That's the kind of conversation you should want Americans to have. But the bottom line is, doesn't resonate like you stink. The media picks up on it on a way that they don't pick up on the consumption.", "Yes, and their positions are harder to sort of battle, because he is outside the mainstream on drug legalization and gun control. I mean, you know, they just have interesting positions.", "They do. I tell you what? I think they certainly offered a different way forward than what we've seen from the other two candidates certainly so far. I would say I think he struggled on the drug issue. But no question about it and to leave it on this, the questions were great. The fact the first question was from somebody who was at the biggest mass shooting and part of that was an amazing moment I think in our political history and it really is a continuation of these town halls and how effective they are.", "Panel, thank you.", "I can share that because I did not come up with the questions. Mark is right. They were very, very strong last night. Now, we've got another rare opportunity for you today. What usually happens, you have a town hall, you have the debate and everybody goes into spin mode. Gary Johnson, the governor is coming back on today so we can follow up on these issues we're saying where he made some progress but also raised some questions. So, he'll be on and we'll go at it.", "All right. Meanwhile, another big story we're following, voters are heading to the polls right now in the U.K. They're deciding whether Britain should stay in the European Union or leave. It's a historic position. The stakes are very high for everyone. So, we have a live report next."], "speaker": ["CUOMO", "GARY JOHNSON, LIBERTARIAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "CUOMO (voice-over)", "JOHNSON", "CUOMO", "JOHNSON", "WILLIAM WELD, LIBERTARIAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE", "CUOMO", "WELD", "CUOMO (voice-over)", "JOHNSON", "CUOMO", "JOHNSON", "CUOMO", "MAUREEN MORELLA, ASKED ABOUT DRUG ADDICTION", "JOHNSON", "MORELLA", "CUOMO", "JEANNETTE MCCOY, ORLANDO SHOOTING SURVIVOR", "CUOMO", "JOHNSON", "CUOMO", "JOHNSON", "CUOMO", "MARK PRESTON, CNN POLITICS EXECUTIVE EDITOR", "CAMEROTA", "DAVID GREGORY, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "CUOMO", "NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA", "PRESTON", "CAMEROTA", "CUOMO", "CAMEROTA"]}
{"id": "CNN-41252", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2001-10-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/06/smn.20.html", "summary": "Did a Lapse in U.S. Intelligence Gathering Contribute to September 11 Attacks?", "utt": ["Well, some critics say a lapse in the U.S. intelligence gathering contributed to the September 11 attacks. Two guests join me now in Washington to talk about this -- Melvin Goodman is a former CIA analyst and author of several books, including \"The Phantom Defense\" and Ron Kessler, an investigative journalist, who is also author of \"Inside The CIA.\" Gentlemen, good morning.", "Good morning.", "Good to be with you.", "Ron, let's begin with you. I'm curious to know. Why is no one turning in Osama Bin Laden? I mean we're talking about a multimillion-dollar reward on this man's head.", "That's a very good question and that highlights the difficult of course in getting intelligence on this person. It's not like just turning on the TV and you see the answer. You have to penetrate this organization. If you think of what it would be like to have tried to penetrate Hitler's inner circle during World War II, you have some idea of how difficult this is except that it's more difficult because as you say, they are not susceptible to money. They not only expect to die but will die. And of course, the CIA would also have to Middle Eastern people, officers, in order to penetrate those organizations.", "So, Ron, do you...", "Go ahead.", "Do you think there should be more Arab-American Muslim agents in intelligence agencies like the CIA?", "Sure, that's certainly, you know, a perquisite. But a lot -- now, our consciousness has been raised. Obviously, a lot more has to be done and will be done. But you know, when people talk about intelligence failure, I think of something like the CIA's failure to notice that India was about to detonate a nuclear weapon in 1998. That's something that the CIA definitely should have seen through satellite coverage, through other indications in India. As opposed to this situation where, obviously, we would have liked the CIA to pinpoint this, but it's not something that the CIA automatically can be expected to find out.", "Melvin, Ron mentions the CIA not having enough intelligence resources. What do you think? Is it that or was the CIA complacent here?", "I think, clearly, you're dealing with an issue of complacency. It's not a question of whether the CIA could have provided information or intelligence regarding this attack per se. It's whether or not the CIA was complacent about what this organization, Bin Laden's organization had been doing for the past eight years. So the strategic intelligence was there. The modus operandi of this terrorist was there. We knew we were dealing with", "Ron, what needs to happen?", "You know we were all at fault. We all were aware that we had the target of terrorist attacks and we were aware of the World Trade Center. We were aware of the fact that Bin Laden had said he's going to kill more Americans. And George Tenet, in fact, had been quoted in the papers as saying that they are waging a war on us. And so we all failed really. And now, the whole government, of course, has to totally change its level of awareness and focus much more on this problem. Over at the FBI, you had the same problem. You had threats coming in. They didn't have enough people to investigate them all. You had restrictions that hampered the FBI. And so it was an across the board problem within our government and among ourselves as well.", "Melvin, before we go, I want you to get one more word in here. I was reading that you feel that it comes down to the military as truly running the CIA, not George Tenet. Tell me your theory here and how you think this makes an impact.", "Well, my position here is very clear and very basic. The intelligence community has a budget of $30 billion and more. It's about to be increased. The Pentagon runs about $27 billion of that budget and the agencies that spend that money and all of the personnel who work on intelligence problems. So when you look at the CIA, you're looking at an institution that should be the central intelligence agency but it's lost its centrality. It is now trying to serve the Pentagon just the way all of the other agencies of the intelligence community. And the problem there is that the Pentagon has not taken the problem of terrorism seriously enough. They don't have the weapons to fight it. They don't have the mindset to fight it. It requires thinking out of the box, which is very difficult for the Pentagon to do. And I think the CIA was lulled into complacency because of the lack of priorities that stem from the collapse of the Soviet Union. We shouldn't forget that since 1991, the CIA has been looking for but has never found its sense of mission. So it lost its moral compass when it failed to understand the collapse of the Soviet Union and refused to do a postmortem on that intelligence failure. And now, we have the worst intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor. And here, I disagree with Condi Rice when she said, \"Know this isn't Pearl Harbor.\" Well, it's worse than Pearl Harbor. This is a community that spends $30 billion. And I disagree with Ron when he says that we're all to blame. If we're all to blame than no one is to blame. And we'll never get this right. So it's time to take a very hard look at the Central Intelligence Agency to see where the breakdowns occurred. This is essential.", "Ron, you want to come back at that? He mentioned you specifically. I just want to give you a couple of seconds here to wrap this up.", "Well, I agree with Mel that much more needs to be done. But I just think that it should all be put in perspective. And the fact that -- you know, of course, looking back, we should have recognized these signs. We -- it was in the papers. It wasn't some secret information and we all should have -- should have become much more aggressive. At the same time, we have to totally step up our efforts within the government and I think that's being done.", "And that is being done. The Bush administration has put millions of dollars to beef up intelligence and we will follow that and be in touch with both of you. Melvin Goodman, Ron Kessler. Gentlemen, thank you for your insight this morning. We appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Thank you. 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{"id": "CNN-95471", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2005-6-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0506/20/ltm.05.html", "summary": "Operation Spear; Search for Missing Boy; Missing in Aruba", "utt": ["The search is intensifying once again in the mountains of northeast Utah for an 11-year-old Boy Scout who's been missing since Friday. And the search continues in Aruba for Natalee Holloway, missing now for three weeks. A live report from the island as the latest suspect prepares for a date in court. And in Mississippi, wrapping up the trial of a former Klansman accused of plotting the murders of three civil rights workers in the '60s. A live report from the courthouse on this", "From the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, this is AMERICAN MORNING with Soledad O'Brien and Miles O'Brien.", "Good morning. Welcome back, everybody.", "It's good to be here. And good to be in New York City. And good to be with you.", "It's nice to you have joining us.", "Beginning with Iraq this morning, insurgent suicide bombers attacked two police stations this morning. Twelve were killed in Erbil and five more died in an attack on a Baghdad police station. U.S. and Iraqi forces are conducting a large-scale anti-insurgent operation near the Syrian border. Jane Arraf is embedded with the military. She joins us by phone from Karabila, Iraq, where the Operation Spear is in its fourth day. Jane, give us the latest.", "Miles, the latest is that the Marines have destroyed what they believe is a major car bomb factory. Early this morning, they fired tank rounds and then dropped a JDAM 500-pound bomb from the air on to a complex that they said had a dozen cars. Many of them, they're still trying to determine how many, rigged with explosives to be used as car bombs here along the Syrian border and elsewhere, sent elsewhere, into Iraq, they believe. They caused a massive secondary explosion. The explosions -- explosives inside the cars were detonated, which is how they knew that they had hit their target, they say. This is all part of an operation to crack down on what has become, according to the Marines, a haven for foreign fighters. They say that they have killed approximately 50 insurgents and foreign fighters. One Marine has lost his life. Six more have been wounded in this operation -- Miles.", "Jane, that's obviously an important find, and I assume that the officers there are fairly pleased that they've been able to identify a target like that.", "They are. They're particularly pleased, because this is one of the things that's happening with this insurgency, foreign fighters coming through Syria. And one of the other things they've found is a series of passports. We just had a look at some of these passports from Libya, from Saudi Arabia, from Algeria, people who went through Damascus and entered into Iraq without entry visas, meaning that they entered here illegally. These were found with large amounts of weapons and ammunition. This is a city that the Marines say has been taken over by foreign fighters and insurgents. And what they're trying to do is sweep through parts of the city where these people are hiding and capture or kill them. They say it will have an affect not just here, but in the rest of Iraq. They see this as essentially a transit point for some of these insurgents -- Miles.", "Jane Arraf, embedded with the U.S. military. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. More news from Iraq. Carol Costello has that and the other top stories this morning for us. Carol, good morning.", "That I do. Good morning, everyone. \"Now in the News,\" Iraq is offering a $10 million reward for the capture of its highest ranking official still on the run. Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri was a deputy commander of armed forces under Saddam Hussein. He is number six on the U.S. military's list of 55 most wanted Iraqi officials. President Bush is meeting with European Union leaders this morning. Just over an hour from now, the president will host the group in the Oval Office. A number of issues on the agenda, including trade, Mideast peace efforts and the upcoming G8 summit. Senate Republicans say they will try again to confirm John Bolton to the United Nations. The senators are planning to call for a vote today to end debate and give Bolton the thumbs up or thumbs down. But some Democrats say they will delay the vote. And Tom Cruise gets splashed on the red carpet. We've been showing you video of the actor getting a soggy reception at the London premiere of his movie \"War of the Worlds.\" But you can take an even closer look on our Web site. Starting today, just visit CNN.com, click on \"watch\" to see free video of our top stories. There are a lot of different stories in there. Stories other than Tom Cruise getting squirted in the face with a fake microphone.", "But that's the one everybody's going to see anyway.", "It's still number one. It's still the most popular on CNN.com. It's been holding for an hour and a half now.", "It doesn't surprise me at all.", "All right. Thank you very much, Carol.", "Sure.", "The fourth day of searching beginning at this hour for a boy missing in the Utah mountains. A 12-year-old boy was lost in the same area last August. He has never been found. Keith Oppenheim is following this latest search.", "Eleven-year-old Brennan Hawkins last seen Friday near his family's campsite at the Bear River Boy Scout Reservation, high in the Uinta Mountains of Utah. Hawkins was climbing this rock wall with a friend who returned to camp for dinner around 5:00 in the evening. Hawkins stayed behind. An hour later, a massive search was under way. His father tried to retrace his son's steps.", "Knowing his behavior, he probably got disoriented, frustrated, scared.", "Temperatures can reach extremes in the area, but over the weekend, they were mild.", "He was wearing a pair of shorts and he was wearing a long-sleeve sweatshirt. So he didn't have a lot of provisional items with him and certainly wasn't dressed that warmly. But nevertheless, since it hasn't been that cold, that may not be a major issue.", "Officials say the greatest safety risk is the river. It runs over a man's head in places with strong currents.", "We're going to be back with our swift water team searching in the Bear River. We're going to search that very meticulously today. We also have horses -- horse units, mounted units, four-wheelers and ground-pounders as well. Once again, going to hit it with everything we have.", "Another concern, wild animals. A search helicopter used thermal sensors to scan the woods overnight, but no luck.", "My greatest plea at this time, and the way that we can find my boy, is for anybody and everybody to come out and help.", "Kevin Bardsley knows what Hawkins' father is going through firsthand. Last August, Bardsley's 12-year-old son went missing from a Boy Scout campsite in much steeper terrain, about 15 miles from the Hawkins' camp. His son was never found. Brennan's disappearance a painful reminder.", "Every day.", "In addition to the search operation, county officials are also conducting a criminal investigation as a matter of standard procedure. But they say there's no evidence of foul play. Keith Oppenheim, CNN, Los Angeles.", "More than 1,400 people searched for Hawkins over the weekend. Rescue workers are concerned they may not get as much help today, on a weekday -- Soledad.", "A fourth suspect in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager is set to appear before a judge in Aruba today. It's been exactly three weeks since Natalee Holloway disappeared on that Caribbean island. Chris Lawrence live for us this morning in Palm Beach, Aruba. Chris, good morning. What's the latest on this investigation?", "Soledad, police are definitely looking more closely at one family, the Dutch teenager who hit it off with Natalee the night she disappeared, and his father, who was questioned by police on Saturday and then brought back for more talks the next day.", "No charges have been filed in the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway. Over the weekend, police in Aruba questioned this man, but only as a witness. Paul Van Der Sloot rushed home after speaking with investigators for hours. Van Der Sloot is a judge on the island. His teenage son Joran is one of the suspects being held.", "He's a very sweet boy.", "Ally Santos practically grew up with Joran Van Der Sloot.", "It's very weird that everybody seems to be thinking that he could have done something to Natalee or something, because he's usually very protective with girls.", "Natalee's friends haven't seen her since she left the bar three weeks ago with Van Der Sloot and two brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe. A judge decided all three could be detained another week, even though no charges have been filed against them. Police picked up a fourth suspect Friday, a local man who worked as a deejay on this party boat. Steven Croes' boss told CNN, Croes knows one of the brothers from a local Internet cafe.", "We'll be in court later this morning. According to Aruban law, prosecutors have to prove why he should be detained another eight days without actually bringing formal charges against him -- Soledad.", "Chris Lawrence for us this morning in Aruba. Chris, thanks for the update -- Miles.", "In Lebanon, results of Sunday's elections are being seen as a major victory for Lebanese opponents of Syrian domination. A coalition led by the son of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, killed by a car bomb in February, is expected to capture a majority of parliamentary seats. Brent Sadler is in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. Brent what is the significance of today's election results?", "Miles, good morning. It is enormously significant on a number of fronts, not least the U.S. policy of trying to democratize this region. What's actually happened is that after 29 years of virtual Syrian domination here, particularly in the last 15 years over Lebanese politics, where Syria's effectively been able to pick and choose who goes to parliament, that for the first time since the Syrians pulled out at the end of April, that the Lebanese have been able to have a free and fair election, which was a cornerstone of U.S. policy all along since the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February. On the streets of Tripoli and the north of Lebanon, celebrations for the electoral list of candidates made up of Christians, Muslims and Druze, a list that's headed by Saad Hariri. Now, he is very interesting. He's the 35-year-old son and political heir of the assassinated Rafik Hariri. Saad Hariri could well become the next prime minister here. And he's only been in politics for just a few weeks. Businessman turned politician, and he is a Sunni Muslim, and he is now hoping that his alliance, quite clearly after these results are officially confirmed, will have the largest block in parliament, and the Lebanese parliament will then effectively be free with an opposition alliance majority for the first time in the last 15 years. So enormously significant change on the political climate here -- Miles.", "Brent Sadler in Beirut. Thanks very much -- Soledad.", "Ten minutes past the hour. Time to get a look at the weather this morning. Chad Myers at the CNN center for us.", "All right. We've got some kinky stuff coming. Like, did you know the tenth Commandment, according to Kinky, thou shall not covet thy neighbor's mud flaps.", "No, I did not know.", "How is that for Texas, Kinky? Is that OK?", "How's the accent, Kinky? Eh?", "Not so good. All right. We'll talk live with the singer, author and now candidate for Texas governor, Kinky Friedman.", "And part one of our special series on kids and sports, \"Surviving the Game.\" Today we've got some advice on how to handle a coach who wants to win at all costs. That's ahead on AMERICAN MORNING. We're back in just a moment."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "AMERICAN MORNING. ANNOUNCER", "S. O'BRIEN", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "JANE ARRAF, CNN SR. BAGHDAD CORRESPONDENT", "M. O'BRIEN", "ARRAF", "M. O'BRIEN", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "M. O'BRIEN", "COSTELLO", "S. O'BRIEN", "M. O'BRIEN", "COSTELLO", "M. O'BRIEN", "KEITH OPPENHEIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "TOBY HAWKINS, FATHER OF MISSING SCOUT", "OPPENHEIM", "SHERIFF DAVE EDMUNDS, WASATCH COUNTY, UTAH", "OPPENHEIM", "EDMUNDS", "OPPENHEIM", "HAWKINS", "OPPENHEIM", "KEVIN BARDSLEY, SON MISSING SINCE LAST YEAR", "OPPENHEIM", "M. O'BRIEN", "S. 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{"id": "CNN-361427", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2019-02-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/07/es.01.html", "summary": "House Democrats Dig in to Trump Oversight; Lieutenant Governor's Accuser Releases Graphic Statement about Sexual Harassment Incident", "utt": ["The American people have a right to know, indeed have a need to know that their president is acting on their behalf.", "It's called presidential harassment.", "Well, that unity push did not last long. Democrats defy the president with aggressive new investigations after the president warned against it.", "We have an immigration system that allows people to come here violently. We engage in --", "A congressman uses a gun violence hearing to push for a border wall. Parents of Parkland shooting victims not having it.", "The president touts territorial gains over ISIS but the secretary of State admits threats remain. Live in the Middle East.", "And the former top editor of the \"New York Times\" accused of plagiarism Jill Abramson now says she will review passages from her new book. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to EARLY START bright and early this morning. I'm Christine Romans.", "I'm Dave Briggs. Good morning. Almost Friday, February 7th, 4:00 a.m. in the East. We start with these new investigations. House Democrats now starting to flex their new power in earnest. House Intelligence Committee Adam chairman -- Adam Schiff announcing an aggressive investigation into whether President Trump's business and financial interests are driving his decisions. The probe will go beyond contact between Trump's team and Russia, it will include whether foreign interests hold any kind of leverage over the president or anyone in his orbit, whether any of those people is at risk of manipulation from abroad and whether anyone has tried to obstruct the current investigations.", "The American people have a right to know, indeed have a need to know that their president is acting on their behalf and not for some pecuniary or other reason that pertains to any credible allegations of leverage by the Russians or the Saudis or anyone else.", "The president dismissed the new investigations saying Schiff had no basis for it.", "This is a political hack who's trying to build a name for himself. It's called presidential harassment and it's unfortunate. And it really does hurt our country.", "The move came less than 24 hours after President Trump warned in his State of the Union against Democratic probes.", "If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. It just doesn't work that way.", "Only about 18 months ago the president gave a similar signal against investigating his finances.", "Mueller is looking at your finances, your family's finances unrelated to Russia. Is that a red line?", "Would that be a breach of what his actual --", "I would say yes. Yes. I would say yes.", "Worth noting federal prosecutors in Manhattan may pose a bigger threat to the president than Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The Southern District of New York specifically looking at Mr. Trump's finances and has already enlisted cooperating witnesses like his former lawyer Michael Cohen and Trump Organization CFO Alan Weisselberg. Democrats circling the president in other ways. House hearings scheduled today on Mr. Trump's tax returns, family separations at the Mexico border, and a session is set for tomorrow to question acting attorney Matthew Whitaker. Democrats will ask about his decision not to recuse himself in the Russia probe among other things.", "House Judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler says he will have a subpoena in his pocket just in case Whitaker refuses to answer questions. Also House Financial Services chair Maxine Waters says her panel is in talks to bring in Treasury Security Steve Mnuchin. They want to talk to him about the lifting of Russian sanctions on companies connected to oligarch Oleg Deripaska. A bipartisan group of 17 lawmakers is making progress on a deal to head off another government shutdown next week, but a source tells CNN no one is certain what the president will sign. The White House staying out of the talks to this point. The deadline is next Friday but negotiators want a deal done this week to give Congress and the president enough time to process it. Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney is scheduled to meet with the group this weekend at Camp David. He is still warning the president could use executive authority.", "If it comes to this, find the money that we can spend with the lowest threat of litigation and then move from that pot of money to the next pot that maybe brings a little bit more threat of litigation and then go through the budget like that.", "The 17 lawmakers met with Customs and Border Protection officials on Wednesday. They agree the best way to secure the border is to marry new technologies to additional personnel and new barriers. But they disagree about how to do that. One interesting note, CNN has learned the government shutdown ended after just 10 air traffic controllers stayed home on January 25th, the 35th day of the impasse. The absence of those few workers -- six in northern Virginia, four in Florida -- temporarily shut down travel at New York's LaGuardia Airport while causing delays at other major hubs.", "All right. Tension at a congressional hearing on preventing gun violence. Republican Matt Gaetz of Florida using the hearing to actively campaign for the president's border wall. This is a hearing about gun violence. And this did not go over well with some in attendance.", "HR8 would not have stopped many of the circumstances I raised, but a wall, a barrier on the southern border, may have. And that's what we're fighting for.", "Mr. Chair --", "We have an immigration system that allows people to come here violently. We engage in --", "There will be no comments or demonstrations, please.", "Gaetz's comments angering the fathers of two of victims in Parkland school massacre, Manuel Oliver and Fred Guttenberg.", "At one point, Rhode Island Democrat David Cicilline posed this question.", "Is there any committee rule that prevents a member of Congress from reciting false statements in a committee hearing that are unsupported by the evidence? That are unsupported by the evidence or are members of Congress entitled to just make things up?", "The House Judiciary Committee has been hearing testimony on a bipartisan measure that would require background checks for all gun sales and most gun transfers.", "All right. To Virginia now where the political crisis there is taking another ugly twist. Attorney General Mark Herring admitting he appeared in blackface at a party in 1980 dressing up as a rapper when he was 19 years old. He calls it a one-time occurrence caused by a callous and inexcusable lack of awareness. That is three scandals weighing down Democrats in that state now. Governor Ralph Northam refusing to resign over this racist photo on his med school yearbook page. Initially he said it was not him in that picture on the right, he said it was -- first he said it was him, but he wouldn't say which person he was. And now he says it is not him.", "Right. All this unfolding as we learn more about sexual assault allegations against Virginia's Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax. His accuser, Vanessa Tyson, claims Fairfax sexually assaulted her at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. She told Virginia's Democratic Congressman Bobby Scott about the allegation a year ago. Aides to Scott tells CNN the congressman did not learn the full scope of the allegation until Wednesday when Tyson released a graphic statement about her encounter with Fairfax. More now from Ryan Nobles.", "Dave and Christine, we had thought that things couldn't get much worse here at Virginia state capital, but Wednesday proved us very wrong. The accuser of the lieutenant governor, Dr. Vanessa Tyson, released a very lengthy statement where she talked in specificity about the alleged incident in which she says that the lieutenant governor, who was then an aide to Senator John Edwards, forced her to perform oral sex on him. Now the lieutenant governor says that this is not true and, in fact, we have been told in private meetings he has been vehemently denying these claims and has also launched into an expletive laden attack against Miss Tyson and her supporters. Still, this is something that is rocking the capital. In fact, a very influential Democratic congresswoman, Jennifer Wexton, who was just recently elected in this wave of Democratic women to Congress, she was once a state senator here in Virginia. She served with Justin Fairfax. She tweeted yesterday, \"I believe Dr. Vanessa Tyson.\" Meanwhile, those state lawmakers attempt to find some way to get the business of this government complete -- Dave and Christine.", "All right, Ryan Nobles. Thank you so much for that, Ryan. If somehow the scandal brings down Virginia's top three government officials, a Republican would take the state's highest office. Virginia House and delegate speaker Kirk Cox is fourth in line for governor.", "What a mess. Planet earth just emerged from the fourth hottest year ever recorded. According to the NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that means 18 of the hottest 19 years have occurred since 2001. The warming driven largely by increased carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases caused by human activity. Many countries suffered through extreme weather and climate events in 2018, but the United States was hit particularly hard. There were 14 separate weather and climate disasters that caused $1 billion in damage or more last year.", "All right. Wall Street waiting for the Federal Reserve to decide when and if it will raise interest rates in 2019. The former Fed chief Janet Yellen told CNBC yesterday the Federal Reserve could decide to cut rates next.", "If global growth really weakens and that spills over to the United States or financial conditions tighten more and we do see a weakening in the U.S. economy, it's certainly possible that the next move is a cut.", "That got a lot of attention yesterday. Her remarks come after the Fed kept interest rates steady and floated the idea it might be done considering any rate hikes this year. A few weeks ago it had suggested as many as two rate hikes this year were on the table. So what does that say about the American economy and the global economy, right, if they're not -- because they can't keep raising rates? Yellen mentioned several risks that could affect the U.S. including weak economic data from China and Europe, as well as uncertainties about trade policy and Brexit. Current Fed chief Jerome Powell recently said the decision on rates requires patience and he denounced any idea the Fed was caving to political pressure by taking the more dovish approach to rates. And by political pressure, there is pressure from the president of the United States. There is also pressure from the markets.", "Right.", "There are those who said the markets with that -- with that, you know, hissy fit in December where selling off and pressuring the Fed to not keep rates always raised.", "Are there widespread fears that the president did bully his way to exactly what he wanted with interest rates?", "I think that the Fed chief -- look, the Fed is an independent body and you -- if you're appointed by Donald Trump, you have to know that there's going to be --", "Right.", "Twitter, you know, tirades about it. So from all -- from all appearances, the Fed is going to wait to see what the data looks like before it decides to raise rates.", "Let's hope. Ahead it looks like a serial killer in Toronto is nabbed with his next victim already tied up in his home. The stunning twist ahead."], "speaker": ["REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D), INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "DAVE BRIGGS, CNN ANCHOR", "REP. MATT GAETZ (R), FLORIDA", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "SCHIFF", "ROMANS", "TRUMP", "ROMANS", "TRUMP", "ROMANS", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER", "TRUMP", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "MICK MULVANEY, ACTING CHIEF OF STAFF", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "GAETZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GAETZ", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-166952", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-6-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1106/01/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Obama Meets with House Republican Leaders; Allegations of Child Torture in Syria", "utt": ["Here's a rundown of some of the stories that we are working on next. A young demonstrator becomes a poster child for the Syrian uprising after being tortured and killed. Then, with housing prices at new lows, is it better to buy or to rent? We're going to tell you some questions you should consider. Then, at 11:56 Eastern, when taking too many medications hurts more than helps. Our \"CNN In-Depth: Medication Nation.\" Well, a 13-year-old boy has become the new face of the two-month- old revolution in Syria after alarming video surfaced on YouTube of the child's mutilated body. It appears to show that he was tortured before his death. And the video has angered activists and drawn sharp criticism from the United States as well.", "I, too, was very concerned by the reports about the young boy. In fact, I think what that symbolizes for many Syrians is the total collapse of any effort by the Syrian government to work with and listen to their own people.", "CNN's Arwa Damon has been following this story for us. And a warning -- some of you may find the graphic images of injured children upsetting.", "On April 29th, anti-government protesters tried to break the Syrian army siege on the city of Daraa. Eyewitnesses at the time described how security forces indiscriminately opened fire on them.", "Dozens were killed and wounded. Countless others detained. Among them, say his family, was 13-year-old Hamza, separated from his father in the chaos. A month later, the family received their son's body, Hamza's face bloated, purple. This video posted to YouTube catalogs each of his wounds, much of it too graphic to broadcast. The narrator points out multiple gunshots before moving to his head. And even more shocking, his genitals were mutilated. CNN cannot independently verify what happened to Hamza or the authenticity of this video. After it was initially broadcast, Hamza's family was threatened. Now they are too petrified to talk, even to close friends. Razan Zaitouneh, a prominent Syrian activist who we reached via Skype, says she has no doubt it's real and that the regime had a message in releasing the boy's body.", "They want the people to see this. They want the people to get scared. They want the people to know that there is no red lines, everything, no matter how awful it is, could happen to their family members if they continue to participate in this revolution.", "But far from cowing people, the video has only made them bolder.", "Demonstrations to protest comes as death erupted. Even children took to the streets, risking a similar fate, vowing that his blood was not spilled in vain. Activists say they are not surprised that the regime could have committed such cruelty and claim it's not the first time a child has been targeted. This 11-year-old boy was allegedly shot in his home. This video shows the body of a child lying in the street amid intense gunfire, as others try to recover his body. And here, children lie wounded in hospital after security forces allegedly fired at their school bus. The Syrian government said Tuesday there will be an investigation into Hamza's death, but a medical examiner told Syrian TV there was no evidence the boy had been tortured, and he claimed the condition of the corpse was due to decomposition. Hamza's death has prompted international outrage. A Facebook page calling itself \"We are all the martyr, the child Hamza Ali al- Khateeb\" had 60,000 followers by Tuesday. The face of this 13-year- old from a village in southern Syria, now the symbol of an uprising.", "CNN made repeated attempts to reach Syrian authorities for comment on the death of Hamza al Fatib (ph). Syrian TV also said President Assad had met members of the boy's family. We're going to get to Arwa Damon in a moment, but first I go to the White House. This is where House Republicans just wrapped up their meeting with President Obama dealing with the debt ceiling as well as spending cuts. This is Eric Cantor.", "But we can also get people back to work. We know that our chairman of the Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp is hard at work at putting together a tax reform plan. I asked the president hopefully that he will work with us to do so and keep out of the discussions surrounding the debt limit and in the Biden talks, any notion that we're going continue crease taxes. It's counterintuitive to believe that you increase taxes on those individuals and entities you're expecting to create jobs.", "It's a unique opportunity where the entire conference got to convey what they're listening to across America. The president laid out from a debt discussion, but from the conference he heard about jobs. He heard about unshackling the burden of regulation on to small business to get them working again, from Wisconsin to West Virginia to members across the way. What I heard from this president, that he wanted to sit down and find real cuts now. He said there need to be entitlement reform and we will work with him towards those ends to direct when we create new jobs, put us on a path to pay off the budget, on a balanced budget, and pay down the debt, as well.", "I want to thank the president and the speaker for bringing us together today for this important discussion. You know, every generation of Americans has been proud to pass on a better country to the next generation. And yet for a lot of Americans right now there's a question in their gut as to whether or not our children and our grandchildren are going to have more opportunities. And the foundation that we lay for them is so important and we can't take for granted that we're just going to continue to have that strong foundation from which opportunity and innovation and ingenuity take place. Our tax policy matters. Our debt matters. Our energy policy matters. And whether it was our vote last night on the debt ceiling or the conversation today with the president about job creation, we are committed to taking the steps necessary to ensure that that next generation has more opportunities.", "Any day Republicans and Democrats are actually having a dialogue, this is a good day. What the president heard from Republican members of the House is that jobs are jobs number one. That is our job. And unfortunately, the greatest impediment we have to jobs today is a lack of confidence in the future. Republican House members were able to share with the president that the job creators in our district feel that the regulatory burden, much of it coming from the president's administration, creates a lack of confidence in the future. Tax policy that is not competitive, a tax burden than is too high creates a lack of confidence. And then last but not least, a debt burden. The president heard from Republican members of the House that we know that the debt burden is going to lead to high taxes which leads to low unemployment. Unfortunately what we did not hear from the president is a specific plan of his to deal with the debt crisis that could actually be scored by the Congressional Budget Office. But we hope there's still an opportunity to work on the drivers of this debt that is costing us jobs, because Republicans know that until we have the confidence that we can solve this debt crisis by dealing with the drivers, our entitlement spending, that we're not going to get the kind of jobs that the American people want or demand.", "We're going to take a couple of questions.", "Mr. Cantor, you mentioned the ADP report. Did the president have a response to that? Did he respond to your concerns?", "The president admitted that we've to look at growing this economy. The discussion really focused on the philosophical difference on whether Washington should continue to pump money into the economy or we should provide an incentive for entrepreneurs and small businesses to grow. So I think the president was well aware and admitted the fact that private sector job creation is not enough. He did mention that a lot of the losses were in the public sector. Again, our message is to focus on growth in the private sector. That's how we're going to help bring down the deficit and get people back to work.", "Did the president talk about additional spending?", "Well, the president talked about a need for us to continue to quote, unquote, \"invest\" from Washington's standpoint. And to a lot of us that's code for more Washington spending, something that we can't afford right now.", "That's not exactly what I said.", "That wasn't exactly what I said. I just said, we've got to take on this debt and if we demagogue each other at the leadership level then we're never going to take on our debt. We have a debt crisis coming and we want to deal with this. If we want to grow jobs in the economy and we have to get our spending under control, we got to get our debt under control and if we try to demagogue each other's attempts to do that, then we're not applying the kind of political leadership we need to get this economy growing and get this debt under control. That's basically what we were saying.", "Was it confrontational?", "No, not at all.", "Did he stop calling your plan a voucher plan?", "I simply explained what our plan is, how it works. It's been misdescribed by the president and many others. And so we simply described to him precisely what it is we've been proposing so that he hears, from us, how our proposal works so that in the future he won't mischaracterize it.", "He didn't mention one way or the other.", "What was the point of this meeting today? Was it negotiating, was it (OFF-MIKE) was it public relations?", "I think it was an opportunity for clearly our members to communicate directly with the president about our ideas, about how to get the economy going again, how to create jobs, and our ideas about how we solve the debt problem that's facing our country. I told the president, one more time, this is the moment. This is the window of opportunity where we can deal with this on our terms. We can work together and solve this problem. We know what the problems are. Let's not kick the can down the road one more time. Now's the time to deal with it. Thanks, everybody.", "You've been watching the Republican leadership at the White House after a meeting with President Obama. A lot of things obviously for them to discuss. Our own Brianna Keilar is there, and I noticed, Brianna, standing on your perch there, that you were overlooking that group, that gaggle of Republicans who shouted a couple of questions there. And one of the things that is debatable, a contentious issue right now is whether or not to raise the debt ceiling, the amount that the United States can borrow, whether or not that's attached to spending cuts and that some of the Republicans are insisting. Where do we go from here?", "From here, and this is what we're hearing from the White House and what we're also hearing from the Hill, Suzanne, is that the future of this really rests in those negotiations that at least for now Vice President Joe Biden is leading with congressional Democrats and Republicans on deficit reduction and items that will be attached to increasing the debt ceiling. Right now the Treasury Department says the debt ceiling has to be increased by August 2nd for the U.S. not to default on its loans. So what you're hearing right now, this is, of course, the Republican side. House Republicans, almost all of them meeting with President Obama. Pretty unique situation. By my count this is the only the third time in Mr. Obama's presidency that he's met with all House Republicans. And, of course, one of the big sticking points in this, and you certainly heard Republicans say they voiced this to the president, has to do with increasing taxes. One of the things the White House would like to see is an increase on taxes of wealthy Americans and Republicans are against that. They say that's going to hurt small business, that will ultimately hurt the economy. But you have the White House saying some spending cuts but there need to be an increase in taxes. We heard from House Speaker John Boehner there, Suzanne, that this was a frank and productive meeting. I don't know if you could hear the question that I shouted at Paul Ryan.", "I did.", "I was trying to get it just how confrontational, perhaps, this meeting was. The answer to my question, I asked him if he sort of confronted the president on his leadership. He said that the point he was making that we can't demagogue, we can't get into politics, we need to solve this problem. But what we're really waiting for right now, as well, from the White House is say readout of this meeting that went on for more than an hour, almost an hour and a half. And shortly at about 12:30, we'll be getting a briefing from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. We'll be getting some answers from him on this and his side.", "OK. Excellent, Brianna. We did see you ask that question, by the way, from up above. So that was great. Thank you very much. We're going to have more news after this quick break."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "HILLARY CLINTON, SECRETARY OF STATE", "MALVEAUX", "ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DAMON", "RAZAN ZAITOUNEH, SYRIAN ACTIVIST", "DAMON", "DAMON", "MALVEAUX", "REP. ERIC CANTOR (R), MAJORITY LEADER", "REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY (R), MAJORITY WHIP", "REP. CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS (R), WASHINGTON", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-351758", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-10-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1810/08/es.02.html", "summary": "20 Killed In Limo Crash; Kavanaugh Fallout For Midterms; China, Interpol Chief Under Investigation", "utt": ["The deadliest transportation accident in the U.S. in a decade. What caused a limo to crash in New York killing 20?", "Democrats are a mob? Republicans angered women. Both sides are now trying to spin the Brett Kavanaugh debacle for the gain in the midterms.", "China says the missing head of Interpol is under investigation for corruption. He has been missing for days. His last contact a text message with a knife emoji.", "And tropical storm Michael headed for the Florida Panhandle. Hurricane-force impact expected Wednesday. An update in less than 30 minutes away. Welcome back everybody to \"Early Start.\" I'm Christine Romans. It is Monday morning.", "And I'm Joe Johns. It is 31 minutes past the hour. State and Federal investigators on scene in upstate New York following the deadliest transportation accident in the U.S. since 2009. 20 people died when a limousine carrying several couples to a birthday party plowed through an intersection and crashed into a parked SUV about 40 miles from Albany. State police say all 18 people in the limousine were killed, including the driver. Two pedestrians near the SUV also died. Among the several victims, married couples and four sisters, here is their aunt.", "They were fun loving, they were wonderful girls. They would do anything for you. And they were very close to each other and they love their families and they loved their parents. They had one -- one has two little children and one has one child. And they now have no home or no parents.", "So far, officials have not been able to answer some crucial questions about the limo and its safety record. But one woman says her niece who died in the crash was uneasy about riding in it.", "My niece said before she got in the vehicle, she texted a friend of hers and said, oh my gosh, you would not believe what they just said. And she says the vehicle is a little sketchy, because it made a lot of noise. It didn't look good. She says I don't know if we're going to survive this and 20 minutes later she died.", "Officials have not yet identified the company that owned the limo. It is also unclear whether if the passengers were wearing seatbelts or the brakes working or if the driver was speeding.", "The Supreme Court nomination fight is now over. Now both sides digging in trying to use the fallout from the bruising battle for gain in the midterms. President Trump and Republicans are defiant branding Democrats as a mob for the way they attack Brett Kavanaugh.", "In their quest for power, the radical Democrats have turned into an angry mob.", "We refuse to be intimidated by the mob of people that were coming after Republican members at their homes and in the halls.", "What we have learned is the resistance that has existed since the day after the November 2016 election is right here on Capitol Hill. They have encouraged mob rule.", "Senate Democrats arguing that many voters, women especially, are still furious. Hawaii Senator Maize Hirono says Democratic voters will be highly motivated to punish Republicans in November.", "He is going to be on the Supreme Court with a huge taint and a big asterisk after his name. The partisanship that he showed was astounding. The conspiracy theory that he accused us of was bizarre.", "Senator Susan Collins, one of the crucial swing votes is defending her decision to back Kavanaugh. She said she thought he stepped over the line during the confirmation process, but he had some justification.", "I put myself in his shoes. He is coming forward and answering an allegation that includes that he was involved in gang raping and doping girls. I mean that is so devastating. And I think he reacted with anger and anguish as a father of two young girls.", "Senator Collins says she believes Christine Blasey Ford was assaulted, but she does not believe that Brett Kavanaugh was her assailant.", "In a move generously described as hypocritical, Senate Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell, is leaving the door open to confirming the Supreme Court nominee in 2020. During the last Presidential election in 2016, Republicans refused even to hold hearings for President Obama's nominee Merrick Garland. They said the next president should choose the next Supreme Court Justice.", "But Sunday, McConnell argued that if the White House and Senate are controlled by the same party, the nomination can proceed.", "We simply followed the tradition in America which is if you have a Party of a different Senate of a different Party than the President, you don't fill the vacancy created of a Presidential year. That went all the way back to 1888. The answer to your question is we will see if there is a vacancy in 2020.", "Last week, Senator Lindsey Graham says if a vacancy does comes up in 2020, the Garland standard applies and the nomination should be put on hold.", "Former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, tells CNN Fareed Zakaria, he does not believe President Trump can be a moral leader. During a rare interview with CNN Powell, pointed to Trump attacks on the press and his tendency to insult his opponents.", "My favorite three words in our constitution is the first three words. We the people. We, the people. But recently, it has become me, the President as opposed to we, the people. And you see things that should not be happening.", "Powell spoke alongside former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, she said despite the president's claims, the U.S. is not being taken advantage of and we have the strongest country in the world.", "After days of mystery surrounding the disappearance of the head of Interpol, the International Police Agency, the Chinese government admits Meng Hongwei is under investigation for alleged corruption. Chines officials say, Meng insisted on taking a wrong path and had only himself to blame. Chinese authorities have been tight-lipped about his sudden disappearance late last month. Now, his last message to his wife, is under the microscope. CNN's Sam Kiley monitoring the situation from us, joins us live from Hong Kong with the latest. Sam, he sent his wife a message of what show of a knife.", "Yes, just before the four minutes before that, the message was wait for my call and then that knife emoji indicating perhaps that he felt some kind of danger was imminent. He has now been confirmed as being in detention by none other than the ministry for public security which is the ministry that he was the vice minister of while he was simultaneously the President of Interpol. The International policing organization that links 190 countries police forces together to fight crimes internationally. Now, his wife, Grace, is being given protection by the police in France, because she has had threats that they consider sufficiently credible. Both on social media and over the telephone. But at least, his whereabouts is now known. He is in custody in China facing an investigation for alleged corruption. Corruption of course being in China is a crime that can carry the capital punishment. There have been some executions of fairly low level officials in China in the past. And there is an ongoing campaign by the Chinese communist Party to round up officials and business men accused of corruption wherever they may be.", "Fascinating, Sam Kiley in Beijing for us. Thank you so much, Sam.", "Dire warning this morning from the United Nations science board. They say the world has barely ten years to get climate change under control or the results could be catastrophic. A new report says the planet is already 2/3 of the way to the climate tipping point. The panel says if we don't reduce greenhouse gases, the earth will reach that critical threshold as early as 2030.", "Sea levels would rise to an extra four inches and extreme heat and weather events would be much worse and more frequent. Holding global warming below these limit would require, what the panel calls, rapid for reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society. The U.S. is the world's second largest emitter of carbon dioxide and the Trump administration has rolled back Obama era, climate measures. All right. The President pledged trillion dollars towards U.S. infrastructure. But despite with little progress on that promise, investment is actually is booming. Private equity firms are set to race a record amount of infrastructure investment this year $68.2 billion during the first three quarters. That is 18 percent more than last year and higher than all of 2016. But money managers are not necessarily investing in roads and bridges. Instead, they are putting money to things like, natural gas pipelines and data centers. Why? Energy and telecom are booming industries in the U.S. and they don't require working with local government like the roads and airports. This fund raising comes despite little help from Washington. President Trump introduced a proposal earlier this year to spur a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending. A campaign promise. The plan faced tough opposition. It relies on states to put up most of the money.", "A journalist for the Washington Post goes to get a marriage license and hasn't been heard from since. Are his harsh words about the Saudi crown prince the reason why? We are going to be live in Istanbul."], "speaker": ["JOE JOHNS, EARLY START SHOW GUEST CO-HOST", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, EARLY START SHOW CO-HOST", "JOHNS", "ROMANS", "JOHNS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ROMANS", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "ROMANS", "JOHNS", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "SEN MITCH MCCONNEL, (R) MAJORITY LEADER", "CHUCK GRASSLEY CHAIRMAN SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE", "JOHNS", "MAZIE HIRONO DEMOCRAT HAWAII", "ROMANS", "SEN SUSAN COLLINS, (D) MAINE", "ROMANS", "JOHNS", "ROMANS", "MCCONNEL", "ROMANS", "JOHNS", "COLIN POWELL, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE", "JOHNS", "ROMANS", "SAM KILEY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "JOHNS", "ROMANS", "JOHNS"]}
{"id": "CNN-111556", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2006-10-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/27/sitroom.03.html", "summary": "Interview With Lynne Cheney; New al Qaeda Threats", "utt": ["To our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM where new pictures and information are arriving all the time. Happening now, in New York City teams are investigating a suspicious white powder found at former President Bill Clinton's Manhattan office. Officials say they are awaiting tests results on the substance. Neither the former president nor his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, were at the office when the substance was found. Iranian media say Iran is again enriching uranium. Iran's Student News Agency says the country's enrichment program involves a second experimental network of centrifuges. And today a judge ordered the arrest of former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet. The 90-year- old is accused of torture, murder and kidnapping in the early part of his reign, which began in 1973 and ended in 1990. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. More now on the recent controversial comments from Vice President Dick Cheney -- it concerns the issue of torture. Lynne Cheney is strongly defending her husband's recent comments, but she's also outraged over her own name being mentioned in a very nasty Senate race in Virginia. And joining us now, the wife of the vice president of the United States, Lynne Cheney, no stranger to CNN, thanks very much for coming in.", "Thank you, Wolf, for having me.", "And we're going to talk about this excellent new book, \"Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America\". This is a book that I recommend for all ages, and I see it's already a best-seller.", "I'm very proud of this book. It was an effort of two years for Robin Glasser and me and it was inspiring the whole time. It's a story of the whole country told by a family going on a road trip, and my grandchildren love it.", "I want to get to that, all that, but I want to pick your brain a little bit on news that's happening right now, including your husband, the vice president. He was interviewed earlier this week out in North Dakota, and he had this exchange with a radio talk show host. Listen to this.", "Would you agree a dunk in water is a no- brainer if it can save lives?", "Well, it's a no-brainer to me, but I -- for a while there, I was criticized as being the vice president for torture. We don't torture. That's not what we're involved in.", "It made it sound -- and there's been interpretation to this effect -- that he was, in effect, confirming that the United States used this waterboarding, this technique that has been rejected by the international community that simulates a prisoner being drowned, if you will, and he was, in effect, supposedly, confirming that the United States has been using that.", "No, Wolf -- that is a mighty house you're building on top of that mole hill there, a mighty mountain. This is complete distortion; he didn't say anything of the kind.", "Because of the dunking of -- you know, using the water and the dunking.", "Well, you know, I understand your point. It's kind of the point of a lot of people right now, to try to distort the administration's position, and if you really want to talk about that, I watched the program on CNN last night, which I thought -- it's your 2006 voter program, which I thought was a terrible distortion of both the president and the vice president's position on many issues. It seemed almost straight out of Democratic talking points using phrasing like \"domestic surveillance\" when it's not domestic surveillance that anyone has talked about or ever done. It's surveillance of terrorists. It's people who have al Qaeda connections calling into the United States. So I think we're in the season of distortion, and this is just one more.", "But there have been some cases where innocent people have been picked up, interrogated, held for long periods of time then simply said never mind, let go -- they're let go.", "Well, are you sure these people are innocent?", "They're walking around free right now and nobody has arrested them.", "You made a point last night of a man who had a bookstore in London where radical Islamists gathered who was in Afghanistan when the Taliban were there, who went to Pakistan. You know, I think that you might be a little careful before you declare this as a person with clean hands.", "You're referring to the CNN \"BROKEN GOVERNMENT\" special.", "I certainly am.", "This was the one that John King reported on last night.", "Well, you know, right there, Wolf, \"BROKEN GOVERNMENT.\" Now, what kind of stance is that? Here we are. We're a country where we have been mightily challenged over the past six years. We've been through 9/11. We've been through Katrina. The president and the vice president inherited a recession. We're a country where the economy is healthy. That's not broken. This government has acted very well. We've had tax cuts that are responsible for our healthy economy. We're a country that was attacked five years ago. We haven't been attacked since. What this government has done is effective. That's not broken government. So, you know, I shouldn't let media bias surprise me, but I worked at CNN once.", "You worked ...", "I watched your program last night and I was troubled.", "All right. Well, that was probably the purpose, to get people to think, to get people to discuss these issues because a lot of conservatives and ...", "Well, all right, Wolf. I'm here to talk about my book, but if you want to talk about distortion ...", "We'll talk about your book.", "Well, right, but what is CNN doing running terrorist tape of terrorists shooting Americans? I mean, I thought Duncan Hunter ask you a very good question and you didn't answer it. Do you want us to win?", "The answer, of course, is we want the United States to win. We are Americans. There's no doubt about that. Do you think we want terrorists to win?", "Then why are you running terrorist propaganda?", "With all due respect -- with all due respect, this is not terrorist propaganda.", "Oh, Wolf.", "This is reporting the news which is what we do. We're not partisan.", "Where did you get the film?", "We got the film -- look, this is an issue that has been widely discussed. This is an issue that we have reported on extensively. We make no apologies for showing that. That was a very carefully considered decision, why we did that, and I think -- and I think -- that if you're ...", "Well, I think it's shocking.", "...a serious journalist, you want to report the news. Sometimes the news is good, sometimes the news isn't so good but ...", "But, Wolf, there's a difference between the news and terrorist propaganda. Why do you give the terrorists the floor?", "And if you put it in context, that's what news is. We said it was propaganda. We didn't distort where we got it. We didn't distort anything about it. We gave it the context. Let's talk about another issue in the news, then we'll get to the book. This -- the Democrats are now complaining bitterly in this Virginia race, George Allen using novels -- novels -- that Jim Webb, his Democratic challenger, has written in which there are sexual references, and they're making a big deal out of this. I want you to listen to what Jim Webb said today in responding to this very sharp attack from George Allen.", "Now, do you promise, Wolf, that we're going to talk about my book?", "I do promise.", "Because this seems to me a mighty long trip around the merry-go-round.", "I want you to -- this was in the news today and your name has come up, so that's why we're talking about it, but listen to this.", "There's nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminated the surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot. I'm a serious writer. I mean, we can go and read Lynne Cheney's lesbian love scenes, you know, if you want to get graphic on stuff.", "Jim Webb is full of baloney. I have never written anything sexually explicit. His novels are full of sexual, explicit references to incest, sexually explicit references -- well, you know, I just don't want my grandchildren to turn on the television set. This morning, Imus was reading from the novels, and it's triple-X rated.", "Here's what the Democratic Party put out today, the Democratic Congressional -- Senatorial Campaign Committee: \"Lynne Cheney's book featured brothels and attempted rape. In 1981, Vice President Dick Cheney's wife, Lynne, wrote a book called \"Sisters,\" which featured a lesbian love affair, brothels and attempted rapes.\"", "No.", "\"In 1988, Lynn Cheney wrote about a Republican vice president who dies of a heart attack while having sex with his mistress.\" Is that true?", "Nothing explicit. And actually, that was full of lies. It's not -- it's just -- it's absolutely not a...", "But you did write a book entitled \"Sisters\"?", "I did write a book entitled \"Sisters.\"", "And it did have lesbian characters.", "This description -- no, not necessarily. This description is a lie. I'll stand on that.", "There's nothing in there about rapes and brothels?", "Well, Wolf, could we talk about a children's book for a minute?", "We can talk about the children's book. I just wanted to...", "I think my segment is, like, 15 minutes long and we've had about 10 minutes of...", "I just wanted to -- I just wanted to clarify what's in the news today, given -- this is...", "Sex, lies and distortion. That's what it is.", "This is an opportunity for you to explain on these sensitive issues.", "Wolf, I have nothing to explain. Jim Webb has a lot to explain.", "Well, he says he's only -- as a serious writer, novelist, a fiction writer, he was doing basically what you were doing.", "Jim Webb is full of baloney.", "We'll leave it at that. Let's talk a little bit about your book, \"Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America.\"", "And, you know, one of the reasons I wrote this book is because we spend so much time nowadays talking about things that are negative. And it's not the fault of any particular segment of the society, but we have come to define news as bad news. And so our kids get a steady diet of this is wrong, the government is broken, the war isn't working, the economy is terrible, even when those things aren't true. Our kids are getting a steady dose of negativity. What Robin and I wanted so much to do is to talk about what a wonderful country it is. We wanted to give our kids something positive, and I hope that's what we've done in this book. It's very, very pro-American. This is a book -- it's very patriotic. There is no question about our view that this is the greatest country on the face of the earth. And that is what we want kids to take away from it.", "The kids who read this book will learn a lot about the 50 states. That's what it's called.", "Yes.", "But a lot of the landmarks in those 50 states.", "Well, not just landmarks but the vast variety and diversity of our culture. You know, we have everything from the Preservation Hall Band in New Orleans to mariachi music in Texas to the Philharmonic in Boston. We've got all kinds of food. There's a lovely little girl in this book. Her name is Annie, and she writes back to her grandma again and again about different foods she's enjoying, or not. In Boston, she says the beans are great, but she's a little doubtful about the cod. So it's not just about landmarks. It's also about the kind of history and culture that I think kids will enjoy very much.", "And it is beautifully illustrated.", "Robin Glasser is a dear person and a very talented individual, and I'm very happy to work with her.", "We can certainly disagree on what is news, what is serious news, but we can agree that this is a beautifully done book.", "Well, I appreciate that. Thank you, Wolf.", "How is your husband doing? Because there's always concern about his health.", "Well, I'm not sure why there's always concern about his health. He's been out on 140 campaigns. He's raised -- I don't -- $40-some million for Republican candidates around the country. He's been very busy. He has been serving the nation very well, as I think George Bush has been a really great leader for us during this time of some trials.", "We're going to leave it right there. It was kind of you to come in.", "Thanks, Wolf.", "You came armed -- I guess you knew what you wanted to do.", "Wolf, I am always prepared for you to ask questions that maybe aren't quite fair, but they're pretty tough.", "You did a good job.", "Thanks, Wolf.", "Thank you.", "Now, we'd like to address a comment that Lynne Cheney made in our exclusive interview. You heard her harshly criticize CNN's \"BROKEN GOVERNMENT\" series, specifically the special that aired last night. She charged that the report declared a terror suspect named Moazzam Begg was -- and I'm quoting Mrs. Cheney now -- \"a person with clean hands.\" John King's report actually noted that the U.S. government considers Begg a threat and a terrorist but President Bush had him released anyway. Listen to this excerpt.", "The president released Begg over the objections of his national security team. U.S. intelligence officials insists Begg exaggerates the harshness of his treatment, and to this day, these intelligence officials stand by the accuracy of the statement Begg signed while in U.S. custody.", "John King's report goes on to note that Begg's statement said he trained at three al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, knew at least a half a dozen al Qaeda operatives, and that he planned to take up arms against the United States before fleeing through Tora Bora to Afghanistan. Another point of contention in my interview with Mrs. Cheney, the title of CNN prime-time documentary series, \"Broken Government.\" I asked CNN's Lou Dobbs to weigh in on that.", "I don't know if you saw the interview we did with Lynne Cheney.", "I sure did. Sure did.", "She's very upset that we're calling this series \"Broken Government,\" because she insists the government is not broken. The economy is doing great. And that for us to be calling this a broken government is distorting the actual situation.", "Well, I, with all due respect, I don't believe Lynne Cheney could be more wrong, both in tone and in fact. The truth is that this government is not functioning. It is dysfunctional, in point of fact. It's failing to secure our borders, it's failing to inspect cargo, five years after a terrorist attack on this country. It's inexcusable. Homeland security is nothing more than a sham being perpetrated right now, and sometimes aided and abetted by the national media, Wolf, as you well know. We have a middle class, half the people in this country are making less than $30,000 a year. There's no question, some Americans are doing well, but our middle class is being hammered by runaway health care costs, by competition. Corporate America and this government have put our middle class in direct competition with the cheapest labor in the world. It is extraordinary.", "I think her other point is that by calling it broken government, her words, these are Democratic talking points, and that we're playing into this partisan battle right now.", "Well, again, with all due respect to Lynne Cheney, to anyone else who wants to argue about the issue of broken government, this is a broken government that's been created by both Democratic and Republican Congresses and presidents. The fact is, both parties are not working in the interests of the middle class. If she thinks this is a partisan issue, I would urge her to focus on our reporting, pointing out, in point of fact, that neither party is serving the interests of the American people right now. And our working people, most importantly, our working people, our middle class, our working men and women and their families. Nothing could be farther from the truth.", "One thing about Lou Dobbs, he's an equal opportunity critic against the Democrats and the Republicans.", "Well, probably a little heavier critic right now, since Republicans are in charge. If we see that change, you can bet -- one thing is, as you know, Wolf, I'm probably going to be a little more heavily critical of what the Democrats are doing.", "Lou's book, and it's a best-seller right now, \"War on the Middle Class,\" here it is, right here, \"How the Government, Big Business and Special Interests Groups are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back.\" It's doing very well, as it should be.", "Terrific interview with Lynne Cheney. It really -- it was very revealing, in terms of the tone and the tact that's being taken. You know, now we are watching power bridling at truth being spoken to power. Kudos to you, Wolf.", "Thanks very much.", "Thank you.", "CNN's special series, \"Broken Government,\" continues tonight with \"Where the Right Went Wrong.\" It will be reported by our own senior analyst, Jeff Greenfield. That airs tonight, 8:00 p.m. Eastern, 5:00 Pacific, right after \"THE SITUATION ROOM.\" That's coming up shortly. For more on Mrs. Cheney's earlier novel \"Sisters\" and her comment about Jim Webb in my interview, let's bring in our Internet report Abbi Tatton -- Abbi.", "Wolf, Lynne Cheney's 1981 novel \"Sisters\" is out of print, but there are images and excerpts available online on Amazon. An image of the front cover, describing it as a novel of a strong and beautiful woman who broke all the rules of the American frontier. More on the back, saying, \"it's a novel that breaks bold, new ground.\" It is out of print, as I said, but you are able to get some copies online on Amazon Nine sellers (ph), selling used copies. They don't run cheap. $282 right up to $999 for a first edition. Now, we found online passages that refer to items that Mr. Webb mentioned. We plan on calling Mrs. Cheney back and asking her what she meant in her interview when she denied Mr. Webb's comments about her book. We'll bring you that on Monday. We should also mention that online also is Lynne Cheney's new book, her children's book, \"Our 50 States.\" That's ranked number eight currently on Amazon -- Wolf.", "Thanks very much for that, Abbi. Still ahead tonight, some may have thought the outcome would be a sure thing in the Maryland Senate race. We're going to tell you why a charismatic GOP candidate, though, could change that. We're watching what is now a very, very close race in Maryland. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. CHENEY", "BLITZER", "L. 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{"id": "CNN-297708", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-11-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1611/05/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Obama Stumps for Clinton; Trump Tackles Battleground States; South Korean President Denies Being Cult Member", "utt": ["I would like to introduce to you the next President of the United States, Ms. Hillary Clinton.", "The stars come out: rapper Jay Z and superstar wife Beyonce showed their support for the Democratic presidential candidate.", "And human shields: a new report says ISIS is forcing civilians, even children, to be on the front line. Plus, a celebration more than 100 years in the making: the Chicago Cubs and fans take to the streets to party like it's 1908. Hello, I'm Cyril Vanier and this is CNN NEWSROOM.", "So this is the final weekend before the U.S. presidential election, just three days to go and the candidates and their surrogates are in the middle of a frantic push through battleground states. Hillary Clinton telling supporters that Donald Trump is unfit to rule and bad for America while Trump says a Clinton presidency would be mired in criminal investigations. Meanwhile, a new FOX News poll shows Clinton with a 2-point lead over Trump 45 percent to 43 percent. That is within the survey's margin of error. And our latest CNN Poll of Polls, which includes those FOX numbers, shows Clinton ahead by 5 points, 47 percent to 42 percent. However, our electoral map -- and that is worth noting -- has her slipping just below that magic number of 270 electoral college votes, the number she needs to get to the White House. As the U.S. election heads into the home stretch, President Barack Obama is among the VIPs on the campaign trail this weekend for Hillary Clinton. On Friday, he stumped for her in the crucial swing state of North Carolina. It was his second stop in the state in 24 hours. At one point, he singled out Donald Trump for injecting incivility into the campaign.", "Imagine if I'd behaved in the way this man behaved. Imagine what Republicans would have said. Imagine what the press would have said. But now we act like, I guess this is normal as if it's -- as if it's -- as if it's some parody. You can't tell the difference between \"Saturday Night Live\" and what's actually happening on the news.", "And Clinton pulled out star power at a rally on Friday night in Cleveland, Ohio. Jay Z and Beyonce headlined a concert to get young voters excited.", "Beyonce and her backup dancers wore pantsuits -- that was in Clinton's honor. The dancers had on Clinton T-shirts. The candidate told the crowd she needs them to help to crack the glass ceiling once and for all and her celebrity supporters couldn't have agreed more.", "I want to grow up in a world where my daughter has no limitation, where our daughter has no limitation. She feel like she can be whatever she want to be in the world. And this other guy, I don't have any ill will towards him but this conversation is divisive and that is not a evolved soul to me. So he cannot be my president. He cannot be our president. Once you divide us, you weaken us. We're stronger together.", "I want my daughter to grow up seeing a woman lead our country and know that her possibilities are limitless. We have to think about the future of our daughters, our sons and vote for someone who cares for them as much as we do. And that is why I'm with her.", "I want to be a president who helps everybody fulfill their God-given potential. And I can't do that unless, on Tuesday, we decide what kind of country we want to be. Will we reject a dark and divisive vision for our future and embrace a hopeful, inclusive, unifying America?", "All right. So Hillary Clinton had her high-profile supporters but Donald Trump had plenty --", "-- to say about her celebrity fans. He told supporters in Pennsylvania that he does not need special guests to fill a stadium. He says he does just fine on his own.", "I hear we set a new record for this building. And, by the way, I didn't have to bring JLo or Jay Z, the only way she gets anybody. I'm here all by myself. I am here all by myself. Just me, no guitar, no piano, no nothing.", "Sara Murray has more from the Trump campaign trail and his strategy to flip key battlegrounds before Tuesday.", "2016's toxic presidential contest, led by two deeply unpopular candidates, is coming to a close in fitting fashion.", "Hillary Clinton is under FBI investigation again after her e-mails were found on pervert Anthony Weiner's laptop.", "How did Hillary end up filthy rich? Pay-to-play politics.", "Donald Trump amplifying his latest barrage of negative ads on the campaign trail.", "I think she's unstable. She's trigger-happy.", "Despite no new information from the FBI, Trump is still tearing into Hillary Clinton over her e-mail server and insisting she'll eventually face criminal charges.", "How can Hillary manage this country when she can't even manage her e-mails? Did you ever see -- hey, folks, let's forget all of the stuff. What a mess. All she had to do was follow the rules. Unbelievable. And now she's going to run the country. She'll be under investigation for years.", "All part of his final push to convince voters he's the fresh face and she's the face of corruption.", "She's likely to be under investigation for a long time, concluding in a criminal trial. Our president. America deserves a government that can go to work on day one and get it done.", "With the polls tightening, the GOP nominee is campaigning today in Ohio, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania and aiming to drive up his election day vote in key battlegrounds.", "We have so many great polls. But you have to get out and vote on November 8th.", "Trump's sprint to the finish still taking shape, but the GOP nominee will campaign this weekend in six battleground states and is likely to wedge in more along the way. But stops in North Carolina and New Hampshire planned Monday. His campaign continuing to be a family affair. As Donald Trump Jr. hits the trail in Arizona and New Hampshire, while Eric Trump barnstorms Michigan.", "Now even though the polls show Donald Trump trailing here in Pennsylvania, the margins have tightened. And this is a state you're going to see him come back to before Election Day because it's a state with no early voting. So it's a strategic move to come here and try to rev up his voters and convince them to turn out on November 8th which is exactly what we heard from him on Friday night -- Sara Murray, CNN, Hershey, Pennsylvania.", "National polls show Hillary Clinton with a modest lead over Donald Trump ahead of Tuesday's election. We showed you those earlier. But the final outcome will depend on the states and just a handful of battleground states at that. CNN's John King takes us through the electoral map.", "So we're into the final weekend. Hillary Clinton at 268, Donald Trump at 204 in the electoral votes. The gold states are the tossups. Donald Trump is in the hunt. Advantage Hillary Clinton. Let's ask this question. How does she look compared to President Obama --", "-- four years ago? Is she in the position the president was in when he won a big victory back in 2012? Well, let's look at some way to judge. First way to judge is the national polls. That's much better than where the president was four years ago. A lot of people forget this because of the outcome, the finish on Tuesday. But heading into the final weekend, this race was a dead heat, 47 percent to 47 percent. That's the national perspective. But we pick presidents by states. So let's go back to the map and think about the key battleground states. Compare Clinton then -- Obama then, excuse me and Clinton now. Let's look at the states. In states where Clinton is running just about even with where the president four years ago, they include Nevada and Arizona, they include these important blue Midwestern battlegrounds, Wisconsin and Michigan and they include one of our tossup states, New Hampshire. Now the gold states are tossups heading into this final weekend. President Obama won one, two, three and Nevada, four of these states. Hillary Clinton in the same position the president was heading into the final weekend. She thinks she can win all four of these, too. We'll see what Tuesday brings. But she heads into the weekend about even with four years ago. These are the states Clinton has to worry about. She's underperforming President Obama significantly in big battleground Ohio and a smaller but important Midwest state, Iowa. We lean these to Donald Trump because he is running much better than Mitt Romney did four years ago. He has a lead heading into the final weekend. Clinton is underperforming Obama in those two states and just by a bit in Pennsylvania. She still has a lead in Pennsylvania, it's just not quite as big as President Obama's was heading into the final weekend four years ago. But even though she's underperforming in those, she's over performing, she's stronger than the president was heading into the final weekend in Colorado by a little bit. In Virginia by a bit. And significantly in North Carolina and Florida. This is very important. President Obama trailed in North Carolina in 2012 heading into the final weekend. He trailed in Florida by a bit heading into the final weekend. He ended up winning Florida by a tiny margin. The closest race in the country, state by state perspective. He lost North Carolina a bit. But again, he was trailing heading into the final weekend. One of those two, she's ahead in both of them. And that's a big deal as we go back and look at the map and say, how does Clinton get to the finish line? How does she compare to the president four years ago? Well, she thinks she's going to hold these blues up here. She hopes to turn Ohio. Let's see what happens. We still lean that one in favor of Trump. There's some talk in the Democrats they can pull back in Iowa. We're going to leave that one leaning Donald Trump. We'll see what she does on Tuesday. But significantly, they believe especially because of early voting they can win out in Nevada. Most Republicans in Nevada are starting to think that, too. That would get Clinton over the finish line. That's enough. But they also think again because she's in better position than the president was four years ago, they think she can possibly win both of these. And they still think, even though this one has become very close at the end and Trump is closing here, they think they can win that. If that were to happen, if Clinton could win Florida and win North Carolina and add New Hampshire, that puts her in the ballpark of where the president was four years ago. Now is that guaranteed? Absolutely not. Donald Trump is fighting in those states to the end. But if you're asking the question, how does she look now compared to the president then, especially because of these two states as she enters the weekend, sure. In a contested race with Donald Trump, but confident the outcome will look a little bit just like it did in 2012.", "Russians are following the U.S. presidential election with keen interest. Judging by what is reported in the Russian media, it's no secret which candidate they favor. CNN's Clarissa Ward has this report.", "The American Dream is dead.", "Russia's media is relishing every minute of this U.S. election, presenting it as an epic failure of American democracy. And it's not hard to see who the favorite is here. The republican candidate is presented as a maverick underdog, a political outsider who speaks truth to power. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, is cast as a dangerous Russia hater, whose election could lead to World War III. Russian media frequently labels her a witch, with one tabloid even calling her, \"evil incarnate.\" State TV anchor, Sergey Brilev says it's a response to Clinton's aggressive attitude.", "The", "President Putin has dismissed allegations that Russia is playing favorites in this race, but as the polls have tightened, Russian media is now suggesting that the election is rigged and that the establishment won't let Trump win. One channel has predicted bloody social unrest if Clinton becomes president, followed by the overthrow of the corrupt regime.", "It is a very effective message for the Russian audience, because Russian audience is very suspicious of America, is very suspicious of western democracy and American democracy. And someone who rebels against the system, definitely is very good in the eyes Russia.", "Which is why media here is happily milking this election for all the propaganda value it can get -- Clarissa Ward, CNN, Moscow.", "Make sure you stay with CNN throughout our election coverage up until Tuesday. We will have all-day coverage on Election Day, of course. Now to South Korea, where the president had to take time in a nationally televised speech to deny being part of a cult. It's not often you hear that word from a world leader. But it shows the types of accusations and the depth of the political crisis facing Park Geun- hye. Paula Hancocks has more from Seoul.", "It's not often the president of a country has to publicly deny being part of a cult or deny carrying out rituals in the presidential palace. Park Geun-hye did just that on Friday, apologizing for allowing the confidant access to government business, a confidant who stands accused of using the access for personal gain. PARK GEUN-HYE, PRESIDENT OF SOUTH Korea (through translator): I thought I was improving the economy and the lives of the people. But in this process, a certain individual has committed corruption for personal gain. Everything is --", "-- my fault and my mistake and I feel huge responsibility for this. Her father started a cult-like religion in the '70s. The family has long had influence over the Park Geun-hye family a revelation that some say has brought shame to the entire country. It is not just a surprise, it's shocking. Such a weird situation. No one has ever imagined she would have such a deep-rooted, strong, long standing, close relationship with such an unqualified, unknown, unverified, kind of people. Fears of a power vacuum insisting the government cannot be allowed to come to a halt. Saying the country's security is in crisis. North Korea, largely responsible for those Korean concerns is covering the scandal continuously. They refer to Park Geun-hye as traitor. Now we have a legitimate crisis in the south and you can bet every day on the front page of North Korea is full reporting of everything going wrong in the south. The second apology from Park Geun-hye clearly not enough for these protesters on the streets of Seoul Friday night. Around 1,000 here expected to be 100,000 on Saturday night. Just to give you an idea how unimpressed people are with what the president has done, her latest approval ratings, according to Gallup Korea are 5 percent, the lowest in history of any South Korean president -- Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.", "Next up on CNN, street-to-street fighting, the battle for Mosul is becoming even more intense. We'll show you how Iraqi forces aim to drive ISIS out and the chilling moves the terror group is making in its brutal fight back."], "speaker": ["JAY Z, ENTERTAINER", "CYRIL VANIER, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "VANIER (voice-over)", "VANIER", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "VANIER", "VANIER (voice-over)", "JAY Z", "BEYONCE", "HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "VANIER", "VANIER", "TRUMP", "VANIER", "SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "MURRAY", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "MURRAY", "TRUMP", "MURRAY", "TRUMP", "MURRAY", "TRUMP", "MURRAY", "MURRAY (on camera)", "VANIER", "JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "KING", "VANIER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "CLARISSA WARD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "SERGEY BRILEV, RUSSIA TV ANCHOR", "WARD (voiceover)", "KONSTANTIN VON EGGER, RAIN TV ANCHOR", "WARD (voiceover)", "VANIER", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PARK (through translator)", "VANIER"]}
{"id": "CNN-225706", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-2-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/26/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Fewer Air Marshals Protecting Flights", "utt": ["The Department of Homeland Security has cut the number of federal air marshals. Those are the undercover officers who protect planes terrorists and other potential violence on board planes. The cut is described in an internal government e-mail obtained by CNN. Aviation and government regulation correspondent, Rene Marsh, has more now. Why reduce the federal air marshals' ranks?", "Well, Carol, you know, when you talk to critics, they say it is a dangerous move and it really leaves airplane security vulnerable. Over the past three years, we have found out the number of plainclothes officers on board flights has been cut. Air marshals, as you know, they're supposed to protect aircraft from terrorists. But according to that e-mail obtained by CNN, a budget crunch has caused the federal air marshal work force to down size. Now we don't know how many are on the government payroll. And we don't know how many positions have been eliminated. The government says those numbers are secret for security reasons. Now the vice president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, which represents air marshals had this to say. He says, \"Are the recent reports of ramped-up attempts by al Qaeda regarding shoe bombs and liquid explosives somehow being swept under the rug or ignored by TSA management? Can they honestly feel or convey that the threat to aviation security is somehow lower at this point in time?\" Now we should point out workforce cuts have happened over the past three years. We do not know whether staff cuts happened after the toothpaste and shoe bomb threats, because the government, again, says those numbers are secret. One last thing -- we know that six of the agency's 26 field offices will be shut down. THS says those officers will be relocated -- Carol.", "Rene Marsh, reporting live. Thanks so much. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, first rule in customer service, know your policy. Delta learning that lesson the hard way and facing the wrath of some very angry mothers on Twitter. That story is next."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "RENE MARSH, CNN AVIATION AND GOVERNMENT REGULATION CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-232845", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-06-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/18/nday.03.html", "summary": "Explosion in Nigeria Crowd Watching World Cup", "utt": ["Welcome back to NEW DAY. Here's a look at your headlines. We begin with a developing story north of Baghdad. One of Iraq's main oil refineries under attack by ISIS militants. The Iraqi military claims they were able to keep those militants from taking over their facility. We're told that ISIS reportedly only about 37 miles from Baghdad now, but Iraqi forces and tribal fighters are working to keep them at bay. The alleged mastermind of the deadly 2012 attack on the American mission in Benghazi should be in the U.S. within days. Special forces captured Ahmed Abu Khatallah over the weekend. Told no shots were fired in the operation. He is now being questioned aboard a Navy ship. President Obama says Khatallah will face the full weight of the law. An explosion ripped through a crowd of people that had gathered to watch the World Cup in Nigeria, killing at least 21, injuring dozens more. Witnesses say a suicide bomber steered a motorized rickshaw packed with explosives towards the crowd, which was watching the match between Mexico and Brazil. No group has claimed responsibility for that blast, although the area is home to the militant Islamist Boko Haram group. An independent group of experts says it thinks it knows where Flight 370 went down. The group says five separate computer models put the plane in the southern Indian Ocean, in a cluster of spots hundreds of miles southwest of the previous search area. The group points to new information that the plane's equipment was programmed with certain assumptions about the location of a satellite which ended up being false. Keep in mind, more than 100 days since MH-370 went missing, March 8. Long time. Long wait for those families.", "A long time still to come, to be sure, especially at the rate it's going. All right. Time for Inside Politics on NEW DAY with John King. Mr. King, plenty to discuss once again. Take us through it,", "Chris, Kate, Michaela, good morning. There is a lot to discuss, foreign policy a big part of the political debate here in Washington this morning. Let's get right to it. With me to share their reporting and their insights, CNN's Peter Hamby, Jonathan Martin of \"The New York Times.\" Let's start with the president yesterday talking about the arrest of the lead suspect in the Benghazi attacks. He's been criticized for a long time. CNN's Arwa Damon sat down with the suspect more than a year ago. A lot of the president's critics are saying where's the FBI? Where's the military to go in and get Khatallah? Well, they got him yesterday and here's the president.", "When Americans are attacked, no matter how long it takes, we will find those responsible and we will bring them to justice. And that's a message I sent the day after it happened, and regardless of how long it takes, we will find you."], "speaker": ["PEREIRA", "CUOMO", "JOHN KING, CNN HOST, \"INSIDE POLITICS\"", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES"]}
{"id": "CNN-262706", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-08-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/22/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Train Gunman May Had Ties to ISIS Fighters; Train Gunman May Have Had Ties to ISIS Fighters", "utt": ["This one trader telling me, look, the S&P 500, a broader indicator of the market --", "Yes.", "That's yet to hit correction territory. Two percent to go on that. Glass half empty, watch the Asian markets on Sunday night.", "Right.", "That could be a precursor of how we do Monday.", "We will. We will all be watching come Sunday night. Thanks, Alison.", "You got to, Poppy.", "We appreciate it. Next hour of NEWSROOM starts right now.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "I'm Poppy Harlow. Five o'clock Eastern. Thank you so much for being with me. We begin with breaking news this hour. Just in to us at CNN, the man who opened fire on that train overseas and was tackled by three Americans has been identified as Ayoub el-Khazzani. And now, we now know where he is from. These three Americans, two of them U.S. service members, being hailed as heroes around the world after they took down the gunman, they restrained him and they delivered him to French authorities. Nic Robertson joins me live in France. What do we know about this man? We know his name. Do we know his motivation, who he was with, what drove this?", "Counterterrorism officials across Europe from Spain through France to Belgium all have reasons to believe that he is connected with radical Islamists. As recently as May this year he went off to Turkey, he is believed to have joined or connected with a French ISIS group there in Turkey before coming back to Europe in July this year. So, two months in Turkey. Question is, did he get into ISIS, to join ISIS in Syria. That's not clear. But the concern is, the same French ISIS group that he met with in Turkey is the same group that directed an Algerian living in France to attack a church in April this year. That attack was thwarted but not before he killed somebody else. So this group has a track record and they seem to have directed this man to attack from the train. That is sort of one of the starting places for the investigation here at the moment into this man. So a man with a lot of weapons on the train taken down by some heroic Americans. And we have seen amazing support from the streets for these three men today here -- Poppy.", "Yes. Well, let's talk about that. I mean, they are Nic being treated like rock stars in France. Thanked by everyone that has come into contact with them. President Obama calling them.", "Yes, the President Obama calling them, congratulating them, thanking them for the disaster that they averted, driving out of the police station here, Sadler and Skarlatos, both being driven away in a French police convoy. But as they came out of the police station, the French people will on the side of the road here were cheering them, cheering them. You don't see that here very often. That was quite an amazing thing to witness and get that emotion. But on Monday along with our friend Stone, they are going to meet the French president at the French president's palace. That is pretty cool too. But it's not just the president. It's the prime minister, the foreign minister, the interior minister, the minister of transport as well. So, it goes from the French man on the street here all the way up to the president. We even had a woman and a daughter walk past, we've been working", "Yes. You always ask yourself what would I have done in that moment. They did exactly what we would all hope we do. Nic Robertson, thank you very much. Now, let's talk more about the gunman. French officials trying to find out how closely tied he may be to radical Islam and whether he carried out the attack as part of a larger plan or if this was an isolated event. Let's go straight to Bob Baer, international intelligence and security analyst, also a former CIA operative. So, I know the information is relatively thin right now but now we know his name and we know that he was likely meeting with ISIS supporters in Turkey. Does this tell you that this is a lone wolf?", "I think it's probably a lone wolf in the sense that there was just one gunman. If it was the Islamic State, you know, carrying out a concerted attack, there would have been two gunmen, they would have been better positioned, they wouldn't have been grabbed as they were. I think the fact that he went to Turkey, he's from Moroccan and the rest of it, he sounds like somebody who wanted to join but did never got the weapons training that some might.", "What about the fact though that this appears, he appears to have met likely with French ISIS fighters in Turkey and the fact that there is growing concern about Turkey being a hotbed for this, not just a conduit for travel into Syria, but potentially a place for Europeans who have been radicalized or Americans who have been radicalized are turned around and said go carry out an attack in your home country?", "Well, Poppy, you don't actually need to get into Syria or Iraq to join the Islamic State.", "Right.", "They've got offices of sorts all across Turkey. They have a lot of sympathizers. They have got a lot of allied groups you could go find, it would be fairly easy to get to them in Turkey, to get instructions to go back, attack people in the west. You know, Kalashnikov, you cannot buy, of course, in Belgium or France. So you would have to have somebody, a supplier there, whether it's an Albanian organized, you know, criminal group, it doesn't really matter. So, there was some organization in this. And the Islamic State has gone out and said just attack a western target. It doesn't matter what. So you know, things are bad in Europe.", "Yes. No question. What about how these Americans and this British man took down the gunman? Can you talk to us about how hard tactically it is to carry off what they successfully carried off?", "You know, Poppy, there is no other way to describe this as heroic. Most people when faced with an automatic weapon freeze. I have been in a run of gunfire and that's my first reaction, just not move. The fact these guys organized and went after him and by the way, Poppy, this isn't something you learn, the average guy in the military, how to disarm somebody and you're not armed. That's not just not part of the training. So these guys had incredible presence of mind.", "Yes.", "They acted in concert, disarmed this guy, a pistol and a Kalashnikov, it's just amazing. I have had this training before. And I always wondered whether I could actually make the correct moves to disarm somebody and these guys actually did it. I really do applaud them.", "Yes. We all do. Wait for the welcome they get when they do come home. Bob Baer, thank you as always, my friend. Coming up, we turn to politics and the debate over this term you probably heard a lot this week. Anchor babies. Is it a serious conversation, an important one to have or a campaign diversion and how insulting is it? We will talk about this. Ben Ferguson, Marc Lamont Hill, next."], "speaker": ["ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "KOSIK", "HARLOW", "KOSIK", "HARLOW", "KOSIK", "HARLOW", "ANNOUNCER", "HARLOW", "NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "ROBERTSON", "HARLOW", "ROBERT BAER, CNN INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY ANALYST", "HARLOW", "BAER", "HARLOW", "BAER", "HARLOW", "BAER", "HARLOW", "BAER", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-29752", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-5-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/04/lt.01.html", "summary": "Clerical Errors Hamper Republican Effort to Finalize Budget", "utt": ["On Capitol Hill the Republican effort to wrap up the federal budget was derailed by two pieces of paper. Joining us now for the latest on the budget vote and where it stands and where it stands and where those mystery papers are, our congressional correspondent,Kate Snow -- Kate.", "Daryn, it's been a bit of a confusing morning here on Capitol Hill, but guess what? I have two of the key pages in my hand, now. I need to explain a little bit, though. These of course aren't the actual missing pages per se. They are pages 48 and 49 that were originally in the budget. They were probably, possibly, I should say, being reworked last night. That may be why they were missing. Although there's some question right now about why they were missing. Some say they were missing because the photo copier got jammed. Other explanations are that they were being reworked. I can tell you though, for sure, that page 48 here at the top mentions the tax cut. It says $1.25 trillion for the period of years 2001 through 2011. It also talks about what they're calling an upfront stimulus for the economy of $100 billion. Why does this matter? Well, it's a pretty critical page, and the fact that they didn't have this when they started debating last night, which was after midnight last night, when the House convened to talk about this budget was what put a stop to the whole process. They started talking about it about midnight. Around 2:00 in the morning they decided that they would have to simply go out of session and come back next week. Now they were telling us that they were hoping to vote on Tuesday. I can tell you that now, they're talking about maybe voting in the House and the Senate on Wednesday, maybe even on Thursday just because of some of these clerical delays. Last night or I should say early this morning there were a lot of fireworks over these couple of pages that were missing in the House. House Democrats not at all happy about the process.", "Nothing about today has struck me as being remotely legitimate, except that it is the day in which incompetence came to the rescue of democracy. We will all remember that.", "And what does this mean to the actual budget? Not maybe a whole lot. If these pages, once the pages are found, and everything is put back together, the budget will be about 2 inches thick. It contains all kinds of spending priorities for the federal government for the next fiscal year. It also does contain that tax cut outline. That will guide them as they then, Daryn, try to figure out exactly what the tax cut will look like. They are still hoping to try to get a tax cut out of this Congress by Memorial Day. Daryn, back to you.", "Kate Snow on Capitol Hill. Thank you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN CNN ANCHOR", "KATE SNOW, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "REP. BARNEY FRANK (D), MASSACHUSETTS", "SNOW", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-75694", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2003-8-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/21/ldt.00.html", "summary": "Higher Order in Alabama; Unemployment Is Down For The Month Of July", "utt": ["Tonight: The Pentagon says fighters from the Mideast are infiltrating Iraq. General David Grange on the emerging guerrilla war. The Bush administration is calling on the United Nations to provide more help in Iraq. Tonight: Amtrak is an icon of this country's infrastructure problems. The head of Amtrak, David Gunn, joins us. And America's hot wheels, the cars thieves love to steal.", "This is LOU DOBBS TONIGHT for Thursday, August 21. Here now, Lou Dobbs.", "Good evening. In God we trust, on the courts, we rely, colliding tonight in Montgomery, Alabama. At the heart of the conflict, a 5,300-pound granite monument of the Ten Commandments sitting in the lobby of a state building. The state's chief justice, who put it there, is now defying a federal court order that it be removed. David Mattingly joins us from Montgomery with the very latest -- David.", "Lou, he's been denied once by the U.S. Supreme Court. Today, his fellow justices on the Alabama Supreme Court turned against him. But Judge Roy Moore says that he will continue to fight to keep his monument to the Ten Commandments on public display.", "I say enough is enough. And we must dare defend our rights, which is the motto of this great state. No judge or man can dictate in whom we can believe and in whom we trust. The Ninth and 10th Amendment are not a part of the Constitution merely to make the Bill of Rights a round number. The Ninth Amendment secured our rights as a people. And the 10th Amendment guaranteed our rights as a sovereign state.", "His fellow justices today, all eight of them, ordered the building manager to take all necessary steps to comply with the federal court order and remove the monument. The deadline for that came and went at midnight last night. State officials are hopeful the move by the justices will be enough to keep the federal court from levying a $5,000 daily fine. And it was about this time yesterday that 22 people were arrested inside when they refused to leave this building at the end of business hours, choosing instead to stay by the monument there and having to be arrested and charged with trespassing by the officials here. There's no chance of that happening today. The doors have been locked all day long. The only people that have been able to get in there are the ones with businesses with the court. Now, outside here, dozens of people continue to remain. They are supportive of Justice Moore, some saying, Lou, they will again stay the night to keep watch on the monument. And what you see going on right now is something we've seen a lot today, a prayer vigil going on, people hoping for whatever might come along that would keep the monument here and support their point of view -- Lou.", "David, a number of questions. First, is there any indication as to when, with the order of the other justices, that the effort would be made to remove the monument?", "There is some special language in that order that they handed out today that gave them some leeway in terms of practicality. This is a 2.5-ton monument. They have to decide where it's going to go and then how they're going to move it there. The federal court ruling was concerning just the public display of this. So it's possible they could move it to someone's private chambers or out of the building entirely. I don't know if those decisions -- no one here knows if those decisions yet have been made.", "And do we know Justice Moore's whereabouts this evening and his plans?", "His plans are to keep fighting this. He says he's going to go back to the Supreme Court and, hopefully, they will accept his petition now to listen to the arguments in this case and perhaps have some sort of ruling in the future that would allow him to keep that monument on display, on public display, here in this public building.", "Obviously, this issue that Justice Moore has provoked by putting that monument in a state building and now moving it all the way to the Supreme Court, it has become far more than a local or state issue. It is now a national issue. Is there any sense, a reading of the public support or opposition to the justice's position?", "Well, probably the best way to answer that would be to look back at some recent history. Judge Moore, when he was a circuit judge, did something similar by putting a wooden copy of the Ten Commandments up in his courtroom. There was a similar public outcry about that and considerable public debate. That sort of notoriety helped him actually become elected to the Supreme Court -- Lou.", "David Mattingly, from Montgomery, Alabama, thank you very much. Later in the broadcast, we'll have more on this subject of church and state. We'll be joined by David Novak, who is not an attorney, but rather a professor of Jewish studies and philosophy at the University of Toronto. There are new developments tonight in the sniper attacks case in Charleston, West Virginia. Moments ago, police said, ballistics tests now confirm that the same gun was used in all three fatal shootings. Jeanne Meserve is in Charleston and has the story for us -- Jeanne.", "Lou, that's right. We're expecting a press conference momentarily with the police chief from the city of Charleston. He will tell us, according to sources, that these three shootings are linked ballistically. There certainly were similarities. They all took place at convenience stores. They all took place at night. They all involved a single shot to the head or neck. But this is the official word. The ballistics do match. The question today was, was there a fourth shooting? Last night, a 16-year-old girl was at a convenience store in nearby Dunbar. She told police that a bullet went whizzing by her head and that she saw a maroon truck. Other witnesses on the scene seem to corroborate her story. And a short time later, there was a chase given by a sheriff's deputy to a dark truck. The deputy lost the truck, however. Today, investigators went back and forth over that area around the convenience store. And according to the sheriff's department, they found no relevant evidence.", "What occurred at the Go-Mart, Dunbar is following up on. We did send our crime scene van down. We followed up on it. We could find out where nothing -- the building was hit, nor the vehicle was hit.", "The mayor of Charleston, Danny Jones, said today that the sheriff and his deputy are speaking for their department and only their department. They are not talking for the task force that is investigating these crimes. It's another public indication of the growing disconnection, at least within this investigation, although no one has said to this point that this apparent discord is affecting the quality of the probe. Meanwhile, authorities are still on the lookout for that Ford F- 150 extended cab truck. Today, they distributed yet another animation showing a truck like that near one of the crime scenes, but, still, nothing has shown up -- Lou, back to you.", "Jeanne, thank you -- Jeanne Meserve. Turning now to a nationwide attack of worms and viruses against computers, that virus has hit millions of computers over the past several days. The attacks have put everything from transportation systems to personal information at risk. And the newest of these viruses is spreading at a record rate. Bill Tucker reports.", "It's so big and so fast, it briefly brought freight and commuter traffic in Washington, D.C., to a halt, as CSX computer systems were affected. It forced Air Canada to cancel and delay flights. Computers at Lockheed Martin were slowed, as were the computers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yet, you can't see it. You can only know it was there or wanted to come in. It is the virus appropriately named Sobig.", "This is the most severe e- mail virus that we've ever seen. And, at its peak, one in every 17 e- mails that we were processing was a copy of the Sobig virus. So, certainly, we haven't seen numbers like this before. So it is spreading at a very, very fast rate. And the volumes are very, very high.", "Internet service provider AOL says it scanned 40.5 million pieces of e-mail and found the Sobig virus in 23.2. Sobig, in fact, accounted for 98 percent of all viruses found. But get this. Sobig is not alone. There is the blaster worm, AKA Lovsan, and two viruses which purport to fix the blaster, and they do, but they also clog up your computer. Then there's Sobig, now in its sixth variant form, having been around since January. And the newest is Dumaru, which appears as an e-mail from Microsoft. It's not.", "I'm not exactly sure who to blame here, OK? It is certainly the case that it's gone past the prank stage. There's real harm being cost. Real dollars are being lost. Real people are losing sleep. I'm sitting here slightly bleary-eyed. I was up half the night. It's not fun anymore. The first one of these, OK, fine, that's cute. The next one, all right, sure, shame on me. But it's getting a little old.", "These are costly in terms of dollars, human capital, and technology. The best advice, Lou, is the most obvious: Update your anti-virus software at least once a week, if not once a day.", "OK. Bill, thanks -- Bill Tucker. Fast-moving wildfires in Oregon forced a change in the president's schedule today. The White House moved a speech on forest policy to a new location tonight, away from these fires. The president's focus is not only on forest policy in Oregon. President Bush is also trying to persuade voters there upset with the economy to vote for Republicans in the next presidential election. Oregon has an unemployment rate of 8.1 percent. That is the highest unemployment rate in the country. It also has a budget deficit of $2.5 billion. As a percentage of state spending, that deficit is the second biggest in the country. President Bush will deliver his speech on forest policy in just a few moments. We'll be going live when he takes the podium. He is also expected to talk about energy policy. We'll bring you the speech as soon as it begins. Also still ahead here: Baghdad is the center of the global war on terror, according to the commander of U.S. forces. Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr will report. Then: What cease-fire? A new wave of deadly violence leaves the Mideast road map in tatters. Michael Holmes reports from Gaza. And this country's roads and rails are in a state of disrepair. Lisa Sylvester reports. And David Gunn, the president and CEO of Amtrak, joins us. 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{"id": "CNN-32043", "program": "CNN CROSSFIRE", "date": "2001-6-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0106/07/cf.00.html", "summary": "Is the Bush Tax Cut Made From Smoke and Mirrors?", "utt": ["President Bush signs his big tax cut into law. Could it lead this Republican to sign up with the Democrats? Tonight: We Ask Senator Lincoln Chafee about his party plans, and we ask two members of Congress if the new tax law is anything to celebrate.", "Live from Washington, CROSSFIRE. On the left, Bill Press. On the right, Tucker Carlson. In the", "Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island; and later Republican Congressman J.D. Hayworth from Arizona, member of the Ways and Means Committee, and in New York, ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee, Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel.", "Good evening and welcome to CROSSFIRE. It's April 15 in reverse. President Bush signed his long- promised tax bill today. The new law would cut taxes by $1.5 trillion over 10 years. It will eventually double the child tax credit, reduce the marriage penalty and repeal the estate tax. The first refund checks hit the mail next month. Republicans are thrilled: Most of them, anyway. Two GOP senators, John McCain and Lincoln Chafee, voted against Bush's tax package. Perhaps not coincidentally, both were invited to the White House this week -- Chafee, late this afternoon. Maybe more than anything, the administration fears that another Republican senator will go the way of Jim Jeffords and leave the party. Chafee is considered a particularly acute defection risk. We'll ask the man himself -- Bill.", "Senator Chafee, good to have you here this evening.", "Thank you for having me.", "I want to mention, before we get started with your plans, that your father, John Chafee, was one of our most frequent and favorite guests here on CROSSFIRE. All of us here miss him very, very much.", "Thank you very much.", "I'm delighted to welcome you to the show. Senator, you had your meeting today with President Bush, a meeting that you asked for. If you had to describe it in just a word or two, would you say it was warm and fuzzy or icy?", "I would say that we established a relationship.", "Businesslike?", "Yes. Our families know each other, but I don't know him and he doesn't know me. The reason I called the White house to set up the meeting several weeks ago, is so we could get to know each other.", "Obviously, it's no secret that you are not particularly happy with his brand of Republicanism. So I know you didn't want to waste your time. When you went their today, what did you tell the president that he was doing wrong, as far as you were concerned?", "Well, I just expressed some concern about how we're going into the 2002 mid-term elections, in particularly in light of our losses in 2000, that put us at 50/50, and then some of the policies that have -- you might argue -- driven Jim Jeffords out of the party, and put us in the minority. And so, we had some discussion about where we are going in 2002.", "Speaking of Senator Jeffords, Senator Chafee, I want to read a little testimonial to you from him. This is Jim Jeffords on Lincoln Chafee. Here's what he said. \"I naturally have an affinity toward Linc. He thinks pretty much like I do. He's even further out than I am.\" Meaning, apparently, you are even more liberal than Jim Jeffords. So I suppose my question to you: why in the world stay in the Republican Party? Why not follow Jim Jeffords and head to the other side?", "I think there's more of a recent phenomenon in the Republican Party in Congress, turning very, very conservative, and particularly since the 1994 Gingrich \"Revolution,\" you might say. But before that, there are a broad swathe of moderate Republicans, Nancy Kassebaum, Mark Hatfield, Al Simpson, even conservative mountain states -- Al Simpson from Wyoming, Nancy Kassebaum from a prairie state, Kansas. And that number's shrunk now. But I think there is still hope the Republican Party can express some moderate point of view. Look at the moderate Republican governors in the Northeast: Pataki, Rowland of Connecticut, Almond in my state of Rhode Island, Swift in Massachusetts -- what a Democratic state that is. So there is a lot of talk about how the Republican Party is going right. But there is still a broad swathe of moderate Republicans...", "But -- as you obviously know, you came after the Republican revolution of 1994, and however the Republican Party has changed, the fact is you are deeply out of step with it. I mean, disagree with the president and most Republicans on health care, abortion, taxes, energy, the environment. It's hard to imagine -- what exactly do you agree with Bush on?", "I think what is important is what the people of America want. And don't forget that we lost four seats to get to 50/50, and then we lost Jim Jeffords. Why did we lose Spencer Abraham and Michigan? Why did we lose Slade Gordon in 2000 elections in Washington state? Why did John Ashcroft have a close race in Missouri before the unfortunate passing of his opponent. And I'd argue that some of the conservative policies, and we lost those races. So, my message is, we have to appeal to the broad number of Americans to build our party.", "Senator, presently, in this Republican caucus, in this Republican -- these Republican senators presently in the Senate, you go into your caucus. You are like the skunk at the lawn party. I mean, they disagree with you on all the issues, you are always swimming upstream. You come from a state that's heavily Democratic. Wouldn't -- couldn't you get a lot more done for Rhode Island as a Democrat? And have a better time and friendlier time in the U.S. Senate?", "No, I'm a good, loyal Republican. My first name is Lincoln, named after the first Republican president. So I have a loyalty to the party, and I want to see us be successful. And I do get up in Republican caucuses and talk about where we are going and how we can be successful and why we lost those seats. And when we're looking ahead to 2002, what we can do to get back in the majority, and don't forget, those Republican governors in those Northeast states, they are successful in these Democrat states, because they are moderate on some issues. And we want to make sure they stay Republican. It's not just Lincoln Chafee.", "In terms of fighting the fight, just some of the resistance that you meet, Senator Trent Lott, after you first expressed your satisfaction and unwillingness to vote for the president's budget resolution, he told your hometown paper, the \"Providence Journal Bulletin\": \"I'm disappointed in his conduct and his votes.\" Are you willing to tell us tonight that you are disappointed in Senator Trent Lott's leadership?", "Well, we have gone -- we have lost numbers, and that always brings some kind of scrutiny. We have gone from 54, down to 50 and now to 49. But he won the election that we had the last", "Senator, I was interested in that you couldn't think when I asked you of a single issue on which you and the president agree, so I'm still not clear why you are a Republican. Let me run my theory by you. As a liberal Republican, you at this point have more power than virtually anybody in the Senate, because the White House fears you will bolt to the Democratic Party. You notice Jesse Helms didn't have a meeting with the president this week. You and John McCain did and you did because they are afraid you will leave. So aren't you staying in the Republican Party because you have more leverage now than ever?", "No. There are issues that we do agree on. I'm a free trader, and the president and I agree on that. Particularly, with the South American Free Trade to the Americans, and that's an area we will work together on. As far as bolting the party, I don't think there's much potential of that happening.", "Wouldn't you have less power as a Democrat than you do as a Republican?", "No. I mean, you can argue that every vote is just 1/100 of the Senate and that's all the power I have. And I get along with both sides of the aisle, and I think that's where I have the most advantage from my state and country, I would hope.", "Senator Chafee, you keep it interesting, and we will be keeping our eye on you. Thanks for joining us on", "Thank you.", "When we come back, we will talk about the new tax bill that the president signed into law this year.", "We recognize loud and clear the surplus is not the government's money. The surplus is the people's money and we ought to trust them with their own money.", "Welcome back to \"CROSSFIRE.\" No wonder he's smiling. That oft repeated campaign promise became a reality today as President Bush signed into law a $1.3 trillion tax cut. First refunds to be mailed this summer. But critics of both parties point out it's less than a perfect bill, so how good is it? How big is it really, and who benefits? Turning to the tax bill now with Republican Congressman J.D. Hayworth of Arizona, Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel of New York -- Tucker.", "Congressman Rangel, the president took a victory lap of sorts today. I would like to torture you with it if you could just watch President Bush here.", "A year ago tax relief was said to be a political impossibility. Six months ago it was supposed to be a political liability. Today it becomes reality.", "So Congressman, everything the president said is objectively true. This is my question: He has been in politics seven years. You have been in politics for decades, he gets this achieved in five months. It strikes me that he's completely outfoxed you and other Democrats with far more political experience. Isn't that true?", "Well, it shouldn't take a profile in courage to give people a $1.3 trillion dollar tax cut, even if you have to round around the country trying to sell it to people. It was bad campaign promise, and it was worse that he kept the promise. And truth of the matter is, someone said it not a perfect bill, there are so many flaws in this bill, that there are hardly anybody in the House that knew what was in the bill on the day that it came to the floor. They deliberately kept the bill away from us and J.D. will tell you, on the morning of Saturday, when we voted on the bill, there was no written bill on the floor. And the fact that this bill is really designed, like they said, to keep the money out of Washington. The truth of the matter is, the money is not in Washington. We are spending a surplus we don't have and we're doing it at the expense of Social Security, Medicare and those Democratic promises that Mr. Bush made when he ran for president.", "But wait a second though, Congressman, you are telling me that the 28 Democrats who voted for this bill including such right- wingers as Neil Abercrombie, who just cut his pony tail, from Hawaii, Lois Capps, Ellen Tauscher, that these 28 Democrats voted for this bill and they had no idea what was in it when they voted for it. I think you essentially implied this was a cowardly move, their vote. Why would these Democrats do that?", "I didn't say cowardly and you don't have to describe it that way. But let me explain this to you simply: When Clinton came into office and we had this tremendous deficit, the only way to get out of a deficit is by cutting spending and raising taxes. Fifty-two Democrats and not one Republican raised taxes in order to reduce the deficit. Guess what? We lost 52 Democrats for doing just that. So the fact that people are voting for tax cuts believe me, that's not the most courageous thing a member of Congress can do.", "Congressman Hayworth let me ask you about this tax bill and Congressman Rangel mentioned some flaws in it. If you get \"TIME\" magazine this week they've got big spread and the headline is stupid tax tricks, a take off on the David Letterman stupid pet tricks. They point out number one -- let's talk about some of these flaws -- this is a ten year plan, most of the relief in the plan comes at end of the ten years and then in the 11th year -- poof -- it all disappears and the tax law goes back to the way it is today. So this is a big con game, isn't it? Now you see it, not you don't.", "Oh, no, not at all, not at all. you know, it's interesting when we talk...", "But it is true isn't it? Those facts are true.", "In terms of our current way of book keeping without real budget reform, without the scoring that accurately reflects what happens with tax cuts, yeah, you have this situation. But I think the key is to keep a common sense majority in the Congress that will make these reductions permanent as soon as we possibly can. It doesn't really surprise me that \"TIME\" or my friend Charlie or a variety of naysayers here on the Hill absolutely believe that Washington needs money more than the American people do. Because all we are talking about is giving the American people back a nickel out of every dollar. It's a very modest bill, but it will have real results and I'll tell you, Bill, what I'm hearing at airport, what I'm hearing in the grocery store, what I'm hearing from folks is when do I get my check? And in fact going to the break, what did you do? You put up the schedule of when people get their money back. This is real relief for the American people.", "I think you are hearing those comments because they don't know yet how bad it is. You just admitted that the thing self destructs in ten years. Now lets talk about you guys are making all these promises about getting rid of the marriage penalty. The fact is, the marriage doesn't start getting cut back until 2005. It kicks in, in 2009 and then in 2010 it disappears. So I say, again, it's now you see it, now you don't. You are conning people with this bill.", "But the facts are correct.", "What the great con is, Bill, is this: that you can argue all sides of the issue. What you are saying what you are suggesting by all your criticism is that you join us in getting rid of the marriage penalty. If anything, we could have had bipartisan cooperation.", "I'm just saying don't lie to people.", "Well then what you're saying is and I think my friend Charlie joins you, the highest and best use of the people's money is here in Washington D.C. Congratulations, you're entitled to that point of view. But the fact is the fact is the American people understand better. They know the money doesn't belong to the Washington bureaucrats. It's their money. They are due a refund, they're getting one, now the next step is budget reform to bring the budget process into the 21st century to more accurately reflect what we need to be doing with tax relief.", "Congressman Rangel, I have no doubt you read the business section of \"The New York Times\" this morning. And when you did, you doubtless noticed this full page ad -- I think we can put it up on the screen -- it's from Fidelity Investments. This ad thanks Mr. President and members of Congress, it thanks them effusively for the tax cut because the people at Fidelity investments, economists, are certain that it's going to help the economy and perhaps keep the country out of recession. Now these are people who do well when the economy does well. What possible motive would the economists at Fidelity Investment have for thanking the president for this tax cut?", "Holy mackerel -- do you really have to ask that question?", "Yeah, that's an honest question and give me an honest answer, Congressman Rangel.", "The honest answer is that any economist will tell you that 40 percent of this tax cut goes to the top 1 percent of the income makers, and I tell you, the people in J.D.'s district are asking about when is the check coming in the mail, the check is not in the mail for 70 percent of the people that work hard every day that pay payroll taxes and they're not going to get a nickel. The truth of the matter is -- let me finish, I'll end it...", "Don't filibuster.", "I hope you answer Bill's question. How do you promise all of this relief for a surplus you haven't got and then at the 10th year it just sunsets, it stops and then taxes go back up. And you are saying when Bush is gone, can't be there, another Congress, this is what you're leaving at a time that you have 40 million people becoming ineligible for Social Security and Medicare. It's not fair what you are doing, J.D..", "Oh, it is very fair to let the American people...", "It's wrong.", "... hang on to their money. And you know, I represent a swing state and a swing district, Charlie, and the people in my district, it's going to meet a lot to the printer in Payson, Arizona with four kids to see that child tax credit expanded, to get that check for $600. It means a lot to his bottom line. I know it doesn't mean much to the big spenders here, and we can play this game of process and inside baseball, but the American people get it. And more importantly, they'll get it in the mail in just a few weeks.", "Now, congressman...", "What you're betting on is that the people are not concerned about the solvency of Social Security, Medicare...", "That's not true, Charlie.", "... prescription drugs, education, and...", "You know, I don't know what...", "I'm telling you...", "That's not true. Time out.", "... the money that you're talking about is expected to come...", "A nickel out of every dollar.", "You're depending...", "A nickel out of every dollar.", "You're depending on the campaign -- on the congressional budget figures.", "No.", "You are. And they say that 90 percent of them in a 10- year period will be wrong, and that's where you expect the money to come from to pay for the tax cut.", "Never stopped you from spending, did it, Charlie? The fact is...", "But you're spending the Social Security.", "Wait. Now, let me have my turn, Charlie.", "The fact is you know, you know very well that we moved to wall off Social Security. We listened to our constituents, Republicans and Democrats. We're not touching that nor Medicare money. And I'm sorry you can't celebrate with the American people the fact that folks are going to get their money back to save, spend and invest as they sit fit.", "Well, I want to -- I want to ask you about that. You keep talking about getting their money back. And I was under the impression until I started doing the research for this show that everybody was going to get this $300 check. Again, not true. There are 34 million American taxpayers, if they're married and couples, and they're getting -- they're making as couples between 27,000 and 44,000 dollars a year, they get no check. But anybody who makes over 50 gets a check. Now, J.D., why, again, do you just give this money to the people who don't need it? And these people who are really middle-income Americans get nothing!", "Well, let's talk about that for just a second...", "Thirty-four million.", "Do the letters EITC mean anything to you? It's something called the Earned Income Tax Credit.", "They're above that. No, they're above that, J.D..", "The fact is -- go back and check your source. I believe we're going to give tax relief to 95 million American households. That's real money for real people.", "Ain't going to happen. How about the -- how about the estate tax? The estate tax is another one. Kicks out -- kicks out 2010 and kicks back in at 2011. So if I'm -- if I'm a wealthy kid and I want -- I want to don't have to pay any taxes, I'd bump off my parents in 2010. Is that what you do?", "So it's an incitement to murder is what Bill Press is asking.", "Well, it's amazing...", "Will people die because of this, J.D. Hayworth?", "Well, obviously Bill's talking about that. No, I think people are going to thrive because of this, and the reason they're going to thrive is once we get this done I don't believe Congress is going to come back and say, you know, let's be courageous and reinstate this tax. Now, maybe in the vision of Bill Press and Charlie Rangel they do it. But I think the American people are going to understand what it means to get rid of this death tax.", "Well, we will see.", "You have no idea what the economy is going to be in 10 years and you're already telling that Congress...", "But you have the answer, don't you, Charlie?", "... that they have to cut it.", "Spend more money, take more money.", "It's so unfair...", "Take more money from the people.", "If you had a tax cut...", "That's your solution.", "The Democratic tax cut was for five years. By that time, we'll take a look at what the economy is, what Social Security deficits are, and you can plan. But to do a cut for 10 years and then to cut it off and repeal it...", "Poor Charlie.", "... is so unfair.", "So", "Well, I'm afraid we don't have more time, because doubtless if we did we could get to the bottom of these issues...", "That's right.", "... and solve them right here on CROSSFIRE. We'll have to wait for our closing comments. Congressman Rangel, Congressman Hayworth, thank you very much for joining us. Bill Press and I will return in just a moment, as I just said, to wrap up the tax cut and get a final verdict on it. We'll be right back.", "Bill, I love the argument that you and Charlie Rangel are making, which is the tax cut is bad, it'll destroy America, and it's only temporary and that's bad, too.", "No, you didn't hear me say that.", "That totally contradictory argument.", "What I said is -- you know, what I said is it is a phony promise. And you know, I met one person today...", "But isn't that a good thing?", "... 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{"id": "CNN-410241", "program": "STATE OF THE UNION", "date": "2020-09-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/06/sotu.01.html", "summary": "Interview With U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie", "utt": ["Welcome back to STATE OF THE UNION. I'm Dana Bash. The White House responded with unusual force this week, denying a report in \"The Atlantic\" that President Trump called the service members who died during World War I -- quote -- \"losers and suckers.\" And now a former senior administration official confirms to CNN the president did use crude and derogatory terms to refer to Marines buried in a French cemetery. Joining me now, the secretary of Veterans Affairs, Robert Wilkie. Mr. Secretary, thank you so much for joining me this morning.", "Thank you. Thank you, Dana.", "So, as you know, as I referred to, just referred to, \"The Atlantic\" broke a story this week saying that the president...", "Yes.", "... privately called Americans who died in war losers and suckers. And, on a 2018 trip to Paris, that is where it allegedly happened. CNN has confirmed the president referred to fallen U.S. service members as crude and derogatory. Have you ever heard the president disparage U.S. service members or veterans?", "Well, absolutely not. And I would be offended, too, if I thought it was true. Again, I think anonymous are the same people that brought you fake heart attacks, fake strokes, Russian collusion. So, I am -- I am very proud that this president has led to a renaissance at Veterans Affairs. And one of the reasons I'm glad to be on CNN is that it was CNN and Jake Tapper that blew the lid off the scandals in the last administration when it came to Veterans Affairs. And your own polls, in 2014 and 2015, had a 37 percent approval rating for the Obama/Biden administration. We are at 90 percent approval in terms of veterans for our services.", "So, Mr. Secretary...", "We have completely turned around Veterans Affairs.", "And, Mr. Secretary, we're going to talk about that in a minute, but I just want to stay on this topic. First of all, what you just alluded to...", "Yes.", "... strokes and so forth, I have not reported that. To my knowledge, nobody at CNN has reported that. But, on the topic of the \"Atlantic\" reporting, the Associated Press...", "Yes.", "... \"The Washington Post,\" FOX News, and now CNN have corroborated parts of that story. So, my question for you is, given that, and given the fact that nobody is backing down from the sourcing on that, how can you be sure that that is not true, especially since you weren't there?", "Well, nobody is backing down from these anonymous sourcing on it. And some of these sources that you cite are general officers. I was born in khaki diapers. I have spent my entire life around the military. And I have never known any general officers to hide behind stars. So, what I am looking at is the Donald Trump that I know, the Donald Trump who has turned around Veterans Affairs from a place that, in the Obama administration, was 16 out of 17 in terms of best places to work. We're now under -- up to six.", "OK. We're going to...", "I presented the two largest -- I know, but you have got to put it in perspective. And that's what I want to do.", "But we're going to talk about that. I understand. No, I understand. But we're going to talk about that. But I really want to stay on topic, because this is dominating the news, in large part because the president is trying to be so aggressive in pushing back. The issue that he has is that this is consistent with a pattern of public statements by the president. I want you to listen to what then candidate Trump said about John McCain in 2015.", "He lost. So I never liked him as much after that, because I don't like losers.", "But, Frank, Frank, let me get to it.", "He's a war hero. He's a war hero.", "He hit me. He is not a war hero.", "He's a war hero. Five-and-a-half years as a", "He's a war hero -- he's a war because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured, OK, I hate to tell you.", "Listening to that, the way he disparaged, not just John McCain, but all prisoners of war, do you understand why people might find the details of these stories we're hearing now believable?", "Well, I understand that, in the passion of a campaign, with two powerful personalities -- and I'm a friend -- I was a friend with John McCain. His family and my father -- my mother's family grew up in the same county in Mississippi. He was very much responsible for my career and advancing it. And President Trump has been the same. I -- I understand politics. I understand name-calling when it comes from both sides. But all I can say is, all -- the proof in the pudding for us is what has happened to veterans in the last three years, a renaissance...", "But, Mr. Secretary, this isn't about politics. This is about -- he denigrated not just John McCain, but he said, \"I like people who weren't captured.\" He denigrated prisoners of war. As somebody who just described yourself as you were born wearing khaki -- or when you were little, you were wearing khaki diapers...", "Sure.", "... and somebody who was close to the McCain family, is that acceptable?", "Well, it's -- it's politics. It's the heat of a campaign.", "Do you wish he didn't say it?", "I judge a man by his -- I judge a man by his actions. And the actions have been beneficial for veterans all across this country in ways that we have not seen since the end of World War II. And I would also say the same for the United States military. I was the undersecretary of defense. I -- for personnel and readiness. I watched this president sign letters of condolences to those who have fallen in Afghanistan and Iraq. I was on the front lines then. So, I'm judging the president by what he's done as president. And I can also say that I find -- I find those...", "OK. And I want to -- I want to move on. But I take it you do think John McCain was a war hero?", "Oh, absolutely.", "OK. I want to also ask about the president also reportedly questioning the point of military service at all during a visit to Arlington National Cemetery with former Chief of Staff and retired Four-Star General John Kelly, whose son, of course, is buried there. I want you to listen to what President Trump said about John Kelly just on Friday.", "I know John Kelly. He was with me, didn't do a good job, had no temperament, and, ultimately, he was petered out. He got -- he was exhausted. This man was totally exhausted. He wasn't even able to function in the last number of months. He got eaten up in this world.", "I know you worked with John Kelly when he was at the White House, chief of staff, and elsewhere.", "Certainly.", "Do you agree? Do you agree with the president?", "Well -- well, I agree that both men are doing the best that they can for the armed forces and veterans of the United States. I'm not going to get into a he said/she said with the president and the former chief of staff.", "He said he didn't do a good job.", "All I can say is, as the head -- all I can say is, at the head of Veterans Affairs, I'm concerned about making sure that we redress all the wrongs that were left over from four years ago in giving veterans the best service possible. I see the proof in the pudding. And the proof in the pudding is, our military is stronger, and our Veterans Affairs Department is in a place that it has never been. This is the renaissance. And it's all because of one man.", "Well, you say that, but I have to ask you about the VA in particular and something that President Trump has consistently done, which is misleading the public about his record for veterans. He claimed credit more than 150 times -- 150 times -- for the Veterans Choice Act. That was signed into law by President Obama. Listen to President Trump.", "We passed Veterans Choice and Veterans Accountability for our great vets. Nobody's done for the vets what I have. We also passed VA Accountability and VA Choice. Look at how the VA's doing. It's doing incredibly well. We got all sorts of things done, from Accountability to Veterans Choice.", "Now, this is an important law that allows some veterans to get health care from outside the VA system. Now, I know President Trump expanded it in 2018. But why does he insist on repeating that he's responsible for passing it, when it was President Obama?", "Well, you just -- you just answered your own question by saying that this Trump initiative, which is the MISSION Act, actually expands Choice to all veterans. The Obama -- the Obama initiative was designed to fail. It only gave few veterans choice. It had an expiration date. And it didn't pay their bills. I have spent the last two years trying to pay the bills left over from the Obama administration. And, for the first time -- and the president is absolutely -- and the president is absolutely right on this -- all veterans have choice. It's permanent.", "Right. But -- but he said, we passed the Veterans...", "The Obama administration was temporary.", "... the Veterans Choice and Veterans Accountability Act. That literally was signed by President Obama. Do you wish you would...", "Well, you -- that's right. But you are talking about semantics. You are talking about semantics, as opposed to substance. We have given permanent choice. That's what the president is saying. The Obama -- the Obama administration...", "But shouldn't semantics matter when you're talking about the president trying to explain what his record is for veterans that obviously mean a lot to you?", "Well, I think the -- I will tell you, you have been up on Capitol Hill a lot. Choice is much easier to understand than the MISSION Act, which was the title that the Congress put on the president's program, because it's an acronym that has six or seven different words in it. But what we are talking about is permanent choice, not what the Obama administration, Obama/Biden, foisted on the country, which was choice for a few veterans that expired in a few years. And it was designed to fail, because the government unions didn't want it, and the president went along with it. And we were left paying the bills. But what this administration has done for the first time is that it has given veterans full choice. And that is revolutionary.", "Secretary Wilkie, thank you so much for joining me this morning. I appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "And up next, a look at some of the moments that defined President Trump's first term, and what to expect if he's re-elected to another four years. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["BASH", "ROBERT WILKIE, U.S. SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "TRUMP", "TRUMP", "FRANK LUNTZ, REPUBLICAN POLLSTER", "TRUMP", "LUNTZ", "POW. TRUMP", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "TRUMP", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "TRUMP", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH", "WILKIE", "BASH"]}
{"id": "CNN-394366", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-03-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/04/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Coronavirus Spreads From New York Man to His Family", "utt": ["New cases of the coronavirus are now being reported in Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York prompting Los Angeles to declare a local emergency. And California is now reporting its first death today. In New York, workers are disinfecting the city's massive subway and train system after a man who commutes from Westchester County. That's just outside of the city, into Manhattan tested positive for the virus. Today we are learning that members of this man's family are also sick. They also have coronavirus bringing the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in New York to six. So let me bring in Dr. Michael Mina, he's an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Associate Medical Director of Harvard Medical School. And so Dr. Michael Mina, thank you so much for being with me.", "Great to be here. Thanks.", "Let's talk about these cases in New York, as we mentioned six now infected in New York. What do you do if you even suspect that you're feeling sick, someone in your family is showing what you perceive to be symptoms, what do you do?", "I think right now testing remains fairly limited across the United States, although it's expanding very quickly. And I think the best thing to do at the moment is if you're feeling very mildly ill, I think the best thing is to just stay at home, try to self-quarantine. But if symptoms progress and you start to actually think that you need to see a doctor, then I would suggest doing so, and potentially calling up before hand just give them a heads-up that you are coming.", "How about we put this in perspective with the seasonal flu. Right. On the one hand, there are far more cases of the flu than coronavirus by a long shot, but the World Health Organization says coronavirus has a higher mortality rate. Help us understand that.", "Yes, so this is -- these numbers are still coming in epidemiologically and we're still trying to figure out just how many people do get exposed to the virus and actually acquire it but don't ever get reported. And until we get a better handle on that it's very difficult to say really what the mortality rate is or what the fraction of people who become infected who get severely ill actually is. And so those are things that we're trying to uncover still, and at the moment, we can just take estimates. The best estimates we have suggest that it's potentially somewhat more transmissible or about the same transmissibility than flu, and potentially a little bit more aggressive than the flu as well.", "Dr. Mina, thank you so much for your expertise. Thank you for coming on.", "Absolutely.", "Coming up next, we will take you live to one of the area's hardest hit by those tornados in Tennessee, the man in these photos who had to be pulled from the rubble of his own home. We'll share his harrowing story."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "DR. MICHAEL J. MINA, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, HARVARD T.H. CHAN OF SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH", "BALDWIN", "MINA", "BALDWIN", "MINA", "BALDWIN", "MINA", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-74099", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2003-7-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/22/bn.22.html", "summary": "Celebratory Gunfire Fills Skies of Baghdad", "utt": ["The story coming out of Iraq which may or may not be good news for the United States, for the Bush administration, post-Iraq invasion. Possibly, possibly after a long fire fight in the northern city of Mosul, the killing of Saddam Hussein's two sons, Uday and Qusay. Joining us on the line now from Baghdad, where there has been perhaps a reaction to all this is Rym Brahimi. Rym, what can you tell us?", "Well, Miles, as you were saying quite accurately there have been reports of this long raid in the northern city of Mosul in which U.S. forces say they have reasonable -- they're reasonably optimistic that in that raid they may have killed the two sons of -- the two oldest sons of Saddam Hussein, Uday and Qusay Hussein. Now this has been reported on the various Arab satellite networks. People have been hearing about it. And that has spread through town (ph) Baghdad. And although it hasn't been confirmed of yet, we've heard a lot of gunfire which we're presuming may be celebratory gunfire. Very, very intense rounds all around the hotel where we are in the Iraqi capitol coming from every single direction. You could see tracer fire coming from owl directions. And we even had rounds falling outside of our bureau door which is why I have to talk to you on the phone from inside the bureau as opposed to our usual live position on the roof of the hotel. Now, all we know for the time being, Miles, is that four bodies were pulled out of the house in Mosul that was believed to have been hiding Uday and Qusay Saddam Hussein. Only two of the bodies seem to have been vaguely identified. One seems to be a teenage boy, according to senior Pentagon officials. The other body appears to be that of a bodyguard, they say. Again, they're still trying to fine out whether or not the two other bodies were those of Uday and Qusay Saddam Hussein -- Miles.", "Rym, just try to clarify for me. I know it's difficult from where you are, particularly, since you've had to take cover, but does it appear to be celebratory gunfiring in Baghdad?", "It definitely appears to be that. I can't confirm that 100 percent because, as you mention, it was so intense we had to be pulled off. We really can't stay outside because it is very dangerous, and especially the intensity of the rounds, it was one after the other. It does appear to be celebratory. You know in this part of the world, some areas, weddings are celebrated with often gunfire. A lot of happy events also celebrated that way. So it wouldn't be astonishing. And you know, just last week there was a rumor that Saddam Hussein himself may have been killed. Well there was a lot of celebratory gunfire at that point and it lasted just 15 minutes. Now this has been going on for more than half an hour now. It's been relentless. And so it wouldn't be surprising at all that word may have spread out and people now believe, although some of them were still very cautious, that this may be the case that Saddam Hussein's two sons may be dead and they are celebrating -- Miles.", "All right, as long as we're at this point down the road of speculation, suggest for just a moment, what happens on the day after there is confirmation, if, in fact, it comes that the two sons have been killed? Does that radically change the dynamic for the U.S. forces are there in Iraq?", "It might definitely change the dynamic to a certain extent. Radically, I'm not sure. They might have to find or arrest or capture Saddam Hussein for that to happen. But when you talk to people here in the streets, and I had the opportunity to talking to people here, Miles, a little before this huge outburst of gunfire, and many of them were holding their breaths, they were saying, My God, that would be fantastic, but we just dare not believe it. And we want to see confirmation. We want to see proof. Either a dead body or see them in jail, because until we see that, we will be very, very worried. And there is a sense that there has been a lot of people that still feel intimidated. And a lot of people who do not dare maybe denounce acts of violence by suspected members of the remnants of the Ba'ath Party regime because Uday, Qusay and Saddam Hussein are still alive. So it definitely might turn things around to a certain extent for the U.S. coalition forces here -- Miles.", "But absent the capture or killing of Saddam Hussein, there still is that element of the possibility that he might somehow come into play in the future, thus the possibility that there will be -- that will at least provide some sort of feeling of support for these supporters.", "Well, exactly. You know, when you talk to people, again, that feeling was until a couple of days ago I was talking to people and quite a few people, although now there's a lot -- the atmosphere is very different to what it used to be, there is still a lot of people who are afraid to talk on camera because they are afraid that they will be intimidated, they are afraid their face will be seen on camera. And some people, remnants from the Ba'ath Party regime will come and tell them, What did you do and threaten them. There has been a few threats of the kind. I even remember shortly after the war, Miles, I used to know one of the assistants of Uday Hussein, the eldest son of Saddam Hussein, and he had a lot of interesting anecdotes to tell me. But he refused to say anything on camera. He said, Until I know that Uday has been captured and the rest of the family, I won't be able to do that -- Miles.", "CNN's Rym Brahimi undercover in Baghdad. Stay safe there, you and the rest of the people there. And keep us posted as to what is going on. And what appears to be celebratory gunfire on the assumption that what we're hearing thus far is true. That U.S. forces have, in fact, killed the two sons of Saddam Hussein. That confirmation still awaits us. If, in fact, it will come, but the minute we hear we're going to let you know about it to be sure. 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{"id": "CNN-366369", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-04-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/05/cnr.19.html", "summary": "South Korea Rolls Out 5G Smartphone Networks", "utt": ["Well, at one point they were considered the world's wealthiest couple. But that's not the case anymore. Now, they are partners in the world's richest divorce.", "Think you know who we're talking about. Three months after announcing their split, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and wife, MacKenzie have revealed the terms of their separation MacKenzie Bezos will keep 25 percent of their stock in the company. That's worth a whopping $35 billion. She says she'll give her husband voting control over her shares along with her interests in the Washington Post and space firm Blue Origin. Well, South Korea, says it is now leading in the global race for 5", "That nation has become the first country to roll out the ultra-fast smartphone network worldwide, beating out both the United States and China. CNN's Paula Hancocks has this story from Seoul.", "You've been hearing about 5G for years. About how it's going to be more than 10 times faster than 4G. How you'll be able to download an HD movie in a matter of seconds? For South Korea, it's here. Samsung is launching its Galaxy S10 phone Friday, and it's the first handset here to be 5G compatible. A coup for the Korean tech company and also a useful litmus test for companies around the world to see how many consumers actually sign up. The largest telecom operator in South Korea S.K. Telecom launched its plan this week saying they're aiming for 1 million subscribers by the end of this year. 85 cities are covered so far with customers paying between $70 and $115 a month for the updated service. S.K. Telecom insists we should believe the hype.", "Speed that goes beyond our imagination. Latency that exceeds our expectations. I think 5G will provide experiences above and beyond.", "S.K. Telecom and rival, K.T. are highlighting what 5G can mean to V.R. Virtual Reality and A.R., Augmented Reality. Sitting with your friends at a baseball match without actually going to the match, or even being in the same city as your friends. The smallest provider here, L.G. Uplus has 18,000 5G units across the country. They're the only ones using technology from Chinese telecom giant Huawei, who's currently locked in legal battles with the United States. The Trump administration has been pushing allies to remove Huawei technology from their networks, claiming the company is too close to the Chinese government. South Korea may be the first, but it's also somewhat of a guinea pig. Many countries around the world will be watching this rollout very carefully to see how many customers actually sign up. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.", "If the United Kingdom leaves the E.U. next Friday without a Brexit deal in place, the financial consequences could be devastating. Not just for Europe, but around the world.", "But, people from Paris to Hong Kong to right here in the United States, don't seem all that worried. Here's a sample.", "Well, it seems to be very complex because even British people don't understand what's going on. So, how come could we understand what's going on if even British don't understand themselves?", "May seem like a second referendum is on its way, but, no one is actually seeing it -- you know, on the -- on the media or within the elite. But it seems like it's the -- it's the logical thing to do at the moment.", "I still love the U.K., I still want to go there, but I'm afraid they will have a lot of a barrier. Now, to go to the U.K., and if it's more difficult to do to go to the U.K., I think the tourists will go elsewhere.", "England has always represented the a sense of community, sense of integration that can -- I mean, just in England, in Europe, we can see that kind of integration and that kind of things I think.", "There could be big loss.", "A big loss for you. Yes.", "They had the pound, so they never felt part of the European. So, for this reason, they always be something different. This is my -- what I think.", "But here and now, I wouldn't say the Brexit is really making much of a difference. You know, the firms are busy, financial services are still extremely active here. Albeit, furnaces are slightly less than performance wise. It's not as great as it was. But, here in our bricks, I wouldn't say is having too much we have to say.", "I don't intend to work there for now, but it doesn't really impact me that much on a personal level. It's just hearing from friends, are they might have some worries on their end.", "Well, half the country wants to leave the E.U., the other half doesn't want to leave the E.U. That's their problem. You know, this country is enough for our own problems. We don't need, you know, to get involved in theirs. I mean what the people want, if its majority rules and they vote on it, that's it, and they did vote to leave.", "It fix about an economy, fix their livelihood, fix their employment, everything. I think, it actually is a bad idea, personally, that you stay in the Union.", "Yes.", "Long term. But I going to -- I going to respect the overall independence for a bit, but I honestly think that just stay.", "Those are opinions from around the world. Thank you so much for being with us for NEWSROOM. I'm George Howell.", "We're coming right back. I'm Natalie Allen, our top stories right after this."], "speaker": ["HOWELL", "ALLEN", "G. 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{"id": "CNN-394488", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2020-03-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2003/05/es.01.html", "summary": "Long Road to Recovery for Tennessee After Tornado Hit", "utt": ["In Tennessee this morning three people are still unaccounted for after the state's deadliest tornadoes in seven years. Two powerful tornadoes with up to 175-mile-per-hour winds cause widespread destruction and kill at least 24 people. Schools throughout mero Nashville area are closed for the rest of the week. And with the massive cleanup just getting under way it's bringing out the best in people as residents look to rebuild their lives. CNN's Amara Walker is on the ground for us in Nashville.", "Christine and Laura, good morning. You know, the reality for so many people here is that they are going to have to start from scratch, and you can tell that just by looking at the sheer devastation here behind me. And it's really a surreal feeling when you look at these homes. I mean, big chunks of these homes are missing. The tops of these trees have been sheared off by the sheer force of the tornado winds. It's also been a heartwarming experience for us here on the ground. All day, we've been seeing neighbors helping neighbors, strangers coming up and saying, hey, I'm here to help, I brought my equipment, can I help you clean up the debris inside your home? In fact, I spoke with one woman in east Nashville. She basically lost her home during the tornado. She escaped with her life as she took cover in the basement with her daughter and husband. And as she spoke with me she got quite emotional talking about the outpouring of support from her community.", "There have been -- there's just been a lot of people helping out, a lot of strangers, people who I've never met before just -- just showing up to help us clean up. Tonight, we went to get some food at Miguelito's (PH) and they wouldn't let us pay for anything and people just keep showing up with food or coffee or water and hands.", "Now, on Friday, President Trump is expected to visit the tornado ravaged areas here in Tennessee, and officials in Nashville and in Davidson County tell me that they welcome the president's visit and they do hope that the federal assistance that has been promised to them arrives quickly. Back to you.", "All right, Amara, thank you so much for that. Europe just experienced its warmest winter on record dating back to 1855. According to the E.U.'s Copernicus Climate Change Service it was six degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the average winter from 1981 through 2010, and it broke the record set in 2016 by 2.5 degrees. Cities in France and Finland also shattered records. And in Moscow new marks were set for the lack of snow.", "The devastating fires that burned across Australia this winter were made far more likely by the climate crisis. That's according to a new study which found the risk of fires has grown by 30 percent or more because climate models are underestimating the actual increases in the extreme temperatures. For the first time since July New South Wales is free from bush fires. Months of devastating fires in Australia left at least 28 people dead, about 3,000 homes destroyed, and up to a billion animals killed. An Alabama man convicted in the murder of three police officers back in 2004 is scheduled to be executed today despite questions about his guilt. 42-year-old Nathaniel Woods was accused of luring the officers into a home where the shooter was waiting for them, but that shooter Harry Spencer recently wrote a letter from prison stating, quote, \"Nathaniel Woods is 100 percent innocent. I know this to be a fact because I'm the person that shot and killed all three of the officers.\"", "Martin Luther King III is among Woods' supporters who are calling for his execution to be delayed. Pamela Woods wants her brother spared and freed.", "He thought it was the craziest thing in the world. He's like how, how because, you know, he didn't do anything wrong.", "Woods' attorneys have asked Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to commute his sentence. Family members of the police officers who were murdered are not commenting. Alabama's attorney general called Woods' punishment just.", "The Arizona House has passed a controversial bill that bans transgender female athletes from participating in girl sports at the school. If the measure becomes law female athletes will be required to prove their biological sex with a signed doctor's note following genetic testing if another student athlete files a dispute. The bill will now head to the Arizona Senate. Similar laws are being considered throughout the nation in Idaho, New Hampshire, Washington, Tennessee, Georgia and Missouri.", "All right, beating the odds. Who is Alex Trebek? A health update from the host of \"Jeopardy\" and it's hopeful. Trebek has survived one year since he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Only 18 percent of patients make it that far.", "Now, I'd be lying if I said the journey had been an easy one. There were some good days, but a lot of not so good days. I joke with friends that the cancer won't kill me, the chemo treatments will.", "Trebek says the pain and depression made him wonder if it really was worth fighting on, but he viewed that is a betrayal to his wife and other cancer patients who looked to him for hope.", "A therapy dog named Murphy is the new mayor of Fair Haven, Vermont. Murphy is a 3-year-old cavalier King Charles spaniel and he beat 17 other animals on the ballot including the incumbent, a 3-year- old Nubian goat named Lincoln. Having a ceremonial four-leg mayor is now a two-year tradition in fair haven. Anyone with an animal can enter in it with in the race for a $5 registration fee. The money was used last year to replace the elementary school's playground. I like that. I like the goat.", "Well, the red planet as you've never seen before."], "speaker": ["JARRETT", "AMARA WALKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED EAST NASHVILLE RESIDENT", "WALKER", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "PAMELA WOODS, NATHANIEL WOODS' SISTER", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "ROMANS", "ALEX TREBEK, \"JEOPARDY\" HOST", "ROMANS", "JARRETT", "JARRETT"]}
{"id": "NPR-5497", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2014-11-02", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2014/11/02/360957597/immigrant-magazine-gives-a-voice-migrant-communities", "title": "'Immigrant Magazine' Gives Voice To A Range Of Communities", "summary": "When Pamela Anchang moved to the United States from Cameroon, she felt that there was a void in the media — she didn't see herself. And magazines or newspapers that targeted specific immigrant groups weren't read outside of those small communities. So she founded Immigrant Magazine to provide a bridge to those different communities with stories from a wide range of perspectives.", "utt": ["When Pamela Anchang came to United States from Cameroon 20 years ago, she had a problem. Like a lot of immigrants, she felt that she didn't see herself in the media.", "I just felt like there was a void. Yes, there are tons and tons of magazines out there, but most of these magazine and newspapers target themselves. So, say, you read India West or Africa Times. What are the chances that someone non-African or non-Indian would pick that up? So essentially you're preaching to your own choir.", "Ten years ago, she started the Immigrant Magazine to provide a bridge to those different communities with stories from a wide range of perspectives.", "Immigrant stories are not just about a crisis situation. Immigrants don't always want to see themselves as victims.", "Right now, on the site, there's a story about palliative care in the Chinese-American community, a Korean TV show that tackles mental illness and a new album from a Guinean musician. Pamela Anchang's own immigrant story started in 1994, when she left Cameroon. After a spring of multiparty politics took off in the country, her cousin was one of the opposition leaders who challenged the president, and her family felt unsafe.", "We were politically targeted. Socially, I felt - in the university - harassed. So I left Cameroon under those conditions, you know, thinking, you know what? Let me go to a place where I can be myself, where I can thrive.", "When she came to the U.S., she started working as a teacher and a computer engineer. But Anchang dreamed of being a journalist as a child, so she started writing articles about Africa and her life back home.", "It turns out I had no place to publish them. There was nowhere to share my experiences.", "Living in Los Angeles, she met immigrants from all over the world and started hearing remarkable studies. She found out that she wasn't the only one who didn't feel she had a voice.", "And so I decided - I said, you know what? If we don't have a place to tell our stories, I'm going to create mine.", "She founded the Immigrant Magazine as a print magazine in 2004. Now it's a website and online newsletter. One of the stories that's meant the most to her over the years was an interview with a Filipina immigrant.", "Virgelia Villegas is her name, and I was doing this interview with her. And in the middle of the story, she said, Pam, I came to the United States because my mother paired me up with her business partner. I was only 16. And I moved out here, married to this guy. I had two children. And a few years later, I became a widow.", "She told me, I only have a high school diploma. And so she turns around now, and she's giving back. She has built a compelling enterprise of cultural pageants. Now, she doesn't call them beauty pageants because she's really about forming young women in the Latino community and the Asian community.", "Stories like this, about success and triumph, are the ones that Anchang wants to get out, to uplift immigrants and their commute. Most of the contributors to the magazine are freelancers, and she's not able to pay them yet, but hopes to in the future. Money for the magazine comes from advertising and sponsorship. She has a lot of goals for keeping this going and growing. They're adding video components and working to produce pilot shows that can be sold or syndicated.", "Though the site is mostly features and Q and As and isn't overtly political in nature, immigration is, of course, a heated political issue. I asked Pamela Anchang if, as the editor of a magazine like hers, it's hard to cover a community without also becoming an advocate.", "You know, as I'm editing articles, I get all kinds of articles, and I try to be as, you know, fair as possible. I like to present both sides. However, my side is a humanitarian stance, so my political stance is purely advocacy. I also work with organizations who actually are grooming immigrants for leadership so they can turn and run for office, so that maybe the more of us are in office.", "We can begin to maybe really then pass that message across because if we don't have any representation, politically speaking, how are we going to change any laws or make the laws to adapt to our interests? So we - yes, I do have interest in political...", "Yes, I do. It takes politics to make changes, so that's something that I do not neglect.", "That's Pamela Anchang, the editor and founder of the Immigrant Magazine."], "speaker": ["ARUN RATH, HOST", "PAMELA ANCHANG", "ARUN RATH, HOST", "PAMELA ANCHANG", "ARUN RATH, HOST", "PAMELA ANCHANG", "ARUN RATH, HOST", "PAMELA ANCHANG", "ARUN RATH, HOST", "PAMELA ANCHANG", "ARUN RATH, HOST", "PAMELA ANCHANG", "PAMELA ANCHANG", "ARUN RATH, HOST", "ARUN RATH, HOST", "PAMELA ANCHANG", "PAMELA ANCHANG", "PAMELA ANCHANG", "ARUN RATH, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-45533", "program": "CNN LARRY KING LIVE", "date": "2001-12-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/14/lkl.00.html", "summary": "Interviews With John Kerry, Randy \"Duke\" Cunningham, George Joulwan", "utt": ["Tonight, firsthand accounts about a special operation in Afghanistan from those who were there. Live from Fort Benning, Georgia, four U.S. Army Rangers just back from Afghanistan. And then, dramatic stories of war from combat heroes. In Los Angeles, Senator John Kerry, decorated Vietnam veteran; in Washington, Congressman Randy \"Duke\" Cunningham, former Navy ace fighter pilot; also, he has commanded troops from platoon leader to supreme allied commander, General George Joulwan. Then in Los Angeles, a man who survived seven years as a POW in Vietnam's notorious Hanoi Hilton, Brigadier General Robinson Risner. And finally, Diana Krall, with a song for the holidays straight from the heart. And they are all next on LARRY KING LIVE! Good evening. Let's begin in Fort Benning, Georgia. Standing by are Colonel Joseph Votel, United States Army commander of the 75th Ranger Division; Sergeant 1st Class Edmund Sealey, United States Army; Staff Sergeant Chad Carpenter of the United States Army; and 1st Lieutenant Sean MacRae, also of the Army. Colonel Votel, you commanded the October 19 mission of the 75th regiment. What was that mission? Refresh our memory.", "Larry, thanks, for letting us come on tonight. That mission on the 19th of October involved parachuting a Ranger force into an airfield in southern Afghanistan. The purpose was to go in there and basically conduct an airfield assessment, to destroy the Taliban forces that were operating in that area and to gather information for intelligence use.", "And that is now known as Camp Rhino. Sergeant Sealey, how well did it go?", "I would say that that mission would be rated as extremely successful, Mr. King.", "Very little resistance.", "I think is more that that resistance was dealt with rather swiftly on the ground, Mr. King.", "And no loss of life?", "No loss of life on our side, Mr. King.", "You can call me Larry, Sarge. Sergeant Carpenter, what was it like for you?", "It was a great experience, all the away from the jump through when we landed, everything went well. And once we got on the ground, our training took over and it went like clockwork.", "I want to talk to all of you in a moment about being a Ranger. But first, Lieutenant Sean MacRae, now you were not on that mission, but you were on a -- right? You were not on the October 19 mission.", "That is correct. I was on a different mission.", "And what was your mission?", "On November 13, my mission -- we jumped -- my platoon jumped into southern Afghanistan in order to secure a staging base for some other operations that were occurring in southern Afghanistan.", "And all of you are based in Fort Benning? That is the home of the Rangers?", "That is correct.", "Yes, that is correct.", "Colonel Votel, why are you a Ranger?", "Well, the Rangers are the best the Army has to offer. It's the best people. We get the best training. We get the best resources and it's just a great place to serve. Everybody who comes to the Ranger regiment is a volunteer. They volunteer to come to the Rangers. They volunteer to go to airborne school. They volunteer to go to Ranger school. They are here because they are committed. They had believe in America and they believe in the great heritage of the American Ranger.", "And when, Sergeant Sealey, you are committed to be a Ranger, that means you will do what sort of things that the typical Army person does not do?", "Larry, I would say that it is basically volunteering to be put in harm's way on a minute's notice. It doesn't matter where it is or what the mission is. It is basically volunteering to be right up there on the cutting edge, like the missions that we executed in Afghanistan.", "So a Ranger is, in time of active duty, always facing danger. Why, Sergeant Sealey, do you like that?", "It makes me feel alive, Larry. There is -- I mean, you know, you could work a normal job and be surrounded by people that you would call your comrades or your friends. But here, I mean, your lives are directly in the hands of other Rangers and that is -- it is a thing that draws us all here, is a thing that keeps us all here because you know that you can count on the guy to your right and your left.", "Sergeant Carpenter, what attracted you to the Rangers?", "What attracted me to the Rangers is because this is the best unit. I mean, the guys I work with are top-notch. And, me and my whole family are all patriotic. And I knew there -- once I saw things about Rangers, I knew this was where I wanted to go.", "What's the training like, Sergeant Carpenter?", "The training is realistic. It was amazing how the training was just like what we did over there in Afghanistan, that is why it went so smooth. And it is just -- it's awesome training every day and it's something new, different on the plate every day.", "In other words, how they trained you is how it turned out?", "Oh, exactly.", "What attracted you, First Lieutenant MacRae?", "Larry, it is always been a place I have wanted to come. I can't see myself anywhere else. Between the resourcing and the ability to train hard and the camaraderie that you get with other Rangers, it is the best environment I can think of to work in.", "Colonel Votel, you are back at Fort Benning. Can you go back again over there? I mean, how does it work? Are you back for a certain period of time? How -- give me the modus operandi.", "Well, the -- we were able to redeploy a portion of our Ranger force back here to Fort Benning. Fortunately, we've got good leadership in theater that is always looking at the mission and maintains the ability to refocus and restructure. So we brought a portion of the Ranger force back here. These guys will go on, leave and then we'll get them on back on to the training path here. But certainly we can go back to Afghanistan and we can go anyplace that the nation, the Army, needs us to go to perform our mission. And we are happy to do it.", "And Sergeant Sealey, you are now off for Christmas?", "I'm about to be, Larry.", "Well, you certainly deserved it. Where is home, Sergeant Carpenter?", "Home for me is in Kansas. Looking forward to going there.", "And that is where you are going to taking your leave. And where are you going, Lieutenant MacRae?", "Well, Larry, I'm from north of Atlanta, so I will just be going up to Atlanta to be with the family for the holidays.", "Nice easy drive.", "Very easy.", "Thank you all very much. We salute you all: Colonel Joseph Votel; Sergeant 1st Class Edmund Sealey; Staff Sergeant Chad Carpenter and 1st Lieutenant Sean MacRae, all Rangers, all at Fort Benning, all saw action in Afghanistan. As we go to break and before we meet three heroes of past wars who are going to join us. And then later, another incredible heroic story. We show you shots of the 75th coming home to Fort Benning.", "We are going to talk about war at the end of this week. We are learning a lot more about it. We seem to, every few years or so, get into one. We are in another one now on two fronts. So we welcome three heroes. Senator John Kerry is with us here in Los Angeles. He is the Senate Foreign Relations committee member, highly decorated Vietnam war hero, three Purple Hearts, the Silver Star and the Bronze Star. In Washington, Congressman Randy \"Duke\" Cunningham, former Navy ace -- saw the movie \"Top Gun\", Tom Cruise may have played him -- highly decorated Vietnam veteran, Purple Heart, the Navy Cross, two Silver Stars and numerous other decorations. And also in Washington, General George Joulwan, United States Army retired, Vietnam veteran himself, and a former NATO supreme commander. Before we talk about their experiences, and a little bit about what war is like, Senator Kerry -- and this is for all of you, how goes it so far in Afghanistan, in your opinion?", "I think our guys are doing a superb job. I think we've had, things break for us, the way, one would want them to, but in addition, I think the people you just heard, they are trained, they are ready. I think we have been smart, I think the administration leadership has done it well and we are on right track.", "Congressman Cunningham, has the -- this success surprised you?", "No, and a matter of fact my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, I think daily, talk about that -- with President Bush Colin Powell, Rice and the others, that they've got the leadership, that they are proud of and that they have confidence in.", "And General Joulwan, in your expert opinion how is it going and why is it going the way it's going?", "Well, I think it's going extremely well, and those last four rangers you had, are a good indication of why. I think one of the things that we are seeing is this tough training -- not just Ranger training, but the interface with the air and the land forces has been superb. And I think that made a tremendous difference in this fight.", "Senator Kerry some have feared a kind of Vietnam quagmire here. Do you?", "Never. Not for an instant, it is so different from Vietnam, in every regard. I mean you don't have the superpower confrontation we had in Vietnam, you didn't have any ambivalence by the leadership, no ambivalence by Congress by American people. We were attacked on our soil the terrain is different, we didn't go into occupy, we have gone in for a limited target. I just think it is so different, and everybody saw that from the outset. This did not have the potential and does not have potential to be Vietnam.", "Now let's talk about combat, we'll start with Randy Duke Cunningham, let me tell you a little; he flew over 300 combat mission overseas North Vietnam Laos. He qualified as the first ace of the Vietnam War, shot down several enemy MiGs, and was nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor. Why did you like flying?", "I think like most kids, Larry, since I was five years old, I built model airplanes, I'd always wanted to fly. Although, I grew up in a little town called Shelbina in Missouri, I never thought I'd have the opportunity. And when that opened its doors, and allowed me to do that, I jumped at it. I was a swimming and football coach before I went into the service, but I always wanted to fly and serve my country.", "Do you think, Congressman Cunningham, there are such things as a natural fighter pilot?", "I have never seen a good fighter pilot that smokes a pipe, Larry. If...", "That's something to think about, okay, gets in the way.", "I think it takes some certain skills, three dimensional kinesthetic sense ability, aggressiveness, and we've got some of the best pilots in the world.", "General, this has been said before, there are others who deny it: Do lifetime military men, like yourself -- I don't know how to put it -- like war?", "I don't think the word is like war. I started with those soldiers, I started with ranger training and airborne training 40 years ago, and you get a responsibility of service to the country -- and that's what drives you, responsibility. for lives, and in war you have to fight to win, and that's what you're trained for and that is what we need to do for our country. So that's what drives you, Larry, not the fact of liking war, although I must say, that those years in Vietnam -- you get an adrenaline rush in all of that, but that just makes you work harder.", "Senator John Kerry, you've seen him so much on television, you know he's a prospective Democratic candidate for the presidency, but this you may not know, when he got his Bronze Star the commission said, once when he discovered he had a man overboard he returned up river to assist, the man was receiving sniper fire from both banks, Lieutenant Kerry directed his gunners to provide suppressing fire, while from an exposed position on the bow, his arm bleeding in pain, disregard for his own personal safety, he pulled the man on board. Why did you do that?", "Anybody would have done that, Larry. Because you don't leave people behind. It's very simple. One of my men was knocked overboard when a mine went off underneath us, you just don't -- I mean there isn't even a choice. And I don't think there's a person who puts uniform on in war who wouldn't make the same choice.", "Do war memories linger?", "Oh, sure. Oh, gosh. There isn't anybody who hasn't been in combat who doesn't wake up some night stirred by some sound or some impression that doesn't remind you of it. It's with you for the rest of your life, but I think -- I'm sure General Joulwan, and Randy -- Duke, would say right away -- that all of us feel a tremendous pride for having worn the uniform of our country, having served our country. There are people --", "Even though, you later opposed the war.", "Well I did, because I thought that -- I mean we now know as a matter of history, listen to the Lyndon Johnson tapes, read Bob MacNamara's book. They weren't committed doing what we needed to do, and I think one of the great lessons is -- thank God, you know, General Powell, and a whole bunch of people -- all of us, have contributed to the dialogue where we know that when we are going to send American youth into harm's way, at any time, we are going to do so with the intent of winning and we're going to be united and we're going to be clear about that. And I think that's one of the best things to come out of that period.", "Talk about men in war, Duke Cunningham, were you nervous before every mission?", "Absolutely. More so when I got down, not during the fight, but afterwards and you know one of the things that I think soothed that, Larry, was the day I was fortunate enough to shoot down my first MiG. I came back aboard the USS Consolation all 5,000 guys were on the flight deck. Willie White my plane captain broke across the bow, he knocked over Admiral Cooper, which you don't do in Navy, and jumped up on wing came back down the turtle back, as I'm trying to get the injection seat pin in, and he grabbed me by the arm and he said, \"Lieutenant Cunningham, Lieutenant Cunningham, we got our MiG today, didn't we?\" And people are seeing the stories over in Afghanistan of the pilots, but behind every pilot, you know, there's hundreds of men and women serving on that ship, and they fill an equal part of that team.", "General Joulwan, leading men in war, the hardest part must be when you lose somebody, right?", "It's tough, but again what those rangers said you train, you train hard, you train the mission to try to reduce that likelihood. But you do you lose men, and what you have to do is overcome that and drive on. You try to minimize casualties, but you know in a fight that you are going to take them. I've taken casualties in my units, but you have to drive on to the mission, and that is what we trained to do and that is in -- that's a mission focus that we've got to have.", "We'll be right back with our guests. We will include some of your phone calls, as well, as we talk about war. Sunday night Jim Carrey will be a board -- another Carrey, he spells it differently. And Tuesday night, the first lady Laura Bush, from White House. We'll be right back.", "Senator Kerry, how do you take the mental approach to going into battle? I mean, what is that like?", "Well, I -- it may be different for people who volunteer for it from those who were drafted back in the time when we were in Vietnam. But I think everybody feels a level of fear. And there is just...", "Even the Rangers?", "Oh, absolutely, a level of it. But you've trained and you have learned and you are there by choice. And you recognize that it is a test, to a degree. It is a passage. I mean, you can go back and read in the earliest of times and all through the history of warriors. The Rangers are warriors. I mean, I sort of separate it from citizen soldiers, the guys who go in and know they are going to get out. These are professionals. These are the guys who do it because they are warriors, there is a warrior piece of them. But, anybody feels apprehension, fear, terror, at times, I mean, sheer terror. But you learn how to manage it and you learn how to get through it. And to some degree, after a period of time, you compartmentalize it. I mean, I know there is a period where you just realize there is no other choice. It is put aside and it is so straight ahead, it is almost scary.", "With the knowledge you could go in a second.", "With the knowledge, but you know what, nobody thinks it is going to be them somehow or even if you come to the belief that it is going to be you, you really know that you've got to do your best and you give your best and everybody around you depends on you. And that brotherhood -- and now brotherhood and sisterhood -- is so strong. It is a compelling, extraordinary feature, which is why there is such a bond between people until the day they die.", "And, Congressman Cunningham, what is that unique thing about the fighter pilot?", "I don't think there is anything unique about a fighter pilot. You look at these four young men that spoke before us. It is a pride in what you do. I don't care if you are an Air Force weenie, or like General Joulwan, an Army puke, or whatever...", "... or Senator Kerry, you take a lot of pride in what you do. I was just a lieutenant doing what I was told to do. And you take -- and it is the training that you go through that protects you. I think it was the theme with those four young men, that you fight like you train and you try and create as most realistic scenarios you can in training so that when you get into combat -- and there is a lot of stories that actually shooting down airplanes was exactly like my instructors at top gun put me through.", "In other words, the practice worked?", "Yes, sir, you fight like you train.", "And if I could add to that, Larry, I used to have a saying from my old football days, \"You got to make the scrimmage tougher than the game.\" And so you try to make your training to replicate even tougher than what you are going to find in combat. And the challenge we face is, you know, one percent of our population in this country provide the security for the other 99 percent. And that one percent really has to be well trained and very, very, very disciplined. And that is what we found in our troops today. We are much smaller than we were for Desert Storm, half the size of the Army than we were in 1990. And those troops have got to be extremely well trained and focused and dedicated to the service to their country.", "I almost hesitate to ask what is an Air Force weenie?", "I guess I'm not supposed to know.", "Well, you know what...", "From the perspective of the Navy, it's anybody that's in the Air Force.", "Larry, you know what you put on the bottom of a Coke bottle at an Air Force base?", "What?", "Open other end.", "I got you. OK, Pikeville, Kentucky for our heroes -- hello.", "Hello. I'm calling to find out what are they going to do with bin Laden when they bring him back to the United States? Are they going to bring him back to the United States or are they going to try him over there?", "What do you make of that? First, Senator Kerry, if they come upon him, what is the move?", "Well, I think it is probably the wish of most people in this country that justice is going to be delivered and we don't have the choice of the bin Laden that we have to try. And I think that is an honest appraisal by most people in this country. If, on the other hand, we are in a situation where he is, in fact, taken prisoner, we will live by the rules, then has to be tried. I believe that it may very well be that he is being -- that that is why the president has established the tribunals. And I'm not against the tribunals. I do think, however, that it may be better -- I mean, I think America needs to talk more about our strengths. And one of the greatest strengths of our country is our justice system. I don't think we should be scared to use that and particularly with respect to him.", "But if he is brought back to the United States, that will be a spectacle, wouldn't it?", "Well, there are ways to handle this, I think. You may be able to do the tribunal, not do it here, but do it by our full measure of rules. I think that is subject still to determination, Larry.", "What do you think happens, Congressman Cunningham, if a member of the American military comes upon him?", "I think they'll do their job. If they feel threatened, they will do what they have to do. But there are also under orders. They are under the Geneva Convention, although I don't believe terrorists are under the Geneva Convention. But he will be dealt justice one way or another. I think most of us would turn him over to the firemen and the policemen in New York City.", "What do you think, General Joulwan?", "I think the troops will follow the rules of engagement that they have been given and if the situation warrants it, they will fire if fired upon. If the situation is, they come upon him as he's trying to escape -- look, we have moral high ground here, no matter what we think of bin Laden. And we don't think very highly of him. But the troops will follow their instructions and will follow what their leadership has given them, in terms of rules of engagement.", "Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania -- hello.", "Hello. Yes, I would like to ask the panel why they don't use napalm or flamethrowers on those tunnels and caves up there in Afghanistan?", "Senator Kerry?", "My golly, I think they could smoke him out.", "Senator Kerry?", "Well, I think it depends on where you are tactically. They may well be doing that at some point in time. But for the moment, what we are doing, I think, is having its impact and it is the best way to protect our troops and sort of minimalize the proximity, if you will. I think we have been doing this pretty effectively and we should continue to do it that way.", "Congressman Cunningham, what do you think of that question?", "I think Senator Kerry is right on the mark. To use a flamethrower, you've got to get right into the area close in. And plus, it doesn't penetrate that deep in those tunnels. You've got to go in there after him. So I think you have to neutralize that threat. And then you can get him out in a lot of different, various ways including what the gentleman spoke about.", "General Joulwan, what are your thoughts?", "Well, I think what you are seeing here are laser- designated bombs going in that are highly effective. In fact, I think much more effective than napalm will be given the extent of these tunnels. You may see some of this when the troops get in there, you have troops on the ground. But right now, I think the laser- designated bombs are doing a great job.", "What about enhancing this war, Senator Kerry. What are your thoughts on going on further than Afghanistan, all terrorist places...", "Oh, I think we clearly have to keep the pressure on terrorism globally. This doesn't end with Afghanistan by any imagination. And I think the president has made that clear. I think we have made that clear. Terrorism is a global menace. It's a scourge. And it is absolutely vital that we continue, for instance, Saddam Hussein. I think we...", "We should go to Iraq?", "Well, that -- what do you and how you choose to do it, we have a lot of options. Absent smoking gun evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the immediate events of September 11, the president doesn't have the authorization to proceed forward there. But we clearly are he ought to proceed to put pressure on him with respect to the weapons of mass destruction. I think we should be supporting an opposition. There are other ways for us, clandestinely and otherwise, to put enormous pressure on him and I think we should do it.", "We are going to take a break and come back with more and then we're going to meet an extraordinary story. Brigadier General Robinson Risner, seven years as a POW at the notorious Hanoi Hilton. This is LARRY KING LIVE. Don't go away.", "Welcome back to LARRY KING LIVE. As we come back, you're watching the funeral of Sergeant Petithory, one killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan. The eulogy at that funeral was delivered by one of our guests, Senator John Kerry. What was that like?", "It was very, very moving. It wasn't easy. But I was so privileged, his family was just extraordinary, Larry. And what I wanted to try to convey was that their pain was really shared by the whole country. And to whatever degree you can alleviate a parent's unfathomable sorrow, at burying a child, I wanted them to know that he's really at the highest tier of patriot, that he gave himself for our -- you know, his life was given for our lives. And everyone in America should understand the full measure of that.", "Congressman Cunningham, what is it like to lose a buddy?", "It's hard to go to the Vietnam wall. It's -- you still live it. You still see their voices, hear their voices, see their faces. And it hurts a lot.", "You know names on that wall, right?", "Oh, yes, sir. And one of my one of my heroes is your next guest, Robbie Risner, not only in his personal life, but what he had to go through in Hanoi. But people like that, that's what they pay these kids to do. And we -- the better trained you are, the less of them that you have die. But I know the people that I saw die, it still lives with me today.", "General Joulwan, what was it like for you to lose men?", "Very, very difficult. And you -- it stays with you even in 35 or more years later, you still recall it. I recently had a daughter of one of my soldiers get in touch with me, wanted to know about her father. And that was 35 years ago. And so, you remember all of that. It sticks with you. And you remember every moment of the combat you've been in. And you know, we really have to take care of families. And that scene that just a soldier that was killed in Afghanistan, families are important. They're the strength of our military and the strength of our nation.", "So you know names on that Vietnam tablet as well?", "Too many, unfortunately.", "As you do, right, senator?", "Some of them to my best friends, literally my best friend at college, a couple of my best friends in Vietnam, and high school friends. They're there. And I go down and visit. I think we all do.", "Porterville, California, hello.", "Hi. I was wondering if the gentlemen could tell me about how long the war will last?", "Any idea, Congressman Cunningham?", "Well, I think it's like the President said. This is just a step. I think he set the stage with Saddam Hussein, by enforcing and insisting on inspectors. If proof can be laid that someone attacks the United States or there were the terrorist activity, we're not just looking at Afghanistan. We're looking around the world. And the threats not only to the United States, but the free world.", "Woodland Hills, California, hello.", "Yes.", "Go ahead.", "Yes, first I'd like to say as a veteran myself, I'm very proud to have served in the military. I currently work at the VA myself right now. And since the President has said this war is going on a long time, I want to make sure to ask everybody why is the VA being cut back in so much of its finances, and not being allowed to be able to help everybody that they need to help?", "That's the Veteran's Administration -- John.", "Well, I'm very troubled by it. For the first few years, there was a sort of realignment because a lot of the veteran population had moved to the south and southwest of the country. So there was an initial redistribution. But I think it's gone way beyond that now. I think we are losing the quality of service in some of our hospitals. We're losing it in the northeast, I know, other parts of country. And boy, if there's anything we learned in the course of our prior wars, its keep faith with those that serve. Keep faith with them when they come back. You've got to keep that contract, Larry. And to some degree, it is in great stress, as is the whole medical system of our country, but it's a reflection of that.", "What do you think, Congressman Cunningham?", "We've increased some of the funding. And we've instituted programs like tri-care subvention, where you can use your Medicare dollars. I believe that the best system that we can provide for our veterans are the same ones that Senator Kerry and I have, is the federal FEHBP. And I think that that would take care of our veterans. And we're losing hundreds of thousands veterans every day, especially from World War", "General Joulwan, as on overview, what do we owe a veteran?", "I think we owe them a great deal. We owe them our freedom, to begin with. And I think we owe -- when he commits himself to 20 or 30 years to his country, a decent pension, to be able to raise a family and provide for his children. If he gets sick, to take of them. You know, what a soldier goes through, whether it's five years or 20 years or 30 years, it is a tremendous price that he pays in separation from his family and the dangers. Whether it's the middle of Rwanda or Bosnia or now in Afghanistan. And we ask these troops to do a lot. We need to take care of them. A great country takes care of their veterans.", "Are you glad you served, Senator Kerry?", "I'm so glad I served. I'm proud of the service. I learned so much, Larry. I mean, I think each of the others would agree that some of the best tools of leadership, some of the best training of management, all came to me in the course of my military service. And I, you know, I miss much of the camaraderie, and the responsibility, as a young person, having a command as I did in Vietnam, being alone in rivers with you know, six, seven other guys for days at a time. It -- and having the ability to call in this most amazing firepower, the jets, the bombers, the artillery. It's an incredible level of responsibility we give young people. And I think it is -- I'm so glad I did it.", "Any regrets congressman?", "No. I learned that you can't be a maverick in life or in the service. It is a team -- it is a lot of teamwork. The day that I was shot down, some of my Air Force weenie friends and Army guys risked their lives to make sure that I wasn't captured. And it's a team effort. And I don't think I will ever forget that camaraderieship and that fellowship, as long as I live.", "General Joulwan, you must be very proud of the people who he served under you and the people you've appeared with tonight?", "Certainly I am. And those four troops add on, make me proud to be a Ranger. And I know what they're talking about. And it's a great feeling for our country. And it's just -- to say \"God bless America,\" is understatement right now. We're a great country. And we have great people to serve.", "When we come back, we're going to introduce to you to an extraordinary American, Brigadier General Robinson Risner, the United States Air Force, retired. Don't go away.", "We now bring you on LARRY KING LIVE, one of the most heroic American figures of the Vietnam War. Four Purple Hearts, the highest Air Force honor, the Air Force cross. He's Brigadier General Robinson Risner, U.S. Air Force retired, shot down September 16, 1965, and captured. What were the circumstances?", "We were trying to take out some radar sites. And I was doing 600 at about 10 feet high. Trying to stay on the radar. And raised up to go over a small hill. And when I did, they must have seen my tail tip before my eyes, because when I got up over the top of the hill, I was already getting gunfire. So right down the intake into the engine and engine got ingestion.", "And out you went?", "Yes, pretty soon because I was on fire.", "Now you were taken -- captured and taken eventually to Hanoi, right?", "Yes, took for three days.", "And in solitary four years?", "Yes.", "Captured altogether seven years?", "Yes, over seven.", "Four years in solitary meant what? No one seeing no one?", "Yes. Now it didn't all occur. I want to make it straight. It didn't all occur in a four-year period, about three. And then I had a couple breaks for the other year. But during those times, I had covert communication with someone else.", "By what? By doing what?", "Tapping on the wall, the tap code. Are you familiar with the tap code?", "I've heard of tapping, yes.", "Yes. Well, that's the way we communicated. And we broke the English language down to this bear minimum.", "They paraded you down the streets of Hanoi, didn't they?", "Yes, that was -- well, I guess for the Vietnamese to show contempt for the American fighting forces, they instructed us by sound truck in a camera that was set way high to keep our heads down, so we would look hang dog. And we passed the word, \"Don't lower your heads.\" Some of the political commissars would leap up and grab us by the hair and try to pull our head down, but I think we made it through that rather terrifying march because people were trying to take us away from the guards.", "Everybody who knows you, talks about you and your heroism and steadfastness. You were a maverick, too, right? You didn't take sitting down easy?", "That's right.", "Yes, for that solitary you got solitary?", "Yes.", "You were, I'm told, tortured so badly that one day your shoulders popped out of their sockets?", "The first time they tortured me was they tied my wrists behind me, wrapped my arms tightly together up under my armpits behind me. And of course, you're not built that way. So it pulled my shoulders out of joint and separated my ribs. And that was the first time they tortured me.", "How'd you live with that pain?", "Well, they turned me loose after a while. I didn't think they could torture me enough to make me give them anything, but I found out I was wrong. After I was in pain for so long, it was like my willpower was a totally different person. They said, \"Hey Jack, I've taken all I can. You better give him something.\" So I lied to them. And then of course, I got it again when they found out I was lying.", "So you gave them information, but it was false?", "Yes.", "You were on the front cover of \"Time\" magazine in April 1965. And some people, there's the cover, some people think because of that, you might have gotten more severe treatment. Do you?", "Yes.", "In other words, they didn't like seeing that?", "No. My first interrogation, they plopped that right down in front of me. Some good soul from the United States said send them the copy. And they said, \"We know you, Robinson Risner.\" And they thought I was much more important than I ever was. You know, a president of the United States, the American people may forget him in a couple years. Well, because my picture was on \"Time\" magazine didn't mean anything to Americans much.", "What kept you going, general?", "God and country. Now that sounds very simple, but faith in God and love of country. I made a vow while I was over there. And I said never again. I found this was very helpful to me, in other words, to remind myself.", "Never again.", "Yes, never again would I be ashamed or reticent to talk about something that made me a better person.", "I'm told, general, there was a memorable church service in which fellow POWS of yours sang \"The Star Spangled Banner.\" What happened?", "When we were first -- when they first put me in a room with 46 other living, breathing Americans, it was like phenomenal. Because I'd been in solitary confinement so much of the time. And I was warned, as the senior-ranking officer, you will have not had more than 20 men in one meeting. See, they have four-hour brainwashing session for the North Vietnamese. So a young man came to me quickly and said, Could we have a church service, Sunday?\" And of course, I leaped on that. We had a very short church service. They came in and tried to disrupt it. We always started, though, with the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America in unison. And you can't imagine...", "And then what? They sang the national anthem?", "No, we sang \"Onward, Christian Soldiers.\" And then, they came in and tried to disrupt us. We did this three Sundays in a row, before they finally took three of us outside, began to tie our arms in a real painful manner, to lead us away to torture. Someone stood on a tall man's shoulder, pulled himself up to the barred windows high on wall to see what was happening. And when he reported back inside, then is when from the men had been silent all this time, from hearts that were filled with love of country, came \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" in volume I'll never hear sung again.", "By the way, Ross Perot paid for a statue, which is dedicated to General Risner. It was dedicated at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. It's nine feet tall, because he stood nine feet tall. And we have a little surprise for you, general, tonight because coming out from behind the curtain are five former POWS who served with you at the Hanoi Hilton: Colonel Thomas Kirk, Colonel Carl Krumper (ph), Colonel Ben Pollard, Colonel Frederick Crow, and Colonel Verleen (ph) Daniels. And they want to do something for you. Guys, go. (", "He got you, right? You can walk over there if you want.", "Robbie.", "These were one of the many men that stood that day at the Hanoi Hilton and sang the national anthem in honor of their friend Brigadier General Robinson Risner. Guys, I thank you so much. Want to lean in a little to one of those mikes?", "OK.", "What was he like?", "Awesome!", "Taught me everything I knew.", "Real McCoy.", "Well, you guys are all -- I guess you all remember all them. Are these some of the guys you tapped to?", "Sure. Don't remember what circumstance, but every time we were only one wall away, sure we tapped to each other.", "Colonel Kirk was shot down over Hanoi on October '67 leading a large fight bomber raid. Colonel Krumper (ph) was a POW for five years at the Hanoi Hilton. Colonel Pollard flew some of the most dangerous missions against some of the toughest targets. He was shot down in May of '67. Colonel Crow flew 85 missions, shot down in March of 1967. And Colonel Verleen (ph) Daniels served time as POW at the Hanoi Hilton. Oh, he's signaling me.", "Yes.", "I think signaling you, General. We've got one minute.", "OK.", "What has this been like for you, the statue -- nine feet tall. Only Ross Perot could do this.", "Well, you must know, I'm a very ordinary individual, and I'm not...", "Yes, I'll bet.", "And truthfully, I didn't deserve that. I think of it, the statue as dedicated to all the Vietnam POWS. Ross, a friend of mine, just used me as the model.", "Amen.", "So you're saying they all stood nine feet tall?", "You bet your life. If I did, certainly they did, and maybe taller.", "We only have 30 seconds. What was it like to walk out?", "Beyond any description. Beyond any description.", "You knew John McCain in there, too, right?", "Oh, yes. I tell you what it was like. Cicero said \"Freedom once lost and then regained bites with deeper things than freedom never in danger.\" That's what it was like.", "Can't top that. We'll be back with a great close for tonight's edition of LARRY KING LIVE with Diana Krall. I'm Larry King, and for all of our guests, don't go away. We'll be right back.", "We close out things tonight with Diana Krall. She's one of the best singers alive. Her new album is \"Look of Love.\" You know, Jim Carrey's going to be with us Sunday night. He's a Canadian. So are you, right?", "Yes I am, from Vancouver Island.", "September 11 really affected you though, right?", "Yes, it did. It did very -- as an artist, you know, it's important for us to sing, and perform. And so, that's what we've been doing. And it's been healing for me, as well as I hope for audiences.", "One of the best in business. Here's Diana Krall and the very appropriate, \"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.\" (MUSIC, DIANA KRALL, \"HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS\")", "If you allow you a moment, we want to wish the best of luck to Victoria McCardo, one our top production assistants here, who's going onto MTV. Hey, a little too young for us. Good luck, Victoria. 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{"id": "NPR-16330", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2017-02-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/02/13/514935047/legend-loses-sheep-shearing-match-to-new-zealand-prime-minister", "title": "Legend Loses Sheep Shearing Match To New Zealand's Prime Minister", "summary": "Sir David Fagan is a 16-time winner of the coveted Golden Shears. But he lost an exhibition match against New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English at the World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships.", "utt": ["Good morning. I'm Rachel Martin. So David Fagan is a sports legend in New Zealand. But this weekend, Fagan suffered a big defeat in the event that made him famous, sheep shearing. Fagan is a 16-time winner of the coveted Golden Shears, but he lost an exhibition match against New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English at the World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships. A capacity crowd of 4,000 people watched the finals - not bad for a country where sheep outnumber people 6 to 1. It's MORNING EDITION."], "speaker": ["RACHEL MARTIN, HOST"]}
{"id": "NPR-47784", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2017-12-12", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2017/12/12/570093086/service-dog-enjoys-broadway-cats-a-little-too-much", "title": "Service Dog Enjoys Broadway's 'Cats' A Little Too Much", "summary": "A service dog and its owner were in the audience of a Broadway performance of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. Chaos ensued. An usher returned the dog to its owner.", "utt": ["Good morning, I'm Mary Louise Kelly. We've all been there, you know, you're at a live performance and you get so caught up, you lose track it's not real. So it happened to a dog, a service dog with its owner in the audience of a Broadway performance of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, yeah, \"Cats.\" Chaos ensued, an usher returned the dog to its owner and in related news, pretty sure we now know who deserves the Tony Award for best costume. It's MORNING EDITION."], "speaker": ["MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-408484", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-08-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2008/17/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Dr. Asma Rashid Discusses Wealthy Hosts Paying Medical Personnel To Administer Rapid Tests To Posh Party Guests", "utt": ["And how worried are you that these parties, the parties themselves may bring up the case count in New York?", "Correct. But the parties are not necessarily large, from 20 to 30. I mean, the numbers are quite small. But it's more so families getting together. And just having this test as a means to -- a conversation piece, let's say, because they realize these are not 100 percent. But do we have any current test that's in the market that's 100 percent reassurance to our people here in the states.", "What do you make, I mean, of where this country is five months or six months into this pandemic with testing. I mean, from a medical -- you're a doctor. Does it surprise you that, you know, that we're still --", "-- we're still waiting for tests?", "Right. I think, globally, not just with the United States, our medical team has learned so much so fast regarding this virus. And yet, there's so much still for us to learn. We were first chasing, three months ago, IGGs, which is the antibody to see if you have exposure to coronavirus. And we were hoping we all have the antibodies. But now, when we recheck the patients and they don't have that antibody, then we realize that these antibodies may not even last. So I think as we develop more knowledge regarding the virus, we learn as a community and as a society of what else to do next. So this is going to be a long haul to really learning more about this virus and how we can move on as an economy.", "These rapid tests, are they something that, if -- you know, if they were more available, that people could do at home on themselves?", "I think that should be the aim. At some point, I think manufacturers should be leading to that way, where all of us should have access to it and be able to utilize it and have the results.", "So is it a nasal swab?", "Correct. There's a nasal swab. There's a finger prick. There's a sputum. There's a saliva check. And from -- these are just the rapids. But in terms of medicine in the hospital, there's now testing for stool. There's -- there's so many varieties of methods. I, frankly, can't keep up. It is changing rapidly.", "Dr. Asma Rashid, I appreciate your time. Thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "President Trump appears to be gaining ground an former Vice President Joe Biden in the latest CNN polls. It comes just as the Democrats are set to rally behind the Biden/Harris ticket on the opening night of the DNC starting at 8:00 p.m. tonight. Plus, New Zealand extending its lockdown, delaying its election, after a cluster of cases threatened the once coronavirus-free country."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "DR. ASMA RASHID, HIRED BY WEALTHY CLIENTS TO TEST PARTY GUESTS", "COOPER", "COOPER", "RASHID", "COOPER", "RASHID", "COOPER", "RASHID", "COOPER", "RASHID", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-335329", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-03-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1803/17/cnr.22.html", "summary": "Trump Attorneys Want to Move Porn Star's Suit", "utt": ["There is a new attorney involved in the case of porn actress Stormy Daniels versus Donald J. Trump. What makes that important is the attorney represents President Trump. That attorney also represented --", "-- pro wrestler Hulk Hogan in his lawsuit against \"Gawker\" and Melania Trump in her suit against the \"Daily Mail.\"", "The Trump legal team filed a motion to move the case from California state court to federal court. And they claim Daniels could owe as much as $20 million for violating a non-disclosure agreement. This comes after Daniels' attorney says she's been physically threatened to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Mr. Trump. Daniels' attorney spoke earlier with our colleague, Anderson Cooper.", "Why would the President of the United States join in an effort for a document -- for a nondisclosure agreement that he, himself, didn't sign, which his attorney apparently just did on his own that had nothing to do with the president, for an act that he said he didn't commit?", "Well, I hate to repeat myself, but I'm going to in this instance. Oh, what a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive. Anderson, that's a very good question. It doesn't make any sense. We also now have the threat, and it's set forth in the papers, the position if you will, that if President Trump is going to seek in excess of $20 million in damages against my client. This is truly remarkable. I don't know that there's ever been an instance in American history where you had a sitting president carrying out a personal vendetta and seeking in excess of $20 million against a private U.S. citizen, who is merely trying to tell her version of the facts.", "CNN legal analyst and author of \"Make It Rain,\" Areva Martin, joins us from Los Angeles to talk about it. Areva, thanks for joining us.", "Thanks, Natalie.", "This is the first time that attorneys for the U.S. president himself have joined a legal action regarding Stormy Daniels, real name Stephanie Clifford. What does this tell us?", "Well, it tells us that the White House can no longer deny knowledge of the settlement and of the negotiations that happened with respect to Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels. We have seen this White House deny, deny, deny. Deny that there was an affair. Deny that the president had any knowledge of the negotiations and the settlement agreement that Michael Cohen entered into with respect to the allegations that Stormy Daniels was making, that he and the Trump administration wanted to keep quiet. The president is now a defendant in a lawsuit and Stormy Daniels is the plaintiff. So this also will move forward with both of them as parties and the White House at this point is pretty much all in.", "And his attorneys are claiming she could owe as much as $20 million for violating a nondisclosure agreement. The initial complaint filed by Clifford's attorney in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Mr. Trump claims the nondisclosure agreement isn't valid because the lawyer for Mr. Trump, Mr. Cohen, signed it on behalf of Mr. Trump. Is that a valid issue or is this a risky move by Ms. Clifford and her lawyer?", "Well, that's the crux of the issue here, is was the settlement agreement entered into between Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, signed by both of them but not signed by Donald Trump, is that agreement valid? Stormy Daniels' lawyers are taking the position that the absence of Trump's signature makes that agreement null and void. That's what they went into court; they filed an action in court, asking the court to basically issue an order saying that they were no longer bound by this nondisclosure agreement and essentially saying that the arbitration that was triggered by Mr. Cohen, that that also is invalid because of a lack of signature. Now Trump's lawyers are claiming the liquid damages cost in that nondisclosure agreement, which pretty much obligated her to pay $1 million every time she disclosed what's in that nondisclosure agreement, and they are claiming that she made disclosures 20 times. Now I've watched a lot of the broadcasting on this story and what I have heard her say is, I can't talk about it. So I'm not sure where they, you know, how the math is working out, where they are getting these 20 times that she allegedly disclosed information in the", "Right and she's been asked about it directly on late night TV, other interviews, an interview here on CNN. And she just goes mum. But I want to ask you, why have Mr. Trump's lawyers moved to try this in federal court?", "So federal courts and state courts have very different rules of procedure. They are governed very differently. Sometimes lawyers are just more familiar with the court procedures, with the rules of procedure in one court over the other. Some lawyers like to be in federal court because the judges tend to be more strict. They tend enforce the rules more strictly than they do in state court. Also as we know, none of the parties here, Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, none of them live in Los Angeles County. So in the federal system, when you have parties that are involved --", "-- in a lawsuit and they're from different states, there's something called jurisdiction based on diversity because the parties are diverse in terms of their geographic locations. So that gives the defendant in this case, Trump and his team, the right to go into federal court and say this matter shouldn't be heard by some local state court, this should be heard by a federal court. And also defendants do this as a legal maneuver. They do it to disrupt the plan that the plaintiffs had because the plaintiffs picked what they thought to be a friendlier venue. So we'll see if the plan of the Trump team to get this into federal court works to their advantage.", "Meantime, her lawyer remains vigilant. He tweeted this, \"How can President Donald Trump seek $20 million in damages against my client based on an agreement that he and Cohen claim Mr. Trump never was a party to and knew nothing about? \"The fact that a sitting president is pursuing over $20 million in bogus damages against a private citizen who was only trying to tell the public what really happened is remarkable, likely unprecedented in our history. We are not going away and we will not be intimidated.\" What do you think about his comments?", "That's been the claim from the beginning. Stormy Daniels' attorney has been claiming that this is all about intimidating her, harassing her and forbidding her from telling what he says is the truth about an affair that happened between her and Trump in 2006- 2007. And from every account, this attorney is not going away. He is not backing down. He is on every cable station pretty much every day, telling the same story and what we now know is that Stormy Daniels herself has given an interview to \"60 Minutes\" that's scheduled to air probably March 25th, if it goes as planned where she is supposed sit down and tell the intimate details not only of the affair but efforts by the Trump's team to intimidate her, even what the lawyer says physically threaten her. So she has a lot to tell and she is prepared to do so, despite the", "She is taking on a formidable opponent in Mr. Trump, who loves a good fight. We'll wait and see what happens next. We thank you so much, Areva Martin for us in Los Angeles.", "Thanks, Natalie.", "The president of China, Xi Jinping, begins his second and possibly unlimited term in that office. What he is doing to secure his power, we'll explain ahead. Plus another high-profile firing in Washington, this time it is former FBI deputy director, Andrew McCabe, and it happened less than two days before his official retirement. We'll tell you about it coming up here as we push on. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "MICHAEL AVENATTI, STORMY DANIELS' ATTORNEY", "ALLEN", "AREVA MARTIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "ALLEN", "MARTIN", "ALLEN", "MARTIN", "NDA. ALLEN", "MARTIN", "MARTIN", "ALLEN", "MARTIN", "NDA. ALLEN", "MARTIN", "HOWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-63007", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2002-11-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/14/lt.01.html", "summary": "Terrorist Warning for U.S. Hospitals", "utt": ["And the new terror alert has put hospitals on guard and on edge. The FBI says that terrorists could be targeting four major U.S. cities: Houston, San Francisco, Chicago and Washington. Reporter Jim Wagner, from our affiliate CLTV joins us now. He is in Chicago with a look at this story. Good morning.", "Good morning, Daryn. I tell you what, the FBI says the threat may be vague at this point, but all the hospitals here in the city of Chicago, I can tell you, on heightened alert. Some more prepared than others. What you're looking at right behind me is a bioterrorism unit at the University of Chicago Hospital. They bought this unit after the events of September 11, and it's now included in their everyday emergency preparedness plan. Now, joining us to talk more about this is Dr. Jeff Rhodes. Doctor, thanks taking time out. What is this whole thing about? What is -- what happens if patients come in with those types of symptoms?", "What happens, this trailer made so we can decontaminate the patients before they come into the emergency room. If they're exposed to a chemical or biological or radiological hazard, what we would do is we couldn't necessarily take a contaminated patient into the hospital where they would contaminate the other patients. We have to get that, whatever ailment that is, off them, and that's what this unit is used for. Is to shower and to get them clean, so that they can go into the hospital, and treated without hurting the other patients in the hospital.", "Very interesting, take us through.", "What we would do if you were sick, and a suspected patient. What you would do is come in -- you would stand in this part first right here, where have the patient then disrobe. They need to take off all contaminated clothing. Would go into the chute and it goes into a special barrel, which we used to then seal, and that way everything is kept, you know, clean and kept from contaminated the other people. You would then come in here further -- go through the trailer, with two sets of showers, and the shower heads. The patients would stand here, and we would have two other folks. What they would do is they would be dressed in respirators, full HAZMAT suits like you see all the time. And they would have scrub brushes and have the patient stand here and shower, and they scrub the patient, make sure they're all clean. So no agent is left on them. The patient would then step on through, and have them then sit down here with patient gowns here -- new gowns, where we put -- dress the patient in, and that way the patient's clean. All of the offending agent maybe now off them. We could then take them into the hospital and safely treat them without having to worry about cross- contamination of other patients.", "Doctor, obviously a lot of people heard about the alert, coming from overseas and through the FBI. What have they been telling you inside the hospital so far?", "We know pretty much probably what you know. That there's an increased awareness and alert of possible, you know, terrorist attack against the hospital. The -- it's a heightened sense of alert. It's a heightened sense of vigilance among the security staff here. As far as the doctors and the nurses go, it's -- it's, you know, everyday business -- as for us.", "OK, doctor, thanks so much for taking time out. There you have it, Daryn. A lot of hospitals here in Chicago prepared for what might happen for at least these threats when they pop up. Especially one right here at the University of Chicago with this bioterrorism unit all set to go. Live in Chicago, I'm Jim Wagner. Back to you in Atlanta.", "Jim, thank you very much. A little bit more reassuring when the hospital ready like that."], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JIM WAGNER, CLTV CORRESPONDENT", "DR. JEFF RHODES, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO HOSPITAL", "WAGNER", "RHODES", "WAGNER", "RHODES", "WAGNER", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-341015", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2018-05-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/25/ath.01.html", "summary": "Trump Still Talking To North Koreans \"Right Now\"; Russian Oligarch Met With Cohen At Trump Tower During Transition; White House Lawyer At Start Of Lawmaker Briefings On FBI Source", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. I'm Kate Bolduan. It appears the princess bride had it right once again, to paraphrase, mostly dead is not all dead. And when it comes to the president's summit, with North Korea, the president is suggesting that the summit is slightly alive.", "We're going to see what happens. We're talking to them now. It was a very nice statement they put out. We'll see what happens. It could even be the 12th. We're talking to them now. They very much want to do it. We would like to do it. We'll see what happens.", "That jarring whiplash reversal, just 24 hours after abruptly canceling his talks with Kim Jong-un. President Trump even saying as you heard right there that the meeting could still happen on the June 12th date that he just canceled. CNN's Jeremy Diamond is at the U.S. Naval Academy where the president just delivered the commencement speech just minutes ago. Jeremy, the president, we heard, had been furious about the rhetoric coming from North Korea. It certainly doesn't seem he is so much today.", "Yes, that's right. Well, you know, if you were feeling a case of whiplash right now, Kate, I don't think anybody would blame you. Less than 24 hours after the president sent a letter to Kim Jong-un to cancel this planned summit in Singapore next month, the president now appears to say well, this summit could be back on the table. He suggested that the U.S. and North Korean officials are once again speaking to each other, once again communicating potentially about the logistics of the future summit between himself and the North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un. This would be, of course, the first summit between a U.S. and North Korean leader. But it is difficult to see what exactly has changed beyond that communication. Yesterday, the North Koreans put out a statement signaling they were still open to the prospect of diplomacy despite the president canceling on them. But the gap on the issue still remains. One of the reasons why the summit was canceled is because the U.S. and North Korea were not yet on the same page with regards to denuclearization. There is still a lot of questions that would take place on whether indeed the North Koreans are truly committed to denuclearizing as the president certainly hopes that they are. But, again, the president expressing some optimism this morning about this, he has not addressed it here at this commencement speech. Instead, he has hinted at the U.S. military buildup that has taken place during his presidency, which is also, of course, notable as we look at whether the situation with North Korea is going to be headed for more diplomatic opening or perhaps for the alternative, which the president has made clear is the military solution -- Kate.", "Yes, that's right. All right. Great to see you, Jeremy. Thank you so much. Joining me right now to discuss this and where things are right now, Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and someone who has had high-level negotiations with North Korea in the past, and Tony Blinken, CNN analyst and former deputy secretary of state under President Obama. Tony Blinken, I would love to hear your favorite princess bride quote here. You thought that Donald Trump needed this meeting more than Kim Jong-un. Then yesterday happened and the date was off and now it is -- how would you describe it?", "You know, Kate, I think it is a little bit early to be singing the summit time blues because this is really a very high stakes game of international chicken. Each leader thinks the other needs the summit more than he does. And so, they're both ratcheting up their demands. I think they both need it and that's why I think it is too early to cancel your reservations for Singapore. For Kim Jong-un, this is the -- if the meeting happens, it is the legitimacy that he secures that his predecessors, his father and grandfather, couldn't get, by meeting with an American president. For President Trump, he is so hyped his ability to deliver what his predecessors couldn't that he wasn't this to happen and failure in advance is a big embarrassment for him. So, I think there is still a real possibility this comes off whether it's on the 12th or a little bit, we'll see.", "Governor, you also think that both sides need this meeting. I'll read for you just a reminder what some of what the North Koreans said in response to the president canceling the meeting. We're willing to give time and opportunity to the U.S., always with a big and open mind, we reiterate to the U.S. that we're willing to sit face to face at any time in any way. Not the usual we're going to annihilate you and reduce you to ashes that we hear sometimes from North Korea when messaging. What do you think -- what message are they trying to send then?", "Well, that message was (inaudible) who has been their nuclear negotiator for many years. It is very authoritative. What the North Koreans did I think they overplayed their hand on the rhetoric side. Even though they always do this, they don't show up to meetings to discuss the logistics of the summit, they call the vice president a nasty name, they talk about nuclear annihilation. I think what happened was they overstepped their boundaries, and this caused obviously the president to be upset. So, my view is like Tony's. I think the summit will happen. I think it will be relatively soon. I'm not sure it will be the 12th. I hope it is not the 12th because I want -- there are still fundamental issues that is that there is substantial disagreement. The phase, scope of denuclearization, the North Koreans don't want to denuclearize. They're ready to put limits, curbs on the use, we say total denuclearization. North Koreans are not going to do that. I think the president already signaled a little flexibility on that when he says, well, maybe phased denuclearization. This is a negotiation that still has to happen, but, you know, welcome to the Trump roller coaster foreign policy.", "It is a fun ride. Tony, is -- do you think China is to blame for the recent falling out? I ask because the president seemed to suggest that when he said that Kim changed in his words after the second meeting with President Xi. What did China tell Kim in that meeting do you think?", "Look, Kate, I don't think China is to blame. I think they did a very good job reinserting themselves into this process. They were a little bit afraid of being left to the side of the road. They got back in the middle of it, which is where they wanted to be. But no, I think it is exactly as Governor Richardson said, the problem is the president set the bar almost impossibly high on himself, which is the virtual immediate complete denuclearization of North Korea. That was never going to happen. And ironically, what could happen and there is at least a possibility is to get some kind of deal, a little like the deal that the president trashed with Iran, where they take a series of steps overtime that are reciprocated, that start to curb their program, not eliminate everything but get it in check. Unfortunately, the president setting this bar so high makes it very, very hard for him to succeed and the idea that he would even get something as effective as the Iranian agreement that he threw out. That is all dismantled and virtually the entire program in North Korea upfront, the most intrusive inspections regime in history, that's a very high bar. So, here is an opportunity for him to reset expectations a little bit before a meeting which I still hope happens.", "Governor, what do you do if you're Secretary of State Mike Pompeo right now. The day before the president pulled out of talks he seemed optimistic they were going to happen and then this, and he was left to answer before it before a Senate committee.", "Well, what I would do, if I'm Secretary Pompeo, is I would go to the president and say, Mr. President, I have to be the lone voice, the lone messenger of North Korea, can't be the national security adviser, the vice president. I mean, this is --", "Good luck with that.", "But the problem is too many messengers, too many messages. White House press office, the president, the vice president, Bolton, it should be the secretary of state. This is diplomacy. It was Pompeo that got the two meetings with Kim Jong-un that set up the intelligence channel. Let him run the show. I think he has been hampered a bit by individuals in the White House that didn't want this summit to happen, that's my observation. Now, I don't have any inside information, but I do think it is important that the summit take place, that the administration prepare. That the president really prepared, that he listened to substance on what is achievable, I think there are some things that as Tony said that are achievable. But total denuclearization, by North Korea, it is not going to happen.", "Yes, and one thing that might be their first challenge among many is speaking with one voice, coming out of the administration, if we look at the recent history of coming out of the White House and beyond. Great to see you both. Thank you so much. We are following some breaking news that is coming in just now to CNN. Breaking news on the Russia investigation. We're now learning President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, that he held a Trump Tower meeting with a Russian oligarch who has been questioned by the Special Counsel Robert Mueller. This meeting unknown until now came during the transition to the White House, focused on improving relations with Russia. What does this all mean and what really do we know? Let me bring in Shimon Prokupecz. He's working his sources. He's got all of this. Shimon, bring us up to speed, please.", "Yes, that's right, Kate. So, this meeting took place in January, around January 9th of 2017, as you said. During the transition. It happened at Trump tower, Victor Vekselberg, who as we've done a lot of reporting, and you may recall, is a very wealthy, a billionaire, worth some $15 billion, Russian oligarch, who has been sanctioned by the United States. He was also recently questioned by FBI agents working for the special counsel after he flew to the U.S. in a New York area, he was pulled off a plane, and questioned by FBI agents. Now, at this meeting at Trump Tower, and you see there is video there of Mr. Vekselberg, there with the hat, his back is to the camera. He's accompanied by his cousin, a man by the name of Andrew Intrader. Now, as you may recall, we did some reporting regarding Andrew Intrader. He was eventually hired by Michael Cohen as a consultant, was paid about $500,000 by Michael Cohen for what we were told was consulting work. And now this new video which we have reviewed today shows that these two men, Andrew Intrader and Viktor Vekselberg were at Trump Tower and as you said, we were told the meeting was about improving U.S. and Russia relations. And this meeting we're told was with Michael Cohen, the president, was not there, Donald Trump was not in the meeting, the meeting lasted about 30 minutes and then the two men left. And as you now know, Kate, pretty well there has been a lot of reporting about Victor Vekselberg, about Andrew Intrader and it all tells us why the special counsel is so interested in Viktor Vekselberg. We also know that at some point Andrew Intrader was also questioned about the FBI. Now, also keep in mind, Kate, Viktor Vekselberg was at Trump's inauguration. There is some history with him and Vladimir Putin. He was at an RT dinner that as you may recall Michael Flynn was at. So, all of this, obviously, created some suspicion and some concern for the FBI and the special counsel team that has been looking at Russia collusion. And that's why they wanted to talk to him and certainly this again raises some questions as to exactly what was Viktor Vekselberg doing there, who thought this was a good idea for this man who is a very well-known Russian oligarch, who has connections to Vladimir Putin. You know, who would think this would be a good idea for this man to appear to show up at Trump Tower during the transition?", "And also, how that is, if that is connected to that huge dollar amount that the private equity firm paid then to Michael Cohen for consulting services. How that all fits together, that's what they're looking at. Great to see you, Shimon. Thank you so much. Coming up for us, the backlash over the briefings, lawmakers ripping the Trump administration for involving a White House attorney at a confidential briefing among the gang of eight and talks about the source in the Russia investigation. Plus, did they learn anything new? With all that leadup ahead of time. We'll discuss. Also surrounded by cameras, without a red carpet in sight, Harvey Weinstein walks into a New York City courtroom, walks into a New York City courtroom in handcuffs after being charged with rape and other sexual offenses. What his accusers are saying now."], "speaker": ["KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "BOLDUAN", "JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER", "BOLDUAN", "TONY BLINKEN, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST", "BOLDUAN", "BILL RICHARDSON, FORMER NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR", "BOLDUAN", "BLINKEN", "BOLDUAN", "RICHARDSON", "BOLDUAN", "RICHARDSON", "BOLDUAN", "SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN CRIME AND JUSTICE REPORTER", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-217887", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-11-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/01/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Drug Tunnel Links U.S. Mexico Warehouses", "utt": ["A sophisticated super tunnel is discovered snaking between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. It has lighting, ventilation, even an electric rail system. Investigators also found drugs valid at nearly $12 million. Now authorities have a new warning for the drug cartels. Miguel Marquez is outside of the tunnels' entrances -- Miguel.", "Carol, this is the door that agents busted down here. It's always a nondescript warehouse. It's 600 yards south of where we are standing is Mexico and there's another warehouse on that side where the tunnel began. Inside they found the drugs. There have been three arrests so far, but they're described as small fish in all of this. As diggers in the tunnel and transport folks, law enforcement officials say there will be more.", "And I would offer this to the drug cartels, we are by no means finished here. And don't say we didn't warn you. You go underground, you're going down.", "Law enforcement underscoring that the investigation on this has just begun and they're talking tough because they want to send the signal to drug dealers that whether they try to go under the border or over it or in ultra light planes like they have been doing or in speed boats, they are getting bigger and more powerful and going farther up the coast in California, that they will have surveillance and they will bust them. It is concerning to them, though, that cocaine was found in this tunnel. That indicates to them that as they say right now, that the drug cartels, that they are more desperate than they have been in the past. And the problem here in Southern California is that the amount of hard drugs, cocaine and heroin and others have been coming in, in greater, greater amounts, and the price for drugs across the country and the world have been going down. So they really want to get on top of this and make the most of these sorts of bust -- Carol.", "Miguel Marquez reporting for us this morning, thank you. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, new rules for using electronic gadgets onboard an airplane, one airline, Delta, is making the change today. What do passengers think? That's next."], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "MARQUEZ", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-372910", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2019-06-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/21/ath.02.html", "summary": "Judge Rules on Abortion Law That Would Make Missouri 1st State Without Abortion Clinics Since Roe v. Wade", "utt": ["To that point, we know, from talking with you and Jeffrey Toobin and other legal experts, that there has been for a number of years actually a plan in place by folks who would like to see Roe v. Wade overturned, to start with these cases with an ultimate goal of getting one or more to the Supreme Court in a way that then would force a decision, a second decision, really, on Roe v. Wade.", "Yes, and you're exactly right about that, Erica. If you look in different states, you will see that different approaches are being used. Obviously, in Missouri, they're talking about the need for a second pelvic exam. In other states, there may be another medical procedure. There may be -- we've heard about fetal heartbeat laws being used. There are a number of approaches being used to give the Supreme Court a reason to take a second look at Roe v. Wade.", "We'll continue to follow all of them. Paul, thank you.", "Thank you.", "We appreciate it. Ahead, Democrats courting key voters in two critical states. Their messages just days before the first debate, coming up. First, there are more than 30 million stray or feral cats living in the U.S. This week's \"CNN Hero\" has made it his mission to bring those populations down.", "My main focus is TNR and rescue, grabbing cats off the streets, saving lives. With TNR, this is the last generation that has to suffer outside. Come on, come on. Now I've probably fixed and returned at least a thousand feral cats in about four and a half years. A lot of times people ask me, do you love cats. I like them. But that's not really why I got into it. We want to save lives. This is the greatest feeling in the world.", "For more about how Paul does his work and for some more adorable kittens -- because who doesn't need those -- log on to CNNheroes.com. And while there, remember, you can nominate your own \"CNN Hero.\""], "speaker": ["ERICA HILL, CNN ANCHOR", "PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "HILL", "CALLAN", "HILL", "PAUL SANTELL, CNN HERO", "HILL"]}
{"id": "CNN-12323", "program": "Newsday", "date": "2000-7-21", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/21/nd.01.html", "summary": "Election 2000: Bush to Announce Running Mate by Next Week", "utt": ["But we begin with some political intrigue just nine days before the Republican convention in Philadelphia. Though they were often bitter rivals during the primaries, Republican sources tell CNN that John McCain would be willing to serve as George Bush's running mate if asked. The sources say McCain told Pennsylvania's governor, Tom Ridge, that if Bush asked him to serve he would, though, he \"prefer not to.\" But this morning, the Arizona senator says he feels no different now than he did when he last met with Bush back in May.", "As far as I'm concerned, nothing has changed since my conversation with Governor Bush in Pittsburgh. I understand the frenzy associated with this particular time and the decision making process. But as far as I'm concerned, nothing has changed since my conversation with Governor Bush at Pittsburgh.", "What's it all about? we turn to our political analyst Bill Schneider. Bill, what has changed? and we heard John McCain say nothing's changed, but something has, at least a clock.", "I think McCain's made some trouble here, possibly for himself and certainly for Governor Bush. Because this is supposed to be Bush's moment when he's making up his mind. And McCain is saying, if he really begs me, I would be willing to consider it. Which kind of puts Bush on the spot. Because there are a lot of Republicans, particularly in the House, who are telling Bush, please put McCain on the ticket. Because that way we'll be sure to win and then we'll keep our majority in the House. They're trying to force a marriage.", "This kind of pairing, this marriage, was considered so unlikely even by top Republicans, what would change the dynamic?", "Yes, the only way this is likely to happen is if Bush is convinced that the only way he can win is with McCain on the ticket. Now, then, McCain would get him elected and nobody one else could. But I don't think he's figuring that right now and I don't think there's a reason he should figure that.", "So who else?", "Oh, Chuck Hagel is a live possibility.", "Senator from Nebraska.", "Senator from Nebraska, not an important state, it's the most Republican state in the country. But he has a lot of international experience, built an international business. He's a McCain supporter, something of a maverick in the Senate who has some of McCain's appeal, without the McCain headaches.", "And he authored a campaign finance effort at compromise.", "That's right.", "Clean up some the system, who else?", "Oh, well, there are lots of other possibilities. Tom Ridge was the one who brokered this conversation between Bush and McCain. But he's likely to have done that because he believes that he's no longer in the running. George Pataki's a possibility, John Kasich, Elizabeth Dole, they're all around.", "Wouldn't John McCain, though, trigger amazing public excitement if you take the primary season as some kind of barometer?", "No question that John McCain has been the sensation of this election. But in a way, he would overshadow Governor Bush. I mean, John McCain is the one who really gets people excited, particularly outside the Republican Party and some Republicans. But does Governor Bush really need that? does he need to be kind of overshadowed by his vice president? Because in the end, people vote for president in this country, not for vice president.", "Bill, a lot of these contenders, these vice presidential contenders have been told to hand over their phone numbers, where they'll be over the weekend, secure phone lines. What is likely to be going on inside that Bush campaign right now? and what do you hear about timing?", "I think they're under pressure to make a decision pretty soon. Because the process is just about to get out of control. Governor Bush says he's going to make up his mind by Sunday and then he'll make an announcement probably in the middle of the week. He may not be able to hold on that long. Because once he starts contacting people and word gets out, they can't control the story anymore. I'd say suspect something, maybe early next week.", "Bill Schneider, thanks."], "speaker": ["FRANK SESNO, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA", "SESNO", "WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SR. POLITICAL ANALYST", "SESNO", "SCHNEIDER", "SESNO", "SCHNEIDER", "SESNO", "SCHNEIDER", "SESNO", "SCHNEIDER", "SESNO", "SCHNEIDER", "SESNO", "SCHNEIDER", "SESNO", "SCHNEIDER", "SESNO"]}
{"id": "CNN-165986", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-5-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/11/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Making a Pilgrimage to \"Mayberry\"", "utt": ["You didn't just accidentally switch to TV land. This is still", "That's pretty good. He is such a multitalented guy.", "I have to tell you behind the scenes, we have this going on. We have Rob behind camera one playing his harmonica. Piano man, perfect. I mean this is great.", "There is some news associated with this. I am not just whistling. You have all seen the \"Andy Griffith Show\". I'm not even going to say maybe you've never seen the \"Andy Griffith Show\". But I bet we can all whistle the theme.", "When you hear the theme music, you know what it is. The popularity of the show is saving one town, that's known as the real life Mayberry. Tom Foreman is live in Mount Airy, North Carolina with \"Building up America.\" Good morning, Tom. Can you whistle it?", "Good morning to all of you. Let me tell you something. I was so excited riding into this town. Never been here before but I recognize street names. I recognize people. I recognize shop names, all sorts of things. And that's the whole point because this place resonates with people all over the country. And that's become a key for building up this town in difficult times. Take a look.", "Every day, tourists poor through Mt. Airy, stopping in shops, taking pictures, remembering the magic of a fictional town whose theme song still plays on Main Street.", "Yes. It's right down here.", "Andy Griffith grew up here and based much of his hit TV show on this town.", "I am going to put my name and the date on here and years from now, when we are all dead and gone, and Mayberry's a big city, people will know that I burned my name into a piece of wood on this here day.", "The show's 50-year history is well documented at this popular new museum where a lifelong friend of Griffith, Emmet Forrest is the chief collector.", "My very favorite items from the collection are the signs from the door of the courthouse.", "The museum drew more than 50,000 people in its first year. And in the annual Mayberry Festival and landmarks like Griffith's childhood home and it is all driving $85 million in annual tourism for the county.", "It has saved Mt. Airy. We have lost about 4,000 jobs due to textile plants and the furniture factories going offshore. So tourism is about what we have left.", "Many visitors come back time and again. Some, like Betty Lynn, from Los Angeles moved here.", "I go to the grocery store and people walk up and hug me and kiss me.", "of course, she is a special case. She played Barney's girlfriend, Thelma Lou.", "We knew it was a wonderful show and we loved doing it but we didn't really know that across America, how much it would mean to people all through these years, 50 years. Can you believe it?", "Almost no one can. Five decades after the make-believe Mayberry captured America's hearts, it has become the life's blood of this very real town.", "This is such a great destination for travelers in this country. The museum is fascinating. So many great things. There are items from Andy's desk, the keys from the jail cell. It is unbelievable. Andy Griffith still lives in North Carolina, far away. He supports the local effort, in large part, because it supports the local arts council. He doesn't get here very often, but I'll tell you this, guys, the ghost of Andy Taylor is roaming these streets every single day. It is really a charming, charming town and a great story of success that they have built here.", "All right. Tom Foreman, another charming story on the CNN.", "Enjoy your lunch at the snappy lunch over --", "It's a great lunch for a good price. You have to come on in.", "We have to lift our way to Carol Costello at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Hi there.", "\"CNN NEWSROOM\" starts right now. Carol."], "speaker": ["CHETRY", "CNN. ROMANS", "ROMANS", "VELSHI", "ROMANS", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "FOREMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FOREMAN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FOREMAN", "EMMETT FORREST, FRIEND OF ANDY GRIFFITH", "FOREMAN", "FORREST", "FOREMAN", "BETTY LYNN, ACTRESS", "FOREMAN", "LYNN", "FOREMAN", "FOREMAN", "CHETRY", "VELSHI", "FOREMAN", "ROMANS", "VELSHI"]}
{"id": "CNN-43878", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2001-11-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/16/lt.21.html", "summary": "Atlanta Airport Reopens After Security Breach", "utt": ["Now, let's get the latest on that situation at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, after a security breach there created gridlock that literally rippled through airports across the country. CNN's Natalie Pawelski is there in Atlanta at the airport -- Natalie.", "Judy, just a few minutes ago, we heard the first airplane take off from this airport since it was shut down early this afternoon. What happened was a man rushed past a couple of security guards and down an up elevator and got into a secure area of the airport without being screened. Now, under new regulations in place since September 11, that meant that the airport had to be shut down and evacuated. That is why there are thousands of people, 5,000 to 10,000 people estimated, standing outside of Hartsfield Airport waiting to be allowed to go back in. They have let in a few people, but just at a trickle. A lot of people are getting kind of impatient. The mood is pretty good, but reactions are definitely mixed.", "I'm very patient, but I can assure you I don't want to fly a plane for a long time. After 9/11, after the plane crash that happened in Manhattan, I'm very scared. I'm going to have to get on a flight, because I'm not good at driving to Miami. But, for a long time, I won't fly a plane, that's for sure.", "We all prefer to be alive rather than take chances.", "I feel great. I just had a wonderful trip and this isn't bothering me one bit. I'm just going with it and I just feel really good. If I have to a stay the night here, then I have never been to Atlanta before, so...", "We just heard a second plane taking off. It is going to take a long time for this airport to get back up to speed. They didn't even really have an estimate for us. That is because all of the airplanes that were here were grounded. Incoming flights were held at the airports where they were supposed to take off from. A few international flights were allowed to land and that is it. Since early this afternoon, there have been thousands of people waiting around, just now, being allowed to get back into the airport, Judy.", "And, Natalie, what about the man who breached security? What happened to him again?", "Officials here say that he was able to escape into the airport. They have not yet caught him. Now they were able to get a video image of him and they are circulating a description of the man to the National Guard and police that are patrolling the airport. But they think it is very likely that he was able to exit with the rest of the evacuees from the airport. It is possible they will catch him, but they are not holding out any great hope.", "All right. Natalie Pawelski at Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta, what a situation. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "NATALIE PAWELSKI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "PAWELSKI", "WOODRUFF", "PAWELSKI", "WOODRUFF"]}
{"id": "CNN-98264", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2005-10-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/04/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Second Indictment for DeLay; Tour Boat Investigation", "utt": ["Congressman Tom DeLay hit with another indictment in his campaign finance scandal. Now he's accused of money laundering, and the Texas Republican is making some strong accusations of his own. We've got a live report from Washington just ahead. President Bush faces reporters in a White House news conference. In just 90 minutes, his Supreme Court nominee a likely subject of questions. Could he face a rebellion from the right over Harriet Miers? We'll take you live to the White House. And new reports of violence and fighting in Iraq. A powerful and deadly bombing inside Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone, while in western towns thousands of U.S. troops are on the offensive again on this", "From the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, this is AMERICAN MORNING with Soledad O'Brien and Miles O'Brien.", "Welcome back, everybody. Miles has the day off. We're going to have a look at those stories ahead this morning. Also, some new developments to tell you about in the investigation of the tour boat accident that killed 20 people in New York. First, though, let's get right back to Rob Marciano. He's reporting for us from Lake Charles, Louisiana. Hey, Rob. Good morning.", "Hi, Soledad. On the shores of Lake Charles, where 12 days ago the water was over my head and pressed up against I-10 just to my left, with five and six-foot breakers on top of a seven or eight-foot storm surge. So obviously still wreckage and damage. This used to be the Wildlife and Fisheries building where they would have boats out here to go out and take samples. They haven't been able to do that, obviously. Their docks and their storage facilities are all torn up. We're starting our three-day tour -- or we're in the middle of our three-day tour of three states that have been affected not only by Hurricane Rita, but also Hurricane Katrina. Yesterday, if you didn't join us, we were in Port Arthur, Texas, southeast Texas, which got the western edge of the eye wall as Rita came ashore 12 days ago. Lot of damage there, the lights still out. Across the Sabine River, across the border we came into southwest Louisiana and Calcasieu Parish. Lake Charles is where we stand right now, where they got the eastern end of the eye wall, the more destructive, the higher winds, the greater storm surge. And certainly here they're struggling to pick up the pieces. But we have seen some bit of good news in the last 12 to 24 hours. Some lights beginning to pop on. Some folks trying to get back to their houses to actually take a look at what they've seen. Coming up in this half-hour, I've managed to track down a an old friend and colleague. Time to get a little bit selfish here, Soledad. I used to work in this town, and one of the great voices of Lake Charles is going to join me in this hour, and he really has his pulse on the community here and will give us a feel for what folks have been going through in the last 12 days -- Soledad.", "All right, Rob. Thanks. Headlines now. Carol Costello has those. Good morning.", "Good morning, Soledad. Good morning to all of you. \"Now in the News,\" President Bush will hold a news conference at the White House this morning. It comes after a number of recent developments, including his latest Supreme Court pick, the federal response to the hurricanes, and the resignation of the FEMA chief. That news conference is set to take place at 10:30 a.m. Eastern. It will happen in the Rose Garden. And of course CNN will have live coverage for you. Turning now to Iraq, there's been a car bombing near Baghdad's Green Zone. Video from the scene shows smoke, heavy smoke, rising from the area. Iraqi police say at least three people were killed, seven others hurt. West of Baghdad, the U.S. military is launching two new offensives in the Al Anbar region. Some 3,000 U.S. troops, backed by Iraqi forces, are trying to hunt down al Qaeda operatives.", "Louisiana authorities say the search for Hurricane Katrina victims is over. All agencies have apparently finished looking for bodies. The death toll in Louisiana was raised Monday to 964. The total number of victims from the five states where the storm hit the hardest now stands at around 1,200. Former President Bill Clinton is said to arrive in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the next hour. He'll meet with Katrina survivors and get a briefing from officials on the relief effort. He and former President George Bush are trying to decide how to best use the $100 million raised for their Katrina fund. Clinton is also expected to make stops in Mississippi and Alabama. And two Americans and a German share the Nobel Prize in physics. The announcement coming down earlier from Stockholm, Sweden. The scientists won for applying modern quantum physics to the study of optics. You got that? Their work makes it possible to do things like improve GPS technology, which helps me especially, and develop extremely accurate clocks, which helps all of us in the broadcasting...", "I didn't know that that was from quantum physics.", "I know. So, you go, guys.", "Exactly.", "Congratulations.", "Congratulations to all involved. We have no idea what you actually do, but we're happy you won.", "We are.", "Thanks, Carol. Congressman Tom DeLay facing more legal troubles this morning. Another Texas grand jury has indicted the former House majority leader once again. This time on a money laundering charge. Joe Johns at Capitol Hill for us this morning. Joe, what exactly is behind the second indictment?", "Good morning, Soledad. In the event the first count gets thrown out by a judge, the prosecutor has essentially upped the ante.", "Travis County prosecutor Ronnie Earle piled on a new charge against former Majority Leader Tom DeLay, money laundering, a first-degree felony on top of a prior charge of criminal conspiracy. This new and more serious charge comes after some fast- paced legal maneuvering in Austin, Texas. Late Monday, attorneys for DeLay asked the judge to throw out the conspiracy charge because conspiracy in this context was not yet a crime in 2002, when the alleged wrongdoing occurred. The judge has not yet responded. DeLay tried to laugh it off, speaking with a Texas radio station.", "So this crime didn't even exist. And -- and -- I'm sorry for laughing. This is -- this is beyond -- it's just unbelievable. I mean, he's making the Keystone Cops look good.", "DeLay's lawyers say Earle got the new money laundering indictment out of desperation.", "If this doesn't prove that the motivation behind this indictment is political, then I don't know what it is.", "The indictments relate to a plan by Texas Republicans to first take over the state House in 2002. Earle says DeLay and his associates used corporate money, $190,000 funneled through Washington to win the Texas legislature in violation of Texas law. Back in April, when I went to meet him, Earle explained his reasoning.", "I call it money laundering.", "Why?", "Well, taking the proceeds of a criminal transaction and using it for other purposes.", "DeLay's attorneys insist there was no money laundering because all of the financial transactions that took place were perfectly legal.", "The law was followed. No law's been broken.", "The prosecutor's office is not conceding anything was wrong with the first indictment. They say they are prepared to fight that issue out in court -- Soledad.", "Joe Johns on Capitol Hill for us this morning. Joe, thanks. Well, today federal investigators are going to interview the captain of a tour boat that capsized. Twenty people were killed when the Ethan Allen sank on Sunday. And now authorities have shut down the tour boat's operator. Susan Lisovicz live for us in Lake George, which is just about 50 miles north of Albany. Susan, good morning to you. I know you're waiting for the sort of official statement from the company. What do you think we're going hear?", "Good morning, Soledad. I think what we're going hear is that Shoreline Cruises is going to express its deep remorse about what happened on Sunday, and also to state that it is cooperating fully with authorities. One of the reasons why I think that's what we are going hear because that's the company's very -- very statement that you hear when you call the company. It's its outgoing message. Shoreline Cruises is a family run business. It has been here for decades. It operates four other boats in addition to the Ethan Allen, including the Adirondack, which is just behind me, which is obviously a much larger boat. But in any case, its operations right now are suspended. The New York State Parks Department suspended all operations for Shoreline Cruises yesterday because it did not adhere to regulations that required an additional crew member aboard the Ethan Allen on Sunday. There was just one crew member on Sunday. That was the captain. And there were 47 passengers. In the meantime, the majority of survivors, 27 survivors, have returned to Michigan. CNN caught up with one of the survivors yesterday still in the hospital, Jeane Siler, who described the ordeal on Sunday.", "All of my friends around me, some of them not being able to swim, were fumbling about. Some of them were screaming, and those that could were trying to hang on to the side of the boat.", "Jeane Siler just happens to be also a Red Cross volunteer who just very recently returned from the Gulf Coast area, where she was assisting victims of Hurricane Rita and Katrina. She came to escape from that, have a week of relaxation. She says she -- she is much better at handling other people's grief than her own. In the meantime, Soledad, another very busy day here. The NTSB will hold its first formal interview with the Ethan Allen's pilot, Richard Paris, and also divers will return to the scene of the accident. Commercial pilots lifted the boat yesterday, but today Warren County's scuba unit will return to try to retrieve personal effects from the bottom of the lake. Back to you.", "All right, Susan. Thanks. Gosh. You know, when you hear her talk, you just realize how devastating -- you know, elderly people can't swim, with walkers, terrified, probably can't even hold onto the boat. I mean, just a horrible thing. Susan Lisovicz, thanks. And we'll of course get an update from you when we get more news out of there. There's some welcome news this morning for hundreds of hurricane victims from the New Orleans area. The first of Louisiana's trailer park communities for evacuees could open as early as today. Dan Simon's in Baker. It's about 80 miles northwest of New Orleans. Dan, good morning to you. How many evacuees could live in this one park that's behind you?", "Well, good morning, Soledad. We haven't seen anybody come in yet, but as many as 3,000 people could soon be calling this place home. We're standing on to top of our SUV. So this kind of gives you a good vantage point of how many trailers we're talking about here. Ultimately, there are going to be several sites just like this, but as we discovered, not everybody is fully embracing them.", "It gives new meaning to the idea of a gated community. Workers are putting their finishing touches on this previously vacant land that now holds nearly 600 trailers that await scores of hurricane evacuees here in Baker, Louisiana. Some of the locals calling it FEMA City, and hurricane victims like Jamal Simms can hardly wait for moving day. He says he's been living in a crowded shelter for the last month.", "I'm ready to go right now. You know what I'm saying? Basically for the privacy. That's the most important thing.", "Refrigerator, freezer over here. (voice over): The trailers, as we saw firsthand, are compact. As many as five people will have to share the space, but they have all of the essentials for living. Nonessentials, too, like CD players and microwave ovens.", "Basically your own house.", "But not everyone is equally thrilled. Lisa Carter says, despite losing everything in New Orleans, the tight quarters are enough to keep her away, along with what she claims is opposition from locals.", "And the community don't want us here.", "There's some truth to what she's saying. Just listen to Baker resident Clifton Burge, who says he's worried about an increase in crime.", "We've had crime here before this had ever come here. So this -- the only thing I can figure, it's going to increase it. You bring in more people, you're going to have more crime.", "Local officials held a town hall meeting, and Mayor Harold Rideaux got an earful from other concerned residents. (on camera): You had some pretty vocal people.", "We had some.", "According to the mayor, the worries were fueled in part by stories about rape and murder in New Orleans following Katrina. While other communities are turning down similar trailer sites, Rideaux says the hurricane victims are fully welcome in Baker.", "And god blessed us and we were spared. You know? Let's -- let's give something back to those that are less fortunate.", "And for people who lost everything, this new mini city offers a fresh start in rebuilding lives.", "And back here live in Baker, each one of these trailers costs Uncle Sam about $15,000 to $20,000 a piece. And as you saw there, it's pretty tight quarters. They're only about 30 feet long -- Soledad.", "Yes. Not a lot -- five people to a trailer. That's a tight squeeze. All right. Thanks for that update and that report. Let's get back to Rob Marciano. He's reporting for us this morning. Good morning, Rob.", "Hi, Soledad. Obviously, we're here in Lake Charles. It's a beautiful day in Louisiana. We're tracking -- we're getting progress reports on the storms that rolled through, how people are recovering. But we've got to shift gears a little bit and talk about something that's also weather related, and that's the wildfires that are out West. They were being blown around pretty bad last week. The winds cane onshore, knocked them down a little bit. But now the winds are started to pick up again. And that's not good news. KTTV is one of our affiliates out there. Bob DeCastro is a reporter. Hello, Bob. What's the latest?", "Good morning, Rob. Well, more than a thousand firefighters from all across the state are still here, and they are bracing for those extreme fire conditions. We're in the West Hills area. This is an area that was hard hit by the Topanga fire, which burned some 25,000 acres. Three homes were destroyed last week. It's now about 85 percent contained, but they're going to be working very hard today to contain this fire, because they're concerned about that round of Santa Ana winds expected to come today. In fact, the National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning. They're concerned about these Santa Ana winds, expected to exceed 35 miles per hour at times. And that, coupled with the low humidity, the high temperatures, the extremely dry conditions, can pose an extreme fire danger. So they're bracing for that today. We are expecting again some very dry conditions. Fire officials are asking people in this area to be extremely careful, especially in the wildland areas, because they do believe that most of these wildfires are caused by humans. That's the latest from here. Rob, we'll send it back to you.", "Thanks, Bob. Bob live for us in southern California on the wildfires, the latest there. Chad, you know, I thought maybe things would quiet down, but apparently those winds have gone offshore. What's going on with that?", "Yes. That's not really the case, Rob.", "Still to come this morning, the latest on the efforts to get hurricane victims back on their feet financially. We'll take a look at a special program that's backed by FEMA, corporate America, and thousand of volunteers as well. Plus, much more on the political impact of Harriet Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court. Could the president's pick hurt Republicans in next year's elections? We'll get that ahead on AMERICAN MORNING."], "speaker": ["SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "AMERICAN MORNING. ANNOUNCER", "O'BRIEN", "ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST", "O'BRIEN", "CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "O'BRIEN", "O'BRIEN", "COSTELLO", "O'BRIEN", "COSTELLO", "O'BRIEN", "COSTELLO", "O'BRIEN", "JOE JOHNS, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "JOHNS (voice over)", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-296263", "program": "INSIDE POLITICS", "date": "2016-10-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1610/17/ip.01.html", "summary": "Trump Claims Election is Rigged", "utt": ["Welcome to INSIDE POLITICS. I'm John King. Thanks for sharing some time with us today. A packed day on the campaign trail, we're 22 days out, including Mike Pence and Bill Clinton events just this hour. We'll keep an eye on those, dip in if we feel the need to. Plus, some brand new CNN poll numbers releasing right now from three presidential battleground states. Let's get to them. First in the battleground state of Ohio, let me move that one up, pull you in here, battleground state of Ohio, good news for Donald Trump. A lot of bad news lately in polls, but Donald Trump up 48 percent to 44 percent. The third party candidates at four and two respectively. A narrow lead for Donald Trump in battleground Ohio, a state he needs to win. Let's move now to North Carolina, one of the most competitive states in American politics. What do our new numbers show there, CNN/ORC poll shows Hillary Clinton with the narrowest of lead, a one-point lead. So, statistically, a dead heat in North Carolina. Perhaps a little bit of Clinton momentum. Gary Johnson gets 4 percent. Jill Stein is not on the ballot in North Carolina. Now let's go west to Nevada. This one's a bit of a surprise. A state the Democrats have won pretty convincingly the last two times out. But, let's take a peek here and look at these numbers, 46-44. Again, a very narrow Clinton lead. The statisticians would say that's a dead heat, 46-44. Gary Johnson gets seven. None of the above, you can do that in Nevada, gets 2 percent. We'll see if that goes a little high on Election Day. Now, if you look at those numbers right there and you're a Trump supporter, well, after a tough couple of weeks, reason to see the glass is half full, right? They believe the Republican candidate can re-seize the momentum in Wednesday's third and final presidential debate. But if you look at the other map, if you look at this, the electoral map, Clinton's state-by-state advantage, it's still pretty overwhelming heading into the stretch. Again, narrow leads for her in Nevada and North Carolina. Trump up a little bit now. Perhaps in Ohio. But the hard truth for Trump is, she can afford to lose all three of those states and still win the election, which is why Trump now adds the polls to his growing list of complaints and conspiracy theories.", "False stories, all made up, lies, lies. No witnesses. No nothing. All big lies. It's a rigged system. And they take these lies and they put them on front pages. This is a rigged system, folks.", "With us to share their reporting and their insights as we begin the week, Julie Pace of the Associated Press, Ed O'Keefe of \"The Washington Post,\" Karen Tumulty, also with \"The Washington Post,\" they've emptied the building out for us, and Mary Katharine Ham of \"The Federalist.\" Let's start with these polls because they're three of the most competitive states in the country. They're very close right now. If you've looked at the past couple of weeks you would think, well, why isn't it a blowout then? Everything thought, even Republicans would tell you, the race is over. We have a big debate Wednesday night. As I said, Hillary Clinton can afford to lose North Carolina, afford to lose Ohio, afford to lose Nevada. Thy don't want to, they don't think they will, but they can afford to lose all those three. But just that they're tight enough, does that tell you, for all of this talk that it's over, that Trump has a chance, if, capital \"i,\" capital \"f,\" bold face, underline, if he can turn in a compelling debate performance?", "Yes, I think is the short answer, but he needs to do more than have a compelling debate performance. Right now he has a solid group of supporters that have stuck with him and will continue to stick with him basically no matter what happens over the next three weeks, but he needs to have some more consistent outreach, particularly to women, to independents, to moderate Republicans. He needs to move them over into his camp. I think what's helping keep this close is that Hillary Clinton remains unpopular, even as she has pulled ahead in some of these polls. If you look at her favorability ratings, you haven't seen huge changes there. She's not out on the campaign trail a lot, not doing a lot pro- actively to try to change impressions of her and she's getting this slow drip, drip from WikiLeaks that seems to reinforce a lot of the questions that a lot of Americans have about her.", "If this is the best, last chance for Trump, this week ahead that includes this big debate, the last time you'll have whether it's 60, 70, 80 million people watching, who knows what the ratings will be, but the first one got 80-something, is this the right argument for Donald Trump to be saying that this is a rigged system right now before the vote? Now, remember, we didn't hear this when he was winning the Republican primaries. We did hear this a couple of times when he was in a bad stretch in the Republican primaries. But Donald Trump tweeting out this morning, at a time his campaign team is saying he means the media, he means you guys in the media are trying to rig the system. Well, that's not what Donald Trump says. \"Of course there's large-scale voter fraud happening on and before Election Day. What do Republican leaders deny what is going on? So naive.\"", "Well, he doesn't seem to have any evidence of that. And secretaries of state across the country, a number of them Republicans, including in Ohio, are saying, no, it's - it's - there is no evidence of large-scale voter fraud, but Donald Trump has never really sort of felt the need to back up these kinds of claims. The real problem for him right now is, these kind of tweets sound like he's already conceding defeat.", "But there were a lot of - there were a lot of people who think that. There are a lot of people", "Well, I think the problem goes beyond his performance in a debate or even tweeting, because the problem for him has always been that the map is a little bit more friendly and has more built-in votes for Democrats and so he has to, at this point, run what would be a pretty perfect game from here on out for the next couple weeks.", "Right.", "I'm not sure we've seen evidence he can do that. It remains close because undecided voters, if you look at focus groups, are different than they've been in the past. Undecided voters in the past are unengaged and then they sort of clue in right at the last minute and make a decision. Undecided voters this time are very engaged and disgusted with their choices.", "Right.", "So it's unclear how those guys will behave in the next couple of weeks, but it doesn't surprise me a ton that it keeps tightening up for that reason.", "Right.", "People want a change, but they're afraid of the change he's offering.", "But they want a change. And we also - and Democrats don't like this when you say it, but we live in a center right country. If you look at the national map, if you look at the Republican House minority, if you look at the fact that they have 54 Senate seats, if you look at the fact that they have 30 governors across the country.", "Right.", "If you look at the legislative gains in the last eight or 10 years, mostly Republican. It's a center right country, but Democrats win the White House when voters in the middle, moderates, suburban women especially, reject the presidential - you mentioned the secretary of state of Ohio. I want to bring him up here because he's a Republican. Now Trump's going to say, I'm at war with the Republicans in Ohio. The governor won't endorse me. This guy's a friend of the governor. So Trump would say, same old establishment criticizing me. But listen to the secretary of state in Ohio here. A pretty big state in this country. They a lot of close elections in Ohio. The secretary of state says, rigged? No way.", "Well, I'll say a couple things. First of all, I can reassure Donald Trump, I am in charge of elections in Ohio and they're not going to be rigged. I'll make sure of that. Our institutions, like our election system, is one of the bedrocks of American democracy. We should not question it or the legitimacy of it. It works very well. In places like Ohio, we make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. We have a bipartisan system of elections.", "So there's a Republican secretary of state, and there are 50 of them, plus, you know, an official here in the District of Columbia and then the territories as well, they administer the elections. They saying, yes, sure, every now and then there's a couple of shenanigans at this polling place or that polling place, but there's no such thing. There's no such thing. And he has Rudy Giuliani, in addition to Donald Trump's tweets and Steve King, the congressman from Iowa on television saying, of course the Democrats cheat, of course they get dead people to vote. I mean I - no offense to these people here, but mayor - Mr. Mayor and congressman, I'll ask these four not to come in some day and I'll give you the whole hour. You bring me evidence - you bring me evidence that says this election was swayed by fraud and here's the proof, and you can have the hour. Bring me the proof. But - so why is Trump saying this?", "Because he's - again, I think it's - they understand that he's in a losing position. He's in a defensive crouch right now and this is all he really has. It's trying to depress voter turnout overall by making more people upset about this election, sick of it, tired of it and just wanting it to go away. They feel that if they can do that, perhaps these numbers come out in their favor. The other problem here, I look at these numbers in Ohio, North Carolina, Nevada, that all suggests a turnout operation is necessary in those states. Republicans are lag in all three. If they can keep it close in Nevada, the state where I think we will be waiting up for most of all on election night, Democrats believe they can do it because they've done it before. They did it for Harry Reid in 2010. They did it in 2012. Ohio, again, if you can start turning out black voters in the last few days of early voting in Ohio, Democrats believe they can eek ahead. And North Carolina, again, there they believe, Democrats, that they have found enough white progressive, blacks and Hispanics to show up this time.", "Right.", "Maybe the flooding affects it a little bit, but otherwise they can get ahead of it because Republicans don't have operations in these states.", "You make a key point. We're going to dig deeper into those numbers a little bit later in the show. But, Mitt Romney woke up on Election Day thinking he was going to win and he had every reason to think that. He was tied in the polls heading into the election. He had momentum. But, he was out hustled. Out hustled on Election Day and, more importantly, out hustled before Election Day with all the early voting operations. Mike Pence has been a little bit different. Donald Trump tweeted this morning -", "And we've seen this - we've seen this on other issues in the past. Syria, from the vice presidential debate. Then Donald Trump saying in the next debate, no, no, no, I disagree with Mike Pence. But Donald Trump saying, of course there's large-scale voter fraud happening. Essentially saying, you know, if she wins, she cheated. That's what he's trying to say in advance. Mike Pence, listen to him here, he says, no, I don't think so.", "We will absolutely accept the results of the election. Look, the American people will speak in an election that will culminate on November the 8th, but the American people are tired of the obvious bias in the national media. That's where this sense of a rigged election goes here. We'll accept the will of the American people, you bet.", "Now, he's, again, he's blaming the media, which is a - bring your specific complaints, but it's a conservative -", "A classic Republican attack line in a close", "It's - it's classic. It's tried and true and never works.", "You can say it.", "But it's - but it's - can we see - if Hillary Clinton wins, is she going to walk out at her rally that night and said, I just got a call from Governor Pence, as opposed to I just got a call from Donald Trump -", "I think it -", "And Governor Pence says we accept the will of the American people but, sorry, Donald doesn't?", "I think it's a real question. Until Donald Trump drops this idea that there is going to be voter fraud on November 8th, I think it's a real open question on whether he would accept the results. Obviously Mike Pence and other Republicans, I don't want to cast all Republicans under this rigged election umbrella because a lot of them are very concerned about just the perception that the results would be deemed illegitimate perhaps by millions of people. It's very dangerous to our democracy. But Trump seems to be kind of conflating two things here. You saw this both in the Democratic primary and you've seen it in this election that there are a lot of Americans that think that much of what we see coming out of government is rigged against them. That it's rigged for the wealthy. That the media is rigged for Democrats. And that's a real concern that I think we should be discussing. But taking it to this level and saying that the actual results of an election are rigged is something much different.", "Well, it -", "And I - I don't think he's going to let go of the argument because it's - he did this during the primaries. It's a bit of an insurance policy for if he loses so that he can blame it on something. I think that's just part of his personality. As usual, the story's sort of in the middle. Like voter fraud is a real thing. People are prosecuted for it. It does not usually happen in large enough numbers to sway elections. I think some of the voters that he speaks to, and I don't think he's having this whole thought process, are mad that that voter fraud, when it happens, is largely ignored and I think that elections should be secure and they feel like they're beat up for thinking elections should be secure and have things like voter I.D. And so when he makes this argument, they react to it in a sort of visceral way. But I don't think that many of them used to buy the idea that swayed all these elections. We'll see if he convinces them otherwise.", "But I also think he's laying the predicate for the argument that's going to happen after the election if he loses within the Republican Party, where the party is going to be arguing whether the problem here was that they nominated a flawed candidate or that they didn't get behind the flawed candidate. And by saying that the results of the election are illegitimate, you are giving sort of a second wind to sort of Trumpian politics.", "Right. Well, and, remember, he spent years trying to delegitimize the current president.", "Right.", "By being a cheerleader for the birther movement. So the question is, is he - does he have plans already, if he thinks he's going to lose, to set up some shop, whether it's a media outlet or something else, after the election to say, she's not real. She's not legitimate. Don't let - don't support anything. Don't support compromise. We'll see how this one goes. Quickly on this point here, let's bring in Tim Kaine, who, talking about this, he's asked about this and he thinks Donald Trump is up to something?", "He's blaming the media. He's blaming the GOP. He's saying that America can't run a fair election. He is swinging at every phantom of his own imagination because he knows he's losing.", "And?", "That's the argument - that's the argument they'll make in the closing days here. And, you know, and the Democrats will, once again, have to push back against another series of unsubstantiated claims that he's making. You know, this is - this is - this is how he keeps his name in the news and this is how he continues to frustrate a lot of Democrats who think that they're putting this away, but, you know, perhaps we'll have three more weeks of this.", "Well, and telling Donald Trump - telling Donald Trump he's acting a way because he's losing makes him act that way doubly.", "Even more.", "Right. I would just close on this note. If this - if there is consistent, persistent widespread election fraud in America, then the Republicans stole the House of Representatives, the Republicans stole the Senate, the Republicans stole those governors' races? I think not. I think not. I think they won them. I think they won them fair and square. 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{"id": "NPR-4689", "program": "Talk of the Nation", "date": "2010-08-13", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129180187", "title": "Discovering The Secret, Speedy Life Of Plants", "summary": "Plants have a reputation for being sedentary, unmoving, planted. But some plants are moving so quickly, their motion is invisible to human eyes. Biologist Joan Edwards and physicist Dwight Whitaker broke out the high-speed cameras to capture the story of exploding peat moss.", "utt": ["Joining us now is Flora Lichtman. Hi, Flora.", "Hi, Ira.", "Flora is here with our Video Pick of the Week. What have you got for us today?", "This is kind of little bit of a mindblower for me. We dive into the secret life of plants this week. And it really is - this is a little-known secret, I think. Plants, right - I think of plants as things that stay put.", "Right. Well, they're grounded, so to speak.", "Planted, yeah. Take your pick. But it turns out that some plants are moving so fast that their motions are invisible to our eyes.", "Wait a minute. They are moving? They have parts that are moving so fast that we can't see them move? (unintelligible)", "Yeah. It's not like they're - they're not zipping down the block.", "They're not zipping - okay. All right.", "You're right. Let's be specific. Yes, pieces of the plant are moving so fast that we can't see them. So two researchers, Joan Edwards, who's a biologist, and Dwight Whitaker, who's a physicist, took high-speed cameras to a couple of these plants and watched them do these amazing fast motions.", "Like what?", "Well, what they recently looked at was peat moss, bags of moss, and they watched it explode.", "You know, when I go to the nursery, it just sits there in the bag. It's not exploding. In what way? Shooting - something shooting?", "It's shooting up spores. So the problem with - I mean, the...", "Wow.", "...challenge moss faces is that it can't grow very tall.", "Right.", "It's low to the ground.", "Right.", "It's short, which I understand. So what moss has evolved to do is get its spores up into this mini jet stream that occurs above the sort of the ground floor.", "Right.", "So, about 10 centimeters up, there's this wind, and it's got to get its spores there. But the spores are really tiny, so just getting them up that high is pretty difficult. So it's evolved to this explosion mechanism to get it up there. And the kind of amazing thing is that when they looked at this explosion with the high-speed cameras, they found out that it's not just a simply propulsion. The way that it explodes, it sends out this special puff of air.", "It's like on our web - on our video that Flora produced on sciencefriday.com where we can see it up there at the left. And you look at this as amazing, because it's like it's being shot of a cannon.", "Yeah.", "You know, it's a boom. I mean, I guess you could be standing next to this thing, and it would shoot this stuff right up into your face.", "But - yeah, and you would just see the aftermath...", "Wow.", "...because it really happens in a millisecond.", "And it's going how fast when it gets shot out of air?", "It's 60 miles per hour, they estimate. And it's shooting - it's not just any cannon. It's shooting out a smoke ring, like a smoke ring you might blow yourself if you were a smoker. And there's something special about this vortex of air that allows it to travel farther up. So basically, the spores that are in this capsule that explode ride this smoke ring up 10 centimeters, which doesn't sound like a lot, but consider you're a moss, then(ph), that's a lot for them.", "Right. Well, think of the pressure that has to develop inside the plant, right?", "Yes.", "I mean, the plant has figured out how to create this huge, high-pressure explosion.", "Right.", "You have to hold it in to the right point, right?", "Right. Right. And so this is when it mostly happens. The way this capsule work is - works is that it's filled with water and spores, and then during the day or hot days in the summer, it starts to dry out. And as it dries out, it gets smaller and smaller. But as it does that, the pressure gets - goes up, because the air is getting squeezed into a smaller space. And then it gets so intense in there. It's like the pressure in a - in semi-truck tires is what Joan Edwards told me...", "Oh.", "...but in this tiny little capsule.", "A tiny little plant.", "Yeah.", "And then something triggers it, some - at just the right time, it happens.", "Yeah, eventually it...", "It dries out at the right...", "Yeah.", "And the thing explodes. It's amazing. You've captured this - they've captured this on high-speed film, and you can watch this video on sciencefriday.com, where Flora has taken these and put these together, and the interviews with the scientists. And it's just an amazing sight to see this explosion.", "And that these kind of things are happening. You know, they've described a few different species, and that these kind of explosions or these fast motions are just happening right underneath our noses.", "Wow.", "One of the researches said that, you know, she'd seen the bunchberry plant many, many times, and then eventually said, what's going on here? What's - what are these little puffs of smoke?", "Wow. Kaboom. If you want to see the explosion - thank you, Flora. It's - you know, maybe we'll walk by them sometime when it's actually happening. Go to our website at sciencefriday.com, where you could see Flora's Video Pick of the Week and that terrific video. 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{"id": "CNN-251551", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-03-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/19/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Caroline Kennedy Back to Work after Death Threats", "utt": ["Even as the U.S. in Japan investigate death threats made against her, Caroline Kennedy appeared to relax this morning as she spoke at an event with first lady Michelle Obama. This is her second public appearance since those threats were made public. Kennedy's husband though admits that he has concerns.", "I worry about the safety of my family every day. Any threat is scary, but I think everyone's taking the proper precautions.", "To discuss, we are joined now by Thomas Schieffer. He's a former ambassador to Japan and he's also the former ambassador to Australia. Ambassador, thanks for being with us.", "My pleasure.", "And, you know, you were the subject of threats while you were in Japan. Maybe they weren't quite as public, but what can you tell us about those incidents and what it was like to go through that? Well, I think it's hard for Americans to understand sometimes is that when they hear about a post to what-not and the nomenclature is severe, middle, low chance of something happening, there's never a rating for any American facility in the world that has no danger involved, including our facilities that we have in New York and the United Nations. It's just part of the life. And American ambassadors around the world are targets for somebody. They can be people that are mentally deranged, they can be terrorists, they can be ideologues. But there is no place in which an American ambassador does not serve without some sort of threat. And these threats are not unusual. They occur in a lot of places. And I had situations in both Australia and Japan in which there were threats made. There was an off-duty policeman from a city outside Tokyo that threw a Molotov cocktail into the compound one day. It didn't hurt anybody, fortunately, but security is something that every ambassador is concerned about. Not just about himself or -- but about the people that are under him. That's the primary concern you have is to be sure that everybody is safe every day, every hour of the year.", "So you go into an appointment like this, just knowing sort of accepting that there is a level of risk. Certain posts are higher risks. Japan and South Korea, for instance, where Ambassador Lippert was attacked by a knife recently, a lot of stitches, very bloody event, very scary, could have been much worse. Those appointments are actually considered relatively low-risk appointments.", "That's right. But --", "Do you think that there is -- there is an -- so you look at that and we've had these kind of instances in that region. Is there an increased risk for Americans in general abroad right now or are we just hearing -- is this just us hearing more about this?", "I think you're hearing a lot about it but I think that 9/11 demonstrated that there's no place on earth that's safe that is without these kind of risks and you have to be aware of them. I mean President Kennedy's ambassador to Japan, Edmund O. Reischauer was stabbed by a deranged person and it was almost a fatal wound that he had. But as I said, these things happen. I mean I remember going through the security seminar at the State Department in preparation of going before going to Australia. And somebody said there, you need to keep in mind that since the end of World War II, there has been more American ambassadors killed than American generals and admirals. That's a sobering thought. But I think it's important to remember that it's not just ambassadors that are at risk. You will see through the year a number of American personnel that are serving in embassies around the world, somewhere around the world that will be killed or injured at the post. It may be an aide worker, an aide counselor as it was in Jordan during my time that was killed outside his garage. What I came to understand in my service was that we are fortunate to have young men and women and older men and women who are serving our country abroad at great risk to themselves and it's not just in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. It's all over the world because you are a trophy to some sort of group who wants to do harm to the United States. It's something you live with.", "Yes. It's --", "But it is something that we have to constantly be on guard about. I was in Australia. I was in Japan. And I can assure that the Japanese are all over this. They provide a lot of security to the American ambassador. They do it quite well.", "So that's my question, Ambassador. Because a lot of it is -- you know, a lot of it with the State Department, they're relying on security from the host country so often I know this is sufficient. But it gets sensitive when you're dealing with the balance between U.S. security and the host country's security. We sort of hear this talked about in -- I don't want to say sanitized terms but this is diplo-speak when we're hearing from the State Department. We heard earlier from Caroline Kennedy's husband. This was a very human reaction where he says that he's concerned. Did your family ever have reservations about your posts and the possible threats?", "Sure. I mean on Christmas Eve, one year when we were in Australia after 9/11, we received a packet of white powder on Christmas Eve. It required a lockdown of the embassy. It turned out to be a hoax but we, of course, didn't know it at the time. There were a couple of other times that I received packets like that. There were numerous threats. It's just part of the job. But it's the part of everybody's job that is at a foreign post. And one of the things that I resolved to do when I got back home was to remind as many people as I could that there are dangers to serving your country and it's not just on the battlefield. It's other places. But we've worked with foreign governments and it's not a question. We're guests in everybody else's country as they are in ours. Here in the United States, the Secret Service provides the diplomatic protection for all of the embassies that are located here. When you're abroad, the local governments provide that. They do a good job and they work closely with our people. No one wants somebody injured in their country. They just don't.", "Yes.", "But having said that, we live in a dangerous world. And there are a lot of people out there that want to do harm to the United States. And I would say one other thing which I noticed both in Australia and Japan. The security that I had was the same that the prime minister of each of those countries had. Foreign ministers, defense ministers in those countries didn't have the security that I had and the only other embassy that had that level of security was the Israeli embassy for the same reason. There are people that want to do harm to Israelis and they are around the world.", "They want you to stay safe certainly on their watch. All right. Ambassador Schieffer -- thanks so much. Really appreciate --", "Thank you -- Brianna.", "-- your special insight on this. And I want to get now to Anna Coren because she has some new details for us on this case -- on the threats against Caroline Kennedy as well as another U.S. official more. What can you tell us, Anna?", "Yes, Brianna. Developing anew here in Japan, a local media station TV Asahi which happens to be a CNN affiliate is reporting that a 52-year-old man from Okinawa has been arrested. That he has admitted to police that he made three phone calls to the U.S. embassy here in Tokyo threatening to bomb it as well Camp Schwab in Okinawa. That's where about 28,000 U.S. Marines are stationed. We should stress that these calls -- these three calls were made this month. Now, the death threats to Caroline Kennedy -- they were made in February. And we understand from these reports that police are also investigating 30 phone calls made to the U.S. Embassy here in Tokyo specifically against Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador here in Japan. She's been holding this post for some 16 months. Well respected, very much admired here in Japan. But it was seen that those threats are more specific to Caroline Kennedy and police are investigating whether there is any connection between the 30 calls made last month and the three calls made this month by this 52-year-old man -- Brianna.", "30 calls. That sounds like an awful lot. Is that why the flag was raised here -- the red flag about this? That this is out of the ordinary?", "Yes. Look, it would appear so. And I should note that we are working our contacts with the police. We are waiting for confirmation. One of our producers is on the phone to them at this very moment. So until we get that specific, you know, confirmation, it's really hard to tell. But you would have to assume, 30 calls made specifically against Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, certainly raising the red flag for authorities. Particularly in light of what happened with Mark Lippert the U.S. ambassador to South Korea -- a horrific incident in Seoul. He was slashed across the face and arm with a knife and sustained hideous injuries and needed something like 80 stitches. So as we know security very much has been tightened here in Japan for Caroline Kennedy. But you know what, in saying that, Brianna, she has been going about her duty. She has been escorting U.S. first lady Michelle Obama who is here in country pushing her girls' education initiative, a partnership that the United States is working with Japan. So it is very much business as usual and she addressed the media earlier today. And it wasn't about her own personal safety. It was about the three Japanese citizens who were killed in those terror attacks in Tunisia -- Brianna.", "It is a calling that there is some potential danger in it. Business as usual though for Caroline Kennedy, it appears. Anna Coren for us from Tokyo -- thank you. Still to come, victims of a massive hack attack on Target could get a pretty good payout. We'll have details next."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "EDWIN SCHLOSSBERG, CAROLINE KENNEDY'S HUSBAND", "KEILAR", "THOMAS SCHIEFFER, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA", "KEILAR", "KEILAR", "SCHIEFFER", "KEILAR", "SCHIEFFER", "KEILAR", "SCHIEFFER", "KEILAR", "SCHIEFFER", "KEILAR", "SCHIEFFER", "KEILAR", "SCHIEFFER", "KEILAR", "ANNA COREN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR", "COREN", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-204301", "program": "EARLY START WITH JOHN BERMAN AND ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN", "date": "2013-4-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1304/03/es.02.html", "summary": "\"Person Of Interest\" in Texas DA Murder; Rutgers Univ. Coach Under Fire for Player Abuse; NRA: Expansion of Background Checks on Table", "utt": ["So could it be the break that cops are looking for? A person of interest identified in the murder of two Texas prosecutors.", "Out of bounds and maybe out of a job. A college hoops coach called out nasty behavior on the court all caught on camera.", "You can call him the comeback kid. South Carolina's former governor, Mark Sanford, takes a big step towards putting his scandalous past behind him. Welcome back to EARLY START, everyone. I'm John Berman.", "I'm Christine Romans in for Zoraida today. It's Wednesday, April 3rd. We're about 30 minutes past the hour. A new development this morning in the case of two murdered prosecutors in Kaufman, Texas. Investigators are now focusing on a person of interest, they say, a former justice of the peace named Eric Williams (ph) who was fired in a corruption probe and prosecuted by the two men who are now dead. CNN's George Howell live from Kaufman, Texas, this morning. George, tell us about this person of interest.", "Christine, good morning. So CNN spoke with his attorney, David Sergi, and we learned that investigators, they met at a local Denny's here to take swab samples from Williams' hand to test for gun residue. At this point, CNN does not know what the results of those samples revealed to investigators, but Sergi, David Sergi tells us that his client did cooperate voluntarily because he has nothing to hide. But it's important to put all of this in perspective. Williams may be one of several people of interest that investigators are looking into that these two men, that Hasse and McLelland, may have prosecuted over their careers, and also, there are several other theories that are still out there, the possibility of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas may be being connected, the possibility of a drug cartel or was this an inside job? We just don't know because, again, no suspect is in custody. But, Christine, fair to say that these investigators have a lot of angles that they can look into.", "I'll say. So George, what sort of differences are you seeing as the investigation moves forward?", "You know, just yesterday, this was very, very apparent, but you see these public officials being flanked by law enforcement as they enter the courthouse, as they exit. And we spoke with one district attorney in nearby Anderson County who told us about the mood, what it's like to do his job in this environment. I want you to take a listen to this.", "I feel like Mike was murdered for what he did, and so it makes it kind of -- it's a little scary to people like me, but it's not going to change the way I do business. And I'm not going to walk in fear. I'm not going to not prosecute the people I prosecute. But you've got to be careful.", "So Christine, the person that is filling Mike McLelland's position now, Randi Fernandez, she will be filling that position for 21 days until Governor Rick Perry here appoints a new district attorney for this county, but we understand that Fernandez is being flanked also by security, 24-hour a day security.", "All right. George Howell for us in Texas this morning. Thanks, George.", "So we're following developments this morning in the story that is just shocked and surprised so many people that has to do with Rutgers University and the video surfacing about its basketball coach, Mike Rice. This video shows Rice screaming at players, grabbing them. He kicks them, throws balls at them, including their heads throwing them from point blank range during practice, and if that's not enough, he uses some gay slurs to reprimand them. Now, Rutgers officials have known about this disturbing video since last fall. So a lot of people are asking why does the coach still have his job? This is how the school's athletic director explains it.", "The moment that we became aware of the video in November, when it was presented to us by Eric and his lawyers, we immediately commenced an independent investigation into the matter. We talked to everybody in the program. We evaluated the situation, and we suspended Mike in a more significant way than coaches have been suspended in recent memory.", "So that punishment, just three games had some people pretty angry right now. So now, the pressure is growing on Rutgers to fire the coach.", "Wow. I mean, it's just -- you hear tales of tough coaches who use real hard language, but that's a bully -- that's not leadership. It's like bully territory.", "Look, I've been to a lot of practices and I've seen a lot of sports action, you know, up close. I've never seen anything quite like that. And there've been tweets. They've been talking about this, about players like Lebron James, Ray Allen, people around the league. They're all shocked by this also. It's not like this is something that everyone sees all the time.", "And some players actually said they have moved schools. They left the program because of this.", "There were transfers who are now saying that was part of the reason they left.", "All right. We'll continue to follow that all morning only on CNN. The NRA's Asa Hutchinson telling our Wolf Blitzer the expansion of background checks is on the table. Hutchinson is a former congressman who's heading up the NRA's national school shield task force, while his new position on background checks appears to be a concession. It comes with a giant, giant caveat.", "I'm open to expanding background checks. You can do it in a way that does not infringe upon an individual and make it hard for an individual to transfer to a friend or a neighbor, somebody that, if you're in Montana and have a casual sale, we don't want to infringe upon those rights either.", "Hutchinson's loophole for so-called casual gun sales amounts to a rejection of Democratic senator, Chuck Schumer's, bill that would require universal background checks for all gun sales.", "A grisly scene on a busy Brazilian highway. A passenger bus plunging 30 feet from a via duct in Rio De Janeiro onto its roof. At least seven people were killed, six others injured. Rush hour traffic at a standstill yesterday as the victims were removed from the bus. A witness told Brazilian TV station the driver had a dispute with the passenger right before the crash.", "All right. Day 40 -- day 40 -- 40 days now of the Jodi Arias murder trial. Plenty of drama continues here. The judge denying a defense request for a mistrial, but a juror was thrown off the case and left the courthouse sobbing. Arias' defense had argued juror number five, a female in her 30s, jeopardized this case by gossiping and exhibiting bias in front of other jurors. That juror is now gone.", "Former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford continues his somewhat improbable political comeback. Sanford beat Charleston City councilman Curtis Bostic last night in a Republican Congressional runoff. He will now face Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a May 7th special election. As we all know now, she is the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert. Here's what Sanford told supporters last night.", "I'm incredibly humbled, incredibly gratified, incredibly thankful for this night, for what it means at many different levels, and I just want to thank everyone of you for your part in making it possible. Thank you very much.", "Sanford's career and personal life sort of left in shambles after he disappeared from office and lied about an extramarital affair back in 2009.", "The president and first lady are getting ready to welcome one of their favorite singers to the White House, part of a star-studded concert next week that will pay tribute to Memphis soul music.", "Justin Timberlake will be there along with Cyndi Lauper. They're going to be joined by soul legend, Sam Moore of Sam & Dave, Mavis Staples, and guitarist Steve Cropper, and the legendary Al Green will be there, seen here performing for a Capitol Records concert, which means President Obama could face pressure to get on stage. He might just be Al Green's number one fan.", "The concert will be recorded and broadcast later this month on", "Not bad, but I do prefer the Al Green version --", "Neither of them should quit their day job.", "So 37 minutes after the hour. His gruesome injury stunned sports fans all over the country. Coming up, Louisville's Kevin Ware takes a big step towards recovery. Good for him."], "speaker": ["JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "GEORGE HOWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "HOWELL", "DOUG LOWE, ANDERSON CO, DISTRICT ATTORNEY", "HOWELL", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "TIM PERNETTI, RUTGERS DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "MARK SANFORD (R), S.C. CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "ROMANS", "ROMANS", "PBS. BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-229807", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-5-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/04/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Dramatic High Wire Circus Act Goes Horribly Wrong; Ukraine Sees More Violence Today", "utt": ["Hello again, everyone. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Here are the top stories we are following for you right now. A terrifying moment as circus performers drop about 30 feet in a stunt called the human chandelier. What we are learning about how it may have happened. And protesters in Ukraine stormed a police station today breaking windows and doors, another intense clash just days after dozens of deaths. What that means for the ongoing crisis coming up. And as if controversy was hanging heavy on the L.A. Clippers, the team that is, the players, they did not show it. The team had a huge win last night. But now the front office is facing big changes as well.", "This is CNN's breaking news.", "All right, we begin with this breaking news. A dramatic high wire circus act in Providence, Rhode Island that went horribly wrong. It happened during a performance known as the human chandelier. Nearly a dozen people are injured. Nick Valencia is joining me with more of the details -- Nick.", "Yes. I just got off the phone with the hospital spokesman. They are in Rhode Island. She told me that at least 11 people related to this circus act have been transported to the hospital. One of them is listed in critical condition. And as we reported earlier, we know at least nine of those taken to the hospital, Fred, were performers. Eight of them as part of this human chandelier, an act where the acrobats are suspended by their hair earlier. You spoke to a spokesman of the parent company who told us what happened.", "This apparatus have been used for multiple performances each week since the show launched back in January. And each and every time that we come to a new venue, all of the equipment that's used by this performer, with this group of performers as well as all the other performers is carefully inspected. We take the health and safety of our performers and our guests very seriously.", "Now, there is video out there of this incident. We're working on bringing that to you. I've seen the video and it appears that these performers fell at least 20 to 30 feet. That's also what witnesses are telling us. And there was no safety net or suspension underneath them. And as we are talking earlier that really speaks to the confidence of these performers. The circus had just gotten in town on Friday. They were expected to until Monday. This show immediately after the incident happened was canceled. No word on when the show will continue, if at all in Providence, Rhode Island.", "And you know, just in being looking at the video, these performers that were on this apparatus, it looked as though as soon as the curtain revealed them, maybe they had two moves, kind of like a split type of move and then a pike kind of move and then suddenly it all came crashing down. But really, what strikes me, too, and it's a remarkable accident but really what strikes me is your description of they were suspended by their hair?", "By their hair. And it is called that hair hang apparatus. Anytime you are connected to an apparatus where you really have no ability to move. You know, you are really suspended by that and if something went wrong. This is an apparatus that we were told by the circus spokesman that had been used between 12 and 14 times per week since January. They say they take the safety of the performers very high and that's the number one priority. They had tested their apparatus before the show. Clearly, Fred, something went wrong.", "All right. Thanks so much, Nick. Keep us posted on this and, of course, on the progress of all of those injured, 11 now, right?", "Eleven now.", "All right, thanks so much. All right, overseas, we're also focusing on what is taking place in Ukraine. The site of the deadliest clashes in months there is now seeing even more violence today. Just two days ago, more than 40 people were killed after a riot ended after a fire in Odessa. Dozens of activists were detained after that. Well today, hundreds of pro- Russian activists stormed the police station demanding they be released. Police did end up letting dozens of people go. They were greeted with hugs and cheers as you hear right here. And in a calmer moment in Odessa, Ukraine's acting prime minister met with local leaders. He offered his condolences for those who died this week and he said that Ukraine has to unite. Odessa is in the southern part of the country hundreds of miles from the clashes in eastern Ukraine, closer to the border with Russia. CNN senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh has seen what has been happening in that region firsthand.", "You can see the mismatch between Ukraine's military on its rebellious militants of what is left of this barricade outside", "All right, thanks so much to Nick Paton Walsh for that report. And for more on this crisis, I'm joined now by Christopher Hill, the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq. He is now the dean of the Joseph Corbel (ph), school of international studies at the University of Denver. Good to see you. All right. So this whole crisis really does highlight Ukraine's continued vulnerabilities in its 23 years of independence. And is the issue here, that Russia sees this effort as rescuing Ukraine or simply taking it back to the Russian Empire?", "I think from the Russian point of view, they have a great interest in continuing this kind of violence. I mean, their whole narrative as that the Ukrainian authorities, Kiev, can outrun the country. They are \"pitting their army against the people,\" quote-unquote. So I think the Russians have a real interest in keeping this type of crisis going o, hoping it can even go to a kind of civil war and basically justify whatever it is that they want to do.", "But then what? It crumbles, it goes into the civil war, then how does Russia, if that's the psychology here, turn it into their favor?", "Well, certainly, there has been an organic relationship between Ukraine and Russia. That has been a fact for hundreds of years. But the issue right now is you have a Ukraine that has been extremely split between pro-Russian and a more nationalist Ukrainian view. Obviously Russia, to try to absorb all of Ukraine, would be a big problem for it. I mean, it would be absorbing a lot of problems at this point, absorbing a lot of burned out buildings at this point. But keeping the crisis going and therefore keeping Russian options going, I think it's what they have in mind in the short term. And as for a long term, don't assume that they really know at this point what they want to do.", "And then you talk about, you know, the western countries like the U.S., President Obama, Germany, chancellor Angela Merkel who said collectively that Russia could face more sanctions if Ukraine is not stabilized in time for its election later on in May. Sanctions don't seem to be working.", "First of all, I don't think sanctions are going to work for the short-term crisis. Maybe in the long term, if you want to further impoverish the Russian economy and therefore build up antipathy for Putin, may they will work. But for the short term they are not going to work. And moreover, the danger with sanctions is the more we push them, the more we get push back from the Europeans and the more we create the possibility that the U.S. and Europeans will have a different view on this. The one thing we have going for us throughout this crisis is that the U.S. and Europe have been very much together on it.", "Ambassador Christopher Hill, appreciate your insight. Thank you.", "Thank you.", "All right, When we come back, we're going to talk about that scandal and the NBA. Donald Sterling's estrange wife now is speaking out. 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{"id": "NPR-5130", "program": "News & Notes", "date": "2006-06-07", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5457604", "title": "'Fifth Beatle' Billy Preston Dies at Age 59", "summary": "Ed Gordon pays tribute to late keyboardist Billy Preston, who died Tuesday at age 59 after a long battle with kidney failure. The Grammy-winning songwriter was once dubbed the \"fifth Beatle\" and played on many of the group's biggest hit songs. He also penned his own hits including \"Will It Go 'Round In Circles,\" and \"Nothing From Nothing.\"", "utt": ["(Singing) When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom. Let it be.", "The rhythm behind this famous Beatles tune is provided by the soulful piano playing of Billy Preston. Preston collaborated on some of the best-known Beatles recordings.", "The keyboardist died yesterday at the age of 59, after a long battle fighting kidney failure. He had been in a coma since November.", "(Singing) Let it be, let it be. Whisper words of wisdom. Let it be.", "Preston had his own hits. He and singer Syreeta performed the loving duet, With You I'm Born Again, and he's probably best known for his huge hits of the 1970s, Outa Space, Will It Go Round in Circles, and Nothing From Nothing.", "(Singing) Nothing from nothing leaves nothing. You gotta have something, if you want to be with me. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing…", "Billy Preston wrote what was to become one of the most recognizable tunes ever, You Are So Beautiful, which Joe Cocker made into a worldwide hit.", "Preston's mentor was none other than the great Ray Charles, whom Preston, in a 2004 NPR interview, credited for his own musical success.", "As far as the way he interpreted songs, the way he, you know, had it in his heart to express this, the lyric, and the to live the songs that he sang. I mean he just took every song that he sang and made it his, as his own experience.", "Preston took what he learned from Charles to Europe in the 1960s. He was playing with Little Richard in Hamburg, as part of the Beatles' opening act, and began a life-long friendship with the Fab Four. He later became known as the Fifth Beatle.", "The Houston, Texas native soon gained a reputation as a musician's musician. Rock bands that wanted a soulful keyboard sound knew that Billy Preston was the man to call. Most recently, though seriously ill, Preston performed on albums by Neil Diamond and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.", "Billy Preston died Tuesday in Scottsdale, Arizona.", "(Singing) I've got a song, it ain't got no melody. I'm a gonna sing it to my friends. I've got a song, it ain't got no melody. I'm a gonna sing it to my friends. Will it go round in circles?", "Next up on NEWS AND NOTES, recycling old electronics. Tech guru Mario Armstrong tells you how. And NEWS AND NOTES commentator, Joseph C. Phillips, has a new book on politics, family, faith, and keeping it real.", "(Singing) …like a bird up in the sky. I've a story, ain't got no moral. Let the bad guy win every once in a while. I've got a story, ain't got no moral. Let the bad guy win every once in a while.", "You're listening to NEWS AND NOTES from NPR News."], "speaker": ["Sir PAUL MCCARTNEY (Musician)", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "Sir PAUL MCCARTNEY (Musician)", "ED GORDON, host", "Mr. BILLY PRESTON (Musician)", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "Mr. BILLY PRESTON (Musician)", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "ED GORDON, host", "Mr. BILLY PRESTON (Musician)", "ED GORDON, host", "Mr. BILLY PRESTON (Musician)", "ED GORDON, host"]}
{"id": "NPR-24493", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2015-05-04", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/05/04/404236505/rescued-boko-haram-captives-recall-their-ordeal", "title": "Rescued Boko Haram Captives Recall Their Ordeal", "summary": "NPR's Melissa Block speaks with the Associated Press' Michelle Faul about her trip to a refugee camp where Nigerian soldiers have brought girls and women rescued from Boko Haram.", "utt": ["Hundreds of Nigerian women and children have been freed from captivity by the Nigerian military in the past week. They had been held captive by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram. Associated Press correspondent Michelle Faul spoke with some of the women, who are now at a refugee camp in Yola, Nigeria. I asked her if any of the rescued women or girls were part of the Chibok girls, the focus of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign.", "That's not clear. The army has actually rescued nearly 700 women in the past week. And then last night, they said that they had come upon another group of 260, so you're talking a lot, a lot of women. The women that we spoke to in Yola were the first group to reach the safety of a refugee camp. None of them who were registered said that they were from Chibok.", "Michelle, what happens with these women and children now? Where do they go?", "Well, they're going to stay in the refugee camp probably for several weeks. A team of people trained in trauma counseling arrived in Yola this morning. And I spoke with the doctor who's in charge of the team, and he has counseled other women who've been held for many months by Boko Haram. And he said some of them are so brainwashed that they actually have come to believe this Islamic extremist ideology and believe that Boko Haram is good and that the government of Nigeria and the military are evil. And it really takes a lot of hard work to put these women back into a mental frame of mind where they can continue with their lives.", "Do you have any sense, Michelle, of what sort of stigma these women and girls may face if they do go back to their home communities?", "I think there's a very real danger that some of them may be shunned because it is assumed that any young girl who was held was raped. I have spoken with other young women who escaped from Boko Haram on their own, and they told me that they were not. But I must say I wondered. When I was looking at the very many children and babies who came in this new group, I did wonder whose children those were.", "Is there one story that you heard from the women at the refugee camp who've been rescued - one story that has really stuck with you about what they endured?", "Bingta Ibrahim (ph) - she was 16 years old when she was abducted and taken with her sister-in-law and two other sisters to a village where she found three children who'd been abandoned in the warzone. But she knew the parents of these kids, so she took them under her care. Now, bear in mind, she's 16 years old. This was 13 months ago. Six months ago, there was an air raid on the village where they were, and her sisters said, let's go. We can escape. There was pandemonium, chaos - let's go. And her sisters escaped, and she didn't. She said, how could I abandon those children again?", "And what really touched me about this - Bingta is a Muslim. The three children that she brought to safety at that refugee camp are all Christians. Now the Islamic uprising in the Northeast has really polarized Nigerians across the country on religious lines. And here's this young girl. When I said to her, you know, how do you feel about the kids? She says, I love them like they are my own. And she, like, beat her chest with both her fists to show how deep her love is for them.", "And the real question now is what happens to them from here?", "Well, she's hoping that there are parents alive out there that she'll be able to return the children to.", "Michelle Faul, thank you for talking with us.", "Thanks, Melissa.", "Michelle Faul is Nigeria bureau chief for the Associated Press."], "speaker": ["MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "MICHELLE FAUL", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "MICHELLE FAUL", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "MICHELLE FAUL", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "MICHELLE FAUL", "MICHELLE FAUL", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "MICHELLE FAUL", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST", "MICHELLE FAUL", "MELISSA BLOCK, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-213248", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2013-8-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1308/23/nday.04.html", "summary": "WWII Veteran Beaten To Death; Sambora Out?; President Obama One-On-One; Inside The Abduction", "utt": ["-- conducting an all-out search for those suspects.", "He was a war vet and he fought for this country. In fact, he was shot when he was 18 years old on the beaches of Okinawa.", "He survived an attack in World War II only to be savagely beaten to death here at home. Outrage as friends and family remember the war hero they called Shorty, 89-year-old Delbert Belton.", "He's like my dad is what he was to me. Was a hell of a nice guy. He'll do anything in the world for everybody.", "Police say Belton was attacked in his car Wednesday night. He was waiting for a friend outside this pool hall where he often played. Officers say Belton's friends found him badly beaten inside his vehicle and saw two teenagers running away. Belton suffered severe head injuries. He died Thursday morning.", "It does appear random. He was in a parking lot, appears that he was assaulted in the parking lot and there was no indication of any, that he would have known these people prior to the assault.", "Investigators revealed two teenage suspects between 16 and 19 years old.", "They need to be caught, period, because that's senseless, man, beating an old man? What kind of person does that, excuse the express, a wimp.", "Friends of Shorty put up a memorial outside the pool hall, as they hold out hope that the kind, old man who gave so much for his country will get justice in the end.", "A 5-year-old kindergarten student in Memphis could be facing a long suspension. That child took a gun to school and it went off in his backpack. School officials say the weapon discharged while students were waiting for the opening bell in the cafeteria. Thankfully no injuries reported. The incident however is now under investigation and officials say they will follow the state's zero tolerance policy on weapons in school. Police investigating the crash of a charter bus on a freeway in Southern California, 50 people injured, most of those injuries not considered serious. That bus was headed to a casino when it went off Interstate 210 and ended up on its side with one point the freeway closed in both directions, traffic was backed up for some 30 miles. Definitely a shot through the heart of Bon Jovi fans. Fix.com says legendary guitarist Richie Sambora has been fired from the group. The site says Sambora was apparently too expensive, raking in $2 million a month plus profits from touring. What is Bon Jovi without Sambora?", "You cannot put a price on genius.", "That should be on a mug.", "On my mug. Now we're going to show you some more of our exclusive interview with President Obama. The president shares the country's fascination with Antoinette Tuff after her amazing actions at that school in Georgia calming a gunman saving kids. For the president it is people like Antoinette Tuff that keep him going.", "So we have this horrible situation that was luckily avoided down in Georgia. We saw something we see too much of and something we almost never see, somebody mentally ill not properly monitored and a weapon and almost created a tragedy and Antoinette Tuff, what do you think of her?", "She was remarkable. I talked to her today.", "I learned from the best, the best president in the world.", "Because when I heard the 911 call and read the sequence of events, I thought here's somebody who is not just courage and not just cool under pressure, but also had enough heart that somehow she could convince somebody that was really troubled that she cared about and I told her, I said not only did she make Michelle and me proud but she probably saved a lot of lives, including the life of the potential perpetrator.", "Absolutely. She was calm in the face of the gunman. Did she keep her calm when she got a call from the president of the United States?", "She was pretty cool, too. She was happy about it.", "Thank you, too, I greatly appreciate it and I hope I get a chance to meet you also.", "I think we might have to maybe have her make a visit to the White House.", "That would be a great way for her, to reward the kind of behavior we open no person ever has to find themselves in.", "One of the things that you see and one of the reasons I love these bus tours, you meet folks like this all across the country every single day they're doing incredible stuff. Usually it's not as spectacular and the stakes aren't as high as this one, but everywhere you go, you see people who are working hard, doing their jobs, looking after their families but also giving back to the community and sometimes I think in Washington you lose sight of what exactly makes this country so great. It's not all the stuff that gets a lot of attention. It's that day to day courage, kindness, empathy that really makes a difference.", "On NEW DAY we call it the good stuff, and do a story about it every day to reinforce the idea that people are out there going above and beyond.", "I appreciate it.", "It's my favorite part of the show. What is more daunting to you, the prospects of protecting the free world or dealing with a teenager, what gives you pause for concern?", "I got to tell you, and Michelle gets all the credit, Malia and Sasha are just doing great. They are poised. They're smart. They're funny, but most importantly, they're kind. They're respectful to everybody. I just couldn't be prouder of them. What I'm discovering is that each year I get more excited about spending time with them. They get a little less excited but they love me so they want to pretend like they want to spend time with me so they'll come into my office and pat me, you know, and say \"Daddy, I love you,\" and they'll give me a 10-minute conversation and say OK, daddy, I got to go. I'll be gone all weekend and see you Sunday night.", "Is that what the new dog is about?", "I think there is an element for Michelle and me, we see what's coming and we need to make sure that we got somebody who greets us at the door when we get home, but part of it is also Bo. Bo was getting lonely because the two other puppies have grown up and they still have some responsibilities for him but they're not always around during school, sports practice, all that stuff so Bo was starting to look a little down in the dumps inside the house and sunny, the new dog, she's only a year old and the truth is, she's faster than he is. She jumps higher. She's friskier and --", "Every man has to learn that, though.", "She is trying to keep up and ultimately I think it will be great for him over the long-term. Right now, Michelle is in full parenting mode and really focused on getting Sunny to sit and you know, catch and also there have been a couple accidents.", "No.", "Yes, but --", "Is that like a federal violation?", "Well, it is --", "Because that's a national museum.", "We live in rental housing. We didn't have to make down a deposit, but we are making sure it gets cleaned up for the next occupant.", "Puppy may have to retain counsel.", "I know, exactly. Watch out. I do love that moment when you're talking with him and he's talking about getting outside of the White House and getting outside of Washington and talking about how much he enjoys and how much of a relief it is to get out of the bubble and to see the people that, well, he's really serving and you can really -- I bet that is a very honest, candid moment. You can see how it's stifling.", "Easy to forget. Easy to forget what matters most. We'll show you there's more the president has to say, coming up ahead, he's going to talk about what needs to happen in Congress to avoid a shutdown. Now he has the perspective from the outside he's going back in and our private conversations. Are they safe? He's confident they are and we'll tell you why.", "Also ahead on NEW DAY, Hannah Anderson is now talking about the tragic events that put her in the national spotlight and also suspect James DiMaggio. For some, Hannah's interview will have left plenty of questions unanswered.", "We also have an amazing tale of survival. This Florida fisherman had no choice, but to tread water after he got knocked off his boat. He was able to do it for 18 hours, no life vest. We'll take you through what it took him to survive."], "speaker": ["MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PEREIRA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PEREIRA", "DET. 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{"id": "CNN-367203", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-04-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1904/15/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Washington Braces For Release Of Redacted Mueller Report; Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Says She Has Experienced Increase In Death Threats", "utt": ["He seems like a changed guy and he's once again a champion.", "It's a story of redemption that everyone can cheer. Thank you, Andy Scholes. Good to see you. Top of the hour on this Monday, I'm Ana Cabrera in today for Jim and Poppy. Thanks for being here. It's more than they have but less than they want and it is ready to drop. The Mueller report is set to be released to Congress and everybody else any time now minus material the Attorney General considers off limits. Now, those redactions guarantee a continued fight with House Democrats. But democrats weren't alone in voting last month to make the full Special Counsel report public. Every house republican joined them. The White House calls the Mueller probe case closed. And just this morning, the President repeated the false claim that he had already been cleared of collusion and obstruction. CNN's Laura Jarrett joins us now from the Justice Department. Laura, what do you expect and when do we expect it?", "Well, Ana, Washington is on pins and needles waiting for this report, color coded redacted report, I should say, any day now. Meanwhile, as you mentioned, the President leaning in heavily on this narrative of the idea that he has been vindicated completely, while at the same time his Attorney, Rudy Giuliani, telling our Dana Bash over the weekend that the legal team is reworking their rebuttal report to the Mueller report, query what needs to be rebutted if the President has already been cleared. But we know that the Mueller team, according to that four-page summary from the Attorney General, Bill Barr, has concluded that the Trump campaign did not conspire with the Russian government. And so the real focus is going to be on the question of obstruction of justice. And on that front, we really are going to zone in on two main questions, why did the Special Counsel punt in finding that he could not exonerate the President because of evidence on both sides and what exactly did the Attorney General, Bill Barr, mean when he said that there was much evidence which was already publicly reported, much conduct that was already in the public. So, in other words, what don't we already know about the President's conduct that was behind closed doors? But for now, we wait. Ana?", "Okay. Laura Jarrett, thank you very much. I want to discuss now with former Republican Congressman Ryan Costello. Ryan, let me ask you, what do you make of the fact that Trump is still going after the Mueller probe on one hand, at the same time, saying, case closed?", "It's a fair question. You're going to have to repeat that question because my five-year-old just walked right behind me.", "And I know we asked you to be ready faster than you were expecting because as we had a quick change of plans. So let me repeat the question. You're a former republican congressman, here, we have the President, you know, going after he Mueller report on one hand, at the same time, this White House is saying this is case closed and the President has been vindicated.", "There's going to be dueling, if not, four or five or six different interpretations on the Mueller report once it ultimately gets released. I think even when it gets released, you're going to have the democrats suggesting that whatever is redacted needs to be released at that point in time. Clearly, what the one or two sentences that were disclosed in the four-page Barr memorandum did indicate that there were difficult issues of fact and law and that it did not, in his opinion, give rise to an appropriate charging of the President. But, look, the President is going to say what the President is going to say and democrats, I think, will likely take issue with it.", "Do you think the President has anything to be worried about?", "I'm sure that there's going to be some facts set forth in there that are not going to paint the President in a favorable light, I think, or actually I think it's more fair to say that some surrounding the President, some campaign operatives, whether they were on payroll or somehow loosely affiliated with the President probably will not be painted favorably. But it remains to be seen really what level of involvement, I shouldn't even use that direct of a term, that the President had. I mean, my gut tells me that the President's statements in public rallies is probably where he had said things about WikiLeaks that will be read into.", "Let me bring in former FBI Special Agent Asha Rangappa into the conversation, and, Ryan, please stay with us. Asha, my understanding is Barr hasn't consulted with the White House Counsel's Office, at least that's what Rudy Giuliani is saying. So the White House hasn't weighed in on executive privilege. Are you surprised by this?", "I'm not surprised. I think that because -- remember that executive privilege covers conversations that the President has with his close advisers about policy decisions, things relating to national security, stuff like that and to protect the executive branch. And in this case, we know that Don McGahn was allowed to talk to Mueller by Trump's lawyers, in other words, Trump actually waived his executive privilege to someone who arguably had some of the most extensive conversations with the President. I'm not really sure if what other context he'd be able to assert that privilege, things that happened during the campaign, for example, wouldn't be covered by it. So I think that it might be a harder privilege to assert in the context of this investigation given that Don McGahn, the former White House Counsel, was allowed to speak so freely.", "Asha, I'm struck by a couple words in Trump's prebuttal endorsement of the Mueller report. He says, great intelligence. When is the last time this President had a good word for the intel community?", "I don't know. He's called the intelligence community in shambles and he's compared them to Nazis. So, you know, the President tends to, as you know, Ana, when things are favorable to him, he has a lot of great things to say, whether it's the intelligence community or The New York Times. And when things do not reflect him favorably, he wants to discredit them. Ultimately, this report will speak for itself if people are able to actually read it. And I think the question is going to be how much of this is going to be redacted and how much will the intelligence committees in particular be able to obtain with regard to the counterintelligence investigation, which I like to emphasize is very different from the question of criminal charges which until now is what Barr has been looking at in terms of the Mueller report.", "Ryan, or I should say, Congressman, what's the biggest question you want the report to answer?", "I think that that reporting right there is directly on point in terms of where we are at the moment. I think that the real -- the question moving forward is going to be what do democrats do with the report? And so to answer your question directly, are democrats going to seek to supplant their determination on whether there was wrongdoing that gives rise to criminality or, dare I say, impeachment, or are they going to seek to illicit further facts but not pursue the impeachment path. Barr has already made his determination which he has the right. And frankly, he should have made that determination, that's why it was presented to him. And so the question moving forward is will democrats look at the report and say, this gives rise to criminality, it should be further prosecuted, or we should open up impeachment hearings. And that's why I think that the President has been so offering prebuttals and actually has really put this out and shined a light on the investigation even more than one might expect. I think he's already daring democrats to go down that road. That's what I would expect to happen moving forward in the coming days.", "Congressman Ryan Costello and Asha Rangappa, thank you both for being here. Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar says she has received an increase in death threats since President Trump tweeted a video of her giving a speech along with images of the 9/11 attacks. And now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking no chances. She is asking authorities on Capitol Hill to make sure Omar and her family are protected. And just moments ago, President Trump weighed in yet again. Joining us now is CNN Congressional Correspondent Sunlen Serfaty. So what's the President saying, Sunlen?", "Ana, well, he is clearly digging in here, really standing by as criticism of Ilhan Omar and singling her out again in a Tweet that's just posted in the last few minutes, in part, President Trump Tweeting that she in reference to Ilhan Omar is out of control except for her control of Nancy, that in reference to Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. And Ilhan Omar over the weekend was very clear that she believes the President's singling out of her, the President's rhetoric and that video he posted really has put her life at risk. She says that there has been a sharp increase in death threats against her since the President posted that video on Friday night and those threats specifically mention the video of the President. Now, the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, she says she has talked to the House Sergeant-at-Arms and that she has ordered a security assessment to be done not only to protect the Congresswoman here in Washington but also her family as well. And Pelosi is calling on President Trump to take down the video. She says in part in a statement, quote, the President's words weigh a ton and his hateful and inflammatory rhetoric creates real danger. President Trump must take down his disrespectful and dangerous video. Ana, back to you.", "Sunlen Serfaty on Capitol Hill for us, thank you. Still ahead, the White House with a stinging attack on the democrats trying to look at President Trump's tax returns, why Press Secretary Sarah Sanders says they are not smart enough to see them. Plus, Pete Buttigieg officially running for president now. Could he be the democrat to take on Trump in 2020? And a rare bird with dagger-like talons kills its owner. This is just how dangerous this cassowary is. 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{"id": "CNN-211499", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2013-7-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/30/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Obama's Grand Bargain; Dow Down", "utt": ["A grand bargain. The US president is making his pitch for more spending on jobs. We'll bring you his speech live. Plan B for Barclay's. The bank asks investors to help it cover $20 billion gap. And also on the show, from the Champions League to the courtroom. Bayern Munich's president is charged with tax evasion. Hello, I'm Nina Dos Santos, and this is QUEST MEANS BUSINESS. Welcome to the program. President Barack Obama is about to propose, in the words of the White House, what he calls a \"grand bargain.\" It's a promise to work with lawmakers to cut taxes for business in return for investment to try and create more middle class jobs. Republicans don't seem to be too keen to strike a deal, though, saying that this so-called bargain leaves families and small business behind. These are the live pictures as you can see there at Amazon.com's distribution center in Tennessee. Let's listen in to the president this hour.", "The kind of economic growth that's broad-based, the foundation required to make this century another American century. But as I said last week, and as every middle class family will tell you, we're not there yet. Even before the financial crisis hit, we were going through a decade where a few at the top were doing better and better, but most families were working harder and harder just to get by.", "And reversing that trend should be Washington's highest priority.", "It's my highest priority, but so far for most of this year, we've seen an endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals, and we keep on shifting our way -- shifting our attention away from what we should be focused on, which is how do we strengthen the middle class and grow the economy for everybody.", "And as Washington heads towards yet another budget debate, the stakes couldn't be higher. And that's why I'm visiting cities and towns like this one, to lay out my ideas for how we can build on the cornerstone of what it means to be middle class in America. A good job with good wages. A good education.", "A home to call your own.", "Affordable health care that's there for you when you get sick.", "A secure retirement even if you're not rich.", "More chances for folks to earn their way into the middle class as long as they're willing to work for it.", "And most importantly, the chance to pass on a better future for our kids.", "So, I'm doing a series of speeches over the next several weeks, but I came to Chattanooga today to talk about the first and most important cornerstone of middle class security, and that's a good job in a durable, growing industry.", "It's hard to get the other stuff going if you don't have a good job. And the truth is, everything I'm going to be talking about over the next several weeks really is about jobs. Because preparing our children and our workers for the global competition they'll face, that's all about jobs. A housing finance system that makes it easier and safer to buy and build new homes, that's about jobs in the construction industry. Health care that frees you from the fear of losing everything after you've worked so hard, and then having the freedom to maybe start your own business because you know you'll be able to get health care, that's about jobs. And obviously, retirement benefits speaks of the quality of our jobs. And let me say this, something everybody here understands. Jobs are about more than just paying the bills. Jobs are about more than just statistics. We've never just defined having a job as having a paycheck here in America. A job is a source of pride. It's a source of dignity. It's the way you look after your family.", "It's proof that you're doing the right things and meeting your responsibilities and contributing to the fabric of your community and helping to build the country. That's what a job's all about. It's not just about a paycheck. It's no just about paying the bills, it's also about knowing that what you're doing is important. That it counts. So, we should be doing everything we can as a country to create more good jobs that pay good wages. Period.", "Now, here's the thing Chattanooga. The problem is not that we don't have ideas about how we can create even more jobs. We've got a lot of ideas out there. There are plenty of independent economists, plenty of business owners, people from both parties, agree on some of the ingredients that we need for creating good jobs. And you've heard them debated again and again over these past few years. I've proposed a lot of these ideas myself. Just two years ago, I announced the American Jobs Act, full of ideas that every independent economist said would create more jobs. Some were passed by Congress, but I've got to admit, most of them weren't. Sometimes --", "Barack Obama, as you can see, there, speaking in Chattanooga, Tennessee at a distribution center of Amazon.com. That company also announcing plans today to hire about 7,000 new workers. This is all part of what's being pitched as a \"grand bargain\" by the White House. You could here, there, the US president saying that he wants to be able to offer people the promise -- middle class people in America the promise of having good jobs. Which means that they can also afford a good lifestyle, and that includes education, having your own home, as well as access to affordable health care for people who need it most and retirement packages and the chance to pass on something better to the next generation. Let's bring in Maggie Lake at CNN New York, who's been following this story, and she's also been speaking to key Amazon executives from that particular distribution plant that the US president was talking from just a moment ago. Maggie, first of all, many countries are taking a look at exactly what it means to be middle class these days, but it's extremely important in America, because there's so many people who lost their jobs in 2008 and still remain under-employed.", "That's right, Nina. It is a very big theme. You heard the president mention that phrase already several times. You can expect him to keep hammering home at that point. This is sort of the theme. He's now out making a series of speeches, pushing his economic vision, agenda, which has pretty much been stalled. And what we're seeing in this speech, as the one before, and likely will follow the same pattern is he's sort of reminding everyone how far we've come, the fact that 7 million jobs have been created over the last 40 months, sort of ticking off the accomplishments, which a lot of people in the Obama administration feel they don't get enough credit for. But then sort of setting up the future, which is that much more needs to be done, especially addressing that sort of vacuum in the middle class. A lot of the jobs that have been created are on the lower end of the scale. We've seen some of those better-paying, what we could consider middle wage -- middle-class wage-earning jobs really not come back in the way that they had existed before. Incomes haven't really been rising. People still feel very strapped. That's a problem for the president. It's also something that he feels Republicans are vulnerable on. They haven't really been seen to be addressing problems of the middle class, so that's a theme he stays on very much. And today, sort of presenting what he says is a bargain, a way to jump- start the economic talks in Washington, offering what we believe, according to the administration, is the fact that he's going to -- he's willing to address tax reform, cut those corporate taxes if Congress will agree to spend on investment in jobs. They haven't been very keen on spending. So, he's trying to sort of reignite the debate in Washington, remind people how much progress has been made. But it's a tough sell, Nina. Republicans responding very coolly to what we believe the president's laying out in this speech right now, saying they don't feel there's anything new here.", "And he's continuing to talk this hour, there, in Tennessee from this distribution plant at Amazon.com. They're going to be offering several thousand new jobs here, but again, it all goes back, Maggie, doesn't it, to the issue of whether those jobs can provide that kind of middle-class lifestyle?", "Yes, exactly. And this is exactly a perfect example of the problem here. They're going to be training 7,000 jobs, but a lot of people have pointed out these are working in these vast warehouses, the salaries that they pay, the type of work it is, really hard to raise a family on. I actually put that to Dave Clark, an executive at Amazon who oversees that facility there, as well as others, and asked him about that, about the quality of the jobs. Here's what he had to say.", "We think these are great jobs. These jobs pay typically 30 percent more than a traditional retail job. They're full-time jobs, they start with benefits on day one. Our employees are stock owners and participate in stock programs for the company. We have 401Ks that are matched by the company.", "Now -- so the base salary maybe not as high, they're trying to upgrade it above the average, but Nina, when he's talking about all those other perks, trying to enhance the package, one of the things he also told me about that will likely really resonate with the president and the administration is that they offer employee education, tuition reimbursement. So that as you work at that fulfillment center, you can train up, increase your skills so that you'll be able to climb the ladder, not only at Amazon, but leave the company if you want, and get a better job someplace else. That is the type of thing that Obama is trying to push, not only from Washington, but from the private sector. Re-educate and retool. Easier said than done, but that's one of the things that Amazon and the president are pressing on today.", "Yes, Dave Clark certainly seems very much on message. Of course, all of this gears up to a key jobs report later on in the week.", "That's right, and this, again, is when we're going to be talking about where are the jobs being created? Are they coming from manufacturing? From white-collar segments that have been hard-hit. Financials, et cetera. Or are they again in the service, in retail -- which is not to dismiss them. A job is a job, especially if you don't have one. But again, what are the wages like in those jobs? Are a lot of people under-employed? Are they working several jobs instead of the one that would allow them to best support their families. So, we're really going to dig in the details there and talk about not just job creation overall, but the quality of the jobs being created. And I just want to circle around to show how complicated this is, Nina. When I was talking to Amazon, I also asked them, OK, so you're paying above the industry average, but what do you -- what's your dialogue like with local retailers? Because you're creating jobs that at the same time, people say killing off some of those small businesses, where traditionally, again, those were well-paying jobs. They say they have a good relationship. They try to giver everyone a platform. But it's a complicated situation as we really undergo this globalization and this technology revolution that's changing the labor force.", "It certainly is. Maggie Lake, there, in New York. Thanks very much for that. Let's see whether the US president, Barack Obama's speech has actually made any waves on the US stock markets. This is how the Dow Jones industrial average is trading. As you can see, we're currently down around about 0.19 of one percent, so around about a quarter of one percent on the day, 30 points on the Down, at 15,493 at the moment. As you can see, it has very much reversed its trend in just the last hour or so. It had been underpinned by better-than-expected housing data in the United States earlier on this session. But since the US president has started talking, it seems as though things have turned south. Now, after the break, mind the gap. Barclay's is certainly trying to. The British bank is asking shareholders for billions of dollars to help fill a gaping hole."], "speaker": ["NINA DOS SANTOS, HOST", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "OBAMA", "DOS SANTOS", "MAGGIE LAKE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "DOS SANTOS", "LAKE", "DAVID CLARK, VP OF WORLDWIDE OPERATIONS AND CUSTOMER SERVICES, AMAZON", "LAKE", "DOS SANTOS", "LAKE", "DOS SANTOS"]}
{"id": "CNN-30154", "program": "CNN MONEYLINE NEWS HOUR", "date": "2001-5-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/10/mlld.00.html", "summary": "Dow Climbs 43.46 to 10,910.44; Nasdaq Falls 27.77 to 2,128.86; Boeing to Move Headquarters to Chicago", "utt": ["Boeing takes off, bound for its brand new home base. This is MONEYLINE for May 10, 2001. Which city won over America's biggest exporter? Sorry Denver, sorry Dallas. Boeing lands in Chicago. A breakthrough for investors, but more importantly, for some victims of leukemia: the FDA OKs a powerful new drug from Novartis. We'll hear from the CEO. And, has Kraft built a better Oreo? The first new version of America's favorite cookie in a decade.", "This is MONEYLINE. Reporting tonight from New York, Willow Bay.", "Welcome to MONEYLINE. We begin tonight with the much-anticipated decision by Boeing. The company whose name is synonymous with Seattle today christened a new era, choosing to move its headquarters to Chicago. The news is a big win for the city, and a stinging blow to the runners up: Denver and Dallas. Lisa Leiter reports from Chicago on today's cliffhanger.", "Boeing's flight plan: Chicago, that decision came in a phone call to Illinois Governor George Ryan this morning from Boeing's chairman while in route from Seattle.", "He said, I've made my decision, we're going to Chicago. But in the end, it's my decision.", "The governor and Chicago Major Richard Daley rolled out the red carpet for its new corporate resident.", "We're very excited and happy that you have selected the city of Chicago.", "Boeing said choosing between Chicago, Dallas and Denver was difficult and no single factor made the difference.", "All of those things that affect the quality of life, education, transportation, culture, recreation, climate. Many different factors. They all added up. It was a judgment call, looking at everything.", "Money may have also been a factor. Boeing could be eligible for up to $40 million in tax incentives.", "These incentives are coming because Boeing is bringing new revenues to Illinois that would not otherwise have been available.", "The governor sighted an Arthur Anderson survey, saying Boeing will contribute $4 1/2 billion to the local economy over the next two decades. Boeing said it will be settled into this downtown skyscraper along the Chicago River by September 4. And while the company plans to bring only 500 jobs to the Windy City, it also brings a lot prestige. (on camera): Chicago has been waiting for news like this for 30 years. The last Fortune 500 company to move its headquarters to downtown Chicago was energy equipment company FMC in 1972. Lisa Leiter, CNN Financial News, Chicago.", "Taking a look at Boeing stock today, it gained nearly a dollar, ending at 65.95, just a few dollars away from a 52-week high. A bigger winner on Wall Street today, Novartis after the government gave its OK to a promising new cancer drug, Gleevec. The FDA approved the once-a-day pill that's been highly successful in treating a rare form of leukemia. The drug targets leukemia cells and leaves normal cells intact, what officials describe as a huge advance over damaging chemotherapy.", "If this does not sound like the same arduous chemotherapy regiment that one of your friends or loved ones have received in years past, that's because it is not. This oral drug is based on the concept of molecular targeting, and we believe such targeting is the wave of the future.", "Officials seemed impressed with the drug, and so did investors. Novartis stock gained $2.65. Later on MONEYLINE, we'll talk about Gleevec's potential with the company CEO, Daniel Vasella. Novartis was a big mover today in what was, otherwise, another lackluster session on Wall Street. While the Dow did snap a three- session losing streak, the Nasdaq slipped into the red. The Dow up more than 100 at one point today, ended up less than half that at 10,910. The Nasdaq also rallied early on, but lost its footing, ending down 27 at 2,128. The S&P; edged lower, ending at 1,255. So why couldn't the markets maintain those early rallies? Susan Lisovicz joins us now from the New York Stock Exchange -- Susan.", "The market stumbled because just as April was a month characterized by big moves, May has been defined by its narrow trading range. Despite positive news from different parts of the economy, one analyst said there's still no Brave New World awaiting investors.", "Consumers ramped up their retail spending in April, and that cued investors to do the same at Thursday's opening bell. With the Federal Reserve's meeting on interest rates just three trading days away, Wall Street also found encouragement overseas from a surprise interest rate cut by the European Central Bank. Both the Dow and Nasdaq logged early gains in the day on optimism also fueled by bullish comments about chip equipment makers, and the latest job market data, showing fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits after a sharp gain the week before, but hopes for a return to April's big moves faded quickly.", "The market is simply not ready to make a major move, because it has made a major move. So the good news helped you move higher and then people looked around and said, I'm not going to chase this thing, because we've already moved a substantial way from the bottom.", "That move took the blue chips within 21 points of the 11,000 level before the Dow advance faltered. And the Nasdaq rally fizzled completely, with the tech-heavy index closing down more than 1.25 percent. Retail stocks, however, maintained their strength on positive forward guidance from the Gap, and sales that more than doubled expectations at Kohl's. Semiconductor equipment shares, including Applied Materials and Novellus, failed to hold onto their gains after an upgrade from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Market watchers say cautious optimism has replaced euphoria.", "We think some of these things might have been overextended. As we've said time and time again, what used to sell at 210 and now sells at 15, doesn't necessarily have to go to 200 again. It may just get back to 20.", "Despite incentives to buy, investors returned to a pattern we've seen a lot this week, a total lack of conviction. One trader said it felt like the summer doldrums, and to get used to it -- Willow.", "Oh, dear, Susan Lisovicz at the Big Board, thanks. Investors didn't see the incentive to buy, but consumers clearly did last month. And a first guest said today's solid report on retail sales is crucial, as long as consumer spending holds up. The U.S. economy could still have its soft landing. Joining me now, Joshua Fienman, chief economist at Deutsche Bank. Josh, welcome.", "Thanks, Willow.", "Why do you think retail sales held up the way they did?", "I think the consumer has pulled back from the really strong growth rates we were seeing last year. They haven't thrown the towel completely. I think they're still underpinned by a tight labor market, although it is getting looser, and income gains that are still fairly solid.", "How realistic is it to expect consumer spending to stay, you know, solid, given -- given what is a weakening job market, given that we report practically every day, companies laying off more workers.", "That's the biggest risk to the U.S. economy, that the labor market is losing steam very rapidly and that could feed back onto consumer spending and psychology. So, I think that's the biggest risk that the Fed certainly wants to guard against.", "Where would you place the odds that consumer spending will stay OK at this point?", "I think it will be the most likely outcome, because we have interest rate cuts that are in the pipeline, we have tax cut that's coming. The inventory correction is largely behind us.", "You think the Fed cuts and the tax cuts will at least keep consumers somewhat confident.", "Exactly.", "What do you make of today's labor numbers?", "Well, that was mildly encouraging. Jobless claims, which have been on a steady uptrend, reversed that course a bit. There's only one week too early to say whether it's a new trend, but it's encouraging anyway that we didn't get another increase in jobless claims.", "One of the things that the market liked today early was a rate cut by the European Central Bank. First of all, how much will this help slowing growth in Europe?", "Well, I think it's part of a set of cuts that we will likely see from the ECB over the coming months. And it will help. Europe has been slowing.", "But they were growing...", "They were growing less to begin with. Exactly.", "Where are they headed?", "I think they're headed probably for a couple more quarters of sluggish growth, before the ECB's rate cuts get into the system, and...", "And you expect the ECB to be aggressive.", "Not as aggressive as the Fed, but somewhat more aggressive than they've been.", "Does the ECB's action take some pressure off the Fed, it's not carrying its weight entirely on its shoulders or not?", "Not really. I think the Fed's major concern is what is happening right here in the U.S. The ECB's move won't really have an impact there. So, I do expect the Fed to do more.", "What do you expect specifically of the Fed. First of all, starting with Tuesday?", "I think the Fed will move again on Tuesday, maybe another 50 basis points.", "And then after that?", "Maybe another 25 or 50 before they are done, before they start to see signs...", "25 or 50...", "In June, say.", "In June. And then, after that?", "Then I think they may move to the sidelines. Because I'm hopeful that by then, the economy will show some signs of improving, the tax cut may be enacted, and they'll feel that they've done enough.", "OK, fairly optimistic thinking. Thanks, Josh.", "Thank you, Willow.", "Next on MONEYLINE, a nightmare for drivers and for politicians. Surging gas prices, just one of the challenges the White House faces as it hashes out an energy policy. It may look like a garden party, but it's actually a gathering of top executives. A live report from Business Council Meeting in Greenbriar. 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{"id": "CNN-373322", "program": "CNN RIGHT NOW", "date": "2019-06-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1906/26/crn.02.html", "summary": "Employees Protest Wayfair's Furniture Sales For Migrant Camps; Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) Discusses Wayfair Employee Protests, Immigration, Legislation; Trump Speaks To And Answers Reporters' Questions.", "utt": ["Breaking news. You are looking at live pictures of hundreds of Wayfair employees walking off the job at company headquarters up in Boston, protesting the companies' sale of furniture to migrant detention facilities. More than 500 employees signed onto a letter to Wayfair's senior management. And they said this, quote, \"The United States government and its contractors are responsible for the detention and mistreatment of hundreds of thousands of migrants seeking asylum in our country. We want that to end. We also want to be sure that Wayfair has no part in enabling, supporting or profiting from this practice.\" CNN's Politics And Business Correspondent, Cristina Alesci, is following the story for us. Tell us how Wayfair's management has responded here, Cristina.", "It's walking a very difficult line. I've seen this time after time with companies during this administration's controversial policies. Here is what happened. Wayfair essentially said yesterday that it was going to go through with the sale. Obviously, the sale of these beds to the migrant facilities had happened. There was no way to negate it. The company was very clear yesterday. It basically said that it won't determine whether or not to make a sale based on beliefs of certain employees, that it does not indicate support for the opinions or actions of groups or individuals who purchase from the company. But at the same time today, I broke the news that the company is donating $100,000 to the American Red Cross in an effort to alleviate the crisis at the border. This goes to show you that the company has to walk this line and say we're not taking a position. But at the same time, it is reacting to these employees and the outcry that came from lawmakers, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who called out Wayfair for this precise reason. So, it's a tricky way. It's a tricky situation for any company. But this is not the first time that companies have been in the middle of the immigration controversy with regards to this administration.", "They're not taking a position, but they are foregoing profits. Cristina Alesci, thank you for that report. Let's bring in Democratic Congressman Gregory Meeks, of New York. He is a senior member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and also the Financial Services Committee. Congressman, we're watching these live pictures from Boston where you have Wayfair employees protesting. And now the company is giving money to the Red Cross, which really was one of the suggestions of the protesters, that they don't make profit off of this business deal. What do you think about this?", "I think what you're seeing all across America, Americans are better than what this administration has been. This administration has caused the problem that we have at the border because you're not talking about people trying to enter the country illegally. You're talking about individuals that are coming, presenting themselves at the border, in a legal way, and then this administration treats them in an inhumane way. Americans, as they see and witness this, they decide, they're talking up, speaking up. They don't want us in the United States to be in a situation where we're treating individuals who are seeking safe haven, to be treated in an inhumane manner, young people taken away from their parents. We've got to do better than that. We are better than that.", "Democratic presidential candidate, Beto O'Rourke, is blaming President Trump for the deaths of migrants. Do you blame the president for the deaths?", "What I say is that there's no question that this administration is implicit with the lack of treatment, the lack of facilities, the lack of medical assistance, the lack of the appropriate housing that has been given to these individuals who came into this country in an illegal way. It is clear from the former U.S. attorney general that they were trying to create a condition that was inhumane, thinking that that would prevent individuals from seeking refuge here. There's no question that, as a result of that and that kind of treatment, then there's an interconnection between this president and whatever takes place to those who want to enter this country illegally in crossing the border.", "President Trump, as you have heard, has repeatedly blamed President Obama for this problem. Do you wish to see President Obama speak up?", "President Trump -- not by my words, he is a conman. Ask Marco Rubio. Go back to Mitt Romney, go back to George W. Bush, before the Republican primary. That's who they all said he was, and who he is. So, he will do anything and say anything. I don't go by words of a conman because what they try to do is divert you. They talk and say anything. He's just trying to cater to a small base of individuals. Clearly, I would go in the humane treatment that was provided by President Obama, someone that did not tell, as the \"Washington Post\" has said, over 10,000 lies already, has not had individuals who are incarcerated and has not treated individuals in this inhumane way. I'll stand with Barack Obama anytime. I think that's why our allies, as well as Americans, now very concerned about what's going on at the border, because of the treatment and the policies of President Trump.", "The House has passed this deal, which deals with the humanitarian element. You have a Republican Senate, a Republican president. They want more on border security. When you have this choice, children, migrants, their treatment, adding border security, maybe something you don't want as a Democrat, what's the answer? What do you choose?", "You have to make sure that we do what you need to so that those who are trying to enter our borders are treated in a fair way. I would say to the Senate, my Republican colleagues and the president himself, we can't be hypocritical. Look, we praise, for example, Colombia, for taking in all those individuals who are refugees from Venezuela. They keep their borders open. They try to have -- they bring individuals in. You can look at all the refugees taken in, in countries like Jordan and Germany and our European all allies, hundreds of thousands. Yet, you have individuals trying to seek the same kind of asylum in the United States, the richest country in the world, we are treating them as if they are inhuman. There's something morally wrong with that. And I think that Americans are starting to open up their eyes to that. We will stand up to this administration. And those of us in Congress, we better make sure -- that's what I think that the compromise is. Yes, there are some things that I do not trust this president. Let me be clear about that. But I don't want anyone to say. I know we've got to make sure that we give the money that's necessary to the refugee agency because they run out of funding very shortly. We want to make sure that they're funded. And we don't want any of our humanitarian organizations to go unfunded so they can't do the jobs and the work that's necessary for them to do.", "Congressman Gregory Meeks, thank you so much.", "Thank you. Good to be with you.", "We are getting word that President Trump is speaking before his G-20 trip. We'll bring you that tape soon from his departure. Also, police respond to a heartbreaking scene in the woods of Georgia.", "Oh, it's OK, Sweetheart. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.", "A newborn infant abandoned and tied inside of a plastic bag. I'll speak to the deputy who saved her life."], "speaker": ["BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN HOST", "CRISTINA ALESCI, CNN POLITICS & BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "KEILAR", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-224774", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-2-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1402/12/cnr.07.html", "summary": "Deadly Mail Bomb; Winter Storm", "utt": ["Nearly half-a-million people are without power right now, and the storm is slamming the Southeast. We're going to talk about that. Do we want to go to Dana before we go -- continue on with this weather? Dana Bash, what do you know?", "The Senate has just approved raising the debt ceiling by a pretty substantial majority, supermajority, actually, to be precise, 67 votes yes. But as you were talking about earlier, this came after an hour of high drama. The backstory here is that the Republican leadership never wanted to have any kind of trauma here in the Senate, just like they didn't want to have it in the House. They preferred to have this vote go through with a simple majority with Democrats voting yes and allowing Republicans to do what was politically right for them and vote no. That didn't happen because Ted Cruz demanded that it was a 60-vote filibuster threshold. So, what happened was Republicans had to find five votes. If there are 55 Democrats, they needed to find at least five votes from Republicans to get that 60-vote threshold. What you saw for the last hour, Don, was kind of scrambling around trying to figuring out where those votes are. We don't exactly know how many Democrats, if any Democrats voted no, but what we do know the way this played out was Republicans who didn't want to vote yes, including Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn, the top two Republicans. Don, they had a dramatic moment where it looked unclear whether this was going to pass or not, walked down to the front and raise their hands, aye, together, effectively taking the plunge knowing that they both have primary challenges back home and this will be very, very hard for them to explain back home. But they did it because they're Republican leaders. Then right before we got the final vote, you had other Republicans who are perhaps a bit safer and more comfortable where they are. John McCain and Jeff Flake from Arizona, John Thune as well and others coming out, our Ted Barrett report, of the Republican cloakroom, all switching their votes to yes to give this a supermajority 67-vote threshold. There are lots of reasons politically why this likely happened. The primary one is to make it look less bad for maybe just a handful of Republicans to just vote yes on this, but big picture, what you saw here is exactly what Republicans didn't want. They didn't want to force their members to vote yes on what they describe as giving the president more ability to borrow money and it is exactly what they are opposed to. But they had no choice, because Ted Cruz, who has rankled his fellow Republicans before, did it again just now.", "He has done it again and there will be more to follow. Our Dana Bash in Washington on Capitol Hill now following that developing story on the debt ceiling, Dana, we will get back to you when there's more information on that. We want to move on to the weather. It's the top of the hour. Want to give you your headlines. The weather is crippling parts of this country right now. Nearly half-a-million people are without power and as an ice storm is slamming the Southeast. The storm is crippling roads in Georgia and the Carolinas, grounding flights. It's bringing down trees and it's knocking power to some 420,000 people, and the numbers will keep climbing as it moves across the country and as it moves north. Already, at least five classic-related deaths are blamed on this massive storm. Emergency services are warning travel will be very difficult right now, if not impossible. You are looking at these new pictures of traffic moving very slowly in Fayetteville. That's in North Carolina, of course, and as we get reports that hundreds of cars are stranded on icy roads there. Look at the creeping traffic. And in Atlanta, though, the roads are desolate. Gosh, it really does look like \"The Walking Dead.\" My goodness. The pictures that you're looking at rarely seen in one of the most congested cities in the U.S. This is Atlanta right now on the left, nothing. And the one on the right was Atlanta just a few weeks ago, just two weeks ago, everyone there desperate not to see the repeat of this, when a mass exodus from Atlanta caused apocalyptic scenes, people trapped on icy highways for more than 10 hours, many eventually abandoning their cars. Our Ed Lavandera is out on the roads in iced-over Atlanta. There he is on the left of your screen. And our Chad Myers, our meteorologist, standing right outside the CNN Center, which is located dead center downtown Atlanta. We are going to start with Ed, though. Ed, how are the roads looking now?", "Hey, Don. Well, we are headed east along Interstate 20 just outside of downtown Atlanta. What is really fascinating is that I can only imagine what this place, what it must have been like two weeks ago when the interstates were full with cars, roadways were full of cars, and it's really quite a difference when you take a look at the roadways now and you see that there is just a handful of people. We have pulled over to the side of the road to kind of clear up the shot there so that we can give you the best picture. In fact, I was just watching a guy slipping and siding down the interstate as we're sitting here and kind of cleaning off the windshield wipers and getting ready to try to move further along down the road. But this must have been incredibly treacherous. Much easier to drive on when you are the only car or one of the few cars on the roadway. So, it's a very good sign that there are not people out and about today, Don.", "Ed Lavandera.", "More on this breaking news coming right up, but, first, this: We are \"On the Case\" right now. Law enforcement say a note was attached to a mail bomb that killed a retired lawyer in Tennessee. Federal investigators swarmed a quaint neighborhood street in Lebanon, Tennessee. The mail bomb killed John Setzer and critically wounded his wife on Monday. The FBI and the ATF, the U.S. postal inspectors and local police have not revealed any motives. His friends say Setzer once practiced bankruptcy law. His wife, Marion, is at now at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.", "They were true Christians and honorable people that I would trust to the end of the earth. It doesn't make sense at all. When I have heard it said that it was targeted, I thought, well, they must have targeted the wrong person.", "Justice correspondent Evan Perez joins me now. So, tell us about this note, Evan.", "Well, Don, we don't know what exactly the note said. We know from sources that they found this note inside the house. One of the things they are doing today is they're going through and they're cataloging all -- everything that was found in there to determine whether or not perhaps there is a label attached to the package or perhaps a package that came in a few days earlier. They want to make sure they know what exactly was attached to this package that contained this bomb today, or, rather, on Monday. The investigators are still going through the scene. One of the things that they are trying to figure out is how the package got there. Was it something that was delivered by the Postal Service by some mail carriers or was it just delivered and put in the mailbox by someone who was trying to harm this couple?", "And what do we know about this couple?", "As the neighbors have described, these are people who nobody really thinks that anyone was trying to harm. The investigators today are also trying to figure out whether there is any disputes, perhaps any legal disputes that came from the lawyer's background. They are trying to interview people who knew them to try to see if there's any reason for anybody to target them. That's one of the big mysteries right here, is he's a retiree. He's 74 years old. So, it's really a big open question as to why this was done, Don.", "All right, Evan Perez, thank you very much. We appreciate it. As we get more information, we will continue to report on that. More breaking news right now to report to you out of Syria. CNN has learned that 11 percent of its chemical weapons have now been shipped out of the country. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons tells us that this shipment is more than the last, which was only 4 percent. However, Syria is still behind the eight ball. It could have removed all of the chemicals last week. The deadline set by the Geneva agreement was for February 15. What is more daring? Being the motorcyclist who risked dying while shooting this ridiculous video or posting it to a police Web site and taunting officers with the phrase catch me if you can? Police on the manhunt now to catch the person who did both. Plus, a lawsuit filed against President Obama, the person suing, Senator Rand Paul, next, why the Kentucky Republican is targeting the White House. And could President Obama really be in legal trouble?"], "speaker": ["DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "LEMON", "KEN CALDWELL, FRIEND OF VICTIM", "LEMON", "EVAN PEREZ, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "LEMON", "PEREZ", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-164469", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2011-4-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1104/07/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Interview With President of Toyota", "utt": ["Workers at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant are taking shelter tonight. They fled for cover just a few hours ago, when at 7.1 magnitude earthquake northeastern Japan. It was an aftershock of the massive quake which caused major damage to the plant in the first place. There are no reports of any fresh damage and a tsunami warning has now been lifted. CNN's Martin Savidge was in Tokyo when the latest tremor struck. Here is his report.", "This was an aftershock you definitely felt here in the Tokyo bureau. It struck at around 11:32 p.m., local time. And began, as many of the aftershocks we felt here. It starts with a gentle motion, but this one clearly, quickly intensified. And you knew that it was stronger than most, in fact it turns out it is the strongest aftershock to be felt since the March 11 9.0 earthquake here. Immediately warnings went out for the possibility of tsunami, up along the northern Pacific Coast of Japan. And as the anxious moments passed by, there were other alerts that went out as well. The tsunami warnings, though, were quickly then pulled down after it was apparent that there were no waves that came ashore, at least nothing that was potentially destructive. There have been reports, though, of minor injuries. There were also reports of power outages and there have been reports of some fires, most of which have been extinguished. But the other great area of concern, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, TEPCO said that it did in fact have its employees evacuate to an earthquake safe building. They were there for some time, but they now have gone back to their positions. They also say that the functions of keeping those reactors under control were continued throughout it all. Government officials say that they have seen no signs of an increase in radiation. They also say that the reactors remain in a stable condition, and they point out that there appears to be no leaks with their containment vessels out there, as well. But for many it was an anxious night here, in Tokyo, and across all of northern Japan. In Tokyo, I'm Martin Savidge, back to you.", "Well, the Dow dropped sharply after hearing the news of the quake. Alison Kosik is at the New York Stock Exchange. Alison, so what impact did it have there?", "Yes, Max, you are right about that. We did see that knee-jerk reaction right after news hit about the earthquake in Japan. The Dow was down as many as 98 points. The VIX, that is the fear index, it jumped about 4 percent. But then the market started to come back after the tsunami warning was lifted. And no major damage or injuries were reported. Still, though, we are seeing that the market continues to be skittish about Japan and worried about even the slightest possibility of further supply disruptions. Investors also remained worried about how long it will take for Japan to recover. Also there is other news that investors are focusing on today, including the rate hike in Europe. We also got some good news on retail sales and jobs here in the U.S. We found out that new claims for unemployment benefits fell slightly to 385,000 continuing a trend of slow but steady improvement for the labor markets. So, some good, some bad; and pretty much a split decision so far with about two hours to go in the trading day, Max.", "OK, Alison, thank you very much indeed for that. Well, the original 9.0 magnitude quake did major damage, of course, to Japan's biggest carmaker. The president of Toyota said it could take several months to get production levels back to normal. In a moment you can hear our exclusive interview with Akio Toyoda. When the quake hit the company was just putting tough times behind it. In 2009 Toyota began a series of recalls of its vehicles. In all, 14 million cars and trucks were affected. In April 2010, U.S. authorities handed the company a $16 million fine to settle claims Toyota hit-claims that Toyota hit-hid, despire (sic)-hid defects and that was despite this tearful apology from Toyota's chairman in February.", "You and your colleagues, across America, around the world, were there with me.", "In February 2011, after a long study, U.S. regulators said faulty electronics were not to blame for reports of unexpected acceleration in 22 cars. Akio Toyoda gave this exclusive interview to CNNMoney.com's Poppy Harlow, just after Toyota announced a technology partnership with Microsoft.", "Was it a hard decision for you to come make this announcement with Microsoft, in the wake of what is happening in Japan?", "Well, honestly speaking, I debated over whether it is appropriate for me to leave Japan at this time or not, because there have been so many victims of the earthquake and tsunami. And the company, itself, is in a very difficult situation. So, I wondered if it is really right for me to leave Japan. But I personally felt that, of course, it is necessary for us to work very hard, realizing reconstruction of Japan, as quickly as possible. But at the same time what is needed most is to create some hopes and promises for the future. And when I considered what I, and also Toyota, can do to offer that hope for the future, I thought, talking about this integration of IT industry and the automotive industry, as the one, we have been announcing that Microsoft would be one very important thing. Because we will be able to talk about what sort of a great car that we can produce in the future and that is the thought that brought me here to Seattle.", "After considering the human toll of the tsunami and the earthquake, what did you think it would mean for Toyota?", "Toyota's employees were all safe, but unfortunately three of other people working at dealerships, lost their lives and if you include the families, over dozens of people lost their lives. And, of course, many lost their homes as well.", "I'm so sorry. When you look at the long term impact of the earthquake and tsunami, on Toyota, as a global company, what do you think the long-term impact is going to be to Toyota? We know, we just heard this week that you are not picking up production again, in Japan. So what is the impact going to be?", "As you already know the car industry is an industry with a very broad and large supporting industry, leading into it. And in some of the companies constituting our supply lines were located in that affected area, had their operations disrupted, too. Counting the number of different part numbers it affected 500 of them. And we are assessing each one of those 500 parts items, in terms of that status of stock and to bill at the resumption of supplies. And fortunately, as of today we have the prospect of being able to formulate the production plan, by the end of April. Not, probably, going back to 100 percent of the operations.", "Do you envision having to shut down any production in Japan, permanently, moving production elsewhere. Is the situation that dire?", "Although our plans in northeastern Japan have been affected by this disaster, but currently we all have the prospect of achieving recovery of those production operations in that part of Japan. And therefore, at the moment, we have no plan of relocating the production activities going on in Japan to other parts of the world. In terms of overall capacity, already out of 7 million units we produce worldwide 4 million out of that 7 million are produced outside of Japan in overseas operations. And therefore we would like to maintain 3 million which is currently produced in Japan, to continue to be produced in Japan.", "Well, you can hear the second part of our exclusive interview with Akio Toyoda tomorrow, here on QUEST MEANS BUSINESS. Japan's central bank says it will offer cheap loans to banks affected by last month's earthquake and tsunami. The Bank of Japan says the program is worth $12 billion. It is aiming to help the banks cope if people start withdrawing large amounts of cash. And it is drawing up plans to relax rules over collateral for loans to make lending easier in disaster areas. In Tokyo there were signs of a tentative confidence returning. The Nikkei edged higher on Thursday. Tokyo Electric Power, or TEPCO, which runs the nuclear plant in Fukushima, made gains. Trading ended long before the latest aftershock, which hit at 11:30 p.m., local time, in Japan. Now, standing together against the sex trade, we'll speak to the Body Shop, on how it is fighting human trafficking. Our special week of coverage on the \"Freedom Project\", continues after the break."], "speaker": ["FOSTER", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (On camera)", "FOSTER", "ALISON KOSIK, CNN FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENT", "FOSTER", "AKIO TOYODA, CHAIRMAN, CEO, TOYOTA MOTOR CO.", "FOSTER", "POPPY HARLOW, CNNMONEY.COM CORRESPONDENT (on camera)", "TOYODA (through translator)", "HARLOW", "TOYODA (through translator)", "HARLOW", "TOYODA (through translator)", "HARLOW", "TOYODA (through translator)", "FOSTER"]}
{"id": "CNN-229151", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2014-4-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1404/24/wolf.02.html", "summary": "Girl Give Michelle Obama Her Father's Resume.", "utt": ["Some breaking news coming out of Ukraine. The country has now issued a 48-hour deadline for Russia to explain its military drills near its border, but it hasn't said what it will do if Russia does not comply. Meanwhile, there was a significant escalation of violence in the Ukraine today. Government forces killed five militants during an operation to take down roadblocks set up by pro-Russians. This has prompted a sharp response from the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, saying using Ukraine's army against citizens will be a very serious crime. Let's go the Middle East right now. Israel says it will not hold a round of peace talks with the Palestinian government that includes Hamas, which it views as a terrorist organization. The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, does say there is still room for Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmud Abbas, to change course. We're going to keep you informed of this very fluid situation. On a very different note, let's go to Washington and a tender moment over at the White House today as one visitor was thinking of helping her father during Take Your Child to Work Day. Michelle Obama gave the girl a microphone. You can't really hear what the little girl said but she also gave something to the first lady. Watch as the little girl gets a big hug.", "My dad has been out of a job for three years and I wanted to give you his resume.", "Oh, my goodness.", "Mrs. Obama then told the crowd that it's a little private but that she's doing something for her dad. The girl's father has been out of a job for a few years so she gave the first lady, as you heard, his resume. There has been a spike in violence on Chicago's south side. People there are taking a stand. Our original series \"Chicagoland\" looks at gang violence in schools. Catch the season finale of \"Chicagoland,\" tonight, 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on CNN. That's it for me. Thanks for watching. Christiane Amanpour is next on CNN International. Brooke Baldwin continues our coverage here on CNN."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "UNIDENTIFIED GIRL", "MICHELLE OBAMA, FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-388637", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-12-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/23/nday.01.html", "summary": "Dems Renew Calls for White House Officials to Testify in Senate Hearing; Democratic Senator May Vote Against Convicting Trump", "utt": ["Newly-released emails reveal that the White House's order to freeze Ukraine aid came roughly 90 minutes after President Trump's call with President Zelensky.", "This email is explosive.", "There's nothing new in these emails about the timing, truly.", "Presidents make mistakes. I don't know if this call was a mistake.", "They're looking for a fair trial, not a fake trial.", "This is the last episode of 2019. But if you're black, this is the first episode since I left back in 1984. If you had told me 30 years ago, that I would be this boring, stay-at- home, you know, House dad, and Bill Cosby would be in jail. Who is America's dad now?", "This is NEW DAY with Alisyn Camerota and John Berman.", "That -- his impression of Bill Cosby is impeccable. That was a great moment.", "So good. Got to love Eddie Murphy back on \"", "It was so great. I mean, we watched it with our kids and tried to explain to them the significance of Eddie Murphy and that he was gone so long. They didn't quite absorb it all, but they're getting it.", "Did the Gumby character, did that translate across the decades?", "No. And Buckwheat didn't exactly either.", "I'm not surprised by that.", "But still, it was really funny. And we're going to have a whole segment about why he was gone for 35 years.", "Yes.", "We'll have the inside story. Meanwhile, welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is NEW DAY. It is Monday, December 23, 6 a.m. here in New York. John Berman is off. John Avlon is here. Great to have you here. I'm going to try not to get you sick, even though I'm battling a cold.", "It's going to be fun. We're going to have fun.", "OK. We begin with Democrats continuing their calls for key Trump administration officials to testify in President Trump's upcoming Senate trial, especially now that we've seen these newly- released emails. The emails reveal an official from the White House Budget Office ordered the Pentagon to suspend that military aid to Ukraine 90 minutes after the July phone call between President Trump and Ukraine's new leader. You'll remember, it was on that call that President Trump pressured President Zelensky to investigate President Trump's political rival, Joe Biden, and his son. The emails also show that the White House budget official knew the hold would raise concerns, so he told others to keep quiet about it.", "Meantime, lawmakers are on a holiday break as the stalemate on impeachment continues. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is refusing to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate, as she wants assurances that the Senate trial proceedings will be fair. Now one Democratic senator now says he's even open to acquitting the president if the evidence doesn't add up. Let's begin our coverage with CNN's Kristen Holmes live in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the president is vacationing -- Kristen.", "Good morning, John. Well, these emails are certainly shedding new light on the timeline of events around this July 25 phone call. But they're also giving Democrats what they believe is new ammunition in the ongoing stalemate over what exactly this Senate impeachment trial would look like.", "Democrats renewing calls for witnesses in President Trump's Senate impeachment trial following the release of emails that show the order to freeze aid to Ukraine came about 90 minutes after President Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukraine's new president. The 146 pages of heavily-redacted government emails were obtained by the Center for Public Integrity. One email between White House budget official Mike Duffy and the Pentagon says, \"Based on guidance I have received, and in light of the administration's plan to review assistance to Ukraine, please hold off on any additional DOD obligations of these funds.\" Duffy adding, \"Given the sensitive nature of this request, I appreciate your keeping that information closely held to those who need to know to execute direction.\"", "If there was ever an argument that we need Mr. Duffy to come testify, this is that information. This email is explosive.", "A spokeswoman for the budget office writes in a statement to CNN, \"It's reckless to tie the hold of funds to the phone call. To pull a line out of one email and fail to address the context is misleading and inaccurate.\" But critics say the emails are further proof that key administration officials should testify in the Senate trial.", "If the president is so innocent and claims he's innocent, why would he not allow, just like Richard Nixon did, the people that were closest to him to testify?", "Lawmakers are away from Washington for the next two weeks as the impeachment battle is at a standstill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is still refusing to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate until the majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and the minority leader, Chuck Schumer, agree on the trial's format and scope.", "She is focusing a spotlight on the need to have a fair trial in the United States Senate.", "Trump's Republican allies blasting Pelosi for the move.", "She's actually trying to tell Mitch McConnell how to run the Senate. She's trampling on the separation of powers.", "One White House official saying the delay is frustrating the president.", "He's also anxious to get not just acquitted but exonerated in the Senate. So he's looking forward to his opportunity to have a fair trial in the Senate.", "And some Democrats are frustrated, too, saying McConnell and the GOP have already made up their minds before the start of the trial.", "He's not interested in evidence. He's not interested in the facts. He wants to get this over with. That's really a serious problem.", "And with Speaker Pelosi holding onto these articles of impeachment, it's not only just delaying the Senate trial, but it's also putting a hold on her naming who is going to be from the House presenting this case against the president in the Senate. And Alisyn, I cannot stress this enough. We are really in uncharted waters. There are just not enough precedent here. And I talked to numerous Democrats and Republicans who spent the entire weekend on the phone with legal scholars, with Constitution experts, with impeachment experts, all trying to figure out what can and can't be done and what happens next.", "Well, it would be great to have those answers, Kristen. But I mean, generally, Americans believe that trials have witnesses. And so thank you very much for your reporting. Democrats are hammering home that same message: how do you have a trial without witnesses? We discuss all of that next."], "speaker": ["UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "EDDIE MURPHY, COMEDIAN", "ANNOUNCER", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN AVLON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST/ANCHOR", "SNL.\" CAMEROTA", "AVLON", "CAMEROTA", "AVLON", "CAMEROTA", "AVLON", "CAMEROTA", "AVLON", "CAMEROTA", "AVLON", "KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HOLMES (voice-over)", "SCHUMER", "HOLMES", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-9441", "program": "Sunday Morning News", "date": "2000-6-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/04/sm.01.html", "summary": "U.S.-Russia Summit Yields Modest Arms Control Proposals", "utt": ["We begin this morning at the Moscow summit, where President Clinton and President Vladimir Putin are holding a second day of talks. Their discussions have focused on arms control, and there's word the two leaders have reached some agreements, but they remain at odds on other issues. CNN's John King joins us live from Moscow with the latest. Hi, John.", "Good morning to you, Kyra. Russian economic reform and U.S. opposition to the Russian military campaign in Chechnya also on the agenda here on day two of the U.S.-Russia summit. But as you mentioned, several new modest arms control agreements likely to be struck, although U.S. officials saying don't look for any breakthroughs on the big disputes. Now, Presidents Clinton and Putin met first face to face this morning at the Kremlin, each bringing one aide with them into the discussions, as well as a translator. That session so that the presidents could directly negotiate, and U.S. officials say, get to know each other just a little bit better. From there it was into the larger summit session. This time the presidents walking in the room to be greeted by a larger delegation, each of them bringing their top national security and diplomatic advisers into those talks. Now, look for two agreements later today, when the presidents have a news conference: one, the two nations have agreed to convert some 68 tons of weapons-grade plutonium, enough to build thousands of nuclear warheads, that instead will be converted for civilian purposes, mainly at nuclear power plants; also, an unprecedented agreement under which U.S. and Russian military commanders will sit side by side in a new center designed to track missile launches. Both of these agreements follow ups to recent agreements between the United States and Russia, those agreements designed to make sure that Russian technology and nuclear materials don't end up in the hands of nations that Washington considers unfriendly, and to limit the possibility of an accidental missile launch. But no breakthrough on the big issue: Russian opposition to that planned U.S. national missile defense system. And because Russia so objects to that system, President Putin has said he will not talk about reductions in strategic nuclear missiles until Washington backs off on that one. Again, both leaders will have a news conference after they finish their summit talks today. John King, CNN, reporting live from Moscow.", "John, one quick question, you mentioned objections, what objections are the Russians having?", "Russia disagrees on the scope of the threat, number one. The United States says North Korea, Iran, Iraq, and possibly other nations are developing technology and ultimately could reach the United States with a nuclear missile. Russia says the threat is not so significant and that it should be solved diplomatically. Russia also says that if the United States builds such a system, it will have to build such a system to keep up and that, that would take money away from desperately needed economic reforms and infrastructure investments here in Russia -- Kyra.", "John King live in Moscow, thank you."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN KING, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "KING", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-362581", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2019-02-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1902/20/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Chicago Police Investigating Jussie Smollett; Interview With Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD); Mueller Report Coming Soon?.", "utt": ["Reasons for firing. Former FBI acting Director Andrew McCabe confirms the president wrote a long, rambling letter to justify ousting FBI Chief James Comey. Does the letter amount to evidence of obstruction? From victim to suspect. Empire actor Jussie Smollett is now officially a criminal suspect, as Chicago police believe he falsely claimed to have been the target of a racist and homophobic attack that he was involved in orchestrating. And terror hit list. A U.S. Coast Guardsman has now been arrested, accused of plotting a mass attack targeting Democrats and journalists, including CNN anchors. We're getting new details. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We're following breaking news on the conclusion of Robert Mueller's historic Trump-Russia investigation. CNN has learned the Justice Department is preparing to receive Mueller's long-awaited final report and may announce as soon as next week that the special counsel's work is done. Tonight, President Trump says he will be -- it will be up to his new attorney general to decide if and when Mueller's findings are shared with the American people. The nation eager for answers after two years of questions about Russian interference, possible collusion and obstruction and whether any crimes were committed by the president. I will get reaction from Senator Ben Cardin. He's a top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee. And our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, let's bring in our justice report, Laura Jarrett, and our crime and justice reporter, Shimon Prokupecz. Laura, first of all, tell us about the latest preparations we have learned that are now under way.", "Well, Wolf, after two years of work, the Justice Department now expected to receive special counsel Mueller's work, confidential report, in the next week, and Attorney General Bill Barr expected to review the findings and say to the public his work is over. Now, what exactly Bill Barr will say to Congress is the big question to come. We know that the expectation is that he will provide a summary of the findings, but he has said he will not turn over the full report. Obviously, the bigger question is, what does this mean for the Mueller investigation going forward? We know that Mueller has referred certain cases to the U.S. attorneys across the country -- Wolf.", "You know, Shimon, this seems to be the clearest indication yet that Mueller has basically wrapped up his work.", "Yes, the fact that he's doing this report. It's complete. It's now pretty much on its way to the attorney general. Every indication that we do not expect any other kind of significant investigative steps, indictments from the Mueller team. The other thing, you know, our team that's been out at the Mueller office, Sam Fossum and Em Steck, they're like the unsung heroes of our team. They spend a lot of time outside that office. They have seen people leave that office with boxes recently. Just last week, staffers with the Mueller team leaving with carts of boxes. We have not seen any significant grand jury activity since the Roger Stone indictment. In fact, we haven't even seen the grand jurors at the courthouse since the Roger Stone indictment. And other things that have been going on here, like the fact that some of the parts of this investigation and these cases have now been handed over to the U.S. attorney here in Washington, D.C., another signal that the Mueller team does not expect to be around much longer. So, yes, all of this definitely pointing to the fact that Mueller is essentially done.", "How long will it take, Laura, for the American public to know what Mueller knows?", "It could take quite awhile. We expect this to be a battle royal. Under the regulation, Barr has wide discretion to figure out how much or how little to share with the Congress and by extension the public, of course. And this really came up as it came to a head in his Senate confirmation hearings, where lawmakers were pressing him for answers about, how much will you turn over? Take a listen for our viewers to remind them what he said on this.", "When his report comes to you, will you share it with us, as much as possible?", "Consistent with regulations and the law, yes.", "Will you provide Mueller's -- excuse me -- Mueller's report to Congress, not your rewrite or a summary?", "All I can say at this stage, because I have no clue as to what's being planned, is that I am going to try to get the information out there consistent with these regulations. And to the extent I have discretion, I will exercise that discretion to do that.", "As you heard there, senators not interested in his rewrite or his executive summary. So we expect subpoenas will fly on this to the Justice Department and they will try to haul up Robert Mueller up to the hill for testimony.", "Once he does release the summary, as it's called, to Congress, what might he hold back?", "I think he's going to hold back a lot of information. Laura certainly is hearing the same thing. Look, I think the biggest concern is releasing any information about people who have not been charged, who have not been indicted, who are not before a court, and in some kind of a public record, a court record. And the Department of Justice and the FBI took a lot of the heat after what James Comey did in the Clinton investigation, standing, holding a press conference, releasing all sorts of information, taking issue with what she did in that case, in that investigation. So now the FBI and the Department of Justice are really worried about it. And this is something that Bill Barr even talked about when he was on the Hill. Take a listen.", "If you're not going to indict someone, then you don't stand up there and unload negative information about the person. That's not the way the Department of Justice does business.", "But that doesn't mean that people aren't going to try. Certainly, we expect people, members of Congress, the public, the media to file all sorts of legal challenges to this to try and obtain as much information as we can.", "There will be other investigations, even if the Mueller investigation is over. The president's got to worry about other investigations that are ongoing.", "Absolutely. You have that handy graphic that shows sort of the litany, everything from the Trump Foundation, the Trump inaugural, Southern District. They're all over it. And part of the issue here is that Mueller recognized I think early on to have U.S. attorneys, federal prosecutors across the country to be on the cases, people even outside of the team to insulate it, and because he knows the investigation won't go on forever. So after he's done, those cases will continue, cases here in D.C. being handled by the D.C.'s U.S. attorney's office, for instance, Roger Stone, the president's longtime confidant, those will continue on, as well as other ones, things we've been following, the mystery grand jury. We still don't know much about what's happened there. That went to the Supreme Court. That will continue on. Those can be litigated by Justice Department lawyers.", "And we have also now heard from Andrew McCabe, the fired former acting director of the FBI. He's been out and about. He says he actually saw a letter that the president wrote personally, four- page letter, a draft letter, outlining why he wanted to fire James Comey. And, among other things, one of the reasons was because Comey didn't fire McCabe.", "Yes, this is really revealing and this is really the first time we're hearing what this letter was really about. McCabe described it as rambling, several pages long and how the president was rambling in this letter. And for the first time, he revealed that one of the reasons that the president was trying to give for why he wanted Comey fired was because he wouldn't fire -- because Comey wouldn't fire McCabe. And here's how he described it.", "I have to be careful in the way that I talk about this. I have seen the letter that the president wrote, purportedly himself, justifying the firing of Jim Comey.", "What does it say?", "In a rambling four-plus pages, it goes through all the different reasons why he is firing the director of the FBI. Now, I'm not going to go through all of those with you, but I will tell you that one of them is, he claims to want to fire the director of the FBI because of his failure to fire me.", "And obviously the issues that the president has had with McCabe and his wife, you know, a lot of that's been out there already, but, you know, this letter is something that Mueller has certainly had and it's something that he's reviewed as well.", "And, to be clear, what he's doing here is trying to set the groundwork to say I wasn't fired because the inspector general found that I misled investigators. I was fired for political reasons. So he's trying to show even way, way before that investigation the president wanted him out.", "Yes. All right, guys, thanks very much. We're going to stay on top of this story. There's other important news we're following involving the president and his reaction to CNN's reporting that Robert Mueller's final report may be imminent. Let's go to our White House correspondent, Abby Phillip. Abby, Mueller's report could be explosive. What are we hearing from the president tonight?", "Well, Wolf, after months of attack on Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation, President Trump gave reporters today in the Oval Office a pretty muted response to the prospect that this probe could be ending soon. But he saved his attacks for the former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, whose book tour this week seems to have struck a nerve with the president.", "Tonight, President Trump leaving the Mueller report in the hands of his new attorney general, Bill Barr.", "Should the Mueller report be released when you are abroad next week?", "That will be totally up to the new attorney general. He's a tremendous man, a tremendous person who really respects this country and respects the Justice Department, so that will be totally up to him.", "Trump offering a muted response to what would be the end of an investigation that he's railed against for two years. Instead, Trump lashing out at the former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who played a role in starting the probe. I think Andrew McCabe has made a fool out of himself over the last couple of days, and he really looks to me as a poor man's J. Edgar Hoover.", "The president's comments coming in the midst of McCabe's bombshell media tour that has raised questions about whether Trump might have been acting on behalf of the Russian government.", "Do you still believe the president could be a Russian asset?", "I think it's possible. I think that's why we started our investigation. And I'm really anxious to see where Director Mueller concludes that.", "McCabe even hinting that ongoing investigations could involve the president's children.", "Was the president's family being looked into either before the appointment of Mueller or after?", "That's something I don't feel comfortable talking about as it goes to kind of -- could go to ongoing investigative matters.", "And making it clear that a bipartisan group of congressional leaders were in the loop as the Department of Justice opened obstruction of justice and collusion investigations into the president.", "At the conclusion of my remarks, there were no objections. There were no protests. There was no -- you know, there was a clear sense in the room that people were resigned to the fact that we had taken a necessary step. That was my impression.", "Trump dodging a question about that revelation, focusing instead on attacking McCabe.", "I think he's a disaster. And what he was trying to do was terrible, and he was caught. I'm very proud to say we caught him. So we will see what happens, but he -- he is a disgraced man. He was terminated, not by me. He was terminated by others.", "And despite publicly supporting the director of national intelligence today...", "Are you considering replacing Dan Coats as your director of national intelligence?", "I haven't even thought about it.", "CNN has learned that Trump is privately telling associates Dan Coats may soon be out of a job.", "We currently assess that North Korea will seek to retain its WMD capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons.", "Sources tell CNN Trump is still angry about Coats' congressional testimony that he believes undercuts his own rosy portrayal of the nuclear threat posed by North Korea.", "And President Trump also told reporters today that this summit with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, is unlikely to be his last. And he expressed some optimism that the North Korean leader would choose to follow through with total denuclearization, but he did add that he would not lift sanctions until there were more meaningful steps taken towards that goal -- Wolf.", "All right. Abby, thank you, Abby Phillip at the White House. Joining us now, Democratic Senator Ben Cardin, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senator, thanks so much for joining us. Let's get right to this latest development. There is no requirement for the attorney general to actually submit a formal report to Congress on the Mueller investigation. But Bill Barr, the new attorney general, has said he will provide as much transparency as he can. How will you judge the information he provides to Congress?", "Wolf, first, it's good to be with you. It's absolutely essential that there be transparency in this report. Congress must see the sourced information, not how it is presented to it by Mr. Barr. It's got to be the information that Mr. Mueller provided to the attorney general. We need to review that. We obviously have important constitutional responsibilities. So I think Congress is going to insist upon seeing the basic report. We also believe there has to be as much transparency with the public. As much information as possible needs to be released to the public. They have a right to know.", "If you determine that Barr's report is not sufficient, what he delivers to Congress, will you go ahead and subpoena Robert Mueller? Will you subpoena Mueller's confidential report as well?", "I think the Congress has a really critical constitutional responsibility here. We need to get the Mueller report. We need to know what that investigation showed. So hopefully that will be made available through the attorney general, but we will use every means we need to in order to get access to the report.", "You heard President Trump say today that it's totally up to the new attorney general to decide whether the report should become public. Do you believe him, or do you expect him to invoke what's called executive privilege or take other steps to conceal the results of this nearly two-year investigation?", "Well, President Trump is totally unpredictable. We know that he's tried to compromise this investigation. He discredited it from the beginning. We expect that he will continue those efforts. So, yes, we are concerned as to how much the president himself will get involved in trying to cover up as much of this information from becoming public as possible.", "But you understand the rules at the Justice Department. Comey, the fired FBI director, didn't obey those rules. But if you don't charge someone with a crime, you shouldn't go ahead and make public all sorts of other, you know, negative features or dirt about that individual. I assume you agree with that longstanding Justice Department regulation?", "I do. And I think the report needs to be redacted in order to protect people, innocent people. It also needs to be redacted from the point of view of protecting sensitive sources. So there is a reason why a part of this report needs to be kept confidential. But, clearly, there has been a lot of information that Mr. Mueller has been investigating concerning the president, concerning his campaign. There's also ongoing investigations. We need to let them be completed, regardless of the timing of the Mueller investigation. There are still going to be ongoing investigations. So there are sensitivities here that we have to adhere to. But the big news what we need to know is, what did Mr. Mueller find? What is the involvement of the president? What is the involvement of people close to the president, the campaign, et cetera? We need to have that information. The public needs to have that information.", "Just a little while ago, the former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, he was fired, as you know, he confirmed the existence of what he described as a rambling four-page letter that the president wrote just before firing FBI Director Comey. This letter was not the one used to fire Comey, but it does contain the real reasons behind the president's decision. How important is it, is that letter to the Mueller investigation?", "Well, we want the Mueller investigation to be completed without any intimidation or outside influence. I will be interested to see Mr. Mueller's findings as it relates to some of the things that Mr. McCabe has been talking about. I think that's going to be critically important. Mr. Mueller has a great deal of credibility. He is a professional investigator. He's had access to all different types of information, not just one source, so it will be important to see the background as to how Mr. Comey was fired and what impact that had on any investigations.", "Even when Mueller concludes his work, and it might be as early as next week, other investigations into President Trump will continue. \"The New York Times,\" as you know, is reporting that the president asked if the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York could unrecuse himself to take control of the investigation into Michael Cohen, the president's longtime personal lawyer. Do you view that potentially as obstruction of justice?", "Wolf, the investigation in the Southern District of New York, there's already mention of Mr. Trump, not by direct name, but it's clear that they're very interested in his involvement in regards to criminal cases involving other people. So, yes, we want to make sure that those investigations go unimpeded by the president or anyone else, and that whatever the conclusions there are also made available, certainly to Congress, but also to the American people.", "On a different subject, Senator, CNN has learned that the White House has now begun preliminary talks on replacing the director of national intelligence, Dan Coats. This comes after President Trump was angered by Coats' public testimony before Congress that North Korea's unlikely to completely denuclearize. What's your reaction to this late-breaking development?", "The director of national intelligence needs to be -- has the credibility. He needs to tell it the way it is. There is a very careful process they go through before making an assessment. They tell you the guardrails that are used on that national assessment. And, clearly, to no one's surprise, that North Korea does not intend to give up their nuclear weapons. President Trump's highly visible summit meeting with Kim Jong-un did not produce a pathway to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. Now he's talking about having a second meeting. It's critically important that we get direct information, national intelligence, as to where North Korea is. So the president trying to say, look, he didn't like what Mr. Coats said because it didn't jibe with what he was saying about Kim Jong-un, that's just too bad. The national intelligence assessment is critically important for this country and it's critically important that Congress get that information, unimpeded by the president of the United States.", "Senator Cardin, thanks so much for joining us.", "Thank you, Wolf.", "There's more breaking news we're following right now. Chicago police have just officially classified \"Empire\" actor Jussie Smollett as a suspect in a criminal investigation in what they now believe was a false report of a hate crime. Let's go to our national correspondent, Ryan Young. He's working the story for us in Chicago. What's the latest, Ryan? What are you picking up?", "Yes, Wolf, right now, there's a grand jury going on upstairs. There are at least seven detectives up there telling them exactly what they believe happened in this case. But also at the center of this is two men who they now classify now as witnesses to this. We believe they're going to get immunity today after all this is said and done. These are the two men who were seen as persons of interest, who were then arrested after this incident. What we're told is, they're telling police a whole sordid bit of story. But to take our viewers back to this, January 29, there came in a report that Jussie Smollett was attacked. He told police that men jumped him, yelled racial epithets at him, and put a noose around his neck while pouring a chemical on him. Well, detectives were sort of wary about that for the entire time, because they started checking surveillance video and they started going back through logs to try to see exactly what happened. And they will be able to break this case down in the coming days, because what we know is 12 detectives worked this overtime. They were able to figure out who the two men were, they were able to bring them in and start getting information. They also started dumping the information from their cell phone and they all started pointing back the finger to Jussie Smollett. This morning, they believed, investigators, that the actor was going to come in and talk to them, but that did not happen. And when that didn't happen, they decided to come down here to the grand jury and start sharing the information. We do believe there could be more charges at some point because they're obviously discussing the variety of parts of this case and how it all broke down. And let's not forget there was a letter sent to the \"Empire\" set a week before this happened, and there was a white powder in there. A hazmat team had to show up. They figured out that was aspirin. So, there's a sordid piece of the here, as the grand jury still meets here. There could be more charges. And, of course, detectives will be looking into this. They still want to talk to the actor. Wolf, this is a case that has captivated the country. They have been people on both sides who have been calling out the actor and asking for him to step in. But that hasn't happened just yet.", "We're going to keep following these late-breaking developments. We're going to get back to you. I know you're working the story for us, Ryan Young in Chicago. Thank you. Just ahead, we're going to have more on the finale of the Mueller investigation, as the special counsel prepares to deliver his final report as soon as next week. The former U.S. attorney, Preet Bharara, he's standing by live. He will share his insights into what happens next. And a stunning terror plot revealed, as a U.S. Coast Guardsman is arrested, accused of planning attacks on political and media figures."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "THE SITUATION ROOM. ANNOUNCER", "BLITZER", "LAURA JARRETT, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN CRIME AND JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "JARRETT", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA", "WILLIAM BARR, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL", "SEN. 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{"id": "NPR-7124", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2015-11-19", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2015/11/19/456683586/weathermen-who-died-in-world-war-ii-posthumously-awarded-purple-hearts", "title": "Weathermen Who Died In World War II Posthumously Awarded Purple Hearts", "summary": "Four World War II U.S. weathermen lost their lives when a German U-Boat sunk the ship they were on. They never received their purple hearts until Thursday.", "utt": ["In the Second World War, more than 100,000 people died in the Battle of the Atlantic. The U.S. Coast Guard ship Muskeget was one of the vessels that sank. A hundred-twenty-one men were on board. It was September 1942. The ship was sailing towards the southern tip of Greenland. Four U.S. Weather Service men were on board. They were assigned to collect and transmit weather information which was used to guide American ships.", "The weathermen that were assigned to the Coast Guard (unintelligible) Muskeget - they were civilians, and they were serving alongside their military shipmates.", "That's Captain Jeremy Adams of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. After the tragedy, the families of all the military personnel who lost their lives on the ship received the Purple Heart. But the lost weathermen did not.", "I don't want to say it fell through the cracks but, you know, blame it on the fog-of-war.", "Today, in a ceremony here in Washington, D.C., that was rectified.", "We cannot overemphasize the importance of the sacrifices made by these four men - Luther H. Brady, Lester S. Fodor, George F. Kubach and Edward Weber.", "That's Dr. Louis Uccellini of NOAA. The families of these weathermen received the Purple Hearts today because of the efforts of a man named Robert Pendleton. He's a retired mapmaker, and he had found a German U-Boat captain's diary that spoke of the sinking of the Muskeget.", "Once I found that the U-Boat had sunk the ship, then, automatically, it made these civilians that were on board people they owed Purple Hearts to. And the NOAA looked at it, and they decided, yes, OK, now we can give them their Purple Hearts.", "Before today's ceremony concluded, eight ship's bells rang out.", "Those eight strikes of the bell signified the end of the watch. Our men have been relieved. [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this transcript, the closing quote was mistakenly attributed to Louis Uccellini. In fact, the person speaking was Capt. Jeremy M. Adams of NOAA.]"], "speaker": ["ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JEREMY ADAMS", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JEREMY ADAMS", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "LOUIS UCCELLINI", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "ROBERT PENDLETON", "ARI SHAPIRO, HOST", "JEREMY ADAMS"]}
{"id": "CNN-92382", "program": "CNN NEWSNIGHT AARON BROWN", "date": "2005-2-23", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/23/asb.01.html", "summary": "Rains Continue to Pound Southern California", "utt": ["Good evening again. In fact, we begin once again, Larry, in your neck of the woods. To give you some idea of what they've been going through in Southern California, consider this. Southern California has received more rain this year than Seattle. In fact, the most in Los Angeles in more than a century. The sun did come out today, Larry tells me, the better, sadly, for the building inspectors to survey the damage as they decide which homes may or may not be homes much longer, or ever again. So we have two reports form Southern California tonight, beginning first with CNN's Ted Rowlands.", "The woman inside this house is being told she has 20 minutes to gather her things and get out. The hillside above her Los Angeles home is unstable. Her name is Hiroko Mayeda. And while she's being told to leave, a red tag is stapled to her home of more than 40 years.", "Right now she's trying to get in touch with her two sons that live in -- nearby. She's gathering up her belongings.", "Steve Weiss, a city inspector, has put up dozens of red and yellow tags over the past week. Red means get out now. Yellow means the home should have only restricted use.", "OK, so we're hitting this one, this one, that one.", "The hillside in this area is so saturated that Steve and other city inspectors are worried that movement in the soil overnight may be a sign that the entire hillside is ready to go. The decision is made to red tag four homes. The fire department is called to help escort people in and out.", "Just so in the event it does happen, we don't have to come in and make rescues.", "Over the past two months, the same scenario has been playing out in hillside communities around this region. Inspectors say the still-fresh image of the January La Conchita mudslide, where 10 people died, is enough to get most people to leave without a fight.", "What we do is try to do a little hand-holding and sit down with the people and explain to them exactly what the dangers are, and what the problem would be with them staying in the building, and then usually they see it our way and move out.", "It takes about 15 minutes for Hiroko's two sons, who grew up in this house, to show up and help her load. All three say they are in a state of shock.", "I couldn't believe it. I look at the back, and I didn't see anything. So I thought it's OK.", "You're just on emergency mode, just think of what you need to do for the immediate moment, and take care of things later.", "Taking care of things is not easy. Once a home is red-tagged, it's up to the owner to hire a structural engineer and possibly a geologist to assess damage and recommend needed repairs. The city then has to sign off on the plan before people like Hiroko Mayeda can move back in. Ted Rowlands, CNN, Los Angeles.", "Making the decision to red-tag a home comes down basically to geology. Dealing with the decision involves terrain both rockier and, at the same time, more tender than any hillside. With that dimension, here's CNN's Donna Tetrault.", "It is. It's really, really hard", "Facing weeks or even months of uncertainty, the one thing Robert and Patricia Pearl (ph) know for sure is that they'll never live in their dream home again. Yesterday, their home was deemed unlivable. And today...", "So let's begin.", "They're forced to start all over again.", "All right. Post office it is, huh?", "A routine stop is now a life-changing experience.", "They had us mark, Is it a temporary change, or is it a permanent change? And that's really hard. And write down that as our former address, and our new address is a P.O. Box.", "Today Robert and Patricia are surrounded by confusion.", "Still needing to get a", "Why?", "...", "We have the insurance document here.", "... are -- everything's in the bank.", "I just dropped my phone on the floor. Can you just pick it up?", "And in this endless stream of bad news, a moment of comic relief.", "We've got to clean it up?", "I don't think they can ask me to clean it up, really,", "But just as quickly, back to reality. And frustration sets in as they begin to deal with insurance.", "I think there's a loss of use part on the policy for, like, 16-something thousand, which is basically, you know, if we've -- we've lost the use, we're sleeping on somebody's floor right now. I mean...", "Walking to their next stop.", "Oh, look there.", "Oh, my God.", "Front-page news. They never thought something like this could happen to them.", "Our biggest thing, frankly, was just trying to get our kids back to it as very quickly, as early as today, back to a normal routine. We just wanted them to feel like their lives haven't been completely disrupted. We took them back to school. They went to school yesterday, but back to school properly today.", "As a long, hard day ends, one good thing is certain -- while their home is all but gone, the Pearl family is safe, and remains intact.", "OK. Seat belts, please. Seat belts, please. Here. Take your backpacks.", "Donna Tetrault for CNN, Los Angeles.", "On to Texas now, where the decisions only get more difficult. Sun Hudson, an infant, has never had an easy day in his short life. That is a simple truth. Perhaps the only thing simple in a story that pits a mother's hope against the knowledge of great doctors and a legal system that sometimes is at odds with itself. Reporting tonight, CNN's Keith Oppenheim.", "His name is Sun Hudson, and a machine keeps him alive. When he was born five months ago, Sun Hudson was diagnosed with thanataphoric dysplasia, a skeletal disorder that prevents his lungs from maturing. Since birth, he's been on life support, connected to feeding tubes and a respirator at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. William Winslade, a bioethicist, has followed the case, and explained the prevailing medical opinion.", "Eventually, even with life support, the baby will die.", "The baby's condition led Texas Children's Hospital to convene a panel of specialists and neonatal care and medical ethics, a team that concluded it would be wrong to keep Sun Hudson on life support. Hospital officials would not speak on camera, but in a statement said, \"Sun is currently heavily sedated, although he is capable of feeling discomfort and pain. We are deeply saddened that no treatment can save this child.\"", "Normally, once the parents or the patients understand the circumstances, they will come to an agreement with the hospital about what to do.", "Wanda Hudson, the single mother of Sun, has not come to any such agreement.", "We all have a right to continue living. Just because something is so small, it doesn't mean that it can't speak and it doesn't have a voice.", "Wanda Hudson believes all her son needs is more time, more time he can only get on life support. (on camera): So you believe that your child will grow and eventually be healthy?", "Yes. I saw the vision.", "Her vision is that the sun is her creator and created the baby boy that she then named after it. While her beliefs are unusual -- some, even her parents, say, delusional -- her attorney, Mario Caballero, says what matters in a court of law is Wanda's desire to get treatment for her baby. What's driving this case is a conflict between different laws here in Texas. (on camera): On the one hand, by law, Texas patients can request life support, even if a condition is terminal or irreversible. On the other, Texas has established a process by which a hospital can refuse to respect a family's wishes if treatment is futile. Texas Children's officials say they contacted 40 other hospitals, but none would take the case, all agreeing no treatment could save Sun Hudson. (voice-over): Just last week, a judge, acting under the latter law, lifted restrictions against Texas Children's, giving the hospital the authority to decide whether to continue treatment for Sun Hudson. But a stay from the Texas Court of Appeals has kept the case, and the infant, alive. And while his mother and the hospital that is caring for him agonize over what is the right thing to do, Sun Hudson remains connected to life support. Keith Oppenheim, CNN, Houston.", "Our next story deals also with who decides. In this case, who decides what sort of education your child receives. Today, a bipartisan panel of state lawmakers took aim at the president's No Child Left Behind program, which lays out federal standards for math and reading. Under the initiative, the panel said, the federal government's role has become excessively intrusive in the day-to-day operation of public education. Legislators in nine states have already begun challenging the law. In red states -- in fact, in some of the reddest of states. From Utah tonight, CNN's Frank Buckley.", "... and the home of the brave.", "... and the home of the brave.", "... and the home of the brave.", "By all appearances, Amelia Earhart Elementary in Provo, Utah, is a great school.", "We have L.J. Brown for always doing his best work.", "Principal Rosemary Smith praises L.J. during morning announcements, and she's proud of all of her students. They test in the top 20 percent among Utah students in reading and math. Parents are actively involved as volunteers. But appearances can be deceiving, because by the accountability standards of the No Child Left Behind law, this school is in need of improvement, and is in danger of being labeled a failing school because of three students.", "The only category that we failed in was children with disabilities. And there were three children that did not make the mark in that testing category.", "Smith says her teachers will continue to work with learning-disabled students to achieve progress at a level appropriate for each student. But Smith also says teachers are demoralized after working so hard to make Amelia Earhart School the pride of a community, only to have it labeled in need of improvement.", "I felt like, why try any harder?", "Parents, like Mike and Julie Austin, who both volunteer at the school and not just to help their own six children, were devastated.", "We feel like failures. As a nation, we want to be great. We want our children to be well educated, to give them opportunity in the future. But I think that's really hard for people sitting in Washington always to know what is best in Utah for our students.", "Amelia Earhart Elementary isn't alone. Nearly half of Utah's 850 schools are considered in need of improvement. And it isn't just parents and educators who are upset. State legislators are angry. This month, the Utah House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill now pending before the Senate that comes close to rejecting No Child Left Behind. It instructs school district officials to give first priority to Utah programs when it comes to education, including placing Utah's accountability standards ahead of federal standards.", "While the federal government is certainly justified in encouraging us to make sure we don't leave any student behind, I don't think there was any program already in place in Utah that did. We will just pursue our own accountability and educational efforts here.", "This challenge to President Bush's education initiative from Republican Margaret Dayton in the reddest of the red states. More than 70 percent of Utah's voters voted for President Bush. (on camera): Some people might perceive this as an attack on your own president.", "I would hope they wouldn't. I totally love and support George Bush. I think he is a great president. My concern, however, is that I think the federal government here has overstepped its bounds by going into a state's rights issue, and I think we need to realign the division here between state control and federal involvement.", "Utah officials are asking the federal Department of Education for flexibility. They don't want to lose federal funding or local control. (on camera): Federal education officials declined an on-camera interview, but they say the program is working, forcing schools to be accountable for every student. And while they say they will listen to Utah's concerns, they will not waver from the core principles of No Child Left Behind. (voice-over): Patti Harrington is the superintendent of Utah schools. (on camera): They said it's working and it's getting under the skin of some people in the way that it should be. What do you say to that?", "I totally disagree. That's like saying it works when you smack your child because they're not doing well. You know, a school deemed in need of improvement is a smack. Any way you look at it, it is an offensive move as a sanction.", "And No Child Left Behind does include sanctions, sanctions that could mean Rosemary Smith would no longer be the principal of Amelia Earhart School, a school on the brink of failure in the eyes of federal officials, a school that is still regarded with pride in Provo. Frank Buckley, CNN, Provo, Utah.", "More to come in this hour on NEWSNIGHT, beginning in Iraq. In one of the most dangerous corners of Iraq, American soldiers reach out to the other side.", "There are 32,000 soldiers from Saddam's army here, hundreds of former generals, and a lot of current Ba'athists.", "How talking to the enemy is helping to reduce violence in the Sunni heartland. The science that has made peace of mind possible for so many 9/11 families, but not all of them, not nearly.", "Sixty-one percent of the remains did not give sufficient results to make an identification. Of those 61 percent, 28 percent gave no DNA test results.", "The limits of science, and what the future might hold. In Vermont, a dream come true. Turning cheese, fancy cheese, into dough.", "This is Constant Bliss. It's named after a Revolutionary War scout who was killed in Greensboro in the 1780s.", "From the barn to the store shelves, on the rise in the world of cheesemaking. 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{"id": "CNN-83557", "program": "CNN LIVE TODAY", "date": "2004-4-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0404/05/lt.01.html", "summary": "Marines Block Main Roads Into Fallujah; 'BTK Strangler'", "utt": ["The set is falling apart today. Here, you want a copy of AMERICAN MORNING?", "It sure is.", "You come and get it right here.", "Just five bucks for that.", "Cheap too. Welcome back, everybody. It's 7:30 here in New York. Welcome to Monday. Heidi is in today for Soledad. Good morning to you again.", "Good morning.", "Some stories this half-hour. Marines moving in on Fallujah, the operation is called Vigilant Resolve, trying to capture a group of killers in that town. Barbara Starr with much more on this from the Pentagon, watching it quite closely from there, in a moment here.", "Also, the former police chief of Wichita, Kansas, with us this morning to talk about a serial killer he started hunting nearly 30 years ago. The BCK strangler is now possibly back in the Wichita area. We'll talk about how the killer has managed to stay hidden for so long.", "What a story that is, too, in that part of the country.", "Yes.", "Top stories now this morning. A leading Republican calling on the U.S. to extend the deadline for transfer of power in Iraq. Richard Lugar, the senator, says the new government may not be able to deal with the violence by the 30th of June. He says a dialogue and a debate on that issue is needed now. Meanwhile, more violence is being reported in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad. Followers of a radical Muslim cleric clashing there with U.S. patrols. At least 13 U.S. troops have died since Saturday. Much more on Iraq in a few moments here. From Paris, still overseas, more than a dozen suspected terrorists are in custody today after a series of raids by the French authorities. Those suspects are being held in connection with a deadly terrorist attack in Morocco that killed 33 about a year ago. The identities of the suspects have not yet been released. From Spain today, investigators are giving credence to a threatening letter purportedly sent from al Qaeda in Europe. The message was faxed to a Spanish paper just as five suspects, including the reported mastermind of the Madrid train bombings, blew themselves up in a suburb of Madrid this weekend. The letter vows to turn Spain into -- quote -- \"an inferno\" if its troops do not withdraw from Iraq and from Afghanistan. This country now. Firefighters are battling blazes in several parts of Florida. Near Jacksonville, encroaching flames and heavy smoke forced officials to close part of I-95 for the weekend. And in south Florida, a fire forced the evacuation of more than 500 homes in southwest Miami Dade County. Fires near the Everglades are finally under control after consuming about 3,300 acres there. Dozens evacuated in Texas, too, after a series of weekend thunderstorms ripped through the southern portion of the state. Heavy winds and up to a foot of hail in some places knocked out power lines. Flash flood watches also issued for parts of Texas and in New Mexico.", "We want to get to Iraq now. U.S. Marines are on the move in the Iraqi city of Fallujah this morning. That's the site of last week's gruesome killings of four U.S. civilians. CNN's Barbara Starr live at the Pentagon this morning joining us with more on all of this. Barbara -- good morning to you.", "Good morning to you Heidi. Well, Fallujah, in the heart of the Sunni heartland, now in lockdown. Nobody in. Nobody out. The pictures have not yet come out of Fallujah, but we do know from sources that both tanks and concertina wire is now surrounding the city, controlling access to that region. As the U.S. Marines continue their effort to reassert control over that very troubled city and get a handle on the violence there. We are also told AC-130 gunships and Apache helicopters now moving in, also conducting operations from the air. All of this now expected to last for the next several days -- Heidi.", "Pentagon officials are concerned about a young cleric by the name of al Sadr. Tell us what this is all about.", "Well, this is the rest of the violence, of course, that has broken out in Iraq over the weekend. Followers of the radical Muslim cleric, Moqtada al Sadr, are having some violent activities, riots in Sadr City outside of Baghdad over the weekend. Several U.S. troops killed. And now, since yesterday, a response under way in Sadr City as well. U.S. tanks, helicopters moving in. The coalition administrator, Paul Bremer, making it very clear what the coalition plans to do about the violence incited by this cleric.", "Effectively, he's attempting to establish his authority in place of the legitimate authority of the Iraqi government. And as I said yesterday, we will not tolerate it.", "But here at Pentagon, officials early this morning are saying absolutely, no change in U.S. policy, no additional U.S. troops planned to be sent, and that the coalition will stick with the plan of turning sovereignty over to the Iraqis by June 30 -- now less than 100 days from now. Even as the security situation continues to deteriorate, officials say they have no choice but to move forward, stick with that plan. They say that they understood there would likely be more violence as that date approaches, that various factions would be jockeying for position, but they will deal with it. And they say no plan to change the U.S. strategy at this point -- Heidi.", "All right, Barbara Starr live at Pentagon this morning. Barbara, thanks.", "It's about 23 minutes now before the hour. Thirty years ago, a serial killer stalked the usually quiet streets of Wichita, Kansas. He killed seven people, and now someone claiming to be the BTK strangler has sent a letter to a local newspaper in Wichita revealing information only he could know. From Wichita, the city's former police chief, Richard LaMunyon, is with us. He was in charge during the spree of the so-called \"bind, torture and kill strangler.\" Chief, welcome to AMERICAN MORNING. Nice to have you here.", "Thank you, Bill.", "Is there any doubt that the killer responsible for these murders is now trying to get back in touch with authorities?", "No, there is no question that this latest communication is from the strangler, and it referenced a 1986 case that we investigated regarding...", "And what are the details, chief, of the communication on March 19? What did he send?", "Well, basically in that particular case, he sent a driver's license of the victim and a Polaroid shot of the crime scene. So, we're confident that it's from the BTK strangler.", "In total, there are eight murders attributed to him. What links these eight murders?", "Well, basically there is no commonality in terms of the individual victim. However, the M.O., the methodology in which the murders were perpetrated were very clear that they're all from the same individual. This individual also craves attention, obviously. He even sent us letters suggesting names that we might give him and things of that nature. And so, as we went through the investigative process, of course, we solicited the help of many, many behavioral science people and did everything within our power at the time to try to isolate that individual and identify him. We were successful in putting together a good foundation, a background, but we were never able to specifically identify the individual.", "Why do you think now, chief, 25 years later, why emerging from this silence?", "You know, I've thought about that. I really think that there is a real distinct possibility this person wants to tell his story. He's obviously in his late 50s, perhaps even up into his 60s now. And he's been dormant, so to speak, for many, many years. So, I think there is a real possibility at this point, at least given my impression of him over the years, that he'd like to tell his story.", "Wow! About 30 years ago, the first murder, a husband was killed, a wife was killed, two of their children were killed inside of their home. Police have said consistently that that is the one case that they believe the most clues lie. Why do you believe that may be the case going back to 1974?", "Well, we believe -- we're fairly confident in our mind that that was, in fact, his first murder scene. And we believe that at that point, for lack of a better term, he was learning his trade. He was going through rituals. We also know that the father came back in that particular case and interrupted what was going on. We also have evidence from that scene. We were very careful during those days to preserve everything that we could on film, as well as preserve items that were taken from there. So, also today we have a lot more technology that's available to us that was not available 30 years ago, so the department is refocusing on that one, as I think they should do.", "Richard LaMunyon, thanks for talking with us. Best of luck to you and everybody else there in Wichita, Kansas.", "Thank you very much.", "Appreciate it. Thank you, sir.", "Thank you.", "Still to come this morning, what really happened among the jurors behind closed doors at the Tyco trial. Two of the jurors are going to sit down and talk with us about it.", "Also the practical joker Ashton Kutcher. Did he put one on over everyone? Find out next in our \"90-Second Pop\" in a moment here."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR", "HEMMER", "COLLINS", "HEMMER", "COLLINS", "HEMMER", "COLLINS", "HEMMER", "COLLINS", "HEMMER", "COLLINS", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "COLLINS", "STARR", "PAUL BREMER, U.S. CIVILIAN ADMINISTRATOR", "STARR", "COLLINS", "HEMMER", "RICHARD LAMUNYON, FMR. CHIEF, WICHITA POLICE", "HEMMER", "LAMUNYON", "HEMMER", "LAMUNYON", "HEMMER", "LAMUNYON", "HEMMER", "LAMUNYON", "HEMMER", "LAMUNYON", "HEMMER", "LAMUNYON", "HEMMER", "LAMUNYON", "COLLINS", "HEMMER"]}
{"id": "NPR-14657", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2006-02-06", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5191820", "title": "Senate Grills Gonzales on Domestic Spying", "summary": "The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings Monday on President Bush's warrantless domestic eavesdropping program. The White House says eavesdropping by the National Security Agency (NSA) is necessary to fight terror, but opponents say it violates civil rights. The hearings began with testimony from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who faced tough questioning from senators.", "utt": ["From the studios of NPR West, this is Day to Day. I'm Madeleine Brand.", "And I'm Alex Chadwick. Coming up, how the Bush administration plans to spend nearly $3 trillion over the next fiscal year.", "But first, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is on Capitol Hill today. The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing into the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program. NPR's Al Shapiro reports.", "The Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, Republican Arlen Specter, called this hearing after democrats and some republicans said the Bush administration may have broken the law by spying on Americans without a warrant.", "Today, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defended the program's legality. And he warned that even talking about it helps the terrorists.", "Our enemy is listening. And I cannot help but wonder if they aren't shaking their heads in amazement at the thought that anyone would imperil such a sensitive program by leaking its existence in the first place and smiling at the prospect that we might now disclose even more or perhaps even unilaterally disarm ourselves of a key tool in the war on terror.", "Gonzales repeatedly steered the conversation back to the 9/11 attacks that led President Bush to authorize the program. Ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont said he didn't need the reminder.", "I was here when that attack happened. And I join with republicans and democrats and virtually every member of this Congress to try to give you the tools that you said you needed for us to go after al-Qaeda, and especially to go after Osama bin Laden.", "So, he asked, if you needed more tools, why didn't you just ask Congress to write a new law? Gonzales said a new law wasn't necessary. He believes the president acted legally. The law governing domestic spying is called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. The FISA statute prohibits the government from warrantless domestic spying, except as authorized by statutes.", "Those words, except as authorized by statute, are no mere incident of drafting. Instead, they constitute a far-sighted safety valve.", "Gonzales said when Congress authorized the president to use military force to fight terrorists after 9/11, it activated that safety valve and allowed the president to spy on Americans without judicial oversight.", "Chairman Specter didn't think that's what Congress meant to do.", "How can you say Congress intended to give you this authority?", "Leahy agreed.", "That authorization said to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and use the American military to do that. It did not authorize domestic surveillance of American citizens.", "But Gonzales maintained that the domestic surveillance program was not only President Bush's right. It was his obligation.", "The president is duty bound to do everything he can to protect the American people. He took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. In the wake of 9/11, he told the American people that to carry out this solemn responsibility he would use every lawful means at his disposal to prevent another attack.", "There's a narrow focus to these hearings. Specter described the limits to the inquiry at the outset.", "The scope of this hearing is to examine the law on the subject. And the ground rules are that we will not inquire into the factual underpinnings of what is being undertaken here. That is for another committee and for another day.", "The committee that could examine the factual underpinnings of the surveillance program is the Senate Intelligence Committee. But that committee's chairman has expressed no desire to put the attorney general on the witness stand. Ari Shapiro, NPR News, Washington.", "And you can read an explanation of the Bush administration's legal justifications for warrantless wiretapping and the challenges to those arguments from the non-partisan congressional research service at our Web site, NPR.org."], "speaker": ["MADELEINE BRAND, host", "ALEX CHADWICK, host", "MADELEINE BRAND, host", "AL SHAPIRO, reporting", "AL SHAPIRO, reporting", "Mr. ALBERTO GONZALES (Attorney General)", "AL SHAPIRO, reporting", "Senator PATRICK LEAHY (Democrat, Vermont)", "AL SHAPIRO, reporting", "Mr. ALBERTO GONZALES (Attorney General)", "AL SHAPIRO, reporting", "AL SHAPIRO, reporting", "Senator ARLEN SPECTER (Republican, Pennsylvania)", "AL SHAPIRO, reporting", "Senator PATRICK LEAHY (Democrat, Vermont)", "AL SHAPIRO, reporting", "Mr. ALBERTO GONZALES (Attorney General)", "AL SHAPIRO, reporting", "Senator ARLEN SPECTER (Republican, Pennsylvania)", "AL SHAPIRO, reporting", "MADELEINE BRAND, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-141756", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2009-8-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/13/qmb.01.html", "summary": "Volkswagen and Porsche to Merge", "utt": ["Good evening. I do apologize this evening if I'm wheezing away, a bit chesty tonight, with a bit of a cold. Now General Motors says reinventing the automobile is the best way to spend taxpayers' money. A day after the company unveiled its 230 miles per gallon Chevy Volt, CNN has been talking to chief -- the GM's chief executive, Fritz Henderson. The person who has been doing the talking to him, Poppy Harlow. Poppy is in New York and joins me now. He has had an enormous amount of government money, he has got a new company to run, and has got new cars. I mean, he has got all of the toys to play with.", "He does. And there also, they have $43 million in federal grants that they're putting to work today, announcing today at this plant in Michigan to make those batteries, to assemble them that are going to run the Chevy Volt. That's where we spoke to the CEO, Fritz Henderson, joining us from Michigan a little earlier today, talking about the future of the Volt. But I really pressed him on what does this mean for the future of General Motors? I mean, Richard, you and I know this is not a car that is going to be profitable for General Motors in the near term. It could even cost them. So take a listen to what he told me on that front.", "Our job is to learn from generation one technology to get to generation two and generation three. We haven't priced the product yet. But in terms of the cost, the cost is high, as it is with any sort of generation one technology.", "Now let me tell you, I asked him, this is a company, $59 billion in the hole to the U.S. and Canadian taxpayer, is this really what a company that is so far in debt should be doing with their research and development money, with their energy? Should they be putting it, Richard, into a car that isn't going to turn a profit for a while? And here's how he responded to that one.", "I think taxpayers should be concerned if we didn't make investments like this in our future, because we need to be part of reinventing the automobile, not simply building what we have today. In order for us to be successful, to create value for shareholders in which the taxpayers -- the U.S. taxpayers are our largest shareholders, we need to reinvent this company and be part of the future. And I would say that if we didn't invest in these sorts of technologies, people should be deeply concerned.", "And remember, of course, this is the company that put an electric car on the market, Richard, back in the '90s, only to pull it from the market. I did also ask GM's CEO if they will need more government aid. He said, no, definitively no at this point -- Richard.", "The fascinating part about this discussion, and you and I have had it before, and probably we'll have it again, is that you know that old journalistic cliche that we all learn never to use, \"only time will tell,\" which is rapidly followed -- which is rapidly follow by \"remains to be seen.\" But that really is the truth of General Motors at the moment.", "It certainly is. The executives there have the confidence that this is going to turn the company around. You know, I've asked a lot of people, and some people say good for GM, they're doing this, they're pushing forward. Others say a little too little and a little too late. I mean, you're looking at other companies that have pushed forward with hybrids a long time before General Motors did. It is still to be seen -- I think we're still a few years out rather than months to see if this can do it for General Motors. And if this is their only bet, this electric-powered car, or if they will turn to other fuel cell technology or diesel technology, that's still to be seen -- Richard.", "Ah, but the key thing is -- and we haven't really got time to discuss it, is whether they can create a car that people fall in love with. That's a subject for you and I for another day. Poppy, thanks very much. Nice to see you. Poppy Harlow in New York. Now let me remind you of some news just coming in to us right now here at CNN. Volkwagen's supervisory board says it has approved that merger, to merge Volkswagen and Porsche. They will form an integrated company. The plan is to be completed by 2011. Volkswagen's chief, Martin Winterkorn has said: \"Together we are on our way to becoming number one.\" The deal has been in the works since 2005, the result of some very protracted negotiations. In just a moment or two, we've been talking at length about the road of recovery on this program over many weeks, you'll want to know, are we there yet? We'll pick the brains of one of our favorites, Jeffrey Sachs -- Professor Jeffrey Sachs to me, of Columbia University in just a moment. What does he think about the road to recovery?"], "speaker": ["QUEST", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "FRITZ HENDERSON, PRESIDENT & CEO, GENERAL MOTORS", "HARLOW", "HENDERSON", "HARLOW", "QUEST", "HARLOW", "QUEST"]}
{"id": "CNN-307445", "program": "NEW DAY SUNDAY", "date": "2017-03-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/12/ndaysun.02.html", "summary": "Price Tag Expected on Obamacare Replacement Bill; Interview with Governor Matt Bevin of Kentucky", "utt": ["Republican lawmakers are bracing for news on their replacement plan for Obamacare.", "In fact, tomorrow, the Congressional Budget Office is expected to score the GOP bill and this is a bill that's already making its way through Congress despite not yet receiving a score by the CBO. A recent S&P Global Report though predicts as many as 10 million people will lose coverage under this.", "Vice President Mike Pence is working to sell the plan to skeptical Republicans, Republican-led states that were able to ensure more people under Obamacare. One of those states, Kentucky. Now, on Friday, the state's governor, Matt Bevin, said he was not impressed with the GOP version of this law.", "Senator Paul has ideas of things he thinks it needs to be a lot stronger. He is not as impressed with what has currently been offered as some who currently offered it. Truth be told, I'm not either. So, I'm with him, I think there are things that need to be done. We don't need another version of the same thing.", "Well, hours later, Governor Bevin released this statement, and it reads in part, here's the quote, I just finished a highly encouraging conversation with the White House during which we discussed additional flexibilities that can be given to states in addition to what is currently included in the repeal and replace reconciliation bill. So, post-Pence, what does the governor think of this plan? Well, let's ask him. Governor Bevin is with us now. Good morning to you.", "Good morning to you as well.", "So, after the governor, where are you on the bill?", "Oh, after the visit from the vice president, my apologies. Go ahead.", "Yes, I mean, absolutely. You and I both have that issue. I'm delighted that he is now the vice president. I'll tell you this, I'm at the same place that I was before, and that is this, that initial comment was taken very much out of context. What I said is that is the beauty of the democratic process. Of course, there are differences as to what the exact details should look like. There is 100 percent agreement, however, among Republicans, that we need to repeal Obamacare, 100 percent agreement, 100 percent unanimity.", "So, when you say --", "So to that end, the key is where are the differences and how are we going to accomplish those reconciling those parts between now and when this is done? The reconciliation process, the companion legislation and then administrative regulations and procedures, those are the three parts to getting to the end solution -- I think we're well on track.", "But, Governor, both you and Senator Paul were aware that this was a three-pronged approach, and when you say that, quote, things need to be a lot stronger, what do you think needs to be as you characterize it, a lot stronger?", "Sure. First of all, we've got to make sure that we repeal and replace at the same time because states need flexibility as it relates to handling the Medicaid portion. In Kentucky alone, nearly one-third of Kentuckians are on Medicaid. So, it's a significant impact on our budget and in our population. We want at the end of the day to not compromise health care outcomes. Coverage is not the point. Simply giving people a plastic card is not the point. The point is to create a healthier population and better health outcomes. That must be the focus. So, what would I like to see? I'd like to see more flexibility at the state level. I'd love to see governors being given more autonomy over what they do regulatorily and as it relates to what percentages of the federal poverty level they might be able to go up to while having either expanded or unexpanded Medicaid. These types of things have got to be done. I'd like to see also this requirement to have compliance, not to be given to 50 different states. To me, that's irresponsible. And the idea that every state would develop their own I.T. module funded by the federal dollar is silly. Come up with a single set at the federal level and allow states to use those tools, a single set of tools that they could use, simple things like this. We're not far apart. It does need to go. Obamacare is a failure. Everyone has agreed on that, including in Kentucky where I can assure you with absolute no doubt, that this is not working in Kentucky, it's an abject failure.", "All right. Governor, let's talk about the timing of this. Senator Cotton this week said that this all moving a little too quickly. Let's remind people of the time line of the passage of Obamacare, a plan introduced in July of 2009. CBO released its score three months later in October. We are less than a week into this and we're expecting it to be released tomorrow. House approved it in November, Senate in December, and the president signed it in March of 2010. Do you agree with Senator Cotton that this is moving too quickly?", "Number one, I appreciate the sense of urgency. It's not as if we didn't know this wasn't coming. I mean, the reality is, we have been talking about this for years and years and years. There have been proposals and conversations going on for years and years. Now, those conversations are being reconciled and brought to the forefront. So, I'm not concerned that this is going too quickly. If you remember, when it was done under the timeline you just described, nobody saw it. Nobody saw it.", "But if Republicans --", "Nancy Pelosi famously said we needed to pass it -- we needed to pass it to see what was in it. So, this is much more transparent.", "Forgive me, Governor, but if Republicans knew -- if Republicans knew that this was coming, why is it taking such -- why is it such a heavy lift to get Republicans onboard to the same proposal?", "Because this is a transparent process, unlike the last time when it was done in a back room and people thought they needed to pass it to see what was in it. This is transparent and when you have 435 representatives in the House and 100 senators on the other side, and 300-and-some-odd million American people all being able to weigh in and give their two cents worth, of course, there's going to be differences of agreement. But again, on the Republican side, there's absolute agreement that Obamacare is a failure and it needs to be repealed and it needs to be replaced. It needs to be gone. So --", "Understood. The what next is the question that needs to be answered. I want you to response what a fellow governor out of Connecticut, Dannel Malloy, said -- what he said to our Ana Cabrera last night here on CNN. Watch.", "It will take insurance away from millions of people. It will gut Medicaid. It will cause people to lose their lives. It will cause hospitals to close. It will close other clinics to close. I'm in my 60s, if I was to go to the marketplace under this plan, I would have to pay probably about $8,000 more for my coverage. That's what we're doing, folks. Everyone wake up and understand that this is repeal and replace with the emphasis on repeal and really not replace. What they're going to do is make you sicker.", "In addition to what we heard from the governor, the AMA, the American Medical Association, AARP, several other organizations have come out against this bill. You say to them what?", "A couple things. Number one, stop the drama. Stop the misrepresentation of reality. This argument that suddenly if you were to replace this, the costs are going to go up. Like what, they have not been of late? I mean, let's think about this -- we were lied to and told that costs were going to go down, people can keep their health care providers and doctors. The exact opposite has happened. And now, to pretend if we were to go back to some variation of what we had or even something better that costs are going to go up, that's the reason? That's nonsense. Number two, the idea that people are going to die in the streets and they all -- I don't think he used in the streets, that's essentially what he is implying -- is that suddenly, there's going to be, you know, health care mayhem in America, nonsense. Only half the counties in Kentucky even have a single provider at this point, and we have huge players like Humana and Aetna and others that are frankly leaving the exchange, as United and others have done so. The fact is the system is failing. And this idea that somehow that keeping this broken system is the only solution is absolutely not correct.", "All right. Governor Matt Bevin of Kentucky -- thanks for being with us on", "Thank you.", "All right. Two leaders of Congress coming up later this morning on Jake Tapper -- \"STATE OF THE UNION\" with Jake Tapper. John McCain on the show to talk about his next step to take on the president over Russia, and Cory Booker, senators both, to talk about the Democrats' plan to challenge the new health care proposal. That's \"STATE OF THE UNION\" with Jake Tapper today at 9:00, right here on", "And still to come, the Trump administration's officials shielding the president from questions from the media. Why the president's recent dodging and ducking of reporters is raising some new concerns. 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{"id": "CNN-234933", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-07-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/20/cnr.07.html", "summary": "How to Repair U.S./Russia Relations", "utt": ["You see these painful pictures of these Palestinian children and these refugees, thousands of them fleeing their homes. It's a horrendous sight what's going in right now, if you look at the images, heart wrenching. What goes through your mind when you see that?", "I'm very sad. When I see that I'm very sad. We are sad for every civilian casualty. They are not intended.", "We have this just in, at the U.N. security council will be holding an emergency session tonight, starting at 9:30 Eastern Time to discuss the situation in Gaza and the deadliest day so far, the conflict. Eighty seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks, at least 60 in one assault alone. Thirteen Israeli soldiers dead. While the conflict has resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths in Gaza, the U.S. is standing by Israel's right to defend itself from terrorists. David Gergen rejoins me now, adviser to four presidents, now CNN analyst. David, I wonder if you're seeing or will soon see a divergence in U.S. and Israeli tolerance for casualties on the ground. The U.S. has been publicly very supportive up to this point, but Israeli leaders starting to talk about demilitarizing Hamas and Gaza. That signals a long ground operation there and I just wonder if you see the U.S. supporting that as these casualties mount.", "That's a very interesting point, Jim, and I think there's a chance that could happen. The administration deserves support for the way they have stood up for Israel, championing Israel's right to fire back, in effect, both Secretary Kerry and the president have done a good job of that. But there - I think it's also been wise for them to see if they can't tamp this down and bring it to an end in the coming week. It's going to be very important, I think, to have this not stretch on and on. Eventually, America's patience can be tested, especially if you get horrible bodies piling up. I can remember going back again to the Reagan period, how he eventually had to call the Israeli prime minister when they were going into Beirut and call it off and it made a big difference. And I - we may be nearing that point. I hope not. I hope that the Israelis see and Hamas sees that this is leading to an endless number of unnecessary deaths.", "Well, U.S. secretary of state John Kerry heading to Egypt tomorrow for the talks on the crisis. Before I get to a question to you, today he was caught off guard on an open mic while speaking to Fox News saying these comments about Israel, have a listen.", "It's a hell of a pinpoint operation. It's a hell of a pinpoint operation.", "Right, it's escalating significantly, just underscores the need for a cease-fire.", "We have got to get over there.", "Yes. Tank you, John. I think, John, we should go tonight, crazy to sit around.", "That is Secretary Kerry speaking to one of his advisers, criticizing what Israel has called a pinpoint operation. As Secretary Kerry goes to the region, does that undermine his ability to be an honest broker in these talks? How will he be perceived by the Israelis?", "I think it's pretty minor, probably thankful he didn't say something more provocative than he did. He seemed to be scoffing a little bit at the Israeli claim that this was pinpoint. But the other issue this raises is OK, he's going to go to the Middle East. I think he should go to the Middle East but what he's going there to do. This is a continuing question about the administration. It's not quite clear what they're trying to accomplish and whether they have the means to accomplish what they set out to do. You know, they can make good statements but they got to come through with actions that bring about results. They're increasingly, Jim, if go through this question, we can be engaged, but if we are not leading effectively, we lose some of our punch. We lose some of our authority. Let me just make one more point, if I may, Jim, about the president. I again go back to the Reagan period because Reagan was on his ranch when the KAO was shot down by Soviets in 1983. I was in the White House at the time. This was an airliner that got shot down out of the skies and we rushed in to condemn the Russians and the president stayed on his ranch for a couple of days, but you know what he saw very quickly that he needed to be back in the office. He was on a 25-day vacation and he came back to the White House. He went on television to talk to the country about what was happening, help people understand it and grab hold of the situation. That's what I mean by leadership. And it does seem to me that at this time when there's so much turmoil in the world, we not only have the shootdown of this plane and what's going on in Gaza, we do have these children still at our borders. We have, you know, the Middle East in flames. It seems to me that the president would be well advised now to cut back on some of these fund-raisers, the golf, get back in the White House, bring in heavyweights from past administrations to try to figure out what to do - America's role should be in the world and then go on television and again to lead us as a country about how are we going to deal with these crises? How do we lead in this very, very turbulent world?", "David Gergen, thanks very much. And Poppy, just speaking about the president there, I'm sure he did not think he was going to have this many international crises to deal with in this second term when he wanted to focus on his domestic agenda. Who would have predicted?", "Yes, absolutely not. I mean, this has frankly taken the border crisis completely off the table in terms of the main headlines right now, something that just days ago was at the forefront, that the president was dealing with. David Gergen, fascinating conversation between the two of you. Thank you very much for coming in. Meantime, of course, we are covering the tragic disaster with Malaysia flight 17. The country, Malaysia, reeling from a second disaster in just a matter of months. Just ahead, how people in that country are trying to seek solace in this time of absolute tragedy."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER", "SCIUTTO", "GERGEN", "SCIUTTO", "JOHN KERRY, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KERRY", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "SCIUTTO", "GERGEN", "SCIUTTO", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-173709", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-10-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1110/08/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Ron Paul Wins New Straw Poll", "utt": ["Now back to the Values Voter Convention, a gathering of social conservatives in Washington. We have been waiting for those results of the Republican presidential straw poll. I told you just moments ago they're in, and CNN political producer Peter Hamby is standing by. So what do we know, Peter?", "Well, the big winner, as he often is at these straw polls, is Ron Paul, who had a commanding win. He picked up 37 percent of the vote. There are about 3,000 participants here at the Values Voter Summit, which is a big gathering of social conservatives, religious conservatives. The Ron Paul supporters are very dedicated. They often kind of get their people out to these straw polls, you know, to do a good showing. So take a look at who else finished well. Herman Cain continues to surge. He's doing well in the polls right now. He gave a rousing speech here yesterday, Kyra. He came in second with 23 percent. And I'm reading the results from my BlackBerry here. Rick Santorum, a fierce social conservative, staunch opponent of abortion, also gave a pretty powerful speech here, came in third place with 16 percent. And the two national frontrunners, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, finished farther down the line, Kyra.", "And we'll get to them. I'm looking at the same thing, I guess, that you just got. We'll look at the choices for VP, but those who were surveyed, can you describe them?", "Yes. There's a lot of folks here from all over the country, you know, who are involved, you know, in - in church groups locally. This is put on by the Family Research Council, a big social conservative group run by Tony Perkins, so there's a lot of religious conservatives, social conservatives. Again, that's why you saw somebody like Rick Santorum and Herman Cain do pretty well here. Mitt Romney finished at only four percent in the straw poll. He's the national frontrunner, but he's never really endeared himself to this crowd, and that was kind of reflected in the straw poll results. But, you know, behind me there's all kinds of booths, you know, focusing on issues like abortion, same-sex marriage, creationism, that sort of thing. So that's - that's the kind of crowd that showed up here today, Kyra.", "And shall we give the top four finishers here as the choices for VP?", "Sure. They did survey who would be the best number two. They didn't give us hard numbers, but the top finishers were Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain and Marco Rubio, who is the consensus number one draft pick, if you will, for - for Republicans because he is a Latino, he's articulate, he can raise money, he's conservative. He said that he wouldn't seek the VP nod, but, you know, when the presidential nominee comes calling next year, we'll see if he changes his mind. But Rick - Rubio is popular across the board among social conservatives, establishment conservatives, foreign policy conservatives. So he's a popular pick here, Kyra.", "All right. And Ron Paul winning that new straw poll. Peter Hamby, thank you so much. All right, Jacqui Jeras, what's happening around the country weather- wise?", "A lot of rain, Kyra. Oh my gosh, it is a washout of a day in parts of the country that actually really need it, across parts of Texas, and then Florida getting hit very hard as well. We'll zoom in here and show you the state of Florida that's just been getting pounded, Melbourne in particular right now. They had five inches of rain in the ground since yesterday, and it's still coming down, and it's still coming down hard. We've got an area of low pressure here that's trying to develop, and the Hurricane Center says there's a small chance that this could become a tropical or a subtropical system. But either way you slice it, it's certainly spelled a huge rainmaker, a big wind maker as well. We could see gusts as much as 50 miles per hour throughout the weekend, and this is going to be a real slow mover, it's going to be real slow to organize and eventually make its way on up towards the north and to the east. How much rainfall are we talking about on top of what you already had? Well, this computer model forecast showing you over the next 48 hours, so this gets into Monday. We could see as much as four to six inches just on the coast. So you can really see where the heaviest of this is expected to be, moving on up towards Georgia, and then on up into the Carolinas. In fact, throughout the week we could see this whole thing make its way on up towards the East Coast. Rainfall amounts in addition are going to be very heavy. We'll see those gusts, we'll see rip currents as well, and some really big waves. Not a good day to get out on the sailboat or any kind of boat out in the ocean there where we could see eight to 10 footers as well. I want to take you over to Texas now, where the drought-ridden state is finally getting some relief here. This is not a drought buster, however it is going to put a nice dent in here. Taking a look at midland Texas, for example, they have had 2.22 inches of rainfall in the last year. Yes, a year. Well, you could double that number just in the next 24 hours. So flood watches have been posted here. The ground is very dry, so a lot of this runs off very quickly instead of getting absorbed into the ground, so that's a bit of concern as well. This is due to a stationary front that's kind of parked in the nation's midsection, so this is going to continue to be the focus of wet weather through the weekend, even into the Columbus Day as well. It's also what's responsible for bringing that snow into the Rockies. Believe it or not, Kyra, I'm hearing some ski resorts have opened up in - for the weekend because they've seen that much snow. But just - just for the weekend.", "All right.", "It's going to melt off pretty quick.", "Here we go, though. Pretty soon we're going to be talking about all the record numbers of snowfall.", "Oh, yes.", "Thanks, Jacqui. Well, Chaz Bono has brought the transgender community into the spotlight, and for many people it's been their lifestyle for years. Now one person offered this advice.", "At some point in time you're going to come across somebody that is transgender, gay or lesbian. If you don't understand, ask that person. We're normal people, too.", "Going from southern jock and military man to single female, next in the NEWSROOM."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "PETER HAMBY, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER", "PHILLIPS", "HAMBY", "PHILLIPS", "HAMBY", "PHILLIPS", "JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "PHILLIPS", "JERAS", "PHILLIPS", "JERAS", "PHILLIPS", "WILSON", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-413190", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-10-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2010/12/nday.03.html", "summary": "Soon, Confirmation Hearings Begin for Amy Coney Barrett.", "utt": ["This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin hearings on President Trump's third pick for the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Republicans want to move at breakneck speed to have her confirmed by Election Day, so she can hear a case on the Affordable Care Act, among others. Joining us now is Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono. She is a member of the Judiciary Committee and will be questioning Judge Barrett today. Senator, thanks so much for being here. Are you going to be participating in person or remotely?", "I will be participating in-person, at least during the portion of my questioning and opening.", "And why? Why -- you know -- you had an option, right, to do it remotely, so why did you decide to do it in person?", "I think it's important for me to actually see her and see her demeanor in person. But, of course, I'm going to take precautions. I'm not going to be there exposing myself for ten hours to what might be (ph), for example.", "So, what are you going to do?", "I'm going to wear a mask if I'm there and I'm not speaking. I took yesterday out of an abundance of caution and I'm awaiting the results. But I have been working remotely. And so this is really us taking the pandemic seriously, something that the president, even after he got COVID, is taking seriously, and nor are the Republicans."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "SEN. MAZIE HIRONO (D-HI)", "CAMEROTA", "HIRONO", "CAMEROTA", "HIRONO"]}
{"id": "CNN-403397", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-06-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/22/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Nearly Half of U.S. States Reporting Rise in New Coronavirus Cases; Florida Governor Now Backing Down Comments on Testing; NASCAR Investigating Noose Found in Bubba Wallace's Garage; Florida Sees Alarming Number of COVID-19 Cases.", "utt": ["And listen to this, Dr. Anthony Fauci telling us that these 13 states in particular are the ones to watch because, quote, \"These increases cannot be explained solely on the basis of increased testing.\" President Trump has, as you may have noticed, frequently pointed to testing as the sole reason for the spike in cases.", "Hospitalizations are also on the rise. And that's key. In Arizona, ICU beds nearly all full, nearly at capacity. That is where the president is still planning on holding an event tomorrow night despite fears of this virus spreading and despite the fact that his own administration is preparing for a potential second wave. Our teams are standing by to cover every angle. Our senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen joins us first on this surge in cases. I mean, it's so key. This is not just about testing more. Jim pointed out importantly those 13 states, and this is also about a rise in hospitalizations.", "Right. And when you see a rise in hospitalizations, that's -- nobody can make that up. I mean, what the president is trying to say is, oh, it's just that we're testing more. Don't worry about it. First of all, that's not true, as Dr. Fauci pointed out. Second of all, when you see that hospitalizations are going up, that's an actual real number of bodies that you can count. So we know that this is for real. So let's take a look at the national map, Poppy. What we're seeing here is 23 states that are seeing increases. And of those, and that's the orange and the red you're seeing now. Of those, the dark red ones, that's 11 states that are seeing more than a 50 percent increase last week over the previous week. So 11 states are seeing more than a 50 percent increase. Let's look at one state that's seeing a high increase, and that's Arizona. Arizona had 52,591 cases, 1,349 deaths. And then let's take a look at this graph. What we're seeing here is this very dramatic rise in cases in Arizona starting around early June. Those numbers are real. You can see it right there, that those case numbers have gone way up. And there's no mystery here. When people get together more, the number of cases, the number of hospitalizations, the number even sometimes of deaths is going to go up -- Poppy, Jim.", "All right. Elizabeth, from the beginning, the general view has been children largely not vulnerable to this. But we are seeing an increased number of younger people testing positive for the virus. What does that tell us? And in addition to testing positive, are they being hospitalized is the question.", "Right. And so I think we can anticipate that they won't be hospitalized in the same numbers as older people. Nothing about this virus has changed, Jim. What's changed is that as we've started opening up, younger people are sort of taking advantage of that more. I mean, we've all seen the pictures. Memorial Day Weekend, other weekends, other festivities, younger people are taking advantage of going out more, and not always doing it wisely. So they're going out, they're not socially distancing, they're not wearing masks. And so we're going to see more of them be diagnosed. Now they will continue to have cases that are not as serious as older people but the concern is, is that they're going to go home and get their parents sick or get their grandparents sick. They're going to become vectors in all of this. Now -- and some of them will get seriously ill. But that is the concern mainly is that they will become vectors more and more.", "And that a concern with school opening in the fall as well.", "Yes.", "Elizabeth Cohen, thanks very much. Let's go now to Rosa Flores. She's in Miami. So, Rosa, Florida, of course one of the states that closed late, opened early. It's now seeing a huge spike. The governor there first blamed, like the president, the surge in testing. Now he admits that's not true?", "You're absolutely right. Governor Ron DeSantis finally acknowledging that the increase in cases here in the state of Florida is not just due to the increased in testing but also to community spread. And he's saying that this is spreading in the young population, so much so that the median age is plunging. It used to be 65 back in March. Now according to the governor, most of the cases are between the ages of 18 and 35. The governor says that they are not social distancing, not wearing masks. So what is the governor doing? According to Governor Ron DeSantis, he's going to publish PSAs and he's also going to send inspectors to businesses to make sure that they are complying with COVID-19 guidelines. Here's what the governor is not doing. He is not shutting down the economy, he is not requiring masks statewide. Instead he said that that's going to be up to local governments. Now the other big metric, hospitalizations. According to the governor, there are plenty of hospital beds out in the state to deal with this pandemic. But of course, there is one metric that the state does not release, and that is the daily number of hospitalizations for COVID-19 patients. But, Jim and Poppy, we are getting a sense of what those are looking like by Jackson Health. They are releasing their numbers. And in the past two weeks they've seen a 75 percent increase in COVID-19 patients -- Jim and Poppy.", "The numbers are startling there. Thanks, Rosa, very much. With us now our CNN medical analyst, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, professor of medicine at George Washington University. Good morning. Thank you very much for being here.", "Good morning.", "Just, I think, the facts for the American people so important this morning after misleading statements from the White House on testing, now Florida's governor has reversed course. That's important. But also the president saying in that rally over the weekend that, you know, he told his people to slow down testing. What are we facing in terms of this spike? Is this the beginning of a second wave?", "No, this is the middle of the first wave. This is not a new wave. This is not a part of the country that has suppressed the pandemic and now we're seeing a second wave. This is very much the first wave of the virus hitting the south and the southwest. And about what the president said on Saturday, that really chilled me and made me, you know, quite angry. What the president said was, he told his people to slow down on testing. As a reminder, the first U.S. patient tested positive on January 20th. It took 51 days to test 20,000 patients. That's roughly the number of patients we test now in an hour. So it took almost two months to test 20,000 patients. If the president, indeed, told his people to slow down because he didn't want his numbers to go up -- and remember, he said that about the cruise ship anchored off the West Coast, that he didn't want to bring them here because he didn't want the numbers to go up. If he told people on the task force to slow down on testing, and that's one of the explanations for why it took so long to ramp up testing, then that itself has resulted in the death of tens of thousands of Americans and Congress should probably investigate that.", "We'll see, given the politics of the day. Dr. Fauci, as we mentioned earlier, is focusing his attention on 13 states, and we have a map of this, in which he says the rises cannot be attributed solely to testing. You can see them there. These are big states, Texas, Florida, et cetera, you know, and includes several states that closed late and opened early. When you look at the data, is there a direct tie between early and aggressive opening -- reopening and the spike in cases?", "Yes. Absolutely. And also the lack of social distancing, the at best mixed messages on the use of masks. And when you look at the rise in cases, the way to tease out whether or not this is simply an artifact of the fact that we're testing more or it's actually an increase in the incidents of the disease is to look at two things. You've already mentioned in the open about increase in hospitalizations. That's one clue. The other clue is look at the percent of patients that test positive, so the positivity rate. And that has risen in multiple states in the southwest. When you're just testing more and finding more just because you're testing more, the positivity rate drops. That's not what we're seeing now. More hospitalizations, higher positivity rate means the virus is really active. And it's dropped dramatically in other parts of the country. The reason why our nationwide daily count is over 20,000 and has remained that way is because it's risen in the south.", "You believe that there is a real likelihood that some parts of some states will have to shut down again.", "I think that we have to be prepared for that. You know, this is what happened in Japan. Japan opened the island of Hokkaido after about a three-week shutdown. And then after a few weeks they realized the virus was rising again, and then they closed down again. We have to have the political will to do that. That's how we achieved the success in places like New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Michigan and Massachusetts, by shutting down and social distancing and all the other things that we've done. We just can't say that it's inconvenient now or it's politically inexpedient to do that. That's how we extinguish the virus. And we have to have the political will to do that.", "Folks, watch the data. The numbers don't lie on this. Dr. Jonathan Reiner, it's good to have you on to focus attention on that.", "My pleasure. Be well.", "Other story we're following this morning and a disturbing one. Just a shocking scene playing out at one of NASCAR's biggest races. Officials discovered a noose in the garage of driver Bubba Wallace at the Talladega's Superspeedway.", "It's awful. Wallace is the only black driver in NASCAR's Top Circuit. He's also been a vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement and successfully petitioned NASCAR to ban the Confederate flag at events. Our Nick Valencia is following the developments this morning. I was horrified, I think we all were, waking up to this news this morning. Do they know who did this?", "Yes, Jim and Poppy, it's especially troubling when you consider all of what you laid out. Bubba Wallace, the only black top tier driver in NASCAR. He's been very vocal about the BLM movement in recent weeks and he was also leading the charge to remove the Confederate flag from the sport. NASCAR releasing a statement saying that they're investigating, trying to get to the bottom of who did this. And this is what they said in a statement yesterday. \"We are angry and outraged and cannot state strongly enough how seriously we take this heinous act. We've launched an immediate investigation and we'll do everything we can to identify the person or persons responsible and eliminate them from the sport.\" So let me make this clear. NASCAR says that this happened in a restricted area that was only accessible by essential personnel. So we're talking NASCAR teams, security personnel, medical staff. It should be pretty easy for NASCAR to deduce who exactly was behind this because fans weren't allowed in this area. And you consider just how strict security is given the pandemic, the coronavirus that's going on. Bubba Wallace taking to Twitter last night to express his emotions about this saying, \"Today's despicable act of racism and hatred leaves me incredibly saddened and serves as a painful reminder of how much further we have to go as a society and how persistent we must be in the fight against racism.\" He goes on to say, Jim and Poppy, \"This will not break me. I will not give in, nor will I back down. I will continue to proudly stand for what I believe in.\" And we mentioned just how vocal Wallace has been. He led the charge to get the Confederate flag removed from the sport and that's created a lot of controversy and upset a lot of NASCAR fans. Yesterday we saw just across the street from the Talladega Speedway people selling Confederate memorabilia and also somebody decided to fly the Confederate flag in the air with a message to NASCAR, saying \"Defund NASCAR.\" So clearly a lot of emotions behind this but Bubba Wallace expected to race today if they aren't canceled again because of weather. A lot of people rooting for him. But of course this has generated a lot of controversy, which it shouldn't, in the sport -- Jim and Poppy.", "There are a lot of cameras around where those cars are. It's about competitive issues. You have to wonder if some of this was caught on camera.", "That's right.", "Nick Valencia, thanks very much. Still to come, calls to investigate Attorney General Bill Barr this morning after the firing of a top U.S. attorney who was investigating the president's personal lawyer. The latest on that next. Plus, President Trump's own National Security adviser John Bolton says that he hopes Trump is a one-term president, calling him, listen to these words, he served the president, naive and dangerous. He didn't stop there.", "Also, 40 percent of black-owned businesses will not survive this pandemic. With many shut out of the federal loan program, how are communities stepping up to help?"], "speaker": ["JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR", "POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "SCIUTTO", "COHEN", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "DR. 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{"id": "CNN-46532", "program": "MORNINGS WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-1-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/01/ltm.05.html", "summary": "The Challenging Year Of President Bush", "utt": ["There is no training course for becoming president of the United States. Even vice presidents say that being number two didn't really prepare them for the demands of the Oval Office. So even in ordinary times, President Bush could be expected to have a challenging first year. But these times are anything but ordinary. CNN's John King takes a look back at an event filled first year of the Bush presidency.", "It all changed with this whisper.", "We knew that America was under attack and I very quickly moved into making sure that the president had all of his abilities to perform the functions of a president.", "A little more than 100 days later, still more questions than answers.", "It may happen tomorrow. It may happen in a month. It may happen in a year. But he is he is going to be brought to justice. He's on the run.", "An elusive enemy, a war of uncertain scope and duration, new threats here at home, and recession, only adds to the challenge of a presidency transformed by September 11.", "That has forever changed the outlook not only for the first year, but for all the years. He has become a wartime president, like", "A president who came to office amid controversy gets high marks for crisis management. Eighty-two percent of Americans in a year end CNN/\"Time\" poll approve of the way Mr. Bush is handling his job as president. Seventy-nine percent say he is a strong and decisive leader.", "There are some other, you know, big issues, big doubts that are still on the table, but they're not relevant at the moment.", "At the moment, the American people see eye to eye with their president on the mission.", "People in this country want to see Osama Bin Laden either captured or dead. Then when you ask people, look, the Taliban has been eradicated from Afghanistan, they are all in retreat, is this a, we, is this a \"victory?\" the answer is no.", "One major Bush challenge is sustaining that support.", "Every time I talk with him, he reminds me we've got, we're in a, we have to educate people that this is a different kind of war, that it's fought on a lot of different fronts, that it's not the kind of war they're accustomed to. And so that's been, he's been conveying that to me almost every time we meet. And we do meet every day.", "The changes go beyond less sleep and more gray. The National Security Council meets almost every day. And the wartime routine includes a weekly meeting with congressional leaders. But he is still a president who prefers handshakes to treaties and whose tongue has a decidedly Texas flavor.", "There's an old poster out west, as I recall, that said \"Wanted: Dead Or Alive.\"", "A lot of people turned their nose up to it said that wasn't elegant way. But you know something? It communicated to everybody in America and the world his steely personality.", "There are parallels to the first President Bush.", "Almost all those doubts, you know, center on, you know, is he, how is he going handle the economy? Is he going to be for the average person?", "Consider it a lesson learned. This President Bush is well aware it could be the economy that matters most by the time he faces reelection.", "The long-term solution is more jobs.", "That debate will carry over to the new year, along with the many other challenges facing a president and a presidency redefined on an unforgettable September morning. John King, CNN, the White House."], "speaker": ["MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "ANDREW CARD, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF", "KING", "GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KING", "KEN DUBERSTEIN, FORMER REAGAN CHIEF OF STAFF", "FDR. KING", "STANLEY GREENBERG, DEMOCRATIC POLLSTER", "KING", "BILL MCINTURFF, GOP POLLSTER", "KING", "KAREN HUGHES, COUNSELOR TO THE PRESIDENT", "KING", "BUSH", "DUBERSTEIN", "KING", "GREENBERG", "KING", "BUSH", "KING"]}
{"id": "CNN-351160", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-09-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1809/30/cnr.22.html", "summary": "Donald Trump: Kim Jong-un and I Fell in Love", "utt": ["North Korea says there is still mistrust with the United States. Its foreign minister told the U.N. Saturday his country wants to get rid of nuclear weapons. But he also said pessimistic views in U.S. politics are hurting progress.", "For his part, the U.S. president doesn't sound pessimistic. Here's what he said on Saturday about the North Korean leader.", "You know, the interesting, what I did is -- and I was really being tough and so was he. And we go back and forth and then we fell in love. OK? No, really. He wrote me beautiful letters. And they're great letters. We fell in love.", "Let's go to CNN's Will Ripley, joining us from Hong Kong, he's been in North Korea many times. That has to be one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard a U.S. president say, they fell in love.", "They haven't even had a second date yet. Things move a little slower in North Korea, they're a little more conservative about these things.", "Oh, my goodness. You've got to wonder, after we heard there from the foreign secretary of the U.N., what North Korea's response will be to the president saying that.", "I would imagine privately, Natalie, at Kim Jong-un's palace somewhere in North Korea, there was a clinking of soju and a congratulations to the leader because things are going according to plan. The North Koreans studied President Trump long before Kim Jong- un ever sat down with him. And the whole strategy was --", "-- to try to figure out a way, after all of the fire and fury threats and the real danger of escalating to a military conflict, how could the North Koreans turn the situation around? So they stopped launching missiles, they don't parade the missiles. They're still developing them, they still possess them, haven't given any of them up yet. But because the optics have changed, combined with all these letters and messages, praising President Trump, it has completely -- the whole dynamic has changed. Now President Trump saying he's in love with Kim Jong-un, he has a good, warm relationship with him, he's open to a second summit, which is expected to happen later this year. Even though North Korea hasn't actually given up any nuclear weapons yet, they have, you know, essentially done what we would be considered confidence building measures, getting rid of their nuclear test site, starting the dismantlement of some of their testing facility while holding on to the key assets, the missiles and the warheads and saying they're not going to give those up until sanctions are lifted and until there is a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War. So the U.S. and North Korea are still really far apart on the key issues. But if President Trump's love for Kim Jong-un can help him, you know, help the North Koreans convince him to change the U.S. position, then North Korea might get exactly what they want at the end of this. And, you know, perhaps the U.S. gets what it wants eventually, which is a North Korea free of nuclear weapons. But that's probably a long time coming and some very tough negotiations certainly lie ahead.", "Well, like or love or whatever, yes, a denuclearized Korean Peninsula, that's what we're looking for. Will Ripley, thanks so much.", "From love affairs to weather, Typhoon Trami headed toward Japan's main island. It's already hit southern Ryukyu island with hurricane force winds and rain.", "If it makes landfall on Japan's big island, it would be the fifth typhoon to hit the nation since July.", "President Trump says he is not limiting the scope of the FBI's background check into his Supreme Court pick. And while he's slamming Democrats for, as he puts it, trying to keep Judge Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court, he's saying something entirely different about the FBI. Listen.", "There's never been anybody that has been looked at like Judge Kavanaugh. I think it is going to work out very well. But the FBI, I believe, is doing a really great job. They have been all over it."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "HOWELL", "TRUMP", "ALLEN", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN", "RIPLEY", "RIPLEY", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "ALLEN", "HOWELL", "TRUMP"]}
{"id": "NPR-38435", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2008-10-30", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96344504", "title": "Consumers Wary As U.S. Economy Shrinks", "summary": "The nation's gross domestic product went negative in the third quarter, falling by 0.3 percent. Consumer spending was especially weak, falling more than 3 percent in the period. That's the sharpest drop in spending in 28 years.", "utt": ["It's All Things Considered from NPR News. I'm Michele Norris.", "It's All Things Considered from NPR News. I'm Michele Norris.", "And I'm Robert Siegel. And in case you need further confirmation that the economy is in trouble, well the government provided some definitive evidence today. It released data showing the economy went into reverse in the late summer. As NPR's John Ydstie reports, most economists think the worst is yet to come.", "And I'm Robert Siegel. And in case you need further confirmation that the economy is in trouble, well the government provided some definitive evidence today. It released data showing the economy went into reverse in the late summer. As NPR's John Ydstie reports, most economists think the worst is yet to come.", "The government's report on growth in the third quarter, the July through September period, showed the U.S. economy declining at an annual rate of three-tenths of one percent. The big reason was a very sharp drop in consumer spending. Not surprising given the forces lined up against consumers, says Laurence Meyer, a former Federal Reserve governor.", "The government's report on growth in the third quarter, the July through September period, showed the U.S. economy declining at an annual rate of three-tenths of one percent. The big reason was a very sharp drop in consumer spending. Not surprising given the forces lined up against consumers, says Laurence Meyer, a former Federal Reserve governor.", "In the third quarter, we were still having some effect of the earlier rise in energy prices. We have a weakening labor market. We have falling home prices and equity prices undermining household wealth. We have tighter credit conditions.", "In the third quarter, we were still having some effect of the earlier rise in energy prices. We have a weakening labor market. We have falling home prices and equity prices undermining household wealth. We have tighter credit conditions.", "It adds up to the biggest fall in consumer spending since the severe recession of the early 1980s, and it's pushed this economy into recession, says Meyer.", "It adds up to the biggest fall in consumer spending since the severe recession of the early 1980s, and it's pushed this economy into recession, says Meyer.", "I think there's no question the economy is in a recession, and the question is, you know, how long and how deep is it going to be?", "I think there's no question the economy is in a recession, and the question is, you know, how long and how deep is it going to be?", "Meyer, now vice chairman of the forecasting firm, Macroeconomic Advisers, thinks the recession will extend into mid-2009 and unemployment will rise to about seven and a half percent. But he doesn't think the downturn will be extraordinarily deep. Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, is more pessimistic, a view he shared with Congress' Joint Economic Committee this morning.", "Meyer, now vice chairman of the forecasting firm, Macroeconomic Advisers, thinks the recession will extend into mid-2009 and unemployment will rise to about seven and a half percent. But he doesn't think the downturn will be extraordinarily deep. Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, is more pessimistic, a view he shared with Congress' Joint Economic Committee this morning.", "I expect that this recession is going to last at least 18 months, if not 24 months. This is going to be much longer, more severe, more protracted than the average U.S. recession that lasts only 10 months.", "I expect that this recession is going to last at least 18 months, if not 24 months. This is going to be much longer, more severe, more protracted than the average U.S. recession that lasts only 10 months.", "Roubini possesses a certain level of credibility right now because he predicted much of the financial crisis that has pushed the economy into recession. He told lawmakers today that this would be the worst recession since World War II, unless they enact another stimulus package quickly. Because consumers and businesses are in retreat, he says, the new stimulus package should not be in the form of rebates to companies, which are cutting back on spending, or to individuals, who would probably save it or use it to pay off debt. He believes the stimulus should come in the form of government spending.", "Roubini possesses a certain level of credibility right now because he predicted much of the financial crisis that has pushed the economy into recession. He told lawmakers today that this would be the worst recession since World War II, unless they enact another stimulus package quickly. Because consumers and businesses are in retreat, he says, the new stimulus package should not be in the form of rebates to companies, which are cutting back on spending, or to individuals, who would probably save it or use it to pay off debt. He believes the stimulus should come in the form of government spending.", "Of course, you want to have this spending on things that are productive, like infrastructures, like investments in, maybe, alternative energy or renewable energy. And you also have to provide aid and income to those parts of the economy that are more likely to spend it. So, aid to state and local government is going to be effective, increasing unemployment benefits, food stamps to people that are poor.", "Of course, you want to have this spending on things that are productive, like infrastructures, like investments in, maybe, alternative energy or renewable energy. And you also have to provide aid and income to those parts of the economy that are more likely to spend it. So, aid to state and local government is going to be effective, increasing unemployment benefits, food stamps to people that are poor.", "There has been support for those kinds of measures building in Congress, but the Bush administration is skeptical of that approach. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, whose department released the GDP report containing the bad news on the economy today, says a stimulus package should have an immediate impact on the economy.", "There has been support for those kinds of measures building in Congress, but the Bush administration is skeptical of that approach. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, whose department released the GDP report containing the bad news on the economy today, says a stimulus package should have an immediate impact on the economy.", "What we have heard that people are putting into a so-called stimulus package at Congress, you know, contains projects that take three, four years to complete, projects that take months, even years to get started. And I'm not saying those are bad projects. I'm just saying that those aren't stimulus.", "What we have heard that people are putting into a so-called stimulus package at Congress, you know, contains projects that take three, four years to complete, projects that take months, even years to get started. And I'm not saying those are bad projects. I'm just saying that those aren't stimulus.", "Nouriel Roubini counters that given the potential length of this recession, up to two years in his view, sustained stimulus from longer-term projects should be considered. John Ydstie, NPR News, Washington.", "Nouriel Roubini counters that given the potential length of this recession, up to two years in his view, sustained stimulus from longer-term projects should be considered. John Ydstie, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["MICHELE NORRIS, host", "MICHELE NORRIS, host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "ROBERT SIEGEL, host", "JOHN YDSTIE", "JOHN YDSTIE", "Dr. LAURENCE MEYER (Vice Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisers; Former Governor, Federal Reserve)", "Dr. LAURENCE MEYER (Vice Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisers; Former Governor, Federal Reserve)", "JOHN YDSTIE", "JOHN YDSTIE", "Dr. LAURENCE MEYER (Vice Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisers; Former Governor, Federal Reserve)", "Dr. LAURENCE MEYER (Vice Chairman, Macroeconomic Advisers; Former Governor, Federal Reserve)", "JOHN YDSTIE", "JOHN YDSTIE", "Dr. NOURIEL ROUBINI (Professor of Economics and International Business, Stern School of Business, New York University)", "Dr. NOURIEL ROUBINI (Professor of Economics and International Business, Stern School of Business, New York University)", "JOHN YDSTIE", "JOHN YDSTIE", "Dr. RUBINI", "Dr. RUBINI", "JOHN YDSTIE", "JOHN YDSTIE", "Secretary CARLOS GUTIERREZ (Department of Commerce)", "Secretary CARLOS GUTIERREZ (Department of Commerce)", "JOHN YDSTIE", "JOHN YDSTIE"]}
{"id": "CNN-300645", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2016-12-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/14/es.04.html", "summary": "Aleppo Evacuation Plan On Hold.", "utt": ["All right. (Video playing) Russia says Eastern Aleppo is back in the hands of government sources. The challenge now is to protect and evacuate the remaining civilians. Now, Russia is boasting of a newly hammered out ceasefire and evacuation plan but that agreement has yet to bear out. Buses stationed and ready to take injured civilians to medical care -- you can see them there -- they are empty. They have yet to take a single passenger. And now comes a claim from activists in Eastern Aleppo -- multiple activists in Eastern Aleppo -- they claim there are new attacks on rebel-held neighborhoods. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh is live in Amman, Jordan. She has been following all of these developments and monitoring what's happening on the ground here. And the concern here among people who support the insurgency against the regime is that these are the final moments of the rebel action. What are you hearing?", "Well, these were supposed to be the final moments in this battle for Aleppo. As we heard yesterday, this Turkey-mediated deal between the Russians and the opposition fighters that would see the rebel fighters being evacuated out of Aleppo and also the evacuation of civilians who wanted to leave, this was supposed to begin -- the implementation of this was supposed to begin today but we're seeing delays. In the past couple of hours we are hearing from activists and residents in Eastern Aleppo who are describing intense shelling and bombardment of these neighborhoods where the rebels and the civilians still are. They're reporting some civilian casualties, injuries as a result of this artillery shelling. We're also hearing from the Syrian regime. According to state media, they're accusing the rebels of also launching artillery strikes against neighborhoods that are controlled by the regime, saying that there are people who have been killed and wounded as a result of this. We've also seen the delay of these evacuations that were meant to begin about five and one-half hours ago. That has not happened yet. We've heard from the Turkish foreign minister who is accusing the Syrian regime and some forces, as he said, of trying to break the ceasefire. A very complex situation. So many different parties involved on the ground in trying to implement this very fragile deal, Christine.", "All right, we'll let you get back to working the phones and reporting on that for us. Thank you so much. Jomana Karadsheh for us in Jordan.", "All right, now time to take a look at what's coming up on \"NEW DAY\". Mr. Chris Cuomo is on deck live for us. Chris, good morning.", "Good morning, sunshine.", "All right, my good friends. We're going to take some time on the Aleppo story that you were just covering because as if it being a humanitarian catastrophe were not enough, there are also very big geopolitical and strategic issues on the line. What happens next if Syria does complete its control of Eastern Aleppo? What does that mean for the United States? The president-elect seems to have a very different posture towards Syria. What is the future for those people there? What does it mean in terms of the profile for terror in that part of the world? So we'll take that all on. Also, the president-elect did take his thank you show on the road again, this time to Wisconsin, standing by his controversial pick to lead the State Department. Why controversial? We're going to talk about that today. And there's another beat on the Russian hacks that many believe certainly happened -- and everybody believes that in the intel community -- but also there's this idea about whether or not they had an impact on the U.S. election and how that is playing into Tillerson's selection and his potential nomination. We'll take that all on for you this morning.", "All right.", "And, Christine, you're going to come --", "I am.", "-- and help us understand why there'd be a rate hike with the stock market going so well. Some people think those two things go together. You'll tell us why they do.", "You know I love to talk about money with you. I do.", "Not your own, though. I use two coats of paint.", "That's true. He knows I'm so cheap. He knows how cheap I am. That's why I'm qualified to talk about money because I am cheap. All right, thank you, Chris.", "Chris, thanks.", "Talk to you soon. It is Fed decision day, as Chris said. You can expect a rate hike. I will be talking about it with him in a couple of minutes. Millions of Americans are going to pay more for big purchases. This is one of those business stories that really matters. Some of you are going to save money, some of you are going to spend more. I'm going to break out the winners and the losers in the higher interest rate gain."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "HOWELL", "ROMANS", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR, \"NEW DAY\"", "ROMANS", "CUOMO", "ROMANS", "CUOMO", "ROMANS", "CUOMO", "ROMANS", "HOWELL", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-337334", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-04-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1804/11/cnr.07.html", "summary": "New Revelations Emerge on Michael Cohen Raid", "utt": ["In that taping released a month before the presidential election, or perhaps, as they would have liked it, not to have been, but, on top of that, the other piece of breaking news that's just been turned around, this involves the federal judge in the whole Stormy Daniels case. So, let me just read you a bit of this. This federal judge in California -- this is Judge James Otero -- ordered attorneys for Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, Donald Trump and Essential Consultants, LLC -- that was company that Cohen established to paid off Daniels and that $130,000 -- they're now to meet and to figure all this out by Friday, April 13, which is two days from now. So, M.J. Lee has just sat down. She's going to tell me a little bit more about this. Paul Callan with me, Jennifer Rodgers. And they were saying this is pretty typical. It's called a meet and confer. But tell me exactly what this judge has asked of these lawyers.", "Well, this is basically -- you summed it up pretty well, that he would like the legal representations of both sides to get together and basically hash things out, because there's been a flurry of filings in court, both sides wanting different things, obviously. And in the big picture, I think the easiest way to understand this is that the lawyers involved in representing Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, they want things to go to private arbitration. They do not want all of this playing out in the open. Already, a lot of this has been discussed in public, but they would like to keep everything behind closed doors as much as possible. What Stormy Daniels and her lawyer are arguing for is, they want as open a process as possible and they are asking for things like an expedited trial and expedited discovery process. And so a lot of the paperwork that you're going back and forth, it's very complicated. And you can all assess that better, but this is sort of the big disagreement right now, the big picture disagreement.", "But this whole notion, Paul, have you watched \"A.C. 360\" lately with these two lawyers on TV screaming at each other and calling each other thugs? This is what you're getting from these attorneys on live national television. How are they supposed to hash this out?", "I'm surprised they all haven't been held in contempt of court by the federal judge who is handling the litigation. I have never seen attorneys fighting about a case one on one on television, with Jeffrey Toobin acting as the referee.", "Right. Right.", "So, it's a strange sight. But this is an indication why the judge I think is getting fed up, because this meet and confer requirement is whenever you do something major in a federal case, you're supposed to sit down with your adversary, have a conference and try to work it out, so you don't have to go to the judge. But obviously the temperature has gotten so hot, these guys are fighting with each other so much, the judge now has said sit down, hammer this stuff out before you come to me with motion practice. So, I think you have got an angry federal judge saying figure it out yourself before you come to me.", "Speaking of Avenatti, I want to play some sound. This is Avenatti reacting to Don Lemon reacting to his phone conversation with Michael Cohen last evening. Watch.", "It's moronic under the circumstances. And it really shows...", "That Michael Cohen should be saying anything?", "Any experienced attorney would tell a client not to be speaking to the press the day after the FBI executes three search warrants on your homes and your offices. This is just crazy. It's ludicrous. When I heard that he had spoke to Don Lemon, I didn't believe it until I saw Don's report. And lo and behold, I believe, Don, that it happened. It's beyond stupid.", "So, Jennifer, the fact that Michael Cohen did hop on the phone with our friend over here at CNN Don Lemon, said that he was respectful, understanding what the FBI was doing, frightened him, frightened him for his family, but Avenatti calls him moronic for having this conversation with Don. Was it moronic?", "I think any lawyer would counsel his client. And now in this position, Michael Cohen is a client, not a lawyer -- would say don't talk to the press, don't talk to anyone, let's go to ground for a little bit and see what we're facing and then kind of make some decisions from there. Yes, I think moronic is strong, but I think any lawyer would counsel that Michael not speak to the press.", "OK. The other piece of news that we have been discussing -- and Jeff Zeleny, our senior White House correspondent, can help us sort of piece this together, is the news that also dropped just a few minutes from \"The New York Times,\" the fact that all and part of this raid involving Michael Cohen earlier this week reportedly also was looking for evidence related to -- and how it's related to, we don't know yet -- but that \"Access Hollywood\" tape that dropped a month before the presidential election.", "Brooke, this is very interesting. Certainly, what it says to me is that the authorities, the prosecutors are trying to get a better sense into what the exact role that Michael Cohen was playing in the Trump campaign in the final days leading up to the election. It clearly -- that, of course, was a bombshell that came out in October back 2016. It seems like a long time ago, of course. But it seems to me they are trying to piece together a bit of what was going on in those days leading up to the election, because we do know -- we didn't know at the time, of course -- that Michael Cohen was the person who was leading the effort here for the hush money.", "He was writing the check of $130,000 through that illegal entity he set up. So, it seems to me they're trying to create more of a better sense of what was going on in those days, what Michael Cohen exactly was involved in. It certainly speaks to why the president may have been angry earlier this week when he found out about that, because this, of course, was a dark period of his campaign. Many people thought it would end his campaign. It didn't, of course. But Michael Cohen, we don't know if played a role in the \"Access Hollywood\" tape or not. He was working for the president at the time, of course, Mr. Trump, of course, before he became president. But it certainly signals to me they're isolating that period of time. We will have to find out exactly what else they were looking for. But we do know that know it was a variety of things they were looking for in his office, in his hotel room, not simply this, the payment to Stormy Daniels and the other person as well there. So, certainly one more piece of detail here, perhaps explaining a bit why the president was so unglued the other day -- Brooke.", "So furious. Jeff, thank you so much. Paul Callan, I haven't heard from you on this. But, again, just reminding people, when we talk about Michael Cohen, he's not just a lawyer. He's -- like Kaitlan was saying earlier, he's like the president's pit bull. And to know -- and, again, the key line in this \"New York Times\" piece, it's not clear what role if any Mr. Cohen played, but the fact that the agents were seeking documents related to the tapes revealed this new front in the investigation. What are you thinking?", "Well, I can see why the president has been upset, because Cohen has sort of been his right-hand man for a long time, way before the presidential election, fixing problems that the president had, fixing -- negotiating nondisclosure agreements with women who allege intimate relations with the president. Now, how could he tie into the \"Access Hollywood\" tape, AKA, the Billy on the Bush tape.", "Billy on the bus.", "Billy on the bus tape.", "But -- well, I suppose -- I don't want to go that road.", "But, in any event, the tie could well have something to do with something the president said, which was -- remember, there were rumors coming out of the White House that the president was saying that's not his voice on the tape, that the tape was tampered with.", "Even though he apologized.", "Yes, he did subsequently apologize for it. But now, retrospectively, he's wondering whether it's his voice on the tape. Now, I'm wondering, did Michael Cohen get involved in some negotiations relating to that tape? Did they come across information about the tape? There's got to be something there, because if that tape is specifically mentioned in the federal search warrant, that means a federal judge heard evidence and had probable cause that something related to that tape was criminal in nature. Now, it's totally speculative at this point, but obviously it has something to do with Cohen's role as a possible fixer for the Trump administration.", "You're nodding.", "Well, I agree to some extent. I also think, though, that it meets a pattern. Right? He has a pattern of these, what ultimately are campaign finance violations, giving benefits to the campaign, with the Stormy Daniels silence, the Karen McDougal silence. This may be part just of kind of establishing that pattern. It didn't succeed here because the tape came out, but maybe this is just a plan for evidence of OK a similar pattern of activity or a conspiracy to violate the campaign laws, something like that.", "OK. OK. Stand by, everyone, because the White House will certainly be asked about these new developments coming up at the White House briefing in just a little bit. Of course, we will take it live, as we do. Also ahead, Russia responding to President Trump's taunt over Twitter. Trump saying, get ready, his words, missiles are coming. The president catching both enemies and allies off-guard with that comment. Did Trump just break his own rule by telegraphing next military moves? And is a U.S. attack on Syria imminent? What the defense secretary, James Mattis, just said from the White House. We will have a live report next here on CNN."], "speaker": ["BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST", "M.J. LEE, CNN NATIONAL POLITICS CORRESPONDENT", "BALDWIN", "PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR", "BALDWIN", "CALLAN", "BALDWIN", "MICHAEL AVENATTI, ATTORNEY FOR STORMY DANIELS", "DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR", "AVENATTI", "BALDWIN", "JENNIFER RODGERS, FORMER ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY", "BALDWIN", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT", "ZELENY", "BALDWIN", "CALLAN", "BALDWIN", "CALLAN", "CALLAN", "CALLAN", "BALDWIN", "CALLAN", "BALDWIN", "RODGERS", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-128010", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2008-6-26", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0806/26/acd.02.html", "summary": "John McCain's New Strategy and Message", "utt": ["Barack Obama tonight doing what he can to get Hillary Clinton supporters on board. We're talking now though about the campaign he'll be facing from John McCain. We're \"Digging Deeper.\" Joining us again: CNN senior political analyst and former presidential adviser, David Gergen; also Democratic strategist and Obama supporter, Jamal Simmons and Tara Wall; conservative political analyst and columnist for \"The Washington Times.\" David, do you think this McCain GOP strategy which seems to have solidified in the last day or so is going to work or will it stick?", "It may help him over the summer but I'm not sure how much. John McCain is clearly a man of valor, a war hero and great patriot. In the years after World War II, Anderson, that kind of message resonated greatly with the American people. Look at the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960; his war record was very important part of that victory. But in more recent years it has not had the same resonance with voters. Look at Bob Dole in 1996, another war hero, man of valor, great patriot, and yet he went down in that election badly. John Kerry, just a few years ago, his war record was destroyed or undercut by the swift-boaters (ph) and that sort of thing. So that alone to me, I'm very doubtful is enough to carry him. I think this is ultimately going to have to be a campaign on McCain's part about ideas and about the future.", "Tara, in an op-ed today, Karl Rove suggested Obama is arrogant, self-centered. John McCain today referred to him as elitist. It does seem like they're going after him as a person this early in the campaign. Isn't there a risk that that kind of turns off voters or does it play into doubts some voters may have about Obama?", "Yes, I mean, I think no matter how legitimate some of these claims are, the Republicans of McCain can't be one-issue oriented. Just to say that he's liberal alone is not going to cut it. I mean, it's true in fact. But that alone is not going to get it. I think you have to -- they're going to have to define the differences between Senator McCain and Senator Obama. And those differences, quite frankly, are stark. And it's why we see this is where the country is. The country clearly is split on these issues and split on these candidates. I think if he continues to drive home -- listen, he's got a very aggressive rapid response as you know. Republicans have this great rapid response operation. You know, he needs to continue to hit home on these issues and continue to hit hard, not be afraid to hit hard on Barack Obama and not let these generalized unfounded claims that are going to come out throughout the campaign go unchallenged. That's another mistake he might make. Those are the two things I would caution against. I think he needs to continue to hone in on where Barack Obama's weaknesses are as it relates to the policies everyday Americans, as we know, are very interested in right now.", "Jamal, in terms of Barack Obama's strategy, critics say he's stressed McCain's age kind of subtly, he keeps that hammering a McCain term is the third term of a Bush presidency. Does he stick with that message over the next couple of weeks?", "I don't think anyone is making any reference to McCain's age. What they're talking about is McCain being out of touch with where the American people want to go. That's a very different issue. Doesn't matter if he's 55 or 75, he's out of touch with where the American people want to go. They say Barack Obama is not working across party lines, but they should ask Senator Dick Lugar, who he got stuck in Russia with when they were working on weapons of mass destruction and they were detained by the Russians for three hours. They should ask John McCain himself who thanked Barack Obama for his help on the immigration bill before John McCain flip-flopped on the immigration bill himself and didn't support his own policy. They should ask people like Sam Brownback, who Barack Obama worked with on Darfur and on disinvestment in Iran. So he's got this record of doing things bipartisan-wise and the McCain campaign is going to try to characterize him in a way that I think the American people aren't into. John McCain may have been a hero 35 years ago. That doesn't make him the right president for the next four years.", "We're going to leave it there. Tara Wall, Jamal Simmons, David Gergen, thanks. Just ahead, the latest on Zimbabwe, a country deep in crisis where the move to democracy has turned into a blood bath. International rage is growing. Will it make any difference? Next on \"360.\""], "speaker": ["COOPER", "GERGEN", "COOPER", "WALL", "COOPER", "JAMAL SIMMONS, OBAMA SUPPORTER", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-208005", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-6-3", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/03/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Former Kansas Cop Accused of Killing Wife", "utt": ["A former Kansas police officer is on trial for allegedly murdering his wife. His name is Brett Seacat. Hers was Vashti. And Seacat accused of shooting his wife and then setting her body on fire. Listen to his response in a police interrogation.", "Did you murder her?", "No.", "Did you pull the trigger?", "No.", "Did you kill her?", "No!", "She told a friend a week and a half prior to this incident happening that you threatened to kill her.", "What!", "You threatened to burn the house down and you threatened to make it look like she did it.", "That is bull", "Our Ted Rowlands has been covering the case. He joins us from Kingman, Kansas. Ted, he seems pretty defiant there in that video. What is his defense?", "Well, basically, he's saying, Suzanne, that his wife was depressed and that she did this herself. That she set the house on fire and then got in her bed and shot herself in the head. He claims that he was downstairs. And he had just been served divorce papers three days prior to this murder, this killing. He says he got a phone call from her on his cell phone saying, get up here and get the kids. They had a 4-year-old and a 2- year-old. He claims he ran upstairs, saw the flames, ran into the bedroom, picked her up and realized she was dead, saw all the blood on the bed, dropped her and thought of the kids. So he runs out, grabs the kids, gets out of the house. And he calls 911 saying the house is on fire and my wife is upstairs. The prosecution saying that's complete malarkey. There's no way a woman is going to set her house on fire in three different spots, get back into bed, pull the covers all the way up onto her body and then shoot herself in the head. They say that this was a person that could not live without his wife. He had threatened to kill her before. And he did absolutely that. It's going to be a fascinating trial here. We're eight days into it. And the state of Kansas is absolutely riveted on this. This is a law enforcement family. He was a cop. His dad was a cop. His brother's a cop. He's going to take the stand. And he's going to have to save his skin here because there's evidence against him that is very compelling. And we expect the prosecution to finish their case up in the next few days. We expect him on the stand by the end of the week.", "Ted, fascinating. We're going to be following that case very closely. Thank you, Ted. Appreciate it. Watch this. We have homes, schools, even churches now reduced to rubble after a terrifying tornado hitting Oklahoma. Up next, our own Nick Valencia just came back from a tour of a school where students had just minutes to run for cover."], "speaker": ["MALVEAUX", "UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER", "SEACAT", "UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER", "SEACAT", "UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER", "SEACAT", "UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER", "SEACAT", "UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER", "SEACAT", "MALVEAUX", "TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MALVEAUX"]}
{"id": "CNN-54065", "program": "CNN SUNDAY MORNING", "date": "2002-5-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/12/sm.02.html", "summary": "Cuba Wants U.S. To Ease Sanctions", "utt": ["Washington has a message for Fidel Castro when he meets with Jimmy Carter later today. The former president arrives in Cuba this morning for a five-day visit that includes tours of health facilities and schools. The State Department wants Mr. Carter to tell the Cuban leader it's time for democracy. CNN Havana's bureau chief Lucia Newman has the buzz from inside Cuba.", "Very few Cubans who still walk the streets of Havana have ever welcomed an American president, even a former one. The last to touch Cuban soil was Calvin Coolidge in 1928. So no wonder ordinary Cubans have high expectations about the visit of Jimmy Carter.", "It is very good for our country. We will welcome him with open arms.", "The Cuban government hopes the visit by the highest- ranking American to come here since the revolution will be crucial -- crucial in convincing U.S. public opinion and Congress to ease four decades of U.S. economic and political sanctions against Cuba.", "President Carter represents the future, a day that will come in which there will be mutual respect and a good neighbor policy between the U.S. and Cuba, a future with a policy based on certain moral and ethical values.", "But Jimmy Carter's values include human rights, which is why he'll be meeting activists like Elizardo Sanchez. The leader of the outlawed by tolerated Human Rights and Reconciliation Commission met President Carter in Atlanta 10 years ago and asked him to try and help end the cold war between the U.S. and Cuba.", "This is a once and only opportunity. If the Cuban government doesn't take advantage of it, it will be making a grave mistake.", "Other government opponents fear President Castro will use the question of better relations with the U.S. to distract attention from the domestic issues of civil rights and political reforms.", "I think the economic embargo and human rights should be put on an even scale.", "The vast majority of Cubans want friendly and normal relations with Washington. But, like the chicken and the egg, the dilemma here seems to be what comes first -- concessions from Washington, or political changes on this communist island. Lucia Newman, CNN, Havana."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN HAVANA BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN (voice of translator)", "NEWMAN", "RICARDO ALARCON, PRESIDENT, CUBAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (voice of translator)", "NEWMAN", "ELIZARDO SANCHEZ, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST (voice of translator)", "NEWMAN", "JORGE OLIVERA, DISSIDENT JOURNALIST (voice of translator)", "NEWMAN (on camera)"]}
{"id": "NPR-368", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2019-02-17", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/02/17/695593549/colin-kaepernick-settled-legal-battle-with-nfl-what-comes-next", "title": "Colin Kaepernick Settled Legal Battle With NFL. What Comes Next?", "summary": "Colin Kaepernick reached an agreement with the NFL. Sports sociologist Harry Edwards joins NPR's Michel Martin to discuss what it means for the future of protest in the NFL.", "utt": ["Colin Kaepernick's legal battle with the NFL is over. The former 49ers quarterback, whose decision to take a knee during the national anthem in 2016 to draw attention to police misconduct sparked protests throughout sports as well as a fierce backlash, has signed a confidential agreement with the NFL. The agreement, which included former teammate Eric Reid, settles claims that team owners conspired to blacklist them for their activism. But the debate continues about the effectiveness of such a protest and the way forward.", "To talk more about this, we've called professor Harry Edwards, professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, who's been one of the country's most influential thought leaders on the role of athletes in society. We called him at home in Fremont, Calif. Professor Edwards, thanks so much for talking with us.", "Thank you so much for having me.", "I know that you've advised Colin Kaepernick at various points throughout the way, as well as you've advised a number of other athletes who have wanted to take stands on issues of concern. I know we don't know the terms of the deal or, at least, we don't know. But what do you think of his decision to settle?", "Well, I think it's important that this be gotten off the road. One, the movement itself is in decline. These types of movements have a life of about six years. And if you go from 2012, when the Miami Heat and D Wade and LeBron first put on hoodies, up until 2018, you can see that pattern persist.", "So I think, one, the movement itself is in steep decline. Two, I think that it's in the interest of all involved that this be resolved so that, one, the league can go back, do an assessment of how this situation was managed in preparation for the inevitability of other issues coming over the stadium wall in a league that, by the middle of this next decade, would be somewhere between 82 and 85 percent black. And, secondly, I think that Colin has made a heck of a contribution, and I think that he should be able to exercise the full range of his options.", "It's interesting that you seem, in a way, to have sort of foreshadowed this because you wrote a piece last May, arguing that athlete activists should move beyond protests. Why do you say that?", "These types of movements are on the clock. The Black Power movement lasted for six years, from 1966 to approximately 1972. And if you're going to move beyond drama to actual substantive achievement, you have to begin early on to come up with plans, to come up with perspectives that will allow you to move from protest to policies and programs and progress. If that doesn't happen, then you get into a cycle of just protesting. And that most certainly is not conducive to substantive change.", "You've, first of all, been a consultant to the 49ers. You - I know that you know Kaepernick. And I wondered if you anticipated and if he was prepared for just how much backlash that he got and other players who wanted to support him. I mean, the - you know, some of the fans, you know, screaming at people, you know, during the games, the people burning people's jerseys, of course, not even to mention, you know, now-President Trump, then-candidate Trump's very sort of heated conversation about this and very heated attacks on the players about this. I wonder - did you see all that coming? And did he see all that coming?", "Well, we talked about issues that were probably inevitable. It's called a protest rather than a picnic because it tends to upset people. So I'm quite certain that he was prepared for that. He knew what he was getting into in that regard. Nobody could have anticipated Trump. But we talked about Muhammad Ali. We talked about Smith and Carlos. We talked about people like Bill Russell, who, at one time, was called Felton X in the press because he criticized some of the racial practices of cities that the Boston Celtics played in. So he was very much aware of that.", "Now, it's one thing to be aware of it. And then, it's another thing to actually live through it. It's a very difficult thing to deal with because it involves not just you but everybody you're associated with. And they're going through this at the same time. So, at the end of the day, he was aware of all of that. We discussed it, and he determined that it was an important enough issue for him to move forward. And I think that history will absolve him.", "You know, the NFL and the Players Coalition negotiated a deal worth nearly $90 million This is money which is supposed to be devoted toward addressing the issues that Colin Kaepernick and others were trying to address. You've said that the devil isn't in the details, it's in the delivery. What do you think about the - I mean, are there plans for this money so far? Do you - what do you know about what they're intending to do with it? And do you think it's going to be meaningful?", "Ultimately, the deliverables take place on several levels. One, what do they materially produce and deliver in terms of impacting the issues and problems and challenges that the Players Coalition is concerned about? And, secondly, is there a conversation continuing over how best to manage the circumstances that come over the stadium wall that do not emerge within the context of the game or the operations of the game but that come over the stadium wall, owing to the demographics of the locker room? And I think that that's as an - as important a deliverable as the $90 million, which, to a large, degree is something that has yet to materialize in total.", "That is professor Harry Edwards, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. And he was kind of to join us from his home in Fremont, Calif. Professor Edwards, thanks so much for talking to us.", "Thank you so much for having me."], "speaker": ["MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "HARRY EDWARDS", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "HARRY EDWARDS", "HARRY EDWARDS", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "HARRY EDWARDS", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "HARRY EDWARDS", "HARRY EDWARDS", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "HARRY EDWARDS", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "HARRY EDWARDS"]}
{"id": "CNN-389037", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-12-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1912/29/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Two Religious Groups Were Violently Attacked In Recent Hours", "utt": ["President Trump took a break from the golf course today to speak with President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin says Putin called Trump to thank him for information that helped prevent terror attacks in Russia. The two leaders also discussed, quote, matters of mutual interest. Jeremy Diamond joins me now from West Palm Beach, Florida, where the president is now on his second week of vacation. Jeremy, do we have any more details about their conversation?", "Well, there is not too much information aside from what the Kremlin put out earlier today. We do know that this call was initiated by the Russian President. Vladimir Putin apparently calling President Trump earlier today to thank him for the U.S. intelligence information that was provided to the Russian security services. That information apparently led to the arrests of two men on Friday, two Russian nationals who were apparently plotting a New Year's Eve terrorist attack in St. Petersburg, Russia. Now, this is not the first time that U.S. intelligence has actually led to preventing a terrorist attack in Russia. The same thing actually happened back in 2017 with another terrorist plot that was planned for St. Petersburg. Now, as far as what else that they may have discussed, as you said, Jessica, they discussed matters of mutual interests according to the Kremlin. There is a range of issues that could have been discussed. Of course, it came in the same day that President Trump authorized these strikes in Syria and in Iraq against Iranian proxies. We do not know if that came up in the conversation or if perhaps domestic politics, the issue of impeachment that is always on President Trump's mind. We don't know either if that came up. The White House so far, Jessica, has not provided a readout, its own readout of that conversation. Jessica.", "All right. Jeremy Diamond for us in Florida, thanks so much. And joining me now to talk about this, CNN Counterterrorism Analyst and former CIA counterterrorism official, Phil Mudd, thanks for being with us, Phil.", "Thanks for having me.", "Yeah. The last time the two men spoke on the phone was in July. And that is when they discussed wildfires in Siberia and trade between the two nations. For you, how significant is today's call in your opinion?", "Not that significant. To me, this looks like a courtesy call. Look, it's hard. As a former intel guy, it is hard to get intelligence that specific to stop an attack like this. The press reports are suggesting that based on U.S. information, the Russians were able to pick up two individuals who may have been plotting an attack in the next week or maybe in the next few days. So for the United States to provide that kind of specificity, to my mind, it is almost like Vladimir Putin got to call to give a thank you. Whether or not there's more information in the call, obviously I don't, but I wouldn't read too much into this one.", "Yeah. And the White House hasn't released a readout of that phone call yet. This isn't really the first time Russia has put out a call statement ahead of the White House. It happened back in July when the Kremlin that was the first to report that President Trump called President Putin. It took the White House several hours to acknowledge that call happened. Do you think the delay by the White House is intentional or is this just kind of how this goes?", "It is a holiday season. So I'm going to give them a pass here. I'm assuming -- I'm assuming, I'm not kidding. A lot of people are on vacation. That said, at some point, you got to see something on the call. We have seen indications obviously that the president is concerned about how many people in the White House are listening into his foreign phone calls. When you see the transcript of this, the first thing like when the president meets Vladimir Putin personally, the first thing you got to do is to compare side by side and see whether the two sides issued different interpretations or different statements on what the call is. I'd give them a little while. But I tell you -- like I hope a lot of Americans, I will be looking at both them side by side as soon as the White House briefing comes out.", "Yeah. You can look at it for yourself. What would you -- we heard Jeremy Diamond talking a little bit about what these matters of mutual interests could be between the U.S. and Russia. What would you consider potential matters of mutual interest that could have been discussed?", "Boy, I -- you got to find out a better analyst than I am on most the issues that you want to talk about. North Korea could be one. Iran could be one. Obviously, the strikes today against Iranian organizations would be one. The Iranians are historically very close to the Russians. I suppose the president could have raised election security. But remember one thing. This call was at the initiative of Vladimir Putin. So I'm going to think that at the other end of the line, the president of the United States is not going to talk a lot. Season's greetings, thanks, we're happy to pass intelligence when it can help save people's lives. I'm going to guess there is not a lot to this phone call.", "Yeah. I mean, to your point earlier, the Russians did receive this really important information about thwarting a terrorist attack. So a thank you is definitely in line. Sergey Lavrov met with President Trump at the White House earlier this month. And the Kremlin called it an important moment but also said it did not signal a thawing in relations. Where do U.S./Russia relations stand, and do you think that they are just kind of improving generally?", "I don't. I mean, if you are the Russians, you look at one decision maker in the United States. That is the commander in chief. And you say I understand where the commander in chief sits. You know, we don't have to belabor. But for three years, he's been close to Vladimir Putin. That said, if you look at what has happened around the world, whether it's Russian activities in Syria, supporting a man, the Syrian leader who used chemical weapons against his own people. Whether it's the fact that the Iranians are not -- pardon me, the Russians are not on the same side as the Americans on Iran. I suppose there is some room for compromise or talks with the Russians about North Korea. But the North Korean situation is not looking good. The president's been reluctant to talk about election security. So I don't view relations as that good. I suppose the president does, but I want to know where it looks good to you. I -- to me, it looks pretty ugly around the world.", "Yeah. And to that end, you recently told our Jake Tapper that Russian foreign policy once smelled like dog poop, now smells like roses. Really that you believe Russia has a reason to feel pretty good right now. Do you think that they hold the upper hand here?", "They don't hold the upper hand in some ways. I mean, if you look at the American military, I'm talking big terms. If you look at the American economy, Russia is a pip squeak. Not militarily but they are second tier compared to the United States. Economically, they're not even close. That said, if you compare Russia to where we've been over the past decade or two, and again take a high end look, look at Russian influence. The Russian president just went down to open a bridge into Crimea. Crimea was an annexation of a part of Europe by a Russian state. We haven't seen that in decades. If you look at how Russia's expanded influence in places like Syria, where we backed down and basically said to the Russians move on in. This is your turf. If you look at how the president has responded to the Russian interfere in American elections, if you're the Russians, you're saying I don't look that great economically. I can't match the Americans militarily. But diplomatically around the world, they're riding high. They are looking pretty good.", "Yeah. It's interesting. It's almost like they are punching up, right, the Russians.", "Sure. If you are a Russian and you're sitting there -- again, if you are Vladimir Putin trying to sell to a domestic audience in Russia, one of the things you've got to sell is after the fall of the Berlin Wall, being Russian was humiliating, humiliating. We, the Americans, said we won. We beat the Soviets and the wall came down. Now the decades later, the Russians can say we're no longer humiliated. The answer is Vladimir Putin. And one of the proofs is that the president of the United States sits there and says I love this guy. The Russians are back.", "Interesting stuff there. Phil Mudd, we really appreciate your time. Thanks for being with us.", "Thank you.", "Well, before Beyonce, before Lady Gaga, there was Linda Ronstadt. Here is a preview of the new CNN film, Linda Ronstadt, the Sound of My Voice. It premieres New Year's Day."], "speaker": ["DEAN", "JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "DEAN", "PHILIP MUDD, CNN COUNTERTERRORISM ANALYST", "DEAN", "MUDD", "DEAN", "MUDD", "DEAN", "MUDD", "DEAN", "MUDD", "DEAN", "MUDD", "DEAN", "MUDD", "DEAN", "MUDD", "DEAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-71040", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-5-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0305/19/ltm.11.html", "summary": "Member of Saddam Hussein's Family Discovered Living in Damascus", "utt": ["A member of Saddam Hussein's family has been discovered living in Damascus under the protection of the government there. And Con Coughlin is the author of \"Saddam: King of Terror\" and the executive editor of the London \"Sunday Telegraph\" and he's following this story from Baghdad. Thanks for joining us. Let me get right to it. Who is Fatiq Al-Majid and what kind of role does he play in the leadership, in Saddam Hussein's leadership?", "Well, first of all, as you said, he is Saddam's nephew. He's also the nephew of Chemical Ali, Ali Hassan al-Majid. And until the war he was a senior commander in the special security organization, which is basically the elite group that protected Saddam. And he went to Damascus last Monday, a week ago. He went through the checkpoint controlled by U.S. forces. And when he got to Damascus, I contacted him by telephone. He confirmed his identity and he confirmed his location. And it's the first confirmation we have that the Syrians are harboring members of Saddam's family.", "Did Majid, Al-Majid give any indication about the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein or even if he's even heard from him?", "Well, as can imagine, that was one of the first questions I asked him, and he wouldn't be drawn. But what I have subsequently discovered is that virtually all of Saddam's family -- Samera, Sajida, his two wives, the children, their children, about 100 members of Saddam's family in all went to Damascus for the war and about $10 million was transferred from holding accounts in Jordan to the Iraqi embassy in Damascus to fund their stay. Since the end of the war, these family members have been literally commuting backwards and forwards to Iraq. Basically they are hanging out in Mosul, one of the northern cities. But frankly, it's quite incredible that they can move so freely between Iraq and Syria at a time when the U.S. authorities here say they have sealed the border between Iraq and Syria.", "So are you saying that U.S. troops dropped the ball here then?", "Well, it looks like it. I mean either that or they were smuggled out or disguised in some way. But as I say, I mean the coalition forces are supposed to be trying to track down these people, because if they can get to these people, then they could probably find Saddam. And there seems no doubt to me or anybody else here in Baghdad that Saddam is alive, his two sons are alive and they're still operating. So, you know, this is a high risk strategy. These people need to be taken in and questioned.", "Now, this puts a lot of pressure back on the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, because all along he has denied U.S. claims that his government is, in fact, harboring these Iraqi fugitives.", "Yes, well, of course, that's the Syrian way. The Syrians have denied everything for the last 20 years. Whenever a terrorist group based in Damascus lets off a bomb in Tel Aviv or Rome Airport, the Syrians say we know nothing about it. So, of course they would deny having significant numbers of senior members of Saddam's family in Damascus. But the fact remains that these people were looked after by Syrian intelligence. Syrian intelligence reports directly to the office of President Assad. And they are playing a very dangerous game.", "And we will see what kind of reaction we get to this new discovery. Con Coughlin, thank you so much for your insights into this matter, author \"Saddam: King of Terror\" and the executive director of the London \"Sunday Telegraph,\" thanks. Damascus>"], "speaker": ["SOPHIA CHOI, CNN ANCHOR", "CON COUGHLIN, AUTHOR, \"SADDAM:  KING OF TERROR,\" LONDON \"SUNDAY TELEGRAPH\"", "CHOI", "COUGHLIN", "CHOI", "COUGHLIN", "CHOI", "COUGHLIN", "CHOI"]}
{"id": "CNN-259350", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2015-07-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/10/nday.05.html", "summary": "South Carolina Governor Signs Bill to Remove Confederate Flag from State Capitol Grounds; Republicans Suspend Vote on Amendment to Keep Confederate Flag on Display in National Cemeteries; Donald Trump's Comments on Illegal Immigrants Examined", "utt": ["The governor signed this bill into law yesterday, surrounded by many of the lawmakers who made this a possibility today. Also present, the families of those nine victims killed some 23 days ago in that massacre in Charleston. Each of those families will be receiving a pen that the governor used to sign the bill into law, to sign the law that will be removing that Confederate flag that is flying right now. Now, listen to what the governor had to say about this historic moment.", "This is a story about action. This is a story about the history of South Carolina and how the action of nine individuals laid out this long chain of events that forever showed the state of South Carolina what love and forgiveness looks like.", "Again, that is the flag that will be taken down in just a few hours people again gathering here at the state capitol grounds for this historic moment. The governor, we're told, will not be making any remarks during the flag removing ceremony. And the ceremony itself is not expected to take a very long time. Now, once this flag is removed by the director of South Carolina's department of public safety it will be taken to the Confederate relic room at the museum that is just a few blocks from where we are. Michaela?", "We see a lot of people gathering there already ahead of that ceremony. Alina, thank you. Meanwhile the flag triggering strong emotions on Capitol Hill. House Republican leaders forced to put a funding bill on hold because of a push to keep Confederate symbols on display at national cemeteries and parks. Athena Jones picks up that part of the story in our Washington bureau. Athena?", "Good morning, Michaela. This was really an embarrassment for Republicans on Capitol Hill because it came on the same day that the Republican governor of South Carolina signed that bill to remove the Confederate flag. So you had that on one side of the screen image. On the other side you had Republicans on Capitol Hill being forced to pull that bill because it involved voting on an amendment that would keep those flags, the Confederate flag, on display at cemeteries run by the National Park Service. This move really angered Democrats. People spoke passionately and purposefully on the House floor yesterday. Let's listen to what New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries had to say about this.", "At first it appeared that House Republicans were prepared to do the right thing and help to banish this symbol of racial hatred and oppression. But then apparently the ghosts of the Confederacy invaded the conference.", "And earlier Hakeem Jeffries made similar remarks on the House floor standing next to a giant placard of the Confederate flag. He said if this flag, that this battle flag and people behind it had been allowed to prevail, I will still be a slave, not a member of Congress. So a very, very personal, raw emotion on the House floor. Meanwhile House Speaker John Boehner has said he wants the adults in Congress to come together and have a discussion about what should be done with these Confederate symbols. But of course Democrats are saying there's no discussion that needs to be had. The Confederate flag is a symbol of racism, oppression, bigotry, and brutality and needs to be removed. Chris?", "Boehner also tried to defend the amendment by saying it was just a complication of Obama's, of the administration's directive to the National Park Service. Joaquin Jeffries and others reject that. Athena, thank you very much, appreciate the reporting on this. So in other news, a call for terror attacks on the U.S. by the new leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. This as the FBI announces it foiled several ISIS inspired July 4th to kill Americans. And a troubling development, dozens of people influenced by ISIS in the U.S. have gone dark. Why and what do we do about it? CNN's chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto live in Washington with the latest. Director Comey is very concerned about this. What does it mean?", "No question. You get a sense as to why we had those alerts before the July 4th weekend. So the FBI saying that they foiled a number of plots in the last four weeks, some of them timed to the July 4th holiday, and that they made more than 10 ISIS related arrests during that time period. Included in that group, a group in New York and New Jersey that were planning, application, to build bombs to lay at parades around the holiday weekend. And as you say, Chris, here's the other problem. As they're trying to stop these plots, the suspected terrorists are communicated with ISIS and other handlers overseas by widely available applications that are encrypted that even the NSA and others cannot monitor. Here's what James Comey had to say.", "This is not your grandfather's Al Qaeda. This is a group of people using social media to reach thousands and thousands of followers, find the ones who might be interested in committing acts of violence, and then moving them to an end to end encrypted messaging app. Our job is to look at a haystack the size of this country for needles that are increasingly invisible to us because of end to end encryption.", "Invisible to the intelligence community, now, that's ISIS. The other group that they're very concerned about, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and they've got a new leader. You'll remember there was a strike, a drone strike last month that killed the AQAP leader in Yemen. But as always happens with these groups, they very quickly have a replacement, and that replacement pointing his finger, putting his sites on America, encouraging followers around the world to attack America. Chris, remember this, and Michaela, while ISIS is considered most likely to carry out an attack on the U.S. because it's easy for them to do that through social media, it is AQAP, Michaela, that I'm told consistently that has the greatest capability. Remember, that's the group that has success putting bombs on airplanes. It's a real concern.", "We remember all too well. Jim Sciutto with that latest warning for us, thank you. Donald Trump stoking anger and pushback with his comments about undocumented immigrants from Mexico. Trump doesn't seem to be getting the message. In fact he's thinking he's picking up support in the Latino community. And he used a former Republican candidate to make his point. Take a listen to what Donald Trump told our Anderson Cooper.", "You do make a lot of the people you're running against in the GOP very nervous. They feel you've got to get Hispanics on the side of the GOP. They look at Mitt Romney who got 27 percent of the Hispanic vote.", "That's right, he didn't appeal to them. And I understand why. He didn't appeal to a lot of people. Excuse me, he didn't appeal to conservative Republicans. If Republicans would have left their living room and gone out and vote he would have won the election. People for some reason didn't dig Mitt Romney. Now, he choked the last month of the campaign. I give Obama a lot of credit. Obama was on Jay Leno. He was on your show. He was on all these shows. He was on David Letterman. He was on all these shows. I said to Mitt Romney and his people, why aren't you on television the last two or three weeks? Why aren't you doing television now? They were sitting around taking it easy. He choked. Something happened to him. Now, as far as --", "You can get the Latino vote?", "I'll tell you what, if the Republicans voted Mitt Romney would have -- he didn't energize anybody. I do energize people. Now will I get -- everyone is smiling now saying he won't get -- I will get more Latinos that anybody else. I have thousands of Latinos that work for me right now. And I'll tell you why I'm going to get them. Because at the appropriate time later on, probably after the primary situation is chosen, assuming I win, which I hope I do. I mean, I'm in it to win it. We'll see what happens. I'm going to have thousands of people who work for me standing up saying we love Trump. And what I'm going to do for the Latinos is I'm going to be able to create jobs. I'm going to take jobs from China. I'm going to take jobs from Mexico, from Japan where they're sending in vehicles and automobiles all the time and we get nothing out of it. I'm going to take jobs back and bring them back into the country. And the Latinos are going to be able to work and make good money. They're going to vote for me. They're not going to vote for Mitt Romney. And I'll tell you what, I will take them away from Hillary Clinton.", "You talked very openly in your speeches about your deal with Macy's, your line of neckties that were manufactured in China.", "Openly. I hate the fact that they're --", "If you really hate it, why not make a stand and say I'm not going to make this deal? I want them made in America. Brooks Brothers makes them in American, American Apparel.", "So here's the story. Macy's was weak. They were very weak, because they want to be politically correct. By the way, thousands of people are cutting up their Macy's credit card right now, and I love that, because I hate to see weak people when they're wrong. I think they're paying a very big price. I talk openly in speeches about ties. The ties that are made for me because China has so devalued their currency that it's impossible for American companies even with something so simple as a tie, it's impossible for American companies, Anderson, to compete with China.", "American Apparel, Brooks Brothers, they make clothes in America.", "They make a lot of clothing outside of America too. And by the way, a lot of clothing is made in Mexico.", "If yours is a standup guy, which you clearly are, why not say, you know what, I don't care how much this deal costs, I don't care how much it hurts, it's good for America, I'm going to make American ties?", "And I do that to a certain extent. But, honestly, if you have to put the price at three times higher, somebody is going to say I'm not going to buy Trump's tie. It's very simple.", "Here this morning to weigh in, CNN political commentator Van Jones, CNN political commentator and host of CNN's SMERCONISH, Michael Smerconish. Let's look at it this way, do you believe that Donald Trump is a reckoning, that he is price the GOP and the rest of us to some extent must pay for their failure to energize their own base?", "I think the failure is in not expanding the tent. They are left now to a diminished core, some of whom this appeals to. But the numbers in the long run show, and it's so clear, he professes to be a numbers guy, that this is a losing strategy. Jeb Bush in 2014 said in order to win in 2016 you need to be prepared to lose primaries to win the general. This is that instance. If they don't confront in now then they lose the independents come the general election. This is him saying Mexico is sending us their rapists. In the numbers it's so compelling. The demographics are not on the side of the Republican Party. It's become aged, it's become white, it's become male, it's become angry. And you've got to expand the tent. If a Republican candidate equals the share of the white vote that Mitt Romney commanded, they need to do better among nonwhites. You think this is going to cause them to do better among nonwhites? It's a losing strategy.", "People love me, Van. Latinos love me is what Trump was saying. It's interesting, last year I was on a panel. He was talking about last year how the RNC was really devoted to trying to cultivate this diversity and open the doors to others, if you will, within the Republican Party. This has just got to make them feel live like they're being set back so far.", "Well, yes and no. First of all, I think if this was any other person you would just have to say about Donald Trump, this man is delusional. He's delusional. This is a guy who literally has just gotten even more famous than he was before, saying that the Mexico government, our neighbor, is deliberately sending here rapists and criminals, and that the best people are not being sent here. First of all, they're not being sent. People are coming for opportunities like they have for 200 years, more than 200 years. And, frankly, some of the best people from Mexico are coming here, and every day they're working and starting businesses. Every day they're doing menial labor. Every day they're in the tech sector. So you're delusional in terms of how you think the world works, and you're doubly delusional if you think this is endearing you to Latinos. And then he says the Latinos that work for him. In other words, he doesn't see Latinos as equal. He doesn't know any Latinos except for those who are on his payroll. None of this is good for the Republicans. But on the other hand there is something wrong with a party where someone like this feels comfortable, where someone like this is actually growing in the polls, at least among Republicans. This is very, very bad for that party.", "All right, now, how about what's bad for your party, which is that you guys are taking Jeb Bush out of context with his comment about Americans need to work more hours. He was talking about part- time workers needing full-time jobs.", "Was he not clear?", "I think he was clear enough. And you have all of your people running around now, Van, saying oh he says that Americans need to work harder. Why are you doing that?", "I think that you know this gotcha game on both sides --", "Not both sides. Just you side Van. Own it and apologize.", "Listen, I haven't done it. You haven't heard me doing it. I think it's wrong. I think Jeb Bush's economic policies are bad enough when they are clearly stated. I don't think you have to take them out of the context. I think that this gotcha game, whether it's saying the president said businesses didn't make it here, that was totally out of context. This is totally out of context. That type of stuff needs to stop. I want people to very clear about what Jeb's policies are. His policies would be very bad for working people, but that statement was taken out of context.", "It was interesting to see the Twitter war. Hillary jumped in on it. Bernie Sanders jumped in on it. On the subject of Bernie Sanders, why don't we talk about that? Bernie Sanders galvanizing a crowd. He's doing exactly what Hillary is not going. He is going to the base. He is getting a lot of groundswell support. Do you think this is something that, should Hillary try to fix?", "I think she should be looking in the rearview mirror not so much at him, but at Joe Biden, because if I'm Joe Biden and you believe the accounts that Beau Biden wished for his father to run for the presidency in this cycle, you've got to wonder what Joe Biden is thinking looking at Bernie Sanders drawing these crowds and in some states drawing these numbers. I don't think that Senator Sanders poses a lethal political threat to Secretary Clinton, but he may give impetus to others to get into this race who could.", "Very interesting. Bernie is going to be on, Senator Sanders is going to be on. What do you think the main challenge is for him?", "I think it is to expand beyond being the progressive champion, to get beyond that label of a self-described socialist and to have more populist appeal not among that limited core of Democratic supporters but to a broadened swath of America.", "Van, Senator Sanders supporters says that he is an example of how your party has lost its way, that Hillary Clinton actually represents what her husband started, which was the centrist move in your party and that he is actually a pure Democrat.", "Listen, I think Bernie Sanders is remarkably popular. But I think more importantly, his ideas are very, very popular. If you strip off the Bernie Sanders brand, you know, the kind of rumpled fire brand, if you take off the word \"socialist\" and you just put out there the ideas he's standing for, you know, very concerned about Wall Street getting away with breaking rules, very concerned about the minimum wage, very concerned about the middle class, this stuff is popular across the board. I think that there can be a Sanders effect both in terms of pulling Hillary Clinton to working class issues, but probably also, it shows that if you're in the Republican Party that's speaking more forthrightly about the peril of the middle class, I think people are underestimating Bernie Sanders effect on this race, probably in both parties. I think a lot of independents like what they're hearing from Bernie Sanders. I don't think he's going to be the nominee, but I think he's captured something that is I think unexpected. If you said four years ago, a Bernie Sanders would be a discussion point against Hillary Clinton, you'd have said you were nuts. But you're not nuts, this is real.", "This is real, Van Jones. Thanks for joining us on this Friday. And don't forget to check out \"SMERCONISH\", I'm going to give you a plug, Saturday, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern --", "Thank you for that. I need it.", "You don't need from us. Thanks for being here, Michael. Really a pleasure. And to you as well, Van.", "All right. Now, as we're just teasing up here, we're going to be talking with Democrat presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders. He'll be on the show. Please take a listen and see how he responds to the questions that test his positions. And if you want political news there's only one place to go, CNNPolitics.com.", "Some more headlines right now: a new offer by Greece could be its last chance to prevent economic catastrophe. Parliament is said to vote today on the $59 million bailout plan. Greece would borrow the money from a European fund and in return, it would agree to some austerity measures like sales tax hikes and reduced spending on pensions.", "A mother and baby lucky to be alive in Arkansas after their house caught fire and exploded. Tasha Pool (ph) and her 18-month-old were awakened by neighbors banging on the door. Just moments after they left and firefighters went in, a backdraft blew out the insulation and the ceiling fell in. Pool and her child were treated for smoke inhalation but thankfully they're doing fine.", "All right. A bizarre story here out of Michigan for you. Three children, 9, 10 and 14 years old sent to juvenile detention why? Because they didn't eat their vegetables -- nope. Because they refused to have lunch with their father. The children's parents apparently are locked in a nasty custody dispute. The judge ordered the children to eat with their dad, spent more time with him. They refused. So, the judge found them in contempt, sent them to a juvenile detention center for the rest of the summer. Now, what's really serious here is the kids allege their dad is violent. But the judge ripped into the mother, saying she had poisoned the children against their father.", "And that is the issue. I took a look into this case, because obviously punishing the kids seems ludicrous. I think the judge's issue was about where to put the kids to get them away from the situation.", "Right.", "Parental alienation is a very big thing in the custody battle --", "But the question is, was the juvenile detention center the right place to put them?", "It may have been his only one for them. It doesn't mean they're going to stay there. But this is an ugly situation and gets repeated many times all over the country. So --", "Here's an ugly situation.", "True. Who is Baby Doe? It's a growing mystery over the identity of the young girl on your screen right now. She was found. The question is, who is she? Police are trying to get answers. We'll show you how they're trying to get them with the help of John Walsh. If he can't help, maybe nobody can."], "speaker": ["ALINA MACHADO, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "GOV. NIKKI HALEY, (R) SOUTH CAROLINA", "MACHADO", "MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR", "ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-199866", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-1-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1301/24/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Lance Armstrong Slapped with Lawsuit", "utt": ["This one comes from a \"you've probably seen it coming\" file. A week after Lance Armstrong bares his soul to Oprah Winfrey, he's getting hit with a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit says, Armstrong's book, great reading about battling back from cancer to become the world's best cyclist, was based on lies and deception, and now people want their money back if they bought the book and believed it. It's not about the bikes. It's about the dope. Joey Jackson joins me to talk about the chances of getting your $29.95 punitive damages.", "Money is money, right?", "Money is money. A lot of people who were so inspired. Oprah even said so in this interview. He saved lives with some of his words. Could you really have suffered so many damages? He may have saved your life but you're not really depressed?", "Here's what happens. When somebody peddles a book and say it's an autobiography, it about him and it's inspirational and they want the world to know how they overcame adversity, right? As a result of that, people should be able to rely on the representations in the book. If you pedal it as an actual story about your life, about your history and overcoming all odds, readers have a right to rely upon that. And if it's really fiction and not fact, pay up.", "Can you be entitled to spend damages, punitive or --", "You know what happened, in law, as we look at law, we look to precedent. That's what happened previously. You might remember James Frey, James Frey before.", "A million little pieces.", "A million little Pieces.", "A million little pieces of you know what.", "Right.", "Oprah was in on that.", "Oprah was in on that one, too. Ultimately he had to come clean. He talked about his addiction and overcame it. And when it was found that it was all false, the publishers set aside a pot of money and people who wanted a refund got the money back. Very few came forward. They spent like $30,000 in refund and had a pot of millions so they gave the rest to charity and, of course, legal fees.", "It's more about the principle than getting your $29.95 back. One last question. The fact that this thing was pedaled on Amazon, that's communication. That's using wires. Is there a wire fraud of any kind here? Lance Armstrong asked to you buy something over the international and national wires, so you're paying for a lie.", "I think this is more civil in nature. I don't think we can see it civilized. Yes, he made misrepresentations but it didn't amount to a crime. I don't think the Justice Department will be looking at this. I think a lot of other people will to get their money back.", "I'll be curious to see how many people jump on board the class action suit and how much it actually costs and the publisher, by the way.", "Oh, yes, publishers are involved, too. Of course.", "Not just Lance. A couple of people are going to have to pay up. Joey, don't go anywhere.", "I'm here.", "Because there's this case that we found, very disturbing, very troubling, and also really fascinating. A woman convicted of drowning her own child. Murder. Sure. You would think, right? Maybe not so much. She's just been released. She was only in prison for three years? We're going to find out why, and you might be really upset about it."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD", "JOEY JACKSON, ATTORNEY", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD", "JACKSON", "BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-113596", "program": "YOUR WORLD TODAY", "date": "2007-1-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/10/ywt.01.html", "summary": "Source: Al Qaeda Suspect Dies in U.S. Air Strike", "utt": ["Welcome back to YOUR WORLD TODAY. You're with CNN International.", "That's right. We're bringing you up to date on some of the top stories around the globe. All right. Let's take a look at Somalia. This is a new front, possibly, on the war on terror. A renewed front, more correctly. Somali government officials say a senior al Qaeda suspect is now dead after a U.S. air strike in Somalia on Sunday. U.S. officials haven't confirmed his death. All of it comes as Somalia's deputy prime minister says he wants U.S. troops to come in on the ground to help root out the extremists. Barbara Starr is monitoring the latest developments from neighboring Kenya that is also, in many ways, involved here. She joins us from Nairobi. Barbara, the latest from your end regarding this suspect. Is the U.S. saying anything?", "Well, no, Jim, they are not. The U.S. administration is not acknowledging or not confirming that any al Qaeda suspects have actually been killed in that C-130 air strike, and they are only saying at this point that that was the only air strike. There certainly has been other military activity on the Kenya-Somali border, but the U.S. says -- it so far is not acknowledging it's responsible for any of it. What we know from here in Kenya is that Kenyan military has been patrolling up there with helicopters. Ethiopian forces are there, as well as some forces from the new government in Somalia. And there has been plenty of activity on that border north of here. So it is believed that some of the reports of air strikes may actually be due to helicopter activity from some of those forces. But as for the U.S., U.S. military officials say the Naval Armada, an aircraft carrier, and four U.S. Navy warships will stay in place off the coast of Somalia for some time ready to take down any targets of opportunity -- that's what they call them -- of any al Qaeda trying to flee, trying to get out of Somalia via the sea. The Kenyan military will keep the border it has with Somalia sealed to try and prevent anybody from escaping into this country. So the question, even as President Bush, Jim, begins to address the American people about Iraq, clearly is whether the U.S. military is getting involved in a new war -- a new front in the war on terror here in the Horn of Africa -- Jim.", "Well, certainly, you know, this goes back to Tora Bora, all of these other areas where there was a hunt on for al Qaeda every time they slipped through. How much pressure is there, Barbara, to put in some people, Special Operations troops, whatever, on the ground there to determine, one, did they get the al Qaeda operatives, or are those al Qaeda operatives still in the area?", "Well, you know, it's interesting. If it is proven that this man, also known as Farun Hazul (ph) is dead or the other al Qaeda operatives they were going after, it appears at this time that the U.S. would be the only one to be able to confirm that with eyes on the ground. If this C-130 strike was that precise, if they killed no civilians, as the U.S. claims that they did, that they did not kill any civilians and they got these people, that was a very precise strike. That's the kind of strike that requires a forward air controller on the ground, and that may mean, although we don't know, that the U.S. has put commandos on the ground in southern Somalia -- Jim.", "All right. Barbara Starr there. Has been alongside U.S. military officials in Kenya. Everyone watching southern Somalia. Barbara, as always, our thanks to you.", "OK. Still ahead on YOUR WORLD TODAY, Apple's CEO says his product will revolutionize the market.", "And why wouldn't he? It is a mobile phone, and it's also an Internet browser, and it's also, did we tell you, a music mayor. We'll have a look at the new iPhone coming up straight ahead."], "speaker": ["GORANI", "CLANCY", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "CLANCY", "STARR", "CLANCY", "GORANI", "CLANCY"]}
{"id": "CNN-131304", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2008-10-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0810/08/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Fed Cuts Interest Rate by Half Percentage Point; British Government to Rescue Largest Banks", "utt": ["Well, we are just almost at the top of the hour now and we're following breaking news this morning. The Federal Reserve cutting a key interest rate by a half percentage point. It's part of a joint effort with central banks in Europe and Asia to lower interest rates around the world. That news is sending Dow futures up. Right now 79 points. Comes after a 508-point drop that triggered panic selling in Asia overnight. In Japan, the Nikkei losing more than 9 percent. Tokyo's biggest one-day drop in 21 years. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index closing down more than 8 percent. Trading was suspended in Indonesia after the Jakarta market fell 10 percent. European markets, though, are reacting positively as well to that news. We have London's FTSE average up about 15 right now as well. And Christine Romans is here \"Minding Your Business\" to put more of this into perspective. You perhaps hit it the best in the break. You said, I have 10 years of news in just this morning alone.", "That's right. In one hour, ten years of news. Well, let's reset the stage then. We had a big stock market selloff in the United States yesterday. That came on the heels of big selloffs overseas. And then overnight you had the British authorities saying that they were going to orchestrate a bailout of British banks and there were concerns across the globe about the health of the banking sector and global recession fears sending Asian stock markets down sharply, sending the European stock markets down sharply, and then exactly an hour ago we got news from the fed that in an unprecedented effort, they were cutting interest rates by half a percentage point to 1.5 percent in a coordinated global rate cut. That is the important part of this. Coordinated global rate cut. It's something that the market has been hoping for over the past few days as a sign of -- of confidence restoring into the marketplace, showing that the fed and global central bankers are doing everything that they possibly can to try to fix this credit crisis and this crisis of confidence, really, that is spreading across the globe. Now, confidence is the key here. Central bankers trying to restore confidence in the international system. And that is something that has been in very, very short supply of late. Yesterday, we heard the fed that it is going to bailout business loans essentially. We know there is that $700 billion bailout package that Congress passed. We know that the fed and the Treasury, Kiran and John, have done just about everything that they can in their power to try to restore some sense of normalcy to the international system. And we also know that Dow Jones Industrial Average over the past five days is down almost 13 percent. And that is a point loss. That has never happened before.", "It really is staggering when you especially look at your 401(k). But again, we see futures, S&P;, Nasdaq and Dow Jones up right now. We'll see what the day holds.", "We will see", "Christine, thanks. The news, the rate cut comes just hours after the British government announced a sweeping plan to bail out its banks. More than $87 billion of taxpayers' money will be used to purchase shares in eight major banks. CNN's Becky Anderson watching the developments in London right now. Becky, what's it looking like over there, and particularly, in light of this coordinated bank rate cut between the U.S. Federal Reserve, Central Bank there in Europe and as well other banks including the Bank of England?", "John, interesting reaction. Really interesting reaction. A 6 percent drop before that action. And those markets went straight up. They're now just trading slightly lower, but these European markets have liked that coordinated action. And at least we're trading at or around a level point this Wednesday. And the really interesting point was it was that pushed these markets higher. Not this $90 billion bank bailout that the chancellor here, the finance minister here announced this morning before the markets opened. And don't forget that is only 10 percent of what the British government is making available to the financial system. There is another, some $900 billion that they're making available across the money markets in order to inspire some confidence. This is what I've heard, though, from traders today. It's an interesting point. What I think they feel is this. That ultimately these markets have gone higher off the back of that rate cut because they think that's it. Pretty much they think that the government has said we've got nothing else to give you, guys. You sort it out. And at this point most of what they've got is priced into the market and we may -- we may just see the beginnings of a little bit of confidence. Not the green shoes of recovery necessary, but the -- a little bit of confidence coming back into the markets. Let me show you how the newspapers sold this story though this morning. This of course is before the rate cut. \"Day of Reckoning\" says \"The Daily Telegraph.\" And I've got to say I think that's absolutely spot on this morning. \"Day of Reckoning\" for the financial markets. \"The Independent\" newspaper here in the U.K., \"50 Billion Pounds Bailout to Save Britain's Bank, But Will It Be Enough to Save Us?\" Good question. We're looking at banking stocks up significantly this morning on the back of this bailout and on the back of the rate cut by 50 basis point or half of one percentage points if you don't watch the markets. And \"Le Figaro,\" the French newspaper this morning. \"Europe is Engaged in Trying to Work out What You Do to Avoid What is Ultimately a Complete Banking Failure.\" Those are the headlines. Better day as we move through the session on the back of that rate cut. Gordon Brown, though, let me just leave you with this. What the prime minister said today as they announced this big bailout for the banks of the U.K. He said this, \"The global financial system is trekking towards collapse\" -- John.", "We could certainly use a little bit of good news. Becky Anderson for us this morning. Becky, thanks so much. How will the big interest rate can affect Wall Street? As we wait for that, we're taking a look at what Barack Obama and John McCain said that they would do to shore up your money. The best political team on television breaks down the candidate's plans. And while you're sleep, the British government announced the plan to rescue its largest banks with almost $90 billion. How their plan differs from our own bailout bill. And will it restore investor confidence?"], "speaker": ["KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "CHETRY", "ROMANS", "JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR", "BECKY ANDERSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-400828", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-05-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/22/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Hotspots Emerge As Country Heads Into Holiday Weekend.", "utt": ["Well, states reopening in one way or another but hot spots still emerging in Alabama, concerning uptick in cases. Officials in the state capital now warning that they are basically out of ICU beds.", "Dr. Karen Landers joins us. She is the Assistant State Health Officer for the Alabama Department of Public Health. And, Dr. Landers, great to have you. I asked Dr. Fauci about these small outbreaks, if you can call them that, as reopening happens. He said, listen, they're inevitable. It's all how you respond to them and do you keep them under control. Is Alabama able to keep these new hotspots under control so they don't spread further?", "Yes, In Alabama it's very important to remember that throughout our state, we require our hospitals to report in to our Alabama Incident Management System twice daily so we can coordinate with our hospitals and ensure what our bed capacity is. Now, specifically, when we look at hospitals, again, hospitals have their surge plans, so they exercise these surge plans. And in situation such as what Montgomery is experiencing right now, hospitals are able to look within their hospital to where they can expand but also look to other hospitals where there is the ability for an MOU or mutual aid to be exercised in order for these patients to be taken care of.", "So, one of the big concerns with this that Jim and I have been talking about now for months on this show, Doctor, is that when you do have areas that are not a big city like New York City, for example, like the more rural areas of your state, how concerned are you that what's happening in Montgomery with not enough ICU beds is going to be even worse if there are hotspots that emerge in the rural parts of the state?", "Well, absolutely. It's extremely important as we are looking at our cases of COVID-19 to have robust testing opportunities in our rural counties as well as our urban counties so we can rapidly pick up cases of COVID-19, do our contact tracing, do our investigation to be able to reduce those numbers of cases and, additionally, have our hospitals in our areas that are actually have hospitals located reporting into our aimed systems so that when people need a hospital bed or when they need to be referred to a hospital bed, we can know where the capacity is in the State of Alabama. There are a number of counties in Alabama that do not have hospitals, so we rely on our counties who have hospitals open, as well as our urban centers to provide more advanced level of care for patients who need ICU care, for example.", "Understood. Dr. Landers, thank you so much for joining the program. We wish you and the people of Alabama the best of luck.", "Yes, we certainly do.", "Absolutely. Thank you.", "Thank you, Doctor. As we prepare to mark the unofficial start to summer this holiday weekend, safe travel, if you're going to travel. Obviously, it's top of mind for you.", "CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, joins us now. Dr. Gupta, it's a question I think all of us have. Can we fly safely? If we choose to do so, how best to make it safer? What's the answer?", "I think it's the second way you put it right, Jim, I mean, safely versus safer. I mean, those things that you can do that may be surprising and well within your control to try and mitigate or lower your risk. I think for the most part, it's got to be essential travel, like most things in life, a risk/reward relationship. I decided to sort of navigate my way through and learn as best I could. Here is what I learned.", "Things are going feel a lot different the next time you go to the airport. First of all, it will be less crowded, that's for sure. Certain precautions are in place, like plexiglass at the counters, telling people to keep their distance when they're in line. Let's go see what security is like. Traveling in the age of coronavirus is all about averting risk. For airports, like here at Hartsfield Jackson and Atlanta, which is the world's busiest, it's about focusing and keeping things clean and distanced.", "And, once again, thank you for the spacing.", "For travelers, it's about masks and touching as few things as possible, whether at check-in -- don't forget to put your boarding pass on your phone ahead of time, less surfaces to touch. We're going through security.", "Okay. Put that into the machine, sir.", "One thing to keep in mind, try and count how many surfaces you touch throughout the whole process.", "I need everything out of your pockets, please.", "One study found that the biggest germ hotspots for respiratory viruses in the entire airport, these security bins. One thing I do want to show you is how I pack nowadays. I've got my hand sanitizer. So this is when I do a little hand sanitizer, put that back in, make sure everything is back in the bag and I could be on my way. Constantly washed the hands. Also, look, they're cleaning the bins back there. That's a good idea. One of the big concerns is always going to be those sorts of train rides. Right now, things aren't that crowded. But as airports start to pick up, you may want to allow extra time so that you can walk to the concourse instead of ride. Bill Leintsch is one of the few people who has kept flying. How do you quantify that for somebody who says, look, I don't know if I should fly or not right now, I'm not sure if the risk and the reward balance makes sense?", "It might feel a little awkward the first time you get on board an airplane to see only 60 percent load factors, all the middle seats blocked, everyone wearing a mask. But after a while, that becomes very comfortable.", "Delta is not the only one. Other major carriers are doing similar. Road Warrior Brian Kelly, you may know him better as The Points Guy, doesn't think social distancing in the sky is going to be permanent.", "Financially, it's just not possible. And I don't believe it's good for consumers to do that because we're going to pay for the cost of all of those empty seats.", "In a statement, the International Air Transport Association said that while they support the use of masks by passengers and crew, they don't support mandating social distancing measures that would leave middle seats empty. To reduce risk, many airlines like Delta are wiping down more frequently and misting the entire planes with disinfectant. Everyone is going to decide whether or not it makes sense to fly. It's the sort of risk/reward proposition. One thing I'll tell you is that separating yourselves out, obviously important. That's the distance. But think about the duration. Shorter flights are obviously going to be better as well. One thing you'll see here at Delta is that they are boarding from the back of a plane first, ten people at a time, we hear. Now, when you get to your row, a couple things to keep in mind. Try and touch as few surfaces as possible. When I sit down, I'm actually going to try and choose a window seat. And the reason being, that I'll just have less contact with people who are walking by the aisle. Here is another tip. You open this, which is called the air gasper, and you turn it up as high as you can and feel the air there right in front of you. That's going to cause some turbulent air flow in front of you and possibly break up any clouds of virus. It's a small tip. It might make a difference, easy to do, could be worth it.", "Now, one thing I will point out, most airlines, including Delta, will mandate masks when you're actually flying on the plane. A lot of times they'll even hand out those masks at some point in the boarding area or on the plane itself. Also keep in mind, you have to think about where you're traveling. If you go to Norway, for example, right now, once you land, you've to go into a mandatory 14-day quarantine. There are actually two states now in the United States, Hawaii and Massachusetts, that's the same issue there as well. So if you're flying to these places, think about where you're going, how the virus is circulating in those areas as well, and what you might be mandated to do when you land.", "Yes, a lot of promises from those airlines to keep those middle seats empty have not borne out as we've seen air travel go. That's key. Dr. Gupta, thanks so much for showing us how it works. Well, more than 1,200 pastors are set to defy California's order on holding church services in person. I'm going to speak with one of those pastors, next."], "speaker": ["HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "DR. KAREN LANDERS, ASSISTANT STATE HEALTH OFFICER, ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH", "HARLOW", "LANDERS", "SCIUTTO", "HARLOW", "LANDERS", "HARLOW", "SCIUTTO", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "GUPTA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GUPTA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GUPTA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "GUPTA", "BILL LEINTSCH, CHIEF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE OFFICER, DELTA", "GUPTA", "BRIAN KELLY, FOUNDER, THE POINTS GUY", "GUPTA", "GUPTA", "SCIUTTO"]}
{"id": "NPR-5698", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2006-11-15", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6490322", "title": "Puerto Rico Institutes Sales Tax", "summary": "Puerto Rico introduced a sales tax Wednesday. It affects prepared foods, nonprescription medicine, tobacco, soft drinks, alcohol and many other consumer goods. The tax ranges from 5.5 percent to 7 percent, depending on location.", "utt": ["Starting today, tourists and residents of Puerto Rico will begin paying a sales tax. It affects prepared foods, non-prescription medicine, tobacco, soft drinks, alcohol and many other consumer goods. This tax ranges from five and a half percent to seven percent, depending on the location.", "Budget shortfalls force a partial government shutdown in Puerto Rico this year.", "Other news: a new survey by State Farm Insurance says car accidents involving deer are up nearly six percent over last year. The average property damage cost was $2,800.", "And ten food and drink companies, including McDonalds and Coca-Cola, have agreed to promote healthier lifestyles in ads aimed at children. Critics say the companies would do better by stopping selling foods loaded with fat and sugar."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host", "STEVE INSKEEP, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-318297", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-08-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/04/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Report: GOP Senators Defend Their Health Care No Votes", "utt": ["Lisa and I were talking with John McCain on the senate floor and he pointed to both of us, and he said, you two are right on this issue.", "And to have the conversation that we had after the vote, we had one of those conversations that you'll think of years down the road where he said, people might not appreciate what has happened right now as being a positive. Maybe our colleagues are not going to be viewing this as a positive right now. But the time will prove that having a pause, having a time-out for us to do better is going to be good for the country.", "And Brooke, another reason I wanted to talk to the two of them is just good old fag-fashioned girl power because they understand that they're two of five Republican women in the senate, and one issue that they really were passionate about, and are passionate about, was about the fact that in the Republican bill, it would have prevented people who are Medicaid recipients from going to planned parenthood. And for Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, who says that so many women, the vast majority of women get their care, the regular care, from planned parenthood and same goes for Maine, that was one of many nonstarters. But an important one. And I actually asked Senator Collins, I said, I know this is hard to even imagine, but if you were a man, do you think that would have been as important of an issue? And she basically said, you know, like I get it because I am a woman and it really does show you how the different perspectives now that there are 21 women in the senate, really do change policy, regardless of party.", "To quote your series, series, #badasswomenofWashington. Dana, thank you. Let's check out live pictures here. Air Force One. We saw Ivanka and her child board the plane. We're watching and waiting as the president is about to be, in a little bit of time, I don't think he's quite left the White House yet, up, up and away to his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, for 17 days of vacation. But hang on a second. Isn't this the same president that slammed Obama for taking breaks? We'll look at what's on his agenda coming up."], "speaker": ["SEN. SUSAN COLLINS, (R), MAINE", "SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI, (R), ALASKA", "DANA BASH, CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT", "BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-122806", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2008-1-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/13/cnr.05.html", "summary": "No One Can Hide Forever; No Red Carpet, No Acceptance Speeches, No Best And Worst Dressed, Could This Really Be The Golden Globes", "utt": ["No one can hide forever. Tonight a sighting of a man wanted in the horrific murder of a pregnant marine in North Carolina. How close are the cops? After years as rebel hostages, they walk out of the jungles of Colombia as free women.", "A thousand thank you to all my friends and my fellow countrymen. You don't have to do that.", "We'll bring you their heroine tales. People in the northeast are going to bed tonight in one world but they may wake up tomorrow in a very different one. That's because a nor'easter is blowing their way. He was a top executive at Microsoft. He could say he had it all, but he turned his back on the good life. Why?", "How can you live in a world with so much abundance and have something is lacking in books on children's lives.", "For this man, it's all in a book.", "And the Golden Globe goes to.", "No red carpet, no acceptance speeches, no best and worst dressed, could this really be the Golden Globes? It is and we've got the winner. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. And good evening, everyone. I'm Tony Harris tracking tonight what may be a key moment in the nationwide hunt for suspected killer. The victim you'll recall, a 20-year-old active duty marine. She was 8 months pregnant. The body found burned and buried is believed to be her. Then today, the man police think murdered her may have popped up on the radar. I say again, maybe. Do this for me here. Draw a line from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina to Shreveport, Louisiana. It is about 1,000 miles. But it's where more than one person has reported seeing a man who fits the description of the Marine Corporal Cesar Armando Laurean. They saw this man at this bus station. Coming or going, no one's sure. But tonight, as far as leads go, it's the only one murder investigators actually have. So we wait for word, any word from the marines, from police or from anyone in the country who may see this desperate man charged with murder and on the run. We just learned of this awful crime a few days ago. But the events leading up to it go back almost a year. Here's CNN's Rusty Dornin.", "April 2007, Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach tells her superiors at Camp Lejeune she was raped by Corporal Cesar Laurean, a fellow persona clerk. She's pregnant. An investigation begins. That's also when her family says her nightmare really began.", "She was scared and didn't know what was going to happen to her. And so during this process, after she eventually did report it she was consistently harassed by other marines.", "In May, a protective order is issued by the marines against Laurean. Then in October Camp Lejeune marine commanders request the military version of a grand jury investigation. In December, Lauterbach was due to testify. On the 14th is the last time her mother speaks to her by phone. The same day a woman believed to be Lauterbach buys a bus ticket to El Paso, Texas, for the following day. The ticket was never used. On December 19th, Lauterbach's mother calls police and says her daughter is missing. After she disappeared the marines listed her on unauthorized leave. The day before Christmas, police say Corporal Laurean uses Lauterbach's ATM card. On January 9th, the marine corps at Camp Lejeune says it's cooperating with the Onslow County Sheriff's Department. There was speculation that the pregnant marine might be alive. But then on January 11th, a break in the case. Laurean's wife Cristina notifies the sheriff's department that her husband gave her a note. In the note, Corporal Laurean claims the pregnant marine committed suicide and he buried her.", "Mrs. Lauterbach is dead and has been buried here at Onslow County. The suspect in the case is the marine accused by her for assaulting her.", "But Laurean fled four hours before his wife notified authorities. Something that surprised military investigators.", "He was considered not a flight risk. There's a lot of factors in this investigation that obviously I can't divulge. It's still an active investigation as far as this rape complaint that I can't share with you at this point in time.", "His wife said Laurean left their home at 4:00 a.m. that morning. The search was on to find Lauterbach's remains. They find blood spattered on the walls and ceiling at the marine corporal's home and a grim find in the backyard fire pit.", "The body was much charred. It appeared that the body of the adult was lying over on the side with the facedown in the bottom of the pit.", "Man, these are just gruesome details. Our Rusty Dornin joins us now from Jacksonville, North Carolina. And Rusty, you know, there seem to be a lot of excitement about the reported sighting in Shreveport and now questions.", "Well, it just -- we've heard these witnesses saw -- purportedly saw Laurean at the bus station in Shreveport. But now law enforcement officials went at Shreveport and here are a little bit skeptical. U.S. Marshal's office is saying there are no confirmed sightings. And they're also saying the person who bought the bus ticket, apparently these people saw bought a ticket from Dallas to Shreveport and was seen there at some point, which is a little bit confusing. We did speak to the sheriff here a little earlier and he's saying, well, you know, we're going through this all now. He hadn't even spoken to investigators in Shreveport, but there are some things that may be contradicting that sighting. So there are still a manhunt on. The FBI announced today that they are also joining in investigating the case. In the meantime, of course, the circumstances surrounding Maria Lauterbach's death remain and her body will be taken to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, presumably tomorrow for the official autopsy.", "OK, Rusty Dornin for us in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Rusty Appreciate it. Thank you. North Carolina police believe the Louisiana suspect sighting is credible, their word. But really, in the time since Laurean was named suspect, the entire country is now a search area. Mike Brooks is on the phone with me right now. He is our security analyst, a former detective, former FBI agent. Mike, let's be clear about this. This is absolutely national manhunt. And if we're looking now, Louisiana, possibly Texas, we also need to think about Mexico, don't we?", "Absolutely, Tony. You know, when people are on a run, where do they try to go? They try to get over the border to Mexico, you know, because -- because you get down there and the authorities are not so, you know, they don't want to get you back to the United States so much. Well you know, but when we hear what Rusty just reporting, is you know, they're not so sure. Well, the FBI right now, they have UFAP warrant. It's Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution. Now, that is so if anybody anywhere in the country happens to find this guy, they can snatch him up and say, yep, we're holding you. And that's basically a holding charge. Now, the U.S. Marshals, you know, they usually get their man or their woman. But, you know, in this particular case, this guy, you know, he's not stupid, Tony.", "Right, right.", "He knows, you know, he's Latino, you know, he's Hispanic. He speaks the language. He can get around if he has to get down into Texas, get down towards Brownsville, that kind of way. But again, you know, they're looking at the video because most of the bus stations, Tony, they have video. And they can take a look and say, OK, is this the guy or is it not the guy? Now, you know, there's been a lot of -- there's been a lot of criticism of the investigative part, why didn't they hold this guy?", "Yes.", "You know, well, if you look back, the sexual assault, the alleged rape against her happened on the base. So, you know, a lot of people say, oh, why didn't Onslow County hold this guy? Well, Tony, when it happens on the base, it's the Marine Corps, military police, and the NCIS. They were criminal investigator service, they were doing the initial investigation. So, you've got that and there were in the initial report that we've talked about over and over again, in the last four days, they said there were inconsistencies in her statement. Even her mother said, oh, you know, she's a liar. Well, you know what, that's out of the window right now.", "Yes.", "But when you look at the reports, law enforcement, the local law enforcement, Onslow County, Sheriff Brown, all his people can do is go on what they have. Now, you know, I think there was a little bit of problem, what I'm seeing as a former investigator, Tony, I see that there was a little bit of problem on communication between the Marine Corps, NCIS and the local authorities when she was reported missing. Her roommate who found a note, there was a note there that said, you know, I'm going to leave, I'll be -- you know, I'm going to leave for a while, I'm happy with the marines, you know, he reported her as missing. They reported -- the Marine Corps said, she's now U.A., Unauthorized Absence. She wasn't reported as AOL. Now, did the local authorities know about this former sexual assault, you know, back when they first started the investigation? I tell you what, I'm a little troubled, Tony, about the communication.", "Well, Mike, I got to tell you something, this is a real reporter story right now because there are so many. You just listed another set of questions to be answered. A real reporter story right now and perhaps we'll get some clear answers here in the days to come. Mike Brooks on the line with us this evening. Mike, appreciate it. Thanks.", "Thank you, Tony.", "As if this case wasn't complicated and twisted enough, there's also a gray area when it comes to who's in charge. A military victim, civilian jurisdiction, and if the suspect fled the state, well, there's the FBI. Tonight we brought in a military legal expert to help us sort it all out.", "The murder victim and active duty member of the United States Marine Corps. The murder suspect, an active duty member of the United States Marine Corps. So far, the only public face of the investigation belongs to a civilian sheriff. So where's the Marine Corps? What are they doing to bring in their fugitive corporal? And who gets him when or if he's eventually arrested?", "When the authorities catch him, and I presume that's going to be is civilian authorities because the civilian authorities is -- they're the authorities that have jurisdiction over this investigation with the murder and with the investigation in the beginning with finding the whereabouts of the young lady and now enforcement turns out to be a murder investigation. It is their primary jurisdiction. This is something that was said by, you know, the military investigator, that primary jurisdiction does rest with the civilian authorities with this particular case.", "But you said something interesting, that he is likely to be captured by the civilian authorities. That makes me wonder if the FBI, if NPs (ph) are involved in helping to find him?", "Well, I think we heard in the beginning when the sheriff first put out his statement, he said that he got cooperation from various law enforcement officers. Now that doesn't mean that, you know, the jurisdiction changes. It just means that everybody is trying to put their arms around this and cooperate. So if he moves across state lines, obviously the FBI would be involved with trying to seek and find him. Obviously the military would want to help in any way they're can because here we're talking about one of their marines. But primary jurisdiction, it's important to remember this, does rest with the civilian authorities for the murder investigation and for the seeking of this marine that's on the lamb.", "And then there's the question of whether this suspect, Corporal Laurean, should have ever been allowed to come and go as he pleased. He was, after all, accused of a very serious crime, a sexual assault. Our legal expert says an accusation and a formal charge are two very different things.", "We hadn't gotten to the point where this person was even officially charged with the sexual assault. We were just in the investigation. He was entitled to due process. Now, with the civilian authorities, it sounds like when they got a hold of the case, I don't know how many days late it was, it sounds like when they got a hold of it, they were obligated to go ahead and move forward with the investigation. And there are a couple of things that, you know, they could have done and maybe they had done it, perhaps they could have monitored the coming and goings of the marine when he left the base. Now, these were not recoups. These were people, again that were, you know, they were already trained. They were performing their jobs. And they were allowed to leave the base. So my understanding is that both of these parties live off-base. So again, without a formal charge with all this murkiness with the military, I'm not really entirely sure, you know, if they had any obligation to hold him on the base in light of what was happening.", "Of course, we'll never know what the investigation would have found. The body with unborn baby believed to be Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach was found just this weekend, buried in Laurean's backyard.", "Now, just in the past few minutes really we did get an official statement from the U.S. Marine Corps at Champ Lejeune, North Carolina. It's says, the corps quote, Collecting information and conducting a review to determine what information was available to commanders -- it goes on -- \"We understand the press and public desire to know what happened, but we want to ensure whatever information we release is accurate and that our release of information would not adversely impact any on going investigation and/or future judicial proceeding.\" Change gears here. Let's talk about the weather. Boy, a big winter storm is rumbling into the northeast and New England tonight dumping a lot of snow and threatening to make a real mess of tomorrow's commute. Let's check in now with meteorologist Jacqui Jeras in the CNN severe weather center. Are we talking nor'easter here, Jacqui?", "And the show did go on. Can you really call it a show? The 65th Annual Golden Globes Awards was the shortest, that's not bad, and certainly the least glamorous ever because of the Hollywood's writer strike. It was essentially a news conference. Categories were read, winners were announced and folks went on their way. CNN's \"SHOWBIZ TONIGHT\" anchor Brooke Anderson and our Kareen Wynter were there. Ladies good to see you. Hey Kareen, you know I love you but I want to toss this first question to Brook, as we see the video of Brooke Anderson sashaying across the stage as a presenter.", "Give it up for her, Tony.", "Wow, let's give it up for Brooke Anderson. Hey Brooke, what was that like for you tonight?", "You know, I have to tell you, my heart was beating so fast, Tony. I was a little bit nervous. And the other announcers and I were sitting up there on stage. And I kind of looked at Jim Moret and Lara Spencer and we said, this is so bizarre, this is so surreal, what are we doing here? This is the Golden Globes announcement, you know. And I know, you can say it, it was dull compared to ceremonies in the past. It was. It was a straight news conference. But at the same time, we all know these awards are very important to the performers and the nominees. And a lot of them have told me over the past couple of weeks that they weren't going to be watching, whether it be at their homes or a private dinner with the cast and crews. So, you know, people still were paying attention, I'm sure.", "Well, Kareen, I got to tell you something. I love you tonight on \"LARRY KING.\" You were trying to defend the show and defend Brooke.", "Yes, it was just me alone.", "Yes.", "Thank you, Kareen.", "Against the swings and arrows of Debbie Matenopoulos, I can't remember her name there, sitting up there with Larry.", "I'm sorry. I'm picking a fight here and that's not fair. But I got to ask you. I don't know who won in the major categories. You got a bit of a rundown for me? Who was the big winner tonight?", "I actually do but who cares. It's all about the presenters on stage, Tony. My goodness. Well, I'll give you one category. OK? In the best motion picture, musical or comedy, well \"Sweeney Todd.\" Let's go back to the interesting stuff. All the other presenters. And this really -- I feel, we are success because it was a last minute scramble to really get this event on, can't even call it a show. The phones are ringing on Friday. They were looking for people to represent on the stage. And you know, I had an interesting conversation with the after rehearsal today. It lasted 28 minutes. And Brooke has said, you know, it was really impromptu. That it want to be scripted. They ran through it quickly. And the fact that this went off, you know, without any snags, any kind of interruption. It's great.", "I have to say thank you for trying to defend us. Me, participating. I really appreciate that change. And you know, one thing that stood out to me, Tony, is that the awards were kind of swift. They were given out kind of evenly between the movies \"Atonement\" was the leading nominee coming in here tonight and walked away with two Golden Globes. The \"Diving Bell and the Butterfly\" two, \"No Country for Old Man\" two, \"Sweeney Todd,\" two. So there were a lot of excited people out there hoping to move forward with Oscar nominations as well. We'll just have to see if the Oscars suffer the same fate as the Golden Globes.", "Sure and to that point, I'm wondering whether or not, and I'll throw this out to both of you, whether or not the fact that this big night, I mean let's face it, they are two big nights for Hollywood, this one and the Oscars, the fact that this one is truncated and looks like a news conference, could that have the power of bringing new sides together? But I got to tell you, if you look at it, it feels like the writers may be are feeling a little victorious tonight.", "Well, absolutely. This is a huge victory. I have to agree with this, for the writers. It took a lot to really bring things down the way they did. You know, the bet went on but it feels", "And they say that the show will go on with or without writers. But you know, the writer's guild will picket if they don't give the academy awards a waiver to go on without the show. So who is going to attend the show from the Screen Actors Guild because they have been showing solidarity with these writers from the very beginning of this strike, November 5th. And I have to say, the writers really made a statement tonight. They demonstrated their power by bringing this show down to its truncation that it was.", "Yes and you two made strong statements tonight as well. Brooke, great job tonight and Kareen, outstanding in defending our colleague. Good to see you both. That was a lot of fun. Thank you ladies. And still to come in the NEWSROOM tonight, they are free and they are talking.", "There are people who are ill. And all the soldiers and policemen, the fact is they're in chains. 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{"id": "CNN-376588", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-08-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/03/cnr.12.html", "summary": "Mass Shooting In A Walmart Mall In El Paso, Texas. ", "utt": ["The newest information we have, 20 people are dead after a man with a gun open fire on people outside and then inside a crowded store in El Paso. I'm about to show you video taken in just a moments have followed this massacre, but a warning, it does show people shot and wounded and you may find it disturbing to watch.", "In is in El Paso, Texas earlier today. It happened at about 10:00 in the among local time. Police say the man used a rifle to killed 20 people and wounded at least 26 others. This is what ten of those gunshot sounded like inside of that Walmart.", "Law enforcement official arrived on the scene within just minutes and they arrested the gunman they say without incident, without firing shots. He is now in custody, a 21-year-old white male. A short time ago, the FBI law enforcement officials arrived from all over the state of Texas and they spoke to reporters, among them the governor, Greg Abbott. Listen.", "Twenty innocent people from El Paso have lost their lives, and more than two dozen more are injured. We, as a state, unite in support of these victims and their family members. We want to do all we can to help them, to assist them. We pray that God can be with those who have been harmed in any way and bind up their wounds. We want to express incredible gratitude for all the law enforcement and the swift response that they took to minimize the loss of life by directly confronting the shooter, getting him to disarm himself and be able to arrest him. I want the city of El Paso to know and El Paso police department and everybody in this entire community know that the state of Texas provides its full support for this community and their efforts to rebuild. For the country that I know has been paying a lot of attention to this, asking what they can do, I ask that you keep El Pasoans in your prayer. We know the power of prayer and the power can you have by using that prayer. For every mom and dad and son and daughter, we ask you put your arms around your family members tonight and give them a hug and let them know how much you love them.", "Words of comfort there from Texas governor Greg Abbott. CNN's Ed Lavandera has arrived in El Paso and is there on the scene. Ed, you heard the governor taking this very personally, very somber, calling this one of the deadliest days in the history of Texas. You are there at the scene of this mass shooting. The first calls about this shooting started coming in just over nine hours ago we understand. Describe the scene for us now.", "Well, here on the outside, much quieter than it was nine hours ago. But Alex, you can see the scene behind us essentially outside of the Walmart frozen in time. You can see just how busy this Walmart was on a Saturday morning, all of those cars, shoppers and customers here were able to get their cars out of the parking lot and basically all of this shut down as well as investigators do their work inside. So just to kind of give you a sense of where are, we are on the back side of the Walmart building. And you can see the orange paint there on the corner. And if you come around the corner, that is the front entrance to the Walmart. We can see the crime scene tape, investigators going in and out of the building there where they have been doing their work throughout most of the day. And that is the scene right now. So nobody has access. The public does not have access to this parking lot right now as those investigators are in there. And a short while ago, the mayor of El Paso talked about what a horrific day this has been for a community that has long billed itself as one of the safest cities in America.", "El Paso is too strong to be broken by a cowardly act like this one. I want to assure the El Paso community that we are safe. This person did not come from El Paso. It is not what we are about. We are a special community and this would not have happened from an El Pasoan, I can assure you.", "And Alex, you know, one of the things that's really striking about this situation is that this Walmart very popular not just among locals here in the El Paso area but it was a place were many people in Mexico would cross the border and come to a weekend shopping at the store. So inside of that store were a number of Mexican nationals who were killed as well as injured and are being treated in local hospitals. And we know that there are a number of serious injuries, life-threatening injuries that people are fighting for their lives right now here in area hospitals tonight in El Paso -- Alex.", "Yes, 26 wounded, 20 dead. We know that there were somewhere between 1,000 and 3,000 people inside that Walmart, men, women and children, many of them shopping before school picks up again later this month. Ed Lavandera there in the scene in El Paso, thanks very much. Now right now, an online manifesto is being carefully scrutinized and", "Right now we have a manifesto from this individual that indicates to some degree it has a nexus to a potential hate crime. Didn't mean to step on FBI's toes on this but we are taking this down the road of simply a murder investigation with numerous casualties. And as I said, the state of Texas will be the lead prosecuting agency in this.", "I want to bring in three of our very best CNN law enforcement analysts, Charles Ramsey, former Washington D.C. police chief, James Gagliano, retired FBI supervisory special agent, as well as Josh Campbell, a former supervisory special agent as well. James, you just heard the chief talking about a hate crime. What are the indications right now that this was a hate crime?", "So for it to be find as a hate crime, we are looking at a crime of violence that is predicated on prejudice or bigotry and targets a particular ethnicity or race or religious or sexual orientation. By all standards, in cruising part of this manifesto, that's what this appears to be. Now if you watched the press conference we did, Alex, you will notice the FBI was very of cautious, especially", "Josh, to you. We are talking about the facts and Charles made this point earlier that this suspect was taken into custody without firing a shot. Even though he titled this manifesto that he expected to die. How much should we -- what should we take out of that?", "It is a lot of it is going to come down to that interview between the subject and law enforcement officials. We have seen so many different instances where this will end a different way. We have seen instances where a subject comes here wanting to die, suicide by cop, will engage officers and watching die indication. We will see instances we just saw last week, I was on the scene of a mass shooting in California, where once the subject was engaged by law enforcement, he turned the gun on himself and killed himself. Here, as we have been reporting, it appears that he was taken to custody without incident. We just don't know what was going through his mind, whether he realized the gig was up here with that massive police presence, that there is no way that he was going to be able to escape. And again in that mindset, it is really just hard to say in that moment, even if someone's coming in here with in a depraved intent to kill himself or go down fighting, it appears in this case it was a change of heart on his part. But again a lot of that will come from that interview when authorities are trying to glean from him what was going through his mind as they get to that motive and then try to recreate what happened here behind us.", "And Charles, you believe that the shooter survived and didn't kill himself and didn't fire on law enforcement because he wants to be heard, is that right?", "Well, actually, that was Mr. Matthews that made that comment, which I found was interesting. And if that's the case, then certainly he'll be talking to those investigators that are interviewing him right now. No one will really know until we get a real interview completed as to why. I mean, once he didn't have the upper hand any longer, when he was confronted with law enforcement, that he might have changed his mind in terms of trying to kill himself or having police officers kill him. We just don't know the answer to that question. But the fact that he wrote that manifesto, he posted it online, you know, it tells you right there that the hatred ran very deep. He drove 600 some-odd- miles to get to the border, you know. All of those things would really indicate that there is a tremendous amount of hatred built up into that young man.", "And James, that's an excellent point that, you know, this guy drove more than nine hours to get to this border town. If he did, and we know he did post his manifesto on this very public site but we also know it's so hard for law enforcement to pore over, to spend so much time online tracking this kind of thing down, is that where law enforcement should be focusing their attention now? Juliette Kayyem earlier was making the point that it's not ISIS necessarily that we need to worry about as much, it's this growth of domestic extremism.", "And certainly we sometimes use the term radicalization to think only about radical Islam. And there is a radicalization here, right. This is a perversion of either, you know, Christianity in a certain sense, this hatred, this bigotry that this individual, you know, adopted. The problem is and Alex, you and I have talked about this before is policing the internet. We talk all the I'm about the dark nether regions, places of people can retreat to in these chat rooms and they can share this hateful communication. Now here's the problem, with the first amendment is a lot of times law enforcement looks at something, you go out and you talk to somebody because they said something on the internet, was it hyperbole, was it satire, was it said in the heat of the moment? We just don't have enough law enforcement officers to knock on every day or run down every time somebody says something. Just look at my timeline on twitter the things that people say. You just cant police it. Impossible to do. We have got to find a better mechanism to do this, to make sure when people are going to take it from that, just talk to turn it into what happened today to try to interdict it.", "Right. Josh, back to you. There were, we understand between 1,000 and 3,000 people in that Walmart and that was just one part of a much bigger shopping complex of other stores and a mall nearby. How hard is it from a security standpoint to secure what is really a very soft target like that one?", "Yes, Alex, this is the quintessential target. You see the Walmart here behind me. We are in this area where there are stores, there are restaurants around us. This is the typical location here in a suburban/urban area where family members would be going on the weekends, where you have people going shopping, going out to eat at restaurants. These areas are not defensible from the sense of a law enforcement standpoint where you are going to have hardened targets. This is the United States of America. You don't have magnetometers outside Walmart. And so, again, the shooter took advantage where a mass number of people would be gathered and again, we don't know what chose him to choose this specific target, but as we look at these element and characteristics, this is an area where there were a thousand plus people that were gathered, where again, you wouldn't have that robust law enforcement presence. And because this is spread out, this isn't an area where you would have police officers nearby on a daily basis. Yes, they would patrol the area but again, this isn't someplace they would be on their own. So this is a massive scene, not only from a protection standpoint but also from an investigative stand point. Now that they are in that phase of trying to get to the bottom of this homicide investigation, this massive complex behind us is now filled with law enforcement officers. And you have to think about, Alex, it's not just the people that were impacted on that day, obviously the victims, those who were deceased, those who were injured but that then multiplied by their family members, those who are now wondering about the status of their those loved ones. I was just here before we came on the air and there was a woman who was standing here crying in the arms of a state trooper because she was actually here witnessing this. And her car is one of the vehicles behind us right now so she is trying to account for people that she knows and also trying to figure out how does she get her vehicle out of here? So this people came and impacted so many people, we can't lose track of that.", "Yes. We have new videos in aerials over a home in Allen, Texas, where that suspect it from. Affiliate KTVT reports that police are outside a home that is believed to be associated with the El Paso shooter. A KTVT reporter knocked on the door earlier today and was told to leave the property. Give us a sense of what investigators, James, would be doing there at that house believed to be the shooter's?", "Again, an active shooter situation. And the number one thing, Alex, is you want to get to the shooter and stop them. Number two, anybody that's a co-conspirator, somebody that is either involved in it or directed or inspired, provided material support. I guess what the investigators right now will be looking at, the most important thing is were anybody else involved in this type of plot? Did anybody else give this person any type of aid or inspiration? They are obviously going to be looking at what type of weapons this individual had, how long he planned it, to what extent that he used the internet, as you talked about before, who else he communicated, all those type of things, thumb drives, laptops, cell phones, any type of digital exhaust that this individual would have put out, those are going to be the things that the individual will want to be looking at from an investigative perspective, as well as talking to people that had intimate knowledge of this individual -- family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, colleagues.", "All right. James, thank you. Josh, Charles, thank you very much. We will be right back with you. We are going to take a quick break. We will be back right after this.", "When shots began ringing out this morning in El Paso, Texas at around 10:00 a.m. local time, first responders raced to the scene. As police and SWAT teams worked to secure the area, EMTs focused on saving the victims. Some had been shot in the Walmart parking lot, many others waited inside the building. We know now is that 24 people have been taken to two hospitals, the University Medical Center, the county's level one trauma center. They received 13 total patients, including two children who then went to the El Paso children's hospital, which is attached to UMC. Eleven others patients went to Del Sol hospital. Many are in critical conditions. Some are reportedly facing life-threatening injuries. In the meantime, El Paso police putout an urgent appeal for blood donors. The response as you can see there was overwhelming. Lines of donors stretching out the doors, others showing up to pass out food and drinks. The Texas governor Greg Abbott says that the community can take heart from this kind of reaction.", "As I was talking with members of the Texas House of Representatives behind me right now earlier today, moments ago they pointed out to me as they showed to me a video taking place in this community about how people in this community were standing in lines around buildings to give blood, to provide water, to provide support. And as they pointed out, El Paso is defined not by the catastrophe that struck this down but the way El Paso is really defined is the way this community comes together and supports each other to bridge the divide of this catastrophe. This happened today toward the pathway of where El Paso to be tomorrow.", "Local officials are asking people to sign up to donate blood tomorrow and in the days ahead. One head of an organization said he hasn't seen this kind of response since 9/11. Now, I want to bring in the mayor of El Paso, Dee Margo. Mr. Mayor, first of all, our hearts go out to you and the families that are hurt and killed. Can you give us of a update on the victims and the wounded?", "I don't really know anything more on the statistics of the numbers. But 20 dead and those that are in the hospital, that are still going through the process. The governor and I just visited with the families waiting on information over at one of the schools here in El Paso. It's tough. It's really, really tough.", "It's extremely tough and extremely heart breaking. What about the investigation? What are federal authorities telling you? We understand the suspect is a 21-year-old man who drove from Allen, Texas. What more do we know about the investigation into him and his motive?", "Well, there isn't much update since we had the press conference. We talked about a gentleman -- I shouldn't say gentleman, this murderer who came from outside El Paso. And as I said before, nobody in El Paso would have done something like this. This is not what we are about as a community. The investigations going through and identifying the bodies and going through their normal forensic work and families will be notified. But nothing new is happening yet. Nothing new is happening yet. We're here at the scene as it stands now.", "Was the shooter, do you know? Was he known at all to authorities?", "I don't know that. I do not know that. He came out of Allen, Texas is I think where he came from. But my point is just a real tragedy.", "Can you describe the scene before the shooting? What would have been happening a the a Walmart in El Paso, Texas on a Saturday morning in early August?", "A lot of shoppers, everybody getting ready for back to school. Normal routines. Just a normal Saturday for people and yet this tragedy struck.", "And you and others have talked about how tight knit this community is. What has been the reaction since this horrific massacre happened now just over nine hours ago?", "Well, it's been reported we have had significant blood donors. This is a very generous community. It is a community that goes back 350 years and people just don't understand. We have -- we are a close-knit -- we are the largest community of our type on the U.S./Mexico border. There is nothing in north America that can equate to what we have here with El Paso products. So this is just totally unexpected and, as I say, probably never would have occurred with an El Pasoan.", "You must be heartened to see those long lines of donors, of blood donors to come out to donate blood. There have been calls for people to sign up online. What can people do to help the community right now?", "Well, we have set up the Paso help foundation has set up a web site for donations for victims and their families. And the other -- what we are telling other people is just continue to donate blood. That's what we need right now.", "All right. Mayor Dee Margo, El Paso, Texas, our thoughts and prayers are with you in the coming hours and days which will obviously be extremely difficult. But we know given how tight knit and strong that community is that you will mourn together and then recover and be stronger than ever. Mayor Dee Margo, thanks very much.", "Thank you.", "All right. And we'll be right back.", "Terrified shoppers running for the door, seeking safety with a gunman on the loose. I want to show you video of how a witness described this horrific events.", ": My mom, no persons came and I can't find her. And then these -- my mom's name is Andy Ingleesby. She lives in 1304 Likens drive.", "How old is she?", "Eighty-six.", "Tell us a little bit about your mom.", "She has a brand new beige car. My niece knows the name of the car. These guys are making me nervous.", "We're so sorry. Tell me your name.", "My name is Edie Hallberg. I'm my mom's fourth daughter. She has seven kids.", "OK. Edie, can you spell your name for me?", "And your last name:", "I want to just find my mom. Somebody needs to tell me where she is. I want to know if she's dead or alive or if she still in Walmart? I need to find her and this is the only way we're going to do it.", "Let me get you down to the police.", "Heartbreaking moment with a woman trying to find her mother in the wake of this horrific and chaotic shooting. We are going to come back -- we are going to go right now to a press conference with the governor of Texas.", "We are here to make clear we stand united in the support of the community. We are stand united in an effort to make sure that we do everything we can to help these victims respond to this challenge. We also want to thank the first responders for the way that they dealt with this. They were able to make sure the shooter did not harm any more people. As large as the tragedy was, 20 precious lives lost, 26 more injured. This is not going to be forgotten. The state of Texas is going to work side by side with the city of -- to help all of these victims, to help repair their lives and put them back on a path and then we will be working with the legislature going forward like we have in the past to make that we address this problems with our collective resolve", "Thank you, governor. I appreciate you being here. No one is prepared for something like this. I keep getting asked how do you prepare for this? You don't. Our hearts are going out to those that have been victimized by a murderer. And we are going to do all we can in this community to come together. This is not about El Paso. This individual was from outside of El Paso, which is someone -- no one in El Paso would have ever done something like this. Our community is going to be close and drawing closer together. And right now we are going to have to get ready mentally for 20 funerals. That's what we are going to do as a community and city will do whatever they can. I cannot stop and think about it. The call went out at 10:39. The police were there at 10:45, six minutes. At 11:06 he was apprehended. You can't do that without a properly trained, professional police force and that is why we have been one of the safest cities in the nation for so many years. We are going to do the best we can to come together. Our hearts are torn and we were going to pray and work together for this community.", "Thank you, governor. Thank you, mayor. I'm Cesar Blanco, state representative for district 76 where this tragedy occurred. Weep just we just got back from visiting we just got back from visiting some of the families at McArthur elementary school who are waiting to hear news. The governor and mayor give them words of encouragement. Let me be clear that we stand united as a community. Weep are going to do everything that we can to make sure that things like this don't happen again. We are going to make sure that the families have the support that they need. This will only bind us to be stronger and unified and this will not get our city down. We will rise from this at some point.", "All right. There's an ongoing press conference in El Paso, Texas in the wake of this massacre at the Walmart there. We just heard from the governor Greg Abbott. El Paso mayor Dee Margo. We are going to go back.", "-- 20 families who woke up whole this morning with their loved ones and when the sun sets tonight here in El Paso, they will go to bed without them. Those families are broken, but it is with our strength and resolve that we can help piece them back together. And that's what we have to commit ourselves to doing. And so I know the eyes of not just this community, the state, this nation are fixed on El Paso, and I want people to know that this horrific act does not define our community. What defines our community is the lines around the blood bank, the people ready to donate, people wanting to offer counseling services to families, volunteering left and right. That's who El Paso is. That's what's going to define us tonight and going forward. And I ask those folks that are watching from around wherever they're from to say a prayer for those families that are broken. Pray for them to have peace and help rebuild their lives going forward. Thank you.", "The toughest conversation anybody can even imagine having, visiting with family members who are clutched with uncertainty about whether or not they lost a loved one. All we can do is to try to instill hope, comfort and support and also working toward as quick of information as possible for those who have not yet been informed the status of their family member.", "Governor Abbott, I'm seen you've seen reports of the alleged shooter's manifesto, which is full of hatreds expressed towards specifically immigrants. Can you think, sir, of anything in the political life of our country at this moment that contributes to that type of hatred?", "Listen, this is disgusting, intolerable, it not's not Texan we are going to aggressively prosecute it both as capital murder but also as a hate crime, which is exactly what it appears to be, without having seen all the evidence yet, I don't w get ahead of the evidence. But we have to be very, very clear that conduct like this, thoughts like this, actions like this, crimes like this are not who or what Texas is and will not be accepted here.", "Mr. mayor", "It was dispelled. That was the initial -- they were uncertain. And we were -- that was of the initial preliminary information that was dispelled with further investigation. We believe now it was, at this point in time, a lone single shooter.", "Mayor, how do you get our city ready for 20 funerals.", "I don't know. We have never done this before. I would hope and pray we would never have to do it again. But we will do it and we are going to survive because that is who were are and that is we are about.", "I have not been able to track my phone, I have not been able to talk to him yet. Unfortunately, I haven't had my phone.", "This is going to end the day once more. We want people to know your stand is.", "Listen, there are bodies that still haven't been recovered. I this ink we need to focus more memorials before start the politics.", "One more question.", "To the representatives, is there any legislative direction that you guys or your", "Well, we had conversation about what we can do next. We have moved the ball forward in our state regarding mental health and how we secure our schools. This did not happen at a school today, but we are going to work very closely with the governor. We are Democrats, he's a Republican, but we stand together in this tragedy. We are going to work together to make sure that Texas families are safe and can work in a positive way forward to make sure these type of tragedies don't happen again.", "This is, as these scenes unfold, not just", "Thank you all very much.", "All right. A press conference there in El Paso wrapping up with governor Greg Abbott, as well as the mayor of El Paso and two Texas state representatives. You could very clearly hear the anger and the sadness in their voices. The governor of Texas starting by thanking first responders, saying that he was praying for the families of the victims and then repeated messages from all of those officials saying this is not who we are as Texans, this is not who we are as residents of El Paso. We are also getting more reaction from President Trump. He just tweeted saying today's shooting in El Paso, Texas was not only tragic, it was an act of cowardice. I know that I stand with everyone in this country to condemn today's hateful act. There are no reasons or excuses that will ever justify killing innocent people. Melania and I send our heartfelt thoughts and prayers to the great people of Texas. . I want to bring in again James Gagliano, a retired FBI supervisory special agent and Charles Ramsey, former Washington, D.C. police chief. James, first to you. We have gotten a lot of new details in the past few hours about the suspect. There was not a lot of new detail in terms of the investigation in that press conference. That was a lot more about the emotion that they are feeling and their plans going forward. What are your impressions of how these officials and the authorities have handled things in these nine hours since this massacre took place?", "Well, Alex, to your point, and you know, politicians are speaking and obviously the governor spoke, the mayor spoke. We also have, you know, members of the state representatives down in Texas speak. The police are being very careful right now. The initial presser, the point was let the public know that there's no more imminent threat out there. Here's what we know, we have the person in custody, these people are being transported to the hospital, this is our casualty count. I anticipate tomorrow morning there will be a more thorough, more robust discussion. They will probably will have a press conference tomorrow morning and give out more details to let us know what more was behind us. Look, this is a homeland security issue. The homeland security -- the department of homeland security was created after 9/11 to keep the homeland safe, secure and resilient. And that was after 9/11, we were attacked from the outside. We are now being attacked from the inside. And make no mistake about it. This is a critical infrastructure here. This is the commercial facility session, lodging, entertainment, businesses, commercial areas. Look, we have hardened our schools in some sense. We've hardened churches and synagogues and mosques. Now we have to worry about people going to a Walmart, to department stores. This is going to be the next frontier, the soft targets. The bad guys know they can't get on a plane anymore. The bad guys know they can't do something at a Yankee game or do something in places that have robust security. In these soft targets, these places where people go, it couldn't happen here. Well, today it did.", "And not just a soft target, a soft target where anybody knows that on a Saturday morning in early August, a Walmart will be chock full of families and young people right before they go back to school. Charles Ramsey, to you. We have been talking about the shooter, his online manifesto in which he goes into detail about his hatred really for immigrants, the prospect of Texas becoming democratic. The authorities have said that they are looking into that this indicates there's a nexus of a hate crime. We heard from the governor of Texas saying we are going to aggressively prosecute as cap tam -- capital murder but also as a -- capital murder but also as a hate crime. Because that sounds a lot more serious than a regular murder charge.", "Well, I mean, what you take away from it is Texas is going to be very aggressive in dealing with this individual. He has a right to a trial. fair trial but if he's found guilty, you know, they are not going to mess around with him at all or nor should they, in my opinion. So that is the message that he is sending right there. You know, what is interesting in that press conference was, you know, a reference by the one congressman that, you know, he is A democrat, the governor is a Republican and they're going to work together. This is not a partisan issue at all. He is absolutely right. It's an American issue. We got to be able to deal with this. This is a national emergency in my opinion. I mean, a gun violence here is absolutely getting worse. I mean, we have got into a point where we are looking at this as almost like a new normal where we have these mass shootings. And one of the dangers is now it really does overshadow the fact that there are hundreds, thousands of Americans that die on the streets of our cities across the country and nobody pays attention at all because the body count is not high enough. They are dying one, two, three at a time. And so we have got to sit down and do something. It doesn't take repealing the second amendment to do it. We have got to find a middle ground to keep guns out of the hands of people who do not need to have them.", "Yes. But even if the Texas representative was saying it's not a partisan issue, at the same time you saw the governor there refusing to talk about gun control legislation. That is clearly going to be a topic of conversation going forward.", "Yes. But you know, every time we have one of these things, always it's not time, it's not time. When is the time? Because we don't talk about it again until the next one comes.", "Right.", "So at some point in times, we have to set aside all the stuff that is going on right now and just deal with this issue. People need to think this through. We have got to find common ground somewhere to be able to deal with this is a national emergency.", "Right.", "I mean, we are losing more people to gun violence in the United States than we lose in a war in Afghanistan and Iraq. That's a clue right there that something is certainly not right. I mean, today it's a mall, tomorrow it's a church or a school. I mean, we just go on and on and on. And it's tiring.", "It's a conversation that the country needs to have, a conversation that we will be having on the show tonight. Gentlemen, for right now we have to take a quick break. Charles Ramsey, James Gagliano, stay with me. We will be right back after this.", "Just in, we have learned that the federal bureau of investigation has opened a domestic terror investigation into the El Paso shooting this morning that left 20 people dead and another 26 wounded. Police so far have identified the alleged shooter as a 21-year-old white male from Allen, Texas, which is just north of Dallas. He was arrested at the scene. The police chief also saying that the shooting has a nexus to a potential hate crime citing a manifesto that they have obtained that may be connected to the alleged gunman. They say that they are still working to confirm that it does belong to the shooter. I want to dive into this a little bit more with our chief media correspondent Brian Stelter. Brian, we are getting a lot more information about this document. It's four pages long. It's entitled \"I'm probably going to die today.\" He did not die. He was arrested peacefully without shots fired. What else was in this document that as we were saying we have not confirmed yet is actually connected to the shooter?", "Right, that is correct. But it has all the markings of a white supremacist terrorist document. This is a manifesto full of anti-immigrant language, describing hatred of Hispanics, a fear of so-called white replacement. This is the crazy theory that whites are being replaced in America as the country becomes more of a multicultural melting pot. These are the kinds ideas that have appeared in previous manifestos from previous killers, both in the United States and around the world. He with all remember Christchurch, New Zealand and the killings there at the mosques earlier this year. This shooter apparently referenced Christ Church. Again, the authorities are still trying to confirm that this is absolutely 100 percent sure the document from the shooter. But look, it was posted online minutes before this attack. That's not a coincidence. And this is not the first time. This Web site 8chan, which is a message board, which is known for hateful and anti-Semitic and nasty rhetoric, has been used in this way. These kind of manifestos have appeared on that site before. It is logical that law enforcement may have been monitoring this site, keeping tabs on this. But the shooter in this case, the suspect, did not identify the Walmart, did not name his target. So perhaps there was little authorities could do.", "But this is the third time this year that a shooter has posted a so-called manifesto on this Web site. Do we know, is there any regulation of it? Is it just an open sewer where anybody can post whatever they want and feed off each other and it creates this breeding ground of white extremist potential shooters and attackers?", "I think you said it perfectly. I think this is -- we are reckoning with the down side of this world wide web that we all benefit from every day. The same technologies that allow us to all come together after a tragedy, that allow us to learn about the victims and donate and support the families also allow for this kind of radicalization. And what we are seeing time and time again is online radicalization. We don't know a lot yet about this suspect's online footprint. And I don't want to get ahead of the authorities on that front. But from the details of the manifesto this seems to be another case of a person who was radicalized online, fed these crazy conspiracy theories and other ideas. And one of the dangers of the internet these days is that when you go down those rabbit holes it gets darker and darker and darker. And these websites encourage you to spend more and more time at the bottom of those holes. That's something that even You Tube has been grappling with. And regulators are getting more and more interested in that. But I would argue politicians and regulators are far behind the curve on these issues. And it is notable now that the FBI's looking at this as domestic terror because our language about these issues has to change. We both know that if this had been a brown or a black-skinned gunman people would have been talking about terrorism within five or ten minutes. Well, unfortunately, there is a plague of terrorists in this country who are not black or brown-skinned, they are oftentimes lonely white men who are radicalized online. And that is a danger right now.", "Is this a game of whack-a-mole essentially? Because if this happened on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram or You Tube chances there is a decent chance that he might have been caught. But are there more sites springing up to fill that void?", "Whack-a-mole is right. Because if 4chan or 8chan were shut down others would pop up in the dark corners of the internet. And that is one of the amazing things about the internet. It is this broad network but it also allows for this kind of connection between radicals.", "All right. Brian Stelter, painting a very dark picture of a very dangerous part of the internet and a plague that is affecting this country. Thanks very much.", "Thanks.", "All right. We are going to take a quick break. We will be right back.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. I am Alex Marquardt in New York. It is breaking news right now on CNN. El Paso, Texas, that's where a man with a rifle earlier today gunned down 20 people at a Walmart store which was packed full of Saturday morning shoppers. More than two dozen others were wounded. The governor of Texas called today one of the deadliest days in the history of his state. El Paso native Beto O'Rourke has returned home. 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{"id": "CNN-75988", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2003-8-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/27/ltm.12.html", "summary": "More Details Emerging About Geoghan Murder", "utt": ["Since the murder behind bars of defrocked priest John Geoghan, two former priests convicted of sexually abusing children have now been moved to the hospital wing of their Massachusetts jail. They were moved at their request because they say they feared for their own safety. Meanwhile, more details emerging about the murder. Joseph Druce, shown here, has confessed to the killing. But there are questions again today about whether or not someone offered him money to help carry out the crime. Peter Costanza is an attorney with the Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services. That's a prisoner rights group. He spoke with the inmate making some of those allegations. Live with us today in Boston. Thank you for your time, sir. I know you met with this inmate, Robert, about, for about two days, two hours yesterday, excuse me. Robert Assad is the man's name. What did he tell you about what Joseph Druce told him?", "Well, he didn't speak that much with respect to what Druce said. He did indicate that he felt that someone else had been involved in importuning or paying Druce to do this. I do not think, based on our total conversation, that I'm convinced that anybody other than Druce was really involved in planning this.", "So you think Druce is the only one then?", "Well, I would say that I'm not sure one way or the other, but I'm certainly not convinced that it was a plot involving more than one individual.", "OK, this man, Robert Assad, the inmate, did Druce ever tell him about a threat or any feelings that he had about Geoghan?", "Yes, Druce made some remarks to Mr. Assad in mid-June which concerned Assad enough so that Assad brought those remarks to the attention of some of the security staff in the prison.", "OK. He told the guards, then? He told you that he went to the guards and said what?", "Well, what he said was that Druce had made a comment to him about attacking Geoghan as a means to getting himself transferred to the federal prison system. And that information was communicated by Assad to the security people about the middle of June.", "So, what was he saying Joseph Druce was not happy with that prison where he was being held, then, if he wanted -- if that was his motivation to get out and move?", "We actually didn't discuss what was going on in Druce's mind, and I'm not sure that even Assad knows why Druce thought he could get out of the prison by attacking Geoghan. The issue at that point was that Assad was concerned that Druce would attack Geoghan and he brought that to the attention of the authorities.", "But what did the guards do with this information?", "Well, the people who are informed by Assad are the internal security team in the prison. They're like detectives. They're not the regular guards who run the units. And it's their job to evaluate threats and decide which ones are credible. And they discussed it with Assad and basically let him to understand that they had evaluated that information and concluded that it was not a credible threat and that they weren't going to take any further action.", "Right now, Mr. Costanza, is there any evidence that money was offered in this killing?", "I have not seen or heard any evidence that would lead me to conclude that that's the case. It is a possibility.", "OK. Is there any evidence that may suggest the guards may have been in on this?", "That's always a possibility in this type of situation, but I have seen and heard absolutely nothing to indicate that guards actively attempted to make this happen in any way.", "A final question then. Why should we believe Robert Assad?", "I've had a lot of contact with Mr. Assad over the years in connection with litigation that I'm involved with hdlg. And my sense is that the information that he's provided in the past has been pretty good.", "Peter Costanza, thanks for sharing your part of the story in Boston this morning.", "You're quite welcome."], "speaker": ["BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR", "PETER COSTANZA, ATTORNEY, MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL LEGAL SERVICES", "HEMMER", "COSTANZA", "HEMMER", "COSTANZA", "HEMMER", "COSTANZA", "HEMMER", "COSTANZA", "HEMMER", "COSTANZA", "HEMMER", "COSTANZA", "HEMMER", "COSTANZA", "HEMMER", "COSTANZA", "HEMMER", "COSTANZA"]}
{"id": "CNN-188856", "program": "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT", "date": "2012-7-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/04/sbt.01.html", "summary": "Showbiz Real Start Stories: Gene`s Other Kids", "utt": ["On this special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Showbiz Real Star Stories revealed. Carnie Wilson`s shocking weight loss surgery secrets. Giuliana Rancic`s revelations about having a double mastectomy. Tonight, the real story behind Giuliana and Carnie`s incredible health comebacks. And Showbiz rocks -- Kiss, Sammy Hagar, Blondie, get your air guitar out, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is taking you backstage with some of the biggest, hardest rocking bands of all time, and they`re revealing their secrets to me. This special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT starts right now.", "Hello. I`m Nischelle Turner with a special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, \"Showbiz Real Star Stories.\" Hollywood`s A- list isn`t always quick to tell their personal secrets. But tonight all that changes. First up, confessions of a rock star. Gene Simmons is part of the iconic rock band, Kiss. He`s known as a tough guy, who says what he means and means what he says. His reality show, \"Simmons Family Jewels,\" has given us a new look into his life as a family man, and now we`re getting an even deeper look at an emotional side of Simmons. I went one-on-one with Gene and got him to reveal what really makes him tick. Warning, this confession might just tug at your heartstrings.", "You mean -- you mean \"Gene Simmons Family Jewels.\"", "Yes, \"Gene Simmons Family Jewels.\" And you say, \"I`m Gene Simmons, rock god.\" But this reality show has shown a different side of you.", "Well, you know, if you stick around long enough, then you get to crawl under the skin of the bad guy.", "And dare I say that you even come off a bit sweet, especially with the kids in Africa?", "Two, three.", "This will be a lifetime memory. And I wish all the school -- all the schools in America, the school kids, could experience seeing another side of life on Planet Earth, because we live here and you`re in L.A. or you go to New York and this is the world, and it`s not. And there are -- I don`t know what the numbers are, but clearly, half the world is going to sleep hungry, many of them children. And it`s not -- it`s not an unbeatable idea. We can beat this and everybody can do something.", "If you don`t mind me asking, what is the cost of that?", "About $30 a month will feed a child, which really means the family, because they will apportion foods and stuff like that. So I`m taking over. I`m going to do thousands and thousands of children. Do some of them come to school hungry?", "Yes, of course.", "I love that passion. I really do.", "My father left us when I was about six or seven. And one day, a box came in. It was a cardboard box. Later, I figured out it was a care package. I picked up my first can of food. It was canned peaches. I`ve never seen a can. You know, we didn`t even have a toilet when I was growing up. And she opened up with a knife. She had to break through it and opened it up. And I remember tasting -- this gets a little emotional for me. So I remember tasting those canned peaches, sweetest things I`d ever had. And all of a sudden, I had the idea that somebody cared. And I don`t know what it meant. And it was a sweater, there were some holes in it, that I put that was too big for me. But I probably went to school wearing it. And once I grew up, I promised myself I`ve got to make a difference. You can`t go through life and die and leave things the way they are because we can all make a difference and if I die today I know I made a difference.", "Is that what you pass on to your kids?", "You betcha. Sophie, my daughter, who`s 19, on her own, raises money, goes there and visits the kids, consoles them, comforts them, so that these kids -- when you`re abused, when you`re hungry, when you`re alone, you have the feeling nobody cares. Sophie makes sure they know somebody cares.", "You talked about how talented your kids are. And you do -- I remember seeing Sophie sing \"At Last\" at the wedding. Crazy.", "Well, they all -- everybody can sing except me.", "Shannon can sing. Sophie can sing. Nick sings. They love blues and torch songs, all sort of stuff. I can -- I can`t sing. I`ve got a long tongue. That`s about it.", "How many times a day do fans ask to see your tongue?", "All the time.", "Do you ever get tired of showing them your tongue?", "Well, you have to give them something to believe in. Because women out there believe that it`s just a legend. But, girls, it`s true.", "I`m telling you, that Gene Simmons, he does not quit. He and Kiss have been doing the rock star thing, get this, almost 40 years. Fire- breathing, smoking guitars, rockets on stage, they are definitely legends in my book. So why aren`t they in the rock `n` roll hall of fame yet, huh? The group puts on their face paint and tells A.J. Hammer the real story. And let me tell you, in true rock star fashion, they break it down without sparing anyone`s feelings. They`re fired up and they have got a lot to say. Do they think they`re being dissed over less talented acts? A.J. has that fired-up interview in just a bit. Mike Tyson has long been considered a loose cannon inside and outside the boxing ring. From the infamous bite fight to that face tattoo and of course his rape conviction, Mike Tyson`s public personal has been shaped by a lifetime of outrageous behavior. But as I learned, there`s more to Mike Tyson than all of that. I caught up with the boxing great in Las Vegas when he was rehearsing for his one-man show, and he confessed some shocking details of his life that really had a profound effect on him.", "When you say sex worker, you mean a prostitute?", "Yes, like -- yes. Well, you know, politically correct is sex workers now.", "Do you think that -- seeing your mother be a sex worker and the other women, do you think that`s what some people would say you didn`t treat women with respect?", "Hundred percent, 100 percent. No doubt about that, that I didn`t understand a commitment until like a couple of years ago, three years ago because I -- you have to understand, every man I met, they`re all chauvinistic. They believe they`re superior to women. That`s the world I grew up in.", "The truth is, I was a little nervous today because yes, that`s the image. I was a fan of you boxing. But the image is this tough, mean, rough, sometimes dangerous man.", "I was very successful in my job, making you think that.", "Well, can I ask you this because you talked about how you went to prison and you talked about that here? What did you learn from that experience?", "I was never at peace with myself. I was never comfortable in my skin, you know, because of things I`ve seen as a kid. And I used to grow up in a real violent, dysfunctional household. And that`s why I see the violence in. Dysfunctional and", "So I thought it`s really interesting that you admitted that you were nervous before you actually spoke with Mike and told it right to his face. How do you feel about the guy now?", "You know, Mike Tyson -- he`s an interesting character. I`m not really sure, to be honest, how I feel about him now, A.J., still. Do I think that he is fully there and fully evolved? No. But do I feel like he`s a work in progress? Absolutely. And I think he has made steps. He`s been clean and sober for three years. He`s now a vegan, he`s trying to live the life of a domestic married man. So I think he`s trying to take some positive steps into really cleaning up his life.", "Certainly a different guy and so candid. He opened up to you in such a big way about his life and al of his troubles.", "Yes.", "And he even had a very candid conversation with you about what was happening behind the scenes of \"The Hangover.\"", "Yes, crazy. I had to ask him about his scene-stealing role in \"The Hangover,\" A.J., and what was going on in his life then. I have to say I was very surprised when he admitted that he was doing drugs at that time. Take a look.", "Gambling with life back then. I wasn`t the person I am now. Just gambling with life.", "What", "Yes.", "You were battling addiction when you were doing that movie?", "Yes, I was doing drugs. But listen, I was on the set. And I was just doing my lines. Regardless of my situation, if I was high or if I was obnoxious, I come to work, I come to give 100 percent. That`s what I credit myself with being a real professional artist, you know. I`m never late. And it`s always on top of my -- my personal life is disgusting, I`m always late, I`m a mess. But I`m talking about for my professional life, I`m impeccable. I`m unstoppable. I`m on my game.", "Well, compelling to hear him talk about that. And it`s really interesting that he says --", "Yes.", "-- he wasn`t the person then that he is now. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT`s Nischelle Turner, thanks so much, Nischelle.", "Indeed.", "Well, we turn now to Carnie Wilson`s real star story. Tonight, the real story behind Carnie`s second dramatic weight loss surgery. She reveals to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT the truth about her two-decade struggle to stay healthy and how she`s finally feeling like she`s coming out on top. Plus Giuliana and Bill Rancic`s cancer reality.", "So for me it was very important to go public and let other young women know, that if it can happen to me, it can happen to them.", "Giuliana opens up to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT about her double mastectomy, her incredible brave recovery and why she shared her private pain with the world. This is a special edition of SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, real star stories on HLN. And now, Tony Bennett`s real star story about recording his now famous duet, Amy Winehouse.", "Everybody says, look out. You know, but she showed up completely sober. You know, and with her dad, and they were so nice to me. And she told me, she said, when she received her first Grammy years ago, she said, it wasn`t that she won that thrilled her but the fact that Tony Bennett announced that she won."], "speaker": ["A.J. 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{"id": "CNN-184012", "program": "STARTING POINT WITH SOLEDAD O'BRIEN", "date": "2012-4-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1204/06/sp.01.html", "summary": "Republicans Continue to Criticize President's Remarks on Supreme Court", "utt": ["The Senate's top Republican is telling the president to back off. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says President Obama crossed a dangerous line when he commented on the Supreme Court's deliberations over health care reform. Here's what he said.", "Regardless of how the justices decide this case, they're answerable above all to the constitution that they swore to uphold. The fact that this president does not appear to feel similarly constrained to respect their independence doesn't change that one bit. So I would respectfully suggest the president needs to back off.", "I'm sorry you had to see him that enraged. He to the loafer tassels right off after that speech.", "He said \"respectfully I would like to say.\" The Department of Justice is dialing back on the president's comments, Attorney General Eric Holder was asked for a three-page single-spaced memo.", "He defied the court and wrote only two and a half pages.", "Maybe he had no more to say, clarifying the president's comments and then outlining whether the Obama administration indeed believes the court has the right to judicial review. The attorney general Holder wrote this, \"The power of the courts to review the constitutionality of legislation is beyond dispute.\" CNN's senior legal analyst Jeff Toobin has been following this case closely.", "This phony, ridiculous controversy marches on.", "I was about to say you were not super quotable because you were sort of saying these over the hissy fit and train wreck and yesterday was kind of --", "He has to meet his own bar.", "And it's been met. This is about politics ultimately.", "It is and this started with the president saying this shocking thing that he thinks this law is constitutional and hopes the Supreme Court upholds it, which is a perfectly routine and ordinary sentiment for a president who, after all, signed the legislation.", "But he said more than that. What he said was if they did not, that would be the Supreme Court intervening. Really it wasn't --", "That would be unprecedented.", "It would be unprecedented given these circumstances, that's what he said. The argument that others have made is if you parse his words very carefully he was saying that it would not be -- it would be unprecedented for the Supreme Court to overturn legislation, which is of course ridiculous because he knows the supreme contract can overturn legislation. His own administration is asking the courts to overturn the defense of marriage act, DOMA. So it is hardly foreign to the president for overturning legislation.", "His exact it would be unprecedented and extraordinary for an unelected of men and women in black robes to overturn a majority decision in Congress, he said like an overwhelming majority. I don't have to parse his words and suggest he's questioning the legitimacy of the courts to overturn his favorite law.", "This is a rematch. We did this yesterday.", "But I wasn't here for it.", "Will Cain, how can he be questioning something at the same time he's asking the Supreme Court to do.", "That's not a question for me. That's a question for president Obama. He seems to like to apply the law the way he sees fit. We don't have a red phone.", "It's just theater. You have the outrage machine everything Obama says.", "Will is very outraged this morning.", "Which is fine. When Bush was president there was a Democratic outrage machine. But this is not a real controversy.", "But is it a strategy for reelection? Now it's been posited that a lot of this on the reaction from McConnell on the right is a political strategy but also the entire thing is a re-election strategy for Obama.", "There is a paradox here. Republican voters, especially Republican voters in the base of the party, feel very strongly about the courts, about issues like abortion, about same-sex marriage. Democratic voters do not seem as motivated by the Supreme Court as an issue. Perhaps that will change this year. I doubt it. It is something that the people who are most motivated by the Supreme Court in issue are the people who are going to vote for that party no matter what. Swing voters, the people who decide the outcome of elections, don't seem to care that much about the Supreme Court. It's very important substantively. I don't know how important politically it is.", "Jeff Toobin, it's always nice to have you.", "Good to be here.", "We've gotten a chance to chat with Jeff three times this week.", "Lucky for both of us.", "Yes it is. Still ahead this morning on STARTING POINT, new audio released at the center of the NFL bounty scandal. On tape you can hear him calling for the bounty on opposing players. And in our get real this morning, out of lockup and onto the links, we'll tell you how an inmate ended up doing time at a golf resort in Catalina Island. It sounds like something we might all want to do. that's ahead on STARTING POINT."], "speaker": ["O'BRIEN", "MCCONNELL", "FUGELSANG", "O'BRIEN", "FUGELSANG", "O'BRIEN", "JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST", "O'BRIEN", "CAIN", "O'BRIEN", "TOOBIN", "O'BRIEN", "CAIN", "TOOBIN", "CAIN", "TOOBIN", "VELSHI", "O'BRIEN", "CAIN", "TOOBIN", "O'BRIEN", "TOOBIN", "O'BRIEN", "TOOBIN", "O'BRIEN", "TOOBIN", "O'BRIEN", "TOOBIN", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-176963", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-12-2", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/02/cnr.05.html", "summary": "FAMU President Suspends Task Force", "utt": ["Hello there, everybody. I'm T.J. Holmes. Thank you for being here. Randi Kaye is off. Let's get right to the news today. And President Obama is taking comfort and, yes, even a little credit for a brand-new jobs report that shows movement in the right direction. The month of November saw a net gain in jobs of 120,000. Also, a surprising drop in the jobless rate from 9 percent to 8.6 percent. We'll get into the numbers more here shortly, but at an event promoting energy efficiency, the president noted 21 consecutive months of private sector job creation and pledged to keep the growth going. And to that end, he wants Congress to work through the holidays if they need to to pass an extension of a payroll tax cut. All year long, Americans have paid just 4.2 percent on their paychecks into social security as opposed to the usual 6.2 percent, but that's due to end at the end of this month. Democrats want the cut deepened to 3.1 percent with a new tax on millionaires to pay for it. Republicans say they could live with extending the current rate, but only if spending cuts offset it. Last night in the Senate, both parties' plans were voted down so there is work to be done before the end of the year. Also, out in California, powerful winds are still in the forecast for parts of southern California. Nothing like the winds that did this though. Did you see this damage? Gusts topping 140 miles an hour were measured in the mountains outside Los Angeles. At 140 miles an hour, that equals a category four hurricane. Also, you can imagine power lines were just no match for some of this. A lot of people, tens of thousands of them, are without power still today. Also ,Honda has expanded a previously announced recall to nearly 900,000 vehicles. The problem is potentially dangerous air bags. The global recall affects several cars in their line-up, including the Accord, the Civic, the Odyssey, CRV, Pilot as well, this would be the models years of 2001 to 2003. Most of the cars targeted are in the U.S., but vehicles have been also been recalled in Japan, Australia and Taiwan. Penn State University said they will donate $1.5 million to the Pennsylvania coalition against rape and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. The funds will come from Penn State's share of this year's Big Ten Bowl revenues. In light of this recent scandal, the president of the school, Rodney Erickson, says, quote, \"We can and will do more to stop and prevent abuse.\" Also, the president of Florida A&M; University has postponed the work of a task force set up to review anti-hazing regulations on campus. He says the postponement is to allow the University to fully cooperate with an investigation set forth by the Florida Board of Governors and into the university's handling of hazing activities. This, of course, coming now after the death of the band's drum major, Robert Champion. Champion's parents say hazing is to blame in the death. Also, we'll stay in Florida now where the mother of singer Mindy McCready is pleading for McCready to bring back her 5-year-old son Zander. Now, Zander, you're seeing right there, was last seen Tuesday at the Cape Coral home of his grandparents who have legal custody. Now, McCready was visiting at the time and doesn't deny she took her son, authorities now consider him a missing person. Police nationwide are being asked to take him into custody on site. McCready, by the way, happens to be pregnant with twins right now. And the wife of Georgia evangelist Eddie Long has now filed for divorce. Vanessa Long says the decision came, quote, \"after a great deal of deliberation and prayer.\" End quote. This comes also after a year that saw Bishop Eddie Long being sued by several young men for allegedly coercing them into sex. Those cases were settled out of court in May. Well, Billy Graham, Steve Jobs, and former President Bill Clinton, all three among a group of people being considered by the U.S. post office for the first-ever postage stamp to honor a living or recently deceased American. The postal service recently waived rules requiring an honoree to be dead at least five years and asked its customers to submit the nominees. Well, good news and possibly some bad news on the job front. The unemployment rate is down, that's great, but those with jobs now facing a possible payroll tax hike. We'll look at how all this is affecting you. You need to stick around for \"Facetime,\" that's coming your way shortly. But first, a salute to all U.S. service men and women who have serviced in Iraq. Today, the U.S. handed over control of camp victory to Iraq. The one-time palace of Saddam Hussein served as headquarters for U.S. forces there. Just about all the American service members will be gone by the end of the year. More than 4,400 U.S. service members have died in the war since 2003. So for your unparalleled service and your sacrifice, all of you who have served, you are today's \"Rock Stars.\""], "speaker": ["T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR"]}
{"id": "CNN-322642", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-10-03", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/03/nday.02.html", "summary": "At Least 59 Dead, 527 Injured in Las Vegas Massacre", "utt": ["Here is the latest on what we now know as the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Fifty- nine people lost their lives at that concert, 527 more injured. And there's a range of those injuries, so many are still fighting for their lives. This monster that was behind this rapid gunfire you hear, the likes of which we never heard in a situation like this -- cops found 42 guns. The hotel room stocked with weapons and ammo. He had ammonium nitrate, which you use as a type of fertilizer that people use to create explosives. He had more weapons back at his house. Sixty-four-year-old on your screen, no criminal past. He cleared gun background checks. The killer's brother says the family is completely dumbstruck. But you know what? The hunt for investigators is going to be who knew something about where this man's head was? And we will stay on that part of the story. But just as important, and even more important are the faces on your screen. We're seeing the vigils across this country. People killed. Special education teacher, nurses, police officers, people who made a decision with their lives to help others, taken out by someone who wanted to help no one. Trauma surgeons right now in the city are caring for gravely wounded. They're comparing the injuries to a war zone. CNN's Stephanie Elam is live at Las Vegas University Medical Center. And, boy, were they overwhelmed. We keep talking about the people who had to step up. Not only were they way beyond capacity, but these types of rounds, these types of numbers, it is amazing what they've had to deal with.", "It's amazing the response that happened as well, Chris. When you talk to surgeons like I have here, talking about how they got all hands on deck as quickly as possible, they were here before the patients started arriving. This hospital alone, University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, the only level one trauma center in the state, they received 104 patients. We can tell you they did say they've now treated and released some 40 patients. But we do know that there are two teenagers that are still here. There are 12 people in critical condition here at this hospital. But the response here, they did say that they've never seen anything like this here at this hospital. But at the same time, they felt that the response, that they were able to handle all of it, even triaging some of the patients outside. But at one point, they even had more surgeons on hand ready to go than patients that were ready in the eight operating rooms that they have here. The other response that was great was citizens, people in Las Vegas that turned out even before the sun came up yesterday to donate blood, lines wrapping around the buildings. They've even said so far they have enough blood right now to treat these patients. What they are asking people to do, though, is to remember that in the coming weeks, there may be still more demand. And so, they're asking people, Chris, to remember that and to still be donation worthy in the next couple of weeks here, but a great response from the people in Las Vegas, Chris.", "Strong point, Stephanie. Just because they're saying they have enough now doesn't mean they're going to have enough going forward. Incredible volume of humanity, dealing with 500 people plus, who knows how many they'll need and what they'll need. Stephanie, thank you very much. All right. So, the president of the United States, he said that when it comes to what happened here in Las Vegas, we are united by grief and pain. Those words are going to apply in a different context when he lands in Puerto Rico today. He is going to find a mass of humanity there that is living in crisis. We're going to take you through where he's going, what he's going to see and what the expectations are. Live report from Puerto Rico, next."], "speaker": ["CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR", "STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "CUOMO"]}
{"id": "CNN-174633", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2011-10-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1110/25/ltm.01.html", "summary": "279 Killed in Turkey Earthquake", "utt": ["It is 30 minutes past the hour. Good morning to you. It's time for top stories: Texas Governor Rick Perry is looking to reenergize his presidential campaign with a bold economic plan that includes a flat tax. Perry outlined the plan in \"The Wall Street Journal\" and will officially announce it at an event this morning later in South Carolina.", "President Obama is tired of waiting for Congress to act, so he's rolling out changes to the government's mortgage relief program himself. Under the new rules, homeowners who are up to date with mortgage payments will qualify for new loans at today's new low rates, no matter how far the value of their homes have fallen.", "Five days after he was killed in his hometown of Sirte, Moammar Gadhafi has finally been buried. An official with Libya's National Transitional Council telling CNN the deposed dictator was laid to rest at dawn at an undisclosed location.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "And back to this morning's breaking news out of eastern Turkey. A two-week-old baby incredibly has been found alive in the earthquake rubble. Diana Magnay is here with the latest. She's live from Turkey this morning. Diana, what do you know about this? It is just remarkable.", "Hi, Alina. It is. Some very, very dramatic scenes that have been taking place here at the site behind me in the town of Ercis this morning. I'm going to step out of the way and we'll zoom in so you can get a closer look. The baby, 14 days old, was pulled out of the rubble here alive. And bear in mind -- the earthquake took place on Sunday. It is now Tuesday morning. The baby is fine. It's a little girl. She's on her way to the hospital for check, but her relatives said she looked as though she was doing fine. Now, they're working frantically to take out her mother and her grandmother, both of whom are still in the rubble. I just spoke to a health worker who's coming out, one of the rescue workers and he was thrilled. He came up and said, they're both there, they're healthy, in broken English, wanting to tell us that they were healthy and alive and saying to us that they should be out with the next few minutes. Very, very exciting scene here this morning, Alina.", "Oh, my goodness, Diana, that is unbelievable. So, are they able to -- do you know if rescuers are able to actually see them? How do they know they're OK? They've just had verbal contact?", "I think they've managed to get quite close to them. I mean, the guy who came up and talked to me -- his English wasn't really good enough for a full interview. But he seemed pretty convince that they were healthy and he said they'd been working on trying to free them for the last two hours, and that it was going to happen really very soon. So they must have gotten close enough to be really in a position where they can get them out fairly shortly. I talked to one of the rescue workers who sort of overseeing various sites here, and he said, bear in mind, the search and rescue operation, it's going to go on for a good, long time, because you can take people out of the rubble still alive on 17 to 20 days after an earthquake such as this. So, even though moments like this are remarkable, because of lives saved, we can hope this kind of story will continue over the next few days, Alina.", "Let's certainly hope so. Diana Magnay, thank you so much for that update from live Turkey. And too find out how you can help those devastated by the earthquake in Turkey, visit our \"Impact Your World\" page. You can find it at CNN.com/Impact. Attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray now making their case at the Michael Jackson death trial. Among the first defense witnesses was one of Jackson's longtime doctors. He told the jury that Jackson was looking for someone to give him Propofol so he could sleep.", "He asked me about intravenous sleep medicine.", "Did he happen to mention the name of this medicine?", "I think he used the word juice.", "The defense is trying to establish that Jackson was shopping for Propofol in the months before he died. The case could go to the jury by the end of the week.", "Also new this morning, Michele Bachmann's camp is trying to downplay claims that her senior staff is downright mean. Yesterday, her entire New Hampshire senior staff, which resigned last week, released a letter, accusing the congresswoman's national campaign of being rude, unprofessional, dishonest, and at times cruel. Her spokeswoman telling our John King it's unfortunate they want to call names.", "You can now add author to the first lady's resume. Michelle Obama writing a book about nutritional and edible gardening. It's called \"American Grown: How the White House Kitchen Garden Inspires Families, Schools, and Communities.\" The book will be released in April. The first lady accepting no advance for the book. She'll be donating all proceeds to charity.", "Writing a book and sent her first Twitter message last week. Amazing.", "That was kind of pathetic, though. She had to learn how. But she knows, which is good.", "So did I, not too long ago.", "Coming up next on", "President Obama rolling out new rules to help struggling homeowners refinance their mortgages. But will his plan really help the housing market and boost your home's value?"], "speaker": ["COSTELLO", "CHO", "COSTELLO", "ANNOUNCER", "CHO", "DIANA MAGNAY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHO", "MAGNAY", "CHO", "DR. ALLAN METZGER, TREATED MICHAEL JACKSON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "METZGER", "COSTELLO", "CHO", "COSTELLO", "CHO", "COSTELLO", "CHO", "COSTELLO", "AMERICAN MORNING"]}
{"id": "CNN-239900", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2014-09-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/29/es.04.html", "summary": "Massive Protests in Hong Kong", "utt": ["The streets of Hong Kong this morning filled, filled with protesters. Huge crowds of demonstrators began filling the streets on Hong Kong Saturday becoming the target of police swinging batons and firing tear gas. This follows a week of student-led pro-democracy boycotts and protests. At issue the demonstrators say is the heavy hand of Beijing trying to control the outcome of the city's coming elections for chief executive. Standing by live in Hong Kong, CNN's Ivan Watson. And, Ivan, there has been a sort of a shift, I mean, from the tear gas and from the police presence we had seen. What I see around you is a sea of young people. Tell us what's happening.", "Absolutely. I mean, I'm standing in what's supposed to be the main highway that runs through Hong Kong, Christine. And as you can see, it is packed with thousands and thousands of protesters and demonstrators who have gathered here. And the tear gas and some of the harsher measures used by riot police before dawn this morning, that has evaporated. And the kids are really out there. You can see -- I mean, just filling the highway ramps that normally at this hour, shortly before 6:00 p.m. local time, would be full of buses and cars and taxis taking people home from work. There's a sign in the distance there that says, quote, \"We demand universal suffrage.\" And that's what these protests are all about. The demonstrators saying they want true democracy. Real elections in 2017. A chance to elect their top official in Hong Kong. They say they don't want the ruling communist party in mainland China to hand pick vetted candidates that then they would have to vote for. The central government, the local authorities here in Hong Kong, they say all of this is illegal. The Chinese government says that these are the actions of radicals here. But I've got to say, this is one of the most peaceful and polite mass protests I have ever covered. People walk up giving me water, offering me crackers. Nobody even smoking cigarettes or drinking beer around here. It is a very peaceful scene. There are police very close by. There are no tensions with them at the moment. And right now what we have really is a test of wills between protesters who are shutting down, paralyzing downtown Hong Kong's financial hub to try to get their local authorities to give in to their democratic demands -- Christine.", "It's just remarkable, just remarkable on a Monday to see banks closed. The financial center basically stopped so that all of those people can protest for their right to vote for whom they choose. Thank you so much for that, Ivan Watson. Amazing pictures there. Let's take a look at what's coming up on \"NEW DAY.\" Chris Cuomo joins us now. Hey, Chris.", "Good morning, Christine. How are you? We're going to have the latest reaction to that surprising admission from President Obama. He says the U.S. underestimated ISIS as the terror group came together in the ruins of Syria's civil war. We're going to also reveal results of a CNN-ORC poll. Where are you on all these big pressing issues? You're going to be surprised to hear how much of the country supports the airstrikes against ISIS. We're also going to speak with Senator John McCain and Tom Ridge, the former head of Homeland Security. We're going to give you the perspective on where things stand in the war today. Another story we're watching in Washington. More trouble for the Secret Service. This may be the most serious yet. To be honest. The agency really take four days to realize that bullets had entered the White House in 2011. A new report says that's what happened. We're going to speak with the \"Washington Post\" reporter who broke that story for you, Christine. So we'll get into that. That matters. It's one of those stories that seems to have alluded us.", "Yes.", "But no more.", "No. That does matter. And since Berman got the day off, he's sleeping, and we should crank call him actually. Berman is sleeping in so I'll be joining you up there in a few minutes. All right?", "I look forward to seeing you and I will do that.", "OK. Thanks. Forty-seven minutes past the hour. A remarkable story out of Japan. Dozens killed when a volcano suddenly erupts. Hundreds of hikers stranded. We're live right after the break."], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR, NEW DAY", "ROMANS", "CUOMO", "ROMANS", "CUOMO", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-339209", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2018-05-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1805/04/es.04.html", "summary": "Rudy Giuliani Throw Trump's Legal Team Into Disarray", "utt": ["I can't get into the details of the ongoing litigation. I've given the best information I had at the time. Again, I gave you the best information that I had. I gave you the best information that I had.", "The White House struggling mightily for words there after Rudy Giuliani admitted the president paid the Stormy Daniels hush money back to Michael Cohen. Now anger in the building on the president's legal team. It's just building and it's not going away.", "South Korea's top national security official is in Washington ahead of nuclear talks with North Korea. Now, President Trump reportedly taking steps to consider a reduction of the U.S. military presence in the South.", "And mandatory evacuations in Hawaii as the Kilauea volcano erupts. Emergency resources being deployed as lava heads for residential areas. Welcome back to EARLY START on a looney Friday, everybody. I'm Dave Briggs.", "Looney -- may the fourth be with you. Dave --", "I've got my \"STAR WARS\" sock on.", "\"STAR WARS\" socks -- I forgot to bring mine. A lightsaber -- I need that today. I'm Christine Romans. It is --", "We should have a duel.", "I know. Thirty-one minutes past the hour. Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani seems to have thrown a wrench into the president's legal strategy. Multiple sources tell CNN Trump's other legal advisers felt blindsided. They were angry and confused when Giuliani revealed the president reimbursed his lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen for a hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. That remark contradicted previous explanations by the president and Cohen. Giuliani told CNN Thursday he and the president are on the same page aiming to quote \"get everything wrapped up and done with so this doesn't take on a life of its own.\"", "But the White House struggling to explain away the contradictions after the president spent months denying he knew about the hush money or the reimbursement.", "The president did talk about monthly retainers in his tweet and then Rudy Giuliani said that the president only knew about this 10 days to two weeks ago. How can you only be aware of something 10 days to two weeks ago but, at the same time, be in the process of paying monthly retainers that apparently covered this reimbursement to Michael Cohen?", "Again, I can't get into the details of the ongoing litigation. I'd refer you back to the president's outside counsel.", "Could I just follow up on -- you said on March seventh there was no knowledge of any payments from the president and he's denied all of these allegations. Were you lying to us at the time or were you in the dark?", "The president has denied and continues to deny the underlying claim. And again, I've given the best information I had at the time. He's denied the underlying claim.", "Why can't you just answer yes or no whether you were in the dark? I think it's a fairly simple question whether you just didn't have the information at the time --", "I think it's a fairly simple answer that I've given you actually, several times now.", "On Thursday, the president confirmed the hush payment and the reimbursement in a series of tweets while also denying any connection to his presidential campaign. A source says the president's legal team is quote \"calling it one play at a time.\" To help break this all down let's bring in CNN legal analyst Areva Martin on Skype via Los Angeles. All right, Areva.", "Good morning again, Areva.", "All these papers, for example -- \"Giuliani's Story May Fuel Prosecutor's Case\", \"Trump Gambit Stuns Staff\", \"Giuliani May Aggravate Legal and Political Peril.\" Lawyers cost an awful lot of money. Is he doing the president any good?", "I don't think so, Dave. The problem is Rudy Giuliani hasn't practiced law in decades and he has a reputation of being a very solid prosecutor when he was a practicing attorney. But we have to remember, that's been years. And I think the biggest part about this is there doesn't appear to have been any coordination. It's not even clear to me that Rudy Giuliani knew the numerous times that both Michael Cohen and the president had denied that the president had any knowledge. This whole case has been really peculiar from the start. You had Michael Cohen suggesting that he went out on his own as an attorney and made a settlement. Negotiated a non-disclosure agreement, paid a settlement without his then-client Donald Trump knowing anything about these negotiations and payment. That is extremely unusual. It's even unethical for a lawyer to do that -- to take on that kind of activity on behalf of a client without the client's knowledge. So that never felt to be an accurate account of what happened. We had the president denying any knowledge. But now, in a very casual way in this on-air interview, Giuliani admitting to Sean Hannity that the president did know about the payment and, in fact, was reimbursing him. But even the reimbursement is strange. We're hearing about this funneling of money through a law firm -- alleged repayment via a retainer agreement which is usually used by lawyers to be compensated for legal work that they're doing. Those retainer agreements aren't used to funnel payments for settlements negotiated by a lawyer when allegedly, the client doesn't even know about the settlement. So I think Rudy has created more questions than answers. He's given prosecutors, at least, I think more avenues, more paths -- more inquiries to follow. I don't think he's done the president any good in his stunning disclosure.", "The timing here -- everyone focusing in on the timing. The affair, which the president denies -- repeatedly has denied -- was in 2006. This all went down in 2016, 10 years later, in the middle of a very heated presidential election. Let's listen to Rudy Giuliani on the payment timing.", "Imagine if that came out on October 15th --", "Sure.", "-- 2016 in the middle of a last debate with Hillary Clinton.", "Right. So to make it go away they made this --", "Cohen didn't even ask.", "Wow.", "Cohen made it go away. He did his job.", "So, our Jeffrey Toobin says that's a confession. This is campaign-related. What do you make of it?", "Yes, absolutely. It absolutely -- again, just a stunning statement by Giuliani admitting that the purpose of the payment was to influence the election, and that's what this whole violation of federal campaign laws is about. What is the purpose of a payment -- in this case, what appears to be a loan? Was it done to influence the outcome of the election? And you have Rudy Giuliani pretty much admitting that. And then you have a statement by Stormy Daniels' attorney just yesterday saying that he has evidence -- separate evidence that there were conversations between Michael Cohen and Stormy's prior lawyer, Keith Davidson, to the same effect. That the payment had to be made, the story had to be killed before the election. And again, I think as federal prosecutors look at this -- and not just the Stormy Daniels payment. We know that the raid on Michael Cohen's office is bigger -- involves perhaps other crimes that may have been committed by Michael Cohen. But all of this is just one perfect, no pun intended, storm brewing for this White House.", "All right, Areva Martin. Thank you so much for your time this morning from Los Angeles. Thank you.", "All right, there's your legal. Now to the politics of all this. Joining us from Washington, Greg Valliere, political economist and chief strategist at Horizon Investments. Only in 2018 does the normally Trump-friendly \"New York Post\" have this -- \"Yes, I Paid the Porn Star.\"", "Oh.", "Greg, in that, the president was spot-on when he once said as a candidate, I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone and not lose any supporters. Indeed, that is true. His 42-43 percent don't care one bit about all of this. What are the political ramifications here?", "I think they're significant. And you've got to say, guys, just when you think the president couldn't have a worse week, he has a worse week. One of the worst weeks of his presidency for his credibility. More and more questions being raised by Giuliani. Yes, Trump's base will stay solid. That's a major reason why probably, the Senate will not have 67 votes to impeach. That's a long way down the road. But I think that these revelations this week have really complicated the narrative.", "It's also been a really tough week for Sarah Sanders. I mean --", "Yes.", "-- last week it was the White House Correspondents' Dinner. That was the storyline --", "Yes.", "-- on Sunday and Monday. And now, she's standing up there and has to struggle to explain away these shifting -- these shifting accounts. You know, \"The Wall Street Journal\" said this. \"Mr. Trump is compiling a record that increases the likelihood that few will believe him during a genuine crisis -- say, a dispute over speaking with special counsel Robert Mueller or a nuclear showdown with Kim Jong Un. Mr. Trump should worry that Americans will stop believing anything he says.\"", "Yes. And I've got to tell you, Christine, I think there are two people at the White House who must be thinking this morning enough is enough -- the lies, the chaos. I'm referring, obviously, to Sarah Sanders and Gen. Kelly.", "But is it overshadowing all the positive the president is doing on the Korean Peninsula?", "Yes.", "We could be brokering a peace deal --", "Yes.", "-- removing nuclear weapons, and the economy's healthy. The jobs numbers come out today.", "Yes.", "Is it overshadowing all the positives his administration is accomplishing?", "It is, to a large extent. We're talking about this -- we're talking about Giuliani when there's maybe a breakthrough with Korea. When there's maybe some signs of progress on NAFTA, the trade deal. And maybe, most importantly, why we have economic fundamentals, including a good jobs report probably this morning. Fundamentals that are still really great.", "Yes. Even in the \"The Wall Street Journal,\" the top story today -- the tax overhaul is driving earnings growth here.", "Yes.", "About -- over half of the combined profit growth is from the drop in their tax rates. So that's what Wall Street wanted, right, and that's what the president promised -- there would be this gift. Do you think that that story could get flipped for the midterms, though? That this becomes corporate welfare? Like companies already doing very well in this economy got a huge gift and six or seven billion --", "Right.", "-- for workers?", "Well, Marco Rubio touched on that. He pulled it back a little --", "Yes.", "-- a couple of days ago. But there is that narrative that the corporations have done great. Their stock values have gone up. But the workers have done fair -- not terrible, but fair. So that could become a narrative. I still think by Labor Day we could have an unemployment rate of 3.6 and you could have the economy growing at 3.5 percent.", "Yes.", "If we do, that still gives the Republicans a chance to have a decent election.", "I think you're right on those economic numbers. We're going to hear from the jobs report today. Do you think it's going to be strong, yes?", "Yes. I think we go from 4.1 to 4.0. Non-foreign payroll should look good. They key is always -- is wages.", "Yes.", "They're starting to go up. If we see a further gain in wages that's a very good story.", "A good story. It could be a bad story for the stock market. They'll think that the Fed's going to raise interest rates faster. But --", "Well, yes.", "-- yes, a good story for real people.", "People vote on the economy and --", "Yes.", "-- national security. Both, the president is nearing some big wins on.", "All right. Greg, nice to see you.", "Yes, all right.", "Nice to see you. Thank you so much. All of you who use Twitter should change your password right now. The glitch that's forcing 336 million to make a change, next."], "speaker": ["SARAH SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "DAVE BRIGGS, CNN ANCHOR", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "SANDERS", "ACOSTA", "SANDERS", "ACOSTA", "SANDERS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "AREVA MARTIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST, ATTORNEY, LEGAL AFFAIRS COMMENTATOR (via Skype)", "ROMANS", "RUDY GIULIANI, ATTORNEY FOR PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP", "STEVE DOOCY, HOST, \"FOX & FRIENDS\"", "GIULIANI", "DOOCY", "GIULIANI", "DOOCY", "GIULIANI", "ROMANS", "MARTIN", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "GREG VALLIERE, POLITICAL ECONOMIST, CHIEF GLOBAL STRATEGIST, HORIZON INVESTMENTS", "ROMANS", "VALLIERE", "ROMANS", "VALLIERE", "ROMANS", "VALLIERE", "BRIGGS", "VALLIERE", "BRIGGS", "VALLIERE", "BRIGGS", "VALLIERE", "BRIGGS", "VALLIERE", "ROMANS", "VALLIERE", "ROMANS", "VALLIERE", "ROMANS", "VALLIERE", "ROMANS", "VALLIERE", "ROMANS", "VALLIERE", "ROMANS", "VALLIERE", "ROMANS", "VALLIERE", "ROMANS", "VALLIERE", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "VALLIERE", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "NPR-10477", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2019-05-04", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/05/04/720307801/guaid-calls-for-military-to-oust-maduro", "title": "Guaidó Calls For Military To Oust Maduro", "summary": "In Venezuela, tensions reached fever pitch this week when opposition leader Juan Guaidó called for the military to oust President Nicolás Maduro.", "utt": ["Now we'd like to spend a few minutes reviewing what happened this week in Venezuela. This week, opposition leader Juan Guaido again called on Venezuela's military to back him over President Nicolas Maduro. There were clashes in the streets, and some military personnel did come to his side. But so far, the majority of the armed forces seem to remain in support of the regime. So in another show of support for Guaido, whom the Trump administration considers the legitimate or interim president, Trump administration officials repeated that, quote, unquote, \"all options are on the table,\" a hint at some unspecified military intervention - or possible military intervention.", "We wanted to try to decipher what all this means, so we've called Tim Padgett. He's the Americas editor for member station WLRN. He's reported on Latin America for nearly three decades. And he's with us now from Miami. Tim Padgett, welcome. Thanks for joining us.", "Thank you, Michel.", "So just give me your top lines, and then we'll kind of drill down. First of all, how do you read the political situation there? I mean, I know people have been looking for a tipping point for some time now. Was this week it possibly, or not?", "No, because taking down dictatorships takes time and unfortunately, more time than I think the Trump administration, for example, was willing to give this. The military is the key here. You've got to get the military turned away to abandon Maduro. That takes a lot of methodical and careful negotiation. It takes time. And unfortunately, as I said, I don't know if the Trump administration is willing to commit that kind of time and patience and work to this.", "You said in a piece that you wrote earlier this week that - you said each time Guaido vastly overestimated and vastly oversold the desire of the army brass to tip their red berets in his direction. So did his Washington backers. I'm wondering if you think this is a Guaido problem, or is it a Washington problem. Is it that Guaido is overselling it - the case - or is the Trump administration lacking the patience or the sort of historical context to read the tea leaves correctly in your view?", "It's both. I think Guaido knows that he's on a long haul mission, as I said in that piece. Unfortunately, I think he's feeling a lot of pressure from particularly the United States to create a very expedited, let's say, sort of regime change. And so when he comes to moments like in January, when he declared himself president, in February, when he tried to push humanitarian aid from Colombia into Venezuela hoping that that would turn the military in his favor, and then again on Tuesday, when he just suddenly appeared at a Caracas airbase and declared this is the final phase of Operation Liberty, yes.", "He has tended to overestimate if - as I said, oversell - the military's commitment to abandoning Maduro because I don't think at this point the military, particularly the high-command - people like Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino - they haven't been yet sold on the fact that if they do turn in Guaido's direction, they're going to be safe.", "So what are you keeping your eyes on?", "As we said before, the military, particularly Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino. And he's a very complicated character. He's U.S. trained, for example. Back in the '80s, he had some training as a military officer here in the United States. But he's also very closely aligned with Russia because he does see himself as sort of a military defender of Venezuela against what's often called the imperialists from the north, meaning the United States.", "What I'm hearing from many people, for example, expat leaders here in the diaspora who are in constant contact with Guaido and his team in Venezuela, what they're hearing is that Padrino particularly wants the sort of deal that would not necessitate him having to leave Venezuela. But that's the kind of psychological factor you're dealing with here that we have to adjust to if we're going to break the military down and have it defect from Maduro.", "That's Tim Padgett, Americas editor for WLRN in Miami. Tim Padgett, thanks so much for talking to us.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "TIM PADGETT, BYLINE", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "TIM PADGETT, BYLINE", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "TIM PADGETT, BYLINE", "TIM PADGETT, BYLINE", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "TIM PADGETT, BYLINE", "TIM PADGETT, BYLINE", "MICHEL MARTIN, HOST", "TIM PADGETT, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-233250", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2014-06-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1406/24/cg.01.html", "summary": "Primary Elections; Cochran Reaching Out to Black Democrats; Rep. Rangel in Tough New York Fight", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD, everyone. The politics lead now. The bumper stickers, the lawn signs, the firm handshakes and kissed babies, ladies and gentlemen, today is one of the most consequential primary election days of 2014. Voters in seven states heading to the polls in contests that do have the potential to rile Capitol Hill. Here is a little of what to watch for. In Oklahoma, an African- American and Native American rising star, former State House Speaker T.W. Shannon is running to the right of Congressman James Lankford. A Republican Senate primary race so tight it could go into runoff overtime. In Maryland, Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown has a monster 23-point lead for the Democratic nomination and could be on his way to becoming just the third elected black governor in U.S. history. But it is the mudslinging in Mississippi that is grabbing so much of the attention this primary day. It is where a six-term senator is facing a young gun with Tea Party backing in a race so sullied, it's got the #whosyadaddy? trending online. And I am being completely serious. Our chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash is in Jackson. And, Dana, a central feature in this race an unexpected central feature in a Republican primary, race. What's going on here?", "What's going on is that Thad Cochran and his allies who have been helping him really from across the country because they see this as such an important election on a national level with regard to the Republican Party, they've been coming in and trying to help him appeal to African-American voters, Democratic votes who don't normally show up for any Republican race. They might support him in the general election but not now. I was at a polling place in a predominantly African-American area here in Jackson talking to voter after voter saying they were coming out and voting for Thad Cochran. A super PAC who has been supporting Cochran has been spending money to try to get out had vote. And just anecdotally, where I was this morning, John, at the primary day, 70 people came all day. It's already doubled. And we're still hours away from the polls closing. So, it shows that effort has been helpful. On the flipside, you have Chris McDaniel, the challenger putting on his Facebook page a short while ago, they're trying to steal this election. Do we really want the liberal Democrats selecting the Republican nominee? They're concerned on the McDaniel side and what they're trying to do is fuel some of his supporters to try to use Cochran's outreach to African-Americans to get their conservative McDaniel supporters to the polls. That just shows you how things are going, when, by the way, this was supposed to be big picture about simply trying to get rid of people in Washington who conservatives shouldn't -- who conservatives believe shouldn't be there. Listen to candidates from both sides on this.", "If Virginia was a big splash two weeks ago, imagine what happens when a whole state believes that message.", "To those who say, you know what, you have been re-elected time and time again, your opponent says, it's just too much, you've been there too long.", "Well, I'm the choice the people have made freely and openly and it's their decision.", "And, John, that's really again big picture what this is. You have a 36-year Senate veteran who has been in Washington too long, according to many of McDaniel's supporters. Didn't get enough votes to clear the 50 percent mark three weeks ago. So, now, we've had this runoff. And it was already nasty, as you can see. It's getting even nastier.", "Now, the big picture there is also the on the ground reporting from you, fascinating that black vote crucial today. And that storyline we'll be following all day into the night. Dana Bash in Jackson, Mississippi, thank you so much. Meanwhile, in New York, Congressman Charlie Rangel hoping to avoid a Harlem shuffle of sorts. The 84-year-old Democrat trying to hold on to a career in politics that has spanned more than four decades, 22 terms on Capitol Hill representing his district in Harlem, but is the 23rd time the charm? His opponent sure hopes so. CNN's Alexandra Field has the latest.", "Charlie Rangel on unfamiliar ground in the district he's represented for more than four decades, fighting for his political life.", "Let's try this out. If you had a good racehorse, would you say he's too old to win again?", "Rangel was sent to Congress in 1971 to represent a substantially black district. He was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and became chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, a committee he was forced off in 2010 following a humiliating House censure for 11 different ethics violations, including failing to pay taxes on a vacation home in the Dominican Republic where he was famously seen in this picture lounging on the beach, and improperly using congressional funds. All of it tarnishing the legacy of a Harlem Democrat once considered among the most powerful members of Congress.", "From 1970 on, you see that he's been involved in virtually every major event that has affected the country as a whole and minorities in particular.", "But in that time, Rangel's district has changed.", "There are several factors that really are going to cause him to lose this race, but the biggest one is probably the shifting demographics.", "A historically black district now has a Hispanic majority.", "We never had a political battle in my congressional district in 43 years. Based on where you were born or what religion you have.", "Two years ago, the congressman barely saved his job beating his primary opponent by fewer than 1,100 votes. Now the same opponent is back.", "You know, he's been in office far too long. He's forgotten the little guys.", "If elected, State Senator Adriano Espaillat would become the first Dominican-American congressman.", "I'd say there are two deciding factors. One is the racial demographic makeup of that district and it is coming into play. But you also have the overall context of a very senior congressman who's been around a long, long time and has had a lot of scrapes.", "With the health battle behind him, Rangel's putting more into this fight. (on camera): What's changed since 2012?", "Well, I don't have a walker. I don't have a spinal injury. I'm all over the district.", "Win or not, he says this is his last run. Alexandra Field, CNN, New York.", "That is just a taste of the primary madness coming to a head tonight. Of course, CNN will have all the results as they roll in in live coverage. It's been a fascinating dramatic season so far. You will not want to miss it tonight. So, stay with us. When we come back, a little insight into the U.S. strategy for the World Cup match against Germany. What the coach is saying they will do to get to the next round. We'll also talk biting in Brazil. Plus, he made taking a grilling on Capitol Hill look like a walk in the park. So, how did the man who battled with Republican lawmakers get into this kind of fighting shape?"], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHRIS MCDANIEL (R), MISSISSIPPI SENATORIAL CANDIDATE", "BASH", "SEN. THAD COCHRAN (R), MISSISSIPPI", "BASH", "BERMAN", "ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "REP. CHARLIE RANGEL (D), NEW YORK", "FIELD", "LARRY SABATO, CENTER FOR POLITICS, UNIV. OF VIRGINIA", "FIELD", "MARC LAMONT HILL, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR", "FIELD", "RANGEL", "FIELD", "STATE SEN. ADRIANO ESPAILLAT (D-NY), CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE", "FIELD", "SABATO", "FIELD", "RANGEL", "FIELD", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "NPR-27270", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2012-10-09", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2012/10/09/162551944/publisher-sues-authors-who-dont-produce-manuscripts", "title": "Publisher Sues Authors Who Didn't Produce Books", "summary": "The Penguin Publishing Group recently filed suit against a dozen authors who failed to produce a manuscript after getting an advance. The advances ranged from $10,000 to $81,000.", "utt": ["A lot of would-be professional writers dream of someday getting a book contract that includes an advance - enough money paid upfront, to let them quit their day job and write full time.", "Of course, those advances do come with an expectation that an author will actually write the book. The Penguin Publishing Group recently filed suit against a dozen authors who failed to produce manuscripts after getting an advances. NPR's Lynn Neary reports.", "Let's face it, writing is hard. Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman famously turned his own writer's block into a movie, \"Adaptation,\" starring Nicholas Cage.", "Publishers have always known that talented writers can't churn out material like clockwork, says literary agent Miriam Gotteridge. So traditionally, the business gave authors a lot of leeway when it came to their contractual obligations.", "And we've all heard stories of Ford Madox Ford and Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe; and how they got advances from their publishers, even though they were probably just, you know, drinking all of the advance money. You know, the industry was about creativity, and about producing. The hope was always about, who is going to produce the next masterpiece.", "But the days when publishers  were willing to lose a little money, in the hopes of procuring the next masterpiece, may be coming to an end.", "There's no reason to sue me. There was a reason to say look, we're really serious; and we need to talk about this.", "Elizabeth Wurtzel, best known as the author of \"Prozac Nation,\" is one of a dozen authors being sued by the Penguin Group for failing to deliver their books on time. The advances ranged from $10,000 to 81,000. Wurtzel got 33, to write a book on helping teenagers cope with depression.", "I think at some point, they did send me a letter about this. I mean, I think it's one of those things that I probably should have dealt with, and didn't, because I'm an author; and I'm not good about this stuff.", "Wurtzel says she started the book and could have finished it; but her editor left the company, and no one else at Penguin pursued the project. Wurtzel says Penguin is simply trying to make a point, with the lawsuit.", "I see that they're trying to act like a real business, that doesn't treat authors differently from any other contractor. But having said that, a real business would make a business decision that would say that their relationship with me is of value to them. It should be of value to them.", "It should be of value, says Wurtzel, because \"Prozac Nation\" is a best-seller. It's made a lot of money for the company. In fact, she says, Penguin can get the money she owes it, from her royalties. But literary agent Robert Gottlieb says Penguin can afford to take a loss on these advances.", "The whole notion of suing these authors, is so wrong-headed. I'm astounded by it.", "Ever since news of the lawsuits was first reported on the Smoking Gun website, Gottlieb has been an outspoken critic of Penguin. He says the sums of money involved, are not worth a lawsuit.", "I would advise any publisher who does this, that they're setting themselves up for enormous criticism and risk. I mean, in today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody, who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.", "For its part, Penguin declined to be interviewed for this story, but did release a statement saying it regretted initiating litigation; but did so only after repeated attempts at amicable resolutions, were ignored.", "Lynn Neary, NPR News, Washington."], "speaker": ["RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST", "LYNN NEARY, BYLINE", "LYNN NEARY, BYLINE", "MIRIAM GOTTERIDGE", "LYNN NEARY, BYLINE", "ELIZABETH WURTZEL", "LYNN NEARY, BYLINE", "ELIZABETH WURTZEL", "LYNN NEARY, BYLINE", "ELIZABETH WURTZEL", "LYNN NEARY, BYLINE", "ROBERT GOTTLIEB", "LYNN NEARY, BYLINE", "ROBERT GOTTLIEB", "LYNN NEARY, BYLINE", "LYNN NEARY, BYLINE"]}
{"id": "CNN-24377", "program": "Morning News", "date": "2001-1-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/25/mn.20.html", "summary": "Police in Pursuit of Aid to 'Texas Seven'", "utt": ["The surviving six inmates who broke out of a Texas maximum security prison in mid-December are under lock and key once again. Now comes the process of getting them back to Texas to face charges of, among others, killing an Irving, Texas, police officer on Christmas Eve. CNN's Jeff Flock is in Colorado Springs, where two of the men are being held. Jeff, good morning.", "Indeed -- good morning, to you, Daryn -- that process getting under way or continuing, we should say, today, as two of the escapees go back to court. One of them, George Rivas, 30 years old, believed to be the ring leader of this all, gave an interview to the \"Fort Worth StarTelegram,\" in which he admitted to the killing of officer Hawkins in Irving, Texas, on Christmas Eve. Said he was sorry for it, so that he fully expects that he will be executed for that crime. And he says he hopes he makes that easier -- that makes it easier in some way for officer Hawkins' mother. As we said, Rivas in court this morning. He tells the newspaper he will not fight extradition. That would make it easier for him to get back there more rapidly. The others have not said what their plans are. Some other wrap-up work. Let's take a look back at that RV park, where they were holed up for some several weeks, perhaps as many as three weeks. Word today: We have learned that police are running down some information on people who may have helped the escapees here in Colorado. We have learned that police intercepted a cellular telephone call on the day that they captured the first round of escapees. A call from someone who apparently was trying to warn them that, I think words to the effect, they may be on to you, was the way we heard it. So they will be taking a look at that. Authorities have said all along that they plan also to pursue anyone who assisted these escapees, allude law enforcement authority. As we said, two in court today. Two more in court tomorrow. The last two in court on Monday. And we'll see how quickly they begin to get about the business of getting back to Texas. One final note to report: FBI in about two hours' time in a press conference in Denver; expected to take questions also on this business about who may have helped them. We'll expect to take that live. That's the latest from here in Colorado Springs. Daryn, back to you.", "That is the remain question, then, Jeff: How did they stay out of prison for so long?"], "speaker": ["DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR", "JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAGAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-219711", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-11-28", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/28/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Getting A Jump On Black Friday; Only 26 Shopping Days Until Christmas; Macy's Thanksgiving Balloons Fly; Store Owner Defies Call To Stay Open", "utt": ["Hello, I'm Jim Sciutto in Washington. A very happy Thanksgiving to you and also a very happy Hanukkah. Wolf Blitzer is off today. We start with a new Thanksgiving tradition, shopping. Check the calendar. This will be the shortest Christmas shopping season since 2002. Just 26 days until Christmas. So some stores are getting an early jump on the traditional Black Friday free-for-alls. Now, this is not entirely new. In years past, we've seen a few stores opening at midnight or even a few hours earlier. But for the first time, it seems like the majority of the big box stores are going all in with Thanksgiving Day sales. And that includes one major store chain that's making it an all-day event. Our Nick Valencia is at a Kmart just outside Atlanta and Kyung Lah at a Kmart in Burbank, California. We're going to start with Nick. So is it paying off or are there a lot of customers who are forgoing time with family to get into the store?", "Hey, happy Thanksgiving, Jim. You don't see too many people behind me, and that's not quite indicative for what we saw this morning. We showed up at 5:00 a.m. and it was frigid. Oh, just so cold outside, 22 degrees. It felt more like 17. There was already about 30 people lined up outside these so-called door busters and they made a beeline straight for the electronics. That's the big deal here at Kmart. And everybody in line that we spoke to say they are putting themselves through it because they want deals. As far as this Kmart is concerned, it's financially -- it's profitable for them. They're expecting about a 10 percent increase in sales or about $100,000 in revenue. Though not everyone is happy about it. There are some petitions online, Change.org has 100,000 signatures so far asking stores like Target to stay closed. They're trying to say that employees deserve time off. But the employees that we've spoken here today, Jim, they are just thankful to have a job on Thanksgiving -- Jim.", "In years past, we've seen some violence as people rush into the stores. Did you see any of that?", "Yes.", "The pictures we just saw there looked pretty under control, people happy, enjoying the holiday.", "No, it was pretty civil. And, in fact, Kmart here, they have this thing down to a science. They've been doing sales on Thanksgiving for about 22 years. So, they've got a system here, down to a science, like I said. Everyone that wanted a certain item, they were talked to before the stores opened so they were able to, you know, keep it in order here. Everything was pretty simple. Everybody that we talked to and saw, they were -- they were as polite as they could be on a -- on a day like today -- Jim.", "All right, Nick, well, thanks for being there so early in the morning. Hope you get your break. We're going to go now to Burbank, California where our Kyung Lah also working on the holiday. Kyung, how big are the crowds there?", "Yes. Well, there's a line for this register but there aren't huge crowds here. Just like Nick was saying, it's calmed down considerably. But what is different is if you check your calendar, it's Thanksgiving and there are a lot of workers here. There are actually quite a number of shoppers who have been buying a lot of things, like televisions, some of those items that are getting some deep discounts today. So things are lightening up, Jim. But you know, what is unique is at 6:00 a.m., there were 50 people lined up outside the big-box store.", "Oh, no, you were another early riser, we're sorry. It's been an issue for some workers. We've heard of protests at some stores, even threats of strikes. Have you talked to workers there who were upset to be dragged in today?", "Well, there's a couple of tales going on here. All of the workers we have spoken to say they are happy to be getting time and a half. These are lower paying jobs. They need the money. So this is great holiday pay. But, you know, this is the morning shift. They say, OK, well, we can compromise, make extra money, work the morning on Thanksgiving because we want to be home with families. If you come back later in the day today, those employees that are working in the evening, they're not going to be very happy. A lot of these workers say some of them had evening shifts and they switched to try to get the morning shift so they could be home with families later today.", "Well, at least it's good to hear they're getting a little extra money, time and a half. Thanks very much to Kyung Lah in Burbank, California. Well, there is one store owner who is saying enough is enough. Holly Cassiano is a franchise owner of a Sears Hometown store in Plymouth, New Hampshire. She was asked to stay open Thanksgiving today and she said, no. We'll talk to Holly live in just a few minutes to talk about her frustrations. Now, Macy's is one of the stores that will be open Thanksgiving night, a first for the retailer. But shopping wasn't the focus at Macy's Flagship store in New York this morning. It was all about the store's Thanksgiving Day parade. An 89-year-old tradition. It was a bit of a concern this morning that the windy weather could keep the giant parade balloons on the ground. I've been to that parade since I was a little kid. Those are really the highlight. But they were allowed up, just five feet lower than usual. Jason Carroll has been there for us.", "Well, Jim, what you're looking at down there is the very end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. These are all the parade-goers who are now finishing up and heading out. It was a great time. People brought out their kids, big kids, little kids. But the most important part is the giant helium balloons made it to the parade as well, correct (ph). It was cold but the sun came out and the balloons came out as well. Take a listen to what everybody had to say that came out to the parade. You guys came all the way up from Alabama?", "Alabama, Ala, lower Alabama.", "And what does lower Alabama like about the parade so far?", "Everything. The balloons.", "There was some concern the balloons might not make it but they did. Any favorites that you saw?", "I guess Sponge Bob.", "Sponge Bob.", "He's one of my favorites too. Now, you guys are coming in from Oklahoma?", "Yes.", "What are you thinking so far?", "Oh, it's great. Awesome, it is.", "Having a good time?", "Oh, yes.", "What did you think of the balloons?", "Loved them.", "Any favorites?", "Snoopy.", "Spiderman.", "Spiderman.", "A lot of favorites down there. And I know Georgia was down there as well. I'm going to reach over. You remember them, right, Georgia? What did you -- what did you guys think so far?", "We love it.", "We love it.", "Spiderman and Cirque du Soleil.", "Cirque du Soleil is not a balloon. But that's OK.", "Spiderman was the favorite balloon.", "So if you had to give it a grade, how was the parade?", "Awesome.", "You know, Jim, that basically translates into they had a good time. So, --", "Happy Thanksgiving.", "So, Jim, happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Once again, Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade a good time for all those who decided to come out, brave the cold weather and take a look at the balloons.", "I'm from Puerto Rico just for you.", "Bye, Jim.", "We love you.", "Wow, looks like a lot of fun there, glad the balloons were up. It wouldn't have been the same without them. We have Holly Cassiano, a franchise owner of a Sears Hometown store in Plymouth, New Hampshire joining us now. She received a corporate memo to stay open Thanksgiving but she isn't doing it. Thanks very much, Holly, for coming out with us. I know how important the holiday is to you. Tell me, why did you decide to defy that company order and keep your store closed?", "Well, when I got the news that we were to be open from Sears, in recent years, it was never an issue for us to be open on Thanksgiving. But for whatever reason, they decided that they wanted to compete with other retailers and for us to be open on Thanksgiving. It was mandated.", "Now, as you said no, did you get -- did you get any grief from the company? Any pushback? Or did they say, OK, you know, if you feel that strongly, we'll let you -- we'll let you stay home?", "No, they did not come gently. Let's just put it that way. They were very adamant about us being open. And I sent them a very kind letter stating my beliefs, that it's against what I believe in, and my religion, and that I was making for my store, that I was not going to be open.", "Well, good for you. I know that a lot of Americans agree with you. There's a new poll from the University of Connecticut that shows that nine out of 10 Americans say they won't go shopping on Thanksgiving and seven plan to visit stores. That same poll finds that 49 percent disapprove, only 60 percent -- 16 percent approve of stores staying open for business on Thanksgiving Day. Are you going to get any penalty from Sears for doing this?", "They've already spoke about taking away bonuses for the rest of the year. To me, I'm going to make a stand for what I believe is right because I believe that the people of the United States are standing here with me. We've received a great amount of support from the area community and actually all across America. I had calls yesterday from Illinois, Ohio, from all over. So it's been very wonderful to see the public, you know, standing here with us on this issue.", "Well, it is -- you know, times are tough, business is slow, the economy growing not as quickly as we'd like. Are you losing money by making this decision?", "Well, of course we are. But you know what? When are we going to say it's not about the money? When are we going to stand up for what's right? How are we, as Americans, going to allow corporate heads to rule over us? It's just -- it bothers me really bad that they're allowing -- this country is allowing them to dictate time away from our family.", "I'm sure there are a lot of Americans that agree with you on that. Now, I know Massachusetts, neighboring New Hampshire, has laws -- so-called blue laws that prevent stores from opening on Thanksgiving. New Hampshire does not but I understand you're going to try to change that.", "Yes. So, my hope for this, now that I got the media's attention, I want everyone that believes that this -- that I'm doing the right thing to stand up and sign my petition on Change.org. It's listed as retailers to be closed on Thanksgiving. And allow the lawmakers to know that we're serious about this issue. They need to set precedent in the United States of America to say this is unacceptable. Stores will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, so people can enjoy time with their families.", "Well, good for you. Holly Cassiano, making a stand for the holiday and for staying home. Thanks very much for joining us by Skype. To be clear, CNN has reached out to Sears for a statement but has not heard back yet. They did tell our affiliate WHDH, however, that we have encouraged all of our dealers and franchises to be open Thanksgiving evening because we believe that is what many consumers want. Well, one thing that would make the White House really thankful is a meeting, a self-imposed deadline for the Obamacare Web site. But will that happen? 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{"id": "CNN-237734", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-08-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/29/nday.02.html", "summary": "NFL Changes Domestic Violence Policy", "utt": ["The plane crashed in the mountainous area of the Shenandoah Valley. Searchers didn't get to the crash site until Thursday afternoon, and they found the pilot still in the plane. There had been hopes he managed to eject before the plane went down. We expect to learn the pilot's name today. And a big tease from Apple. The company says the -- a new product will be coming on September 9th. So, let's the guessing game begin. The odds on favorite is tech giant will unveil the iPhone6 with a larger screen in response to larger phones from HTC and Samsung. We could also see the debut of the rumored iWatch. Apple's invitation to the media says, simply, \"Wish we could say more.\"", "Could be all of the above, right?", "Could be. A lot of rumors about the iWatch is going to be very fitness focused so it will tell John Berman to run faster. Go, Berman, go.", "You know he's doing a triathlon tomorrow.", "I am. I may not be here on Monday.", "Good luck tomorrow, John.", "All right. Meanwhile, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell admitted that he messed up when he suspended Ray Rice for two games. So, he's making changes for how players are punish for domestic violence. Andy Scholes has more in this morning's \"Bleacher Report\". Hi, Andy.", "Hey, good morning, guys. You know, Goodell was heavily criticized when he suspended Ray Rice for only two games, and yesterday, he flat out said, quote, \"I didn't get it right.\" As a result, Goodell announced new harsher punishments for players who are involved in a domestic violence incident. Under the new plan, offenders will receive a six-game suspension for the first offense and a possible lifetime ban for a second offense. This new policy applies to all NFL personnel, not just the players. The college football season is now up and running. Last night, Texas A&M pulled off the upset, putting beat-down on ninth ranked South Carolina. In his very first start, sophomore Kenny Hill threw for 511 yards, breaking Johnny Manziel's single game record. He added three touchdowns in a 52-22 win over the gamecocks. Everyone, including Manziel jumped on the nickname Kenny Football, Manziel even tweeting out with the #GigEm. But Hill say he doesn't really like that nickname, probably wants something a little more original. Finally, the clock struck midnight for the young Cinderella of the U.S. Open. Fifteen-year-old CiCi Bellis lost in the second round last night. She actually dominated the second set, winning 6-0, but she ended up losing the match in three. Bellis was the talk of the tournament after becoming the youngest player to win a match since 1996. She called the experience unbelievable and mind-blowing and the best couple of days of her life.", "I bet. That must have been a peak experience.", "Well, she's 15. Like I said, two days her life, that's like 3 percent. I mean, you know, it's a big chunk of her life at that age.", "And it's all downhill from here. We won't let her know that.", "Let's hope not.", "Thanks, Andy.", "All right.", "All right. NATO says Russian troops are helping separatists fight in Ukraine. President Obama is threatening additional sanctions, and Vladimir Putin tries to influence the rebels. We'll talk to the former U.S. ambassador to NATO about all these latest developments.", "Plus, an app, that's right, an app confirms that the Michael Brown shooting came around the same time of the audio that allegedly you can hear the incident. We're going to take a look at what this means for the investigation."], "speaker": ["CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR", "ROMANS", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "CAMEROTA", "ANDY SCHOLES, BLEACHER REPORT", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "SCHOLES", "CAMEROTA", "SCHOLES", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-140424", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-7-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/14/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Sonia Sotomayor Faces Day Two of Senate Confirmation Hearings", "utt": ["Sensitive issue of guns and the Second Amendment and whether the Second Amendment applies only to the federal government or to states. A sensitive issue for Sonia Sotomayor. She's being grilled on that right now by the chairman of the Judiciary Committee.", "... understand that how important the right to bears arms is to many, many Americans. In fact, one of my godchildren is a member of the NRA and I have friends who hunt. I understand the individual right, fully, that the Supreme Court recognized in Heller. As you pointed out, Senator, in the Heller decision, the Supreme Court was addressing a very narrow issue, which was whether an individual right under the Second Amendment applied to limit the federal government's rights to regulate the possession of firearms. The court expressly -- Justice Scalia in a footnote -- identified that there was Supreme Court precedent that has said that that right is not incorporated against the states. What that term of incorporation means in the law is that that right doesn't apply to the states in its regulation of its relationship with its citizens. In Supreme Court province (ph), the right is not fundamental. It's a legal term. It's not talking about the importance of the right in a legal term. It's talking about is that right incorporated against the states. When Maloney (ph) came before the Second Circuit, as you indicated, myself and two other judges read what the Supreme Court said, saw that it had not explicitly rejected its precedent on application to the states and followed that precedent because it's the job of the Supreme Court to change it.", "Well...", "You asked me -- I'm sorry, Senator. I didn't mean...", "No, no, go ahead.", "... to cut you off.", "No, go ahead.", "If you asked me whether I have an open mind on that question, absolutely. My decision in Maloney (ph) and on any case of this type would be to follow the precedent of the Supreme Court when it speaks directly on an issue. And I would not prejudge any question that came before me if I was a justice on the Supreme Court.", "Let me just ask -- I just asked Senator Sessions if he might have one -- might want to ask one more question. And it goes to the area of prosecution. You've heard appeals in over 800 criminal cases. You affirmed 98 percent of the convictions for violent crimes, including terrorism cases. Ninety-nine percent of the time at least one of the Republican appointed judges on the panel agreed with you. Let me just ask you about one, the United States vs. Giordano. It was a conviction against the mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut. The victim in that case are the young daughter and niece of a prostitute, young children who as young as nine and 11 were forced to engage in sexual acts with the defendant. The mayor was convicted under a law passed by Congress prohibiting the use of any facility or means of interstate commerce to transmit or contact information about persons under 16 for the purpose of illegal sexual activity. You spoke for a unanimous panel in the Second Circuit, which included Judge Jacobs and Judge Hall. You upheld that conviction against the constitutional challenge that the federal criminal statute in question exceeded Congress' power in the commerce clause. I mention that only because I appreciate your deference to the constitutional congressional authority to prohibit illegal conduct. Did you have any difficulty in reaching the conclusion you did in the -- in the Giordano case?", "No, sir.", "Thank you. I'm glad you reached it. Senator Sessions? And I appreciate Senator Sessions' forbearance.", "Welcome. It's good to have you back, Judge, and your family and friends and supporters. And I hope we'll have a good day today, look forward to dialogue with you. I got to say that I liked your statement on the fidelity of the law yesterday and some of your comments this morning. And I also have to say had you been saying that with clarity over the last decade or 15 years, we'd have a lot fewer problems today because you have evidenced, I think it's quite clear, a philosophy of the law that suggests that the judge's background and experiences can and should -- even should and naturally will impact their decision -- what I think goes against the American ideal and oath that a judge takes to be fair to every party. And every day when they put on that robe, that is a symbol that they're to put aside their personal biases and prejudices. So I'd like to ask you a few things about it. I would just note that it's not just one sentence, as my chairman suggested, that causes us difficulty. It's a body of thought over a period of years that causes us difficulties. And I would suggest that the quotation he gave was not exactly right of the wise Latina comment that you made. You've said, I think six different times, quote, \"I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion.\" So that's a matter that I think we'll talk about as we go forward. Let me recall that yesterday you said it's simple fidelity to the law. The task of a judge is not to make law, it's to apply law. I heartily agree with that. However, you previously have said the court of appeals is where policy is made. And you said on another occasion the law that lawyers practice and judge declare is not a definitive -- capital L -- Law that many would like to think exists,\" close quote. So I guess I'm asking today what do you really believe on those subjects. That there is no real law and that judges do not make law? Or that there is no real law and the court of appeals is where policy is made? Discuss that with us, please.", "I believe my record of 17 years demonstrates fully that I do believe that law -- that judges must apply the law and not make the law. Whether I've agreed with a party or not, found them sympathetic or not, in every case I have decided, I have done what the law requires. With respect to judges making policy, I assume, Senator, that you were referring to a remark that I made in a Duke Law student dialogue. That remark, in context, made very clear that I wasn't talking about the policy reflected in the law that Congress makes. That's the job of Congress to decide what the policy should be for society. In that conversation with the students, I was focusing on what district court judges do and what circuit court judges do. And I know noted that district court judges find the facts, and they apply the facts to the individual case. And when they do that, they're holding, they're finding doesn't bind anybody else. Appellate judges, however, establish precedent. They decide what the law says in a particular situation. That precedent has policy ramifications because it binds not just the litigants in that case, it binds all litigants in similar cases, in cases that may be influenced by that precedent. I think if my speech is heard outside of the minute and a half that YouTube presents and its full context examined, that it is very clear that I was talking about the policy ramifications of precedent and never talking about appellate judges or courts making the policy that Congress makes.", "Judge, I would just say, I don't think it's that clear. I looked at that on tape several times, and I think a person could reasonably believe it meant more than that. But yesterday you spoke about your approach to rendering opinions and said, quote, \"I seek to strengthen both the rule of law and faith in the impartiality of the justice system,\" and I would agree. But you have previously said this: \"I am willing to accept that we who judge must not deny differences resulting from experiences and heritage, but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.\" So first, I'd like to know, do you think there's any circumstance in which a judge should allow their prejudices to impact their decision-making?", "Never their prejudices. I was talking about the very important goal of the justice system is to ensure that the personal biases and prejudices of a judge do not influence the outcome of a case. What I was talking about was the obligation of judges to examine what they're feeling as they're adjudicating a case and to ensure that that's not influencing the outcome. Life experiences have to influence you. We're not robots to listen to evidence and don't have feelings. We have to recognize those feelings and put them aside. That's what my speech was saying ...", "Well, Judge ...", "... because that's our job.", "But the statement was, \"I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage, but continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.\" That's exactly opposite of what you're saying, is it not?", "I don't believe so, Senator, because all I was saying is, because we have feelings and different experiences, we can be led to believe that our experiences are appropriate. We have to be open- minded to accept that they may not be, and that we have to judge always that we're not letting those things determine the outcome. But there are situations in which some experiences are important in the process of judging, because the law asks us to use those experiences.", "Well, I understand that, but let me just follow up that you say in your statement that you want to do what you can to increase the faith and the impartiality of our system, but isn't it true this statement suggests that you accept that there may be sympathies, prejudices and opinions that legitimately can influence a judge's decision? And how can that further faith in the impartiality of the system?", "I think the system is strengthened when judges don't assume they're impartial, but when judges test themselves to identify when their emotions are driving a result, or their experience are driving a result and the law is not.", "I agree with that. I know one judge that says that if he has a feeling about a case, he tells his law clerks to, \"Watch me. I do not want my biases, sympathies or prejudices to influence this decision, which I've taken an oath to make sure is impartial.\" I just am very concerned that what you're saying today is quite inconsistent with your statement that you willingly accept that your sympathies, opinions and prejudices may influence your decision-making.", "Well, as I have tried to explain, what I try to do is to ensure that they're not. If I ignore them and believe that I'm acting without them, without looking at them and testing that I'm not, then I could, unconsciously or otherwise, be led to be doing the exact thing I don't want to do, which is to let something but the law command the result.", "Well, yesterday, you also said that your decisions have always been made to serve the larger interest of impartial justice, a good -- good aspiration, I agree. But in the past, you've repeatedly said this: \"I wonder whether achieving the goal of impartiality is possible at all in even most cases and I wonder whether by ignoring our differences as women, men or people of color we do a disservice to both the law and society.\" Aren't you saying there that you expect your background and -- and heritage to influence your decision-making?", "What I was speaking about in that speech was -- harkened back to what we were just talking about a few minutes ago, which is life experiences to influence us in good ways. That's why we seek the enrichment of our legal system from life experiences. That can affect what we see or how we feel, but that's not what drives a result. The impartiality is an understanding that the law is what commands the result. And so, to the extent that we are asking the questions, as most of my speech was an academic discussion about, what should we be thinking about, what should we be considering in this process, and accepting that life experiences could make a difference. But I wasn't encouraging the belief or attempting to encourage the belief that I thought that that should drive the result.", "Judge, I -- I think it's consistent in the comments I've quoted to you and your previous statements that you do believe that your backgrounds will accept -- affect the result in cases, and that's troubling me. So that is not impartiality. Don't you think that is not consistent with your statement, that you believe your role as a judge is to serve the larger interest of impartial justice?", "No, sir. As I've indicated, my record shows that at no point or time have I ever permitted my personal views or sympathies to influence an outcome of a case. In every case where I have identified a sympathy, I have articulated it and explained to the litigant why the law requires a different result.", "Judge...", "I do not permit my sympathies, personal views, or prejudices to influence the outcome of my cases.", "Well, you -- you -- you said something similar to that yesterday, that in each case I applied the law to the facts at hand, but you've repeatedly made this statement: Quote, I \"accept the proposition\" -- I \"accept the proposition that a difference there will be by the presence of women and people of color on the bench, and that my experiences affect the facts I choose to see as a judge.\" First, that's troubling to me as a lawyer. When I present evidence, I expect the judge to hear and see all the evidence that gets presented. How is it appropriate for a judge ever to say that they will choose to see some facts and not others?", "It's not a question of choosing to see some facts or another, Senator. I didn't intend to suggest that. And in the wider context, what I believe I was -- the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others. But in the end, you're absolutely right. That's why we have appellate judges that are more than one judge because each of us, from our life experiences, will more easily see different perspectives argued by parties. But judges do consider all of the arguments of litigants. I have. Most of my opinions, if not all of them, explain to parties by the law requires what it does.", "Do you stand by your statement that my experiences affect the facts I choose to see?", "No, sir. I don't stand by the understanding of that statement that I will ignore other facts or other experiences because I haven't had them. I do believe that life experiences are important to the process of judging. They help you to understand and listen but that the law requires a result. And it would command you to the facts that are relevant to the disposition of the case.", "Well, I will just note you made that statement in individual speeches about seven times over a number of years span. And it's concerning to me. So I would just say to you I believe in Judge Seiderbaum's (ph) formulation. She said -- and you disagreed. And this was really the context of your speech. And you used her -- her statement as sort of a beginning of your discussion. And you said she believes that a judge, no matter what their gender or background, should strive to reach the same conclusion. And she believes that's possible. You then argued that you don't think it's possible in all, maybe even most, cases. You deal with the famous quote of Justice O'Connor in which she says a wise old man should reach the same decision as a wise old woman. And you pushed backed from that. You say you don't think that's necessarily accurate. And you doubt the ability to be objective in your analysis. So how can you reconcile your speeches which repeatedly assert that impartiality is a near aspiration which may not be possible in all or even most cases with your oath that you've taken twice which requires impartiality?", "My friend, Judge Seiderbaum (ph) is here this afternoon, and we are good friends. And I believe that we both approach judging in the same way which is looking at the facts of each individual case and applying the law to those facts. I also, as I explained, was using a rhetorical flourish that fell flat. I knew that Justice O'Connor couldn't have meant that if judges reached different conclusions -- legal conclusions -- that one of them wasn't wise. That couldn't have been her meaning, because reasonable judges disagree on legal conclusions in some cases. So I was trying to play on her words. My play was -- fell flat. It was bad, because it left an impression that I believed that life experiences commanded a result in a case, but that's clearly not what I do as a judge. It's clearly not what I intended in the context of my broader speech, which was attempting to inspire young Hispanic, Latino students and lawyers to believe that their life experiences added value to the process.", "Well, I can see that, perhaps as a -- a lay person's approach to it. But as a judge who's taken this oath, I'm very troubled that you had repeatedly, over a decade or more, made statements that consistently -- any fair reading of these speeches -- consistently argues that this ideal and commitment I believe every judge is committed, must be, to put aside their personal experiences and biases and make sure that that person before them gets a fair day in court. Judge, on the -- so philosophy can impact your judging. I think it's much more likely to reach full flower if you sit on the Supreme Court, and then you will -- than it will on a lower court where you're subject to review by your colleagues in the higher court. And so, with regard to how you approach law and your personal experiences, let's look at the New Haven firefighters case, the Ricci case. In that case, the city of New Haven told firefighters that they would take an exam, set forth the process for it, that would determine who would be eligible for promotion. The city spent a good deal of time and money on the exam to make it a fair test of a person's ability to see -- to serve as a supervisory fireman, which, in fact, has the awesome responsibility at times to send their firemen into a dangerous building that's on fire, and they had a panel that did oral exams and not -- wasn't all written, consisting of one Hispanic and one African-American and -- and one white. And according to the Supreme Court, this is what the Supreme Court held: The New Haven officials were careful to ensure broad racial participation in the design of the test and its administration. The process was open and fair. There was no genuine dispute that the examinations were job-related and consistent with business purposes, business necessity. But after -- but after the city saw the results of the exam, it threw out those results, because, quote, \"not enough of one group did well enough on the test.\" The Supreme Court then found that the city, and I quote, \"rejected the test results solely because the higher scoring candidates were white. After the tests were completed, the raw racial results became the -- raw racial results became the predominant rationale for the city's refusal to certify the results,\" close quote. So you stated that your background affects the facts that you choose to see. Was the fact that the New Haven firefighters had been subject to discrimination one of the facts you chose not to see in this case?", "No, sir. The panel was composed of me and two other judges. In a very similar case of the 7th Circuit in an opinion offered by Judge Easterbrook -- I'm sorry. I misspoke. It wasn't Judge Easterbrook. It was Judge Posner -- saw the case in an identical way. And neither judge -- I've confused some statements that Senator Leahy made with this case. And I apologize. In a very similar case, the 6th Circuit approached a very similar issue in the same way. So a variety of different judges on the appellate court were looking at the case in light of established Supreme Court and 2nd Circuit precedent and determined that the city facing potential liability under Title VII could choose not to certify the test if it believed an equally good test could be made with a different impact on affected groups. The Supreme Court, as it is its prerogative in looking at a challenge, established a new consideration or a different standard for the city to apply. And that is was there substantial evidence that they would be held liable under the law. That was a new consideration. Our panel didn't look at that issue that way because it wasn't argued to us in the case before us and because the case before us was based on existing precedent. So it's a different test.", "Judge, there was a -- apparently, unease within your panel. I -- I was really disappointed. And I think a lot of people have been that the opinion was so short. It was pro curiam. It did not discuss the serious legal issues that the case raised. And I believe that's legitimate criticism of what you did. But it appears, according to Stuart Taylor, a respected legal writer for the National Journal -- that Stuart Taylor concluded that -- that it appears that Judge Cabranes was concerned about the outcome of the case, was not aware of it because it was a pro curiam unpublished opinion. But it began to raise the question of whether a rehearing should be granted. You say you're bound by the superior authority. But the fact is when the re -- the question of rehearing that 2nd Circuit authority that you say covered the case, some say it didn't cover so clearly -- but that was up for debate. And the circuit voted, and you voted not to reconsider the prior case. You voted to stay with the decision of the circuit. And, in fact, your vote was the key vote. Had you voted with Judge Cabranes, himself of -- of -- of Puerto Rican ancestry -- had you voted with him, you -- you -- you could have changed that case. So in truth you weren't bound by that case had you seen it in a different way. You must have agreed with it and agreed with the opinion and stayed with it until it was reversed by the court. Let me just mention this. In 1997...", "Is that a question or a...", "Well, that was a response to some of what you said, Mr. Chairman, because you misrepresented factually what the -- the posture of the case.", "Well, I obviously...", "In 1997...", "I obviously will disagree with that. But that -- we'll have a chance to vote on this issue.", "In 1997 when you came before the Senate and I was a new senator, I asked you this. In a suit challenging a government racial preference in quota or set-aside, will you follow the Supreme Court decision in Adarand and subject racial preferences to the strictest judicial scrutiny,\" close quote. In other words, I asked you would you follow the Supreme Court's binding decision in Adarand v. Pena. In Adarand, the Supreme Court held that all governmental discrimination, including Affirmative Action programs, that discriminated by race of an applicant must face strict scrutiny in the courts. In other words, this is not a light thing to do. When one race is favored over another, you must have a really good reason for it, or it's not acceptable. After Adarand, the government agencies must prove there is a compelling state interest in support of any decision to treat people differently by race. This is what you answered: \"In my view, the Adarand court correctly determined that the same level of scrutiny -- strict scrutiny applies for the purpose of evaluating the constitutionality of all government classifications, whether at the state or federal level, based on race,\" close quote. So that was your answer, and it deals with government being the city of New Haven. You made a commitment to this committee to follow Adarand. In view of this commitment you gave me 12 years ago, why are the words \"Adarand,\" \"equal protection\" and \"strict scrutiny\" are completely missing from any of your panel's discussion of this decision?", "Because those cases were not what was at issue in this decision. And, in fact, those cases were not what decided the Supreme Court's decision. The Supreme Court parties were not arguing the level of scrutiny that would apply with respect to intentional discrimination. The issue is a different one before our court and the Supreme Court, which is what's a city to do when there is proof that its test disparately impacts a particular group. And the Supreme Court decided, not on a basis of strict scrutiny, that what it did here was wrong -- what the city did here was wrong, but on the basis that the city's choice was not based on a substantial basis in evidence to believe it would be held liable under the law. Those are two different standards, two different questions that a case would present.", "But Judge, it wasn't that simple. This case was recognized pretty soon as a big case, at least. I noticed what perhaps kicked off Judge Cabranes's concern was a lawyer saying it was the most important discrimination case that the circuit had seen in 20 years. They were shocked they got a -- basically one-paragraph decision per curiam unsigned back on that case. Judge Cabranes apparently raised this issue within the circuit, asked for re-hearing. Your vote made the difference in not having a re-hearing in bank. And he said, quote, \"Municipal employers could reject the results\" -- in talking about the results of your test, the impact of your decision -- \"Municipal employers could reject the results of an employment examination whenever those results failed to yield a desirable outcome, i.e., fail to satisfy a racial quota,\" close quote.", "So that was Judge Trabanas's (sic) analysis of the impact of your decision, and he thought it was very important. He wanted to review this case. He thought it deserved a full and complete analysis and opinion. He wanted the whole circuit to be involved in it. And to the extent that some prior precedent in the circuit was different, the circuit could have reversed that precedent had they chose to do so. Don't you think -- tell us how it came to be that this important case was dealt with in such a cursory manner.", "The panel decision was based on a 78-page district court opinion. The opinion referenced it. In its per curium, the court incorporated in differently, but it was referenced by the circuit. And it released on that very thoughtful, thorough opinion by the district court. And that opinion discussed Second Circuit precedent in its fullest -- to its fullest extent. Justice Cabranes had one view of the case. The panel had another. The majority of the vote -- it wasn't just my vote -- the majority of the court, not just my vote, denied the petition for rehearing. The court left to the Supreme Court the question of how and employer should address what no one disputed was prima facia evidence that its test disparately impacted on a group. That was undisputed by everyone, but the case law did permit employees who had been disparately impacted to bring a suit. The question was, for city, was it racially discriminating when it didn't accept those tests or was it attempting to comply with the law.", "Well, Judge, I think it's not fair to say that a majority -- I guess it's fair to say a majority voted against rehearing. But it was 6 to 6. Unusual that one of the judges had to challenge a panel decision, and your vote made the majority not to rehear it. Do you -- and Ricci did deal with some important questions. Some of the questions that we have got to talk about as a nation, we've got to work our way through. I know there's concern on both sides of this issue, and we should do it carefully and correctly. But do you think that Frank Ricci and the other firefighters whose claims you dismissed felt that their arguments and concerns were appropriately understood and acknowledged by such a short opinion from the court?", "We were very sympathetic and expressed your sympathy to the firefighters who challenged the city's decision, Mr. Ricci and the others. We understood the efforts that they had made in taking the test. We said as much. They did have before them a 78-page thorough opinion by the district court. They, obviously, disagreed with the law as it stood under Second Circuit precedent. That's why they were pursuing their claims and did pursue them further. In the end, the body that had the discretion and power to decide how these tough issues should be decided, let alone the precedent that had been recognized by our circuit court and another -- at least, the Sixth Circuit -- but along what the court thought would be the right test or standard to apply. And that's what the Supreme Court did. It answered that important question because it had the power to do that -- not the power but the ability to do that because it was faced with the arguments that suggested that. The panel was dealing with precedent and arguments that rely on our precedent.", "Thank you, Judge. And I appreciate this opportunity. And I -- I would just say, though, had the procurement opinion stood without a rehearing requested by one of the judges in the whole circuit and kicked off the discussion, it's very, very unlikely that we would have heard about this case or the Supreme Court would have taken it up. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.", "Thank you.", "All right, so the first hour of questions have now ended. The chairman Patrick Leahy, the ranking Republican Jeff Sessions. They both had their chance, and they got into the heart of some of the more controversial aspects of Judge Sotomayor's record, including that New Haven's firefighter case, her comments about a wise Latina woman, the Second Amendment -- how far does the Second Amendment go in allowing folks to have guns. Much more of our coverage coming up. Remember, at CNN.com, you can see all these hearings uninterrupted. We'll assess what we just heard with members of the best political team on television when we come back.", "The confirmation hearings are continuing. This is day two. Sonia Sotomayor slated to become an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court if confirmed by the United States Senate. That certainly looks likely. This morning, she's already been grilled on some of the most sensitive issues that have come forward, including a case involving New Haven, Connecticut firefighters. Let's assess that case right now, the issues involved and how she defended her decision. Jeff Toobin and John King are over at the magic wall. John?", "Wolf, let me tap into the case files. Here's one case that came up. We'll talk about this later, Maloney v. Cuomo. A gun control case. But the case you mentioned just a moment ago is right here. It's Ricci v. DeStephano. And, Jeff Toobin, the issue, of course, white firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut. They challenged the city decision to throw out promotion exam the white firefighters passed. Others did not. So, it's basically a workplace discrimination suit. And this is what became the big issue as you discuss this forward. Judge Sotomayor was with the three-judge panel. They upheld the lower court rejection of the white firefighters' lawsuit and sent this back to the city and said, \"Come up with a new test.\" So, these guys were not promoted. The United States Supreme Court just recently reversed Sotomayor's ruling in a 5-4 decision, sending it back, saying she was wrong in this case. Interesting. I want to discuss the topics. Number one was -- the question was, did her own background as a Latino woman influence her ruling in the case? That was one. Number two, it was a short ruling written by this court, and Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican, who was essentially saying did you give short shrift (ph) to this. If you're going to make such a controversial decision, why didn't you at least lay out why?", "Right. Well, see, what Senator Sessions was doing was, he was trying to tie the Ricci case to her comments in speeches, which suggested that her background, rather than the law, is what leads her to make her decisions. She, of course, rejected that characterization of her views, but the Ricci case was a case where she sided with the city, which said, \"Look, we're worried about being sued by African-Americans firefighters who didn't do well on the test. So, because of that worry, we're going to cancel the whole thing.\" The Supreme Court said that's not a legitimate reason to cancel the test. The white firefighters who were denied promotions, they won their case.", "Now, I want to come to you with another question, then I'll bring up the committee to look a little bit more closely at Senator Sessions. Her argument there was, the Supreme Court had every right. That is where you go to set the standard, and that's what happened when she was reversed. But when she was ruling at the appellate court level, she was following the appropriate precedent at the time. Legal argument, is she on strong footing there?", "I think she's on pretty strong footing that the law she applied was the law at the time. The four justices who agreed would her certainly felt she was right. And, in Justice Kennedy's opinion in the Ricci case, he pretty much acknowledges that Supreme Court was establishing a new set of rules for these kind of cases. The Supreme Court can do that. But I think Judge Sotomayor has a pretty good argument that, \"Well, the Supreme Court may have been right, they may have been wrong, but they have the right to make new law. I could only follow the law at the time.\"", "And Wolf, as we come back to you and the panel, I just want to show -- this is Jeff Sessions right here. He's the ranking Republican on the committee and voted on two previous Supreme Court nominations, both Bush nominees. Supporting Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. He's from the state of Alabama. And if you go through his record here, he opposed Sotomayor back in 1998 when she was up for the appellate court. And he was nominated himself to a federal district court by President Reagan in '85. And remember, his nomination was defeated in this very same Judiciary Committee. Obviously different membership. And here's what is at issue so far. He had said he's concerned Sotomayor's policy preferences could influence her decision making and, Wolf, he is leading the charge for the Republicans today, questioning her, saying in her speeches and her rulings she has not been as impartial. \"Infidelity to the law\" is how she put it yesterday, and she is now saying -- her answers are much more politically motivated, not what she has done over the course of her record.", "Very good point, John. The other sensitive issue that came up, her first effort to explain that controversial comment she made about being a wise Latina woman, and perhaps a wise Latina woman could make a better decision than a white man. Gloria, you're very sensitive to this issue. Did she make her case? She said what she was trying to do, basically, was inspire young Latinos that they can reach for the stars.", "Well, I think she clearly walked back her language, because her language was very clear and what she said today was she was talking about the obligation of judges to examine what they're feeling, and then put that aside as they judge a case and make sure that their personal feelings, their experiences, their gender does not affect their ruling. But it's very clear in the statement she made in that Berkeley Law speech in 2001, she said, \"but I accept there will be some influence based on my gender and my Latina heritage.\" Today she was saying, no, that the system is strengthened when judges judge themselves, understand what they're feeling, set it aside.", "All right. We're going to get to Maria and Alex Castellanos. Candy Crowley. We'll continue our coverage. Much more of these hearings coming up. Remember, CNN.com. You can see the hearings uninterrupted, and we'll go back to the Q and A and the rest of this Day Two of the confirmation hearings right after this.", "Sonia Sotomayor is being questioned right now before the Senate Judiciary Committee. At stake: whether or not she will become an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. It looks like she will, barring some major, major bombshell. The Democrats certainly have the vote. Sixty Democrats in the United States Senate. But let's assess what we've just heard so far. Candy Crowley, as you watched these hearings unfold and the sensitive issues of that New Haven firefighter case, the white-Latina woman comments came up, the Second Amendment -- does that apply to guns only for the federal government as opposed to states and local communities. She's obviously well prepared. She knew these were going to be big issues.", "She certainly read the papers and listened to the newscasts since her nomination, that's for sure. Listen, for those who aren't familiar with the ins and outs of the cases, this boils down to one thing. \"I followed the law. That was case law. This said nothing about how I felt personally.\" And it was for every case, from the guns -- and when it came to her remarks that she made not on the bench, she redid those remarks and said, \"I never meant to do it,\" as Gloria explained, \"That's not what I meant. What I meant was we have to be aware of those things.\" And she gets a lot of help from the Democrats who say, \"Well, listen, those remarks are not reflected on the bench for her. So, that's what we need to look at.\" So, for the first 30 minutes, I heard her seven times say, \"I follow the law\" or some variation of that. I think by 9:00 tonight, we'll have heard it more.", "We also heard, Alex Castellanos, our Republican strategist -- we also heard she loves the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which deals with the issue of guns.", "This is kind of breathtaking testimony here. Who is this Judge Sotomayor? She seems to be the opposite of everything she's ever said before. It's kind of like \"Believe me now, don't believe my evil, evil twin Skippy Sotomayor, who said all those things. That was someone else.\"...", "Hold on one second because I want to go right back to the hearing. She's answering her question on the very sensitive issue of Bush v. Gore back in 2000.", "... greatness of our American system which is whether you agree or disagree with a Supreme Court decision, that all of the branches become involved in the conversation of how to improve things. And as an indicated, both Congress, who devoted a very significant amount of money to electoral reform in certain of its legislation -- and states have looked to address what happened there.", "Judge, in a 5-4 decision in 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that Kelo v. City of New London was a -- that it was constitutional for local government to seize private property for private economic development. Many people, including myself...", "All right. We're going to figure out exactly what she said on that issue of Bush versus Gore, that supreme Court decision that allowed George W. Bush to become president of the United States after all the ballots were counted in Florida. But we'll assess what happened on that issue, how she discussed it right now. We'll pick that up. But I want to go back to Alex Castellanos. You were pointing out, Alex, you've seen a different side of Sonia Sotomayor today.", "Well, it seems to be that her defense is, \"What I meant was the opposite of everything I ever said. When I said I disagreed with Justice O'Connor, it actually meant I agreed with her. When I said a wise Latina could reach a better decision, it actually meant we couldn't. It meant that when judges make the law from the bench, when I said that, well, I actually meant the opposite of that.\" On point after point, her defense is that \"I actually meant the opposite of what I said.\" Democrats may have the votes to get this judge approved here, but there's the question, I think, she's going to be faced with next. Which judge should we believe? The one who has an interest now in gaining our approval or the one who spoke at unguarded moments before this hearing?", "What did you think, Maria Echaveste? You worked in the Clinton White House, and you teach at UC Berkeley School of Law right now. You're, obviously, very sympathetic to judge Sonia Sotomayor.", "Of course, but that's because she is well qualified to be a justice on the Supreme Court. I think...", "But this notion that what Alex just said...", "... there's two things", "... There are two sides to her, what she actually said as opposed to how she's explaining it today.", "I thin the first is, we should take a line from Justice Alito, who said, \"The kind of judge I'm going to be is the kind of judge I have been.\" That's exactly what she is doing. That her statements and speeches and trying to inspire young people to go into law, to actually try to become judges are -- speak for themselves. I think the thing about the wise Latina woman and all of that is trying to put experiences, the fact that you come to the bench with everything that you are -- something that Justice Alito has said, that he's talked about his own. How his own family suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background. \"And I do take that into account.\" He said that in 2006. Justice Thomas said, \"I believe I bring an understanding and ability to stand in the shoes of other people.\" He said that in 1991. The fact is, no one comes to the bench sort of as a blank slate. And the thing I most dislike about Senator Sessions' comments is that he makes it sound like the law is mechanically applied. The reality is, we have controversy. There is 5-4. There's 7-5. There are real differences as to what the law -- how it could be interpreted.", "But the real controversy here is not between one judge and another judge or one justice and another, it's between Sotomayor and Sotomayor. She is saying one thing at one point and saying the very opposite today in these hearings.", "... an accusation that is leveled at every Supreme Court nominee. That they're having a \"confirmation conversion\" -- that any controversial opinion that they've held in the past, they try to whitewash. I think they all do do it to a certain extent, and since all nine of them are on the court, I don't think it's much of a disqualification. But that charge of a \"confirmation conversion\" is always something we see.", "OK, guys. Hold your thoughts for a moment because we'll continue our coverage. Remember CNN.com. These hearings uninterrupted are being streamed. CNN.com. We'll get back to the hearings. They're only just beginning, really. Much more of our coverage right after this.", "Hearings are continuing for Sonia Sotomayor. Right now, we'll get right back to them, but I want to check some other important news that is unfolding. CNN's Tony Harris is standing by with a news update. The world isn't stopping, Tony, just because these historic hearings are under way.", "You said it, Wolf. Good to see you. Let's get to some of the other stories making news today."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLTZER, CNN HOST", "JUDGE SONIA SOTOMAYOR, SUPREME COURT NOMINEE", "SEN. PATRICK J. LEAHY (D-VT.), SENATE JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN", "SOTOMAYOR", "LEAHY", "SOTOMAYOR", "LEAHY", "SOTOMAYOR", "LEAHY", "SOTOMAYOR", "LEAHY", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-16476", "program": "Business Unusual", "date": "2000-9-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/24/bun.00.html", "summary": "Seminole Indians Look For Gator Grapplers", "utt": ["Indian traditions in Florida are a bit more violent than in New Mexico, at least the ones that draw tourists to the reservations of the Seminole Indians. The Seminoles have lived in what's now the American Southeast for more than 12,000 years. And as CNN's John Zarrella tells us, that is a long time to keep a dangerous tradition alive.", "Treat it just like the jaws are open. Cover its eyes. Nope, nope, nope, you were bit right there.", "You're looking at a job training program. And Lance Holmquist is one of the few takers. He's training for the day that Scratch the alligator won't have his jaws taped shut.", "See, you mess up, and he's going to come right to life on you and let you know that you messed up.", "So who in his right mind wants to wrestle alligators? Well, not too many people. And that's a problem for the Seminole Indian tribe of Florida. The art of gator grappling was handed down -- as long as you didn't lose your hands -- from generation to generation. Gator wrestling shows are a mainstay at Seminole tourist attractions. But the new generation of Seminole wants more out of life.", "A lot of us want to be news reporters. A lot of us want to be auto mechanics, truck drivers. And you can't find that on the reservation.", "To keep the shows going, the Seminoles are looking off the reservation, taking out a want ad for gator wrestlers. Holmquist was one of the few to apply for the $8-an-hour job.", "The pay is not that good. But the benefits are pretty good. I'd like to find out what the benefits are. Maybe I'd get a Caddy (ph) or something.", "Maybe a hearse if you're not careful. Last winter, Seminole Chief James Billie lost a finger while performing a gator show.", "This one here actually lifting me up, opened his jaws, and grabbed half of my finger right in here. And that's when I knew I was in trouble.", "The chief hasn't gotten up close and personal with a gator since. But the Seminoles say they will find and train people to carry on their tradition because the show must go on.", "See you later, alligator.", "John Zarrella, CNN, Miami.", "Just ahead, if you teach a man to fish, you will help him for a lifetime. But if you give a man a fish, can he help you make a movie? We find out next."], "speaker": ["SCHAFFLER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ZARRELLA", "ALEXANDRA FRANK, SEMINOLE SPOKESWOMAN", "ZARRELLA", "LANCE HOLMQUIST, JOB APPLICANT", "ZARRELLA", "CHIEF JAMES BILLIE, SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA", "ZARRELLA", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "ZARRELLA", "SCHAFFLER"]}
{"id": "CNN-59909", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2002-8-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0208/30/lad.09.html", "summary": "Global Minute: Five Years Since Princess Diana's Death", "utt": ["Eli Flournoy, our senior international editor, joins us now to talk more about what we're covering internationally throughout the day. And I guess we have to start with Princess Diana. It's been five years since her death.", "Yes, it's hard to believe. It doesn't seem like it's been that long ago. And I'll never forget, I was here when the news first broke that Diana's car had crashed in Paris. And then the coverage just started from there. And, indeed, tomorrow is the five year anniversary of Princess Diana's death and the death of Dodi al-Fayed, her companion at that time. And we are going to be doing some coverage later today. We're going to be up at Althorpe in Northampton where she is buried, a family estate. And we'll have Richard Quest live from up there throughout the day and we'll be doing some coverage here tomorrow, also. There's a little bit of controversy over the anniversary and marking her death each year in Paris. They made a memorial to her death but they moved it away from the site. The site of her death was in a tunnel. It was on, you know, obviously in the midst of traffic.", "Oh, yes.", "But people wanted to mark it, still want to put the flowers there and gather there. They want to go to the actual site and not to the official site, which is a few blocks away. So there's a little bit of controversy there, but people still are remembering the legacy of Princess Diana and we certainly will never forget how that happened here.", "Oh, I know. It was just, you know, it was just so surprising to find out just how popular she really was after her death, because I don't think anybody really realized how beloved she was.", "Right. No, that's absolutely true. It just, it just went worldwide.", "It was astounding.", "Yes, it was incredible.", "I was in Washington at the time and at the British embarrass. Americans came by the dozens and put flowers and notes and candles. It was just an amazing sight.", "Yes, the outpouring of grief was incredible.", "Yes. What else do you have on the agenda?", "Well, we've got a couple areas of progress with regard to North Korea and talks that are going on now between North and South Korea and also with Japan. And we just had announcements earlier today that the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, is going to go to South Korea for the first time for a visit next month. And also next month, there's a plan for Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi to go to North Korea. And both those are very significant.", "Wow. Yes.", "And we'll be watching out for those and be planning major coverage of those visits. Interesting to note that Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi called President Bush before agreeing to this visit to ask essentially for his blessing and permission for what is meant to be a one day visit. And President Bush has given the, his OK on that despite the axis of evil, North Korea being part of George Bush's axis of evil with Iraq and Iran.", "North Korea, right.", "So that will be very interesting to see those talks and see whether there's any more progress with regard to U.S. and North Korea talks in the future.", "Hopefully there will be. Eli Flournoy, thank you very much. We'll let you get back to work and we'll check back with you guys on Monday.", "OK.", "OK. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "ELI FLOURNOY, CNN INTERNATIONAL EDITOR", "COSTELLO", "FLOURNOY", "COSTELLO", "FLOURNOY", "COSTELLO", "FLOURNOY", "COSTELLO", "FLOURNOY", "COSTELLO", "FLOURNOY", "COSTELLO", "FLOURNOY", "COSTELLO", "FLOURNOY", "COSTELLO", "FLOURNOY", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "NPR-21223", "program": "All Things Considered", "date": "2016-08-07", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/08/07/489093475/professors-attempt-to-halt-texas-law-allowing-guns-in-classrooms", "title": "Professors Attempt To Halt Texas Law Allowing Guns In Classrooms", "summary": "A new Texas law allows students with gun licenses to carry on campus. Professor Lisa Moore of the University of Texas at Austin talks about why she's asking a court to halt the law.", "utt": ["On public college campuses in Texas, students over 21 who are licensed gun holders can now bring their weapons into dorms and classrooms as long as their firearms are hidden away, say, in a backpack. It's a controversial law that took effect last week, and three professors at the University of Texas at Austin are out to stop it. They'll be in court this week asking a judge to hold off on the law while they try to get it overturned in the courts. The clock is ticking, as classes start there on August 24. Lisa Moore is one of the professors. She teaches English and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and she joins us from her office. Professor, welcome.", "Thank you so much.", "Why did you and your colleagues decide to bring this lawsuit?", "We just find that it's impossible to do our jobs with this policy in place. We all teach subject matter that is quite sensitive, and we all use very participatory, you know, pedagogically sound methods of trying to teach students how to state their views on controversial subjects, challenge one another and stand up for what they believe in. And the thing is our classrooms have to be laboratories for experimenting with those kinds of challenging materials and challenging stances that people take.", "So you're saying that these things can't be done if someone has a firearm in the room?", "I'm saying that - yeah, that's what I'm saying because it's my job to create a safe learning environment for students in order to encourage them to take those kinds of intellectual risks. And I am genuinely not equipped to keep students safe from a firearm in my classroom. One of the provisions of this law is that in order to minimize the amount of handling of a gun that goes on on campus, the gun has to be already loaded before you bring it into the classroom.", "So it is cocked. It - there's a chambered round in a gun that might be in someone's backpack. And already this week - I've been teaching summer school, and my students are talking about their concern that someone sitting next to them is going to drop their bag and there'll be an accidental misfire that will cause an accident. These are 18 to 22-year-olds, OK?", "Say the licensed gun holders are 21 and over. These are people who are at a very vulnerable stage of life where there's a lot of struggles with the onset of adult mental illness. There's often a lot of poor choices made with regards to drugs and alcohol. I've had students show up to my classes in all kinds of states where they might not be making the best choices. These are not circumstances in which we want guns in the mix.", "By making this move, you know you've picked a fight with some of the most powerful people in Texas. The law is supported by the governor, Greg Abbott. The attorney general says the law is absolutely constitutionally sound and he'll defend it in court. What's ahead?", "Well, you know, they may be politically powerful, but there has always been a powerful strain of Texas populism as well. And I consider myself to be in that tradition. I also know that there's power in the intellectual power of everything that goes on on a University of Texas campus and all the other public university campuses in the state. Everyone from the chancellor, Admiral McRaven, the guy who got bin Laden, you know, on down the line in the University of Texas system is against this law. We, too, have power.", "Do you know - does anyone know how this law is affecting recruitment, retention, both the faculty and students?", "Yes, we do. We already have concrete examples of faculty who have declined to apply for jobs here at the university or who, once offered jobs, have turned them down when they realized that this policy would go into effect, students changing their minds about coming to our graduate and undergraduate programs, and invited speakers declining to come when they realized that we couldn't guarantee that they would give their talk in a gun-free space.", "I understand that students are part of your pushback on this law. But there must also, at the same time, be students at UTA who are glad for the opportunity to carry a weapon, who've read about crimes like that at Virginia Tech and think, well, if I was carrying, I would've been part of the solution rather than a victim.", "Yes. And, you know, I have every sympathy with feeling afraid in the face of the terrible wave of gun violence that we're all suffering. The thing is, you know, we like, as professors, to arm ourselves with reason, as we say (laughter).", "And what we know is that the research shows that the good guy with a gun is a myth, that there's never been a case where a mass shooting has been stopped by someone who was not a law enforcement official picking up their firearm and shooting back. That's an enormously complex situation and someone with four hours of training, which is all that the state requires for a licensed gun holder, is not going to be in a position nor have the practice to be able to make a wise decision at that time.", "That's Lisa Moore. She's a professor at the University of Texas. She joined us from her office in Austin. Professor, thanks a lot.", "My pleasure. Thanks for speaking with me.", "NPR reached out to the office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who's fighting to keep the law allowing guns on college campuses in effect. His office hasn't returned requests for comment."], "speaker": ["RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "LISA MOORE", "RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "LISA MOORE", "RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "LISA MOORE", "LISA MOORE", "LISA MOORE", "RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "LISA MOORE", "RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "LISA MOORE", "RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "LISA MOORE", "LISA MOORE", "RAY SUAREZ, HOST", "LISA MOORE", "RAY SUAREZ, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-208364", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2013-6-7", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/07/cg.02.html", "summary": "Report: Three Injured In Santa Monica Shooting", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. We're monitoring breaking news out of California where a school shooting took place at Santa Monica College. Three people have been transported to UCLA Medical Center according to Dale Tate, the hospital spokeswoman. Two of the victims are in critical condition and one person is in serious condition. A witness to the shooting spoke to our affiliate KCAL moments ago.", "OK, tell me what you saw, what you heard.", "So, I was in the computer lab. I was on Facebook and I saw everyone running back towards the end -- the back of the library and so I went out and saw. An alarm went off. And then immediately I heard a shotgun blast and, like, at least eight probably handgun blasts. What seems to be, it was definitely a handgun. I know, because I hunt. So, it was a shotgun and then, like, at least handgun blasts.", "Did you see any of the people who were injured?", "I did not. I was in the back of the library. I was too busy rushing to get out of there so --", "We're glad you're OK. You said you spoke to someone who was closer to the front?", "Yes, I spoke to someone who actually saw both the shooters. He said one of them had a shotgun and one of them had a handgun so --", "And this is something we haven't had confirmed we should clarify by police.", "Yes.", "But another witness is telling you that he saw two shooters.", "Yes. That's correct. One was dressed in black overalls with dreadlocks he was white and I don't know about the other one but I know he saw a second one as well.", "The California Highway Patrol is now saying that they are looking for a second shooter based on what witnesses are telling them. I want to bring in Officer Vince Ramirez from the California Highway Patrol. He's on the phone with me now. Officer Ramirez, thanks so much for joining us. What can you tell us about the search for a second shooter?", "Yes, good afternoon, sir. We do have reports and the reports started surfacing after the first suspect was taken into custody that there may be a second active shooter within the campus of Santa Monica City College. Now, we have several units there we're working in conjunction with Santa Monica police, which is the primary agency there. And then I understand there are units from LAPD and surrounding police agencies that are also assisting with this search. Now, the college is on lockdown. It is considered a crime scene right now. We understand there are still folks around the area. We're asking them to please leave the area so that we can continue the investigation and the search for the possible second shooter within the area there.", "Officer Ramirez, we've been told by UCLA Medical Center that three people have been transported to their hospital. Two are in critical condition. One person is in serious condition. Are those the only three victims that you know of or are there others?", "Sir, I do not have the confirmation on how many people were injured here. All I can tell you is we're getting reports that one or several people were injured. As to the extent of injuries, I don't have that information here just yet.", "We're also looking at a live picture on KCAL, KCBS on our screen right now, sir, of what we're told is a case of arson nearby. Do you know if the cases are connected at all?", "No. We have not gotten confirmation that there's a connection here. I understand there is a fire near the campus there and that's where part of the investigation is being conducted. We have several units there also assisting the Santa Monica police agency with that investigation right now. But, again, we have not put everything together. It's a fluid situation, so we're conducting the investigation, looking for a shooter, and we're asking folks to please stay away from the area if at all possible.", "And, sir, there is a suspect in custody in the shooting, is that right?", "Yes, I have information that there is one person in custody. And that came about, about 15, 20 minutes after we arrived, that there was somebody in custody. But we started getting reports that there was possibly a second shooter within the campus. So, again, that investigation, that search is under way.", "I know that you have been on the scene providing law enforcement protection for other shootings. I have covered other shootings. There is almost always a report of a second shooter one way or another. Does this one seem more credible than what is generally standard that there is almost always a report of a second shooter even if there is not one?", "We operate that way, sir. Anytime that there's an active shooter situation, we always assume that there's somebody else. Until we're satisfied that there is no second shooter or a third shooter then we will not leave the area. We will stay there. We will provide any type of law enforcement assistance as deemed necessary and if there is a second or third shooter, we will find them and bring them into custody as well.", "And we understand that the shooting took place just -- or the reports of the shooting were received by law enforcement just before noon Pacific Time. How soon were officers on the scene as far as you know?", "From our agency, I can tell you, our units arrived within a few minutes of receiving the 911 calls and, again, that's all being investigated. All those logs, all the 911 calls will be handed over to Santa Monica police as part of their investigation. Again, our units arrived pretty quickly after we got the 911 calls.", "Officer Vince Ramirez from the California Highway Patrol, thank you so much for joining us. We'll check back with you for this disturbing story out of California.", "Thank you.", "Just when you thought the case could not get any more bizarre there's been an arrest in to the investigation who sent the letters with the lethal poison ricin with President Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. She's an actress who hacks been on television shows such as the \"Walking Dead\" and \"The Vampire Diaries.\" We'll have much more on that case when we come back."], "speaker": ["TAPPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TAPPER", "OFFICER VINCE RAMIREZ, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL (via telephone)", "TAPPER", "RAMIREZ", "TAPPER", "RAMIREZ", "TAPPER", "RAMIREZ", "TAPPER", "RAMIREZ", "TAPPER", "RAMIREZ", "TAPPER", "RAMIREZ", "TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-94270", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2005-5-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0505/05/lol.01.html", "summary": "The Hunt for Rick Sanchez", "utt": ["I'm sorry, I'm just a little winded. I've been running from the law. I'm hiding out here at the CNN Center. I'm going to change my identity right now. There. How's that?", "Proof that CNN reporters make lousy fugitives from the law.", "All right, Rick Sanchez -- and we're having a little fun at his expense. But he did try a little experiment. He tried to run from the law, and he met up with Lola.", "Good girl.", "Welcome to Man Tracker 2005 in the woods of Coweta County, Georgia, where local police and state agencies brush up every year on the very techniques that could save lives, maybe their own. Among the techniques, tracking and finding a fugitive.", "We call it a traffic stop just like a normal traffic stop would be. At the point we get stopped, once I step out of the vehicle to make contact with the driver, you guys will bail out.", "USB-589, Kelly command post. (ph)", "In Georgia law enforcement terms, what you are about to see is called a \"bush bomb,\" a routine traffic stop that suddenly turns into a man hunt when the suspects bolt. Trooper Tony Hightower (ph) says it happens more often than we think.", "I don't know why they are running, number one. It may be a murder suspect. It may be they don't have driver's license. They may have beer in the car. It may be something as simple as that.", "Wayne, could you -- get you about two or 300 feet above.", "The exercise is going to be conducted just like the real thing. There will be two suspects. The first, Phil Kirksy (ph) who happens to be a real corrections officer and experienced tracker. The second, the next person they could find, me, a television correspondent with a bit of curiosity and a willingness to not take himself too seriously. After getting pulled, over the troopers mounted camera catches us making a run for it.", "Let's haul ass.", "My handycam recorded the get away. The dense Georgia woods would seem to any suspect, a perfect hiding place.", "Two white males, bush bomb.", "As we run through the woods, Trooper Hightower does not give chase. Experience and training tell him that would be the wrong thing to do. His job is to set up a perimeter.", "OK. 10-4. You got 10-77?", "10-4, 911", "He calls for more units, a helicopter and, what may be the best weapon of all, a bloodhound.", "And also need any K-9 units in the area.", "Back in the woods, we're still running. The feeling of being hunted creates a sensation of both desperation and confusion.", "One of the things that comes to mind right away is, you figure they're looking at you, and they got a good look at you when you tried to get out of the car. So, if you could somehow change your appearance, you might be able to throw them off. One of the keys is to just take off whatever clothes you have, and just leave it behind, and take off.", "After running through the woods and into a clearing, we hear the first sounds of the helicopter.", "I hear the chopper. We want to stay out of this clearing.", "Come on, girl.", "While we're looking for another place to hide, the tracking team arrives.", "The dog will find him within 20.", "As we run, we're shedding millions of cells. Think of it as a constant trail of microscopic pieces of your own skin. It is undetectable to us, but for Lola -- she's the bloodhound -- it is easy pickings.", "Right through there.", "And she picks up our scent almost immediately. But it's a helicopter that still has us worried at this point.", "We're going to find our way to an area over here that is covered. We think they won't be ale to see us here, because there's no way the helicopter can spot us. This looks open here, but the tree cover above us might possibly block out the helicopter. This would be the best bet right here.", "So the idea then is to try to hunker down.", "Hunker down and wait it out.", "That's when Phil spots the tracking team on our heels.", "I see the dogs coming. Get down. They are coming to us. We got nowhere to go.", "What I'm going to do now is try and separate myself from the other suspect, figuring, by separating the scents, the dogs that are chasing us will get confused, and they won't be bale to find me. Heading off on my own turns out to be the right move. Phil is immediately captured.", "Let me see your hands.", "I give up!", "Get down. Good girl.", "Don't shoot, I give up.", "Get him, girl. You can get up, boy.", "OK, don't shoot. I'm getting up.", "It's taken Lola just six minutes to find her first fugitive. And, now, she has picked up the next human scent: mine. I'm figuring they already got the other suspect. I'm going to see how long I can stay on the run before they find me. By continuing to run I seem to be able to stay ahead of the trackers, but what I can't do is run away from the sound of the helicopter blades. They are in the woods. You know you are being hunted. You really don't know which direction to go in. You just -- your instincts will tell you, don't go in a clearing because they'll see you, and the best you can do is try and confuse the dogs so they can't pick up your scent. Figuring if I can get away across this creek, I might be able to... But it's probably me who is confused. I follow some railroad tracks hoping to find a way out. Instead, I spot what I think will be a decent hiding place. I found a highway overpass. I figure if I can get a little slot underneath this thing, the helicopter won't be able to see me. But Lola is relentless. I don't realize it but she is getting closer. Now I've hunkered down, hoping to wait them out. Here's a little corner I'm tucked into. Nothing but concrete barriers and dirtdaubers.", "Show your hands! Good girl.", "You found my spot, huh? Well, I guess this is where guys would normally hide out, right?", "Oh, yes, this and anywhere else they can. As long as we keep tracking you, and they keep you pinned down as a team effort, it's hard to get away.", "My brief career as a fugitive is over. Fifteen to 20 minutes after finding Phil, Lola's nose and trainer Matt Gorely's (ph) experience proved unbeatable. Even my tricks didn't work, not even crossing the creek. I'm told it was neither deep enough nor wide enough to hide my scent.", "So, no matter how many circles I did out there in the woods, eventually these bloodhounds are going to get my scent.", "Right.", "We're going to stay out there with them.", "I mean, they never give up. That's the thing about them. They run. They run until we get tired.", "Lola goes back in her cage, and if I had been a real fugitive, I would be off to jail. Rick Sanchez, CNN, Newnan, Georgia.", "I hope Lola got a little treat there. You know, one thing Rick should not do on the Coolhand Rick do, he shouldn't do that hard-boiled egg eating contest. I don't think that would be very good for him.", "Got to give credit to the photographer. We forgot to do that.", "Rick. He shot it him himself.", "He was holding the camera the whole time?", "Well, a lot of that was just him doing this, you know, yes.", "Really. That's the next part. Well, that's the best line was, \"My days of being a fugitive are over.\"", "Well, I was thinking a next assignment for him would be to put him in a chain gang and see if he could escape. Maybe we can do that. We'll keep you posted. Time for us to take a break.", "We'll be right back.", "Don't be fugitive to us now. 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{"id": "CNN-330741", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2018-01-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/18/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Apple Pledges to Create U.S. Jobs.", "utt": ["All right, Apple making some big promises and investments in the U.S. economy. The company says it plans to create 20,000 jobs and invest some $30 billion in the U.S. over the next five years.", "Our chief business correspondent Christine Romans is here with more details. Look, the headlines are really great for Apple. This certainly gives it a halo effect. I just wonder, is it all -- is it all warranted?", "Well, they can afford it because they got a big tax cut.", "Yes.", "And that's, I think, the bottom line here is that they got such a gift from the tax cuts that they are able to package it up and present it like this as a big investment in the American economy. Let me first detail these numbers for you. They're going to bring foreign profits back home. WE think about $215 billion worth of money. Remember, Apple is making so much money with its overseas production model that they literally had more money than they know what to do with. They could just sit it -- it could just sit in bank accounts overseas. They're going to pay $38 billion to the Treasury on that overseas cash. They say it's going to create 20,000 U.S. jobs. They're going to invest an extra $30 billion in U.S. facilities over the next five years. We're talking about a data center, a new corporate campus and they're going to give $2,500 employee bonuses, but not for the really highly paid employees. Tim Cook said the tax cut is the real driver here. It's one of the reasons why they're able to, you know, ramp up their investment in the U.S. We have a deep sense of responsibility to give back to our country and the people who helped make our success possible, is what he said in a statement here. You know, they already said they were going to be ramping up advanced manufacturing in the United States, making investments in domestic manufacturers and the like. And some analysts have said they were already on track to spend almost all of this, but not quite.", "OK.", "Right.", "I mean this is because of, you know, they're getting a gift from the tax cuts. The president taking credit for this. He says, I promise that my policies would allow companies like Apple to bring massive amounts of money back to the United States. Great to see Apple follow through as a result of tax cuts. A huge win for American worker and the USA. You know, and on the point of, he promised they'd be able to bring a ton of money back, they're bringing a ton of money back.", "A ton of money back.", "They're bringing money back. Part of it's semantics. I mean money in a bank account overseas isn't all that different than money in a bank account here.", "Right.", "It's how they use it. We will see. That remains to be seen.", "Yes.", "Christine Romans, great to have you here with us.", "Thank you.", "Thank you very, very much. All right, the breaking news that makes it a oh so very interesting. We are told the president is fuming after the interview that Chief of Staff John Kelly did, saying the president was uninformed about his border wall. He's hating what the president said. What are the ramifications this morning? Stick around."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "HARLOW", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "HARLOW", "ROMANS", "HARLOW", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "HARLOW", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "ROMANS", "BERMAN", "HARLOW", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-246694", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2015-01-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/06/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "AirAsia Search; Boehner Re-Elected Speaker Despite GOP Opposition", "utt": ["Happening now: exclusive views of the AirAsia crash search. We're learning about new finds in dangerous water and a warning to the plane's pilots that may have been missed. Nuclear threat, North Korea edging closer to being capable of a nightmare attack that could reach the West Coast of the United States. New Ferguson investigation, the NAACP alleging prosecutor misconduct in the grand jury proceedings after Michael Brown's death and asks a judge to take new action. And the so-called weeper of the House. John Boehner gets emotional, very emotional as Republicans take control of Congress and he overcomes GOP challenges to his power. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in", "This is CNN breaking news.", "We're following breaking news at the AirAsia crash site. Dive teams are standing by to rejoin the search now if there is a break in bad weather that has kept them out of the water for about 24 hours, and it is just after sunrise off the coast of Indonesia when the search usually gets back under way. Investigators are studying two new metal objects discovered in the crash zone as crews tried to get closer to the area where they believe the plane went down. We're covering all the news that's breaking right now. The State Department's deputy spokeswoman, Marie Harf, she is standing by live,along with our CNN correspondents and our analysts. First, let's go to our aviation correspondent, Rene Marsh. She has the very latest -- Rene.", "Well, Wolf, the search area has expanded to account for the sea current moving critical pieces of evidence belonging to the doomed jetliner. Meantime, CNN has obtained a hard copy of the weather report authorities say the pilots didn't pick up prior to takeoff.", "Indonesian officials say AirAsia Flight 8501 threw through storm clouds that could have caused icing on the plane and that may have caused the crash. This document obtained by CNN shows the official government weather report forecasting conditions the pilots would encounter. Indonesian government officials tell CNN, there's no indication AirAsia staff picked up a hard copy, potentially a missed opportunity to discuss the report with the agency.", "I'm not necessarily seeing these things as any indication of negligence on the carrier's part, on the crew's part. I mean, it depends. We don't know exactly what weather information, what weather data the crew didn't allegedly see and how relevant that is to what happened.", "The airline says the pilots got the documents electronically, but since the crash, Indonesia now requires pilots to do face-to-face briefing with flight operations officers about conditions on the flight path. More than 40 vessels, 20 helicopters, and 97 divers are deployed to the search zone.", "The USS Fort Worth detected sonar of two metal objects, but we still need to confirm if this is part of the plane.", "One object, about 56 feet long, the other, 14 feet, elsewhere, a life vest, safety cards and bodies recovered, a total 39 of the 162 people on board pulled from the Java Sea. Muslim religious leaders on a search helicopter pray for the victims. Indonesia's military chief now offering to take families to the crash zone for some closure.", "I will prepare Hercules and ships either tomorrow or anytime. I will offer my help to the families of the victims.", "Today, monsoons, rains, muddy water, high waves and poor visibility hampered the dangerous underwater search for the plane's black boxes. The boxes have locator pingers that can be detected with sensors. But each day of delay, the batteries come closer to running out. The manufacturer tells CNN fresh batteries were installed just last year. They will fade in another three weeks.", "This has not only resulted in a policy change for Indonesia's aviation system, but AirAsia now also requires a face-to-face weather briefing between pilots and the government's weather agency. We should note the airline's handling of this weather information prior to takeoff remains under investigation, Wolf.", "All right. Rene, Thank you, Rene Marsh reporting. Let's go live to Indonesia right now. CNN's Kyung Lah is on the scene for us. She's been inside the AirAsia search command center. What is the latest over there, Kyung?", "Here in Jakarta, it is where the shots are being called. It is the nerve center, the place where the head of the operation is determining where the search will take place. And we got a very rare look at this nerve center. The head of the operation showing us how he directs some 20 aircraft and 40 ships at sea. The aircraft, while we were there, spotted two bodies. And then he dispatched ships to those exact coordinates and then confirmed that indeed those were the two bodies. This is a painstaking process, one that is being repeated over and over again, the planes combing back and forth across the Java Sea, hoping to find any wreckage, any bodies, the head of the operation saying he has two goals. One, find the bodies. Two, find those all- important black boxes. Wolf, and he has a deep suspicion, also, that there could be large sections of the plane sitting at the sea with people still strapped to their seats -- Wolf.", "Do they think they have enough personnel, planes, ships, sophisticated sonar equipment, already in place or do they need more?", "We actually asked him that exact question. He said he feels that he has the people in place. This is a multinational search. He couldn't tell us even exactly how many countries, how many ships and planes each one had contributed to the search. He says that he believes they have the resources, that they are narrowing down the search. They know where to look. It is just a matter optimizing the pieces that they have in place, Wolf.", "Kyung Lah reporting live from Jakarta, Indonesia. That's where the search is headquartered. Let's get an exclusive look now at an American warship's role in the AirAsia search operation and the frustrations after days of very rough weather. CNN's Paula Hancocks spent some time on the USS Sampson. She is now back on land in Indonesia. How did it go, Paula? What did you see?", "Well, Wolf, the weather on Tuesday was actually better than it has been for many days. This is what we heard from the U.S. commander on board as well. But even though it was better above the waves, below the waves, the divers still couldn't get in. It was too murky. But it is a 24-hour operation at sea. As you say, we have got an exclusive look to see what the U.S. effort is.", "Scouring the vast expanse of the Java Sea. Those on board the USS Sampson work around the clock to find anything connected to Flight 8501.", "Recovered a lot of debris and bodies, and quite tragic it sounds, it just brings closure to the families.", "A visit of appreciation Tuesday from Indonesia's military chief.", "It gets really choppy. This is about the best it's been.", "General Moeldoko has a few words for the U.S. troops, words, he says, are meant for all countries who are helping.", "Thank you very much.", "What we're trying to do is rule in or rule out...", "The general is convinced they are working in the right area, but he is also acutely aware of the challenges of this mission. \"Strong winds and currents,\" he tells me. \"The waves are not easy and muddy waters make it hard for divers. I welcome the families here to see the situation for themselves and to throw a flower into the water.\" Aboard the KRI Banda Aceh, he meets his own troops coordinating the search efforts. (on camera): This is really the command center of the operation at sea. This is an Indonesian warship. Behind me, you have got a U.S. helicopter that has just touched down, which shows the cooperation that's needed for this kind of operation and the international help that is being put into it. (voice-over): Russia, France, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, to name but a few countries working together. But without the chance of better weather, the best technology in the world will inevitably have its limitations.", "It's just gone 6:00 in the morning. It is light, as you can see. This is often the time the aerial search starts. We have certainly been hearing helicopters in the air once again and, of course, we will be waiting to hear whether or not divers can get into the water today -- Wolf.", "We will stay in close touch with you. Paula, thanks very much. Let's bring in our aviation analysts, Miles O'Brien and Peter Goelz, our law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes, our aviation correspondent Richard Quest and then the aviation writer and author Clive Irving. Richard, these two metal objects that were found today, what is your sense? Are these objects part of the plane or just another false alarm?", "We don't know and we won't know. One can speculate to the nth degree. But clearly what we have heard so far from various ships and helicopters, for example, when Reuters reported that they thought they had found the tail, there is so much garbage in that part of the world in the ocean. It is heavily shipped. It's heavily trafficked, so it is not surprising they are finding these pieces. But as in Paula Hancock's report, you heard the U.S. Navy officer say they are picking up debris so they know they're in the right place. Wolf, it really is just a question of time and effort.", "But, Tom, the debris they're picking up, the wreckage, that could be from some ship that was sunk during World War", "No, exactly. Wolf, but there's debris all over. They're discovering even recent ships that have sunk in the Java Sea. We're learning that our oceans are filthy.", "They certainly are. Let's talk a little bit about the communications, Miles, because it is so frustrating. They were flying at 36,000 feet. The pilot called ground control asking for permission to go up to 38,000. The maximum is, what, 40,000, that kind of Airbus can 90. Didn't hear anything. But that was really the last we heard. After that, there was silence. No more maydays, no more nothing. Right?", "Yes. When you look at the radar data, there's some troubling information here. It is hard to know really what was really happening because we're measuring ground speed and it may not be very accurate. But what it does indicate is that the aircraft was dangerously close, if not at its stall speed, meaning not the engines quitting, but aerodynamic stall, meaning it would fall out of the sky. So a big question here is, he was not cleared of that altitude and yet ascended. Was that an emergency operation on the part of the pilot or was that an updraft which he could not control? Was he going for a ride courtesy of Mother Nature? We don't know that.", "He was technically allowed to go up, even though he hadn't received permission yet if he felt there was an emergency under way.", "In an emergency situation, the captain can do anything he needs to preserve the souls on board the aircraft. That's for sure.", "What's your analysis? Peter, why was there no mayday, for example? What could have been the cause for no mayday?", "Simply, they had their hands full.", "It only takes a second to push a button and say mayday, mayday, or then go back and do whatever they were doing.", "There's always a reluctance to call out mayday. But when you're flying the plane, that's your first responsibility. The nonflying pilot has got his responsibilities. He is reading out a checklist. He is reaching for a checklist. I just think their hands were full in a very challenging, eventually catastrophic...", "The fact there were new batteries inside these so-called black boxes, but no pings have yet been detected, what does that say to you?", "It doesn't surprise me. It is disappointing. The black boxes often become covered with silt and covered with metal. You have got to be directly over them. It is hard to find something in the ocean. It took us days to find the black boxes at TWA 800. We were right over it. The pingers, we never picked up.", "Clive Irving, as of today, and correct me if I'm wrong, no critical wreckage that would give an indication of the cause of the crash has been found. How unusual is this?", "Well, I want to talk about the frustration I think we all feel. All this searching, expensive searching, work it's doing would not be as important as it now is if we had the proper tracking system. I know we all feel the absence of that. I just want to explain something, because I don't think many people understand this. I went Inmarsat in London, the people who tracked 370, and they have this satellite system which could provide the information that we need to solve these problems. And I didn't understand how this worked. And what's important to understand about what they can do, they already have equipment in more than 80 percent of the world's wide body fleet that could be used to transmit crucial information. That would take two forms. The first would one be the moment a plane was upset or deviated from its intended course, as we have been just talking about, the upset of this plane is very clear, from the moment that upset occurred, the plane would start transmitting crucial information, data through its satellite system to the ground, so that even before it hit the water, we would have a picture, digital picture. That information would override all other information on the network. It would get priority. It would go to the ground. The second thing we would have, of course, if we had that, we would know exactly where it went. In one stroke, one technical stroke, we would have the information that we sorely lack now. What went wrong? What upset this plane and where is it? And it's the scandal I think, as other analysts have said on this program, it's a scandal that the industry and the people who regulate the industry are still sitting on their hands and they're not doing it. How many more times do we have to go through this tragic and really compellingly sad situation before something is done?", "I think, Richard Quest, you agree with Clive on that. It is a scandal that the technology is there, but they don't use it.", "Yes, and I do agree with Clive. And I also know the arguments and the political arguments for and against it. And they don't really hold a lot of strength at the moment. There are competing -- Inmarsat has one system it's put forward. There are competing systems that are also saying, no, the Inmarsat isn't the right system. There are competitors. It is a complex issue. But the issue really, Wolf, is that the leadership of the industry has to now say this is a case where we must move forward.", "Richard, let me interrupt. Why didn't that happen immediately after the Malaysian airliner disappeared?", "It did to a certain extent. They had to find out what was the best way forward and IATA was tasked with this tracking task force. But this task force put forward its report in December, Wolf. Its task force was considered in December. But ICAO, this is the body that -- the international aviation safety body, they are not due to meet until February. Now, you know, I know, everybody in the industry knows that something needs to be done. But it's this lack of urgency to now do it. We're talking here, just to put in it perspective, 447 took ages to time, 370 took ages to find now. Now 8501 is taking ages to find. Many of these issues could be mitigated if the industry moved forward.", "Miles, you want to weigh in on this?", "Yes. I just think Richard is right on top of things here. This is a solvable solution. There is a solvable solution here, and it goes back to 447 and before that. This industry has sat on its hands on it and it really is up to all of to us demand it, I think.", "Yes. And I know you're frustrated as well and you have worked at the NTSB. You worked with these international organizations. They're just sitting on their hands over there.", "ICAO make molasses look fast-moving.", "Yes. You agree, Tom?", "I think one of the arguments will be someday more compelling if it turns out that somebody did survive the crash and died of exposure or shark attack or something in the water because they weren't located soon enough afterwards. So, that would be even worse.", "And one thing that could change, the FAA could unilaterally make this a regulation.", "Why don't they?", "That's the thing. If the FAA does it, that has a ripple effect around the world.", "Why don't they?", "They choose to act in concert with other bodies. They won't do it alone. They would like the British and the French to come along with them.", "Richard, we learned today the AirAsia pilot didn't pick up the necessary weather report in person. He may have read something online or got something on his iPad or whatever, but didn't have that in-person weather briefing before he took off. How significant is that?", "I'm going to go out on my own here and say it is not significant really at all. No pilot goes into the air without knowing what the weather forecast is. If he had the chart, if he had read it, it's part of the -- now, if he didn't have any briefing himself, if he didn't bother to look at the charts, if he didn't read the e-mails, then it is simple negligence. But I can't imagine any pilot would willingly get behind the side stick of an aircraft without knowing what the weather is. The fact that he didn't talk to a man to his face I happen to think is pretty much irrelevant. And more importantly, he had the details. He had his weather radar on board. He knew what he was probably going to face. And the Indonesian authorities need to be looking at their role in that rather than trying to blame the pilot.", "Clive, I'm going to show our viewers some pictures of the seats that were recovered from the wreckage. When we see these pictures, what does it say to you? Can we tell from the damage of these seats what may have caused the plane to crash?", "We can't tell what caused the plane to crash but you can tell the consequences of the crash, I think. I saw when I looked at those photographs some interesting stuff. But the main impact on the seats is in the lumbar and bottom area, which suggests to me that the plane hit the water with some force, because they suggest spinal compression. You can see if you look at the junction of the back of the seat and the back end of the cushion part of the seat. You can see there's maximum damage and pressure has been done in that location which seems to me to prove the bodies were really literally -- by the enormous g forces that were exerted on them were rammed down into those seats.", "Clive Irving, thanks very much. Peter Goelz, Miles O'Brien, Tom Fuentes, and Richard Quest. We will continue the coverage of this story.", "This is CNN breaking news.", "And we have some breaking news coming into THE SITUATION ROOM, disturbing information. An active shooter now reported at the William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas. We're standing by. We're getting information on what's going on. An active shooter at this medical center. We will have details in just a minute."], "speaker": ["WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST", "THE SITUATION ROOM. ANNOUNCER", "BLITZER", "RENE MARSH, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT", "MARSH (voice-over)", "PATRICK SMITH, AUTHOR", "MARSH", "BAMBANG SULISTYO, INDONESIAN NATIONAL SEARCH AND RESCUE CHIEF (through translator)", "MARSH", "GEN. MOELDOKO, INDONESIAN MILITARY CHIEF (through translator)", "MARSH", "MARSH", "BLITZER", "KYUNG LAH, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "LAH", "BLITZER", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "HANCOCKS (voice-over)", "CMDR. STEVEN M. FOLEY, USS SAMPSON", "HANCOCKS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HANCOCKS", "GEN. 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{"id": "CNN-11706", "program": "WorldView", "date": "2000-7-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/11/wv.01.html", "summary": "Mideast Peace Summit Under Way at Camp David", "utt": ["United States President Bill Clinton brought the leaders of Israel and the Palestinians together Tuesday to take on some of the toughest issues in Middle East peace-making. The place: the Camp David presidential retreat, where 22 years ago, Israel and Egypt reached a landmark accord. CNN's Kelly Wallace is in nearby Thurmont, Maryland.", "They appeared briefly for the cameras, but no hint of what was behind the smiles.", "We pledged to each other we would answer no questions and offer no comments. So I have to set a good example.", "And then, behind closed doors, the two Mideast leaders playfully struggling to be the more gracious negotiator.", "The meetings began today in a good atmosphere. The discussions have been serious.", "Earlier, President Clinton signaled the message he would take to the negotiating table.", "The two leaders face profound and wrenching questions. And there can be no success without principled compromise. The road to peace, as always, is a two-way street.", "Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak faces political pressures at home, but remains confident he has a mandate from the Israeli people for a peace deal. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat brings a different approach, promising to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state, with or without a peace deal, by a September 13th deadline. (on camera): White House officials say the goal of day one: testing the mood to see if the parties are ready for deal-making. In the days ahead, Mr. Clinton could offer some U.S. proposal. But the White House is imposing a pseudo gag-order, hoping to keep whatever options are being discussed -- quote -- \"in the room.\" Kelly Wallace, CNN, near Camp David, Maryland.", "CNN's Jerrold Kessel has long covered both the Israeli and Palestinian sides from Jerusalem. He joins us from Thurmont -- Jerrold.", "Bernie, the question is, is this an all-encompassing be-all, if you like, be-all, end-all summit, a finale summit, or if all three leaders merely positioning themselves for the aftermath of the summit, the aftermath...", "Well, we're having difficultly with the visual portion of his report. And as soon as we can get back to him, we shall."], "speaker": ["JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR", "KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "WALLACE", "JOE LOCKHART, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY", "WALLACE", "CLINTON", "WALLACE", "BERNARD SHAW, CNN ANCHOR", "JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "SHAW"]}
{"id": "CNN-230722", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2014-5-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/16/nday.01.html", "summary": "Fire Rages on in California; Sterling Might Have Lawyered Up", "utt": ["Breaking news, the battle raged all night long. Firefighters up against more than they can handle from unprecedented wildfires as tens of thousands are evacuated in Southern California. Now two teens have been arrested. Did they start these fires? And what you're looking at right now, why so many fire natives?", "Fighting back. Donald Sterling's lawyers respond to the NBA saying he did nothing wrong and he's not paying the multimillion-dollar fine. Battle lines are being drawn as the Clippers get knocked out of the playoffs overnight.", "Under fire. The head of veterans affairs says he's not stepping down in the face of evidence that veterans died waiting for help. Congress grilled him over what went wrong. Should he leave or is he the man to fix it?", "Your NEW DAY starts right now. This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Kate Bolduan, and Michaela Pereira.", "Good morning. Welcome to NEW DAY. it is Friday, May 16th. Just after 6:00 in the a.m. In the east at least. We're going to begin with the worst wildfires we've seen in a while. A battle that has turned deadly in southern California. Police believe this was all done intentionally. Two arson suspects are under arrest.", "In Carlsbad, fire fighters made a grim discovery during a hot spot check, a badly burned body. Here's where they stand in terms of devastation this morning. At least eight fires are burning. 10,000 acres have been scorched and dozens of structures are destroyed or heavily damaged. Dan Simon is in Escondido, California, with the very latest.", "Raging on overnight. At least eight fires in San Diego county consuming home after home. Smoke even visible from space as the blazes ravage over 10,000 acres. Evacuations now call for nearly 16,000 residences as the flames turn fatal. Fire crews discovering a badly burned body in a Carlsbad encampment. The unseasonably erratic winds with gusts up to 50 miles per hour, spreading the flames rapidly.", "I have never seen the Santa Ana winds, also called devil winds, in the month of may.", "Winds whipping in multiple directions causing terrifying fire tornadoes.", "Another tornado right there on the other side.", "Watch this flaming vortex atop a hill spin wildly, nearly engulfing the house in front. Thousands of firefighters and military crews bombarding the blazes from all sides. Still, no match for the swift moving flames fueled by acres of dry brush.", "It came down the hill. Once you start seeing black smoke, it was upon here within 15 minutes.", "With so many wildfires erupting one right after the other, speculation of arson on the rise. Two teens 30 miles north of San Diego now in custody being questioned for two smaller brush fires in Escondido.", "We have developed reasonable suspicion, probable cause to believe that they were involved in setting fires.", "Unrelated to San Diego's eight major brush fires, reducing almost 20 homes now to ashes.", "It was absolutely gorgeous. And now it's all gone. All gone. What can I say?", "Fortunately not everything was destroyed. Sophie's family safe salvaging a few family photos. And their dog rocky, his fur singed from the flames, found alive after being trapped in the house.", "After all of this devastation, the house is completely on the ground. We were just praying at least we could find our little dog here.", "And it has been a very busy night of fire fighting in the San Diego area. In fact, it still is. We are in the town of Escondido. This is the latest area to get hit. You can see this home completely leveled. You really can't make out anything. Where you see those flames appears to be some kind of bedroom or perhaps a living room. Chris, with so many fires breaking out basically at once, there has been real concern that we're looking at arson and, as we know, two people were taken into custody, a 19-year-old and a juvenile. They're being questioned about whether or not they are responsible for some of these other wildfires. At this point they're saying they may have started a brush fire. But a really concern that arson may be a play. Chris.", "Just when you think it couldn't get any worse, if this was intentional, takes it to an entirely new level. The Thunder beat the Clippers to end their season. That's not a huge shock. Neither is the latest news in the Donald Sterling scandal. CNN hasn't confirmed it yet but there are reports this morning that Sterling has lawyered up, hiring a prominent anti-trust lawyer, anti- trust is a key word there and we'll tell you why. The lawyer telling the NBA, of course, that his client has done nothing wrong and won't be paying the $2.5 million fine for his racist comments. Let's bring in Malik Rose, game analyst for Comcast sportsnet Philadelphia and Mr. Danny Cevallos, criminal defense attorney and CNN legal analyst. Danny, I start with you for the legality here. He hired a anti-trust lawyer. Seems odd unless you understand how this situation works. Why an antitrust lawyer, Danny?", "Well, Donald Sterling's basic argument is going to be that the NBA and its owners s colluded to essentially fix the price -- or effect the price that he would otherwise get at market value for his team. That's what antitrust is all about. You may have heard it discussed in the context of gasoline, oil cartels. Getting together in a room and agreeing, hey, we're going to fix prices. If you raise your price I'll raise my price. That's the spirit of antitrust. What Donald Sterling is going to try to argue here is that even though he signed all of these agreements as part of the privilege of being in the NBA, the other NBA owners and commissioner Silver, what they did is they got together and agreed in some sort of conspiracy to edge him out and set a price for the Clippers that would be substantially below market value.", "Malik let's get you in here because I need you to play professor. There's a more specific reason, also, that he picked antitrust. That's the only carve-outs as we understand it in the agreement he signed with the NBA that allows you to take a matter to ordinary courts. He waived all other types of litigation. Right? Except antitrust, so it's the only way he can go. Tell us what we know about these documents, Malik.", "Well, first of all, the league expected this. Ever since Adam Silver went up on the podium and said that Mr. Sterling was banned for life he knew this was coming. His lawyers around him knew it was coming. But to get into the NBA you have to sign a charter which has rules and regulations that all owners are governed by. And that's what Donald Sterling did. He's a lawyer so he knew what he was signing. And those -- I think we have it on the screen, we can put it up. Two or three key things in those charters of the franchise agreements say specifically that the one, the NBA commissioner is the final authority on all matters involving behavior. Series of legal documents that contain covenants directly related to unethical conduct and immoral positions and it expressly forbid owners from engaging in unethical conduct or taking positions that have an adverse effect on the NBA. That's what the league is going to go after him on. He's in violation of those agreements in that charter.", "So, Danny, if the commissioner is the final authority on whether or not the provision is breached that you have done something or held a position that's unethical or hurtful to the league, is a lot of this more smoke than it is fire in terms of what Donald Sterling can achieve here?", "That's a pretty good legal assessment. Basically because Donald Sterling agreed to all these terms, the NBA can internally do whatever it wants essentially. I mean, this may sound like a violation of due process but you don't have any due process rights when there's no government actor. And the NBA is not an arm of the government. The NBA is a private club that Donald Sterling agreed to be part of. So most experts are saying that this antitrust attack or this prong is going to be a long shot, but according to the NBA constitution, it may be one of his only shots.", "Now, Malik, it will be interesting. Is it going to be perceived as he's just protecting his rights or do you believe this move really waters down the apology?", "Well, the apology was, let's just say, a great TV event in and of itself. I don't really know if we can classify that as an apology. But this is definitely designed -- I think Mr. Cevallos is right, this is definitely designed to slow down the process and kind of muddy the waters for the NBA. But commissioner Silver is a very, very intelligent individual and he's smart enough to hire even smarter lawyers around him to fight stuff like this. And it's -- it's almost just like, you know, an exercise in rhetoric. This is going to have to play through and it's going to take a long, long time, which is the scary part for the NBA because listen to the players in the union, the people I have spoken to, the players are serious about this. If this takes too long and runs into next season, I don't want to think about what could happen.", "And, Danny, let's just look down the road a little bit. First of all, he has the interview where he said I made mistakes, I hurt the league, I hurt the league. That's not going to help him in his case if he ever gets one, which he probably wouldn't. If he doesn't pays the money and they wind up oust him, do you think the league comes after him for the money or do you think they just want him gone?", "That's a good question. I think the league at this point would just love for this to go away and I think that's Donald Sterling's biggest leverage at this point. Irrespective of what a jury may actually do years down the road, the one thing Donald Sterling has with the threat of litigation is leverage. The NBA would love for this to disappear if there is prolonged litigation it will do anything but disappear. And that may be the crowbar that Donald Sterling is really bringing to bear against the league. Even if they may not fully expect their chances are that good at trial, to win an antitrust or a due process claim, they can hang the threat of litigation and actual litigation costs over the NBA for many years. And that alone may be the leverage that Sterling needs to maybe get the NBA to capitulate on some of his demands. If they capitulate or walk back -- go ahead, Malik, make the final point.", "If they capitulate or walk back it's really going to be a problem because then it's going to fall on the players to ratchet it up. It's one thing to be able to say all of these things of Mr. Sterling but there's another thing to prove it. I don't see how he's going to be able to prove that he didn't adversely affect the brand of the", "Well said. Better than what I was going to say anyway. Malik Rose, thank you very much. Danny Cevallos, appreciate the analysis. The scandal continues and we will continue to watch it. Lot of other news as well though so let's get to Mick for the news.", "Here's your headlines. New U.N. Report warning of an alarming deterioration of human rights in eastern Ukraine. This amid a potential game changer on the ground. Thousands of steelworkers retook the city of Mariupol from pro-Russian separatists. This is a blow to the separatists who recently seized the region and held a much criticized referendum for independence. The world's largest election has come to and with an overwhelming win for the opposition. The ruling Congress party has now conceded it has lost to a party headed by a Hindu nationalist. Corruption allegations plagued the Congress party in recent years. Millions voted in this election that lasted five weeks. And in Turkey, at least 18 miners are still feared trapped after the worst coal mining disaster in that nation's history. Nearly 300 people are now confirmed dead. Many were laid to rest Thursday in mass burials. Now grieving family members are railing against what they call poor safety conditions and the government's indifferent response. We continue to watch that story in Turkey. Of course, here at home, weather is a concern for us always. We know that they certainly could use rain out west but let's look at what overall we can expect for the weekend, Indra.", "What a contrast, the west it's so dry but out east the concern is the flooding. Thirty-four million of us today do have the threat for flood advisories. You can see them really in New York stretching through Virginia. That's going to be the problem phase. We're still talking about the exact same cold front we've been talking about all week long. This is the same one that brought snow in Colorado, if you remember way back then. Now look at all the moisture is still hanging out on the east coast. This moisture is lining up with exactly where that cold front is. It's a slow moving cold front. That's the problem. You have rain over the same place for long period of times. You can see the radar right now and the rain is already out there and only more of it is expected to fall. And heavy amounts. The mid-Atlantic, that is the highest amounts of rain. Two to four inches possible in the mid- Atlantic and one to two in the northeast over the next two days. You can have a lot of rain in a short period of time. That's the biggest concern. Finally by Saturday this guy actually kicks out of here. Lasting a little bit longer towards New England. Scattered showers behind it. A mini short wave. This is the major system. Keep in mind the temperatures are going to back off. The weekend will get a lot better as it goes on. A little bit rainy for most people in the first half. Second half looks good. Saturday and Sunday looks good. I don't think there's anyone complaining about that.", "Keeping a close eye out west. Thanks.", "It's going to rain, rain winds up the ocean. Hearing reports here among the crew that the bait is coming into the bays. Fish are coming.", "Reminder, we are now entering the season where we hear Chris talk about fishing every day.", "Fishing, also know as America's most popular past time.", "Or not. Very wonderful time if you would ever take me.", "I'll take you.", "Thank you.", "We'll go very far out into the ocean.", "Oh gosh, and we'll never come back. A three-hour tour, people. Coming up next on NEW DAY, the secretary of veterans affairs say he's mad as hell and faced a grilling from lawmakers but he's sticking with the job. Should he be pushed out? Most importantly, what is going to be done to fix the problems of the V.A.. One of the nation's top veterans organizations joining us next.", "Wildfires, as you know, devouring southern California and drought is creating risk for more everywhere else in the state. 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{"id": "CNN-376372", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2019-07-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/31/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Interview With Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms", "utt": ["And good evening from Detroit, where round two of the CNN Democratic debates is almost here. I'm Anderson Cooper. Thanks for joining us.", "And I'm Erin Burnett. And here we are in Detroit. In the spirit of hometown hero Joe Louis, there is a heavyweight here tonight, as well as a lot of challengers who are ready to go. They have landed punches on him the last time they met. So the question tonight for Democrats is, which Joe Biden will show up, the one that Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker knocked around the debate stage in Miami, or the one who made his bones under pressure so many times before that? That is, of course, the big question and just one of many things we will learn tonight on that debate stage. We also will see how Senator Harris defends for new health care plan just rolling out this week. And we will also find out whether Vice President Biden's message, his message of moderation still resonates, especially after last night. Progressives Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders dominated proceedings last night. Biden, after all, of course, is, according to polls, the overwhelming front-runner when you look at those polls, both against fellow Democrats and when you look at the one-on-ones against President Trump, even after his performance last time. But a second shaky debate appearance could change that. So it is no overstatement to say that the stakes tonight are very, very high, as we count down to this crucial debate and what will be a another pivotal night tonight -- Anderson.", "Yes, certainly Erin, so much to watch for. I'm here right now with a Biden supporter and his guest tonight, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. Mayor Bottoms, thanks so much for being with us.", "Thank you.", "David Axelrod framed the importance for the vice president tonight. He said the big question he has to resolve is if he's up to this thing, if he's vigorous, and if he is engaged. That was the knock on him really in the last debate. Is he going to do that tonight?", "I think he will definitely do that tonight. Immediately after the last debate, we saw the Joe Biden that we know. We saw Joe Biden push back hard. I think what happened during the first debate was, it caught him by surprise. He's a statesman. So he didn't expect a friend to attack him. That being said, he came back stronger. He's been strong. And it's the Joe that we know. And I think the more he speaks about his policies, and not focus on the attacks, I think the more he will continue to resonate with voters.", "How much do you expect him to try to focus on President Trump, which is -- in his address in his video coming into the race announcing his determination to run, it really was focused on President Trump and what he believes President Trump has done to the country and how Joe Biden wants to change that?", "Trump is the enemy. It won't be the other people standing on the stage. This is about winning in 2020. And we have talked about this circular firing squad and to be very careful that we don't kill each other off in the same way that we sent Hillary Clinton into the election in November of 2016 limping. She was damaged. So I hope that will not happen tonight. I think we can talk about policies. I think that we can be strong and be forceful without tearing each other down and doing the party and the country harm.", "But, certainly, as you know, for some of these folks, this is their last night on this debate stage. Some of them are not going to make it to the next debate. And a lot of those people are going to do whatever they can get to that next debate stage. And if that means going after the perceived front-runner, they're going to do it.", "I understand. But you have to remember Joe Biden has been a presidential candidate before. And so for anyone who's hoping to be president, it doesn't end here tonight, if that's your destiny. I think that it's important that we consider the future of this country, the future of this world. We need the strongest candidate that we have to go up against Donald Trump, a candidate who can take Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, even Georgia and North Carolina.", "Let me play that moment that you talked about with Kamala Harris in the last debate for our viewers. Let's just watch it.", "It was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on segregation of race in this country. And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing. And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools. And she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me.", "That's a mischaracterization of my position across the board. I did not praise racists. That is not true. The busing, I never -- you would have been able to go to school the same exact way, because it was a local decision made by your city council. I did not oppose busing in America. What I opposed is ordered by the Department of Education. That's what I opposed.", "And, obviously, it went on from there. You said that he was surprised, that he didn't expect somebody he considered a friend to do this. In the world of politics, obviously, there's friendships and then there's politics. And running for the president is the most intense thing there is. I guess the criticism of -- one of the criticisms of Vice President Biden, and that is, if he wasn't prepared for what was probably a pretty predictable line of attack from Kamala Harris, how can he be prepared to deal with Donald Trump on the stage?", "Even as we just watched that clip, that's a moment. It's a very small moment, a very short period of time. I wouldn't judge someone on a 30-second exchange. That was a great debate. Kamala Harris is a great debater, but we're not looking for a great debater. We're looking for someone who can beat Donald Trump in November of 2020. And that's Joe Biden.", "Mayor Bottoms, I appreciate it. A lot to watch for tonight. Thank you very much.", "Thank you. Thank you for having me.", "Always good to talk to you. We're going to take -- obviously, a lot to look for over the next two hours. Let's go back to Erin right now.", "All right, and we are going to be here with our panel in just a couple of moments, as we are getting ready to watch for this crucial debate and what will be coming in just a moment. We will be right back."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "ERIN BURNETT, CNN HOST", "COOPER", "KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS (D), MAYOR OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA", "COOPER", "BOTTOMS", "COOPER", "BOTTOMS", "COOPER", "BOTTOMS", "COOPER", "SEN. KAMALA HARRIS (D-CA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "JOSEPH BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "COOPER", "BOTTOMS", "COOPER", "BOTTOMS", "COOPER", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "CNN-411879", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-09-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/25/nday.04.html", "summary": "GOP Senator Susan Collins Faces Tough Re-election Fight in Maine.", "utt": ["So, this morning, one of the most vulnerable Senate incumbents in the country, Republican Susan Collins of Maine. This was already one of the most closely watched races in the country. But now she's about to face the very same issue that may be hurting her with some voters. The decision on a Trump nominee for the Supreme Court. Gary Tuchman got to go to Maine, lucky man and joins us now live from Bangor. Great to see you, Gary.", "John, nice to see you, too. Susan Collins has been a U.S. senator since Bill Clinton was president, a long time. She's hoping to win a fifth term, but she is in a fight of her political life.", "Susan Collins has been a U.S. senator for almost a quarter century. The Republican senior senator from Maine bills herself as the Senate's most bipartisan member. A reputation that has helped her win re-election in a state where there are more Democrats and even more independents than there are Republicans.", "There is no one who has worked harder for the people of Maine, all the people of Maine, and delivered more to them than I have.", "But one thing she helped deliver is proving politically troublesome for her. Susan Collins helped deliver a Supreme Court seat to Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.", "I will vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh.", "She voted to confirm despite sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh from his high school days. Collins' Democratic opponent is the speaker of the Maine House of Representatives.", "My name is Sara Gideon.", "At this campaign event in the small town of Raymond, Maine, listen to what this man tells Gideon.", "I never would vote for Susan after she voted for Kavanaugh.", "In the streets of Maine's largest city, Portland, and in the scenic small towns, Kavanaugh's name comes up a lot.", "Ever since the Brett Kavanaugh issue or the Brett Kavanaugh vote, I felt like she's not listening to what the people of Maine want anymore.", "How did you feel when Susan Collins voted for Kavanaugh to be on the Supreme Court?", "Like she's not listening to what people actually want.", "I'm a Democrat, but I have always voted for Susan Collins until this year. She has just -- she's just capitulated.", "Susan Collins has been a re-election juggernaut. She has won her three Senate re-election bids handily, the last one in 2014 and by about 37 percentage points. But this race against Sara Gideon is a whole different ball game. (voice-over): The most recent \"New York Times\"-Siena College poll conducted just before Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died shows Sara Gideon with 49 percent and Susan Collins with 44 percent. The results are within the poll's margin of error. Collins is polling better though than President Trump is in the state. For some voters, the Trump factor is too much.", "She's just in Trump's pocket. She's scared of him as so many people are.", "We used to vote for Collins, but I think she's too much of a Trumpee right at the moment.", "Meanwhile, who will you be voting for in the Senate election?", "Susan Collins, definitely.", "Among voters who enthusiastically support Senator Collins, a concern they often voice shows the political tight-rope she has to walk.", "So, I think she ought to be more cooperative with President Trump.", "This man says Senator Collins should --", "Take more of a conservative stance on issues and vote the conservative position, especially with the upcoming vote on our new incoming Supreme Court Justice.", "Indeed, Senator Collins announced, she would vote against the Trump Supreme Court nominee if the vote takes place before election day. Does Gideon give Collins any credit for that type of bipartisanship?", "I'm sorry, I cannot say that Susan Collins has stood up for what is right.", "During a debate earlier this month --", "I have always put the people of Maine first, and I always will.", "Completely different opinions which the people of Maine will have to consider.", "Now, yesterday, President Trump happened to talk about Maine. He said, quote, \"I'm doing very well in Maine. You've seen the numbers.\" Well, we have seen the numbers and it's kind of the opposite. He is not doing very well in the polls in Maine. It's looking dim for him. Joe Biden is in front of the polls substantially, Susan Collins is in a fight here, but she is as I mentioned, doing much better in this state than President Trump is. Right now, we're in the town of Bangor, Susan Collins will be campaigning later this morning, a smaller town just north of here. John?", "All right, Gary Tuchman, thanks so much for being with us, giving us an update again on one of the most closely-watched races in the country to be sure. NEW DAY continues right now.", "The president telling the country he will not accept the results of the election if he loses. That he will throw out some number of ballots. We can't throw them out if he won't go peacefully.", "We want to make sure the election is honest. And I'm not sure that it can be.", "There will be a peaceful transition, no matter what anybody says.", "The virus is raging in these places, and it's not going to go down unless we do things differently.", "I want to reassure you and the American people, politics will play no role whatsoever in the approval of a vaccine.", "The four companies to reveal their strategy for testing a vaccine. It's not a test. It's basically a rubber stamp.", "Good morning everyone, welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world, this is NEW DAY, it's Friday, John.", "And we're getting a little bit punchy --", "So crowded. So this morning, election officials, the head of the Postal Service, the Senate and the director of the FBI all feel the need to reassure Americans about the integrity of our voting system after alarming claims by President Trump.", "Now, we have not seen historically any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election whether it's by mail or otherwise.", "The United States Senate even found it necessary after the president's comments to hold a vote to uphold a peaceful transfer of power."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "GARY TUCHMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "TUCHMAN (voice-over)", "SEN. SUSAN COLLINS (R-ME)", "TUCHMAN", "COLLINS", "TUCHMAN", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-391404", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2020-01-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2001/29/se.13.html", "summary": "The Impeachment Trial; Senators Ask Questions.", "utt": ["-- every single threat a president might someday pose, the framers adopted a standard sufficiently general and flexible to meet unknown future circumstances. This standard was meant, as Mason put it, to capture all manner of great and dangerous offenses incompatible with the Constitution. When the president uses the powers of his high office to benefit himself while injuring or ignoring the American people he is duty- bound to serve, he has committed an impeachable offense. The records of the Constitutional Convention offer further clarity. At the Constitutional Convention itself, no delegate, no delegate linked impeachment to the technicalities of criminal law. Instead, the framers principally intended impeachment for three forms of presidential wrongdoing. The ABCs of impeachment: A, abuse of power; B, betrayal of the national interests through foreign entanglements; and, C, corruption of office and elections. When a president abuses his power to obtain illicit help in his election from a foreign power and undermine our national security and election integrity it is a trifecta.", "Thank you. Thank you, Counsel.", "Thank you.", "The senator from Louisiana?", "Mr. Chief Justice, along with Senator Blackburn and Senator Cornyn, I send a question to the desk for the House managers and for counsel for the president.", "In the case of such a question addressed to both sides, they will split the five minutes equally. The senators ask, \"Why did the House of Representatives not challenge President Trump's claims of executive privilege and/or immunity during the House impeachment proceedings?\" We'll begin with the House managers. (OFF-MIKE) You'll have to start the clock soon.", "Mr. Chief Justice, Distinguished Senators, thank you for your question. The answer is simple. We did not challenge any claims related to executive privilege because, as the president's own counsel admitted during this trial, the president never raised the question of executive privilege. What the president did raise was this notion of blanket defiance. This notion that the executive branch, directed by the president, could completely defy any and all subpoenas issued by the House of Representatives, not turn over documents, not turn over witnesses, not produce a single shred of information in order to allow us to present the truth to the American people. In the October 8th letter that was sent to the House of Representatives, there was no jurisprudence that was cited to justify the notion of blanket defiance. There has been no case law cited to justify the doctrine of absolute immunity. In fact, every single court that has considered any presidential claim of absolute immunity, such as the one asserted by the White House, has rejected it out of hand.", "Counsel for the president?", "Mr. Chief Justice, Senators, thank you for that question. Let me frame this partly in response to what Manager Jefferies just said. And I went through this before, the idea that there was blanket defiance, and no explanation, and no case law from the White House is simply incorrect. I put up slides showing the letters. A letter from October 18th that explained specifically that the subpoenas that had been issued by the House, because they were not authorized from a -- by a vote from the House, were invalid. And there was a letter from the White House counsel saying that. There was a letter from OMB saying that. There was a letter from the State Department saying that. There were specific rationales given, citing the cases Watkins, Rumely and others, explaining that defect. The House managers -- the House Manager Schiff chose not to take any steps to correct that. We also pointed out other defects. We asserted the doctrine of absolute immunity for senior advisors to the president, which has been asserted by every president since the 1970s. They chose not to challenge that in court. We also explained the problem that they didn't allow agency counsel to be present at depositions. They chose not to challenge that in court. These were specific legal reasons, not blanket defiance, right. That's just a misrepresentation of the record. And there was no attempt to have that adjudicated in court. And the reason that there was no attempt is that the House Democrats were just in a hurry, they had a timetable. One of the House managers said on the floor here they had no time for courts. They had to impeach the president before the election, so they had to have that done by Christmas. That's why the proper process wasn't followed here, because it was a partisan and political impeachment that they wanted to get done all around timing for (ph) the election. Thank you.", "Thank you, Counsel. Senator from Vermont?", "(OFF-MIKE) Yes. Thank you.", "Senator Leahy asks the House managers, \"The president's counsel argues that there was no harm done, that the aid was ultimately released to Ukraine. The president met with Zelensky at the U.N. in September and that this president has treated Ukraine more favorably than his predecessors. What is your response?\"", "Mr. Chief Justice and Senators, thank you so much for your question. Contrary to what the White House Counsel has said or has claimed that there was no harm, no foul that the aid eventually got their (inaudible). We promised Ukraine in 2014 that if they gave up their nuclear arsenal that we would be there for them. That we would defend them. That we would fight along beside them. 15,000 Ukrainians have died. It was interesting the other day when the White House Counsel said that no American life was lost and we are always grateful and thankful for that but what about our friends? What about our allies in Ukraine? According to Diplomat Holmes and Ambassador Taylor that are Ukrainian friends continued to die on the front lines, those who were fighting for us - fighting Russian aggression. When you fight Russian aggression when the Ukraine's have the ability to defend themselves they have the ability to defend us. The aid, although it did arrive, it took the work of some Senators in this room who had to pass additional laws to make sure that the Ukrainians did not lose out on $35 million additional and contrary to the President's tweet that all of the aid arrived and that it arrived ahead of schedule, that is not true. All of the aid has not arrived. And let's talk about what kind of signal withholding the aid for no legitimate reason. The President talked about burden sharing but nothing had changed on the ground. Holding the aid for no legitimate reason sent a strong message that we would not want to send to Russia that the relationship between the United States and Ukraine was on shaky ground. It actually undercut Ukraine's ability to negotiate with Russian, with whom as everybody in this room knows is in an active war - in a hot war. So when we talk about the aid eventually got there no harm, no foul that is not true, Senators, and I know that you know that. There was harm and there was foul and let us not forget that Ukraine is not an enemy. They're not an adversary. They are our friends.", "Thank you. Senator Cruz?", "Mr. Chief Justice, I sent a question to the desk.", "Thank you. The question is address to counsel for the President. As a matter of law, does it matter if there was a quid pro quo? Is it true that quid pro quo's are often used in foreign policy?", "Chief Justice, thank you very much for your question. Yesterday I had the privilege of attending the rolling out of a peace plan by the President of the United States regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict and I offered you a hypothetical the other day. What if a Democratic President were to be elected and Congress were to authorize much money to either Israel or Palestinians and the Democratic President were to say to Israel, no I'm going to withhold this money unless you stop all settlement growth or to the Palestinians, I will withhold the money Congress authorized to you unless you stopped paying terrorist and the President said, quid pro quo. If you don't do it you don't get the money. If you do it you get the money. There's no one in this chamber that would regard that as in any way unlawful. The only thing that would make a quid pro quo unlawful is if the quo were, in some way, illegal. Now we talked about motive. There are three possible motives that a political figure can have. One, a motive in the public interest and the Israel argument would be in the public interest. The second is in his own politic interest and the third, which hasn't been mentioned would be in his own financial interest - his own pure financial interest just putting money in the bank. I want to focus on the second one for just one moment. Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest and mostly you're right. Your election is in the public interest and if a President does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest that can not be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment. I quoted President Lincoln. When President Lincoln told General Sherman to let the troops go to Indiana so that they can vote for the Republican party. Let's assume the President was running at that point and it was his electoral interest to have these soldiers put at risk - the lives of many, many other soldiers who would be left without their company. Would that be an unlawful quid pro quo? No because the President, A, believed it was in the national interest but B, he believed that his own election was essential to victory in the Civil War, every President believes that. That's why its so dangerous to try to cycle analyze a President to get into the intricacies of the human mind. Everybody has mixed motives and for there to be a constitutional impeachment based on mixed motives would permit almost any President to be impeached. How many Presidents have made foreign policy decisions after checking with their politic advisors and their pollsters. If you're just acting in the national interest why do you need pollsters? Why do you need political advisors? Just do what's best for the country but if you want to balance what's in the public interest with what's in your parties electoral interest and your own electoral interest it's impossible to discern how much weight is given to one to the other. Now we may argue that it's not in the national interest for a particular President to get reelected over a particular Senator or member of Congress and maybe we're right. It's not in the national interest for everybody who's running to be elected but for it to be impeachable you would have to discern that he or she made a decision solely on the basis of, as the House managers put it, corrupt motives. And it cannot be a corrupt motive if you have a mixed motive that partially involves the national interest, partially involves electoral and does not involve personal, pecuniary interests. And the House managers do not allege that this decision, this quid pro quo, as they call it, and the question is based on the hypothesis there was a quid pro quo, I'm not (inaudible) the facts, they never allege that it was based on pure financial reasons. It would be a much harder case if a hypothetical President of the United States said to a hypothetical leader of a foreign country \"unless you build a hotel with my name on it and unless you give me $1 million kickback, I will withhold the funds.\" That's an easy case. That's purely corrupt and in the purely private interest. But a complex middle case is \"I want to be elected, I think I'm a great President, I think I'm the greatest president there ever was and if I'm not elected, the national interest will suffer greatly.\" That cannot be an impeachable offense. Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice.", "Recognize the Democratic Leader.", "Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk.", "The question is for the House managers. \"Would you please respond to the answer that was just given by the President's counsel?\"", "I would be delighted.", "Thank you, Mr. Manager.", "Mr. Chief Justice?", "Senator from Iowa?", "I send a question to the desk.", "Senator Grassley asks counsel for the President - \"does the House's failure to enforce its subpoenas render its quote 'obstruction of Congress' end quote theory unprecedented?\"", "Mr. Chief Justice, senators, the answer is yes, as far as I am aware, there has never been a prior instance in which there's been an attempt, even in the House, as in the Nixon proceeding, never mind in the Clinton proceeding, which actually left the House and came to the Senate, to suggest that there can be obstruction of Congress when there hasn't been anything beyond simply issuing a subpoena, getting resistance and then throwing up your hands and giving up and saying \"oh, well that's obstruction.\" In the Clinton situation, most of the litigation was with the independent counsel and there were privileges asserted and litigation and litigation again and again, but the point is that the issues about the privileges were all litigated and they were resolved before things came to this body. Similarly, in the Nixon impeachment proceeding in - within the House, a lot of investigation had been done by the Special Counsel and there was litigation over assertions of privileges there in order to get at the tapes and some tapes or transcripts had already been turned over. But again, there was litigation about the assertion of the privilege in response to the Grand Jury subpoena that then fed into the House's proceedings. So it would be completely unprecedented for the House to attempt to actually bring a charge of obstruction into the Senate where all they can present is well, we issued a subpoena and there were legal grounds asserted for the invalidity of the subpoena and there were different grounds as I've gone through. I won't repeat them all in detail here. But some were because the subpoenas were just invalid when issued because there was no vote. Some is that the subpoenas for witnesses were invalid because senior advisors to the president had absolute immunity from compulsion. Some that they were forcing executive branch officials to testify without the benefit of agency council and the executive branch council with them. So various reason asserted for the invalidity and the defects in various subpoenas and then no attempt to enforce them. No attempt to litigate out what the validity or invalidity might be but just bring it here as an obstruction charge is unprecedented. And I'll note the House managers have said and I'm sure that they will say again today that well, but if we had gone to court the Trump administration would have said that the courts don't have jurisdiction over those claims. Now that is -- that is true in some cases. There's one being litigated right now related to the former counsel to the president, Don McGahn. The Trump administration position, just like the position of the Obama administration is that an effort by the House to enforce a subpoena in Article 3 court is a non judiciable (ph) controversy. That is our position and we would argue that in court. But that's part of what would have to be litigated. That doesn't change the fact that the House Managers can't have it both ways. And want to make this clear. The House Managers want to say that they have an avenue for going to court. They're using that avenue for going to court. They actually told the court in McGahn that once they reached an impasse with the Executive Branch, the courts were the only way to resolve the impasse. And -- and as I explained the other day, there are mechanisms for dealing with these disputes between the executive and Congress. The first is an accommodations process. They didn't do that. We offered to do that in the White House Council's October 8th letter. They didn't do accommodations. If they think they can sue, they have to take that step because the Constitution, the courts have made clear require incremental wisdom in disputes between the Executive and the Legislative Branch. So if they think that the courts can resolve that dispute that's the next step, they should do that and have they litigated. And then things can proceed on to a high level of confrontation. But to jump straight to impeachment to the ultimate constitutional confrontation doesn't make sense. It's not the system that the constitution requires. And it is unprecedented in this case. Thank you.", "Thank you, Counsel. The Senator from Michigan.", "Thank you. Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk.", "Senator Stabenow ask the House Managers, would the House Managers care to correct the record on any falsehoods or mischaracterizations in the White House's opening arguments?", "Mr. Chief Justice and Senators, thank you for that question. We believe that the president's team has claimed basically there were six facts that have not been met and will not change and all six of those so called facts are incorrect. Let's be clear, on July 25th that's not the whole evidence before us even though it includes devastating evidence of the president's scheme. President Trump's intent was made clear on the July 25th call but we had evidence of information before the meetings with Mr. Bolton, the text message to Mr. Zelensky's people telling him he had to do the investigations to get what he wanted. All of this evidence that makes us understand that phone call even more clearly. Now, the president's team claim that Mr. Zelensky and other Ukrainians said they never felt pressure to open investigations. Now, of course they didn't say that publicly, they were afraid of the Russians finding out. But Zelensky said privately that he didn't want to be involved in U.S. domestic politics. He resisted announcing the investigations. He only relented and scheduled the CNN meeting after it became clear that he was not going to receive the -- the support that he needed and that Congress had provided in our appropriations. That's the definition of pressure. Now Ukraine, the president's lawyers say didn't know that Trump was withholding the security assistance until it was public. Many witnesses have contested that including the open statement by Olena Zerkal who was then the Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine that they knew about the president's hold on the security matters. And in the end, everyone knew, it was public. And after it was, Ukraine did relent and schedule that testimony. For what they said no witnesses, said security was conditioned on the investigations, not so. Mulvaney and we had other witnesses -"], "speaker": ["GARCIA", "J. ROBERTS", "GARCIA", "J. ROBERTS", "KENNEDY", "ROBERTS", "JEFFERIES", "J. ROBERTS", "PHILBIN", "J. ROBERTS", "LEAHY", "J. ROBERTS", "DEMINGS", "J. ROBERTS", "CRUZ", "J. 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{"id": "CNN-106572", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2006-5-31", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/31/ng.01.html", "summary": "Kidnapped Alabama Attorney Found in a Motel Room; Murder of Clemson Student Still Unsolved", "utt": ["Tonight, breaking news. Just hours ago, broad daylight, a 34-year-old lady lawyer kidnapped by an armed abductor, Birmingham, Alabama, forced to drive off with him. Tonight, Sandra Gregory found alive. Repeat, she is alive. He is in Christian. Tonight, After an all-out search for attorney Sandra Gregory, we are live in Alabama. And tonight, live to South Carolina. Breaking news in the Clemson University murder co-ed mystery, police tonight releasing an incident report in the brutal strangling of 20-year-old engineering student, Tiffany Souers, Souers found dead in her off-campus apartments. Murder weapon? Her bikini top, still around her neck.", "Great girl, brilliant, very smart, very pretty, very wonderful person to be around, a lot of fun. She was out and dropped off, and that`s the last pretty much anyone heard or known.", "Good evening, everybody. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us tonight. Tonight, late-breaking details in the bikini murder mystery. Police release the incident report outlining facts around the death of a 20-year-old Clemson engineering student, strangled to death in her own apartment. But first tonight, breaking news. Live to Birmingham, Alabama. A gunman forces a 34-year-old lady lawyer into a car. Tonight, the all- points bulletin for Sandra Gregory ends, Gregory just found bound and covered with a sheet in a local motel. Tonight, we are taking your calls.", "It was a great, great effort, great cooperation, tremendous work on the part of the Birmingham Police Department and all the other agencies that are involved. The FBI -- many federal agencies were represented here. So it came to a very successful conclusion.", "Let`s go straight out for the latest to Paul Finebaum, talk show host for WERC radio. Welcome. Tell us the latest.", "Well, the latest is great news. And Nancy, I like to think about a year and one day after another very pretty blonde from Birmingham, Alabama, was abducted. This one, unlike Natalee Holloway, had a very happy ending about an hour-and-a-half ago. She was found in Homeland (ph), just right outside of Birmingham, at a Comfort Inn. The police have the suspect in custody. She is unharmed, amazingly, after being with this individual, or perhaps more than that, for nine hours. But all ends well, that is well, and we`re all delighted here, as I`m sure you are.", "Tell us, Paul, how did the events unfold?", "Well, she was -- apparently had dropped her daughter off at day care early this morning. She walked out. She was heading to Destin, Florida, of all things, to go to a seminar for divorce lawyers. And someone -- apparently, the assailant, a black man, grabbed her as she was walking to her Lexus SUV. As the story happened from there, he took her to three different ATM machines, where she withdrew money, and finally...", "Hold on. Hold on! Hold on, Paul. We are showing -- with us, Paul Finebaum with WERC. We`re showing you right now the video as it unfolds. There you see the Lexus, I believe it`s an SUV. Waiting for the action. There you see. Look very carefully over at the left. These events unfolded, as Paul Finebaum just told us, about nine hours ago. You will see the perpetrator come up on one side of the Lexus. He is armed. She is unarmed. This lady lawyer headed to Destin, Florida, to teach a seminar on divorce law, and in this open parking lot is ultimately accosted by the perpetrator. Go ahead, Paul.", "Well, that`s what happened. And apparently, he took her to three different ATM machines, where she withdrew money. They dumped the car. It was a Lexus SUV 300, as you mentioned, Nancy. They dumped it in a project, a housing project, in Birmingham called Cooper Green (ph). And from there, we`re still not sure how they got to this motel. It`s about three miles away from where the car was deposited. That is still a mystery. Police naturally have been very tight-lipped, so we really don`t know a whole lot, unfortunately, but we do know that she`s well, and that`s really all that matters.", "OK, here we go. Here`s the video. There`s the perpetrator coming around, comes up to her as she`s coming from another direction, has a gun. There you see him putting her into the vehicle. Let`s take a look at this. And that is the last we see of this lady lawyer, until we get word she has gone to three ATMs. Take a listen to this.", "It was a great, great effort, great cooperation, tremendous work on the part of the Birmingham Police Department and all the other agencies that were involved. The FBI, many federal agencies are represented here. So it came to a very successful conclusion. It went down very quickly. It went down very quickly. Information was developed quickly. And once it was developed, the officers here acted on it. Members of the Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, operated by the Marshals Service, made entry into the room and arrested the suspect and freed the victim.", "Right now, joining us a very special guest, going by her first name, Valerie. She is the hotel manager. Welcome, ma`am. Thank you for being with us.", "Hello. How`re you doing, Nancy?", "Well, I`m happy to talk to you in the flesh because if this guy had a gun when all this went down -- I tell you what, you tell me what happened.", "OK. Around 1:50, I checked a gentleman in. And then about 5:15, a detective came in, showing us a picture of a young lady who was missing. And in the process of us, you know, taking a look at the picture, you know, trying to figure out have we seen her or not, I looked on our surveillance cameras of the hotel, and I seen the police just surrounding the place. You know, they were everywhere. And then, as we were looking, trying to find out -- you know, figure out what was going on, another police officer ran in, called out a room number and asked me for all the information that I had on it. And once I provided him with that information, about three -- two to three minutes later, that`s when they came and said that they have, you know, the suspect and that the young lady was OK.", "Valerie, I`ve been in Birmingham many, many times at your fine University of Alabama Hospital Hartwing (ph). Tell me exactly, where is your motel in relation to where she was taken?", "OK. We are located in Homewood. She was taken, let`s see, I`d say about three miles, three miles from where we were.", "With us, a very special guest, the manager there at the Comfort Inn. Valerie, who came in? Who checked who in?", "I checked them in.", "Were they together?", "Ma`am?", "Were they together?", "No. No, they were not together. He walked in -- the way our hotel is made, is, like, you can park at, like, the side of the building and just walk up, and we can`t see that, you know, if you`re in a vehicle or not. And he walked in alone. He came in, he asked for a room. I checked him in, took a copy of his driver`s license or his ID, or whichever one it may have been. And then I gave him the room key and he left.", "Did he -- and I don`t want to say his name yet because we want to make sure we`ve confirmed that. But did he use his real name that was on his ID?", "Yes.", "And question: What was his demeanor, Valerie? Did he seem nervous? Was he sweaty? What?", "He -- he wasn`t -- well, when I thought back on it -- when they came and told me the room number, I thought back to when I checked him in, and he did seem a little, you know, fidgety, like, but nothing out of the ordinary that alarmed me.", "When you say he was fidgety, what was he doing?", "Like, putting his hands in and out of his pocket, and you know, he was kind of turning around, looking around. But it wasn`t, you know, like I say out of the ordinary because we have locals come in all the time that -- you know, that do things like that.", "That act pretty fidgety.", "Yes. Exactly.", "Did he use credit card or cash?", "He used cash.", "How much is it to stay there overnight?", "Well, he had, like, a coupon rate of, like, $59.", "He had a coupon?", "uh-huh.", "The man had a coupon!", "He had a coupon. And I didn`t have any coupon rooms available, so I gave him the next up from the coupon rate.", "Where did the coupon come from? Was it in the paper, a flyer, what? The kidnapper had a coupon! I can`t believe it!", "You can get it from, like, any McDonald`s or anything like that. It`s one of those traveler discount books.", "Holy moly! OK, so the guy comes in, pays cash, has a coupon. So how much cash did it cost him?", "With tax and all, it was $70.15.", "So he had 70 bucks cash. You saw his ID. You knew it to be him. Seemed a little fidgety, turned around and walked off. No luggage, I assume.", "No.", "Did he ask for any kind of special room, like one looking at the parking lot or one looking at the pool or anything like that?", "No. No. He just asked for a room.", "Now, how much later did the police arrive?", "They arrived about 5:15. That`s when the detective arrived.", "How much later was that than when he checked in?", "That was about, what, three, four hours later because he checked in at, like, 1:50.", "And so you did not see the woman at all.", "No, I didn`t see her at all.", "Did they have to drive by you to get to the hotel room?", "No, they don`t. We have two different entrances that you can come in. You don`t even have to drive up to the front desk or anything like that.", "I wonder how he got this lady to stay in the car while he went in and checked in.", "That`s what I was trying to figure out also, Nancy.", "I mean, for all we know, he could have threatened some kind of rampage. Liz, who`s our first caller?", "I`m sorry?", "OK, Valerie, don`t move. I think the callers are going to have questions for you. Let`s go to Norma in Tennessee. Hi, Norma.", "Hi, Nancy. I love you. Could it have been somebody...", "Thank you for watching.", "Could it have been somebody that she had in court before?", "Good question. Very good question. That was my first question, as a matter of fact. Let`s go out to Lisa Borden, also a veteran trial lawyer there in the Birmingham, Alabama, jurisdiction. Did you know this lady, Lisa?", "No, Nancy. She`s somebody who does almost exclusively domestic work -- divorces, child custody cases. And the caller`s absolutely right. This is the kind of thing that those people live in fear of constantly.", "They really do, Lisa. In fact, to Richard Herman, defense attorney. Everybody, Lisa Borden there on the scene in Birmingham, Alabama. One of my best friends is a defense lawyer and she -- believe it or not.", "Can`t believe it.", "Yes, I know. But she says she would rather represent a doper than a divorce case because the people getting a divorce are fighting over child custody -- will shoot you. They will shoot the lawyer in the parking lot. Why is it, as Lisa Borden just said, does domestic law and family cases cause so much anger and stir up so much emotion?", "Well, Nancy, there are visitation issues here. There are child support issues. There are alimony issues. And there`s just hatred between the parties. It just breeds this type of atmosphere. And they`ve had many problems in the past in this area, in family courts throughout the country. Very, very dangerous.", "To Leslie Snadowsky, investigative reporter. Do we have any indication that this was one of her clients at any point? And this is no hack lawyer cruising the courthouse halls for appointed cases. She was actually on her way to go teach a seminar on divorce law, Leslie.", "Well, at this point, we don`t know if he was a former client. But you know, there are several things about this that made it seem like he could have been, and then some things that maybe he wasn`t. As you know, they went on this joyride. They went to three ATMs, three different Am South banks. He withdrew money...", "... call it a joyride. It sounds like an extended armed robbery to me.", "Well, it was his joyride, not hers. And then again, if he was a client, he knew where she lived because he abducted her right in front of her home, just a couple blocks from her law practice. So I think it can go either way. At this point, authorities aren`t saying who this guy is or if, indeed...", "OK, wait a minute...", "... relationship.", "Question to Paul Finebaum with WERC radio. Paul, I know she had a, if not several law partners. Do they all do family law, or were there other partners in the practice that did criminal defense, like dopers and killers and so forth?", "Dopers would be the guy who checked into the Comfort Inn with a coupon. Nancy, I think she did primarily family law. She used to work at the Legal Aid Society of Alabama. That downsized a couple years ago, and she went into this practice, I think with one attorney. I want to correct something I may have misstated. She was going to a seminar in Destin. I don`t think, and I could be wrong, that she was going to teach the course. But clearly, she was going to a seminar on divorce law.", "What, Eric (ph)?", "I mean, that was our understanding, that she was headed to this seminar...", "OK, we have...", "... she may have been teaching...", "... a conflicting report, Paul. We`ve been told she was actually teaching a seminar called \"Divorce on the Beach.\" I`m not even going to go there! Let`s go the caller. Michael in Michigan. Hi, Michael.", "Hello.", "Hi, dear. What`s your question?", "I was just wondering if this assailant had a previous record.", "Well, we have his name right now. We`re trying to confirm the name before we go public with it. We don`t know if he has a rap sheet yet. But I`m willing to guess, psychotherapist Lauren Howard, not to impugn the reputation of this kind gentleman, that he`s got a rap sheet as long as the interstate because, Lauren Howard, you don`t just wake up one morning, pick up a coupon at the McDonald`s for the Comfort Inn and go, Hey, I think I`ll kidnap at gunpoint a lady lawyer, bind her head, toe and foot, cover her with her a sheet and keep her there for a while. No, he`s graduated from something else to this.", "Well, that`s the question. I mean, this does look pretty premeditated just because he -- the sort of -- the whole accostation occurred in a kind of managed way. However, if it was really premeditated, why were there witnesses who actually identified him and saw him? Forget about the surveillance cameras...", "... no premeditation?", "Well, you know, it`s very easy to say that he`s someone who knew her through her work because, let`s face it, nothing`s uglier than divorce, and you want to talk about a crime of passion and what that entails. But taking her to ATMs, if the guy was thinking, he would know that he would be traced...", "That`s the fallacy in your reasoning. If he were thinking, he`d go get a regular job, like the rest of us, and not try to make money...", "Oh, Nancy...", "... with other people`s ATMs!", "... that`s not true. That is not true. Not everyone is capable of being highly functioning. I mean, we`re not saying the guy`s not maladaptive. That`s clear. That there`s no question about.", "Quick break, everyone. We are taking your calls. But let`s go to tonight`s \"Case Alert.\" People of Nebraska, keep fighting! Protesters march on a city courthouse, demanding justice, demanding that Judge Kristine Cecava resign for sentencing a sex offender to straight probation. And he`s got to wear a little anklet. The judge says the convicted perv, Richard Thompson, is, quote, \"too short for prison,\" Thompson convicted of a repeat molestation of a 12-year-old little girl. The judge says she`s concerned for his safety. Angry citizens put hundreds of signatures on petitions calling for this judge, Judge Kristine Cecava, to get a new job. 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{"id": "CNN-178955", "program": "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT", "date": "2012-1-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1201/06/ebo.01.html", "summary": "Obama's Green Card Policy; Murder Mystery", "utt": ["OUTFRONT tonight, the battle over illegal immigration and the president's polarizing new policy that some say amounts to amnesty. All right so you've probably heard the number that there could be up to 12 million undocumented people in America right now. But for those who are married to or have kids that are U.S. citizens, the White House now has an offer. Come out of the shadows and identify yourself and ask for a green card. Now to get it, you're going to have to leave the country but now instead of waiting years, maybe even a decade to find out if you can come back, you're going to get an answer more quickly and the chances of getting a yes to return permanently with a green card, greater. Now that's the plan. Some people are furious about it. Is it amnesty? Let's bring in Kris Kobach. He helped write Arizona's strict new immigration law, which in and of itself as he is well aware is a very polarizing topic. He thinks this is a terrible idea. On the other side is David Leopold from the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Good to have both of you with us. Kris, is this amnesty?", "It's part of an amnesty. It's part two of an administrative amnesty. As we know, the administration a few months ago announced that it was going to basically drop about 300,000 cases that were already in the deportation pipeline. That's one part of an administrative action. This one basically allows thousands of people who would otherwise have to go out of the country and wait while they see if they can overcome this three-year bar or 10-year bar that Congress put into place in 1996, now they can just do it here in the United States. So really if the administration is going to do a back door amnesty, they need to take several steps and this is the second of the steps they need to take. So yes, it's part of an amnesty.", "David, why isn't it?", "It's not amnesty. What this is, is a -- it's a minor processing change. And what we're doing here, what the administration is doing is keeping U.S. citizens together with their foreign spouses. And what we have to remember is that in order to get this waiver, which is done in the United States, they still have to show that the U.S. citizen would suffer a hardship. So nobody is getting anything, Erin. This is a process change. This is going to allow people to stay together. This is going to promote family unity. It's going to keep America safer and it's going to be wise use of our tax dollars. What Mr. Kobach -- what Kris is talking about when he says -- he uses that word \"amnesty,\" remember, amnesty is a word that people who hate immigration like to throw around instead of solutions. And what this is, this is a solution. This is a solution that allows people to wait in the United States with their family rather than have to go sit in a city like Ciudad Juarez where people get killed, it's one of the most dangerous cities in the world, and this allows families to stay together. What's wrong with an American husband being with his wife? What's wrong with an American wife being with her husband -- nothing. I can't imagine any American would oppose family unity, so I'm very surprised that there's even any opposition to this.", "I thought, David, that once -- if you were married to someone and you could prove that it was legitimate and you hadn't done so in order to get access to the United States, that you could get that card anyway?", "I wish that were the case, Erin, but the law is so broken that even if you are married to a United States citizen, you still have to go through various different hoops to stay here. And what happens is folks that are in the country who are undocumented and they're married to United States citizens, they can't simply go and apply for a green card and what happens is the way the law is set up and the reason we call it a broken law is because the way this law is set up is they have to leave the United States. Once they step outside the United States, now they're barred from coming back and all that's going on --", "And there's a reason for that.", "But Kris --", "Hang on Kris --", "Let me ask you that. OK, hold on a second, David, because I want to get Kris in here. Kris, but is part -- does that deter people who shouldn't be coming in from coming in, the fact or not.", "Yes.", "Yes?", "Yes, there's a reason Congress set this up. Congress in 1996 wanted to impose a penalty on illegal aliens, whether they decide to marry a U.S. citizen or not. And that was if you stay in the United States for six months, then if you are caught or if you acknowledge that, you have got to wait three years before you can even get in line in your home country to apply for a lawful visa. If you stay here a year illegally, you are barred for 10 years. Congress wanted to put people who have broken our laws in a worse position procedurally than those people who are in Mexico and are doing it the right way or in Sweden doing it the right way --", "Actually that's not true --", "-- and haven't broken our laws.", "Kris --", "David, that sounds rational put that way --", "That's exactly what Congress did in 1996.", "That's just not a fair statement of the law --", "Congress did that in 1996. That is exactly what the law says --", "That's not a correct statement of the law.", "No it's not --", "And I'm happy to show you the statute -- I'm happy to show you the --", "I actually just looked at it before we --", "I'm quite familiar with it.", "Let me finish. What the Congress said, Kris, and I think you know this, is that if you marry an American citizen, generally speaking, you're forgiven. The problem is if you have --", "You're talking about marriage. We're talking about the 10-year --", "Kris, let me finish. If you enter the country without an inspection originally, even if you're a child, you can't get that green card even if you have a large family, even if you're married to a U.S. citizen.", "OK.", "You have to get a waiver --", "Final word to Kris.", "And so all the --", "I think the bottom line here is -- I think we probably both agree that what the administration is doing is trying to get around the fact that Congress has not passed an amnesty and this administration wants one. And I think there's a larger issue here that people on the left and the right can hopefully agree on. If we're going to have an amnesty, let Congress do it. Let the people's representatives debate it. Let's not have the administration do it in a back doorway that isn't putting it on the table in front of the people.", "All right, gentlemen, thanks very much to both of you --", "This is common sense enforcement.", "Thanks to both of you.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "Please let us know on our Facebook page what you think about this one and whether you think there's political motivations as well coming into an election with the Hispanic vote. Well tonight we have new clues in the royal murder mystery we have been following this week on OUTFRONT. Investigators say they're very close to identifying the body of a young woman whose age is somewhere between 15 and 24. The victim, whose body gave no visible clues about how she died, was found a couple of miles outside the Queen of England's Sandringham estate. Now the discovery came just two days after the royal family was vacationing there. In fact the queen is still there. Investigators believe the victim could have been dead for up to four months but have no idea whether she was murdered on the grounds or if her body was just dumped there. Some of the victim's personal belongings have been found on the premises. That has not helped police solve the mystery. OUTFRONT spoke to royal family journalist Victoria Arbiter. Here's what she had to say.", "When the body was discovered it obviously was in more of a decomposed state than we were initially led to believe and so that's making identifying it really very difficult. For example, police have said they don't believe she was stabbed but there's not enough flesh left on the body to really establish whether or not she was stabbed.", "Victoria said the teeth and bones from the victim's body have been tested and police will have results in the next three days. Well still OUTFRONT, with just four days to go until New Hampshire, Mitt Romney has what everybody would acknowledge is a comfortable lead, but another candidate could be surging. Who? And FarmVille, Mafia Wars, just how much would you pay for those online games? We give you one heck of a number next."], "speaker": ["BURNETT", "KRIS KOBACH, LAW PROFESSOR, UNIV. OF MISSOURI", "BURNETT", "DAVID LEOPOLD, AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATION", "BURNETT", "LEOPOLD", "KOBACH", "BURNETT", "LEOPOLD", "BURNETT", "KOBACH", "BURNETT", "KOBACH", "LEOPOLD", "KOBACH", "LEOPOLD", "BURNETT", "KOBACH", "LEOPOLD", "KOBACH", "LEOPOLD", "LEOPOLD", "LEOPOLD", "KOBACH", "KOBACH", "LEOPOLD", "KOBACH", "LEOPOLD", "BURNETT", "LEOPOLD", "BURNETT", "LEOPOLD", "KOBACH", "BURNETT", "LEOPOLD", "BURNETT", "KOBACH", "LEOPOLD", "BURNETT", "VICTORIA ARBITER, ROYAL JOURNALIST", "BURNETT"]}
{"id": "NPR-20013", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2016-02-26", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/02/26/468216122/breaking-down-what-it-means-for-apple-to-get-around-an-iphone-s-encryption", "title": "What It Means For Apple To Get Around iPhone's Encryption", "summary": "Steve Inskeep talks to Matthew Green, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University, to find out what breaking into an iphone's encryption really means.", "utt": ["Days of news about an Apple iPhone have left us with this consistent feeling. It's that we've all been having highly sophisticated arguments about the Internet and encryption without entirely grasping what we're saying.", "Both Apple and the FBI see vast implications in the court battle over a single phone. It is possible to lose sight of what exactly is at issue in the case itself.", "So let's go back to basics. At issue is an iPhone. It was used by one of the attackers in the San Bernardino mass shooting.", "We talked through what is known of that phone with Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University. He favors Apple's side in this case, by the way, although what's pertinent here is that he is an expert in cryptography.", "MATTHEW D. GREEN: The FBI has an iPhone 5C, which is a slightly older model iPhone. The phone is locked, which is something that happens now as a result of the fact that most people set a pass code on their phone. And that's all it is. The minute you set a pass code on a recent iPhone, it becomes encrypted, whether you knew it or not, and you can't get access to that data unless you know that pass code.", "And what it does is it scrambles any data that's in there. No matter how I might break into that phone, that data's going to make no sense to me or make no sense to any other computer unless the pass code is typed in correctly.", "That's right. You could take the phone apart piece by piece and pull the chips out, and you still wouldn't be able to make sense of that data.", "Now why can't the FBI just guess at what the pass code is?", "That's the problem. So Apple knew that there are only about 10,000 pass codes, and even though that seems a little slow, you could type them all into a phone if you had enough time. The problem is that Apple in this case has built a system that defeats that. If you type the pass code in too many times incorrectly, it will actually erase the phone.", "So you can't just connect this to a computer that would start guessing numbers until you get the right one.", "Not unless you can guess right in the first 10 tries.", "OK, so they have gone to Apple and said, unlock this phone. What, in a literal sense, are they asking Apple to do then?", "So what they're basically asking Apple to do is to make a new version of Apple's operating system software and install it on the phone. And what that new software is going to do is it's going to disable the feature that would automatically erase the phone after 10 tries. This would still mean that the FBI has to try every single combination, but they would also have a computer program inside of that software that would make that guessing pretty fast.", "When I first heard about this case, about Apple being asked to provide some way to get around encryption, I had this vision of hackers getting a hold of that same program that Apple was being asked to write and using it to go online and go into my phone or somebody else's phone. Is that really possible?", "So right now we're talking about a particular case that involves physical possession, so that does make things a little bit less dramatic. The problem is there are many other technologies that the FBI has been asking for access to. So really, we're heading in a direction that begins with physical access to phones, and we don't know where it ends.", "Apple's warning and other people's warnings that if the United States gets access to an Apple phone, any other government can demand the same thing. The federal government has said, well, come on, I mean, you don't have to say yes to those demands. You can refuse to do business there. Who's right there?", "I think everybody knows that China, for example, is looking at this case with intense interest. They have clearly a, you know, a billion people. Many of them are starting to use Apple smartphones, and they right now don't have access to the information on these phones. That's probably concerning to them. They have notably not been asking for that access yet because they haven't had to. They've been watching the U.S. government essentially do it for them. I think that once the U.S. government creates that access, we're likely to see the same capabilities requested by other governments like China and Russia.", "Let me just ask one of these bottom-line questions. The FBI federal prosecutors would like to suggest that denying them information could allow another attack. There might be something on a locked phone that could prevent an attack, and it's going to be denied to them. If someone dies, if someone is killed, would you say that was worth it?", "It's a very hard question to answer. I think at the end of the day, you have to tally up the number of people who might be harmed by having information systems that aren't secure and what the long-term consequences of these laws would be versus, you know, the lives that might be lost. I think it's also very possible that even with all of the information on every iPhone in the country, there's a very good chance that we would not be able to stop an attack. These attacks are essentially random. So it concerns me that we're having these kind of absolutist discussions where we're tallying up lives that are definitely going to be lost versus the potential harm that we don't understand yet.", "Matthew Green, thanks very much.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["DAVID GREENE, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "DAVID GREENE, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "GREEN", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "GREEN", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "GREEN", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "GREEN", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "GREEN", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "GREEN", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "GREEN", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "GREEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-29954", "program": "CNN BURDEN OF PROOF", "date": "2001-5-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/08/bp.00.html", "summary": "Cincinnati Police Officer Indicted on Two Misdemeanors, Traficant to Fight Federal Charges", "utt": ["It was a slap on the wrist. I don't feel like, my personal opinion, I don't feel like justice was served.", "Today on", "A white police officer is charged with two misdemeanors for fatally shooting an unarmed black man. Plus, Democratic Congressman James Traficant, facing charges of bribery, and he fires back at the feds.", "I'm as frightened as anyone would be in my position, but I want to say this to the U.S. attorneys: You also have pressure. You must defeat me, because if I defeat you, you'll be working in Mingo Junction, and I'm going to show up.", "This is BURDEN OF PROOF with Greta Van Susteren and Roger Cossack.", "Hello, and welcome to BURDEN OF PROOF. Yesterday, in Cincinnati, a police officer was indicted on two misdemeanors for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man. Steve Roach was charged with one count of negligent homicide and one count of obstruction of official business. Roach shot and killed Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old black man who was fleeing from the police in an alley. The shooting sparked several days of violence and clashes between Cincinnati police and some of its citizens. Now, the FBI has launched a patterns and practices investigation of the Cincinnati police department and whether its practices violate civil rights law. Joining us today in Cincinnati, Ohio: Hamilton County prosecuting attorney Michael Allen. Here in Washington: David Nydelinger (ph), former federal prosecutor DeMaurice Smith, and Katie Dunbar (ph). And in our back row: Mitra Yegani (ph) and Erin Grimes (ph). Also joining us from Cincinnati is CNN national correspondent Bob Franken. Bob, first to you. The reaction to the verdict -- or to the indictment, rather, from the people on the street.", "Well, the reaction was one of anger to a large degree, disappointment in the African-American community to some degree, but no violence. There were some confrontations with police, there were demonstrations, but the leaders in the community and the mayor and other city officials were successful, at least thus far, in keeping people from repeating what had occurred about a month ago after the shooting when there was four days of really violent encounter in the city of Cincinnati. The county prosecutor, who you will be talking to in a moment, in fact, was very open about announcing to everybody 24 hours in advance when he would actually announce the results of the grand jury, and that was a strategy that some people thought might backfire, but it seems to have worked thus far.", "Bob, you say thus far, no problems. I think many people thought that there might be problems. What was sort of the key, what's the lesson to be learned? Why was there no trouble last night?", "Well, the first thing you should do is end your news conference announcing these results the moment a downpour begins. It was quite, quite a coincidence, but literally as we were finishing up, Greta, you and I last night, describing what had just occurred at Mike Allen's news conference, the rain started falling. It come down in buckets, which did, in fact, probably inhibit things a bit. Besides which, there were massive preparations that were done in advance, not only by the police officials, but by the civil rights leaders in the community, who said it's really not worth it to try violence. He said they, meaning the police, are really disliked in many parts of the community. They have the ability to quell the violence. They were successful. They had a demonstration, which was an outlet for many people, and as I said, thus far, there has been no repeat of what occurred last month.", "All right, well, let's go to Mike Allen, who is standing at your side. Mike, explain the charges the grand jury indicted this man for.", "It was a two-count indictment, Greta, one count of neglect homicide, which is a misdemeanor in the first degree under Ohio law. The maximum possible penalty is six months. The second count is a count of obstructing official business, which is a misdemeanor of the second degree under Ohio law, punishable by up to 90 days. Officer Roach is facing nine months altogether. The obstructing official business, I believe the grand jury determined that there was a conflict between two statements given by Officer Roach, and that's why they returned that count.", "Mike, what was the grand -- I mean, there's going to be a lot of -- at least, at lot of people may think this was a racially motivated indictment, or if there hadn't been one, that it would have been racially motived. Can you tell me the make-up of the grand jury who made the decision?", "Specifically, Greta, I can't tell you, but I can say this: It was a racially diverse grand jury; it was diverse from a male and female standpoint, as well as young and old. It was truly a representative cross-section of our community. It was racially diverse. I'm not at liberty to say specifically what the numbers were, though.", "Mike, when can we expect the officer to turn himself in? I assume he'll turn himself in, and when does the process begin to go forward?", "We're expecting that that will occur tomorrow. It's a misdemeanor case now. It will be handled in municipal court as opposed to common pleas court, and the recent word that I've gotten is that that will happen tomorrow, a bond will be set, and the case will be referred to one of 14 judges in the Hamilton County Municipal Court.", "Do you know what will happened to this officer's career? Will he be ineligible for service if he's convicted or is it, because it's a misdemeanor, that won't make him ineligible?", "You know, I'm not really certain, Greta. That's an administrative matter that the city of Cincinnati will have to determine. I heard this morning that he's been placed on desk duty, pending the outcome of the case. What happens to him administratively, I really don't know at this point.", "Do you know if he has any other prior complaints against him from citizens for any conduct?", "My understanding is that he had an exemplary record, and he was an exemplary police officer. He wasn't a police officer for that long a period of time, but everything that I've heard about him, privately and publicly, has been good. He's been an exemplary police officer.", "Have you had any contact, Mike, with the Department of Justice? I know that they are sending some investigators out to determine whether or not there's a problem within the police department, but have you had any indication whether or not the federal government will seek federal criminal charges against the officer?", "I don't know. I did get a courtesy call yesterday from our local acting U.S. attorney, Sal Dominguez. I also received a call from Al Moskowitz of the Justice Department in Washington. It was a courtesy call to let me know that they were going to announce that they were conducting a patterns and practices investigation. I certainly appreciated the heads-up that they gave us, but I've heard nothing about a criminal investigation with respect to Officer Roach by the U.S. attorney.", "Dee, you worked at the Justice Department. What is a patterns and practices investigation?", "A patterns and practices investigation is launched by the Civil Rights Division, and specifically, they look at an expanded period of time where they focus on just that; the patterns and practices of the police department.", "So, not of the individual officer, but of the department in whole?", "Correct, it would be better to think of it as pulling back and looking at the macro picture: how the police department has enacted or reacted with the community, what types of training the officers have been undergoing, what types of review process in police shootings, and all sorts of questions relating to the use of force.", "Suppose that it's substandard. What can you do for a pattern practice? What does Justice do then?", "Well, if they make a determination that there is a deficiency, they make a finding that there have been civil rights abuses, there is a range of alternatives that the Justice Department may engage in, anything from consent decrees, where there is an agreement between the jurisdiction and the Justice Department to increase training, to increase review. There could be federal lawsuits, civil lawsuits against the police department or the city for actions taken by the police officers. And finally, there could be criminal prosecutions resulting from acts that the department has reviewed.", "Can you look in the crystal ball and see whether or not you think the federal government will come in and go after this particular police officer individually for civil rights investigation? What do they look at?", "I think they will certainly take a hard look. In any pattern and practice investigation, they will take a hard look at things that have happened in the past. There are a couple of things which, as a former prosecutor, would be of interest to me. There have been a number of police shootings in recent months. I think the statistic is at least five. There have been 15 deaths over a relatively short period of time. Those are things that would pique my interest.", "But that's to look at the whole department, but in terms of the fact that this officer apparently, according to Mike, had an exemplary record would maybe perhaps hold off the Justice Department in terms of looking at him, focusing on him?", "It could, but again, the thing to remember is they will take their own look, if they decide to look at the acts in this case, and if they make a conclusion that he has violated the law, in all likelihood, they will prosecute him.", "All right, we'll take a break. Up next, we turn the page in the Ohio docket to Cleveland, where a grand jury handed down a 10-count indictment Friday against a controversial U.S. congressman. But James Traficant remains defiant. Don't go away. (", "I'm the only American in history to defeat the Justice Department in a RICO case pro se, and I'm going to look at 12 jurors again, and they'd better get all 12 and they'd better fix the damn jury because there's going to be a rumble wherever it is.", "Ohio Democratic Congressman James Traficant is fighting back against charges of corruption. The nine-term Congressman is now accusing federal law enforcement officers in northeastern Ohio of corruption. He says he'll give more details of his accusations when he hosts a radio talk show later this month. Officials at the Justice Department and the FBI won't comment on Traficant's claims. Joining us now from Cleveland, Ohio, where a grand jury handed down a ten count indictment against the lawmaker last Friday, is criminal defense attorney Niki Schwartz. Niki, before I get to you, let me go back to our Bob Franken. Bob, who is this congressman? Tell us about him.", "Well, first of all, he is a congressman who has already beaten one of these once by defending himself. He was involved in a racketeering charge when he was a sheriff in Youngstown, in 1983. He defended himself in federal court in Cleveland and won, although he did lose a tax case later. He is a man who has been a nine-term member of Congress subsequent to that. He's considered one of the most colorful members of Congress -- and one of the snappiest dressers there, might I add. And he's somebody who has been under investigation as part of an expanded investigation into Youngstown. There have been 70-plus convictions, including a Traficant aid, a local sheriff, and a local judge. This is somebody who is very popular in his district -- he is considered quite the populist -- and somebody who is going to defend himself again. And many lawyers cringe at the possibility he might prove Mark Twain wrong about that and put up a big fight against this case.", "Niki, now let me go to you. You're a defense attorney in Ohio. What do you make of the fact that your congressman may represent himself in this corruption case?", "Greta, the general consensus in the legal community here is that no lawyer could have won the case that he won in 1983. Trying the case himself gives him three advantages that a lawyer wouldn't have. One is that usually the judge will cut a pro se defendant some slack in terms of the procedures, because he doesn't know the law. Secondly, it gives him the opportunity to, in effect, communicate his version of events to the jury in the form of argument, rather than testimony, and avoid cross-examination. Third is to communicate his personality directly to the jury. I took his deposition in a civil case in the early '80s, and he comes across as a very charming rogue. I think all of those ingredients are things that helped him the last time and would give him an advantage over being represented by counsel in the normal way.", "Niki, what does the community think? I know the country thinks he's sort of an unusual guy? He's ended some speeches with \"beam me up\" -- he's a colorful guy I guess is the best way to say it. What does the community where he's elected think about him?", "Well, in Youngstown, which is a very blue-collar community, he's a very blue-collar guy, and he appeals to them with both a populist voting record and populist rhetoric. He has survived at the polls, despite general consensus that he leaves much to be desired as a congressman.", "Is there much tension, though, between this congressman, for instance, and the U.S. attorney? Have they had a running battle at all -- is it one of those things, almost a grudge match, or not?", "The U.S. attorney hasn't had a running battle, but Traficant has quoted a government informant as saying that the FBI has been running classes on how to get Traficant ever since their '83 failure to convict him.", "Niki, does the community buy into that, or do they sort of roll their eyes at that one?", "Some of each.", "Some of each. Which is more prevalent, though, do you think?", "Do you mean about the FBI holding classes?", "Right. What about what Traficant says about the FBI holding classes?", "I don't think that's given much credit. But to the extent that the government feels that it was cheated out of a conviction the last time, I'm sure that there's an interest in achieving justice this time.", "Dee, this sounds like a nightmare for a prosecutor. You're up against a man who wants to represent himself, a colorful guy. It sounds like a nightmare for a prosecutor. He's won before. Do you want to prosecute this one?", "It would be tough. Every prosecutor wants the big case, the one where everybody's going to be looking, that's going to be talked about on CNN and shows like this. But at the same time, to say it would cause problems: It will pose immense problems.", "Like?", "As far as a person who perhaps is unmatched in an amount of charisma in front of an audience, perhaps the only person I can think of that would be better would be former Governor Edwards of Louisiana. But he's an individual who will constantly give speeches to the jury, and as has been pointed out, and there probably will be a judge who will allow a great deal of that to go on.", "Niki, do we know who the judge is going to be in this case, or is it yet to be assigned?", "I read in one of the newspaper articles that he was going to be arraigned by either the magistrate or Judge Lesley Brooks Wells, and I assume from that that she's probably the judge to whom it's been assigned.", "What about the docket? How crowded is your docket up there? When could we expect a trial?", "Most criminal cases come to trial within six months here, although unusual ones can take much longer. I have no idea how this one will turn out.", "OK, we'll take a quick break. He's defiant and popular, but will James Traficant's legal woes bring an end to his days on Capitol Hill? Don't go away.", "Two defense lawyers for former SLA fugitive Sara Jane Olson have been charged with what crime?", "Releasing addresses and phone numbers of police witnesses. They were instructed to appear in court for arraignment on May 17. (END Q&A;)", "Ohio Congressman James Traficant is serving in his ninth term in Washington. For months, he predicted he would be charged by U.S. attorneys investigating him. On Friday, a grand jury made that a reality with a 10-count indictment, accusing Traficant of -- quote -- \"a pattern of racketeering.\" The Democrat is accused of selling his influence as a lawmaker to businessmen, ordering staff members to perform work on his farm, and accepting improper payments from congressional aides. Bob, before you got assigned to the Ohio streets as an assignment, you were on Capitol Hill and knew a lot about Congress. Tell me, what is Congressman Traficant's reputation with his fellow Democrats?", "Well, first of all, it's much more civilized out here. But getting back to your question, Jim Traficant is considered -- to put it very mildly -- a maverick. This is somebody who, as a matter of fact, has virtually been drummed out of the national Democratic Party because he decided that he would support for speaker the Republican Dennis Hastert. And that was possibly going to be quite significant, because it is such a close margin that the Republicans control the House of Representatives. The Democrats have retaliated by taking away his committee assignments, have pushed him out of the caucus, although he still runs as a Democrat, which is almost considered necessary in Youngstown, Ohio, which is so overwhelmingly Democratic. But he is someone whose reputation has mainly been gained through the one-minutes -- that is, the one-minute speech that each member is allowed to give before, usually, the session begins. And he is flamboyant in those one-minutes. As you pointed out, he usually ends them by saying \"beam me up\" or language much more colorful than that. So his representation has mainly been gained by his appearances and his flamboyant style.", "Niki, in order to sort of take a look at the future trial, let's look back for a second at the one he beat. How strong was the evidence when he represented himself and beat that case?", "Well, the government's case was overwhelming. They had a signed confession. They had tape recordings of him discussing the money he had taken from Mafia people. There wasn't anybody who thought he had the slightest chance of winning that case.", "So how do you explain the fact he did win it? Should we all go to James Traficant school of law?", "I don't think any lawyer could have won that case.", "Well, how did he win it, then? I mean, what's the explanation?", "Well, the explanation is that he gets the opportunity to testify without having to be cross-examined. He gets the opportunity to make speeches to the jury. He gets the opportunity to ingratiate himself with the jury, all kinds of things that no lawyer would be permitted to do.", "Dee, would it be nightmare for a prosecutor to lose this case? I mean, we don't know the quality of the evidence. I mean, for all we know, James Traficant could be 100 percent innocent on this one -- how bad for a prosecutor to lose this one?", "We all hate to lose. And I hated to lose. A loss in a case like this would be difficult because, at least from appearances, it looks like it flowed out of an extensive investigation. I would speculate that there have been a number of cooperating defendants, a number of individuals who have been debriefed, gone into the grand jury.", "It sounds like he said -- there was a lot of evidence before, though.", "Exactly right. And the best thing that a prosecutor can do is come loaded for bear and be ready to try a case. This will be a bear. And whoever is up there, they should be ready or risk being sent to, I guess, Mingo County.", "Yes, what is Mingo County? What is that county he's talking about, Niki?", "There is no Mingo County.", "Well, what is it that he's talking about that he's going to send the prosecutor to?", "I think he's talking about something -- you know, the American version of Siberia, wherever it might be. But, you know, he's announced...", "Go ahead, Bob.", "He announced that's his intention is...", "Go ahead, Niki.", "He announced that it is his intention to put the government on trial, which is the strategy he used the last time.", "Bob.", "And, Greta, if you want to know, Mingo Junction is a town so small that it probably only has one lawyer. That's how small it is. It's a very small town.", "And it may be James Traficant. And it may be James Traficant, pro se. Bob...", "It's a very small town nearby.", "Bob, I asked in the beginning of the show what they were saying in Cincinnati about the two-count indictment against the police officer. What are the people in Ohio, in Cincinnati saying about this, if anything?", "Well, Jim Traficant has a reputation that really goes beyond the merits of this case. This is a man who, when he was sheriff, refused to foreclose on all the mortgages that were coming due because of the -- almost the destruction of the steel industry there. So he is incredibly popular, particularly among the general population there, which is very elderly, very union oriented, somebody who would appreciate a populous politician like Jim Traficant.", "Well, it's a very interesting case. Dee, what kind of argument would you make if you got a conviction? Would you ask for all 63 years in a case like this?", "Well, if you got a conviction, I would ask for a significant sentence. He -- the argument will be that he betrayed the public trust, that he took what those people gave him and he misused it for his own good.", "Does it have any bearing that he's been so insulting to the prosecutors that you run the risk of having a prosecutor argue a little bit harder?", "Yes.", "He does? Yikes. Anyway, that's all the time we have for today. Thanks to our guests. And thank you for watching. Today on \"", "A teacher is reprimanded for taking on bullies. Did he go too far? Send your e-mail to Bobbie Battista and tune in at 3:00 p.m. Eastern time. And tonight on \"", "Three weeks ago, his 15-year-old twins had no idea their father was in prison. Yesterday, he walked out of that prison after serving time for a rape he didn't commit. Find out what forensic sleuths are doing to prevent faulty findings tonight at 8:30. And I'll be back tomorrow with another edition of BURDEN OF PROOF. I'll see you then."], "speaker": ["ANGELA LEISURE, TIMOTHY THOMAS' MOTHER", "GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, CO-HOST", "BURDEN OF PROOF", "REP. JAMES TRAFICANT (D), OHIO", "ANNOUNCER", "VAN SUSTEREN", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "VAN SUSTEREN", "FRANKEN", "VAN SUSTEREN", "MICHAEL ALLEN, HAMILTON COUNTY PROSECUTOR", "VAN SUSTEREN", "ALLEN", "VAN SUSTEREN", "ALLEN", "VAN SUSTEREN", "ALLEN", "VAN SUSTEREN", "ALLEN", "VAN SUSTEREN", "ALLEN", "VAN SUSTEREN", "DEMAURICE SMITH, FRM. 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{"id": "CNN-159163", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2010-12-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1012/06/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Deal Reached on Tax Cuts; WikiLeaks Founder Facing Heat", "utt": ["A deal has apparently been reached between the president of the United States and the Republican leadership on extending the Bush era tax cuts for another two years, also extending unemployment benefits. You're looking at a live picture inside the Old Executive Office Building. It's called now the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next door to the White House. The president will be walking up to that microphone shortly, addressing all of us. We will have live coverage coming up here in THE SITUATION ROOM, breaking news that we're following. In the meantime, WikiLeaks says a Swiss bank has decided to end its business relationship with the online whistle-blower because the founder, Julian Assange, did not provide proper proof of residence. That puts WikiLeaks in a further financial bind, even as authorities in the U.S. and Britain are stepping up legal pressure. But WikiLeaks may have a doomsday plan to be activated as a very last resort. Brian Todd is looking into this for us. What do we know, Brian?", "Wolf, all sorts of pressure on Julian Assange right now. The political pressure over him is white- hot at the moment, some congressional leaders calling Assange a terrorist. Newt Gingrich says he should be treated as an enemy combatant. But right now, the fight Julian Assange is a legal one. And he apparently has an option at his disposal that has a lot of people very nervous.", "The legal wrangling intensifies over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. His lawyer tells the BBC Assange is making arrangements to meet with British police regarding the Swedish arrest warrant for him. Assange is wanted for questioning by Swedish authorities over sex crime allegations. He's denied them. But his lawyer says he's meeting by consent with British police to simply answer questions. U.S. officials, furious over continued leaks of sensitive information, want a piece of this.", "The American people themselves have been put at risk by these actions that are, I believe, arrogant, misguided and ultimately not helpful in -- in any way. We're doing everything that we can. We have a very serious, active, ongoing investigation that is criminal in nature.", "But Assange has a countermeasure. Some call it a doomsday file, a poison pill. Assange's own attorney calls it a thermonuclear device. He calls it an insurance file. It's to be opened in the event that he is captured, killed, or WikiLeaks is taken down. And here to look at it, I'm with Ira Winkler. He's the author of a book called \"Spies Among Us.\" He is a cyber security expert and a former analyst at the National Security Agency. Ira, we just kind of got into this file. Show us what it looks like, with the encryption.", "With the encryption, basically, open it up. And if the average person was to look at it, all they would see is a bunch of garbage.", "How tough is it to de-encrypt this?", "If you don't have the password, there are trillions of potential options of recovering the data. You have to go through trillions of trillions of trillions of options to actually get the right sequence of characters back. So that's why the password is so important.", "Apparently, only Assange or those very close to him have that password. When we got into the file, we saw huge reams of characters in what looked like an exotic language. But if something game-changing happens to Assange or WikiLeaks, he'll blast out the password. Assange says more than 100,000 people who have been able to download the archive will get the decrypted information, and the documents could hit the Internet instantaneously. The file is massive. It's not clear what's in it. (on camera) His side says this is simply for the historical record. It's to preserve history. What do you call it?", "Well, when you have your own lawyer calling it a thermonuclear device, that kind of says you intend to cause damage. He's trying to...", "We're going to have to interrupt that report. The president of the United States now getting ready to speak.", "... between the two parties. Around kitchen tables, Americans are asking just one question. Are we going to allow their taxes to go up on January 1, or will we meet our responsibilities to resolve our differences and do what's necessary to speed up the recovery and get people back to work? There's no doubt that the differences between the parties are real, and they are profound. Ever since I started running for this office, I've said that we should only extend the tax cuts for the middle class. These are the Americans who have taken the biggest hit, not only from this recession, but from nearly a decade of costs that have gone up while their paychecks have not. It would be a grave injustice to let taxes increase for these Americans right now. It would deal a serious blow to our economic recovery. Now, the Republicans have a different view. They believe that we should also make permanent the tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. I completely disagree with this. A permanent extension of these tax cuts would cost us $700 billion at a time when we need to start focusing on bringing down our deficit. Economists from all across the political spectrum agree that giving tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires does very little to actually grow our economy. This is where the debate has stood for the last couple of weeks. And what is abundantly clear to everyone in this town is that Republicans will block a permanent tax cut for the middle class unless they also get a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, regardless of the cost or impact on the deficit. We saw that in two different votes in the Senate that were taken this weekend. Without a willingness to give on both sides, there's no reason to believe that this stalemate won't continue well into next year. This would be a chilling prospect for the American people, whose taxes are currently scheduled to go up on January 1 because of arrangements that were made back in 2001 and 2003 under the Bush tax cuts. I am not willing to let that happen. I know there's some people in my own party and in the other party who would rather prolong this battle, even if we can't reach a compromise. But I'm not willing to let working families across this country become collateral damage for political warfare here in Washington. I'm not willing to let our economy slip backwards just as we're pulling ourselves out of this devastating recession. I'm not willing to see 2 million Americans who stand to lose their unemployment insurance at the end of this month be put in a situation where they might lose their home or their car or suffer some additional economic catastrophe. So as sympathetic as I am to those who prefer a fight over compromise, as much as the political wisdom may dictate fighting over solving problems, it would be the wrong thing to do. The American people didn't send us here to wage symbolic battles or win symbolic victories. They would much rather have the comfort of knowing that when they open their first paycheck on January of 2011, it won't be smaller than it was before, all because Washington decided they preferred to have a fight and failed to act. Make no mistake: allowing taxes to go up on all Americans would have raised taxes by $3,000 for a typical American family. That could cost our economy well over a million jobs. At the same time, I'm not about to add $700 billion to our deficit by allowing a permanent extension of the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. I won't allow any extension of these tax cuts for the wealthy, even a temporary one, without also extending unemployment insurance for Americans who have lost their jobs or additional tax cuts for working families and small businesses. Because if Republicans truly believe we shouldn't raise taxes on anyone while our economy is still recovering from the recession, then surely we shouldn't cut taxes for wealthy people while letting them rise on parents and students and small businesses. As a result, we have arrived at a framework for a bipartisan agreement. For the next two years, every American family will keep their tax cuts. Not just the Bush tax cuts, but those that have been put in place over the last couple of years that are helping parents and students and other folks manage their bills. In exchange for a temporary extension of the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, we will be able to protect key tax cuts for working families. The earned income tax credit that helps families climb out of poverty, the child tax credit that makes sure families don't see their taxes jump up to $1,000 for every child, and the American Opportunity Tax Credit that ensures over 8 million students and their families don't suddenly see the cost of college shooting up. These are the tax cuts for some of the folks who have been hit hardest by this recession. And it would be simply unacceptable if their taxes went up while everybody else's stayed the same. Under this agreement, unemployment insurance will also be extended for another 13 months, which will be welcome relief for 2 million Americans who are facing the prospect of having this lifeline yanked away from them right in the middle of the holiday season. This agreement would also mean a 2 percent employee payroll tax cut for workers next year. The tax cut that economists across the political spectrum agree is one of the most powerful things we can do to create jobs and boost economic growth. And we will prevent -- we will provide incentives for businesses to invest and create jobs by allowing them to completely write off their investments next year. This is something I identified back in September as a way to help American businesses create jobs. Thanks to this compromise, it's finally going to get done. In exchange, the Republicans have asked for more generous treatment of the estate tax than I think is wise or warranted. But we have insisted that that will be temporary. I have no doubt that everyone will find something in this compromise that they don't like. In fact, there are things in here that I don't like. Namely the extension of the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and the wealthiest estates. But these tax cuts will expire in two years. And I'm confident that, as we make tough choices about bringing our deficit down, as I engage in a conversation with the American people about the hard choices we're going to have to make to secure our future and our children's future, and our grandchildren's future, it will become apparent that we cannot afford to extend those tax cuts any longer. As for now, I believe this bipartisan plan is the right thing to do. It's the right thing to do for jobs. It's the right thing to do for the middle class. It is the right thing to do for business, and it's the right thing to do for our economy. It offers us an opportunity that we need to seize. It's not perfect. But this compromise is an essential step on the road to recovery. It will stop middle-class taxes from going up. It will spur our private sector to create millions of new jobs and add momentum that our economy badly needs. Building on that momentum is what I'm focused on. It's what members of Congress should be focused on. I'm looking forward to working with members of both parties in the coming days to see to it that we get this done before everyone leaves town for the holiday season. We cannot allow this moment to pass. And let me just end with this. There's been a lot of debate in Washington about how this would ultimately get resolved. I just want everybody to remember over the course of the coming days, both Democrats and Republicans, that these are not abstract fights for the families that are impacted. Two million people will lose their unemployment insurance at the end of this month if we don't get this resolved. Millions more of Americans will see their taxes go up at a time when they can least afford it. And my singular focus over the next year is going to be on how do we continue the momentum of the recovery? How do we make sure that we grow this economy and we create more jobs. We cannot play politics at a Time when the American people are looking for us to solve problems. And so I look forward to engaging the House and the Senate, members of both parties, as well as the media in this debate, but I'm confident that this needs to get done, and I'm confident ultimately Congress is going to do the right thing. Thank you very much, everybody.", "... Democrats behind this plan?", "All right. So the president of the United States speaking, what, for about nine minutes to the American people, announcing what he calls a framework agreement that will allow the tax rates that were implemented during the Bush administration to continue for another two years, including for the wealthiest Americans, those making more than $250,000 a year. The president says he hates that part of it, but under the circumstances, he had no choice. He didn't have the political power to push back. The Republicans were holding firm. They wanted to continue the tax rates for everyone. They would have voted against continuing the tax rates only for those making less than $250,000 a year. And in two votes in the House and the Senate in recent days, they did just that. Let's assess what's going on. We have members of the best political team on television standing by. I want to go to our White House correspondent, Dan Lothian first. I know you've had some briefings on this, Dan. Is it a done deal now? Do they -- are they 100 percent convinced they have the votes in the House and the Senate to get this through?", "Well, no one is saying that it's a done deal yet. They are optimistic that they have the votes to get this through. But Wolf, I think what you heard from the president tonight is sort of making a case to justify why he and others were willing to compromise on deeply-held positions. The president believing that this is the right time and the best time to get this done, that this fight should not be prolonged. You heard the president talk about how he did not want Americans to become collateral damage in political warfare. Really believing that this is the best deal that they have. And so, while it may not be perfect -- you heard the president ending his remarks, saying that it may not be perfect -- he believes this is what is needed to help Americans who are hurting, especially during these difficult economic times.", "Brianna Keilar is on Capitol Hill. Brianna, do you get the sense that a lot of the Republicans are going to be happier with this deal than a lot of the Democrats?", "Yes, you certainly do get that sense. Even some, you know, talking to a Senate Republican source, they weren't -- they were emphasizing that the ink isn't dry here and things could still change. But there are going to be a lot of unhappy Democrats as they come to the Hill tomorrow, Wolf. In fact, the White House has a long way to go with making some of them happy. We heard from a Senate Democratic leadership aide that Joe Biden is going to be coming up here to the Hill tomorrow to talk with Senate Democrats, trying to defend this deal. And you heard the president talk specifically about that estate tax. I'm told by one Democratic aide that this is going to be something very difficult for liberal Democrats in the House to swallow. It's going to be a very bitter pill. Because the way they see it with these tax cuts being extended for all Americans, including the wealthiest, when you add on that estate tax, even though it's been zeroed out under the Bush tax cuts, you're talking about $5 million in inheritance. The first $5 million in inheritance that taxes wouldn't have to be paid on. Very tough for liberal Democrats.", "But Gloria Borger, from what I understand, this is a package deal, and there's not going to be any room for amendments. The members, Democrats and Republicans in the House and the Senate, they're going to have to take it or leave it.", "Right. That's why you've got the vice president going up to the Hill tomorrow. It's why you've got -- I've been just BlackBerrying with some House Democrats who are upset. And I think what -- you know, you see what they tried to do here. They tried to give a little something for everybody. Protect the earned investment tax credit, the child tax credit, give 2 percent employee payroll tax cut, taking care of the wealthy, taking care of the middle class. But, you know, the bottom line is what are they going to do next, Wolf? This is -- this is very expensive here. And while it's going to make people happy in the short-term to a certain degree, and liberal Democrats will not be happy at all, by the way, because of the extension of the tax cuts on the wealthy, you're just kicking the can down the road.", "All right. Ed Rollins, Republican strategist, it looks like none of this is paid for. In other words, there's no spending cuts as far as I can see to pay for any of these things.", "Well, clearly the president put a budget up shortly. The Republicans then have an opportunity. If they think they can make cuts somewhere else, to offset some of this, they'll do that. At the end of the day, as Chairman Bernanke said last night on \"60 Minutes,\" now is not the time to cut or to basically do deficit reduction. It's a longer strategy. And I think this -- this is what the compromise is all about. And I think, to a certain extent, this is what this election was about. You know, this is the beginning of a long process which both sides are going to have to give up.", "Paul Begala, what does this compromise say about the president of the United States?", "Well, it was interesting. I listened carefully to his speech, and he talked about how symbolic victories were unhelpful to Americans who are out of work. By which I guess he means if he had continued fighting for his Democratic principles on this, that this -- I think he felt like this was the time to compromise. I was also struck that the tone in his comments seemed to be more directed to his own party and sort of scolding, sort of suggesting that Democrats who disagree with him on this are somehow posturing or wanting to, I think he said, fight instead of solve problems. I can tell you, the early reviews from his own party are tough. Somewhere between tough and scathing. I don't know that those comments tonight from the president are going to help sell this package with his party. So I don't know. I think he's got a very tough sell from his own party. I think he'll get his deal. The Republicans seem to love it. And there's going to be probably enough Republicans and Democrats who can pass this. But, you know, I think he's -- he's -- Democrats sense that he's caving.", "Caving. That's a strong word. Jessica Yellin, some of us who covered the Bill Clinton administration and the losses that he and the Democrats sustained in '94, and then Newt Gingrich became speaker in '95, we saw Bill Clinton moving back towards a more moderate, centrist position. Are we seeing that now to the irritation of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, President Obama moving towards the center?", "Well, that's exactly what the White House has termed the professional left is trying to protect -- protect from happening now. That's what they think the president is doing. The progressive change campaign committee is one of those groups that's been so critical of the president over his negotiations on the tax cuts. They put out a statement before the deal was done saying this. And it sounds like the president was, in some part, responding to these sentiments. \"President Obama has shown a complete refusal to fight Republicans throughout his presidency, even when the public is on his side. And millions of his former supporters are now growing disappointed and infuriated by this refusal to fight. Obama is demobilizing the troops and demoralizing the public right before he seeks reelection.\" Now Wolf, that sounds like something of a threat from the liberal wing of the president's own party, saying essentially, look, if you don't stick to some of the principles you promised to stand by during your campaign, we might not back you in your reelection. Those are fighting words, but there is a deep, deep, deep resentment and frustration on the liberal wing of the Democratic Party right now that's more than just talk. There's a real sense of disillusionment with the president.", "Paul Begala, there may be disappointment on the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, but John McCain just tweeted this. He loves it. John McCain, I say -- in his tweet he says, \"I applaud the framework agreement just announced by the president. Now we need to make it happen. We shouldn't raise taxes during a recession.\" So you're hearing his rival for the presidency applauding what he's doing at a time when many liberal Democrats hate it.", "Yes. You get the sense, I think, that the Republicans -- I watched your interview with Senator Barrasso. You and Gloria both, I think, sort of drew him out to show that there's -- it seems to be -- I think the Republicans, most Democrats believe, got the better part of the deal. Looks like the Republicans believe that, as well. What you're hearing pushing back from the administration, though, is important. They want to shift it away from the focus on the tax cuts for the rich that the president says he still doesn't like and toward this payroll tax cut, which is something that I've been calling for for a long time, a lot of Democrats. It's mostly a Republican idea, I have to say, but a lot of Democrats have said that would create a lot of jobs. And you're hearing a lot now already from the White House and the administration that payroll tax cut that's in here is going to put $2,000 in the pocket of a couple making $50,000 a year, and that will generate a lot of jobs.", "Paul Begala, thanks very much. I want to thank all of our members of the best political team on television. Historic day here in Washington right now. The president of the United States, you heard him announcing what he calls a framework agreement, a compromise worked out with the Republicans. It still has to be voted on in the House and the Senate. We'll see if it's a done deal or not. We'll have more coverage, obviously, here on CNN. Stand by for that. Also, Wal-Mart, right now at the center of what could be the largest class-action lawsuit in U.S. history, with huge implications for workers and businesses across the country. Stand by."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TODD (voice-over)", "ERIC HOLDER, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL", "TODD", "IRA WINKLER, CYBER SECURITY EXPERT", "TODD (on camera)", "WINKLER", "TODD (voice-over)", "WINKLER", "BLITZER", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BLITZER", "DAN LOTHIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "GLORIA BORGER, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "BLITZER", "ED ROLLINS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST", "BLITZER", "PAUL BEGALA, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST", "BLITZER", "JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "BEGALA", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-242766", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2014-11-08", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1411/08/ndaysat.03.html", "summary": "Working on the Front Lines against Ebola; Mexico Gang Confesses to Killing Students", "utt": ["These volunteers are preparing for a daunting task. Soon they'll travel from the United States to West Africa to work on the front lines in the fight against Ebola.", "We have a mock Ebola treatment unit. We're training clinicians, who are going to deploy to West Africa to treat patients there, how to protect themselves.", "They learn skills like putting on and removing protective equipment, drawing blood and disposing of hazardous waste.", "Every detail could mean a matter of life or death to you or the people that work around you.", "Dr. Phuoc Le is planning to take the skills he learns on this training course in Alabama and help medical teams in Liberia improve their protocols and hopefully limit infection.", "All of the infections of health care workers and the deaths of health care workers, most of them were probably preventable if they had sufficient staffing, the equipment that we have here, space, supplies.", "We're teaching them how the virus is transmitted so that they know how to protect themselves so that they feel safe taking care of patients.", "The training helps, but the volunteers still face a formidable foe.", "Whoever tells you that they're not anxious about going to Liberia and working in an Ebola unit is delusional. It's just a sense of solidarity and wanting to, you know, be there for our non-profit partners who don't have a choice but to stay and work and contribute.", "If you want to learn more about how you can help in the fight against ebola visit CNN.com/impact.", "Well, families in Mexico calling for justice as you can imagine, after 43 college students disappeared back in September. Well, now the Mexican government is saying they have all been murdered. And three suspected gang members have confessed to killing them and burning their bodies. However, the families aren't buying that story. CNN's senior Latin American affairs editor, Rafael Romo has more.", "Badly burned human remains, teeth and bone fragments, a gruesome discovery in a river located in southern Mexico. The Mexican attorney general says authorities are dealing with a massive homicide. The victims, he said, could be 43 students who disappeared in late September in the city of Iguala. The students from a rural teachers college in the town Ayotzinapa are in their late teens or early 20s. On order of the city's mayor the top official said Friday, police abducted the students and turned them over to a gang; the gang which allegedly has deep ties to the mayor, reportedly killed the students and burned their bodies before throwing the remains in a river. Identifying the bodies Murillo said, will be a huge challenge. Murillo said the remains are so badly burned that obtaining reliable DNA samples to identify the victims will be extremely difficult. As a result, he said, officials have not been able to determine for certain that those are the students' remains. (on camera): The Mexican attorney general said so far 74 suspects have been arrested and police are looking for at least ten more. This investigation he said, it's still wide open and no effort will be spared to punish those responsible. (voice over): Among those arrested are the Iguala mayor and his wife. Authorities suspect he ordered the students stopped because they would disrupt an event led by his wife. The Mexican president promised with justice. \"The findings presented outrage and offend all of Mexican society. With firm determination the government will continue the efforts for a full accounting of the incident. The capture of those who ordered it isn't enough. We will arrest everyone who participated in these abominable crimes.\" But the parents of the missing told CNN en Espanol they don't trust the government's investigation. \"To publish that kind of news without any scientific proof is highly irresponsible,\" the parents said by phone. The Mexican government said DNA samples will be sent to a university in Austria in an effort to identify the remains.", "Rafael joining us now live from Mexico City. Good to see you, Rafael. We heard there from Mexico's president and he has claimed so often the last year that Mexico has become safer on his watch. I'm wondering how people are reacting to this.", "Christi, we have to look at the larger problem here and that is the fact that this case happened because two towns in the state of Guerrero were infiltrated by criminal organizations. And let me explain that to you. They were so much in power that they were essentially in control of the police departments and that's the reason why these students were stopped by police officers and handed over to a criminal gang. Critics of the government here say that is not an isolated case. There's infiltration of criminal organizations at the local and state level in different parts of Mexico. And that's a big, big challenge for Mexico right now -- Christi.", "All right. Rafael Romo, we so appreciate the report. Thank you.", "Now that he's been caught and his alleged 22-year-old victim was found alive some are wondering why a suspect with a long rap sheet was free to walk the streets in the first place."], "speaker": ["CHRIS CUOMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DR. PATRICIA GRIFFIN, DIRECTOR, CDC TRAINING CAMP", "CUOMO", "DR. PHUOC LE, VOLUNTEER", "CUOMO", "LE", "GRIFFIN", "CUOMO", "LE", "SAVIDGE", "PAUL", "RAFAEL ROMO, CNN SENIOR LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS EDITOR (voice-over)", "PAUL", "ROMO", "PAUL", "SAVIDGE"]}
{"id": "CNN-60283", "program": "CNN SUNDAY NIGHT", "date": "2002-9-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/08/snn.04.html", "summary": "What Is Your Dog Barking About?", "utt": ["When it comes to dogs, the saying goes, their bark is often worse than their bite. But what's Rover really trying to say with all that woof, woofing? Well, CNN's Andrew Brown looks at a new gizmo that may explain what all the barking's about.", "Bowlingual analyzes barking sounds that are picked up by a special microphone. It can be fixed to a dog's collar or you could try dangling the mike near a canine's mouth and get a reading that way. Don't be fooled by dogs that look aggressive. Experts say they might just be having fun. And if new products apparently helps us understand their complex emotions. Ask Ray Jones, the man who's marketing Bowlingual in Hong Kong.", "This is unhappy.", "No surprise there, but what about...", "This is happy.", "Bowlingual is made by the Japanese company Tikara, which claims through painstaking research, you have matched different sounds with a dog's emotional stage. Once there's a positive match, the screen advises the user what the dog's feeling. (on camera): These feelings fall into several broad categories: happy dog, sad dog, frustrated dog and dogs that want something. (voice-over): Some dog lovers are intrigued by Bowlingual's potential. What kind of things do you think your dog says, I mean, when she's talking to you?", "I don't know. Maybe I can find out from that machine.", "I'd buy it. I think it would be cool to find out she really wants.", "But a lot of dogs don't want to say what they want. Can you make it bark? Dogs just aren't buying this technology. And at nearly $200 U.S., some consumers aren't either.", "$200 U.S. It's expensive.", "Yes, would you buy it?", "No, of course not.", "Now we're now joined by a special guest, Leo, who has promised to bark for us, generating some samples that we can actually test this device. Let's go, Leo. Bark, bark. It's got a bit of a sore throat, Carol. Yes. Let's see if we can get a reading here. I'm just trying to bring the reading up. It's actually in Japanese. So we're getting a translation. It's coming through. What does it say? It doesn't say -- well, it doesn't say. It's still trying to get a reading here. Leo, just carry on barking.", "He's got a sore throat?", "Gee, I don't think it works, Carol.", "You don't think it works. I'm just wondering if there's any science behind this, I mean, because it's not like a dog's going to say, hey, wait a minute, that's not what I said.", "I know. The dogs cannot give feedback. That's the thing. I mean, this has been invented by humans. It's not really fair, is it?", "No, it's not. So what happens if a human barks into it?", "I can't hear you, Carol, because he's barking so loudly. I don't think he wants us to talk.", "Oh. I was saying, Andrew, what happens when a human barks into it? Does it translate that?", "Ah, humans. Well, the thing is you've got to have different settings. You have a setting for each species of dog. And there is no human settings. But I've been barking into it. And it seems to work with me. I mean, you just, woof. See if we can get that coming up. I don't know. I promise you, it does work on humans. I don't know if it's accurate.", "Andrew, you do realize that I just made you bark on international television?", "Well, I do that all the time.", "That's probably more than I need to know. Well, tell Leo thank you very much for his time. He's probably asking for a drink of water. And Andrew...", "Carol says thank you.", "Oh, that's the collar"], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "ANDREW BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BROWN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BROWN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "BROWN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BROWN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "BROWN", "LIN", "BROWN", "LIN", "BROWN", "LIN", "BROWN", "LIN", "BROWN", "LIN", "BROWN", "LIN", "BROWN", "LIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-143918", "program": "AMERICAN MORNING", "date": "2009-10-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/13/ltm.03.html", "summary": "Health Care Reform Vote; Taliban's Growing Influence in Pakistan", "utt": ["Coming up to the top of the hour - just a couple of minutes now to the top of the hour. It's Tuesday. It's the 13th of October. Thanks for being with us this morning on the Most News in the Morning. I'm John Roberts.", "And I'm Kiran Chetry. We have a lot of big stories we're breaking down for you in the next 15 minutes. First, the Senate Finance Committee in just two hours is going to be voting on its $829 billion version of health care reform. The measure is designed to provide coverage to 94 percent of Americans without adding to the deficit and without a public option. The insurance industry, though, is launching an 11th hour attack and there may not be a single Republican supporting the measure.", "New concerns this morning about the stability of Pakistan. The Taliban now launching attacks on government forces there, reportedly looking to partner with al Qaeda to gain more power and influence, and that has some people worried about militants taking control of a nation that has nuclear capabilities.", "Also, cheating death. A woman slips, falls through the ice, her heart stopped beating for three hours. Sanjay Gupta has her incredible survival story. Dr. Gupta himself does an amazing demonstration of what happens to your body when you're forced to float in freezing water. Here's a look.", "First thing you notice when you get in the water is that it's extremely hard to talk because the cold just sort of takes your breath away. The next thing is wherever this water touches my skin, it hurts.", "The fine line between life and death, it's part of Dr. Gupta's \"Cheating Death\" series. But first we begin with a potential turning point in the health care debate. In the next few hours, the Senate Finance Committee will be voting on a health care reform bill that would cost $829 billion to put into place over the next ten years. One of the votes that will be cast, Republican Charles Grassley of Iowa. We spoke to him earlier on AMERICAN MORNING about why he's against the measure. He says it will drive costs up for many families and says there's one important measure that's missing.", "Tort reform is a very major thing and why? I started to say because 10 percent of the cost of medicine is a practice of defensive medicine because doctors give you a bunch of tests that may be you don't need because they think you're going to sue them, so they give you every test under the sun so they've got a defense if you do sue them. The Democrats don't want to do that because they get all of their campaign funds from the tort attorneys.", "All right. So there we heard from Charles Grassley. Brianna Keilar is live on Capitol Hill this morning. Quite a turnaround, you know, and one of the other things that he did mention, that he did talk about is that he misunderstood or -- you know, he misread how strongly his constituents would feel about these individual mandates as well. But all of that aside, this bill looks like it's headed for passage, right, because it does have the support of the Democrats.", "The Democratic chairman of this committee, Max Baucus, says he's confident that he has the votes here today. Thirteen Democrats, 10 Republicans. So Democrats obviously have an edge. But keep in mind, there's still a couple of Democrats who have not said they are definitely going to vote for this bill on this committee, but the sense is that those Democrats -- pardon me -- would not really try to stand in the way of this vote. This is, certainly, a key vote. This is the fifth and final committee that would be passing a health care bill out of committee. And it's really the most conservative bill of all of the ones that Congress has considered, because it has a smaller price tag and it lacks that government-run insurance plan, that public option. So this is what this bill looks like today, that would be voted on today. It's a price tag of $829 billion. This is far below President Obama's cutoff of $900 billion and it also includes health cooperatives -- non-profit health co-ops, instead of that so-called public option, and it includes an individual mandate, a requirement that all Americans must have health insurance, but there is not a strong employer mandate that says they have to contribute to health care costs for their employees. Democrats, Kiran, are trying to pick up one Republican vote. That's really the only chance they have. Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, she's made some positive sounds about the bill, but she hasn't said definitively she's going to vote for it -- Kiran.", "But the bottom line is, they don't need her necessarily. They can still get it passed on a party line, right?", "Yes, they don't need her, but they sure would like to have her, because that would allow them to say, we have some bipartisan support.", "Right. Absolutely. And then also, the other interesting thing that's sort of got thrown in here at the 11th hour is the insurance industry-funded study that came out on Monday, saying this bill could end up drive up premiums, ending up driving up premiums, rather, $4,000 a year for families. Democrats are firing that, calling it a hatchet job. But what effect is that having on the Hill right now?", "Well, Democrats are very much on the defensive from the Senate Finance Committee and over at the White House, because there's a specter that looms over this effort to overhaul health care. Back in '93, '94, the insurance industry was really instrumental in scuttling that reform plan. And so, this is thing that the folks here are very aware of. They are saying this is absolutely not true. Their plan will bring down the costs. As you said, they're saying this is a hatchet job; this is a self-serving analysis; paid for by an industry that they say has been gouging consumers. But that industry lobby stands by their numbers and they say they're just trying to make sure there are no unintended consequences, being very expensive premiums for consumers like you and me, Kiran.", "All right. Brianna, thanks so much. We'll be watching, as we said, in just a couple of hours, the finance committee is going to be voting there in the Senate. And stay with us because in just a few minutes, we'll be talking with Wendell Potter. He used to work for two of the country's biggest insurance companies. But now, he's working against them, trying to get health care reform passed.", "Now, we know where the Taliban is getting a lot of its cash. They are extorting it from drug dealers. According to an official from the Treasury Department, he says the Taliban is financing attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan by extorting funds from poppy farmers and heroin traffickers. They're also squeezing protection money out of legitimate Afghan businesses. Al Qaeda, on the other hand, is said to be strapped for crash, and while it is still a threat, it has lost some of its influence, according to this Treasury Department official. Meantime, the United States is growing steadily more concerned about the Taliban's influence in Pakistan this morning. Our Barbara Starr is live at the Pentagon. And, Barbara, why Pakistan and why now?", "Well, John, one important reason, the U.S. believes the Taliban inside Pakistan are set on a firm path to try and destabilize this important U.S. nuclear ally.", "Four bloody attacks in eight days. In the latest, a suicide bomber targets a military convoy passing through a bazaar in northwest Pakistan. More than 40 killed. It was a weekend standoff at army headquarters in Rawalpindi that has shaken Pakistan deeply and has Washington worried. Pakistani Taliban disguised as soldiers stormed the compound, seizing hostages. Eleven Pakistani troops and nine militants were killed. The Pakistani army spokesman tried to defend the massive security breach.", "Can anybody guarantee today that 100 percent, any organization for that matter, any army or any outside party can prevent a single act of terrorism? It's not possible.", "But for the U.S., a potentially more frightening concern about growing Taliban capabilities was expressed by a key Republican senator on CBS' \"Face the Nation.\"", "We also know that Pakistan has nuclear weapons. The Taliban taking over a country like Pakistan would be completely and totally unacceptable, destabilizing not only in that area of the world, but all around.", "The Taliban's goal may not be to take over the country, just to wreak havoc. Experts believe the attacks are revenge for the recent killing of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in a U.S. military strike, and an effort to blunt an upcoming military offensive in South Waziristan, an al Qaeda and Taliban stronghold. The Taliban's boldness underscores the group's ability to maintain its influence, even after their leader was killed. Robert Grenier, the former CIA station chief in Pakistan, says al Qaeda has a growing partner in the Taliban.", "If they're asked for support by al Qaeda, they cannot and they will not say no.", "So, how much attention is all of this getting in Washington? Just yesterday, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, called his counterpart in Pakistan, General Ashfaq Kiyani to express his condolences and concerns about the latest violence - John.", "Very troubling. Barbara Starr for us this morning from the Pentagon -- Barbara, thanks.", "Also new this morning, more than 200 patients at a Los Angeles hospital received eight times the normal dose of radiation during CT scans. Officials at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center blame the mistake on the hospital resetting the scanner. That mistake went undetected for a year and a half. About 40 percent of the patients lost patches of hair. General Electric makes the scanner and says it's not the machine that's defective. The FDA puts out an alert urging hospitals across the country to review their safety procedures for their CT scans.", "The children of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. have reached a settlement over the family's estate. That keeps the case from going to public jury trial. Two of Dr. King's children had claimed that their brother, Dexter King, shut them out of decisions involving King Incorporated, the private venture that controls the family's cash.", "And if you're a huge Elvis fan, the ultimate in memorabilia, a 154-acre ranch outside of Memphis. It's in Horn Lake, Mississippi. \"The King\" once owned the property, and now you can too. But you will need a lot of money. The asking price is $6.5 million.", "Well, he was a health care industry insider. Now he is giving us the inside scoop on the health care industry. Why are health insurers lining up against the Senate bill now? We'll ask him for his insight. It's eight and a half minutes after the hour."], "speaker": ["JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR", "KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHETRY", "SEN. CHARLES GRASSLEY (R), IOWA", "CHETRY", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHETRY", "KEILAR", "CHETRY", "KEILAR", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT", "STARR (voice-over)", "MAJ. GEN. ATHAR ABBAS, PAKISTAN MILITARY SPOKESMAN", "STARR", "SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), MINORITY LEADER", "STARR", "ROBERT GRENIER, FORMER CIA STATION CHIEF IN PAKISTAN", "STARR", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS", "CHETRY", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-166598", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-5-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1105/24/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Hundreds Still Missing in Joplin; Butte Larose Ordered to Evacuate; Volcanic Ash Threatens Flight; Search Intensifies In Joplin; NATO's Heaviest Air Strikes", "utt": ["The sun is shining in Joplin, Missouri, and that is a major development those folks will never take for granted again. For the first time since this city was hit by the single deadliest tornado in decades, search and rescue efforts aren't being hindered by driving rain or hail or lightning, which struck two police officers, in fact, last night. One is OK, the other in critical condition. The confirmed death toll in Sunday's disaster now stands at 118, but authorities say more than ten times that many still are unaccounted for. Joplin's head of emergency management says people scattered and simply can't get home or maybe no longer have homes and haven't yet called in. But then there's Will Norton, blown out of his hummer on his way home from high school graduation. His family thinks -- thinks he's in a hospital somewhere. And Skylar Logsdon, a 1-year-old, ripped out of his mother's arms. His great uncle spoke to CNN this morning.", "The night of the tornado, that evening, and they had him in the hallway in the house, and what the -- they all got in the covers in the hallway in the house and when the tornado hit, they lost track of him and we haven't seen him since.", "Was Skylar's mother holding onto him?", "Yes, she was and she lost him in the aftermath all of this, and it's just terrible. And no one has seen him since, the rest of the family is doing OK, we've just -- we got to find him.", "And here is why the sunshine is such a big deal. Later today, things could get ugly again. An area just to the west in south mainly, mainly Kansas and Oklahoma stands a wry risk of violent storms. Our Chad Myers will tell us more about that in just a moment. But first, I want to get to my colleague, T.J. Holmes, he is in Joplin. He has found some amazing stories, and T.J., tell us where exactly you are now.", "Well, we are just to the west of Joplin, a lot of people know where the hospital is. It's been the focus of so much attention. So, we're just a few blocks to the west of that on the western part of the city, a neighborhood that for the most part been decimated. Certainly, we have seen neighborhoods flattened, but for the most part, a lot of these homes got severe damage. You mentioned the weather, we're starting to get a little cloud cover here that's starting to come in. Also, they were supposed to test the tornado sirens, wanted to make sure they were working, that was supposed to happen a few hours ago. We didn't hear them in this part of the city. Don't know if they actually went through with that test or they're not working here, but that was a concern given that we could have severe weather later. This neighborhood is, quite frankly, very busy right now, because everybody is kind of coming out, you see a lot of trailers, a lot of U-Haul trucks, as well. Look at this behind me, though, Randi. Give you an idea here, a fireplace here that is exposed, nothing else is around it. You can tell, there was a house there. The house is gone, but for whatever reason we still see a fireplace. We went looking for the house, follow across the street now. On the other side of the street, the rubble that's collected there on the corner, that is actually the house that was here. And would you believe, I talked to the lady a little earlier who was digging through that rubble, and I said, ma'am, would you mind if we came over, you told us your story? She actually said to me, Randi, just wait for me to put my makeup on. We're kind of getting people -- they are taking this in stride, like you wouldn't believe. And Randi, I believe you can see in the distance there, we're up on a hill here, you can see kind of the neighborhood across the street. You couldn't see that neighborhood before, because the trees were full with leaves and the greenery on it. Well, look at it now, the trees are stripped naked, and that just gives you kind of a wider -- a wider position or wider look and a better idea and perspective of just how widespread the damage is. But again, the clouds are moving in right now. This is an active search and rescue, they've been through this particular neighborhood. They're going to go through them in stages, they plan on going through them more than one time, more than two times in some cases. But we are up against the clock now, Randi, because we might not have much time before we all might have to seek cover once again.", "How concerned are the people there? I mean we know that there is possibility of heavy storms or a tornado possibly what between I think 4:00 and midnight tonight?", "Yes, 4:00 and midnight, so we've got about four hours here. But like you said, how concerned now? Randi, I just talked to a guy a minute ago who said he will never ignore another tornado siren in his life. Because -- I've heard that story time and time again here from folks that say, yes, we're in the Midwest, we hear tornado sirens, we get tornado warnings and watches all of the time, we go about our business. This changes things, I assure you. Them just seeing cloud cover today freaks them out a little bit. So, I assure you, everybody's been talking about it. The severe risk, a high risk of an outbreak, to say that to this community just a couple days after history was made here, you're damn right they're taking it seriously -- Randi.", "Yes, I'm sure they are. T.J. appreciate it, thank you, be safe there. And before we do move on, I want to show you a very important Web address and phone number, take note here. These have been set up for people who are searching for family members or who want to let their families know that they're OK. You can go to www.safeandwell.org, that is safe and well and that happens to be one word or call 417-659- 5464. And don't worry if you don't have a pencil right now, because we will give you this information again this hour and next. And if you want to help the folks in Joplin, check out CNN's \"Impact Your World\" as well. That is at CNN.com/impact. Our \"Sound Effect\" is a long distance show of solidarity. President Obama is in Britain, as you may know, but Joplin is on his mind.", "At my direction, FEMA administrator Craig Fugate, and deputy administrator Rich Serino (ph) have traveled to Missouri to make sure our federal government is working hand-in-hand with state and local officials to give them the help that they need. And on Sunday, I, myself, will travel to Missouri to talk with folks who have been affected, to talk to local officials about our response effort, and hopefully to pray with folks and give them whatever assurance and comfort I can that the entire country is going to be behind them.", "We are also keeping a close watch on the historic floods from the Mississippi River snaking through Louisiana. Backwater flooding is now forcing residents in Butte Larose, Louisiana to evacuate. Mandatory evacuations in Butte Larose that were put on hold are being reinstated right now. That order applies to -- included the media, as well. Most of the residents have already evacuated, but still some insist on riding out the flood. Analysis by a financial research firm estimates the effort to divert the Mississippi River by opening that Morganza Spillway could flood more than 21,000 homes and cost more than $2.2 billion in damage. Airlines and travelers across Europe are carefully watching an erupting volcano in Iceland that began spewing ash on Saturday. The resulting cloud of volcanic ash has already forced airlines to cancel about 500 flights around the United Kingdom. While the concentration of the ash at London's Heathrow remains low, the cancellations are double the number expected earlier this morning. The ash cloud will affect the U.K., Denmark, and parts of Scandinavia today and is forecast to cover all of British air space by 1:00 a.m. on Wednesday. Well, you just saw the images, historic tornadoes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. There seems to be a lot of devastating weather that's popped up just within the past few weeks. I want to bring in our Chad Myers. You may have heard his weather radio going off, those little alarms that you might have heard mind me. Chad, it seems like it's been one storm, one disaster after another.", "Yes, it certainly has. And I was listening to T.J. because he said he didn't know whether the tornado sirens went off or not, because he didn't hear them. In fact, they did sound them. So, if he didn't hear them, that means they're not operational yet because they got knocked down by the other tornado. This is the sound that you're going to hear maybe later on tonight. It is that sound of that NOAA weather radio. And I hope you have one, if you don't, maybe now is a good time to get it. It goes off even when you're asleep. What's all this about? Why so many tornadoes? You know, what's going on? Well, let me try to explain something to you here. We've had this trough, it's the jet stream, you can follow these lines right through here. The jet stream for most of the spring has been like this. Kind of a cold in the Rockies and it's even dipped down here a little bit over here, just a little bit, because it's been cool in the northeast as well. But every time this comes up to here, a little storm will come through. And there's one today, that's the -- that's the wind right there over New Mexico and Texas. It's there right now and it's coming, and it's going to spin a low pressure system along that jet stream. Think of the jet kind of like a road, it's the interstate, it's where all of the storms come. Moisture comes up, storms -- cold air comes down, you get -- you get severe weather. Well, for most of the spring, we just had rain. There wasn't much severe weather but it was very heavy rain. Now that heavy rain is in the Mississippi River. That cause -- that trough caused all of that flooding. Same story, the trough is also causing the storms to fire again today with cold fronts, warm fronts and that warm air, moist air coming in from the Gulf of Mexico, cold air coming down. Why is this different than any other year? It looks exactly the same like any other spring. It's colder than it's been, there's a lot of snow pack up across the north still, so that air as it comes down is colder. The humidity coming up from the Gulf of Mexico is higher because the Gulf of Mexico is a little bit warmer, the water a little bit warmer than normal. Global warming? Maybe, sure. That's probably why the water is a little bit warmer than we've been over the past 500 years or whatever it might be, but all of those things combined making storms in the same places. And we will have a significant tornado outbreak today, I'm not going home any time soon. And you -- if you live in a mobile home anywhere from Kansas to Oklahoma and Texas, you need to make plans to be out of that thing and somewhere safe for the rest of the night, because this is a big event. I'll just draw it for you here, so you can see it. Right through , into Oklahoma, down into Texas, all the way to Arkansas, and yes, that right there is Joplin, Missouri, in the big zone. Now, around it, there will still be more storms, no question. Even 100 miles around it or so, but the middle, that's the big thing.", "All right, Chad. We will continue to keep an eye on it, as you will, as well I'm sure.", "Of course.", "I'll check back in with you. Well, after butting heads with President Obama, Israel's prime minister spoke to Congress this morning, laying out his vision for a Mideast peace agreement. What he said, and what it all means, next."], "speaker": ["RANDI KAYE, CNN ANCHOR", "FRANK REYNOLDS, GREAT-UNCLE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "REYNOLDS", "KAYE", "T.J. HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "KAYE", "HOLMES", "KAYE", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KAYE", "CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "KAYE", "MYERS", "KAYE"]}
{"id": "CNN-210823", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2013-7-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1307/19/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "President Obama Speaks Out on Race in America; GOP Senators Slams Obama Remarks", "utt": ["When Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me.", "The president opening up about Trayvon Martin's death in extremely personal terms, explaining why so many African-Americans are frustrated by George Zimmerman's acquittal. This hour, you're going to hear the president's historic remarks at length on his own experience with racial bias, the harsh realities for young black men in America and his ideas for improving the climate in this country. I'm Wolf Blitzer. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. For more than 17 minutes, President Obama spoke more extensively, more personally about race in America than he has since taking office. The breaking news this hour, his surprise appearance in the White House Briefing Room to talk about Trayvon Martin's death and George Zimmerman's acquittal. He had been silent for nearly a week, except for a written statement he released on Sunday and under a lot of pressure to speak out about the verdict, the backlash and what it all says about the state of race relations in this country. We're going to discuss every angle of this historic moment this hour, but, first, listen to the president.", "The reason I actually wanted to come out today is not to take questions, but to speak to an issue that obviously has gotten a lot of attention over the course of the last week, the issue of the Trayvon Martin ruling. I gave an -- a preliminary statement right after the ruling on Sunday, but watching the debate over the course of the last week I thought it might be useful for me to expand on my thoughts a little bit. First of all, you know, I -- I want to make sure that, once again, I send my thoughts and prayers, as well as Michelle's, to the family of Trayvon Martin, and to remark on the incredible grace and dignity with which they've dealt with the entire situation. I can only imagine what they're going through, and it's -- it's remarkable how they've handled it. The second thing I want to say is to reiterate what I said on Sunday, which is there are going to be a lot of arguments about the legal -- legal issues in the case. I will let all the legal analysts and talking heads address those issues. The judge conducted the trial in a professional manner. The prosecution and the defense made their arguments. The juries were properly instructed that in a -- in a case such as this, reasonable doubt was relevant, and they rendered a verdict. And once the jury's spoken, that's how our system works. But I did want to just talk a little bit about context and how people have responded to it and how people are feeling. You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African- American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the African- American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that -- that doesn't go away. There are very few African-American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me. And there are very few African-American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me, at least before I was a senator. There are very few African-Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often. And, you know, I don't want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences inform how the African-American community interprets what happened one night in Florida. And it's inescapable for people to bring those experiences to bear. The African-American community is also knowledgeable that there is a history of racial disparities in the application of our criminal laws, everything from the death penalty to enforcement of our drug laws. And that ends up having an impact in terms of how people interpret the case. Now, this isn't to say that the African-American community is naive about the fact that African-American young men are disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system, that they are disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violence. It's not to make excuses for that fact, although black folks do interpret the reasons for that in a historical context. We understand that some of the violence that takes place in poor black neighborhoods around the country is born out of a very violent past in this country, and that the poverty and dysfunction that we see in those communities can be traced to a very difficult history. And so the fact that sometimes that's unacknowledged adds to the frustration. And the fact that a lot of African-American boys are painted with a broad brush and the excuse is given, well, there are these statistics out there that show that African-American boys are more violent -- using that as an excuse to then see sons treated differently causes pain. I think the African-American community is also not naive in understanding that statistically somebody like Trayvon Martin was probably statistically more likely to be shot by a peer than he was by somebody else. So -- so folks understand the challenges that exist for African- American boys, but they get frustrated, I think, if they feel that there's no context for it or -- and that context is being denied. And -- and that all contributes, I think, to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, that, from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different.", "We're going to have more of the president's very personal remarks. We're going to play those for you later this hour. Trayvon Martin's parents issued a strong statement saying they're deeply moved by the president's remarks and they applaud his call to open a dialogue about race. Among other things, they say this: \"President Obama sees himself in Trayvon and identifies with him. This is a beautiful tribute to our boy. Trayvon's life was cut short, but we hope that his legacy will make our communities a better place for generations to come.\" George Zimmerman's defense team also put out a statement acknowledging the racial context of the trial and the importance of having a national discussion about race, and then they added this: \"Those who take a closer look at the kind of person George Zimmerman is, something we understand the Department of Justice is currently doing, we are confident they will find a young man with a diverse ethnic and racial background who is not a racist, a man who is, in fact, sensitive to the complex racial history of our country.\" By the way, tonight a CNN special, \"Race and Justice in America\" after the Zimmerman verdict. Please join Anderson Cooper later tonight, 10:00 p.m. Eastern/7:00 Pacific, only here on CNN. Once again, stand by for more of the president's very personal remarks. He talks about what would have happened if it had been Trayvon Martin who had a gun and stood his ground. And we will also get reaction from the president's former aide, the so-called body man. Reggie Love will join us here in THE SITUATION ROOM. And I will also speak with the Reverend Jesse Jackson and the National Urban League president, Marc Morial, about what the president said and what more they want him to do."], "speaker": ["BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "OBAMA", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-284714", "program": "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS", "date": "2016-05-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1605/22/fzgps.01.html", "summary": "George Shultz On Hillary Clinton.", "utt": ["I spent much of the past week in the San Francisco Bay area where I had a chance to have some extraordinary conversations. We'll bring you more of them in the coming weeks, but now a very special treat from Palo Alto. President Reagan's long-time secretary of state, George Shultz. Before that job, Shultz had an extraordinary run in government from Richard Nixon's secretary of labor to his treasury secretary and more. He also found great success in the private sector. He was dean of the University of Chicago's business school and also president of one of America's biggest private companies, Bechtel. I talked to America's 95-year-old elder statesman at Stanford's Hoover Institution where he is now a distinguished fellow. Very distinguished, indeed.", "Mr. Secretary, pleasure to have you on.", "Thank you. Glad to be here.", "When you were secretary of state, you were dealing with a world in which there was an existential threat to the United States. The Soviet Union had thousands and thousands of nuclear missiles on a hair trigger. Do you look at the world today and think it is more unsafe or less unsafe than when you were dealing with politics and diplomacy?", "In those days, we had a program and a strategy. We were convinced it would work. Now, what I see is a world awash in change. Almost everywhere you look is instability. And still, there are too many nuclear weapons around. There's also the threat of climate change. In other words, there are things that need to be worked on by more than one country at a time, and countries are having a hard time governing themselves, let alone interacting in a positive way. So I think it's a very dangerous time.", "What would you do about terrorism? When you look at this problem, terrorism largely emanating out of the greater Middle East.", "Well, first of all, we have to recognize that for the first time in three centuries, war and religion have been put together. And what that means is it's a different kind of a war. It's not located just in one place with a front. There are places, more than one, and there are tentacles. So you have to have a strategy that deals with this religiously based war. So that's the way you have to address it, I think.", "We are now involved in a counterterrorism sense, in counterterrorism operations in seven, maybe more countries, as far as I can count -- Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya. How should we approach this issue of counterterrorism? Because we have now been in Afghanistan for 15 years. We've spent a trillion dollars. And yet, creating political order in these societies -- you can beat up the bad guys, but whenever you leave, instability persists, crumbles, the insurgency gains ground. Is there a way out?", "First of all, we have to do everything we can to see that we don't have terrorist acts take place in the United States or to U.S. citizens wherever. That means you have to have an intelligence sharing and a special effort to see things coming before they come, as I was saying earlier. And people have to know that that's what you're doing. You're not going to tolerate it. And you can be successful, and we need to recognize that now we have this war where religion and war are joined and we have to figure out how we're going to cope with that. And I think the way to do it is to put together a coalition. We don't do everything ourselves, but we want to work with other people. For example, in the Middle East right now, I think if you put together a coalition of Saudi Arabia, the the Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, maybe Turkey, Israel, I think there's more of a sense of community now. Then enlist some of our European allies, and we can be a leader or an organizer. Doesn't mean you do everything yourself. I think probably the boots on the ground in that area need to be locals.", "But isn't that essentially the Obama strategy?", "Well, it is sort of like it, although they seem to be very incremental. I think what you have to do is say, all right, here's our strategy. So what do we need in order to accomplish our goal? Then commit those forces, whatever they may be.", "We'll be back in a moment with more of my interview with George Shultz. I ask him about Donald Trump."], "speaker": ["ZAKARIA", "ZAKARIA", "GEORGE SHULTZ, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE", "ZAKARIA", "SHULTZ", "ZAKARIA", "SHULTZ", "ZAKARIA", "SHULTZ", "ZAKARIA", "SHULTZ", "ZAKARIA"]}
{"id": "CNN-230294", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2014-5-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1405/10/ndaysat.01.html", "summary": "Discussion of Monica Lewinsky's Reappearance in Public Discourse", "utt": ["After more than a decade of silence, Monica Lewinsky shot back into the spotlight this week. She's writing an essay for this month \"Vanity Fair.\"", "And she details just how difficult life has been being remembered as that woman.", "But while a certain generation vividly recalls the scandal and subsequent investigation, some Millennial are asking, who is Monica?", "So, let's talk about this. We have got Jason Johnson, he is the HLN political contributor and professor of politics at Hiram College. Also with us, Danny Fund, a student at Georgetown University. Good to have both of you with us. I want to start with Jason. So, you said, Jason that only two students in your class, the class you teach, of course, really knew about Monica Lewinsky's history. How it is possible that only two of them knew?", "I was shocked. I was shocked. I was talking about the Clinton scandal and Tony Blair. And, you know, only two students knew oh, that's that lady who had an affair with the president. But they didn't know anything about Ken Starr, they didn't know anything about the investigations. And when I said, you know, she's been references by Eminem, and Nicki Minaj and Beyonce, you know, none of them have ever really Wikipediaed her before. So, I found a lot of my millennial students. They didn't really know much about Monica Lewinsky and they didn't care.", "Well, so Danny, let's bring you into that discussion since you are a college student. Discussion of this article that's about to come out, came up this week, were people talking about it on campus? Do people care about who Monica Lewinsky is?", "They were talking about it. I don't know that they care too much now and I certainly don't think they care too much about how it will affect Hillary Clinton's chances in this next presidential cycle. I don't think a lot of my peers really remember how influential that scandal was in helping Mrs. Clinton get her, you know, as a representative from New York in the Senate. And I think that's the biggest gap in their memory.", "So, Here is my question for you, Jason. Do you think there's a way that Republicans, not in 2014, but, of course, moving toward 2016 and the potential run of Hillary Clinton for the White House, they will be able to shift this narrative of Monica Lewinsky into a tool to use against Hillary?", "I don't think it's all that likely for a couple of reasons. Number one, there have been so many juicier scandals since Monica Lewinsky. There's gay sex scandals. There's straight sex scandals. You know those are much more interesting, certainly, to younger people, much more recent. But also because the most seminal memory that I experience with a lot of my students is 9/11. They were first graders when 911 happened. That's something that Republicans can talk about if they want to have conversations about security or national foreign policy. But Hillary Clinton is just this really famous lady who was married to a former president who is now going to be running for president again. Republicans can't do much with Monica Lewinsky in order to sort of taint Hillary Clinton in any way or even Bill Clinton going into the White House. There are other issues that most Millennial are concerned with.", "And Danny, obviously, let's talk a little bit about culture and your generation. There are so many scandals in politics these days oftentimes, a scandal involving sex. Are you, as a generation, becoming somewhat, I guess, resistant to this? Does it even really matter that much anymore, the president sleeps and has an affair with somebody?", "Yeah, I mean I think that definitely still matters. It's definitely worthy of gossip. The question I was curious about was, does it matter enough for people my age to fork over $12 to get past the \"Vanity Fair\" table. And I think as far as that question goes, the answer is definitely no, unfortunately.", "No? There's not even that curiosity?", "No. They'll -- the reactions on Twitter will suffice for a lot of people of my age.", "There are a lot of questions, Jason, about if this was published now to possibly set up or start a narrative against Secretary Clinton. Why do you think we are hearing about this now from Monica Lewinsky?", "Well, I don't - I don't know that she ever really stopped. I mean she's had books, she's had documentaries. I think that Monica Lewinsky is a 40-year-old woman who is realizing now, she's just accepted who she is. And every couple of years, she's going to have to write about this, she's going to have to talk about this. I think, you know, when Lynne Cheney and other people suggested oh, this is a plan for Hillary Clinton or something else like that. Just because Monica talked about it in 2014 doesn't mean she won't be asked in 2016. So, it's not like let's get her off the hook. I think this is just a way for her to sort of remain prominent. She really can't do anything else professionally, as she says in the article. So, you know, this is her opportunity to continue 15 minutes of fame for 15 years.", "And what is her persona now, villain or victim, do you think?", "I think it's a mixture. I talked to a lot of my women colleagues who say, look, she's victimized by society's view of women. But she was 23 years old. And she knew that she was sleeping with a married man. So, a lot of people don't really forgive her for that. But her loss of career is a bit of a problem.", "Jason, Naomi Wolf spoke exclusively to Michael Smerconish last night, that interview airs here at 9:00 this morning. And she's convinced that this was a carefully orchestrated essay by the GOP, what do you think?", "I think that's crazy. I mean that blows that vast right wing conspiracy that Hillary Clinton talked about, you know, 15 years ago with Ken Starr and some of these other people. Look, if this is the GOP's master plan to knock Hillary off her game, they might as well just concede the White House right now or just focus on Benghazi. Because I don't see how this changes anyone's opinion. If you are a generation X-er like me, you remember this story and you already have your opinion of Hillary Clinton. If you are a baby boomer, you already either think that Hillary Clinton and the Clintons are bad people or you think she's a victim. And if you a Millennial, you probably don't care. I don't see how the GOP gets any mileage out of this. It didn't exist. Why don't they just keep focusing on Benghazi or something?", "We are going to talk about that coming up as well. Jason Johnson, Danny Fund, thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "Thank you.", "At the top of the hour, we are working to get more details now on our breaking news. A hot air balloon hit the power line and bursts into flames.", "Right now, at this moment, we have got investigators. They are searching for three people who are on board. We are going to have a live report from the search scene."], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "BLACKWELL", "CABRERA", "BLACKWELL", "JASON JOHNSON, PROFESSOR OF POLITICS, HIRAM COLLEGE", "CABRERA", "DANNY FUND, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY STUDENT", "BLACKWELL", "JOHNSON", "CABRERA", "FUND", "CABRERA", "FUND", "BLACKWELL", "JOHNSON", "CABRERA", "JOHNSON", "BLACKWELL", "JOHNSON", "CABRERA", "JOHNSON", "FUND", "CABRERA", "BLACKWELL"]}
{"id": "CNN-214671", "program": "NANCY GRACE", "date": "2013-9-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/16/ng.01.html", "summary": "13 Dead in D.C. Navy Yard Shooting", "utt": ["A horrible shooting today here in the nation`s capital.", "I heard three shots, \"Pow, pow, pow.\"", "I heard someone say, It`s a shooting, it`s a shooting, go, go, go.", "An active shooter is inside the Washington Navy Yard.", "Using military-style weapons opened fire, randomly shooting.", "He came around the corner. He aimed his gun at us and then he fired at least two or three shots.", "The shooting occurred in the Naval Sea Systems Command building 197.", "So we could see him with the rifle, and he raised and aimed at us and fired.", "At least 12 confirmed dead at this point.", "They were quick shots, like, \"Bam, bam, bam.\" A few seconds later, \"bam, bam, bam.\" And I just started running.", "She saw what essentially was pandemonium inside there. She said there she saw one woman who was in physical distress. She thought that woman might have been having a heart attack.", "And one shooter has been shot and is dead.", "Potentially, they are on the lookout for two other shooters.", "Possible additional shooters. What have you learned?", "There`s now only potentially one shooter.", "Black male, between the ages of 40 and 50, in olive military-style uniform. He is approximately 5-foot-10, 180 pounds, medium complexion with gray sideburns -- graying sideburns.", "A manhunt, an emergency manhunt, clearly under way as a result.", "Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Breaking news tonight, live, D.C. Bombshell tonight. D.C. massacre gunman named, and reports now surfacing the mass shooter had an ex-Navy Yard worker`s ID. At this hour, the manhunt for a potential second shooter goes on after the first gunman, 34-year-old Aaron Alexis, enters the D.C. Navy Yard, home to thousands of Navy personnel, dressed in drab military attire and packing multiple weapons, including, allegedly, a semi-automatic AR-15, opens fire in broad daylight. At this hour, at least 13 known dead. Tonight, the U.S. Navy Yard an active crime scene. Tonight, who is 34-year-old Aaron Alexis? Why did he open fire? And where is the second alleged shooter, as we go to air still at large? Straight out to Miranda Green, reporter with the DailyBeast on the scene. Miranda, what`s happening?", "Well, it`s a chaotic situation down here, Nancy. This morning, there were many people on scene, helicopters circling the area, looking for this alleged second or third shooter that was talked about earlier in the morning, before they ruled out that there was just one they`re now looking for. There were police cars everywhere. The blocks were cordoned off. And it`s still somewhat of a desolate site, a normal area where there`s usually lots of people. It`s a bustling residential area...", "Well, I noticed in a lot of the footage, Miranda, we actually see helicopters hovering overhead, lowering baskets down to bring up the wounded. Now, why are we in America seeing this sight in D.C.? Tell me, how do we think it went down, Miranda Green?", "Well, it`s hard to tell. There`s still a lot of facts that we`re trying to ascertain here. What we do know is that one -- at least one or two shooters entered this building, building 197 on the Navy Yard. And he came in with what we`re hearing, as what I`ve been told, was a semi- automatic weapon and opened fire in this closed building, which has to take multiple levels of security in order to get into. And people...", "Multiple levels of security? Miranda Green, it`s my understanding they don`t even have metal detectors at all of the doors!", "That is something that I have heard. In order to get onto the Navy base, you need to show an identification card. In order to get into this specific building where the shooting occurred, there is a metal detector", "Straight out to Clark Goldband. Clark, what are we hearing? Reports now surfacing at this hour that the shooter goes in, guns down a security guard and takes his .9 off of him?", "Nancy, that`s what some unconfirmed reports are publishing at this our hour, and from there it`s just chaos. According to witnesses, a shooter goes into the cafeteria, mows people down. Some other reports say he goes to higher floors within the building, simply spraying his weapon at anyone. And what some witnesses say who leave the facility, that he does not speak. The shooter, Aaron Alexis, does not speak when firing the gun at them, simply looks in their direction. Some people say the shooter, if this is the correct shooter witnesses are talking about, was a poor shot and missed shooting some people by a few feet up high.", "Yes. We`ve got to be super-careful, Clark Goldband, because already, some outlets have apparently named the wrong person as the shooter.", "That`s right.", "But from the what we are understanding, it is Aaron Alexis. Now, back out to you, Miranda Green, joining me there on the scene. Miranda, what do we know about Aaron Alexis?", "Well, as of now, we know that Aaron Alexis is the confirmed shooter. He`s a 34-year-old ex-military, used to be in the Navy, enlistee (ph), and he`s a government contractor. We believe that his most recent place of residence was in Fort Worth, Texas, and that he`s from Queens, New York. Obviously, that is still developing, trying to figure out his motive here.", "Straight out to Paul Williams, joining me right now. He works next to the Navy Yard. He hears the gunshots. Paul, thank you so much for being with us. What did you hear? What exactly happened, Paul?", "Well, as I was coming to work around 8:15 this morning, that`s when I -- I was listening to music and that`s when I overheard, like, three loud bangs. At the time, I was not sure what it was. There`s construction going on in that area, so I just thought...", "Some loud bangs? Because some people claim they heard, like, Pop, pop, pop, pop. But you heard loud bangs over the music you were listening to, correct?", "Correct.", "OK. Then what happened?", "After I heard the bangs, again, I thought nothing of it. So I just continued walking on to work. And then maybe 20 to 30 seconds later, that`s when I saw a mass group of people, like 100 people running towards me. I figured I would just follow in line with them and just run with them. Maybe once we stopped, I`d ask some questions about what was going on. I ran with them. I was turning back around, trying to see what was going on back there. I saw a police officer, may have been a security guard. And she was saying, you know, Run, there`s a shooter. There`s a shooting. Run. Go -- continue going...", "Is that when you first realize that the sounds you heard had been guns?", "You know, actually, still at that point, I did not put that together because as I was getting closer to the building I heard a fire alarm. So I was assuming they were running for a fire. But as she was saying shooting, I was even more confused. I was, like, Is it a fire, a shooting? I was very confused at that point. Once we got about a block away, I asked them, I was, like, you know, What`s going on? What was happening over there? And he told me that there was a shooter. A guy came into the building and just started shooting.", "OK, so you`re pulling up to work. You`re listening to music. You hear banging, three bangs. You don`t know what it is. You`re not concerned. You suddenly start seeing people running. You wisely run, as well, still not realizing it was gunshots. Now, did you ever talk to any of those people? What were they saying?", "As -- later on, since -- it`s funny because I do not -- I don`t work with any of those people. Actually, I work next to the building.", "Right.", "But I don`t know anyone in that building, I guess, specifically. So I was just listening them talking to loved ones on the phone just saying that they were OK. I asked them, you know, what was going on. They said a guy came into the building and just shooting. But they also seemed, honestly, just as unclear as I was.", "So it was just confusion. Now, you say that someone, a police officer or security, was saying, Run, there`s a shooter?", "Yes. She was saying, Run, there`s a shooter. And at the time that she was saying that, she also was, you know, looking around the corner, kind of like the person was behind her. She -- you know, she was in more of a protective stance, trying to look around the corner. But she actually went back into that building, went back into that area. And I hope that she`s OK because I never saw her come out because I was actually looking for her. And at no point while I was out there, waiting, I never -- I never saw her again come out. So I hope she`s OK.", "With me is Paul Williams, joining me live from D.C., heard the gunshots, saw people running out and wisely began to run with them. When you look back on it, Paul, and you realize what was going on, what are your thoughts?", "I`m very -- I`m just -- it`s just very -- it`s still, I guess -- maybe I`m still -- still cloudy about it, still confused. Obviously, my heart goes out to the victims and all those affected by this tragedy, which obviously will be the nation, the whole entire area. But just being a normal Monday, just listening to music, and I just thought it would be a normal day, and to have that -- literally, it changed from my walk to the car until when I heard the sounds, it may have been a three-minute time period. And so in three minutes, basically, the entire - - I guess my entire day, you know, changed, and more importantly, obviously, the lives and time (ph) of those people that were affected as well.", "You know what, Paul Williams? You`re echoing something I`ve heard and experienced from so many crime victims. What starts off as just a normal day suddenly turns out to be day that you will never forget the rest of your life when crime touches you. We are live and taking your calls. SWAT teams at this hour hunting for a possible second gunman allegedly dressed in military fatigues. At this hour, at least 13 known dead, others critically wounded in a building in Washington, the Washington Navy Yard in D.C. One of the shooters among the dead, sources stating he is identified at Aaron Alexis. He is currently living in Fort Worth, Texas, from New York, in his 30s, once lived in Flushings Queen (sic), and interestingly, according to multiple reports, had on him an ID from a former Navy Yard worker. Now, what do we know about this guy? Beth Karas, what do we know about Aaron Alexis?", "Well, he was a military contractor, among the things that you have just stated. He`s 34 years old. He was in the Navy between 2007 and January of 2011. He didn`t get too high a rank. We don`t have details of his discharge. I don`t have any reason to believe it wasn`t anything but honorable. But we don`t know.", "But he had", "He did.", "... national defense (ph) service medal, global war on terrorism service medal.", "Yes. One of them is a common one. Now, he was arrested in September 2010, but no charges were ultimately filed. He was not discharged for the reckless discharge of a firearm if Texas. That was the statement that the Texas authorities released...", "Now, hold on! Beth! Beth, I know that that never -- that case never went forward, but according to our investigation, when he was in Texas, he fired up into the roof of his home, and it went into somebody else`s home living above him, in the apartment or the condo above him. And that woman was convinced that it was done on purpose, and she stated that she had been afraid of him for a long time.", "Well, interesting fact. However, they did not end up filing any charges.", "Yes.", "He says he was cleaning his gun and it was an accidental discharge. So you know, maybe they just would never be able to prove it. Sometimes when they don`t file charges, it doesn`t mean that a crime didn`t happen. It`s just they don`t have the proof. They`re not going to proof beyond a reasonable doubt.", "So we know then, Beth, he`s ex-military. He was working in IT. He was also working at this, as of today, as a contractor for the military there in D.C. Also, at this hour -- everyone, we are live and taking your calls -- SWAT teams currently hunting for a potential second gunman dressed in military fatigues. Tonight, Washington, D.C., never the same, under attack again, massacre in D.C.", "I`d just paid for my breakfast, and I heard \"pop, pop, pop.\"", "A shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington,", "This is the Washington Navy Yard. About 3,000 people work here.", "And the girl that was with me, I said, Somebody`s shooting, and everybody in the cafeteria kind of panicked.", "Multiple law enforcement agencies on the scene here. There are choppers swarming.", "I was just very afraid and I was just -- I was just so lost.", "And then it was three seconds` break, and then it was, \"Pop, pop, pop, pop,\" and everybody started running. We just started panicking and running out.", "Welcome back. Massacre in D.C. At this hour, 13 known dead after an ex-military man, now a government contractor, apparently comes into the Navy Yard and unloads seemingly at random. With me right now, Commander Jim Liddy, retired Navy SEAL who worked at the Navy Yard. Commander Liddy, thank you for being with us. What can you tell us about today`s happenings?", "Well, what I can tell you is that when I first heard of the event, I assumed immediately that he had to have had an ID because the security at the Navy Yard is pretty good. Definitely always room for improvement, but in order to get in, he had to show some kind of identification, official identification to get by the initial checkpoints. What still has to be determined is how does he get though those with a weapon, and if it`s true that as soon as he was challenged, he pulled that weapon, that would explain it. But security...", "Commander? Commander Liddy, this is something that`s very, very confusing to me, but -- and it`s only highlighted by what you just said. If you have to show an ID to get in -- we are not naming the name of the ID we think he had on him because we don`t know that yet and I don`t want to pull some innocent person in on this. For all I know, the ID could have been stolen. So I`m not naming the person that had the ID we think he had. But the ID we think he had looks absolutely nothing like him.", "And that`s not terrible unusual. When I used to work red cell (ph) operations, which is where we would test security at facilities, Department of Defense facilities and other agency facilities, it was often fairly easy to show an ID rather quickly, and if the people aren`t diligent enough to check it, you`d be amazed -- and maybe you wouldn`t be -- as to the differences of an identification that the similarity is not very good and allowing those people to get through.", "Commander...", "Even an instance when we used a $5 bill folded that looked like the old green military ID, and that got by, as well.", "You`re kidding!", "No.", "Somebody flashed a $5 bill as ID and they let them in?", "Well, this was -- this was about a decade ago, and the people who know what those IDs looked like, they looked just like -- you know, they liked a piece of some kind of monetary paper, green. And if you showed it quickly and flashed it by and there was a lot of people, they would let you through. Now, post-9/11, things changed significantly, and there are more checkpoints, more screening, multiple badges. So it`s -- it...", "Is it true, Commander Liddy, that there are not metal detectors at every entrance? Because now some reports are surfacing, and we`re trying to confirm it, that he comes in and guns down the security officer and takes his .9 millimeter.", "Yes. And that`s -- that`s -- there`s two problems there. First of all, the reason why they don`t have metal detectors is they do have prioritization. Wherever there`s more sensitive activities and people and that sort of thing, they`re going to have tougher screening and they`ll have metal detectors. But other areas -- you have to remember, on the Navy Yard, you know, part of that is a living museum of naval history. And so they allow visitors, and some of these points may be -- well, I know from being there -- are less diligent on the security.", "Just gunshots, multiple gunshots. And someone yelled gun, and we ran.", "Multiple deaths, multiple injuries.", "We saw him raise and aim it in our direction.", "At least three shots fired in this building at the Washington Navy Yard.", "And then in the cafeteria, we heard something sound that loud that many times. It wasn`t something that dropped on the floor.", "Welcome back. For those of you just joining us, the manhunt is on for a potential second shooter in the D.C. massacre. As you know by now, this morning, shots ringing out at the Navy Yard. At this hour, at least 13 dead, others critically wounded. We are taking your calls. I want to go back to Miranda Green with the DailyBeast, there on the scene. Miranda, what I`m hearing from Commander Jim Liddy, who actually worked at the Navy Yard for many years, is very, very disturbing, that basically, you know, you could flash a dollar bill, a $5 bill as ID and get in. And now reports are emerging that the shooter, Aaron Alexis, had someone else`s ID that looked nothing like him, and got in.", "Yes, I`ve been talking to people on the scene who have also admitted to me that the security precautions on base are not necessarily what they would describe as stringent and being tough. You have to show some sort of identification to get on the base, and then to get into each building, you also have to provide identification and go through go through a metal detector. But there are ways to get in besides that main entrance for those who have the swipe card. And I don`t know whether these swipe cards have chips in them or what the actual details of that are, but apparently, it`s not such a straightforward way of necessarily getting into this base. It`s...", "Back to Commander Jim Liddy, retired Navy SEAL who worked at the Navy Yard. What exactly goes on at the Navy Yard? What is it? It`s not the head of the Navy, but what is it?", "It`s really used as almost an annex to the Pentagon specifically for the Naval Sea Systems Command, which is a very, very large command that does the resourcing and decision -- policy decisions for resourcing for the Navy. There are other subordinate commands that are there, as well, but you should think of it as almost an annex to the Pentagon, but very Navy-centric.", "Chaos and just fear in Washington.", "There are choppers swarming all over the place, police walking the perimeter with riot and SWAT team gear.", "Twelve dead here, including the shooter there at the Washington Navy Yard from this mass shooting.", "He simply walked up to try to say, Hey, there`s a shooter in your building. Do you know what`s going on? I`m, like, I don`t know what`s going on. Fire alarm went off. We`re trying to evacuate everybody. That`s when he got shot.", "Breaking news, tragedy in Washington, at least 12 confirmed dead in a shooting of Washington Navy Yard, including one suspected shooter. And we do have his name. It`s Aaron Alexis. He`s apparently in the military, date enlisted, May 5th, 2007.", "At least one shooter is dead. Authorities are continuing to search for a possible second gunman.", "This remain as very active investigation.", "At this hour, the Navy Yard still an active crime scene. For those of you just joining us, at least 13 dead at this hour, others critically wounded, after Aaron Alexis gets into the building we believe with someone else`s ID that looked nothing like him. He gets into the building and opens fire. Who is Aaron Alexis? Why? Why? Take a listen to what his friends say.", "I would never have believed this until it happened. It would never have -- ever have crossed my mind that he would be capable of something like that. He seemed like the typical -- like my own children. They love weapons. They love to go to the range, things like that. He seemed like that kind of a guy. He seemed the kind of a guy that he liked to have weapons. But he never acted like he would hurt anyone. Never, ever. Like--", "Did you ever see his weapons?", "Never, never saw his weapons. No. I heard, in fact, I had a conversation, I heard he fired one off or something.", "Do you think his frustration with the contractor over the payment? Do you think that could have been something that led to this?", "Well, from the conversations I have had with him, I would say that that would be a part of it, just because he really felt like they should have paid him when they took him in Tokyo. It was, you know -- he loved to be able to travel, but when he came back, he talked about how they didn`t give him the money that they said, and so -- I would think that could be --", "Salary money wasn`t paid or?", "Right.", "Money that he should have gotten paid, and -- or slow pay or something, and I don`t know if he ever got paid, because the last conversation I had had with him several months ago was that they did not pay him.", "Loves weapons and is angry about his pay? This is an ex- military man who was currently working contract with a military contractor. We are live and taking your calls. Out to Eddie in Iowa. Hi, Eddie. What`s your question?", "Hi. Yes, I mean, yes, I hear the story about this gentleman, about not being paid and everything, and I am a little concerned just because of the fact that people are not realizing the crime that this has happened, but blaming Obama over the whole situation? About him paying more attention to Syria than his own country? And I just kind of think that, you know, that it`s just something needs to be kind of said, you know, because I don`t think this has anything to do with Obama, but people are blaming all over Facebook that it`s his fault that this happened. And I mean, I can realize that this gentleman is from the military, and there were kind of some conflicts over pay, but I think it`s something that is horrible that`s happened, and that`s what we need to focus on at this point.", "I don`t know about any wild-haired theory that somehow the president is to blame for this. Whether you like the president or not, I don`t think he had a hand in it, nor is he to blame for this. It sounds to me more like complaint and anger about non-payment at the root of this. But I want to go back to Commander Jim Liddy, retired Navy SEAL, worked at the Navy Yard. What is the layout? Because we`re hearing he opened fire on people in the cafeteria. Then he got up to the third and fourth floors and continued to shoot, almost at random, yet other reports say he seemed to target individuals.", "Well, you know, I really can`t comment on, if he was targeting individuals or not. The layout of the Navy -- the Navy Yard there is about two-thirds of a mile long, and maybe a half a mile wide. Has 20 or so, some buildings on it. It tends to be kind of crowded because of that. You know, a lot of facilities, small rows to get access around. There are areas off limits, because the chief of naval operations` home is there, so getting in and around the base is actually a bit of a challenge, and parking is at a premium. So any activities that are going on on that base, there are cameras all over. I imagine once they get to the investigation, they`ll be able to tell just how he got in and got access into the building.", "How close is this, Commander, to Capitol Hill?", "I`m sorry. Say that again?", "How close is this Navy Yard to Capitol Hill?", "Oh, less than a half a mile. It`s maybe four, four blocks over to the Capitol itself.", "Unleash the lawyers. Alex Sanchez, New York, Joey Piscopo, criminal defense attorney, former JAG, Tampa, Florida. Joey Piscopo, if there is another shooter involved, he better run.", "You know, this is a good case for an insanity defense, because it`s Washington, D.C. They have a different insanity standard than most states. In most states, it`s the McNaughton rule. You have to show you have a mental disease or defect, and as a result you don`t know right from wrong. But in Washington, you have to show that you have a mental disease or defect, and you could not conform your standards to the requirements of the law. That`s why John Hinckley is serving his sentence for shooting President Reagan in a mental hospital, and not a federal prison. So this is an insanity defense case.", "To Alex Sanchez, defense attorney, New York. Alex, if there is another gunman -- and right now the hunt is on for a potential second gunman -- what do you advise? And I don`t know that I would attach the fact that Aaron Alexis had somebody else`s I.D., I don`t know that I would attach any guilt to that person, because, I mean, who would use their I.D. to get in for a mass shooting?", "First of all, if you can`t be safe at a military base in Washington, D.C., then nobody`s safe in this country anywhere. In terms of a second gunman, if he`s watching the show or if he`s listening on the radio, the time to put down your weapons and give up. OK? He`s going to be prosecuted. He can run, but he can`t hide. So put down your weapons, give up and let the police take custody of you and proceed through the justice system.", "Out to Mark Harold, former officer and author joining me there at the scene. Mark Harold, what do you make of it? Is this surprising that the D.C. police chief would say authorities are unsure as to how many shooters there are?", "No. I don`t think so. You know, the information came in so many different law enforcement agencies reporting back. The information, I didn`t think that was strange at all. She gave enough information, she wanted people to be alert, she wanted them to know there was still a danger. (inaudible) danger. It went from two shooters who might be on the loose to one. The information all around D.C. has been changing all day. Every 10, 15 minutes it was a completely different story as this story evolved here in Washington, D.C.", "Mark, you`re there on the scene. How do you determine if the actor is a lone wolf? He`s part of a cell? Or he is, or is he affiliated with a group? How do we determine whether there are co-shooters or co- defendants?", "Well, what they`re going to do here, obviously, the person who is now deceased, if he had any evidence on him, any electronic devices, they`re going to be looking through those to determine who he had communication with. If this is a conspiracy, the norm is, as the conspiracy, the date and the time get closer, communication picks up between the parties. And they`ll be looking for anything they can find in a residence, or a temporary residence either in Texas or here in the Washington, D.C. area, as to what his ideology may be, his motives, whether he was disgruntled, whether this was revenge on the federal government or whatever his particular gripe might have been. They`re looking into that, and I agree, there`s a lot of technology down there. They`re going to find a lot of pictures to see what happened.", "(inaudible) in position, stand ready.", "There are multiple fatalities on the scene.", "Of this complex behind me. This is the Washington Navy Yard.", "Heard a very loud pop.", "I`d say we have multiple victims inside that are deceased.", "We could see him with the rifle, and he raised and aimed at us and fired.", "Everyone said, this is no drill. Go, go.", "Gunshots they heard in rapid succession.", "We heard shots.", "It had to be a semiautomatic.", "(inaudible) around the corner, he aimed his gun at us.", "Go, emergency exists, now, go, go, go.", "Yelling for everyone to get out of the building now. That`s when we started moving.", "Then he fired at least two, three shots.", "Imagine at your office, people diving under desks, hiding in closets as gunshots ring out. As you heard one witness say, it had to be an automatic or semiautomatic due to the rapid fire of bullets. We are talking about the massacre in D.C. at the Navy Yard. At this hour, 13 known dead. Many others in the hospital. Many critically wounded. At this hour, we`re also hearing that the shooter, Aaron Alexis, frustrated with a civilian contractor after a trip that lasted several months to Japan, he was complaining that he was not paid properly. Whether it was expenses or salary, he felt the company owed him more. He is an ex- military man. He allegedly left after four years service because he, quote, didn`t want to get up early in the morning anymore. Well, his name will go down in infamy as the man who entered the Navy Yard and unloaded his weapons, gunning down, as we know of at this hour, 13 are dead. We are taking your calls. I want to go back out to Beth Karas, legal analyst. Beth, what more, if anything, do we know about him? Did he live alone? Where was he living? How did he get from New York to Fort Worth?", "Well, I believe it was his work that brought him to Texas, when he was stationed in the military. That`s how he got down to Texas. So he originally hails from New York, but regarding marital status, there`s no information forthcoming about that right now that I`m aware of.", "Let`s take a listen to a presser that just went down.", "First of all, our chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, Chief Cathy Lanier, and they we`ll have our FBI representative, we`ll have our chief of the Park Police and then our Congresswoman, Eleanor Holmes Norton.", "The only thing additional we can add right now is that we are still continuing to ask our community to remain out of the area, and shelter in place. We still are working diligently to either verify or clear whether we have that last additional person of interest out, whether they`re going to be involved or not. That process is not complete. So this is still an active investigation. We still have a lot of law enforcement activity in the area. So, please, bear with us and ask that people stay out of the area until we give the all-clear. I will also add that our officer from MPD is recovering. He does have serious injuries, but we -- we know he`s going to be OK, and I wanted to thank all of our community members who have shown an outpouring of support for our MPD family. So we do have the officer now who is stable, out of surgery and stable, and is going to be OK. So traffic closures remain the same as before. They probably will remain closures across M Street throughout the night. This is going to be a little bit longer-term investigation. I think once we clear that last suspect, whether that is going to be a person we`re looking for or not, we`ll have some additional curfews lifted. But for now, everything remains closed that was closed earlier, and this is still very active. so we`re saying to shelter in place. Do remain. The moment we have more additional information, we`ll push it out to the community and make sure that the press is updated. Thank you.", "Good afternoon. We do not have any further detail to share at this time about the deceased shooter. We, again, ask the public to look at the photos of Aaron Alexis and contact the FBI with any and all information. The photos are available on fbi.gov, and all information can be reported to 1-800-call-fbi. This investigation is still very active, and we will continue to work with our partners to track down every bit of information that we learn. The assistance of the public is vital in investigations of this type as we try to piece together the recent movements and contacts of the subject. No piece of information is too small. Please, call to report any and all information to 1-800-call-fbi. Thank you.", "I just want to add one thing. For all of our local folks that are following the news coverage here, there is misinformation that is getting out through a variety of different sources. I will say to our friends in the media, if you have sources inside of the law enforcement agencies that are reporting, they are not official reports unless they come through this body or from the FBI. So what unfortunately happens is law enforcement sources will hear something, and then it gets passed around, it changes, oftentimes is not completely accurate and then is getting reported in the press. So please, if it is not coming from this official body or from the FBI, it is not confirmed. There is a lot of misinformation getting out. We are trying to make sure factual information is being pushed out through all of our MPD sources and through city sources, on our Twitter and D.C. alert and all of our contacts, and we make sure that the press gets any updates as they go out. So, please, if you have sources reporting something, if you try and verify through us before you put it out, it would be helpful with some of the misinformation that results in additional calls coming in that divert our resources. So, please, if I could just ask for everybody`s patience there. Thank you.", "And a personal note at this point that we are now in a support role. The United States Park Police, we were one of the first responders this morning, but I wanted to thank the community who puts up with some disruption in the day when a tragedy like this happens, so we have to re-route traffic, or we don`t have a lot of information initially. But as the day has gone on, our officers have been stopped on the street and said, thank you to --", "Right now we`re confirming at least 12 fatalities.", "About 3,000 people work here.", "Just gunshots. Multiple gunshots and someone yelled gun and we ran.", "I heard three shots. Pow, pow, pow.", "The kind of sound reverberating, you know exactly what it is.", "They build, they buy, they maintain all the Navy`s ships, submarines and their combat systems.", "And it was as secure as any other military facility where if you have a reason to be there, they check your I.D. and they let you go.", "We have one shooter that we believe is involved in this.", "Welcome back, everyone. At this hour, at least 13 dead that we know of. The search, the hunt for a potential second shooter ongoing. The Navy Yard still an active crime scene. This as reports coming in that Aaron Alexis was discharged after a pattern of misconduct. Repeat, a pattern of misconduct from the Navy. He goes on from the Navy to work as a contractor with the government, allegedly disgruntled over pay. We are taking your calls. Tom in D.C. Hi, Tom. What`s your question?", "Hi, Nancy. Thanks for taking my call. I live, actually, not too far from where this happened in D.C., and I would say, as if this weren`t bad enough, I`m seeing reports now of a second gunman who is still on the loose? I mean, I`ve got a family, and I don`t even want to let them out of the house. It`s like the D.C. sniper all over again. I am just wondering, are they any closer to catching this guy? What do they know?", "Tom in D.C., I was in D.C. at the time of the D.C. sniper. I know exactly what you are thinking right now about not letting your family out. Back to Miranda Green with the Daily Beast joining me there on the scene. What do we know about a second shooter, Miranda? Is this just they are saying they are looking for them? Do they really think there is a second shooter or are they afraid to say there`s only one shooter and then it turns out to be a conspiracy of other shooters?", "No, that`s a million-dollar question, Nancy. The police are going with the argument or going with the official statement that they are looking for this second shooter and that they have ascertained -- we believe he`s an African-American male with gray sideburns in his mid-40s or 50s, and they believe that he is wielding a long gun. But the last report of seeing this man was 8:35 this morning. And since then, I have yet to hear any reports of any sightings, any chases, anyone who has come forward to say that they know his whereabouts.", "I mean, Miranda Green, has any of the victims -- any of them stated that anyone other than Aaron Alexis was wielding a weapon? And to Dr. Leigh Vinocur, ER physician joining me out of Baltimore, when you have somebody there in the hospital bed, I mean, it`s pretty hard to ask them information about the shooting, is it not?", "Well, it really depends on the condition they are in, Nancy. So I am sure that they did. First, obviously, when somebody comes in from a crime scene, you take care of their injuries. But once you take care of any critical injuries, if you get the chance, the police, FBI, can come and interview them later. So it might be a little too early for those victims to be interviewed, but the victims that perished during that time, they`ll start to look at ballistics, and they`ll have the ballistics from the shooter who was killed, and they`ll match them up. And if there is a different gun, every bullet has a signature, and if there`s a different --", "We remember American hero, Marine Corporal Chad Wade, just 22. Bentonville, Arkansas. Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, National Defense Service Medal. Parents Tammy and Terry, two sisters, two brothers, widow Katie. Chad Wade. American hero. And now back to D.C. The massacre claiming the lives we know of 13 at this hour. To Dr. Eris Huemer, psychotherapist, joining me out of L.A., the mind-set it must take to go into an adjunct building of the Pentagon and start shooting.", "Yes, Nancy, this is actually something that probably has a long trail, something that has been planned for quite a long time, as the other experts were saying on the panel today, that it might have been about work. It might have been about non-pay. So there is probably a lot of anger and revenge that is attached to this sort of crime. That has a long trail that`s going to be attached to that as it all unfolds.", "Everyone, as we go to break, we continue our coverage of the D.C. shooting. But tonight, a special good night from friends Carly, Brenda and Kara. Aren`t they beautiful? And isn`t it wonderful to see beautiful smiling faces at the end of this day. Everyone, I`ll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp Eastern. And until then, good night, friend. 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{"id": "CNN-57566", "program": "CNN AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN", "date": "2002-7-16", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/16/ltm.11.html", "summary": "New Government Study Indicates Alarming Number of Young People Contemplating Suicide", "utt": ["A new government study indicates an alarming number of young people are contemplating suicide. According to the study, in the year 2000, nearly three million Americans between the ages of 12 and 17 thought about suicide, and more than 1/3 of those actually tried to kill themselves. So, what's behind these terrifying statistics? Joining us this morning from Lincoln, Nebraska, clinical psychologist Dr. Mary Pipher. Welcome.", "Hello.", "I know you're probably not surprised by these statistics, because you look at the stuff all the time, but should the rest of America be, or should this be something we seen red flags about for years?", "Well, actually when I wrote \"Reviving Ophelia\" in 1994, these were approximately the same statistics. So what this new study tells me is that the rate of teenage suicide attempts, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, are essentially the same as they were eight years ago.", "And even though those statistics have stayed the same, it's still depressing to hear about today the study showing that 25.4 percent of the teen who have used any illicit drugs in the year 2000 were almost three times more likely to be at risk for suicide. Any thoughts on that?", "It's hard to know what's going on there, because alcohol and drugs are often used as pain killer by kids. So that's one way to explain those stats. Another way to explain them is that alcohol and drugs are depressants. And so as teenagers get involved with alcohol and drugs, they're much more likely to become seriously depressed, to feel their lives are out of control and to consider suicide.", "You have taken a particular interest in adolescent girls, and I found that stunning that this survey also showed that double the number of girls, 16 percent versus 8 percent for boys contemplated suicide in 2000. Why is that?", "Well, as I wrote in \"Reviving Ophelia,\" girls come of age in a very toxic, girl-poisoning nature. There are so many forces impacting 12, 13-year-old girls, everything from pressure to be thin to pressure to be sexual. Date rape is a common problem for girls this age. There's a very bitter peer culture in which girls are certainly teased and ostracized by their -- in quote -- \"sometimes best friends.\" So these kind of pressures on girls who are not yet developed socially, or emotionally or cognitively play a big factor in something like suicide attempts.", "Dr. Pipher, just some closing thoughts for Americans, parents and teenagers to keep in mind about the warning signs of someone who might someday contemplate suicide?", "Well it's hard to tell, because a lot of ordinary, adolescent behavior look a little bit pathological. Most teenagers are moody, and sulky and withdrawn, but the things I would encourage parents to act upon by calling a therapist are things like a direct threat, a child saying I'm considering hurting myself. Also if you're worried, it's a good thing to ask your teenager, have you ever considered harming yourself? And they will most likely tell you the truth if you ask them that direct question. Withdrawing from friends, a sudden change in things like grade or loss of interest in hobbies. All these things are serious. One of the things noteworthy in this study how few of the teenagers who attempted suicide had actually been to a therapist. And we know that prevention is the best way to deal with suicide or depression.", "Dr. Mary Pipher, as always, good to have your advice. And for those of use raising adolescent girls, we've leaned on your writings over the years. Thank you for dropping by today.", "You're sure welcome. People Contemplating Suicide>"], "speaker": ["PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR", "DR. MARY PIPHER, PSYCHOLOGIST", "ZAHN", "PIPHER", "ZAHN", "PIPHER", "ZAHN", "PIPHER", "ZAHN", "PIPHER", "ZAHN", "PIPHER"]}
{"id": "CNN-140727", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-7-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0907/22/cnr.02.html", "summary": "Death Row Inmate's Guilty Verdict Questioned", "utt": ["Convicted nearly 20 years ago, Troy Davis has come within hours of being executed. Now many people argue the state of Georgia has the wrong guy on death row. Here's CNN's Gary Tuchman.", "It's anything but a routine question. (on camera): How scared of you are possibly being executed? (voice-over): But it's relevant. The man I'm talking to, Troy Davis, may soon be a dead man. A jury only took a few hours to decide he was guilty of murdering a police officer in Savannah, Georgia. A few more hours to decide to send him to death row. Brenda Forrest was one of the jurors.", "He was definitely guilty. All of the witnesses, they were able to, you know, to I.D. him as the person who actually did it.", "The primary reason he was convicted, the witness testimony. The slain police officer's wife agrees. JOAN MCFAELS (ph),", "They were just so adamant about what they saw, when they saw it.", "But this is how the juror feels now.", "If I knew then what I know now, Troy Davis would not be on death row. The verdict would be", "What she knows now is this. Almost all the prosecution star witnesses have changed their stories. Some saying police pressured them to say Troy Davis did it. Darryl Collins, one of the prosecution's witnesses, who signed a police statement implicating Troy Davis.", "I told him over and over I didn't see this happen. They put what they wanted to put in that statement.", "Twenty years ago this summer, Savannah police officer Mark Macphail was working an off-duty job here. He was providing security at night for this bus station and for this Burger King restaurant that is currently out of business. There was a homeless man in this parking lot that was being harassed and intimidated. He yelled for help. The officer ran over and seconds later, Officer Mark Macphail was shot and killed. It was tragic, horrifying and chaotic. And two decades later, it all still is. The man who admitted to harassing the homeless person went to police the next day and told them he saw Troy Davis shoot the officer. Wanted posters went up all over Savannah. A reward offered to catch the so-called dangerous cop killer. Racial tensions inflamed. After the shooting, Troy Davis was in Atlanta, four hours away. His sister said scared for his life.", "So, when my brother decided to turn himself in, they already had a \"shoot to kill\" order on him", "This man, Derek Johnson, a pastor, got in touch with Davis. He volunteered to drive him back to Savannah to surrender. He says Troy Davis insisted he was innocent. The pastor, who has never told the story to a reporter before, was stunned. The D.A.'s office never interviewed him. (on camera): You're with this man for four hours, you're bringing him back to Savannah in police custody. They never interviewed you?", "Never talked to me.", "Never asked you a question about your journey?", "Never.", "What he said? If he had a weapon? If he admitted to the crime, if he did admit to the crime?", "This was the one case where nobody wanted to know, and I don't think now, looking back, that anybody cared.", "The pastor is one now of many who believe facts be damned. Troy Davis was going to be arrested for murder. As for the Savannah police, they have always said their witness interviews were taken properly, no coercion. And prosecutors have stood by the conviction. But a number of witnesses have signed affidavits changing their original testimony. Dorothy Ferrule is one of them. A former prison inmate. She writes, \"I was scared that if I didn't cooperate with the detective, he might find a way to have me locked up again. So, I told the policeman that Troy Davis was the shooter, even though the truth was that I didn't see who shot the officer.\" And a witness named Jeffrey Sap now writes, \"The police came to talk to me and put a lot of pressure on me to say Troy did this. They made it clear the only way they would leave me alone is if I told them what they wanted to hear.\" And then there's this woman, who says she purposely left out testimony. (on camera): Sylvester Coals came up to you after the shooting and said, \"Would you hold my gun?\".", "Yes.", "Sylvester Coals. He is the man who admitted harassing the homeless person, the man who fingered Troy Davis, who talked to Tonya Johnson near her old home, across the street from the crime scene.", "He opened the screen door, which this was not here. It was a wooden screen door. This was tore out. He opened the door and set the gun here and shut the door.", "And you -- did you think he did the shooting?", "Yes, sir.", "Did you ask him?", "No. But the way he was acting...", "You were scared to ask him.", "I was scared of him. Still scared of him.", "Today, you're still scared of him. He's still here in town?", "Yes, sir.", "Free man?", "Yes, sir.", "And you see him occasionally?", "I see him.", "How come you're talking to me? I admire the fact that you are.", "Because I don't want to see this innocent man get killed for something he didn't even do.", "During the trial, Davis' attorneys tried to convince jurors Coals was the killer. We tried to find Sylvester \"Red\" Coals to give him a chance to have his say. We talked to family members, but we couldn't track him down.", "I don't believe Red Coals that killed Mark at all.", "Officer Macphail's wife, Joan, who had a 2-year-old daughter and newborn son when her husband was killed, looks at Sylvester \"Red\" Coals in a very different light.", "Sylvester came forward, and he didn't have to. I also know that Troy ran, and he didn't have to. If he were innocent, he should have come forward.", "What does she think about people like Tonya Johnson with their new information?", "Five minutes of fame.", "Pope Benedict has asked for his sentence to be commuted. Jimmy Carter and even death penalty supporter and former Georgia congressman Bob Bark have asked for the case to be reopened. Troy Davis has been hours away from execution three times only to have the case reviewed. It has now reached the U.S. Supreme Court. If the justices decide not to review the case, Troy Davis could go to the death chamber within days. Remember when I asked him if he thought he would be executed? Troy Davis told me, no. He has faith in the justice system. A view, ironically, shared by the widow of the murdered police officer.", "We believe in this justice system. We have to believe in this justice system.", "But she is still waiting for an execution. Gary Tuchman, CNN, Savannah, Georgia.", "President Obama taking his case for health care reform to the American people. I'm Heidi Collins. 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{"id": "CNN-411765", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2020-09-24", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/24/es.03.html", "summary": "No Officers Charged With Killing Breonna Taylor; President Trump Won't Commit To Peaceful Transfer Of Power; Trump Threatens To Overrule FDA Plan For Toucher Vaccine Guidelines.", "utt": ["After no officers are charged directly in the death of Breonna Taylor.", "Less than six weeks to the election and the president floats what was once unthinkable, refusing to leave office.", "And the president wants a vaccine before Election Day and he's threatening to overrule stricter guidelines to make it happen. Good morning, this is EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans.", "And I'm Laura Jarrett. About 30 minutes past the hour here in New York. Breaking overnight, a new version of an all too familiar story -- protests across the country after no police officers were charged directly in the killing of 26-year-old black EMT and aspiring nurse, Breonna Taylor. The community's pain screaming from the front page of today's Louisville \"Courier-Journal.\" Last night, two Louisville officers were shot. We're told the wounds are not life-threatening and a suspect is in custody.", "One of the three officers involved in Taylor's death, Brett Hankison, was indicted on charges of first-degree wanton endangerment and this was -- that was not even, though, for Taylor's death. It was because officials say he fired blindly through a door and window -- bullets that wound up in a neighboring apartment.", "Black Lives Matter.", "Let's go, man.", "Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter.", "The charges immediately criticized as insufficient by protesters and activists. The other two officers who fired weapons during this botched March raid -- excuse me -- were not indicted. The state attorney general says one witness heard police identify themselves, but Breonna Taylor's boyfriend did not and opened fire with a gun he owned legally when he thought someone was breaking into the apartment. The A.G. says that a single shot is enough to justify the use of force by police.", "As our investigation showed and the grand jury agreed that Mattingly and Cosgrove were justified in their return of deadly fire after having been fired upon by Kenneth Walker.", "One of the big serious outstanding questions, in this case, is why were the officers there in the first place. The attorney general says the federal authorities are looking into the warrant the police were executing. Taylor's ex-boyfriend was the actual focus of the drug investigation in this case that led officers to Taylor's apartment where incidentally, no drugs were found. That man, the ex, was already under arrest 10 miles away. Taylor family attorney Benjamin Crump called the grand jury's decision outrageous and offensive. Here is Taylor's cousin.", "It is so insulting that you would say that the neighbors' lives mattered more than Breonna Taylor's life. There was negligence that night. They shot one time in self-defense because they thought someone was coming into their apartment, and they shot over 20 times. Six of them hit Breonna, killing her, and it's negligence. Our family is grieving all over again. It is March 13th all over again for us.", "Overnight, protests across the country remained mostly peaceful. There were some arrests. Jesse Jackson saying that violent demonstrations would be a commercial for Trump. Racial justice protests have waned since George Floyd was killed, but this grand jury decision could reignite them just as health experts warn the pandemic is getting worse heading into fall.", "A peaceful transition of power has always been a bedrock of American democracy. The president said so himself.", "Every four years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power.", "But our system doesn't secure the peaceful succession of power, it merely assumes that it will happen. Yet, now, our system is faced with a president who refuses to say that he will honor that sacred pact.", "Will you commit to making sure that there is a peaceful transferal of power after the election?", "Well, we're going to have to see what happens. You know that. I've been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster. And --", "I understand that, but people are rioting. Do you commit to making sure that there's a peaceful transferal of power?", "No, no. We want to -- we want to have -- get rid of the ballots and you'll have a very -- you'll have a very peaceful -- there won't be a transfer, frankly. There'll be a continuation.", "Get rid of the ballots, he says. Get rid of mail-in voting, which is not only reliable and legal but has been done successfully for years in several states, so that Trump can have, in his words, a continuation of his presidency. Here's Joe Biden's response to the president.", "What country are we in? I'm being facetious. I said what country are we in. Look, he says the most irrational things. I don't know what to say about it but it doesn't surprise me.", "Republican Sen. Mitt Romney calls Trump's answer unthinkable and unacceptable. He says it sounds more like Belarus. This week, the president essentially admitted he wants a new Supreme Court justice confirmed before the election in case he needs a swing vote for cases about disputed ballots. Last month, the Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley told Congress the military will not play a role in the election and will not help settle disputes if the results are contested.", "Well, as some officials are trying desperately to get the politics out of science, President Trump injects the politics right back in. CNN has reported the FDA is considering tougher vaccine guidelines. But on the same day that the vice president asked governors to boost confidence in an eventual vaccine, the president said he can overrule steps that the FDA would take to delay the timeline.", "It sounded to me like something extremely political. Why would they do this when we come back with these great results? And I think you all have those great results.", "But when do you expect the vaccine?", "Why would we -- why would we be delaying it? But we're going to look at it. We're going to take a look at it and ultimately, the White House has to approve it.", "The director of the National Institutes of Health says the last thing we need is to create another cloud of uncertainty over vaccine development. There has been a major dip in trust this summer as more decisions appear to be politicized. Another 1,100 Americans lost their lives yesterday. The CDC director warns 90 percent of Americans are still at rich -- at risk of catching this virus. That shows how deadly it could be to rely on herd immunity, as President Trump has suggested. Herd immunity was also at the core of this tense exchange between Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci.", "You have been a big fan of Cuomo and the shutdown in New York. You've lauded New York for their policy. New York had the highest death rate in the world. How could we possibly be jumping up and down and saying oh, Gov. Cuomo did a great job?", "No.", "He had the worst death rate in the world.", "No, you misconstrued that, Senator, and you've done that repetitively in the past. They got hit very badly. They've made some mistakes. Right now -- if you look at what's going on right now, the things that are going on in New York to get their test positivity one percent or less is because they are looking at the guidelines that we have put together from the task force of the four or five things -- of masks, social distancing, outdoors more than indoors, avoiding crowds, and washing hands.", "Or they've developed enough community immunity --", "Right.", "-- that they're no longer having the pandemic because they have enough immunity in New York City to actually stop it.", "I challenge that, Senator, because --", "I'm afraid -- I'm afraid we're --", "-- I want to -- please, sir, I would like to be able to do this because this happens with Sen. Rand all the time. You are not listening to what the director of the CDC said, that in New York it's about 22 percent. If you believe 22 percent is herd immunity, I believe you're alone in that.", "Sen. Paul is a doctor -- an ophthalmologist, to be precise -- and he had coronavirus. Yet, that was his takeaway.", "Syracuse University says it's canceling spring break to minimize travel-related virus risks. Ohio State recently did the same. And in New York City, the Metropolitan Opera will remain shut for another year. That's a big warning sign for America's theaters, concert halls, and live entertainment venues. And when this year is finally over, Times Square will be hosting a virtual New Year's Eve ball drop.", "And that is where we are in 2020 -- a virtual ball drop. The coronavirus pandemic worsening overseas. Israel is already tightening new restrictions during its second lockdown as cases keep rising. Strict limits on protests and prayer groups. And, Israel's popular open-air markets are now closed. In Germany, the country's economic and foreign ministers are both in quarantine after contact with people who tested positive. France is imposing tougher restrictions on the hospitality sector. Marseille has been placed under maximum alert and all bars and restaurants there must close, starting Monday. The U.K. recording its highest daily increase in cases since May. Prime Minister Boris Johnson just announced new -- tight new restrictions through the end of the year.", "A federal judge says the White House will have to include a sign language interpreter in its live feed of coronavirus briefings, starting in October. The National Association of the Deaf sued to force that change. The group's CEO says the order sets a great precedent to achieve full accessibility.", "All right. The pandemic has caused an athleisure boom. Millions of people are swapping out jeans and office wear for yoga pants as they work and stay at home. Sales at Athleta, the athleisure label at Gap, rose six percent during its latest quarter and it's opening new stores despite Gap sales falling. I spoke to the head of Athleta, Mary Beth Laughton, about how the pandemic has led to innovation.", "We noticed early on that in the pandemic that some customers were hesitant to shop in stores and we launched a virtual concierge service. We made sure to offer her options -- you know, choice and convenience. So we now have 65 percent of our stores with curbside pickup offering. We have buy online pickup in stores. We just tried to give her a bunch of options.", "It's been a real retail reset because of this virus. Most retailers have been slammed by the pandemic. Bankruptcies and layoffs have piled up. While athleisure has taken off, it's unclear how long that boom will last when people start going back to the office. Laughton says Athleta will be able to shift with its consumers.", "I think we can definitely adapt. And times have changed and I think the customer is just going to continue a lot of the ways of living that she's taken on during this period, even into the workplace.", "It's so fascinating, Laura -- the big shift you've seen at retail places like Amazon and Walmart. Anybody with a vibrant digital strategy --", "Yes.", "-- seems to be innovating and moving forward. But a lot of brick and mortar stores have filed for bankruptcy and have had to lay off a lot of workers. So just a huge transition in retail.", "Yes, what a great and timely interview. I know the soft pants that they have are very popular in my household after the show.", "Yes.", "All right. Well, heading now back to Washington, President Trump will pay his respects to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg later this morning. She's lying in repose at the Supreme Court for a second day. Lines of mourners stretched for blocks on Wednesday, and an army of her law clerks lined the steps as the casket arrived.", "It has been said that Ruth wanted to be an opera virtuoso but became a rock star instead. But she chose the law. Subjected to discrimination in law school and the job market because she was a woman, Ruth would grow to become the leading advocate fighting such discrimination in court. She was not an opera star but she found her stage right behind me in our courtroom.", "President Trump says he will nominate Ginsburg replacement on Saturday. As of right now, all signs point to Judge Amy Coney Barrett.", "All right. The most anticipated moment of the election is almost here. Donald Trump and Joe Biden face off in the first presidential debate. 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{"id": "CNN-187433", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2012-6-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1206/08/acd.02.html", "summary": "Justice Department to Investigate Possible Leaks; President Obama's Economic Gaffe", "utt": ["Good evening, everyone. It's 10:00 here on the East Coast. Good evening, everyone. We begin tonight with breaking news. We have just learned that Attorney General Eric Holder has assigned two U.S. attorneys to lead investigations into the possible leaking of state secrets, classified information. Pressure had been building over the alleged leaks. Senator John McCain has claimed White House officials leaked information about U.S. counterterrorism efforts overseas to boost Mr. Obama's national security credentials. Some Democrats have agreed. The leaks resulted in a wave of recent news reports. Well, today, President Obama once again denied the White House deliberately leaked state secrets. Chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin is joining us now with the breaking news. So the administration has been feeling -- clearly feeling bipartisan pressure for several days now, Jessica, on these leaks. What do we know?", "Hi, Anderson. Well, look, it's a time-tested Washington strategy. Leak unpleasant news on a Friday night and hope the media is out drinking and too busy to pay attention. But the president also -- I'm joking a little bit, but the president also was under a lot of pressure after his answers at a press conference today when he didn't definitively say whether or not the administration was investigating these leaks. Here's the president.", "There are leak investigations going on now, is that what you're saying...", "What I'm saying is, is that we consistently, whenever there is classified information that is put out into the public we try to find out where that came from. All right? Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.", "Now Anderson, the president -- some on the Hill have, as you say, accused the White House of deliberately leaking the information to make the president look like a strong commander in chief in an election year. And the White House has emphatically denied that charge. The question is, was anybody in the administration involved in sharing any of this information? And that's what this investigation is helping to get to the bottom of -- Anderson.", "I mean, clearly, if you read some of these reports, there was this article in \"The New York Times\" about the program, the computer virus used against Iran. It does quote administration officials, whether or not they were leaking classified information. I guess that's what investigators will look into. Now, some on Capitol Hill, Senator McCain among them, had called for basically an independent investigation, a special counsel to be appointed. Clearly, the White House is not going down that road. Do you think this is going to satisfy critics on the Hill who say that the White House -- the Justice Department should not be investigating the White House?", "Well, there are some who are probably not going to be satisfied. But this is according to Attorney General Holder standard procedure at this point. And what you have at this stage are two very senior prosecutors who are investigating them. Each is a U.S. attorney. There's Ronald Machen, who was nominated by President Obama, a Democrat, who is leading one of the investigations. But the other investigation is being led by a man named Rod Rosenstein. And he was appointed by George W. Bush originally. And he actually at one point served with Ken Starr. You remember him because he helped investigate Whitewater and the Monica Lewinsky affair, so hardly a Democrat, hardly neutral guy -- not somebody you could say is going to be in the president's back pocket. Both are graduates of Harvard Law School, interestingly, because the president was as well. And Attorney General Eric Holder has said that he has notified members of Congress about this investigation, but will continue to update them, both members of the Intel Committee, Intelligence Committee,and the Judiciary Committee. So that should satisfy some members of Congress who do insist on being kept abreast of these sorts of things, Anderson.", "You have been covering the White House now for a while. How seriously is the White House taking this? How bad -- how much do they worry about this as having blowback on the president?", "Well, look, this administration points out, and it's true, that they take leaks seriously. And they have actually investigated and prosecuted more leakers than other administrations.", "In fact, in all other administrations combined. They have I think six ongoing cases.", "Right, and they take a lot of heat from the left for it, because it's not something that you expect from a Democratic administration. So, they say they take it seriously. And the president pointed that out today, that he has zero tolerance for this. The thing about these sorts of investigations is, once they start, you never know where they lead and how long they last. So the political implications could be potentially damaging for this administration in an election year. And I would also finally add this has not been a good week for the president, not just this leak story, but he had disappointing jobs numbers. He had all sorts of political damage with the campaign this week. So, it's just been a tough one for the president. I think he will be glad for the weekend to come, Anderson.", "Yes, and a difficult day. Jessica, stick around, because we want to talk to you more about that in just a moment. Another \"Keeping Them Honest\" report now. president Obama really gave Republicans what some are calling a gift when he said this at the Friday press briefing.", "The private sector is doing fine. Where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy have to do with state and local government, oftentimes cuts initiated by, you know, governors or mayors who are not getting the kind of help that they have in the past from the federal government and who don't have the same kind of flexibility as the federal government in -- in dealing with fewer revenues coming in.", "Now, Republicans were quick to pounce on those first five words that the president said. \"The private sector is doing fine.\" Within hours, they surfaced in a Republican National Committee Web ad.", "The private sector is doing fine.", "Mitt Romney and other leading Republicans also jumped on President Obama's use of those words.", "He said the private sector is doing fine. He said the private sector is doing fine. Is he really that out of touch?", "Well, Mr. President, I used to run a small business. Mr. President, take it from me. The private sector is not doing well.", "We just listened to the president say that the private sector is doing fine. And my question would be to the president, are you kidding? Did he see the job numbers come out last week?", "Romney also attacked President Obama for calling for more stimulus money to hire state and local government workers. Watch.", "He wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It's time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.", "Well, Democrats quickly jumped on Mitt Romney for specifying firemen, policemen and teachers as workers we don't need more of. By the way, in Wisconsin, we should point out, Governor Walker specifically kept firefighters and police from seeing the same cuts many others in the public sector face. Now, as for President Obama, the White House clearly aware that saying the private sector is doing fine was giving ammunition to the president's opponents and the president later clarified his remarks. Here's what he said.", "The economy is not doing fine. There are too many people out of work. The housing market is still weak and too many homes underwater.", "To be fair, when the president took office, the economy was in the basement. It's true. More than four million jobs were created since he took office. You can decide for yourself how much credit he should get. It's also true that private sector corporate profits are at an all-time high, according to government reports. But \"Keeping Them Honest,\" here are some other facts. Last month, the private sector added just 82,000 jobs, far fewer than was expected and less than the 87,000 in April and the 147,000 in March. Job growth is slowing down and unemployment rose to 8.2 percent last month. A lot to talk about. Joining me now once again, CNN chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin and political contributors Paul Begala and Ari Fleischer.", "So, Jessica, the president says the private sector is doing fine, then comes out later clarifies the remarks. How big of a gaffe do you think this is for the president?", "Well, Anderson, remember when John McCain said in the 2008 election the fundamentals of the economy are strong and then candidate Obama hammered him mercilessly for it, saying he was out of touch and he rode that all the way to the victory. It's not going to be that kind of level of gaffe, because President Obama hasn't demonstrated repeated instances of being totally out of touch. What it's done is gotten him off message. This press conference was intended to let the president take the offensive, to let him say that it's the Republicans in Congress who are responsible for these jobs -- the disappointing jobs numbers we just saw and he was trying to get the Republicans in Congress to take action on his jobs bill.", "The president's critics say that the president is out of touch and that this is another example of that. Do you think it's similar to that John McCain comment?", "No, it's about a 2.0 on the McCain Richter scale of gaffes, Anderson. It was clearly a mistake. We know that because he went in and cleaned it up. He's created -- he hasn't -- the American economy and the private sector has created 4.3 million jobs in the last 27 months, since the recession ended. That's not good enough. But it's an awful lot better than in the last recession in the last Republican presidency, the last presidency we have had. In a similar period, we only created about 1.7 million jobs. Now, I can't remember the name of that guy, but he was a terrible president, the Republican before president, just dreadful. So he's got an argument to make. What's interesting is Mitt Romney answered it with a gaffe of his own. He attacked President Obama for saying we need more teachers, cops and firefighters.", "Ari, I want to go to you know. We will get to what Mitt Romney said afterward. But let's just focus first on what President Obama said. I mean, do you give him a pass on this or do you think this is a sign that he's out of touch?", "No, I think the only difference between this and what John McCain said is President Obama has the advantage of having said it in June, when fewer people are watching. John McCain said it in September or October, when it was in the middle of an intense campaign. But I think the bigger trouble here not so much in touch, out of touch, as much as it is an ongoing pattern of dismissiveness of the private sector. The president basically said, oh, those rich people, they are just doing fine. He just seems to have that lifelong approach from the days of his being a community organizer to being a state senator to being the president.", "Ari, couldn't you also interpret it as private sector is making record profits right now, so he's saying they're doing fine. It's the public sector where government can actually do something do in the short term?", "But, Anderson, that's also part of the president's misunderstanding of how the private sector works. The reason so many corporations are sitting on their cash is because they're so worried about Obamacare and its impact on their bottom line, the tax hikes that are scheduled to go in place on January 1, and the president's overall anti-business, anti-corporate environment. People are worried more taxes, more regulations are coming down on them, so they're being cautious and sitting on their cash.", "Anderson, in point of fact, it was said inartfully, but what he meant to say is that the part of the economy where jobs are being added most -- where jobs are being lost is the part where government can make the most difference. It's an argument against austerity. And he is saying it's astonishing to him that Congress won't do something to help government add more teachers' jobs, add more police officers, add more firefighters. This is about a fundamental difference about the role of government. He does not believe in austerity at this time, while Republicans do. And he's saying Republicans should do something to add more jobs.", "But, Jessica, that's not what he said.", "Ari, go ahead.", "That's just not what he said.", "It's what he believes and it is what he said. He said it inartfully, no doubt. I mean, it was a gaffe, but we have heard him say it many, many times. Ari, you have heard him say it.", "Ari?", "I have heard him be very dismissive of the private sector many times and I think that's the same remarks he was making today.", "That's one of the fundamental drags on the economy. That's one of the reasons his policies aren't working. His policies and his rhetoric are suppressing job creators in this country who fear what's next.", "So, Paul, then to Romney's point, Romney makes this statement which I'm wondering if he's going to now clarify that a few hours from now, because he comes forward and says the president's talking about hiring more teachers and policemen and firemen. We need to be cutting government. That's the message we learned in Wisconsin, that the American taxpayers want. It's rare -- do you think that was a gaffe or do you think that was just kind of politically incorrect honesty? Because it's rare that -- people talk about cutting government, but rarely do they specify, you know, teachers and firemen and -- or at least firemen and -- firefighters and policemen.", "Right. It could be that Romney is just being consistent. When he was in business, he laid off private sector workers. Now he wants to be president and he wants to lay off public sector workers. And he did say -- he finished that quote -- and I want to read it exactly. He said: \"It's time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.\" That's a really interesting notion, that fewer cops, fewer teachers, fewer firefighters will help the American people. He would be better as a rhetorician if he left it to government in the abstract, as you suggest, and not just to specifically teachers and cops and firefighters. If I had as many mansions as Mitt Romney did, I would want a lot of firefighters out there. I mean, I don't want any ill to happen to any of his many mansions, but he benefits from firefighters more than most of us.", "Ari, this was obviously a gift to the Democrats, who wanted to get the focus off what President Obama said earlier today, but do you think this was a gaffe on Mitt Romney's part or do you think he's right?", "It would have been stronger of course if he had said it just about the government workers, but that was his point. He said more workers. He didn't say fewer or less, or he's going to fire, as Paul is inventing. He said more. And the issue here is, as Jessica pointed out, philosophical. President Obama believes that the way you grow our economy is by having the government find more reasons to hire more people. Mitt Romney believes the way you grow the economy is by having a private sector thrive so it can hire more people. I think that's the philosophical difference what came out today between what the president said and what Mitt Romney said and at the end of the day, Mitt Romney ends up a huge winner as a result of this.", "Paul, do you think Mitt Romney ends up the winner today?", "No. I think that -- first off, it's June and it is just a wash. But the argument is going to be this. Whose side are you on? Right? And both of these guys have their elitist streaks. Sometimes, the president can be very professorial and I think that ends to be off- putting. Sometimes, like always, Mitt Romney can have this sort of Marie Antoinette syndrome where he seems to insult working people, like he did today, teachers, cops and firefighters.", "Paul, by the way, I love that your big insult of the president is that he's professorial, and Mitt Romney, he's Marie Antoinette.", "Yes. Well, I'm a public school guy. I'm a state school guy.", "Really equal there though on the criticism.", "But go on, Paul.", "He can -- the president can be a little ethereal at times. It's true. But Romney, if it's about the out of touch thing, like I say, neither of them are like Joe Biden, who is actually I think really great on middle-class kind of cred. But if it's about who you would rather like hang out with, I don't think Romney is going to succeed there.", "All right. It's been a fascinating day. Paul Begala, Ari Fleischer, thank you. Jessica Yellin, as well, thanks.", "Thanks.", "Well, let us know what you think. We're on Facebook. Follow me on Twitter @AndersonCooper. What do you think about the president's remarks, about Mitt Romney's remarks today? Let us know. There are new and important images out of Syria tonight, video you will not see anywhere else of a doctor and his staff of volunteers risking their lives to save civilians and others in a city under siege. We're going to show you what they're up against. The images speak truth to all the lies coming from Bashar al-Assad and his regime -- a CNN exclusive next."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR", "JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "QUESTION", "BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "YELLIN", "COOPER", "YELLIN", "COOPER", "YELLIN", "COOPER", "YELLIN", "COOPER", "OBAMA", "COOPER", "OBAMA", "COOPER", "MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "REP. ERIC CANTOR (R-VA), HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER", "COOPER", "ROMNEY", "COOPER", "OBAMA", "COOPER", "COOPER", "YELLIN", "COOPER", "PAUL BEGALA, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST", "COOPER", "ARI FLEISCHER, FORMER GEORGE W. 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{"id": "CNN-127494", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2008-6-11", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0806/11/ldt.01.html", "summary": "Abu Dhabi Makes bid for Chrysler Building", "utt": ["Well, foreign investors buying up, apparently with a good shopping list, some of New York City's landmark buildings. An Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund reportedly negotiating a deal to buy a 75 percent stake in the famous Chrysler building. Under the deal, the Abu Dhabi Investment Counsel would pay $800 million for three-quarters interest in the building. And a strong euro and a weak dollar making it all possible for an Italian real estate investor to buy up a huge chunk of the historic flatiron building in Manhattan. The Sorgents (ph) Group now owns 53 percent of the famous flatiron building. And now, you're going get really upset. Another American icon may soon have a foreign owner. This is no minor item. Anheuser- Busch, the brewer of Budweiser, today saying Belgium based InBev making an offer to buy the company, an unsolicited offer. InBev offer $48 billion for Budweiser, the maker of Budweiser and other brands controlling about 50 percent of the country's beer market. Anheuser- Busch said it will evaluate the bid but did not give a timetable for making any kind of decision. Another piece of this country's infrastructure may be up for sale as well. Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell wants to lease out the Pennsylvania turnpike to a U.S. Spanish consortium. Joining me now for this brilliant idea, two Pennsylvania state senators; Dwight Evans, he's a co-sponsor of the proposal to do that and Joseph Markosek who opposes that deal. They both are in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania tonight. Gentlemen, good to have you with us.", "Thank you.", "Thank you. Good to have you too, Lou.", "Senator Evans, let me ask you. I mean Ed Rendell is usually a pragmatic fellow but I don't see how the state comes off selling what are taxpayer assets, government owned assets and doing a private deal? What's going on here?", "We have an infrastructure problem, Lou. We have over 6,000 bridges with potential problems. We need to come up with some money. And the reality of it is, if we had to fix that problem through the gas tax, you would be talking about 25, 30 cents more a gallon. We can't afford to raise the gas tax. I think the governor's idea deserves to be explored. We should have public ears and have the discussion. You're talking about maybe $13 billion would potentially be available. And we're talking about leasing it, not selling it.", "For how long?", "Seventy-five years we're talking about leasing it.", "Well you know a lot of people would look at that as that's a pretty long rent. But the reality is, Senator, I mean, where does the state get off doing this? Where do you find the authority to do it?", "Well you know obviously, we have to go through a process and basically the process would be public hearings allowing the public to have input to this process but the governor is taking a bold move. He's trying to realize to do something about the roads. We're supposed to protect the public. That's what I hear you talking about. And protecting the public, we have to fix those roads and we have to fix the bridges.", "How in the world did Pennsylvania get by over the last half century with all those roads and all those bridges? You haven't been building a lot of things. What's the problem?", "We've gotten by because every governor had raised the gas tax. With gas at $4.50 a gallon, at $139 a barrel, you know for yourself, you can't raise the gas tax, nor can you raise enough money.", "There's no toll on the Pennsylvania turnpike?", "There's a toll on the Pennsylvania turnpike but one of the ideas that the governor has is to toll I-80. We're waiting for the federal government to give us permission to toll I-80.", "Why do you oppose this? Senator Evans thinks the way to do this is to go ahead with it.", "Well Lou, it's a bad deal financially for the commonwealth. It's a bad policy decision. We've done a study that shows that the turn spike over well worth $26 billion. The bid is about half of that. And you would have to scrape off the top some of the obligations we already have. We have about $7 billion left to invest that has to last for 75 years. In the new world order where it's hard to know who is your friend and who is your foe, I think leasing the turnpike for 75 years to a foreign consortium is a bad, bad idea for the united states and for Pennsylvania. It's a bad deal for the commonwealth.", "Let me ask you both this last question. If you can't support a toll road with tolls, what is the heck is wrong in Pennsylvania?", "We have Act 44 that we both worked to get passed last year, we want to toll Interstate 80. We found that Act 44 will get us about two-thirds of the way there. We don't have to raise taxes or license fees at all. I think Act 44 needs to be allowed to continue. That will solve a big part of the problem.", "You get the last word Senator Evans.", "The bottom line is safety for the people of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 6,000 bridges need to be fixed, many miles of road. The time has come. We need a discussion about this.", "All right. Look forward to more of them. Thank you both for being here. Up at the top of the hour, the \"ELECTION CENTER\" Campbell Brown. Campbell, what are you working on?", "Just ahead in the \"ELECTION CENTER,\" it's another day, another broken record for gas prices. Another day of Washington's Democrats and Republicans blaming one another over it. Tonight we're going try to get beyond blame game and see if somebody can do something to lower gas prices. Also tonight, we have got embarrassments for both the McCain and Obama campaigns we're going to talk about. And then the story of a governor, his wife, and his girlfriend. We're not talking about the ones you might think. All of that ahead in the Election Center, Lou.", "You got it. I love politics. Campbell Brown up at the top of the hour. Up here next, more of your thoughts and the results of our poll. Stay with us. We're coming right back."], "speaker": ["DOBBS", "REP. JOSEPH MARKPSEK (D), PENNSYLVANIA", "DWIGHT EVANS (D), PENNSYLVANIA STATE HOUSE", "DOBBS", "EVANS", "DOBBS", "EVANS", "DOBBS", "EVANS", "DOBBS", "EVANS", "DOBBS", "EVANS", "DOBBS", "MARKOSEK", "DOBBS", "MARKOSEK", "DOBBS", "EVANS", "DOBBS", "CAMPBELL BROWN, CNN ANCHOR", "DOBBS"]}
{"id": "NPR-15142", "program": "Day to Day", "date": "2005-10-27", "url": "https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4977601", "title": "White Sox End 88-Year World Series Drought", "summary": "On Wednesday night, the Chicago White Sox swept the Houston Astros 4-0 in the best-of-seven contest to win their first MLB World Series in 88 years. Jason DeRose puts the team's victory in perspective by taking a look back at 1917, the last time the White Sox were baseball champions.", "utt": ["This is DAY TO DAY from NPR News.  I'm Noah Adams.", "The Chicago White Sox won the World Series against the Houston Astros      last night, taking four games in a row for the best-of-seven.  It was the      first time since 1959 the Sox had been in the series, the first time      since 1917 that the Sox have won.  NPR's Jason DeRose has this look at      how the city of Chicago, the US and the world have changed in the past 88      years.", "It's been so long since the White Sox last won the World Series, there      aren't any audio recordings of the event.  In fact, radio broadcasts of      games in Chicago didn't begin until the 1920s.  So to know what was      happening on the field, you had to be one of the 32,000 people at the old      Comiskey Park on the South Side or, says Chicago Historical Society      curator Peter Alter...", "Also what they      had in the early part of the 20th century were these scoreboards posted      throughout the city where the games would be telegraphed to the      scoreboard site.  And so there would be a scoreboard in the Loop, for      example.  There was one in Grant Park in 1917.", "For more genteel audiences, Alter says scoreboards were also set      up in theaters around town, along with baseball diamond-shaped boards on      which people moved figures of players so audiences could virtually      experience the game.", "(Singing) Over there, over there, send the word, send      the word over there...", "About six months before the 1917 World Series, the US officially      joined the war in Europe, later known as World War I.", "And that actually struck home directly with the White Sox      because the White Sox players, shortly after the declaration of war, were      asked to help with recruiting into the volunteer army as well as the      Selective Service.", "Alter says major-league baseball teams began to stitch US flags      onto their uniforms to show their support for the war as well.", "1917 was also the year of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.", "(Russian spoken)", "And, Alter says, with the Russian Revolution came a fear of      outsiders, especially possible socialists and Communists.", "What you see nationally as well as locally is a crackdown on      any sort of radical thinking, especially in terms of politics and labor.      And so the Industrial Workers of the World, for example--their      headquarters are raided in something like 42 cities throughout the      country, of course, including Chicago.", "Peter Alter says it was around this time, too, that Chicago      began to be thought of as America's second city, after New York, in terms      of population and economic importance.  It took that title away from      Boston.  1917 was the beginning of the influenza pandemic that killed      millions, and 1917 was the last year before this year that the Chicago      White Sox won the World Series. Then, the victory was against the New      York Giants.  Last night, the victory was at the expense of the Houston      Astros.  Jason DeRose, NPR News.", "And Jason, hardworking reporter that he obviously is, isn't quite      done yet.  He's run around Chicago and has worked up a second story for      our program.  It's about God and Starbucks, and you'll hear that in a few      minutes."], "speaker": ["NOAH ADAMS, host", "NOAH ADAMS, host", "JASON DeROSE reporting", "Mr. PETER ALTER (Curator, Chicago Historical Society)", "DeROSE", "Ms. NORA BAYES", "DeROSE", "Mr. PETER ALTER (Curator, Chicago Historical Society)", "DeROSE", "DeROSE", "Unidentified Man", "DeROSE", "Mr. PETER ALTER (Curator, Chicago Historical Society)", "DeROSE", "NOAH ADAMS, host"]}
{"id": "CNN-2332", "program": "CNN Today", "date": "2000-2-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/09/tod.02.html", "summary": "Chicago Remembers WGN-AM's Great Bob Collins", "utt": ["A radio talk show host and two other people have died in a plane collision near Chicago. The two small planes struck each other, then crashed in Zion, Illinois, about 45 miles north of downtown, Chicago. WGN host Bob Collins and a neighbor were on board one of the planes, which crashed into a hospital roof. The second plane crashed on a street, killing the student pilot. Nancy Pender (ph) from affiliate WFLD reports on the man who dominated the morning drive in Chicago for more than a decade.", "For 15 years, Bob Collins was the voice that jump started our mornings.", "Well, it is Monday morning. We all survived the weekend.", "He first came to Chicago in 1974 as WGN radio's afternoon drive host. And though he did well, it wasn't until moving to mornings that he became a ratings powerhouse. In his time slot, he has twice as many listeners as his closest competition. A stunned Steve Carver WGN's vice president and general manager had this to stay about his colleague.", "We're talking about maybe the greatest morning man that this market's ever seen. He had a one-on- one relationship with his listeners. He was well thought of by everybody at this radio station, by the Tribune company.", "Bob Collins first got into radio in Lakeland, Florida, and at the tender age of 14 already had his own show. After graduating from college, Bob went onto jobs in Tampa, Milwaukee, San Diego and Los Angeles before moving on to Chicago. But as much as he loved radio, he was just as passionate about Motorcycles and Airplanes. It was an appropriate 10th-anniversary gift when Bob appeared \"Fox Thing\" back in March of last year. It turned out to be an ominous exchange.", "We've all chipped in here on the staff, and we bought you your own brand new airplane.", "Oh, my gosh, it's even powered, except I broke the key.", "All ready?", "Oh no. Are you flying a lot these day?", "Yes, I have been. Quite a bit, as a matter -- oh, here, I see....", "As news of Collins' death reverberates through Chicago, his friends and colleagues reflect on his life.", "It's an incredibly sad day, because he was a very gracious competitor, and in a very competitive business he was a real gentleman, and a lot of other guys in our business are not.", "When you look at Bob Collins and the impact he's had on Chicago in the wake of the loss of Walter Payton and Gene Siskel and Harry Carry and Jack Brickhouse and Mike Reuchel (ph), this town has been hit hard by the loss of another media icon.", "The basis of Bob Collins' appeal was the fact that he never, in my opinion any way, was that he never left his small-town radio station.", "He was no saint. I mean, this isn't one of those things where you wind up saying, oh, my God, he would never step on anyone's toes.", "He was perfect.", "I mean, he was a piece of work. He was -- he was a piece of work, but he was a fun piece of work and a smart piece of work.", "This afternoon, when I heard the two planes collided, and I knew he had been flying, so my next thought was, I hope it isn't him, and for some reason I had that feeling. I can't tell you why. Then we got the bad news, came down here and now we're all just going to sit here around trying to cope with it.", "WGN radio held a commercial-free tribute to Bob Collins, this morning."], "speaker": ["LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "NANCY PENDER, WFLD REPORTER (voice-over)", "BOB COLLINS, WGN HOST", "PENDER", "STEVE CARVER, WGN GENERAL MANAGER", "PENDER", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COLLINS", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "COLLINS", "PENDER", "ROE CONN, WLS-AM", "BRUCE DUMONT, MUSEUM OF BROADCAST COMM.", "JOHN RECORDS LANDECKER, WJMX", "JUDY MARKEY, KATHY AND JUDY, WGN-AM", "KATHY O'MALLEY, KATHY AND JUDY, WGN-AM", "JUDY", "TOM PETERSON, WGN-AM", "WATERS"]}
{"id": "CNN-168300", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2011-6-29", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1106/29/cnr.05.html", "summary": "Casey's Parents Grilled By Defense", "utt": ["The Anthony family drama was on full display today in the Casey Anthony murder trial. Casey Anthony's alleged sexual abuse by her dad and brother, George Anthony's suicide attempt, the rotting smell in Casey's car and the fights about Casey's lies. Both Casey's mom and dad are back on the stand to answer some very blunt questions from the defense. You can imagine there were some very emotionally charged moments in that courtroom today. So let's bring in Holly Hughes, a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor. She's here with me today again in studio. Holly, the defense going after George Anthony pretty hard there, questioning him about molesting his daughter Casey. He said, quote, \"I would never harm her in that way.\" But the defense brought this up in their opening. They're trying to prove it. Did they?", "No. And here's a tip for Jose Baez, Randi, never hand your enemy a club because he just might use it to beat you over the head with it. George Anthony is having Jose Baez for lunch because he's rehabilitating him. That's not what he's trying to do, but yesterday we saw a defiant George who said, I didn't have an affair. Today we see a broken, heart-wrenching, emotional plea by a father, and a grandfather, saying, I wouldn't do that.", "Yes. You mention that. And we were watching this earlier and you can see George Anthony on the verge of tears several times. But there were one moment where he just broke down when he learned that investigators had found his granddaughter's body. Let's listen to that and then I want to ask you about it.", "Had you held out the hope that Caylee would be found alive?", "Absolutely. Every day from July 15th until the day we were told it was Caylee.", "In January of 2009 you went -- I'll give you a moment.", "He is broken, as you described there. But what was so interesting, too, was his daughter's reaction. Casey's reaction sitting there. So I'm curious. I mean what, as a defense attorney, would you worry in that case what jurors might think of your client and how she's reacting?", "I absolutely would because we already know that Casey does not react properly. You know, her mother was on the stand falling apart because this little girl is missing --", "And she shows nothing.", "Nothing. She is completely unaffected by this. And that's just not normal. That's not the human emotion. When we see Cindy and George having these very real, human drama breakdowns, that's what we want from the mother of this precious little girl. We want the mother to be this upset that her baby went missing. Whether she drowned, whether she was murdered, we want her to care, Randi, and she doesn't.", "Very quickly. They also brought up George Anthony's suicide note. He had left a note saying that he wanted to be with Caylee. Why would the defense bring this up? This was in, what, 2009 I think.", "Because they are trying to infer that he was getting about molesting his daughter, that he was guilty about hiding the body and now Casey's on the hook for it.", "Just so wracked with guilt that he would take his life?", "Correct. But it's going to backfire because when the state gets to put up rebuttal, you better believe Jeff Ashton is entering that suicide note into evidence as a rebuttal. Right now it's hearsay and the defense certainly isn't going to enter it because it doesn't say what they want it to say.", "All right, Holly, we'll check back with you in about an hour from now. We'll let you get back to watching the trial and keep us up to date on that.", "You got it.", "Thank you. Well, all this week, we're taking a look at an important issue -- online security. Up next, our Michael Holmes shows us how technology makes it difficult to avoid being tracked no matter what you do."], "speaker": ["KAYE", "HOLLY HUGHES, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY, FORMER PROSECUTOR", "KAYE", "JEFF ASHTON, ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY", "GEORGE ANTHONY, CASEY ANTHONY'S FATHER", "ASHTON", "KAYE", "HUGHES", "KAYE", "HUGHES", "KAYE", "HUGHES", "KAYE", "HUGHES", "KAYE", "HUGHES", "KAYE"]}
{"id": "CNN-306426", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2017-02-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/27/nday.04.html", "summary": "South Korea: Kim Jong Un Ordered Half Brother's Death.", "utt": ["OK, it's time for CNN Money Now. Chief business correspondent Christine Romans is in our Money Center where the stock market is on fire.", "It is red hot, my dear. The Dow starts a new week at record highs -- 11 straight all- time closing highs. If the Dow does it again today it will tie the longest record streak ever. That was set back in 1987. Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders features this interesting take on the economy. \"Americans have combined human ingenuity, a market system, a tide of talented and ambitious immigrants, and the rule of law to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers.\" His tips for making money today in stocks, buy index funds that mirror the S&P 500 and keep your fees to a minimum. But, he said in an interview this morning that he's doubled his stake in Apple, so he is bullish on Apple -- Chris.", "Thank you very much, Christine Romans. So, other news. A South Korea spy agency now says North Korean leaders of Kim Jong Un's ordered the assassination of his half-brother. The intelligence service says the killing was carried out by two of the North Korean regime's ministries. CNN international correspondent Alexandra Field live in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with the latest on the investigation. This is certain to outrage the North Korean leader. How confident are South Korean authorities about this?", "Yes, it will no doubt infuriate the North Korean leader but a South Korean spy agency is going public, pinning this plot right to the top. They're doing it regardless and they say that this was a coordinated effort, Chris, involving two different assassination groups and also a support group. And they say that the four North Korean suspects who were believed to have left Malaysia immediately in the aftermath of the attack are all North Korean government officials.", "Two women captured on CCTV video accused of carrying a weapon of mass destruction into Kuala Lumpur's busy airport. (Video playing) This is the moment of the attack. Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un, dies 15 or 20 minutes later. Twelve days after, authorities find traces of the highly lethal nerve agent VX on his face and in his eyes. The airport terminal that's been operating as normal is finally swept by crews in protective suits. They give it the all-clear. Police defend the timeline, saying they took protective measures once they fully understood the danger.", "It is only on the Friday evening we received the call. We get confirmation. We feel that we have to do this screening process.", "Authorities from the suspects' home countries, Vietnam and Indonesia, say both women claimed they thought they were part of a prank. In Indonesia, the aunt of Siti Aisyah tells CNN weeks earlier her niece told her about a new job on a foreign T.V. show.", "At the beginning she was asked to put a hand-body lotion onto hands of strangers in order to make them angry. And then, at the second occasion, she was asked to put tomato sauce onto other people's body. So just basically doing work like that.", "Her niece must have been manipulated, she says. But Malaysian police say the women were trained to kill. Aisyah told Indonesia's deputy ambassador she was given a liquid similar to baby oil, paid about $90 U.S. dollars, and assigned the job by people she described as Japanese or Korean. Investigators say the women were given that deadly substance by four North Korean men who fled the country immediately after the attack. They had been renting an apartment here in Kuala Lumpur. Almost two weeks after Kim Jong Nam was killed police raided it, collecting samples that have now been sent to a lab for testing. The women arrived in Malaysia less than two weeks before the attack, one of them checking into at least two different hotels in the two days before it. The staff remembers her as the woman carrying a giant teddy bear.", "Memorable, indeed"], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT", "CUOMO", "ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "FIELD", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FIELD", "SITI AISYAH'S AUNT (through translator)", "FIELD", "FIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-391862", "program": "AT THIS HOUR", "date": "2020-02-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/05/ath.02.html", "summary": "Sen. Doug Jones Speaks from Senate Floor on Impeachment Vote; Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) Discusses Impeachment, Doug Jones' Vote to Impeach, Trump's SOTU.", "utt": ["This afternoon, after the months of investigation, weeks of hearings, days of debate, a divided Senate will bring to a close the impeachment trial of President Trump. The Senate is expected to acquit the president on both charges, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, the charges he faces. While the outcome seems all but certain there is still suspense left. How will some wavering Senators vote and why? Democratic Senator from red state Alabama, Doug Jones, as we just saw, he just announced he will, in his words, \"reluctantly vote\" to convict President Trump on those charges. Joining me now, another Democratic Senator, Chris Van Hollen, of Maryland. Senator, thank you for being here. You plan to vote to convict the president. What's your reaction to what you heard from Doug Jones?", "I do plan to convict the president on both charges brought by the House of Representatives. I can tell you that Doug Jones is taking this process very seriously. I sit next to him on the floor of the United States Senate. He has been taking copious notes. He himself is a lawyer, a former prosecutor. He is doing his duty under the Constitution to look at the charges and render a judgment on what the remedy should be.", "Do you have any idea how another one of your Democratic colleagues, Joe Manchin, is going to vote? We're told he's not going to --he hasn't said publicly until he will wait until he gets to the floor this afternoon.", "I don't know, Kate. But I should say, regardless of the vote this afternoon, this process has been tainted and flawed ever since the United States Senate failed to do its job under the Constitution. That is to conduct a fair trial. And when, for the first time in our history, you don't call a single witness or get a single document, that's not a fair trial. I'm sure the president will claim that he has somehow been exonerated. I want to state very clearly, there's no exoneration and no vindication from a farce of a trial. I think many Americans will not accept the legitimacy of this outcome because of the tainted process.", "Do you think it's a good idea -- I mean, Jerry -- it may not be over, if you will, in the broad sense, because Jerry Nadler told Manu Raju this morning he's likely to subpoena John Bolton. Do you like that idea at this point?", "I think it's important for the country to get to the truth of what happened. We heard from Senator Lamar Alexander that he agreed the House proved its case on the article of abuse of power. But you still had many Republican Senators get up there and pretend that was not the case. I don't think the House is interested at all in opening round two of impeachment. That's not happening. But I do think the country deserves the truth. Republican Senators, when they voted to obstruct that process and become accomplices with the president in covering up the truth, has simply left open these questions that need to be answered.", "Let me ask you about State of the Union. I noted, you had a pretty brutal assessment of the president's remarks. You said they were disgraceful, it was a mega rally, circus performance. Why did his address bother you so much?", "Well, Kate, the whole purpose of the State of the Union address is to lay out the agenda for the country, to try to bring people together in a common purpose. What President Trump did last night disrespected the entire process. He did treat this like one of this is campaign rallies. He never misses an opportunity to further divide the country. And he also went out and made all these outrageous misrepresentations, some outright lies. For example, he said he was really working to protect people with pre- existing health conditions, when, at that very moment, his attorney general is seeking, in court, to dismantle the law that contains those protections. That was just one of many examples of a president who thinks he's the country --", "-- when, in fact, this country is great because of its values and people.", "It was very representative of the divided America and partisan politics we are living in at this moment. Senator, thank you for coming on. I appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "We will be right back, everybody."], "speaker": ["BOLDUAN", "SEN. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN (D-MD)", "BOLDUAN", "VAN HOLLEN", "BOLDUAN", "VAN HOLLEN", "BOLDUAN", "VAN HOLLEN", "VAN HOLLEN", "BOLDUAN", "VAN HOLLEN", "BOLDUAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-398980", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-05-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2005/01/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Lebanon's Economic Freefall Fueling Protests; Hong Kong Leader Warns Against Protests as Pandemic Slows; South Korea Has Become Model of COVID-19 Containment.", "utt": ["Hong Kong is marking Labor Day amid calls and concerns for pro- democracy demonstrations. But with the number of coronavirus cases beginning to slow, Chief Executive Carrie Lam is urging protesters to stay at home. In a statement posted on Facebook, she said, \"Hong Kong is currently able to withstand the pandemic.\" But warned the city may be unable to not withstand the resurgence of violence and continuous devastation caused by politics.\" CNN's Kristie Lu Stout, live for us this hour in Hong Kong. So Kristie, when we're looking at the situation there as far as these protests go, what -- this is a very sensitive time, I guess, for the pro-democracy demonstrators, for the government, for the people of Hong Kong. It seems everybody right now is on edge, and a pandemic is not helping.", "It's a sensitive time. And there are growing concerns that protests and clashes will return to Hong Kong even during a pandemic. There are usually Labor Day protests taking place this day. This is May 1, after all, here in Hong Kong, but labor unions were not granted permission to protest by Hong Kong police, because they were citing concerns over the coronavirus. Pop-up protests are expected today. There have been posters and telegram messages, encouraging protesters to shop at yellow businesses that support the pro-democracy movement. There are also, quite worryingly, reports that up to 3,000 Hong Kong police in riot gear are patrolling Hong Kong with tear gas, with rubber bullets and ready to deploy in order to maintain order. Now, we've been monitoring this area. I'm in the busy shopping district of Causeway Bay. We've been walking around here for the last hour or so. And we did see dozens of riot police wearing riot gear. And with the right gear on them. They're where I'm now, as we go live. Now, the anger is real. There's a lot of anger here in Hong Kong directed at the government here in Hong Kong, as well as in Beijing, especially on the back of the mass arrests that took place last week. Fifteen high-profile pro-democracy leaders were arrested, including the 81-year-old Martin Lee, the founder of the Democratic Party. There was also anger over comments made by China's most senior official here in Hong Kong, Luo Huining, who said that there needed to be new security legislation in Hong Kong in order to curb dissent. And on top of that, additional anger against new claims that we've never heard before by Beijing, saying that they have supervisory power over the legal system and the political system here in the territory. Tension has been bubbling. In recent days, there have been these flash mob protests at shopping centers across Hong Kong, where people would gather and sing the glory to Hong Kong song. The Hong Kong police came in, broke up those flash-mob singalongs, citing social distancing guidelines. There is a ban on gatherings of up to four people. Carrie Lam, what is she thinking right now? It's interesting that you read that Facebook post earlier by the chief executive, because it signals something that's very significant. Carrie Lam is basically saying she is more worried about the Hong Kong protests than the pandemic itself. In that post, she cites five consecutive days, zero COVID-19 cases here in Hong Kong. She says that we can manage the, quote, \"harsh winter\" of the pandemic, but she is worried that Hong Kong is unable to manage a resurgence in violence -- John.", "Just very quickly. Heavy security presence, armed police, riot police on the streets, breaking up singalongs. To me this suggests, you know, the heavy hand of Beijing in some way.", "There's a lot of concern that Beijing is having a role behind all of this. In fact, that was a question I posed to Martin Lee, the founder of the Democratic Party, who was one of the 15 arrested last week. Whether or not Beijing played a role in that decision for those arrests to be made. And he believed yes, that under the cover of the coronavirus, that Beijing is encouraging the powers that be to carry out these arrests. And that is raising fears of greater crackdowns to come -- John.", "And just very quickly, I guess the pandemic has been an sort of an advantage for the government. But have there been many demonstrations during the pandemic?", "You know, it's been interesting. Because no massive marches, demonstrations, since the pandemic began. But there have been, as you recall, that protest. The one-week-long strike in February by medical workers, who had their own five demands. But they were demanding more PPE and isolation wards, and a full closure of the border. Also during this time, we've seen pro-democracy groups, like the one founded by Joshua Wong, Demosisto, engage in mass campaign drives to give away masks. That has been the focus of the movement so far.", "OK.", "But with those new arrests, those new comments by Beijing, there could be more protests to come, John.", "Kristie, thank you. From Hong Kong, we're going to quickly go to South Korea. Ivan Watson reports on the success that they're having now in that country. Here he is.", "Crowded beaches, traffic jams, open mega churches. Not exactly what you would expect in a country that just reported no new local coronavirus infections, and only four imported cases. Yet this is South Korea, viewed by health experts as one of the few countries that did most things right from the beginning of the disease outbreak to flatten the curve and to save lives. In the wake of an initial spike in infections in February, largely centered around the a religious group in the city of Daegu, the country adopted widespread testing measures, pioneering the drive- through method of diagnosis that allowed for faster testing with less exposure, that has now become common around the world. One that I had the unfortunate pleasure to experience. (on camera): That's really uncomfortable. (voice-over): After a slight initial hiccup in supply, and after an apology from the government for that failure, uniformity in mask distribution, with mass availability, and affordability, and aggressive contact tracing. Social distancing and quarantine enforcement. (on camera): The government mandated that I had to install an app on my phone from the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare, which forces me to conduct a daily health check and, theoretically, can track me if I don't cooperate. (voice-over): The U.S. and South Korea both reported their first laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 on January 20. Since then, South Korea has reported just under 11,000 cases, and only 247 deaths, and next to zero new infections recently, while the U.S. now has a total of more than a million cases and more than 63,000 deaths, with new cases in many states still continuing an upward climb. A stark contrast between two nations who began the fight to combat the virus at the same time. Even more remarkable, while schools were closed and the public advised to avoid large gatherings, the country held a parliamentary election with the highest turnout in 28 years. And restaurants and shops have remained open throughout the pandemic. The Korean outbreak has so far proven to be much smaller and far less deadly than in countries like Spain and Italy, which eventually enforced full lockdown measures to quell the flood of illness that brought their healthcare systems to the brink of collapse. Despite what appears to be somewhat of a victory over the spread of the virus, the South Korean CDC remains cautious. Amid concern for what the future may hold, the present feels pretty relaxed. A Golden Week holiday now bringing many South Koreans together, even though government guidelines advise them to celebrate apart. Ivan Watson, CNN.", "The global town hall is next. I'm John Vause. See you next week."], "speaker": ["VAUSE", "KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "VAUSE", "STOUT", "VAUSE", "STOUT", "VAUSE", "STOUT", "VAUSE", "IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "VAUSE"]}
{"id": "CNN-375292", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-07-19", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1907/19/cnr.19.html", "summary": "At Least 33 Killed in Suspected Arson Attack in Japan", "utt": ["Police in Japan are waiting to question a suspected arsonist following a deadly fire at a famous animation studio. At least 33 people were killed, 35 injured when flames swept through Kyoto Animation. Police say the 41-year-old suspects shouted \"Die\" before dousing the studio with what appeared to be gasoline. It took the Fire Department hours to get the fire under control. Joining me now is Susan Napier. She's a professor of Japanese Studies at Tufts University. Professor Napier, thank you so much for talking with us about this. We appreciate it. Because Japan is in grief over what is a horrible crime in a country that doesn't see very much crime, and the target was a treasure among anime fans -- animation, Kyoto Animation is the company and it's one of Japan's most well-known studios, what do you know about them?", "Well, it's a very, very beloved and popular company in Japan and it's also well-known worldwide for a number of really beautiful and popular animations. But it is a kind of unique company. And I mean, it's a tragedy for so many reasons. But perhaps particularly because this was a very special place. It was founded in 1981. One of its founders was a woman, which is very unusual in Japanese anime corporations and industry in general. And it really, right from the beginning, tried to establish itself as a place where creative animators would want to come and work and be kind of nourished and encouraged and supported, among other things by a very simple thing, which is the bottom line. They were salaried employees. And that's very unusual in the anime industry, and many, many animators worldwide, often using are usually are paid piecemeal by whatever it is you're producing, or whatever work you're working on at the time. But these people who worked at Kyoto Animation were the people who were employees who were committed to the institution, who knew they were going to be supported, who knew that they would have the margin, the flexibility, the time and the money to do really high quality work. And it showed in their production.", "You mentioned that it's globally known. In fact, Netflix picked up two programs they produced in 2018. That shows the reach of their work, and you say it's unique. What is it about their work that is so cherished? What makes it special?", "Well, I would say just one thing, the animation is gorgeous. And you know, if you love animation, this is really high quality video, beautiful stuff. I mean, what they will do is it's -- they have a particular style and they have many, many different animators working for them and many different series and indeed films and video games that they produce. But one absolutely kind of common, a thing that was common to them was that you would have just what we think it was ordinary scenes just from a school room or of a little nature scene glimpse from a window or, or just people walking, you know, in a sort of marketplace or something. And the ordinary stuff -- the table, the desk, the tree would be so beautifully animated that you would also -- in the ordinary, it was beautiful, and then they would add into it these very often strange or supernatural or fantastic elements such as aliens or ghosts, or just anything kind of that was really kind of outside of quote unquote, \"normal daily life.\" And they would kind of inter-work it together in a very seamless way. So, just entering into their animation would be kind of entering into a very distinctive and unique world.", "So, what you're saying, it was such a beautiful, beautiful product that these talented people were doing and reflective of the Japanese culture. So this, what makes this all the more horrible what has happened. We appreciate you kind of painting the picture for us, Susan Napier, thank you so much for joining us.", "Oh, it's my pleasure. And thank you very much.", "Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rossello says he is more committed than ever to his job. That's even though thousands of people are demanding he resign. More protests are planned for Friday and on Thursday, people danced, chanted and drummed in the streets. The crowd was much smaller and peaceful, after protest the day before turned to violent. The unrest began with hundreds of pages of leaked chats where Rossello made sexist and vulgar comments.", "The protests are also about suspected corruption, including the way Rossello handled the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. After weeks of massive public demonstrations in Hong Kong, protesters are divided on how best to reach their goals. The majority of them are peaceful, but some groups are happy to use more drastic measures, such as storming a government building earlier this month. There is even an extreme form of pacifism, the hunger strike, here's Paula Hancocks.", "Uncle Chan is 73 years old. On a hunger strike for almost two weeks, he is tired and angry.", "I am upset that the government is unmoved. Two million people took to the streets to protest. They ignored the public's plea and used violence to suppress Hong Kong citizens.", "Chan is one of thousands who marched recently to the residence of Chief Executive Carrie Lam calling on her to fully withdraw a bill that would allow individuals to be extradited for trial in mainland China. One of a dozen Hong Kongers who was staging a hunger strike to make their point in the strongest way they know how.", "Hunger strike is a very classical social action. We need to use our life to show what we think.", "So, a small number of protesters resorting to violence. How do you feel when you see that?", "In fact, we feel very unhappy. Because you see, both of them enhanced their arms. We are Hong Kong people. Hong Kong people won't fight together with each other.", "This protest was an exercise in negotiation and cooperation.", "These protests have been going for more than five weeks already. The Chief Executive of Hong Kong has apologized. She has said that the controversial extradition bill is dead. And yet up until this point, it is not enough to diffuse the anger.", "Anger which has turned into violence breaking into and vandalizing the Parliament, clashing with police in the street leading to aggression and injuries on both sides. One student who wants to keep his identity hidden for fear of repercussions says he feels he has no other option.", "Would you use force against the police to make your point?", "I would not suggest for that, but if there is a need, sorry I need to do that because they attack us, they are coming for us. Run, escape or stay and defend.", "One tactic which protestors call aggressive nonviolence is now being used at many protests goading the police into using force. A shift the majority of peaceful protestors don't publicly support, but few publicly condemn.", "Are you scared?", "Yes, of course. I'm scared but I have no choice. If there is a choice that you stay at home and yes, we win. Of course, I want to do it.", "Paula Hancocks, CNN, Hong Kong.", "And just ahead, a heated exchange on Capitol Hill in Washington about the conditions inside migrant detention centers along the U.S. southern border. One lawmaker became emotional over the treatment of children.", "What's that about? None of us will have our children in that position. They are human beings."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "SUSAN NAPIER, PROFESSOR OF JAPANESE STUDIES, TUFTS UNIVERSITY (via Skype)", "ALLEN", "NAPIER", "ALLEN", "NAPIER", "ALLEN", "ALLEN", "PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over)", "UNCLE CHAN, HUNGER STRIKER, HONG KONG (text)", "HANCOCKS (voice over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HANCOCKS (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HANCOCKS (voice over)", "HANCOCKS (on camera)", "HANCOCKS (voice over)", "HANCOCKS (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HANCOCKS (voice over)", "HANCOCKS (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "HANCOCKS (voice over)", "ALLEN", "REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS (D-MD)"]}
{"id": "CNN-355750", "program": "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "date": "2018-11-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1811/27/qmb.01.html", "summary": "New Report Indicates Manafort Held Secret Talks with Assange 3 Times; Trump Administration Threatens to Cut GM Subsidies", "utt": ["We're an hour away, the last hour of trade on Wall Street, a day that started off dreadfully down 200 odd points has recovered quite remarkably. But essentially for most of the day, we've actually just traded sideways with small losses or little gains. Do you see it on the Dow 30? The best is Verizon up 2%. UT down nearly five. There are valid reasons for that loss. And these are the drivers of the day. The White House says there could be a breakthrough in trade talks with China, and that boosted those stocks that are affected by Chinese-US trade. As GM cuts jobs, Uber's Chief Executive says soon we won't be buying cars at all, we'll be sharing them instead. And economic crisis on both sides of the English channel, I'll be joined - I am going to be joined in the C- suite by Mohamed El-Erian to put all of this into perspective. We are live in the world's financial capital New York City on Tuesday, November the 27th. I am Richard Quest. I mean business. Good evening. There are high stakes trade negotiations that are playing out in Washington and on Wall Street. As President Trump and his top advisers are threatening dire economic consequences, if the US and China fail to find agreement at the G-20 Summit in Argentina later this week. The Trump administration's tone over the last 24 hours has veered from pessimism to optimism. Investors are trying to keep it up, the Dow just broke home the last hour as the President's top economic adviser dangled the possibility of a breakthrough.", "In his view, there is a good possibility that a deal can be made and that he is open to that. He is open to that. But having said that, some caveats as always, certain conditions have to be met with respect to fairness and reciprocity as we've said many times.", "And that uncertainty, whether it's reciprocity or what is going to happen is what has been biting the markets for so long. Today, although there was marginally extra information, it didn't get us much further. This is the current situation. Let's just slash through the war of words. When we talk about China and the United States and the issue of tariffs, this is what's actually happened so far. The year started. These are the steel tariffs and washing machines and the like, which were imposed by the United States on China. With those, China immediately responded with $3 billion worth of tariffs on US goods. Now, there are more skirmishes over the course of the year, some on tech, others on US farmers, but it doesn't really matter which way around. Altogether, another $50 billion of goods on each side. And then what was basically skirmishes turns to a full blown trade war. It happened when President Trump hit $200 billion in Chinese goods and China responsively muted, it was just $60 billion on American goods. So this is the situation going into the G-20. Another moment, the tariffs proposed are at 10%. But you need to remember, not all tariffs are equal. This $200 billion, 10% and President Trump said he won't stop them from rising to 25%. Now, if those tariffs go up, well, which companies will be affected? Look no further than Apple. If this gets worse and President Trump's threatening tariffs on another $267 billion in goods at 25%. It effectively accounts for all Chinese goods coming into the United States and Apple gets clobbered hard, down - you see, it's already down just under 1% at $1.47. Apple designs in California, assembles in China, tariffed in Washington, it's not surprising that Apple stock fell after Donald Trump's comments. But, I think this is rather cause of celebration. Today, we've talked about it many times. Mohamed El-Erian is well worth the trumpet roll. Sir. Be seated. And we are in the same city on the same day to talk about the same subjects, which never seem to change. Let's start with China trade and the US first saying it is going to, then saying it is not. What is your understanding?", "Posturing ahead of very important discussions in a few days in Argentina. What you saw is first President Trump said he is willing to go all the way in terms of increasing the pain for China and then today, as you pointed out, we've got an opening saying he is also willing to negotiate. So I think this is just posturing ahead of a very important conversation.", "Is this evidence of Trump as a master negotiator?", "It is evidence of the same negotiation process that led Korea, Mexico, Canada, and now increasing to say you know what, forget this tit for tat, how do we diffuse the tensions? If the US is willing to incur economic cost, which it is from a trade war, other countries lose a lot more. So this is just telling other countries, you know what, I am going to keep on pressing until you make concessions. And I think we are going to get concessions from China.", "Sufficient, because Donald Trump - they already made some concessions on autos, which wasn't sufficient. And how damaging is this trade war, globally?", "So it's a lot more damaging to the US's trading partner than to the", "But are we seeing evidence of that?", "Oh, look what's happening to the Chinese economy, the Chinese economy is slowing and the Chinese policy makers are having to go back to old tools. They are like cranking up an old engine that is increasingly exhausted because they are now put in a corner.", "Can you directly link the Chinese problems to tariffs? Which have been in about eight or nine months, can you directly make that lineage? Surely it's too soon for them to be having a major --", "So there are leading indicators. The market being one, the Chinese market has been hit very hard. Another one being sentiment indicators. They show that that is slowing. The third one is foreign investment flows. They are slowing. So there are indicate that suggest that China is feeling the pain. Now the US is also feeling it, look at Apple. But in the US, it is much more company specific, whereas in China, it's economy specific.", "The Fed - let's come back to the US economy. The Fed having said it's going to be data dependent appears to be on a trajectory. Would you agree?", "So the Fed was on a trajectory. This was a new Fed. The power Fed was different. It says we want to normalize and we are going to do so. Over the last few days, the markets have started to sense that maybe the Fed would soften. Over the next few days, we are going to find out whether this is really a new Fed or old Fed?", "What are you looking for? Comments from Powell? What? Referring once again to data dependent?", "Yes, and referring to the fact that the Fed is market sensitive. You know, investors --", "Which market?", "The S&P. No, they are totally US focused, whether it's the economy or the market, they are US focused. They say spillovers --", "No, no, I mean in terms of which markets are they looking at? Are they looking at the bond markets obviously where treasuries having been up. They are over three and on the 10-year, they have now pulled back a little bit. Are they concerned about the dislocation of equities?", "So I think that they are starting to ask the question, should we be concerned about dislocation? When they look at the US bond market, they look at the spread between short-term bonds and long-term bonds. That is down to about 21 basis points, which is very low. But it's because of Germany. That is being influenced by what's happening in Germany. So they pay I think less attention to that than they normally would.", "We've always - all roads, no matter how much we like to be higher in thinking about economic values and this and that and the other, but all mark - all roads bring us back to the market, don't they?", "Right.", "And the market had a pretty awful November, followed by a pretty torrid October. Do you see a leveling or bottoming, do you see any form of stability ahead?", "I think volatility is a new reality. We come in from a period of very low volatility and markets were excessively comforted by Central Banks. You know, when have you an institution with a printing press in the basement and just basically says, \"I will print as much money as I need to repress financial volatility,\" the market does that for you. Now, these Central Banks are stepping back. So investors should expect a lot more volatility.", "So it's not over?", "Absolutely not. Absolutely not. There's going to be three digit moves. Look at today. Today is a perfect example. You showed two big movements and they reflect investor's wish list for this week. One that the Fed is more dovish and we got a speech from the Vice Chair and two that Trump and President Xi's administration will agree on something. We got better indications for that.", "Don't go too far. We've only touched the surface. There is still Brexit to do over and argue and other things, so we will get a cup or two or a glass of water. Times are hard. So breaking news to CNN, police in Maryland are investigating reports of an active shooting situation at the Walter Reed Medical Center. Eyewitnesses say - inside the building say they have been told to continue to shelter in place. One person said loud speaker announcements have said it's still an active situation. Another person reported hearing lots of sirens. Now, Walter Reed is the US Army's flagship medical center, it's just outside Washington, DC, so it's of strategic importance. We'll bring you more details on that. As we continue tonight, the chief executive of Uber has a radical vision for the future saying, \"More than 10 years from now, you won't a car because you won't need to.\" The ability to think big maybe what got the CEO the job in the first place. He was brought in to repair after a series of scandals.", "Hopefully, you won't own a car, will you essentially come to us and we will give you the choice of whether you want to take regular Uber, you want to pool with someone, but we are also going to show you this is a bus stop that's sent to you and a bus is going to be coming in six minutes from now. You can take the bus today or you can take an electric bike or scooter today as well. We want to give you every single choice.", "What do you say to the drivers who say, \"Dara, I'm afraid that I am going to become irrelevant?\"", "I think first of all, I'd say, I understand the fear. My experience every single time is that machines and humans are the thing that's superior. Self-driving technology for a long time is not going to work in every single use case. If there is an airport drop off and pickups. Like, good luck for a machine to figure out exactly how to get there The promise of autonomous is that it is going to bring the cost per mile per of transportation on Uber, which right now is about double the cost of car ownership per mile to essentially the cost of car ownership. When autonomous brings that cost down, we believe that we can replace car ownership, itself. So this is not a company whose goal is to double in size. This is a company who we think we can grow 20 times bigger, 40 times bigger.", "You can see more of the Dara Khosrowshahi's interview with Laurie Segall at cnnbusiness.com. It is part of Laurie's new series, \"The Human Code\" speaking to those influential leaders in Silicon Valley about the technology that runs our lives. As we continue tonight after killing hopes of trade truce with China. President Trump turns his attention to Prime Minister May's Brexit deal, in a moment.", "Prime Minister Teresa May says her Brexit deal does leave Britain free to make trade deals, including those with the United States, despite the fact that Donald Trump said it might not. The PM said the talks on a new UK-US deal are already under way. She was speaking in Wales as she began a countrywide charm offensive to work up support for this deal.", "What the political declaration makes clear is we will have an independent trade policy. We will be able to strike trade deals around the rest of the world. We're talking - well, we have a working group that is working with the United States looking at exactly this issue, but also we are talking with others around the rest of the world about the possibility of trade deals there as well.", "James Blitz from \"The Financial Times,\" who watches these matters closely. He's with me tonight. James, what does she hope to achieve? As we have proved on this program last night, the arithmetic is against her. So if she loses in ten days' time, what's all this about?", "Well, that's a very good question and there isn't a very good answer to it. As you say, the starting point is that Mrs. May has comes up with a deal. She signed it with the European Union on Sunday. It's a deal which basically leaves us half in and half out of the economic arrangements with the European Union. But the fact is that it is totally being lambasted and attacked in the House of Commons, that happened yesterday. And the likelihood is that when the votes comes on December 11th to the House of Commons, she is going to lose and lose quite badly. What happens then is really unclear. We could have a full blown political crisis in which a whole load of issues might come up. But for starters, her deal looks at this moment to be pretty dead.", "Okay, now, in that situation the Europeans have said not unreasonably, we won't renegotiate. But as you know of old, the ambassadors are tweaking an agreement to get it through a recalcitrant legislature as they have done on different treaties. It will take more than a bit of tinkering to get this one through?", "Yes, I agree with you. I mean, I think that if she lost by a few votes on December 11th, she could try and go to the European Council later that week and get a little bit of tweaking, too. The very loose political declaration that has been signed, which hasn't gotten any legal status, but it's not going to make much difference to the situation in the House of Commons. The much bigger question that will arise, if she does lose, and effectively is pushed out of power, whether the House of Commons can go down the road of a whole load of other things it could do. Possibly a second referendum or a completely different kind of very close relationship with the European Union as like, for example, being in the European Economic Area, where we would basically be in the single market and customs union. Those are the questions the EU might have to confront.", "And on this question of can the UK do or do not do other deals? As I understand the issue, it only becomes relevant if at the end of the implementation period, you're falling on the backstop and it's only in that situation that the UK would be in a customs union that would prevent long term doing other deals?", "Yes, that's exactly right. That's what conservative MPs, hard Brexiteer, hard line conservative MPs don't like at all. The bottom line is, Mrs. May's deal basically means we are going to be in a customs union arrangement for a long period of time. That means that we would have to abide by the external tariff that is set by the European Union on all goods and that means we can't do trade deals. That's what President Trump was talking about.", "Right, now, there is another valid point that critics are making surely is that in implementation period, whilst the negotiations are taking place over the political declaration to the long term future, every Prime Minister in Europe and President Macron, on fisheries, the Spanish on Gibraltar, everybody can hold the UK hostage to get a proper trade deal?", "That's exactly right. And that again is one of the things that hard line conservatives don't like. If there was a trade deal side with the European Union, it has to be signed by unanimity. Everyone of the 27 countries in the EU has to sign it off. What you have seen in the last few days is Macron has been saying we are not going to sign unless we get what we want on fish. The Spanish are saying, we are not going to sign unless we get what they want on Gibraltar. So what a lot of people are saying about Mrs. May's deal is it just ties us down and effectively leaves us in a worse situation than we're in as members of the EU.", "James, I have permission to ask you a small question for a quick answer. How much of a mess is this?", "Biggest post-war - post-Second War mess in the United Kingdom. Far worse than sewers. Enormous issues on the table. The future of our relationship with Ireland, the future with the union, our place in the world. No clear idea how we are coming out of it. Very serious, indeed.", "Hopefully, you will help us understand it as we go through this process. James, excellent to have you with us tonight. Thank you very much.", "Thanks, Richard.", "Now, a quick update on the Walter Reed Medical Center, the Department of Defense spokesman has told us that the situation there was only an exercise and there is no active shooter threat so. So we can put that to one side. Let's stay on Europe where across from the UK in France, well, these are the sort of scenes that President Macron has been witnessing, and we have been seeing on the streets. Now, the President has condemned the violent protests. They are known as the yellow vests and this is why. The yellow vests are called so because they are worn - because every French driver has to have a high vis yellow jacket along with a red triangle for if they break down and an emergency. So they're called the yellow vest protests. In a speech earlier today, President Macron said he is standing firm on the fuel tax that started this thing, though, he wants to review it every three months.", "I'm not muddling up hooligans with fellow citizens who want to send a message. I understand these fellow citizens, but I will not give in to those who seek destruction and disorder because the republic is about public order as well as the freedom to express opinions.", "So, CNN's Mellissa Bell in Paris reports on the background to the yellow jacket protests.", "An explosion of violence transformed the Champs-Elysees on Saturday with paving stones ripped out and thrown, water cannons and tear gas used and for several hours, a police force struggling to contain the anger that had gripped Paris's most famous street. It was the second Saturday gathering of a wider protest, now in its 11th day. It began on November 17th, amid less violence but in greater numbers when the yellow vests kicked off a protest against a hike in the fuel duty that's contributed to a 16% rise in the price of diesel this year. Over the next few day, many of the barricades remained in place, manned by protesters wearing the high visibility jackets that are obligatory for motorists in France. Borne as a call to action on the internet, the movement is in the hands of no single union or political party. Its focus, broader than just the cost of petrol. Its chants and placards aimed at the cost of living in general and the liberalizing policies of the French President, in particular.", "We are very disappointed by Macron. I voted and believed in Macron, but I regret having voted for him. If I had to do it again, I would never vote for him.", "We done eat as we'd like to every day. It's not normal. How long will this last? I think it's not normal, so the protesters should continue.", "In Brussels over the weekend, Emmanuel Macron whose popularity rating have fallen, tweeted to thank the police and condemned the violence which his Interior Minister laid squarely at the feet of the far right. There are calls on the internet for a third Saturday of action next weekend. With opposition politicians accusing Emmanuel Macron of having failed to hear his people despite last Saturday's considerable dint. Melissa Bell, CNN, Paris.", "Mohamed El-Erian is with me once again to put this into context. Brexit, how serious does it seem from your point of view. James Blitz just there saying this is the biggest post-war political crisis, but economically is it significant?", "It is serious for the UK in two ways. One, it could disrupt the economy. But two, it has sucked the oxygen away from any other policy issue. For the last two-plus years, Brexit has been the only issue. There has been no discussion about competitiveness, productivity, adjusting to do with realities, so it has both a direct and indirect cost.", "And then you look at what's happening in France. Now, President Macron is making great strides to reform France pensions, workers' rights, and all of those sort of things. And this was the predictable result?", "Right, and this is the problem with Europe is that they need a policy handoff from cyclical growth, to something that lasts longer, think of structurally strengthening the economy and they simply can't do it because of politics. It's true in Italy, it's try you in France. It's true now in the", "Are you worried about Italy? I mean, the government appears to have capitulated somewhat on the budget. But the underlying tension between Italy and the banking system which is my words not yours, a basket case? El-", "Okay, so I am worried that they may end up in a confrontation with the EU that's unnecessary. So the EU has to give a little bit because Italy needs some growth. The problem is that the Italian politicians have to use it, the space that they are creating in the deficit for pro-growth policies, not just giving things away; so both sides have to address.", "And then, I mean, I realized it's a smorgasbord of Europe, but these are the situations. You have got Britain with Brexit. Macron with these riots, Italy with budget problems and Germany which should be the center of stability moving to a process of increased instability because Merkel is coming to the end of her time. El-", "Yes, and I would have said, believe it or not, and most importantly Germany. Because Germany has been the anchor. Germany has been the economy driving growth. Germany has been the one that has been able to get agreements on lots of things to keep the Eurozone going. So focus on the Germany issue, it doesn't capture the headlines, but it's really important.", "So to pull the strands together, on both sides of the Atlantic, condemnation - there are deep economic - we are all growing. We are expecting slower growth next year. What worries you? El-", "So the key issue is divergence. So, yes, the global economy is growing but the divergence is growing. The US actually is going to continue growing at 3%. The rest of the world is going to slow down, and the big question for 2019 and beyond, does the US pull everybody else up or is the US dragged down by the gravity?", "And Donald Trump has everybody exactly where he wants them on trade, because he's got the fastest growing economy? El-", "Exactly. That's why he is pushing them so hard.", "Good for you, sir. El-", "Wonderful. Thank you.", "Please, next time, well, it will probably be another millennium before we are both in the same studio at the same time. Well, we always appreciate you just talking to us from the West Coast. El-", "My great honor. Thank you.", "Now, as we continue tonight, memories of the holocaust are fading. If you look at the studies, anti-Semitic crimes are on the rise. If you look at the facts, a major CNN investigation uncovers shocking perceptions about the influence of Jews in business and finance. And we will talk about it after the break."], "speaker": ["RICHARD QUEST, HOST, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS", "LARRY KUDLOW, DIRECTOR, US NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL", "QUEST", "MOHAMED EL-ERIAN, CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISER AT ALLIANZ", "QUEST", "EL-ERIAN", "QUEST", "EL-ERIAN", "US. 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{"id": "CNN-312666", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-05-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/20/cnr.09.html", "summary": "President Trump Bragged About Firing FBI Director In Meeting with Top Russian Officials; Trump's Full VIP Treatment in Saudi Arabia; Passenger Plane and Utility Truck Apparently Collided", "utt": ["You are live in the CNN NEWSROOM. I hope your weekend buff to a great start. I'm Ana Cabrera in New York. He may be more than 6,000 miles away from Washington, but the President Trump, there is no escape from what is now a full blown crisis for his administration.", "He was the President earlier tonight. Smiling, swaying to the music at this welcome ceremony in Saudi Arabia. This as sources tell CNN lawyers back at the White House are researching impeachment procedures. The President is increasingly under fire. The \"New York Times\" now reporting he bragged about firing FBI director James Comey during a meeting with top Russian officials in the oval office. The President reportedly saying quote \"I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russian. That's taken off.\" Even before that bombshell, close advisers had urged the President to hire an outside lawyer as controversies over Russia mount. We have every angle of the story covered tonight. Joining me now CNN Presidential historian, Douglas Brinkley. Professor emeritus at Harvard Law School Alan Dershowitz and national political reporter for \"Real Clear Politics\" Caitlin Huey-Burns. . Alan, to you first. Do you see the president's comments about Comey as evidence of possible obstruction of justice?", "I do not. The President of is the head of the executive branch, Unitarian executive. Constitutionally, he can control the branch. He could tell the director of the FBI do not prosecute Flynn. He can say prosecute so-and-so. There is no constitutional barrier to the President doing that.", "But the fact that Flynn's part of this, investigation was part of his team --", "It doesn't matter.", "I mean, in effect, doesn't he say don't investigate me or my people?", "So he has a conflict of interest, that's an ethical matter.", "That's not trying to obstruct justice?", "No.", "Explain to me the difference.", "Because the President has to commit an unlawful act. And Nixon committed an unlawful act. The claim was that Clinton committed an unlawful act, perjury. But a President by simply firing somebody or telling somebody to perform a constitutionally satisfactory function that can't be an obstruction of justice. Nor do I think it can be an impeachable offense. I'll tell you why.", "But it impacts the investigation, no?", "Sure, it would impact the investigation if he gave him a pardon also. Would you say that's an obstruction of justice? The President has a constitutional right, right now to pardon Flynn and to pardon everybody in the Russian investigation and say there will be no more investigations. None of that would be in obstruction of justice.", "So how do people get around that in the sense of if there is a crime that has been committed by somebody within the administration, and like you said, the President is the top dog, right?", "Yes.", "So he may have the power, but if that's the case, I mean, this is a democracy. He is not a dictator.", "Look. It's a democracy and he was elected President. And as a result to being elected president, he has certain authority under the constitution. There's a remedy. It is called election. And next time he runs, people should vote against him if they believe he acted improperly. There's also impeachment which is more political. The problem with impeachment is what President Trump has done is exactly what candidate Trump did during the campaign. And you can't impeach a President who ran and won based on all the things he has done, all the things he is now doing. He is just repeating. There's not that much new that would warrant either an impeachment, certainly not a criminal prosecution. Look, I didn't vote for Trump. I was against him. I voted for Hillary Clinton. I wish she was the President of the United States. I'm a civil libertarian. I care deeply about not expanding criminal statutes to fit people we don't like.", "Sure.", "That's called -", "But China, in terms of laymen like me, I'm not a constitutional expert like you, trying to understand, I guess some of the nuance in what you are saying in terms of when something is impeachable offense or something is obstruction of justice, what would have to be proven in order to go there?", "OK. Tearing up evidence, failing to comply with a subpoena, committing perjury, but if a President has the constitutional power to pardon anybody and the President has that constitutional power. If you don't like it, you have two remedies, amend the constitution, don't vote for him, but don't try to expand the existing criminal law in violation of civil liberties to do what Stalin and", "OK. Let me get Caitlin in to the conversation here. So whether or not this is obstruction of justice or impeachable, bottom line is the President said these things inside the oval office to the Russian officials as reported by \"New York Times.\" And at this point the White House has not denied that the comments were said. The press secretary Sean Spicer said that - let me show you the quote. He said by grandstanding and politicizing, the investigation into Russia's action, James Comey created pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with Russia. So Caitlin, he is saying Comey was hurting their ability to negotiate, but the President's comments, I'm wondering, I mean, did he just take away some of these leverage in a negotiation by saying the pressure is no you off?", "Right. Well, the White House over the past week had been kind of all over the map on this. Remember, we had that interview with Donald Trump and Lester Holt on MSNBC - I'm sorry NBC. And Donald Trump mentioned Russia in his, you know, potential reason for firing Comey. Then you had, of course, the White House saying no, no, it was the attorney general Rod Rosenstein's recommendation. Now, we are hearing from Rod Rosenstein this week at his briefing numbers of Congress saying, look, I wrote this letter. I stand by it. But in no way was this intended as a justification for the firing. And then --.", "In fact Rosenstein said that he believed that Trump was going to fire Comey even before he wrote that.", "When did he write the memo?", "Well, that's the question that a lot of lawmakers on Capitol Hill are wanting to have answered and they have not gotten the answer to this. Besides the legal ramifications, you know, I'm not a lawyer and you are, so I'm looking more at the political fallout of this certainly. We know the President of course is on this trip. I have been talking to members of Congress over the past week. This is certainly, if nothing else, a huge distraction for this President as it pertains to his agenda. But interestingly, Democrats I have been talking to are trying to kind of tamp down on the impeachment talk. There are some Democrats calling for impeachment, but when you talk to democratic leaders, they are say tamp down on this, see how it plays out. They were happy with the appointment of a special counsel in this case.", "And I want to ask Doug about that. Sources tell CNN the White House lawyers are now researching impeachment, although the White House denies it. Here was the President earlier this week reacting to the appointment of the former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel in the Russia probe.", "I respect the move, but the entire thing has been a witch-hunt. And there is no collusion between circling myself and my campaign. But I can always speak for myself and the Russians, zero. I think it divides the country. I think we have a divided country because of that and many other things.", "So, Doug, he there calls it a witch-hunt. He can do that. But if there is something to learn from past presidents, how could this President better handle the situation?", "Well, first off, everybody likes Robert Mueller. Everybody trusts him. Democrats, Republicans, Independents. So he is going to come up with a verdict here. Now, if Donald Trump has nothing to worry about, Mueller will say just what Alan Dershowitz just said. You know, we can't find any criminal activity. On the other hand, if there is something or perjury take place r if he has lied to the FBI or shredded documents illegally, these sort of things will come to light. So the good news for America, I think is that we have Mueller in the mix, it kind of get some clarity with all of this. Everybody's bells are being rung, tea pot dome scandal, the Clinton impeachment-Lewinsky woes, Watergate. And usually, the reason we are making these comparisons is because of this special prosecutor. And so I think all eyes on the country are going to be on Mueller. He has stepped up. And even though Donald Trump can fire Mueller, if he wanted to, as Alan suggested, he would never do that.", "But why would he say bring it on? Bring on the investigation. I have nothing to hide.", "Well, that's what do you understand. That's what Donald Trump should have said from day one, but he seems to be in cover-up mode. And that's why it's ringing the Watergate bell. Every day the Trump White House seems to be covering something up and everybody is wondering what? Why aren't you more transparent? Why aren't you coming forward with it? So we will have to see how this all plays out. But I think the good news is most people can agreed Mueller is going to run an honest investigation.", "So let me give you the bad news.", "OK. What's the bad news?", "The bad news, he is going to do it in secret. He is not going to be behind closed doors. He is not going to leak because he is an honest, decent guy. We are going to have people called in front of the grand jury without their lawyers. It will be a kangaroo - look. If you're going to have a kangaroo court, you might as well have a really an honorable kangaroo running it, and Mueller is an honorable kangaroo court as you can get. But it is kangaroo court and it's a secret court. It's a star chamber.", "So you feel like they are simply more transparent.", "Of course, there should a complete investigation by a commission appointed by Congress, where we all see the questions. There's an opportunity to cross-examine. We get both sides of the issue and then the truth comes out.", "Let me get your legal take on this new development with Michael Flynn. We are learning that Russian officials caught in the intercepted communications say that they had such a great relationship with Flynn. They believed they could use him to influence Trump. And they should Flynn have immunity by any sense of the imagination in order to get more of the details?", "Not yet. Not yet. He has to make a proffer. He has to come with his lawyer. You tell the prosecutors what he has to offer. If he has enough to offer, maybe. You usually only give a guy immunity only if he can point to a guy higher up. If he gets something on Donald Trump, yes, sure, he will get immunity. But in the end I think Flynn may be one of the people who may be in trouble here. There may be some lying that may be criminal.", "Caitlin, we know that James Comey now saying he is going to testify publicly in front of the Senate intelligence committee this might be after Memorial Day. There is not a definitive date yet. But given that it might be in public which is transparent. Everybody is happy to hear that, but how much can he actually said?", "Well, members of Congress want to these memos that have been reported about in the press. And so, they want to see those memos. Whey want to hear from Comey himself. There were questions after the appointment of Mueller, whether Comey, who of course is very close with Mueller, whether he would come out publicly and still testify or if he would try to stay behind the scenes and let this investigation play out. What this investigation, though, this probe, and also going forth, the congressional investigation do continue is that it does create this kind of lingering crowd over the White House. And traditionally, you would see Presidents let that play out but say, look, we are going forward with our agenda. Here is what we're going to do. Donald Trump has shown no indication that he is able to do that. We saw the tweets coming out this week, calling it a witch-hunt and so forth. If he continue kind of chime in and distract from the road that he could go down on --", "If keeps the focus on this Russian investigation.", "Exactly. And you know, this is an ongoing investigation, right? So anything that kind of comes out in the process can be used as well.", "I want to remind everybody in the final days of the campaign, then candidate Trump gave this warning about what would happen in Hillary Clinton won. Let's listen.", "If she were to within it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis. She is likely to be under investigation for a long time, concluding probably in a criminal trial.", "Doug, did President Trump make the right prediction, just about the wrong person?", "Wow.", "Yes. You know, that's one of the problems of Donald Trump, the anger, some of the partisan angst, the whole \"lock her up\" motif which took place at the Republican national convention in 2016 is at hand here. But I do think the fact -- the big question really ultimately is about where did the Russians influence the 2016 election? Did Donald Trump collude with Russians up to day, a cover of Time magazine when he is in Saudi Arabia showing the Kremlin and the White House blurred together? And I think the political question is going to be interesting. Will Republicans stick to the brand of Donald Trump or they are going to start seeing him as a detriment. And I think Comey's -- when Comey goes to Capitol Hill, I think that is going to be a big moment. It is going to maybe a TV circus watching him. But the question is if Comey gives up enough information about Donald Trump, you may see Republicans, gang of ten U.S. Republican senators turning on the President.", "But the problem with America is if Trump's prediction comes true and she were elected and there were investigations, the Republicans would now be the ones saying obstruction of justice, expand the statutes. So whether you are Republican and a Democrat, you generally don't care about civil liberties. We need people concerned in a nonpartisan way, whether it will be Hillary Clinton who would be the subject of an unfair investigation or President Trump. Stop the politics.", "That's why they have this special prosecutors. I mean, that is way we are --.", "He's going to get to the bottom of it and what his conclusion is will be hopefully --", "Prosecutors don't get to the bottom of anything. They hear only one side of the issue. That's why you need public hearings to get to both sides.", "We would all like to see the transparency. Guys, got to go there. Doug Brinkley, Alan Dershowitz, Caitlin, thank you so much all for joining us. In Saudi Arabia now, let's head overseas. If there's any tension from that Russian investigation back home, the President and his senior staff are certainly not showing it. Let's watch.", "Quite the celebration in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. The President, his chief of staff, his secretary of state, his commerce secretary all joining in on this traditional all-male Saudi sword dance. The President is being given the full VIP treatment by his host fare. He described using one of his favorite words.", "It was a tremendous day. I just want to thank everybody, but tremendous investments into the United States and our military community is very happy. We want to thank you and Saudi Arabia and hundreds of billions of dollars of investments taken to the United States and jobs, jobs, jobs.", "Our senior White House correspondent Jeff Zeleny is in Riyadh right now. Jeff, that jobs comment there was the only thing the President really said to the pool. He hasn't given a full-on press conference or anything. Is there any indication that this president plans to address these new developments back home including the bombshell report that he bragged about firing Comey and called him a net dog?", "Ana, there's no question the President and the White House want to keep this trip focused here on issues here in Saudi Arabia as well as other stops along the await here and forget about the Russia investigation. Of course, that is easier said than actually done. But he is not scheduled, the President is not scheduled to have any press conferences on this trip at all. Highly unusual for a president on a high profile foreign journey like this. This, of course, is the first trip he has taken overseas as president. Tonight in fact, he will be sleeping for the first time not in the White House or at Trump-owned golf course or property here. So really is in sort of a new setting here. But Ana, they do not want to talk about the Russia investigation. Of course, that just not mean it is not on their mind. He is traveling basically with, you know, all of his top advisers. And this is something that is definitely a weighing on him. The question here will be, as he meets with leaders, and he gives a big speech tomorrow on extremism. He meets a lot of leaders from the Middle East before going to four other countries next week. Will he be treated differently by foreign leaders? They of course are watching all of the FBI firing, you know, very intently. They are watching everything he is doing. They know that he is weaker back home. But on the world stage at least he is very powerful. That was something that so clear here on the streets of Riyadh today. So there is no question that smile you saw in his face earlier there, he was happy to be here even in the heat of Riyadh today, much you know, welcome, a respite from Washington.", "Well, he has been given the red carpet treatment for sure since he stepped up at Saudi. He was given that fancy medal, this great honor, this dance that was part of the big celebration. Obviously, a much different reception that what his predecessor had received. And there, we are showing the video right now, Rex Tillerson with the sort and commerce secretary Wilbur Ross. May be there were couple of guys who you usually see in being a very stiff in front of the cameras. And this is -- I mean, them cutting loose to some degree. Seems like they are in their element. Why such a warm receptions by the Saudis?", "Well, look, this is one of the things that's so interests about seeing a President on the world stage here. But I remember being here in June of 2009 when President Obama was making his first visit to Saudi Arabia as well. He received a similar welcome, but then things devolved pretty quickly because of the Iran nuclear agreement. That is one of the reasons that Saudi officials have such high hope of this president because he has talked so much against the Iran agreement. Of course, he has not yet called out of that, though. So going forward here, they definitely have. You know, want to reset this relationship. But Ana, a very key speech tomorrow here about extremism. And the President is trying to sort of reset that tone. Perhaps also reset his relationship with the Muslim world as well after saying so many harsh things during the campaign -- Ana.", "Jeff Zeleny reporting, thank you. Some breaking news I want you bring you all right now into CNN. A collision on the ground at LAX, Los Angeles international airport, several people are hurt. This happened on an airport service road. A passengers' plane and utility truck apparently collided. The truck overturned. And according to the Los Angeles fire department, eight people who were in that truck are hurt. Thankfully none of the injuries are life-threatening we are learning. But we are gathering more information. Stay with CNN. These are some live images from our affiliate, KCAL and KCBS therein Los Angeles. Again, as we have more details we will of course bring those to you. Coming up, candid revelations from a friend of James Comey including what the ex-FBI director thought of this now infamous hug from the President. Plus, the President prepares for that big speech to the Muslim world with the big question yet unanswered. 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{"id": "CNN-87753", "program": "CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL", "date": "2004-9-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/05/se.18.html", "summary": "Hurricane Frances: Winds Still at 100 MPH", "utt": ["Approaching the 5:00 hour now. This is live coverage of Hurricane Frances; just a live shot of Florida this near West Palm Beach. That boat has been rocking in the water, that is an Intercoastal Waterway. Lets go to Rob Marciano at the top of the 5:00 hour to get an update on this slow moving hurricane.", "The latest advisory guys have the wind still at 100 miles per an hour. So it is still a Category 2 storm at this point. I want to point out that the northern flank of this system is under a tornado watch, and now we have tornado warnings that are out. This is a -- the radar that actually can show the circulation in the atmosphere. This is Saint Johns County right up through St. Augustine. That's how far away you can get tornadoes to spawn out of this system, out of the center of it at least. The red highlighted county there is where the tornado warning is, and you can see how everything is moving off the ocean from the east to west, and then there's little -- a couple of little circles here. We'll run it one more time. See that little circle. That's where the Doppler radar's picking up the circulation there. And so, right now, the tornado warning is out until 5:15, but, if this thing holds together, it could be in the town of Middleburg by 5:26. I mean, that's a ways off. It's a pretty big town. It has to cross a river and I-95 to do that. But just to give you an idea of what we're dealing with, typically, tornadoes that are spawned from hurricanes aren't that big and that destructive, but this one is moving at 50 miles an hour. It's a Doppler-indicated radar, meaning we see it in the clouds, not necessarily touching the ground yet, but that certainly is a possibility. And the idea of using the Doppler to warn folks is so that they get some lead time to take shelter before the tornado actually hits the ground. Hopefully, these folks have already done that. Give me another source. I'll take whatever you got. Here's GEO. Here's the satellite picture. West Palm Beach. I've been showing you that. West Palm now is at the southern part of the storm. There's the center of it right there, and the southern part now is where you're seeing the brightest convection, the brightest colors, the oranges there, and that's where we're seeing the nastiest weather, with John Zarrella reporting from the scene and showing you that boat there. So the latest advisory, guys, by the National Hurricane Center has west-northwesterly movement. That hasn't changed. About seven miles, eight miles an hour. We have winds at 100 miles an hour. That's come down five. As the center of this thing continues to move on shore, we'll look for the winds to begin to decrease because we -- as you all know -- and we will need that warm water to sustain this thing -- and, once we get the entire eye over landfall -- and that's still going to take a couple of hours to do that. Once we do that, we'll start to see the winds drop off. But, in the meantime, we still have strong winds around the center of this thing, obviously heavy rain, and, as far north as Daytona, this entire section of the state is under a tornado watch until at least -- at least -- 8 a.m. That's the latest from me here.", "Rob, I just don't see how anyone that is in the middle of this hurricane could either hear sirens or have anyway of knowing that there's a big tornado...", "Yes, I -- yes, exactly. Well, they've got other concerns as well. So they're -- I suspect everybody is hunkered down as it is. One other -- one other thing before I let you go.", "Yes?", "We have our fifth hurricane of the season.", "Ivan?", "Tropical Storm Ivan has now been upgraded to a hurricane way out there in the Atlantic Ocean, so...", "And where is it heading?", "Well, in our general direction.", "Whew!", "Of course it is.", "But it's not going to be here for several, several -- probably at least a week.", "Well, let's ask John Zarrella if he's ready for Ivan. John, you are now getting hit with the...", "Oh, my goodness.", "... worst part of the storm at this moment.", "Yes, I heard Rob Marciano saying that, and I'm thinking to myself -- when I first walked out here, it was a little bit calmer for a second. I said, oh, boy, maybe I'm going to be able to report how the winds have died down. I guess not, huh? It's pretty nasty. And I'm standing out here in the middle of the street right now, and I guess I'm in about six inches of water. It's well up over the curb, walking up through it, and, you know, obviously, you can see that wind is blowing the water right off of the parking lot here that -- we're in the front of this condominium that we've been hanging out in all night, inside their overhang right where our cameraman is, trying to stay a little bit dry. But, yes, the winds have really continued like this. Now we're in, I would say, you know, our ninth hour of a real beating, and, certainly, the last four hours have been just about like this without much change one way or another, a little bit of a brief respite now and then, and then it kicks back up again. I can show you over here, you know, this is really the kind of damage that we've seen, these kinds of trees down. These are pretty thick heavy trees that have been come down. But not the palm trees. They've stayed up pretty well, although they've taken quite a beating. Not much left of those palms. But, you know, the wind blowing out of the South, as it has for the last several hours, pretty much out of the South to the North, all the water's just racing down Flagler Boulevard, which is -- runs just adjacent to the Intercoastal, and, on the other side of the Intercoastal, of course, is Palm Beach. And, as I look out there, absolutely pitch black. It will be very interesting in a couple of hours when the sun comes up to get a look across to Palm Beach, see what we can see, and up and down some of these streets. But, you know, we saw the arcing of the transformers repeatedly up until about -- oh, I'd say about 3:00 in the morning -- 3:00, 3:30 in the morning -- and during the last hour or so, we haven't seen any of that. So I would assume that all of the power is now completely out in the West Palm Beach area. There can't be any power left on at all. But you can certainly see what we're going through here now and, again, into our ninth hour of this.", "You know, you said that the palm trees look like they're surviving, but, with that amount of rain and nine hours of relentless wind, some of those look like a little push might send them over.", "Yes, I don't know how much more they can take of this. There are some that are pretty much -- pretty much bent over and shot as it is, and, you know, when we get a chance at first light to look up and down the streets to see, you know, what other kind of damage there is... And, once you get that ground saturated, a good gust of wind is going to knock a lot of the other kinds -- particularly the other kinds of trees that you see down here. You know, palm trees are here for a reason. They can stand this kind of weather, but a lot of this other stuff that's transplanted down here is what comes down and falls on the power lines and beats against the power lines. But, you know, the rain again -- I know Rob was talking about the rain total in West Palm, maybe six inches or so, and, certainly, I would suspect that could be a good six inches because it has been like this now -- this beating, driving rain -- for hours. We had a light rain for most of the early evening on Saturday for -- I'd say about 8:00 until about 11:00. That was fairly light rain, a lot of wind, but light rain, and then, you know, once midnight rolled around, it really started coming down in buckets, and it's been these sheets of rain just constantly for the past five hours now. Now we're at about 5 a.m. here, and I can see there's a car, it looks like, that's about to come down the street here off to my left. I can't -- I have no idea who that is that's made their way here. Maybe it's our replacements.", "John...", "I just hope there's a driver in the car.", "John, let me tell you. I can guarantee you it is not your replacement. You stick around with us. We're going to go up north, as you check that out, to Orelon Sidney. She is in Orlando. And it looks like the conditions have not deteriorated too much there -- Orelon.", "That's correct, Drew. It really -- I think the winds have picked up maybe about 10 miles an hour more than it was the last time, and it is a pretty good gust. The winds are northeast at 32 miles an hour, and I could estimate -- I heard Rob say earlier that the gusts we were seeing here were in the 50-mile-an-hour range, and that's probably about right. I was looking to see if the 5 a.m. update was available. I've got my little computer here, but I don't see that the 5 a.m. update is available yet, and I'm curious as to what the winds are now in the storm. The National Hurricane Center will update at 5:00 and let us know what the very latest is. But here in Orlando, it's kind of status quo in a way. We've got quite a bit of light rain. Every now and again, you'll get some heavier squalls come through, and you'll see the gusts of wind, just like you did a moment ago, but, in general, things here are much quieter. There is a tornado watch in effect, and, of course, you always have to watch out for that. And you were talking earlier about the sirens. I think a lot of the local people are probably tuned in here to the local affiliates. I know in places where the water -- where the power's out, you can't do that. But a lot of local affiliates here are running 24-hour-a-day coverage. And so I think that the Orlando folks would be pretty well informed in the event of any tornado warning. But, for now, it's wet. It's a little bit windy, but it is certainly nothing like what Jim -- what Zarrella and Anderson Cooper have been facing throughout the overnight hours.", "Hey, Orelon, you...", "Back to you, guys. Rob, do you have the update yet?", "Yes, yes. It's -- we've got winds now at -- down to 100 miles an hour, Orelon, so it's still a Category 2. And the swathe as far as how far north these -- the winds go, tropical storm force winds still extend up to 200 miles from the center of this thing. So your latest gusts, peak wind out of Orlando, was 50 knots. So, again, almost 60 miles an hour, 58 miles an hour there, so...", "Yes, that's...", "And the other thing I...", "That's about right. Some...", "Go ahead, Orelon.", "Sometimes it reminds me of when I was 15 years old and I rode through the -- through a car wash with my best friend, Robby Lovelace (ph), and it feels a lot like that sometimes.", "You get smacked around a little bit, especially with some of the foliage that we have here, you know, a little bit of, and -- you know, the odd thing that I've discovered -- and I don't -- and I noticed this on the Hurricane Hunter flight, too -- is I haven't see any lightning, even when I was up in the Hurricane Hunter. I expected to see quite a bit, and there's been none. So we really don't have a lot of electricity problems here. I think that's one of the reasons the power is still on here, even though we do have those very gusty winds.", "You know, we had a question from -- one of our viewers actually sent us an e-mail question wanting to know if there was much lightning during the hurricane and, if not, why.", "Well, Orelon, which...", "No, there isn't at all.", "Which...", "Go ahead.", "Which storm was -- was it Bonnie or -- which storm were you referring -- we showed some lightning data in one of the recent storms, and it was just -- it just lit up. Do you remember when you were on duty that time and you fired up the lightning data? Which storm was that? Was that Bonnie which -- that was only a tropical storm.", "It was -- it was -- yes, it was probably Bonnie, and I remember that Bonnie, too, I think, was interact -- it's kind of hard for me to remember, but I think Bonnie was also interacting with a little cold front, and so you probably got a little bit more of the typical convection than you see when you get that extra lift. But being that this is a warm-core storm, I guess we just don't get a whole lot of charged separation. To get lightning, you've got to get the positive charges to the top of the storm and the negative charges to the bottom of the storm, and you do that -- generally, the theory is -- with a lot of friction with a lot of the up and down motions, and maybe there's just not enough of that. I guess I'm going to have to do some research, and maybe I'll call the Hurricane Hunter guys back and ask them that question.", "Let's have you two meteorologists listen in. Gary Tuchman is going to join us and give us an update on his position in Fort Pierce -- Gary.", "I'd love to get involved in this lightning conversation. I can tell you -- I can tell you during Hurricane Charley -- I'm having a little problem with my ear", "OK. Gary having some audio problems. But it looked calm there in Fort Pierce, Rob. He was standing outside what looked like a pier, and it did look like it was calm at the moment.", "You know what? Fort Pierce is pretty much in the eye of the storm, so...", "Yes.", "There's Fort Pierce, so it...", "He could have been in an area that was blocking him from some of the wind and the rain, too. We hope so. He's been in the middle of it throughout the night. Anderson Cooper on the phone with us, speaking of people in the middle of this. Since -- what time did you start covering this, Anderson?", "I started about 20 years ago, it feels like, but I think it was actually around 3 p.m. in the afternoon.", "Right. What's the situation now?", "Well, we're actually driving back to our hotel. Bill Hemmer's probably going to be taking for me shortly. But this is really the first chance I've gotten to actually see a lot of Melbourne itself, and we were pretty isolated over at the marina. Surprisingly, the whole route -- Route 1 along the Intercoastal highway is out of power, no doubt about it, and, as we're now driving on 192, actually -- the power actually went out as we were passing through downtown. I don't know if it was a transformer that just blew, but, all of a sudden, everything went black. We're now about a mile or so from the Intercoastal Waterway, and there are actually street lights operating. So it's very strange. Some parts of Melbourne still actually have power. Some streetlights are operating. We saw one firetruck -- oh, actually, that's -- whoa. OK. Sorry. A power line just went down in front of us. A lot of the electrical cables on the side are still up, but they are bouncing around. It's like a jump rope. I mean, they are just moving up and down. It's a wonder more of these have not fallen, are not crisscrossing the road. It is amazing really, at least along Route 1 and 192 in Melbourne, how little damage there is. I mean, the stores -- a lot of the neon lights are still on. The traffic lights are blinking. A few signs are down. But this town -- at least in this part of it -- seems to have weathered the storm pretty well.", "What about flooding on the roads?", "Really, you know, it's been a blessing that we really have not had that much rain here in Melbourne. I know in a lot of other places that's going to be a real problem. But, you know, the roads are certainly slick, as you would expect them to be, but you don't see a lot of water coming out of drain pipes or anything. We're just passing by an enormous tree, which has fallen right around Hollywood Boulevard and Evans Road. But if it really -- very little flooding that we can see, at least on these two roads that we've been driving.", "All right. Well, that is good news from you, Anderson, driving around now in Melbourne, and, if you're heading in, thanks for your work over the past 12, 15, 20, whatever it is hours.", "Years.", "Or years. And we will catch you later on during the day, no doubt. But we're going to join WPLG's coverage in progress right now. Let's take a look.", "... and you have a need to do so...", "... like a fire, something along those lines. So, certainly, as you -- as we get past this storm even here, you know, make your house safer from that standpoint. I'm just saying that if you have the discretion on certain windows and things like that that maybe aren't -- like -- a perfect example: In my house, I've got two guests rooms that -- you know what? -- I could leave the -- those there because I've got ways of getting out, rooms around it. I've got other doors. But why waste the time taking those down just yet when you can -- when you can save that time and concentrate more on other preparations and other...", "Right.", "Now this is going to make you laugh. We've had our shutters up since Hurricane Charley. Well, my husband, you know, is a photojournalist, and he has to travel out of town, and he wants to make sure that I'm safe and I'm prepared. So we've had a month -- we've been driving our neighbors...", "OK. Fair enough.", "... nuts. They're like when are you going to take your shutters down. I said no. And now with Frances, they were like leave them up, and we're like, well, we were planning to, and now I'm still going to plan to keep them up for Ivan, and -- I don't mind being in the dark, to be honest with you. I like my little bat cave.", "No.", "Right. And we're all going to need a rest after this one.", "And how about -- how about this? Maybe this is the best way to leave it, and this is maybe the best advice we can give because it's so individual for everybody. Sit down today and talk about it. Get your plan together. You know, husbands and wives get together, whatever it might be.", "Right.", "Let's, you know, make sure there's a plan. Don't just -- you know, just run in and just take everything -- take everything off and then say now what. Just discuss it with everybody, you know. I think it really would be important to do.", "Absolutely.", "Right because we've all had those wish lists now that we've had to make preparations, and, you know, us in the media, we're not immune to this. We have to make the same preparations, and there are several things on this list that I'm saying, gosh, I wish I'd had this around the house or I should have done this days ago.", "Right.", "And I'm going to go out in the next couple of days and make sure I have that sitting around the house, and, obviously, as we get more information in about Ivan, the advisories that come, the 11 a.m. today, the 5:00 tomorrow. We all know how unpredictable these hurricanes are, but it's important just to go ahead at this point and fill in the holes that you had in your plans.", "And that's why we're here. Keep it on Local 10. We will, of course, obviously, keep you updated, give you all the latest information possible. This is a live report right now from the Melbourne area. Let's take a listen.", "... progressively gotten worse. Let's give a demo here of how fast this whipping wind will take this tiny little branch. Ready, Scott? Here we go. Gone right like that. I suppose if I stepped out there, I'd be doing the same thing, so I'm going to refrain from that. In the meantime, we're kind of waiting to see how long this thing lasts. I just heard Bill say that the storm is weakening, which is good news for us. But I'll tell you stand out here and it doesn't feel like it is, and -- I know it is, but I'll tell you what, the winds are probably the strongest they've been since we've been out there. He was mentioning about sustained winds of 100 miles per hour, and right at the edge of this building, it feels like that, maybe not quite 100. It just feels like around 85 or 90. We've kind of gotten good at gauging what wind feels like on the body because we had a wind gauge all afternoon, except the one we have no -- is no longer working. It's saying it's about 40 miles per hour. So we know that's not right. So we'll have to get a new wind gauge. Beyond that, there's not much more to report. There's no cops. There's no fire department. It's just the media right now and the occasional citizen driving up to the causeway, realizing it's real stupid to go over the causeway, and they do a U-turn. You can't make it over that bridge. No car would make it over in these winds right now. They'd be plunged over into the Intercoastal. Back to you, guys.", "All right. And from Melbourne, we want to send things south now.", "We go now to our own Ed Lavandera, who is in Lake Okeechobee -- Ed.", "Good morning. It's still dark. We are starting to see a little bit of movement. We're starting to see a little bit of movement of the cars along the road, the occasional emergency vehicle going by, but that is very sporadic. It is definitely not as windy, definitely not as rainy as it was just a little while ago, the last time we spoke with you. So perhaps the -- you know, I mean, the eye of the storm kind of finally approaching here which is what we've been waiting for, to kind of get a little bit of a break. The rain and thunderstorms here have been relentless for the last six or seven hours. And it is taxing, I think, is the best way to describe it. It's one of those rare storms that just takes forever to get here. Just a little while ago -- I've been listening to radio reports here throughout the evening and throughout the night, and it's interesting the way local radio stations have been kind of handling the storm throughout the night. It's almost like a fireside chat as, you know, the radio hosts let people call in and just kind of vent and talk about what they've been going through over the last couple of hours. It's been kind of an interesting approach. You know, there's not really a whole lot of information that can be passed out right now in terms of what exactly is going on. It's all anecdotal really, and, you know, a lot of the streets are empty, and there's -- at this point, it's very difficult to get to the areas to kind of start assessing damage, and it's definitely too dark to do that and too dangerous. So it's been kind of interesting listening to some of these local radio stations that people have just kind of called in and vented and described what's going on in their neighborhood. It all -- you almost get the sense that it's been kind of therapeutic for the thousands of residents that are hunkered down in homes, hotels, shelters, wherever just kind of doing their best to get through this storm.", "Certainly voicing frustration over the length of time they've had to spend holed up in shelters and in their homes.", "Well, you know, that's the way it started out earlier in the evening. You'd hear a lot of people calling in. This is well before the eye of the storm had even made landfall. People were calling in there when is my -- my power's been out for six or seven hours. When's it going to come back? You know, you could tell the radio hosts were kind of holding back, didn't want to laugh at these poor people. They said, look, it's going to be a couple of days before you get that power back, and, you know, there aren't any electrical workers that are willing to get out into 100-mile-an-hour winds and start replacing power lines, and, of course, that's not going to happen. So that would mean people have got to either -- learn that this is going to be a long couple of days and, as soon as the sun comes up, everybody can get a better idea of just how long the next couple of days will be.", "Did the people that have been calling in on the stations -- did they seem prepared to have been in -- isolated for this amount of time, the food and water, and that type of thing?", "There's just been a general sense from a couple of these shows, you know, because you hear people say that for Hurricane Charley people weren't as prepared, but because of that hurricane, all these people on -- for this storm are prepared much better, and there is that level of anxiety and anticipation that usually starts several days before. I remember reporting in the days before Hurricane Charley that we described that there's this great level of apathy among residents who didn't really think it was going to hit that part of Florida's coast. That definitely didn't happen this time. You could sense in many of the friends that I have and family that I have here in the South Florida region that they knew that was going to be for real, and they definitely took it seriously.", "Well, I think, Ed, that had to do, number one, with the devastation of Charley and, number two, the size of this storm. There was no way it was going to miss you if you were anywhere in Florida.", "Yes, exactly. It's -- and it's interesting where you've got this crisscross pattern across the state, and we're kind of probably on the southern point of that here in Okeechobee City, just on the northern edge of Lake Okeechobee, you know, and people in Orlando and the Orlando area are -- the ones who are closer to the Orlando area will be the ones who kind of -- who took that double hit from Charley and from this storm as well.", "All right, Ed. We certainly appreciate the reporting that you've been doing for us all night long. That is Ed Lavandera. We're going to take a break, and we'll continue our coverage of Hurricane Frances in just a moment.", "And we continue that live coverage of Hurricane Frances with Gary Tuchman. Last we checked, he was in Fort Pierce, Florida, which may have been in the eye. Gary, what's your conditions right now?", "Well, Drew, I think our hour lull is over. The rain has started coming down heavily again. The winds are picking up. So I guess that bad part of the storm may be on its way here to Fort Pierce. We finished the good part of the storm. It lasted about 12 or 13 hours. So it's all relative, I guess, the way you talk about it. I'm not sure how much you heard before when I was talking. We had a problem with our audio. Our equipment is so soaking yet from this entire day. It actually has", "All right, Gary. Gary Tuchman live in Fort Pierce in the end of the lull of his storm.", "We're going to listen now into WOFL who spoke with a Melbourne, Florida, resident a little bit earlier tonight who sought refuge in Orlando. Let's hear what he had to say.", "We're here with Jerry Mathison (ph). He's been a longtime Melbourne resident. And, Jerry (ph), you evacuated from Melbourne Beach with your wife here. Is that right?", "We've slept here the last two nights, and we wouldn't stay over at the beach in this. You know, just -- we wanted to get out of the way. It's a", "Right. That's true. That is true. Now what are you thinking right now? You were out here just to...", "This is new territory for Brevard County. We've never seen anything like this. We've seen higher winds maybe but not this constant, and to have this thing sitting on us -- and I imagine, what are we, sub 80, I imagine. Once it goes to 100, it sounds like a freight train going through. But this is bad for -- the steady stuff is going to build up and do a lot of damage to us, and we're not real happy with it, but we're glad to be able to be here and be safe.", "That's right. And, you know, we've even talked with some of the neighbors over in Melbourne Beach and -- who don't -- who didn't evacuate. Are you worried about them right now, your neighbors?", "No, not really. Not if it -- if you toss a coin -- the night before last, we decided why be silly, come on over, and we only came to here, but if we had had to go any farther, I think we would have gone into the bathroom and stayed out in Melbourne Beach. It just wasn't that strong a storm at that time.", "What do you think now?", "Oh, I never want to stay over there, but I think we're all right, they're all right. There's no big problem. The tornadoes might hurt somebody, but the storm, no. We're Floridians. We can handle it.", "OK. We're going to check in right now with Rob Marciano to get the very latest on Hurricane Frances. He's up in the Weather Center -- Rob.", "Hey, guys. I got the radar zoomed into the Orlando- Melbourne area, and last check, Orlando had wind -- peak wind gusts at 50 knots. So, again, 58 miles an hour. And, obviously, some rainfall. Oh, that piece was on tape. Down in Melbourne, they really -- they still get hammered here, and just north of Melbourne, here's Titusville. Look at that little squall. It's going to hit Titusville. It's just getting hammered there. And Cape Canaveral. Whew! That's some good stuff. All right. Let's slide down to the South. Fort Pierce we had -- we just had a report from -- I think Gary Tuchman is in Fort Pierce, and he said the winds and the rains are just -- are just beginning to pick up, and he is just now getting out of the eye wall. Interesting -- a couple of interesting things. First off, this very solid, very strong back half of the eye wall is about to move on shore. So from West Palm Beach all the way up to Fort Pierce where they saw the front side of the eye wall come in a few hours back, now the back wall has been coming in, and, obviously, it's brighter, and it's a lot more intense, at least than the front wall is right now. The other interesting thing to notice -- first of all, from West Palm up to Fort Pierce, we haven't gotten reports out of these areas for several hours. I mean, when the power goes out, they have backup generators. But, once they run out of gas, those generators go kaput, and we've got nothing. So we're just kind of going with what we've seen from our live reporters. A few hours ago when this thing was offshore -- several hours ago when this thing was offshore, we had a beautiful, very round symmetrical eye. Now the eye wall is beginning to get a little bit more clustered with rain showers, and, also, you notice it's kind of stretched out. As the eye wall came on shore, obviously, it weakens because it runs out of its warm weather fuel there, but also it runs into land which actually encounters some friction. So now it almost is compressing just a little bit that way, and, as that happens, the back of the eye wall now beginning to come in and -- up and down I-95, guys, and, of course, along the beach where I'm -- I assume there aren't a whole lot of folks out there. It's going to get very, very squally here, and hurricane-force winds easily from the back half of this thing could -- actually, you could see some of the strongest winds that we've seen so far. So now the back half of the eye wall about to make landfall, and I'm afraid to say that we're not going to be out of any -- not going to be out of it for several hours still to come.", "That is just unbelievable. Well, Gary Tuchman's been in Fort Pierce, and we've had Anderson in Melbourne and John Zarrella in West Palm, and I don't think you could convince him right now that the worst is still to come.", "Maybe another half a storm to go. It's just incredible. Rob, thanks for the update. We're going to be back right after we take this break.", "Let's check in again with our John Zarrella who has been battling the storm there in West Palm -- John.", "Yes, I'm down here literally at the corner of -- I'm not even sure what street this is. I know I'm on Flagler and -- I can't tell what the other one is, but this is right at the corner of Flagler on the Intercoastal. And if you could seem me, I'm in about eight inches, maybe 10 inches of water right here, and now it's really kicking up and blowing again, and I did hear Rob Marciano say that the back half of that eye wall is coming on shore now, and, you know, the worst may yet be -- to be coming at us here, but it's -- it's -- that's hard to believe after nine hours of this, that we still may get more of a pounding than we've had so far. But I'm walking across this entire parking lot now, and you can see that it's just totally underwater. Everything is flooded. The sewers are all backed up here. Certainly, a tremendous amount of rain has fallen, particularly during the last five -- five, six hours since around midnight Eastern Time here. For a while, it looked as if -- at least in the last 30 minutes or so that -- you've seen my -- me out here all night. The wind and the rain seemed to have subsided just a little bit, but now it's kicking up again, but it's been -- it was worse earlier in the evening than it is right at this particular point in time.", "You know, I just said to Rob I thought you were going to have a difficult time believing that. Rob, I know you're standing by. When exactly can John expect to feel the brunt of the end of this storm?", "Well, he's at the southern half. Let's -- I don't know. Let's analyze this thing. Give me -- let's go forward and we can see what's happening. Here's where John is. Here's where the back half is. So this is all going to move this way. Actually, the worst of the weather is going to be north of John up towards Fort Pierce, actually, and then up towards Melbourne because this -- this band right here is rotating in like this. And what John is getting -- he's just getting -- he's not getting fed with moisture very much because his winds are coming off the land. That's why you don't see much -- as much rain over in this area, the western flank, as you do in the eastern flank because the eastern flank is still over the water. So John is still getting rain for sure, but it looks like he won't get it nearly as bad as the folks in Fort Pierce and then up the road towards -- towards Melbourne and to the west towards Lake Okeechobee. So he's had a rough go of it, John. I think he deserves a bit of a break, don't you? Do you want a break, John?", "Yes. You know, that would be nice. You know, I think going through this -- 10 hours of this thing is certainly equivalent to going through about four or five regular hurricanes that get in and get out in a hurry because this thing has just been on and on and on, but -- and, you know, I guess it -- it's certainly better that if you're going to take the pounding, it's from a Category 2 hurricane than, you know, from what this was a couple of days ago. If you -- you know, you think that 140-mile-an-hour winds -- had this thing come in as a Category 4 hurricane and come in at five miles an hour, my goodness, the level of devastation would have just been absolutely unthinkable. So, to some degree, I guess the -- if you can look at it that way, put a little positive spin on it, the folks here in Florida, all of us, have really been very, very lucky and fortunate in that regard.", "Well, like Hurricane -- you remember Hurricane Andrew. That came in a lot of smaller but a lot tougher, a lot faster, too, John. They have a -- these things have a hard time staying at 4 and 5, as you know, talking with the guys at the Hurricane Center. They get over that water, they churn it up, and when they move this slow, thank goodness, it's tough to be a 4 or a 5 then.", "Yes. You know...", "It's like a long-distance runner. It just keeps coming at you.", "And, you know, one of the things that I -- I'd always heard, too, Rob, was you get those small little compact storms like Andrew -- and even like Charley, to a degree -- and they're smaller and they're more intense, and these big, broad, lumbering things -- the wind field in -- to a large degree is spread out over a larger area, and they really do have a harder time maintaining those 140s and 150s, and you get that -- the wind's just not quite as intense, but spread out over a much larger area.", "Well, speaking of the wind field, you may get a bit of a break from the rain, John, but I think you're still going to have to use that leaning technique because you're still so close to the eye. You're still going to be in the southern flank of that hurricane-force wind field, and you're not done just yet, pal. So hang tough.", "We will...", "Here it comes now!", "Oh, there you go.", "Look at that. Look at that. All right, John. We are going to get our next official update on this, I guess, Rob, at 7 a.m., but the last count was 100 miles an hour. Really does that surprise you? It was at 105 forever and now just down to 100. It's certainly not decreasing at any great rate.", "Well, it's not moving at any great rate. That's the problem. We were not all -- all of it's not over the land yet. So still half -- or now, I guess, about two-thirds of the eye is over land, and the last third, or the last back half, is still over the water, and that's where you're seeing this bright band. When this eye wall -- back of the eye wall gets over the land, then it really will be cut off from its moisture source, and that's when you'll see the intensity begin to decrease. The way they work these advisories, guys, is they run them every -- the full advisory runs every six hours. I mean, that's when they slice and dice the atmosphere, analyze it up and down, and run their models and come out with an official forecast with a lengthy technical discussion, and we really know what they're thinking. As these things get closer to land, they go every three hours, and that in-between, intermediate advisory is not nearly as thorough. It kind of just gives you an update for where it is, how strong it is, and where it's moving. And then when they get on land like they're doing now, they come very two hours. So you're right. At 7 a.m., I believe, is the next advisory, and that may very well bring us a decrease in strength -- if not the 7 a.m., then maybe the 9 a.m. But we have to get this back wall on shore so that we cut off the fuel. I mean, this is a great picture. Just step out of the way here. And you can just see the line where the coast is. From the coast east where the brighter colors are, that's where the heaviest rains are. You go west of that line inland, and you're cut off from the ocean. I mean -- and water temperature out here is 85 degrees easily. In some cases, warmer than that. So it is so easy to evaporate that water, pick it up, make a cloud, and dump that rain right back. So...", "It was the back wall, though, of the storm that caused so many problems for the Bahamas.", "Yes. Yes, you're right about that. So we still have to go through that. We still have to get through that, and that will take the next several hours.", "I wonder if we can put up the shot of WSVN very quickly. Just the live shot. I wonder if they can do that in the booth. We had a viewer call in and ask what the conditions were in Fort Lauderale, and that's a picture of Fort Lauderdale live right now. We just saw actually some construction crews rolling through the streets there. It didn't look too bad. The palm trees all pretty much standing up. This is along the beach there, so we're looking out to shore. But we had a worried mother...", "That's right.", "... write us from British Columbia. And there's your live shot of Fort Lauderdale. I'm sorry we didn't have any more information about your son and his wife in Fort Lauderdale, but that is the live shot right now. And we want to tell you about something that happened early Saturday morning. Sean Callebs was reporting on the Intercoastal Waterway when he saw this incredibly large yacht..", "A multimillionaire-dollar yacht...", "... just breaking loose.", "... moving through the waterway, right, and he actually followed this to the end of the story, which was the -- well, let's watch and you'll see.", "This is not -- I have no idea -- this guy's got to have engine trouble or just lost control of it. Probably -- or perhaps having engine trouble or simply not enough power to cope with the wind from Frances coming down this way, but this person doing a remarkable job of getting the craft into the position that it is. You can see on the front a couple of anchor lines have been dangling down to allow this boat to slowly make it out. But look from the front. You can see a couple of gashes. Well, even with the best of efforts -- exactly. The best of efforts behind this thing. Simply, the storm's too powerful. Now apparently trying to make another run back up the way carrying not only its anchors, but now also a pole from the yacht club. So this is -- this is quite a drama out here on the Intercoastal Waterway. We haven't seen anybody out here trying to help. There are -- apparently, there are some people who are out in the hurricane who probably shouldn't be who have stopped to look at what's going on. But you see on the bow with the flight jacket now reaching down in to try to get another rope to try and tie up. So they're doing everything they can -- clearly, these are very experienced people -- just to get this yacht in position to even tie up, and the weather out here -- the winds have really picked up. It just drifts so quickly, but, apparently, they got tied off or anchors caught in the front, so maybe they're going to be able to maneuver their way in somewhat, and there's a walkway, if you look, on the stern. So, if they can get this tied off, maybe they'll be able to moor it as safely as possible. And it's really pretty amazing that this situation didn't work out any worse than it did because this guy wasn't able to get control of this ship right through here. It had nowhere to go, except for the bridge. That was an amazing job. How did you do that?", "Thank you. Thank you very much.", "We're here with Henny Heinman (ph), and you say that you were contracted to babysit through this -- this yacht through the storm.", "Right.", "You got a little more than you bargained for, didn't you?", "Yes, I lost -- I lost a lot of systems, ended up with just one engine and no steering and no bow thruster, so I did what I could to anchor the", "Well, did you tape us coming in?", "Yes, we were -- saw the whole thing played out on CNN.", "We saw the whole thing.", "We just wonder how the yacht survived the storm.", "Yes. You know, he's laughing now, but we'll see what happens in the morning. Sunrise in Florida at 7:03. So we've got a little more than an hour or so to go. But, hopefully, that boat is still tied up nice and tucked in there.", "I think we're going to take a break, and we will continue our coverage of Hurricane Frances in just a moment.", "We continue our coverage of Hurricane Frances. We're going to dip in quickly to hear a little bit of WSVN's coverage.", "... huge gashes, so -- and we're talking a massive yacht, compared to this small -- if you would call it a houseboat -- for him, it's a houseboat. You know, this is really nothing compared to the...", "This is his home. This is everything to him.", "Yes, yes. Exactly.", "You know, we're just getting information, and we've been talking to you about how, you know, people put their lives in danger to bring you, you know, the news, and not only, you know, news reporters, but police officers, people who are really in the line of fire sometimes for you, and we are just hearing that WPEC is off the air -- this is a station in Palm Beach -- because of Frances. We have the opportunity to check in with Terry Anzur, a reporter for the station. She's not there now, fortunately. I believe you're at the emergency operations center near you. Tell us what happened.", "Well, let me start by telling you where I am. This is the emergency operations center, the nerve center for coordinating the response to Hurricane Frances here in Palm Beach County. It was built after Hurricane Andrew to withstand a Category 5 hurricane. Now this is the place you want to be in a storm, and even though Frances was only probably a Category 2, the slow pace of this storm has really, really tested the limits of this building. It has thick concrete walls, and they go on lockdown, and, in front of the doors, they put a solid steel plate. For the last couple of hours, the winds here have been so strong that it's rattling the steel plate and rattling the glass doors behind the steel plate. Just a few minutes ago, they opened the doors for the first time in a couple of hours, and I'm going to step out here. I don't know if my cell phone's going to pick this up, but the wind is just roaring along, like a jet engine, and it's clearly still a very dangerous situation. They had hoped when the sun comes up to get officials out on the streets to begin assessing the damage and preparing for a visit from Governor Jeb Bush. The airport is nearby here. It has been closed since Friday afternoon. They were hoping to get out to the airport, make sure it's safe for the governor to come in, but, right now, the emergency crews can't even leave the building. Palm Beach County Fire and Rescue, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office are not responding to calls because it's too unsafe for the deputies and the fire and rescue crews to go outside. So we still have a very dangerous situation here. And a couple of messages are coming out of this emergency center that they really want people to heed. First of all, don't even try to go outside, and, when the storm does let up, they don't want people out on the roads. They want the emergency crews to get out there. There are downed power lines everywhere. Palm Beach County is growing so fast. Any kind of new landscaping has basically been ripped out of the ground. So there are just tree limbs blocking roads. It's very, very unsafe out there. And one more thing I want to point out. We are under a curfew here starting at 8:00 last night and continuing until 6:00 this morning. Part of the reason why that was imposed is that they caught three guys -- they're looking for a fourth -- who were burglarizing a home in", "My goodness.", "... Ed Felix (ph) declared a state of emergency, said there is zero tolerance for looters, and they do not want anybody coming up here to misbehave.", "Terry, talk to us quickly. We just got word that your station -- part of the building had to evacuate because the situation was deteriorating there so bad. Have you been able to talk to anyone from your station?", "Yes. I talked to them very briefly. Like I say, I feel very lucky to be in this building, and they're dealing with a lot of problems there. Last night, they began to feel that the front part of the building was not safe. There's a portico in the front of the building where the sales department is, and I believe that began to give way. So they moved everybody into the back of the building where the newsroom is, where the control room is and where the studio is. And that is really a concrete bunker back there. I was anchoring on the air when the tornado came through last summer, and it's a pretty sturdy building in the back and it can withstand a lot. So they moved everybody back there, and they stayed on the air all night until within the last hour, and, at that point, they have not been on the air. But everybody is OK as far as I know.", "So now what? Where are they going?", "Well, they're still there, but the signal is gone. I think the people are fine. I think they're just very frustrated because we all want to do our jobs and help the community get through the storm.", "Wow. I mean, you know, having you on the phone is sobering because really, in Miami-Dade County and even parts of Broward County, what we've seen so far from Frances has been nothing more than some rain and a couple of downed trees. But the way you're describing this system, and, of course, the way our colleagues who are near you have been describing this system really just puts it all into perspective. It -- when you're saying that an EOC, an emergency operations center, and the steel plate on the door is shaking, we know that you mean business, you know.", "Well, I'm having a hard time hearing you. I think I might be losing the signal on this cell phone, but it -- we -- I've been out on a couple of assessment visits with officials, including Congressman Mark Foley and fire and rescue officials. I was out driving around yesterday in some of the areas that your Miami viewers are going to be familiar with, out by Mara Lago, the estate that's owned by Donald Trump.", "Right.", "The Intercoastal was whipped up into fierce waves that were crashing across the Southern Boulevard bridge, and it's downtown West Palm Beach where Clematis Street is, a very popular nightclub district. Already yesterday afternoon, we were seeing awnings ripped off buildings. There's a lot of construction going on down there. A -- just a lot of debris flying around. And that was yesterday. And these winds have been hammering us all night long. So they're pleading with people don't even think about getting on the roads. I was on the road maybe overnight a couple -- two hours ago, and there are downed power lines everywhere. That's why there are, you know, more than two-and-a-half million people without power right now. So you may be sitting in Miami-Dade County, in Broward County saying, hey, it's not so bad. When the sun comes up, I think we're going to find a big disaster here and farther to our north in Indian River County, Saint Lucie County, and Martin County where they got more of a direct hit.", "Terry, you were also talking about...", "Drew Griffin and Catherine Callaway back at CNN Center here in Atlanta. One-point-six million people is the latest power outage from the power companies in Florida. Let's bring in Orelon Sidney. She is in Orlando, which is seeing more of this storm as it moves across Florida -- Orelon.", "Yes, that's right. In fact, you can probably ask Rob Marciano when he comes back -- we're in that right front quadrant of the storm, and we're -- I think we're starting to get the beginning of what's going to be the worst here in Orlando. We've had a pretty good -- a couple of pretty good wind gusts here. I'd estimate about 60 miles an hour. I heard what I thought was a sign going down about, what, 15 minutes ago. I can't really be sure because it's still dark. I can't really tell. And our photographer was telling us that it looked like we may actually see a tree that's in our vicinity. It looks like it's going to go over. So this is generally what you would expect with that type of strength of wind. You're looking at -- here's one of those gusts now coming through. You're looking at probably some tree limbs down again. That's when I -- I'm concerned about power going out. Sign damage. Of course, unanchored mobile homes are just not the place to be right now. But this is probably -- this is definitely the worst that we've seen so far. It's still very off and on, still very gusty. The rain's picked up a little bit, but I've taken a look at the radar trend, and it looks like we're starting to get probably a pretty steady rain here now for a couple or a few hours, and I think the winds will be picking up and gusting as well. So I guess it's about 5:30, 5:45 by now. I would say that we'll be probably experiencing a lot of this throughout the early morning hours.", "Let's bring Rob back in quickly. Rob, disturbing report we just heard from one of our affiliates, and West Palm Beach winds must really be bad if we have affiliates off the air.", "Yes, I believe it. We saw John Zarrella getting blown around there again, and they may be getting a bit of a break from the rainfall, but the wind -- they're still -- I mean, here's the center, and hurricane-force winds go out to the South about 60 miles, into the North even farther than that. So, even -- here it's getting closer to Orelon, and that's why she says the winds are -- seem to be picking up. Still, peak wind gusts of 58 miles an hour at last check, but the 6:00 numbers will just come in, and -- but here's this rain band. This is what Orelon's about to get into, some brighter-colored rolling in, and she knows how this works. You get your extreme outer ring band and you get a bit of a break, and you get your next rain band and you get a smaller break, and then the breaks get smaller and smaller as they get in towards the core of this system. In Orlando, the weather will begin to deteriorate. Orelon, I'm thinking probably in the next 20 minutes -- actually, this -- this isn't live data, so you may get it here in the next 10 minutes, a pretty good squall coming from your east to west, likely at about 40 miles an hour. So you're about to get hit with a pretty good dousing of rain and wind. We'll probably see those peak wind gusts maybe get over the 60-mile-an-hour mark. What are you experiencing now? Are you still there?", "Yes, that wouldn't surprise me. That wouldn't surprise me one bit. It certainly is picking up quite a bit, and we've had such a lucky break here so far. We just really have experienced much from this storm at all since I've been here, which is about a little more than 24 hours. So I do think that the morning hours here are probably going to be the worst of it, and, hopefully, the -- I know the storm's still moving fairly slowly and, hopefully, this will get out of here by later on in the morning, but definitely folks in Orlando need to stay inside because I know overnight it might have seemed like it was fairly benign, but the worst of the winds are coming in now. And you don't want to be out on the sidewalks. You don't want to be -- you certainly don't want to be driving your car, especially if you have a high-profile vehicle. You do want to stay inside until these winds start to subside. My guess is sometime this afternoon and maybe as late as this evening.", "OK, Orelon. Orelon Sidney in Orlando. That's going to wrap it up for Drew and I. We have Bill Hemmer standing by and Betty Nguyen.", "And thank you for joining us for this overnight version. 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{"id": "CNN-17700", "program": "Breaking News", "date": "2000-10-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/12/bn.40.html", "summary": "State Department Issues Travel Warning for Americans", "utt": ["An apparent terrorist attack on a U.S. Navy destroyer at port in Yemen. At least four sailors dead, dozens more missing and wounded.", "The explosion you see is Israelis striking back to avenge the deaths of two soldiers killed in the West Bank. Yasser Arafat calls the retaliation, in his words, a declaration of war.", "It's now 2:00 on the East Coast, and this is Thursday, October 12th.", "And we continue on with our coverage. We want to let you that we expect a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to begin shortly. In the past hour he announced that Israel's retaliation in the cities of Gaza and Ramallah would end for the evening. It's now 8:00 there. So when that news conference begins, we will provide live coverage. First, however, military sources for the United States say a terrorist attack did occur on a Navy destroyer today. It happened in the Yemeni port of Aden. At least four sailors are dead. About 35 are reported injured, many of them with burns. And we're told that about a dozen sailors are reported missing. So it is believed that the death count from this presumed terrorist attack will continue to go up. This explosion that happened was so fierce that it apparently flipped a car some 20 yards away from where it happened. It shattered windows in nearby hotels in this area. Apparently the USS Cole had just pulled into the port for a refueling stop. This would have taken the destroyer some four to six hours there in the port. During this time, a small boat came up alongside of the USS Cole and that apparently is when the explosion occurred. According to CNN's Jamie McIntyre, who's at the Pentagon, eye- witnesses said that two men aboard the small boat appeared to stand at attention just before the explosion occurred, an explosion that knocked huge hole in the USS Cole. FBI investigators are on their way to the area to look into it. And as we just heard from President Clinton a short time ago, the U.S. will find out what happened, who was responsible and will respond appropriately. As a result of today's heightened violence in the world, the U.S. State Department has just issued a travel warning for Americans. For more about that, we turn to CNN's Andrea Koppel. She's at the State Department -- Andrea.", "Well, Natalie, that travel warning is actually going to be a worldwide caution. It has yet to come out. But there is a copy that's circulating here within the State Department. What it is, essentially, is merely a warning to Americans who either are overseas right now or who are thinking about traveling overseas at any point in the near future to be on alert, stay away from large crowds, obviously, exercise extreme caution while they're overseas. It's not telling people to stay home here in the United States. But there is a footnote to that worldwide caution. And that is, when it comes out later this afternoon, an announcement telling all Americans to defer travel to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The State Department earlier today, Natalie, sent out a cable to all of its embassies within the Middle East to ask them to call their emergency teams together to review the security at their particular embassies. There has be no decision yet within the State Department to have certain embassies in the Middle East shut down and that warning has also gone out, the cable to review security measures, has also gone out to embassies around the world. Trying to get a sense on the ground of just what the situation is, we've seen in recent weeks and certainly in recent days a lot of anti-American demonstrations, both in the Arab world and even within Europe just yesterday, there was a large demonstration, a particularly violent demonstration, outside the U.S. embassy in Brussels. And so Natalie, at this point, we know that there is going to be this worldwide caution that will come out later this afternoon to tell Americans to be on alert.", "All right, Andrea Koppel at the State Department."], "speaker": ["NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "WATERS", "ALLEN", "ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-233742", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2014-07-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1407/01/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Monica Lewinsky Speaks Out; Monica Lewinsky Breaks Her Silence", "utt": ["Two decades ago, she became the central figure in a White House sex scandal that nearly scuttled Bill Clinton's presidency. And now, for the first time in 10 years, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky is talking, and she is articulating deep, never-before-shared feelings about being in such a glaring, unforgiving spotlight. Here's CNN's Tom Foreman.", "These are details from a new National Geographic interview with Lewinsky that will air this weekend, and it is an eye-opener.", "I was the most humiliated woman in the world.", "That is how Monica Lewinsky is emerging from 10 years of silence. Her relationship with President Bill Clinton was uncovered in a far-reaching investigation by special counsel Kenneth Starr. And when he released the details --", "That was one of the worst days of my life. I was a virgin to humiliation of that level until that day.", "I'm not even going to get into what, I don't know.", "White House supporters like Dee Dee Myers went on defense while Lewinsky went through public ridicule.", "To have my narrative ripped from me and turned into the Starr Report and things that were turned over or things they dealt out of my computer that I thought were deleted -- I mean, it was just -- it was just a violation after violation.", "The coverage stunned many even at the time.", "There were nights, because I had young children, and I was a parent first, where I called home and just said, maybe this is a good night to mute the first part of the broadcast or keep the television off.", "Still, for a woman who says she wants her past left behind, Lewinsky is talking about it a lot, telling \"Vanity Fair\" two months ago, \"I was too young to understand the real-life consequences and too young to see that I would be sacrificed for political expediency.\" She has not, however, condemned the Clintons, and Hillary Clinton promoting her book on ABC returned the favor.", "I would wish her well. I hope that she is able to, you know, think about her future and construct a life that she finds meaning and satisfaction in.", "But Lewinsky reveals pointed dissatisfaction with how she was treated by many people way back then.", "What is interesting here is the passion behind Lewinsky's words, how much she's finally showing her feelings about all that happened. You can see it all for yourself on \"The '90s: The Last Great Decade.\" It begins July 6th at 9:00 p.m. Eastern on the National Geographic Channel. It should be good viewing, Brianna.", "It should be. Tom Foreman, thank you so much. And thank you so much for watching. I'm Brianna Keilar in THE SITUATION ROOM. \"ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT\" starts right now."], "speaker": ["KEILAR", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MONICA LEWINSKY, FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN", "FOREMAN (voice-over)", "LEWINSKY", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "FOREMAN", "LEWINSKY", "FOREMAN", "BRIAN WILLIAMS, ANCHOR, NBC NEWS", "FOREMAN", "HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE", "FOREMAN", "FOREMAN", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "CNN-128595", "program": "CNN RELIABLE SOURCES", "date": "2008-7-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0807/13/rs.01.html", "summary": "'New Yorker' Cover an Outrage?; Is Obama Backing Off Pledge to Withdraw From Iraq?", "utt": ["Malice or mockery? Is this \"New Yorker\" cover on Barack Obama what it seems, an outrage? War and words. The press says Barack Obama is backing off his call for a withdrawal from Iraq. He calls that a media distortion. Should Fox and everyone else have reported Jesse Jackson's off- mike insult against Obama? And why is the senator putting his young daughters before the camera? We'll ask Maria Menounos of \"Access Hollywood.\" Tabloid fodder. Lara Logan's Baghdad affair; Christie Brinkley's sleazy divorce trial; the soap opera of Madonna, A-Rod, A-Rod's wife -- why the media can never get enough. And the passing of Tony Snow, a happy warrior in journalism and in politics.", "We're throwing out the script this morning. I want to get right to this magazine cover. It's a remarkable, some would say incendiary, cover. There it is up on the screen. \"The New Yorker\" magazine has Barack and Michelle Obama. She's got the -- it looks like an AK-47 strapped around her, he's got the Muslim garb. There's a picture off to the right -- you can't quite make it out there -- of Osama bin Laden on the wall, and the American flag burning in the fireplace. Joining us right now to talk about this and some other campaign issues, from Seattle, Michael Medved, host of \"The Michael Medved Show\" on the Salem Radio Network. And here in Washington, Clarence Page, columnist for \"The Chicago Tribune.\" And CNN correspondent Jessica Yellin. Michael Medved, you've had a chance to look at this \"New Yorker\" cover. What do you make of it?", "Well, it's obviously succeeding in getting attention. I think it's tacky, I think it's outrageous, and it's just a bid to actually get to you read an article that is remarkably pro-Obama. And again, in good taste in the middle of a campaign? Absolutely not.", "I talked to the editor of \"The New Yorker,\" David Remnick, who tells me this is a satire, that they are making fun of all the rumors...", "Right.", "... Clarence Page, and all the false allegations about Obama's upbringing and so forth. Does it work on that level?", "You know, look at history, Howard. I remember a few years ago, when \"The New Yorker\" had a cover at a time of great black/Jewish tension in New York. You had a cartoon of an obvious Orthodox Jewish male kissing a black woman, and this created a lot of buzz. That's what it is, buzz. It's discussion. It's talk. And that's what covers are supposed to do. So I think, you know, it's quite within the normal realms of journalism.", "But not everyone may react to this thing.", "No, it's very provocative. And it both overstates what -- it's obviously untrue. They are not Muslim. They are not trying to overthrow the American government and. And it also overstates what the Republicans are doing. This is not a message machines that's coming from John McCain's campaign. These are rumors generated on the Internet, and it's general buzz out there.", "Barry Blitt is the artist, and there is one true thing here. It does have the fist bump. They do do that, or at least did it once. And I just think...", "You know what inspired that? On Fox News, a woman who said, \"What is that, a terrorist handshake?\" Something like that.", "Terrorist, yes. Right. That was a tease that was later apologized for...", "That's what the cover is about. It's just lampooning all the crazy ignorance out there, and I hope the American people are more intelligent than that. I think they are, most of them.", "All right. Let me move on now to another subject. You know, the press loves more than just about anything to zap candidates for changing their position, but what happens when the candidate insists that the journalists are wrong, that there's no shift, no flip-flop, no move to the center? Barack Obama says he hasn't altered his stance on with drawing from Iraq at all. Media reports to the contrary. But I'll have to say this: When you have to hold two news conferences on the same afternoon on the same subject, as Obama did last week, you've got a communications problem. Here's the Illinois senator meeting the press.", "I have a chance to talk to some of the commanders on the ground. I'm sure I'll have more information and will continue to refine my policies.", "\"Refine my policies.\" Well, here's Obama after summoning reporters just hours later.", "Apparently I wasn't clear enough this morning on my position with respect to the war in Iraq. I have said throughout this campaign that this war was ill conceived, that it was a strategic blunder, and that it needs to come to an end.", "Michael Medved, is Obama changing his position on Iraq and is the press calling him on it?", "Well, the press isn't calling him on it enough. The one thing that struck me was, you remember how Richard Nixon used to say, \"Let me make one thing perfectly clear.\" Barack Obama was saying just about that. He said, \"I want to be completely clear about this.\" And any time a politician is saying, \"I'm going to be completely clear,\" what usually follows is obfuscation, not clarity. Look, the point is he's a smart guy. He's going -- what's the point of his going to Iraq unless he is going to consider altering or shading or changing somehow his particular strategy? So he's caught. He either doesn't go to Iraq, or he goes to Iraq and says, well, it doesn't matter the fact that I'm going to Iraq, because I'm not going to change anyway. So the guy really is stuck right now.", "True or false, Clarence Page, Obama is moderating his position a bit, as candidates tend to do in general elections, and journalists smell a flip-flop?", "On the Iraq issue, Obama said in September, during a debate to Tim Russert that, yes, I'm willing to adjust to changes, changing realities on the ground. And we'd say he was crazy if he didn't say that, you know? No, the fact is he still says he wants to get all the troops out in 16 months, but he's also allowing that if that's not possible, or changing realities could change that timetable. That's still a big difference from John McCain, who has also begun to hint at a timetable, but he's saying 2013.", "Well, I think in tone both John McCain and Barack Obama are emphasizing different parts of their position.", "Sure.", "But let me play for you, Jessica Yellin, a comment from Senator Obama last week. And this kind of got lost over the July 4th holidays, where he appeared to put the blame at -- well, I'll let you watch.", "The press -- I mean, I'm not trying to dump on you guys, but I'm surprised at how finely calibrated every single word was measured. You know, I wasn't saying anything that I hadn't said before.", "He's saying it's all a creation of you knit-pickers in the press.", "Well, that's a little silly. This is a man who knows the power of words and has to understand what he says on the trail is going to be picked apart. One of the things that's fascinating about the Obama campaign, if you report a story and you're sort of the only person, or you're the first person out there, they will call you up and say, you're alone on this, you're out of your mind, this isn't right. Then when you're reporting what everyone else is reporting it's just pact mentality, you're following the RNC. And that's what happened on this story. They accused the press of just following the RNC. What Obama has done is he's shifted emphasis on this issue, and it's fair to report that, and it should be reported.", "And Michael Medved, Clarence Page makes the point that Obama, you know, would be silly to stick to a rigid 16-month pullout plan. And, in fact, he's gotten some favorable editorials for appearing to be more open-minded on exactly -- on the pace and timing of an American withdrawal from Iraq.", "Well, of course he has. And by the way, I think Clarence is completely correct. Barack Obama is doing what any candidate has to do, is going to the center. McCain is doing the same thing. You win your primary on the left if you're a Democrat, on the right if you're a Republican. And then you move to the center. And the fact that he's doing that is not extraordinary. What's extraordinary is the fact that he's denying doing that. And part of that may be -- I mean, Cynthia McKinney just got nominated for the Green Party. She's claiming she's going to go for 5 percent of the vote and that will be a big success for the Green Party candidacy. Does Obama have some potential problems on his left? I think he does.", "That's the former Georgia congresswoman. But here's the point now. On McCain, I don't see the press making a big deal about the fact that he was at one point talking about, well, we could stay in Iraq for 100 years, meaning in the sense of maintaining a military base there. But now he is at least raising the possibility of withdrawal, and so is Prime Minister Maliki.", "Yes.", "And this morning's paper report that the Bush administration is considering pulling out additional divisions and combat units from Iraq.", "You know, why aren't we talking more about all of this? I mean, this change is happening in the politics of Iraq right now, but there's also other changes happening, some of which we we'll get to, other stories going on that I think have just crowded it out.", "But are you suggesting that the media hold Obama to a higher standard, or at least fly spec his words more carefully?", "Howard, he's a better story. He's a better -- he's a more attractive story. Oh, yes, he's got more of the spotlight, good and bad. I mean, McCain is really kind of fighting for attention here, and in some ways that benefits him. In other ways, though, it doesn't help him.", "While we're honing in on their areas of weakness, I mean, John McCain does get a lot of heat for flip-flopping or inconsistency on issues of the economy. Barack Obama's getting it more on issues related to Iraq and national security.", "All right. Let me get to the issue that you alluded to, Clarence Page, and that is Jesse Jackson, who was picked up on a microphone before an appearance on Fox News -- and this came out days afterwards. And what's fascinating here is, before these comments, which we'll show you in a second, were broadcast on \"The O'Reilly Factor,\" Jesse Jackson phoned in to CNN and talked to Wolf Blitzer in a kind of a preemptive damage control. Let's watch that.", "If you could right now speak to Senator Obama from your heart, what would you say to him?", "That any hurt or harm caused his campaign, I apologize, because I have such high regard for him. And this is part redemptive moment, and I'm a part of it.", "And it was about four hours later that the O'Reilly show actually showed the tape, some of what Obama -- excuse me, what Jesse Jackson had been caught saying. Let's watch that.", "See, Barack's been talking down to black people on this faith based. I want to cut his", "We're not out to get Jesse Jackson. We're not out to embarrass him and we're not out to make him look bad. If we were, we would have used what we have, which is more damaging than what you've heard.", "Now Clarence, you talked...", "Who's that...", "Yes, I saw that guy.", "The one that he was talking to.", "Moonlighting on other networks. You talked to Jesse soon after.", "He called me.", "He called you.", "He called me before I could call him. I mean, you know -- and...", "Did he call you because he thought he would get a sympathetic hearing? Another Chicago guy who's known him a long time?", "Well, you know, he didn't have any guarantees. He thanked me after the O'Reilly show for not being tougher on him. But, no, he was very concerned about his image, very concerned about this whole flap, because the story hadn't even broke yet, and here he was sending out statements. And you could see the confusion at CNN. You know, what's he talking about here? But this was very damaging for Jesse Jackson. It exposed a side of Jackson that he has not wanted exposed out there. He was trying to start his own little whisper campaign, or keep it going in regard to Obama. I think because he wasn't getting his phone calls returned from the Obama campaign. I think this is both ideological and personal mixed up here.", "Well, if you're going to have a whisper campaign, don't whisper in front of a microphone.", "Thank you.", "Michael Medved, are the media going rather easy on Jackson here? By which I mean, it's being treated like he just let a curse word slip, when, in fact, he made a racial attack on a man who he professes to support for president.", "Yes. I think there's much too much attention on this, because, look, the truth of the matter is that Jesse Jackson isn't a significant part of the Obama campaign. As a matter of fact, remember, Bill Clinton got in a world of trouble when he tried to compare the Obama campaign to the Jackson campaign. In some sense, I think that people say that, well, this is -- people are going very hard on Jesse Jackson. This may be something that Reverend Jackson actually relishes, because who even was paying attention to him until he used some extremely rude language? And by the way, if he had said the same thing but said it more politely, I don't think we would be talking about it this morning or it would have gotten national attention at all.", "But you know, Jessica, Jesse Jackson may not be part of the Obama campaign, and clearly there's a testy relationship there, but somewhere along the line the media decided that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are the two black leaders that we would turn to, that we would call in any crisis. Whether they actually are black leaders or have a significant following, as opposed to a media platform, is another question. Now I wonder if Jackson kind of feels eclipsed by Barack Obama's candidacy.", "Well, Barack Obama just told reporters that he hasn't spoken with Jesse Jackson since this happened, and Jackson has made it clear that he called the campaign. So certainly this seems to be at least in part related to a generational change. The torch is being passed, but maybe not so willingly.", "Now, here's the interesting -- you know, there was no obscenity in there. I use the word \"nuts\" all the time. I mean, \"nuts\" obviously here was a synonym for something else. The \"L.A. Times\" and \"The Chicago Tribune\" used the exact quote. \"The New York Times\" said it was a \"vulgar reference.\" \"The Washington Post\" talked about \"crude language.\" And in your column, Clarence Page, \"Twin objects of male anatomy.\" Why all this tiptoeing around it?", "Because I'm an old prude, Howard.", "No, I -- you know something? I agonized over this, you know/ And it's become a story in itself in media circles, because you're right, the word itself is not obscene, but context makes a difference. But, you know, now there's this product called Obama's Chocolate Nuts, which has had a surge in popularity now -- I mean, from Seattle or something.", "I had missed that.", "Well, that was a nice plug for the product there, and indeed they are getting it. But, you know, we're all kind of caught between this -- the rails of understanding it.", "The last question to Michael Medved. Clarence said a little earlier that Obama maybe got more attention on Iraq because he's a better story than McCain. There was a flap involving John McCain with Phil Gramm, former senator, former presidential candidate, very -- a co-chairman of his campaign, saying that the recession in this country is mental, and that the Americans have become a bunch of whiners. That got some coverage, but nothing like this Jesse crack.", "Well, again, neither one really deserve the kind of coverage that it received. Phil Gramm, when he spoke to \"The Washington Times,\" if you read the entire interview, you can disagree with it, and that's fine, but it's not an outrageous gaffe. And there's a great deal of this on the economy that I think is terribly unfair. When people say, well, the economy is not John McCain's strong suit, John McCain was chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. And the idea that somehow he needs Phil Gramm to speak for him on the economy, and that Phil Gramm is the guy, again...", "I've got to go, but Phil Gramm did speak for him on the economy in an interview with \"The Wall Street Journal\" editorial board.", "Yes.", "All right. Michael Medved, Jessica Yellin, Clarence Page, thanks very much for joining us this morning. When we come back, Barack Obama's kids get a star turn before the cameras. We'll talk with Access Hollywood's Maria Menounos about her interview with the presidential candidate's daughters."], "speaker": ["HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice over)", "KURTZ", "MICHAEL MEDVED, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST", "KURTZ", "MEDVED", "KURTZ", "CLARENCE PAGE, \"THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE\"", "KURTZ", "JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "KURTZ", "PAGE", "KURTZ", "PAGE", "KURTZ", "SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE", "KURTZ", "OBAMA", "KURTZ", "MEDVED", "KURTZ", "PAGE", "KURTZ", "PAGE", "KURTZ", "OBAMA", "KURTZ", "YELLIN", "KURTZ", "MEDVED", "KURTZ", "PAGE", "KURTZ", "PAGE", "KURTZ", "PAGE", "YELLIN", "KURTZ", "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR", "REV. 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{"id": "CNN-79991", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2003-12-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0312/08/lad.06.html", "summary": "New Initiative on Disarmament of North Korea Nuclear Program", "utt": ["Now to North Korea's nuclear program and a security guarantee with a big \"if\" attached. The United States may soon agree with a plan aimed at ending that nuclear program. For more, to South Korea and CNN's Sohn Jie-Ae, who joins us live by phone. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol.", "Tell us about this agreement and who came up with it.", "Well, it is an agreement that is coming up with some of the major parties in the six-party talks that are trying to deal with North Korea's nuclear weapons program. It is the United States, South Korea, as well as China. Now, Japan and China will be also major parties of this agreement. It will be between the United States, South Korea and Japan. A frame of that will be conveyed to China. Now, this -- there are still specifics of this which are not clear, but we are looking at this as a step-by-step movement that will have the United States and South Korea, Japan and the other neighbors in this region offering North Korea a type of guarantee, after North Korea matches this guarantee by doing some simultaneous actions that guarantee that North Korea is willing to give up its nuclear weapons, and then proceed step by step to actually make this promise into reality. So, although we don't know the specifics of it yet, we are seeing -- what we are seeing right now is a formation of what may be a solution to the long-term North Korea nuclear problem -- Carol.", "And, you know, we were talking about this earlier. In essence, this agreement will be taken to the Chinese. China will present this agreement to North Korea. And in essence, isn't -- let's see -- isn't one of the stipulations is that U.S. arms inspectors will go in to make sure that North Korea is dismantling its nuclear program? And then, if the U.S. arms inspectors find that's true, then the United States will provide this security guarantee?", "Yes. So, there are steps of verification that will accompany any type of promise made by North Korea. The fallacy of the 1994 Geneva agreement, there was a lack of verification after North Korea agreed to give up its nuclear weapons program. It was a very difficult process of allowing North Korea to let access in for outside inspectors to make sure that North Korea was complying with its promises, and that is one of the steps that the United States and the other parties of any type of guarantee to North Korea want to make sure does not happen again. Now, China will play a major part in this. It will try to convey, and hopefully outside partners expect that China will try to convince North Korea that it will be in the best interest of North Korea to comply with this. But we will have to see whether this long type of negotiation, which is still in our future, will actually come about or not -- Carol.", "Sohn Jie-Ae reporting live from Seoul, South Korea, this morning. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com. Program>"], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "SOHN JIE-AE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "COSTELLO", "JIE-AE", "COSTELLO", "JIE-AE", "COSTELLO"]}
{"id": "CNN-110921", "program": "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT", "date": "2006-10-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/04/ldt.01.html", "summary": "House Passes Border Security Bill; New York County Passes Tough Immigration Law", "utt": ["Congressman James Sensenbrenner and fellow House Republicans are on the U.S. border with Mexico tonight. They're there to discuss border security measures they promised and delivered to the American people. Another tough new local law is on the books tonight, threatening importers with jail time if they hire illegal aliens. Casey Wian tonight reports from Otay Mesa, California, where House Republicans are declaring an important victory on border security. And Christine Romans reports on Suffolk County, Long Island, New York's tough new crackdown on employers who ignore this nation's immigration laws. We begin tonight with Casey Wian -- Casey.", "Lou, under this warehouse behind me is a drug-smuggling tunnel that stretches 700 yards into Mexico underneath the border. It's the longest tunnel of its kind ever discovered. Lawmakers came here today to announce a victory in their effort to pressure President Bush to secure the border.", "For more than two years, President Bush insisted the only way to secure the border was with so-called comprehensive immigration reform, including a guest worker program critics say announced an amnesty for illegal aliens. Today, the president capitulated, signing a border security only bill.", "This legislation will give us better tools to enforce our immigration laws and to secure our southern border.", "The legislation includes $1.2 billion for new border fencing, vehicle barriers, technology and infrastructure; $2.8 billion for the Border Patrol, including 1,500 new Border Patrol agents; $1.4 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to add 6,700 new detention beds.", "Today we are here to say that Congress has heard the American people. And with the Homeland Security Appropriation Bill which was signed this morning in Arizona by President Bush, we have taken major steps towards securing the border and putting our money where our mouth is.", "And it increases criminal penalties for those involved in constructing drug-smuggling tunnels under the border.", "With this new legislation, to tunnel into the United States becomes a felony crime.", "The man who pleaded guilty to running a produce business out of this warehouse as a front for the drug smuggling tunnel is expected to be sentenced next week to two and a half years in prison. Under the new law he could have faced 20 years.", "Now, skeptics of the new legislation, including Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn say they doubt the entire 700-mile border fence will ever be fully funded by Congress. But even he concedes this is an important symbolic gesture showing that Congress is finally getting serious about securing the border, Lou.", "A leading Republican senator expressing skepticism about successful Republican legislation that was passed over the objections of a Republican president. What's going on out there, Casey?", "Well, we asked Congressman Sensenbrenner about that, and he reminded the senator that appropriations begin in the House. And as long as Republicans control the House next year, he says they will fully fund that 700-mile border fence, Lou.", "Casey, thank you very much. Casey Wian reporting from Otay Mesa, California. A new CNN poll shows a majority of Americans favor building that 700-mile fence along the border with Mexico. In the poll, 54 percent of Americans in favor of the 700-mile border fence; 44 percent are opposed. It should be noted that Congress has so far appropriated money for only 370 miles of that 700-mile border fence along our 2,000-mile border with Mexico. Tonight, local governments all across this country are passing tough new measures, punishing employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. And employers are being arrested for flagrant violations of U.S. immigration laws. One of the toughest local ordinances against illegal immigration signed into law today in Suffolk County, New York. Christine Romans reports.", "This bill is now law.", "Signed into law today in Suffolk County, New York, a crackdown on employers of illegal workers. Flanked by union leaders, county executive Steve Levy said he's doing what the federal government should and won't.", "It's leveling the playing field so that our good companies out that there are trying to do right by their employees are not put at a competitive disadvantage by those companies that cheat and exploit their workers.", "Ensuring that county work sites have legal workers. Levy signing into law an ordinance that was easily passed by county lawmakers after hours of sometimes contentious public debate. Levy says his ordinance is designed to prevent discrimination against legal residents. But Cesar Perales of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund calls the law illegal, unnecessary and discriminatory.", "I'm concerned that there's going to be a long-term effect in our society. There's going to be a long-term sense that Latinos are doing something bad to our communities.", "He's alarmed that communities across the country are writing their own immigration ordinances. Town officials say they're driven by federal inaction on illegal immigration. But Perales believes otherwise.", "I think it's primary political. I think that there is a strong sentiment in this country at this moment against immigrants, whether documented or undocumented. And I think that politicians know that. And they want to make sure that they are on the popular side of this issue.", "many of these ordinances will be challenged in court.", "The Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund, the ACLU and others have threatened court challenges of these local ordinances, but local leaders, like Steve Levy in Suffolk County, say with the flood of illegal immigration into their neighborhoods, into their towns, they want to go after the magnet, Lou, and that is the employers.", "Without question. And the fact is, as the president suggests, local governments are doing the jobs that federal governments aren't doing. Thanks very much, Christine Romans. Still ahead here, election officials across this country in a race against time trying to ensure a free and fair vote this November as concerns about e-voting machines are mounting. We'll have that special report and the new ruling that could prevent millions of Americans from the right to join a labor union. Another example of Washington's war on our middle class. And several states are stepping forward to raise their minimum wage. Again, trying to do the job that Congress and this administration aren't doing. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["DOBBS", "CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WIAN (voice-over)", "BUSH", "WIAN", "REP. JAMES SENSENBRENNER (R-WI), CHAIRMAN, JUDICIARY COMMITTEE", "WIAN", "REP. ED ROYCE (R), CALIFORNIA", "WIAN", "WIAN", "DOBBS", "WIAN", "DOBBS", "STEVE LEVY, SUFFOLK COUNTY EXECUTIVE", "CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "LEVY", "ROMANS", "CESAR PERALES, PUERTO RICAN LEGAL DEFENSE FUND", "ROMANS", "PERALES", "ROMANS", "ROMANS", "DOBBS"]}
{"id": "CNN-325531", "program": "WOLF", "date": "2017-11-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1711/07/wolf.01.html", "summary": "Trump Shifts Tone; Protests in Seoul", "utt": ["President Trump arriving in South Korea today. He's getting ready for a major speech to the South Korean National Assembly later this evening. Ahead of that, we're already seeing a shift in tone from the president. There have been no taunts aimed at the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, no threats of war. While North Korea says it's watching President Trump's visit closely and vowing to bolster what it calls its nuclear sword of justice. CNN is the only American network on both sides of the Korean border right now. Our White House correspondent Sara Murray is standing by in Seoul with the president. Will Ripley is in Pyongyang. Will, what are you hearing from the North Koreans?", "Wolf, North Korean officials here in Pyongyang told me they will be listening very closely to President Trump's speech in South Korea in the coming hours, a major speech. The administration has been hinting that they may announce a decision about whether to put North Korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, a list that they were taken off almost ten years ago during negotiations at that time over North Korea's nuclear program. We know how that turned out. North Korea now has a bigger nuclear arsenal than ever and more advanced missile capabilities than ever. But they feel they are not quite there yet when it comes to rounding off their nuclear program, in their words, and they are vowing to conduct more tests at a time of their choosing. The question, will that time be during President Trump's trip here in Asia and, of course, how would the Trump administration respond to that? We did heard a more conciliatory tone from President Trump in South Korea. The North Koreans acknowledge that words do matter with President Trump indicating a willingness to sit down for negotiations. However, the North Korean are also looking at the actions of the United States. There were naval drills happening between the U.S., South Korea and Australia and even larger drills set to kick off in the coming days in the Pacific involving three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups. A major show of force by the United States that North Korea says only encouraging them to showcase their own nuclear strength, to send, in their words, a clear message to the Trump administration after negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea have broken down. North Koreans not ruling out talks all together, but they do say that they feel they need to prove to the Trump administration that they have an effective nuclear deterrent and they say their nukes are here to stay, whereas the United States wants full denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Something that is really a non-starter for government officials here in Pyongyang. Wolf, they say their nukes are here to stay.", "Will Ripley reporting for us. Will, thanks very much for that report. Will is in Pyongyang, North Korea. After saying the time for strategic patience with North Korea is over, President Trump then pivoted his message this morning saying North Korea should come to the table and make a deal. And he then offered this assessment.", "We'll be meeting with the various generals", "Let's go to our White House correspondent Sara Murray. She's traveling with the president in Seoul right now. So, Sara, what do we expect to hear from the president's major speech later tonight?", "Well, Wolf, we're told the president is going to put the conflict with North Korea in a historical context and, of course, talk up the importance of the alliance between the U.S. and South Korea, in addition to calling on China, to calling on Russia, to put more pressure on North Korea to further isolate this nuclear nation. But these are the messages the president has been driving essentially since he took office. I think what people are really going to be watching for is the tone. Are we going to see the kind of tone that we've gotten from President Trump stateside where he's lobbying nicknames at Kim Jong-un and talking about fire and fury, or will we see something similar to what we saw from the president here in Seoul, where he's offering a rosier take on diplomatic efforts and making it clear that he sort of sees a military option as a last resort.", "Sara, there were some anti-Trump protests in Seoul, where you are right now. What were they protesting?", "There were some protests and they were -- protesters were chanting things like \"no Trump, no war.\" Look, there is anxiety here in South Korea about the rhetoric that we have heard from President Trump. The people here are the neighbors to North Korea. So any decision the U.S. makes, particularly a military decision, would have a direct impact on their lives. That is an unease, an uncertainty that certainly analysts have said is very palpable in this region. I think that's what we saw from the protesters today.", "Sara Murray in Seoul for us. Sara, thanks very much. We'll, of course, have live coverage of the president's speech later tonight here on CNN. Meanwhile, a Democratic lawmaker walking out of a moment of silence on the House of Representatives' floor out of protest over guns. I'll speak live with the congressman who represents the church's district about this and more, what he's been told about the investigation. Stand by. Plus, he always raises eyebrows when he speaks, but one of the president's former campaign advisers now giving explosive new testimony about who knew what involving his own Russian contacts during the Trump campaign."], "speaker": ["BLITZER", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "BLITZER", "SARA MURRAY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT", "BLITZER", "MURRAY", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-359328", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2019-01-13", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1901/13/cnr.03.html", "summary": "Mike Pompeo Expected to Meet with Crown Prince in Saudi Arabia", "utt": ["Welcome back. Happening right now, the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Saudi Arabia, where he is expected to meet with Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. Pompeo promising he will press the prince on the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.", "I'll say what we've said consistently. America's position both privately and publicly is the same. This was an outrageous act, an unacceptable murder. Those who were responsible will be held accountable by the United States of America. We're determined to do that. We're determined to get at the facts just as quickly, as comprehensively as we can. We've had a policy that's been remarkably consistent with respect to this. We, like the rest of the world, value human rights all across the globe. And the murder of Jamal Khashoggi was outrageous, and we'll hold those responsible accountable. And then we'll talk about all the important things we do with the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and all the support they provide to keep Americans in Kansas, and Colorado, and California and in Washington, D.C., safe.", "Last month the U.S. Senate passed a resolution condemning the crown prince for the murder. Saudi Arabia has denied bin Salman ordered the killing of Khashoggi, who was an outspoken critic of the Saudi regime. Kimberly Dozier is with me now to talk about all of this. So when Pompeo says he and the administration will make sure Saudi Arabia is being held accountable, what does that mean exactly?", "Well, State Department officials have explained to us before that they don't think the investigation into the Khashoggi killing has gone far enough, been transparent enough, and they're not happy with what they've seen released publicly. Also --", "But what could and would the U.S. do, especially when he underscores the importance of, you know, ongoing business relations with Saudi Arabia, just as the president has done?", "Well, I think what they want to see from Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince, is a more transparent release of information. They want to see the people who have been prosecuted thus far, what is the evidence against them, and are they just going to try to pretend like this didn't go all the way to the top? How much are they going to release? The things that Pompeo could do, and apparently he's been warning MBS behind closed doors that he could do are things like curtail some of the cooperation, possibly even prestige things where, you know, you have high-level meetings where MBS is invited to the White House, et cetera. There are things like that they can do that would hurt him, at least in an ego sense. So -- but what is the U.S. leverage? Well, the U.S. needs Saudi Arabia in its campaign against Iran. MBS knows that. So the problem is, you can say all of these stern things in public, like the secretary of State has done in interviews today, but really, they both need each other so they only can push so far.", "So how important is this meeting between Pompeo and the crown prince, particularly now, more than 100 days after Khashoggi's murder?", "I think it's very important in that this is a chance for Pompeo to say to him directly, here's what you need to do. Here's what we need to see. And to deliver the", "So Pompeo is in the region, has been in the region primarily to, you know, allay any fears of U.S. allies, particularly with the discussions about the U.S. pulling out U.S. troops in Syria already, you know, reportedly, equipment has been pulled out. Is the presence of, you know, Bolton and Pompeo in the region -- is that comforting, you know, rattled U.S. allies?", "It is intended as a reassurance tour of sorts. I did get a U.S. official to confirm that yes, they've repositioned or pulled out some equipment as they look ahead towards a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria. But from the standpoint of the allies that they're speaking to, no matter what Bolton and Pompeo say, they still can't rule out a future Trump decision determined by some sort of a last- minute conversation with someone. They can't erase what happened just before Christmas, that Trump in a single phone call pivoted and changed the plan on everyone without consulting allies first. That's going to leave a mark for some time.", "Yes, surprising allies, surprising even members of his own Cabinet. All right. Kimberly Dozier, thank you so much.", "Thank you.", "All right. Still to come, we're three weeks now into a partial government shutdown with no end in sight, and federal workers, well, they're not the only ones feeling the pain. How this shutdown is hurting farmers, next."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "MIKE POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE", "WHITFIELD", "KIMBERLY DOZIER, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST", "WHITFIELD", "DOZIER", "WHITFIELD", "DOZIER", "WHITFIELD", "DOZIER", "WHITFIELD", "DOZIER", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-291993", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2016-08-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1608/22/cnr.20.html", "summary": "Anger and Mourning After Suicide Bombing at Wedding in Turkey; 2016 Olympics Have Come to An End", "utt": ["Anger and mourning in Turkey after a suicide bomber killed 51 people at a wedding. And President Erdogan says the bomber may have been as young as 12-years-old. Also ahead, a spectacular ending to the Summer Games in Rio, a look back of some of the highs and the lows. Plus, Donald Trump hints he might back away from one of his signature proposals on immigration. Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. And this is CNN Newsroom. Turkey's president says the suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding on Saturday was carried out by a child perhaps as young as 12. The blast killed 51 people and wounded dozens. Many of the victims were laid to rest on Sunday. The bombing is the deadliest in the year of terrorist attacks in the country. President Erdogan believes ISIS maybe responsible. And joining us now from Gaziantep is senior international correspondent, ben Wedeman. Ben, the news that this bombing could very well been carried out a child has indeed shocked the world. What more do we know about this and can we expect more of this type of tactic from ISIS?", "Well, consider this, we've just learned from a Turkish official, Rosemary, that of the 51 victims so far in this bombing, 22 are under the age of 14. There are a lot of children in that area. There was a wedding party going on, the streets were crammed with people. Now, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is saying that the bomber, they believe was between the ages of 12 and 14. We don't know at this point if it was a girl or a boy. There is no information beyond that. Now, Turkish investigators did find pieces of the suicide vest of the scene. It's not clear whether, and this is also in the words of the president, whether the bomber detonated the bomb himself or herself or it was done remotely. But this is reminiscent of what we saw, for instance, in Iraq when AL Qaeda in Mesopotamia was similar bombings. And keep in mind that ISIS has a group called the cubs of the caliphate. These are young boys who are basically being indoctrinated and trained to fight. And we're talking about children, some of them are under the age of 10 being trained to fight and act as suicide bombers. So, this is not without precedent. In fact, there are reports from Iraq that in the city of Kirkuk a similarly young suicide bomber attacked there, but in that case with far fewer victims. So, this is a tactic that is not new, although every time you hear about it is shocking. Rosemary.", "It certainly is. And, Ben, give us an idea whether this attack and the ones that have come before it a changing security in any way across the country and how people are approaching the way they live their lives now.", "Well, certainly security has ramp up. In fact, we were going to Istanbul International Airport yesterday, where on the 28th of June, 44 people were killed in the ISIS attack. And there was a very long line of cars waiting to go in. They're being checked. The security has been ramped up but many people certainly here in Gaziantep feel that security is still lacking. There is still complaints that the border between Turkey and Syria and of course, the Syrian border is just 40 kilometers south of here is not tight enough that there aren't enough controls. And the problem is there are already ISIS also working in Turkey, we saw them at work at the airport in June in Istanbul, we saw them perhaps the work herein Gaziantep. And over the last few months Turkish police have broken up ISIS cells but there are certainly many more that they haven't. Rosemary?", "All right. Our Ben Wedeman keeping us to date on the situation there of that shocking blast that may have involved a child suicide bomber. Talking to us there from Gaziantep in Turkey just after 10 o'clock in the morning. All right, on a much brighter note, Brazil showed the world a stylish finish to the Olympics. The closing ceremony was every bit as flamboyant as we have come to expect from Rio. Fans and athletes gathered in the iconic Maracana Stadium to say goodbye to the games. And there is still one flourish left to rock things up. The city of god favela will host a victory parade later Monday. Now with the games over, here is now how the medal count finished. The U.S. ended with a huge lead at the top bringing in 121 total medals. Great Britain sets a new national records for medals and held of China to take second. Russia was at number four despite losing nearly a third of its athletes to a doping scandal, and Germany rounded out the top five. All right. Our Christina Macfarlane has been in Rio tracking everything since day one and she joins us now live. And of course, doing such a great job. So, Christina, it's all over now, how did the closing ceremony compares the overcoming ceremony do you think and let's talk about the highlights the ones that everyone else is talking about.", "Rosemary, I can't believe it's all come to an end, and I was lucky enough to witness it in the Maracana later or later, I should say this evening. And I think if the opening ceremony was a bit more formal, a bit more sort of nervous tensions for what was to come here in Brazil at the backdrop of all the political and economic problems that they have been suffering. The closing party tonight was definitely more of a somber celebration. There were people dancing in the isles, there was a colorful riot of music and dances and it was just fantastic to witness. You know, I think some of the stand out moments for me was in the pouring rain and it really has been biblical here this evening seeing the athletes coming in at the parade of nations and just enjoying themselves taking selfies with one another, you know, holding the -- bearing the flags, of course. And I think the athlete who was most popular of the night was Simone Biles of the USA gymnast who really set this Olympics alike. So actually called to hold up on the walk way because so many of the athletes wanted to have their pictures taken with her. But I think perhaps the standup moment of the night came not from Brazil but from Japan when the ceremony or hand over took place between Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. The Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe actually stood up in the middle of the Maracana came through the center of the Maracana dressed head to toe as Super Mario and he ripped off the mask to reveal himself to gasp from the crowd. It was completely unexpected and it gave us a bit of tantalizing hint and a look ahead to what we can expect from Tokyo in four years' time. I think the only disappointing aspect perhaps to this closing ceremony was that it was about half empty. About 60 percent full. It's the problem we've seen of course in this game. Maybe the rain keeping people away because they say it really was very heavy indeed tonight. But the party still going on long into the night and a Rio celebration, I think the Brazil has achieved something here that they didn't think they would get to this point delivering a largely successful Olympic Games.", "Yes, I think they certainly surprise everyone, didn't they. So, let's take a closer look at some of those success stories, the big winners in terms of medals, the ones to remember.", "Well, you mentioned the medal count earlier on, and obviously team USA, far and away the most successful nation of these games as we though they won of course, 121 medals. It is their best ever showing of the Olympic Games except for the 1984. Remember we have that Soviet boycott. Now hardly surprising they have three of the best athletes of this game in the side Michael Phelps, Simone Biles who are mentioned and Katie Ledecky. And swimming overall was the most successful event. But I'm rather delighted to say that Great Britain I think of being one of the surprise packages of these games finishing in second. You know after London 2012, we expected their medal tally to drop and not go up. But it actually exceeded London by some six medals. They finished on 70 -- sorry, 67, and ahead of China as well. China really underperforming the worst performance they've had actually in two decades. But I think the biggest crowd players out here has been and delight really for the home crowd has been just how well Brazil have done here. You know, they finished with another medal on Sunday in the volleyball with the men. We could hear people cheering in the streets. They finished with 19 medals in total and with a very special moment I think for Brazil to round the games off that way.", "Yes, certainly, and you have done a spectacular job, too. Christina Macfarlane, joining us from Rio, 4 o'clock in the morning. You've kept us all accompanied those of us who keep this unguardedly hours. Many thanks on a job well done. I appreciate it.", "Thank you.", "And of course, as the dust settles on another Olympics, organizers are calling the Rio Games a success. They were never even close to being as disaster as these critics warned before the competition began. But these Olympics certainly didn't lack controversy though. Our Don Riddell looks at the highs and lows of Rio.", "The Rio Olympics was far from perfect. Empty seats suggesting a lack of interests. Heartbroken boxers and judges dismissed for debate of scoring. Troubled waters that turned uncontrollably green and American swimmers disgracefully out of their depths.", "The guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it. Pulled to my forehead. I over exaggerated that story.", "But, there were so much more.", "It's a dream come true and I am definitely very happy I came back for one more.", "We vowed to a legend in the pools and crowned an immortal on the track, Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt signed off in Rio. We may never see their likes again.", "The world has seen that you can do it the right way and that's very important.", "Katie Ledecky redefine the concept of winning crushing the field and finishing half the pool ahead of the best in the world. Another 19-year-old Simone Biles took the sport of gymnastics to an unimaginable new hights. With four golds each these are the stars of now and of the future.", "We're just all so happy and excited.", "So, we might be seeing you in four years.", "Yes.", "But it is about much more than simply winning. Ground breaking achievement, unconditional inclusion enlightened acceptance. The sheer joy of the refugee team and action was humbling.", "It is really incredible for me.", "To became hope for a lot of people.", "For a new Olympic nation, Kosovo's first ever gold medal was heartwarming.", "It was such a historical moment and not just for sports across the world but for Kosovo as a country.", "And the Brazilian judoka who rose from the slums of Rio to stand on top of the podium, a powerful symbol of hope. This was a game where athletes found a voice. As Olympics boss' vivid a level playing field was demanded.", "Athletes have their last drug, we're going to make some real changes in the doping world.", "With the new cold war simmering in the pool, America's Lilly King became a foster child for clean sport, but here vilified Russian opponent show a human side too, conveying a love for her training home of five years of all places, America.", "Life is such easier than in Russia. Everybody is smiling.", "The best dignity of these Olympics if you get knock down don't just get back up again, but help out your opponents up, too.", "That was another spirit in me. I feel like that was god's spirit in me, I know it was.", "Rio still has its problems and the Olympics couldn't possibly cure them all but perhaps the game has shown us the way, global community pushing each other and lending a helping hand to those lagging behind. The game still inspire, the games do still matter. Don Riddell, CNN, Rio.", "All right. A job well done there. We'll take a very short break. But still to come, Donald Trump maybe revising one of his more controversial positions of what his campaign manager says. And after the break we go inside the packed jail in the Philippines to show you the consequences of the president's war on drugs there.", "This jail is so crowded that the guards tell me that every single step is used as a place to sleep."], "speaker": ["ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR", "BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "CHURCH", "WEDEMAN", "CHURCH", "CHRISTINA MACFARLANE, CNN WORLD SPORTS ANCHOR", "CHURCH", "MACFARLANE", "CHURCH", "MACFARLANE", "CHURCH", "DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR", "RYAN LOCHTE, U.S. OLYMPICS SWIMMER", "RIDDELL", "MICHAEL PHELPS, U.S. OLYMPIC SWIMMER", "RIDDELL", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "RIDDELL", "SIMONE BILES, U.S. OLYMPIC GYMNAST", "RIDDELL", "BILES", "RIDDELL", "KATIE LEDECKY, U.S. OLYMPIC SWIMMER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "RIDDELL", "MAJLINDA KELMENDI, KOSOVO JUDO GOLD MEDALIST", "RIDDELL", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "RIDDELL", "YULIA EFIMOVA, RUSSIAN SWIMMING SILVER MEDALIST", "RIDDELL", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "RIDDELL", "CHURCH", "IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT"]}
{"id": "CNN-15061", "program": "Early Edition", "date": "2000-9-1", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/01/ee.05.html", "summary": "Transportation Secretary Slater Discusses Airline Traffic, Bridgestone/Firestone Tire Recall", "utt": ["Travelers, you have a lot to think about this Labor Day weekend: the airlines, gas prices, the Bridgestone/Firestone tire recall. So let's bring in Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater, who joins us from Washington to talk about some of these issues. Good morning, Mr. Secretary.", "Good morning, Carol.", "Well, you saw the Gallup poll. Are you surprised?", "I did. I'm not surprised. I'll tell you, it's good to hear the news. We've known that we're actually performing better this year as compared to last year. We did have some difficulties. We had the situation with United, but they have corrected that situation and I know they're committed to providing quality service, and that's management and labor, the pilots as well. We had the difficult month of June: 19 bad weather days as compared to five last year, 12 of those consecutive. But overall, we've seen improvements over the course of the spring, summer months.", "Well, at the same time, though, your department and the government is looking into the possibility that airlines are overscheduling themselves. In fact, United is now running these commercials saying that they're going to fly fewer planes and try to have less crowded skies. So do you think overscheduling is still a problem then?", "Well, there's only so much capacity in the system. And when you've got the longest economic expansion in the nation's history, people able to fly, and you've got good ticket prices, you can tax the system a bit. We have load factors in the 80 percent range. On average a couple years ago, it was around 65 percent. So we're moving a lot more people, we've had challenges with the weather, but I think, overall, we've done a good job here and we've worked together in doing so.", "One more quick question on air travel: I found it very interesting that we're borrowing airspace from the Canadians and we're also working with the Department of Defense on some new technology to deal with weather problems?", "That's right. And here I want to commend our FAA administrator Jane Garvey and the team that we're working with across the airline industry to look at ways that we can expand the capacity of the system. And, you're right, we're working with Canada and we're also working with the Department of Defense, and that gives us, especially, additional space here on the East Coast and up in the Northeast portion of United States where we have a lot of congestion and the most significantly congested airspace in the country; and for that matter, some of the most congested airspace in the world.", "Well, let's talk about safety right here on the ground, with the Bridgestone/Firestone recall well under way now. Jac Nasser of Ford is saying he will testify before Congress, and he says he's going to bring documents which will prove what they knew about these tires and when they knew it. Is that going to satisfy you that Ford did not know ahead of time that they were getting potentially defective tires?", "Well, I think it's very important for Ford to step forward, along with Firestone. We all have an obligation here. We say that safety is a promise that we have to make and keep together for the benefit of the American people. I know that safety is the number one transportation priority for this administration, so I'm looking forward to hearing more. I can tell you that we've been working very closely with Ford and Firestone. We have updated our figures as it relates to the fatalities. That number is now at 88. We've also identified about 250 people who've been injured.", "Mr. Secretary...", "I'm looking forward to another briefing earlier this morning, and we may have a bit more to say about this later.", "Do you suspect collusion here, though?", "I wouldn't say that. We're just trying to get to the facts. I think it's very important not to point fingers, to expect people to be honorable and up front, forthright in providing information, and I think that's what we're going to have here. We're talking about two fine companies, and clearly we're talking about a dedicated NHTSA staff within the Department of Transportation. And we're going to get to the bottom of it, and we're going to then focus on the future and the safety of the traveling public.", "All right, thank you very much, Secretary Slater. Happy travels to you this weekend.", "Thank you."], "speaker": ["CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR", "RODNEY SLATER, TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY", "LIN", "SLATER", "LIN", "SLATER", "LIN", "SLATER", "LIN", "SLATER", "LIN", "SLATER", "LIN", "SLATER", "LIN", "SLATER"]}
{"id": "CNN-214106", "program": "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER", "date": "2013-9-6", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/06/cg.01.html", "summary": "Unemployment Rate Dips to 7.3 Percent", "utt": ["Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. Now, it's time for the money lead. Let's start with the latest report card on the economy. The Labor Department says the U.S. added 169,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.3 percent. That's just a hair. But that might not necessarily be such good news. Think about this thing -- it's called the labor participation rate. The percentage of people who either have a job or who are looking for a job -- that fell to just over 63 percent. That's the lowest level in 35 years and some economists blame that on a lack of good jobs. Soon it might be hard to tell where the phone ends and the pad begins. Reports say Apple is thinking of a wider iPhone, with a screen of up to six inches. That's inches more than the iPhone 5. The wide iPhone is still in the planning stages but Apple clearly doesn't like having its bell rung by Samsung. The Korean company surged in the smartphone market, in part because you don't have to squint to read the screen. Now to the buried lead. It was a reunion more than 50 years and one civil rights movement in the making. Ruby Bridges was only 6-years- old back in 1960. She was one of the first African-American children to attend a white school in New Orleans. It was a scary time, with racist backlash. And she needed protection from a federal marshal. The story inspired a Norman Rockwell painting. And 50 years later, that child and her protector met again. Ruby and Charles Burks, now 91 years old, met for the first time since that day. The meeting between the two was filmed, that will be part of an exhibit at an Indianapolis museum. Coming up, one retired Army general is calling it a war the Pentagon doesn't want. I'll ask two veterans what they think about attacking Syria. And in politics, when Joe Biden starts a sentence with words like \"my staff told me not to do this\", you know it's going to be good. Stay with us."], "speaker": ["TAPPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-323423", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-10-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/12/cnr.18.html", "summary": "Storm Winds Fuel California's Wildfires; At Least 23 Killed As Wildfires Spread In California; North Korea Foreign Minister: Trump Has Lit The Wick Of War", "utt": ["You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Los Angeles.", "Ahead this hour, California's deadly firestorm is getting worse driven by strong dry winds forcing entire town to evacuate, and officials warn the worst may be yet to come.", "Plus, Donald Trump picks a new fight with the American can media after a report claims the U.S. wants a dramatic build-up of this country's nuclear arsenal.", "And more women coming forward accusing the Hollywood mogul, Harvey Weinstein, of sexual misconduct.", "Hello and thank you for joining us. I'm Isha Sesay.", "I'm John Vause. Great to have you with us. You're watching Newsroom L.A. California's wildfires are on their way to becoming the deadliest and most destructive in the state's history. Nearly 8,000 firefighters have so far been unable to contain 22 separate fires. There's been a return of dry gusty winds and low humidity in the region.", "At least 23 people are now dead, hundreds more are missing. The fires have destroyed tens of thousands of hectares and forced more than 20,000 people from their homes. These wildfires are also devastating the state's renowned Wine Country, destroying the livelihoods of so many who live and work in the region. Well, Jeff Okrepkie joins me by phone. His home in Santa Rosa was destroyed in one of the fires. Jeff, thank you for being with us. I am so sorry for all that you and your family have gone through this past few days. How are you guys doing?", "We're maintaining. We're lucky enough to have a good group of friends and family around us and community support. And we consider ourselves to be very lucky and very fortunate, all things considered.", "Yes. I know that on Sunday you saw the fires advancing on the news; you're watching T.V., this is around 11:00 p.m. But at that point, you thought that you guys were safe. Explain to our viewers what happened next?", "Yes. We saw -- and we didn't think it was a big deal because it was over in another county in Napa. And so, I started to get ready for bed, my sister called me and she said, hey, there's another one in Calistoga, which is in Napa County, but it's on the county line with where we are. So, I was like, well, it's not that big of a deal, it's still pretty far away, so don't worry about it. And then, maybe an hour later, she woke me up and said, you know, mom and dad are evacuating, call them. I called them, they said, yes, we're under mandatory evacuation. So, I said come to our house. I woke my wife up. We got the guest room ready, and during that process, I saw my neighbors outside, walked outside, and it was a scene that I can't even describe. Just smoke and ash blowing through at 60 miles an hour. When you act like, turn your back to it and cover your eyes, you know, it was some of the debris. And while I'm talking to my neighbors, another one comes running around the corner and yells, it jumped the freeway, hopper, which is the street that runs into the subdivision, is on fire. At that point it was, and we just kind of looked at each other and yell like we got to go and just turned, ran back inside and got everything and got out as quickly as we could.", "What were you able to get -- I mean, we're talking about -- I'm imagining, just minutes here. What were you able to pack up to take with you?", "Well, we got -- me and my wife, my son, our two dogs, a duffel bag of clothes split between the three of us, and some photo albums.", "Jeff, tell me about going back to the house on Monday and finding it in this state that we're looking at on our screens.", "I mean, devastating, heartbreaking. In all honesty, it was really hard to fathom. While we were out on the way, we couldn't in front of it, and see for ourselves, there's kind of a denial. And then, once we saw, it was just, everything became real, came crashing down. So, it became very emotional and very hard to just even be there.", "You know, what been -- it's all so awful, but I'm wondering for you as you try to process all of this, what's been the most difficult part of all of this for you?", "The difficult part for us is, so far, is just remembering all the things that we weren't able to take with us. Whether it's old pictures or my wife, whose father passed away, we had some of his stuff in the house that's now gone. And then, just like the heart-wrenching stuff of remembering where I was standing and what I was thinking and knowing that if I just turned to my left, I could 've grabbed something that, you know, a picture us, and I forgot to do that and run out of the house. That's the hard stuff. It's the stuff that while they're just things, there's a ton of sentiment and emotional weight behind them.", "Yes. No, I totally understand. I also know you that guys have renter's insurance. I know you plan to build in the neighborhood, and we are wishing you the very, very best through this difficult time. Our hearts go out to you and stay safe out there.", "Thank you very much.", "Thank you.", "OK. Let's go to Pedram Javaheri at the CNN center with the weather forecast here. Because Pedram, we were hoping that there is going to be a return of humidity, these winds were going to die down, but it's quite the opposite now, and that's what the problem is here.", "Yes, it was very short-lived. You know, it was early this morning, late last, that was when we had the humidity in place, the winds had calmed down briefly. They're back up; it's very dry, and, of course, the steam's playing out like this. And you know, it is as explosive as a fire weather situation as you see here, really across anywhere in the world. But in California, in particular, we'll break down exactly what's happening because look at the deadliest wildfires in state history. The tubs fire alone, the one just outside of Santa Rosa County are, now the fifth deadliest all time. Of course, you look at statewide, 23 fatalities known so far. With that said, that would move it right up since the deadliest, since the 1991 Tunnel Oakland Hills fire that took with it 25 lives. So, the perspective kind of puts it into eerie region there as far as the fatalities are seen. But we started the year with tremendous rainfall and tremendous snowfall. That was January across the state of California, just about everyone saw precipitation. In April, still very healthy; for May, June, into July, it began shutting off, as you would expect in the dry season. But what occurred is a tremendous growth in vegetation in that few months of heavy rainfall. With that said, of course, the vegetation flourishes, the rainfall shuts off, it instantly becomes now fuel that's in place there for these fires to absorb. And 35 large active fires seeing an area; six times the size of San Francisco now consumed across the state, much of it around the northern portion of the state with five million people underneath the fire weather concerns of red flag warnings, red flag watches. A critical risk in place now that is -- on a scale of one to three, that is a two right there putting Napa, Santa Rosa, parts of Sacramento in place as well. Look at these videos coming out of -- from our viewers there across portions of Northern California not far from Santa Rosa. What you want to look for here is the elevated terrain because that place has a significant role in why the firefighters often have a hard time keeping the upper hands on these flames. In fact, on a 20-degree slope, which much of California's rolling hills, very much sloped. But fire will want to travel here around 20 kilometers per hour but bump that slope up to 30 degrees, that doubles the fire's speed. So, essentially, I often use the analogy of taking a match, holding it straight out against your finger, it gradually burns towards your hand, give it a slope, it instantly begins burning up towards your fingers. That's precisely what's happening here with this elevated terrain that firefighters have to keep with. And unfortunately, looking at the models, John and Isha, rainfall, the best bet for that would be about seven days away, and it's not a good bet either -- just barely makes it into the forecast seven days from right now. And the winds, of course, are going to be high, the temps want to warm up as well into the weekend. Guys?", "OK. Pedram, thank you.", "Pedram, thank you. All right. Shifting gears now, and U.S. President Donald Trump has \"lit the wick of war.\" That's according to North Korea's foreign minister following weeks of increasingly heated rhetoric between the two countries.", "North Korea says the tipping point came last month at the U.N. when Trump warned the U.S. would totally destroy North Korea is forced to defend itself or its allies. And on Wednesday, the U.S. President said, when it comes to dealing with North Korea only one person's opinion matters.", "I think I have a little bit different attitude on North Korea than other people might have. And I listen to everybody, but ultimately, my attitude is the one that matter, isn't it? That's the way it works. That's the way the system is. But I think I might have a somewhat different attitude and different way than other people. I think, perhaps, I feel stronger and tougher on that subject to other people, but I listen to everybody. And ultimately, I will do what's right for the United States, and really what's right for the world.", "To San Francisco now, and Paul Carroll, a Senior Adviser with N Square, a group working to eliminate this threat from nuclear weapons. You know, Paul, we had this NBC news report that this past July, the U.S. president -- we showed a graph showing what was dramatic fall over the past few decades in the number of U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons. Apparently, Mr. Trump points to the peak in 1969 when the U.S. had 32,000 nukes. He said, he wanted that many, up from the current 4,000. OK. Is there any strategic reason, is there any threat facing the United States right now that would require an increase in the nuclear stockpile to that extent?", "Absolutely not. It's as simple as that. There are several reasons why it was sensible to reduce those ridiculously large arsenals from the height of the cold war, and frankly, continue to reduce the lower levels we have today. You'd be hard-pressed to find a thoughtful military leader, foreign policy expert to come up with a situation where the use of a nuclear weapon would be a sensible thing to do.", "And with that in mind, when most people look at that graph and the falling numbers, they see a success story, right?", "Absolutely. I mean, the height of the cold war -- I mean, we almost joke about it now. There were nearly 70,000 nuclear weapons on the planet. Nearly all of them owned and operated and deployed by the United States and the Soviet Union. We barely got through that and several secretaries of defense and secretaries of state who served both Republicans and Democrats said, you know what, we were more lucky than smart. Well, do we want to play that movie again? No one thinks so.", "The sort of the paradox of having a nuclear arsenal is that it's there not to be used. And with that in mind, you know, there are a lot of good reasons apart from nuclear -- you know, avoiding nuclear annihilation to reduce that stockpile, just the costs alone of maintaining it.", "You're absolutely right. In fact, I would go a step further. Those who believe that nuclear deterrence, in fact, works are one school of thought. It's not a proven fact. It's a theory. It's been a national posture over the years. It's really unprovable. Now, deterrence with a small \"d\" is something there's more evidence for. You know, if you hit me, I'm going to hit you back. Well, that makes you think twice. When you get into the realm of nuclear weapons with their devastating effects and long-lived effects, you're in a whole different realm. And I would actually, John, respectfully correct you, over the years U.S. policy has, in fact, considered using nuclear weapons. We went through years where our doctrine and our policy envisioned using them in warfighting scenarios, that was very scary. And that's what the president's comments harken back to. Let's have more nuclear weapons? Let's consider using them? It's quite frightening.", "Well, just on the flip side of all of this, is the U.S. in any position to increase its nuclear stockpile back to the degree of 1969, 32,000 nukes, from 4,000? And even if it tried, what impact would that have globally?", "Right. So, putting aside the fact that it's completely preposterous to do so, that you wouldn't want to do so, could you do so? Well, it would require a lot of things. It would require an awful lot of money, it would require basically capital improvements in some of the most toxic and dirty sites in the country. The former production sites in Hanford, Washington and Savannah River, South Carolina, all over the place where we produced plutonium, highly enriched uranium, chemical poisons, and constituents -- it would be like recreating the Manhattan project on steroids.", "Good way to put it. You know, Donald Trump was talking about nuclear weapons long before he became president. Back in 1984, he was developing. He told the Washington Post, he thought he could negotiate a great deal on arms control with the Soviet Union. He claimed, he would know exactly what to demand of the Russians, though, he conceded his lack of experience in the technical field of nuclear weaponry. \"It would take an hour and a half to learn everything there is to know about missiles. I think I know most of it anyway,\" he said. \"You're talking about just getting updated on a situation.\" Given everything else he has said to about nuclear weapons here, does this paint a picture of someone who just doesn't fully understand, you know, what a nuclear war could eventually look like and what a nuclear missile actually does?", "Absolutely. I mean, the reports we have been reading in the past few days, particularly the one based on several sources. You know, whether or not it was precise, I want 30,000 nuclear weapons or not, the fact that someone would suggest greatly increasing the number of nuclear weapons to me demonstrates a complete and utter lack of appreciation for what these weapons can do. And the fact that when you talk about nuclear bombs and warheads, you're completely in a different room than when you're talking about a conventional war when you're talking about conventional explosives, that is extremely troubling to me. So, these comments and the rhetoric he's used with North Korea, the rhetoric and the sort of the threats he's made on the Iran nuclear deal, lead one to conclude that he just doesn't get it when it comes to nuclear weapons.", "At this point, there are still those around him who do. So, that is some comfort, I hope. Thank you, Paul. Good to see you.", "My pleasure. Thank you, John", "As for that report by NBC news, claiming the president wanted a ten-fold increase in the nuclear arsenal, not only did Donald Trump denied, but he also hinted the government should consider shutting down the network because of it. \"With all of the fake news coming out of NBC and the networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their license? Bad for the country.\" That seems to be an empty threat because NBC doesn't actually have a license. As Jessica Rosenwatch, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, pointed out, \"Not how it works.\" According to the FCC Web site, we license only individual broadcast stations. We do not license T.V. or Radio Networks such as CBS, NBC, ABC, or Fox.\" Despite that, the president followed up with another similar threat just hours ago. \"Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged, and if appropriate revoked. Not fair to the public.\" President Richard Nixon tried a similar tactic during Watergate when his close business associates targeted the licenses of two local stations in Florida owned by the parent company of the Washington Post, which was in full investigation mode. Only this time it seems, the president doesn't understand how the FCC works. Besides that, he has made no demands for NBC to back up the report. He has offered no evidence to prove it is wrong and said strongly suggesting the network should be silenced. And during a photo op with Canada's prime minister, he added this.", "It's frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write, and people should look into it.", "Which seems to remove all doubt if ever there was any. The president does not value a free press, nor does he understand how a free press works.", "Well, we're going to take a quick break now. In Hollywood, insiders say Harvey Weinstein's reputation after sexual harassment was an open secret. Just ahead, who knew about and why they didn't speak up?", "Also, while people were running from a spray of bullets in Las Vegas, there was a frantic search for the gunman. 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{"id": "CNN-307658", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2017-03-15", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1703/15/es.01.html", "summary": "Dutch Voters Cast Ballots Today.", "utt": ["Welcome back. Voters are heading to the polls in the Netherlands today in what's seen of the first of several elections testing a populist sentiment in Europe this year. Immigration and the continued membership in the European Union of some of the hot button of a campaign to elect a new parliament and it comes amid growing attentions with Turkey serving as a backdrop. CNN's Atika Shubert live for us in the Netherlands as voting there gets underway. Good morning, Atika. Good afternoon -- I guess it's late morning for you.", "That's right. It's still morning here. And we're inside a polling station here in Volendam, people have just been voting. It's been a pretty steady trickle of people coming through. They've had more than 100 votes in the first hour. And they expect about 70 percent to 75 percent turnout. Now, this is a town of about 23,000 people were in. And the last election, quite a number voted for Geert Wilders of the far right Freedom Party. But that may change this election. Immigration, identity have been part of a very heated debate here. But a lot of voters have been telling us, the economy matters to them and health care. And a lot of voters, even as of last night, haven't made up their minds yet. They're going into the voting booth right this morning really still unsure. It's a very unpredictable election and it will be a tight race for all of the candidates.", "Here's something so interesting, Atika, about the nationalism you're seeing in some of these European elections. The Dutch economy is actually doing pretty well, isn't it?", "It's doing actually very well. They've had growth the last year of 2.1 percent. That's actually more than the United States had. And it's something that the incumbent prime minister is putting his election, his reelection campaign to. He's saying, you know, with the austerity programs we've put in place, growth has come back, let's not change the plan by going with a candidate like Geert Wilders who wants to have a referendum throughout the E.U. So, this is part of his campaign. Let's stay the course. Whether or not that's what voters ultimately choose, we'll have to find out later tonight. Results come in around 9:00 p.m. local time.", "Yes, and fascinating. Fascinating parallels to the U.S. election where just as the economy was starting to do better, you heard in the voting -- you know, in the polling places, people thought the economy was terrible and that really directed and influenced their vote. Thank you so much, Atika Shubert. We'll check in with you as voting continues today.", "Five deaths now blamed on the nor'easter that slammed the Northeast but the snowfall and strong winds aren't over for some areas. The storm easier than expected on major cities, like Philadelphia, Washington and certainly here in New York. But smaller running like Binghamton, New York, where buried, you can't spot the car under all that snow.", "Oh my goodness!", "Sort of. I think there's a mirror we see hanging out. Record-breaking snow totals of almost 30 inches there with more expected today.", "The snow, winds, the sleet, making a mess in Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania rather. This downed tree crushed a car and car's spun out as cameras were rolling near Boston. Amtrak will run modified service today between Boston and D.C. Nearly a thousand flights cancelled already for today. Uh-oh, a total of almost 9,000 since Monday. Schools in Boston still closed today. Some schools in New Jersey via the New York suburbs also closed for today. So, who has the most snow and what conditions are they facing? Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri tells us.", "Hey, Dave and Christine. After yesterday here, you're seeing some improvement across parts of the major cities, but you work your way towards the north, it is a different story. Still some heavy snow left in place fall around the Southwest, 90s in place around places like Phoenix. But look at this, Bridgewater, in the Catskill Mountains, 40 inches came down. In places like Norfolk, we're talking about a 15 to 25 or so inches. And in just a few miles, a significant difference. Central Park, 7 inches, four miles away, the observations of 13 inches in place. So, again, it shows you the significant differences based on the track of that storm. But still, some snow showers left in place around northern Vermont, northern New Hampshire today, about 3 million underneath the blizzard warning that's in place, and about 20 million in the winter weather alerts. But expect about eight to 12 more inches to come down in places like Syracuse, potentially around Burlington, work your way out towards Stowe (ph), could see another foot of this before it's all done with by this afternoon. And just a blustery day left in store across much of the Northeast today. And notice, it really wants to warm up, but not by much, not at these seasonal levels there where we should be around 49. We keep it below that level through at least the next week across the Northeast.", "Thank you, Pedram. What did you get there at home?", "I don't even know.", "We haven't been home yet because of it.", "I'm afraid.", "I don't know either.", "I'm afraid. We've made it almost two years for Donald Trump's taxes, now that we have it, or some of it, it's more like a -- more like a distraction than a big revelation. Who decided to leak out this information?"], "speaker": ["ROMANS", "ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ROMANS", "SHUBERT", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS", "BRIGGS", "ROMANS"]}
{"id": "CNN-236119", "program": "EARLY START", "date": "2014-08-06", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1408/06/es.03.html", "summary": "Spurs Hire Female Assistant Coach", "utt": ["The world champion San Antonio Spurs made an historic move Tuesday, hiring Becky Hammon as the first ever full-time paid female assistant coach in the", "Good stuff. Andy Scholes has more in the \"Bleacher Report\" this morning. So, Berman's telling me, Andy, he's not exactly the first, but the first paid. And I said, oh, good thing she's paid. Come on.", "Yes, that's right. Back in 2001, Lisa Boyer was with the Cavs, and she was just come and go as you please. And you can hang out with us but you're not going to get paid. This time, Hammon is going to get paid. The Spurs, they're known for being the most progressive team in the NBA, and they once again showed why with this move. And it's going to happen after Hammon wraps up her 16th WNBA season this summer. And then she's going to join Greg Popovich on the Spurs bench. And as we just said, Hammon will be the first ever full-time paid female assistant in the NBA. She spent much of the last season as sort of informal intern with the team. She attended practices and film sessions and now, it's led to a permanent job.", "I'm a little overwhelmed right now to be perfectly honest. And just -- it's as great as it is, this opportunity, it's also incredibly humbling at the same time. So, feeling a lot of emotions, but those would probably just be the two driving forces, just thankful and just humbled.", "The three-way series in L.A. providing some exciting baseball late last night. Angels down around the eighth when Albert Pujols takes Brian Wilson deep for his 21st home run of the year. That tied the game at 4. Fast forward to the bottom of the night, runners on first and third. The Dodgers David Freese fields the chopper, tries to go home but makes a bad throw. The Dodgers get the walk off win 5-4. This year's biggest acquisition at the trade deadline, David Price making his debut with the Tigers last night at Yankee Stadium. He was on his game, striking out 10 in 8 2/3 innings. Price did not factor into the decision but his team still got the win. Alex Avila hit a solo home run in the twelfth inning. Tigers beat the Yankees, 4-3. Trending on bleacherreport.com this morning, will Tiger Woods play in the final major of the year? That's the question surrounding this week's PGA championship. Tiger withdrew from last week's Bridgestone Invitational with a back injury. Yesterday, he filed an extension to register for the PGA Championship, which means he has until his tee time tomorrow morning to decide if he's going to play. And, of course, guys, he's still looking for that first major win since the 2008 U.S. Open. Incredible to think it's been that long --", "You don't file an extension unless you think you have a serious shot of playing. So, we'll see what happens this week. Andy Scholes, great to see you today. Thanks so much.", "All right. Coming up next on EARLY START, silence over Gaza. For now, a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel holding for a second day. But can a permanent peace actually be worked out? Negotiators in Cairo this morning. We're going to take you there live for an update after this break."], "speaker": ["BERMAN", "NBA. HARLOW", "ANDY SCHOLES, BLEACHER REPORT", "BECKY HAMMON, SPURS ASSISTANT COACH", "SCHOLES", "BERMAN", "HARLOW"]}
{"id": "CNN-239370", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2014-09-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1409/22/cnr.01.html", "summary": "Two White House Security Breaches; U.S. Leads Push to Stop ISIS Recruits", "utt": ["Thanks so much. Have a great day. NEWSROOM starts now.", "Happening now in the NEWSROOM, vanished.", "Jesse Matthew was the last person she was seen with.", "Breaking overnight, the search for missing UVA student Hannah Graham intensifies. Gone for nine days as her parents --", "My name is John Graham.", "-- make a plea for help.", "We need to find out what happened to Hannah.", "Also, White House jumper.", "There was a failure here.", "Two major security breaks.", "This is absolutely inexcusable.", "Why was the White House front door unlocked? Why weren't the dogs launched? New concerns and new questions about the Secret Service. And climate march.", "We are at a pivotal turning point.", "Hundreds of thousands taking to the streets as the United Nations begins to debate environmental action. This morning new protests aimed at Wall Street. Let's talk live in the CNN NEWSROOM.", "Good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. We begin this morning with the desperate search for a missing college student and the heartbreaking pleas from her parents.", "What we want to do now is to bring Hannah home safely. And I appeal to anybody who knows anything. Please, please help us.", "Nine days after Hannah Graham vanished, police want to talk to this man. They say Jesse Matthew was the last known person to be seen with Hannah. Police have searched his car and his apartment and they're now trying to find him. CNN's Jean Casarez live in Charlottesville near the University of Virginia campus. Tell us more, Jean.", "You know, Carol, we've heard so much about the downtown mall area. Well, this is it. This is it in Charleston, Virginia. And the last known place that Hannah was ever seen alive. Now her parents are here in the area. They have been all week. But they never came out to speak publicly. And I could tell yesterday it took all of the strength that they had to step up to that microphone.", "Hannah is also our little girl. She's our only daughter. And she's James' sister. She's also -- Hannah is also the oldest granddaughter both of my own parents and Sue's parents. And she's actually my parents' only granddaughter. And she's enormously precious to us all.", "The parents of Hannah Graham spoke publicly the first time on Sunday pleading for help in finding their daughter.", "We know Hannah was downtown early Saturday morning. We know Hannah was distinctively dressed. Did you see Hannah? Did anybody see Hannah? Did you see Hannah? Did you see Hannah? Who saw Hannah? Somebody did.", "At a press conference Sunday, Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo in an unusual move publicly pointed fingers.", "I believe Jesse Matthew was the last person she was seen with before she vanished off the face of the earth. Because it's been a week and we can't find her.", "Law enforcement says Matthew was seen on surveillance video walking behind Hannah at the Downtown Mall. While members of the community look for Hannah this weekend, Jesse Matthew walked into the Charlottesville Police Department.", "Walked right through the front door with a couple of family members. He got inside and he asked for a lawyer, and we found him one.", "Still law enforcements admits they don't have probable cause to tie him to this case.", "I think that the reason that Hannah has such marvelous support is that this is every parent's worst nightmare. I'm certain that everybody in this room and those watching knows that what happened to Hannah could happen to their child. We need to find out what happened to Hannah and make sure that it doesn't happen to anybody else.", "An emotional plea to help push this investigation forward.", "And I was able to confirm that Jesse Matthew does work at the University of Virginia Hospital, the medical center. Police tell me he is an orderly there. And those that know him in this community that I've spoken with say that he would be the first to help Hannah, not hurt her. And what he does for a living is he helps people at the hospital when they are patients there -- Carol.", "Yet this man went into the police department and said here I am. I know you're looking for me. And then he asked for a lawyer and then he disappeared. It just sounds suspicious, Jean.", "Well, here are the facts that we know. He walked in the police department just as you're saying, he asked for an attorney. The police chief tells us that they got him an attorney. Jesse then spoke with the attorney. Well, we know, Carol, what attorneys tell their clients, don't talk. And so we don't know what they said. But after that, he left and he didn't speak with authorities. Now here's what happened after that. Later on in the day, authorities saw him in his car. They believed he was driving at an excessive rate of speed. So the Virginia State Department of Police have issued two arrest warrants for misdemeanor reckless driving. They have not arrested him. They have those outstanding warrants. But today the police chief tells me he expects it to be a very big day. He wants the results of the forensic testing from Jesse Matthew's car and the apartment. He tells me that the forensic investigators spent hours on that car. And if he doesn't get the results by this afternoon, he says that he's going to make a phone call because he needs those results, obviously, Carol, to tie in this person that is not a suspect. And they won't even admit a person of interest. Just someone they are interested in talking with.", "All right, Jean Casarez, reporting live from Charlottesville, Virginia, this morning. The U.S. Secret Service is ratcheting up security measures at the White House this morning after a pair of incidents raised new concerns about its vulnerability.", "Everybody out. Right now. Go back. Everybody into the park. Right now into the park.", "That video is just incredibly astounding, right? The scarier, the two incidents took place on Friday -- this incident -- when a man scaled the fence, dashed cross the White House lawn and actually made it through the front door. Omar Gonzalez is described as an Iraqi war veteran who was suffering from PTSD. He was unharmed and he's due in court this morning. CNN's Michelle Kosinski is at the White House with more. Good morning.", "Hey, Carol. You know, if you work at the White House, you spend time here, security is always a top concern. It's something that you think about. That's why it is so unbelievable to people here that this guy was able to jump over the high fence, and in a matter of seconds make it all the way across the yard, open up the front doors and walk inside. So now what we expect to see is more security, more surveillance outside the White House and possibly even bag checks.", "Security outside the White House now is visible, very visible. But it often is, so all the more dumbfounding that Omar Gonzalez was able to do this around 7:30 Friday night. Take a look at this new video. Sprinting, 20 or so seconds to 70 yards across the entire lawn, up the stairs, onto the Portico. There you see what appears to be a Secret Service officer with gun drawn. And Gonzalez makes it inside the White House where he was tackled. The first family was not home but in Gonzalez's pants pocket, a folding knife with a three and a half inch blade.", "How anyone especially in these days of ISIS, and with concern about terrorist attacks, someone could actually get into the White House without being stopped is inexcusable.", "Now the internal investigation. Why weren't at the very least Secret Service dogs deployed? And why couldn't officers have gotten to him before he hit those doors? In a statement, the Secret Service admits while the officers showed tremendous restraint in discipline in dealing with the subject, the location of Gonzalez's arrest is not acceptable. Now it's true officers on the roof, surely this one at the door, could have shot Gonzalez. They didn't.", "Everybody out right now. Go back. Everybody into the park.", "Law enforcement officials told us these things are always taken in context that Gonzalez didn't appear to be armed, had nothing in this hands, no bags, nothing bulky. They also said the 42-year-old Texan who spent more than a decade in the military including in Iraq seemed to have mental issues and was known to the Secret Service. Gonzalez's family members say he had been struggling lately, drifting and had PTSD. He'd retired from the army with a disability. And less than 24 hours after this breach, another man, Kevin Carr of New Jersey, tried to get in through the White House gate on foot then drove to another entrance, got out of his car and refused to leave. He too was arrested. But some now calling this the last straw.", "You know, the last couple of years have not been the greatest for the Secret Service in terms of embarrassing incidents probably starting with that couple who crashed the White House party -- remember them -- back in 2009. And then of course there was the prostitution scandal in 2012 along with some others, too. But the White House says it has full confidence in the Secret Service and says it is certain that the review will be conducted with professionalism and commitment that the American public expects. Sounding about as much like a directive as it does a statement -- Carol.", "All right. Michelle Kosinski, reporting live from the White House this morning. Three Afghan soldiers in Massachusetts for training have gone missing. The soldiers at stationed at the Joint Base Cape Cod were last seen at a nearby mall. The Massachusetts National Guard says the -- the soldiers are not a threat to the public. Earlier this month, two Afghan police officers training with the DEA wandered off during a sightseeing trip in Washington. They said they wanted to stay in the United States but they were found and eventually sent home. The U.S. is spearheading a global campaign to stop the movement of ISIS recruits. President Obama will meet with more than a dozen heads of state at the United Nations on Wednesday. And the resolution on the matter is expected to pass. The new diplomatic effort comes as U.S. airstrikes continue to pound ISIS targets inside Iraq. CNN's Barbara Starr is at the Pentagon for us this morning. Good morning.", "Good morning, Carol. Well, now it is all in President Obama's hands when and where and if to strike ISIS inside Syria.", "More weekend U.S. air strikes against ISIS in Iraq, close to 200 so far. And the Pentagon says it's ready to hit ISIS targets inside Syria at any moment, once President Obama gives final approval. The president takes his case this week to the United Nations. His U.N. ambassador arguing he has overwhelming support.", "We are not having problems getting countries to commit.", "In a rare event, the president will chair a Security Council meeting Wednesday, a demonstration of his commitment to build a consensus to take on ISIS. And CNN has now learned he is hoping to get approval for a resolution calling for countries to crack down on their citizens traveling abroad to join terrorists groups like this. Still no Arab nations have openly agreed to send ground troops or take part in air strikes in Syria. Secretary of State John Kerry is already at the U.N. lobbying for allies to help, even talking to Iran. Republican Congressman Peter King says the president shouldn't wait to build pay coalition.", "We can't be holding back. We should attack and strike and do what we can to the command and control centers that ISIS has in Syria.", "And no word on whether Turkey might now allow U.S. planes to fly from bases there after the weekend release of nearly 50 Turkish diplomats held hostage by ISIS for three months. Meanwhile, a mass exodus of Syrian refugees seeking safe haven in Turkey. Officials there opening eight checkpoints along the border. One U.N. official says she has seen 100,000 people cross in just two days.", "You can see them now digging their own graves.", "This ISIS militant speaking seemingly perfect English in a new 55-minute long propaganda video. It has U.S. officials thinking he could be an American. They're still doing voice analysis but are concerned they say that this could be the first time an American is portrayed as an ISIS leader.", "And the flames of war only beginning to intensify.", "And of course intelligence community analysts are now watching ISIS around the clock to see how they are reacting to all of this international pressure. Analysts saying that some of the terrorists are moving into cities, trying to mix in with civilian populations and changing their communications perhaps trying to avoid what they believe is a coming U.S. attack -- Carol.", "All right, Barbara Starr reporting live for us from the Pentagon. Thanks so much. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, as the parents of missing UVA student Hannah Graham wait and hope for the best, we'll talk with the father of kidnapped survivor Elizabeth Smart about what a family is going through and how you can help."], "speaker": ["CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR", "COSTELLO", "CHIEF TIMOTHY LONGO, CHARLOTTESVILLE POLICE", "COSTELLO", "JOHN GRAHAM, FATHER OF MISSING UVA STUDENT", "COSTELLO", "GRAHAM", "COSTELLO", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "COSTELLO", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-410921", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2020-09-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/14/nday.03.html", "summary": "Trump Defies Science and State Ban on Large Gatherings with Indoor Rally", "utt": ["So congratulations to the team. And also here in Jacksonville, this is the only game on Sunday that allowed fans. They had just over 14,000 in the stadium. They all had to wear masks. I was in there. They were following protocols, separate or staying away from each other. I'll tell you what though, the tailgate, a little bit of a different story. They had people park every other parking space, but it looked like a normal tailgate. We'll certainly have to wait and see how that goes.", "Yes, understood. Okay, Andy, thank you very much. And New Day continues right now.", "We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is New Day. Coronavirus has killed more than 194,000 Americans and doctors are bracing for an uptick around Henderson, Nevada, after President Trump insisted on holding a crowded rally indoors last night. Thousands of people packed together, most not wearing masks. The rally was in open defiance of a state ban on gatherings of more than 50 people. Dr. Jonathan Reiner, who we will hear from in a moment, calls the rally, quote, negligent homicide. President Trump's last indoor rally was in June, in Tulsa. You'll remember that Trump supporter Herman Cain went to that without a mask and died weeks later from coronavirus. The Trump rally was in stark contrast to scenes at sporting events across the country Sunday as the NFL began its season with teams playing in large empty stadiums.", "All right. Happening now, historic wildfires ravaging the west coast have claimed at least 35 lives in California, Oregon and Washington. Dozens of people this morning are missing. Also evacuation orders underway right now in parts of Louisiana and Mississippi, as Tropical Storm Sally intensifies. It is expected to be a hurricane by the time it makes landfall tonight. We're going to begin this morning with the pandemic. Joining us now is the aforementioned CNN Medical Analyst, Dr. Jonathan Reiner. He's a professor of medicine at George Washington University and the cardiologist for former Vice President Dick Cheney. And, Dr. Reiner, you called at what the president did last night at this indoor rally with thousands of people, most, if not, many, not wearing masks, you call it negligent homicide. Why?", "Well, that's what you call the actions of somebody who, through their negligence, causes the death of other people. We're in a pandemic. And Clark County, Nevada, has a lot of virus. So, with thousands of people, there is complete certainty that there are people in that crowd, probably asymptomatic carriers of the virus, who will spread the virus. So, what is the purpose of this, of this mass gathering? It's not in the interest of the public health. And I would respectfully suggest to the president that if he thinks it's safe to gather thousands of people in a pandemic without masks, then he should go down to the rope line and vigorously shake some hands at the end of the event. If he thinks there's very little risk to his attendees, then he should have no problem shaking some hands at the end of the event.", "That's really interesting.", "You won't see that.", "Yes, that's interesting, Doctor, because what we did see was much of his staff wearing masks. And, you know, I mean, of course, the president took prophylactic hydroxychloroquine for two weeks. We know he's worried about catching coronavirus, but then these actions just fly in the face of what any, you know, considerate person would do for others. Here is where the numbers are for Nevada. I don't know if we have Clark County specifically, but in Nevada, you see it bouncing around. This is the seven-day positivity rate. So you can see it bouncing around. It hit a spike on September 9th. So, statewide, Johns Hopkins says that, yesterday, it was 8.5 percent positivity rate. I mean, just to give some context, New York is 0.9 percent, you know, after being so high, obviously, in March and April. So New York has brought it down to that but Nevada has not.", "Right. And if you were trying to somehow increase the amount of virus in the community, what you would do is you would gather thousands of people shoulder to shoulder without masks and have them scream and yell and laugh for a few hours. That's what you would do. And that's what the president did. Look, he has been trying to create a narrative that runs counter to what we know is true, which is that this virus is rampant in this country and has killed now almost 200,000 people. And he does that by continually saying things like, we're turning the corner, we're just about done, we need to open up widely, we're not going to close down, and then having these mass events. So he's trying to create a reality that doesn't exist. So -- and this is exactly what he's been doing since he was warned on January 28th of the lethality of this virus. He's been playing it down. And now, with these rallies, he's really ramped up this kind of alternate kind of universe for him.", "It's a really good point. And Dr. Anthony Fauci has had to correct the president, albeit, gingerly, because that's how Dr. Fauci does it. He says, I respectfully have to disagree with the idea that we've turned the corner. Dr. Fauci doesn't think we've turned the corner at all. He thinks the number of daily cases is still way too high, over 30,000 a day, if not, close to 40,000 a day. He thinks it now needs to be down to 10,000 a day. Dr. Peter Hotez, who we had on earlier, called the president's rally, anti-science, deliberately, probably, anti-science, trying to create this narrative that you just brought up, and I think that's an interesting way to look at it. He is trying to really warp discussion now. And we see another example of that in part of this new sound that we heard from Bob Woodward's interview on 60 Minutes last night, where you hear Scott Pelley's voice here first, but you also hear the president talk about what could have been done differently. Listen."], "speaker": ["ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR", "ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN NEW DAY", "CAMEROTA", "JOHN BERMAN, CNN NEW DAY", "DR. JONATHAN REINER, CNN MEDICAL ANALYST", "CAMEROTA", "REINER", "CAMEROTA", "REINER", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-258678", "program": "CONNECT THE WORLD", "date": "2015-07-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1507/02/ctw.01.html", "summary": "Former Israeli President Shimon Peres on Iranian Nuclear Talks", "utt": ["A photo shoot in downtown Nairobi, along with the model, the fabric takes center stage.", "Our dominant fabric is Masai shuka. It's a very ideal, because of its' signature. You can just (inaudible) notice this is our brand.", "A brand paying homage to Kenya's Masai culture by turning traditional wear into fashionable urban wear. The company behind this vision is Waan Fam.", "The demand for local products has actually gone up. People are actually trying to get more African products so that means it's actually a big market for local designers.", "A market Jeff and Emanuel Wanjala (ph) look to capitalize on when they launched their business in 2009. One of their major successes came in 2013.", "We had a collection called 1963 Collection. It was basically to commemorate 50 years of independence. This was one of the best sales we ever had, because we had launched it on a Friday (inaudible) collection. The Letterman collection, they're college jackets. We sold like almost fifty pieces in two weeks.", "These days Wan Faam (ph) says it sells up to 100 units a month. Bags go for $18, Jackets $29. The company says it makes a good profit, but contends with piracy.", "Once you make a good product, automatically people start (inaudible). So, the new clients started thinking actually they are imitating other products.", "Changing that perception means keeping their production standards high and maintaining customer loyalty.", "We want to create a good products and create demand. I would tell anyone who is (inaudible) start a local brand, don't compromise on quality. That's number one. And don't give up on whatever you want to be. Just do what you love. And the rest will fall.", "Welcome back. You're with Connect the World. And negotiations over Iran's nuclear program have now stretched into what is a second day of overtime. Iran's foreign minister and negotiators from six world powers are still in Vienna trying to nail down a final agreement. They missed their initial deadline and have set a new one of next Tuesday. Well, a short time ago, China's foreign minister said he sees, and I quote, a high possibility of reaching a deal. But Iran's vice president, or one of them anyway, insists some concessions must be made.", "The Iranian side has already shown a serious will to resolve this issue in the previous negotiations. Hopefully this deal will be finalized and signed. All of this depends on the demands of the P5+1 countries. If they come away from their excessive demands, then for sure an agreement will be signed.", "Well, the negotiations with Iran have been heavily criticized by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But the country's former President Shimon Peres is voicing support for the talks. He spoke exclusively to CNN's Oren Liebermann who joins us now from Jerusalem -- Oren.", "And Becky, very different views here from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has been one of these negotiations and this deal's biggest critics. And then from former President Shimon Peres who says he has faith in the deal and faith in negotiators to make sure that this deal and Iran with nuclear capabilities could help stabilize the region and ensure the safety of Israel.", "The issue is very hard to even though to belittle or to find an easy solution. And this is really the key to the situation. Because in order to make sure not that Iran doesn't have right now a bomb, but they are not going to have a bomb, say, in the coming decade. The only way is either to keep your soldiers there for the coming 10 years, or to establish a system of verification that makes it true they are following their agreement. And I think now it's about the nature of verification of inspection, to make sure that what they have promised and people are skeptical about their promise, will really be accepted by them fully. I don't think that the president will compromise in it. I think the president keeps his world to this very day said Iran should not become a nuclear country. And that's their sense of the negotiations.", "What would a deal mean for Israel?", "Israel think, too. A, that in order to stop Iran from having a bomb you need a world coalition. And Obama worked very hard to establish such a coalition that comprises China, Russia, the United Europe, if you don't have a coalition like it, you wouldn't be able to have a deal with the Iranians. And it has to have also a coalition at home between the two parties. And it's not the same nature. But he established the coalition, and that's an important condition.", "Does the military option remain on the table, even if there is a deal?", "The deal is to replace the military option. To support it only if they will fight, or they'll change their minds in the middle?", "How would you describe specifically on Iran your outlook over the next few weeks and months?", "My answer is it's still in negotiations. In negotiations every party uses tactics and uses declaration. So, I think none of them gave up the main target for the United States, not the neighbor Iran to become nuclear. I think the president said clearly if I shall not achieve the major target, I shall not sign. And I believe it.", "Former President Shimon Peres says if there is a deal, that deal would contain inspections that are deep enough, that are penetrating enough, to ensure that Iran does not get a bomb, but he wouldn't say definitively whether there would or wouldn't be a deal. He says inspections, though, will be a part of that deal if it happens. We are all watching, Becky. Always fascinating to get Shimon Peres's perspective.", "Yeah. And it's no real surprise that he holds divergent views to Benjamin Netanyahu. I spoke to him this time last year during the Gaza conflict and certainly, you know, he had arguments that weren't supportive of the prime minister at the time. But I wonder how much Shimon Peres' views actually reflect those of the Israeli public as opposed to the position that Benjamin Netanyahu has taken re: Iran?", "Well, there is very much that's split. Many here agree with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that any deal, or at least a deal being formulated right now would leave Israel in an unsafe, unsecure position. it would open the door for Iran to get nuclear weapons. But, as with almost any subject here, there is that split in the public, there is that split in public opinion, and there are some, perhaps many here, who also agree with President Peres, who see the deal coming together, who see what President Obama and the foreign ministers are trying to work into this deal. And they believe that it can keep Iran from being, from having nuclear weapons. So, again, just like many other topics here, there is that split in public opinion between the side or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his very vocal side and then the side of the -- the more confident side, the more optimistic side of President Peres.", "Yeah, interesting. All right, Oren, thank you. Oren Liebermann is in Jerusalem for you this evening. We're live in Abu Dhabi. This is Connect the World with me Becky Anderson. Coming up, no don't adjust your TV, it's not 2005, Paris Hilton back in the news and she's apparently not very happy about it. 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{"id": "CNN-263816", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-09-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1509/05/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Kerry Calls Moscow On Syria Build Up Concerns; U.N.: 2,000 Migrants Arrive Daily in Hungary", "utt": ["It's created friction within governments and then among them in Europe. And I think as ISIS looks at this, it's chaos in Europe right now. And it's being played out hourly around the clock on television shows. So this is -- it's a psychological and it's an information victory at least in the short run for ISIS.", "A victory for ISIS and possibly another opportunity. Analysts say with so many migrants streaming into Europe, it's easier for ISIS to infiltrate these groups, possibly smuggle their sympathizers or maybe even operatives into Europe with them. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.", "And you are in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Deborah Feyerick in for Poppy Harlow. U.S. officials are very concerned this weekend that something is happening overseas that could escalate the conflict in Syria. Here's the concern, that Russia is building up its military presence in Syria. Secretary of State John Kerry has already spoken by phone to his counterpart in Moscow. The U.S. and Russia have very different ideas about dealing with Syria. When it comes to the civil war there and also about how to fight ISIS. The U.S. State Department says, more Russian involvement in Syria means more people will die and the desperate refugee crisis will only get worse. On that subject, a little while ago I spoke to the senior U.S. Senator from Minnesota who says that the United States needs to step up, open its doors and do more to help the displaced people fleeing Syria in such great numbers.", "I think everyone has to share in the solution. Certainly Europe must take the lead because of their proximity but also the U.S. has really only taken less than 1,000 refugees and that's why before this current crisis erupted, Senator Durbin and myself, we wrote a letter at 14 senators asking the State Department to take in more refugees to our country, obviously spread out across the country, vetted, legal refugees.", "And another development from Syria. This weekend, word that President Bashar al Assad is going to hold early elections and that he's willing to share power with some of his opponents. The Syrian and Russian governments are positioning that decision as one that will create a broader coalition to fight extremist groups like ISIS. Well, let me get Michael Weiss in here with all his knowledge, he is a CNN contributor, writes on global affairs for \"The Daily Beast,\" also the co-author of the book \"", "Inside The Army of Terror.\" So, Michael, the U.S. State Department saying, they believe Russia that there's no military buildup inside Syria. What do you find?", "Well, the evidence has been mounting, especially over the last week or two, it was an Israeli newspaper that came out with the report about two weeks ago saying that Russia plans to send an expeditionary force to Damascus which will include actually Russian Air Force pilots who will engage in combat missions. In other words, fly Russian -- and MiG jets not just to bomb ISIS but possibly also to bomb other rebel groups, including those that might be backed by the west. Now, this evidence has been, you know, added to the following. A video was posted actually by a pro-Assad militia group showing a BTR, that's an infantry fighting vehicle operating in Latakia, the coastal province from which the Assad family hails. The people inside the VTR (ph) were speaking Russian. They were taking instructions from Russian soldiers. So, this indicates that Russia may already have an active combat role on the ground. I just published a piece today in The Daily Beast quoting Syrians, including one family that has fled from Aleppo, went to Damascus and then flew out of Damascus to Turkey, saying, they were stopped at a military checkpoint in Damascus and at the check point there weren't just Syrian soldiers but also Russian soldiers imbedded. This comes amid of flurry of other corroborating bits of evidence, including citizens in Damascus saying, we see Russian officers all over the place here. They are liaising on a daily basis on restaurants and cafes with not just Syrian military brass but also Iranian military officers. So, it seems like we are almost reaching a point of, if this is a big conspiracy or a myth, somebody is manufacturing a lot of disinformation and false evidence about it because everyone is talking about this.", "And when you think about it, you have Russia, Syria, Iran, all of them now in that country.", "Right.", "Meanwhile, the eyes of the rest of the world are on every other country because you have this flood of refugees, so many of them from Syria. Is Putin simply making a move right now at this moment because nobody's watching what's going on in Syria too closely?", "It's very interesting, isn't it? He came out yesterday and said, as you mentioned, let's have early parliamentary elections, there will be some kind of power sharing government in Syria but one that will consist with what he termed the healthy opposition. He didn't dame to describe what he considers the diseased opposition but I can bet you a lot of that will include people that the Pentagon and CIA have been supporting. Also, what has happened in the last two weeks. Another unsuccessful and instantly violated cease-fire in Ukraine where the world's attention has now been taken off that conflict. Again, another Russian invasion in Eastern Europe in this case, amidst, of course, the geopolitics of the Middle East. There's an Iran nuclear deal that's been inked and it will be implemented in late July, Qasem Soleimani, he's the commander of course of the Quds Force of the revolutionary guard core of Iran traveled to Moscow, violating an international travel ban, meeting with top Russian officials to discuss, I am sure, a joint proposal for increasing security and defending the Assad regime. So if what the Russians are looking to do is essentially ring-fence those areas of Syria that they consider the so-called strategic corridor, namely from Damascus into Lebanon to secure the resupply lines for Hezbollah and also into the coastal regions such as Latakia where I mentioned earlier, evidence has emerged of Russian combat missions, that would make perfect sense. The Russians and the Iranians will work cheek by jowl to make sure that Assad's regime survives.", "So, very quickly. Just --", "Yes.", "Is Russia going in in order to either crush ISIS, crush the bad opposition, or simply to gain an intractable foothold that everyone else in Europe, in the United States, will have to deal with when it comes to trying to find some sort of negotiated solution?", "Well, this is the thing. U.S. intelligence official told The Daily Beast in this report I put out today that, you know, that if the Russians were coming in just to fight ISIS that would be one thing but we suspect not. They are coming in to prop up the regime and also as I mentioned earlier, probably to take the fight to rebel groups that frankly the U.S. still relies upon to recruit from. You know, in terms of building up the so-called train and equip program of Syrian, Sunni, Arab rebels that will then fight ISIS. You know, the Russians do not consider any opposition other than that which they have approved. In other words, an opposition that exists only in name that is really actually loyal to Assad to be worth talking to. And this has been the case for the last four years.", "So an incredible humanitarian crisis, these people likely will not get back to Syria for a very, very, very long time. Michael Weiss, thank you so much. And of course, you can all go and see his article on The Daily Beast. We appreciate it. Thanks, Michael.", "Sure.", "And now to the unprecedented migration of people pouring into Europe from the Middle East. The logjam of stranded refugees and migrants in Budapest, Hungary, has finally been broken. Most if not all are finally on their way west. Some by train, others by bus. Still others by foot. But many more are coming in behind them. The wave of people they just keep arriving. These colonies of people are following rail tracks through Serbia into Hungary. The U.N. estimates that 2,000 are crossing the border each day. UNICEF says, one in four are children. Well, the crisis has touched a nerve across Europe. People in Paris turned out for a very large rally today to show empathy and support for the migrants. CNN's senior international correspondent Fred Pleitgen is at the Austrian border as the weary travelers stumble across by the thousands.", "It was Saturday in the early morning hours when the standoff between the refugees and the Hungarian government ended. Budapest provided dozens of buses to take thousands of asylum seekers to Austria. Once they crossed the border, their fatigue and frustration turned to elation. Some like this man who lost a leg in Syria's civil war finding strength for the final walk into Austrian territory. I left about a month ago, he says. The journey across the sea was very hard, and so was the border with Macedonia. Everything was hard. Nothing was easy.", "I know. I'm very happy. All people, very happy. Thank you, Austria. Thank you, Germany.", "As more and more buses arrived, the lines of people kept moving west towards the Austrian border guards. (on camera): Even though these people are obviously absolutely exhausted, many of them have been on the road for months, have endured horrible things while they were trying to make their way over here, you can still see smiles on almost everybody's faces, simply because they are so happy to finally have made it to Austria. (voice-over): The small town of Nickelsdorf launched a massive aid drive on very short notice. Clothes, food, drinks, supplies kept arriving throughout the day, making sure the busloads of refugees received a warm welcome. \"I had to wake my colleagues up this morning and get them out of bed,\" the police officer in charge says. I think in light of the circumstances, we have done quite well. Austria says it received thousands of asylum seekers this day and the people in Nickelsdorf made sure they were taken care of. Austria's rail company launched a special train service that will bring many of the refugees to other places in Austria or to Germany and a chance to begin a new life. Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Nickelsdorf, Austria.", "Leaving because so many had no option to stay. Well, switching gears, police say that they want any tips that the public can offer. Coming up, a community seeks help raising reward money to find a cop killer."], "speaker": ["SETH JONES, RAND CORPORATION", "BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN ANCHOR", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-36663", "program": "CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK", "date": "2001-8-8", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/08/lad.12.html", "summary": "Is Cloning Safe for Humans?", "utt": ["To the debate on the brave new world of cloning. Is the science safe enough to try on humans? Researchers testified yesterday that cloning is far from perfect. But that isn't stopping some other researchers, who say hundreds of infertile couples are ready to go ahead and try it. And it raises the question to what lengths will some people go to have a baby. The debate over human cloning continues this morning. Pamela Madsen is executive director of the American Infertility Association, and she joins us from New York. Pamela Madsen, why would an infertile couple turn to cloning as an alternative?", "Well, we have to be aware that infertility is a really devastating life-stopping disease. And most people that I speak to consider having children one of the most important things that they can do in their lives. So imagine, if you can't have that family and how you would feel if you had no options left open to you. And that's why I think we have to be so concerned about researchers who may be over promising very vulnerable infertility patients the possibility of a child through cloning.", "And in what way do you think they are over promising, as you say?", "Well, we don't know that cloning is safe on humans. In fact, what we do know is that it doesn't look like it's safe. And should we allow a baby -- a very innocent child to come into this world that could have the possibility of severe birth defects. And I think that we have to be very cautious in how we proceed. And sometimes we have to take care of people a little bit when they are at their most vulnerable.", "You know, some people have likened this issue of cloning to the in vitro issue. Twenty years ago people said, in vitro is scary. You can't make a baby in a petri dish and put it in a mother's womb. Is that a fair parallel or not?", "Well, it's a fair parallel in the sense that it was the unknown. But I think that we do -- we did know more about in vitro fertilization before we did it. And I think that we know enough today about cloning in animals to know that it's not going very well in animals. And if it's not going well in animals yet, we need more research before we bring families into this. You know, not -- I think we have to also be clear that most infertile couples are not looking at cloning as an option. This is a very, very isolated cases of patients who are looking at this.", "Yes, because they have lots of options -- right. I mean, we have already talked about in vitro. But these days we have been hearing even about adopting an embryo. This has come up in the stem cell debate. I mean, you can actually go and adopt someone's embryo that they don't intend to use. So there are lots of options out there.", "You know, there is embryo adoption. There is ova donation. There is sperm donation. There is surrogacy. There are lots of -- and there are adoptions. There are lots of ways to build your family safely. And most infertile people are not looking for the exact replica of themselves.", "So do you think when people...", "So people that -- I'm sorry.", "... when these scientists talk about having 200 people, who are, you know, infertile couples who want to do this, do you think that borders on propaganda? Do you think they are really interested more in having a human laboratory to test this type of technology out?", "Well, you know, I think we have to worry about people who are looking for their own celebrity at the risk of patients. And I speak to hundreds of patients a week. And it's really interesting, because I have never spoken to an infertile person who is looking at cloning as an option for family building. Most infertile couples are looking for that really unique, special combination of DNA that's the result of their marriage or their partner -- that every special human being that has never been here before. And that's what most people are looking for. And I think it's a shame that we could have some folks out there who might be preying on vulnerable couples. It's very upsetting.", "Pamela Madsen, great to talk to you today -- appreciate your time.", "It's a pleasure. Thank you."], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, CNN ANCHOR", "PAMELA MADSEN, AMERICAN INFERTILITY ASSOCIATION", "MCEDWARDS", "MADSEN", "MCEDWARDS", "MADSEN", "MCEDWARDS", "MADSEN", "MCEDWARDS", "MADSEN", "MCEDWARDS", "MADSEN", "MCEDWARDS", "MADSEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-247336", "program": "NEW DAY SATURDAY", "date": "2015-01-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1501/17/ndaysat.01.html", "summary": "Pope Francis on Respecting Each Other's Religion", "utt": ["Our coverage continues now on the terror cells, in just a moment, but first, another development story we are covering. Pope Francis is forced to cut a visit in the Philippines short because of an approaching typhoon. We got the site earlier this morning in Tacloban where Pope Francis delivered mass to thousands. You see him here and before he had to leave Manila hours earlier than expected because of typhoon that created very dangerous traveling conditions.", "Well, on this trip now, the pope spoke about free speech, talked about the Paris terror attacks and he told journalists on this flight, \"If a friend says a swear word against my mother, then a punch awaits him. But it's normal, it's normal. One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith. One cannot make fun of faith.\" Now, with that, the pope did also stress that there was no justification for the killing of 17 people.", "All right, Anna Coren joins us now from the Philippines and Anna, obviously that comment about a punch awaits him has stirred some thoughts and emotions for a lot of people. What was Pope Francis getting at there?", "Look, the Vatican was very quick to clear that up, Victor. They said, this is kind of his free style conversational type of speech. It is not to be distorted or manipulated, whatsoever. The pope was speaking to journalist on a flight from Sri Lanka to the Philippines here, and he was making reference to obviously how, you know, these things can stir emotions within people. By no means was he justifying terror or violence. Justifying the attacks, definitely not. He has spoken out about violence and certainly about terror. Not just in Paris, but worldwide. So, the Vatican once again, making it perfectly clear that Pope Francis definitely does not justify the people's intention to kill.", "And a lot of people have conversations wondering where Muslim leaders are in condemning these attacks. Did the pope address that at all?", "Look, the pope has shown solidarity with other leaders here. And, you know, this is a very emotional time for everybody involved of all different religions. Certainly, the pope has spoken about that during his trip here to the Philippines about respecting other religions, other cultures and not mocking, which perhaps there are many people who believe that's what exactly happened with the \"Charlie Hebdo\" newspaper. But certainly, as far as the pope is concerned, he wants to see peace in the world. He doesn't condone violence, whatsoever and he's spoken out, you know, vigorously in relation to these terror attacks.", "Already. Anna Coren, we appreciate it so much. Thank you.", "Thank you, Anna. Right now, the hunt is on, of course, across Europe for suspected terrorists who may be on the run. Coming up, more about what law enforcement says are these possible additional 20 sleeper cells ready to strike.", "And some of those cells may include Westerners who went to Syria to join ISIS and are now back home. What can be done to keep more young people from becoming ISIS - inspired Jihadists? We're digging into that."], "speaker": ["BLACKWELL", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "ANNA COREN, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PAUL", "COREN", "PAUL", "BLACKWELL", "PAUL"]}
{"id": "CNN-73984", "program": "CNN SUNDAY MORNING", "date": "2003-7-20", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/20/sm.08.html", "summary": "Plane May Have Crashed Into Mt. Kenya", "utt": ["Want to turn now to a developing story coming into us out of East Africa. A plane that may have been carrying up to a dozen tourists has crashed into Mount Kenya. We have on the phone now Gladys Julogay (ph), she joins us now from Nairobi to explain exactly what more we know from there. Gladys, good morning.", "Good morning. Police are saying that a plane with 14 people on board crashed at Peaklanana (ph), which at Mount Kenya at about 6:00 p.m. yesterday. And out of the 14, eight people by U.S. citizens. And we also understand it was chartered plane that came from Mozambique yesterday's London's Wilson Airport here in Kenya, and was en route to Somburo (ph) when the crash happened. Police have sent rescue teams on the ground and they say the cold weather is one of the challenges that they are having to deal with. Seeing that it is, of course, a cold season and there's a lot of cloud cover and mist. And so, operations are still going on, but investigations again, continue going on as we speak.", "And Gladys for those people that may not be aware, Mount Kenya is a huge mountain. We understand this crash scene is about 16,000 feet up?", "Yes. That's right. And again, it is the coldest season in Kenya and so again, other than the ice that is very slippery to walk in and try and get the bodies pulled out, the police have sent the helicopters there from yesterday evening. Again they say they sent out another helicopter on the ground today morning and trying to rescue. We understand that there are no survivors on the ground, so right now it is basically getting the bodies out of the mountainous region.", "And Gladys, real quickly before we let you go, one more time. It's 14 people and do we know all the nationalities?", "We understand that eight out of the 14 were U.S. citizens. And they're still, again, trying to rescue them from the ground.", "All right. Gladys Julogay (ph) in Nairobi this morning telling us more about a situation that we're following out of East Africa, learning yesterday at 6:00 p.m. in the evening time, a small plane carrying about 14 people crashed into Mount Kenya. According to Gladys that we understand that eight U.S. citizens were on board. We'll continue to follow this, bring you more details here on CNN."], "speaker": ["THOMAS ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR", "GLADYS JULOGAY, NAIROBI, KENYA", "ROBERTS", "JULOGAY", "ROBERTS", "JULOGAY", "ROBERTS"]}
{"id": "CNN-221715", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2013-12-27", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1312/27/cnr.09.html", "summary": "Ship Stranded in Antarctica; Hate Crime Charged Over Knockout Game", "utt": ["Well, the U.S. Justice Department isn't playing around when it comes to this game. I'm talking about a disturbing and sometimes deadly trend known as the knockout game. You're looking at an example of one of those incidents. Typically, strangers randomly just sucker-punch people on the street. They film it, and then they post the whole event online. The goal here, to knock your victim unconscious with a single blow. Now, that brings us to this man, Conrad Alvin Barrett of Texas, the first to be arrested over this knockout game. He's also been charged with a hate crime. And his undoing may have been what he said in a video of the attack that was posted online. CNN's Margaret Conley joining me now, learning more about this. So, Margaret Conley, before we get to the video, what exactly is Barrett accused of doing to his victim exactly?", "Kyra, knocking him out cold. There's a hearing happening right now in Houston, Texas; 27-year-old Conrad Barrett, he has been charged with a knockout hate crime, assaulting a 79-year-old man. This is a federal charge and the first federal charge we have seen for these knockout assaults. I have spoken with attorneys on both sides today. They're getting ready for the hearing, the attorney for Barrett and the victim's attorney. The attorney for the defense, George Parnham, he says he's going to argue that this is not a federal case. He says that it's unconstitutional for it to be federal and it should go to the state. He's also going to say that his client has been diagnosed as bipolar and that he was off his meds the day the assault happened on November 24. He says his client is extremely depressed right now. That's the defense. The victim's attorney -- and the victim does not want to be identified -- the victim's attorney says the victim's recovering, but he's having trouble communicating. O'Neil Williams told me that the victim, who is also a great- grandfather, is suffering physically from a loss of teeth and fractures in his jaw. He actually said there was a dislocation in his jaw when he was hit by Barrett, but the harder part will be recovering emotionally. His said his client is having a really hard time with that, that he's scared and frightened -- Kyra.", "Yes, there's a lot involved here, right, the race issue, the fact that this is a federal case, all the details surrounding what happened and also this Barrett guy.", "That's right. It's very complex, Kyra. Barrett is a 27- year-old Caucasian male. The victim is a 79-year-old African-American male. Race is on the table because, according to the federal complaint, Barrett attacked because of the man's race and color. There's also apparently video of the attack with Barrett saying that the plan \"is to see if I were to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised?\" We have seen a lot of those so-called knockout cases in the past year or so. They have been reported in states like Illinois, Washington, and right here in New York. The Justice Department says there have been knockout incidents as far back as 1992, but this is the first time we're seeing a federal charge, at least in the latest string of knockouts. And the defense is going to argue against that. They want it to go to state. But if this does go through, Barrett could face a $250,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison. If this does go through, that hearing is going on right now, we can expect to see that it will go to grand jury in a couple weeks.", "Yes. Anybody involved in this game should be held accountable. Margaret Conley, appreciate it. Thanks. Well, right now, in Antarctica, a paralyzed vessel is wedged in an ice floe, and the rescue operation to free the passengers on board has encountered a problem, a blizzard. A Chinese icebreaking ship says it may take just a little longer to get to that vessel that became stuck on Christmas morning. The crew on board the research expedition actually tweeted out this picture saying their savior boat was just in sight.", "Moral is remarkably high. We had a great Christmas. We have just been incredibly unfortunate, incredibly unfortunate. We're deeply frustrated not getting out to the open ocean. We can see the continent. And we just can't break out. A change in wind direction to a more westerly direction, which isn't that common, would help enormously.", "That's the leader, by the way, of the expedition. Right now, the rescue ship, the icebreaker, is just about 12 miles away. And that may seem close, but the conditions on the harshest place on Earth, well, they're always unpredictable. It was actually a decade ago that I traveled all the way to the bottom of the Earth, the South Pole, cutting through six-to-eight-foot thick sheets of ice. It's fascinating to watch. And as you're about to see in part of my documentary \"Harsh Continent,\" you're going to get a sense of what lies ahead for the rescue team. Meet the U.S. Coast Guard's icebreaker crew of 2002.", "Life at McMurdo Station relies on the constant flow of supplies to its open harbor, a big challenge in a place where the ocean can freeze almost instantly. Pack ice like this kept explorers away from Antarctica for centuries. Wooden ships were crushed by the relentless moving ice. Today, the U.S. Coast Guard breaks pack ice every season in specialized ships like the Polo Sea. This is breaking the ice, cutting a 56-mile channel for supply ships to bring in fuel and food, two of the most crucial supplies for winter survival. Commander Steve Wheeler is executive officer of the Polo Sea.", "This is called", "How thick is this ice, Commander?", "About six foot out here. You know every once in a while, you get an eight-foot chunk.", "I remember he made it look and sound so easy. But trust me, it's not. We will continue to follow that Chinese vessel that's coming through to try to rescue those scientists, who, by the way, say they're still working on their research. Well, up next, violence in Egypt has turned deadly as police battle supporters of a newly designated terror organization in the streets. And Google, Apple, Samsung just a few of the big names in tech this year. So who are the winners and losers? Our tech experts weigh in."], "speaker": ["PHILLIPS", "MARGARET CONLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "PHILLIPS", "CONLEY", "PHILLIPS", "CHRIS TURNEY, EXPEDITION LEADER", "PHILLIPS", "PHILLIPS (voice-over)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PHILLIPS (on camera)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "PHILLIPS"]}
{"id": "CNN-274209", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-01-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1601/18/nday.05.html", "summary": "Iran Releases Detained Americans; Interview with Secretary of State John Kerry; Clinton And Sanders Clash In Democratic Debate", "utt": ["It was the solitary confinement he was in for parts of his detention that really were the toughest for him.", "I'm grateful for everything that the president has done, everything the government has done to get Jason out.", "We're at least having a vigorous debate about reigning in Wall Street.", "In terms of polling, guess what? We are running ahead of Secretary Clinton.", "I'm the only candidate standing here tonight who has said, I will not raise taxes on the middle class.", "We're not going to tear up the affordable care act. I helped write it.", "The water is tainted with lead.", "I'm really trying to focus on holding the people who made this decision accountable.", "This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo, Alisyn Camerota, and Michaela Pereira.", "Good morning, and welcome to your NEW DAY. It is Monday, January 18th, 8:00 in the east. Chris and Alisyn are off today. The John Berman and the Poppy Harlow are alongside me today. Thanks for being here, guys. We're following two big stories. A group of Americans once held by Iran free this morning and being treated at a U.S. military hospital in Germany. Among the freed American, \"Washington Post\" journalist Jason Rezaian. We spoke to his brother last hour here on", "Meantime in neighboring Iraq an intense search is underway for three missing American contractors. It is believed they were abducted by a group of gunmen on Friday. We will speak live with Secretary of State John Kerry about the diplomatic efforts in both cases just ahead. First, though I do want to begin with CNN's international correspondent Fred Pleitgen in Germany for us this morning on the condition of the Americans released from prison in Iran.", "Well, it is being evaluated here right now, Poppy, in the military hospital here. And what's going on is they are going to be evaluated both physically as well as psychologically as well, because of course those long months of detention there in Iran is something that would take their toll. The Evin prison in Tehran is one that is notorious for very tough detention conditions. However, the \"Washington Post\" managing editors have already managed to speak to Jason Rezaian. They asked how he's doing after having been evacuated there from Tehran. He said, quote, \"I'm doing a hell of a lot better than I was 48 hours ago.\" He also he was in good spirits, but also said it was the solitary confinement that he was in for parts of his detention that really were the toughest for him. Now, what's been going on over the past couple of hours is that they were flown out of Iran on a Swiss plane, taken to Geneva, then taken here to this medical facility where, as I've said, medical tests are going to happen. However, the other thing, and that's probably almost as important, they are going to be reunited with their loved ones, with their friends and family. Remember, there were also a lot of supporters in the U.S. who kept their cases in the public light. So now Jason Rezaian, Amir Hekmati, and Saeed Abedini are meeting their family members, their friends here. Some of them are already here, so certainly some very emotional scenes here here, Poppy.", "No question. Fred Pleitgen liver for us in Germany this morning, thank you so much. To Iraq, where a search is underway, an intense search this hour for three missing American contractors. It is believed they were abducted by gunmen in Baghdad. Our CNN senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh is live with more in Beirut. All we know at this point, it looks like they went missing on Friday, is that correct?", "That is correct, middle of the afternoon on Friday. As is often the case, it's the first 48 hours normally of people disappearing that is the most crucial where often information is contradictory or certainly limited. We know little from U.S. officials. They don't want to spare much at this stage, keeping things as secret as possible. As they say, they work urgently with Iraqi officials to try and secure the release or at least freedom of the three individuals, two of whom are Iraqi Americans and one of which is a fully fledged American citizen. Now, we know from Iraqi officials that they were in an area in the southeastern part of Baghdad in an apartment where they were taken out by unidentified armed men and driven away in a convoy. That's pretty all we know about from they're thought to have been, quote, \"contractors.\" A wide scope of what they could have been doing in Baghdad under that job description. But Iraqi security officials who clearly on the surface certainly want to be seen to do all they can to get these Americans back to safety, saying they're conducting an intensive search in the neighborhood of Dora. So I think there actually be little else known, suspicion perhaps pointing toward the Shia militia close to Iran. They have no comments on this at all at this stage, but it plays to the broader geopolitical issue with Iran with America close to moderates in Iran. Are we seeing hard liners trying to stir the pot here? No comfort for the relatives of those three Americans whose safety is now paramount in U.S. officials' minds. Back to you, John.", "All right, Nick, thanks so much. Huge diplomatic events this weekend -- five American citizens detained in Iran released. Nuclear Sanctions against Iran, lifted. The man in the middle of it all, Secretary of state John Kerry joins us on NEW DAY this morning. Mr. Secretary, we know how busy you've been so we appreciate you taking the time to be here. Let me start at the end, Mr. Secretary, if I can. After 14 months of negotiations over these five prisoners, 14 months of ups and downs, after the Iranians on Saturday announced that they were being released, it all hit a snag. The plane was held up on the tarmac. What happened and how was it resolved?", "Well, it did hit a snag because word somehow had not been communicated with respect to the manifest on the plane that Jason Rezaian's wife would be coming with him. And so we had to locate her. And, frankly, Foreign Minister Zarif and others, the president, they immediately understood that the terms of the agreement included his wife and it needed to be done. So we went through a period of time while they were located and ultimately reunited with Jason, and now all is well that ends well.", "You mentioned Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. You developed quite a relationship with him over the last couple of years. Do you consider him a friend?", "Well, we've worked very, very closely together, and what we have is what you call a professional relationship in which we listen to each other carefully. We have different points of view, obviously. He is a fierce defender of Iran and some of the things that Iran believes have been done to it unjustly. For instance, he points out that when Iran was at war with Iraq, the United States sided with Iraq, and when people were gassed by Saddam Hussein, the world said nothing. And these things sort of linger. They are part of the history of the relationship that one needs to work through. But he and I always knew that what we needed to do was work to find the way to thread a needle, to protect interests. I had to protect the interests of the United States, the interests of our allies and friends of the region particularly. And he obviously was defending his. But in the end what we did was, I think, find the ground where we did what was needed, which is find a way to allow Iran to have a peaceful nuclear program within the context of the non-proliferation treaty, but also to guarantee to us and to the rest of the world that it was going to be peaceful, that we would have the verification means of knowing that there was no covert path, there was no uranium path, there was no plutonium path, that the paths to a bomb were closed. That was always difficult because certain people had great stakes in that program or great pride of creation and didn't want to see it rolled back. This was difficult. This was as complex, and I might add, yesterday or two days ago now, I guess it is, was as complex a day as I've been through because there were so many moving parts and so much needed for simultaneity to build confidence. But Foreign Minister Zarif acted professionally. When he gave his word, he kept his word, and I think that's important in terms of our relationship going forward?", "You trust him?", "Well, you know, we don't build these relationships based on trust at the earliest stages. Remember what Ronald Reagan said, trust by verify. President Obama has said, don't trust but verify. So we approach these issues with a view toward building the trust over time. It doesn't happen in a, you know, one or two days or one or two years. But we can build trust if we see that this program, indeed, is adhered to thoroughly, and also, if Iran will begin to join with us to bring peace to Syria, deal with Yemen, reduce its activities in other countries. There are a number of things that we need to work out.", "Mr. Secretary, you brought up the simultaneity of everything that happened this weekend, a really remarkable confluence of events, nuclear sanctions lifted, five prisoners released. The timing suggests that perhaps there was some linkage. Was there?", "No, there really wasn't. You know, the issue of the foreign military sales money, which held Iran's money -- this is Iran's money -- it's been held for 35 years, ever since 1979. In 1981, there was a meeting in Algeria, the Algiers Accord, which created a claims tribunal to resolve the claims between the United States and Iran. We had a lot of claims, and a lot of our claims have been settled over those years, almost all of them, as a matter of fact. I think all but about one. But Iran still had this claim outstanding, and it became clear that this was a moment where we might be able to solve what had been decades of negotiations with respect to that.", "If the sanctions had not been lifted, do you think the prisoners would have been released?", "Yes. I think we had a separate track going on that. We were clear that, given the right equation, that was not tied to implementation day. It happened to come together at that moment. I think everybody saw that that would be propitious, but it was not directly linked.", "There was another --", "I had hoped it would have happened a couple months ago actually, and then it hit a snag and we continued to negotiate.", "So there was another potential snag to all of this that emerged last week. The Iranians captured 10 U.S. sailors. You said their release was a sign of the diplomatic success, this new relationship that three or four years ago they never would have been released as quickly as they were. Mr. Secretary, you served on a naval vessel. Not too different than the ones captured in the gulf there. What was your reaction when you saw the photo of those sailors on their knees with their hands behind their heads?", "I was very angry. I was very, very frustrated and angry that that was released. I raised it immediately with the Iranians. It was not put out by the ministry of foreign affairs or the government directly. It was put out, I think, through the military over there and the IRJC, who had been opposed to what we are doing. They're opposed to -- but I'm not excusing it. There's no excuse for it. Our sailors, regrettably, inadvertently went into Iranian waters. The challenge is that three or four years ago, you mention, we wouldn't have known who to call. We would have probably had to call the Swiss, or maybe we would have called the British. There would have been no direct communication. It could have grown into a major kind of hostage confrontation the way it had previously. And there were people, by the way, in Iran now who certainly would have argued to hold on to them longer. But it was because we built a relationship, because we are working at this nuclear effort, because we are trying to turn a corner, as President Rouhani said, and Iran has joined into the Syria talks. And Iran agreed to a formula for a ceasefire, for unity government, for constitutional reform, and an election in Syria. That could not have happened were we not building on this path with respect to the nuclear program.", "Did you send a message that said, if you don't release the sailors, then all bets are off with the implementation of the nuclear deal?", "I'm not going to discuss what I said or didn't say, but suffice it to say I made it crystal clear how serious this was. It was imperative to get it resolved. I think they believed that and knew that instinctively. And within a matter of hours, we had an agreement that this was going to be resolved.", "Mr. Secretary of state John Kerry, again, you've been very busy over the last few days. Thanks so much for taking the time to be with us. Appreciate it, sir.", "Thanks a lot.", "Michaela?", "All right, well, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton clashing last night in their fourth debate, their last before the Iowa caucuses. Those gloves came off early with the candidates battling over Obamacare, Wall Street and gun control. We'll get the highlights and lowlights, all of it from CNN's Phil Mattingly. How are you, Phil?", "Hey, Michaela. Last night serving as a bit of a closing argument two weeks before voters turn to caucus in Iowa, a little bit longer before they vote in New Hampshire. One thing is clear, if you thought this race was not only going to tighten up but also get more intense, you were right.", "The gloves --", "I think secretary Clinton knows what she says is very disingenuous.", "-- are off.", "I'm not sure whether we're talking about the plan you just introduced tonight, or we're talking about the plan you introduced nine times in the Congress.", "Just weeks before the first votes are cast, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders putting an exclamation point on a week of sharp sparring on Sunday night.", "The authority with its regulators --", "I'll give you an example at how corrupt --", "Clinton at one point in the campaign unwilling to even mention Sanders name, now targeting the Vermont senator's record on guns and how he'll pay for his health care plan.", "I have made it clear based on senator Sanders own record that he has voted with the NRA, with the gun lobby, numerous times.", "Sanders moving to blunt both criticisms.", "What her campaign was saying, Bernie Sanders, who has fought for universal health care for my entire life, he wants to end Medicare, end Medicaid, end the Children's Health Insurance Program. That is nonsense.", "Shifting on guns a day before the debate.", "I said I would relook at it. We are going to relook at it and I will support stronger provisions.", "And releasing his single payer health care plan just hours before taking the stage. Clinton criticizing Sanders for the taxes required to pay for the proposal, and its shift away from President Obama's signature achievement.", "There are things we can do to improve it, but to tear it up and start over again, pushing our country back into that kind of a contentious debate, I think, is the wrong direction.", "We're not going to tear up the Affordable Care Act. I helped write it. But we are going to move to on top of that -- for all system. Little more taxes, do away with health insurance premiums. It's a pretty good deal.", "Sanders going on offense against Clinton's corporate ties.", "You received over $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs in one year.", "Clinton defending not just her stance on Wall Street reform, but President Obama's, as well.", "But he's criticized President Obama for taking donations from Wall Street and President Obama has led our country out of the great recession. President Obama's work to push through the Dodd Frank bill and then to sign it was one of the most important regulatory schemes we've had since the 1930s. I'm going to defend Dodd Frank and I'm going to defend President Obama.", "Sanders turning a question on Bill Clinton's personal life into one of his best moments of the night.", "We've been through this, yes, his behavior was deplorable. Have I ever once said a word about that issue? No, I have not. I'm going to debate Secretary Clinton and Governor O'Malley on the issues facing the American people, not Bill Clinton's personal life.", "Last night marking a moment of urgency for both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. For Sanders trying to prove that not only can he put together a coalition of people who like his candidacy, but also that might vote for him. For Hillary Clinton, obviously trying to address those poll numbers in Iowa. They have evaporated over the last couple weeks. One thing for sure, this is just getting started. The ads in Iowa and New Hampshire are going to flood the airwaves over the next couple weeks -- Michaela.", "All right, Phil, sure to be an interesting time these next few weeks. Thanks so much.", "Breaking news to tell you about. Sad news out of Ohio. The small town of Danville in shock after a police officer has been killed in the line of duty. Authorities say the suspected killer, Herschel Jones III is in custody. He's accused of gunning down Officer Thomas Catrell, and speeding off in the slain officer's cruiser. Before the shooting, police say the suspect's ex-girlfriend warned them that Jones was armed and looking to kill a police officer.", "All right, Spacex almost did it. The private space company tried to land an unmanned rocket on a platform in the Pacific. It almost worked until, you know, timber. It toppled over and exploded. The rocket had successfully put a weather satellite into low orbit. The company has been trying to bring back its rocket safely, landing them on the platforms in the ocean so they can be reused.", "The 9-year-old Jacob Tremblay stole the show at the Critics Choice Awards Sunday. He delivered the cutest acceptance speech ever after winning the best young actor prize for his role in \"Room.\"", "This is super cool. This is the best day of my life. I first want to say thank you to all the critics who voted for me. It must be a super hard vote because of all the other great actors in this category. I know where to put this. Right on the shelf beside my millennium falcon.", "He made a point that thank everyone he worked with on team \"Room\" to make the movie come true. Gratitude is important. What we didn't mention is that he says, I don't have any trophies at home. I'm not a sports guy, is why. He's really excited to have this. There's a lot of people that are frustrated that he didn't get nominated for an Oscar or a Globe. He's up for a Sag Award, though.", "Maybe they'll revise it. Nominate him for an Oscar and nominate \"Star Wars.\" They'll fix two gross injustices all at once.", "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful career. Adorable young guy.", "Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton not pulling any punches before their final debate before the Iowa caucuses. Who scored the most points and will that change the situation? Will that change the polls in any meaningful way? 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{"id": "CNN-134864", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-2-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0902/09/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Senate Majority Leader Says Senate Won't Take Recess Until Stimulus Bill Is Passed; House And Senate Need To Reconcile Their Bills; General Petraeus Says Afghan Is In A 'Downward Spiral'", "utt": ["Hello, everyone. I'm Kyra Phillips live at the CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta. You're live in CNN NEWSROOM. The stimulus, the bailout, all that coming to you in just a second. Plus, you know how the Obama White House wants to be more open. We will meet the lady in charge of that effort. She will give us an inside look at how they plan to open the doors. And D.C. might be a little dirty for her, but one porn star still wants to go as a senator. How do you think she'll stack up against the incumbent? But first, all things serious, that wasn't technically a campaign rally you saw last hour in Elkhart, Indiana, or will see tomorrow in Ft. Myers, Florida, or Thursday in Peoria, Illinois, but they're pretty darn close. President Obama is heading back to Washington where senators are nearing a procedural vote on an $800-plus-billion economic stimulus plan. And where Brianna Keilar is watching their every move, we go to her. Hey, Brianna.", "Hi there, Kyra. Debate under way ahead of this key test vote coming at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time today. This is going to tell us if that deal that was struck on Friday night bringing a few Republicans on board, with presumably enough votes to push this out of the Senate, it's going to tell us if it really did that. The next step after that, assuming that this bill then does get out of the Senate, is for the House and the Senate to hash out their differences, because at that point, they will have passed separate bills. Now, this isn't necessarily going to be an easy process, because Democrats in the Senate had to give on some things here, as you recall, in that deal they brokered Friday night. They had to cut $100 billion in spending, including $40 billion in education spending, a big priority for Democrats. Also, allowing tax credits for homes and new cars, so there is some ground to be covered between the House and the Senate but we just heard a short time ago from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that the Senate, at least, isn't going home until this is all over.", "We will continue to move forward on this legislation. We're not going to leave for our Presidents Day recess until we complete this. I've said on a number of other occasions, Madam President, that if people out there are thinking we're going to take a vacation for a week when we leave Washington, that's not the case. We have things to do in our home states.", "So the sense you're getting is that a lot of folks here on the Hill are leaving their next weekend open, Kyra, in case this goes on into the weekend. We heard before from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that the House, as well, will not go on recess until there's a bill headed to president Obama's desk.", "All right. Brianna Keilar, thanks so much. Now, the plan now facing the Senate was born in a bipartisan breakthrough Friday night. It's $827 billion worth of federal spending and tax breaks, somewhat bigger than the plan that passed the House but almost $100 billion smaller than the package that senators were wrestling over all last week. Tax breaks make up about a third of the bottom line and last we checked, three Republican senators were expected to sign on. Now, Elkhart is a natural choice for an economic stimulus sales pitch. That small city's jobless rate, twice the national average, mainly due to the hard times at the region's RV plant. The president promised help is on the way, but his real message was aimed at Capitol Hill. Take a listen.", "Let me be clear. I'm not going to tell you that this bill is perfect. It's coming out of Washington, it's gone through Congress, you know. Look, it's not perfect. But it is the right size, it is the right scope, broadly speaking, it has the right priorities to create jobs that will jump-start our economy and transform this economy for the 21st century.", "Now, the economy is expected to be a big part of President Obama's first primetime news conference. It comes your way tonight, 8 o'clock Eastern, right here on CNN. The stimulus plan has stolen some thunder from the government's $700 billion bailout of banks. That's about to change. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to spell out his massive overhaul of the rescue plan tomorrow. He is going to explain his changes today, but put it off a day to focus on the stimulus bill. As you may recall, the Bush administration doled out the first half of the Troubled Asset Relief Fund, TARP, for short, before leaving office. The commander in chief is putting his marching orders for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on hold, at least for now. Barbara Starr following the developments at the Pentagon. Barbara, what did you find out?", "Well, Kyra, we're now seeing all kinds of delays in decisions about getting troops out of Iraq and sending more troops to Afghanistan. Let's take Iraq first. Senior Pentagon officials now confirming to CNN they are looking at more than just the 16-month withdrawal plan that Mr. Obama campaigned on. They are also looking at proposals for a 19-month withdrawal and a 23-month withdrawal. The president wants to see the risks associated with all of these options. No indication about when he'll make a decision. Afghanistan may be more problematic. Senior Pentagon officials also saying that the White House is making it clear that it's reluctant to commit that large number of forces that as recently as last week, it was planning to send to Afghanistan fairly quickly, reluctant until it sees more of the strategy review from the Pentagon, what can be done to make Afghanistan better. But senior Pentagon officials say the security situation there is so dire, that they really do need to get troops there. Just this weekend General David Petraeus, the top commander for the region, said to an audience in Europe, quote, \"Arresting and then reversing the downward spiral in security in Afghanistan will require not just additional military forces, but more civilian contributions.\" But look at those words, Kyra. \"Downward spiral in security in Afghanistan,\" right from General David Petraeus. It couldn't be more serious. The Pentagon is waiting to give the president its options and to see when he's ready to make a decision - Kyra.", "Barbara Starr, thanks so much. Let's go to Israel now and the Jewish nation's crucial elections. Israelis go to the polls tomorrow to elect a new government. The winner picks the prime minister. Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his right-wing Likud Party, hold a slim lead in the latest polls; close behind, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and her centrist Kadima Party. The outcome will likely mean a fragile coalition and tough challenges for President Obama. The backdrop to vote is the Israeli military's recent offensive in Gaza to try and stop militant rocket fire into southern Israel. Anguish in Australia. The Land Down Under wrestles with its worst natural disaster amid outrage that the hand of man may have played a role."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-144102", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-10-18", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0910/18/cnr.01.html", "summary": "H1N1 Vaccines Sweeps the Country", "utt": ["A look now at some of the other top stories we're following. A grueling marathon in Detroit turned deadly today. Three runners collapsed and died. One man in his 60s fell and hit his head. Two others ages 26 and 36 fell near the finish line. Officials believe all three died of cardiac arrest. Police want to know who killed a star football player at the University of Connecticut early this morning. Twenty-year-old Jasper Howard was stabbed during a fight on campus just hours after his team's victory over Louisville. The U of Conn. coach says the team is devastated by the loss.", "What Jas would want these young men to do was to take their moment for grieving, but also then move forward and go on and get ready to go play another game. That's what Jas would want to do.", "The coach says Jasper Howard was about to be a father. He was a starting cornerback who led the big east in punt returns last season. The death toll from a sweat lodge ceremony in Arizona is rising. A 49-year-old woman who took part in the spiritual retreat earlier this month died last night. Two others died of their injuries the night of the ceremony. A homicide investigation is now under way. Hurricane Rick is churning off Mexico's coast. Forecasters are calling it one of the strongest pacific storms on record. That's where our Karen MaGinnis steps in.", "Very impressive, Fred, as we take a look at our enhanced satellite imagery. This system a clearly defined eye but the winds, we just received an update, down to 160 miles an hour, still very powerful. Just less than 500 miles to the south of Cabo, Cabo is right here along the Baja. As it makes its way towards west-northwest eventually it is going to curve more toward the north and northeast. So it brings it up toward the coast, the southern tip of Baja as we go towards Wednesday. Perhaps as a weakened category 2 or perhaps a category 1 hurricane. It is still too early to tell. But even the slight movement is going to bring it into much cooler water. It's going to have an interaction that is going to allow it to really decrease in intensity. Fred we have lots of delays in that northeastern corridor because of bad weather there. Back to you.", "All right. Always on a Sunday leading into that Monday workweek. All right. Karen appreciate it. All right. Right now, a lot of parents are trying to decide whether they should get their kids the H1N1 flu vaccine. Earlier I spoke with senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen about that and some of your other H1N1 questions.", "So many questions still about H1N1. Should I get the vaccine or not? And that's why we've invited senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen along because lots of questions. Beginning with Allen who says I keep hearing statistics on how many children have died this year from the H1N1 flu. Are these statistics any worse than deaths from seasonal flu?", "Well you know it's interesting, H1N1 flu really has hit young people very hard. Let's take a look at some statistics. When you look at the seasonal flu, on average in a few recent seasons 71 children have died in an average flu season. However, H1B1 flu so far just since April there have already been 81 deaths and technically the flu season hasn't even started yet. Because it's only October. Yes, H1N1 flu does seem to really hit kids hard.", "That's what makes it so unnerving. This from the Penya family saying my sons are ages 17, 20 and 23. They're healthy and have never received any flu shots. Should they get vaccinated with H1N1 or will the regular flu shot be enough?", "The regular flu shot won't be enough. If you want to be protected against H1N1, the regular flu shot is not going to do anything for you. The strain's just not in there. So you have to have the strain in there in order for it to work. What the CDC is suggesting is that the Penya family's children in fact, should get the H1N1 shot. They fall into what are called a high-priority group. Let's take a look at all of the groups put together. For example, pregnant women are supposed to get an H1N1 vaccine. Anyone ages 6 months to 24 years which is where the Penya children fall into. Anyone who takes care of a baby under the age of six months should get a vaccine. The reason for that is babies six months and younger can't get vaccinated on their own. Protect everyone around the baby. Health care workers and anyone ages 25 to 64 with an underlying health problem such as diabetes or asthma. The CDC would say all those children should get vaccinated.", "Jason asks this. Can a patient get both flu vaccines at the same time or is there a need to stagger the vaccines?", "That's a great question. I will tell you Fred a lot of my friends are asking that question. It's a little bit complicated. Here goes. If you want to get shots for both the seasonal flu and for H1N1, get them at the same time. It's perfectly fine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and other experts. However, if you want to get the nasal spray vaccine against either of those, you really ought to separate them. If you're going to be getting the nasal spray vaccine you should separate them by a couple of weeks. The reason for that is that the spray is a live virus where as the other one is an attenuated virus. It's a different type there.", "All right. Great advice earlier from our own Elizabeth Cohen. All right. Anxious days for Alaska's economy. Is America's northernmost state headed south? 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{"id": "CNN-116721", "program": "THE SITUATION ROOM", "date": "2007-5-9", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/09/sitroom.02.html", "summary": "Cheney Arrives In Baghdad To Deliver Warning To Iraqi Leaders To Solve Issues Quickly", "utt": ["... he made charitable donations with the cash he earned working for the hedge fund. And Ed in Nashville, Tennessee writes, \"To claim one worked for a hedge fund outfit to study the markets effect on poverty is like saying you visited a massage parlor to get a back rub. It's possible, but I don't believe it.\" Wolf.", "Thank you, Jack, for that. To our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now, the Pentagon tells Congress how much progress it might take to bring U.S. troops home, or keep them in Iraq. And Vice President Cheney visits Baghdad with a tough message for Iraqi leaders. It's either too wet or desperately dry, but both spell disaster; with floods in the heartland and wildfires on both coasts. And did Democrat Al Sharpton make an anti-Mormon comment or is Republican hopeful Mitt Romney simply trying to manufacture a controversy? I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. And explosion rocked Baghdad's green zone during his drop-in visit and he was burned in effigy by Shiite militants. But the vice president, Dick Cheney, wasn't deterred today, telling Iraqi leaders it is time to start making progress. Hugh Riminton is in the Iraqi capital -- Hugh.", "Wolf, a surprise visit to Iraq from Mr. Cheney just at a time when frustration is building to an absolute crescendo, both in Washington, but also here in Iraq, with signs of paralysis in the Iraqi government.", "This is only Dick Cheney's second visit to Iraq since the invasion he helped engineer. The message now, it's game time.", "There's a lot going on obviously. It's a very important time, and there's a lot to talk about.", "The talking began with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose national unity government faces a walkout by Sunni Arabs lawmakers as early as next week over a constitutional wrangle. The senior Sunni politician, Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi (ph), was one of those Mr. Cheney got to meet, as he urged all the major players to find ways to work together.", "I do believe that there is a greater sense of urgency now than I'd seen previously.", "Also raised, the two-month summer vacation being planned by the Iraqi parliament. Mr. Cheney says that is a sovereign Iraqi issue, but --", "I did make it clear that we believe it's very important to move on issues before us in a timely fashion. And that any undue delay would be difficult to explain.", "The U.S. vice president says on key benchmark issues like a new oil law, provincial elections, and constitutional reform, he expects the Prime Minister Maliki to make a formal statement next week.", "While Mr. Cheney was in Baghdad, a mortar round landed in the green zone, just a further reminder of just how volatile this place remains, Wolf.", "Hugh Riminton in Baghdad for us. While Baghdad today was once again the scene of bombings and drive-by shootings, Kurdish areas of northern Iraq, including regional capital of Irbil have been generally quiet. But that quiet was shattered today. A suicide bomber blew up his truck outside the Kurdish interior ministry building in Irbil, killing 14 people, wounding dozens more. Police say the vehicle was packed with 1700 pounds of explosives. This is a significant development since Kurdistan, the northern part of Iraq has been relatively quiet, relatively peaceful, at least until today. So, how successful must the U.S. troop buildup be in order to justify a continuation of the current Iraq strategy? The Defense Secretary Robert Gates was on Capitol Hill once again today and he actually seemed to be lowering -- lowering the bar. Let's go live to our Senior Pentagon Correspondent Jamie McIntyre. Looks like they are digging in for the long haul over at the Pentagon, Jamie?", "Wolf, if you thought the measure of success of the new strategy in Iraq was a dramatic lowering in the levels of violence, well, you'd be wrong.", "The new Baghdad security strategy has yet to produce any measurable decline in violence, despite the fact that four of five additional U.S. combat brigades are now in place. That has the Pentagon lowering expectations for what will constitute progress when the strategy is reviewed at the end of the summer.", "The goal in September is not whether the violence has been significantly reduced, or stability has been brought, and it seems to me, but rather whether it has been reduced to a level that the political reconciliation process is moving forward, in some meaningful way.", "So with no requirement for stability, or a significant reduction in violence, almost any trend could be seen as justification for keeping the 30,000 extra U.S. troops in Iraq. And even as Gates promises an honest evaluation of the plan, which he says could set the stage for a U.S. troop reduction the number two U.S. commander in Iraq Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno, is quoted by \"The Washington Post\" as saying \"The search needs to go to the beginning of next year for sure.\"", "How do those two positions correlate?", "I think the candid answer is, they don't.", "Contacted by CNN, General Odierno insists he was misquoted. That the latest rotation plan simply gives commanders the ability to maintain elevated troop levels through April, if that's the decision.", "Now, Wolf, Gates said later this afternoon that whatever the decision is in September, whether the strategy is working or not, it will not lead to, in his words, a precipitous decision. But, he says, it will likely point in a new direction -- Wolf?", "So bottom line, what does all this mean for the troops, in other words, even if the strategy seems to be working, that doesn't necessarily mean they are coming home all that quickly.", "That's right. They may decide to keep the extra troops there to build on that momentum. And if the strategy is not working, they may decide that they want to give it more time. The main thing is Secretary Gates is not showing the way he's thinking about this.", "Jamie McIntyre is watching all of this at the Pentagon. The government calls them Islamic radicals, accusing them of plotting to kill as many American soldiers as possible at a U.S. military base in New Jersey. Now, their supporters are speaking out. Our Senior Correspondent Allan Chernoff is joining us in New York with the latest. What is the latest, Allan?", ": Well, Wolf, in these criminal complaints, yesterday, the government made it's charges, but this is only the beginning of a very long legal process.", "The mother of one of the alleged plotters says her son Mohammed Abraham Schnuer (ph) couldn't have planned a terror attack.", "He didn't have anything to do with, believe me. He worked all night and come here, like, in the morning, sleep and go back to work. This is his life.", "Indeed, Schneur (ph), his court-appointed attorney says he will definitely enter a not guilty plea. The lawyer also told CNN, yesterday's publicity could hurt his client's chances for a fair trial. Quote, \"This is a one sided initial presentation, in which nobody has tested these allegations. I am concerned about the degree of detail the jury pool taint is a concern.\" On Friday defense attorneys will have a chance to ask that bail be set. The government intends to argue the six still pose a danger and are a flight risk, and therefore should be held without bail. The New Jersey U.S. attorney's office also says it will move expeditiously to present the case before a grand jury to get an indictment. Only at that point would the defendant's appear in court to enter pleas. For now, the six are being held at a federal detention center in Philadelphia.", "Sidar Hatar's (ph) father, who runs a pizzeria near Fort Dix told \"The New Jersey Star Ledger\", \"I am not a terrorist. My son is not a terrorist.\" CNN called other attorneys representing the defendants, and we are still waiting to hear back from them -- Wolf.", "Do they have public defenders or have they been able to hire their own attorneys?", "From what we understand these are all court appointed attorneys, private attorneys who have been appointed by the courts.", "All right, we'll watch this story. Thank you very much, Allan for that. Jack Cafferty is in New York with \"The Cafferty File.\" Jack.", "Wolf, here's something to consider when it comes to the war in Iraq. Insurgencies usually last more than 10 years, according to a study commissioned by the Defense Department. The Iraq war is now in its fifth year. The report, by an outfit called the Dupree (ph) Institute is due out in September. But \"USA Today\" has some of the findings in it's the paper today, including these: Insurgents lose more often than they win. The chances for stopping an insurgency improve after 10 years. And not all insurgencies are quagmires. In compiling the report, the researchers looked at 63 post-World War II insurgencies, including Vietnam, and the Soviets in Afghanistan. But one expert warns that each conflict unique. He tells \"USA Today\", quote, \"War cannot be reduced to a formula. War is an art as much as it is a science.\" So, here's the question is it worth spending 10 years to defeat the insurgency in Iraq? E-mail your thoughts to Cafferty file cnn.com, or go to cnn.com/caffertyfile -- Wolf.", "All right, Jack, thank you. Up ahead, as the vice president drops into Baghdad, a key Democrat here in Washington drops one on the vice president.", "I think that Dick Cheney's probably the only friend the president has on this war. The American people have spoken.", "I'll be speaking with the House and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel, right here in THE SITUATION ROOM. Parts of the Midwest are under water right now, but in Florida and Southern California, it's tinder dry with frightful results. And she went back to Iran to visit her mother. But has Tehran tossed her into prison? Iranian-Americans caught up in a game of international intrigue. Stay with us. We're watching this story. We'll be right back.", "Wild weather from one end of the country to the other. In California, fire in Los Angeles' historic Griffith Park has scorched hundreds of acres. Major flooding has swamped much of northwestern Missouri, to say the least, and the water still rising. Wildfires know no boundaries at the Georgia/Florida border, where flames have charred 200-plus square miles. And off the southeastern coast, early bird subtropical storm Andrea is chugging toward land, more than three weeks before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season. Let's go to Missouri first. The town of Big Lake, north of Kansas City is largely under water, right now. Levees have broken, or been breeched. Hundreds of homes have water, and the water is still rising. CNN's Ed Lavandera is joining us now live from Big Lake. What's it like right now, Ed?", "Hi, Wolf. Just a few moments ago, we got off a boat. Two officers with the Missouri State Water Patrol had taken us out into this area that you see behind me, just beyond that red barn that you see right there is where the regular part of the lake, of what is Big Lake, once stood. It is clearly out of its banks. We went on about a 45-minute boat ride, a tour of the area, about a mile north of here. And what we saw were the several hundred homes, most of them under -- at least partially submerged in about three to four feet of water in many places. Some worse than that, some a little bit better off. But this is a village that described itself as a vacation village. As a weekend getaway type of the place here in northwest Missouri and much of it is under water tonight. Most of the people have evacuated. There is still one elderly gentleman that refuses to leave and is living on the second floor of his house right now.", "When is the water expected to recede so people can go back to their homes?", "It's a difficult situation. Because many people here remember the flood that happened back in 1993, which is what people talk about so much here, but this could take several days. The water hasn't quite crested yet. There have been water pouring in from the north side of the city, and water continues to pour in, although it's been kind of slow moving at this point. Many people here say it could take several days; it could be Monday before they see all this water disappear.", "Ed Lavandera in Big Lake, Missouri. Firefighters have been working desperately to save hundreds of homes in the hills above Los Angeles. Those efforts may have paid off, at least for now. Let's go live to CNN's Peter Viles he is in L.A. with more. This has been a big fire, but what's going on now, Peter?", "Extremely scary last night, Wolf. On live television here in Los Angeles homes were threatened. The good news, the firefighters won that fight last night. The mayor just announced a little while ago that he says this fire is under control. It's 50 percent contained. That means they have a line around 50 percent of it. But they think they will have it 100 percent contained within 24 hours. So very good news about a fire that really caught this city's attention, because it was so big, and so erratic into the evening hours last night, Wolf.", "Griffith Park, tell our viewers how close it is actually to the populated parts of Los Angeles.", "This is an urban park. Just like Central Park in New York. It is surrounded on three sides by heavily populated suburbs, and on one side by interstate, Interstate 5. But you have Glen Dale, Burbank, Los Filas (ph) and the Hollywood Hills to the other sides to this park. Houses right up against the edge of this park. That was the fight last night that the firefighters won, to keep the fire in the park.", "Peter Viles in L.A. for us. Good news on that front, thank you, Peter, for that. Still to come. Is Iran involved in attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq? There's a disturbing increase in attacks using bombs that can blow up heavily armored U.S. military vehicles. And U.S. officials say Iran is behind many of them. And a prominent reverend says something about a well-known Mormon. Now Al Sharpton's words have some asking if he's questioning presidential candidate Mitt Romney's belief in God. We'll have all sides of this story. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM.", "Carol Costello is monitoring other stories incoming to THE SITUATION ROOM right now. Carol, what do you have?", "Well, let's start in London, Wolf. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to lay ground work tomorrow for his departure from office. Mr. Blair's spokesman says the British leader will announce his intention to step down as Labour Party chief. That announcement will touch off a leadership contest to succeed him as party leader, and prime minister, in about seven weeks. Mr. Blair celebrated 10 years as prime minister on May 1. A spokesman for Chevron Oil Company says four U.S. citizens working off the coast of Nigeria were kidnapped overnight. They were working on a construction barge, laying pipes for an area oil field. This is the latest in a wave of abductions of foreign workers in the oil-rich Niger Delta since late 2005. Almost all of the captives have been later released unharmed. News affecting the bottom line, the Consumer Federation of America says African-Americans are generally subject to higher interest rates on car loans than other American borrowers. The consumer group says blacks paid an average of 2 percent more on loans for new and used cars than Americans overall. The report is based on data collected for a federal survey in 2004. Yet another record high for the Dow Jones average. Despite a brief sag on news the Fed left interest rates unchanged, the Dow gained almost 54 points to close the day at 13,362. The S&P; 500 was up almost 5 points and the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 4.5. So, I leave you with good news, Wolf.", "Quite a ride on Wall Street. Thank you, Carol, for that. France's president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy is grabbing headlines today in the French press. Sarkozy's luxurious post election Mediterranean get away drawing some sharp criticism from his political opponents. Why are we not surprised? Let's go to our Internet Reporter Abbi Tatton. What specifically, Abbi, is causing the uproar? Wolf, it's Sarkozy's decision to spend a couple of days preparing for the presidency here, on board a 200-foot luxury yacht currently in the Mediterranean. Paparazzi have captured images of Sarkozy and his family on board the yacht, The Paloma, which yachting websites report is equipped with everything from scuba diving equipment to a karaoke machine and rents for $250,000 per week. Sarkozy's socialist opponents have slammed the trip as ostentatious and offensive to those people in France who have trouble making ends meet. The papers have been having a field day with this story. Some of the headlines: \"Sarkozy's Vacation Making Waves\", \"The Sarkozy Era Is Bling Bling.\" Sarkozy is reported as saying, I have no intention of apologizing -- Wolf.", "Thank you for that, Abbi. Pope Benedict the 16th, today is in Brazil where he will meet with Latin America's bishops on just this sixth trip he's made outside of Italy since becoming the pontiff. Now, the pope's first trip was to Cologne, Germany in August 2005, to commemorate World Youth Day. He returned to his native Germany in September, 2006. His second trip in May of last year, was to Poland, where he visited Warsaw, Krakow, and the World War II concentration camps at Auschwitz/Birkenau. In July, the pope visited Spain. The Spanish royal family in Valencia for the Fifth World Meeting of Families and the pope's final 2006 voyage was to Istanbul, Turkey, where he visited the Blue Mosque, sparking protests in the street. Wish him a safe journey on his trip now. Florida is suffering from what could be its worst drought in recent history. The impact is already devastating. CNN's John Zarrella is in Lake Okeechobee. John, fires are popping up all over the state. I assume they are the result of this drought.", "No question about it, Wolf. In fact, right now, there are 200 fires burning across Florida; 54 of the 67 counties in Florida are recording fires. The governor, Governor Charlie Crist, just completed a tour of some of the hardest-hit areas. And, in fact, new fires are breaking out all the time. We had fire break out on Alligator Alley this afternoon, near Collier County. Another one break out on the Florida Turnpike. So, every day, new fires breaking out, as a result of the drought, Wolf.", "It's interesting, where you are now. Show our viewers the signs of drought in Florida, because you are in a specific location.", "Yeah, this is an extreme example of what is happening in Florida. I'm literally standing on Lake Okeechobee bottom. In a normal season, this would be all under water, Wolf. This is grass growing in some of this Everglades muck that you find on the bottom of Lake Okeechobee. What we have here, all behind me should be under water. Right now, serious water restrictions in place, in all of south Florida. More intense water restrictions going into place next week. Some well fields being closed down on the East Coast of Florida. And they're saying, if we don't get some rain very, very soon, all outdoor watering will have to be stopped in south Florida. And right now, no rain on the horizon, Wolf.", "Hopefully that will change. Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain. John Zarrella in Florida for us, thank you. Coming up the campaign for president and New York state. Congressman Charlie Rangel handicaps the race.", "If she can't beat Giuliani in Carrick (ph), forget about the democracy that we know.", "We're talking about Hillary Clinton. I'll ask him if he agrees with Senator Clinton on de-authorizing the war in Iraq. Also, explosive devices in Iraq are becoming more powerful than ever. Barbara Starr has some troubling new information. You're going to want to see this. Stay with us. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM.", "To our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now: The main control tower over at Dulles International Airport, outside Washington, is back in business after fumes forced controllers to evacuate for several hours today. The fumes came from demolition work in the basement. Officials say impact was minimal. There was a fierce and lengthy battle today in southern Afghanistan. Afghan troops, advised by U.S. special forces, clashed with Taliban fighters for 16 hours. One coalition soldier was killed. And a new warning today to Iran from a senior U.S. diplomat. Stop enriching uranium, or face another round of United Nations' sanctions. The Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burn says if Iran refuses to negotiate, the U.N. Security Council will impose new sanctions next month. Western powers plan to meet to discuss Iran tomorrow. We'll stale on top of that story. I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Made in Iran: The U.S. military says high-tech explosives provided by Tehran are helping Iraq's insurgents take a growing toll on American troops. Let's go live to our Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr. Barbara, tell our viewers what you are hearing.", "Well, Wolf, top U.S. military commanders say Iran's influence and efforts in Iraq are on the rise.", "Attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq with powerful Iranian weapons reached an all-time high last month, according to top U.S. commanders. Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno, commander of the multinational corps, and in charge of day-to-day operations, confirmed to CNN that in April, there were 69 attacks, using explosively formed projectiles, EFPs. It's nearly double over March, which saw 38 EFP attacks. But April's spike killed 14 U.S. troops and wounded 47.", "There were more explectively formed projectiles this month than any month in the past. To the best of our knowledge, all of them are manufactured in Iran. So that's not a good trend.", "Until now, Odierno notes, such attacks had been dropping. The U.S. intelligence community believes Iran is the source of many EFPs, advanced bombs that can penetrate U.S. armored vehicles. Far more sophisticated than the improvised devices used by most Iraqi insurgents. The U.S. commander's say Iran's revolutionary guard is mainly responsible for shipping the advanced weapons into Iraq. Some captured weapons show Iranian markings. The U.S. has stopped short of holding the Tehran regime directly responsible. Odierno also confirmed that suicide bomb attacks have increased dramatically. Forty-seven attacks in April compared to 22 in January. Still, there are some indications attacks are easing up in al- Anbar province where Suni tribesmen have been fighting against al Qaeda.", "Explosive devices have now killed more than 1,500 troops and wounded nearly 15,000 since the war in Iraq began - Wolf?", "Barbara Starr reporting for us from the Pentagon. As House Democrats weigh a new Iraq's spending bill that would fund the war only into the summer, the White House vows another veto. Does that set the stage for round two?", "Joining us from Capitol Hill, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Representative Charlie Rangel, Democrat of New York. He's also the author of the new book, \"And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since.\" Congressman, thanks for coming in.", "Always good to be with you, Wolf.", "Let's talk about the Iraq war funding legislation. The president vetoed it the other day. Now you're trying to come up with some sort of compromise. The Vice President Dick Cheney is in Baghdad as we speak. And this is what he said today. Listen to this.", "They do believe we are making Progress. But we've got a long way to go.", "He's suggesting that this new strategy, so the-called surge as he calls it, is working. What do you say?", "I think that Dick Cheney is probably the only friend the president has on this war. The American people have spoken. They're making it abundantly clear that surge, no surge, get the heck out of Iraq. And no matter what it takes, we're going to keep sending that message. I tell you this, there are many, many Republicans that are ready to break with the president, so the president better get the message so that we can do this in a unified way and make certain that our troops leave in the safest way possible.", "I spoke with the House Minority Leader John Boehner, the top Republican in the House. And like the White House, they're rejecting one Democratic proposal to fund the war through the end of July and then take up the funding bill once again later. They say that's a nonstarter. You can't treat U.S. military men and women as if they're teenagers and fund them partially for good behavior. What do you say to their rejection of this proposal?", "It's just the question of time. The American people have spoken. By the time they listen to their constituents, they'll find language that they feel comfortable with. But the American people should know as you know, it's not really the technical language that's in this bill, it's how many times does it take for us to send a message to the president to force him to sit down and to change the course? And so it doesn't bother me that the republicans don't like this. But if you take a look at the president's polls and take a look at the concerns that Republicans have in getting re-elected, it's just a question if time and how we do it.", "The Iraqis themselves are appealing to you in Congress to give them some more time. The national security advisor of Iraq Mowaffak Al-Rubaie, he's quoted in the \"New York Times\" today as saying this -- \"I know they are running out of patience, and I understand this very well. And we have to play the political game. But I feel we are on the last mile of a walk toward success, and if they let go and don't take our hand, I feel that we are going to lose everything.\" He's appealing to you, Congressman, to help them in what he says is the final Stretch. What do you say?", "Well, he calls it a political game. But the families of the 3,500 people who died and the thousands that have been wounded, they don't think this is a political game. They think it's serious. I would tell them that there's no question that America and democracies around the country should want to be of some assistance in bringing peace to this area. But what about the Jordanians? What about the Saudi Arabians? What about the Egyptians? If they cannot convince their own neighbors to participate in helping them to bring peace, then I don't know why it should be America that puts up the blood and the rest of them don't even hold our jackets.", "Your colleague from New York state, Hillary Clinton, the junior senator, she's being criticized severely by the former House speaker, Newt Gingrich, on her proposal with Robert Byrd in the Senate to deauthorize the original operation, the military operation, in Iraq. Listen to what Gingrich said.", "But this middle ground of politically beating up the American government, making us look weak in the world, undermining the morale of the American troops, while young men and women are risking their lives every day, strikes me as the worst of all possible worlds. And I think it is a great disservice to the country.", "He's clearly going after Hillary Clinton for this Proposal. Do you like her idea?", "Well, I don't know. Hillary Clinton has some political problems because of her initial vote. And if Senator Byrd and she believes that once again, they're sending a political message to the White House, I have no objection. The whole idea of thinking that this is going to happen, I don't think that really is a reality. But I think what we all are trying to do, especially Senator Clinton, is respond to the voters. And even though the president is commander in chief as it relates to the military, we have the responsibility to provide the oversight for what is going on here and we're doing just that. Nothing is going to stop us.", "Do you still support Hillary for president?", "You bet your life. I think she's the best qualified candidate. I only hope I can get some support for Giuliani and Kerik on the other side, making it a New York thing.", "But you'd want Hillary Clinton to beat Rudy Giuliani?", "If she can't beat Giulian and Kerik, forget about the democracy that we know.", "As far as we know, Bernard Kerik is not running for anything. You're obviously trying to make a point, though.", "Oh, he can be drafted, what the heck, they're inseparable. They're joined at the hips, they've been together for years. This is no time to give up on your friends.", "Charlie Rangel, Democrat, New York, thanks for coming in.", "Good to be with you, Wolf.", "Bernard Kerik, of course the former controversial police commissioner in New York under the then-mayor Rudy Giuliani. Still ahead tonight, an hour of airtime for a man accused by the U.S. government of having a terrorist group. So why are American taxpayers footing the bill? And the new president-elect of France, making waves for planning a luxurious get-away. We're tracking the outrage online. We'll be right back.", "Your taxpayer dollars paying for a news channel meant to soften some harsh anti-American sentiment in the Middle East. But can it do that by airing words from a man who despises the United States, who encourages death to an American ally? Let's go to CNN's Brian Todd. Brian, tell us about this news network and why it's coming under fire right now.", "Wolf, it's called Al Hurra, it's a TV news and public affairs network established to win hearts and minds toward American policies in the Middle East. And right now, it's accused of betraying that mission.", "A network underwritten by U.S. taxpayers for $63 million a year, set up to counterbalance the likes of Al-Jazeera, now accused of an outright double-cross, as it gave airtime to anti- American views. Critics say, by airing an hour-plus speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, accused by the U.S. of heading a major terrorist group, Al- Hurra isn't exactly cutting through anti-Western propaganda in the Middle East.", "By the five-minute mark, he told the people in the audience, who were firing their guns in celebrations, not to waste their bullets, and to save their bullets for where they belong, the chest of the enemy, the Israeli enemy.", "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a de factor member of Al- Hurra's board, has said this about the airing of Nasrallah's speech.", "The new director fully admits it was a mistake.", "Now, some in Congress who control Al-Hurra's purse strings are calling for Rice to investigate the network's practices and are threatening to withhold money if things don't change.", "We should not be putting on terrorists who are advocating killing Americans on a U.S. taxpayer- funded television station.", "Critics say Al Hurra, which means \"The Free One\" in Arabic, started to veer away from its mission last November, with the hiring of Larry Register as news director. Register, until 2001 an executive producer at CNN, has, according to his detractors, focused coverage less on corruption and human rights abuses in the Middle East, and more toward anti-American events, like the Holocaust-deniers conference in Tehran. Register wouldn't comment. In a statement, a spokeswoman admitted some errors under Register's leadership, but said the network is committed to fairness, and added, \"Al-Hurra is the only channel in the region that has programs dedicated to the discussion of the rights of women and human rights in the Arab world.\" In the view of one analyst, the network's credibility depends on it airing all shades of opinion.", "If you keep getting guests that represent only one side of the equation, then people would look at you suspiciously. But, when you bring people that present all views, then you would be taken more seriously.", "Still, critics say it's one thing to air a sound bite of someone like Hassan Nasrallah. It's quite another, they say to air his entire speech, with anti-Western rants and threats - Wolf?", "So what do the critics in Congress want Al-Hurra to do now, Brian?", "Some members of Congress and others want Larry Register to step down. The network says it stands by him 100 percent. Some congressmen also want the transcripts of the network's content produced constantly in English so that they can monitor those. A network official says that's too expensive, but they can provide transcripts on request.", "Brian Todd reporting, thank you. Still ahead here, a prominent reverend says something about a well-known Mormon. Now Al Sharpton's words, some people asking if he's a bigot. We're watching the story from both sides. Also, general resignation? Might ads of retired generals saying President Bush doesn't listen to commanders on the ground in Iraq have any effect on policy? Jack Cafferty with your e-mail. All that, still to come.", "The civil rights activist Al Sharpton is doing some damage control in the wake of the tempest that boiled up over a comedy day during a debate this week. It has the Mitt Romney presidential campaign bristling. Let's go back to Carol Costello, she's in New York. Carol, what's going on?", "Well, it's kind of turned into a he said, he said, Wolf. Al Sharpton accused of being a bigot, a hypocrite who maligned Mitt Romney's religion. As for what Sharpton says, well, he says he didn't mean it.", "He led the charge against Don Imus.", "Yes, I think that this is sexist first. And I think racist equally.", "That was Al Sharpton last month as he put pressure on NBC and CBS to drop the talk show host after Imus used an ethnic slur to describe the Rutgers women's basketball players. Now Sharpton's in the line of fire himself for comments he made about Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.", "As for the one Mormon running for office, those that really believe in God will defeat him anyway so don't worry about that. That's a temporary -- that's a temporary situation.", "The civil rights activist and former presidential candidate made the comment Monday while debating religion and politics with atheist author Christopher Hitchens, who's on a tour promoting his new book which rejects God. Much of the debate revolved around Hitchens saying he doesn't believe in God. Sharpton says his words were taken out of context and denies he was questioning Romney's belief in God. He tells the \"Associated Press,\" quote, \"What I said was that we would defeat him, meaning as a Republican. A Mormon by definition believes in God. They don't believe in God the way I do, but by definition, they believe in God.\" Sharpton says his comments were directed at Hitchens, not Romney -- radio talk show host and CNN contributor Roland Martin.", "The problem with this story is we don't have the proper context. First and foremost, this was a religious debate that took place.", "Minutes before the comments in question, the idea of a Mormon running for president was discussed. Then the conversation moved to faith and politics. Romney spoke out this morning saying.", "It shows that bigotry still exists in some corners. And I thought it was a most unfortunate comment to make. Reverend Sharpton's comment was terribly misguided.", "Sharpton counterattacked saying, \"This is a blatant effort by the Romney campaign to fabricate a controversy.\" If elected Romney would be the nation's first Mormon president. The former Massachusetts governor frequently talks about his faith.", "This is a nation after all that wants a leader that's a person of faith. But we don't choose our leader based on which church they go to.", "Is he right? Do Americans consider Mormons, Christians? A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll from last year found Americans split over the issue. But in a Gallup/\"USA Today\" poll in February, more than 70 percent, 70 percent said they were comfortable voting for a Mormon for president - Wolf?", "Thank you for that, Carol Costello. This note, Reverend Sharpton will be a guest on \"PAULA ZAHN NOW.\" That's coming up right at the top of the hour. CNN has confirmed Ann Romney, the wife of the presidential candidate Mitt Romney, made a $150 donation to Planned Parenthood back in 1994. But a Romney spokesman says that because it was so long ago, Mrs. Romney is not sure why she wrote the check. The spokesman notes that the former governor and his wife contributed $15,000 last year to a group called Massachusetts Citizens for Life. France's president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy is grabbing headlines in the French press. Sarkozy's luxurious post-election Mediterranean getaway is drawing some sharp criticism from his political opponents. Let's go to our Internet reporter Abbi Tatton. Abbi, what's the uproar all about?", "Wolf, it's about Sarkozy's decision to spent a couple of days preparing for the presidency on this, a 200-foot luxury yacht in the Mediterranean. Paparazzi have shot pictures of Sarkozy and his family on board the Paloma. Yachting Web sites report this is a yacht equipped with everything from scuba equipment to a karaoke machine, and it rents for around $250,000 a week. Sarkozy socialist opponents have criticized the trip as ostentatious and offensive and the papers are having a field day with this. Some of the headlines today, vacation making waves, the Sarkozy era is bling bling. Sarkozy is reported as saying, \"I have no intention to apologize.\" Wolf?", "Bling bling, is that French?", "If they didn't translate that word, apparently it works in both languages.", "Thank you for that, Abbi. Let's go to Jack Cafferty. He's in New York. Bling bling, all of a sudden the French got a new word.", "Do you know what the translation is? I won and you didn't. And I'm enjoying my cruise and you're stuck on land. The question this hour, will the ads featuring retired generals who claim that President Bush doesn't listen to his commanders on the ground in Iraq have any effect on policy? They're running these TV spots in various politically sensitive areas around the country. Kathlyn writes: \"I like the ads but I know they won't have an effect on Bush's policies. He's proven that he listens to no experts regarding foreign policy, the environment, the economy, and other key areas. I hope but I'm doubtful that the ad will change the public's views of the Republicans who have blindly followed Bush throughout his nightmare. They would rather go down with a sinking ship than admit this administration's been a total disaster start to finish.\" Jan in Pittsburgh: \"If all the retired generals say that President Bush does not listen to the commanders on the ground, then it probably would. But let's also hear from retired generals who say something different. However, I'm not sure the news media would be able to find anyone offering a different opinion. Can't believe they all agree.\" Diane, a former U.S. army captain: \"Thank god for the generals who can finally tell us what we already knew. It won't change policy but maybe it will stop the asinine comments by Bush and Cheney that if you criticize the war, you're not supporting the soldiers. As if putting them in their graves decades too early is.\" Dan in Spencer, Iowa: \"Probably not, but it's about time we hear the truth from the generals. It's too bad they have to retire in order to be able to tell it.\" Sharon in Lenexa, Kansas: \"I don't know the other generals, but I do know General Wesley Clark. He would never speak out so forcefully against the commander in chief if he were not concerned about our troops in Iraq, our image in the world community and indeed the survival of our country. Please heed these dedicated public servants before it's too late.\" And Ilene in Livonia, Michigan writes: \"I don't see that it's made any difference to date. Numerous generals have spoken out about Bush and his war policy. They're fired. Excuse me, they step down. And life goes on as it has been. More and more of our brave kids killed every day.\" If you didn't see your e-mail here, you can go to CNN.com/CaffertyFile where we post more of them online along with video clips of \"The Cafferty File.\" We try to pick clips where I speak more articulately than I did in this particular segment here.", "Thanks, Jack. Let's find out what's coming up at the top of the hour on \"PAULA ZAHN NOW.\" Paula?", "Thanks, Wolf. Coming at you, about seven minutes from now, we have an exclusive interview with Reverend Al Sharpton. He will be here to explain his controversial remarks about presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Mormons. Also out in the open tonight, violent gang members in the military. What's going to happen when they come home as trained killers? Plus, some absolutely appalling numbers. Why are teens dropping out of school at the rate of 6,000 a day? It's all coming up at the top of the hour. Wolf, we know you have nothing to do at 8:00 straight up so please join us then.", "We will be there, thank you, Paula, thanks very much. And still ahead here, now playing, what's being called the axis of evil comedy tour on radio, on stage. Comedians trying to help Americans understand Middle Easterners and getting some laughs along the way. We'll be right back.", "When President Bush first used the phrase axis of evil he probably never thought it would be the catch phrase for four guys looking for laughs and understanding. That's exactly what's happened as CNN's Jill Dougherty explains.", "Picture you're running through with machine guns, all right, knapsacks, machine guns and climbing under things.", "Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, another stop on the axis of evil comedy tour. Another chance to explain the subtleties of Middle Eastern identity.", "Iranians are Persian and not Middle Easterners.", "Not Arabs.", "Why don't you guys move here?", "No no, they are Middle Easterners, they're not Arabs, there's a difference.", "I'm very confused.", "This axis of evil is made up of four American comedians. Maz Gibrani (ph), born in Iran. Ahmed Ahmed (ph), born in Egypt, Aaron Qatar (ph), a Palestinian-American. And Dean Obidala (ph), son of a Palestinian father and a Sicilian mother.", "We are the new enemy. We've replaced the Soviet Union. And we're stuck here until somebody replaces us. That's why I'm begging all of you to help taunt North Korea as much as possible.", "You have to get them on board with you and let them know that hey, I get it, you guys have a stereotype of us and I know what you see.", "And the overall message is that we're proud of our background and ethnicities and that's why we're doing this.", "A lot of material these comedians use in their act comes from current events and they don't have to look far. Check out this article that appeared in the local paper the day they arrived. \"Muslim leader gets death threat.\" Ahmed Ahmed (ph) gets stopped at airports a lot. His name matches an alias of a terrorist on the FBI's most wanted list.", "Come on sir, oh, wait, you're supposed to take off your jacket. But I'll do a body search for you, oh!", "This is uncomfortable.", "Mmm-mmm.", "That's not necessary, is it?", "Yes, it is, honey. Oh!", "Arabs love to cuss in English. They cuss their heads off in English. They won't do it in Arabic, because then God could hear them.", "Is there is a point you could go too far? Is there a line in other words in your comedy?", "Any jokes about Mohammad. Any jokes about Prophet Mohammad are forbidden. Stay away from him.", "Like his fellow axis of evil comics, he says you can scare people into laughing. He quotes a comedy colleague who's a rabbi.", "He always says you can't hate anybody when you're laughing with them. So it's nice when we're doing our shows to see the diversity in the crowd and people actually laughing together. You see Arabs and Jews and White, and Mexican and Black, and they're all sitting together and they're all sharing the same laughs. Comedy's like food or music. It's universal.", "Jill Dougherty, CNN, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.", "They really, really are funny. That's it for us here in \"THE SITUATION ROOM.\" I'm Wolf Blitzer. Let's go to Paula in New York - Paula? 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{"id": "CNN-398193", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2020-04-22", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2004/22/cnr.17.html", "summary": "Trump Defends Protestors Demanding States Reopen; Supreme Court Deciding Fate of DACA Doctors", "utt": ["Since the very start of the pandemic, Donald Trump has tried to take a hands off approach, casting blame on China, the Democrats, state governors and his predecessor, Barack Obama, the World Health Organization. If we missed anyone, let me know. CNN's Jim Acosta reports on Trump's latest distraction.", "President Trump's own estimates for the number of Americans killed by the coronavirus are running into a new reality.", "But we're going towards 50 or 60,000 people. That's at the lower -- as you know, the low number was supposed to be 100,000 people. We -- we could end up at 50 to 60. OK. It's horrible.", "Those expectations of 50 to 60,000 dead based on modeling estimates embraced by the White House could be jeopardized by states that are racing ahead, like Georgia, where Republican Governor Brian Kemp is ready to reopen.", "This measure will apply statewide and will be the operational standard in all jurisdictions. This means local action cannot be taken that is more or less restrictive.", "A source close to the coronavirus task force warns those kinds of announcements could backfire, telling CNN, \"If some states jump prematurely into opening, we certainly could surpass 60,000 deaths.\" But Attorney General William Barr is accusing some states of going overboard in their social distancing measures, arguing some governors may be violating the constitutional rights of their constituents.", "When a governor acts, especially when a governor does something that intrudes upon or infringes on a fundamental right or a constitutional right, they're bounded by that.", "The president has yet to come down hard on states favoring speedy reopenings, despite his warning last week that he would go after governors who don't follow his administration's guidelines that recommend steady declines in coronavirus cases.", "And we're recommending, as you see in the charts, we're recommending certain things. They'll be in place, dependent on what the governor wants to do. If we see something wrong, we will be expressing ourselves very strongly.", "With new polling finding most Americans are unhappy with the president's handling of the pandemic, while pleased with their own state governors, Mr. Trump is turning to his pet issue, immigration, tweeting, \"In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!\" But the president has already boasted that he's taken tough action on the borders in response to the virus at a rally last month.", "We have strong borders and really are tough. And early actions have really been proven to be 100 percent right. We went out. We're doing everything in our power to keep the sick and infected people from coming into our country. We're working on that very hard. We closed our borders very early.", "The president could be facing another setback in the battle against the virus as a new study found that hundreds of patients at veterans' care facilities saw no health benefits after taking the drug hydroxychloroquine. The study even revealed patients who took the drug had a higher death rate. The president had touted the drug as a game- changer.", "I feel good about it. That's all it is, it's just a feeling. You know, I'm a smart guy. I feel good about it, and we're going to see. You're going to see soon enough.", "Michael Genovese is president of the Global Policy Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is with us this hour, and it is good to see you. It's been a while. Michael, I want to start off with those protests, because the states which are not opening up early, there have been these protests in front of state houses, demanding that an end to these lockdowns or these stay-at-home orders. So I want you to listen to sort of a snapshot of some of the views of those protesters who are on the streets. Here it is.", "There's a struggle with the virus, but there's a struggle to survive on both ends of it.", "It's not a pandemic. It's a panic-demic.", "Freedom and liberty! We're losing it!", "Do I think every business should be open? No. But there are some small businesses that they are going to fail if we don't -- we don't open things back up. It's not right.", "People need to be infected. I know that sounds terrible, but people get the flu every year, and we don't have this kind of massive shutdown.", "You know, it's important -- There's a real mix of views here. There are those who are sort of understandably concerned, maybe misguided, about their jobs in the economy and earning a living. And then there's the sort of the don't-tread-on-me crowd, the ones who chafe at regulation. You know, the ones who are basically ill informed because of what the president has been saying and what right-wing media has been reporting.", "It's a conglomeration of the Donald Trump base. I mean, there are several elements of that base, and you see and you hear them coming out very vocally right now. Now, the president's words have meaning, even when he's ill-informed and ignorant of -- of issues. People take it seriously. They rely on him. They trust him. And there are some times when the president's words really do matter, and this is, I think, one of the cases, because Donald Trump initially repeatedly downplayed the danger of the virus. And I think a lot of his base really took that seriously. They believed him. They trusted him. And now they've internalized that. You see that in this -- in the protests today and in the last few days. Open up the process. Let's get America moving again, against the advice of almost all the doctors. And so, there's -- there's kind of a delicious irony here, however, and that is that Donald Trump's message was, everything is going to be fine. People believed that, and then they started acting on it. Now, they're protesting against Donald Trump's own guidelines. And so the irony here is that they're believing Trump and protesting against him, all at the same time.", "And with that in mind, this is the president's reaction to these protests. Essentially, I should say, protesting against the guidelines issued in his name. Here he is.", "Look, people, they want to get back to work. They've got to make a living. They have to take care of their family. They don't want to do this. It's, you know, unfortunate. Maybe one way or the other. Both are unfortunate. Both are unfortunate. But you have a lot of people out there that are anxious to get back.", "You know, there's a very big difference between understanding and justifying. And it sounds like he's justifying. Well, the president is consumed with, and even obsessed with thinking about himself. And so it's always a question of how does this make me look? If it makes me look bad, I'm going to find a way to get out of it. If it makes me look good, I'm going to advertise it up. I'll run up a flagpole and advertise it. And so the president's real concern, and in a crisis that should be about the nation, it's about his image. It's about how people see him. It's about how people treat him. And so Donald Trump is ill-suited, temperamentally, to deal with the crisis. He should be bringing the country together and unifying us, but he's still dividing us. It's still -- he's still making it into a partisan issue.", "And while some of these demonstrations, they may be homegrown, \"Newsweek\" had this reporting on a group in Michigan. With regard to the protest, Governor Gretchen Whitmer said Monday that the organizers are \"funded in large part by the DeVos family.\" She added, \"And I think it's really inappropriate for a sitting member of the United States president's cabinet to be waging political attacks on any governor,\" in reference to Betsy DeVos, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. A spokesman for the DeVos family denied involvement, but it does raise this question of just how involved these conservative groups have been in pushing these protests in these various state capitals.", "Well, a lot of these Republican and conservative groups see Donald Trump as a useful tool to get their message across, get their influence up. And so Trump himself, who's always looking in the mirror to see how he looks, how he's playing politically, you've got in the background a lot of people who are very serious, hardened conservatives who have an agenda. And it's an agenda that they take very seriously, and they believe that Donald Trump is the vehicle for achieving that. They did it with the courts, and they're doing it in a lot of other areas. And so there's almost a divorce between what Donald Trump is doing on the one hand and what the people in his administration and his cabinet are doing on the other hand.", "Let's finish up with the president's miracle drug. You may remember. This is chloroquine. This was the anti-malaria drug that Trump has been doing the hard sell on for weeks. Here he is on April 5.", "If it works, it would be great. If it doesn't work -- we know for many years malaria, it's incredible what it's done for malaria. It's incredible what it's done for lupus, but it doesn't kill people.", "Well, yes, it does. That's been proven in multiple studies, one with the V.A.; others in Brazil. Now here's the president on Monday.", "Mr. President --", "Do you have a question?", "I think you wanted to follow up on the hydroxychloroquine.", "The hydroxychloroquine, I'm wondering if you're concerned, this V.A. study showed that, actually, more people died that used the drug than didn't, and I'm wondering if -- if Governor Cuomo brought you back any results?", "No, we didn't discuss it. And I don't know of the report. Obviously, there have been some very good reports, and perhaps this one is not a good report, but we'll be looking at it.", "He just pulled the equivalent of, Chloroquine, I've never met the guy. Who is he again? He's sort of wiping his hands of any responsibility.", "You know, John, ignorance is not bliss. It can be dangerous. And this is a case in point. My wife has, for 12 years, been taking Plaquenil because of an autoimmune disease. She cannot get her drugs, because Donald Trump has, you know, made it a miracle drug. He said take it. It's not going to kill you, which it did for some people. What have you got to lose? Well, your life, perhaps. My wife had to go through Mexico to get the drug that she needs because Donald Trump, his words made a run on the drug. People who really desperately need it, who have been taking for years and years, can't get it. He is oblivious to this. He should be looking out for people. Instead, he's looking out for himself, and that's the tragedy. In a crisis, you're supposed to be looking to the nation. He's looking inwardly to himself.", "Michael, I had no idea about your wife, so I hope everything is well and you stay safe.", "We got the drug from Mexico!", "Good. That's good news to hear. But it should never have happened that way in the first place. But Michael, thanks for being with us.", "Thank you, John.", "Well, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided the fate of DACA, the Obama-era program that protects hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. And that includes one young woman. She's in her first year of residency in emergency medicine. This is what she wrote in \"The Washington Post.\" \"Each day, after she takes off her protective gear and attempts to wash off both 'the virus and the fear,' she goes home and worries about whether she will be allowed to complete her residency. Losing DACA would mean losing her ability to replay her loan, treat desperate patients, even stay in the only country she has ever known. She's been here since the age of two.\" And she spoke to Catherine Rampell, who spoke to this woman. She's an E.R. doctor. And Catherine shared her experience with me.", "There has been tremendous courage, great personal risk taken on by healthcare workers of all sorts of nationalities and immigrant backgrounds or, you know, native-born backgrounds, for that matter. But I think that the flight facing those who do not have security in their immigration status is particularly moving right now. They're taking on great personal risk to save the lives of Americans and, you know, they're being cheered. They're being applauded in the streets here in New York City, where this doctor worked. And, yet at the very same time, they're being told that, pending a Supreme Court decision, they might be banned from continuing to work, period, permanently, going forward. That's the case for this doctor. That's the case for many other healthcare professionals who have DACA protections currently, because the Trump administration has been trying to end those protections. And it's not just those with DACA status, of course, who are at risk. There are other categories of immigrants who have had special kinds of protections, something called temporary protected status. They're from other countries that, you know, they got there through different means, basically. And the Trump administration has been trying to end their ability to stay here and work legally, as well. So there are a number of ways that this administration, even before the pandemic began, was trying to make it difficult for immigrants to continue working in this country, even if they're doing vital, literally life-saving work. And I think that the consequences of those kinds of measures are just all the more salient, of course, during a pandemic when, literally, American lives are dependent on these people continuing to be able to show up and -- and put their own, again, personal safety at risk to save American lives.", "And you can see the -- and you can see the full interview, about two hours from now, right here on CNN. Well, three months ago, Wuhan went on lockdown as the coronavirus gripped the Chinese city. CNN correspondent David Culver left Wuhan just before the shutdown, and now he's gone back and he's telling us what he's seeing their. Also ahead, once praised as a model for its coronavirus response, cases in Singapore are now spiking and one particular group is being hit hard."], "speaker": ["VAUSE", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "GOV. 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{"id": "CNN-286444", "program": "STATE OF THE UNION", "date": "2016-06-12", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1606/12/sotu.02.html", "summary": "Islamic Society of Florida Condemns Attack in News Conference. ", "utt": ["-- in the next hour of this horrific terrorist attack. In fact, we're going to start again right now. Good morning. I'm Jake Tapper in Washington, continuing CNN's coverage of the breaking news. A horrific massacre at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Police reporting at least 20 people or approximately 20 people have been killed in the incident, 42 injured. The FBI special agent-in-charge saying this morning that there are suggestions that the suspect, the killer, may have had leanings toward radical Islamic terrorism, although nothing was definitive at the time of that statement. We are awaiting a new press conference with the latest information. Investigators are also looking into the possibility of a hate crime given that the target was a gay nightclub. Police released the first -- first details a short time ago. Take a listen.", "The suspect is dead. He appeared to be carrying a rifle, an assault-type rifle, and a handgun and had some type of device on him.", "Pamela Brown reported just a few minutes ago that the device that was on the individual, on the suspected possible terrorist, the killer, was not actually a threat to law enforcement. It's unclear whether that's because it was a failed explosive device or if it wasn't an explosive device at all. The incident started around 2:00 in the morning Eastern Time. That's when the club would be the most packed. Shortly thereafter, the nightclub posted on its Facebook page this message. \"Everyone, get out of Pulse,\" the name of the nightclub, \"and keep running.\" Police now say that an officer responded and there was a shootout with the killer outside the club. The gunman ran inside the club, a hostage situation began. About three hours later at around 5:00 a.m., police used an armored vehicle or a bearcat to knock down a door and enter the club, after which they shot and killed the gunman, who according to Pamela Brown's reporting had identified his name during the standoff with police. Throughout the entire ordeal, ambulances and emergency vehicles surrounded the nightclub. Police say they received phone calls and text messages, calls for help, giving information from people who were inside hiding from the gunman. Relatives of people in the club also received messages and rushed to the scene.", "07 I got a text message from my daughter and my two nieces. Please come and get us, please come and get us now, they're shooting, they're shooting. And then about 2:12 I got a phone call from my daughter saying she was hit and she was bleeding in her arm and she was going to pass out, and just come and get her and help her and call the cops and help. And she was just afraid. It was just tragic.", "CNN is now going to report the name of the gunman according to law enforcement sources. His name was Omar Mateen. Omar Mateen. Let's go now to CNN correspondent Boris Sanchez, who is in Orlando, Florida. Boris, what's the latest? What can you tell us about what's going on where you are?", "Jake, they're still processing the scene right now. The law enforcement presence that was here this morning with dozens of agencies out here has diminished significantly, but there is still a huge line between us and that club back there. Pulse nightclub. We're about three blocks away. We know investigators have been scanning every room inside the club. We heard from sources earlier that the suspect, Omar Mateen, had some kind of device on him. It's unclear what kind of device that was, whether or not it was an actual explosive, some kind of IED. But you can imagine that the investigation will go from there and they'll look into this person's travel records, his online history, what kind of ties he may have had, and what was going through his mind shortly before carrying this out. We're learning he's actually not far -- he's not from this area. He's from Ft. Pierce, Florida, which is just shortly west from here. So again, there's a name, but we don't have a motive. And that's really the next phase of this investigation. I can also tell you that about an hour ago or so, coroner vans started driving in, so they're going through the process now of recovering and identifying the remain of those deceased. Hopefully later today we'll have that information for those family members that are desperately awaiting any kind of information after this shooting -- Jake.", "All right, Boris Sanchez, thanks so much. No official motive as of now, though. The FBI special agent-in-charge did suggest earlier today that there were indications, suggestions that the gunman subscribed to radical Islamist theology. Let's bring back Congressman Pete King from the Homeland Security Committee. So, Congressman, we have here the name of the assailant, the shooter, the possible terrorist. Omar Saddiqui Mateen. Is that the name that you had heard earlier?", "That's the name I've heard. He's from Afghanistan, I believe. And he is also trained in the use of weapons. That's as far as I can go.", "Is he somebody that -- I mean, how would somebody from Afghanistan trained in use of weapons get into this country? Was he somebody that was affiliated at all with the Taliban, or god forbid, was he somebody affiliated in working with the United States at one point?", "I really can't go any further than that, Jake.", "All right. Is there anything other than the fact that he's from Afghanistan and trained in the use of weapons that you could tell us about the shooter, Omar Mateen?", "No, I really can't. I don't want to get ahead of law enforcement on this. And I've only, again, said, you know, what's -- has now become pretty much public record. I don't want to go any further.", "All right, Congressman. Respect where you're coming from. Thanks so much for joining us.", "Thank you. Re Let's bring back our panel. Juliette Kayyem, who used to be assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Phil Mudd, he used to be a top official at the CIA and the FBI, and of course here with me, Art Roderick who used to be with the U.S. Marshals. So, Juliette Kayyem, you've heard the reporting as it's evolved, the name of the killer, Omar Saddiqui Mateen. Congressman Pete King says he's trained in the use of weapons and is from Afghanistan originally. Your reaction as this information comes in.", "So we have at least a case now in that is going to have international investigation. We don't know where that is going to lead us. What we don't know at this stage, so you know, each of these pieces is a data point, just to describe to people how these investigations go. We have the person now. Now it's a determination of what kind of training he may have gotten abroad, if any. Was he directed by anyone abroad? Or was he inspired by some sort of activity abroad, Afghanistan or elsewhere, that led him to do this at 2:00 on a Saturday morning? Right? So that is what the next phase of this piece is. So people watching go, so now it's like a bull's eye. We now have the person. And now we've got to investigate the concentric circles. The reason why is you want to make sure there's not something else in the works. We owe it to the victims, who are still being identified at this stage, to know, you know, whether this could have been stopped. And then also we have this apparatus known as the Joint Terrorism Task Forces. They now are clearly going to be scrubbing all of their information to see whether he, Omar, had ties to anyone else that they may be surveying at this time. So this is the story that is going to unfold in very interesting ways. Some of them will be dead ends for weeks. These cases, as you know, take weeks to figure out.", "That's right. We're still learning things about the Tsarnaev brothers in Boston. And that was several years ago. Phil Mudd, while Congressman King told us that his source had told him that Omar Saddiqui Mateen was from Afghanistan, I should note that \"The Washington Post\" is reporting that they believe his family was originally from Afghanistan, but he was born here in the United States. So as I cautioned earlier in the program, as law enforcement gets information, as CNN learns it, either on the record, on background, sometimes it's contradictory, sometimes it's proven incorrect. We are bringing you all the information as we get it from reliable sources, and we all try to make sense of it together. Phil Mudd, your reaction to what we've learned since the last time we spoke.", "Well, I think that the investigation will blow up now. And you can think of this in three phases. As Juliette said, there will be a lot of hazy information, but the three phases over the next week, number one, imminent threat. We already had a tragedy, but looking at this fellow's name, his Facebook postings, presumably they'll get access to phone and e-mail data. Are there other individuals out there who are affiliated with him who pose an imminent threat? Number two, support network. Whether people were involved in the attack or not, were there people who knew, people who radicalized him, people who gave him money? And third and finally, Jake, was there a network overseas that inspired him or trained him to do this? Particularly because you want to ask the question, are they in contact with other people? So as soon as you have that name in the digital world, you can blow up these three questions within the space of 12 to 24 hours to start putting that web of information together.", "And Art Roderick, formerly of the U.S. Marshals Service, when somebody with this name, as it's been described, FBI special agent saying had he is -- there is some suspicions that he had radical Islamic leanings. Either he or his family, both are from Afghanistan. Congress King saying that he had weapons training. This sounds bad and it sounds like a possible -- possibly, although we have no evidence of it yet.", "Right.", "Possibly not just a self-radicalized individual.", "Yes, I mean, as we sat here for a couple of hours, I mean, as they peel this onion back, it seems to be getting worse and worse. Now granted, if he was here in the U.S. already, where did he receive that weapons training? Had he been overseas in the last couple of years? You know, we know he's going to go through the Facebook postings, but the FBI had his name fairly early on when they were doing the negotiations.", "Yes.", "So that started at that particular point. So for hours now, the bureau has been -- or JTTFs have been looking at this individual, looking at his background, looking at his family members. And that's why we got really early on they came out and said there were some leanings towards radical Islam.", "When -- when Art Roderick refers to the JTTF, just for our viewers, that's the Joint Terrific Task Force. It's a group of law enforcement from the FBI, local law enforcement, et cetera. Juliette Kayyem, you obviously have something you want to say involving this case.", "Yes, so what's very important is this distinction about whether he is foreign and somehow traveled here and evaded immigration or if he's a U.S. citizen. And neither is a good thing, right? We know that, but that's significant for a variety of reasons, including the radicalization process and the training process. If he got trained abroad and was sent here to do a mass casualty event that is, you know, the greatest one since Sandy Hook, that is a significantly different investigation. It will -- it implicates international relations in ways that if he's a U.S. citizen, gets radicalized, gets access to guns and walks into a soft target. Neither is good. Neither is -- but of them are horrific but in terms of understanding what's going on, in terms of the threat, it's an important distinction.", "And if you're just learning us -- just joining us, CNN has learned the name of the killer in the Pulse, Orlando, Florida, nightclub massacre. His name is Omar Saddiqui Mateen. And this name comes after the FBI special agent-in-charge said this morning that there were suggestions that the shooter, that the killer subscribed to a radical Islamic ideology. Phil Mudd, one of the things that is terrifying in particular -- I mean, the entire incident is terrifying for any number of reasons, but one of the things that's most terrifying is that Afghanistan is a nation that obviously the United States has been fighting a war there for longer than any war in the history of this country, for 15 years. One of the reasons why the United States has been fighting and has given so much blood and treasure in that fight is because of the desire for the Afghan people to have a better life.", "Yes, I think when you look at this and you look at the origin of the family, one of the questions you're going to have, Jake, is you're suggesting is about the demands of people around the world from places where ISIS and al Qaeda have spread for a fight to continue against the United States. We thought, when I was at the CIA 10 or 11 years ago that we were beating al Qaeda. Then we seat the incidents of violence from ISIS in places like Europe, in places like Afghanistan going into Southeast Asia, now in California with San Bernardino and in Orlando. I think the key message we may learn is not only that there are individuals here who are inspired by this movement, but that the generational fight that we thought we might be winning against al Qaeda has, in fact, been spread by ISIS. And we got maybe decades to go here. This is going to be a long campaign.", "We're going to take a quick break. We're expecting a press conference from law enforcement in Orlando, Florida, any moment. Stay with us. CNN's coverage of this horrific breaking news story continues.", "Welcome back to CNN's live coverage of this horrific breaking news event. The law enforcement press conference has not started yes, but Congressman Alan Grayson, Democrat from Florida, is speaking at the podium. Let's join him.", "So we're doing our part in my office to make sure that there are no bureaucratic impediments to letting them comfort the injured.", "What about the people who died inside? Have their families been notified yet?", "I don't know. I don't know. Every victim has been removed.", "Have you heard anything about the shooter?", "Well, let me put it this way. The nationality of family members is indicative. But again, the police are holding back that information until it's time for them to come out, until they've done a full background check on him and gone into his home, found whatever evidence may be in his home. Computers and writings and so on, as well as checking social media.", "Do you believe he might have had help?", "There's no evidence of that at this time.", "Do you have an update on the bomb situation? There still a device?", "The police never actually said it was a bomb. They said it was a suspicious device. All the killing that was done, was done with an assault rifle, with a single weapon, an assault rifle. It was done very quickly also.", "When will the area be cleared?", "I'm sorry, I hear anyone.", "When will the area be cleared?", "It will take -- it will take many hours. There's an enormous amount of havoc in that area right now. There's blood everywhere. I spoke to somebody who was on the site. And there is an enormous amount of evidence to be collected systemically over the course of many hours inside.", "A larger press conference is coming.", "OK, good.", "You want to move the podium. You don't want the podium at all? OK.", "They were wanting it for their remarks so they had the details in front of them but you guys aren't hearing so OK. Thank you all for your patience and flexibility on the time. We just wanted to make sure we had the latest information, and we were getting some last details during this time. This update will include Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs, Police Chief John Mina, Sheriff Jerry Demings, Ron Hopper with the FBI, Dr. Michael Cheatham with the trauma surgeon at ORMC, and Amman Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, and the national president of the American Islam. Mayor Dyer?", "Today we're dealing with something that we never imagined and is unimaginable. Since the last update, we have gotten better access to the building. We have cleared the building and it is with great sadness that I share we have not 20 but 50 casualties. In addition to the shooter, there are another 53 that are hospitalized. Because of the scale of the crime, I've asked the governor to declare a state of emergency. We are also issuing a state of emergency for the city of Orlando so that we can bring additional resources to bear to deal with the aftermath. Our focus is going to be on identifying the victims and notifying the families. We're setting up a hotline for concerned family members. That is 407-246-4357. The identification process may take some time. So we ask for your patience because we want to be accurate. Concerned family members can call the hotline, however, and let them know that you have someone that you are concerned about. I continue to be so proud of our community. The support that has shown the response that has been made. I'm also thankful to entities from all around the country and all over the state of Florida. The governor has made all the resources of the state of Florida available. Orange County has made all of their resources available. We have assistance from the White House. So every possible asset we have brought to bear. Mayor Jacobs?", "Thank you, Mayor Dyer. Of course, let me start with expressing my sympathy for the families, for the loved ones of those who we have lost in the last 24 hours. We know that this affects a large segment of our community. We know that we have a very close-knit LGBT community who has been dramatically impacted by this. So to everyone who is impacted, I want you to know that our thoughts and prayers are with you. And that we are a united community and what we saw last night does not reflect what we feel in our hearts and our souls here in Orange County. And I am calling on every citizen here in Orange County to never forget that we stand together in times of adversity. But we don't just stand together as a city of Orlando and Orange County. We stand together as a country. We have heard from Texas. We have heard from states all across the country wanting to know what they can do to help. So when evil like this comes to our community, we respond in force. I guarantee you we will do that again. And thank you all for everything that you do to make this such a wonderful place to be. We know it's going to take time to be able to answer the questions of the loved ones. And there's nothing, nothing more difficult than waiting to find out the status of people that you love. Please be patient. We're doing our best. Thank you.", "As Mayor Dyer said, at this point the nightclub Pulse has been cleared and deemed safe of any devices. We're in the process of clearing the suspect's vehicle, which is a van right outside. And we ask that people be patient. Unfortunately, there are many victims inside the club. But like was said, you know, our priority will be on the identification of the victims, the notification of the next of kin. I also want to take this opportunity to thank all the outpouring of the law enforcement support from as far away as Boston and Chicago, that let us use their resources if need. And of course, great community support from the Central Florida law enforcement community as well. I also want to commend the heroic and courageous actions of the initial responding officers who exchanged gunfire with the suspect and also the heroic and courageous actions of our SWAT team, who rescued at least 30 victims -- possible victims, and brought them to safety. So again, at this point, just patience because unfortunately this tragedy and the amount of bodies that are in there, amount of victims, it's going to take some time. Thank you. We'll answer questions at the end.", "I'm Sheriff Jerry Demings. And I join our entire community in offering our sympathy to these families who have loved ones. This has certainly been a tragic day for all of us and in that this is a day of worship in most places of America. We do call upon members of the clergy to pray for those family members and for this community and this nation for healing. In the last several hours, the men and women here in law enforcement have been working diligently to ensure the overall safety of everyone involved. You all have seen most recently where there were members of our hazardous device team, bomb units working from the Orange County Sheriff's Office with units from the Orlando Fire Department to make certain that we do not have any secondary type device or what have you that were in the crisis site itself. That process has taken an extended period of time to ensure the safety of everyone. And so that's why we have not been able to remove all of the victims, if you will, from the crisis site at this point. That process is continuing. We likely have another hour or two of operational necessity to ensure the safety before we can begin that process. But we do appreciate the collaborative effort amongst all of the different local governments as well as our state and our federal government. We've all come together in unity to address this issue. And on behalf of our entire community, we thank you, the media, for covering these events and this tragedy. Thank you very much.", "Can you please confirm 5-0 dead?", "We'll take questions after we're finished with the prepared statements.", "Hello, the FBI has confirmed the subject involved in this shooting incident. At this time, we're making the notifications to the next of kin. So we will have that name to be officially released to you at the next press conference. What I want to put out right now is that as we all know in many situations, people come and go to nightclubs such as these. So what I'm asking is if anyone out there attended this nightclub and then left before the shooting happened, I would urge you to still call in and come and talk to our investigators because you don't know exactly what you may or may not have seen. So we would appreciate everyone coming forward, no matter how small the evidence in your mind may be. The other thing is, we are actually setting up a family assistance center at the Hampton Inn located at 34 Columbia Street. We currently have it now with ORMC but we're going to go and move it down to the hotel in order to accommodate more family members in an attempt to -- reunite people with either their loved ones or gather information on people who have not yet been located.", "Can you just confirm that number again? 50? Did you say 50 deaths?", "Fifty. Yes.", "In addition to 53 in the hospital?", "You mentioned earlier that --", "I thought we had one more. We have a couple of more people who are going to speak. And then we'll answer some questions.", "Good morning. As many of you are aware, a little after 2:00 this morning we were notified of many victims, gunshot victims. As Central Florida's only level-one trauma center, we immediately activated our mass casualty instant plan. We immediately brought in six trauma surgeons to respond, including one pediatric trauma surgeon. We have spent the morning operating on a number of victims. We continue to operate on them. We have found many of them are critically ill as a results of their injuries. And we are in the process of trying to reunite families as we identify the names of these victims. As has been mentioned, this will take some time. And we ask for your patience. But we will reunite the families and the victims just as it quickly as we can. Thank you.", "Do you need blood donors?", "Blood is a wonderful gift. That can all be arranged through the local blood banks. Please don't come to the local hospitals. But you can work through the local blood banks to be able to donate and that would be a tremendous help. Thank you.", "First name (inaudible)?", "Michael Cheatham (ph).", "Good morning. My name is Muhammad Musri. I am the president and senior imam of the Islamic Society of Florida and the national president of American Islam. I'm here today to stand as a faith leader with our law enforcement community and our city leadership in this hour of horror that was brought upon our city. I've worked with these leaders for over 20 years. I know their caliber, their strength and their determination to make sure this city is safe. And I call on everybody in the community, anybody who has any information, to please call the FBI, share what you know. It may help answer many unanswered questions yet. I also call on my fellow faith leaders, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, whatever faith you follow. Please, pray for the victims and their families in this -- in this hour. On this Sunday morning, it's supposed to be a beautiful morning, but it is already a very heartbreaking morning. And I want to praise the courageous effort of our OPD, who risked their lives, put their lives on the line. One of the officers, as we heard, was injured. And that's a risk they take every day to protect us. No one could have predicted this. No one could have prepared for it. This could have happened anywhere. It's like a lightning. So they have done a marvelous job to save as many lives after the shooter began shooting, and we are glad that the situation is completely under control. There are no other shooters that this person is not known to be connected with, a network or other people, so the city residents and the visitors should feel safe. The city is as safe as the best city in the world. I want to also caution many in the media from rushing to judgment and from, you know, sensationalizing the story because we do not want the story to be shifted from the focus of what it is. It's a horrible tragedy. We are mourning. We are sad. We are heartbroken. And it's not really time for any sensational news just -- and rushing to judgment. So we should all wait until information, facts, come out from the investigators, and we will all see what happened, understand it, and stay together to work together to keep our community strong. I want to thank Mayor Dyer, Mayor Jacobs, our city leaders, Chief Mina and Sheriff Demings for their leadership, Ron from the FBI. I think, many times in the past, this has been discussed as the worst nightmare, and we are sorry to know that it happened to us. We don't wish this on anybody else. And we hope this would be the last of the mass shootings that our country has been going through. I think, as a nation, we need to look at this issue of mass shootings, because we just had one too many today. And I think we should do something about it to stop the -- the mass shootings that are happening all the time. Thank you.", "Ron?", "Sure?", "You were able to, very early on, say that the shooter appears to have leanings toward a radical Islamic terror connection. How is it that you guys were so quickly so sure of that (inaudible) as opposed to it just being a hate crime (inaudible)?", "Early on, when we had a possible identification made, we run everything to ground, whether it winds up being the actual individual or not. As so, I mentioned earlier, at this time, I can't say exactly who the suspect or the deceased shooter is. Once -- once we're able to do that; once the notification is made, then more details will be able to be shared, most likely from our counter-terrorism division up at FBI headquarters.", "Can you tell us what type rifle was found? How many rounds do you think were fired off?", "Right now, the weapons recovered from the suspect, who is dead, was a handgun and an AR-15-type assault rifle -- an unknown number of rounds, but there were additional rounds.", "Did the suspect make any sort of call prior to the shooting, maybe to 911 or to another location, kind of, indicating anything?", "We have no indication of that as of yet.", "Or any communication with the suspect -- I know it was three hours before you went in -- between the arrival of the -- shots were fired -- and you finally going in to rescue the hostages?", "There was some communication, but we're not going to release that right now.", "Why did the SWAT team wait three hours?", "Well, remember, this is a -- a situation involving hostages, a situation involving things that happened very fast. And, you know, I think it was important for them to know exactly what they had. Once the initial shots were stopped, they were dealing with a -- with a hostage situation. So, you know, in that -- in that time, we need to set up, re-evaluate, re-assess what's happening, and make sure that all the pieces are in place, we have enough staffing to take care of any situation, we have armored vehicles that come to the scene. And those were crucial in the rescue of those hostages. So any time we have a hostage situation, we're definitely going to use extreme measures to make sure that we have enough personnel on the scene.", "To your knowledge, (inaudible) before you went in, in between the time that...", "Yeah, I can't speak to that right now. That will all be part of the investigation.", "So early this morning, there was -- there was a thought that it may be 20 victims inside. That number has risen to 50. Is this now one of the top five, if not the top mass shooting event in this country?", "Absolutely, yes, it is. Yeah, so this morning, just based on what the initial officers saw, without jeopardizing any more safety, you know, they thought there were about at least 20. But now it's, yeah, up to 50, so definitely one of the worst tragedies.", "Is it accurate to say that this is the worst shooting in American history?", "Yes.", "Any indication that the suspect had any help, outside help?", "There's no indication of that right now, but that's -- that will all be part of the investigations.", "(inaudible) the 50 who were killed were shot during the initial shooting? And, two, were there any shooting -- were any shots fired after that initial shooting at 2:02?", "There was an initial shooting at 2:02, numerous shots fired. And then there were gunshots exchanged between the SWAT team and the suspect at 0500 hours.", "So of the 50 fatalities that we have, do we know if they were all killed during that initial shooting at 2:02, or were any of them killed after then?", "That's...", "Do you know?", "That's unknown at this time.", "So is this classified right now as a hate crime or as a terrorist event?", "At this point in time, we're just conducting a general investigation, period. We'll determine officially whether it's a hate crime or a terrorism incident or even a violent crime, once we have all the facts in place. We're at the very early stages. And as much as I would like to give you everything we have, we can't give you things that aren't 100 percent accurate because then it doesn't -- it's not fair to you, so...", "(inaudible) you're saying less now, and you guys came back with (inaudible)?", "I'm sorry? A bomb?", "(inaudible).", "Oh, OK.", "What has -- what has changed, in your eyes, in the three hours (inaudible)?", "Well, again, so, since the suspect has not been positively identified to the next of kin, there's not a whole lot more we can share with you at this time. Also, bear in mind that we do not want to jeopardize the investigation. While we feel confident right now there are no other threats to the immediate area or the United States of America, we need to be certain of that before we put any further information out.", "Was anyone injured by officers' fire, and were any officers injured?", "Unknown at this time. There was one officer injured. He was hit in the Kevlar helmet with a round from the suspect. The Kevlar helmet did stop that round, but the officer does have some injuries to his face from that -- from that gunshot.", "Chief, how would you characterize the shooting?", "... with these weapons? Did he come in shooting, or was he able to smuggle these weapons in?", "Yeah, we're still early in the investigation. Unknown how he got inside the club. But it appears like he was in there and then the shots were fired, from preliminary information.", "Chief, can you give us some context? How bad is this compared to other shootings across the country?", "It's absolutely terrible. I mean, 50 victims from one location, one shooting, is absolutely one of the worst tragedies we've seen.", "(inaudible)", "One more time?", "(inaudible)?", "Exactly. There were more -- there were more victims inside than originally thought. So once it was safe for us to go in and we determined there were no devices, that's when we were able to discover how many victims were actually in there.", "Can you talk about where these victims (inaudible) to get away from the gunfire?", "Yeah, that's all going to come out in the investigation. Right now we're going to focus on, obviously, the identification of all the victims and the notification of next of kin.", "(inaudible)?", "At least a few hours.", "Congressman Peter King just said that the shooter was from Afghanistan and (inaudible)?", "No.", "Here we are (inaudible) among the worst (inaudible) in the U.S. (inaudible)?", "Absolutely. It's definitely a tragedy not only for the city but for our entire nation. You know, we believe this is a tragedy that could happen anywhere in the United States of America. And what we need to do is continue to be vigilant and call. If you see something, say something and call anyone -- call 911, call the FBI, if you see something that's out of place or you see someone that's acting strange, strange behavior.", "(inaudible) the scene?", "No, we can't confirm that.", "(inaudible)?", "Absolutely. Just to look into the eyes of our officers told the whole story. Obviously, you know, some of those officers had 20-plus years on. One of the lieutenants who was one of the first on the scene, he's a 23-year member of the police department and almost 20 years on the SWAT team. And you could tell that they were all shaken by this incident, by what they saw inside the club. They did a -- did an unbelievable job, courageous efforts in rescuing many, many hostages, at least 30, from inside the club. But, after it was all said and done, you could tell it really -- this kind of tragedy takes a toll on everyone, even law enforcement officers.", "Can you describe what (inaudible)?", "... the calls that you were receiving from the people that were inside...", "So we're going to brief roughly every two hours.", "Three hours?", "We're going to brief in about three hours. We're going to give you absolutely as much information as we can disclose. There are guidelines for OPD and for the FBI and FDLE. But we're going to give you everything we can possibly give to you. Right now, we want to focus on identifying the victims and notifying their families. So I would hope you would leave with the information about how families can call in and check on their loved ones or give information about they might think that their loved one was among those who are missing, and we...", "Can you give that hotline number again?", "It's 407-246-4357 -- 407-246-4357. And people can call, if loved ones want to call and try and get some information or help us with information. They could also call the FBI for any tips. And that's 1-800-CALL-FBI. And they'll just hit option number two when prompted -- 1-800-CALL- FBI, option number two, when prompted. And, one more time, our hotline for family members is 407-246-4357.", "We just heard some devastating news from Orlando officials, confirming 50 killed at the Pulse nightclub last night. Fifty would make this the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States. There are 53 wounded, some of them grievously, we're told. In addition, we're told that the gunman used a handgun and an AR-15-type semi-automatic rifle. They would not name the gunman, although CNN has already independently reported that his name is Omar Siddiqui Mateen, apparently born in Florida, although, his parents are from Afghanistan. Let's talk more about this devastating news, this horrible day in American history, with Senator Marco Rubio from Florida, who serves on the Intelligence Committee and obviously born and bred in the state of Florida. Senator, first of all, our thoughts and prayers are with you and the entire state of Florida right now. I know that there is -- there's a lot for us to talk about, but you have a message for people in central Florida right now, something they can do to help right now. What is that?", "Yeah, well -- first of all, Jake, thanks for giving this the coverage it deserves. It's a horrifying incident, obviously. And the people in central Florida, they are looking for blood donors, particularly the O-plus and O-negative blood types. I put that up on Twitter. Don't just show up at the hospital, as you heard the authorities say, but actually get in touch with the local blood bank authorities. I linked an article to my Twitter feed so people can know where to call. And, I mean, when you have this level of mass casualty and loss of life here, you can just imagine the demand on -- on the blood banks. So I would encourage those who are eligible and can give blood to please try to do that. That's one thing we can do. And, you know, in the days to come here, in the next few hours, as the authorities try to piece all this together, it is possible that someone watching this broadcast might have some information that will lead us to know a little bit more about this -- this animal who did this. You've already touched on some of the -- I don't want to say anything or go beyond it because I don't want to undermine their investigation, but I think -- and let me just suffice it to say that I think, over the next couple days, they're going to be looking to see where this individual was inspired to carry out this horrifying act of terrorism. And I think we're going to be talking about a very different kind of case here very soon, is my sense.", "Yeah, the FBI special agent in charge has already said that they have suspicions, suggestions as to Omar Siddiqui Mateen being inspired by radical Islamic ideology. And when we have more definitive information on that, we will -- we will bring that to the viewers. One other issue that I think a lot of people are concerned about, especially people in the LGBT community, Senator, is that this is pride month. Obviously, we don't know the twisted motivations as to why the gunman picked a gay nightclub for his attack, but obviously this is a month where there are a lot of gay pride events throughout the nation. Here in Washington, D.C., police have said that they have increased security at events for the LGBT community. Do you know of any information that you may have learned from law enforcement or from the Intelligence Committee in the Senate that suggests any other possible attack that might be planned?", "Well, as of now, the indications are this is an individual that acted on their own. Obviously, in the next couple days, we're going to learn a lot more about it. And if you look at the nature of the attack, basically the use of a handgun to storm a nightclub and start shooting people, it doesn't take a tremendous amount of coordination. I mean, you don't need a phone call from Afghanistan or an e-mail from Syria to tell you to go do this. We have seen the way radical Islamists have treated the gay and lesbians in other countries. We've seen it's punishable by death. We've seen some horrifying pronouncements of things that they've done. So if, in fact, this crime is, in fact this terrorist attack is one inspired by radical Islamic ideology, it is quite frankly not surprising that they would target this community in this horrifying way. And -- and I think it's something we're going to have to talk about some more here across the country. I would also want to say, and I don't want to leave without saying the Orlando police department -- you know, we say this every day. It's almost cliche-ish. What these people did is extraordinary. I mean, they've really put their lives on the line to confront this individual and -- and, quite frankly, saved lives. He had holed himself up into a corner of the club, and they had to go in and extract him from there, and that ended up in a gun battle and his death, but one officer was wounded. Thankfully, it was a slight wound, but it was a bullet wound, but apparently he's doing OK. But, boy, there -- it was extraordinary courage on their part. But going back to the LGBT issue, look, if this is a terrorist attack -- and when common sense plays out here, OK -- if, in fact, this is an individual -- there are indications that, while he's U.S. born, his family is originally from Afghanistan -- that, in and of itself, says nothing, other than, if, in fact, the leads turn into this is something inspired by radical ideology, then, of course, I think common sense tells you he specifically targeted the gay community because of the views that exist in the radical Islamic community with regards to the gay community.", "One last question, Senator, and then I know you have to go. And we thank you for calling in. You're a father of four children, two of them younger. I'm a father of two children. How do you explain this? And I think there are probably a lot of parents out there watching right now in who want to know how somebody like you -- how do you explain this to your children?", "Well, unfortunately, we've had a lot of practice in explaining this over the last few years. And the only way I can ever figure it out is that there is this radical ideology in the world that teaches people at a very young age that you have a right to kill people who don't agree with your religion, and you have a right to kill them even if they're not doing anything bad to you, in essence, just because. And, again, we don't know yet, but I think there is growing indications from everything we've learned -- and we'll learn more here in the next few days -- it sounds like this is an individual who worked for a security company. So obviously he had to do some background checks and things of this nature. So we'll have more information based on that. We'll see what the FBI is able to gather from his social media accounts and his cell phone. But we'll see what information is available. But if, in fact, this leads to that explanation, and right now there's a lot of indications that this has some link to radical Islam, I think we have to continue to explain to people, this is the new face of the war on terror. And they have said openly that they intend to target us here. And one of the hardest parts of this war is the individual who carries out an attack by themselves in a soft target like this. And it's basically in Orland, Florida. And it's a reminder that the war on terror has evolved into something that we've never had to confront before, individuals capable of conducting these sorts of massacres unexpectedly in places, you know, that you wouldn't normally associate with the kind of attacks that you see. And we'll learn more in the next few days, but I have confidence that the FBI and our -- the Department of Homeland Security are on this and that we're going to learn a lot more about this here fairly quickly.", "Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, thank you so much for your time this morning, sir.", "Thank you, Jake.", "And for those individuals in central Florida, please heed the advice, the suggestions, the request from Senator Rubio. There is a dire need for blood, especially those who belong to the universal donor type of O-positive. Please seek your local hospital, see if you can contribute. There are 53 individuals who have been -- many of whom have been grievously wounded, and we don't want this already horrific death toll to go up. We'll be right back after this quick break.", "Good morning. We're following horrific breaking news, a mass shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which now ranks as the deadliest mass shooting in the history of this nation. This is Orlando's mayor just a few minutes ago.", "And it is with great sadness that I share we have not 20 but 50 casualties, in addition to the shooter. There are another 53 that are hospitalized.", "That's 50 dead. The incident started a couple of minutes after 2:00 a.m. Eastern Time, shortly after the nightclub posted on its Facebook page this message, \"Everyone get out of Pulse\" -- that's the name of the club -- \"and keep running.\" Police now say an officer responded, and there was a shootout outside the club. The gunman ran inside the club, and a hostage situation began. About three hours later, at around 5:00 a.m., police used an armored vehicle, a BearCat, to knock down a door and enter the club. They shot and killed the gunman. He now is identified by law enforcement sources as Omar Sidiqqui Mateen. Omar Siddiqui Mateen -- a law enforcement source tells CNN that Mateen worked as a private security guard. Police say, throughout the ordeal, they were getting phone calls and text messages from terrified individuals inside the nightclub but away from the gunman. Complicating the situation, people's friends and relatives also got messages and rushed down to the club. People who were inside the club are now telling harrowing stories about trying to get out.", "If you had to count, how many shots do you think there were?", "We'll bring in CNN justice correspondent Evan Perez. Evan, what can you tell us about the shooter, Omar Siddiqui Mateen?", "Well, Jake, we know that he worked as a security guard in Fort Pierce, Florida. He worked for one of the major security companies that does a lot of security, including for the U.S. government. So that is something now that the investigators, the FBI investigators that are working on this case are going to be looking into. We know that he rented a car in Fort Pierce and then traveled specifically to Orlando to carry out this terrorist attack that now has claimed the lives of 50 people and perhaps more. The -- that might explain why perhaps there was some earlier indications from Peter King, the congressman who was on the air earlier, who was talking about some weapons training. He worked as a security guard for a major security company. So that might explain why he perhaps had some expertise with using these weapons and was able to kill these people so quickly. Now, what we know, as you mentioned, this is -- in the Washington, D.C. area, there's a big observances of gay pride weekend. And so we know that police there in Washington said that they are going to increase security. We expect that that will happen in other cities as well. In Orlando, this was not a gay pride weekend. They celebrate it at a different time. But this club was packed with hundreds of people, obviously. And that's one reason why the death count is so high, Jake.", "And, Evan, just to clear something up from earlier, do you have any information about the birthplace of the shooter?", "That's right. He is -- he was a U.S.-born citizen of the United States. His family is not -- they're not U.S. citizens, but he was born..."], "speaker": ["JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "TAPPER", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE:  2", "TAPPER", "BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TAPPER", "REP. PETER KING (R), HOMELAND SECURITY COMMITTEE", "TAPPER", "KING", "TAPPER", "KING", "TAPPER", "KING", "JULIETTE KAYYEM, FORMER ASSISTANT SECRETARY, DHS", "TAPPER", "PHIL MUDD, CNN COUNTERTERRORISM ANALYST", "TAPPER", "ART RODERICK, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST", "TAPPER", "RODERICK", "MUDD", "RODERICK", "TAPPER", "KAYYEM", "TAPPER", "MUDD", "TAPPER", "TAPPER", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-303140", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-01-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/14/cnr.09.html", "summary": "Dems Who Skip the President-Elect's Inauguration; Elizabeth Warren's Message to the President-Elect", "utt": ["Top of the hour. You are live in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Poppy Harlow in New York. We begin tonight with the growing list of Democratic congressmen and women who say they will skip the president-elect's inauguration six days from now. A list that seems to be expanding by the hour. The latest count 16 members from the House from states all across the country, including Georgia congressman John Lewis. And congressman John Congers of Michigan. Like some California Congresswoman Barbara Lee made the decision days ago. But for others like California Ted Lieu (ph) was based on something that played out in the last 24 hours, the president-elect responding to this comment made by civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis.", "I don't see the president-elect as a legitimate president.", "You do not consider him as a legitimate president. Why is that?", "I think the Russian's participated in helping this man get elected and they have destroyed the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.", "His key line, I don't see this president as a legitimate president. Trump's response came on twitter. Congressman John Lewis should spend more time fixing and helping his district which is in horrible shape and falling apart, not to mention crime invested rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk, no action or results. Sad. Let's talk about all of that and the day's headlines with my panel. Joining me now Ben Ferguson, CNN political commentator and host of the \"Ben Ferguson\" show and Bakari Sellers, also a CNN political commentator and a former member of South Carolina House of Representative. Gentlemen, thank you for being here. Bakari, let me begin with you. Good evening. Let me begin with you, Baraka in and this growing list of Democratic congressmen and women who will not go to the inauguration. This as a time when our country needs unity more than it was in quite a long time. Is that the right move?", "I think these men and women are showing leadership. And civil disobedience and boycotting is as American as apple pie. And they have every right to show that some of disobedience. I think when there is question is who am I going to support, is it John Lewis or Donald Trump, and in this case I'm going to land on the side of the civil rights hero. There are many of us. First of all, there's 73 million people who didn't vote for Donald Trump. But there are many of us who believe that he stands for something that this country does not stand for. And while I think the question of whether or not he is legitimate when it comes to this race and the involvement of the Russians or anyone else, it's still an outstanding and lingering question that has to be answered. I do believe that these members of Congress who are protesting, who are showing civil disobedience have every right to and I stand with them.", "The legitimacy of him being the next president is not something that's been questioned by, say the sitting president, Barack Obama. And Ben, the president-elect does have every right to respond to someone questioning his legitimacy, something he did to the current president for years with the birther movement. But the way he has done it, the way he responded, attacking a civil rights icon, punching back in the way he did saying all talk no action when you just look at these images. I mean, this is a man who almost died fighting for our freedom in '65 in Selma. Do you approve of the way he responded?", "I have a lot of respect for this congressman. I have met him several times, seen him speak several times in person. But I think he is dead wrong on this one. I think he is a civil rights leader and should understand that you have sometimes you don't get exactly what you want and you have to be respectful of the other side when they have a free and fair election. I think he should understand how important it is to have a free and fair election. But in reality what he's saying is I didn't get my way, I wanted Hillary Clinton, and so therefore I'm not going to show up. What does that teach young people in this country?", "What about -- I'm asking you though, Ben, about Trump's response, right? What he said, all talk and no action, counter punching instead of saying perhaps, look, I'm disappointed you feel that way. I'm disappointed you're not going to be there on Friday. But let's sit down and talk. Would that have been a better response from the man who's going to lead this country in six days?", "I don't think so in this situation because --.", "Why?", "I'm going to answer. I think you have to look at the connotation of what was said by a sitting congressman and how irresponsible it was for him as a leader to say that someone is not a legitimate president. Let's not forget about one thing here. What got Hillary Clinton to lose the election, referring to what he was saying about Hillary Clinton who basically should have won this thing or it was stolen from her. Her campaign and her staff are the ones that wrote the emails that made the American people say they didn't trust her. She had a problem with her own words that came out through those emails. So if he is mad about losing the election, blame Hillary Clinton and her staff for what were in her emails that people did not like. He won this election. They lost. And if they want to stay home, it's their right. It's just not leadership. And for a party that claims they are all about leadership right now, they are not showing any at all when they attack Donald Trump saying he is too tough on people and he doesn't show leadership. What are you doing right now? I mean, you could literally say you are doing exactly what you hate about Donald Trump, which is also hypocrisy.", "Bakari, to those who would draw somewhat of an equivalency too. There is a lot of things that differentiate them. But to Donald Trump, questioning the legitimacy of our current president, Barack Obama, questioning, you know, where he was born, completely unfounded with John Lewis saying I don't accept the legitimacy of this incoming president. What do you say to critics who say, you know, aren't you doing something similar to what you criticized?", "Well, I think that John Lewis, I mean, he couched his statement by saying that he didn't believe it was a free and fair election. But while Ben is riding his horse of privilege is his high horse about this United States congressman --.", "Horse of privilege?", "Not so that I would have any extra right. I would simply have equal rights and civil rights. I want to remind him about Bill Posey, who as a congressman from Florida --", "Bakari, you stretched.", "Who actually sponsored a birther bill in the United States Congress. I want to remind him about Joe Wilson who actually screamed", "And I can bet that would happen.", "One actually said the first lad lady of the United States had a fat butting with all who hurled insults at the president of the United States.", "Bakari, I can go the same list with Democrats, but that's not what we are talking about here. And if you want to have a litmus of all of these other things, I mean, when do you stop it and show leadership? You hate the people who have done it but now you're doing it.", "It's a question John Lewis's leadership is absurd and neglects history.", "No it's not.", "John Lewis knows exactly what he is doing. And what we are going to do is that if there's a question or whether I join him or Donald Trump, I'm going to side with John Lewis every day of the week.", "So Baraki, to that point, do you agree with Representative Lewis? Do you agree that Donald Trump in his words is not a legitimate president?", "I question the legitimacy of Donald Trump's candidacy and his presidency since November 8th.", "Wow.", "I think Donald Trump won this race.", "It's sad.", "I don't want to despair to any of those people who voted for Donald Trump. And I think that they there are going to be questions answered about the Russians or anybody else --.", "So on that point, Bakari. On that point -- I just want Bakari to answer. On that point, Bakari, speaking for the American people of all parties, right, where does that leave the American public? Where do we go from here? Because this election is done, it is over, Donald Trump will be the sitting president in six days. So how can there be unity going forward?", "Well, I mean, I think that's an amazing question, Poppy. And it's an amazing question that one should actually ask Donald Trump. I think that we are having this discussion because of the Donald Trump's response, and Donald Trump's ignorance --", "We are having it because the congressman said that Donald Trump is not a legitimate president.", "I want to actually get a thought out about you interrupting.", "You've gotten plenty.", "I think that it's amazing we're having this discussion about someone who has the history, who has the pedigree, who doesn't have to read about civil rights in the books because it actually smelled gun fire and smoke, who actually felt the water host against their back.", "Ben, let's Bakari finish. You'll have plenty of time. I promise.", "I appreciate the discussion that we are having. But if we want to have a conversation that requires us to listen. And one thing that we have to start to do is begin to love our neighbors even when they don't love us. But that doesn't mean I'm going to let someone who disparages just people who have fought for rights this far and this hard and who almost died so I can sit here today. I'm not going to let someone sit there and go unchallenged on January 20th. I'm going to challenge him every day of his presidency until he says that he wants to bring this country together and value those American values we hold true.", "Ben?", "The hypocrisy that is coming from you Bakari is truly shocking to me. You claim that you have - that you want to bring the country together but then you support someone who says he is not a legitimate president. You claim that you want to bring the country together. But then you say you support people who will not show up for the inauguration when Americans should come together. You claim that John Lewis is such a credible person because of civil rights, which he is. But then you give him a free pass on the same hypocrisy that he is screaming right now by saying that I do not believe the president is legitimate. And for you to say that you respect the voters who voted for Donald Trump while saying this, that's just a lie. Obviously you do not at all respect the will of the people or the voters in this election and neither does John Lewis when you say this, when you don't get your way. Freedom is not saying if I don't get my way, I refuse to respect someone else when they win a free and fair election. That's is not freedom. And it that is what John Lewis fought for so hard which is freedom he should respect it even when his side loses. And his side lost. And now he is trying to undermine freedom in this country and so are you by saying that. [19:10230]", "I got 30 seconds. Bakari, final thought.", "No. I think it's amazing to have the audacity of the level of privilege to lecture John Lewis about freedom.", "Why do you keep saying privilege?", "Can I talk? Ben.", "You're basically saying racism because I'm white.", "I mean, that's kind of how this works. So my only point is that I think that we need to learn from the struggles of people like John Lewis. I think if the president of the United States had an issue, had an issue with what John Lewis tweeted, then I think a leader picks up the phone who want that conversation. And certainly, it has that conversation.", "I believe in John Lewis. I mean, I wouldn't be here on CNN if it wasn't for people like John Lewis. John Lewis has led it this far and I'm going to ride John Lewis until we actually get to say Ben Ferguson that we are free.", "Bakari Sellers, Ben Ferguson, thank you. Thank you both. This is incredibly important to talk about. I appreciate both of your opinions tonight.", "Thanks.", "Coming up, the president-elect says that he will make the best deals for this country. What does he do, though, when China responds with the words nonnegotiable? What happens to the art of the deal then? The comment putting the president-elect at odds with Beijing tonight."], "speaker": ["POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR", "REP. 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{"id": "CNN-53970", "program": "CNN BREAKING NEWS", "date": "2002-5-10", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/10/bn.04.html", "summary": "Interview with Charles Sennott, Author", "utt": ["We want to take you back now to Bethlehem where we -- as we have been reporting this morning that siege there over the Church of the Nativity has been resolved, and we are just now getting able to get in for the first time and get a look at what the scene is like inside that church. You are seeing here some of the first pictures that have ever come out of that facility after 39 days of siege, if you will, and we are joined now by Charles Sennott who is there in Bethlehem -- and as I understand it, Mr. Sennott, you are an author, correct?", "That's right.", "And you are there, are you inside the church right now?", "Yes. I came in with the Franciscans to help me with my book a lot (ph) \"The Body and the Blood,\" it is called, and they allowed me to come in to see this damage. I would say...", "I am sorry -- I hate -- I am sorry to interrupt you, but who better to give us a description than an author. Give us your eye here, and walk us through what you are seeing.", "Sure. I mean, what we have seen is that the damage is not extensive, not at all. I would say there is no structural damage, no serious damage, but certainly the basilica is quite a mess. People have been sleeping in there, obviously, for 38 days, so there are cushions on the floor, and old blankets, and a very horrible smell from people living here for a very long time without any efficient plumbing and things like that. There are eating utensils, and tin cans, and trash from this ordeal of these people having to be holed up inside here. But no really significant, you know, terrible damage to the church, thankfully. Although I will point out that, you know, everyone will remember there was this fire on April 8, and I have just been up into the place where that fire happened. That is the Parish Hall of the Franciscan Parish, St. Catherine's, and the Parish Hall was just gutted by fire.", "And that is actually in the compound, but not necessarily inside the church, correct? How far away from the church is that?", "Correct. It is about 60 -- maybe 50 steps. 60 feet or so from the actual basilica, but it is still within the compound of the Church of Nativity, and the Parish Hall had a brand new organ in it that the priests had been putting together, and that organ is completely destroyed as were many of their clerical garb, and books, and some things used in the mass, for example, and things that would be kept in a parish hall were destroyed. But they are saying that the destruction of that appears to have come from an Israeli kind of commando unit. An anti-terrorist unit that tried to penetrate into there. The Franciscan priests are saying that, because they found some Israeli military gear that was left behind, so they are operating on the theory that Israelis tried to insert there. We, of course, don't know if that's true...", "If you can hold on right there -- Mr. Sennott, if you can hold on right there, let me ask you at this particular point, this would be a good point -- good time to bring up some allegations that have been laid out by the Israelis who have gone in there. They have said in reports we have heard this morning that they have found, they found a number of explosive devices in there, and they found what apparently were booby traps. Do you see any evidence of that? Have you talked with any of the Franciscans there who have told you that that's what they saw as well?", "There is no evidence of any of that here now. And just to know the sequence of events, the American officials, presumably with the CIA, came in and completely swept the church, picked up all the weapons, and checked the church. So, then the Israelis came in after the CIA officials had left, and did their own search after they cleared everyone out of the church, and the Franciscans are, maybe we could say, used to the Holy Land and used to the Middle East, and all of the different sides that can be taken, and they are frankly a little suspicious of the Israeli claims. They are wondering whether this is real. They didn't see any booby traps when they got to first come in, and then the Israelis came in and suddenly found them. These are the things that we will just never know here.", "Did they tell you at all -- did you talk at all with them about whether or not any of them were being held against their will, or if not the Franciscans, or the other Anglicans who were there, or the Greek Orthodox who were there, if not them, if any of the children who were there, and were they being held against their will?", "None of the people I have spoken with who were inside, and I would say I have spoken to roughly three dozen now, say they were held against their will. There is no one here who is claiming that. What they do say is that, you know, there was a situation where they were -- have many different reasons not to leave. Some of the Palestinians stayed out of nationalist reasons. They wanted to have solidarity, and didn't want to leave. Some of them stayed because they were afraid they would be arrested when they went outside, or shot at, because they are part of the Palestinian police or had been part of what we could call irregulars, fighting militia brigades. So, they were afraid of that. Others were just also afraid they could be killed because one of the things that shouldn't be lost in all this is seven people were killed inside the church compound by the Israelis, and one of the Franciscan priests pointed out to me that there is the sanctity of the church, but there is also the sanctity of the human life that was lost in here. The Israelis haven't proven that they were, as they claim, terrorists. They were kind of waiting to see how did the Israelis know who they were shooting at. 22 were also injured, one of them was an Armenian monk who was in his residence.", "And the Israelis have admitted that that was a mistake, and there is also, though, disputing the fact that those inside that church did have guns, and were actually shooting themselves. Let me ask you again about the children. This is one of the things that has gotten a lot of the world concerned who have been outside watching this, from the outside looking in. Have you had a chance to get into the area where they say the children were hiding? We understand that they were in some place near the grotto, is that correct?", "I have not, and I am not fully aware of that situation. So, I really shouldn't speak about it, because I haven't been there, and I haven't spoken to any of those children.", "This is absolutely fascinating to actually finally get a chance to get inside and see that. Are you surprised by what you see there, or did you expect worse?", "I think it is about what I had expected. There has been, you know, a considerable number of windows shot out. There is damage inside the church from bullet holes, and things like that, but nothing substantive. And as I said, I thought it was just an interesting point that one of the Franciscans made that, you know, there is the sanctity of the church, but there is also the sanctity of the life of the people who are inside here, and that they are sad that both sides violated that sanctity of this place, and that seems to me to be the real, I don't know, most important message I'm hearing from the Franciscan priests, is that both sides violated the sanctity of this holy space, and that from their point of view, have really hurt their reputation, or their claims to want to be the legitimate representatives who will guard these holy places.", "That's an excellent...", "So they are very concern about it. This -- they don't ever want this to happen again.", "That's a very excellent...", "They want to get some international guarantees to protect the holy sites.", "That is a very interesting point. And -- that may be some time in coming before they get anything like a guarantee on something like that. But we will be watching to see how this all unfolds, as we always do. Charles Sennott, thank you very much. We sure do appreciate your taking time to talk with us and sharing your insights after having gotten inside that Church of the Nativity. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR", "CHARLES SENNOTT, AUTHOR", "HARRIS", "SENNOTT", "HARRIS", "SENNOTT", "HARRIS", "SENNOTT", "HARRIS", "SENNOTT", "HARRIS", "SENNOTT", "HARRIS", "SENNOTT", "HARRIS", "SENNOTT", "HARRIS", "SENNOTT", "HARRIS", "SENNOTT", "HARRIS"]}
{"id": "CNN-93226", "program": "LIVE FROM...", "date": "2005-3-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0503/25/lol.01.html", "summary": "Terror Groups Increasingly Active in Qatar", "utt": ["Now in the news, Baghdad today, drive-by shooters kill an Iraqi general and wound his two sons one day after five Iraqi women, three of them sisters, died in a similar attack. The women were cleaning staff on an American military base. The gunmen got away. West of the capital of Ramadi, a car bomb exploded Thursday at a checkpoint manned by Iraqi police officers. Eleven police officers were killed in a break from the insurgents' pattern. U.S. military investigators believes the car bomb's driver may have been forced to detonate the explosive. Word today that the United States will resume military sales to Pakistan. An official announcement is expected later today on plans to again provide Pakistan with F-16 fighter jets. A similar deal with India. The U.S. suspended support to Pakistan 15 years ago. We're told President Bush has already phoned the prime minister of India to tell him about the pending sale. Amber Alert, a statewide search in Iowa for a 10-year-old Cedars Rapid girl, Jetseta Marie Gage, missing since last night, believed taken by a man known to the family, and a registered sex offender. Authorities are scouring the state for the pickup truck they think 37- year-old Roger Bentley is driving.", "We're still awaiting a response from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. That's where Terri Schiavo's parents have filed their latest appeal in a last-ditch bid to have their daughter's feeding tube reinserted. Now legal experts say Bob and Mary Schlinder's appeal has very little chance of success. It's now been a week since that feeding tube was removed from the severely brain-damaged woman. And a short while ago, Bob Schindler appeared outside her hospice to tell supporters he believes Terri is down to her last hours. Others Schlinder supporters have gathered for an all day Good Friday prayer vigil at the Florida governor's mansion. They hope to persuade Jeb Bush to intervene, despite his comments that he can't overstep his gubernatorial powers. Although the case of Terri Schiavo has made global headlines, her story's not unique. In Louisville, Kentucky a car wreck led to a similar tragedy, and similar battles a decade ago, even down to the 11th hour intervention of a governor. CNN's Tom Foreman with the story of Hugh Finn.", "The story of Hugh Finn's controversial death begins on this road outside Louisville where the popular local TV host was in a horrific accident on an icy morning. The wreck left Hugh Finn in a permanently vegetative state and his wife, Michelle, in a terrible spot.", "And we had talked about the fact that we would not want, neither one of us would want to live in that type of condition.", "So, you never had any doubt about what his wishes were?", "No.", "So, more than three years later she decided to remove his feeding tube at his nursing home in Virginia. His parents challenged the decision in court and they lost.", "When he was in that hospital, we could touch him. There was hope. Now that he's in the hole there's no hope for him, none whatsoever.", "But with the tube removal only hours away, Michelle could not believe what happened next. Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore went to the state courts to try to stop it.", "I was just hysterical. I couldn't believe -- it never occurred to me that it would happen. I kept saying how can he do this? How can he do this?", "Well, I think the public officials have a duty to make sure that those who are disabled those who are vulnerable make sure that they're properly protected. That, I think, is a proper role of an elected official and the law supported that type of intervention at the time.", "The governor lost too. The feeding tube was removed and nine days later Hugh Finn died.", "It was a murder because you put him to death.", "The rift between Michelle Finn and her husband's family has never fully healed, despite efforts on both sides and she points out even her own mother disagreed with her decision. (voice-over): Michelle understands. She does not apologize.", "I felt like I had one more commitment that I had made to him that I needed to fulfill.", "You didn't think you could walk away?", "No, absolutely not. I could not walk away from that because I knew...", "Even though the family wanted to say we'll take care of him. Just leave him alone.", "Except that that's not what he wanted and that's what I was afraid of was I knew what he wanted and if I did not do it, nobody would and he would not get what he wanted.", "Like the rest of the nation, Michelle Finn is following the saga of Terri Schiavo but, unlike most, it is a road she has traveled. Tom Foreman CNN, Louisville, Kentucky.", "Today's security watch takes us to Qatar, where authorities today say they found a house where last weekend's suicide car bomb was prepared. The attack killed one person, injured a dozen others, and reinforced warnings to Westerners living in that region, that terror groups are increasingly active there. CNN's Barbara Starr has more from the Pentagon.", "In the peaceful Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, a theater popular with Westerners earlier this month was attacked by a suicide bomber. An Islamic-related Web site posted unverified claims of responsibility. Now concern is rising across the region about the threat from fundamentals with ties to any number of organizations. As Easter approaches, the U.S. Embassy in Qatar is now warning, a number of reports have been circulating, particularly on the Internet, suggesting that American and other Western interests, such as churches, may be the targets of terrorist attacks. Senior U.S. commanders this week warned again that al Qaeda and other groups are on the move across the Persian Gulf all the way to Eastern Africa, in part because other havens have been shut down.", "With the increase in stability and security in Afghanistan and Iraq, they have to move around.", "Commanders say it may not matter if terrorists are al Qaeda members. The attackers' goal, frighten Westerners, chill the investment climate and unsettle local governments. In Qatar, the suicide attack was the first of its kind. A close U.S. ally, Qatar hosts the desert headquarters of the U.S. Central Command, which led the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Government support for the U.S. appears unshaken. In Saudi Arabia, a brazen military attack on the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah in December ended with several assailants being killed, shockwaves through the kingdom. Crown Prince Abdullah has vowed a crackdown. In Kuwait, security forces had several shoot-outs with suspected militants in January. Security has been tightened at buildings and oil facilities across the country where Westerners work. Still, General Helland says al Qaeda is increases its ties to emerging terrorist organizations and is using them as front men.", "Now, those operations could be something as simple as cutting a railroad line, blowing up a supply line, an oil line or whatever, so they can disrupt the control of the government that is in place.", "U.S. military intelligence official fully expect more attacks, but they also say that governments in the region are responding strongly and are fully committed to defeating the terrorists. Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.", "And CNN is committed to providing the most reliable coverage of news that affects your security. Stay tuned to CNN for the latest information day and night.", "Is a manmade problem poised to create a real life Atlantis. Coming up in the next hour on LIVE FROM, a south pacific paradise targeted for extinction by a rising sea. And up next...", "He was marching on crutches, and he walking all the way, 55 miles, from Selma to Montgomery, for my freedom, for our freedom and our right to vote.", "Remembering the march that helped change America forever."], "speaker": ["KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR", "MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MICHELLE FINN, WIFE", "FOREMAN", "M. FINN", "FOREMAN", "THOMAS FINN, FATHER", "FOREMAN", "M. FINN", "GOV. JIM GILMORE (R), VIRGINIA", "FOREMAN", "T. FINN", "FOREMAN (on camera)", "M. FINN", "FOREMAN", "M. FINN", "FOREMAN", "M. FINN", "FOREMAN", "PHILLIPS", "BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "MAJ. GEN. SAMUEL HELLAND, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND", "STARR", "HELLAND", "STARR (on camera)", "PHILLIPS", "O'BRIEN", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-303121", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-01-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/14/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Trump Nominees Contradict His Policy Positions; Biggest Takeaways from Tillerson Confirmation Hearing", "utt": ["Welcome back. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. A fresh round of nomination hearings on Capitol Hill next week, including Donald Trump's picks for treasury and the next ambassador to the United Nations. As CNN's Jeff Zeleny explains, if this past week is any indication that we might hear views that aren't exactly in line with the president-elect, we'll see it all unfold.", "Donald Trump is facing a new round of opposition on Capitol Hill, not from Democrats but from his own cabinet nominees. At one confirmation hearing after another, Trump's team is contradicting the president- elect on some of his key campaign trail promises. On Russia, Trump taking a far softer tone on Vladimir Putin than his pick for defense secretary, retired General James Mattis did.", "If Putin likes Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability.", "I have very modest expectations about areas of cooperation with Mr. Putin.", "On the intelligence probe into Russian hacking, Trump sounded far less certain than Mike Pompeo, his choice to lead the", "As far as hacking, I think it was Russia, but I think we get also hacked by other countries and other people.", "It's clear about what took place here, about Russian involvement in efforts to hack information and to have an impact on American democracy. I'm very clear eyed about what that intelligence report says.", "At Trump Tower Friday, the president-elect downplayed the differences between his views and those of his perspective cabinet.", "I told them to be yourselves and say what you want to say. Don't worry about me. I'm going to do the right thing, whatever it is. I may be right. And they may be right. But I said be yourself.", "But his rhetoric before the election, and since, is now colliding with governing, sending mixed signals to Americans and allies about where the new administration stands. On the campaign trail, Trump railed against NATO, while his defense secretary nominee took a different view.", "NATO is obsolete. It was 67 years or over 60 years old.", "Having served once as NATO a supreme allied commander, it is the most successful military alliance probably in modern world history, maybe ever.", "The Senators spent much of their time this week asking the nominees if they agree with Trump's views on hot-button issues, like torture. His pick for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, said he did not.", "Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I'd approve it.", "Congress is taking an action now that makes it absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding or any other form of torture.", "In one of his biggest pledges of all, building a wall on the border with Mexico --", "We are going to build a great border wall to stop illegal immigration.", "His pick to lead Department of Homeland Security, retired General John Kelly, disagreed.", "A physical barrier, it and of itself, will not do the job. It has to be a layered defense.", "And secretary of state nominee, Rex Tillerson, contradicted the view of Trump on climate change this week, saying he believes it exists and requires a global response. Now, Donald Trump has said he wants members of his cabinet to have their own views. The question is, whose views, the cabinet or the president, become the policy of this new administration. Jeff Zeleny, CNN, Washington.", "All right, I want to bring back Aaron David Miller to talk about the nomination hearings. So, Aaron, Rex Tillerson also going through his confirmation hearings this week on his nomination for secretary of state. And we saw there, you know, a real contrast, not surprisingly. He was asked about Russia, but here's how he summed up his views on what needs to be done.", "Russia is here, Russia matters, and they're a force to be dealt with, and that is a fairly predictable course of action they're taking. I think the important conversation that we have to have with them is, does Russia want to now and forever be an adversary of the United States, do you want this to get worse or does Russia desire a different relationship. We're not likely to ever be friends. I think, as others have noted, our value systems are starkly different, that we do not hold the same values.", "All right, and so, we know Rex Tillerson and a lot of his business dealings with Russia, but at the same time, he says during confirmation hearings that Russia doesn't want to continue to be an adversary and he says Russia and the U.S. not necessarily considered friends. Do -- and then you hear from Donald Trump. Whether it be in the \"Wall Street Journal\" today, who says you've got to have a good relationship with Russia and leverage that. So, these mixed messages, these contrasting views, of a nominee versus the president-elect soon to be president, is that healthy?", "I've worked for \"R\"s and \"D\"s and voted for \"R\"s and \"D\"s but I've never quite seen anything like this, the degree of daylight that exists between the president-elect and at least three or four of the nominees. Look, Fred, you could read this one of two ways, either this is unorganized chaos, the right and left hand are not coordinated, or alternatively, you could look at this and say, you know, yeah, you have a president-elect who's out there, not schooled in foreign policy, said a lot of things, he's appointed nominees who are independent minded and have their own tough views and are prepared, over time, to educate the president. I prefer, because I believe and hope for success, that it's the second thing that is going on. That in Mattis and Tillerson, Mattis in particular, you have two men who are prepared to speak truth to power to the president-elect. And since -- you know, Crosby, Stills and Nash were right that life is about learning. And the president is going to have to get, particularly this one, is going to have to be educated, it seems to me, on some of these core issues. So, on balance, I think once he becomes the president and once decisions are made, he's going to have to seek the counsel of the secretary of state and secretary of defense, assuming they're both confirmed, and to make policy accordingly. At least that's what I'm hoping.", "So, how worrisome, or is it worrisome at all, we heard Donald Trump on the campaign trail say and use election day as kind of that post of, well, if I'm elected, then this will change, and then during this transition period, it's well, once I'm sworn in, then this will change. I mean, why --", "I mean --", "-- should this be comforting or why is it unsettling to hear this?", "The ultimate pivot is yet to occur. That's less than a week from now, at noon next Friday, when the nominee or the candidate, the nominee, the president-elect, will become the president. And that is an extraordinary set of responsibilities, both for ensuring domestic prosperity for Americans at home and for protecting the security of the United States abroad. That's an extraordinary responsibility. And that is going to demand accountability, where success and failure is going to be very clear, it seems to me, and very easy to measure. We haven't seen -- that pivot has not yet occurred. And I suspect, watching Tillerson, assuming he's confirmed, and Mattis, it seems to me that these two picks at least raise the prospects that the president-elect, soon to be president, would be at least getting the right advice with respect to how to look at these things in an organized disciplined fashion and then create a sensible policy. So, I willfully perhaps, hopefully, not naively, see on the national security side less difficulty than on the domestic.", "And whether advice given will be advice respected or even used in decision making. Aaron David Miller, thank you so much. Appreciate it.", "Thank you, Fred.", "Still ahead, why Donald Trump wants people to shop at L.L. Bean. We'll explain what's next."], "speaker": ["WHITFIELD", "JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRSEPONDENT (voice-over)", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES", "GEN. JAMES MATTIS, DEFENSE SECRETARY NOMINEE", "ZELENY", "CIA. TRUMP", "REP. MIKE POMPEO, (R), KANSAS & CIA DIRECTOR NOMINEE", "ZELENY", "TRUMP", "ZELENY", "TRUMP", "GEN. JAMES MATTIS, DEFENSE SECRETARY NOMINEE", "ZELENY", "TRUMP", "SEN. JEFF SESSIONS, (R), ALABAMA & U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL NOMINEE", "ZELENY", "TRUMP", "ZELENY", "GEN. JOHN KELLY, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY NOMINEE", "ZELENY (voice-over)", "WHITFIELD", "REX TILLERSON, FORMER CEO, EXXONMOBIL & SECRETARY OF STATE NOMINEE", "WHITFIELD", "MILLER", "WHITFIELD", "MILLER", "WHITFIELD", "MILLER", "WHITFIELD", "MILLER", "WHITFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-126910", "program": "CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER", "date": "2008-5-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/25/le.01.html", "summary": "Interview With General Mark Hertling", "utt": ["Peter Burks, he was really not only one of my best friend, but he was very responsible, very trustworthy person. He was a very big patriot. He said I'm a soldier, my country demands of me to go to Iraq to fight for freedom and this is my duty to serve my country. I just wish there were more guys like Pete in the world.", "On this weekend where we remember those who fell in war, we shouldn't forget that there are still troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. For an update on the situation on the ground in Iraq, we spoke with U.S. army major general Mark Hertling just before the holiday weekend.", "And joining us now from Tikrit in the northern part of Iraq, the U.S. commander, Major General Mark Hertling commands U.S. forces, Multi-National Forces north of Baghdad, all the way up through Kurdistan all the way up to Turkey in fact. You've got a major area of responsibility, General, thanks for taking a few moments to update our viewers around the world on what's going on. Let me get your immediate assessment, because you see this happening on the ground. Are the Iranians, the government of Iran -- is there evidence that Iranians are directly or indirectly involved in killing American troops in Iraq right now?", "Well, I can't say the government of Iran, Wolf, I can certainly say we have seen some Iranian-made weapons, certainly not as much as I'd seen in the south or even in Baghdad. But we have seen some Iranian made weapons in the northern part of the country. We believe those have flowed across the border. They are some of the same weapons that they have found in Baghdad and in places south. But we have a different problem set in the north, and it's mostly the extremist groups. We have some Shia extremists, not as many as they do in the south and in Baghdad, but we certainly have the criminals and the various Sunni extremist groups as well.", "Mosul is an area of your responsibility. I was there back in 2005. It was relatively quiet then, but there have been some heated battles going on in recent weeks. What's the latest in Mosul, because that has been one of the areas where Al Qaida in Iraq and other insurgents have really sought to gain some ground?", "They have, Wolf. And what we've seen over the last, oh, almost half year-plus is, as Baghdad has become more secure, some of the insurgents, specifically Al Qaida, have moved to the north. As Anbar has gone through the awakening, some of the insurgents there, Al Qaida has moved to the east and then up. We've seen foreign fighters crossing the borders with Syria. And Mosul is a very historic and popular place. And it has ebbed and flowed in terms of the amount of insurgent actions up there. We have seen an increase, a huge spike in the last several months up there. And over, oh, the last three or four months or so, we have done some things in that city with both coalition forces and the Iraqi security forces to improve the security for the people. And the prime minister asked General Riyadh, my counterpart in the city, to begin operations. It was originally called Lion's Roar, as it's been reported. It's now called Umm al-Rabiain, or Mother of Two Springs, which is the nickname for the city. And it is -- it has been pretty exciting this week. Not a lot of battles this week, but over the last several months there have been a lot of contentious fights, both with coalition forces and Iraq security forces against the insurgents in that city and in all of Nineveh province, quite frankly.", "On Wednesday, the New York Times published a story by two reporters, Michael Gordon and Alissa Rubin, in which they said this, the battles that have been going on, two other cities, in Basra and Sadr City, areas not of your direct responsibility. \"In both cities, the militias eventually melted away in the face of Iraqi troops backed by American firepower. Thus nobody can say just where the militias might reemerge or when Iraqi and American forces might need to fight them again.\" In your area, in the north, is that happening? That Iraqi -- these militia groups are sort of melting away, disappearing, only to return on another day? Or are you crushing and destroying them?", "Well, we have said over the last nine months or so that we have been in a pursuit operation. And what we have been attempting to do here in the north is secure the cities. And we have done that in Hawijah, in Samarra, in Kirkuk, and turned over to, in that particular city, the Iraqi police, which is really a centerpiece now. In Mosul, it has been a variety -- a literal variety of different insurgents groups, led by Al Qaida, led by Islamic State of Iraq, some smatterings of Nosh Kibandi (ph), another extremist group. Ansar al- Sunna, Jaish al-Islami. It really is a group of individuals up there led by Al Qaida. So Mosul is a different story. It's not a militia; it's a true terrorist organization. In some of our southern cities in Diyala, like Baquba and Muqdadiyah, we have been continuing to pursue Al Qaida, and there has been a balancing act with some other criminal agents that once Al Qaida leaves, some of the others have felt that they can grow stronger and begin to intimidate the population. So we've been attempting to do that balancing act, a very complex situation in Diyala province, which is our southernmost province, bumping up against Baghdad.", "It sounds...", "It has been just a complex counterinsurgency operations. And you throw in a little bit of criminal activity as well, and we're fighting on several fronts with our Iraqi partners.", "It sounds as if you're making progress. And if you are, does that mean you're going to be able to reduce the U.S. troop levels in the northern part of Iraq anytime soon?", "Well, I think you see, Wolf, that we will shift around our forces. And we have been doing that in the various provinces. The decisions to reduce are certainly made by others. But what I'll tell you is, we have shifted units around the various provinces as we've continued to pursue. But the key aspect of all this is what the Iraqi forces have been doing. I partner with four different Iraqi divisions up here now. And over the nine months we've been here, we have seen just an unbelievable improvement in those forces.", "I know this is not your first tour of duty in Iraq. You have two sons that have served in Iraq as well. You have a daughter- in-law who has served in Iraq. Your family certainly has made a major sacrifice for this effort. I want to read to you, General, on this Memorial Day weekend, some words you said last summer in an NPR interview, National Public Radio, because I want you to explain what you mean, because you spoke from the heart. And here is what you said: \"We are sometimes feeling like we are an army at war, not a nation at war.\" And then you went on and said: \"It's very nice to have people say that they support the troops, but I think those in the military, those in the government sometimes don't see the actions being backed up by the words.\" On this Memorial Day weekend, General Hertling, tell our viewers what you were saying, in effect, what were you telling the American public?", "Well, what I was saying at the time, Wolf -- and thank you for your great research on that -- what I was saying at the time was I think many of us in the military felt we were carrying the burden of this conflict on our shoulders. What I've seen since I've been over here now is we now have partners over here. The State Department has filled up the provincial reconstruction team. USAID is starting to do some significant work out here. The Department of Agriculture, the Department of Treasury are all contributing workers over here. So I think we're seeing other governmental organizations contribute, and that has been significant. What I see, quite frankly, we get support from the American people, but even now, as the elections are ongoing, it seems like the 140,000 soldiers that are over here sometimes take a backseat, and as you said on this particular Memorial Day -- frankly, Wolf, I went to a memorial service today for a young soldier in one of our units that was killed down in Samarra, near Samarra. And it struck me that we were conducting the memorial service at about 6:00 in the evening, and I just happened to look at my watch and I said, hey, there is probably a lot of people back in the United States right now trying to figure out how to get out of work early so they can start their long weekend. And here we are, memorializing this young soldier, Private Hadrick (ph), who gave his life for this cause. And I'm wondering if people truly understand that. And I hope during this Memorial Day weekend that people pause and reflect how much service their soldiers, Marines, airmen and Navy sailors are giving, not only to protect the freedoms of the United States, but to help -- really help the freedoms of this new emerging country over here in Iraq. So I hope everybody just takes a few minutes on this Memorial Day to thank a soldier or, more importantly, thank a family member of a soldier, because they are sacrificing just as much.", "Very well said. General Hertling, on this Memorial Day weekend, let me thank you for your service, thank all the U.S. military personnel for their service under these difficult circumstances. Thanks very much for joining us.", "And thanks for covering us over here, Wolf. There is -- you're sticking by us, and we appreciate all of the efforts that you're doing to tell the story over here.", "Thanks so much, General.", "And when we come back, we're going to wrap up what's been going on on this day. Gloria Borger and Bill Schneider, they'll be back. They're part of the best political team on television. \"Late Edition\" continues right after this."], "speaker": ["UNKNOWN", "BLITZER", "BLITZER", "HERTLING", "BLITZER", "HERTLING", "BLITZER", "HERTLING", "BLITZER", "HERTLING", "BLITZER", "HERTLING", "BLITZER", "HERTLING", "BLITZER", "HERTLING", "BLITZER", "BLITZER"]}
{"id": "CNN-20074", "program": "Breaking News", "date": "2000-11-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/17/bn.16.html", "summary": "Florida Supreme Court Stays Certification of Florida Presidential Ballots; Counties Counting Overseas Absentee Ballots", "utt": ["We now look forward to the prompt counting and reporting of the limited number of uncounted overseas absentee ballots.", "I think the plea that I have is that we take time, that we wait just these few days necessary to reach a result that will enhance the legitimacy of the next president of the United States.", "Florida counties begin counting absentee ballots, which could make or break the presidential election.", "This as the Gore campaign loses a key legal battle, but vows to fight on. Right now, we have cameras trained on the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, home of the vice president of the United States. Al Gore is expected to step out momentarily to make a statement. That's part of our ongoing developments, which are happening at a frightening rate of speed here. I'm Lou Waters.", "And I'm Natalie Allen. Here's a look at developments from this day. Lawyers for the Bush and Gore campaigns continue to fight tooth and nail in Florida courts, but the focus outside the courtrooms is now on those overseas absentee ballots. Florida counties have begun counting those ballots. So far, George W. Bush's lead over Al Gore has increased slightly. Secretary of State Katherine Harris says she expects to certify the final results tomorrow. A judge in Tallahassee this morning upheld Harris' decision to reject hand recounted ballots that are filed late, but the Gore camp says it will appeal. Despite the ruling, hand recounts continue in Broward and Palm Beach counties.", "Now, let's get on to Palm Beach County. Despite the judge's ruling today upholding the secretary of state's authority to reject the recount, the recount continues, and a judge in West Palm Beach says he will rule Monday on a request for a countywide revote. CNN's Martin Savidge is covering that aspect of the story from West Palm Beach. He joins us now live. Marty, what's new?", "Well, Lou, elections officials here with Palm Beach County say despite the ruling out of Tallahassee this morning that would say that the votes would be certified without the hand recount included, they say they will continue to count on here until they are told by some other court in the state of Florida that they cannot do so. Meanwhile just a few minutes ago, we received an update from the chairman of the elections canvassing board here in Palm Beach County. That is Judge Charles Burton. He essentially said that as of right now -- and this would be at about 3:30 or 3:40 this afternoon, that they had counted 39 precincts, or approximately 32,000 votes. And so far, they have only been able to really give us results from two of those precincts. They admit that the problem is that they have been bogged down somewhat, especially last night. They had some problems. And this is how the judge described what the difficulties were.", "... there's a couple of problems where we had agreed to allow each party more observers than we probably should have, because there's too much commotion running around, and it was getting late into the night, and I know one fellow dropped some ballots, and everybody was kind of hooting and hollering at him. So we agreed, fine, we'll just recount all of those and just put them back in and we'll deal with them.", "You can imagine the atmosphere inside of that counting room is extremely tense, especially with all those observers, all of those attorneys that are there. The judge quipped at one point he had heard there were about 500 attorneys for each political party down here. So it's obviously very crowded inside the room here. Now as for the two precincts that he essentially gave us some what he called \"unofficial results\" for, that would be precinct 144(d) and for precinct 3. He said that the total count of only those two precincts showed a net gain for Republican George W. Bush of one vote. So, that's where it stands. Now, he's only reporting unofficial results from two precincts, even though they say that they had now counted a total of 39 precincts. The reason he says is there are so many questionable ballots that are brought to the attention of the canvass board that it's slowing their process down greatly. At this particular rate, Lou, it will take them 10 days, if you do the math in your head. They hope to be completed sooner than that -- Lou.", "Has that tension you referred to spilled over into any arguments? Is everything civil within the counting area?", "Well, for the most part, we are told that it is fairly civil. There has been more talking in that room than they would like. Initially, they had a no talking rule and said that the only thing that the observers could say is \"object\" or \"questionable.\" It appears a few more words are being said than that, but even if they aren't speaking, they can definitely feel the attitude in the air.", "Marty Savidge in West Palm Beach. Natalie, what's next?", "Well, as we mentioned, George W. Bush has extended his lead over Al Gore with the absentee ballots that have come in. We can tell you of 14 of 67 precincts -- excuse me, 14 of 67 counties, Bush leads Gore by 339. Those are the partial results compiled by the Associated Press from counties that have counted the overseas ballot. These figures do not include any results from the various hand recounts going on in Florida. We'll report those hand recount results to you as they become available. Let's go now to Tallahassee, the center of the political and legal universe and CNN's Deborah Feyerick -- Deborah.", "Well, Natalie, the bottom line here in Tallahassee is that the Gore team really wants the hand recounts in the final total, but this morning a judge effectively ruled that they don't have to be included. The judge sided with the secretary of state who said she had used her discretion, the judge even going so far as to say as far as he was concerned she had followed his directives.", "On the limited evidence presented, it appears that the secretary has exercised her reasoned judgment to determine what relevant factors and criteria should be considered, applied them to the facts and circumstances pertinent to the individual counties involved and made her decision. My order requires nothing more. Accordingly, it is ordered and adjudged that the plaintiff's motion is denied.", "The Gore team, of course, is appealing. Attorneys were here at the Supreme Court earlier today. This is Florida's highest court. They filed papers and in those papers, it said that they had found substantial ballot counting irregularities. They also said that this appeal is of great public importance. Now, the secretary of state has repeatedly fought the recounts today. She said she was pleased by the judge's rulings. She said that she will continue to follow election law procedure. Just to let you know about the absentee ballots. If everyone thought everything was going to go smoothly there, let me tell you how it stands here in Leon county. They received 49 absentee ballots. Now, of those 49, three are already in question, either because they were mailed out from a particular location, or because of the legitimate date. All of those things right now being investigated. That's three that are in question, 16 of the 49 have already been thrown out. And the reasons they were thrown out was because of a late postmark and also because they did not receive an official military forms and legalities and technicalities there. So, 49 received, right now, only 30 those counting -- Natalie.", "All right, and that's Leon County. Thanks Deborah Feyerick, outside the state Supreme Court. Here's Lou.", "And another legal boomlet this afternoon: In Broward County, where members of the canvassing board were called into court to explain why the hand recount that's ongoing in Broward County should continue. A ruling came down a little more than an hour ago on that. The latest from CNN's Susan Candiotti, who's following along in Ft. Lauderdale -- Susan.", "Hello, Lou, a wild and woolly hearing this afternoon in a courtroom in Broward County, Florida, with two lively characters, two attorneys, one Republican, and one Democrat going at each other in front of a judge. However, in the end, the Republicans failed in their effort to bring the hand count to a stop here in Broward County. Now, the Republicans actually had subpoenaed into court the three members of the canvassing board, two Democrats and one Republican, demanding an immediate trial. However, a judge ultimately ruled that the canvassing board members could go back to the hand count and furthermore asked, what's the emergency? No need for a trial at this time. And he said let the hand count continue, and so that is what is happening at this hour. They expect that the hand count will wrap up on Monday at 5:00. But will it be worth anything if Secretary of State Harris rules that the results will not be acceptable to her? In about -- at 5:00, in about an hour from now, the overseas ballots, however, in Broward County will be counted by the canvassing board and they hope to finish that up by about 8:00 tonight. Estimated numbers of those ballots to count, anywhere from 100 to 200 ballots, and they're punch cards. Back to you, Lou.", "All right, Susan Candiotti in Ft. Lauderdale -- Natalie.", "The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta also playing a role in this election battle. The court has received responses from both sides in lawsuits aimed at stopping the hand recounts in Florida. We get the latest on that part of the story from CNN national correspondent Bob Franken -- Bob.", "Natalie, they're playing a role, maybe. The Republicans had lost the district court level in Florida -- to please to end the hand recounts and they're appealing to the circuit court of appeals here to try and overturn those rulings. But there has been nothing out of the circuit court. It's all been incoming. The two sides have been filing a variety of arguments. There has been no word on whether there would be hearings, no word on whether there would be a ruling by the all 12 members of the appeals court. Many legal experts say they believe they're waiting to see how final developments unfold in Florida. The issue is a Constitutional one, whether the federal court should get involved in the matter that is traditionally reserved for the states. If the states were able, in this particular case, Florida by rulings by the Supreme Court make the hand recount irrelevant, it would leave the judges on the appeals court to rule they have no place in the case. They'd call it moot. That is on of the possibilities. Others include having a full open court hearing which they haven't done or ruling on the merits of the Constitutional claim. All this is possible. Some fairly colorful language in the latest filings that came today. The Democrats said that the Republicans were stunningly complaining that humans are incapable of accurately and impartially counting the votes cast. Brazenly, they invoke the Constitution, the Democrats charge. The Republicans said if the recounts are permitted to continue, the party will succeed, meaning the Democrats, in artificially skewing the main portion of the votes to the Democratic candidates. So those are the claims in the counterclaim. The court has not indicated if it's going to rule or even whether it's going to rule or when it's going to rule -- Natalie.", "All right, well, thanks for keeping up. Thank you so much, Bob Franken in Atlanta.", "Now here's a new one, Natalie. With all the talk about recounts and deadlines, when is a deadline really a deadline? As we've been reporting for the last several days officials have been calling for all of Florida's overseas ballots to be handed in by midnight tonight. Right? Thus, midnight has been seen as a deadline for such ballots. But, get this: Florida law actually sets that overseas absentee ballot deadline at November 24th, which is next Friday. Stay tuned. CNN will be watching as those overseas ballots are counted. We'll present a special report at midnight, Eastern tonight with Joie Chen.", "And again, a reminder we're waiting to hear from Al Gore who should step outside his residence at any moment and make a statement. We'll bring you live coverage.", "And we'll get a little clearer understanding of the legal picture down in Florida when Greta Van Susteren joins us right after a break. Hang in there."], "speaker": ["JAMES BAKER, OBSERVER FOR BUSH CAMPAIGN", "WARREN CHRISTOPHER, OBSERVER FOR GORE CAMPAIGN", "NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR", "LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR", "ALLEN", "WATERS", "MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "JUDGE CHARLES BURTON, PALM BEACH COUNTY CANVASSING BOARD", "SAVIDGE", "WATERS", "SAVIDGE", "WATERS", "ALLEN", "DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "TERRE CASS, COURT ADMINISTRATOR", "FEYERICK", "ALLEN", "WATERS", "SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "WATERS", "ALLEN", "BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "ALLEN", "WATERS", "ALLEN", "WATERS"]}
{"id": "CNN-262258", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-08-17", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1508/17/cnr.06.html", "summary": "Indonesian's Trigana Airline Safety Record Not Good", "utt": ["The search for a missing passenger jet in Indonesia has been called off for the day as crews spotted debris from the plane just before bad weather forced them to abandon the search. The Trigana Air flight crashed, and for this airline, Trigana, before yesterday's crash, it had 19 serious safety incidents in just the last 23 years. It's a small airline. To talk more about this, CNN aviation correspondent, Richard Quest. Thank you so much, Richard. Good to have you here. Fill us in on the investigation to this crash.", "Very early on they spotted the first wreckage but this is mountainous territory. The weather is currently bad. The one thing you don't want is to make a bad situation worse by endangering those who have got to be part of the search and recovery. They are going to take their time but they have seen the wreckage. We're a long way from finding out what the cause may be. There's a variety of possibilities. Mechanical failure leading to loss of control and then crashing into the ground. Possibly weather played a part of it. Possibly simply the pilots dealing with too much at the time and suddenly they hit the mountain.", "We talked about 19 serious safety incidents since 1992 for this particular airline. Why is this airline still operating?", "A very good question. One that the Indonesian regulators will have to answer. This airline was banned from flying to the European Union. It was a small airline. It only had just over a dozen planes and it had 19 incidents. Serious incidents. And those incidents, if you delve into them, they were to do with bad maintenance, poor pilot errors of judgment. They were to do with complete incompetence in many ways. So when asked the question, why was this airline still being allowed to operate by the Indonesian regulators, to put this in perspective, they have the same number of incidents as you would get from one of the major U.S. carriers, and they have hundreds upon hundreds of planes and tens of millions of passengers.", "And thousands and thousands of flights.", "No, Hundreds and hundreds of flights in the same period.", "Hundreds of thousands of flights. So with this airline --", "This airline -- this airline was a mischief. It was a nuisance to aviation.", "And such a tragic situation in this recent crash. 54 people presumed dead at this point.", "Yes.", "Thank you so much, Richard Quest, for your expertise --", "Thank you.", "-- filling us in on all that. We appreciate it. Up next, the new film \"Straight Outta Compton,\" number one at the box office this weekend. But does the film leave out embarrassing parts of the story?"], "speaker": ["CABRERA", "RICHARD QUEST, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT", "CABRERA", "QUEST", "CABRERA", "QUEST", "CABRERA", "QUEST", "CABRERA", "QUEST", "CABRERA", "QUEST", "CABRERA"]}
{"id": "CNN-383882", "program": "CNN RIGHT NOW", "date": "2019-10-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/25/crn.01.html", "summary": "White House Struggling to Form Cohesive Messaging Strategy", "utt": ["We're now a month into the speedy impeachment inquiry against President Trump and the White House is still struggling to formulate a uniform response while also dealing with the defiant and unpredictable president.", "Here's the thing. I don't have teams. Everybody is talking about teams. I'm the team.", "So we're told the White House is now eying former Treasury Department spokesman, Tony Sayegh, to lead the administration's message strategy amid reports of constant infighting between the president's chief of staff and legal counsel. I want to bring in CNN host and political commentator, Michael Smerconish, and McClatchy White House correspondent, Francesca Chambers, to talk about this. You heard the president, Michael. He said he doesn't need a team. He is the team. How do you see that approach working so far?", "I'm a lawyer but I wouldn't want to represent myself, and I would suggest that even though his political instincts are often spot on, this might be a case where he'll want to surrender some judgment to an outside counsel. Look, they haven't offered, Brianna, a substantive defense to the allegations which, frankly, don't seem like they're very much in dispute. The whistleblower complaint was backed up by the transcript of the call with President Zelensky, and then you've got the diplomatic court testimony as it has leaked, particularly the 15-page statement from Ambassador Taylor. It all tells the same story. The defense from the White House so far has been one of process, like unleashing the Republican members of Congress to disrupt that hearing earlier this week. But in the end, if it gets past the House and there's a Senate trial, there will need to be some level of substantive defense. I thought that Mick Mulvaney, frankly, as a legal matter was on the right path a week ago when he tried to own the quid pro quo, but very quickly they did an about-face on that. So bottom line, thus far, there hasn't been a substantive defense. It's all been about the process.", "They should have a substantive defense by now, right? You would think they wouldn't be just flip-flopping and confined of flailing, Francesca. Tell us where they are on finding someone to help with the messaging as we learn that former Treasury Department spokesperson, Tony Sayegh, is under consideration.", "There's no war room but they are ramping up pressure for the president to come up with a more cohesive message on strategy to lead the war room. Who are they considering for that? Tony Sayegh is under consideration. The question is if he would want to take the job. He had left the administration and moved back to New York. He was happy at the time. He has not said this is something he would like to do. Pam Bondi is also being considered for this role. Also unclear this is something she would like to do. No doubt, this is an issue for the president. I'm also told by Mick Mulvaney this is not a reflection of the job he is or isn't doing, this would just be an addition to the job.", "We're learning Democrats are starting to think about what would be in articles of impeachment. Lawmakers and aids have told CNN that. And I just heard from Congressman Ro Khanna that he hopes there would be public hearings after Thanksgiving, Francesca. So we're at least a month out from that. But knowing they're getting started on articles of impeachment, how much do they tell you about the information they have and how much the White House should be worried?", "In terms of the war room, the White House thought they didn't need one and it would be too early for that that should certainly make them think they need to speed this up a little bit, because you don't want to be caught off guard and have no infrastructure in place. The White House counsel's office has been working on this, but that's quite different from having an outside firm working on this or even one of those impeachment war room that we've been talking about", "And, Michael, we've heard from Senator Lindsey Graham who says that President Trump needs to take a page out of the Clinton playbook. He needs for others to take the helm and he needs to ignore the distraction and focus on governing. Can you imagine a situation where that's what Trump would do?", "I can imagine him wanting to do that. I don't know that Democrats in the House would be inclined to play ball with him. I think this issue is a five-alarm fire on the corridor. I'm not sure about the rest of the country. Brianna, I base that, in large part, on the fact, by day, what do I do? I answer the telephone, and the people who are calling me to talk about issues are scattered all across the country. It's not so clear to me that this has really resonated yet with Americans all across the nation. So I know it's a hot subject for us, I know it's hot on the eastern seaboard and the northeast, among the cable outlets and so forth. But in the rest of the country, I think people are focused on jobs, health care and the economy. So to the extent he's able to show something in that regard, he, the president, it's in his best interest.", "Yes, I think you're definitely right on that, Michael. There's so much intense interest here. But we will see how Democrats and the White House duke out the messaging when it comes to impeachment. That's going to be the next fight here. Michael Smerconish, Francesca Chambers, thank you. CNN's Fareed Zakaria investigates impeachment and its role in our democracy. He has a CNN special report, \"On the Brink: When the President Faces Impeachment.\" It airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. We'll be right back."], "speaker": ["BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN HOST", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KEILAR", "MICHAEL SMERCONISH, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR AND CNN HOST, \"SMERCONISH\"", "KEILAR", "FRANCESCA CHAMBERS, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT, MCCLATCHY", "KEILAR", "CHAMBERS", "KEILAR", "SMERCONISH", "KEILAR"]}
{"id": "NPR-12761", "program": "Morning Edition", "date": "2019-03-04", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2019/03/04/699948809/how-much-did-michael-cohens-testimony-hurt-president-trump", "title": "How Much Did Michael Cohen's Testimony Hurt President Trump?", "summary": "Democrats have promised to go after the president. Steve Inskeep talks to Republican strategist Scott Jennings about how testimony by Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen might impact the president.", "utt": ["The leader of a powerful House committee says more than 60 people around the president can expect a request for information. Jerrold Nadler says he wants documents from them all. In part, he is following up on last week's testimony by President Trump's former lawyer. Michael Cohen spoke of a president who paid hush money and understated his wealth to get out of paying taxes. Afterward, Nadler spoke to ABC's \"This Week.\"", "What we learned from the Cohen testimony was that he directly implicated the president in various crimes, both while seeking the office of president and while in the White House. Impeachment is a long way down the road. We don't have the facts yet, but we are going to initiate proper investigations.", "A lengthy process has begun alongside the quieter probe led by a special counsel. Robert Mueller has, so far, delivered indictments of 37 people and companies, many of whom have pleaded guilty. Mueller is a Republican, once appointed FBI director by a Republican president and later appointed special counsel by the current Republican administration. President Trump, under increasing pressure, described Mueller differently during a more than two-hour speech over the weekend.", "Robert Mueller put 13 of the angriest Democrats in the history of our country on the commission.", "Now, how do you do that? These are angry, angry people. You take a look at them.", "Republican strategist Scott Jennings is with us next. He served as an assistant to President George W. Bush and is on the line from Louisville, Ky.", "Mr. Jennings, welcome back to the program.", "Hey. Thanks for having me. Good morning.", "The president sounds himself kind of angry.", "Sure. Well, I mean, his whole administration has been under a cloud of investigation since he took office. And he feels like it's held him back in certain regards. So I think he's going to continue to be angry until this resolves itself one way or another.", "How much trouble is he in after Michael Cohen's testimony and the investigations that now seem to be spiraling out from that?", "Well, I don't think we learned anything new from Michael Cohen. And I think the entire committee was made up of a bunch of unreliable narrators. I don't particularly think the members of the committee are reliable. They all have partisan axes to grind, and I think Cohen's credibility is called into question. And my view is we should wait for Robert Mueller. He's heard Cohen's story, and he's the only one in a good position and a credible position to tell us whether any of it is true and whether any of it matters.", "I think it's totally fair to say that a lot of what Cohen said had been reported before and of course totally fair to say that Cohen is a liar. He's admitted to lying himself. But he said in his testimony, don't believe me; believe the documents. He brought some documents, and that does raise some political questions. Do you think it is going to be OK with Republican voters if the president of the United States is found to have paid off a porn star, is found to have cheated on his taxes, is found to have done a lot of things that could be construed as crimes?", "Well, Republican voters already know about Stormy Daniels. It's very clear what happened. And if you look at the latest polling, for instance this weekend from The Wall Street Journal and NBC News, near 90 percent of Republican voters are sticking with the president. His job approval was up a couple of ticks. I don't think Cohen raised any issues in that hearing that would shake Republicans at this point.", "Do you think it is OK with Republican voters if the president, as reported by The New York Times, got his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a security clearance over the objections of his own top advisers and intelligence agencies?", "Republicans are not going to care about that. They think the president - and by the way, I believe he does as well - has the absolute right as commander in chief to issue security clearances. I have no doubt the Democrats are going to investigate this. There's longstanding Department of Justice opinion and policy, reaffirmed most recently in 2014 under Obama, that assistants to the president are immune from the congressional testimony process. So I don't think we're ever going to see Jared Kushner or Ivanka Trump or other high-ranking White House officials at the witness chair. And I don't think Republican voters are going to think too much of Democrats attacking the president over this issue.", "But I do want to ask - I mean, OK. The president has the absolute right to do that. The president has the absolute right to order a nuclear war. People would still find it to be wrong. Republican voters spent two years being whipped into a frenzy about Hillary Clinton's emails and the alleged abuse of classified information. You feel Republican voters literally do not care about this issue. It does not matter what the president does; they do not care about classified information at all.", "No, I don't think Republican voters are going to care about Jared Kushner's security clearance. I don't think, first of all, it's been proven or alleged that he's done anything improper with classified information. So until someone brings forward some information that says by the president making this decision, our national security has literally been put at risk, I don't think Republican voters are going to care all that much about it, honestly.", "One other thing, Scott Jennings - looks like the Senate now has the votes to try to stop President Trump from his national emergency. The House, of course, is on record opposed to this national emergency. The Senate may have enough votes, which would cause the president to either accept that or veto it. If Republicans are against Republicans on that issue, where do you think Republican voters come down?", "Well, I think Republican voters largely trust the president more than they trust the Republicans in Congress to solve the nation's problems. I think Republican voters do believe we have a crisis at the border. So I suspect they're going to side with the president. This whole thing's headed for the courts. They have a simple majority to disapprove of what the president did, but they don't have enough to override his veto. So this is headed for the court system, which, frankly, politically, it may work out best for the president for him to be able to go against the federal court system if it reigns him in.", "Scott, thanks so much - really appreciate your insights.", "Yes, sir. Good morning. Thank you.", "Scott Jennings, Republican analyst and former assistant to President George W. Bush."], "speaker": ["STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "JERROLD NADLER", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP", "PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "SCOTT JENNINGS", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "SCOTT JENNINGS", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "SCOTT JENNINGS", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "SCOTT JENNINGS", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "SCOTT JENNINGS", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "SCOTT JENNINGS", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "SCOTT JENNINGS", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST", "SCOTT JENNINGS", "STEVE INSKEEP, HOST"]}
{"id": "CNN-304386", "program": "NEWS STREAM", "date": "2017-02-01", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1702/01/nwsm.01.html", "summary": "Israeli Police Move to Clear Amona", "utt": ["Welcome back. Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're watching News Stream. At this hour Israeli police are evicting people from a West Bank outpost. Israel's high court ruled the Amona outpost illegal because it was built on private Palestinian land. Now, police began making the way to the site as protesters tried to block the road. CNN's Oren Libermann is there at the outpost now. He joins us live. And Oren, security forces, they have moved into the area to clear out this contentious camp. What's the latest?", "Kristie, you get a sense of how this is proceeding here behind me. You see police moving in along the roads in this outpost, the outpost of Amona in the West Bank. Police have surrounded the homes, evicted a number of people, made about a dozen arrests, some of which we've seen at homes right around here as protests have pushed back, thrown stones, thrown a number of different liquids a number of different liquids as well as paint at police as they tried to carry out these evacuations of some 42 homes in the Amona outpost. As police advanced, every step they took, they were met by some 600 to 700 protests, according to police. So it has been slow going. Police have been out here all morning, and it looks like they could be here well into the night. Police say that about ten officers have been injured, carrying out these evacuations as well as about a dozen arrests, that according to police. We'll take a look behind me here. You get a sense of how they are proceeding on a home-by-home basis. They'll surround the home. Each of these homes is barricaded and has dozens of protesters inside. That will be the challenges as they go home to home, but you see how they are proceeding here, surrounding each home, clearing out around the home and then when they get the order they will move in evacuating this outpost one home at a time until the order is carried out -- Kristie.", "Oren, we see behind you quite a of security forces wearing yellow vests. How many soldiers, how many police officers have been sent there to evacuate the outpost?", "According to police, some 3,000 security forces. The vests you see behind me are actually the stretcher carriers in case there are injuries here, and so far there have been, according to police, some police who were lightly injured. There are also a number of medics and other police officers here to carry out the evacuation. Around the police officers in Amona is the Israeli military. They are making sure that no protesters or anyone else for that matter comes in, so they have created a ring around the outpost, and it's police operating for the evacuation inside the outpost.", "All right. Oren Liebermann live at the scene for us, many thanks indeed for that update.", "Now, turning now to the Philippines where the defense ministry wants President Rodrigo Duterte to clarify the military's role in his war on drugs. Earlier this week, Mr. Duterte ordered police to stop taking part in the drug war. It came coming after the killing of a South Korean man allegedly by corrupt police officials. Will Ripley has more.", "When Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared his nationwide war on drugs around seven months ago, he put a lot of power in the hands of local police, essentially allowing them to kill drug suspects with impunity. Well, now, at least temporarily, he's taking that power away.", "No policeman in this country, in the world, is allowed to enforce law related to the drug campaign.", "Revelations that police officers have been engaged in corrupt activities. There were senate hearings, and there was video evidence presented that claimed to show police officers planting drugs at a crime scene. Human rights groups have been saying ever since this war on drugs began that officers have been engaged in corrupt activity. They say that officers have been paying vigilante killers. They say that officers have put things like guns and drugs at crime scenes to make it look like suspects were involved in drug activity or that they opened fire on the police first, claims that the victim's family have denied, but they really haven't had a whole lot of recourse, because President Duarte said officers would not be prosecuted for enforcing his war on drugs. And since he's declared that war, more than 7,000 people have died, more than half of those killings have been the vigilante so-called extra judicial killings. Well, now Duterte says police will not be participating in the drug war. He's bringing in the military and he's also going to be investigating police corruption. He says those corrupt officers are scallywags. He wants wants them rooted out, but he promises that the drug war will continue. Amnesty International just put out a report saying that the poorest of the poor being exterminated and we were on the ground in the Philippines for several weeks and we saw a lot of tragic cases, including the murder of a young boy killed next to his father who was a drug suspect. Family members of these who have died often say that they were trying to turn their lives around, but their lives were cut short. Now we have to wait and see what will happen on the streets of the Philippines, how this new policy will play out, or if the killings will, indeed, continue. Will Ripley, CNN, Tokyo.", "A Chinese billionaire reportedly connected to China's most powerful families have suddenly disappeared. Now, a source tells CNN Xiao Jianhua was told that he was seized by security officials from his apartment in Hong Kong's Four Seasons Hotel and then taken to the mainland. Hong Kong police confirmed that Xiao was reported missing on Friday; however, this front page ad with Xiao's name on it, this appeared today. It says, quote, I'm recuperating overseas. Now in the past, other high-profile business people detained in China have been pressed to release messages saying that everything is fine. And this case is also sparking concern about Hong Kong's autonomy under one country, two systems. Now, Chinese law enforcement agents are not allowed to act in this self- governing city. Now, earlier this week, we introduced you to a woman whose family sold her into a sham marriage when she was just a girl. After the break, we'll hear from the women who are going undercover to stop these tragic stories from happening."], "speaker": ["LU STOUT", "OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT", "LU STOUT", "LIEBERMANN", "LU STOUT", "LU STOUT", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "RODRIGO DUTERTE, PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES", "RIPLEY", "LU STOUT"]}
{"id": "CNN-37941", "program": "CNN SATURDAY", "date": "2001-8-25", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0108/25/cst.01.html", "summary": "Powerball's $280 Million Jackpot Attracts Thousands of Ticket Buyers", "utt": ["We begin with a long shot -- it is a really long shot at winning the Powerball jackpot, and it's not the odds that have people waiting in long lines, it is the big payoff, a whopping $280 million. As the clock ticks toward tonight's drawing, the jackpot is getting bigger by the hour, and CNN's Kathleen Koch is live right now at a ticket seller in Washington, and gives us the good news from there -- Kathleen.", "Well, Brian, you could say that this is the ticket seller in Washington. You could call it lottery central. Lottery official say this is the biggest Powerball retailer in Washington, D.C. Now, if you look behind me, you will see four lines, there are actually four Powerball machines that have been cranking out tickets since early this morning. People lined up outside this Shell station in Southeast Washington at 5:30 this morning. By the time the doors opened at 8:00, there were about 100 people standing in line, so this place has been very busy. Now, in the city itself, lottery officials estimate for Wednesday -- Powerball drawing Wednesday night -- they sold 20 times the normal number of tickets, and they believe that they are actually surpass that number today. Now, we are going to walk down here and talk about numbers, because this is literally a numbers game. We want to find out how people are picking those lucky numbers. Excuse me, sir. Hi. You are in line for the lottery, could you tell us how do you choose your lucky numbers?", "Just at random.", "Just at random? You have the computer choose them?", "Yeah, computer does it.", "Ma'am, hi. You just bought a ticket. Now can you tell us how did you pick your numbers?", "My birthdays and my kids' days of birth.", "And have those numbers been lucky in the past?", "Some of them have, yes.", "Let's see who else is buying tickets. Sir, how are you picking your numbers?", "Dates of birth, ages, house address.", "And have you won with those numbers?", "Not yet. Not yet.", "Now Brian, what we are finding out when we talk to lottery officials -- you can see people are just filing in, everybody wants to get their number. Lottery officials say that 70 percent of those who do win the Powerball jackpot actually let the computer pick their numbers. But that does not actually give you an advantage, because 70 percent of the people who play Powerball let the computer pick their numbers, so it is actually proportionate. Now, again, the drawing is going to be tonight, just before 11:00 p.m., so there are going to be a lot of people tuned in all around the country looking at their lucky numbers. Back to you.", "Kathleen, you have been there for while, I want to ask you a question: When you talk to people about the odds, I think it's 80 million to one, that's the odds of winning the Powerball lottery tonight. What do people say? How do they react to that? How do they justify lining up so long and paying so much for the tickets?", "Well, Brian, they are lining up for quite a while, but they don't seem to care. They believe all they need is that one lucky ticket, and actually we aren't seeing people spending that much money. Most are spending between $1 and $5, and as a matter of fact, the last couple that won the Powerball jackpot, won nearly $20 million earlier this spring, they only bought $3 in tickets, so people seem convinced that's all they need.", "That's great. One crack is enough. OK, Kathleen Koch in Washington, thank you. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["BRIAN NELSON, CNN ANCHOR", "KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KOCH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KOCH", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KOCH", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE", "KOCH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KOCH", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "KOCH", "NELSON", "KOCH", "NELSON"]}
{"id": "CNN-38754", "program": "CNN AHEAD OF THE CURVE", "date": "2001-9-5", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/05/aotc.01.html", "summary": "Treasury Department Unveils New System to File and Pay Taxes Online", "utt": ["Among our top stories on this Wednesday morning, the U.S. Treasury Department is expected to unveil a new system tomorrow which allows companies and individuals to file their tax returns and pay taxes online. That's according to \"The Wall Street Journal.\" The move is an attempt to streamline the Internal Revenue Service. Turns out some paper tax returns thought to be missing from a Pittsburgh IRS processing unit were actually hidden by some employees. The reason: they were overwhelmed with work. In a letter to Mellon employees, the company's CEO explained the employees who hid the returns had been fired. Mellon has processed returns for the IRS since the early '90s but lost the contract because of the incident. And if you were trying to get money from a Citibank automated teller machine last night, you probably didn't have a lot of luck. That's because about 2,000 of the bank's nationwide money machines crashed. The reason was an internal software glitch. Citibank says it plans to waive any fees its customers were charged because they had to use somebody else's machines. And time now for a look at some other companies making news this morning, Joya Dass is live at Instinet. How's the day shaping up, Joya?", "Good morning, Deb. Well, you know some of the international broadcasters have fought for over two decades, according to the \"Financial Times\" online edition, to gain access to China's huge TV market and it looks like AOL and News Corp. may be the pioneers and be the first ones to actually do that. China is apparently set to allow News Corp. and AOL access to its television audiences. The caveat or the condition there is that they must agree to distribute a Chinese government sponsored channel in the U.S. as well. No trades yet on shares of AOL or News Corp. just yet, but we're going to keep our eye on that over the course of the day. What we do have trades on, however, are shares of DNA. Now the FDA has approved its Cathflo Activase. Now Activase is a clot-busting drug that's used as treatment in cases of heart attack as well as stroke. And right now we're seeing shares of DNA actually up 64 cents bid higher at $46. No trades yet, however, on that particular stock. Ericsson, for its part, is actually offered lowered right now. It's offered 11 cents lower at $3.92. And finally, Cisco Systems, also active in the premarket right now. We're actually seeing the stock down 7 cents at $15.70. The chief of Cisco Systems has apparently said that he sees rapid consolidation in the IT industry so we're seeing that stock move a little bit in the premarket on the back of -- on the heels of those words -- Deb.", "All right, thank you, Joya. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR", "JOYA DASS, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "MARCHINI"]}
{"id": "CNN-300661", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2016-12-14", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1612/14/nday.01.html", "summary": "Trump Makes Pitch for Besieged Secretary of State Pick; Ceasefire & Evacuation Plan Falling Apart in Aleppo.", "utt": ["We're in the process of putting together one of the great cabinets.", "I want to thank Donald Trump for helping Wisconsin put a Republican back in the White House.", "Speaker Paul Ryan. Honestly, he's like a fine wine.", "I have an open mind.", "Rex is friendly with many of the leaders in the world that we don't get along with. And some people don't like that.", "The secretary of state has to fight for things like a free press, human rights, democracy that frankly aren't always at the top of the list for an international oil and gas company.", "People are looking at his resume. And honestly, they've never seen a resume like this before.", "This is NEW DAY with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.", "Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your NEW DAY. It is Wednesday, December 14, 6 a.m. in the east. Up first, the Trump victory tour rolls on into Wisconsin. The president-elect praises his former adversary, Paul Ryan, comparing the House speaker to a fine wine.", "Trump also defending his pick for the all- important State Department, in Rex Tillerson. A man whose biggest strengths to Trump are his biggest weaknesses to many in Congress. And what happened to loyalty? Trump said it was his first consideration, but many loyalists have been frozen out. Why? Just 37 days until the inauguration. Let's get going with Sunlen Serfaty in Washington -- Sunlen.", "Good morning to you, Chris. Well, there really has been a firestorm of criticism from Democrats and those within Donald Trump's own party, slamming his pick for secretary of state. So the president-elect is now responding by using these campaign-style rallies to push publicly for his nominee, bracing for the battle ahead.", "A great diplomat, a strong man, a tough man.", "In Wisconsin, Donald Trump defending his choice for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson.", "Rex will be a fierce advocate for America's interests around the world.", "Trump talking up the Exxon CEO after facing backlash from both sides of the aisle over Tillerson's ties to Russia, especially now in the wake of the CIA's finding that Moscow meddled in the election.", "Rex is friendly with many of the leaders in the world that we don't get along with. And some people don't like that. They don't want him to be friendly.", "The president-elect now filling most major positions for his administration.", "I believe we're in the process of putting together one of the great cabinets. Certainly a cabinet with the highest I.Q..", "Trump tapping freshman Republican Congressman Ryan Zinke as interior secretary and one-time rival former Texas governor Rick Perry for energy secretary. Perry now set to run the Energy Department after trying to suggest eliminating it altogether but forgetting to name the department during this 2011 presidential debate.", "The third agency of government I would do away with the Education -- the Commerce -- and let's see. I can't. The third one, I can't. Sorry. Oops.", "If confirmed, the top four picks of Trump's administration will be led by white males, a first for any administration since 1989. As sources say some Trump loyalists are expressing frustration over being shut out after supporting Trump's campaign from its early days. But the president-elect giving conditional praise to his one-time antagonist House Speaker Paul Ryan during their first joint appearance.", "He's like a fine wine. Every day goes by, I get to appreciate his genius more and more. Now, if he ever goes against me, I'm not going to say that, OK?", "The relationship warming up since Trump's victory.", "I want to thank Donald Trump. I want to thank Mike Pence for helping Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, the Midwest finally see the light of day and put a Republican back in the White House.", "Trump, though, continuing to attack the media.", "You know, they're very dishonest people.", "But happy to pose for cameras when meeting briefly with rapper Kanye West at Trump Tower in New York City.", "I just want to take a picture right now.", "And today, there will be another interesting round of meetings at Trump Tower. The president-elect is convening a big meeting with executives from the tech industry like Tim Cook, Cheryl Sandburg, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, who Chris and Alisyn, you'll remember was very notably outspoken about Trump during the campaign.", "OK, Sunlen. Thanks so much for all that. We want to bring in our panel now. We have CNN political analyst and Washington bureau chief for \"The Daily Beast,\" Jackie Kucinich; CNN contributor and \"Washington Examiner\" reporter Salena Zito; and CNN senior political analyst and senior editor for \"The Atlantic,\" Ron Brownstein. Great to have all of you here this morning. So Jackie, let's talk a little bit more about Rex Tillerson, since there are, you know, obviously, conflicting impressions and opinions of him. Donald Trump supporters, I think, and he, feel isn't it better to have someone who has dealt with Vladimir Putin, who knows Vladimir Putin rather than a novelist who doesn't know how to approach this guy? I mean, they have a point about that.", "So yes, and that's what you're going to be -- that's what he's going to be saying during his confirmation hearing. That's what you're going to hear echoed throughout the campaign and people who do like Rex Tillerson. But this is bigger than him. This is about Russia. This is about the signal that a pick like Rex Tillerson, someone who has a friendly relationship with Vladimir Putin, sends to the world, sends to the United States' allies. So that's what he's going to be struggling against, during these confirmation hearings that there is no indication will not be both contentious and probably excellent television.", "Well, Salena, Trump is putting Tillerson in a box because of his reluctance to accept what everyone in the intelligence community knows is fact, which is that Russia was involved with the hacking during the election. He's ignoring that, because it offends his sense of legitimacy in his victory. That's what seems clear from the response of him and his team. But that's putting Tillerson in a box, because now it's making his Russian connection -- has big, bright lights around it. Right? Because on the face of it, as Alisyn says, being someone who has succeeded, working with a man that the United States has been frustrated by, objectively, good thing. But now in this new context, of the suspicion about Russia and the protection of it by Trump and the people around him, puts Tillerson in a box.", "Right. And I think that's reinforced by people that are opposed to Trump or haven't quite accepted the election yet. They keep doubling down on the Russian connection. And so, I mean, I think that is what these hearings are for. This is where you'll see more things come out, and he'll be able to define the relationship that he has with Russia. You know, he hasn't spoken about it at all. And so there's all this...", "Rex Tillerson you're talking about.", "Right. Rex Tillerson has not spoken about it at all.", "He did say, \"I would never have accepted a friendship award from Putin directly.\" Right? They put out that comment.", "Right. Right.", "Trying to play a little separation.", "Didn't he accept it?", "He's saying it isn't from Putin directly. \"I didn't take a friend award from Putin. I took it from the country.\" And a lot of other Americans had. It's not a signal of distinction.", "A friendship with Russia?", "It's not half a heart on Rex and the other half on Vladimir's hairy chest.", "But I think a lot of people want to see something happen with Russia. They don't want to see us form this friendly alliance but maybe part of Obama's foreign relations. They felt there has been this unease and this inability to communicate. And maybe this is something better because people look at it and say right now it's not really great.", "Ron, let me read for you what Senator Marco Rubio has said about this, which may portend a difficult confirmation: \"While Rex Tillerson is a respected businessman, I have serious concerns abo his nomination. The next secretary of state much be someone who views the world with moral clarity, is free of potential conflicts of interest and has a clear sense of America's interests and will be a forceful advocate for America's foreign policy goals to the president, within the administration, and on the world stage.\" How do you think this is going to go, Ron?", "No, I think this is a very revealing and consequential choice in a couple of different respects. You know, a lot of the domestic policy appointments that President-elect Trump has made could have been made by any Republican. Many of the cabinet officers are people that other Republicans might have picked. Rex Tillerson is someone that is unimaginable, I think, that any of the other Republican presidential candidates would have picked. And it reflects, I think, the reality that Donald Trump's foreign views of America's interaction with the world, apart for traditional Republican thinking, much more than his domestic agenda where he is going to be, kind of pursuing small government, less taxes, less regulation. All the things that made Paul Ryan reconsider his views of him. So, I think -- I think Tillerson is the embodiment of the way Trump is a challenge and a rejection of many of the things that more traditional foreign policy thinkers in the Senate believe. And you know, Donald Trump has very little margin for error. The Republicans only have 52 seats. Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham and John McCain have all expressed serious reservations about the nomination. They all hold true to that. That's it. Rex Tillerson is not the secretary of state. And in that way, the fact that Trump went ahead with the nomination after those expressions and reservation I think is the second way in which this is very significant. Because it is really a gauntlet that he's thrown down, and I think the results of this kind of collision will reverberate far beyond this one nomination.", "Then how do you explain Rick Perry? If it's that Donald Trump is trying to show that he'll pick people, you know, this is real great distinction and all Republicans would really respect these people. Why Rick Perry? Not only did he have that gaffe that was really more than a gaffe. OK, the reason he couldn't remember the Department of Energy is because he was just throwing it out there. You know, when you have conviction about something, you don't forget the name of what you're talking about.", "Well...", "So to put a guy who said he'd get rid of the department in there, assuming he could have remembered, and he ran down Donald Trump. Donald Trump dismissed him as a fool, and now he puts him in charge of an agency.", "Well, I mean, it's part of what people like about Trump in that he's willing to step out, you know, he changes his mind. If anybody has ever read his book, \"Art of the Deal\" -- I know everybody read Obama's books when he ran -- I mean, it's right in there. He says, you know, \"I'll change my mind. If there's something in there that convinces me that someone is different or better.\"", "What about Rick Perry do we not know?", "Well, I mean, Rick Perry is incredibly popular. He was a very popular governor, despite his gaffe. He's a very smart, nimble politician. He has great relationships not only in Texas, but also within Washington. And he's conservative. And you know, Trump is putting together a cabinet that conservatives like. Alongside with the change that people have been looking for. So, you know, I think he's actually doing an interesting mix, and it's very reflective of what people want from him. Something different and something non-predictable.", "OK, panel, stick around. We'll talk much more. But we do want to follow some breaking news right now from Syria where new shelling is quickly erasing a supposed cease-fire and evacuation plan in Aleppo. Regime forces are lodging fresh assaults and causing many civilian injuries. So let's bring in CNN senior international correspondent Frederik. He's live from Beirut. Fred, what's the latest?", "Hi, Alisyn. Yes, what was supposed to happen this morning was that the rebel forces there were supposed to evacuate the area, and then the government forces were going to move in and take over all of Aleppo. Instead, what we're seeing there appears to be full-on war once again, with activists saying that they've been hit by many artillery shells. Also, the Syrian government saying that mortars were being lobbed the other way. But again, this cease-fire was supposed to end all of the fighting in Aleppo. Here's how it came about.", "After years of holding out against Syrian government forces and months trying to fight off a massive final assault, the last remaining rebels and civilians are set to leave Aleppo, allegedly guaranteed safe passage in return for full government control of this ancient city. The past weeks have been among the most brutal in the five-year civil war as pro-Assad forces kept taking chunks of territory away from the opposition, tens of thousands of civilians fled. A mass exodus under fire that I witnessed firsthand. (on camera) There is a massive, almost avalanche of people trying to make it to safety. As you can see, there's people who are carrying their children but also a lot of children left to make the trek themselves. It's so difficult for many of them. And of course, they've been under siege for such a very long time. Aleppo is among the oldest cities in the world. Syria's cultural center and was the country's economic powerhouse. A melting pot of cultures with a pre-war population of more than 2 million people. The thriving cosmopolitan city was a source of pride for Syria. It was also one of the first places where the rebels managed to hold any territory in the face of a government crackdown. After years of fighting, what is left in many places is complete destruction. Whole neighborhoods flattened, including most of the ancient old city. The rebels retreat from Aleppo won't end Syria's civil war. Opposition fighters still hold large parts of the country, and ISIS is advancing in others. But the opposition's defeat would mark a major victory for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian backers, cementing their grip on what's left on this war-torn nation.", "And, Alisyn, this recent cease-fire agreement that was supposed to take place was actually brokered by the Turks and the Russians. And officials from those two countries are saying they're trying to get it back on track. But, of course, as the fighting there continues, it's going to become more difficult by the minute to try and silence those guns that have become active there, again.", "But Fred, help us understand this. Who is not abiding by the cease-fire?", "Well, it seems like it's various factions on both sides. You know, we keep talking about this Syrian civil war as being a Syrian government against rebels, but there's many different factions fighting on each side. On the side of the government, you have Shiite militias from Lebanon, from Iraq. You also, of course, have the Russians themselves. You have Iranians fighting there, getting all of those to latch onto this is very, very difficult. And then, of course, there's various rebel factions, as well. All of them need to be onboard, and it just takes one group to try and destroy this process, and then you have full-on fighting, again. And that appears to be what's going on right now. We certainly are hearing from diplomatic circles that they say they believe it's certain groups within this very volatile mix that don't want the cease-fire to work out, Alisyn.", "OK, Fred, thanks so much for all OF the reporting. We'll check back with you. All right. So as the cabinet comes together we just started talking a little bit about former Texas governor Rick Perry. He's been tapped to head up the Energy Department, an agency he once infamously tried to promise to abolish. He couldn't remember it during the debate. But he said, \"Yes, I want to get rid of it.\" Why is Trump picking a big oil ally who once referred to him as a cancer on conservativism? We're going to get answers next on NEW DAY."], "speaker": ["DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES", "REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE", "TRUMP", "SEN. 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{"id": "CNN-133804", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2009-1-4", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/04/cnr.04.html", "summary": "Crisis in the Middle East", "utt": ["Continuing coverage now of \"Crisis in the Middle East.\" We have been monitoring the pictures coming out of Gaza from Ramattan television. There were several explosions that we saw moments ago filling the night sky in Gaza. And as we have been reporting here today, on CNN, the very latest information is this one coming from Palestinian security sources, they say that Israeli troops are now controlling parts of northern Gaza and that is just 24 hours after crossing over into that Palestinian territory. If you listen closely, you can hear airplanes and helicopters in the sky. And, again, as I said, the pictures that we are monitoring now, these live pictures, have been showing at least an increase in what we see - perceive to be bombings or air strikes happening over the area. Thousands of Israeli troops are advancing into this region, into Gaza, with support of air strikes, many like the ones we have been witnessing here and they have been striking against Hamas targets. Now, sources say that senior members of the military wing that were killed today in two separate attacks. Three senior members of their military wing killed in two separate attacks. More than 500 people have been killed since Israel launched its first air strikes. That was last week and that's according to our Palestinian sources. Again, we are continuing to monitor these pictures to see exactly what is going on there in the area. Israeli military sources say at least one Israeli soldier has been killed in this and it describes the ground assault as phase two of drawn-out operation designed to halt the nearly daily rocket attacks on southern Israel. We have live coverage here, rolling coverage because we don't know exactly what's going to happen here. Similar to the situation in 2006, a 30-day war, it lasted 30 days, not exactly sure how long this will last. But from the defense minister yesterday Ehud Barak said it will last for some time and it is not going to be easy. And we have been telling you also that we've only got limited reports out of Gaza since Israel's ground operations began but the descriptions we are hearing so far paint a very vivid and painful picture of fear among the civilians.", "It is a terrible life, terrible, terrible, the house is broken and we can't sleep in it. The kids left and the men and women left.", "There is fear. All night there's boom, boom sound, one after the other, one after the other. The child puts his head in his father's or mother's lap from the fear and says to her \"hide me and cover my face.\" It is fear.", "The kids have just woken up. He was going to get dressed for school. They both got dressed and he was going to school with is brother. He hasn't even gone a meter and the strike began. The other brother got away. The other tried to get away. We looked for him and we couldn't find him. God bless his soul. God bless his soul.", "Some of the voices and the faces of this war in Gaza. Israel versus Hamas. We'll continue our live coverage on this conflict. Make sure you stay tuned right here to CNN."], "speaker": ["LEMON", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator)", "UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator)", "LEMON"]}
{"id": "CNN-254599", "program": "LEGAL VIEW WITH ASHLEIGH BANFIELD", "date": "2015-05-05", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1505/05/lvab.02.html", "summary": "Tsarnaev Family's Dark Secrets Emerge During Sentencing Phase Of Boston Bombers Trial.", "utt": ["The dark secrets of the Tsarnaev family are coming out in the sentencing phase of the Boston bombers trial. While the jury is hearing about Dzhokhar much of the testimonies actually focused on his big brother Tamerlan and his twisted past, including his alleged abusive relationship with his soon to be wife Katherine Russell. Perhaps the biggest shocker in the courtroom today, testimony that Tamerlan has sex with Russell and then afterwards joked that he had AIDS that was before they were married. Our murder coverage -- a special coverage of murder at the marathon airs tonight at 9 P.M. Eastern right here on CNN. With some live pictures to show you of a blue mass being held in St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Washington honoring National Police week, let should listen in for a moment. This has been a week long tribute to law enforcement service and to sacrifice that held each May just moments ago the communion ending. But how timely is this? Because the governor of New York is ordering flags on all state government buildings to fly at half staff in memory of the man on the right of your screen. N.Y.P.D. Officer Brian Moore. Officer Moore was shot in the line of duty on Saturday while trying to question a man in Queens and he succumbs to those injuries, he was shot in the face, he died yesterday. Flags will remain at half staff until after Moore's funeral. In the meantime authorities have asked the charges against the shooter be upgraded to first degree murder. Thanks for watching everyone. You'll heard more in the terrorist attack later throughout the CNN's coverage in the day. In the meantime, Wolf starts right now."], "speaker": ["BANFIELD"]}
{"id": "CNN-51734", "program": "CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS", "date": "2002-3-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/30/smn.03.html", "summary": "Legal Roundtable: What to Expect at John Walker's Hearing", "utt": ["Let's get to our legal roundtable without much further ado. Three big cases on our minds this morning. Joining us to sort it all out, in Washington is former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne, who is a legal analyst...", "Good morning.", "... for us here at CNN. Good to see you. And in Miami, Kendall Coffey, a former U.S. attorney. A pair of former prosecutors here.", "Good morning.", "So that means they'll agree on everything, right?", "We'll see.", "All right. Let's do a preview, first of all. Cynthia, John Walker Lindh has a hearing on Monday. We're going to get a little sense of his case, I guess, and where they're headed with it. What should we be looking for in that hearing?", "Well, there's going to be -- one thing it's important to know about the hearing is what's not going to happen. What's not going to happen is, the judge is not going to make a decision on whether or not his statements are admissible against -- you know, his own statements are admissible against him. That's what everybody's really waiting for in this case. But there are going to be skirmishes about that, whether or not the FBI changed or altered the way his statements were written down, and whether or not there were e-mails back and forth about what to say about his statements. So there'll be all kinds of things around the edges, but not a decision on the core issue.", "Kendall, let me ask you this. If Mr. Lindh insists on calling witnesses, that could be very problematic in the real world, couldn't it?", "Well, and the witnesses he calls may be located anywhere from Guantanamo to the caves of Tora Bora. One of the things the defense is trying to do is throw out the broadest possible net of people who somewhere, somehow might be necessary to the defense. That gets a lot of burden, potentially, on the government, although the judge can control that and keep this fairly focused. That's what they've got to do, because we can't have the government spending the next six months hunting down everyone who might have come within 20 miles of John Walker Lindh.", "Well, I'm curious, you know, how much of an onus is on the government to do just that. At what point does it become an unreasonable search for witnesses? How do you define that moment when it's unreasonable?", "Well, what the government has done in their answering papers is pretty reasonable. They've indicated, with respect to Guantanamo, there's some things they're simply not prepared to comment on, that they're looking into it. With respect to information about -- that could go to the circumstances of the confession, they provided, apparently, a great deal of information. Obviously they're keeping the identities of the military personnel undisclosed, at least for present. But where it's going to get more difficult is in some of the broader requests. For example, John Walker Lindh has got \"The Taliban made me do it\" defense as well as his attacks on the confession. And at some point there may be members of the Taliban who are held in custody somewhere, perhaps individuals that John Walker Lindh can identify, perhaps people who could, in some fashion, support a defense. So down the road, the judge is going to deal with these things in a way that's balanced and protects national security interests.", "All right. Cynthia, anything to add on that point?", "No, I think it'll be interesting, but for lawyers, but not nearly as interesting for non-lawyers.", "All right. Let's move on to the Danny Pearl case. For those of us who have complained abut the slow movement of justice in this country, we can turn to Pakistan, where there's about to be a trial already in the case of the murder of Danny Pearl. That is pretty astounding for those of us -- it makes one wonder about the system there. Cynthia, this is -- I'm going to take a wild guess that Pakistan, with its British lineage, does have a British law at its core in how it was formed. Is it a good legal system? Is it a fair legal system? And will there be justice there?", "Well, I don't -- I can't tell you, I'm not an expert on Pakistani law. I can tell you that the trial will go forward on the 5th. Four of the 11 people who have been charged have been arrested, and they will go ahead and go to trial. We'll get a preview of what might happen in our trial later. We're starting to learn some facts, actually, about the murder of Danny Pearl. There is a taxi driver that they have as a witness who took him to meet with Sheikh Omar Sayeed, and he will testify that he took him there to a restaurant. They shook hands, and then Sayeed and Danny Pearl went off in a separate car together. There are two of the men who have been charged also confessed and implicated Sheikh Omar Sayeed. Now they've recanted those confessions, so you can imagine what that will be like in the courtroom. But so that evidence will come forward. And then FBI agents will be in to testify about the tracing of the e-mails. So it will be a good preview for us of our eventual trial in the United States, if he is ever extradited.", "Well, let's talk about venue, Kendall. Is Pakistan the place to get the thing rolling here, or should this just be sent right over to the U.S. court system?", "I'm very concerned that the Pakistanis seem to think they have to proceed with the case. It seems to me that the very guy who's on trial right now, Omar Sayeed Sheikh, got out of an Indian jail because an Indian airliner was hijacked, perhaps by Amjad Peruki (ph), maybe the killer of Daniel Pearl, who is still at large. So if he grabs a school bus of Pakistani school children, what kind of situation does that put anyone in as long as the killers of Daniel Pearl are being processed by Pakistani authorities? He really needs to be brought back to this country. I think that's a better scenario for Pakistan, and certainly for justice. The other concern I have is, once the Pakistani justice system has spoken, how then does the Pakistani government justify sending him back to the U.S. for some different outcome? If he's acquitted in Pakistan, I think they would have a huge difficulty sending him over there for, in effect, a retrial. If he's sentenced to life, that creates problems, obviously, if there's a death sentence, that's a different scenario. But remember, Pakistan, like the U.S., has a very well-developed appellate system, and that can mean years in the appellate courts of Pakistan.", "Is it correct, Kendall, to view this as a bit of a litmus test on how serious Pakistan is in its allegiance and alliance with the U.S., fighting the war against terrorism?", "It is, and it's also a test for the rest of the world. One of the things Attorney General Ashcroft has said is, in terms of dealing with terrorists -- and we have thousands of people who, in some fashion, have to be processed and brought to justice somewhere -- it is our first hope that other countries can address these terrorists in a very meaningful way. We may be about to find out whether that's a reality with the handling of Daniel Pearl's killers in Pakistan.", "Cynthia, on this subject, turning now to Zacarias Moussaoui, the case against him -- and this is the prisoner who was picked up week or so before September 11, had all the earmarks of being the -- probably on board that United Airlines flight which crashed in Pennsylvania. But we don't know, it's a very circumstantial case. How weak or strong is this case, from your reading of it?", "Well, it gets stronger the more you learn about it, you know. First let me say, I think that the jury can be fair for him. Most people only know that he is the 20th hijacker, and that's all they know. It's my experience that jurors will hold the government to finding out more information than that. But as you dig into it, it's pretty interesting. This is a guy who has all kinds of connections that are related to Mohammed Atta, that was trained in terrorist camps, that came to the United States and was in the same -- went to Norman, Oklahoma, for a flight training school, where Atta also visited. Then he went to Egan, where -- to Egan -- to a flight training school in Minnesota, where he got money from somebody in one of Atta's cells. He got -- he brought flight training videos, the same exact ones from the exact same Sporty's Pilot Shop that Mohammed Atta got training videos. So as you look at all the circumstantial evidence, it does build and build and build against him.", "Kendall, do you agree? A case like that, while being circumstantial, can still be very persuasive, can it not?", "It's a compelling circumstantial case, and as we know, all kinds of convictions, including murder and conspiracy convictions, are based on circumstantial evidence. But here's what the defense focus is going to be, is developing all the other possibilities for other people that could have been that 20th hijacker. There are thousands of people in the U.S., foreign students, who take flight training. And one of the things we'll see, as we're seeing with Walker Lindh, is an exhaustive defense effort to get information from the government, including classified information about all the other people who might have been that 20th terrorist, either in this country, trying to get into this country, their connections, their connections to Atta. So I think it's a very good circumstantial case, but I think the defense is going to be very aggressive in trying to suggest that circumstantially there are others who might have been that 20th hijacker as well.", "All right. We're going to have to have a little recess on our discussion. Thank you very much, both of you, Kendall Coffey, Cynthia Alksne, for helping us sort out legal matters this CNN SATURDAY MORNING. We'll see you sometime soon. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com"], "speaker": ["MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR", "CYNTHIA ALKSNE, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY", "O'BRIEN", "KENDALL COFFEY, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY", "O'BRIEN", "ALKSNE", "O'BRIEN", "ALKSNE", "O'BRIEN", "COFFEY", "O'BRIEN", "COFFEY", "O'BRIEN", "ALKSNE", "O'BRIEN", "ALKSNE", "O'BRIEN", "COFFEY", "O'BRIEN", "COFFEY", "O'BRIEN", "ALKSNE", "O'BRIEN", "COFFEY", "O'BRIEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-248586", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2015-02-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/04/cnr.08.html", "summary": "Dropping Acid in Silicon Valley", "utt": ["LSD, a drug made famous in the '60s. The mere mention of acid conjures images of hippies tripping in San Francisco's Haight- Ashbury district, ground zero for the movement. For some in Silicon Valley today, it feels like the '60s all over again. And instead of hippies, it's techies dropping acid to not just to expand their consciousness but also their profits. That's right, profits. That's today's focus of our week-long series \"Sex, Drug and Silicon Valley.\" \"CNN Money's\" Laurie Segall is back with me. We talked smart drugs, and now dropping acid.", "Yes, absolutely. As part of our series on sex and drugs in the valley, I want to pull back the curtain on drug use in the bay area so I asked some of the most innovative people out there what they're on. Turns out, LSD.", "Part is dependent on flexing your biggest muscle, your brain. How well can you focus? Can you stay up all night and cope? But the other part is creativity, the ability to think outside the box, to have the breakthrough moment, a moment that could turn your millions into billions.", "The billionaires I know almost without exception use hallucinogens on a regular basis.", "Tim Ferriss is a valley inside, an entrepreneur, and he wrote the book about optimizing your time. His lifestyle insight has a cult-like following. (on camera): The creativity comes from drugs?", "The people I know trying to be very disruptive and look at the problems in the world that exist and ask completely new questions. They might look at something that's been for hundreds of years and see something completely different.", "I was actually in a science fiction convention with a bunch of friends and the Grateful Dead's \"Trucking\" came on the radio and my girlfriend at the time sort of had a revelation, oh, that's why people listen to the Grateful Dead on", "It was the fourth of July in 1980 when Kevin Herbert first tried LSD. He's been using for decades. He works as an engineer for Cisco. (on camera): How high is the premium on creativity in Silicon Valley?", "Everything we do is creative. Everything requires creative solutions and LSD fits into that because we get the sort of magical breakthrough. The grateful dead show, the drums. The hard core debugs. I took LSD. Wait, the problem is in hardware, not software at all. I come back to work the next day, tell my manager I had an epiphany. He laughed and said, great show.", "And there's actually scientific proof that LSD could do just that. One study funded by the U.S. government in the '60s took a group of scientists and set them out to solve 48 different physics, math, and architectural problems, problems that the scientists themselves had been unable to solve. Each scientist was guided through a psychedelic trip, at the end of which, 44 of the 48 problems found a solution.", "I moved here to work in the apple garage building Apple Ones. That was 1976.", "That's Daniel Kotke, one of Apple's first employees. And before we knew Steve Jobs as the creator of one of the most successful create companies in the world, Daniel knew him as the guy he used to trip with in college. (on camera): You said Steve said LSD was one of the best things he did. Why was that?", "It expands your consciousness. It could have been mushrooms, peyote, any number of things. Conversely, Steve was never interested in smoking pot. That did not expand consciousness.", "Today, psychedelic researcher is having a renaissance. There are more studies now than there have been in decades.", "We don't know as much about the human brain or body as we think we do. I mean, we're absolutely medieval. I think we'll look back in 10 years at our behavior now and it's going to look like blood letting in the dark ages.", "Brooke, you see, I was just talking to Tim there, like, are people open about this? And he's, like, you know, they're not ashamed of it at all. They just don't really talk about it openly, but in small settings, people exchange notes.", "Looks like the guy. when he went in with his epiphany, some sort of code of what I did last night. A brilliant idea. It's interesting hearing Dan Kotke talking about dropping acid with Steve Jobs back in college. But are there any, you know, higher profile techies in Silicon Valley out with during this currently?", "You would get connected to other people and a lot of folks didn't want to talk openly about it. But people responsible for software that we are using today spoke a little openly about saying we got the idea for this during this trip. You know, obviously, you have to talk about the dangers. One other one, when doing the research that was interesting was Francis Crick, the DNA structure. There's rumors that was discovered on LSD. So interesting when you peel book the curtains, about LSD, the safety implications here. This is classified by the DEA as a very dangerous drug that can cause paranoia and anxiety. But there's a resurgence in research about this and people wanting to know, what are the applications? Is there any safe way?", "Wow. All right. Something you learn everyday. Laurie Segall, what about tomorrow? What are you bringing me tomorrow?", "We've talked about drugs in the valley. Tomorrow, things will get a little awkward. We'll talk about sex in Silicone Valley. We interview the guy behind Twitter's hash tag, coined the hash tag on Twitter, and he applies data and analytics to this idea of love. He talks about non-monogamy, something called polyamory. And you'll see me get uncomfortable because we go to a high-tech swinger's party and talk about the phone is the modern day key. So it's going to be interesting nonetheless, Brooke. I promise you that.", "Swing party, you had me there."], "speaker": ["BALDWIN", "LAURIE SEGALL, CNN MONEY CORRESPONDENT", "SEGALL (voice-over)", "TIM FERRISS, AUTHOR", "SEGALL", "FERRISS", "KEVIN HERBERT, ENGINEER, CISCO", "LSD. SEGALL (voice-over)", "HERBERT", "SEGALL (voice-over)", "DANIEL KOTKE, FORMER APPLE EMPLOYEE", "SEGALL", "KOTKE", "SEGALL (voice-over)", "FERRISS", "SEGALL", "BALDWIN", "SEGALL", "BALDWIN", "SEGALL", "BALDWIN"]}
{"id": "CNN-302327", "program": "ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES", "date": "2017-01-04", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/04/acd.02.html", "summary": "Source: Flynn Pushed Idea of DNI Shakeup", "utt": ["Good evening. Topping the hour, there's breaking news, and President-elect Trump's running battle with the Intelligence Community. Late word, he's planning some kind of a shakeup that's taking place against a loud and contentious backdrop. The President-elect today casting fresh doubt on the intelligence consensus that Russia meddled in the election, appearing to place his trust in the WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, instead. It's a far cry from his view of Assange a few years back when he essentially called for the man's head.", "And he's going to talk about WikiLeaks. You had nothing to do --", "No, but I think it's disgraceful. I think there should be like death penalty or something.", "You do think it's disgraceful.", "Well, today, a different tune. And last night, this tweet on his upcoming briefing with the heads of the CIA, FBI and the Director of National Intelligence, the tweet read, \"The intelligence briefing on so-called 'Russian hacking' was delayed until Friday. Perhaps more time needed to build a case. Very strange.\" U.S. officials dispute Mr. Trump's claim, factual claim, that there was any delay. We'll talk more about it in a minute. First, the breaking news though tonight and CNN's Jim Sciutto joins us now. So, what are you learning about the possible future of the Intelligence Community once the President-elect takes office?", "Our reporting is Trump wants to limit or reassess the power of the Director of National Intelligence. To be clear, this was something that was founded, recommended after 9/11, as part of the 9/11 commission hearings to have a Director of National Intelligence to oversee the 16 agencies, make sure that there was cooperation, intelligence sharing. As you know, that was one of the concerns. Pre-9/11 is that those agencies weren't sharing that intelligence so that they could prevent attacks like we saw on 9/11. But I will say, this is not entirely new, there's been talk about this for some time. A lot of those agencies have bristled at the idea of having some sort of overarching body. So it's a little bit of an administrative thing. Our understanding is, it's being pushed by his National Security adviser, General Michael Flynn, who I should note, was pushed out of the head -- of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Obama in part by the Director of National Intelligence. So there's some internal politics behind this as well.", "How concerned are people or how are they reacting inside the Intelligence Community as the President-elect continues to publicly cast doubts about their work?", "Anderson, I say that the word I hear is dismay, right? I mean, you have intelligence agencies working very hard, oftentimes under very difficult, certainly, sometimes dangerous circumstances to keep the President and the government apprise of the threats, whether it's terrorism in North Korea, Russia, you name it, and you have the President-elect coming in and publicly via Twitter, you know, questioning not only their ability, their capability but really their politics here. So there's dismay. There's also confusion. And we saw some of that this week where Donald Trump said yesterday that his intelligence briefing on Russian hacking was delayed. Fact is, it was never scheduled for yesterday. It was always at the end of the week after the president gets his own briefing on this review he ordered. So there is real concern inside those agencies as to what this means for them.", "And Trump, he has had intelligence briefings in the past with high ranking officials, is there a difference between the Trump they see in meetings and the message he's sending out in public?", "There is. We hear from intelligence officials that the Trump that you see on Twitter is one thing, but in those briefings, those presidential daily briefings, which he's getting not every day but several times a week, that Trump is more differential, he asks, you know, substantive questions in those briefings. He's not berating them in private. It's just that then in public he dismisses them. And it's difficult for them to rectify what is the true Trump. The trouble is, it's hard to rein in those public comments because it raises overall questions about the capabilities of the intelligence agencies, and when you have a real threat, if it's imminent attack on the U.S., a terror attack, North Korea, et cetera, you have the President-elect who is called into question in public and repeatedly --", "Right.", "-- the capability of these organizations. They're very concerned.", "All right, Jim Sciutto. Jim, thanks. As we said at the top, his public statements at least put Mr. Trump in conflict with a lot of intelligence professionals. It also leaves him at odds with a number of highly influential people from his own party. CNN Sara Murray has that.", "Donald Trump's relentless skepticism toward U.S. Intelligence and praise for Julian Assange highlighting a sharp split between the President-elect and other GOP leaders. House Speaker Paul Ryan unleashing a wave of criticism against the WikiLeaks founder who published the hacked e-mails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta.", "I think the guy is a sycophant for Russia. He leaks, he steals data, and compromises national security.", "As Senator Lindsey Graham offers this advice to Trump.", "Not only should he ignore Julian Assange, he should condemn him for what he's done to our country.", "Assange insists his information isn't coming from the Russian government.", "Our source is not a state party. So the answer for our interactions is no.", "As CIA Director Brennan questions his credibility.", "He's not exact lay bastion of truth and integrity.", "And implores skeptics to wait for the upcoming intelligence report on Russia.", "I would suggest individuals who have not yet seen the report, who have not yet been briefed on it that they wait and see what it is that the Intelligence Community is putting forward before they make those judgments.", "Today, Vice President-elect Mike Pence is backing up his boss's leeriness of U.S. intelligence.", "I think that the President-elect has expressed his very sincere and healthy American skepticism about intelligence conclusions.", "Sara, has Donald Trump explained exactly why he distrusts these intelligence sources?", "He has not explained it exactly for himself, but Sean Spicer who's the incoming White House Press Secretary told reporters earlier today that it's not the raw intelligence that Donald Trump is doubting but rather it's the conclusions that intelligence officials are drawing that Russia then meddled in the U.S. election. Spicer said that is what Donald Trump is hoping to press intelligence officials for on this meeting on Friday is a better explanation for how they were able to conclude that Russia did try to interfere in U.S. elections. But there's another component to this, Anderson, and it's the fact that Donald Trump is personally offended by part of this. Sources say that they believe that he believes that this is an opportunity for intelligence officials to try to undermine his victory, to undermine his legitimacy as president. And so, there's a little bit of a point of pride explaining itself out here as well, Anderson.", "All right, Sara, thanks for the update. Perspective now from a former diplomat who knows firsthand how vital the relationship between decision makers and Intelligence Community can be, Eliot Cohen, is a professor of strategic studies at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. He's also author of the new book, \"The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force\". I want to start by asking you about the -- this \"Wall Street Journal\" report which is just out tonight that Donald Trump's transition team, they're looking to restructure basically scale back the office of the director of National Intelligence and also kind of lower the staff numbers of the CIA in Langley and get more people out in the field. What do you make of this?", "I don't know. I guess I tuned to think this is a sort of a distraction from the feud that President- elect has decided to have with the Intelligence Community, a reception of issues. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is kind of an umbrella organization. There's been a lot of disagreement about whether even creating it was a good idea or not. But this is really, actually, pretty petty stuff and I -- it's not particularly important. What is important is the President-elect deciding that he knows better than the National Security Agency and the rest of the Intelligence Community.", "What do you think the impact of that is? I mean, the President-elect tweeting out, you know, kind of mocking the Intelligence Community, putting intelligence in quotes, obviously, putting Russian hacking in quotes. He clearly seems to believe that the Intelligence Community is far too politicized or in some way, he seems to be siding with Julian Assange over that.", "Who knows what he believes, but it's -- this is dangerous.", "Dangerous.", "It is dangerous. It sets up an antagonistic relationship between the Intelligence Community, which does exist to serve the President and the administration, and the President. And it seems to indicate that he has this kind of sleepwalker's confidence in his own judgment, in his own reading of things. And I think it sends a terrible message to the world that he prefers to side with Vladimir Putin and Julian Assange were both in different ways reprehensible characters.", "I might say though that, well, look, pushing back on the Intelligence Community is maybe a healthy thing, maybe it raises the bar, maybe it makes them, you know, scrub things even harder.", "Absolutely. Pushing -- you know, I was a government official for several years. And I spent a lot of time pushing back on the Intelligence Community. The way you do that is you get a lot of briefings, and they say things, and you say, well, explain to me, how do you know that and what is the logic chain here, and it's done not by tweets. It's done by hours of serious conversation. You know, somebody like, say, former Vice President Dick Cheney was actually quite good at that. And despite what people think, the Intelligence Community did not mind being grilled by Dick Cheney. It made them better. But this was done quietly. It was done in secret. It was done in your office. It was not done by blasting out tweets which dismiss the Intelligence Community in favor of Russian dictator and a traitor.", "The idea that he's tweeting out messages to North Korea or whether to North Korea, but I doubt (ph) North Korean that they're certainly going to read, this is uncharted waters. This is ...", "This is completely unprecedented, abnormal, and, again, it's dangerous. Look, on the substantive policy towards North Korea, it might or might not be the right thing. But it's very important to do this in a deliberate way, to have these kinds of things argued out.", "In more than 140 characters.", "Right, in more than 140 characters and not at 3:00 a.m. And, you need to have your Secretary of State, your Secretary of Defense. You need to think through what are the possibilities, how could this play out. This is reckless. And this will get us in trouble, because either he will commit himself to dangerous courses of action or he will equally possibly back down. And then, ironically, perhaps, the same thing that happened with President Obama, a red line that turns out not to mean anything. And, you know, part of the pattern here is he tweets something at 3:00 a.m. and Kellyanne Conway walks it back when she wakes up five or six hours later.", "I want to ask you about the book, \"The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force\". I mean, essentially, you are arguing that in this age where so much has -- this notion of soft power, you're basically pushing back on that saying, \"Look, that military force, there is a role for that in a number, perhaps more than ever, in a number of circumstances.\"", "Yes, well, look, I -- you know, one thing I say is the limits of soft power not the soft power is not important. It is important to say put sanctions on the Russians or on the Iranians. We just need to understand that it has limits, you know. No counties have been sanctioned more than North Korean. And, in very short order they'll be able to hit the continental United States with nuclear weapons. Military power is tremendously important. And part of what the book is about is a case for what is really now the traditional American policy of global leadership. And what I try to argue about -- argue out in the book is the way in which military power undergirds that in places like Europe for example, or say in the South China Sea.", "Congratulations on the book. It's got great views --", "Thank you very much.", "-- and I look forward to it to reading it. Thank you so much for being with us.", "Thank you.", "A lot more ahead tonight, including a closer look at where U.S. intelligence agencies have indeed failed to get it right and where they're clearly succeeded. Also the Pence factor, could he be the most powerful vice president since Dick Cheney? Take a closer look at that when we continue."], "speaker": ["ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST", "BRIAN KILMEADE, FOX NEWS HOST", "DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES", "KILMEADE", "COOPER", "JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT", "COOPER", "SCIUTTO", "COOPER", "SCIUTTO", "COOPER", "SCIUTTO", "COOPER", "SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER", "REP. PAUL RYAN, (R) HOUSE SPEAKER", "MURRAY", "SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, (R) SOUTH CAROLINA", "MURRAY", "JULIAN ASSANGE, WIKILEAKS FOUNDER", "MURRAY", "JOHN BRENNAN, CIA DIRECTOR", "MURRAY", "BRENNAN", "MURRAY", "GOV. MIKE PENCE, (R) VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT", "COOPER", "MURRAY", "COOPER", "ELIOT COHEN, AUTHOR, \"THE BIG STICK\"", "COOPER", "COHEN", "COOPER", "COHEN", "COOPER", "COHEN", "COOPER", "COHEN", "COOPER", "COHEN", "COOPER", "COHEN", "COOPER", "COHEN", "COOPER", "COHEN", "COOPER"]}
{"id": "CNN-369011", "program": "NEW DAY", "date": "2019-05-07", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1905/07/nday.02.html", "summary": "Harry and Meghan Welcome Baby Boy", "utt": ["It's a boy for the duke and duchess of Sussex. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle welcomed their first child and seventh in line to the British throne yesterday. They are expected to introduce him to the world tomorrow. For the significance, let's bring in Max Foster, CNN royal correspondent, and Victoria Arbiter, royal expert and CNN royal commentator. Great to have both of you for this exciting occasion. We were just saying, Vickie, that you and I were there almost a year ago for their wedding. They've had a busy year.", "They've had a very busy -- yes, I think we're about two weeks shy of their first wedding anniversary. So not a bad way to ring in that first year.", "So are you surprised by the new rules that they seem to be setting in terms of they've not announced a name, there have been no baby photos, we don't even know where the baby was born?", "Well, actually, when it comes to names, some royals, I think it was the queen, waited as long as three weeks to announce Prince Charles' name. So the name is nothing new. And I think for a couple of reasons. First of all, they need to live with this name for a couple of days because once you've announced a royal baby's name, there's no reining it back in. so something perhaps the entire pregnancy they thought one name and suddenly they looked at him and said, well, no, that doesn't work. But also I think out of respect to the queen, they're going to want to run things by her. No doubt the queen will pop down to visit Harry and Meghan either today or first thing tomorrow. So I'm not surprised on the name. Pictures, of course, you've been used to having simply because we've seen the royals leaving the hospital. Since 1970, the duchess of Kent was the first to do a photo upon leaving the hospital. So I think everyone's highly anticipating pictures tomorrow.", "So, Max, tell us the candidacy significance of this baby in Britain. I mean the fact that it is a baby of mixed race, the fact that, you know, Meghan Markle is American, and just what it means in terms of the mood of the country right now?", "I think what Meghan has managed to do is engage a whole new audience with the British royal family because, you know, the queen is a master of this. None of us have anything, pretty much, in common with her, but she managed to connect with the public in a quite extraordinary way. It's very important for the monarchy to be supported by the public and parliament, otherwise they no longer exist. What Meghan does is allow people to relate to the British monarchy. So she's good news for the British royal family. The -- we're hearing there from Victoria about the name possibly coming soon. We'll see them tomorrow. Also, we're going to be discussing titles, as well, because currently this young boy won't be a prince. But, actually, when Charles becomes king, it will be a prince. That's the way the system works. So we're expecting to hear from the queen that perhaps she'll decree that this young boy will be a prince, in the same way she's treated the younger Cambridge children.", "In terms of the name, Max was just reporting that once that they -- that the betting public, at least, are -- think that they're considering are Arthur, Alexander. He mentioned Spencer. Spencer would be an interesting choice, of course, because of Harry's mom. I mean that one just seems to kind of hold some poignance.", "I think Spencer is definitely the sentimental favorite. It's unusual to use surnames as a first names in the U.K. And as Max was saying, we don't know about titles yet. If this baby doesn't have a title, the last name will be Mountbatten-Windsor. So they're going to be trying to find a name that works with quite a long surname as well. But I think in terms of names, we're going to see a name that is very strong, that's who this couple are, but something that works on both sides of the pond. Harry has been very keen that no matter what they've done during Meghan's tenure within the royal family, he wants to honor her American heritage, as well. So Alexander we talked about a lot yesterday. That works, why? Well, Alexander is the masculine form of Alexandria, which is the queen's middle name. That's the royals taken care of. But Alexander Hamilton was one of the U.S.'s founding fathers. He was a well-respected man in his day. So I think we're looking at a name that's going to work for both of these -- both of these parents moving forward.", "So, Max, in terms of when we get our eyes on the newest royal, are they going to put a picture out on Instagram, are they going to walk out? I mean what's the plan for when we can see the baby?", "Well, they've told us that they are going to have this opportunity, this photo call tomorrow. It will be very controlled. Very much like the one that we saw yesterday. So there will be a TV camera, there will be an agency reporter and there will be a stills photographer, and they will capture the family within the castle walls behind me. So that's going to be a big moment. Alisyn, I'm expecting those pictures to come in, possibly live during our show tomorrow. So that's a big moment for John to look forward to in particular, I think. But that's going to be a big moment. And then they'll sort of disappear, I think, because they keep emphasizing this privacy point. They want to be able to celebrate privately. They haven't even confirmed to us where they've had the baby, where the duchess had the baby, despite these media reports that she was whisked away to London -- a London hospital overnight.", "John Berman is giddy with excitement, I can tell you, Max. He is very excited that this could all happen on our watch. So, Victoria Arbiter, Max Foster, thank you both very much. We will look forward to that tomorrow, right, John?", "I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight, honestly. And I will say, there is an irony that we're going from the royal segment to a U.S. elections segment, democracy.", "Yes, I know.", "Need to cover a little bit of democracy here.", "You seem to be a fan of democracy. I get it.", "So they could be part of the secret sauce to a Democratic electoral victory. What is the key swing voting bloc this year? And who's leading with them? Prince Harry Enten joins us next."], "speaker": ["CAMEROTA", "VICTORIA ARBITER, CNN ROYAL COMMENTATOR", "CAMEROTA", "ARBITER", "CAMEROTA", "MAX FOSTER, CNN ROYAL CORRESPONDENT", "CAMEROTA", "ARBITER", "CAMEROTA", "FOSTER", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN", "CAMEROTA", "BERMAN"]}
{"id": "CNN-320399", "program": "CNN NEWSROOM", "date": "2017-09-02", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1709/02/cnr.22.html", "summary": "North Korea Tensions; Top Kenyan Court Orders New Election", "utt": ["South Korea says it has agreed with the U.S. in principle to revise a treaty limiting the range and strength of its ballistic missiles. U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean president Moon Jae-in spoke on the phone Friday, as our Will Ripley reports from Pyongyang. There were also signals the two leaders agreed diplomacy could still work to curb North Korea's nuclear and missile program.", "Despite that tweet from the U.S. president, Donald Trump, saying talking is not the answer when it comes to North Korea, it seems as if the U.S. has not ruled out diplomacy. In a phone conversation with South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, according to the South Korean got, President Moon and President Trump reaffirmed their view that it is important to apply maximum sanctions and pressure on North Korea so that it refrains from making provocations and comes out to the dialogue table to peacefully resolve its nuclear issue. Now North Korean has long insisted that sanctions just aren't going to work. In fact, Russian president Vladimir Putin called it a dead-end road and said that provocative rhetoric could only push the Korean Peninsula to the brink of a large-scale conflict. Here in North Korea, despite a U.S. flyover involving jets and", "At least for the time being, you have both the United States and North Korea both indicating a willingness for diplomacy. But they still have very different views of how to go about it -- Will Ripley, CNN, Pyongyang, North Korea.", "Kenya's president has criticized the country's top court for nullifying the results of last month's presidential election and ordering a new vote within 60 days. Uhuru Kenyatta originally said he respected the court's decision but later called the justices \"crooks.\" Our Farai Sevenzo is in Nairobi and he explains how the court made its decision.", "The decision is hereby issued that the presidential election held on the 8th", "The moment a Kenyan supreme court judge halted the country's political affairs, the high court ordering the country to hold another presidential election, opposition candidate and former prime minister Raila Odinga, who had been trying", "This is a very historic day for the people of Kenya and, by extension, the people on the continent of Africa. For the first time in history, a ruling of African democratization, a ruling has been made by a court nullifying the irregular elections of a president. This is a precedent-setting ruling and very historical.", "While the current president, Uhuru Kenyatta, struggled to maintain his composure in the face of this massive setback.", "I personally disagree with the ruling that has been made today. But I respect it. As much as I disagree with it, I respect it. I disagree with it because, as I have said, millions of Kenyans queued, made their choice. And six people have decided that they will go against the will of the people.", "The decision to annul the election was actually divided, 4-2. However, the majority ruled. Meanwhile in the streets in Mr. Odinga's strongholds of Kisumu and the crowded and poor neighborhoods of Nairobi like Kibera, celebration erupted. The decision by Kenyatta's supreme court was most clearly felt in areas like this, Olympic, in the center of Kibera, the most massive, sprawling slum in all of Nairobi and, indeed, one of the largest in Africa. The court ruled Friday the country must recast their vote for a president in the next 60 days. They court did not blame President Kenyatta for the irregularities in August's election but laid the blame at the foot of the independent electoral and boundaries commission, saying the IEBC failed, neglected or refused to conduct the election in accordance with the Kenyan constitution. The court has not yet published its full ruling. But the head of Kenya's electoral commission, Afulu Chebukate (ph), suggested that the discrepancy between the electronic results and the manual count was the basis for Friday's announcement. The election process in August had been praised as free and fair by most election observers, from John Kerry of The Carter Foundation, to the African Union to the European Union. Now as voters head back to the polls, these two long-term rivals are once again center stage of Kenya's ongoing political drama -- Farai Sevenzo, CNN, Nairobi.", "After a short break, we'll return to Houston and bring you a story about people going home to see what is left."], "speaker": ["ALLEN", "WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT", "RIPLEY", "ALLEN", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE", "FARAI SEVENZO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over)", "RAILA ODINGA, FORMER KENYAN PRIME MINISTER", "SEVENZO (voice-over)", "UHURU KENYATTA, PRESIDENT OF KENYA", "SEVENZO (voice-over)", "ALLEN"]}
{"id": "CNN-193544", "program": "STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY", "date": "2012-9-30", "url": "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/30/sotu.01.html", "summary": "Interview with Martin O'Malley, Roy Blunt", "utt": ["Joining me now, Republican Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri and Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley. He is the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. Thank you both. Big overriding question, first, and that is when we look at adjustments in the gross domestic product figures for the first and second quarters of this year, it's downward. It went from 1.7 to 1.3 when they adjusted it and looked back on the second quarter, exactly the same as it was last year. I know we got all bollixed up in the question of \"are you better off now than you were before?\", but it doesn't look as if we're any better off now than we were last year. It's the exact same growth rate.", "Except in one very important sense, Candy, and that is instead of losing jobs as a country, we're actually gaining jobs as a country. In fact, our private sector last year under President Obama's leadership created more private sectors than in all eight years of George W. Bush. So I think what all of the economists would agree is that there is steady job creation that is happening. It could happen more quickl